I stopped reading at this line, it costs $35 in my state to form an L.L.C. Do you know what your talking about or was this something you read somewhere?
If you don't have any money, what exactly are you going to do with a LLC? (Yeah, I know, investors. But if you don't have any of your own money to be able to show something, you're going to have a real hard time getting investors to part with theirs)
1) banning smoking in bars isn't about your stupid right to have a cigarette with a beer. We've decided as a society (for right or wrong) that people have a right to work in smoke free environments. Our countries office workers, factory workers, bus drivers, etc. are sure that they won't have to spend day after day inhaling cigarette smoke unless they inflict it on them selves. Are our bartenders and waitresses such second class citizens that they should be denied the same right given to others? I'm not saying a smoke free work place should be a legal institution, but if we're going to have it, shouldn't it given to everybody? argue about the right issue.
Libertarianism has an answer for this too. If people believe that a bartender and waitresses are a more dangerous job, they should demand extra compensation because of it. If they don't get it, they should find another employer. Why should it be any different from other more dangerous jobs, like miners or construction workers, or roofers, or whatever?
It's interesting that the free market can't solve the smoke-free bars problem. In areas without a ban, owners of establishments can still choose to go smoke-free if they want. You would think if there is a big demand for smoke-free bars, some of them would go smoke-free on their own to attract the business of people who don't like smokey bars, and given time there would be a mix of both smoking bars and non-smoking bars around to patronize (and work at). However, this doesn't seem to happen, as the people who want smoking bans seem unwilling to vote with their dollars, and instead try to get their way by making even more laws.
The application menu stuck at the top of the primary display is hardly ideal, and can get downright annoying depending on how much you need to access the menus while using an application on the second screen. Otherwise, it seems to work reasonably enough.
Then you're the exception. The iBook line was plagued with problems the entire time Apple made them, and while they generally got better it seemed like Apple never quite got them right.
On the other hand, your experience with HP doesn't sound unusual at all.
What company do you work for? Most of the ones I have seen are buying basic machines for the office drones, with a lower end processor (many just starting to move away from the P4), integrated video, 40-80GB drive, CD (maybe DVD) drive, 512MB of ram. Most of these computers do little more than run Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and sometimes some internal VB app or some kind of terminal program. If anything, these machines are more like a base model Mac Mini, but at a lower cost. If Apple really wants to compete in the corporate world, what they really need to build is a no-frills, headless, easy to work on, basic workstation.
Things like a built-in webcam and wireless networking can be a liability in many workplaces, adding negative value to the machine because someone now has spend time doing whatever so people can't use them. Granted, if someone wants to steal some data bad enough, they'll probably be able to do it, but there is no point in making it any easier than nessecary.
However, criticising Apple on ram is silly. For what you pay for one, the typical Mac is usually underspeced on ram compared to PCs in the same price range.
I really can't stand when people ignore the facts and make statements like, "Apple Loves DRM". There maybe individuals at Apple who like it (though I doubt that many), but history proves that Steve Jobs and Apple were against DRM long before they were required to introduce FairPlay.
Indie labels and pleading with Apple to be able to sell music and being denied by Apple is a fact. Sure, it flies in the fact of what Steve Jobs likes to say. You may like to pay attention to what he says, but others pay more attention to what he does. "Apple Loves DRM" may be a bit of a stretch, but in my mind it isn't a big one.
"In the event that a customers entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception."
So it could very well happen, all it takes is two "failures".
Besides, this seems to be some kind of unofficial policy by Apple. They could stop doing this tomorrow and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Actually, it works well for most desktops too, for OEM ones made in the past few years. The only problematic machines I have had in terms of sleep/hibernate in past few years are PCs built from components. Just too many variables to deal with, especially once you start cramming it full of expansion cards (though some do work with no problems).
Well, a couple of flaws that I see would be that the hijackers could have gas masks or their own air supply. Then you would have a situation where the entire plane is out except for the bad guys. You'd better hope that the controls lock-out is really good, because they will have several minutes to hack at it with no one to stop them.
The other problem is that it would do nothing about a bomb either.
Well, they could just phasing it in with the new planes they buy. In about 30 years or so, they would almost all feature the new design.
I don't see it happening though, as they would take more criticism by acknowledging the problem and solution, but taking so long to change things over, as opposed to simply ignoring it all together.
What if the GPS is jammed too? (not all that hard either) I suppose if the gyros were really good, the plane could still navigate given the last known position from the GPS system, and the information it has onboard. But to be a few feet off would be disaster.
Actually, they were first, and defined 1 kilobyte to be 1024 bytes, 1 megabyte to be 1024 kilobytes, etc. The people who redefined the terms were the harddrive manufacturers, in order to make their drives appear larger than they really were.
Mac mini has a 2.5" hard drive as well as the notebooks of course. AppleTV has a 1.8" hard drive, same as iPod video. Of course nanos and shuffles and iPhones have flash.
Otherwise you have 3.5" SATA drives in iMac and Mac Pro and in XServe they are either SATA or serial-attached SCSI.
Same storage as in PC's.
It would be nice to have a 3.5" harddrive in a basic Mac. They are cheaper, and they hold more stuff, they are faster. On a semi-related tangent, it would also be nice be able to add more than one harddrive in anything other than the Mac Pro.
What the hell are you guys plugging onto PCI in 2007?
It makes the system more future proof. I've put a lot of $20 USB2 cards/Firewire cards in older systems to get more life out of them. I bet a lot of iMac users wish they could do that since Apple dropped Firewire support on the iPod. Also a few SATA cards. I've also put in extra Nics, upgraded sound card, 2nd video card (for more monitors), though granted this out of "normal user" territory. Don't forget extra memory slots are nice too. For the Mac Mini, maybe I could consider it a "throw-away" system, but if I'm going to spend over $1000 on an iMac, I want to get more use out of it.
Also, no expansion slots on the MacBook? C'mon Apple....
That is a low-blow only Mac mini and MacBook has integrated graphics and that is the same as PC systems in their price range.
Cheapest Mac notebook without integrated graphics (and a decent resolution screen for that matter): $2000. Cheapest Mac desktop without integrated graphics: $1200.
Who says it has to be better, or even as good? Some people may be willing to get a lower quality service for a cheaper price, especially if the Wifi phone is a lot cheaper than the cell phone. There is also the possibility of a hybrid phone that uses Wifi when available, and falls back to cellular otherwise. This could allow the user to have a cheaper cellular plan as they wouldn't need the cellular network as much.
Instead taking an Apple computer, and then trying to configure a PC to be similar, turn it the other way. Take a bunch of random PC's, and try to get an Apple computer with the same features. Due to Apple's limited selection of hardware, almost always, the Apple computer is going to be more expensive (though you will end up with features the PC doesn't have, that doesn't mean I want to pay for them). This is especially due to the fact that you have to move up pretty far into Apple's line up to get features found on basic and mid-range PCs, like a 3.5" harddrives, expansion slots, and non-integrated graphics.
That's because water vapor is a lot more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2. When the planet starts warming up, you get more humid air, hence the planet warms more. I would guess that the CO2 is more an indicator of what the life on the planet was doing as the ice age ended, rather than the cause of the warming.
To be fair, in Windows XP (and possibly earlier versions of Windows) the drives have their label first, then the drive letter second. For example, if the C:\ drive was labeled "Harddrive", in Windows Explorer you see "Harddrive (C:)". The CD-RW drive is labeled CD-RW (D:), and the floppy is "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)". Seems like a reasonably compromise that the old school DOS users haven't complained much about, but less confusing for newer users.
Now the start menu is just a mess, mainly because installers can create entries named whatever they want, and stick things whereever they like. Linux Distros, since they control the repositories and hence the software users can install (unless the said user is particularly savvy and needs stuff that isn't in the repository), seem to have the best solution, where things are grouped by what they do (Networking, Office, Utilities), though there is still a big problem with programs having wierd, non-descriptive names. (What does Kate do? The Gimp?)
Also, the reason why people scatter stuff all over Window's file system is likely due to the fact that they can write anywhere. With other OSes, you generally don't run as the Administrator/root, and hence you can only write to your home directory, so that's where people stick stuff. Windows has a home directory with subdirectories like My Music, My Photos, etc. but people just don't use them. Another big problem with Windows is the idea that extra harddrives get different drive letters. Once you run out of space on your system drive, you end up being forced to dump stuff in D:\stuffs or similar.
Suddenly, Apple charging a few bucks for 802.11n doesn't seem so bad. But I've got a bunch of DST updates sitting in my System Update. For free. Are they charging commercial clients?
I take it you're running 10.3 or later on that Apple system, as Apple isn't patching anything earlier. Meanwhile Microsoft is patching XP for free (a good 2 years older than 10.3), and is offering to support even older OSes for a (admittedly outragous) fee. Apple is actually a lot quicker than Microsoft when it comes to killing support for legacy OSes.
In all seriousness, it seems that Apple is only patching 10.3 and later. Those running 10.2 and earlier are SOL. Windows 2000 is a few years older than 10.2.
That's the way its done. It's a holdover from the old DOS days, back then DOS computers generally weren't networked, and thus setting them to local time made sense.
Wouldn't it depend on how many keys in the keyspace that Microsoft considers valid? It's not like there is only one working key. There is going to be lots of them, given how many computers will likely be running Vista in the next few years. Atleast several hundred million, I would figure, probably more. And all that you have to do is find one of them.
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I stopped reading at this line, it costs $35 in my state to form an L.L.C. Do you know what your talking about or was this something you read somewhere?
If you don't have any money, what exactly are you going to do with a LLC? (Yeah, I know, investors. But if you don't have any of your own money to be able to show something, you're going to have a real hard time getting investors to part with theirs)
1) banning smoking in bars isn't about your stupid right to have a cigarette with a beer. We've decided as a society (for right or wrong) that people have a right to work in smoke free environments. Our countries office workers, factory workers, bus drivers, etc. are sure that they won't have to spend day after day inhaling cigarette smoke unless they inflict it on them selves. Are our bartenders and waitresses such second class citizens that they should be denied the same right given to others? I'm not saying a smoke free work place should be a legal institution, but if we're going to have it, shouldn't it given to everybody? argue about the right issue.
Libertarianism has an answer for this too. If people believe that a bartender and waitresses are a more dangerous job, they should demand extra compensation because of it. If they don't get it, they should find another employer. Why should it be any different from other more dangerous jobs, like miners or construction workers, or roofers, or whatever?
It's interesting that the free market can't solve the smoke-free bars problem. In areas without a ban, owners of establishments can still choose to go smoke-free if they want. You would think if there is a big demand for smoke-free bars, some of them would go smoke-free on their own to attract the business of people who don't like smokey bars, and given time there would be a mix of both smoking bars and non-smoking bars around to patronize (and work at). However, this doesn't seem to happen, as the people who want smoking bans seem unwilling to vote with their dollars, and instead try to get their way by making even more laws.
The application menu stuck at the top of the primary display is hardly ideal, and can get downright annoying depending on how much you need to access the menus while using an application on the second screen. Otherwise, it seems to work reasonably enough.
Then you're the exception. The iBook line was plagued with problems the entire time Apple made them, and while they generally got better it seemed like Apple never quite got them right.
On the other hand, your experience with HP doesn't sound unusual at all.
What company do you work for? Most of the ones I have seen are buying basic machines for the office drones, with a lower end processor (many just starting to move away from the P4), integrated video, 40-80GB drive, CD (maybe DVD) drive, 512MB of ram. Most of these computers do little more than run Office, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and sometimes some internal VB app or some kind of terminal program. If anything, these machines are more like a base model Mac Mini, but at a lower cost. If Apple really wants to compete in the corporate world, what they really need to build is a no-frills, headless, easy to work on, basic workstation.
Apple is a premium brand at premium prices, and yes that means they are expensive. Would you argue that a Mercedes is not an expensive car?
Things like a built-in webcam and wireless networking can be a liability in many workplaces, adding negative value to the machine because someone now has spend time doing whatever so people can't use them. Granted, if someone wants to steal some data bad enough, they'll probably be able to do it, but there is no point in making it any easier than nessecary.
However, criticising Apple on ram is silly. For what you pay for one, the typical Mac is usually underspeced on ram compared to PCs in the same price range.
I really can't stand when people ignore the facts and make statements like, "Apple Loves DRM". There maybe individuals at Apple who like it (though I doubt that many), but history proves that Steve Jobs and Apple were against DRM long before they were required to introduce FairPlay.
Indie labels and pleading with Apple to be able to sell music and being denied by Apple is a fact. Sure, it flies in the fact of what Steve Jobs likes to say. You may like to pay attention to what he says, but others pay more attention to what he does. "Apple Loves DRM" may be a bit of a stretch, but in my mind it isn't a big one.
"In the event that a customers entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception."
So it could very well happen, all it takes is two "failures".
Besides, this seems to be some kind of unofficial policy by Apple. They could stop doing this tomorrow and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Actually, it works well for most desktops too, for OEM ones made in the past few years. The only problematic machines I have had in terms of sleep/hibernate in past few years are PCs built from components. Just too many variables to deal with, especially once you start cramming it full of expansion cards (though some do work with no problems).
Well, a couple of flaws that I see would be that the hijackers could have gas masks or their own air supply. Then you would have a situation where the entire plane is out except for the bad guys. You'd better hope that the controls lock-out is really good, because they will have several minutes to hack at it with no one to stop them.
The other problem is that it would do nothing about a bomb either.
Well, they could just phasing it in with the new planes they buy. In about 30 years or so, they would almost all feature the new design.
I don't see it happening though, as they would take more criticism by acknowledging the problem and solution, but taking so long to change things over, as opposed to simply ignoring it all together.
Not all that hard to plan around.
What if the GPS is jammed too? (not all that hard either) I suppose if the gyros were really good, the plane could still navigate given the last known position from the GPS system, and the information it has onboard. But to be a few feet off would be disaster.
Actually, they were first, and defined 1 kilobyte to be 1024 bytes, 1 megabyte to be 1024 kilobytes, etc. The people who redefined the terms were the harddrive manufacturers, in order to make their drives appear larger than they really were.
Haven't tried to run Vista yet ... have you.
I would guess that most of them could also get by just fine on Windows 2000 too.
Mac mini has a 2.5" hard drive as well as the notebooks of course. AppleTV has a 1.8" hard drive, same as iPod video. Of course nanos and shuffles and iPhones have flash.
Otherwise you have 3.5" SATA drives in iMac and Mac Pro and in XServe they are either SATA or serial-attached SCSI.
Same storage as in PC's.
It would be nice to have a 3.5" harddrive in a basic Mac. They are cheaper, and they hold more stuff, they are faster. On a semi-related tangent, it would also be nice be able to add more than one harddrive in anything other than the Mac Pro.
What the hell are you guys plugging onto PCI in 2007?
It makes the system more future proof. I've put a lot of $20 USB2 cards/Firewire cards in older systems to get more life out of them. I bet a lot of iMac users wish they could do that since Apple dropped Firewire support on the iPod. Also a few SATA cards. I've also put in extra Nics, upgraded sound card, 2nd video card (for more monitors), though granted this out of "normal user" territory. Don't forget extra memory slots are nice too. For the Mac Mini, maybe I could consider it a "throw-away" system, but if I'm going to spend over $1000 on an iMac, I want to get more use out of it.
Also, no expansion slots on the MacBook? C'mon Apple....
That is a low-blow only Mac mini and MacBook has integrated graphics and that is the same as PC systems in their price range.
Cheapest Mac notebook without integrated graphics (and a decent resolution screen for that matter): $2000.
Cheapest Mac desktop without integrated graphics: $1200.
Plenty of choices in the PC world for less.
Who says it has to be better, or even as good? Some people may be willing to get a lower quality service for a cheaper price, especially if the Wifi phone is a lot cheaper than the cell phone. There is also the possibility of a hybrid phone that uses Wifi when available, and falls back to cellular otherwise. This could allow the user to have a cheaper cellular plan as they wouldn't need the cellular network as much.
MS has had only one OS release since XP, Apple has had many revisions.
at $129 a pop. Guess you have to keep giving Apple money if you want to stay patched up.
You also forgot Windows 2003.
Instead taking an Apple computer, and then trying to configure a PC to be similar, turn it the other way. Take a bunch of random PC's, and try to get an Apple computer with the same features. Due to Apple's limited selection of hardware, almost always, the Apple computer is going to be more expensive (though you will end up with features the PC doesn't have, that doesn't mean I want to pay for them). This is especially due to the fact that you have to move up pretty far into Apple's line up to get features found on basic and mid-range PCs, like a 3.5" harddrives, expansion slots, and non-integrated graphics.
That's because water vapor is a lot more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2. When the planet starts warming up, you get more humid air, hence the planet warms more. I would guess that the CO2 is more an indicator of what the life on the planet was doing as the ice age ended, rather than the cause of the warming.
To be fair, in Windows XP (and possibly earlier versions of Windows) the drives have their label first, then the drive letter second. For example, if the C:\ drive was labeled "Harddrive", in Windows Explorer you see "Harddrive (C:)". The CD-RW drive is labeled CD-RW (D:), and the floppy is "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)". Seems like a reasonably compromise that the old school DOS users haven't complained much about, but less confusing for newer users.
Now the start menu is just a mess, mainly because installers can create entries named whatever they want, and stick things whereever they like. Linux Distros, since they control the repositories and hence the software users can install (unless the said user is particularly savvy and needs stuff that isn't in the repository), seem to have the best solution, where things are grouped by what they do (Networking, Office, Utilities), though there is still a big problem with programs having wierd, non-descriptive names. (What does Kate do? The Gimp?)
Also, the reason why people scatter stuff all over Window's file system is likely due to the fact that they can write anywhere. With other OSes, you generally don't run as the Administrator/root, and hence you can only write to your home directory, so that's where people stick stuff. Windows has a home directory with subdirectories like My Music, My Photos, etc. but people just don't use them. Another big problem with Windows is the idea that extra harddrives get different drive letters. Once you run out of space on your system drive, you end up being forced to dump stuff in D:\stuffs or similar.
Suddenly, Apple charging a few bucks for 802.11n doesn't seem so bad. But I've got a bunch of DST updates sitting in my System Update. For free. Are they charging commercial clients?
I take it you're running 10.3 or later on that Apple system, as Apple isn't patching anything earlier. Meanwhile Microsoft is patching XP for free (a good 2 years older than 10.3), and is offering to support even older OSes for a (admittedly outragous) fee. Apple is actually a lot quicker than Microsoft when it comes to killing support for legacy OSes.
In all seriousness, it seems that Apple is only patching 10.3 and later. Those running 10.2 and earlier are SOL. Windows 2000 is a few years older than 10.2.
That's the way its done. It's a holdover from the old DOS days, back then DOS computers generally weren't networked, and thus setting them to local time made sense.
Wouldn't it depend on how many keys in the keyspace that Microsoft considers valid? It's not like there is only one working key. There is going to be lots of them, given how many computers will likely be running Vista in the next few years. Atleast several hundred million, I would figure, probably more. And all that you have to do is find one of them.