Clutch in before braking too. I got told off by my driving instructor for doing that, he said I wan't in full control of the vehicle. That's a pretty lame reasoning on his part, but I suppose deep down he kinda had a point somewhere - you can't get out of the way in a hurry if you have to put it in gear before you can make it go. He'd probably freak out if he saw me heel-and-toeing down the gears these days, but for other reasons.
Are you really saying that you don't want a reduction in spam for a while, because it's only for a while? I assume you don't do much, ever, because your argument applies to most areas of life. Why put a new roof on your house when it'll be leaky in less than fifty years? Why buy new clothes when they'll be worn out or out of fashion in a few years? Why buy a new computer when it'll be obsolete in three years? The reason is the same reason that nolisting is worthwhile - temporary advatages are still advatages while they last.
if someone could post a transcript of what was said, I'd be sure to read it
There's really no more to it than what's in the/. summary (for a change). Unless you really want to see Linus trying to remember how long the 2.6 kernel has been out and whether they ever had a 4 month gap between releases, you're not missing much.
I'll pass on the miniseries, thanks. I'm waiting for the ractive.
Score:4, Insightful? I think I must be missing something. I wrote the damn comment, and it was just a pithy in-joke to show I'd read the book and remind us of one of the groovy future technologies from it. I guess I happened upon some insight though. Can someone tell me what it was?
10.1 hasn't been updated since 2002-06-21. 10.2 hasn't been updated since 2004-12-04. With the release of 10.5, 10.3 will cease being updated. Now, it's not like your Mac is likely to get pwned without being patched every month or two, as is the case with 4-year-old copies of Windows, so updates aren't as critical to simply keep your system going. But the fact is if they find a new hole in 10.1 or 10.2 tomorrow, they aren't going to fix it. It remains to be seen if this policy will continue if security holes in Macs actually start getting exploited in the wild, but for the time being Apple really do have extremely short product lifecycles. The lack of product activation (there isn't even a license key, let alone all the bullshit you get with XP) mitigates this a bit if you don't mind a bit of piracy, and family pack licenses mitiagate it if you have multiple Macs, but it still sucks. Me? I take "family pack" literally, so I updated my iBook from my brother's purchased Tiger family pack disks. If they wanted to make it clear it was for a single households, they should have called it a "household pack":)
Speaking generally, as I don't know the details: What about the other friend? The one you are helping, who keeps screwing up every effort to help them you make and keeps asking for help. Isn't there a point where they are being such a poor friend to you that, well, they aren't really your friend any more?
Try this: where the 35mph sign is there's a 3-year-old who escaped from his mother in the road. If you couldn't have stopped let alone slowed to 35mph you were going too fast.
Why are the child porn types writing software that magically puts child porn on random people's computers? I'm really not clear about what they're accomplishing there, other than potentially hurting their business by bringing child pornography into the spotlight.
Reasonable doubt. The existance of software which downloads illegal material to your computer without your knowlegde is an excellent excuse for having illegal material on your computer. In other words, it makes the computers of child porn types hard to distinguish from the computers of non-child porn types.
It's about the electrolye concentration. You can alter that by decreasing the amount of electrolytes (sweating, then replacing water but not electrolytes) or increasing the amount of water (drinking water much faster than your body can get rid of it).
If you aren't reasoning about the true nature of what you study, then you're not studying science any more. You've entered predictive religion.
I think you misunderstood the quotation. It is the nature (characteristics, qualities) of the universe which physics studies. It's not saying we can't understand the universe, it's saying that finding out the way the universe is is not the point of physics. If light is made up of elephants which behave like quanta, physics should concern itself with the behaviour of quanta rather than the question of whether the elephants are pink or white, because the colour of the elephants has no bearing on the behaviour of quanta.
An HP Pavilion laptop comparably equipped to the low end MacBook Pro costs $800-$1000 less - about half as much. (It has a slightly lower screen resolution, more ports, and of course different software, but other than that it's the same system. If you're going to claim it's not comparable unless it's exactly the same, down to the picture of an apple on the back, then it's a dishonest challenge in the first place.)
I specced an HP pavilion as close the a basic MBP as I could. It came to $1,585.99 (from which you can currently deduct $150 in special offers). that's $413 less than a MacBook Pro - about half the differential you claimed. It still has a slower processor, lower screen resolution, poorer battery life and more mass. It is not the same system. Those deficiencies are real and curing them costs money. A fairer comparison (same processor, closer in size and weight) is a Sony VGN FE790, which specced as close to the MBP as possible comes to $1843.99. The Sony is closer, but it still has a lower resolution screen, weighs over 1lb more and lacks gigbit ethernet.
Knock $80 or so off if you think selecting XP Pro rather than Home is unfair, but I was aiming for the closest equivalent possible. The MacBook Pro in question costs $1999.
HP Pavilion dv6000t customizable Notebook PC
EZ829AV
* - Genuine Windows XP Professional
* - Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo T7200 (2.0GHz/4MB L2Cache)
* - 15.4" WXGA Widescreen (1280x800)
* - 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
* - HP Imprint Finish + Microphone + Webcam
* - 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* - 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
* - Super Multi 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support
* - Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth
* - No TV Tuner w/remote control
* - 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
* - Microsoft(R) Works/Money
* - System Recovery DVD w/Windows XP Professional
* - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
$1,585.99
VGN-FE790
LCD Display:
15.4" WXGA TFT with XBRITE-HiColor Technology and MOTION EYE Camera
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Wireless Lan: Wireless LAN (802.11a\b\g) and Bluetooth Technology
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7400 / ICD 2.16 GHz
Memory: 1 GB DDR-SDRAM (DDR2-533, 512 MBx2) Windows Vista Premium Ready
Hard Drive: 120 GB Hard Disk Drive
Optical Drive: DVD+-R DL_DVD+-RW_DVD-RAM Drive
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Battery: Large Capacity Lithium-ion Battery (BPL2C)
Pre-Installed Office Software: Microsoft Works 8.5
Movie Pack: None Movie Pack
Photo Software: Photo Standard
Music Software: Music Plus
Video Software: Video Standard
Engraving: No Engraving
$1843.99
I'm one of the admins on that forum, and can confirm that yes, we've been asked to nuke anything regarding nVidia, at least in certain contexts.
And yes, there are enough forum admins that I'm not too scared about 'leaking' like this. Note that I'm keeping the exact details secret:p
If you really know what you claim to know, then either you or the person who gave you that information is surely under NDA from Apple. I hope you're using a Tor proxy or similar, because knowing Apple they will subpeona OSDN/Slashdot for the IP your postings came from.
It's been tagged as flamebait because Apple users do not like being reminded that they paid Apple AND gave up their freedom to use, modify, study, and distribute software.
How can you give up something which you do not have? Apple users never had the freedom to modify, study and distribute NVidia's copyright code in the first place. Owning an Apple computer does not stop you using, modifying, studying and distributing software which you are entitled to use, modify, study and distribute. The only thing stopping Apple users from writing their own drivers is the fact that they already have access to one which offers substantially more functionality than the FOSS alternatives.
What they actually chose was a machine on which you have fully-featured accelerated 3D graphics with broad software support - it seems they value the freedom to play WoW and have whizzy 3D desktop effects more highly than the freedoms the FOSS alternatives offer.
Something that I still haven't seen mentioned anywhere yet is that the producer is usually not the songwriter. Sometimes they are, but frequently they are not. Who is credited with writing the song? They're the ones you all should be going after. The producer usually deals with overseeing the recording, orchestration, mixing, etc. But a lot of times, the chord progression, melody, lyrics, etc are already mostly in place before the producer gets into the picture.
That certainly used to be the case - that's what a producer like Phil Spector did. But these days, particularly for rap/hip-hop music, the producer often has a large creative input in 'writing the tune'. In this instance, the song is credited to Nelly Furtado, Timothy Clayton, Nate Hills (aka Danja) and Tim Mosley (aka Timbaland). Danja and Timbaland are also the producers.
For example iPod has perhaps the best user interface of any mp3 player but the battery problem is a real problem [...]
The thing is, it simply isn't a real problem for the majority of customers. Hard-to-replace batteries were all over the news for a while, but Apple still sells iPods by the bucketload. Apple realised that a sleek exterior and minimum size and weight sell much better than inconvenience a few years down the line. For most customers, a battery cover you can remove with your thumb or a coin is an unnecesarry cost (in terms of style and weight, not cash). I bet Apple have figures on how many replacement batteries are sold for consumer electronics (generally, not just iPods). I'd like to see those figures, but my guess is few are ever sold. You get them for mobile phones and laptops, though I suspect that market is more about increasing runtime than replacing ageing batteries. When I walk into an electronics store I do not generally see racks of replacement batteries for non-Apple MP3 players. Where I have seen replacement batteries they are right next to the kits to replace your iPod battery.
Part of Apple's success comes from challenging the conventional wisdom. There's no point making the sleep light pulse, is there? There's no point adding a speaker so the click wheel actually clicks, is there? Nobody would want an all-in-one PC & monitor that they couldn't upgrade, would they? Well, it turns out that when you do lots of those 'silly' things and get rid of 'essential' features like no-tools battery replacement the result is devices that people want to buy.
Among other things, Apple could argue that Cisco didn't file 'iPhone' until well after 'iMac' and 'iPod' were established brands, making Cisco look like a speculative name squatter or a company out to create market confusion by releasing a product under a name formulaically similar to Apple's lineup.
They could argue the moon is made of cheese too, but that wouldn't make it true. Cisco acquired the iPhone trademark from Infogear who registered it and released the first iPhone in 1996 - well before the iMac and iPod.
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Clutch in before braking too. I got told off by my driving instructor for doing that, he said I wan't in full control of the vehicle. That's a pretty lame reasoning on his part, but I suppose deep down he kinda had a point somewhere - you can't get out of the way in a hurry if you have to put it in gear before you can make it go. He'd probably freak out if he saw me heel-and-toeing down the gears these days, but for other reasons.
Are you really saying that you don't want a reduction in spam for a while, because it's only for a while? I assume you don't do much, ever, because your argument applies to most areas of life. Why put a new roof on your house when it'll be leaky in less than fifty years? Why buy new clothes when they'll be worn out or out of fashion in a few years? Why buy a new computer when it'll be obsolete in three years? The reason is the same reason that nolisting is worthwhile - temporary advatages are still advatages while they last.
PS3s are expensive, heart surgery and higher education are cheap. What a fucked up place, eh?
Then you've always been wrong. Tenfold = x10, threefold = x3 etc.
They do specify household (including students living away from home), as I later discovered while browsing the Apple Store. Who reads the small print?
Score:4, Insightful? I think I must be missing something. I wrote the damn comment, and it was just a pithy in-joke to show I'd read the book and remind us of one of the groovy future technologies from it. I guess I happened upon some insight though. Can someone tell me what it was?
10.1 hasn't been updated since 2002-06-21. 10.2 hasn't been updated since 2004-12-04. With the release of 10.5, 10.3 will cease being updated. Now, it's not like your Mac is likely to get pwned without being patched every month or two, as is the case with 4-year-old copies of Windows, so updates aren't as critical to simply keep your system going. But the fact is if they find a new hole in 10.1 or 10.2 tomorrow, they aren't going to fix it. It remains to be seen if this policy will continue if security holes in Macs actually start getting exploited in the wild, but for the time being Apple really do have extremely short product lifecycles. The lack of product activation (there isn't even a license key, let alone all the bullshit you get with XP) mitigates this a bit if you don't mind a bit of piracy, and family pack licenses mitiagate it if you have multiple Macs, but it still sucks. Me? I take "family pack" literally, so I updated my iBook from my brother's purchased Tiger family pack disks. If they wanted to make it clear it was for a single households, they should have called it a "household pack" :)
Speaking generally, as I don't know the details: What about the other friend? The one you are helping, who keeps screwing up every effort to help them you make and keeps asking for help. Isn't there a point where they are being such a poor friend to you that, well, they aren't really your friend any more?
Why are bothering to argue with an AC troll?
Try this: where the 35mph sign is there's a 3-year-old who escaped from his mother in the road. If you couldn't have stopped let alone slowed to 35mph you were going too fast.
There's no such thing as a neutral judge. There's always a charge to consider.
Reasonable doubt. The existance of software which downloads illegal material to your computer without your knowlegde is an excellent excuse for having illegal material on your computer. In other words, it makes the computers of child porn types hard to distinguish from the computers of non-child porn types.
If you ever get a job please tell me where, so I can avoid ever having to decipher what the shit you write is supposed to be doing. Thanks.
It's about the electrolye concentration. You can alter that by decreasing the amount of electrolytes (sweating, then replacing water but not electrolytes) or increasing the amount of water (drinking water much faster than your body can get rid of it).
I think you misunderstood the quotation. It is the nature (characteristics, qualities) of the universe which physics studies. It's not saying we can't understand the universe, it's saying that finding out the way the universe is is not the point of physics. If light is made up of elephants which behave like quanta, physics should concern itself with the behaviour of quanta rather than the question of whether the elephants are pink or white, because the colour of the elephants has no bearing on the behaviour of quanta.
I'll pass on the miniseries, thanks. I'm waiting for the ractive.
I specced an HP pavilion as close the a basic MBP as I could. It came to $1,585.99 (from which you can currently deduct $150 in special offers). that's $413 less than a MacBook Pro - about half the differential you claimed. It still has a slower processor, lower screen resolution, poorer battery life and more mass. It is not the same system. Those deficiencies are real and curing them costs money. A fairer comparison (same processor, closer in size and weight) is a Sony VGN FE790, which specced as close to the MBP as possible comes to $1843.99. The Sony is closer, but it still has a lower resolution screen, weighs over 1lb more and lacks gigbit ethernet.
Knock $80 or so off if you think selecting XP Pro rather than Home is unfair, but I was aiming for the closest equivalent possible. The MacBook Pro in question costs $1999.
HP Pavilion dv6000t customizable Notebook PC EZ829AV
* - Genuine Windows XP Professional
* - Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo T7200 (2.0GHz/4MB L2Cache)
* - 15.4" WXGA Widescreen (1280x800)
* - 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
* - HP Imprint Finish + Microphone + Webcam
* - 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* - 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
* - Super Multi 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support
* - Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth
* - No TV Tuner w/remote control
* - 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
* - Microsoft(R) Works/Money
* - System Recovery DVD w/Windows XP Professional
* - HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
$1,585.99
VGN-FE790
LCD Display:
15.4" WXGA TFT with XBRITE-HiColor Technology and MOTION EYE Camera
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Wireless Lan: Wireless LAN (802.11a\b\g) and Bluetooth Technology
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7400 / ICD 2.16 GHz
Memory: 1 GB DDR-SDRAM (DDR2-533, 512 MBx2) Windows Vista Premium Ready
Hard Drive: 120 GB Hard Disk Drive
Optical Drive: DVD+-R DL_DVD+-RW_DVD-RAM Drive
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Battery: Large Capacity Lithium-ion Battery (BPL2C)
Pre-Installed Office Software: Microsoft Works 8.5
Movie Pack: None Movie Pack
Photo Software: Photo Standard
Music Software: Music Plus
Video Software: Video Standard
Engraving: No Engraving
$1843.99
If you really know what you claim to know, then either you or the person who gave you that information is surely under NDA from Apple. I hope you're using a Tor proxy or similar, because knowing Apple they will subpeona OSDN/Slashdot for the IP your postings came from.
How can you give up something which you do not have? Apple users never had the freedom to modify, study and distribute NVidia's copyright code in the first place. Owning an Apple computer does not stop you using, modifying, studying and distributing software which you are entitled to use, modify, study and distribute. The only thing stopping Apple users from writing their own drivers is the fact that they already have access to one which offers substantially more functionality than the FOSS alternatives.
What they actually chose was a machine on which you have fully-featured accelerated 3D graphics with broad software support - it seems they value the freedom to play WoW and have whizzy 3D desktop effects more highly than the freedoms the FOSS alternatives offer.
That certainly used to be the case - that's what a producer like Phil Spector did. But these days, particularly for rap/hip-hop music, the producer often has a large creative input in 'writing the tune'. In this instance, the song is credited to Nelly Furtado, Timothy Clayton, Nate Hills (aka Danja) and Tim Mosley (aka Timbaland). Danja and Timbaland are also the producers.
The thing is, it simply isn't a real problem for the majority of customers. Hard-to-replace batteries were all over the news for a while, but Apple still sells iPods by the bucketload. Apple realised that a sleek exterior and minimum size and weight sell much better than inconvenience a few years down the line. For most customers, a battery cover you can remove with your thumb or a coin is an unnecesarry cost (in terms of style and weight, not cash). I bet Apple have figures on how many replacement batteries are sold for consumer electronics (generally, not just iPods). I'd like to see those figures, but my guess is few are ever sold. You get them for mobile phones and laptops, though I suspect that market is more about increasing runtime than replacing ageing batteries. When I walk into an electronics store I do not generally see racks of replacement batteries for non-Apple MP3 players. Where I have seen replacement batteries they are right next to the kits to replace your iPod battery.
Part of Apple's success comes from challenging the conventional wisdom. There's no point making the sleep light pulse, is there? There's no point adding a speaker so the click wheel actually clicks, is there? Nobody would want an all-in-one PC & monitor that they couldn't upgrade, would they? Well, it turns out that when you do lots of those 'silly' things and get rid of 'essential' features like no-tools battery replacement the result is devices that people want to buy.
Apple have $10bn in cash. Does that not count as Money (with a capital "M")?