The day is coming when every man, woman, and child will have as much electricity as they need, as much food as they need, and their basic physical needs are all freely provided.
As nice as that would be, I really don't think it's gonna happen.
The finest agricultural land in the country and possibly the world, in the central coast of California, is all well above sea level with big effin' cliffs that the tsunami wouldn't have breached even if it were right offshore here.
If you're on the coast, a tsunami will fuck your shit, cliffs or no cliffs.
When I run a game on a console, I *know* it will work well.
Even that is not guaranteed anymore. Lots of console games these days ship with performance issues, even the big budget games. Look at Halo: Reach or any Madden game of the last 5 years.
Don't compete on specs -- compete on quality, usability, and features. You can slap all the hardware in the world into a sleek case and if it looks like crap and operates like crap, nobody's going to buy it. Apple realizes this. Motorola and Samsung do not.
^ Yup. I'm getting tired of seeing people trying to play catch-up with Apple. Someone needs to come out and beat them at their own game - being the first in a new market sector. Or, taking an existing market sector and doing it better than everyone else.
That comment is far more insightful than you probably meant for it to be. The current generation of coaches learned to coach without computers. In a few years, the next generation will include people like you that have also played video game versions. With the accuracy of video game simulations improving all the time, more coaches will trust the instincts that they've learned are reliable in the video games, and the typical coaching strategy will change.
I can assure you that playing Madden is a shitty substitute for actual play-calling knowledge.
Why is it so surprising that Apple made it thin? Did he honestly not think they would try to do that? I could have told you at the launch of iPad 1 that the next one would be thinner with better specs.
I think that we're going to see a repeat of the 90's here somewhat shortly with respect to mobile devices (aka "the next frontier"). Apple will insist on selling iPads and iPhones at $500 - $800 each, and Google will allow their OS to be placed on any device the consumer wants, decoupling the OS and hardware and ultimately "owning" the mobile marketspace, just like Microsoft beat Apple in terms of marketshare and continues to do so to this day.
So, because Android is an open platform, are we going to end up with a bunch of cheaply-made, underperforming phones with Android slapped on in order to deliver a $50 phone with a 4 year contract simply because it makes money? I hate that sort of stuff. Then, because of these cheap, slow devices Android will get a bad name.
FWIW, Wikipedia says the contrary: "Falcon Northwest maintains one facility located in Medford, Oregon, and it chooses not to outsource any of its operations."
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Google's Cr-48 seems devoid of any branding. It's a real world laptop. But, as far as I'm concerned, unless I'm watching a documentary, the real world can go to hell. I'll give a director more credit for creating a good fictional world for 2-3 hours.
I should have known some idiot would extrapolate that. I understand that sometimes there has to be branding in there. But, I think it should be avoided when possible. Look at the Tarantino comment way down there.
Some times, they really rub it in and put totally awkward angles in just to place a product. There, I would agree that the placement is killing the art. But most of the time, it flows in... so why care?
It's distracting. Especially with the laptops, where Apple plasters a large illuminated logo on the back. It pulls me out of the movie and makes me think about Apple for a few seconds. In my opinion, they should cover up the brand entirely. As much as I'm a tech guy, I really don't need to know what brand of computer the guy in the movie is using, unless it has something to do with the narrative.
Yes, they are overdue for a redesign. In my case, support expires this year on my wife's late-2008 Macbook. I suggested upgrading but she has no interest. Her reason? The new Macbook looks almost exactly like her old Macbook. So her old computer still "feels" new.
This has gotta be bad for Apple. The lack of cosmetic design changes is going to cause a lot of their users to not-upgrade and stick to old hardware, which is also more likely to be running old versions of OS X. By not changing their unibody aluminum chassis, Apple's new hardware ends up competing against their old hardware.
They've been using that Aluminum for nearly a decade. They get people to upgrade by saying the new iteration of the OS won't support their old device, and of course, it has some gimmicky feature that everyone wants. So, people with old hardware buy new hardware.
Now, your wife may not be interested in what the OS does, and that's fine. But, plenty of others will buy the new hardware.
The Linux learning curve isn't so steep when users aren't poisoned by exposure to other systems....except Mac, they're actually pretty nice...The best thing I ever did for my wife was get that Macbook. My daughters enjoy being able to just "Press button to turn machine on" - they manage just fine. And one of my daughters has become quite the GIMP Picasso.
Again, you're a sysadmin. You can't exactly go around shouting "Computers are so easy!" The Linux learning curve is huge (and steep), and the software is frustrating. I don't think there's any average user who would be willing to put up with it without a nerd at their disposal.
If you were abducted by aliens tonight, would your 2 daughters continue to run Linux successfully? Or does everything work simply because you're they have an admin that knows what he's doing?
I don't know about that. We don't seem to be able to establish much of a relationship even with dolphins or whales, reasonably intelligent species on our own planet. Indeed, they apparently have no interest at all in establishing a relationship with us. In fact, besides humans, I can think of very few species which fraternize outside with other species, unless they've been bred for it by humans. We may be the exceptional case rather than the typical one.
Hell, forget dolphins and whales. We can't even get along with people from another country, much less another species.
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Since when is apple a carrier?
Doesn't good old Steve get a cut of the monthly payments from the carriers? They've at least blurred the line.
The day is coming when every man, woman, and child will have as much electricity as they need, as much food as they need, and their basic physical needs are all freely provided.
As nice as that would be, I really don't think it's gonna happen.
Don't you think someone said that 5 years ago?
The finest agricultural land in the country and possibly the world, in the central coast of California, is all well above sea level with big effin' cliffs that the tsunami wouldn't have breached even if it were right offshore here.
If you're on the coast, a tsunami will fuck your shit, cliffs or no cliffs.
Really? A full tank of "gas" only costs £70 (~$112 US) here.
If he drives a large American SUV, he is probably filling up a lot more often than your (likely) efficient European vehicle.
When I run a game on a console, I *know* it will work well.
Even that is not guaranteed anymore. Lots of console games these days ship with performance issues, even the big budget games. Look at Halo: Reach or any Madden game of the last 5 years.
I wonder how much the current generation connects to those words? I know that some will equate it with Star Trek but I wonder how many have seen it.
Well, if there wasn't the pretext of "William Shatner", I wouldn't have recognized it.
Don't compete on specs -- compete on quality, usability, and features. You can slap all the hardware in the world into a sleek case and if it looks like crap and operates like crap, nobody's going to buy it. Apple realizes this. Motorola and Samsung do not.
^ Yup. I'm getting tired of seeing people trying to play catch-up with Apple. Someone needs to come out and beat them at their own game - being the first in a new market sector. Or, taking an existing market sector and doing it better than everyone else.
That comment is far more insightful than you probably meant for it to be. The current generation of coaches learned to coach without computers. In a few years, the next generation will include people like you that have also played video game versions. With the accuracy of video game simulations improving all the time, more coaches will trust the instincts that they've learned are reliable in the video games, and the typical coaching strategy will change.
I can assure you that playing Madden is a shitty substitute for actual play-calling knowledge.
Why is it so surprising that Apple made it thin? Did he honestly not think they would try to do that? I could have told you at the launch of iPad 1 that the next one would be thinner with better specs.
I think that we're going to see a repeat of the 90's here somewhat shortly with respect to mobile devices (aka "the next frontier"). Apple will insist on selling iPads and iPhones at $500 - $800 each, and Google will allow their OS to be placed on any device the consumer wants, decoupling the OS and hardware and ultimately "owning" the mobile marketspace, just like Microsoft beat Apple in terms of marketshare and continues to do so to this day.
So, because Android is an open platform, are we going to end up with a bunch of cheaply-made, underperforming phones with Android slapped on in order to deliver a $50 phone with a 4 year contract simply because it makes money? I hate that sort of stuff. Then, because of these cheap, slow devices Android will get a bad name.
But, the new iOS won't support my 2 year old iPod...
What about on an Apples to PCs basis?
FWIW, Wikipedia says the contrary: "Falcon Northwest maintains one facility located in Medford, Oregon, and it chooses not to outsource any of its operations."
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Doesn't Falcon Northwest make all their stuff in the US?
They could be creative, artistic, affluent, etc. Or, they could just be another person who buys Apple because it's cool to do so.
Google's Cr-48 seems devoid of any branding. It's a real world laptop.
But, as far as I'm concerned, unless I'm watching a documentary, the real world can go to hell. I'll give a director more credit for creating a good fictional world for 2-3 hours.
Way to be obtuse. It wouldn't be hard for them to make a plastic laptop case with no branding on it. They usually simulate the screen images anyway.
I should have known some idiot would extrapolate that. I understand that sometimes there has to be branding in there. But, I think it should be avoided when possible. Look at the Tarantino comment way down there.
Some times, they really rub it in and put totally awkward angles in just to place a product. There, I would agree that the placement is killing the art. But most of the time, it flows in... so why care?
It's distracting. Especially with the laptops, where Apple plasters a large illuminated logo on the back. It pulls me out of the movie and makes me think about Apple for a few seconds. In my opinion, they should cover up the brand entirely. As much as I'm a tech guy, I really don't need to know what brand of computer the guy in the movie is using, unless it has something to do with the narrative.
Yes, they are overdue for a redesign. In my case, support expires this year on my wife's late-2008 Macbook. I suggested upgrading but she has no interest. Her reason? The new Macbook looks almost exactly like her old Macbook. So her old computer still "feels" new. This has gotta be bad for Apple. The lack of cosmetic design changes is going to cause a lot of their users to not-upgrade and stick to old hardware, which is also more likely to be running old versions of OS X. By not changing their unibody aluminum chassis, Apple's new hardware ends up competing against their old hardware.
They've been using that Aluminum for nearly a decade. They get people to upgrade by saying the new iteration of the OS won't support their old device, and of course, it has some gimmicky feature that everyone wants. So, people with old hardware buy new hardware. Now, your wife may not be interested in what the OS does, and that's fine. But, plenty of others will buy the new hardware.
The Linux learning curve isn't so steep when users aren't poisoned by exposure to other systems....except Mac, they're actually pretty nice...The best thing I ever did for my wife was get that Macbook. My daughters enjoy being able to just "Press button to turn machine on" - they manage just fine. And one of my daughters has become quite the GIMP Picasso.
Again, you're a sysadmin. You can't exactly go around shouting "Computers are so easy!" The Linux learning curve is huge (and steep), and the software is frustrating. I don't think there's any average user who would be willing to put up with it without a nerd at their disposal.
If you were abducted by aliens tonight, would your 2 daughters continue to run Linux successfully? Or does everything work simply because you're they have an admin that knows what he's doing?
I don't know about that. We don't seem to be able to establish much of a relationship even with dolphins or whales, reasonably intelligent species on our own planet. Indeed, they apparently have no interest at all in establishing a relationship with us. In fact, besides humans, I can think of very few species which fraternize outside with other species, unless they've been bred for it by humans. We may be the exceptional case rather than the typical one.
Hell, forget dolphins and whales. We can't even get along with people from another country, much less another species.
On the hole, it's a pretty good app.