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Also, once (if) the ruse is disovered, the patient usually leaves therapy.
A number of psychologists really dislike working with such people because of this tendency to bolt, and also because some of these people will make it their lifes mission to make the life of the therapist who unmasks them a living hell.
I still suspect the real reason for the switch had to do with being able to get the chips cheaper than from IBM due to Intel's economies of scale and the fact that IBM wasn't producing enough chips on a consistent basis. With IBM producing cell chips soon, that problem would likely have become worse.
Thank you for you comment. As a firm believer in the reality of evolution you have helped to prove it by showing us that some people are on the trip back.
This could happen anywhere. In the past I would have been shocked, but reality TV (which is popular most everywhere) has punctuated for me just how low people are willing to go for money or things. The lure of getting something for nothing or next to nothing is just too great.
Honey, just swim across that swimming pool full of chicken manure suspended in wesson oil without upchucking the four rancid gopher meat burritos they fed you and we get a new SUV!
The problem is not most of the "honest" companies trying to gather statistics, it's that you don't know who is collecting the data. The fact is anyone can attach a cookie benign or malicious to pretty much any site and you don't know who is doing it. Considering how much ID theft and the like has gone on, a little paranoia is not a bad idea
Perhaps, but corporate IT likes to stick with one platform and one brand of software all the way through. Often where you find Windows you'll find MS Office, and MS everything.
Also, in my experience, the corporate buy cycle is closer to five years with exceptions in certain areas like CAD machines and other intensive applications. If 90 per cent of your machines are running excel etc, then you don't need much power. That's why Intel is the biggest supplier of chipsets and graphics chips in the world.
Most home machine can run circles around most office machines.
Methinks you are being a wee bit too sensitive. I wasn't disparaging anyone. All I was saying is these things matter to people on this board and the people on this board are into this stuff. Most people don't give a rat's ass about what is under the hood of their browser. This is a site that bills itself as news for nerds
At issue is market penetration, and frankly, firefox is not miles better. All you have to do is tighten security, add pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing to IE "right out of the box" as in IE7 and you escape all of firefox's compatibility issues. Those three are the trio that make firefox better in most people's day to day use. If FF loses that advantage (and they will), they need something to really lock in the user base. That means easy updates, no compatibility issues and a better method of disseminating plug-ins.
This is the same group that originally said cassette tapes would kill music.
It will always be something. Up next, free radio broadcasts kill music buying.
Really, if you want firefox to eventually gain more than a marginal acceptance rate, it has to be miles betters than IE and it has to be brought to the attention of the public at large. The spead firefox campaign was a start, but only a start.
To many people who are only casual users of computers still consider firefox a bad Clint Eastwood movie and equate IE (and it's little icon) as THE internet.
Bad news. The market stabilized quite a while ago and it stabilized around the IE platform. That's what brought us to this position.
In any industry, to knock off the market leader you have to be much better, not just a bit better and you have to market, market, market. Firefox has to be easier, in terms of use, updating, and compatibility. Tabbed browsing is all nice and fine, but it was never earth shattering. Firefox can get even greater market share, but there is a long way to go.
Not impossible though, remember Netscape once had 80 per cent of the market too. The key here is not to get weirded out over a percentage point of market share here or there, and to continue doing the good work that allowed firefox to get the share it has achieved.
This is a bit like wailing over a one game losing streak. If the trend continues for six to eight months,then maybe there might be a cause for concern. In the meantime, it's interesting, but not a trend.
True SP2 broke some apps, but they can be fixed apparently. I've been lucky and all my apps work just fine. I like some of Apple's hardware, but they've had their own issues. The funny thing is that on this site where MS is decried as being viciously proprietary, Apple is the king in draconian practices in that regard.
Here Umax, build a clone - six months later - stop doing that! Their history is peppered with such like that. Remember Franklin Apple clones.
Comparing web development to something like third world hunger is absurd. You can see the suffering caused by hunger and poverty where all a non-functioning web page will do is cause somebody to do is curse and move on. As for features, what? Another form, shopping cart or method of net marketing? Great! More insidious pop-under banners telling me to get a big "hoo-hoo" or grow hair on a cue ball. That's where a great deal of the development goes. Beside, you don't miss what you never had.
Get a clue. The majority of people have no idea what's under the hood. That's why spyware, viruses and zombie machine get to exist in the numbers they do. To them the computer is a more versatile TV. Don't expect that the general public is as adept as the people you meet on an enthusiast website like this
Buy their software? Who pays for net software? I don't think I've ever paid for net software. As for the extra cost, we grumble and pay. When a bottle of coke goes up a dime, do you know why, do you bitch, or do you shut up and pay if you want it.
Nice argument, but you completely ignore the fact that no one said Apple shouldn't build new machines, just that they should support the ones they sold.
As for the RDRAM, there was ddr2 which became the defacto standard, and you could run Intel with it. In fact, you can get parts galore for PCs. The difference in choice for hardware between the wintel and the mac world is staggering. You can pretty much configure a PC any way you want.
You can't do that with a mac.
Does that mean wintel is superior tech? No. It does not. But the computer balance of power is what it is because some dolt a long time ago discontinued the lisa and failed to support the people who bought it. That's what you get for screwing your customers.
Blame the customer. That's a sound business philosophy. He might have bought it because he figured they might stand behind their product.
Quelle concept!
PCs, for the most part, became available on campus in the late 80's once windows came out. Computers were originally too expensive for the average family who didn't see much use for them. Once the breadwinners were exposed at work and found uses for them, they bought them usually through work. Kids became most familiar with those, plus they played on their home machines which is the best way to learn. Don't forget, the original Apples were THE hackers machine. Apple left that behind in the days of the mac when they welded the hood shut.
In the schools, by the time the mid-ninties rolled around. The macs of the 80's were being replaced by wintel machines because it was the machine most likely to be in the home, and the most likely for the kids to be working on once they got out of school. Macs still existed, but mostly ended up in the graphics labs. At the same time, companies like Dell got fat enough to offer good discounts to schools.
My feeling is still that the linchpin that made the world go Wintel as opposed to Mac was the day they scrubbed Lisa and didn't do anything for the people who bought them by the boxcar. Whoever made that decision probably should join the guy at IBM who gave Mr. Gates the licence to print money and the guy who told the Beatles they sucked in the Museum of Bad Business Decisions.
I said that, but it's the parents who bought the machines, and the machines they were familiar with were windows based. That was through work. Wintel machines as a whole were not sold through schools, but often did come through employee payroll purchase plans.
As a result, the sell through to the home market produced numbers that Apple couldn't even dream of hitting.
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Also, once (if) the ruse is disovered, the patient usually leaves therapy.
A number of psychologists really dislike working with such people because of this tendency to bolt, and also because some of these people will make it their lifes mission to make the life of the therapist who unmasks them a living hell.
I don't need no quiz to tell me my boss is a psychopath.
On the other hand, so are his employees
I still suspect the real reason for the switch had to do with being able to get the chips cheaper than from IBM due to Intel's economies of scale and the fact that IBM wasn't producing enough chips on a consistent basis. With IBM producing cell chips soon, that problem would likely have become worse.
Too many have lost the capacity for planning, persistence and deferral of gratification to attain a goal.
Thank you for you comment. As a firm believer in the reality of evolution you have helped to prove it by showing us that some people are on the trip back.
This could happen anywhere. In the past I would have been shocked, but reality TV (which is popular most everywhere) has punctuated for me just how low people are willing to go for money or things. The lure of getting something for nothing or next to nothing is just too great.
Honey, just swim across that swimming pool full of chicken manure suspended in wesson oil without upchucking the four rancid gopher meat burritos they fed you and we get a new SUV!
Sad really
The problem is not most of the "honest" companies trying to gather statistics, it's that you don't know who is collecting the data. The fact is anyone can attach a cookie benign or malicious to pretty much any site and you don't know who is doing it. Considering how much ID theft and the like has gone on, a little paranoia is not a bad idea
Perhaps, but corporate IT likes to stick with one platform and one brand of software all the way through. Often where you find Windows you'll find MS Office, and MS everything. Also, in my experience, the corporate buy cycle is closer to five years with exceptions in certain areas like CAD machines and other intensive applications. If 90 per cent of your machines are running excel etc, then you don't need much power. That's why Intel is the biggest supplier of chipsets and graphics chips in the world. Most home machine can run circles around most office machines.
Methinks you are being a wee bit too sensitive. I wasn't disparaging anyone. All I was saying is these things matter to people on this board and the people on this board are into this stuff. Most people don't give a rat's ass about what is under the hood of their browser. This is a site that bills itself as news for nerds
Get over it.
I can see being modded a lot of things. but redundant?
I was referring to being computing savvy enough to realize the advantages that FF has over IE. It was not a comment on general intelligence.
At issue is market penetration, and frankly, firefox is not miles better. All you have to do is tighten security, add pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing to IE "right out of the box" as in IE7 and you escape all of firefox's compatibility issues. Those three are the trio that make firefox better in most people's day to day use. If FF loses that advantage (and they will), they need something to really lock in the user base. That means easy updates, no compatibility issues and a better method of disseminating plug-ins.
Clint has done some very good movies. Firefox wasn't one of them. But I will grant you that it beats the snot out of Stealth
This is the same group that originally said cassette tapes would kill music. It will always be something. Up next, free radio broadcasts kill music buying.
Really, if you want firefox to eventually gain more than a marginal acceptance rate, it has to be miles betters than IE and it has to be brought to the attention of the public at large. The spead firefox campaign was a start, but only a start.
To many people who are only casual users of computers still consider firefox a bad Clint Eastwood movie and equate IE (and it's little icon) as THE internet.
Dumb, but not everybody is as smart as us.
Bad news. The market stabilized quite a while ago and it stabilized around the IE platform. That's what brought us to this position.
In any industry, to knock off the market leader you have to be much better, not just a bit better and you have to market, market, market. Firefox has to be easier, in terms of use, updating, and compatibility. Tabbed browsing is all nice and fine, but it was never earth shattering. Firefox can get even greater market share, but there is a long way to go.
Not impossible though, remember Netscape once had 80 per cent of the market too. The key here is not to get weirded out over a percentage point of market share here or there, and to continue doing the good work that allowed firefox to get the share it has achieved.
Okay, so maybe not that interesting. In any event, I don't think anyone show be bothered at all by any of this, even the fanboi types
This is a bit like wailing over a one game losing streak. If the trend continues for six to eight months,then maybe there might be a cause for concern. In the meantime, it's interesting, but not a trend.
True SP2 broke some apps, but they can be fixed apparently. I've been lucky and all my apps work just fine. I like some of Apple's hardware, but they've had their own issues. The funny thing is that on this site where MS is decried as being viciously proprietary, Apple is the king in draconian practices in that regard.
Here Umax, build a clone - six months later - stop doing that! Their history is peppered with such like that. Remember Franklin Apple clones.
Comparing web development to something like third world hunger is absurd. You can see the suffering caused by hunger and poverty where all a non-functioning web page will do is cause somebody to do is curse and move on. As for features, what? Another form, shopping cart or method of net marketing? Great! More insidious pop-under banners telling me to get a big "hoo-hoo" or grow hair on a cue ball. That's where a great deal of the development goes. Beside, you don't miss what you never had.
Get a clue. The majority of people have no idea what's under the hood. That's why spyware, viruses and zombie machine get to exist in the numbers they do. To them the computer is a more versatile TV. Don't expect that the general public is as adept as the people you meet on an enthusiast website like this
Buy their software? Who pays for net software? I don't think I've ever paid for net software. As for the extra cost, we grumble and pay. When a bottle of coke goes up a dime, do you know why, do you bitch, or do you shut up and pay if you want it.
Nice argument, but you completely ignore the fact that no one said Apple shouldn't build new machines, just that they should support the ones they sold.
As for the RDRAM, there was ddr2 which became the defacto standard, and you could run Intel with it. In fact, you can get parts galore for PCs. The difference in choice for hardware between the wintel and the mac world is staggering. You can pretty much configure a PC any way you want.
You can't do that with a mac.
Does that mean wintel is superior tech? No. It does not. But the computer balance of power is what it is because some dolt a long time ago discontinued the lisa and failed to support the people who bought it. That's what you get for screwing your customers.
While that holds true for a car analogy, it is perfecty reasonable to expect you could upgrade a computer. We do it all the time.
Blame the customer. That's a sound business philosophy. He might have bought it because he figured they might stand behind their product. Quelle concept!
PCs, for the most part, became available on campus in the late 80's once windows came out. Computers were originally too expensive for the average family who didn't see much use for them. Once the breadwinners were exposed at work and found uses for them, they bought them usually through work. Kids became most familiar with those, plus they played on their home machines which is the best way to learn. Don't forget, the original Apples were THE hackers machine. Apple left that behind in the days of the mac when they welded the hood shut.
In the schools, by the time the mid-ninties rolled around. The macs of the 80's were being replaced by wintel machines because it was the machine most likely to be in the home, and the most likely for the kids to be working on once they got out of school. Macs still existed, but mostly ended up in the graphics labs. At the same time, companies like Dell got fat enough to offer good discounts to schools.
My feeling is still that the linchpin that made the world go Wintel as opposed to Mac was the day they scrubbed Lisa and didn't do anything for the people who bought them by the boxcar. Whoever made that decision probably should join the guy at IBM who gave Mr. Gates the licence to print money and the guy who told the Beatles they sucked in the Museum of Bad Business Decisions.
I said that, but it's the parents who bought the machines, and the machines they were familiar with were windows based. That was through work. Wintel machines as a whole were not sold through schools, but often did come through employee payroll purchase plans.
As a result, the sell through to the home market produced numbers that Apple couldn't even dream of hitting.