hendrix
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Comment · 14 years ago
entry level MBP in the USA is 1199 + 8.6% (in WA) = $1302
in Ireland (include vat) is $1606.
Comment · 14 years ago
Politicians can and do dictate the law these days, but they can't dictate economics. If the NSA/CIA/Government pulls too much shit the smart people and business will leave. Also, Mormonism is a cult.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'll take the pirated 1080p version that doesn't have unskipable adverts, copy protection, and the extra commentary track. I don't care about any of the "extra features" that Hollywood seems to sprinkle into every DVD. Their business model is broken, but they are not going to go down without a fight.
Comment · 14 years ago
This is the same company (albeit a different division?) that decided it was OK to install rootkits on users computers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
Comment · 14 years ago
Just wait until 10.8 when this is mysteriously integrated into iCal.
Comment · 14 years ago
I was thinking mining online data to gauge the feeling of the market awhile ago, looks like someone is actually doing it.
Comment · 14 years ago
There is no such thing as 'aging' in the traditional sense. As explained by Aubrey De Grey Sens' founder "the set of accumulated side effects from metabolism that eventually kills us" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
sens.org
It might not work but it is a _much_ better use of our tax dollars than blowing up brown people in the middle east.
Comment · 14 years ago
And bush is the only president so far with an MBA. Is the USA becoming socialist? [/sarcasm].
Comment · 14 years ago
You can, it's called a Hackintosh.
Comment · 14 years ago
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Ben Franklin
Only problem is that the USA has become an even more monstrous empire than the Brits were at the time. Google can be as principled as it wants to be but at the end of the day it is still located in the USA. Btw google and facebook are more than the Nazis/Stasi/KGB could ever imagined.