You can no longer buy a car using cash - not a new car anyway.
Sure you can, you just have to go to the right dealership. There are plenty of places around NYC, Miami, and many other cities who are used to dealing with wealthy customers who like to use cash.
Well, I read the essay you linked to, and while I saw things there I don't agree with, I don't see evidence of insanity, either. Could you be more specific?
I think the main misstep Apple has made so far is limiting the video resolution of the purchased video to 320x240
It's a tradeoff. At 320x240, I can download a show in a reasonable amount of time over a cable modem connection that varies in speed from 1Mbit to 6Mb/Sec. When I can get 100Mbit speeds from my cable modem, then I'll probably want that upgraded to DV, and when I have Gig-E, I'll be looking for HD.
there simply is no "anti-iPod" faction out there making these complaints.
There is, but it consists entirely of MS managers, plus that guy at Dell who thought it would be a good idea to use a product name that rhymes with "shitty".
Nah, let's just flood the Sahara. There's about fifteen feet of global sea level to gain, and it's not like the Sahara does anyone much good now is it?
AutoCAD was a nightmare on CP/M and PC-DOS. (Yeah, I know. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Autodesk is truly the Microsoft of the CAD world.)
Bringing up the viewer is a major portion of the work in bringing the rest of the system to OS X. CAD vendors tend to have their own pile of rendering code that's redundant in these days of OpenGL, but their apps depend on these obsolete libraries.
The main thing I buy on the iTMS is songs from the back-catalog, that I just can't find in a record store. I never had a copy of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" or "Stagger Lee" before the iTMS went live.
If the iTMS offered up a box set of 100 Looney Toons, I'd be all over that. No matter how many times I watch The Rabbit of Seville, it still cracks me up.
Since RFID tags are so useful to corporations, I see any "RFID Killer" being classified as illegal as soon as it hiss the market.
Well, I don't have quite such a pessimistic outlook. It would probably be illegal to zap an RFID tag in a store, because until you buy it, it's not yours. Once you own it though, you're entitled to fry the RFID, rip off the tags that say "do not remove this tag", etc.
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For myself, the ONLY reason I own an iPod was the amazing plethora of accessories avaialable for it.
Funny, I got it because it does a good job playing my music.
-jcr
You can no longer buy a car using cash - not a new car anyway.
Sure you can, you just have to go to the right dealership. There are plenty of places around NYC, Miami, and many other cities who are used to dealing with wealthy customers who like to use cash.
-jcr
Sorry, but the link above just goes to third-hand account of someone else calling him a fascist. I remain unconvinced.
-jcr
Well, I read the essay you linked to, and while I saw things there I don't agree with, I don't see evidence of insanity, either. Could you be more specific?
-jcr
I think the main misstep Apple has made so far is limiting the video resolution of the purchased video to 320x240
It's a tradeoff. At 320x240, I can download a show in a reasonable amount of time over a cable modem connection that varies in speed from 1Mbit to 6Mb/Sec. When I can get 100Mbit speeds from my cable modem, then I'll probably want that upgraded to DV, and when I have Gig-E, I'll be looking for HD.
-jcr
there simply is no "anti-iPod" faction out there making these complaints.
There is, but it consists entirely of MS managers, plus that guy at Dell who thought it would be a good idea to use a product name that rhymes with "shitty".
-jcr
Or what was the latest when you got stuck in time. Mac OS 7, gee.. I think I stick too X..
I ddn't get stuck in time, sport. I'd already been using NeXTSTEP for three years by '92.
-jcr
The "gold rush" is in the Arctic, not the Antarctic.
-jcr
Thanks for quoting an article from 1992.
You're welcome. Let us know if X ever gets any better. I won't be holding my breath.
-jcr
Perhaps you can explain to us how the arctic ice, floating in the ocean, could raise the sea level by melting?
The floating ice won't. It's the ice that's deposited on land (Antarctica, Greenland, Northern Canada, etc.) that will.
-jcr
Nah, let's just flood the Sahara. There's about fifteen feet of global sea level to gain, and it's not like the Sahara does anyone much good now is it?
-jcr
we put out a lot less pollution than China or India.
Less overall, probably not less per capita.
-jcr
Actually, the Kyoto treaty was unanimously rejected by the senate. See Senate Resolution 98 (1997).
-jcr
That's only in New York.
-jcr
CAD was born on the Mac.
I wish!
AutoCAD was a nightmare on CP/M and PC-DOS. (Yeah, I know. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Autodesk is truly the Microsoft of the CAD world.)
-jcr
X11 is not nasty.
Yes, it is.
-jcr
that's just a viewer
Bringing up the viewer is a major portion of the work in bringing the rest of the system to OS X. CAD vendors tend to have their own pile of rendering code that's redundant in these days of OpenGL, but their apps depend on these obsolete libraries.
-jcr
Fortunately for all concerned, Eisner's not running Disney anymore.
-jcr
The main thing I buy on the iTMS is songs from the back-catalog, that I just can't find in a record store. I never had a copy of "A Whiter Shade of Pale" or "Stagger Lee" before the iTMS went live.
If the iTMS offered up a box set of 100 Looney Toons, I'd be all over that. No matter how many times I watch The Rabbit of Seville, it still cracks me up.
-jcr
Sony hypes their products?
Gee.. I guess they're so far below my radar now that I haven't noticed. What have they done since the Trinitron?
-jcr
How do criminals think they'll get away with something like this?
I'm going to go way out on a limb here, and say.. Maybe because so many of them have gotten away with it?
There are ways to collect money anonymously, like having the victims give it to a courier who knows nothing, who will take it to a dead drop, etc.
I'm glad these perps were caught, but there are many, many more left to catch.
-jcr
Hit a nerve, did he?
-jcr
Guess again. Apple licensed Xerox's work, and Xerox was a pre-IPO investor in Apple.
-jcr
By the same logic, you should be able to pirate copyrighted material based on the fact that you purchased the media it's stored on.
Nonsense.
By the same logic, you're entitled to rub the label off of a DVD with some steel wool. Copyright is a different matter.
-jcr
Since RFID tags are so useful to corporations, I see any "RFID Killer" being classified as illegal as soon as it hiss the market.
Well, I don't have quite such a pessimistic outlook. It would probably be illegal to zap an RFID tag in a store, because until you buy it, it's not yours. Once you own it though, you're entitled to fry the RFID, rip off the tags that say "do not remove this tag", etc.
-jcr