Generally speaking, if you look at the total package, Apple's notebooks are competitive with the high end products from HP and Dell. Try comparing the HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation with Apple's models, for example
How bout I just compare the i7 probook with one of these, which has a better graphics card and costs $1100 cheaper?
How is that "competitive"? Im not even aware of HP HAVING a $1700 laptop-- their i7s generally run in the $1100s.
At the same time, its negotiators were pushing for $1 billion in concessions from workers. The company has made $3 billion already this year, and nearly $20 billion in the last four years.
How much did its DSL and FIOS divisions make? THat would seem to be a far more relevant number.
Right after this strike, a customer lost their phone line. No dial tone. Just a tad suspicious. Especially when they called the repair line, and they were told "Don't you know we're on strike? Unless there is a 911 emergency, too bad."
Oddly enough, right after the strike, I got two calls in a day-- a home FIOS line down, and a business DSL line down. Both routers/modems were fine, eventually turned out to be a problem on verizon's end.
Hmmmmmmmm, a more suspicous me would suspect that unions really are thugs.
Lion's not even been out a month! Those complaints should go to software vendors, not Apple.
It goes to Apple for the exact same reason driver issues in Vista went to MS. And in this case, it actually works if you boot into 32bit mode; Apples new 64bit breaks a lot of things.
The real issue is that it doesnt "just work" across 3 OS versions. 10.5? Have to use CiscoClient, since native Cisco Ipsec doesnt exist. 10.7? Have to use native client, since Cisco Client doesnt work.
Contrast that with windows, where I could run a single mass deployment disk using WPI that magically worked across every OS version, 32 and 64 bit, going back 7 years to XP SP2.
You're comparing apples and oranges: boot vs boot + applications launch. Apple wants to move anyone onto SSD's which come as standard or as an option for every mac now, with an SSD this becomes a non-issue.
Yes, and if everyone who complained about Vista had had 2GB RAM, it never would have been as scandalous as it was. Fact is, a lot of the laptops we worked on were Lion upgrades, and were dog-slow. And the problem is, Apple kind of promises that this sort of thing doesnt happen to Macs-- except now it does, and from boot, and with very few 3rd party services necessary to start the machine crawling.
That is my favorite part of OSX, actually-- I love the multitouch and the new scrolling. I was referring to a lack of an easy way of telling how many instances of an application you have open-- perhaps I was missing it. I also had several other gripes (possibly related to system prefs), but cannot recall.
Secondly, all current Apple laptops come with at least an i5, not an i3 like you say. When you compare the i5 HP 4530's they perform worse in nearly every benchmark, compare [laptopmag.com] yourself [laptopmag.com]. Then there's stuff like an aluminum enclosure, a lower profile, much better battery life. I'm not saying you have to like the Macbook they're not for everyone, but there's genuine value there for your extra bucks.
Ah, when I looked i was sure I saw an i3 for $1600. Anyways, Lenovo Ideapad, i7, 4gbram, and AMD 6570m, for about $1100 less than the equivalent Macbook. And the $200 for an extra 4GB ram that Apple wants off its store is, quite frankly, obscene. As for aluminum enclosure, that matters very little to me-- the probook I have has a magnesium alloy cover, and regardless if I drop the thing the first things to break will be the screen and drive, not the case. And my probook has about 4.5 hrs of battery-- Im not about to drop another $1100 for a slightly better battery.
but there's genuine value there for your extra bucks.
You would be hard pressed to explain to me why a worse graphics card, a different metal in the case, and 3 hours of battery (by their estimates) are worth $1100.
I think automator and applescript are pretty damn good, and again you're comparing system built-in stuff with third party Windows software which is unfair.
Autoit uses built in functions to identify which windows are which by their handle IDs. As far as I can tell, there is no way to positively ID windows and controls in AppleScript and Automater (whose "record macro" doesnt actually work with all apps). They both seemed really cool when I saw them, but then turned into huge disappointments when it became apparent that they were half-complete, and there was no real alternative to them that filled the role of "GUI automation for arbitrary programs". With Autoit, I can use native window handles and native control handles to automate any arbitrary program you give me. It is possible that with research I could figure it out, but I pulled about 60-80 hours working on automating these deployment
All jest aside, the only way a 'bible-thumper' could endorse contemporary Republican(or, for that matter, contemporary Democratic) policy is by making sure not to read past the old testament, and, even there, some amount of studious ignoring will be required...
The OT teaches that man is fallen, and basically sinful and evil. What about that teaching to you screams "We need a big, bureaucratic, monolithic government with tons of power resting with one person"? What did Samuel (actually, God, thru Samuel) warn of prior to instituting Saul as King? Wasnt it that kings would inevitably be selfserving?
The bible teaches nothing if not that there is only one righteous, perfect authority. Human experience and the last 100 years of history show very very clearly what happens when one man gets a hold of a lot of power. In fact I think looking at Rome in the time of Christ might also be informative.
Finally, the parable of the moneychangers is utterly irrelevant. Christ was slamming religious hypocrites, not making statements about whether or not the stock market should be regulated, and its absurd that you would even draw that comparison. Its also absurd to imply that all republicans are against all regulation; myself, I tend to think it needs to be applied very very carefully with a recognition that big government tends to not even do regulation well.
The Republican party is the most logical place for them. Your words are tinged with disdain, and that's your prerogative, but try and understand history before you come off spouting about the "bible-thumpers" as if religious people have not been around since the beginning, and as if they don't deserve a place in modern society and a say in government.
Just want to reinforce this. Im one of those religious nutcases GP is referring to, and since both my experience and my faith tell me that people are basically not to be trusted, a party that thinks regulation and big government are bad was kind of the natural place to situate myself.
Then again, people dont (or at least I dont) really say "gee im going to be a democrat"; they have certain beliefs about politics, and describe themselves as being in a certain party for brevity. I certainly do not approve of every single thing republicans do, nor necessarily disapprove of every single thing democrats do. But when Democrats at their core believe in strong central government, its not really hard to understand why anyone who thinks that "people are generally bad" is going to shy away from the party.
I am SO FUCKING SICK of all this "it's all because of fanboys/marketing/cultishness" shit!
A lot of the accusations are based on Mac folks trying to justify hardware that is 3 to 4 times the price of an equivalent piece of hardware on Newegg (compare: HP Probook 4530s to a core i3 macbook pro15" off of apple.com). Its like going to Best Buy, only you actually have people recommending it.
These are just regular consumers, not geeks, they go with what works.
Having just set up a boatload of both macs and pcs (owned by individuals, not companies), with macs being as-if-not-more problematic, I have a theory about this. See, there is a myth that Macs just work, when in fact they are a gigantic pain-- things that work on 10.5 (cisco VPN client) and 10.6 dont work on 10.7; and with Lions new "restart my apps" feature that everyone seems to use, the Macs now boot up as slow as can be and are often slower than Vista laptops with 1gb of ram. I could go on and on about the issues they have that seem to be brain-dead UI etc decisions, but its not the point.
My theory is that someone has a bogged down, virus-laden laptop, and theyre considering getting a new one when their friend, who has a Mac, says "go apple-- theyre SO much better". So they go and get a new SandyBridge Macbook Air, and it IS better-- its lighter, faster, and the screen is nicer. THeir belief is reinforced, and they go and tell their friends to buy mac.
But the thing is, for much less they could have gotten a very nice HP Envy, or a high end Sony, or a solid Lenovo, and been just as happy, for less-- but because of the stigma of "PCs are slow", they dont consider it if its price start to approach the Mac. So they make the purchase that costs considerably more, and of course that comes with some nice perks, and of course OSX IS a good OS (though I have scores of issues with it and think Win7 is better in the corporate world by far).
So I basically break it down for my friends like this: You can get a MacBook pro with Thunderbolt, 4gb of ram, and an i3 processor for $1600; or you can get the EXACT same laptop from HP (probook 4530s) sans the thunderbolt port and with a different case (and slightly worse multitouch) for about $450. That is, every year for the next 4 years, you can buy a new probook, and throw the old one in the trash, and youll still come out about where you would have been if youd bought the mac.
That's a myth. Apple users are some of the most critical around.
Petty might be a better word. I havent seen any complaints about how awful their UI automation is compared with, say, AutoIt, or how trying to enforce system settings with "defaults" is a bear compared with working with the registry (look up "how do i do XX on windows registry", and then compare with a similar search for apple's defaults), or how it seems to be more UI centric than even windows (with a number of System preferences being simply un-administratable from the shell). Instead, I see a number of people talk about how its enterprise ready when it very clearly is not.
was under the impression that those oppressive regimes (Iran wasn't it?) told blackberry all that is a big no-no and that the gov't needs to be able to track everything for blackberry to do business in the country? could be incorrect.
No, youre correct, and what RIM agreed to was to give access to the packets, IIRC. Noone ever made the claim that that would do the Gov't any good if their target used a BES. BIS (thats with an 'I', the non-corporate consumer option that does POP and IMAP and OWA push) users might be out of luck, however.
in any case that's not a problem with Blackberry, they're no less secure than any other phone. more, in fact
That is true, since they natively support full disk and memory encryption, IPSEC VPN, and full AES encryption on all communications, as well as full handset control from the server. iPhone etc might have some similar options, but its laughable to try to compare the two.
that goes right out the window when the government says they are allowed in
If the government has found a way to crack AES, perhaps (ie, not likely). If the govt is on the verge of seizing your servers and you kill the BES server and all of its keys, theres not a chance theyll be able to crack all those sniffed packets or decrypt those handset's memory.
If you think a little ARM cortex is going to beat a Cell processor, youre out of your mind. My 5 year old Core2Duo desktop still beats the pants off of the top end ARM cortex A9. I dont keep up on exact specs, but dont ARM cortex processors compete with Atom and whatnot, not actual beefy processors?
Its also not very impressive when an AP teacher calls deductive reasoning "nonsense", or when he denies the rational truth that "all effects have a cause". He may not be a theist, but he is chucking all semblence of reason out the window.
His comments are also incredibly unprofessional. Im not sure you could call them hostile, but theyre certainly denigrating, and certainly he is not a professor of religion, anthropology, or philosophy, so for him to slam other experts in those fields as he has ("magic", "spaghetti monster" (which was a reductio ad absurdum argument, and he has twisted it into an ad hominem), "nonsense", etc) is ludicrous. I would expect him to be focusing on European history, not modern European theology.
If one came out and said that certain races were descended from the lower primates, whereas whites were descended from chimps and higher primates, I would assume a lawsuit would ensue; I dont see why your scenario would be any different.
Any time there is a whiff of racism, there can and will be a lawsuit.
It is. I'm not aware of the breakages you speak of. Our tests (using several web based products we sell) do not indicate anything of the sorts
Move from IE8 to IE9 and watch in amazement as 3rd party OS apps break. And if you dont think there are IE reliant webpages that dont break catastrophically on upgrade, you are badly mistaken-- I just had to roll back one of the first upgrades I did in a soho company.
Chrome upgrades are probably more of an issue for large companies, but I mostly deal with 1-100 user companies, and its never an issue. Maybe 1 out of 20 folks have an issue, and its small enough that I can do ietab or something similar. Its a good tradeoff for me, since IE means I need to constantly watch acrobat and java and flash versions for vulnerabilities; chrome takes care of that and blocks insecure plugins. I would far rather deal with the odd incompatible website than the odd userland rootkit.
Plus Ive had AMD ship me a replacement CPU after I had overclocked and over volted it, shipped it around with a too-heavy cooler (400g, I think), and installed an unsupported CPU shim (I believe the CPU die was cracked). I called them and gave a mea culpa confession to their tech and he basically said "thats OK, an upgraded model is in the mail." I had had an Athalon 2400, and they sent me a 3200; not half bad for a free upgrade of a processor I nuked.
Contrast that with Intel, where I had a core2 duo just die, after being treated like gold, and they insisted that I test the mobo by purchasing another core2 duo and trying that, even after I tested the ram, psu, etc-- i went well above what a normal consumer could do and still they were as hostile as could be.
Intel still gets my money because their chips are just that fast these days, but at every chance where it makes sense I go AMD-- you dont forget that kind of customer service.
Yes, that worked out super well when nVidia shipped "too hot" chips and got nailed with a class action lawsuit. They ended up having to give people replacement laptops.
Question: Why is it easier to manage them when theres an extra, superfluous, unchanging "6" in between the major and minor version numbers?
I mean, linux was at 2.6 for like 8 years. And the time difference between Linux 1.0.0 and 1.2.0 was a measly 1 year. Linus apparently concluded that hanging onto a number in the middle for several years makes no sense (which it doesnt), and that it makes even less sense to have the major version contain 2 numbers punctuated by a dot.
He has reverted to the exact same system that most other software has used for ages, MAJOR.minor. What is your beef?
Presumably, the goal (which is imminent, i believe) is that the updates will be automatic and invisible, so you never need to ask that question. For example-- whens the last time youve seen an out of date chrome browser?
Meaning that if one wants stability,... Chrome is probably not for them.
Yea, citation needed. A) Whens the last time an addon or plugin has stopped working, even in bleeding edge dev versions of chrome? MAYBE back at v4 or 5 when they were still hammering out extensions. B) IE is most definately not "more stable". Upgrading it is likely to break a zillion things, not just webpages or plugins either. And its silly to talk about addon stability in a browser that doesnt even support addons. C) Opera has like a 2% market share. Telling mozilla with its 25% share "you need to emulate this guy who has never been relevant in the desktop sphere" is kind of counterintuitive.
Dunno, if theyve made changes that will result in more compatible and stable addons with less work between upgrades, and all the addon dev has to do is one conversion, sounds like it is their fault if the thing doesnt work.
I mean, chrome autoupgrades constantly, and im on the dev version, and ive NEVER gotten a notification about an incompatible addon.
I find I am becoming more and more militant when it comes to bogus moneymaking schemes these tech companies create by eliminating preexisting functionality and charging you extra to give it back to you.
Well I have good news, because I have a solution that doesnt require any work, nor any illegal nor unethical activities.
Use AMD instead.
Whats that, you want Intels product, because its faster than AMD's? Yea, that totally entitles you to break the use terms of their product.
Im suprised youre the first person to say this. Noone else seems to have picked up on the fact that squeezing about 20,000 kg of petrol's worth of energy into 8grams, without a nuclear reactor, isnt a miracle, its an explosive.
Just stop and think about that. 7500 gallons of gas's energy squeezed into a thimble, accessible merely by "heating" it, at which point the reaction apparently sustains itself (being exothermic and all). That is what we call an explosion.
If this were feasible-- and lets keep in mind that thorium isnt expensive-- we would be using thorium bombs by now.
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Generally speaking, if you look at the total package, Apple's notebooks are competitive with the high end products from HP and Dell. Try comparing the HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation with Apple's models, for example
How bout I just compare the i7 probook with one of these, which has a better graphics card and costs $1100 cheaper?
How is that "competitive"? Im not even aware of HP HAVING a $1700 laptop-- their i7s generally run in the $1100s.
At the same time, its negotiators were pushing for $1 billion in concessions from workers. The company has made $3 billion already this year, and nearly $20 billion in the last four years.
How much did its DSL and FIOS divisions make? THat would seem to be a far more relevant number.
You know what? You dont have a right to work. And those profits, IIRC, are NOT in the DSL or FIOS sector-- those segments are losing money.
But of course that doesnt matter.
Right after this strike, a customer lost their phone line. No dial tone. Just a tad suspicious. Especially when they called the repair line, and they were told "Don't you know we're on strike? Unless there is a 911 emergency, too bad."
Oddly enough, right after the strike, I got two calls in a day-- a home FIOS line down, and a business DSL line down. Both routers/modems were fine, eventually turned out to be a problem on verizon's end.
Hmmmmmmmm, a more suspicous me would suspect that unions really are thugs.
Lion's not even been out a month! Those complaints should go to software vendors, not Apple.
It goes to Apple for the exact same reason driver issues in Vista went to MS. And in this case, it actually works if you boot into 32bit mode; Apples new 64bit breaks a lot of things.
The real issue is that it doesnt "just work" across 3 OS versions. 10.5? Have to use CiscoClient, since native Cisco Ipsec doesnt exist. 10.7? Have to use native client, since Cisco Client doesnt work.
Contrast that with windows, where I could run a single mass deployment disk using WPI that magically worked across every OS version, 32 and 64 bit, going back 7 years to XP SP2.
You're comparing apples and oranges: boot vs boot + applications launch. Apple wants to move anyone onto SSD's which come as standard or as an option for every mac now, with an SSD this becomes a non-issue.
Yes, and if everyone who complained about Vista had had 2GB RAM, it never would have been as scandalous as it was. Fact is, a lot of the laptops we worked on were Lion upgrades, and were dog-slow. And the problem is, Apple kind of promises that this sort of thing doesnt happen to Macs-- except now it does, and from boot, and with very few 3rd party services necessary to start the machine crawling.
"Natural" scrolling, enough said. Nobody's perfect, eh.
That is my favorite part of OSX, actually-- I love the multitouch and the new scrolling. I was referring to a lack of an easy way of telling how many instances of an application you have open-- perhaps I was missing it. I also had several other gripes (possibly related to system prefs), but cannot recall.
Secondly, all current Apple laptops come with at least an i5, not an i3 like you say. When you compare the i5 HP 4530's they perform worse in nearly every benchmark, compare [laptopmag.com] yourself [laptopmag.com]. Then there's stuff like an aluminum enclosure, a lower profile, much better battery life. I'm not saying you have to like the Macbook they're not for everyone, but there's genuine value there for your extra bucks.
Ah, when I looked i was sure I saw an i3 for $1600.
Anyways, Lenovo Ideapad, i7, 4gbram, and AMD 6570m, for about $1100 less than the equivalent Macbook. And the $200 for an extra 4GB ram that Apple wants off its store is, quite frankly, obscene.
As for aluminum enclosure, that matters very little to me-- the probook I have has a magnesium alloy cover, and regardless if I drop the thing the first things to break will be the screen and drive, not the case. And my probook has about 4.5 hrs of battery-- Im not about to drop another $1100 for a slightly better battery.
but there's genuine value there for your extra bucks.
You would be hard pressed to explain to me why a worse graphics card, a different metal in the case, and 3 hours of battery (by their estimates) are worth $1100.
I think automator and applescript are pretty damn good, and again you're comparing system built-in stuff with third party Windows software which is unfair.
Autoit uses built in functions to identify which windows are which by their handle IDs. As far as I can tell, there is no way to positively ID windows and controls in AppleScript and Automater (whose "record macro" doesnt actually work with all apps). They both seemed really cool when I saw them, but then turned into huge disappointments when it became apparent that they were half-complete, and there was no real alternative to them that filled the role of "GUI automation for arbitrary programs". With Autoit, I can use native window handles and native control handles to automate any arbitrary program you give me. It is possible that with research I could figure it out, but I pulled about 60-80 hours working on automating these deployment
You store it encrypted, and you kill the encryption key. Poof, all your data is gone forever.
This bible-thumper might reply that broad generalizations such as you have made are pretty crude weapons too.
All jest aside, the only way a 'bible-thumper' could endorse contemporary Republican(or, for that matter, contemporary Democratic) policy is by making sure not to read past the old testament, and, even there, some amount of studious ignoring will be required...
The OT teaches that man is fallen, and basically sinful and evil. What about that teaching to you screams "We need a big, bureaucratic, monolithic government with tons of power resting with one person"? What did Samuel (actually, God, thru Samuel) warn of prior to instituting Saul as King? Wasnt it that kings would inevitably be selfserving?
The bible teaches nothing if not that there is only one righteous, perfect authority. Human experience and the last 100 years of history show very very clearly what happens when one man gets a hold of a lot of power. In fact I think looking at Rome in the time of Christ might also be informative.
Finally, the parable of the moneychangers is utterly irrelevant. Christ was slamming religious hypocrites, not making statements about whether or not the stock market should be regulated, and its absurd that you would even draw that comparison. Its also absurd to imply that all republicans are against all regulation; myself, I tend to think it needs to be applied very very carefully with a recognition that big government tends to not even do regulation well.
The Republican party is the most logical place for them. Your words are tinged with disdain, and that's your prerogative, but try and understand history before you come off spouting about the "bible-thumpers" as if religious people have not been around since the beginning, and as if they don't deserve a place in modern society and a say in government.
Just want to reinforce this. Im one of those religious nutcases GP is referring to, and since both my experience and my faith tell me that people are basically not to be trusted, a party that thinks regulation and big government are bad was kind of the natural place to situate myself.
Then again, people dont (or at least I dont) really say "gee im going to be a democrat"; they have certain beliefs about politics, and describe themselves as being in a certain party for brevity. I certainly do not approve of every single thing republicans do, nor necessarily disapprove of every single thing democrats do. But when Democrats at their core believe in strong central government, its not really hard to understand why anyone who thinks that "people are generally bad" is going to shy away from the party.
I am SO FUCKING SICK of all this "it's all because of fanboys/marketing/cultishness" shit!
A lot of the accusations are based on Mac folks trying to justify hardware that is 3 to 4 times the price of an equivalent piece of hardware on Newegg (compare: HP Probook 4530s to a core i3 macbook pro15" off of apple.com). Its like going to Best Buy, only you actually have people recommending it.
These are just regular consumers, not geeks, they go with what works.
Having just set up a boatload of both macs and pcs (owned by individuals, not companies), with macs being as-if-not-more problematic, I have a theory about this. See, there is a myth that Macs just work, when in fact they are a gigantic pain-- things that work on 10.5 (cisco VPN client) and 10.6 dont work on 10.7; and with Lions new "restart my apps" feature that everyone seems to use, the Macs now boot up as slow as can be and are often slower than Vista laptops with 1gb of ram. I could go on and on about the issues they have that seem to be brain-dead UI etc decisions, but its not the point.
My theory is that someone has a bogged down, virus-laden laptop, and theyre considering getting a new one when their friend, who has a Mac, says "go apple-- theyre SO much better". So they go and get a new SandyBridge Macbook Air, and it IS better-- its lighter, faster, and the screen is nicer. THeir belief is reinforced, and they go and tell their friends to buy mac.
But the thing is, for much less they could have gotten a very nice HP Envy, or a high end Sony, or a solid Lenovo, and been just as happy, for less-- but because of the stigma of "PCs are slow", they dont consider it if its price start to approach the Mac. So they make the purchase that costs considerably more, and of course that comes with some nice perks, and of course OSX IS a good OS (though I have scores of issues with it and think Win7 is better in the corporate world by far).
So I basically break it down for my friends like this: You can get a MacBook pro with Thunderbolt, 4gb of ram, and an i3 processor for $1600; or you can get the EXACT same laptop from HP (probook 4530s) sans the thunderbolt port and with a different case (and slightly worse multitouch) for about $450. That is, every year for the next 4 years, you can buy a new probook, and throw the old one in the trash, and youll still come out about where you would have been if youd bought the mac.
That's a myth. Apple users are some of the most critical around.
Petty might be a better word. I havent seen any complaints about how awful their UI automation is compared with, say, AutoIt, or how trying to enforce system settings with "defaults" is a bear compared with working with the registry (look up "how do i do XX on windows registry", and then compare with a similar search for apple's defaults), or how it seems to be more UI centric than even windows (with a number of System preferences being simply un-administratable from the shell). Instead, I see a number of people talk about how its enterprise ready when it very clearly is not.
was under the impression that those oppressive regimes (Iran wasn't it?) told blackberry all that is a big no-no and that the gov't needs to be able to track everything for blackberry to do business in the country? could be incorrect.
No, youre correct, and what RIM agreed to was to give access to the packets, IIRC. Noone ever made the claim that that would do the Gov't any good if their target used a BES. BIS (thats with an 'I', the non-corporate consumer option that does POP and IMAP and OWA push) users might be out of luck, however.
in any case that's not a problem with Blackberry, they're no less secure than any other phone. more, in fact
That is true, since they natively support full disk and memory encryption, IPSEC VPN, and full AES encryption on all communications, as well as full handset control from the server. iPhone etc might have some similar options, but its laughable to try to compare the two.
that goes right out the window when the government says they are allowed in
If the government has found a way to crack AES, perhaps (ie, not likely). If the govt is on the verge of seizing your servers and you kill the BES server and all of its keys, theres not a chance theyll be able to crack all those sniffed packets or decrypt those handset's memory.
Someone doesnt understand how BES server works, or who controls the keys.
Have fun cracking AES256 with a 30 character key.
If you think a little ARM cortex is going to beat a Cell processor, youre out of your mind. My 5 year old Core2Duo desktop still beats the pants off of the top end ARM cortex A9. I dont keep up on exact specs, but dont ARM cortex processors compete with Atom and whatnot, not actual beefy processors?
Its also not very impressive when an AP teacher calls deductive reasoning "nonsense", or when he denies the rational truth that "all effects have a cause". He may not be a theist, but he is chucking all semblence of reason out the window.
His comments are also incredibly unprofessional. Im not sure you could call them hostile, but theyre certainly denigrating, and certainly he is not a professor of religion, anthropology, or philosophy, so for him to slam other experts in those fields as he has ("magic", "spaghetti monster" (which was a reductio ad absurdum argument, and he has twisted it into an ad hominem), "nonsense", etc) is ludicrous. I would expect him to be focusing on European history, not modern European theology.
If one came out and said that certain races were descended from the lower primates, whereas whites were descended from chimps and higher primates, I would assume a lawsuit would ensue; I dont see why your scenario would be any different.
Any time there is a whiff of racism, there can and will be a lawsuit.
It is. I'm not aware of the breakages you speak of. Our tests (using several web based products we sell) do not indicate anything of the sorts
Move from IE8 to IE9 and watch in amazement as 3rd party OS apps break. And if you dont think there are IE reliant webpages that dont break catastrophically on upgrade, you are badly mistaken-- I just had to roll back one of the first upgrades I did in a soho company.
Chrome upgrades are probably more of an issue for large companies, but I mostly deal with 1-100 user companies, and its never an issue. Maybe 1 out of 20 folks have an issue, and its small enough that I can do ietab or something similar. Its a good tradeoff for me, since IE means I need to constantly watch acrobat and java and flash versions for vulnerabilities; chrome takes care of that and blocks insecure plugins. I would far rather deal with the odd incompatible website than the odd userland rootkit.
Plus Ive had AMD ship me a replacement CPU after I had overclocked and over volted it, shipped it around with a too-heavy cooler (400g, I think), and installed an unsupported CPU shim (I believe the CPU die was cracked). I called them and gave a mea culpa confession to their tech and he basically said "thats OK, an upgraded model is in the mail." I had had an Athalon 2400, and they sent me a 3200; not half bad for a free upgrade of a processor I nuked.
Contrast that with Intel, where I had a core2 duo just die, after being treated like gold, and they insisted that I test the mobo by purchasing another core2 duo and trying that, even after I tested the ram, psu, etc-- i went well above what a normal consumer could do and still they were as hostile as could be.
Intel still gets my money because their chips are just that fast these days, but at every chance where it makes sense I go AMD-- you dont forget that kind of customer service.
Yes, that worked out super well when nVidia shipped "too hot" chips and got nailed with a class action lawsuit. They ended up having to give people replacement laptops.
Question:
Why is it easier to manage them when theres an extra, superfluous, unchanging "6" in between the major and minor version numbers?
I mean, linux was at 2.6 for like 8 years. And the time difference between Linux 1.0.0 and 1.2.0 was a measly 1 year. Linus apparently concluded that hanging onto a number in the middle for several years makes no sense (which it doesnt), and that it makes even less sense to have the major version contain 2 numbers punctuated by a dot.
He has reverted to the exact same system that most other software has used for ages, MAJOR.minor. What is your beef?
Presumably, the goal (which is imminent, i believe) is that the updates will be automatic and invisible, so you never need to ask that question. For example-- whens the last time youve seen an out of date chrome browser?
Meaning that if one wants stability, ... Chrome is probably not for them.
Yea, citation needed.
A) Whens the last time an addon or plugin has stopped working, even in bleeding edge dev versions of chrome? MAYBE back at v4 or 5 when they were still hammering out extensions.
B) IE is most definately not "more stable". Upgrading it is likely to break a zillion things, not just webpages or plugins either. And its silly to talk about addon stability in a browser that doesnt even support addons.
C) Opera has like a 2% market share. Telling mozilla with its 25% share "you need to emulate this guy who has never been relevant in the desktop sphere" is kind of counterintuitive.
Dunno, if theyve made changes that will result in more compatible and stable addons with less work between upgrades, and all the addon dev has to do is one conversion, sounds like it is their fault if the thing doesnt work.
I mean, chrome autoupgrades constantly, and im on the dev version, and ive NEVER gotten a notification about an incompatible addon.
I find I am becoming more and more militant when it comes to bogus moneymaking schemes these tech companies create by eliminating preexisting functionality and charging you extra to give it back to you.
Well I have good news, because I have a solution that doesnt require any work, nor any illegal nor unethical activities.
Use AMD instead.
Whats that, you want Intels product, because its faster than AMD's? Yea, that totally entitles you to break the use terms of their product.
Im suprised youre the first person to say this. Noone else seems to have picked up on the fact that squeezing about 20,000 kg of petrol's worth of energy into 8grams, without a nuclear reactor, isnt a miracle, its an explosive.
Just stop and think about that. 7500 gallons of gas's energy squeezed into a thimble, accessible merely by "heating" it, at which point the reaction apparently sustains itself (being exothermic and all). That is what we call an explosion.
If this were feasible-- and lets keep in mind that thorium isnt expensive-- we would be using thorium bombs by now.