"oopsie. IE has been released for macintosh. Same with outlook. And the rest of the office suite."
IE was discontinued for the Mac a long time ago after not being updated for years (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexp lorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer).
Outlook for Mac is called Entourage, and though it's a passably decent version it's hardly as full-featured as the Windows version. The Office suite for Mac is OK but it does not contain all the applications available for Office for Windows (such as Access, Infopath, Frontpage, Visio, Publisher, and others).
"You can blame Apple for not checking the law in the market they were entering (or checking, but deciding that the law doesn't apply to them)."
One would assume that Apple had would have to have a some sort of license or governmental approval to operate an online store in Norway (or Denmark for that matter). Which begs the question: Why was Apple allowed to open and operate an online business if "...ITMS has always been illegal"?
If your claim is correct and the ITMS has been operating illegally, despite Apple having received approval to open such a store, then logic follows that it is Apple which may have a legal case against the government of Norway for illegally approving such a store.
Say what you like about Norway, but the country with the highest standard of living in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_In dex) can't be all bad (though in this case they might be wrong).
What they don't tell you, because the question is never asked because nobody would answer truthfully if it was, is that most downloaded movies are porn.
"You can't play songs purchased on itunes music store on your Zune."
Burn them to CD them rip them to mp3 and play them on your Zune. Problem solved. Your argument may have been valid five years ago when there were still people with computers without a CD burner, but virtually every machine has one today.
Look, I use multiple computers, mulitple operating systems, and ALL perfrom specific functions because they are the best tool for the job. At home I use multiple Macs. There is no pretense here - I am a Mac user. I just don't like Safari (which is NOT to say I don't use it for specific functions) because of it's annoying incompatibilities and limitations. I'm sorry you apparently can only allow yourself to use a single browser because that somehow makes you feel comfortable and superior but you really don't need to believe that you can only be a Mac user if you use Safari.
I suggest that it is YOU who is pretentious because you believe you are actually better than someone else who doesn't do it your way. That's an élitist, and intellectually pretentious attitude.
The best thing about Macs is that I can use ANY of dozens of browsers if I choose to and STILL be a Mac user. If you choose to have tunnel vision and limit yourself then so be it.
Now it's easy to understand why you have so many Troll and Flamebait raitings. Very articulate. To suggest that you simply cannot be a Mac user unless you use Safari has to be the most ridiculous comment I've read here in a while.
You haven't got a clue what I do for a living, and that makes your comments all that much more silly and presumptuous. Now run along and go find someone else to hate -- you clearly won't have any trouble finding someone.
So I'm not a real Mac user (whatever that is) unless I use Safari. Uh huh. That attitude makes you sound very much like a Safari bigot. One who would rather use the same tool for every job even if it the wrong one, just because, well it's made by Apple and you can't be a real Mac user unless you use Apple software right?
Life must be very unsatisfying for you to see people doing things in ways that aren't exactly like the way you do them.
"I can't think of any "hardcore Mac users" who don't regard Firefox as an abomination"
So what. You personally know every single Firefox and Mac user? I happen to love Firefox and I am a long, long time Mac user. In fact, our entire organization uses it because of certain features which are either not available in Safari or too weak (such as ad blocking and certificate management). Maybe in your clique you like to congratulate each other for being Safari supporters, but the rest of us Mac users have work to do, in Firefox.
Safari is an OK browser for certain things. For Java Applets it's a must. For site compatibility however, at least the ones I need to use on a daily basis, it still lags behind Firefox. And don't get me started about Safari's lack of free add-ons.
"Seriously, Firefox? Who but a PC user would prefer Firefox to Safari?"
Seriously, you're trolling. MANY hardcore Mac users prefer Firefox over Safari. Get over it and stop pigeonholing people because of their choice of browser.
Does he? Other than mentioning some features of Vista which also appear in OS X, all he really says about it is:
"Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in Apple's operating system, called Mac OS X, which came out in 2001 and received its last major upgrade in 2005. And Apple is about to leap ahead again with a new version of OS X, called Leopard, due this spring."
How is that praising OS X? Should he not compare Vista to another OS? Or should he do so only in glowing terms to avoid being labeled a "fanboy"?
Where did you get the idea that Mossberg was recommending Vista? The ONLY place the word "recommend" shows up in his article is in the following sentence:
"For most users who want Vista, I strongly recommend buying a new PC with the new operating system preloaded."
Maybe you should read your own references. To wit:
"However, concern about DCA toxicity is predicated mainly on data obtained in inbred rodent strains administered DCA at doses thousands of times higher than those to which humans are usually exposed."
And
"As a medicinal, DCA is generally well tolerated and stimulates the activity of the mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase enzyme complex, resulting in increased oxidation of glucose and lactate and an amelioration of lactic acidosis."
As for your other "source" (if one can call About.com a reliable source), the last sentence is telling: "The findings show that this side effect of DCA outweighs any potential beneficial effect of the medication in treating MELAS." In other words, DCA isn't good for people with the exceedingly rare MELAS SYNDROME.
According to the numbers presented by the OP, more than 1% - the market share Apple is after - spend more than $400 on a device. It's sounds to me as if Apple has done their homework and knows exactly what their market is.
"At $500 a pop it may be Sony-ing it's way out of its target market too."
At that price it's target market is obviously nothing less than high end. Did you watch the keynote? They're aiming for 1% of a $100B market. They're not trying to make phones for schoolboys and compete with every other low end device out there.
"If I remember correctly from government classes way back when, fascism and socialism aren't that far apart on the political spectrum when you think of it as a continuum."
Well, the OP's foggy assertions notwithstanding, socialism and fascism are different ends of the political spectrum, but you are right that communism and fascism can both be authoritarian or even totalitarian (something I have a feeling the OP would approve of because he wouldn't actually realize it was happening).
Socialist? Don't you mean right-wing and bordering on fascist? There is very little about this republican administration that is close socialism, unless you consider democracy socialism. If that's the case then what is it, besides the obvious privacy concerns, that you are arguing for/against?
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"They don't realize that the Canadian government has no control over what happens in Quebec!"
Canada has federal police. They're called the R.C.M.P.. They exercise federal power everywhere in Canada.
"oopsie. IE has been released for macintosh. Same with outlook. And the rest of the office suite."
p lorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer).
IE was discontinued for the Mac a long time ago after not being updated for years (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetex
Outlook for Mac is called Entourage, and though it's a passably decent version it's hardly as full-featured as the Windows version. The Office suite for Mac is OK but it does not contain all the applications available for Office for Windows (such as Access, Infopath, Frontpage, Visio, Publisher, and others).
"You can blame Apple for not checking the law in the market they were entering (or checking, but deciding that the law doesn't apply to them)."
One would assume that Apple had would have to have a some sort of license or governmental approval to operate an online store in Norway (or Denmark for that matter). Which begs the question: Why was Apple allowed to open and operate an online business if "...ITMS has always been illegal"?
If your claim is correct and the ITMS has been operating illegally, despite Apple having received approval to open such a store, then logic follows that it is Apple which may have a legal case against the government of Norway for illegally approving such a store.
Say what you like about Norway, but the country with the highest standard of living in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_In dex) can't be all bad (though in this case they might be wrong).
What they don't tell you, because the question is never asked because nobody would answer truthfully if it was, is that most downloaded movies are porn.
"You can't play songs purchased on itunes music store on your Zune."
Burn them to CD them rip them to mp3 and play them on your Zune. Problem solved. Your argument may have been valid five years ago when there were still people with computers without a CD burner, but virtually every machine has one today.
"Norway has now given Apple a new deadline of September of this year to change its policies...."
Or else they will send a letter to Apple telling them how upset they are.
Look, I use multiple computers, mulitple operating systems, and ALL perfrom specific functions because they are the best tool for the job. At home I use multiple Macs. There is no pretense here - I am a Mac user. I just don't like Safari (which is NOT to say I don't use it for specific functions) because of it's annoying incompatibilities and limitations. I'm sorry you apparently can only allow yourself to use a single browser because that somehow makes you feel comfortable and superior but you really don't need to believe that you can only be a Mac user if you use Safari.
I suggest that it is YOU who is pretentious because you believe you are actually better than someone else who doesn't do it your way. That's an élitist, and intellectually pretentious attitude.
The best thing about Macs is that I can use ANY of dozens of browsers if I choose to and STILL be a Mac user. If you choose to have tunnel vision and limit yourself then so be it.
Now it's easy to understand why you have so many Troll and Flamebait raitings. Very articulate. To suggest that you simply cannot be a Mac user unless you use Safari has to be the most ridiculous comment I've read here in a while.
You haven't got a clue what I do for a living, and that makes your comments all that much more silly and presumptuous. Now run along and go find someone else to hate -- you clearly won't have any trouble finding someone.
So I'm not a real Mac user (whatever that is) unless I use Safari. Uh huh. That attitude makes you sound very much like a Safari bigot. One who would rather use the same tool for every job even if it the wrong one, just because, well it's made by Apple and you can't be a real Mac user unless you use Apple software right?
Life must be very unsatisfying for you to see people doing things in ways that aren't exactly like the way you do them.
"I can't think of any "hardcore Mac users" who don't regard Firefox as an abomination"
So what. You personally know every single Firefox and Mac user? I happen to love Firefox and I am a long, long time Mac user. In fact, our entire organization uses it because of certain features which are either not available in Safari or too weak (such as ad blocking and certificate management). Maybe in your clique you like to congratulate each other for being Safari supporters, but the rest of us Mac users have work to do, in Firefox.
Safari is an OK browser for certain things. For Java Applets it's a must. For site compatibility however, at least the ones I need to use on a daily basis, it still lags behind Firefox. And don't get me started about Safari's lack of free add-ons.
"Seriously, Firefox? Who but a PC user would prefer Firefox to Safari?"
Seriously, you're trolling. MANY hardcore Mac users prefer Firefox over Safari. Get over it and stop pigeonholing people because of their choice of browser.
It could ship with a free pair of rubber gloves!
Interesting assertion considering your website is full of fables.
"Mossberg praises OSX"
Does he? Other than mentioning some features of Vista which also appear in OS X, all he really says about it is:
"Nearly all of the major, visible new features in Vista are already available in Apple's operating system, called Mac OS X, which came out in 2001 and received its last major upgrade in 2005. And Apple is about to leap ahead again with a new version of OS X, called Leopard, due this spring."
How is that praising OS X? Should he not compare Vista to another OS? Or should he do so only in glowing terms to avoid being labeled a "fanboy"?
Where did you get the idea that Mossberg was recommending Vista? The ONLY place the word "recommend" shows up in his article is in the following sentence:
"For most users who want Vista, I strongly recommend buying a new PC with the new operating system preloaded."
Maybe you should read your own references. To wit:
"However, concern about DCA toxicity is predicated mainly on data obtained in inbred rodent strains administered DCA at doses thousands of times higher than those to which humans are usually exposed."
And
"As a medicinal, DCA is generally well tolerated and stimulates the activity of the mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase enzyme complex, resulting in increased oxidation of glucose and lactate and an amelioration of lactic acidosis."
As for your other "source" (if one can call About.com a reliable source), the last sentence is telling: "The findings show that this side effect of DCA outweighs any potential beneficial effect of the medication in treating MELAS." In other words, DCA isn't good for people with the exceedingly rare MELAS SYNDROME.
Yes! Now go turn yourself in!
According to the numbers presented by the OP, more than 1% - the market share Apple is after - spend more than $400 on a device. It's sounds to me as if Apple has done their homework and knows exactly what their market is.
"At $500 a pop it may be Sony-ing it's way out of its target market too."
At that price it's target market is obviously nothing less than high end. Did you watch the keynote? They're aiming for 1% of a $100B market. They're not trying to make phones for schoolboys and compete with every other low end device out there.
"Dr Boulter said the recent Czech Republic research was not conclusive"
So they decided to draw conclusions anyway.
"If I remember correctly from government classes way back when, fascism and socialism aren't that far apart on the political spectrum when you think of it as a continuum."
Well, the OP's foggy assertions notwithstanding, socialism and fascism are different ends of the political spectrum, but you are right that communism and fascism can both be authoritarian or even totalitarian (something I have a feeling the OP would approve of because he wouldn't actually realize it was happening).
"...Socialist-Bush government."
Socialist? Don't you mean right-wing and bordering on fascist? There is very little about this republican administration that is close socialism, unless you consider democracy socialism. If that's the case then what is it, besides the obvious privacy concerns, that you are arguing for/against?
"I'm ambivalent on the issue liking neither Mac software nor hardware"
That statement sounds unequivocal and resolute, hardly ambivalent at all.
Right you are. Duly noted.