I think they are "overpriced" to those that don't know what quality is. They don't use crap plastic like their competitors, and they aren't thin-walled either. Lego parts are incredibly durable, I think they can last through generations of use and still snap together tightly.
Au contraire circuit boards suffer more from constant on-off than from sustained use
I shut my computers down every night and they still last a stupid long time. They probably would last longer than you probably would want to use it, and multiply that by three. I have an eight year old computer that's still running fine. I can't say that I've had a circuit board failure in a decade, I just don't remember the last time it's been a problem. If it's a problem, it would be a problem for the circuit boards in automobiles, and I don't think it's unheard of to have an auto last two decades without having to replace a circuit board due to thermal cycling and such, and they are outdoors with no thermal protection from the daily temperature cycling.
Did you forget to hand them the bundle of money like Roland P. does in return for their shilling?
I think that's you have a good point. Unless you absolutely have to have the latest flavor of the month, there are plenty of fun games for both OS X and Linux without having to reboot. It seems like everything that is popular in the "dedicated gamer" crowd is a varying flavor of a first person shooter anyway.
No amount of propaganda can reverse the fact that we are losing the war in Iraq, and in the long term, the "War on Terror". I don't know how it can be used to cover the fact that the US government is bankrupting itself fighting it in the worst way to fight it, it's not something that the military can fight.
Taking away rights and freedoms in the name of a war on an idea means that it probably would take five decades to correct, given how long the Cold War lasted, the "War on Communism". Assuming that we ever get those rights back. Thankfully McCarthyism was ejected, so the early scares in the Cold War didn't last long.
If you want a War on Terror the way it is happening now, take a look at the War on Drugs and tell me we aren't losing. The militants are feeding on the resentments in the Muslim community over what happened in the last five, fifty and five hundred years.
It's generally not really harder to do modding, though overclocking is definitely an exception when you compare it to a computer made from off-the-shelf parts. Macs can definitely be overclocked, but it probably involves tracing circuits and soldering vs. looking up the manual and changing jumpers.
A Mac like the mini is a lot easier to stuff into unconventional places though, so I'd say it's a wash.
iTunes works fine on my four year old computer. It's really only a problem if your computer is eight years old, then it's a little sluggish, mostly for the memory swapping. And it has smart playlists, something that I don't remember Winamp 2.x having. I can have keywords and it builds a playlist automatically and refreshes it automatically and uploads them to my nano. I keep a playlist with seven rules just to keep my nano filled with the latest audio shows, it keeps track of playcount, my track ratings, how recently it was added and limits it to a certain number of tracks. That way, when I go to work, my nano has an updated set of playlists and the latest tracks.
It does seem unfair to extend copyrights for so long, but I don't certainly want longer patent rights. Twenty years is fine, and for technology, I think it should be shorter.
Personally, 20 years would be great for copyrights. One compromise I might accept is that it can be extended at the end of the term by registering it with an appropriate filing fee, otherwise it goes public domain. At the very least, it would mean that copyright owners that go MIA aren't such a rights headache in trying to deal with older works.
What would be the advantage to going to Mexico as opposed to Canada? Remember, the Mexicans are coming here in unprecedented numbers. That should tell you something. The border to Canada is wide-open, as the 911 conspirators had shown us, and no fence is being erected there, and there isn't even a half-serious proposal of one that might be passed.
The thing that bothers me about this whole mess is that all these extra security measures are only serving as a hindrance to daily life. As far as I'm concerned, the 911 incident only happened because people weren't doing their jobs. They had sufficient authority and mandate already, but because they were asleep at the wheel, the law enforcement departments get even more power. Talk about rewarding incompetence. I don't even get how they thought that they claimed that tracking all banking helps. Frankly, I would expect that the militants would assume that any means of electronic transactions would be tapped and avoid using those means of moving money.
Just increase the DPI of the resolution and it cram into a smaller form factor please. Not all of us are blind.
For monitors, it is ppi - for pixels per inch. dpi is for print, each dot is its own discrete, unmixed color. Otherwise, each color within a pixel counts as a point.
I think the higher ppi will simply increase the chances that the user will become blind as a result. My vision is good, I can use the 150 screens but it's pretty uncomfortable for long term use.
What it does is move the optical drive to be an external drive and put another notebook hard drive inside. So if you have 2x 160GB drives, you have 320GB right there. I think kicking out the optical drive is a good compromise. The number of occasions that I use one is dwindling quite a bit. Even for movies, I can use an external at home to import it and it's on the hard drive for later use.
I personally had no experience with Powerbooks (and really didn't give a damn about them) but I was shocked at how uncomfortably hot that the MacBook Pro got, even when it was just idling. I really objected to the idea that I simply had to put up with it. Even some twat suggested that I use some sort of shelf like iLap, which to me was a contradiction to said twat's claim that the MBP was a laptop. My Compaq never got nearly that warm. It wasn't hard to get the MBP core temperature up to 85 C / 185F. I never did get the surface temperature, but it got too hot for me to comfortably use in fifteen minutes from startup.
Now that smcFanControl exists, I permanently set the minimum to 2000RPM and it's only slightly warm. Even at 3000 RPM, it's not very loud. It really doesn't seem to move much more air, but I've noticed temperatures that were 20 C lower than when I changed the fan speed. Before that program was released, I regarded the MBP simply as a desktop replacement because it got way too warm to be used on a lap.
Actually, Reps are still about strong military and lower taxes, but they are now fine with larger government and greater intrusion.
I fear for the "new blood" because of people like Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who is about 31 years old has fallen for pulling stupid tactics. He accused of the Democrats of covering up the Foley thing so they can leak it before the election. When an interviewer challenged him to prove it, he stammered then shoved it back at the interviewer to prove that the Democrats didn't do what he accused them of doing. Ted Stevens (R-AK) might be rightfully accused of being as sharp as a Redwood tree trunk, but at least he might be let off for being a doddering geriatric. I feel sorry for the people that voted for him, though they probably keep him because of the pork he brings home because of his seniority.
Part of the reasons the current material is as thick as it is, is so it doesn't wobble under speed, which can be disasterous. The reason that 10k and 15k drives use smaller diameter platters is because of the wobble issue. As such, I really wouldn't put that much faith in the Cringely column yet because I don't see where in the article that this was addressed.
Let's just say that your battery run time is an obsolete complaint. The nano is rated for 24 hours; 30GB, 20 hours; 80GB 30 hours. I really can't say much about the buffering songs complaint other than to say that it hasn't been a problem for me.
So you are suggesting that Cisco makes crap? It's not hard to copy a circuit board. The very problem is that the products aren't turning out to be as good because they fail or turn out to be flaky. And when they fail, Cisco's not going to replace them for you because they weren't legit Cisco products.
As I recall, it's more complex than simply using alternative sources, but alternatives do need to be found as any widespread stem cell therapy would need a much broader source than you can possibly get from the excess embryos left over from fertility treatments.
Sadly, that's US market share. Their worldwide market share barely moved. Which I can understand, cost isn't as important here, go to India or China, cost is everything. Even with the reputed higher maintenance effort needed for Windows systems, labor is definitely cheap enough to cover that.
They are rapidly moving to becoming a, if not the, serious choice for the home user. (Lots of those PC sales are to big corporations, for desktops - and Apple is going to struggle to sell corporations that they need iMovie, iTunes or iPhoto, no matter how good they are as apps).
That software isn't a problem. That software can be removed. What might be considered a problem is a webcam in every computer. Some companies don't like that.
There is also application availability, many corporations need some obscure or custom app that's not available on OS X, and the cost of Parallels and the maintenance hassle of supporting something like that might not be worth it, that sort of arrangement would more than offset the ease of OS X maintenance.
I'm not buying this argument. For one, it's basically the slippery slope argument, an often used logical fallacy. Also, you need to be clear on why this ID is such a bad thing. Doen't most countries in the EU have a national ID card? You could start by pointing out what crippling damage the national ID cards have done them. I certainly haven't heard of such a misuse. We've all had social security cards issued to us, and I have yet to hear of or see evidence on how it's been so damaging to civil liberties.
I suggest that you actually ask what tax rate individuals in most other developed countries enjoy. When ever they complain about their sales tax/VAT/customs fees, I point out the services they have in return, though I don't think is much with respect to the taxes they pay.
If you don't mind not having half of your paycheck taken in various taxes AND you don't mind paying 17% in VAT on the things you buy, then you would be at home in the EU.
I've never really experienced many crashes with OS X or Windows 2000. Is your experience from OS 9 machines? The older revisions weren't very good.
Oh, and I might have a natural bias thanks to going to undergrad with a school full of asshat art majors that kept extolling the Mac's superiority with no real justification except the color scheme.
There is an ocean more difference with OS X than just a different color scheme, that statement really smacks of ignorance to me.
And I'm no art major, it was CS and Engineering. I did know some Mac users in college, but for similar reasons, I resisted. It wasn't until last year that I've bothered to seriously try it out.
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But it's not a waste, is it, doesn't it buy two extras for children that need notebook computers?
I think they are "overpriced" to those that don't know what quality is. They don't use crap plastic like their competitors, and they aren't thin-walled either. Lego parts are incredibly durable, I think they can last through generations of use and still snap together tightly.
Technics are on the list. I think they are great, are you telling me you didn't have fun putting together complex mechanical contraptions?
Au contraire circuit boards suffer more from constant on-off than from sustained use
I shut my computers down every night and they still last a stupid long time. They probably would last longer than you probably would want to use it, and multiply that by three. I have an eight year old computer that's still running fine. I can't say that I've had a circuit board failure in a decade, I just don't remember the last time it's been a problem. If it's a problem, it would be a problem for the circuit boards in automobiles, and I don't think it's unheard of to have an auto last two decades without having to replace a circuit board due to thermal cycling and such, and they are outdoors with no thermal protection from the daily temperature cycling.
Did you forget to hand them the bundle of money like Roland P. does in return for their shilling?
I think that's you have a good point. Unless you absolutely have to have the latest flavor of the month, there are plenty of fun games for both OS X and Linux without having to reboot. It seems like everything that is popular in the "dedicated gamer" crowd is a varying flavor of a first person shooter anyway.
One person might consider a food processor as a "man meat pleasurer", another person might call it a "blender". It's all petty semantics.
No amount of propaganda can reverse the fact that we are losing the war in Iraq, and in the long term, the "War on Terror". I don't know how it can be used to cover the fact that the US government is bankrupting itself fighting it in the worst way to fight it, it's not something that the military can fight.
Taking away rights and freedoms in the name of a war on an idea means that it probably would take five decades to correct, given how long the Cold War lasted, the "War on Communism". Assuming that we ever get those rights back. Thankfully McCarthyism was ejected, so the early scares in the Cold War didn't last long.
If you want a War on Terror the way it is happening now, take a look at the War on Drugs and tell me we aren't losing. The militants are feeding on the resentments in the Muslim community over what happened in the last five, fifty and five hundred years.
It's generally not really harder to do modding, though overclocking is definitely an exception when you compare it to a computer made from off-the-shelf parts. Macs can definitely be overclocked, but it probably involves tracing circuits and soldering vs. looking up the manual and changing jumpers.
A Mac like the mini is a lot easier to stuff into unconventional places though, so I'd say it's a wash.
iTunes works fine on my four year old computer. It's really only a problem if your computer is eight years old, then it's a little sluggish, mostly for the memory swapping. And it has smart playlists, something that I don't remember Winamp 2.x having. I can have keywords and it builds a playlist automatically and refreshes it automatically and uploads them to my nano. I keep a playlist with seven rules just to keep my nano filled with the latest audio shows, it keeps track of playcount, my track ratings, how recently it was added and limits it to a certain number of tracks. That way, when I go to work, my nano has an updated set of playlists and the latest tracks.
It does seem unfair to extend copyrights for so long, but I don't certainly want longer patent rights. Twenty years is fine, and for technology, I think it should be shorter.
Personally, 20 years would be great for copyrights. One compromise I might accept is that it can be extended at the end of the term by registering it with an appropriate filing fee, otherwise it goes public domain. At the very least, it would mean that copyright owners that go MIA aren't such a rights headache in trying to deal with older works.
What would be the advantage to going to Mexico as opposed to Canada? Remember, the Mexicans are coming here in unprecedented numbers. That should tell you something. The border to Canada is wide-open, as the 911 conspirators had shown us, and no fence is being erected there, and there isn't even a half-serious proposal of one that might be passed.
The thing that bothers me about this whole mess is that all these extra security measures are only serving as a hindrance to daily life. As far as I'm concerned, the 911 incident only happened because people weren't doing their jobs. They had sufficient authority and mandate already, but because they were asleep at the wheel, the law enforcement departments get even more power. Talk about rewarding incompetence. I don't even get how they thought that they claimed that tracking all banking helps. Frankly, I would expect that the militants would assume that any means of electronic transactions would be tapped and avoid using those means of moving money.
Just increase the DPI of the resolution and it cram into a smaller form factor please. Not all of us are blind.
For monitors, it is ppi - for pixels per inch. dpi is for print, each dot is its own discrete, unmixed color. Otherwise, each color within a pixel counts as a point.
I think the higher ppi will simply increase the chances that the user will become blind as a result. My vision is good, I can use the 150 screens but it's pretty uncomfortable for long term use.
What I really want can't be provided by Apple... a fast 320GB notebook drive. That would change my life.
There is something for that:
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/
What it does is move the optical drive to be an external drive and put another notebook hard drive inside. So if you have 2x 160GB drives, you have 320GB right there. I think kicking out the optical drive is a good compromise. The number of occasions that I use one is dwindling quite a bit. Even for movies, I can use an external at home to import it and it's on the hard drive for later use.
I personally had no experience with Powerbooks (and really didn't give a damn about them) but I was shocked at how uncomfortably hot that the MacBook Pro got, even when it was just idling. I really objected to the idea that I simply had to put up with it. Even some twat suggested that I use some sort of shelf like iLap, which to me was a contradiction to said twat's claim that the MBP was a laptop. My Compaq never got nearly that warm. It wasn't hard to get the MBP core temperature up to 85 C / 185F. I never did get the surface temperature, but it got too hot for me to comfortably use in fifteen minutes from startup.
Now that smcFanControl exists, I permanently set the minimum to 2000RPM and it's only slightly warm. Even at 3000 RPM, it's not very loud. It really doesn't seem to move much more air, but I've noticed temperatures that were 20 C lower than when I changed the fan speed. Before that program was released, I regarded the MBP simply as a desktop replacement because it got way too warm to be used on a lap.
Is it a post sale restriction if it says on the box that a Mac is required to use the OS?
Actually, Reps are still about strong military and lower taxes, but they are now fine with larger government and greater intrusion.
I fear for the "new blood" because of people like Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who is about 31 years old has fallen for pulling stupid tactics. He accused of the Democrats of covering up the Foley thing so they can leak it before the election. When an interviewer challenged him to prove it, he stammered then shoved it back at the interviewer to prove that the Democrats didn't do what he accused them of doing. Ted Stevens (R-AK) might be rightfully accused of being as sharp as a Redwood tree trunk, but at least he might be let off for being a doddering geriatric. I feel sorry for the people that voted for him, though they probably keep him because of the pork he brings home because of his seniority.
Part of the reasons the current material is as thick as it is, is so it doesn't wobble under speed, which can be disasterous. The reason that 10k and 15k drives use smaller diameter platters is because of the wobble issue. As such, I really wouldn't put that much faith in the Cringely column yet because I don't see where in the article that this was addressed.
How much is A$6M? Is it enough to buy a couple candy bars?
Let's just say that your battery run time is an obsolete complaint. The nano is rated for 24 hours; 30GB, 20 hours; 80GB 30 hours. I really can't say much about the buffering songs complaint other than to say that it hasn't been a problem for me.
So you are suggesting that Cisco makes crap? It's not hard to copy a circuit board. The very problem is that the products aren't turning out to be as good because they fail or turn out to be flaky. And when they fail, Cisco's not going to replace them for you because they weren't legit Cisco products.
As I recall, it's more complex than simply using alternative sources, but alternatives do need to be found as any widespread stem cell therapy would need a much broader source than you can possibly get from the excess embryos left over from fertility treatments.
Sadly, that's US market share. Their worldwide market share barely moved. Which I can understand, cost isn't as important here, go to India or China, cost is everything. Even with the reputed higher maintenance effort needed for Windows systems, labor is definitely cheap enough to cover that.
They are rapidly moving to becoming a, if not the, serious choice for the home user. (Lots of those PC sales are to big corporations, for desktops - and Apple is going to struggle to sell corporations that they need iMovie, iTunes or iPhoto, no matter how good they are as apps).
That software isn't a problem. That software can be removed. What might be considered a problem is a webcam in every computer. Some companies don't like that.
There is also application availability, many corporations need some obscure or custom app that's not available on OS X, and the cost of Parallels and the maintenance hassle of supporting something like that might not be worth it, that sort of arrangement would more than offset the ease of OS X maintenance.
I'm not buying this argument. For one, it's basically the slippery slope argument, an often used logical fallacy. Also, you need to be clear on why this ID is such a bad thing. Doen't most countries in the EU have a national ID card? You could start by pointing out what crippling damage the national ID cards have done them. I certainly haven't heard of such a misuse. We've all had social security cards issued to us, and I have yet to hear of or see evidence on how it's been so damaging to civil liberties.
I suggest that you actually ask what tax rate individuals in most other developed countries enjoy. When ever they complain about their sales tax/VAT/customs fees, I point out the services they have in return, though I don't think is much with respect to the taxes they pay.
If you don't mind not having half of your paycheck taken in various taxes AND you don't mind paying 17% in VAT on the things you buy, then you would be at home in the EU.
I've never really experienced many crashes with OS X or Windows 2000. Is your experience from OS 9 machines? The older revisions weren't very good.
Oh, and I might have a natural bias thanks to going to undergrad with a school full of asshat art majors that kept extolling the Mac's superiority with no real justification except the color scheme.
There is an ocean more difference with OS X than just a different color scheme, that statement really smacks of ignorance to me.
And I'm no art major, it was CS and Engineering. I did know some Mac users in college, but for similar reasons, I resisted. It wasn't until last year that I've bothered to seriously try it out.