"Running a modern OS" doesn't mean run it well. We used to enjoy installing windows 98 on a 386 and solaris 8 on a sparc classic. Just because it runs...
Obviously the i3 can run win7 decently (I hope), but my point was, an i3 cannot compare to the i7, etc etc.
--speaking as the guy who still has a 700 Mhz and a Pentium III as main boxes in the basement
Seriously? Lets see, the lawsuits revolve around the iPhone copycats. Prior to the iPhone, everyone wanted to make the next blackberry, including the Androids. Did you not read the rant by one of the guys who worked on Android? Why does it take a dual core 1.4Ghz cpu android phone to have screens as smooth as the 3 year old 500 or 800mhz iPhone 3GS? Because they hurriedly changed courses half way when they saw the iPhone.
And you are telling me the CEO of Google who was on Apple's Board didn't see the iPhones and didn't tell the Android team what was going on.
Who wouldn't be pissed? On top of that, you have Samsung going way overboard and even making their devices look the same with the same themes and everything? Down to the fucking USB charger?
And Apple gets blamed for being litigious? Why aren't you calling Samsung out for being useless copycats?
I was born in a south easy asian country and lived the first 20 years of my life there. It is the rare expat that hated the area.
I think your exposure to the worst may have colored your views, just as if you had lived only in ghettos in US would have given you a different impression of the US.
are we really back to that bullshit again? An atom processor (from the early 2000s) and little bits of ram and slow hard drive, shitty graphics, and you're compare it to a 4 core system with SSD and 8-16Gigs of ram?
No wonder most geeks don't get laid - no fucking clue.
China is an agricultural economy, and they are transforming it into a manufacturing economy. The factory workers are paid _more_ than prevailing wages in the area. Do you think people will travel over a thousand miles just to get a worse paying job?
But Americans seem to believe everyone needs a 2.2 kids + dog + 2 cars + 4 rooms + garage + air conditioning.
Not everyone lives like that. Nor does everyone want to live like that.
You also seem to think all 1.5 billion people live in one place. People travel over 1000 miles - that means the supply of labor locally is *NOT ENOUGH*
On top of that, to bring back to the original question that the article started - Apple pays top dollars based on the links, and is probably one of the biggest factors for improvements in the area, in terms of child labor, worker safety, etc. And my point was - an iPad factory worker makes more $$ than a pilot or programmer, how the hell is that considered lousy? For a non-degreed worker...
Apparently in your brain, we have just went from a factory worker (and yes, there are poorly paid ones too, but I wasn't talking about those) to the entire population of China.
I guess everyone in America must be a one percenter too huh.
I guess this is the result of the wonderful education system here...
Who the fuck says the factory workers are low paid? The people who work on iPads get paid *MORE* than engineers and computer programmers, on par with pilots. HOW IS THAT LOW PAID?
As for the other parts of your question, Apple seems to be the most ethical of them all, having invited audits of the factories and requirements that flow on down to subcontracting factories.
Not just that. Look at the number of iOS malware, vs Android malware. If iOS is as popular as people seem to think, shouldn't it have a proportionate number of malware compared with the number of Androids?
I don't hate MS anymore due to the fact they have a few quite products now and Gates is trying to do something good.
You do realize Gates is now working on monopolizing donations for non-profits right? He wants to channel all donations through his foundation, take his cut, keep the donor list, and then give the money out. Foundations like United Way are *DAMNED* pissed at this.
Additionally, if you take their money, you have to use Microsoft based platforms.
Also, their donations to countries come with strings attached, strings that has nothing to do with the issue at hand, such as antimalaria donations to a country, but only if they change their IP laws to something Gates Foundation likes.
*YOU* think he is becoming less evil. I beg to differ.
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Well, even though he already knew the results, he *STILL* wants to try it out, just in case.
What was the old saying about doing something over and over again hoping for a different result...?
No compulsion?
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/1999/issue63/63h042.html were gently persuaded then?
And he planted them in coal and oil so that we'd be motivated to find them!
Sounds like a paradise you live in. Science and facts based world views? Man, that's just great!
"Running a modern OS" doesn't mean run it well. We used to enjoy installing windows 98 on a 386 and solaris 8 on a sparc classic. Just because it runs...
Obviously the i3 can run win7 decently (I hope), but my point was, an i3 cannot compare to the i7, etc etc.
--speaking as the guy who still has a 700 Mhz and a Pentium III as main boxes in the basement
That's why we have the EVIL bit. As long as they tag all their traffic with the EVIL bit, I'm good.
Seriously? Lets see, the lawsuits revolve around the iPhone copycats. Prior to the iPhone, everyone wanted to make the next blackberry, including the Androids. Did you not read the rant by one of the guys who worked on Android? Why does it take a dual core 1.4Ghz cpu android phone to have screens as smooth as the 3 year old 500 or 800mhz iPhone 3GS? Because they hurriedly changed courses half way when they saw the iPhone.
And you are telling me the CEO of Google who was on Apple's Board didn't see the iPhones and didn't tell the Android team what was going on.
Who wouldn't be pissed? On top of that, you have Samsung going way overboard and even making their devices look the same with the same themes and everything? Down to the fucking USB charger?
And Apple gets blamed for being litigious? Why aren't you calling Samsung out for being useless copycats?
If you are unable to follow the links I had provided and read for yourself, no wonder the US is on its way down.
And you are really comparing your C2D laptop to your XPS? For real?
Next you'd be telling me the Corolla you bought is just as good as a Lexus, right?
would you mind helping to explain why Intel's new ultrabooks typically cost $1k to $1.5k, if your $300 notebook is as good as you claim?
And are you really comparing a i3 with shitty graphics with an i7 with discrete graphics? Seriously?
Thanks.
I was born in a south easy asian country and lived the first 20 years of my life there. It is the rare expat that hated the area.
I think your exposure to the worst may have colored your views, just as if you had lived only in ghettos in US would have given you a different impression of the US.
are we really back to that bullshit again? An atom processor (from the early 2000s) and little bits of ram and slow hard drive, shitty graphics, and you're compare it to a 4 core system with SSD and 8-16Gigs of ram?
No wonder most geeks don't get laid - no fucking clue.
Bullshit. I have a 2006 macbook pro. It's a 32bit machine. Won't run 10.7. It _will_ run 10.6 though, which isn't too bad for a machine 6 years old.
You can configure it in settings... bottom right corner is right click.
China is an agricultural economy, and they are transforming it into a manufacturing economy. The factory workers are paid _more_ than prevailing wages in the area. Do you think people will travel over a thousand miles just to get a worse paying job?
But Americans seem to believe everyone needs a 2.2 kids + dog + 2 cars + 4 rooms + garage + air conditioning.
Not everyone lives like that. Nor does everyone want to live like that.
You also seem to think all 1.5 billion people live in one place. People travel over 1000 miles - that means the supply of labor locally is *NOT ENOUGH*
On top of that, to bring back to the original question that the article started - Apple pays top dollars based on the links, and is probably one of the biggest factors for improvements in the area, in terms of child labor, worker safety, etc. And my point was - an iPad factory worker makes more $$ than a pilot or programmer, how the hell is that considered lousy? For a non-degreed worker...
Apparently in your brain, we have just went from a factory worker (and yes, there are poorly paid ones too, but I wasn't talking about those) to the entire population of China.
I guess everyone in America must be a one percenter too huh.
I guess this is the result of the wonderful education system here...
http://www.worldsalaries.org/china.shtml
You think a pilot or programmer in china does not have a decent living standard? You must be oxygen starved when you were born.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/30/apple-foxconn-workers-idUSL3E8EU4I820120330
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/apple-economy/reporters-notebook-both-sides-gates-foxconn
Oh look - the guy, working for 3 years, can send money back to his family and support them *AND FUCKING SAVE ENOUGH TO START HIS OWN SMALL BUSINESS*.
So, no, this is not about relative living standards you fucking moron, because he obviously has a far better living standard than most americans.
Why not do some research?
http://www.worldsalaries.org/china.shtml
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/30/apple-foxconn-workers-idUSL3E8EU4I820120330
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/apple-economy/reporters-notebook-both-sides-gates-foxconn
You are a fucking idiot if you think US$1 is worth the same, in living standards, in China.
Who the fuck says the factory workers are low paid? The people who work on iPads get paid *MORE* than engineers and computer programmers, on par with pilots. HOW IS THAT LOW PAID?
As for the other parts of your question, Apple seems to be the most ethical of them all, having invited audits of the factories and requirements that flow on down to subcontracting factories.
Very impressive knowledge of Linux you have...
check out puppetmaster
Not just that. Look at the number of iOS malware, vs Android malware. If iOS is as popular as people seem to think, shouldn't it have a proportionate number of malware compared with the number of Androids?
I don't hate MS anymore due to the fact they have a few quite products now and Gates is trying to do something good.
You do realize Gates is now working on monopolizing donations for non-profits right? He wants to channel all donations through his foundation, take his cut, keep the donor list, and then give the money out. Foundations like United Way are *DAMNED* pissed at this.
Additionally, if you take their money, you have to use Microsoft based platforms.
Also, their donations to countries come with strings attached, strings that has nothing to do with the issue at hand, such as antimalaria donations to a country, but only if they change their IP laws to something Gates Foundation likes.
*YOU* think he is becoming less evil. I beg to differ.
kinect was licensed.