Pretty much any machine can be a non-Windows machine. There's this really neat operating system out there called Linux. You can even build your own for less than half the price. And yes! You can play Unreal Tounament 2003 and run Open Office and all sorts of other goodies on them! Wow!
Like I said, you all have choices. And if CompUSA and Best Buy are the only places you get computers, I feel sorry for you. Best Buy sucks and CompUSA is for people who don't know any better. I wouldn't buy a Mac there even if it were an emergency! We seasoned Mac users buy our stuff from catalogs and web sites and Apple Stores.
Maybe. But I hear what you are saying. The main point is, I think we all want to see Apple do well. More importantly we all want to see the people who depend on Apple do well. That's what this message board is all about. Hopefully, there's somebody influential at Apple reading these posts:)
No, you are right: If you are a devloper, Apple decides to bundle an app, that provides nearly the same function as your app, with their OS. What can you do, port it to x86 and hope for the best? It is likely you won't be as well known in those circles. So, you have to make a name for yourself, again.
That's life. Again, Apple never forced me to be a developer of Apple software. That would be my choice, not Apple's. Making a name for yourself is a constant struggle. You gotta look out for number one. You can't expect charity all the time. So you move on, go back to school, and become a Linux developer, or a.net developer. That's just the way it goes.
If you want to nitpick about legal definitions, fine. If you wanna pull all sorts of articles off the Internet to prove your point, go ahead. Use your head and your common sense. If they were ruled by the government to be a monopoly, they would have been broken up like Ma Bell by now. Back in the early 80's there was no choice for local phone service. That was a monopoly for sure.
My point was M$ is not a monopoly because there are still viable (and better) choices out there. Anyone can use a Mac for their business. Anyone can use Linux from home. Relax. They will never force me to use their product. It sounds like they're not gonna force you either. And besides, for every company they go after for infringement, two more spring up in its place. Open Source scares the big M$, and it will take over.
I'm not confusing anything. People still have a choice, legally or definitively. That's it. I choose Mac. Let's be fair, just 'cause we don't like M$, and just 'cause they have the major share of the market, that's no reason to throw the word monopoly around. Besides, there's no way that M$ could be a monopoly now. They were accused by several states for anti-competitive practices. That in no way makes them a monopoly because there are still other choices. Again, as a designer, I choose Mac. I could use Windows if I wanted to, but I choose not to. IT pros may choose Windows, Linux, FreeBSD or Unix. A family or school may choose Windows or Mac, or whatever they want. If M$ actually forced the competition out of business (which they will never do as long as Linux gains popularity), then they would be a monopoly, legally and definitively. But they are not.
BTW, OJ didn't kill or murder anybody. He was found not guilty -- legally.
Absolutely not. Don't get me wrong, I don't like M$ much either, but they aren't forcing people to buy a Microsoft computer to run Windows. Also, you can take any x86 based computer, take Windows completely off it, and put Linux or BeOS on it. The choice is up to the consumer to choose what operating system they want to use. That's why the government's antitrust lawsuits never amounted to much: because we still have a choice (to buy a Mac, or run Linux, BeOS, or whatever).
From the article: Mr. Armes says Apple delivered new products to its own Apple stores as much as a month before they would ship any to him. "We didn't get as much product as the Apple stores, and we got it later than the Apple stores," Mr. Armes says.
I don't see anything unusual about this. Apple has very strict price controls on its products. The reason why it puts them in its Apple Stores first could be to get the product out there in the market in case other retailers balk at the high prices.
We can be sure that Macs will probably never be seen at places like Staples and Office Max because they would not be allowed to put the product on sale. This is why when we do see Macs at larger stores such as CompUSA and catalogs such as MacZone, there are always special offers of extra stuff like printers ans scanners and the like. That's the only way for an Apple retailer to compete with the Apple Store.
It's not Apple's fault. Steve Jobs didn't force "Mr. Elite" to become an Apple retailer in the first place. Every type of "dealership" has its caveats because it has to follow a certain set of rules governed by the manufacturer of the product it sells. I say: "buy one directly from Apple's website." I bought my 17-inch PowerBook there. I was fast, easy, and I got my extra RAM put in by an Apple technician! What more could you want?
You know what? I blew it. Virus is a fourth declension noun, not a first declension, as I stated earlier. The plural nominative is spelled the same as the singular. Sorry. It's been about 10 years since I took Latin.
For milks, there are many kinds: Homogenized, Vitamin D, Acidopholous, non-fat, etc. Most people would probably say, "The store has 4 kinds of milk." But if a computer is under attack by two separate viruses, the plural sounds usable (at least colloquially). "The Black Hats attacked the bank's mainframe with their viruses." Now if I can only figure out how to say mainframe in Latin, I'd be set.
On closer inspection, viri does mean "men" (first decl., plural nom.) but it is also the singular genitive (fourth decl.) of virus. Like many words in Latin, there are similar spellings of different words and their cases relying heavily on context to determine which is which. For example if I were to say viri viri that could mean "men of the virus," but viri virus could mean "men of the viruses". But, like I said, it's been a while, so I could be wrong.
Well, not in English, anyway. Perhaps the chap was trying out his Latin. The plural for virus, a first declension masculine noun, is viri, pronounced WEER-EE. The latin meaning is "a poisonous liquid, slime." A more obscure reference would be "venom." Perhaps that's what he means. Maybe the last time he downloaded something, his computer got covered in slime.
I'm still not downloading Opera anyway; Safari works very well.
Why yes. I ripped off Pablo Fransisco. I saw him at the Improv in Irvine, CA in December. He does the movie trailer voice really well. I was laughing so hard I had a whiskey sour shoot out my nose (yeah, it hurt a little). Sorry, I should have credited him. I highly recommend his CD "Knee to the Groin" though.
I'm surprised you caught that. Good work. But to keep the post on topic...MacHack is the key to helping others make the most out of the best OS and hardware on the planet! Macintosh rules! There.
Mindful of the inevitability of their own conference and the unstoppability of it all, the committee looked for a suitable symbol for things that keep moving no matter what. It turned out that the committee needed look no further than their own Mac screen. Apple's own "busy cursor" is the inspiration for this year's MacHack theme element, the SPoD or "Spinning Pizza of Death".
Like Steve Jobs himself...unstoppable! That kinda sounds like a movie trailer to me: "One man. One way. One...desire. In the Year of the Laptop, he runs a grossly underestimated computer company, and the competition wanted to snuff him out. But he had only one chance, and that was to fight back! Blessed with a weapon with supernatural powers: the Spinning Pizza of Death, he brings down hellfire on his enemies and throws the competition into his own house of pain. This summer, Steve Jobs is...Unstoppable."
Help Steve fight the good fight. Help him make his computers better. Go to MacHack!
Who made you hall monitor? Do you even know where you are? Okay, now I want you to go to every single person here and check to make sure their OS is properly and legally installed. K? Tell that to all the folks who mod their cases or put their mobos in an ammo box, or, in a case made of Lego bricks. You are not these people's parents and you are certainly not Steve Jobs (if you are, ditch the turtleneck, bro).
The iTunes Music Store has to be one of the coolest things Apple has done so far. It's things like this that constantly keep the Apple true believers asking; "What're they gonna think of next?" Yes, I bought a whole load of songs. Only thing is, they keep getting my e-mail address wrong. Somebody's getting my invoices, only I don't know who. Apple insists that they've got my correct address, but to no avail. Whatever, I'll just set up a new account.
But that's beside the point! iTunes rocks! I love it! Now if they would only add the Beastie Boys, I'd be set.
Steve jobs seems to be leveraging the HW/SW integration as a strength to make mac systems work as well as they do. I don't think he wants to give this up.
Exactly. In his keynote speech at Macworld in January, Jobs stated that he wants the Mac to be the digital hub of your home, business or school. He wants the Mac to be the best by having the hardware and software completely integrated. The iLife software package is proof of Apple's commitment to making Macs enjoyable and easy to use for everyone. The new release of iTunes Music Store only confirms Apple's commitment to both hardware and software. They are both close to Jobs' heart, and they should be close to the shareholders' hearts as well. To split the company up would negate all of those wishes.
To me, Apple stock is on sale. Sure it hasn't moved in a while, but if I buy a whole bunch, that in no way implies that I want them to split the company up, as the article suggests. I am merely waiting for the next big thing that's going to send the stock soaring. This happens with Apple every once in a while. Good things that happen with this company are always preceded by negativity.
O shoot, I didn't realize that. I took my Blooger page right out of my FTP server so I could edit the template and I could see all the tags. Is there something in the header that makes them invisible? Let me know, I'm genuinely interested.
By the way, I think Chris Columbus would've had a problem with your sig. The world's round, bro, unless there's something in the header...
Well, it's kinda like people who don't approve of certain things being on the radio or TV. You don't like Howard Stern? Well don't listen. You don't approve of pro wrestling? Don't watch. You don't like blogs? Don't read 'em. Jesus. When you do a Google search, and if you get to my page, just press that little back button or close the tab and you'll be good to go. No hard feelings?
Besides, like I said in my original ranting (which you obviously read), more and more businesses and government agencies are using blogs as an easy and fast way to get their info out there. I mean, you must be a hardcore coder, or something. Are blogs too plebian for you?
It's cool, man. I got no problem with you. Please don't beat me up. *whimper*
Yah okay, but what's a few minutes? I'm just saying that there are lots of blogs out there with relevant information. As I stated earlier, some businesses and government agencies' website are blogs. I think we'll be seeing more and more of that in the near future. O well. Guess I just gotta go with the flow.
Probably by the source code located in the HTML template. For example, Blogger's code has to include case sensitive tags like [Blogger][/Blogger] to format the web-based posting. I'm not sure how they would tell for other types like Blog*Spot or Moveable Type. I assume they have some sort of the same types of tags. Or maybe by noting server applets related to the HTML template.
O yeah, one more thing, Google bought Blogger, so that's another way they'll be able to tell.
Drat! Foiled again! Gone are the days when I could put devious meta tags in my blog template to make sure that I pop up on Google. I love it when people search for something only to find MY blog pop up. HA HA HA HA HA!
No really...You know, my blog doesn't really say anything either. I just want people to read my rantings. Is it really that much of waste of time to see my blog pop up? How long does it take to click on the search result only to find that it doesn't have what you want? Huh? Like about 30 seconds? Now I gotta get shoved into some obscure category search. Really now...what are you doing searching Google that's so important that you need to save a few seconds here and there?
The problem with Google's thinking is that weblogging is becoming more and more prevalent. It's so easy for a rookie office worker to earn some extra cabbage by telling his boss "hey, I can set us up a web site real easy." You watch: more and more web logs will be seen on the web standing in as business and government web sites. Are they to be shoved into a category search as well?
Look, someone had to pay for it in the first place...so stop whining. If they don't like it, they should choose a different profession. I PAID FOR IT, IT'S MINE!
Life isn't fair. You are going to die a sad and boring person. *sniff* You must be a musician. I hear McDonalds is hiring.
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Pretty much any machine can be a non-Windows machine. There's this really neat operating system out there called Linux. You can even build your own for less than half the price. And yes! You can play Unreal Tounament 2003 and run Open Office and all sorts of other goodies on them! Wow!
Like I said, you all have choices. And if CompUSA and Best Buy are the only places you get computers, I feel sorry for you. Best Buy sucks and CompUSA is for people who don't know any better. I wouldn't buy a Mac there even if it were an emergency! We seasoned Mac users buy our stuff from catalogs and web sites and Apple Stores.
CompUSA? Best Buy? JFC! Get a job!
Maybe. But I hear what you are saying. The main point is, I think we all want to see Apple do well. More importantly we all want to see the people who depend on Apple do well. That's what this message board is all about. Hopefully, there's somebody influential at Apple reading these posts :)
No, you are right: If you are a devloper, Apple decides to bundle an app, that provides nearly the same function as your app, with their OS. What can you do, port it to x86 and hope for the best? It is likely you won't be as well known in those circles. So, you have to make a name for yourself, again.
.net developer. That's just the way it goes.
That's life. Again, Apple never forced me to be a developer of Apple software. That would be my choice, not Apple's. Making a name for yourself is a constant struggle. You gotta look out for number one. You can't expect charity all the time. So you move on, go back to school, and become a Linux developer, or a
If you want to nitpick about legal definitions, fine. If you wanna pull all sorts of articles off the Internet to prove your point, go ahead. Use your head and your common sense. If they were ruled by the government to be a monopoly, they would have been broken up like Ma Bell by now. Back in the early 80's there was no choice for local phone service. That was a monopoly for sure.
My point was M$ is not a monopoly because there are still viable (and better) choices out there. Anyone can use a Mac for their business. Anyone can use Linux from home. Relax. They will never force me to use their product. It sounds like they're not gonna force you either. And besides, for every company they go after for infringement, two more spring up in its place. Open Source scares the big M$, and it will take over.
Thanks for confirming my point, Mr. Rendundancy.
I'm not confusing anything. People still have a choice, legally or definitively. That's it. I choose Mac. Let's be fair, just 'cause we don't like M$, and just 'cause they have the major share of the market, that's no reason to throw the word monopoly around. Besides, there's no way that M$ could be a monopoly now. They were accused by several states for anti-competitive practices. That in no way makes them a monopoly because there are still other choices. Again, as a designer, I choose Mac. I could use Windows if I wanted to, but I choose not to. IT pros may choose Windows, Linux, FreeBSD or Unix. A family or school may choose Windows or Mac, or whatever they want. If M$ actually forced the competition out of business (which they will never do as long as Linux gains popularity), then they would be a monopoly, legally and definitively. But they are not.
BTW, OJ didn't kill or murder anybody. He was found not guilty -- legally.
Absolutely not. Don't get me wrong, I don't like M$ much either, but they aren't forcing people to buy a Microsoft computer to run Windows. Also, you can take any x86 based computer, take Windows completely off it, and put Linux or BeOS on it. The choice is up to the consumer to choose what operating system they want to use. That's why the government's antitrust lawsuits never amounted to much: because we still have a choice (to buy a Mac, or run Linux, BeOS, or whatever).
From the article: Mr. Armes says Apple delivered new products to its own Apple stores as much as a month before they would ship any to him. "We didn't get as much product as the Apple stores, and we got it later than the Apple stores," Mr. Armes says.
I don't see anything unusual about this. Apple has very strict price controls on its products. The reason why it puts them in its Apple Stores first could be to get the product out there in the market in case other retailers balk at the high prices.
We can be sure that Macs will probably never be seen at places like Staples and Office Max because they would not be allowed to put the product on sale. This is why when we do see Macs at larger stores such as CompUSA and catalogs such as MacZone, there are always special offers of extra stuff like printers ans scanners and the like. That's the only way for an Apple retailer to compete with the Apple Store.
It's not Apple's fault. Steve Jobs didn't force "Mr. Elite" to become an Apple retailer in the first place. Every type of "dealership" has its caveats because it has to follow a certain set of rules governed by the manufacturer of the product it sells. I say: "buy one directly from Apple's website." I bought my 17-inch PowerBook there. I was fast, easy, and I got my extra RAM put in by an Apple technician! What more could you want?
Okay. I sit corrected :(
I'm still not not buying Opera though.
You know what? I blew it. Virus is a fourth declension noun, not a first declension, as I stated earlier. The plural nominative is spelled the same as the singular. Sorry. It's been about 10 years since I took Latin.
For milks, there are many kinds: Homogenized, Vitamin D, Acidopholous, non-fat, etc. Most people would probably say, "The store has 4 kinds of milk." But if a computer is under attack by two separate viruses, the plural sounds usable (at least colloquially). "The Black Hats attacked the bank's mainframe with their viruses." Now if I can only figure out how to say mainframe in Latin, I'd be set.
On closer inspection, viri does mean "men" (first decl., plural nom.) but it is also the singular genitive (fourth decl.) of virus. Like many words in Latin, there are similar spellings of different words and their cases relying heavily on context to determine which is which. For example if I were to say viri viri that could mean "men of the virus," but viri virus could mean "men of the viruses". But, like I said, it's been a while, so I could be wrong.
Well, not in English, anyway. Perhaps the chap was trying out his Latin. The plural for virus, a first declension masculine noun, is viri, pronounced WEER-EE. The latin meaning is "a poisonous liquid, slime." A more obscure reference would be "venom." Perhaps that's what he means. Maybe the last time he downloaded something, his computer got covered in slime.
I'm still not downloading Opera anyway; Safari works very well.
Why yes. I ripped off Pablo Fransisco. I saw him at the Improv in Irvine, CA in December. He does the movie trailer voice really well. I was laughing so hard I had a whiskey sour shoot out my nose (yeah, it hurt a little). Sorry, I should have credited him. I highly recommend his CD "Knee to the Groin" though.
I'm surprised you caught that. Good work. But to keep the post on topic...MacHack is the key to helping others make the most out of the best OS and hardware on the planet! Macintosh rules! There.
Mindful of the inevitability of their own conference and the unstoppability of it all, the committee looked for a suitable symbol for things that keep moving no matter what. It turned out that the committee needed look no further than their own Mac screen. Apple's own "busy cursor" is the inspiration for this year's MacHack theme element, the SPoD or "Spinning Pizza of Death".
Like Steve Jobs himself...unstoppable! That kinda sounds like a movie trailer to me: "One man. One way. One...desire. In the Year of the Laptop, he runs a grossly underestimated computer company, and the competition wanted to snuff him out. But he had only one chance, and that was to fight back! Blessed with a weapon with supernatural powers: the Spinning Pizza of Death, he brings down hellfire on his enemies and throws the competition into his own house of pain. This summer, Steve Jobs is...Unstoppable."
Help Steve fight the good fight. Help him make his computers better. Go to MacHack!
Wasn't Wiki that annoying robot on the old Buck Rogers TV show? bee dee bee dee bee dee. Sorry, I'm old.
Well slap on the cuffs, buttnut!
Who made you hall monitor? Do you even know where you are? Okay, now I want you to go to every single person here and check to make sure their OS is properly and legally installed. K? Tell that to all the folks who mod their cases or put their mobos in an ammo box, or, in a case made of Lego bricks. You are not these people's parents and you are certainly not Steve Jobs (if you are, ditch the turtleneck, bro).
No. Not really. I just don't want anybody to know that I like Yanni.
Too many trans-fatty compounds in the cheese, I'll wager. If you cruise iTunes, I'm sure there's a song about pizza delivery in there somewhere.
The iTunes Music Store has to be one of the coolest things Apple has done so far. It's things like this that constantly keep the Apple true believers asking; "What're they gonna think of next?" Yes, I bought a whole load of songs. Only thing is, they keep getting my e-mail address wrong. Somebody's getting my invoices, only I don't know who. Apple insists that they've got my correct address, but to no avail. Whatever, I'll just set up a new account.
But that's beside the point! iTunes rocks! I love it! Now if they would only add the Beastie Boys, I'd be set.
Steve jobs seems to be leveraging the HW/SW integration as a strength to make mac systems work as well as they do. I don't think he wants to give this up.
Exactly. In his keynote speech at Macworld in January, Jobs stated that he wants the Mac to be the digital hub of your home, business or school. He wants the Mac to be the best by having the hardware and software completely integrated. The iLife software package is proof of Apple's commitment to making Macs enjoyable and easy to use for everyone. The new release of iTunes Music Store only confirms Apple's commitment to both hardware and software. They are both close to Jobs' heart, and they should be close to the shareholders' hearts as well. To split the company up would negate all of those wishes.
To me, Apple stock is on sale. Sure it hasn't moved in a while, but if I buy a whole bunch, that in no way implies that I want them to split the company up, as the article suggests. I am merely waiting for the next big thing that's going to send the stock soaring. This happens with Apple every once in a while. Good things that happen with this company are always preceded by negativity.
Just watch. You'll see.
O shoot, I didn't realize that. I took my Blooger page right out of my FTP server so I could edit the template and I could see all the tags. Is there something in the header that makes them invisible? Let me know, I'm genuinely interested.
By the way, I think Chris Columbus would've had a problem with your sig. The world's round, bro, unless there's something in the header...
Well, it's kinda like people who don't approve of certain things being on the radio or TV. You don't like Howard Stern? Well don't listen. You don't approve of pro wrestling? Don't watch. You don't like blogs? Don't read 'em. Jesus. When you do a Google search, and if you get to my page, just press that little back button or close the tab and you'll be good to go. No hard feelings?
Besides, like I said in my original ranting (which you obviously read), more and more businesses and government agencies are using blogs as an easy and fast way to get their info out there. I mean, you must be a hardcore coder, or something. Are blogs too plebian for you?
It's cool, man. I got no problem with you. Please don't beat me up. *whimper*
Yah okay, but what's a few minutes? I'm just saying that there are lots of blogs out there with relevant information. As I stated earlier, some businesses and government agencies' website are blogs. I think we'll be seeing more and more of that in the near future. O well. Guess I just gotta go with the flow.
Probably by the source code located in the HTML template. For example, Blogger's code has to include case sensitive tags like [Blogger][/Blogger] to format the web-based posting. I'm not sure how they would tell for other types like Blog*Spot or Moveable Type. I assume they have some sort of the same types of tags. Or maybe by noting server applets related to the HTML template.
O yeah, one more thing, Google bought Blogger, so that's another way they'll be able to tell.
Drat! Foiled again! Gone are the days when I could put devious meta tags in my blog template to make sure that I pop up on Google. I love it when people search for something only to find MY blog pop up. HA HA HA HA HA!
No really...You know, my blog doesn't really say anything either. I just want people to read my rantings. Is it really that much of waste of time to see my blog pop up? How long does it take to click on the search result only to find that it doesn't have what you want? Huh? Like about 30 seconds? Now I gotta get shoved into some obscure category search. Really now...what are you doing searching Google that's so important that you need to save a few seconds here and there?
The problem with Google's thinking is that weblogging is becoming more and more prevalent. It's so easy for a rookie office worker to earn some extra cabbage by telling his boss "hey, I can set us up a web site real easy." You watch: more and more web logs will be seen on the web standing in as business and government web sites. Are they to be shoved into a category search as well?
Look, someone had to pay for it in the first place...so stop whining. If they don't like it, they should choose a different profession. I PAID FOR IT, IT'S MINE!
Life isn't fair. You are going to die a sad and boring person. *sniff* You must be a musician. I hear McDonalds is hiring.