Says the BBC: "Although 60% of factories monitored achieved an A or B rating in terms of compliance with agreed standards, a quarter of factories were found to present more serious problems.
These ranged from a lack of basic terms of employment and excessive hours of work to unauthorised sub-contracting, confirmed physical or sexual abuse and the existence of conditions which could lead to death or serious injury."
Cool. That means as of 13 April, 2005 only in 40% of the factories used by Nike workers face a lack of basic terms of employment and excessive hours of work, unauthorised sub-contracting, confirmed physical or sexual abuse and the existence of conditions which could lead to death or serious injury. I'm off to by a pair of Nikes. Seriously, this is the first major goof since Steve Jobs came back to Apple.
"[...] did I notice that my first-gen g5 1.6 only likes Apple's insanely great-ly priced RAM [...]"
Just use RAM that has exactly the specs stated by Apple. There is absolutely no reason to buy RAM from Apple, apart from convinience when ordering. Check the specs Apple put in the documentation that came with your G5 and show them to the dealer. Of course this is the reason why Apple dealers usually sell RAM that exactly meets those specs. And, yes it's a good idea to buy from a well known brand. I bet that at least 50% of Windows-PC crashs could be avoided if people wouldn't buy the cheapest memory they can find.
"It's my understanding that he was originally hired to manage production, which hardly sounds like a "co-founder" position."
If you have any good sources for that it would be nice to either change the Wikipedia entry or put it on the discussion page there. It Wasn't my intention to question your knowledge.
"[...] neither is McNealy. He was one of the first people recruited by Khosla and Bechtolsheim, but he had nothing to do with the initial creation of the company."
Hm, I'm one of those who grew up with the TOS reruns on german TV and watched every singele episode of Next Generation Deep Space Nine, and one of those to whom Star Trek is dead since... I don't know 4th or 5th episode of Voyager? But this still sounds like a really nice idea to me. Just make sure that noone who particpated in the last movie and/or Enterprise is involved.
A Fachhochschule is an advanced technical college/polytechnic. German Fachhochschulen like to call themselfs "universities of applied sciences" these days. And yes it's normally viewed as less prestigious.
And to explane the ACs joke to you: He/she was referring to Michael Dell who in 1997 answered the question what he'd do to save Apple: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders".
This year Steve Jobs sent an e-mail to his employees, when Apples market capitalization surpassed that of DELL on January 13: "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve."
In our office (multimedia/public sector) we are right now in the process to decide on a groupware solution. We have Macs and Windows-PCs and right now people use different e-mail-clients and use a very old version of Now-Uptodate. After comparing an upgrade to this with MS Exchange and OSS solutions I recommended a Linux-PC based solution with either Open Xchange or Open Groupware. We "outsorced" this to a small local company who will decide what exactly will be used. They'll sell us a machine with everything build and configured to our needs and give us an introduction. We then will use it through a web-interface.
I'm a Machead myself but I think this is the best solution, it surely was the cheapest and will run on everything with a webbrowser. And it is the savest solution for the future. Right now there are some people who want to change everything from Mac to Windows, who knows if in a few years our city switches to Linux?
" you can have my living room if you'll take the 'Pixar' sign down and replace it with this 'Disney' sign"."
It seams as if they won't even do that:
"Even with the buyout, Disney films produced by Pixar's animation studios and staff will continued to be marketed under the dual "Disney Pixar" brand. "It would be foolish to throw any of [the successful brand] away," the company said."
You forgot to mention, that at first it will only be available on the "Mac Media Center Shuffle", which has no screen attached. Because who wants to watch todays crap TV anyway?
"Hmmmn, I think maybe that the Ipod Express tables did not work out quite as well as expected"
Hmmm, but as you're posting links you could also post the one to the update where Peter Burrows writes that a source at Apple said: "[...] the EasyPay system will become an ongoing aspect of the Apple retail experience [...] it was considered a big success this holiday shopping season. And Steve Jobs believes that many people who are comfortable buying on-line [...] will actually prefer getting their receipts electronically."
Or would that take the negative spin out of your posting?
Uhm, I don't think so. The places name derives from a guy named Rapoto, offspring of a noble Bavarian lineage, the "Rapotonen". The Rattenberg castle at least dates back to 10th century. More than enough time for the names to change.
This is why you should access torrents through community forums. From the comments sections here you'll quickly learn which torrents are bad. Helps the network in general because you'll also have to look after you UL/DL ratio not going too low.
It doesn't say anything about the profit Apple is making with the iPod nano. It only shows the price of the used components. This could be interesting for any competitors in the MP3-player market. You'd still need developers, marketing and all that other stuff used to get a product to market...
"Look where the debate has started and where it has ended."
Huh? What debate? Some guy decided to post in a thread of an article about Apple screwin' up majorly in a lawsuit. And instead of discussing the topic he/she made assumptions about Mac users reactions. And then you decided to join that discussion making statements about the quality of the hardware. I still don't get how you and doublem got modded insightful. To me the posts smelled somewhat trollish.
"I am seeing the B&O or Design Museum factor. What I am not seeing is better functional industrial design, in the sense of, better cooled components, components easier to swap."
The pics make it clear I think. I would chose to swap a harddrive or RAM in the Mac anyday over fiddling with that entanglement of wires in the DELLs. And if I open a DELL I see a piece of hardware put together by people who really didn't care much. That's supposed to inspire me with trust about the overall quality?
"I'm not a hardware designer, but the main board doesn't look any better to me than any other main board. But maybe there is something elegant about it that I'm missing?"
I guess so. I dunno what you use your wood tools for, but i guess it means you are in some way working on stuff that's supposed to be aesthetically pleasing? So I'm really surprised you don't see the differences.
"For every piece of FUD Microsoft spews, Apple tosses out a lawsuit."
I would say there are not enough laywers in the world for that:)
People forget that Apple sued Microsoft to keep non Apple GUIS off the market. If they had their way, everything would be text mode or Apple. No Windows, no X, no nothing.
See? Now that is what we call FUD, in case you wondered. They sued because of certain similarities in the GUI. And they sued because they had a contract with MS, of which Apple thought MS would have violated it. Which wasn't the case. So Apple lost. But before Bill saw the Macintosh interface he didn't give a rats ass about GUIs. As he didn't give a rats ass about the World Wide Web until it (and Netscape) became a roaring success. That is because MS couldn't innovate itself out of a wet paper bag if someone cut a whole in it for them. And if you don't understand that I can throw disturbed metaphors at you all evening.
"We have opened the cases, and looked at what's in them, and we just do not see it. We see the same drives, opticals, memory, psus, graphics cards as in our Dell boxes. We see main boards manufactured by, I think, Asus. We don't see any particularly wonderful layout of the components."
Hm, perhaps you better go let your eyes be checked:
Seriously: I was born 1969 and clearly are part of the walkman generation, using one (OK, cheap copycats) from the mid 80s till the early 90s. Then I exposed my ears to techno parties:-P
Whenever they check my hearing at the doctor or hospital they are surprised how good I hear considered my age.
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These ranged from a lack of basic terms of employment and excessive hours of work to unauthorised sub-contracting, confirmed physical or sexual abuse and the existence of conditions which could lead to death or serious injury."
Cool. That means as of 13 April, 2005 only in 40% of the factories used by Nike workers face a lack of basic terms of employment and excessive hours of work, unauthorised sub-contracting, confirmed physical or sexual abuse and the existence of conditions which could lead to death or serious injury. I'm off to by a pair of Nikes.
Seriously, this is the first major goof since Steve Jobs came back to Apple.
Just use RAM that has exactly the specs stated by Apple. There is absolutely no reason to buy RAM from Apple, apart from convinience when ordering.
Check the specs Apple put in the documentation that came with your G5 and show them to the dealer. Of course this is the reason why Apple dealers usually sell RAM that exactly meets those specs. And, yes it's a good idea to buy from a well known brand. I bet that at least 50% of Windows-PC crashs could be avoided if people wouldn't buy the cheapest memory they can find.
Apple makes up for it with QuicktimePro nagging :-/
If you have any good sources for that it would be nice to either change the Wikipedia entry or put it on the discussion page there. It Wasn't my intention to question your knowledge.
But Wikipedia says so:
"Its founders were Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy [...], and Andy Bechtolsheim"
Hm, I'm one of those who grew up with the TOS reruns on german TV and watched every singele episode of Next Generation Deep Space Nine, and one of those to whom Star Trek is dead since ... I don't know 4th or 5th episode of Voyager? But this still sounds like a really nice idea to me. Just make sure that noone who particpated in the last movie and/or Enterprise is involved.
A Fachhochschule is an advanced technical college/polytechnic. German Fachhochschulen like to call themselfs "universities of applied sciences" these days. And yes it's normally viewed as less prestigious.
Even if you were correct, which isn't the case:
AAPL 23-Dec-05: 73.35$
AAPL 24-Mar-06: 59.96$
Wich looks more like 20% to me ...
AAPL still looks like the better investment compared to DELL:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m &q=l&c=DELL
And to explane the ACs joke to you: He/she was referring to Michael Dell who in 1997 answered the question what he'd do to save Apple: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders".
This year Steve Jobs sent an e-mail to his employees, when Apples market capitalization surpassed that of DELL on January 13: "Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve."
says 860022 to 230456. /. as we love it :)
I'm a Machead myself but I think this is the best solution, it surely was the cheapest and will run on everything with a webbrowser. And it is the savest solution for the future. Right now there are some people who want to change everything from Mac to Windows, who knows if in a few years our city switches to Linux?
It seams as if they won't even do that:
"Even with the buyout, Disney films produced by Pixar's animation studios and staff will continued to be marketed under the dual "Disney Pixar" brand. "It would be foolish to throw any of [the successful brand] away," the company said."
Says AppleInsider quoting a CNBC interview.
You kinda lost me there ...
"And yes, all the displays have little rainbow colored Apples on them."
Uhm, yeah, right ... +5 Interesting my ass.
You forgot to mention, that at first it will only be available on the "Mac Media Center Shuffle", which has no screen attached. Because who wants to watch todays crap TV anyway?
Hmmm, but as you're posting links you could also post the one to the update where Peter Burrows writes that a source at Apple said: "[...] the EasyPay system will become an ongoing aspect of the Apple retail experience [...] it was considered a big success this holiday shopping season. And Steve Jobs believes that many people who are comfortable buying on-line [...] will actually prefer getting their receipts electronically."
Or would that take the negative spin out of your posting?
Mod parent +5 funny.
Uhm, I don't think so. The places name derives from a guy named Rapoto, offspring of a noble Bavarian lineage, the "Rapotonen". The Rattenberg castle at least dates back to 10th century. More than enough time for the names to change.
Just wait for the /. Story in 5 hours: "Less space than an XServe Raid, no TIVO, lame."
Duke Nukem Forever will come bundled with the Phantom console! And if you order together with the new Apple PDA there'll be a rebate. Yessir!
This is why you should access torrents through community forums. From the comments sections here you'll quickly learn which torrents are bad. Helps the network in general because you'll also have to look after you UL/DL ratio not going too low.
It doesn't say anything about the profit Apple is making with the iPod nano. It only shows the price of the used components. This could be interesting for any competitors in the MP3-player market. You'd still need developers, marketing and all that other stuff used to get a product to market ...
Huh? What debate? Some guy decided to post in a thread of an article about Apple screwin' up majorly in a lawsuit. And instead of discussing the topic he/she made assumptions about Mac users reactions. And then you decided to join that discussion making statements about the quality of the hardware. I still don't get how you and doublem got modded insightful. To me the posts smelled somewhat trollish.
"I am seeing the B&O or Design Museum factor. What I am not seeing is better functional industrial design, in the sense of, better cooled components, components easier to swap."
The pics make it clear I think. I would chose to swap a harddrive or RAM in the Mac anyday over fiddling with that entanglement of wires in the DELLs. And if I open a DELL I see a piece of hardware put together by people who really didn't care much. That's supposed to inspire me with trust about the overall quality?
"I'm not a hardware designer, but the main board doesn't look any better to me than any other main board. But maybe there is something elegant about it that I'm missing?"
I guess so. I dunno what you use your wood tools for, but i guess it means you are in some way working on stuff that's supposed to be aesthetically pleasing? So I'm really surprised you don't see the differences.
I would say there are not enough laywers in the world for that :)
People forget that Apple sued Microsoft to keep non Apple GUIS off the market. If they had their way, everything would be text mode or Apple. No Windows, no X, no nothing.
See? Now that is what we call FUD, in case you wondered. They sued because of certain similarities in the GUI. And they sued because they had a contract with MS, of which Apple thought MS would have violated it. Which wasn't the case. So Apple lost. But before Bill saw the Macintosh interface he didn't give a rats ass about GUIs. As he didn't give a rats ass about the World Wide Web until it (and Netscape) became a roaring success. That is because MS couldn't innovate itself out of a wet paper bag if someone cut a whole in it for them. And if you don't understand that I can throw disturbed metaphors at you all evening.
Hm, perhaps you better go let your eyes be checked:
DELL
Apple
And IMO especially Apples mainboards ARE beautyfully laid out.
Seriously: I was born 1969 and clearly are part of the walkman generation, using one (OK, cheap copycats) from the mid 80s till the early 90s. Then I exposed my ears to techno parties :-P
Whenever they check my hearing at the doctor or hospital they are surprised how good I hear considered my age.
So let me say:
Bah.
"Open Seasame" sounds like a drunk person saying "Open Sesame"