Now, if they pushed Verizon to bid higher to win the contract won't they just charge the end users more?
The price that Verizon can charge consumers in the marketplace is not related to the price that they paid for the spectrum. It's a competitive consumer marketplace.
CompUSA was the only centrally located computer supply store in town. Before they came to town a few years ago I always had to get in my car when I needed gear. Ah well..
This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file-sharing services and/or redirecting television programming content for viewing on laptops is prohibited
Looks like aside from the usual P2P suspects, it was slingbox users that were the real thorn in their side....
Why doesn't Apple sell them at CompUSA side-by-side with HP Laptops and the like? Because they are intentionally focusing on an upscale market and are not currently worried atoo much about competing on price.
All I am saying is that I hope for competition's sake they they get into the superstores and start competing on price. With the success of the iPod they have a great chance to increase marketshare if they are willing to sell to a mass market. This added competition will be good for all computer users even those who still stay on Windows.
I'd like to see Macs side by side with the Windows PCs at CompUSA and at a similar price (ok, maybe $200 more, but not too much). Then Microsoft would really feel the competition and Apple would gain a LOT of market share.
Right now Macs are a niche product for mainly well off people.
It's hard for me to recommend Macs to anyone except for fairly well off people. They just cost too much compared with ordinary PCs. If they could bring overall prices down to what you see for mid-performance Windows based computers at CompUSA, etc they might actually gain market share. I realize they make money just fine with this business model but I wish they had more market share so they could inspire more fear into Microsoft who probably isn't sweating things with 90% of the market.
Right now Macs are marketed to the Viking range and Subzero fridge crowd, not my Grandma. And that's too bad.
I discovered the when Windows Update wants to download something, it seems to dominate the network bandwidth of the machine, despite MS claiming that it plays nice with bandwidth. On my own machine this has meant that some applications could not connect or ran slowly during Windows updates. When I share a slow wireless network with other machines, I found that things got nice and slow when WU kicked in on those machines.
So I turn it off, and hope I remember to update when I have time to wait for it to do it's thing. I have noticed that some MSI files turn it back on again as part of the install. My machine slows to a crawl so I notice what has happened pretty quickly.
It doesn't seem like these Re-capchas require that the user type in the correct case for letters. Won't this be a problem for translated text? Even if they don't absolutely require it, they should at least request that the user use the correct case.
If this feature exists (and has existed for the entire time), why is it that there is a third party application written to delete playlist entries that no longer have files associated with them? The answer must be that it is not convenient to do this in all cases with iTunes. I'm not remembering the precise situation that occured with my gf's machine since it was a while ago but if the solution was straightforward I doubt I would have had to search for and use the third party solution. Maybe the files were added at various times so it made it harder to pinpoint them all, I dunno..
My guess is that the most typical use case for iTunes is to use it to rip CD's and therefore people who have a library of mp3s on a CR-R end up needing features that aren't there because they aren't the typical user.
That's what I used, but it is poor design of iTunes that I should have to use a third party software to do such a basic task. Which was the point of my post.
No, there were hundreds of them. Far too painful to use iTunes to delete them all (she has a large library of other stuff). This is just poor design of iTunes. If they seamlessly synch when new files are added to the file system, they should seamlessly sync when files are deleted from the file system. The fact that I have to use some third party software to do what I wanted shows that they have poor design.
Agreed. I added a bunch of mp3 files to my girlfriends PC. iTunes noticed this and added it to her playlists. She told me to get that crap off of there, so I went back to the file system and dleted it all.
Did iTunes sync up and delete these items frm the playlists... nooooo. Boy was my gf pissed at me.
I ended up having to use some freeware utility to go in and clean out the playlist entries pointing to the non-existant files. LAME!
You should check out this Frontline piece on China. In it they manage to candidly interview a couple students from a top university there and showed them photos of "Tank Man", and they did not recognize the image. It seems as though any recorded history of the 1989 uprising ha been eliminated in China.
I have looked into this extensively and unfortunately: a) I don't have a southern view b) The law only applies to areas the renter controls - not the side of a building or on the roof (and no I don't have a balcony, just a fire escape)
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You should keep an eye on the three credit reporting agencies. Verizon may also sell your debt to third parties who might continue to come after you.
The price that Verizon can charge consumers in the marketplace is not related to the price that they paid for the spectrum. It's a competitive consumer marketplace.
Everytime that thing loads I have to kill Firefox. It freezes all my windows.
Central computer is not a superstore. It's a small store with not near the same selection.
CompUSA was the only centrally located computer supply store in town. Before they came to town a few years ago I always had to get in my car when I needed gear. Ah well..
Looks like aside from the usual P2P suspects, it was slingbox users that were the real thorn in their side....
Why doesn't Apple sell them at CompUSA side-by-side with HP Laptops and the like? Because they are intentionally focusing on an upscale market and are not currently worried atoo much about competing on price.
All I am saying is that I hope for competition's sake they they get into the superstores and start competing on price. With the success of the iPod they have a great chance to increase marketshare if they are willing to sell to a mass market. This added competition will be good for all computer users even those who still stay on Windows.
I'd like to see Macs side by side with the Windows PCs at CompUSA and at a similar price (ok, maybe $200 more, but not too much). Then Microsoft would really feel the competition and Apple would gain a LOT of market share.
Right now Macs are a niche product for mainly well off people.
It's hard for me to recommend Macs to anyone except for fairly well off people. They just cost too much compared with ordinary PCs. If they could bring overall prices down to what you see for mid-performance Windows based computers at CompUSA, etc they might actually gain market share. I realize they make money just fine with this business model but I wish they had more market share so they could inspire more fear into Microsoft who probably isn't sweating things with 90% of the market.
Right now Macs are marketed to the Viking range and Subzero fridge crowd, not my Grandma. And that's too bad.
I discovered the when Windows Update wants to download something, it seems to dominate the network bandwidth of the machine, despite MS claiming that it plays nice with bandwidth. On my own machine this has meant that some applications could not connect or ran slowly during Windows updates. When I share a slow wireless network with other machines, I found that things got nice and slow when WU kicked in on those machines.
So I turn it off, and hope I remember to update when I have time to wait for it to do it's thing. I have noticed that some MSI files turn it back on again as part of the install. My machine slows to a crawl so I notice what has happened pretty quickly.
It doesn't seem like these Re-capchas require that the user type in the correct case for letters. Won't this be a problem for translated text? Even if they don't absolutely require it, they should at least request that the user use the correct case.
My guess is that the most typical use case for iTunes is to use it to rip CD's and therefore people who have a library of mp3s on a CR-R end up needing features that aren't there because they aren't the typical user.
I'm pretty sure it must not have been intuitive or that functionality didn't exist in whatever version of iTunes she had.
That's what I used, but it is poor design of iTunes that I should have to use a third party software to do such a basic task. Which was the point of my post.
No, there were hundreds of them. Far too painful to use iTunes to delete them all (she has a large library of other stuff). This is just poor design of iTunes. If they seamlessly synch when new files are added to the file system, they should seamlessly sync when files are deleted from the file system. The fact that I have to use some third party software to do what I wanted shows that they have poor design.
Agreed. I added a bunch of mp3 files to my girlfriends PC. iTunes noticed this and added it to her playlists. She told me to get that crap off of there, so I went back to the file system and dleted it all. Did iTunes sync up and delete these items frm the playlists... nooooo. Boy was my gf pissed at me. I ended up having to use some freeware utility to go in and clean out the playlist entries pointing to the non-existant files. LAME!
Watch the segment. These were students at the Chinese equivalent of Harvard. It's not comparable to "Jaywalking".
You should check out this Frontline piece on China. In it they manage to candidly interview a couple students from a top university there and showed them photos of "Tank Man", and they did not recognize the image. It seems as though any recorded history of the 1989 uprising ha been eliminated in China.
Excellent post. Thank you.
Some of the articles say that one Glenn May was killed. I wonder if this was him? http://bikerodnkustom3.homestead.com/danger.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley#Discogr aphy
Does this mean that I will find his mp3s freely and legally available on British servers soon?
Does anyone really *want* a system beep anymore these days?? It's a real hassle to disable it.
..you may have seen her on PBS. She really has a good approach to finding fulfilling work. For example: http://www.amazon.com/Live-Life-You-Love-Step/dp/0 440507561
Oh the irony!
I have looked into this extensively and unfortunately: a) I don't have a southern view b) The law only applies to areas the renter controls - not the side of a building or on the roof (and no I don't have a balcony, just a fire escape)