Apple computers would slowly dissapear, replaced by the HPs, Lenovos and Dells du jour. But that would be more than compensated by the software sales. So why don't they just do it?
Now wait a sec, didn't Apple go down this road once before? We as consumers did indeed get cheap apple boxes that were in fact better than Apples hardware (at least performance-wise) but then Apple pulled the plug on licensing cause' they were losing hardware sales, duh! Am I missing something?
You hit upon a huge computing need: Textbooks on programming and computer science for kids, in general. You write a math book, its pretty much in stone for a few years at least.
You write a computer book, it's out of date a few months after it hits the shelf! sort of
Are you seriously suggesting that 1 in 3 of those Mac users I see on the train every morning and around the city are running around (or sitting at home) with some of these:
Not at all. I do not think the article was suggesting even a small fraction of these users are running around with older models s you say. The article is only suggesting that 1/3 of Mac Owners *keep* as in retain ownership. I'm pretty sure the article was referring the second definition of keep: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=keep&x=0& y=0 when they made the statement:
1 in 3 Mac users keep their computers for more than fifteen years
I toss mine - thats 0%
My buddie says he was ones even older - thats 50%
The article is winning!
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Greenpeace did not make me happy in this article. Did you note: ""....the methods used to collect information for their report were sloppy and incompetent."
Even so, note that 1 in 10 pc users keep their computers for more than five years, and 1 in 3 Mac users keep their computers for more than fifteen years. I guess that means that the amount of pollution caused by all those old Macs is about 1/1000th
1) Force your browser to HTTPS - Google can handle
2) Do not change the default sharing options on your calendar
3) The articles instructions are not quite accurate: but here is my cleanup for you:
3a) Login to Google Calendar
3b) Click "settings" in the upper-right-hand-corner - this article is old)
3c) Click on the CALENDAR tab
3d) Click on the the Calendar you want to edit from your list
3e) Click "Change Sharing Settings" ( your can find it underneath the "Calendar Address" header
3f) Smack yourself if you shared out your calendar to everyone and reduce your scope
This should protect even the paranoid in a in-depth way:)
I'm sure there are many industries in which MS does not have the majority of the server market butlarge financial groups are not among them.
I hate to agree with your logic, but you are right on. And I would go even further than that, MS rules the big finance companies on the desktop as well in more ways than one.
I have a client who is a high-end billion-dollar equity fund who is paying me out the nose to write VBA for EXCEL for them! I let them know I'm a J2EE guy, I'm a web applications architect, I'm a data engineer - but they begged and begged more for me to write an excel app for their VP of Something that would just hit the database directly from Excel.
I begged them back, anything but that, but they paid me off, ya see
May the gods all forgive me. But take excel away and I bet the world markets would collapse!
I was recently forced to use Basecamp in a recent client engagement - and it was freeking pretty slick. Simple, just a touch of Ajax, and it freeking working. Bye Bye Bloated MS Project!
And make sure to both backup your backup, and then VERIFY THAT YOU CAN RECOVER YOU DATA. Backup alone is not enough - it's all about redundant backup and verification of you backups!
...what the problem is with technology that can produce vast amounts of nutritious food that can feed people who may otherwise not have access to such a resoruce?
Glad you asked!
1) Pioneer and DuPont (big GE machines) have both been found in violation of EPA "safe planting" regulations 2) GE companies do not disclose to the public which genetic test are being done in local communities 3) Long term economic costs of GE are unknown 4) Leading scientists, including US Food and Drug Administration warn GE crops post unique risks to human health 5) GE organisms are alive. Once they are release, they can never be recalled 6) "Biopharmacuticals" crop that are designed to produce drugs, vaccines, or indsutrial solvents, are being tested in local communities (see 5) 7) Some GE crows produce LOWER yield and cost MORE to farmers that conventional or organic crops (not to mention farmer liability) 8) GE CROPS CONTAMINATE CONTENTIONAL OR ORGANIC CROPS
Damn, I get the heebie-jeebies just typing this out....
1) Pioneer and DuPont (big GE machines) have both been found in violation of EPA "safe planting" regulations
2) GE companies do not disclose to the public which genetic test are being done in local communities
3) Long term economic costs of GE are unknown
4) Leading scientists, including US Food and Drug Administration warn GE crops post unique risks to human health
5) GE organisms are alive. Once they are release, they can never be recalled
6) "Biopharmacuticals" crop that are designed to produce drugs, vaccines, or indsutrial solvents, are being tested in local communities (see 5)
7) Some GE crows produce LOWER yield and cost MORE to farmers that conventional or organic crops (not to mention farmer liability)
8) GE CROPS CONTAMINATE CONTENTIONAL OR ORGANIC CROPS
Damn, I get the heebie-jeebies just typing this out....
Oh, right, this is Slashdot. Where the only way to make it to the front page is to post stories that tear people apart and result in holy wars
MS FANBOY SUXXORS!
*cheers to surfing at -1*
Dude, this is a rather impressive idea. USA is all about IP (intellectual propoerty) now go run out and patent this idea! It will surface in the next decade as a necessity.
I miss consulting for Echostar! All the managers were cowboy hat wearing good ol' boys from Colorado City. It was the most hilarious and fun group of people to ever work with! To bad our product didn't really work (to much Java way to early) but damn they paid well and let us all chew tabacee' at work! Those were the days... *sigh*
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Apple computers would slowly dissapear, replaced by the HPs, Lenovos and Dells du jour. But that would be more than compensated by the software sales. So why don't they just do it?
Now wait a sec, didn't Apple go down this road once before? We as consumers did indeed get cheap apple boxes that were in fact better than Apples hardware (at least performance-wise) but then Apple pulled the plug on licensing cause' they were losing hardware sales, duh! Am I missing something?
Or use Trillian and have all IM's clients integrated into one uber-client.
8. Includes new and improved "set up us the bomb" botton?
This Idiot just got self slammed! wah!!!!!!
Dearest Idiot, You only posted one link in this thread, and it was malicious. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=197523&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=16185807
Heembo
You can undo the language setting set by the link from this idiot above at http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en
You hit upon a huge computing need: Textbooks on programming and computer science for kids, in general. You write a math book, its pretty much in stone for a few years at least. You write a computer book, it's out of date a few months after it hits the shelf! sort of
It gives you a clear target to SUE when shit hits the fan!
That's 2/3 66% baby! The article is still winning! :)
m l - try emailing reshelp@resnet.uoregon.edu for more info since their shopping cart is down. I think you just need one of these: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-APPLE-MAC-ETHERNET-CARD-4- LC-PDS-Slot-RJ-45-Softwr_W0QQitemZ220022046501QQih Z012QQcategoryZ25436QQcmdZViewItem
Here is a good reference for Ethernet cards for old macs: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/docs-old/maccardlist.ht
Are you seriously suggesting that 1 in 3 of those Mac users I see on the train every morning and around the city are running around (or sitting at home) with some of these:
& y=0 when they made the statement:
Not at all. I do not think the article was suggesting even a small fraction of these users are running around with older models s you say. The article is only suggesting that 1/3 of Mac Owners *keep* as in retain ownership. I'm pretty sure the article was referring the second definition of keep: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=keep&x=0
1 in 3 Mac users keep their computers for more than fifteen years
I toss mine - thats 0%
My buddie says he was ones even older - thats 50%
The article is winning!
What a crybaby. I Digg this guy down!
2) Apple scoring lowest on a "Green" survey - when Dell scored second highest.
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Hmm, are you talking about : http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/29C5599A-FC
Greenpeace did not make me happy in this article. Did you note: ""....the methods used to collect information for their report were sloppy and incompetent."
Even so, note that 1 in 10 pc users keep their computers for more than five years, and 1 in 3 Mac users keep their computers for more than fifteen years. I guess that means that the amount of pollution caused by all those old Macs is about 1/1000th
1) Force your browser to HTTPS - Google can handle
:)
2) Do not change the default sharing options on your calendar
3) The articles instructions are not quite accurate: but here is my cleanup for you:
3a) Login to Google Calendar
3b) Click "settings" in the upper-right-hand-corner - this article is old)
3c) Click on the CALENDAR tab
3d) Click on the the Calendar you want to edit from your list
3e) Click "Change Sharing Settings" ( your can find it underneath the "Calendar Address" header
3f) Smack yourself if you shared out your calendar to everyone and reduce your scope
This should protect even the paranoid in a in-depth way
Owned implied simple defeat. This bloke was pwnd! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn
I'm sure there are many industries in which MS does not have the majority of the server market butlarge financial groups are not among them.
I hate to agree with your logic, but you are right on. And I would go even further than that, MS rules the big finance companies on the desktop as well in more ways than one.
I have a client who is a high-end billion-dollar equity fund who is paying me out the nose to write VBA for EXCEL for them! I let them know I'm a J2EE guy, I'm a web applications architect, I'm a data engineer - but they begged and begged more for me to write an excel app for their VP of Something that would just hit the database directly from Excel.
I begged them back, anything but that, but they paid me off, ya see
May the gods all forgive me. But take excel away and I bet the world markets would collapse!
I was recently forced to use Basecamp in a recent client engagement - and it was freeking pretty slick. Simple, just a touch of Ajax, and it freeking working. Bye Bye Bloated MS Project!
I just manually backup my My Documents folder, in drag-and-drop fashion (actually, right-click-copy, right-click-paste)
Then I try clicking on some files in my backup drive to make sure they pop.
Then I copy my backup drive to another backup drive.
I also sometimes to a windows-backup using the XP Pro Default back IN ADDITION to my manual backup....
I HATE retrospect and other software, just a pain.
And make sure to both backup your backup, and then VERIFY THAT YOU CAN RECOVER YOU DATA. Backup alone is not enough - it's all about redundant backup and verification of you backups!
...what the problem is with technology that can produce vast amounts of nutritious food that can feed people who may otherwise not have access to such a resoruce?
Glad you asked!
1) Pioneer and DuPont (big GE machines) have both been found in violation of EPA "safe planting" regulations
2) GE companies do not disclose to the public which genetic test are being done in local communities
3) Long term economic costs of GE are unknown
4) Leading scientists, including US Food and Drug Administration warn GE crops post unique risks to human health
5) GE organisms are alive. Once they are release, they can never be recalled
6) "Biopharmacuticals" crop that are designed to produce drugs, vaccines, or indsutrial solvents, are being tested in local communities (see 5)
7) Some GE crows produce LOWER yield and cost MORE to farmers that conventional or organic crops (not to mention farmer liability)
8) GE CROPS CONTAMINATE CONTENTIONAL OR ORGANIC CROPS
Damn, I get the heebie-jeebies just typing this out....
1) Pioneer and DuPont (big GE machines) have both been found in violation of EPA "safe planting" regulations 2) GE companies do not disclose to the public which genetic test are being done in local communities 3) Long term economic costs of GE are unknown 4) Leading scientists, including US Food and Drug Administration warn GE crops post unique risks to human health 5) GE organisms are alive. Once they are release, they can never be recalled 6) "Biopharmacuticals" crop that are designed to produce drugs, vaccines, or indsutrial solvents, are being tested in local communities (see 5) 7) Some GE crows produce LOWER yield and cost MORE to farmers that conventional or organic crops (not to mention farmer liability) 8) GE CROPS CONTAMINATE CONTENTIONAL OR ORGANIC CROPS Damn, I get the heebie-jeebies just typing this out....
NYET! PARTY FOUL! Requires login, need a better business model!
Oh, right, this is Slashdot. Where the only way to make it to the front page is to post stories that tear people apart and result in holy wars MS FANBOY SUXXORS!
All Your Happy Mice Are Belong To US!!!
*cheers to surfing at -1* Dude, this is a rather impressive idea. USA is all about IP (intellectual propoerty) now go run out and patent this idea! It will surface in the next decade as a necessity.
I miss consulting for Echostar! All the managers were cowboy hat wearing good ol' boys from Colorado City. It was the most hilarious and fun group of people to ever work with! To bad our product didn't really work (to much Java way to early) but damn they paid well and let us all chew tabacee' at work! Those were the days... *sigh*