I'm standing on the bridge of my brand-spanking-new Super Star Destroyer, fresh out of the dock from Kuat Drive Yard. When what do you know, a massive fucking rock is headed straight for Coruscant! (Cue: Gasp and "OH NO!").
But never fear. Our government's undying research in Star Wars, with the help of the ancient and all knowing Jedi Master Lucas, have yelded unto me a great many advantages. First I'll use my force grip to slow it down, then I'll have my TIE Bombers systematically pulverize it... just hopefully there aren't any big snakes living in it, Allstate doesn't cover "Space Monster Bites".
Our only problem now, is what if the asteroid is actually a Yuuzhan Vong worldship?
Microsoft is stifling competition in the font war by forcing internet font lock in! Linux users, and the tech-proletariat in general, demand an end to this typeface travesty!
See, therein lies the issue. The UPCOMING Barcelona CPU technology. Intel is already producing, and is getting ready to move to a 45nm manufacturing process in the first half of next year. Barcelona hasn't even hit shelves.
And another issue, how much will a Barcelona processor cost when it is released. In my opinion, Intel is fighting tooth and nail to stay on top in this one, including dropping their prices drastically when they release newer processors. And the older processors that are having their prices dropped are more likely to find their way into lower-end and mid-range pre-built consumer systems.
I've never been there, but god it must suck... Ocean City is a dry town. Also, from what I hear, most people don't have a problem paying the fees because it keeps the beach nice and keeps the riff-raff out of town. Plus, with an anti-alcohol ordinance in the town, I imagine it supplements lost taxes.
Thats the problem with the computer market. You have to suck it up and just do it.
There's always something new and better and more shiny coming out next month.
I work at a Starbucks Coffee Co. cafe. We use blendtech blenders for Frappucino's. They really will blend most things that we would ever think of putting in them. People ask to have their brownie's blended into their frappucino's (which is against company policy - and I hate doing it because customers that make demands like that annoy me) and they do it just fine.
They never break either... ours have been strong and kicking for a good 4 years.
On a different forum that I post on I brought up an (I like to think) interesting (if speculative) point.
The iPhone is OS X people, and its totally under Apple's control, they can do whatever they want with the hardware they have by releasing software upgrades... and in a lot of cases the hardware is there, they just need to release the software. The bluetooth isn't physically limited, its limited by software, so syncing can be added. A whole bunch of other goodies can be tossed in using the Apple Updater that comes with iTunes.
Which brings up another interesting point to ponder, Apple took teams away from Leopard so that the iPhone would be somewhat stable and usable for its release, and most of its bigger core functions are in place. Which isn't to say that everything that was supposed to make it in by June 29th actually did make it. I imagine we'll be seeing quite a few updates in the close future, and probably a few new features from the Apple and the Google side of things that were supposed to be on the phone originally but didn't make the cut or ran out of time.
Personally, I believe Apple has vested too much interest in the iPhone to leave it (software or hardware) in the state it is in at the present time. And we'll probably see numerous (and better) revisions in the months to come.
If, however, that is the case, it makes me wonder about Apple's release schedule/marketing strategy.
Is that a joke? Which service do you reccomend they use?
Verizon?
So lets see... i can get my 8gb verizon iPhone, and fill it all up with music and movies and ringtones that I purchased from V-Cast. Have you ever used V-Cast, do you realise how much it sucks?
Oh wait, but thats the only option I have, because I sure as hell can't sync the phone with my mac or my PC. Hey, atleast theres one or two bluetooth headsets I can use right?
Or I could go with T-Mobile right? I reallllly love T-Mobile, they have all the trendy things like the Sidekick, so why don't they get the iPhone.
Or I could go with Sprint, and walk around chirpping all day, waiting for someone to rip the iPhone out of my pocket - not to steal it - but rather to silence it.
Theres a very good reason Apple went with Cingular... it lets the user do a lot, at the same time not crippling the device in any massive way.
There, I said it, now I await the holy, open source, all-knowing, never-left-my-basement-but-damn-I-can-use-a-linux- terminal rain of fury that will descend upon me from Slashdot.
Far be it from anyone to suggest that Apple's marketing strategy has been good, in general, for the average computer user. You know, the one that doesn't really want to know what is inside their machine, because they don't have to. Or you know, the user that doesn't know how to use command line, because they don't have to.
Slashdotter's need a reality check, the days of ENIAC are long gone, you don't need to be a mathematician to use a computer or a phone anymore, you haven't for a while - and the average person isn't. I have a fair number of friends (most of whom use PCs mind you) that plan on getting an iPhone not based on why or why not the "nerds" that post on some internet forum, but rather based on the fact that it's damn cool.
And to all the slashdot apple-haters, who I'm sure are going to jump all over me in a mere matter of seconds, you all need to come down from you're high horses and look at yourselves and how hypocritical it is that you're all able to, in your own smug superiority , are able to pass judgement on the smug superiority of Apple and their marketing schemes.
Guess what, their marketing schemes are targeted at any of you, they're targeted at the people that the actually work on - the materialistic consumer. Guess what, they work.
I have a problem with one of those aforementioned posts. The one that mentions the RDF.
It cites a wikipedia article that says "RDF is considered more self-delusional than effective". That clearly isn't the case, because it can be argued that the RDF is one of a multitude of things that has lured so many to Apple in recent times. From Apple's point of view, its clearly very effective.
You just have a vendetta, or so it seems. Which I'm sure you'll try to defend by saying that mac users and "fanbois" have a vendetta against Windows or OSS or Power Computing or any other multitude of things. Does that seem just a mite hypocritical to you? Its essentially the same as a "fanboi" calling another "fanboi" out on being a "fanboi".
You'll also notice that in the keynote Job's said "Thats the only way we'd get Steve to visit one of our Keynotes" which obviously means that Jobs wants Microsoft's CEO at a keynote.
I'm sure you made a point SOMEWHERE in your rantings, but I lost it in all of the "APPLE IS TRYING TO KEEP THE MAN (and the internet) DOWN!" rhetoric.
So I get modded as a Troll, oh well life goes on, I just wanted to point out that you, sir, are full of it. And I'd have modded you down ages ago.
So I didn't read all of the 227 posts above mine, but I did read a good number (which may or may not have been a bad thing to do before I decided to make my first post), and maybe I'm not thinking "power computer user"-ly minded enough...
But basically the entire point of that article was John Lilly being angry that apple removed Firefox and not IE from a pie-chart and essentially he wants to get back at steve jobs for it.
I love Firefox, I used it for the longest time on my PC, before I switched over to a mac. The mac was the first real experience I had with Safari, and I didn't like it at first, it seemed like something apple through together really quick so that it could say they had their own browser. I decided, out of interest of fairness (because, being a computer engineer I prefer to have most of my bases covered) I'd use it... and I grew to like it better then Firefox - it worked faster and integrated better with other apps in the OS, and I started to realize that I was using Firefox as a (frankly, great) replacement for IE more then out of necessity as a developer, and that safari suited my needs better then Firefox did.
That having been said, I don't think Firefox is going anywhere, I use it next to Safari for when a specific plug-in is needed, and I do think it was unfair and perhaps myopic of Jobs to have Safari eventually engulfing Firefox's and Opera's and "other's" part of the market share. It doesn't need to, and it likely (hopefully) never will. Its a simplistic browser that is designed for a simplistic user, which in my mind puts it in a class of its own, entirely separate from a browser such a Firefox which is a much more powerful web-developer tool.
I apologize in advance for any poor grammar, I was typing as I was thinking. And if something like this has been said in a previous post, I also apologize, as I said I didn't read everything. I just think that the Firefox response seems a little childish in a "hey!!!! You called me a bad name/didn't include me" sort of way.
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The Yuuzhan Vong were committed to paradise? You're into S&M aren't you.
Here's a sci-fi scenario for you.
I'm standing on the bridge of my brand-spanking-new Super Star Destroyer, fresh out of the dock from Kuat Drive Yard. When what do you know, a massive fucking rock is headed straight for Coruscant! (Cue: Gasp and "OH NO!").
But never fear. Our government's undying research in Star Wars, with the help of the ancient and all knowing Jedi Master Lucas, have yelded unto me a great many advantages. First I'll use my force grip to slow it down, then I'll have my TIE Bombers systematically pulverize it... just hopefully there aren't any big snakes living in it, Allstate doesn't cover "Space Monster Bites".
Our only problem now, is what if the asteroid is actually a Yuuzhan Vong worldship?
Do you, by any chance, know exactly what the sun is?
Or any star for that matter?
At the risk of being modded troll...
WE NEED MORE OPEN SOURCE FONTS!
Microsoft is stifling competition in the font war by forcing internet font lock in! Linux users, and the tech-proletariat in general, demand an end to this typeface travesty!
More at 11!
But seriously, did whoever conducted this study ever attend highschool?
See, therein lies the issue. The UPCOMING Barcelona CPU technology. Intel is already producing, and is getting ready to move to a 45nm manufacturing process in the first half of next year. Barcelona hasn't even hit shelves.
And another issue, how much will a Barcelona processor cost when it is released. In my opinion, Intel is fighting tooth and nail to stay on top in this one, including dropping their prices drastically when they release newer processors. And the older processors that are having their prices dropped are more likely to find their way into lower-end and mid-range pre-built consumer systems.
The Ocean City night life?
I've never been there, but god it must suck... Ocean City is a dry town. Also, from what I hear, most people don't have a problem paying the fees because it keeps the beach nice and keeps the riff-raff out of town. Plus, with an anti-alcohol ordinance in the town, I imagine it supplements lost taxes.
In a major city that is impossible. The green, white and black are everywhere!
Atleast its easy for me to use my partner discount. =/
Thats the problem with the computer market. You have to suck it up and just do it.
There's always something new and better and more shiny coming out next month.
I work at a Starbucks Coffee Co. cafe. We use blendtech blenders for Frappucino's. They really will blend most things that we would ever think of putting in them. People ask to have their brownie's blended into their frappucino's (which is against company policy - and I hate doing it because customers that make demands like that annoy me) and they do it just fine.
They never break either... ours have been strong and kicking for a good 4 years.
Yes exactly video on the Apple Store is DRM'd. Thats why he asked why apple doesn't hate DRM on video, but they do hate it on Audio.
On a different forum that I post on I brought up an (I like to think) interesting (if speculative) point. The iPhone is OS X people, and its totally under Apple's control, they can do whatever they want with the hardware they have by releasing software upgrades... and in a lot of cases the hardware is there, they just need to release the software. The bluetooth isn't physically limited, its limited by software, so syncing can be added. A whole bunch of other goodies can be tossed in using the Apple Updater that comes with iTunes. Which brings up another interesting point to ponder, Apple took teams away from Leopard so that the iPhone would be somewhat stable and usable for its release, and most of its bigger core functions are in place. Which isn't to say that everything that was supposed to make it in by June 29th actually did make it. I imagine we'll be seeing quite a few updates in the close future, and probably a few new features from the Apple and the Google side of things that were supposed to be on the phone originally but didn't make the cut or ran out of time. Personally, I believe Apple has vested too much interest in the iPhone to leave it (software or hardware) in the state it is in at the present time. And we'll probably see numerous (and better) revisions in the months to come. If, however, that is the case, it makes me wonder about Apple's release schedule/marketing strategy.
Is that a joke? Which service do you reccomend they use?
- terminal rain of fury that will descend upon me from Slashdot.
Verizon?
So lets see... i can get my 8gb verizon iPhone, and fill it all up with music and movies and ringtones that I purchased from V-Cast. Have you ever used V-Cast, do you realise how much it sucks?
Oh wait, but thats the only option I have, because I sure as hell can't sync the phone with my mac or my PC. Hey, atleast theres one or two bluetooth headsets I can use right?
Or I could go with T-Mobile right? I reallllly love T-Mobile, they have all the trendy things like the Sidekick, so why don't they get the iPhone.
Or I could go with Sprint, and walk around chirpping all day, waiting for someone to rip the iPhone out of my pocket - not to steal it - but rather to silence it.
Theres a very good reason Apple went with Cingular... it lets the user do a lot, at the same time not crippling the device in any massive way.
There, I said it, now I await the holy, open source, all-knowing, never-left-my-basement-but-damn-I-can-use-a-linux
Far be it from anyone to suggest that Apple's marketing strategy has been good, in general, for the average computer user. You know, the one that doesn't really want to know what is inside their machine, because they don't have to. Or you know, the user that doesn't know how to use command line, because they don't have to.
Slashdotter's need a reality check, the days of ENIAC are long gone, you don't need to be a mathematician to use a computer or a phone anymore, you haven't for a while - and the average person isn't. I have a fair number of friends (most of whom use PCs mind you) that plan on getting an iPhone not based on why or why not the "nerds" that post on some internet forum, but rather based on the fact that it's damn cool.
And to all the slashdot apple-haters, who I'm sure are going to jump all over me in a mere matter of seconds, you all need to come down from you're high horses and look at yourselves and how hypocritical it is that you're all able to, in your own smug superiority , are able to pass judgement on the smug superiority of Apple and their marketing schemes.
Guess what, their marketing schemes are targeted at any of you, they're targeted at the people that the actually work on - the materialistic consumer. Guess what, they work.
I have a problem with one of those aforementioned posts. The one that mentions the RDF. It cites a wikipedia article that says "RDF is considered more self-delusional than effective". That clearly isn't the case, because it can be argued that the RDF is one of a multitude of things that has lured so many to Apple in recent times. From Apple's point of view, its clearly very effective. You just have a vendetta, or so it seems. Which I'm sure you'll try to defend by saying that mac users and "fanbois" have a vendetta against Windows or OSS or Power Computing or any other multitude of things. Does that seem just a mite hypocritical to you? Its essentially the same as a "fanboi" calling another "fanboi" out on being a "fanboi". You'll also notice that in the keynote Job's said "Thats the only way we'd get Steve to visit one of our Keynotes" which obviously means that Jobs wants Microsoft's CEO at a keynote. I'm sure you made a point SOMEWHERE in your rantings, but I lost it in all of the "APPLE IS TRYING TO KEEP THE MAN (and the internet) DOWN!" rhetoric. So I get modded as a Troll, oh well life goes on, I just wanted to point out that you, sir, are full of it. And I'd have modded you down ages ago.
So I didn't read all of the 227 posts above mine, but I did read a good number (which may or may not have been a bad thing to do before I decided to make my first post), and maybe I'm not thinking "power computer user"-ly minded enough...
But basically the entire point of that article was John Lilly being angry that apple removed Firefox and not IE from a pie-chart and essentially he wants to get back at steve jobs for it.
I love Firefox, I used it for the longest time on my PC, before I switched over to a mac. The mac was the first real experience I had with Safari, and I didn't like it at first, it seemed like something apple through together really quick so that it could say they had their own browser. I decided, out of interest of fairness (because, being a computer engineer I prefer to have most of my bases covered) I'd use it... and I grew to like it better then Firefox - it worked faster and integrated better with other apps in the OS, and I started to realize that I was using Firefox as a (frankly, great) replacement for IE more then out of necessity as a developer, and that safari suited my needs better then Firefox did.
That having been said, I don't think Firefox is going anywhere, I use it next to Safari for when a specific plug-in is needed, and I do think it was unfair and perhaps myopic of Jobs to have Safari eventually engulfing Firefox's and Opera's and "other's" part of the market share. It doesn't need to, and it likely (hopefully) never will. Its a simplistic browser that is designed for a simplistic user, which in my mind puts it in a class of its own, entirely separate from a browser such a Firefox which is a much more powerful web-developer tool.
I apologize in advance for any poor grammar, I was typing as I was thinking. And if something like this has been said in a previous post, I also apologize, as I said I didn't read everything. I just think that the Firefox response seems a little childish in a "hey!!!! You called me a bad name/didn't include me" sort of way.