I went and said hi to my old boss from when I was doing PC repair recently. They're by far the largest PC repair shop in the area, and he was telling me about how they had gotten Apple certified (amusingly, they are now the only Apple certified shop in a 90 mile radius, including four towns of 20-40k population and *three* universities. Previously, Apple owners had to either ship it off or drive it to the next largest city, an hour and a half away.)
Anyway, he loves it. They get paid more by Apple to do the same repairs as they charge for PCs. And on top of that, he sees just as many Apple machines in for repair as any other manufacturer -- except when Apple owners drop off their hardware for repairs, most of the time they're still *glowing* about how much better their machines are than some HP or Dell. They clean up plenty of Mac malware infections (doesn't matter if there are 17 million more infections for Windows -- all it takes is one to hose your machine), and the customers are still glad that they don't have all those Windows viruses. It's a level of compartmentalization or rationalization or whatever phenomenon you want to call it that is nearly unbelievable.
But hey, he's laughing all the way to the bank, along with Apple. If you can make a decent product, but convince your customer base that it's *flawless* -- that it's some sort of unparalleled special experience -- they'll lap it up. You don't want to sell facts -- like a larger screen or a faster processor. Apple can't compete there. They can put out a solid piece of hardware, but there's too much competition -- they'll rarely be the best at anything. You want to sell emotions. Emotions can't be quantified. Feelings can't be disputed. Sell feelings and you're golden. Sell facts that require your customers to think analytically? That's suicide.
no security beyond the router's bog standard firewall
This isn't a very big claim, as I've had my Windows and Linux systems running with no 'security' (presumably you mean AV software) beyond a home router's standard firewall for years and also had no issues.
If such orders came down, a significant portion, if not the majority, of the military would be pointing their weapons back at the politicians and removing them from power, not killing the citizens
It's funny that you're so certain about this when there are so many historical examples of this not being the case.
Hell, even local police have no problem using violence to oppress citizens of their own city. Would you personally have any problem opening fire on a bunker that, according to intel, held a group of liberal badthinkers? I doubt it. If it comes down to it, all the government has to do is convince the military that it's us-vs-them, and many people already have that mentality. Yourself being a perfect example.
and wound up with just one natural fire every fifty years. We'd be left with nothing but ashes from sea to soot covered sea.
Hyperbole much? You keep repeating this "dry tinder" line, but I don't think you know as much as you think you know about managing fires in grasslands.
The entirety of your bullshit Slashdot rants are based off a premise that there's some category of people that is just wrong. It's name calling and ad-hominem attacks. The fact that you ascribe the actions of Stalin (and others) to Liberalism and Progressivism just shows that you don't know jack shit about what you're saying.
As a matter of fact, Liberal/Progressives scare the shit out of me
People like you scare me. You don't deal with facts, you deal with emotions. You label, then you judge; end of story. Your sig is and always has been a troll. You could say the same thing as mine, but I prefer to think that mine makes some people stop and say "hmm" rather than flat-out implying that anyone who disagrees with me is wrong. There's nothing thought provoking at all about yours. It shows an us-vs-them mentality, and people with that kind of a mentality can't be reasoned with.
Do you read the news??? Do you know how often a jilted boyfriend/husband, pissed off teen, psychotic nutbag walks into a mall, place of work, McDonald, or school and promptly dispatches anywhere from 15-50 profoundly surprised spectators?
Not very many. The reason that events like these make the news is because they are an anomaly.
For the record, I agree with the idea that fewer guns leads to fewer gun deaths. I just think that you're engaging in exactly the fearmongering you deride.
Because she's a dirty Iranian sand nigger, and most of the lip service paid to export laws is merely justification for thinly veiled racism (or xenophobia -- take your pick).
It's also trendy to bash anything U.S. on Slashdot.
Fuck that butthurt noise.
I'm a US citizen. I can handle seeing statistics that show that my country is lagging others in some ways. To me, that's a call that we should be looking for ways to improve -- not that we should rationalize why the statistics aren't valid.
As a whole, US citizens seem to be *extremely* sensitive to criticism. We've been told all our lives that we're special, we're #1, we can't be beat. Then when we see data that suggesting, hey, maybe someone else is #1, instead of looking to better ourselves we go sit in a corner and cry and attack whoever provided the data and staunchly refuse to acknowledge that we could *possibly* be doing anything wrong.
It's really sad, and you can see it all the time. I'm a US citizen, and I apologize for all the butthurt whining from people like CubicleZombie here.
On iOS 6, Apple is adding much greater granularity with regards to data access permissions.
Woo hoo! At some point in the future, Apple devices will finally have a feature that Android has had since inception! And it will be even better! What a huge win for Apple!
Until then, you're at the mercy of Apple's gatekeepers to make sure that nothing bad gets in, because as a user, you have absolutely no clue what the software you download is doing.
I notice that there's no mention of Wyden's party affiliation in the article. Must be that liberal media trying to hide the good deeds of the Republicans again.
I would rather not have an optical drive at all, it takes a significant amount of space and adds weight...
I love the weight argument people make to rationalize their purchase of overpriced toys, as if saving 0.1lb is going to make a big difference. It's like everyone is packing these things for long backpacking trips where every ounce and cubic inch is significant.
Backlit keyboard is a nice feature. It's too bad that the keyboard that's backlit is such utter garbage. My 13" Thinkpad has a more comfortable keyboard than my 17" MacBook Pro. The MBP keyboard definitely looks nicer, but it's a case of form vs. functionality.
Also, the trackpad is nice, for a trackpad. Too bad it also serves as the only clickable button. Good luck getting anything pixel-perfect with that crap.
Normally wouldn't bother responding to an AC troll, but this is one that will have a lot of bobbleheads nodding on Slashdot.
How comical! How comical! You're rationalizing your pathetic, worthless interests. You know, deep in your heart, that you're wrong for enjoying meaningless things such as sports. You know this. You agree with me 100%.
Pretty much every interest, short of curing disease and inventing new useful things in your spare time, is ultimately worthless. It's up to us to find our own meaning in what we do.
Watching sports can be exciting for some people. Beating the final boss in a video game can be exciting for some people. As long as what a person is doing isn't affecting you at all, please piss right off with your "your interests are worthless" bullshit.
Good thing that the discussion isn't about 'running a serious business', it's about difficulty of porting between architectures.
And given the plethora of different chips already on this "fragmented" (FUD Apple marketing word, btw) market and how well the system already works, I'm not too worried about having a couple #ifdefs to support Arm and x86 chips. Open source projects somehow manage to do it every fucking day and it works quite well.
Also, you don't seem to have any problem dismissing things you don't have any personal experience with (AGW, etc), so it hardly seems fair for you to demand higher standards from everyone else.
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I went and said hi to my old boss from when I was doing PC repair recently. They're by far the largest PC repair shop in the area, and he was telling me about how they had gotten Apple certified (amusingly, they are now the only Apple certified shop in a 90 mile radius, including four towns of 20-40k population and *three* universities. Previously, Apple owners had to either ship it off or drive it to the next largest city, an hour and a half away.)
Anyway, he loves it. They get paid more by Apple to do the same repairs as they charge for PCs. And on top of that, he sees just as many Apple machines in for repair as any other manufacturer -- except when Apple owners drop off their hardware for repairs, most of the time they're still *glowing* about how much better their machines are than some HP or Dell. They clean up plenty of Mac malware infections (doesn't matter if there are 17 million more infections for Windows -- all it takes is one to hose your machine), and the customers are still glad that they don't have all those Windows viruses. It's a level of compartmentalization or rationalization or whatever phenomenon you want to call it that is nearly unbelievable.
But hey, he's laughing all the way to the bank, along with Apple. If you can make a decent product, but convince your customer base that it's *flawless* -- that it's some sort of unparalleled special experience -- they'll lap it up. You don't want to sell facts -- like a larger screen or a faster processor. Apple can't compete there. They can put out a solid piece of hardware, but there's too much competition -- they'll rarely be the best at anything. You want to sell emotions. Emotions can't be quantified. Feelings can't be disputed. Sell feelings and you're golden. Sell facts that require your customers to think analytically? That's suicide.
--Jeremy
no security beyond the router's bog standard firewall
This isn't a very big claim, as I've had my Windows and Linux systems running with no 'security' (presumably you mean AV software) beyond a home router's standard firewall for years and also had no issues.
--Jeremy
Then what are you going to do about cigarette butts, campfires, BBQs, trash burning, etc?
The people that start fires with any of these mentioned things are responsible, and if found held accountable. Pretty goddamn simple.
Why should irresponsibility be acceptable when guns are involved?
--Jeremy
If such orders came down, a significant portion, if not the majority, of the military would be pointing their weapons back at the politicians and removing them from power, not killing the citizens
It's funny that you're so certain about this when there are so many historical examples of this not being the case.
Hell, even local police have no problem using violence to oppress citizens of their own city. Would you personally have any problem opening fire on a bunker that, according to intel, held a group of liberal badthinkers? I doubt it. If it comes down to it, all the government has to do is convince the military that it's us-vs-them, and many people already have that mentality. Yourself being a perfect example.
--Jeremy
However, its now easily recognized as the shriek of the sackless, leftist, we-don't-need-liberties-the-government-will-take-care-of-us
Not quite sure how this sweeping generalization promotes civil discourse, but hey, if it's name calling you want, then fuck you too, douchebag.
Ad-homs are lots easier than putting forth a reasoned debate, that's for sure. Too bad they don't really lead us anywhere useful.
--Jeremy
and wound up with just one natural fire every fifty years. We'd be left with nothing but ashes from sea to soot covered sea.
Hyperbole much? You keep repeating this "dry tinder" line, but I don't think you know as much as you think you know about managing fires in grasslands.
--Jeremy
You've got nothing, dude.
The entirety of your bullshit Slashdot rants are based off a premise that there's some category of people that is just wrong. It's name calling and ad-hominem attacks. The fact that you ascribe the actions of Stalin (and others) to Liberalism and Progressivism just shows that you don't know jack shit about what you're saying.
As a matter of fact, Liberal/Progressives scare the shit out of me
People like you scare me. You don't deal with facts, you deal with emotions. You label, then you judge; end of story. Your sig is and always has been a troll. You could say the same thing as mine, but I prefer to think that mine makes some people stop and say "hmm" rather than flat-out implying that anyone who disagrees with me is wrong. There's nothing thought provoking at all about yours. It shows an us-vs-them mentality, and people with that kind of a mentality can't be reasoned with.
--Jeremy
Do you read the news??? Do you know how often a jilted boyfriend/husband, pissed off teen, psychotic nutbag walks into a mall, place of work, McDonald, or school and promptly dispatches anywhere from 15-50 profoundly surprised spectators?
Not very many. The reason that events like these make the news is because they are an anomaly.
For the record, I agree with the idea that fewer guns leads to fewer gun deaths. I just think that you're engaging in exactly the fearmongering you deride.
--Jeremy
Except that the US and the Constitution aren't meant, and were never meant, to protect society, they were and are meant to protect individual freedom.
And 'benefits to society' and 'protecting individual freedom' are 100% mutually exclusive, right? Right?
--Jeremy
Because she's a dirty Iranian sand nigger, and most of the lip service paid to export laws is merely justification for thinly veiled racism (or xenophobia -- take your pick).
--Jeremy
A lot of us are tired of rehashes
So don't play them and don't whine about flamebait being modded flamebait.
Also, pray tell, which FPS developer makes the innovative breaths of fresh air that you occupy your time with, eh?
--Jeremy
The OP makes the mistake of homogeonizing the U.S
And you make the same mistake as the OP.
I'll bet you're also a "Real American."
--Jeremy
It's also trendy to bash anything U.S. on Slashdot.
Fuck that butthurt noise.
I'm a US citizen. I can handle seeing statistics that show that my country is lagging others in some ways. To me, that's a call that we should be looking for ways to improve -- not that we should rationalize why the statistics aren't valid.
As a whole, US citizens seem to be *extremely* sensitive to criticism. We've been told all our lives that we're special, we're #1, we can't be beat. Then when we see data that suggesting, hey, maybe someone else is #1, instead of looking to better ourselves we go sit in a corner and cry and attack whoever provided the data and staunchly refuse to acknowledge that we could *possibly* be doing anything wrong.
It's really sad, and you can see it all the time. I'm a US citizen, and I apologize for all the butthurt whining from people like CubicleZombie here.
--Jeremy
I don't particularly care what some partisan hack
Careful, you sound like one of those partisan hacks yourself, what with your shooting the messenger and all.
--Jeremy
In the case of the integrity of the voting process, what you've described is criminal negligence on the part of the software authors.
--Jeremy
On iOS 6, Apple is adding much greater granularity with regards to data access permissions.
Woo hoo! At some point in the future, Apple devices will finally have a feature that Android has had since inception! And it will be even better! What a huge win for Apple!
Until then, you're at the mercy of Apple's gatekeepers to make sure that nothing bad gets in, because as a user, you have absolutely no clue what the software you download is doing.
--Jeremy
I've got one word for you and your ignorance: Pokemon. Look it up.
--Jeremy
The world won't necessarily be a worse place for it if we remove all profit seekers from music.
It's tough to come up with an industry that got better when the profit seekers came in and took it over.
--Jeremy
I notice that there's no mention of Wyden's party affiliation in the article. Must be that liberal media trying to hide the good deeds of the Republicans again.
--Jeremy
What's funny is that Apple fanbois claim in one post that Apple hardware is actually very price competitive.
Then in the next post they'll brag about how Apple is the most profitable hardware manufacturer.
--Jeremy
I would rather not have an optical drive at all, it takes a significant amount of space and adds weight...
I love the weight argument people make to rationalize their purchase of overpriced toys, as if saving 0.1lb is going to make a big difference. It's like everyone is packing these things for long backpacking trips where every ounce and cubic inch is significant.
--Jeremy
Backlit keyboard is a nice feature. It's too bad that the keyboard that's backlit is such utter garbage. My 13" Thinkpad has a more comfortable keyboard than my 17" MacBook Pro. The MBP keyboard definitely looks nicer, but it's a case of form vs. functionality.
Also, the trackpad is nice, for a trackpad. Too bad it also serves as the only clickable button. Good luck getting anything pixel-perfect with that crap.
--Jeremy
Normally wouldn't bother responding to an AC troll, but this is one that will have a lot of bobbleheads nodding on Slashdot.
How comical! How comical! You're rationalizing your pathetic, worthless interests. You know, deep in your heart, that you're wrong for enjoying meaningless things such as sports. You know this. You agree with me 100%.
Pretty much every interest, short of curing disease and inventing new useful things in your spare time, is ultimately worthless. It's up to us to find our own meaning in what we do.
Watching sports can be exciting for some people. Beating the final boss in a video game can be exciting for some people. As long as what a person is doing isn't affecting you at all, please piss right off with your "your interests are worthless" bullshit.
--Jeremy
Apple defines Retina based on average distance held relative to pixels.
Apple defines Retina in a way that benefits their advertising campaigns the most.
--Jeremy
Good thing that the discussion isn't about 'running a serious business', it's about difficulty of porting between architectures.
And given the plethora of different chips already on this "fragmented" (FUD Apple marketing word, btw) market and how well the system already works, I'm not too worried about having a couple #ifdefs to support Arm and x86 chips. Open source projects somehow manage to do it every fucking day and it works quite well.
Also, you don't seem to have any problem dismissing things you don't have any personal experience with (AGW, etc), so it hardly seems fair for you to demand higher standards from everyone else.
--Jeremy