Well, I only spent three and half years working at Apple, so what do I know?
You can be pretty sure that sitting on a designers desk somewhere at Apple is a pretty little white iPhone which will be on the market within a year or so.
There may well be, but that's really beside the point. The ROKR isn't an Apple product. It's a Motorola product, that comes with a program from Apple.
I was going to buy an ipod mini until the salesman at "the source" told me the battery life was miserable and they were processing a lot of returns on them.
You do know that other manufacturers give salesmen incentives to push their products, don't you? They call them "Spiffs". Apple doesn't do that, and it's a big part of why Apple needed to open their own stores.
If you want to know whether a product has a high rate of returns, check with a neutral party like Consumer Reports, not a salesman who will make more money by steering you to a different product than the one you asked for.
neither the manufacturers nor the fans do a very good job of describing why large amounts of violence are somehow integral to the games being designed.
Who says they have any obligation to do so?
If someone puts out a video game where you score points by poisoning adorable little kittens, it's nobody's business but the sellers and the buyers of the product. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
The Mini was a top seller right up until Apple replaced it with the nano.
I'm pretty impressed with that move, myself. Discontinuing a very successful product just because you have a better one takes more guts than most companies have.
Sure, that helped, but Lewinsky wasn't why Hillary's plot to inflict socialized medicine on the country was stopped. I give the credit for that directly to the traditional president/congress gridlock.
It's not just old information. The Archives have a great deal of material from the second Bush administration already, and the rate of data accumulation is increasing steadily.
The reason to go digital is to reduce storage costs. Paper is a very low-density medium and it needs to be kept in climate-controlled warehouses if you don't want it to rot away.
A couple of years back, I worked for a company that was building medical records-keeping systems for a Workman's Comp insurance company. We had a statutory requirement for the records to persist for fifty years, I think it was.
Our plan allowed for perishable media. The data was kept on CDs in cold (not cryogenic, but cold) storage, and they were scheduled to be read in, and burned to new disks every couple of years.
There are many smart people who believe he's been working far better than the alternative would have been.
Not that I'm a fan of Al Gore, but...
Personally, I'm in favor of having the executive and legislative branches deadlocked whenever possible. Clinton wasn't able to fuck up the economy too badly, since Gingrich was able to thwart him at nearly every turn. It's when the president and the congressional majority are from the same party that things get really dicey.
What you said in your original post, "evacuation works well, for those who comply" was clearly meant as a jab at the people who did not or could not evacuate.
No, it was a statement of fact. If I wanted to take a jab at the people who didn't evacuate, I'd compare them to you in some way.
Weather control might be a stupid idea, but your comment was completely insensitive and uncalled for.
Oh, I'm so terribly sorry I hurt your widdle feewings. Should I submit my posts to a sensitivity review board first?
What is also interesting to note is that this is the second ipod that is USB only. Is this because they both use the same "mainboard" and adding fw would be too expensive or technically challenging?
No, it's because the data transfer bottleneck for the Shuffle and the Nano is the speed of writing to flash memory. Firewire's pointless in this situation.
Some silly middle-management tart sending a memo telling people not to talk at their desks might make it a lousy place to work, but it's hardly a "human rights" issue.
I predict more consumer-hostile behavior from eBay and will continue to boycott all of its products.
Hint: they don't grow on trees. An SUV is an example of many, many applied sciences.
That's fuel economy from the fricken stone age, because the engine technology is from the fricken stone age.
It would appear that you have no idea what the "stone age" was. It was the time before people had learned to extract metals from ores, let alone build an internal-combustion engine.
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I don't think you get it.
Well, I only spent three and half years working at Apple, so what do I know?
You can be pretty sure that sitting on a designers desk somewhere at Apple is a pretty little white iPhone which will be on the market within a year or so.
There may well be, but that's really beside the point. The ROKR isn't an Apple product. It's a Motorola product, that comes with a program from Apple.
-jcr
I was going to buy an ipod mini until the salesman at "the source" told me the battery life was miserable and they were processing a lot of returns on them.
You do know that other manufacturers give salesmen incentives to push their products, don't you? They call them "Spiffs". Apple doesn't do that, and it's a big part of why Apple needed to open their own stores.
If you want to know whether a product has a high rate of returns, check with a neutral party like Consumer Reports, not a salesman who will make more money by steering you to a different product than the one you asked for.
-jcr
neither the manufacturers nor the fans do a very good job of describing why large amounts of violence are somehow integral to the games being designed.
Who says they have any obligation to do so?
If someone puts out a video game where you score points by poisoning adorable little kittens, it's nobody's business but the sellers and the buyers of the product. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
-jcr
Let's ignore that whole "freedom of speech thing" (even if that refers to only political speech).
Remember when the dems used to pretend to be the defenders of free speech against the anti-porn bible-thumpers?
-jcr
The Mini was a top seller right up until Apple replaced it with the nano.
I'm pretty impressed with that move, myself. Discontinuing a very successful product just because you have a better one takes more guts than most companies have.
-jcr
If you want to understand what real Communism is, try reading something like 'The Communist Manifesto'.
I did read the manifesto, and I found it only slightly less appalling than Mein Kampf. Like all colllectivist screeds, it is a blueprint for disaster.
-jcr
Apple's strategy here is to sell a program and a service to Motorola. It's not Apple's hardware, guys. The ROKR is not an Apple product.
-jcr
Socialized medicine spreads out the cost of medicine.
So does private insurance, and I know which I'd rather use.
-jcr
We're going to have to head to socialized medicine eventually if we want to be able to compete with nations who already have it.
I'd have to say that we're already competing just fine with countries like Canada and Sweden.
You see, companies don't want to pay for it so they'll just relocate to nations that don't force them to.
Exactly. If medicine is socialized, everyone is forced to pay for it. Tax revenues don't fall like mana from heaven.
-jcr
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In 1865...
-jcr
Sure, that helped, but Lewinsky wasn't why Hillary's plot to inflict socialized medicine on the country was stopped. I give the credit for that directly to the traditional president/congress gridlock.
-jcr
Will we need old information in digital format?
It's not just old information. The Archives have a great deal of material from the second Bush administration already, and the rate of data accumulation is increasing steadily.
The reason to go digital is to reduce storage costs. Paper is a very low-density medium and it needs to be kept in climate-controlled warehouses if you don't want it to rot away.
-jcr
A couple of years back, I worked for a company that was building medical records-keeping systems for a Workman's Comp insurance company. We had a statutory requirement for the records to persist for fifty years, I think it was.
Our plan allowed for perishable media. The data was kept on CDs in cold (not cryogenic, but cold) storage, and they were scheduled to be read in, and burned to new disks every couple of years.
-jcr
There are many smart people who believe he's been working far better than the alternative would have been.
Not that I'm a fan of Al Gore, but...
Personally, I'm in favor of having the executive and legislative branches deadlocked whenever possible. Clinton wasn't able to fuck up the economy too badly, since Gingrich was able to thwart him at nearly every turn. It's when the president and the congressional majority are from the same party that things get really dicey.
-jcr
Oh stop being a jackass.
That's advice you would do well to follow.
What you said in your original post, "evacuation works well, for those who comply" was clearly meant as a jab at the people who did not or could not evacuate.
No, it was a statement of fact. If I wanted to take a jab at the people who didn't evacuate, I'd compare them to you in some way.
Weather control might be a stupid idea, but your comment was completely insensitive and uncalled for.
Oh, I'm so terribly sorry I hurt your widdle feewings. Should I submit my posts to a sensitivity review board first?
-jcr
Well, credit where credit is due. Just about every Apple product I've ever seen is smaller and more elegant than a Buick Regal.
-jcr
What is also interesting to note is that this is the second ipod that is USB only. Is this because they both use the same "mainboard" and adding fw would be too expensive or technically challenging?
No, it's because the data transfer bottleneck for the Shuffle and the Nano is the speed of writing to flash memory. Firewire's pointless in this situation.
-jcr
LOL! I love it when the same post gets modded "insightful "and "troll" within five minutes!
-jcr
And what do you say to the poor lower class that don't own cars and can't evacuate?
Sorry, I don't understand your question. The problem of poverty is orthogonal to whether it's more feasible to evacuate or try to control the weather.
-jcr
I think I need to buy some puts on E-Bay.
-jcr
history of poor human rights concerns
Some silly middle-management tart sending a memo telling people not to talk at their desks might make it a lousy place to work, but it's hardly a "human rights" issue.
I predict more consumer-hostile behavior from eBay and will continue to boycott all of its products.
I'm sure that just breaks their hearts.
That depends on how early you evacuate.
-jcr
What's technological about ~10 mpg SUVs ?
You're kidding, right?
Hint: they don't grow on trees. An SUV is an example of many, many applied sciences.
That's fuel economy from the fricken stone age, because the engine technology is from the fricken stone age.
It would appear that you have no idea what the "stone age" was. It was the time before people had learned to extract metals from ores, let alone build an internal-combustion engine.
-jcr
You could just try and get your president to agree to the Kyoto agreement.
If the USA ratifies the Kyoto protocol, what will you blame for the next major weather disaster?
Really, it would be unkind to deprive people like you of one of your favorite knee-jerk quips.
-jcr
New Orleans, LA has been a known disaster-waiting-to-happen for decades.
Decades? More like about two and a half centuries.
-jcr