First off, there's no legitimate reason iTunes has to use QuickTime for MP3/AAC decoding. There are plenty of other options. If Apple insists on eating their own dogfood, there's no excuse for installing more than is necessary. Installing iTunes doesn't mean I want their stupid, crippled movie player or plugins.
Flu vaccines do save lives, just not necessarily the lives of the people who get them. By not getting the vaccine you expose other, more vulnerable people to higher risk.
Not getting vaccinated is highly irresponsible, and anyone who doesn't should be quarantined.
Lobbyists are not allowed to give any significant amount of money to politicians in Soviet Canuckistan. Bribes "political contributions" are limited to a few thousand dollars and are stringently regulated.
But once you're large enough to need to hire someone to manage the grunt work, you're putting your privacy, security and accountability in their hands. It doesn't really matter if they're in house or contracted out.
Even a cursory reading through a job board will tell you that many people want and expect to be lied to. Now, if someone lies to you, they only lose out if you catch them. If someone tells the truth to someone who wants to be lied to, they're guaranteed to lose out. Companies that use headhunters will disproportionately, if not always be the latter.
Dell can sell something functionally equivalent to a Thinkpad, so yes, there's a mostly free market for "Thinkpads". Dell is legally prohibited from selling something functionally equivalent to a MacBook.
Though some do. There's not really a core developer spec list, aside from a decent serving of RAM, a reasonably fast processor, and as big an LCD as possible.
Not that I'd argue against discrete graphics in a developer workstation (especially when I'm not the one footing the bill;). For my part when I do pay for it, I buy decent graphics chips on workstations and have so far done without on notebooks, though that may change in my next upgrade cycle.
To some people, a 300 bucks netbook would be sufficient for the job. But that still does not mean that it's a comparable machine to MBP.
It is for those people. For someone who needs a $300 netbook, a MacBook has a $850 Mac Tax.
Your source for that claim is.... what? They seem to be buying computers with 10" screen, they are buying computers with 15" screen... why not 13" screens as well?
Don't be dense. If there wasn't a demand for a wide and ranging array of configurations, they wouldn't be available. That they are shows that people want them.
You argued that Apple was subject to a free market, and I pointed out that they are not. We can argue back and forth over whether copyright is a justified imposition on the market, but it's indisputable that it is an imposition.
I'm writing this on a $700 Core Duo I bought in 2007. It's not my primary workstation, but that only set me back $1200. The closest equivalent Mac is almost three grand, and has less RAM.
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First off, there's no legitimate reason iTunes has to use QuickTime for MP3/AAC decoding. There are plenty of other options. If Apple insists on eating their own dogfood, there's no excuse for installing more than is necessary. Installing iTunes doesn't mean I want their stupid, crippled movie player or plugins.
But if it just got thrown into a package, then no.
Flu vaccines do save lives, just not necessarily the lives of the people who get them. By not getting the vaccine you expose other, more vulnerable people to higher risk.
Not getting vaccinated is highly irresponsible, and anyone who doesn't should be quarantined.
If they have more money that they're allowed to, they're in deep shit.
Lobbyists are not allowed to give any significant amount of money to politicians in Soviet Canuckistan. Bribes "political contributions" are limited to a few thousand dollars and are stringently regulated.
As I said, I'm using a laptop I paid $700 for over two years ago. A new $599 laptop would be an upgrade for me.
But once you're large enough to need to hire someone to manage the grunt work, you're putting your privacy, security and accountability in their hands. It doesn't really matter if they're in house or contracted out.
Even a cursory reading through a job board will tell you that many people want and expect to be lied to. Now, if someone lies to you, they only lose out if you catch them. If someone tells the truth to someone who wants to be lied to, they're guaranteed to lose out. Companies that use headhunters will disproportionately, if not always be the latter.
We'd need either a fork or a complete rewrite to support all the existing content.
This is Broadcom's doing. Blame them.
I lurves Tomato. What does yours do better?
It was originally produced by Macromedia.
The reason SVG isn't/wasn't a workable solution is that IE doesn't support it. That's not an issue on mobile devices.
Really, I've yet to hear a serious answer to what you can do with flash that you can't in modern javascript.
In this day and age, anywhere you could use media rich applications, you have a web browser.
Sometimes a maintainer refuses to give up a project, but refuses to continue meaningful development. Consider the X.org fork.
What can you do with Flash that you can't do with html5?
Dell can sell something functionally equivalent to a Thinkpad, so yes, there's a mostly free market for "Thinkpads". Dell is legally prohibited from selling something functionally equivalent to a MacBook.
I don't really understand how that's not obvious.
Though some do. There's not really a core developer spec list, aside from a decent serving of RAM, a reasonably fast processor, and as big an LCD as possible.
Not that I'd argue against discrete graphics in a developer workstation (especially when I'm not the one footing the bill ;). For my part when I do pay for it, I buy decent graphics chips on workstations and have so far done without on notebooks, though that may change in my next upgrade cycle.
To some people, a 300 bucks netbook would be sufficient for the job. But that still does not mean that it's a comparable machine to MBP.
It is for those people. For someone who needs a $300 netbook, a MacBook has a $850 Mac Tax.
Your source for that claim is.... what? They seem to be buying computers with 10" screen, they are buying computers with 15" screen... why not 13" screens as well?
Don't be dense. If there wasn't a demand for a wide and ranging array of configurations, they wouldn't be available. That they are shows that people want them.
You argued that Apple was subject to a free market, and I pointed out that they are not. We can argue back and forth over whether copyright is a justified imposition on the market, but it's indisputable that it is an imposition.
Apple has a government sanctioned monopoly on OS X. That's the whole point; Apple specifically blocks the free market PC hardware ecosystem.
Then it is comparable to anything else also sufficient for the job.
I'd argue the opposite, that the $599 Dell is likely to be more pleasant to use for most people. Few people really want 13" laptops.
And I'm writing this on a $700 Core Duo bought in 2007 that I'll be loathe to upgrade because it has a proper, angled keyboard.
I'm writing this on a $700 Core Duo I bought in 2007. It's not my primary workstation, but that only set me back $1200. The closest equivalent Mac is almost three grand, and has less RAM.