a lot of lazy people here who might work a 15 minute walk from the train and will take a cab to the subway or Penn Station. i'm by the Hudson some days and have no problem walking the walk to Penn but lots of cabs and Ubers around here picking people up at the end of the day
instagram is nothing more than a 21st century version of the 20th century celeb magazines in the supermarket checkout lane. only difference is the cost of entry is low where anyone can build a small following posting non-stop selfies and other photos to sell yourself.
small improvements and over time it's a big leap. like Apple's CPU's. 6 years ago they were just another reference design. little changes every year and now they are faster than some of the desktop CPU's on the market
except google won't do it because they are like the old Microsoft. no retail presence and they are content to let others sell and support their product as long as they control it
what's different here is they aren't pushing the worthless stock onto your everyday people like in the late 90's. back then the banks knew the companies were worthless and they went on CNBC and lied to get people to buy the stock. now most of these seem to be hedge funds and other High Net Worth people willing to invest and no chance for us peons.
isn't it like 10 minutes or less from the strip to the airport? say 5 round trips an hour at $14 each round trip. $7 there and back for different people is $70 an hour before expenses. not too bad.
NYC taxi is a huge rip off. the yellow cabs cost almost $100 to rent for a shift. these are old cars that have long been paid off. $100 per shift plus gas. you're out $150 or so before you break even to take money home for bills
i'm sure building the software around it is also a big deal
MS launched it's first cloud service around 2002 or 2003. i was one of the original users when xbox live first launched. they were also learning from hotmail at the time and they had a bunch of other projects at the time that weren't public. i even tested a MS version of dropbox, before there was a dropbox. MS killed it and from what i heard these guys then started dropbox
AWS launched something like a decade ago after Amazon built A9 and some other services before that
you can't just write some software in a year that other companies had been coding for a decade or longer
chances are a wintel laptop will do just as fine but when it's other people's money they want a status MBP to show off. and apple of course will suck up all the cash they can in this case
no stupid, i just built a $1000 PC that plays games, i'll use to teach my kids to code, i can work on via hyper-v and not pollute the main OS with my work software, etc all for $1000. and if something breaks i can replace it piece by piece
i have an MBP at home. i don't develop for IOS so there is nothing OS X does that Windows doesn't do. for the road my wife and I have two iphones, two galaxies and two ipads
i just went back to a desktop. except for my work laptop the Macbook and other laptops i've had rarely left the house and now i have a smartphone for that
the iMac or MBP, plus the applecare to pay for that hard drive or SSD that has a good chance of dying within three years plus tax and you're close to $3000 just to run the same Google Chrome as a Wintel machine for 1/3 the price or less runs
now when it gets sued for vpn in facetime or some other feature they will just throw some change at whoever and make it go away. same with every big company. gives them license to steal any invention and write a small check that's not even a rounding error on their financials to make it go away
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I'm thinking apple knows how long most of these are supposed to be depreciated on balance sheets and times the updates on past sales volume each year
sure some people are screwed, but it's not like most companies will let you buy a new one yearly or every two years without a good reason
everywhere you go
Imagine the horror when you're overseas, no access to cheap data and you have run out of porn to watch
5GHz barely penetrates paper
a lot of lazy people here who might work a 15 minute walk from the train and will take a cab to the subway or Penn Station. i'm by the Hudson some days and have no problem walking the walk to Penn but lots of cabs and Ubers around here picking people up at the end of the day
instagram is nothing more than a 21st century version of the 20th century celeb magazines in the supermarket checkout lane. only difference is the cost of entry is low where anyone can build a small following posting non-stop selfies and other photos to sell yourself.
i can read my kindle ebooks on every device i own. i used to buy music and it was all vanilla MP3's
what walls?
this is how science and engineering work stupid
small improvements and over time it's a big leap. like Apple's CPU's. 6 years ago they were just another reference design. little changes every year and now they are faster than some of the desktop CPU's on the market
lots of other parts on the CPU that will give you a bigger speed boost before adding speed and cores
except google won't do it because they are like the old Microsoft. no retail presence and they are content to let others sell and support their product as long as they control it
this is like when they opened that data center in north carolina. microsoft, google and others had dozens if not hundreds around the world
apple opens one and everyone thinks they will now rule the world
this is what people did in the 80's. repaired expensive electronics.
except apple is making money from the repairs too. cheaper to spend $500 to repair a laptop than buy a new $2000 laptop
nothing but a cliff notes version of ancient Indian, Sumerian and Iranian writings
same in NYC
except the drivers aren't amateurs. all the professional drivers here are the worst at following the rules. always been that way.
been like that for years now. Apple would be dumb to delay a MBP launch to work on a product a lot less people are going to buy.
what's different here is they aren't pushing the worthless stock onto your everyday people like in the late 90's. back then the banks knew the companies were worthless and they went on CNBC and lied to get people to buy the stock. now most of these seem to be hedge funds and other High Net Worth people willing to invest and no chance for us peons.
isn't it like 10 minutes or less from the strip to the airport? say 5 round trips an hour at $14 each round trip. $7 there and back for different people is $70 an hour before expenses. not too bad.
NYC taxi is a huge rip off. the yellow cabs cost almost $100 to rent for a shift. these are old cars that have long been paid off. $100 per shift plus gas. you're out $150 or so before you break even to take money home for bills
i'm sure building the software around it is also a big deal
MS launched it's first cloud service around 2002 or 2003. i was one of the original users when xbox live first launched. they were also learning from hotmail at the time and they had a bunch of other projects at the time that weren't public. i even tested a MS version of dropbox, before there was a dropbox. MS killed it and from what i heard these guys then started dropbox
AWS launched something like a decade ago after Amazon built A9 and some other services before that
you can't just write some software in a year that other companies had been coding for a decade or longer
aren't most drivers now specific fixes for some game or optimizations for specific games?
there are a dozen calendar providers you can use other than apple or icloud so it's not a big deal for professionals
chances are a wintel laptop will do just as fine but when it's other people's money they want a status MBP to show off. and apple of course will suck up all the cash they can in this case
no stupid, i just built a $1000 PC that plays games, i'll use to teach my kids to code, i can work on via hyper-v and not pollute the main OS with my work software, etc all for $1000. and if something breaks i can replace it piece by piece
i have an MBP at home. i don't develop for IOS so there is nothing OS X does that Windows doesn't do. for the road my wife and I have two iphones, two galaxies and two ipads
unless you need it for IOS development Windows runs virtually every IDE out there along with all the graphical and other creation tools
i just went back to a desktop. except for my work laptop the Macbook and other laptops i've had rarely left the house and now i have a smartphone for that
the iMac or MBP, plus the applecare to pay for that hard drive or SSD that has a good chance of dying within three years plus tax and you're close to $3000 just to run the same Google Chrome as a Wintel machine for 1/3 the price or less runs
that's all they need to get back on track
they pinky swear they won't steal it
too bad Apple won as well
now when it gets sued for vpn in facetime or some other feature they will just throw some change at whoever and make it go away. same with every big company. gives them license to steal any invention and write a small check that's not even a rounding error on their financials to make it go away