A high school girl walked out into a highway here while doing some kind of high school car wash thing. She was injured, but not seriously. ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) talked about her parents' insurance covering the repairs for the car, but I think they backed out when they realized how unpopular the move would make them...
Don't forget that every Mac includes a Mac OS X license. Windows PC vendors hand a chunk of money to Microsoft, and count that as part of the cost of the machine. On an Apple product, the Mac OS X license is part of the essentially part of the "markup."
A ((new, not upgrade) Windows XP Pro license is $300 retail, and Mac OS X upgrades cost $129, so it's probably fair to think of the original license as somewhere around $250.
Assuming a $2,000 Mac, a 25% markup means $500. Take off $250 for OS development, and you've halved the markup.
About the lawsuit? It's frivolous. It's a stupid policy, granted, and Apple should have honoured the request an anyway (assuming we've got the whole story). But a lawsuit? It's right there in black and white as part of the contract. You don't get to pick and choose which parts of the contract you abide by.
Mind you, we don't know what his other PCs look like. While this is probably the best of them, perhaps the others are also interesting and he didn't want to sacrifice one of them.
Depends on how you cycle them. Basically, the controversy was the first wave of battery failures caused by those who bought theirs when they were first offered and weren't careful. That was (approximately) two years ago.
So, figure 2 years if you're not careful, probably 3-4 if you are.
Your memory is basically right. WDEF came out in 1989, so there were a few viruses before it, but it did behave mostly as you describe...
With one notable exception: WDEF actually called the system's WDEF, rather than trying to do a pixel-perfect impersonation of it.
Other viruses that used this technique included CDEF, MDEF (like Garfield)...
One nice thing about WDEF was that you could remove it just by rebuilding the destkop (holding down command and option while inserting an infected disk, assuming you haven't already mounted an infected disk).
These viruses were effective until System 7.0, when Apple changed the format of the desktop database. This new format was changed slightly for Macintosh Easy Open, and that format exists to this day for Mac OS 9.2.
I think it's because it gives us all a mark. The truth, as you said, is that Origin has been effectively dead for a long time. Their last success was Ultima Online. That was a service, though, so one can't really say the success was when UO was released. Some might say it was 1998, some 1999, some 2000... doesn't really matter.
The point is that, as unlikely as we all knew it was, some of us still held some hope that there would be a Truly Great game from OSI someday. That's gone now. We have nothing but sweet memories... and, at least in my case, a wish that it had died a bit earlier so the memory wouldn't be quite as tarnished.
Mmm. I don't think I agree. Spam is the common term used for unsolicited bulk commercial email. The other day, I got an email I nearly flagged as spam... but it was actually a reply to a post I'd made to usenet several months ago. So it was neither unsolicited nor commercial, just unrecognized because of the lateness.
If I had flagged it as spam, would it have been spam? It was still written by one person, in direct response to my question...
I think the best solution might be a third party conduit for Palm HotSync that syncronizes just the Palm and Address Book/iCal. iSync could do the rest of the devices against Address Book/iCal.
Well, Bluetooth rocks, but iSync is astonishingly slow compared to (for instance) Palm Desktop.
I really hope Apple fixes it at some point, because I hate having time to go get a cup of coffee waiting for my T68i and iPod to sync because I want to install software to my Tungsten T3.
What do you think of the BT200? I'm in the market for a bluetooth headset. Does it work with both the phone and the Powerbook?
Well, you could go for a [a href="http://www.scarysquirrel.org/special/movies/ foamy/sml.html"]squirrel[/a] theme instead. (Warning: Explicit language.)
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I've heard (but not confirmed) that Jim Morrison did his best work sitting on the toilet in his bathroom. Equipment was hauled in to record it.
None of the people who have told me this story have been able to tell me if his pants were on at the time.
A high school girl walked out into a highway here while doing some kind of high school car wash thing. She was injured, but not seriously. ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia) talked about her parents' insurance covering the repairs for the car, but I think they backed out when they realized how unpopular the move would make them...
I haven't ordered from these guys (yet -- I'm definitely building a battery pack) but a few minutes in Google found them:
NTC Distributing
Don't forget that every Mac includes a Mac OS X license. Windows PC vendors hand a chunk of money to Microsoft, and count that as part of the cost of the machine. On an Apple product, the Mac OS X license is part of the essentially part of the "markup."
A ((new, not upgrade) Windows XP Pro license is $300 retail, and Mac OS X upgrades cost $129, so it's probably fair to think of the original license as somewhere around $250.
Assuming a $2,000 Mac, a 25% markup means $500. Take off $250 for OS development, and you've halved the markup.
About the lawsuit? It's frivolous. It's a stupid policy, granted, and Apple should have honoured the request an anyway (assuming we've got the whole story). But a lawsuit? It's right there in black and white as part of the contract. You don't get to pick and choose which parts of the contract you abide by.
One careful owner mannequin, now in space. Previously used only in car pool lanes around KSC.
I think the thing I miss the most about the Napster days were the silly little NAPSTER BAD! animations. The ones with Metallica.
I'm still weirded out every time I see Napster as a company that the RIAA likes. Am I the only one?
Yeah, that is the question.
Mind you, we don't know what his other PCs look like. While this is probably the best of them, perhaps the others are also interesting and he didn't want to sacrifice one of them.
250 hours for a book? You must read slowly, and it must be a very large book!
The purpose of the box is to be a router/firewall. He doesn't need a a Athlon or P4 for that.
This is worth noting, as well: Homemad iPod Battery Pack
Dude, when you finish it let me know. I want to play it. :)
Microsoft Island.
A small island, in international waters, where Microsoft can conspir... err, schem... err, work... without fear of government raids.
C'mon. You just know they're thinking about it...
Depends on how you cycle them. Basically, the controversy was the first wave of battery failures caused by those who bought theirs when they were first offered and weren't careful. That was (approximately) two years ago.
So, figure 2 years if you're not careful, probably 3-4 if you are.
Your memory is basically right. WDEF came out in 1989, so there were a few viruses before it, but it did behave mostly as you describe...
With one notable exception: WDEF actually called the system's WDEF, rather than trying to do a pixel-perfect impersonation of it.
Other viruses that used this technique included CDEF, MDEF (like Garfield)...
One nice thing about WDEF was that you could remove it just by rebuilding the destkop (holding down command and option while inserting an infected disk, assuming you haven't already mounted an infected disk).
These viruses were effective until System 7.0, when Apple changed the format of the desktop database. This new format was changed slightly for Macintosh Easy Open, and that format exists to this day for Mac OS 9.2.
I think it's because it gives us all a mark. The truth, as you said, is that Origin has been effectively dead for a long time. Their last success was Ultima Online. That was a service, though, so one can't really say the success was when UO was released. Some might say it was 1998, some 1999, some 2000... doesn't really matter.
The point is that, as unlikely as we all knew it was, some of us still held some hope that there would be a Truly Great game from OSI someday. That's gone now. We have nothing but sweet memories... and, at least in my case, a wish that it had died a bit earlier so the memory wouldn't be quite as tarnished.
Mmm. I don't think I agree. Spam is the common term used for unsolicited bulk commercial email. The other day, I got an email I nearly flagged as spam... but it was actually a reply to a post I'd made to usenet several months ago. So it was neither unsolicited nor commercial, just unrecognized because of the lateness.
If I had flagged it as spam, would it have been spam? It was still written by one person, in direct response to my question...
Um...
*shrugs, walks into it:*
But how did you keep the hair dryer running?
Personally, I'd expect to catch fire before getting brain damage if exposed to a hair dryer for 48 hours straight...
Yeah, it probably is the Palm conduit. But it's worth noting that a Palm synced with Palm's conduit is very fast.
I think the best solution might be a third party conduit for Palm HotSync that syncronizes just the Palm and Address Book/iCal. iSync could do the rest of the devices against Address Book/iCal.
But I think I'm way too lazy to write it... :)
Well, Bluetooth rocks, but iSync is astonishingly slow compared to (for instance) Palm Desktop.
I really hope Apple fixes it at some point, because I hate having time to go get a cup of coffee waiting for my T68i and iPod to sync because I want to install software to my Tungsten T3.
What do you think of the BT200? I'm in the market for a bluetooth headset. Does it work with both the phone and the Powerbook?
Sigh. Sorry, was just reading web comics where they use [] instead. Let's try that again...
Well, you could go for a squirrel theme instead. (Warning: Explicit language.)
Well, you could go for a [a href="http://www.scarysquirrel.org/special/movies/ foamy/sml.html"]squirrel[/a] theme instead. (Warning: Explicit language.)
I thought for a minute you'd jumped computers and posted AC. :)
But that two minute delay thing woulda stopped you. Knowing for sure that it was someone else makes it that much funnier...