I've worked at an airport years ago, and yes, for the most part the baggage handlers are pieces of crap. I hate to blame unions but in this case I will. They work great for about the first 90 minutes of their shift and after a break, the quality goes out the window. After seeing these clowns go to work on peoples baggage, deliberately roughing up luggage because it was in a new suitcase or even worse; opening and rifling through peoples shit and actually stealing stuff, and then having to deal with the SS guards at the baggage inspections, I take Amtrak whenever possible. It takes longer, but that's half the fun. Plus I can get hammered at the bar and smoke pot in my cabin.
New Zealand deals with litigious idiots in a very effective way...if you sue someone and lose...you pay the bill..yours, the courts and the guy you sued. Cuts out alot of shit..
And when that gap between the poor and the rich is eliminated; the poor,throughout history,have devoured the rich. Poor stupid humans. Too dumb to learn any lessons at all. This species deserves whatever happens to it.
You Too Dogg? I just left the IT business after 20+ years for the bio-medical repair thing. No more arrogant nerds right out of high school, too many hot nurses to list and they can't ship the fucking machines to India (or anywhere else for that matter) to get repaired. I'm done. Screw the IT world. Mark my words, they will be shipping IT jobs from India to African countries in about 20 years.
Good point Col (IBM Warp OS comes to mind as well)but I still think that if Apple was to make an alternative to XP, make it portable to Intel and AMD and make it available to consumers (i.e: make it inexpensive,take a loss for a year or two and hammer 'em on the next upgrade), Apple might (with the current profitablity of the iPod padding the hell out of Apples' current bottom line) have enough money, gumption and underlying support with the current groundswell of anti-MS feeling abounding in the market today-both with comsumers and OEM's, that they might be able to withstand a frontal assalt by Bill satan er..I mean Gates. Personally I run Slackware 9 most of the time, and multi-boot to XP to play games, so I really don't care one way or 'nother...but what the Hell, I'd try it...but I'm not gonna buy any new hardware in order to do it. I would try it on a system I already had (add another OS line to my System Commander boot options menu), and then make the determination to use it regularly-I would like to use some of Apple's wonderful media software. But agoin, I'm not going to purchase more redundant hardware to do it with. I'm sure most wouldn't.
Cape Hatteras calls me....
Rock hard
Surf hard
Party hard
Hang loose
Of course Apple makes next to nothing on its software sales. Nobody outside of the Mac world buys it. However, if people could buy Mac OS X and install it on thier new clone computer, or have an industry manager buy 2500 licenses to use on cheap, replaceable PC's they COULD make billions on software alone. The sad fact is that while they are better than some other hardware manufacturers-they just aren't that much better and in some cases-possible not as good (high end motherboards, memory, etc). And on software OS's in particular-Mac is better, no doubt-But Microsoft continues to improve, and in opposition to hardcore Mac users continual assertions that ALL Windows is crap-it may have it's problems but it doesn't have the problems it used to and it pretty much works for most people day in and day out. Steve Jobs needs to realize one thing: Apple can't possibly keep up with all of the different other manufacturers of hardware and keep up with Microsoft and Redhat on the Software side at the same time. Microsoft and IBM realized this but it seems that Apple refuses to believe they cannot take on the entire world at once. And sustain this war to boot. They will have to make a choice. Software or hardware. Their business model proved they couldn't do it in the 90's (Remember Mr.Bills bailout?-I do)-what makes them think they can do it now??? A war fought on two fronts is unwinnable.
I hate windows too, but "an unmitigated disaster" is a little harsh. As much as I hate to say it, MS windows portability and convienience pretty much put PC's in every home. The Ford Model T wasn't a Rolls-Royce, but neither was the price. That very factor is what put Model T's everywhere in America-PRICE. Same with Windows and Mac OS's. Ones cheaper and the other better. As fast as the world is today, I want to shell out as little money as possible for an item I KNOW will be obsolete (hardware and software) within two or so years-no matter who makes it. I'm glad that Windows was so very 'bootleggable' and IBM clones permiated the market. If it were not for (I can't believe I'm saying this) Gates and company, they computer market would not be what it is, the Internet would not be what it is and computer hardware would not be what it is. While we don't owe them much, we do owe MS some thanks. Imagine that MS never existed (pleasant huh?. If you think for a minute that the industry would have grown just as fast if every computer was an Apple running Macintosh with a $2000 price tag instead of $800 and a bootleg copy of Windows, Sorry. It wouldn't have happened. Scratch that. It WOULD have happened. Just alot slower.
You say that Mac is a hardware company. But it seems that MS barely made any hardware at all, certainly not any machines (mice and a couple of other things) and it was MS that had to bail out Mac a few years back from going belly up. Apple has to be one of the most inept, mismanaged companies of all time. Gates proved that the REAL money was in software and not hardware. Forcing people to buy Mac hardware in order to run OS Xi, will only keep people from actually giving Mac OS a try (myself included). Furthermore, if Apple thinks it can compete on the hardware end with all of the clone manufacturers, they are out-and-out crazy. Macintosh OS's SHOULD have been ported to PC's years ago as an off the shelf OS that COULD have competed with MS for tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue. Only then could they have given MS a run for the money (no pun intended). And made real industry heavyweight instead of the humiliation of Steve Jobs having to introduce Bill Gates as some kind of hero for giving them money in order for them to stay afloat. Why did they wait so long for this? It's too little, and WAY too late. XP is too stable (yeah, yeah...I know-it's not even close to perfect-I'm an IT manager- But it does work most of the time and most of all of my human clients on my network already know how to use it.) Anyways, if Apple does decide to make OS Xi hardware dependent, it will probably be macs last gasp. After all of the blunders Steve Jobs has made in the last 15 years, I'd say it was about time. Unfortunately, maybe too much time.
Line 'em up, and shoot 'em all. I hate this entire species simply because people have nothing better to do then to whine, bitch and moan. I long for a real Palpatine to come along and clean up this festering mass of waste known as humanity.
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I've worked at an airport years ago, and yes, for the most part the baggage handlers are pieces of crap. I hate to blame unions but in this case I will. They work great for about the first 90 minutes of their shift and after a break, the quality goes out the window. After seeing these clowns go to work on peoples baggage, deliberately roughing up luggage because it was in a new suitcase or even worse; opening and rifling through peoples shit and actually stealing stuff, and then having to deal with the SS guards at the baggage inspections, I take Amtrak whenever possible. It takes longer, but that's half the fun. Plus I can get hammered at the bar and smoke pot in my cabin.
Yes one must be fucking living to be blind. Just like telling no tales, the dead don't see shit..
me thinks you need more bran in your diet...
Why does this rate a '0' and some bullshit replies that may be clever but offer little else rate mutch better??
New Zealand deals with litigious idiots in a very effective way...if you sue someone and lose...you pay the bill..yours, the courts and the guy you sued. Cuts out alot of shit..
And when that gap between the poor and the rich is eliminated; the poor,throughout history,have devoured the rich. Poor stupid humans. Too dumb to learn any lessons at all. This species deserves whatever happens to it.
You Too Dogg? I just left the IT business after 20+ years for the bio-medical repair thing. No more arrogant nerds right out of high school, too many hot nurses to list and they can't ship the fucking machines to India (or anywhere else for that matter) to get repaired. I'm done. Screw the IT world. Mark my words, they will be shipping IT jobs from India to African countries in about 20 years.
Good point Col (IBM Warp OS comes to mind as well)but I still think that if Apple was to make an alternative to XP, make it portable to Intel and AMD and make it available to consumers (i.e: make it inexpensive,take a loss for a year or two and hammer 'em on the next upgrade), Apple might (with the current profitablity of the iPod padding the hell out of Apples' current bottom line) have enough money, gumption and underlying support with the current groundswell of anti-MS feeling abounding in the market today-both with comsumers and OEM's, that they might be able to withstand a frontal assalt by Bill satan er..I mean Gates. Personally I run Slackware 9 most of the time, and multi-boot to XP to play games, so I really don't care one way or 'nother...but what the Hell, I'd try it...but I'm not gonna buy any new hardware in order to do it. I would try it on a system I already had (add another OS line to my System Commander boot options menu), and then make the determination to use it regularly-I would like to use some of Apple's wonderful media software. But agoin, I'm not going to purchase more redundant hardware to do it with. I'm sure most wouldn't. Cape Hatteras calls me.... Rock hard Surf hard Party hard Hang loose
Of course Apple makes next to nothing on its software sales. Nobody outside of the Mac world buys it. However, if people could buy Mac OS X and install it on thier new clone computer, or have an industry manager buy 2500 licenses to use on cheap, replaceable PC's they COULD make billions on software alone. The sad fact is that while they are better than some other hardware manufacturers-they just aren't that much better and in some cases-possible not as good (high end motherboards, memory, etc). And on software OS's in particular-Mac is better, no doubt-But Microsoft continues to improve, and in opposition to hardcore Mac users continual assertions that ALL Windows is crap-it may have it's problems but it doesn't have the problems it used to and it pretty much works for most people day in and day out. Steve Jobs needs to realize one thing: Apple can't possibly keep up with all of the different other manufacturers of hardware and keep up with Microsoft and Redhat on the Software side at the same time. Microsoft and IBM realized this but it seems that Apple refuses to believe they cannot take on the entire world at once. And sustain this war to boot. They will have to make a choice. Software or hardware. Their business model proved they couldn't do it in the 90's (Remember Mr.Bills bailout?-I do)-what makes them think they can do it now??? A war fought on two fronts is unwinnable.
I hate windows too, but "an unmitigated disaster" is a little harsh. As much as I hate to say it, MS windows portability and convienience pretty much put PC's in every home. The Ford Model T wasn't a Rolls-Royce, but neither was the price. That very factor is what put Model T's everywhere in America-PRICE. Same with Windows and Mac OS's. Ones cheaper and the other better. As fast as the world is today, I want to shell out as little money as possible for an item I KNOW will be obsolete (hardware and software) within two or so years-no matter who makes it. I'm glad that Windows was so very 'bootleggable' and IBM clones permiated the market. If it were not for (I can't believe I'm saying this) Gates and company, they computer market would not be what it is, the Internet would not be what it is and computer hardware would not be what it is. While we don't owe them much, we do owe MS some thanks. Imagine that MS never existed (pleasant huh?. If you think for a minute that the industry would have grown just as fast if every computer was an Apple running Macintosh with a $2000 price tag instead of $800 and a bootleg copy of Windows, Sorry. It wouldn't have happened. Scratch that. It WOULD have happened. Just alot slower.
You say that Mac is a hardware company. But it seems that MS barely made any hardware at all, certainly not any machines (mice and a couple of other things) and it was MS that had to bail out Mac a few years back from going belly up. Apple has to be one of the most inept, mismanaged companies of all time. Gates proved that the REAL money was in software and not hardware. Forcing people to buy Mac hardware in order to run OS Xi, will only keep people from actually giving Mac OS a try (myself included). Furthermore, if Apple thinks it can compete on the hardware end with all of the clone manufacturers, they are out-and-out crazy. Macintosh OS's SHOULD have been ported to PC's years ago as an off the shelf OS that COULD have competed with MS for tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue. Only then could they have given MS a run for the money (no pun intended). And made real industry heavyweight instead of the humiliation of Steve Jobs having to introduce Bill Gates as some kind of hero for giving them money in order for them to stay afloat. Why did they wait so long for this? It's too little, and WAY too late. XP is too stable (yeah, yeah...I know-it's not even close to perfect-I'm an IT manager- But it does work most of the time and most of all of my human clients on my network already know how to use it.) Anyways, if Apple does decide to make OS Xi hardware dependent, it will probably be macs last gasp. After all of the blunders Steve Jobs has made in the last 15 years, I'd say it was about time. Unfortunately, maybe too much time.
Line 'em up, and shoot 'em all. I hate this entire species simply because people have nothing better to do then to whine, bitch and moan. I long for a real Palpatine to come along and clean up this festering mass of waste known as humanity.