US control is sufficient reason. It's not unreasonable to consider the *possibility* that a country that ignores world opinion and breaks international law to invade a sovereign nation and uses false evidence to make its case before the UN might one day decide to disrupt another nation's internet traffic if for some reason it felt it had an interest in doing so. And while ICANN has no power to permanently enforce anything on anyone, the current conventions would allow it to cause a serious disruption.
No country wants another country to have any measure of unilateral control over a key part of its infrastructure. Would Americans accept that CERN controls the web? I think not.
I had the exact same thing with my A70 and used the exact same solution for about a year. With enough slapping I could always fix the problem so it didn't bother me that much. A month or two ago someone accidentally hit the camera out of my hands and on the floor, and since then I've never had this prob again:)
if Apple thinks the Mac platform is going to die, and the iPod is their future, then why wouldn't they switch *only* the iPod to Intel chips? That would get them their volume discount - those few fading Macs wouldn't make the difference - and it would save them a lot of hassle. So this article doesn't make much sense.
How on earth do you think a tiny country like the Netherlands could ever impose such a heavy tax on a small consumer product? All Dutch consumers would have to do is to cross the nearest border with Belgium or Germany and buy the product there. Keep in mind there is no border control between these countries.
This will never become law, it is just a stupid proposal that was made by someone who can't multiply and that will not pass, so get off your horses already and don't jump to conclusions about corrupt politicians etc.
I would say that Windows was already better since Win 3.x in the early 90s. The biggest difference: on a typical Windows machine you got a full size colourful screen, while a typical Mac still had that tiny black and white screen.
I think that little screen is the one thing that hurt the Mac the most; even when bigger screens were available for it the image of the Mac was still that of a cute PC with a too small screen you wouldn't want to do any real work on.
I think the Extreme part of the name comes from the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition which sponsored the tournament. "Cyberathlete" should be enough to get you laughing though.
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US control is sufficient reason. It's not unreasonable to consider the *possibility* that a country that ignores world opinion and breaks international law to invade a sovereign nation and uses false evidence to make its case before the UN might one day decide to disrupt another nation's internet traffic if for some reason it felt it had an interest in doing so. And while ICANN has no power to permanently enforce anything on anyone, the current conventions would allow it to cause a serious disruption. No country wants another country to have any measure of unilateral control over a key part of its infrastructure. Would Americans accept that CERN controls the web? I think not.
I had the exact same thing with my A70 and used the exact same solution for about a year. With enough slapping I could always fix the problem so it didn't bother me that much. A month or two ago someone accidentally hit the camera out of my hands and on the floor, and since then I've never had this prob again :)
if Apple thinks the Mac platform is going to die, and the iPod is their future, then why wouldn't they switch *only* the iPod to Intel chips? That would get them their volume discount - those few fading Macs wouldn't make the difference - and it would save them a lot of hassle. So this article doesn't make much sense.
How on earth do you think a tiny country like the Netherlands could ever impose such a heavy tax on a small consumer product? All Dutch consumers would have to do is to cross the nearest border with Belgium or Germany and buy the product there. Keep in mind there is no border control between these countries. This will never become law, it is just a stupid proposal that was made by someone who can't multiply and that will not pass, so get off your horses already and don't jump to conclusions about corrupt politicians etc.
I would say that Windows was already better since Win 3.x in the early 90s. The biggest difference: on a typical Windows machine you got a full size colourful screen, while a typical Mac still had that tiny black and white screen. I think that little screen is the one thing that hurt the Mac the most; even when bigger screens were available for it the image of the Mac was still that of a cute PC with a too small screen you wouldn't want to do any real work on.
I think the Extreme part of the name comes from the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition which sponsored the tournament. "Cyberathlete" should be enough to get you laughing though.