family packages are about $100 per game for 4 tix. Not including extra food (growing boys), parking, beers. So at least $150 per game.
that's 2 weeks of cable. and like 7 games. We like to watch them the morning after, over breakfast. Since we can skip over timeouts, commercials & intermissions, it only takes an hour.
As BitZstream said: you don't really need sign language for basic communications. Everyone can signal things like hunger, thirst, help, directions, all sorts of other common things without knowing sign at all.
I don't have to be fluent in proper spanish in order to communicate with the Mexican next door who doesn't speak english, we can use all sorts of alternatives to get the point across.
It's DDR3L SDRAM - that L stands for low-power. If you can even find a high-speed DDR3L sodimm, you will pay more for it than for the Apple memory. What do you get with that L? Maybe about an hour more battery life with 16GB installed. Is 17% longer battery life worth the $100 premium? Probably to most people spending $3K or more on a laptop already.
Same argument for laptops. Anything bought today will have a long useful life. Thunderbolt will provide an array of various input & output expansion ports.
Yes, there will be new machines next month/year. But that doesn't make the current ones useless. Any more than the 60" 120Hz plasma displays made my old SD tv in the basement obsolete. The kids still play Wii on it just fine.
Also, models that start at $549 probably won't include office or much of anything.
All indications are that Office will be included as part of the Windows RT. It's the one reason that makes price bump make sense; if they included Office for free, the'd be facing Antitrust complaints.
Apple's pricing may change. WinRT OEMs pricing may change.
Apple's pricing has already changed - iPads now start at $399. If MSFT sells Office for iPad at $99 like the desktop version, that's the best deal.
In the meantime, you can still get work done today on that iPad.
Yeah, that's the same thing as what's being discussed here.
PS. your sig is wrong. Unless you're talking about high school sports. ECHL Hockey season tickets in my town are about $600 per seat. So a family of 4 is $2400. Just for hockey, not AND football.
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Wait until FunnyJunk gets his lawyer fees. Bet they won't be around long after that.
I thought it was peni?
Unlike some Yahoo...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/256182/yahoo_leaks_private_key_allows_anyone_to_build_yahoosigned_chrome_extensions.html
Attack Microsoft!
Disagree. It wasn't wholesale until 9/11 was used as a war cry.
Pretty sure that was 'students'. Not the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
When? 9/11/2001
For better or worse. Mostly worse.
What the hell was this then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army
Pretty sure you're confused on Google's customers.
Users are not Google's customers.
Advertisers are.
Not paying customers...
Wife is pissed because she doesn't get to go.
family packages are about $100 per game for 4 tix. Not including extra food (growing boys), parking, beers. So at least $150 per game.
that's 2 weeks of cable. and like 7 games. We like to watch them the morning after, over breakfast. Since we can skip over timeouts, commercials & intermissions, it only takes an hour.
They're all vying for the same consumer dollars, regardless of how their income is derived.
BS.
As BitZstream said:
you don't really need sign language for basic communications. Everyone can signal things like hunger, thirst, help, directions, all sorts of other common things without knowing sign at all.
I don't have to be fluent in proper spanish in order to communicate with the Mexican next door who doesn't speak english, we can use all sorts of alternatives to get the point across.
With DVR, why do I need to be home?
For the price of a couple of games, I can see all 82 regular season hockey games of my favorite team.
If I have to take my 2 sons to those games, I can only afford about 2 games. And the wife will be pissed.
As someone above said:
It's DDR3L SDRAM - that L stands for low-power. If you can even find a high-speed DDR3L sodimm, you will pay more for it than for the Apple memory. What do you get with that L? Maybe about an hour more battery life with 16GB installed. Is 17% longer battery life worth the $100 premium? Probably to most people spending $3K or more on a laptop already.
Same argument for laptops. Anything bought today will have a long useful life. Thunderbolt will provide an array of various input & output expansion ports.
Yes, there will be new machines next month/year. But that doesn't make the current ones useless. Any more than the 60" 120Hz plasma displays made my old SD tv in the basement obsolete. The kids still play Wii on it just fine.
So how many of them did you buy (new) before tearing apart?
Also, models that start at $549 probably won't include office or much of anything.
All indications are that Office will be included as part of the Windows RT. It's the one reason that makes price bump make sense; if they included Office for free, the'd be facing Antitrust complaints.
Apple's pricing may change. WinRT OEMs pricing may change.
Apple's pricing has already changed - iPads now start at $399. If MSFT sells Office for iPad at $99 like the desktop version, that's the best deal.
In the meantime, you can still get work done today on that iPad.
Ah, I had it backwards. Thought you were saying to cut cable, tickets are cheaper. Which is way wrong, moreso if you have a family.
Also, we're talking licensing costs not anything else, but rant on.
Yeah, that's the same thing as what's being discussed here.
PS. your sig is wrong. Unless you're talking about high school sports.
ECHL Hockey season tickets in my town are about $600 per seat. So a family of 4 is $2400. Just for hockey, not AND football.
You can use iWork/GoogleDocs today on an iPad.
You can't do actual work on any WinRT machine yet, or for a while.
Also, models that start at $549 probably won't include office or much of anything.
Still better than you.
Very true.
My kids had at least 50 signs before they were able to physically talk. When they did start talking, they started in full sentences.
We used something like this.
http://www.babysignlanguage.com/
Well, and aside from full POSIX compliance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Fully_POSIX-compliant