I've never heard of anywhere having higher license fees than Colorado. Buy a new car, and you'll pay anywhere from $600-$1000 over and above sales tax for your plates. The fee goes down a little as the vehicle ages, but my lowly 4 year old pickup with over 130K miles still costs over $200 to license.
When my company deinstalled some old ESCON (mainframe) fibre cable, I took some of it and used it for clothesline. It's strong, it's orange, it's geek as hell.
Think of this: Phil Duran was thrown in prison for introducing the Columbine killers to the guy who actually bought them the weapons. He didn't actually get them the weapons, profit from the sale of the weapons, or encourage the use of the weapons. Just the fact that he pointed minors to someone who would sell them a handgun got him 4.5 years in the slam. This is a link, no? So there is precedence in the US for a 'criminal link'. It's called conspiracy.
It doesn't take much imagination in today's climate to stretch an unauthorized web link to be a 'conspiracy'.
I don't agree with this, but there it is.
My 7th grade son has to carry his ID card whenever he is on school grounds. If he doesn't have it, we are called and either we deliver the ID or take him home. He sits in the office until then. $20 for a lost ID.
I currently have five Intels (1 Win2K, 1 Win98, three Linux boxes). My kids are really pushing to get a Mac for Christmas. I like tinkering with new software, but I really dislike companies that think I'm
A) Made of money
B) Stupid
This is true if you are talking computers, cars, bicycles or anything else I like/have to spend money on.
An eMac with a SuperDrive would be perfect. But I can't get one. I have no use for the iMac concept of a nice LCD display permanently attached to a system unit that will be obsolete in two years. If I am directly or indirectly paying for an LCD display, I'm going to use it to watch DVD's and I'm going to keep it for a while. This means the minimum cost of entry for an iMac would be $1600. With a SuperDrive to burn, $1800.
Using Apple's pricing structure, I should be able to get a SuperDrive on an eMac for +$200.
The 'iMac premium' over an eMac is $3-400 depending on the models. I'd rather have a SuperDrive than a cutesey bubble base and an LCD that I cannot attach to anything else. And save $200 in the process.
So it looks like maybe I'll just avoid the brain damage, get a Wintel with a nice SEPERATE LCD display and a firewire DVD burner, and spend a couple hundred less in the process.
My next door neighbor just moved after 25 years. I'ved lived in the same house for almost 15 years, no problem. When the neighbor went to have a survey done, he was told that all of the property lines in the area are off by 90 freakin' feet. There is now some question as to whether I actually own the land under my house or not.
Technology is not always a good thing.
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I've never heard of anywhere having higher license fees than Colorado. Buy a new car, and you'll pay anywhere from $600-$1000 over and above sales tax for your plates. The fee goes down a little as the vehicle ages, but my lowly 4 year old pickup with over 130K miles still costs over $200 to license.
When my company deinstalled some old ESCON (mainframe) fibre cable, I took some of it and used it for clothesline. It's strong, it's orange, it's geek as hell.
Think of this: Phil Duran was thrown in prison for introducing the Columbine killers to the guy who actually bought them the weapons. He didn't actually get them the weapons, profit from the sale of the weapons, or encourage the use of the weapons. Just the fact that he pointed minors to someone who would sell them a handgun got him 4.5 years in the slam. This is a link, no? So there is precedence in the US for a 'criminal link'. It's called conspiracy. It doesn't take much imagination in today's climate to stretch an unauthorized web link to be a 'conspiracy'. I don't agree with this, but there it is.
My 7th grade son has to carry his ID card whenever he is on school grounds. If he doesn't have it, we are called and either we deliver the ID or take him home. He sits in the office until then. $20 for a lost ID.
And if you want to spend $10 million, you buy an even more bulletproof IBM z990: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/annou nce/z990/
I currently have five Intels (1 Win2K, 1 Win98, three Linux boxes). My kids are really pushing to get a Mac for Christmas. I like tinkering with new software, but I really dislike companies that think I'm A) Made of money B) Stupid This is true if you are talking computers, cars, bicycles or anything else I like/have to spend money on. An eMac with a SuperDrive would be perfect. But I can't get one. I have no use for the iMac concept of a nice LCD display permanently attached to a system unit that will be obsolete in two years. If I am directly or indirectly paying for an LCD display, I'm going to use it to watch DVD's and I'm going to keep it for a while. This means the minimum cost of entry for an iMac would be $1600. With a SuperDrive to burn, $1800. Using Apple's pricing structure, I should be able to get a SuperDrive on an eMac for +$200. The 'iMac premium' over an eMac is $3-400 depending on the models. I'd rather have a SuperDrive than a cutesey bubble base and an LCD that I cannot attach to anything else. And save $200 in the process. So it looks like maybe I'll just avoid the brain damage, get a Wintel with a nice SEPERATE LCD display and a firewire DVD burner, and spend a couple hundred less in the process.
My next door neighbor just moved after 25 years. I'ved lived in the same house for almost 15 years, no problem. When the neighbor went to have a survey done, he was told that all of the property lines in the area are off by 90 freakin' feet. There is now some question as to whether I actually own the land under my house or not. Technology is not always a good thing.