Apple's stuff has been geared toward the rich elitist, always overpriced. Go ahead, flame me, but prove me wrong, OK? Don't tell me of their isolated instances of philanthropy to schools et cetera. Can you say smoke-screen? If Apple wanted to conquer the personal computer world, even a modest price decrease would get them there. Volume sales = increase in profit. Notice I did not attack the always high quality on both the SW and HW sides of the Apple equation. Come one Apple, lots of disgruntled Windows users want to switch, particularly to notebook form factors; however, our pockets aren't so deep as to justify $2K to $3K for a decent machine. I'm sitting out, running a couple Linux machines on outdated (by Apple and MS standards) HW, and will continue w/XP and Win 2K as long as they'll run on my notebooks. Vista's a non-starter for me as it requires a substantial new investment. Who do Apple and MS think we are, bottomless money machines??? I've got an answer to both companies, @*&#! NO.
"I see the move as the first Google Dump in the post eBay's-seeking-partners-against-Google era"
I see this scenario:
Amazon's HQ is in same city as MS's. Gates and Bezos are out on the Interbay golf course. Gates sez, "Bet I can sink this 40-foot putt." Bezos sez, "No way." Bezos doesn't see what's coming. Gates says, "If I don't make the putt, I'll give you free ad space on MSN, but if I do make it...." Bezos blurts, "I'll drop Google for Microsoft search "capabilities." Gates sinks putt....
Add/doctor to your title, and you could then administer insulin to the diabetics, or add/dietician to your title and you could concoct a palatable sugar-free candy substitute.
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Although your post is close to off-topic, I couldn't resist replying.
Don't arbitrarily lump Christians in with the conservatives, that's stereotyping. Open mind - good; stereotyping - bad. Many Christians support libertarianism. Also, they do not wholly view weakness as a "bad" - meek inherit the earth - strength made perfect in weakness....
Kindly keep your bias to yourself, or otherwise prove its truth.
As to Doc Searls' "Saving the Net" article, let's join in support of this principle - "Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it and Anybody can improve it."
Rhetorical (or not) question of the day. If we all concede (not that any of us would surrender our positions, but let's play "what if") the PC/workstation browser to IE, aren't we locked to MS OSes, because they've dropped UNIX support for IE?
Ok, we have some personal preferences. A couple of usability features aren't going to break the code bloat bank.
Phoenix is better for speed than Mozilla.
Opera is speedier also.
Rhetorical (or not) question of the day. If we concede the PC/workstation browser to IE, aren't we locked to MS OSes, because they've dropped UNIX support for IE?
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1) Jobs was right about Flash. Adobe ought to b class-actioned for the pains Flash causes.
2) Silverlight is junkware anyhow.
3) Friends don't let friends use either.
4) Standards, people. Sheesh.
5) HTML 5.1 and beyond. Please no more company proprietary stuff masked as "de facto" standard!
Thanks for the ip addresses and/or domain data.
Will you take my old Fedora Core 4 install disks?
Amen, brother evil. Preach it man.
Reason #87342 to not buy Vista. Time now for a new codebase. Hope Windows 2011 is fresh - no more NTFS. Bring on new code, durn burn it.
Yup, the machine manufacturers are completely culpable in this!
Apple's stuff has been geared toward the rich elitist, always overpriced. Go ahead, flame me, but prove me wrong, OK? Don't tell me of their isolated instances of philanthropy to schools et cetera. Can you say smoke-screen? If Apple wanted to conquer the personal computer world, even a modest price decrease would get them there. Volume sales = increase in profit. Notice I did not attack the always high quality on both the SW and HW sides of the Apple equation. Come one Apple, lots of disgruntled Windows users want to switch, particularly to notebook form factors; however, our pockets aren't so deep as to justify $2K to $3K for a decent machine. I'm sitting out, running a couple Linux machines on outdated (by Apple and MS standards) HW, and will continue w/XP and Win 2K as long as they'll run on my notebooks. Vista's a non-starter for me as it requires a substantial new investment. Who do Apple and MS think we are, bottomless money machines??? I've got an answer to both companies, @*&#! NO.
"I see the move as the first Google Dump in the post eBay's-seeking-partners-against-Google era"
I see this scenario:
Amazon's HQ is in same city as MS's.
Gates and Bezos are out on the Interbay golf course.
Gates sez, "Bet I can sink this 40-foot putt."
Bezos sez, "No way."
Bezos doesn't see what's coming.
Gates says, "If I don't make the putt, I'll give you free ad space on MSN, but if I do make it...."
Bezos blurts, "I'll drop Google for Microsoft search "capabilities."
Gates sinks putt....
Scary, eh?
'nuff said
What??? Not in my experience.
Add /doctor to your title, and you could then administer insulin to the diabetics, or add /dietician to your title and you could concoct a palatable sugar-free candy substitute.
Although your post is close to off-topic, I couldn't resist replying.
Don't arbitrarily lump Christians in with the conservatives, that's stereotyping. Open mind - good; stereotyping - bad. Many Christians support libertarianism. Also, they do not wholly view weakness as a "bad" - meek inherit the earth - strength made perfect in weakness....
Kindly keep your bias to yourself, or otherwise prove its truth.
As to Doc Searls' "Saving the Net" article, let's join in support of this principle - "Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it and Anybody can improve it."
Rhetorical (or not) question of the day. If we all concede (not that any of us would surrender our positions, but let's play "what if") the PC/workstation browser to IE, aren't we locked to MS OSes, because they've dropped UNIX support for IE?
A couple observations
Ok, we have some personal preferences. A couple of usability features aren't going to break the code bloat bank.
Phoenix is better for speed than Mozilla.
Opera is speedier also.
Rhetorical (or not) question of the day. If we concede the PC/workstation browser to IE, aren't we locked to MS OSes, because they've dropped UNIX support for IE?
Ever hear of tabbed browsing? Who wants 30 separate IE windows to alt-tab or mouse click through?
Better use of keyboard navigation options.
Cookie management? Although IE is catching up, all the other vendors are better than MS on this one.
Just a few items where MS is dog slow at adapting changes beneficial to end users.
Another reason not to use IE. Glad I have several other browsers. Mozilla's getting faster and better with almost every build.