OS X has user accounts just like Windows. Your settings, aka preferences, are your own. Of course they could add fingerprint ID sensors to this mouse without anybody noticing... Maybe they already DID!
In my experience TiVo fails miserably at knowing what you like / don't like, even in a single user scenario. Record a few episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and it starts to think you're interested in every stupid kiddie cartoon there is. Record the Seven Samurai and it thinks you like kung-fu movies. Idiot box, indeed. Targeted commercials woud be even worse. People would start padding their to-do list to influence the way they get targeted. Ooh! My BMW ads are so much better than your Kia ads..... I bought a TiVo to watch what I want, PERIOD. Soon it will be going in the trash.
Rather than compete with the masterpiece "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" they just gave up in abject defeat. No, think about it. Apple has all the free advertising it needs. Its all around you. Even here.
Also, every likely potential mac user already has a Tivo to skip commercials.
There is virtually no limit to how much design can cost, because for every successful design, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of failures. Some end up on the drafting room floor, 86'ed, others get to market a month too late and nobody wants them. On the other hand, bad design has unlimited downside potential that can drive you into the ground.
energy-related CO2 emissions is a rather narrow segment of "pollution" (albeit the main one concerning Kyoto). And splitting eastern and western Europe is perhaps misleading. Don't forget about the emissions of burning rainforests and the subsequent increasse in solar gain when we pave the eath.
Nevertheless, Kyoto would merely act as a speedbump in the race to make this planet a living hell which we are all engaged. If Kyoto is too complicated and unfair and demanding and bureacratic, a real solution would be much much worse.
and iPhoto isn't going to put a dent in Photoshop, etc. etc... Welcome to the market. You either have to have a better product, brilliant marketing, an army of lawyers, or a simple monopoly.
Parallel ports rock! BTW, how long has it been since you came out of your bunker? I've got an old Wang monochrome (green) monitor and an OKIDATA dot matrix line printer in my attic, if you want them.
Yeah, we Mac Geeks love being everybody's "friend" when they have questions but haven't bothered to read the book, the manual, the dialog box, or attempted to reason themselves in any way. That is what separates us from PC geeks, who call it a profession.
Apple in a price war? That hasn't happened in a very long time. Which may explain why their stock is going up despite their perpetual sliding into oblivion.
And no, technically they do not pay the RIAA directly. I believe some of the music they offer is Indy, as well.
It will be interesting to see which bands, or labels, make exclusive deals with the Borg. Cool or Popular? Hip or L7? will the music world become as divded as the political spectrum?
agreed. Its just a non-portable G5 iBook. Unfortunately it has the iBook's cheesy plastic-y-ness. If it were a bigger brother to the iPod it would be chrome in the back. And being thin and freestanding the back is important.
I see a lot of people saying its priced reasonably. Now, I often come to the defense of Apple's pricing - you get what you pay for and all that- but this just does not have "it". Those clever Apple marketers have convinced me to spring for the G5 cheese grater after all.
On a camera this cheap could it be possible that the firmware and the image cache (before compression) is on the same memory "chip" as the stored images? Seems that good digital cameras have 16mb or even much more "firm" memory on their circuitboard to allow all the UI software to work, screen buffer, images to queue, etc.
If you are buying DRM encrusted files that may or may not work with your particular mp3 player in the future, you need a degree of trust, faith even, that Real has not shown itself worthy.
In Singapore commercial vehicles such as taxicabs have a yellow light on the roof that flashes when they exceed the general preset speed limit. ARREST ME! ARREST ME! It may be rational, but it still cracks me up.
I am not really an IT guy because I maintain the system for a small design firm which is mostly Macs and a few PCs, which only takes a few hours a week. I learned something recently, though, when our Business/Marketing Manager's PC was infested with spyware. She was polite, and put no pressure on me to fix it immediately. That's rare! The day after I fixed her PC I found a sixpack of good beer on my desk.
I realized she is as good or better at what she does than I am at what I do.
and why doesn't the (nonexistent) remote work with my other obscure Ir devices? and why doesn't it work with POE? and why can't i plug it into my cigarette lighter and charge my iPod and sync my task list with my usb watch? For that mater, why doesn't it have built in speakers??? Huh?
A 25 cent audio cable would just give every reviewer something to carp about. Some people want RCA, some optical. Optical cables ain't cheap. Some people think its gay as sunshine to sell matching sets of white cables, whereas one review I read was absolutely thrilled. Some peope think Monster cables are a complete waste, others swear by them. I sprung for the $39 cable kit and do not regret it. That Radio Shack crap I had was lame.
Next they'll complain that it doesn't have a usb cable
Then there's the whole issue with the multitude of power plugs used in this world... They chose wisely to skip past it all. Its a convenient luxury item. You want it, you pay. You don't - there's always duct tape.
The Democratic Party has nothing to do with the details of crazy public safety measures in Boston, but the Republican governor and ludicrous Mayor Mumbles Menino do. Add to that, greedy cops cashing in on a bogus non-specific homeland security alert, picking the best (worst) possible time to picket; you've got a situation that would make our founding fathers raise the Union Jack proudly.
Maybe somebody at the DNC has compromising pictures of George Bush getting wads of money stuffed up... oh wait, that wouldn't be news. (Same applies to Mr. Kerry) Just what sort of top secret information does anybody expect to snag? This is a planned media circus, not a cigar smoke-filled warroom meeting.
I don't see how the security vulnerabilities at the DNC are any different than any business, convention, or hotel on any day in any city.
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OS X has user accounts just like Windows. Your settings, aka preferences, are your own. Of course they could add fingerprint ID sensors to this mouse without anybody noticing... Maybe they already DID!
In my experience TiVo fails miserably at knowing what you like / don't like, even in a single user scenario. Record a few episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and it starts to think you're interested in every stupid kiddie cartoon there is. Record the Seven Samurai and it thinks you like kung-fu movies. Idiot box, indeed. .. ..
Targeted commercials woud be even worse. People would start padding their to-do list to influence the way they get targeted. Ooh! My BMW ads are so much better than your Kia ads.
I bought a TiVo to watch what I want, PERIOD. Soon it will be going in the trash.
Rather than compete with the masterpiece "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" they just gave up in abject defeat. No, think about it. Apple has all the free advertising it needs. Its all around you. Even here. Also, every likely potential mac user already has a Tivo to skip commercials.
There is virtually no limit to how much design can cost, because for every successful design, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of failures. Some end up on the drafting room floor, 86'ed, others get to market a month too late and nobody wants them.
On the other hand, bad design has unlimited downside potential that can drive you into the ground.
energy-related CO2 emissions is a rather narrow segment of "pollution" (albeit the main one concerning Kyoto). And splitting eastern and western Europe is perhaps misleading. Don't forget about the emissions of burning rainforests and the subsequent increasse in solar gain when we pave the eath. Nevertheless, Kyoto would merely act as a speedbump in the race to make this planet a living hell which we are all engaged. If Kyoto is too complicated and unfair and demanding and bureacratic, a real solution would be much much worse.
and iPhoto isn't going to put a dent in Photoshop, etc. etc... Welcome to the market. You either have to have a better product, brilliant marketing, an army of lawyers, or a simple monopoly.
> ..YET. Give their shareholders a little more time.
and with a simple firmware tweak video mirroring becomes true dual monitor capability. Apple doesn't want you to know that, though.
Parallel ports rock! BTW, how long has it been since you came out of your bunker? I've got an old Wang monochrome (green) monitor and an OKIDATA dot matrix line printer in my attic, if you want them.
Yeah, we Mac Geeks love being everybody's "friend" when they have questions but haven't bothered to read the book, the manual, the dialog box, or attempted to reason themselves in any way. That is what separates us from PC geeks, who call it a profession.
Apple in a price war? That hasn't happened in a very long time. Which may explain why their stock is going up despite their perpetual sliding into oblivion.
And no, technically they do not pay the RIAA directly. I believe some of the music they offer is Indy, as well.
It will be interesting to see which bands, or labels, make exclusive deals with the Borg. Cool or Popular? Hip or L7? will the music world become as divded as the political spectrum?
Bondi iMacs are selling for $199. Fits your needs. Heck, for 400 euro you could get a graphite iMac DV and an external firewire HD.
agreed. Its just a non-portable G5 iBook. Unfortunately it has the iBook's cheesy plastic-y-ness. If it were a bigger brother to the iPod it would be chrome in the back. And being thin and freestanding the back is important. I see a lot of people saying its priced reasonably. Now, I often come to the defense of Apple's pricing - you get what you pay for and all that- but this just does not have "it". Those clever Apple marketers have convinced me to spring for the G5 cheese grater after all.
Oh really? I didn't know you could speak Passamaquoddy. Or is it Sioux where you come from?
On a camera this cheap could it be possible that the firmware and the image cache (before compression) is on the same memory "chip" as the stored images? Seems that good digital cameras have 16mb or even much more "firm" memory on their circuitboard to allow all the UI software to work, screen buffer, images to queue, etc.
If you are buying DRM encrusted files that may or may not work with your particular mp3 player in the future, you need a degree of trust, faith even, that Real has not shown itself worthy.
In Singapore commercial vehicles such as taxicabs have a yellow light on the roof that flashes when they exceed the general preset speed limit. ARREST ME! ARREST ME! It may be rational, but it still cracks me up.
I am not really an IT guy because I maintain the system for a small design firm which is mostly Macs and a few PCs, which only takes a few hours a week. I learned something recently, though, when our Business/Marketing Manager's PC was infested with spyware. She was polite, and put no pressure on me to fix it immediately. That's rare! The day after I fixed her PC I found a sixpack of good beer on my desk. I realized she is as good or better at what she does than I am at what I do.
and why doesn't the (nonexistent) remote work with my other obscure Ir devices? and why doesn't it work with POE? and why can't i plug it into my cigarette lighter and charge my iPod and sync my task list with my usb watch? For that mater, why doesn't it have built in speakers??? Huh?
Here comes the WAAAAAAAAAmbulance!
A 25 cent audio cable would just give every reviewer something to carp about. Some people want RCA, some optical. Optical cables ain't cheap. Some people think its gay as sunshine to sell matching sets of white cables, whereas one review I read was absolutely thrilled. Some peope think Monster cables are a complete waste, others swear by them. I sprung for the $39 cable kit and do not regret it. That Radio Shack crap I had was lame.
Next they'll complain that it doesn't have a usb cable
Then there's the whole issue with the multitude of power plugs used in this world... They chose wisely to skip past it all. Its a convenient luxury item. You want it, you pay. You don't - there's always duct tape.
The Democratic Party has nothing to do with the details of crazy public safety measures in Boston, but the Republican governor and ludicrous Mayor Mumbles Menino do. Add to that, greedy cops cashing in on a bogus non-specific homeland security alert, picking the best (worst) possible time to picket; you've got a situation that would make our founding fathers raise the Union Jack proudly.
Maybe somebody at the DNC has compromising pictures of George Bush getting wads of money stuffed up... oh wait, that wouldn't be news. (Same applies to Mr. Kerry) Just what sort of top secret information does anybody expect to snag? This is a planned media circus, not a cigar smoke-filled warroom meeting.
I don't see how the security vulnerabilities at the DNC are any different than any business, convention, or hotel on any day in any city.