On a CSI: Miami episode, I saw that they can just pull up a computer screen of all GPS receivers in the area. They found the one receiver that was also transmitting and solved the crime. Wow, isn't network TV educational?
Then again, I was surprised at the original iPod's success at its price point, so I've been wrong before
And probably wrong again, your 10 to 1 number is even more arbitrary than my shitload number. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to you or is the "opinion of a lot of people" - aka a bunch of Slashdot Apple bashers - but not the opinion of financial analysts or stock buyers who have tripled Apple stock price this year and many put the target price at $100) as the iPod mini simply is popular. My wife wanted one so badly that she waited out the delay for months (and she's NEVER had a Mac). I told her I'd pay the extra $$ to get the regular iPod for her (with more capacity) and it was available immediately. Her response - I want the green one.
Not everybody wants the so-called technically superior model (Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft, whatever).
Aren't those of you predicting Apple would go bankrupt for the last twenty years getting a little hoarse?
Hilarious. Your link points to a jump drive, not an MP3 player, so your comparison is even stupider than I thought. I wasn't dis'ing eBay, only poor comparisons. BTW - why reflexively dis Apple?
You forgot about the fact that demand was so high for the mini that Apple could not produce enough - they've sold a shitload of these despite YOUR opinion that it's expensive.
Absolutely amusing. Halo was originally developed SOLELY for the Mac until Microsoft bought Bungie to prevent that and made Halo XBox only until they'd sold enough XBoxes.
If you care to RTFA, you will find that they'd been ordering these greater tolerance tubes and USING them for small artillery rockets for years. Our nuclear experts said that if Iraq wanted them for nuclear centrifuges, we SHOULD LET THEM HAVE THEM, because they were a HUGE step BACK from the last centrifuges they constructed.
...notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store.
Totally asinine. iTunes as a MEDIA PLAYER is compatible with songs from virtually any other music store, too (eg MP3's) much like WiMP.
When my idiot neighbor lit his house on fire with a blow dryer, my house sustained heavy damage. My office was drenched with fire department water and caved in all ceiling plaster. The Power Mac 8500 had rusty looking water residue inside the case. I didn't dare boot the monitor, and the keyboard was toast, but the Mac came up fine in firewire disk mode from my TiBook that I grabbed when it became obvious that the fire was spreading to my house (fire truck was in a car crash on the way there.)
Hey Mr. AC, you must not be my sysadmin because I ALWAYS find the sysadmin has changed something 'that had nothing to do with that.'
I've lost track of the number of times something was working perfectly when I left the day before and find it not working when I come in the next day due to some bonehead incompetent IT guy.
1) They are never around when you need them. They supposedly work long hours but for some reason can never be located. Page them and they rarely answer in a timely manner.
2) When something fails, they ask you what you changed. You tell them you changed NOTHING and proceeded exactly as you have on every other day. They say you must have changed something.
3) They act like they're so fucking important just because they have the keys (passwords) to controlling the system. Just because you have some power, you don't have to wield it.
4) Most were incompetent at software development and that's why they fell back on system administration; and they're only marginally competent at that.
The only kind of cell phone game that would be worth a shit would be a multi-player game that somehow involves other LOCAL players. Some sort of hide-and-seek with location radar indicator? Lots of paintball/lasertag possibilities with some good gps integrated. Go wild guys!
Why not go all the (geek) way and mount a webcam above the TV, flip the video with your PC and pipe it to the screen? They you can have a nice bright mirror. If you have one of those new TVs with tons of inputs (my new Toshiba has eight input sources), you should have one to spare.
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On a CSI: Miami episode, I saw that they can just pull up a computer screen of all GPS receivers in the area. They found the one receiver that was also transmitting and solved the crime. Wow, isn't network TV educational?
In other news, lap DANCES increase sperm mobility.
Then again, I was surprised at the original iPod's success at its price point, so I've been wrong before
And probably wrong again, your 10 to 1 number is even more arbitrary than my shitload number. Perhaps it doesn't make sense to you or is the "opinion of a lot of people" - aka a bunch of Slashdot Apple bashers - but not the opinion of financial analysts or stock buyers who have tripled Apple stock price this year and many put the target price at $100) as the iPod mini simply is popular. My wife wanted one so badly that she waited out the delay for months (and she's NEVER had a Mac). I told her I'd pay the extra $$ to get the regular iPod for her (with more capacity) and it was available immediately. Her response - I want the green one.
Not everybody wants the so-called technically superior model (Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft, whatever).
Aren't those of you predicting Apple would go bankrupt for the last twenty years getting a little hoarse?
Hilarious. Your link points to a jump drive, not an MP3 player, so your comparison is even stupider than I thought. I wasn't dis'ing eBay, only poor comparisons. BTW - why reflexively dis Apple?
You forgot about the fact that demand was so high for the mini that Apple could not produce enough - they've sold a shitload of these despite YOUR opinion that it's expensive.
Comparing e-bay prices to retail prices is just plain stupid. No one (Apple or otherwise) is trying to compete with used item prices on e-bay.
I want one like Sigourney Weaver uses in Aliens (2) as a dock-loader, then later to battle the Alien.
You must be trolling! Of course iPods play MP3's in addition to AAC.
The article says the problem is exacerbated by SHORT-sightedness, not NEAR-sightedness, thus only managers need be worried.
Some games are slow to port, like Halo...
Absolutely amusing. Halo was originally developed SOLELY for the Mac until Microsoft bought Bungie to prevent that and made Halo XBox only until they'd sold enough XBoxes.
That was the case with Bungie's Marathon and Marathon 2. When Microsoft saw Halo, they bought Bungie to prevent it.
If my last name were Kari, I would surely name my kid Harry. Okay, so it's off-topic, so what?
If you care to RTFA, you will find that they'd been ordering these greater tolerance tubes and USING them for small artillery rockets for years. Our nuclear experts said that if Iraq wanted them for nuclear centrifuges, we SHOULD LET THEM HAVE THEM, because they were a HUGE step BACK from the last centrifuges they constructed.
...notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store.
Totally asinine. iTunes as a MEDIA PLAYER is compatible with songs from virtually any other music store, too (eg MP3's) much like WiMP.
Total FUD.
When my idiot neighbor lit his house on fire with a blow dryer, my house sustained heavy damage. My office was drenched with fire department water and caved in all ceiling plaster. The Power Mac 8500 had rusty looking water residue inside the case. I didn't dare boot the monitor, and the keyboard was toast, but the Mac came up fine in firewire disk mode from my TiBook that I grabbed when it became obvious that the fire was spreading to my house (fire truck was in a car crash on the way there.)
RTFA - the pocket PC is used to GET the IR signals, not as the remote.
Hey Mr. AC, you must not be my sysadmin because I ALWAYS find the sysadmin has changed something 'that had nothing to do with that.'
I've lost track of the number of times something was working perfectly when I left the day before and find it not working when I come in the next day due to some bonehead incompetent IT guy.
1) They are never around when you need them. They supposedly work long hours but for some reason can never be located. Page them and they rarely answer in a timely manner.
2) When something fails, they ask you what you changed. You tell them you changed NOTHING and proceeded exactly as you have on every other day. They say you must have changed something.
3) They act like they're so fucking important just because they have the keys (passwords) to controlling the system. Just because you have some power, you don't have to wield it.
4) Most were incompetent at software development and that's why they fell back on system administration; and they're only marginally competent at that.
Iridium is dead. Bankrupt. Kaput.
Tracking him with a website would be great fun (a-la the Sims). Also handy for any potential assassin.
Boink!
The only kind of cell phone game that would be worth a shit would be a multi-player game that somehow involves other LOCAL players. Some sort of hide-and-seek with location radar indicator? Lots of paintball/lasertag possibilities with some good gps integrated. Go wild guys!
I'm more interested in the Perverse Computing Standards. Who needs another pr0n viewer?
Why not go all the (geek) way and mount a webcam above the TV, flip the video with your PC and pipe it to the screen? They you can have a nice bright mirror. If you have one of those new TVs with tons of inputs (my new Toshiba has eight input sources), you should have one to spare.
"It's a pretty big deal... there certainly hasn't been any change [in Morse Code characters] since before World War II."
I thought Morse Code hadn't even been used since World War II.