I bought one of those. I wanted the clicky keys, but figured I'd get the blank version to improve on touch typing numbers (I touch type everything else, but have always been weak on the number row). Worked well for that purpose, and has the added bonus of keeping the riff-raff off my machine.
What's wrong with clicking the error / warning icon in the navigation pane?
What's wrong is that it doesn't always work. If the source file is not in the project root directory, it won't do what you think it will. Instead, it will just open the source file at the top. Bugs filed, haven't seen it fixed in latest. Pain in the arse.
I don't even have Flash installed on the two machines I mainly use, and view a lot of pages on the Flash-incapable iPad and iPhone. The only place I notice the lack of Flash is YouTube and Hulu. YouTube is fine on iOS, and there's a Hulu app for iOS and Mac OS X. Sure, once in a while a site doesn't render. As I used to say about RealPlayer, there's nothing on the web I need to see so badly that I'm willing to install Flash.
Ok, wise guy; what are we supposed to do about it?
Google Voice, as one option, and I'm pretty sure there are others. From my POV, paying for texting is like getting your TV from a company that wants $80/month: quaint, but unnecessary.
Then the average user can learn to read stats, I'm a nerd to and when someone ask for my opinion I tell them to look at the stats and then they can tell what to buy.
That might work when buying a lawn mower, but it's a horrible approach when buying anything that runs software I can do little to change. Looking only at stats one ends up buying a point-and-shoot camera with more megapixels than my DSLR, and thinks it takes better pictures than that DSLR.
By what your saying the average user should buy what there told to buy, that is the wrong idea altogether.
No, what I'm saying is that users don't care diddly about nerdy stat sheets. What they do care about is the user experience, specs be damned. And the Playbook, from the sounds of it, has a less desirable UX than its competitors. When the Playbook fails in a spectacular manner, feel free to blame it on "Apple marketing", "iSheep", and "the Reality Distortion Field", because it couldn't have anything to do with the software sucking.
Okay so the launch went bad, but point out where the iPad in anyway even contends with the playbook, the playbook will sell itself from being a much better product. The stats are there.
I can't tell if you're serious, or trying to be funny. In case you're actually serious, this isn't a baseball game or a boxing match. "Stat for stat" doesn't mean crap to the average consumer standing there at Best Buy looking at the two (and I seriously don't think you could correctly guess what does matter).
Hell, I'm geeky enough that I should care about the stats, and even I wasn't going to sift through your laundry list.
Just curious..what airports do you go to where they do all of this?
As a recent, personal example: Tampa. I'm sure any airport with the new 1mm scanners will serve as an example as well. Nothing in your pockets, no belts, please proceed through the porno scanner. If you select the groping option, as I did, prepare to wait while they dig someone up to do the groping.
Not that it takes all that long (though Tampa did have a lengthy line on Tuesday afternoon), but everything parent listed gets done for everybody. I wonder where you're flying where they don't all of this.
Here is why: there are no side air intakes on the Macbook Pro. The air intakes are part of the keyboard, as crazy as that sounds. The keyboard has a 3 inch margin on the left and right side, where the air intakes are. I assume this makes the laptop thinner, at the expense of usability. A classic Apple decision - form over function.
I'm pretty sure those are the speaker grilles you're referring to, not air vents. As for size, what do you want, "full-sized + 10%"?
When you see those two words in the same sentence, do you also feel an uncomfortable jerking in your knee, followed by the emission of a canned response?
Parent wasn't suggesting that your Wild West interwebs be changed, but that advertising be regulated such that it is not deceptive, downright false and/or what a company says in 36 point type isn't cancelled by what they say in 6 point type.
Sorry, I can't help the fact that the commonly accepted definitions for "HD" don't fit what you think it ought to be. My Panny plasma does 720 lines of resolution: HD. iPad camera does 720 lines, too: HD. HD is also commonly used to describe video systems, whereas your complaint seems to be based on still photography. I suppose the term could be (and probably is) used in relation to still cameras, but that is not how Apple is marketing it.
No, "HD" has meaning. The wikipedia article even defines it relative to other resolutions. Did you just not bother to look and see if there's a spec for "HD"?
It took me ten minutes to swap the hard drive on my early-2009 (replaceable battery) Macbook Pro. From the looks of my friend's later model non-replaceable battery MBP, it would be a few minutes more because the screws on the bottom cover have to come out. It would probably take me longer to swap drives on most desktop machines of any make.
I believe GP's point might have been more about how Apple users are thought to just replace hardware as an assembly rather than upgrade piecemeal like "almost all laptop users". GP is making broad assumptions that are most likely wrong. "Almost all laptop users" are not/. geeks who have a full set of tiny Torx drivers. The only reason I swapped drives was to put in an SSD with less capacity than the OEM drive. I doubt I'd ever go to even the minimal trouble just for more space. I'd just wait until it was time for a new machine.
You'd never catch someone like Apple doing that these days, which is a bit sad really.
I write Mac OS software and I don't care that Apple, or any other manufacturer for that matter, don't do that. What would I do with it? Yeah, thirty years ago that kind of information was handy when I had my Atari 800. Now? Show me where to put the memory, show me how to swap out the hard drive (which Apple does), and that is about the sum total of what I care to know about the hardware. Yeah, I'll go take a peek at teardowns on iFixIt, but it's not like having pin-outs is going to do me much good.
And that's me, someone who has been poking at computing machinery as an amateur and professional for decades. Your average user? Man, what a waste of paper that would be. It's nice to remember the good ol' days, but the average folks buying Sinclairs back in the day aren't the average iMac purchaser of today.
Hey, where'd my mod points go? I took my paltry number of shares and told the whiners to piss up a rope (well, via proxy). I have more faith in a board that has made me a fair bit of money than I do some random pension fund that probably bought mortgage-backed bonds.
Yes you could. It was the size of a brick and expensive as Hell, but yes you could.
The Motorola MicroTACs were far from brick-sized and came out in 1989. You weren't going to fit them in a pants pocket, but they fit in a jacket pocket well enough. Couldn't have been that expensive because I bought two for our consulting business in the early 90s and we weren't exactly using rakes to collect our money.
I thought Comcast was full of crap when they ran scare ads about Verizon selling there fios to Frontier in Seattle. Just because it turns out they were right doesn't mean Comcast isn't full of crap, of course. With Verizon, it was always 25Mbps and I never touched the router. Since Frontier took over the bandwidth is mostly what they advertise, but not reliably so, and I reboot the router (same one that I used for Verizon) almost daily due to connection issues.
I'm not so unsatisfied that I'd go back to Comcast (Frontier CEO would have to be caught killing puppies before I'd even consider it), but there was definitely a drop in quality since Frontier took over.
Leaf is too small, but you'll drive the equivalent of a Ford Focus? Have you actually been inside a Leaf? I don't have cubic inches at hand, but I'd put a Leaf up against a Focus for room, especially in the back seats.
I'd argue the "ugly" part, but I drive an original style Scion xB and am in no position to be casting stones at the tastes of others.
that means $3.40 in electricity costs to replace a gallon of gas.
That means nothing of the sort. A Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh battery pack and can go ~100 miles on a charge. You're telling me there are cars getting >100 miles out of that 34kWh gallon of gas?
$2.40 to go 100 miles here in Seattle. Plugging in most certainly has a price advantage over filling up.
I don't recall exactly the machine they were running in the movie, but yes, the tracks are commercially available. Since/.'s paste functionality is broken, punch "articat triangular snow tracks" into Google and click the second link.
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Some of us didn't give up our "unlimited" plans when AT&T nixed them. So, strictly in theory mind you, I don't have a cap.
I bought one of those. I wanted the clicky keys, but figured I'd get the blank version to improve on touch typing numbers (I touch type everything else, but have always been weak on the number row). Worked well for that purpose, and has the added bonus of keeping the riff-raff off my machine.
Thanks, Luís. And it looks like G+ is already /.'ed. :-) ("We've temporarily exceeded our capacity.")
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So far, the new beta of iTunes is refusing to backup my 5b1 devices at all - sync failing...
You know Apple goes to the trouble of providing release notes for reasons other than just the sake of typing them, right?
What's wrong with clicking the error / warning icon in the navigation pane?
What's wrong is that it doesn't always work. If the source file is not in the project root directory, it won't do what you think it will. Instead, it will just open the source file at the top. Bugs filed, haven't seen it fixed in latest. Pain in the arse.
I don't even have Flash installed on the two machines I mainly use, and view a lot of pages on the Flash-incapable iPad and iPhone. The only place I notice the lack of Flash is YouTube and Hulu. YouTube is fine on iOS, and there's a Hulu app for iOS and Mac OS X. Sure, once in a while a site doesn't render. As I used to say about RealPlayer, there's nothing on the web I need to see so badly that I'm willing to install Flash.
Ok, wise guy; what are we supposed to do about it?
Google Voice, as one option, and I'm pretty sure there are others. From my POV, paying for texting is like getting your TV from a company that wants $80/month: quaint, but unnecessary.
Mobile Safari, Safari on Mac, same result.
Then the average user can learn to read stats, I'm a nerd to and when someone ask for my opinion I tell them to look at the stats and then they can tell what to buy.
That might work when buying a lawn mower, but it's a horrible approach when buying anything that runs software I can do little to change. Looking only at stats one ends up buying a point-and-shoot camera with more megapixels than my DSLR, and thinks it takes better pictures than that DSLR.
By what your saying the average user should buy what there told to buy, that is the wrong idea altogether.
No, what I'm saying is that users don't care diddly about nerdy stat sheets. What they do care about is the user experience, specs be damned. And the Playbook, from the sounds of it, has a less desirable UX than its competitors. When the Playbook fails in a spectacular manner, feel free to blame it on "Apple marketing", "iSheep", and "the Reality Distortion Field", because it couldn't have anything to do with the software sucking.
Okay so the launch went bad, but point out where the iPad in anyway even contends with the playbook, the playbook will sell itself from being a much better product. The stats are there.
I can't tell if you're serious, or trying to be funny. In case you're actually serious, this isn't a baseball game or a boxing match. "Stat for stat" doesn't mean crap to the average consumer standing there at Best Buy looking at the two (and I seriously don't think you could correctly guess what does matter).
Hell, I'm geeky enough that I should care about the stats, and even I wasn't going to sift through your laundry list.
Just curious..what airports do you go to where they do all of this?
As a recent, personal example: Tampa. I'm sure any airport with the new 1mm scanners will serve as an example as well. Nothing in your pockets, no belts, please proceed through the porno scanner. If you select the groping option, as I did, prepare to wait while they dig someone up to do the groping.
Not that it takes all that long (though Tampa did have a lengthy line on Tuesday afternoon), but everything parent listed gets done for everybody. I wonder where you're flying where they don't all of this.
Here is why: there are no side air intakes on the Macbook Pro. The air intakes are part of the keyboard, as crazy as that sounds. The keyboard has a 3 inch margin on the left and right side, where the air intakes are. I assume this makes the laptop thinner, at the expense of usability. A classic Apple decision - form over function.
I'm pretty sure those are the speaker grilles you're referring to, not air vents. As for size, what do you want, "full-sized + 10%"?
When you see those two words in the same sentence, do you also feel an uncomfortable jerking in your knee, followed by the emission of a canned response?
Parent wasn't suggesting that your Wild West interwebs be changed, but that advertising be regulated such that it is not deceptive, downright false and/or what a company says in 36 point type isn't cancelled by what they say in 6 point type.
Sorry, I can't help the fact that the commonly accepted definitions for "HD" don't fit what you think it ought to be. My Panny plasma does 720 lines of resolution: HD. iPad camera does 720 lines, too: HD. HD is also commonly used to describe video systems, whereas your complaint seems to be based on still photography. I suppose the term could be (and probably is) used in relation to still cameras, but that is not how Apple is marketing it.
HD means nothing.
No, "HD" has meaning. The wikipedia article even defines it relative to other resolutions. Did you just not bother to look and see if there's a spec for "HD"?
It took me ten minutes to swap the hard drive on my early-2009 (replaceable battery) Macbook Pro. From the looks of my friend's later model non-replaceable battery MBP, it would be a few minutes more because the screws on the bottom cover have to come out. It would probably take me longer to swap drives on most desktop machines of any make.
I believe GP's point might have been more about how Apple users are thought to just replace hardware as an assembly rather than upgrade piecemeal like "almost all laptop users". GP is making broad assumptions that are most likely wrong. "Almost all laptop users" are not /. geeks who have a full set of tiny Torx drivers. The only reason I swapped drives was to put in an SSD with less capacity than the OEM drive. I doubt I'd ever go to even the minimal trouble just for more space. I'd just wait until it was time for a new machine.
You'd never catch someone like Apple doing that these days, which is a bit sad really.
I write Mac OS software and I don't care that Apple, or any other manufacturer for that matter, don't do that. What would I do with it? Yeah, thirty years ago that kind of information was handy when I had my Atari 800. Now? Show me where to put the memory, show me how to swap out the hard drive (which Apple does), and that is about the sum total of what I care to know about the hardware. Yeah, I'll go take a peek at teardowns on iFixIt, but it's not like having pin-outs is going to do me much good.
And that's me, someone who has been poking at computing machinery as an amateur and professional for decades. Your average user? Man, what a waste of paper that would be. It's nice to remember the good ol' days, but the average folks buying Sinclairs back in the day aren't the average iMac purchaser of today.
Hey, where'd my mod points go? I took my paltry number of shares and told the whiners to piss up a rope (well, via proxy). I have more faith in a board that has made me a fair bit of money than I do some random pension fund that probably bought mortgage-backed bonds.
Yes you could. It was the size of a brick and expensive as Hell, but yes you could.
The Motorola MicroTACs were far from brick-sized and came out in 1989. You weren't going to fit them in a pants pocket, but they fit in a jacket pocket well enough. Couldn't have been that expensive because I bought two for our consulting business in the early 90s and we weren't exactly using rakes to collect our money.
I thought Comcast was full of crap when they ran scare ads about Verizon selling there fios to Frontier in Seattle. Just because it turns out they were right doesn't mean Comcast isn't full of crap, of course. With Verizon, it was always 25Mbps and I never touched the router. Since Frontier took over the bandwidth is mostly what they advertise, but not reliably so, and I reboot the router (same one that I used for Verizon) almost daily due to connection issues.
I'm not so unsatisfied that I'd go back to Comcast (Frontier CEO would have to be caught killing puppies before I'd even consider it), but there was definitely a drop in quality since Frontier took over.
Leaf is too small, but you'll drive the equivalent of a Ford Focus? Have you actually been inside a Leaf? I don't have cubic inches at hand, but I'd put a Leaf up against a Focus for room, especially in the back seats.
I'd argue the "ugly" part, but I drive an original style Scion xB and am in no position to be casting stones at the tastes of others.
that means $3.40 in electricity costs to replace a gallon of gas.
That means nothing of the sort. A Nissan Leaf has a 24kWh battery pack and can go ~100 miles on a charge. You're telling me there are cars getting >100 miles out of that 34kWh gallon of gas?
$2.40 to go 100 miles here in Seattle. Plugging in most certainly has a price advantage over filling up.
I nearly drove the car off the road when I heard him throw that little "joke" out there. "Take the train, no pat downs! Hahaha, whoo boy!"
"Umm, yeah Mr. President, about those pat downs. If the lack thereof is your selling point..."
I don't recall exactly the machine they were running in the movie, but yes, the tracks are commercially available. Since /.'s paste functionality is broken, punch "articat triangular snow tracks" into Google and click the second link.