Apple makes good hardware. Horrendously overpriced, but top quality.
Overpriced? Compared to what? Compare a Core Duo Macbook Prp with Sony Vaio Core Duos and the macbook pro is cheaper. Compare with a Toshiba and again, it is either cheaper or in price parity depending on whether you count software.
Apple does not sell ultra low end or highly subsidized hardware. If you are a coupon collecting cheapskate with a lot of time on your hands, get a Dell. But if you are looking for reasonable prices with "value added" bundled hardware and software, the macbooks are competitive.
You can bring up the old straw man 500 USD laptops but chances are that you would never buy one anyway. They are just artificial examples used by geeks with no concept of "value" and "reasonable" prices to win an argument on the internet.
I'm surprised nobody brought up the connection between Google and the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel? In-Q-Tel was a significant investor in Keyhole Inc.
There are other connections between Google and the Intelligence community. Like this job ad and this.
Got to go, the black helicopters are circling. Remember, trust no one.
t also makes Opera the first publicly available web browser that renders the Acid2 page correctly under the Microsoft Windows operating system. This is important if you don't want to have to re-buy your PC (in switching to Mac OS X, which runs only on Apple hardware)
Have you seen the hardware requirements for Vista? Chances are that the majority of current windows users would have to buy new hardware including a new monitor to support HD DVD through HDMI in full resolution.
Because of this, your argument is largely moot for users choosing between OS X and OS X with existing older hardware.
On a a related note, it looks like DIY Vista Media centres may be DOA because of this HDMI standard.
Actually, Apple is the leader of "worldwide" sales too. I don't know what they situation is in your particular country but you are misusing the word "worldwide".
ya...you are so right...what am i even talking about? thx for clearing that up with the dead meat. life is good.
You are free to think/believe whatever you wish but other people have the right to believe/think differently than you do. Stop trying to impose your values on others.
God forbid the idea of not killing the animal in the first place should even be considered.
Heaven forbid that you would think of respecting the beliefs and values of others. You are free to be a vegetarian and not buy leather products but you do not have a right to shove your beliefs down other people's throats. What you are suggesting is called cultural imperialism which is a bad thing. Many indigenous cultures have been destroy by such arrogance.
The lag most people complain about has more to do with your CPU than your GPU although the speed of the GPU does affect how high you can set your detail and resolution level to.
Plays for Sure is a standard, if only in that most (all?) subscription music services use it. That includes Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo, Walmart, and certainly Urge, the new service from Microsoft and MTV. Apple's DRM cannot be a standard because it is only used by Apple itself.
Umm... no. Regardless of how many companies license the technology, there is only one source for that technology. It is also not a published standard describing how it works. Since MSFT is the creator and sole licenser for the DRM scheme and you are required to use WMP or it's related libraries, it is not a standard.
I condem the bundling of this Mindawn preview program on the basis that it is proprietary software. Mandriva users should be very upset that thier distro would attempt to ask them to give up thier freedom.
So you condemn a choice made by the maintainer to include this software solely on your preferences? Are you saying that they should not have the freedom to do so? How does that choice impinge on the freedom of users to remove the software? Wouldn't not including it remove that freedom to remove software they don't like? What's next? Remove the window managers?
The only person I see here talking about removing freedom of choice is you purely for ideological reasons. If you don't like the software, remove it. Not everyone subscribes your your world view of GNU/Freedom. I support real freedom for thinking human beings.
This GNU/Freedom is a bastardization of the word as it imposes restrictions on use and further restricts the freedom of anyone who would wish contribute to it. I define use as not just the end user but to use the software as a dynamically linked library in my software. It is viral.
I've seen long diatribes about how it is "evil" for Apple to bundle Safari with the OS but all of a sudden it is not a bad thing to bundle a single store music player with linux? I don't consider either to be evil since every OS needs some form of browser to easily "download" other software and it is not a bad thing to have a usable music player included with your OS either.
Having said that, I find the hypocrisy of certain slashdot reader to be quite entertaining.
What I don't understand is how the 'virtual scroll wheel' ever became more popular than forward and back buttons anyway... its more work to operate, and it can't be operated in a pocket because it goes nuts whenever it touches anything (at least I couldn't reliably do it)... I had to take the thing out of my pocket to operate it at all.
Because you might look like a pervert on a bus/subway fumbling with something in your front pocket? Other people might not realize that you are not playing pocket pool and call the transit police on you.
Uh, yeah. Don't forget to add an easy to program against API like Cocoa, an audio framework like Core Audio to provide low latency audio at up to 24-Bit 192KHz, an image/video processing framework like Core Image/Video. Why your are at it, you might want to implement colorsync as well.
Windows- cpu (float) mandelbrot (sqrt) 4 threads 1.10 gigaflops
OS X- cpu (float) mandelbrot (sqrt) 4 threads 598.65 megaflops
Windows- cpu (integer) blowfish (cache) 1 thread 70.02 megabytes/sec
OS X- cpu (integer) blowfish (cache) 1 thread 672.46 megabytes/sec
Windows- memory (stdlib) fill 1 thread 1.60 gigabytes/sec
OS X- memory (stdlib) fill 1 thread 3.26 gigabytes/sec
I think the sqrt test score has something to do with unoptimized/buggy math routines in your unofficial version of OS X. But look at the blowfish test. I would consider a 9.6 times greater throughput to be significant. I also consider a 2 times speed difference on the memory test to be significant as well.
This could spell doom for Windows Photoshop users once a native version of Photoshop comes out for OS X Intel.
Show me where you can purchase a boxed version of OS X 10.4.4 for Intel. Apple does sell PPC versions of 10.4.3 but nowhere can you get 10.4.4 for Intel or above without purchasing an Intel mac or pirating it.
Are you suggesting that if you own the Xbox version of a game, it is not piracy to copy the PS2 version? Unless you happen to be the copyright owner, you cannot change or dictate the terms.
John C. Dvorak, is that you? If all Apple cared about was making money instead of making computers and devices that are insanely great, I suppose they could have done something like that years ago. The question is however, would they still be around or would MSFT have crushed them like they did with Corel and other competitors?
The reason for Apple's success is the underlying OS that runs their software. I really don't think some of you will ever get that. The reason why Photoshop runs so damn fast on "slow" G4 systems is because of how the OS handles memory allocation and complex data structures. When you are executing a complex set of transformations in Photoshop, you are not just taxing the raw computing power of the CPU but also the allocation/deallocation mechanism of the OS itself.
Some PC fanboy will never get that performance is a combination of hardware and the OS (software).
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Some people have access to licenses through work via MSDN licensing agreements for testing a development purposes.
Overpriced? Compared to what? Compare a Core Duo Macbook Prp with Sony Vaio Core Duos and the macbook pro is cheaper. Compare with a Toshiba and again, it is either cheaper or in price parity depending on whether you count software.
Apple does not sell ultra low end or highly subsidized hardware. If you are a coupon collecting cheapskate with a lot of time on your hands, get a Dell. But if you are looking for reasonable prices with "value added" bundled hardware and software, the macbooks are competitive.
You can bring up the old straw man 500 USD laptops but chances are that you would never buy one anyway. They are just artificial examples used by geeks with no concept of "value" and "reasonable" prices to win an argument on the internet.
There are other connections between Google and the Intelligence community. Like this job ad and this.
Got to go, the black helicopters are circling. Remember, trust no one.
I have an FBI hat that I sometimes wear at work on Fridays.
Have you seen the hardware requirements for Vista? Chances are that the majority of current windows users would have to buy new hardware including a new monitor to support HD DVD through HDMI in full resolution.
Because of this, your argument is largely moot for users choosing between OS X and OS X with existing older hardware.
On a a related note, it looks like DIY Vista Media centres may be DOA because of this HDMI standard.
How us that competition if they offer the same music at the same prices with the same restrictive DRM? Oh and they also require WMP and windows.
Who would those "people" be? AMD fanboys?
Actually, Apple is the leader of "worldwide" sales too. I don't know what they situation is in your particular country but you are misusing the word "worldwide".
Which security software company do you work for? Are you the author of the Leap exploit?
Dell is under no such obligation.
You are free to think/believe whatever you wish but other people have the right to believe/think differently than you do. Stop trying to impose your values on others.
Heaven forbid that you would think of respecting the beliefs and values of others. You are free to be a vegetarian and not buy leather products but you do not have a right to shove your beliefs down other people's throats. What you are suggesting is called cultural imperialism which is a bad thing. Many indigenous cultures have been destroy by such arrogance.
The animal is already dead and was most likely used for meat. What is the problem here?
The lag most people complain about has more to do with your CPU than your GPU although the speed of the GPU does affect how high you can set your detail and resolution level to.
Umm... no. Regardless of how many companies license the technology, there is only one source for that technology. It is also not a published standard describing how it works. Since MSFT is the creator and sole licenser for the DRM scheme and you are required to use WMP or it's related libraries, it is not a standard.
So you condemn a choice made by the maintainer to include this software solely on your preferences? Are you saying that they should not have the freedom to do so? How does that choice impinge on the freedom of users to remove the software? Wouldn't not including it remove that freedom to remove software they don't like? What's next? Remove the window managers?
The only person I see here talking about removing freedom of choice is you purely for ideological reasons. If you don't like the software, remove it. Not everyone subscribes your your world view of GNU/Freedom. I support real freedom for thinking human beings.
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This GNU/Freedom is a bastardization of the word as it imposes restrictions on use and further restricts the freedom of anyone who would wish contribute to it. I define use as not just the end user but to use the software as a dynamically linked library in my software. It is viral.
Having said that, I find the hypocrisy of certain slashdot reader to be quite entertaining.
You've got to be kidding me? It has a computer voice on it. How quaint. It reminds me of the cheezy 80's.
Because you might look like a pervert on a bus/subway fumbling with something in your front pocket? Other people might not realize that you are not playing pocket pool and call the transit police on you.
Uh, yeah. Don't forget to add an easy to program against API like Cocoa, an audio framework like Core Audio to provide low latency audio at up to 24-Bit 192KHz, an image/video processing framework like Core Image/Video. Why your are at it, you might want to implement colorsync as well.
OS X- cpu (float) mandelbrot (sqrt) 4 threads 598.65 megaflops
Windows- cpu (integer) blowfish (cache) 1 thread 70.02 megabytes/sec
OS X- cpu (integer) blowfish (cache) 1 thread 672.46 megabytes/sec
Windows- memory (stdlib) fill 1 thread 1.60 gigabytes/sec
OS X- memory (stdlib) fill 1 thread 3.26 gigabytes/sec
I think the sqrt test score has something to do with unoptimized/buggy math routines in your unofficial version of OS X. But look at the blowfish test. I would consider a 9.6 times greater throughput to be significant. I also consider a 2 times speed difference on the memory test to be significant as well.
This could spell doom for Windows Photoshop users once a native version of Photoshop comes out for OS X Intel.
They don't sell the Intel version in a store. You can only get it with a new Intel mac.
Are you suggesting that if you own the Xbox version of a game, it is not piracy to copy the PS2 version? Unless you happen to be the copyright owner, you cannot change or dictate the terms.
The reason for Apple's success is the underlying OS that runs their software. I really don't think some of you will ever get that. The reason why Photoshop runs so damn fast on "slow" G4 systems is because of how the OS handles memory allocation and complex data structures. When you are executing a complex set of transformations in Photoshop, you are not just taxing the raw computing power of the CPU but also the allocation/deallocation mechanism of the OS itself.
Some PC fanboy will never get that performance is a combination of hardware and the OS (software).
So where do we get AMD boards with something other than BIOS? Apple needed features which EFI could provide while BIOS could not.