I have a hard enough time convincing people they need to re-buy cables (and peripherals) for their new TV as it is.
It wouldn't be hard to convince them to buy the HDMI cable if stores would stop charging $50-$100 for something that nobody tells them costs $8 online.
(I prefer non apple so it will at least display and allow markup on the evil Office suite files)
You know that they make Office for Mac, right? And that the iPhone/Touch can display Office files out of the box, right? There are iPhone/Touch apps to allow you to edit them too.
I hate 3D movies. I have to squint and concentrate really hard just to see it without it looking like two images. Then I get a headache fairly quickly. And the effect isn't really impressive anyway. And you want me to wear some stupid glasses for this honor of watching some fake 3D crap? Fuck 3D movies.
AC Wrote: Apple's revenue is 2/3 MS but profits are only 1/3. Please explain "hand over fist" and "doing just fine." Is it related to what Apple has that MS doesn't?
It costs more to build computers than it costs to copy a bunch of disks...
I use an iMac as a daily work computer, but I also use a Dell mini 9 running OS X 10.5 as my laptop. I don't need a $999+ laptop to surf the web and check email, and my iPhone is too small to do things like Remote Desktop easily. For about $400, I have a portable Mac that makes sense for me. A MacBook Air at $1500 may be just about as light, but it is very large (13.3") and doesn't have two USB ports, ethernet, VGA, an SDHC card reader, etc. When Apple makes a 9-10 inch laptop, I'll probably buy it, unless they continue on thinking I don't need to plug things into my computer because it's small. And they'd probably still charge $999. And I can run Windows on both the iMac and the Dell, natively. Why not the other way around, other than some silly EULA? (I did pay for an extra OS X retail disc for the Dell.)
The stargate transfers matter in one direction only. If you open a wormhole to another planet, you can only send matter to that planet. Air and water do not generally flow through the gate in any case, since the mechanism does not allow it (see about 20 episodes of SG-1 for a reason.) The only thing that travels both ways is a radio signal, or other waves of energy, like radiation.
Nine minutes of ads would be great. That's what you got in 1969 on a one hour show. In 2009, you get 18 minutes of ads per hour. Yes, your "hour-long drama" is really 42 minutes. And your re-run of Star Trek TOS is missing 9 minutes of material, not including the "previously on" and "coming next week" spots that are also cut.
By 2039, the show will be 9 minutes long and you'll have 51 minutes of ads. And fast-forward will be illegal.
It probably had something to do with the people who had their ball-hair singed off by extremely hot "laptops" and sued the manufacturers. The word "laptop" implies that it goes on your lap. Some lawyer probably told them to rename them...
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I have a hard enough time convincing people they need to re-buy cables (and peripherals) for their new TV as it is.
It wouldn't be hard to convince them to buy the HDMI cable if stores would stop charging $50-$100 for something that nobody tells them costs $8 online.
I have a Mac G3. It is sitting in my basement collecting dust, because it is a worthless piece of shit.
Buy a computer from this century.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1331208/DVD-CSSs-Encryption-Not-Enough-Here-Comes-DECE
Sounds like natural selection doing its job.
(I prefer non apple so it will at least display and allow markup on the evil Office suite files)
You know that they make Office for Mac, right? And that the iPhone/Touch can display Office files out of the box, right? There are iPhone/Touch apps to allow you to edit them too.
So you're one of those assholes that puts on his brakes at every green light. I hate those people.
Maybe she should start drinking.
I hate 3D movies. I have to squint and concentrate really hard just to see it without it looking like two images. Then I get a headache fairly quickly. And the effect isn't really impressive anyway. And you want me to wear some stupid glasses for this honor of watching some fake 3D crap? Fuck 3D movies.
Microsoft has sold about 32 million XBOX 360 consoles since launch in November 2005. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360
As for Apple hardware sales, here are some sales figures from just the last quarter: 3.05 million Macintosh computers, 10.2 million iPods, and 7.4 million iPhones. Source: http://theunofficialwindowsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/apple-releases-sales-figures-mac-sales.html
Also, Apple does not take a loss on any of its hardware, unlike the 360.
AC Wrote:
Apple's revenue is 2/3 MS but profits are only 1/3. Please explain "hand over fist" and "doing just fine." Is it related to what Apple has that MS doesn't?
It costs more to build computers than it costs to copy a bunch of disks...
Just like I could do on a Mac with the included OS since 2001.
I use an iMac as a daily work computer, but I also use a Dell mini 9 running OS X 10.5 as my laptop. I don't need a $999+ laptop to surf the web and check email, and my iPhone is too small to do things like Remote Desktop easily. For about $400, I have a portable Mac that makes sense for me. A MacBook Air at $1500 may be just about as light, but it is very large (13.3") and doesn't have two USB ports, ethernet, VGA, an SDHC card reader, etc. When Apple makes a 9-10 inch laptop, I'll probably buy it, unless they continue on thinking I don't need to plug things into my computer because it's small. And they'd probably still charge $999. And I can run Windows on both the iMac and the Dell, natively. Why not the other way around, other than some silly EULA? (I did pay for an extra OS X retail disc for the Dell.)
works well but crashes
Sounds like a review of Windows.
The stargate transfers matter in one direction only. If you open a wormhole to another planet, you can only send matter to that planet. Air and water do not generally flow through the gate in any case, since the mechanism does not allow it (see about 20 episodes of SG-1 for a reason.) The only thing that travels both ways is a radio signal, or other waves of energy, like radiation.
She had someone else put Windows back on, and doesn't want to hurt your feelings.
Who gives a shit?
Now I have a machine gun.
Ho Ho Ho
Nine minutes of ads would be great. That's what you got in 1969 on a one hour show. In 2009, you get 18 minutes of ads per hour. Yes, your "hour-long drama" is really 42 minutes. And your re-run of Star Trek TOS is missing 9 minutes of material, not including the "previously on" and "coming next week" spots that are also cut.
By 2039, the show will be 9 minutes long and you'll have 51 minutes of ads. And fast-forward will be illegal.
But how do you watch college or professional sports?
On a TV in the bar that I don't pay attention to anyway?
It probably had something to do with the people who had their ball-hair singed off by extremely hot "laptops" and sued the manufacturers. The word "laptop" implies that it goes on your lap. Some lawyer probably told them to rename them...
I don't know how to do that, but Command-Shift-(Left/Right) Arrow works to cycle through them.
Why would shit try to talk?
That was not a TiVo. It was a crappy Comcast DVR box.
You can resize the comment box. At least I can in Safari on this Mac.
You could always buy the Roku box for $99, watch Netflix on that, and stop your damn whining.
I bought a Series3 and paid for Lifetime. I sold the old Series2 lifetime box on eBay. Net cost was about $200.