The Nazi's had a general consensus, but 95% of the population didn't have their beliefs.
I am not into fascism, trends or popular guesses.
Apparently 5 out of the 9 justices are into making environmental statements, and I have a serious issue with people legislating based on so-called "speculations, and scientific consensus".
Ice core samples from both arctic regions show great fluctuations in Global temps over the last million or so years, (long before humans and their gas guzzling SUV's).
I believe the ice cores more than your tree hugging, jet-setting hero, Al Gore.
I've had it up to here (pointing to my forhead, which coincidentally matches the snowfall this abnormally cold year) with this "global warming" crap.
I'm tired of scientific and humanistic arrogance and ignorance, costing me and the rest of the world money, time, ink, airwaves, and bandwidth.
There is NO scientific, or factual proof that it is caused by HUMAN influence. Warming and cooling of the globe has been occurring LONG before humans where even on this planet.
If you believe in global warming, LEAVE and create your own bubble, count your own carbon footprints and live in it yourself.
Agreed. If it were only yesterday, I would MOD up.
The winner will be the company that puts the most important devices (phone, pda, and music/vid player) into the most intuitive package. (Hence the success of the Treo line)
Apple is out for blood, and will probably wind up owning Palm. So far it looks like the iPhone is gonna slay the market. (Unless it has some quirky bug that will be it's own demise)
I would throw in iTerm, virtueDesktops, Parallels, TextMate, Navicat for Mac.
Without these programs, I couldn't make it in the fast paced Graphic Design field of Macs (Any other IT people out there want to shit nails when someone says Mac's are for graphic design? Last time I checked, my Macs didn't look like big blue pumpkins.)
----My Motto: I don't care if the customer's stuff is working or not. I just don't want to be affected by whatever they have. My equipment MUST work, Therefore I use Apple.
I am VERY active in other parts of the open source community.
My talents lie in mail technologies, that's what I develop.
I deploy those talents at will, because they are proven in the SERVER environments. There is only so many hours in a day my friend. My contribution to the Open Source movement is the application of it every possible way I can. And those projects that I can help with I will; whether its monetarily (winex, crossover office) or with my skillset (postfix, amavisd, spamassassin and others).
My point is that the Linux community is missing a beautiful opportunity to take a larger share of the Desktop world. The problem is that there are 10 distros going in 10 different directions.
Apple/Mac IS a very viable solution. But when you have Microsoft Whores for Sys Admins and web developers, then it's not going to work (The MCSE's of the world are now going to PAY for their loyalty, along with their companies and employers). Your ability to make industry standard solutions is your true judge of talent.
It comes down to marketshare. Microsoft KNOWS they have the market share, and are FORCING users to seek their new Windows ME 2007 (aka Vista)...I'm not biting this time. And I will use my last professional dying breath to tell everyone to stay away.
I keep telling customers and clients to stay away from Microsoft. Their response is "What else is there?"
I spout off about 4 or 5 good, stable, and secure systems, including Apple. They tell me they are not graphic designers. I then tell them that I can't help them unless they think outside the MS box.
I am treating Vista like a plague. And everyone that has a lick of technological expertise should be on that bandwagon.
Brainwashed is EXACTLY what they are.
Time for Linux to step up to the plate. There is such a NEED for a "Super Wine" project to take a big bite out of Microsoft's ass.
I've always downloaded a movie or music to stick it to Hollywood or the record companies.
Cause god nows they never stick it to us at 15 dollars per ticket to roll the dice on seeing a good movie (Maybe).
BTW, I paid that to see all of the LOTR, Star Wars, The Matrices, and recently Pursuit of Happyness and countless other blockbusters in the past. But I will not pay for SHIT if given the opportunity.
I have purchased the Led Zeppelin 5 disc box set, all of the Pink Floyd albums amongst hundreds of other albums, CD's and iTunes downloads. I will not pay for SHIT or one hit wonders, or music they no longer sell in the record stores.
In order to sell me something, you must first create a quality product, or lower the price to accomodate the product you are selling (somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 dollars for most movies). Otherwise, it's only a good use of late night bandwidth.
The User was complaining about the cost of purchasing a new system (Apple). You are right about comparing architectures, I wasn't doing that. I was stating that cost to cost of upgrading was more economical with the Mac's, and can be done for less then what they were whining about. ($3000)
I will venture to say that building a system comparable to the Mac with the same capable hardware, plus the cost of Software to do the equal (Including iLife suite) is going to cost much more then purchasing a Mac.
(Provided you don't skimp on important items like system board, generic RAM, Open Source Software replacements (because, although economical and useful, they still don't provide the same satisfaction as supported pay-for-software/OS.))
I purchased a MacBook (black) and maxed out the RAM at 2GB (Crucial), all for a mere $1750 dollars. Also a Mac Mini Core Duo and maxed out that RAM, for about $850
Both of them kick the crap out of my desktop (P4 HT 3.0E Ghz) which I haven't booted in a month.
I'm not a fan of the 400 dollar rebated notebook from Compaq.
I guess it depends on your preferences. I was able to effectively eliminate the Windows based PC's in my life for Under the 3 grand you speak of.
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I wonder when they will just release the XBox 360 as a full PC unit.
:)
Then they will have something really good going. Back to PC gaming.
SuperMod this comment.
Excellent post.
The Nazi's had a general consensus, but 95% of the population didn't have their beliefs.
I am not into fascism, trends or popular guesses.
Apparently 5 out of the 9 justices are into making environmental statements, and I have a serious issue with people legislating based on so-called "speculations, and scientific consensus".
Ice core samples from both arctic regions show great fluctuations in Global temps over the last million or so years, (long before humans and their gas guzzling SUV's).
I believe the ice cores more than your tree hugging, jet-setting hero, Al Gore.
I've had it up to here (pointing to my forhead, which coincidentally matches the snowfall this abnormally cold year) with this "global warming" crap.
I'm tired of scientific and humanistic arrogance and ignorance, costing me and the rest of the world money, time, ink, airwaves, and bandwidth.
There is NO scientific, or factual proof that it is caused by HUMAN influence. Warming and cooling of the globe has been occurring LONG before humans where even on this planet.
If you believe in global warming, LEAVE and create your own bubble, count your own carbon footprints and live in it yourself.
Enough already. Be Gone.
sheesh.
This is a WICKED tool.
Must have for any user, Mac or PC.
MoveOn....ewwww...*shudder*
I think one of these assholes lives up the street from me...sucking up my bandwidth.
Agreed. If it were only yesterday, I would MOD up.
The winner will be the company that puts the most important devices (phone, pda, and music/vid player) into the most intuitive package. (Hence the success of the Treo line)
Apple is out for blood, and will probably wind up owning Palm. So far it looks like the iPhone is gonna slay the market. (Unless it has some quirky bug that will be it's own demise)
For starters:
I would throw in iTerm, virtueDesktops, Parallels, TextMate, Navicat for Mac.
Without these programs, I couldn't make it in the fast paced Graphic Design field of Macs (Any other IT people out there want to shit nails when someone says Mac's are for graphic design? Last time I checked, my Macs didn't look like big blue pumpkins.)
----My Motto:
I don't care if the customer's stuff is working or not. I just don't want to be affected by whatever they have. My equipment MUST work, Therefore I use Apple.
I will take a Hardware solution over a Software solution (remember those fun-assed Winmodems?) any day of the week.
Microsoft's Virtual server sucked ass. I see that they plan on carrying on that fine tradition into the future.
I am VERY active in other parts of the open source community.
My talents lie in mail technologies, that's what I develop.
I deploy those talents at will, because they are proven in the SERVER environments. There is only so many hours in a day my friend. My contribution to the Open Source movement is the application of it every possible way I can. And those projects that I can help with I will; whether its monetarily (winex, crossover office) or with my skillset (postfix, amavisd, spamassassin and others).
My point is that the Linux community is missing a beautiful opportunity to take a larger share of the Desktop world. The problem is that there are 10 distros going in 10 different directions.
Apple/Mac IS a very viable solution. But when you have Microsoft Whores for Sys Admins and web developers, then it's not going to work (The MCSE's of the world are now going to PAY for their loyalty, along with their companies and employers). Your ability to make industry standard solutions is your true judge of talent.
It comes down to marketshare. Microsoft KNOWS they have the market share, and are FORCING users to seek their new Windows ME 2007 (aka Vista)...I'm not biting this time. And I will use my last professional dying breath to tell everyone to stay away.
I keep telling customers and clients to stay away from Microsoft. Their response is "What else is there?"
I spout off about 4 or 5 good, stable, and secure systems, including Apple. They tell me they are not graphic designers. I then tell them that I can't help them unless they think outside the MS box.
I am treating Vista like a plague. And everyone that has a lick of technological expertise should be on that bandwagon.
Brainwashed is EXACTLY what they are.
Time for Linux to step up to the plate. There is such a NEED for a "Super Wine" project to take a big bite out of Microsoft's ass.
I have a dire need of a multimedia PDA.
I hate Cingular (Sprint subscriber myself, all hail PCS!)So no iPhone for me.
I wish my iPod did more "personal" things like a palm does.
Consider the market, once you add personal organization into the devices?
"Mom, I need an iPod to keep track of my homework assignments."
Then what will Zune do?
Zimbra.
They all use the same application, their web browser. (Which should be firefox by now.)
My Mac doesn't seem to have these issues.
Yes, I like that too.
I've always downloaded a movie or music to stick it to Hollywood or the record companies.
Cause god nows they never stick it to us at 15 dollars per ticket to roll the dice on seeing a good movie (Maybe).
BTW, I paid that to see all of the LOTR, Star Wars, The Matrices, and recently Pursuit of Happyness and countless other blockbusters in the past. But I will not pay for SHIT if given the opportunity.
I have purchased the Led Zeppelin 5 disc box set, all of the Pink Floyd albums amongst hundreds of other albums, CD's and iTunes downloads. I will not pay for SHIT or one hit wonders, or music they no longer sell in the record stores.
In order to sell me something, you must first create a quality product, or lower the price to accomodate the product you are selling (somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 dollars for most movies). Otherwise, it's only a good use of late night bandwidth.
A machine that makes $25.00 coasters, instead of $0.25.
Amen (from my 650)
They had the R&D department wear tin-foil hats around for 2 years.
What bothers me is they went for Cingular...
My guess is they made it a GSM phone because there are more GSM carriers worldwide?
I'll hug my treo until the CDMA version hits the streets. The MacBook and Mini have to wait for their new friend.
I like Apple's choices 99.5% of the time, just not that one.
Yay!!! Open Boxed Goodies!!
I'm ready to take them off the shelves!
Which is why honest, hard working people almost never make it to management.
There is a 9th Circle of Hell reserved just for Middle Managers.
The User was complaining about the cost of purchasing a new system (Apple). You are right about comparing architectures, I wasn't doing that. I was stating that cost to cost of upgrading was more economical with the Mac's, and can be done for less then what they were whining about. ($3000)
I will venture to say that building a system comparable to the Mac with the same capable hardware, plus the cost of Software to do the equal (Including iLife suite) is going to cost much more then purchasing a Mac.
(Provided you don't skimp on important items like system board, generic RAM, Open Source Software replacements (because, although economical and useful, they still don't provide the same satisfaction as supported pay-for-software/OS.))
On a personal note:
I purchased a MacBook (black) and maxed out the RAM at 2GB (Crucial), all for a mere $1750 dollars.
Also a Mac Mini Core Duo and maxed out that RAM, for about $850
Both of them kick the crap out of my desktop (P4 HT 3.0E Ghz) which I haven't booted in a month.
I'm not a fan of the 400 dollar rebated notebook from Compaq.
I guess it depends on your preferences. I was able to effectively eliminate the Windows based PC's in my life for Under the 3 grand you speak of.
Maybe you should change your supplier?
That's an underestimate.
You have to wonder what drives these idiots sending so much junk?
Don't forget that I had to write a batch plot program by hand so they could batch plot multiple sets.
(Handy when we ship a machine and need to send all the prints with it)
PS.
The only thing in my company holding us back from Open Source software or even purchasing Mac's IS AutoCAD.