I also refuse to believe we'll never be able to freeze and re-animate a living person hundreds of years later, though that will take a good long while to get right.
I tend to boycott Apple MP3 players mainly because of their proprietary formats and hardware lock-in.
Apple does NOT use "proprietary formats" for its iPod, that's just FUD spread around by people who never even tried one.
The iPods are compatible with MP3, AAC, DRM'ed AAC, Apple Lossless (yes that one is proprietary but since it's lossless nothing would prevent you from converting back to something else later on, such as FLAC), MPEG-4, H.264. I may even have forgotten a few formats (such as Audible, but if that one is proprietary I don't think it's from Apple).
I'd like a device I can just drop files on and play, without installing some bloated management software.
Good luck with that, with today's portable media players being 1~160GB+ capacity it would be practically insane to manage files by hand. Let go of this useless obsession and learn to use metadata on your files. You'll probably even like smart playlists once you start using them.
As for your friend, he probably won't be able to buy a car in a decade or so (...just kidding).
Copyright was only introduced to allow authors to profit from their work for a LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME, after that their work has to go IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
I don't remember for how long the works are supposed to be protected, but 20 years seems like a good compromise to me.
Lobbying used to be illegal and was called something else. Oh right, CORRUPTION.
Let's make lobbying illegal. That's one of the major problem that's screwing up what should be a self-regulating capitalist system.
We pay duty fees when it crosses the border and we receive the item. However those are NOT the state tax, there is no tax to pay when you order the item online.
The "order online and get charged a state tax" is the topic here, and my comment above was about that.
Bond: So, no white fuzzy cats, no sharks with frikkin' lasers? And it doesn't appear to be built into a volcano either! Goldfinger: It's the recession, Mr. Bond!
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I have no idea why, but this is how it sounded when I read it:
(Futurama)
Pr. Farnsworth: How good is this computer?
Fry: Good Enough.
Pr. Farnsworth: That's not good enough!
Your desktop is a classic GameBoy?
It's "websites/web sites", not "web-sights".
That's a great idea!
Brawndo! It's what cars crave!
So YOU'RE the guy who wrote those scanner drivers for Windows 98!
Some tracks from World of Goo can do wonders in loop mode.
Futurama did it!
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
Earth already survived a Big Hit. What makes you so sure we can't handle another one?
... followed by a big "else" and a big "end if".
0.25 second lag, I can tolerate it especially for RPGs and RTS, etc.
But at 8 seconds, forget it. I'm not playing online with your Sunian friends.
Apple does NOT use "proprietary formats" for its iPod, that's just FUD spread around by people who never even tried one.
The iPods are compatible with MP3, AAC, DRM'ed AAC, Apple Lossless (yes that one is proprietary but since it's lossless nothing would prevent you from converting back to something else later on, such as FLAC), MPEG-4, H.264. I may even have forgotten a few formats (such as Audible, but if that one is proprietary I don't think it's from Apple).
Good luck with that, with today's portable media players being 1~160GB+ capacity it would be practically insane to manage files by hand. Let go of this useless obsession and learn to use metadata on your files. You'll probably even like smart playlists once you start using them.
As for your friend, he probably won't be able to buy a car in a decade or so (...just kidding).
Sure, hire the guy who was in a movie called "Dude, where's my car?"
Why six months? I bet most new cars start to show problems after six months of use.
Let's hope one of the testers will put his car through intensive use, enough for one or even two years worth.
Let's merge them all together. I suggest "TwitFaceSpace".
Copyright was only introduced to allow authors to profit from their work for a LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME, after that their work has to go IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
I don't remember for how long the works are supposed to be protected, but 20 years seems like a good compromise to me.
Lobbying used to be illegal and was called something else. Oh right, CORRUPTION.
Let's make lobbying illegal. That's one of the major problem that's screwing up what should be a self-regulating capitalist system.
Well I put "Not Quite SFW" instead of just "NSFW" because she's not topless and the montage itself is funny (it's not just a girl in a bikini).
What good is the joke if you don't give a link to the picture (NQSFW).
More like Annoying-le.
We pay duty fees when it crosses the border and we receive the item. However those are NOT the state tax, there is no tax to pay when you order the item online.
The "order online and get charged a state tax" is the topic here, and my comment above was about that.
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
If someone from Canada buys something, does he pay the state taxes? That would be stupid.
And if a company in Canada sells something to someone in the USA, does he have to collect the state taxes? Good luck with that.
The only sane way to do this is charge taxes based on the shipping address, from sales within the USA only.
Oh yeah, that's a great idea.
Bond: So, no white fuzzy cats, no sharks with frikkin' lasers? And it doesn't appear to be built into a volcano either!
Goldfinger: It's the recession, Mr. Bond!
Oh, so your mom lives upstairs?
(also a joke, mods...)
They only talk about the hardware, not the software. Most people I know buy a Mac because of Mac OS X and iLife, not because the machines "look good".