32 Stations vs 468 stations Built in the last 20 years vs built in the last 100 years... 20 hours a day vs 24/7/365
The NYC Subway is the lifeblood of the City. Nearly 70% of Manhattan households don't own a car. I can't imagine the city functioning without a subway system, it's the very heart and soul of the city (at least Manhattan.)
You're comparing a system that was built in 1986 to appease a World's Fair to one of the largest and oldest subways in the world? That's like saying "Forget the Mona Lisa. Now 'The Incredibles' is real art!"
Welcome to public transportation Vancouver... hopefully when it gets bigger people will actually use it.
I always thought NeXT had a captialized "XT" as a play off of the "XT" computers from back in the day. The N is captialized simply because it is the first letter in a proper name.
"Don't ask me, check on Yahoo" is not the same as "don't ask me, google it." Google has become a verb and it's in the lexicon now.
It's like comparing "Make a copy of it on a Canon" to "Make a Xerox"... or "Do you have a tissue made by Scotts?" vs "Do you have a Kleenex?"
(Now I know, you can say "look at where Xerox is now"... but the success of a company like Google is more closely tied to how many people know of it, than Xerox ever was)
Um... for someone who mentions "P/E" Ratio, you sure don't understand the basics of finance... why are you looking for the word "profit" when you are talking about financials. You want "earnings"... and lookie... there is in the article!
"The results did not disappoint. Google's earnings of $52 million, or 19 cents a share, were up from $20.4 million, or 8 cents a share, in the July-to-September period last year. And without one-time charges to cover its stock-based compensation and the settlement of a patent dispute with rival Yahoo Inc., Google said it would have earned 70 cents a share. That beat the consensus estimate of 56 cents a share from securities analysts polled by the Thomson Financial research firm."
There's a thing called Earnings (profit attributable to shareholders.) Look into it, and get back to me.
Me neither, with Linux. 4) OSX shipps with XCode for free, a fully functional development environment with excellent documentation Eclipse, Glade and your assorted command line utilites are all on Linux. Python, Perl, PHP etc. Very good stuff. Fortunately, all those tools ALSO work in OSX. The nicest part is they actually work out of the box (no need to install configure apache, etc...) And the OSX implementation of Swing is sweet... I dare say sweeter than ANY implementation (hardware accelerated Swing? Sweet!)
5) Graphics acceleration at the presentation layer far exceeds any other OS out there at the moment You need to check out Xorg. Their hardware compositing is very, very impressive. Ok Ok... I have a gentoo box on my desk running the newest xorg (6.8) with compositing... First of all, aside from the fact that I had to rip out my ATI card and put in a nvidia card to get it to work... comparing an ENTIRELY VECTOR BASED WINDOWING SYSTEM to a compositing engine is insane. Drop shadows? Transparency? How about on the fly real deformation of ANY window in any way? You can't even compare the two.
6) Apple hardware retains a higher resale value than just about any other manufacturer out there, check out ebay to see for your self This is just because they are more expensive and updated less. Also you pay a lot more at the start with Mac. Ok, you don't pay ALOT more nowadays to start with a Mac, many people have disputed that. However, the resale value is greater and that has nothing to do with less frequent release cycles... I don't actually know why they do (more reliably built? it just works?) but they do.
7) The construction of the circuitry is of much higher quality than most of the competition, just take a side by side comparison of several pc motherboards to apple motherboards I would, but I can't seem to find Apple motherboards anywhere. Oh, you mean the propetiary ones that no-one else but Apple can buy? The same ones that have had thousands of defects in iBooks? The Motherboard is the only part Apple makes themselves AFAIK. Even then it's mainly other chipsets on it. CPU, HDD, RAM, GPU, PSU - all just generic components
Ok Ok... generic components. Apple INVENTED FIREWIRE. The G5 SYSTEM BUS was INVENTED at Apple (yes, they worked with IBM on it... they were part of the team that invented it.) I doubt you've even looked inside a G5, it is an amazingly built machine. The fact that the fans haev processing units to determine when they should turn on is just one of many subtle touches that Apple engineered. The dual independent 1.25ghz system buses (yes, invented AT APPLE) is pretty freaking sweet too.
You know what I also don't get... people bitch about Apple using propreitary hardware in the past, and now they bitch that Apple uses generic components. I like the fact that there is a standardized AGP/PCI-X bus (which was around on the G5 for over a year already) and everything else is a standard component.
But please, Apple is probably the ONLY mainstream computer company that actually architects their own machines... do you think Dell does?
Wait a minute... Do you realize what you're comparing?
You really honestly think Fahrenheit 911 being released in theaters where you have to pay between $6-$11 (nationally) to see it as the same as a normal television channel airing a "news item" with no commericials on PUBLIC AIRWAVES?
Are you crazy? Are you blind? How are they at all the same.
What IS hypocritical, is that the republicans shut down a movie about the Reagan family (The Reagans, supposed to air on CBS) because they felt it was unfair/politically motivated. AND IT WASN'T EVEN ABOUT A CURRENT CANDIDATE!!!!!
That's actually not true. It seems like NBC is planning on prempting ALL of their coverage on all of their networks (I wonder what they're going to do with CNBC during business hours... olympics + stock ticker?)
They'll be broadcasting it ALL across all 7 of their channels (bravo, cnbc, msnbc, telemundo, nbc, USA, nbcHD [local HD affiliates]. The HD broadcasts will be in 5.1 1080i too, which is pretty damn slick.
Of course, aside from a prestige thing, this looks like network programming suicide.
The hardware guys say that all software will be free, and the software guys say that one day all hardware will be free.
That isn't surprising. Both sides probably trivalize the aspects of the other side's creation (firmware guys are probably just skitzo and telling themselves they are useless, period.)
Both sides need to realize that their counterparts create important, value-added things that are complicated. A software OS developer can't develop a good CPU (and needs one!) and a hardware designer can't code a great OS (but needs one for his chip!)
Both sides are needed. Intel's CEO had a great interview on ZDNet today, and he basically seems to "get it."
I know this is really REALLY buried in the thread now, but nobody in NYC seems to be afraid of showing off their tech. EVERYWHERE you look you see the white ipod headphones.
Even better.. I was riding the 7 train home from Grand Central on Thursday and I saw a guy carrying a 17" powerbook closed under his arm like a notebook. He had headphones plugged in and was listening to it I think.
Talk about a big walkman. It's funny... nobody really worries about being mugged in most of NYC anymore.
If you don't want to read the actual report, some facts from it:
- Overall crime decreased 5.8% in all five boroughs, while the national average drop was 0.5%
- Most of the crime reduction came from a huge decrease in property crimes, such as auto thefts; violent crime was down by 6.9% in NYC, compared to a 6.5% decrease in cities over 9 million, while NYC's property crime decreased 5.4%, with other 9M+ cities experiencing just a 1% drop.
- NYC's police force is the largest (37,000 members) and has the most cops per capita (one officer per every 215 residents), at a cost of $5 billion a year.
So how about that as actual facts? The FBI (headquarted in DC), and CNN (headquarted in Atlanta), are some other sources... still calling "bullshit" troll? Or do you have some other links?
I wouldn't call the Safest Large City in America (of 10 largest cities in America) "crime-ridden." In fact, looking at what technically is considered a city (greater than 100,000 pop), NYC ranks 211 out of 230 in the country (higher number is better.)
New York City fights crime better than any other city in America. The fact that at 8 million people, it's safer than most cities of 100,000 people is amazing.
It's alot like www.opensecrets.org. I really think that anything involving the government should be as open as possibile, including figuring out where politicians get their money. I want to know if there is any possibility for a candidate to be influenced by his big donors (cough, cough, bush).
This is a GOOD thing. We should know who's donating to what political party, if only to keep people (and money) in check with power.
What are you talking about? I mean, NYC is clearly the most cultured city in America and easily one of the most cultured cities in the world.
It has the second largest art museum in the world, the largest modern art museum in the world, one of most reknown orchestra/fine arts/performing arts centers in the world, broadway and theater, the largest public library in the world, one of the largest urban parks in the world, and 100s of other little museums (ok and some very big ones like the first Guggenheim, the Museum of Natural History, etc...) not to mention an ivy league school, Greenwich Village, (birthplace and home to some of the most prolific English authors in the world), amazing nightlife and restaurant life...
The only problem with NYC is it's very very expensive compared to, not only the US, but most of the world.
But seriously, I've spent a summer in Paris and even the Parisans admit that NYC is a cultured city. There's articulate (arguably justifiable) anti-american bashing, and stupid american bashing. You just did the latter... have you ever been to NYC?
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Let's compare the two systems:
Vancouver vs NYC
32 Stations vs 468 stations
Built in the last 20 years vs built in the last 100 years...
20 hours a day vs 24/7/365
The NYC Subway is the lifeblood of the City. Nearly 70% of Manhattan households don't own a car. I can't imagine the city functioning without a subway system, it's the very heart and soul of the city (at least Manhattan.)
You're comparing a system that was built in 1986 to appease a World's Fair to one of the largest and oldest subways in the world? That's like saying "Forget the Mona Lisa. Now 'The Incredibles' is real art!"
Welcome to public transportation Vancouver... hopefully when it gets bigger people will actually use it.
I always thought NeXT had a captialized "XT" as a play off of the "XT" computers from back in the day. The N is captialized simply because it is the first letter in a proper name.
Hence NeXT is the computer after the XT.
Oh well, that's at least how I always read it.
What you just said is not the same thing...
... or "Do you have a tissue made by Scotts?" vs "Do you have a Kleenex?"
"Don't ask me, check on Yahoo" is not the same as "don't ask me, google it." Google has become a verb and it's in the lexicon now.
It's like comparing "Make a copy of it on a Canon" to "Make a Xerox"
(Now I know, you can say "look at where Xerox is now"... but the success of a company like Google is more closely tied to how many people know of it, than Xerox ever was)
Um... for someone who mentions "P/E" Ratio, you sure don't understand the basics of finance... why are you looking for the word "profit" when you are talking about financials. You want "earnings"... and lookie... there is in the article!
"The results did not disappoint. Google's earnings of $52 million, or 19 cents a share, were up from $20.4 million, or 8 cents a share, in the July-to-September period last year. And without one-time charges to cover its stock-based compensation and the settlement of a patent dispute with rival Yahoo Inc., Google said it would have earned 70 cents a share. That beat the consensus estimate of 56 cents a share from securities analysts polled by the Thomson Financial research firm."
There's a thing called Earnings (profit attributable to shareholders.)
Look into it, and get back to me.
Zero profit at Google?
Are you mad or just misinformed?
Me neither, with Linux.
4) OSX shipps with XCode for free, a fully functional development environment with excellent documentation
Eclipse, Glade and your assorted command line utilites are all on Linux. Python, Perl, PHP etc. Very good stuff.
Fortunately, all those tools ALSO work in OSX. The nicest part is they actually work out of the box (no need to install configure apache, etc...) And the OSX implementation of Swing is sweet... I dare say sweeter than ANY implementation (hardware accelerated Swing? Sweet!)
5) Graphics acceleration at the presentation layer far exceeds any other OS out there at the moment
You need to check out Xorg. Their hardware compositing is very, very impressive.
Ok Ok... I have a gentoo box on my desk running the newest xorg (6.8) with compositing... First of all, aside from the fact that I had to rip out my ATI card and put in a nvidia card to get it to work... comparing an ENTIRELY VECTOR BASED WINDOWING SYSTEM to a compositing engine is insane. Drop shadows? Transparency? How about on the fly real deformation of ANY window in any way? You can't even compare the two.
6) Apple hardware retains a higher resale value than just about any other manufacturer out there, check out ebay to see for your self
This is just because they are more expensive and updated less. Also you pay a lot more at the start with Mac.
Ok, you don't pay ALOT more nowadays to start with a Mac, many people have disputed that. However, the resale value is greater and that has nothing to do with less frequent release cycles... I don't actually know why they do (more reliably built? it just works?) but they do.
7) The construction of the circuitry is of much higher quality than most of the competition, just take a side by side comparison of several pc motherboards to apple motherboards
I would, but I can't seem to find Apple motherboards anywhere. Oh, you mean the propetiary ones that no-one else but Apple can buy? The same ones that have had thousands of defects in iBooks?
The Motherboard is the only part Apple makes themselves AFAIK. Even then it's mainly other chipsets on it. CPU, HDD, RAM, GPU, PSU - all just generic components
Ok Ok... generic components. Apple INVENTED FIREWIRE. The G5 SYSTEM BUS was INVENTED at Apple (yes, they worked with IBM on it... they were part of the team that invented it.) I doubt you've even looked inside a G5, it is an amazingly built machine. The fact that the fans haev processing units to determine when they should turn on is just one of many subtle touches that Apple engineered. The dual independent 1.25ghz system buses (yes, invented AT APPLE) is pretty freaking sweet too.
You know what I also don't get... people bitch about Apple using propreitary hardware in the past, and now they bitch that Apple uses generic components. I like the fact that there is a standardized AGP/PCI-X bus (which was around on the G5 for over a year already) and everything else is a standard component.
But please, Apple is probably the ONLY mainstream computer company that actually architects their own machines... do you think Dell does?
Public Airwaves vs Movie Theater Movie...
How are they the same?
That's like me going to the corner and shouting "Bush is a Murderer" and comparing that to a movie being aired on Showtime...
Wait a minute... Do you realize what you're comparing?
You really honestly think Fahrenheit 911 being released in theaters where you have to pay between $6-$11 (nationally) to see it as the same as a normal television channel airing a "news item" with no commericials on PUBLIC AIRWAVES?
Are you crazy? Are you blind? How are they at all the same.
What IS hypocritical, is that the republicans shut down a movie about the Reagan family (The Reagans, supposed to air on CBS) because they felt it was unfair/politically motivated. AND IT WASN'T EVEN ABOUT A CURRENT CANDIDATE!!!!!
You want to talk about hypocritical....
Took like 20 seconds to find the answer to that. From the adbar page:
"adbar uses the "test" adsense mode, so advertisers don't pay Google and Google doesn't pay anyone."
I think that's the point... NBC is planning to show people that they can do good coverage, because ALOT of people complained ALOT about Sydney.
1200+ hours of live coverage across 7 channels all day is about as good as you can get.
That's actually not true. It seems like NBC is planning on prempting ALL of their coverage on all of their networks (I wonder what they're going to do with CNBC during business hours... olympics + stock ticker?)
They'll be broadcasting it ALL across all 7 of their channels (bravo, cnbc, msnbc, telemundo, nbc, USA, nbcHD [local HD affiliates]. The HD broadcasts will be in 5.1 1080i too, which is pretty damn slick.
Of course, aside from a prestige thing, this looks like network programming suicide.
The even more impressive part is all of the coverage on the normal NBC affiliates will be in HD with 5.1 (!!) sound.
Now that's just sick! (and about time, NBC's HD coverage is the worse of the big 3)
The hardware guys say that all software will be free, and the software guys say that one day all hardware will be free.
That isn't surprising. Both sides probably trivalize the aspects of the other side's creation (firmware guys are probably just skitzo and telling themselves they are useless, period.)
Both sides need to realize that their counterparts create important, value-added things that are complicated. A software OS developer can't develop a good CPU (and needs one!) and a hardware designer can't code a great OS (but needs one for his chip!)
Both sides are needed. Intel's CEO had a great interview on ZDNet today, and he basically seems to "get it."
I know this is really REALLY buried in the thread now, but nobody in NYC seems to be afraid of showing off their tech. EVERYWHERE you look you see the white ipod headphones.
Even better.. I was riding the 7 train home from Grand Central on Thursday and I saw a guy carrying a 17" powerbook closed under his arm like a notebook. He had headphones plugged in and was listening to it I think.
Talk about a big walkman. It's funny... nobody really worries about being mugged in most of NYC anymore.
Man, I don't even know why I'm justifying a troll with a response but:
The Actual FBI Report
Some more stories.
If you don't want to read the actual report, some facts from it:
So how about that as actual facts? The FBI (headquarted in DC), and CNN (headquarted in Atlanta), are some other sources... still calling "bullshit" troll? Or do you have some other links?
Nope.
It's even safer now than in 1997. By a LARGE margin.
Thank you. Come again.
Slashdot added a space between the 2 and the 9, did you notice that? Let me try again: here now.
Better? I guess it's more convenient now that the link works.
I wouldn't call the Safest Large City in America (of 10 largest cities in America) "crime-ridden." In fact, looking at what technically is considered a city (greater than 100,000 pop), NYC ranks 211 out of 230 in the country (higher number is better.)
New York City fights crime better than any other city in America. The fact that at 8 million people, it's safer than most cities of 100,000 people is amazing.
I take it you've never used Eclipse? Eclipse is very responsive and fast on a windows machine.
Congratulations, you've just invoked Godwin's Law. You lose.
It's alot like www.opensecrets.org. I really think that anything involving the government should be as open as possibile, including figuring out where politicians get their money. I want to know if there is any possibility for a candidate to be influenced by his big donors (cough, cough, bush).
This is a GOOD thing. We should know who's donating to what political party, if only to keep people (and money) in check with power.
What are you talking about? I mean, NYC is clearly the most cultured city in America and easily one of the most cultured cities in the world.
It has the second largest art museum in the world, the largest modern art museum in the world, one of most reknown orchestra/fine arts/performing arts centers in the world, broadway and theater, the largest public library in the world, one of the largest urban parks in the world, and 100s of other little museums (ok and some very big ones like the first Guggenheim, the Museum of Natural History, etc...) not to mention an ivy league school, Greenwich Village, (birthplace and home to some of the most prolific English authors in the world), amazing nightlife and restaurant life...
The only problem with NYC is it's very very expensive compared to, not only the US, but most of the world.
But seriously, I've spent a summer in Paris and even the Parisans admit that NYC is a cultured city. There's articulate (arguably justifiable) anti-american bashing, and stupid american bashing. You just did the latter... have you ever been to NYC?
Actually, NYC sales tax is 8.625% not 8.25%, which is the state tax. (It used to be 8.25)
Not everyone can afford a Mac you yuppie fuck.You don't have apt for OS X, now do you?
You have to go through all the trouble of dragging and dropping packages. Whereas, us Debian users use one command for the WHOLE system.
Um... yes we do... In fact, it even uses a little command line program called "apt-get".
So why don't you do some reseach you "anonymous coward fuck?"
You're completely utterly wrong.
The video game industry brought in 10 Billion dollars last year. Compared to the PC game industry which brought in 1 billion.
So basically, the console market is 10 times bigger than the PC market. I mean, it's not even close.
(http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040126/265198_1.html)