Thing is, it's not really "importing" (I presume you mean taking products for personal use home if you travel overseas. If you do it for any other reason it is subject to duties and laws, which incudes copyrights), if you sit on your chair infront of your computer waiting for a song to download. They are offering their service to americans living in America.
I did include the bit about pressurisation in my comment, and said that if it was stored in a pressurised container, as soon as it is poured in normal atmouspheric pressure, it will have to be under 100C or would explode.
I don't want to take "big sips" I want to take small, slow sips if I just got it. I have to blow it to cool it if it's too hot. I don't want to be treated like a baby who expects everything they touch to be absolutely danger-free. If I were to order a hot coffee and burn my tongue because I was too dumb to drink it like a hot drink shoul be drank, that would be my own stupid fault.
Yeah sure, Starbucks uses their "magic recipe" which makes the water turn cold on contact with exothermal human skin. They use the same stuff McDonalds use, water. If you make hot coffee out of water, you can burn yourself very easily. And you don't have to describe your sensations when you spilled coffee on you, I think most people have had experience with that already.
Then that's a problem the lady has to deal with. All McDonalds done was serve a hot coffee, at a perfectly reasonable temperature. The inujries resulted because of how she held the cup, and how she sitting, something that isn't McDonalds' responsability. I'm not blaming her if she wasn't able to jump up and pull down her pants, but what's McDonalds supposed to do, only serve cold coffee to elderly people?
I don't know if you're trying to be serious or humerous with this comment, but the thing is, what you are describing is physically impossible. If I imagine holding an open kettle with bubbling water in it, that is the absolute maximum temperature anything made up of mostly water will get. I would treat it in a similar way as a cup of hot coffee.
As for the other examples, they're pretty obvious too (although exploding batteries are well known). They simply don't pose that much of a threat. It's because of the womans lack of reaction that she suffered the injuries she did.
If someone would serve me 140F coffee, I would either ridicule them, or if I payed for it tell them to fuck off (okay, I haven't said it before, but I would have liked to on occaisons).
I don't want to have "safe" coffee, that I can drink as fast as Water, I wan't hot coffee that I can slowly sip and enjoy.
There's not much difference. You try to make coffee as hot as you can get it, and it still won't last for longer than 10 minutes in a cup. If I were to drink the coffee I make myself, I would burn my throat. But the normal way to drink hot beverages, as everyone should know, is to slowly test and sip it before you gulp it down your throat.
The situation you described seems more like an "accident" with molten metal than hot coffee. The simple fact is that water (coffee) can't be heated to more than 100 degrees Celcius, and even if it is pressurized, it must have cooled down to less, otherwise it would be spitting all over the place. She suffered the injuries because she spilled the coffee in an unlucky position, not because there was a cup of death served to her by the evil people at McDonalds
People have accidents with hot beverages at home all the time. Just because you purchased it from a restaurant doesn't make it any less your own fault.
Well, first off, it would help by saying what specs your Macbook has.
Next, if we look at the prices, we see this: cheapest macbook is $1100. That's with a 13 (yes thirteen) inch screen, 512 MB of ram and a 60 GB hard drive. Just a quik look at Dell reveals that you can get the same specs (but a 2" bigger screen) for $700. If you pay $1100, you can get a Dell which compares to the top Macbook for 1500 And this is only a quick comparison. Dell doesn't always have the best solutions, and with a little searching I'm sure you could find something similar for 600 or less.
Now, as for the bundled Software, yeah that's what's nice about a Mac. (Although most apps have comparable Windows alternatives, which are either free, or relatively cheap) And yes, the Mac is better designed, and has a high level of quality.
But that's not what this is about. The point is that a Mac is a lot more expensive than a PC with the same specs. You can get a much cheaper PC than you can a Mac, and if you buy a Mac, you must be aware that you could have got a PC to do the same for much less, but chose to pay more for the "better designed" Mac.
It's exactly the same way it was 10 years ago and more.
60 years ago we were told that nuclear energy (or to comply with the buzzword thingy: atoms) would change our lives, not much mention about computers. After all, the world would only need 4 of them, right?
The point is that buzzwords don't often live up to their hype. The overuse of the prefix "nano" is just an example.
Nobody will buy EVD-only players in the West, and it won't make any differnce to them anyway.
It might be different for the chines market, but it's just not worth a new technology for western customers.
I heard that DVD-licenses were quite high, about $8 per player. Of course this is going to piss off the chinese manufacturer, who makes about $2 on a player, but unless Players are going to drop in price to about $10 (which won't happen, transportation alone will liekly cost more), western customers won't give a shit, because they can already get DVD players for an incredibly cheap price of $30.
It is actually an intersting theory for the shape of the universe. I was recently in a lecture at an open day at a university faculty for astrophysics, and the prof said that the Torus-shaped universe is now considered to be unlikely though (don't ask me why)
I am sure in 50 years or more scientists will find the reasons (magnetic fields, quantum fields or whatever) that produce those effects.
No need, they already have. It's called psychology. Same thing with the Placebo effect. As soon as people think something has an effect, they make it happen. Nothing to do with Planets.
No exactly. By his logic, a sign of a consoles failure is when the maker of the console quits, making the DC a failure. The reverse isn't necessarily true though. The Saturn was horrible even though they did make the DC.
It's giving a mathematically calculated position that goes by actual distribution. Sure, it's not completely accurate, but it just shows you where you are in the list. As for the kid, I have to agree with the comment above me. He might not be the richest in american society, but he's probably got a pretty swell life compared to the people living in slums larger than you can imagine.
There's no way Microsoft "won" the las generation war. Billions of dollars loss and roughly the same marketshare as a console you say has "lost" isn't really something to be proud of.
They'reby no means "slim". Everybody has to be inspected, and as long as you're fit you are classed as suitable, and have a pretty good chance of being drawn in. Most though do a civilian service, and that's how they keep the number of recruits low.
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Thing is, it's not really "importing" (I presume you mean taking products for personal use home if you travel overseas. If you do it for any other reason it is subject to duties and laws, which incudes copyrights), if you sit on your chair infront of your computer waiting for a song to download. They are offering their service to americans living in America.
I did include the bit about pressurisation in my comment, and said that if it was stored in a pressurised container, as soon as it is poured in normal atmouspheric pressure, it will have to be under 100C or would explode.
I don't want to take "big sips" I want to take small, slow sips if I just got it. I have to blow it to cool it if it's too hot.
I don't want to be treated like a baby who expects everything they touch to be absolutely danger-free. If I were to order a hot coffee and burn my tongue because I was too dumb to drink it like a hot drink shoul be drank, that would be my own stupid fault.
Yeah sure, Starbucks uses their "magic recipe" which makes the water turn cold on contact with exothermal human skin. They use the same stuff McDonalds use, water. If you make hot coffee out of water, you can burn yourself very easily.
And you don't have to describe your sensations when you spilled coffee on you, I think most people have had experience with that already.
Then that's a problem the lady has to deal with. All McDonalds done was serve a hot coffee, at a perfectly reasonable temperature. The inujries resulted because of how she held the cup, and how she sitting, something that isn't McDonalds' responsability. I'm not blaming her if she wasn't able to jump up and pull down her pants, but what's McDonalds supposed to do, only serve cold coffee to elderly people?
I don't know if you're trying to be serious or humerous with this comment, but the thing is, what you are describing is physically impossible. If I imagine holding an open kettle with bubbling water in it, that is the absolute maximum temperature anything made up of mostly water will get. I would treat it in a similar way as a cup of hot coffee. As for the other examples, they're pretty obvious too (although exploding batteries are well known). They simply don't pose that much of a threat. It's because of the womans lack of reaction that she suffered the injuries she did.
If someone would serve me 140F coffee, I would either ridicule them, or if I payed for it tell them to fuck off (okay, I haven't said it before, but I would have liked to on occaisons).
I don't want to have "safe" coffee, that I can drink as fast as Water, I wan't hot coffee that I can slowly sip and enjoy.
There's not much difference. You try to make coffee as hot as you can get it, and it still won't last for longer than 10 minutes in a cup. If I were to drink the coffee I make myself, I would burn my throat. But the normal way to drink hot beverages, as everyone should know, is to slowly test and sip it before you gulp it down your throat.
The situation you described seems more like an "accident" with molten metal than hot coffee. The simple fact is that water (coffee) can't be heated to more than 100 degrees Celcius, and even if it is pressurized, it must have cooled down to less, otherwise it would be spitting all over the place.
She suffered the injuries because she spilled the coffee in an unlucky position, not because there was a cup of death served to her by the evil people at McDonalds
People have accidents with hot beverages at home all the time. Just because you purchased it from a restaurant doesn't make it any less your own fault.
Well, first off, it would help by saying what specs your Macbook has.
Next, if we look at the prices, we see this: cheapest macbook is $1100. That's with a 13 (yes thirteen) inch screen, 512 MB of ram and a 60 GB hard drive. Just a quik look at Dell reveals that you can get the same specs (but a 2" bigger screen) for $700. If you pay $1100, you can get a Dell which compares to the top Macbook for 1500
And this is only a quick comparison. Dell doesn't always have the best solutions, and with a little searching I'm sure you could find something similar for 600 or less.
Now, as for the bundled Software, yeah that's what's nice about a Mac. (Although most apps have comparable Windows alternatives, which are either free, or relatively cheap)
And yes, the Mac is better designed, and has a high level of quality.
But that's not what this is about. The point is that a Mac is a lot more expensive than a PC with the same specs. You can get a much cheaper PC than you can a Mac, and if you buy a Mac, you must be aware that you could have got a PC to do the same for much less, but chose to pay more for the "better designed" Mac.
It's exactly the same way it was 10 years ago and more.
The scary thing is that the creatures in Alien are no more fucked up than some of the things we find on earth.
60 years ago we were told that nuclear energy (or to comply with the buzzword thingy: atoms) would change our lives, not much mention about computers. After all, the world would only need 4 of them, right?
The point is that buzzwords don't often live up to their hype. The overuse of the prefix "nano" is just an example.
I think that was it actually.
If you want a Mac you still have to pay twice as much for your hardware.
Nobody will buy EVD-only players in the West, and it won't make any differnce to them anyway. It might be different for the chines market, but it's just not worth a new technology for western customers. I heard that DVD-licenses were quite high, about $8 per player. Of course this is going to piss off the chinese manufacturer, who makes about $2 on a player, but unless Players are going to drop in price to about $10 (which won't happen, transportation alone will liekly cost more), western customers won't give a shit, because they can already get DVD players for an incredibly cheap price of $30.
It is actually an intersting theory for the shape of the universe. I was recently in a lecture at an open day at a university faculty for astrophysics, and the prof said that the Torus-shaped universe is now considered to be unlikely though (don't ask me why)
I am sure in 50 years or more scientists will find the reasons (magnetic fields, quantum fields or whatever) that produce those effects.
No need, they already have. It's called psychology. Same thing with the Placebo effect. As soon as people think something has an effect, they make it happen. Nothing to do with Planets.
Especially if the $3000 TV is more like $6000 where we come from.
No exactly. By his logic, a sign of a consoles failure is when the maker of the console quits, making the DC a failure. The reverse isn't necessarily true though. The Saturn was horrible even though they did make the DC.
Wow, that's a relief. I think it even makes up for the $83 extra we're paying.
Do you even know what you're talking about? This is Smash Brothers, Smash Brothers (read: the best Multiplayer ever) we're talking about here.
It's giving a mathematically calculated position that goes by actual distribution. Sure, it's not completely accurate, but it just shows you where you are in the list.
As for the kid, I have to agree with the comment above me. He might not be the richest in american society, but he's probably got a pretty swell life compared to the people living in slums larger than you can imagine.
There's no way Microsoft "won" the las generation war. Billions of dollars loss and roughly the same marketshare as a console you say has "lost" isn't really something to be proud of.
They'reby no means "slim". Everybody has to be inspected, and as long as you're fit you are classed as suitable, and have a pretty good chance of being drawn in.
Most though do a civilian service, and that's how they keep the number of recruits low.
Sorry, I said "tens of millions" up there. I meant "tens of billions"