Except that most phone batteries I've seen (at least those sold by the original manufacturer as replacement parts or upgrades) are significantly more expensive than $20.
But what would Apple's cost be? A quick google search for the battery my Motorola phone uses brings up a retail cost of between $9 and $30. I'm sure Motorola's cost for the same battery is somewhere below the low end of that (maybe not much lower, but a little). Also, the last two charges in the analysis (adding up to $45 together) are most likely bogus, as these repairs are not done in store, and because I think the last one is a crock.
Someone else mentioned shipping costs, but according to Apple's iPhone battery service page the actual cost is $79 + $6.95, so since shipping wasn't part of the original analysis, the starting price should be $79, not $86.
Being a good slashdotter, I did not read TFA, but I did read TFS, and it mentioned a wireless mouse, not just an optical mouse. Not that I necessarily believe that any variety of wireless mouse or cell phone or WiFi or Bluetooth or any other consumer-level wireless tech should really be capable of interfering with an airplane, but if it were possible, it would be wireless tech, not optical mouse tech, that would do it.
Also, why are there two links in TFS, when the 2 are exactly the same link?
As an Add-on? I thought it was more readily available, at least on 98, than it is on XP... On XP, I don't think it's turned on by default, but I'm pretty sure it's always there, out of the box on a new 98 install... Although it's been a while since I've done a new install for either.
It's not OSS, but Picasa is free as in beer, makes all of the things you've mentioned pretty simple, and I've found that it actually runs pretty well on old hardware.
It's available for Windows and Linux. I don't know if it's available for Mac.
There is no grounds for comparing the app that was banned (essentially a Gmail front end as an app) and "allowing" iNotes ultralite that is actually a web page on your Notes/Domino server. This is just bad journalism on behalf of NY Times and seconded here.
Also - apple "allows" gmail web front end on iphone just exactly the same way it "allows" iNotes ultralite.
Did you hear? I just found out that they are also allowing slashdot and digg! This is great!
Currently, the Roku box is only used to stream certain NetFlix titles. You don't really watch "TV" in general on it, although there may be certain TV shows available in NetFlix's streaming catalog (I've never used it, but from everyting I've heard, it's a pretty skimpy catalog). The Roku box is not a DVR, though.
It may be possible to use the Roku as a MythTV FrontEnd, but that would just be one of the available channels, which is the point of releasing an SDK so that people can make up whatever video channels they want for it. If someone does create a Myth Frontend channel for it, I would probably strongly consider buying one, although I would imagine that with the limited hardware in the Roku box, it wouldn't have all of the functionality of a regular Myth frontend (I would imagine it would have the bare-bones functionality of just browsing your library and playing shows, it probably wouldn't have the whole Myth UI and themes, and maybe you wouldn't even be able to create and edit recording schedules)
The Roku box is certainly not equipped to be used as a backend, as it has no significant storage, no recording hardware, and not a lot of processing power, aside from being able to decode video.
Stop buying devices with integrated batteries. Buy devices that use external batteries, and get a charger. Simple.
So then you not only have a whole charger taking up an outlet and all adjacent outlets, but you also have to remove the battery from the device to charge it? I agree about not having non-removable/non-replaceable batteries (e.g. iPod, etc), but when it comes to charging, why would I want to have to remove my batteries for each device and plug them all into the wall? That's worse than having all of the wall warts, where you can at least put the devices out on your desk and have them on while they charge.
I think you missed the point of the questions asked by the GPP and the OP.
Sometimes I think you have to have the right driver for the phone installed... which I don't think Motorola likes to give out without having you buy their Phone Tools software.
they can't even do the standard browser ID string parsing ans see I'm running Linux? Fscking idiots.
And acknowledge to the general masses that Linux exists? They realize that nerds know about Linux. They realize that friends of nerds have heard of it (but probably don't want to try it themselves). The last thing they want to do is to show that it's a 3-way race between Win/Mac/Lin. They want it to be Win vs. Mac on the desktop, so they can focus on one opponent. At least to the general masses.
Some security... you have just become a victim of social engineering. If you have to correct people who misinterpret your inkblots, your security is even weaker than with a simple 4 letter all lower case numeric-only password... like 1-2-3-4.
And now to log into your/. account with "zombie clown hitting fish with hammer" as the password...
It's a bold move to photoshop yourself into a picture with your girlfriend and her kids on a ski trip with their real father. But then again, Michael is a bold guy. Is bold the right word?
--Jim Halpert
But if you're not sharing everything at once, then they're not going to see you sharing that many unless they watch you for an extended period of time. I doubt that most people who share over 200 movies are sharing them all out at once. But then I have extremely limited experience with torrenting videos, so maybe that is how people do it.
I think you may have missed the point where the GPP said
how many of those free download credits will be expended on music by independent artists who aren't even affiliated with RIAA
which was the whole post. If the result of a class action lawsuit was free iTunes downloads, then inevitably, some of them would be used for non-RIAA music, which is a good thing for everyone but the RIAA.
That said, I don't think the indie effect would be that big, and the GGPP's point (and yours) still stands. It reminds me of the time I got a card from BlockBuster about a class action settlement that I'd never heard of. They gave me six coupons on a card that looked a lot more like a promotional mailer they could send out than it did a legal settlement. Most of the coupons were "rent one, get one free" anyway, so the result of the whole settlement was basically that they were compelled to have their marketing department do their jobs and send out an ad. I'd say it's true that the lawyers are the real winners here, and sometimes, like in this BlockBuster case, the company that loses the class action suit still wins.
And given the success and fame he's had since he's been at Nintendo, this "ban" could be just as much if not more so self-imposed than imposed by the company. I'm sure he probably sees that the success of the company is tied to his own success, and he probably doesn't want to sink the company.
A) Have any App store apps been cracked to run on different iPhones?
B) The whole point to the $999 app is that you paid $999 for it, from the App Store. If you wanted to fake it, you could do it from the picture viewer, or a web page, as I understand it, since the whole app is just a picture of a gem.
Therefore, the app cannot grow in value, because the only ways to get it are cheap copies. The value of it is directly tied to it being available and expensive in the app store.
A) They may have gotten some small number of weeks in the home without paying, but it's not that long, and anticipation of things like that is part of interest rates, PMI, etc. It's built into the loan system because some borrowers are risky.
B) There are direct consequences to not paying your loans, you don't just get to hang out and do your thing.
I realize that to responsible people like you and me, we can feel bitter because everyone pays a little more when some people are irresponsible. Risky mortgages aside, we face the same thing in other areas of life, including education, taxes, crime, etc. But saying that someone gets a free ride will only continue to encourage some people to think the risk is worth it to them because they won't have consequences, which is absolutely false. Please stop saying that it's a free ride. Yes the lenders get screwed to some degree, but under normal circumstances, they make up for it in their other loans, it's all part of balancing the risk. In our current mortgage crisis, the ones balancing the risk apparently didn't do a good job, or didn't look far enough ahead to see what was going on, and now we are all paying for it to some degree. Part of it is the lenders' fault, part of it is the borrowers' fault, but don't think that the borrowers are getting off scott-free, with any less consequence than anyone else. They are the ones who lose their homes, savings, have to give up the luxuries they got used to, most likely lose their marriages and tear up their families, and go back to living in really crappy housing because they won't be able to get another loan for years, and most landlords don't want to rent to them either.
I think it's important that people who would consider mortgages and other loans they can't afford know that they will face very real and very dire consequences for their irresponsibility.
Putting 20% down has more to do with whether or not you have to pay PMI (private mortgage insurance) than whether or not you get an ARM. You get an ARM so that you can have a lower interest rate (for now), so your payments will be lower (for now), so you can get more house for a lower payment (for now).
This can happen if you put 0%, 20%, or 50% down. People trying to get more home than they can afford with a fixed rate mortgage get ARMs, not necessarily just people who don't have 20% to put down.
The reason why ARMs became a problem is because they got to the point where the interest rates started going up so suddenly they have a higher payment which they can't afford.
It's not a free ride when you're paying all of your money to try to maintain it and still not keeping up. And when you lose the house, it's not over. You have a lot of financial pain to go through for years.
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Except that most phone batteries I've seen (at least those sold by the original manufacturer as replacement parts or upgrades) are significantly more expensive than $20.
But what would Apple's cost be? A quick google search for the battery my Motorola phone uses brings up a retail cost of between $9 and $30. I'm sure Motorola's cost for the same battery is somewhere below the low end of that (maybe not much lower, but a little). Also, the last two charges in the analysis (adding up to $45 together) are most likely bogus, as these repairs are not done in store, and because I think the last one is a crock.
Someone else mentioned shipping costs, but according to Apple's iPhone battery service page the actual cost is $79 + $6.95, so since shipping wasn't part of the original analysis, the starting price should be $79, not $86.
one of the most famous songs from the most famous band in US history.
Nitpicking here, but Imagine was a solo effort, not a Beatles song.
Being a good slashdotter, I did not read TFA, but I did read TFS, and it mentioned a wireless mouse, not just an optical mouse. Not that I necessarily believe that any variety of wireless mouse or cell phone or WiFi or Bluetooth or any other consumer-level wireless tech should really be capable of interfering with an airplane, but if it were possible, it would be wireless tech, not optical mouse tech, that would do it.
Also, why are there two links in TFS, when the 2 are exactly the same link?
As an Add-on? I thought it was more readily available, at least on 98, than it is on XP... On XP, I don't think it's turned on by default, but I'm pretty sure it's always there, out of the box on a new 98 install... Although it's been a while since I've done a new install for either.
It's not OSS, but Picasa is free as in beer, makes all of the things you've mentioned pretty simple, and I've found that it actually runs pretty well on old hardware.
It's available for Windows and Linux. I don't know if it's available for Mac.
There is no grounds for comparing the app that was banned (essentially a Gmail front end as an app) and "allowing" iNotes ultralite that is actually a web page on your Notes/Domino server. This is just bad journalism on behalf of NY Times and seconded here.
Also - apple "allows" gmail web front end on iphone just exactly the same way it "allows" iNotes ultralite.
Did you hear? I just found out that they are also allowing slashdot and digg! This is great!
Currently, the Roku box is only used to stream certain NetFlix titles. You don't really watch "TV" in general on it, although there may be certain TV shows available in NetFlix's streaming catalog (I've never used it, but from everyting I've heard, it's a pretty skimpy catalog). The Roku box is not a DVR, though.
It may be possible to use the Roku as a MythTV FrontEnd, but that would just be one of the available channels, which is the point of releasing an SDK so that people can make up whatever video channels they want for it. If someone does create a Myth Frontend channel for it, I would probably strongly consider buying one, although I would imagine that with the limited hardware in the Roku box, it wouldn't have all of the functionality of a regular Myth frontend (I would imagine it would have the bare-bones functionality of just browsing your library and playing shows, it probably wouldn't have the whole Myth UI and themes, and maybe you wouldn't even be able to create and edit recording schedules)
The Roku box is certainly not equipped to be used as a backend, as it has no significant storage, no recording hardware, and not a lot of processing power, aside from being able to decode video.
A toll is a toll
And a roll is a roll
And if we don't get no tolls,
then we don't eat no rolls!
I made that up.
--Little John
Is this a companion product to the TimeCube? This could get trippy.
Stop buying devices with integrated batteries. Buy devices that use external batteries, and get a charger. Simple.
So then you not only have a whole charger taking up an outlet and all adjacent outlets, but you also have to remove the battery from the device to charge it? I agree about not having non-removable/non-replaceable batteries (e.g. iPod, etc), but when it comes to charging, why would I want to have to remove my batteries for each device and plug them all into the wall? That's worse than having all of the wall warts, where you can at least put the devices out on your desk and have them on while they charge.
I think you missed the point of the questions asked by the GPP and the OP.
Sometimes I think you have to have the right driver for the phone installed... which I don't think Motorola likes to give out without having you buy their Phone Tools software.
The idea is that this is the new RAM (fast and Random Access), but since it's non-volatile (and cheap?), it can also be used for file storage.
they can't even do the standard browser ID string parsing ans see I'm running Linux? Fscking idiots.
And acknowledge to the general masses that Linux exists? They realize that nerds know about Linux. They realize that friends of nerds have heard of it (but probably don't want to try it themselves). The last thing they want to do is to show that it's a 3-way race between Win/Mac/Lin. They want it to be Win vs. Mac on the desktop, so they can focus on one opponent. At least to the general masses.
Some security... you have just become a victim of social engineering. If you have to correct people who misinterpret your inkblots, your security is even weaker than with a simple 4 letter all lower case numeric-only password... like 1-2-3-4.
/. account with "zombie clown hitting fish with hammer" as the password...
And now to log into your
It's a bold move to photoshop yourself into a picture with your girlfriend and her kids on a ski trip with their real father. But then again, Michael is a bold guy. Is bold the right word? --Jim Halpert
But if you're not sharing everything at once, then they're not going to see you sharing that many unless they watch you for an extended period of time. I doubt that most people who share over 200 movies are sharing them all out at once. But then I have extremely limited experience with torrenting videos, so maybe that is how people do it.
I think the system needs to be fixed.
I wonder how many stick figure drawings I'd have to do to pay off a lawsuit like that...
how many of those free download credits will be expended on music by independent artists who aren't even affiliated with RIAA
which was the whole post. If the result of a class action lawsuit was free iTunes downloads, then inevitably, some of them would be used for non-RIAA music, which is a good thing for everyone but the RIAA.
That said, I don't think the indie effect would be that big, and the GGPP's point (and yours) still stands. It reminds me of the time I got a card from BlockBuster about a class action settlement that I'd never heard of. They gave me six coupons on a card that looked a lot more like a promotional mailer they could send out than it did a legal settlement. Most of the coupons were "rent one, get one free" anyway, so the result of the whole settlement was basically that they were compelled to have their marketing department do their jobs and send out an ad. I'd say it's true that the lawyers are the real winners here, and sometimes, like in this BlockBuster case, the company that loses the class action suit still wins.
And given the success and fame he's had since he's been at Nintendo, this "ban" could be just as much if not more so self-imposed than imposed by the company. I'm sure he probably sees that the success of the company is tied to his own success, and he probably doesn't want to sink the company.
A) Have any App store apps been cracked to run on different iPhones?
B) The whole point to the $999 app is that you paid $999 for it, from the App Store. If you wanted to fake it, you could do it from the picture viewer, or a web page, as I understand it, since the whole app is just a picture of a gem.
Therefore, the app cannot grow in value, because the only ways to get it are cheap copies. The value of it is directly tied to it being available and expensive in the app store.
Yeah, considering there's no way to redistribute it, now that it's been booted from the app store...
A) They may have gotten some small number of weeks in the home without paying, but it's not that long, and anticipation of things like that is part of interest rates, PMI, etc. It's built into the loan system because some borrowers are risky.
B) There are direct consequences to not paying your loans, you don't just get to hang out and do your thing.
I realize that to responsible people like you and me, we can feel bitter because everyone pays a little more when some people are irresponsible. Risky mortgages aside, we face the same thing in other areas of life, including education, taxes, crime, etc. But saying that someone gets a free ride will only continue to encourage some people to think the risk is worth it to them because they won't have consequences, which is absolutely false. Please stop saying that it's a free ride. Yes the lenders get screwed to some degree, but under normal circumstances, they make up for it in their other loans, it's all part of balancing the risk. In our current mortgage crisis, the ones balancing the risk apparently didn't do a good job, or didn't look far enough ahead to see what was going on, and now we are all paying for it to some degree. Part of it is the lenders' fault, part of it is the borrowers' fault, but don't think that the borrowers are getting off scott-free, with any less consequence than anyone else. They are the ones who lose their homes, savings, have to give up the luxuries they got used to, most likely lose their marriages and tear up their families, and go back to living in really crappy housing because they won't be able to get another loan for years, and most landlords don't want to rent to them either.
I think it's important that people who would consider mortgages and other loans they can't afford know that they will face very real and very dire consequences for their irresponsibility.
Putting 20% down has more to do with whether or not you have to pay PMI (private mortgage insurance) than whether or not you get an ARM. You get an ARM so that you can have a lower interest rate (for now), so your payments will be lower (for now), so you can get more house for a lower payment (for now).
This can happen if you put 0%, 20%, or 50% down. People trying to get more home than they can afford with a fixed rate mortgage get ARMs, not necessarily just people who don't have 20% to put down.
The reason why ARMs became a problem is because they got to the point where the interest rates started going up so suddenly they have a higher payment which they can't afford.
It's not a free ride when you're paying all of your money to try to maintain it and still not keeping up. And when you lose the house, it's not over. You have a lot of financial pain to go through for years.