Mostly schools. Even in 'rich' districts schools still can't afford 25 cartridges a year (For students, teachers, staff and admin). So often their "computer guy" has to put on a pair of Latex gloves and get out the needle and inject a black substance into the printer. Then they have a contest to make the best anti-drug poster on the computer;)
Spyware is immoral and evil. While ink prices are obscene and make me cringe, the company still has a right to set a price on what their cartriges cost. The refilling doesn't stop a user from buying an ink cartridge, it just makes them buy less (on all of the boxes they say to only refill about 3 or so times, it's a good idea to follow that.) Plus, a badly refilled cartige can ruin a printer (oops, leaked ink all over the printer ram.)
A national ID card is a way to restrict freedom. Unlike searches at the airport, you don't gain security for the trade-off. Instead you get to be treated like a criminal when you've done nothing wrong. Would it have stopped any act of terrorism? No. Would it have ever stopped anything? I seriously doubt it. This only oppressed the law abiding citizens.
If you take the cost of the controllers you'd need to fill up the X-box's four ports, it's MORE than the cost of a four port extension for the PS2 AND the extracontrollers.
I may sound old now, but I remember when it used to be any number of years between consoles by the same company. I mean, the NES was the king for sooooo long, and then just a long time afterwards, only then did they announce the SNES. Then a long time after that.. like, I don't know 7 years after that did they come out with the N64... then 4 years the Gamecube.
Is it goign to come down to where we have a console every year? That's a great buisness plan to make your consumer stop buying them.
Or does it seem like any Mac user could've written this book? Granted, I'm definitely interested in picking it up (Along with Michael Moore's new book) But from what I've seen, it looks like 90% of people in a MUG could've opened up a word processor and typed it out. We all laughed at the blatant rip-off the iPac was. We all got confused around Mac OS 8.0 When the OS's name changed from "System" to "MacOS". Is there any physcological or sociological perspectives or theories about being a Mac user? The notion that we're creative is not new, it's been in countless articles and MacWorld keynotes. Lemme guess, he mentions that thrill of never configuring an autoexec.bat file, right? (While a great number of Mac users actually have, most often for work).
And he also called Compaq's PDA an "iPac." And occasionally used poor punctuation. And I think I saw a run-on sentence in there.
Well, at least he didn't start sentances with the word 'and' or 'but', cos we all know you can't do that.
The film was marketed with the tag line "Who's side will you be on?" Or something like that. Basically saying you could choose a side to root for. When the moviecame out, you couldn't do that. The Dogs were the good guys and the Cats were the bad guys. Even if you were a cat lover, you couldn't root for them because they were evil.
I'm also told that the cat that is voiced by John Lovitz is NOT the breed of cat that they call it.
Anyone else notice this? The run of the orignal (read: best) cartoon was 98, two short of being eligible for syndication.
Those hollywood fat cats have ben keeping us from watching the old show for years to promote their new CGI ones! Argh! I can't tell you how crazy that makes me.
The education based idea is great, I know recently one of the schools here required people persuing and education degree buy a Macintosh computer.
I'd like to see what other things Apple includes in the educational package. I wonder if it has iMovie and Firewire, things that most educational machines won't need, but other educational machines (particularly av and student RTF and TV station students) need. Can we truly call anything 'educational' focused when the needs are so specific?
This serves as no benefit to the consumer, cards and cash are quick enough. I'd love to see the server that they store all these figerprints and CC#'s get hacked to cause the panic and for people to stop giving up their rights to use this sort of thing.
This isn't a time to rest on our laurels. Congress could still pass this thing. A simple majority wins, and Congress has passed many an unpopular act (USA Patriot anyone?) We still have to email and write letters and protest this thing and reach every single person we can.
We keep recieving good news, but that doesn't mean we should slack off... it means that we should work harder and spread our message. Advocacy works.
To me this doesn't sound all that fun, however, it will give the Student Governments of the world something better to do than write letters to the paper.
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Mostly schools. Even in 'rich' districts schools still can't afford 25 cartridges a year (For students, teachers, staff and admin). So often their "computer guy" has to put on a pair of Latex gloves and get out the needle and inject a black substance into the printer. Then they have a contest to make the best anti-drug poster on the computer ;)
Spyware is immoral and evil. While ink prices are obscene and make me cringe, the company still has a right to set a price on what their cartriges cost. The refilling doesn't stop a user from buying an ink cartridge, it just makes them buy less (on all of the boxes they say to only refill about 3 or so times, it's a good idea to follow that.) Plus, a badly refilled cartige can ruin a printer (oops, leaked ink all over the printer ram.)
The Frogs have set up a Lan to properly channel their caffeine highs.
Or is the dream of any developer to be retired by Apple? Usually means you have some pretty good stuff going.
But why did Apple buy shake? Doesn't Final Cut Pro do pretty much the same thing?
A national ID card is a way to restrict freedom. Unlike searches at the airport, you don't gain security for the trade-off. Instead you get to be treated like a criminal when you've done nothing wrong. Would it have stopped any act of terrorism? No. Would it have ever stopped anything? I seriously doubt it. This only oppressed the law abiding citizens.
numbers. Now you don't even have to be online to have your number stolen.
Really? I'll have to ask muggers and dumpster divers about their wireless connections that allow them to be online when they do that sort of thing.
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If you take the cost of the controllers you'd need to fill up the X-box's four ports, it's MORE than the cost of a four port extension for the PS2 AND the extracontrollers.
I think I speak for everybody when I say that I can't get enough GTA. All three have been brilliant. let's start counting the days.
I may sound old now, but I remember when it used to be any number of years between consoles by the same company. I mean, the NES was the king for sooooo long, and then just a long time afterwards, only then did they announce the SNES. Then a long time after that.. like, I don't know 7 years after that did they come out with the N64... then 4 years the Gamecube.
Is it goign to come down to where we have a console every year? That's a great buisness plan to make your consumer stop buying them.
Or does it seem like any Mac user could've written this book? Granted, I'm definitely interested in picking it up (Along with Michael Moore's new book) But from what I've seen, it looks like 90% of people in a MUG could've opened up a word processor and typed it out. We all laughed at the blatant rip-off the iPac was. We all got confused around Mac OS 8.0 When the OS's name changed from "System" to "MacOS". Is there any physcological or sociological perspectives or theories about being a Mac user? The notion that we're creative is not new, it's been in countless articles and MacWorld keynotes. Lemme guess, he mentions that thrill of never configuring an autoexec.bat file, right? (While a great number of Mac users actually have, most often for work).
And he also called Compaq's PDA an "iPac." And occasionally used poor punctuation. And I think I saw a run-on sentence in there. Well, at least he didn't start sentances with the word 'and' or 'but', cos we all know you can't do that.
The one writer isn't responsible for all of the content inside the show. Ever hear of a writer's pool?
Hopefully the new ones won't be on par with the quality of the episodes these days. Once they lost Connan, they started steadily going downhill.
It's called the dish network.
And we also have satellite internet, too. It's Here.
The film was marketed with the tag line "Who's side will you be on?" Or something like that. Basically saying you could choose a side to root for. When the moviecame out, you couldn't do that. The Dogs were the good guys and the Cats were the bad guys. Even if you were a cat lover, you couldn't root for them because they were evil.
I'm also told that the cat that is voiced by John Lovitz is NOT the breed of cat that they call it.
This is a genius virus attack. It used to be that viruses were altruistic ventures. Now it's DOS attacks for profit.
What a brave new world.
Oh and Microsoft... fix the damn holes already! God! I love being a eudora/telnet user.
Anyone else notice this? The run of the orignal (read: best) cartoon was 98, two short of being eligible for syndication.
Those hollywood fat cats have ben keeping us from watching the old show for years to promote their new CGI ones! Argh! I can't tell you how crazy that makes me.
Great, perhaps Linux can help Miss Piggy stop crashing.
I think the muppets are great, let's just hope they can get the writing to where it once was.
And "Cats and Dogs" was mismarketed and not the good.
Yet they're not going to pass the savings onto the consumers.
The education based idea is great, I know recently one of the schools here required people persuing and education degree buy a Macintosh computer.
I'd like to see what other things Apple includes in the educational package. I wonder if it has iMovie and Firewire, things that most educational machines won't need, but other educational machines (particularly av and student RTF and TV station students) need. Can we truly call anything 'educational' focused when the needs are so specific?
This serves as no benefit to the consumer, cards and cash are quick enough. I'd love to see the server that they store all these figerprints and CC#'s get hacked to cause the panic and for people to stop giving up their rights to use this sort of thing.
With clickthrough rates in the absolute toilet, how much money is AdAware and popup blockers really costing those that get so upset by them?
Not enough.
This isn't a time to rest on our laurels. Congress could still pass this thing. A simple majority wins, and Congress has passed many an unpopular act (USA Patriot anyone?) We still have to email and write letters and protest this thing and reach every single person we can.
We keep recieving good news, but that doesn't mean we should slack off... it means that we should work harder and spread our message. Advocacy works.
Makes you wonder if Halo would've been as disappointing.
To me this doesn't sound all that fun, however, it will give the Student Governments of the world something better to do than write letters to the paper.