Who cares if it is not 64 bit. So it can't address as much memory...so what. If you want 64 bit, buy an AMD chip which costs less than the G5 and performs better.
THe tech jobs made a ripple effect through the entire economy...more people had money, so more people spent money. This created jobs elsewhere.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency was created by President Dwight Eisenhower after the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in October, 1957. This was the agency responsible for advanced research into computer systems for the military. Without this, there would be no internet as Licklider would have not been an employee.
no kidding, he was president when the Internet took off, which incidently, was created from research funded by a Republican President, not that robot Al Gore.
By the time Clinton left office, the dot com bubble had popped and jobs where being lost everywhere. What did Clinton do to keep things going? NOTHING!
Take a look at Pricewatch.com. You could save several hundred off that price, or use the difference to get even more powerful parts. Plus, why spend $200 on a case? You can get great looking cases for $100!
If Apple really wants to sell these things, they should lower the prices by about $500 per machine.
It's your money...spend it at as you see fit.
Personally, I would take a new Kawasaki ZX-10 for a tiny fraction of the cost of a z4, totally smoke the Camaro in a straight-away, and pass the z4 like it is standing still in the twisties.
Who cares? these are more way overpriced machines from Apple. Build yourself a dual Athlon 64 box with more RAM, more Hard Drive space, better video, better sound, and GNU/Linux for much cheaper and get equal if not better performance. Heck, you can even skin it to look just like OSX too.
The analogies to manufacturing leaving America are for the most part just plain wrong. The reason I drive a Honda is because there is no American made car at any price which can come close to its quality, refinement, and engineering.
While American manufacturers were 'diversifiying' their businesses by buying totally unrelated enterprises, the Japanese were investing heavily in modernizing their plants and improving their processes. This is called good management. It has nothing to do with the cost of labor. American companies in the Steel, Consumer Electronics, Auto, Machinery, etc... at that time were simply run by complete idiots that knew nothing about running a company.
Only in recent years, has the real push to outsource from American manufacturers been due to the costs of labor alone. This is the issue.
Yeah, and the rest of the world supports the killing of Jews you ignorant dumbass. So what you are saying is the USA should sit idly by while the Arabs eradicate the Jews?
Perhaps you should check your history books as to who set up the state of Israel...it was NOT the USA.
I love these ultra liberal socialist idiots who talk as if they know something, yet clearly do not understand reality.
If the USA turned the Jews loose, I hate to tell you, the Jews would crush the Arabs in a matter of weeks. SO i think they CAN win. Why does the world turn a blind eye to Palestinian suicide bombers yet when Israel defends itself people belly ache?
Why in the world would I want to visit some ultra liberal socialist country like France or Belgium? I think the US Air Force should just fly a F-15 over Paris and end this non-sense. Shit, the French would surrender immediately.
I am American. I am superior. Forget it Europe. Your are #3 no matter what you do.
This is some of the most laughable dribble I have ever read. No wonder the world is so f'd up. I was not even going to respond to your warped reality, but it is quite humourous reading your twisted reality.
So what if some bad people went to the School of Americas. Should we close every Univeristy that has a graduate that broke the law? Your ultra liberal mind is a little imaginative in concluding we have trained "every South American terrorist ever." Where so you come up with this nonsense? The USA has military exchanges with China. What is your point? That massacre you point to was actually reported by an US Army Major. But we are so bad, right?
The US being primary funding of Northern Ireland terrorism Huh!?!?!? I thought Britian was our ally? How does your fantasy have the USA funding the IRA? You do know what that stands for, right?
Please spare me your here-say "evidence" about drug trafficing etc... Again no facts other than some liberal bullshit stories to discredit Bush, because this is all it is about, right?
Any religion, provided it's Christianity
You clearly have no understanding of America. The majority of Americans are white Christians. Tell me from your in depth understanding of American politics how many female, non-caucasions there are in elected government today? Again, you are living in fantasy land. In America we have a thing called checks and balances; the President is not a Dictator.
Sure, but the same can be said for any superpower. Chaos theory means we'll never know At least you admit your point made no sense.
Wow, i never knew all that food and economic assistance we give are loans. Why do they count against our national debt then? You have no idea about what you speak. Perhaps you are talking about Iraq? Yes, some, and I stress some, of the aid is loans, which will be paid back through oil sales.
Provided there is profit to be had, then yes. If there is no profit, you can remain oppressed, and the US will happilly sell your dictator weapons
I guess there is profit in Somolia? Yugoslavia? Lebannon? You bitch if we liberate oppressed people, and now you bitch when we do not. Which is it? What should we do?
Sure, the US is (admirally) built on imigration, but you have some of the strictest controls anywhere in the world now
Huh? Look at the Mexican border.
Jealousy is a dangerous thing. I see it has the best of you. This discussion is over.
In fact they don't even care about the majority of their own population
Huh? What ultra liberal book does this come from, Rogue States?
If fact your country was a big supporter of Saddam, until it was deemed he stepped out of line.
Yeah, until he invaded Kuwait. The USA reluctantly supports a lot of countries because we are not Imperialists. If we were Imperialists, as the rest of the world so unintelligently says, we would simply invade every country on the earth we did not like.
Even more ironic, the US, the richest country on the planet, has the highest child poverty rates of any other developed country. Where is your money going?
Foreign Aid!
I find this amusing, the US is the biggest supporter of dictators in the world. And have continued to undermine countries which had a chance of democracy.
Huh? Where and when has the USA undermined Democracy? Where do you people come up with this nonsense?!?!?!? Again, the USA reluctantly deals with these countrie as she does not invade every country it does not like.
You obviously have no idea how ironic this statement is coming in support of the US.
Huh???
They had plans for Afghanistan and Iraq long before 9-11 ever took place
Where does such nonsense come from? Is the latest Liberal story? I suppose the second Bush took office he said: "Let's attack Afghanistan!" Please.
Rogue States
I will not read something so full of such utter nonsense as Rogue States. Sure, now that Bush is president the USA is attacking everyone and does not care about any other country, and the world would be in total peace if Bush would dissolve the USA military and get rid of all our nukes. Yep, the world would be in total peace. Sure.
Why would you base your views off someone who is an admitted ultra liberal anymore than someone who is an ultra conservative?
I didn't really backup anything I said...
No kidding. I just do not get why people are so clueless as to how the world works and basic history. I suggest you start watching the news, read some history books, and get a clue.
Only when said government turns against you, do they suddenly become "the enemy".
If they are not your friend, what are they? You do not make any sense. How does the USA fund terrorism? I hear this all the time yet fail to see any evidence?
And how did the USA destroy the governments in the Middle East? What are you talking about?
Iraq never had terrorist links
The last time I checked there was a well known terrorist group in Northern Iraq that the USA uprooted. Ansar Al Islam, or some such nonsense.
Also, If memory serves me correctly, Saddam did send checks to suicide bombers families in Israel congratulating them. checks
Those aren't terrorist links!?!?!?!? LOL!!!!!
Well, Islam doesn't teach that
Huh? Perhaps you should try reading the Koran. Koran. And why are you dragging Christianity into this? The USA does not tell you what religion to follow; you are free to follow any religion you like, including no religion at all. It is your choice.
Was in planning before Sept I'm afraid.
Yeah, I would believe anything a Pakistani Diplomat says, especially since they are the ones who put the Taliban in power! Perhaps you should learn to not believe everything you read.
You need to wake up before people like Bush destroy everything that America is supposed to stand for. We admire that stance, we always have. But now, we are genuinely scared of you.
Well, the USA is scare of arrogant, spineless, spectators, who have a jealousy of America so embedded into their little minds they fail to grasp the realities of the large world. If there was no United States, the world would be a much worse place, care to argue that based on your in depth understanding of world history?
Is the USA perfect, no. But when you are the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, you have a responsibilty to make the world into a better place. No country gives more foreign aid than America. No country so readily commits the lives of their own Armed Forces to aid those oppressed peoples of the world. No country takes in as many immigrants as America does. Don't insult America by taking a moral high ground that you so clearly do not have.
Oh yeah...the big bad USA just wants the oil and does not care about the people...right? how many palaces did Saddam have? How many Ferrari's does the Saudi Royal Family have?
How is it our fault these countries leaders squander all the wealth they have? We need oil as does the rest of the world. If there was no oil there, we would have nothing to do with them, same with the rest of the world.
The USA tried after both WW1 and WW2 to help these people live in peace for once in their lifetime but the fanatical religious leaders chose not to live in peace and set about creating fundamentalist states there. They said and continue to say much the same things Hitler said to justify war. Hitler said the Jews are to blame for all the problems in the world, they say the Jews and America are. It is interesting how people the world over love to point fingers at everything besides themselves.
Perhaps rather than preaching a religion which demands death to the non-believers, they should take a more moderate tone and respect others beliefs? If 9-11 never happened, the USA would not be in Afganistan. If Iraq had not invaded Kuwait, the USA would not be in Iraq today.
So what is your point?
Slashdot Mirror
It does not have this problem, now does it?
LOL. Yet another reason to not use IE!
Sure, as long as it is not in my backyard.
Who cares if it is not 64 bit. So it can't address as much memory...so what. If you want 64 bit, buy an AMD chip which costs less than the G5 and performs better.
THe tech jobs made a ripple effect through the entire economy...more people had money, so more people spent money. This created jobs elsewhere. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was created by President Dwight Eisenhower after the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite in October, 1957. This was the agency responsible for advanced research into computer systems for the military. Without this, there would be no internet as Licklider would have not been an employee.
yeah, Jimmy Carter sure created a lot of jobs.
no kidding, he was president when the Internet took off, which incidently, was created from research funded by a Republican President, not that robot Al Gore. By the time Clinton left office, the dot com bubble had popped and jobs where being lost everywhere. What did Clinton do to keep things going? NOTHING!
as long as you inhale ;)
Huh!?!? You can't decode Direct TV with it!!!!
who says outsourcing manufacturing is okay? I seem to remember people bitching about that back starting in the 80's?
I recall Ross Perot saying something about a "Great Sucking Sound"
yeah, that is probably why Apple can no longer run its ads in UK.
a d_slapped/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/09/apple_uk_
Like I said before, if you want to blow a ton of money on an Apple, do it...i will gladly spend less and get more with an AMD box.
Take a look at Pricewatch.com. You could save several hundred off that price, or use the difference to get even more powerful parts. Plus, why spend $200 on a case? You can get great looking cases for $100!
If Apple really wants to sell these things, they should lower the prices by about $500 per machine.
It's your money...spend it at as you see fit. Personally, I would take a new Kawasaki ZX-10 for a tiny fraction of the cost of a z4, totally smoke the Camaro in a straight-away, and pass the z4 like it is standing still in the twisties.
Who cares? these are more way overpriced machines from Apple. Build yourself a dual Athlon 64 box with more RAM, more Hard Drive space, better video, better sound, and GNU/Linux for much cheaper and get equal if not better performance. Heck, you can even skin it to look just like OSX too.
F Ohio State, he should be at Michigan!!!
The analogies to manufacturing leaving America are for the most part just plain wrong. The reason I drive a Honda is because there is no American made car at any price which can come close to its quality, refinement, and engineering. While American manufacturers were 'diversifiying' their businesses by buying totally unrelated enterprises, the Japanese were investing heavily in modernizing their plants and improving their processes. This is called good management. It has nothing to do with the cost of labor. American companies in the Steel, Consumer Electronics, Auto, Machinery, etc... at that time were simply run by complete idiots that knew nothing about running a company. Only in recent years, has the real push to outsource from American manufacturers been due to the costs of labor alone. This is the issue.
Yeah, and the rest of the world supports the killing of Jews you ignorant dumbass. So what you are saying is the USA should sit idly by while the Arabs eradicate the Jews?
Perhaps you should check your history books as to who set up the state of Israel...it was NOT the USA.
I love these ultra liberal socialist idiots who talk as if they know something, yet clearly do not understand reality.
If the USA turned the Jews loose, I hate to tell you, the Jews would crush the Arabs in a matter of weeks. SO i think they CAN win. Why does the world turn a blind eye to Palestinian suicide bombers yet when Israel defends itself people belly ache?
Better take that back or the Republican Religious Police at the FCC will come and get you like they are doing to Howard Stern.
Why in the world would I want to visit some ultra liberal socialist country like France or Belgium? I think the US Air Force should just fly a F-15 over Paris and end this non-sense. Shit, the French would surrender immediately.
I am American. I am superior. Forget it Europe. Your are #3 no matter what you do.
GO BLUE!!! Big Ten Champions!!!!!!!!!
better dust off the old Captain Crunch decoder ring...
This is some of the most laughable dribble I have ever read. No wonder the world is so f'd up. I was not even going to respond to your warped reality, but it is quite humourous reading your twisted reality. So what if some bad people went to the School of Americas. Should we close every Univeristy that has a graduate that broke the law? Your ultra liberal mind is a little imaginative in concluding we have trained "every South American terrorist ever." Where so you come up with this nonsense? The USA has military exchanges with China. What is your point? That massacre you point to was actually reported by an US Army Major. But we are so bad, right?
The US being primary funding of Northern Ireland terrorism Huh!?!?!? I thought Britian was our ally? How does your fantasy have the USA funding the IRA? You do know what that stands for, right?
Please spare me your here-say "evidence" about drug trafficing etc... Again no facts other than some liberal bullshit stories to discredit Bush, because this is all it is about, right?
Any religion, provided it's Christianity You clearly have no understanding of America. The majority of Americans are white Christians. Tell me from your in depth understanding of American politics how many female, non-caucasions there are in elected government today? Again, you are living in fantasy land. In America we have a thing called checks and balances; the President is not a Dictator.
Sure, but the same can be said for any superpower. Chaos theory means we'll never know At least you admit your point made no sense.
Wow, i never knew all that food and economic assistance we give are loans. Why do they count against our national debt then? You have no idea about what you speak. Perhaps you are talking about Iraq? Yes, some, and I stress some, of the aid is loans, which will be paid back through oil sales.
Provided there is profit to be had, then yes. If there is no profit, you can remain oppressed, and the US will happilly sell your dictator weapons I guess there is profit in Somolia? Yugoslavia? Lebannon? You bitch if we liberate oppressed people, and now you bitch when we do not. Which is it? What should we do?
Sure, the US is (admirally) built on imigration, but you have some of the strictest controls anywhere in the world now Huh? Look at the Mexican border.
Jealousy is a dangerous thing. I see it has the best of you. This discussion is over.
Huh? What ultra liberal book does this come from, Rogue States?
If fact your country was a big supporter of Saddam, until it was deemed he stepped out of line.
Yeah, until he invaded Kuwait. The USA reluctantly supports a lot of countries because we are not Imperialists. If we were Imperialists, as the rest of the world so unintelligently says, we would simply invade every country on the earth we did not like.
Even more ironic, the US, the richest country on the planet, has the highest child poverty rates of any other developed country. Where is your money going?
Foreign Aid!
I find this amusing, the US is the biggest supporter of dictators in the world. And have continued to undermine countries which had a chance of democracy.
Huh? Where and when has the USA undermined Democracy? Where do you people come up with this nonsense?!?!?!? Again, the USA reluctantly deals with these countrie as she does not invade every country it does not like.
You obviously have no idea how ironic this statement is coming in support of the US.
Huh???
They had plans for Afghanistan and Iraq long before 9-11 ever took place
Where does such nonsense come from? Is the latest Liberal story? I suppose the second Bush took office he said: "Let's attack Afghanistan!" Please.
Rogue States
I will not read something so full of such utter nonsense as Rogue States. Sure, now that Bush is president the USA is attacking everyone and does not care about any other country, and the world would be in total peace if Bush would dissolve the USA military and get rid of all our nukes. Yep, the world would be in total peace. Sure.
Why would you base your views off someone who is an admitted ultra liberal anymore than someone who is an ultra conservative?
I didn't really backup anything I said...
No kidding. I just do not get why people are so clueless as to how the world works and basic history. I suggest you start watching the news, read some history books, and get a clue.
LOL! What? You must be a European!
Only when said government turns against you, do they suddenly become "the enemy".
If they are not your friend, what are they? You do not make any sense. How does the USA fund terrorism? I hear this all the time yet fail to see any evidence?
And how did the USA destroy the governments in the Middle East? What are you talking about?
Iraq never had terrorist links
The last time I checked there was a well known terrorist group in Northern Iraq that the USA uprooted. Ansar Al Islam, or some such nonsense.
Also, If memory serves me correctly, Saddam did send checks to suicide bombers families in Israel congratulating them. checks
Those aren't terrorist links!?!?!?!? LOL!!!!!Well, Islam doesn't teach that
Huh? Perhaps you should try reading the Koran. Koran. And why are you dragging Christianity into this? The USA does not tell you what religion to follow; you are free to follow any religion you like, including no religion at all. It is your choice.
Was in planning before Sept I'm afraid.
Yeah, I would believe anything a Pakistani Diplomat says, especially since they are the ones who put the Taliban in power! Perhaps you should learn to not believe everything you read.
You need to wake up before people like Bush destroy everything that America is supposed to stand for. We admire that stance, we always have. But now, we are genuinely scared of you.
Well, the USA is scare of arrogant, spineless, spectators, who have a jealousy of America so embedded into their little minds they fail to grasp the realities of the large world. If there was no United States, the world would be a much worse place, care to argue that based on your in depth understanding of world history?
Is the USA perfect, no. But when you are the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, you have a responsibilty to make the world into a better place. No country gives more foreign aid than America. No country so readily commits the lives of their own Armed Forces to aid those oppressed peoples of the world. No country takes in as many immigrants as America does. Don't insult America by taking a moral high ground that you so clearly do not have.
Oh yeah...the big bad USA just wants the oil and does not care about the people...right? how many palaces did Saddam have? How many Ferrari's does the Saudi Royal Family have? How is it our fault these countries leaders squander all the wealth they have? We need oil as does the rest of the world. If there was no oil there, we would have nothing to do with them, same with the rest of the world. The USA tried after both WW1 and WW2 to help these people live in peace for once in their lifetime but the fanatical religious leaders chose not to live in peace and set about creating fundamentalist states there. They said and continue to say much the same things Hitler said to justify war. Hitler said the Jews are to blame for all the problems in the world, they say the Jews and America are. It is interesting how people the world over love to point fingers at everything besides themselves. Perhaps rather than preaching a religion which demands death to the non-believers, they should take a more moderate tone and respect others beliefs? If 9-11 never happened, the USA would not be in Afganistan. If Iraq had not invaded Kuwait, the USA would not be in Iraq today. So what is your point?