I've spent nearly 3 month this year in China, over the coarse of 3 different trips. Slashdot has always been accessible (this surprises me, given stories like this very one we're discussing). Wikipedia has never been accessible (not even en.wikipedia). Blogspot has been hit or miss. Otherwise, I've been able to navigate wherever I wanted to go, including websites with info on the Tianenmen Square massacre.
Re:Big Brother and the iTunes Company
on
iTunes is Malware?
·
· Score: 1
dubiousmike said:
Not that I use it anyway after they expired all of my free pepsi points without warning...
They didn't expire your free Pepsi points without warning. Those codes came with a very concrete expiration date. The promotion rules clearly stated that they had to be used by a certain date. It's not Apple's fault that you didn't use the codes up by the time they expired.
The point is, it's art. There are no rules to art.
Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Andy Warhol, The Grateful Dead, Robert Mapplethorpe, to name only a few of the many artists who have proven this to us over time. One person's garbage has literally been another person's art.
Art is neither good nor bad, you can't qualify it any more than like or dislike. Pop music is art, and if one person thinks that it's good art, then it is good art. Britney Spears (rather, the team that writes her songs) is an artist as much as Mozart was.
Simple.
Bill Gates: Total market dominance, I want it all.
Lucifer: I can't do that, humanity would never buy it. How about I squeek you in between 90 and 95% of the market share, and make sure that no other company can ever touch you?
BG: Yeah, I guess that will work - I'll still be, like, way bigger than Steve, right?
L: Oh yes - Steve's deal had nothing to do with market share, that will work fine.
BG: Great, count me in!
L: Okay, your finger...
BG: Ouch!
L: Only hurts for a second, now just sign here and we're all done... good, welcome to the club, Bill!
Interestingly, if 1 Yuan = 0.120817 USD, then 8 Yuan = 0.966536 USD, or approximately 1. Curious that, and it only took a simple system we call "math" to figure that one out. So in fact, that's precisely what broken_bones was saying - thanks for your contribution.
Apple doesn't care about functionality? Have you ever seen the case for a G4 PowerMac? The ultra-portable handles? The motherboard attached to the swing-down side door for the easiest access to expansion slots the market has seen?
Aww - that's no problem, you just cut of that big thick prong and the grounded plug works anywhere. Geez, I'd think a bunch of hackers would know that...
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, "phone" is no longer an abbreviation for "telephone," it stands all on its own now. Thought you might like to know.
I've spent nearly 3 month this year in China, over the coarse of 3 different trips. Slashdot has always been accessible (this surprises me, given stories like this very one we're discussing). Wikipedia has never been accessible (not even en.wikipedia). Blogspot has been hit or miss. Otherwise, I've been able to navigate wherever I wanted to go, including websites with info on the Tianenmen Square massacre.
They didn't expire your free Pepsi points without warning. Those codes came with a very concrete expiration date. The promotion rules clearly stated that they had to be used by a certain date. It's not Apple's fault that you didn't use the codes up by the time they expired.
The point is, it's art. There are no rules to art. Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Andy Warhol, The Grateful Dead, Robert Mapplethorpe, to name only a few of the many artists who have proven this to us over time. One person's garbage has literally been another person's art. Art is neither good nor bad, you can't qualify it any more than like or dislike. Pop music is art, and if one person thinks that it's good art, then it is good art. Britney Spears (rather, the team that writes her songs) is an artist as much as Mozart was. Simple.
Oh yeah, sure... That's what they want you to believe...
Ctrl-clicking on the Maximize button in iTunes for Windows will give it a more maximized view, though still not truly full-screen.
Anybody else notice the penguins in the opening credits for Veggie Tales?
Bill Gates: Total market dominance, I want it all.
Lucifer: I can't do that, humanity would never buy it. How about I squeek you in between 90 and 95% of the market share, and make sure that no other company can ever touch you?
BG: Yeah, I guess that will work - I'll still be, like, way bigger than Steve, right?
L: Oh yes - Steve's deal had nothing to do with market share, that will work fine.
BG: Great, count me in!
L: Okay, your finger...
BG: Ouch!
L: Only hurts for a second, now just sign here and we're all done... good, welcome to the club, Bill!
1 Yuan = 14.9331 Yen = 0.120817 USD
More like 8 yuan (or RMB) is roughly 1 dollar.
Interestingly, if 1 Yuan = 0.120817 USD, then 8 Yuan = 0.966536 USD, or approximately 1. Curious that, and it only took a simple system we call "math" to figure that one out. So in fact, that's precisely what broken_bones was saying - thanks for your contribution.
Apple doesn't care about functionality? Have you ever seen the case for a G4 PowerMac? The ultra-portable handles? The motherboard attached to the swing-down side door for the easiest access to expansion slots the market has seen?
Maybe linux won't kill off Windows, but its replacement will.
Oh, you mean OS X?
Aww - that's no problem, you just cut of that big thick prong and the grounded plug works anywhere. Geez, I'd think a bunch of hackers would know that...