That and the fact that high end laptops which developers need are more cost effective with Mac than Dell. My MBP was the same price, but had better components to a similar dell.
Mac is actually pretty decently priced on their high end stuff (if you buy when the product is just released... apple doesn't drop their prices even though their technology is a year old). Their low end stuff is rather ridiculous however.
1) "want to distinguish themselves from the rest in terms of money or social class"
even if a large amount of a certain demographic acts a certain way, its racist stereotyping to lump all of said group together. EG. "many Mac people commit crimes and are in gangs, therefore all Mac people should be treated as potential criminals"
I am a Mac user because my laptop was the same price as a more poorly configured dell. AKA I was getting more bang for my buck. I also like UNIX and MacOS is a nicer UNIX to use than BSD/Linux.
2) "Mac users are bought"
Slavery was abolished long ago. To keep Mac people picking cotton in your plantation is wrong and illegal. Views on keeping Mac people as slaves is wrong.
umm except for the power of incarceration and asset seizure. I guess not throwing people in jail and stealing all their shit until they do something wrong is kind of a favour though... I guess....
I think its about $3/book for a hard cover. Most ebooks in hard cover go for $10-$15... most hardcover books are $30.
Im not sure how much the printing is for softcovers, lets assume $1.50. Soft cover ebooks go for $7-$10 (most are around 7). Soft cover paper is $11.
You are usually getting quite a good deal when you buy ebooks over paper... HOWEVER, you dont get to resell the book. So someone like me who doesn't sell his books doesn't care, however someone like my mom who always sells her books to a second hand store gets $1.50/book.
The one caveat to this is there isn't any second hand stores for ebooks. If you solely shop at second hand book stores, ebooks are extremely expensive to you.... second caveat is that there isn't any piratebays for paper books... so if you are a pirate paper is extremely expensive to you.
The entry price for an ebook reader is $250 (you can get a used prs 505 sony for this much or less)
So whats the point? - if you like to buy the "newest book from your favourite author" and you expect that you will read 10+ of these books in the next 3-4 years, you should go ebook - if you are a pirate, you should go ebook - if you do not shop second hand book stores, you have to read say 100 or more books to cover the cost of entry - if you shop second hand stores, you should not go ebook.
I have to agree with you. There are times when I was a kid playing D&D where I would forget a rule and need to look it up... I found the rule because I remember that the thing I was looking for was "between this section and this section"... I would remember the sections not by title, but by pictures, or the "shape of the paragraph" (if that makes any sense).
I cant grep through a digital book looking for something that I forget the word for.
actually... reading eink in bright sunlight isn't terrific either.
During the summer I went to the beach with my PRS 505. Whenever I flipped the page, the "ink" was very washed out. I noticed that if a shadow was on the reader the ink was better. I eventually got into a rhythm where I would flip the page in the shadow, then read in full sunlight.
incorrect. as stated in a sibling post, "open source" is a term such as "flying car." Similar to how a flying car can be called such so long as it flies, open source software can be called such so long as the source is open.
Under the strictest semantics, all that is required is that the source code can be viewed. Everything extra is FUD and propaganda.
The open source concept IMHO is where the source code for a project is released along side of the project itself, so that people can observe the source code and understand exactly what the project does.
You can still demand profit for the sale of the project.
There are various copyrights[copylefts] attached to the "opened" source of a project, stipulating how the source code may be used. EG some stipulations include releasing the source code for any derived works using the original source... others stipulate that you can do what the funk you want with the source code, and the original author doesn't care. The basic fact remains -> open source software is software where the source has been "opened for viewing."
FREE and open Source software is the concept where people can not only observe, but also have many freedoms to use the the source code in different ways.
As a Mac user, I beg to differ. I've tried the three major Open Source browsers and Mozilla is -by far- the most superior. It's fast, dependable, and renders things properly.
Chrome on Mac seems to have some sort of problem when it starts rendering... it seems to take a few moments to "start up" when I tell the browser to go to a URL. I actually started to troubleshoot my home network thinking that I had some problem at my router.
Safari is a nice browser, also fast, dependable, and renders properly. But I missed the awesome bar. The graphical bookmark page just wasn't enough to keep me. It was also a bit slower than FF.
The thing that Chrome/Safari have that Firefox doesn't is decent RAM usage. FF uses LOTS of ram, while Chrome/Safari keeps things sane.
To be fair for this review: I use The firefox nightly, and the major release versions of chrome/safari.
hah... I seriously doubt it... Apple are greedy bastards, but they aren't idiots. No one will buy a tablet for that much. Not even the most ardent fanbois.
IIRC sony has the best in class ereader screen. I read my sony ebook for hours and hours at a time. its quite enjoyable.
I dislike reading any "long" paragraphs on a computer screen, but its great on my sony prs 505. And after a long day at the office working in front of a computer screen, I think my eyes are going crossed.
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That and the fact that high end laptops which developers need are more cost effective with Mac than Dell. My MBP was the same price, but had better components to a similar dell.
Mac is actually pretty decently priced on their high end stuff (if you buy when the product is just released... apple doesn't drop their prices even though their technology is a year old). Their low end stuff is rather ridiculous however.
Thx for demonstrating 2 racist views on Mac users
1) "want to distinguish themselves from the rest in terms of money or social class"
even if a large amount of a certain demographic acts a certain way, its racist stereotyping to lump all of said group together. EG. "many Mac people commit crimes and are in gangs, therefore all Mac people should be treated as potential criminals"
I am a Mac user because my laptop was the same price as a more poorly configured dell. AKA I was getting more bang for my buck. I also like UNIX and MacOS is a nicer UNIX to use than BSD/Linux.
2) "Mac users are bought"
Slavery was abolished long ago. To keep Mac people picking cotton in your plantation is wrong and illegal. Views on keeping Mac people as slaves is wrong.
umm except for the power of incarceration and asset seizure. I guess not throwing people in jail and stealing all their shit until they do something wrong is kind of a favour though... I guess....
I think its about $3/book for a hard cover. Most ebooks in hard cover go for $10-$15... most hardcover books are $30.
Im not sure how much the printing is for softcovers, lets assume $1.50. Soft cover ebooks go for $7-$10 (most are around 7). Soft cover paper is $11.
You are usually getting quite a good deal when you buy ebooks over paper... HOWEVER, you dont get to resell the book. So someone like me who doesn't sell his books doesn't care, however someone like my mom who always sells her books to a second hand store gets $1.50/book.
The one caveat to this is there isn't any second hand stores for ebooks. If you solely shop at second hand book stores, ebooks are extremely expensive to you.... second caveat is that there isn't any piratebays for paper books... so if you are a pirate paper is extremely expensive to you.
The entry price for an ebook reader is $250 (you can get a used prs 505 sony for this much or less)
So whats the point?
- if you like to buy the "newest book from your favourite author" and you expect that you will read 10+ of these books in the next 3-4 years, you should go ebook
- if you are a pirate, you should go ebook
- if you do not shop second hand book stores, you have to read say 100 or more books to cover the cost of entry
- if you shop second hand stores, you should not go ebook.
my clod runs on insensitive you linux running mac!
EVERYDAY on my mac is like a cruise.
Depends on if your wife is easy or fast.
he doesn't wash his hands... ewwwwwwwww.....
They might die of jealousy.
I would avoid Ottawa if I were you.
who "searches" for porn anymore... you should know exactly where it is by now.
FUD.
and .... *drum roll please*... we have google scholar to help.
I have to agree with you. There are times when I was a kid playing D&D where I would forget a rule and need to look it up... I found the rule because I remember that the thing I was looking for was "between this section and this section" ... I would remember the sections not by title, but by pictures, or the "shape of the paragraph" (if that makes any sense).
I cant grep through a digital book looking for something that I forget the word for.
actually... reading eink in bright sunlight isn't terrific either.
During the summer I went to the beach with my PRS 505. Whenever I flipped the page, the "ink" was very washed out. I noticed that if a shadow was on the reader the ink was better. I eventually got into a rhythm where I would flip the page in the shadow, then read in full sunlight.
incorrect. as stated in a sibling post, "open source" is a term such as "flying car." Similar to how a flying car can be called such so long as it flies, open source software can be called such so long as the source is open.
Under the strictest semantics, all that is required is that the source code can be viewed. Everything extra is FUD and propaganda.
Thats not what the open source concept is at all.
The open source concept IMHO is where the source code for a project is released along side of the project itself, so that people can observe the source code and understand exactly what the project does.
You can still demand profit for the sale of the project.
There are various copyrights[copylefts] attached to the "opened" source of a project, stipulating how the source code may be used. EG some stipulations include releasing the source code for any derived works using the original source... others stipulate that you can do what the funk you want with the source code, and the original author doesn't care. The basic fact remains -> open source software is software where the source has been "opened for viewing."
FREE and open Source software is the concept where people can not only observe, but also have many freedoms to use the the source code in different ways.
This is encouraging people to respond to spam!
As a Mac user, I beg to differ. I've tried the three major Open Source browsers and Mozilla is -by far- the most superior. It's fast, dependable, and renders things properly.
Chrome on Mac seems to have some sort of problem when it starts rendering... it seems to take a few moments to "start up" when I tell the browser to go to a URL. I actually started to troubleshoot my home network thinking that I had some problem at my router.
Safari is a nice browser, also fast, dependable, and renders properly. But I missed the awesome bar. The graphical bookmark page just wasn't enough to keep me. It was also a bit slower than FF.
The thing that Chrome/Safari have that Firefox doesn't is decent RAM usage. FF uses LOTS of ram, while Chrome/Safari keeps things sane.
To be fair for this review: I use The firefox nightly, and the major release versions of chrome/safari.
you've hit the nail on the head there sir.
hah... I seriously doubt it... Apple are greedy bastards, but they aren't idiots. No one will buy a tablet for that much. Not even the most ardent fanbois.
elegant design means I can resize my windows from all sides rather than only the lower right hand corner... stupidest UI design EVER!
IIRC sony has the best in class ereader screen. I read my sony ebook for hours and hours at a time. its quite enjoyable.
I dislike reading any "long" paragraphs on a computer screen, but its great on my sony prs 505. And after a long day at the office working in front of a computer screen, I think my eyes are going crossed.
Or the truly stupid have gone extinct circa 2008.
it would be awesome if Fianna meant epic in Gaelic.