Similarly, Mac users are known to keep their computers as primary productivity tools until the gears fall off. This is really a testament to the quality that Apple incorporated into its hardware and software over the years.
What gears?
Seriously though, digital electronics do not have moving parts and do not wear out. It usualy either works or dosn't right away. Only the shittiest stuff will fail and if it dosn't in the first few months it probably never will.
The only diffrence is, it's easier to upgrade a PC then a mac, and any computer geek will simply cycle through parts untill theny have a diffrent machine rather then buying a whole new one.
BMW is a poor example for this one. Let's look at Ford. 100% of the market share in the 1900s. Much less than that now. Are they in danger of going out of business? No, no less than BMW, they have found their niche of a much larger market and will probably stay like that until the collapse of humanity, barring revolutions, stupid business decisions, et al.
Actualy ford is in much greater danger of going bankrupt then BWM. At least, that's what The Economist says. BMW makes way more money per car then ford.
You mean, the mac apps you use? I could write a mac app that crashed, and there are lots of applications on windows I have never seen crash, dispite frequent use.
What percent of the US market share does BMW have? And would you call BMW a shitty company for selling so few cars?
No, but I would certainly call them a shitty car company if all their cars were slower then everyone else's.
And I would call their owners obnoxious prices for thinking they were superior for owning over-priced slow-assed piece of junk just because it 'looks pretty'.
But come on, that was the first one that you could hook up to a monitor, rather then staring at blinking lights and paper tape. It was ahead of its time, but it's time would have come in the next few years even without Woz's genius.
The GUI. Sure, you can say that the industry would have headed in that direction anyway. Maybe we would even have gotten there by now. Don't forget that the industry at the time was dominated by Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM and 640k Should Be Enough For Anybody Gates. Even with Apple's push, it was still over ten years after the original Mac that anybody else produced something vaguely comparable.
The first mac had only 64k. Anyway, talk to Douglas Engelbart. The ideas were all out there, it was simply a matter of being the first one. Of course you have to credit jobs for knowing good shit when he saw it.
Desktop publishing. For less than $10,000, you could buy a Mac and a LaserWriter, and totally bypass publishers to make whatever the hell you wanted. If you think that's no big deal, tell that to all the people who bought the Mac/LaserWriter combo.
Okay, I agree with you there:P. But that's probably only because I don't really know that much about it.
Steve Jobs is a billionaire and you're posting on slashdot. I'm going to venture a guess that he couldn't give a shit about your advice. He's obviously been successful without it.
Jobs thinks he's smarter then everyone else and it shows. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with stating an opinion, even if it hurts someone else's feelings. The real important things are things like not holding grudges and not fucking people over because you can.
Anyway, If you've seen my posts on slashdot you'll know I'm definitely not an apple fan jobs groupie or anything like that. I'm just pointing out that Jobs has achieved a lot in this world while being a 'dick'.
You are not obligated to provide a forum for their speech.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you need to let them speak at your cost, merely that you can't stop them from speaking.
Freedom of speech shouldn't always be restricted to 'those who own the presses'. I have 'freedom of speech' here on slashdot even though I don't own the servers. I have freedom of speech on my PC even though I don't own the network bandwidth. This law is giving people the freedom to tell their side of the story, not silence other people
Yeah, maybe it will have a chilling effect on blowhards who think they can shoot their mouths off without taking any criticism.
The only problem is the cost of verification. Really the government should take the responsibility for that. A simple PGP style digital signature system would work. Or even a more simple "if you have access to your website, you're you" rule. Sure, websites can be hacked, but what the hell you have to start somewhere.
This isn't a restriction of freedom of speech, it's just a requirement that makes you responsible for it.
They buy from Oregon, Oregon buys from Washington, and Washington buys from Canada. The whole process is made transparent by software.
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Unless you are using super-conducting wires, the farther you send electricity, the less you have. It would be hugely wasteful to try to send power all across the country. If you tried to go super-conducting you'd need to keep the wires chilled to cryogenic temperatures the whole way.
what do you mean who's right?
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The people who want to put up the wind-farm are right. The rest of them are just a bunch of bitches who don't want to have their view 'ruined'. Personally, I think windmills look nice.
You can always convert one voltage to another though, it just entails a little bit of loss. Besides, you'd still have to take down the voltage for sensitive equipment anyway. You wouldn't want to run a modern CPU on 42 volts, that's for sure:P
It's only an optimization point. If you have a lot of low-voltage devices, you want a low voltage PS, and the same for high-voltage.
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Check it out. Just $20 or so. Radioshack sells an adaptor but it's $99. Fucking rip-off artists. There are a couple of cars out today that have 110VAC outlets already.
One of the main advantages of the 42 volt system is that you can have electronic, rather then hydrolic brakes.
I think you've been too confused by the idiotic "They GPL'd their code when they sold linux", which is probably not true.
SCO clams that someone from inside IBM inserted their code into Linux, so even if they had never touched the GPL they still would have had code leakage (which is debatable anyway)
I meant aside from the physical effects, obviously. You knew you would have TV back for a week, and you knew you were being punished. It would have been different if it was taken away forever.
Intelligent adults are supposed to be able to know how to temper thier actions. Blaming the TV by claming they are mimicking the TV donest say much for ones opinion of the people themselvs.
the fact that they are 'supposed' to doesn't mean that they will. If people did what they were 'supposed' to be able to do, there would be no violence in the world at all.
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1. Color with the Apple ][
Of course, the apple II was the first PC with video support. Obviously it's going to be the first with color
4. The first GUI in a PC with the Lisa then the Macintosh.
Of course, they were only the first to market. They didn't invent it by a longshot.
6. The first to have networking built in to their computers with Appletalk.
You mean a built in networking stack or what? Appletalk is software, not hardware. This unqualified statement really dosn't make much sense.
7. Built in sound with the Macintosh
BEEP BEEP BEEP goes the IBM PC
12. Drag and drop application installation.
As opposed to what, double-click installation? apt-get installation? Frankly that sounds like more work then windows or some linux distributions.
13. Built in speech in the OS.
Oh yeah, that really gets used a lot.
17. First with a multimedia application platform with Quicktime.
Now what does THAT mean? "multimedia application platform" is an incredibly nebulous term. The Amiga had multimedia support way before the mac.
19. First to ship CD-ROM drives in PC's
Do you have any evidence of this. I kinda doubt it's true
20. First to ship integrated DSP's in PC's
What do you even mean by this? What benifit does this DSP have for the machine.
21. First with the PDA with the Newton.
Yes.
22. First with handwriting recognition with Newton.
no.
23. Invented Firewire.
no.
24. First to standardize on USB
You mean the USB that Intel came up with? There were plenty of PCs that had usb. 26. First with systemwide support of anti-aliased fonts in OS X.
OS X? Sorry, windows supported this back with win 98.
There does not seem to be anything in between, and there is nothing in such a message to determine if it will go +5 or -1.
That's because the slashdot moderation system sucks ass. 500 people hate a comment, 505 people love it, it gets a 5.
Similarly, Mac users are known to keep their computers as primary productivity tools until the gears fall off. This is really a testament to the quality that Apple incorporated into its hardware and software over the years.
What gears?
Seriously though, digital electronics do not have moving parts and do not wear out. It usualy either works or dosn't right away. Only the shittiest stuff will fail and if it dosn't in the first few months it probably never will.
The only diffrence is, it's easier to upgrade a PC then a mac, and any computer geek will simply cycle through parts untill theny have a diffrent machine rather then buying a whole new one.
BMW is a poor example for this one. Let's look at Ford. 100% of the market share in the 1900s. Much less than that now. Are they in danger of going out of business? No, no less than BMW, they have found their niche of a much larger market and will probably stay like that until the collapse of humanity, barring revolutions, stupid business decisions, et al.
Actualy ford is in much greater danger of going bankrupt then BWM. At least, that's what The Economist says. BMW makes way more money per car then ford.
I've seen win2k crash like, three or four times in the past few years on my computer. Which is hardly a paragon of well-put-togetherness.
And because my mac apps don't crash
You mean, the mac apps you use? I could write a mac app that crashed, and there are lots of applications on windows I have never seen crash, dispite frequent use.
What percent of the US market share does BMW have? And would you call BMW a shitty company for selling so few cars?
No, but I would certainly call them a shitty car company if all their cars were slower then everyone else's.
And I would call their owners obnoxious prices for thinking they were superior for owning over-priced slow-assed piece of junk just because it 'looks pretty'.
But come on, that was the first one that you could hook up to a monitor, rather then staring at blinking lights and paper tape. It was ahead of its time, but it's time would have come in the next few years even without Woz's genius.
The GUI. Sure, you can say that the industry would have headed in that direction anyway. Maybe we would even have gotten there by now. Don't forget that the industry at the time was dominated by Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM and 640k Should Be Enough For Anybody Gates. Even with Apple's push, it was still over ten years after the original Mac that anybody else produced something vaguely comparable.
The first mac had only 64k. Anyway, talk to Douglas Engelbart. The ideas were all out there, it was simply a matter of being the first one. Of course you have to credit jobs for knowing good shit when he saw it.
Desktop publishing. For less than $10,000, you could buy a Mac and a LaserWriter, and totally bypass publishers to make whatever the hell you wanted. If you think that's no big deal, tell that to all the people who bought the Mac/LaserWriter combo.
Okay, I agree with you there
Steve Jobs is a billionaire and you're posting on slashdot. I'm going to venture a guess that he couldn't give a shit about your advice. He's obviously been successful without it.
Jobs thinks he's smarter then everyone else and it shows. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with stating an opinion, even if it hurts someone else's feelings. The real important things are things like not holding grudges and not fucking people over because you can.
Anyway, If you've seen my posts on slashdot you'll know I'm definitely not an apple fan jobs groupie or anything like that. I'm just pointing out that Jobs has achieved a lot in this world while being a 'dick'.
You are not obligated to provide a forum for their speech.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you need to let them speak at your cost, merely that you can't stop them from speaking.
Freedom of speech shouldn't always be restricted to 'those who own the presses'. I have 'freedom of speech' here on slashdot even though I don't own the servers. I have freedom of speech on my PC even though I don't own the network bandwidth. This law is giving people the freedom to tell their side of the story, not silence other people
Yeah, maybe it will have a chilling effect on blowhards who think they can shoot their mouths off without taking any criticism.
The only problem is the cost of verification. Really the government should take the responsibility for that. A simple PGP style digital signature system would work. Or even a more simple "if you have access to your website, you're you" rule. Sure, websites can be hacked, but what the hell you have to start somewhere.
This isn't a restriction of freedom of speech, it's just a requirement that makes you responsible for it.
This is a state issue, not a federal one. Look up your state laws and maybe talk to a lawyer.
4) Nuclear - Cart toxic waste across country to bury it in Yucca Mountain. Also, BOOOM!
Nuke plants don't go 'boom' dumbass.
They buy from Oregon, Oregon buys from Washington, and Washington buys from Canada. The whole process is made transparent by software.
Unless you are using super-conducting wires, the farther you send electricity, the less you have. It would be hugely wasteful to try to send power all across the country. If you tried to go super-conducting you'd need to keep the wires chilled to cryogenic temperatures the whole way.
The people who want to put up the wind-farm are right. The rest of them are just a bunch of bitches who don't want to have their view 'ruined'. Personally, I think windmills look nice.
You can always convert one voltage to another though, it just entails a little bit of loss. Besides, you'd still have to take down the voltage for sensitive equipment anyway. You wouldn't want to run a modern CPU on 42 volts, that's for sure :P
It's only an optimization point. If you have a lot of low-voltage devices, you want a low voltage PS, and the same for high-voltage.
Check it out. Just $20 or so. Radioshack sells an adaptor but it's $99. Fucking rip-off artists. There are a couple of cars out today that have 110VAC outlets already.
One of the main advantages of the 42 volt system is that you can have electronic, rather then hydrolic brakes.
I think you've been too confused by the idiotic "They GPL'd their code when they sold linux", which is probably not true.
SCO clams that someone from inside IBM inserted their code into Linux, so even if they had never touched the GPL they still would have had code leakage (which is debatable anyway)
My girlfriend transfered there and then broke up with me!
Erm, that's the way I like to remember it, anyway...
I meant aside from the physical effects, obviously. You knew you would have TV back for a week, and you knew you were being punished. It would have been different if it was taken away forever.
But some people around here seem to belive that Correlation cannot mean Causation. Clearly this is false.
Correlation means that two things are connected in some way, and that way may be causial.
For a change, take personal responsibility.
I'm sure the people of Bhutan will see your recommendation and act accordingly from now on.
Most people have a capability to be rational, sensible beings. It's a capability that is not often used.
It wouldn't surprise me if TV was as addictive as crack cocaine. Try and take TV away from a child sometime.
Intelligent adults are supposed to be able to know how to temper thier actions. Blaming the TV by claming they are mimicking the TV donest say much for ones opinion of the people themselvs.
the fact that they are 'supposed' to doesn't mean that they will. If people did what they were 'supposed' to be able to do, there would be no violence in the world at all.
Obviously, that is not the case.
It's entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. I watch wrestling, but that doesn't mean I solve my problems with violence.
Are you implying that someone with the intelligence of a WWE should be taken seriously by anyone for any reason?