What, despite the previous MacBook Air which was available as flash-only, the SSD options on most models from MacBook Pro to MacPro, and the iPad, iPhone and iPod?
Steve Jobs explained it quite well in the presentation.
This may have modded down to Troll but it is true. Any developer that's tried doing things well should have at least heard of Atlassian, who now provide the definitive implementations of a great many essential tools.
I don't know what a POV is, but raising taxes does not work to reduce consumption. I drive in the UK where taxation on fuel is something like 75% and growing - nobody drives less, because if they drive less they're doing less work and get paid less. They just have less money to spend on other things.
This is my experience of jailbreaking the around the time of 3.0-3.1. The quality of the external software was dire, and it pushed the cost of maintenance away from someone else (Apple) and onto me. I like playing around with buggy cheap software as much as any other Linux user, but you don't want an app to crash while calling the emergency services!
Another: The Austin Allegro was not a good car. It took fifteen years before an equivalent was available (the Rover 214 Mk2) which would pull me back from Ford. 15 years after that, the whole native industry went bust and now there are only foreign cars.
I agree Kubuntu is a mess, I installed it recently to try KDE 4.4 and was completely turned off it. Mandriva seem to get KDE right. But I'm still not coming back, not just yet. I really liked KDE 3.5. KDE 4 turned me off Linux desktops completely - I'm now a Mac user. It'll be years before KDE regains the users lost due to early KDE 4 versions.
After many years of just this sort of question [*] I though 'bugger it' and started buying Macs. iMacs, MacBooks, MBPs, and since Saturday I now have a Mac mini. No drive bays: I can just get on with writing code without worrying and wasting time and money on such things.
The same likely applies to people who buy only laptops these days.
[*] to which the answer is nearly always: more hard disks. Which just makes the problems worse when you reach 12 3.5" disks in an ATX case.
Could it be because they're recruiting from the wrong place?
All the keyboard warriors seem to have moved to the YouTube comments section. If they're still recruiting Internet hardmen from Usenet then they'll not be getting the best.
Unless I'm timing them, I'm hard pushed to tell the difference between my personal computers. I have 2.0GHz C2D, 2.6GHz Core i7 deskop and 2.4Ghz Core i5 mobile. They all do everything I need.
Today, the graphics chip makes a bigger difference to me: I have two Macs with the same CPU but one has an ATI chip and the other Intel GMA. Guess what, the Intel GMA drives me crazy.
I guess I'm waiting for the next generation of CPU intensive killer apps.
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There is some difference. I'm not clear from the summary exactly what's going on.
The adverts on the article's page are up-to-date though. I suspect those are what you are really supposed to be looking at.
First thing I noticed too!
WPA2 passwords are case sensitive, Mr Headline Writer.
This is my experience. The iMac my parents now have has never missed a beat.
What, despite the previous MacBook Air which was available as flash-only, the SSD options on most models from MacBook Pro to MacPro, and the iPad, iPhone and iPod?
Steve Jobs explained it quite well in the presentation.
Agree on both points.
I live on a town centre street with no cameras. A parallel street has two cameras 400 yards apart.
Guess which street is used as a toilet at 3am? Guess which street is targeted by arsonists?
The bonus is that gas turbines might be quieter than a diesel.
This may have modded down to Troll but it is true. Any developer that's tried doing things well should have at least heard of Atlassian, who now provide the definitive implementations of a great many essential tools.
I realize it's a bit tinfoil-y, but really, what other explanation is their for this postings content?
Head injury?
Everyone has a breaking point. For me and slashdot, it's this "article". I would vote it simply be removed and forgotten about.
When was the last time you used the DVD drive? We're close to not needing them as it stands today.
Small print: all fed by a 100mbit/s link to the backbone.
(maybe, I haven't really read it)
I don't know what a POV is, but raising taxes does not work to reduce consumption.
I drive in the UK where taxation on fuel is something like 75% and growing - nobody drives less, because if they drive less they're doing less work and get paid less. They just have less money to spend on other things.
This is my experience of jailbreaking the around the time of 3.0-3.1. The quality of the external software was dire, and it pushed the cost of maintenance away from someone else (Apple) and onto me.
I like playing around with buggy cheap software as much as any other Linux user, but you don't want an app to crash while calling the emergency services!
I am, like many Slashdotters, the family computer fixit guy,.
Well, that's what you get if your family doesn't use Macs.
That's a somewhat appropriate car analogy.
Another: The Austin Allegro was not a good car. It took fifteen years before an equivalent was available (the Rover 214 Mk2) which would pull me back from Ford. 15 years after that, the whole native industry went bust and now there are only foreign cars.
Exactly exactly exactly. Hence those wilderness years I spent with Windows XP.
Just for point and click file management really. KDE 3.5's KTerm is quite good but doesn't require the whole desktop running.
I agree Kubuntu is a mess, I installed it recently to try KDE 4.4 and was completely turned off it. Mandriva seem to get KDE right. But I'm still not coming back, not just yet.
I really liked KDE 3.5. KDE 4 turned me off Linux desktops completely - I'm now a Mac user. It'll be years before KDE regains the users lost due to early KDE 4 versions.
After many years of just this sort of question [*] I though 'bugger it' and started buying Macs. iMacs, MacBooks, MBPs, and since Saturday I now have a Mac mini. No drive bays: I can just get on with writing code without worrying and wasting time and money on such things.
The same likely applies to people who buy only laptops these days.
[*] to which the answer is nearly always: more hard disks. Which just makes the problems worse when you reach 12 3.5" disks in an ATX case.
So when does Firefox become the big corporate enemy that everyone hates?
Yeah, I've rescued projects which were originally written by copying and pasting from random websites over the web.
It's a nice way to pick up a new language quickly if you already have some skills, but it's not a substitute for skills.
I agree with your point, but twenty years ago was 1990. Pretty much everyone had a computer by then.
Don't mind me, its just that I woke up recently and realised that I was old.
Could it be because they're recruiting from the wrong place?
All the keyboard warriors seem to have moved to the YouTube comments section. If they're still recruiting Internet hardmen from Usenet then they'll not be getting the best.
Unless I'm timing them, I'm hard pushed to tell the difference between my personal computers. I have 2.0GHz C2D, 2.6GHz Core i7 deskop and 2.4Ghz Core i5 mobile. They all do everything I need.
Today, the graphics chip makes a bigger difference to me: I have two Macs with the same CPU but one has an ATI chip and the other Intel GMA. Guess what, the Intel GMA drives me crazy.
I guess I'm waiting for the next generation of CPU intensive killer apps.
I had a pet rock. It wasn't as maintenance-free as you'd expect.
Also, is this part of the Daily Mail's efforts to categorise all known substances/things/ideas into those that cause and those that cure cancer?