Because our employees have families, and moving the entire operation to another town whose incumbent last-mile cable and phone companies provide better Internet access would pose too much of a shock to our employees.
I didn't mean moving to another town. I meant just subscribing to another ISP who does offer what you are looking for. I can't really wrap my head around the fact that this seems impossible in large portions of the US.
No competition at all? Say what now? I was under the impression that every citizen of the modern world had access to at least a few different options for something as basic as broadband internet access. And I don't live in a huge city myself or even a country that has huge cities.
Hey thanks, that's actually pretty cool. I was looking on Dell's website and couldn't find anything below $ 1700,- and figured this was about the minimum price for these things. I actually did look on HP's site as well, but I couldn't figure out to get any actual products and prices out of it. I'm impressed you could.
Doesn't he? Last time I checked, it's a free market out there in most countries. I obviously don't know about your or his specific situation, but it seems very normal to me to be able to pick from a dozen of different ISP's for DSL, cable or fibre.
Apple continues their damned war against mouse buttons.
As long as people remember who Steve Jobs is or was, Apple will not even think about putting more than one button on a mouse and rather leave that one button off as well.
the local telco hates the idea of competition and thus blocks low ports so as to keep small companies from cost effectively hosting in house.
Are you living in a communist country where competition is prohitibed by the government or something? Why don't you just drop your ISP and move to someone who does provide you with the service you require?
Yeah, or universities and such in need of a budget supercomputer. You can easily create a cluster of these things by using Xgrid and because of the small form factor, you won't have to reserve an entire room for this setup.
Or if you do have a room to spare, you can cram insane amounts of gigahertzes and terabytes in there for relatively little money.
Snow Leopard Server (a true, if highly GUI-fied, UNIX server)
That's not true. The UNIX trademark is handled by the Open Group. Only if they say it's UNIX, it's UNIX. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (for Intel) is UNIX. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is not. The Server version also doesn't have a certification.
Sure, it's Unix-like. It might even comply with the Single Unix Specification. But it's not a true UNIX until the Open Group says it is.
It's not so much about the looks (a Mac Mini doesn't even look that good, I mean, it's just a white box), but the size! You can cramp LOADS of those things in a small space and have massive storage and crunching power without needing an entire room.
Every time you touch a mouse to move the cursor on your color graphics screen and click on a window, menu or icon, you are using a computer the way Steve Jobs wants you to. Think about that.
I was just browsing the app store, looking at a few subcategories which seemed useful but niche to me, and likely would not contain complete crap such as fart generators... categories like "medicine", "education", "finance", "news", "reference", "sports", "productivity", "business" and "travel" and the app count was already over 24K.
Even without touching crapmagnets like "games", "entertainment", "services" or "lifestyle" you'll easily find more apps than there are out there for most other platforms in total.
First, WinMo, just like PalmOS, probably have way more apps than the iPhone.
There is no proof at all there are over 85000 apps for WinMo. The last estimation I saw was around 25000, but nobody really knows, as there is no central distribution.
Second, the iPhone is new. Wait 5-10 years. You will see apps that only run on the latest iPhone2 5G SSS with OS 9.0.
The reality is the iPhone is now 3 years old, the latest operating system runs on every model and most apps do as well, while you can't update a WinMo device without hackishly uploading a new ROM onto it.
The apps come to the platform. The platform with the most users is going to have the most apps written for it.
Then why aren't there a lot of apps out there for Symbian? It's by far the most popular phone operating system out there. And Windows Mobile used to be pretty popular too... so where are the apps for that one?
Yet the iPhone only has a very small percentage of market share, yet there are more apps for iPhone than for any other mobile platform out there.
Somehow your statement doesn't make a lot of sense.
An iPhone will last easily for a day. I don't even recharge mine daily when I haven't used it a lot. Watching streaming video over 3G eats a lot of battery power as do a lot of games, but other than that, the battery life is fine.
You call it control. I call it a way of creating nice working and looking products.
So what if you can't install iPhone OS on other phones? Nor can I install the Wii operating system on my XBOX360. You could call creators of gaming consoles "control freaks", but what they're really doing is just creating a product that works. And so is Apple.
There is no such thing as a decent camera on a phone. Seriously, I'm not trolling. It doesn't matter if it offers more megapixels, auto white balance or a Zeiss lens. Compared to any decent camera out there, pictures from a phone will always look like crap. I rather have fewer megapixels, so at least the crap consumes less disk space.
Or, more choice means it's more difficult to develop for the platform, leading to fewer apps and a less interesting platform for both developers and consumers. This is already a big problem with Symbian and Windows Mobile.
I read a reply from a Symbian user a week ago in which he stated that the most interesting app he had purchased for this phone was a better clock. This is a perfect display of the sad state of affairs the platform is in.
It would be a shame if Android would suffer the same fate.
The iPhone, just like the Mac, is completely about the software in a nice looking package. The key factors of the iPhone have to with the OS and the way apps are developed and distributed for it. Everything else is secondary.
The main thing the iPhone's got going for it in my view is the enormous amount of application available for the platform. Android has the same potential with a nice centralized distribution channel, while allowing more open development. It would seem to make sense that this will result in many more Android apps in the future, but I wonder if the huge amount of different phones will be of any help at this or maybe in fact create a barrier for developers.
It seems to me that one of the reasons there aren't as many apps out there for Symbian or WinMo is the fact that the hardware which runs these operating systems is so incredibly diverse that it's almost impossible to create an app which runs on everything. Some phones offer multitouch, other's don't. Some phones offer an accelerometer, other's don't. The same goes for pretty much every feature... recording video, a second camera, GPS, you name it. Not to mention the different screen sizes and different UI widgets. These differences make it more difficult for a developer to create an app for these platforms, resulting in fewer apps on these platforms.
Now I know Android doesn't suffer from all of these difficulties... but still I think 50 different phones make it harder to create an app for Android than for the iPhone, where basically only 1 model exists (although in 3 versions).
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Because our employees have families, and moving the entire operation to another town whose incumbent last-mile cable and phone companies provide better Internet access would pose too much of a shock to our employees.
I didn't mean moving to another town. I meant just subscribing to another ISP who does offer what you are looking for. I can't really wrap my head around the fact that this seems impossible in large portions of the US.
No competition at all? Say what now? I was under the impression that every citizen of the modern world had access to at least a few different options for something as basic as broadband internet access. And I don't live in a huge city myself or even a country that has huge cities.
Hey thanks, that's actually pretty cool. I was looking on Dell's website and couldn't find anything below $ 1700,- and figured this was about the minimum price for these things. I actually did look on HP's site as well, but I couldn't figure out to get any actual products and prices out of it. I'm impressed you could.
You say that like the guy has a choice.
Doesn't he? Last time I checked, it's a free market out there in most countries. I obviously don't know about your or his specific situation, but it seems very normal to me to be able to pick from a dozen of different ISP's for DSL, cable or fibre.
I suggest you do a little research to learn what the Open Group is all about and who it's members are.
Or do you perhaps also think the W3C are a bunch of retards who should be ignored?
Right, and what sub-1000 dollar Blade server were you thinking about?
Well, if Snow Leopard is certified, the Open Group should update their website, cause it's not on there.
Apple continues their damned war against mouse buttons.
As long as people remember who Steve Jobs is or was, Apple will not even think about putting more than one button on a mouse and rather leave that one button off as well.
the local telco hates the idea of competition and thus blocks low ports so as to keep small companies from cost effectively hosting in house.
Are you living in a communist country where competition is prohitibed by the government or something? Why don't you just drop your ISP and move to someone who does provide you with the service you require?
Yeah, or universities and such in need of a budget supercomputer. You can easily create a cluster of these things by using Xgrid and because of the small form factor, you won't have to reserve an entire room for this setup.
Or if you do have a room to spare, you can cram insane amounts of gigahertzes and terabytes in there for relatively little money.
Snow Leopard Server (a true, if highly GUI-fied, UNIX server)
That's not true. The UNIX trademark is handled by the Open Group. Only if they say it's UNIX, it's UNIX. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (for Intel) is UNIX. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is not. The Server version also doesn't have a certification.
Sure, it's Unix-like. It might even comply with the Single Unix Specification. But it's not a true UNIX until the Open Group says it is.
It's not so much about the looks (a Mac Mini doesn't even look that good, I mean, it's just a white box), but the size! You can cramp LOADS of those things in a small space and have massive storage and crunching power without needing an entire room.
This is exactly how Apple lost the PC war
Every time you touch a mouse to move the cursor on your color graphics screen and click on a window, menu or icon, you are using a computer the way Steve Jobs wants you to. Think about that.
I was just browsing the app store, looking at a few subcategories which seemed useful but niche to me, and likely would not contain complete crap such as fart generators... categories like "medicine", "education", "finance", "news", "reference", "sports", "productivity", "business" and "travel" and the app count was already over 24K.
Even without touching crapmagnets like "games", "entertainment", "services" or "lifestyle" you'll easily find more apps than there are out there for most other platforms in total.
There is absolutely no proof at all to back up your claim. Nobody even comes close to 85000 apps.
First, WinMo, just like PalmOS, probably have way more apps than the iPhone.
There is no proof at all there are over 85000 apps for WinMo. The last estimation I saw was around 25000, but nobody really knows, as there is no central distribution.
Second, the iPhone is new. Wait 5-10 years. You will see apps that only run on the latest iPhone2 5G SSS with OS 9.0.
The reality is the iPhone is now 3 years old, the latest operating system runs on every model and most apps do as well, while you can't update a WinMo device without hackishly uploading a new ROM onto it.
The apps come to the platform. The platform with the most users is going to have the most apps written for it.
Then why aren't there a lot of apps out there for Symbian? It's by far the most popular phone operating system out there. And Windows Mobile used to be pretty popular too... so where are the apps for that one?
Yet the iPhone only has a very small percentage of market share, yet there are more apps for iPhone than for any other mobile platform out there.
Somehow your statement doesn't make a lot of sense.
An iPhone will last easily for a day. I don't even recharge mine daily when I haven't used it a lot. Watching streaming video over 3G eats a lot of battery power as do a lot of games, but other than that, the battery life is fine.
You call it control. I call it a way of creating nice working and looking products.
So what if you can't install iPhone OS on other phones? Nor can I install the Wii operating system on my XBOX360. You could call creators of gaming consoles "control freaks", but what they're really doing is just creating a product that works. And so is Apple.
There is no such thing as a decent camera on a phone. Seriously, I'm not trolling. It doesn't matter if it offers more megapixels, auto white balance or a Zeiss lens. Compared to any decent camera out there, pictures from a phone will always look like crap. I rather have fewer megapixels, so at least the crap consumes less disk space.
Or, more choice means it's more difficult to develop for the platform, leading to fewer apps and a less interesting platform for both developers and consumers. This is already a big problem with Symbian and Windows Mobile.
I read a reply from a Symbian user a week ago in which he stated that the most interesting app he had purchased for this phone was a better clock. This is a perfect display of the sad state of affairs the platform is in.
It would be a shame if Android would suffer the same fate.
The iPhone, just like the Mac, is completely about the software in a nice looking package. The key factors of the iPhone have to with the OS and the way apps are developed and distributed for it. Everything else is secondary.
The main thing the iPhone's got going for it in my view is the enormous amount of application available for the platform. Android has the same potential with a nice centralized distribution channel, while allowing more open development. It would seem to make sense that this will result in many more Android apps in the future, but I wonder if the huge amount of different phones will be of any help at this or maybe in fact create a barrier for developers.
It seems to me that one of the reasons there aren't as many apps out there for Symbian or WinMo is the fact that the hardware which runs these operating systems is so incredibly diverse that it's almost impossible to create an app which runs on everything. Some phones offer multitouch, other's don't. Some phones offer an accelerometer, other's don't. The same goes for pretty much every feature... recording video, a second camera, GPS, you name it. Not to mention the different screen sizes and different UI widgets. These differences make it more difficult for a developer to create an app for these platforms, resulting in fewer apps on these platforms.
Now I know Android doesn't suffer from all of these difficulties... but still I think 50 different phones make it harder to create an app for Android than for the iPhone, where basically only 1 model exists (although in 3 versions).
I'm glad you're not suggesting I did the boss' wife.
I don't think 200 employees is tiny. I've worked at a company with 1 colleague, a boss and the boss' wife. That's tiny. And works fine by the way.