Meanwhile, this is about the third time in a row that Congress has promised to lower our cable bill in an election year. How many times are we gonna fall for it?
I know it worked for me last time - I got sick and tired of all the political stuff on TV and canceled cable! No more cable bill.
But that's the amazing thing about the free market.
Some provider will get the bright idea that they can entice customers to switch to them because the offer "number portability at no extra charge". Thus Provider A gains customers and Providers B-Z have to figure out how to keep up or go out of business.
The use the pay-at-the-pump is nice to me as a customer but I always figured them as really stupid for the store.
That's the free-market/competition at it's finest. All it takes is one gas station to install Pay-at-pump to entice people to use his gas station - and if it works, the other stations in town have to install it to keep up. More convenience for the same price - mark that as a win for the customer.
Yes, I do make note of the stations that do not offer pay-at-pump convenience and do not use them if I can avoid it.
Apple has always charged sales tax on on-line orders. At least in the states that it has a business presence in - like mine. I found it interesting that Dell did not (at least a few years ago) and was courious how they could get away without charging but Apple couldn't.
(5 movies was it? So that's Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc, and whatever the next one is).
Actually, TS 2 doesn't count towards the 5 because it's a sequel. Disney wants them to do a TS 3, but Pixar refuses unless they can count it towards the 5 movie deal.
Oh and Finding Nemo (see here or here or just google it) is the next one from Pixar - then one more and Pixar can go it alone (wether that is good or not remains to be seen).
Am I the only one who thought that this was another Slashdot marriage proposal?
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I believe that they are refering to MS going with only Active-X style plugins.
So, it may be that Adobe hasn't released an Active-X Reader plugin yet (I don't use windows, so I don't know for sure).
There was a big hulabulu about this because it broke Apple's QuickTime plugin.
Are we really surprised? How could Microsoft do such a thing? After all the trust we have placed in them - I'm going to stop using their products now! Oh wait - I don't use them now anyway.
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Death is bad
You just say that because you haven't tried it yet!
The only long term solution is a 0 growth economy combined with population decrease.
O.K. You first.
Meanwhile, this is about the third time in a row that Congress has promised to lower our cable bill in an election year. How many times are we gonna fall for it?
I know it worked for me last time - I got sick and tired of all the political stuff on TV and canceled cable! No more cable bill.
Then obviously you are not in their target market.
Of course, Apple just released Panther - which is 10.3 so they would still be a little behind.
Good grief - surely I've got something better to do with my time.
But that's the amazing thing about the free market.
Some provider will get the bright idea that they can entice customers to switch to them because the offer "number portability at no extra charge". Thus Provider A gains customers and Providers B-Z have to figure out how to keep up or go out of business.
28 Million (people) can't be wrong
Just because something is popular doesn't make it right. Slavery was very popular in it's time.
The use the pay-at-the-pump is nice to me as a customer but I always figured them as really stupid for the store.
That's the free-market/competition at it's finest. All it takes is one gas station to install Pay-at-pump to entice people to use his gas station - and if it works, the other stations in town have to install it to keep up. More convenience for the same price - mark that as a win for the customer.
Yes, I do make note of the stations that do not offer pay-at-pump convenience and do not use them if I can avoid it.
Is it just me or do the 'BuyMusic' commercials look like blatent ripoffs of Apple's commercials?
Shouldn't be surprised I guess. Lot's of people copy what Apple does well.
Would it be considered legal to download a translation if they had already purchased the english version?
We use that reasoning all the time when we 'translate' from our CD's to MP3 or OGG?
Wozniak...was five years older than Jobs
Has this changed????
A lot of bodies of water are above sea level. The Colorado river starts at 9,010 feet above sea level.
"or sold his sole"
Selling the bottom of his shoes? I know some fans worship the ground he walks on, but this is just ridiculous.
Keep in mind that Apple doesn't have to pay Akami, Amazon or the Labels immediately, so they get to make money on that money until the bills come in.
Probably. Don't they all?
And because the dock auto-rescales, the target point moves as the mouse cursor gets close to it. (Like it's trying to dodge?)
You did know that you can turn off the 'auto-rescale' didn't you? No? Well, now you do
I have a friend who will say his last name is Nayked. It's always good for a lot of laughs when they announce a 'Nayked party of 4'.
Apple has always charged sales tax on on-line orders. At least in the states that it has a business presence in - like mine. I found it interesting that Dell did not (at least a few years ago) and was courious how they could get away without charging but Apple couldn't.
Is that what happens to a web server when an article housed on it gets posted on Slashdot?
(5 movies was it? So that's Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc, and whatever the next one is).
Actually, TS 2 doesn't count towards the 5 because it's a sequel. Disney wants them to do a TS 3, but Pixar refuses unless they can count it towards the 5 movie deal.
Oh and Finding Nemo (see here or here or just google it) is the next one from Pixar - then one more and Pixar can go it alone (wether that is good or not remains to be seen).
I thought it was apropos that the origional posting came from the morons-morons-morons department.
Am I the only one who thought that this was another Slashdot marriage proposal?
I believe that they are refering to MS going with only Active-X style plugins. So, it may be that Adobe hasn't released an Active-X Reader plugin yet (I don't use windows, so I don't know for sure). There was a big hulabulu about this because it broke Apple's QuickTime plugin.
Are we really surprised? How could Microsoft do such a thing? After all the trust we have placed in them - I'm going to stop using their products now! Oh wait - I don't use them now anyway.
Actually, the article states that it run WinXP. (Too bad)