Any time you have the telephone company involved with your computer, expect grief. If you don't absolutely require built-in connectivity to a cell network, Try to avoid this pain. Just two issues: 1) the provider will try to install software onto your machine that you don't want, can't delete and can't shut off; 2) the provider is not interested in upgrading your ROM for any other reason than locking you even more into their own services.
At P/E of 18.9 I would have to disagree with you. Unless Apple's earnings were to collapse dramatically in the short term, 18.9 is a fairly modest multiple for a tech company showing strong growth and ownership of multiple market segments. Yes, Android is coming on strong but that negative is already priced in, otherwise Apple's P/E would be somewhere in the mid 20's. Note: I am in no way an Apple groupie. I detest Apple's corporate culture and getting anywhere near an Apple product makes me ill. But a fair analysis is a fair analysis all the same.
By the way, having exceeded Microsoft in market cap, Apple would now seem to aspire to exceed Microsoft in moral bankruptcy. Just a thought.
Blu-Ray disks seem to load a lot of executable code on start. They take an amazingly long time to start. I don't know about you, but I spend this time fuming. Not a good start. Then when finally loaded... the fancy menus that execute then to suck a lot. They execute unbelievably sluggishly, the cursor is often nearly impossible to discern, and usually, some random selection of standard controller keys are implemented or not implemented - whether or not "top menu" works is a crap shoot. Then the next thing that happens is truly horrible... anywhere from three to eight movie previews that I don't care about and can't skip except one at a time by tabbing. Finally, a menu, this is usually about 2 minutes into the experience. By this time I am usually pretty mad. Then when I hit play instead of getting a movie I get a minute or so of being told I'm a criminal in large text and strident colors, and I can't tab past this time, nor can I fast forward.
I think that Sony hates their audience, that is the trouble with Blu-Ray.
Apple kept their suit going until the war was long over, but Apple only dropped the case after Microsoft gave them $150 million
They didn't give them $150million, they bought $150million of stock.
At the time it was more like a gift because Apple was going down fast.
And at the time, Bill Gates pulled off one of the very few funny jokes in his entire life... he made Steve Jobs accept the "bailout" offered by Bill Gates' giant talking head on a massive video screen above the stage at... I forget, some place in New York? Anyway, the whole scene was clearly meant to reference Apple's big brother superbowl ad.
Rather ironic that a rejuvenated Apple has grown up to be just as big brotherish as Microsoft ever was.
This story has polarized Slashdot into the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" camp and the "I tinker with computers as a hobby" camp.
Excuse me, but how does your statement not display a high level of arrogance? "Either you work in IT or you are a tinkerer." Am I a tinkerer then?
How the fuck should I know what you are?
You could try Googling. And good luck getting that foot out of your mouth.
I am sure you are otherwise a perfectly fine guy, but your attitude illustrates my original point perfectly.
If you need a function, we'll work with you to get it done, provided we can legally do so. If we can't do it, we will tell you why.
Yeah right. Please tell me why your rose colored view does not correspond in the slightest to my real world experience. My real world experience in multiple organizations says that IT is usually the problem, not the solution.
Maybe if IT focussed more on providing competent service instead of manufacturing bogus excuses designed to maximize their youtube viewing time, they would not have earned themselves such a bad reputation.
Ahem, it would seem that the moderation pattern on my comment nicely supports the proposition that IT collectively has way too much time on its hands for reading Slashdot. Not to mention, very thin skin and intolerance of criticism. But none of this is news.
This story has polarized Slashdot into the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" camp and the "I tinker with computers as a hobby" camp.
Excuse me, but how does your statement not display a high level of arrogance? "Either you work in IT or you are a tinkerer." Am I a tinkerer then?
Naturally there are gems out there, I have met them. Some IT guys possess skills and clarity of thought that absolutely amaze me. They are rare gems. It is not my fault that IT guys in general have made for themselves the reputation they now have. Nor it is my imagination that IT now has such a reputation.
If you need a function, we'll work with you to get it done, provided we can legally do so. If we can't do it, we will tell you why.
Yeah right. Please tell me why your rose colored view does not correspond in the slightest to my real world experience. My real world experience in multiple organizations says that IT is usually the problem, not the solution.
Maybe if IT focussed more on providing competent service instead of manufacturing bogus excuses designed to maximize their youtube viewing time, they would not have earned themselves such a bad reputation.
And you are being intentionally dense. What do you suppose the cumulative result for each company is?
It is neither here nor there whether Microsoft now manages to eak out a slim profit. The billions that were paid to buy that little trickle make the whole adventure an unmitigated disaster in a business sense. As a charity, sure it's been great.
The most recent bit of hardware I bought, a usb wifi stick, came with a penguin on it. Just plugged it in and it worked, Ubuntu already had the USB driver for it. Better than the Windows experience I say, no futzing around with install disks, no rebooting.
The 4 way Phenom I'm posting from came with Linux pre-installed too. Life is definitely getting better for a lazy person such as me.
It's not farfetched. All the stupid 2D games get the customer used to viewing the pad as a game device, then 3rd parties come out with game pads etc. It's going to happen for sure, but actually I think Android will be the big winner.
Nintendo is the only console maker that made money this generation, in the process surpassing Apple in market cap for a time. Please explain how that is bad business in any way.
Not to say that the same formula will work for the next generation. My prediction: consoles are done, it's game over. The android game market alone will dwarf any future console generation, if there even is one.
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I think its alright to have a few different systems in the world
Then why stop with British Engineering Units? Let's reintroduce cubits.
Good catch :-)
You should start a company whose business is integrated Android tablets into dashboards. You'd have me as a customer.
As an iPad owner you obviously don't care about lock-in. I do, and that is why I do not own one.
It's clear you don't own a smartphone or tablet. Please refrain from making posts about such devices in the future.
It's pretty clear you are an idiot.
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It amazes me that you consider your tablet useless when not connected to a network. Surely that must be an Apple product and not an Android?
Any time you have the telephone company involved with your computer, expect grief. If you don't absolutely require built-in connectivity to a cell network, Try to avoid this pain. Just two issues: 1) the provider will try to install software onto your machine that you don't want, can't delete and can't shut off; 2) the provider is not interested in upgrading your ROM for any other reason than locking you even more into their own services.
At P/E of 18.9 I would have to disagree with you. Unless Apple's earnings were to collapse dramatically in the short term, 18.9 is a fairly modest multiple for a tech company showing strong growth and ownership of multiple market segments. Yes, Android is coming on strong but that negative is already priced in, otherwise Apple's P/E would be somewhere in the mid 20's. Note: I am in no way an Apple groupie. I detest Apple's corporate culture and getting anywhere near an Apple product makes me ill. But a fair analysis is a fair analysis all the same.
By the way, having exceeded Microsoft in market cap, Apple would now seem to aspire to exceed Microsoft in moral bankruptcy. Just a thought.
Blu-Ray disks seem to load a lot of executable code on start. They take an amazingly long time to start. I don't know about you, but I spend this time fuming. Not a good start. Then when finally loaded... the fancy menus that execute then to suck a lot. They execute unbelievably sluggishly, the cursor is often nearly impossible to discern, and usually, some random selection of standard controller keys are implemented or not implemented - whether or not "top menu" works is a crap shoot. Then the next thing that happens is truly horrible... anywhere from three to eight movie previews that I don't care about and can't skip except one at a time by tabbing. Finally, a menu, this is usually about 2 minutes into the experience. By this time I am usually pretty mad. Then when I hit play instead of getting a movie I get a minute or so of being told I'm a criminal in large text and strident colors, and I can't tab past this time, nor can I fast forward.
I think that Sony hates their audience, that is the trouble with Blu-Ray.
Apple kept their suit going until the war was long over, but Apple only dropped the case after Microsoft gave them $150 million
They didn't give them $150million, they bought $150million of stock.
At the time it was more like a gift because Apple was going down fast.
And at the time, Bill Gates pulled off one of the very few funny jokes in his entire life... he made Steve Jobs accept the "bailout" offered by Bill Gates' giant talking head on a massive video screen above the stage at... I forget, some place in New York? Anyway, the whole scene was clearly meant to reference Apple's big brother superbowl ad.
Rather ironic that a rejuvenated Apple has grown up to be just as big brotherish as Microsoft ever was.
Apple is just determined to cement its reputation as a sue-happy bottom feeder.
This story has polarized Slashdot into the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" camp and the "I tinker with computers as a hobby" camp.
Excuse me, but how does your statement not display a high level of arrogance? "Either you work in IT or you are a tinkerer." Am I a tinkerer then?
How the fuck should I know what you are?
You could try Googling. And good luck getting that foot out of your mouth.
I am sure you are otherwise a perfectly fine guy, but your attitude illustrates my original point perfectly.
If you need a function, we'll work with you to get it done, provided we can legally do so. If we can't do it, we will tell you why.
Yeah right. Please tell me why your rose colored view does not correspond in the slightest to my real world experience. My real world experience in multiple organizations says that IT is usually the problem, not the solution.
Maybe if IT focussed more on providing competent service instead of manufacturing bogus excuses designed to maximize their youtube viewing time, they would not have earned themselves such a bad reputation.
Ahem, it would seem that the moderation pattern on my comment nicely supports the proposition that IT collectively has way too much time on its hands for reading Slashdot. Not to mention, very thin skin and intolerance of criticism. But none of this is news.
This story has polarized Slashdot into the "I actually work in IT in a systems administration capacity" camp and the "I tinker with computers as a hobby" camp.
Excuse me, but how does your statement not display a high level of arrogance? "Either you work in IT or you are a tinkerer." Am I a tinkerer then?
When it comes to the network, IT is always correct. Its our baby, but its also our LEGAL responsibility.
So you like to say, even when it is complete BS.
If you pay for quality IT, you'll very quickly realize why we "act so superior" sometimes.
Quality IT never acts "so superior", by definition.
Why in the hell would I allow you to completely subvert my job?
What makes you think you are always correct?
Naturally there are gems out there, I have met them. Some IT guys possess skills and clarity of thought that absolutely amaze me. They are rare gems. It is not my fault that IT guys in general have made for themselves the reputation they now have. Nor it is my imagination that IT now has such a reputation.
If you need a function, we'll work with you to get it done, provided we can legally do so. If we can't do it, we will tell you why.
Yeah right. Please tell me why your rose colored view does not correspond in the slightest to my real world experience. My real world experience in multiple organizations says that IT is usually the problem, not the solution.
Maybe if IT focussed more on providing competent service instead of manufacturing bogus excuses designed to maximize their youtube viewing time, they would not have earned themselves such a bad reputation.
And you are being intentionally dense. What do you suppose the cumulative result for each company is?
It is neither here nor there whether Microsoft now manages to eak out a slim profit. The billions that were paid to buy that little trickle make the whole adventure an unmitigated disaster in a business sense. As a charity, sure it's been great.
So what's happened this generation isn't that Nintendo have massively outperformed the competition; they haven't.
You are completely and utterly wrong about that. Nintendo made billions while Microsoft and Sony lost billions. Especially Microsoft.
Nintendo massively outperformed Microsoft and Sony in the console market. Massively. You saying black is white doesn't change that fact.
The most recent bit of hardware I bought, a usb wifi stick, came with a penguin on it. Just plugged it in and it worked, Ubuntu already had the USB driver for it. Better than the Windows experience I say, no futzing around with install disks, no rebooting.
The 4 way Phenom I'm posting from came with Linux pre-installed too. Life is definitely getting better for a lazy person such as me.
It's not farfetched. All the stupid 2D games get the customer used to viewing the pad as a game device, then 3rd parties come out with game pads etc. It's going to happen for sure, but actually I think Android will be the big winner.
They sell the console itself at a loss, yes. Where they make their money is licensing...
Too bad most of their exclusives walked out the door or jumped the shark. Still about 7 $billion in the hole too. Just keep doing it, sure thing.
Nintendo is the only console maker that made money this generation, in the process surpassing Apple in market cap for a time. Please explain how that is bad business in any way.
Not to say that the same formula will work for the next generation. My prediction: consoles are done, it's game over. The android game market alone will dwarf any future console generation, if there even is one.