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Stephen Fry shares his thoughts on Steve Jobs and his professional legacy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/14664694
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/14664694
| sahguanh wrote: |
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| M$ |
I can no longer take anything you write on this subject seriously. It's like trying to carry on a reasonable conversation about WalMart with someone who keeps calling it WalFart. It's impossible.
EDIT:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22
EDIT 2:
Yes, I'm being overly dramatic. But seriously, that "M$" crap is retarded. =P
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+1 on Disch's comment.
By the way, Apple is ALSO charging way too much. Take the iMac: you can get the same specs for half the price. Ridiculous.
By the way, Apple is ALSO charging way too much. Take the iMac: you can get the same specs for half the price. Ridiculous.
Somehow, however, I don't see anyone typing M@c or @pple.
EDIT: ...or anything of the sort, Disch, you wiseguy.
-Albatross
EDIT: ...or anything of the sort, Disch, you wiseguy.
-Albatross
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Despite my best effort to find an apple looking symbol in the Unicode tables to wittily post, I have unfortunately failed.
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| Disch wrote: |
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| But seriously, that "M$" crap is retarded. |
| Disch wrote: |
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| Appl€ |
(o.O)
@CodeMonkey I didn't notice that lol
@Luc Lieber I am sure you can find something interesting here http://pastebin.com/Y0syUXU3
@Luc Lieber I am sure you can find something interesting here http://pastebin.com/Y0syUXU3
@Luc
You mean the one at position 0xF0 (Macint⎋sh hex) in the M₳cRoman character set? I think that one is one of Ap℗le's proprietary thingies, although I did see an A₱ple logo in a page description some time ago.
What someone could do is maybe put App⇧e. I know, not Ma¢-specific, but you do see that symbol a lot on that platform.
-Albatross
You mean the one at position 0xF0 (Macint⎋sh hex) in the M₳cRoman character set? I think that one is one of Ap℗le's proprietary thingies, although I did see an A₱ple logo in a page description some time ago.
What someone could do is maybe put App⇧e. I know, not Ma¢-specific, but you do see that symbol a lot on that platform.
-Albatross
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| By the way, Apple is ALSO charging way too much. Take the iMac: you can get the same specs for half the price. Ridiculous. |
Unless you count the fact that you are also getting a display that is worth from $1000 to $1500, depending on the size you get, then the price for the actual computer is quite reasonable.
EDIT: ^Now you're being silly, 1000-1500$ display... that's reasonable. You actually believe that? What if he (Jobs) said the processor cost 1000$ alone?
HD 6770 and an unspecified i7 in a 2000$ computer...sorry Mac, but that's just insanely bad. I'd better buy a 800$ one instead that has the same, but the i7 specified. Intel HD 3000 on a 1000$ Mac, are..you..joking?! That thing runs Minecraft on 10 FPS.
How many of you apple users would still buy a Mac if Macintosh were officially supported on all computers and costed 100-200$? There's one in my class who prefers mac for its ease of use and finds Windows clunky for everyday things and a IDE is already present on Macs he said. He would never buy a mac provided the OS were possible to run on any computer without any hackery. Hell, even I would look into it if it could run on any computer.
HD 6770 and an unspecified i7 in a 2000$ computer...sorry Mac, but that's just insanely bad. I'd better buy a 800$ one instead that has the same, but the i7 specified. Intel HD 3000 on a 1000$ Mac, are..you..joking?! That thing runs Minecraft on 10 FPS.
How many of you apple users would still buy a Mac if Macintosh were officially supported on all computers and costed 100-200$? There's one in my class who prefers mac for its ease of use and finds Windows clunky for everyday things and a IDE is already present on Macs he said. He would never buy a mac provided the OS were possible to run on any computer without any hackery. Hell, even I would look into it if it could run on any computer.
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If you want to compare prices of specs you will have to do it on more than the dumb ass marketing specs that are banded about.
I have used PCs and Macs for many years. Yes you can get cheap PCs but I find them to be a false economy. Cheap PCs fail more often than more expensive ones and Macs, I have not experienced a major failure on one yet (in 14 years). If you spec up a PC to the level of a Mac (in detail) you will come out at a similar price to a Mac.
Yes Macs are not cheap but I wouldn't say they cost too much, all things considered.
I have used PCs and Macs for many years. Yes you can get cheap PCs but I find them to be a false economy. Cheap PCs fail more often than more expensive ones and Macs, I have not experienced a major failure on one yet (in 14 years). If you spec up a PC to the level of a Mac (in detail) you will come out at a similar price to a Mac.
Yes Macs are not cheap but I wouldn't say they cost too much, all things considered.
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| $1000-1500$ display... that's reasonable. You actually believe that? |
Yes, the displays are worth that much.
30" display area, pristine color reproduction, 2560x1600 resolution.
Dell and Samsung both sell displays with the exact same spec -- if I'm not mistaken they use the exact same physical panels as the Apple Cinema Displays -- and are priced around the same. So yes, they are worth that much, and they are worth every penny.
The PC I just built for myself cost ~$1400, add on a Dell Ultrasharp 30" and that's nearly 3k, the same price as a similarly spec'd iMac with a difference of maybe 200$. Now, take into account that the iMac has everything self-contained in the display and my PC case is a giant behemoth that stands 3 feet tall with tons of wires dangling everyhwere, Apple engineering and physical design wins out. Not to mention that it's a certified Unix OS, so development on a Mac is substantially less painful then on Windows. I dual-boot Ubuntu for development purposes, but wouldn't need to if I had a Mac.
Apple computers are not overpriced at all, and you get what you pay for.
I don't own a Mac, and I game primarily on pc and upgrade my computer very frequently to keep up with the latest games so I probably never would buy one. I would definitely buy one if all PC games played on them at the same performance as Windows, but they don't so oh well.
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