Consumer Reports would disagree with that harsh assessment:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16951509/
The magazine reported that McDonald's was "decent and moderately strong. Although it lacked the subtle top notes needed to make it rise and shine, it had no flaws."
You can order Internet through Time Warner w/o cable, at least in NYC.
I did this about 18 months ago. It required me repeating "no, I really don't want cable tv service" over and over until they gave up.
I think my friend did this years ago in Poughkeepsie, NY, but I'm not certain that it was Time-Warner (Time Warner services part of Poughkeepsie and Comcast services other parts, I believe).
Mohini Bhardwaj (à®à¥àààॠàà¾àà¦à¥àà¾àoe) (born September 29, 1978) is a retired American gymnast who competed at the 1997 and 2001 World Championships and earned a team silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
2003 will be marked by the emergence of three new enterprise desktop offerings. Corporations seem interested, especially with Microsoft boosting prices. So, once again, we ask: Is this the year of the Linux desktop?"
The problem here is, game manufacturers are not making products for the same console for 20 years. Instead, they are forced to design and develop games for a new system every few years. I am not a game developer, but I believe optimizing for each platform is non-trivial. Combine that with changes in development environments and inflation, and you have your magical $10.
As for all games cost the same, I don't believe that is the case. Even the relatively cheap Wii games have a range of $30 (for the lowly Rampage) to $50 for Zelda.
"A corporation is a legal person which, while being composed of natural persons, exists completely separately from them. This separation gives the corporation unique powers which other legal entities lack. The extent and scope of its status and capacity is determined by the law of the place of incorporation."
I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with your views on SOX. I am just noting that a Corporation is a legal person.
Was that deliberately written to be maximize outrage?
You pay an extra $200 for an 0.17Ghz and a SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW) instead of a Combo drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW).
And then you pay an extra $50 for the extra 20Gb of space.
The outrage should come from the extra $150 on top of THAT to get a black finish.
I can only think of 3 reasons as to why Apple did this: 1) Typo (unlikely, $1499 seems like a price point they want to fill) 2) They want to exploit people's desire for something "trendier" and something Different. 3) More expensive for them somehow (It may cost them more for black cases since its not created in the same volume as white ones. Or it may have more protection from scratches than the Black iPod, which costs more)
I don't really know which it is, but I find anger against Apple to be amusing in this case. If aesthetics are important to you, then pay the $150 extra. If its not, then don't. No one is entitled the same price for both. If the black one had something you COULDN'T get in white (say, Firewire 800), but was still unnecessarily expensive (say $300 more expensive instead of $150), then I could see outrage, as Apple is forcing you to spend $150 extra on aesthetics when you just wanted the Firewire 800.
Generally, I believe people (such as myself) get the $15/month 1 year subscription to be an Audible BasicListener, which provides 1 periodical and 1 book/month. So that would be $5/month for the radio show, if you accept that $10/book was a fair price.
I find Audible is only really worth it if you're a subscriber; otherwise, you're right, you'll be gouged.
You can get Marketplace daily from Audible.com for a monthly/annual fee. And they just recently announced support for RSS delivery for their periodic content.
However saying both are better then IE is truthful
both are better at complying with standards. However, there are still pages that don't work or look right in firefox/opera w/o tricking the site into thinking you are using IE.
Just yesterday, I had to open IE (I usually use Firefox) to run McAfee Freescan (which uses an ActiveX control, I think).
ALL THREE browsers have their uses on the platforms they support.
One of the things that annoyed me when I was in college was the large number of CS students who were doing CS to make "mad money". They weren't very good, but they were able to limp by one way or another, and ended up getting well-paying jobs just before the tech bubble burst.
Since I'm in the tech industry, I naturally would like my wages to go up, but I'd also like my coworkers to be competent. Depressed wages will drive away some domestic talent from entering the field, but it also will drive away a good number of the not-as-talented who want the relatively high wages we get.
I'm not sure if we really do have a shortage of talented tech workers or not, but I do know that at least a portion of those unemployed tech workers were not that talented.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell supposedly reverse-engineered Bitkeeper to get things out of BK tree's "without agreeing to the BK license", as he is a free-software purist.
McVoy is a businessman who doesn't want people to reverse-engineer Bitkeeper, but wouldn't mind if someone wrote a free replacement that wasn't reverse-engineered because he doesn't believe people should freeload off of his work.
"By contrast, Red Hat and Fedora prefer to build OpenOffice.org with the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ), which is not only a compiler, but also a free JRE. This was Red Hat's strategy with earlier versions of OpenOffice.org, and Red Hat engineers are attempting to continue it. Caolan Macnamara, a programmer at Red Hat, has reported limited success compiling earlier developer builds of version 2.0. However, GCJ is not yet a complete replacement for official releases of Java, and adding patches makes the strategy painstaking and laborious at best."
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16951509/
That said, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
3F0011
You can order Internet through Time Warner w/o cable, at least in NYC.
I did this about 18 months ago. It required me repeating "no, I really don't want cable tv service" over and over until they gave up.
I think my friend did this years ago in Poughkeepsie, NY, but I'm not certain that it was Time-Warner (Time Warner services part of Poughkeepsie and Comcast services other parts, I believe).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohini_Bhardwaj
Mohini Bhardwaj (à®à¥àààॠàà¾àà¦à¥àà¾àoe) (born September 29, 1978) is a retired American gymnast who competed at the 1997 and 2001 World Championships and earned a team silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
She was 25 at the time of her silver medal.
http://www.linux-mag.com/channel/back-issues/may20 03
"The Year of the Linux Desktop:
2003 will be marked by the emergence of three new enterprise desktop offerings. Corporations seem interested, especially with Microsoft boosting prices. So, once again, we ask: Is this the year of the Linux desktop?"
The problem here is, game manufacturers are not making products for the same console for 20 years. Instead, they are forced to design and develop games for a new system every few years. I am not a game developer, but I believe optimizing for each platform is non-trivial. Combine that with changes in development environments and inflation, and you have your magical $10.
from http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
"What cost $40 in 1986 would cost $68.52 in 2005."
As for all games cost the same, I don't believe that is the case. Even the relatively cheap Wii games have a range of $30 (for the lowly Rampage) to $50 for Zelda.
You can add/remove songs from On-The-Go playlists on the newer iPods, I believe.
All you need to do is hold down the center button on the song until it blinks to remove that song from the playlist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation
"A corporation is a legal person which, while being composed of natural persons, exists completely separately from them. This separation gives the corporation unique powers which other legal entities lack. The extent and scope of its status and capacity is determined by the law of the place of incorporation."
I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with your views on SOX. I am just noting that a Corporation is a legal person.
Was that deliberately written to be maximize outrage?
You pay an extra $200 for an 0.17Ghz and a SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW) instead of a Combo drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW).
And then you pay an extra $50 for the extra 20Gb of space.
The outrage should come from the extra $150 on top of THAT to get a black finish.
I can only think of 3 reasons as to why Apple did this:
1) Typo (unlikely, $1499 seems like a price point they want to fill)
2) They want to exploit people's desire for something "trendier" and something Different.
3) More expensive for them somehow (It may cost them more for black cases since its not created in the same volume as white ones. Or it may have more protection from scratches than the Black iPod, which costs more)
I don't really know which it is, but I find anger against Apple to be amusing in this case. If aesthetics are important to you, then pay the $150 extra. If its not, then don't. No one is entitled the same price for both. If the black one had something you COULDN'T get in white (say, Firewire 800), but was still unnecessarily expensive (say $300 more expensive instead of $150), then I could see outrage, as Apple is forcing you to spend $150 extra on aesthetics when you just wanted the Firewire 800.
People download MP3's because their versatile, not free.
Correction. SOME people download MP3's because they're versatile, and SOME people download MP3's because they are free.
Blanket statements make for great talking points, but thats about it.
http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/action/withoutatrace/ content.htm
Here is a link to the clip in question.
You can decide for yourself if it constitutes a "teenage orgy" or not
Generally, I believe people (such as myself) get the $15/month 1 year subscription to be an Audible BasicListener, which provides 1 periodical and 1 book/month. So that would be $5/month for the radio show, if you accept that $10/book was a fair price.
I find Audible is only really worth it if you're a subscriber; otherwise, you're right, you'll be gouged.
You can get Marketplace daily from Audible.com for a monthly/annual fee. And they just recently announced support for RSS delivery for their periodic content.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050624/245099.html?.v=1
Look at the actual post:
Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 12, @10:00AM
from the don't-worry-jamie-we-won't-post-it dept.
I'm shocked
Someone should file a patent for "a method of identifying a Bittorrent user by means of their IP address".
However saying both are better then IE is truthful
both are better at complying with standards. However, there are still pages that don't work or look right in firefox/opera w/o tricking the site into thinking you are using IE.
Just yesterday, I had to open IE (I usually use Firefox) to run McAfee Freescan (which uses an ActiveX control, I think).
ALL THREE browsers have their uses on the platforms they support.
The pastor constantly looking up, asking, "can you hear me now?"
In other news, Saddam Hussein declares he will provide the Iraqi people a break from his rule, due to oversaturation of his dictatorship...
One of the things that annoyed me when I was in college was the large number of CS students who were doing CS to make "mad money". They weren't very good, but they were able to limp by one way or another, and ended up getting well-paying jobs just before the tech bubble burst.
Since I'm in the tech industry, I naturally would like my wages to go up, but I'd also like my coworkers to be competent. Depressed wages will drive away some domestic talent from entering the field, but it also will drive away a good number of the not-as-talented who want the relatively high wages we get.
I'm not sure if we really do have a shortage of talented tech workers or not, but I do know that at least a portion of those unemployed tech workers were not that talented.
I can only assume that the parent post means closed-source when he says "non-free", because iTunes IS a free download.
The iTunes Music Store is where one can purchase music, but you do not need to use the iTMS to use iTunes.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell supposedly reverse-engineered Bitkeeper to get things out of BK tree's "without agreeing to the BK license", as he is a free-software purist.
McVoy is a businessman who doesn't want people to reverse-engineer Bitkeeper, but wouldn't mind if someone wrote a free replacement that wasn't reverse-engineered because he doesn't believe people should freeload off of his work.
From TFA,
"By contrast, Red Hat and Fedora prefer to build OpenOffice.org with the GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ), which is not only a compiler, but also a free JRE. This was Red Hat's strategy with earlier versions of OpenOffice.org, and Red Hat engineers are attempting to continue it. Caolan Macnamara, a programmer at Red Hat, has reported limited success compiling earlier developer builds of version 2.0. However, GCJ is not yet a complete replacement for official releases of Java, and adding patches makes the strategy painstaking and laborious at best."
- vimal
As long as you're not logged in as an Administrator or root.
As I recall, Lou Gerstner didn't much tech experience prior to IBM, and he's widely credited with saving IBM in the 90's.
http://www.ibm.com/lvg/bio.phtml
But he would drive 400 miles,
And he would drive 400 more,
Just to be the man who drove 800 miles
To be a big lo-ser.
(apologies to the Proclaimers)