Can someone explain why we can standardize street signs and the amount of sugar allowed in school lunches but we cannot get a standardized election system?
A pesky little paper called the constitution. Perhaps you've heard of it?
Besides, do you really want congress critters and the POTUS to tell you HOW to vote? Fuck, florida can't even make a system for their own people let alone 49 other states.
You know, health care et al, might actualy be affordable if the government didn't take so much out of every god damn paycheck. When I was making $8 / hour, a full 17% of my pay check was taken out and sent to uncle sam. That doesn't even count the money my employer had to pay out in taxes (remember for a lot of the taxes like social security, they have to pay equal match for every employee). You don't even want to know what my taxes looked like earning $30 / hour. Or, if you want to look at it another way, when I was making $8 / hour, the ammount of money they took in taxes each month would have paid for good PRIVATE healthcare, cable TV / internet AND a third of my monthly rent. And that's on top of living decent on the regular pay. And the more succesful I am, the more they take from me. And you wonder why I'm in no hurry to give my money away.
They don't advertise it because the GP is full of shit, or at least highly misinformed. Yes, Apple does have a flat rate repair system, however, it's not so simple. It's about 3 tiers of flat rate repair with the lowest being $350, and the highest being about $800. Depending on the necessary repair, you will fall into one of these tiers and that's the flat rate Apple will charge you.
The trick to Apple is simple. If you get a machine with a defect, get it repaired, and then keep on it. Make sure you're watching for things to go bad and do it fast. It is unbelieveable the number of times you will hear from someone "X failed 3 months ago and when I took it into repair this week, they told me it was out of waranty last month and they wouldn't fix it." If it breaks, get it fixed now. As long as you follow the procedures, it's real easy to get Apple to fix anything for you and almost always cheap or free. Start being and ass hole or being stupid about it, and they aren't going to help you.
I think it's stupidly awkward to have to reach around to the back side of a monitor or computer and feel around for a port to make an impromptu plug-in such as a thumb drive.
This would be why Apple has USB ports on their keyboards. Something I wish PC manufacturers would start doing.
Geeks should take a lesson from the music industry as well. Watch a serious musician when they're done with their instrument. The carefuly disassable it, clean it, polish it, and put it into a protective case. Compare this to the average geek who when they're done with their latest toy, thows it in a back pack or kicks it under the desk. If you don't want your high gloss product to be scratched, you have to take care of it like the musicians take care of their instruments.
You should have listened to them, they probably know what they're talking about. While the mini is a nice little machine, if you're planning on doing movie editing and looking for a complete system, you're better off with the iMac, especialy if your general use of iLife includes garageband. The iMac comes with twice as much storage as the mini, faster HDD, faster RAM, faster processor, better processor and more expandability.
You do realize that since you bought it with a credit card that your transaction is on file and not only can you return it with the card you bought it with, but you can go to the store (or email them) and get a brand new reciept don't you?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people bitch and moan about being asked for some personal info when they check out and then turn arround and pay with a credit card. Sure, you may have avoided giving them your zip code, but you just gave them your name and in the case of many new cards, your email address.
So then go get your reciept. You can email the store you bought it from directly, or you can go into the store with the card you used to make the purchase and they will print you out a nice new shiny receipt.
Ignoring the complete failure of english that sentence was, yes, PCs are fundamentaly different from servers. Servers are generaly bought and run by (in theory) trained professionals who know their software and their hardware, know how to make it work and know how to deal with contingencies and failures. PCs on the otherhand, are not.
Considering that the test drive is a free download from Microsoft's website, I highly doubt there's much of a compensation routine going on, and even if there were, it's still not anything the consumer pays or doesn't pay for.
None of those are contributions to computer science. None of those were even original product ideas. What Apple did was good engineering and good marketing.
In other words, apple took the theory, polished it, and made it useable. You seem to be discrediting Apple because they don't blindly put out theory, instead they do reseach and then put a practical application to that research.
What relevance is the volume discount? If the Dell computer is cheaper than mom and pop or alternative methods, then fuck the MS tax, you're still saving money. If it's not cheaper, then buy mom and pop and who cares about discounts, you're still saving money.
Microsoft doesn't need to be out that long. Just long enough to hurt the EU enough to get them to drop the law or requirement. A few days without MS support or sales in the EU and I'd be willing to be they'll be begging for MS to come back. Sure they can switch, but in the mean time, they're SOL for everything if they have problems.
"Seems to be" is a stronger statement than "it is my opinion that". "Seems to be" would indicate that there is evidence which leads to this conclusion and that it's strong evidence.
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Can someone explain why we can standardize street signs and the amount of sugar allowed in school lunches but we cannot get a standardized election system?
A pesky little paper called the constitution. Perhaps you've heard of it?
Besides, do you really want congress critters and the POTUS to tell you HOW to vote? Fuck, florida can't even make a system for their own people let alone 49 other states.
You know, health care et al, might actualy be affordable if the government didn't take so much out of every god damn paycheck. When I was making $8 / hour, a full 17% of my pay check was taken out and sent to uncle sam. That doesn't even count the money my employer had to pay out in taxes (remember for a lot of the taxes like social security, they have to pay equal match for every employee). You don't even want to know what my taxes looked like earning $30 / hour. Or, if you want to look at it another way, when I was making $8 / hour, the ammount of money they took in taxes each month would have paid for good PRIVATE healthcare, cable TV / internet AND a third of my monthly rent. And that's on top of living decent on the regular pay. And the more succesful I am, the more they take from me. And you wonder why I'm in no hurry to give my money away.
So why tax the innocent? Why not do something like, oh I don't know, put a maximum salary cap for employees in a NPO if they want government money?
They don't advertise it because the GP is full of shit, or at least highly misinformed. Yes, Apple does have a flat rate repair system, however, it's not so simple. It's about 3 tiers of flat rate repair with the lowest being $350, and the highest being about $800. Depending on the necessary repair, you will fall into one of these tiers and that's the flat rate Apple will charge you.
The trick to Apple is simple. If you get a machine with a defect, get it repaired, and then keep on it. Make sure you're watching for things to go bad and do it fast. It is unbelieveable the number of times you will hear from someone "X failed 3 months ago and when I took it into repair this week, they told me it was out of waranty last month and they wouldn't fix it." If it breaks, get it fixed now. As long as you follow the procedures, it's real easy to get Apple to fix anything for you and almost always cheap or free. Start being and ass hole or being stupid about it, and they aren't going to help you.
I think it's stupidly awkward to have to reach around to the back side of a monitor or computer and feel around for a port to make an impromptu plug-in such as a thumb drive.
This would be why Apple has USB ports on their keyboards. Something I wish PC manufacturers would start doing.
Geeks should take a lesson from the music industry as well. Watch a serious musician when they're done with their instrument. The carefuly disassable it, clean it, polish it, and put it into a protective case. Compare this to the average geek who when they're done with their latest toy, thows it in a back pack or kicks it under the desk. If you don't want your high gloss product to be scratched, you have to take care of it like the musicians take care of their instruments.
You should have listened to them, they probably know what they're talking about. While the mini is a nice little machine, if you're planning on doing movie editing and looking for a complete system, you're better off with the iMac, especialy if your general use of iLife includes garageband. The iMac comes with twice as much storage as the mini, faster HDD, faster RAM, faster processor, better processor and more expandability.
You do realize that since you bought it with a credit card that your transaction is on file and not only can you return it with the card you bought it with, but you can go to the store (or email them) and get a brand new reciept don't you?
It never ceases to amaze me how many people bitch and moan about being asked for some personal info when they check out and then turn arround and pay with a credit card. Sure, you may have avoided giving them your zip code, but you just gave them your name and in the case of many new cards, your email address.
So then go get your reciept. You can email the store you bought it from directly, or you can go into the store with the card you used to make the purchase and they will print you out a nice new shiny receipt.
Aren't PC's are any different, Mr. Dell?
Ignoring the complete failure of english that sentence was, yes, PCs are fundamentaly different from servers. Servers are generaly bought and run by (in theory) trained professionals who know their software and their hardware, know how to make it work and know how to deal with contingencies and failures. PCs on the otherhand, are not.
Considering that the test drive is a free download from Microsoft's website, I highly doubt there's much of a compensation routine going on, and even if there were, it's still not anything the consumer pays or doesn't pay for.
If not doing extra work is not worth the $50 "tax" that you don't see anyway, then it's not really the tax that's your problem.
None of those are contributions to computer science. None of those were even original product ideas. What Apple did was good engineering and good marketing.
In other words, apple took the theory, polished it, and made it useable. You seem to be discrediting Apple because they don't blindly put out theory, instead they do reseach and then put a practical application to that research.
Wait a minute. Why does he care whether a mom and pop store can get volume licensing on windows if he doesn't want to pay for windows anyway?
That's the point, what relevance is volume licensing to the fact that he can indeed buy a whole machine without windows and without windows tax.
This may be news to you but not everybody is comfortable paying monopoly rent, I defy you to buy a next-gen laptop without windows preinstalled.
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Negative, that was sold off long ago.
What relevance is the volume discount? If the Dell computer is cheaper than mom and pop or alternative methods, then fuck the MS tax, you're still saving money. If it's not cheaper, then buy mom and pop and who cares about discounts, you're still saving money.
Which doesn't ship on any mac, hence no MS tax.
Microsoft doesn't need to be out that long. Just long enough to hurt the EU enough to get them to drop the law or requirement. A few days without MS support or sales in the EU and I'd be willing to be they'll be begging for MS to come back. Sure they can switch, but in the mean time, they're SOL for everything if they have problems.
Which is all well and good until you get accused of being a rapist.
Somehow I think Microsoft suddenly ending all support and sales in the EU would hurt the EU more than it would hurt Microsoft.
Actualy, it wasn't moronic, you just missed the point. Re-read the whole thread.
Ah, so when it becomes a televised news buletin, then freedom of speech no longer applies. Got it.
"Seems to be" is a stronger statement than "it is my opinion that". "Seems to be" would indicate that there is evidence which leads to this conclusion and that it's strong evidence.
Suspicion is not fact. There is a very big distinction legally between "I think that X" or "I believe X" and "X" or "it appears that X"