Google showed their hand way to early on Google Glass. What, did they think no one would go straight out and copy what they'd done? Wait until you see what Samsung have been building Google...
Not sure that is a fair comparison given that Dell laptop is reported to have poor build quality, poor battery life (some people report 2 hours), a poor quality screen, and I'm not even sure Dell sell it anymore. Also, the Apple laptop in question has Thunderbolt, backlit keyboard, firewire 800, 7 hour battery, solid aluminium (not plastic) and magsafe power connector. Not to mention a better operating system. It is clearly a better designed and engineered machine than the Dell.
You'll always find laptops that are cheaper than Apple. But you get what you pay for.
Yep. Same here. A couple of nerds using it, and everyone else joined up, kicked the tyres, and logged off never to return.
Google can gloat all they like about millions of users, but it is millions of "active" users, and I mean REALLY active, that are going to make this a success.
Someone trying to get hits on their games website?:-)
Anyway, that particular game didn't seem to work well on my machine (Mac OS X) with Safari. The Z button wouldn't shoot, and collision detection didn't seem to work most of the time. So not really a good example of what can be done I would say.
This has always been this way, and I have logged a bug with Apple over the issue. With 10.6.4 it seems that some of us have suddenly found the invites go in to the CalDAV calendar by default now, instead of the local calendar. This is great, but we aren't sure why, and we've seen it only occur on some machines. There does not seem to be an option to say which calendar should be the default, so it is all a little bizarre.
It used to be. But the Christian groups seem to have the current government by the balls. And the opposition leader is a fundamentalist as well, so we are fucked either way.
It seems clear, avoiding the anti-Apple stance of the article and the summary, that Apple went after someone for infringing on "iPod", which is "DOPi" backwards. They didn't go after them for using iSomething. This looked like an infringement of their existing trademark, but they didn't win.
He was hardly an "ass", though maybe a troll. Certainly an entertaining post, but your response to it was wrong.
1) There are NO viruses for the Mac. There are trojans though, like any OS.
2) The Mac has long had the marketshare for viruses - pre-OS X there were plenty of Mac viruses. There have been none for OS X because it is more difficult to write them with the way the new OS is designed. Writing one for OS X is like a holy grail for virus writers.
3) Who is the "ass" calling OS X a "precious yuppie OS"?
You know how you sometimes see two road workers - one guy digging a hole, the other guy resting on his shovel just watching the first guy dig the hole.
If I go Mac I cut down my productivity by at least 1/2 in a business environment and it would sit like a cold stone, never on, at home because there isn't shit for software for it when compared to PCs. And it's more expensive to boot with less hardware options. No thanks.
This is a joke, yeah? I mean, productivity reduced by 1/2? Have you actually used a Mac?
I work with a Mac in a business environment, as do many other people I know in different companies. Mixed environments that include Windows. Most Mac users find they're more productive on their macs - things "just work", there is more consistency in application interfaces, apps don't crash as often, and generally the whole experience is more enjoyable. As developer machines, they are superb. Many developers I know have moved from Windows or Linux to them.
As for software, apart from games there is just about everything anyone needs for business on a Mac. We use Microsoft Office, we have Keynote, Pages, Adobe products galore. The OS uses open standards for communication, so we're able to send and receive stuff from Windows users and generally have no difficulties. And as said, we're more productive.
I read a bit more in to what you are saying. You're limited in your abilities - you can only work on Windows and never bothered to learn other operating systems. As such, new things scare you. You won't have as much control - in fact, you won't be the "expert" any more. Can you spell "job security"?
Not only do they work better vertically, they don't have a plastic tray that sticks out and can break off, once you take out a disc you don't have to push the tray back in, or press a button to retract the tray, and they look better.
They also cost more, which is probably the reason Microsoft aren't using one.
If you are an Aussie kid with a Mac, too bad. The Microsoft offer is only on the *windows* version of office. That will teach those free thinking uni students!
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Google showed their hand way to early on Google Glass. What, did they think no one would go straight out and copy what they'd done? Wait until you see what Samsung have been building Google...
Not sure that is a fair comparison given that Dell laptop is reported to have poor build quality, poor battery life (some people report 2 hours), a poor quality screen, and I'm not even sure Dell sell it anymore. Also, the Apple laptop in question has Thunderbolt, backlit keyboard, firewire 800, 7 hour battery, solid aluminium (not plastic) and magsafe power connector. Not to mention a better operating system. It is clearly a better designed and engineered machine than the Dell.
You'll always find laptops that are cheaper than Apple. But you get what you pay for.
What? But Apple never give anything back!!!!!!
...Tall Poppies.
Yep. Same here. A couple of nerds using it, and everyone else joined up, kicked the tyres, and logged off never to return.
Google can gloat all they like about millions of users, but it is millions of "active" users, and I mean REALLY active, that are going to make this a success.
I read that as "Ben Elton"...
Someone trying to get hits on their games website? :-)
Anyway, that particular game didn't seem to work well on my machine (Mac OS X) with Safari. The Z button wouldn't shoot, and collision detection didn't seem to work most of the time. So not really a good example of what can be done I would say.
This has always been this way, and I have logged a bug with Apple over the issue. With 10.6.4 it seems that some of us have suddenly found the invites go in to the CalDAV calendar by default now, instead of the local calendar. This is great, but we aren't sure why, and we've seen it only occur on some machines. There does not seem to be an option to say which calendar should be the default, so it is all a little bizarre.
Since when did "near enough" become "good enough"? We might as all switch to Windows...
It used to be. But the Christian groups seem to have the current government by the balls. And the opposition leader is a fundamentalist as well, so we are fucked either way.
It seems clear, avoiding the anti-Apple stance of the article and the summary, that Apple went after someone for infringing on "iPod", which is "DOPi" backwards. They didn't go after them for using iSomething. This looked like an infringement of their existing trademark, but they didn't win.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
He was hardly an "ass", though maybe a troll. Certainly an entertaining post, but your response to it was wrong.
1) There are NO viruses for the Mac. There are trojans though, like any OS.
2) The Mac has long had the marketshare for viruses - pre-OS X there were plenty of Mac viruses. There have been none for OS X because it is more difficult to write them with the way the new OS is designed. Writing one for OS X is like a holy grail for virus writers.
3) Who is the "ass" calling OS X a "precious yuppie OS"?
There's an old expression:
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
You know how you sometimes see two road workers - one guy digging a hole, the other guy resting on his shovel just watching the first guy dig the hole.
That is Pair Programming.
...this means the OS will be forever in "beta"...
I'm confused. I thought ICBM were trying to buy SUN?
That's not a dust devil. It's a fast moving Martian.
Yet another government agency coverup!
"XP ain't done until AMD won't run"
This is a joke, yeah? I mean, productivity reduced by 1/2? Have you actually used a Mac?
I work with a Mac in a business environment, as do many other people I know in different companies. Mixed environments that include Windows. Most Mac users find they're more productive on their macs - things "just work", there is more consistency in application interfaces, apps don't crash as often, and generally the whole experience is more enjoyable. As developer machines, they are superb. Many developers I know have moved from Windows or Linux to them.
As for software, apart from games there is just about everything anyone needs for business on a Mac. We use Microsoft Office, we have Keynote, Pages, Adobe products galore. The OS uses open standards for communication, so we're able to send and receive stuff from Windows users and generally have no difficulties. And as said, we're more productive.
I read a bit more in to what you are saying. You're limited in your abilities - you can only work on Windows and never bothered to learn other operating systems. As such, new things scare you. You won't have as much control - in fact, you won't be the "expert" any more. Can you spell "job security"?
Not only do they work better vertically, they don't have a plastic tray that sticks out and can break off, once you take out a disc you don't have to push the tray back in, or press a button to retract the tray, and they look better.
They also cost more, which is probably the reason Microsoft aren't using one.
Still no slot-loader?
And still no slot-loading drive...
If you are an Aussie kid with a Mac, too bad. The Microsoft offer is only on the *windows* version of office. That will teach those free thinking uni students!
No patch for anything other than 10.3 and 10.4, but Apple did explain the problem and how to manually adjust your clock for older systems - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305 056.
The Apple world does tend to upgrade to newer operating systems more than the Windows world.
I read the headline as "Indonesia Stops Sharing Alien Virus Samples"...