I attend the UW-Madison, and i decided to watch Steve Jobs' "special event" keynote, instead of watching the rebroadcast in Union South. Far more important to the life of a Mac user in the ChE program.
People said (and still say) that about music downloads: no liner notes. I have almost 16 GB of music on my computer, all but 700MB is ripped CDs (legally, the rest is iTMS), and I have no idea how many of those CDs have/had liner notes. I never look at them, because most liner notes are just pictures of the artists and a small bio, if not simply advertising. I never watch the special features on my DVDs because I buy them for the movies, and the movies alone. Ditto for CDs: I buy them for the music.
So, in conclusion, I would definitely patronize an online movie store, probably more than a "real" store, just like I visit iTMS more than Barnes & Noble.
Is it just me, or is Slashdot extremely slow since the upgrade? I was holding my tongue, figuring it was passing, but after this page took literally five minutes to load on my T1 university connection, I figured I ought to speak out. I'm using Safari 2.0.1 (412.5) on Mac OS X 10.4.2 on a 1.33 GHz iBook.
Shiira and Firefox are slightly faster, and Opera and Camino are both asininely slow. I'm not even bothering to try IE.
In my high-school classes, the teacher let us take as many notes as we could fit in our graphing calculators and use them on the test. I still have every trig identity programmed in my calculator.
Prairie Home Companion is funny. Just because you are too stupid of a conservative dolt (Hello! Garrison made fun of Clinton, Gore, and Kerry, too!) to understand humor that, I must admit, is a little left-shifted, you don't have to make fun of it.
It's fast, easy, and, best of all, TOTALLY FREE!!!! Professional IT help in as little as a day or two! Just post your question. Within several hours you have an initial opinion; within two days, a football stadum's worth of opinion, invective, and offtopic trolling!! Some of it's even relevant to the original concept!
They need to drain the city to get the power back on, they need power to drive the pumps to drain the city...
Actually, many of the pumps are diesel/electric and can use either. They also have tanks of diesel fuel to keep the pumps running for about a week.
I always thought that the biggest hazard to New Orleans was the Mississippi overflowing, since they had two 100-year flood seasons back to back in the last decade.
Actually, that isn't anywhere near the problem it used to be.
If the Mississippi gets too high (and we get two weeks notice, as they start to measure water height at Cairo, where the Missouri and Mississppi meet. If the water gets too high, they can route more water into the Atchafalaya (normally 30% of the Mississippi goes into the Atchafalya; they can put up to 60% of the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya before Morgan City has problems), and if they still have too mush water, they open the Bonnet Carré Spillway, which can let up to 40% of the water straight into Lake Pontchartrain.
You're totally right - I was booting Mac OS X from my iPod for a couple of days there as I was reformatting my main computer's HD, and it ran SSSLLLOOOWWW (FireWire 400) and the iPod made a nice handwarmer. Too bad it was summer in Louisiana.
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I attend the UW-Madison, and i decided to watch Steve Jobs' "special event" keynote, instead of watching the rebroadcast in Union South. Far more important to the life of a Mac user in the ChE program.
Apple's waiting to do it right. Or so everybody says.
Must've been just me, as it's working fine this morning.
People said (and still say) that about music downloads: no liner notes. I have almost 16 GB of music on my computer, all but 700MB is ripped CDs (legally, the rest is iTMS), and I have no idea how many of those CDs have/had liner notes. I never look at them, because most liner notes are just pictures of the artists and a small bio, if not simply advertising. I never watch the special features on my DVDs because I buy them for the movies, and the movies alone. Ditto for CDs: I buy them for the music.
So, in conclusion, I would definitely patronize an online movie store, probably more than a "real" store, just like I visit iTMS more than Barnes & Noble.
Is it just me, or is Slashdot extremely slow since the upgrade? I was holding my tongue, figuring it was passing, but after this page took literally five minutes to load on my T1 university connection, I figured I ought to speak out. I'm using Safari 2.0.1 (412.5) on Mac OS X 10.4.2 on a 1.33 GHz iBook.
Shiira and Firefox are slightly faster, and Opera and Camino are both asininely slow. I'm not even bothering to try IE.
What did you not like about 10.4?
I'm using Safari.
The point is that they can't read the physical CD.
Is is just me, or is Slashdot now incredibly slow?
In my high-school classes, the teacher let us take as many notes as we could fit in our graphing calculators and use them on the test. I still have every trig identity programmed in my calculator.
Prairie Home Companion is funny. Just because you are too stupid of a conservative dolt (Hello! Garrison made fun of Clinton, Gore, and Kerry, too!) to understand humor that, I must admit, is a little left-shifted, you don't have to make fun of it.
Haven't you ever heard their joke-shows?
BTW: learn to spell: PRAIRIE.
Why doesn't Slashdot ever get slashdotted?
Because ticalc.org isn't big enough.
Yet.
Oddly enough, Office 12 and iTunes 5 look very similar. Do I detect a conspiracy?
Apparently it is.
It's fast, easy, and, best of all, TOTALLY FREE!!!! Professional IT help in as little as a day or two! Just post your question. Within several hours you have an initial opinion; within two days, a football stadum's worth of opinion, invective, and offtopic trolling!! Some of it's even relevant to the original concept!
I hate to bust your bubble, but Bush is a Mac-user. Clinton, too. (I'm a Mac-using Kerry-voter, just for the record.)
Thanks - I got them mixed up.
They need to drain the city to get the power back on, they need power to drive the pumps to drain the city...
Actually, many of the pumps are diesel/electric and can use either. They also have tanks of diesel fuel to keep the pumps running for about a week.
I always thought that the biggest hazard to New Orleans was the Mississippi overflowing, since they had two 100-year flood seasons back to back in the last decade.
Actually, that isn't anywhere near the problem it used to be. If the Mississippi gets too high (and we get two weeks notice, as they start to measure water height at Cairo, where the Missouri and Mississppi meet. If the water gets too high, they can route more water into the Atchafalaya (normally 30% of the Mississippi goes into the Atchafalya; they can put up to 60% of the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya before Morgan City has problems), and if they still have too mush water, they open the Bonnet Carré Spillway, which can let up to 40% of the water straight into Lake Pontchartrain.
You're totally right - I was booting Mac OS X from my iPod for a couple of days there as I was reformatting my main computer's HD, and it ran SSSLLLOOOWWW (FireWire 400) and the iPod made a nice handwarmer. Too bad it was summer in Louisiana.
Kudos for the morality!