Not to mention the fact that they're using all of the profits from the iPod to take losses on other products like the Mac mini. Expect to see more of this..
Given that this thing is basically the guts of an eMac ($799, only $200 more for a display, mouse and keyboard), and I doubt very much that they wouls be selling the eMac at a loss, I'm sure that they are making money off of these.
And of course, once the next round of OS upgrades comes around they've just doubled their profit once again, something the cheapo PC makers can't do, because OS upgrades go to Microsoft.
Yeah, they'll have to replace some electronic equipment now and then, perhaps. And all because they don't want to poison themselves with lead. Silly Europeans.
But you go, USA, put lead back in everything, just to be the rugged individualists you are and show the rest of the world.
Hell, do you think Ancient Rome would have taken any crap from anyone else criticizing them for their lead pots? Exactly. USA! USA!
on the Mac, the only player that supports it (Windows Media Player for Mac OS X) lacks so many features such as drag-n-drop support, displayal of the file's name during playback, AVI, MPEG, and MP3 support, etc.
I'd just like to say that "displayal" is the greatest made-up word ever.
Show me some hard numbers that show the Kyoto treaty will do anything significant, other than redistribute wealth around the world and then we'll talk.
Seriously, if "OMG! COMMIES!" is the big danger of the Kyoto agreement then I think we can put the opposition to bed right now.
Just wait until someone gets in a head on collision with an SUV (most of them are nearly 3 times the weight of these cars -- The driver of the SUV feels almost nothing, the accident investigators wonder what kind of car was even in the crash.
OK, here's the thing: if two SUVs hit each other head-on, everyone dies. You are arguing that a disadvantage of the SMART car is that if you get involved in a fatal car accident, you don't get te satisfaction of taking the other guy out with you?
Americans are strange.
Funny, I would have thought the "preferred term" would be whatever they want to be called.
In canada the usual term is "first peoples" or "first nations" which is easy enough. But using the name of the actual group of people you are referring to is always better if you can.
And I'm 99.99999% sure the Wampanoag were _not_ Xtian back at the time of the first Thanksgiving.
Replying to an AC is kind of dumb, but this stupid statement needs a response:
Bringing up what happened in past wars is stupid. It holds little relevance to what is happening today. But John Kerry decided to make it a focal point of his election bid, and now he is paying the price for it.
The accusations levelled against Kerry's war record are all lies. Nothing Kerry has said could be interpreted as "please make crap up about me and smear me with lies". Kerry and the Democratic party would like nothing more than to talk about Bush's dismal record as president and what they would do to fix everything. Unfortunately the news media decided to give a book written by an anti-semite and a nixon hatchet-man liar 3 solid weeks of coverage. Perhaps I should register georgebushmurderedahooker.com and see if I can nearly as much coverage for my made-up bullsiht accusations.
You're either a liar or the most ignorant fuck to grace this board yet.
U.S. Government, Media Silent on Torture of Detained Iraqi Kids
You can't get away with the Limbaugh "they were just blowing off steam" line. Don't even make yourself look stupid by even trying, unless you think child rape is a good time.
You, and your gay agenda, will destroy this socity. Imagine a society where nobody no longer knows the difference between hetero and homosexuality. THIS is what will begin to happen once we legalize gay marriage.
maybe we should throw in polygamy as well right? are you for that too? i would bet you are.
also, stay away from my kids.
Lemme guess. Bush supporter?
John F. Kerry: Choice of non-hate-filled-bigots everywhere.
A group funded by the biggest Republican campaign donor in Texas began running an attack ad Aug. 5 in which former Swift Boat veterans claim Kerry lied to get one of his two decorations for bravery and two of his three purple hearts.
But the veterans who accuse Kerry are contradicted by Kerry's former crewmen. One of the accusers says he was on another boat "a few yards" away during the incident which won Kerry the Bronze Star, but the former Army lieutenant whom Kerry plucked from the water that day backs Kerry's account. In an Aug. 10 opinion piece in the conservative Wall Street Journal , Rassmann (a Republican himself) wrote that the ad was "launched by people without decency" who are "lying" and "should hang their heads in shame."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A wealthy Texan and prolific Republican donor is helping bankroll a television ad assailing Democrat John Kerry's decorated military record in the Vietnam War.
Houston homebuilder Bob J. Perry has donated at least $100,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a suburban Washington-based group airing a new ad in which Vietnam veterans who served on swift boats accuse the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his war record.
The group bought $500,000 of airtime for the 60-second ad to air in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Ohio and West Virginia.
The effort is reminiscent of a 2000 effort that helped drive George W. Bush's then-rival John McCain from the presidential race.
Four years ago, Dallas brothers Sam and Charles Wyly financed $2.5 million in ads run under the auspices of "Republicans for Clean Air" criticizing McCain in the week before GOP presidential primaries in California, New York and Ohio. Those ads promoted then-Texas Gov. Bush's environmental record and criticized that of McCain, the Arizona senator. Bush won the primaries in all three states.
Steve Gardner didn't like Kerry because Kerry didn't like him, allegedly cussing him out when he mowed down a little twelve year old boy who he said had a gun, upon which Kerry rushed out, looked up at Gardner in the boat tub operating the 50 caliber machine guns, called him a son of a bitch, and said, "I ought to court martial you." No, that didn't make for a fast friendship.
But every one of his crewmates but this one man...every one, had glowing words of praise for John Kerry, saying things like: I knew back then in Vietnam that the skipper, John Kerry, was bound for high places. Stand up for John Kerry the same way he stands up for veterans. He took care of all of us...he really did. He made good decisions, I believe proper decisions, and the fact that we all returned alive is a good indication that they were the right decisions. Always, when there's a new guy on the boat, you check him out...It only took me a few days...we knew we had somebody special that cared for us...we bonded! What I saw back then was a guy with genuine caring and leadership ability who was aggressive when he had to be. What I see now is a guy who's not afraid to tackle tough issues...and he knows what the consequences are of putting people's kids in harm's way. I figured with the abilities he had, he was going to go high, but I didn't have any idea about him running for president. Humble seaman. The decisions that he made saved our lives. He never shot from the hip when it came to decisions...he'd always confront problems head on. I never saw John back down from anything. He wouldn't let you go randomly down the river shooting up everything in sight.
When Swift Boat Veterans For The Truth leapt out to savage Kerry's
military record, I thought they'd have more people who actually served
with or on Kerry's boat. Here was O'Neill on Monday:
"We have 19 of 23 officers who served with [Kerry]. We
have every commanding officer he ever had in Vietnam. They all signed a
letter that says he is unfit to be commander-in-chief," O'Neill said.
Somewhere in there, I thought they'd have actual people who served
with Kerry. You know, to add some shred of credibility to the obscenely
partisan attack on his record. Via the Boston Herald:
The only of Kerry's crewmates to criticize him, Steve Gardner, yesterday said Kerry "made indecisive moves'' that put their boat in jeopardy.
But Kerry crewmate Drew Whitlow called that charge "totally false.''
"They're entitled to their opinions, (but) I served alongside him,''
Whitlow said.
Yes, of the people to actually serve with Kerry, a single one is now
criticizing him. Of the people who had direct knowledge of his actions
and activities, only one is speaking out against him. Out of two
hundred people plus in this group, only one actually served with Kerry.
That, to me, says more about this entire enterprise than anything
else.
If people did those things, then they are criminals. If officers ordered those things, they are criminals. John Kerry pointing this out has no effect on any soldier who did not commit or order such an act. That dog will. not. hunt. That's like saying the people who reported Abu Ghraib have betrayed all the soldiers in Iraq. It's simply nonsensical.
Two wounds were self inflicted in non combat situations, the third was a superficial cut on his thumb. I suggest you actually read up on this man and stop buying into the fluff your friends tell you about him. Like the naked teenage boy who was fleeing that he shot dead.
"pro hanoi" is quite a charge. Do you honestly think questioning the US's actions in Vietnam automatically means "pro hanoi"? If so, there are very very few voting Americans who would agree with you.
Nice try, but if the US supreme court believed they were doing anything more legitimate than fixing an election, they wouldn't have ruled that their decision was not to be used as precedent, you know, in case the shoe was on the other foot next time.
Read the dissenting opinion of the 2000 election to learn a thing or two you might want not want to know about the last US election.
Wow, great news and good to hear from the point of view of those of us who think today's copyright laws are absolutely ridiculous. This will also serve as a good example to the rest of the movie industry to show that most people would rather spend $10 and go to see a film than spend hours tracking down and further hours downloading a crappy-quality movie to watch with their shitty little computer speakers in their office chairs.
That said, there's still a gaping hole for someone to implement an iTunes Music Store-style system to easily and reliably download movies off of the Internet. An Akamai-based distribution network that could reliably deliver 200-300kb/s download speed vs. a spotty BitTorrent or Kazaa connection would make, perhaps, a $4.99 price tag very attractive for most people. Couple that with DVD burners and you suddenly have a practical distribution medium.
Apple recently added the capability to view movie trailers from within the iTunes interface. I thin that's more than just a subtle hint at what they might be planning. But with Apple they always wait to get something perfect, so it may still be a few years.
I still think movie studios should start selling DVDs of movies right at the theatre when they are playing. Perhaps you could pay $30 for the DVD and get to see the movie like you normally would as well, plus you get to take it home. It would also give people not able to see a movie due to it being sold out something better than leaving empty-handed.
So a few weeks ago the Republican National Committee comes out with Kerryopoly, apparently criticizing John Kerry for being rich. Yes, that's right, republicans criticizing someone for being rich.
The response? Contractopoly from the Centre for American Progress, where you get to collect no-bid Iraqi rebuilding contracts.
There's an expression to do with pointing out the splinter in your neighbour's eye while not noticing the plank in your own, I think it might apply here.
It's true that Microsoft has every right to have as crappy a service as they like. It's also true that we have every right to point this out. Which is what is happening. So it's all good.
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I can think of one example...
Given that this thing is basically the guts of an eMac ($799, only $200 more for a display, mouse and keyboard), and I doubt very much that they wouls be selling the eMac at a loss, I'm sure that they are making money off of these.
And of course, once the next round of OS upgrades comes around they've just doubled their profit once again, something the cheapo PC makers can't do, because OS upgrades go to Microsoft.
But you go, USA, put lead back in everything, just to be the rugged individualists you are and show the rest of the world.
Hell, do you think Ancient Rome would have taken any crap from anyone else criticizing them for their lead pots? Exactly. USA! USA!
But also imagine how fast it would be to have Google and its entire internet cache on your LAN?
I'd just like to say that "displayal" is the greatest made-up word ever.
Seriously, if "OMG! COMMIES!" is the big danger of the Kyoto agreement then I think we can put the opposition to bed right now.
Just wait until someone gets in a head on collision with an SUV (most of them are nearly 3 times the weight of these cars -- The driver of the SUV feels almost nothing, the accident investigators wonder what kind of car was even in the crash. OK, here's the thing: if two SUVs hit each other head-on, everyone dies. You are arguing that a disadvantage of the SMART car is that if you get involved in a fatal car accident, you don't get te satisfaction of taking the other guy out with you? Americans are strange.
Funny, I would have thought the "preferred term" would be whatever they want to be called. In canada the usual term is "first peoples" or "first nations" which is easy enough. But using the name of the actual group of people you are referring to is always better if you can. And I'm 99.99999% sure the Wampanoag were _not_ Xtian back at the time of the first Thanksgiving.
Dude, if you think porn is equivalent to something that can kill you you must be doing it wrong.
I guess the square thing under his jacket is his 802.11 antenna.
Bringing up what happened in past wars is stupid. It holds little relevance to what is happening today. But John Kerry decided to make it a focal point of his election bid, and now he is paying the price for it.
The accusations levelled against Kerry's war record are all lies. Nothing Kerry has said could be interpreted as "please make crap up about me and smear me with lies". Kerry and the Democratic party would like nothing more than to talk about Bush's dismal record as president and what they would do to fix everything. Unfortunately the news media decided to give a book written by an anti-semite and a nixon hatchet-man liar 3 solid weeks of coverage. Perhaps I should register georgebushmurderedahooker.com and see if I can nearly as much coverage for my made-up bullsiht accusations.
You're either a liar or the most ignorant fuck to grace this board yet. U.S. Government, Media Silent on Torture of Detained Iraqi Kids You can't get away with the Limbaugh "they were just blowing off steam" line. Don't even make yourself look stupid by even trying, unless you think child rape is a good time.
You, and your gay agenda, will destroy this socity. Imagine a society where nobody no longer knows the difference between hetero and homosexuality. THIS is what will begin to happen once we legalize gay marriage. maybe we should throw in polygamy as well right? are you for that too? i would bet you are. also, stay away from my kids. Lemme guess. Bush supporter? John F. Kerry: Choice of non-hate-filled-bigots everywhere.
If people did those things, then they are criminals. If officers ordered those things, they are criminals. John Kerry pointing this out has no effect on any soldier who did not commit or order such an act. That dog will. not. hunt. That's like saying the people who reported Abu Ghraib have betrayed all the soldiers in Iraq. It's simply nonsensical.
From the good folks at snopes: link.
I trust you won't be repeating such bullshit lines again."pro hanoi" is quite a charge. Do you honestly think questioning the US's actions in Vietnam automatically means "pro hanoi"? If so, there are very very few voting Americans who would agree with you.
Nice try, but if the US supreme court believed they were doing anything more legitimate than fixing an election, they wouldn't have ruled that their decision was not to be used as precedent, you know, in case the shoe was on the other foot next time. Read the dissenting opinion of the 2000 election to learn a thing or two you might want not want to know about the last US election.
Wow, great news and good to hear from the point of view of those of us who think today's copyright laws are absolutely ridiculous. This will also serve as a good example to the rest of the movie industry to show that most people would rather spend $10 and go to see a film than spend hours tracking down and further hours downloading a crappy-quality movie to watch with their shitty little computer speakers in their office chairs.
That said, there's still a gaping hole for someone to implement an iTunes Music Store-style system to easily and reliably download movies off of the Internet. An Akamai-based distribution network that could reliably deliver 200-300kb/s download speed vs. a spotty BitTorrent or Kazaa connection would make, perhaps, a $4.99 price tag very attractive for most people. Couple that with DVD burners and you suddenly have a practical distribution medium.
Apple recently added the capability to view movie trailers from within the iTunes interface. I thin that's more than just a subtle hint at what they might be planning. But with Apple they always wait to get something perfect, so it may still be a few years.
I still think movie studios should start selling DVDs of movies right at the theatre when they are playing. Perhaps you could pay $30 for the DVD and get to see the movie like you normally would as well, plus you get to take it home. It would also give people not able to see a movie due to it being sold out something better than leaving empty-handed.
Could it possibly mean that they are the best people for the job?
No, having a proper, open bidding process, and then having the winner actually do the work would mean they were the best for the job. Just to clarify.
So a few weeks ago the Republican National Committee comes out with Kerryopoly, apparently criticizing John Kerry for being rich. Yes, that's right, republicans criticizing someone for being rich. The response? Contractopoly from the Centre for American Progress, where you get to collect no-bid Iraqi rebuilding contracts. There's an expression to do with pointing out the splinter in your neighbour's eye while not noticing the plank in your own, I think it might apply here.
Dude, have you _been_ to Montreal in the summer? Learn to speak some French, it's worth it for the ladies :)
It's true that Microsoft has every right to have as crappy a service as they like. It's also true that we have every right to point this out. Which is what is happening. So it's all good.
... I wouldn't be smiling.