For a professional in just about any field, spending a few thousand dollars every year on new and improved gear is pretty much expected.
For instance auto mechanics are expected to own and maintain their own tools, this is not cheap.
If you are a musician, you are generally expected to purchase and maintain your own musical instruments. Computers are pretty cheap if you want to start comparing to electric guitars, amplifiers, cables, guitar strings etc.
There may be legitimate reasons to diss Apple, but selling expensive gear is not one of them. The simple fact is that if their gear really was too expensive, they wouldn't be selling so many.
if you want to put a 7" tablet in your pocket, but it does seem like a very nice size. It's small enough to use on a crowded train and it's big enough to read comfortably.
My MacBook isn't that much bigger than an iPad and it's a much better experience for that size of machine.
It IS trolling when apple sues people for making products in markets where apple isn't.
For example the $200 tablet is not competing with the $600 tablet. If I want to buy a google nexus 7 there is NO WAY I am going to end up with an ipad, and vice versa.
Hard to do stuff your O/S doesn't as an application programmer.
It's EASY to do stuff that won't work the same on every OS.
Your fancy multithreaded java program, that works right every time on Linux, will FAIL on Solaris or OpenVMS because of their different thread execution models. You THOUGHT there were no race conditions in your code, but you couldn't test them, so you had no idea.
"If you write only to the public APIs then Java truly is Write-Once-Run-Anywhere"
That's FUNNY. I've found a bug in a java program that failed because the vendors's version string was malformed.
Start up a bunch of threads and your Java program is NOT going to behave the same on every platform. Differences in OS schedulers means that a program that runs right EVERY TIME on one platform will fail EVERY TIME on another platform.
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For a professional in just about any field, spending a few thousand dollars every year on new and improved gear is pretty much expected.
For instance auto mechanics are expected to own and maintain their own tools, this is not cheap.
If you are a musician, you are generally expected to purchase and maintain your own musical instruments. Computers are pretty cheap if you want to start comparing to electric guitars, amplifiers, cables, guitar strings etc.
There may be legitimate reasons to diss Apple, but selling expensive gear is not one of them. The simple fact is that if their gear really was too expensive, they wouldn't be selling so many.
DVD drives can be removed and replaced with solid-state drives
With USB devices, you can get all kinds of functionality that wasn't built in. Stuff them in your laptop bag.
Live coverage of 100 mile cycling events is tough logistics.
The cameraman rides on the back of a motorcycle. The signal beams from his camera to a hovering helicopter, and then to a satellite.
It's very impressive that they can get and maintain quality streams under these circumstances. Well trained people and excellent equipment all around.
The 60+ mph downhill runs must also be a crazy experience for the motorcycle driver, with a passenger on the back.
Jesus said to leave Caesar's work to Caesar.
Who runs our public school systems?
how does your volt do on a cold day? how is the defroster? how long to melt ice buildup on the windshield?
VW beetles failed to sell in cold weather regions for these reasons. electric cars and air-cooled cars don't have excess heat for the defroster.
The article also states that Linux runs quite well indeed in a VMware virtual machine.
If you install Fedora 17, you can even enjoy hardware- assisted 3-D graphics.
Pop the virtual machine into full screen mode and you might as well be running Linux on the bare metal, practically speaking there is no difference.
They used to charge for touch tone service, too.
Just because they used to do it, doesn't make it acceptable now.
Since when is it considered acceptable to pay for incompetence?
If this requires any more human effort than checking a checkbox, then it's just pure incompetence.
They don't charge when you DISCONNECT the service and they wipe your name from the phone book!
No he is not an honest human being, because he is dead.
where is the $200 apple tablet that "competes" with the Nexus 7?
sure you can get it from the same place as the COBOL compiler
So WHY do we need two implementations, with one of them (flash) loaded with unfixable and inscrutable (closed code) security issues?
"Most" windows systems are still running a 10 year old version.
you've never seen Microsoft discontinue support for old versions of VB?
you want adobe to blow cash on development so you can play free games?
And what happens to Adobe when this upgrade is complete?
If you like Europe, the northeastern US is as close as you can get on this continent.
Decent public transportation, decent schools, friendly people, varied climate, mountains, ocean, forests, lakes, what's not to like?
if you want to put a 7" tablet in your pocket, but it does seem like a very nice size. It's small enough to use on a crowded train and it's big enough to read comfortably.
My MacBook isn't that much bigger than an iPad and it's a much better experience for that size of machine.
I have both a Nook Color and a Nexus 7.
It's not even close! If the Nexus 7 is $200, then the Nook is worth no more than $100.
The Nook has no camera and no microphone, useless for video chat. Video chat is SO easy on the Nexus 7, even my mom can do it.
Nexus 7 is much smaller and thinner and it's the same size screen.
Performance: on this score the Nook is worth maybe $50 compared to the Nexus 7.
The ONLY advantage of the Nook is the micro-SD card slot.
It IS trolling when apple sues people for making products in markets where apple isn't.
For example the $200 tablet is not competing with the $600 tablet. If I want to buy a google nexus 7 there is NO WAY I am going to end up with an ipad, and vice versa.
Hard to do stuff your O/S doesn't as an application programmer.
It's EASY to do stuff that won't work the same on every OS.
Your fancy multithreaded java program, that works right every time on Linux, will FAIL on Solaris or OpenVMS because of their different thread execution models. You THOUGHT there were no race conditions in your code, but you couldn't test them, so you had no idea.
Start up threads, and all cross-platform compatibility goes out the window.
Different java implementations have WILDLY different dynamic performance characteristics.
Face it, for any real program it's "write once test everywhere"
Tell me with CONFIDENCE that your "cross-platform" java code is gonna run without failure on OpenVMS's java implementation.
"If you write only to the public APIs then Java truly is Write-Once-Run-Anywhere"
That's FUNNY. I've found a bug in a java program that failed because the vendors's version string was malformed.
Start up a bunch of threads and your Java program is NOT going to behave the same on every platform. Differences in OS schedulers means that a program that runs right EVERY TIME on one platform will fail EVERY TIME on another platform.
It's hard to imagine being found at-fault when you are stopped and rear-ended.
There's no shame in being involved in an accident if it's not your fault.
We trust others all around us every day to avoid smashing into us. Even the best drivers get hit.
If you mean the "concepts" of calculus is used here, uh, I've been drawing slopes on Cartesian planes since I finished primary school.....
WHERE does the exp() in your math come from??? It's CALCULUS.