It's all boils down to the fact that very few Open Source people (or so it seems) do it for money. This means that no matter if the product 'sells' to 1000 people or a million, they will keep doing it. MS won't sell something that isn't making money, yet Open Source people will keep devoting their time to something that hardly anyone uses.
Think of it like this... you have 50 car dealerships in a small town. They all get their cars for free from the factory. Everything they sell is for a profit, but because there are so many of them, they barely make any profit. The only ones that shut down, are those who get tired of not making any profit. Some owners are content to keep their dealership open without making a profit, because they get to say they own a dealership, or they have a select few customers who always come in to buy cars, thus making them think that what they are doing is worthwhile.
I will continue to drive the 1 mile to Blockbuster to get upto 2 DVDs at a time for $15 a month. Did I mention I dont have to wait a few days to get the DVD I want?
Remember when the 600mhz (right speed?) Xeon's had a very very small problem that had a like 1% chance of causing the system to crash? (kinda vague I know...) All those owners had the option of getting 850mhz Xeon's in exchange. (250mhz was a big deal back then). Maybe you should go pickup one of the chips and hope the company does something similar w/ this problem.
This definetly goes to show that www.hackiis6.com's 18yr old rule was probably imposed to simply limit the number of hackers who will enter. Props to the kid for pulling this off... even if he did get into trouble =).
This was on cnn.com for a while
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/19/apollo13. engineers.ap/index.html
That aside - they did do a damn nice job bringing Apollo 13 back to earth.
If people went around treating their refrigerators as bad as they did their PCs, then we would have the same problem. Put the fridge in the middle of the street, let people take food, put food in, plug it into a DC power source etc. That thing would break in a heartbeat.
However all we do is open/close the fridge and occasionally defrost/clean it. Have someone use their PC to goto ONE website ONLY (ie microsoft.com) with a direct pipe to the site - that computer will be bug free for a while. Maybe even 10-15 years just like my last fridge.
Probably end up cheaper once you buy KB, Mouse, 15-16" LCD. It also comes with batteries! Seeing as how the only reason for a "portable" pc such as the Mac-Mini would be if you have a really long extension cord....
They always seem to want to copy what Apple does... but they muck it up and end up going nowhere with it. I would think that they would have learned after everyone and their mother tried to copy the iMac with no success.
If you're worried about design and looks, you need to think about laptops and their docking stations. Look at the bottom of the laptop and there are little flaps over the docking connector that gets opened up when you plop the laptop on the dock. Given this basic design + Apple's ingenuity, I'm sure adding an iPod docking station will not detract from the looks of the mini.
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You just have to leave the key in the "on" position, for the steering to still work
I never understood why this option was so difficult for people.
'... and if not lost they're too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the "features" have been rendered useless.'
I feel like this with just about every portable device these days. Am I the only one?
Is where the hell you got a movie ticket for $7.50. In the DC area, I havn't seen that price in ~10 years.
It's all boils down to the fact that very few Open Source people (or so it seems) do it for money. This means that no matter if the product 'sells' to 1000 people or a million, they will keep doing it. MS won't sell something that isn't making money, yet Open Source people will keep devoting their time to something that hardly anyone uses.
Think of it like this... you have 50 car dealerships in a small town. They all get their cars for free from the factory. Everything they sell is for a profit, but because there are so many of them, they barely make any profit. The only ones that shut down, are those who get tired of not making any profit. Some owners are content to keep their dealership open without making a profit, because they get to say they own a dealership, or they have a select few customers who always come in to buy cars, thus making them think that what they are doing is worthwhile.
Dont forget about the sand storms, freezing to boiling temps and such that the green house would have to withstand
Unfortunetly, all plants grown on Mars will still be freeze-dried before eaten.
9.2(made) - 11.2(spent) = -2
IBM is dragging around their corpse in the mud while people point and laugh.
that would be revenue change... which is not net loss. It means they took in 9.2 but spent ~11.2 mil. *this quarter*
"All your earth are belong to us" - Google's new war cry.
Ok - so you can get it FROM the brain... how do you get it back into ANOTHER brain?
I will continue to drive the 1 mile to Blockbuster to get upto 2 DVDs at a time for $15 a month. Did I mention I dont have to wait a few days to get the DVD I want?
Remember when the 600mhz (right speed?) Xeon's had a very very small problem that had a like 1% chance of causing the system to crash? (kinda vague I know...) All those owners had the option of getting 850mhz Xeon's in exchange. (250mhz was a big deal back then). Maybe you should go pickup one of the chips and hope the company does something similar w/ this problem.
This definetly goes to show that www.hackiis6.com's 18yr old rule was probably imposed to simply limit the number of hackers who will enter. Props to the kid for pulling this off... even if he did get into trouble =).
This was on cnn.com for a while http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/04/19/apollo13. engineers.ap/index.html
That aside - they did do a damn nice job bringing Apollo 13 back to earth.
If people went around treating their refrigerators as bad as they did their PCs, then we would have the same problem. Put the fridge in the middle of the street, let people take food, put food in, plug it into a DC power source etc. That thing would break in a heartbeat. However all we do is open/close the fridge and occasionally defrost/clean it. Have someone use their PC to goto ONE website ONLY (ie microsoft.com) with a direct pipe to the site - that computer will be bug free for a while. Maybe even 10-15 years just like my last fridge.
Probably end up cheaper once you buy KB, Mouse, 15-16" LCD. It also comes with batteries! Seeing as how the only reason for a "portable" pc such as the Mac-Mini would be if you have a really long extension cord....
They always seem to want to copy what Apple does... but they muck it up and end up going nowhere with it. I would think that they would have learned after everyone and their mother tried to copy the iMac with no success.
If you're worried about design and looks, you need to think about laptops and their docking stations. Look at the bottom of the laptop and there are little flaps over the docking connector that gets opened up when you plop the laptop on the dock. Given this basic design + Apple's ingenuity, I'm sure adding an iPod docking station will not detract from the looks of the mini.