You go out and make one of the better scifi movies ever made and then shit all over it when it's released to DVD to support continuity with movies that NO ONE thinks are as good as the originals.
I think that really hits the nail on the head for me. I think no matter what, I would have certain discomfort with making subtle changes to the movie for something like continuity with the old one. But I bet I wouldn't mind nearly as much, if not for the fact that the prequel trilogy is such a piece of shit that it has no right being patched into movies that are actually good. Thanks to his acting in Episode II, I cringe every time I see any shots from Star Wars that involve Hayden Christiensen, and the last thing I want is to think about his whiny ass standing next to ghost Yoda and ghost Obi-Wan. Also, doesn't the new ghost Annikin look like an Old Navy model? He seems really out of place.
I don't know how many other people felt like me, but after the inane Bennifer stuff in the media, and then the stupid Gigli (which of course I didn't see, but even the media surrounding how bad it was was annoying!), I just could not get myself excited about a movie starring Ben Affleck, and in addition with J-Lo in it, even if she barely had any screen time at all. So I never got around to seeing it, even though I love Kevin Smith movies and have gotten excited about every other one.
That aspect could have hurt the movie a great deal as well, possibly...
Try setting your clock to some time 20 years from now or however much you want, run the program, click "Later" and then set the clock back to normal. That used to work anyway...
I am pretty sure that the iBook I got a while back was covered from the date of purchase. Because I had bought it in November and didn't get the AppleCare extended warranty at the time. Then, when my warranty was running out, I decided to get the extended warranty, and checked the date it was originally purchased and I extended the warranty within a few days of that date, and it went through no problem, nothing about my warranty already being up.
Yes, I'd say you're right. New England will have some crazy roads (e.g. Boston), but most major US cities west of that are more-or-less grid-like (compared to Europe).
The only reason that one will hear people say irregardless in the midwest is because we have a lot of hicks who don't speak English well. Unfortunately, they breed faster than the intelligent people, so they're gaining on us. I do not know what the solution is.
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
You probably won't have your computer/car/whatever die or have major problems, but you pay a not-too-terrible amount of money so that if something DOES go wrong, you're in the clear.
Yes, it is in Apple's interest profit-wise for you to get the warranty, that doesn't mean it isn't worth it. And, in fact, I think it is worth it.
Remember that all their computers come with a year warranty no matter what. During that year you can still buy the AppleCare and extend it out to the full 3 years. So you could theoretically see how you feel about it after a year and if you think AppleCare for two more years is needed.
I don't have a Powerbook, but I do have an iBook, and I've had some hardware problems with it. Every time I have had to take it in I had no hassle with parts replacement and it was totally free. So the care they do provide seems to be pretty good, at least in my experience.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."
Anyways, I must have lead ears. I used to rip my MP3s at 160kbps, now I do 160kbit AACs, and cannot really tell the difference. AAC seems a tiny bit better maybe but could be a placebo effect.
That may be true, though from what Apple says you should be able to rip at 128 kbit AAC and have it still be just as good or better, and then save disk space.
You know, that reminds me... back in the early 90s, things weren't going as well. But, there was a creative "alternative" music boom going on, and CDs were just coming into major popularity, which meant lots of new music to buy, plus entire libraries to replace with CDs. Of COURSE sales were good then despite the economy.
Seven or eight years ago, everyone I knew used ICQ. Gradually, people shifted to AIM. I still don't know how that happened but at some point AIM reached critical mass and most people I knew dumped ICQ entirely.
Well, it probably wasn't 7 or 8 years ago, more like 6 years ago. Anyway, it's not such a big mystery. ICQ came out with a cool free messaging service. AIM didn't even exist yet, and people used ICQ. Then, 6-8 months later, AOL came out with its free messenger, though it was pretty buggy. But it was MUCH more well-known, and slowly as the client became more competent (I didn't say it was good), AIM gradually got bigger and bigger. ICQ had some nice features, but AIM was familiar and did the important thingâ" messaging. And it integrated with AOL so you could talk to your friends who had it. That made a big different too, I imagine.
I think if AOL had come out with AIM before ICQ, then ICQ wouldn't even have gotten as popular as it did.
I could have sworn that the case with aspirin is that the trademark belonged to Bayer (a German company), and the Aspirin trademark was no longer recognized in the United States as punishment for World War II. I also thought that outside the US, Aspirin is still a trademark that belongs to Bayer.
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I think that really hits the nail on the head for me. I think no matter what, I would have certain discomfort with making subtle changes to the movie for something like continuity with the old one. But I bet I wouldn't mind nearly as much, if not for the fact that the prequel trilogy is such a piece of shit that it has no right being patched into movies that are actually good. Thanks to his acting in Episode II, I cringe every time I see any shots from Star Wars that involve Hayden Christiensen, and the last thing I want is to think about his whiny ass standing next to ghost Yoda and ghost Obi-Wan. Also, doesn't the new ghost Annikin look like an Old Navy model? He seems really out of place.
I don't know how many other people felt like me, but after the inane Bennifer stuff in the media, and then the stupid Gigli (which of course I didn't see, but even the media surrounding how bad it was was annoying!), I just could not get myself excited about a movie starring Ben Affleck, and in addition with J-Lo in it, even if she barely had any screen time at all. So I never got around to seeing it, even though I love Kevin Smith movies and have gotten excited about every other one.
That aspect could have hurt the movie a great deal as well, possibly...
Try setting your clock to some time 20 years from now or however much you want, run the program, click "Later" and then set the clock back to normal. That used to work anyway...
I am pretty sure that the iBook I got a while back was covered from the date of purchase. Because I had bought it in November and didn't get the AppleCare extended warranty at the time. Then, when my warranty was running out, I decided to get the extended warranty, and checked the date it was originally purchased and I extended the warranty within a few days of that date, and it went through no problem, nothing about my warranty already being up.
Yes, I'd say you're right. New England will have some crazy roads (e.g. Boston), but most major US cities west of that are more-or-less grid-like (compared to Europe).
Your vocabulary is scrumtralescent!!
The solution is to de-euthanize all of them
Don't forget that he spelled "grammar" wrong.
The one we used for one of our classes was MetaCard which is a cross-platform Hypercard with more features like color.
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
--Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkien)
What is synthaenasia? I didn't see any references to it in a google search and dictionary.com has no idea what it is either.
Just wondering.
You probably won't have your computer/car/whatever die or have major problems, but you pay a not-too-terrible amount of money so that if something DOES go wrong, you're in the clear.
Yes, it is in Apple's interest profit-wise for you to get the warranty, that doesn't mean it isn't worth it. And, in fact, I think it is worth it.
90 days is for phone support. You are covered for a full year for repair.
Remember that all their computers come with a year warranty no matter what. During that year you can still buy the AppleCare and extend it out to the full 3 years. So you could theoretically see how you feel about it after a year and if you think AppleCare for two more years is needed.
I don't have a Powerbook, but I do have an iBook, and I've had some hardware problems with it. Every time I have had to take it in I had no hassle with parts replacement and it was totally free. So the care they do provide seems to be pretty good, at least in my experience.
Of course... don't forget that the 10.1 upgrade was the one that was free if you owned 10.0!
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."
Have you tried that comparison?
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C&G made Conflict Catcher, which was a beefed up extension manager. "Extension Manager" per se was the default manager included in the Mac OS.
Are you kidding? What about Billy Graham's Bible Blaster?
"Keep firing! Convert the heathens!"
Well, this practice is FAR less common in Europe... and, as far as I know, people still buy things.
Mine was Times also, and so were two other computers I just had contact with. So you're the oddball :)
You know, that reminds me... back in the early 90s, things weren't going as well. But, there was a creative "alternative" music boom going on, and CDs were just coming into major popularity, which meant lots of new music to buy, plus entire libraries to replace with CDs. Of COURSE sales were good then despite the economy.
I think if AOL had come out with AIM before ICQ, then ICQ wouldn't even have gotten as popular as it did.
I could have sworn that the case with aspirin is that the trademark belonged to Bayer (a German company), and the Aspirin trademark was no longer recognized in the United States as punishment for World War II. I also thought that outside the US, Aspirin is still a trademark that belongs to Bayer.