Dell still gets a pretty big profit margin though.
But it comes mostly from the high end and laptops, which is exactly where Apple is hurting them the most. They can sell all the $300 boxes they want, but Apple's doubled its laptop market share from 6 to 12%.
Jeez, dude, you should have used the LeetKey extension to encode that number as a hex or something:P
Then people would call just to demonstrate they'd figured it out. And also some poor old grandma would be bothered by the rest who didn't figure it out properly.;-)
he noted, I understand, that a lot of cool stuff in 10.5 is being held under wraps to keep them away from the Redmond copiers.
He said that, but I think it's more simple than that. 10.5 won't be out until spring. He needs to save some of the fancy stuff for when it's close to release, otherwise it'll be old news by then.
He'd probably be happy if MS further delayed Vista so that they could incorporate new stuff.
As if stopping the use of mass transit to use a car was an evolution.
For some of us, going to work means hauling our underwear-clad ass from the bedroom to the den. No mass transit involved, though I suppose I could stand to lose a few pounds.
Frankly, I'd be concerned if I had a CEO that said "we will do this and that" and only then ask the developers who in the end will end up making them, if it is possible, how much it'll cost, etc.
People work on their own stuff, in their own departments. Obviously the people actually working on something new know about it. It's not done by elves.
as well as whether or not Steve Jobs will be able to continue leading the company.
This an absurd statement. Why is it even in the submission? Jobs certainly isn't going to jail, and that'd be the only way he wouldn't "continue to lead the company."
There is a perfectly good word for the way you're using unique - "Rare." Why would you pervert the meaning of a different word when you already have what you need?
If I sarcastically say "oh well done" to a fielder who drops an easy catch, it means pretty much the opposite of saying "oh well done" if he had pulled off a brilliant one-handed catch.
Your example doesn't follow. Unlike "couldn't care less" and "could care less," you're using the exact same phrase. Change it to a sarcastic "oh well done" and a straight-forward "Not well done," and it follows.
Also I don't dispute that many people saying "I could care less" don't appreciate what they are saying. But all phrases, expressions, and metaphors, given enough time and use, lose the original "flavor" and come to directly mean what they originally meant in only a "clever" sort of way. English is stuffed to the gills with them (heh.)
I personally have never said "I could care less," but it doesn't bug me when someone else does. There are many phrases that do, but that's not one of them. You may be right about laziness, as "I could care less" is bit easier to say, and that definitely has a long-term affect on language.
So it makes logical and intuitive sense to speak of "degrees of unqiueness"
There can be all the degrees you like leading up to uniqueness, but once you get there you can't go further. On the other hand, if I follow your logic correctly, then it seems "very unique" would mean "almost one of a kind," which to me is too absurd to consider.
The phrase "I could care less" is a sarcastic version of "I couldn't care less." They mean the same thing. Why not worry about something else, like "very unique," or even the absurd dilution of "awesome."
BTW, Pete, I figured you got that I was kidding....
Yeah. The feeling of realization was pretty much the same as waking up and forgetting you're in a hotel room instead of at home. That's always a little weird. One time I forgot what country I was in:-)
I was more amazed than concerned. I've had it happen other times, but never with such a large gap, and never with making an unplanned turn! (To be fair, it was an exit that I had frequently taken, and my "autopilot" seems to have simply preferred that route, though I had intended to continue on the original freeway.)
I was once driving on a freeway (in Los Angeles, where there are lots of them) and suddenly "woke up" on a different freeway. I'm of course not saying that I was abducted, I was just thinking about other things and spaced out, but I had absolutely no recollection of making the change. It was rather disconcerting. I believe my actual reaction was "How the fuck did I get here?"
in the study of 2,720 gifted people conducted by this author, more than 80% of those who reported having asthma also had allergies;
And among "non-gifted" people, what percentage who have asthma also have allergies? I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing it's pretty much the same number.
And in a separate study, 80% of gifted people who reported being really tall also tended to bump their heads more often than short people, clearly indicating a correlation between intelligence and impaired spatial abilities.
"A popular folk etymology for spill the beans claims that in ancient Greece, applicants for membership in secret societies were voted upon by having the existing members drop beans into an opaque pottery jar.... It's an engaging tale, and beans were in fact once used as ballots, but since the phrase is American and was not seen until 1919, neither the story nor the jar holds water."
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But it comes mostly from the high end and laptops, which is exactly where Apple is hurting them the most. They can sell all the $300 boxes they want, but Apple's doubled its laptop market share from 6 to 12%.
Then people would call just to demonstrate they'd figured it out. And also some poor old grandma would be bothered by the rest who didn't figure it out properly. ;-)
How far is that from Mount Pilot?
He said that, but I think it's more simple than that. 10.5 won't be out until spring. He needs to save some of the fancy stuff for when it's close to release, otherwise it'll be old news by then.
He'd probably be happy if MS further delayed Vista so that they could incorporate new stuff.
No, your mod points from yesterday are gone for good.
For some of us, going to work means hauling our underwear-clad ass from the bedroom to the den. No mass transit involved, though I suppose I could stand to lose a few pounds.
People work on their own stuff, in their own departments. Obviously the people actually working on something new know about it. It's not done by elves.
Sorry, I was just being a smart ass. I don't disagree with what you said.
This an absurd statement. Why is it even in the submission? Jobs certainly isn't going to jail, and that'd be the only way he wouldn't "continue to lead the company."
The submitter simply pulled it out of his ass.
There is a perfectly good word for the way you're using unique - "Rare." Why would you pervert the meaning of a different word when you already have what you need?
Your example doesn't follow. Unlike "couldn't care less" and "could care less," you're using the exact same phrase. Change it to a sarcastic "oh well done" and a straight-forward "Not well done," and it follows.
Also I don't dispute that many people saying "I could care less" don't appreciate what they are saying. But all phrases, expressions, and metaphors, given enough time and use, lose the original "flavor" and come to directly mean what they originally meant in only a "clever" sort of way. English is stuffed to the gills with them (heh.)
I personally have never said "I could care less," but it doesn't bug me when someone else does. There are many phrases that do, but that's not one of them. You may be right about laziness, as "I could care less" is bit easier to say, and that definitely has a long-term affect on language.
There can be all the degrees you like leading up to uniqueness, but once you get there you can't go further. On the other hand, if I follow your logic correctly, then it seems "very unique" would mean "almost one of a kind," which to me is too absurd to consider.
The phrase "I could care less" is a sarcastic version of "I couldn't care less." They mean the same thing. Why not worry about something else, like "very unique," or even the absurd dilution of "awesome."
Yeah. The feeling of realization was pretty much the same as waking up and forgetting you're in a hotel room instead of at home. That's always a little weird. One time I forgot what country I was in :-)
"Oh yeah, I'm in Nicaragua..."
Nice sig, by the way.
I was more amazed than concerned. I've had it happen other times, but never with such a large gap, and never with making an unplanned turn! (To be fair, it was an exit that I had frequently taken, and my "autopilot" seems to have simply preferred that route, though I had intended to continue on the original freeway.)
Nope. You're safe :-)
I was southbound on the 5, then found myself heading east on the 10.
I was once driving on a freeway (in Los Angeles, where there are lots of them) and suddenly "woke up" on a different freeway. I'm of course not saying that I was abducted, I was just thinking about other things and spaced out, but I had absolutely no recollection of making the change. It was rather disconcerting. I believe my actual reaction was "How the fuck did I get here?"
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Light Brigade, of the: poetic
What about the point of not having .net dependencies? That seems like a good one to me.
* if you actually get that reference you are as old as dirt.
It also gives us pause for thought when we to heavily rely on spell checkers.
And among "non-gifted" people, what percentage who have asthma also have allergies? I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing it's pretty much the same number.
And in a separate study, 80% of gifted people who reported being really tall also tended to bump their heads more often than short people, clearly indicating a correlation between intelligence and impaired spatial abilities.
Whaddaya mean? The secret gets out all the time. The brilliant part is that almost nobody believes it, so those who do get branded as "wackos."
"A popular folk etymology for spill the beans claims that in ancient Greece, applicants for membership in secret societies were voted upon by having the existing members drop beans into an opaque pottery jar.... It's an engaging tale, and beans were in fact once used as ballots, but since the phrase is American and was not seen until 1919, neither the story nor the jar holds water."
And in fact to this day there are still no lettuce-based game controllers. And we call ourselves advanced.