Also an astute person would notice that all of Apple's corporate websites are registered through Network Solutions
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doesn't mean you do it well.
Probation period = we test you out and see if we like what you bring to our company.
Guess they didn't like him.
And of course, instead of saying "Screw apple, I don't need them" turning arround, writing abiword PPC and turning it into an international best program, he's just going to cancel it.
Another question. I'm going to assume for the moment that AbiWord is an opensource program. So how could his PORT of the program be his killer app?
Not really, consider this upgrade is for someone using the somethign like the biege G3, circa 1997. Now if you assume that they are still using this machine, and assume the paid $3000 for it, that's close to 6 years already. Tag another $700 and your computer is good to go for at least another 3 years if not longer.
The whole idea though being that you can actualy play with the computers at the apple store and actualy try the products and how they handle doing the things you normaly do. You know, treating your customer like a customer and not a criminal.
Seriously. If these people felt so strongly about the flaws in this system to hold a public seminar on it, why did they backdown when they got a letter? They should have held the seminar anyways. They might go to jail, but think of what they could accomplish.
1) Get the information they wanted presented to the public.
Most of you probably don't remember, but when Apple released OS X beta, they caught a lot of flak for releasing a buggy and incomplete product, despite the fact that it was listed as a BETA.
If Apple's pre-offical betas get linked, and people think that these are official updates, people will be pissed as all hell when they don't work right, and that reflects badly on Apple
You mean in a time where the tech industry is loosing money, where people have been loosing money left and right and there are people predicting horrible economic times ahead, the fact that a tech company, that makes luxury tech no less, would drop sales suprises you?
PC sales went up just sslightly, that's nice, and while PC sales were falling only a few months ago, Apple's were nice and steady. Or did you just expect Apple's sales and figures to keep going up and up and up?
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Because not everybody cares whether or not they can get more than 80 fps out of quake.
Because not everybody cares for larger HDD space (ok so those people are rare, but the point remains)
Because for some people 2 ghz is indeed fast enough (a lesson that that many tech companies have to learn still)
Apple recomends in their instruction manuals (you know, those funny books with all the pictures that came with your computer? No those weren't for your daughter to color in, oh well...) that to maximise your battery life for the duration of your laptop's life (or the battery's life as the case may be) to run it down without any interuptions untill the first low battery warning appears, and then plug it back in and allow it to charge fully.
Consider it this way: If it were not for the proper channels, and the direct line ways of doing things, you wouldn't be able to get your battery free of charge anyway, so instead of holding onto a non functioning machine for a few more days, you'd have a non functioning machine untill you could fork over the cash for a replacement.
except as has been stated before, this is standard practice in the industry period. Next time maybe you should buy from apple directly, 2 day air for replacement parts is very nice. But you chose the dealer route, now you play by the dealer's rules. Did you even ask if they could loan you a battery from their testing inventory?
That's true for any OS and M$, and that's why I don't run M$. Why do you run M$?
Because sometime's your clients only use windows. I once had a person who was on a mac at a library ask me how to browse the web (he had netscape open) when I aksed him if he had ever done this before, he said yes, but he used windows, and he junt knew that macs were different. People can be dumb.
You are shitting me? This cheaper than having an ugly M$ box?
IIRC, you shell out about $150 - $200 for a copy of VPC, so yes, it is cheaper (or at least on par with) an ugly M$ box. Not to mention, when it comes time to do the montly reinstall, compy cut and paste the immage from the install CD
I wonder, if Microsoft killed the project, would it be possible for connectix to rebuild the project and rerelease under a new name? They have to have the original code somewhere, a little bit of tweaking and they could be back in business.
Actualy, most macintosh users will gladly lend their computer to a friend (key word here being friend) for use, espesialy if the potential to convert a person to Mac OS X is there. I lent my old iBook (granted not $300, but $1,600 is still a chunk of change) to a die hard linux friend of mine to see if I could get him to convert. He now owns a G4.
And spending 15 hours a day with your daughter... I think you should put her into a real school and yourself into a job, just to give her a break!
Problem numero uno with modern society:
Put the kid and school and let the government dela with them. BAH. School is a prison. A pen for holding the little beasts until we decide they know enough to make effective slaves. Then we use and abuse them for minimum wages untill they can prove they can complete a (rather unnessesary) 4 years of college to get a piece of paper that approves them for earning more than 15k a year regardless of how intelligent they actualy are.
Take more time to spend with your kids, they will thank you for it later.
School buildings everywhere are falling down. It's nothing new. I grew up in a town where every 3rd house was owned by a doctor or a lawer, we had more money to throw at problems then most schools in the state did. Yet our roof was still leaky, our teachers still had lousy pay, and we didn't have enough room for all the students. Why? Because with schools, as with any government project, everything is done by the lowest bidder. Buildings that should have been finished and buit in 2 months, took over a year and a half. Wiring jobs that students could do perfectly (because we did some of them) were done by contractors and then redone by the student employees. School buildings suck. They always have and they always will plain and simple.
As for teacher training, READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE. Part of the package was the teachers got training.
As for upgrading the labs with nice cheap desktops, tell me, do you think they could get a nice desktop (and have the space for it) for every student in the system for $300 a student?
$300 per computer per student according to the article. 37 million dollars someone else on here said translated out to roughly 50 someodd thousand per school in Maine. Every library has computers with net access, even assuming cheap PCs you're looking at a cost of $300 per computer. Then you still have to buy the books, shelves, pay for book upkeep (trust me there's more to that than you think) plus pay for staff. 50k per school isn't going to go very far.
Did you even read the article? They have a cost equaling out to about $300 per student. Support and maintainance on Apple machines can easily be carried out by students (that's what my highschool did, 3 of us after school each day, $5.15 an hour (minimum wage) and on top of that we maintained the PCs and ran cables for the network.
Software was being donated, and IIRC, when you lease computers from Apple, if something goes seriously wrong, Apple replaces free of charge.
After spending millions upon millions of dollars on the computers, most of them sat running screen savers, because the teachers didn't know how to use them, or they just slapped "educational" games on them to baby-sit the kids, and so they didn't have to teach as much.
if you read the article you would have found that part of the expenditure was teacing the teachers how to use the computers as an effective tool. Maybe you don't see the bennefits, but I've seen computers go to plenty of good use when the teachers know how to use them. Not to mention, as time goes on, imagine the drop in cost to schools when you can get online textbooks as opposed to hardbound texts.
By virtue of the constitution, they belong in the schools too. Or did you forget the bit about providing for the common good. Education is a common good. It benefits society as a whole, therefore, the government belongs in education. People are paying taxes, and in all honesty, I'd rather my taxes go to getting kids computers than into crap like the school CNN setups and crap like that.
Not quite. The original idea of the trash can was to "remove" items. So for example, you have a file or folder on your computer, to REMOVE it you would drag it to the trash. Likewise, if you had a floppy or a CD in your computer, to REMOVE it, you would drag it to the drash. Not really all that odd, no more odd than having shutdown in the start menu.
I was sitting there, stealing music, and my door was like BANG BANG BANG, and these SWAT team guys ran in and took my computer and arrested me and it was a bummer.
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Wouldn't it make more sense (on apple's part) to offer a free year with the purchase of an iPod?
.mac subscription.
OTOH, it's possible they may do what you suggest or maybe also include this service as part of the
Also an astute person would notice that all of Apple's corporate websites are registered through Network Solutions
doesn't mean you do it well.
Probation period = we test you out and see if we like what you bring to our company.
Guess they didn't like him.
And of course, instead of saying "Screw apple, I don't need them" turning arround, writing abiword PPC and turning it into an international best program, he's just going to cancel it.
Another question. I'm going to assume for the moment that AbiWord is an opensource program. So how could his PORT of the program be his killer app?
Erm, Apple does provide on site support for corporations.
Not really, consider this upgrade is for someone using the somethign like the biege G3, circa 1997. Now if you assume that they are still using this machine, and assume the paid $3000 for it, that's close to 6 years already. Tag another $700 and your computer is good to go for at least another 3 years if not longer.
The whole idea though being that you can actualy play with the computers at the apple store and actualy try the products and how they handle doing the things you normaly do. You know, treating your customer like a customer and not a criminal.
Seriously. If these people felt so strongly about the flaws in this system to hold a public seminar on it, why did they backdown when they got a letter? They should have held the seminar anyways. They might go to jail, but think of what they could accomplish.
1) Get the information they wanted presented to the public.
2) Get media attention
3) Bring the insanity of the DMCA to the courts.
Mostly to keep out the idiots.
Most of you probably don't remember, but when Apple released OS X beta, they caught a lot of flak for releasing a buggy and incomplete product, despite the fact that it was listed as a BETA.
If Apple's pre-offical betas get linked, and people think that these are official updates, people will be pissed as all hell when they don't work right, and that reflects badly on Apple
3 words (or two words and an acronym):
USB pen drive.
You mean in a time where the tech industry is loosing money, where people have been loosing money left and right and there are people predicting horrible economic times ahead, the fact that a tech company, that makes luxury tech no less, would drop sales suprises you?
PC sales went up just sslightly, that's nice, and while PC sales were falling only a few months ago, Apple's were nice and steady. Or did you just expect Apple's sales and figures to keep going up and up and up?
Because not everybody cares whether or not they can get more than 80 fps out of quake.
Because not everybody cares for larger HDD space (ok so those people are rare, but the point remains)
Because for some people 2 ghz is indeed fast enough (a lesson that that many tech companies have to learn still)
Because they can.
Apple recomends in their instruction manuals (you know, those funny books with all the pictures that came with your computer? No those weren't for your daughter to color in, oh well...) that to maximise your battery life for the duration of your laptop's life (or the battery's life as the case may be) to run it down without any interuptions untill the first low battery warning appears, and then plug it back in and allow it to charge fully.
Consider it this way: If it were not for the proper channels, and the direct line ways of doing things, you wouldn't be able to get your battery free of charge anyway, so instead of holding onto a non functioning machine for a few more days, you'd have a non functioning machine untill you could fork over the cash for a replacement.
except as has been stated before, this is standard practice in the industry period. Next time maybe you should buy from apple directly, 2 day air for replacement parts is very nice. But you chose the dealer route, now you play by the dealer's rules. Did you even ask if they could loan you a battery from their testing inventory?
That's true for any OS and M$, and that's why I don't run M$. Why do you run M$?
Because sometime's your clients only use windows. I once had a person who was on a mac at a library ask me how to browse the web (he had netscape open) when I aksed him if he had ever done this before, he said yes, but he used windows, and he junt knew that macs were different. People can be dumb.
You are shitting me? This cheaper than having an ugly M$ box?
IIRC, you shell out about $150 - $200 for a copy of VPC, so yes, it is cheaper (or at least on par with) an ugly M$ box. Not to mention, when it comes time to do the montly reinstall, compy cut and paste the immage from the install CD
I wonder, if Microsoft killed the project, would it be possible for connectix to rebuild the project and rerelease under a new name? They have to have the original code somewhere, a little bit of tweaking and they could be back in business.
Actualy, most macintosh users will gladly lend their computer to a friend (key word here being friend) for use, espesialy if the potential to convert a person to Mac OS X is there. I lent my old iBook (granted not $300, but $1,600 is still a chunk of change) to a die hard linux friend of mine to see if I could get him to convert. He now owns a G4.
And spending 15 hours a day with your daughter... I think you should put her into a real school and yourself into a job, just to give her a break!
Problem numero uno with modern society:
Put the kid and school and let the government dela with them. BAH. School is a prison. A pen for holding the little beasts until we decide they know enough to make effective slaves. Then we use and abuse them for minimum wages untill they can prove they can complete a (rather unnessesary) 4 years of college to get a piece of paper that approves them for earning more than 15k a year regardless of how intelligent they actualy are.
Take more time to spend with your kids, they will thank you for it later.
School buildings everywhere are falling down. It's nothing new. I grew up in a town where every 3rd house was owned by a doctor or a lawer, we had more money to throw at problems then most schools in the state did. Yet our roof was still leaky, our teachers still had lousy pay, and we didn't have enough room for all the students. Why? Because with schools, as with any government project, everything is done by the lowest bidder. Buildings that should have been finished and buit in 2 months, took over a year and a half. Wiring jobs that students could do perfectly (because we did some of them) were done by contractors and then redone by the student employees. School buildings suck. They always have and they always will plain and simple.
As for teacher training, READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE. Part of the package was the teachers got training.
As for upgrading the labs with nice cheap desktops, tell me, do you think they could get a nice desktop (and have the space for it) for every student in the system for $300 a student?
$300 per computer per student according to the article. 37 million dollars someone else on here said translated out to roughly 50 someodd thousand per school in Maine. Every library has computers with net access, even assuming cheap PCs you're looking at a cost of $300 per computer. Then you still have to buy the books, shelves, pay for book upkeep (trust me there's more to that than you think) plus pay for staff. 50k per school isn't going to go very far.
Did you even read the article? They have a cost equaling out to about $300 per student. Support and maintainance on Apple machines can easily be carried out by students (that's what my highschool did, 3 of us after school each day, $5.15 an hour (minimum wage) and on top of that we maintained the PCs and ran cables for the network.
Software was being donated, and IIRC, when you lease computers from Apple, if something goes seriously wrong, Apple replaces free of charge.
After spending millions upon millions of dollars on the computers, most of them sat running screen savers, because the teachers didn't know how to use them, or they just slapped "educational" games on them to baby-sit the kids, and so they didn't have to teach as much.
if you read the article you would have found that part of the expenditure was teacing the teachers how to use the computers as an effective tool. Maybe you don't see the bennefits, but I've seen computers go to plenty of good use when the teachers know how to use them. Not to mention, as time goes on, imagine the drop in cost to schools when you can get online textbooks as opposed to hardbound texts.
By virtue of the constitution, they belong in the schools too. Or did you forget the bit about providing for the common good. Education is a common good. It benefits society as a whole, therefore, the government belongs in education. People are paying taxes, and in all honesty, I'd rather my taxes go to getting kids computers than into crap like the school CNN setups and crap like that.
Not quite. The original idea of the trash can was to "remove" items. So for example, you have a file or folder on your computer, to REMOVE it you would drag it to the trash. Likewise, if you had a floppy or a CD in your computer, to REMOVE it, you would drag it to the drash. Not really all that odd, no more odd than having shutdown in the start menu.
New apple ad:
I was sitting there, stealing music, and my door was like BANG BANG BANG, and these SWAT team guys ran in and took my computer and arrested me and it was a bummer.