1) Community. There's not much more you can say about that. There is a mac community. But you won't find a dell community, or a gateway community, or a windows community. There's a linux community, but a lot of them tend to not like outsiders.
2) It's still the revolution. Jobs may have declared the desktop wars to be over and M$ the victor, but that doesn't stop mac users from defending their territory and trying to expand. We fought a long and weary battle during the desktop wars, it's not s spirit you give up on so easy. Besides, we need something to do since we're not spending our time trouble shooting our computers (sorry, I had to say it).
2.5) Mystic. The first Apple's were made in wooden boxes and made in a garage. It's a legend. PCs just don't have that. The great story behind windows is Bill Gates bluffed his way into DOS and IBM. The closest thing on the PC is Linux, the vision of a college student.
3) Style. Let's face it, when was the last time a PC ever drew looks? PCs are boring (they're getting better) they've become tools. Like the cars you see on the road today. They're all the same, but then you see a car from yesteryear go by and it's all shiny and polished. It may not be the fastest and most efficient car on the block, but it's the one drawing looks. Watch a room where someone opens up a mac laptop. Slowly people wander over and begin pointing at things on the screen asking what things are, what they do, what's this what's that. No PC does that. Macs draw attention.
4) Satisfaction. Macs may not be the fastest machines out there. But they do the job, they do it well, they do it reliably and they look good doing it. It's hard to describe it, but there is something about using a mac that just isn't in a PC. It's like a new toy, but this one never grows old.
5) Loyalty works both ways. Someone here once said that though they will defend the mac against outside critisism, mac users are some of the harshest critics of the platform. We have a way that we like things to be. They have to be part of our system. If ti doesn't shape up the way we want or something is wrong, Apple hears about it and hears us loud and clear. And because we're loyal to the company, Apple tends to listen to us. When was the last time a bunch of people bitching at M$ ever got results? Each change from OS X beta, to X, to X.1 to X.2 has parts that reflect the comments of the users. It's like if someone you had just met today came up to you and said that you need to change some things about your life and went through a list of flaws, you'd write them off and ignore them. But if a friend, who even though you know they'll stick with you no matter what, came up to you and said you needed to change a few things, you would actualy consider the advice.
Hmmm, a direct copy of a patented style, hacking and reverse engineering software and then redistributing it, no nothing wrong there at all. Find a case where the people were doing nothing wrong and Apple sued them.
So you mean like Mac OS classsic did (blicked the application icon in the finder menu) and OS X sort of does (bounces the icon in the dock)? Serioulsy, love or hate Apple, they spent a lot of time on GUI stuff. They have plenty of good ideas.
Hi, I'm a typical slashdrone flaming people from my parents garage where I still live. Someday, after I finish downloaded the internet off of my cable modem I may seek the outside world and this mystery called human interaction, but until then I am content to complain about other people who I don't know while hiding behind a viel of anonmity, cause god knows I'd never have the guts to say something like this to someones face.
I offer you a challenge, watch the following Animes
Noir Hellsing Mononoke Hime Kenshin Samurai X
And tell me that those animes fit the stereo types which you claim?
Or try Ra Xephon or Whitch Hunter Robin
These are just a few examples of anime which does not fit your stereo types. Not to mention that all of the unhealthy immages which you claim Anime presents is presented in a good majority of american TV and Film as well.
We should force japan to adopt the same values as civilised countries like the USA - we do not desire to spread our values everywhere and forge an Empire, so why should they be allowed to?
Read it, read it again, read it one more time, if you're still not getting it let me help
We should force japan to adopt the same values as civilised countries like the USA - we do not desire to spread our values everywhere and forge an Empire, so why should they be allowed to?
Actualy, by not actively trying to prevent you from breaking the restriction (which is a basic restriction found in most commercial DVD players) one could argue that Apple is indeed pro-Fair Use as Fair Use implies you have the right to use what you have purchased in any way you see fit within the bounds of the law.
Next time you should listen to the people talking about the releases or pay attention to Apple's release schedual. The laptop line has been in need of a revanmp for a while now, and I've been saying it for a while. I actualy expected them in september, but hey, even November is within their average time frame.
Go use a mac for a little bit and then think about that post. Believe me, for a student or someone who isn't doing rendering and kernel compiles on their laptop, the iBook is more than enough laptop.
One benefit to the toilet seat design of the old iBooks. Durable as all hell. Take your dell or sony or whatever laptop, hold it verticaly and then drop it from about waist height. I'll bet more than just the door on the CD-ROM breaks.
Depends on what you run now, what you still want to run on the iBook. Provide some details as to what you plan on doing with the machine, and I'll point you in the direction of some hopefuly helpful resources. And never forget to ask mac users for help, they can show you how to do anything you need, and most of them won't tell you to RTFM.
As far as I know, Apple Works only shipped with the actual machine. CHeck your original CDs, if it's not on the install disc (which it most likely isn't) it's on the Restore disc.
Hmmm, who's condecending? Anyways to avoid that argument.
1) When it comes to comparing features on laptops, for equivilently equipped laptops mac's are highly competative. Do some research, go price out laptops with the type of features that you get on the macs. Espesialy the iBooks, there is almost nothing in the PC market that comes close.
2) Battery life. Apple says 5 hours, and like every laptop battery life, that's projected. But I can tell you that my iBook always gets 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours of battery life, depending on what I'm doing. The G4s that are there have the capability to play through (and I've seen this done) roughly 1 and a half 2 hour DVD movies. No PC comes close. The best powered PC laptop I've seen in that price range gets 2 1/2 to 3 hours of battery.
3) Wieght. Unless you buy an ultralight laptop (www.dynamism.com) the macs win hands down.
4) Screen, just put a PC and a mac laptop side by side, and unless the PC is a sony, chances are you will like the mac screen better. And since the screen is by far one of the most expesnive components of a laptop, it's no suprise that the mac will cost a bit more.
5) I see nothing unprofessional looking about the mac laptops at all. Yes the colored ones of yester year were odd, but the new ones look just fine.
6) Fine you have a serial port, I don't need one
7) Power. Raw CPU power does not nessesarily make a good laptop. I don't want a multi Ghz laptop yet, the heat, and the battery hit would be astronomical. 1 ghz more than covers what I would need out of a laptop.
8) Maybe one day your OS will run on PPC, then we can really compare Apples to Apples. Then again, no one would buy it.
For the same reason that if you ran down the street shooting people, the cops could shoot you. I'm not claiming that all this is clear cut black and white (nothing is) but you're reaching here.
However a search of a person and their property has been expressly limited to items on that person and their identifiable personal property. If information want's to be free, than the information of what you do in a public place with public materials is therefore not your property.
However, unless it specificaly violates (as determined by the supreme court) a right granted to the people or denied to the government by the constitution, the congress has the right to make all laws deemed "nessesary and proper". So far, the Patriot Act has been deemed such. Therefore, it's the government's right to spy on you, just as it's your right to be anonymous (dont' want to get caugt? read it in the library instead of checking it out). It's wierd and hazy stuff, but so is all of the government. It's that way be design.
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Very simple.
1) Community. There's not much more you can say about that. There is a mac community. But you won't find a dell community, or a gateway community, or a windows community. There's a linux community, but a lot of them tend to not like outsiders.
2) It's still the revolution. Jobs may have declared the desktop wars to be over and M$ the victor, but that doesn't stop mac users from defending their territory and trying to expand. We fought a long and weary battle during the desktop wars, it's not s spirit you give up on so easy. Besides, we need something to do since we're not spending our time trouble shooting our computers (sorry, I had to say it).
2.5) Mystic. The first Apple's were made in wooden boxes and made in a garage. It's a legend. PCs just don't have that. The great story behind windows is Bill Gates bluffed his way into DOS and IBM. The closest thing on the PC is Linux, the vision of a college student.
3) Style. Let's face it, when was the last time a PC ever drew looks? PCs are boring (they're getting better) they've become tools. Like the cars you see on the road today. They're all the same, but then you see a car from yesteryear go by and it's all shiny and polished. It may not be the fastest and most efficient car on the block, but it's the one drawing looks. Watch a room where someone opens up a mac laptop. Slowly people wander over and begin pointing at things on the screen asking what things are, what they do, what's this what's that. No PC does that. Macs draw attention.
4) Satisfaction. Macs may not be the fastest machines out there. But they do the job, they do it well, they do it reliably and they look good doing it. It's hard to describe it, but there is something about using a mac that just isn't in a PC. It's like a new toy, but this one never grows old.
5) Loyalty works both ways. Someone here once said that though they will defend the mac against outside critisism, mac users are some of the harshest critics of the platform. We have a way that we like things to be. They have to be part of our system. If ti doesn't shape up the way we want or something is wrong, Apple hears about it and hears us loud and clear. And because we're loyal to the company, Apple tends to listen to us. When was the last time a bunch of people bitching at M$ ever got results? Each change from OS X beta, to X, to X.1 to X.2 has parts that reflect the comments of the users. It's like if someone you had just met today came up to you and said that you need to change some things about your life and went through a list of flaws, you'd write them off and ignore them. But if a friend, who even though you know they'll stick with you no matter what, came up to you and said you needed to change a few things, you would actualy consider the advice.
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Hmmm, a direct copy of a patented style, hacking and reverse engineering software and then redistributing it, no nothing wrong there at all. Find a case where the people were doing nothing wrong and Apple sued them.
As a note, in OS 9 at least, option clicking outside of the application (even into another application) did the same thing.
This has got to be, or will be when they actually make one, the coolest
So you mean like Mac OS classsic did (blicked the application icon in the finder menu) and OS X sort of does (bounces the icon in the dock)? Serioulsy, love or hate Apple, they spent a lot of time on GUI stuff. They have plenty of good ideas.
IIRC, you can turn off the bouncing icon to preserve your prescious clock cycles.
Hi, I'm a typical slashdrone flaming people from my parents garage where I still live. Someday, after I finish downloaded the internet off of my cable modem I may seek the outside world and this mystery called human interaction, but until then I am content to complain about other people who I don't know while hiding behind a viel of anonmity, cause god knows I'd never have the guts to say something like this to someones face.
Because Ecology is a bunch of garbage that doesn't matter?
I can see it now, 24/7 broadcasts of kernel recompiles!
I offer you a challenge, watch the following Animes
Noir
Hellsing
Mononoke Hime
Kenshin
Samurai X
And tell me that those animes fit the stereo types which you claim?
Or try Ra Xephon or Whitch Hunter Robin
These are just a few examples of anime which does not fit your stereo types. Not to mention that all of the unhealthy immages which you claim Anime presents is presented in a good majority of american TV and Film as well.
We should force japan to adopt the same values as civilised countries like the USA - we do not desire to spread our values everywhere and forge an Empire, so why should they be allowed to?
Read it, read it again, read it one more time, if you're still not getting it let me help
We should force japan to adopt the same values as civilised countries like the USA - we do not desire to spread our values everywhere and forge an Empire, so why should they be allowed to?
I rest my case
Probably just about anything from GAINAX. Ever try to watch Furi Kuri and understand what the hell was going on?
Actualy, by not actively trying to prevent you from breaking the restriction (which is a basic restriction found in most commercial DVD players) one could argue that Apple is indeed pro-Fair Use as Fair Use implies you have the right to use what you have purchased in any way you see fit within the bounds of the law.
Next time you should listen to the people talking about the releases or pay attention to Apple's release schedual. The laptop line has been in need of a revanmp for a while now, and I've been saying it for a while. I actualy expected them in september, but hey, even November is within their average time frame.
Go use a mac for a little bit and then think about that post. Believe me, for a student or someone who isn't doing rendering and kernel compiles on their laptop, the iBook is more than enough laptop.
One benefit to the toilet seat design of the old iBooks. Durable as all hell. Take your dell or sony or whatever laptop, hold it verticaly and then drop it from about waist height. I'll bet more than just the door on the CD-ROM breaks.
the price went down.
As for speed bumps. True they are IRL designed to slow people down, I've also seen them cause people to fly.
Depends on what you run now, what you still want to run on the iBook. Provide some details as to what you plan on doing with the machine, and I'll point you in the direction of some hopefuly helpful resources. And never forget to ask mac users for help, they can show you how to do anything you need, and most of them won't tell you to RTFM.
As far as I know, Apple Works only shipped with the actual machine. CHeck your original CDs, if it's not on the install disc (which it most likely isn't) it's on the Restore disc.
Hmmm, who's condecending? Anyways to avoid that argument.
1) When it comes to comparing features on laptops, for equivilently equipped laptops mac's are highly competative. Do some research, go price out laptops with the type of features that you get on the macs. Espesialy the iBooks, there is almost nothing in the PC market that comes close.
2) Battery life. Apple says 5 hours, and like every laptop battery life, that's projected. But I can tell you that my iBook always gets 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours of battery life, depending on what I'm doing. The G4s that are there have the capability to play through (and I've seen this done) roughly 1 and a half 2 hour DVD movies. No PC comes close. The best powered PC laptop I've seen in that price range gets 2 1/2 to 3 hours of battery.
3) Wieght. Unless you buy an ultralight laptop (www.dynamism.com) the macs win hands down.
4) Screen, just put a PC and a mac laptop side by side, and unless the PC is a sony, chances are you will like the mac screen better. And since the screen is by far one of the most expesnive components of a laptop, it's no suprise that the mac will cost a bit more.
5) I see nothing unprofessional looking about the mac laptops at all. Yes the colored ones of yester year were odd, but the new ones look just fine.
6) Fine you have a serial port, I don't need one
7) Power. Raw CPU power does not nessesarily make a good laptop. I don't want a multi Ghz laptop yet, the heat, and the battery hit would be astronomical. 1 ghz more than covers what I would need out of a laptop.
8) Maybe one day your OS will run on PPC, then we can really compare Apples to Apples. Then again, no one would buy it.
For the same reason that if you ran down the street shooting people, the cops could shoot you. I'm not claiming that all this is clear cut black and white (nothing is) but you're reaching here.
That's not what the story was about though, the story was about not being told that you were being investigated.
However a search of a person and their property has been expressly limited to items on that person and their identifiable personal property. If information want's to be free, than the information of what you do in a public place with public materials is therefore not your property.
However, unless it specificaly violates (as determined by the supreme court) a right granted to the people or denied to the government by the constitution, the congress has the right to make all laws deemed "nessesary and proper". So far, the Patriot Act has been deemed such. Therefore, it's the government's right to spy on you, just as it's your right to be anonymous (dont' want to get caugt? read it in the library instead of checking it out). It's wierd and hazy stuff, but so is all of the government. It's that way be design.