You're never going to get compensation from Dell by calling them on the phone. There're not going to give you the time of day until they get served. Seriously. Start shopping around for a lawyer who has some experience with tech companies and or liability cases.
Prominent bizarro physicists believe the new universe will be inverse of our own, controlled by the indigent, and known as the hobo-verse. This new hobo-verse will be controlled by a singular omnipotent box car hobo named "Klackity Klack." Also, it will smell like pee.
No doubt, if you're stupid enough to cross metropolitan streets while distracted by white headphones, you should be removed from the gene pool. That said, even if a pedestrian is at fault, my insurance company still tends to frown up little things like death. Moreover, I imagine I might feel a wee bit shitty after shuffling an iPod user with my car.
I have no problem with the city citing people for their stupidity and protecting me from running over a moron.
Well, consider the monthly bill for a smart phone. A decent talk plan, a data plan, SMS, and whatever additional fees they tack on, can run you $100 to $150 a month. Although this might not bug certain enterprise users, for consumers who just now considering a smart phone, that monthly bill is going to be a shock.
If Apple can workout a deal to lower that ridiculous monthly bill, I would consider a nice phone that didn't sodomize my wallet once a month for 2 years. If they can't lower that talk + data plan price, well, you can count me out of the early adopter club.
All in all, if the gadget is cool enough, you can probably get away with charging more up front and less down the line. Heck, people were willing to pay a premium for the iPod when that first hit the market.
Ugh. YouTube has been under the magnifying glass eye of studios for months, and this idiot uploaded an unseen episode of 24 to their site. Yes, that makes him a giant moron.
Moreover, you don't strike me as the sharpest tack either. You can't seem to wrap your head around why uploading unreleased content to YouTube would bring about a studio-backed shit-storm upon the uploader. And, might I add, you're berating a guy with "OS X" in his screen name for purchasing Windows.
Yeah, I was able to decode the meaning of your analogy; however, it was worded poorly.
Berating them for not using their understanding of microwaves is like watching a Spiderman movie and saying "Why doesn't he just fly out of there?"
That sentence compares someone berating a microwave user who isn't savvy, with a someone who doesn't understand why Spiderman can't fly.
Your sentence should read something like this: Berating an average consumer for not understanding how a microwave works is like berating someone who doesn't read comics for asking why Spiderman doesn't fly.
The analogy should be between the two critics, not the critic and victim of criticism. Get it?:P
FYI, it has also been reported that this episode appeared on Bit Torrent prior to it's appearance on YouTube. Odds are this guy was just a moron / 3rd rate P2P pirate. Hassling him probably won't highlight the source of the leak.
So so so wait... Microsoft gives Universal a chunk of change every time a Zune is sold, THEN Universal prevents certain songs from utilizing the only significant gimmick the Zune has?
Not that "squirting" was actually simple to begin with, nevertheless, this is how Universal repays Microsoft? F*cking classic.
Hopefully the nanotech battery angels will come down, make WiFI PMPs practical, and allow sharing that is at least similar to iTunes library sharing. And hopefully by then Universal will have pulled its head out of its ass.
Well, if we're going to play the game of hypotheticals, in the unlikely case Steve gets booted out, Steve could hypothetically start his own product design consultancy and consult for Apple.
The Mac Book / Mac Book Pro trackpads support contextual menus. You need to place two fingers on the track pad and click. IHMO I find this more comfortable then moving my thumb or wrist to a right button.
I wish Apple would enable this feature on older PowerBooks and iBooks that can detect multiple finger input.
At this point in time, I think it has more to do with stubborn businesses that refuse to incur the costs and blow-back for switching. Just about anyone born in the states during the past 50 or 60 years was taught the metric and imperial system in elementary schools / high school. And it's not like it takes a genius to multiply 10 by 10 by 10, etc.
Ya, what was up with that? Apple claims they haven't even disclosed the OS' full feature set yet... and it ships in spring. Whatever Apple has yet to announce must consist of non-critical toys that do not effect 3rd party developers or the functionality / stability of ADC builds.
Ideal roommates should be able to appreciate trap doors, suits of armor used used for conversation pieces, abandoned rooms with misc furniture covered in white sheets, pictures of aristocrats with the eyes cut out (for spying), rotating bookshelfs, and indie rock.
Eh. The Wired show strikes me as the only show out of that selection that could potentially broaden PBS's demographic a bit. Considering the recent resurgence of nuts who want PBS to slowly suffocate from lack of funding, I can't say I have a problem with PBS targeting the Wired / Engadget demographic.
If they eliminated the irrelevant (and oddly boring) destruction of more electronics equipment, and focused a bit more on fewer stories, it could be respectable.
The thing is, most people don't drive over 200 very often. I used to have a 100 mile roundtrip commute, and I will NEVER subject myself to such torture again.
Considering we live in a world where household's have multiple cars, plane flights are cheeper then driving, and a rental car for vacation isn't a crazy concept, a 100-200 mile EV would be incredibly practical for many people.
If Detroit would make them look decent, and market the thing properly, people would buy them. They've yet to do that. I'm so sick of concept cars.
I recall reading an article a few weeks ago that noted Walmart was planning to migrate to more efficient lighting in all of their new stores. They're primary concern being money saved from lower electric bills not ya, know, earth. Could this new green campaign be related? ie, We'll promote the hell out of your lights, if you cut us a break on new light for our stores?
Let's face it, this is Walmart. If anything "green" happens at Walmart is usually some crazy accidental consequence of trying to make a buck or censor a 50 Cent CD.
As for the consumer virtualization... personally, it makes me throwup a little bit in my mouth every time I think about it.
In my humble opinion, OS 9 needed to get the boot. Very few people depend on classic apps, and maintaining the classic environment is just another damn thing to chew up development resources. Yet, this is becoming more of a topic of emulation then virtualization.
The big thing for consumers is Windows virtualization on OS X. It's a cool concept, yet it's a human factors nightmare and not the most encouraging thing for application development on OS X. On one hand, I'd like to buy an Intel Mac and Parallels, on the other hand, I hope virtualized Windows doesn't become the norm for OS X users.
Ohh, and it's also worth noting that Apple called themselves out on the backdating of options. They announced it and started their own internal investigation 5 months ago. After it was concluded in October they publicly disclosed "serious concerns" of accounting fraud and options backdating by the CFO and senior vice president. The two have since "resigned."
So, ya, hiphip freak'n hooray for the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice started investigating a crime after the criminal notified them of the crime and started handing over evidence. I hope Alberto Gonzales has gold stars for everyone's awesome investigatory investigiveness.
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I'm fairly sure I saw a movie in the 70's titled "Black Saturn."
You're never going to get compensation from Dell by calling them on the phone. There're not going to give you the time of day until they get served. Seriously. Start shopping around for a lawyer who has some experience with tech companies and or liability cases.
Prominent bizarro physicists believe the new universe will be inverse of our own, controlled by the indigent, and known as the hobo-verse. This new hobo-verse will be controlled by a singular omnipotent box car hobo named "Klackity Klack." Also, it will smell like pee.
No doubt, if you're stupid enough to cross metropolitan streets while distracted by white headphones, you should be removed from the gene pool. That said, even if a pedestrian is at fault, my insurance company still tends to frown up little things like death. Moreover, I imagine I might feel a wee bit shitty after shuffling an iPod user with my car.
I have no problem with the city citing people for their stupidity and protecting me from running over a moron.
Well, consider the monthly bill for a smart phone. A decent talk plan, a data plan, SMS, and whatever additional fees they tack on, can run you $100 to $150 a month. Although this might not bug certain enterprise users, for consumers who just now considering a smart phone, that monthly bill is going to be a shock.
If Apple can workout a deal to lower that ridiculous monthly bill, I would consider a nice phone that didn't sodomize my wallet once a month for 2 years. If they can't lower that talk + data plan price, well, you can count me out of the early adopter club.
All in all, if the gadget is cool enough, you can probably get away with charging more up front and less down the line. Heck, people were willing to pay a premium for the iPod when that first hit the market.
Ugh. YouTube has been under the magnifying glass eye of studios for months, and this idiot uploaded an unseen episode of 24 to their site. Yes, that makes him a giant moron.
Moreover, you don't strike me as the sharpest tack either. You can't seem to wrap your head around why uploading unreleased content to YouTube would bring about a studio-backed shit-storm upon the uploader. And, might I add, you're berating a guy with "OS X" in his screen name for purchasing Windows.
Moron.
Yeah, I was able to decode the meaning of your analogy; however, it was worded poorly.
:P
Berating them for not using their understanding of microwaves is like watching a Spiderman movie and saying "Why doesn't he just fly out of there?"
That sentence compares someone berating a microwave user who isn't savvy, with a someone who doesn't understand why Spiderman can't fly.
Your sentence should read something like this:
Berating an average consumer for not understanding how a microwave works is like berating someone who doesn't read comics for asking why Spiderman doesn't fly.
The analogy should be between the two critics, not the critic and victim of criticism.
Get it?
FYI, it has also been reported that this episode appeared on Bit Torrent prior to it's appearance on YouTube. Odds are this guy was just a moron / 3rd rate P2P pirate. Hassling him probably won't highlight the source of the leak.
I think that analogy needs a bit of polishing.
I've be trying to become morbidly obese, but this is hard work. If I didn't need to move any of my molecules, that would probably be a big help.
So so so wait... Microsoft gives Universal a chunk of change every time a Zune is sold, THEN Universal prevents certain songs from utilizing the only significant gimmick the Zune has?
Not that "squirting" was actually simple to begin with, nevertheless, this is how Universal repays Microsoft? F*cking classic.
Hopefully the nanotech battery angels will come down, make WiFI PMPs practical, and allow sharing that is at least similar to iTunes library sharing. And hopefully by then Universal will have pulled its head out of its ass.
Well, if we're going to play the game of hypotheticals, in the unlikely case Steve gets booted out, Steve could hypothetically start his own product design consultancy and consult for Apple.
An Apple Bug-Fix Tool? Err, um, no and no.
APE is developed by Unsanity and it's not a "bug fix tool."
It's a third party framework and daemon used for a number of thing.
"not to mention a second button on the trackpad."
The Mac Book / Mac Book Pro trackpads support contextual menus. You need to place two fingers on the track pad and click. IHMO I find this more comfortable then moving my thumb or wrist to a right button.
I wish Apple would enable this feature on older PowerBooks and iBooks that can detect multiple finger input.
That stuff would leak. Anything seeded to ADC members gets out.
At this point in time, I think it has more to do with stubborn businesses that refuse to incur the costs and blow-back for switching. Just about anyone born in the states during the past 50 or 60 years was taught the metric and imperial system in elementary schools / high school. And it's not like it takes a genius to multiply 10 by 10 by 10, etc.
Ya, what was up with that?
Apple claims they haven't even disclosed the OS' full feature set yet... and it ships in spring. Whatever Apple has yet to announce must consist of non-critical toys that do not effect 3rd party developers or the functionality / stability of ADC builds.
Sometimes saying nothing speaks volumes.
Who wants to go in on a castle?
Ideal roommates should be able to appreciate trap doors, suits of armor used used for conversation pieces, abandoned rooms with misc furniture covered in white sheets, pictures of aristocrats with the eyes cut out (for spying), rotating bookshelfs, and indie rock.
No dogs.
No smokers.
Weed is ok.
Eh. The Wired show strikes me as the only show out of that selection that could potentially broaden PBS's demographic a bit. Considering the recent resurgence of nuts who want PBS to slowly suffocate from lack of funding, I can't say I have a problem with PBS targeting the Wired / Engadget demographic.
If they eliminated the irrelevant (and oddly boring) destruction of more electronics equipment, and focused a bit more on fewer stories, it could be respectable.
Anyone geek who hates MythBusters probably also hands out pennies on Halloween.
Because investing in state owned reruns certainly costs as much as funding 2 additional new shows.
The thing is, most people don't drive over 200 very often. I used to have a 100 mile roundtrip commute, and I will NEVER subject myself to such torture again.
Considering we live in a world where household's have multiple cars, plane flights are cheeper then driving, and a rental car for vacation isn't a crazy concept, a 100-200 mile EV would be incredibly practical for many people.
If Detroit would make them look decent, and market the thing properly, people would buy them. They've yet to do that. I'm so sick of concept cars.
I recall reading an article a few weeks ago that noted Walmart was planning to migrate to more efficient lighting in all of their new stores. They're primary concern being money saved from lower electric bills not ya, know, earth. Could this new green campaign be related? ie, We'll promote the hell out of your lights, if you cut us a break on new light for our stores?
Let's face it, this is Walmart. If anything "green" happens at Walmart is usually some crazy accidental consequence of trying to make a buck or censor a 50 Cent CD.
As for the consumer virtualization... personally, it makes me throwup a little bit in my mouth every time I think about it.
In my humble opinion, OS 9 needed to get the boot. Very few people depend on classic apps, and maintaining the classic environment is just another damn thing to chew up development resources. Yet, this is becoming more of a topic of emulation then virtualization.
The big thing for consumers is Windows virtualization on OS X. It's a cool concept, yet it's a human factors nightmare and not the most encouraging thing for application development on OS X. On one hand, I'd like to buy an Intel Mac and Parallels, on the other hand, I hope virtualized Windows doesn't become the norm for OS X users.
Ohh, and it's also worth noting that Apple called themselves out on the backdating of options. They announced it and started their own internal investigation 5 months ago. After it was concluded in October they publicly disclosed "serious concerns" of accounting fraud and options backdating by the CFO and senior vice president. The two have since "resigned."
So, ya, hiphip freak'n hooray for the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice started investigating a crime after the criminal notified them of the crime and started handing over evidence. I hope Alberto Gonzales has gold stars for everyone's awesome investigatory investigiveness.