Mobile, cell phone, handy, celly, whatever, my favourite one that I read recently is "mofo" (in the Salman Rushdie book "Fury"). I have this great mental picture of someone wrong-numbering a gangsta rapper "hey mofo, get off my mofo"...
I wonder if you'd say this if you were the inventor. I'm not trying to be an arse here (at least not deliberately), but if you had an invention, and larger players copied it and didn't give you any credit (read: licensing money), up to the point where your own company is driven out of business as you don't have the marketing $$ and distribution network, wouldn't you turn to the courts? I know we're all anti-patents and all that, but that's because we don't have any;-) I'm wondering whether Burst.com inventors (or whoever holds that patent) felt it was obviously general when they submitted - yes, I know we have companies who sit on submarine patents, but these guys have real products (though I have no idea if they are any good).
I'm not saying this is the case here as reading the Apple PR it looks like they have tried to license the technology (though I'm a little confused here as some people here are saying they have prior art and say anyway that the patents being "enforced" are not relevant). Also from the PR it looks like Apple had enough of the discussion and decided it would be cheaper to go to court to set the amount they need to pay, in which case I think that's fair enough.
2 little old ladies are sitting on a park bench when along comes Bill Gates and unveils his Urge. One little old lady had a stroke. The other couldn't reach...
I'm on my third in about 7 years. I started with a Duo 270c which was a little colour screened thing. Due to some screw up with the ordering system I received 2 (my cousin used to work for Claris/Apple and they were getting rid of old office machines). Worked like a dream.
Next I had a 14 inch Pismo (400 mhz). Lasted 3 years and I had to sell it as it was just too slow to run the newer flavours of OSX. It was heavy, but tough as old boots. The screen had a known fault and was replaced (during 1st year warranty) for free. I had to replace the battery which crapped out after about 2 years and I bought a new power adaptor (the one that looked like a yo-yo) as it started shorting. Apple has a habit of making real sexy looking power adaptors which are really unsuitable for light everyday abuse.
I'm now on a 12 inch AlBook (1 ghz). It's lovely. Had it for 2 years already, but the battery needs replacing. Gets a little hot sometimes, but apart from that it's super. It's not so fast for doing mpeg-4 encoding (it's the CPU), but I don't do that much and if I did, I should probably get a desktop. As a coffee-table/ digital living room device it's great and does everything I want.
I've never had Applecare. Never really saw the point.
Regarding battery life, I've had some IBM and HP machines from work and the battery life has been about the same (not impressive).
LOL - I thought he was referring to the confectionary items in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and couldn't understand the link to Syria. Thanks for clearing that up;-)
Aren't crime investigations almost always going to be after the fact? Yes War on Terror and all that intelligence stuff, but that's got to be a tiny % of crime compared to robbery etc...
Sounds to me more like IBM or Sun have got a great sales guy who's managed to offload a new grid installation and I'm guessing it's an end of year special promotion hence the PR/announcement in late Q4.
hey, that's totally unfair, I stayed with Yahoo Mail because I wanted Xcam's bikini model popping up on my screen. Certainly more entertaining than most of the email I received.
(it was a particularly inspired piece of advertising to pitch crappy boring web cams by showing pictures of the half-undressed female next door you too could be spying on)
If Yiddish speakers refer to the holocaust they will probably call it by the accepted Hebrew term "shoah" (2 syllable, emphasis on the "ah" bit) which means "disaster".
Actually, real Yiddish speakers these days are basically only the Hassidim, so they'd probably pronounce it "shoioh".
Yeah, we've got a big community of them here in Israel. They have beautiful gardens in Haifa (open to public, definitely worth a visit). They also seem to be nice, tolerant peace-loving people which I'm guessing is why they didn't get on so well with most of our neighbours.
the wtc bit isn't true actually. (That's World Trade Center I'm guessing)
I know this with certainty because I'm really really Jewish (so I can speak to all other Jews in realtime and we all agree and we all work together and when we're not taking everyone's money which we already have anyway we're busy planning to take over the world whatever that means and... oh yeah, and eating bagels with lox).
In fact the guy who owns the company which owns the wtc building is Jewish, but you've gotta be really fucking delusional if you think he convinced a bunch of Saudi Arabians to fly 2 planes into the buildings as part of an insurance scam.
I don't agree with your post much, although it is clear that the reason MSFT put 100 million into Apple a few years back was to prevent them becoming a total monopoly.
I think classing Apple as a desktop OS company is ignoring developments of the past 3-4 years.
I also think that people wanting to use Linux on the desktop won't use Apple. Most Apple users are individuals/small work groups and home users (like me), so you're not going to get the hundreds of corporate desktops you need to challenge Microsoft by replacing them (hint: start with the system integrators who have the 000's of outsourced desktop maintenance contracts with large corporates).
I also don't believe that if Apple did not exist there would be hordes of developers lining up for a desktop Linux product. Most open source projects are understaffed anyway, to expect loads of people to fall out of the woodwork and start working on improving a desktop (as well really understanding user interfaces and *shudder* marketing) is IM-Not-So-HO fanciful.
I think that you receiving 5 insightful for your post is damn impressive, but that's just my opinion.
2) Hezbollah IS a terrorist organization. Where have you been that you do not know this?
Someone at BBC headquarters is probably getting very upset. Will you kindly refer to them as "suspected militants", not terrorists?
3) This is real genius. The clever part is not the $$ side. If you are a known terrorist there's going be loads of people trying to tap your calls. You think the FBI is gonna tap Joe Random's line? Hell no.
Just out of curiosity, what actualy make a business evil or unethical?
You are soooo Web 1.0. Listen, if it's in Wikipedia or on someone's blog, it's true. Any business that ever made anyone unhappy is unethical forever.
if all you want to do is rip the music, you'll never run into it. But if you want to see the artist interview, or watch the "Making of the album" video, that's when you run the program that with the EULA and DRM software.
....isn't it kind of odd that they'd protect the extra crap and let you rip the good stuff?
Well I was about to say "you dumb/. zealot, there's more to Microsoft than marketing, they make some software too"....
On second thoughts, based on their recent TV marketing campaign (the one where they show a bunch of children with aspirations including for things like music creation that Microsoft doesn't have any software offering for) which basically has no point whatsoever apart from an opportunity to say "Hi we're Microsoft, don't forget about us" and display a Microsoft logo I'm thinking you might be onto something. Go team!
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Puns away! Well with them keeping the current pricing points, there's not going to be any Banquo, but sure plenty of bank woe...
Mobile, cell phone, handy, celly, whatever, my favourite one that I read recently is "mofo" (in the Salman Rushdie book "Fury"). I have this great mental picture of someone wrong-numbering a gangsta rapper "hey mofo, get off my mofo"...
I wonder if you'd say this if you were the inventor. I'm not trying to be an arse here (at least not deliberately), but if you had an invention, and larger players copied it and didn't give you any credit (read: licensing money), up to the point where your own company is driven out of business as you don't have the marketing $$ and distribution network, wouldn't you turn to the courts? I know we're all anti-patents and all that, but that's because we don't have any ;-) I'm wondering whether Burst.com inventors (or whoever holds that patent) felt it was obviously general when they submitted - yes, I know we have companies who sit on submarine patents, but these guys have real products (though I have no idea if they are any good).
I'm not saying this is the case here as reading the Apple PR it looks like they have tried to license the technology (though I'm a little confused here as some people here are saying they have prior art and say anyway that the patents being "enforced" are not relevant). Also from the PR it looks like Apple had enough of the discussion and decided it would be cheaper to go to court to set the amount they need to pay, in which case I think that's fair enough.
2 little old ladies are sitting on a park bench when along comes Bill Gates and unveils his Urge. One little old lady had a stroke. The other couldn't reach...
I thank yow....
I'm on my third in about 7 years. I started with a Duo 270c which was a little colour screened thing. Due to some screw up with the ordering system I received 2 (my cousin used to work for Claris/Apple and they were getting rid of old office machines). Worked like a dream.
Next I had a 14 inch Pismo (400 mhz). Lasted 3 years and I had to sell it as it was just too slow to run the newer flavours of OSX. It was heavy, but tough as old boots. The screen had a known fault and was replaced (during 1st year warranty) for free. I had to replace the battery which crapped out after about 2 years and I bought a new power adaptor (the one that looked like a yo-yo) as it started shorting. Apple has a habit of making real sexy looking power adaptors which are really unsuitable for light everyday abuse.
I'm now on a 12 inch AlBook (1 ghz). It's lovely. Had it for 2 years already, but the battery needs replacing. Gets a little hot sometimes, but apart from that it's super. It's not so fast for doing mpeg-4 encoding (it's the CPU), but I don't do that much and if I did, I should probably get a desktop. As a coffee-table/ digital living room device it's great and does everything I want.
I've never had Applecare. Never really saw the point.
Regarding battery life, I've had some IBM and HP machines from work and the battery life has been about the same (not impressive).
Yeah, but unfortunately each example you gave still only ends up with a paltry 4 letters.
;-))
Looks like we should import some vowels experts from Finland (I guess they can always make some extra cash as Lapp Dancers in their spare time
LOL - I thought he was referring to the confectionary items in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and couldn't understand the link to Syria. Thanks for clearing that up ;-)
This must be really inconvenient for the fans, they'll have to visit non-Chinese-language sites and they'll have no idea what they're looking at.
That's just offensive, of course most Mac users aren't Alan Turing. Fool.
Java + Cocoa = Mocha?
Install, insert, whatever..... I just hope the cover is machine washable
Aren't crime investigations almost always going to be after the fact? Yes War on Terror and all that intelligence stuff, but that's got to be a tiny % of crime compared to robbery etc...
Sounds to me more like IBM or Sun have got a great sales guy who's managed to offload a new grid installation and I'm guessing it's an end of year special promotion hence the PR/announcement in late Q4.
hey, that's totally unfair, I stayed with Yahoo Mail because I wanted Xcam's bikini model popping up on my screen. Certainly more entertaining than most of the email I received.
(it was a particularly inspired piece of advertising to pitch crappy boring web cams by showing pictures of the half-undressed female next door you too could be spying on)
Holocaust is a Greek word.
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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=holocaus
If Yiddish speakers refer to the holocaust they will probably call it by the accepted Hebrew term "shoah" (2 syllable, emphasis on the "ah" bit) which means "disaster".
Actually, real Yiddish speakers these days are basically only the Hassidim, so they'd probably pronounce it "shoioh".
Yeah, we've got a big community of them here in Israel. They have beautiful gardens in Haifa (open to public, definitely worth a visit). They also seem to be nice, tolerant peace-loving people which I'm guessing is why they didn't get on so well with most of our neighbours.
the wtc bit isn't true actually. (That's World Trade Center I'm guessing)
I know this with certainty because I'm really really Jewish (so I can speak to all other Jews in realtime and we all agree and we all work together and when we're not taking everyone's money which we already have anyway we're busy planning to take over the world whatever that means and... oh yeah, and eating bagels with lox).
In fact the guy who owns the company which owns the wtc building is Jewish, but you've gotta be really fucking delusional if you think he convinced a bunch of Saudi Arabians to fly 2 planes into the buildings as part of an insurance scam.
I don't agree with your post much, although it is clear that the reason MSFT put 100 million into Apple a few years back was to prevent them becoming a total monopoly.
I think classing Apple as a desktop OS company is ignoring developments of the past 3-4 years.
I also think that people wanting to use Linux on the desktop won't use Apple. Most Apple users are individuals/small work groups and home users (like me), so you're not going to get the hundreds of corporate desktops you need to challenge Microsoft by replacing them (hint: start with the system integrators who have the 000's of outsourced desktop maintenance contracts with large corporates).
I also don't believe that if Apple did not exist there would be hordes of developers lining up for a desktop Linux product. Most open source projects are understaffed anyway, to expect loads of people to fall out of the woodwork and start working on improving a desktop (as well really understanding user interfaces and *shudder* marketing) is IM-Not-So-HO fanciful.
I think that you receiving 5 insightful for your post is damn impressive, but that's just my opinion.
2) Hezbollah IS a terrorist organization. Where have you been that you do not know this? Someone at BBC headquarters is probably getting very upset. Will you kindly refer to them as "suspected militants", not terrorists? 3) This is real genius. The clever part is not the $$ side. If you are a known terrorist there's going be loads of people trying to tap your calls. You think the FBI is gonna tap Joe Random's line? Hell no.
er, then it's a regular mp3 player and why does it need to be wireless when you can plug it in to your hifi directly?
(please don't reply about remote control blah blah blah - really you're not going to sit on your sofa song hopping like you do with TV channels)
Just out of curiosity, what actualy make a business evil or unethical?
You are soooo Web 1.0. Listen, if it's in Wikipedia or on someone's blog, it's true. Any business that ever made anyone unhappy is unethical forever.
"sometimes" denotes an occasional event. I think the correct word you wanted is "normally" or even "usually".
Let's not be silly. Leviticus is more of an accounts book. If you're talking Development Process, Genesis is surely where it's at....
Next time, you can use this great new site I found called Google. Those guys are great, they seem to know everything...
Well I was about to say "you dumb /. zealot, there's more to Microsoft than marketing, they make some software too"....
On second thoughts, based on their recent TV marketing campaign (the one where they show a bunch of children with aspirations including for things like music creation that Microsoft doesn't have any software offering for) which basically has no point whatsoever apart from an opportunity to say "Hi we're Microsoft, don't forget about us" and display a Microsoft logo I'm thinking you might be onto something. Go team!