Only if living in American climate, American culture, American political/legal system, near to your family and friends has no value to you
You have to consider that American culture can still be found in lesser amounts all over the world. You should also consider that it would perhaps be healthy to experience a new culture once in a while (for a couple years, at the least). Besides, you wouldn't lose entire contact with the people you know. Unlike decades ago, there are many means of high-speed communication across the globe so that you wouldn't be isolated.
I'm not saying that you'd have to abandon the American climate indefinitely. Perhaps just a few years with something new wouldn't be so bad.
Ohhh, Imac's are sooo cool. Look at the pretty colours.
I don't understand why so many people prefer to live in a world without color. Do they feel discomfort around the colorful design that stands out so prominently? Perhaps people feel more comfortable blending with the crowd of the more mundate designs and colors of the PC world?
Besides, people should judge a Mac beyond the look of the computer.
Speak for yourself. Are you going to haul your desktop to cafes and coffee shops and airports to take advantage of the skyrocketing number of WiFi hotspots?
Or what about bringing a computer to someone's house for troubleshooting problems? Or for one-on-one gaming with a crossover cable?
Laptops aren't for gaming? Says who? Notebooks are rapidly catching up with desktops, and in the future, we could possibly have gaming notebooks that are both powerful and light. I'm not sure what you mean when you say that laptop keyboards aren't suitable for gaming. I don't know about your experiences on a laptop, but for me, it seems pretty similar to a keyboard on the desktop (aside from the lack of a number pad). A real USB mouse? As opposed to? Both notebook and desktop users use mice. I don't see what the argument here is.
Or if the person has a laptop, he could simply work in the hallway, but preferrably in the common room. I also find it annoying when people shower really late and have really loud conversations in the bathroom and in the hallway. One person's need to get an assignment done on the computer is JUST AS IMPORTANT as another person's need to get enough sleep for the next day. If it's a desktop with Windows XP, see if you can use remote desktop on someone else's computer.
Hmm, I suppose it's possible that it's a style issue. Still, I find it disturbing that it might be acceptable to write "in tenth grade" instead of "in the tenth grade". For example, if the adjective "tenth" was not there, the phrase would be "when I was in grade" as opposed to "when I was in the grade". Once the adjective is gone, the awkwardness of a missing "the" is more obvious.
The only way to learn your language is to study another. This is especially true for English which is weird because it is a mix of many different tongues.
I'm sure that's not the only way to learn your language. I know plenty of people have had a good grasp of the English language long before they learned any foreign language.
Also, I think that you mean to say that, if you're learning English, learning a Latin-based foreign language would help. Learning Arabic or Japanese or Mandarin probably wouldn't help as much.
As for "real English grammar", English is a manmade entity. Its main purpose is communication, and the language gradually morphs through the years. Who knows what "real grammar" will be like 300 years from now.
I'm sure that learning a Latin-based foreign language might help, but there are plenty of people like me (and many of my colleagues) who have a grasp of English grammar from the teaching of English and years of writing and reading alone.
This is an important story because AIM is a leading IM client (along with ICQ). Now webcam capability has been brought to many more people.
AIM still lacks IM message logging and offline messages though.
But I do enjoy Apple ads...and Got Milk and M&M commercials.
Still, most ads are bland.
I'm looking for the name (or product) of the commercial where a boy sitting at a school lunch table sees the girl he likes walking in slow motion towards him. She reaches for the chair beside him and asks, "Is this seat taken?" "No," he says, and she pulls the chair to another table.
I think that it's more useful if they tell us how many people have bought songs off of iTMS instead of how many songs have been bought. It could just be 1 million people with an average of 25 songs each...or 2.5 million people with an average of 10 songs each.
I know several people who are planning to switch from Windows to Mac in the near future and one of those people are doing so specifically because of the quality of the iPod.
Amen. The iPod and iTunes have caused me to want to switch to a Mac. I've never paid so much attention to Apple before this year.
I bought a computer back in 2000 whose DVD-ROM allowed five region changes until it locked on the last used DVD region.
Although those of us who travel internationally aren't the majority of all consumers, the industry has no excuse to make watching DVD's from different regions so painful. Plus, when my foreign friends bring DVD's from their homes to watch together, we have problems.
Nobody!, and I mean nobody spends money like the Japanese
I never said that "nobody spends". I merely said that Japan as a whole has a much lower marginal propensity to consume and much higher marginal propensity to save than the United States. You've misread.
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Actually, "freedom of speech" is a vague term. Freedom of speech actually doesn't exist. Check out "There's No Such Thing As Free Speech" by Stanley Fish, a professor at Duke University.
...because there marginal propensity to save is greater than their marginal propensity to consume. Thus, if they spend less, the GDP benefits less. Thus, the economy sees less growth.
Yeah, one of my professors loved his PowerPoint presentations too much. He'd put entire excerpts from our physics textbook onto the slide, so we as students ended up having to read the massive clusters of words on the slides as he spoke. Then he reduced complex equations with fractions into single line expressions on the PowerPoint slides. Argh! I really hate PowerPoint because most people don't use them professionally.
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Only if living in American climate, American culture, American political/legal system, near to your family and friends has no value to you
You have to consider that American culture can still be found in lesser amounts all over the world. You should also consider that it would perhaps be healthy to experience a new culture once in a while (for a couple years, at the least). Besides, you wouldn't lose entire contact with the people you know. Unlike decades ago, there are many means of high-speed communication across the globe so that you wouldn't be isolated.
I'm not saying that you'd have to abandon the American climate indefinitely. Perhaps just a few years with something new wouldn't be so bad.
Ohhh, Imac's are sooo cool. Look at the pretty colours.
I don't understand why so many people prefer to live in a world without color. Do they feel discomfort around the colorful design that stands out so prominently? Perhaps people feel more comfortable blending with the crowd of the more mundate designs and colors of the PC world?
Besides, people should judge a Mac beyond the look of the computer.
Speak for yourself. Are you going to haul your desktop to cafes and coffee shops and airports to take advantage of the skyrocketing number of WiFi hotspots?
Or what about bringing a computer to someone's house for troubleshooting problems? Or for one-on-one gaming with a crossover cable?
Laptops aren't for gaming? Says who? Notebooks are rapidly catching up with desktops, and in the future, we could possibly have gaming notebooks that are both powerful and light. I'm not sure what you mean when you say that laptop keyboards aren't suitable for gaming. I don't know about your experiences on a laptop, but for me, it seems pretty similar to a keyboard on the desktop (aside from the lack of a number pad). A real USB mouse? As opposed to? Both notebook and desktop users use mice. I don't see what the argument here is.
Or if the person has a laptop, he could simply work in the hallway, but preferrably in the common room. I also find it annoying when people shower really late and have really loud conversations in the bathroom and in the hallway. One person's need to get an assignment done on the computer is JUST AS IMPORTANT as another person's need to get enough sleep for the next day. If it's a desktop with Windows XP, see if you can use remote desktop on someone else's computer.
I know...how about pyrobird? Same meaning, different prefix.
Hmm, I suppose it's possible that it's a style issue. Still, I find it disturbing that it might be acceptable to write "in tenth grade" instead of "in the tenth grade". For example, if the adjective "tenth" was not there, the phrase would be "when I was in grade" as opposed to "when I was in the grade". Once the adjective is gone, the awkwardness of a missing "the" is more obvious.
I'm fairly sure of that.
I'm sure that's not the only way to learn your language. I know plenty of people have had a good grasp of the English language long before they learned any foreign language.
Also, I think that you mean to say that, if you're learning English, learning a Latin-based foreign language would help. Learning Arabic or Japanese or Mandarin probably wouldn't help as much.
As for "real English grammar", English is a manmade entity. Its main purpose is communication, and the language gradually morphs through the years. Who knows what "real grammar" will be like 300 years from now.
I'm sure that learning a Latin-based foreign language might help, but there are plenty of people like me (and many of my colleagues) who have a grasp of English grammar from the teaching of English and years of writing and reading alone.
This is an important story because AIM is a leading IM client (along with ICQ). Now webcam capability has been brought to many more people. AIM still lacks IM message logging and offline messages though.
Actually, forget DeadAIM. I'm just wondering if AIM 5.5 will have message logging.
I'm having problems with DeadAIM and AIM 5.5. I believe I have DeadAIM 4.0 or 4.1. Is anyone else seeing these problems?
I think Lucida Grande is a lovely font. I suppose the font could be embedded in all documents?
Still, most ads are bland.
I'm looking for the name (or product) of the commercial where a boy sitting at a school lunch table sees the girl he likes walking in slow motion towards him. She reaches for the chair beside him and asks, "Is this seat taken?" "No," he says, and she pulls the chair to another table.
A notebook with Centrino will save you lots of power.
Doesn't Pixar have a contract to make movies for Disney? I think that contract is almost over. Then Pixar will probably leave Disney.
I think that it's more useful if they tell us how many people have bought songs off of iTMS instead of how many songs have been bought. It could just be 1 million people with an average of 25 songs each...or 2.5 million people with an average of 10 songs each.
Amen. The iPod and iTunes have caused me to want to switch to a Mac. I've never paid so much attention to Apple before this year.
Although those of us who travel internationally aren't the majority of all consumers, the industry has no excuse to make watching DVD's from different regions so painful. Plus, when my foreign friends bring DVD's from their homes to watch together, we have problems.
I just think that DVD regions are a bad idea.
Oops, I believe that I've misread. I apologize.
Nobody!, and I mean nobody spends money like the Japanese I never said that "nobody spends". I merely said that Japan as a whole has a much lower marginal propensity to consume and much higher marginal propensity to save than the United States. You've misread.
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...because there marginal propensity to save is greater than their marginal propensity to consume. Thus, if they spend less, the GDP benefits less. Thus, the economy sees less growth.
Yeah, one of my professors loved his PowerPoint presentations too much. He'd put entire excerpts from our physics textbook onto the slide, so we as students ended up having to read the massive clusters of words on the slides as he spoke. Then he reduced complex equations with fractions into single line expressions on the PowerPoint slides. Argh! I really hate PowerPoint because most people don't use them professionally.