College teaches you things certifications don't. They're called people skills. I've met many people who didn't go to college but got certifications and they're terrible in social situations. They have a tendency to "nerd it up" and try to outsmart everyone in the room with jargon that has nothing to do with the situation.
What I would recommend is going to a college that provides certification classes, like A+, N+, MCSE (yes, I know I know) and pair that with a bachelor's degree or even better, a master's degree. The combination of the two shows that you have the people skills college offers with the technical knowledge of the certifications. HR people like to see a college degree. I've been reading job ads for the past few months and I have yet to see one that doesn't require a bachelor's degree. Go to college and have fun! If nothing else it allows you to stay out of the real world for 2-5 years and discover what you really want to do.
Re:WHY DO PEOPLE BUY APPLE? (Hint: free market)
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I owned a 1G iPod that had a battery failure. Yeah, it sucked. But the difference is that I abused that little thing and it lived. I also put it through some harsh conditions and it lived. I bought a 3G 10 GB iPod on eBay for $225. Microsoft couldn't do it and not many other companies could because Apple has a loyal fan base. If you ever use an iPod on a daily basis, you'll realize why people continue to buy them. There are also fixes for the battery problem and replacements that are 3rd-party solutions for less than what Apple charges. It's a rechargable battery smaller than a credit card. It's not something you can just go out to the store and pick up. Ask Dell if their new music player has a user-replaceable battery. $5 says it's not. To quote their own website "Fixed rechargeable battery with up to 16 hours battery life." Key word there is FIXED. And if they have a battery problem, they'll have a replacement program.
Let's see what you got wrong. Let's start with your first point.
Here's the ACTUAL quote from the press release, "Apple(R) today announced that Windows users have downloaded more than one million copies of its new iTunes(TM) for Windows digital jukebox software in just three and a half days since its launch last Thursday, and over one million songs have been purchased and downloaded by iTunes users in the same period"
That also covers your second point. As for your
third point, there was absolutely no mention in the story or press release saying X% of the downloads were from Windows users. So you should get YOUR facts straight before you go posting about a story was wrong.
My university still uses IBM Personal Computer 300GLs and PLs. They run XP quite well and work very well for your basic e-mail/internet/word processing machine. With the obsession in the IT industry to have the "bleeding edge" hardware, workhorse machines that serve their purpose often get over looked. Yes, we do have Pentium 4 machines, however, they're used for engineering and lab purposes.
I have a Beige G3 AIO (All-in-one) with a screaming 266 Mhz G3. It's running 10.2.6 just peachy on 192 MB of RAM. It's a pretty upgradable machine. I'm looking into a few upgrades myself. $72 to max out my rev a board to 384 MB of RAM, $50 for a 52x burner, and $50 for a 20 GB HD. Like others have said, you could probably get a halfway decent video card and a Firewire card and a USB card too. Total cost for the upgrades should be about $275. All the parts are readily available on Newegg.com. Most PC components will work in a Mac, but check the compatibility just be safe.
Don't kid yourself this isn't a Photoshop or Quark machine. The machine is perfectly fine if you're going to do web surfing, e-mail, and Word and Powerpoint. This machine will not beat any benchmarks or set world records for speed and CERTAINLY won't run Photoshop any faster than molasses in wintertime.
I see we failed history again....
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If this has taught us anything, it's that we fail to grasp history. PowerComputing, UMax, and other companies legally got parts from Apple and made clones. All of this happened with the blessing of Apple during the Gil Amilio days. What happened? The clones killed Apple's sales (cheaper and better will always sell better), along with Apple's crazy product line that had way too many models almost killed the company. This would be no different. However, Apple should take a good hard look at what John Fraser accomplished. He made an upgradeable system (albeit a older, slower system) that could run OS X with a G4 processor. The people sure seemed to like it.
With the impending release of the PPC 970's, Apple will have a bundle of G4 processors left. Why not create a "low-end" system that's upgradeable for the folks who want to customize their own systems but don't need the gee-whiz speed of the high-end systems. The eMac is still the best G4 deal in town, but if you make a system without a built in monitor, it's a whole lot cheaper. Sure, Apple's generous 30% profit margins would take a hit on this one, perhaps into the industry standard 15-20% range, but it would be a profitable system. Hell, hire Fraser, he's already got the design and the buzz. I'm sure he and Jonathan Ive would come up with a killer system. By using Apple's resources, he and Ive could focus on making the CoreBox/iBox what it is visioned to be. We all saw this coming, however, I thought Apple would go straight to Fraser and cut off his company. Apple is saving it's own ass here, it paid attention to history and learned from it VERY quickly.
Apple did what they had to do to keep the music industry happy. In order to allow users to buy music and download it, they had to prove to the music industry that people wouldn't use this as a way to pirate music. To keep the music coming, they had to shut down the streaming they were providing unknowingly. Sure there are ways around it, but average joe user, who isn't a terminal whiz, isn't going to try SSH forwarding or a VPN. They still allow sharing inside of the same subnet. That's all that's needed for a small home network for someone who wants to use the music on the desktop upstairs on the laptop downstairs. Apple finally came up with a decent business model for music downloading and all people want to do is pirate. Sure, the streaming from home to work is a viable, legal option, but more people where attempting to use it for illegal deeds. Apple is in a tough spot, with having to please the music companies to keep them from cutting the music flow, and end users who want to use their music everywhere. Keep the tunes flowing and I'll be happy!
Judging by a rough calculation of the mentioned hardware alone, the entire system would cost around $64,500. This includes 100 AMD Athlon Mp 2000+ processors, 50 Tyan Tiger S2466N motherboards, 50 nVidia GeForce4 Ti4600 128 MB AGP video cards, 49 18.1" CTX LCD Flat Panel displays, and 50 network cards. I didn't even include RAM and other stuff. Including those would probably bring the cost to around $80,000.
When are major phone makers going to come out with sweet phones for CDMA? Sure the world uses GSM, but the US for the most part uses CDMA. The GSM service in the US sucks
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College teaches you things certifications don't. They're called people skills. I've met many people who didn't go to college but got certifications and they're terrible in social situations. They have a tendency to "nerd it up" and try to outsmart everyone in the room with jargon that has nothing to do with the situation.
What I would recommend is going to a college that provides certification classes, like A+, N+, MCSE (yes, I know I know) and pair that with a bachelor's degree or even better, a master's degree. The combination of the two shows that you have the people skills college offers with the technical knowledge of the certifications. HR people like to see a college degree. I've been reading job ads for the past few months and I have yet to see one that doesn't require a bachelor's degree. Go to college and have fun! If nothing else it allows you to stay out of the real world for 2-5 years and discover what you really want to do.I owned a 1G iPod that had a battery failure. Yeah, it sucked. But the difference is that I abused that little thing and it lived. I also put it through some harsh conditions and it lived. I bought a 3G 10 GB iPod on eBay for $225. Microsoft couldn't do it and not many other companies could because Apple has a loyal fan base. If you ever use an iPod on a daily basis, you'll realize why people continue to buy them. There are also fixes for the battery problem and replacements that are 3rd-party solutions for less than what Apple charges. It's a rechargable battery smaller than a credit card. It's not something you can just go out to the store and pick up. Ask Dell if their new music player has a user-replaceable battery. $5 says it's not. To quote their own website "Fixed rechargeable battery with up to 16 hours battery life." Key word there is FIXED. And if they have a battery problem, they'll have a replacement program.
Let's see what you got wrong. Let's start with your first point.
Here's the ACTUAL quote from the press release, "Apple(R) today announced that Windows users have downloaded more than one million copies of its new iTunes(TM) for Windows digital jukebox software in just three and a half days since its launch last Thursday, and over one million songs have been purchased and downloaded by iTunes users in the same period"
That also covers your second point. As for your third point, there was absolutely no mention in the story or press release saying X% of the downloads were from Windows users. So you should get YOUR facts straight before you go posting about a story was wrong.
My university still uses IBM Personal Computer 300GLs and PLs. They run XP quite well and work very well for your basic e-mail/internet/word processing machine. With the obsession in the IT industry to have the "bleeding edge" hardware, workhorse machines that serve their purpose often get over looked. Yes, we do have Pentium 4 machines, however, they're used for engineering and lab purposes.
I have a Beige G3 AIO (All-in-one) with a screaming 266 Mhz G3. It's running 10.2.6 just peachy on 192 MB of RAM. It's a pretty upgradable machine. I'm looking into a few upgrades myself. $72 to max out my rev a board to 384 MB of RAM, $50 for a 52x burner, and $50 for a 20 GB HD. Like others have said, you could probably get a halfway decent video card and a Firewire card and a USB card too. Total cost for the upgrades should be about $275. All the parts are readily available on Newegg.com. Most PC components will work in a Mac, but check the compatibility just be safe.
Don't kid yourself this isn't a Photoshop or Quark machine. The machine is perfectly fine if you're going to do web surfing, e-mail, and Word and Powerpoint. This machine will not beat any benchmarks or set world records for speed and CERTAINLY won't run Photoshop any faster than molasses in wintertime.
If this has taught us anything, it's that we fail to grasp history. PowerComputing, UMax, and other companies legally got parts from Apple and made clones. All of this happened with the blessing of Apple during the Gil Amilio days. What happened? The clones killed Apple's sales (cheaper and better will always sell better), along with Apple's crazy product line that had way too many models almost killed the company. This would be no different. However, Apple should take a good hard look at what John Fraser accomplished. He made an upgradeable system (albeit a older, slower system) that could run OS X with a G4 processor. The people sure seemed to like it.
With the impending release of the PPC 970's, Apple will have a bundle of G4 processors left. Why not create a "low-end" system that's upgradeable for the folks who want to customize their own systems but don't need the gee-whiz speed of the high-end systems. The eMac is still the best G4 deal in town, but if you make a system without a built in monitor, it's a whole lot cheaper. Sure, Apple's generous 30% profit margins would take a hit on this one, perhaps into the industry standard 15-20% range, but it would be a profitable system. Hell, hire Fraser, he's already got the design and the buzz. I'm sure he and Jonathan Ive would come up with a killer system. By using Apple's resources, he and Ive could focus on making the CoreBox/iBox what it is visioned to be. We all saw this coming, however, I thought Apple would go straight to Fraser and cut off his company. Apple is saving it's own ass here, it paid attention to history and learned from it VERY quickly.
Apple did what they had to do to keep the music industry happy. In order to allow users to buy music and download it, they had to prove to the music industry that people wouldn't use this as a way to pirate music. To keep the music coming, they had to shut down the streaming they were providing unknowingly. Sure there are ways around it, but average joe user, who isn't a terminal whiz, isn't going to try SSH forwarding or a VPN. They still allow sharing inside of the same subnet. That's all that's needed for a small home network for someone who wants to use the music on the desktop upstairs on the laptop downstairs. Apple finally came up with a decent business model for music downloading and all people want to do is pirate. Sure, the streaming from home to work is a viable, legal option, but more people where attempting to use it for illegal deeds. Apple is in a tough spot, with having to please the music companies to keep them from cutting the music flow, and end users who want to use their music everywhere. Keep the tunes flowing and I'll be happy!
Judging by a rough calculation of the mentioned hardware alone, the entire system would cost around $64,500. This includes 100 AMD Athlon Mp 2000+ processors, 50 Tyan Tiger S2466N motherboards, 50 nVidia GeForce4 Ti4600 128 MB AGP video cards, 49 18.1" CTX LCD Flat Panel displays, and 50 network cards. I didn't even include RAM and other stuff. Including those would probably bring the cost to around $80,000.
When are major phone makers going to come out with sweet phones for CDMA? Sure the world uses GSM, but the US for the most part uses CDMA. The GSM service in the US sucks