The fact is that the labels are not trying to deal with the cost, they see popularity and think demand is high enough to warrant a price increase.
Apple has made no qualms that they have very little goal of making money through iTunes. Between the license fees and bandwidth costs iTunes is a losing venture. All those nifty iPods they sell, well, those they make money on, tons of it. It is the opposite of the gilette business model. In this they sell the blades cheap to get you to buy the $300 razor.
So let's see, the government can have a secret court issue a secret subpoena and go to my ISP to see all of my online activity. Screw the ISP, they can come into MY HOUSE without my knowledge do whatever they want and leave, and this is (purportedly) legal?
Our government is giving prisoners over to other governments with horrible human rights records just so they can torture them, because we have laws against it. We have a government that has suspended habeas corpus, one of the few civil rights the framers thought was so important that it was in the constitution without an amendment.
All of this is being done to fight the "war on terror". And the thing he decides to protest is being asked to show ID? Wow...
There is alot to be said for the validation of the count not being done by the original counter. You cannot count the votes in this way 2x and say that they have been validated.
Actually once you get above $1k, the bid increments are much higher, so it could be $25-$50 difference. Multiply that enough times, and it is a big number. But ebay is not the beneficiary, the seller is, so...
Is this going to be another AMD innovation that will recieve no support from the software industry because they are not intel?
Until processor intensive programs are re-written to be multi-threaded (which is much more difficult than it sounds, so I hear) this just allows AIM, GAIM, MSN, Firefox and Photoshop can be open and functional at once. I see productivity declining...
We are all incapable of resisting marketing and ad copy? Boo-fricking-hoo. I go to the Detroit Auto Show and I see a Ferrari, I like it, it's a sexy fucking car, I want it. Because Enzo Ferrari is so good at making a street legal F1 car, and he spends so much money on marketing it (F1 team anyone), it is not my fault if I steal the car, it is Ferrari's? Give me a break.
Now I am a liberal, but pulling this socialist crap is ridiculous. If marketing makes products so irresistable to you that you ruin your credit, whore yourself out for $5 a shot in the mouth, or steal, you have nobody to blame but yourself, because you are an idiot who cannot control impulses.
Your logic justifies raping a provocatively dressed woman. She made you want it so much that you just had to take it. Nice.
The kid was stupid, he broke the rules. He didn't just get a gray-market copy, he then set out to distribute a gray-markey copy. The 5 or 6 friends part is bullshit, he had more people in mind, or should have known it wouldn't stay small. It is like telling 1 friend in highschool that your parents are gonna be out of town for the weekend. You either know it is gonna get around or you are so stupid that you derserve what you get.
Not true, if they can prove that the other's use of the similar mark creates confusion and/or dillution of the mark, the other can be estopped from using their similar mark. Now I have to go back to watching a movie on my SORNY TV.
Actually, that isn't true. There are many situations where you can cause harm to another and not be held responsible criminally or civilly. There is the legal concept of "due care". If you do something with due care and harm results to someone else, you are not responsible, whether you hit them with your car or reveal their private information. I am not saying this company lived up to their duty of due care, but if a court finds that they have, they have no liability.
Mouse/Human hybridomas have existed for years. They are chimeric cell lines. We have no had massive increases in cancer researchers (the typical person who uses these) getting the mouse flu (kidding, but you see my point).
Hey, just because it is going on at a major university doesn't mean the people aren't wacked. Remember, Dr. Peter Venkman held a faculty position at NYU (or was it Columbia?).
Off topic, and IANAL yet either, but the EULA statements are somewhat misleading. An EULA is an enforcable contract in theory, however many software licenses contain language that in many cases might be seen as unconscionable. For instance, many EULAs contain clauses as to choice of law and/or venue which are likely enforcable, but then there are disclaimers of warranty/merchantability which may not be enforcable. A software publisher cannot sell you a product license, but in the EULA then tell you that they have no obligation to provide usable product. Can they restrict the number of computers/users in the EULA, absolutely. Can they tell you that you have no rights whatsoever, no.
1. Distilled water is not pure water. A significant number of compounds can make it through more than one round of distillation. 2. As soon as you add anything to the water( container for water), the contaminants will make it conductive enough. 3. Pure water is also a fairly good oxidizing agent, so it would simply degrade all that lovely metal enough to make a very handy electrolyte solution. 4. There are plenty of non-conductive hydrocarbon solvents which would be much safer (for the computer).
Don't want the first generation of an Apple product? Anybody remember the 1st batch of pentiums? Spend like $3k on a computer that is actually slower than a 486? Or the early PIIs when intel didn't realize you needed a decent heatsink. Those were good times. And MS is just too easy...
Hmm... There is alot to be said for the idea that alot of the processor power is taken up by bloated code. They can get away with it because Intel and AMD keep making faster chips. CPU manufacturers aren't making faster chips so you can run better software, they are making faster chips so you feel a need to replace the one you already got. They are like GE, they don't wanna make the proverbial lightbulb that never goes out...
I had put in an order for a 15" powerbook, on friday, (I didn't believe in a G5book) and checking my order status today, apple upgraded everything in the order, and dropped the price. they even dropped about a week off the ship date. Pretty happy with them right now.
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The fact is that the labels are not trying to deal with the cost, they see popularity and think demand is high enough to warrant a price increase.
Apple has made no qualms that they have very little goal of making money through iTunes. Between the license fees and bandwidth costs iTunes is a losing venture. All those nifty iPods they sell, well, those they make money on, tons of it. It is the opposite of the gilette business model. In this they sell the blades cheap to get you to buy the $300 razor.
So let's see, the government can have a secret court issue a secret subpoena and go to my ISP to see all of my online activity. Screw the ISP, they can come into MY HOUSE without my knowledge do whatever they want and leave, and this is (purportedly) legal?
Our government is giving prisoners over to other governments with horrible human rights records just so they can torture them, because we have laws against it. We have a government that has suspended habeas corpus, one of the few civil rights the framers thought was so important that it was in the constitution without an amendment.
All of this is being done to fight the "war on terror". And the thing he decides to protest is being asked to show ID? Wow...
There is alot to be said for the validation of the count not being done by the original counter. You cannot count the votes in this way 2x and say that they have been validated.
Actually once you get above $1k, the bid increments are much higher, so it could be $25-$50 difference. Multiply that enough times, and it is a big number. But ebay is not the beneficiary, the seller is, so...
Is this going to be another AMD innovation that will recieve no support from the software industry because they are not intel? Until processor intensive programs are re-written to be multi-threaded (which is much more difficult than it sounds, so I hear) this just allows AIM, GAIM, MSN, Firefox and Photoshop can be open and functional at once. I see productivity declining...
Not his fault? Gimme a break.
We are all incapable of resisting marketing and ad copy? Boo-fricking-hoo. I go to the Detroit Auto Show and I see a Ferrari, I like it, it's a sexy fucking car, I want it. Because Enzo Ferrari is so good at making a street legal F1 car, and he spends so much money on marketing it (F1 team anyone), it is not my fault if I steal the car, it is Ferrari's? Give me a break.
Now I am a liberal, but pulling this socialist crap is ridiculous. If marketing makes products so irresistable to you that you ruin your credit, whore yourself out for $5 a shot in the mouth, or steal, you have nobody to blame but yourself, because you are an idiot who cannot control impulses.
Your logic justifies raping a provocatively dressed woman. She made you want it so much that you just had to take it. Nice.
The kid was stupid, he broke the rules. He didn't just get a gray-market copy, he then set out to distribute a gray-markey copy. The 5 or 6 friends part is bullshit, he had more people in mind, or should have known it wouldn't stay small. It is like telling 1 friend in highschool that your parents are gonna be out of town for the weekend. You either know it is gonna get around or you are so stupid that you derserve what you get.
Not true, if they can prove that the other's use of the similar mark creates confusion and/or dillution of the mark, the other can be estopped from using their similar mark. Now I have to go back to watching a movie on my SORNY TV.
Actually, that isn't true. There are many situations where you can cause harm to another and not be held responsible criminally or civilly. There is the legal concept of "due care". If you do something with due care and harm results to someone else, you are not responsible, whether you hit them with your car or reveal their private information. I am not saying this company lived up to their duty of due care, but if a court finds that they have, they have no liability.
Mouse/Human hybridomas have existed for years. They are chimeric cell lines. We have no had massive increases in cancer researchers (the typical person who uses these) getting the mouse flu (kidding, but you see my point).
Hey, just because it is going on at a major university doesn't mean the people aren't wacked. Remember, Dr. Peter Venkman held a faculty position at NYU (or was it Columbia?).
There was an MST3K episode, 811- "PARTS": THE CLONUS HORROR, (www.mst3kinfo.com). The movie was horrible, but great episode for Mike and the Bots.
Off topic, and IANAL yet either, but the EULA statements are somewhat misleading. An EULA is an enforcable contract in theory, however many software licenses contain language that in many cases might be seen as unconscionable. For instance, many EULAs contain clauses as to choice of law and/or venue which are likely enforcable, but then there are disclaimers of warranty/merchantability which may not be enforcable. A software publisher cannot sell you a product license, but in the EULA then tell you that they have no obligation to provide usable product. Can they restrict the number of computers/users in the EULA, absolutely. Can they tell you that you have no rights whatsoever, no.
1. Distilled water is not pure water. A significant number of compounds can make it through more than one round of distillation.
2. As soon as you add anything to the water( container for water), the contaminants will make it conductive enough.
3. Pure water is also a fairly good oxidizing agent, so it would simply degrade all that lovely metal enough to make a very handy electrolyte solution.
4. There are plenty of non-conductive hydrocarbon solvents which would be much safer (for the computer).
Don't want the first generation of an Apple product? Anybody remember the 1st batch of pentiums? Spend like $3k on a computer that is actually slower than a 486? Or the early PIIs when intel didn't realize you needed a decent heatsink. Those were good times. And MS is just too easy...
Hmm... There is alot to be said for the idea that alot of the processor power is taken up by bloated code. They can get away with it because Intel and AMD keep making faster chips. CPU manufacturers aren't making faster chips so you can run better software, they are making faster chips so you feel a need to replace the one you already got. They are like GE, they don't wanna make the proverbial lightbulb that never goes out...
I had put in an order for a 15" powerbook, on friday, (I didn't believe in a G5book) and checking my order status today, apple upgraded everything in the order, and dropped the price. they even dropped about a week off the ship date. Pretty happy with them right now.