If they offer MP3's, then fine. But, let's be honest, most people are not like you who like obscure music that is only available on the internet. Most people want that supafly Beyonce CD or that hot Jarule or Jessica Simpson CD...ie the same BS you hear on Top 40 stations. It's not called Top 40 because noone likes it!:D
Or not fix them at all. Toshiba with their e740 may have just used a cheaper rom chip then a flashable chip as they neever released mroe then one firmware update and it still did not fix critical issues with the device. Then Microsoft released Windows Mobile 2003 and they did not offer an upgrade for it.
Flash to just 6 months ago when they released the e805. It was and currently still is the only PDA with a 640x480 LCD. Microsoft released Windows Mobile 2003 SE. Toshiba followed up and released it for the e805 (WM 2003 SE adds VGA support to all of it's components)...in Germany. They have, to date, not released this to the US market and have pretty much did what Sony did, pull out of the market. CompUSA doesn't have any e805's and it's been discontinued.
The problem now is that everyoen is trying to be the next cellphone and I am sorry, but it just does not work with anything other then cellphones. You can always get a new phone every 2 years if your willing to sign another two year contract. Tmobile has gotten this down to a year. The cellphone market came out like this because of the way our providers pushed signing new contracts. Essentially, even if you are already a subscriber, you can rework your deal, and get a new phone every 1-2 years....THIS DOES NOT WORK on devices that the purchase price is not subsidised. This is probably why Sony and others pulled out of the market. In ths US, cellphones appear to be free every 2 years, but they really aren't free. How do youi subsidise something with out a recurring monthly bill? You can't.
In most of Asia, small devices are and always have been all the rage. IN Japan, they buy these devices voraciously. In the US, we want something to last so it just does not work to release a new one every 6 months that's only evolutionary. Sure, we'd buy it if it really wow's you, but the WOW moves from one camp to another (like from PocketPC to Palm and back and forth) and then stalls out for about 6 months to a year. American's get PO'd when the device we bout 8 months ago is all of a sudden NOT getting updates to fix problems. SO we bag that vendor and go to another then they do the same thing. The 6 month cycle is nice, but it just does not work in the American market too well.
Better, but still kind of sketchy. Just advertise the price I pay, then surprise me with the possible rebate. Oh wait....it's regular price...nevermind...
And that my friends is what you get. I myself have never out and out returned anything from any Electronic stores nless it was defective. So what you did with teh Zaurus is say hey I want the better model and while it makes sense to you and me, to the manager it doesn't. My advice?? If you have another CompUSA in your area when your regular one trys this, go to the OTHER CompUSA. Enforcement of the RULES in retail is very lax and you'd likely get what you want. Also, sugarcoat it as THICK as you can. You DO get more when you treat the guy with the utmost respect. Go in not expecting anything and you'd be surprised.
CompUSA in our area at least has competitive prices. Sure, somethings are going to be more but thats the same as online. If your shopping on line and say wow....look at this....it's 20 dollars cheaper then CompUSA and then by the time you add shipping and insurance on the package, the price is 30 dollars higher. Yeah...makes you kind of think huh? Oh unless you get free shipping. That sounds exactly like CompUSA. In any case, I am willing to pay a little more at CompUSA as I know if i have an issue with something dying or arriving DOA, I can get a replacement right away. Newegg may offer that kind of service now, but when they get a critical mass of customers, they will have to end it....guaranteed...and then you will go elsewhere. BTW, I have heard Circuit City has this restocking fee as well as others. You can go thank the idiots who try to use stores as their rent to destroy place (you know, the ones who go and buy a big screen before the superbowl then return it the next day).
If your stuff is that secure, then why do you not implement some sort of key system that will only let you into a file (even a local file) if your connected to the company network? I mean, yeah, with time, that file could be decrypted, but it would take time.
Banning things like USB drives and pda's and mp3 players just piss your employee's off. If you really want to be secure, just have everything open (now let me explain). Usually when things are wide open, people don't try to cover their tracks as much and then WHAM. You got them. Passive monitoring of the data and looking for people that look like they are trying to hide something in a open environment will usually clue you in on the one who's the leak. Also, don't jsut hire warm bodies. Make sure that the people you hire are good people. One place I applied for had me take the Meyers-Briggs for a RETAIL job. They were looking for personality types that may be more likely for thieving. Do background checks (credit checks don't tell you much...unless they have horrendously BAD credit as in they have had 2 or 3 bankruptcies.)
One of my jobs is to monitor/fix the big Xerox DP75 Printers and the print server. I don't know how many times I got a call like the printer is down and that was not really the issue at all and it was usually some server thing, or even the fact that the data was screwed up so it would not bill the student so a schedule would not print. I have even been called over to UNJAM the printer because I here....they did not have time....what you did not have time to run your own printer and do your own JOB?
Can't greedy Hollywood just bring the frickin thing out ONCE!:P I, like almost every other freakin slashdotter are probably going to go and buy it...CRAP!:P
I KNOW why they use rebates. I STILL think that they just need to simplify somethings by just OFFERING IT AT A LOWER PRICE. I was thinking if you reduce all the overhead on store specific rebates, then you may be able to charge everyone the lowest price in the first place.
I just want to post one HAPPY story in this thread:
This week I had had it with my iPaq. It started to get to be a pain in the butt to charge. Something was going bad in the sync connector you use to charge the device. I bought one of the final tap plans with it offered by Compusa that include things like ooops I dropped it and you walk in and they replace it deals. It's not what I would call a extended warantee, but assurance program that helps Joe Sixpack get more comfortable with new technology. ANYWAY, I took my reciept and iPaq in to CompUSA and they of course did not have the model I had (5555....has only been out a year and is already discontinued...not like Toshiba's who have a model they had just brought out 6 months ago and you already can't get it). Anyway, I had paid around 650 for the iPaq last summer(when it was first released). They only had about 4 or 5 models to choose from with Windows Mobile OS. One of these was the 4350. Only 2 or 3 things it does not have that the 5555 has. The manager felt bad they did not have a equal model so they gave me that one (which is just fine), a free new tap plan (one where I mail it in and they fix it or ship me a refurb if I drop it and kill it) and 100 dollar gift card. When they were ringing the replacement up, they also had a 50 dollar gift card rebate and I got that as well. The manager just really had to give me a replacement and nothing more and he gave me a deal I will probably never get again. It's things like this that make me want to go back to the store. Of course when you talk rebates though, CompUSA is definitely the KING of rebates. I have no problem with rebates, but here's the thing:
DO NOT ADVERTISE PRICE AFTER REBATES!
Cell phone companies are guilty of this as well. I won't say that I get suckered in, but people like my Mom do sometimes. My thing is....advertise the price I need to pay at the register. If you want to say there's a rebate on it in the ad, then do so, but don't make it like that's the price I am going to pay at the register. Also, if a customer ONLY buys during sales...that SHOULD tell you something. It should tell you your price is too damn high!
Best Buy, I have no problems with you keeping lists of customers who commit fraud, but please don't penalize me for waiting until you put something on sale.
I had a e740 and luckily I had bought the no matter what replacement warantee but I had it sitting on my dresser and my cat started to tear at the carpet behind my dresser and I grabbed the dresser as I was ready to beat the cat(not really beat the cat...but to care it) and the pda went flying. It never powered on again.
I sure as heck ain't changing my vote because of this issue. Anyone who is voting for any person because of only one reason is not thinking about the whole picture. So what? Bush probably is hosting their site and their host uses Windows and IIS. Bush uses Movable Type on his Blog too. Does that mean he's a worse candidate then Kerry is JUST because he paid for his software? Again, this is just probably how it worked out and neither candidate probably has a clue WHAT software their web site runs on.
Not things like power supplies, modems, NIC's....etc etc. There are many thigs in a computer that stay constant. When was the last time you needed something other then a 10/100 MB NIC or a 56 K modem? If they were standard components like CD-RW drives and the like they could also sell them to anyone who wanted them. Things that DO change every year don't have problems like power supplies do.....ie the Motherboard.
I would rather have a local STORE that can do this work and quickly too. Gateway used to have stores and the screwed that up. If they had actually stocked components at the store then they would have been able to do the repair a whole lot quicker. as it is, it would have probably taken the same time if I had UPS'd it instead of hauling it into the store. That's NOT the only reason Gateway closed their stores, but it's a big one.
Not necesarily....but odds are they are using a Dish antenna. Dishes are directional. So that 500 Watts looks much bigger. Is pumping 10 KW into a omni going to get you the range that 500 W pumped into a dish? I don't know. Too many variables to calculate...you have near field losses, feed line losses, SWR losses (almost impossible to get exactly 1:1 SWR) and other unknowns would make it difficult to predict the actual amount of power coming out. Predicting range is like guessing. Considering you'd have to account for atmospheric conditons, conditions in the magnetosphere, Solar Flares, cosmic radiation...etc etc. If your like NASA, you probably know all of this, but most ham's don't really have an idea of how far a specific radio/amplifier/antenna combo would go. We just go off of experience. We generally after a while get pretty good at judging when we need to increase power or check the antenna. Most hams know with their current mobile setup when they hit X part of town, they need more power then when elsewhere to hit the repeater.
Hams (HAM IS NOT A ACRONYM!) aren't even authorized to use 10 KW. The legal limit is 2 KW I believe. Even so, you don't even need that much power. It's also in the test that hams aare authorized to use 2KW on some bands, but are technically bound to use only the least amount of power to establish communications. Most type accepted rigs are capable of 100 to 200 W PEP. QRP hams have been known to use any where form 500 mW to 5 W and are able to communicate world wide with radios like Yaesu's FT-817 and Icom's IC-703. Ham's also use directional antennas as well. Some use dishes, but most use a Yagi or Log Periodic. Yagi's can also be stacked so as to increase directional gain(not really feasible for HF bands, but definitely in the VHF and UHF Bands). A good antenna is more important then power with anything and I bet NASA uses GREAT antennas!
Micropayments to view web content will not work. The thing is, how would you know that something is worth paying for until you have read it???
The future is here now. Slashdot and PocketPC Thoughts and any others have ads. When you subscribe, these ads can be turned of is you so desire and you also get extra benefits. This is the way to run your site. I don't know how succesful somesites are, but PocketPC Thoughts had a bigger response then most did. One other thing that PPCT did was make mobile posting available to their subscribers as well. They also added a new subscriber widget which you can turn on or off to show your support to the site. It's been pretty cool. Do you loose functionality when the subscription goes away? Some, but the basics are still there. This makes it possible to fly a month or so with out the subscriprion and still be able to read it and post it. Provide extras that cost you nothing and people will pay. SLashdot has done this as well. Micropayments will be unsuccessful because most people don't want to have the same thing they have on their cellphone as they do on their internet connection. They are already sick and tired of being nickeled and dimed to death on their cellphones. Ask the local pots telephone companies how many people have unlimited local calls? I would say about 90 percent of them do.
I hate to reply to myself, but I forgot to post the why about Soundjam. Soundjam and it's developers were pretty much bought up by Apple to make iTunes.
Odds are, Apple pulled what they did with Soundjam and bought the program and developers. If you go to Konfabulator.com, they say get the original Dashboard before the first half of 2005.
That depends. Would our leaders have made back then the decision to support the Afgan Fedayeen knowing it would lead to Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban? The same for Sadaam?? I don't know. Personally, for the time for what they knew back then it was the right decision. The Soviets were a very dangerous enemy. One that had more then enough firepower at one time to destroy the planet when the retaliated for an attack by us. To say it is our fault would be correct but how would Reagan and Carter really have known what was going to happen? Should we take the blame? I think we have by invading both Iraq and Afganistan.
The second amendment is not just there for us to fight the british. It's there to fight OUR governement. But now, our government has more then enough soldiers and weaponry to take care of any rebellion. In the past, to take away these rights means the citizens were powerless against their government. Now, it does seem kind of pointless to be there, except that the government has nothing to worry about from rebellion. So why take away these rights then? Public safety? I don't know. But laws like conceal carry, a law recently coming into effect here in Ohio are NOT there for criminals. Criminals have been conceal carrying regardless of the law. Now it's about time our citizenry are able to protect themselves as well.
I always found it interesting that weather.gov has existed for many years now and there have always been sights to get the data (in the US) for free. Accuweather can stuff it. I would like to see a multiplatform weather warning bug programmed by NOAA/NWS residing in the menu bar on OS X, the tray in Windows and what have you for the other OS's. I trust the NWS alot more then I trust accuweather and the weather channel. I will still however pay for the weather channel as what other channel (local or not) has hotter weather babes (Kristina Abernathy is hot) and stupider men standing in the middle of Category 3 hurricanse getting hammered!
First off, I want to say that if Michael Moore had information about Abu Ghraib before it came out on the news, it was his civic duty to bring it out to the public. No, Michael Moore did not do that because HE IS OUT TO MAKE MONEY! He will put anything on screen, even if it's an out and out lie, just so he can make money. See the article on slate:
Also, it is said the Mr. Moore says that the Bush government is so in bed with the Saudi's....well if that was so, how come we had to move our headquarters to Doha, Qatar?? It definitely was not a decision the miltary would have made! Why reestablish airbases in Qatar when you had everything all setup in Saudi? Also, if your opposed to the war, why talk about not having enough troops? Did you not say moments before the war you want them to NOT send troops? Also, it is INSULTING to the American soldiers he so dedicates the movie to that he had this video of the happeings at Abu Ghraib and did not bring it out in the proper way. The WHOLE army was not involved at Abu Ghraib. It was simply a few bad apples who overstepped their authority. It has been said that Hezbollah, one of the biggest terrorist and ANTI American (left or right) groups out there are willing to put up their own money to get this movie shown in the UAE!
If Mr. Moore so cares about our troops, then why is he painting our whole military in a extremely bad light. Does he have any idea what this would do to undermine our efforts? How this movie may so inflame the terrorists??
Read this World Net Daily article...theatures are saying no to this film in droves.....todate only 417 theaters are showing Fahrenheit 9/11.
Also, about his previous movie, Bowling for Columbine, he suggests in that movie that gun problems in schools are rampant yet he misses the facts. The facts have pointed out before Columbine, school violence is going DOWN not UP! It's just reprehensible what he's doing here. I support his freedom to say what he wants, but what he's said in this movie and others he's made has been SLANDER!
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If they offer MP3's, then fine. But, let's be honest, most people are not like you who like obscure music that is only available on the internet. Most people want that supafly Beyonce CD or that hot Jarule or Jessica Simpson CD...ie the same BS you hear on Top 40 stations. It's not called Top 40 because noone likes it! :D
Or not fix them at all. Toshiba with their e740 may have just used a cheaper rom chip then a flashable chip as they neever released mroe then one firmware update and it still did not fix critical issues with the device. Then Microsoft released Windows Mobile 2003 and they did not offer an upgrade for it.
Flash to just 6 months ago when they released the e805. It was and currently still is the only PDA with a 640x480 LCD. Microsoft released Windows Mobile 2003 SE. Toshiba followed up and released it for the e805 (WM 2003 SE adds VGA support to all of it's components)...in Germany. They have, to date, not released this to the US market and have pretty much did what Sony did, pull out of the market. CompUSA doesn't have any e805's and it's been discontinued.
The problem now is that everyoen is trying to be the next cellphone and I am sorry, but it just does not work with anything other then cellphones. You can always get a new phone every 2 years if your willing to sign another two year contract. Tmobile has gotten this down to a year. The cellphone market came out like this because of the way our providers pushed signing new contracts. Essentially, even if you are already a subscriber, you can rework your deal, and get a new phone every 1-2 years....THIS DOES NOT WORK on devices that the purchase price is not subsidised. This is probably why Sony and others pulled out of the market. In ths US, cellphones appear to be free every 2 years, but they really aren't free. How do youi subsidise something with out a recurring monthly bill? You can't.
In most of Asia, small devices are and always have been all the rage. IN Japan, they buy these devices voraciously. In the US, we want something to last so it just does not work to release a new one every 6 months that's only evolutionary. Sure, we'd buy it if it really wow's you, but the WOW moves from one camp to another (like from PocketPC to Palm and back and forth) and then stalls out for about 6 months to a year. American's get PO'd when the device we bout 8 months ago is all of a sudden NOT getting updates to fix problems. SO we bag that vendor and go to another then they do the same thing. The 6 month cycle is nice, but it just does not work in the American market too well.
Your wrong. People DO buy CD's. Joe Sixpack buys them as well. Not everyone downloads. Some people actualy DO agree with me that it is wrong.
Better, but still kind of sketchy. Just advertise the price I pay, then surprise me with the possible rebate. Oh wait....it's regular price...nevermind...
And that my friends is what you get. I myself have never out and out returned anything from any Electronic stores nless it was defective. So what you did with teh Zaurus is say hey I want the better model and while it makes sense to you and me, to the manager it doesn't. My advice?? If you have another CompUSA in your area when your regular one trys this, go to the OTHER CompUSA. Enforcement of the RULES in retail is very lax and you'd likely get what you want. Also, sugarcoat it as THICK as you can. You DO get more when you treat the guy with the utmost respect. Go in not expecting anything and you'd be surprised.
CompUSA in our area at least has competitive prices. Sure, somethings are going to be more but thats the same as online. If your shopping on line and say wow....look at this....it's 20 dollars cheaper then CompUSA and then by the time you add shipping and insurance on the package, the price is 30 dollars higher. Yeah...makes you kind of think huh? Oh unless you get free shipping. That sounds exactly like CompUSA. In any case, I am willing to pay a little more at CompUSA as I know if i have an issue with something dying or arriving DOA, I can get a replacement right away. Newegg may offer that kind of service now, but when they get a critical mass of customers, they will have to end it....guaranteed...and then you will go elsewhere. BTW, I have heard Circuit City has this restocking fee as well as others. You can go thank the idiots who try to use stores as their rent to destroy place (you know, the ones who go and buy a big screen before the superbowl then return it the next day).
My story is true. YMMV.
If your stuff is that secure, then why do you not implement some sort of key system that will only let you into a file (even a local file) if your connected to the company network? I mean, yeah, with time, that file could be decrypted, but it would take time.
Banning things like USB drives and pda's and mp3 players just piss your employee's off. If you really want to be secure, just have everything open (now let me explain). Usually when things are wide open, people don't try to cover their tracks as much and then WHAM. You got them. Passive monitoring of the data and looking for people that look like they are trying to hide something in a open environment will usually clue you in on the one who's the leak. Also, don't jsut hire warm bodies. Make sure that the people you hire are good people. One place I applied for had me take the Meyers-Briggs for a RETAIL job. They were looking for personality types that may be more likely for thieving. Do background checks (credit checks don't tell you much...unless they have horrendously BAD credit as in they have had 2 or 3 bankruptcies.)
Heh heh....this is like what I get on my job.
One of my jobs is to monitor/fix the big Xerox DP75 Printers and the print server. I don't know how many times I got a call like the printer is down and that was not really the issue at all and it was usually some server thing, or even the fact that the data was screwed up so it would not bill the student so a schedule would not print. I have even been called over to UNJAM the printer because I here....they did not have time....what you did not have time to run your own printer and do your own JOB?
Can't greedy Hollywood just bring the frickin thing out ONCE! :P I, like almost every other freakin slashdotter are probably going to go and buy it...CRAP! :P
I KNOW why they use rebates. I STILL think that they just need to simplify somethings by just OFFERING IT AT A LOWER PRICE. I was thinking if you reduce all the overhead on store specific rebates, then you may be able to charge everyone the lowest price in the first place.
I just want to post one HAPPY story in this thread:
This week I had had it with my iPaq. It started to get to be a pain in the butt to charge. Something was going bad in the sync connector you use to charge the device. I bought one of the final tap plans with it offered by Compusa that include things like ooops I dropped it and you walk in and they replace it deals. It's not what I would call a extended warantee, but assurance program that helps Joe Sixpack get more comfortable with new technology. ANYWAY, I took my reciept and iPaq in to CompUSA and they of course did not have the model I had (5555....has only been out a year and is already discontinued...not like Toshiba's who have a model they had just brought out 6 months ago and you already can't get it). Anyway, I had paid around 650 for the iPaq last summer(when it was first released). They only had about 4 or 5 models to choose from with Windows Mobile OS. One of these was the 4350. Only 2 or 3 things it does not have that the 5555 has. The manager felt bad they did not have a equal model so they gave me that one (which is just fine), a free new tap plan (one where I mail it in and they fix it or ship me a refurb if I drop it and kill it) and 100 dollar gift card. When they were ringing the replacement up, they also had a 50 dollar gift card rebate and I got that as well. The manager just really had to give me a replacement and nothing more and he gave me a deal I will probably never get again. It's things like this that make me want to go back to the store. Of course when you talk rebates though, CompUSA is definitely the KING of rebates. I have no problem with rebates, but here's the thing:
DO NOT ADVERTISE PRICE AFTER REBATES!
Cell phone companies are guilty of this as well. I won't say that I get suckered in, but people like my Mom do sometimes. My thing is....advertise the price I need to pay at the register. If you want to say there's a rebate on it in the ad, then do so, but don't make it like that's the price I am going to pay at the register. Also, if a customer ONLY buys during sales...that SHOULD tell you something. It should tell you your price is too damn high!
Best Buy, I have no problems with you keeping lists of customers who commit fraud, but please don't penalize me for waiting until you put something on sale.
I had a e740 and luckily I had bought the no matter what replacement warantee but I had it sitting on my dresser and my cat started to tear at the carpet behind my dresser and I grabbed the dresser as I was ready to beat the cat(not really beat the cat...but to care it) and the pda went flying. It never powered on again.
I sure as heck ain't changing my vote because of this issue. Anyone who is voting for any person because of only one reason is not thinking about the whole picture. So what? Bush probably is hosting their site and their host uses Windows and IIS. Bush uses Movable Type on his Blog too. Does that mean he's a worse candidate then Kerry is JUST because he paid for his software? Again, this is just probably how it worked out and neither candidate probably has a clue WHAT software their web site runs on.
Not things like power supplies, modems, NIC's....etc etc. There are many thigs in a computer that stay constant. When was the last time you needed something other then a 10/100 MB NIC or a 56 K modem? If they were standard components like CD-RW drives and the like they could also sell them to anyone who wanted them. Things that DO change every year don't have problems like power supplies do.....ie the Motherboard.
I would rather have a local STORE that can do this work and quickly too. Gateway used to have stores and the screwed that up. If they had actually stocked components at the store then they would have been able to do the repair a whole lot quicker. as it is, it would have probably taken the same time if I had UPS'd it instead of hauling it into the store. That's NOT the only reason Gateway closed their stores, but it's a big one.
Not necesarily....but odds are they are using a Dish antenna. Dishes are directional. So that 500 Watts looks much bigger. Is pumping 10 KW into a omni going to get you the range that 500 W pumped into a dish? I don't know. Too many variables to calculate...you have near field losses, feed line losses, SWR losses (almost impossible to get exactly 1:1 SWR) and other unknowns would make it difficult to predict the actual amount of power coming out. Predicting range is like guessing. Considering you'd have to account for atmospheric conditons, conditions in the magnetosphere, Solar Flares, cosmic radiation...etc etc. If your like NASA, you probably know all of this, but most ham's don't really have an idea of how far a specific radio/amplifier/antenna combo would go. We just go off of experience. We generally after a while get pretty good at judging when we need to increase power or check the antenna. Most hams know with their current mobile setup when they hit X part of town, they need more power then when elsewhere to hit the repeater.
Hams (HAM IS NOT A ACRONYM!) aren't even authorized to use 10 KW. The legal limit is 2 KW I believe. Even so, you don't even need that much power. It's also in the test that hams aare authorized to use 2KW on some bands, but are technically bound to use only the least amount of power to establish communications. Most type accepted rigs are capable of 100 to 200 W PEP. QRP hams have been known to use any where form 500 mW to 5 W and are able to communicate world wide with radios like Yaesu's FT-817 and Icom's IC-703. Ham's also use directional antennas as well. Some use dishes, but most use a Yagi or Log Periodic. Yagi's can also be stacked so as to increase directional gain(not really feasible for HF bands, but definitely in the VHF and UHF Bands). A good antenna is more important then power with anything and I bet NASA uses GREAT antennas!
Implement free highspeed internet for all of your country! Then people can't use the excuse it costs too much!
Yes they were....but didn't you smell the vapor?:)
Micropayments to view web content will not work. The thing is, how would you know that something is worth paying for until you have read it???
The future is here now. Slashdot and PocketPC Thoughts and any others have ads. When you subscribe, these ads can be turned of is you so desire and you also get extra benefits. This is the way to run your site. I don't know how succesful somesites are, but PocketPC Thoughts had a bigger response then most did. One other thing that PPCT did was make mobile posting available to their subscribers as well. They also added a new subscriber widget which you can turn on or off to show your support to the site. It's been pretty cool. Do you loose functionality when the subscription goes away? Some, but the basics are still there. This makes it possible to fly a month or so with out the subscriprion and still be able to read it and post it. Provide extras that cost you nothing and people will pay. SLashdot has done this as well. Micropayments will be unsuccessful because most people don't want to have the same thing they have on their cellphone as they do on their internet connection. They are already sick and tired of being nickeled and dimed to death on their cellphones. Ask the local pots telephone companies how many people have unlimited local calls? I would say about 90 percent of them do.
Solve that with an iSight pointing away from you! :D
I hate to reply to myself, but I forgot to post the why about Soundjam. Soundjam and it's developers were pretty much bought up by Apple to make iTunes.
Odds are, Apple pulled what they did with Soundjam and bought the program and developers. If you go to Konfabulator.com, they say get the original Dashboard before the first half of 2005.
Download cygwin. Problem solved!
That depends. Would our leaders have made back then the decision to support the Afgan Fedayeen knowing it would lead to Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban? The same for Sadaam?? I don't know. Personally, for the time for what they knew back then it was the right decision. The Soviets were a very dangerous enemy. One that had more then enough firepower at one time to destroy the planet when the retaliated for an attack by us. To say it is our fault would be correct but how would Reagan and Carter really have known what was going to happen? Should we take the blame? I think we have by invading both Iraq and Afganistan.
The second amendment is not just there for us to fight the british. It's there to fight OUR governement. But now, our government has more then enough soldiers and weaponry to take care of any rebellion. In the past, to take away these rights means the citizens were powerless against their government. Now, it does seem kind of pointless to be there, except that the government has nothing to worry about from rebellion. So why take away these rights then? Public safety? I don't know. But laws like conceal carry, a law recently coming into effect here in Ohio are NOT there for criminals. Criminals have been conceal carrying regardless of the law. Now it's about time our citizenry are able to protect themselves as well.
I always found it interesting that weather.gov has existed for many years now and there have always been sights to get the data (in the US) for free. Accuweather can stuff it. I would like to see a multiplatform weather warning bug programmed by NOAA/NWS residing in the menu bar on OS X, the tray in Windows and what have you for the other OS's. I trust the NWS alot more then I trust accuweather and the weather channel. I will still however pay for the weather channel as what other channel (local or not) has hotter weather babes (Kristina Abernathy is hot) and stupider men standing in the middle of Category 3 hurricanse getting hammered!
First off, I want to say that if Michael Moore had information about Abu Ghraib before it came out on the news, it was his civic duty to bring it out to the public. No, Michael Moore did not do that because HE IS OUT TO MAKE MONEY! He will put anything on screen, even if it's an out and out lie, just so he can make money. See the article on slate:
Slate
Also, it is said the Mr. Moore says that the Bush government is so in bed with the Saudi's....well if that was so, how come we had to move our headquarters to Doha, Qatar?? It definitely was not a decision the miltary would have made! Why reestablish airbases in Qatar when you had everything all setup in Saudi? Also, if your opposed to the war, why talk about not having enough troops? Did you not say moments before the war you want them to NOT send troops? Also, it is INSULTING to the American soldiers he so dedicates the movie to that he had this video of the happeings at Abu Ghraib and did not bring it out in the proper way. The WHOLE army was not involved at Abu Ghraib. It was simply a few bad apples who overstepped their authority. It has been said that Hezbollah, one of the biggest terrorist and ANTI American (left or right) groups out there are willing to put up their own money to get this movie shown in the UAE!
Farenheit 9/11 a hit with Hezbollah
If Mr. Moore so cares about our troops, then why is he painting our whole military in a extremely bad light. Does he have any idea what this would do to undermine our efforts? How this movie may so inflame the terrorists??
Read this World Net Daily article...theatures are saying no to this film in droves.....todate only 417 theaters are showing Fahrenheit 9/11.
Thaters say no
Also, about his previous movie, Bowling for Columbine, he suggests in that movie that gun problems in schools are rampant yet he misses the facts. The facts have pointed out before Columbine, school violence is going DOWN not UP! It's just reprehensible what he's doing here. I support his freedom to say what he wants, but what he's said in this movie and others he's made has been SLANDER!