Wrong. Commodity parts such as memory and hard drives are exactly the same on the Mac. I have bought memory and hard drives at Sam's club, and they work just fine in my Mac.
Yeah RIGHT! Good luck getting apple to send you a new hard drive or memory under warranty, even if you know and they know DAMN WELL that is where the problem lies, you still have to put the whole damn thing back in a box and ship it to them, or take it to some idiotic computer store and wait for them to get the parts from apple. then a so-called "technician" with all the technical prowess of a turnip can put a shiny new chip or powersupply in or reformat your hard drive.
I love my mac, but every warranty issue i've had with other macs made me want to SCREAM.
you stinky goatlickin' spoogemonkeys are making it hard for me to browse at -1.
You are shooting off your own foots i tell you.
If you continue this i will have difficulty finding my way to your home to pleasure your mom and your aunt millie. and you KNOW who's door millie comes knockin' on after she's had a couple whiskey sours at the bowling alley dontcha fucko? Yeah, that's right, and i'm gonna tell her to leave the bowling shoes ON next time.
and this is EXACTLY the reason they're going to port mac OSX to the boring beige PC at macworld expo!!!
Did anyone notice how they are tying a little slogan to every new product introduction? what product goes with this little tagline:
"To boldly go where no PC has gone before"
Its intel man! wake up! INTEL hardware +OSX!
Motorola simply can't keep up with AMD and Intel. Its not about clock speed or platform, its about an industry that innovates by throwing more little transistors on a wafer. People who buy macs now will buy them and will continue to buy them regardless of what brand of sand is inside the box. Steve has proven again and again its really about the pretty colors and the stylish shiny bits and the packaging... and he's about to do it again.
Of course to be fair he's also proven that it all don't mean squat without a rock solid operating system, which ties in nicely to the true plan behind OSX: eat microsoft's lunch. XP is a wholesale failure because its ugly. this presents Stevie with a golden opportunity. the key is playing well with others.
Mac OS has to run on Intel based hardware to gain market share. I would run out and buy OSX for my pc tomorrow if they offered it and never look back. (Yes, i know it will only support a limited range of hardware) but this ball of wax is bigger than the PC now. The strength is in the OTHER bits Apple will sell with the embedded bsd/OSX based systems inside. See! we're back to that whole digital hub with a myriad of stylish expensive peripherials concept again! It goes way beyond the gadgets. Its about getting all that crap to work together flawlessly as a system that is significantly differentiated from the competition who incidentally will be attacking on all sides at a lower price sans integration. Then convincing people they need it. Of course there's room to share licenseing of technology with all of your friends. (one click music buying on the ipod anyone?) THe most important thing here is that they maintain a premium price point for this integration. The integration can even be mostly cosmetic. It doesn't matter.
Apple will then proceed to beat Microsoft in the services department, taking the wind out of their sails by tying apple services to a stylish and tangible device (something MS doesn't have). People don't like service unless they're getting something they can fondle ya know. Apple makes perfect shiny wonderful fondly things now. they're in teh shiny fondly things business.
Of course, I'm negelecting the whole server side of the plan, which is mostly accomplished with open source stuff. bsd and all that. maybe they'll even call in IBM for some bigger iron to make it work. Yeah. that sounds like a plan.
Add a little of the famous Apple PR to the mix, get on the 6 o clock news and into time magazine so it gets past the thick skulls of Aunt Millie and Uncle Oscar. (look millie, them apples work with pcs now, well i'll be danged ain't it purtty?) A little free beer, a little something for the press to chew on that doesn't involve war. tada! steve creates some magic again!
go out and buy your apple stock now kids...
(stay tuned for part 2 of steve's world domination)
It makes me laugh uncontrollably every time i hear it cause its such a loaded word. loaded and overused. beat to death around here actually. these union fatcats keep saying foreign steel "dumping" is the cause of their unemployment. and now this word has crawled out from under that industry into the software industry apparantly.
Well wake up and bust out your macroeconomics textbooks from your early college days cause this called "dumping" is actually the markets way of dealing with too much supply and not enough demand. it seems that people are using exotic materials like "plastics" as replacements for lots of things that used to be made out of metal, and for anyone in any industry to remain competitive when your industry is shrinking or changing they have to innovate AND become more efficient. Otherwise you are a dinosaur. (i.e. lunch for more adaptable denizens of the planet)
I suppose this line of thinking doesn't exactly apply to the software industry but it fits rather nicely when you start throwing words around like "dumping" -- yeah software's a commodity with a near-zero cost of producing unit #2 yadda yadda yadda yadda...
This still applies to our friends in redmond. Their so called "dumping" is just competition in another segment of an overcrowded industry.
Competition rears its ugly head again as the dinosaurs fail to innovate and die. get it? its a cycle. MS is not an invincible or allpowerful monster. they're a dinosaur waiting to happen.
the government can help this process along of course if they are actually allowed to do more than slap MS's hands. (i.e. force them to play nice thereby making the world a better place) when real innovation is allowed to grow, everyone benefits.
Nuclear power is more expensive more dangerous and more harmful to the environment long term than coal/gas. not to mention about 40% more expensive pkwh (depends who you talk to)
Solar and wind energy should be a bigger focus, but we lack an efficient transport and storage mechanism. We obviously don't have enough of an incentive to develop these technologies. dino-oil is cheap.
Someday when we have a global power grid that efficiently moves energy between the continents, we will be able to produce peak-time energy for the other side of the globe and vice versa. for now i'm happily releasing nasty hydrocarbons to power my computer thankyouveddymuch
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Wrong. Commodity parts such as memory and hard drives are exactly the same on the Mac. I have bought memory and hard drives at Sam's club, and they work just fine in my Mac.
Yeah RIGHT! Good luck getting apple to send you a new hard drive or memory under warranty, even if you know and they know DAMN WELL that is where the problem lies, you still have to put the whole damn thing back in a box and ship it to them, or take it to some idiotic computer store and wait for them to get the parts from apple. then a so-called "technician" with all the technical prowess of a turnip can put a shiny new chip or powersupply in or reformat your hard drive.
I love my mac, but every warranty issue i've had with other macs made me want to SCREAM.
you stinky goatlickin' spoogemonkeys are making it hard for me to browse at -1.
You are shooting off your own foots i tell you.
If you continue this i will have difficulty finding my way to your home to pleasure your mom and your aunt millie. and you KNOW who's door millie comes knockin' on after she's had a couple whiskey sours at the bowling alley dontcha fucko? Yeah, that's right, and i'm gonna tell her to leave the bowling shoes ON next time.
This reminded me a similar challenge (without the combat and mayhem of course:) The GRM $2002 motorsports challenge
Rules are you buy, build and race a car for under $2002.00. The Challenge consists of a drag race, autocross and a concours competition.
i have fun with this on a regular basis.
some guy named goatse cxor apparantly works here...
that's "pregnancy" you jackass.
next time use a dickshunary.
"don't steal music."
- Steve Jobs
and this is EXACTLY the reason they're going to port mac OSX to the boring beige PC at macworld expo!!!
Did anyone notice how they are tying a little slogan to every new product introduction? what product goes with this little tagline:
"To boldly go where no PC has gone before"
Its intel man! wake up! INTEL hardware +OSX!
Motorola simply can't keep up with AMD and Intel. Its not about clock speed or platform, its about an industry that innovates by throwing more little transistors on a wafer. People who buy macs now will buy them and will continue to buy them regardless of what brand of sand is inside the box. Steve has proven again and again its really about the pretty colors and the stylish shiny bits and the packaging... and he's about to do it again.
Of course to be fair he's also proven that it all don't mean squat without a rock solid operating system, which ties in nicely to the true plan behind OSX: eat microsoft's lunch. XP is a wholesale failure because its ugly. this presents Stevie with a golden opportunity. the key is playing well with others.
Mac OS has to run on Intel based hardware to gain market share. I would run out and buy OSX for my pc tomorrow if they offered it and never look back. (Yes, i know it will only support a limited range of hardware) but this ball of wax is bigger than the PC now. The strength is in the OTHER bits Apple will sell with the embedded bsd/OSX based systems inside. See! we're back to that whole digital hub with a myriad of stylish expensive peripherials concept again! It goes way beyond the gadgets. Its about getting all that crap to work together flawlessly as a system that is significantly differentiated from the competition who incidentally will be attacking on all sides at a lower price sans integration. Then convincing people they need it. Of course there's room to share licenseing of technology with all of your friends. (one click music buying on the ipod anyone?) THe most important thing here is that they maintain a premium price point for this integration. The integration can even be mostly cosmetic. It doesn't matter.
Apple will then proceed to beat Microsoft in the services department, taking the wind out of their sails by tying apple services to a stylish and tangible device (something MS doesn't have). People don't like service unless they're getting something they can fondle ya know. Apple makes perfect shiny wonderful fondly things now. they're in teh shiny fondly things business.
Of course, I'm negelecting the whole server side of the plan, which is mostly accomplished with open source stuff. bsd and all that. maybe they'll even call in IBM for some bigger iron to make it work. Yeah. that sounds like a plan.
Add a little of the famous Apple PR to the mix, get on the 6 o clock news and into time magazine so it gets past the thick skulls of Aunt Millie and Uncle Oscar. (look millie, them apples work with pcs now, well i'll be danged ain't it purtty?) A little free beer, a little something for the press to chew on that doesn't involve war. tada! steve creates some magic again!
go out and buy your apple stock now kids...
(stay tuned for part 2 of steve's world domination)
TV Says
Donuts are high in fat
Kazoo
Found a hobo in my room
Its princess Leah
The yodel of life
Give me back my sweater
Or i will play my guitar
i love the term "dumping"
It makes me laugh uncontrollably every time i hear it cause its such a loaded word. loaded and overused. beat to death around here actually. these union fatcats keep saying foreign steel "dumping" is the cause of their unemployment. and now this word has crawled out from under that industry into the software industry apparantly.
Well wake up and bust out your macroeconomics textbooks from your early college days cause this called "dumping" is actually the markets way of dealing with too much supply and not enough demand. it seems that people are using exotic materials like "plastics" as replacements for lots of things that used to be made out of metal, and for anyone in any industry to remain competitive when your industry is shrinking or changing they have to innovate AND become more efficient. Otherwise you are a dinosaur. (i.e. lunch for more adaptable denizens of the planet)
I suppose this line of thinking doesn't exactly apply to the software industry but it fits rather nicely when you start throwing words around like "dumping" -- yeah software's a commodity with a near-zero cost of producing unit #2 yadda yadda yadda yadda...
This still applies to our friends in redmond. Their so called "dumping" is just competition in another segment of an overcrowded industry.
Competition rears its ugly head again as the dinosaurs fail to innovate and die. get it? its a cycle. MS is not an invincible or allpowerful monster. they're a dinosaur waiting to happen.
the government can help this process along of course if they are actually allowed to do more than slap MS's hands. (i.e. force them to play nice thereby making the world a better place) when real innovation is allowed to grow, everyone benefits.
you're full of poopoo.
Nuclear power is more expensive more dangerous and more harmful to the environment long term than coal/gas. not to mention about 40% more expensive pkwh (depends who you talk to)
Solar and wind energy should be a bigger focus, but we lack an efficient transport and storage mechanism. We obviously don't have enough of an incentive to develop these technologies. dino-oil is cheap.
Someday when we have a global power grid that efficiently moves energy between the continents, we will be able to produce peak-time energy for the other side of the globe and vice versa. for now i'm happily releasing nasty hydrocarbons to power my computer thankyouveddymuch
X boxen of course.
isn't it obvious?
that completely rocks.
I have several people on my list who will be getting this now. Thanks for the tip.
this comment beats the hell out of all you idiots asking for dsl lines or similarly un-wrappable gifts.
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Only about 270 hp
:)
other than that it looks stock
havn't broken anything yet. (fingers crossed)
if i ever meet you
MY SUPERCHARGED CIVIC WILL KICK YOUR MUSTANG'S ASS!
xoxo
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FYI: Far rockaways are very near JFK.
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