that even if there are a billion installs or whatever, it in no way shape or form makes it better or even, for that matter, good. McDonald's comes to mind. Can anyone honestly say that their food is good (okay someone over the age of 10)? I'm personally trying to go MS free, but work keeps me from that goal. I'm sorta done with their suckware.
Actually I wouldn't know because I've never been in Second Life (Hell I don't have time for my first life much less a second!). Some believe though that virtual sex can be real when there is an emotional component to it. MSNBC did an article about this very issue
Funny thing about numbers--you can pretty much make them say what you want them too. There were a lot of early "sales" are upgrade coupons for computers sold before the holidays. Whether those are actual installs who knows? One thing I do know is that Vista seems to be a dog and MS knows it. So I'm sure they anticipated that they are going to manipulate those numbers to keep the PR positive.
One thing I do know is that there is very little positive "buzz" regarding Vista. I don't remember that being the case with XP. From a personal point of view, I do remember myself and other computer geek friends wanting to upgrade from 2000 to XP. Yet, I don't know of one single close friend that has upgraded to Vista yet...nor do I hear them talking about it (Although one person I know has Vista on the computer he bought for his kids recently...and it hasn't impressed him enough to upgrade his personal machines). I work in technology as well as many of my friends, and I feel that MS has failed to win over the people that other people ask for computer "advice". This doesn't bode well for the future of Vista.
What do I tell people when they ask me what to do when they want to buy a new computer? I tell them to do what I did: Buy a Mac.
If it's anything like the iPhone battery you'll be charging often if you use Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi on the iPhone sucks the power big time.
While the is cool Archos and has a ton of features, it's too flipping big. Unless you are a chick (which honestly how many chicks do you think have bought one) and can carry it in a purse, it doesn't easily anywhere on a guy. And if you have to carry a messenger bag or backpack, ummm why not carry a laptop?
Thus creating a market for security. Linux distros and Apple could sell their security "credits" to Microsoft (or essentially anyone on the open market). In theory, eventually the market would come to an equilibrium. This then would then necessitate the government getting involved (which we all know would really muck things up) and figuring a way to measure security. The real problem is that there is no real incentive for Microsoft to change anything if they are flush with cash. And chances are it actually costs them more to change than to buy credits. Not unlike the big power generation companies and pollution credits, it's just another cost of doing business. But as the theory goes, other hungry, up-and-coming businesses will be motivated to innovate to a) not have to spend money buying credits and b) actually profit from from selling credits. The huge downfall of this market plan is that you end up sanctioning a public "bad" (like unsecure software or pollution) and with this system you never get to zero--there always has to be a market of buyers and sellers.
maybe you aren't the "target market" for the iPhone. Just a guess. And since when has Apple's hardware, upgrades and maintenance not been expensive? How are people surprised by this? To Apple's credit, you tend to get what you pay for....hardware that is well designed and lasts significantly longer than the cheap Chinese "Scamtech" components you find at Fry's or budget PC manufacturer like eMachines or Dell (Now available at Wall Mart!).
When you have spent $350 on an iPod, $2500 on a MacBook Pro and $3500 on a Mac Pro--$500 to $600 on an iPhone is peanuts.
Yummmm.....that Kool aid sure tastes good!!!
Apple has gone to great effort to incorporate boot camp into Jaguar. This is no accident. One of the big problems of running Windows in a VM is performance. As everyone knows, Vista is a resource hog especially if you run the Aero desktop. Virtualization on a Mac has been around for years(with Microsoft sanctioning it by writing and selling the virtualization software! They stopped support with OSX), but it never really took off. Why? The performance sucked. Everyone that I knew that used the Windows VM said it was slow. Parallels, from what I understand, runs Windows XP really well. Apple, although, appears not to want to endorse that route. So how does Apple get around the performance issues once and for all? They utilize something that has been a part of Linux for a very long time--a dual boot loader. Not really a huge stretch if you think about it and quite logical. The real question is that with the advent of boot camp running natively with every install of Jaguar, does Apple start selling OEM dual booting OSX and Windows Macs to promote switching? I can speak from experience because as a long time Windows user (actually started with DOS and bought the first version of Windows 3.x) when I found out about the beta of boot camp, I went out and bought a Macbook Pro that runs OSX and XP. As a web developer there were reasons I still needed Windows (remote server control, a few apps, and IE), but more often than not I find myself using OSX. So does Apple do the obvious and just ship Macs with both OSX AND Windows OEM installed with the release of Jaguar? When MacWorld comes around in February it wouldn't suprise me one bit if that was apart of Steve Jobs' keynote speech.
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"I have no idea what they mean by describing the car as 'open-source'." Please cue the "will it run Linux" jokes.
that even if there are a billion installs or whatever, it in no way shape or form makes it better or even, for that matter, good. McDonald's comes to mind. Can anyone honestly say that their food is good (okay someone over the age of 10)? I'm personally trying to go MS free, but work keeps me from that goal. I'm sorta done with their suckware.
Hmmmmm.....sounds suspiciously like a capitalist plot!
Actually I wouldn't know because I've never been in Second Life (Hell I don't have time for my first life much less a second!). Some believe though that virtual sex can be real when there is an emotional component to it. MSNBC did an article about this very issue
So if logic follows regarding gambling, Linden $ and real world money in Second Life, would virtual sex in Second Life for Linden $ be prostitution?
Funny thing about numbers--you can pretty much make them say what you want them too. There were a lot of early "sales" are upgrade coupons for computers sold before the holidays. Whether those are actual installs who knows? One thing I do know is that Vista seems to be a dog and MS knows it. So I'm sure they anticipated that they are going to manipulate those numbers to keep the PR positive.
One thing I do know is that there is very little positive "buzz" regarding Vista. I don't remember that being the case with XP. From a personal point of view, I do remember myself and other computer geek friends wanting to upgrade from 2000 to XP. Yet, I don't know of one single close friend that has upgraded to Vista yet...nor do I hear them talking about it (Although one person I know has Vista on the computer he bought for his kids recently...and it hasn't impressed him enough to upgrade his personal machines). I work in technology as well as many of my friends, and I feel that MS has failed to win over the people that other people ask for computer "advice". This doesn't bode well for the future of Vista.
What do I tell people when they ask me what to do when they want to buy a new computer? I tell them to do what I did: Buy a Mac.
If it's anything like the iPhone battery you'll be charging often if you use Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi on the iPhone sucks the power big time. While the is cool Archos and has a ton of features, it's too flipping big. Unless you are a chick (which honestly how many chicks do you think have bought one) and can carry it in a purse, it doesn't easily anywhere on a guy. And if you have to carry a messenger bag or backpack, ummm why not carry a laptop?
I'm actually thinking a slide with lots of slack.
Thus creating a market for security. Linux distros and Apple could sell their security "credits" to Microsoft (or essentially anyone on the open market). In theory, eventually the market would come to an equilibrium. This then would then necessitate the government getting involved (which we all know would really muck things up) and figuring a way to measure security. The real problem is that there is no real incentive for Microsoft to change anything if they are flush with cash. And chances are it actually costs them more to change than to buy credits. Not unlike the big power generation companies and pollution credits, it's just another cost of doing business. But as the theory goes, other hungry, up-and-coming businesses will be motivated to innovate to a) not have to spend money buying credits and b) actually profit from from selling credits. The huge downfall of this market plan is that you end up sanctioning a public "bad" (like unsecure software or pollution) and with this system you never get to zero--there always has to be a market of buyers and sellers.
maybe you aren't the "target market" for the iPhone. Just a guess. And since when has Apple's hardware, upgrades and maintenance not been expensive? How are people surprised by this? To Apple's credit, you tend to get what you pay for....hardware that is well designed and lasts significantly longer than the cheap Chinese "Scamtech" components you find at Fry's or budget PC manufacturer like eMachines or Dell (Now available at Wall Mart!).
When you have spent $350 on an iPod, $2500 on a MacBook Pro and $3500 on a Mac Pro--$500 to $600 on an iPhone is peanuts. Yummmm.....that Kool aid sure tastes good!!!
Apple has gone to great effort to incorporate boot camp into Jaguar. This is no accident. One of the big problems of running Windows in a VM is performance. As everyone knows, Vista is a resource hog especially if you run the Aero desktop. Virtualization on a Mac has been around for years (with Microsoft sanctioning it by writing and selling the virtualization software! They stopped support with OSX), but it never really took off. Why? The performance sucked. Everyone that I knew that used the Windows VM said it was slow. Parallels, from what I understand, runs Windows XP really well. Apple, although, appears not to want to endorse that route. So how does Apple get around the performance issues once and for all? They utilize something that has been a part of Linux for a very long time--a dual boot loader. Not really a huge stretch if you think about it and quite logical. The real question is that with the advent of boot camp running natively with every install of Jaguar, does Apple start selling OEM dual booting OSX and Windows Macs to promote switching? I can speak from experience because as a long time Windows user (actually started with DOS and bought the first version of Windows 3.x) when I found out about the beta of boot camp, I went out and bought a Macbook Pro that runs OSX and XP. As a web developer there were reasons I still needed Windows (remote server control, a few apps, and IE), but more often than not I find myself using OSX. So does Apple do the obvious and just ship Macs with both OSX AND Windows OEM installed with the release of Jaguar? When MacWorld comes around in February it wouldn't suprise me one bit if that was apart of Steve Jobs' keynote speech.