Another major reason not to switch - in EITHER direction:
When there's competition, the manufacturers generally work more efficiently and provide better, cheaper products. Works in every market. Including browsers.
When there was more-or-less ONLY IE out there, it stagnated. If there was only Opera, it would stagnate. FF would too.
Having multiple browsers competing for users makes them all better.
You missed the budget bit.
There may be free-as-in-money software for mac platforms. But the hardware itself is considerably more expensive in an Apple machine, and free-as-in-beer software can be had on much cheaper hardware.
Without numbers (mainly because I can't remember where in the large pile to my right they are), try following this:
We KNOW that various gases, including CO2 and methane, have a greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. A "greenhouse effect" causes warming.
We know that humans are releasing ridiculously huge amounts of these gases into our atmosphere. We know that we were not doing so to this extent even a hundred years ago.
We know that natural climate changes are VERY slow. We know that from all the data we have - and that goes back a very long way - global temperatures have risen by a huge amount in the last hundred years. We know that this rise is not at all comparable, speed-wise, to natural variations.
We know that humans are relasing more greenhouse gases than ever before. We know that global temperatures are changing faster than ever before. We know that greenhouse gases cause temperature rises.
I dunno about anyone else, but if you ask me it can't possibly be due to human activity...
What's even more fun is that often you're legally allowed to see it in life, and do it yourself, before you're allowed to see it in photographic or video form...
After Apple made the iPod, along came the iRiver -- it's basically a cheap knockoff without the scroll wheel or iTunes music store support. If you want to buy music online to listen to with your iRiver, you have to be a Windows user.
Cheap? Nope, iRivers are more expensive than iPods by a large margin. Knockoff? No, iRivers aren't knockoffs because that implies low-quality. An iRiver is currently the top-of-the-range when it comes to MP3 players. And has a matching price.
iRivers primarily play MP3 files. Since when was MP3 windows-only? They can also play Ogg Vorbis and WMA, of course.
iTunes? Nah, I'll buy my music on CDs thanks. Once I've listened to it and decided whether it's worth buying, anyway. And with the accurate navigation buttons it has, I don't need to look at the player to see what I'm doing.
And for me, one area where you cannot in any honesty say that an iPod is better than an iRiver: Recording. Once music's recorded on an iRiver, due to Apple's DRM you can't get it off directly.
Other people's mileage may vary. But I don't believe anyone who's really looked into the issue can say that an iPod is any better than an iRiver - except price, and when you buy top-of-the-range goods you expect to pay for it.
An iRiver is as much a copycat of an iPod as, say, any mobile phone is of another, simply by virtue of having the same purpose.
Anyone know the UK ruling on this, as an aside? If that law applied in the UK, I'd presume that my university has no right to ask us not to use wireless equipment in our residences...
UK rail services are somewhat competitive, but only in as much that they compete to run their local monopolies. If a particular company doesn't run its small monopoly well enough, it will be replaced at the end of its contract. There's systems of targets and penalties if they underperform, but there's no direct competition.
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Another major reason not to switch - in EITHER direction: When there's competition, the manufacturers generally work more efficiently and provide better, cheaper products. Works in every market. Including browsers. When there was more-or-less ONLY IE out there, it stagnated. If there was only Opera, it would stagnate. FF would too. Having multiple browsers competing for users makes them all better.
Nope, another 500GB drive, clearly... If you can afford one, and have enough data to fill it, you can probably afford a second too.
You missed the budget bit. There may be free-as-in-money software for mac platforms. But the hardware itself is considerably more expensive in an Apple machine, and free-as-in-beer software can be had on much cheaper hardware.
Try running the most basic data past yourself.
Without numbers (mainly because I can't remember where in the large pile to my right they are), try following this:
We KNOW that various gases, including CO2 and methane, have a greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. A "greenhouse effect" causes warming.
We know that humans are releasing ridiculously huge amounts of these gases into our atmosphere. We know that we were not doing so to this extent even a hundred years ago.
We know that natural climate changes are VERY slow. We know that from all the data we have - and that goes back a very long way - global temperatures have risen by a huge amount in the last hundred years. We know that this rise is not at all comparable, speed-wise, to natural variations.
We know that humans are relasing more greenhouse gases than ever before. We know that global temperatures are changing faster than ever before. We know that greenhouse gases cause temperature rises.
I dunno about anyone else, but if you ask me it can't possibly be due to human activity...
A friend of mine, when he received a new bank card and pin number, signed the back of the card and made a note of the pin number.
He then realised that he'd written the pin number directly onto the signature strip of the card.
Porn fits into entertainment, no?
What's even more fun is that often you're legally allowed to see it in life, and do it yourself, before you're allowed to see it in photographic or video form...
After Apple made the iPod, along came the iRiver -- it's basically a cheap knockoff without the scroll wheel or iTunes music store support. If you want to buy music online to listen to with your iRiver, you have to be a Windows user.
Cheap? Nope, iRivers are more expensive than iPods by a large margin. Knockoff? No, iRivers aren't knockoffs because that implies low-quality. An iRiver is currently the top-of-the-range when it comes to MP3 players. And has a matching price.
iRivers primarily play MP3 files. Since when was MP3 windows-only? They can also play Ogg Vorbis and WMA, of course.
iTunes? Nah, I'll buy my music on CDs thanks. Once I've listened to it and decided whether it's worth buying, anyway. And with the accurate navigation buttons it has, I don't need to look at the player to see what I'm doing.
And for me, one area where you cannot in any honesty say that an iPod is better than an iRiver: Recording. Once music's recorded on an iRiver, due to Apple's DRM you can't get it off directly.
Other people's mileage may vary. But I don't believe anyone who's really looked into the issue can say that an iPod is any better than an iRiver - except price, and when you buy top-of-the-range goods you expect to pay for it.
An iRiver is as much a copycat of an iPod as, say, any mobile phone is of another, simply by virtue of having the same purpose.
Anyone know the UK ruling on this, as an aside? If that law applied in the UK, I'd presume that my university has no right to ask us not to use wireless equipment in our residences...
UK rail services are somewhat competitive, but only in as much that they compete to run their local monopolies. If a particular company doesn't run its small monopoly well enough, it will be replaced at the end of its contract. There's systems of targets and penalties if they underperform, but there's no direct competition.