Yes, its about time that Americans caught up to the rest of the world by getting an American phone on the 4th largest carrier that has 1/3 the subscibers of ATT or Verizon. Its especially rich that you linked the to a site in the UK where they only got 4G in October of this year.
Basically, Windows 7 is great and there aren't super compelling features or changes that warrant an upgrade, yet. If Windows 7 sucked like Vista or ME, then there would have been more of a drive to upgrade.
It doesn't really matter though. New computers are being bought and sold all the time and the transition to 8 will continue. It certainly isn't an upgrade that has people running out to buy boxed copies, but when people decide its time for a new computer, they'll make the switch.
I don't think people are rationally examining this and are caught up in the hype.
The bulk of the steam catalog and nearly all of the AAA titles are made by companies other than Valve. A large portion of these games utilize DirectX and there is little evidence that Valve could convince companies to undertake the porting of these games to Linux. Given that most games don't run on Linux, his claim that Linux is better for gaming is fucking laughable.
Learn to read between the lines; Valve is butthurt about the Windows App Store and are throwing a temper tantrum.
Bullshit from somebody who doesn't remember correctly.
The main push for USB adoption came with the release of Windows 98, released in May of 1998.
The iMac was released in August of 1998 and although it was one of the best selling Macs of all time, it is largely insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of Windows machines sold at the same time.
It always has been the intention of Apple for everything you use to be apple and apple only. The iphone has given them a good environment to do this and they are taking advantage of it. If you buy into it, its your own choice, but know that this is what you are buying in to.
What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I can't imagine anything more sleep inducing than a podcast of a kernel mailing list. You better include a warning not to listen while driving or operating machinery.
All this threat and cannibalization talk is bullshit. If apple makes the proposed standard mac I would buy one. If they don't, I'm not going to buy an imac, and I'm not going to buy a mac pro; I will just buy another PC.
Another example I could think of would be motorcycles. Kawasaki makes a large number of sport bikes from 250cc all the way to 1400cc. Kawasaki realizes that a lot of the market wants more than the Ninja 250, but doesn't necessarily want the ZX-14. So they offer medium sizes. Yeah, there might be a few cases where someone buys a ZX-9 that might have moved up to the ZX-14 if they didn't have the option, but thats a lot less than the people that would say fuck it and buy a Suzuki.
For models without screens, Apple has the Mini (Ninja 250), and the Mac Pro (ZX-14). As long as they ignore the middle, they aren't serving the market, and are passing on good customers and good sales.
Right-wingers bitch about how our public schools do a shitty job, then insist on teaching pseudoscientific garbage like intelligent design. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.
The price for an Air with SSD is $3100. The thinkpad also has a nicer display (1440x900 vs 1280x800), removable battery, a faster processor (2.0ghz vs 1.8ghz), and weighs less (2.5lbs vs 3lbs), more ports (ethernet, usb), better speakers (LOL Airbook has mono), a microphone, and a built in DVD burner.
They never use the same game configuration, so trying to figure out how much faster one thing is than another is impossible. Rather than have 1 variable (the hardware being benchmarked), they use 2 variables (the hardware, and the settings of the benchmarked software).
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Intel does.
If you click/tap on the compass arrow, it will re-orient.
Yes, its about time that Americans caught up to the rest of the world by getting an American phone on the 4th largest carrier that has 1/3 the subscibers of ATT or Verizon. Its especially rich that you linked the to a site in the UK where they only got 4G in October of this year.
You stupid fuck.
linux, ha
Basically, Windows 7 is great and there aren't super compelling features or changes that warrant an upgrade, yet. If Windows 7 sucked like Vista or ME, then there would have been more of a drive to upgrade.
It doesn't really matter though. New computers are being bought and sold all the time and the transition to 8 will continue. It certainly isn't an upgrade that has people running out to buy boxed copies, but when people decide its time for a new computer, they'll make the switch.
Android is important, desktop Linux is not.
And this is the year of desktop linux, amirite?
I don't think people are rationally examining this and are caught up in the hype.
The bulk of the steam catalog and nearly all of the AAA titles are made by companies other than Valve. A large portion of these games utilize DirectX and there is little evidence that Valve could convince companies to undertake the porting of these games to Linux. Given that most games don't run on Linux, his claim that Linux is better for gaming is fucking laughable.
Learn to read between the lines; Valve is butthurt about the Windows App Store and are throwing a temper tantrum.
Bullshit from somebody who doesn't remember correctly.
The main push for USB adoption came with the release of Windows 98, released in May of 1998.
The iMac was released in August of 1998 and although it was one of the best selling Macs of all time, it is largely insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of Windows machines sold at the same time.
All you have to do is click on the address bar and it shows you the full path C:\foo\bar
It always has been the intention of Apple for everything you use to be apple and apple only. The iphone has given them a good environment to do this and they are taking advantage of it. If you buy into it, its your own choice, but know that this is what you are buying in to.
Macs are high quality?
And you link to the Green Party?
Thats a lot of faggotry for just one post.
What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I can't imagine anything more sleep inducing than a podcast of a kernel mailing list. You better include a warning not to listen while driving or operating machinery.
nobody cares faggot
You don't really have much of a leg to stand on.
Bullshit. The most recent mac I purchased came with cheap HYNIX memory.
I don't have this problem.
All this threat and cannibalization talk is bullshit. If apple makes the proposed standard mac I would buy one. If they don't, I'm not going to buy an imac, and I'm not going to buy a mac pro; I will just buy another PC.
Another example I could think of would be motorcycles. Kawasaki makes a large number of sport bikes from 250cc all the way to 1400cc. Kawasaki realizes that a lot of the market wants more than the Ninja 250, but doesn't necessarily want the ZX-14. So they offer medium sizes. Yeah, there might be a few cases where someone buys a ZX-9 that might have moved up to the ZX-14 if they didn't have the option, but thats a lot less than the people that would say fuck it and buy a Suzuki.
For models without screens, Apple has the Mini (Ninja 250), and the Mac Pro (ZX-14). As long as they ignore the middle, they aren't serving the market, and are passing on good customers and good sales.
Right-wingers bitch about how our public schools do a shitty job, then insist on teaching pseudoscientific garbage like intelligent design. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping beard and fill him with a terrible resolve."
The price for an Air with SSD is $3100. The thinkpad also has a nicer display (1440x900 vs 1280x800), removable battery, a faster processor (2.0ghz vs 1.8ghz), and weighs less (2.5lbs vs 3lbs), more ports (ethernet, usb), better speakers (LOL Airbook has mono), a microphone, and a built in DVD burner.
Even if the number of downgrades was ridiculously high (say 40-50%), they would still have over 50 million users.
They never use the same game configuration, so trying to figure out how much faster one thing is than another is impossible. Rather than have 1 variable (the hardware being benchmarked), they use 2 variables (the hardware, and the settings of the benchmarked software).
People also study religion, art, music, etc. at university.