I normally don't ever bother to read a story that requires you to register, but this one sounded interesting. What a waste of time. So basically, most people are stupid, biased and have narrow world views and distorted POVs? Wow. Thanks. I never knew that until today.
You feel sorry for me because I needed a phone, so I bought, surprise a phone? How would buying an iPod Touch fulfill my telephony needs? I feel sorry for you.
I could care less if I was first on the block or cool to my kids or whatever other stupid reason people cite for us early adopters irrationalities. I bought the damn phone because it was the only one on the market I tried under $800 that was worth a damn. Now that the are only $400, even better. Chrissake's people, quit projecting and speculating about why those of us who have money spend it the way we do. And I have half a brain, and I've also been an Apple customer for 20 years. This is the first time I've been stung by a price cut right after I bought a product, so no...I didn't know, or expect, the $599 price tag to be so temporary. Typical Apple would drop the price $100-$200 on the NEXT generation model, or to keep the price the same, but improve the specs (like the current iMac lineup). I'm not kicking Apple nor am I abonding them.
I don't get your (and many other's) obsession with storage space. My computer is for storing my music, and my NANO (4GB) holds more songs than I could ever run to in one sessions. You know, they make a little white dock and a thing called iTunes that lets you create playlists. I have an 80GB video iPod collecting dust and playing second fiddle to a 4GB nano, because the Video iPod neither fits on my arm, nor does it work with Nike +.
Bingo. I've been yelling this about the iPhone price point the day it was introduced, yet/. dorks want to yammer on about how expensive it is. Well, if you think it is too expensive, then it is...for YOU.
I'll give everyone in this thread a T-shirt that yells loudly, "I don't give a f*ck! It's my money bitches now STFU!" If losing $300 ruins your day, then you most likely can't afford an iPhone in the first place, so get out of my thread.
There are plenty of cheaper MP3 players that function just as well (and sometimes better) than the iPod, but Apple is a designer label and the chumps pay accordingly.
Simply not true. Please name specific models and functions that make any one single model better than an equivalent iPod. If you buy a non-iPod, you sare still a chump, because the prices are all genearally the same for similar models. There simply is no comparible mp3 player. The poor offerings of other companies is mind boggling. It's like the competition has just given up and is content selling awful interfaces with awful industrial design tied to a few niche features like "Works with Linux!" or "No DRM!". Whoopy doo. Make a great player, like the iPod, and you can slap all the nasty drm and jack the price up all you want, because the thing will sell, because the thing is good. Apple didn't become a "designer" label overnight based on vapid features. It became a designer label because of their strong ability to design things well.
Ooh, I want my t-shirt! I finally got stung by the mystical secret Mac update. I figured if I bought early enough, it would be at least a year before the price came down! But at least now, I can justify a second one for my wife.
The iPod is already harder to use than many other brands with buttons if you're driving, cycling, jogging, or walking and want to be able to adjust volume or start/stop without looking at the device.
Apple has a very limited ability to shape the future of the computing world due to its small market presence.
Wow...just....wow. Apple has been shaping the future of computing since 1984. Many major computer trends and innovations were either invented by Apple, or brought into mainstream use because of Apple. I can cite the usual stuff, like mouse, cd-rom, SCSI (back in the day), lots of ram expansion (back in the day), 32-bit OS, color computing, desktop publishing and the desktop metaphor, abandoning floppies, bluetooth standard, wifi standard, USB, firewire, cough, the FREAKIN' iPod, cough, and most likely the iPhone....and I'm sure I'm forgetting much more. If you look at most any product launch by Apple then check back in five years, you'll notice the staggering influence Apple has on consumer electronics and personal computing. Not to mention nearly every version of Mac OS since 6.5 to present has been copied by Windows a few years later. Aero comes after Aqua? Gadgets come after Widgets? Recycle Bin after Trash? Hell, they even ripped of "Quit", but decided to call it "Exit" instead. And that is only Apple's influence on Windows OS.
Just to humor the rest of your tired arguments, ok, I'll give you the lack of a gaming market. But the gaming market for the PC ain't so healthy now, is it? What's the point of having a failing industry on your side? Besides, World of Warcraft takes all my spare time and works just fine on my Mac;-)
I don't know why you people keep perpetuating the myth that Macs costs so much more. Just for fun, today at work I configured my Dell Latitude laptop (talk about your low price high volume leader) as closely as possible to a MacBook and the MacBook was $21 more. The Dell has a bigger screen by.9" and runs Windows. All the other specs were either identical (ram, cpu, hard drive) or damn near the samed thing (Intel on-chip graphics for both). Not to mention, with the Dell you get less-than-inspiring design and none of the well thought out features of the Mac, such as the latchless lid, the sound level that shows on screen when you raise and lower the volume (so you don't actually have to have something playing to know how loud it will be), the magsafe adapter, and about 25 other subtle design things. The only thing the Dell has going for it is that it is highly customizable, and with a MacBook, you are stuck with a few options on the models that the offer.
Third party companies make plenty of hardware for Mac OS X, as the overwhelming majority of hardware is cross-platform. Hell, I have even used PC hardware that I couldn't get to work in a PC on my Mac, to include (but not limited to): video cards, hard drives, ethernet adapters, game controllers, printers and RAM. My G4 tower has three devices that were originally bought for my pc, but either didn't work, or didn't work well, so they live in my G4. The 160GB Maxtor hard drive I bought shows up as 130GB on my PC, as this is the most WinXP can address without mucking about. The SD-Ram I bought for a PC keeps crashing it and a tech told me it was a bad ram chip, so now the ram chip resides in the G4 with no crashes. The linksys ethernet adapter I bought for my PC never worked because WinXP could never see it, even though I was using the drivers that came with the install cd specifically written for that device on WinXP. Downloading the latest drivers didn't help. Interestingly enough, the card worked fine with no drivers on my G4 tower. There are huge Mac market segments that barely exist in the PC world, like external firewire drives and digital video editing gear. Please name some of this bountiful hardware that doesn't exist for Mac OS?
This whole thing brings me to the point of asking, is a MacBook with Mac OS X worth $21 more than the Dell Latitude with WinXP? No. It's worth HUNDREDS more.
A policeman who has been called to the scene of a dispute has every right to request to see an ID. The point that he wasn't driving is irrelevant. It IS a common courtesy to comply to an officer performing his/her duty and this hardly a sign of subservience or a police state. You all are forgetting the fact that a driver's license is also form of ID in addition to a license to drive, so it matters NOT that this guy wasn't driving.
yeah yeah, I get it...that's if you believe his entire story...something tells me he is tweaking his dialogue to fit his case better. In any case, even if he WASN'T driving, he's still required, by law, to produce ID if he has any.
No, the principle of the matter does matter. The Circuit City guys are idiots who overstepped their authority. The police, on the other hand, have every authority to reasonably expect someone in their car to be able to produce a license. Just because he was driving at that very second doesn't mean he wasn't driving. It's not like the "younger sibling" drove to the store now, since they were all in the back seat crying.
In short, blow of the store security people (I do it all the time), but don't blow off the real police.
If you don't, you are still required to give your name and address. This guy gave his name, but withheld his ID, even though he had better have had it on him, since his younger siblings where in the car he was evidently driving.
The iPod in the iPhone is far superior to every other model of iPod in usability. While I'm not a huge fan of the touch pad for other things (like typing), it is nearly perfect for the iPod. Browsing album covers and flipping it over and touching the song is nearly as good as having the physical album cover and picking the song you wanna hear.
I'm not an attorney, but my attorney is. She says in most states you are legally obliged to show some form of ID, if you have one, when asked by the police.
The real problem is the renegade bounty-hunter mentality these security people have. They have NO authority to tackle/confront/detain anybody who has not been seen stealing anything. Even then, they have to be careful. But mostly they aren't. They tackle and punch and headlock well before they think about if the person actually stole anything. Same goes for concert and bar bouncers too. We should sue those who feel they are above the law at every chance we get. As for the cop, well, he's a cop with TRUE authority.
I am shocked that there are as many people like yourself as there are people you chastise. Lets see, show him my driver's license (all of 30 seconds) and go on my way, or cause a big scene and go to jail. Seems like an easy choice to me.
Math is not my forte, but I hold an MA in Technology Education. The most imporant thing about using technology in any discipline is not to use it solely as a projector. Small group collaboration is the key to technology integration. Students work in teams, with technology being only a portion of the overall task. For example, there are before-computer-use task, during and after. Students need to know how to create algebraic symbols on the computer, which in it's own way, is a good learning tool that is only loosely related to completing the Algebra task, yet improves the technology skills of the student. Groups can work together to figure out the keystrokes ON THEIR OWN, with a little guidance from the teacher. Create a list of tasks, technology and math related, that must be accomplished by the teams. Create a rubric for each task that clearly outlines the quality expected for each task. Before long, students will forget they are even using technology, while at the same time they'll be learning how to use technology. And surprise, they'll even start getting the math part too!
A great reference for better tech teaching is the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)'s NETS standards found at iste.org
Very nice post. You could add that this in unacceptable because Microsoft is the largest software company in the world with the most resources and the "best" programmers. Also, their business model or corporate culture (or probably both) are broken for this to happen YET again. Other companies have minor set-backs. Microsoft has bombs. My guess to why is two-fold: Microsoft is incredibily overrated as a tech company, thus expectations are impossible to meet, and as a business, they don't care, and they take their huge market share for granted.
I keep hearing this argument that nerds are well educated. I don't buy it, because to be a nerd, you have to have a specialized technical education. This precludes nerds from being well educated in matters of a non-technical nature.
Not really. My friends made a hit single a couple years ago. They could be considered one-hit wonders, yet all three of them are filthy rich now (Los Lonely Boys, their single 'Heaven'). It just takes a hit to live comfortably the rest of your life. Hell, I know song writers who have had a big time Nashville guy pick up their song, and they are almost filthy rich off of those royalties.
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I normally don't ever bother to read a story that requires you to register, but this one sounded interesting. What a waste of time. So basically, most people are stupid, biased and have narrow world views and distorted POVs? Wow. Thanks. I never knew that until today.
You feel sorry for me because I needed a phone, so I bought, surprise a phone? How would buying an iPod Touch fulfill my telephony needs? I feel sorry for you.
I could care less if I was first on the block or cool to my kids or whatever other stupid reason people cite for us early adopters irrationalities. I bought the damn phone because it was the only one on the market I tried under $800 that was worth a damn. Now that the are only $400, even better. Chrissake's people, quit projecting and speculating about why those of us who have money spend it the way we do. And I have half a brain, and I've also been an Apple customer for 20 years. This is the first time I've been stung by a price cut right after I bought a product, so no...I didn't know, or expect, the $599 price tag to be so temporary. Typical Apple would drop the price $100-$200 on the NEXT generation model, or to keep the price the same, but improve the specs (like the current iMac lineup). I'm not kicking Apple nor am I abonding them.
I don't get your (and many other's) obsession with storage space. My computer is for storing my music, and my NANO (4GB) holds more songs than I could ever run to in one sessions. You know, they make a little white dock and a thing called iTunes that lets you create playlists. I have an 80GB video iPod collecting dust and playing second fiddle to a 4GB nano, because the Video iPod neither fits on my arm, nor does it work with Nike +.
Bingo. I've been yelling this about the iPhone price point the day it was introduced, yet /. dorks want to yammer on about how expensive it is. Well, if you think it is too expensive, then it is...for YOU.
I'll give everyone in this thread a T-shirt that yells loudly, "I don't give a f*ck! It's my money bitches now STFU!" If losing $300 ruins your day, then you most likely can't afford an iPhone in the first place, so get out of my thread.
Ooh, I want my t-shirt! I finally got stung by the mystical secret Mac update. I figured if I bought early enough, it would be at least a year before the price came down! But at least now, I can justify a second one for my wife.
Just to humor the rest of your tired arguments, ok, I'll give you the lack of a gaming market. But the gaming market for the PC ain't so healthy now, is it? What's the point of having a failing industry on your side? Besides, World of Warcraft takes all my spare time and works just fine on my Mac ;-)
I don't know why you people keep perpetuating the myth that Macs costs so much more. Just for fun, today at work I configured my Dell Latitude laptop (talk about your low price high volume leader) as closely as possible to a MacBook and the MacBook was $21 more. The Dell has a bigger screen by .9" and runs Windows. All the other specs were either identical (ram, cpu, hard drive) or damn near the samed thing (Intel on-chip graphics for both). Not to mention, with the Dell you get less-than-inspiring design and none of the well thought out features of the Mac, such as the latchless lid, the sound level that shows on screen when you raise and lower the volume (so you don't actually have to have something playing to know how loud it will be), the magsafe adapter, and about 25 other subtle design things. The only thing the Dell has going for it is that it is highly customizable, and with a MacBook, you are stuck with a few options on the models that the offer.
Third party companies make plenty of hardware for Mac OS X, as the overwhelming majority of hardware is cross-platform. Hell, I have even used PC hardware that I couldn't get to work in a PC on my Mac, to include (but not limited to): video cards, hard drives, ethernet adapters, game controllers, printers and RAM. My G4 tower has three devices that were originally bought for my pc, but either didn't work, or didn't work well, so they live in my G4. The 160GB Maxtor hard drive I bought shows up as 130GB on my PC, as this is the most WinXP can address without mucking about. The SD-Ram I bought for a PC keeps crashing it and a tech told me it was a bad ram chip, so now the ram chip resides in the G4 with no crashes. The linksys ethernet adapter I bought for my PC never worked because WinXP could never see it, even though I was using the drivers that came with the install cd specifically written for that device on WinXP. Downloading the latest drivers didn't help. Interestingly enough, the card worked fine with no drivers on my G4 tower. There are huge Mac market segments that barely exist in the PC world, like external firewire drives and digital video editing gear. Please name some of this bountiful hardware that doesn't exist for Mac OS?
This whole thing brings me to the point of asking, is a MacBook with Mac OS X worth $21 more than the Dell Latitude with WinXP? No. It's worth HUNDREDS more.
A policeman who has been called to the scene of a dispute has every right to request to see an ID. The point that he wasn't driving is irrelevant. It IS a common courtesy to comply to an officer performing his/her duty and this hardly a sign of subservience or a police state. You all are forgetting the fact that a driver's license is also form of ID in addition to a license to drive, so it matters NOT that this guy wasn't driving.
yeah yeah, I get it...that's if you believe his entire story...something tells me he is tweaking his dialogue to fit his case better. In any case, even if he WASN'T driving, he's still required, by law, to produce ID if he has any.
In short, blow of the store security people (I do it all the time), but don't blow off the real police.
If you don't, you are still required to give your name and address. This guy gave his name, but withheld his ID, even though he had better have had it on him, since his younger siblings where in the car he was evidently driving.
The iPod in the iPhone is far superior to every other model of iPod in usability. While I'm not a huge fan of the touch pad for other things (like typing), it is nearly perfect for the iPod. Browsing album covers and flipping it over and touching the song is nearly as good as having the physical album cover and picking the song you wanna hear.
I'm not an attorney, but my attorney is. She says in most states you are legally obliged to show some form of ID, if you have one, when asked by the police.
The real problem is the renegade bounty-hunter mentality these security people have. They have NO authority to tackle/confront/detain anybody who has not been seen stealing anything. Even then, they have to be careful. But mostly they aren't. They tackle and punch and headlock well before they think about if the person actually stole anything. Same goes for concert and bar bouncers too. We should sue those who feel they are above the law at every chance we get. As for the cop, well, he's a cop with TRUE authority.
I am shocked that there are as many people like yourself as there are people you chastise. Lets see, show him my driver's license (all of 30 seconds) and go on my way, or cause a big scene and go to jail. Seems like an easy choice to me.
A great reference for better tech teaching is the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)'s NETS standards found at iste.org
Very nice post. You could add that this in unacceptable because Microsoft is the largest software company in the world with the most resources and the "best" programmers. Also, their business model or corporate culture (or probably both) are broken for this to happen YET again. Other companies have minor set-backs. Microsoft has bombs. My guess to why is two-fold: Microsoft is incredibily overrated as a tech company, thus expectations are impossible to meet, and as a business, they don't care, and they take their huge market share for granted.
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Loudness wars or not, a catchy single is what sells these days, not great music.
I keep hearing this argument that nerds are well educated. I don't buy it, because to be a nerd, you have to have a specialized technical education. This precludes nerds from being well educated in matters of a non-technical nature.
Not really. My friends made a hit single a couple years ago. They could be considered one-hit wonders, yet all three of them are filthy rich now (Los Lonely Boys, their single 'Heaven'). It just takes a hit to live comfortably the rest of your life. Hell, I know song writers who have had a big time Nashville guy pick up their song, and they are almost filthy rich off of those royalties.
I'm an ENTJ. That makes me an outgoing nerd. And a Mac user.