What's not so obvious to foreign readers is the fact that the paper carrying out the poll was Aftonbladet, one of Sweden's two major tabloids, and that its online readers hardly represent the Swedish population in general. The Pirate Party getting 57% in the actual election is obviously not going to happen.
The population of the European Union is roughly 400 million, of which 49% (or 227 million) is considered to be Internet users. This actually puts the EU on first place (granted that you view this as a competition...), with the US second and China on third place. The validity of this rearrangement obviously depends on how you look at the EU.
Looks like the 3G series has reached its end-of-life as far as support goes.
Not quite. My first generation iPod received new functionality as recently as with the iPod updater before this one (or if it was the one before that, don't quite recall), which means either February or March 2005. What was new was the ability to customize the menus, something that previously only had been possible on newer iPods.
What's interesting is that the appleinsider page that quotes the same Morgan & Stanley survey tells the numbers slightly different (emphasis mine):
The survey, which polled 400 consumers, found that 19% of PC iPod owners have purchased a Mac in the past year, compared to Wall Street's expectations of 10%. (...) Of the iPod owners polled, 43% said they are considering purchasing a Mac, with 16% saying a Mac would be their first choice.
Quite a difference, and since I can't find the original publication it's hard to make out who's right.
I may be naive, but I've been thinking that the bigger game developers ought to cooperate and form some kind of platform-agnostic server browsing service which would untie them from the pc/mac lock-up that is now. I really hate it when I can't play with my PC friends just because I've got a mac, and this GameSpy mess really needs a solution, obviously.
The only app I can say I miss on the mac platform is a decent DC client. I know there's dcgui-qt (now known as Valknut), but it's sooo slow on my machine (Power Mac G4 1 GHz). Neo-modus DC gets me kicked out of most hubs.
That, the lack of Counterstrike and the general four-month delay before games are ported to the mac are the only things I honestly can say I miss since switching a year and a half ago. Those slight annoyances aside, I've never been happier with how my machine gets out of my way, that it just works. I'll never go back now.
"The joint venture will create a recorded music business better able to serve artists and consumers in this rapidly changing marketplace," Bertelsmann chairman and CEO Gunter Thielen said in a statement late Monday.
Real-world translation: We blow our noses at you, so-called consumers. We fart in your general direction! Now obey us, or we shall taunt you a second time!
This way of looking at it annoys me. How is it, that in order for an opinion to be taken seriously the person who expresses it has to be completely consequent in his actions? The above poster goes on to say that in order for his argument to make sense he would also need to stop using anything that the military uses. How is that really?
I may think that humanity needs to be more concerned about the environment, but I still travel by car or airplane on occasion. Going by bike all the time simply isn't an option. Nonetheless does this my "inconsequence" mean that my opinion isn't valid.
It's the same thing as the catholic church did when it started requiring that all priests need to live in celibacy. All the people that were really good priests but felt they didn't want to sacrifice the ability to marry and have children, would they by definition do a worse job? (Don't mind if they were not "worthy", that's not my point here).
It's a perfectly good point he makes. It's his personal opinion. If he's consequent or not has nothing to do with it.
Do you really think that shipping the first 1100 G5s to Virginia Tech delayed your order six weeks? Surely Apple ought to be able to manufacture machines at a higher pace than roughly 180 a week. Sure, a six week delay is quite annoying when waiting for something like this, but VT's supercomputer wasn't the cause of your wait.
It's true, when looking at what you really need and what actually would make a difference to your daily work, having the 'fastest ever' machine might be overkill.
But let's face it, that's not all there's to it. Being able to say that the fastest PC you can buy right now is a mac gives a certain prestige. It's an eye-opener, especially given the 'myths' that've been plagueing Apple and macs for a while about them being slow, incompatible, etc. Getting rid of these myths is important if you're going to make people see macs as an alternative.
One would wonder what the downside of setting the energy saver preference to 'best performance' really is. Seems odd for Apple not to be shipping the machines running at full speed if there isn't any difference when it comes to processor life, etc. Energy use can't be the issue here.
I can see that Apple wants to emphasize that this is one really fast PC, trying to prove it by using 'un-cheatable' numbers as opposed to marketing speech, but I really think they'd look even better if they'd do some comparisions that show what a bandwidth monster those G5s are, which I have been informed is the key to how those Xeons were crushed in the showdown at MW a while ago.
Probably because the record counts the sales of the first week after release, i.e. he sold a lot more copies the second week, but that doesn't matter since the record covers first-week sales.
What I can't stop thinking about is what this says about the performance of the G4s over the x86es, and about how trustworthy Apple's marketing really is...
However, what I'm most worried about is what this says about me, not being able to hold out for the 970s to be released and buying my Power Mac G4 MDD a month ago.
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What's not so obvious to foreign readers is the fact that the paper carrying out the poll was Aftonbladet, one of Sweden's two major tabloids, and that its online readers hardly represent the Swedish population in general. The Pirate Party getting 57% in the actual election is obviously not going to happen.
Well, since you asked, in the last election in Sweden (2002), the figures were:
Males
18-22: 68.2%
22-24: 70.5%
25-29: 73.6%
Females
18-22: 72.6%
22-24: 67.4%
25-29: 80.6%
In 2002, men and women in ages 18-29 counted 1,289,000 persons (out of a total population of just over 9 million).
Courtesy of Statistiska Centralbyrån
Europe Internet Usage Statistics
USA Internet Usage Statistics
Looks like the 3G series has reached its end-of-life as far as support goes.
Not quite. My first generation iPod received new functionality as recently as with the iPod updater before this one (or if it was the one before that, don't quite recall), which means either February or March 2005. What was new was the ability to customize the menus, something that previously only had been possible on newer iPods.
Hmm, I'm not sure that all construction workers would be needed to supervise the robots. The vast majority would probably have to find new employment.
Quite a difference, and since I can't find the original publication it's hard to make out who's right.
Brad Oliver of Aspyr Media that (among others) does mac ports of popular titles has commented on the issue in the Inside Mac Games forums, right here: http://www.insidemacgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php? p=192796&highlight=#192796
I may be naive, but I've been thinking that the bigger game developers ought to cooperate and form some kind of platform-agnostic server browsing service which would untie them from the pc/mac lock-up that is now. I really hate it when I can't play with my PC friends just because I've got a mac, and this GameSpy mess really needs a solution, obviously.
The only app I can say I miss on the mac platform is a decent DC client. I know there's dcgui-qt (now known as Valknut), but it's sooo slow on my machine (Power Mac G4 1 GHz). Neo-modus DC gets me kicked out of most hubs.
That, the lack of Counterstrike and the general four-month delay before games are ported to the mac are the only things I honestly can say I miss since switching a year and a half ago. Those slight annoyances aside, I've never been happier with how my machine gets out of my way, that it just works. I'll never go back now.
"The joint venture will create a recorded music business better able to serve artists and consumers in this rapidly changing marketplace," Bertelsmann chairman and CEO Gunter Thielen said in a statement late Monday.
Real-world translation:
We blow our noses at you, so-called consumers. We fart in your general direction!
Now obey us, or we shall taunt you a second time!
This way of looking at it annoys me. How is it, that in order for an opinion to be taken seriously the person who expresses it has to be completely consequent in his actions? The above poster goes on to say that in order for his argument to make sense he would also need to stop using anything that the military uses. How is that really?
I may think that humanity needs to be more concerned about the environment, but I still travel by car or airplane on occasion. Going by bike all the time simply isn't an option. Nonetheless does this my "inconsequence" mean that my opinion isn't valid.
It's the same thing as the catholic church did when it started requiring that all priests need to live in celibacy. All the people that were really good priests but felt they didn't want to sacrifice the ability to marry and have children, would they by definition do a worse job? (Don't mind if they were not "worthy", that's not my point here).
It's a perfectly good point he makes. It's his personal opinion. If he's consequent or not has nothing to do with it.
How about: "Take me, drunk - I'm home"?
Do you really think that shipping the first 1100 G5s to Virginia Tech delayed your order six weeks? Surely Apple ought to be able to manufacture machines at a higher pace than roughly 180 a week. Sure, a six week delay is quite annoying when waiting for something like this, but VT's supercomputer wasn't the cause of your wait.
It's true, when looking at what you really need and what actually would make a difference to your daily work, having the 'fastest ever' machine might be overkill.
But let's face it, that's not all there's to it. Being able to say that the fastest PC you can buy right now is a mac gives a certain prestige. It's an eye-opener, especially given the 'myths' that've been plagueing Apple and macs for a while about them being slow, incompatible, etc. Getting rid of these myths is important if you're going to make people see macs as an alternative.
One would wonder what the downside of setting the energy saver preference to 'best performance' really is. Seems odd for Apple not to be shipping the machines running at full speed if there isn't any difference when it comes to processor life, etc. Energy use can't be the issue here.
I can see that Apple wants to emphasize that this is one really fast PC, trying to prove it by using 'un-cheatable' numbers as opposed to marketing speech, but I really think they'd look even better if they'd do some comparisions that show what a bandwidth monster those G5s are, which I have been informed is the key to how those Xeons were crushed in the showdown at MW a while ago.
...school sales literally kept [Apple] afloat while the IBM PC ate their lunches (...)
:P
What do you mean? They had swimming on their schedule or something?
Probably because the record counts the sales of the first week after release, i.e. he sold a lot more copies the second week, but that doesn't matter since the record covers first-week sales.
What I can't stop thinking about is what this says about the performance of the G4s over the x86es, and about how trustworthy Apple's marketing really is...
However, what I'm most worried about is what this says about me, not being able to hold out for the 970s to be released and buying my Power Mac G4 MDD a month ago.