There was bound to be a dip, as people planning a purchase would defer that purchase until the model they wanted was upgraded to intel chips. At probably as important, many people who would happily buy an nth generation iBook or Powerbook might wait for the 2nd or later generations of the MacBook and MacBook Pro line (such as myself).
It has nothing to do with mac users rejecting intel technology. It has to do with users waiting for it (and waiting for the dust to settle).
Stupid mods not bothering to read the parent post. There needs to be a test to insure that mods have IQs larger than their shoe sizes. And I didn't even use my karma bonus.
Actually, I'm firmly in the Information-wants-to-be-reasonably-priced-and-woul d-be-if-there-was-an-adequate-micropayment-system camp. Thus far, the closest I've seen to an adequate micropayment system is paying $1 to download a song.
Sports scores are time sensitive information to those that are betting on them. Thus, as pointed out elsewhere, the crypto need only delay the information by a few seconds to be effective. If this doesn't make the concept clear, then see this movie.
Jokes on you! This has all been a scam/hoax so that some JPL engineers could watch the World Cup. However, they got so sick of the officiating that they decided to point it back out into space.
Maybe this has to do with some contingency plan for dealing with the impending doom to net neutrality. And why would they want to get into the ISP business if all they need to do to cut telecom at the knees is lower the barrier for entry for ISPs?
Part of the reason the quality of iTMS AACs sound "good enough" to you is that they're made from studio masters, not just ripped from CDs that someone at iTMS went out and bought. When you rip something from a CD, you're starting with lower quality source material.
When you rip from a CD, you're also compressing something twice, although the intermediate step (the CD) is higher quality than the AAC intermediate step (the song you bought off of iTMS) you'd get if re-rip an ITMS song.
I wish there was a faster way to cook baked potatoes in a conventional oven. I don't have a microwave, but I like baked potatoes, and they take too long to make. Sometimes I throw one in the oven, even if I don't want one. By the time it's done, who knows? I throw one in and go on vacation.
But Lay and a number of the very wealthy CEOs who stole BILLIONS will get 6 months to maybe several years at a very easy going federal prison. Amazing. It is all who you know.
Seeing as how neither Skilling nor Lay have yet to be sentenced, I'm presuming that you're getting your info from your palantir. What did The Eye tell you about revealing such info to mere mortals, hmmm?
Either that, or you're completely ignorant and don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I'm actually considering the 17" MBP now. If I'm going to go big, I might as well go all the way. Of course, that definitely means I'll be waiting for the 3rd or 4th revision, so I can buy a 2nd rev. refurb. Unless I can convince a client to buy me one (like I did the 12" PB I'm currently using).
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Ppeople are sstrange, when you're a sstranger Ffaces look ugly when you're alone Ppeople seem wicked, when you're unwanted Sstreets are uneven, when you're ddown.
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Ddifferent sstrokes for ddifferent fffffffolks And so on and so on and Ssssscooby dddddooby ddddddooby Ooh sha sha I am everyday ppeople.
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Go for the eyes, Boo!
This is the first reverse scam that involves wood carving, AFAIK.
There was bound to be a dip, as people planning a purchase would defer that purchase until the model they wanted was upgraded to intel chips. At probably as important, many people who would happily buy an nth generation iBook or Powerbook might wait for the 2nd or later generations of the MacBook and MacBook Pro line (such as myself).
It has nothing to do with mac users rejecting intel technology. It has to do with users waiting for it (and waiting for the dust to settle).
It's right there next to the contact lens you dropped last week.
That will teach me not to preview when links are involved!
Giant Cock!
Stupid mods not bothering to read the parent post. There needs to be a test to insure that mods have IQs larger than their shoe sizes. And I didn't even use my karma bonus.
Meanwhile, here's a video of a GIANT COCK.
Actually, I'm firmly in the Information-wants-to-be-reasonably-priced-and-woul d-be-if-there-was-an-adequate-micropayment-system camp. Thus far, the closest I've seen to an adequate micropayment system is paying $1 to download a song.
Oh, great. The Spanish Inquisition is doing financial analysis now. =)
Sports scores are time sensitive information to those that are betting on them. Thus, as pointed out elsewhere, the crypto need only delay the information by a few seconds to be effective. If this doesn't make the concept clear, then see this movie.
Please moderate me some more, becaause I'm a karma-whore.
What is it with you ppeople?
I think I'd rather they play corporate duck-duck-goose than have to take a gander at Google's cock.
Jokes on you! This has all been a scam/hoax so that some JPL engineers could watch the World Cup. However, they got so sick of the officiating that they decided to point it back out into space.
Corporate Sponsorship? A "HomeTown" logo painted on the side of the Hubble? That's crazy! Just crazy enough that it might work!
(Shortcut to any offended math geeks: I know my comment makes no sense mathematically. Thanks for eschewing the explanations.)
It's OK. I just rotated your post 90 degrees to the x, y, and z axes and it made perfect sense.
Google Land has a better ring to it than does Mountain View 2.0 Beta.
Maybe this has to do with some contingency plan for dealing with the impending doom to net neutrality. And why would they want to get into the ISP business if all they need to do to cut telecom at the knees is lower the barrier for entry for ISPs?
Part of the reason the quality of iTMS AACs sound "good enough" to you is that they're made from studio masters, not just ripped from CDs that someone at iTMS went out and bought. When you rip something from a CD, you're starting with lower quality source material.
When you rip from a CD, you're also compressing something twice, although the intermediate step (the CD) is higher quality than the AAC intermediate step (the song you bought off of iTMS) you'd get if re-rip an ITMS song.
I wish there was a faster way to cook baked potatoes in a conventional oven. I don't have a microwave, but I like baked potatoes, and they take too long to make. Sometimes I throw one in the oven, even if I don't want one. By the time it's done, who knows? I throw one in and go on vacation.
Joke stolen from the late great Mitch Hedberg.
At least science isn't yet a verb.
Ex.
Q: Hey, what are you doing? (gestures to lab equipment)
A: I'm sciencing, what does it look like?
I think the guy you are referring to was an Austrian. The world would be a much different place if he had gotten that scholarship to art school!
Wait . . . I thought Canada was the 51st state . . .
Does this mean Mike Myers in an illegal alien?
But Lay and a number of the very wealthy CEOs who stole BILLIONS will get 6 months to maybe several years at a very easy going federal prison. Amazing. It is all who you know.
Seeing as how neither Skilling nor Lay have yet to be sentenced, I'm presuming that you're getting your info from your palantir. What did The Eye tell you about revealing such info to mere mortals, hmmm?
Either that, or you're completely ignorant and don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I'm actually considering the 17" MBP now. If I'm going to go big, I might as well go all the way. Of course, that definitely means I'll be waiting for the 3rd or 4th revision, so I can buy a 2nd rev. refurb. Unless I can convince a client to buy me one (like I did the 12" PB I'm currently using).
Dddddddon't mmmmmmake fffffffun of ppeople ththththat ststststutter! It's not nnnnnice!
Ppeople,
Ppeople who need ppeople,
Are the luckiest ppeople in the world
We're cchildren, needing other cchildren
And yet letting a grownup pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like cchildren than cchildren
Lovers are very special ppeople
They're the luckiest ppeople in the world
With one pperson one very sspecial pperson
A feeling deep in your ssoul
Says you were half now you're whole
No more hunger and ththththirst
But first be a pperson who needs ppeople.
------
Ppeople are sstrange, when you're a sstranger
Ffaces look ugly when you're alone
Ppeople seem wicked, when you're unwanted
Sstreets are uneven, when you're ddown.
------
Ddifferent sstrokes for ddifferent fffffffolks
And so on and so on and
Ssssscooby dddddooby ddddddooby
Ooh sha sha
I am everyday ppeople.