The mainstream press would blow the fact that the phone company keeps a record of your calls out of proportion if it occured to them to do so.
"This cellphone billing statement lists EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL YOU MADE THIS MONTH! Is this a massive invasion of our privacy?"
Anyway, after all this jittery paranoid nonsense, Apple will probably make it an option checkbox during install on 6.0.3...
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1) "But you can turn it off!" - And here I thought it was about default settings and opt-in. Didn't we (users) already fight these battles with Windows Media Player and Real?
It's not like it scans your entire library the moment you launch iTunes.
The matter is you can turn it off before it DOES ANYTHING.
I'll admit, Tiger Direct carries SOME good stuff (we need to get a new Linksys network switch from them), but the chaff far outweighs the wheat.
The funny thing is, for how "bargain basement" Tiger Direct claims to be, the local shop actually offers better prices on a lot of name-brand stuff. (My ViewSonic LCD was actually $20 cheaper!)
When our computer equipment breaks down, I like to go to a specific local store. They're 5 minutes away, carry quality parts at very reasonable prices, cheap "off the boat" parts are nowhere to be seen, they have a good return policy, and they speak ENGLISH. (This is more of a concern than you'd imagine, in a big city.)
My boss, on the other hand, likes to go to Tiger Direct and buy the cheapest crap they have on the shelf.
I think they might need to take into account the quality of bought discs.
Buying 100 for $15 probably won't leave you with the same quality of buying 30 of a different brand for the same price. (But maybe it will. Who knows.)
Now they are trowing away a widely known slogan in the hope of recreating the success of the old one. Does McDonalds replace the M even if it tries to change its image of greasy fastfood? Does Coca-Cola launch a new blue and white bottle?
No, but they do come up with a new slogan every few years. ("I'm lovin' it", being the current, "Did somebody say McDonald's?" being the previous.) They also change the graphic treatment of the "Golden Arches" from time to time.
Coke does the exact same thing. Every few years their cans are redone, and a a new slogan is thrown out there. ("Enjoy." being the current one.)
Intel's logo is still blue, and still lower-case. The font's been changed, and they've merged an element of their branding logo (the enclosing loop) into their corporate logo.
Not a massive change at all. Just a modernisation, which is something ALL companies do from time to time to keep from looking too stagnant.
The recent municipal elections in Ontario used optical recognition to collect ballots. You'd fill-in the boxes next to your choices, and the ballot would be fed into something that looked like a cross between a vault and a photcopier.
Paper trail AND electronic tallying.
The recent Canadian federal elections just used plain old paper and pencil technology. Simple, effective, and tallied within the night.
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Have you ever USED Photoshop?
I don't mean for making a little web graphic. I mean for editing something high-res.
RAM is a BIG factor.
I think people are just getting sick of made-up product and brand names.
Seriously, the market is absolutely saturated with silly nonsense names. Going back to something simple may just be effective.
The problem is that the world is ruled and owned by fucking morning people.
Chipper morning people with no ability to understand that, to us, MORNINGS SUCK.
"Why don't you just get up earlier?" makes me want to say "Why don't you just curl up an die?"
The mainstream press would blow the fact that the phone company keeps a record of your calls out of proportion if it occured to them to do so.
"This cellphone billing statement lists EVERY SINGLE PHONE CALL YOU MADE THIS MONTH! Is this a massive invasion of our privacy?"
Anyway, after all this jittery paranoid nonsense, Apple will probably make it an option checkbox during install on 6.0.3...
1) "But you can turn it off!" - And here I thought it was about default settings and opt-in. Didn't we (users) already fight these battles with Windows Media Player and Real?
It's not like it scans your entire library the moment you launch iTunes.
The matter is you can turn it off before it DOES ANYTHING.
I'll admit, Tiger Direct carries SOME good stuff (we need to get a new Linksys network switch from them), but the chaff far outweighs the wheat.
The funny thing is, for how "bargain basement" Tiger Direct claims to be, the local shop actually offers better prices on a lot of name-brand stuff. (My ViewSonic LCD was actually $20 cheaper!)
When our computer equipment breaks down, I like to go to a specific local store. They're 5 minutes away, carry quality parts at very reasonable prices, cheap "off the boat" parts are nowhere to be seen, they have a good return policy, and they speak ENGLISH. (This is more of a concern than you'd imagine, in a big city.)
My boss, on the other hand, likes to go to Tiger Direct and buy the cheapest crap they have on the shelf.
I think they might need to take into account the quality of bought discs.
Buying 100 for $15 probably won't leave you with the same quality of buying 30 of a different brand for the same price. (But maybe it will. Who knows.)
Whiners, and rabid fanboys who would tell you it's the worst game ever, without even playing it, simply due to the publisher/platform.
Then instead of Warp Drive we may have found cheap one-way time travel into the future.
:)
I know how to travel into the future.
In fact, i'm doing it RIGHT NOW, for free, as I type!
It's joke, but it's TIRESOME.
I bet you still go around yelling "I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH!" at friends...
Note to Motorola's CEO:
Maybe publicly trashing your software partner's flagship product isn't the greatest idea. (Especially when Steve Jobs is involved.)
Just a thought.
...meanwhile, in an alternate, better, dimension:
:)
The author clearly knows NOTHING about the USA!
In the USA you can't even find Budweiser, and, if you can, no one drinks it as it's considered terrible beer.
Now they are trowing away a widely known slogan in the hope of recreating the success of the old one. Does McDonalds replace the M even if it tries to change its image of greasy fastfood? Does Coca-Cola launch a new blue and white bottle?
No, but they do come up with a new slogan every few years. ("I'm lovin' it", being the current, "Did somebody say McDonald's?" being the previous.) They also change the graphic treatment of the "Golden Arches" from time to time.
Coke does the exact same thing. Every few years their cans are redone, and a a new slogan is thrown out there. ("Enjoy." being the current one.)
Intel's logo is still blue, and still lower-case. The font's been changed, and they've merged an element of their branding logo (the enclosing loop) into their corporate logo.
Not a massive change at all. Just a modernisation, which is something ALL companies do from time to time to keep from looking too stagnant.
"Touché..."
- Lisa Simpson
They're calling their new processor the "Intel Core".
Now think, what's inside an apple?
WMF is the only bulletproof way I know of getting CorelDRAW vector files into Microsoft Word. Looks like crap on-screen, but prints-out fine.
Ya, I could just plain embed the CDR files, but OLE (or whatever the hell it's called nowadays) is a bitch.
The recent municipal elections in Ontario used optical recognition to collect ballots. You'd fill-in the boxes next to your choices, and the ballot would be fed into something that looked like a cross between a vault and a photcopier.
Paper trail AND electronic tallying.
The recent Canadian federal elections just used plain old paper and pencil technology. Simple, effective, and tallied within the night.
"HD-DVD Players coming soon... IN MY PANTS!"
You'd think they'd wanna RUSH it to market, because DVDs are simply too easy to duplicate in one's home, and no one's got HD burners yet.
And the technical term for somebody who claims to do user interface design
and not understand this fact is a "FUCKING IDIOT".
Wow. I had NO CLUE Linus was so testy...
Mmm... steak...
Listen to their first released album, "Gordon", and you may change your mind on that.
I don't thik it ever got released in the US, but when it was released here it broke HUGE ground.
As long as what you wear is CLEAN, and fits properly. (We don't want to see the contours of your massive belly.)
My cell service stayed up during the entire big black-out. In fact, that's how I found out how big it was: calling people further and further away.
But I suppose the CRTC in Canada has different regulations regarding backup power than the FCC.