If you're patient, you can get a dell for up to 40% off, and although it's not quite as drastic with Lenovo, the same is true. This macbook will ALWAYS be expensive.
That's not as clear-cut as you make it sound. As you said, you have to be "patient" to get such a huge discount on your Dell. That's in part because those discounts happen when Dell wants to move a line faster, e.g., to update it.
Guess what: a similar thing happens with Macs. Not from Apple, mind you, but from other resellers. For example, I have been receiving this offer from MacMall for way more than a month:
Apple 15.4" MacBook Pro Glossy Screen - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB Memory, 160GB Hard Drive Notebook Apple's Normal Price $2499 MacMall's Normal Price $2494 MacMall's Sale Price $1798.99 Mail-in Rebate $200 You Save from Apple's Price $900.01 (36%)
Note that even though the offer is still available, I copied this text from a one mont old email I fished out of the trash (it automatically deletes messages after one month). I'm sure that I was receiving it for several weeks before that because that was an option I was contemplating for a friend who finally bought a new MB Pro (but the basic one, not the top 15" one that replaced the one in the offer).
Human evolution has practically stopped, but not because men are having children younger. In fact, with the huge increase in the life expectancy in the last few decades, the average age at which both males and females have offsprings is much *higher* than, say, a few centuries ago.
The reason that evolution in humans has almost stopped is that we screwed up natural selection. Nowadays, people with bad eyesight get glasses or even LASIK; people survive illnesses that were fatal just decades ago, including cancer in many cases, but due to the advances in medicine, not to a genetic advantage; even people with severe genetic diseases frequently survive and start families.
In the past, natural selection would give the fittest a bigger chance to pass on their genes, and that was the mechanism that powered evolution. Nowadays, "the fittest" has lost all its meaning.
Who are the fittest now? The most intelligent people? The most athletic? The most "charming"? The most "beautiful"? The "healthiest"? Any particular race? The wealthiest? Well, the answer is "none of the above". Nowadays, a person of any race can be a borderline retard that is totally un-fit, repulsive, ugly, sick and poor, and still reproduce. Look around you, it's happening all the time. Yes, they may not be mating with the people they want to, but they are still passing one their genes.
Now, I'm in no way advocating any form of eugenics, just commenting why, in my opinion, humans won't evolve into a new species.
The point is that McCain is not a doddering old fool waiting to die just because he can't use a computer by himself. He is a disabled veteran who's war injuries prevent him from typing [...]"
Bullshit.
This article gives a very good description of McCain's ailments. In summary, he cannot raise his arms over his head which means he cannot do common things such as combing his own hair. Also, other activities that require him to stretch his arms at the shoulder, such as putting on a jacket by himself, become quite difficult for him.
Guess what: typing on a computer is not such an activity. From the point of view of his ailments, it's as hard as handwriting, something he actually does. Furthermore, you don't need to type a lot in order to just browse the web. And even if he really could not type at all, there are other ways to control a computer.
Face it, McCain doesn't use a computer simply because, like other elderly persons, he's afraid of learning something new and alien to him. Using his war injuries as an excuse is just pathetic.
And yet, only people from the US call themselves American.
Ah, that's where you are 100% wrong. People in all other countries in "The" Americas (except Canada) call themselves American, and use other words to refer to the citizens of the US (most of them nice). Some of them feel offended by the way the USA tries to hijack the terms America and American. Take into account that people outside the US make up almost 2/3 of the population of the Americas.
You're fighting a crusade that nobody cares about
Watch the speeches of the presidential candidates, or a presidential speech intended for domestic audiences, and you will see that the words America and American are used as you like them every two sentences. Now watch a speech meant for international audiences, particularly those delivered at the UN or at the (gasp) Organization of American States. You will notice that in general he will refer to the country as the United States, and will try to avoid the use of the word American. Few people care about this inside the US. A lot of people care outside. We don't notice because we get very little info on what happens outside.
Actually, I'm curious - why does it bother you? As Americans, we are far less nationalistic than, say, Mexicans.
That's completely off-topic but since you asked: normally you only hear the most vocal voices coming from any group. So you hear the very vocal proud Mexicans, but not the large numbers of those (Mexicans or Latin Americans in general) that realize that theirs are largely screwed up countries, even if they still love them. Likewise, when you are inside the US you hear the myriad of voices with different opinions, some nationalistic and some very auto-critical. But if you go outside the US, the image that prevails is that of the overly proud flag-waving bigots (which is exacerbated by the fact that they do, in fact, come from probably the most successful country in the 20th century).
Based on your comments I wonder if you have traveled much abroad. No, no, it's OK either way, I'm not trying to flame you. But if you haven't, you probably should: it's a really revelatory experience.
American is perfectly fine as a way to refer to people from, ya know, America.
You are completely right on this one. By the way, from the Oxford Dictionary:
America (also the Americas)
a landmass in the western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North and South America joined by the Isthmus of Panama. The continent was originally inhabited by American Indians and Inuits. The northeast coastline of North America was visited by Norse seamen in the 8th or 9th century, but for the modern world the continent was first reached by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
Note that in both dictionaries America as the country is the last definition. Not surprisingly, the definitions of American follow suit in both dictionaries.
So yes, American is fine as a way to refer to people of America, the landmass that was formerly thought of as a continent. Oh, and also of the country that tried to hijack the term.
Sorry, Tim, I have bad news for you. If you read the post that I mentioned above, you will realize that officially you ARE an American (in addition to a North American).
And people South of the USA have no problem in recognizing that the whole landmass was called America way before the concepts of North and South America were invented. This map of America is from 1770, before the country even existed. This is the first map in which the name America appeared, from 1507. Note that the "America" label falls on... South America (well, what had been discovered so far).
Everyone in Mexico and all the way South to Chile and Argentina do consider themselves Americans (not sure about Canadians). They have separate demonyms for those born in the USA, (not all of them expletives), and use them consistently. In fact, some of them feel offended by the way the USA tries to hijack the terms America and American.
From the New Oxford American (oh, the irony) Dictionary:
America (also the Americas)
a landmass in the western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North and South America joined by the Isthmus of Panama. The continent was originally inhabited by American Indians and Inuits. The northeast coastline of North America was visited by Norse seamen in the 8th or 9th century, but for the modern world the continent was first reached by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
- used as a name for the United States.
Note that America meaning the USA is the last definition. Merriam-Webster agrees with Oxford.
Again, from NOA Dictionary:
American noun
1 a native or citizen of the United States.
- a native or inhabitant of any of the countries of North, South, or Central America.
2 the English language as it is used in the United States; American English.
Thus, using the term American when referring to the other people in the landmass also known as America is perfectly correct. Merriam-Webster actually places "citizen of the United States" as the third entry.
Intentionally using incorrect terminology in an attempt to lessen the prestige of a landmass by hijacking the name is INSULTING and a rather juvenile attempt at belittling the test of the inhabitants of that landmass. It makes you look petty, small, and stupid.
Furthermore, not even making the effort of consulting a dictionary (or even Wikipedia) before making evident the flaws in your education makes you look ignorant and pathetic.
Can you tell the difference between a slab of kobe beef and regular supermarket steak without either tasting it or looking at the packaging?
Heck, yes! Kobe beef is beautifully marbled, much more than any cut of regular beef. Just look at this photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:4_Kobe_Beef,_Kobe_Japan.jpg If you get THAT as regular steak in your supermarket... I want to move to your city!
And that's within one species. People who really know about fish can easily tell apart meat from species that look identical to us by just looking and touching it.
What this article shows is the sorry state of the gastronomic industry in the US: here even the so-called sushi chefs can be fooled. Hmmm... too bad...
Al2O3, aka sand, is not an irritant. It is very stable chemically, and a very hard substance. The only known health problem with it is silicosis, resulting from breathing in lots of it into your lungs---totally does not apply in this case.
My points were that if Apple is really more secure than Vista, Apple would welcome a thorough investigation of its OS.
Probably. But do take into account that the engineers (i.e., the people who actually KNOW the technical details) WANTED to have the discussion.
The decision to cancel it came from marketing, those who don't understand the technical details but are reasonably afraid that someone might pull a rabbit from their hat and make Macs look bad.
After reading this whole extensive thread I'm left with the impression that you are very proficient with Linux and some other Unix-like system, and that is a really great thing.
But at the same time, with all due respect, you are very, very ignorant about MacOS. That's also OK. But in that case, you should either let someone more qualified do the work, or take a deep breath, accept that you need to learn the stuff, and sit down and learn it patiently.
Now, you claim that the information is too hard to get to. But most of the things you are complaining about, including all this nonsense about HFS+ vs HFS (you meant UFS), is clearly spelled out in Wikipedia.
I'll agree with you that in many cases MacOS X Server is not a good server solution. But the problems you described seem more like PEBKAC. Sorry for the bluntness, but your original post was really absurd.
This guy testified under oath saying that as far as he knew his wife abandoned him and the kids and therefore had no idea about her whereabouts. (They didn't believe him and declared him guilty or whatever, but that's another issue.)
But now it turns out that he does know where the body is (regardless of whether he killed her or not). That means that he previously lied under oath.
sleep != hibernate The machine is in sleep mode, or very low power. Hibernate mode is everything is written to disk. So yes, you can remove the battery in any laptop in hibernate mode. No matter the OS. I don't understand your point... did you intend to reply to BrunoUsesBBEdit?
Because what he meant is, precisely, that on PowerBooks you can simply close the lid, (which sends the laptop to sleep, NOT to hibernate), swap batteries, open the lid and far less than 5 seconds later return to what they were doing.
You can't do that with Intel MacBooks/Pros. You have to make them hibernate (or to Safe Sleep as the other poster said) in order to swap batteries without shutting down. That sucks (a little).
I know you are all trying to be funny (some actually succeeding), but I find it odd that in two days no one mentioned that there is, indeed, a squirrelfish.
Mensa won't take SATs from later than 1/31/94 as an indication of your IQ. That says something about changing test difficulty... It sure does.
On the other hand, they should be smart enough to know that the SAT was never meant to measure your IQ. In fact, they should be smart enough to know that IQ tests themselves only measure certain abilities, and are not really a good measure of intelligence.
I normally score around 135 in IQ tests (of course it depends on things like time of the day, quality of sleep on the previous night, BAL, etc), and in my opinion IQ tests and Mensa-like organizations are only good to inflate egos, as they have little relevance to real life.
There is no reason to purchase Parallels and Mac/AD integration tools so someone can run email and Powerpoint on a differnt OS. Those work pretty well on a PC with Windows. Hmmm, I'll have to agree with you on that one. There is no reason to purchase Parallels for those reasons since any competent IT administrator should know that Entourage and PowerPoint work pretty well on a Mac with MS Office for Mac. In fact Apple Mail will also work without a hitch if your Outlook server is half-decently configured.
Now that I think about it, you can simply turn on the IMAP service in the Outlook server and allow the people to use any mail client they want.
Anyway, the fact that you overlooked the existence of PowerPoint for the Mac (newsflash: PowePoint was originally developed for Macs) suggests that you have quite a knowledge gap to be a decent IT administrator, specially since you "started your IT career on Macs". I'm sorry for making a personal attack, but that comment was just outrageous.
Reminds me of the time that I got Wine running under A/UX (Apple's version of UNIX, SVR4 flavor) Huh?
A/UX ran on m68k Macs. Wine needs an x86-based Unix-like OS, since it doesn't emulate the processor (at least it didn't back then). How did you get Wine to run under A/UX?
Don't get me started on how bad exercise is for you. Yes, in fact over 98% of all sport injuries are experienced by people who were exercising at the time!
Dell Latitude X1 is smaller (albeit slightly thicker) "Slightly" is quite an understatement. The article you cite quotes the dimensions as:
MBA: 1.94×32.5×22.7 = 1431.235 cc X1: 2.5×28.6×19.68 = 1407.12 cc
But the thickness of the MBA tapers from 0.76" = 1.930 cm to 0.16" = 0.406 cm. The average thickness is thus 0.46" (1.168 cm, so the X1 is 2.14 times thicker), and the actual volume is more like 861.692 (so the X1 is 1.63 times larger).
And quite frankly that's not the only flaky part of the comparison. The author makes claims such as "the processor in the MBA totally owns the one in the X1, but you can change the battery of the X1 so it is more powerful". Talk about spinning it!
Don't try to argue with people smarter than you...you just look more sutpid.
I OWNED your ass, yet again. I win, you lose. If you were really smart, you would have noticed that I am not the original poster.
If you were really smart, you would now that immature retorts lessen the value of your arguments. While you feel all smug saying "ooooo, I owned you, loser," everyone else is thinking "wow, he must be a 12 year old, and not a very bright one".
And if you were really that smart, you would have at least skimmed through the PPP article before responding, and you would have found the Difficulties section. In particular, the "Difficulties with PPP comparisons in welfare economics" subsection, and realized that your argument is inherently flawed.
You see, your problem is not simply about being right or wrong. Being wrong on occasion is a fundamental part of learning, and that's good. The problem is that when you present your ideas in such a childish way, everything you say sounds stupid. And far from earning the respect of others (and possibly convincing them that you are right), you end up looking like a fool, regardless of the merits of your arguments.
Wow. Your argument shows very little insight, but that's OK. What is pathetic is the childish way in which you presented it.
OK, let's return to your argument.
Income doesn't mean anything unless you take into account the cost of life. For example, a $60,000 salary is very, very decent in the Mid-South. But in NYC or in California, it is a crappy salary because housing equivalent to what you would get in the M-S would cost you almost half of that salary, and other things like groceries, dinning out, entertainment, etc., also cost way, way more.
Well, that happens at a global level also. What in the U.S. in average is a crappy salary for a family ($45,000), is actually a wonderful salary in most of Europe. And in the Third World it's an amazing salary that allows you to buy a mansion, hire a live-in house keeper, etc. More or less what you would get here (in the average US city) with a $300,000 salary.
Thus, comparing household income alone is, as you would say, "spouting off complete bullshit".
Ah, the problem is that you are using the term vitamin incorrectly. From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
The term vitamindoes not include other essential nutrients such as dietary minerals, essential fatty acids, or essential amino acids, nor does it encompass the large number of other nutrients that promote health but that are not essential for life. Zinc and Magnesium are, of course, dietary minerals. Furtermore,
In humans there are 13 vitamins: 4 fat-soluble (A, D, E and K) and 9 water-soluble (8 B vitamins and vitamin C). Anyway, your comments on lucid dreaming are extremely interesting. I will certainly start working on that! Thanks!
Are you aware that, from the whole first page of results for that query, only the first hit is relevant to the topic? And that even that hit (a lengthy NYT article from 1875) doesn't really mention any Chinese word "Americ"? I'm not sure what you are trying to prove here...
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If you're patient, you can get a dell for up to 40% off, and although it's not quite as drastic with Lenovo, the same is true. This macbook will ALWAYS be expensive.
That's not as clear-cut as you make it sound. As you said, you have to be "patient" to get such a huge discount on your Dell. That's in part because those discounts happen when Dell wants to move a line faster, e.g., to update it.
Guess what: a similar thing happens with Macs. Not from Apple, mind you, but from other resellers. For example, I have been receiving this offer from MacMall for way more than a month:
Apple
15.4" MacBook Pro Glossy Screen - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB Memory, 160GB Hard Drive Notebook
Apple's Normal Price $2499
MacMall's Normal Price $2494
MacMall's Sale Price $1798.99
Mail-in Rebate $200
You Save from Apple's Price $900.01 (36%)
Note that even though the offer is still available, I copied this text from a one mont old email I fished out of the trash (it automatically deletes messages after one month). I'm sure that I was receiving it for several weeks before that because that was an option I was contemplating for a friend who finally bought a new MB Pro (but the basic one, not the top 15" one that replaced the one in the offer).
Human evolution has practically stopped, but not because men are having children younger. In fact, with the huge increase in the life expectancy in the last few decades, the average age at which both males and females have offsprings is much *higher* than, say, a few centuries ago.
The reason that evolution in humans has almost stopped is that we screwed up natural selection. Nowadays, people with bad eyesight get glasses or even LASIK; people survive illnesses that were fatal just decades ago, including cancer in many cases, but due to the advances in medicine, not to a genetic advantage; even people with severe genetic diseases frequently survive and start families.
In the past, natural selection would give the fittest a bigger chance to pass on their genes, and that was the mechanism that powered evolution. Nowadays, "the fittest" has lost all its meaning.
Who are the fittest now? The most intelligent people? The most athletic? The most "charming"? The most "beautiful"? The "healthiest"? Any particular race? The wealthiest? Well, the answer is "none of the above". Nowadays, a person of any race can be a borderline retard that is totally un-fit, repulsive, ugly, sick and poor, and still reproduce. Look around you, it's happening all the time. Yes, they may not be mating with the people they want to, but they are still passing one their genes.
Now, I'm in no way advocating any form of eugenics, just commenting why, in my opinion, humans won't evolve into a new species.
Funny how "hope" and "change" seem to involve attacking an elderly war vet because his injuries prevent him from typing.
Bullshit. See my reply here.
The point is that McCain is not a doddering old fool waiting to die just because he can't use a computer by himself. He is a disabled veteran who's war injuries prevent him from typing [...]"
Bullshit.
This article gives a very good description of McCain's ailments. In summary, he cannot raise his arms over his head which means he cannot do common things such as combing his own hair. Also, other activities that require him to stretch his arms at the shoulder, such as putting on a jacket by himself, become quite difficult for him.
Guess what: typing on a computer is not such an activity. From the point of view of his ailments, it's as hard as handwriting, something he actually does. Furthermore, you don't need to type a lot in order to just browse the web. And even if he really could not type at all, there are other ways to control a computer.
Face it, McCain doesn't use a computer simply because, like other elderly persons, he's afraid of learning something new and alien to him. Using his war injuries as an excuse is just pathetic.
And yet, only people from the US call themselves American.
Ah, that's where you are 100% wrong. People in all other countries in "The" Americas (except Canada) call themselves American, and use other words to refer to the citizens of the US (most of them nice). Some of them feel offended by the way the USA tries to hijack the terms America and American. Take into account that people outside the US make up almost 2/3 of the population of the Americas.
You're fighting a crusade that nobody cares about
Watch the speeches of the presidential candidates, or a presidential speech intended for domestic audiences, and you will see that the words America and American are used as you like them every two sentences.
Now watch a speech meant for international audiences, particularly those delivered at the UN or at the (gasp) Organization of American States. You will notice that in general he will refer to the country as the United States, and will try to avoid the use of the word American.
Few people care about this inside the US. A lot of people care outside. We don't notice because we get very little info on what happens outside.
Actually, I'm curious - why does it bother you? As Americans, we are far less nationalistic than, say, Mexicans.
That's completely off-topic but since you asked: normally you only hear the most vocal voices coming from any group. So you hear the very vocal proud Mexicans, but not the large numbers of those (Mexicans or Latin Americans in general) that realize that theirs are largely screwed up countries, even if they still love them.
Likewise, when you are inside the US you hear the myriad of voices with different opinions, some nationalistic and some very auto-critical. But if you go outside the US, the image that prevails is that of the overly proud flag-waving bigots (which is exacerbated by the fact that they do, in fact, come from probably the most successful country in the 20th century).
Based on your comments I wonder if you have traveled much abroad. No, no, it's OK either way, I'm not trying to flame you. But if you haven't, you probably should: it's a really revelatory experience.
American is perfectly fine as a way to refer to people from, ya know, America.
You are completely right on this one. By the way, from the Oxford Dictionary:
America (also the Americas)
a landmass in the western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North and South America joined by the Isthmus of Panama. The continent was originally inhabited by American Indians and Inuits. The northeast coastline of North America was visited by Norse seamen in the 8th or 9th century, but for the modern world the continent was first reached by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
- used as a name for the United States.
Merriam-Webster agrees.
Note that in both dictionaries America as the country is the last definition. Not surprisingly, the definitions of American follow suit in both dictionaries.
So yes, American is fine as a way to refer to people of America, the landmass that was formerly thought of as a continent. Oh, and also of the country that tried to hijack the term.
Sorry, Tim, I have bad news for you. If you read the post that I mentioned above, you will realize that officially you ARE an American (in addition to a North American).
And people South of the USA have no problem in recognizing that the whole landmass was called America way before the concepts of North and South America were invented. This map of America is from 1770, before the country even existed. This is the first map in which the name America appeared, from 1507. Note that the "America" label falls on... South America (well, what had been discovered so far).
Actually no. You were (mostly) right, and d3ac0n is completely wrong on several levels.
See my reply here.
Wow, you've got SEVERAL facts wrong there:
Note that America meaning the USA is the last definition. Merriam-Webster agrees with Oxford.
American noun
1 a native or citizen of the United States.
- a native or inhabitant of any of the countries of North, South, or Central America.
2 the English language as it is used in the United States; American English.
Thus, using the term American when referring to the other people in the landmass also known as America is perfectly correct. Merriam-Webster actually places "citizen of the United States" as the third entry.
Intentionally using incorrect terminology in an attempt to lessen the prestige of a landmass by hijacking the name is INSULTING and a rather juvenile attempt at belittling the test of the inhabitants of that landmass. It makes you look petty, small, and stupid.
Furthermore, not even making the effort of consulting a dictionary (or even Wikipedia) before making evident the flaws in your education makes you look ignorant and pathetic.
Can you tell the difference between a slab of kobe beef and regular supermarket steak without either tasting it or looking at the packaging?
Heck, yes! Kobe beef is beautifully marbled, much more than any cut of regular beef. Just look at this photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:4_Kobe_Beef,_Kobe_Japan.jpg
If you get THAT as regular steak in your supermarket... I want to move to your city!
And that's within one species. People who really know about fish can easily tell apart meat from species that look identical to us by just looking and touching it.
What this article shows is the sorry state of the gastronomic industry in the US: here even the so-called sushi chefs can be fooled. Hmmm... too bad...
Al2O3, aka sand, is not an irritant. It is very stable chemically, and a very hard substance. The only known health problem with it is silicosis, resulting from breathing in lots of it into your lungs---totally does not apply in this case.
Hmmm... I think you are confusing aluminum oxide (Al2O3) with silicon dioxide (SiO2).
My points were that if Apple is really more secure than Vista, Apple would welcome a thorough investigation of its OS.
Probably. But do take into account that the engineers (i.e., the people who actually KNOW the technical details) WANTED to have the discussion.
The decision to cancel it came from marketing, those who don't understand the technical details but are reasonably afraid that someone might pull a rabbit from their hat and make Macs look bad.
After reading this whole extensive thread I'm left with the impression that you are very proficient with Linux and some other Unix-like system, and that is a really great thing.
But at the same time, with all due respect, you are very, very ignorant about MacOS. That's also OK. But in that case, you should either let someone more qualified do the work, or take a deep breath, accept that you need to learn the stuff, and sit down and learn it patiently.
Now, you claim that the information is too hard to get to. But most of the things you are complaining about, including all this nonsense about HFS+ vs HFS (you meant UFS), is clearly spelled out in Wikipedia.
I'll agree with you that in many cases MacOS X Server is not a good server solution. But the problems you described seem more like PEBKAC. Sorry for the bluntness, but your original post was really absurd.
I have a question about the U.S. legal system.
This guy testified under oath saying that as far as he knew his wife abandoned him and the kids and therefore had no idea about her whereabouts. (They didn't believe him and declared him guilty or whatever, but that's another issue.)
But now it turns out that he does know where the body is (regardless of whether he killed her or not). That means that he previously lied under oath.
Shouldn't he be liable for perjury?
Or is this another symptom of a flawed system?
The machine is in sleep mode, or very low power. Hibernate mode is everything is written to disk. So yes, you can remove the battery in any laptop in hibernate mode. No matter the OS. I don't understand your point... did you intend to reply to BrunoUsesBBEdit?
Because what he meant is, precisely, that on PowerBooks you can simply close the lid, (which sends the laptop to sleep, NOT to hibernate), swap batteries, open the lid and far less than 5 seconds later return to what they were doing.
You can't do that with Intel MacBooks/Pros. You have to make them hibernate (or to Safe Sleep as the other poster said) in order to swap batteries without shutting down. That sucks (a little).
I know you are all trying to be funny (some actually succeeding), but I find it odd that in two days no one mentioned that there is, indeed, a squirrelfish.
And it's not just a Wikipedia quirk, it appears even in the dictionaries.
On the other hand, they should be smart enough to know that the SAT was never meant to measure your IQ. In fact, they should be smart enough to know that IQ tests themselves only measure certain abilities, and are not really a good measure of intelligence.
I normally score around 135 in IQ tests (of course it depends on things like time of the day, quality of sleep on the previous night, BAL, etc), and in my opinion IQ tests and Mensa-like organizations are only good to inflate egos, as they have little relevance to real life.
By the way, did you know that "mensa" means "fool", "stupid", or "jerk" in Spanish? How fitting...
Now that I think about it, you can simply turn on the IMAP service in the Outlook server and allow the people to use any mail client they want.
Anyway, the fact that you overlooked the existence of PowerPoint for the Mac (newsflash: PowePoint was originally developed for Macs) suggests that you have quite a knowledge gap to be a decent IT administrator, specially since you "started your IT career on Macs". I'm sorry for making a personal attack, but that comment was just outrageous.
A/UX ran on m68k Macs. Wine needs an x86-based Unix-like OS, since it doesn't emulate the processor (at least it didn't back then). How did you get Wine to run under A/UX?
MBA: 1.94×32.5×22.7 = 1431.235 cc
X1: 2.5×28.6×19.68 = 1407.12 cc
But the thickness of the MBA tapers from 0.76" = 1.930 cm to 0.16" = 0.406 cm. The average thickness is thus 0.46" (1.168 cm, so the X1 is 2.14 times thicker), and the actual volume is more like 861.692 (so the X1 is 1.63 times larger).
And quite frankly that's not the only flaky part of the comparison. The author makes claims such as "the processor in the MBA totally owns the one in the X1, but you can change the battery of the X1 so it is more powerful". Talk about spinning it!
I OWNED your ass, yet again. I win, you lose. If you were really smart, you would have noticed that I am not the original poster.
If you were really smart, you would now that immature retorts lessen the value of your arguments. While you feel all smug saying "ooooo, I owned you, loser," everyone else is thinking "wow, he must be a 12 year old, and not a very bright one".
And if you were really that smart, you would have at least skimmed through the PPP article before responding, and you would have found the Difficulties section. In particular, the "Difficulties with PPP comparisons in welfare economics" subsection, and realized that your argument is inherently flawed.
You see, your problem is not simply about being right or wrong. Being wrong on occasion is a fundamental part of learning, and that's good. The problem is that when you present your ideas in such a childish way, everything you say sounds stupid. And far from earning the respect of others (and possibly convincing them that you are right), you end up looking like a fool, regardless of the merits of your arguments.
Wow. Your argument shows very little insight, but that's OK. What is pathetic is the childish way in which you presented it.
OK, let's return to your argument.
Income doesn't mean anything unless you take into account the cost of life. For example, a $60,000 salary is very, very decent in the Mid-South. But in NYC or in California, it is a crappy salary because housing equivalent to what you would get in the M-S would cost you almost half of that salary, and other things like groceries, dinning out, entertainment, etc., also cost way, way more.
Well, that happens at a global level also. What in the U.S. in average is a crappy salary for a family ($45,000), is actually a wonderful salary in most of Europe. And in the Third World it's an amazing salary that allows you to buy a mansion, hire a live-in house keeper, etc. More or less what you would get here (in the average US city) with a $300,000 salary.
Thus, comparing household income alone is, as you would say, "spouting off complete bullshit".
Are you aware that, from the whole first page of results for that query, only the first hit is relevant to the topic? And that even that hit (a lengthy NYT article from 1875) doesn't really mention any Chinese word "Americ"? I'm not sure what you are trying to prove here...