If you have to go to a gym to be able to carry around two laptops, then I suggest seeing a doctor, instead. That sounds like a serious medical condition.
Seriously.... A Mac with 2 GB of RAM can't multitask well? I'm really surprised, because 2 GB of RAM is standard for all of my Windows XP boxes, and they work just fine.
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Oh my! A CRT screen! Well, my panties are in a twist at hearing about people use such ANCIENT technology! Goodness, gracious, everybody KNOW that flat monitors are better because they... well, they just are. Oh, my goodness! I don't know how anybody could survive doing graphics work on a CRT!
My point is that you're super prissy. People use old hardware all the time and nobody (as far as I know) has died yet. Your entire post is devoid of any argument other than "OMG, It's so old!". I feel like I just read a post by a 12 year old girl trying to explain why she *needs* a particular piece of trendy clothing.
Get a job, and get back to us on that whole "desktop is dead" thing. Some people, believe it or not, earn money from doing things OTHER than updating Facebook!
Market share doesn't have anything to do with quality. By your logic, McDonald's is the best restaurant in the world and Apple should just give up the PC market altogether.
No. "Consumer" is used to differentiate between regular people and developers and corporate partners and such. Those developers and businesses are "customers" too, so using the word "customer" for today's release doesn't make any sense.
Every payment processor decides what kinds of businesses they work with. There are plenty of porn specific merchant providers anybody can easily work with.
I love people who think that a few individuals complaining to a Fortune 500 companies is going to make a difference. There's a phrase that's applicable.... something like, "pissing into the wind".
If I had mod points, I'd use 'em here. I agree. Only idiots would use Pay Pal. Anybody who gives this company access to their money and/or bank accounts deserves what they get.
That's good to know! I just have to wonder if my apps can access all of my other stuff (contacts, phone history, etc.). There's not a lot of security info in the Windows 7.5 Phone stuff, but if it's because it's locked down, that's fine by me, too.
Brilliant marketing! Apple is primarily a marketing company, so branding specific digital downloads as "Mastered for iTunes" is really smart. As with their other products, that "iTunes/Apple" brand is permission to print money, so they can charge whatever they'd like for these downloads. People will buy them no matter what the price. AND, they can also apply the label selectively, steering consumers to whatever Apple stuck their name on this week. Labels will pay a LOT for this.
I gotta give it to Apple. They are really incredibly smart at manipulating consumers for maximum profit in a way that few other brands can do.
The US military hasn't been used for defense in the past 60 years or so. Starting wars unilaterally for no apparent reason is NOT in the Constitution, either, Einstein.
The stock price of a company has at least some relationship to the value of the company
While I agree that the price won't ever fall below the value of a company broken down and liquidated, I think that your assumption that stock price is in some way tied to company value is inherently wrong. If there's no dividend, then there's really -no- connection between a company's performance and stock price. It's 100% based on pure supply and demand. There's no inherent value to a share of stock with no returns on it. The stock market is, by and large, one large ponzi scheme that would collapse if a large part of the population wised up, and put their money somewhere where they can get an actual return on their money, as opposed to gambling that some day, somebody will be willing to pay more money for the same worthless piece of paper.
I divested myself of non-dividend paying equity investments years ago, and now only buy loans or dividend paying equity so that I can sleep soundly at night.
Sure, there are some outliers in terms of improved capabilities, like video editing and even watching TV. But 90% of us are using PC's the 90% of the same way now that we did in 1995: Working with MS Office documents, handling email, web surfing, moving around files, etc. It may be prettier, easier, and faster, but it isn't dramatically different.
Eh. There's not much of a difference. We're still using the same hardware and architecture as 1995. Heck, I can run the same OS on a computer made in 1995, or in 2012. Yeah, hard drives are bigger, and Intel's chips are faster, and yeah, PC's have a bit more RAM, but other than that, it's just more of the same. If anything, I'm amazed at how little computers have changed in the past 18 years.
It doesn't make any sense that companies would have employees post to a social network about work-related stuff. There's a whole industry, and in most large companies, entire departments, that deal with communications between the company and the public. (Public Relations or something similar). Why would companies, who in the past, have carefully constructed methods and procedures for communicating with the public throw all of that out the window because of a fad? It seems short sighted and really stupid.
"Hey, did you get that new [game/app] from the Windows app store!!!???"
That's because that's not the point of Windows Phones. Sure, you can get 90% of the "apps" out there for the phone, but it's very clear that the point of Windows Phone is to be a seamless connection to Exchange servers. The integration of Exchange/Outlook is really unmatched in the mobile market, and for people (like myself) who spend most of my work life in Outlook/Exchange, it's really useful. I don't miss the 90,000 fart "apps" available on the other two platforms.
t all, but I make six figures. And I sure as fuck don't have 50K in the bank.
If you have less than 6 months worth of expenses in the bank, you should consider taking some basic financial literacy classes. You're doing something very wrong.
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If you have to go to a gym to be able to carry around two laptops, then I suggest seeing a doctor, instead. That sounds like a serious medical condition.
Wouldn't it just make sense to spend a few hundred bucks and get your own computer instead of risking your job for no good reason?
Seriously.... A Mac with 2 GB of RAM can't multitask well? I'm really surprised, because 2 GB of RAM is standard for all of my Windows XP boxes, and they work just fine.
It's a freaking CRT screen.
[this comment is made in a fake girly voice]
Oh my! A CRT screen! Well, my panties are in a twist at hearing about people use such ANCIENT technology! Goodness, gracious, everybody KNOW that flat monitors are better because they... well, they just are. Oh, my goodness! I don't know how anybody could survive doing graphics work on a CRT!
My point is that you're super prissy. People use old hardware all the time and nobody (as far as I know) has died yet. Your entire post is devoid of any argument other than "OMG, It's so old!". I feel like I just read a post by a 12 year old girl trying to explain why she *needs* a particular piece of trendy clothing.
Get a job, and get back to us on that whole "desktop is dead" thing. Some people, believe it or not, earn money from doing things OTHER than updating Facebook!
Market share doesn't have anything to do with quality. By your logic, McDonald's is the best restaurant in the world and Apple should just give up the PC market altogether.
No. "Consumer" is used to differentiate between regular people and developers and corporate partners and such. Those developers and businesses are "customers" too, so using the word "customer" for today's release doesn't make any sense.
Every payment processor decides what kinds of businesses they work with. There are plenty of porn specific merchant providers anybody can easily work with.
Funny +1
I love people who think that a few individuals complaining to a Fortune 500 companies is going to make a difference. There's a phrase that's applicable.... something like, "pissing into the wind".
That doesn't matter. Chargebacks can happen for no reason, whatsoever, and it's up to the merchant to defend themselves.
If I had mod points, I'd use 'em here. I agree. Only idiots would use Pay Pal. Anybody who gives this company access to their money and/or bank accounts deserves what they get.
That's good to know! I just have to wonder if my apps can access all of my other stuff (contacts, phone history, etc.). There's not a lot of security info in the Windows 7.5 Phone stuff, but if it's because it's locked down, that's fine by me, too.
Brilliant marketing! Apple is primarily a marketing company, so branding specific digital downloads as "Mastered for iTunes" is really smart. As with their other products, that "iTunes/Apple" brand is permission to print money, so they can charge whatever they'd like for these downloads. People will buy them no matter what the price. AND, they can also apply the label selectively, steering consumers to whatever Apple stuck their name on this week. Labels will pay a LOT for this.
I gotta give it to Apple. They are really incredibly smart at manipulating consumers for maximum profit in a way that few other brands can do.
Resist an attack made on (someone or something); protect from harm or danger
We haven't been in danger since WWII. Just because you want "defense" to mean "offense" doesn't make it so.
The US military hasn't been used for defense in the past 60 years or so. Starting wars unilaterally for no apparent reason is NOT in the Constitution, either, Einstein.
I didn't even think about this when I installed Facebook's app onto my Windows Phone. It's really just as easy to just use the regular web version.
The stock price of a company has at least some relationship to the value of the company
While I agree that the price won't ever fall below the value of a company broken down and liquidated, I think that your assumption that stock price is in some way tied to company value is inherently wrong. If there's no dividend, then there's really -no- connection between a company's performance and stock price. It's 100% based on pure supply and demand. There's no inherent value to a share of stock with no returns on it. The stock market is, by and large, one large ponzi scheme that would collapse if a large part of the population wised up, and put their money somewhere where they can get an actual return on their money, as opposed to gambling that some day, somebody will be willing to pay more money for the same worthless piece of paper.
I divested myself of non-dividend paying equity investments years ago, and now only buy loans or dividend paying equity so that I can sleep soundly at night.
Sure, there are some outliers in terms of improved capabilities, like video editing and even watching TV. But 90% of us are using PC's the 90% of the same way now that we did in 1995: Working with MS Office documents, handling email, web surfing, moving around files, etc. It may be prettier, easier, and faster, but it isn't dramatically different.
Eh. There's not much of a difference. We're still using the same hardware and architecture as 1995. Heck, I can run the same OS on a computer made in 1995, or in 2012. Yeah, hard drives are bigger, and Intel's chips are faster, and yeah, PC's have a bit more RAM, but other than that, it's just more of the same. If anything, I'm amazed at how little computers have changed in the past 18 years.
They could sell the shit out of these $250K burgers they were called iBurgers and were sold by Apple.
It doesn't make any sense that companies would have employees post to a social network about work-related stuff. There's a whole industry, and in most large companies, entire departments, that deal with communications between the company and the public. (Public Relations or something similar). Why would companies, who in the past, have carefully constructed methods and procedures for communicating with the public throw all of that out the window because of a fad? It seems short sighted and really stupid.
"Hey, did you get that new [game/app] from the Windows app store!!!???"
That's because that's not the point of Windows Phones. Sure, you can get 90% of the "apps" out there for the phone, but it's very clear that the point of Windows Phone is to be a seamless connection to Exchange servers. The integration of Exchange/Outlook is really unmatched in the mobile market, and for people (like myself) who spend most of my work life in Outlook/Exchange, it's really useful. I don't miss the 90,000 fart "apps" available on the other two platforms.
Microsoft has a whole host of "apps" for gadgets, including a "mobile" version of Office. They're on Windows Phones.
t all, but I make six figures. And I sure as fuck don't have 50K in the bank.
If you have less than 6 months worth of expenses in the bank, you should consider taking some basic financial literacy classes. You're doing something very wrong.
It's not when you have kids, and have to consider their expenses, health care, college, what happens if you die, etc.
Medicaid and public universities both work fine. Kids don't have to be expensive.