The masses think that Linux is too hard and Macs are too expensive. The masses don't know any different or don't care or don't want to ditch the devil they know for the devil they don't know.
OK, open mouth and isert my foot. I stupidly assumed prices were in American dollars. Being an Aussie site means Aussie rules - especially for money. No need to mod me down. I will just do the Unhappy Dance
They got the price for OS X wrong by $100. They also said they would like to see the firewall on by default. Well it is in the sense that all sharing is turned off by default. So you have to turn on the sharing and then decide what to not let through with the firewall.
And it continues to make errors. They say that Apple computers come with the latest version of the OS. Not always. You should update it as you would update any OS. But maybe they mean if you buy a PC box you can choose something other than XP and then not have the latest OS.
They say that on XP you can't limit a program to one user account. I am thinking a 3 year old wrote this.
This all reminds me when NewsWeek did a review of an old word processing program I worked on. Because so many things were wrong in the review I called them up. Turns out that the reviewer was a computer newbie and had never used a word processor before.
At Compaq, when it was just Compaq, after completing a very hard project, I once got 100 points to use at the company store. I could choose between candle sticks, a watch with rubber band, pens, or a mouse pad. I chose the watch because I know it will be a collectors item in 6000 years.
This can be done. It isn't as difficult as you might first think. What you need to do is make a tap into the shower's hot water pipe. Then attach a tube and a bottle of permanent ink - blue looks good. When they turn on the hot water it will suck the dye out of the bottle and apply it to the victim. To make certain to capture the victim you can add an automated or manual delay before letting the dye lose.
I read somewhere, I wish I could find it, that the human eye can't distinguish dots/pixels smaller than 1/100th of an inch. It sounds good but I think I see better than that. Maybe none of us do, so why waste the resolution.
IMHO, there is no incentive to perform well for the gov. Hear me out. I have worked on consumer projects, enterprise projects, and government ones. The management for the gov project was uninvolved and wanted the project to go long. They knew that the contract would be renewed so why come in under budget and on time. Job security. In the enterprise space I found that the quality of the software was poor for good reason. If a company buys an $8 million piece of software/hardware solution from you, it isn't going to dump you and buy someone else. They will happily pay to see you send 20 engineers over to get things working properly. The imagery is impressive. It says that this solution is very complex and only our "super engineers" can handle it. Plus it demonstrates great cusomter service. It blew my mind. However, in every consumer project I worked on we had very high quality and came in on time and within budget. Why? Because revenues depended upon it. All kidding about Windows OS aside, consumers will drop you in a instant if you ship a poor quality product and you will die a financial death. This kinf od dynamic does not appear in enterprise and government projects.
(Not aimed at parent) Everytime I read, or hear, that some computer geek finds OS X "frustrating" or "difficult to use" or any complaint, a voice in my head always questions the ability of that person. I use Linux, Windows, and OS X back and forth for years and never have problems moving between them. Certainly there are aspects of each I like or dislike, but I never find one so much of a hassle as to complain - OK Windows is the worst. Maybe I am lucky and my constant moving between platforms has made it easy for me. But if you are a real geek, I don't understand how you get so locked in and fixated on one platform.
I think Bob needs a little lesson in GFLOPS and mini Macs. I'd love him to explain how he was able to get 720 gigFLOPs from 16 mini Macs. I want one too Bob! Show me the voodoo math!
Here here. How correct you are. I am on a 12 inch iBook G3 @800 running 10.3.7 and love it. Now I don't play games and I don't edit movies. But for real work, iTunes, iPhoto, scheduling, web browsing, email, programming, and so on, this machine is more than acceptable. Plus it only cost me $500. Beat that with a stick. Oh, and there is that *nix thingy too! I guess the only reason to wait now would be to get Tiger for free instead of paying for it.
Wow. I thought long and hard about replying to this. I mean:
1) I don't want to give this validity
2) Anything I say won't matter to the original poster.
3) The original poster must be from the south so they can't read.
4) I have had many pet monkeys - none of them were muslims.
2.4Ghz Machine. Interesting. How did you arrive at that figure. Especially since CPU speed doen't relate to many things. But maybe the best encoding card requires a certain speed machine. Educate me please.
Two things:
First - show me your car and then try to hold up your functionaliy arguement:-)
Second - if we all wanted the same thing we would have married your grandma.
I understand your arguement. But isn't it funny that you never hear anyone say "Why $30K for a car. I can build 10 cheap ones for that price. Or I can build 2 great ones for that price."
I agree with your points. But I also know for certain that many people simply don't understand it, what it does, how it can do for them. Remember that people can't set their VCR clocks so many don't stand a chance of understanding Tivo - as obvious as I think it is.
Well they reproduce in that there is a new paper every day or news show every day. But they susceptible to natural selection - okay maybe it is more man made natural selection. Papers live and die on readership. If enough people select a paper it thrives, else it can die. The emporer crabs have thrived at the selection of man. Emporer crab's shell had the face of the emporer on it. So fishermen would throw them back. They thrive because of this selection - or non-selection.
Welcome to the world! After all how did MS become so big. It wasn't from having great products. Product quality (measured in many ways) counts for a lot but it can't beat good marketing. Take a look at the average persons car. How many of them bought their car based upon being pragmatic. Some for sure, but most because of image created by marketing. And let's not even talk about clothes.
Yes I am part of the Apple faitful. But more than I am drawn to a Mac, I am PUSHED from a Windows PC because of spyware and/or popups. My biggest complaints about using a PC is the soyware/adware. I have spent hours cleaning a system, that was freshly started just a week ago, just to have it infected within an hour. If you have kids on the internet you can forget about trying to keep the machine clean. So my love for Apple is great but my hatred for the crap I have to put up with on a PC is far greater.
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Pffft! Prove it. :-)
The masses think that Linux is too hard and Macs are too expensive. The masses don't know any different or don't care or don't want to ditch the devil they know for the devil they don't know.
Anyone proclaiming the end of anything has just demonstrated the limits of their mind.
OK, open mouth and isert my foot. I stupidly assumed prices were in American dollars. Being an Aussie site means Aussie rules - especially for money. No need to mod me down. I will just do the Unhappy Dance
They got the price for OS X wrong by $100. They also said they would like to see the firewall on by default. Well it is in the sense that all sharing is turned off by default. So you have to turn on the sharing and then decide what to not let through with the firewall. And it continues to make errors. They say that Apple computers come with the latest version of the OS. Not always. You should update it as you would update any OS. But maybe they mean if you buy a PC box you can choose something other than XP and then not have the latest OS. They say that on XP you can't limit a program to one user account. I am thinking a 3 year old wrote this. This all reminds me when NewsWeek did a review of an old word processing program I worked on. Because so many things were wrong in the review I called them up. Turns out that the reviewer was a computer newbie and had never used a word processor before.
At Compaq, when it was just Compaq, after completing a very hard project, I once got 100 points to use at the company store. I could choose between candle sticks, a watch with rubber band, pens, or a mouse pad. I chose the watch because I know it will be a collectors item in 6000 years.
What if you are over 40! :-)
This can be done. It isn't as difficult as you might first think. What you need to do is make a tap into the shower's hot water pipe. Then attach a tube and a bottle of permanent ink - blue looks good. When they turn on the hot water it will suck the dye out of the bottle and apply it to the victim. To make certain to capture the victim you can add an automated or manual delay before letting the dye lose.
I read somewhere, I wish I could find it, that the human eye can't distinguish dots/pixels smaller than 1/100th of an inch. It sounds good but I think I see better than that. Maybe none of us do, so why waste the resolution.
IMHO, there is no incentive to perform well for the gov. Hear me out. I have worked on consumer projects, enterprise projects, and government ones. The management for the gov project was uninvolved and wanted the project to go long. They knew that the contract would be renewed so why come in under budget and on time. Job security. In the enterprise space I found that the quality of the software was poor for good reason. If a company buys an $8 million piece of software/hardware solution from you, it isn't going to dump you and buy someone else. They will happily pay to see you send 20 engineers over to get things working properly. The imagery is impressive. It says that this solution is very complex and only our "super engineers" can handle it. Plus it demonstrates great cusomter service. It blew my mind. However, in every consumer project I worked on we had very high quality and came in on time and within budget. Why? Because revenues depended upon it. All kidding about Windows OS aside, consumers will drop you in a instant if you ship a poor quality product and you will die a financial death. This kinf od dynamic does not appear in enterprise and government projects.
(Not aimed at parent) Everytime I read, or hear, that some computer geek finds OS X "frustrating" or "difficult to use" or any complaint, a voice in my head always questions the ability of that person. I use Linux, Windows, and OS X back and forth for years and never have problems moving between them. Certainly there are aspects of each I like or dislike, but I never find one so much of a hassle as to complain - OK Windows is the worst. Maybe I am lucky and my constant moving between platforms has made it easy for me. But if you are a real geek, I don't understand how you get so locked in and fixated on one platform.
Or give a monkey a banana and he is fed for a day. Teach a monkey to get his own bananas and you destroy your customer base.
I think Bob needs a little lesson in GFLOPS and mini Macs. I'd love him to explain how he was able to get 720 gigFLOPs from 16 mini Macs. I want one too Bob! Show me the voodoo math!
Here here. How correct you are. I am on a 12 inch iBook G3 @800 running 10.3.7 and love it. Now I don't play games and I don't edit movies. But for real work, iTunes, iPhoto, scheduling, web browsing, email, programming, and so on, this machine is more than acceptable. Plus it only cost me $500. Beat that with a stick. Oh, and there is that *nix thingy too! I guess the only reason to wait now would be to get Tiger for free instead of paying for it.
Wow. I thought long and hard about replying to this. I mean: 1) I don't want to give this validity 2) Anything I say won't matter to the original poster. 3) The original poster must be from the south so they can't read. 4) I have had many pet monkeys - none of them were muslims.
2.4Ghz Machine. Interesting. How did you arrive at that figure. Especially since CPU speed doen't relate to many things. But maybe the best encoding card requires a certain speed machine. Educate me please.
Two things: First - show me your car and then try to hold up your functionaliy arguement :-)
Second - if we all wanted the same thing we would have married your grandma.
I understand your arguement. But isn't it funny that you never hear anyone say "Why $30K for a car. I can build 10 cheap ones for that price. Or I can build 2 great ones for that price."
I agree with your points. But I also know for certain that many people simply don't understand it, what it does, how it can do for them. Remember that people can't set their VCR clocks so many don't stand a chance of understanding Tivo - as obvious as I think it is.
Well they reproduce in that there is a new paper every day or news show every day. But they susceptible to natural selection - okay maybe it is more man made natural selection. Papers live and die on readership. If enough people select a paper it thrives, else it can die. The emporer crabs have thrived at the selection of man. Emporer crab's shell had the face of the emporer on it. So fishermen would throw them back. They thrive because of this selection - or non-selection.
Well then this is the perfect op for Sega to come out with a fantasy football game.
Welcome to the world! After all how did MS become so big. It wasn't from having great products. Product quality (measured in many ways) counts for a lot but it can't beat good marketing. Take a look at the average persons car. How many of them bought their car based upon being pragmatic. Some for sure, but most because of image created by marketing. And let's not even talk about clothes.
Yes I am part of the Apple faitful. But more than I am drawn to a Mac, I am PUSHED from a Windows PC because of spyware and/or popups. My biggest complaints about using a PC is the soyware/adware. I have spent hours cleaning a system, that was freshly started just a week ago, just to have it infected within an hour. If you have kids on the internet you can forget about trying to keep the machine clean. So my love for Apple is great but my hatred for the crap I have to put up with on a PC is far greater.