Your last paragraph is preeminently simple. Why DO people pay THREE times
more for every freaking Apple product and get so little increment in functionality
and even a DECREMENT in terms of hooking up 3rd party stuff (try hooking up
an old Samsung printer to a new IMac... slap-upside-the-head simple with
Win 7)?
I'm actually a Unix afficionado and have written lots of deep C on Linux and IRIX
with IPC, Sockets,... you name it... but I find Apple's price points OFFENSIVE.
Hence, I'd rather buy a Win box and just put UWin on it... for dirt cheap. Apple
is now a tech company for hipsters who want to belong to the CULT. Take that
to the "genius bar".
Haven't ANY of you taught a single course and noticed that nobody has a readily
available fund of knowledge so they can answer questions without doing ten lookups??
My view is that people are getting dumber and one preeminent quality of that dumbness
is a low knowledge base. So what're we gonna do... have "conversations" between
know-nothings that take an hour for a five minute conversation because everybody's
busy looking up stuff on their Iphones because they know no history, music, science,
literature, economics, or world affairs??
I think the study in question merely points out prosaically what almost every teacher
knows.
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Your last paragraph is preeminently simple. Why DO people pay THREE times more for every freaking Apple product and get so little increment in functionality and even a DECREMENT in terms of hooking up 3rd party stuff (try hooking up an old Samsung printer to a new IMac ... slap-upside-the-head simple with
Win 7)?
I'm actually a Unix afficionado and have written lots of deep C on Linux and IRIX
with IPC, Sockets, ... you name it ... but I find Apple's price points OFFENSIVE.
Hence, I'd rather buy a Win box and just put UWin on it ... for dirt cheap. Apple
is now a tech company for hipsters who want to belong to the CULT. Take that
to the "genius bar".
Haven't ANY of you taught a single course and noticed that nobody has a readily available fund of knowledge so they can answer questions without doing ten lookups?? My view is that people are getting dumber and one preeminent quality of that dumbness is a low knowledge base. So what're we gonna do ... have "conversations" between
know-nothings that take an hour for a five minute conversation because everybody's
busy looking up stuff on their Iphones because they know no history, music, science,
literature, economics, or world affairs??
I think the study in question merely points out prosaically what almost every teacher
knows.