The thing is, as he starts to learn more, he'll be worth more. We're learning that in India right now as more IT professionals are becoming competitive, threatening to take their knowledge elsewhere if companies don't pony up. While this is still considerably less than workers in the US, it just underlines the fact that knowledgeable people are a commodity and the more you know, the more you're worth.
As an Apple user, I'm all for this. A REAL competitor in the mp3 player market means that Apple has to "innovate" something cooler in order to stay on the top. I'd like to see a wide-screen iPod by the end of the year.:D
This is not just old news, but it's pretty much the same case of addiction since day one.
Anything can be addictive, as long as there is some sort of chemical reaction that your brain has become used to. This can be caused by internal or external factors. Internet addiction is the same as a gambling addiction. The brain basically trains itself that a particular action will release endorphins (the happy chemical) so it will repeat this action over and over again. Drug addictions are slightly different because they can actually affect the way that endorphins are released, but the general concept is the same: you take the drug and your brain releases the happy fun time chemical.
The same concept that makes a human addicted is actually the building block for animal training. At first you give the seal a fish every time it does the action you want. Then you slowly stop giving fish...but not totally. Eventually, you will only give fish once every great while, but the seal will continue to do the action because of the chance of you giving it fish. This is particularly effective if you give a mass quantity of fish every once in a while. I like to call it the "jackpot effect."
In the end, it takes outside assistance to break an addiction. I won't go into details because 1. I am not a doctor and 2. It doesn't really matter. I just find it annoying that doctors feel like they have to announce every possible addiction despite the fact that if a human can interact with it, chances are somebody, somewhere, will become addicted to it.
a supported way to run WinXP natively on another partition and be able to access that data from OS X.
I ran BootCamp on my 17" MBP and was very pleased with the results. While Bootcamp is in beta, it's far from unsupported. The only problem I had was Windows inability to read the Mac partition (HDFS or something like that). I was able to read the Windows partition from the OSX side fine.
ironclad assurance about the batteries
Well, I get about 3.5-4.5 hours on my 17" and am happy. The whole battery recall thing was a fluke, had nothing to do with Apple, and constituted batteries used by a number of companies.
info about whether Jaguar is available now and what is this announcement in October we are supposed to wait for?
Jaguar is not here yet, but I don't have any doubt about it being released in 2006. As for the announcement, it could be anything. If anything, I would wait until then if you could, because Apple is inline for a new Mac Book Pro model. I would have waited myself if I didn't need one for my classes. (graphic designer)
As for your last point, I have been an Apple user since my Apple IIe and have seen the ups and downs of the apple platform. Since Jobs return, however, I have seen only 2 machines that have ended up being sub-par: the G4 Cube and the first gen iMac. Granted, the iMac was first gen and still damn cool but I only noticed about 3 years of quality usabilty while the 2nd gen and higher lasted 4-5 years. And don't get me started on the Cube, because everybody knows how big a let-down that was.
I couldn't imagine why you keep "moving away from the mac" when from what I've been noticing, quality has only gone up.
I've never been a fan of mass layoffs, but we don't know how long this has been in the making. Hopefully Intel has audited well and doesn't end up severing it's own foot in order to escape from the trap.
I feel bad for the employees, but layoffs are going to happen at a large company when things start going south. Hopefully Intel is classy and gives them enough time to find new jobs/promise to rehire if things get better.
Has anybody considered that Apple doesn't want the patent to be thrown out? Since they settled out of court, they now have permission from Creative to use the organizational system, and they don't have to worry about any up-and-coming players using the same system.
The best part about it is that Apple doesn't have to do a damn thing, because Creative will be the one policing the patent.
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This man would risk his child's life on a mere belief rather than give him some decent protection!!
The thing is, as he starts to learn more, he'll be worth more. We're learning that in India right now as more IT professionals are becoming competitive, threatening to take their knowledge elsewhere if companies don't pony up. While this is still considerably less than workers in the US, it just underlines the fact that knowledgeable people are a commodity and the more you know, the more you're worth.
As an Apple user, I'm all for this. A REAL competitor in the mp3 player market means that Apple has to "innovate" something cooler in order to stay on the top. I'd like to see a wide-screen iPod by the end of the year. :D
This is not just old news, but it's pretty much the same case of addiction since day one.
Anything can be addictive, as long as there is some sort of chemical reaction that your brain has become used to. This can be caused by internal or external factors. Internet addiction is the same as a gambling addiction. The brain basically trains itself that a particular action will release endorphins (the happy chemical) so it will repeat this action over and over again. Drug addictions are slightly different because they can actually affect the way that endorphins are released, but the general concept is the same: you take the drug and your brain releases the happy fun time chemical.
The same concept that makes a human addicted is actually the building block for animal training. At first you give the seal a fish every time it does the action you want. Then you slowly stop giving fish...but not totally. Eventually, you will only give fish once every great while, but the seal will continue to do the action because of the chance of you giving it fish. This is particularly effective if you give a mass quantity of fish every once in a while. I like to call it the "jackpot effect."
In the end, it takes outside assistance to break an addiction. I won't go into details because 1. I am not a doctor and 2. It doesn't really matter. I just find it annoying that doctors feel like they have to announce every possible addiction despite the fact that if a human can interact with it, chances are somebody, somewhere, will become addicted to it.
a supported way to run WinXP natively on another partition and be able to access that data from OS X.
I ran BootCamp on my 17" MBP and was very pleased with the results. While Bootcamp is in beta, it's far from unsupported. The only problem I had was Windows inability to read the Mac partition (HDFS or something like that). I was able to read the Windows partition from the OSX side fine.
ironclad assurance about the batteries
Well, I get about 3.5-4.5 hours on my 17" and am happy. The whole battery recall thing was a fluke, had nothing to do with Apple, and constituted batteries used by a number of companies.
info about whether Jaguar is available now and what is this announcement in October we are supposed to wait for?
Jaguar is not here yet, but I don't have any doubt about it being released in 2006. As for the announcement, it could be anything. If anything, I would wait until then if you could, because Apple is inline for a new Mac Book Pro model. I would have waited myself if I didn't need one for my classes. (graphic designer)
As for your last point, I have been an Apple user since my Apple IIe and have seen the ups and downs of the apple platform. Since Jobs return, however, I have seen only 2 machines that have ended up being sub-par: the G4 Cube and the first gen iMac. Granted, the iMac was first gen and still damn cool but I only noticed about 3 years of quality usabilty while the 2nd gen and higher lasted 4-5 years. And don't get me started on the Cube, because everybody knows how big a let-down that was.
I couldn't imagine why you keep "moving away from the mac" when from what I've been noticing, quality has only gone up.
...will be built using a cluster of PS3s.
This cluster will be able to help cure cancer AND allow Madden 2007 to play an entire season in three minutes.
I ordered a 17" MBP about 10 days ago, and the ship date was going to be on the 13th despite being "in stock and ready to ship."
Perhaps a MacBook Pro upgrade next week, as well?
I've never been a fan of mass layoffs, but we don't know how long this has been in the making. Hopefully Intel has audited well and doesn't end up severing it's own foot in order to escape from the trap. I feel bad for the employees, but layoffs are going to happen at a large company when things start going south. Hopefully Intel is classy and gives them enough time to find new jobs/promise to rehire if things get better.
Has anybody considered that Apple doesn't want the patent to be thrown out? Since they settled out of court, they now have permission from Creative to use the organizational system, and they don't have to worry about any up-and-coming players using the same system. The best part about it is that Apple doesn't have to do a damn thing, because Creative will be the one policing the patent.