Building it would probably be a bigger endeavour than all the satellites and space stations we've launched combined. I'm sure it's possible, but you're probably looking at trillions of dollars.
The flip side is that those past producers created more efficient means that the new producers can simply purchase wholesale. China didn't have to develop industry using old-school, more polluting methods, they have all the newest methods available already, so they can just slot themselves in at the front. Same with Africa.
The clearest example of this is with cell phones, Most developing countries seem to be skipping straight to 3 or 4G, bypassing all the intermediate steps. Some places in Africa I've heard you CAN'T get landlines, but cell phones are common.
We did all the development, so they get to reap the rewards.
The iMac designers knew that the people who wanted to use legacy hardware were a tiny niche.
Because people like being forced to buy new printers and scanners, right? A decent printer or scanner can last for years and years, same with a mechanical keyboard. If you're lucky then they'll play nice with an adapter, if not you've gotta drop another couple hundred for a new printer, from a much smaller selection due to the relatively limited selection of USB printers.
Losing the floppy disk drive was probably a bit too early a decision, but most users found that they really didn't need it. They did just as well without it, and it meant that Apple didn't have to deal with supporting any more software coming out on floppy.
APPLE didn't have to deal with such software anyway, they simply had to stop producing it on floppies if they didn't want it, third-parties would be allowed the choice of floppy or CD.
I agree Apple probably didn't influence anything here. Even with the iMac demonstrating that floppies were not needed - and by 2001 when CD-R and flash drive and broadband really had made them obsolete - most PCs still came with floppy drives for several more years. I wouldn't say they were all that useful to most users. Slashdotters, perhaps, who still used boot floppies for example, but most users were fooling themselves in thinking they needed the drive.
When I was going to school we had a ton of people bring presentations or reports in on floppies to work on them or present them to the class. That was in 2000. Until flash drives became ubiquitous the floppy still had a place, even if Jobs disagreed.
With proper care most cars can stay on the road for very long times. Especially if it's a diesel. Premium furniture will last a long time too, in fact it's more likely to be discarded because it's no longer fashionable than because it's no longer functional, that's why we threw out a lot of my great-grandma's stuff.
The current structure of the parties has very little to do with how they were back then. For instance at the time the Republicans were the party of civil rights.
PCs were sold with PS/2 ports long after USB became the standard. It's a matter of supporting choice, if you have an old keyboard that you like there's little reason to force you to ditch it or buy an adapter when a PS/2 port can be provided easily.
USB's destiny was decided long before the iMac was made, it was intended as the replacement for all the previous ports and installed on damn near every Windows machine already by the time the iMac came out. The iMac didn't HURT, but it didn't matter much either. Regardless of Apple's stance, parallel, serial and PS/2 ports were going to die and be replaced by USB ports. As the previous poster stated if Apple was as influential as you're claiming we'd all be using Firewire, but Firewire died a slow death instead.
As for floppy drives, when the iMac came out they were still VERY useful, in fact IIRC the external floppy drive was the number 1 or 2 accessory sold (behind only the replacement for the hockey puck mouse). That alone demonstrates the premature move by Apple. The fact that floppy drives are totally worthless NOW doesn't mean they were obsolete then. PC manufacturers kept the floppy drive until people actually stopped wanting them, rather than forcing them to abandon something that was still useful to them.
Games had to bundle DX anyway. Even when Windows came with it there was no guarantee that it was recent. Even now I'm pretty sure any game disk comes with it. Except for MGSV since that disc literally only has the Steam install link.
Halo would have been an entirely different game IIRC, so there's no way to tell if would have been as influential. Also, unpopular opinion: Halo wasn't that good, the only reason it was popular is because it was the best split-screen shooter at the time on consoles.
Thankfully those days are over. My current install started with 7 and has survived through 8 and now 10. I've replaced most of the hardware in that time as well.0
Yeah. It's amusing to me to watch people complain about Netflix. It was an AMAZING bargain, now it's only a great deal. People got spoiled early on, they didn't realize how good they had it.
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YOU CAN'T HUG YOUR CHILDREN WITH NUCLEAR ARMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But yeah, all the rabid anti-nuke sentiment ignores the reality that a lot of Japanese were quite willing to drag the war on for a long time.
Psh. History Channel doesn't even care about WW2 anymore except on December 7th and June 6th.
I don't think either of those are relevant to the LHC.
Building it would probably be a bigger endeavour than all the satellites and space stations we've launched combined. I'm sure it's possible, but you're probably looking at trillions of dollars.
If the US hadn't shown up Europe would likely be speaking Russian now.
The flip side is that those past producers created more efficient means that the new producers can simply purchase wholesale. China didn't have to develop industry using old-school, more polluting methods, they have all the newest methods available already, so they can just slot themselves in at the front. Same with Africa.
The clearest example of this is with cell phones, Most developing countries seem to be skipping straight to 3 or 4G, bypassing all the intermediate steps. Some places in Africa I've heard you CAN'T get landlines, but cell phones are common.
We did all the development, so they get to reap the rewards.
Yes. The first option is shady, the second isn't.
The iMac designers knew that the people who wanted to use legacy hardware were a tiny niche.
Because people like being forced to buy new printers and scanners, right? A decent printer or scanner can last for years and years, same with a mechanical keyboard. If you're lucky then they'll play nice with an adapter, if not you've gotta drop another couple hundred for a new printer, from a much smaller selection due to the relatively limited selection of USB printers.
Losing the floppy disk drive was probably a bit too early a decision, but most users found that they really didn't need it. They did just as well without it, and it meant that Apple didn't have to deal with supporting any more software coming out on floppy.
APPLE didn't have to deal with such software anyway, they simply had to stop producing it on floppies if they didn't want it, third-parties would be allowed the choice of floppy or CD.
I agree Apple probably didn't influence anything here. Even with the iMac demonstrating that floppies were not needed - and by 2001 when CD-R and flash drive and broadband really had made them obsolete - most PCs still came with floppy drives for several more years. I wouldn't say they were all that useful to most users. Slashdotters, perhaps, who still used boot floppies for example, but most users were fooling themselves in thinking they needed the drive.
When I was going to school we had a ton of people bring presentations or reports in on floppies to work on them or present them to the class. That was in 2000. Until flash drives became ubiquitous the floppy still had a place, even if Jobs disagreed.
With proper care most cars can stay on the road for very long times. Especially if it's a diesel. Premium furniture will last a long time too, in fact it's more likely to be discarded because it's no longer fashionable than because it's no longer functional, that's why we threw out a lot of my great-grandma's stuff.
The current structure of the parties has very little to do with how they were back then. For instance at the time the Republicans were the party of civil rights.
PCs were sold with PS/2 ports long after USB became the standard. It's a matter of supporting choice, if you have an old keyboard that you like there's little reason to force you to ditch it or buy an adapter when a PS/2 port can be provided easily.
USB's destiny was decided long before the iMac was made, it was intended as the replacement for all the previous ports and installed on damn near every Windows machine already by the time the iMac came out. The iMac didn't HURT, but it didn't matter much either. Regardless of Apple's stance, parallel, serial and PS/2 ports were going to die and be replaced by USB ports. As the previous poster stated if Apple was as influential as you're claiming we'd all be using Firewire, but Firewire died a slow death instead.
As for floppy drives, when the iMac came out they were still VERY useful, in fact IIRC the external floppy drive was the number 1 or 2 accessory sold (behind only the replacement for the hockey puck mouse). That alone demonstrates the premature move by Apple. The fact that floppy drives are totally worthless NOW doesn't mean they were obsolete then. PC manufacturers kept the floppy drive until people actually stopped wanting them, rather than forcing them to abandon something that was still useful to them.
The idea of an Apple product being MORE hackable is highly amusing.
And the Free Market fixes everything again! Praise Adam Smith!
Then you start typing and realize "Hey! This is faster than using the start menu! Why would I want to go back?"
Eh, I think Goldeneye takes that spot, but Halo was the first on that generation of console maybe.
Games had to bundle DX anyway. Even when Windows came with it there was no guarantee that it was recent. Even now I'm pretty sure any game disk comes with it. Except for MGSV since that disc literally only has the Steam install link.
Halo would have been an entirely different game IIRC, so there's no way to tell if would have been as influential. Also, unpopular opinion: Halo wasn't that good, the only reason it was popular is because it was the best split-screen shooter at the time on consoles.
Thankfully those days are over. My current install started with 7 and has survived through 8 and now 10. I've replaced most of the hardware in that time as well.0
Huh. So Apple has always been a patent troll then.
The "Good" old days. Now it's like 10 seconds to boot to desktop with my SSD.
Doubtful. The Windows 8 interface isn't a problem if you don't go into it looking intently for for precious start menu.
Yeah. It's amusing to me to watch people complain about Netflix. It was an AMAZING bargain, now it's only a great deal. People got spoiled early on, they didn't realize how good they had it.
They are in bed with corporations to screw us.
Those are called Politicians.
FTFY
As someone who did technical support for cell phones. Probably Indians.
We should add in lesbian, gay, transgender and genderqueer versions of all the emojis! Even bacon!