I wouldn't be surprised if this pricing were so high in order to cut local Apple-vending Value Added Resellers some slack, especially those serving the business market.
Custom configurations and upgrades are probably a sizeable part of their business. If Apple's prices were too low, then the local shops would lose even more business, and would sell only to people wanting their machines ASAP.
Macs support multiple mouse buttons just as well as any PC I've ever had or seen, and most of the drivers already come installed.
You can even use PC-oriented gaming zillion-button USB control pads, although the manufacturers don't generally support the Mac. There are third party products like ControllerMate that let you program the device's buttons however you wish.
My favorite was the multi-thousand dollar interconnects with light beam insulation. They had a "special" light source that plugged into the cable, and presumably the light was carried around the conductors in optical fibers.
Although I doubt anyone ever cut such a cable in the middle to see if that was actually happening.
Wow... from the link you provide:
Aligning the slots in screw heads.
Align the slots in all screw heads so that the slots are parallel to the earth's surface. ALL screws - screws fastening light switches to the wall, screws fastening AC power sockets to the wall, screws fastening shelves to the wall etc. Listen to some music for a short time and then move any of the screw slots away from being parallel to the earth's surface and see if you can listen to the same music with the same pleasure !!
That's one of their free listening room tips. They also suggest putting a BLUE (very important!) piece of paper under any vases or potted plants in the listening room.
Take away 6 day creation, you remove a literal Adam, you remove original sin, and you remove the need for Christ.
Whether or not there was a literal Adam, original sin and the need for Christ *really* originate in God's will and decree.
If God says we have a stain on our souls that needs redemption through the death of God's son, then surely that's the case, whether it came about because Eve literally ate the fruit, or whether it's because God is a just spiteful bastard with a mean streak.
Apple's boxes tend to be pretty efficient, actually. The materials they use might be better, but overall they're probably more efficient than other companies that use larger boxes.
Or use someone else's. I'm sorry I can't find a link, but it comes with software that will let you share someone else's (mac/pc) optical drive.
Apple should really put that software on their website in an easily-located place, so that Air users don't have to carry it around but instead can grab it off apple.com on demand.
Amusingly, when I typed 'Hold' in the Subject field, Safari completed the sentence because I posted the same exact thing here a while back the last time this came up.
"Extracting it from the atmosphere is not cost-effective."
Well, no, not when you've got a whopping buttload of it in storage, no I don't suppose it would be.
In 30 years, when Bill Gates needs helium for his grandchildren's birthday parties, you bet there'll be extraction from the atmosphere if that is the only viable source.
I love how the Gizmodo people try to act all high-n-mighty above the money-grubbing corporate salesmen.
Um, hello? What does Gizmodo do but, essentially, shill products? But without actually producing anything. Gizmodo's business model is to regurgitate press releases with faux-irreverent decoration, in order to sell advertising. How noble.
Records are a technology that is inherently non-mobile so there is no reason to do it.
The reason would be to save money on production costs on what is going to be, essentially, a low-sales collector's item that might well never be played.
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"now at the dealer is a different story. only fools get work or upgrades at the dealer."
Fools or people who can afford not to care.
I wouldn't be surprised if this pricing were so high in order to cut local Apple-vending Value Added Resellers some slack, especially those serving the business market.
Custom configurations and upgrades are probably a sizeable part of their business. If Apple's prices were too low, then the local shops would lose even more business, and would sell only to people wanting their machines ASAP.
Macs support multiple mouse buttons just as well as any PC I've ever had or seen, and most of the drivers already come installed.
You can even use PC-oriented gaming zillion-button USB control pads, although the manufacturers don't generally support the Mac. There are third party products like ControllerMate that let you program the device's buttons however you wish.
Although I doubt anyone ever cut such a cable in the middle to see if that was actually happening.
Wow... from the link you provide:
That's one of their free listening room tips. They also suggest putting a BLUE (very important!) piece of paper under any vases or potted plants in the listening room.
Nah, it's probably OpenGL inside a minimal Cocoa shell.
I believe that's $99 per developer, not per application.
It's probably just to keep iTunes from filling up with crapware from people who aren't serious about development.
The firmware update will cost money for the Touch, but not the iPhone. But once you have the firmware accessing the store will be free.
Take away 6 day creation, you remove a literal Adam, you remove original sin, and you remove the need for Christ.
Whether or not there was a literal Adam, original sin and the need for Christ *really* originate in God's will and decree.
If God says we have a stain on our souls that needs redemption through the death of God's son, then surely that's the case, whether it came about because Eve literally ate the fruit, or whether it's because God is a just spiteful bastard with a mean streak.
Apple's boxes tend to be pretty efficient, actually. The materials they use might be better, but overall they're probably more efficient than other companies that use larger boxes.
It was conclusively demonstrated years ago that any old liver will do as long as it's paired with fava beans and a fine chianti.
What the hell does dtrace have to do with Linux?
It came from Sun, a corporation. For someone sucking at the corporate capitalist teat at Sun to be whining about classism is a load of bullshit.
Since when does full dtrace functionality include iTunes?
I have a hunch that "small pieces loosely joined" is not going to be healthy for the child.
Maybe they're getting customers asking about mapreduce, and are tired of trying to convince customers that a conventional system is the way to go.
And, if mapreduce doesn't generate vast license income for Oracle, it must suck. Imagine the per-processor charges Google would be paying!
Or use someone else's. I'm sorry I can't find a link, but it comes with software that will let you share someone else's (mac/pc) optical drive.
Apple should really put that software on their website in an easily-located place, so that Air users don't have to carry it around but instead can grab it off apple.com on demand.
It's really quite simple.
Amusingly, when I typed 'Hold' in the Subject field, Safari completed the sentence because I posted the same exact thing here a while back the last time this came up.
Who says they don't get their money's worth?
What, are you part of some Helium fan club?
Chill, dude. Sheesh.
would be if it were a South Park game 'hosted' by Chef.
Too bad he was killed off because Isaac Hayes' body thetans didn't approve of the mockery of Scientology.
"Extracting it from the atmosphere is not cost-effective."
Well, no, not when you've got a whopping buttload of it in storage, no I don't suppose it would be.
In 30 years, when Bill Gates needs helium for his grandchildren's birthday parties, you bet there'll be extraction from the atmosphere if that is the only viable source.
And charge him union rates for the labor.
That'll show him. It'll probably bankrupt him.
I love how the Gizmodo people try to act all high-n-mighty above the money-grubbing corporate salesmen.
Um, hello? What does Gizmodo do but, essentially, shill products? But without actually producing anything. Gizmodo's business model is to regurgitate press releases with faux-irreverent decoration, in order to sell advertising. How noble.
Records are a technology that is inherently non-mobile so there is no reason to do it.
The reason would be to save money on production costs on what is going to be, essentially, a low-sales collector's item that might well never be played.
If LPs start getting trendy, I bet some labels will be lazy and start pressing them from the crappy compressed audio used for digital.
That'd be pretty much the worst of all worlds.