I now live in that college town, and have occasional interaction with the engineering department and its students. (No, that's not what I meant - get your mind out of the gutter). Oh yeah baby, don't stop "interacting" with my "engineering department". Oooh, and don't forget the "students"!
Technically, you already pay more than you should need to because the penny isn't small enough. If you buy something for $1.96, and you're charged a ten percent sales tax, you don't pay $2.15 and six tenths of a penny, you pay $2.16.
Now if only some programmer could write a virus which would save those fractional pennies in an account where no one could find them...
I WISH I could get a HDMI cable for 30-40 bucks. The cheapest 1m cable I could find was 60 bucks. And Monster is still in business charging over a hundred bucks for their version.
Just a quick note - this ruling has nothing to do with ThinkSecret. The article is referring to a separate suit dealing with AppleInsider. The ThinkSecret case is still very much alive.
I think you're assuming people first buy their mac, then look around and say "Now what can I use to get work done?"
Whenever I'm talking to someone about switching to a Mac, one of their first questions is "But I have to open Word files for my job, so won't I need Windows?" Thanks to Microsoft, this is one more thing switchers don't have to worry about.
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Couldn't help but be reminded of an old Onion article... William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Jr.
Make sure you use something like my.address+personal@gmail.com, and then set gmail to automatically filter anything without a +suffix.
Technically, you already pay more than you should need to because the penny isn't small enough. If you buy something for $1.96, and you're charged a ten percent sales tax, you don't pay $2.15 and six tenths of a penny, you pay $2.16. Now if only some programmer could write a virus which would save those fractional pennies in an account where no one could find them...
Do you think he could have meant "Camaaauuuugghhh?"
I WISH I could get a HDMI cable for 30-40 bucks. The cheapest 1m cable I could find was 60 bucks. And Monster is still in business charging over a hundred bucks for their version.
Just a quick note - this ruling has nothing to do with ThinkSecret. The article is referring to a separate suit dealing with AppleInsider. The ThinkSecret case is still very much alive.
I think you're assuming people first buy their mac, then look around and say "Now what can I use to get work done?"
Whenever I'm talking to someone about switching to a Mac, one of their first questions is "But I have to open Word files for my job, so won't I need Windows?" Thanks to Microsoft, this is one more thing switchers don't have to worry about.
I agree with most of your other points though.