Apple when dealing with third parties loses some control over the experience of using their devices.
They want to minimize this. It's bad enough they have people perceiving the iphone to have problems because of cell service outages, ridiculous billing from at&t, awful customer support at AT&T, etc. Imagine if they were having to fight that battle on more than one front?
It's silly, because it's not apples fault, but everyone (average consumer) will relate the bad experience to apple even if they are one of the more clear thinking ones.
Since their inception, they've kept control of their hardware, ensuring a consistent and good experience on their computer. This is their strength over microsoft. This is their strength over Dell. They can give you a good experience and manage it. They don't have anyone else to blame!
Internet access is not in any way remotely essential, you're living in a strange sheltered world if you think it is. Get out, check out the world.
It's a great convenience and I'm all for promoting it, but you're really skewing reality. About 60% of the USA has computers in their homes. Common yes, necessary, no.
Many people who do DUI get their licenses revoked alltogether. That's a major inconvenience that they have to work around, but they do. We're talking about criminals here. People who've endangered the lives of others. Revoking their weapon of choice is rather lenient.
In this case, I really don't care all that much, there's not much direct impact from this kid's actions. All the same, if it was my movie I'd be pressing charges as well.
I am with you on avoiding parasites. I don't think that means being lenient on criminals.
Wrong. Millions of people every day--even in the USA do not directly use a computer. Sure, they work behind the scenes but that doesn't mean everyone uses them.
And come on, comparing the logic circuits in cars and calculators to a pc? Certainly there's some exceptions, but the general case is they're no where near each other.
I've never experienced anything remotely like that anywhere in WoW. Not even close. The most offensive things I've seen are the chuck norriss jokes in the barrens. While they're annoying, it's a stretch to find them offensive.
I can get movies on DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray. I can get television over the air, or cable.
The only reason I would want iTunes or other online video purchases would be for convenience--including lack of advertising.
Why would I log on to watch something I can rent, buy, or watch on TV? With rental services like netflix and blockbuster, the cost of viewing an individual movie is next to nothing, so I'd just want to choose an alternate for better convenience. Having ads shown to me is not convenient.
Toyota and Honda have both been leveraging variable valve timing techniques to boost performance and efficiency for over a decade.
The big difference here is that finally someone realizes we can do that independent of crankshaft, pistons, and cams.
It's a simple concept really, monitor your engine and control the valves on solenoids digitally and you can achieve monumental performance, efficiency, and emmission improvements. It's really just a matter of making the concept cost effective to produce.
The iphone is a lot more about a phone that does everything very well, instead of just one aspect. For me, and most business people the MP3 feature is going to be completely unused. However, a better way to get at contacts, sync with your computer, pull up google maps, widgets, etc... now those valuable features to have on the road!
More than that though, I think Apple got it right on the core concept. No hardware interface, just a canvas that can be updated, change per application, etc, and no need for a clunky stylus. I think the only real competition for the iPhone once it gets established will be others adopting a touch technology, or licensing the multitouch.
Not apple, these idiots that went to all this out of spite.
Way to be adults. I don't mind the results of a more secure OS X, but this was entirely the wrong way to do it. Completely irresponsible and childish. Shame on them.
Cost is a big factor in people adopting something, but has nothing to do with how kind to the environment it is.
What percentage of total environmental impact is the manufacturing process? I'm betting it's next to nothing when you put it on an individual car basis. That is to say, how much energy was used to make this specific car here. That car probably generates/uses as much energy in the first week or two of driving it.
That was what, mid to late 90s? Since then onboard sound chips have been far more than enough for an average user, lately they've been getting to a level that would be good for some of the more audiophile users (full 5.1 or better support, spdif or optical out, etc.)
The only market creative has left are gamers and a small segment of amature musicians who want the inputs of their breakout boxes. I say a small segment, because pros will realize there is much better specialized equipment for that.
They need to seriously innovate and refocus on their customers to grab the market back.
If you'll notice, a lot of next gen titles are existing previous generation titles in higher resolution with a few more effects enabled. Obviously the development costs there weren't anywhere near what the inintial development was, especially with cross platform titles that have to have a portable enough code base to be deployed on disparate architectures.
The $59.99 is completely artificial, because that's what people will pay. There's no other reason for it. Of course, some games do cost quite a bit more to develop than others, so it makes sense their publishers would price them higher. That's not what happens though. Some games and publishers will price lower, because they can (or other marketing reasons,) but most will price the same at release to make the most profit possible. Good for them.
Just like last generation you'll notice games will come out at "max" price. A month or so they'll be down $5-10 everywhere, then they'll keep dropping, eventually they'll hit a "bottom" price where they'll be republished as a "greatest hit," if they can still sell. They're still making profit off the greatest hit games. Whether it's because they've completely recouped development costs at that point, or if it's just what the market will bear for that game, who knows. Probably a bit of both.
Seriously. Direct injection, fine tuned control of timing, and turbo charging all put together is what you see in a large number of hobbiest race cars. Drag, autocross, whatever. A lot of times they'll skimp on tolerances thus reducing the reliability of the engine, but it's not at all uncommon to take a solid normally aspirated engine and triple it's output with some good planning and bit of machine work.
I've personally never added a turbo where there wasn't one before, but I HAVE done machine work, timing work, and injector work. I've taken a car from 220 hp to 290 hp with no detriment to the mileage, just better fuel/air mixtures and precise timing. It doesn't surprise me at all that people who've actually studied combustion instead of working on it for fun have been able to triple the output.
What's surprising is how inneficiently tuned a lot of engines come from the factory.
That's how this works. That's the only way this works. They can advertise whatever they want, but as long as their contracts have that little clause in them, it really doesn't matter WHAT they advertise.
Again you're attributing a lot of things to my words which simply aren't there. Don't read between the lines, because I'm not throwing anything in there. I've not contradicted myself, or unsaid anything.
Sorry that I've offended you so deeply, you should take a break from the computer.
You're making alot of assumptions here. Just because I think theology is effectively worthless doesn't mean I don't think it's interesting. It also doesn't mean I think the people that study or major in it are idiots. I just feel it's effectively useless in any practical way.
Just fyi I minored in anthropology, studied quite a bit of sociology, and even took some theology courses. I respect the amount of work that someone has to go through to achieve a phd in any of those, but that doesn't mean I think their field of study is valuable. It's an opinion, I'm quite entitled to it.
This was more a testament to how worthless I think a degree in theology is. If it were another degree, somehow based in logic or reason, you're indeed correct in that I would weigh the doctor as more valuable.
Honestly, I think I'd value/trust what the 24 y/o said more. The fact he lied about it ruins this of course, but I'm much more likely to listen to Dan Everyman than I am someone who spent a good chunk of their life working towards a useless degree.
If you check the site out, you'll see it's similar, but offers a bit more information, and a lot more individual info instead of aggregate. You get to see not only compensation, but benefits, and hours works/tasks responsible for. Additionally it's got a peer review/rating/commenting system.
I regularly run photoshop, or illustrator, along with safari, textmate, adium, and mail All open. Sometimes a terminal is thrown in there for good measure. I am not waiting on anything. Yes, some of the filters take a bit on photoshop when I'm using so many other apps, but if I'm using the other apps everything is snappy. Oh, I forgot Quicksilver, and often iTunes.
This is my daily routine, every day. You have a faster processor, and much better graphics card. There is no reason you should be experiencing what you describe, take it in.
Surely you don't mean blackberries, windows mobile, and palm phones? They're not in the same class. I really can't even draw a line of comparison.
Apple's biggest mistake here is pairing with one wireless provider. Not having control over the service quality, and not having the ability to actually help the customer when things go wrong with the service rather than the device is the death nell. It doesn't matter how amazing the device is, or how cheap (or expensive.) If people run into problems with CingulATT, it's going to reflect on the handset, it always does.
Price is not a factor, apple products have ALWAYS been priced at a premium. The iPod still is, their top of the line computers still are, and they are more successful than ever. Apple has never had a target audience of "entry" or "budget."
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Apple when dealing with third parties loses some control over the experience of using their devices.
They want to minimize this. It's bad enough they have people perceiving the iphone to have problems because of cell service outages, ridiculous billing from at&t, awful customer support at AT&T, etc. Imagine if they were having to fight that battle on more than one front?
It's silly, because it's not apples fault, but everyone (average consumer) will relate the bad experience to apple even if they are one of the more clear thinking ones.
Since their inception, they've kept control of their hardware, ensuring a consistent and good experience on their computer. This is their strength over microsoft. This is their strength over Dell. They can give you a good experience and manage it. They don't have anyone else to blame!
Internet access is not in any way remotely essential, you're living in a strange sheltered world if you think it is. Get out, check out the world.
It's a great convenience and I'm all for promoting it, but you're really skewing reality. About 60% of the USA has computers in their homes. Common yes, necessary, no.
Many people who do DUI get their licenses revoked alltogether. That's a major inconvenience that they have to work around, but they do. We're talking about criminals here. People who've endangered the lives of others. Revoking their weapon of choice is rather lenient.
In this case, I really don't care all that much, there's not much direct impact from this kid's actions. All the same, if it was my movie I'd be pressing charges as well.
I am with you on avoiding parasites. I don't think that means being lenient on criminals.
Wrong. Millions of people every day--even in the USA do not directly use a computer. Sure, they work behind the scenes but that doesn't mean everyone uses them.
And come on, comparing the logic circuits in cars and calculators to a pc? Certainly there's some exceptions, but the general case is they're no where near each other.
See, if I was the judge, I'd say he wasn't allowed to use a computer, period, for the duration of whatever sentence is being carried out.
... Yeah? What does that mean?
I've never experienced anything remotely like that anywhere in WoW. Not even close. The most offensive things I've seen are the chuck norriss jokes in the barrens. While they're annoying, it's a stretch to find them offensive.
I can get movies on DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray. I can get television over the air, or cable.
The only reason I would want iTunes or other online video purchases would be for convenience--including lack of advertising.
Why would I log on to watch something I can rent, buy, or watch on TV? With rental services like netflix and blockbuster, the cost of viewing an individual movie is next to nothing, so I'd just want to choose an alternate for better convenience. Having ads shown to me is not convenient.
Toyota and Honda have both been leveraging variable valve timing techniques to boost performance and efficiency for over a decade.
The big difference here is that finally someone realizes we can do that independent of crankshaft, pistons, and cams.
It's a simple concept really, monitor your engine and control the valves on solenoids digitally and you can achieve monumental performance, efficiency, and emmission improvements. It's really just a matter of making the concept cost effective to produce.
The iphone is a lot more about a phone that does everything very well, instead of just one aspect. For me, and most business people the MP3 feature is going to be completely unused. However, a better way to get at contacts, sync with your computer, pull up google maps, widgets, etc... now those valuable features to have on the road!
More than that though, I think Apple got it right on the core concept. No hardware interface, just a canvas that can be updated, change per application, etc, and no need for a clunky stylus. I think the only real competition for the iPhone once it gets established will be others adopting a touch technology, or licensing the multitouch.
Not apple, these idiots that went to all this out of spite.
Way to be adults. I don't mind the results of a more secure OS X, but this was entirely the wrong way to do it. Completely irresponsible and childish. Shame on them.
Cost is a big factor in people adopting something, but has nothing to do with how kind to the environment it is.
What percentage of total environmental impact is the manufacturing process? I'm betting it's next to nothing when you put it on an individual car basis. That is to say, how much energy was used to make this specific car here. That car probably generates/uses as much energy in the first week or two of driving it.
That was what, mid to late 90s? Since then onboard sound chips have been far more than enough for an average user, lately they've been getting to a level that would be good for some of the more audiophile users (full 5.1 or better support, spdif or optical out, etc.)
The only market creative has left are gamers and a small segment of amature musicians who want the inputs of their breakout boxes. I say a small segment, because pros will realize there is much better specialized equipment for that.
They need to seriously innovate and refocus on their customers to grab the market back.
If you'll notice, a lot of next gen titles are existing previous generation titles in higher resolution with a few more effects enabled. Obviously the development costs there weren't anywhere near what the inintial development was, especially with cross platform titles that have to have a portable enough code base to be deployed on disparate architectures.
The $59.99 is completely artificial, because that's what people will pay. There's no other reason for it. Of course, some games do cost quite a bit more to develop than others, so it makes sense their publishers would price them higher. That's not what happens though. Some games and publishers will price lower, because they can (or other marketing reasons,) but most will price the same at release to make the most profit possible. Good for them.
Just like last generation you'll notice games will come out at "max" price. A month or so they'll be down $5-10 everywhere, then they'll keep dropping, eventually they'll hit a "bottom" price where they'll be republished as a "greatest hit," if they can still sell. They're still making profit off the greatest hit games. Whether it's because they've completely recouped development costs at that point, or if it's just what the market will bear for that game, who knows. Probably a bit of both.
Seriously. Direct injection, fine tuned control of timing, and turbo charging all put together is what you see in a large number of hobbiest race cars. Drag, autocross, whatever. A lot of times they'll skimp on tolerances thus reducing the reliability of the engine, but it's not at all uncommon to take a solid normally aspirated engine and triple it's output with some good planning and bit of machine work.
I've personally never added a turbo where there wasn't one before, but I HAVE done machine work, timing work, and injector work. I've taken a car from 220 hp to 290 hp with no detriment to the mileage, just better fuel/air mixtures and precise timing. It doesn't surprise me at all that people who've actually studied combustion instead of working on it for fun have been able to triple the output.
What's surprising is how inneficiently tuned a lot of engines come from the factory.
For any reason...
That's how this works. That's the only way this works. They can advertise whatever they want, but as long as their contracts have that little clause in them, it really doesn't matter WHAT they advertise.
Again you're attributing a lot of things to my words which simply aren't there. Don't read between the lines, because I'm not throwing anything in there. I've not contradicted myself, or unsaid anything.
Sorry that I've offended you so deeply, you should take a break from the computer.
I didn't say all degrees were useless.
That's actually the best point I've read in this entire article's discussion.
You're exactly right.
You're making alot of assumptions here. Just because I think theology is effectively worthless doesn't mean I don't think it's interesting. It also doesn't mean I think the people that study or major in it are idiots. I just feel it's effectively useless in any practical way.
Just fyi I minored in anthropology, studied quite a bit of sociology, and even took some theology courses. I respect the amount of work that someone has to go through to achieve a phd in any of those, but that doesn't mean I think their field of study is valuable. It's an opinion, I'm quite entitled to it.
This was more a testament to how worthless I think a degree in theology is. If it were another degree, somehow based in logic or reason, you're indeed correct in that I would weigh the doctor as more valuable.
Honestly, I think I'd value/trust what the 24 y/o said more. The fact he lied about it ruins this of course, but I'm much more likely to listen to Dan Everyman than I am someone who spent a good chunk of their life working towards a useless degree.
If you check the site out, you'll see it's similar, but offers a bit more information, and a lot more individual info instead of aggregate. You get to see not only compensation, but benefits, and hours works/tasks responsible for. Additionally it's got a peer review/rating/commenting system.
I have a macbook, non pro. 2ghz, 1 gig of ram.
I regularly run photoshop, or illustrator, along with safari, textmate, adium, and mail All open. Sometimes a terminal is thrown in there for good measure. I am not waiting on anything. Yes, some of the filters take a bit on photoshop when I'm using so many other apps, but if I'm using the other apps everything is snappy. Oh, I forgot Quicksilver, and often iTunes.
This is my daily routine, every day. You have a faster processor, and much better graphics card. There is no reason you should be experiencing what you describe, take it in.
Surely you don't mean blackberries, windows mobile, and palm phones? They're not in the same class. I really can't even draw a line of comparison.
Apple's biggest mistake here is pairing with one wireless provider. Not having control over the service quality, and not having the ability to actually help the customer when things go wrong with the service rather than the device is the death nell. It doesn't matter how amazing the device is, or how cheap (or expensive.) If people run into problems with CingulATT, it's going to reflect on the handset, it always does.
Price is not a factor, apple products have ALWAYS been priced at a premium. The iPod still is, their top of the line computers still are, and they are more successful than ever. Apple has never had a target audience of "entry" or "budget."
How can you say "perfectly fine" and then qualify it by castrating the very features which would cause you to upgrade in the first place?
The whole point of vista is the new ui, and some services (security being highest advertised.)
Being that you're not using any of that, why did you upgrade?
I expect "perfectly fine" to mean: runs well with default settings on the hardware it claims to.