with import duty, GST, comparatively low volume sales, (compared to just about everywhere else in the world) plus provision of local support etc, most of it dictated by Govt controls and taxes, I would expect there to be a price difference, Currently 10% on a Macbook Air, which is the same rate as our GST(ax). Although you have got to take into account the FACT that in the past the A$1 = US$0.70. And I want to buy lots of DeWalt tools at US prices, and I want to PAY the same price for PETROL as they do in the USA, but it ain't gonna happen. OFFS!
None of the main players in Govt have any gasp of the issues, legal and otherwise, associated with the internet. The opposition leader doesn't believe that fibre networks can be upgraded to run at 1Gbps or faster.
SSDs will fail in time, it's the way that they work. Although most original owners will not see it happen, the next owner will. This is the same for much of the storage that we are building into personal devices, they will by design end up as junk.
the cost of extra clothing, you can't ride in the same clothes that you ware in your office job, and then there the more frequent showering for cyclists. The building of special cycle-ways, including the removal of trees and flora. As for '15 years' most of the people that I know that are serious cyclists change bike every year or two. They need to have provision of public transport for those rainy/snowy/icey days when riding is not an option. There are a lot of factors that need to be included in a 'life cycle analysis'.
sorry for the 'me too' post, but wasn't postscript supposed to do this? and failed because it had to be licensed. Actually, Adobe has Postscript, and Apple wants to side step it and other print technologies, Adobe has Flash and Apple wants to side step Flash and similar technologies, is there a pattern? What is more interesting is that both Flash and Postscript had there roots as early products for Mac.
A good story, the detail was reasonable, and there was careful choice of wording. As was pointed out in other comments, it may apply to 10.6 or older, which may still be running in larger numbers, but as there are estimates that just under half of the window machines are still running security poor XP, I'll remain smug, but cautious.
most of the waste water is not urine. it's also laundry water, gallons of clean water used to flush your several ounces of urine away, and the water you have showered it. As it has been said, if your town draws water from a river, you get this anyway. Split your water system into clean and grey water and you get less of a problem. You don't need drinking grade water for many industrial processes or watering parks and gardens. Plan ahead and wake up to the fact that people are using more water than some areas of the world can provide.
pocket calculator and a typewriter, and a fire-proof safe. These will cost you less than a reasonable PC and give you many years of service. Just send a couple of $1000 in real currency, none of the e-Money/net-money crap!
If it's a problem at Apple then it's a problem with a number of other hardware devices that use the same battery controllers, so your windoze laptops isn't safe either. Someone could also hack my Logitech Mouse and brick it too, or any number of peripherals that have upgradeable firmware, like my router, printer, keyboard, the list goes on.
initial release of Lion is via the app store, a DVD will follow, at extra cost. It is no different to what a number of major PC companies have done, eg HP, with preinstalled versions of Windoze and a promise to reinstall if the HD fails under warranty. You can save the install app to a DVD or backup drive, you can install Lion on many of your home computers and reinstall Lion by mounting the repaired machine as a HD on the desktop of another Mac. or you can right click on the install app and burn the disk image, dmg, to a DVD, So the story is, What??
who are you kidding? most caps start at 6GB, so a Lion System Download is not that much out of an average monthly allowance. If you only have 'a couple' of GB limit, then you're only checking email.
Although most of the stuff that I have seen says an 'Intel Mac', Lion does not support Core Duo macs, like the 'old' iMac that I am typing this on, bah, poo!
the right answer. Video streaming is the killer. All of the other services are tiny by comparison. I rarely reach my cap because I don't use YouTube, and I don't stream video, but I would like to see people that use up the limited bandwidth that comes into this area, pay for the extra that they use.
I do remember a reference to Kiosk Mode is some early announcements, so this isn't a surprise. It would have been nice to quote from the original post and not some web copycat. (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/12/mac-os-x-lion-can-run-in-chrome-os-like-browser-only-mode/) And attached to the Macrumors.com article the was comment showing that Apple has dropped many of the references to Mac OS X and they just have OS X, (not all references, just most of the stuff linked to the Apple home page)
I have both device type, as for competition, that doesn't rely on just hardware, the average person is buying iOS for the total package, because they are lazy, the same reason people buy windows. Android is cheap, but with may flavours, and only few devices getting upgrades, it will only ever compete on price.
the Apple sync logo has always been rotating arrows, and the wireless logo has always been the same , so logically wi-fi sync will combine the two items. So sue Apple, if they stole your (TM) trademark. As for the concept of Wi-Fi sync, what It was your unique idea? c'mon, it was probably on Apple's to do list. If they stole code, then you have a beef, if they came out with a similar item, well stand in line with all of the people that duplicate ideas, the world if full of them.
very few people scratch build any more, and IMHO Tandy/RadioShack didn't have the range of stock that other stores had. They die because they did a 1/2 assed job.
a majority of the world lives by killing their own food, I don't see why it even rates a mention. Oh yer, he is rich and should have his servant do it, that's why.
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with import duty, GST, comparatively low volume sales, (compared to just about everywhere else in the world) plus provision of local support etc, most of it dictated by Govt controls and taxes, I would expect there to be a price difference, Currently 10% on a Macbook Air, which is the same rate as our GST(ax). Although you have got to take into account the FACT that in the past the A$1 = US$0.70. And I want to buy lots of DeWalt tools at US prices, and I want to PAY the same price for PETROL as they do in the USA, but it ain't gonna happen. OFFS!
None of the main players in Govt have any gasp of the issues, legal and otherwise, associated with the internet. The opposition leader doesn't believe that fibre networks can be upgraded to run at 1Gbps or faster.
SSDs will fail in time, it's the way that they work. Although most original owners will not see it happen, the next owner will. This is the same for much of the storage that we are building into personal devices, they will by design end up as junk.
I have my system set to power off at 11PM and back on at about 6-7am so I never see it boot up, and it save a tiny bit of power of my power bill.
the cost of extra clothing, you can't ride in the same clothes that you ware in your office job, and then there the more frequent showering for cyclists. The building of special cycle-ways, including the removal of trees and flora. As for '15 years' most of the people that I know that are serious cyclists change bike every year or two. They need to have provision of public transport for those rainy/snowy/icey days when riding is not an option. There are a lot of factors that need to be included in a 'life cycle analysis'.
sorry for the 'me too' post, but wasn't postscript supposed to do this? and failed because it had to be licensed. Actually, Adobe has Postscript, and Apple wants to side step it and other print technologies, Adobe has Flash and Apple wants to side step Flash and similar technologies, is there a pattern? What is more interesting is that both Flash and Postscript had there roots as early products for Mac.
I think that Apple, and others, have been using truncated boot processes for a decade or so. I can't see this one going anywhere.
A good story, the detail was reasonable, and there was careful choice of wording. As was pointed out in other comments, it may apply to 10.6 or older, which may still be running in larger numbers, but as there are estimates that just under half of the window machines are still running security poor XP, I'll remain smug, but cautious.
most of the waste water is not urine. it's also laundry water, gallons of clean water used to flush your several ounces of urine away, and the water you have showered it. As it has been said, if your town draws water from a river, you get this anyway. Split your water system into clean and grey water and you get less of a problem. You don't need drinking grade water for many industrial processes or watering parks and gardens. Plan ahead and wake up to the fact that people are using more water than some areas of the world can provide.
pocket calculator and a typewriter, and a fire-proof safe. These will cost you less than a reasonable PC and give you many years of service. Just send a couple of $1000 in real currency, none of the e-Money/net-money crap!
BTW, Apple batteries have had firmware for the last 10-15 years, so your info is a little late.
If it's a problem at Apple then it's a problem with a number of other hardware devices that use the same battery controllers, so your windoze laptops isn't safe either. Someone could also hack my Logitech Mouse and brick it too, or any number of peripherals that have upgradeable firmware, like my router, printer, keyboard, the list goes on.
Without the printer option, I would guess that there are a number of Linux driven pads around, then use a central networked printer.
initial release of Lion is via the app store, a DVD will follow, at extra cost. It is no different to what a number of major PC companies have done, eg HP, with preinstalled versions of Windoze and a promise to reinstall if the HD fails under warranty. You can save the install app to a DVD or backup drive, you can install Lion on many of your home computers and reinstall Lion by mounting the repaired machine as a HD on the desktop of another Mac. or you can right click on the install app and burn the disk image, dmg, to a DVD, So the story is, What??
Digital watches are the fad, analog watches have always been around, and never went away, except in the minds of retailers.
who are you kidding? most caps start at 6GB, so a Lion System Download is not that much out of an average monthly allowance. If you only have 'a couple' of GB limit, then you're only checking email.
Lion is downloaded via the app store, no URL, but you can pause the download if you want.
Although most of the stuff that I have seen says an 'Intel Mac', Lion does not support Core Duo macs, like the 'old' iMac that I am typing this on, bah, poo!
you have no life, it's the 'other stuff' that helps get you one.
the right answer. Video streaming is the killer. All of the other services are tiny by comparison. I rarely reach my cap because I don't use YouTube, and I don't stream video, but I would like to see people that use up the limited bandwidth that comes into this area, pay for the extra that they use.
I do remember a reference to Kiosk Mode is some early announcements, so this isn't a surprise. It would have been nice to quote from the original post and not some web copycat. (http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/12/mac-os-x-lion-can-run-in-chrome-os-like-browser-only-mode/) And attached to the Macrumors.com article the was comment showing that Apple has dropped many of the references to Mac OS X and they just have OS X, (not all references, just most of the stuff linked to the Apple home page)
I have both device type, as for competition, that doesn't rely on just hardware, the average person is buying iOS for the total package, because they are lazy, the same reason people buy windows. Android is cheap, but with may flavours, and only few devices getting upgrades, it will only ever compete on price.
the Apple sync logo has always been rotating arrows, and the wireless logo has always been the same , so logically wi-fi sync will combine the two items. So sue Apple, if they stole your (TM) trademark. As for the concept of Wi-Fi sync, what It was your unique idea? c'mon, it was probably on Apple's to do list. If they stole code, then you have a beef, if they came out with a similar item, well stand in line with all of the people that duplicate ideas, the world if full of them.
very few people scratch build any more, and IMHO Tandy/RadioShack didn't have the range of stock that other stores had. They die because they did a 1/2 assed job.
a majority of the world lives by killing their own food, I don't see why it even rates a mention. Oh yer, he is rich and should have his servant do it, that's why.