Good on you, Apple and all those who live in glass and stainless steel houses who can afford to keep buying the beautiful and sleek Apple hardware on which to run Mountain Lion....
Hmmm. I'm reading your gibberish on a used $400 iMac that can certainly run Mountain Lion.
Why not? Because Mountain Lion 1) won't run on almost all my Macs, 2) it removed the SAVE AS choice, 3) the main goal of Mountain Lion appears to be to corral software developers into using Apple's App Store for all sales.
Not quite right... it was Lion 10.7 that removed "Save As..."
Other people have listed some compelling reasons that they installed Mountain Lion but you list two, including grousing about your archaic Macs.
If you are going to take the time to type, giving something worthwhile to think about, eh.
It's mostly inertia; older people (like 30+) are set in their ways and think cable is a requirement for modern life. (I say this as someone almost 40; I don't think most of my peers are as up to newer technologies as me.)
That's the same logic people use to justify buying Honda's $35,000 Acura that has automatic everything and can even park itself. Personally I'd rather buy a Honda Civic for $15,000, do my own parking, and give myself $20,000 worth of time off (3 months) to spend it with my wife & kids & friends.
Ditto with PC v. Mac. Admittedly $600 saved isn't a lot, but it does eliminate the need to work overtime on Saturday to pay the Mac's extra cost.
This seems to be a good opportunity to reprise what experienced IT administrators all know: Acquisition is a small part of the entire cost of owning and operating a computer over its lifetime.
Home computer users don't really have good visibility to this.
Me? I'd rather spend the $600 up front and save a ton of time and money over the years. But that's just me.
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
I disagree. A tablet is a PC. Anyway, that's what all the evidence says.
Almost all the features I saw in Apple's presentation and feature list are rip-offs of features from third party iOS developers, Android, Firefox, Chrome, Gnome, KDE, and other non-Apple developers and systems.
If it were a no-compromise experience, then they'd release just one goddamned edition of the OS at one price point and let you add/remove feature sets if and when needed.
In other words, just the Pro, thank you. Segmenting an operating system in 2012 is antiquated and moronic. All it does is piss off us techies who are forced to support the substandard "Home" editions.
I love you. I do.
You are absolutely right. As with Linux or Mac OS X, the Windows 8 operating system should be unified, not marketed.
I enjoy the immersible experience of recreational reading but you can't smell a f*cking eBook!
I love to plant my face right in the middle of a book and breath deeply and long. I like to fan out the pages of a book and then allow it to compress slowly, burping out its scented air. I know that I've enjoyed a particularly good reading session when I sport ink smudges on each side of my nose.
For work and reference tasks, however, eBooks have a couple strong advantages.
To be convicted of a crime and chemically castrated for being a homosexual is inhumanly wrong. Whether that homosexuality is a choice or not bears absolutely no weight."
Here's your reply:
Sexuality, gay strait or bi, is biological and natural.
What I don't understand is why you bothered. He just said that choice or no choice, the origins of homosexuality are not the issue. And yet, you try to make it so.
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The judge is known to be a pro-Apple shill. She's made illogical rulings favorable to Apple before.
In short, Samsung is in trouble if they expect a fair trial (given the history, they probably expect the trial to be anything but fair).
Did this "fact" appear on FoxNews?
Who cares about Apple OS's? The whole company sucks and so do their overpriced products.
Quantify this, please.
I was a bit surprised that 5 year old equipment just isn't worth it to Apple to support.
Why were you surprised? They don't support my G4 PowerMac anymore, either.
At what point, exactly, might you cease to be surprised?
Good on you, Apple and all those who live in glass and stainless steel houses who can afford to keep buying the beautiful and sleek Apple hardware on which to run Mountain Lion....
Hmmm. I'm reading your gibberish on a used $400 iMac that can certainly run Mountain Lion.
Why not? Because Mountain Lion 1) won't run on almost all my Macs, 2) it removed the SAVE AS choice, 3) the main goal of Mountain Lion appears to be to corral software developers into using Apple's App Store for all sales.
Not quite right... it was Lion 10.7 that removed "Save As..."
Other people have listed some compelling reasons that they installed Mountain Lion but you list two, including grousing about your archaic Macs.
If you are going to take the time to type, giving something worthwhile to think about, eh.
Anonymous Cowards is funny peoples.
Except that Mac OSX updates are akin to Windows service packs which are free and just as frequent.
As someone who's seen plenty of both, it's obvious that you are pissed off about something.
Mod this comment, "Flamebait."
It's mostly inertia; older people (like 30+) are set in their ways and think cable is a requirement for modern life. (I say this as someone almost 40; I don't think most of my peers are as up to newer technologies as me.)
What do you think of black people?
(This should be interesting.)
I admit it.
That's the same logic people use to justify buying Honda's $35,000 Acura that has automatic everything and can even park itself. Personally I'd rather buy a Honda Civic for $15,000, do my own parking, and give myself $20,000 worth of time off (3 months) to spend it with my wife & kids & friends.
Ditto with PC v. Mac. Admittedly $600 saved isn't a lot, but it does eliminate the need to work overtime on Saturday to pay the Mac's extra cost.
This seems to be a good opportunity to reprise what experienced IT administrators all know: Acquisition is a small part of the entire cost of owning and operating a computer over its lifetime.
Home computer users don't really have good visibility to this.
Me? I'd rather spend the $600 up front and save a ton of time and money over the years. But that's just me.
that a new version of OSX has just become available to purchase, better rush out and buy it.
Yeah, and it's a total rip-off at $20!
And trojans aren't viruses...
Bitter is the fruit of proud assumption proven false.
No, he just knows what he's talking about and isn't sloppy.
Tablets and phones outnumber Apple's computer sales by something like 10:1.
If Apple is making "billions of dollars of profit" every quarter, then it is not because of the PC business. If Apple were still just a PC company they would be either dead or terribly obscure by this point.
I disagree. A tablet is a PC. Anyway, that's what all the evidence says.
Almost all the features I saw in Apple's presentation and feature list are rip-offs of features from third party iOS developers, Android, Firefox, Chrome, Gnome, KDE, and other non-Apple developers and systems.
You just described everyone.
If you don't like Google's policies then don't use their service.
Your whining is annoying to others.
Whatever happened to the concept of "it's just not your business?" .....
I mean sure, Google can do what they like with their properties.
You answered your own question.
Apple only sell one size.
This is their astroturf, like that asinine "Google doesn't get packaging" Slashvertisement earlier.
How on earth does emotional tripe like this get modded 5:Insightful?
the other will be the file server for my business
Am I the only person who shuddered when reading that?
Maybe.
Light bulbs are no longer a free market item. Once the govmint got involved in banning certain kinds, the freedom kinda went POOF!
Boo-hoo. Grow up, why-doncha?! Incandescent lamps are a joke... they're heat emitters that leak a little light.
Sometimes governments are necessary, sometimes governments get things right. They did on this one.
In a couple years, someone looking back in the Slashdot archives and reading your whining are gonna laugh at you (if they aren't already).
I'm no fan boy and a Windows user but I can't really see what the big deal is.
This is unacceptable here. The point of this thread is to bash iTunes.
I believe that your error is a simple accident and not malicious.
If it were a no-compromise experience, then they'd release just one goddamned edition of the OS at one price point and let you add/remove feature sets if and when needed.
In other words, just the Pro, thank you. Segmenting an operating system in 2012 is antiquated and moronic. All it does is piss off us techies who are forced to support the substandard "Home" editions.
I love you. I do.
You are absolutely right. As with Linux or Mac OS X, the Windows 8 operating system should be unified, not marketed.
--Richard
Tagline: Ballmer must go.
Actually, MacGyver2210 kinda answered a similar topic elsewhere on this web page:
Sorry, unless you're within Apple's reality distortion field, Flash is the web standard for video players.
So, you see, it's standard and that alone makes it right.
...Flash is the web standard for video players.
Oh, thank heaven -- at least there's a good reason!
I enjoy the immersible experience of recreational reading but you can't smell a f*cking eBook!
I love to plant my face right in the middle of a book and breath deeply and long. I like to fan out the pages of a book and then allow it to compress slowly, burping out its scented air. I know that I've enjoyed a particularly good reading session when I sport ink smudges on each side of my nose.
For work and reference tasks, however, eBooks have a couple strong advantages.
This tower is SO UGLY that it is invulnerable to earthquakes.
Here's StingRay02's statement:
To be convicted of a crime and chemically castrated for being a homosexual is inhumanly wrong. Whether that homosexuality is a choice or not bears absolutely no weight."
Here's your reply:
Sexuality, gay strait or bi, is biological and natural.
What I don't understand is why you bothered. He just said that choice or no choice, the origins of homosexuality are not the issue. And yet, you try to make it so.
Please don't.