Doesn't matter since it's sadly nowhere near the truth, even though I'd like it to be and Apple are not the worst offender. Where did you get that incorrect figure from? I find it very annoying to be served a smug "correction" with such an obvious lie. You should be either very embarrassed to be fooled in such a way or ashamed of yourself for making up such an obvious lie.
No I was not thinking of that one. I wrote above: "A few years back it was shown in a Mac laptop review". The review in question was in a newspaper called "The Australian" and it was way back when the "titanium" Mac was released.
Apple's AU tax is 10%
Utterly wrong. The ACCC found differently recently - follow your own link and you'll most likely see Apple stuff too, it certainly got into the papers. I don't know what they can do about it other than warn consumers that they are being ripped off. Apple, among many others (MS, Adobe, AutoDesk etc) are taking advantage of the supply chain in regions with little competition by price gouging.
It seems to be an increasing trend on this site - smug "corrections" based on either misunderstanding of the post that a person is replying to or deliberate "reality distortion" by fans upset that the object of their veneration is being addressed in less than glowing terms.
Especially since they actually had a decent *nix back in the day. If they'd based things on that instead of a bastard grandchild of CP/M and VMS after thalidomide then we'd have a lot less to complain about.
Matrox had one back then that was half decent but it got broken by later versions of MS Windows. Nvidia still has a multiple desktop thing packaged with Quatro cards which has gone in cycles from perfect to flaky and back again. The MS one was proof of concept and may have worked initially but it turned into a certain blue screen timebomb a while after it had become abandonware. There were various others that worked for a while but nothing you could use for the long term. It's almost as if it was a purchase requirement for a sale and abandoned later, but I suspect it's more a series of projects that were not maintained.
To use more memory. Admittedly you can solve that with the 64 bit XP if you have hardware it supports, or you can get server 2003 which is similar to XP, or you can roll back to Win2k to get away from the fucking stupid memory ceiling in XP if you have more than one core (I've still got a 6GB Win2k machine lurking in storage to run some legacy software every couple of years). If you don't need more memory, as with a couple of receptionists computers in my workplace, XP does the job up to at least MS Office 2010.
It's one of those things that I'm glad it's there, I wish I had time
You've got plenty of time to run something down with comments that were barely accurate way back when you had to install Slackware from floppy disks. Drivers come with linux instead of having to be downloaded like on MS.
True, but I see soviet style partisan propaganda the runs contrary to reality and indeed truth as being illegitimate unless it's being paid for as an advertisement.
If you think not, then cite specific examples of your claims.
Yet another example of a hardworking Comrade of The Party attacking it's opponents I see - YOU are the one that was making wild claims while I haven't written much other than calling you out on it.
WTF is it with you losers "charging at windmills". Solar is more mainstream than the politics you are pushing - and you know why - people are making money out of it without ripping others off. Please stop pushing your outdated authoritarian anti-capitalistic bullshit and your horror that people are free to buy panels and put them on their roofs.
It's not like that at all, we have very lax media controls. I know you gun nuts think it's gone all Thunderdome over here since we restricted automatic weapons, but could you please refrain from making up utter bullshit about us on every fucking topic under the sun?
OK then - greed combined with political and market power. It's about protecting the profits of Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel which is the only game in town - everything else is being kept out.
It would provide unwanted competition to Rupert Murdoch. Your second point is not correct or relevant since people are already using Netflix in Australia despite deliberate steps being made to stop them.
That part seems logical. But I am amazed that "licensing and distribution" would be so expensive
It isn't, but that's the excuse. A few years back it was shown in a Mac laptop review that it would be cheaper to fly from Sydney to Hawaii for a five day holiday and buy the laptop over there than to buy it in Sydney. That's an extreme, but there are many items sold at inflated prices with flimsy excuses, especially when you still have to pay a markup for a download edition of some software just because of the region you are in.
With few suppliers the price goes up. You can see that with a lot of things in Australia, paticularly software with Microsoft, Apple, Adobe etc charging a lot extra because they can.
They don't appear to be a telco but they do seem likely to be in bed with them.
There's some Murdoch ownership there, via Sky, owned mainly by Mordoch like Foxtel is. Whether the link is enough to set policy is a bit of a guess but Rupert has a habit of taking a very active interest in anything he owns a part of and tends to have influence far beyond his level of ownership in some things.
I called your bluff and read it but somehow it doesn't say what you pretend it does. What's with this pathetic political bullshit on a tech site? Back off and look at the big picture instead of just attacking what the Party line says a good "comrade" should attack.
I'm paying more than that despite it being generated from cheap and high quality coal in efficient boilers, large turbines and well maintained generators. The middleman in a monopoly market is taking a huge cut - that's not just a local situation, it's come out of California where Enron played those games and went global. There's so little substance in that Forbes article that there is no way to tell if it's a problem of high generation costs or rent seeking vampire tactics by monopolists sucking everyone dry as is happening in many other markets. Also your "disaster" appears not to have actually happened, while it is described as that in the headline the body of the text is only talking about potential problems in the future. So have things slipped your mind a bit here or are you being deliberately misleading to push an agenda? I'll assume the former instead of branding you the sort of childish scum sucking luddite political opportunist that thinks little of lying and is really making it annoying to discuss anything technical that may have social implications on this site. Such pricks annoy me far more than it is polite to write and seem to delight in leading the younger generation away into their land of lies and corruption.
The reason why Tesla doesn't want these dealers to have their cars is primarily because they are afraid that these dealers will throw a couple of Tesla cars in the corner of their showroom and be pushing the other brands instead
Apparently that is exactly what happened when Japanese cars first came onto the US market, until some very unsubtle bribes and buyouts changed things. Skills used when doing deals with organized crime such as the Yakuza were applied - that really say something about car dealerships doesn't it? The Japanese treated them as crooks and it worked.
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When the $AU was higher the apple price was still significantly higher than the $US.
Doesn't matter since it's sadly nowhere near the truth, even though I'd like it to be and Apple are not the worst offender. Where did you get that incorrect figure from? I find it very annoying to be served a smug "correction" with such an obvious lie. You should be either very embarrassed to be fooled in such a way or ashamed of yourself for making up such an obvious lie.
Utterly wrong. The ACCC found differently recently - follow your own link and you'll most likely see Apple stuff too, it certainly got into the papers. I don't know what they can do about it other than warn consumers that they are being ripped off. Apple, among many others (MS, Adobe, AutoDesk etc) are taking advantage of the supply chain in regions with little competition by price gouging.
It seems to be an increasing trend on this site - smug "corrections" based on either misunderstanding of the post that a person is replying to or deliberate "reality distortion" by fans upset that the object of their veneration is being addressed in less than glowing terms.
Also each MS virtual machine is another server while in some cases even a multi-rack linux cluster is considered as one.
Especially since they actually had a decent *nix back in the day. If they'd based things on that instead of a bastard grandchild of CP/M and VMS after thalidomide then we'd have a lot less to complain about.
Matrox had one back then that was half decent but it got broken by later versions of MS Windows. Nvidia still has a multiple desktop thing packaged with Quatro cards which has gone in cycles from perfect to flaky and back again. The MS one was proof of concept and may have worked initially but it turned into a certain blue screen timebomb a while after it had become abandonware. There were various others that worked for a while but nothing you could use for the long term.
It's almost as if it was a purchase requirement for a sale and abandoned later, but I suspect it's more a series of projects that were not maintained.
Depends on the workflow. Having two separate things open at once is a fairly common thing.
Apple did it so MS were sure to follow. Pity they didn't do it with Win95.
To use more memory. Admittedly you can solve that with the 64 bit XP if you have hardware it supports, or you can get server 2003 which is similar to XP, or you can roll back to Win2k to get away from the fucking stupid memory ceiling in XP if you have more than one core (I've still got a 6GB Win2k machine lurking in storage to run some legacy software every couple of years).
If you don't need more memory, as with a couple of receptionists computers in my workplace, XP does the job up to at least MS Office 2010.
Cool, so now you can party like it's 1994!
Surely they had that stuff before - or maybe it was only in addon software from Matrox, Nvidia etc.
You've got plenty of time to run something down with comments that were barely accurate way back when you had to install Slackware from floppy disks. Drivers come with linux instead of having to be downloaded like on MS.
Yet another example of a hardworking Comrade of The Party attacking it's opponents I see - YOU are the one that was making wild claims while I haven't written much other than calling you out on it.
WTF is it with you losers "charging at windmills". Solar is more mainstream than the politics you are pushing - and you know why - people are making money out of it without ripping others off. Please stop pushing your outdated authoritarian anti-capitalistic bullshit and your horror that people are free to buy panels and put them on their roofs.
No it was Apple, but Adobe is probably even worse.
Not a bad government - they did exactly what they were paid to do :(
One guess who owns AU foxtel, US fox news and is a big political donor.
It's not like that at all, we have very lax media controls.
I know you gun nuts think it's gone all Thunderdome over here since we restricted automatic weapons, but could you please refrain from making up utter bullshit about us on every fucking topic under the sun?
OK then - greed combined with political and market power. It's about protecting the profits of Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel which is the only game in town - everything else is being kept out.
It would provide unwanted competition to Rupert Murdoch.
Your second point is not correct or relevant since people are already using Netflix in Australia despite deliberate steps being made to stop them.
Travel+Holiday expenses+mac at US price (LessThan) same mac at AU price
It isn't, but that's the excuse. A few years back it was shown in a Mac laptop review that it would be cheaper to fly from Sydney to Hawaii for a five day holiday and buy the laptop over there than to buy it in Sydney. That's an extreme, but there are many items sold at inflated prices with flimsy excuses, especially when you still have to pay a markup for a download edition of some software just because of the region you are in.
With few suppliers the price goes up. You can see that with a lot of things in Australia, paticularly software with Microsoft, Apple, Adobe etc charging a lot extra because they can.
There's some Murdoch ownership there, via Sky, owned mainly by Mordoch like Foxtel is. Whether the link is enough to set policy is a bit of a guess but Rupert has a habit of taking a very active interest in anything he owns a part of and tends to have influence far beyond his level of ownership in some things.
I called your bluff and read it but somehow it doesn't say what you pretend it does. What's with this pathetic political bullshit on a tech site? Back off and look at the big picture instead of just attacking what the Party line says a good "comrade" should attack.
There's an article elsewhere on Slashdot about hopelessly depressing dystopias that deserves your post more than this one.
I'm paying more than that despite it being generated from cheap and high quality coal in efficient boilers, large turbines and well maintained generators. The middleman in a monopoly market is taking a huge cut - that's not just a local situation, it's come out of California where Enron played those games and went global. There's so little substance in that Forbes article that there is no way to tell if it's a problem of high generation costs or rent seeking vampire tactics by monopolists sucking everyone dry as is happening in many other markets.
Also your "disaster" appears not to have actually happened, while it is described as that in the headline the body of the text is only talking about potential problems in the future. So have things slipped your mind a bit here or are you being deliberately misleading to push an agenda? I'll assume the former instead of branding you the sort of childish scum sucking luddite political opportunist that thinks little of lying and is really making it annoying to discuss anything technical that may have social implications on this site. Such pricks annoy me far more than it is polite to write and seem to delight in leading the younger generation away into their land of lies and corruption.
Apparently that is exactly what happened when Japanese cars first came onto the US market, until some very unsubtle bribes and buyouts changed things. Skills used when doing deals with organized crime such as the Yakuza were applied - that really say something about car dealerships doesn't it? The Japanese treated them as crooks and it worked.