I don't think you can justify the price premium of an Apple based on design and manufacturing costs.
Apple simply charges a price that (some) people are willing to pay - they position themselves as a premium product and therefore they *have* to charge more - even if their costs are no higher than any body elses.
It's probably a very personal thing and depends a lot on your personality. I myself have left 4 jobs without another lined up (only once out of disgust, the rest was when I decided to travel).
I have always found good employement again (though the last time I had to spend a few months looking and I admit this has made me hesitant about doing it again). In retrospect all of those decisions were good for me, some of them amazingly so.
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I guess it's time to give kuroshin another, nother go. Just wish it had better news stories.
Simply because when it gets down to the crunch, you have to know if your engineers are bullshitting you or not. There will always be those that say something can't be done when it can be.
I actually thought she was a pretty good CEO, even though she had a lot of tough decisions to make.
In a speech that she gave in around 1998 (if memory serves me right) she stated that the most important thing for any working person was to first make yourself financially independent. Then you can make the decisions you really believe in, without fear of being sacked. I think many of the (unpopular) decisions she made at HP may have been down to that philosophy.
I respect that, it's something I have done all my career, never putting myself in a position where I am dependent on my pay-check.
You should check out the Anime called Gilgamesh. The story revolves around this Sumerian theme. It's very interesting, though the story can be confusing.
Of course Full Metal Alchemist also deals very much with Chimera, and is also an excellent Anime series.
Most people still use hotmail cause it's been around for ages and it's a pain to switch to another address.
And to tell the truth there is very little spam on hotmail these days and it works fine for what it is. A few years ago I was getting around 20 spams a day, now it's not even 20 a month!
I don't really care about the quality of the recording, all I'm interested in is the quality of the actual movie (ie the script etc..).
I also like to watch lots of arcane and obscure stuff, so bitTorrent is wonderful for this. Not like it's harming the artist financially becuase most of the stuff i wouldn't normally buy anway.
Stuff *I really like* I end up getting the DVD in the end (if I can). In fact this type of action is benefitting the artist by widening my exposure to their works (and that's the purpose of any real artist, isn't it?)
I think that lots of people don't use their computers efficently - geeks are always thinking 'wouldn't it be cool if this could do that' and then when it happens, we are very quick on the uptake, even driving UI design.
Non geek people are just happy if it works, they don't want to learn new ways of doing things.
Its intent is to allow people to publish *information*, ( i.e. WebPages ) in an anonymous fashion.
Are you sure about that? I think it's intent is to offer the same experience as normal web browsing but in an anonymous fashion.
After all if it can't offer that, then it will only ever be used for illicit purposes, by people who are willing to put up with all it's crappness, becuase they are scared of "being caught" (ie pedophiles and al-quaeda).
However mostly just pedophiles, because al-quaeda (and oher more sophisticated networks) will have their own encrypted communication network set up already.
This would be a big problem for me if I was a freenet developer.
I don't think you argument really holds up. Why should they not understand the risks? People who own televisions understand the risks of poking around in the back or sitting 1 cm from the screen, despite not knowing how they work, why shouldn't pc owners?
All we want is for people to keep their pc's patched, what's so hard about that? Back in the day of Code Red, there was a debate over releasing patch worms, I can't understand why this was never done. Friendly worms that constantly scan the web for unsafe p.c.s are the answer.
besides the fact that it costs a lot, it's actually a damn good ide, don't think any developer can disagree with that. and the new (beer free) beta versions of visual studio express are pretty fine too.
Yeah when you are logged on as a normal user under Windows, you can't even view the system calendar and clock. This is the main reason why I log on as admin:)
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Well it's not that non-trivial. There are many oses out there that have come and gone over the years.
The real problem is getting people to start making applications for your os so it becomes attractive to the end-user. that's the critical mass.
Unless they are going to build a windows-compatible os?
I don't think you can justify the price premium of an Apple based on design and manufacturing costs.
Apple simply charges a price that (some) people are willing to pay - they position themselves as a premium product and therefore they *have* to charge more - even if their costs are no higher than any body elses.
There's a very interesting article on Joel Spolskys site about pricing.
It's probably a very personal thing and depends a lot on your personality. I myself have left 4 jobs without another lined up (only once out of disgust, the rest was when I decided to travel).
I have always found good employement again (though the last time I had to spend a few months looking and I admit this has made me hesitant about doing it again). In retrospect all of those decisions were good for me, some of them amazingly so.
I guess it's time to give kuroshin another, nother go. Just wish it had better news stories.
Simply because when it gets down to the crunch, you have to know if your engineers are bullshitting you or not. There will always be those that say something can't be done when it can be.
Many of those floaters are created using flash, so use Flashblock to prevent them from showing.
Flashblock and AdBlock == good surfing experience.
They are only doing it so that the German government thinks they are putting in the effort to abide by the law and doesn't close them down.
Whether it works or not, or can be circumvented, is of no importance.
I actually thought she was a pretty good CEO, even though she had a lot of tough decisions to make.
In a speech that she gave in around 1998 (if memory serves me right) she stated that the most important thing for any working person was to first make yourself financially independent. Then you can make the decisions you really believe in, without fear of being sacked. I think many of the (unpopular) decisions she made at HP may have been down to that philosophy.
I respect that, it's something I have done all my career, never putting myself in a position where I am dependent on my pay-check.
That's weird, considering that there is not 1 IKEA store in the whole of Africa.
You should check out the Anime called Gilgamesh. The story revolves around this Sumerian theme. It's very interesting, though the story can be confusing.
Of course Full Metal Alchemist also deals very much with Chimera, and is also an excellent Anime series.
only on slashdot can a comment like Microkernels SUCK! get modded flamebait.
Most people still use hotmail cause it's been around for ages and it's a pain to switch to another address.
And to tell the truth there is very little spam on hotmail these days and it works fine for what it is. A few years ago I was getting around 20 spams a day, now it's not even 20 a month!
At least the lawyers are getting rich..... : /
I don't really care about the quality of the recording, all I'm interested in is the quality of the actual movie (ie the script etc..).
I also like to watch lots of arcane and obscure stuff, so bitTorrent is wonderful for this. Not like it's harming the artist financially becuase most of the stuff i wouldn't normally buy anway.
Stuff *I really like* I end up getting the DVD in the end (if I can). In fact this type of action is benefitting the artist by widening my exposure to their works (and that's the purpose of any real artist, isn't it?)
about awarding quality, it's just WWF wrapped up in something else, re-packaged for dumb teenage brats.
I think that lots of people don't use their computers efficently - geeks are always thinking 'wouldn't it be cool if this could do that' and then when it happens, we are very quick on the uptake, even driving UI design.
Non geek people are just happy if it works, they don't want to learn new ways of doing things.
Its intent is to allow people to publish *information*, ( i.e. WebPages ) in an anonymous fashion.
Are you sure about that? I think it's intent is to offer the same experience as normal web browsing but in an anonymous fashion.
After all if it can't offer that, then it will only ever be used for illicit purposes, by people who are willing to put up with all it's crappness, becuase they are scared of "being caught" (ie pedophiles and al-quaeda).
However mostly just pedophiles, because al-quaeda (and oher more sophisticated networks) will have their own encrypted communication network set up already.
This would be a big problem for me if I was a freenet developer.
That's wierd, when I installed it the total download was about 70meg for C# and 2.0 fw. Which is not bad when you consider the install size of VS x.
(Shades of VBRUNx00.EXE.)
Shades of JVM?? What's your point?
Well, we can't have you strutting around all day thinking that!
:)
I didn't say that Borland was better or worse, just that Visual Studio is "damn good", Borland may very well be better than "damn good".
But I'm intrigued, how do you figure that the properties of an object are *not* easily accessible in VS?
I don't think you argument really holds up. Why should they not understand the risks? People who own televisions understand the risks of poking around in the back or sitting 1 cm from the screen, despite not knowing how they work, why shouldn't pc owners?
All we want is for people to keep their pc's patched, what's so hard about that? Back in the day of Code Red, there was a debate over releasing patch worms, I can't understand why this was never done. Friendly worms that constantly scan the web for unsafe p.c.s are the answer.
besides the fact that it costs a lot, it's actually a damn good ide, don't think any developer can disagree with that. and the new (beer free) beta versions of visual studio express are pretty fine too.
Win2k Pro uses less system resources, does everything XP does better than XP does
Doesn't have run as... except for shortcuts..last time i looked.
RTFA - the show is aimed at youngsters and people who don't know anything programming.
Yeah when you are logged on as a normal user under Windows, you can't even view the system calendar and clock. This is the main reason why I log on as admin :)
Oh, I thought the grandparent was referring to /.ers social disability.