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The advanced solution if you want a large mammalian housepet but you aren't home enough is called a CAT. Seriously, though, the AIBO is very practical. Even if you get tired of it you'll need a robotic webcam some day.
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Yeah, the math question is to keep it from being gambling. If winnning something involves a prize, a chance, and a consideration (price to enter), then you've got gaming, and you need a license. Most sweepstakes, therefore, give anyone who asks a t…
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No, no, this is a defect in the iBook line. If you go the the Apple site, to the support section, and then to the iBook Display forum, you'll see it's simply a flaw in the manufacturing. It just happens to some of the iBooks. There are plenty of pic…
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I think you're having the same display problem I am, and mine just started. Black and white interference pattern across the whole screen?
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For someone who wants to be able to do everything, nothing beats a nice Mac in the same house as a very fast PC. The Mac can sit there and grow three generations old before it really starts groaning. The PC can have it's innards swapped out for next…
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My goodness, did nobody else buy a ][gs? Perhaps that's why it was the end of the line... I had to stop toting mine around from place to place last year. Broke my heart. I bought everything for that machine. Tass Times in ToneTown, Ancient Land of Y…
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In certain cities hi-speed (128 Kbps) wireless internet access is available. To use it, you need a PC card slot on your laptop. Adding a PC card slot wouldn't break the bank, or have the enormous engineering challenges of sticking an AGP slot in som…
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All kidding aside, Apple played with hundreds of ways for the GUI to be. Double-clicks, triple-clicks, shift-clicks, folders that could be expanded like a slinky by dragging the top layer up, and many others. The Apple labs did extensive research o…
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My favorite Apple profit trick was when Steve announced that since Apple bought most of Akamai and Akamai's stock went up through the roof, Apple had made $12B "profit," the most Apple ever had in a quarter. The whole room went wild as if Apple had …
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Think about this: Fujitsu says they are on track to have 360 GB 2.5 inch hard-drives available to consumers in four years. Based on Apple's 2000 songs claim for the 10 GB iPod, that's enough to store 72,000 songs (not considering MP4 and beyond). I …
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Apple ought to offer a standard fee, say ten grand, for the rights any game it thinks is worth bundling. University CS students would have a whole new way to fund their educations, and there would be something worth doing with the Macs sitting in st…
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No, no, this is exactly the opposite of what Apple likes to do. They count on Christmas to clear out old stock. Edit: I think they're completely in the wrong here, just as I think their laid-back advertising is weak and backwards. But what do I k…
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The biggest thing PC users don't know about the Mac, even after they switch, is that there is so much shareware and freeware available. Many times a former PC user will complain that there's no way to do something when we've all been using a piece o…
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My guess is that with so much iMac inventory piling up, the last thing they can do is compete with themselves with old hardware. Better to keep it for parts on repairs.
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There's no doubt, portables are the future. I commute two to three hours a day. Lots of people do. Watching DVDs and playing games certainly beats staring at the floor. If Apple would only put a decent graphics card in the lowest priced laptop so ga…
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Rhetorical: Is it legal to copy CDs because the music is played on the radio? Most software licenses retain ownership of the software and the right to distribute it, even if the software is offered for free. That is, you can download the software…
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This is very frustrating. We know Apple legal. Anybody who puts these up is going to get lots of nasty letters. Apple has the right to limit products in the interests of Apple's legal liability for toasted processors, so the argument holds water, bu…
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Yes, I too am delighted every time I see a Mac. Perhaps Macs only have a 5% market share, but somehow every time I see a computer in the newspaper comic pages either the case is an iMac or the interface on screen has a row of vertical icons with a t…
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All depends on where you live, I'm sure. Vancouver's main library is great. New York's is better. The Library of Congress is perfect, and in fact complete. If you live in a smaller town, you won't have much luck.
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Believe it or not, your public municipal library. It's free, you get to encode it yourself, and it's a great way to expose yourself to music you'll never hear of from your friends. No elitism intended. Libraries have interesting music because librar…