Indeed. And since Dell has obviously targeted the low-end "econobox" purchasing customer while Apple has targeted the high-end "just make everything work and work well" purchasing customer, they can and/or must price their upgrades accordingly.
For the brazillionth time, Apple didn't steal anything from Xerox. Please stop repeating this to justify what Microsoft has done. Steve Jobs arranged with Xerox for his engineers to visit PARC to see the Xerox Alto and Smalltalk in exchange for Apple stock options.
Nah, Vista is just the same Quarter Pounder you had yesterday for lunch except now it's packaged inside a Happy Meal box along with a Kung Fu Panda toy.
"Before MacOS and Win3.1, if you wanted to (say) quit an application, it might be:q! or Ctrl-X-C or Ctrl-K-Q or Esc-X or/Q or/X or/E or QUIT or EXIT or BYE or. ESC and 9 from the menu or... Every fricking program was different. The IP wars of the time were not over software patents, they were over "look and feel" copyright of the basic menu structures."
Except in Mac OS X the "Quit" option is under the Application menu to the left of File, not under File.:)
Has Valve ever written anything that wasn't for DirectX?
We're talking about the company that had a huge portion of the source code to Half-Life 2 stolen during development due to a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability on Gabe Newell's computer. Not exactly 100% professional.
I'm curious as to how much money they generated from the sales they made of the Nude Remix contest via iTunes and Garageband. This may have been the band and/or the label testing the waters.
Leave the small-time to Apple, and go straight for the big-time."
Small-time? Apple has sold almost 6M iPhones since last summer at $399-$499 a unit. How many Surfaces are out there or are planned to be out there at, $12,000 a pop?
We have Sharepoint at our office as well. The search feature is slow and problematic, the "feature" of being able to "share" an Excel sheet isn't really sharing as much as it is "ok it's locked by someone else, I guess I'll just upload my own version of it in the same folder" multiple copy hell.
Thank goodness we had the good sense to keep our Wikis.
The Internet? Windows 95 didn't come with a browser, you had to buy the Plus! pack to get Internet Explorer 1.0 (which at the time nobody wanted). Netscape Navigtor 2.0 was what you got and if you actually had dialup Internet at your house your ISP provided you with the dialer.
Apple has indeed innovated in the fact that with the iPhone they are the first to bring multitouch to the masses. Yes we know they did not invent multitouch.
The mouse is and always has been a kludge to replace a finger on a hand. That's why some mouse pointers in the past were actual bitmaps of a pointing hand. Multi touch removes this kludge device and adds the ability to use more gestures than just a single pointed finger. Buttons, keyboards and all other related UI devices can be rendered contextually on the screen. Waving arms wildly in front of yourself is not necessary. People have been able to use their hands on desktop objects long before PCs with keyboards and mice showed up. Imagine a drafting table where the entire surface is multi-touch.
Interesting I get marked as a troll as I'm not the only one who has complained about this. Feel free to pay a visit to Google and you will find many blogs from 2005 saying the same thing. The Wikipedia entry on the Huygens probe mentions the loss of 350 of the 700 pictures the probe took due to a 'operational command error' on ESA's part, and then they further mention how the amateur community took it upon themselves to attempt to clean up the quality and artifacts on the images that were provided.
I don't believe I'm being overly harsh when I say the images from the Titan mission are a disappointment.
They did this on Titan as well. It irritates the heck out of me when the answer is usually "it isn't scientifically relevant". Really? The whole reason we send a probe to Titan is to see what is under the clouds and we don't put an adequate visual camera on board because it isn't 'scientifically relevant'. And space-types wonder why the general public is usually apathetic towards these probe missions.
It might be more publically useful to maybe, perhaps, on one of these multi-million dollar missions to see fit to at least put one "real" camera on board one of these landers to placate the taxpaying plebians such as myself. If NASA needs it, I might have a spare Canon digital camera and some duct tape.
The Titan lander was a huge disappointment in this regard.
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Indeed. And since Dell has obviously targeted the low-end "econobox" purchasing customer while Apple has targeted the high-end "just make everything work and work well" purchasing customer, they can and/or must price their upgrades accordingly.
I think he at least deserves an unlimited login session on a PDP-10.
For the brazillionth time, Apple didn't steal anything from Xerox. Please stop repeating this to justify what Microsoft has done. Steve Jobs arranged with Xerox for his engineers to visit PARC to see the Xerox Alto and Smalltalk in exchange for Apple stock options.
Nah, Vista is just the same Quarter Pounder you had yesterday for lunch except now it's packaged inside a Happy Meal box along with a Kung Fu Panda toy.
"Before MacOS and Win3.1, if you wanted to (say) quit an application, it might be :q! or Ctrl-X-C or Ctrl-K-Q or Esc-X or /Q or /X or /E or QUIT or EXIT or BYE or. ESC and 9 from the menu or... Every fricking program was different. The IP wars of the time were not over software patents, they were over "look and feel" copyright of the basic menu structures."
:)
Except in Mac OS X the "Quit" option is under the Application menu to the left of File, not under File.
Now reciprocate and give us a 'kill switch' for our leaders.
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Has Valve ever written anything that wasn't for DirectX?
We're talking about the company that had a huge portion of the source code to Half-Life 2 stolen during development due to a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability on Gabe Newell's computer. Not exactly 100% professional.
I'm curious as to how much money they generated from the sales they made of the Nude Remix contest via iTunes and Garageband. This may have been the band and/or the label testing the waters.
Once upon a time the Atari joystick was king.
"That's the point, pedant.
Leave the small-time to Apple, and go straight for the big-time."
Small-time? Apple has sold almost 6M iPhones since last summer at $399-$499 a unit. How many Surfaces are out there or are planned to be out there at, $12,000 a pop?
"And what about Surface? I'd like to see the folks at apple come up with something as cool as that."
You say this, then you say
"Sure, the cost of a Surface unit would be prohibitive to average Joe User but..."
So you answered your own question.
But then you said:
"And no, the puny widdle scween on the iPhone dosen't count!"
Why not? How big of a phone do you need?
Once you croak, you must stop.
We have Sharepoint at our office as well. The search feature is slow and problematic, the "feature" of being able to "share" an Excel sheet isn't really sharing as much as it is "ok it's locked by someone else, I guess I'll just upload my own version of it in the same folder" multiple copy hell.
Thank goodness we had the good sense to keep our Wikis.
You're completely ignoring their episodes with OS/2 and DR-DOS.
The Internet? Windows 95 didn't come with a browser, you had to buy the Plus! pack to get Internet Explorer 1.0 (which at the time nobody wanted). Netscape Navigtor 2.0 was what you got and if you actually had dialup Internet at your house your ISP provided you with the dialer.
I was able to run an OS that was like OS/2 Warp but actually had mainstream applications for it.
Invention != innovation.
Apple has indeed innovated in the fact that with the iPhone they are the first to bring multitouch to the masses. Yes we know they did not invent multitouch.
The mouse is and always has been a kludge to replace a finger on a hand. That's why some mouse pointers in the past were actual bitmaps of a pointing hand. Multi touch removes this kludge device and adds the ability to use more gestures than just a single pointed finger. Buttons, keyboards and all other related UI devices can be rendered contextually on the screen. Waving arms wildly in front of yourself is not necessary. People have been able to use their hands on desktop objects long before PCs with keyboards and mice showed up. Imagine a drafting table where the entire surface is multi-touch.
Interesting I get marked as a troll as I'm not the only one who has complained about this. Feel free to pay a visit to Google and you will find many blogs from 2005 saying the same thing. The Wikipedia entry on the Huygens probe mentions the loss of 350 of the 700 pictures the probe took due to a 'operational command error' on ESA's part, and then they further mention how the amateur community took it upon themselves to attempt to clean up the quality and artifacts on the images that were provided.
I don't believe I'm being overly harsh when I say the images from the Titan mission are a disappointment.
They did this on Titan as well. It irritates the heck out of me when the answer is usually "it isn't scientifically relevant". Really? The whole reason we send a probe to Titan is to see what is under the clouds and we don't put an adequate visual camera on board because it isn't 'scientifically relevant'. And space-types wonder why the general public is usually apathetic towards these probe missions.
It might be more publically useful to maybe, perhaps, on one of these multi-million dollar missions to see fit to at least put one "real" camera on board one of these landers to placate the taxpaying plebians such as myself. If NASA needs it, I might have a spare Canon digital camera and some duct tape.
The Titan lander was a huge disappointment in this regard.
Do you really believe Apple is the only computer maker that offers computers for more than $1000? Or did Alienware suddenly drop their prices?
"Why would they wait a whole 9 months to transit from iTunes to the Zune store? how about the sales lost during that period of time?"
What an excellent question.
Here is a good place to start.