What's more impressive is that many people were happy to stump up $10 for a 100k text file.
How is that more impressive than the amount of people who coughed up $25 for a block of sliced wood pulp?
I always figured people were paying for a good story, regardless of the material upon which it's printed or displayed.
There are little Bluetooth GPS receivers you can get, that pair with software on your laptop/netbook. 3G isn't really necessary if you have a good Map/POI database loaded on the computer. My mom had a setup like this 6 or so years ago, when standalone TomTom-type devices were new and expensive.
However, the difficulty of mounting a netbook on your dash is probably the #1 reason why this didn't catch on. You may have a navigation device, but you still need someone riding shotgun to use the device while you drive.
Your job is to keep his copy of Microsoft Office working, not to tell him that he should switch to OpenOffice.
In my limited workplace experience, if you answer "Fix my software" with "Use this other software instead," you will either be ignored or fired. (I found myself ignored, but instilled with a profound desire to not attempt to be helpful again.)
If the iPhone 4 is seeing such huge problems why is there a 3-week backlog for new orders?
I've wondered that myself.
After all, if you're getting dropped calls with your new shiny iPhone 4 that you didn't with your old phone, why haven't you returned it?
I have an iPhone 4 myself, and I've talked to 3 other iPhone 4 owners I've happened to meet. None of us have actually had any reception problems. Two of us can reproduce the error, but only when actually trying to - normal usage does not produce it.
If I did have a problem, I would have returned it and gone back to my trusty 3G. However, no problems, no returns.
The only irritating thing about the phone is that every idiot on the street who sees me pull out my phone asks about the reception.
Is that not the case in the US?
It is in many states, but you could easily pass on the expensive insurance that covers every ding on your car and downgrade to the minimum liability insurance required by the state.
If there are no girls on the internet now, there won't be any ever once this goes into effect.
There's no quicker way to be harassed, stalked, and otherwise massively annoyed by EVERYONE than to reveal that you are in possession of TWO X chromosomes, instead of the internet norm XY configuration.
And the absolute last thing I want is random assholes that I've pissed off on my server to Google my name, of which the first result is the staff listing on my current employer's website, and then start sending nasty emails to my boss.
Keep in mind who you're dealing with here: guys who build heat rays in their backyards for fun.
To them, setting things on fire is fun. Making things explode is AWESOME.
Try driving an SUV while listening to the Halo soundtrack. THAT'S dangerous.
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At least that was the case for me. Apple was suppose to send me a reminder email this morning, but I guess they're holding those until their servers stop melting.
I watch Dr. Who in a Piraty manner because the episodes they show on BBC America are always two weeks behind the ones showing in Britain.
Tolkein said that his hobbits "like to have books filled with things they already know, set out fair and square with no contradictions," and I imagine that humans are not far different, scientist or otherwise.
It takes a rare soul indeed to see a contradiction in a beloved text, be it the Bible or a Physics text, and explore that contradiction, throwing away long-held assumptions, in order to find a deeper truth. The only difference is that in science, such explorations are sometimes rewarded with praise and sometimes with ridicule, whereas in religion they are rewarded with a cup of hemlock, burning at a stake, or a crazy old lady telling you she'll pray for your soul.
They released no-CD patches for Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, and Starcraft 1, you know. They have a good track record here.
They didn't scrap it, they never had a project in the first place. It was just a mockup to deny apple some mindshare.
My best use for Wave: FAQs.
It's honestly my only use for wave, but it's a good one. Someone asks a question, someone else answers, someone else corrects the answer, someone else provides links to citations.
An example, the wave I manage: https://wave.google.com/wave/waveref/googlewave.com/w+N0MhqpVgB
Active discussions require a very active moderator to keep the wave from getting so large as to die the slow death of lag. Most collaborative documents are better handled in Google Docs. Random "which do you like best" polls should be purged from the internet in general.
At the moment, the service only shares HIGHLIGHTS, not notes. So, there's an underline under certain points of text, but additional text from other readers is never inserted.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
