Microsoft is getting into the search engine business, not Google getting into the Operating System business.. That is why they may consider them an "enemy".
"He argues that they will be less and less relavent, not that they will make less and less profit."
Yep, I would hate to go to the stockholder's meeting and tell them they are going to see a lot less relevance on thier profit statements. I bet people will really be pissed they are getting rich instead of getting kudos...
It's called an educated guess... What other possible stipulation do you think Apple Corp would have cared about?? That Apple Computers never sells lingerie?? Get real and use your head for something more than a hat rest...
"Can you give me a good reason why I should ever need to burn it through iTunes more than once?"
your burned CD breaks/melts/gets scratched/was burned improperly - i believe that's 4
not a hard speculation to see. Apple Corp sues Apple Computers - Apple Computers is allowed to use the name Apple on the condition it never enters the music business. Apple now is a huge music retailer... Is that enough dots for you to connect??
"Acceptable" is a very loose term. Some people can't tell the difference between $50 cheap speakers and $4000 studio monitors... Does that mean that the sound is the same?? One of my friends can't tell the difference between 128k MP3 and an uncompressed WAV file - but I can. At a certain level (like 320k MP3) it becomes harder to differentiate - but the quality is not the same. Lossless will always be better (and a larger file) then lossy compression...
Maybe as boradband connection become more widespread there will be more places to download uncompressed/lossless compression music -but only if there was a demand..
you are right - it can be a PITA - but you didn't think they would make it so uncomplicated that the average Joe could do it easily, did you?
Well, it solves the rebooting when you don't want it to issue (i.e. open files, unsaved work etc) that was brought up in an earlier post. I'm not claiming to eliminate reboots, just eliminate unplanned reboots.
Here's an easy way to make it NOT have that behavior.
Right-click "My Computer" and select Properties
Click the "Automatic Updates" tab
Click the second radio button option "Download updates, but let me chose when to install them"
Problem solved.
Only if you set it to do this. You can have Windows Update notify you of updates and install them when you want it to. I personally haven't ever seen my machine resart itself, but it will prompt you to restart every 15 minutes or so, which can be annoying (but you can kill that too)
knee jerk reaction. I'm sure they figure, hell let's give these folks a scare to see if they will relent, it's worth a try..(And I guarantee you some people went and dropped themselves off the blue frog list after getting the email) And why not, it costs them nothing. This is the problem with spammers - generally it costs them nothing or next to nothing to do their thing. Until THAT fact changes nothing else about SPAM will.
And the fact I haven't personally seen a virus on a PC for years... Trojan and worms, sure but viruses - thing of the past mostly...
Also not noted is OS X had 81 vulnerabilities last year and close to 20 this year already. For the first time OS X made the SANS 2005 list of the top-20 internet vulnerabilities. I'm not saying there are near as many OS X security holes as on the Windows side, but Apple does seem to enjoy an unreal reputation that OS X is inherently invulnerable. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70780-0.htm l
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And those rims don't require a laptop to steal....
Continued copying of *all* of Apple's inovation....stolen from PARC..
He may be successful, and he may make tons of money, but is his writing truly innovative?
Um, hey 1996 just called and they want their rant back...
Microsoft is getting into the search engine business, not Google getting into the Operating System business.. That is why they may consider them an "enemy".
"He argues that they will be less and less relavent, not that they will make less and less profit."
Yep, I would hate to go to the stockholder's meeting and tell them they are going to see a lot less relevance on thier profit statements. I bet people will really be pissed they are getting rich instead of getting kudos...
But Ann Coulter is hot...
you forgot the end of that sentence "for someone born with a penis"
I mean seriously, you can see "her" Adam's Apple clearly eery time she is on TV...and I do mean "TV"
Ah, okay. My money would be on Brazil if it ever did happen..
I lived in Rio de Janeiro for a while also, but only know a little history of Brazil...
Actually, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay defeated the Paraguyan army in the War of the Triple Alliance 1864-1870. http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/tango/triple1864.ht m p aigns/brzedit.html
Brazil also played a small part in the Allied victory of WWII - http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/3351/cam
It's called an educated guess... What other possible stipulation do you think Apple Corp would have cared about?? That Apple Computers never sells lingerie?? Get real and use your head for something more than a hat rest...
Isn't Apple trying to buy Adobe?
"Can you give me a good reason why I should ever need to burn it through iTunes more than once?"
your burned CD breaks/melts/gets scratched/was burned improperly - i believe that's 4
not a hard speculation to see. Apple Corp sues Apple Computers - Apple Computers is allowed to use the name Apple on the condition it never enters the music business. Apple now is a huge music retailer... Is that enough dots for you to connect??
"Acceptable" is a very loose term. Some people can't tell the difference between $50 cheap speakers and $4000 studio monitors... Does that mean that the sound is the same?? One of my friends can't tell the difference between 128k MP3 and an uncompressed WAV file - but I can. At a certain level (like 320k MP3) it becomes harder to differentiate - but the quality is not the same. Lossless will always be better (and a larger file) then lossy compression... Maybe as boradband connection become more widespread there will be more places to download uncompressed/lossless compression music -but only if there was a demand..
you are right - it can be a PITA - but you didn't think they would make it so uncomplicated that the average Joe could do it easily, did you?
Well, it solves the rebooting when you don't want it to issue (i.e. open files, unsaved work etc) that was brought up in an earlier post. I'm not claiming to eliminate reboots, just eliminate unplanned reboots.
Here's an easy way to make it NOT have that behavior.
Right-click "My Computer" and select Properties
Click the "Automatic Updates" tab
Click the second radio button option "Download updates, but let me chose when to install them"
Problem solved.
About twice as much as a similarly configured PC....
Modded Troll?? Don't any of you /. people ever watch South Park???
Funny, my home and work machines running XP are set to automatically update and not once have they rebooted without me telling it to..
Only if you set it to do this. You can have Windows Update notify you of updates and install them when you want it to. I personally haven't ever seen my machine resart itself, but it will prompt you to restart every 15 minutes or so, which can be annoying (but you can kill that too)
knee jerk reaction. I'm sure they figure, hell let's give these folks a scare to see if they will relent, it's worth a try..(And I guarantee you some people went and dropped themselves off the blue frog list after getting the email) And why not, it costs them nothing. This is the problem with spammers - generally it costs them nothing or next to nothing to do their thing. Until THAT fact changes nothing else about SPAM will.
"Home users are typically several years behind on the OS upgrade curve. Therefore 98 and ME are still fresh in their memories."
Then Apple should be honest and show someone using OS 8.5 vs. 98 or ME and not OS X.
"I'd predict that within 5 years, in the US homes, they'll have close to a 15-20 % marketshare (If not even more)."
Isn't this pretty much what every Mac fanboy has been saying since the 80s??
MMMMmmmm....guarana... I wish they sold Antarctica brand here - all we have in the US is crap guarana. Coke doesen't even sell the Tai brand here...
And the fact I haven't personally seen a virus on a PC for years... Trojan and worms, sure but viruses - thing of the past mostly...
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Also not noted is OS X had 81 vulnerabilities last year and close to 20 this year already. For the first time OS X made the SANS 2005 list of the top-20 internet vulnerabilities. I'm not saying there are near as many OS X security holes as on the Windows side, but Apple does seem to enjoy an unreal reputation that OS X is inherently invulnerable.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70780-0.ht