bradley emmanuel

I'm actually surprised this doesn't happen more often. Applestores must be filled with cash. I would think one would be a bit easier to rob than a bank.


I see no reason why anyone would carry cash...

You do not have to have a credit card you can have a debit card and pay with that.... cash has no place in retail anymore. This would solve a hell of a lot of hold up issues.

The only people who need to deal in cash are drug dealers.

Technically I was only 20 over the limit (I'm in Michigan). Also, radar detectors are a great thing:)

-Don

Because that makes it safe.

A side note: It's under no circumstance appropriate to try to cause a wreck for someone driving slow. That's what causes road rage. Do it to the wrong person and you get killed. I would have just been nice and reported your plates to the police. I wouldn't have likely brake checked, but that's a different point.

Apple popularized the term "App" instead of "Application" (ugh!).
How come they don't have a trademark on the word "App"? (That would solve the problem.)

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Dont forget you'll need an SSD too inside the iMac to achieve the Thunderbolt speeds!!

And it must be a very good and expensive SSD, with more than 700MB/s.

Thunderbolt not worth it right now because its TOO expensive. I'll wait 2 years, when SSDs are much MUCH more cheaper.

Not naming names, but I find it funny how everyone suddenly becomes an engineer.:rolleyes:

The margins on a mid-mac should be better than the iMac since it's using standard (and therefore cheap) desktop components. So any mid-mac sales in preference to the iMac would probably make Apple more money anyway.
I want Apple to release a stupid "mid-mac" just to shut you and everyone else up.

Professionals buy Mac Pros or laptops. Consumers buy iMacs or laptops. That's a sound and successful strategy for Apple. And if you need a cheap Mac, you can buy a mini.

Just because Intel releases a chip, does not mean Apple is going to use it. If that was the case then Intel should re-release the 486, so that Apple can put them in the "mid-mac"!

Is all relative. If you take my home country, it'll be around $1.32/hour pay for minimum wage. You get 2 weeks vacation and equivalent pay. Oh and down there they treat you like crap because of the infuriating high 35% unemployment rate. So everyone looks out for their job even if it means sucking up.

Here in the US you can fight it. So yeah. Also Europe has more taxes than the US. Consecuently we get taxed even lower than the US. But still $315.50 a month is barely covering cost of living even for my country.

Care to complain now?

Sure, regardless of the situation in other countries�South America?�the question is whether this is a problem in the U.S. and I think it is, and the comparison of a Swedish company using the US like the US uses Mexico, for cheap labor, should be a wakeup call to the US that our current economic policies are making us Mexico to Europe.

This sounds like IKEA is the one being a bitch.



I can't see how this is "the right's" fault. If so, why doesn't "the left" step in a help out?

As Ugg pointed out, the 'right' has pushed for anti-union policies, including 'right-to-work' status for states like Virginia. That said, I don't think this is a 'right' or 'left' issue per se, but rather a gleeful removal of worker's rights to garner jobs�regardless of the health of a community funded by low-wage, short-term positions.

...this law just got passed (today?). It won't be enforced until July next year, I think.

I wouldn't say it is stupid. The other day, I saw a woman driving a big SUV, a cellphone in one hand and an icecream in the other :eek:

It's been law in the whole country here for many years, not a stupid law at all and I've seen it enforced many times. If you're driving that's where 100% of your attention should be, just because you've got away with it before doesn't mean you always will.

Just out of idle curiosity: is IDC ever right? Ever nearly right?

No, never. They should be IDK not IDC! :D

- Apple IIGS 2006 Edition.


WOOOOOT!!!!!!! :eek:

Don't believe it!

Some people said the same thing back in 2009 when analysts said that Android would overtake the iPhone by 2012 (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=662706). :D

I'm well aware of that, but many here have no idea that Samsung is much bigger than Apple.

Every time I hear someone say, "Apple should buy Samsung" it just really solidifies in my mind that a lot of people here are in fact just mindless drones to the Apple logo. Another thing people forget is that Samsung makes the chips technology that Apple assembles into a pretty little package and re-brands "iPhone/iPad"

I heard the mall cop got the head-shot while moving at full speed on a Segway. Simply amazing.

android enthusiast here.

i don't see what the big deal is. so what if Apple is storing your location data.

everyone here is on facebook, exposing their real names, friends, user uploaded photos that are under the control of facebook under the new TOS agreement, where they live, phone numbers, what they like, what they dislike, their status updates, etc.

so please, everyone be quiet about this 'omg my civil liberties are being trampled on!'

the moment you go on the internet, privacy goes right out the window.

and btw, google stores location data allll the time.

facebook.com? lol, more like facebook.gov

I'm not on Facebook.

And for a lot of things I can chose to opt-out, or even better, I get to opt-in.

This is stored without me knowing, the data is stored unencrypted, and for most owners, the data will end up on their computers unencrypted.

Apple, Google, or my phone provider storing this information in their servers is a different issue than it being stored on the phone.

I expect Apple to have FaceTime HD on the next Air.

Something to note. You may be law abiding now, but you never know when you'll be legislated into a criminal tomorrow.

Let the apps stay.

These 'senators' should be working on more pressing issues than this

What exactly was this patent for? Why doesn't it affect other players and music services besides iPod+iTunes?

I understand where you are coming from. With your feet planted in set in concrete, unable to fathom future developments based on the experimental or high-end tech of the day, the Blu-Ray seems endlessly of value. Much like the tape reels of the 60s.

The BluRay is going away for one very specific reason: mechanical. By 2016 the flash memory chips for 50gb will probably be so everyday and cheap that bulky, mechanical BluRay will seem awkward. By 2019 I'd bet you can store several times more than a BluRay on medium-priced thumb-drive.

Proof? Look back 6 years when a 1gb thumb-drive was a huge chunk of cash. Look back 10 years when a 512MB thumb-drive was almost prohibitive to buy. The future is non-mechanical.

At the same token, by 2016 optical media capacity will also increase and be cheaper than your 50GB flash chip.

Maybe the reason for not having a traditional keypad is that this is actually the iPhone Shuffle.

Apple's market research team has concluded that people get tired of talking to the same people all time. And since the iPod Shuffle is such a hit playing songs randomly,
the new iPhone Shuffle will randomly dial numbers, so every call you make is never boring.

Got more than 240 numbers in your adressbook? No problem. Let iTunes autofill your iPhone shuffle and get a new telephonic experience every time. Mom follows Work. Home follows Pizza Parlor. iPhone shuffle loves to improvise. Take the Shuffle switch, for instance. Even if you�ve synced a particular call-list, you can shuffle numbers with a flick.

This was great.

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http://johnpilger.com/videos

He's even got an awesome interview with Julian Assange. His documentary "The War You Don't See" is a must watch though.

What does he say about the coming New World Order that Bush and Obama keep talking about, and also the coming North American Union + Amero?

I'll personally give you 1 million Ameros if that happens in my lifetime (hopefully another 60 years!).

I'm still finding it hard not to believe this is a parody.

What I don't get is....

Nokia = looser in smart phone market.
Microsoft = looser in smart phone OS market.

So... Looser + Looser = Winner?

I know Nokia has a huge installed base of feature phones, but they're going to have to really step it up to catch up in the smart phone market. Even the old #1 guys (RIM) can't keep up with iOS and Android.

dont think i saw it posted but one issue i have is that the iOS is on one device, the others are on how many devices made by how many makers? RIM is the only one like apple single os on single device and they just evolved to slow to keep up i think.