I mostly use Yahoo accounts, and I get around 8-10 in my main account, the one that I've posted all over the Internet before spam was an issue. I used to get over 100 spams a day on that one, much more than my legit email. I've wondered whether this means there's less spam now, or if Yahoo is just better at filtering. The 100+ a day spams included the ones put in my spam folder, but maybe they're completely blocking some of them now.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is a prize given by the Bank of Sweden, not by the Nobel Foundation. It is not one of the prizes established by Alfred Nobel. It's named after him and inspired by Nobel Prizes, but it's not a Nobel Prize.
What about all the videos of real people (usually adults) getting beaten or murdered that you can find all over the Internet on sites like Liveleak and Nothingtoxic? If I watch a video of someone getting his head chopped off, that's a real crime with a real victim. Am I then responsible for the murder, or considered a probable murderer myself because I watched it?
I think that if the price comes down over time on this sort of ultra-thin laptop design, it could be good for students. If you have a backpack full of heavy books, you would want something with about the same area, but as thin and light as possible.
Well, Mac laptops probably outsell the desktops because they don't make a bloody desktop. If they made a desktop computer rather than novelty form-factors, then they would probably sell more desktops.
The mini-tower market is low margin and highly competetive, with big box-shifters putting together (often perfectly good) bargain bucket systems from whatever commodity products they have a surplus of that month. I think it would be hard for Apple to compete profitably in that market - but what they could very easily do is compete with themselves and sell low-margin Mac desktops to established Apple customers who might otherwise have bought high-margin MacBooks or iMacs. If they made a desktop Mac it wouldn't be directly competing with Windows PCs in price and specs, because what the Mac would have, what people would want it for is Mac OS.
Just because Windows desktops are low-margin, doesn't mean a Mac desktop has to be. They could keep the same margins, build a regular desktop and it would still either be more capable than the Mini, or cheaper, because desktops are simply more cost-effective. I'm sure Apple's design geniuses could make an elegant desktop case, it just wouldn't be as small.
You're asserting that people buy Apple because of the "sexy" hardware and I just don't buy it. I buy Macs purely for the operating system, and I think many other people do as well. Probably some people want to but they can't because of the overpriced hardware. Nobody likes to deal with security problems and that alone would be a big selling point.
What market segment up until now were saying to themselves "If only this laptop was exactly the same size but *thinner*" Students. You have to carry a bunch of heavy books and notebooks in a backpack, so it would be great if a laptop had roughly the same area as a textbook or binder (I don't know if this one does) but was as thin and light as possible. Of course, right now it's surely too expensive for most students.
Things like this are why I use an analog 3-watt bag phone. It doesn't do strange, unpredictable things to my brain. It just cooks me alive, and that's the way I like it.
That's just what I was thinking. Maybe if the military starts buying Macs, they might want a standard desktop form factor, with its cost savings over the novelty cases of the Mini and Imac, and they might get it if they're willing to buy in large volumes. Maybe Apple would make a regular desktop just for the military, but then make it available to the public, as they did before with the Emac which was designed for educational markets.
I think most of the MGS music is techno/action stuff that isn't anything special, I really liked the ending credits music from Metal Gear Solid, a Gaelic folk song called "The Best is Yet to Come." I used to play the ending repeatedly just to hear it.
Something could happen to prevent the farmers in other coutries from getting new seeds from Monsanto. A war, embargo, natural disaster or other event could cut them off from America or the Western world, leaving them unable to grow more food and dooming millions of people to starvation. It would be insane to let this become a widespread method of farming. If something happens in one part of the world you want the rest to be able to carry on.
http://cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ accepts donations of old cellphones. They say they recycle them and then they use the proceeds to buy calling cards for soldiers overseas. It's not clear to me though whether the phone has to work or not, if they're going to "recycle" it. I got a prepaid mailer for them in the box with an order from Amazon.
Also, I've heard of organizations that take cellphones and give them to abused women or other people, to have just to be able to call 911 in an emergency.
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I mostly use Yahoo accounts, and I get around 8-10 in my main account, the one that I've posted all over the Internet before spam was an issue. I used to get over 100 spams a day on that one, much more than my legit email. I've wondered whether this means there's less spam now, or if Yahoo is just better at filtering. The 100+ a day spams included the ones put in my spam folder, but maybe they're completely blocking some of them now.
I think that pagers have been obsolete for more than 10 years now.
No, they aren't. Technology is cyclical.
The full quote is actually "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
He pronounced "decade" in an unusual way. I could never understand what he was saying as a kid, but I eventually Googled it and found out.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is a prize given by the Bank of Sweden, not by the Nobel Foundation. It is not one of the prizes established by Alfred Nobel. It's named after him and inspired by Nobel Prizes, but it's not a Nobel Prize.
Fo realz yo.
Wow, an inductive charger powerful enough to charge a car. Wouldn't that fry my nuts if I sat in the car too long after pulling into the garage?
How would it tell my Civic from the millions of other Civics?
They find the terrorist training videos by using a sophisticated algorithm that can recognize any image of monkey bars.
quite true.
What about all the videos of real people (usually adults) getting beaten or murdered that you can find all over the Internet on sites like Liveleak and Nothingtoxic? If I watch a video of someone getting his head chopped off, that's a real crime with a real victim. Am I then responsible for the murder, or considered a probable murderer myself because I watched it?
That's not flamebait, that's correct.
I think that if the price comes down over time on this sort of ultra-thin laptop design, it could be good for students. If you have a backpack full of heavy books, you would want something with about the same area, but as thin and light as possible.
Well, Mac laptops probably outsell the desktops because they don't make a bloody desktop. If they made a desktop computer rather than novelty form-factors, then they would probably sell more desktops.
Just because Windows desktops are low-margin, doesn't mean a Mac desktop has to be. They could keep the same margins, build a regular desktop and it would still either be more capable than the Mini, or cheaper, because desktops are simply more cost-effective. I'm sure Apple's design geniuses could make an elegant desktop case, it just wouldn't be as small.
You're asserting that people buy Apple because of the "sexy" hardware and I just don't buy it. I buy Macs purely for the operating system, and I think many other people do as well. Probably some people want to but they can't because of the overpriced hardware. Nobody likes to deal with security problems and that alone would be a big selling point.
Things like this are why I use an analog 3-watt bag phone. It doesn't do strange, unpredictable things to my brain. It just cooks me alive, and that's the way I like it.
When Itunes rips a CD, it will automatically get the track names from an online database, and now even the album artwork.
Data wouldn't lie. It's probably his evil twin Lore.
I believe in IP: Intelligent Pipes.
That's just what I was thinking. Maybe if the military starts buying Macs, they might want a standard desktop form factor, with its cost savings over the novelty cases of the Mini and Imac, and they might get it if they're willing to buy in large volumes. Maybe Apple would make a regular desktop just for the military, but then make it available to the public, as they did before with the Emac which was designed for educational markets.
The normal source of seed would be from the previous year's harvest. They wouldn't have to ship seed in.
I think most of the MGS music is techno/action stuff that isn't anything special, I really liked the ending credits music from Metal Gear Solid, a Gaelic folk song called "The Best is Yet to Come." I used to play the ending repeatedly just to hear it.
Something could happen to prevent the farmers in other coutries from getting new seeds from Monsanto. A war, embargo, natural disaster or other event could cut them off from America or the Western world, leaving them unable to grow more food and dooming millions of people to starvation. It would be insane to let this become a widespread method of farming. If something happens in one part of the world you want the rest to be able to carry on.
http://cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ accepts donations of old cellphones. They say they recycle them and then they use the proceeds to buy calling cards for soldiers overseas. It's not clear to me though whether the phone has to work or not, if they're going to "recycle" it. I got a prepaid mailer for them in the box with an order from Amazon.
Also, I've heard of organizations that take cellphones and give them to abused women or other people, to have just to be able to call 911 in an emergency.