Pretty much anyone who's really into retro on the PC has atleast 1 older PC around, usually a P2 or early P3 running Windows 98 and possibly dual booting to some version of DOS. Some have older machines too, depending on what they are trying to play.
That's the wrong way to do. Go find a PC like you want, and then price out the Mac. If Apple released a headless iMac, it would help, but right now the Mini is not powerful enough, the iMac is an all-in-one, and the Mac Pro just costs too much.
Most Mac users seem to have dumped that old PPC "junk" for Intel Macs. It's the PC I know users who are running 3-6 year old hardware nowadays (not with Vista).
Besides, you can run Vista on a computer from 2001. It won't run it very well, but I doubt that a G4 Quicksilver is going to run 10.5 that well either.
To fix this misrepresenatation of Mac market share, why don't these consulting firms just look at a category called "personal computing" or "home computing". I'm sure Apple would be closer to the 20% range in the States, and closer to 50% in metropolitan areas.
Are you kidding? The numbers that put Mac's at about 3-5% of the market seem pretty close to what I have observed. I know more people running Windows 98 than I know running any kind of Mac.
The only way I see it working is you waste the pirates' bandwidth, as they need to then redownload that chunk of data, meaning they won't get the file as fast. If you could get enough of peer that you control on the swarming spewing out bad data, I could see it getting annoying as you might need to download 300MB for a 100MB file or something like that. Though I know Azureus has a feature that'll automatically block peers that send enough bad packets, so it looks like people have already thought of this. I would guess that swarming is pretty much ineffective.
Granted, most of my Mac experience back in the 1990's was with the various Performa lines, but my impression of those machines is that Apple just took whatever extra extra parts they had laying around at the time from the PowerMac line, threw it in a case, got it to power up, then slapped a price tag on it. Pretty much the Packard Bell of the Mac world, but atleast with Packard Bell you were getting what you paid for.
Also, the PowerPC line had its hiccups. I remember the launch of the G4 PowerMac and how Apple couldn't get their 500Mhz chips working right, meanwhile the PIII/Athlon was racing to 1Ghz. And how Apple pretty much had to make all of their PowerMacs dual CPU for a while or else get stomped by single CPU x86 machines.
That's basically what all the fanboys say when they argue that companies should start buying Macs for their workstations (replace "Watch an NBC TV show" with something appropiate).
I would add that doctors understand the placebo effect, and realize if people honest believe in the quackery, it will help those people even if the quackery itself is totally bogus. As such, the doctors leave it alone so long as the homeopathic remedies themselves remain harmless.
Over a period of years, people aren't going to mid. But do you really think that people aren't going to complain about a 33% price drop a mere 6 weeks after the initial product launch?
Funny, but when I think back to the pre-OSX Macs back in the 1990's, I remember unstable, propriety, and incredibly overpriced hardware. The PowerPC processor was nice (though speed-wise it pretty much always lagged behind x86), but the rest of the computer was garbage.
I didn't know that a device's inability to have Linux easily installed on it made it "defective by design"? Wow... I better get rid of my washer, dryer, toaster, oven, microwave, plasma TV set, and a whole slew of other electronic devices in my home then! Who knew!?
No, the issue is that the iPod is now defective by design, as Apple has now DRM'd the database the iPod uses to know what songs it has on it. Only iTunes knows how to properly create this database, so Linux users are now locked out as they can't run iTunes. Furthermore, Windows and Mac users are now forced to use iTunes to sync their iPods, which is probably Apple's motivation for this move (locking out Linux entirely is just a side effect).
A self-portrait, unless the photo clearly shows you taking the picture of yourself, is not obviously yours.
A self-portrait, by definition, is yours. If the picture was taken by someone else, it would just be a portrait. Of course, depending on how it was captured, I could see it hard to prove it's the former and not the latter.
This comitment to analog technology is just as much a problem for cell phones as for TV. This desire to keep the old stuff going is what keeps USA in the cellphone middle ages.
The only way to really get up to date is to have the balls to dump the past.
It's not a matter of the technology not being available like cell phones. The problem is that for many people, the old stuff (analog TV) is good enough so they don't see any reason to move to digital TV.
Yes, I have. It's inconvenient and retarded (we should be spying on mosques, not hassling travelers), but my freedom of travel is not restricted.
Have you ever been denied entry onto a plane?
I suppose you could still travel back in the "Papers please?" Soviet Russia. Is that really free?
And there is the whole no-fly list. A list of names of people who are too dangerous to board an airplane (despite the fact they would have to go through security theatre anyway), yet aren't dangerous to arrest and detain. A strange concept if you ask me.
How, specifically, did this deny you a civil liberty?
Why should my ability to protest be restricted because of my opinion?
Have you, personally, been denied the right to a fair and speedy trial?
No. But there are those that have.
Has this happened to you?
How would I know if I was the victim of an illegal wiretapping program that answers to no one?
You mean the one that hasn't happened yet?
It's been signed, it's the law. Just hasn't been rolled out yet.
Bush caused a hurricane?
No, but a lot of the blame for what happened (and didn't/couldn't happen) is due to his administration.
If you can stand listening through to the finish, somewhere near the end they talk about selling this upgrade with new systems, and how every system purchaser will want one, like "do you want fries with that?" So this was obviously targeted at sales reps the dealer channel. I used to work in computer sales right about the time of this video, and we always received tons of stupid sales promo videos like this.
The thing that still confuses about that part of the video me is what good would an upgrade version do for people buying a new system? I'm not sure what they were getting at with the whole bundling thing myself, unless they were basically telling people to pirate it or something (I'm pretty sure back then the upgrade version worked on the honor system).
It's not unheard of. One of the more well known examples is the Apple iBook (atleast some of them), which are known for cooking themselves to death if you let them run with the lid closed. I would agree that such a laptop is poorly designed though.
I think Apple visualises Minis, BMWs, Jaguars, Mercedes, etc. parked in front of their stylish new foothold.
If Apple is willing to spend some money, why don't they buy a Mini, a BMW, and a Jaguar and park them permanently in front of the store? They could have an employee run out there and feed the meter every couple of hours. Perhaps every couple of days they could switch them around to keep it interesting.
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Pretty much anyone who's really into retro on the PC has atleast 1 older PC around, usually a P2 or early P3 running Windows 98 and possibly dual booting to some version of DOS. Some have older machines too, depending on what they are trying to play.
That's the wrong way to do. Go find a PC like you want, and then price out the Mac. If Apple released a headless iMac, it would help, but right now the Mini is not powerful enough, the iMac is an all-in-one, and the Mac Pro just costs too much.
Most Mac users seem to have dumped that old PPC "junk" for Intel Macs. It's the PC I know users who are running 3-6 year old hardware nowadays (not with Vista).
Besides, you can run Vista on a computer from 2001. It won't run it very well, but I doubt that a G4 Quicksilver is going to run 10.5 that well either.
To fix this misrepresenatation of Mac market share, why don't these consulting firms just look at a category called "personal computing" or "home computing". I'm sure Apple would be closer to the 20% range in the States, and closer to 50% in metropolitan areas.
Are you kidding? The numbers that put Mac's at about 3-5% of the market seem pretty close to what I have observed. I know more people running Windows 98 than I know running any kind of Mac.
Correction, you can install Windows XP as long as Microsoft's WGA server is around.
Corporations with their VLK that doesn't require activation don't have to worry about this.
I'd like to see a Windows or Linux-powered laptop go into and wake from standby in 2 seconds flat.
I'd like to see a Mac do that. You can't even spin the harddrive up that quickly.
A lot of kids' shows are worse, once you realize that the entire show itself is a giant ad to sell toys.
What kind of a computer do you work on?
Obviously something that dates back from the DOS days.
The only way I see it working is you waste the pirates' bandwidth, as they need to then redownload that chunk of data, meaning they won't get the file as fast. If you could get enough of peer that you control on the swarming spewing out bad data, I could see it getting annoying as you might need to download 300MB for a 100MB file or something like that. Though I know Azureus has a feature that'll automatically block peers that send enough bad packets, so it looks like people have already thought of this. I would guess that swarming is pretty much ineffective.
At least for schools, I haven't heard about any city-wide gum bans.
Chewing gum is banned in Singapore. I wonder if they would allow this new, non-sticky gum?
Granted, most of my Mac experience back in the 1990's was with the various Performa lines, but my impression of those machines is that Apple just took whatever extra extra parts they had laying around at the time from the PowerMac line, threw it in a case, got it to power up, then slapped a price tag on it. Pretty much the Packard Bell of the Mac world, but atleast with Packard Bell you were getting what you paid for.
Also, the PowerPC line had its hiccups. I remember the launch of the G4 PowerMac and how Apple couldn't get their 500Mhz chips working right, meanwhile the PIII/Athlon was racing to 1Ghz. And how Apple pretty much had to make all of their PowerMacs dual CPU for a while or else get stomped by single CPU x86 machines.
That's basically what all the fanboys say when they argue that companies should start buying Macs for their workstations (replace "Watch an NBC TV show" with something appropiate).
I would add that doctors understand the placebo effect, and realize if people honest believe in the quackery, it will help those people even if the quackery itself is totally bogus. As such, the doctors leave it alone so long as the homeopathic remedies themselves remain harmless.
Over a period of years, people aren't going to mid. But do you really think that people aren't going to complain about a 33% price drop a mere 6 weeks after the initial product launch?
Also in 2007, you can even find 1400x1050 even in some 12" displays (such as on my Thinkpad x60). 145.8 pixels per linear inch! Wheeeee! : )
Where did you get that? I got 1400x1050 in my 14" R-series, but as far as I can find the X-series with the 12" screens maxes out at 1024x768.
Funny, but when I think back to the pre-OSX Macs back in the 1990's, I remember unstable, propriety, and incredibly overpriced hardware. The PowerPC processor was nice (though speed-wise it pretty much always lagged behind x86), but the rest of the computer was garbage.
I didn't know that a device's inability to have Linux easily installed on it made it "defective by design"? Wow... I better get rid of my washer, dryer, toaster, oven, microwave, plasma TV set, and a whole slew of other electronic devices in my home then! Who knew!?
No, the issue is that the iPod is now defective by design, as Apple has now DRM'd the database the iPod uses to know what songs it has on it. Only iTunes knows how to properly create this database, so Linux users are now locked out as they can't run iTunes. Furthermore, Windows and Mac users are now forced to use iTunes to sync their iPods, which is probably Apple's motivation for this move (locking out Linux entirely is just a side effect).
I wouldn't count on it. I'm actually suprised that Apple hasn't made a move to cut off non-official firmwares like Rockbox for the iPod yet.
A self-portrait, unless the photo clearly shows you taking the picture of yourself, is not obviously yours.
A self-portrait, by definition, is yours. If the picture was taken by someone else, it would just be a portrait. Of course, depending on how it was captured, I could see it hard to prove it's the former and not the latter.
While the iPods are still out in the dark, Macs can now run Windows.
This comitment to analog technology is just as much a problem for cell phones as for TV. This desire to keep the old stuff going is what keeps USA in the cellphone middle ages.
The only way to really get up to date is to have the balls to dump the past.
It's not a matter of the technology not being available like cell phones. The problem is that for many people, the old stuff (analog TV) is good enough so they don't see any reason to move to digital TV.
Yes, I have. It's inconvenient and retarded (we should be spying on mosques, not hassling travelers), but my freedom of travel is not restricted.
Have you ever been denied entry onto a plane?
I suppose you could still travel back in the "Papers please?" Soviet Russia. Is that really free?
And there is the whole no-fly list. A list of names of people who are too dangerous to board an airplane (despite the fact they would have to go through security theatre anyway), yet aren't dangerous to arrest and detain. A strange concept if you ask me.
How, specifically, did this deny you a civil liberty?
Why should my ability to protest be restricted because of my opinion?
Have you, personally, been denied the right to a fair and speedy trial?
No. But there are those that have.
Has this happened to you?
How would I know if I was the victim of an illegal wiretapping program that answers to no one?
You mean the one that hasn't happened yet?
It's been signed, it's the law. Just hasn't been rolled out yet.
Bush caused a hurricane?
No, but a lot of the blame for what happened (and didn't/couldn't happen) is due to his administration.
Is apathy really all that your side has left?
If you can stand listening through to the finish, somewhere near the end they talk about selling this upgrade with new systems, and how every system purchaser will want one, like "do you want fries with that?" So this was obviously targeted at sales reps the dealer channel. I used to work in computer sales right about the time of this video, and we always received tons of stupid sales promo videos like this.
The thing that still confuses about that part of the video me is what good would an upgrade version do for people buying a new system? I'm not sure what they were getting at with the whole bundling thing myself, unless they were basically telling people to pirate it or something (I'm pretty sure back then the upgrade version worked on the honor system).
It's not unheard of. One of the more well known examples is the Apple iBook (atleast some of them), which are known for cooking themselves to death if you let them run with the lid closed. I would agree that such a laptop is poorly designed though.
I think Apple visualises Minis, BMWs, Jaguars, Mercedes, etc. parked in front of their stylish new foothold.
If Apple is willing to spend some money, why don't they buy a Mini, a BMW, and a Jaguar and park them permanently in front of the store? They could have an employee run out there and feed the meter every couple of hours. Perhaps every couple of days they could switch them around to keep it interesting.