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That's hardly the same.

But isn’t it? If you drop your biases, you’ll discover it really is.

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

More accurate would be buying Häagen-Dazs instead of Great Value brand. They are both vanilla, but one tastes vastly better.

This level of difficulty and the complications of the solutions others have provided for Microsoft products are why Apple is the most successful company in the world. Mac sales are increasing because most people don’t need this extra hassle in their lives.

This level of difficulty and the complications of the solutions others have provided for Microsoft products are why Apple is the most successful company in the world. Mac sales are increasing because most people don’t need this extra hassle in their lives.

Sage advice. Swords can break, however. Samurai always had the wakazashi should the katana fail; of course, it also worked a bit better in enclosed spaces. In short, carry a spare.

obermd wrote:

At least this has forced Apple to be honest about how they view sheeple - they have to look pretty.

If you think this is the first time Apple thought about APPEARANCE, you haven't been paying attention. I don't say that in a bad way: most people like a good appearance. Men in suits are more admired than the guy in a t-shirt. A well manicured lawn is more appealing than weeds. A mansion is more desirable than a trailer. You get the idea.

Nobody NEEDS one; Apple is not about NEED. Apple was built on DESIRE.

Actually, it is quite a bit cheaper to get the titanium Apple Card: it is free. It only costs if you use it and don't pay off your charges; absolutely no different than any other credit card.

My Atari 800 came with 16K in 1980. 410 cassette recorder for a year or so until I saved up for an 810 disk drive. BASIC, Pascal, LISP and games. Eventually got 48K of memory. I still have that 800, but no peripherals. Now. I use SIO2USB to let my MacBook Pro serve as the disk drive and printer. I will admit, though, I primarily use the Altirra emulator when I want to play games these days. Emulation is just easier than hardware.

I have Siri on my Apple devices. I am not too worried about Apple having information about me because I don't think my information will be shared; they "don't play well with others". I think Amazon would use all information to try to sell me more crap. I wouldn't have Google because world domination is only "the beginning" for them!

Sounds like a LOT of work just to avoid learning different combinations, or simpler yet, using a mouse!

In mathematical language, right-to-left or left-to-right is inconsequential pertaining to an equal sign due to complete commutativity law of equivalence.

I am inclined to agree with this number in terms of "focused" on a screen. I am including smartphone, video gaming, television, and just recreational computer use to browse information. Certainly not all of those hours are "working"; those hours aren't even because "it's fun." This is just modern life. Unless you're are hiking, driving, swimming, boating or fishing, odds are that you are looking at a screen. You'll notice I left out eating; it is getting very hard to find a restaurant without TVs!

I suppose it depends on what type of school you mean. Four-year colleges teach more abstract concepts; a more generalized education that allows the graduate to adapt to changing environments. Community colleges focus more on students getting a job now, so courses are more focused on products. These shortcuts should be more ingrained than that, however, so let's go further back. In high school, very few students pay attention to anything except the opposite sex. Any earlier in school, and by the time students are starting a career, odds are that the entire interaction mechanism with computers will have changed yet again. I see computer interaction as being a bit more like dressing yourself, tying your shoes or brushing teeth. These are really concepts that should be taught at home. Of course, Apple households will have habits that differ from Windows households. C'est la vie!

And THIS is why shortcuts will never be standardized everywhere: each programmer has a "better idea" than what others use. You may be quite correct in this case; however, I don't think the word "eight" should be spelled the way it is, either. Nonetheless, it is the standard.

PIEBALDconsult wrote:

two-week schedule consisting of 9 hours on Monday through Thursday, plus an 8-hour Friday and a Friday off

This is similar to my work schedule; Tuesdays through Friday have an extra hour added, and I have every other Monday off. There are others whose day is Friday. Either way, such is a WONDERFUL schedule: that extra "rest" day is very recuperative and it gives you a day to schedule all of those activities that MUST be during your normal work hours (doctor, dentist, automotive maintenance, home service personnel, etc.).

Behzad Sedighzadeh wrote:

I have decided to use tagging system instead of storing files into categorized folder.

This is EXACTLY the way a good document management system works: each of your indexed values (document type, customer, date, etc.) is a "tag" and is searchable. Your result set for a search is the subset which lies at the intersection of each individual field's query. Hierarchies are of limited use when trying to find a particular document, and require much greater human time performing such search when a "tagging" technique leverages the computer's time to do the search. I also understand the value of buying a package that meets 80-90% of your needs rather than spending vast quantities of time building something that is not directly profiting your business. I don't know which bundled systems would be inexpensive enough for a small business; I have worked with enterprise level document management systems. Currently, my company uses DocuWare, but I don't know if they have an affordable version. Good luck on your search.

raddevus wrote:

since they were designed so many years apart.

The error here lies in thinking anything from Microsoft is "designed"; traditionally, Microsoft applications have started as a programmer copying the functionality he has seen on another system. That application is then morphed by the alterations of other programmers, willy-nilly, for better or worse, over time.