Give me failure rates and I will start listening to you.
If you want a vocal minority here is one. I have fixed my Dell about 8 times in its 4 year history. 2 Mobos 1 Keyboard 1 HDD 2 Hinges 1 Screen 1 CD-Rom
I have fixed my iBook (also 4 years old) once. The burner went out on it.
Yeah, they are mass produced in the same factory but they are made of different components with different quality assurance and engineering. That was my point and it is VERY valid.
I know this was a bit of joke but controlling a machine with your mind is a lot like controlling a body part. If you are walking down the street and start thinking about that hottie right a head of you, you don't raise your arms... you raise... um... other things.
I am an IT student my dad is a truck driver. Obviously, he is pro union because it helped him. I saw first hand what unionized companies paid their workers and the benefits they received. I also saw the quality of worker that they were able to hire. Now, Unions have all but been destroyed in the area where we live so now there are no benefits and he is paid almost nothing. The majority of truck drivers are younger people now that have little experience and many accidents compared to the few unionized companies left. The Unionized companies make just as much money as the others but being more productive and safer on the road.
I know many tech workers do not want to think about unions because of the negative connotations that the media and the government put on them but they do well for ordinary people that do not have a say. White-collar workers are these people. They are sitting there slaving at their desks for more and more hours a day while their salaries and benefits are slowly being stripped. Entire departments are laid off yet somehow the company still expects to get the work done. CEOs and the other higher ups are making grotesque amounts of money compared to the average salary while many are running their companies into the ground. If you do not want to use the traditional unions for whatever reason - we should start new ones. White-collar workers need to stand up to greedy CEOs and even greedier boards and take the middle class back.
If you think for a second that your company is trying to keep you around you are horribly mistaken. They are doing everything they can to get rid of you and hire somebody who is paid less. Do you want to know why? Even if they run their company into the ground by hiring unskilled workers, it does not matter because they will have gotten their bonuses and left the company before the shit really hits the fan.
I think you are wrong. I think that people will start demanding quality when technology personally affects them. Anybody who I have ever demonstrated my Powerbook to has gone to Apple. The quality of the software and hardware is amazing for their laptops and the price is right too. Don't discount Apple - I think they are on the way up, not down.
How much does that weigh? What about LCD quality? What if you compare a quality laptop like IBM or Sony to an Apple? I'll give you the ram but the processor difference isn't as big as it looks. I use an AMD 2500+ (Barton Core) and a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and I have to tell you there isn't a speed difference that I can tell by using the machines. I'm sure if you benchmark the two the AMD proc will come out ahead.
I'm sorry to flame you - I really do apologize but I hear the "one button mouse" thing about a hundred times a day where I work and it starts to get really irritating.
$1,849 (1,549 with a $300 mail in rebate)
Inspiron 300m Pentium M 1.20GHz with 12.1 in XGA Display 384MB DDR, 266MHz 30GB2 Ultra ATA Hard Drive 24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
If you do some research you will realize that 2 button mice have been available for years. Just because Macs don't ship with one doesn't mean it doesn't work. ANY USB MOUSE WILL WORK ON A MAC! Christ!
Secondly, if you do some research you will see that Apple laptops are cheaper or the same price as equitable x86 laptops.
Where the hell is my class action lawsuit for my 2 dell laptop batteries that died after 13 months? Sure there is a replacement plan but it is more than $100 dollars for each battery and I have to change it myself.
I would say that Apple $100 and they change it is a better deal.
If it is "Hollywood $$" then it is a Hollywood movie. I don't care where it was filmed. How many films are actually filmed in the city of Hollywood. Secondly, a movie's purpose is to entertain. They do that extraordinarily well. So what that they don't have depth or much character development. People don't want that. They want cool stuff blowing up. Some of my favorite movies of all time a lot of stuff blows up or gets killed. 1. LotR 2. Braveheart 3. X-Men 2 4. Shrek 5. Gigili (just kidding)
Fact is - there is plenty of trash coming out of Hollywood but plenty of really great stuff as well. Maybe you don't think so but most of America disagrees with you.
I think the MPAA is fine. They put out a great product for the most part and I really can't complain about thier prices. I am sure it costs a hell of a lot more to produce a movie than some canned artist that they have for CDs yet the cost of a DVD isn't much more than a CD.
I have programmed. I am VERY bad at it. Sure I CAN code but I can't do it well. To find a quality programmer is not easy - I've tried. I wonder if this is why most software sucks... because people think ANYBODY can do it.
I think it is about time that we start thinking - is this one fast than this one? to: Each of these is fast enough for what I do - what other features matter?
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There is a small bug that is in 10.3 that tries to reference a file that doesn't exist.
is a fix. This will make OS X boot as fast as Linux and Win2000.
Yeah, but I gave at work... sorry.
Information Assurance
The college
The university
There isn't a SINGLE port open by default on OS X. I ran nessus against my Mac the first time I booted up and there was NOTHING open.
You are so ignorant.
Ever heard of Darwin? How about Safari? All that code was returned with the improvements made.
You are a jerk off
I've heard from a lot of people that the latest rounds of repairs have been working.
Give me failure rates and I will start listening to you.
If you want a vocal minority here is one. I have fixed my Dell about 8 times in its 4 year history.
2 Mobos
1 Keyboard
1 HDD
2 Hinges
1 Screen
1 CD-Rom
I have fixed my iBook (also 4 years old) once. The burner went out on it.
Yeah, they are mass produced in the same factory but they are made of different components with different quality assurance and engineering. That was my point and it is VERY valid.
Even if they have the same manufacturer apple can supply better quality components and design.
FUD
I know this was a bit of joke but controlling a machine with your mind is a lot like controlling a body part. If you are walking down the street and start thinking about that hottie right a head of you, you don't raise your arms... you raise... um... other things.
It is too late now to get a response but...
I am an IT student my dad is a truck driver. Obviously, he is pro union because it helped him. I saw first hand what unionized companies paid their workers and the benefits they received. I also saw the quality of worker that they were able to hire. Now, Unions have all but been destroyed in the area where we live so now there are no benefits and he is paid almost nothing. The majority of truck drivers are younger people now that have little experience and many accidents compared to the few unionized companies left. The Unionized companies make just as much money as the others but being more productive and safer on the road.
I know many tech workers do not want to think about unions because of the negative connotations that the media and the government put on them but they do well for ordinary people that do not have a say. White-collar workers are these people. They are sitting there slaving at their desks for more and more hours a day while their salaries and benefits are slowly being stripped. Entire departments are laid off yet somehow the company still expects to get the work done. CEOs and the other higher ups are making grotesque amounts of money compared to the average salary while many are running their companies into the ground. If you do not want to use the traditional unions for whatever reason - we should start new ones. White-collar workers need to stand up to greedy CEOs and even greedier boards and take the middle class back.
If you think for a second that your company is trying to keep you around you are horribly mistaken. They are doing everything they can to get rid of you and hire somebody who is paid less. Do you want to know why? Even if they run their company into the ground by hiring unskilled workers, it does not matter because they will have gotten their bonuses and left the company before the shit really hits the fan.
The iPod supports a couple of lossless formats.
...what they could do now for the same cost using the new Xserve dual 2 Ghz G5.
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
512K L2 cache/processor
1GHz system bus/processor
512B DDR400 ECC SDRAM
80GB Serial ATA drive
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
All for only $3000. They could really built a small, inexpensive cluster with a couple thousand of those.
I think you are wrong. I think that people will start demanding quality when technology personally affects them. Anybody who I have ever demonstrated my Powerbook to has gone to Apple. The quality of the software and hardware is amazing for their laptops and the price is right too. Don't discount Apple - I think they are on the way up, not down.
How much does that weigh? What about LCD quality? What if you compare a quality laptop like IBM or Sony to an Apple? I'll give you the ram but the processor difference isn't as big as it looks. I use an AMD 2500+ (Barton Core) and a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook and I have to tell you there isn't a speed difference that I can tell by using the machines. I'm sure if you benchmark the two the AMD proc will come out ahead.
I'm sorry to flame you - I really do apologize but I hear the "one button mouse" thing about a hundred times a day where I work and it starts to get really irritating.
$1,849 (1,549 with a $300 mail in rebate)
Inspiron 300m Pentium M 1.20GHz with 12.1 in XGA Display
384MB DDR, 266MHz
30GB2 Ultra ATA Hard Drive
24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
If you do some research you will realize that 2 button mice have been available for years. Just because Macs don't ship with one doesn't mean it doesn't work. ANY USB MOUSE WILL WORK ON A MAC! Christ!
Secondly, if you do some research you will see that Apple laptops are cheaper or the same price as equitable x86 laptops.
Besides Solaris - all those are also available for PPC.
But we also have Darwin.
You are locked into a single OS on x86... unless you consider Linux. You, sir, are a dumb-ass.
Where the hell is my class action lawsuit for my 2 dell laptop batteries that died after 13 months? Sure there is a replacement plan but it is more than $100 dollars for each battery and I have to change it myself.
I would say that Apple $100 and they change it is a better deal.
I am a huge Apple fan and I totally agree with you. I think it is shit that they haven't ported iTunes or at least Quicktime to linux.
If it is "Hollywood $$" then it is a Hollywood movie. I don't care where it was filmed. How many films are actually filmed in the city of Hollywood. Secondly, a movie's purpose is to entertain. They do that extraordinarily well. So what that they don't have depth or much character development. People don't want that. They want cool stuff blowing up. Some of my favorite movies of all time a lot of stuff blows up or gets killed.
1. LotR
2. Braveheart
3. X-Men 2
4. Shrek
5. Gigili (just kidding)
Fact is - there is plenty of trash coming out of Hollywood but plenty of really great stuff as well. Maybe you don't think so but most of America disagrees with you.
I think the MPAA is fine. They put out a great product for the most part and I really can't complain about thier prices. I am sure it costs a hell of a lot more to produce a movie than some canned artist that they have for CDs yet the cost of a DVD isn't much more than a CD.
I have programmed. I am VERY bad at it. Sure I CAN code but I can't do it well. To find a quality programmer is not easy - I've tried. I wonder if this is why most software sucks ... because people think ANYBODY can do it.
Actually you are wrong. AAC is an open codec. What apple uses is AAC wrapped in a quicktime thing to add the DRM.
I think it is about time that we start thinking - is this one fast than this one? to: Each of these is fast enough for what I do - what other features matter?
Why isn't there an 'awesome' mod?