You can get onsite warranty support with an Apple laptop -- just buy it from a store that offers it as an option. I got it for my wife's iBook when we bought it at Micro Center. Just because it has "Apple" on the box doesn't mean you can't get an on-site warranty for it.
Now if foreign policy was elected seperately to domestic, then the argument might have credence.
An interesting idea. How do you think it might be implemented? Would there be elections for a leader of domestic policy, and another for the leader of foreign? What if the two policies conflict? I'd like to hear more.
Modern warfare is nothing compared to what both soldiers and civilians went through in previous wars.
It's amazing to me that people in America get upset when 3,000 soldiers are killed. There were INDIVIDUAL BATTLES in World Wars I and II where 50,000+ soldiers were killed. While this war is horrific, it's nothing compared to real full-scale combat. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it shows that technology is making war less bloody. Of course, that doesn't help the thousands of people who still die in Iraq.
Only if the NRA was deliberately launching rockets into a neighboring country with the stated goal to kill as many civilians and possible and destroy that country. Then, yes, you might be on to something. But otherwise, no, you're wrong.
Surely part of the point of the protest is that the mainstream media in the US is very biased?
How would they know that the U.S. media is biased? They're in CHILE! No internet connection is fast enough to truly get an accurate image of a large nation's media from the outside. Reading NYTimes.com and USAToday.com doesn't cut it.
I think it's more fear than reality about keeping the bluetooth mice powered. I think the batteries in my Bluetake mouse last at least six months. My wife has the original Apple wireless mouse, and I only have to replace her batteries every three or four months.
I'll second this. I picked one up in Japan two years ago after searching in vein in the United States for a two-button Bluetooth mouse with a scroll wheel. The thing is great. VERY small. Runs forever on two AAA batteries.
Interestingly, the blinking bluetooth light actually illuminates the scroll wheel. Sort of like functional eye candy.
That's an interesting point. An iTunes Movie Store could be the killer app that forces the ISPs to play nice. ISP customer service centers are already swamped[1]. Imagine if tens or hundreds of thousands of people start calling their ISPs because iTunes told them their connection is being deliberately slowed down by their provider, and they should call the 800 number to complain.
People trust iTunes over ISPs.
[1] After years of crappy ISPs, I have found Nirvana in Chicago, of all places. An ISP with true, unlimited bandwidth, full Usenet access, and geek-friendly customer support people who answer the phone on the second ring at 2am and when I tell them they need to reboot their router in my neighborhood, they just do it without giving me a hard time and my connection is fine 30 seconds later. No, there's no way I'm telling Slashdot who they are. I'm keeping them all to myself.
Not deliberately trying to be cynical but manufacturers always blame third party batteries. Sony are particularly vocal.
Very true. My Ericsson T68mc screen lights up "Charging Alien Battery" if it doesn't have a genuine Ericsson battery when you plug it in. Great way to scare people who don't know any better.
Computer companies make almost none of their own parts, and keeping track of what comes from where must be a nightmare
This is an example of what's wrong with big companies these days -- always passing the buck. It's always someone else's fault. Blame another department. Blame a vendor. Blame a subcontractor. Never take responsibility for the product they put their name on. They're more than happy to take a customer's money for a new "Dell" (or whatever) computer, but when something goes wrong, suddenly it's not theirs and not their problem. Strangely, the cash remains theirs, even when they disavow the responsibility.
The fact that people buy into this attitude and think it's OK, and make excuses for it shows how widespread it is, and what a problem it's become.
Face it, you got p0wned. That's what you get for repeating something you heard on the internet as a fact. Resorting to profanity only proves he was right about you.
Then someone else put a gun on an offensive plane to shoot down the defensive planes. Then someone else said "To hell with reconnaisance; let's drop bombs on the enemy."...and so on.
While your point is well taken, I'd like to pick a little nit: Bombs were dropped on people long before the airplane. People used tethered balloons.
Address verification is a completely optional step in credit card processing.
No, not completely.
It depends on who you do your credit card processing through. The company I use requires address verification if there is no physical card present (phone, internet, fax orders). Usually it's not a problem until some boss tells his secretary to buy something with his card and she assumes the billing address is the company address, not his home.
So you could be sued for publishing something on the internet if its illegal in any country where it can be read, in theory.
It happens. The high profile cases are France and Germany versus places like eBay over Nazi items or inciteful web sites in America that can be read in France.
It also happened to me. I had a picture on my web site that was a vacation snap of me standing in front of a building in Belgium. The company in Belgium that owns the building hired a law firm in New York to sue me in order to get me to take it off my site. They're a big company with money for a lawyer, and I'm just this guy, so I caved. What choice did I have? EFF was no help, probably because they're swamped.
The current funding situation doesn't change the fact that it happened.
Strangely, not everything that is currently happening in the world, and not everything that ever happened in the world's history involves George W. Bush. It's about time people realized this. Mark you calendar with the number of days until his term expires, and just get on with your lives already.
If this is the case, you're making a mistake running Windows in the first place. You'd be better off running an RTOS.
You assume that everyone uses their computers for the same task you do. At my last job, I was like the above poster -- my computers HAD to work all the time. It was the sort of industry where five seconds is the difference between keeping your job, and being sent packing. As much as I wanted to, switching off Windows wasn't an option because the indusrty-specific program that ran on 500 of our computers only comes for Windows, and it's the only program that interfaces to the 100 or so machines that need to communicate with each other, and with the computer operators, all day.
As much as I hate Windows, and wish everyone could switch to Apple, it's not always possible, and pretending it is just shows your ignorance.
It's not meant as a specific slap at Austria, but at the EU as a whole. I think he understands my intent, even if I didn't articulate it properly here.
A friend of mine in Austria gloats about his 12 weeks of annual vacation.
Until I remind him that that's why the U.S. has been to the moon, and Austria hasn't been a factor in 200 years.
Hard work has its rewards. The United States was founded by Europeans who realized this and decided it was more rewarding to actually DO something, rather than sit around and talk about doing things.
I think you answered your own question: "some places." Your one data point of $1/min is just that -- one data point. I paid $19.95/month for unlimited wifi in New York -- significantly less than £1/hour.
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You can get onsite warranty support with an Apple laptop -- just buy it from a store that offers it as an option. I got it for my wife's iBook when we bought it at Micro Center. Just because it has "Apple" on the box doesn't mean you can't get an on-site warranty for it.
Now if foreign policy was elected seperately to domestic, then the argument might have credence.
An interesting idea. How do you think it might be implemented? Would there be elections for a leader of domestic policy, and another for the leader of foreign? What if the two policies conflict? I'd like to hear more.
It's 2,000 years of that sort of attitude that has gotten us to where we are today. Lots of blame going around. Not a lot of forgiveness.
How are the people supposed to protect themselves against the actions of their owngovernment, without breaking the law.
In most civilized countries you can replace the government through a process known as an election. You guys should look into that. It might help.
Modern warfare is nothing compared to what both soldiers and civilians went through in previous wars.
It's amazing to me that people in America get upset when 3,000 soldiers are killed. There were INDIVIDUAL BATTLES in World Wars I and II where 50,000+ soldiers were killed. While this war is horrific, it's nothing compared to real full-scale combat. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it shows that technology is making war less bloody. Of course, that doesn't help the thousands of people who still die in Iraq.
Only if the NRA was deliberately launching rockets into a neighboring country with the stated goal to kill as many civilians and possible and destroy that country. Then, yes, you might be on to something. But otherwise, no, you're wrong.
Is it just because I'm not toeing the slashdot pro USA, pro republican line?
That line made me laugh.
If anything, Slashdot is rabidly anti-USA and anti-Republican. Or maybe you and I just read different threads.
Surely part of the point of the protest is that the mainstream media in the US is very biased?
How would they know that the U.S. media is biased? They're in CHILE! No internet connection is fast enough to truly get an accurate image of a large nation's media from the outside. Reading NYTimes.com and USAToday.com doesn't cut it.
Regular people who speak at work like NPR reporters and anchors usually end up getting sent off for drug tests.
Bob's your uncle.
Sounds like your sync app is corrupting your data.
I think it's more fear than reality about keeping the bluetooth mice powered. I think the batteries in my Bluetake mouse last at least six months. My wife has the original Apple wireless mouse, and I only have to replace her batteries every three or four months.
I'll second this. I picked one up in Japan two years ago after searching in vein in the United States for a two-button Bluetooth mouse with a scroll wheel. The thing is great. VERY small. Runs forever on two AAA batteries.
Interestingly, the blinking bluetooth light actually illuminates the scroll wheel. Sort of like functional eye candy.
That's an interesting point. An iTunes Movie Store could be the killer app that forces the ISPs to play nice. ISP customer service centers are already swamped[1]. Imagine if tens or hundreds of thousands of people start calling their ISPs because iTunes told them their connection is being deliberately slowed down by their provider, and they should call the 800 number to complain.
People trust iTunes over ISPs.
[1] After years of crappy ISPs, I have found Nirvana in Chicago, of all places. An ISP with true, unlimited bandwidth, full Usenet access, and geek-friendly customer support people who answer the phone on the second ring at 2am and when I tell them they need to reboot their router in my neighborhood, they just do it without giving me a hard time and my connection is fine 30 seconds later. No, there's no way I'm telling Slashdot who they are. I'm keeping them all to myself.
but no, i don't have a video iCrack
Thank you for at least admitting that you don't know what you're talking about.
Not deliberately trying to be cynical but manufacturers always blame third party batteries. Sony are particularly vocal.
Very true. My Ericsson T68mc screen lights up "Charging Alien Battery" if it doesn't have a genuine Ericsson battery when you plug it in. Great way to scare people who don't know any better.
Computer companies make almost none of their own parts, and keeping track of what comes from where must be a nightmare
This is an example of what's wrong with big companies these days -- always passing the buck. It's always someone else's fault. Blame another department. Blame a vendor. Blame a subcontractor. Never take responsibility for the product they put their name on. They're more than happy to take a customer's money for a new "Dell" (or whatever) computer, but when something goes wrong, suddenly it's not theirs and not their problem. Strangely, the cash remains theirs, even when they disavow the responsibility.
The fact that people buy into this attitude and think it's OK, and make excuses for it shows how widespread it is, and what a problem it's become.
Face it, you got p0wned. That's what you get for repeating something you heard on the internet as a fact. Resorting to profanity only proves he was right about you.
Then someone else put a gun on an offensive plane to shoot down the defensive planes. Then someone else said "To hell with reconnaisance; let's drop bombs on the enemy." ...and so on.
While your point is well taken, I'd like to pick a little nit: Bombs were dropped on people long before the airplane. People used tethered balloons.
Address verification is a completely optional step in credit card processing.
No, not completely.
It depends on who you do your credit card processing through. The company I use requires address verification if there is no physical card present (phone, internet, fax orders). Usually it's not a problem until some boss tells his secretary to buy something with his card and she assumes the billing address is the company address, not his home.
So you could be sued for publishing something on the internet if its illegal in any country where it can be read, in theory.
It happens. The high profile cases are France and Germany versus places like eBay over Nazi items or inciteful web sites in America that can be read in France.
It also happened to me. I had a picture on my web site that was a vacation snap of me standing in front of a building in Belgium. The company in Belgium that owns the building hired a law firm in New York to sue me in order to get me to take it off my site. They're a big company with money for a lawyer, and I'm just this guy, so I caved. What choice did I have? EFF was no help, probably because they're swamped.
The current funding situation doesn't change the fact that it happened.
Strangely, not everything that is currently happening in the world, and not everything that ever happened in the world's history involves George W. Bush. It's about time people realized this. Mark you calendar with the number of days until his term expires, and just get on with your lives already.
If this is the case, you're making a mistake running Windows in the first place. You'd be better off running an RTOS.
You assume that everyone uses their computers for the same task you do. At my last job, I was like the above poster -- my computers HAD to work all the time. It was the sort of industry where five seconds is the difference between keeping your job, and being sent packing. As much as I wanted to, switching off Windows wasn't an option because the indusrty-specific program that ran on 500 of our computers only comes for Windows, and it's the only program that interfaces to the 100 or so machines that need to communicate with each other, and with the computer operators, all day.
As much as I hate Windows, and wish everyone could switch to Apple, it's not always possible, and pretending it is just shows your ignorance.
It's not meant as a specific slap at Austria, but at the EU as a whole. I think he understands my intent, even if I didn't articulate it properly here.
A friend of mine in Austria gloats about his 12 weeks of annual vacation.
Until I remind him that that's why the U.S. has been to the moon, and Austria hasn't been a factor in 200 years.
Hard work has its rewards. The United States was founded by Europeans who realized this and decided it was more rewarding to actually DO something, rather than sit around and talk about doing things.
I think you answered your own question: "some places." Your one data point of $1/min is just that -- one data point. I paid $19.95/month for unlimited wifi in New York -- significantly less than £1/hour.