If you're always logged in, why do you use FileVault anyway? I don't think it offers much of a benefit then unless you're worried about physical theft of your hard drive alone.
I've disabled text messaging because of the terrible value it presents. I have way more voice minutes than I know what to do with for $60/mo. Why would I pay $0.20 for a tiny little text message? I can just make a phone call.
Get a T1 to start, and open up a small neighborhood ISP. Then expand to a T3 if you get the cash flow. If you can't make a business case for it, neither can the telcos.
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That's a great idea. Let's have you be in charge of what's useful and what's a waste, and tax people at extremely high rates so that money doesn't go into what's a waste. Rich people like the Wright Brothers should have been taxed into being "mddle class" with a respectable job too. What silliness to waste their time on a machine only rich people can afford.
Wait a second. Maybe an even better alternative is to just tax you (and other volunteers) at a higher rate, since that's what you've chosen. Then nobody loses.
Wernher von Braun specifically sought out Americans near the end of the war because he feared the treatment he'd receive by the Russians. He later became an American citizen.
The other responses to your post miss your excellent point. Airbags don't do all that much in an accident if you are properly belted in. A 5 point harness would do more for safety, but it wouldn't allow a soccer mom to turn and yell at the kids since she'd be clamped to the seat. Airbags are much more expensive than a harness and provide less safety. Why are they mandated then? Because airbags might protect you even if you don't wear your belt, and the public thinks that airbags are free since they're mandated to the manufacturer.
I wouldn't be surprised, however, if the market you mention is really small...probably the vast majority of "mid range" customers won't ever expand or customize their machine. Think of the population as a whole - what percentage even knows what a PCI slot is?
You sound like the typical network admin with every MS certification known to man, but no computer science degree. He never learned how computers actually work, so the concepts of interfaces and systems engineering are lost upon him. Add to that a lack of interest in learning, and you havee the typical control-freak admin who forgets that the users are the customer, and his job is to enable theirs. Hint...UNIX has worked in very large, complex networks for decades, and the Mac is UNIX. If you can't figure that out, maybe you're in the wrong field.
The "clumpiness" of the population determines the ease of networking. There's just no realistic way to have inexpensive, high quality internet access in a place like Emblem, WY (Population 10, last I was there). Canada has low density, but the population tends to clump near the US border. Australia has the population clumped on their East coast. Therefore, these countries aren't representative of the difficulty of penetration in the United States. In major urban centers, internet speeds have been skyrocketing. We have high speed fibre, cable, DSL, and traditional dedicated lines where I live in Southern California.
It costs $10 _per person_ to count us? That's unbelievable. Perhaps if they just count people (as the Constitution requires) rather than gather race and demographic information, they could cut their costs.
The prices of DVDs haven't gone up. The value of the dollar has just gone down. If you bought DVDs with gold coins, they'd be much cheaper than a year ago.
This is where the Constitution (through the judiciary) should step in and protect us (as a nation nation) from the masses. It's why we're not supposed to be a pure democracy. However, the constant posting of poll results and inadequate education leads people to forget that, too, and insist on ignoring the Constitution.
Your Honor,
I will refer to exhibit "A", a Slashdot post. Note that it was moderated "+5 insightful".
Courtroom:
The defendant, Apple Corp, is found guilty as charged!
I'd take OS X over a previous version any day, but strictly in terms of user interface, previous Mac OSs were better. The finder actually was a graphical representation of the the disk - you didn't have multiple windows with the same files appearing in it, for example. It always remembered where you placed icons, your view settings, etc. OS X violates many of Apple's own interface guidelines leading to the mess that is the current Finder. Things like file sharing were trivial to set up with simple fine-grained controls over each directory (which finally reappeared in Leopard).
All that said, I'd gladly take the UNIX underpinnings and shell of OS X over OS 9.
Do you realize there are people value simplicity? That means no ABS, traction control, airbags, etc because that's all feature bloat leading to heavier, more "disconnected" cars - it's the driver-road interface that matters. Real drivers don't care about such things and would in fact rather drive the car than let the computer do it.
People below the poverty line spend very little and would thus be taxed very little. If you are talking about the tax rate being equal, why should I pay more than a poor person? I've worked harder (and/or smarter) for my money, and I should choose whether I give money to the poor or not.
Bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mice. There's a headphone jack for headphones and speakers. That leaves a USB port for ethernet (when you're traveling) or syncing the ipod (when you're at home).
"As an aside, one thing that really pisses me off about this war are claims that the end of the format war would be good for consumers. This is as logical as saying that Windows and IE should be universal -- good for consumers. Worse, Blu-ray has so many consumer-unfriendly facets (cost, no combo discs, a standard that's still in flux, early adopters getting screwed, the nebulous DRM of BD+) that it winning can never be perceived as a consumer win. Yeah, I'm biased because I didn't choose a format to win based upon a game unit I happened to buy."
No, this is like saying that HTML should be universal. We want competition among implementors of the standard, but we don't want competing standards for long.
Because it's not forcing. The carpool lane is a form a forcing. With congestion pricing, however, you _always_ can use the road. You're just paying for your incremental traffic loading on that road. You also benefit because there won't be as much traffic when you're driving. The costs you pay, in a fair system, should be offset by a reduction in other taxes. Of course, politicians never give money back, but that's a different issue.
Last I checked, nobody gets physically hurt when you speed, either.
Most people also agree that copying DVDs isn't a right.
As long as we only ask for the freedoms relevant to us as individuals, we will lose them all as a society.
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If you're always logged in, why do you use FileVault anyway? I don't think it offers much of a benefit then unless you're worried about physical theft of your hard drive alone.
I've disabled text messaging because of the terrible value it presents. I have way more voice minutes than I know what to do with for $60/mo. Why would I pay $0.20 for a tiny little text message? I can just make a phone call.
Get a T1 to start, and open up a small neighborhood ISP. Then expand to a T3 if you get the cash flow. If you can't make a business case for it, neither can the telcos.
That's a great idea. Let's have you be in charge of what's useful and what's a waste, and tax people at extremely high rates so that money doesn't go into what's a waste. Rich people like the Wright Brothers should have been taxed into being "mddle class" with a respectable job too. What silliness to waste their time on a machine only rich people can afford. Wait a second. Maybe an even better alternative is to just tax you (and other volunteers) at a higher rate, since that's what you've chosen. Then nobody loses.
Wernher von Braun specifically sought out Americans near the end of the war because he feared the treatment he'd receive by the Russians. He later became an American citizen.
The other responses to your post miss your excellent point. Airbags don't do all that much in an accident if you are properly belted in. A 5 point harness would do more for safety, but it wouldn't allow a soccer mom to turn and yell at the kids since she'd be clamped to the seat. Airbags are much more expensive than a harness and provide less safety. Why are they mandated then? Because airbags might protect you even if you don't wear your belt, and the public thinks that airbags are free since they're mandated to the manufacturer.
I wouldn't be surprised, however, if the market you mention is really small...probably the vast majority of "mid range" customers won't ever expand or customize their machine. Think of the population as a whole - what percentage even knows what a PCI slot is?
You sound like the typical network admin with every MS certification known to man, but no computer science degree. He never learned how computers actually work, so the concepts of interfaces and systems engineering are lost upon him. Add to that a lack of interest in learning, and you havee the typical control-freak admin who forgets that the users are the customer, and his job is to enable theirs.
Hint...UNIX has worked in very large, complex networks for decades, and the Mac is UNIX. If you can't figure that out, maybe you're in the wrong field.
I completely agree with you, if you happen to have one eye.
The "clumpiness" of the population determines the ease of networking. There's just no realistic way to have inexpensive, high quality internet access in a place like Emblem, WY (Population 10, last I was there). Canada has low density, but the population tends to clump near the US border. Australia has the population clumped on their East coast. Therefore, these countries aren't representative of the difficulty of penetration in the United States.
In major urban centers, internet speeds have been skyrocketing. We have high speed fibre, cable, DSL, and traditional dedicated lines where I live in Southern California.
It costs $10 _per person_ to count us? That's unbelievable. Perhaps if they just count people (as the Constitution requires) rather than gather race and demographic information, they could cut their costs.
The prices of DVDs haven't gone up. The value of the dollar has just gone down. If you bought DVDs with gold coins, they'd be much cheaper than a year ago.
This is where the Constitution (through the judiciary) should step in and protect us (as a nation nation) from the masses. It's why we're not supposed to be a pure democracy.
However, the constant posting of poll results and inadequate education leads people to forget that, too, and insist on ignoring the Constitution.
Your Honor, I will refer to exhibit "A", a Slashdot post. Note that it was moderated "+5 insightful". Courtroom: The defendant, Apple Corp, is found guilty as charged!
I'd take OS X over a previous version any day, but strictly in terms of user interface, previous Mac OSs were better. The finder actually was a graphical representation of the the disk - you didn't have multiple windows with the same files appearing in it, for example. It always remembered where you placed icons, your view settings, etc. OS X violates many of Apple's own interface guidelines leading to the mess that is the current Finder. Things like file sharing were trivial to set up with simple fine-grained controls over each directory (which finally reappeared in Leopard). All that said, I'd gladly take the UNIX underpinnings and shell of OS X over OS 9.
Do you realize there are people value simplicity? That means no ABS, traction control, airbags, etc because that's all feature bloat leading to heavier, more "disconnected" cars - it's the driver-road interface that matters. Real drivers don't care about such things and would in fact rather drive the car than let the computer do it.
People below the poverty line spend very little and would thus be taxed very little. If you are talking about the tax rate being equal, why should I pay more than a poor person? I've worked harder (and/or smarter) for my money, and I should choose whether I give money to the poor or not.
Bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mice. There's a headphone jack for headphones and speakers. That leaves a USB port for ethernet (when you're traveling) or syncing the ipod (when you're at home).
I don't know if you actually read the article, but the IBM laptops are more expensive than the Macs.
"As an aside, one thing that really pisses me off about this war are claims that the end of the format war would be good for consumers. This is as logical as saying that Windows and IE should be universal -- good for consumers. Worse, Blu-ray has so many consumer-unfriendly facets (cost, no combo discs, a standard that's still in flux, early adopters getting screwed, the nebulous DRM of BD+) that it winning can never be perceived as a consumer win. Yeah, I'm biased because I didn't choose a format to win based upon a game unit I happened to buy." No, this is like saying that HTML should be universal. We want competition among implementors of the standard, but we don't want competing standards for long.
Do you own stock? 401(k)? Mutual funds? Do you have a pension? If so, what benefits "their" class benefits your class.
Because it's not forcing. The carpool lane is a form a forcing. With congestion pricing, however, you _always_ can use the road. You're just paying for your incremental traffic loading on that road. You also benefit because there won't be as much traffic when you're driving. The costs you pay, in a fair system, should be offset by a reduction in other taxes. Of course, politicians never give money back, but that's a different issue.
Because, with congestion pricing, it would cost you dearly not to.
Last I checked, nobody gets physically hurt when you speed, either. Most people also agree that copying DVDs isn't a right. As long as we only ask for the freedoms relevant to us as individuals, we will lose them all as a society.
But that's why Apple sells MacBooks for $1100 too. This is for the people for whom the .4kg and smaller size _does_ matter.