But usually people ordering desktop workstations want a higher degree of control over what is inside it, and above all they don't want to be ripped off.
You buy it for the power. The most anybody usually upgrades a graphics workstation (what this is mainly meant for) is expanding RAM. CPU and graphics are usually pretty stable, upgraded at the next machine purchase, although sometimes graphics is updated (and Apple is seriously future-proofing that with dual integrated cards). Beyond that, you want storage and lots of monitors. Monitors is obviously taken care of. Storage? Anybody who does any type of serious work wouldn't use in-machine storage anyway, so why bother putting it in the machine? They'd use a fast connection to external storage like a SAN. Apple offers Thunderbolt, just as good for the purpose.
The new Mac can work only because of Thunderbolt 2. You really do not need space for disks in the machine anymore.
Like a formatted text document in PDF format that can be perfectly reproduced on other devices, including spot colors with bleed?
History: I used to send ads in PDF format around the world for publication. It worked a lot better than the previous formats like EPS, and forget sending it in the DTP app native format.
That's a pretty sad testament for a computer. You meant to say something positive about it but you nailed its unacceptable flaw on the head.
You know what else were considered unacceptable Apple design flaws? Removing the floppy and removing the optical disk. Hell, the original Mac's "design flaw" was using only a GUI. Yet somehow, everybody is doing these things now.
chances are youre holding a document that is nothing but an image with text...no search for you
Hate to ruin a good joke, but it's rather easy to run that image-text PDF through OCR, which will invisibly overlay the OCR text over the image for searching and selection within the PDF.
Everyone does it has NEVER been an excuse to let something go.
It's not an excuse. This is how the world works, because we are all different countries that in the end are going to be looking out for their own interests, their own people. To do that we need to know what the other countries are doing that may not be in our best interests. Or in the case of Israel's extensive spying on the US, they mainly wanted to know what our intelligence on their enemies was. Currently, China holds the crown for spying on pretty much everybody for political, military and economic reasons.
Congratulations, you just walked in on your parents having sex. Now your education on the reality of how the adult world works has begun.
Everybody who can do it, does it. Back in the 80s the US had to abandon an embassy we were building in the USSR because it was full of bugs even before it was built, so many and so deep in the infrastructure that there was no way to clean it.
Every country has spies to spy on every other country it considers worth spying on. The intelligence world even has a term for spies attached to a country's official diplomatic mission.
Despite all the Democrats' talk about the people wanting Obamacare, these actions speak more loudly. They know the people won't like a fully-implemented Obamacare, so they are going to delay that until after the elections to protect themselves.
Interesting that you think that voluntarily (by your emphasis) doing something somehow changes things.
It does. He asked the government to be given a privilege, a position of trust with the government, In return for this privilege, and the high income that can come with it, he swore to abide by certain rules, agreeing that he could face civil and criminal penalties for doing so. He was also informed that there are channels for whistleblowers to divulge classified information, and to challenge the classification of information that is concealing violations of law, or is classified to prevent embarrassment of an agency.
So even if you have your legal team with you to explain what you're reading while you 'voluntarily' agree to a contradictory set of rules
You don't need a legal team. It's quite clear. You break the rules, you risk jail.
Uh, you haven't been convicted because you ran, so you can't bitch about that. Now come back, subject yourself to a trial for breaking the laws you voluntarily swore to abide by, and then you will be convicted.
>Even though I understand the idea, isn't there any standards conforming alternative?
Then you don't understand the idea, because this is just a way to save space by having one port accept either a standard USB cable or an SD card. This is probably for the next-gen 11" MacBook Air, because it doesn't currently have room for both.
As far as this quesiton for previous products?
Dock connector: No, there was no standard that was capable of handling power (multiple voltages), serial, USB, Firewire, composite video, S-video, audio in and audio out.
Firewire: No, there was no standard 400 Mbps peer-to-peer auto-configuring connector.
Thunderbolt: No, there's no standard near that league.
DisplayPort: It was a VESA standard, Apple was just the early adopter. Apple did come out with a mini DP connector, and licensed it freely, and it is now part of the standard.
Lightning: No, there's no standard connector that can auto-reconfigure to send whatever type of signals over whichever pins you want.
The breadcrumb trail itself can raise a flag. Me driving coast-to-coast for the first time on a certain credit card resulted in a call to confirm several gas station purchases across the country. It was way outside my normal purchasing pattern, so it got flagged.
Yeah and your idea when more energy is available and when more is used is completely wrong.
You are completely missing it. Energy usage is highest overall during the day because overall people are more active during the day. But we're talking home use, where most people are NOT home during the day. They are using electricity elsewhere while the home remains mostly idle.
A decent PV installation in the common case where nobody's home during the day will produce surplus energy. Take your average 4 KW install. Does the average home draw 4 KW all day when nobody's home? Didn't think so. Your daytime surplus plus your evening deficit balance out to you paying very little for electricity, isn't PV wonderful?
My utility gives a 1:1 credit for generated electricity, but nothing for an overall surplus. A well-sized PV array can result in an electric bill of zero, but you won't get paid to hook up a big solar array to the grid.
The problem is that this ability to average out can be destroyed by the utility if they want. They can decide to pay you less or nothing for the electricity you produce, just like mine pays for nothing over equalizing use,
This is only a problem when you produce more than you consume, which doesn't happen in price-conscious households with properly sized PV systems.
That's on average, day/night, summer/winter. When you're not home during the day while the sun's shining, using almost no electricity, you are producing a surplus with any decent-sized system. This is what they'd like to pay you less for.
When you get home and plug in your car, and the sun goes away, you are buying from the grid. This is what they'd like to charge you more for.
Dunno if that's their real strategy, but there is no doubt that the vast majority of leading edge manufacturing is done under contract in the far east. And the world's leading SoCs are definitely not made in USA or Europe.
Google and Dell may mostly pick off the shelf OEM with tweaks, but Apple does all-original design. Apple also comes up with the exact manufacturing techniques required and if necessary invests billions in the factories so they can get up to speed to produce the Apple products.
Same with the chips. Samsung and TMSC may be making Apple's chips, but they didn't design them.Samsung used to, but now Apple's back in the chip designing business. Samsung has been relegated to foundry status, dumbly stamping out somebody else's advanced designs.
So let's make devices and gadgets that are way beyond what Apple even begins to imagine
That's the problem there, imagination. Samsung is definitely highly proficient at making good stuff. They don't have much imagination to make groundbreaking new products that will be the next big thing everybody has to own.
I don't even like the idea of an RJ45 port anymore. What if I want to hook it up to our 10 GigE network? This thing won't even allow for that. With the Air I can get a Thunderbolt adapter. If you want regular GigE, get a USB 3 adapter. This thing already requires a dongle anyway.
Apple is living through this right now. First the iBook anti-trust, then the overseas tax hearings. More will come. Apple has historically had almost no lobbying presence in DC, just like Microsoft didn't in the mid 90s. They'd better push a few more million that way if they want to stay alive.
I imagine the IRS could find a few things and "improve" tax collection if it was shared with them.
Starting with any organization with "patriot" or "freedom" in its name, they would discover the network of anyone calling anyone, and hit everyone with an audit.
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You buy it for the power. The most anybody usually upgrades a graphics workstation (what this is mainly meant for) is expanding RAM. CPU and graphics are usually pretty stable, upgraded at the next machine purchase, although sometimes graphics is updated (and Apple is seriously future-proofing that with dual integrated cards). Beyond that, you want storage and lots of monitors. Monitors is obviously taken care of. Storage? Anybody who does any type of serious work wouldn't use in-machine storage anyway, so why bother putting it in the machine? They'd use a fast connection to external storage like a SAN. Apple offers Thunderbolt, just as good for the purpose.
The new Mac can work only because of Thunderbolt 2. You really do not need space for disks in the machine anymore.
Like a formatted text document in PDF format that can be perfectly reproduced on other devices, including spot colors with bleed?
History: I used to send ads in PDF format around the world for publication. It worked a lot better than the previous formats like EPS, and forget sending it in the DTP app native format.
You know what else were considered unacceptable Apple design flaws? Removing the floppy and removing the optical disk. Hell, the original Mac's "design flaw" was using only a GUI. Yet somehow, everybody is doing these things now.
Hate to ruin a good joke, but it's rather easy to run that image-text PDF through OCR, which will invisibly overlay the OCR text over the image for searching and selection within the PDF.
He already worked at Apple over 10 years ago, so according to this pattern he will now be restoring Apple to greatness.
Hate it for its Thunderbolt-based expansion or not, the new Mac Pro design is anything but boring, and not one rumor site came close to guessing.
It's not an excuse. This is how the world works, because we are all different countries that in the end are going to be looking out for their own interests, their own people. To do that we need to know what the other countries are doing that may not be in our best interests. Or in the case of Israel's extensive spying on the US, they mainly wanted to know what our intelligence on their enemies was. Currently, China holds the crown for spying on pretty much everybody for political, military and economic reasons.
Congratulations, you just walked in on your parents having sex. Now your education on the reality of how the adult world works has begun.
Everybody who can do it, does it. Back in the 80s the US had to abandon an embassy we were building in the USSR because it was full of bugs even before it was built, so many and so deep in the infrastructure that there was no way to clean it.
Every country has spies to spy on every other country it considers worth spying on. The intelligence world even has a term for spies attached to a country's official diplomatic mission.
Despite all the Democrats' talk about the people wanting Obamacare, these actions speak more loudly. They know the people won't like a fully-implemented Obamacare, so they are going to delay that until after the elections to protect themselves.
It does. He asked the government to be given a privilege, a position of trust with the government, In return for this privilege, and the high income that can come with it, he swore to abide by certain rules, agreeing that he could face civil and criminal penalties for doing so. He was also informed that there are channels for whistleblowers to divulge classified information, and to challenge the classification of information that is concealing violations of law, or is classified to prevent embarrassment of an agency.
You don't need a legal team. It's quite clear. You break the rules, you risk jail.
Uh, you haven't been convicted because you ran, so you can't bitch about that. Now come back, subject yourself to a trial for breaking the laws you voluntarily swore to abide by, and then you will be convicted.
By this criteria, half the 13 year-olds on XBox Live should be in jail.
>Even though I understand the idea, isn't there any standards conforming alternative?
Then you don't understand the idea, because this is just a way to save space by having one port accept either a standard USB cable or an SD card. This is probably for the next-gen 11" MacBook Air, because it doesn't currently have room for both.
As far as this quesiton for previous products?
Dock connector: No, there was no standard that was capable of handling power (multiple voltages), serial, USB, Firewire, composite video, S-video, audio in and audio out.
Firewire: No, there was no standard 400 Mbps peer-to-peer auto-configuring connector.
Thunderbolt: No, there's no standard near that league.
DisplayPort: It was a VESA standard, Apple was just the early adopter. Apple did come out with a mini DP connector, and licensed it freely, and it is now part of the standard.
Lightning: No, there's no standard connector that can auto-reconfigure to send whatever type of signals over whichever pins you want.
I didn't say I had a problem with it.
c) Local college girls who are out of a great source of income if the booth babe practice ends
The breadcrumb trail itself can raise a flag. Me driving coast-to-coast for the first time on a certain credit card resulted in a call to confirm several gas station purchases across the country. It was way outside my normal purchasing pattern, so it got flagged.
If you really want to nit-pick, the Constution doesn't grant any rights to government, only enumerates certain powers granted to it by the people.
You are completely missing it. Energy usage is highest overall during the day because overall people are more active during the day. But we're talking home use, where most people are NOT home during the day. They are using electricity elsewhere while the home remains mostly idle.
A decent PV installation in the common case where nobody's home during the day will produce surplus energy. Take your average 4 KW install. Does the average home draw 4 KW all day when nobody's home? Didn't think so. Your daytime surplus plus your evening deficit balance out to you paying very little for electricity, isn't PV wonderful?
My utility gives a 1:1 credit for generated electricity, but nothing for an overall surplus. A well-sized PV array can result in an electric bill of zero, but you won't get paid to hook up a big solar array to the grid.
The problem is that this ability to average out can be destroyed by the utility if they want. They can decide to pay you less or nothing for the electricity you produce, just like mine pays for nothing over equalizing use,
That's on average, day/night, summer/winter. When you're not home during the day while the sun's shining, using almost no electricity, you are producing a surplus with any decent-sized system. This is what they'd like to pay you less for.
When you get home and plug in your car, and the sun goes away, you are buying from the grid. This is what they'd like to charge you more for.
If you think the legal fees constitute the sole added cost, you really haven't looked into the subject.
Google and Dell may mostly pick off the shelf OEM with tweaks, but Apple does all-original design. Apple also comes up with the exact manufacturing techniques required and if necessary invests billions in the factories so they can get up to speed to produce the Apple products.
Same with the chips. Samsung and TMSC may be making Apple's chips, but they didn't design them.Samsung used to, but now Apple's back in the chip designing business. Samsung has been relegated to foundry status, dumbly stamping out somebody else's advanced designs.
That's the problem there, imagination. Samsung is definitely highly proficient at making good stuff. They don't have much imagination to make groundbreaking new products that will be the next big thing everybody has to own.
I don't even like the idea of an RJ45 port anymore. What if I want to hook it up to our 10 GigE network? This thing won't even allow for that. With the Air I can get a Thunderbolt adapter. If you want regular GigE, get a USB 3 adapter. This thing already requires a dongle anyway.
That's my quote of the week. Thanks.
Apple is living through this right now. First the iBook anti-trust, then the overseas tax hearings. More will come. Apple has historically had almost no lobbying presence in DC, just like Microsoft didn't in the mid 90s. They'd better push a few more million that way if they want to stay alive.
Starting with any organization with "patriot" or "freedom" in its name, they would discover the network of anyone calling anyone, and hit everyone with an audit.