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Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop? 528

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 04, 2007 @03:32PM from the put-em-up-put-em-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "RDM asks Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?, a comparison of recent sales and profits and the future outlook for Macs and PCs. It's the opinion of the article's author that Apple doesn't have to take a majority share of the desktop market to win. The key is to take the most valuable segments of the market. They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways. Not being beholden to Microsoft gives them a big advantage when competing with traditional PC sellers. Once Apple is positioned, Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two fronts.""

Comment Flawed methodology (Score 4, Informative) 738

by vanillaspice on Friday June 30, 2006 @03:23PM (#15638577) Attached to: Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers

So the researchers at the University of Utah determined that using your phone is worse than having a BAC of 0.08, the equivalent of one drink, not the equivalent of being drunk. How does the rubric stand up to two drinks? Four? As it is, the data don't suggest much. And don't be fooled by the "alcohol is involved in 40 percent of the 42,000 annual traffic fatalities" statistic, either. Most states derive that number from whenever any party, regardless of fault, has a BAC of 0.01 or more. In other words, you could eat a cherry cordial and a sober person could plow right through you and the state would consider your death an alcohol-related traffic fatality.

Immaturity Level Rising in Adults 862

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday June 25, 2006 @03:36AM from the is-not-are-too dept.

Ant writes to tell us that a Discovery News article is exploring the old adage, "like a kid at heart", which may be closer to the truth than we would like to admit. New research is showing that grown-ups are more immature than ever. From the article: "Specifically, it seems a growing number of people are retaining the behaviors and attitudes associated with youth. As a consequence, many older people simply never achieve mental adulthood, according to a leading expert on evolutionary psychiatry."

Comment Print support (Score 1) 226

by 330Pilot on Saturday June 24, 2006 @12:37PM (#15596602) Attached to: Inkscape 0.44 - Faster, Bigger, Better

Too bad I dont see any improvements to the printing capabilities in the release notes. Inkscape is really lacking in terms of printing.

Comment Lad Vampire (Score 5, Informative) 222

by apikoros on Wednesday February 09, 2005 @07:10AM (#11616761) Attached to: Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder

I like this, but prefer the lad vampire at the same site. There is something somehow more satisfying about watching the images flash by.

Just put it in a browser tab and let it run!

Journal Journal: For newer stuff

Journal by NeuroKoan on Tuesday May 13, 2003 @04:44AM

go here

Journal Journal: Hello and welcome to Coffee Talk

Journal by NeuroKoan on Monday May 12, 2003 @05:05AM

This leaves me speechless

Cool? or the penultimate "too much time on your hands"? Discuss amongst yourselves. I'm feeling a bit vaclempt.

Journal Journal: I am so stoked

Journal by NeuroKoan on Thursday April 24, 2003 @04:30AM

As I come to the end of my college career, I am asking the same question that plagues all graduates minds.

What do I put on my mortarboard?

Journal Journal: My Daily Acomplishment`

Journal by NeuroKoan on Tuesday April 22, 2003 @02:26AM

Every day I try to acomplish something that will make the world a little better for everyone around me, or I at least acomplish a more mundane goal.

I feel that my greatest accomplishment today has been ... <drum roll please> ... I found a way to jump off the Deru Tree without killing myself.

woot!

Journal Journal: Bad Day Turned Good

Journal by NeuroKoan on Sunday April 13, 2003 @09:55PM

Ug, so today the friggin iPaq has decided that it only likes to work on my home wireless network. Fine, but I have to do my homework by analyzing the school's network.

Ug. But then this Fark thread on Mac's versus PC made me feel a whole lot better. Why? Because somewhere in the thread someone posts this message

04-13-03 04:57:18 PM JereIC
Nmhansen: Will you be my god?

Journal Journal: Arr!

Journal by NeuroKoan on Tuesday April 08, 2003 @04:01AM

Get your pirate name here!

I'm "Black William Kidd
Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!"

Journal Journal: I cower

Journal by NeuroKoan on Monday April 07, 2003 @04:33AM

This scares me on so many levels...

Journal Journal: Longest Week Evar!!1!

Journal by NeuroKoan on Sunday March 30, 2003 @03:43AM

NP: Pig- Salambo

One more week to go. Its been 5 weeks since the Rally of Turkey, and this drought is about to end.

For future reference,

My top-6 picks are

McRae
Solberg
Makinen
Martin
Rovanpera
Sainz

yeah, I realize that Gronholm will probably be in there somewhere, but its so hard to root for that guy.

Now, my (sort of more offical) Fantasy Team consists of

Journal Journal: New CD's

Journal by NeuroKoan on Monday March 24, 2003 @09:09PM

NP: Conjure One- Tears from the Moon

Alright, so I went to go buy the new issue of RallyXS down in Sacramento. It just went to news stands in Europe last week, but I thought a boy could hope that some of the bigger chains might have it. Borders, Barnes and Noble and Tower all had the previous issue in stock, as I somewhat suspected, but I didn't want to make the trip a total bust. Glancing through the lastest issue of the on-and-off paper publication of Industrial Nation, I found out

Journal Journal: Michael Moore

Journal by NeuroKoan on Monday March 24, 2003 @02:15AM

I'm not really one to discuss politics online, but Michael Moore, you make me ashamed to be a liberal.

We do not need you screwing up our cause with your lack of compassion. The last thing decent liberals need is a Rush-Limbaugh-type like you.

Just do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.

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