1) QuickTime is easily found on its own, iTunes is bundled w/ QuickTime as it relies on QuickTime libraries, etc.
2) After running Software Update, if you don't want the available UPGRADE/INCLUSION of Safari then uncheck it and move on... so what.
Safari is clearly offered, not snuck in. It doesn't change preferences for default browser, or home page. Gee Whiz, it takes up a few MB of disk space...and may facilitate some ease-of-use with an iPhone or iTouch down the road...
so what?
After installing 3 copies of Windows on friends machines in the last 2 weeks I've seen numerous attempts via FireFox, the Adobe Reader, and others to install Google and Yahoo Toolbars and extras. They are offered in EXACTLY the same way as Safari is: a checkbox in an unrelated installer/updater. They have the exact same motivation - to reach people that otherwise wouldn't experience/see/try the tools. And, they are all easily removed.
This thread is filled with whiney hypocritical freetards;)
there are differenct styles of antennas, indoor and outdoor, some little ones even made for being in cities where you get alot of reflected signals of buildings.
tried cheap and moderate antennas...live in Pittsburgh proper, not the suburbs...ended up that the best result for me was the absolute cheapest:
ran a coax cable over to the side of the room with windows. Got a $2 adapter to put a "T" style FM Radio antenna onto the coax. The digital tuner in the Panasonic VCR/DVD burner is freaking fantastic. pictures that were grainy and suffered ghosting are sharp as could be.
Good luck, but be ready to experiment with the antenna's...possibly even get more than one and use a switch if necessary?
forgive me replying too myself...but to add on, whether it's my coffee cup, my car, my clothing, the dress I want my girlfriend in and peel her out of, I want more.
That's not to say I don't buy functional tools. But if I have to stare at a computer as much as I do, I'd prefer it to be a cool tool.
Most things in life don't NEED to be many things that they are beyond their original function. Thank god they are. Or we'd all be wearing dungarees cut to the functional specification and issued from the central distribution post...
THANK YOU. How did it take so long for someone to interject that this is barely more than the cost of current iPod battery replacement, and the turnaround time is cut in half.
Booo HOoo. In a year or three I'll have to replace my battery.
And by that time, just like the iPod battery business which is strong, there will no doubt be alternatives.
The patient brochure you were given is designed to educate new "owners" of the dangers. No, they don't go into great detail as to why things are warned, they just warn there. The majority of our patients can't/won't/wouldn't be able to follow complex explanations of behaviors. They would also be less likely to get through ANY of the manuals and information if it looked like the technical manuals for one of these devices.
The explosion of Cell phone devices has caused manufacturers to pay greater attention to EMI...and about 3-4 years ago the first of the big 3 manufacturers started advertising/marketing their engineered resistance to cell phones.
If memory serves me correctly, the The energy field falls off at a proportion to the square of the distance. Patients used to be advised to carry their cell phones in the breast pocket of a jacket opposite their implantation site (about 90+ percent left shoulder in the US). They were further cautioned if they felt dizzy that the POTENTIAL effect of a phone would be obviated holding at arms length.
Implantable pacemakers/defibs don't sense the type of EKG that you would see as gathered from surface leads. They try to make sense of the hearts intrinsic rhythm/activity from sensing at the tips of the leads. Different leads, different sensor technologies, and different algorithms for analysis all can play a part. Furthermore, the connectors on the heads of the devices are standardized to accomodate interchanging leads from other companies--and like all "standards" this one has evolved in generations...and has meant good things for patients BTW.
The first pacers just had a minimum rate...ie. wouldn't let the heart rate drop below 60. Subsequent generations added "rate smoothing"...ie if your heart was beating at rate above 60, the pacer would allow for the subsequent beat to be no longer than a fixed or programmable percentage than the prior beat, to regularlize heart rate during activity or strain. The latest devices use either vibration sensors, or accelerometers, optionally combined with minute ventillation (breathing rate sensors measuring changes in impedance in a separate/non-pacing signal conducted from the tip of the lead back to a sensor on the generator) to vary rate according to exertion levels.
Most patients see their doctor one to three times in the month post operatively, then follow up with an annual (single-lead pacer), biannual (dual-lead pacer), or quarterly (AICD / defibrillator). This is a good time for patients or family members to ask questions. At a great percentage of these followup appointments, a representative of the company is often there. The programming interface, features, and diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms vary consideratbly from company to company, device to device, and there are devices going back up to twenty years!!! Old flask-sized devices in patients with minimal usage just ticking away.....
The Pacemaker companies (3 majors in the US) have done a good job in educating customers, providing 24 hour hotline technical support by phone and on pager response via sales and clinical reps... the level of accountability, the level of service, and as part and parcel the level of education of the sales/clinical team has few peers in ANY industry.
Further, the pacemaker companies direct clients are the physicians and hospitals. They buy the device, and install it, and should be the primary line of information and service of the device. The companies have done an amazing job in educating and including patients where the hospitals and doctors don't really have widely-available,,efficient mechanisms to do that in place.
Beyond what is produced by the manufacturers, there are many widely available books on pacing and defibrillation, as well as electophysiologic "EP" testing that start with the fundamentals--you can follow along with if you have a decent basic science background. A few of the standard intro texts are:
THIS NEEDS TO BE MODDED UP! The whole point / tone of the post is wrong. Idiots just jump to conclusions without the slightest freakin' due diligence--or even 30 s and a google search.
was about to post the same, Apple doesn't yet officially support QuickTime under Vista.
Here is the list of all Apple software for Windows and their system requirements:
I realize you're trying to be clever, but the paid release updates are usually quite large, and most consumers in the years past haven't had efficient means to receive it.
The Network update running on UBUNTU on the G4 looks like it will take between 6 and 8 hours at the rate it's moving along...rates coming at 20-30 kbs.
If driving to the Apple Store, Circuit City or Best Buy is difficult, usually pre-ordering get's you the package either the day of scheduled/announced release, sometimes even a day before...seriously.
Perhaps Apple may choose to distribute paid updates that are downloadable...it would seem the infrastructure to do so is there now.
As far as having to install from the ground up, you should perhaps read up on this one...Upgrading has always been an option (perhaps barring the 9 to X.0), and even if you choose to archive the old system and install a fresh, or wipe a partition or start a new machine altogether the Migration Assistant brings the personal data and settings along as possible.
As far as updating all the other applications that are "registered" I think that that's terrific. It may be better, though I can't imagine what kind of approval/compatability testing is implied there (still learning about Linux, obviously). While most apps on the mac check to see if an update is available upon their launching, or at an interval/event chosen by the user...the end result being about the same, I can see where that might be advantageous.
And, as of my last noob experience w/ 6.1 and setting up things like the trackpad was a challenge--that a preference pane wasn't included in a PPC Ubuntu distribution that would be used on many Mac ppc machines is beyond me, and the "man" page for adjusting the trackpad and its buttons is really poor to look at through noob eyes.
Let's see, then, there's the mystery of Flash...getting excited to see a Linux version, downloading it and finding out it isn't PPC? I thought things were written once in some common languagee and then compiled to run on the platforms.
There were plenty of other little suprises and gotchas, stuff people that work w/ Linux regularly are blinded to and take for granted...even for those of us proficient in daily use/maintenance of Mac & Windows machines.
That said, I was really amazed at most of what I saw, and am excited to see the results of the Feisty upgrade.
Really? ALL the applications were updated, or was it just the ones that come w/ the distro?
If it is just updating what they distribute than that's catching up to what Apple has done since OS 9 for sure, perhaps earlier but I'd have to check...
As far as not restarting after an update, I can't say I think that it is a tremendous advantage (if it is true), but I think it's interesting and for some few people may be an advantage.
A couple weeks ago I made a second attempt at UBUNTU when I got a G4 500 Ti PBook to play around with. I am upgrading ppc Ubuntu from 6.1 to 7 now...
several times got error messages re: packages in 6 that needed to be updated but said error, not available due to server overload OR they were taken down... odd. didn't know whether it would be OK to go ahead w/ the UPGRADE if the update wasn't complete, but said wtf...and went for it.
If I cared about the partition, installation I wouldn't be full of "warm and fuzzies" right now...but as the upgrade is proceeding hopefully it knows best.
My gut said I probably should've just torrented the PPC version and done a fresh install, but the "recommended" way seems to be to do it over the network, so here goes...
Good point, but you've missed the biggest culprit... System Bus Speed.
Alot of the problem was the 1.4 GHz mac you are referring to was a PPC G4.... crippled by a 133 or 167 Mhz system bus. Were the PPC chips allowded to go one gen further on the laptop side (desktop remedied at onset G5 w/ sys bus at 1/2 CPU clock) then this problem would've ceased to be.
Macs never really saw the full benefit of the G4 due to the system bus...sad. Motorola had them ready to go in a highly efficient laptop form, I think w/ 667 Mhz busses, and doubled cache...but Apple made the jump to Intel. I was dissapointed, but Moto had failed so many times to keep up with Intel, or even their own predictions, that in a way it was a relief.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/546975
"The study appears in Obstetrics & Gynecology. The researchers included Keith Eddleman, MD, of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The women were offered amniocentesis, in which doctors insert a thin needle through the belly to get a small sample of amniotic fluid, which surrounds the baby in the womb.
The test is used to check the baby's risk for genetic conditions such as Down syndrome.
Most of the women -- nearly 32,000 -- declined amniocentesis. About 3,000 got amniocentesis.
About 1% of the women in both groups miscarried before 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The amniocentesis-related miscarriage rate by 24 weeks of pregnancy was 0.06%, or about one in 1,600 pregnancies studied.
That's lower than the rate of 0.5%, or about one in 200 pregnancies, from studies done in the 1970s, before current amniocentesis techniques were in place, the researchers note.
Eddleman commented on the study in a Mount Sinai School of Medicine news release."
Historically attributed to be ~ 0.5% (I remember 1% from classes).
Recently downgraded in studies published in JAMA, and Obstetrics & Gynecology.
It is routinely done, particularly in older women and other higher risk pregnancies.
The Journals mentioned above are not linkable here, but many news organizations reported on their finding.
-------
A lot of people here need to do some reading in Biology. Basic definitions of life/living, cellular reproduction, the differences between a zygote and a stem cell have been so badly butchered there isn't enough time to respond...
When I see them implement a system where I can get a license for the music that moves forward so that I can show up with tape, vinyl, CD , DVD and VHS copies of music and video I already own and pay a minimal fee to move my "rights" to new media/technology formats...perhaps then their concept of licensing would mean more to me...
But instead Congress will extend their artists rights to infinity from the already bloated length of time, and lobbyists will continue...and...nobody takes care of the customer's long term needs...makes one resent buying new media when you see the cycle of obsolesence increasing from a decade to a few years...
And it was greasing state legislators that got them out of their promises with quite a bit of $$ in their pockets...at least in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
This wasn't like some great unkown like "geee I hope we can someday do this theoretically possible wonder..." they made a promise to deliver existing technology and DIDN'T...Lay cables, install switching equipment, connect customers. And literally millions of $$ in tax incentives and PUC (public utility commision) allowed markups on consumers bills just went into Telcos pockets....poof!! The state let them out of it.
Great, a very few very dense cherry-picked communities have gotten (and quite recently) FIOS, but this has nothing to do with what happened before and isn't even close to delivering the state/commonwealth-wide service promised.
I never thought it would happen to me, a regular guy attending a small midwestern college...but the other night I was sitting at home playing UT and this MECO
What....where'd you come up with this. (about as remarkable as this ill-informed, snide comment being modded "interesting")
Macs have emphasized usability of the OS...and led that charge for ages...I've been a customer since 1984 thank you very much...and at the time, that form factor (which led to the SE) looked better than most PCs out there at the time... IMHO....But why did I buy it...looking at the alternatives of the time I wanted the GUI, WYSIWYG interface, consistent keyboard/mouse commands throughout apps and OS....and other TECHNICAL reasons.
Ferrari's and Porsche's look better than other cars (to alot of people)...which doesn't mean it was a choice of looks vs. design quality and performance....same here.
The pure speed performance has had it's ups and downs relative to wintel, but the design/usefullness has always been there too.
Just because they appeal in the ads, their packaging, their stores, and their computers to senses other than performance/productivity doesn't mean they ignore it.
We (as voters in election) told local government we didn't want new stadiums, so they found some backdoor loophole to build it with an increased regional sales tax.
Heavy on the high priced luxury boxes - for businesses and "fat cats", ligt on the "cheap seats" that the people whose taxes financed the construction would gravitate towards...
to replace a stadium that was structurally sound, and servig its purpose well...just not "optimizing profits" for the wealthy team owners and business interests involved.
Yay Pittsburgh!!!!
It is like pro sports, if you don't support / agree with them, don't go.
Let them choke on their overpriced seats to play ball or music.
I'm a fan of the "free hand" economy...but not supporting private businesses making millions this way. Let the artists and athletes (and the leagues) adjust with salary caps and the like to make the businesses profitable and competitive with private money.
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1) QuickTime is easily found on its own, iTunes is bundled w/ QuickTime as it relies on QuickTime libraries, etc.
;)
2) After running Software Update, if you don't want the available UPGRADE/INCLUSION of Safari then uncheck it and move on... so what.
Safari is clearly offered, not snuck in. It doesn't change preferences for default browser, or home page. Gee Whiz, it takes up a few MB of disk space...and may facilitate some ease-of-use with an iPhone or iTouch down the road...
so what?
After installing 3 copies of Windows on friends machines in the last 2 weeks I've seen numerous attempts via FireFox, the Adobe Reader, and others to install Google and Yahoo Toolbars and extras. They are offered in EXACTLY the same way as Safari is: a checkbox in an unrelated installer/updater. They have the exact same motivation - to reach people that otherwise wouldn't experience/see/try the tools. And, they are all easily removed.
This thread is filled with whiney hypocritical freetards
there are differenct styles of antennas, indoor and outdoor, some little ones even made for being in cities where you get alot of reflected signals of buildings.
there are great:
http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/info.aspx?page=FAQ
http://www.hdtvantennalabs.com/index.php
tried cheap and moderate antennas...live in Pittsburgh proper, not the suburbs...ended up that the best result for me was the absolute cheapest:
ran a coax cable over to the side of the room with windows. Got a $2 adapter to put a "T" style FM Radio antenna onto the coax. The digital tuner in the Panasonic VCR/DVD burner is freaking fantastic. pictures that were grainy and suffered ghosting are sharp as could be.
Good luck, but be ready to experiment with the antenna's...possibly even get more than one and use a switch if necessary?
forgive me replying too myself...but to add on, whether it's my coffee cup, my car, my clothing, the dress I want my girlfriend in and peel her out of, I want more.
That's not to say I don't buy functional tools. But if I have to stare at a computer as much as I do, I'd prefer it to be a cool tool.
Life's short, go ahead and enjoy it.
You are a TOOL.
Most things in life don't NEED to be many things that they are beyond their original function. Thank god they are. Or we'd all be wearing dungarees cut to the functional specification and issued from the central distribution post...
THANK YOU. How did it take so long for someone to interject that this is barely more than the cost of current iPod battery replacement, and the turnaround time is cut in half.
Booo HOoo. In a year or three I'll have to replace my battery.
And by that time, just like the iPod battery business which is strong, there will no doubt be alternatives.
Silly rabbit. Trix are for Slashdot posters.
The patient brochure you were given is designed to educate new "owners" of the dangers. No, they don't go into great detail as to why things are warned, they just warn there. The majority of our patients can't/won't/wouldn't be able to follow complex explanations of behaviors. They would also be less likely to get through ANY of the manuals and information if it looked like the technical manuals for one of these devices.
,efficient mechanisms to do that in place.
The explosion of Cell phone devices has caused manufacturers to pay greater attention to EMI...and about 3-4 years ago the first of the big 3 manufacturers started advertising/marketing their engineered resistance to cell phones.
If memory serves me correctly, the The energy field falls off at a proportion to the square of the distance. Patients used to be advised to carry their cell phones in the breast pocket of a jacket opposite their implantation site (about 90+ percent left shoulder in the US). They were further cautioned if they felt dizzy that the POTENTIAL effect of a phone would be obviated holding at arms length.
Implantable pacemakers/defibs don't sense the type of EKG that you would see as gathered from surface leads. They try to make sense of the hearts intrinsic rhythm/activity from sensing at the tips of the leads. Different leads, different sensor technologies, and different algorithms for analysis all can play a part. Furthermore, the connectors on the heads of the devices are standardized to accomodate interchanging leads from other companies--and like all "standards" this one has evolved in generations...and has meant good things for patients BTW.
The first pacers just had a minimum rate...ie. wouldn't let the heart rate drop below 60. Subsequent generations added "rate smoothing"...ie if your heart was beating at rate above 60, the pacer would allow for the subsequent beat to be no longer than a fixed or programmable percentage than the prior beat, to regularlize heart rate during activity or strain. The latest devices use either vibration sensors, or accelerometers, optionally combined with minute ventillation (breathing rate sensors measuring changes in impedance in a separate/non-pacing signal conducted from the tip of the lead back to a sensor on the generator) to vary rate according to exertion levels.
Most patients see their doctor one to three times in the month post operatively, then follow up with an annual (single-lead pacer), biannual (dual-lead pacer), or quarterly (AICD / defibrillator). This is a good time for patients or family members to ask questions. At a great percentage of these followup appointments, a representative of the company is often there. The programming interface, features, and diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms vary consideratbly from company to company, device to device, and there are devices going back up to twenty years!!! Old flask-sized devices in patients with minimal usage just ticking away.....
The Pacemaker companies (3 majors in the US) have done a good job in educating customers, providing 24 hour hotline technical support by phone and on pager response via sales and clinical reps... the level of accountability, the level of service, and as part and parcel the level of education of the sales/clinical team has few peers in ANY industry.
Further, the pacemaker companies direct clients are the physicians and hospitals. They buy the device, and install it, and should be the primary line of information and service of the device. The companies have done an amazing job in educating and including patients where the hospitals and doctors don't really have widely-available,
Beyond what is produced by the manufacturers, there are many widely available books on pacing and defibrillation, as well as electophysiologic "EP" testing that start with the fundamentals--you can follow along with if you have a decent basic science background. A few of the standard intro texts are:
K Ellenbogen: Cardiac Pacing
R Fogros: Electrophysiologic Testing
Best of luck to you and your son.
THIS NEEDS TO BE MODDED UP! The whole point / tone of the post is wrong. Idiots just jump to conclusions without the slightest freakin' due diligence--or even 30 s and a google search.
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was about to post the same, Apple doesn't yet officially support QuickTime under Vista.
Here is the list of all Apple software for Windows and their system requirements:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30
I realize you're trying to be clever, but the paid release updates are usually quite large, and most consumers in the years past haven't had efficient means to receive it.
The Network update running on UBUNTU on the G4 looks like it will take between 6 and 8 hours at the rate it's moving along...rates coming at 20-30 kbs.
If driving to the Apple Store, Circuit City or Best Buy is difficult, usually pre-ordering get's you the package either the day of scheduled/announced release, sometimes even a day before...seriously.
Perhaps Apple may choose to distribute paid updates that are downloadable...it would seem the infrastructure to do so is there now.
As far as having to install from the ground up, you should perhaps read up on this one...Upgrading has always been an option (perhaps barring the 9 to X.0), and even if you choose to archive the old system and install a fresh, or wipe a partition or start a new machine altogether the Migration Assistant brings the personal data and settings along as possible.
As far as updating all the other applications that are "registered" I think that that's terrific. It may be better, though I can't imagine what kind of approval/compatability testing is implied there (still learning about Linux, obviously). While most apps on the mac check to see if an update is available upon their launching, or at an interval/event chosen by the user...the end result being about the same, I can see where that might be advantageous.
And, as of my last noob experience w/ 6.1 and setting up things like the trackpad was a challenge--that a preference pane wasn't included in a PPC Ubuntu distribution that would be used on many Mac ppc machines is beyond me, and the "man" page for adjusting the trackpad and its buttons is really poor to look at through noob eyes.
Let's see, then, there's the mystery of Flash...getting excited to see a Linux version, downloading it and finding out it isn't PPC? I thought things were written once in some common languagee and then compiled to run on the platforms.
There were plenty of other little suprises and gotchas, stuff people that work w/ Linux regularly are blinded to and take for granted...even for those of us proficient in daily use/maintenance of Mac & Windows machines.
That said, I was really amazed at most of what I saw, and am excited to see the results of the Feisty upgrade.
Really? ALL the applications were updated, or was it just the ones that come w/ the distro?
If it is just updating what they distribute than that's catching up to what Apple has done since OS 9 for sure, perhaps earlier but I'd have to check...
As far as not restarting after an update, I can't say I think that it is a tremendous advantage (if it is true), but I think it's interesting and for some few people may be an advantage.
A couple weeks ago I made a second attempt at UBUNTU when I got a G4 500 Ti PBook to play around with.
I am upgrading ppc Ubuntu from 6.1 to 7 now...
several times got error messages re: packages in 6 that needed to be updated but said error, not available due to server overload OR they were taken down... odd. didn't know whether it would be OK to go ahead w/ the UPGRADE if the update wasn't complete, but said wtf...and went for it.
If I cared about the partition, installation I wouldn't be full of "warm and fuzzies" right now...but as the upgrade is proceeding hopefully it knows best.
My gut said I probably should've just torrented the PPC version and done a fresh install, but the "recommended" way seems to be to do it over the network, so here goes...
Looking forward to seeing the changes.
I guess you haven't used a mac for the last couple years then...
Good point, but you've missed the biggest culprit... System Bus Speed.
Alot of the problem was the 1.4 GHz mac you are referring to was a PPC G4.... crippled by a 133 or 167 Mhz system bus. Were the PPC chips allowded to go one gen further on the laptop side (desktop remedied at onset G5 w/ sys bus at 1/2 CPU clock) then this problem would've ceased to be.
Macs never really saw the full benefit of the G4 due to the system bus...sad. Motorola had them ready to go in a highly efficient laptop form, I think w/ 667 Mhz busses, and doubled cache...but Apple made the jump to Intel. I was dissapointed, but Moto had failed so many times to keep up with Intel, or even their own predictions, that in a way it was a relief.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/546975 "The study appears in Obstetrics & Gynecology. The researchers included Keith Eddleman, MD, of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The women were offered amniocentesis, in which doctors insert a thin needle through the belly to get a small sample of amniotic fluid, which surrounds the baby in the womb.
The test is used to check the baby's risk for genetic conditions such as Down syndrome.
Most of the women -- nearly 32,000 -- declined amniocentesis. About 3,000 got amniocentesis.
About 1% of the women in both groups miscarried before 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The amniocentesis-related miscarriage rate by 24 weeks of pregnancy was 0.06%, or about one in 1,600 pregnancies studied.
That's lower than the rate of 0.5%, or about one in 200 pregnancies, from studies done in the 1970s, before current amniocentesis techniques were in place, the researchers note.
Eddleman commented on the study in a Mount Sinai School of Medicine news release."
RISK OF AMNIOCENTESIS:
Historically attributed to be ~ 0.5% (I remember 1% from classes).
Recently downgraded in studies published in JAMA, and Obstetrics & Gynecology.
It is routinely done, particularly in older women and other higher risk pregnancies.
The Journals mentioned above are not linkable here, but many news organizations reported on their finding.
-------
A lot of people here need to do some reading in Biology. Basic definitions of life/living, cellular reproduction, the differences between a zygote and a stem cell have been so badly butchered there isn't enough time to respond...
AMEN to that.
When I see them implement a system where I can get a license for the music that moves forward so that I can show up with tape, vinyl, CD , DVD and VHS copies of music and video I already own and pay a minimal fee to move my "rights" to new media/technology formats...perhaps then their concept of licensing would mean more to me...
But instead Congress will extend their artists rights to infinity from the already bloated length of time, and lobbyists will continue...and...nobody takes care of the customer's long term needs...makes one resent buying new media when you see the cycle of obsolesence increasing from a decade to a few years...
where is FAIR USE...?
I guess the monkey phonics thing never reallly caught on there...oh when will the descrimination end?
It is Fraud.
t m
And it was greasing state legislators that got them out of their promises with quite a bit of $$ in their pockets...at least in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
This wasn't like some great unkown like "geee I hope we can someday do this theoretically possible wonder..." they made a promise to deliver existing technology and DIDN'T...Lay cables, install switching equipment, connect customers. And literally millions of $$ in tax incentives and PUC (public utility commision) allowed markups on consumers bills just went into Telcos pockets....poof!! The state let them out of it.
http://www.newnetworks.com/PennUpdatedComplaint.h
Great, a very few very dense cherry-picked communities have gotten (and quite recently) FIOS, but this has nothing to do with what happened before and isn't even close to delivering the state/commonwealth-wide service promised.
strange, went back and tried it again...Safari, saw the ad and no content...
firefox on OS X, saw no ad, just the content...
bizarre
Similar to YAHOO.
Yahoo CAN STREAM ADVERTISING, BUT CHOKES ON THE CONTENT if you viewing with a mac...
Amazing that the Macromedia Flash/shockwave, the WMV extensions for QT, QuickTime and RealPlayer are all working smoothly with other sites...
How freaking hard can this really be to enable? What is their challenge - technical or political to overcome?
**Federal stay of injunction granted...over rides Texas decision and in appeal as of today, 8-18:
& p=irol-newsArticle&ID=897186&highlight=
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=68854
***should update story / headline?
I never thought it would happen to me, a regular guy attending a small midwestern college...but the other night I was sitting at home playing UT and this MECO
smaller companies can buy larger companies, just like people with incomes of $40k/yr. buy a house....credit/leverage.
I'm guessing you're wrong--Intel ONLY anything is a long, long way away. The installed base dictates that software sales will not be Intel only.
What....where'd you come up with this. (about as remarkable as this ill-informed, snide comment being modded "interesting")
... IMHO....But why did I buy it...looking at the alternatives of the time I wanted the GUI, WYSIWYG interface, consistent keyboard/mouse commands throughout apps and OS....and other TECHNICAL reasons.
Macs have emphasized usability of the OS...and led that charge for ages...I've been a customer since 1984 thank you very much...and at the time, that form factor (which led to the SE) looked better than most PCs out there at the time
Ferrari's and Porsche's look better than other cars (to alot of people)...which doesn't mean it was a choice of looks vs. design quality and performance....same here.
The pure speed performance has had it's ups and downs relative to wintel, but the design/usefullness has always been there too.
Just because they appeal in the ads, their packaging, their stores, and their computers to senses other than performance/productivity doesn't mean they ignore it.
Apparently the "shooting someone in the back" thing is a real problem, and the law doesn't prevent it here:
http://www.gunguys.com/?p=526
RIGHT ON!
We (as voters in election) told local government we didn't want new stadiums, so they found some backdoor loophole to build it with an increased regional sales tax.
Heavy on the high priced luxury boxes - for businesses and "fat cats", ligt on the "cheap seats" that the people whose taxes financed the construction would gravitate towards...
to replace a stadium that was structurally sound, and servig its purpose well...just not "optimizing profits" for the wealthy team owners and business interests involved.
Yay Pittsburgh!!!!
It is like pro sports, if you don't support / agree with them, don't go.
Let them choke on their overpriced seats to play ball or music.
I'm a fan of the "free hand" economy...but not supporting private businesses making millions this way. Let the artists and athletes (and the leagues) adjust with salary caps and the like to make the businesses profitable and competitive with private money.