More Americans hate the way things are going than you think, bucko
But sadly, a lot fewer than you seem to think. By and large people in the US are at least "passively patriotic" and often PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST THEY KNOW THEY'RE FREE, etc.
It's a sad truth, but by and large humans are kinda stupid. Americans included.
(in before "I can't believe how much self-hate Americans have!" nationalistic ranting)
Given the "7 is the base score" from major media game reviewers (which I guess Wired could arguably fall into, tho it's no Gamepro or IGN), I find this to be entirely plausible.
While I still highly doubt it, I'd also point out that you'd have to find out exactly how long the "model" (not as Apple defined it, but in an equivalent sense to the rest of the PC industry) was in production. Otherwise the comparison doesn't really mean a whole lot.
The only reference I could find to that was stating 5 million units sold in the years between 2001 and 2004. That's just not very many units, and I'm pretty dang sure that the original iMac (the config that initially released, none of the little "bumps" that Apple likes to give its line) didn't sell 5,000,000 units. It's plenty plausible that over-all the iMac has, though.
There's some fudging of the numbers there. Apple calls every computer of a certain line an iMac, regardless of its feature set, components, etc (i.e there is no iMac 130, iMac 225, etc -- they're just iMacs). Most other computer manufacturers have different model numbers for different feature sets. So, while the iMac *line* of computers may have sold a lot of machines, I guarantee you Dell has sold many multiples of that number in Latitude and Optiplex models for the same time period (since 2001 there's been at *least* the 240's,270s,280s,620s, and 745's at least in the Optiplex line that I've worked with and the C6xx D4xx D6xx series laptops in that time).
The iMac sold a lot, but let's not get carried away. Dell has probably sold more desktop computers to date in 2007 than Apple has sold ever sold iMacs.
See, we Apple fanbois really don't care what you think, but it is kind of fun seeing the masses of people "see the light" and start drinking the kool-aid with us Wow... just... wow. "Drinking the kool-aide with us"... just... I can't even find the words for how amazingly stupid that is.
I suspect this is a red-tape licensing issue not a technical issue. The companies in question probably bought individual Vista Business licenses, found that Vista wasn't gonna work so hot in their environment, and then wanted to use the licenses they already paid for to use XP instead. So now they can do it in batch format instead of having to do individual "downgrades" (so to speak) for every licenses.
They can lock whatever they want on the phone. The only restriction that I know of is that they can't prevent you from unlocking the phone (though they don't have to help to unlock it, either).
The thing about the iPhone is that Jobs has already talked about getting 3G into the iPhone (in the Macworld 2007 keynote). I don't know who would buy a $499 phone with a 2 year $59/mo contract for a device that will be admittedly be superseded by something much better. MacFans essentially do this on a regular basis with Apple products anyway.
Can't sue the government for using your money to fund religious groups, effectively overturning the 1968 precident allowing it -- all under the loophole that it wasn't spending specifically approved by congress, but by the executive branch via funding granted by the congress. SCOTUS found that just because you're a taxpayer, doesn't mean you can bring suit on behalf of all taxpayers.
"Bong Hits For Jesus" isn't free speech, and isn't protected (meaning that schools can now kick people out for saying almost anything that the school doesn't like From what I understand, the real crux of this argument lay in the (little reported) fact that the kid himself said he wasn't trying to express any sort of message, just doing it for the lulz. It does seem odd to me that the kid was on public property and this was still the decision, but it's been established for long time before this that minors(students) have less constitutional rights than those of the age of majority.
1) There doesn't seem to be a method of record keeping. Thus, companies can't do reporting, which means there's no quantifiable method of figuring out efficiency. If one of your test machines is old and crusty you bring it to the Tech Stop and they give you a new one. They track everything by swiping your ID when you "check out" an item. If you need more equipment than your job description allows, your manager just needs to approve the action.
Seems to me at least that this implies there's some sort of back-end for asset tracking.
While I suspect your reply was half troll, half sarcasm, that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about those things you figure out by doing that don't line up with the book answers.
Now, granted, I can't think of one damn example in IT right now that fits into that idea, but....
I was approached by Google, got interviewed, and at the end declined because I wasn't technical enough to be the Director of Engineering (or something like that as a tittle). Which is utter bs. There was not a single question about management. At least where I'm working now, it's pretty common for Directors to have no direct reports. I think they use it in place of having a separate title classification for "subject matter expert" or some such thing.
Wow. Jobs' RDF is strong with you. My team supports about 6 dozen or so treos, along with a variety of older Blackberries and Axims of various types. The Axims and Treos are wandering around with sales people. To my knowledge, the dance you speak of isn't 1) common, 2) causing mental anguish. Somehow the world has been able to have usable experience with smartphones/PDAs before Apple decided to boon us with the iPhone, so stop gushing over this device as if no one has ever made a good smartphone that people liked using and found useful before.
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But sadly, a lot fewer than you seem to think. By and large people in the US are at least "passively patriotic" and often PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST THEY KNOW THEY'RE FREE, etc.
It's a sad truth, but by and large humans are kinda stupid. Americans included.
(in before "I can't believe how much self-hate Americans have!" nationalistic ranting)
Given the "7 is the base score" from major media game reviewers (which I guess Wired could arguably fall into, tho it's no Gamepro or IGN), I find this to be entirely plausible.
I dunno, wouldn't pretty much every one of the bacteria have to reproduce the exact same way?
Yes.
Get back to work.
While I still highly doubt it, I'd also point out that you'd have to find out exactly how long the "model" (not as Apple defined it, but in an equivalent sense to the rest of the PC industry) was in production. Otherwise the comparison doesn't really mean a whole lot.
The only reference I could find to that was stating 5 million units sold in the years between 2001 and 2004. That's just not very many units, and I'm pretty dang sure that the original iMac (the config that initially released, none of the little "bumps" that Apple likes to give its line) didn't sell 5,000,000 units. It's plenty plausible that over-all the iMac has, though.
There's some fudging of the numbers there. Apple calls every computer of a certain line an iMac, regardless of its feature set, components, etc (i.e there is no iMac 130, iMac 225, etc -- they're just iMacs). Most other computer manufacturers have different model numbers for different feature sets. So, while the iMac *line* of computers may have sold a lot of machines, I guarantee you Dell has sold many multiples of that number in Latitude and Optiplex models for the same time period (since 2001 there's been at *least* the 240's,270s,280s,620s, and 745's at least in the Optiplex line that I've worked with and the C6xx D4xx D6xx series laptops in that time).
The iMac sold a lot, but let's not get carried away. Dell has probably sold more desktop computers to date in 2007 than Apple has sold ever sold iMacs.
Yes, obviously I am new here.
I suspect this is a red-tape licensing issue not a technical issue. The companies in question probably bought individual Vista Business licenses, found that Vista wasn't gonna work so hot in their environment, and then wanted to use the licenses they already paid for to use XP instead. So now they can do it in batch format instead of having to do individual "downgrades" (so to speak) for every licenses.
Hmm, orly? Can you point to a URL that verifies this?
They can lock whatever they want on the phone. The only restriction that I know of is that they can't prevent you from unlocking the phone (though they don't have to help to unlock it, either).
What's a bonus and/or raise?
While I suspect your reply was half troll, half sarcasm, that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about those things you figure out by doing that don't line up with the book answers.
Now, granted, I can't think of one damn example in IT right now that fits into that idea, but....
Not if he dies before you get to know him.
Not being dramatic, just pointing out the flaw in the argument.
"Steve Harris unavailable for comment (due to the fact that he mumbles in all his interviews)"....?
They're physically disabled, not vegetables or morons. They're not rediscovering anything.
Wtf? "discover they still can't walk"? What the hell are you on? I'm thinking this wouldn't be some sudden revelation to them.
Can you provide source citations for this? (Aside from the 5 year, which seems to be pretty common knowledge)
Wow. Jobs' RDF is strong with you. My team supports about 6 dozen or so treos, along with a variety of older Blackberries and Axims of various types. The Axims and Treos are wandering around with sales people. To my knowledge, the dance you speak of isn't 1) common, 2) causing mental anguish. Somehow the world has been able to have usable experience with smartphones/PDAs before Apple decided to boon us with the iPhone, so stop gushing over this device as if no one has ever made a good smartphone that people liked using and found useful before.