Amen! My first machine was a Performa 400. While I'm sure there's plenty of people here with older macs than that, I think that puts me firmly in the "old skool" category.
If they did, you would probably never hear about it.
I'm not a big conspiracy conspiracy nut, but as a kid I remember sitting there thinking how little information was coming out of the Viking 2 landing site. All of the pictures and the analysis was about Viking 1 on Chryse, but nearly nothing at all from Utopia.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos dedicated an entire episode to the Viking program. Again, nearly 100% of it was about Viking 1. All the pictures except 1 were of the Chryse landing site.
Dunno, it just always struck me as odd since both places were different from each other from a geological, latitude/longitude and terrain standpoint.
I have mod points, too bad there's no +1 (Paranoid) option...
I think this is one case where the "nothing to hide" argument actually makes sense. Those who are entrusted with the defense of the public should not be shrouded in secrecy. "Who watches the watchers?"
on the order of $2 per month. It's still something, but to me the work done for SETI or Folding@Home is at least worth the price of a cappucino every month. I want to know where you're buying your coffee
Slightly OT, and it may be something you're aware of, but there is a "Back Up to Disc" option in the file menu of iTunes 7. I'm fairly sure THIS is what Apple means when they say to back up your music.
As do the virtuous citizens of Anguilla , Antigua & Barbuda,
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So what you're saying is, only a small fraction of the world drives on the wrong side of the road. The other 181 countries of the world get it right. Right?
Personally, I'd wait until some poor schmuck sues a genome company for violating his privacy and getting a billion dollars in damages before I get my genome sequenced. I'd be willing to be this poor schmuck. I've always wanted to be a billionaire.
They won't have to. TFA (one of them, at least) mentioned that the area floods every 5 years or so, causing the salt to realign itself. I would imagine this changes the height, and the distribution of the high and low areas in the plane.
> Yeah. There's more to Time Machine than just a one-off backup of your data. TM
> aggregates changes and you can roll back to any point in time.
Doesn't all backup programs do this?
I would like to clarify this a bit. Say for instance you delete 50 contacts one day, and 25 the next. A week later, you realize you deleted a contact that you needed. Most backup programs would only allow you to rollback the entire address book, re-adding all those contacts (and deleting contacts that you've added since then). Time Machine allows you to LOOK at your address book as you view progressively older backups, then when you find the contact you want to restore, to restore ONLY that contact (not the entire address book).
I just sang the song out loud, slowly. It took me 25 seconds. Heaven forbid your kids are impatient and sing the song quickly... Might only take about 10-15 seconds..
PS: Sorry about the word "milieu", the word i'm looking for is "milieu" in french and "medio" in spanish - i've seen milieu used before in English so I went with that, but I don't know if it's the right word.
Literal (and, in this case, proper) translation of that word is "medium".
Since the light never moves from one transmission medium to another in the tunnel situation, it is not refracted, and thusly continues in a straight line.
Sorry to top-post, but I'd like to remind everyone in this thread: Don't Panic(TM)!
Apple has not implemented this system. Patenting it is not necessarily an indicator that they plan to implement it. Hell, they might sell the idea to Creative or MS to use in THEIR players.
Windows is secure These three words should never be placed in that order, unless there is a "not" in between "is" and "secure".
The fact of the matter is this: (and I hate bringing the car analogy into this, but...) If you were comparing two types of cars you were considering purchasing, and one of them had a history (read: vulnurability) of breaking down, and the other had, in the past 5 years, about 3 occasions where someone said "Well, we know how to cause this car to break" but that particular breakdown never occurred on the road, which would you choose? I know which one I would...
I await the flames telling me how my analogy is flawed. I know they're coming. Just, please, think before you type.
Show of the same name featured person after person who claimed they had nothing worth stealing. Moreover, that the loss of their worthless material possessions would mean nothing to them.
Once they saw their homes being ransacked, they very quickly changed their tunes. Many felt nausea, revulsion, and commonly, fury.
So, for those who claim you have nothing to hide, you could take a lesson from these people, but, I acknowledge that YMMV.
(oh noes! I should've posted as an AC)
IIRC, It wasn't that these people claimed they had nothing worth stealing. Nor was it that the loss of their possessions would mean nothing to them. The premise of the show was to show how quickly a thief could go through your house and take you for almost everything you have.
Many of these people thought they were taking proper precautions against thieves, others knew they were under-protected, but agreed to appear anyway. Either way, the team was usually in and out of the house in approx. 5-15 minutes, taking just about every valuable you can think of.
No one's credit report score is related to the scores of their parents. Not exactly true... at 16 I had a card on my Mom's account (in my name)... I was an "authorized user". Later, that was changed to cosigner. Now, I don't know for sure, but I think even when I was just an authorized user, my credit was being reported. By the time I was 20, I had an excellent credit score.
there is going to be a min of 2 year contract to get it (from a store manager)
Sounds like a catch-22: how can there be a wave of people to buy the iPhone when it's only available to those willing to enter long contracts and thus inelligible to buy until their current contractual servitude expires?
Secondly, at $600 this phone is clearly not subsidized, so what's the excuse for the lengthy contract?
The answer to your first question: Not everyone is perpetually in contract. Myself, I've been out of contract for years. My plan is still an original AT&T Wireless plan (pre-cingular merger). I've never wanted an upgrade until around December of '06, at which point I started looking. I'd settled on a nice Nokia, but put it off a few months. I'm glad I did. I will be entering into a contract on-or-about the 29th, to get myself one of these devices.
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I'm an idiot, you mentioned your tickets. *flame suit on*
No wonder you had a huge premium... Under 25 single male. And I'd be willing to bet you have a few tickets?
At around $100/tank of fuel, and a little less than 1 tank of fuel per week it comes to around $7k/year
I'm questioning this math here... 52 weeks * $100 * <1(tank/week) = <5200, not $7k...
Amen! My first machine was a Performa 400. While I'm sure there's plenty of people here with older macs than that, I think that puts me firmly in the "old skool" category.
Except, early exposure to alcohol results in a greater chance of becoming an alcoholic.
I'm not a big conspiracy conspiracy nut, but as a kid I remember sitting there thinking how little information was coming out of the Viking 2 landing site. All of the pictures and the analysis was about Viking 1 on Chryse, but nearly nothing at all from Utopia.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos dedicated an entire episode to the Viking program. Again, nearly 100% of it was about Viking 1. All the pictures except 1 were of the Chryse landing site.
Dunno, it just always struck me as odd since both places were different from each other from a geological, latitude/longitude and terrain standpoint.
I have mod points, too bad there's no +1 (Paranoid) option...I think this is one case where the "nothing to hide" argument actually makes sense. Those who are entrusted with the defense of the public should not be shrouded in secrecy. "Who watches the watchers?"
Slightly OT, and it may be something you're aware of, but there is a "Back Up to Disc" option in the file menu of iTunes 7. I'm fairly sure THIS is what Apple means when they say to back up your music.
So what you're saying is, only a small fraction of the world drives on the wrong side of the road. The other 181 countries of the world get it right. Right?
They won't have to. TFA (one of them, at least) mentioned that the area floods every 5 years or so, causing the salt to realign itself. I would imagine this changes the height, and the distribution of the high and low areas in the plane.
He beat you by 4 comments... 21431203 vs your 21431207. You were obviously copying... /sarcasm
I just sang the song out loud, slowly. It took me 25 seconds. Heaven forbid your kids are impatient and sing the song quickly... Might only take about 10-15 seconds..
Literal (and, in this case, proper) translation of that word is "medium".
Since the light never moves from one transmission medium to another in the tunnel situation, it is not refracted, and thusly continues in a straight line.
Apple has not implemented this system. Patenting it is not necessarily an indicator that they plan to implement it. Hell, they might sell the idea to Creative or MS to use in THEIR players.
The fact of the matter is this: (and I hate bringing the car analogy into this, but...) If you were comparing two types of cars you were considering purchasing, and one of them had a history (read: vulnurability) of breaking down, and the other had, in the past 5 years, about 3 occasions where someone said "Well, we know how to cause this car to break" but that particular breakdown never occurred on the road, which would you choose? I know which one I would...
I await the flames telling me how my analogy is flawed. I know they're coming. Just, please, think before you type.
(sorry for the shitty quality. I imagine that version has been recompressed about 3 bazillion times. Too lazy to search for a better version)
Once they saw their homes being ransacked, they very quickly changed their tunes. Many felt nausea, revulsion, and commonly, fury.
So, for those who claim you have nothing to hide, you could take a lesson from these people, but, I acknowledge that YMMV.
(oh noes! I should've posted as an AC)
IIRC, It wasn't that these people claimed they had nothing worth stealing. Nor was it that the loss of their possessions would mean nothing to them. The premise of the show was to show how quickly a thief could go through your house and take you for almost everything you have.
Many of these people thought they were taking proper precautions against thieves, others knew they were under-protected, but agreed to appear anyway. Either way, the team was usually in and out of the house in approx. 5-15 minutes, taking just about every valuable you can think of.
Should have preview'd... *clicks directly on submit*
I thought Apple was a computer company, not a mobile phone company...
Secondly, at $600 this phone is clearly not subsidized, so what's the excuse for the lengthy contract?
The answer to your first question: Not everyone is perpetually in contract. Myself, I've been out of contract for years. My plan is still an original AT&T Wireless plan (pre-cingular merger). I've never wanted an upgrade until around December of '06, at which point I started looking. I'd settled on a nice Nokia, but put it off a few months. I'm glad I did. I will be entering into a contract on-or-about the 29th, to get myself one of these devices.I find it amusing that you say "It's true" then quote a rumors site. Got a link to apple.com?