None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'. If Apple wants to through extra stuff in to distinguish themselves then fine, but really, metal case versus plastic case, fans that reduce noise, these are all cheap gimmicks, not things that make a laptop a prermium one.
Networking is a more specific form of communication. Networking is more like marketing, which almost always has within it some level of deception or manipulation of the facts in your own favor. People can be great at communication without necessarily being interested in being networkers.
I've only worked at places that hire people in a fair and equitable manner, which means going through HR. When you work at a place that hires people though word of mouth, you end up with a bunch of divas that like to talk about themselves a lot but aren't great at getting the actual work done. The dangerous thing about hiring 'networkers' is that these are people who are expert at making themselves sound good and bears no relationship to their actual job performance.
This basically amounts to getting a job through favoritism and has been frowned upon in every place I have worked. People get labeled as'trying to go through the back door'.
I've been sounding like a poster boy for Elementary OS lately but I must recommend this one as well. I have tried Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc etc. It is the only one that I can run VMs in the background and still have the GUI work crisply. Something to do with the way that they did memory management.
Sometimes it absolutely stuns me how large the differences are between 'business leaders' and myself. I would have assumed from the start that the government would have to act in a way similar to what the letter specifies. In contrast, along comes George Holtz who didn't see this coming at all, and it comes at such a shock that he feels he needs to shelve his business? Seems very out of touch with reality and a functioning society to me, unless of course there is something else to the story.
The only way this works is for the air bnb owner to be charged as if they were the repeat offender. An air bnb could have problems 20 times in a year without one repeat, that's the problem. Hold the owner responsible and this all goes away.
I thought Apple people liked cleanliness and absolute order; I mean, look at an Apple store. Having to remember to carry around a bunch of dongles everywhere seems to be the opposite of that.
Sure the owner can do whatever he wants with his property, but the problem is, the owner has no way to contain sound on his property does he? So he interferes with the property of others. I will adamantly defend an owner's right to use his/her property as he/she sees fit so long as they prepare it such that it is impossible for any tenant to create sound that leaves the property and enters another.
Call the police? Over and over? If it is a permanent tenant than the police can escalate on them, but if it is a new tenant every weekend you're sentencing people to calling the police weekly.
The point of a laptop is to be able to throw it in a bag and carry the benefits of technology with you, or at least be portable to different areas of a building. If the laptop itself is less beneficial to people then they must carry around attachments as well. If you were always going to use it at home on the same desk, then it is far wiser to use a desktop based machine.
It would tap into profits for sure, but say drug companies make 30% less across the board. You're saying this would somehow prevent them from wanting more profit? Their quest for more will not stop, even if it is not as much more.
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I'm not saying user experience isn't worth anything, I'm just saying Apple hasn't done enough with their user experience to be worth the cost.
knockouts and overprints sounds like something obscure that there would be a workaround for. Inkscape has gradient mesh.
If it were me, I would go to that job feeling like I didn't really deserve it and I would continue to feel that way while doing it.
Check out Krita in favor of Gimp. Also, Inkscape is very good for vector graphics, much better than illustrator.
None of the extra stuff you mentioned is enough to make me go 'wow I want to pay for that'. If Apple wants to through extra stuff in to distinguish themselves then fine, but really, metal case versus plastic case, fans that reduce noise, these are all cheap gimmicks, not things that make a laptop a prermium one.
Networking is a more specific form of communication. Networking is more like marketing, which almost always has within it some level of deception or manipulation of the facts in your own favor. People can be great at communication without necessarily being interested in being networkers.
I've only worked at places that hire people in a fair and equitable manner, which means going through HR. When you work at a place that hires people though word of mouth, you end up with a bunch of divas that like to talk about themselves a lot but aren't great at getting the actual work done. The dangerous thing about hiring 'networkers' is that these are people who are expert at making themselves sound good and bears no relationship to their actual job performance.
The ones who are really good do AND teach, thankyouverymuch.
This basically amounts to getting a job through favoritism and has been frowned upon in every place I have worked. People get labeled as'trying to go through the back door'.
I've been sounding like a poster boy for Elementary OS lately but I must recommend this one as well. I have tried Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc etc. It is the only one that I can run VMs in the background and still have the GUI work crisply. Something to do with the way that they did memory management.
Owning something that depreciates half its value every year does not make you 'owner class'.
Thinkpads are like those cool trendy thick black plastic glasses frames that hipsters wear.
Sure.. for people who want to grow up one day and be like mommy and daddy.
Well you make it sound like outright fraud.
Sometimes it absolutely stuns me how large the differences are between 'business leaders' and myself. I would have assumed from the start that the government would have to act in a way similar to what the letter specifies. In contrast, along comes George Holtz who didn't see this coming at all, and it comes at such a shock that he feels he needs to shelve his business? Seems very out of touch with reality and a functioning society to me, unless of course there is something else to the story.
The only way this works is for the air bnb owner to be charged as if they were the repeat offender. An air bnb could have problems 20 times in a year without one repeat, that's the problem. Hold the owner responsible and this all goes away.
There are still zones in this example.
I thought Apple people liked cleanliness and absolute order; I mean, look at an Apple store. Having to remember to carry around a bunch of dongles everywhere seems to be the opposite of that.
Sure the owner can do whatever he wants with his property, but the problem is, the owner has no way to contain sound on his property does he? So he interferes with the property of others. I will adamantly defend an owner's right to use his/her property as he/she sees fit so long as they prepare it such that it is impossible for any tenant to create sound that leaves the property and enters another.
Name any successful city that has grown better without regulation and we shall discuss.
Call the police? Over and over? If it is a permanent tenant than the police can escalate on them, but if it is a new tenant every weekend you're sentencing people to calling the police weekly.
The point of a laptop is to be able to throw it in a bag and carry the benefits of technology with you, or at least be portable to different areas of a building. If the laptop itself is less beneficial to people then they must carry around attachments as well. If you were always going to use it at home on the same desk, then it is far wiser to use a desktop based machine.
It would tap into profits for sure, but say drug companies make 30% less across the board. You're saying this would somehow prevent them from wanting more profit? Their quest for more will not stop, even if it is not as much more.
Wow, when did Apple decide to become the 'mostly underwhelming' company?
Yes... the 'if you don't like it you can carry an enormously inconvenient peripheral around with you' crowd.