"a platform that is pretty much the other biggest half of the market and in an explosive growth market in general."
this is the crux of it tho. Apple provides more than just a payment processing system. they provide access to 100+ million users who can pay with a single click, and more importantly have shown their willingness to do so.
This is what they are charging 30% for access to.
Up until now these services have been getting a free ride, and they all know exactly how valuable access to that market is worth. They are absolutely willing to pay to access that segment, now we are just seeing the beginning of the negotiations.
Apple says 30%, all the companies reply with 'we cant afford that.. waaahhh!' . some will even pull their apps. In the end, both Apple and the app developers will find some equilibrium. (ie if enough people pull their apps, or the Last.fms of the world can foment enough bad public opinion then apple will lower the cut. If Last.fm and Rhapsody pull their apps, I pretty much guarantee that someone who can make money from those 100million users will fill their place.)
this is how business works. if you want a prime retail location, then it will cost you premium fees, and you make it up with greater customer traffic.
so a better analogy might be:
each paycheck you get $1000. you can keep that (ie not put your app on the iDevices)
or instead each paycheck will be $700. but you will get three times as many paychecks.
This has nothing at all to do with Apple, it applies to any mobile app. So even if you have android, the developers who want to sell apps in Australia will have to pay to have their apps (well, games) rated.
>>> having hired..... 250 computer science PhD candidates in Redmond alone..."
this is the problem. i dont know how many of you ahve worked with CS doctorates, but they are some of the most obtuse people i know, and dont generally have any idea what it is the average person wants or needs. (which, imho is what drives this industry)
contrast this with apple, who employ top knotch designers to come up with the ideas, and then hire the big brains to implement it.
a good example might be apple's new 'time machine' feature which allows for incremental backups and easy recovery. technically MS has had somethign like this for a while now (probably designed by some giant-brained CS PhD) but it is not very user friendly (so not user friendly that i had never even heard of it because nobody i know uses it) whereas, apple took that concept and actualyl made it 'useful' to the general populous, and that i think is where technological innovation is.
(i am not an apple fanboi, just using them as a contrast to MS, i think there are tons of innovative companies out there, but i have to honestly say that i dont believe MS is one of them, they might create/invent new technologies, but innovation requires a little something extra that MS seems a bit short on)
I am the same as you, in that you say you rarely watch a movie more than once or twice before it becomes clutter. However, this is why i like the online movie thing. For $10 i can see a movie in the comfort of my own home, (which, these days is often much better than spending $10 to see it in the theatres) and if i really like it i can keep it, and if i i only kinda like it, then i just delete it with no detrimental effects on the extra mess in my place.
you also mention: "I have no desire to squint at a 2.5" screen to watch a movie." I hear this quite a bit, and I wonder if apple simply hasnt done enough education on their movies. I dont have a video iPod, i watch my movies and daily show clips either on my 23" cinema display or on my big sony tv via s-video. (both from my laptop) It seems to me that many people might think that the video iPod is the only way you can watch this content. (i am not necessarily accusing you of this, but i have noticed that a very many people seem to have this assumption)
I have also heard people complain about the resolution of said content. Even before they upped the default rez of everythng to 640x480, all of the stuff i bought and watched looked just fine. I think people put it on fullscreen on their desktop monitor and then are dissapointed by the pixelation and artifacting. I would challenge these people to roll their deskchairs up, and sit two feet away from their expensive 50 inch rear-projection TV. They would be just as dissapointed in the blurryness and pixelation.
my desktop looks like ass through an s-video interface to my living room tv, but once i get the daily show running up there i can't tell the difference between that and cable.
I cant even get ready to play a game in 15 minutes. Gotta roll in the comfy chair from the 'office', get the easily consumable food out and ready to go, prepare a stiff vodka based beverage.
Sheesh!
I am being a bit facetious, but really, 15 minutes? i dont think you can even sit down and play any game (video or not) in less than 15 minutes. Who are these people?
Ok, so i see a pattern here. over the last twenty years all i ever heard about the mac was about how dead apple was, and how they were going to vanish and the company was going to go under.
Now all i hear about is that 'any day now' All the macs on the planet are going to be suddenly and utterly destroyed by the impending virus rush.
Look, I don't encourage people to run any system without security. My macs are all behind a nice firewall. However, I think that, given the record of some clever young programmers to break industry strength security in short order, i wonder when all of these virus writers are going to come over and focus on the mac? i mean, the mac market hasn't really changed much in the last year or two. (in terms of numbers) and the hardware change doesnt seem to have made it any easier to infect the systems.
Mac users and the mac community in general have been snobbishly touting the no viruses thing for quite awhile now. There are tons of clever hackers out there who can break all sorts of security, yet all we have so far are a few lame-ass trojans that you have to type your password in to install. (which, really are not viruses so much) So apparently the big carrot of 'first mac virus that actually was a virus' is really not that big of a carrot.
While i am a software engineer on macs, my expertise does not lie in the virus-area, so i can't really say if it is really much harder to write for the mac, or if it is just unappealing in a business sense (for the virus writers).
my opinion: if i measured my income with each thousand machines i added to my botnet with a virus i wrote, then i think i would stick to the 95% of the market that is fairly homogenous in terms of security. (ie all windows) and leave the outlying OSes (mac, linux) because even if both mac and linux double or triple their respective marketshares in the next five years, windows will still be the easy choice for virus makers.
Hehe, that would be really funny if i weren't a self-employed software developer on (you guessed it) macs. and yes, i have turned down lucrative offers to work on windows machines. Both porting of my own apps as well as simply coming to work for windows based dev houses. (having already done it for many years (as well as unix stuff (c,c++, perl, etc which i still do on occasion), i started using the free tools apple provides and have never looked back. )
At one point a few years ago, i finally made the decision to abandon windows, (much like abandoning shitty beer, or vodka that comes in a plastic bottle), and never partake in the windows experience ever again (because vodka from a plastic bottle will make me sick every time, no matter how small a shot). I told everyone who i used to help support (in that friend-who-fixes-your-computer kind of way) as nicely as possible that i would not be helping them anymore because i had sworn off windows. Every one of them, when they were ready for a new machine, bought a mac, and have similarly never looked back. In my free time, on my mac with free tools, I re-wrote the main program that the company i worked for used (on windows machines) and started to use it exclusively to do the same tasks, but more efficiently. (this company is in the visual effects business) and eventually my mac based program became the preferred tool for everyone, and i am now a co-owner of the company, and am working on version 3 of my software app for them. Since then i have been refusing software contracts on the basis of operating system, and my reputation in my small network has increased, and my clients are more discriminating and much easier to work with, and my contracts are more lucrative. (this sounds stupendously snobbish, and it kinda is. Windows crappiness has created a market of 'people unwilling to put up with windows', and that market often is willing to spend more to get better quality, and i service part of that market. windows crappiness has also created a similar market of 'people-unwilling-to-put-up-with-windows-but-are-w illing-to-build-a-better-OS' hence linux.)
So, while i don't make 50 million on a contract usually, i do make enough that i have plenty of free time to 'yak it up' here on slashdot without any fear or reprisal from myself (the boss).
so, keep your $50 million dollars worth of plastic-bottle-vodka, yeah, it will get you just as drunk as the good stuff, but the good stuff wont make you sick. i am going to go and have a grey goose martini with my mac-only pals.
Ok, fair enough, you make some good points, i picked the easy targets. However, when i buy a tool (like a computer) i shouldnt have to take a course that covers all the little things i CANT do with it.
how about the inconsistent user interface? that alone is enough to hate windows. Inconsistent use of the two buttons that windows users love so much. (note: i have a two-button with scroll wheel mouse, works like a dream on my mac) the right button is supposed to be 'properties' or somesuch, but is so inconsistently implemented that the user often has to right click on stuff just to see what 'might' be there.
dont get me started about all the 'wizards'.
and all the other little things that you notice once you use an OS that is mostly transparent to your productivity.
many many people have said it before: windows users put up with their operating system, they don't like it. (and when i say 'like' i dont mean fanatically adore, i mean that the tools you use should be pleasant and easy to use, and get out of your way.) I dont feel a sense of joy working on a mac, it just sits there and does what it is supposed to and doesnt frustrate me instantly like windows does.
(and i don't hate microsoft, i do hate windows however, and will never use it. for computer types, the OS is what you interact with EVERY day of your computing life. here is an analogy: burlap blankets would do a fine job of keeping you warm at night (and be less than half the price of your other blanket options), but why the hell would you pick something so terribly uncomfortable to use EVERY DAY? spend a bit more and you wont wake up itchy everymornign and might actually get a good night's sleep)
and frankly, i am not trying to convert you or refute your choice of windows. I am just saying that for me: my time is worth something. that is why i us a mac. you can do whatever you like. burlap is a very useful textile.
every time there is an apple thread, someone comes out and says 'wait PC's are cheaper!! and here is a comparison!!' and then some apple fanatic comes back and refutes it and blah blah blah.
Look, my time is worth money. windows and linux take effort. I want my tools to work, so I can get to the business at hand. when my tools dont work, i have to spend time fixing them simply so i can get back to work. Having used windows previously (which made me even more of a mac fan) I can tell you that my mac 'just works' and windows does not (i mean, it works, kinda, if you know how to set it up right and keep it running, oh, and reboot every so often and.. and.... and...).
So, again, my time is worth money, if the mac were 5 times as expensive as the dell, it would still pay itself off in productivity in about a month in comparison. So, feel free to buy the cheaper machine, more power to yah. I would rather spend my free time with friends and family and my work time being creative. (as opposed to spending my free time fixing my computer, and my work time jumping through hoops to get shit done)
I had a 17" g4 and it was absolutely fantastic. I write code, and having all your.h and.m.cc.c.whatever files open at the same time, as well as all the interface windows open all at once is a great boon to efficient programming. However, eventually i came to hate lugging it around (at 7 pounds, still lighter than most of my friends shitty dells at the time) and i finally downgraded to a 12".
best choice i ever made. the 12" is not noticeably slower for doing the stuff i do. (compiles a tiny bit slower, but whateva) and it still runs the 23" cinema when on my desk. weighs just over half as much, and fits in a much smaller space (so i can lug around my big nikon d70 as well)
Anyhow, props to Apple for releasing the mothership of laptops, the 17" really is a sweet machine, but the second they announce a 13" intel based lappy, i am there.
The reason Apple is 'so great' is because they control the whole experience. What you are buying is the hardware + apps +OS.
If you sell the OS on any old PC hardware (as many have asked for) then suddenly Apple loses one of the legs or their product.
If you open the OS then you lose another leg.
The reason everyone wants apple to do these things is because the quality they can get when they control all those things. (no they dont control all the apps, obviously, but they provide the basic user with everything they would need in an easy to use package)
I am so tired of people saying: I love apple OS, but i will never pay for it until they sell it for my shitty dell hardware! Well, then it wouldn't be the Apple that is able to be so high quality, and you wouldn't want it anyway!
So, back to my original point: Dvorak is a tired hack, and he is trolling for pagehits. Please stop putting his crap up here and helping him out!
I agree, MacWorld is a glass always full kinda publication. And as an avowed mac freak, i for one do NOT want there to be a mass exodus of sheeple to the mac platform. One thing that keeps mac great is that in order to survive in the mac market, your software has to be pretty damn good and it has to just work. I do not look forward to our new Apple overlords. Being the little guy means more innovation, new interesting technology. As soon as Apple becomes the new M$ then it becomes all about keeping the cash cow alive at all costs. So, please, all you windows apologists! get crackin! We dont want your market share!
How Reliable is INSTEON? Nearly 100%. Over 10 million signal packets were tested in over 100 homes across America. A near-perfect success rate of over 99.97% was measured. Each INSTEON message contains error detection, so lights turning on accidentally will virtually never happen.
hmm... so basically this is saying that virtually never is about 1 in about 3300. (or 3 in 10000, however you want to look at it) now if you turn on ten things a day (which seems reasonable if not conservative) then at least once a year your house will do something crazy.
now for something innocuous like lights, i turn on lights all teh time and it sometimes doesnt work (ie it burns out) but if I am away on vacation and insteon decides to turn on my AC full blast in the middle of summer for a week, well then that would suck.
How hard is it to guarantee packet delivery, and to make the hardware not do something stupid if it gets an error?
I find that musical ringtones are personality amplifiers. for that.01% of people that are already cool without a ringtone, a clever ringtone will enhance their attitude. For people like the submitter, having your phone break out a speed metal riff, will reall bring out the fact that you are a pathetic loser who relies on their electronic accessories to define them.
ringtone != cool (if you are reading this, you are not in that sliver of culture that can pull off a ringtone, please, for the love of god, switch to vibrate)
sorry, that is just the way it is.
(for full disclosure, I have my ringtone set to vibrate, since I am not in the top 0.01% of coolness)
>>> In fact, if memory serves, isn't the brushed metal >>>theme supposed to be limited to apps which operate >>>w/ other devices, according to Apple's own style >>>guidelines?
I agree with you, web servers could in NO way be considered a 'device' which the browser 'operates' with, as you say.
I think you should go for the CS degree. Then again, that is what I got, and I enjoy the deep backend technical stuff.
The MIS/CIS degrees seem to be less about the code and mroe about the business side of things. (in fact, when I went to college (CU Boulder), grad in '96, the CIS/MIS degrees were offerd through the business school, and the CS degree was offfered thorugh the engineering school.)
Anyhow, my advice is this: if you want to do really technical geeky-like things, get teh CS, if you plan on managing technical geek-type people, get the MIS/CIS.
Yes, I agree that this will be the acid test to see if Win2k can handle a real load, but I think the big question in my mind will be: how many win2k servers did it take to replicate the load handling ability of the freeBSD servers? I mean, put 500 machines in a load-balanced system and they can all be horribly unstable but the overall system would be fine. (a bitch to maintain, but hey it is msft)
As I read through most of these comments it seems to me that most of them are things like 'who can't type faster on a keyboard then HWR?' and 'the keyboard will never die!!'
I think you are all missing the point here. Apple isn't going to stop including keyboards with all of their products, they just might come out with something that doesn't have a keyboard (like the newton, or the palm, but bigger) is it possible that there are people out there that might want to buy somehting like that? yes there is. maybe you don't but, who cares?
I think the ibook screen is too small and it is not expandable enough, so you know what I did? I bought the computer that was right for me, a powerbook. I didn't write Apple (or slashdot) and bitch about the ibook not being right for me, cuz they have products that do cater to my needs. I know people who love their ibooks, and they dont want anything more. I guarantee there are people out there who do not like the keyboard, who don't need that extra functionality for whatever they are using their machine for, and would get along just fine with a tablet-based system.
perhaps whenever apple leaks (or announces) something that sounds like change (oh my gosh!) you can all sit back and think; 'well, i dont htink I would like that, but someone might' instead of assuming that everyone on the planet is like you and would rather drive a six-inch spike through their foreheads then give up their keyboards...
sheesh..
(BTW I used to have a newton2000 and the HWR rocked)
As far as I have seen, the cooling is done via smart design of the case using the physics of air tempurature to force it out of the box (ie all the hot air goes out the top) The problem with using this technique for a pentium type machine is that the pentiums are much much hotter running chips than the G4's (also as a side note the imacs have been doing this (no fan) since the last upgrade.)
I am not saying that parents should sit with their children %100 of the time while they watch TV, just that (as has been mentioned maybe ten billion times in the comments to this article already) that the TV is a bad bad replacement for child-parent interaction. Especially TV nowadays.
Maybe It is just me but it seems like when I was a child (late 70's early 80's, no so long ago, granted) Tv didn't suck so badly. Perhaps I am just older and more discrimiating now. Or maybe it was just that I didn't actually watch that much TV (mostly just saturday morning cartoons), and I actually went outside once in awhile and my parents read to me, and then suggested good books for me to read when I was old enough, and took me to the library and encouraged me to participate in this thing we call life instead of just giving up and ploppping me in front of the tube for hours on end...
I know of many many children (some in my family, cousins etc..) that come home from school and do nothing but TV/sega for six or seven hours until their parents make them go to bed.. I fear for the future when the majority of children are brought up this way..
Hmmm... maybe it is just me, but maybe, just maybe parents should be spending time with their offspring and not letting the TV/Mass-media/Vchip raise them? WHatever happened to reading your kid a book or something?
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"a platform that is pretty much the other biggest half of the market and in an explosive growth market in general."
this is the crux of it tho. Apple provides more than just a payment processing system. they provide access to 100+ million users who can pay with a single click, and more importantly have shown their willingness to do so.
This is what they are charging 30% for access to.
Up until now these services have been getting a free ride, and they all know exactly how valuable access to that market is worth. They are absolutely willing to pay to access that segment, now we are just seeing the beginning of the negotiations.
Apple says 30%, all the companies reply with 'we cant afford that .. waaahhh!' . some will even pull their apps. In the end, both Apple and the app developers will find some equilibrium. (ie if enough people pull their apps, or the Last.fms of the world can foment enough bad public opinion then apple will lower the cut. If Last.fm and Rhapsody pull their apps, I pretty much guarantee that someone who can make money from those 100million users will fill their place.)
this is how business works. if you want a prime retail location, then it will cost you premium fees, and you make it up with greater customer traffic.
so a better analogy might be:
each paycheck you get $1000. you can keep that (ie not put your app on the iDevices)
or instead each paycheck will be $700. but you will get three times as many paychecks.
Which one do you choose?
This has nothing at all to do with Apple, it applies to any mobile app. So even if you have android, the developers who want to sell apps in Australia will have to pay to have their apps (well, games) rated.
>>> having hired ..... 250 computer science PhD candidates in Redmond alone..."
this is the problem. i dont know how many of you ahve worked with CS doctorates, but they are some of the most obtuse people i know, and dont generally have any idea what it is the average person wants or needs. (which, imho is what drives this industry)
contrast this with apple, who employ top knotch designers to come up with the ideas, and then hire the big brains to implement it.
a good example might be apple's new 'time machine' feature which allows for incremental backups and easy recovery. technically MS has had somethign like this for a while now (probably designed by some giant-brained CS PhD) but it is not very user friendly (so not user friendly that i had never even heard of it because nobody i know uses it) whereas, apple took that concept and actualyl made it 'useful' to the general populous, and that i think is where technological innovation is.
(i am not an apple fanboi, just using them as a contrast to MS, i think there are tons of innovative companies out there, but i have to honestly say that i dont believe MS is one of them, they might create/invent new technologies, but innovation requires a little something extra that MS seems a bit short on)
I am the same as you, in that you say you rarely watch a movie more than once or twice before it becomes clutter. However, this is why i like the online movie thing. For $10 i can see a movie in the comfort of my own home, (which, these days is often much better than spending $10 to see it in the theatres) and if i really like it i can keep it, and if i i only kinda like it, then i just delete it with no detrimental effects on the extra mess in my place.
you also mention:
"I have no desire to squint at a 2.5" screen to watch a movie." I hear this quite a bit, and I wonder if apple simply hasnt done enough education on their movies. I dont have a video iPod, i watch my movies and daily show clips either on my 23" cinema display or on my big sony tv via s-video. (both from my laptop) It seems to me that many people might think that the video iPod is the only way you can watch this content. (i am not necessarily accusing you of this, but i have noticed that a very many people seem to have this assumption)
I have also heard people complain about the resolution of said content. Even before they upped the default rez of everythng to 640x480, all of the stuff i bought and watched looked just fine. I think people put it on fullscreen on their desktop monitor and then are dissapointed by the pixelation and artifacting. I would challenge these people to roll their deskchairs up, and sit two feet away from their expensive 50 inch rear-projection TV. They would be just as dissapointed in the blurryness and pixelation.
my desktop looks like ass through an s-video interface to my living room tv, but once i get the daily show running up there i can't tell the difference between that and cable.
seriously.
I cant even get ready to play a game in 15 minutes. Gotta roll in the comfy chair from the 'office', get the easily consumable food out and ready to go, prepare a stiff vodka based beverage.
Sheesh!
I am being a bit facetious, but really, 15 minutes? i dont think you can even sit down and play any game (video or not) in less than 15 minutes. Who are these people?
Ok, so i see a pattern here. over the last twenty years all i ever heard about the mac was about how dead apple was, and how they were going to vanish and the company was going to go under.
Now all i hear about is that 'any day now' All the macs on the planet are going to be suddenly and utterly destroyed by the impending virus rush.
Look, I don't encourage people to run any system without security. My macs are all behind a nice firewall. However, I think that, given the record of some clever young programmers to break industry strength security in short order, i wonder when all of these virus writers are going to come over and focus on the mac? i mean, the mac market hasn't really changed much in the last year or two. (in terms of numbers) and the hardware change doesnt seem to have made it any easier to infect the systems.
Mac users and the mac community in general have been snobbishly touting the no viruses thing for quite awhile now. There are tons of clever hackers out there who can break all sorts of security, yet all we have so far are a few lame-ass trojans that you have to type your password in to install. (which, really are not viruses so much) So apparently the big carrot of 'first mac virus that actually was a virus' is really not that big of a carrot.
While i am a software engineer on macs, my expertise does not lie in the virus-area, so i can't really say if it is really much harder to write for the mac, or if it is just unappealing in a business sense (for the virus writers).
my opinion: if i measured my income with each thousand machines i added to my botnet with a virus i wrote, then i think i would stick to the 95% of the market that is fairly homogenous in terms of security. (ie all windows) and leave the outlying OSes (mac, linux) because even if both mac and linux double or triple their respective marketshares in the next five years, windows will still be the easy choice for virus makers.
Hehe, that would be really funny if i weren't a self-employed software developer on (you guessed it) macs. and yes, i have turned down lucrative offers to work on windows machines. Both porting of my own apps as well as simply coming to work for windows based dev houses. (having already done it for many years (as well as unix stuff (c,c++, perl, etc which i still do on occasion), i started using the free tools apple provides and have never looked back. )
At one point a few years ago, i finally made the decision to abandon windows, (much like abandoning shitty beer, or vodka that comes in a plastic bottle), and never partake in the windows experience ever again (because vodka from a plastic bottle will make me sick every time, no matter how small a shot). I told everyone who i used to help support (in that friend-who-fixes-your-computer kind of way) as nicely as possible that i would not be helping them anymore because i had sworn off windows. Every one of them, when they were ready for a new machine, bought a mac, and have similarly never looked back.
In my free time, on my mac with free tools, I re-wrote the main program that the company i worked for used (on windows machines) and started to use it exclusively to do the same tasks, but more efficiently. (this company is in the visual effects business) and eventually my mac based program became the preferred tool for everyone, and i am now a co-owner of the company, and am working on version 3 of my software app for them.
Since then i have been refusing software contracts on the basis of operating system, and my reputation in my small network has increased, and my clients are more discriminating and much easier to work with, and my contracts are more lucrative. (this sounds stupendously snobbish, and it kinda is. Windows crappiness has created a market of 'people unwilling to put up with windows', and that market often is willing to spend more to get better quality, and i service part of that market. windows crappiness has also created a similar market of 'people-unwilling-to-put-up-with-windows-but-are-
So, while i don't make 50 million on a contract usually, i do make enough that i have plenty of free time to 'yak it up' here on slashdot without any fear or reprisal from myself (the boss).
so, keep your $50 million dollars worth of plastic-bottle-vodka, yeah, it will get you just as drunk as the good stuff, but the good stuff wont make you sick. i am going to go and have a grey goose martini with my mac-only pals.
Ok, fair enough, you make some good points, i picked the easy targets. However, when i buy a tool (like a computer) i shouldnt have to take a course that covers all the little things i CANT do with it.
how about the inconsistent user interface? that alone is enough to hate windows. Inconsistent use of the two buttons that windows users love so much. (note: i have a two-button with scroll wheel mouse, works like a dream on my mac) the right button is supposed to be 'properties' or somesuch, but is so inconsistently implemented that the user often has to right click on stuff just to see what 'might' be there.
dont get me started about all the 'wizards'.
and all the other little things that you notice once you use an OS that is mostly transparent to your productivity.
many many people have said it before: windows users put up with their operating system, they don't like it. (and when i say 'like' i dont mean fanatically adore, i mean that the tools you use should be pleasant and easy to use, and get out of your way.) I dont feel a sense of joy working on a mac, it just sits there and does what it is supposed to and doesnt frustrate me instantly like windows does.
(and i don't hate microsoft, i do hate windows however, and will never use it. for computer types, the OS is what you interact with EVERY day of your computing life. here is an analogy: burlap blankets would do a fine job of keeping you warm at night (and be less than half the price of your other blanket options), but why the hell would you pick something so terribly uncomfortable to use EVERY DAY? spend a bit more and you wont wake up itchy everymornign and might actually get a good night's sleep)
and frankly, i am not trying to convert you or refute your choice of windows. I am just saying that for me: my time is worth something. that is why i us a mac. you can do whatever you like. burlap is a very useful textile.
Ugn. please.
every time there is an apple thread, someone comes out and says 'wait PC's are cheaper!! and here is a comparison!!' and then some apple fanatic comes back and refutes it and blah blah blah.
Look, my time is worth money. windows and linux take effort. I want my tools to work, so I can get to the business at hand. when my tools dont work, i have to spend time fixing them simply so i can get back to work. Having used windows previously (which made me even more of a mac fan) I can tell you that my mac 'just works' and windows does not (i mean, it works, kinda, if you know how to set it up right and keep it running, oh, and reboot every so often and.. and.... and...).
So, again, my time is worth money, if the mac were 5 times as expensive as the dell, it would still pay itself off in productivity in about a month in comparison. So, feel free to buy the cheaper machine, more power to yah. I would rather spend my free time with friends and family and my work time being creative. (as opposed to spending my free time fixing my computer, and my work time jumping through hoops to get shit done)
I had a 17" g4 and it was absolutely fantastic. I write code, and having all your .h and .m.cc.c.whatever files open at the same time, as well as all the interface windows open all at once is a great boon to efficient programming. However, eventually i came to hate lugging it around (at 7 pounds, still lighter than most of my friends shitty dells at the time) and i finally downgraded to a 12".
best choice i ever made. the 12" is not noticeably slower for doing the stuff i do. (compiles a tiny bit slower, but whateva) and it still runs the 23" cinema when on my desk. weighs just over half as much, and fits in a much smaller space (so i can lug around my big nikon d70 as well)
Anyhow, props to Apple for releasing the mothership of laptops, the 17" really is a sweet machine, but the second they announce a 13" intel based lappy, i am there.
Dvorak is trolling again.
The reason Apple is 'so great' is because they control the whole experience. What you are buying is the hardware + apps +OS.
If you sell the OS on any old PC hardware (as many have asked for) then suddenly Apple loses one of the legs or their product.
If you open the OS then you lose another leg.
The reason everyone wants apple to do these things is because the quality they can get when they control all those things. (no they dont control all the apps, obviously, but they provide the basic user with everything they would need in an easy to use package)
I am so tired of people saying: I love apple OS, but i will never pay for it until they sell it for my shitty dell hardware! Well, then it wouldn't be the Apple that is able to be so high quality, and you wouldn't want it anyway!
So, back to my original point: Dvorak is a tired hack, and he is trolling for pagehits. Please stop putting his crap up here and helping him out!
Here is some karma suicide for yah:
I agree, MacWorld is a glass always full kinda publication. And as an avowed mac freak, i for one do NOT want there to be a mass exodus of sheeple to the mac platform. One thing that keeps mac great is that in order to survive in the mac market, your software has to be pretty damn good and it has to just work. I do not look forward to our new Apple overlords. Being the little guy means more innovation, new interesting technology. As soon as Apple becomes the new M$ then it becomes all about keeping the cash cow alive at all costs. So, please, all you windows apologists! get crackin! We dont want your market share!
hmm... so basically this is saying that virtually never is about 1 in about 3300. (or 3 in 10000, however you want to look at it) now if you turn on ten things a day (which seems reasonable if not conservative) then at least once a year your house will do something crazy.
now for something innocuous like lights, i turn on lights all teh time and it sometimes doesnt work (ie it burns out) but if I am away on vacation and insteon decides to turn on my AC full blast in the middle of summer for a week, well then that would suck.
How hard is it to guarantee packet delivery, and to make the hardware not do something stupid if it gets an error?
I find that musical ringtones are personality amplifiers. for that .01% of people that are already cool without a ringtone, a clever ringtone will enhance their attitude. For people like the submitter, having your phone break out a speed metal riff, will reall bring out the fact that you are a pathetic loser who relies on their electronic accessories to define them.
ringtone != cool (if you are reading this, you are not in that sliver of culture that can pull off a ringtone, please, for the love of god, switch to vibrate)
sorry, that is just the way it is.
(for full disclosure, I have my ringtone set to vibrate, since I am not in the top 0.01% of coolness)
>>> In fact, if memory serves, isn't the brushed metal
>>>theme supposed to be limited to apps which operate
>>>w/ other devices, according to Apple's own style
>>>guidelines?
I agree with you, web servers could in NO way be considered a 'device' which the browser 'operates' with, as you say.
-b
I think you should go for the CS degree. Then again, that is what I got, and I enjoy the deep backend technical stuff.
The MIS/CIS degrees seem to be less about the code and mroe about the business side of things. (in fact, when I went to college (CU Boulder), grad in '96, the CIS/MIS degrees were offerd through the business school, and the CS degree was offfered thorugh the engineering school.)
Anyhow, my advice is this: if you want to do really technical geeky-like things, get teh CS, if you plan on managing technical geek-type people, get the MIS/CIS.
Cheers!
-b
Yes, I agree that this will be the acid test to see if Win2k can handle a real load, but I think the big question in my mind will be: how many win2k servers did it take to replicate the load handling ability of the freeBSD servers? I mean, put 500 machines in a load-balanced system and they can all be horribly unstable but the overall system would be fine. (a bitch to maintain, but hey it is msft)
As I read through most of these comments it seems to me that most of them are things like 'who can't type faster on a keyboard then HWR?' and 'the keyboard will never die!!'
I think you are all missing the point here. Apple isn't going to stop including keyboards with all of their products, they just might come out with something that doesn't have a keyboard (like the newton, or the palm, but bigger) is it possible that there are people out there that might want to buy somehting like that? yes there is. maybe you don't but, who cares?
I think the ibook screen is too small and it is not expandable enough, so you know what I did? I bought the computer that was right for me, a powerbook. I didn't write Apple (or slashdot) and bitch about the ibook not being right for me, cuz they have products that do cater to my needs. I know people who love their ibooks, and they dont want anything more. I guarantee there are people out there who do not like the keyboard, who don't need that extra functionality for whatever they are using their machine for, and would get along just fine with a tablet-based system.
perhaps whenever apple leaks (or announces) something that sounds like change (oh my gosh!) you can all sit back and think; 'well, i dont htink I would like that, but someone might' instead of assuming that everyone on the planet is like you and would rather drive a six-inch spike through their foreheads then give up their keyboards...
sheesh..
(BTW I used to have a newton2000 and the HWR rocked)
As far as I have seen, the cooling is done via smart design of the case using the physics of air tempurature to force it out of the box (ie all the hot air goes out the top) The problem with using this technique for a pentium type machine is that the pentiums are much much hotter running chips than the G4's (also as a side note the imacs have been doing this (no fan) since the last upgrade.)
Cheers!
_ben
I am not saying that parents should sit with their children %100 of the time while they watch TV, just that (as has been mentioned maybe ten billion times in the comments to this article already) that the TV is a bad bad replacement for child-parent interaction. Especially TV nowadays.
Maybe It is just me but it seems like when I was a child (late 70's early 80's, no so long ago, granted) Tv didn't suck so badly. Perhaps I am just older and more discrimiating now. Or maybe it was just that I didn't actually watch that much TV (mostly just saturday morning cartoons), and I actually went outside once in awhile and my parents read to me, and then suggested good books for me to read when I was old enough, and took me to the library and encouraged me to participate in this thing we call life instead of just giving up and ploppping me in front of the tube for hours on end...
I know of many many children (some in my family, cousins etc..) that come home from school and do nothing but TV/sega for six or seven hours until their parents make them go to bed.. I fear for the future when the majority of children are brought up this way..
Cheers!
Hmmm... maybe it is just me, but maybe, just maybe parents should be spending time with their offspring and not letting the TV/Mass-media/Vchip raise them? WHatever happened to reading your kid a book or something?
just my $.02
Cheers!