Right, because people didn't line up to buy their $599 (8GB) or $499 (4 GB) iPhones when they first launched. $300 unlocked would be a bargain for a smartphone.
Agreed. Most people I know consider T-Mobile a second rate carrier and the only thing holding them back from getting the G1 or myTouch. It would be interesting to see what happened if they started selling them unlocked thus allowing them to be used on AT&T's network for some (closer to) direct competition with the iPhone.
I wasn't. Read the sentence again. If someone thought $500,000 for a computer was too much (in an era where the first nuclear reactor was thought to only cost $6,000, as a benchmark to put the $500,000 in perspective), I'd hate to see where our society would be today. $500,000 was obviously a fortune at the time, but as you may argue today, the upfront cost of making that first step pays off enormously in the long run. You have to start somewhere, and it's not always cheap.
Wait, a more pervasive and robust system will be more complex? Who would have thought. But it fits the parent post of being in a spot for X amount of time and being billed, and variable rates depending on the time. I don't know too many (if any) innovations/inventions that went straight to the complex/robust form instead of starting simple. Generally speaking, you need to crawl before you can walk. I'd hate to see where we'd be today if someone didn't take the huge financial hit at the time to develop a computer for $500,000 at a time when they thought the first nuclear reactor was going to cost under $6,000.
Well I did say "free" not FREE. And sorry MD is ripping you off for transponders. NY only charges $10, but waives the fee if you sign up for auto replenishment with your credit card, and brings your startup cost back down to $0 (yes, except your pre-paid tolls that someone will mention)
No $20 deposit needed sign up for you EZ-Pass with auto credit card bill and the fee is waived. And if you big city is NYC, there are places in that area that let you use EZ-Pass to let you pay for your parking with the same transponder. EZ-Pass Plus
EZ-Pass can already be used to pay for parking in a few places. Mostly NYC area airports, but a few other NY airports, and a few garages in NJ. EZ-Pass Plus
EZ-Pass is a "free" service. It costs you nothing to have. Let the account sit for a year, and you get charged nothing. Only charges you for what tolls you owe. So to say you don't use it enough to have it is like saying you don't use your spare tire enough to have it. It does no harm having it, but sure comes in handy when you need it.
You contradict yourself. You ask what a version number matters and then go into detail about how a version number matters, due to the amount of money they have pumped into advertisements. And you realize that the X in OS X is the version number right? Intel eventually ditched the Pentium+number scheme, in fact the latest don't even have an "86" number scheme. Eventually Apple will have to dump the OS X moniker or be left with the perception of stagnation and not keeping up with the pace of technological growth surrounding them. So yes, version numbers matter, and Apple should move on from version X (read:10).
Except when your Mac is too old (mid 2006ish or older) and the processor does not support the 64-bit architecture required for the latest version. Then you have to go buy a whole new system, which of course will run you in the $1000+ range.
64-bit, great, I've used 64-bit XP, Vista, and Win7, and often wonder why 32-bit versions are not being uniformly phased out. QuickTime, wow, I can download that for free on a non-Mac. Exchange support, that a Microsoft OS will no doubt support since they come from the same company. OpenCl, not as familiar with, but is it not analogous to CUDA? Either way seems more like a GPU feature than OS feature.
Either way, if you're going to argue that these are major changes, which I can see and understand your point despite my above criticism, why not increment the version number to 11.0?
If you look at the version numbers going from Win2K to XP is like going from 10.3 to 10.4 or 10.4 to 10.5 as the MS version number went from 5.0 to 5.1. Vista however made the leap from 5.1 to 6.0. That would be like Apple's next OS jumping to 11.0 from the current 10.6.
Also Major Changes is something that needs to be defined. XP SP1 introduced USB 2.0 support, support for SATA Hard Drives larger than 137GB, and the "Set program access and defaults" utility. Depending on what you call major, these may fit the bill. These are things that can improve performance. Major changes in OS 10.6 are mostly cosmetic from what I can tell. Such as default gamma changed from 1.8 to 2.2, Expose displaying all open windows, and contextual menus on the dock having more options and a new look. Sure it was released as 64-bit, but so are most other current OS's, including the 8 year old XP. Yea it updates QT, which anyone can download for free. With that said, I feel the Microsoft SP's are more useful than the OSX upgrades. I can change cosmetic stuff through free third party software. Hell, MS even offers certain things that were included in Vista for download in XP (see Powershell)
So i'm not seeing what the major changes are from 10.x to 10.x+1 that required an extra $100, and thus have to agree with the GP.
The solution isn't more border patrols on the Tex-Mex border, it's better healthcare for those who can't afford it.
But if they still can't afford what difference will it make if it's better? While I understand what you mean, your actual words help point out the true underlying cause, the cost of healthcare has risen out of control.
The latest service packs and patches might help as well. Never know what bugs that Intelligent Designer has found in the past few millennium and didn't mention to us.
I still wonder what telegraphs will look like in the future. But I know the answer is that it will look the same, because we abandoned the technology for a better one.
Reference please? Last I checked it was listed as a possible carcinogen, not a known carcinogen. Just about anything can be toxic in high enough concentrations, Oxygen makes the perfect example there.
While this is true, there are certain limitations to a questioning attitude and scientific method. Einstein once said to Werner Heisenberg, "It is the theory that dictates what we can observe." At the time it was mostly in reference to the properties of light. You can make an experiment proving light was a wave, if that was your theory. Equally, you could develop a theory that light is particles if that was your theory.
Are we forgetting the Pauli Exclusion Principle? There must have been another planet in that orbit at some point causing the opposite spin since no 2 orbiting bodies can occupy the same quantum state unless they have opposite spins.
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$300 unlocked will not sell well
Right, because people didn't line up to buy their $599 (8GB) or $499 (4 GB) iPhones when they first launched. $300 unlocked would be a bargain for a smartphone.
Agreed. Most people I know consider T-Mobile a second rate carrier and the only thing holding them back from getting the G1 or myTouch. It would be interesting to see what happened if they started selling them unlocked thus allowing them to be used on AT&T's network for some (closer to) direct competition with the iPhone.
I wasn't. Read the sentence again. If someone thought $500,000 for a computer was too much (in an era where the first nuclear reactor was thought to only cost $6,000, as a benchmark to put the $500,000 in perspective), I'd hate to see where our society would be today. $500,000 was obviously a fortune at the time, but as you may argue today, the upfront cost of making that first step pays off enormously in the long run. You have to start somewhere, and it's not always cheap.
Wait, a more pervasive and robust system will be more complex? Who would have thought. But it fits the parent post of being in a spot for X amount of time and being billed, and variable rates depending on the time. I don't know too many (if any) innovations/inventions that went straight to the complex/robust form instead of starting simple. Generally speaking, you need to crawl before you can walk. I'd hate to see where we'd be today if someone didn't take the huge financial hit at the time to develop a computer for $500,000 at a time when they thought the first nuclear reactor was going to cost under $6,000.
Well I did say "free" not FREE. And sorry MD is ripping you off for transponders. NY only charges $10, but waives the fee if you sign up for auto replenishment with your credit card, and brings your startup cost back down to $0 (yes, except your pre-paid tolls that someone will mention)
No $20 deposit needed sign up for you EZ-Pass with auto credit card bill and the fee is waived. And if you big city is NYC, there are places in that area that let you use EZ-Pass to let you pay for your parking with the same transponder. EZ-Pass Plus
EZ-Pass can already be used to pay for parking in a few places. Mostly NYC area airports, but a few other NY airports, and a few garages in NJ. EZ-Pass Plus
EZ-Pass is a "free" service. It costs you nothing to have. Let the account sit for a year, and you get charged nothing. Only charges you for what tolls you owe. So to say you don't use it enough to have it is like saying you don't use your spare tire enough to have it. It does no harm having it, but sure comes in handy when you need it.
You contradict yourself. You ask what a version number matters and then go into detail about how a version number matters, due to the amount of money they have pumped into advertisements. And you realize that the X in OS X is the version number right? Intel eventually ditched the Pentium+number scheme, in fact the latest don't even have an "86" number scheme. Eventually Apple will have to dump the OS X moniker or be left with the perception of stagnation and not keeping up with the pace of technological growth surrounding them. So yes, version numbers matter, and Apple should move on from version X (read:10).
Except when your Mac is too old (mid 2006ish or older) and the processor does not support the 64-bit architecture required for the latest version. Then you have to go buy a whole new system, which of course will run you in the $1000+ range.
Either way, if you're going to argue that these are major changes, which I can see and understand your point despite my above criticism, why not increment the version number to 11.0?
Also Major Changes is something that needs to be defined. XP SP1 introduced USB 2.0 support, support for SATA Hard Drives larger than 137GB, and the "Set program access and defaults" utility. Depending on what you call major, these may fit the bill. These are things that can improve performance. Major changes in OS 10.6 are mostly cosmetic from what I can tell. Such as default gamma changed from 1.8 to 2.2, Expose displaying all open windows, and contextual menus on the dock having more options and a new look. Sure it was released as 64-bit, but so are most other current OS's, including the 8 year old XP. Yea it updates QT, which anyone can download for free. With that said, I feel the Microsoft SP's are more useful than the OSX upgrades. I can change cosmetic stuff through free third party software. Hell, MS even offers certain things that were included in Vista for download in XP (see Powershell)
So i'm not seeing what the major changes are from 10.x to 10.x+1 that required an extra $100, and thus have to agree with the GP.
So the 200+ was inaccurate how? By my awe inspiring knowledge of math, 400+ years is merely a subset of 200+ years and no thus need to correct him.
The solution isn't more border patrols on the Tex-Mex border, it's better healthcare for those who can't afford it.
But if they still can't afford what difference will it make if it's better? While I understand what you mean, your actual words help point out the true underlying cause, the cost of healthcare has risen out of control.
Most people would claim that monkeys are luminous if it somehow hurt the RIAA.
You missed this story didn't you. All living things emit visible light at low levels. So with that in mind, the RIAA must be doomed.
Yea, but how useful will your mouse be when it vibrates on its own?
Periodically I find it useful to have something that works even on dirty windows.
See now I'm just confused. Is there a clean version of Windows that I wasn't aware of?
I'm holding out for the equivalent of the Platinum Mach14. That or the vibrating "power" version.
On top of that, iWork will not work on mobile devices and does not support roaming licenses.
The latest service packs and patches might help as well. Never know what bugs that Intelligent Designer has found in the past few millennium and didn't mention to us.
I still wonder what telegraphs will look like in the future. But I know the answer is that it will look the same, because we abandoned the technology for a better one.
usually nasty (cancer-causing) PCB stuff
Reference please? Last I checked it was listed as a possible carcinogen, not a known carcinogen. Just about anything can be toxic in high enough concentrations, Oxygen makes the perfect example there.
While this is true, there are certain limitations to a questioning attitude and scientific method. Einstein once said to Werner Heisenberg, "It is the theory that dictates what we can observe." At the time it was mostly in reference to the properties of light. You can make an experiment proving light was a wave, if that was your theory. Equally, you could develop a theory that light is particles if that was your theory.
Not as apples to oranges as you think. Astronomical models are actually what inspired the model of the atom and some of the basic quantum theories.
Are we forgetting the Pauli Exclusion Principle? There must have been another planet in that orbit at some point causing the opposite spin since no 2 orbiting bodies can occupy the same quantum state unless they have opposite spins.