Yes, but I don't think you understand what forecasting means.
Apple should have known how many MDs Hitachi can make or how many G5s IBm can make and determine product availablity from that instead of pulling dates out of its behind and constanly not meeting it.
As a Mac user and iPod owner, it is thinking like yours that makes me hate Apple apologists.
Do you think Yahoo wants you to go online without seeing a sponsored link from Overture, its money cow advertising subsidiary? Or Google want to you simply get results without sponsored links?
Sponsored links, whether you like it or not, is really just an ad.
Their business forecasting and contracting team needs to be fired for telling Steve that he can sell 100 million songs by April, a goal that iTunes will not make, that there will be enough G5s to put into xServe (announced in Jan but is just shipping now, with only one CPU, no less), and that there will be enough microdrives to put into Mini (announced in Feb, pushed from April to July).
Now, it is one thing to face a runaway hit like the Big Fat Greek Wedding, for example, but constantly delaying product rollouts just makes Apple look bad.
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BSD and Apple are sitting in the waiting room.
Apple is wearing a black turtleneck with faded blue jeans and old sneakers, listening from the iPod, and flipping through an old issue of Wired magazine.
BSD, looking slightly devlish, says to Apple, "You know we are related right?"
Apple pays no attention while Tivo walks in.
"What are you here for?" Apple asks.
Wiggling its two cute antannaes, Tivo replied, "Don't know really. I am technogically solid, well-liked by most, have a devoted fan base, open(source), simple to use, and most of elegant. Yet, I was pronounced that I will die by some Yahoo! on March 18th, 2004."
"Oh yeah, join the club." says BSD.
Apple takes off the white iPod earphones and says "I have been diagnosed to be dying for the last 20 years or so, you know. They say this can't save me!" (Apple pointsto the iPod.)
"How long have you been here?" Tivo turns to BSD.
BSd says, "You don't want to know. But I am secure, stable, and performs like no other. I will before until Hell freezes over, damn it."
I use an iBook and the claimed uptime of months is just BS. Did you not apply the 10.3.3 update or Java 1.4.2 update, or all the numerous security updates that require rebooting?
Well, only about one-and-half of your three examples hold.
First, an autopilot system that is CONSISTENTLY 1000 ft off have a workaround solution: consistently fly 1000 ft hgiher/lower/etc. A system that is RANDOMLY 1000 ft off would be a software that can kill.
Second, MRI could kill if you have huge chunk of metal in your body that you failed to inform your doctor, radiologist, and technician. Or if you were getting an MRI next to a set of Wusthof kitchen knives!:) Otherwise, it would be hard to be killed by MRI.
Lastly, a failure of ABS itself would not be deadly as power-assissted brakes would still be functional. A failure of either the power brake or both power aand ABS would be far more disastrous than just a miscalibrated ABS.
I would agree with you. I use both OS X and WinXP.
Since I got my iBook 1.5 years ago, I would have needed to pay pay $260 to bring OS X to the current version (10.1 to 10.3). Yes, arguably each OS X version is an improvement over the previous but that Windows is an inferior OS compared to an *nix based on OS but for the value it brings, $45 is cheap to pay. Heck, even Lindows charge $60 (retail)!
>>you should be so lucky...our parents told us to play with dirt.
You are lucky. Back in the age of Big Bang, we only had hydrogen and helium to play with as heavier elements had yet to form.
Yes, this is an argument that many of my fellow Mac users would raise. They will point out this is market share data for new sales and do not reflect 1) install base and 2) mind share.
However, the fact is new sales is what matters. Steve Jobs does not want you to keep buying the annual $129 OS upgrade (yes, yes, you don't HAVE to upgrade but this is Slashdot) to use on your G3 450 - he would also want you to buy that spanking new G5 along with the annual OS upgrades and the biannual iLife upgrades. Wall Street, Apple, IBM, Gartner, etc would all want you to buy that new Apple hardware.
"But why should I upgrade my G3 B&W 450 when it runs OS X just fine! In fact, I pity the pathetic Windoze M$ PeeCee users who upgrade their hardware every two years!" some of my more zealous Mac users might say.
The answer is, of course, "because they can".
They can because Motorola took two whole frigging years to go from 0.5 Ghz to 1 Ghz while during the same time Intel went from P3 0.75 Ghz to P4 2.2Ghz. They can because IBM did not come out with the excellent and competitive G5 until late 2003. They can because the competition between nVidia and ATI produced superfast and hot GPU for PC.
They can because the combinationof cheap and fast hardware more than make up for the deficieny of Windows.
If Steve-Apple-IBM-Moto made it cheap for you to swap your machine every couple of years, do not tell me you wouldn't buy new Macs instead of extolling the virtue of G3 450. And if so, market share of new sales for Apple would be higher and I wouldn't have to write this!
"This video of the infamous super computer should be interesting to some and pretty to look for others." *********** Infamous is defined as "having an exceedingly bad reputation" or "notorious".
How is this supercomputer notorious or do you just mean "famous"?
Hello - when Gates wanted to lease people MS software, everyone was up-in-arms. When Steve started the charge $129 for every annual point upgrade, $99 for.Mac annual subscription, and now $49 for the iLife suite, where's the uproar? It's like the story/myth that a frog won't know it is being boiled alive if you only heat up the water slowly.
Worse yet, many of my fellow Mac users, who abhor MS, thinks those prices are more than fair. In fact, thet would probably pay more if only Steve asked them to!:)
I love Apple (can't live without my iBook, iPod, iTunes, and iPhoto). I would pay, and did pay, a premium for Apple hardware and OS X, but this annual subscription thing - bah!
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Yes, believe it or not. I am a Mac user (since OS X). I own an iBook and an iPod. But as much as I love Apple, I also own a number of PCs.
On the Mac boards/forums, there are zealots who not only claim that Macs are faster but they are cheaper too! Of course, they are always comparing Mac prices to RETAIL PC prices.
I argued that this is hardly comparable. Many, if not most, PC users never pay retail and it is just they, the Mac users, are used to pay the full MSRP as suggested by Steve and love it!
"A small PC maker and a Linux distributor have teamed up to offer a tablet-style PC for $999, hundreds of dollars less than similar devices running Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.
The Helium 2100, from Staten Island, N.Y.-based manufacturer Element Computer, is a convertible PC with a sliding screen that can be positioned for use as a traditional notebook PC or folded down for use as a touch-screen tablet device. "
"We plan to add drivers for Oracle, MS SQL Server/Sybase and Interbase/Firebird. Please note the ODBC and DB2 drivers are not included in the standard edition of Rekall."
... and her (in)famous and entertaining interviews with Gene Simmons (http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?displayValue =day&todayDate=12/30/2002) and Bill O'Reilly (http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?displayValue =day&todayDate=10/08/2003)?
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Apple should have known how many MDs Hitachi can make or how many G5s IBm can make and determine product availablity from that instead of pulling dates out of its behind and constanly not meeting it.
As a Mac user and iPod owner, it is thinking like yours that makes me hate Apple apologists.
Do you think Yahoo wants you to go online without seeing a sponsored link from Overture, its money cow advertising subsidiary? Or Google want to you simply get results without sponsored links?
Sponsored links, whether you like it or not, is really just an ad.
Their business forecasting and contracting team needs to be fired for telling Steve that he can sell 100 million songs by April, a goal that iTunes will not make, that there will be enough G5s to put into xServe (announced in Jan but is just shipping now, with only one CPU, no less), and that there will be enough microdrives to put into Mini (announced in Feb, pushed from April to July).
Now, it is one thing to face a runaway hit like the Big Fat Greek Wedding, for example, but constantly delaying product rollouts just makes Apple look bad.
Apple is wearing a black turtleneck with faded blue jeans and old sneakers, listening from the iPod, and flipping through an old issue of Wired magazine.
BSD, looking slightly devlish, says to Apple, "You know we are related right?"
Apple pays no attention while Tivo walks in.
"What are you here for?" Apple asks.
Wiggling its two cute antannaes, Tivo replied, "Don't know really. I am technogically solid, well-liked by most, have a devoted fan base, open(source), simple to use, and most of elegant. Yet, I was pronounced that I will die by some Yahoo! on March 18th, 2004."
"Oh yeah, join the club." says BSD.
Apple takes off the white iPod earphones and says "I have been diagnosed to be dying for the last 20 years or so, you know. They say this can't save me!" (Apple pointsto the iPod.)
"How long have you been here?" Tivo turns to BSD.
BSd says, "You don't want to know. But I am secure, stable, and performs like no other. I will before until Hell freezes over, damn it."
All three looks out the Window...
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Ken
I use an iBook and the claimed uptime of months is just BS. Did you not apply the 10.3.3 update or Java 1.4.2 update, or all the numerous security updates that require rebooting?
Not only that, people who care about quality ALWAYS encode DivX in 2-pass (or emore). The review only used DivX 1-pass.
Well, if one wants to be imaginative, anything can kill you! :)
Some of us do not even have parents, you insensitive clod!
First, an autopilot system that is CONSISTENTLY 1000 ft off have a workaround solution: consistently fly 1000 ft hgiher/lower/etc. A system that is RANDOMLY 1000 ft off would be a software that can kill.
Second, MRI could kill if you have huge chunk of metal in your body that you failed to inform your doctor, radiologist, and technician. Or if you were getting an MRI next to a set of Wusthof kitchen knives! :) Otherwise, it would be hard to be killed by MRI.
Lastly, a failure of ABS itself would not be deadly as power-assissted brakes would still be functional. A failure of either the power brake or both power aand ABS would be far more disastrous than just a miscalibrated ABS.
Otherwise, I agree with your post. :)
Since I got my iBook 1.5 years ago, I would have needed to pay pay $260 to bring OS X to the current version (10.1 to 10.3). Yes, arguably each OS X version is an improvement over the previous but that Windows is an inferior OS compared to an *nix based on OS but for the value it brings, $45 is cheap to pay. Heck, even Lindows charge $60 (retail)!
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>>you should be so lucky...our parents told us to play with dirt. You are lucky. Back in the age of Big Bang, we only had hydrogen and helium to play with as heavier elements had yet to form.
However, the fact is new sales is what matters. Steve Jobs does not want you to keep buying the annual $129 OS upgrade (yes, yes, you don't HAVE to upgrade but this is Slashdot) to use on your G3 450 - he would also want you to buy that spanking new G5 along with the annual OS upgrades and the biannual iLife upgrades. Wall Street, Apple, IBM, Gartner, etc would all want you to buy that new Apple hardware.
"But why should I upgrade my G3 B&W 450 when it runs OS X just fine! In fact, I pity the pathetic Windoze M$ PeeCee users who upgrade their hardware every two years!" some of my more zealous Mac users might say.
The answer is, of course, "because they can".
They can because Motorola took two whole frigging years to go from 0.5 Ghz to 1 Ghz while during the same time Intel went from P3 0.75 Ghz to P4 2.2Ghz. They can because IBM did not come out with the excellent and competitive G5 until late 2003. They can because the competition between nVidia and ATI produced superfast and hot GPU for PC.
They can because the combinationof cheap and fast hardware more than make up for the deficieny of Windows.
If Steve-Apple-IBM-Moto made it cheap for you to swap your machine every couple of years, do not tell me you wouldn't buy new Macs instead of extolling the virtue of G3 450. And if so, market share of new sales for Apple would be higher and I wouldn't have to write this!
Really? Who's preventing any institution from buying 1101 G5s for $5.003 million and take VT's #3 spot?
He is not too concise either. Instead of:
* Why you should use BSD instead of Linux.
* Why you should use Linux instead of BSD.
He could have just written:
* Why you should use BSD instead of Linux or vice versa.
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Infamous is defined as "having an exceedingly bad reputation" or "notorious".
How is this supercomputer notorious or do you just mean "famous"?
Worse yet, many of my fellow Mac users, who abhor MS, thinks those prices are more than fair. In fact, thet would probably pay more if only Steve asked them to! :)
I love Apple (can't live without my iBook, iPod, iTunes, and iPhoto). I would pay, and did pay, a premium for Apple hardware and OS X, but this annual subscription thing - bah!
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Imagine, same skeleton but different skins and different programs for dance moves and personality (or therefore lack of).
Come to think of it, this could mean new chick bands too!
Yes, believe it or not. I am a Mac user (since OS X). I own an iBook and an iPod. But as much as I love Apple, I also own a number of PCs.
On the Mac boards/forums, there are zealots who not only claim that Macs are faster but they are cheaper too! Of course, they are always comparing Mac prices to RETAIL PC prices.
I argued that this is hardly comparable. Many, if not most, PC users never pay retail and it is just they, the Mac users, are used to pay the full MSRP as suggested by Steve and love it!
And then I get called a PeeCee troll...
The Helium 2100, from Staten Island, N.Y.-based manufacturer Element Computer, is a convertible PC with a sliding screen that can be positioned for use as a traditional notebook PC or folded down for use as a touch-screen tablet device. "
Source: http://news.com.com/2100-1005_3-5112309.html?tag=n efd_top
Good god man, what did you do that warrant such harsh punishment?!?
"We plan to add drivers for Oracle, MS SQL Server/Sybase and Interbase/Firebird. Please note the ODBC and DB2 drivers are not included in the standard edition of Rekall."
From http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/
Hardly a killer app.
With no support for the two most popular enterprise databases, Rekall unfortunately sounds about as good as one hand clapping.
... and her (in)famous and entertaining interviews with Gene Simmons (http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?displayValue =day&todayDate=12/30/2002) and Bill O'Reilly (http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?displayValue =day&todayDate=10/08/2003)?