Apple do have a number of advantages over MS and their MS's previous competitors.
Apple control both the hardware and the software. MS can't bully the box manufacturers into not supporting MacOS. They don't have nearly enough sway with the people who make the components to do anything against Apple. MS can't conveniently stop supporting intel, for example.
And Apple has one major feature that MS can't possibly achieve. Not being Microsoft.
Same thing that happened to a lot of electronics. The parts got cheaper.
When electric moters were new, the idea was that you'd buy an electric motor and plug it intoi your labour saving devices. Mass production made electric motors cheap enough that this was no longer necessary.
The "Media PC" is similar. The killer app is recording TV shows. Downloading still isn't really mainstream. A PVR will do this for you, and a cheap mp3 player will play music. This leaves the general purpose PC free to do other stuff. A proper desktop PC or laptop can be used for the internet or for gaming. People seem not to like a device that does too much.
But how accurately was his speedo calibrated? I mean, sure, the trooper was probably speeding, but the evidence that he was is pretty much worthless even for it to be dealt with internally by the state police.
But what's this going to do for retail support? EB, Gamestop, Best Buy, WalMart, etc. They make nothing on consoles, and make their money on the games. Just like the Console manufacturers themselves often do. What's the incentive for retailers to carry a product they make no money on, that gives them no future rev stream either?
None whatsoever. So the manufacturers will have to give them higher margins.
That's not nearly enough time for the planet to form, for life to be created, and for intelligent life to have evolved. Based on the ludicrous low probabiltiy of that, I'd estimate that the universe is in fact 750 billion years old at the very least (Plus or minus 50 billion years).
Well, it's not really consumer. At that sort of price, google can afford to offer some after sales service. I didn't realise google were in the business of selling software at all though.
They're really about providing free advertising funded services. Search is free. gmail is free. Groups are free. Presumably they don't want to deal with the inconvenience of paying consumer customers, who after paying a few dollars want everything. Business customers pay a lot more and are no more demanding.
I agree. I'm starting to find storage media getting perhaps too small. SD is pretty funky, but I keep losing the cards on my desk. But the CDs are way too big and ugly. They need to be smaller than displays screens.
There's no evidence that Qt will save any time at all. It would have to save approx 2 working weeks per developer to justify its cost. This is about twice the time it takes a single Windows developer to create a basic Win32 framework for OpenGL or DirectX, and that costs nothing (apart from sunk costs). Most games companies work on very tight margins. $3000 per developer may be affordable, but they'd prefer to not spend that sort of money unless hey have to.
Are IT responsibler for all hiring and firing of staff? Seems to be a lot of power for a single department.
Why don't you point out that to your boss (not IT) this new policy will affect your ability to do your job, the ability of the CS guy to do his job, and will gerneally work to the detriment of students?
Yeah their tech guys are great. It's the customer satisfaction guys who need to be fired. (Still fuming after they messed surftime customers around 5 years back)
The same problem they've always had. They have a fairly problem free network, robust against most of the usual problems, but occasionally suffer from really big problems and are unable to cope (This is not he first time this sort of thing has happened). If a service never goes down, people have no problems with how well they deal with faults.
Indeed. Plusnet never accept any responsibility for their screw-ups (at least not if it will cost them anything). They're currently refusing to accept responsibility for their subcontractors' incompetience cauign lots of their customers to lose broadband for over a month.
Actually, I think they're using the US Constitution as a checklist of things to eliminate. They've eliminated the right to a trial for certain crimes and the right to remain silent, and freedom of speech is under attack.
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Apple do have a number of advantages over MS and their MS's previous competitors.
Apple control both the hardware and the software. MS can't bully the box manufacturers into not supporting MacOS. They don't have nearly enough sway with the people who make the components to do anything against Apple. MS can't conveniently stop supporting intel, for example.
And Apple has one major feature that MS can't possibly achieve. Not being Microsoft.
I suspect he asked partially for the benefit of others. He probably decided not to volunteer the information to chastise the author lightly.
Same thing that happened to a lot of electronics. The parts got cheaper.
When electric moters were new, the idea was that you'd buy an electric motor and plug it intoi your labour saving devices. Mass production made electric motors cheap enough that this was no longer necessary.
The "Media PC" is similar. The killer app is recording TV shows. Downloading still isn't really mainstream. A PVR will do this for you, and a cheap mp3 player will play music. This leaves the general purpose PC free to do other stuff. A proper desktop PC or laptop can be used for the internet or for gaming. People seem not to like a device that does too much.
Do they use the ear proectors?
I keep seeing builders with operating very loud machinery with no ear protectors, and I'm fairly sure that it's a legal requirement in this country.
But how accurately was his speedo calibrated? I mean, sure, the trooper was probably speeding, but the evidence that he was is pretty much worthless even for it to be dealt with internally by the state police.
But what's this going to do for retail support? EB, Gamestop, Best Buy, WalMart, etc. They make nothing on consoles, and make their money on the games. Just like the Console manufacturers themselves often do. What's the incentive for retailers to carry a product they make no money on, that gives them no future rev stream either?
None whatsoever. So the manufacturers will have to give them higher margins.
There's is a margin for error of +/- 680 billion in the margin for error.
That's not nearly enough time for the planet to form, for life to be created, and for intelligent life to have evolved. Based on the ludicrous low probabiltiy of that, I'd estimate that the universe is in fact 750 billion years old at the very least (Plus or minus 50 billion years).
Now, that is ingeneous. Subtle and easy to achieve with modest electronics skill.
They'll defend. Aggressively. They can't afford to stop making their product.
Well, it's not really consumer. At that sort of price, google can afford to offer some after sales service. I didn't realise google were in the business of selling software at all though.
But really - a PDA screen is perfectly usable for a lot of things. Adding DVD capability to that would make the device almost twice as big.
They're really about providing free advertising funded services. Search is free. gmail is free. Groups are free. Presumably they don't want to deal with the inconvenience of paying consumer customers, who after paying a few dollars want everything. Business customers pay a lot more and are no more demanding.
Does a 15- or 20-second inconvenience fray your nerves so much that you need to devise anti-calling plots to post on Slashdot?
Yes.
Look - the fzact that you feel differently doesn't mean that they're wrong. It just means that they feel differently.
I agree. I'm starting to find storage media getting perhaps too small. SD is pretty funky, but I keep losing the cards on my desk. But the CDs are way too big and ugly. They need to be smaller than displays screens.
There's no evidence that Qt will save any time at all. It would have to save approx 2 working weeks per developer to justify its cost. This is about twice the time it takes a single Windows developer to create a basic Win32 framework for OpenGL or DirectX, and that costs nothing (apart from sunk costs). Most games companies work on very tight margins. $3000 per developer may be affordable, but they'd prefer to not spend that sort of money unless hey have to.
Yes they are. They're also protected from physical theft by a paper security door, and guarded by attack goldfish.
Are IT responsibler for all hiring and firing of staff? Seems to be a lot of power for a single department.
Why don't you point out that to your boss (not IT) this new policy will affect your ability to do your job, the ability of the CS guy to do his job, and will gerneally work to the detriment of students?
That's considerably more than Visual Studio and it does considerably less.
Every developer needs a licence. Developers need time to learn.
It's quicker and easier to use OpenGL for 3D graphics, and port the platform specific parts to native APIs.
Yeah their tech guys are great. It's the customer satisfaction guys who need to be fired. (Still fuming after they messed surftime customers around 5 years back)
If they have 5 GB of mailbox space, then you're a pretty generous B in the first place...
I don't know what's happened to PlusNet
The same problem they've always had. They have a fairly problem free network, robust against most of the usual problems, but occasionally suffer from really big problems and are unable to cope (This is not he first time this sort of thing has happened). If a service never goes down, people have no problems with how well they deal with faults.
Indeed. Plusnet never accept any responsibility for their screw-ups (at least not if it will cost them anything). They're currently refusing to accept responsibility for their subcontractors' incompetience cauign lots of their customers to lose broadband for over a month.
Good for him.
What's the problem with stealing anyway?
Ah right.
Actually, I think they're using the US Constitution as a checklist of things to eliminate. They've eliminated the right to a trial for certain crimes and the right to remain silent, and freedom of speech is under attack.