If you spoke in English I probably only would have had to read that once to understand what you were saying. Apparently you also should have reread my post because, while you got the general point, you totally missed the message. You don't buy a Mac and sell it (we'll go more reasonable, here) 3 years later for 10% more than a PC. Your $500 PC is now worth $100, while your $1500 Mac is still worth (er, will sell for) $1000. In other words, your Mac is worth selling and your PC isn't. Resale value isn't a "little bit" better. It's ridiculous to the point that anyone that buys them at those prices is stupid. But that works for me.
I used Ubuntu for about 6 months and I hated it, but I couldn't go back to Windows because its faults were even more obvious after half a year without it. I bought an iMac for $1800 after realizing I could throw another 2gb of memory in it for $50, try it out for 6 months, and if I didn't like it, sell it for more than I paid. eBay confirms. Expirament worked out and I'm not selling it till it's worth upgrading.
I don't take anyone questioning whether Macs are expensive seriously. They are, period. Getting the same specs on a Dell may cost the same/nearly as much, but you* can get a laptop that has everything you need for far less than you can get any Mac. The difference is resale value. Look at ebay. A 1 year old iMac with upgraded memory often sells, used, for what it cost new. A year old PC is relatively worthless.
The point? The cost of ownership over 10 years for a Mac vs PC is a whole lot more comparable than the up front cost. You may not have an extra PC laying around a year later after you buy your Mac, but you can upgrade to this-year's-model for next to nothing if you are willing to sell your Mac.
In my experience the Chinese are a lot better at copying something and making it a whole lot worse. For examples, see cordless drills, end tables, keyboards, silverware, toy cars, hinges, blue jeans and Great Wall trucks.
People that haven't done it don't realize how easy it is to end up in that situation. Say, I write reports about people, and Robin writes reports about assets, whose owners are people, and puts a person's name in her table to make it faster. Someone gets married, their name changes, and now Robin's reports are wrong.
My point exactly.:) There are a lot of things are data warehouse should be and it's not. We're working on redesigning it now though so we should be resolving a lot of the issues. But most people aren't just about to redesign their databases because it's a huge deal. We have 8 different apps using the warehouse, hundreds of reports and people hitting it we don't even know about that will all be obsolete. The cost to redesign is huge, and we only have the opportunity now because a project it is dependent on is being redesigned.
Now that disk space is so cheap and many of the data models don't benefit as much from normalization,...
You don't want to store the same data in multiple places. Your query might run faster, but your data integrity is going to suck.
And, uh, I have the pleasure of working now with a huge data warehouse that hasn't normalized status codes, so instead of quickly searching for an integer, the queries run slow as hell scanning char fields. It's not good.
I lived in Montgomery AL for 6 years and everyone ran red lights there. Solution? Make the red light less than 20 fucking minutes. People don't mind sitting at a red light for a minute, but the lights were so long in Montgomery it would make your travelling time significantly longer at each red light you got stuck at, and people got sick of it and started running them.
You think this is a sign Microsoft is legitimately trying to reach out to the web community? Or is this just another attempt to grab server market share from Apache and the Linux community?
Um.. what's the difference? One thing I can promise you is that Microsoft, like any other company, does what it feels is in its best interest. ie, they aren't trying to do anyone a favor here, they're trying to make more money.
That's a whole lot of angry words without even a bit of content. Everyone hates AIG, why are you making such a long winded post to convince us? If you have solutions, offer them. Otherwise you might want to hang out at a barbershop and bitch with the other old men.
Whether they are spending money directly from the bailout or spending capital they already had (and thus spending bailout money elsewhere), the tax payers are funding it.
Want a low risk (especially with our current economy) way to gain experience? Join the Air Force. They'll take anyone that can pass a test, train you and send you on your way with 4 years of experience. A very large portion of the useful people come back working their same job as a contractor for twice the money.
I hate the Air Force, but it got me where I am today.
Exactly. The best thing to do to your website is drive traffic and potential customers away because you're too lazy to make it work in the most used browser in the world.
Good drivers are good drivers when they aren't taking the test. And no one is driving around thinking "I'll drive like an idiot because the airbags will save me." They stop paying attention because they don't appreciate the danger of driving stupid.
The problem isn't the safe car. It's the idiot driving it.
The Alabama region SCCA has a new driver car control clinic program that teaches kids around the age of 16 how to handle a car when it loses control. The courses look like regular autox courses and it truly makes a huge difference in their ability and confindence, without making them feel like they can drive dangerously.
http://www.alscca.org/
That's great, a clearly hostile post on how crappy AMD's battery tests were and will continue to be. Only there is no alternative suggested, or even a hint that the poster thinks there is an effective alternative. Battery life depends on usage and there is no good test. Get over it.
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If you spoke in English I probably only would have had to read that once to understand what you were saying. Apparently you also should have reread my post because, while you got the general point, you totally missed the message. You don't buy a Mac and sell it (we'll go more reasonable, here) 3 years later for 10% more than a PC. Your $500 PC is now worth $100, while your $1500 Mac is still worth (er, will sell for) $1000. In other words, your Mac is worth selling and your PC isn't. Resale value isn't a "little bit" better. It's ridiculous to the point that anyone that buys them at those prices is stupid. But that works for me.
I used Ubuntu for about 6 months and I hated it, but I couldn't go back to Windows because its faults were even more obvious after half a year without it. I bought an iMac for $1800 after realizing I could throw another 2gb of memory in it for $50, try it out for 6 months, and if I didn't like it, sell it for more than I paid. eBay confirms. Expirament worked out and I'm not selling it till it's worth upgrading.
I don't take anyone questioning whether Macs are expensive seriously. They are, period. Getting the same specs on a Dell may cost the same/nearly as much, but you* can get a laptop that has everything you need for far less than you can get any Mac. The difference is resale value. Look at ebay. A 1 year old iMac with upgraded memory often sells, used, for what it cost new. A year old PC is relatively worthless.
The point? The cost of ownership over 10 years for a Mac vs PC is a whole lot more comparable than the up front cost. You may not have an extra PC laying around a year later after you buy your Mac, but you can upgrade to this-year's-model for next to nothing if you are willing to sell your Mac.
* You being most people
I've typed "imdb back to the future" in the address bar and had the page I wanted come up right away. Same with "wikipedia donkey punch". What's new?
In my experience the Chinese are a lot better at copying something and making it a whole lot worse. For examples, see cordless drills, end tables, keyboards, silverware, toy cars, hinges, blue jeans and Great Wall trucks.
loading up on memory could see the cost of RAM eclipse the cost of the rest of your PC by 20-fold or more
Uhh, yeah. Try 1000-fold! You know, since we're just making things up.
While we're at it.. I love when people say "Up to 10x OR MORE!" Like, anywhere from 0 to infinity. Nice.
They blew something up and windows broke. That's a summary. They used xxx to do it. Thats a detail, dumbfuck.
Not curious enough to click on a link, apparently. Would have taken less effort than you spent writing that.
"This won't work because, by definition, it fixes the problem they had before." ???
Right, and, boss, which one is right?
People that haven't done it don't realize how easy it is to end up in that situation. Say, I write reports about people, and Robin writes reports about assets, whose owners are people, and puts a person's name in her table to make it faster. Someone gets married, their name changes, and now Robin's reports are wrong.
My point exactly. :) There are a lot of things are data warehouse should be and it's not. We're working on redesigning it now though so we should be resolving a lot of the issues. But most people aren't just about to redesign their databases because it's a huge deal. We have 8 different apps using the warehouse, hundreds of reports and people hitting it we don't even know about that will all be obsolete. The cost to redesign is huge, and we only have the opportunity now because a project it is dependent on is being redesigned.
"CHAR(50)"
Oracle doesn't have a "string" datatype.
Now that disk space is so cheap and many of the data models don't benefit as much from normalization, ...
You don't want to store the same data in multiple places. Your query might run faster, but your data integrity is going to suck.
And, uh, I have the pleasure of working now with a huge data warehouse that hasn't normalized status codes, so instead of quickly searching for an integer, the queries run slow as hell scanning char fields. It's not good.
I know that if the BSA got wind of this, it would all fall on me when they stormed in.
And those Boy Scouts are rotten little bastards.
I lived in Montgomery AL for 6 years and everyone ran red lights there. Solution? Make the red light less than 20 fucking minutes. People don't mind sitting at a red light for a minute, but the lights were so long in Montgomery it would make your travelling time significantly longer at each red light you got stuck at, and people got sick of it and started running them.
You think this is a sign Microsoft is legitimately trying to reach out to the web community? Or is this just another attempt to grab server market share from Apache and the Linux community?
Um.. what's the difference? One thing I can promise you is that Microsoft, like any other company, does what it feels is in its best interest. ie, they aren't trying to do anyone a favor here, they're trying to make more money.
That's a whole lot of angry words without even a bit of content. Everyone hates AIG, why are you making such a long winded post to convince us? If you have solutions, offer them. Otherwise you might want to hang out at a barbershop and bitch with the other old men.
Whether they are spending money directly from the bailout or spending capital they already had (and thus spending bailout money elsewhere), the tax payers are funding it.
Want a low risk (especially with our current economy) way to gain experience? Join the Air Force. They'll take anyone that can pass a test, train you and send you on your way with 4 years of experience. A very large portion of the useful people come back working their same job as a contractor for twice the money.
I hate the Air Force, but it got me where I am today.
Exactly. The best thing to do to your website is drive traffic and potential customers away because you're too lazy to make it work in the most used browser in the world.
Good drivers are good drivers when they aren't taking the test. And no one is driving around thinking "I'll drive like an idiot because the airbags will save me." They stop paying attention because they don't appreciate the danger of driving stupid.
The problem isn't the safe car. It's the idiot driving it.
The Alabama region SCCA has a new driver car control clinic program that teaches kids around the age of 16 how to handle a car when it loses control. The courses look like regular autox courses and it truly makes a huge difference in their ability and confindence, without making them feel like they can drive dangerously. http://www.alscca.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs
Did you see that FPS demo where the guy had to pay extra to get the rocket launcher? That does **not** make me want to play that game.
In that case, I have no idea what girl is ever going to want to go out with you.
That's great, a clearly hostile post on how crappy AMD's battery tests were and will continue to be. Only there is no alternative suggested, or even a hint that the poster thinks there is an effective alternative. Battery life depends on usage and there is no good test. Get over it.
Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation