After wrestling with NSI for three weeks trying to get some host records changed, I went around them by creating a new ns host with dotster and moving all of my domains to it. I was so impressed that I switched my NSI-registered domain immediately after. Transferring the domain was orders of magnitude easier than changing a host record or even resetting my password (fax you a signed form that you never emailed me?). For a tiny fee I switched it to dotster without ever speaking to a human (thank god, since three NSI reps told me three different things on every issue I asked about) and actually extended the life of my registration for a cheaper amount.
My company uses Verisign for credit card payments and that department is just as unhelpful. We push $80,000 through them every day and they treat us like they are doing us a favor each time they answer the phone. This is a company that needs a serious attitude adjustment (not to mention a technological overhaul) that can only be prompted by a boycott.
Regardless of whether the speed increase is worth the price increase or not, I think Apple plans on some number of people actually paying more money specifically for the other color. When in reality the color of the case is totally independent of the hardware inside, it seems kind of slimy to me to force customers to upgrade in order to get something they could give them for the same price.
Ignoring big time enterprise needs and such, I would say a low-load server is almost certainly going to be more stable than a desktop machine. of course a Mac can run various servers. My friend's mac crashed because it ran Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, ImageStyler, and Animation Master. Besides, heralded by many, Internet Explorer for the Mac is a *beast*. Doing absolutely nothing, hands off the keyboard and mouse, a static page in IE in the foreground will seriously interrupt a quicktime movie playing in the background. That's just silly.
I always thought Mac OS was more reliable than Windows until I moved in with a mac lover. For a year and a half I watched a new imac, and then a new G3, and then a new G4, crash four or five times a day, while my windows (admittedly not used nearly as often as my linux machine) would crash every three or four days.
Admittedly, the newer versions are much more stable. 8.6 showed a big jump in reliability and 9 looks better, but still crashes more than Windows. I used to spend 6 hours a day on a mac plus...now those things never crashed on me!
But, to be positive, as long as Mac OS X's fancy animations don't bring the cpu to a grinding halt, I'm sure the BSD-based kernel will lend quite a bit of stability to the system (unless Linus's warnings about putting graphics in the kernel come to haunt them!)
You're comparing the very top of the market with the notch below--that's dangerous. A 50MHz speed difference on a dell laptop, for example, is $50-$100.
These are differences between the old ibook and the new ibook. The price difference of $200 is between the new ibook and the new ibook special edition. The only technical difference there is the clockspeed.
From the horse's mouth, in response to an email I sent:
Thank you for your question about Sorenson Video on unsupported OS platforms. Sorenson Vision has chosen to team up with Apple and their QuickTime product. Because of this, Sorenson Video is only available on supported QuickTime OS platforms.
If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows, please contact your platform vendor and let them know that you would like them to license QuickTime from Apple. Once QuickTime 3 or4 is available on a platform, Sorenson Video will be there as well.
About 25% said GTK+, and a matching 25% said GNOME. Those people know what they want, where as although 50% said KDE, only 18% said QT. I imagine this is because of all the windows developers who have seen KDE but don't really know much about it (they are, after all, Delphi coders)
Yes. Employees get a regular salary. Management certainly has an interest in growth and change. But it's the investors that drive these wild changes and leaps into new industries. It's the CEO and the Board of Directors (populated by the largest shareholders, usually) that insist on constant, continuous growth into new realms, even when those changes don't at all match the current trend of the company. The investors, I'm sure, are tickled pink with the changes. They, of all people, are not interested in being cool, hip, or revolutionary unless that translates directly into profits.
Right now big profits don't go to bakeries, magazine stands, or fruit booths. They go to grocery stores and "super stores" that contain them all in one roof. Unfortunately convenience often wins over "coolness" and probably always will. And you think the investors are unhappy about that?
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After wrestling with NSI for three weeks trying to get some host records changed, I went around them by creating a new ns host with dotster and moving all of my domains to it. I was so impressed that I switched my NSI-registered domain immediately after. Transferring the domain was orders of magnitude easier than changing a host record or even resetting my password (fax you a signed form that you never emailed me?). For a tiny fee I switched it to dotster without ever speaking to a human (thank god, since three NSI reps told me three different things on every issue I asked about) and actually extended the life of my registration for a cheaper amount.
My company uses Verisign for credit card payments and that department is just as unhelpful. We push $80,000 through them every day and they treat us like they are doing us a favor each time they answer the phone. This is a company that needs a serious attitude adjustment (not to mention a technological overhaul) that can only be prompted by a boycott.
Regardless of whether the speed increase is worth the price increase or not, I think Apple plans on some number of people actually paying more money specifically for the other color. When in reality the color of the case is totally independent of the hardware inside, it seems kind of slimy to me to force customers to upgrade in order to get something they could give them for the same price.
Ignoring big time enterprise needs and such, I would say a low-load server is almost certainly going to be more stable than a desktop machine. of course a Mac can run various servers. My friend's mac crashed because it ran Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, ImageStyler, and Animation Master. Besides, heralded by many, Internet Explorer for the Mac is a *beast*. Doing absolutely nothing, hands off the keyboard and mouse, a static page in IE in the foreground will seriously interrupt a quicktime movie playing in the background. That's just silly.
I always thought Mac OS was more reliable than Windows until I moved in with a mac lover. For a year and a half I watched a new imac, and then a new G3, and then a new G4, crash four or five times a day, while my windows (admittedly not used nearly as often as my linux machine) would crash every three or four days.
Admittedly, the newer versions are much more stable. 8.6 showed a big jump in reliability and 9 looks better, but still crashes more than Windows. I used to spend 6 hours a day on a mac plus...now those things never crashed on me!
But, to be positive, as long as Mac OS X's fancy animations don't bring the cpu to a grinding halt, I'm sure the BSD-based kernel will lend quite a bit of stability to the system (unless Linus's warnings about putting graphics in the kernel come to haunt them!)
You're comparing the very top of the market with the notch below--that's dangerous. A 50MHz speed difference on a dell laptop, for example, is $50-$100.
These are differences between the old ibook and the new ibook. The price difference of $200 is between the new ibook and the new ibook special edition. The only technical difference there is the clockspeed.
$200 for a 66 Mhz speed bump? I think Apple expects a lot of people to pay more for a color they wouldn't be embarrassed by.
From the horse's mouth, in response to an email I sent:
Thank you for your question about Sorenson Video on unsupported OS platforms. Sorenson Vision has chosen to team up with Apple and their QuickTime
product. Because of this, Sorenson Video is only available on supported QuickTime OS platforms.
If you're interested in QuickTime for platforms other than Mac or Windows, please contact your
platform vendor and let them know that you would like them to license QuickTime from Apple.
Once QuickTime 3 or4 is available on a platform, Sorenson Video will be there as well.
Sorenson Vision Technical Support
About 25% said GTK+, and a matching 25% said GNOME. Those people know what they want, where as although 50% said KDE, only 18% said QT. I imagine this is because of all the windows developers who have seen KDE but don't really know much about it (they are, after all, Delphi coders)
Maturity.
IE 4.5 does NOT support PNG format, though my Netscape 4.6 does, and I'm sure earlier versions of Netscape, but maybe that's only the linux version.
Yes. Employees get a regular salary. Management certainly has an interest in growth and change. But it's the investors that drive these wild changes and leaps into new industries. It's the CEO and the Board of Directors (populated by the largest shareholders, usually) that insist on constant, continuous growth into new realms, even when those changes don't at all match the current trend of the company. The investors, I'm sure, are tickled pink with the changes. They, of all people, are not interested in being cool, hip, or revolutionary unless that translates directly into profits.
Right now big profits don't go to bakeries, magazine stands, or fruit booths. They go to grocery stores and "super stores" that contain them all in one roof. Unfortunately convenience often wins over "coolness" and probably always will. And you think the investors are unhappy about that?