Steve Jobs says the MacBook Air is the future of the MacBook and the future of the notebook as well. But if that’s to be the case, the machine–and Apple’s ecosystem–needs to evolve a bit more to appeal to that strata of user tethered to the high-capacity hard drives that the Air has summarily dispatched.
So, what's this? You won't be able to store much locally with Apple's new product line? And you'll have to pay more for online storage?
I think you have to determine what is important to *you*. I've whittled down the books, photos and music, movies, notes, etc that are important to me first and foremost.
Why do you collect so much information in the first place?
It's bad enough that we must keep financial records but to record CDs,DVDs, etc..etc.. etc... in order to locate it means you have way too much shit.
Chick-fil-a does it - they're not open on Sundays, treat their workers well, environmental stewardship, and other things that are branded "liberal" by the Fox News crowd and yet, they make boat loads of money doing things that others would think would eat into profitability and make one uncompetitive.
We, as the developed world (US, Russia, China, India, UK, EU, etc.) might not develop them but chances are, North Korea and Iran would use them given the chance.
Yeah, and?
Let's just say they do use them and nuke something. Should we retaliate and put more radioactive crap into the atmosphere? For a small test case, see what happened with Chernobyl. Yeah, it wasn't a nuclear bomb but never the less, it released so much shit into the atmosphere that it affected all of Northern Europe - and that was just a conventional explosion.
And of course there's Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the results of that.
Am I saying that if we're nuked we shouldn't retaliate with our own nukes? Yep. If we retaliated, we'd just be getting much of the fallout back.
I would argue that a preemptive conventional strike against military nukes in those countries mentioned would be completely warranted, though. Especially North Korea. I see them using nukes because they really don't have much to lose and that makes them very dangerous.
Everyone from my parents to job counselors kept telling me that learning programming and computers was a dead end because it was both a fad and a saturated market. IBM already had all the programmers they would ever need, who would hire more?
Then, you went into programming. Life was good... but you start noticing that more and more programming jobs start going overseas. But you don't worry, they're just doing the maintenance and boiler plate code. You, after all, are doing the intense design and algorithms. Life is still good - your pay just keeps going up and up!
Then one day, you're asked to train a young man from an Asian country about your code. You answer questions like, "What does an asterisk by a variable mean?", "What's this arrow mean?" and "What's a pointer?" and other questions that make you wonder if this person is even qualified to be doing what they hired him for.
You think nothing of it because you have skills and you are always willing to learn and adjust - you'll be employable for ever!
Time goes on and you're getting closer to 40. You start doing more documentation type of things because the coding is being done more and more with outsourcing companies.
Then one day, they don't need you anymore and when you try to get more work, you hear nothing. Many, many, many resumes out - nothing. You get more education and training and still nothing. In the meantime, you see posts on places like Slashdot saying that they are having a hard time getting qualified people. Resisting the urge to flame the poster, you walk away from your computer mumbling, "Bullshit. Bullshit.Bullshit. Bullshit...."
You then see that some "loser" you knew years ago went into management and is still employed and you think "Why oh why did I insist on staying technical!?!"
Now, if they would just test homes made out of straw, sticks, and bricks and see if in fact, a straw house can be reinforced to withstand big bad wolf strength winds.
We all know that the moon is not in fact made out of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbeque spare ribs? Would ya eat it then? I know I would. Heck, I'd have seconds, and then polish it off with a cool Budweiser.
A Bud with Moon Ribs?!? Yuk! I'd go with some Sweetwater Ale.
And Moon Cheese? That's have to be some full bodied red.
All those Silicon Valley car makers will be bought out by one of the big manufacturers: GM, Ford, or Chrysler (The Japanese will design their own versions in house). They will then completely fuck it up like they always do and the Japanese, Chinese and maybe even the Indians will come in and eat their lunch. Then the big 3 will bitch and moan to Congress about unfair competition or some such crap and get yet another bailout.
Musk and others will sell out in a heartbeat for the right price.
Well, it can't be in a conservative state because they'll only build internal combustion engine powered cars that go VROOOOOM! Electric cars are just too gay. So, it's going to have to be a moderate state.
BTW, it's a scientific fact that men who drive minivans or electric cars spontaneously grow vaginas.
Wrong. Economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because Y pays less income tax does NOT mean Z must pay more income tax. That's just one form of tax that businesses pay.
We're talking about taxation and it is a zero sum game. Whenever there's a revenue shortfall, a government has to make it up somewhere - either reduce expenses or get the money somewhere else. And since we the people have very little real power, the powerful elite make sure that the tax code favors them.
The Golden Rule is whoever has the gold makes the rules,
Farm subsidies to multi-billion dollar corporate farmers, pork barrel spending by politicians, foreign aid to countries that stab us in the back whenever they get a chance, awarding no-bid defense contracts to friends and buddies and anyone else with inside connections, etc etc etc....
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Steve Jobs says the MacBook Air is the future of the MacBook and the future of the notebook as well. But if that’s to be the case, the machine–and Apple’s ecosystem–needs to evolve a bit more to appeal to that strata of user tethered to the high-capacity hard drives that the Air has summarily dispatched.
So, what's this? You won't be able to store much locally with Apple's new product line? And you'll have to pay more for online storage?
I don't like that at all. No siree!
I think you have to determine what is important to *you*. I've whittled down the books, photos and music, movies, notes, etc that are important to me first and foremost.
Why do you collect so much information in the first place?
It's bad enough that we must keep financial records but to record CDs,DVDs, etc ..etc.. etc... in order to locate it means you have way too much shit.
With my Mac.
That's the spirit! Shoot the fuckers! Do you have a Mac 10 .45 or the 9mm?
I find using a silencer really helps in organizing my life!!
Clicking an ad turns you gay, according to TFA.
It's a good thing I turned off the ads here on Slashdot! One accidental click and BAM! I'm gay!
I don't think I clicked on any ads in the past....
geeze! I gotta do something about the color scheme in this office! It's just so......oh no.
Chick-fil-a does it - they're not open on Sundays, treat their workers well, environmental stewardship, and other things that are branded "liberal" by the Fox News crowd and yet, they make boat loads of money doing things that others would think would eat into profitability and make one uncompetitive.
We, as the developed world (US, Russia, China, India, UK, EU, etc.) might not develop them but chances are, North Korea and Iran would use them given the chance.
Yeah, and?
Let's just say they do use them and nuke something. Should we retaliate and put more radioactive crap into the atmosphere? For a small test case, see what happened with Chernobyl. Yeah, it wasn't a nuclear bomb but never the less, it released so much shit into the atmosphere that it affected all of Northern Europe - and that was just a conventional explosion.
And of course there's Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the results of that.
Am I saying that if we're nuked we shouldn't retaliate with our own nukes? Yep. If we retaliated, we'd just be getting much of the fallout back.
I would argue that a preemptive conventional strike against military nukes in those countries mentioned would be completely warranted, though. Especially North Korea. I see them using nukes because they really don't have much to lose and that makes them very dangerous.
Everyone from my parents to job counselors kept telling me that learning programming and computers was a dead end because it was both a fad and a saturated market. IBM already had all the programmers they would ever need, who would hire more?
Then, you went into programming. Life was good ... but you start noticing that more and more programming jobs start going overseas. But you don't worry, they're just doing the maintenance and boiler plate code. You, after all, are doing the intense design and algorithms. Life is still good - your pay just keeps going up and up!
Then one day, you're asked to train a young man from an Asian country about your code. You answer questions like, "What does an asterisk by a variable mean?", "What's this arrow mean?" and "What's a pointer?" and other questions that make you wonder if this person is even qualified to be doing what they hired him for.
You think nothing of it because you have skills and you are always willing to learn and adjust - you'll be employable for ever!
Time goes on and you're getting closer to 40. You start doing more documentation type of things because the coding is being done more and more with outsourcing companies.
Then one day, they don't need you anymore and when you try to get more work, you hear nothing. Many, many, many resumes out - nothing. You get more education and training and still nothing. In the meantime, you see posts on places like Slashdot saying that they are having a hard time getting qualified people. Resisting the urge to flame the poster, you walk away from your computer mumbling, "Bullshit. Bullshit.Bullshit. Bullshit. ..."
You then see that some "loser" you knew years ago went into management and is still employed and you think "Why oh why did I insist on staying technical!?!"
Now, if they would just test homes made out of straw, sticks, and bricks and see if in fact, a straw house can be reinforced to withstand big bad wolf strength winds.
I thought it was acceleration down?
Shit! So it's 9.8 meters per second squared of suck?
We all know that the moon is not in fact made out of green cheese. But what if it were made of barbeque spare ribs? Would ya eat it then? I know I would. Heck, I'd have seconds, and then polish it off with a cool Budweiser.
A Bud with Moon Ribs?!? Yuk! I'd go with some Sweetwater Ale.
And Moon Cheese? That's have to be some full bodied red.
Are the Canadians going to build them?
With Amazon Women!
Musk and others will sell out in a heartbeat for the right price.
This is the way it has been and always shall be.
Too many liberals. And I am not even trolling...
Well, it can't be in a conservative state because they'll only build internal combustion engine powered cars that go VROOOOOM! Electric cars are just too gay. So, it's going to have to be a moderate state.
BTW, it's a scientific fact that men who drive minivans or electric cars spontaneously grow vaginas.
...running Windows Mobile 6.5. Works fine, ...
*Looks around Slashdot in embarrassment because he said "Windows works fine"*
There's always an outlier.
Wrong. Economics is not a zero-sum game. Just because Y pays less income tax does NOT mean Z must pay more income tax. That's just one form of tax that businesses pay.
We're talking about taxation and it is a zero sum game. Whenever there's a revenue shortfall, a government has to make it up somewhere - either reduce expenses or get the money somewhere else. And since we the people have very little real power, the powerful elite make sure that the tax code favors them.
The Golden Rule is whoever has the gold makes the rules,
-Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad author)
Farm subsidies to multi-billion dollar corporate farmers, pork barrel spending by politicians, foreign aid to countries that stab us in the back whenever they get a chance, awarding no-bid defense contracts to friends and buddies and anyone else with inside connections, etc etc etc....
But corporations are people!
Thread over.
The problem is, what has the government done that entitles themselves to Google's income?
Invented the Internet and then gave it away for companies like Google to make hundreds of billions dollars?
You're either a genius (who really has solutions) or someone who hasn't thought this through well enough.
Of course he has! He's going to use a neutrino beam that will clear out the pollution, fix the roads, and implant literacy into the populace!
Haven't you seen Star Trek? Neutrino beams fix everything!
Teri = Your MaKi = Mother's Chooth = Derogatory word for Vagina
Ohh!
It's "cunt" in English!
In Hindi.
Yeah....and....the translation please?
So, this is really happening on the gaga scale.
Cue the bleach blond in the bikini!
Work hard and move into management ....
???
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....
No, really ....do you actually believe that?
Do you also believe that all you have to do is start a business, work hard, and you too can be rich?
Or how about, "the check's in the mail"?
Or "I won't come in your mouth"?
Or "No new taxes!"?