Apple's market cap exceeds Microsoft's but OS X still represents less than 10% of the desktop market and Android has comfortably eclipsed iOS on smart phones.
I have friends who now communicate through Facebook and Twitter in preference to email and IM. If Wave had supported Farmville it could have been huge.
Why not ban hard drives too? And since many people fill their hard drives with copyright infringing material downloaded using Bittorrent we'd best ban that. Bittorrent depends on the Internet. The Internet has does serve some legitimate purpose but this hardly mitigates the fact that it is enables piracy. Ban that too. I have a TV capture card in my PC. Piracy!!! Of course TV capture would be nothing without TV broadcast, a piracy enabling technology if ever I saw one. VCR. Blank cassette tapes. Pen and paper. The spoken word.
By contrast, my wife had a problem with her Dell Studio 15. I spoke to an Indian guy who organized for an Indian guy to come to my house the following day. He arrived on time, diagnosed and fixed the problem very quickly and handed be an invoice describing the repairs undertaken and indicating no charge as the fault was covered by the warranty.
... or you could invest in buses, trains, bikes, etc. like the original poster suggests.
My route to work is horrible too. Traffic congestion so bad I could get to work faster on foot, public transport so crowded I can only get on if somebody else gets off at my stop. So I ride a bike. The exercise has improved my health and fitness such that I've probably added a few years to my life too.
It's not for everybody - I live too far from work, in the mountains, and it snows, even in summer, and there are wild animals and cannibals and I'd look gay in bike shorts and... Harden the fuck up.
All XP updates since have been free (as in beer). While retail copies of XP are no longer available the operating system is still supported and security patches and the like are still regularly released.
New versions of OSX have been released at approx. 18 month intervals since the initial release, they have all cost money and as far as I can tell software updates are only made available for the current version and the previous version. Security fixes for vulnerabilities in anything pre 10.5 will never be released so if you run OSX it's a good idea to pony up for the new version periodically. And, of course, the change in CPU architecture means most of the old versions won't run on the latest hardware anyway.
Windows Path : whatever I paid for the XP Home OEM that continues to run well on my old 1.6 GHz P4 as it has done for years + $0.
OSX Path : buy a Mac to check out this new OSX operating system all the kids are talking about + rip off + rip off + rip off + buy a new Mac because the new version won't work on this old PPC piece of crap + rip off + rip off
I was hanging out at Steve's place the other day, he used to jokingly call it his iPad but after the announcement of the new tablet he got a letter from Apple's legal team, now he calls it the iHouse. I told him that was pretty lame but he says what the hell would I know anyway.
We had a few beers, ordered pizza, watched some sport on TV, we we're going to play some games but his XBox 360 is in for repair and there aren't any games for the Mac so instead we got to talking about the new tablet. He says, you gonna buy one? And I'm like can I tether it to my iPhone? And he's like hell no. So I punched him in the face as hard as I could and went home to play some serious PC games and shit.
If you fork a open source software project available under a liberal license is it a "rip off"? For example, are the Unix underpinnings of Apple's OSX, derived as they are from FreeBSD and NetBSD, a "rip off"?
Notions of copyright and intellectual property are probably quite different under North Korean law too.
Australia is an entire continent, about the same size as your 'lower 48', but it has a smaller population than California. 21 million vs. 36.5 million. We're spread out all over the shop, comically low population density, although there are a couple of quite big cities on the east coast. Just shy of 20% of the country is desert. The Western Desert is bigger than California. Not much work gets done there. Not much work gets done anywhere really. Could be a cultural thing, maybe it's the weather. Don't know and I don't much care.
It's interesting that Californian's have, as you say, some of the highest taxes in the nation. In Australia we have a single federal taxation system which covers income tax and consumption - the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which replaced the old sales tax about ten years ago.
States have a limited power to impose duties such as the stamp duty imposed on the purchaser in the sale of cars, houses, alcohol and tobacco but remain largely dependant on the federal government for funding. Of course each state has its own education system, police and fire departments, etc. More or less everything is duplicated. But the taxes are federal.
Probably of greater interest to the average punter on Slashdot - it's the height of summer here and topless sunbathing is gaining popularity on St Kilda beach. Hot European backpackers are leading the charge. Thank you Europe.
OSX 10.0 - released March 2001. Unsupported since the release of 10.2 in August 2002. Windows XP - released October 2001. Can't buy it in the shops anymore but it's still supported.
You can't afford to arrive sweaty and take a shower? It costs money to shower? Or perhaps time. You don't have the time to shower. And it would be impossible to leave 5 minutes earlier, arrive 5 minutes earlier and take a shower?
I ride 8 kms (approx 5 miles) each way 5 days a week, rain, hail or shine. There are no showers at the office so I just take it easy on the way to work to avoid getting sweaty. I carry panniers mounted on a rack on the back of the bike instead of a backpack to avoid getting a sweaty back. I ride a lot faster heading home. I have a shower and a change of clothes there.
If only the Slashdot crowd were the ideal crowd for the Slashdot, like in the olden days before the LOLWTFBBQ element took all the fun out of the world.
Not the individual's genes, the individual gene. In all plants and animals it is reproduction combined with mutation and recombination that is driving evolution.
Social animals posses genetic traits which promote social or herd behaviour. In these animals the trait survives because for these animals in the environment in which the trait emerged it increases the chance of survival and reproduction. The gene promotes itself.
Worker ants are infertile. They share common genetic information with the queen. To protect the nest and the queen increases the chance of propagation of their genes even though they do not reproduce themselves. There's probably a gene for that.
I have no idea about infanticide but I do recall hearing of a study recently which observed that homosexual men frequently have one or more close female relatives who are unusually fecund. I can't find the link and the research may have since been debunked but the idea is interesting as it suggests the possibility of a gene which increases the reproductive fitness of one individual while reducing the reproductive fitness of another.
Of course that assumes that being homosexual reduces your chance of reproduction.
and what was the user interface innovation of 1984? The reinvention of the windowing GUI or reinvention of the mouse? Or perhaps it was the reinvention of using the two together?
Of course these remarkable innovations pale in comparison to the more recent reinvention of the touch screen interface on a mobile device. And next week they'll be reinventing the tablet. Awesome.
What he/she said only I'd have used a lot more swearing. "Could care less" meaning "couldn't care less" is one of the most irritating idioms in the American use of English.
Because like all manufacturers they would be excluded from the Californian market if they fail to offer a vehicle which complies with the Californian "zero emissions" (ie. move the emissions to the power station) requirements. You'll notice the only places the electric Mini is available in North America are New York (no idea why) and California.
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Apple's market cap exceeds Microsoft's but OS X still represents less than 10% of the desktop market and Android has comfortably eclipsed iOS on smart phones.
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I have friends who now communicate through Facebook and Twitter in preference to email and IM. If Wave had supported Farmville it could have been huge.
Why not ban hard drives too? And since many people fill their hard drives with copyright infringing material downloaded using Bittorrent we'd best ban that. Bittorrent depends on the Internet. The Internet has does serve some legitimate purpose but this hardly mitigates the fact that it is enables piracy. Ban that too. I have a TV capture card in my PC. Piracy!!! Of course TV capture would be nothing without TV broadcast, a piracy enabling technology if ever I saw one. VCR. Blank cassette tapes. Pen and paper. The spoken word.
...and they all moved away from me on the bench.
By contrast, my wife had a problem with her Dell Studio 15. I spoke to an Indian guy who organized for an Indian guy to come to my house the following day. He arrived on time, diagnosed and fixed the problem very quickly and handed be an invoice describing the repairs undertaken and indicating no charge as the fault was covered by the warranty.
... or you could invest in buses, trains, bikes, etc. like the original poster suggests.
My route to work is horrible too. Traffic congestion so bad I could get to work faster on foot, public transport so crowded I can only get on if somebody else gets off at my stop. So I ride a bike. The exercise has improved my health and fitness such that I've probably added a few years to my life too.
It's not for everybody - I live too far from work, in the mountains, and it snows, even in summer, and there are wild animals and cannibals and I'd look gay in bike shorts and ... Harden the fuck up.
Apple's just proving the point that consumers don't care how "fast" a chip is if the experience is that the device has an Apple Logo.
XP and OSX were both released in 2001.
All XP updates since have been free (as in beer). While retail copies of XP are no longer available the operating system is still supported and security patches and the like are still regularly released.
New versions of OSX have been released at approx. 18 month intervals since the initial release, they have all cost money and as far as I can tell software updates are only made available for the current version and the previous version. Security fixes for vulnerabilities in anything pre 10.5 will never be released so if you run OSX it's a good idea to pony up for the new version periodically. And, of course, the change in CPU architecture means most of the old versions won't run on the latest hardware anyway.
Windows Path : whatever I paid for the XP Home OEM that continues to run well on my old 1.6 GHz P4 as it has done for years + $0.
OSX Path : buy a Mac to check out this new OSX operating system all the kids are talking about + rip off + rip off + rip off + buy a new Mac because the new version won't work on this old PPC piece of crap + rip off + rip off
Linux Path: Free biatches.
BSD: is dead.
So how do you know what aliens look like anyway?
I was hanging out at Steve's place the other day, he used to jokingly call it his iPad but after the announcement of the new tablet he got a letter from Apple's legal team, now he calls it the iHouse. I told him that was pretty lame but he says what the hell would I know anyway.
We had a few beers, ordered pizza, watched some sport on TV, we we're going to play some games but his XBox 360 is in for repair and there aren't any games for the Mac so instead we got to talking about the new tablet. He says, you gonna buy one? And I'm like can I tether it to my iPhone? And he's like hell no. So I punched him in the face as hard as I could and went home to play some serious PC games and shit.
If you fork a open source software project available under a liberal license is it a "rip off"? For example, are the Unix underpinnings of Apple's OSX, derived as they are from FreeBSD and NetBSD, a "rip off"?
Notions of copyright and intellectual property are probably quite different under North Korean law too.
There is no excuse for a wealthy, modern, industrialized nation not to offer a public health system.
Shut up, it would be awesome to be a bird.
If you can find the time to troll on Slashdot you can find the time to supervise your children.
Australia is an entire continent, about the same size as your 'lower 48', but it has a smaller population than California. 21 million vs. 36.5 million. We're spread out all over the shop, comically low population density, although there are a couple of quite big cities on the east coast. Just shy of 20% of the country is desert. The Western Desert is bigger than California. Not much work gets done there. Not much work gets done anywhere really. Could be a cultural thing, maybe it's the weather. Don't know and I don't much care.
It's interesting that Californian's have, as you say, some of the highest taxes in the nation. In Australia we have a single federal taxation system which covers income tax and consumption - the Goods and Services Tax (GST) which replaced the old sales tax about ten years ago.
States have a limited power to impose duties such as the stamp duty imposed on the purchaser in the sale of cars, houses, alcohol and tobacco but remain largely dependant on the federal government for funding. Of course each state has its own education system, police and fire departments, etc. More or less everything is duplicated. But the taxes are federal.
Probably of greater interest to the average punter on Slashdot - it's the height of summer here and topless sunbathing is gaining popularity on St Kilda beach. Hot European backpackers are leading the charge. Thank you Europe.
Smarter than a dead lizard. Can't play minesweeper on a lizard. Lizards don't even have batteries.
OSX 10.0 - released March 2001. Unsupported since the release of 10.2 in August 2002.
Windows XP - released October 2001. Can't buy it in the shops anymore but it's still supported.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Support_lifecycle
On April 8, 2014, all Windows XP support, including security updates and security-related hotfixes will be terminated.
You can't afford to arrive sweaty and take a shower? It costs money to shower? Or perhaps time. You don't have the time to shower. And it would be impossible to leave 5 minutes earlier, arrive 5 minutes earlier and take a shower?
I ride 8 kms (approx 5 miles) each way 5 days a week, rain, hail or shine. There are no showers at the office so I just take it easy on the way to work to avoid getting sweaty. I carry panniers mounted on a rack on the back of the bike instead of a backpack to avoid getting a sweaty back. I ride a lot faster heading home. I have a shower and a change of clothes there.
If only the Slashdot crowd were the ideal crowd for the Slashdot, like in the olden days before the LOLWTFBBQ element took all the fun out of the world.
In our ancestral evolutionary environment being attracted to one another, dinner and a show, consent, etc. may not have been high on the agenda.
Not the individual's genes, the individual gene. In all plants and animals it is reproduction combined with mutation and recombination that is driving evolution.
Social animals posses genetic traits which promote social or herd behaviour. In these animals the trait survives because for these animals in the environment in which the trait emerged it increases the chance of survival and reproduction. The gene promotes itself.
Worker ants are infertile. They share common genetic information with the queen. To protect the nest and the queen increases the chance of propagation of their genes even though they do not reproduce themselves. There's probably a gene for that.
I have no idea about infanticide but I do recall hearing of a study recently which observed that homosexual men frequently have one or more close female relatives who are unusually fecund. I can't find the link and the research may have since been debunked but the idea is interesting as it suggests the possibility of a gene which increases the reproductive fitness of one individual while reducing the reproductive fitness of another.
Of course that assumes that being homosexual reduces your chance of reproduction.
and what was the user interface innovation of 1984? The reinvention of the windowing GUI or reinvention of the mouse? Or perhaps it was the reinvention of using the two together?
Of course these remarkable innovations pale in comparison to the more recent reinvention of the touch screen interface on a mobile device. And next week they'll be reinventing the tablet. Awesome.
What he/she said only I'd have used a lot more swearing. "Could care less" meaning "couldn't care less" is one of the most irritating idioms in the American use of English.
Because like all manufacturers they would be excluded from the Californian market if they fail to offer a vehicle which complies with the Californian "zero emissions" (ie. move the emissions to the power station) requirements. You'll notice the only places the electric Mini is available in North America are New York (no idea why) and California.