I would if I never had to enter a freeway. How about as a second (work) car if you live sufficiently close to were you live (so you don't take a freeway)?
We (the continental US, but this applies to most places on Earth) receive 5.5 useful sunlight hours per day, on average. I heard on a radio show (naked scientists podcast) a calculation involving installing solar panels in Saharan Africa and how that could provide enough energy to power Europe. it was a bit of a naive calculation (what happens at night etc), but it made a good point. I wonder if there is a business model somewhere where temperate countries could buy electricity from sunny countries.
You make a good point but it's not easy to pick good quality CF bulbs. It's hard to find "brand names you can trust" to be good. It feels they are all cheap knock-off of each other and I roll the dice every time I buy them.
What I can do on linux but no on my mac. 1. Openoffice (NeoOffice sucks and I don't want to use openoffice X on the mac and deal with strangeness. And so I'm reliant on MS Office (And I have many other suites that can't meet my needs and that's another large can of worms) 2. I do some computations (code in fortran) that require it to be on for long periods (I can do this on a non laptop mac too but mine is). 3. I can tinker with it (as it's more documented what changes what, I'm afraid to change the login desktop picture on the mac since different people have different instructions and claim the others' instructions aren't proper and I don't want to break it to be honest (stupidity on my part i know)). 4. I don't want to use Fink on mac I'd rather just use native apps on linux (I'm not a programmer, but I like to tinker) 5. It's more stable than leopard (I love leopard but I wouldn't make it a "critical" (whatever that means) server (since I got pretty gray screen of death a few times). 6. gnucash as an example (I don't want to use Fink, just to clarify).
I love my mac. I love my linux box. I don't want to choose between them. If I had to I'd choose the mac though. I'm not as technical as most of the slashdot crowd so I'm sure others will have better and more profound examples.
You just described why Mac OS is a better day to day operating system, and Linux is the vasty more configurable one. I should have to sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-plow to get a GUI, ya know? Yet, it's nice to know I can if I have to. I don't think either OS is poaching much from the other's pool of users. This is quite quite interesting. I have a mac laptop for "day to day" (pretty presentations, etc) and linux on my home desktop to do things I can't on my mac. You described me at different times of the day. I'm fairly sure I'm not alone.
While I agree with your point, I don't with your analogy:
I guess that would be a valid analogy if apple forced you to only call/text people they allow you to or only use a specific wall socket/computer to charge it
To be fair, when I bought my Mustang, Ford forced me to only play the CDs and MP3s that they want me to listen to in my audio system, said I could only drive on their pre-approved list of highways, interstates and streets, said I could only buy gas at certain approved gas stations, welded my battery into the chassis frame and forbid me from using third-party shifter knobs, kits or non-approved cleaning products.
While owning the physical CD is not as important (for me), the quality is. For example, I wish magnatune had a broader selection since they let you basically download an image of the CD (most of my favorite early music ensembles are not on there). The only way I'll ever use these services if I can get at least CD quality tracks.
I realize this is just my perception (i.e. it's not accurate, just the way I'm made to feel) and that it's been engineered (by Google at least):
When I use Google, I feel that I'm being served the best possible way. When I use Yahoo, I feel that they do the minimum to make as much money from me in the short term (I feel used). I used Yahoo messenger and Yahoo mail a long time ago and if I didn't pay the premium I was going to be advertised to hell.
Again, I know Google is not benevolent (I'm not an idiot) but it feels (probably to most laymen) like it when people use them.
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Maybe this would be great for a soft spoken lecturer:)
Sometime morality has a price. I'd rather voluntarily pay for it again than involuntarily give up personal info. Call it the price of privacy.
I still would rather buy the CD and encode losslessly (I made a new word!).
You make a good point but it's not easy to pick good quality CF bulbs.
It's hard to find "brand names you can trust" to be good. It feels they are all cheap knock-off of each other and I roll the dice every time I buy them.
What I can do on linux but no on my mac.
1. Openoffice (NeoOffice sucks and I don't want to use openoffice X on the mac and deal with strangeness. And so I'm reliant on MS Office (And I have many other suites that can't meet my needs and that's another large can of worms)
2. I do some computations (code in fortran) that require it to be on for long periods (I can do this on a non laptop mac too but mine is).
3. I can tinker with it (as it's more documented what changes what, I'm afraid to change the login desktop picture on the mac since different people have different instructions and claim the others' instructions aren't proper and I don't want to break it to be honest (stupidity on my part i know)).
4. I don't want to use Fink on mac I'd rather just use native apps on linux (I'm not a programmer, but I like to tinker)
5. It's more stable than leopard (I love leopard but I wouldn't make it a "critical" (whatever that means) server (since I got pretty gray screen of death a few times).
6. gnucash as an example (I don't want to use Fink, just to clarify).
I love my mac. I love my linux box. I don't want to choose between them. If I had to I'd choose the mac though. I'm not as technical as most of the slashdot crowd so I'm sure others will have better and more profound examples.
What if you were doing scientific computing? 20% drop could mean a lot of time for a calculation. I use to run calculations that would take months...
From what I understand, even if you don't use facebook, info about you is sent to them from the beacon partners.
You're absolutely right, I just posted the first search result I got.
I found this site: http://www.bspcn.com/2007/11/09/block-facebook-beacon/ with instructions on how to block beacon with firefox. I'm not sure how effective it is.
I just tried it now on a mac with safari and it works (not with firefox)
I hate to just add a me too-post. But I agree.
While owning the physical CD is not as important (for me), the quality is. For example, I wish magnatune had a broader selection since they let you basically download an image of the CD (most of my favorite early music ensembles are not on there). The only way I'll ever use these services if I can get at least CD quality tracks.
My post was well intentioned.
Why did yours have to be condescending?
Wine 1.0 is like Warp 10 (TNG definition)? We can only get closer to it...
It's a joke.
You'd have to put the processors in a circle or something...
What about the cost of product development?
I realize this is just my perception (i.e. it's not accurate, just the way I'm made to feel) and that it's been engineered (by Google at least):
When I use Google, I feel that I'm being served the best possible way.
When I use Yahoo, I feel that they do the minimum to make as much money from me in the short term (I feel used). I used Yahoo messenger and Yahoo mail a long time ago and if I didn't pay the premium I was going to be advertised to hell.
Again, I know Google is not benevolent (I'm not an idiot) but it feels (probably to most laymen) like it when people use them.
Just speculation, but maybe Apple's motive is to give a unified browser look for people using the iPhone and Windows (since iPhone uses Safari).