on the side claiming to be adversely affected by DRM.
I put a lot of them down; and I mean a large percentage; to those just hopping on the band wagon. The "got to get my two cents in and feel as if I belong" crowd. Cost them nothing to claim to be part of the aggrieved party. It wasn't like they were going to buy it anyway but now they can claim offense which lets them continue feeling put down by the system/man/the other guy/etc.
I am sure that people thought along similar lines when Windows was up and coming too...
Allowing any one company to dominate is not necessarily a good idea. Especially one who goes out of its way to tell us how nice they are, provided you live in a country they don't fear.
Besides, banner ads and the like are just noise to many and totally ignored - if not blocked by the likes of us
Even the screen isn't that much of a leap. 1440x900? WHAT? You have to be kidding, if Dell did that at this price point they would be laughed out of the room.
As for the concerns with Glossy. Sorry, but I doubt serious graphics are done on ANY laptop screen. If your doing real graphics works you have large monitors if not two of them. The problem I have is that I cannot see any value in the Pro's over the base model, well I should say I can't see $1000 of value
Of course its affordable, as it gets more expensive the government chips in more and raises the limit of the loans it will back.
That has been the problem with college level education and health care. As soon as the government stepped in and started paying for things at set rates without asking questions the competitive market failed. The price of admission became "cost + what the government was willing to chip in".
We have some of the best tax payer funded education in the world but too many don't realize who is really paying for it. I know in my wonderful state that reviews have shown a growing portion of the budgets are professor pay and retirement costs, funny the endowments are just rolling over the cash and not helping more students.
Letting you in on a secret.../. is not the PC market, nor is Digg, nor are 90% of the other similar sites.
If anything what is in the current Best Buy ad has more to do with what they want than some site.
Really, are people this delusional and think that because they read it on the internet or it just "happens" to agree with their view that it must be that way?
Hello.
Yeah I am mocking your post but damn if people didn't rate it highly, what gives.
People buy Windows because it works. The majority will never have a problem with it. Yeah its cheap, as such there is your clue as to why nothing from Apple threatens HP or Dell.
Also, if they have a "few" programs that run on Windows why would they want to switch? You are totally overestimating the needs of the common user. Look, if they can surf the "internet", get pictures from their kids, play that game off the shelf their kid snatched, they are fine. The less thought into the process the better.
Your whole premise is based on "if Apple would only" and the truth is, they haven't, they won't, they don't have to, and most importantly they don't want to.
Nothing is going to kill Dell/HP except for themselves. The simple fact is most people buying PCs don't care about Mac because it does not have Windows on it. I know some live in a fantasy world but it is true, people don't care. If it works and they are used to it they will keep it.
As for those specs, Apple is doing a good job of moving further away from end user friendly hardware with each and every release. Steve isn't making computers for the "elite", he is making computers that make Apple money and making Apple money means that if you want an upgrade you buy a new computer.
While I understand the sentiment please put it into perspective. How many NFL quarterbacks are there? Let alone professional athletes. Now tell me how many teachers there are. Perhaps we should pay the better ones more? Oh wait, we can't. The two big teachers unions won't let us. Worse they stand in the way of any accountability.
You want to fix education, then get the teachers union out of it. Then toss in accountability, vouchers so parents can get around horrible schools, and put a requirement of how much goes to teacher pay versus administration.
Education would be fine if we would accept the fact that not all children are equal and not only allow but CELEBRATE those who are better. A local school near me dropped all valedictorian titles because "it hurt the other kids feelings" and they even allow those who don't graduate to walk up and get a diploma. If that doesn't teach you that success isn't something to aim...
to people taking care of their parents and grand parents?
When did it become accepted to just dump them on the corner for other people to pay for?
Sorry, your statement reeks of political correctness, holier-than-thou, good speak. In other words, total bs.
The simple fact is that a hundred years ago, if not less in many areas, we took care of our relatives ourselves. Our churches and communities would organize events to do so. I fully expect one of my parents to be living with us after they lose their spouse. It just is what is supposed to happen.
Instead we now pretend it doesn't cost anything if the government takes care of them, blissfully ignoring that 30% loss of income we experience every pay day.
Government doesn't do anything that taxpayers don't pay for.
The truth is that we live in a society where guilting others into doing things you cannot afford to or won't do is the accepted means. For the children, for the elderly, for the animals, for the environment, well, damn, why not live up to the high standards you want forced on others.
What I would like to see is more retailers forced to take back electronics that they sell, perhaps with a small discount if you buy an equivalent device.
Why? Why must people be excused from every and any possibility of being responsible for their actions? So I will have to pay more for my portable devices because other people are to lazy to be environmentally safe and friendly? Then again, what should I expect, people are whining about how others should pay for their health care regardless of their personal bad habits from overeating to smoking and drinking, or better yet all three. People are ever so quick to burden others with their responsibilities its no wonder the generation of the 40s is looked back up on as one of the last great ones. No more asking ourselves what we can do for ourselves or other, its not exclusively asking others to do for ourselves.
I want the choice of replacing the battery myself. In the case of my Touch I do not understand why I must be without it for three days for something as simple as a battery. I use it for email, net, and more. That is a major inconvenience to say the least
I recently purchased this and have been amazed at the strips I missed. The collection books really do leave a lot out and C&H are timeless. Frankly, I enjoy C&H much more and it both children and adults can enjoy it at the same and for different reasons
Private industry developed the new solar cells featured on this site in a recent story. Private industry is deploying wind farms. Private industry is attempt to make coal even cleaner to adhere to new regulations and then some - in other words they are trying their best to sell it to a public buried under FUD.
If anything it is when Government gets involved that it all goes into the shitter. The banking industry is proof positive of this. It was Federal meddling in the mortgage industry which encouraged practices no one would dare take if they were on the hook. The under the table deal which basically insured bad lending with public money set off this firestorm of lending to people who should never have been considered and would not have been without political pressure. Look, when a bank wants to grow or get into new markets they should not be coerced into making bad loans as the price of admission yet that is essentially what the government did to them. Then toss in a market which saw the advantage of knowing it would be bailed out and what do you get ? A disaster.
Lets look at private industry again, who is leading the charge to lower costs of getting into space? Definitely not NASA (read FEDERAL GOVERNMENT) whose next BDB isn't exactly winning accolades. Before people say they have different standards of getting people into space safely I disagree. See, if people die on a NASA (Read: Government trip) who loses out? NASA is still in business. Yet if Rutan/Virgin Space or whatever has a fatal accident they will be shut down if not bankrupted.
The difference is that private industry comes up with interesting if not unique solutions that tend to fly under the radar because they are so common. There are many efforts across the board to insure our environment because it is profitable. It makes good press. We only see crazed reactions to environmental accidents because they are so rare. Go overseas, for all the harping people make about our issues and the environment you should see some of the former Warsaw pact, what happened there and in some cases still does would make you hurl
The idea of JATO (or is that RATO) assisted launches from underwater would make for some interesting dynamics, yet I think that space borne items will be of far more value in the long term, its not like you can't drop from about anywhere up there and end up where you want to be while a submersible is subject to being easily interdicted
as the rich dude who lives the life every dork dreams of.
Many people dream of having riches but very few have dreams as amazing as what he was doing with them. Frankly it is people like this who make me realize that the majority of us are just boring.
for history to look back twenty years to finally pin the blame on the people who really caused this mess.
Unfortunately we aren't being told who interfered because its not newsworthy when it doesn't support your cause. Such is the press in the current election cycle.
Disclaimer, I have an iMac, a 20gb iPod (3rd gen), and now a Touch. I also am working with the SDK.
Apple is just as bad if not worse, their entire cover is "lack of market share" but if your in their market share your just screwed. I don't care, I want an alternative to Mail. Sorry but there are lots of features it does not have on the Touch UNLESS I buy ME. Sorry, but locking out competing applications is anti-competitive. Especially when they offer features they don't and only don't offer because they have paid products.
The problem really becomes annoying because when you get close to their "line" you don't know when it gets crossed. You post your app to iTunes and have to wait. If its a harmless app it gets in, if it comes close then your throwing dice.
Then we can toss out the fact they forbid their software on non-Apple provided machines. At least with IE if it didn't render a site for whatever reason I had alternatives, though during the time of contention Netscape 4.xx was out and it was such a suck product they couldn't help but lose.
No, they just mince words to pull off the same or worse than MS. Their saving grace is lack of market share and a clique mentality amongst some of their supporters. They make great software and hardware but are too draconian in its application.
No, we know the odds on the stock market. The problem is you cannot treat it as a short term game. If you must put it into game terms then portray it as the longest MMORPG you will ever participate in. Its called life.
I know that current events put a lot of doubt on the market but the primary cause of our problems are also prolonging the correction, interference by government. Now before you jump on the deregulation caused it band wagon go back and research the events and those who blocked attempts to stop the primary problem, mortgage fraud. This traces a bit back but in the last few years many attempts were meant to reign in the fraud at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The problem of course is politics. Certain people were using the system, abusing it, to attempt some social engineering to keep their power. By preventing proper oversight these two agencies with the implied backing of the Federal Government maintained a system no truly private enterprise could get away with. There are many checks and balances (read laws and true shareholder influence) that did not exist with these two organizations because certain government officials were gaming the system.
With the rug pulled out from under them the house of cards fell. The problem now is that instead of allowing the system to correct itself some stupid and short sighted attempts to selectively shore up the system are being sought by people in both parties. The problem with politicians is that when they cause problems they cannot accept blame, the two party system works to their advantage in that they always have someone to blame. This leads to the second problem which is where the same ignorant people think they can fix it. Meanwhile the public is kept in the dark, distracted, and such, while people in the know are again allowed to game the system for their advantage. Whether it is more power through more government intervention to being allowed to manipulate fears in the market to score some very large buyouts for a pittance it all adds up to the same thing, Washington power brokers who do not answer to the public are playing games with our money and we have no say.
The market is correcting itself, this is not without pain. The best thing to do is write your Congressman and demand they don't bail out corporations built on bad securities (read:mortgages) and prevent the Federal Government from ever providing either implicit or under the table support for organizations based on fraud; in other words no more implied bail outs. Whats holding the fix up is that too many of these money power houses are holding back from stepping in to see how big of a pie they can get in the form of cheap loans directly from the government.
What makes it all worse, the problems in the market are just a shadow of the shell game the Federal Government has constructed and ignored (read they deflect our attention at every step) with the real problem of funding social programs whose growth is beyond any sustainable tax system. To put it bluntly they are running on borrowed time awaiting a miracle to fix the problem, or better yet hoping to dump it on some other future Congress/Administrations shoulders.
The odds won't be back in our favor until regulation also exists to prevent undue interference by the government. All must play by the same rules which was not the case with the mortgage giants.
Go look at how many bills were submitted in the last eight years attempting to reign them in, to put true oversight on them, then go look at who blocked it. Those are the real culprits here. They also happen to be the ones screaming the loudest to redirect the blame. And we will buy it.
It is implied that in Russia there are no rights, if the government wants something or someone it doesn't think twice about getting it regardless of the ramifications.
Of course that is not much different from Western Countries, we just like to pretend otherwise.
I am very sure any enthusiast can build a far better machine at a substantially lower price, provided something as easy as plugging in a dongle was all it took to fool OS X
Just like alcohol and cigarettes are regulated all in the name of money.
Gambling is no different, if the state license it then its permitted, otherwise its not. Simple as that. nothing about religion here (but maybe in KY) because many states that forbid gambling have lotteries (which of course are state sanctioned : the key word)
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on the side claiming to be adversely affected by DRM.
I put a lot of them down; and I mean a large percentage; to those just hopping on the band wagon. The "got to get my two cents in and feel as if I belong" crowd. Cost them nothing to claim to be part of the aggrieved party. It wasn't like they were going to buy it anyway but now they can claim offense which lets them continue feeling put down by the system/man/the other guy/etc.
I am sure that people thought along similar lines when Windows was up and coming too...
Allowing any one company to dominate is not necessarily a good idea. Especially one who goes out of its way to tell us how nice they are, provided you live in a country they don't fear.
Besides, banner ads and the like are just noise to many and totally ignored - if not blocked by the likes of us
coming from?
Even the screen isn't that much of a leap. 1440x900? WHAT? You have to be kidding, if Dell did that at this price point they would be laughed out of the room.
As for the concerns with Glossy. Sorry, but I doubt serious graphics are done on ANY laptop screen. If your doing real graphics works you have large monitors if not two of them. The problem I have is that I cannot see any value in the Pro's over the base model, well I should say I can't see $1000 of value
Of course its affordable, as it gets more expensive the government chips in more and raises the limit of the loans it will back.
That has been the problem with college level education and health care. As soon as the government stepped in and started paying for things at set rates without asking questions the competitive market failed. The price of admission became "cost + what the government was willing to chip in".
We have some of the best tax payer funded education in the world but too many don't realize who is really paying for it. I know in my wonderful state that reviews have shown a growing portion of the budgets are professor pay and retirement costs, funny the endowments are just rolling over the cash and not helping more students.
I don't think you get it.
Letting you in on a secret... /. is not the PC market, nor is Digg, nor are 90% of the other similar sites.
If anything what is in the current Best Buy ad has more to do with what they want than some site.
Really, are people this delusional and think that because they read it on the internet or it just "happens" to agree with their view that it must be that way?
Hello.
Yeah I am mocking your post but damn if people didn't rate it highly, what gives.
People buy Windows because it works. The majority will never have a problem with it. Yeah its cheap, as such there is your clue as to why nothing from Apple threatens HP or Dell.
Also, if they have a "few" programs that run on Windows why would they want to switch? You are totally overestimating the needs of the common user. Look, if they can surf the "internet", get pictures from their kids, play that game off the shelf their kid snatched, they are fine. The less thought into the process the better.
Your whole premise is based on "if Apple would only" and the truth is, they haven't, they won't, they don't have to, and most importantly they don't want to.
Nothing is going to kill Dell/HP except for themselves. The simple fact is most people buying PCs don't care about Mac because it does not have Windows on it. I know some live in a fantasy world but it is true, people don't care. If it works and they are used to it they will keep it.
As for those specs, Apple is doing a good job of moving further away from end user friendly hardware with each and every release. Steve isn't making computers for the "elite", he is making computers that make Apple money and making Apple money means that if you want an upgrade you buy a new computer.
I drive a Miata; 08, icy blue.
Not only does it not have an angry face I am not gay either.
I am so confused now.
Yet I haven't found a woman who doesn't love it...
I always wonder if some of these studies aren't just because of where they were taken
While I understand the sentiment please put it into perspective. How many NFL quarterbacks are there? Let alone professional athletes. Now tell me how many teachers there are. Perhaps we should pay the better ones more? Oh wait, we can't. The two big teachers unions won't let us. Worse they stand in the way of any accountability.
You want to fix education, then get the teachers union out of it. Then toss in accountability, vouchers so parents can get around horrible schools, and put a requirement of how much goes to teacher pay versus administration.
Education would be fine if we would accept the fact that not all children are equal and not only allow but CELEBRATE those who are better. A local school near me dropped all valedictorian titles because "it hurt the other kids feelings" and they even allow those who don't graduate to walk up and get a diploma. If that doesn't teach you that success isn't something to aim ...
Makes more sense to expand the iTV to support a Blu-Ray drive and offer it in black.
Sorry, but the mini just doesn't fit for me. It looks out of place unless I hide it behind the TV
to people taking care of their parents and grand parents?
When did it become accepted to just dump them on the corner for other people to pay for?
Sorry, your statement reeks of political correctness, holier-than-thou, good speak. In other words, total bs.
The simple fact is that a hundred years ago, if not less in many areas, we took care of our relatives ourselves. Our churches and communities would organize events to do so. I fully expect one of my parents to be living with us after they lose their spouse. It just is what is supposed to happen.
Instead we now pretend it doesn't cost anything if the government takes care of them, blissfully ignoring that 30% loss of income we experience every pay day.
Government doesn't do anything that taxpayers don't pay for.
The truth is that we live in a society where guilting others into doing things you cannot afford to or won't do is the accepted means. For the children, for the elderly, for the animals, for the environment, well, damn, why not live up to the high standards you want forced on others.
What I would like to see is more retailers forced to take back electronics that they sell, perhaps with a small discount if you buy an equivalent device.
Why? Why must people be excused from every and any possibility of being responsible for their actions? So I will have to pay more for my portable devices because other people are to lazy to be environmentally safe and friendly? Then again, what should I expect, people are whining about how others should pay for their health care regardless of their personal bad habits from overeating to smoking and drinking, or better yet all three. People are ever so quick to burden others with their responsibilities its no wonder the generation of the 40s is looked back up on as one of the last great ones. No more asking ourselves what we can do for ourselves or other, its not exclusively asking others to do for ourselves.
I want the choice of replacing the battery myself. In the case of my Touch I do not understand why I must be without it for three days for something as simple as a battery. I use it for email, net, and more. That is a major inconvenience to say the least
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Calvin-Hobbes/dp/0740748475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223560779&sr=1-1
I recently purchased this and have been amazed at the strips I missed. The collection books really do leave a lot out and C&H are timeless. Frankly, I enjoy C&H much more and it both children and adults can enjoy it at the same and for different reasons
they are not passing a bill to give us our rights back. They are using "code" words in a pretty phrase to convince they are.
This is very typical of Congress. Label something "bill of X rights" "for the children" etc and the media and ignorant lap it up.
No, what they really have done is to create a law to protect DHS and give DHS the right to seize your equipment for 24 hours.
The simply codified what they have been doing to protect another Federal Agency. Par for the course with this Congress
Well lets see,
Private industry developed the new solar cells featured on this site in a recent story. Private industry is deploying wind farms. Private industry is attempt to make coal even cleaner to adhere to new regulations and then some - in other words they are trying their best to sell it to a public buried under FUD.
If anything it is when Government gets involved that it all goes into the shitter. The banking industry is proof positive of this. It was Federal meddling in the mortgage industry which encouraged practices no one would dare take if they were on the hook. The under the table deal which basically insured bad lending with public money set off this firestorm of lending to people who should never have been considered and would not have been without political pressure. Look, when a bank wants to grow or get into new markets they should not be coerced into making bad loans as the price of admission yet that is essentially what the government did to them. Then toss in a market which saw the advantage of knowing it would be bailed out and what do you get ? A disaster.
Lets look at private industry again, who is leading the charge to lower costs of getting into space? Definitely not NASA (read FEDERAL GOVERNMENT) whose next BDB isn't exactly winning accolades. Before people say they have different standards of getting people into space safely I disagree. See, if people die on a NASA (Read: Government trip) who loses out? NASA is still in business. Yet if Rutan/Virgin Space or whatever has a fatal accident they will be shut down if not bankrupted.
The difference is that private industry comes up with interesting if not unique solutions that tend to fly under the radar because they are so common. There are many efforts across the board to insure our environment because it is profitable. It makes good press. We only see crazed reactions to environmental accidents because they are so rare. Go overseas, for all the harping people make about our issues and the environment you should see some of the former Warsaw pact, what happened there and in some cases still does would make you hurl
First thing that came to mind for me is from the old UFO series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyDiver
The idea of JATO (or is that RATO) assisted launches from underwater would make for some interesting dynamics, yet I think that space borne items will be of far more value in the long term, its not like you can't drop from about anywhere up there and end up where you want to be while a submersible is subject to being easily interdicted
as the rich dude who lives the life every dork dreams of.
Many people dream of having riches but very few have dreams as amazing as what he was doing with them. Frankly it is people like this who make me realize that the majority of us are just boring.
for history to look back twenty years to finally pin the blame on the people who really caused this mess.
Unfortunately we aren't being told who interfered because its not newsworthy when it doesn't support your cause. Such is the press in the current election cycle.
Disclaimer, I have an iMac, a 20gb iPod (3rd gen), and now a Touch. I also am working with the SDK.
Apple is just as bad if not worse, their entire cover is "lack of market share" but if your in their market share your just screwed. I don't care, I want an alternative to Mail. Sorry but there are lots of features it does not have on the Touch UNLESS I buy ME. Sorry, but locking out competing applications is anti-competitive. Especially when they offer features they don't and only don't offer because they have paid products.
The problem really becomes annoying because when you get close to their "line" you don't know when it gets crossed. You post your app to iTunes and have to wait. If its a harmless app it gets in, if it comes close then your throwing dice.
Then we can toss out the fact they forbid their software on non-Apple provided machines. At least with IE if it didn't render a site for whatever reason I had alternatives, though during the time of contention Netscape 4.xx was out and it was such a suck product they couldn't help but lose.
No, they just mince words to pull off the same or worse than MS. Their saving grace is lack of market share and a clique mentality amongst some of their supporters. They make great software and hardware but are too draconian in its application.
Well there is always Eve, which has character progression while your offline.
So while you might need other programs to play WOW for you you don't need one for Eve, in fact it seems they don't want you to actually play it.
No, we know the odds on the stock market. The problem is you cannot treat it as a short term game. If you must put it into game terms then portray it as the longest MMORPG you will ever participate in. Its called life.
I know that current events put a lot of doubt on the market but the primary cause of our problems are also prolonging the correction, interference by government. Now before you jump on the deregulation caused it band wagon go back and research the events and those who blocked attempts to stop the primary problem, mortgage fraud. This traces a bit back but in the last few years many attempts were meant to reign in the fraud at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The problem of course is politics. Certain people were using the system, abusing it, to attempt some social engineering to keep their power. By preventing proper oversight these two agencies with the implied backing of the Federal Government maintained a system no truly private enterprise could get away with. There are many checks and balances (read laws and true shareholder influence) that did not exist with these two organizations because certain government officials were gaming the system.
With the rug pulled out from under them the house of cards fell. The problem now is that instead of allowing the system to correct itself some stupid and short sighted attempts to selectively shore up the system are being sought by people in both parties. The problem with politicians is that when they cause problems they cannot accept blame, the two party system works to their advantage in that they always have someone to blame. This leads to the second problem which is where the same ignorant people think they can fix it. Meanwhile the public is kept in the dark, distracted, and such, while people in the know are again allowed to game the system for their advantage. Whether it is more power through more government intervention to being allowed to manipulate fears in the market to score some very large buyouts for a pittance it all adds up to the same thing, Washington power brokers who do not answer to the public are playing games with our money and we have no say.
The market is correcting itself, this is not without pain. The best thing to do is write your Congressman and demand they don't bail out corporations built on bad securities (read:mortgages) and prevent the Federal Government from ever providing either implicit or under the table support for organizations based on fraud; in other words no more implied bail outs. Whats holding the fix up is that too many of these money power houses are holding back from stepping in to see how big of a pie they can get in the form of cheap loans directly from the government.
What makes it all worse, the problems in the market are just a shadow of the shell game the Federal Government has constructed and ignored (read they deflect our attention at every step) with the real problem of funding social programs whose growth is beyond any sustainable tax system. To put it bluntly they are running on borrowed time awaiting a miracle to fix the problem, or better yet hoping to dump it on some other future Congress/Administrations shoulders.
The odds won't be back in our favor until regulation also exists to prevent undue interference by the government. All must play by the same rules which was not the case with the mortgage giants.
Go look at how many bills were submitted in the last eight years attempting to reign them in, to put true oversight on them, then go look at who blocked it. Those are the real culprits here. They also happen to be the ones screaming the loudest to redirect the blame. And we will buy it.
It is implied that in Russia there are no rights, if the government wants something or someone it doesn't think twice about getting it regardless of the ramifications.
Of course that is not much different from Western Countries, we just like to pretend otherwise.
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses were obviously in short supply or beyond or technology
I am not sure whose side you were taking there.
It had four times the ram and was $1200 less?
So, can you clarify?
I am very sure any enthusiast can build a far better machine at a substantially lower price, provided something as easy as plugging in a dongle was all it took to fool OS X
this isn't about beliefs, it is all about money.
Just like alcohol and cigarettes are regulated all in the name of money.
Gambling is no different, if the state license it then its permitted, otherwise its not. Simple as that. nothing about religion here (but maybe in KY) because many states that forbid gambling have lotteries (which of course are state sanctioned : the key word)
We can, if Windows Mobile was better we would not have to use Apple products!