Even with those "pedestrian" use cases, I would argue that to many people it could be worth the premium.
If you boot up in 1 minute instead of 2 minutes, well, it's not 3 times better, but the user will probably notice. Booting up and starting programs is where I notice the biggest improvement. If you're going to be storing a LOT of photos, and/or editing them heavily, a regular hard drive might be better both for the sheer size and for the sustained write speeds.
Even the "average" user will probably think it's worth it. They just don't know it is until they experience the difference.
To be fair though, if the Democratic Republic of Congo is the only place that knows about it, that's pretty much the same thing as an all new discovery. I'm just guessing, but they probably don't have a lot of resources freed up for categorization/conservation/study of new species.
Apple since their inception has been about bringing computing to the masses.
Generally, bringing something to "the masses" includes lowering the price, not raising it. Oh, and having a larger market share than your competitor, not a smaller one.
But when did this stupid zombie apocalypse fad become so widespread? Does it have to do with movies? Resident Evil (2002) and Shaun of the Dead (2004) have been around awhile, but I feel like it's only been in the last couple of years that everyone and their damned grandmother has started talking about it. Maybe video games.
Either way, it won't be zombies that kill you. It will be cancer. Sorry to be such a buzzkill =(
Slashdot Mirror
Quantum mechanics!
/waves hands
LATE
Even with those "pedestrian" use cases, I would argue that to many people it could be worth the premium.
If you boot up in 1 minute instead of 2 minutes, well, it's not 3 times better, but the user will probably notice. Booting up and starting programs is where I notice the biggest improvement. If you're going to be storing a LOT of photos, and/or editing them heavily, a regular hard drive might be better both for the sheer size and for the sustained write speeds.
Even the "average" user will probably think it's worth it. They just don't know it is until they experience the difference.
Did anyone else read "Phobos" in the Quake 3 Arena guy's voice?
LOL, am I reading this correctly? Let me paraphrase:
Compliance is using a standard, rather than proprietary, adapter*
*Note: Instead of one standard adapter, using two proprietary adapters to emulate a single standard adapter, shall constitute compliance.
What. The. Fuck.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=0.000000032+parsecs+per+leap+year+to+mph
Almost as much as I love speeding to work in the morning @ 0.000000032 parsecs per leap year.
Excuse me, I'm going to go cook my lunch @ 69 million Joules per day.
To be fair though, if the Democratic Republic of Congo is the only place that knows about it, that's pretty much the same thing as an all new discovery. I'm just guessing, but they probably don't have a lot of resources freed up for categorization/conservation/study of new species.
Apple since their inception has been about bringing computing to the masses.
Generally, bringing something to "the masses" includes lowering the price, not raising it. Oh, and having a larger market share than your competitor, not a smaller one.
The extra 23% of the traffic is the intrusive ads that no one wants.
I dunno about curmudgeon, but he definitely sounds like an elitist. Oh the irony.
But when did this stupid zombie apocalypse fad become so widespread? Does it have to do with movies? Resident Evil (2002) and Shaun of the Dead (2004) have been around awhile, but I feel like it's only been in the last couple of years that everyone and their damned grandmother has started talking about it. Maybe video games. Either way, it won't be zombies that kill you. It will be cancer. Sorry to be such a buzzkill =(
To make it road legal. Damned government regulations.
As long as you're going to troll, at least learn how to spell.
Thomas Gabriel warned them! And they ignored him!
The manhole in question went 45 miles a second. That's around 70 kilometers a second whereas the speed of light is around 3*10^5 km/s. So it was going around .002 the speed of light, which is still very damn impressive but is a lot less than .1c. See http://professionalparanoid.wordpress.com/the-fastest-man-made-object-ever-a-nuclear-powered-manhole-cover-true/ for more about the manhole cover and the circumstances of its launch.
So... much... awesome.
People would rather bitch about the oppressive M$ and $team than pay a paltry $3.40. Don't take that away from them.
Oh... and most of your money goes to the artists. That's a nice bonus.
www.bandcamp.com
Best place for me at least to find music currently. Lots of great stuff, some terrible stuff, but the important thing is that it's all new to me.
BanHammer time!
I find it interesting that Apple was ordered to pay more in damages than Samsung was, even though Apple brought the suit.
Yes, shocking that a Korean court would fine the American company more heavily than the Korean one.
interesting != shocking
God damn I wish I had mod points.
No one's talking about a fire sale!
This is why I visit /.
/Learning is FUNdamental!
I think the word "redundancy" in this sense is used to mean "layoff." While not technically correct I believe it's a widely used term in the HR world.