He said MacBook. MacBook Pro is a different product. What I've seen in terms of value is a little different. If you want a 17" notebook, HP offers one for $1400 that has just about everything I'd want in a notebook, a few things that Apple doesn't offer (more slots) but a few things that HP doesn't, FW800 and dual-link DVI, I think. For the $1200 difference, I think it's hard to sell anyone on the 17" unless they really are a pro user.
But the $1400 unit, or any other Windows or Linux machine for that matter, won't run anything like Quicksilver that I know of. Quicksilver on OS X is pretty close to the Zen of computer use, much closer than anything else that I've seen. It's like a GUI terminal on steroids without really being a terminal program, it only takes a keystroke to summon and a few more then seemingly do just about anything you'd want to do with a computer.
You are not seriously using the stock mouse software, are you?
I had to install USB Overdrive to get a good DPI and good acceleration on an SXGA screen.
It's not a mouse issue either, I've had to do it for Logitech, Microsoft and Apple Mice, as well as Wacom tablet with its included mouse. With the stock mouse software, it would make my hand feel so numb because the mouse isn't nearly as responsive as it would be under Windows for the same motion.
That's still equivalent to a base model Dell XPS 700. I think they are pretty neat, but I just want a nice case and don't see a way to buy a case that's as solid and sleek as that one.
I think the idea of "desktop replacement" has shifted down. It used to be that desktop replacements were something that used desktop chips in something that looks like a notebook, but is heavy, hot and huge. The current ones aren't as bulky or as heavy, but they still don't last long on batteries and still run hot, and still needs fans. Just about every "notebook" sold now seems to be "desktop replacement". The chips they use might be marketed for mobile use, but they still suck down more power than they should. Pretty much all Core 2 Duo Mobile systems are too hot to be used as "laptops" because they use the hottest mobile-rated chips sold now. They run so hot that it baffles me why people call them laptop computers when they are really laptop burners.
Which is pretty sad, I have a PIII mobile based notebook computer and it is thinner and cooler running than any of the "Centrino" T-series CPU systems I've had the displeasure of using. My old notebook doesn't last long on batteries, but the batteries are four years old and still going about two hours on a charge.
If I ever get another notebook, I'll make it a point to get a notebook with the E-series or L-series. They use 1/3rd to 1/2 the power as T-series and run for 6-9 hours, depending on the unit.
IBM's PowerPC design is in all the next-gen consoles, PPC was in Tivo too. IBM has a lot of PPC systems in the Top 500 supercomputer list. I wouldn't call PPC a commercial failure. A lot of embedded designs still use ARM variants (Intel's XScale was derived from DEC StrongARM), among others. I think MIPS is used in a lot of embedded systems, take a look at Linksys's WRT54G. When you get away from what you'd call a conventional computer, there are a lot of viable CPU architectures.
That was sleazy. If the item is intended to be purchased by the person getting the item, it's definitely not a promotional item, or at least in my opinion, it shouldn't be. That's one of the kind of things I am not surprised to read about with regards to the comic book industry.
Some of Apple's employees basically designed Firewire. That is why they might have been the first. They appear to be the only company to make it standard on all computers though. Right now, the biggest reason to have it is camcorders, USB can handle more types of devices and can handle hard drives at least 95% as well as Firewire 400. Apple was about a year late to the party with USB 2.
Plenty of companies had USB in their computers before Apple did. I had such a system, and I had another system that had solder points for a USB connector, but it was left off for the inability to test it against anything because there weren't any peripheral devices. The hold-up was 1) Microsoft, which did not support USB 1 until Windows 98SE and 2) third party peripheral makers.
You can argue that the first iMac gave peripheral makers a reason to make USB devices, that I won't argue against.
There are other sites that offer world-wide legit non-DRM music, such as magnatune.com and emusic.com, among others. Many of those other sites actually give a portion of what you pay to the people that made the music. AllofMP3 does not deal with pesky little things like that, which explains their pricing.
Life on Earth generally got along just fine for several billion years without humans. I can't exactly say that we've done life on earth any good by driving more species to extinction, more than any other thing save (IIRC) about six major extinction disasters in Earth's history.
The Earth is here for us
It would be accurate to say that the Earth is here, but to say it is here for a specific species is a bit much because that's an unprovable claim as far as anyone can tell. For example, we might just be here simply because the circumstances happened to be right, or if you say Earth was placed here or made through some intelligent process, how do you know that it wasn't made for whatever species that will replace us?
Yeah, a good UPS is like $50 now. If you are ever working on data worth more than $50 in terms of cost to re-collect or re-do if something happened to the power while working on it, then it basically pays for itself for the first power outage. For me, they are pretty good at preventing other electrical damage from ruining the computer too, in my experience, better than just using a surge strip.
It's not a substitute for a proper backup regimen, but it should keep you from losing a few hours worth of work.
Archos does seem to be a different product category.
The Sansas are kind of iffy in my opinion. I had one for a while. It has nice features and capabilities, but I didn't like the UI. I can get used to its UI, but I really didn't see any reason to, if the buttons were thought of as arrow keys, the way some screens scrolled doesn't make any sense at all, I hit the left key after looking at a track's details and the previous screen moves down. The "arrow" keys were way too small for my fingers, in part because the mechanical scroll wheel protrudes and makes them hard to push.
I think Palm made the mistake of standing still technologically. I really don't think Apple is going to make that mistake. Palm was somewhat stagnant, being pretty slow to offer high-res screens, color, audio and things like that. I really don't think their Palm Desktop software was as nice as it could have been, and maybe what really hurt them was poor or lacking integration with Office and Exchange.
What has kept Apple pretty safe is the marketing, both in the media and in terms of "viral" marketing, and they've been a moving target in terms of design and cost. Apple made the iPod cool with nice, sleek aesthetics, good UI and making it generally easy for the less than computer-savvy to use, basically doing something very well, despite its unfortunate lack of certain features that competitors have built-in.
The Zune does seem to be an interesting product, I will grant it that. My own personal skepticism to whether I will like it is that the screen is rotated on its side. I've seen several phones and music players like that, the apparent contrast ratio for each eye is different because the screen in question was not designed to be used on its side like that. I also wonder whether offering the color brown might make people think that it's so hopelessly out of touch. Personally, I think there is a spectrum of other colors to choose, I've never seen brown succeed with any piece of consumer electronics.
... battery life on my MBP doesn't seem appreciably different, not that it was any good to begin with, with the 7200rpm HD.
The faster spinning hard drive has a negligible impact on battery life. At max load, the difference is about a half a watt, and the idle power is the same. The tests I've seen that compared battery life using a 5400 and 7200 drives showed about three minutes battery life on an average notebook computer.
I do turn down the brightness, not necessarily for battery life but for battery temperature, and because the standard brightness on LCDs is too bright for me, except in sunlight.
And wasn't there a lot of talk the other day that the seismograph guys were good enough to tell just from the signature?
I think what was meant was that they can tell whether it was natural earthquake or an artificial explosion. My guess is that an earthquake is a drawn-out affair relative to an explosion, which would be closer to a single peak. I think the easier to build types of nuclear bombs are single-stage so you probably wouldn't get a major double spike that would make it known for certain that it was a nuke.
I didn't say that. In fact, if you interpret "code files" as "documents", then I would suggest that my statement clearly supports coding. Programming often requires all sorts of documents and other sorts of open windows.
That's just one operation. Within reason, any job that requires handling a lot of documents, images, video can easily benefit from a larger screen. If you save 10 minutes a day from not having to scroll or flip through windows, you can easily pay for that 30" screen in a year.
Actually, it looks like this might allow you to have automatic access to multiple home directories active at the same time, just plug in a new drive and you can have a new set of user accounts added to the existing list. I'm not a heavy UNIX guy, but I haven't seen anyone do that yet.
I wonder when the companies with the deep pockets would make an example of a troll by simply dragging out the case so long that the troll shrivels up. If you pay them off, then you may just be encouraging other trolls to try the same thing. IBM is the only one I can think of that is doing it this way. Unfortunately, either way, the lawyers are getting their money, but paying them off with a settlement every time seems to be encouraging this sort of thing.
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He said MacBook. MacBook Pro is a different product. What I've seen in terms of value is a little different. If you want a 17" notebook, HP offers one for $1400 that has just about everything I'd want in a notebook, a few things that Apple doesn't offer (more slots) but a few things that HP doesn't, FW800 and dual-link DVI, I think. For the $1200 difference, I think it's hard to sell anyone on the 17" unless they really are a pro user.
But the $1400 unit, or any other Windows or Linux machine for that matter, won't run anything like Quicksilver that I know of. Quicksilver on OS X is pretty close to the Zen of computer use, much closer than anything else that I've seen. It's like a GUI terminal on steroids without really being a terminal program, it only takes a keystroke to summon and a few more then seemingly do just about anything you'd want to do with a computer.
You are not seriously using the stock mouse software, are you?
I had to install USB Overdrive to get a good DPI and good acceleration on an SXGA screen.
It's not a mouse issue either, I've had to do it for Logitech, Microsoft and Apple Mice, as well as Wacom tablet with its included mouse. With the stock mouse software, it would make my hand feel so numb because the mouse isn't nearly as responsive as it would be under Windows for the same motion.
That's still equivalent to a base model Dell XPS 700. I think they are pretty neat, but I just want a nice case and don't see a way to buy a case that's as solid and sleek as that one.
I think the idea of "desktop replacement" has shifted down. It used to be that desktop replacements were something that used desktop chips in something that looks like a notebook, but is heavy, hot and huge. The current ones aren't as bulky or as heavy, but they still don't last long on batteries and still run hot, and still needs fans. Just about every "notebook" sold now seems to be "desktop replacement". The chips they use might be marketed for mobile use, but they still suck down more power than they should. Pretty much all Core 2 Duo Mobile systems are too hot to be used as "laptops" because they use the hottest mobile-rated chips sold now. They run so hot that it baffles me why people call them laptop computers when they are really laptop burners.
Which is pretty sad, I have a PIII mobile based notebook computer and it is thinner and cooler running than any of the "Centrino" T-series CPU systems I've had the displeasure of using. My old notebook doesn't last long on batteries, but the batteries are four years old and still going about two hours on a charge.
If I ever get another notebook, I'll make it a point to get a notebook with the E-series or L-series. They use 1/3rd to 1/2 the power as T-series and run for 6-9 hours, depending on the unit.
IBM's PowerPC design is in all the next-gen consoles, PPC was in Tivo too. IBM has a lot of PPC systems in the Top 500 supercomputer list. I wouldn't call PPC a commercial failure. A lot of embedded designs still use ARM variants (Intel's XScale was derived from DEC StrongARM), among others. I think MIPS is used in a lot of embedded systems, take a look at Linksys's WRT54G. When you get away from what you'd call a conventional computer, there are a lot of viable CPU architectures.
I've wanted to invest in Samsung and flash technology in general. Samsung seems to only be on the Asian markets, is this so?
O BAL/InvestorRelations/IRFAQs/StockDividend/index.h tm#a2
http://www.samsung.com/AboutSAMSUNG/ELECTRONICSGL
It's listed in London and Luxemburg too, and in the US, you can buy stock through Citibank.
It only took me a minute to find this information, it wasn't secret, hidden or hard to find. I only needed two clicks on the Samsung site.
That was sleazy. If the item is intended to be purchased by the person getting the item, it's definitely not a promotional item, or at least in my opinion, it shouldn't be. That's one of the kind of things I am not surprised to read about with regards to the comic book industry.
(the old "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre").
When will that meme die?
Some of Apple's employees basically designed Firewire. That is why they might have been the first. They appear to be the only company to make it standard on all computers though. Right now, the biggest reason to have it is camcorders, USB can handle more types of devices and can handle hard drives at least 95% as well as Firewire 400. Apple was about a year late to the party with USB 2.
Plenty of companies had USB in their computers before Apple did. I had such a system, and I had another system that had solder points for a USB connector, but it was left off for the inability to test it against anything because there weren't any peripheral devices. The hold-up was 1) Microsoft, which did not support USB 1 until Windows 98SE and 2) third party peripheral makers.
You can argue that the first iMac gave peripheral makers a reason to make USB devices, that I won't argue against.
There are other sites that offer world-wide legit non-DRM music, such as magnatune.com and emusic.com, among others. Many of those other sites actually give a portion of what you pay to the people that made the music. AllofMP3 does not deal with pesky little things like that, which explains their pricing.
Life on Earth generally got along just fine for several billion years without humans. I can't exactly say that we've done life on earth any good by driving more species to extinction, more than any other thing save (IIRC) about six major extinction disasters in Earth's history.
The Earth is here for us
It would be accurate to say that the Earth is here, but to say it is here for a specific species is a bit much because that's an unprovable claim as far as anyone can tell. For example, we might just be here simply because the circumstances happened to be right, or if you say Earth was placed here or made through some intelligent process, how do you know that it wasn't made for whatever species that will replace us?
"Mode Execute Ready"
Is this a joke of some sort? I've never heard of that, and it sounds like a pretentious name to boot.
Yeah, a good UPS is like $50 now. If you are ever working on data worth more than $50 in terms of cost to re-collect or re-do if something happened to the power while working on it, then it basically pays for itself for the first power outage. For me, they are pretty good at preventing other electrical damage from ruining the computer too, in my experience, better than just using a surge strip.
It's not a substitute for a proper backup regimen, but it should keep you from losing a few hours worth of work.
At least in this case, you should be able to use other TLDs while the matter is considered.
Archos does seem to be a different product category.
The Sansas are kind of iffy in my opinion. I had one for a while. It has nice features and capabilities, but I didn't like the UI. I can get used to its UI, but I really didn't see any reason to, if the buttons were thought of as arrow keys, the way some screens scrolled doesn't make any sense at all, I hit the left key after looking at a track's details and the previous screen moves down. The "arrow" keys were way too small for my fingers, in part because the mechanical scroll wheel protrudes and makes them hard to push.
I think Palm made the mistake of standing still technologically. I really don't think Apple is going to make that mistake. Palm was somewhat stagnant, being pretty slow to offer high-res screens, color, audio and things like that. I really don't think their Palm Desktop software was as nice as it could have been, and maybe what really hurt them was poor or lacking integration with Office and Exchange.
What has kept Apple pretty safe is the marketing, both in the media and in terms of "viral" marketing, and they've been a moving target in terms of design and cost. Apple made the iPod cool with nice, sleek aesthetics, good UI and making it generally easy for the less than computer-savvy to use, basically doing something very well, despite its unfortunate lack of certain features that competitors have built-in.
The Zune does seem to be an interesting product, I will grant it that. My own personal skepticism to whether I will like it is that the screen is rotated on its side. I've seen several phones and music players like that, the apparent contrast ratio for each eye is different because the screen in question was not designed to be used on its side like that. I also wonder whether offering the color brown might make people think that it's so hopelessly out of touch. Personally, I think there is a spectrum of other colors to choose, I've never seen brown succeed with any piece of consumer electronics.
... battery life on my MBP doesn't seem appreciably different, not that it was any good to begin with, with the 7200rpm HD.
The faster spinning hard drive has a negligible impact on battery life. At max load, the difference is about a half a watt, and the idle power is the same. The tests I've seen that compared battery life using a 5400 and 7200 drives showed about three minutes battery life on an average notebook computer.
I do turn down the brightness, not necessarily for battery life but for battery temperature, and because the standard brightness on LCDs is too bright for me, except in sunlight.
And wasn't there a lot of talk the other day that the seismograph guys were good enough to tell just from the signature?
I think what was meant was that they can tell whether it was natural earthquake or an artificial explosion. My guess is that an earthquake is a drawn-out affair relative to an explosion, which would be closer to a single peak. I think the easier to build types of nuclear bombs are single-stage so you probably wouldn't get a major double spike that would make it known for certain that it was a nuke.
It doesn't need to be on the surface, and I don't think it's that hard. I'm sure a lot of underground mines have a lot more interior space than that.
And how! I mean, you should see how many games it has available! Why theres tuxracer, nethack and um.. nmap! thats a game right?
Gamers may be driving the computer industry forward, but I think they are a minority, so this isn't the concern for most computer users.
scientists have discovered what is believed to be the first terrestrial mammal found in Europe in decades:
Wow. That's hard to do. When I went to Europe, I didn't find any terrestrial mammals.
I didn't say that. In fact, if you interpret "code files" as "documents", then I would suggest that my statement clearly supports coding. Programming often requires all sorts of documents and other sorts of open windows.
That's just one operation. Within reason, any job that requires handling a lot of documents, images, video can easily benefit from a larger screen. If you save 10 minutes a day from not having to scroll or flip through windows, you can easily pay for that 30" screen in a year.
Actually, it looks like this might allow you to have automatic access to multiple home directories active at the same time, just plug in a new drive and you can have a new set of user accounts added to the existing list. I'm not a heavy UNIX guy, but I haven't seen anyone do that yet.
I wonder when the companies with the deep pockets would make an example of a troll by simply dragging out the case so long that the troll shrivels up. If you pay them off, then you may just be encouraging other trolls to try the same thing. IBM is the only one I can think of that is doing it this way. Unfortunately, either way, the lawyers are getting their money, but paying them off with a settlement every time seems to be encouraging this sort of thing.