1) This is the major problem. People don't think it's worth it to spend twice as much for a Mac. This is the only problem that has ever existed with Macs.
2) If Mac was as ubiquitous as windows, then at work they would be running Macs, and then you could run a Mac at home with no problems.
3) There would be more people to work on Macs including the neighbour's kid or the guy across the street, if Mac was as popular as windows.
4) Best buy would stock a lot more Macs if that is what people were buying. As it stands right now, not enough people buy Macs, so it's not worth it for them to put it on their shelves. It's not like they're against selling Apple products, because they have tons of iPods, and it's not like you can't buy an apple computer retail, it's just that most stores don't think it brings in enough money to take up precious shelf space with Macintosh computers.
5) Games would be made for Mac if there was more people using them. Plain and simple.
That's the truth. Everybody will gawk at you if you bike in the winter, yet it's completely normal to go cross country skiing. There's not reason you can't bike in the winter.
And the entire experience is stupid anyway. They would be better off building MAME cabinets, so that everyone could play every game. It sucks going to the arcade, and all the good games are taken up by the kids with too much money, while the rest of us are stuck playing Q-Bert. Oh, and they could charge by time played, not per game. This is the thing that bothers me the most. If you suck, you pay your $1, and then you get to play for 5 minutes. WTF is that? Even games that you are good at get extremely hard at some point to make sure you keep popping in quarters. Just charge for the time played, and stop trying to annoy the new customers.
The cost of the machines is too high to only charge 25 cents to play. A better idea would be the system they set up in a video game rental shop in my home town 15 years ago. Set up a bunch of consoles (or MAME boxes if you like), and charge people $X per hour to play them. This works out a lot better for the customer who, when they aren't very good at the game, still end up getting their money's worth, and works out better for the arcade because they don't have to buy expensive hardware. Also, it's advertising, as many of people playing the game would buy it if they thought it was good enough. It also gives people a chance to try out games without having to buy a console. The store I went to had a NEO GEO set up and you could play that. It was wildly popular, because nobody had the money to buy it, but everyone had $5 to try it out.
I just think we should all use whatever we want. Any IDE worth it's salt can reformat the entire file with a single key combo. Just set up the format you're comfortable with, and when you open a file, have it reformat the file to the way you want to view it.
I think that just about everyone gets ripped off with a music contracts. When you hear of artists only getting 5 cents from an iTunes download, you realize that the entire system is messed up. However I think it's only a matter of time before the market rights itself. With most of the money going to the record label, it won't be long until artists decide they don't need a label. Originally a label was the only way to get your record sold across the country. Now with iTunes and other online distribution channels, everyone in the world is able to buy your music, without you having to go around to every record store around the world and ask them to sell it.
But romance isn't necessary nor sufficient for office fights. If I'm friends with Bob at the office, and I lend him my car, and he crashes it, then wee might get in an argument. If someone eats my day-after-thanksgiving turkey sandwich that I put in the fridge, then that might cause some kind of conflict. It's when the conflict gets in the way of us doing our jobs that they should step in. They can't stop conflict from happening all the time. All they can do is make sure that it gets resolved when it becomes a problem.
First of all, I was talking about home computers, so my point still stands, but to counter your argument, here it goes. The processors they would be building wouldn't be on the same market as Opterons, Xeons, Althons, or Pentions. Unless they have the same instruction set as the others, or can be programmed in the same way, then I doubt that there would be a lot of people who would want to buy them. And if they were general purpose enough that they could be used then they probably wouldn't be that good for Google anyway. Maybe MS could make some use of these processors, but I don't think they would buy from Google. Or Maybe IBM. Wait they can make their own chips. I doubt that Google could make any money selling specialized processors that are fine tuned for their own needs. None of the console makers even make their own chips anymore, and they sell way more consoles then Google could ever hope to have servers in their datacentres.
Where I went to high school, we had 4 or 5 teacher couples who were working in the same school. I'm not sure why, but it seems like teachers have a very high rate of being married to other teachers. Probably has something to do with meeting in teacher's college. Anyway, I don't think it really caused any problems. I think the problem comes more from starting new relationships within the organization. You go out for six months, and then she cheats on you with tim in the cubicle next to you. This could create some very bad team dynamics. This is why I wouldn't recommend pursuing someone you have to work with on a daily basis. On the other hand, if you work in a large company with a thousand employees in the one building, and you spend 8 hours a day there, then it's probably your best chance for meeting someone. Outright banning office romances is a bad thing. If people get into relationships, and they break up, and then can't work properly together, then it's probably time for management to step in.
And how many kids will think up some kind of hack to get money out of it? Remember those companies that used to pay you just for browsing the internet? Yeah, they'd display an ad banner, and for each hour you spent browsing the internet, you'd get money. So, you create a script that makes it look like you are browsing the internet, and run it all night, and then you get paid. I'm sure this will fall subject to some of the same scams. Post a video. Watch it a thousand times with a script, and get all your friends to do the same, and there's your money. Oh, but you say they have figured out how to protect against this kind of scam. I say it's only a matter of time. A P2P client that you sign up for, submit the link to your video, and everyone else on the P2P network downloads your video. And in exchange, you'll download your videos. For each video you download, your video gets downloaded once, or something like that. Now hook up another computer with the same Login, and all the videos this one downloads goes on your account. Now, create a trojan that people will install, and in the background will download videos for your account. Now watch your video skyrocket to the top of the charts on the P2P client, and now everyone is downloading your video. Watch your money flow in, and watch this website go bankrupt in the process.
Yes, it is a bad thing, because a regular processor only costs $150. On the other hand a video card and a physics card and all the other cards you would need to run a computer this way would cost much more money.
But then just how many specialized chips does one need? With personal computers it's getting a little out of hand. First we have graphics processors, and now physics processors. Oh, and we also have network cards that allow you to offload the entire TCP/IP stack to their own processors. Oh, and sound cards have hardware mixers, so you don't have to mix the sound in software on your general purpose CPU. Oh, and those video capture cards convert everything to mpeg in hardware, so you don't need your CPU for that either. All I need is a special processor for compiling code, and I could go right back to using a 486 as my main processor, since it wouldn't have anything to do anymore.
It's not all about supply and demand when talking about net neutrality. I pay for my bandwidth with a bill at the end of each month. Google also pays for their own bandwidth with a slightly:) larger bill at the end of each month (or however often they pay their bill). All the networks in between Google and my house have struck a deal saying that they will carry traffic between eachother's networks. But now some of the in between or end user networks want to charge more to certain companies because they feel that they use a lot of bandwidth. Ah ha, but they are already paying for their bandwidth. What they actually want to do is charge a premium to companies they feel have a lot of money. They want to charge the carwash more money per litre on the water they use, because they are making better use of that water, and making a huge profit. Imagine going to the gas pumps, and having to pay more for gas, because you're a pizza delivery guy, and you're making money off of that gas. Or because you're Walmart, and you make gobs of money, we're going to charge you 10x the amount we'd charge a regular person for gas. They are doing the exact opposite of supply and demand. They want to charge you more, simply because they feel you have more money. Not because there's only so much bandwidth to go around. Everyone is already paying for their bandwidth.
A little correction for you. AIDS isn't spreading in the first world because we are educated, and don't have unprotected sex with everyone we meet. Meanwhile in Africa, there's tons of people dying of AIDS. Because of lack of proper protection, and just ignorance about the disease, it's spreading fast and is already a major epidemic.
So, is it all software that's overpriced, or just Windows? Because if a CD burning program (Nero) costs $90, then for sure the operating system is worth $140. You use the OS every time you turn on the computer, and even though most users don't know this, it's the most important piece of software they will ever buy. Many people are used to not buying software, and many just pirate it, but that doesn't mean that software isn't worth what they charge for it. Think about how much you can do with a computer. Sure most people don't use it to their full advantage, and won't get $1000 (removing cost of PS, because nobody needs PS) of use out of their computer, but the potential is there. Although the fact that all the software you mentioned is available as open source and for free does kind of throw a wrench into my argument. People are paying way more for software than they should, but only when comparing it to open source software. Comparing all the choices for windows software for a specific applications yeilds many pieces of software in the same price range.
The voices is a big thing. If you look at all the latest CG cartoons that have come out, they all have big name stars doing the voices. I don't think the actors get paid as much, and you could probably get just about anybody to do the roles and the audience wouldn't care. However, the good actors are still good actors, and many want to do the voice roles just because it's so fun and easy compared to filming a regular movies. I think that a lot of films will move away from using big name actors. They cost way too much. I think that most movies could be made for a fraction of the price of one big time actor's salary.
The problem is, is that with human error, you can always just blame it on the person. With computer controller automobiles, even 100 accidents a year (in the entire US) would be enough to keep the lawyers busy, and probably keeping the auto companies from making a venture like this profitable. Just think of how many accidents happen when it's icy. Now imagine if the auto companies had to pay for even a fraction of the accidents, because it was "their fault".
Distinction #1 is wrong. When you fall on skis you often fall on ice, not just soft cushy snow. Ice can be almost as hard as concrete, and can do a lot of damage to your head. Usually problems happen on skis when there are inattentive skiers who cut you off, because they aren't watching where they are going. Distinction #2 is also wrong. The maximum speed I usually go on my bike is around 40 KM/H. Unless there's an unusually steep hill. Bikes don't have motors, motorcycles do. Motorcycles helmets are a good idea, because of the high speeds involved. When I'm skiing, I always have gravity on my side, and am often going at more than 40 KM/H. There's also a lot more obstacles, and the terrain is a lot less consistent. I can't think off the top of my head of someone who has been injured on a bicycle. However, I can think of many injuries to people while skiing.
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However, a kernel which didn't support EXT3 could still read and write EXT3. EXT 3 is completely backwards compatible with EXT2. While you're running in EXT2 mode, none of the journalling stuff is done, but the data can still be read and written. Then you can unmount, and remount the drive as EXT3, and everything will be fine. At least that's my understanding. This might be harder to do with certain features. You can't just ignore encryption. Especially when trying to read data.
But that's what they're doing with the student teacher edition. Making it cheaper for a certain group of people. It's too expensive for everyone. That's why everyone I know either pirates it or uses OO.o.
Yeah seriously. You could probably get a book of 100 pages for around $1.00. That's cheaper than printing out the pages on even a laser printer, not even talk about the cost of inkjet printers. Not to mention that it's a lot easier to just pick up a book that's already there then go print something from the computer every time. Although I think the computer would be nice, as it could be used for whichever images he wanted. On a completely unrelated note, he could even encourage him to draw some of his own pictures. I've heard that coloring books are to blame for a lot of kids' poor drawing and lack of art skills. We only ever learn to fill in lines that were already drawn for us. If we never try to draw anything for ourselves, we will never be able to draw anything. Kids will be just as happy with a blank sheet of paper and some crayons as they will with some fancy coloring book. And they'll be much better off because they will be learning a useful skill. Instead of learning to fill in predrawn images with color.
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But here's the problem.
1) This is the major problem. People don't think it's worth it to spend twice as much for a Mac. This is the only problem that has ever existed with Macs.
2) If Mac was as ubiquitous as windows, then at work they would be running Macs, and then you could run a Mac at home with no problems.
3) There would be more people to work on Macs including the neighbour's kid or the guy across the street, if Mac was as popular as windows.
4) Best buy would stock a lot more Macs if that is what people were buying. As it stands right now, not enough people buy Macs, so it's not worth it for them to put it on their shelves. It's not like they're against selling Apple products, because they have tons of iPods, and it's not like you can't buy an apple computer retail, it's just that most stores don't think it brings in enough money to take up precious shelf space with Macintosh computers.
5) Games would be made for Mac if there was more people using them. Plain and simple.
That's the truth. Everybody will gawk at you if you bike in the winter, yet it's completely normal to go cross country skiing. There's not reason you can't bike in the winter.
Why does the UCRI have to be involved? Nobody is stopping you from starting your own recumbent bicycle racing association.
And the entire experience is stupid anyway. They would be better off building MAME cabinets, so that everyone could play every game. It sucks going to the arcade, and all the good games are taken up by the kids with too much money, while the rest of us are stuck playing Q-Bert. Oh, and they could charge by time played, not per game. This is the thing that bothers me the most. If you suck, you pay your $1, and then you get to play for 5 minutes. WTF is that? Even games that you are good at get extremely hard at some point to make sure you keep popping in quarters. Just charge for the time played, and stop trying to annoy the new customers.
The cost of the machines is too high to only charge 25 cents to play. A better idea would be the system they set up in a video game rental shop in my home town 15 years ago. Set up a bunch of consoles (or MAME boxes if you like), and charge people $X per hour to play them. This works out a lot better for the customer who, when they aren't very good at the game, still end up getting their money's worth, and works out better for the arcade because they don't have to buy expensive hardware. Also, it's advertising, as many of people playing the game would buy it if they thought it was good enough. It also gives people a chance to try out games without having to buy a console. The store I went to had a NEO GEO set up and you could play that. It was wildly popular, because nobody had the money to buy it, but everyone had $5 to try it out.
Now, just imaging a language without braces, and without requisite tabs.
I just think we should all use whatever we want. Any IDE worth it's salt can reformat the entire file with a single key combo. Just set up the format you're comfortable with, and when you open a file, have it reformat the file to the way you want to view it.
I think that just about everyone gets ripped off with a music contracts. When you hear of artists only getting 5 cents from an iTunes download, you realize that the entire system is messed up. However I think it's only a matter of time before the market rights itself. With most of the money going to the record label, it won't be long until artists decide they don't need a label. Originally a label was the only way to get your record sold across the country. Now with iTunes and other online distribution channels, everyone in the world is able to buy your music, without you having to go around to every record store around the world and ask them to sell it.
But romance isn't necessary nor sufficient for office fights. If I'm friends with Bob at the office, and I lend him my car, and he crashes it, then wee might get in an argument. If someone eats my day-after-thanksgiving turkey sandwich that I put in the fridge, then that might cause some kind of conflict. It's when the conflict gets in the way of us doing our jobs that they should step in. They can't stop conflict from happening all the time. All they can do is make sure that it gets resolved when it becomes a problem.
First of all, I was talking about home computers, so my point still stands, but to counter your argument, here it goes. The processors they would be building wouldn't be on the same market as Opterons, Xeons, Althons, or Pentions. Unless they have the same instruction set as the others, or can be programmed in the same way, then I doubt that there would be a lot of people who would want to buy them. And if they were general purpose enough that they could be used then they probably wouldn't be that good for Google anyway. Maybe MS could make some use of these processors, but I don't think they would buy from Google. Or Maybe IBM. Wait they can make their own chips. I doubt that Google could make any money selling specialized processors that are fine tuned for their own needs. None of the console makers even make their own chips anymore, and they sell way more consoles then Google could ever hope to have servers in their datacentres.
Yeah, disclosed to HR so they can find some other reason to fire you :P
Where I went to high school, we had 4 or 5 teacher couples who were working in the same school. I'm not sure why, but it seems like teachers have a very high rate of being married to other teachers. Probably has something to do with meeting in teacher's college. Anyway, I don't think it really caused any problems. I think the problem comes more from starting new relationships within the organization. You go out for six months, and then she cheats on you with tim in the cubicle next to you. This could create some very bad team dynamics. This is why I wouldn't recommend pursuing someone you have to work with on a daily basis. On the other hand, if you work in a large company with a thousand employees in the one building, and you spend 8 hours a day there, then it's probably your best chance for meeting someone. Outright banning office romances is a bad thing. If people get into relationships, and they break up, and then can't work properly together, then it's probably time for management to step in.
Microsoft is especially funny because most of the "soft"ware they sell is anything but micro. It's mostly huge and bloated.
And how many kids will think up some kind of hack to get money out of it? Remember those companies that used to pay you just for browsing the internet? Yeah, they'd display an ad banner, and for each hour you spent browsing the internet, you'd get money. So, you create a script that makes it look like you are browsing the internet, and run it all night, and then you get paid. I'm sure this will fall subject to some of the same scams. Post a video. Watch it a thousand times with a script, and get all your friends to do the same, and there's your money. Oh, but you say they have figured out how to protect against this kind of scam. I say it's only a matter of time. A P2P client that you sign up for, submit the link to your video, and everyone else on the P2P network downloads your video. And in exchange, you'll download your videos. For each video you download, your video gets downloaded once, or something like that. Now hook up another computer with the same Login, and all the videos this one downloads goes on your account. Now, create a trojan that people will install, and in the background will download videos for your account. Now watch your video skyrocket to the top of the charts on the P2P client, and now everyone is downloading your video. Watch your money flow in, and watch this website go bankrupt in the process.
Yes, it is a bad thing, because a regular processor only costs $150. On the other hand a video card and a physics card and all the other cards you would need to run a computer this way would cost much more money.
But then just how many specialized chips does one need? With personal computers it's getting a little out of hand. First we have graphics processors, and now physics processors. Oh, and we also have network cards that allow you to offload the entire TCP/IP stack to their own processors. Oh, and sound cards have hardware mixers, so you don't have to mix the sound in software on your general purpose CPU. Oh, and those video capture cards convert everything to mpeg in hardware, so you don't need your CPU for that either. All I need is a special processor for compiling code, and I could go right back to using a 486 as my main processor, since it wouldn't have anything to do anymore.
It's not all about supply and demand when talking about net neutrality. I pay for my bandwidth with a bill at the end of each month. Google also pays for their own bandwidth with a slightly :) larger bill at the end of each month (or however often they pay their bill). All the networks in between Google and my house have struck a deal saying that they will carry traffic between eachother's networks. But now some of the in between or end user networks want to charge more to certain companies because they feel that they use a lot of bandwidth. Ah ha, but they are already paying for their bandwidth. What they actually want to do is charge a premium to companies they feel have a lot of money. They want to charge the carwash more money per litre on the water they use, because they are making better use of that water, and making a huge profit. Imagine going to the gas pumps, and having to pay more for gas, because you're a pizza delivery guy, and you're making money off of that gas. Or because you're Walmart, and you make gobs of money, we're going to charge you 10x the amount we'd charge a regular person for gas. They are doing the exact opposite of supply and demand. They want to charge you more, simply because they feel you have more money. Not because there's only so much bandwidth to go around. Everyone is already paying for their bandwidth.
A little correction for you. AIDS isn't spreading in the first world because we are educated, and don't have unprotected sex with everyone we meet. Meanwhile in Africa, there's tons of people dying of AIDS. Because of lack of proper protection, and just ignorance about the disease, it's spreading fast and is already a major epidemic.
So, is it all software that's overpriced, or just Windows? Because if a CD burning program (Nero) costs $90, then for sure the operating system is worth $140. You use the OS every time you turn on the computer, and even though most users don't know this, it's the most important piece of software they will ever buy. Many people are used to not buying software, and many just pirate it, but that doesn't mean that software isn't worth what they charge for it. Think about how much you can do with a computer. Sure most people don't use it to their full advantage, and won't get $1000 (removing cost of PS, because nobody needs PS) of use out of their computer, but the potential is there. Although the fact that all the software you mentioned is available as open source and for free does kind of throw a wrench into my argument. People are paying way more for software than they should, but only when comparing it to open source software. Comparing all the choices for windows software for a specific applications yeilds many pieces of software in the same price range.
The voices is a big thing. If you look at all the latest CG cartoons that have come out, they all have big name stars doing the voices. I don't think the actors get paid as much, and you could probably get just about anybody to do the roles and the audience wouldn't care. However, the good actors are still good actors, and many want to do the voice roles just because it's so fun and easy compared to filming a regular movies. I think that a lot of films will move away from using big name actors. They cost way too much. I think that most movies could be made for a fraction of the price of one big time actor's salary.
The problem is, is that with human error, you can always just blame it on the person. With computer controller automobiles, even 100 accidents a year (in the entire US) would be enough to keep the lawyers busy, and probably keeping the auto companies from making a venture like this profitable. Just think of how many accidents happen when it's icy. Now imagine if the auto companies had to pay for even a fraction of the accidents, because it was "their fault".
Distinction #1 is wrong. When you fall on skis you often fall on ice, not just soft cushy snow. Ice can be almost as hard as concrete, and can do a lot of damage to your head. Usually problems happen on skis when there are inattentive skiers who cut you off, because they aren't watching where they are going. Distinction #2 is also wrong. The maximum speed I usually go on my bike is around 40 KM/H. Unless there's an unusually steep hill. Bikes don't have motors, motorcycles do. Motorcycles helmets are a good idea, because of the high speeds involved. When I'm skiing, I always have gravity on my side, and am often going at more than 40 KM/H. There's also a lot more obstacles, and the terrain is a lot less consistent. I can't think off the top of my head of someone who has been injured on a bicycle. However, I can think of many injuries to people while skiing.
However, a kernel which didn't support EXT3 could still read and write EXT3. EXT 3 is completely backwards compatible with EXT2. While you're running in EXT2 mode, none of the journalling stuff is done, but the data can still be read and written. Then you can unmount, and remount the drive as EXT3, and everything will be fine. At least that's my understanding. This might be harder to do with certain features. You can't just ignore encryption. Especially when trying to read data.
But that's what they're doing with the student teacher edition. Making it cheaper for a certain group of people. It's too expensive for everyone. That's why everyone I know either pirates it or uses OO.o.
Yeah seriously. You could probably get a book of 100 pages for around $1.00. That's cheaper than printing out the pages on even a laser printer, not even talk about the cost of inkjet printers. Not to mention that it's a lot easier to just pick up a book that's already there then go print something from the computer every time. Although I think the computer would be nice, as it could be used for whichever images he wanted. On a completely unrelated note, he could even encourage him to draw some of his own pictures. I've heard that coloring books are to blame for a lot of kids' poor drawing and lack of art skills. We only ever learn to fill in lines that were already drawn for us. If we never try to draw anything for ourselves, we will never be able to draw anything. Kids will be just as happy with a blank sheet of paper and some crayons as they will with some fancy coloring book. And they'll be much better off because they will be learning a useful skill. Instead of learning to fill in predrawn images with color.