When the beatles first record was released, their manager reportedly bought 10,000 copies so that it would make it into the charts. I wonder how many copies of Vista were purchased by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
I was on the list and I was barraged by calls even during the dinner hour. Honestly. My wife would get into yelling matches with them and she even had the manager at one of these places call her several times and curse her out.
We got rid of the land line when we moved because there was not any point to it. We only have cell phones now.
Having a land line phone is like writing paper checks at the supermarket - its for the elderly. I'm 36 and I don't see any value in having a landline phone. None.
We have a kid who is old enough to be home alone sometimes (teen) so we got her a cell phone too for emergencies, etc. Most of the time she wants to communicate with a fiend, it is either via iChat or email.
I actually missed the "million" in the summary and for a minute I was thinking "the moon is only.375 km from earth? That seems really close - like I could walk there -- if I could walk straight up."
Apple's packaging is like a throwback to the 70's. Apple uses a lot less packaging for products today than they did in the 70s. So, your comments don't make a lot of sense.
Haven't they had like several missions to fix Hubble? It seems like half the shuttle missions in the 90s were for that purpose.
I don't see how they are going to make this work if they can't service it. It will just end up being a waste of money.
As far as I can tell, the software industry to this day has never learned this. There was a time in the 1980s where every time you bought a game one of two things would happen: either they tried to play games with the floppy disk by adding a certain number of bad sectors, etc. or else at the beginning of the game you had to "enter the first word of the second paragraph of page 46 of the manual".
I haven't seen people do this for years. Now you usually have to hae some kind of license key or nothing at all. No one ships defective media on purpose and the way that licensing is implemented isn't just amateur hour anymore.
I disagree with you. I think that this is an excellent move by the film industry and should be encouraged. In fact, they should take it to the logical conclusion and stop making commercial movies altogether. That would prevent piracy.
Movies suck. Do not cripple the 100 billion/yr computer industry that creates jobs for families to save the 5 billion/yr movie industry that creates trash and destroys families.
Or they could build their tunnels out of metal-shielded concrete, and nobody would see what they are moving either (for a fraction of the price, probably). Yes, but your solution is impractical for the US military because it does not waste the maximum amount of money possible.
If you were following this, you would have known that Greenpeace scored Apple really low due to other companies having given commitments to reduce this or that whereas Apple had not given such commitments. Basically Apple was being secretive and GP didn't like that. Apple likes to do stuff, not say stuff. And that serves them pretty well when it comes to the market because they get a lot of free publicity that way.
In this case, I think Apple doesn't really give much away in terms of new products while still being able to publish a timeline for reducing harmful substances used in their products.
I didn't realize I could get a 10% discount on a new iPod by trading in my old one. If my current one ever breaks, I will keep that in mind.
The advantage of Apple using Intel and x86 is that Apple gets a "free ride" on the chip issue that they never had before.
Think about it. From day one Apple has been haunted by the fact that their computers were using chips that were non-standard for the personal computer industry. First with MOS and the 6502, then Moto, then PowerPC.
Finally Apple switched to Intel and those problems are behind them. They get to use the best chips available to anyone without any additional effort.
Buying AMD would put them back into the same old problem where they would be trying to use the chip as a selling point against the competition. Remembering the PowerPC days, there were times when the PowerPC chip was the greatest thing in the world: Apple was faster than the competition. There were other times when they were slower than the competition. It was a confusing and difficult story to try to explain and it changed all the time.
The way things stand right now, Apple can focus on selling points that are salient to their customers. I think they are better off making the hardware less of an issue.
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Cold call telemarketing is not a legitimate way to do business. It should be banned.
When the beatles first record was released, their manager reportedly bought 10,000 copies so that it would make it into the charts. I wonder how many copies of Vista were purchased by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
I was on the list and I was barraged by calls even during the dinner hour. Honestly. My wife would get into yelling matches with them and she even had the manager at one of these places call her several times and curse her out. We got rid of the land line when we moved because there was not any point to it. We only have cell phones now. Having a land line phone is like writing paper checks at the supermarket - its for the elderly. I'm 36 and I don't see any value in having a landline phone. None. We have a kid who is old enough to be home alone sometimes (teen) so we got her a cell phone too for emergencies, etc. Most of the time she wants to communicate with a fiend, it is either via iChat or email.
As a child in the late 70s and early 80s we had a party line for a while in Oklahoma. We got a private line around 1982 (and a pushbutton phone!!)
I would buy an iPhone the size of a current nano or even smaller. I don't see a problem with it.
And by that I assume you mean he will write a signing statement to the effect that the bill allows warrantless wiretapping.
Why not build zero? That would save on cost.
I actually missed the "million" in the summary and for a minute I was thinking "the moon is only .375 km from earth? That seems really close - like I could walk there -- if I could walk straight up."
Haven't they had like several missions to fix Hubble? It seems like half the shuttle missions in the 90s were for that purpose. I don't see how they are going to make this work if they can't service it. It will just end up being a waste of money.
I haven't seen people do this for years. Now you usually have to hae some kind of license key or nothing at all. No one ships defective media on purpose and the way that licensing is implemented isn't just amateur hour anymore.
I disagree with you. I think that this is an excellent move by the film industry and should be encouraged. In fact, they should take it to the logical conclusion and stop making commercial movies altogether. That would prevent piracy. Movies suck. Do not cripple the 100 billion/yr computer industry that creates jobs for families to save the 5 billion/yr movie industry that creates trash and destroys families.
This would reduce the quality of the audio.
Yeah, but they made the wake from sleep time in OS X really really fast compared to OS 9.
I suspect that both Aqua and Vista are offloading most of the work for the fancy graphics to the GPU.
Mattell was suing women whose name happened to be "Barbie" a few years back, so I guess so.
If you don't need compatibility with Word, there are better word processors available for Mac such as NissusWriter.
Most of the "exploding" population is in the third world and they will not be able to afford this treatment anyway.
If you were following this, you would have known that Greenpeace scored Apple really low due to other companies having given commitments to reduce this or that whereas Apple had not given such commitments. Basically Apple was being secretive and GP didn't like that. Apple likes to do stuff, not say stuff. And that serves them pretty well when it comes to the market because they get a lot of free publicity that way.
In this case, I think Apple doesn't really give much away in terms of new products while still being able to publish a timeline for reducing harmful substances used in their products.
I didn't realize I could get a 10% discount on a new iPod by trading in my old one. If my current one ever breaks, I will keep that in mind.
Most of the "serious" business computers of the day were Intel+CPM which is why IBM went with Intel.
You are making a suggestion that would cost the average person thousands of dollars. I predict this will not be a popular move.
The advantage of Apple using Intel and x86 is that Apple gets a "free ride" on the chip issue that they never had before. Think about it. From day one Apple has been haunted by the fact that their computers were using chips that were non-standard for the personal computer industry. First with MOS and the 6502, then Moto, then PowerPC. Finally Apple switched to Intel and those problems are behind them. They get to use the best chips available to anyone without any additional effort. Buying AMD would put them back into the same old problem where they would be trying to use the chip as a selling point against the competition. Remembering the PowerPC days, there were times when the PowerPC chip was the greatest thing in the world: Apple was faster than the competition. There were other times when they were slower than the competition. It was a confusing and difficult story to try to explain and it changed all the time. The way things stand right now, Apple can focus on selling points that are salient to their customers. I think they are better off making the hardware less of an issue.
But apparently they can't solve the problem of kidnapping for ransom in south america because it is still a major problem there.
Can i pay more to the get the iPhone without a contract? No? Then how is it a subsidy?