“Apple Computer is quietly preparing to launch new products next week as it prepares for a major presence at the Apple Expo Paris,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. “AppleInsider has confirmed through multiple reliable sources that Apple is preparing to unveil new products early next week. The introductions are expected to begin appearing on the company’s website as early as Monday evening. While sources did not provide specifics of the announcements, it’s widely expected that Apple will finally introduce its all-new G5 iMac, which has been delayed since late June.”
Apple Expo – Paris is scheduled to open Tuesday, August 31st and run through September 4th.
Full article here.
Finland boy,
I have experience of both worlds and although on paper it looks bad the truth is often otherwise. True is that many Americans lack a paid premium medical insurance (which comes with good jobs) but Medicare is available to all and I have never seen anyone refused care at ER or walk-in where I live in the US.
Not so in Europe where a homeless would not simply walk in into an hospital and be greeted warmly. Try getting in – as a smelly homeless – in the average hospital and see whether dull guards will not send you away. I have witnessed that.
On the contrary I saw that in US – so far without exception – they were treated with respect and taken care of.
You could try a nice experiment on Finland: stay out in the street for a month, start to really look rundown and smelly then enter an hospital and say “I have a throat ache” and see what happens.
As Self-Relient tried to explain to you, it is not always true that what socialist governments say – on paper – then translates to reality on the street. Lots of good words that might make you think you live in a much better world than it is really. But sometimes it is just so that people keep their eyes shut.
Cheers
Ottamobulb: indeed. Whoever thinks – in US and in EU – to be living in Eden should think otherwise. But it is also true – my experience – that Europeans more easily fall prey of that thought and often points to America as a proof that Eu is better because of Socialists values.
It is a dream that has only patchwork realization. In the US there is a much more active volunteering system and organization than I could ever witness in Europe, things that would make “Les Resto du Coeur” in France pale in comparison.
Sorry, but Europeans (and I am one as well as I have first hand American life long experience) have a too rosy-tinted vision of their health care and a too dark one of the US one.
Truth lies somewhere in between.
And sorry for the blah, this has nothing to do with the article so I will not further comment on medical social system on Earth.
Anyone from Mars?
In the EU there are 322 physicians per 100,000 people; in the United States, it’s 279 physicians per 100,000 people. The United States ranks 26th among the industrial nations in infant mortality, well below the EU average. The average lifespan in the 15 most developed E.U. countries is now 78.2 years, compared to 76.9 years in the United States.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0817-08.htm
Freedom to Americans is like innovation is to Microsoft
And Mac has only 2% of market share, then it must be the worst platform ever built.
Statistics at large like the one above are useful only marginally and has a comparison value close to nothing.
The life span in EU countries is extremely variable. The above link relates to the new 25-wide Europe.
Go tell some of the newly added east country that they are enjoying the same European average life style. If you dare that is: they could kick you in your mouth.
yeah: quite right. I’d like really to check on the quality of those 322 doctors. Sorry UK, but you are looking for cheap shots here.
Funny how most Europeans with money are all in US hospitals when things get tough with their health.
As in physics and chemistry, Americans have dominated the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine since World War II. Just do a search for yourself. UK, probably the best EU country is still a long distant 2nd place wrt US.
I need a new car. Can I get a new car here?
I didn’t suggest anyone takes statistics at face value, I was putting a counterpoint, for your consideration. RTFA, some interesting observations are made. It may represent different points of view from those you are familiar with, nevertheless it is important to try to appreciate and understand differing viewpoints.
I don’t agree UK is 2nd best place to live – working hours are too long (amongst other things).
Frogs? Cheese breathed surrender monkey body odored French people? DON’T call them frogs.
Viridian, they might think they are a “race” but really they are just a subset of the flat assed white race, liberally raped by Krauts, Limeys, and the occasional Mick over time, which of course is what happens when your army is chicken and your navy a joke.
Guy from UK,
Really ? I just checked the stats for UK and US on infant mortality rates.
In 1966, there were 23 deaths per 500 live births in the UK. There were 26/500 in the US.
By 1999, there were only 6/500 in the UK and only 7/500 in the US.
This is what you’re complaining about ? Get a grip. You might as well be complaining that you have a theoretical 0.0005 % likelihood of contracting a certain type of cancer in the UK but a 0.0009 % chance in the US.
And why would you think that more doctors per person automatically equals better quality of life or greater life expectancy ? The media in the US is the first to scream doom and gloom and to my knowledge there is no physician shortage in the US. Check out this link: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/professional.php
(Source: UNICEF State of the World’s Children, 2001 and 1999 editions.)
UK Guy, was not talking about best place to live, but 2nd most awarded Nobel winners/researches in physiology and medicine.
Concerning the RTFA, so? Now you swear by what written there?
You may find anything on internet saying anything and the opposite of anything. Big deal. Maybe we should ask the millions of people, Europeans included, migrating each year to the US.
To last counts no such mass migration exist from the US to the EU.
Maybe they have not read your FA.
Uhmm, a day with no great Apple news and now all kids are down to the old “Mine is bigger than yours”.
Uk Guy, the Uk is a better place to live except for the food, the weather, and your bad teeth.
I am an American. I love the principles upon which America was founded. But, those have been increasingly corrupted in recent years, especially by the judicial system and Congress. The founders of this country were correctly skeptical and suspicious of government and tried to design a weak enough government so that it would not rise to take critical rights from the People and the States. Unfortunately, that is exactly what has been taking place. Some people are still too close to things here to see that. The criticisms of those from Europe are correct. It is not to say that Europeans have a perfect system. That is not the point here. The point is that there are increasingly serious issues here in the U.S. At this moment in time, I see no candidate, no party, that is adequately addressing these issues. Health care IS a serious issue here. That is an issue in the presidential campaign and elsewhere. But, that is not the only serious problem. Those who study the origins and strengths and dreams of the founders of this country, are more than just a little concerned by what they see. Some have reached the point of being scared at what has been happening for many years now. Recognize when there are problems – and try to get them fixed. That is what Americans can do. But, most Americans are oblivious, apathetic – and often just too tired or too busy to get involved.
Likewise, I would ask our European friends, who share membership in the Mac community, what are you doing to address the problems in your own countries?
Hg, you are right about the founder’s intentions and the path away from them, actually beginning in the 30’s with Roosevelt’s anti-depression programs. But to think that the President has little to do with this is wrong. Bill Clinton, via executive orders, enacted more legislation in the last month of his tenure than he had proposed in the previous 8 years.
Both parties are influenced by big business and/or unions, pay lipservice to their best supporters (most egregiously the Democrats to African Americans), and are more interested in power than results. This sort of thing is universal, and I think is a natural consequence of government.
Nature bats last.
Woo! This forum is more exciting than watching the Olympic race battles on the TV!
Oh yeah, and back to the new story…
Wow! Apple is going to introduce new stuff at the Apple Expo including the new iMac that Apple, itself, said was coming months ago?!?… That’s some uncanny foresight… Kasper truly has his/her finger on the pulse of the Apple community. He/She should go to Vegas with that kind of gift for premonition.
Wake me up when we have some serious leakage — pikkies of the new products.
Wake me up when we have some serious leakage — pikkies of the new products.
you babies and your bitching really ruins MDN.
I’ll pay a membership fee if it’ll pay for a moderator for this site.
UK food is not so bad, no GMO at least, Mediterranean is better, American food is shit. UK weather is nicely varied, thankfully not too many hurricanes or tornados. My teeth aren’t always in the UK.
US attracts mostly economic migrants as one of the best countries to make money but lots of people choose other places and for other reasons. UK is popular, so is Canada, NZ, Sweden, Finland. Note the weather in these countries – seems it’s a low priority though most UK emigr�s go to warmer climes like Spain, Australia, USA (Florida and California).
‘Best of category’ is available in most countries however much best of category in the USA is derived from immigrants. UK does lots of high tech, computer chip design, aviation, motor sport etc. USA does cheap GM food, MacDonalds, Coca Cola, Microsoft, weapons systems, Hollywood (even the tech end there has a strong British contingent).
As pointed out opinions vary and for every point of view there are opposing. I believe it is important to consider contributions to discussion from outside of one’s home nation, they help to build a fuller picture.
LOL: RTFA is a standard internet term, if you know another equally well recognised without the ‘F’ I’ll gladly use it.
LOL: “Funny how most Europeans with money are all in US hospitals when things get tough with their health” – is that anecdotal or supported by evidence/comment from noted writers? AFAIK we get plenty of people coming here for treatment, as does the rest of Europe. Top end medecine has specialists spread around the world, even places like South Africa and South Korea attract international clients for particular treatments.
“UK Guy, was not talking about best place to live, but 2nd most awarded Nobel winners/researches in physiology and medicine”. Sorry I misread/misunderstood, maybe you can make you points clearer – two errors in the above sentence impaired the readability.
I do hold a controversial opinion about food and health which I would suggest is pertinent to your comment. USA food is crap (artificially manufactured, eg GM crops grown on desert lacking in nutrients, beef injected with growth hormone) which causes diseases. The medical industry poors funds in to R&D so they can fix the problems caused by crap food. The real answer is good food but that’s not so profitable, selling the problem and the solution is more lucrative. Should it then be surprising that the USA excels in medicine/physiological research?
Guy from UK:
I am from the UK, visit there frequently. Love the history, but the food, although getting better, and is excellent in London (though very expensive), is rather abyssmal… Mind you, you’re so close to France’s food.. which is good.
Just because English North America’s best food comes from the diversity of immigrants doesn’t mean anything. The fact is, it’s there.
It’s widely known that London has some excellent (and expensive) food only because of importing good chefs from other countries… and UK’s national favorite food, is none other than: Indian.
“Top end medecine” [sic] IS in Europe too, and stats can be manipulated. Germany is a world leader in holistic and natural medicine.
However, the US attracts a lot of doctors because of the high pay and the money put into it. Basically, if you’re wealthy, you can BUY your health in the US moreso. This does trickle down to the commoner however. The high standards in the US are usually very much based on wealth.
If you’re wealthy it’s a good place to be.
That’s capitalism for ya.
There are downsides to either stance, and you can’t really quantify it.
Good government is at best an oxymoron.
weather patterns such as tornadoes etc. can’t really be compared, given the size of the landmass here, you can chose where you live.
This is a imac thread, and with more all in one’s and more fx5200 how can it not suck? 1.6 G5 isnt going to excite many folks. Fx5200 is cheap garbage and apple is using it.
“GM crops grown on desert lacking in nutrients”
Deserts lack water, not nutrients. How could desert plants grow if that were the case? It’s a common misconception that “desert” equates to “sand” or “heat”. Not true at all. Deserts are defined by aridity.
“beef injected with growth hormone) which causes diseases.”
Evidence please. I’m not saying you’re a liar, or even that you’re mistaken. I am, however, asking you to back up your claim. You seem to have some emotional axe to grind against genetically modified foods. I’m waiting for more rigorous investigation and long-term studies before passing judgement (and no, I certainly am NOT going to rely on Monsanto or ADM to tell me they’re safe). The benefits, especially for poor nations, could outweigh the potential dangers, which are certainly not to be taken lightly. We just don’t know yet, and I view strong assertions for either side of the argument with extreme skepticism.
Ottomobulb,
Excellent observations about the abysmal traditional British cuisine (there are only so many ways to boil something, in my opinion). Thankfully, this is changing, and the current generation of home-grown Brit chefs is gaining international recognition with their exploration of ingredients, seasonings and methods introduced by the immigrant communities, especially, as you pointed out, the Indian community.