to gain marketshare for OS/X and their position becomes more difficult.
While we don't know the contracts they have with their suppliers a number of things work against OS/X gaining any considerable amount of the market.
1. Apple is the only company that sells hardware legally capable of running OS/X. This limits the number of sales for OS/X more than anything. 2. Apple's suppliers may not be able to keep up with a huge spike of sales. Apple is probably required to place orders in large multiples and with their sales, even improving, probably is adverse to ordering a larger number as their "niche" market does not guarantee that they will sell. 3. Most consumers don't care. Most look at price and continue to do so and that price is of the machine. 4. Most consumers will never see a Mac in the store. The rollout through BestBuy may do more for Mac Sales than any change to the OS. 5. Kind of a repeat, but how many companies sell PCs with Windows installed versus OS/X installed? 6. Geeks are not a major market factor, and there are more geeks concerned with staying up with the newest hardware on the Windows side than Mac side. 7. Most of the new Intel-Mac interest is sales to existing Mac owners. They//mac owners// can see the writing on the wall. Move to the new platform or else.
I think shelf space is the real key. Get a big-box popular retailer like BestBuys into the mix and they can move more machines than by themselves. To me the "apple experience" at Apple stores is one of indifference. I did not get the impression they really wanted to sell me one. It just didn't seem important to them. Now iPods and such were still high on their "buy this version because".
I do not even shop at sites where I cannot find the option of only entering a CC number for the current transaction or readily delete it as soon as I can.
You want to avoid being a victim of credit card fraud, then don't increase the odds.
It does seem the people holding the information are allowed to define what information must be held. The whole point seems to be protecting the information they collect, which they are required to define. So, if they define that they collect "ALL of X" they only need to secure "All of X" to be in compliance.
Like most laws made these days there are sections used to sell it to the public and those "other" sections which are used to get it approved by businesses and others.
but recently all managers attending meetings must wear ties at my location. It was described as giving a more professional appearance which would translate into a more profressional environment which will tranlate into...
You get the drift?
Professionalism does not begin with dress. Those who use this method of operation are trying to compensate for defienciencies.
Some see ties as the proverbial red flag, meaning if they are wearing one they need to be handled with kid gloves. Nothing is more dangerous than an idiot with resources.
Digg has speed of news and Slashdot has moderation.
Frankly I read stories over on Digg and rarely read the comments. On Slashdot I will read comments on some sections but rarely YRO or anything Science.Global.Warming (my fake category). I totally ignore the political section (worst/. idea ever).
Moderation does work on Slashdot as long as the story does not cross into political areas. If it does the moderation system becomes totally useless and any intelligent discussion is lost. How is this different than what people accuse Digg of?
Still the moderation system here is better because its not unlimited points. I do prefer their method of determining which stories get posted.
The site rivalry here certainly isn't helping us win points, comments that "Digg is shit" getting modded high points out the idiocy that occasionally overruns slashdot.
Ignoring the fact that Digg is doing something right will only keep Slashdot on the "has been" list.
Unlike Europeans we have had freedom of travel over a very large area for a long time. That more than anything is why the automobile is so much more popular over here. When distances traveled can be measured in days it does tend to make one think differently.
Its a far different mindset one has when you don't have to stop at the border. I still remember friends flying in and asking me to come pick them up, not realizing it would take me nearly 6 to 8 hours to DRIVE there.
I don't know where you got that idea but its totally wrong.
The ultra rich are never impacted by the death tax.
The death tax is simply a method by government to take even more money from an individual or family. It works for the most part because the majority of Americans will never be affected by it. Anyone who normally would be is pretty much protected by good money managers. Its the people in between who get screwed. Think families with farms in developing areas, there have been numerous stories about them losing their land when the parent dies because the value has become so much that they have to sell to pay the taxes on the estate.
What I don't understand is the willingness of people to tolerate a death tax. There is no moral reason for anyone to suffer this tax. What right is there to take away money from a family just because the head of it died?
Jealousy is the root of the tax. The government exploits this common trait to take money it is not normally capable of doing so. After all the siblings "didn't earn it" so they won't miss it. People don't need "All that money". Want more BS lines? Yet people fall for that shit all the time. Politicians exploit it, look at Paris Hilton - they use her as an example yet she doesn't stand to inherit much of the fortune as she is low on the list. Yet ignorance serves the politicians well.
getting the government out of the way has opened more doors.
many don't realize the numbers of restrictions and amounts of red tape that come with government funding. So while the motive for limiting federal participation in stem cells may be political/religous/etc in basis it does also follow the theme of letting private industry take the risks and reap the rewards.
making people well is big business but along with that comes great cost and time. Innovations come from those who are not bound by restrictions and having the government looking over one's shoulder.
look at it this way, with private entities doing the work, competeing with each other, we will may end up with different cures for the same problems allowing a broader range of people to benefit. we also have multiple avenues to not being impacted in the future by the government agencies as the work was performed in the free market.
These people are professional politicians. They are beholded to special interest groups. They only acknowledge the people who voted for them every 6 years. When the 17th Amendment effectively removed the appointment of Senators by State Legislatures if started a downward spiral. Now they were not beholden to the State they served and soon they became even less enamored with following the direction their state took. Now they care little what the people in each of their respective states thinks. Its all about amassing personal power and reelection. They serve those who line their pockets.
This isn't to say they are all bad. There are some true Democrats and Republicans in the Senate. They are just outnumbered by those who serve neither people or party. They are quite willing to sell our rights to the highest bidder. They will make sure to excuse themselves from any law they feel like for they no longer see themselves as the people. They are above us and the laws they pass show this belief.
To me Bush's biggest fault isn't the Iraq war, its not standing up to the Senate and using the veto power of the office to protect the people from abuses of power like this bill. They will continue to strip our rights while at the same time taking our money and building legacies for themselves. What is worse is the media will support them and many will have their anger directed at corporations and such while the true theft occurs in our halls of power.
The only way to reign in the power of the Senate is through your state legislatures. They can effect many changes. However the Congress has show quite a disregard for the 10th Amendment and managed to use the courts to effectively take power from the states who are the people.
So, do you know your Senators? Your district's representative? Send them teabags, send them letters, send them e-mail. Show up at their "townhalls" and give them an earful. How many had to resort to Google just to find out who represents them???
because the motion sensitive controller will appeal to other than exercise video companies as well.
Of course it depends on how locked down Nintendo is with games for this machine, but with dev kits being low priced I expect a few not-so pure games to arise.
works well no matter what government type you have.
I figure it this way, if the words Democratic, Peoples, or Republic, are in the name of your country you are further away from what those words mean than countries that don't use the words.
worse is that they may expect you to watch at 320x200
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But is taking "action" any better when we don't know the science behind it?
They don't know.
To take action when one doesn't know what is happening could make things worse.
Of course we know there are oddities occuring, but that is the key word - oddities. Its odd when we don't understand.
The problem with Climate science is that it hasn't been all that long since we had the tools to truly understand it. Hell we have had only a couple of decades where we could accurate measure temperatures around the globe. The accuracy increases each year and yes we will learn something from it. Some things we learn will proven "common" beliefs to be totally wrong, others may actually prove some concepts.
That is the crux of the Global Warming issue. We don't know enough to be sure what all the causes are and if actions we take will have the desired effect. If we knew the climate as well as some think they do then why are simple things like weather prediction difficult? Easy, its difficult and not simple, its difficult because we don't know all the variables. We know the obvious ones, well at least we think we do.
So before flying off the handle we need to realize we are not as smart as we think we are.
Ever notice there is no crying over the fact that the US/EU/Etc allows trade with China even though its known that China (or insert any country of your choice) has labor practices which are no liked/lawful/etc where the product is eventually sold?
Why is that?
Simple, its far easier for these activist to pick on corporations than governments. Governments don't care. People call corporations souless but governments are too. Worse we put these people in power only to have them ignore us.
Plus one thing corporations do that governments don't do is pay you to shut up.
Either stop all trade with countries whose labor practices don't agree with your local or shut the fuck up. Want to see your economy tank, fine, try to apply your laws to someone else's country before dealing with them.
Hold Apple/Nike/etc accountable, yeah right. What a spineless concept. Requires no risk on those objecting.
at least we have a slight chance to influence a corporation, government, ours, theirs, whomevers, have proven time and time again that they are beyond our influence.
the primary difference between corporations and governments is that there will always be at least one other corporation wanting to sell us something different while government will simply strike the same old tune over and over and over.
yeah I know some corporations wield considerable power but even they are beholden to governments. do you really want all the cards held by government?
there is a significant price gap between the lowest end Pro and Macbook. This could help Apple exploit it by offering a more versions of the systems in Rev2 by using a wider variety of speeds. Sure more RAM might sneak in but I think with the new line of chips Intel is coming out it opens the possibility of filling the gap.
Turbine finally coming to terms
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with the fact they have another failed game on their hands.
The one constant in Turbines two games since the original Asheron's Call is that they fail to acknowledge the warnings of their fans. Turbine has many loyal fans from their Asheron's Call game and most are willing to try anything new Turbine comes out with. Yet at the same time Turbine fails to exploit this valuable commodity and instead ignores them and even at times insults them.
I remember quite well Turbine representatives dismssing the claims that D&DO did not have enough content to launch, was not friendly to players who may want to solo or find themselves in that position. Combine this with a game world which is player unfriendly, meaning all areas are instance, with no real activity other than the dungeon crawl, and it exaggerates the games inherent limitations. Simply put, there is nothing to do other than group.
Yes I know the idea of D&D is to play with others but that ignores the reality of gaming today. If players want to game together there are many other ways they can do so and most of them allow for much more player interaction than an internet MMORPG. The best way to have a successful MMORPG is to appeal to the broadest possible number of players. Purposely excluding potential players is always a road to disaster and Turbine went down the road full speed.
Hopes for LOTR (MEO or whatever its current name is) dimmed significantly when Turbine emphasized the group play as a focus. The classes provided are meant to support each other but not necessarily be soloable. Some classes don't appear to have any real potential outside of groups. If this makes it to production it will yet be another game with limited appeal and a short life.
isn't always based on one's ability you will see many who should never have gotten in.
You do realize that a good number of kids in colleges today didn't necessarily get there on their academic credentials don't you?
The same idea that is being proposed for children across the world, and for adults as well, with this low end laptop could go a long way in pre-elementary schools across the nation. It would also be interesting to see what children in 1st through 3rd grade make of them as well. That is the one thing that always hit me wrong about this laptop. It needs to be aimed at children in developed countries even more than undeveloped countries. Creativity and curiosity is boundless in children and should be encouraged everywhere and everytime it can.
Its obvious that this group complaining about Apples "number of copies" is making a point by not providing all the relevant information. As such their honest and integrity are questionable. Apple's number of copies only applies the number of times a specific playlist can be burned if that playlist contains protected music. Want to burn it again then make a new one.
Still its not like its hard to circumvent the DRM in iTunes. The easiest to understand for layman is to burn to music CD and rip back to MP3.
On the point of legally purchased. You enter a contract with Apple when you purchase a protected track. You don't have to buy it from them if you don't agree to their terms. Go buy the CD. DRM rules are not applied to items you RIP yourself as the agreement of that purchase did not involve Apple.
Now, should Apple decide to apply DRM rules to items not purchased through them, specifically CDs you own, then I can see a real reason to cry about it. My first action would be to not upgrade to such a version of iTunes and forever leave the service. My previously purchased music will still work fine, Apple will just be out a lot of customers until they change their tune.
As for the other services, you are not required to use them either. Don't like the idea of a subscription, then fine don't use one but why in the hell must you bitch about products you won't use because you don't like them? Do you just have to be a victim?
Out of my shop of 30 programmers I know 5 who either have 98 or ME as their home OS.
Why? Same reason a lot of people run Windows even though there are sites everywhere giving them reasons not to.
It doesn't matter. Its just a computer. Turn it on, get my mail, surf the web, who gives a flying F how it does it.
That is probably one of the bigger reasons Microsoft will stay entrenched, most people don't care how it works, only that it does. For those with problems they develop a tolerance level, usually based on how much a new PC will cost versus even bothering to find out if the old can be fixed.
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to gain marketshare for OS/X and their position becomes more difficult.
//mac owners// can see the writing on the wall. Move to the new platform or else.
While we don't know the contracts they have with their suppliers a number of things work against OS/X gaining any considerable amount of the market.
1. Apple is the only company that sells hardware legally capable of running OS/X. This limits the number of sales for OS/X more than anything.
2. Apple's suppliers may not be able to keep up with a huge spike of sales. Apple is probably required to place orders in large multiples and with their sales, even improving, probably is adverse to ordering a larger number as their "niche" market does not guarantee that they will sell.
3. Most consumers don't care. Most look at price and continue to do so and that price is of the machine.
4. Most consumers will never see a Mac in the store. The rollout through BestBuy may do more for Mac Sales than any change to the OS.
5. Kind of a repeat, but how many companies sell PCs with Windows installed versus OS/X installed?
6. Geeks are not a major market factor, and there are more geeks concerned with staying up with the newest hardware on the Windows side than Mac side.
7. Most of the new Intel-Mac interest is sales to existing Mac owners. They
I think shelf space is the real key. Get a big-box popular retailer like BestBuys into the mix and they can move more machines than by themselves. To me the "apple experience" at Apple stores is one of indifference. I did not get the impression they really wanted to sell me one. It just didn't seem important to them. Now iPods and such were still high on their "buy this version because".
the first people to know it would be the players.
US population numbers are pitiful. Traffic on non-official boards is stagnant at best, and negative comments abound.
is permitted to store my credit card information.
I do not even shop at sites where I cannot find the option of only entering a CC number for the current transaction or readily delete it as soon as I can.
You want to avoid being a victim of credit card fraud, then don't increase the odds.
that they could go to court and justify anything.
It does seem the people holding the information are allowed to define what information must be held. The whole point seems to be protecting the information they collect, which they are required to define. So, if they define that they collect "ALL of X" they only need to secure "All of X" to be in compliance.
Like most laws made these days there are sections used to sell it to the public and those "other" sections which are used to get it approved by businesses and others.
but recently all managers attending meetings must wear ties at my location. It was described as giving a more professional appearance which would translate into a more profressional environment which will tranlate into...
You get the drift?
Professionalism does not begin with dress. Those who use this method of operation are trying to compensate for defienciencies.
Some see ties as the proverbial red flag, meaning if they are wearing one they need to be handled with kid gloves. Nothing is more dangerous than an idiot with resources.
you stay really excited.
Responding to yours and the AC troll.
This freedom of travel is what established the car in the United States in the early 20th century (30s through the 50s)
Europe since the end of the Soviet Union is a vastly different place than it was.
Digg has speed of news and Slashdot has moderation.
/. idea ever).
Frankly I read stories over on Digg and rarely read the comments. On Slashdot I will read comments on some sections but rarely YRO or anything Science.Global.Warming (my fake category). I totally ignore the political section (worst
Moderation does work on Slashdot as long as the story does not cross into political areas. If it does the moderation system becomes totally useless and any intelligent discussion is lost. How is this different than what people accuse Digg of?
Still the moderation system here is better because its not unlimited points. I do prefer their method of determining which stories get posted.
The site rivalry here certainly isn't helping us win points, comments that "Digg is shit" getting modded high points out the idiocy that occasionally overruns slashdot.
Ignoring the fact that Digg is doing something right will only keep Slashdot on the "has been" list.
Unlike Europeans we have had freedom of travel over a very large area for a long time. That more than anything is why the automobile is so much more popular over here. When distances traveled can be measured in days it does tend to make one think differently.
Its a far different mindset one has when you don't have to stop at the border. I still remember friends flying in and asking me to come pick them up, not realizing it would take me nearly 6 to 8 hours to DRIVE there.
Probably 100 million to develop it and 900 million to test it to the point of insuring it won't cause an inflight issue.
I don't know where you got that idea but its totally wrong.
The ultra rich are never impacted by the death tax.
The death tax is simply a method by government to take even more money from an individual or family. It works for the most part because the majority of Americans will never be affected by it. Anyone who normally would be is pretty much protected by good money managers. Its the people in between who get screwed. Think families with farms in developing areas, there have been numerous stories about them losing their land when the parent dies because the value has become so much that they have to sell to pay the taxes on the estate.
What I don't understand is the willingness of people to tolerate a death tax. There is no moral reason for anyone to suffer this tax. What right is there to take away money from a family just because the head of it died?
Jealousy is the root of the tax. The government exploits this common trait to take money it is not normally capable of doing so. After all the siblings "didn't earn it" so they won't miss it. People don't need "All that money". Want more BS lines? Yet people fall for that shit all the time. Politicians exploit it, look at Paris Hilton - they use her as an example yet she doesn't stand to inherit much of the fortune as she is low on the list. Yet ignorance serves the politicians well.
with all the damn tool bars trying to install themselves we're going to have to change our pages to be best viewed at 600 pixels in height.
google, msn, yahoo, viewport?, and others. Whats left for the webpage itself?
getting the government out of the way has opened more doors.
many don't realize the numbers of restrictions and amounts of red tape that come with government funding. So while the motive for limiting federal participation in stem cells may be political/religous/etc in basis it does also follow the theme of letting private industry take the risks and reap the rewards.
making people well is big business but along with that comes great cost and time. Innovations come from those who are not bound by restrictions and having the government looking over one's shoulder.
look at it this way, with private entities doing the work, competeing with each other, we will may end up with different cures for the same problems allowing a broader range of people to benefit. we also have multiple avenues to not being impacted in the future by the government agencies as the work was performed in the free market.
These people are professional politicians. They are beholded to special interest groups. They only acknowledge the people who voted for them every 6 years. When the 17th Amendment effectively removed the appointment of Senators by State Legislatures if started a downward spiral. Now they were not beholden to the State they served and soon they became even less enamored with following the direction their state took. Now they care little what the people in each of their respective states thinks. Its all about amassing personal power and reelection. They serve those who line their pockets.
This isn't to say they are all bad. There are some true Democrats and Republicans in the Senate. They are just outnumbered by those who serve neither people or party. They are quite willing to sell our rights to the highest bidder. They will make sure to excuse themselves from any law they feel like for they no longer see themselves as the people. They are above us and the laws they pass show this belief.
To me Bush's biggest fault isn't the Iraq war, its not standing up to the Senate and using the veto power of the office to protect the people from abuses of power like this bill. They will continue to strip our rights while at the same time taking our money and building legacies for themselves. What is worse is the media will support them and many will have their anger directed at corporations and such while the true theft occurs in our halls of power.
The only way to reign in the power of the Senate is through your state legislatures. They can effect many changes. However the Congress has show quite a disregard for the 10th Amendment and managed to use the courts to effectively take power from the states who are the people.
So, do you know your Senators? Your district's representative? Send them teabags, send them letters, send them e-mail. Show up at their "townhalls" and give them an earful. How many had to resort to Google just to find out who represents them???
because the motion sensitive controller will appeal to other than exercise video companies as well.
Of course it depends on how locked down Nintendo is with games for this machine, but with dev kits being low priced I expect a few not-so pure games to arise.
works well no matter what government type you have.
I figure it this way, if the words Democratic, Peoples, or Republic, are in the name of your country you are further away from what those words mean than countries that don't use the words.
worse is that they may expect you to watch at 320x200
But is taking "action" any better when we don't know the science behind it?
They don't know.
To take action when one doesn't know what is happening could make things worse.
Of course we know there are oddities occuring, but that is the key word - oddities. Its odd when we don't understand.
The problem with Climate science is that it hasn't been all that long since we had the tools to truly understand it. Hell we have had only a couple of decades where we could accurate measure temperatures around the globe. The accuracy increases each year and yes we will learn something from it. Some things we learn will proven "common" beliefs to be totally wrong, others may actually prove some concepts.
That is the crux of the Global Warming issue. We don't know enough to be sure what all the causes are and if actions we take will have the desired effect. If we knew the climate as well as some think they do then why are simple things like weather prediction difficult? Easy, its difficult and not simple, its difficult because we don't know all the variables. We know the obvious ones, well at least we think we do.
So before flying off the handle we need to realize we are not as smart as we think we are.
Ever notice there is no crying over the fact that the US/EU/Etc allows trade with China even though its known that China (or insert any country of your choice) has labor practices which are no liked/lawful/etc where the product is eventually sold?
Why is that?
Simple, its far easier for these activist to pick on corporations than governments. Governments don't care. People call corporations souless but governments are too. Worse we put these people in power only to have them ignore us.
Plus one thing corporations do that governments don't do is pay you to shut up.
Either stop all trade with countries whose labor practices don't agree with your local or shut the fuck up. Want to see your economy tank, fine, try to apply your laws to someone else's country before dealing with them.
Hold Apple/Nike/etc accountable, yeah right. What a spineless concept. Requires no risk on those objecting.
at least we have a slight chance to influence a corporation, government, ours, theirs, whomevers, have proven time and time again that they are beyond our influence.
the primary difference between corporations and governments is that there will always be at least one other corporation wanting to sell us something different while government will simply strike the same old tune over and over and over.
yeah I know some corporations wield considerable power but even they are beholden to governments. do you really want all the cards held by government?
there is a significant price gap between the lowest end Pro and Macbook. This could help Apple exploit it by offering a more versions of the systems in Rev2 by using a wider variety of speeds. Sure more RAM might sneak in but I think with the new line of chips Intel is coming out it opens the possibility of filling the gap.
with the fact they have another failed game on their hands.
The one constant in Turbines two games since the original Asheron's Call is that they fail to acknowledge the warnings of their fans. Turbine has many loyal fans from their Asheron's Call game and most are willing to try anything new Turbine comes out with. Yet at the same time Turbine fails to exploit this valuable commodity and instead ignores them and even at times insults them.
I remember quite well Turbine representatives dismssing the claims that D&DO did not have enough content to launch, was not friendly to players who may want to solo or find themselves in that position. Combine this with a game world which is player unfriendly, meaning all areas are instance, with no real activity other than the dungeon crawl, and it exaggerates the games inherent limitations. Simply put, there is nothing to do other than group.
Yes I know the idea of D&D is to play with others but that ignores the reality of gaming today. If players want to game together there are many other ways they can do so and most of them allow for much more player interaction than an internet MMORPG. The best way to have a successful MMORPG is to appeal to the broadest possible number of players. Purposely excluding potential players is always a road to disaster and Turbine went down the road full speed.
Hopes for LOTR (MEO or whatever its current name is) dimmed significantly when Turbine emphasized the group play as a focus. The classes provided are meant to support each other but not necessarily be soloable. Some classes don't appear to have any real potential outside of groups. If this makes it to production it will yet be another game with limited appeal and a short life.
isn't always based on one's ability you will see many who should never have gotten in.
You do realize that a good number of kids in colleges today didn't necessarily get there on their academic credentials don't you?
The same idea that is being proposed for children across the world, and for adults as well, with this low end laptop could go a long way in pre-elementary schools across the nation. It would also be interesting to see what children in 1st through 3rd grade make of them as well. That is the one thing that always hit me wrong about this laptop. It needs to be aimed at children in developed countries even more than undeveloped countries. Creativity and curiosity is boundless in children and should be encouraged everywhere and everytime it can.
Its obvious that this group complaining about Apples "number of copies" is making a point by not providing all the relevant information. As such their honest and integrity are questionable. Apple's number of copies only applies the number of times a specific playlist can be burned if that playlist contains protected music. Want to burn it again then make a new one.
Still its not like its hard to circumvent the DRM in iTunes. The easiest to understand for layman is to burn to music CD and rip back to MP3.
On the point of legally purchased. You enter a contract with Apple when you purchase a protected track. You don't have to buy it from them if you don't agree to their terms. Go buy the CD. DRM rules are not applied to items you RIP yourself as the agreement of that purchase did not involve Apple.
Now, should Apple decide to apply DRM rules to items not purchased through them, specifically CDs you own, then I can see a real reason to cry about it. My first action would be to not upgrade to such a version of iTunes and forever leave the service. My previously purchased music will still work fine, Apple will just be out a lot of customers until they change their tune.
As for the other services, you are not required to use them either. Don't like the idea of a subscription, then fine don't use one but why in the hell must you bitch about products you won't use because you don't like them? Do you just have to be a victim?
Out of my shop of 30 programmers I know 5 who either have 98 or ME as their home OS.
Why? Same reason a lot of people run Windows even though there are sites everywhere giving them reasons not to.
It doesn't matter. Its just a computer. Turn it on, get my mail, surf the web, who gives a flying F how it does it.
That is probably one of the bigger reasons Microsoft will stay entrenched, most people don't care how it works, only that it does. For those with problems they develop a tolerance level, usually based on how much a new PC will cost versus even bothering to find out if the old can be fixed.