Well they are making music for the musically uneducated consumer, if I'm to take the free market libertarian stance that is so prevalent here. Me? I'm a part-time professional musician trained at university. Sometimes "dumb" music can sound good, but usually not. I like "smart pop", but even it's a dying breed.
The cello part does, but the lead violin part has a whole bunch of notes. Besides, it's not the number of notes, it's how they are played. Sticking those 8 notes into a machine and pressing play is not music. But putting those 8 notes in a machine does require more musical knowledge than being a "DJ", so there's that.
Your position seems to be that Apple would be nothing without phones and tablets. Yet, they are the third largest PC manufacturer (as measured by US sales, computers only--no iPads, no iPhones, no iPads). They are bigger than Lenovo and Acer, yet I don't hear people claiming those companies as "dead" or "terribly obscure". I even gave you an out hinting that iPad/iPhone/iPod sales might give the Mac line a boost, to which you could argue people wouldn't be buying Macs had they not been exposed to Apple's other product lines (the oft-cited "Halo Effect").
Perhaps I misunderstood, but to discredit Apple's computer line just because their iOS department is X% of their bottom line is dumb. A percent is a percent, not a total. If Apple sold 1billion iPads a day, but only sold 100 million Macs a quarter, than woe is the Mac? That's dumb because, like I've said, they sold 4 million Macs last quarter and are the #3 PC vendor...this is hardly the same thing as obsolete/dead.
Feel free to clarify. Your follow up response is pretty cryptic.
Because a Mac isn't an intel PC? They definitely are Personal Computers, and they definitely use Intel CPUs. AND they can run Windows natively. In other words, an Apple-branded Mac is a PC that runs OS X and Windows using an Intel CPU, which logically can do more than a computer that can only run Windows.
If we've learned one thing since "No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame", it's that armchair quarterbacks in the tech industry are usually wrong when making Apple predictions.
Not if you save to iCloud, which, apparently, is the default for Apple's own apps now.
Yeah, um...no. Numbers, Pages, Keynote...none of them have iCloud functionality (yet). I just installed Mt. Lion this morning and the only app I've found (so far) with iCloud support built in is TextEdit.
Of course you could argue their PC success benefits from their iPhone/iPad successes, but that's kind of the whole vision of the company and not really an argument against.
Flat at FOUR MILLION Macs per quarter. Yeah, let's pack it in boys...we are ONLY SELLING FOUR MILLION computers at an average price of $1600 every three months. This is completely unsustainable!
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. Can a 5-year old iMac even run games like Portal 2 or Diablo 3, both of which had native OSX releases?
Yes. I've play both on my 2006 24" 2.16 Intel iMac with 256MB NVIDIA 7600 GT and they are both fully playable. No, it can't play new, 3d intensive FPSers very well, but for games that aren't too graphically intensive, it works fine (SWTOR in BootCamp too).
I suppose the review of the review is supposed to be funny?
From the not-so-funny review of the review:
Ars Technica split the 10.8 review into 24 pages. This is a double-edged sword: it’s tedious to click through to each new page as you read... For the indecisive, Ars Premier subscribers can toggle a single-page option
And as anyone who uses a Mac knows, you don't have to be an Ars Premier subscriber to use the Reader feature of Safari to view the 24 pages as one long page (who would want to scroll for 24 pages of content btw?) But hey, we wouldn't expect somebody with an obvious grudge against OS X to actually know the features in OS X now would we?
Well, IT "industry" and IT "department" are two wildly divergent things in regards to typical salaries. I was reading your post as "IT department". Your description, however, reads more like "computer science" than "information technology".
What do Apple fanbois have to do with old versions of Android?
And you are assuming that people picked Android because it did "everything they wanted it to do"? That seems odd. I bought my iOS device because it does the things I like better than the competition for similar prices. It certainly doesn't do "everything" I want it to do.
Nope, not joking. I vaguely remember using ESPN one season but it didn't have something crucial to us (like a flex player, or roster size limit, or waiver wire rules, or something) that we all universally hated (probably fixed by now, and I don't even remember what it was).
This is so opposite the truth. This is where the nerd stereotypes come from, btw. You think you know everything and can't learn anything from somebody "not as smart" as you. Good luck with that.
I've been in education (specifically in technology) for almost 15 years now. The reason the subject matter experts don't teach the class is because they don't know how to convey information in a meaningful way like a trainer does. Curriculum experts (that's me) work WITH the subject matter experts to ensure the content is correct, but then assign the delivery of training to somebody skilled in...wait for it...training people.
Sure, there are a lot of bad training departments, but that's because many of them subscribe to the same mentality as you and think all you need is a somebody who knows the subject well.
Companies are required to pay your vacation time. They have to carry your accrued vacation time on the books for this reason. It's also why they generally cap how many unused vacation hours you can have, since carrying a bunch of vacation time really messes with the books.
Ok, I call BS. No one who makes 6-fiures in the tech industry refers to their highly paid gig as "IT" unless they are talking to grandma. That, and nobody in IT makes 6-figures.
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Shhhhh...you'll educate the masses and music will start getting good again, then you'll get a take-down notice from the RIAA!
I don't agree with the 4-chord criticism. You know you can take the 26 letters of the English alphabet and do a lot with it.
Well they are making music for the musically uneducated consumer, if I'm to take the free market libertarian stance that is so prevalent here. Me? I'm a part-time professional musician trained at university. Sometimes "dumb" music can sound good, but usually not. I like "smart pop", but even it's a dying breed.
The cello part does, but the lead violin part has a whole bunch of notes. Besides, it's not the number of notes, it's how they are played. Sticking those 8 notes into a machine and pressing play is not music. But putting those 8 notes in a machine does require more musical knowledge than being a "DJ", so there's that.
That's just self-serving wishful thinking
Which part?
Your position seems to be that Apple would be nothing without phones and tablets. Yet, they are the third largest PC manufacturer (as measured by US sales, computers only--no iPads, no iPhones, no iPads). They are bigger than Lenovo and Acer, yet I don't hear people claiming those companies as "dead" or "terribly obscure". I even gave you an out hinting that iPad/iPhone/iPod sales might give the Mac line a boost, to which you could argue people wouldn't be buying Macs had they not been exposed to Apple's other product lines (the oft-cited "Halo Effect").
Perhaps I misunderstood, but to discredit Apple's computer line just because their iOS department is X% of their bottom line is dumb. A percent is a percent, not a total. If Apple sold 1billion iPads a day, but only sold 100 million Macs a quarter, than woe is the Mac? That's dumb because, like I've said, they sold 4 million Macs last quarter and are the #3 PC vendor...this is hardly the same thing as obsolete/dead.
Feel free to clarify. Your follow up response is pretty cryptic.
Because a Mac isn't an intel PC? They definitely are Personal Computers, and they definitely use Intel CPUs. AND they can run Windows natively. In other words, an Apple-branded Mac is a PC that runs OS X and Windows using an Intel CPU, which logically can do more than a computer that can only run Windows.
If we've learned one thing since "No wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame", it's that armchair quarterbacks in the tech industry are usually wrong when making Apple predictions.
Not if you save to iCloud, which, apparently, is the default for Apple's own apps now.
Yeah, um...no. Numbers, Pages, Keynote...none of them have iCloud functionality (yet). I just installed Mt. Lion this morning and the only app I've found (so far) with iCloud support built in is TextEdit.
Well technically speaking, a Mac with a Windows 7 bootcamp partition, by definition, CAN do more than a PC with Windows 7...just sayin'
If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
Or they would be the #3 largest computer manufacturer in the United States. Gee I wonder how "terribly obscure" that makes Lenovo (#4) or Acer (#5)
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/19103453/top-5-manufacturers-of-personal-computers-in-2q
Of course you could argue their PC success benefits from their iPhone/iPad successes, but that's kind of the whole vision of the company and not really an argument against.
Flat at FOUR MILLION Macs per quarter. Yeah, let's pack it in boys...we are ONLY SELLING FOUR MILLION computers at an average price of $1600 every three months. This is completely unsustainable!
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. Can a 5-year old iMac even run games like Portal 2 or Diablo 3, both of which had native OSX releases?
Yes. I've play both on my 2006 24" 2.16 Intel iMac with 256MB NVIDIA 7600 GT and they are both fully playable. No, it can't play new, 3d intensive FPSers very well, but for games that aren't too graphically intensive, it works fine (SWTOR in BootCamp too).
I suppose the review of the review is supposed to be funny?
From the not-so-funny review of the review:
Ars Technica split the 10.8 review into 24 pages. This is a double-edged sword: it’s tedious to click through to each new page as you read ... For the indecisive, Ars Premier subscribers can toggle a single-page option
And as anyone who uses a Mac knows, you don't have to be an Ars Premier subscriber to use the Reader feature of Safari to view the 24 pages as one long page (who would want to scroll for 24 pages of content btw?) But hey, we wouldn't expect somebody with an obvious grudge against OS X to actually know the features in OS X now would we?
Well, IT "industry" and IT "department" are two wildly divergent things in regards to typical salaries. I was reading your post as "IT department". Your description, however, reads more like "computer science" than "information technology".
What do Apple fanbois have to do with old versions of Android?
And you are assuming that people picked Android because it did "everything they wanted it to do"? That seems odd. I bought my iOS device because it does the things I like better than the competition for similar prices. It certainly doesn't do "everything" I want it to do.
Nope, not joking. I vaguely remember using ESPN one season but it didn't have something crucial to us (like a flex player, or roster size limit, or waiver wire rules, or something) that we all universally hated (probably fixed by now, and I don't even remember what it was).
I'll probably give both a try this year and see.
This is so opposite the truth. This is where the nerd stereotypes come from, btw. You think you know everything and can't learn anything from somebody "not as smart" as you. Good luck with that.
I've been in education (specifically in technology) for almost 15 years now. The reason the subject matter experts don't teach the class is because they don't know how to convey information in a meaningful way like a trainer does. Curriculum experts (that's me) work WITH the subject matter experts to ensure the content is correct, but then assign the delivery of training to somebody skilled in...wait for it...training people.
Sure, there are a lot of bad training departments, but that's because many of them subscribe to the same mentality as you and think all you need is a somebody who knows the subject well.
I would kindly refer everyone here to geekfeminism.org since all those sexist comments are awful, you should be better than that.
This is slashdot. They get to talk about women in tech (not in the context of World of Warcraft) once every three years. Cut them some slack.
oops, forgot to say *in some states*. It's not a federal law.
Companies are required to pay your vacation time. They have to carry your accrued vacation time on the books for this reason. It's also why they generally cap how many unused vacation hours you can have, since carrying a bunch of vacation time really messes with the books.
Ok, I call BS. No one who makes 6-fiures in the tech industry refers to their highly paid gig as "IT" unless they are talking to grandma. That, and nobody in IT makes 6-figures.
Every CEO ever had zero CEO experience when they got their first CEO gig.
Ahh, the tired "mindless MBA" meme on slashdot. My day is complete.
Nah. Yahoo Fantasy Football is one of the best out there, and it's free. Oh wait, this is slashdot? I mean, Yahoo has a good WoW AH tracker...
IT department giving new user training? Holy hell you are doing it totally wrong.
As an Education Technologist, let me be the first to tell you that IT is the last people that should be training users.