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I pay $60/mo for unlimited data via my USB card, which is 300% more per month than the iPhone user who pays $20/mo. Is it unfair to expect the same(if not 300% better) treatment from AT&T? Where's my free wifi? Is it really too much to ask?
If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
I'm glad I like the taste of crow! So much for RISC > CISC battles and PPC smokes wintel! so long my beloved anti-intel vitriolic diatribes! I am trully speechless.
Ole stevo really pulled the wool over our eyes good for the past 5 years as they have been developing, side by side, a native intel port of OSX since it's beta. I never saw this one coming. Now that's it's sunk in for a few hours and I've been doing my due diligence on the technical aspects of the ole switcheroo, all may not be as hopeless as initially thought. IBM has never provided the channels with sufficient quantities of the G5, and has a development roadmap that is wrought with endless delays and technical snafus.
Why not AMD though, I wonder, they have sufficient quantities of their 64 bit chips and are faster than comparable pentium's(does Intel even have a consumer level 64 proc?) And what of the dual processing scene...will Apple still drop two or more in their machines? Rumors abound of a new pro level mac with 4+ procs....and the Pentium 4(and D) are not even dual capable(same problem with the G3 even though the chip preceding it was).
All this leads me to believe that Apple and Intel will coproduce an Apple only 64bit unit. I know that Apple's numbers are barely a drop in the Intel bucket, but 1.4 million macs last quarter alone is not small potatoes, and that's a 40% increase from the preceding year-ago quarter.
I hope my beloved company isn't dead. I've predicted their death at least 11001011 times in the last 15 years...first with the killing of the clones, then with the purchase of NeXt over Be, then with the $500 mp3 player that would never sell....etc, i hope i'm proven wrong again by the little company that could.
Saying that Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing youve witnessed the second coming.
-Guy Kawasaki
purchased a WD 200gb/8mb from compusa back in january at $350. instant rebate was $50, mail-rebate equaled $100. a drive for $1/gb i could not resist. still waiting for the rebate 4 months later. WD uses www.wheresmyrebate.com... i'm skeered...
a submitted story of mine has been in "pending" status for 5 days now, since then i've also had a rejected story. is this focker in limbo? or is it in a queue of sorts? thanks
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I pay $60/mo for unlimited data via my USB card, which is 300% more per month than the iPhone user who pays $20/mo. Is it unfair to expect the same(if not 300% better) treatment from AT&T? Where's my free wifi? Is it really too much to ask?
Rape, of any kind, isn't funny - unless you are virtually raping a clown.
I was the Pitfall king at my daycare in Cary, NC, circa 1985. Represent.
wonder if i can get me $26 back....
If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
wow. this company is literally across the road from me. anyone want some supersecret snapshots of the gatekeeper rentacop?
I'm glad I like the taste of crow! So much for RISC > CISC battles and PPC smokes wintel! so long my beloved anti-intel vitriolic diatribes! I am trully speechless.
Ole stevo really pulled the wool over our eyes good for the past 5 years as they have been developing, side by side, a native intel port of OSX since it's beta. I never saw this one coming. Now that's it's sunk in for a few hours and I've been doing my due diligence on the technical aspects of the ole switcheroo, all may not be as hopeless as initially thought. IBM has never provided the channels with sufficient quantities of the G5, and has a development roadmap that is wrought with endless delays and technical snafus.
Why not AMD though, I wonder, they have sufficient quantities of their 64 bit chips and are faster than comparable pentium's(does Intel even have a consumer level 64 proc?) And what of the dual processing scene...will Apple still drop two or more in their machines? Rumors abound of a new pro level mac with 4+ procs....and the Pentium 4(and D) are not even dual capable(same problem with the G3 even though the chip preceding it was).
All this leads me to believe that Apple and Intel will coproduce an Apple only 64bit unit. I know that Apple's numbers are barely a drop in the Intel bucket, but 1.4 million macs last quarter alone is not small potatoes, and that's a 40% increase from the preceding year-ago quarter.
I hope my beloved company isn't dead. I've predicted their death at least 11001011 times in the last 15 years...first with the killing of the clones, then with the purchase of NeXt over Be, then with the $500 mp3 player that would never sell....etc, i hope i'm proven wrong again by the little company that could.
going on 6 years, 7060 units, and 71,583 devoted hours....
Saying that Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing youve witnessed the second coming. -Guy Kawasaki
wake me up when the "Year of the Laptop Linux" rolls around...my laptop being my only machine, i'm not exactly allowed into the world of linux...
if you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles.
today i bought a new in box 10gb ipod for $10.74 at the local goodwill. even the shrinkwrap was untouched. w00t to goodwill!
hate to be a stickler fer detail, but Q4 of 2004 is actually October to December of 2004....not January to March
guess now i'll be leaving my 14lb 240 watt Sager 8887 grounded next time....
3800+ units and going strong. 4 years now. seti@home ow3ns my systems all your work units are belong to us
purchased a WD 200gb/8mb from compusa back in january at $350. instant rebate was $50, mail-rebate equaled $100. a drive for $1/gb i could not resist. still waiting for the rebate 4 months later. WD uses www.wheresmyrebate.com... i'm skeered...
a submitted story of mine has been in "pending" status for 5 days now, since then i've also had a rejected story. is this focker in limbo? or is it in a queue of sorts? thanks
is it possible for a submitted story to be at "pending" status for 3 days? delayed reaction perhaps?
ima at 3162 units.... w00t! seti@home user for 4 years
I {HEART} Apple!!!!!!