And everyone is going to want to see his current tax return compared to his next one so they can see how much money the tax payer spent propping up his business , you don't think all those security people are staying for free, hell he's probably trying to figure out if he can charge them membership fees to be there.
Well nothing now, they are too busy trying to figure out how coal can be portrayed as "safe clean energy"
Now that all those pesky scientists have gone they can be replaced with Marketing Experts from Industry, hell they may be able to put such a huge spin on this we may have to reconsider if perpetual motion is real or not.
You mean like Afghanistan, Iraq, etc etc etc ?????
How many years they been going now ?
Israel still has rockets heading its way ever week.
Never mind the missiles coming the US way from China and Russia in retaliation.
And how much US IP that China has access to would suddenly get leaked ?
And how much stuff will the US be able to do without for YEARS, factories take time to build as do power generation plants, roads, etc etc etc, staff take time to train. Chinese manufacturing impacts ALL of the US economy. Other countries will follow Chinas lead, they would prefer to keep trading with China and loose access to the USA because trade with China is 3-4 larger than the trade with the USA.
The great depression may look like a walk in the park compared to what could happen if the US used Nukes.
Netflix and the likes has made people realise they watch programs, and, even worse for the advertising industry, they watch programs with no advert interruptions.
I go back to "linearTV" and it just annoys the hell out of me, so it back to Netflix we go.
My Grandfather could shoe a horse , fix a saddle, even repair a puncture when he got a car. Knew how to use a light meter and adjust the camera settings.
He could add up the old pounds/shillings/pence faster than I could do Dollars and cents, could use a slide rule, guess fairly accurately weights and distances.
They are saying GPS systems are ruining peoples sense of direction, calculators destroying basic maths, spell checkers and computers ruining peoples ability to write.
Give it another 20 years and you may find most computers dont even have a keyboard, voice will be how we interact with them.
Modernisation leads to a loss of basic skills because there in no longer a real need for them
What you have described is called progress, nothing more.
When I started with computers (TRS-80 Model 1) you could get the service manuals and fix them yourself (40 pin DIP desolder, easy). Now with BGA/PGA and sub millimetre pin pitch you need a lot better equipment and skills. Hell writing code in Assembler was easy compared to today.
TVs, well you had to know how to tune them because the tuning drifted, then there was the vertical hold to adjust now and again too. Now they self tune.
Thats what modernisation and commoditisation do. Its not just computers, its HAM radios, Cars, Radio controlled aircraft, etc etc etc etc.
I use Apple products because they feel "right", they fit in with the way I work and the way I think.
Windows to me just grates, its "wrong".
Its like giving a right handed golfer a set of left handed clubs, sure with practice they will be able to hit a ball, but they will NEVER be as fluid as they are with a right handed set.
If you are left handed, you know about how rubbish most right handed stuff feels, but if you have left handed golf clubs to you it feels "right" for you, natural.
And thats computers for you, you end up using what works best for YOU. No one else uses my computer (or my golf clubs), so how anyone else feels about the hardware/OS/software (to me) is completely irrelevant , go buy your own and be happy and if you aren't buy something else.
And THAT is why the war over OS's will never be won, because no one else actually cares what YOU use, they will continue to use what THEY like.
I think uptake would be *much* larger if people didn't have to do it themselves. If someone had Hackintoshes ready to go they'd sell out. Of course they'd be sued into oblivion.
OK, how large do you think the market really is ?
No pie in the sky estimates, an honest logical guess.
Based on my experience at a University, less than 1% of users. 95% of Mac users have not even maxed out the memory of their laptops/desktops. Simply doing that and replacing their HDs with an SSD would be a huge performance increase that the same 95% would not in reality make full use of.
Why should Apple provide anything ?
The point was, the small numbers who need such a machine makes it a market not work pursuing. Its like the Xserves , Raid Array, Laser Printers, Screens and all the other hardware Apple has dumped, it became a fringe product that was simply not cost effective or too expensive to sell in numbers.
They would probably be better off partnering with Dell, so when you buy FinalCutPro with a PC box (limited set of hardware specs) you get a Hackintosh version of OSX all installed.
Just how big does anyone believe the market for a new MacPro actually is ?
If the small (yes small) number of people who use Mackintoshes proves that Apple should build Towers, then the small (yes small) number of Windows Phone users proves we should all be using Windows phones.
Stop believing that YOUR needs/wants = the majority, they aren't.
"If that's not enough money, let's return to a top marginal rate of 91%. It worked great in the 50s, and the economy was booming."
WHY was it booming ?
Give you a hint. Name a large, highly populated 1st world country, with large amounts of natural resources and mature industrial sector and infrastructure that was NOT bombed during WWII. So the USA was able to build stuff for the rebuilding of Europe and Asia. It could invest in R&D rather than in schools, hospitals, houses, roads, rail, water, electricity.
Its not about America being great again, its about the rest of the world no longer being dependant on America.
In the 1950s the USA was about 60% of the entire worlds GDP, now its about 20% and falling.
The USA only makes up about 4% of the worlds population, so there is still a lot of room to fall yet.
Build your walls, have a trade war, stop immigration, its just going to hasten the fall.
The rest of the world agrees with Trump "No deal is better than a bad deal", and few countries (if any) now have to accept a bad deal from the USA.
Sure loss of trade with the USA will hurt, for a wee while, but other countries will step in and life will continue as before.
No one HAS to buy from the USA anymore, there are alternatives.
The US already pays more for "health" by a VERY large margin than anyone else. How soon will it be before the "internet" follows suit.
The rest of the world will be happy to stick with its Net Neutrality , get the same (if not better) service for a lot less money.
Unlike health though, it is easier to host servers in other countries, which is all that will happen.
Will this encourage investment, sure, just not in the USA.
The average user does not read reviews. They use the modem/router that was supplied to them by their ISP.
By the time the unit is in the consumers hands its already too late, the effort needs to be made right at the concept stage right through to manufacturing.
Most ISPs regard the modem as throw away items, its cheaper for them to supply something new than to support something old. The manufacturers work on the basis that they want to sell something new and not support something old.
Neither the manufacturer or the ISP has the consumers interests at heart, self regulation is not working, so now it needs "the waving of the big stick" to ensure a reasonable minimum standard of care.
Perhaps it is time that manufacturers have to accept liability for faulty software.
There are many things that are considered bad practice (or outright stupidity) that make it into the consumer market, these should be punished.
The lack of timely firmware updates (or even any updates), should be punished.
Hardcoded accounts/passwords should be punished
Telnet/SSH access from the DSL side on by default should be punished
Wireless not requiring a password (a complex one !) before the wireless can be enabled should be punished
If manufacturers had to shell out $1000 per item for this sort of behaviour a lot would go to the wall, the others would clean up their act quickly.
And NO, manufacturers can not opt-out/contract out of this (if they try, make it $5000 an item).
Sure, no software is perfect, but thats not the problem, its that so much junk is put out there with no attempt to make it secure. The average home user can not be expected to do this themselves.
>> all of these apps were provided for free to customers who purchased a new Mac or iOS device
I still don't get it. What else would you run these apps on if not a Mac or iOS device? (To me, they've always been free so...what changed?)
Try working with the blind and you will see how important voice controls are.
Try working with the dyslexic and see how important voice controls are
Try working with the intellectually handicapped and see how important voice controls are
English is a very difficult language , too many words sound the same, too many words have multiple meanings (The word "set" has 464 meanings), too many accents in addition to more localised slang (look up "Dench" and "Shit the bed" for the UK, "Stink" , "Munted" and "Jafa" from New Zealand).
Google and Apple have been doing this (often badly) for years and still don't get it right (though Google is better than Siri (and I use Siri)). If they release it as soon as they say, it will either be a miracle or it will have so many short comings that it will be a joke.
Different countries have different additions into the language, for example place names. Australians have Aboriginal names, NZ has Maori names, USA has the different Native American languages for place names as well as Spanish names.
English is hard.
I will stick to marketing promising things engineering has a not yet completed.
YOU are the product being sold.
YOU are NOT a customer, you are a data source that Google on sells.
EVERYTHING Google does is on the basis that they need more advert impressions and click throughs.
The only thing that surprises me is that this was not done sooner.
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Swap drained....???? he's turned into a Bayou.
And everyone is going to want to see his current tax return compared to his next one so they can see how much money the tax payer spent propping up his business , you don't think all those security people are staying for free, hell he's probably trying to figure out if he can charge them membership fees to be there.
Thank God for Coal /s
Well nothing now, they are too busy trying to figure out how coal can be portrayed as "safe clean energy"
Now that all those pesky scientists have gone they can be replaced with Marketing Experts from Industry, hell they may be able to put such a huge spin on this we may have to reconsider if perpetual motion is real or not.
You mean like Afghanistan, Iraq, etc etc etc ?????
How many years they been going now ?
Israel still has rockets heading its way ever week.
Never mind the missiles coming the US way from China and Russia in retaliation.
And how much US IP that China has access to would suddenly get leaked ?
And how much stuff will the US be able to do without for YEARS, factories take time to build as do power generation plants, roads, etc etc etc, staff take time to train. Chinese manufacturing impacts ALL of the US economy. Other countries will follow Chinas lead, they would prefer to keep trading with China and loose access to the USA because trade with China is 3-4 larger than the trade with the USA.
The great depression may look like a walk in the park compared to what could happen if the US used Nukes.
No one actually cares about channels anymore.
Netflix and the likes has made people realise they watch programs, and, even worse for the advertising industry, they watch programs with no advert interruptions.
I go back to "linearTV" and it just annoys the hell out of me, so it back to Netflix we go.
Which is what percentage of all Mac users ?
1% ?
Less than that ?
Your example above is completely useless , its already a selected list.
So you chose a car rather than a Mac Truck, why, because you did not need a Truck to do all that heavy lifting stuff.
And again 99% of people don't need the size, power, capability of a truck, so they buy a car.
My Grandfather could shoe a horse , fix a saddle, even repair a puncture when he got a car. Knew how to use a light meter and adjust the camera settings.
He could add up the old pounds/shillings/pence faster than I could do Dollars and cents, could use a slide rule, guess fairly accurately weights and distances.
They are saying GPS systems are ruining peoples sense of direction, calculators destroying basic maths, spell checkers and computers ruining peoples ability to write.
Give it another 20 years and you may find most computers dont even have a keyboard, voice will be how we interact with them.
Modernisation leads to a loss of basic skills because there in no longer a real need for them
What you have described is called progress, nothing more.
When I started with computers (TRS-80 Model 1) you could get the service manuals and fix them yourself (40 pin DIP desolder, easy). Now with BGA/PGA and sub millimetre pin pitch you need a lot better equipment and skills. Hell writing code in Assembler was easy compared to today.
TVs, well you had to know how to tune them because the tuning drifted, then there was the vertical hold to adjust now and again too. Now they self tune.
Thats what modernisation and commoditisation do. Its not just computers, its HAM radios, Cars, Radio controlled aircraft, etc etc etc etc.
I use Apple products because they feel "right", they fit in with the way I work and the way I think.
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Windows to me just grates, its "wrong".
Its like giving a right handed golfer a set of left handed clubs, sure with practice they will be able to hit a ball, but they will NEVER be as fluid as they are with a right handed set.
If you are left handed, you know about how rubbish most right handed stuff feels, but if you have left handed golf clubs to you it feels "right" for you, natural
And thats computers for you, you end up using what works best for YOU. No one else uses my computer (or my golf clubs), so how anyone else feels about the hardware/OS/software (to me) is completely irrelevant , go buy your own and be happy and if you aren't buy something else.
And THAT is why the war over OS's will never be won, because no one else actually cares what YOU use, they will continue to use what THEY like.
I think uptake would be *much* larger if people didn't have to do it themselves. If someone had Hackintoshes ready to go they'd sell out. Of course they'd be sued into oblivion.
OK, how large do you think the market really is ?
No pie in the sky estimates, an honest logical guess.
Based on my experience at a University, less than 1% of users. 95% of Mac users have not even maxed out the memory of their laptops/desktops. Simply doing that and replacing their HDs with an SSD would be a huge performance increase that the same 95% would not in reality make full use of.
Why should Apple provide anything ?
The point was, the small numbers who need such a machine makes it a market not work pursuing. Its like the Xserves , Raid Array, Laser Printers, Screens and all the other hardware Apple has dumped, it became a fringe product that was simply not cost effective or too expensive to sell in numbers.
They would probably be better off partnering with Dell, so when you buy FinalCutPro with a PC box (limited set of hardware specs) you get a Hackintosh version of OSX all installed.
Just how big does anyone believe the market for a new MacPro actually is ?
If the small (yes small) number of people who use Mackintoshes proves that Apple should build Towers, then the small (yes small) number of Windows Phone users proves we should all be using Windows phones. Stop believing that YOUR needs/wants = the majority, they aren't.
"create a huge amount of wealth for the 1% and increase poverty overall"
"If that's not enough money, let's return to a top marginal rate of 91%. It worked great in the 50s, and the economy was booming."
WHY was it booming ?
Give you a hint. Name a large, highly populated 1st world country, with large amounts of natural resources and mature industrial sector and infrastructure that was NOT bombed during WWII. So the USA was able to build stuff for the rebuilding of Europe and Asia. It could invest in R&D rather than in schools, hospitals, houses, roads, rail, water, electricity.
Its not about America being great again, its about the rest of the world no longer being dependant on America.
In the 1950s the USA was about 60% of the entire worlds GDP, now its about 20% and falling.
The USA only makes up about 4% of the worlds population, so there is still a lot of room to fall yet.
Build your walls, have a trade war, stop immigration, its just going to hasten the fall.
The rest of the world agrees with Trump "No deal is better than a bad deal", and few countries (if any) now have to accept a bad deal from the USA.
Sure loss of trade with the USA will hurt, for a wee while, but other countries will step in and life will continue as before.
No one HAS to buy from the USA anymore, there are alternatives.
THAT is a US problem.
The 96% of the world that does not live in the USA won't have that problem, just as they don't suffer the high cost of US healthcare.
As Nelson would say "Ha ha".
The US already pays more for "health" by a VERY large margin than anyone else. How soon will it be before the "internet" follows suit.
The rest of the world will be happy to stick with its Net Neutrality , get the same (if not better) service for a lot less money.
Unlike health though, it is easier to host servers in other countries, which is all that will happen.
Will this encourage investment, sure, just not in the USA.
I have flashed my modem at least twice and the previous one probably 3 times.
My New Zealand ISP has no problems with people upgrading the firmware, especially those that know enough to do it.
The average user does not read reviews. They use the modem/router that was supplied to them by their ISP.
By the time the unit is in the consumers hands its already too late, the effort needs to be made right at the concept stage right through to manufacturing.
Most ISPs regard the modem as throw away items, its cheaper for them to supply something new than to support something old. The manufacturers work on the basis that they want to sell something new and not support something old.
Neither the manufacturer or the ISP has the consumers interests at heart, self regulation is not working, so now it needs "the waving of the big stick" to ensure a reasonable minimum standard of care.
Perhaps it is time that manufacturers have to accept liability for faulty software.
There are many things that are considered bad practice (or outright stupidity) that make it into the consumer market, these should be punished.
The lack of timely firmware updates (or even any updates), should be punished.
Hardcoded accounts/passwords should be punished
Telnet/SSH access from the DSL side on by default should be punished
Wireless not requiring a password (a complex one !) before the wireless can be enabled should be punished
If manufacturers had to shell out $1000 per item for this sort of behaviour a lot would go to the wall, the others would clean up their act quickly.
And NO, manufacturers can not opt-out/contract out of this (if they try, make it $5000 an item).
Sure, no software is perfect, but thats not the problem, its that so much junk is put out there with no attempt to make it secure. The average home user can not be expected to do this themselves.
>> all of these apps were provided for free to customers who purchased a new Mac or iOS device I still don't get it. What else would you run these apps on if not a Mac or iOS device? (To me, they've always been free so...what changed?)
A Hackintosh
Try working with the blind and you will see how important voice controls are.
Try working with the dyslexic and see how important voice controls are
Try working with the intellectually handicapped and see how important voice controls are
Until its there, its vapourware.
English is a very difficult language , too many words sound the same, too many words have multiple meanings (The word "set" has 464 meanings), too many accents in addition to more localised slang (look up "Dench" and "Shit the bed" for the UK, "Stink" , "Munted" and "Jafa" from New Zealand).
Google and Apple have been doing this (often badly) for years and still don't get it right (though Google is better than Siri (and I use Siri)). If they release it as soon as they say, it will either be a miracle or it will have so many short comings that it will be a joke.
Different countries have different additions into the language, for example place names. Australians have Aboriginal names, NZ has Maori names, USA has the different Native American languages for place names as well as Spanish names.
English is hard.
I will stick to marketing promising things engineering has a not yet completed.
Yet again, Marketing is promising things Engineering have not yet completed.
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This is not a new phenomenon
YOU are the product being sold. YOU are NOT a customer, you are a data source that Google on sells. EVERYTHING Google does is on the basis that they need more advert impressions and click throughs. The only thing that surprises me is that this was not done sooner.