You'll find a lot of those Macs are already running open source applications. Firefox and VLC can be found on nearly every Mac. It's really the same problem that Windows is starting to face - once you're already running mostly free, open source software for all your needs, then why keep the propriety OS around? Particularly one that's tied to expensive hardware.
Besides, I wouldn't put it beyond Apple to screw it up. They've already indicated that computers are no longer their primary business, and 10.5 seems to reflect this.
Yeah, I don't get that either. I've always considered American cars easier to work on, though the ones (especially GM made) with both metric and US parts mixed together can make me swear up a storm. My experience is that Hondas are the worst to work on. They seem to design their cars with the idea that you'll never have to service them, which they get away with because they are so reliable, but when they do break it's a pain in the ass. The last Honda I worked on ('91 Accord) you had to remove the battery to replace the headlight bulb, which turned a 30 second job into a 15 minute job.
I would think the problem will solve itself. How much longer do you want to spend sinking ~12 hours per day for your job? I would guess that if you do the math, your hourly rate isn't all that great once you factor in the 12 hour days, plus the costs of getting there and back, unless you got a great salary. Perhaps you should consider a more local job in another field?
Otherwise, you can do what a guy I know did for a while - small, cheap used truck bed camper and sleep in it during the week. He already had the truck, and the Wal-mart parking lot was only a couple miles away.
The list price (since I quoted list for OS X) of Vista Ultimate is $340. You can pay less, assuming you are OK with getting a hobbled version of Windows. The $130 list price of OS X is completely full-featured. What kind of Windows do you get for that same list price? An "upgrade" all the way to Vista Home Basic, which hardly qualifies as an operating system. In no way does Vista Basic compare with OS X 10.5.
I can buy an upgrade version of Ultimate for $185, so you can stop throwing around that $340 number around. And the upgrade version is a perfectly adequate comparison, as to use that $129 version of OSX you need to buy a Mac that already comes with a version of OSX, so the version of Vista that would go on a computer that already came with a version of Windows is the closest comparison. The full retail version is for a PC that did not come with Windows, and since you cannot buy a new Mac without OSX, there is no Apple equilivent.
Really? A real desktop replacement notebook is going to have a docking station allowing for more expandibility and quick and easy hookup of your peripherals, something that neither the Macbook or Macbook Pro offer.
I think you're overestimating the size of the Apple fanboy market. That crowd certainly exists, but you're going to have a hard time convincing me that everyone who's got an iPhone got it just because it has an Apple logo on the back. That crowd was tapped out in the first couple weeks or so. The iPhone must be offering something to people that's making so many of them spend money on it.
Do you seriously think that the iPhone would have sold anywhere close to the numbers it has now if it was the exact same thing, but made by someone like Samsung? (for example)
3. Is it something that I might find a use for later? THROW IT OUT!
If you say you'll never use 95% of that stuff again, you're probably right. The only problem is trying to anticipate what 5% is the stuff you're going to nee. Everytime I get rid of a bunch of stuff, I end up needing something obscure like a SCSI CD drive like a week later, and only if I didn't toss that one I just had out...
A typical Mercedes requires a tiny fraction of the maintenance of a typical Ford. My 30 year old Mercedes sedan with 400k+ miles has its original breaks, has never had its alignment adjusted or brakes replaced (!) and it drives better than most brand new sports cars.
While I'm not surprised that your 30 year old Mercedes is a solid car, you'll find the newer ones are built quite a bit differently. Though you're still pretty spot on with Ford.
Exactly. The x-ray machines they have now are powerful - they probably just turned the power up until they could see through it and saw that it was mostly empty. That's the same reason those lead-lined bags for those that use film are worthless - they'll just turn up the power until the x-rays go through the bag and the film.
I've done this too, as I've always found it easier to remember a password tied to a physical object than it is to remember some random, made up phrase. But to tell your users at an office to do this seems like it could be a security problem. If you tell John to set up his password as maker_model_serial number backwards, what's going to happen if he guesses that you told Bob to do the same/similar thing?
PSP was hacked very early. Sod all sales, definitely fewer than Macs. iPhone was hacked very early. They have fewer users than the Macs. GP32 (gamepark - a handheld game console) was hacked. Hasn't sold anywhere near what Macs have. Xbox (original) was hacked very quickly, as was playstation, and even gamecube, and even sega dreamcast.
People will hack anything, just to say they did. Kids brought up on Macs at schools who don't have stupid anti-apple biases will try to hack their school computers. Or maybe even if they do have anti-apple biases.
But nobody has yet been able to hack a Mac convincingly.
Wow, talk about a stupid argument. The common thing with all of those you listed is they were "hacked" so you could load your own software/games onto them. Ignoring the fact you can do that already in OSX, people have been hacking Macs to run Windows/Linux/whatever for years, and this was before Apple made it easy to do so. Similarly, people have been hacking Apple's OS to run on non-Apple hardware for years too. So if that's your definition of "hacking", then there have been "hacks" out there for Macs for decades. Obviously none of this has anything to do at all with network security, so I don't even know why you brought it up.
On the other hand, Apple is a company that thrives on buzz, and it's all the rabid, foaming at the mouth fanboys that worship Steve Jobs that are creating that buzz which gets everyone else all excited. You'll notice when Apple releases something and the fanboys go "meh", everyone else follows, and the product doesn't do so well. If only Steve Jobs is able to keep the fanboys all fired up to create buzz so people will spend the extra money on the Apple product, then I would worry about Apple without Steve Jobs.
A stockholder who sells something as solid as Apple Computer on such a rumor, deserves whatever happens as a result. It's not as though any other board member could not take over competently.
Really? Common knowledge around here seems to dictate that the only reason Apple is where they are today is because of Steve Jobs, that he singlehandedly turned the company around when he came back to Apple in the late 1990's, that he's the only one who can stand up to the RIAA, that he was responsible for the OS what we now call OSX, that his vision is what created the iPod, and so on. If I was an investor in Apple, I would be a bit worried. Even if I was to write it all off as the effects of the reality distortion field, there is the fact that others believe in it to consider.
Probably a sizable fraction of them would want to know why there are now black bars on the sides of the screen and want it changed back so they are using the whole TV screen. People just don't get it.
That's wrong. When you authorize a new computer (or reinstall your OS), that computer calls the mothership for the authorization, that way Apple can ensure that you only have up to 5 computers authorized at one time. If iTMS is gone, that means no more authorizations. That means if iTMS went away, you can only listen to your purchased music so long as at least one of your authorized computers is still working, or an iPod/iPhone that had been synced up to one of your computers is still working.
That doesn't make sense. The whole point of a telephoto camera lens is to have a small field of view, or a small viewing angle. From that link, it just looks like Canon came up with a clever way to use a fresnel lens to make their optics more compact while avoiding the disadvantages of a fresnel lens.
For a portable device, LCDs can still have an advantage as you can still display something while using almost no power by turning the backlight off, while OLEDs and SEDs have to make light to display something. That could mean that things like cell phones and MP3 players may still be interested in this technology.
I don't understand how the printer could yank the line voltage down so that the UPS faults, and yet a computer plugged directly into the wall can handle it. Unless my computer's power supply buffers better than the UPS.
Many computers can withstand several hundred millisecond power drops without a problem. So what happens is your printer causes a short drop that the PC doesn't notice*, but causes the UPS to do its thing. I've seen a similar thing at work, where a bunch of desktops have UPSes that are too small for them, so whenever the power flickers those UPSes go into panic mode and immediately tell the computer to shutdown/hibernate, while those without the UPS are generally fine.
*This is actually pretty hard on the power supply and harddrives in the PC even though it may not reset or crash, so it's best to have the computer on a good UPS.
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You'll find a lot of those Macs are already running open source applications. Firefox and VLC can be found on nearly every Mac. It's really the same problem that Windows is starting to face - once you're already running mostly free, open source software for all your needs, then why keep the propriety OS around? Particularly one that's tied to expensive hardware.
Besides, I wouldn't put it beyond Apple to screw it up. They've already indicated that computers are no longer their primary business, and 10.5 seems to reflect this.
You're really going to blame Clinton for something that happened over 7 years after he left office? Why not blame Carter too?
Yeah, I don't get that either. I've always considered American cars easier to work on, though the ones (especially GM made) with both metric and US parts mixed together can make me swear up a storm. My experience is that Hondas are the worst to work on. They seem to design their cars with the idea that you'll never have to service them, which they get away with because they are so reliable, but when they do break it's a pain in the ass. The last Honda I worked on ('91 Accord) you had to remove the battery to replace the headlight bulb, which turned a 30 second job into a 15 minute job.
I would think the problem will solve itself. How much longer do you want to spend sinking ~12 hours per day for your job? I would guess that if you do the math, your hourly rate isn't all that great once you factor in the 12 hour days, plus the costs of getting there and back, unless you got a great salary. Perhaps you should consider a more local job in another field?
Otherwise, you can do what a guy I know did for a while - small, cheap used truck bed camper and sleep in it during the week. He already had the truck, and the Wal-mart parking lot was only a couple miles away.
The list price (since I quoted list for OS X) of Vista Ultimate is $340. You can pay less, assuming you are OK with getting a hobbled version of Windows. The $130 list price of OS X is completely full-featured. What kind of Windows do you get for that same list price? An "upgrade" all the way to Vista Home Basic, which hardly qualifies as an operating system. In no way does Vista Basic compare with OS X 10.5.
I can buy an upgrade version of Ultimate for $185, so you can stop throwing around that $340 number around. And the upgrade version is a perfectly adequate comparison, as to use that $129 version of OSX you need to buy a Mac that already comes with a version of OSX, so the version of Vista that would go on a computer that already came with a version of Windows is the closest comparison. The full retail version is for a PC that did not come with Windows, and since you cannot buy a new Mac without OSX, there is no Apple equilivent.
Global recession? I think you underestimate Asia.
So? Apple's marketshare in Asia is almost zero.
Really? A real desktop replacement notebook is going to have a docking station allowing for more expandibility and quick and easy hookup of your peripherals, something that neither the Macbook or Macbook Pro offer.
I think you're overestimating the size of the Apple fanboy market. That crowd certainly exists, but you're going to have a hard time convincing me that everyone who's got an iPhone got it just because it has an Apple logo on the back. That crowd was tapped out in the first couple weeks or so. The iPhone must be offering something to people that's making so many of them spend money on it.
Do you seriously think that the iPhone would have sold anywhere close to the numbers it has now if it was the exact same thing, but made by someone like Samsung? (for example)
3. Is it something that I might find a use for later? THROW IT OUT!
If you say you'll never use 95% of that stuff again, you're probably right. The only problem is trying to anticipate what 5% is the stuff you're going to nee. Everytime I get rid of a bunch of stuff, I end up needing something obscure like a SCSI CD drive like a week later, and only if I didn't toss that one I just had out...
Artsy types don't really care about objective laundry-lists of features.
Then why would they pick an Apple in the first place? The way it looks?
To slow someone down so that the gaurds can be more effective.
Quick! Buy stock in cardboard box futures!
Looking pretty good, given that those that are left in the $700k houses will be burning cardboard boxes for heat this winter.
A typical Mercedes requires a tiny fraction of the maintenance of a typical Ford. My 30 year old Mercedes sedan with 400k+ miles has its original breaks, has never had its alignment adjusted or brakes replaced (!) and it drives better than most brand new sports cars.
While I'm not surprised that your 30 year old Mercedes is a solid car, you'll find the newer ones are built quite a bit differently. Though you're still pretty spot on with Ford.
Exactly. The x-ray machines they have now are powerful - they probably just turned the power up until they could see through it and saw that it was mostly empty. That's the same reason those lead-lined bags for those that use film are worthless - they'll just turn up the power until the x-rays go through the bag and the film.
I've done this too, as I've always found it easier to remember a password tied to a physical object than it is to remember some random, made up phrase. But to tell your users at an office to do this seems like it could be a security problem. If you tell John to set up his password as maker_model_serial number backwards, what's going to happen if he guesses that you told Bob to do the same/similar thing?
PSP was hacked very early. Sod all sales, definitely fewer than Macs.
iPhone was hacked very early. They have fewer users than the Macs.
GP32 (gamepark - a handheld game console) was hacked. Hasn't sold anywhere near what Macs have.
Xbox (original) was hacked very quickly, as was playstation, and even gamecube, and even sega dreamcast.
People will hack anything, just to say they did. Kids brought up on Macs at schools who don't have stupid anti-apple biases will try to hack their school computers. Or maybe even if they do have anti-apple biases.
But nobody has yet been able to hack a Mac convincingly.
Wow, talk about a stupid argument. The common thing with all of those you listed is they were "hacked" so you could load your own software/games onto them. Ignoring the fact you can do that already in OSX, people have been hacking Macs to run Windows/Linux/whatever for years, and this was before Apple made it easy to do so. Similarly, people have been hacking Apple's OS to run on non-Apple hardware for years too. So if that's your definition of "hacking", then there have been "hacks" out there for Macs for decades. Obviously none of this has anything to do at all with network security, so I don't even know why you brought it up.
You'd be in a creek without a paddle.
I don't know about that. A laptop could work as a crude paddle if needed, though it would be better suited as a rudder.
On the other hand, Apple is a company that thrives on buzz, and it's all the rabid, foaming at the mouth fanboys that worship Steve Jobs that are creating that buzz which gets everyone else all excited. You'll notice when Apple releases something and the fanboys go "meh", everyone else follows, and the product doesn't do so well. If only Steve Jobs is able to keep the fanboys all fired up to create buzz so people will spend the extra money on the Apple product, then I would worry about Apple without Steve Jobs.
A stockholder who sells something as solid as Apple Computer on such a rumor, deserves whatever happens as a result. It's not as though any other board member could not take over competently.
Really? Common knowledge around here seems to dictate that the only reason Apple is where they are today is because of Steve Jobs, that he singlehandedly turned the company around when he came back to Apple in the late 1990's, that he's the only one who can stand up to the RIAA, that he was responsible for the OS what we now call OSX, that his vision is what created the iPod, and so on. If I was an investor in Apple, I would be a bit worried. Even if I was to write it all off as the effects of the reality distortion field, there is the fact that others believe in it to consider.
Probably a sizable fraction of them would want to know why there are now black bars on the sides of the screen and want it changed back so they are using the whole TV screen. People just don't get it.
I never even addressed the issue of what happens if the iTMS went out of business.
Maybe you should read the post you replied to, because that's the situation the poster was discussing.
That's wrong. When you authorize a new computer (or reinstall your OS), that computer calls the mothership for the authorization, that way Apple can ensure that you only have up to 5 computers authorized at one time. If iTMS is gone, that means no more authorizations. That means if iTMS went away, you can only listen to your purchased music so long as at least one of your authorized computers is still working, or an iPod/iPhone that had been synced up to one of your computers is still working.
That doesn't make sense. The whole point of a telephoto camera lens is to have a small field of view, or a small viewing angle. From that link, it just looks like Canon came up with a clever way to use a fresnel lens to make their optics more compact while avoiding the disadvantages of a fresnel lens.
For a portable device, LCDs can still have an advantage as you can still display something while using almost no power by turning the backlight off, while OLEDs and SEDs have to make light to display something. That could mean that things like cell phones and MP3 players may still be interested in this technology.
I don't understand how the printer could yank the line voltage down so that the UPS faults, and yet a computer plugged directly into the wall can handle it. Unless my computer's power supply buffers better than the UPS.
Many computers can withstand several hundred millisecond power drops without a problem. So what happens is your printer causes a short drop that the PC doesn't notice*, but causes the UPS to do its thing. I've seen a similar thing at work, where a bunch of desktops have UPSes that are too small for them, so whenever the power flickers those UPSes go into panic mode and immediately tell the computer to shutdown/hibernate, while those without the UPS are generally fine.
*This is actually pretty hard on the power supply and harddrives in the PC even though it may not reset or crash, so it's best to have the computer on a good UPS.