Google has grown rapidly over the last 10 years, and they are a big company, but they are not Microsoft. The culture at Google is not rotten like it is at Microsoft. Google does produce low quality software like they do at Microsoft. Google is still innovative in many ways that MS is not. Google is making steady progress in a way that MS has not. And overall, Google is not run by a bunch of idiots like MS is.
Also the saying "Stick with Linux and stay away from Google" has no meaning because Google's products are not dependent on any desktop OS; they are internet based. "Stick with Linux and avoid Microsoft" would make more sense, but it would also be way off topic.
I hate to see people compare Apple or Google to Microsoft because it is a false comparison. Just because a company has grown very large very quickly doesn't mean that it is a Microsoft. That's just an ignorant thing to say.
In my programming classes at UW-Milwaukee the professors emphasize that we should design our code to be easy to read/edit even if that means using up more computation cycles. This makes editing the code easier in the future, which is appreciated by future programmers who have to learn your code and can save the company some time and money. And since computation resources have become so cheap (practically unlimited for most applications) it doesn't really affect the performance of the program to a noticeable degree.
Actually I think even this statement is wrong. If I go to buy a new computer and I can buy a new model with a super fast processor for $1900, or a refurbished older model for $1300 that is slower, but more than fast enough for my needs, then I'll get the cheaper one and save myself $600. In fact, I did just that 4 months ago and completely love my iMac.:) A 2.4 ghz processor and 2GB ram is just fine with me. I don't need the 3.0 ghz one. It's not worth the extra $600. I use it mainly for internet and programming in Xcode and it does these things just fine. I may not need to upgrade my computer for another 5 to 7 years. If I do, it will only be so that I can get the Mac Pro with the 30" screen or for some new feature that Apple comes out with.:)
Faster computers are going to be generally irrelevant to about 85% of the population. They only really use computers for surfing the internet, checking e-mail, MS Office, iTunes, organizing photos, and playing The Sims occasionally. Most people play video games on consoles (PS3, WII, Xbox 360). There are few things that 90% of the population regularly do that require a faster computer. These advancements are going to affect businesses and scientists who need super computers to perform large amounts of computations, or servers that need to respond to heavy demands. The only thing, I think, that needs to be improved is the hard drive. Right now they're just way too slow.
When I used to run Win 2000 I would disable all of the paging files so it forced Windows to put everything on the RAM. This was actually considered a "trick/tip" to get Windows to run faster, and it worked great for me. As long as I had enough RAM to handle what I was doing I never had any problems.
Actually, there is an entire class of racetams that can be used and each of them act a little different. Piracetam is considered the weakest of them all, and Pramiracetam is considered the strongest. I use Aniracetam and find that it helps quite a bit. When you stack them (Piracetam + Aniracetam) they work synergistically and you get an even stronger effect. Because they tend to use up your brains acetylcholine faster, people usually have to take a choline supplement with them a few times a week. The best form that I've found is alpha-GPC. It is the most bioavailable of choline supplements. The best part about these is that there are no side effects, even at high doses. Wiki - Racetam Class
In exchange for doing 100 hours of community service he would give you $4,000 towards college. That seems fair to me. It's like getting paid $40 / hour. That's decent, and it would help do some good in our communities.
As for high school, I'm not sure high school kids should be required to do community service, as many of them don't have cars, or already work while they're in school. Their lives are actually quite busy.
Not only are these devices not supported, but it doesn't support the iTunes music store, App store, or Video store. This just looks lame and like a waste of my hard drive space and time.
I love the new Facebook, like the new iGoogle (I even feel it uses the space more efficiently), love the new MacBooks, and didn't like Firewire anyways and am looking forward to USB 3.0. But I'm an open-minded individual who enjoys trying new things and improving things. I assume most people don't feel the same way.
And that doesn't include iLife, or the 1 year warranty, and 90 days phone support, and the Apple mouse and keyboard (which I very much prefer both). Especially when you consider that you can buy a refurbished iMac at a nicely discounted price.
I would even go further to say that it is just as much a theory as evolution, and just as much a law as evolution. Saying I know what I know is just like saying that gravity exists, or that evolution exists, or that 2+2=4. The idea exists and is true with or without me, I'm more like a messenger who points a finger and says "look!" to everybody else. And I do understand how humans can have different views, I just fail to understand why so many settle for tiny and inaccurate views. And it disgusts me how so many cultures in this world fail to produce quality human beings. And I do believe everyone has the ability to test their own reality and the things they experience and the knowledge that they acquire to validate themselves and world that they are experiencing. I have shared my theory with some of the smartest people I can find (who I can trust) and have hoped for them to find flaws, and yet they can not. Where is the flaw in 2+2=4? That's really how simple my theory is, once you understand it, which is exactly how it should be. I'm not trying to be either arrogant or insightful.
I believe in things. I have faith. I have religion. Science is my religion. I have faith in science. I believe in science. I understand. And I do not believe that most people automatically group religion with superstition, and I actually believe them to be very different things. I was just saying that the same idea behind what made superstitions once valuable is also what made religion once valuable. I will admit it may be a little flamebait-ish of me to mention Republicans, but the fact is that Republicans tend to be much more religious and place much more value on their religious beliefs than Democrats do. They also tend to be much more conservative and cling to older, more traditional beliefs, which are usually in the process of becoming obsolete, and replaced, if they haven't already been, while Democrats seem more open minded to trying out new ideas and are more focused towards making the future a much different and more evolved place than it is today. You're correct that right now humans are in a bit of an inbetween stage, but I'm actually in the process of changing that. I've figured out what I call an "Understanding of Existence" that builds on the theory of evolution, and then based on that I have figured out the Meaning of Life, and then based on both of those I have developed a perfect theory of moral philosophy. I am writing my book right now and will be distributing it next summer. Keep an eye out for it. The cover will have this picture on it: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b62/kabronyrecords/Nebulabrot.jpg
As far as I'm concerned the same thing can be said of religion. Thousands of years ago, before we scientifically understood everything, we had religion to give us an inaccurate but constructive understanding of our world and our existence. However now religion has become obsolete and more accurate and scientific things are taking its place. This is obvious to me. I don't understand why all the Republicans don't get it.
It's amazing! I use it to travel the streets of other countries and see what it's like there. I use it to look for new places to live so I can check out the area a little bit without having to drive all the way over there. It's great. Infact, it's one of the main reasons I prefer Google Maps over other online map services (mapquest sucks IMO). I would hate to see a service like this disappear. At the same time I feel the Japanese need to lighten up and change their culture so that it is not so strict. Google is documenting public territory, and making it widely available and I see nothing wrong with that. They can photograph my house anytime. Nothing too exciting or private happening here anyways.
It's not intended to have a data plan. In the cell phone + iPod Touch scenario you would use your iPod Touch to surf the web and look up stuff through WiFi. Unfortunately WiFi isn't everywhere you go, and it's not always free. I just wanted to illustrate that trying to have an iPod Touch and cell phone can be just as expensive as having just an iPhone, and it doesn't have many of the conveniences of the iPhone.
I think this is a more accurate representation of what it would be like to own an iPod Touch and a phone instead of just an iPhone. It is still slightly cheaper by about $200, but you have to deal with the inconvenience of carrying around 2 devices, not being able to access the internet on your Touch wherever you are, paying $10 to $20 for updates on your Touch every few months, and missing out on certain things that only the iPhone would have such as the txt messaging, and the phone app, which I actually like a lot. If you have a smartphone and an iPod Touch your total cost will be somewhere around $1900. Overall, the iPhone carries a unique experience that the iPod Touch and other phones can not mimic, and it will do it at a very competitive and attractive price.
I don't think that flooding our PCs with more ram is a reasonable fix for our extremely slow hard drives. It solves the symptoms of the problem without actually addressing the problem directly. Within the next few years I expect SSD to become more common and more affordable. They are more reliable, last longer, use less electricity, and read and write data faster then normal hard drives.
As for ram speed, I'm not sure that I would ever even be able to notice a difference between 500mhz and 1066mhz. If I sat down at a new computer and started using photoshop or watching videos on youtube, there would be no way for me to indicate the speed of the ram.
Because for those of us who have been using it for the last few years, we've realized just how amazing it is, and if everyone used gmail then spam would almost cease to exist as a problem.
If you want real performance gains get a Mac and stop wasting all your time on Vista.
I don't understand why your average person would need more than 4GB of ram for a desktop computer anyways. What could you possibly run that would take up that much ram? Are you going to be using Pro Tools and Photoshop and Final Cut Pro all at once, as well as ripping a DVD and playing Duke Nukem Forever? Then maybe you'll need 8GB of ram, but other than that I don't see how it's necessary and I don't see any major advantage to DDR3.
The main limitation these days is not ram speed or size, or even processors, as the quad cores offer more than enough horsepower for most people, even professionals. These hard drives are what's slowing us down. Once we can switch over to a flash drive that can load data much faster than they can today and are relatively cheap, we'll be set.
I don't care for Linux and have no use for it, but if I was considering using it I would think Linspire would be a good place to start. They start with Ubuntu and add extra common sense features like the ability to play mp3s. It seems like a better all in one package.
"jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill" and "disrupt Microsoft's relationships with its business partners." Isn't that just lawyer speak for: "Yeah, of course everything we say is a lie, but we can't have other companies knowing about that, or they might not trust us anymore!!! If they don't trust us, they'll never give us their money, and we'll end up alone and poor, which we know we obviously deserve, but there must be enough loop holes in the system for us to rig this so we don't look like the greedy pieces of crap that we are!" Uhh... yeah... that sounds about right...
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Also the saying "Stick with Linux and stay away from Google" has no meaning because Google's products are not dependent on any desktop OS; they are internet based. "Stick with Linux and avoid Microsoft" would make more sense, but it would also be way off topic.
I hate to see people compare Apple or Google to Microsoft because it is a false comparison. Just because a company has grown very large very quickly doesn't mean that it is a Microsoft. That's just an ignorant thing to say.
No Mac version == Lame.
In my programming classes at UW-Milwaukee the professors emphasize that we should design our code to be easy to read/edit even if that means using up more computation cycles. This makes editing the code easier in the future, which is appreciated by future programmers who have to learn your code and can save the company some time and money. And since computation resources have become so cheap (practically unlimited for most applications) it doesn't really affect the performance of the program to a noticeable degree.
Actually I think even this statement is wrong. If I go to buy a new computer and I can buy a new model with a super fast processor for $1900, or a refurbished older model for $1300 that is slower, but more than fast enough for my needs, then I'll get the cheaper one and save myself $600. In fact, I did just that 4 months ago and completely love my iMac. :) A 2.4 ghz processor and 2GB ram is just fine with me. I don't need the 3.0 ghz one. It's not worth the extra $600. I use it mainly for internet and programming in Xcode and it does these things just fine. I may not need to upgrade my computer for another 5 to 7 years. If I do, it will only be so that I can get the Mac Pro with the 30" screen or for some new feature that Apple comes out with. :)
Faster computers are going to be generally irrelevant to about 85% of the population. They only really use computers for surfing the internet, checking e-mail, MS Office, iTunes, organizing photos, and playing The Sims occasionally. Most people play video games on consoles (PS3, WII, Xbox 360). There are few things that 90% of the population regularly do that require a faster computer. These advancements are going to affect businesses and scientists who need super computers to perform large amounts of computations, or servers that need to respond to heavy demands. The only thing, I think, that needs to be improved is the hard drive. Right now they're just way too slow.
When I used to run Win 2000 I would disable all of the paging files so it forced Windows to put everything on the RAM. This was actually considered a "trick/tip" to get Windows to run faster, and it worked great for me. As long as I had enough RAM to handle what I was doing I never had any problems.
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Actually, there is an entire class of racetams that can be used and each of them act a little different. Piracetam is considered the weakest of them all, and Pramiracetam is considered the strongest. I use Aniracetam and find that it helps quite a bit. When you stack them (Piracetam + Aniracetam) they work synergistically and you get an even stronger effect. Because they tend to use up your brains acetylcholine faster, people usually have to take a choline supplement with them a few times a week. The best form that I've found is alpha-GPC. It is the most bioavailable of choline supplements. The best part about these is that there are no side effects, even at high doses. Wiki - Racetam Class
As for high school, I'm not sure high school kids should be required to do community service, as many of them don't have cars, or already work while they're in school. Their lives are actually quite busy.
Not only are these devices not supported, but it doesn't support the iTunes music store, App store, or Video store. This just looks lame and like a waste of my hard drive space and time.
I love the new Facebook, like the new iGoogle (I even feel it uses the space more efficiently), love the new MacBooks, and didn't like Firewire anyways and am looking forward to USB 3.0. But I'm an open-minded individual who enjoys trying new things and improving things. I assume most people don't feel the same way.
And that doesn't include iLife, or the 1 year warranty, and 90 days phone support, and the Apple mouse and keyboard (which I very much prefer both). Especially when you consider that you can buy a refurbished iMac at a nicely discounted price.
Or some sort of hadron collider that is large, maybe....
I would even go further to say that it is just as much a theory as evolution, and just as much a law as evolution. Saying I know what I know is just like saying that gravity exists, or that evolution exists, or that 2+2=4. The idea exists and is true with or without me, I'm more like a messenger who points a finger and says "look!" to everybody else. And I do understand how humans can have different views, I just fail to understand why so many settle for tiny and inaccurate views. And it disgusts me how so many cultures in this world fail to produce quality human beings. And I do believe everyone has the ability to test their own reality and the things they experience and the knowledge that they acquire to validate themselves and world that they are experiencing. I have shared my theory with some of the smartest people I can find (who I can trust) and have hoped for them to find flaws, and yet they can not. Where is the flaw in 2+2=4? That's really how simple my theory is, once you understand it, which is exactly how it should be. I'm not trying to be either arrogant or insightful.
I believe in things. I have faith. I have religion. Science is my religion. I have faith in science. I believe in science. I understand. And I do not believe that most people automatically group religion with superstition, and I actually believe them to be very different things. I was just saying that the same idea behind what made superstitions once valuable is also what made religion once valuable. I will admit it may be a little flamebait-ish of me to mention Republicans, but the fact is that Republicans tend to be much more religious and place much more value on their religious beliefs than Democrats do. They also tend to be much more conservative and cling to older, more traditional beliefs, which are usually in the process of becoming obsolete, and replaced, if they haven't already been, while Democrats seem more open minded to trying out new ideas and are more focused towards making the future a much different and more evolved place than it is today. You're correct that right now humans are in a bit of an inbetween stage, but I'm actually in the process of changing that. I've figured out what I call an "Understanding of Existence" that builds on the theory of evolution, and then based on that I have figured out the Meaning of Life, and then based on both of those I have developed a perfect theory of moral philosophy. I am writing my book right now and will be distributing it next summer. Keep an eye out for it. The cover will have this picture on it: http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b62/kabronyrecords/Nebulabrot.jpg
As far as I'm concerned the same thing can be said of religion. Thousands of years ago, before we scientifically understood everything, we had religion to give us an inaccurate but constructive understanding of our world and our existence. However now religion has become obsolete and more accurate and scientific things are taking its place. This is obvious to me. I don't understand why all the Republicans don't get it.
It's amazing! I use it to travel the streets of other countries and see what it's like there. I use it to look for new places to live so I can check out the area a little bit without having to drive all the way over there. It's great. Infact, it's one of the main reasons I prefer Google Maps over other online map services (mapquest sucks IMO). I would hate to see a service like this disappear. At the same time I feel the Japanese need to lighten up and change their culture so that it is not so strict. Google is documenting public territory, and making it widely available and I see nothing wrong with that. They can photograph my house anytime. Nothing too exciting or private happening here anyways.
What about OS X? And what is this "Vista" thing everyone is referring to?
It's not intended to have a data plan. In the cell phone + iPod Touch scenario you would use your iPod Touch to surf the web and look up stuff through WiFi. Unfortunately WiFi isn't everywhere you go, and it's not always free. I just wanted to illustrate that trying to have an iPod Touch and cell phone can be just as expensive as having just an iPhone, and it doesn't have many of the conveniences of the iPhone.
Compared to:
8GB iPod Touch $300
New phone $50 (with 2 year agreement)
Phone Plan $50 * 24 = $1080
Total Cost: $1430
I think this is a more accurate representation of what it would be like to own an iPod Touch and a phone instead of just an iPhone. It is still slightly cheaper by about $200, but you have to deal with the inconvenience of carrying around 2 devices, not being able to access the internet on your Touch wherever you are, paying $10 to $20 for updates on your Touch every few months, and missing out on certain things that only the iPhone would have such as the txt messaging, and the phone app, which I actually like a lot. If you have a smartphone and an iPod Touch your total cost will be somewhere around $1900. Overall, the iPhone carries a unique experience that the iPod Touch and other phones can not mimic, and it will do it at a very competitive and attractive price.
As for ram speed, I'm not sure that I would ever even be able to notice a difference between 500mhz and 1066mhz. If I sat down at a new computer and started using photoshop or watching videos on youtube, there would be no way for me to indicate the speed of the ram.
Because for those of us who have been using it for the last few years, we've realized just how amazing it is, and if everyone used gmail then spam would almost cease to exist as a problem.
I don't understand why your average person would need more than 4GB of ram for a desktop computer anyways. What could you possibly run that would take up that much ram? Are you going to be using Pro Tools and Photoshop and Final Cut Pro all at once, as well as ripping a DVD and playing Duke Nukem Forever? Then maybe you'll need 8GB of ram, but other than that I don't see how it's necessary and I don't see any major advantage to DDR3.
The main limitation these days is not ram speed or size, or even processors, as the quad cores offer more than enough horsepower for most people, even professionals. These hard drives are what's slowing us down. Once we can switch over to a flash drive that can load data much faster than they can today and are relatively cheap, we'll be set.
I don't care for Linux and have no use for it, but if I was considering using it I would think Linspire would be a good place to start. They start with Ubuntu and add extra common sense features like the ability to play mp3s. It seems like a better all in one package.
"jeopardize Microsoft's goodwill" and "disrupt Microsoft's relationships with its business partners." Isn't that just lawyer speak for: "Yeah, of course everything we say is a lie, but we can't have other companies knowing about that, or they might not trust us anymore!!! If they don't trust us, they'll never give us their money, and we'll end up alone and poor, which we know we obviously deserve, but there must be enough loop holes in the system for us to rig this so we don't look like the greedy pieces of crap that we are!" Uhh... yeah... that sounds about right...