I miss Frys. I used to live really close to a Frys. It was so close that my daughter and I would walk to Frys to buy gum. Sadly, New York has nothing like it.
How come Europe has so much better public transit then? Who the fuck cares? I DON"T LIVE IN EUROPE!!!! I'm not a citizen of a european country. I've never been to europe. So, it isn't an option to me. It is totally irrelevant.
I call straw man on your comment. The stores aren't 1 block away from my house. I have to drive over an hour every day just to get the work. I can't afford a house any closer to my office than that. Telecommuting isn't an option. There aren't buses that go from where I live to where I work.
I have taken public transit when I lived other places - it is OK sometimes, but not other times. It is difficult and confusing to use and it can take 3 times as long to get anywhere. On those occasions when it makes sense, I'll use it. Otherwise, I'm driving my car. And I did try to pick a car that gets decent mileage - it is not an SUV.
Solving Global Warming is important however we can do it. If that means coming up with a machine to rapidly pull carbon out of the atmosphere, that is fine by me. I'm willing to pay the taxes to pay for it. If I need to switch to a plug-in hybrid like the Chevy Volt (concept car they were showing at a recent trade show - it plugs into the wall to re-charge and the first 40 miles are electric, after that it uses gas like a hybrid), fine. I will do what I can, but not working isn't an option.
There are maybe four or five cities in the US with really good public transit and even in those cities, you have to be going where the lines go. And I don't see heavy investments in these kinds of systems happening in the near future. Not everone can live in these places.
As a better example: Gay marriage. States have basically exempted themselves (with judicial approval) from the full faith and credit clause when dealing with homosexual couples who marry in a state where it is legal. In order for that to be the case, the fed govt had to pass the Defense of Marriage Act which might not even stand up to a constitutional challange.
If I recall correctly, it was a bunch of crybabying hippies that beat the US in Vietnam. Our killing prowess was far superior.
I suspect the same type of individuals will be responsible for our failure in the Middle East. Both the Johnson and Nixon administrations had years to fight the war pretty much however the hell they wanted and they could not get the other side to give up. You can blame "the hippies" all you want, but "the hippies" aren't in charge of the US military, nor are they the President of the United States or the Secretary of State or the Defense Secretary. To take longer than WWII and spend more money and not able to win is totally incompetent and to blame "the hippies" is idiotic.
The fact is that the US military are totally incompetent to win the kind of war we are in.
Apple will pretty much have to deliver this with the iPhone beause of the portrait/landscape switching. What does portrait/landscape switching have to do with polarized sunglasses?
Have you priced a USB/DVI KVM switch lately? I have one and it was pretty expensive. The $20 KVM is OK if you are using VGA and PS2 for everything, but those of us with modern computers can't use such a crappy KVM.
If you do know of a cheap USB/DVI KVM, I'd be happy to be wrong.
The only people who I know that do what you are describing also do the same thing with consumer electronics from other vendors. They aren't mac fanboys - they are just gadget fanboys in general.
if you don't buy that it is effective, consider that the enemy, armed with AK-47s, RPGs, high explosives, and dedication to their cause, are holding their own against what is likely the most expensive and advanced miltary in the world. This is classic asymetric warfare. It is how the US was beaten in Vietnam and it is how the US is likely to be beaten in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The important thing is that if the device can save lives but is not perfect in every way that it be denied to our troops forever lest its imperfection save fewer lives than it might have had it been perfect. Thus, our troops should have nothing. In fact, let's send them naked and unarmed to Iraq lest their clothes or weapons fail.
The first iPod is what made all the other iPods possible. It was sexy, it did cool stuff very well, and it was too expensive. Now you can get an iPod Nano for a fraction of the cost of the original iPod and yet it does more stuff better. The original 5GB iPod cost $399 or $79/GB. A nano today costs $149 for the 2GB model or $74/GB. Some savings.
But the original 10 Gig ipod was around $700 and it didn't have much problem selling. Most people will just go from some unit with less memory, like the 4 Gig Nano. If you really want to have the iPod video, you're prepared to spend big bucks anyway. I don't think there's that much of a difference between a person willing to pay $400 for a portable music player, and one who wants to spend $800. Either way it's outside the reach of 80% of people. What currency are you talking about? Canadian dollars or something?? Here is a rundown of iPod history with prices, etc. The 10GB you are talking about originally sold for $399, not $700.
So you are saying that you don't like board games because taking the time to learn the rules is too complicated? Have you ever thought that perhaps you might learn something (like patience, reading skills, etc.) from reading and understanding the rules to a boardgame.
Hell, if they are that hard, get an easier board game. Last time I checked Candyland wasn't that complicated, but is still a nice game for a four year old.
Now that the Apple / Apple court case is sorted out, why doesn't Apple Inc. just become a record label? Becoming a record label wouldn't help. Buying out all the major record labels probably would help, but would probably not be approved by regulators.
while we're at it, why not give it a built in radio and the ability to record from that radio No, what I want is the ability to send a song to another iPod wirelessly so the other person can listen to it for three days or three plays - whichever comes first - and then have the chance to buy the song. But, I don't want this to work on all songs - just some of them where the record company said it was OK to do this. If they would only add this feature, I'm sure more people would buy iPods.
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Maybe they can get a picture of the CEO of Toshiba smiling while holding a newspaper that reads "Blu-Ray beats HD-DVD!".
I miss Frys. I used to live really close to a Frys. It was so close that my daughter and I would walk to Frys to buy gum. Sadly, New York has nothing like it.
I call straw man on your comment. The stores aren't 1 block away from my house. I have to drive over an hour every day just to get the work. I can't afford a house any closer to my office than that. Telecommuting isn't an option. There aren't buses that go from where I live to where I work.
I have taken public transit when I lived other places - it is OK sometimes, but not other times. It is difficult and confusing to use and it can take 3 times as long to get anywhere. On those occasions when it makes sense, I'll use it. Otherwise, I'm driving my car. And I did try to pick a car that gets decent mileage - it is not an SUV.
Solving Global Warming is important however we can do it. If that means coming up with a machine to rapidly pull carbon out of the atmosphere, that is fine by me. I'm willing to pay the taxes to pay for it. If I need to switch to a plug-in hybrid like the Chevy Volt (concept car they were showing at a recent trade show - it plugs into the wall to re-charge and the first 40 miles are electric, after that it uses gas like a hybrid), fine. I will do what I can, but not working isn't an option.
There are maybe four or five cities in the US with really good public transit and even in those cities, you have to be going where the lines go. And I don't see heavy investments in these kinds of systems happening in the near future. Not everone can live in these places.
I suspect the same type of individuals will be responsible for our failure in the Middle East. Both the Johnson and Nixon administrations had years to fight the war pretty much however the hell they wanted and they could not get the other side to give up. You can blame "the hippies" all you want, but "the hippies" aren't in charge of the US military, nor are they the President of the United States or the Secretary of State or the Defense Secretary. To take longer than WWII and spend more money and not able to win is totally incompetent and to blame "the hippies" is idiotic.
The fact is that the US military are totally incompetent to win the kind of war we are in.
Yet I still had time for legos and SNES games. Hmmm. Clearly you were not given nearly enough chores.
Have you priced a USB/DVI KVM switch lately? I have one and it was pretty expensive. The $20 KVM is OK if you are using VGA and PS2 for everything, but those of us with modern computers can't use such a crappy KVM.
If you do know of a cheap USB/DVI KVM, I'd be happy to be wrong.
The only people who I know that do what you are describing also do the same thing with consumer electronics from other vendors. They aren't mac fanboys - they are just gadget fanboys in general.
Many people have bought video iPods. They are not all that big.
The important thing is that if the device can save lives but is not perfect in every way that it be denied to our troops forever lest its imperfection save fewer lives than it might have had it been perfect. Thus, our troops should have nothing. In fact, let's send them naked and unarmed to Iraq lest their clothes or weapons fail.
Some people don't want a player with a hard disk in it. Just yesterday someone told me they felt this way, but I didn't inquire about their reasoning.
I'm still using my 20GB 2nd gen iPod and I don't care that it has a hard disk.
You have very strange ideas about how people make spending decisions. And by "strange", I mean "incorrect".
So you are saying that you don't like board games because taking the time to learn the rules is too complicated? Have you ever thought that perhaps you might learn something (like patience, reading skills, etc.) from reading and understanding the rules to a boardgame.
Hell, if they are that hard, get an easier board game. Last time I checked Candyland wasn't that complicated, but is still a nice game for a four year old.
Toys and games are a waste of time. At my house we do chores.
But Microsoft ISN'T licensing the DRM in Zune. Sure, they license Plays4Shit, but who cares? They already obsoleted it when they came out with Zuma!
Since when do fictional books count as evidence for anything?
Oh, I forgot this is a discussion of a mission to Mars which is a wacky goofball idea to begin with. Why not just flush all our money down the sewer?