It was actually introduced in IE 5, so it's much more than a year old. It's only recently gained popularity thanks to the terrible acronym AJAX. Seriously, doesn't anyone else thing of Duckman when they hear that?
One of my best friends fixed commercial food equipment. He says McDonalds consistently has the cleanest kitchens.
For the people that worked in restaurants that they will no longer eat in: what makes you think most other retaurants are any different? I'd rather not know what goes on in many kitchens!
It probably has something to do with those high resolutions beind totally unusable for reading, and LCDs look like crap in non-native resolution. If I want high resolution, I want a larger screen.
I have an old iMac that is used for nothing but serving web pages and playing music. It's plugged into my home stereo in the other room. I use Salling Clicker and my bluetooth phone to control iTunes from anywhere in the apartment. And, with iTunes sharing I used it to play music off my PowerBook over my wireless LAN.
I'm not sure anything needs to be redone for FMP 7. It should open and convert your existing files. Of course they won't take advantage of any new features of 7, but the effort will be minimal. What's in the best interests of the school? Paying you to rebuild their existing tools from scratch or keeping the existing and easy stuff around? Are you looking for job security here?
Radar guns typically only go up to three digits, and the third digit is only capable of displaying a "1." They'd need to find some other way of measuring your speed if they want to ticket to stick in court.
Because Nike has a brand that people are willing to overpay for. Buy something without the name "Jordan" on it and you'll find shoes that aren't too expensive.
No doubt. For such a highly concentrated group of supposedly educated people, Slashdotters sure don't seem to know a thing about economics.
This will probably help the local economy here which relies on highly on office furniture manufacturing. All those Indian IT professionals have to sit on something.
Free trade benefits both parties. You wouldn't buy anything if you didn't think the benefit didn't outweigh the cost. The manufacturer benefits because they got your money, you benefit because you got a product you like.
It's the same thing here. The US benefits from cheap labor, and India benefits by providing it. You learn this stuff on the first day of any economics 101 class.
Yeah, techs have sure suffered! Why, just a couple years ago companies were throwing stock options at them! Somebody could have put an eye out! Not to mention the flashy cars, the comfy chairs, and foosball tables.
What would the Clinton administration have done if Bill Gates had contributed money to Clinton's campaign fund?
I don't like Microsoft, but I really don't think they require a break-up. And even if they were broken into separate companies, what would we really gain? We'll benefit if they put a stop to their anticompetitive practices, and I support that.
I realize comparing Mhz between PPC and x86 is not even keel, but still, why in the hell did it take Apple over a year to increase the speed?
Don't ask Apple, ask Motorola.
I've heard a number of theories. Brain drain to Intel, indifference on Motorola's part, and chip architecture. I don't mind a lower clock-speed if I can get it in dual or quad processors.
CNET takes every chance they get to dump on Apple, yet Apple never quite dies.
Anyway, I doubt they would sell a PowerBook that loses money. If they did the more they sell the more money they lose! The guy quoted has no idea how they make money at that price, but they do. One lesson I've learned is don't complain if you're making money.
Notice I grouped Transmeta/AMD/Intel together. I meant them as a group. Transmeta is doing great things with mobile chip design, AMD is now working with them. Intel will be releasing their cobbled chip to compete.
Meanwhile, yes Apple has just now started shipping faster mobile processors. How long until they are way behind again? They have never been able to keep up. I believe that platform has been at 500Mhz for the entire year of 2000.
So Transmeta/AMD/Intel are working on mobile designs, but Apple, who is already shipping faster mobile processors, is behind?
Don't get me wrong, Transmeta has done some really cool things, but their chips not exactly fast. AMD makes some greats chips for price/performance, but they have to sacrifice in size, heat, and power consumption. Intel is the only x86 portable option right now.
As for MHz, it is true that Apple has been stuck for quite some time and a 500 MHz G4 will not beat an AMD 1.2 GHz. However, instructions per cycle matter. Saying Apple is still stuck at 500 MHz when a 500 MHz G4 might equal a 700 MHz PIII doesn't make any sense. (700 is just arbitrary, I'm not sure what the number would actually be.) Especially in the portable market where a PIII is not as fast as it's desktop counterpart. And, PowerBooks are aggresively priced too!
Yeah, me and 95% of all other computer users. And that's exactly the problem Apple has faced! Duh!
Yeah, we've all heard this before. If Apple wanted they could make their computers free and get 100% marketshare! Why not? They'd make no money! Would you rather sell 100 units at $50 each or 120 units at $40 each? Apple's job is to maximize profits, not undercut PC manufacturers. More marketshare means more sales, but not necessarily higher profits.
Apple's going down the drain, no one wants their pricey hardware except the Mac faithful. Their biggest hurrah in the past 10 years was the iMac, which actually was getting people moving from Windows to Mac more than anything else I've seen from them. That has seemingly subsided, probably because Apple is not keeping up with the speed of AMD/Intel, or the mobility of Transmeta/AMD/Intel.
That's silly. In the portable market Intel uses dumbed-down chips so they don't eat as much power. AMD doesn't even have a portable chip. Apple uses a full-power G4 in the new Titanium PowerBooks.
As for higher prices, don't buy one. x86 computer/parts manufacturers are a commodity. One single seller has no control over the price, they are price takers. Apple has a monopoly on the Mac side. That means they can charge the optimum price to maximize profits. Why should they lower prices to increase market share when chances are they'll make more money selling less hardware at higher prices? Apple is a price setter.
It is somewhat true that Apple has to compete with PCs, but not like PC manufacturers have to compete with each other.
It probably won't switch many Slashdot readers, but it could get a lot of people who want speed and reliability with ease of use. If anything it will help push Linux developers to write software that doesn't require a Ph.D to use. Competition is good.
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It was actually introduced in IE 5, so it's much more than a year old. It's only recently gained popularity thanks to the terrible acronym AJAX. Seriously, doesn't anyone else thing of Duckman when they hear that?
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One of my best friends fixed commercial food equipment. He says McDonalds consistently has the cleanest kitchens.
For the people that worked in restaurants that they will no longer eat in: what makes you think most other retaurants are any different? I'd rather not know what goes on in many kitchens!
It probably has something to do with those high resolutions beind totally unusable for reading, and LCDs look like crap in non-native resolution. If I want high resolution, I want a larger screen.
Seriously.
I have an old iMac that is used for nothing but serving web pages and playing music. It's plugged into my home stereo in the other room. I use Salling Clicker and my bluetooth phone to control iTunes from anywhere in the apartment. And, with iTunes sharing I used it to play music off my PowerBook over my wireless LAN.
I'm not sure anything needs to be redone for FMP 7. It should open and convert your existing files. Of course they won't take advantage of any new features of 7, but the effort will be minimal. What's in the best interests of the school? Paying you to rebuild their existing tools from scratch or keeping the existing and easy stuff around? Are you looking for job security here?
Great. Those ruffians to the North in Muskegon are going to infest Grand Haven now.
Yeah, don't get Aerons, get Leaps. Steelcase makes them. I got a used one for $250 and it's great.
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Radar guns typically only go up to three digits, and the third digit is only capable of displaying a "1." They'd need to find some other way of measuring your speed if they want to ticket to stick in court.
No, it's more like theories that were developed by observing the way things actually happen. It usually does an excellent job explaining things.
:)
For example, do you know why CEOs like to get paid so much? Because it benefits them! See? Economics in action.
Because Nike has a brand that people are willing to overpay for. Buy something without the name "Jordan" on it and you'll find shoes that aren't too expensive.
No doubt. For such a highly concentrated group of supposedly educated people, Slashdotters sure don't seem to know a thing about economics.
This will probably help the local economy here which relies on highly on office furniture manufacturing. All those Indian IT professionals have to sit on something.
Free trade benefits both parties. You wouldn't buy anything if you didn't think the benefit didn't outweigh the cost. The manufacturer benefits because they got your money, you benefit because you got a product you like.
It's the same thing here. The US benefits from cheap labor, and India benefits by providing it. You learn this stuff on the first day of any economics 101 class.
Yeah, techs have sure suffered! Why, just a couple years ago companies were throwing stock options at them! Somebody could have put an eye out! Not to mention the flashy cars, the comfy chairs, and foosball tables.
Not if he's wearing those Alex Chiu immortality rings...
(I'm going to ignore the aliens.)
Those weren't aliens. They were mechas. It turns out they do outlive the human race.
They were both "qualified" in the sense that they can do the job. You may not like their views, however. Just to pick nits.
What would the Clinton administration have done if Bill Gates had contributed money to Clinton's campaign fund?
I don't like Microsoft, but I really don't think they require a break-up. And even if they were broken into separate companies, what would we really gain? We'll benefit if they put a stop to their anticompetitive practices, and I support that.
Nope. I think he was asking Slash from Guns 'N Roses.
Or the common one from when I was little, "I'm going to spin my arm around and if you get in the way it's your own fault."
Full-powered-no-compromise chips? Duron doesn't count.
Don't ask Apple, ask Motorola.
I've heard a number of theories. Brain drain to Intel, indifference on Motorola's part, and chip architecture. I don't mind a lower clock-speed if I can get it in dual or quad processors.
*snip*
CNET takes every chance they get to dump on Apple, yet Apple never quite dies.
Anyway, I doubt they would sell a PowerBook that loses money. If they did the more they sell the more money they lose! The guy quoted has no idea how they make money at that price, but they do. One lesson I've learned is don't complain if you're making money.
So Transmeta/AMD/Intel are working on mobile designs, but Apple, who is already shipping faster mobile processors, is behind?
Don't get me wrong, Transmeta has done some really cool things, but their chips not exactly fast. AMD makes some greats chips for price/performance, but they have to sacrifice in size, heat, and power consumption. Intel is the only x86 portable option right now.
As for MHz, it is true that Apple has been stuck for quite some time and a 500 MHz G4 will not beat an AMD 1.2 GHz. However, instructions per cycle matter. Saying Apple is still stuck at 500 MHz when a 500 MHz G4 might equal a 700 MHz PIII doesn't make any sense. (700 is just arbitrary, I'm not sure what the number would actually be.) Especially in the portable market where a PIII is not as fast as it's desktop counterpart. And, PowerBooks are aggresively priced too!
Yeah, we've all heard this before. If Apple wanted they could make their computers free and get 100% marketshare! Why not? They'd make no money! Would you rather sell 100 units at $50 each or 120 units at $40 each? Apple's job is to maximize profits, not undercut PC manufacturers. More marketshare means more sales, but not necessarily higher profits.
That's silly. In the portable market Intel uses dumbed-down chips so they don't eat as much power. AMD doesn't even have a portable chip. Apple uses a full-power G4 in the new Titanium PowerBooks.
As for higher prices, don't buy one. x86 computer/parts manufacturers are a commodity. One single seller has no control over the price, they are price takers. Apple has a monopoly on the Mac side. That means they can charge the optimum price to maximize profits. Why should they lower prices to increase market share when chances are they'll make more money selling less hardware at higher prices? Apple is a price setter.
It is somewhat true that Apple has to compete with PCs, but not like PC manufacturers have to compete with each other.
It probably won't switch many Slashdot readers, but it could get a lot of people who want speed and reliability with ease of use. If anything it will help push Linux developers to write software that doesn't require a Ph.D to use. Competition is good.
Foul language, a sign of hostility.
That Monty Python guy, *he* (That's right, "him") is one funny guy. Jackass.