Except that books and alcohol aren't in the same class, and therefore a mark registered for one class wouldn't be enforceable in another, unless registered in both (I don't know if that is the case here, but usually it isn't.)
That doesn't mean you can't rate platforms on the degree of fragmention though.
Absolutely. The problem is that people like John Gruber talk about Android fragmentation like iOS isn't fragmented. It is. As you correctly point out, Android has a fragmentation problem that iOS doesn't have.
How long has it been since you found a desktop app that couldn't deal with the screen being resized or with the type of mouse changing?
I still run into applications which assume a minimum screen size, and which are outright unusable when run on something smaller. And applications which don't work well if the resolution changes (somewhat analogous to rotating a phone.) I think that mostly, though, that's a solved problem. Unfortunately, it's solved by adding on frameworks and other abstractions which tend to use up more CPU and RAM. This has the obvious side effects of running hotter, needing more resources, and using more battery (in the case of laptops.) Time will tell whether or not the mobile analogues will be solved in the same way.
The iPhone has kept the variations along these two major axes (screen/inputs)
What input differences exist between iOS implementations?
Apple has also done a decent job of keeping the software platform moving forward for older devices.
I'd say they do better than decent. Their third phone, released over three years ago, will be getting their latest OS shortly. Some of the Apple features will be missing, but the developer features (the APIs) are all there, which reduces the magnitude of iOS fragmentation significantly.
The problem with Android is in the marketing and the carriers. Marketing, in that "Android Phone" is a meaningless term--you know nothing about the phone from those two words, but a staggering number of people (online, offline, reviewers, marketers) want to equate the term to "iPhone." Carriers, in that they want to act as gatekeepers for updates, and the manufacturers making Android phones don't have enough individual influence to override them quite like Apple does.
Because budgets are yearly, and it always costs less to throw up the crappy poles. They probably budget for it, in fact. Next year's hurricane will be the next guy's problem.
Americans have a chronic problem with planning. We continually prefer small, short-term gains over long-term stability and profit. It will be one part of our downfall.
That would be the logical way to do things. Then again, the US is trying to extradite a UK citizen for doing something over the Internet which is criminal in the US but legal in the UK. So who knows?
An example is the iPod. The click wheel and master/slave method of managing music was, in the terminology of biology, an overwhelmingly successful adaptation.
Obviously you've never heard of WinAmp or the Diamond Rio MP3 player, both of which debuted about half a decade before the first iPod. Apple didn't innovate shit, they copied other people's designs then told you, 'hey, look at this awesome new thing we came up with!' and you got down on your knees like a good little sucker.
I think it's obvious that the grandparent was referring to hardware, portable mp3 players. Winamp is utterly irrelevant in this context. And he's not saying that Apple invented the mp3 player--just that they innovated within that (fairly small) market and then with those innovations, practically dominated it. Other mp3 players still existed and continued to be created, but interface-wise, they were poor in comparison.
I'm not sure what he means by master/slave music management. Maybe he means a separate app to manage music irrespective of files. Not knowing the history of iTunes, I'm not sure if it always abstracted files and folders away in favor of songs and albums, but that's also a feature that consumers have generally favored.
The Diamond Rio doesn't have a click-wheel. It has something closer to the older scroll-wheel. The click-wheel (using Apple's terminology for a capacitive scrolling wheel which also had 5 buttons built into the wheel) didn't show up until 2004. I can't find anything that comes very close to it in other portable mp3 players.
The click-wheel was really a turning point for usability, but it probably helped that the iPod had a screen capable of showing multiple menu options/songs. I mean, on that Rio you linked to, how much text even fits on that LCD?
The MP3 player market effectively ceased to exist.
I'm not even going to dignify that ignorant bullshit with a response (beyond calling it out as ignorant bullshit, of course).
Yeah, it was quite an exaggeration. There are still non-Apple mp3 players sold. But they don't get any press to speak of and I can find no indication that they sell particularly well. I've owned several (a Sansa being my favorite) but I tend to fall back to using my iPhone because I always have it with me anyway.
Really? I almost never see "PC-hate" coming from Mac users. I've seen the Mac vs. PC commercials, which skirt the line a bit, but I don't think I've ever seen a Mac user call a PC user an idiot for choosing PC over Mac.
Not sure if you're confused--I'm not the submitter.
I tried out the projected keyboard because it was a novelty and a friend had purchased one. In fact, I tried it it out with an iPad. The keyboard is compact enough that you can carry it and the iPad and not feel the tiniest bit silly that you aren't just carrying a tiny Ultrabook. However, it just doesn't feel right to type on.
Actually, a quick Google search, and I infer that it's actually located at the bottom of the display on the hinge (where, at least on mine, there's a long piece of black plastic very similar to the iPad's antenna cover.)
Anyway, I was just speculating on that poster's meaning. I can't think of any other reason that someone would consider aluminum to be the worst metal you can build a laptop out of.
OP was being disingenuous in recommending it, then, if Aluminum is bad. But it seems like multiple Macbook Air clones use aluminum--that doesn't mean there isn't an attenuation problem.
Note that Apple uses aluminum for the iPad, but has a plastic cover for the mobile data antenna on the versions which support that. And while there weren't widespread problems reported with the original iPhone, they quickly switched to plastic and "improved reception" was one of the improvements.
The idea isn't as far fetched as some are indicating.
Only if he doesn't mind using the computer only at his endpoints. He says:
traveling light is very important to me. So is connecting to the net when traveling
I think most of us are assuming that he wants to use the device at the airport or other times when he's not at one of his endpoints. If not, the screen is probably taken care of (TV at the hotel, LCD on-site) though the keyboard will add bulk unless he works like you do.
More importantly (possibly) he's going to look like an idiot if he insists on a projector and has to use the setup in front of his clients, who will mimic lots of the other Slashdotters' comments of, "Why the hell aren't you just using a laptop?"
I've used one of those. They're slightly worse than a smartphone soft keyboard. I'd have to be really trying to travel light to even consider one of those.
Really, though, penetration testing could have uncovered the bug. Most pentesting I've been through has included simple brute-force attacks with the 1000 or so most common passwords. That should easily have succeeded. The report should have said, "We found MySQL open with the username 'root' and the password 'p@ssw0rd'." And someone would read that report and say, "Hey, that's not our password!" And that moment of uncertainty should have provided all the impetus needed to find the vulnerability.
All throughout the industry, computer manufacturers charge high premiums for extras like RAM and a better CPU. Apple's no different (despite their "think different" motto from years past.)
You can get 16GB of RAM on this laptop--for $200 more. At least that's cheaper than what Dell charges to go from 8->16 on their Precision M4600 (the low-end of which only comes with 2GB of RAM, incidentally.)
I find it difficult to imagine the average joe requiring 2880 x 1800 displays anyways
That's not the point of this display. It's to provide extremely high-quality images and text at roughly the same size (in e.g. inches) as on the 1440x900 display.
Go to Best Buy and look at the difference between the iPad2 and the iPad3 (or New iPad or whatever.) Go to a webpage and look at the text. If you see a difference, that's what they're talking about. If you don't see a difference, then the "Retina" display probably isn't for you.
That's how it works on the iPhone and iPad, so it follows that it's how it will work on the Macbook Pro. That said, an application which supports the higher resolution display might be able to scale down so that you can fit more things on the screen, if that's what you want. I'm thinking particularly of terminal windows, but browsing could work too.
Apple has had resolution-independence for a while, but developers haven't been using it (from what I understand.)
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Except that books and alcohol aren't in the same class, and therefore a mark registered for one class wouldn't be enforceable in another, unless registered in both (I don't know if that is the case here, but usually it isn't.)
That doesn't mean you can't rate platforms on the degree of fragmention though.
Absolutely. The problem is that people like John Gruber talk about Android fragmentation like iOS isn't fragmented. It is. As you correctly point out, Android has a fragmentation problem that iOS doesn't have.
How long has it been since you found a desktop app that couldn't deal with the screen being resized or with the type of mouse changing?
I still run into applications which assume a minimum screen size, and which are outright unusable when run on something smaller. And applications which don't work well if the resolution changes (somewhat analogous to rotating a phone.) I think that mostly, though, that's a solved problem. Unfortunately, it's solved by adding on frameworks and other abstractions which tend to use up more CPU and RAM. This has the obvious side effects of running hotter, needing more resources, and using more battery (in the case of laptops.) Time will tell whether or not the mobile analogues will be solved in the same way.
The iPhone has kept the variations along these two major axes (screen/inputs)
What input differences exist between iOS implementations?
Apple has also done a decent job of keeping the software platform moving forward for older devices.
I'd say they do better than decent. Their third phone, released over three years ago, will be getting their latest OS shortly. Some of the Apple features will be missing, but the developer features (the APIs) are all there, which reduces the magnitude of iOS fragmentation significantly.
The problem with Android is in the marketing and the carriers. Marketing, in that "Android Phone" is a meaningless term--you know nothing about the phone from those two words, but a staggering number of people (online, offline, reviewers, marketers) want to equate the term to "iPhone." Carriers, in that they want to act as gatekeepers for updates, and the manufacturers making Android phones don't have enough individual influence to override them quite like Apple does.
I usually tell people that if they see a page on the internet telling them that they're infected, that it's malware trying to sneak onto their system.
requirements for dividend returns and limits on liquid assets for companies, as well as unused assets
Can you explain how that fits in with the libertarian philosophy?
Because budgets are yearly, and it always costs less to throw up the crappy poles. They probably budget for it, in fact. Next year's hurricane will be the next guy's problem.
Americans have a chronic problem with planning. We continually prefer small, short-term gains over long-term stability and profit. It will be one part of our downfall.
ChromeOS is on that track.
Yeah, but ChromeOS is as dead as BSD. The PS3 browser is used more than the ChromeOS browser. http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/report-googles-chromebooks-account-for-less-than-02-of-all-desktop-traffic/
That would be the logical way to do things. Then again, the US is trying to extradite a UK citizen for doing something over the Internet which is criminal in the US but legal in the UK. So who knows?
Why can a private service which requires people to pay before viewing content be forced to accommodate people who may not be their target market?
The same reason Congress can enact nearly any law--interstate commerce.
An example is the iPod. The click wheel and master/slave method of managing music was, in the terminology of biology, an overwhelmingly successful adaptation.
Obviously you've never heard of WinAmp or the Diamond Rio MP3 player, both of which debuted about half a decade before the first iPod. Apple didn't innovate shit, they copied other people's designs then told you, 'hey, look at this awesome new thing we came up with!' and you got down on your knees like a good little sucker.
I think it's obvious that the grandparent was referring to hardware, portable mp3 players. Winamp is utterly irrelevant in this context. And he's not saying that Apple invented the mp3 player--just that they innovated within that (fairly small) market and then with those innovations, practically dominated it. Other mp3 players still existed and continued to be created, but interface-wise, they were poor in comparison.
I'm not sure what he means by master/slave music management. Maybe he means a separate app to manage music irrespective of files. Not knowing the history of iTunes, I'm not sure if it always abstracted files and folders away in favor of songs and albums, but that's also a feature that consumers have generally favored.
The Diamond Rio doesn't have a click-wheel. It has something closer to the older scroll-wheel. The click-wheel (using Apple's terminology for a capacitive scrolling wheel which also had 5 buttons built into the wheel) didn't show up until 2004. I can't find anything that comes very close to it in other portable mp3 players.
The click-wheel was really a turning point for usability, but it probably helped that the iPod had a screen capable of showing multiple menu options/songs. I mean, on that Rio you linked to, how much text even fits on that LCD?
The MP3 player market effectively ceased to exist.
I'm not even going to dignify that ignorant bullshit with a response (beyond calling it out as ignorant bullshit, of course).
Yeah, it was quite an exaggeration. There are still non-Apple mp3 players sold. But they don't get any press to speak of and I can find no indication that they sell particularly well. I've owned several (a Sansa being my favorite) but I tend to fall back to using my iPhone because I always have it with me anyway.
Really? I almost never see "PC-hate" coming from Mac users. I've seen the Mac vs. PC commercials, which skirt the line a bit, but I don't think I've ever seen a Mac user call a PC user an idiot for choosing PC over Mac.
Not sure if you're confused--I'm not the submitter.
I tried out the projected keyboard because it was a novelty and a friend had purchased one. In fact, I tried it it out with an iPad. The keyboard is compact enough that you can carry it and the iPad and not feel the tiniest bit silly that you aren't just carrying a tiny Ultrabook. However, it just doesn't feel right to type on.
Er, obviously I meant worst MATERIAL, not metal.
Actually, a quick Google search, and I infer that it's actually located at the bottom of the display on the hinge (where, at least on mine, there's a long piece of black plastic very similar to the iPad's antenna cover.)
Anyway, I was just speculating on that poster's meaning. I can't think of any other reason that someone would consider aluminum to be the worst metal you can build a laptop out of.
OP was being disingenuous in recommending it, then, if Aluminum is bad. But it seems like multiple Macbook Air clones use aluminum--that doesn't mean there isn't an attenuation problem.
Note that Apple uses aluminum for the iPad, but has a plastic cover for the mobile data antenna on the versions which support that. And while there weren't widespread problems reported with the original iPhone, they quickly switched to plastic and "improved reception" was one of the improvements.
And you of course don't mention WHY Aluminum is the WORST (not just a bad, but the WORST) material to use in a laptop.
I'm guessing it's the RF attenuation.
So? A Raspberry Pi without peripherals is less useful than a tablet.
The idea isn't as far fetched as some are indicating.
Only if he doesn't mind using the computer only at his endpoints. He says:
traveling light is very important to me. So is connecting to the net when traveling
I think most of us are assuming that he wants to use the device at the airport or other times when he's not at one of his endpoints. If not, the screen is probably taken care of (TV at the hotel, LCD on-site) though the keyboard will add bulk unless he works like you do.
More importantly (possibly) he's going to look like an idiot if he insists on a projector and has to use the setup in front of his clients, who will mimic lots of the other Slashdotters' comments of, "Why the hell aren't you just using a laptop?"
I've used one of those. They're slightly worse than a smartphone soft keyboard. I'd have to be really trying to travel light to even consider one of those.
I fully expected to use it. Turned out that I didn't need it (yet--maybe I will one day).
That's pretty funny.
But actually, I was referring to users of MySQL being penetrated by consulting firms as part of a standard security audit.
Really, though, penetration testing could have uncovered the bug. Most pentesting I've been through has included simple brute-force attacks with the 1000 or so most common passwords. That should easily have succeeded. The report should have said, "We found MySQL open with the username 'root' and the password 'p@ssw0rd'." And someone would read that report and say, "Hey, that's not our password!" And that moment of uncertainty should have provided all the impetus needed to find the vulnerability.
All throughout the industry, computer manufacturers charge high premiums for extras like RAM and a better CPU. Apple's no different (despite their "think different" motto from years past.)
You can get 16GB of RAM on this laptop--for $200 more. At least that's cheaper than what Dell charges to go from 8->16 on their Precision M4600 (the low-end of which only comes with 2GB of RAM, incidentally.)
I find it difficult to imagine the average joe requiring 2880 x 1800 displays anyways
That's not the point of this display. It's to provide extremely high-quality images and text at roughly the same size (in e.g. inches) as on the 1440x900 display.
Go to Best Buy and look at the difference between the iPad2 and the iPad3 (or New iPad or whatever.) Go to a webpage and look at the text. If you see a difference, that's what they're talking about. If you don't see a difference, then the "Retina" display probably isn't for you.
That's how it works on the iPhone and iPad, so it follows that it's how it will work on the Macbook Pro. That said, an application which supports the higher resolution display might be able to scale down so that you can fit more things on the screen, if that's what you want. I'm thinking particularly of terminal windows, but browsing could work too.
Apple has had resolution-independence for a while, but developers haven't been using it (from what I understand.)