I use Macs as my only computer at home and 80% of the time at work. The filter in OS X that you are talking about is pretty good, but like all spam filters has a problem with false positives.
Even after using it for as long as its been available, it still occasionally marks something as spam that isn't.
However, I have to say that it is better than the spam filter my company bought and installed on their exchange server.
You can talk about a computer as a "fashion statement" all you want, but the only area of software where the PC actually has a real advantage over the Mac is games.
How exactly do they measure this? I've been in and seen several accidents, in addition to the 10 accidents my wife has caused. No one ever tested me for drugs (or my wife.) So, I'm not sure where this is coming from, but my guess is from someone's ass.
The stand alone (non-phone) PDA market is dying. There will continue to be a market for things like the Palm Treo and Windows Smart Phones. Unless Apple wants to get into the Phone business, I don't see that they would have a product.
For one thing, in order to do a PDA/Phone right, they would need an OS that is appropriate. The Newton OS was great, but they don't have it anymore. OS X is not appropriate to put onto a Phone.
Second, the margins on Phones aren't that great. There are way too many competitors in that market. The designs change too quickly for Apple to recoup an investment in a really kick ass design.
I moved to Oregon recently. We don't have a sales tax here. (It's really refreshing to buy something that is 19.99 with a $20 and get a penny back.)
One reason that the these taxes aren't advertised in the US is that they vary from locale to locale. Often cities, counties, and states will impose differrent sales taxes. Also, if you advertise something with the tax, you can count on your competitors to advertise it *without* the tax.
The one exception in the US is gasoline which is always (AFAICT) advertised with all taxes factored in.
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I bought no-name RAM for my PowerBook G4. One DIMM worked, the other didn't. I did an RMA on the dead stick and got a new one in a couple of days that worked just fine. My algorithm for selecting a RAM vender was to pick the cheapest one on ramseeker.com. I have been doing this on Mac systems for years without any real problems (other than the occasional dead stick that has to be returned.)
There was an article published a couple of years ago that revealed the identity of Mac the Knife. (It was a whole bunch of people on the Mac Week staff.)
Thanks very much for pointing this out. Recently I was having a conversation with my female cousin about the movie "Stepford Wives" (which I haven't seen) and she was telling me that the plot was that the husbands were turning their wives into robots who would act real lady like and do things like wear tiaras.
My point was that I don't know a single man who would be interested in having their wife or girlfriend wearing a tiara, but I know lots of women who would wear tiaras everywhere if it was socially acceptable. (And my cousin agreed with me btw.)
I'm a man, I am very aware of the size of the romance novel industry (larger than the rest of the book industry), and I look down on women who read romance novels for pretty much the reasons you called out (i.e. the books are mindless and a waste of time).
My hunch is that it's because Apple just fired a big-ass shot across Microsoft's bow with iWork. We can likely say bye-bye to Office v.X for Mac, and with it quite possibly the Mac platform.
You're smoking crack is you think iWork is going prevent very many sales of MS-Office, or cause Microsoft to cancel MS-Office. This is AppleWorks warmed over, not an Office killer. Back in the days when Claris was actively going after Microsoft head to head, Microsoft maybe had a reason to worry. Today, I don't think so. Not even in the Mac market. People, like me, shell out hundreds of dollars for MS-Office because I can give my Word or Excel file to a Windows using colleague and know that it will look identical when they open it. Think you will be able to do that with "Pages" by saving it in Word format? Think again. Try opening a Word document in AppleWorks right now if you think so. That has been a feature of Apple(Claris)Works since version 1.0. It never worked before, why would you expect it to work now? It doesn't work in any competing word processor (AbiWord, ThinkFree Office, AppleWorks, Open Office, Star Office, Nissus Writer) and it doesn't work with Keynote/PowerPoint file exchanges.
No, the reason Apple's stock is dropping is because it always drops after every product and earnings announcement that I can remember. Even back when Apple first returned to profitability and they were consistantly beating the analyst estimates for earnings, the stock always dropped right after the product and earnings announcements. It's called "Buy on the rumor, sell on the news." and its been going on since stock trading began.
Supposedly, yes. It "reads" and "writes" in Word format. However, I have tried the following word processors on Mac that supposedly did the same thing: ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, AbiWord, NissusWriter, Open Office, and ThinkFree Office.
(In addition to Office X for Mac.)
MS-Office for Mac is the only one that has the same formatting as MS-Office for Windows. I work at a software company and get exchange Word docs with colleagues every day. All of the other word processors I've listed screw up the formatting every single time.
So, the answer is that you won't want to use it interchangably with MS-Word.
Ugh... iWork is the AppleWorks replacement. The only problem is no spreadsheet module with iWork anymore. Not sure if you can still get AppleWorks.
Also, if Apple's service is the "best of the bunch", I'd hate to see what is in second place. I've been using Mac exclusively since 1993 and IMHO, their service has gone downhill to the point where they are worse than useless and I pity anyone who has to call them.
I'm not disagreeing with the spirit of your argument, though.
That's better than I have. I have an 867 MHz PowerBook G4. When the fan comes on (usually because some App is running the CPU flat out - usually some classic App), it sounds like a freaking airplane (non-jet) taking off.
Not kludgy at all. There are USB/Instrument adapters/PreAmps that you can get for GarageBand. The one I have is made by M-Audio and it works fine to plug in my guitar to my 867MHz PowerBook G4. Since the mini is a better machine than my PowerBook, I would assume it would work even better there. No perceptible delay, this thing works fabulously.
Also, there is a FireWire port on the Mac Mini also. I think that M-Audio may make a Firewire adapter that might be a bit faster than the USB one if you needed to plug into >1 instrument at a time.
Were you seriously expecting Apple to ship a Mac with PS/2 ports?
Second, I'm not sure why you think you would need a USB hub with this. Plug in a standard Mac keyboard and you get two usb ports on the keyboard. Now, plug in the mouse and you still have a total of two USB ports available.
Want to plug in an iPod? You use Firewire for that.
A scanner? OK, that's one USB port.
A printer? OK, that's another USB port. Unless you have an Airport Express in which case you can print wirelessly.
What do you need the third one for? Sure, I can think of uses, but I also think that the majority of users would not need a USB hub.
Apple's market share, before the Mac mini was released, was growing. Therefore the comment about it failing to stop Apple's marketshare from shrinking makes no sense. (Its very low right now, if it shrank, it would be zero. Again, makes no sense unless you think Apple's going out of business.)
Second, you aren't forced to make a "second trip" to the store. Most stores will sell you a keyboard and mouse at the same time as a Mac Mini. They don't force you to leave the store after you buy the computer and then come back to buy a mouse and keyboard.
Plus, for those of us who like particular mice, keyboards (other than the one bundled with the computers we buy) buying a machine without a mouse and keyboard is nice because we aren't forced to pay for input devices we aren't going to use.
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I use Macs as my only computer at home and 80% of the time at work. The filter in OS X that you are talking about is pretty good, but like all spam filters has a problem with false positives.
Even after using it for as long as its been available, it still occasionally marks something as spam that isn't.
However, I have to say that it is better than the spam filter my company bought and installed on their exchange server.
There are plenty of CAD programs for the Mac.
http://www.architosh.com/
You can talk about a computer as a "fashion statement" all you want, but the only area of software where the PC actually has a real advantage over the Mac is games.
Yeah, but that was good advice even before the internet became popular.
More like a mugger beats you up and then robs you.
One hundred percent of all marriages end in death or divorce.
Have you not heard of the concept of annulment?
I wasn't aware that Nazi Germany participated in the first World War.
How exactly do they measure this? I've been in and seen several accidents, in addition to the 10 accidents my wife has caused. No one ever tested me for drugs (or my wife.) So, I'm not sure where this is coming from, but my guess is from someone's ass.
The stand alone (non-phone) PDA market is dying. There will continue to be a market for things like the Palm Treo and Windows Smart Phones. Unless Apple wants to get into the Phone business, I don't see that they would have a product.
For one thing, in order to do a PDA/Phone right, they would need an OS that is appropriate. The Newton OS was great, but they don't have it anymore. OS X is not appropriate to put onto a Phone.
Second, the margins on Phones aren't that great. There are way too many competitors in that market. The designs change too quickly for Apple to recoup an investment in a really kick ass design.
I just don't see this happening.
Atari 8 Bits were way better than Commodore.
I moved to Oregon recently. We don't have a sales tax here. (It's really refreshing to buy something that is 19.99 with a $20 and get a penny back.)
One reason that the these taxes aren't advertised in the US is that they vary from locale to locale. Often cities, counties, and states will impose differrent sales taxes. Also, if you advertise something with the tax, you can count on your competitors to advertise it *without* the tax.
The one exception in the US is gasoline which is always (AFAICT) advertised with all taxes factored in.
I bought no-name RAM for my PowerBook G4. One DIMM worked, the other didn't. I did an RMA on the dead stick and got a new one in a couple of days that worked just fine. My algorithm for selecting a RAM vender was to pick the cheapest one on ramseeker.com. I have been doing this on Mac systems for years without any real problems (other than the occasional dead stick that has to be returned.)
There was an article published a couple of years ago that revealed the identity of Mac the Knife. (It was a whole bunch of people on the Mac Week staff.)
I personally think that people who run Apple rumor sites are the dicks. As are those who don't know the difference between to and too.
Thanks very much for pointing this out. Recently I was having a conversation with my female cousin about the movie "Stepford Wives" (which I haven't seen) and she was telling me that the plot was that the husbands were turning their wives into robots who would act real lady like and do things like wear tiaras.
My point was that I don't know a single man who would be interested in having their wife or girlfriend wearing a tiara, but I know lots of women who would wear tiaras everywhere if it was socially acceptable. (And my cousin agreed with me btw.)
I'm a man, I am very aware of the size of the romance novel industry (larger than the rest of the book industry), and I look down on women who read romance novels for pretty much the reasons you called out (i.e. the books are mindless and a waste of time).
My hunch is that it's because Apple just fired a big-ass shot across Microsoft's bow with iWork. We can likely say bye-bye to Office v.X for Mac, and with it quite possibly the Mac platform.
You're smoking crack is you think iWork is going prevent very many sales of MS-Office, or cause Microsoft to cancel MS-Office. This is AppleWorks warmed over, not an Office killer. Back in the days when Claris was actively going after Microsoft head to head, Microsoft maybe had a reason to worry. Today, I don't think so. Not even in the Mac market. People, like me, shell out hundreds of dollars for MS-Office because I can give my Word or Excel file to a Windows using colleague and know that it will look identical when they open it. Think you will be able to do that with "Pages" by saving it in Word format? Think again. Try opening a Word document in AppleWorks right now if you think so. That has been a feature of Apple(Claris)Works since version 1.0. It never worked before, why would you expect it to work now? It doesn't work in any competing word processor (AbiWord, ThinkFree Office, AppleWorks, Open Office, Star Office, Nissus Writer) and it doesn't work with Keynote/PowerPoint file exchanges.
No, the reason Apple's stock is dropping is because it always drops after every product and earnings announcement that I can remember. Even back when Apple first returned to profitability and they were consistantly beating the analyst estimates for earnings, the stock always dropped right after the product and earnings announcements. It's called "Buy on the rumor, sell on the news." and its been going on since stock trading began.
Supposedly, yes. It "reads" and "writes" in Word format. However, I have tried the following word processors on Mac that supposedly did the same thing: ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, AbiWord, NissusWriter, Open Office, and ThinkFree Office.
(In addition to Office X for Mac.)
MS-Office for Mac is the only one that has the same formatting as MS-Office for Windows. I work at a software company and get exchange Word docs with colleagues every day. All of the other word processors I've listed screw up the formatting every single time.
So, the answer is that you won't want to use it interchangably with MS-Word.
Ugh... iWork is the AppleWorks replacement. The only problem is no spreadsheet module with iWork anymore. Not sure if you can still get AppleWorks.
Also, if Apple's service is the "best of the bunch", I'd hate to see what is in second place. I've been using Mac exclusively since 1993 and IMHO, their service has gone downhill to the point where they are worse than useless and I pity anyone who has to call them.
I'm not disagreeing with the spirit of your argument, though.
You can run Open Office on Panther using the X11 extension (free). You can run the Gimp this way too.
For rapid, internal development, Cocoa beats the hell out of Visual Basic. For web apps, Web Objects freaking rocks.
I had an Atari 800 and so did most of my friends. We used to have Commodore 64 vs. Atari 8 bit arguments that make Mac vs. PC look like a tea party.
That's better than I have. I have an 867 MHz PowerBook G4. When the fan comes on (usually because some App is running the CPU flat out - usually some classic App), it sounds like a freaking airplane (non-jet) taking off.
Not kludgy at all. There are USB/Instrument adapters/PreAmps that you can get for GarageBand. The one I have is made by M-Audio and it works fine to plug in my guitar to my 867MHz PowerBook G4. Since the mini is a better machine than my PowerBook, I would assume it would work even better there. No perceptible delay, this thing works fabulously.
Also, there is a FireWire port on the Mac Mini also. I think that M-Audio may make a Firewire adapter that might be a bit faster than the USB one if you needed to plug into >1 instrument at a time.
Were you seriously expecting Apple to ship a Mac with PS/2 ports?
Second, I'm not sure why you think you would need a USB hub with this. Plug in a standard Mac keyboard and you get two usb ports on the keyboard. Now, plug in the mouse and you still have a total of two USB ports available.
Want to plug in an iPod? You use Firewire for that.
A scanner? OK, that's one USB port.
A printer? OK, that's another USB port. Unless you have an Airport Express in which case you can print wirelessly.
What do you need the third one for? Sure, I can think of uses, but I also think that the majority of users would not need a USB hub.
Apple's market share, before the Mac mini was released, was growing. Therefore the comment about it failing to stop Apple's marketshare from shrinking makes no sense. (Its very low right now, if it shrank, it would be zero. Again, makes no sense unless you think Apple's going out of business.)
Second, you aren't forced to make a "second trip" to the store. Most stores will sell you a keyboard and mouse at the same time as a Mac Mini. They don't force you to leave the store after you buy the computer and then come back to buy a mouse and keyboard.
Plus, for those of us who like particular mice, keyboards (other than the one bundled with the computers we buy) buying a machine without a mouse and keyboard is nice because we aren't forced to pay for input devices we aren't going to use.
And how exactly do you ensure they aren't file sharing?