It also "won" because of the interface, something everybody on slashdot keeps ignoring. Do you remember what the interfaces of pre-ipod mp3 players were like? No comparison.
Yeah, that's just wrong... check the Eurostat report on religion (page 11). At a quick glance there's 6-7 countries with non-religious rates > 25% just in the EU. 33% of the french say they flat out don't believe in a god or higher life force. Only 16% of estonians believe in a god.
Whether a person likes Microsoft or not [...] they are late to the phone game.
Microsoft's first OS for smartphones (Pocket PC 2002) was release in October 2001, that's over 5 years before Apple and a full 7 years before Google's foray into the mobile platform. You can say a lot, mostly bad, about it, but MS has been at this longer than those two companies put together.
Everyone and their mom aleardy had a phone when the iPhones came out, too, it didn't keep Apple from selling 34 million of them and making hundreds of millions in the process.
That's what it comes down to: corporations. There are still too many 10,000+ employee corporations out there that run Windows XP with the Flash 7 plug-in and IE6. You have to support that or there is no client.
For the past 6 years or so I've been getting contracts w/o a phone (I buy new phones from private sellers who've gotten phones they don't want with their contracts) and my rates are about half of what they would be if I had gotten plans with a phone.
Maybe they fixed that bug where you couldn't download attachments via the Web interface if they were sent from MS Entourage on a Macintosh. That got me into the office at least 3 or 4 times back in my last job.
A wave of your passport? You can drive from the southern tip of Portugal to the north east end of Estonia - 4700km - without pulling out an ID or stopping at a border checkpoint.
The truth is, almost all users will use much less than their quota. I've run, in the past and present, a bunch of personal sites of varying popularity: a web design portal, an e-card site, a blog, etc. They got from hundreds to tens of thousands of uniques/day. Even on the busiest months, I my bandwidth use was calculated in GB or tens of GB. Baring traffic anomalies, like the slashdoting my dropbox.com account got a couple days ago, you need either extremely heavy content (video) or to be hugely popular to get past 100GB/month. I doubt if 0.5% of dreamhost or 1&1 accounts do that kind of traffic.
They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.
BTW, do you know who Vasily Chuikov was? Just off the top of your head, as if someone had asked you while you were walking down the street.
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I don't think anybody's saying the black guy has to be there, just... if you don't want a black guy in your picture, take a picture without the black guy in it. Don't do a shitty photoshop job with some other dude's head.
There are blacks in Poland, and they came straight form Africa. I know a couple of them, mostly men (I've met one black woman here), usually came here to study, met a girl or found a job, decided to stay. There's also quite a few mixed race kids. It's not really 100% whitey over here. More like 99.99%.
Most economic theory assumes people in the marketplace are rational.
With Apple customers, that assumption, and the economic theory that depends on it, goes out the window!
Really? This got modded up as "Insightful"? Maybe some people just looked at their earnings, looked at their market and realized that paying a couple hundred bucks premium every 2-4 years was worth not dealing with the virus/trojan/spyware breeding ground that is Windows, or the usability clusterfuck that is any other desktop Unix-alike? My time has value, time spent fixing my computer, installing anti-virus software or googling for some obscure condition just so some hardware will work or fonts are smooth is time wasted.
You might enjoy it, that's fine.
I also fail to recognize how buying a premium product is "irrational". All of us buy premium products in some area, most of us buy them at all time. Food, furniture, toiletries, etc - not much of what I buy is bottom of the barrel cheapest. Why should my computer be any different? Why should I go for an ugly box with dozens of cables coming out of it, I didn't buy an ugly couch or an ugly shirt, just because it was a couple bucks cheaper.
As much as I am loath to use this term, I'll do it: grow the fuck up, already.
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It also "won" because of the interface, something everybody on slashdot keeps ignoring. Do you remember what the interfaces of pre-ipod mp3 players were like? No comparison.
Yeah, that's just wrong... check the Eurostat report on religion (page 11). At a quick glance there's 6-7 countries with non-religious rates > 25% just in the EU. 33% of the french say they flat out don't believe in a god or higher life force. Only 16% of estonians believe in a god.
Cube had to be the biggest bunch of bullshit I'd ever seen in a movie theater. First time I'd every considered leaving in the middle of a movie.
Except that their marketing departments run that combination and if they can't see it and sign off, there's no point in doing it.
Whether a person likes Microsoft or not [...] they are late to the phone game.
Microsoft's first OS for smartphones (Pocket PC 2002) was release in October 2001, that's over 5 years before Apple and a full 7 years before Google's foray into the mobile platform. You can say a lot, mostly bad, about it, but MS has been at this longer than those two companies put together.
Everyone and their mom aleardy had a phone when the iPhones came out, too, it didn't keep Apple from selling 34 million of them and making hundreds of millions in the process.
That's what it comes down to: corporations. There are still too many 10,000+ employee corporations out there that run Windows XP with the Flash 7 plug-in and IE6. You have to support that or there is no client.
perSUN?
that's starist!
I would have absolutely no use for 200 more minutes or two extra accounts.
Then again, I'm not one of those people who thinks that everything isn't specifically targeted at them to be stupid.
For the past 6 years or so I've been getting contracts w/o a phone (I buy new phones from private sellers who've gotten phones they don't want with their contracts) and my rates are about half of what they would be if I had gotten plans with a phone.
From what I remember, this idea didn't go over too well in Springfield...
Seriously though, this sounds like a great setup for a huge disaster. Can you imagine a dome like this falling?
That sounds like a great solution to the problem of having people who like spending time with you.
Most people are actually really stupid, and cannot understand the things that make geeks go 'glee!'
Most people aren't actually really stupid, they just don't care about the same things you do. Like measuring cognitive and problem solving tasks.
Maybe they fixed that bug where you couldn't download attachments via the Web interface if they were sent from MS Entourage on a Macintosh. That got me into the office at least 3 or 4 times back in my last job.
A wave of your passport? You can drive from the southern tip of Portugal to the north east end of Estonia - 4700km - without pulling out an ID or stopping at a border checkpoint.
The truth is, almost all users will use much less than their quota. I've run, in the past and present, a bunch of personal sites of varying popularity: a web design portal, an e-card site, a blog, etc. They got from hundreds to tens of thousands of uniques/day. Even on the busiest months, I my bandwidth use was calculated in GB or tens of GB. Baring traffic anomalies, like the slashdoting my dropbox.com account got a couple days ago, you need either extremely heavy content (video) or to be hugely popular to get past 100GB/month. I doubt if 0.5% of dreamhost or 1&1 accounts do that kind of traffic.
They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.
BTW, do you know who Vasily Chuikov was? Just off the top of your head, as if someone had asked you while you were walking down the street.
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eh...
I don't think anybody's saying the black guy has to be there, just... if you don't want a black guy in your picture, take a picture without the black guy in it. Don't do a shitty photoshop job with some other dude's head.
This is obviously stock - the apple is photoshopped off the macbook. There is no way they don't have world-wide rights to each models' likeness.
2.7% of Poland's population is still over 1 million people
There are blacks in Poland, and they came straight form Africa. I know a couple of them, mostly men (I've met one black woman here), usually came here to study, met a girl or found a job, decided to stay. There's also quite a few mixed race kids. It's not really 100% whitey over here. More like 99.99%.
And the fact that we have a non-trivial asian population thanks to our business dealings with the far east since the wall fell.
Most economic theory assumes people in the marketplace are rational.
With Apple customers, that assumption, and the economic theory that depends on it, goes out the window!
Really? This got modded up as "Insightful"? Maybe some people just looked at their earnings, looked at their market and realized that paying a couple hundred bucks premium every 2-4 years was worth not dealing with the virus/trojan/spyware breeding ground that is Windows, or the usability clusterfuck that is any other desktop Unix-alike? My time has value, time spent fixing my computer, installing anti-virus software or googling for some obscure condition just so some hardware will work or fonts are smooth is time wasted.
You might enjoy it, that's fine.
I also fail to recognize how buying a premium product is "irrational". All of us buy premium products in some area, most of us buy them at all time. Food, furniture, toiletries, etc - not much of what I buy is bottom of the barrel cheapest. Why should my computer be any different? Why should I go for an ugly box with dozens of cables coming out of it, I didn't buy an ugly couch or an ugly shirt, just because it was a couple bucks cheaper.
As much as I am loath to use this term, I'll do it: grow the fuck up, already.
Mac OS X x86 is only expensive if you're broke ass poor.
Statutory rape is the same if she was 13 and he was 30 or if she was 17 and he was 18.