It probably wasn't even Virgin that chose/used the photo anyway. What's the bet that it was done by an advertising agency? A bored intern, a rush job, a photo remembered from browsing for pr0n. Bingo!
This being slashdot everybody thinks in terms of warez or music. How would you feel about being treated by a counterfeit doctor (it's happened in OZ recently) with counterfeit drugs? Dollar costs are hard to calculate in these circumstances.
Product life, from a producer's point of view, is a bathtub curve. At first you have low yields, as do your specialty suppliers. Marketing is in overdrive. Once sales start you need to recover your outlays and pay your setup loans. Then your yields go up, your suppliers ramp up and the economies of scale kick in. Now your production costs per unit start to drop. At this point you can choose to go after a bigger market with price cuts on the high turnover/low margin model or keep up the lower turnover/high margins. Eventually your production equipment starts costing you in repairs. New product time.
I can offer the business model that I've used for the last 10 years.
Hardware problems are rare on modern computer hardware; Macs doubly so. If the hardware breaks it'll usually be under warranty; let Apple fix it. Otherwise look at ifixit.com.
For software problems it'll be extremely unlikely that you are the first person to discover it. What you need, more than anything else, is a good, clear description of the problem. Look at Apple's discussion groups , MacOSXhints.com etc.
Apple does offer tech training but I've never found it necessary. If you can handle common tools without injuring yourself and/or damaging the thing you're trying to fix you'll be in good shape.
Most of all follow the three Ps. Prepare. Prepare. Prepare. Read the forums, newsgroups etc. Submerge yourself in the culture. Absorb the wisdom. RTFM.
The widow controls are still at the top-right.
Very Win/Linux. Not all that Mac-like.
You have to wonder if the designers have read the Human Interface Guidelines. Not everybody follows them, I know (especially Apple), but a passing familiarity would give better results.
"You're level of meanness" should read "Your level of meanness".
"If your not in a scientific field" should read "If you're not in a scientific field".
"Oh and btw, I AM a women" should read "Oh and btw, I AM a woman".
Based on limited data I'd conclude that you are a 14-year old troll.
What really bothers me is that no-one else picked up the "women" error despite several posts quoting it.
So maybe this is what passes for technical English in the US.
It's not like war and space research are two competing money pits.
They are both money pits but money saved on one (or hopefully, both)
should be channeled into something more constructive.
How about lower taxes for the working stiff? Better roads?
Better equipped hospitals, schools, police, fire services?
Better infrastructure. Better pollution control.
The list of things in this world (or in this country even) that urgently
need more money does not include space research or war-making.
Your credibility is low. Mars is not our nearest neighbour. Venus is, and by a fair way too. A scientist should know this. This business of "our nearest neighbour" has been spun by the pro-space lobby to good effect. The fact is that probes sent to Venus are far cheaper. For a start, they go Sun-ward and enjoy a good gravity-assist. What? You don't like the weather on Venus? That doesn't justify the "nearest neighbour" myth.
Well, there are a couple of reasons not to use it.
For a start it doesn't have a loop facility. How hard is it to get video to loop?
It starts downloading stuff as soon as it is launched; that's bad manners. Using my expensive ADSL
without asking (to download its channels) is enough to get it deleted out of hand.
From the FAQ it seems that Miro, on the Mac at least, is just a front-end for Quicktime.
Looks like I wasted 18 megs of my download allocation.
Most of the new guys I see appearing in the field want only to administer a NT domain. They are usually so anal that the network ends up being almost useless. No right-click allowed, no C: drive for you and all preferences deleted at logoff. Eventually you'll get a script that'll reconnect all your printers at logon.
They also have no appreciation of fault isolation. Their only fix is wholesale replacement of units.
They push the latest trendy stuff to make their CVs look good rather than furthering their clients' working conditions. Anything that can't run the latest Windows is junked and replaced.
All this and a MCSE. And their name in Legion.
They are arrogant so that their clients won't dare to press them too closely. Many jobs don't get done because the skills are lacking; but the client is told that there are more important jobs to be done first.
Look, teh Steve says pre-OSX is dead. Along with that goes the rainbow (except it isn't a rainbow, is it? Just ask Roy G. Biv). Most of my rainbow Macs are stacked in the garage, in fact only two of the "beige generation" are in the house. Everything else has monochrome apples.
Nope. If you want to play iTMS songs on a Zune just convert them to mp3 therby removing the Apple DRM. That's assuming the Zune cab play standard a mp3. Now, playing a Zune song on an iPod would be a little more difficult, no?
I think you have iTunes and the iTunes Music Store confused in your mind. The music I load on my iPod from iTunes (from cds and other sources) carries no DRM. Never used the iTunes Music Store.
The principle of "False in unum, false in omnibus" should apply here. All signatures must be validated (after all, they are probably copyrighted). I'm sure a company such as... say Microsoft would be able to work out a DRM-style system to prevent signatures being "pirated". Who's to say that all the living signatures are genuine anyway?
You would have loved the Picker. It was a method of storing and retrieving punch cards that carried magnetic stripes. Read/write and (not really) fast access. In action it looked like a demented chicken.
There was very little innovation in the original PC. It was the result of a 12 month project and had to be designed around off-the-shelf parts and a cpu that was easy to implement, rather than one that would perform. Hence the Intel 80XX rather than the Motorola 68000. Development time for the 68000 would have taken too long.
The PC was IBM's third try at a desktop computer. The failure of the first two was responsible for the short time allowed for the development of the third.
Have you actually read the EULA on SP2? Guess which OS suplier now has your permission to enter your PC any time he likes and sift through the contents.
If you buy a Mac with MacOSX installed (hard not to) and you don't want to run OSX, preferring instead to run Linux, BSD or Windows, there's a clause in Apple's EULA that enables you to scrub the OS, and return the CDs etc for a full refund. Try doing that with Windows.
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It probably wasn't even Virgin that chose/used the photo anyway. What's the bet that it was done by an advertising agency?
A bored intern, a rush job, a photo remembered from browsing for pr0n. Bingo!
This being slashdot everybody thinks in terms of warez or music. How would you feel about being treated by a counterfeit doctor (it's happened in OZ recently) with counterfeit drugs? Dollar costs are hard to calculate in these circumstances.
Product life, from a producer's point of view, is a bathtub curve.
At first you have low yields, as do your specialty suppliers. Marketing is in overdrive. Once sales start you need to recover your outlays and pay your setup loans. Then your yields go up, your suppliers ramp up and the economies of scale kick in. Now your production costs per unit start to drop. At this point you can choose to go after a bigger market with price cuts on the high turnover/low margin model or keep up the lower turnover/high margins.
Eventually your production equipment starts costing you in repairs. New product time.
I can offer the business model that I've used for the last 10 years.
Hardware problems are rare on modern computer hardware; Macs doubly so.
If the hardware breaks it'll usually be under warranty; let Apple fix it. Otherwise look at ifixit.com.
For software problems it'll be extremely unlikely that you are the first person to discover it. What you need, more than anything else, is a good, clear description of the problem. Look at Apple's discussion groups , MacOSXhints.com etc.
Apple does offer tech training but I've never found it necessary. If you can handle common tools without injuring yourself and/or damaging the thing you're trying to fix you'll be in good shape.
Most of all follow the three Ps. Prepare. Prepare. Prepare. Read the forums, newsgroups etc. Submerge yourself in the culture. Absorb the wisdom. RTFM.
The widow controls are still at the top-right. Very Win/Linux. Not all that Mac-like. You have to wonder if the designers have read the Human Interface Guidelines. Not everybody follows them, I know (especially Apple), but a passing familiarity would give better results.
"You're level of meanness" should read "Your level of meanness". "If your not in a scientific field" should read "If you're not in a scientific field". "Oh and btw, I AM a women" should read "Oh and btw, I AM a woman". Based on limited data I'd conclude that you are a 14-year old troll. What really bothers me is that no-one else picked up the "women" error despite several posts quoting it. So maybe this is what passes for technical English in the US.
It's not like war and space research are two competing money pits. They are both money pits but money saved on one (or hopefully, both) should be channeled into something more constructive. How about lower taxes for the working stiff? Better roads? Better equipped hospitals, schools, police, fire services? Better infrastructure. Better pollution control. The list of things in this world (or in this country even) that urgently need more money does not include space research or war-making.
Your credibility is low.
Mars is not our nearest neighbour. Venus is, and by a fair way too.
A scientist should know this.
This business of "our nearest neighbour" has been spun by the pro-space
lobby to good effect. The fact is that probes sent to Venus are far cheaper.
For a start, they go Sun-ward and enjoy a good gravity-assist.
What? You don't like the weather on Venus? That doesn't justify the "nearest neighbour" myth.
Well, there are a couple of reasons not to use it. For a start it doesn't have a loop facility. How hard is it to get video to loop? It starts downloading stuff as soon as it is launched; that's bad manners. Using my expensive ADSL without asking (to download its channels) is enough to get it deleted out of hand. From the FAQ it seems that Miro, on the Mac at least, is just a front-end for Quicktime. Looks like I wasted 18 megs of my download allocation.
> at 3 a.m. in the morning
as opposed to at 3 a.m. in the afternoon?
Most of the new guys I see appearing in the field want only to administer a NT domain. They are usually so anal that the network ends up being almost useless. No right-click allowed, no C: drive for you and all preferences deleted at logoff. Eventually you'll get a script that'll reconnect all your printers at logon. They also have no appreciation of fault isolation. Their only fix is wholesale replacement of units. They push the latest trendy stuff to make their CVs look good rather than furthering their clients' working conditions. Anything that can't run the latest Windows is junked and replaced. All this and a MCSE. And their name in Legion. They are arrogant so that their clients won't dare to press them too closely. Many jobs don't get done because the skills are lacking; but the client is told that there are more important jobs to be done first.
Look, teh Steve says pre-OSX is dead. Along with that goes the rainbow (except it isn't a rainbow, is it? Just ask Roy G. Biv).
Most of my rainbow Macs are stacked in the garage, in fact only two of the "beige generation" are in the house. Everything else has monochrome apples.
> with gayly decorated weapons with rainbow Apple logos
Whoa! Are you ever out of date! The rainbow logo is long dead. Perhaps you hadn't noticed...
And it's gaily, not gayly.
Apple make it easy to run Windows on a Mac.
So...
Microsoft should make it easy to run OSX on a PC... no?
That sounds fair to me.
Nope. If you want to play iTMS songs on a Zune just convert them to mp3 therby removing the Apple DRM. That's assuming the Zune cab play standard a mp3.
Now, playing a Zune song on an iPod would be a little more difficult, no?
I think you have iTunes and the iTunes Music Store confused in your mind.
The music I load on my iPod from iTunes (from cds and other sources)
carries no DRM. Never used the iTunes Music Store.
The principle of "False in unum, false in omnibus" should apply here.
All signatures must be validated (after all, they are probably copyrighted).
I'm sure a company such as... say Microsoft would be able to work out a
DRM-style system to prevent signatures being "pirated".
Who's to say that all the living signatures are genuine anyway?
How about faux news. Packed full of factoids (you know, items that resemble facts or have fact-like characteristics).
You would have loved the Picker. It was a method of storing and retrieving punch cards that carried magnetic stripes. Read/write and (not really) fast access. In action it looked like a demented chicken.
There was very little innovation in the original PC. It was the result of a 12 month project and had to be designed around off-the-shelf parts and a cpu that was easy to implement, rather than one that would perform. Hence the Intel 80XX rather than the Motorola 68000. Development time for the 68000 would have taken too long.
The PC was IBM's third try at a desktop computer. The failure of the first two was responsible for the short time allowed for the development of the third.
64K, no floppies, no color... lame.
The PPC 10.3 version won't launch on 10.4. The only 10.4 version is i386. No, I won't buy a new Mac just to run Blender.
I have a nasty feeling that this is the tip of a very worrying iceberg.
Have you actually read the EULA on SP2? Guess which OS suplier now has your permission to enter your PC any time he likes and sift through the contents.
If you buy a Mac with MacOSX installed (hard not to) and you don't want to run OSX, preferring instead to run Linux, BSD or Windows, there's a clause in Apple's EULA that enables you to scrub the OS, and return the CDs etc for a full refund. Try doing that with Windows.
Ooh, ooh... shoot the messenger! Ooh!
Or PR/SM. Those were the days!
Dreamweaver? No... more likely Front Page. If you're gunna break the rules you might as well go the whole hog.