"About a month ago, a freaking cell phone provider asked me for an SSN just to get an account with them? WTF?"
credit "ID"
yes, we can play the big brother argument, but it's a fact of life that your SSN has become a player in the game, for credit scores and decisions for or against you.
Even if you don't have a need for personally, it's still a good opportunity to put it on a space workstation to play with and learn the ins and outs of the OS, so that you're at least familiar with it for future employment.
"Where the RIAA gets 80 cents off the dollar if i remember correctly."
assuming that number is accurate, how would that differ from traditional means of sales...CD production, distribution to stores, and so on. I would think the RIAA would get less than 80 in that scenario.
i should think you could shake a hard drive to a computer the same way and now have a problem. It's not like your dropping it on pavement, giving it an extreme g-force to deal with. I have jogged with my ipod and never experienced skips or delays. In theory, besides for the safety of the drive heads, for power management - it's gotta be spinning up caching a song or two, then spinning down and parking the heads.
most providors require you to turn on international dialing first. Also, if you haven't had your service for more than 4 or 5 months, they also usually require a hefty deposit till you reach that time too.
"I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet Apple has more lawyers than SCO has employees. There is no possible way Steve -- er, I mean, Apple -- will allow them to win their case."
They don't call him Jobsfather, for nothin ya know..
i've got a 1989 era Mac that can still run a web server, and a original classic Mac (well it's a 128k, from like 85 or 86) that still runs nicely in the kitchen as a glorified recipe book. I've still got a Apple IIc too in a box somewhere, that last i checked worked, which could probably do the same in the kitchen too i suppose.
yeah, but netflix would have prior use of the concept, and could likely defend a challenge of it from someone, would right? I mean they were basically the first ones to come up with the idea, there's even another company now that took that exact Netflix business model, but for games.
"Since 1996, pilots have reported 35 mobile phone-related safety incidents, including false warnings in the cockpit, distractions causing aircraft to stray accidentally onto runways or fly at the wrong altitude, interrupted radio communications and multiple safety systems malfunctions."
35 cases in 7 years?? How many planes fly each day??
"...that this guy is apparently so keen on tabbed browsing, yet there is no sign of this on the horizon for Safari. Personally, I like the clean look of Safari, but I wonder if anyone has any insight as to why it never went the tabbed route."
"Well duh. I'm sure the majority of whats spent in a computer lab is on software and liscensing. I shudder to think what my school spent on 40 some liscenses to codewarrior. It sucks, they'll probably never be able to afford an upgrade to OSX. All those shiny (almost new) G4s going to waste."
they don't have to pay for OS X, Apple is giving it away to schools... "Ten for Teachers" or something or another..
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"I remember on an old Power Mac 6100/66 with a dead battery, the time was always stuck on 1956."
It's reset to August 27th, 1956, the birthdate of the designed of the CUDA microcontroller.
"About a month ago, a freaking cell phone provider asked me for an SSN just to get an account with them? WTF?"
credit "ID"
yes, we can play the big brother argument, but it's a fact of life that your SSN has become a player in the game, for credit scores and decisions for or against you.
but Windows is often broken, hence the bugs crawl in..
Even if you don't have a need for personally, it's still a good opportunity to put it on a space workstation to play with and learn the ins and outs of the OS, so that you're at least familiar with it for future employment.
"Where the RIAA gets 80 cents off the dollar if i remember correctly."
assuming that number is accurate, how would that differ from traditional means of sales...CD production, distribution to stores, and so on. I would think the RIAA would get less than 80 in that scenario.
especially in New Jersey!!
that's because they're "So easy to use, no wonder it's #1!"
you forgot "4) ...Profit!" :-)
and BY the people :-)
i should think you could shake a hard drive to a computer the same way and now have a problem. It's not like your dropping it on pavement, giving it an extreme g-force to deal with. I have jogged with my ipod and never experienced skips or delays. In theory, besides for the safety of the drive heads, for power management - it's gotta be spinning up caching a song or two, then spinning down and parking the heads.
most providors require you to turn on international dialing first. Also, if you haven't had your service for more than 4 or 5 months, they also usually require a hefty deposit till you reach that time too.
"I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet Apple has more lawyers than SCO has employees. There is no possible way Steve -- er, I mean, Apple -- will allow them to win their case."
They don't call him Jobsfather, for nothin ya know..
"The DiVA 489 which is the first DVD recorder to record using Microsoft's innovative Windows Media 9 Series video compression (WMV9)"
innovative?
"Long live MS, the giver of work to all IT industry."
...and headaches too!
"Torvalds: They are smoking crack."
...god what i wouldn't give to have heard him say that :)
i've got a 1989 era Mac that can still run a web server, and a original classic Mac (well it's a 128k, from like 85 or 86) that still runs nicely in the kitchen as a glorified recipe book. I've still got a Apple IIc too in a box somewhere, that last i checked worked, which could probably do the same in the kitchen too i suppose.
"if they hadn't done it, Wal-mart would have. "
yeah, but netflix would have prior use of the concept, and could likely defend a challenge of it from someone, would right? I mean they were basically the first ones to come up with the idea, there's even another company now that took that exact Netflix business model, but for games.
let's not forget about Mr. Felstein's AOL address in the admin contact listing either - mefels@aol.com
"Since 1996, pilots have reported 35 mobile phone-related safety incidents, including false warnings in the cockpit, distractions causing aircraft to stray accidentally onto runways or fly at the wrong altitude, interrupted radio communications and multiple safety systems malfunctions."
35 cases in 7 years?? How many planes fly each day??
" ...that this guy is apparently so keen on tabbed browsing, yet there is no sign of this on the horizon for Safari. Personally, I like the clean look of Safari, but I wonder if anyone has any insight as to why it never went the tabbed route."
well it's also still a beta..
...No wonder it's #1!!
"Well duh. I'm sure the majority of whats spent in a computer lab is on software and liscensing. I shudder to think what my school spent on 40 some liscenses to codewarrior. It sucks, they'll probably never be able to afford an upgrade to OSX. All those shiny (almost new) G4s going to waste."
they don't have to pay for OS X, Apple is giving it away to schools... "Ten for Teachers" or something or another..
" Shouldn't ants be infesting machines running Win XP. That surely has more bugs than OS X."
what an eXPerience that would be, eh?
So is MS-DOS, what's your point..
"...the Mac guys KNOW there are lots of drugs in Amsterdam :-D"
:)
Apparently so! He's obviously high.