Script kiddies do what is easy period. It's much easier to find an unprotected IIS box than it is to find an unprotected apache box for the reason stated above.
Apache also has one other advantage. Is it running on *BSD, Solaris, Linux, or Windows? Is it running on sparc, alpha, x86, ppc, or itanium? A certain flaw may only affect a subset of those. A flaw with IIS affects all computers with IIS.
I seem to recall it's a fairly small glowing apple that pretty much blends in with the rest of the computer. It's not flashy and to the average consumer it doesn't stand out. Only if you're an apple geek or a nerd do you notice that it's a powerbook.
I'd sure like your link. I just priced them and found the dell much cheaper. About $600 cheaper. You may be forgetting that the PowerMac comes headless and the Dell includes a 15" flat panel for free. When you upgrade the Dell to a 17" LCD you add $179. When you add the 17" LCD tot he powermac you add $699.
But that's besides the point. I could certainly build a dual opteron box for much less than the cost of the PowerMac that would anihilate it in benchmarks.
I would contend that the powerbook and iBook don't look different enough from the regular laptop to differentiate themselves. Joe sixpack sees a BMW or a Mercedes and can tell what it is. Joe sixpack sees a laptop at starbucks and he sees a laptop. Maybe they need giant apple logos that really stands out or something?
I don't think price has anything to do with linux on the desktop. 90% of desktop users are still using the OS that their computer came with, so to them Windows was free. Sure the cost was factored into the new cost of the computer, but they don't really see that; plus buying a linux computer from a retailer generally doesn't make it any cheaper.
Not exactly the same. If I drive a BMW everyone sees me driving a BMW. They know I have money, etc. Most people don't bring people into their offices to show off their computer.
This also explains why the iPod is so successful, people see you with it!
I've always found this arguement to be false. There may be more websites with Apache than IIS, but I'd be willing to wager that their are many more IIS installations then there are apache installations. Imagine for a second every unlocked down box with frontpage IIS on it? Those are the people that are easy to infect simply because they know nothing about security.
Maybe, just Maybe, what drives Jobs, et al is not making as much money as possible, but in delivering a great product. Nevermind whether the reader thinks its a great product, if Apple does - and their customers do - then who gives a damn if they're gaining on MS market share or not?
Uhmmm... possibly the share holders? If Jobs owned apple he could say he doesn't care about the bottom line and just wants to make a good product and as long as they are profitable he's happy. The share holders though want a return on their investment. That's the price apple paid as soon as they decided to go public.
I'd have to wager if we became capable of putting a superconducter all along the surface of mars at the equator, our technology would be advanced enough so powering it would not be a problem at all.
I think that that statement is a myth. I've seen financials from them that suggest some of their other departments are making money. They may not have made back their initial investments (MSN) but they are in the black now. And it looks like they may have learned the lesson with the Xbox. It appears that they plan on making hardware that is profitable next time.
There still is the rest of the world. I would assume their plan is to move their current business plan to the emerging markets while trying to develop more recurring revenue in the ones that are already developed. They also are attempting to move into other markets portables, gaming, phones, etc. I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk that they survive, but discounting them like you do is pretty stupid.
AT&T hasn't gone anywhere... Standard Oil has slowly begun getting back together (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco), and IBM seems to be in fairly good financial shape. So my question is, did you have a point?
the senate can't pass all the laws they want, but if they don't have a super majority it takes the president's signature to pass it. Maybe you should look into the civics?
I'm not to conserned with battery life. I'd take a shorter amount of life to get my FLAC files on there. Of course the majority of my listening is done on the bus, which is only a 30 minute trip. So I'm not really too worried about battery life. In fact, I've been using a nomad IIc with 192 MB of storage and it's been working fine as it has more than enough music to get me through a day.
I'm not actually wanting FLAC for the quality. In the kind of enviornments I normally listen to portable audio in, I really can't hear much improvement in anything greater than LAME alt-preset standard. I only use FLAC on my HD because I like to have a pristine backup.
If the player doesn't support FLAC I've really only got 2 options. The first is transcode as I transfer, which slows things down a little bit. Of course, I'm not exactly sure how often I'd have to transfer files. I've got 200 albums currently in FLAC, so I could probably fit everything I have on there in mp3. So the slow transfer would be a one time hit. The other option would be to keep a mp3 copy and a FLAC copy both on my HD. This would take up extra room but would keep the transfer speed fast.
The iRiver is the player I want though. I have a slimX 350 that I've had for almost 2 years and it works flawlessly. They've really won me over.
Do you know if they have plans to add FLAC to it? That's the one feature it doesn't have that I need. If worse comes to worse, I'll probably buy one and just transcode everything on my HD into MP3.
I want the iRiver player very badly. Only one thing is stopping me though. Support for FLAC. I have all my music in FLAC right now, and I'd like a portable that supports it. Other than that, it has every feature I would want and I've been very happy with my other iRiver player.
In the US there are alot of older cars still running around as well. However, the older cars require much more maintenance to keep running. You change the oil every 3000 miles and do frequent tune ups. You buy a new car today and the oil is changed every 10000 miles, you put on a new timing belt at 60,000 miles. and a tune up every 100000.
I beg to differ about cars. An average car now will go 200k+ miles easy. Try that with any car made in the 60's or 70's. Sure you could make them run that long, but it took a lot of effort. The reason cars are disposable know is because people want them to be, not that people need them to be. Anything can be disposable if you throw it away.
The post ahead of you got it right. Vic pronounced in german sounds like fick. Which is the verb ficken. Which translates to f*ck. For instance I could say, "Fick dich." Ikea recently had the same problems with one of their items.
If it played FLAC I would cream my jeans and buy one in a second. I love my iRiver CD/MP3 player. But because it doesn't play FLAC I'm stuck debating between it and the Rio Karma. Neither has all the features I want.
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Script kiddies do what is easy period. It's much easier to find an unprotected IIS box than it is to find an unprotected apache box for the reason stated above.
Apache also has one other advantage. Is it running on *BSD, Solaris, Linux, or Windows? Is it running on sparc, alpha, x86, ppc, or itanium? A certain flaw may only affect a subset of those. A flaw with IIS affects all computers with IIS.
I seem to recall it's a fairly small glowing apple that pretty much blends in with the rest of the computer. It's not flashy and to the average consumer it doesn't stand out. Only if you're an apple geek or a nerd do you notice that it's a powerbook.
I'd sure like your link. I just priced them and found the dell much cheaper. About $600 cheaper. You may be forgetting that the PowerMac comes headless and the Dell includes a 15" flat panel for free. When you upgrade the Dell to a 17" LCD you add $179. When you add the 17" LCD tot he powermac you add $699.
But that's besides the point. I could certainly build a dual opteron box for much less than the cost of the PowerMac that would anihilate it in benchmarks.
Tell that to my iMac. The monitor is flaking out, but the computer is still good.
I would contend that the powerbook and iBook don't look different enough from the regular laptop to differentiate themselves. Joe sixpack sees a BMW or a Mercedes and can tell what it is. Joe sixpack sees a laptop at starbucks and he sees a laptop. Maybe they need giant apple logos that really stands out or something?
Dude, I live in seattle, we have starbucks here. And you do see powerbooks, but probably right around the % you would expect with their marketshare.
I don't think price has anything to do with linux on the desktop. 90% of desktop users are still using the OS that their computer came with, so to them Windows was free. Sure the cost was factored into the new cost of the computer, but they don't really see that; plus buying a linux computer from a retailer generally doesn't make it any cheaper.
Not exactly the same. If I drive a BMW everyone sees me driving a BMW. They know I have money, etc. Most people don't bring people into their offices to show off their computer.
This also explains why the iPod is so successful, people see you with it!
I've always found this arguement to be false. There may be more websites with Apache than IIS, but I'd be willing to wager that their are many more IIS installations then there are apache installations. Imagine for a second every unlocked down box with frontpage IIS on it? Those are the people that are easy to infect simply because they know nothing about security.
Maybe, just Maybe, what drives Jobs, et al is not making as much money as possible, but in delivering a great product. Nevermind whether the reader thinks its a great product, if Apple does - and their customers do - then who gives a damn if they're gaining on MS market share or not?
Uhmmm... possibly the share holders? If Jobs owned apple he could say he doesn't care about the bottom line and just wants to make a good product and as long as they are profitable he's happy. The share holders though want a return on their investment. That's the price apple paid as soon as they decided to go public.
I'd have to wager if we became capable of putting a superconducter all along the surface of mars at the equator, our technology would be advanced enough so powering it would not be a problem at all.
I think that that statement is a myth. I've seen financials from them that suggest some of their other departments are making money. They may not have made back their initial investments (MSN) but they are in the black now. And it looks like they may have learned the lesson with the Xbox. It appears that they plan on making hardware that is profitable next time.
There still is the rest of the world. I would assume their plan is to move their current business plan to the emerging markets while trying to develop more recurring revenue in the ones that are already developed. They also are attempting to move into other markets portables, gaming, phones, etc. I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk that they survive, but discounting them like you do is pretty stupid.
AT&T hasn't gone anywhere... Standard Oil has slowly begun getting back together (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco), and IBM seems to be in fairly good financial shape. So my question is, did you have a point?
the senate can't pass all the laws they want, but if they don't have a super majority it takes the president's signature to pass it. Maybe you should look into the civics?
I'm not to conserned with battery life. I'd take a shorter amount of life to get my FLAC files on there. Of course the majority of my listening is done on the bus, which is only a 30 minute trip. So I'm not really too worried about battery life. In fact, I've been using a nomad IIc with 192 MB of storage and it's been working fine as it has more than enough music to get me through a day.
I'm not actually wanting FLAC for the quality. In the kind of enviornments I normally listen to portable audio in, I really can't hear much improvement in anything greater than LAME alt-preset standard. I only use FLAC on my HD because I like to have a pristine backup.
If the player doesn't support FLAC I've really only got 2 options. The first is transcode as I transfer, which slows things down a little bit. Of course, I'm not exactly sure how often I'd have to transfer files. I've got 200 albums currently in FLAC, so I could probably fit everything I have on there in mp3. So the slow transfer would be a one time hit. The other option would be to keep a mp3 copy and a FLAC copy both on my HD. This would take up extra room but would keep the transfer speed fast.
The iRiver is the player I want though. I have a slimX 350 that I've had for almost 2 years and it works flawlessly. They've really won me over.
Do you know if they have plans to add FLAC to it? That's the one feature it doesn't have that I need. If worse comes to worse, I'll probably buy one and just transcode everything on my HD into MP3.
I want the iRiver player very badly. Only one thing is stopping me though. Support for FLAC. I have all my music in FLAC right now, and I'd like a portable that supports it. Other than that, it has every feature I would want and I've been very happy with my other iRiver player.
In the US there are alot of older cars still running around as well. However, the older cars require much more maintenance to keep running. You change the oil every 3000 miles and do frequent tune ups. You buy a new car today and the oil is changed every 10000 miles, you put on a new timing belt at 60,000 miles. and a tune up every 100000.
I beg to differ about cars. An average car now will go 200k+ miles easy. Try that with any car made in the 60's or 70's. Sure you could make them run that long, but it took a lot of effort. The reason cars are disposable know is because people want them to be, not that people need them to be. Anything can be disposable if you throw it away.
I've seen other mp3 players out there, but none really stand up to the ipod..
Except of course for the ones that are better.
I use the remote on my iRiver player. It lets me leave the player in my bag and still control it.
The post ahead of you got it right. Vic pronounced in german sounds like fick. Which is the verb ficken. Which translates to f*ck. For instance I could say, "Fick dich." Ikea recently had the same problems with one of their items.
If it played FLAC I would cream my jeans and buy one in a second. I love my iRiver CD/MP3 player. But because it doesn't play FLAC I'm stuck debating between it and the Rio Karma. Neither has all the features I want.