This product is perfect for the 15% of college students who can't afford the $20 educational license for Office... but it'd actually only be used by the %2 who don't know how to get a pirated copy either...
What are you smoking? For one thing, the educational version of office is $130 and is (if I recall) rather crippled. Some colleges will offer software like this to their students for cheap or free, but they've certainly paid for that in tuition. For another, there are tons of people who aren't in school who can't afford Office, or who can but don't want to pay $300 to Microsoft, or who use Linux, or who don't like pirating software, or probably a hundred other things. Many such people use OpenOffice, but I at least am not particularly fond of its interface. There's a much bigger market for this than you think.
I dropped my 3rd gen iPod under a bus once. It has scratches, but it's perfectly readable. My fingernail certainly does not put deep gouges in it (nor in my wife's 4th gen).
You're also assuming that having a "remote in your hand that you can push as you walk up to the door" is intuitive - which is isn't - it's far more intuitive to put a key in the lock.
That's just crap. What's intuitive is what you know. If you're used to pushing the unlock button on the remote, that's more intuitive. As someone else said, a button on the DVD drive only seems intuitive if you're used to thinking of the drive as a separate part of the machine, rather than the paradigm Apple promotes wherein it's all just "the computer."
And I don't know where your keyless car lock rant came from. It's not even remotely relevant.
I have a wife and I live in Seattle. We pay about 20 bucks to get into a movie together, and we don't buy any food at theaters. We have both worked at theaters and we know that the food is where they make the money.
30+ dollars on a single ticket, drink and popcorn is a bit of an exaggeration, and there's still a pretty huge difference between seeing a movie on a widescreen TV vs. an actual theater screen which is however many feet tall and wide.
I still like to see movies in the theater, but the price IS getting pretty ridiculous. And seeing a movie in a theater packed with idiots does suck. Nevertheless, I guess the article isn't really talking about me, because I probably see movies more regularly now (in the theater AND at home) than I have any time in the past.
I used to read Hotmail in Thunderbird using third party applications to get it to work, but then MS put in a captcha which made this no longer possible. THAT'S why I switched.
Once I switched it became apparent that not only does Gmail have more storage and a better interface, but it is incredibly less evil than Hotmail. You can set it to forward to other accounts, you can use it for POP mail instead of the web interface if you like, etc, etc.
No, it still is, because he's not talking about that kind of anarchist. He's talking about the kind that link is trying to say isn't real anarchism, even though it has many adherents (or pseudo-adherents).
"Carpe" means "pluck" in Latin, not seize. Seize is "cape," and apparently along the way someone got confused and said that carpe diem means seize the day.
No one gives a damn because that's what the supreme court is FOR. It's foolish to just assume that the constitution is perfect and that a strict word-for-word enforcement of what the constitution says is ideal. Fortunately, our founding fathers did not make such assumptions and created the court system (among other things) in order to make the constitution work in this real world we live in.
Good post, except English is only about 40% Latin-based. English to begin with was a bastardization of Latin and Germanic languages. Anyway, the point is, we'd have to go back to an old Teutonic language (being the ancestor language of most of English) to find "pure" English.
He Mac Mini isn't cheap, except as a Mac. It's at least $150 more expensive than a comparably crippled entry-level PC. It's only "cheap" because that's less than half the "Mac Tax" you'd have to pay on anything else.
Does that include the OS? Because OS X costs almost all of that $150 dollar difference, and Windows costs more.
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I saw it at Target the other day and hadn't realized it was brand new.
the backlight on both handhelds will obviously consume battery power far quicker than what the Micro would
The Micro is backlit.
This product is perfect for the 15% of college students who can't afford the $20 educational license for Office... but it'd actually only be used by the %2 who don't know how to get a pirated copy either...
What are you smoking? For one thing, the educational version of office is $130 and is (if I recall) rather crippled. Some colleges will offer software like this to their students for cheap or free, but they've certainly paid for that in tuition. For another, there are tons of people who aren't in school who can't afford Office, or who can but don't want to pay $300 to Microsoft, or who use Linux, or who don't like pirating software, or probably a hundred other things. Many such people use OpenOffice, but I at least am not particularly fond of its interface. There's a much bigger market for this than you think.
No man, it's not called "hemolymph," it's called "ichor."
I dropped my 3rd gen iPod under a bus once. It has scratches, but it's perfectly readable. My fingernail certainly does not put deep gouges in it (nor in my wife's 4th gen).
In what way is writing xhtml harder than writing html 4.01?
Heck they'd probably save even more space using css positioning and divs instead of tables! Web standards to the rescue once again!
You're also assuming that having a "remote in your hand that you can push as you walk up to the door" is intuitive - which is isn't - it's far more intuitive to put a key in the lock.
That's just crap. What's intuitive is what you know. If you're used to pushing the unlock button on the remote, that's more intuitive. As someone else said, a button on the DVD drive only seems intuitive if you're used to thinking of the drive as a separate part of the machine, rather than the paradigm Apple promotes wherein it's all just "the computer."
And I don't know where your keyless car lock rant came from. It's not even remotely relevant.
Not difficult - just ridiculously unintuitive. Kind of like putting your front door lock on one of the side windows would be.
No, it's much more analagous to having the front door lock on a remote in your hand that you can push as you walk up to the door.
I tested with Thunderbird, so that's probably the difference.
I have a wife and I live in Seattle. We pay about 20 bucks to get into a movie together, and we don't buy any food at theaters. We have both worked at theaters and we know that the food is where they make the money.
Regardless, I said a single ticket.
30+ dollars on a single ticket, drink and popcorn is a bit of an exaggeration, and there's still a pretty huge difference between seeing a movie on a widescreen TV vs. an actual theater screen which is however many feet tall and wide.
I still like to see movies in the theater, but the price IS getting pretty ridiculous. And seeing a movie in a theater packed with idiots does suck. Nevertheless, I guess the article isn't really talking about me, because I probably see movies more regularly now (in the theater AND at home) than I have any time in the past.
I used to read Hotmail in Thunderbird using third party applications to get it to work, but then MS put in a captcha which made this no longer possible. THAT'S why I switched.
Once I switched it became apparent that not only does Gmail have more storage and a better interface, but it is incredibly less evil than Hotmail. You can set it to forward to other accounts, you can use it for POP mail instead of the web interface if you like, etc, etc.
Hmm, it doesn't show up that way to me. I sent myself an email and it shows up as the address I told it to send from.
A man was recently killed in Enumclaw (though he was actually from Seattle) by having sex with a horse. His colon ruptured.
No, it still is, because he's not talking about that kind of anarchist. He's talking about the kind that link is trying to say isn't real anarchism, even though it has many adherents (or pseudo-adherents).
"Carpe" means "pluck" in Latin, not seize. Seize is "cape," and apparently along the way someone got confused and said that carpe diem means seize the day.
Actually, ponies are just what small breeds of horses are called.
If it were so lucrative you wouldn't see webcomic artists asking for donations all the time. (Yes, I donate to some.)
I don't see how that really makes sense, since donations would be part of the revenue stream.
No, doing this still opens the program dramatically faster in version 7.
No one gives a damn because that's what the supreme court is FOR. It's foolish to just assume that the constitution is perfect and that a strict word-for-word enforcement of what the constitution says is ideal. Fortunately, our founding fathers did not make such assumptions and created the court system (among other things) in order to make the constitution work in this real world we live in.
Dude, the grammar checker in MS Word doesn't work for anyone; Canadian, American, British, or what have you.
Good post, except English is only about 40% Latin-based. English to begin with was a bastardization of Latin and Germanic languages. Anyway, the point is, we'd have to go back to an old Teutonic language (being the ancestor language of most of English) to find "pure" English.
He Mac Mini isn't cheap, except as a Mac. It's at least $150 more expensive than a comparably crippled entry-level PC. It's only "cheap" because that's less than half the "Mac Tax" you'd have to pay on anything else.
Does that include the OS? Because OS X costs almost all of that $150 dollar difference, and Windows costs more.
You don't buy a wireless mouse to reduce the amout of wires, you buy it so the cord doesn't get caught on things while you're mousing.