Actually, prior to the iPhone, I had an MPx220. Prior to that an i930. Now, fortunatly, the only windows based OS I have to use is here at work, all linux and osx at home.
And to AC below talking about apple products being over priced or whatever... sure, they're a bit on the expensive side. However, I feel you get what you pay for when you take TCO into account and thus give not a single fuck about what you or anyone else thinks about how I choose to spend my money.
This is a known issue with these laptops (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377) and apple may very well be willing to replace the logic board for you for free. I recently took in an early 2008 macbook pro with this exact same problem and they replaced the logic board for free within 3 days. I never even had the extended warranty. Best of luck.
I had this happen to me, took it in, and they replaced it for free I was waaaay out of warranty. 100% covered. That's customer service, IMO.
Also being a 'seasoned' developer I'm wondering why not a 'real' language like C as opposed to scripting languages. I started with BASIC back in the day but I often wished I made the shift to real languages sooner rather than later. Only when I started writing apps in VB6 (when it was first released) did I run into limitations. I wish I made the leap early from command line BASIC to C/C++. C also gives you more insight into how the computer is actually working. In the 'real world' of large scale appliactions today I see far to many a 'script kiddie' that grew up on Java who seem to think you can build huge high performance applications in these languages.
At risk of being flamed, since OP has access to a macbook pro, why not give him an Objective C book and let him have at XCode for a while. It's an amazing rock solid IDE (not quite as nice as VS but still very nice). There are many very good books available for introduction to Objective C on the Mac.You might even take it upon yourself to 'learn together' for a time. This is another good quality from the real world... working with others. You could edge him on with an additional requirement or two. This will help re-inforce early a good general life lesson: the fact that things can change and you need to adapt.
. Many utilities do not really know when they've got a real power outage or not. l.
Mine does. I helped design the system that figures it out automatically from our smart meters. When the power drops a good number (although not all due to network topology) of "Power Down' messages come back to us before the meter fully discharges. we run this through the 'old school' system that figures out, based on known network design and those reporting loss of power, the scope of the outage as quick as possible.
Don't you love how people think having power, and a responsible infrastructure, but no way to reliably measure how much of it you use is somehow their right.
Of course they knew. They read the T&C when they signed up for foursquare/facebook/twitter/whatever. After all, only after they fully read and understood would they click Accept.
While technically true, if using encryption that will take years or possible decades to decrypt it is not the same as a safe. Comparing something that takes a few hours to open to something that can take years is not a great comparison.
"_Every_"
Technically not true. OTP (One Time Pad) cannot be broken unless the key is recovered.
You probably havn't worked in a large organization? or on a project with a budget more than 10 million (or even 1 million?!). These things are planned years in advance... you dont show up and fry's and say give me 5000 of your best servers, i need to install them tomorrow. idiot.
Exactly... The spending is controlled by the budgets and everything else except the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling exists to control how much revenue they need to collect to keep up with the budget.
So, if my budget says I can spend $5tr, and my debt ceiling is $10tr (of which $9tr is already used) then I must make sure that I have revenues sufficient to make sure I do not hit my debt ceiling. Why is this so hard for people to understand.
If we (4 of us) go out to dinner and order $100 worth of food, and I have a credit card with $20 available, the remaining $80 must be split by all of us at the table. You dont go into this situation thinking 4 people are going to bring $15, and there is $20 available on a credit card, and then blame the restaurant when the bill arrives and you dont have enough money. Everyone at the table has to pony up the extra $5 to cover. Even better, have everyone pony up $10 extra so that you dont have to use the gift card and can save it for an emergency.
All that being said, I wholeheartedly agree that spending must be cut.. but you cannot just take a hatchet to the budget to everything that was already ordered. You can cancel the wine that hasn't been corked yet, you can cut desert, but the steak is already on the grill. You need to pay up and look big for this meal, but STOP going out to dinner for a while (to stick with the same analogy) until your credit card is paid off.
I'm sorry.. but taxes have to go up.. be it in the form of higher sliding tax rates for rich people, or eliminating loopholes, or whatever. I don't want to pay more taxes, but I realize that the money has already been spent and it's time to pay the bill.
And also, there is no way for them to prove just by looking at the possibly 'pirated' file that you are not just being lazy. I could, for example, have a case of CDs that I feel like downloading in 5 minutes per CD, rather than ripping (and using my precious CPU) for 10 or 20 - not to mention all that wear and tear on my optical drive. As you say, if you are not SHARING (i.e. using torrents) then you still have committed no crime as long as you OWN a copy of the media in question. Also, for media that you have purchased which is damaged or possibly stolen, the same is true.
Off-topic..
I think Apple and Oracle should team up. I think there's writing on the wall, but I might just be crazy.
5 year Apple strategy for business share:
1) Partner with Oracle to use expensive Sun hardware and software in the data center
2) Sell expensive Apple hardware at the desktop.
3) ????
4) Profit
Given how much money IT departments waste these days (SOA anyone?) it should go over quite smoothly. Time to buy some Apple stock.
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Actually, prior to the iPhone, I had an MPx220. Prior to that an i930. Now, fortunatly, the only windows based OS I have to use is here at work, all linux and osx at home. And to AC below talking about apple products being over priced or whatever... sure, they're a bit on the expensive side. However, I feel you get what you pay for when you take TCO into account and thus give not a single fuck about what you or anyone else thinks about how I choose to spend my money.
I'm always logged in as root. I like to live dangerously.
Why thank you sir. or maddam.
As an iPhone user since the first model, I've never been penetrated through my back door... willingly or otherwise.
I believe, as of iPhone 3GS, it does.. but I'm too lazy to google and confirm.
Ahhh, maintenance.
This is a known issue with these laptops (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377) and apple may very well be willing to replace the logic board for you for free. I recently took in an early 2008 macbook pro with this exact same problem and they replaced the logic board for free within 3 days. I never even had the extended warranty. Best of luck.
I had this happen to me, took it in, and they replaced it for free I was waaaay out of warranty. 100% covered. That's customer service, IMO.
We actually have a department that does this, not just one person.
But really.. what is pakistan going to do to us? America! Fuck YEAH!
Also being a 'seasoned' developer I'm wondering why not a 'real' language like C as opposed to scripting languages. I started with BASIC back in the day but I often wished I made the shift to real languages sooner rather than later. Only when I started writing apps in VB6 (when it was first released) did I run into limitations. I wish I made the leap early from command line BASIC to C/C++. C also gives you more insight into how the computer is actually working. In the 'real world' of large scale appliactions today I see far to many a 'script kiddie' that grew up on Java who seem to think you can build huge high performance applications in these languages. At risk of being flamed, since OP has access to a macbook pro, why not give him an Objective C book and let him have at XCode for a while. It's an amazing rock solid IDE (not quite as nice as VS but still very nice). There are many very good books available for introduction to Objective C on the Mac.You might even take it upon yourself to 'learn together' for a time. This is another good quality from the real world... working with others. You could edge him on with an additional requirement or two. This will help re-inforce early a good general life lesson: the fact that things can change and you need to adapt.
. Many utilities do not really know when they've got a real power outage or not. l.
Mine does. I helped design the system that figures it out automatically from our smart meters. When the power drops a good number (although not all due to network topology) of "Power Down' messages come back to us before the meter fully discharges. we run this through the 'old school' system that figures out, based on known network design and those reporting loss of power, the scope of the outage as quick as possible.
Don't you love how people think having power, and a responsible infrastructure, but no way to reliably measure how much of it you use is somehow their right.
Of course they knew. They read the T&C when they signed up for foursquare/facebook/twitter/whatever. After all, only after they fully read and understood would they click Accept.
While technically true, if using encryption that will take years or possible decades to decrypt it is not the same as a safe. Comparing something that takes a few hours to open to something that can take years is not a great comparison.
"_Every_" Technically not true. OTP (One Time Pad) cannot be broken unless the key is recovered.
You probably havn't worked in a large organization? or on a project with a budget more than 10 million (or even 1 million?!). These things are planned years in advance... you dont show up and fry's and say give me 5000 of your best servers, i need to install them tomorrow. idiot.
Steve doesn't care if you're a moron, your money spends the same. I switched in 2008 and he never complained.... oh wait :(
weak sauce.. 500 tps avg, 100 million inserts/day (between 00:00 and 07:00). Oracle 10g RAC on 4 AIX lpars with a DS8300 san.
Exactly... The spending is controlled by the budgets and everything else except the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling exists to control how much revenue they need to collect to keep up with the budget. So, if my budget says I can spend $5tr, and my debt ceiling is $10tr (of which $9tr is already used) then I must make sure that I have revenues sufficient to make sure I do not hit my debt ceiling. Why is this so hard for people to understand. If we (4 of us) go out to dinner and order $100 worth of food, and I have a credit card with $20 available, the remaining $80 must be split by all of us at the table. You dont go into this situation thinking 4 people are going to bring $15, and there is $20 available on a credit card, and then blame the restaurant when the bill arrives and you dont have enough money. Everyone at the table has to pony up the extra $5 to cover. Even better, have everyone pony up $10 extra so that you dont have to use the gift card and can save it for an emergency. All that being said, I wholeheartedly agree that spending must be cut.. but you cannot just take a hatchet to the budget to everything that was already ordered. You can cancel the wine that hasn't been corked yet, you can cut desert, but the steak is already on the grill. You need to pay up and look big for this meal, but STOP going out to dinner for a while (to stick with the same analogy) until your credit card is paid off. I'm sorry.. but taxes have to go up.. be it in the form of higher sliding tax rates for rich people, or eliminating loopholes, or whatever. I don't want to pay more taxes, but I realize that the money has already been spent and it's time to pay the bill.
For the Air it would have to be... but why not standardize. Great opportunity here for Apple.
And also, there is no way for them to prove just by looking at the possibly 'pirated' file that you are not just being lazy. I could, for example, have a case of CDs that I feel like downloading in 5 minutes per CD, rather than ripping (and using my precious CPU) for 10 or 20 - not to mention all that wear and tear on my optical drive. As you say, if you are not SHARING (i.e. using torrents) then you still have committed no crime as long as you OWN a copy of the media in question. Also, for media that you have purchased which is damaged or possibly stolen, the same is true.
Off-topic.. I think Apple and Oracle should team up. I think there's writing on the wall, but I might just be crazy. 5 year Apple strategy for business share: 1) Partner with Oracle to use expensive Sun hardware and software in the data center 2) Sell expensive Apple hardware at the desktop. 3) ???? 4) Profit Given how much money IT departments waste these days (SOA anyone?) it should go over quite smoothly. Time to buy some Apple stock.
nope..
You said 2 minutes 5 minutes ago.
Alternatives?
Facetime? :)