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If you want to do it yourself, it's almost always going to be cheaper. That applies to cooking, home improvement, computers... with the exception of things where economies of scale can be leveraged, what isn't it cheaper for? But in some ways, that's false economy. Because what you save in dollars is generally paid for with time. If you have the time and the skills, great; if you don't, well...
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2012-07-26, 00:24 | Link #22664 |
Did someone call a doctor
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Kinda like getting fast food vs cooking it yourself, I'd say. Used to have a mac a few years ago, bootcamp was the big thing then. Was about when VMWare and the like started to take off if I remember right, I've only used visualization in windows machines since then for running virtual servers and the like for testing.
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2012-07-26, 00:32 | Link #22665 | |
Love Yourself
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If this is a company machine and presenting is all that it will be used for, then sure; you can present off of almost anything. I don't know that it's the best for marketing purposes, but we're already speculating too far so I won't go into that. Suffice it to say, if this is a person's personal machine that is now being used for work, for all of our technical knowledge, who are we to dictate what is sufficient or not for the user? Without knowing greater details about how the user intends to use their device, isn't it just arrogance on our part to say that they wasted money?
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2012-07-26, 04:43 | Link #22666 |
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Apple's invincibility fades on iphone miss, global woes
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...86P02Z20120726 Analysis: Tax haven clampdown yields cash but secrecy still thrives http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...86P0DD20120726
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Bo Xilai’s Wife Is Charged in Killing of British Businessman
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Update: Listening to the BBC's story on Ms. Gu reminded me that the son is the one who went off to study in England and is now currently at Harvard. Supposedly Gu feared that Heywood would injure her son somehow, though as I recall Heywood helped arrange for the younger Bo to study in Britain. How Heywood would be able to endanger the boy from thousands of miles away is a bit murky, at least to me. Looks like we could be in for a rollicking good time watching this fall's power transition in Beijing. Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, Nomura Chief Resigns Over Insider Trading Scandal Quote:
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2012-07-26, 08:25 | Link #22668 |
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I think a lot of people dislike how apply restricts the activities of it's customers. For me, with my PC (be it windows or linux), I feel like I can use it exactly how I want, I can install the programs I want, I can use whatever functionality I want, I'm free to choose from a dozen different alternatives, and those alternatives often can be configured to use however I like.
With Apple, I feel like I have to use the device the way the late Steve wanted. He would choose what programs would come on my machine, and he would force me to use certain programs to interface with certain devices. It's particularly acute with the device side of things (iPad, iPod, iPhone), where with the iPod I'm forced to go through iTunes, and buy music from the iTunes store. With the iPhone/iPad, i can only download apps that Steve approves of, and I can't change the way the OS works. It's basically vendor lock in. They don't use any industry standards. Their wires use non-standard plug, so you have to buy over priced wires from apple. You can't directly interface with your iPod from your PC (instead you have to go through iTunes), they even use nonstandard screws so you can't even open up your iWhatever if you wanted to. All this is to lock you in to using overpriced apple products and services, and prevent you from using third parties. With a Dell PC, I don't have to go to Dell for my wires, or repairs, I can go to any number of third party companies, who may be cheaper and provide a better service. What Apple does is like the worst of Microsoft's business's practices in the 90s, but on a whole level higher. Given that computer's are such a central part of most of our lives, and we tend to often form a personal connection with our machines, I find that lack of control and options to be poor, and very bad for the customer, and forces them to pay more money for products that are no better then what the rest of the market offers. Open platforms, like the PC are the future. |
2012-07-26, 23:51 | Link #22669 | |
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Now that said, if you can get warrenty work for Apples done at their stores, I could see them being an excellent option for fast servicing as well. Most PC laptops aren't as well designed as Thinkpads as far as servicing goes, leaving you with sending it to a repair depot (ick).
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2012-07-27, 06:13 | Link #22670 |
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How Spain dumped a bad bank on the little guy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...86Q07Y20120727
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2012-07-27, 07:36 | Link #22671 | |
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2012-07-27, 12:05 | Link #22672 | ||
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Apple is a smart company by feeding off people's laziness and lack of desire to explore. Quote:
Nonetheless, I am one who enjoys screwing around with my machine, though I don't possess as much time in the past as before to do it. Though that lifeskill actually paid off...... instead of just sitting around and bearing with a boring job, I chose to walk out there and explore - in the end I learnt a whole lot more that helps suppress my cost of living because I can do alot more things myself. Maybe that is what is actually destroying our societies - the lack of desire to learn and attempt everything.
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2012-07-27, 12:12 | Link #22673 |
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To be honest, people wouldn't feel the need to jailbreak iphones if apple didn't so arbitrarily restrict how customers used their devices (no flash? forcing you to use the appstore, while preventing certain apps from being released, due to not toeing apple's line?). Ultimately Android will win, and the iphone as a platform will just wither away.
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2012-07-27, 12:25 | Link #22674 | |
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2012-07-27, 14:38 | Link #22676 |
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I like to remind you all that this is news stories thread. This discussion about Apple seems to be fairly far removed from the original story about the socket on an iPhone. Maybe you might consider carrying on this discussion in the Tech Support forum or starting another thread here in General Chat about Apple?
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2012-07-28, 20:02 | Link #22677 |
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At least three banks seen central to Libor rigging
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...86R03220120728
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2012-07-29, 12:29 | Link #22678 |
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this person think we should remove algebra from US education system
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/op...=1&ref=opinion
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2012-07-29, 12:32 | Link #22679 | |
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2012-07-29, 12:34 | Link #22680 |
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I stopped after the first paragraph. "Millions are failing, so why subject them to it? I think we shouldn't." Wow, okay, so if enough people don't grasp something, or struggle with it at all, we should just get rid of it? Idiocracy, AHOY!
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