Not to worry... with the sequester, US funding for basic science has slowed to a trickle, and since most funding is locked up in ongoing projects, new scientists in the United States over the past year have gotten almost nothing funded and are leaving the country in droves. 5-10 years from now when those projects reach the point of practical implementation, they'll be creating industry in some other country. So your perfect libertarian paradise is on its way!
I love the machine but I hate that I cant change the battery myself. I'll have to pay the Apple tax to get this fixed. I am holding out hope for Mavericks though, hopefully the power saving features can breathe some new life into this thing.
If you are willing to unscrew two dozen little screws, the battery swap-out is actually pretty easy according to iFixit. Of course, the battery itself will cost you over $100 bucks new, and Apple only charges about $120 installed, so the only real reason to do it yourself is if you live far away from an Apple Store and don't trust a carrier service with your laptop.
Bad batteries something Apple is famous for, RAM fixed to the logic board, insecure and buggy OS, and a host of other complaints makes me wonder why anyone pays the premium for Apple any longer.
Your point would be an excellent one if reality wasn't exactly opposite to every statement in your post.
Why invent exotic matter when the right combination of dust could be the answer?
Simply put, because baryonic matter (ie. dust) radiates. This article would be titled, "Why our instruments are sensitive enough to detect all that dust that's affecting galaxies and superclusters rotation" if it was dust.
Here's a recent summary paper on the evidence for nonbaryonic dark matter. Dust has, alas, been hypothesized, tested, and rejected.
I can't actually find a reference to any case where the ITC has banned Samsung imports over a design patent case. Can you please provide a citation? There's definitely an ITC complaint filed from Apple, but the ITC has delayed ruling on it. Microsoft has a complaint against Motorola (Google), and won, but now the ITC appears to not actually be enforcing the ban... after some secret Google-US Customs meetings, customs decided to let them through anyway despite the ban. And Google is still using standards-essential patents to try to get an import ban on XBox 360's.
If anything, Apple just suing in plain old court is almost refreshing.
US based corporation? You mean the one publicly traded on the stock exchange, with manufacturing facilities in China? The one that ships iPhones and iPads directly from China? Or is it because they have an office in Cupertino that you consider them US based?
But where is the value added? Every other phone maker in the world makes their phones in the exact same factories in China. Why aren't they all worth the same amount? Almost every dollar of value added over a simple sum of the cost of the parts (plus a couple dollars for assembly) is added in California. And even after the sale, Apple's call centers are all in the US to help get them their astronomical satisfaction numbers. Apple's about as US-based a corporation as you can get in that industry.
A good comparison is the BBC's iPlayer app. After a year it's just starting to reach parity with the iOS's initial version in features and video quality. The development team is 3x the size of the iOS version. That still doesn't fully take into account the extra support costs they incur from Android users, which they say is significantly more than iOS.
And if you're targeting tablets, with iOS having the vast majority of the market share until recently (and still retaining the vast majority of the online usage share), why WOULD you spent multiples of your costs to address a small and expensive market? Perhaps if they current market share numbers keep up and turn into installed base share, and the average user is using at least ICS versions of Android, it'll make sense to re-evaluate their decision.
No, it doesn't require the phone to be jailbroken. It does, however, require the attacker to have a paid Apple Developer account with a valid credit card, and it digitally signs all the malware with that developer's information, and limits the total number of devices ever attached to that account to 100 without calling Apple and requesting a reset, and requires the attacking "charger" device to be online at the time of the attack. It also requires the phone to not be in its lock screen, so for it to work you have to manually unlock it and type in your passcode while it's plugged in.
So it's pretty much a proof-of-concept attack that's not very practical yet, but could probably have been built upon if Apple hadn't already put a fix into the version of the OS coming out soon which, if history is a guide, 90%+ of the iOS installed base will be on in a few months.
Linux the kernel is the core of both Android the operating system and GNU/Linux the operating system. If one gets pedantic, then technically Microsoft Office for Android satisfies the argument that it's supported on an OS running Linux the kernel, but when most people use "Linux", they're not referring to the kernel, but the operating system with all of its GNU and POSIX stuff.
So, this is a win in the same sense that the Spruce Goose flew.
If you're really being pedantic, and really want to start the flame war that you seem to be encouraging, "Linux" is the name of both the kernel and the original operating system, and some other organization has attempted to rename it to put their own brand in it more recently. Someday we may know it at MIT/BSD/GNU/Canonical/RHEL/Linux if that trend keeps up. Or we could just call it what the person who created it called it, and if GNU wants a GNU/whatever OS, they can release a distro with their name on it.
Most low-end 3D printers use PLA plastic. This is basically processed corn starch, and while initially hydrophobic, it will rapidly degrade (rot) if exposed to water for an extended period of time. In addition, the prints are much stronger in the direction of the filament than cross-wise (using the tensile strength of the filament vs the bonding strength of the layers), so it's not just model quality but actual printing technique that matters for durability.
They're making huge strides, but 3D printing is nowhere near the "run out and buy an HP inkjet and hook it up" level of utility.
In this quarter last year the retina iPad was released. In this past quarter there was some inventory draw-down in anticipation of future models, and no new models. Actual iPad sales appear to be pretty steady, and there's certainly little evidence of overwhelming moves to Android. If anything, the worry would be the tablet market saturating earlier than some expected.
That's funny because the year BEFORE Sandy, we had a "Once in a Hundred Year Storm" hit the northeast. And then next year, the exact same thing happened again, but it was worse.
And this year, I expect the weatherman to say the exact same thing....
Irene was indeed as powerful as Sandy and happened only one year previous, but not as big a storm area-wise, and did not hit perpendicular on a full moon at high tide. Thus, it did relatively minor damage.
This post is supported by zero evidence. Apple moved to LLVM because gcc moved to GPLv3 which is incompatible with the way most software companies do business. They've released anything and everything related to it under BSD license so anyone can fork any of it at any time. You can even download and recompile your MacOS Xkernel from source if you want to using completely open source tools. Apple is one of the more prolific open source contributors out there, including Bonjour, WebKit, stream servers, C extensions, LLVM, clang, streaming media servers, their entire UNIX stack, and many small bits here and there. They just don't to GPL, so some people try to make a religious argument against them and throw unsupported allegations around.
I consider all climate change data, even the unpopular data showing the earth has been cooling the past decade even though carbon emissions are at the highest ever!
LOLZ
The top 10 warmest years on record are all within the last 15 years, with all but 1 of those happening in the last 10 years. It's true we've had an extended La Niña for a few years (except 2010, the hottest year ever recorded) that caused some leveling off (not cooling), but it's leveling off at a very high temperature historically and shows signs of shooting back up to correct when the La Niña ends. So please be careful about what "data" you "consider" and that you're not suffering from confirmation bias.
Except Xerox actually contributed a lot of elements to the computer GUI.
Apple just added the "trashcan" (which many don't use today).
Except 1. Apple paid Xerox (one of the most lucrative agreements PARC ever made), and 2. Apple added way more than the "trashcan"... like noun-verb actions (click on something, then click a menu item to do something, rather than the other way around), overlapping windows, and, of course, don't forget rounded corners (and the general-purpose "region" algorithms that made them possible), and finally productized it in 1984 instead of just fiddling around in a lab like Xerox or taking over a decade to make a reasonable product like Microsoft.
Entrepreneurship * We constantly take initiatives to make "better work, better life" a daily reality * We take ownership and stand by our own results * We act upon opportunities...
Meanwhile the rest of us use USB 3.0 and eSATA and have a FAR wider choice of drives which cost far less.
It's true that low-speed interfaces like USB 3.0 and eSATA are going to be cheaper... and fortunately, the MacBook Air has two USB 3 ports for people who prefer cheaper-but-slower drives. It also has a Thunderbolt port for creative professionals who need the throughput, or as a replacement for the "docking station" concept found in a lot of Windows laptops. (Or, as others have noted, who just want to plug in an external monitor, since Thunderbolt is also a standard mini-displayport port.)
It's always nice to see a new language even if the chances it will survive a couple of years are slim (that's true for every new language). Ideas spread so keep inventing.
IMHO, it's almost never nice to see a new language. They really couldn't have just extended Lua? What new value is offered by a new syntax for the same concepts everyone else has?
(Nothing to do with Oracle screwing it up - I moved back around the 6.4 relase. IMHO Postgres was always better on Linux/Unix, and MySQL's popularity is really only due to it having a Windows installer first.)
That's not at all why MySQL was popular. It was dead simple to get started on, you could dump/reload databases to text files trivially, and you could learn on a platform with minimal support for everything so there wasn't a stack of binders work of documentation. It was fast, free, had minimal complexity for a DB, and had a clear path from first tutorial to production.
...or does that not apply to internet service providers?
Well, depends what you mean by "internet service". In this case, the basic problem is that Netflix streaming accounts for 1/3 of all the traffic on the internet, and "peering" assumes roughly equal sharing in both directions. The whole peering issues with Netflix has been going on for years... it's too bad the article doesn't put it in context and oversimplifies.
Didn't we JUST have an article about the new MacBook Air's PCIe SSD getting 700-800MB/s in both read and write? Now a pseudo-press release claiming that 500MB/s is keeping up with the competition? All you're proving with ~500MB/s is that you can keep up with SATA.
The question is, can the user use the App at all without paying?
That's up to the App developer isn't it? Here are the ways Apple will take their cut: 1) 30% of price of app and 2) 30% of subscriptions generated within app. If MS charges nothing for the app and if all subscriptions are created externally (through microsoft.com), Apple can't charge.
But they can reject the app. If you're listing a "free" app that doesn't do anything (without a separate paid subscription) you will be rejected for having a useless app.
...which is why Apple's not advertising the capacity. It's probably only 128 or 256 GB. Spinning platters also last longer (I have a few going on 10+ years). Flash has that nasty problem where it can only take so many write cycles before it starts losing capacity. I have high hopes for flash but they've got some hurdles to overcome.
The capacity of Apple's PCIe flash drive on the new MacBook Air isn't hard to verify. 128GB and 256GB configurations are standard on the $1K and $1.2K models respectively, and it can be custom configured up to 512GB for an additional $300 (over the 256GB option). The read/write cycles are improving all the time, and software support can spread it out to last a long time. I'd say [citation needed] that laptop-sized platters in laptop-style abuse tend to last longer than solid state...
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Not to worry... with the sequester, US funding for basic science has slowed to a trickle, and since most funding is locked up in ongoing projects, new scientists in the United States over the past year have gotten almost nothing funded and are leaving the country in droves. 5-10 years from now when those projects reach the point of practical implementation, they'll be creating industry in some other country. So your perfect libertarian paradise is on its way!
I love the machine but I hate that I cant change the battery myself. I'll have to pay the Apple tax to get this fixed. I am holding out hope for Mavericks though, hopefully the power saving features can breathe some new life into this thing.
If you are willing to unscrew two dozen little screws, the battery swap-out is actually pretty easy according to iFixit. Of course, the battery itself will cost you over $100 bucks new, and Apple only charges about $120 installed, so the only real reason to do it yourself is if you live far away from an Apple Store and don't trust a carrier service with your laptop.
Bad batteries something Apple is famous for, RAM fixed to the logic board, insecure and buggy OS, and a host of other complaints makes me wonder why anyone pays the premium for Apple any longer.
Your point would be an excellent one if reality wasn't exactly opposite to every statement in your post.
And are these the same guys who worked on DC-X and DC-Y back in the day which also achieved Grasshopper's same milestones 20 years ago?
Why invent exotic matter when the right combination of dust could be the answer?
Simply put, because baryonic matter (ie. dust) radiates. This article would be titled, "Why our instruments are sensitive enough to detect all that dust that's affecting galaxies and superclusters rotation" if it was dust.
Here's a recent summary paper on the evidence for nonbaryonic dark matter. Dust has, alas, been hypothesized, tested, and rejected.
I can't actually find a reference to any case where the ITC has banned Samsung imports over a design patent case. Can you please provide a citation? There's definitely an ITC complaint filed from Apple, but the ITC has delayed ruling on it. Microsoft has a complaint against Motorola (Google), and won, but now the ITC appears to not actually be enforcing the ban... after some secret Google-US Customs meetings, customs decided to let them through anyway despite the ban. And Google is still using standards-essential patents to try to get an import ban on XBox 360's.
If anything, Apple just suing in plain old court is almost refreshing.
US based corporation? You mean the one publicly traded on the stock exchange, with manufacturing facilities in China? The one that ships iPhones and iPads directly from China? Or is it because they have an office in Cupertino that you consider them US based?
But where is the value added? Every other phone maker in the world makes their phones in the exact same factories in China. Why aren't they all worth the same amount? Almost every dollar of value added over a simple sum of the cost of the parts (plus a couple dollars for assembly) is added in California. And even after the sale, Apple's call centers are all in the US to help get them their astronomical satisfaction numbers. Apple's about as US-based a corporation as you can get in that industry.
A good comparison is the BBC's iPlayer app. After a year it's just starting to reach parity with the iOS's initial version in features and video quality. The development team is 3x the size of the iOS version. That still doesn't fully take into account the extra support costs they incur from Android users, which they say is significantly more than iOS.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20754182
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Video-on-Android-Devices-Update
And if you're targeting tablets, with iOS having the vast majority of the market share until recently (and still retaining the vast majority of the online usage share), why WOULD you spent multiples of your costs to address a small and expensive market? Perhaps if they current market share numbers keep up and turn into installed base share, and the average user is using at least ICS versions of Android, it'll make sense to re-evaluate their decision.
No, it doesn't require the phone to be jailbroken. It does, however, require the attacker to have a paid Apple Developer account with a valid credit card, and it digitally signs all the malware with that developer's information, and limits the total number of devices ever attached to that account to 100 without calling Apple and requesting a reset, and requires the attacking "charger" device to be online at the time of the attack. It also requires the phone to not be in its lock screen, so for it to work you have to manually unlock it and type in your passcode while it's plugged in.
So it's pretty much a proof-of-concept attack that's not very practical yet, but could probably have been built upon if Apple hadn't already put a fix into the version of the OS coming out soon which, if history is a guide, 90%+ of the iOS installed base will be on in a few months.
Linux the kernel is the core of both Android the operating system and GNU/Linux the operating system. If one gets pedantic, then technically Microsoft Office for Android satisfies the argument that it's supported on an OS running Linux the kernel, but when most people use "Linux", they're not referring to the kernel, but the operating system with all of its GNU and POSIX stuff.
So, this is a win in the same sense that the Spruce Goose flew.
If you're really being pedantic, and really want to start the flame war that you seem to be encouraging, "Linux" is the name of both the kernel and the original operating system, and some other organization has attempted to rename it to put their own brand in it more recently. Someday we may know it at MIT/BSD/GNU/Canonical/RHEL/Linux if that trend keeps up. Or we could just call it what the person who created it called it, and if GNU wants a GNU/whatever OS, they can release a distro with their name on it.
Most low-end 3D printers use PLA plastic. This is basically processed corn starch, and while initially hydrophobic, it will rapidly degrade (rot) if exposed to water for an extended period of time. In addition, the prints are much stronger in the direction of the filament than cross-wise (using the tensile strength of the filament vs the bonding strength of the layers), so it's not just model quality but actual printing technique that matters for durability.
They're making huge strides, but 3D printing is nowhere near the "run out and buy an HP inkjet and hook it up" level of utility.
In this quarter last year the retina iPad was released. In this past quarter there was some inventory draw-down in anticipation of future models, and no new models. Actual iPad sales appear to be pretty steady, and there's certainly little evidence of overwhelming moves to Android. If anything, the worry would be the tablet market saturating earlier than some expected.
That's funny because the year BEFORE Sandy, we had a "Once in a Hundred Year Storm" hit the northeast. And then next year, the exact same thing happened again, but it was worse.
And this year, I expect the weatherman to say the exact same thing....
Irene was indeed as powerful as Sandy and happened only one year previous, but not as big a storm area-wise, and did not hit perpendicular on a full moon at high tide. Thus, it did relatively minor damage.
This post is supported by zero evidence. Apple moved to LLVM because gcc moved to GPLv3 which is incompatible with the way most software companies do business. They've released anything and everything related to it under BSD license so anyone can fork any of it at any time. You can even download and recompile your MacOS X kernel from source if you want to using completely open source tools. Apple is one of the more prolific open source contributors out there, including Bonjour, WebKit, stream servers, C extensions, LLVM, clang, streaming media servers, their entire UNIX stack, and many small bits here and there. They just don't to GPL, so some people try to make a religious argument against them and throw unsupported allegations around.
I consider all climate change data, even the unpopular data showing the earth has been cooling the past decade even though carbon emissions are at the highest ever!
LOLZ
The top 10 warmest years on record are all within the last 15 years, with all but 1 of those happening in the last 10 years. It's true we've had an extended La Niña for a few years (except 2010, the hottest year ever recorded) that caused some leveling off (not cooling), but it's leveling off at a very high temperature historically and shows signs of shooting back up to correct when the La Niña ends. So please be careful about what "data" you "consider" and that you're not suffering from confirmation bias.
Except Xerox actually contributed a lot of elements to the computer GUI.
Apple just added the "trashcan" (which many don't use today).
Except 1. Apple paid Xerox (one of the most lucrative agreements PARC ever made), and 2. Apple added way more than the "trashcan"... like noun-verb actions (click on something, then click a menu item to do something, rather than the other way around), overlapping windows, and, of course, don't forget rounded corners (and the general-purpose "region" algorithms that made them possible), and finally productized it in 1984 instead of just fiddling around in a lab like Xerox or taking over a decade to make a reasonable product like Microsoft.
Their "Core Values" page is also unintentionally hilarious. http://www.adecco.com/en-US/About/Pages/CoreValues.aspx. For the first two, I think they're using the wrong definition of "take".
Entrepreneurship ...
* We constantly take initiatives to make "better work, better life" a daily reality
* We take ownership and stand by our own results
* We act upon opportunities
Meanwhile the rest of us use USB 3.0 and eSATA and have a FAR wider choice of drives which cost far less.
It's true that low-speed interfaces like USB 3.0 and eSATA are going to be cheaper... and fortunately, the MacBook Air has two USB 3 ports for people who prefer cheaper-but-slower drives. It also has a Thunderbolt port for creative professionals who need the throughput, or as a replacement for the "docking station" concept found in a lot of Windows laptops. (Or, as others have noted, who just want to plug in an external monitor, since Thunderbolt is also a standard mini-displayport port.)
It's always nice to see a new language even if the chances it will survive a couple of years are slim (that's true for every new language). Ideas spread so keep inventing.
IMHO, it's almost never nice to see a new language. They really couldn't have just extended Lua? What new value is offered by a new syntax for the same concepts everyone else has?
Glad I moved to PostgreSQL.
(Nothing to do with Oracle screwing it up - I moved back around the 6.4 relase. IMHO Postgres was always better on Linux/Unix, and MySQL's popularity is really only due to it having a Windows installer first.)
That's not at all why MySQL was popular. It was dead simple to get started on, you could dump/reload databases to text files trivially, and you could learn on a platform with minimal support for everything so there wasn't a stack of binders work of documentation. It was fast, free, had minimal complexity for a DB, and had a clear path from first tutorial to production.
Well, depends what you mean by "internet service". In this case, the basic problem is that Netflix streaming accounts for 1/3 of all the traffic on the internet, and "peering" assumes roughly equal sharing in both directions. The whole peering issues with Netflix has been going on for years... it's too bad the article doesn't put it in context and oversimplifies.
Didn't we JUST have an article about the new MacBook Air's PCIe SSD getting 700-800MB/s in both read and write? Now a pseudo-press release claiming that 500MB/s is keeping up with the competition? All you're proving with ~500MB/s is that you can keep up with SATA.
The question is, can the user use the App at all without paying?
That's up to the App developer isn't it? Here are the ways Apple will take their cut: 1) 30% of price of app and 2) 30% of subscriptions generated within app. If MS charges nothing for the app and if all subscriptions are created externally (through microsoft.com), Apple can't charge.
But they can reject the app. If you're listing a "free" app that doesn't do anything (without a separate paid subscription) you will be rejected for having a useless app.
Whatever you do, make sure it looks good on a resumé. You're now relatively inefficient to the company that employs you.
...which is why Apple's not advertising the capacity. It's probably only 128 or 256 GB. Spinning platters also last longer (I have a few going on 10+ years). Flash has that nasty problem where it can only take so many write cycles before it starts losing capacity. I have high hopes for flash but they've got some hurdles to overcome.
The capacity of Apple's PCIe flash drive on the new MacBook Air isn't hard to verify. 128GB and 256GB configurations are standard on the $1K and $1.2K models respectively, and it can be custom configured up to 512GB for an additional $300 (over the 256GB option). The read/write cycles are improving all the time, and software support can spread it out to last a long time. I'd say [citation needed] that laptop-sized platters in laptop-style abuse tend to last longer than solid state...