It's like the analogy I've always used. Windows is the 4x4 of operating systems it'll go most places and get the job done with only a few stalls or bogs, but your not getting there all that fast or sometimes comfortably; Osx is like the sedan, great for driving the apple highways and many developers build residential streets right to your door, however if you want to do something off the maps your out of luck; Linux is the race car, great if you know about engines and tuning even better if you can build roads yourself, but it's very easy for an amateur to crash into a street light even on a well know Linux street.
Now just like in the real world race cars are going Awd and tiptronic, more and more highways and sealed streets are made for sedans, and the average 4x4 is a suburb utility vehicle with only automatic and no low range that struggles on a wet grass incline.
I am in no way saying it's perfect and i have many issues with windows, but the reason i generally use it is because of the mix of compatibility, ease of use and control/customization/poweruse. I know they don't do any of them completely but you all have to admit it's awesome just being able to download almost any program, double click the exe, decide where you want it, select the shortcut options you like, then use (and it'll probably get the job done in a mostly painless manor), then further manual or automatic control of settings and placement afterwards. I know there is plenty of stuff they give you control for you don't need ("windows is crashing, please click ok") or times its become very complicated to set it the way you want (or not even possible), or how the occasional program being only for mac or hacking stuff only for linux. Overall its been an acceptable mix so far, providing you chose your version properly. However it could all go down the drain if the windows 8 rumors are correct and more and more control and options are being taken out just so grandma isn't so scared.
There are 56.5 guards (.5 cause one is napping due to his irregular breathing patterns) if i shoot 1 bullet at an angle of 36.6 degrees from the horizontal and 128 degrees from north i will kill 26.5 guards with 14 ricochets, and the rest when the bullet ends its flight by igniting the nitro glycerin in the armory. I WILL ONLY FLY ON QANTAS I WILL ONLY FLY ON QANTAS.
I still think the latest graphics card is very relevant, precisely because of consoles, you can take a 7 year old computer one of the first dual cores put a $200 graphics card in there and it will easily compete with a ps3 or an imac. It's a good point about the re-sale value of an apple though.
You can plug in 3x27inch monitors for 7680x1440 gaming on a radeon 6670? (i don't mean angry birds)
i've been upgrading computers for a long time and you rarely have to upgrade everything at once unless you get a new motherboard. I've only just retired my 15 year old p4 with hyper threading, and i've spent maybe $350 on her in the last 10 years, yet she still games like a champ, your opinion is grossly exaggerated. Sure you can get pci cards in usb but your kidding your self if you think it's any where near as good.
I've used a few mac's from friends and family before (don't find it all that intuitive to me). I still can't find any 3d or touchscreen monitors from apple (not including an ipad obviously) so i would say the Samsung T27A950 27inch 3D FULLHD TV TUNER, and Acer T231H 23 16:9 Win7 Touchscreen on any 1136 system.
you might be able to plug in 3 monitors for 3 screen word processing but you don't have the grunt to run all the monitors doing tricky 3d shit. USB tv tuners are crap, unless some one makes a thunderbolt version you wont get the bandwidth you need (something that should be as easy as changing the channel becomes frustrating and slow, as well as poor audio syncing). Also I beg to differ about the any home built computer looking like an ugly dust collector my computer setup may look a little messy but it's %100 attention whore, all mad scientist with wires everywhere, open motherboard, 3 screens and a TV plugged in, all kinds of peripherals, and i wouldn't change it in 100 hundred years for the off the shelf limited mac.
Sure the imac makes for a neat package but did you factor in every thing your losing. Can you plug 3 monitors into the imac for awesome gaming? What happens when it's a couple of years old; can you buy the latest graphics card or two maybe a new cpu, or do you have to buy a whole new unit, did you factor that into your cost? Also how about options what if you want to plug a fancy tv tuner or new wireless chip in, what if your not fussed about high res but would like 3d and touch?
I like the idea but i agree they ain't there yet. Once They sort out the connection problems (better automatic pairing, bluetooth 4 maybe), needs a speaker and microphone for hands-free, under 10mm thickness more like 6-8, ability to view sms and the start of emails not just see how many you have, integration with a siri like program, a few days of battery and your set.
Yeah pretty much but it's barely copying, and i would much prefer to live in a world where people are free to make the best possible product they want. That goes for apple as well, even though i will probably never own an apple product (unless they make a good full blown watch phone) i still wouldn't like to see ifans miss out on the iphone x because of some big business bitching.
I still don't think it matters. Samsung 'copying' apple in the tablet game hasn't actually done that well. Asus and acer make quite nice tablets with better features. Motorola has the high end sorted and been out for longer. You can't hope to sway an apple customer; even if Samsung completely copied apple and was half the price would you buy samsung? The people that want the Samsung tablet is either for the oled screen or out of brand loyalty, if it had sharper corners or a button in a slightly different place it wouldn't get any less customers.
God damn cheefmacfanboy, Who cares if they look a little similar or if you use them the same way. No one is going to walk in to a store and buy the wrong one. Competition is a good thing we have already seen how it's improved both brands (let alone every other industry in the world) alot of android features have shown up in ios, and i would much prefer to see this lawyer money spent on hologram and HUD R&D. I know you don't really care cause you will only ever buy apple and will love what ever they give you but, this kind of behavior doesn't benefit the consumer.
Also when these drones become self aware I'll sleep a lot better knowing i have the arsenal of windows malware at my side, and for once in your life you might be grateful for a blue screen of death.
Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: comments go to 2 dimensions, that's right you don't just scroll up and down, you scroll side to side as well, different topics and opinions can be located along the x axis and you can easily post in the most appropriate or read what interests you.
If it's so easy to hire an intelligent, friendly human who exercise good judgment why do we fill police stations with wankers. On a more serious note this is only the start of the robot revolution when the industrial revolution started people were saying the same thing, no machine can match an experienced trained craftsman, and I’m sure the first factories were plagued with problems. Also
they can't simply shrug off their responsibility to the society that has allowed them to flourish.
Wanna bet, apple was given all their first IP for free. Now how much ip have they given away to garage start ups? It's because companies are driven by profit not a need to support society, that's why they pay their taxes. Not all companies are ruthless but most of the biggest usually are, because that's how they became the big in the first place.
Renault and betterplace are releasing a car where you lease the battery from betterplace and they refill the battery (when you plug into one of their outlets they will install) which still works out cheaper than gas, the initial cost of the car is reduced to the same as its petrol brethren, performance is practically the same, battery swapping stations assure extended range and it's due out next year.
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It's like the analogy I've always used. Windows is the 4x4 of operating systems it'll go most places and get the job done with only a few stalls or bogs, but your not getting there all that fast or sometimes comfortably; Osx is like the sedan, great for driving the apple highways and many developers build residential streets right to your door, however if you want to do something off the maps your out of luck; Linux is the race car, great if you know about engines and tuning even better if you can build roads yourself, but it's very easy for an amateur to crash into a street light even on a well know Linux street.
Now just like in the real world race cars are going Awd and tiptronic, more and more highways and sealed streets are made for sedans, and the average 4x4 is a suburb utility vehicle with only automatic and no low range that struggles on a wet grass incline.
I am in no way saying it's perfect and i have many issues with windows, but the reason i generally use it is because of the mix of compatibility, ease of use and control/customization/poweruse. I know they don't do any of them completely but you all have to admit it's awesome just being able to download almost any program, double click the exe, decide where you want it, select the shortcut options you like, then use (and it'll probably get the job done in a mostly painless manor), then further manual or automatic control of settings and placement afterwards. I know there is plenty of stuff they give you control for you don't need ("windows is crashing, please click ok") or times its become very complicated to set it the way you want (or not even possible), or how the occasional program being only for mac or hacking stuff only for linux. Overall its been an acceptable mix so far, providing you chose your version properly. However it could all go down the drain if the windows 8 rumors are correct and more and more control and options are being taken out just so grandma isn't so scared.
There are 56.5 guards (.5 cause one is napping due to his irregular breathing patterns) if i shoot 1 bullet at an angle of 36.6 degrees from the horizontal and 128 degrees from north i will kill 26.5 guards with 14 ricochets, and the rest when the bullet ends its flight by igniting the nitro glycerin in the armory. I WILL ONLY FLY ON QANTAS I WILL ONLY FLY ON QANTAS.
I still think the latest graphics card is very relevant, precisely because of consoles, you can take a 7 year old computer one of the first dual cores put a $200 graphics card in there and it will easily compete with a ps3 or an imac. It's a good point about the re-sale value of an apple though.
i've been upgrading computers for a long time and you rarely have to upgrade everything at once unless you get a new motherboard. I've only just retired my 15 year old p4 with hyper threading, and i've spent maybe $350 on her in the last 10 years, yet she still games like a champ, your opinion is grossly exaggerated. Sure you can get pci cards in usb but your kidding your self if you think it's any where near as good.
I've used a few mac's from friends and family before (don't find it all that intuitive to me). I still can't find any 3d or touchscreen monitors from apple (not including an ipad obviously) so i would say the Samsung T27A950 27inch 3D FULLHD TV TUNER, and Acer T231H 23 16:9 Win7 Touchscreen on any 1136 system.
you might be able to plug in 3 monitors for 3 screen word processing but you don't have the grunt to run all the monitors doing tricky 3d shit. USB tv tuners are crap, unless some one makes a thunderbolt version you wont get the bandwidth you need (something that should be as easy as changing the channel becomes frustrating and slow, as well as poor audio syncing). Also I beg to differ about the any home built computer looking like an ugly dust collector my computer setup may look a little messy but it's %100 attention whore, all mad scientist with wires everywhere, open motherboard, 3 screens and a TV plugged in, all kinds of peripherals, and i wouldn't change it in 100 hundred years for the off the shelf limited mac.
Sure the imac makes for a neat package but did you factor in every thing your losing. Can you plug 3 monitors into the imac for awesome gaming? What happens when it's a couple of years old; can you buy the latest graphics card or two maybe a new cpu, or do you have to buy a whole new unit, did you factor that into your cost? Also how about options what if you want to plug a fancy tv tuner or new wireless chip in, what if your not fussed about high res but would like 3d and touch?
HORAH for gamers, next step freedom of speech.
It applies to all sugar.
I like the idea but i agree they ain't there yet. Once They sort out the connection problems (better automatic pairing, bluetooth 4 maybe), needs a speaker and microphone for hands-free, under 10mm thickness more like 6-8, ability to view sms and the start of emails not just see how many you have, integration with a siri like program, a few days of battery and your set.
Yeah pretty much but it's barely copying, and i would much prefer to live in a world where people are free to make the best possible product they want. That goes for apple as well, even though i will probably never own an apple product (unless they make a good full blown watch phone) i still wouldn't like to see ifans miss out on the iphone x because of some big business bitching.
1000 Gigawatts from a one mile antenna collecting solar radiation in deep space.
robots
You gotta love how he dismisses long distance travel due to the speed of the apollo project.
I still don't think it matters. Samsung 'copying' apple in the tablet game hasn't actually done that well. Asus and acer make quite nice tablets with better features. Motorola has the high end sorted and been out for longer. You can't hope to sway an apple customer; even if Samsung completely copied apple and was half the price would you buy samsung? The people that want the Samsung tablet is either for the oled screen or out of brand loyalty, if it had sharper corners or a button in a slightly different place it wouldn't get any less customers.
God damn cheefmacfanboy, Who cares if they look a little similar or if you use them the same way. No one is going to walk in to a store and buy the wrong one. Competition is a good thing we have already seen how it's improved both brands (let alone every other industry in the world) alot of android features have shown up in ios, and i would much prefer to see this lawyer money spent on hologram and HUD R&D. I know you don't really care cause you will only ever buy apple and will love what ever they give you but, this kind of behavior doesn't benefit the consumer.
I don't agree with many of Samsung design choices but I will fight to the death for their right to implement and sell them.
Also when these drones become self aware I'll sleep a lot better knowing i have the arsenal of windows malware at my side, and for once in your life you might be grateful for a blue screen of death.
Stop. I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: comments go to 2 dimensions, that's right you don't just scroll up and down, you scroll side to side as well, different topics and opinions can be located along the x axis and you can easily post in the most appropriate or read what interests you.
In Australia it's up to you to prove you weren't driving.
Shut up you insensitive bastard, a woman lost her baby its no laughing matter.
they can't simply shrug off their responsibility to the society that has allowed them to flourish.
Wanna bet, apple was given all their first IP for free. Now how much ip have they given away to garage start ups? It's because companies are driven by profit not a need to support society, that's why they pay their taxes. Not all companies are ruthless but most of the biggest usually are, because that's how they became the big in the first place.
I think it's the same course just minus the assignments and exams and you don't get the same certificate.
http://www.betterplace.com.au/
http://www.renault.com/en/vehicules/renault/pages/fluence-ze.aspx
Battery swapping stations.