Actually, it's often the application writers fault. For example, Flash MX 2004 will not run with a level lower than power user. So everybody at an interactive design firm that needs to run FMX will be doing so as an Admin or Power User - and MS has nothing to do with it.
USA has far more land area and far less population density than Europe, so coverage is a lot more difficult outside of metro areas.
True, but a lot of the complaining I'm hearing is from people who actually live in a city, but will loose service going under an overpass. That just should not happen, period.
People will replace systems, but they'll take their peripherals with them -- including the hard drives. It's a lot easier to add a hard drive than it is to copy a backup.
Your post ignores the literally MILLIONS of consumers who have purchased, and will again purchase, Sony DVD players. So what if 1-2mln people get an XBox again? Even more will upgrade their DVDs to a new stand alone Sony model because...
Whenever I'm reading a magazine and see an interview with a model, I know the mag was desperate for filler material. Seriously, you are a PROFESSIONAL COATHANGER, why would I ever be interested in what you have to say?
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Actually, it just sounds like poor folk got their hands on some money. Seriously, I've lived here and there, in the states and in europe, and poor people are poor people, wherever you go. Poor people get money, and they spend it. They'll spend it on stupid shit that they can afford, RIGHT NOW - that's one of the reasons they're poor.
Your phone also doesn't have bluetooth or GPRS, both technologies I use daily. People don't replace phones only because they fail, they often replace them because they need better functionality.
We were once driving out somewhere with a friend, about 2 intersections from my house, he had to break slightly and... whoomp, off the roof rolls my Canon EOS SLR. Stops right on the passenger side window wiper. So I open my window, reach out and take it. Nothing happened to it:)
Back when the 386 was something special, my dad got a loaner 386DX-20 from his employer, the Oregon State University. Along with this bundle of joy, he managed to loan out a LaserJet II printer. I think it's safe to say I was the only person with a laser printer in my middle school.
Anyway, I was working on some school project, printing transparencies out of PC Globe. We had a drawer for paper and printables in general, so I reach in, pull out a piece of transparency film and stick it in.
It too never came out.
We ended up printing out the 'rear end' of the printer until it was returned to OSU some four years later. It wasn't really a problem, other than the fact that pages comming out that end had to be re-sorted. The first page came out on the bottom, right side up, instead of on the bottom, face down. When my dad was working on his manuscript, it didn't make him happy at all.
Members of the Academy aren't geeks, they're not technical people, they're movie people. Most probably have home movie systems built by pros, all they do is put the movie in. Hell, they probably get brightness/contrast/etc set up by experts too.
The thing is, when you're trying to get your critically acclaimed lower-budget movie into the oscars, do you go with the encrypted screeners? No, you release an unencrypted screener, and everybody sees it. Boom, you've got an underdog success... and we're back to everybody releasing.
Do you belive you can take 6000 people of any group and find one that isn't just flat out dirty and corrupt, or at the very least, easily corruptable? Or that many Academy members won't want to hook up a special DVD player each time they watch a movie? Remember, the studios want as many Academy members as they can to watch each movie, because only that gives them a shot of getting awarded. Every 'problem' a given member has with seeing a movie will reduce its chances come Oscar night.
When I visited Berlin with a friend in the late 90s, we got a family weekend pass. The pass was good for 2 adults plus 3 children, and worked on all subways, commuter trains (s-bahn), buses and trams.
I use FreeDOS quite (well, relatively speaking) often, but only for one thing - flashing my motherboard BIOS. I got rid of floppy drives long ago, after my last one died back in the previous century, and haven't looked back. Usually, I'll download the FreeDOS ISO, inject the drivers into it and burn it to a CD-RW. Then just boot up from the CD, flash the BIOS and I'm good.
Yeah... except the chance of you getting hit as a drug dealer out on the street vs the chance of you getting killed doing work in iraq is very, very high. I've read two stories about contractors being kidnapped and killed - scan any big city paper and read about how many drug-violence related deaths there are in a week.
Wow... that's true... but only in America and Canada. I don't know of any european country with unmetered local calls. If I had a land line, I'd be paying $10US just for the line, then about $0.09-0.10US every three minutes, for local calls. Inter-city calls (long distance) are about $0.06-0.07 for 1 minute.
Now, cell calls are about $0.20/minute, but since most of my private calls are under a minute, and I'm rarely home, it just makes sense. Oh, and I haven't had a landline for almost two years now.
Two areas where the USA is just out in left field, cellular services and banking. The first one has stopped suprising me, the second one blew me away. I consider my country (Poland) to be backwards, especially when it comes to commercial services - like banking. It's not.
Not only does my bank use one time passwords, the card they're on is a scratch-off card. This gives me 2 additional levels of protection. Not only does it prevent someone from peeking at my card, but it let's me verify that I made each transaction. I don't need to keep track of the last number I used, it keeps track for me. And I don't need the card unless I'm actually moving money around - all I need is my login and password.
The web interface on my bank is incredible - I can check on all transactions since I opened the account.I can set up sub-accts on the fly, issue debit cards to each of them, and my debit card works great online - so I can keep track of those internet purchases. Between-bank money transfers take a max of 1 day, usually same-day if I make it before 17.30, transfers within my bank are instantaneous - really handy for lending my brother some money *fast*.
And the icing on the cake, the thing that made me go to this bank - instant text-message updates on my current account. I get a transfer - I get an SMS, I buy something - I get an SMS. It's incredibly fast (I usually get the SMS before they hand me the reciept to sign) and incredibly useful. I know how much money I have, how much money I spent that day. It really helps to stem the spending sprees that plastic seems to lend itself to.
The *real* professionals will get the professional camera (or the 1D, or the 1D2 or whatever).
No, they'll get the 10D, or they'll already have it. A lot of pros skipped the 1Ds because of the weight - if you need to lug around 3 lenses + body weight starts to become an issue. The 1Ds was a studio camera, and a lot of people stayed with the 10D which is an excellent all-arounder. Heck, some of my photopro buddies still use the Canon D60.
My friend sent me a letter from Germany on friday morning, via DHL (private company), paid 38euro (about 45-50US) for it. I got it on tuesday morning.
Another friend sent me a package on thursday afternoon from Missouri, via USPS. It was a Muvo2 MP3 player in its original box, with all the manuals, power supplies, etc. He paid $20US for it, and I got it on... tuesday morning.
I live on a 5th floor walk up in Warsaw, Poland, without any really good shopping places in my immediate vicinity. So every couple of weeks, I'd take the bus to a large supermarket, buy stuff for 2-3 weeks and take a cab home. Now, I save both time and money just by putting orders through a local grocery store.
For fresh produce, meat and fish, I still go to the local market. But for name branded goods with freshness seals, it's online shopping all the way. Last weekend I ordered just beverages - 60l of juices, water and pop. That's about 70kg of weight (counting bottles + packaging), so I was more than happy to not have to carry it up.
There are some things I will never buy online - fruit, veggies, meat (they don't sell them anyway) - but for the other stuff, it's a great solution.
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Actually, it's often the application writers fault. For example, Flash MX 2004 will not run with a level lower than power user. So everybody at an interactive design firm that needs to run FMX will be doing so as an Admin or Power User - and MS has nothing to do with it.
USA has far more land area and far less population density than Europe, so coverage is a lot more difficult outside of metro areas.
True, but a lot of the complaining I'm hearing is from people who actually live in a city, but will loose service going under an overpass. That just should not happen, period.
People will replace systems, but they'll take their peripherals with them -- including the hard drives. It's a lot easier to add a hard drive than it is to copy a backup.
Your post ignores the literally MILLIONS of consumers who have purchased, and will again purchase, Sony DVD players. So what if 1-2mln people get an XBox again? Even more will upgrade their DVDs to a new stand alone Sony model because...
Sony has the movies. Period.
Whenever I'm reading a magazine and see an interview with a model, I know the mag was desperate for filler material. Seriously, you are a PROFESSIONAL COATHANGER, why would I ever be interested in what you have to say?
The Roots.
Get over yourself.
Thuggin: Spending money like an idiot, drinking to an excess, being only turned on by bimbos with no brains, beatin...
Actually, it just sounds like poor folk got their hands on some money. Seriously, I've lived here and there, in the states and in europe, and poor people are poor people, wherever you go. Poor people get money, and they spend it. They'll spend it on stupid shit that they can afford, RIGHT NOW - that's one of the reasons they're poor.
I speak, of course, from experience.
Your phone also doesn't have bluetooth or GPRS, both technologies I use daily. People don't replace phones only because they fail, they often replace them because they need better functionality.
We were once driving out somewhere with a friend, about 2 intersections from my house, he had to break slightly and... whoomp, off the roof rolls my Canon EOS SLR. Stops right on the passenger side window wiper. So I open my window, reach out and take it. Nothing happened to it :)
Back when the 386 was something special, my dad got a loaner 386DX-20 from his employer, the Oregon State University. Along with this bundle of joy, he managed to loan out a LaserJet II printer. I think it's safe to say I was the only person with a laser printer in my middle school.
Anyway, I was working on some school project, printing transparencies out of PC Globe. We had a drawer for paper and printables in general, so I reach in, pull out a piece of transparency film and stick it in.
It too never came out.
We ended up printing out the 'rear end' of the printer until it was returned to OSU some four years later. It wasn't really a problem, other than the fact that pages comming out that end had to be re-sorted. The first page came out on the bottom, right side up, instead of on the bottom, face down. When my dad was working on his manuscript, it didn't make him happy at all.
Members of the Academy aren't geeks, they're not technical people, they're movie people. Most probably have home movie systems built by pros, all they do is put the movie in. Hell, they probably get brightness/contrast/etc set up by experts too.
The thing is, when you're trying to get your critically acclaimed lower-budget movie into the oscars, do you go with the encrypted screeners? No, you release an unencrypted screener, and everybody sees it. Boom, you've got an underdog success... and we're back to everybody releasing.
Do you belive you can take 6000 people of any group and find one that isn't just flat out dirty and corrupt, or at the very least, easily corruptable? Or that many Academy members won't want to hook up a special DVD player each time they watch a movie? Remember, the studios want as many Academy members as they can to watch each movie, because only that gives them a shot of getting awarded. Every 'problem' a given member has with seeing a movie will reduce its chances come Oscar night.
These are all bandaids on a huge wound.
Wow... that is a lot of money.
When I visited Berlin with a friend in the late 90s, we got a family weekend pass. The pass was good for 2 adults plus 3 children, and worked on all subways, commuter trains (s-bahn), buses and trams.
The price? A whopping 16DM, about $8 US.
I use MagicISO.
I use FreeDOS quite (well, relatively speaking) often, but only for one thing - flashing my motherboard BIOS. I got rid of floppy drives long ago, after my last one died back in the previous century, and haven't looked back. Usually, I'll download the FreeDOS ISO, inject the drivers into it and burn it to a CD-RW. Then just boot up from the CD, flash the BIOS and I'm good.
Yeah... except the chance of you getting hit as a drug dealer out on the street vs the chance of you getting killed doing work in iraq is very, very high. I've read two stories about contractors being kidnapped and killed - scan any big city paper and read about how many drug-violence related deaths there are in a week.
Wow... that's true... but only in America and Canada. I don't know of any european country with unmetered local calls. If I had a land line, I'd be paying $10US just for the line, then about $0.09-0.10US every three minutes, for local calls. Inter-city calls (long distance) are about $0.06-0.07 for 1 minute.
Now, cell calls are about $0.20/minute, but since most of my private calls are under a minute, and I'm rarely home, it just makes sense. Oh, and I haven't had a landline for almost two years now.
The don't debit, they block the amount on my acct, after which the merchant has 7 calendard days to get his money. This is on a Visa Electron card.
Two areas where the USA is just out in left field, cellular services and banking. The first one has stopped suprising me, the second one blew me away. I consider my country (Poland) to be backwards, especially when it comes to commercial services - like banking. It's not.
Not only does my bank use one time passwords, the card they're on is a scratch-off card. This gives me 2 additional levels of protection. Not only does it prevent someone from peeking at my card, but it let's me verify that I made each transaction. I don't need to keep track of the last number I used, it keeps track for me. And I don't need the card unless I'm actually moving money around - all I need is my login and password.
The web interface on my bank is incredible - I can check on all transactions since I opened the account.I can set up sub-accts on the fly, issue debit cards to each of them, and my debit card works great online - so I can keep track of those internet purchases. Between-bank money transfers take a max of 1 day, usually same-day if I make it before 17.30, transfers within my bank are instantaneous - really handy for lending my brother some money *fast*.
And the icing on the cake, the thing that made me go to this bank - instant text-message updates on my current account. I get a transfer - I get an SMS, I buy something - I get an SMS. It's incredibly fast (I usually get the SMS before they hand me the reciept to sign) and incredibly useful. I know how much money I have, how much money I spent that day. It really helps to stem the spending sprees that plastic seems to lend itself to.
And all this, from my local, Polish bank.
the more robust design of the 10D (which is due for a replacement/update by the way)
The grapevine is putting the release date for the 10D replacement around autumn of this year.
The 1D MkII is somethinglike 70% the price of the 1Ds.
The *real* professionals will get the professional camera (or the 1D, or the 1D2 or whatever).
No, they'll get the 10D, or they'll already have it. A lot of pros skipped the 1Ds because of the weight - if you need to lug around 3 lenses + body weight starts to become an issue. The 1Ds was a studio camera, and a lot of people stayed with the 10D which is an excellent all-arounder. Heck, some of my photopro buddies still use the Canon D60.
I live in Warsaw, Poland.
My friend sent me a letter from Germany on friday morning, via DHL (private company), paid 38euro (about 45-50US) for it. I got it on tuesday morning.
Another friend sent me a package on thursday afternoon from Missouri, via USPS. It was a Muvo2 MP3 player in its original box, with all the manuals, power supplies, etc. He paid $20US for it, and I got it on... tuesday morning.
Don't knock the USPS.
Uh... I'm sorry, but...
I spent half my life living on the 11th floor. Never have I carried groceries in the way you said. It's always the same plan:
Pull up.
Unpack everything.
Carry it next to the elevator. (multiple trips if needed)
Pack it all in.
Take the elevator up.
Hold the door and unpack.
I live on a 5th floor walk up in Warsaw, Poland, without any really good shopping places in my immediate vicinity. So every couple of weeks, I'd take the bus to a large supermarket, buy stuff for 2-3 weeks and take a cab home. Now, I save both time and money just by putting orders through a local grocery store.
For fresh produce, meat and fish, I still go to the local market. But for name branded goods with freshness seals, it's online shopping all the way. Last weekend I ordered just beverages - 60l of juices, water and pop. That's about 70kg of weight (counting bottles + packaging), so I was more than happy to not have to carry it up.
There are some things I will never buy online - fruit, veggies, meat (they don't sell them anyway) - but for the other stuff, it's a great solution.