Actually what's more likely is that a preset 100 channel package would cost $50, a preset 200 channel package would be $75 and taking 3 a la carte channels would be $7 per channel plus a $25 admin fee for making you a nonstandard package. Corporations are evil - they will simply charge extortionate fees to discourage uptake of things they don't like.
You present a very interesting point, but in my opinion the government does not really have business telling people what to do unless they harm others in doing that. Morality should not be the domain of a government - as long as a person's moral belief harms no other people they should be free to practice that belief. If this were the case you would not need to trust my judgement or believe my view to be right, I would live by my morals and you would live by yours. As you said yourself, right and wrong are arbitary - this being the case why should one group's (the govt's) arbitary ideas be enforced on others?
As for religion, I am proud to say I am an atheist, although the school I attended had definite Christian undertones. What is this atheist propaganda you speak of? I don't debate that it exists, but why is it different to Christian propaganda? I have no problem with you wanting to evangelise your belief since it does not damage others. Equally, while I would not want to influence people's religion, I'm sure there are people of the same beliefs as me who would and they have as much right as Christians, provided it is not harmful.
While I will respectfully disagree with most of your opinions there and leave it at that, I'd like to see the reasoning that states preventing two loving people from gaining the social and legal rights equal to two other loving people is protecting the family. I'm genuinely interested as to why so many people think this way, so any sensible replys would be helpful.
Either you pay SCO and then get shunned by the Linux world, or you don't pay and SCO sues you to death.
The courts may be going down hill, but it'd still be hard to lose a case when the other side has absolutely no evidence. They haven't proved any code infringes on their copyright so they can't use it as evidence to the contrary, can they?
I have no need for more than 4GB of music at any one time (I don't even have 4GB of music that I actually listen to really). The mini is $50 cheaper, fits nicely in a pocket and is made of nice scratch resistant aluminium rather than easily scuffed chrome. I saved money and saved pocket space - the 15GB, while cheaper per gig, would've been a waste since it would end up only holding about 4GB thus making it more expensive per used gigabyte not to mention less pocket friendly.
It is a good price, but I think it's because it's not really new tech. DVDs compared to CDs are new technology, and DVD burners were very expensive at first. Dual layer DVDs compared to single layer are updated technology and therefore do not need a high entry price.
There are still some definite similarities between the two leaders. They were both first elected in dubious circumstances with less than majority support. They both support imprisonment without trial (one for terrorism, the other for communism). They are both strongly homophobic. They both pushed tighter regulations onto foriegners than natives, despite the fact that crime could come from either (think airport fingerprint checks, despite the fact there are terrorists already in America). Worried yet?
Hehe, I just clicked the link purely for that purpose. It's not even like I'm against their idea, I just think it'll be funny to see them talking to 45,000 potential customers each;-)
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You make a very fair point, but unfortunately the sites they link to are near always scams run by the people eBaying the links. Several times at work people have told me they're on a list to get x, y or z item cheaper than we are selling it - I enquire what site the list is on and type it into the browser only to find it's mysteriously disappeared off the web. Having said that, if the person selling it doesn't own the site in question then they are not in the wrong since they may earnestly belive that all of the people will recieve their items at 5% of retail value.
I think it's the perfect time for Google to begin playing up it's less known features. Phone number search, calculator, translator, news, froogle etc.
Now that there is a competitor in the search market that has the time and money to try competing with the Google algorithms (which are admitedly showing their vulnerability to link spamming now) Google should advertise their other extremely useful features which I'm sure much of their userbase doesn't even know exist. Not a major cross site campaign, but tips in the homepage would be a nice start.
How old was this book? 75% online at home is one thing, but I would think at least 95% of teens have at least used the net at school/a friend's/a library.
It is also rendered completely useless for one of Bluetooth's main functions - handsfree headsets. Not much use if the phone is touching them, are they?
I agree that CD-Rs would have decayed, but I would be suprised if your floppies are safer than a USB flash drive. I had one for a while and it was damn near indestructible, floppies crack and I've seen many situations where my friends have thrown them in a bag only to get dust on the actual media thus making it unusable to anyone who doesn't recognise the problem and spin the disk manually so they can see the dust and blow it away.
You could simulate the effect with a bluetooth headset (look for the Nextlink BlueSpoon 5G prototypes, they're about the right size). AFAIK there's nothing to say explicitly that the badges act alone, they could well provide a short range bluetooth-like signal to a tricorder (or mobile phone, your choice). Voice dialing could pick up the names too:-D
...does that mean that the tunes sold in starbucks will be AAC?
I would hope not - while I don't claim to be one of the people who can hear the difference between 192KBps and 320KBps (and I certainly can't hear it on my equipment) I would not like to loose out on a lossless original. If I don't have a lossless hard copy then I'll end up loosing files, deleting them, accidentally compressing from the wrong source and generally messing things up. Call me stupid if you want, but with all my harddrives and computers and my MP3s on my phone/PDA and my iPod keeping track of what's where and which files are better quality, which are small enough to fit on x, y or z memory card etc. isn't easy. It's comforting to know I have an original in a jewel case with a lossless source.
Look it up - the official statement was always that the XPs were compared to the older AMD processors. They'd never have got away with comparing to Intel, they just didn't publicise that it was the older AMDs and everyone assumed it was Intels they used for comparison.
It would be nice to have a descriptive measure of performance written in the name. What this new naming convention will lead to, however is statements along this lines of:
"You wasted all that money on an Athlon64 3400? I got a Pentium 5 Series 17Quadrillion Hyperfubar with a squigabyte of intellicache."
"Bah, the Apple G5 can't match a Celeron G7 - the G7 must be a newer series of the same chip."
Same in the UK, but you can still just unlock it and switch SIMs. The software change that ties it to the provider is very easy to reverse, and if you were thinking of getting another phone anyway then you would've either finished your contract or been willing to pay the fee.
Just because a phone arrives locked does not mean it must stay that way. DCT4 calculators will unlock all newer Nokias remotely, no cables needed and there are services which do it free. If you don't have a DCT4 phone then a data cable will let you unlock your phone, they only cost about $15 and I've never met a phone that can't be cable-unlocked.
Is this not possible in America for some reason? It's commonplace here in the UK and very simple, not to mention alot cheaper then buying another phone.
Measuring 400GB in LOCs is like measuring Jupiter in football fields - an analogy is useless when it just becomes a number so large it's abstract in itself.
Calm down, it was just a joke. I think the word 'silly' implies that I wasn't seriously criticising Americans - it's not exactly a strong or offensive word I was just messing around because I was expecting someone to make a comment on it being called a Genesis. Apologies if I upset you.
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Actually what's more likely is that a preset 100 channel package would cost $50, a preset 200 channel package would be $75 and taking 3 a la carte channels would be $7 per channel plus a $25 admin fee for making you a nonstandard package. Corporations are evil - they will simply charge extortionate fees to discourage uptake of things they don't like.
You present a very interesting point, but in my opinion the government does not really have business telling people what to do unless they harm others in doing that. Morality should not be the domain of a government - as long as a person's moral belief harms no other people they should be free to practice that belief. If this were the case you would not need to trust my judgement or believe my view to be right, I would live by my morals and you would live by yours. As you said yourself, right and wrong are arbitary - this being the case why should one group's (the govt's) arbitary ideas be enforced on others?
As for religion, I am proud to say I am an atheist, although the school I attended had definite Christian undertones. What is this atheist propaganda you speak of? I don't debate that it exists, but why is it different to Christian propaganda? I have no problem with you wanting to evangelise your belief since it does not damage others. Equally, while I would not want to influence people's religion, I'm sure there are people of the same beliefs as me who would and they have as much right as Christians, provided it is not harmful.
While I will respectfully disagree with most of your opinions there and leave it at that, I'd like to see the reasoning that states preventing two loving people from gaining the social and legal rights equal to two other loving people is protecting the family. I'm genuinely interested as to why so many people think this way, so any sensible replys would be helpful.
Either you pay SCO and then get shunned by the Linux world, or you don't pay and SCO sues you to death.
The courts may be going down hill, but it'd still be hard to lose a case when the other side has absolutely no evidence. They haven't proved any code infringes on their copyright so they can't use it as evidence to the contrary, can they?
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I have no need for more than 4GB of music at any one time (I don't even have 4GB of music that I actually listen to really). The mini is $50 cheaper, fits nicely in a pocket and is made of nice scratch resistant aluminium rather than easily scuffed chrome. I saved money and saved pocket space - the 15GB, while cheaper per gig, would've been a waste since it would end up only holding about 4GB thus making it more expensive per used gigabyte not to mention less pocket friendly.
It is a good price, but I think it's because it's not really new tech. DVDs compared to CDs are new technology, and DVD burners were very expensive at first. Dual layer DVDs compared to single layer are updated technology and therefore do not need a high entry price.
There are still some definite similarities between the two leaders.
They were both first elected in dubious circumstances with less than majority support. They both support imprisonment without trial (one for terrorism, the other for communism). They are both strongly homophobic. They both pushed tighter regulations onto foriegners than natives, despite the fact that crime could come from either (think airport fingerprint checks, despite the fact there are terrorists already in America). Worried yet?
Hehe, I was just about to post that myself. Unfortunately it could happen.
Hehe, I just clicked the link purely for that purpose. It's not even like I'm against their idea, I just think it'll be funny to see them talking to 45,000 potential customers each ;-)
You make a very fair point, but unfortunately the sites they link to are near always scams run by the people eBaying the links. Several times at work people have told me they're on a list to get x, y or z item cheaper than we are selling it - I enquire what site the list is on and type it into the browser only to find it's mysteriously disappeared off the web. Having said that, if the person selling it doesn't own the site in question then they are not in the wrong since they may earnestly belive that all of the people will recieve their items at 5% of retail value.
I think it's the perfect time for Google to begin playing up it's less known features. Phone number search, calculator, translator, news, froogle etc.
Now that there is a competitor in the search market that has the time and money to try competing with the Google algorithms (which are admitedly showing their vulnerability to link spamming now) Google should advertise their other extremely useful features which I'm sure much of their userbase doesn't even know exist. Not a major cross site campaign, but tips in the homepage would be a nice start.
How old was this book? 75% online at home is one thing, but I would think at least 95% of teens have at least used the net at school/a friend's/a library.
Good idea. What button on AOL connects me to that then?
It is also rendered completely useless for one of Bluetooth's main functions - handsfree headsets. Not much use if the phone is touching them, are they?
I agree that CD-Rs would have decayed, but I would be suprised if your floppies are safer than a USB flash drive. I had one for a while and it was damn near indestructible, floppies crack and I've seen many situations where my friends have thrown them in a bag only to get dust on the actual media thus making it unusable to anyone who doesn't recognise the problem and spin the disk manually so they can see the dust and blow it away.
You could simulate the effect with a bluetooth headset (look for the Nextlink BlueSpoon 5G prototypes, they're about the right size). AFAIK there's nothing to say explicitly that the badges act alone, they could well provide a short range bluetooth-like signal to a tricorder (or mobile phone, your choice). Voice dialing could pick up the names too :-D
You really don't give me enough credit! I'm not quite stupid enough to do that seriously you know.
Hehe, at least you made me smile ;-)
I don't mind being corrected anyway - it annoys me no end when people can't use apostrophe's properly.
...does that mean that the tunes sold in starbucks will be AAC?
I would hope not - while I don't claim to be one of the people who can hear the difference between 192KBps and 320KBps (and I certainly can't hear it on my equipment) I would not like to loose out on a lossless original. If I don't have a lossless hard copy then I'll end up loosing files, deleting them, accidentally compressing from the wrong source and generally messing things up. Call me stupid if you want, but with all my harddrives and computers and my MP3s on my phone/PDA and my iPod keeping track of what's where and which files are better quality, which are small enough to fit on x, y or z memory card etc. isn't easy. It's comforting to know I have an original in a jewel case with a lossless source.
Look it up - the official statement was always that the XPs were compared to the older AMD processors. They'd never have got away with comparing to Intel, they just didn't publicise that it was the older AMDs and everyone assumed it was Intels they used for comparison.
It would be nice to have a descriptive measure of performance written in the name. What this new naming convention will lead to, however is statements along this lines of:
"You wasted all that money on an Athlon64 3400? I got a Pentium 5 Series 17Quadrillion Hyperfubar with a squigabyte of intellicache."
"Bah, the Apple G5 can't match a Celeron G7 - the G7 must be a newer series of the same chip."
Same in the UK, but you can still just unlock it and switch SIMs. The software change that ties it to the provider is very easy to reverse, and if you were thinking of getting another phone anyway then you would've either finished your contract or been willing to pay the fee.
Just because a phone arrives locked does not mean it must stay that way. DCT4 calculators will unlock all newer Nokias remotely, no cables needed and there are services which do it free. If you don't have a DCT4 phone then a data cable will let you unlock your phone, they only cost about $15 and I've never met a phone that can't be cable-unlocked.
Is this not possible in America for some reason? It's commonplace here in the UK and very simple, not to mention alot cheaper then buying another phone.
Measuring 400GB in LOCs is like measuring Jupiter in football fields - an analogy is useless when it just becomes a number so large it's abstract in itself.
Calm down, it was just a joke. I think the word 'silly' implies that I wasn't seriously criticising Americans - it's not exactly a strong or offensive word I was just messing around because I was expecting someone to make a comment on it being called a Genesis. Apologies if I upset you.