After having a 360, and being impressed with it. I looked at the Wii, and went "annnnddddd......?"
I wasn't impressed. but after reading reviews and seeing it in action, I'm considering it.
Assuming I can get my hands on it.
IT ALL TRACES BACK TO GOD!
Ok, flamebait aside. How long before we actually find something? I mean space is the original Energizer Bunny, it keeps going, and going, and going......
England was a tribe? Or even better yet, Australia is only 6,000 years old? This facts are so new and strange to me.
I blame their backwards flushing toilets.
But wouldn't Google be a monopoly if it bought out all the other search engines and forced you to use Google?
Google claiming top spot is simply them controlling their product. Your not forced to use Google. There are
many other search engines out there, yahoo, ask.com, etc.
Is this just a case of trying to find fault with Google because it's big and can be used as a verb?
I think that NickNeg had a great idea with the OLPC. Make a computer, portable at that, cheap enough for most consumers to own. But if it can't run most of the new programs or aa new OS for that matter, the overall use of this thing is going to be nil.
Even if that is not that case, assuming it runs everything swimmingly, what is to stop people and corporations from buying a ton of these to use for various reasons. I mean suddenly your boss can afford to give you a laptop and say, "Hey I need this report finished by morning, heres a company laptop?"
It's not that this will be the case, but its the actaul effect of these cheap portable devices going to be what it's creator had in mind?
Hmmm. I'd rather teach a Linux user to use Windows, than a Windows user to use Linux.
But that's just me... and I don't know Linux that well. I don't think that going from
Linux to Windows would be that bad. If they can get Linux, why couldn't they use XP?
...but I plug my laptop in a majority of the time. I'll admit to being a AMD Fanboy, but my new system's going to be conroe based.
I can't justify loosing out to the competition by supporting a chip that far behind.
Well, I don't think it is a big of a problem as it is made out to be, I know people who have lost their jobs to outsourcing.
However, I think the underlying hate comes from the people who have to call tech support at a placed based in India, and then can't understand or communicate with the person on the other end of the line. All things considered as well, if your calling support, you are probably already frustrated enough, and now you can't understand what the other person is saying? I can see that being pretty aggravating. Worthy of hating an entire nation? Probably not.
I agree, at least as far as the learning of the useless things. I spent 3 years taking GEC's at a "traditional" college. Alot
of things I had to go through did not directly reflect what my overall major is. Since then having switched to a more technical,
but not quite DeVry-esque technical, I have learned alot more about my field. But what has helped me more is being in the field
rather than school. I got a job when I started college because I knew FrontPage (And now I know better) and that has also helped
greatly. Working their I learned CSS and a good portion of Photoshop, networking skills, etc. It almost seems to me that the availability
of apprenticeships or internships would be more beneficial to people than traditional college, at least in the Tech field. Yet
companies are unwilling to do, at least in my experience.
Ah, but a bank is a corporation in a sense, no? Since when, especially lately, have American companies not "cooked the books"? and
embezzled millions of dollars. And really, isn't "embezzled" just another fancy name for copy-right infringement?
Absolutely. After they go after him, they can go after Ted Turner's and Richard Branson's relatives too.
Then the rest of record label exec's. Meanwhile, I'll continue my ban on going to the movie theater and buying
any cd that has come out in the past 5 years. (Ok, so I don't actually do this, but maybe I should?)
My experience has been the opposite to yours. Mac people refuse to coexist with a PC platform. Insisting, like a stereotypical Mercedes driving prick, "But, It's not a Macintosh, I refuse to work with it, buy me a Macintosh" In which case IT spends 2x the cost to buy them a comperable Mac.
All of the places I have worked have been PC places, tolerate Macs very well, even though they are maybe 100 out of 1500 computers. The only MS products they use are Windows and Active Directory and MS Office.
I don't think I am being biased towards Mac stores or their users. For one thing, I own a Mac.
And when something goes wrong, the solutions I have gotten from the Genius bar are, 1. It's broke, buy a new one. 2. It's under warranty, we'll replace it. And you have to wait 30 minutes inline to get that? Why?
The reason why Apple users don't have to make policies to ban other applications and platforms, is that there are no applications, or to the extent that their are with a PC.
Alot of the programs that exsist for mac that are used, are either made by Apple or Adobe, and no alternative. Plus PC's, by virtue of being the most widely used platform are more vunerable to virus's, so the need to restrict users to certain softwares is more needed.
I don't know where all these "smart" dedicated Mac users are. Cause any reasoning I have heard from a Mac user to use a Mac product is solely based on the "shiny" aspect. 99% of them that I have come across, have a hard time learning how to make a power point, or can't figure out why the internet doesn't work.. because they didn't know that cable thingy in the back had to be plugged in.
I know the OS is pretty stable, but I have more problems with a Mac than I have ever had with a PC. I have "Black Screened" Macs so many times. I think I have Blue Screened Xp, once? Maybe. Anytime I have a probelm with a Mac, the solution is 9 outta 10, reinstall the OS. I have never reinstalled the OS to fix a PC problem.
That being said, I hope to install OSX on the new PC I build, just for giggles.
I guess your right, the vast majority of people are sheep, regardless of platform. But it has been my experience that nowhere else on earth is this more prevalent, than in a Mac store.
The thing I never got about Apple (Ok, one of many things) is why people are so stone cold in love with them.
Not that I am die hard MS, but the whole marketing effort of theirs is based on "Ohhhh Look Shiny!" Sure, the Ipod
is easy to use, but it is also boring. It's a white box, how innovative is that? And they act like they have made fire.
I couldn't have been less impressed with my Ipod. There is no ability to customize it, nothing interesting about it.
It works well, but what MP# player doesn't? They all "play" mp3's. I recently had a iRiver, and that thing sounded
great compared to my ipod, same headphones and all. I don't get the hype. But then again, Mac users are a bunch
of die hard sheep anyway, so it doesn't really matter if it was a shiny metal turd.
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Umm. Not to editorialize but... How do terrorists "meat" us in the meadow? Sounds, uh, like something we don't want them to do.
It's like Napalm in a can! "I love the smell of Silly String in the morning!" Surfs Up!
After having a 360, and being impressed with it. I looked at the Wii, and went "annnnddddd......?" I wasn't impressed. but after reading reviews and seeing it in action, I'm considering it. Assuming I can get my hands on it.
IT ALL TRACES BACK TO GOD! Ok, flamebait aside. How long before we actually find something? I mean space is the original Energizer Bunny, it keeps going, and going, and going......
England was a tribe? Or even better yet, Australia is only 6,000 years old? This facts are so new and strange to me. I blame their backwards flushing toilets.
But wouldn't Google be a monopoly if it bought out all the other search engines and forced you to use Google? Google claiming top spot is simply them controlling their product. Your not forced to use Google. There are many other search engines out there, yahoo, ask.com, etc.
Is this just a case of trying to find fault with Google because it's big and can be used as a verb?
I think that NickNeg had a great idea with the OLPC. Make a computer, portable at that, cheap enough for most consumers to own.
But if it can't run most of the new programs or aa new OS for that matter, the overall use of this thing is going to be nil.
Even if that is not that case, assuming it runs everything swimmingly, what is to stop people and corporations from buying a ton
of these to use for various reasons. I mean suddenly your boss can afford to give you a laptop and say, "Hey I need this report finished by morning, heres a company laptop?"
It's not that this will be the case, but its the actaul effect of these cheap portable devices going to be what it's creator had in mind?
Hmmm. I'd rather teach a Linux user to use Windows, than a Windows user to use Linux. But that's just me... and I don't know Linux that well. I don't think that going from Linux to Windows would be that bad. If they can get Linux, why couldn't they use XP?
...but I plug my laptop in a majority of the time. I'll admit to being a AMD Fanboy, but my new system's going to be conroe based. I can't justify loosing out to the competition by supporting a chip that far behind.
Well, I don't think it is a big of a problem as it is made out to be, I know people who have lost their jobs to outsourcing. However, I think the underlying hate comes from the people who have to call tech support at a placed based in India, and then can't understand or communicate with the person on the other end of the line. All things considered as well, if your calling support, you are probably already frustrated enough, and now you can't understand what the other person is saying? I can see that being pretty aggravating. Worthy of hating an entire nation? Probably not.
I agree, at least as far as the learning of the useless things. I spent 3 years taking GEC's at a "traditional" college. Alot of things I had to go through did not directly reflect what my overall major is. Since then having switched to a more technical, but not quite DeVry-esque technical, I have learned alot more about my field. But what has helped me more is being in the field rather than school. I got a job when I started college because I knew FrontPage (And now I know better) and that has also helped greatly. Working their I learned CSS and a good portion of Photoshop, networking skills, etc. It almost seems to me that the availability of apprenticeships or internships would be more beneficial to people than traditional college, at least in the Tech field. Yet companies are unwilling to do, at least in my experience.
Ah, but a bank is a corporation in a sense, no? Since when, especially lately, have American companies not "cooked the books"? and embezzled millions of dollars. And really, isn't "embezzled" just another fancy name for copy-right infringement?
Absolutely. After they go after him, they can go after Ted Turner's and Richard Branson's relatives too. Then the rest of record label exec's. Meanwhile, I'll continue my ban on going to the movie theater and buying any cd that has come out in the past 5 years. (Ok, so I don't actually do this, but maybe I should?)
My experience has been the opposite to yours. Mac people refuse to coexist with a PC platform. Insisting, like a stereotypical Mercedes driving prick, "But, It's not a Macintosh, I refuse to work with it, buy me a Macintosh" In which case IT spends 2x the cost to buy them a comperable Mac. All of the places I have worked have been PC places, tolerate Macs very well, even though they are maybe 100 out of 1500 computers. The only MS products they use are Windows and Active Directory and MS Office. I don't think I am being biased towards Mac stores or their users. For one thing, I own a Mac. And when something goes wrong, the solutions I have gotten from the Genius bar are, 1. It's broke, buy a new one. 2. It's under warranty, we'll replace it. And you have to wait 30 minutes inline to get that? Why? The reason why Apple users don't have to make policies to ban other applications and platforms, is that there are no applications, or to the extent that their are with a PC. Alot of the programs that exsist for mac that are used, are either made by Apple or Adobe, and no alternative. Plus PC's, by virtue of being the most widely used platform are more vunerable to virus's, so the need to restrict users to certain softwares is more needed. I don't know where all these "smart" dedicated Mac users are. Cause any reasoning I have heard from a Mac user to use a Mac product is solely based on the "shiny" aspect. 99% of them that I have come across, have a hard time learning how to make a power point, or can't figure out why the internet doesn't work.. because they didn't know that cable thingy in the back had to be plugged in. I know the OS is pretty stable, but I have more problems with a Mac than I have ever had with a PC. I have "Black Screened" Macs so many times. I think I have Blue Screened Xp, once? Maybe. Anytime I have a probelm with a Mac, the solution is 9 outta 10, reinstall the OS. I have never reinstalled the OS to fix a PC problem. That being said, I hope to install OSX on the new PC I build, just for giggles.
I guess your right, the vast majority of people are sheep, regardless of platform. But it has been my experience that nowhere else on earth is this more prevalent, than in a Mac store.
The thing I never got about Apple (Ok, one of many things) is why people are so stone cold in love with them. Not that I am die hard MS, but the whole marketing effort of theirs is based on "Ohhhh Look Shiny!" Sure, the Ipod is easy to use, but it is also boring. It's a white box, how innovative is that? And they act like they have made fire. I couldn't have been less impressed with my Ipod. There is no ability to customize it, nothing interesting about it. It works well, but what MP# player doesn't? They all "play" mp3's. I recently had a iRiver, and that thing sounded great compared to my ipod, same headphones and all. I don't get the hype. But then again, Mac users are a bunch of die hard sheep anyway, so it doesn't really matter if it was a shiny metal turd.