I think everyone that wants to equate programmers with plumbers or electricians need to actually to go out and do these trades for awhile and ONLY THEN come back and try to feed us this line of bull.
You are a sterling example of why programming should not be considered a "blue collar apprenticeship". Although your remarks may still be the end result of a University education and that's a scary thought.
No one should get any kind of CIS degree or certificate without passing a Numerical Analysis course.
That "flatlining" is simply reflecting the fact that a 5 year old PC is still useful but a year old ARM device is considered rediculously out of date. The PC market is saturated and the PC is a mature technology.
Reliability claims are pretty much bullshit. Particular brands are quite notorious for reliability issues. Ultimately, it comes down to developing a proven track record and SSDs just haven't been around long enough for that.
Fanboy blathering is just wishful thinking backed up with no real world experience.
The "legacy" solution here is already prone to spam. There's so much crap on Facebook that I barely use it anymore. Now they want you to PAY to promote your own useful updates.
Even with Tobacco the likely problem isn't so much that it's harmful but that the typical use pattern is not at all moderate. Many people can't stop long enough to eat or drive.
It's a little more subtle than that and the "idiot from the NYT" addressed that subtlety.
The original Standford Study was a bit of a false straw man and everyone ate it up. They forgot that much of the point of organic food is all of the other things besides vitamins. The whole "nutrition" thing is just a side show.
I buy organic chicken to avoid antibiotic residue. The amounts in cheap factory farmed chicken are enough to trigger an allergic reaction in some people.
> Well, I'm in IT so most of what I do is remote support and everything else gets stored in the cloud. > > Music - Google Music > Photos - Picasa
Either of these are prone to choke the cloud. Full size photos can be especially bothersome on a it-feels-like-I-am-on-dialup-again wireless network.
Despite constant attempts to claim otherwise, "the cloud" is nothing like a corporate or university Unix network from the 80s. It's way too slow and thus rather limited in what you can do with it.
Ditching network interfaces that actually perform well is one the reasons that anyone may steer far clear of MBA wannbes.
A discriminating consumer will. This is supposed to be the Apple demographic we're talking about here. Either it's a BMW or it's a Yugo. It's not both. Make up your: is your product is 3 Michelin stars or McDonald's?
People have their own ideas about what they value. They aren't going to be led around the nose like a bunch of sheep just because you jack up the price, put an over hyped logo on it, or make it pretty. That's why most people don't by Macs to begin with.
People who don't buy Macs don't buy into Mac form factors.
No, you get a base model with as little "extra" stuff as possible. You try to avoid paying for things you aren't going to use. You can generally do that with a PC.
I have run Linux on Macs for better driver support.
Apple will support the hardware features they want and ignore the ones they don't even if companies like Adobe are complaining. The Apple echo chamber will scream that the fault all lies with anyone other than Apple. If you are the least bit creative you will get shouted down.
Windows 7 runs like crap if you don't pay attention to your parts.
It runs like crap on machines bundled with it.
Even MacOS runs like crap on some of the machines it's bundled with. You simply can't get away from the "geeky technical details". That's the real myth here. You simply can't get away with being an idiot when it comes to computers.
It's like going to a used car lot advertising the fact that you don't know anything about cars.
Buying from Dell is no silver bullet and neither is buying from Apple.
Whatever problems you might think Linux has, it's simple and easy to sort this out for yourself. You don't need to spend any money or disturb what's already installed on your system.
You don't need to blow $700 just to find out that the fruit didn't live up to the hype.
Linux had this before MacOS and still has more complete support than MacOS does. This is a classic example of one good reason you might want to run Linux on a Mac rather than the OS it came with.
> sound
Macs don't have anything special in this regard. Generic parts aren't really anything to be worried about in Linux.
This is a good example of how Apple puts "Yugo parts" in their machines.
Unless you've got a fetish for a particular proprietary app that you can actually name and are actually willing to buy, then all of this talk about "3rd party support" is just mindless nonsense.
That's the real problem with a Mac. It's overpriced and you have fewer choices and it's still inferior in terms of the "but I want to spend money on something" use case.
The "failure of the Ultrabook" is just a good example of why you shouldn't just mindlessly follow Apple. Perhaps the market at large is not as impressed with the MBA concept as Apple fanboys are.
Nonsense. I have run virtualbox for "production" use with no problems. It may not be able to run your Oracle database but it will be quite sufficient for the Ultrabook and MBA crowd.
The peanut gallery was expecting a MacOS tablet rather than an over sized iPod. That shocker is over and done with and the market has shifted. Apple doesn't have another rabbit to pull here.
They may have "created the tablet as we know it" but my local iFan and early adopter has dumped her iPad because the 7 inch form factor suited her better. Also, all of the scare mongering about Android was nonsense.
It turns out that Apple is not infallible after all.
So all of your attempts to fellate the designers at Apple are moot.
This is just more of the same sort of "Apple is inevitable rah rah" kind of nonsense that has been perpetuated since the release of the iPad. Apple appears to be finally acknowledging a use case they tried to ignore. They are being dragged kicking and screaming by the market into releasing a product like what everyone else already has.
"Apple eats crow" would be a better headline for this situation (assuming it's even true).
By design, the SCOTUS is no less powerful than any other branch of the government. Complaints about "activist judges" are a Big Lie propaganda ploy intended to neuter an important part of the government meant to balance the rest.
Yes. 9 appointees should have that much power. They were intended to. Probably to balance out the influence of politicians that constantly have to campaign for re-election and finance same.
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I think everyone that wants to equate programmers with plumbers or electricians need to actually to go out and do these trades for awhile and ONLY THEN come back and try to feed us this line of bull.
You are a sterling example of why programming should not be considered a "blue collar apprenticeship". Although your remarks may still be the end result of a University education and that's a scary thought.
No one should get any kind of CIS degree or certificate without passing a Numerical Analysis course.
Romney changes his stripes so often, it's hard to tell whether he's different from Obama or not.
That "flatlining" is simply reflecting the fact that a 5 year old PC is still useful but a year old ARM device is considered rediculously out of date. The PC market is saturated and the PC is a mature technology.
Reliability claims are pretty much bullshit. Particular brands are quite notorious for reliability issues. Ultimately, it comes down to developing a proven track record and SSDs just haven't been around long enough for that.
Fanboy blathering is just wishful thinking backed up with no real world experience.
Nope. They're more expensive to operate and can't move any faster in traffic. The insurance alone would likely make the idea completely infeasable.
The "legacy" solution here is already prone to spam. There's so much crap on Facebook that I barely use it anymore. Now they want you to PAY to promote your own useful updates.
This area is overdue for a shakeup.
Even with Tobacco the likely problem isn't so much that it's harmful but that the typical use pattern is not at all moderate. Many people can't stop long enough to eat or drive.
It's not clear that spraying a lot of fossil fuel derived chemicals on your fields is such a sustainable approach either.
It's going to be really painful when that particular Baby Yaga comes home to roost.
It's a little more subtle than that and the "idiot from the NYT" addressed that subtlety.
The original Standford Study was a bit of a false straw man and everyone ate it up. They forgot that much of the point of organic food is all of the other things besides vitamins. The whole "nutrition" thing is just a side show.
I buy organic chicken to avoid antibiotic residue. The amounts in cheap factory farmed chicken are enough to trigger an allergic reaction in some people.
> Well, I'm in IT so most of what I do is remote support and everything else gets stored in the cloud.
>
> Music - Google Music
> Photos - Picasa
Either of these are prone to choke the cloud. Full size photos can be especially bothersome on a it-feels-like-I-am-on-dialup-again wireless network.
Despite constant attempts to claim otherwise, "the cloud" is nothing like a corporate or university Unix network from the 80s. It's way too slow and thus rather limited in what you can do with it.
Ditching network interfaces that actually perform well is one the reasons that anyone may steer far clear of MBA wannbes.
A discriminating consumer will. This is supposed to be the Apple demographic we're talking about here. Either it's a BMW or it's a Yugo. It's not both. Make up your: is your product is 3 Michelin stars or McDonald's?
You are no longer a relevant demographic.
The wheel turns...
People have their own ideas about what they value. They aren't going to be led around the nose like a bunch of sheep just because you jack up the price, put an over hyped logo on it, or make it pretty. That's why most people don't by Macs to begin with.
People who don't buy Macs don't buy into Mac form factors.
Imagine that.
No, you get a base model with as little "extra" stuff as possible. You try to avoid paying for things you aren't going to use. You can generally do that with a PC.
I have run Linux on Macs for better driver support.
Apple will support the hardware features they want and ignore the ones they don't even if companies like Adobe are complaining. The Apple echo chamber will scream that the fault all lies with anyone other than Apple. If you are the least bit creative you will get shouted down.
It's WORSE than Windows.
Windows 7 runs like crap if you don't pay attention to your parts.
It runs like crap on machines bundled with it.
Even MacOS runs like crap on some of the machines it's bundled with. You simply can't get away from the "geeky technical details". That's the real myth here. You simply can't get away with being an idiot when it comes to computers.
It's like going to a used car lot advertising the fact that you don't know anything about cars.
Buying from Dell is no silver bullet and neither is buying from Apple.
Whatever problems you might think Linux has, it's simple and easy to sort this out for yourself. You don't need to spend any money or disturb what's already installed on your system.
You don't need to blow $700 just to find out that the fruit didn't live up to the hype.
> hardware accelerated video
Linux had this before MacOS and still has more complete support than MacOS does. This is a classic example of one good reason you might want to run Linux on a Mac rather than the OS it came with.
> sound
Macs don't have anything special in this regard. Generic parts aren't really anything to be worried about in Linux.
This is a good example of how Apple puts "Yugo parts" in their machines.
Unless you've got a fetish for a particular proprietary app that you can actually name and are actually willing to buy, then all of this talk about "3rd party support" is just mindless nonsense.
That's the real problem with a Mac. It's overpriced and you have fewer choices and it's still inferior in terms of the "but I want to spend money on something" use case.
The "failure of the Ultrabook" is just a good example of why you shouldn't just mindlessly follow Apple. Perhaps the market at large is not as impressed with the MBA concept as Apple fanboys are.
You've got it backwards. Like always "geeky technical details" are lost on the Apple fashionistas.
It is YOU as the Apple buyer that is bolting a BMW shell on top of a Yugo drive train.
Don't kid yourself. Don't try to kid us either. We know better.
Nonsense. I have run virtualbox for "production" use with no problems. It may not be able to run your Oracle database but it will be quite sufficient for the Ultrabook and MBA crowd.
The peanut gallery was expecting a MacOS tablet rather than an over sized iPod. That shocker is over and done with and the market has shifted. Apple doesn't have another rabbit to pull here.
They may have "created the tablet as we know it" but my local iFan and early adopter has dumped her iPad because the 7 inch form factor suited her better. Also, all of the scare mongering about Android was nonsense.
It turns out that Apple is not infallible after all.
So all of your attempts to fellate the designers at Apple are moot.
This is just more of the same sort of "Apple is inevitable rah rah" kind of nonsense that has been perpetuated since the release of the iPad. Apple appears to be finally acknowledging a use case they tried to ignore. They are being dragged kicking and screaming by the market into releasing a product like what everyone else already has.
"Apple eats crow" would be a better headline for this situation (assuming it's even true).
It's 9 people and THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT POWER.
By design, the SCOTUS is no less powerful than any other branch of the government. Complaints about "activist judges" are a Big Lie propaganda ploy intended to neuter an important part of the government meant to balance the rest.
Yes. 9 appointees should have that much power. They were intended to. Probably to balance out the influence of politicians that constantly have to campaign for re-election and finance same.