Most people need a vehicle to get around. Obviously they are going to need to buy gas in it. But for most people, that vehicle does need to be a SUV. That's what we are discussing.
In the last few years, it seems that 5 speed automatics are becoming more and more common, where as the manual transmission cars are getting 6 gears instead of five. The 3 speed automatic is pretty much dead over here.
You can hardly consider the Democratic party "extreme" when they bend over backward to make sure their message conforms to what they've determined to be "mainstream" through repeated polling. They're hardly liberal in my mind, and definitely not extreme. As a result, I also think they're a useless bunch of power-seekers.
Heaven forbid that politicians do what the public wants, especially in a democracy! But yeah, I agree - the Democrats are mostly useless, and are more like lite Republicans than anything else.
That's exactly why I still use my trusty HP-48G, but the 49G has been collecting dust for some time. The 49G is alright for the things that it can do that the 48G can't, but as a calculator the 48G simply has a better layout.
Flash drives are not that big, and while I have not had a TI-84 apart, there would be plenty of room inside of the TI-83 or TI-85. Even if the TI-84 is packed to the brim in the case, I would get a small 6V battery (all that would be required is enough juice for 1-2 hours), and then use the room freed up by removing the 4 AAA batteries to cram a flash drive into the case.
I seriously doubt that many people have forked over $1000 for 100 DRM'd albums on iTunes. I'm guessing that almost everyone who has purchased music off of iTunes can easily fit it on a single CD-R.
My history is a bit shaky at points, but I believe WWII was significantly longer than 13 days.
Your mastery of the calender is also a bit shaky, considering you forgot the whole month of April. But it's all moot anyway, as it's pretty obvious now in September of 2006 that the whole "Mission Accomplished" thing was nothing more than a PR stunt.
If you're the sort who thinks this is a bald-faced lie, then what's to stop Apple from phoning home the entire collection without any interaction on the user's part at all? Why wait for the user to request album art?
Users with a firewall would notice the program trying to phone home, and would raise a stink about it. But they won't raise a stink if they actually tell the program to "phone home" themselves.
Or simply not been around long enough. Until 10.3, it wasn't hard at all to take down OSX, though 10.2 was stable enough to go a few days between reboots.
One civilization has to be the first. Maybe we're it.
Or maybe we live in the intergalactic equilivent of an anthill located in a park of a big city. We're completely surrounded by civilization, but totally oblivious to it.
I have a 1.5GHz Pentium M Dell with 128M Radeon 9600 mobility and 1GB RAM. It's an old laptop, but it runs XP (and Linux) well.
Bah, kids these days. I have a Pentium 120 with 16MB of ram and some Cirrus Logic 1MB video card. Now *that's* an old laptop. And it still runs Windows 98, but not all that great.
So, why does the entire submission revolve around the ONE item that likely won't be news, and indeed will be completely moot, by the time Vista ships and Apple actually supports Boot Camp as a product (when Leopard ships)?
Actually, he should of just written "Macbook runs hot when pushed hard". Vista hogs system resources, which means that the CPU/GPU/HDD have to work harder, which means they use more power and generate more heat. It's about as insightful as saying "Macbook battery life suffers when encoding video". Well, duh.
Atleast the Macbook doesn't seem to randomly shut off, like my P4-M Toshiba does if I run it at 100% CPU for extended periods of time.
Because Oggers act like it's the second coming of Crist, when in reality nobody gives a damn.
I think it's more about "Not invented here" syndrome amonst Apple fanboys. You can hardly mention Ogg without someone writing a stupid ranting about how the iPod shouldn't support Ogg, simply because it shouldn't. If you don't care about Ogg, then ignore it.
The fact that there is a whole *industry* dedicated to servicing iPod batteries, and the fact that entire sites exist simply to talk about iPod batteries does say a lot though. How many other devices have the users going to Google to find a FAQ when it stops holding a charge?
You seem pretty confused. You can only play iTMS DRM'd files on the iPod, thus once you have bought songs for your iPod, you have to keep buying more iPods if you want to keep playing those songs. That's the definition of lock in right there. If it wasn't lock in, Apple would let you play those songs on other brands of music players.
Apple could always license WMA from Microsoft, and make the iPod compatible with all those other services. I don't think it would ever happen, but there really isn't anything preventing it, other than Apple simply not wanting to do so.
Actually, buying a house won't be that difficult. A home loan is a secured debt - the house will be used as collateral, and houses generally appreciate. A nice cash down payment will help too. He would probably have more trouble trying to finance a $5,000 used car than a $200,000 house.
Got an example where that works out? So everyone can get all the care they need or want on short notice? One where new drugs are developed at a rapid pace? No? Get back to us when you do.
Got an example where private health care is working? Costs are spiraling, fraud is rampant, insurance companies dictate what treatments and tests you get based upon what they are willing to pay for, and millions of Americans are without even basic health care. Sure, socialized medicine has its problems, but overall more people end up with get better healthcare for less money. And besides, even if the US socialized healthcare, I'm sure there would still be private healthcare available to people willing to pay for it (much like how private schools still exist, despite the government provided K-12 education).
And every month, you'll also have the difference between the mortgage payment and the rent, if any.
Minus the cost of moving, of course. Obviously, if they own some McMansion out in the sticks, I can see a good case for making them move. But if they have a modest house with a morgage, what's the point?
Who's more likely to embezzle from you, the guy with a good debt-to-income ratio who makes his payments on time, or the guy who's deeply in debt an makes only the minimum payment every month?
Obviously, the guy who makes his payments on time. Clearly the other guy doesn't embezzled money, or else he would be able to pay off those debts.
Go back 10 years, and ask 100 people what a MP3 file is. You might get 1-2 geeks that knew what it was, so it was clear back in 1996 that nothing would ever became of MP3, which is exactly how it is today. Oh wait....
Besides, go ask a 100 people right now if they knew what a AAC file is. I would guess that you would only get a handful, even amonst iPod/iTMS users. Of those that knew it is a music file format, I would guess a good fraction would think it's a propriety Apple format.
I really don't understand the opposition to OGG. It's just a file format. The hardware is powerful enough to support it. It would not add any additional complication to the iPod, unlike something like a FM tuner. There are no licensing fees. If Apple supported OGG in the iPod, most users would not know or even need to know, because of the way that iTunes abstracts away things like formats in the file system. OGG files would just be another song. Sure most users wouldn't know or care, but it would be nice for the ones that do know and care.
Windows 98: 1. Runs better on lower end hardware, especially that brand new bottom of the line Dell with a Celeron and 256MB of memory. 2. Is mostly immune from many newer viruses and pieces of malware. 3. Is unemcumbered by activation schemes and DRM.
And what a perfect place to point out that the VAST majority of Windowsusers don't have the technical smarts to address or fix the issues related to viruses & spyware. And apparently the maker of the OS doesn't either. Hence the reason there are still cottage industries that support fixing these issues. Industries!
Likewise, I would guess that most users of other OSes would be at a total loss of how to get rid of a virus/spyware/rootkit/etc. on the OS of their choice. The only thing that is really keeping them safe is the fact for the most part, malware for their OS simply isn't out there like it is for Windows.
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Most people need a vehicle to get around. Obviously they are going to need to buy gas in it. But for most people, that vehicle does need to be a SUV. That's what we are discussing.
In the last few years, it seems that 5 speed automatics are becoming more and more common, where as the manual transmission cars are getting 6 gears instead of five. The 3 speed automatic is pretty much dead over here.
You can hardly consider the Democratic party "extreme" when they bend over backward to make sure their message conforms to what they've determined to be "mainstream" through repeated polling. They're hardly liberal in my mind, and definitely not extreme. As a result, I also think they're a useless bunch of power-seekers.
Heaven forbid that politicians do what the public wants, especially in a democracy! But yeah, I agree - the Democrats are mostly useless, and are more like lite Republicans than anything else.
That's exactly why I still use my trusty HP-48G, but the 49G has been collecting dust for some time. The 49G is alright for the things that it can do that the 48G can't, but as a calculator the 48G simply has a better layout.
Flash drives are not that big, and while I have not had a TI-84 apart, there would be plenty of room inside of the TI-83 or TI-85. Even if the TI-84 is packed to the brim in the case, I would get a small 6V battery (all that would be required is enough juice for 1-2 hours), and then use the room freed up by removing the 4 AAA batteries to cram a flash drive into the case.
I seriously doubt that many people have forked over $1000 for 100 DRM'd albums on iTunes. I'm guessing that almost everyone who has purchased music off of iTunes can easily fit it on a single CD-R.
I will shoot anyone who threatens this country - Muslim or American.
All I have to say to this is, when are you going to start shooting some politicians?
My history is a bit shaky at points, but I believe WWII was significantly longer than 13 days.
Your mastery of the calender is also a bit shaky, considering you forgot the whole month of April. But it's all moot anyway, as it's pretty obvious now in September of 2006 that the whole "Mission Accomplished" thing was nothing more than a PR stunt.
If you're the sort who thinks this is a bald-faced lie, then what's to stop Apple from phoning home the entire collection without any interaction on the user's part at all? Why wait for the user to request album art?
Users with a firewall would notice the program trying to phone home, and would raise a stink about it. But they won't raise a stink if they actually tell the program to "phone home" themselves.
Or simply not been around long enough. Until 10.3, it wasn't hard at all to take down OSX, though 10.2 was stable enough to go a few days between reboots.
One civilization has to be the first. Maybe we're it.
Or maybe we live in the intergalactic equilivent of an anthill located in a park of a big city. We're completely surrounded by civilization, but totally oblivious to it.
"If Apple hadn't shifted its focus toward digital entertainment it may well have gone out of business"
ROLFLMAO.
Someone clearly doesn't remember 1997 very well.
I have a 1.5GHz Pentium M Dell with 128M Radeon 9600 mobility and 1GB RAM. It's an old laptop, but it runs XP (and Linux) well.
Bah, kids these days. I have a Pentium 120 with 16MB of ram and some Cirrus Logic 1MB video card. Now *that's* an old laptop. And it still runs Windows 98, but not all that great.
So, why does the entire submission revolve around the ONE item that likely won't be news, and indeed will be completely moot, by the time Vista ships and Apple actually supports Boot Camp as a product (when Leopard ships)?
Actually, he should of just written "Macbook runs hot when pushed hard". Vista hogs system resources, which means that the CPU/GPU/HDD have to work harder, which means they use more power and generate more heat. It's about as insightful as saying "Macbook battery life suffers when encoding video". Well, duh.
Atleast the Macbook doesn't seem to randomly shut off, like my P4-M Toshiba does if I run it at 100% CPU for extended periods of time.
Because Oggers act like it's the second coming of Crist, when in reality nobody gives a damn.
I think it's more about "Not invented here" syndrome amonst Apple fanboys. You can hardly mention Ogg without someone writing a stupid ranting about how the iPod shouldn't support Ogg, simply because it shouldn't. If you don't care about Ogg, then ignore it.
The fact that there is a whole *industry* dedicated to servicing iPod batteries, and the fact that entire sites exist simply to talk about iPod batteries does say a lot though. How many other devices have the users going to Google to find a FAQ when it stops holding a charge?
You seem pretty confused. You can only play iTMS DRM'd files on the iPod, thus once you have bought songs for your iPod, you have to keep buying more iPods if you want to keep playing those songs. That's the definition of lock in right there. If it wasn't lock in, Apple would let you play those songs on other brands of music players.
Apple could always license WMA from Microsoft, and make the iPod compatible with all those other services. I don't think it would ever happen, but there really isn't anything preventing it, other than Apple simply not wanting to do so.
Actually, buying a house won't be that difficult. A home loan is a secured debt - the house will be used as collateral, and houses generally appreciate. A nice cash down payment will help too. He would probably have more trouble trying to finance a $5,000 used car than a $200,000 house.
Got an example where that works out? So everyone can get all the care they need or want on short notice? One where new drugs are developed at a rapid pace? No? Get back to us when you do.
Got an example where private health care is working? Costs are spiraling, fraud is rampant, insurance companies dictate what treatments and tests you get based upon what they are willing to pay for, and millions of Americans are without even basic health care. Sure, socialized medicine has its problems, but overall more people end up with get better healthcare for less money. And besides, even if the US socialized healthcare, I'm sure there would still be private healthcare available to people willing to pay for it (much like how private schools still exist, despite the government provided K-12 education).
And every month, you'll also have the difference between the mortgage payment and the rent, if any.
Minus the cost of moving, of course. Obviously, if they own some McMansion out in the sticks, I can see a good case for making them move. But if they have a modest house with a morgage, what's the point?
Who's more likely to embezzle from you, the guy with a good debt-to-income ratio who makes his payments on time, or the guy who's deeply in debt an makes only the minimum payment every month?
Obviously, the guy who makes his payments on time. Clearly the other guy doesn't embezzled money, or else he would be able to pay off those debts.
Go back 10 years, and ask 100 people what a MP3 file is. You might get 1-2 geeks that knew what it was, so it was clear back in 1996 that nothing would ever became of MP3, which is exactly how it is today. Oh wait....
Besides, go ask a 100 people right now if they knew what a AAC file is. I would guess that you would only get a handful, even amonst iPod/iTMS users. Of those that knew it is a music file format, I would guess a good fraction would think it's a propriety Apple format.
I really don't understand the opposition to OGG. It's just a file format. The hardware is powerful enough to support it. It would not add any additional complication to the iPod, unlike something like a FM tuner. There are no licensing fees. If Apple supported OGG in the iPod, most users would not know or even need to know, because of the way that iTunes abstracts away things like formats in the file system. OGG files would just be another song. Sure most users wouldn't know or care, but it would be nice for the ones that do know and care.
Windows 98:
1. Runs better on lower end hardware, especially that brand new bottom of the line Dell with a Celeron and 256MB of memory.
2. Is mostly immune from many newer viruses and pieces of malware.
3. Is unemcumbered by activation schemes and DRM.
Do I win a cookie?
And what a perfect place to point out that the VAST majority of Windowsusers don't have the technical smarts to address or fix the issues related to viruses & spyware. And apparently the maker of the OS doesn't either. Hence the reason there are still cottage industries that support fixing these issues. Industries!
Likewise, I would guess that most users of other OSes would be at a total loss of how to get rid of a virus/spyware/rootkit/etc. on the OS of their choice. The only thing that is really keeping them safe is the fact for the most part, malware for their OS simply isn't out there like it is for Windows.