According to reports, when the first sketchy information about a plane hitting the World Trade Center came in, Bush's first reaction was, "That's one lousy pilot." Which, I have to admit was my first reaction upon hearing the news on my clock radio that morning. In fact, I spent twenty minutes getting up and ready before I switched to headline news to see "if they might show the moron". By that time, the second plane had already hit. According to the Conspiracy Theorists out there, I must have been part of the conspiracy because I was brushing my teeth while the planes hit the buildings. It's just as valid as your statement about Bush.
You contradict yourself. First you admit that Bush reacted to the first plane hit with his "lousy pilot" remark. But the video of him being whispered to while reading to the students shows him saying nothing. This proves what other reports have said; that he was told of the first airplane hit before he even entered the school. Therefore, the alert he received as he was reading to the students was of the second airplane hit. You probably stopped brushing your teeth after the 2nd hit, but Bush kept reading with the students for seven minutes after the 2nd hit. And therefore, his statement about Bush was much more valid than yours.
You're right--the U.S. store shows the 1.83Ghz model dropped. HOWEVER, the 2.0Ghz model now has the sparse 128Mb of video RAM the 1.83 model used to. In order to get adequate video RAM (256Mb) you now have to buy the 2.16Ghz model at $500 more.:-(
I cannot disagree more. I think it is very well written (good English skills are to be appreciated in this blogging era), the author is witty and insightful, and as a support agent myself I laughed out loud on many occasions while reading through this article. I intend to share it with all my colleagues and I suspect they will have similar reactions. Just because you guessed wrong what the article would be about does not make it a bad article.
A crime is a crime, why shouldn't you be arrested for it? If you don't want to be arrested, don't do it.
Because in civilized society we recognize the difference in degree between various crimes. For example, misdemeanors and felonies.
Think about what you're saying. Let's say you accidentally arrive a mere 5 minutes too late to put another coin in the parking meter. By your statement, you think it's right that you be placed in handcuffs and taken down to the local station for processing (which now includes permanent DNA collection). I strongly doubt you'd be OK with that. And if not, then pipe down with your draconian "don't do it" edict.
You are confusing unwilling ignorance with willful ignorance. Your neighbor is practicing the latter; he is seeing the world the way he wants it to be instead of the way it really is, and there is little to nothing that you can do to change that. Facts are irrelevant to him just as they are irrelevant to fundamentalists; the mindset is the same in that they believe what they want to believe, not what their eyes and ears tell them. It's a concept that is so alien to those of us with open minds that we have a hard time even accepting that such mindsets exist let alone understanding them.
if MS has a Select or Enterprise Agreement with AWC, then MS is fully
within their right to request an audit and this is a non-news article.
Hardly.
1. They did not request a 3rd party, independent audit. On the contrary, they claimed their in-house auditing service was the "only unbiased" audit, which is exactly 180-degrees from the truth; it's the very definition of bias.
2. They completely disregarded without even a glance the customer's legitimate efforts to demonstrate his legality. This shows MS was not in any way acting in good faith.
3. Any party that believes another has wronged them is obliged to take that grievance to the proper authorities, not threaten unilateral actions. What MS did here reeks of extortion; the threat of one-on-one remedies in order to coerce behavior without any involvement of the court system.
Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?'
Because there are a myriad of oil companies and filling stations in my neighborhood. However, there's only one monopoly ISP. Second, that's a bad analogy because the government isn't trying to tell the ISPs what to charge, just what type of service to provide (that is, equal service for all packets). The government most certainly does tell oil companies what quality of gas they must provide.
I enjoy The Beatles' music but I could honestly care less about their merchandising and music publisher.
Then you must care a whole lot. Or did you mean you could honestly not care less? I wouldn't ordinarily point out such a mistake, but you kind of opened yourself up for it when your post started out critiquing the original poster's English. Don't cast stones and all that...
First of all, the shuttle is not a "a death trap for any astronaut brave enough or foolish enough to jump in the cockpit". Only a small percentage of those who climbed in the cockpit have died. I'm sure your response will be that none should die, but that is a belief borne of complete fantasy. Which brings me to:
Second, where did you and so many others get the hooked on the delusion that space travel is or can be made completely safe? Or that astronauts/cosmonauts expect it to be completely safe? None who climb into the shuttle or a Soyuz capsule are under the delusion that they are climbing into the car for a jaunt down to the corner store. Getting up and moving at 17,500 miles per hour is dangerous, pure and simple, and for you to call any machine a "death trap" for tackling this hugely complex task is to ignore reality.
Can the shuttle be safer? Yes. Can the shuttle be made safer with the tiny budget NASA is being given and the critical ISS supply timeline and the "we must be absolutely 100% safe" political attitude being imposed? I propose that it cannot be. And if it cannot be, I concur with the others who have pointed out that we have to get this vehicle flying again so that we can "get back on the horse" and continue with the progress of our society into space.
And yes, I would fly on the shuttle today. No, it's not 100% safe. It can't be. Yes, I could well die. But I would still fly on it. And you can damn well rest assured those flying on it know they could die too and are adult enough to have made that choice consciously and willingly. It is not up to you to think you know better than they who have been training for decades for their missions.
When mixing & matching 802.11b devices on an 802.11a or g network, the faster a and g devices are often slowed to b speeds. One hopes this will not happen with n.
As for buying in advance, one also hopes that firmware upgrades will allow early adopters to conform to the final spec. when it's released. Does anyone know which manufacturers are better or worse at providing effective firmmware patches in this regard?
I just explained exactly why the dual layer burner isn't present on the 15" MacBook Pro. It's a purely physical/technical reason.
No, you just explained the exact opposite. The 15" and 17" are the very same thickness and therefore there is no technical reason for the 15" not to also have the dual-layer drive. (Posts are already proliferating on various Mac sites making the exact same observation.)
[Wealth] is a measure of the difference between what you earn and what you spend.
That is a vast oversimplification. It completely ignores the difference between discretionary spending and necessary expenses. You, in your example, try to imply that someone earning 7-figures and who spends nearly all of it is just as wealthy as someone who earns $50K and spends only half of it. Not so, for it is unimagineable that the person spending 7-figures has to be spending that much; he does not have to live in a mansion or be chauffeur driven or eat out every night in fancy restaurants. To have such options is the true defintion of wealth; the person making $50K does not have those options and is therefore notably less wealthy.
Unfortunately, that does seem like a possibility. With dual-layer DVD and FireWire 800 both missing from the 15", it appears on the surface as though those features were reserved for the 17" model. Apple needs to realize that many of us cannot/will not buy the 17" because it is simply too large & bulky. And that fact is no reason to punish us by keeping features off of the 15" that both its PowerPC predecessor had and its 17" bigger brother has. So as much as I want a MacBook Pro so I can utilize Windows virtualization, I won't be buying one until I see these features returned to the 15" model.
you can get a Windows laptop with better specs for under half the price.
Here we go again; the claim that a better Windows box costs half as much. But, as usual, no specifics are provided, mainly because it's untrue. Perhaps a (close to) equal box can be gotten for a few hundred less, but definitely not "half". Or, if I'm wrong, please feel free to provide specific links and specs to back up your claim.
You really haven't heard of the Cuban Missle Crisis
Try again--That was the U.S. standing up to Khrushchev, not Castro. Castro was a mere puppet in that particular standoff.
And the Missiles of October were (as I said) 44 years ago, so (again) what have we done lately to affect Castro? The sanctions remain, he's still in power. If anything, the sanctions strengthen him, for he uses them as propaganda to show how he's able to stand up to the overbearing superpower to the north.
The actual timeline was that Microsoft let IE get long in the tooth, Apple (sensing trouble) came out with Safari to protect Mac users and ensure they had a current browser supplied with OS X, then Microsoft officially killed IE. It would be misleading to blame Safari for IE's demise.
why do I need this product? We already have wireless routers with built-in DHCP
This isn't the same thing as DHCP. DHCP hands out IP addresses on a lease basis. Bonjour is a discovery protocol that lets users easily find peripherals without needing to know their addresses. Under Windows without Bonjour (ZeroConf) you still have to manually type in the addresses of IP-based printers whereas Macs with Bonjour find those same devices automatically. It's actually pretty sweet technology that brings to the IP era what AppleTalk supplied back in the late 80's to Macs. And it's peer-to-peer so you don't need any other services (AD, LDAP) providing lookup for you; it's plug & play and it simply works.
What we need is a website with Napster like popularity and only free music and movies available.
OK, I'm a pretty staunch opponent of DRM and I did write to our beloved FCC member and ask her how I'm supposed to get my DRM'ed music onto my MP3 player. But still, I have to ask (based on your statement above about free music and movies) how it is that the artists who produce the works are supposed to make a living. I personally think that the system we had in place 15 years ago worked just fine. Pre-DRM music for sale in the local record shop (and now thru Amazon). Pre-DRM movies showing in theaters and for sale at the local record shop (and now thru Amazon). It works. It lets law-abiding citizens buy the products and transfer them to iPods as desired. The artists make a reasonable profit, and everyone except the exceedingly greedy middlemen are happy. I don't feel the system was broke then; it's the RIAA and MPAA that has subsequently broken it, and we should simply return to the pre-broke state.
Did you read the article? It's a marketing gimmick.
I wouldn't have posted it if I hadn't read it. Twice.
And if you had read it yourself, you'd realize that it's not possible for it to entirely be a marketing gimmick. This is 2500 employees with only a Mac on their desks. What, are they all supposed to be just taking up space or do you suppose they're doing real work? If the latter, then the Macs are functional, not gimmicks.
I'm working at the Geek Squad in BestBuy as I am attending Murray State University...Working in the CS department or at a local fast food joint is much worse.
I agree about fast food, but what's wrong with the CS dept.? True, it was some years back, but I worked 3 years in the CS dept. at Penn State and it was a pretty cush (if not high paying) gig. I could walk to work from the dorms so no car needed, PSU bought huge bulk licenses for the software so we didn't need to pirate to help users, there was a wide network of really smart folks on campus so finding answers was easy, and it was a steady paycheck; if you showed up for work regularly and were even remotely competent you were pretty much guaranteed to be kept on staff. Does Murray State mistreat CS folks or something?
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Think about what you're saying. Let's say you accidentally arrive a mere 5 minutes too late to put another coin in the parking meter. By your statement, you think it's right that you be placed in handcuffs and taken down to the local station for processing (which now includes permanent DNA collection). I strongly doubt you'd be OK with that. And if not, then pipe down with your draconian "don't do it" edict.
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1. They did not request a 3rd party, independent audit. On the contrary, they claimed their in-house auditing service was the "only unbiased" audit, which is exactly 180-degrees from the truth; it's the very definition of bias.
2. They completely disregarded without even a glance the customer's legitimate efforts to demonstrate his legality. This shows MS was not in any way acting in good faith.
3. Any party that believes another has wronged them is obliged to take that grievance to the proper authorities, not threaten unilateral actions. What MS did here reeks of extortion; the threat of one-on-one remedies in order to coerce behavior without any involvement of the court system.
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Second, where did you and so many others get the hooked on the delusion that space travel is or can be made completely safe? Or that astronauts/cosmonauts expect it to be completely safe? None who climb into the shuttle or a Soyuz capsule are under the delusion that they are climbing into the car for a jaunt down to the corner store. Getting up and moving at 17,500 miles per hour is dangerous, pure and simple, and for you to call any machine a "death trap" for tackling this hugely complex task is to ignore reality.
Can the shuttle be safer? Yes. Can the shuttle be made safer with the tiny budget NASA is being given and the critical ISS supply timeline and the "we must be absolutely 100% safe" political attitude being imposed? I propose that it cannot be. And if it cannot be, I concur with the others who have pointed out that we have to get this vehicle flying again so that we can "get back on the horse" and continue with the progress of our society into space.
And yes, I would fly on the shuttle today. No, it's not 100% safe. It can't be. Yes, I could well die. But I would still fly on it. And you can damn well rest assured those flying on it know they could die too and are adult enough to have made that choice consciously and willingly. It is not up to you to think you know better than they who have been training for decades for their missions.
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As for buying in advance, one also hopes that firmware upgrades will allow early adopters to conform to the final spec. when it's released. Does anyone know which manufacturers are better or worse at providing effective firmmware patches in this regard?
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And the Missiles of October were (as I said) 44 years ago, so (again) what have we done lately to affect Castro? The sanctions remain, he's still in power. If anything, the sanctions strengthen him, for he uses them as propaganda to show how he's able to stand up to the overbearing superpower to the north.
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And if you had read it yourself, you'd realize that it's not possible for it to entirely be a marketing gimmick. This is 2500 employees with only a Mac on their desks. What, are they all supposed to be just taking up space or do you suppose they're doing real work? If the latter, then the Macs are functional, not gimmicks.
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