So, in other words: because Apple didn't waste years with a dropped OS like Longhorn, and actually put out significant updates on a regular schedule....you're holding it against them.
The whole point of this test was to show how well Windows, SN, and Linux perform on similar hardware. Talking about old or cheap stuff is kind of...pointless.
Perhaps, but at least it's fair in the sense that some malevolent behaviors aren't unjustly punished while others are given short shrift.
Like say, torture and warrantless wiretapping? We have a real double standard when it comes to lawbreaking: shmoes get sent to a Federal Pound Me In the Ass Penitentiary while we "look forward, not backward" on the rich and powerful.
Most Apple users believe they are somehow better than everyone else
Question: do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
They are most certainly more expensive than they need to be
They are price competitive for equivalent hardware. They have a limited selection, but lack of product options doesn't mean their offerings are overpriced. If you want a $400 POS special, or a kitchen-sink desktop replacement, obviously Apple isn't for you.
and they offer NO damage protection warranty
The ones that rip consumers off you mean?
Their idea of business level service is getting to be first in line to have an average 3-day turn around. They simply don't offer things like "next-day on-site" service and no coverage at all for things like coffee spills and drops. That makes using one for anything mission critical a bit more risky than any other brand and they make no apologies for it.
Would you like some cheese with that whine? Again, if you must have coffee spill warranties and on-site service, then by all means go somewhere else - no skin of your nose or Apple's.
And you conveniently ignore the facts that Apple laptops have much higher resale values, and are high on customer satisfaction/reliability surveys.
Apple workstations are another matter. They are less of a risk of suffering accidental damage and are quite reliable. Unfortunately, generic parts don't go into them easily and different models don't share too many parts. And working on them is quite often painfully difficult for all but the most basic components.
On what planet? Open the case and you have easy access to the memory, hard drives and PCI slots.
Except we didn't have 6 billion people for the last 200,000 years. Finding new homes and new sources of water & food for dozens of megalopolis's is going to be a little harder than for small nomadic tribes.
Some would argue that people in general are jerks and will exploit an imbalance of power when it presents itself.
Except that American jingoism has done little to quell those jerks (Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe), yet has done much to prop them up (Noriega, Osama, Saddam).
Funny how Bush got a pass for 9/11, despite having been in office longer than Obama, and despite having point-blank warnings from the intelligence community.
Now Obama comes in, and it's his fault that everything hasn't been put back in order after the clusterfuck of the Bush years.
They just give Obama everything he asks for and he signs it.
Right, which is why we had a Public Option on health care in March. Not.
See, in 2000, under President Clinton, Federal Tax receipts were $2025.5 billion or 20% of the GDP. In 2008, under President Bush, they were $2524.3 billion, but only 17.7% of the GDP. See, when you cut taxes, the GDP (economy) grows, meaning you are taking a smaller percentage of a larger pie, meaning more $$$ for the government.
Bullshit conservative sophistry. Tax receipts go up in the face of tax cuts because the population keeps growing.
That's after you spent 12 years containing our former puppet and his army after the invasion of another country, enforcing dozens of United Nations resolutions that we'd previously blocked.
....except for all the European countries (like Norway) with lower population densities (less than half that of the U.S.) AND far lower pollution levels, making your talking point crap.
Because there's no "-1, Raving Dumbass" mod. We don't have health insurance coverage in the U.S. - only the illusion of coverage: high co-pays, pre-existing conditions, benefit caps....
This coming from the guy who whined about evul librul censorship when a company takes down an Obama-Joker image. Never mind that Obama's ok with protesters showing up strapped to his town hall meetings, whereas you'd get arrested if you wore an anti-Bush t-shirt to a Bush rally.
When has a couple of degrees C rise in global temperature ever wiped out a very large number of humans?
When, during those previous increases in temperature, did we have 6 billion people on the planet? Who has an easier time moving and finding food in the DC to NY corridor - 50,000 tribes people or 50,000,000 suburbanites? What are their respective food and water demands?
For the United States only, and the rest of your "list" is similar sophistry. As is usually the case, take the opposite of the wingnut viewpoint and you have reality.
A few cups of table salt will kill you. Water, if consumed in high enough quantities, will kill you. So this idea that you can't overdose on something because it exists in nature is ignorant nonsense.
Everyone is bitching about the corporations because they are about money, well let me tell you what, the scientists are trying to keep their funding too.
A stupid conservative idea that has no basis in reality. I apologize for the redundancy of that statement.
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Except your point is moot, as Apple doesn't charge for point releases.
So, in other words: because Apple didn't waste years with a dropped OS like Longhorn, and actually put out significant updates on a regular schedule....you're holding it against them.
Got it.
Good thing EULA's are unenforceable notions of fancy, then. And I mean that in the legal sense, not in the you-can-get-away-with-it sense.
The whole point of this test was to show how well Windows, SN, and Linux perform on similar hardware. Talking about old or cheap stuff is kind of...pointless.
Perhaps, but at least it's fair in the sense that some malevolent behaviors aren't unjustly punished while others are given short shrift.
Like say, torture and warrantless wiretapping? We have a real double standard when it comes to lawbreaking: shmoes get sent to a Federal Pound Me In the Ass Penitentiary while we "look forward, not backward" on the rich and powerful.
At this point, your choices are to lie, or STFU.
Or: blow it out your ass, Roger. There's a reason why we have courts and not families meeting out penalties: one is justice, the other is revenge.
Taking it out though, that just screams anticompeditive.
No, as Palm themselves dropped support years ago, these cries scream unfounded BS.
other than to protect their de-facto monopoly in the portal MP3 players market.
What monopoly is that, exactly? What's to stop you from listening to the same music on similar sized devices for similar (or less) prices?
Popular != monopoly.
Nice list, but it's nicely irrelevant. None of those inventions - Unix, C, etc - were innovative for the customer.
Most Apple users believe they are somehow better than everyone else
Question: do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
They are most certainly more expensive than they need to be
They are price competitive for equivalent hardware. They have a limited selection, but lack of product options doesn't mean their offerings are overpriced. If you want a $400 POS special, or a kitchen-sink desktop replacement, obviously Apple isn't for you.
and they offer NO damage protection warranty
The ones that rip consumers off you mean?
Their idea of business level service is getting to be first in line to have an average 3-day turn around. They simply don't offer things like "next-day on-site" service and no coverage at all for things like coffee spills and drops. That makes using one for anything mission critical a bit more risky than any other brand and they make no apologies for it.
Would you like some cheese with that whine? Again, if you must have coffee spill warranties and on-site service, then by all means go somewhere else - no skin of your nose or Apple's.
And you conveniently ignore the facts that Apple laptops have much higher resale values, and are high on customer satisfaction/reliability surveys.
Apple workstations are another matter. They are less of a risk of suffering accidental damage and are quite reliable. Unfortunately, generic parts don't go into them easily and different models don't share too many parts. And working on them is quite often painfully difficult for all but the most basic components.
On what planet? Open the case and you have easy access to the memory, hard drives and PCI slots.
Then get one of the texting apps....Concern resolved.
Except we didn't have 6 billion people for the last 200,000 years. Finding new homes and new sources of water & food for dozens of megalopolis's is going to be a little harder than for small nomadic tribes.
I think the problem is that Real Climate is just as invested in global warming as Al Gore it.
Just like how the creationists whine that scientists are too "invested" in evolution. Yawn.
That's when I realized they were nothing more then lunatics pushing a point of view.
Do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
Some would argue that people in general are jerks and will exploit an imbalance of power when it presents itself.
Except that American jingoism has done little to quell those jerks (Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe), yet has done much to prop them up (Noriega, Osama, Saddam).
Funny how Bush got a pass for 9/11, despite having been in office longer than Obama, and despite having point-blank warnings from the intelligence community.
Now Obama comes in, and it's his fault that everything hasn't been put back in order after the clusterfuck of the Bush years.
Nice try.
Yes I am. Because it's Obama's budget.
Cleaning up Bush's mess.
They just give Obama everything he asks for and he signs it.
Right, which is why we had a Public Option on health care in March. Not.
See, in 2000, under President Clinton, Federal Tax receipts were $2025.5 billion or 20% of the GDP. In 2008, under President Bush, they were $2524.3 billion, but only 17.7% of the GDP. See, when you cut taxes, the GDP (economy) grows, meaning you are taking a smaller percentage of a larger pie, meaning more $$$ for the government.
Bullshit conservative sophistry. Tax receipts go up in the face of tax cuts because the population keeps growing.
That's after you spent 12 years containing our former puppet and his army after the invasion of another country, enforcing dozens of United Nations resolutions that we'd previously blocked.
Fixed that for you.
....except for all the European countries (like Norway) with lower population densities (less than half that of the U.S.) AND far lower pollution levels, making your talking point crap.
LOL! How is this flamebait?
Because there's no "-1, Raving Dumbass" mod. We don't have health insurance coverage in the U.S. - only the illusion of coverage: high co-pays, pre-existing conditions, benefit caps....
You lost all credibility when you said
This coming from the guy who whined about evul librul censorship when a company takes down an Obama-Joker image. Never mind that Obama's ok with protesters showing up strapped to his town hall meetings, whereas you'd get arrested if you wore an anti-Bush t-shirt to a Bush rally.
When has a couple of degrees C rise in global temperature ever wiped out a very large number of humans?
When, during those previous increases in temperature, did we have 6 billion people on the planet? Who has an easier time moving and finding food in the DC to NY corridor - 50,000 tribes people or 50,000,000 suburbanites? What are their respective food and water demands?
Any more brilliant questions?
Because it WAS a troll.
Hardly; it's not an ad hominem if the statement is true. The AC is, indeed, a raving fuckwit.
For the United States only, and the rest of your "list" is similar sophistry. As is usually the case, take the opposite of the wingnut viewpoint and you have reality.
A few cups of table salt will kill you. Water, if consumed in high enough quantities, will kill you. So this idea that you can't overdose on something because it exists in nature is ignorant nonsense.
A stupid conservative idea that has no basis in reality. I apologize for the redundancy of that statement.