That's as maybe, but did you miss the point of the post? I think maybe you did. I'm in agreement with the guy, by the way: Macs are badly designed, Light up keyboards? Not for me, under any circumstances - it's an unnecessary drain on battery. USB3? Not until the prices hits parity on hardware and the diversity somewhat equals USB2 gear. Memory? My current AMD laptop has 6GB upgradeable to 8GB (if someone does 8GB sticks I'd bet it'll go to 16GB - my Dell went to 4GB even though the literature says it tops at 2), I don't have such a hard time believing that Macbooks either short on memory slots or they're already maxed. My last Mac (G4 Powerbook) came with 256 and topped at 1.25GB. Two slots, 1.25GB!? I could not install anything other than a 256MB stick in slot A, how fucking stupid is that!?
I obviously have much more of a clue than some petard who instantly resorts to personal attacks on a public forum. Would you like to come back with a cogent argument? Or would you prefer to continue with your childish prattle?
3. As for the data on the hard drive, consider it all suspect. Only read it on a readonly environment such as Knoppix or other live Linux CD. I'm sure there are online virus scanners out there (Panda was one I used a couple times several years ago - are they still going?) that can be used to scan individual files, which can then be moved to flash or online storage.
4. Microsoft Windows should be considered a niche platform.
I understand where you're coming from, really I do. What I'm objecting to is a company that sells for $600, something that is functionally and visually similar to a device that another company sells for $100 - made out of the same component parts, even! - and has a hissy fit when they can't figure out why their market's being eaten away.
...is that Samsung parts make up a solid quarter of the electronics in iPhones and iPads! It gets better: Samsung fabricate the phones...!
So what happens to Apple if Samsung decide to be bastards and pull the plug on parts/and/ assembly? What the fuck can Apple do about it? Precisely *nothing*!
So Samsung "copied" Apple's use of corners and low profile SMCs to create thinner devices? You know what? I'll still buy Samsung over Apple even if they were the same price, and you want to know why?
It's because no company that resorts to litigating its competition out of existence because it can't offer something as good, if not better, for the same money, *deserves* my money. End of.
To anyone that says I'm jumping on the pro-Samsung bandwagon just because they're the little guy in all this: fuck off.
Hetfield's toprange (without going falsetto or non modal screaming) is upper fourth, and recently he's managed as a low note, a B1 ("All Nightmare Long") but his earlier stuff only went as low as C2 ("Bad Seed", "Enter Sandman").
If Homo sapiens were so equipped to *detect* such frequencies with auditory sensors (we are not), we would also be equipped to produce them. For that we would require a neck a mile long.
it's how I learned French to the point where I aced my GCSE in French at 13.
At the suggestion of my teacher, I played French movies and language tapes (prerecorded during lessons) while I slept. Came to the oral exam, my responses were "natural, instant and almost accentless" according to the examiner.
according to this report it's not a lens, but a diffraction grating.
From linked article:
"Our flat lens opens up a new type of technology. We're presenting a new way of making lenses. It's extremely exciting," says principal investigator Federico Capasso, professor of applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Sorry, matey, it ain't that new, it's just a new application of a well established physical property. I do seem to remember using diffraction gratings to magnify light-bending effects at college in 1992 - specifically to fire an EM pulse at 450nm (near blue part of the visible spectrum) through a sample and use a calibrated* diffraction grating to amplify the signal to a photographic plate. What you end up with, essentially, is a highly magnified image (on the order of millions of times) with a very low distortion, with which you can determine the structure of the sample (be it a crystal lattice, eg. graphite, or a double helix, eg. DNA; each molecule has its own unique diffraction pattern). Generally you would use X-rays as pretty much anything is at least partially transparent to this wavelength, but since we had to use visible light from a very low powered lasing LED, we had to use visible-transparent samples. We got stuck with a quartz crystal. Still interesting physics, though, and some very pretty pictures.
*calibrating a diffraction grating is very simple: all you do is make the spacing between the lines on the plate equal to the wavelength of the light you're using. For far blue, you'd use a 400nm grating, for red 700nm. These are but two of several calibrated plates available.
I just bit the bottom out of an ice cream cone on a Sunday then stuffed the remains in my back pocket, next to the nude picture of Marilyn Monroe before chaining my pet 'gator to the fire hydrant outside and opening an umbrella to keep the sun off him.
Come get me, Alabamians!
By the way, all those things are completely legal in England, so fuck you - and the horse you rode in on.
...Because it would make the situation obvious (at least to me) that the US is on a witch hunt. The US hasn't even issued charges against Assange as far as I know (for that matter neither has Sweden; they apparently only want to question him, but on their terms). That the Swedish Government outright refused to make the guarantee about not extraditing Assange to the US and the UK making clear its intent to arrest Assange the second he steps out of the Ecuador Embassy, says to me that my paranoia, and that of Assange, is completely justified. Even more so considering that the Ecuador Foreign Ministry has said that Assange can stay for as long as he needs to.
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I wonder if a minidisc can be hacked into an analogue stream for data storage/retrieval (audio I/O on a ZX Spectrum, anyone)?
I'll let you know when I've done it.
That's as maybe, but did you miss the point of the post? I think maybe you did. I'm in agreement with the guy, by the way: Macs are badly designed, Light up keyboards? Not for me, under any circumstances - it's an unnecessary drain on battery. USB3? Not until the prices hits parity on hardware and the diversity somewhat equals USB2 gear. Memory? My current AMD laptop has 6GB upgradeable to 8GB (if someone does 8GB sticks I'd bet it'll go to 16GB - my Dell went to 4GB even though the literature says it tops at 2), I don't have such a hard time believing that Macbooks either short on memory slots or they're already maxed. My last Mac (G4 Powerbook) came with 256 and topped at 1.25GB. Two slots, 1.25GB!? I could not install anything other than a 256MB stick in slot A, how fucking stupid is that!?
...because that would give me the one excuse I need to go there!
You've not played Galaxian until you've played it on a super-wide 200 inch screen with five other players!
Yes, it's called an interim injunction.
I obviously have much more of a clue than some petard who instantly resorts to personal attacks on a public forum. Would you like to come back with a cogent argument? Or would you prefer to continue with your childish prattle?
2. Have him save all his data to a cloud service.
3. As for the data on the hard drive, consider it all suspect. Only read it on a readonly environment such as Knoppix or other live Linux CD. I'm sure there are online virus scanners out there (Panda was one I used a couple times several years ago - are they still going?) that can be used to scan individual files, which can then be moved to flash or online storage.
4. Microsoft Windows should be considered a niche platform.
OK so what's next? Apple to sue Google? :x
Apple don't just sell smartphones.
TEN BIGGEST SMARTPHONE MANUFACTURERS BY UNIT SALES IN Q2 2012
Rank, Maker, Units, Market Share, Was in Q1 of 2012
1 Samsung 50.4 M 32.9 % ( 30.6 %)
2 Apple 26.0 M 17.0 % ( 24.2 %)
3 Nokia 10.2 M 6.7 % ( 8.2 %)
4 HTC 8.8 M 5.8 % ( 5.4 %)
5 ZTE 8.0 M 5.2 % ( 3.4 %)
6 RIM 7.8 M 5.1 % ( 7.6 %)
7 Sony 7.5 M 4.9 % ( 5.0 %)
8 Huawei 7.0 M 4.6 % ( 4.8 %)
9 LG 6.5 M 4.2 % ( 3.8 %)
10 Motorola 6.0 M 3.9 % ( 3.5 %)
Others 10.8 M 7.3 % ( 3.3 %)
TOTAL 153.0 M
In fact, Samsung sell twice as many smartphones as Apple.
Care to play again?
didn't the SII come out before the RAZR Maxx?
I understand where you're coming from, really I do. What I'm objecting to is a company that sells for $600, something that is functionally and visually similar to a device that another company sells for $100 - made out of the same component parts, even! - and has a hissy fit when they can't figure out why their market's being eaten away.
except the Samsung phones aren't running iOS.
Would you like to play again?
...is that Samsung parts make up a solid quarter of the electronics in iPhones and iPads! It gets better: Samsung fabricate the phones...!
So what happens to Apple if Samsung decide to be bastards and pull the plug on parts /and/ assembly? What the fuck can Apple do about it? Precisely *nothing*!
So Samsung "copied" Apple's use of corners and low profile SMCs to create thinner devices? You know what? I'll still buy Samsung over Apple even if they were the same price, and you want to know why?
It's because no company that resorts to litigating its competition out of existence because it can't offer something as good, if not better, for the same money, *deserves* my money. End of.
To anyone that says I'm jumping on the pro-Samsung bandwagon just because they're the little guy in all this: fuck off.
Hetfield's toprange (without going falsetto or non modal screaming) is upper fourth, and recently he's managed as a low note, a B1 ("All Nightmare Long") but his earlier stuff only went as low as C2 ("Bad Seed", "Enter Sandman").
If Homo sapiens were so equipped to *detect* such frequencies with auditory sensors (we are not), we would also be equipped to produce them. For that we would require a neck a mile long.
it's how I learned French to the point where I aced my GCSE in French at 13.
At the suggestion of my teacher, I played French movies and language tapes (prerecorded during lessons) while I slept. Came to the oral exam, my responses were "natural, instant and almost accentless" according to the examiner.
sandwich of perfectly flat, perfectly transparent glass?
according to this report it's not a lens, but a diffraction grating.
From linked article:
"Our flat lens opens up a new type of technology. We're presenting a new way of making lenses. It's extremely exciting," says principal investigator Federico Capasso, professor of applied physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Sorry, matey, it ain't that new, it's just a new application of a well established physical property. I do seem to remember using diffraction gratings to magnify light-bending effects at college in 1992 - specifically to fire an EM pulse at 450nm (near blue part of the visible spectrum) through a sample and use a calibrated* diffraction grating to amplify the signal to a photographic plate. What you end up with, essentially, is a highly magnified image (on the order of millions of times) with a very low distortion, with which you can determine the structure of the sample (be it a crystal lattice, eg. graphite, or a double helix, eg. DNA; each molecule has its own unique diffraction pattern). Generally you would use X-rays as pretty much anything is at least partially transparent to this wavelength, but since we had to use visible light from a very low powered lasing LED, we had to use visible-transparent samples. We got stuck with a quartz crystal. Still interesting physics, though, and some very pretty pictures.
*calibrating a diffraction grating is very simple: all you do is make the spacing between the lines on the plate equal to the wavelength of the light you're using. For far blue, you'd use a 400nm grating, for red 700nm. These are but two of several calibrated plates available.
citations needed. Preferably from the Public Records Office.
links?
I just bit the bottom out of an ice cream cone on a Sunday then stuffed the remains in my back pocket, next to the nude picture of Marilyn Monroe before chaining my pet 'gator to the fire hydrant outside and opening an umbrella to keep the sun off him.
Come get me, Alabamians!
By the way, all those things are completely legal in England, so fuck you - and the horse you rode in on.
...Because it would make the situation obvious (at least to me) that the US is on a witch hunt. The US hasn't even issued charges against Assange as far as I know (for that matter neither has Sweden; they apparently only want to question him, but on their terms). That the Swedish Government outright refused to make the guarantee about not extraditing Assange to the US and the UK making clear its intent to arrest Assange the second he steps out of the Ecuador Embassy, says to me that my paranoia, and that of Assange, is completely justified. Even more so considering that the Ecuador Foreign Ministry has said that Assange can stay for as long as he needs to.
...to CNN. Yet they refuse to guarantee it to the Ecuadorian foreign minister.
Why the fuck should we believe them?
oh, piss off.
saywhatnow?? This is SLASHDOT, we don't read the fucking articles! You're lucky I skimmed the fucking summary.