I had thought Skype would be better than the Apple products because Apple usually doesn't do the technical back end stuff super well (run top on an Apple product and see what the % CPU for top itself is, wow!). But the Skype video chats I have had were terrible quality relative to iChat on the same computer, same connection, to the same place .
Mathematical proofs start with assumptions and then have conclusions. If they are correct, they are always right. If you want to do non-Euclidean geometry, then you violated the assumption. The proof has no comment.
They said on their most recent call that the 2 million number was sales to distributors and have not had to back fill at all. here. The exact quote is “Even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.” (sell-in is the retail term for filling the channels, sell-out is when a person buys it off the shelf). "OK" is corporate speak for "crashed and burned, but we aren't going public with pulling the plug just yet."
No, proof is proof. There is only one sense. It means that there can be no question, no remaining doubt, reasonable or otherwise. Once something is proved, it can never be questioned again, there is no point, it has been proven.
The only exception is "legal proof" where, i.e. someone that is not me might "legally prove" that they are me while taking out a credit card. But the legal profession is pretty bad at language, so don't make too much fun of them.
Well, what about the "grade" of the article, suggesting how "correct" it might be. But, I've seen FAs in my area of expertise that are absolutely filled with BS and zero good content.
I just replaced my 2000 Pismo with a 2009 Macbook that looks and feels as good as new. You got to look for the "tough as nails" designs like the Pismo and unibody. Between those two, I had tons of flimsy laptops, that I let my work purchase, that came and went..
you might want to look up "disenfranchised" in a dictionary.
Also, how, exactly is your unix type OSes better than the mac OS?
I've already got a great package manager (macports). All my software is OSS, a game, or free (as in beer). except a copy of office I purchased 10 years ago so I could open.doc files and because OOO calc was awful back then (tried it, laughed, and purchased office). But $10/year for those programs is totally reasonable. Plus, now that I have Excel and the included TextEdit opens.docx files of reasonable complexity, I've got not reason to upgrade office.
The P/E is basically a measure of where the market expects the stock to go. When the company plays out its tech innovation, 10 to 16 is about right. When it is still a growth company, 20 just says it will settle on a price that will make it about 10 to 16.
Apple has shown no slow down in innovation, so this is probably a good bet.
If this was Microsoft instead of Google, and Bing was the #1 search engine, I bet your opinion would be totally different.
nah, go to yahoo.com and show me the link to google finance or gmail. Okay, no search for a stock price and show me the link to google finance. If you are going to get all worried about a website referring to itself, almost every website in existence is going to get in hot water. I also expect a web portal's search engine to prefer itself. If I want to find something and use yahoo finance, I go to yahoo.com and search. If I want to find something in google finance, I start a google.com.
or the x-rays hit something else that reflects them back to you... but it would have to be something within 30 light years of the (potential) pulsar. That sphere keeps expanding...
I think your ignoring the extent of the network and availability.
Also, "I think MS would have been better off if they'd been broken up." I think MS's software would have been better off without Ballmer and in smaller companies, I don't know about their 10 to 20 year term profitability. But certainly long term profitability is tied to software.
I don't know what has a "ripple effect", but I do like that applications can modify their dock icon and many of the ways I can switch applications and windows on OS X. I also like pdf being a native format (which MS has not caught up with yet). UI experiences similar to this were what people liked (and what cost so much in overhead) for Vista. However, I think what people didn't like was that they couldn't setup printers and that reasonable hardware they had didn't run it. I agree with these criticism and would hold them up as perfectly valid reasons to criticize an OS.
Wait, so it isn't a problem for you that when MS copied the innovations in the Mac OS that ran on my 400 MHz 0.5GB computer with maybe 32 MB VRAM, it required substantially more computer than that? I'd say that's a problem, especially if you pay for your own hardware.
Not sure I agree. Given these options: force MS to actually use an open format for Word, Excel, and server protocols OR break them up, I'm sure that everyone would be better off with the former (except maybe MS). Similar for Apple, if they had to publish their server protocols and couldn't have the EULA exclude jail breaking, then others could setup environments similar to theirs and compete. Breaking these companies up would just make little firms that jealously guarded these same bits of market force.
But if you do this, their incentive to innovate will be broken. The next iPhone will not be produced and we would be WORSE off in 10 years. AT&T had already made all the big leaps--high availability connections to everywhere in the world that also had phone lines. All that was left was price. So breaking them up helped that.
But the claims about Apple killing PCs are just baseless--unless everyone switches to ipads... which does not appear to be likely.
I'm sorry, your defending MS because 800 MHz processor and 1 GB of ram isn't enough computer to run their OS? (MS minimum requirements) I ran OS 10.4 (a contemporary) on a 400 MHz processor with 512 MB ram and it was fine. And you don't even want to get slashdot started on the ancient boxes linux will run (well) on.
Your supposed to agree that pirate bay is the only workable method of distributing content. You then rotate through arguments like, "all content producers are rich enough as is." or, "they need to figure out a new business model." Be sure to never be specific with that one. Or, "Stuff I want costs too much for me to pay, so I take it. [But if you call taking it steeling then I will get all technical on you on the definition of steeling without actually objecting to the content of your complaint.]" Or, "I can take stuff from content providers, so I really should anyway."
You have to be kidding me. 50? No way, they'd give you as little as 50 years. There would be like 3 companies selling songs and books with 1 week to 10 year licenses and they would make up 0.1% of the market. Everything else would be 99 year terms (indefinite terms are not allowed in the US, so they can't do that).
Their transition strategy actually suggests using a 12U with 2 Mac Pros. If you look at pixars website, the picture of their server farm shows a 12U(ish) render farm. Now, I'll bet the boxes run linux... but they are still setup like Apple suggest, 12U.
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I had thought Skype would be better than the Apple products because Apple usually doesn't do the technical back end stuff super well (run top on an Apple product and see what the % CPU for top itself is, wow!). But the Skype video chats I have had were terrible quality relative to iChat on the same computer, same connection, to the same place .
I don't think the people using it for computing are also using PSN.
Mathematical proofs start with assumptions and then have conclusions. If they are correct, they are always right. If you want to do non-Euclidean geometry, then you violated the assumption. The proof has no comment.
They said on their most recent call that the 2 million number was sales to distributors and have not had to back fill at all. here. The exact quote is “Even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.” (sell-in is the retail term for filling the channels, sell-out is when a person buys it off the shelf). "OK" is corporate speak for "crashed and burned, but we aren't going public with pulling the plug just yet."
No, proof is proof. There is only one sense. It means that there can be no question, no remaining doubt, reasonable or otherwise. Once something is proved, it can never be questioned again, there is no point, it has been proven.
The only exception is "legal proof" where, i.e. someone that is not me might "legally prove" that they are me while taking out a credit card. But the legal profession is pretty bad at language, so don't make too much fun of them.
Well, what about the "grade" of the article, suggesting how "correct" it might be. But, I've seen FAs in my area of expertise that are absolutely filled with BS and zero good content.
I just replaced my 2000 Pismo with a 2009 Macbook that looks and feels as good as new. You got to look for the "tough as nails" designs like the Pismo and unibody. Between those two, I had tons of flimsy laptops, that I let my work purchase, that came and went..
Yeah, but the developer is still getting $15 per box. This is great news for them.
I'm impressed there are so many PPCs out there! Go Apple build quality!
you might want to look up "disenfranchised" in a dictionary.
Also, how, exactly is your unix type OSes better than the mac OS?
I've already got a great package manager (macports). All my software is OSS, a game, or free (as in beer). except a copy of office I purchased 10 years ago so I could open .doc files and because OOO calc was awful back then (tried it, laughed, and purchased office). But $10/year for those programs is totally reasonable. Plus, now that I have Excel and the included TextEdit opens .docx files of reasonable complexity, I've got not reason to upgrade office.
The P/E is basically a measure of where the market expects the stock to go. When the company plays out its tech innovation, 10 to 16 is about right. When it is still a growth company, 20 just says it will settle on a price that will make it about 10 to 16.
Apple has shown no slow down in innovation, so this is probably a good bet.
You must be new here. I've heard Taco actually asks other editors to not fix errors in his posts. He likes them that way.
Prevents us from having an article to not read.
If this was Microsoft instead of Google, and Bing was the #1 search engine, I bet your opinion would be totally different.
nah, go to yahoo.com and show me the link to google finance or gmail. Okay, no search for a stock price and show me the link to google finance. If you are going to get all worried about a website referring to itself, almost every website in existence is going to get in hot water. I also expect a web portal's search engine to prefer itself. If I want to find something and use yahoo finance, I go to yahoo.com and search. If I want to find something in google finance, I start a google.com.
Yeah, iPhone is totally this bit player that nobody ever thinks about... cause you know I'll bet theres only A POST A DAY on slashdot about it.
or the x-rays hit something else that reflects them back to you... but it would have to be something within 30 light years of the (potential) pulsar. That sphere keeps expanding...
I think your ignoring the extent of the network and availability.
Also, "I think MS would have been better off if they'd been broken up." I think MS's software would have been better off without Ballmer and in smaller companies, I don't know about their 10 to 20 year term profitability. But certainly long term profitability is tied to software.
I don't know what has a "ripple effect", but I do like that applications can modify their dock icon and many of the ways I can switch applications and windows on OS X. I also like pdf being a native format (which MS has not caught up with yet). UI experiences similar to this were what people liked (and what cost so much in overhead) for Vista. However, I think what people didn't like was that they couldn't setup printers and that reasonable hardware they had didn't run it. I agree with these criticism and would hold them up as perfectly valid reasons to criticize an OS.
Wait, so it isn't a problem for you that when MS copied the innovations in the Mac OS that ran on my 400 MHz 0.5GB computer with maybe 32 MB VRAM, it required substantially more computer than that? I'd say that's a problem, especially if you pay for your own hardware.
Not sure I agree. Given these options: force MS to actually use an open format for Word, Excel, and server protocols OR break them up, I'm sure that everyone would be better off with the former (except maybe MS). Similar for Apple, if they had to publish their server protocols and couldn't have the EULA exclude jail breaking, then others could setup environments similar to theirs and compete. Breaking these companies up would just make little firms that jealously guarded these same bits of market force.
But if you do this, their incentive to innovate will be broken. The next iPhone will not be produced and we would be WORSE off in 10 years. AT&T had already made all the big leaps--high availability connections to everywhere in the world that also had phone lines. All that was left was price. So breaking them up helped that.
But the claims about Apple killing PCs are just baseless--unless everyone switches to ipads... which does not appear to be likely.
I'm sorry, your defending MS because 800 MHz processor and 1 GB of ram isn't enough computer to run their OS? (MS minimum requirements) I ran OS 10.4 (a contemporary) on a 400 MHz processor with 512 MB ram and it was fine. And you don't even want to get slashdot started on the ancient boxes linux will run (well) on.
You must be new here.
Your supposed to agree that pirate bay is the only workable method of distributing content. You then rotate through arguments like, "all content producers are rich enough as is." or, "they need to figure out a new business model." Be sure to never be specific with that one. Or, "Stuff I want costs too much for me to pay, so I take it. [But if you call taking it steeling then I will get all technical on you on the definition of steeling without actually objecting to the content of your complaint.]" Or, "I can take stuff from content providers, so I really should anyway."
You have to be kidding me. 50? No way, they'd give you as little as 50 years. There would be like 3 companies selling songs and books with 1 week to 10 year licenses and they would make up 0.1% of the market. Everything else would be 99 year terms (indefinite terms are not allowed in the US, so they can't do that).
why can't you just set up a zeroconf/bonjour service...
zeroconf fail.
Their transition strategy actually suggests using a 12U with 2 Mac Pros. If you look at pixars website, the picture of their server farm shows a 12U(ish) render farm. Now, I'll bet the boxes run linux... but they are still setup like Apple suggest, 12U.