Look at the macmini, for instance...... This used to be expandable with additional ram (to 16GB), two hard drives, and came with quad core i7 processor. Amazing.... really, I have one that has been running my website for the last 4 years, and it has given me no trouble at all.....
And apple canceled it. They replaced it with a soldered ram, duel core, which isn't as powerfull as something you could buy 4 years ago. For fuck sake Apple - this is what Commodore did, releaseing the Amiga 600, several years after the Amiga 500, which was no more advanced....... and we all know what happened to Commodore!!...
Apple have never really invented much. But, they have brought together technology and made it into amazing things.
The imac. It was colourful, compact, got rid of legacy ports. It was insanely great. The iPod put a Hard drive in a MP3 player, and made it easy to hold your entire music collection.... The others on the market just were shite in comparison. This was insanely great. OSX, bringing together open source Unix, with a Java JVM installed as standard, using open API's and with a GUI that was far ahead of anything at the time...... Insanely great.
But now....
Soldered in Ram - not insanely great. Non upgradeable SSD - not insanely great. no USB ports on latest macbook, and charging premium for a USB-c adapter. not insanely great. Charging $1,099 for a 2012 model laptop with 4gb ram and crappy i5-3210M processor......FFS, not insanely great.. For heaven sake, I remember Steve jobs reducing prices of models every single mac world presentation. No more.... Not insanely great.
Apple are dead. Maybe not in the financial sense - they have enough money to keep them going for decades. But, in the sense of what brought them back from the brink of bankruptcy back in 1998, they are dead and buried. I only wish Microsoft were a better company so I could switch back.
dude - this mac is sold currently by apple, now, for the price I mentioned. The only reason they havent stopped production of it (they *are* still making it), is that its a big cash cow for them.
They use a similar hardware........But its just so much nicer to use... glass trackpad, OSX. really... I dont mind paying 50% premium....
But, not 100% premium.
When steve jobs was alive, I am *sure* that apple stuff was cheaper. No, it never competed with the low end stuff, and maybe you paid a premium for Apple gear / OSX, fair enough....
BUT, now its just a rip off.
http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-...
$1,199 for 2.5 ghz, 8gb ram, 750gb HDD....
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-...
$459.99 for Intel Core i5, 8 GB, 1TB HDD
Now, I accept the apple premium should be like 50% more..... BUT, we're talking over twice as much for a similar hardware.
For info, I just bought an apple from EBAY. I like apple. I just think they're way overpriced today.
In the UK, as a kid I used to record the top 40 chart off radio 1 onto cassette. And then shove the tape in a walkman!
That is 3 button presses - Record, rewind, play.
Nothing comes close in convenience today. All they need to do is change the radio cassette player and walkman to record to tape using a 16 bit, 24khz digital recording format, and it would easily compete with CD/IPOD
Apple have $59.2 of tax money, owed to the government, locked away in their offshore bank account?
Ok.... Then why doesn't the government just print / reissue that money? - Would it really make any economic difference, if apple paid the tax they owe, or the government just reprints it? A dollar is a dollar whatever way it gets produced!
Then if apple do one day pay up, then just destroy the money they give back.
Why is this such a problem?
The majority of people, are like this guy. He makes a very good point.
"The only real solution is going to be figuring out how to provide power cleanly for less money than doing it dirty."
In the UK, the governments are slashing funding for students. Research into modern nuclear is almost non existence and we have to go to the french to get them to build us a nuke. The figuring out has been outsourced.... it is gutting.
We need a manhattan like project to create clean nuclear power. And we need it now, and for the same reasons - the threat of being wiped out by a second party. Its not germany or russia, this time its mother earth who has the finger on the button, and has been warning us to stop fucking with her for the last 50 years.
A loan is an investment, that is expected to mature and make profit. However, there are sometimes bad investments. It is up to the creditor of that loan to determine if the risk of the loan failing is worth the benefit of increased profit. Greece defaulted 5 times already in history. Being bankrupt is not theft.
Currently, inflation in the UK and US, is hovering around 0%..... YET, more and more people are living in poverty. This is contrary to what you say. The truith is, inflation is one of the only mechanisms that transfer wealth from the rich to the poor (mortgages and savings both end up less in real terms over time). Without inflation, there are no pay rises, no increase in available cash to spend. If you want the Dickensian model of work houses and food banks, keep spouting the 'Inflation is bad' mantra.
When I learnt programming on an old VIC20, there was no stinking internet.... just a few books I got from the library. Really, I think that the internet can be a huge distraction.... and, if cut off from the internet, I would probably do my best work!
I agree, you wouldn't want to do GTA5 in java...... However,
Minecraft is currently chugging away on my laptop at 512MB, and performing quite well.....Even low end laptops have at least 2gb, and most of the graphics is offloaded to the GPU. It is very possible to make things run in half the memory, and be very strict about deallocating stuff after you allocated them....reference counting, etc. But, one mistake, and you've core-dumped your app. It is much harder to make something using C, than Java....especially cross platform.
I would say Java is good enough, in this instance.
So, you're talking about Java Applets..... Which happen to have the same security flaws as other browser based plugins, like Flash (Zero-Day flaw patched just last week).... Who uses applets now anyhow?
Minecraft is a Java *application* - not an applet.
My 10 year old lad has already said he hates version 1.8 of minecraft, and blames Microsoft for it....
Regardless of if its M$'s fault or not (admittedly its not), I am really proud of him for hating microsoft already!.... That's my boy!
What you can buy is an 'Toast Decorator' - its a Chinese import, probably not the most legal thing as they've cracked the DRM........ what you do is just slip your generic, non toastable bagels in this toasting bag, and then shove it in your toaster. It accepts the 'self.toast()' method, and does whats required to make sure your bagels are toasted to perfection every time. Result!
Oh FFS. Look on the bloody Bagel packet before you buy. If it doesn't say 'implements toastable' then don't buy em. Yeh , they may be a few bucks more, but thats your own fault for getting a toaster that is made by the same people who make the bagels.
The only reason the robot exists, is because the man who owns it paid someone to build it for him, or if he built it himself, paid someone for the components. He would only do this if he expects a return on his investment. I assume, that for him, a robot would be cheaper than paying for a human to do the work. So, he would be able to make more profit.
> So we can all agree that we have all things for free since robots made them
No, the man who owns the bot wont let that happen.
>or we have to create bullshit jobs no one needs to distribute the money
No one is going to pay anyone for doing a bullshit jobs.
The only way out of this problem, is if everyone gets paid a Basic Income by the government. Money for nothing. Its inevitable this will have to happen.
BUT.....wait, without these people, those who have the machines wont have enough customers to turn a profit, and will probably go bankrupt after investing so much in the first place.....
This is a house of cards. Get rid of the poor people, and those above them will fall.
I think if I knew about TDD at the start of wanting to learn to program, I think I would have avoided it completely, and done something else with my time.
Seriously, for all the advantages of TDD, the problem is it is just not fun at all.
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For a quad core i7, 250gb SSD, 1tb HDD..... and unlimited 1gbps connection.
Look at the macmini, for instance...... This used to be expandable with additional ram (to 16GB), two hard drives, and came with quad core i7 processor. Amazing.... really, I have one that has been running my website for the last 4 years, and it has given me no trouble at all.....
And apple canceled it. They replaced it with a soldered ram, duel core, which isn't as powerfull as something you could buy 4 years ago. For fuck sake Apple - this is what Commodore did, releaseing the Amiga 600, several years after the Amiga 500, which was no more advanced....... and we all know what happened to Commodore!!...
Apple have never really invented much. But, they have brought together technology and made it into amazing things.
The imac. It was colourful, compact, got rid of legacy ports. It was insanely great. The iPod put a Hard drive in a MP3 player, and made it easy to hold your entire music collection.... The others on the market just were shite in comparison. This was insanely great. OSX, bringing together open source Unix, with a Java JVM installed as standard, using open API's and with a GUI that was far ahead of anything at the time...... Insanely great.
But now....
Soldered in Ram - not insanely great. Non upgradeable SSD - not insanely great. no USB ports on latest macbook, and charging premium for a USB-c adapter. not insanely great. Charging $1,099 for a 2012 model laptop with 4gb ram and crappy i5-3210M processor......FFS, not insanely great.. For heaven sake, I remember Steve jobs reducing prices of models every single mac world presentation. No more.... Not insanely great.
Apple are dead. Maybe not in the financial sense - they have enough money to keep them going for decades. But, in the sense of what brought them back from the brink of bankruptcy back in 1998, they are dead and buried. I only wish Microsoft were a better company so I could switch back.
dude, the macbook pro uses i5-3210M, the toshiba uses i5-5200U. I think you'll find the toshiba is faster.
dude - this mac is sold currently by apple, now, for the price I mentioned. The only reason they havent stopped production of it (they *are* still making it), is that its a big cash cow for them.
They use a similar hardware........But its just so much nicer to use... glass trackpad, OSX. really... I dont mind paying 50% premium....
But, not 100% premium.
The mac I linked to, was 4.5 pounds..... The toshiba was 4.8 pounds.... So, there's a few ounces between them..... still in the same ball park though.
When steve jobs was alive, I am *sure* that apple stuff was cheaper. No, it never competed with the low end stuff, and maybe you paid a premium for Apple gear / OSX, fair enough.... BUT, now its just a rip off. http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-... $1,199 for 2.5 ghz, 8gb ram, 750gb HDD.... http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-... $459.99 for Intel Core i5, 8 GB, 1TB HDD Now, I accept the apple premium should be like 50% more..... BUT, we're talking over twice as much for a similar hardware. For info, I just bought an apple from EBAY. I like apple. I just think they're way overpriced today.
In the UK, as a kid I used to record the top 40 chart off radio 1 onto cassette. And then shove the tape in a walkman! That is 3 button presses - Record, rewind, play. Nothing comes close in convenience today. All they need to do is change the radio cassette player and walkman to record to tape using a 16 bit, 24khz digital recording format, and it would easily compete with CD/IPOD
Apple have $59.2 of tax money, owed to the government, locked away in their offshore bank account? Ok.... Then why doesn't the government just print / reissue that money? - Would it really make any economic difference, if apple paid the tax they owe, or the government just reprints it? A dollar is a dollar whatever way it gets produced! Then if apple do one day pay up, then just destroy the money they give back. Why is this such a problem?
The majority of people, are like this guy. He makes a very good point. "The only real solution is going to be figuring out how to provide power cleanly for less money than doing it dirty." In the UK, the governments are slashing funding for students. Research into modern nuclear is almost non existence and we have to go to the french to get them to build us a nuke. The figuring out has been outsourced.... it is gutting. We need a manhattan like project to create clean nuclear power. And we need it now, and for the same reasons - the threat of being wiped out by a second party. Its not germany or russia, this time its mother earth who has the finger on the button, and has been warning us to stop fucking with her for the last 50 years.
A loan is an investment, that is expected to mature and make profit. However, there are sometimes bad investments. It is up to the creditor of that loan to determine if the risk of the loan failing is worth the benefit of increased profit. Greece defaulted 5 times already in history. Being bankrupt is not theft.
Currently, inflation in the UK and US, is hovering around 0%..... YET, more and more people are living in poverty. This is contrary to what you say. The truith is, inflation is one of the only mechanisms that transfer wealth from the rich to the poor (mortgages and savings both end up less in real terms over time). Without inflation, there are no pay rises, no increase in available cash to spend. If you want the Dickensian model of work houses and food banks, keep spouting the 'Inflation is bad' mantra.
When I learnt programming on an old VIC20, there was no stinking internet.... just a few books I got from the library. Really, I think that the internet can be a huge distraction.... and, if cut off from the internet, I would probably do my best work!
Java applications have no sandbox. They're just as 'unsafe' as exe's, or other native apps.
I agree, you wouldn't want to do GTA5 in java...... However, Minecraft is currently chugging away on my laptop at 512MB, and performing quite well.....Even low end laptops have at least 2gb, and most of the graphics is offloaded to the GPU. It is very possible to make things run in half the memory, and be very strict about deallocating stuff after you allocated them....reference counting, etc. But, one mistake, and you've core-dumped your app. It is much harder to make something using C, than Java....especially cross platform. I would say Java is good enough, in this instance.
I recon he means javascript.....*sigh*
So, you're talking about Java Applets..... Which happen to have the same security flaws as other browser based plugins, like Flash (Zero-Day flaw patched just last week).... Who uses applets now anyhow? Minecraft is a Java *application* - not an applet.
Why does Java suck?.....seems ok to me?
My 10 year old lad has already said he hates version 1.8 of minecraft, and blames Microsoft for it.... Regardless of if its M$'s fault or not (admittedly its not), I am really proud of him for hating microsoft already!.... That's my boy!
What you can buy is an 'Toast Decorator' - its a Chinese import, probably not the most legal thing as they've cracked the DRM........ what you do is just slip your generic, non toastable bagels in this toasting bag, and then shove it in your toaster. It accepts the 'self.toast()' method, and does whats required to make sure your bagels are toasted to perfection every time. Result!
Oh FFS. Look on the bloody Bagel packet before you buy. If it doesn't say 'implements toastable' then don't buy em. Yeh , they may be a few bucks more, but thats your own fault for getting a toaster that is made by the same people who make the bagels.
The only reason the robot exists, is because the man who owns it paid someone to build it for him, or if he built it himself, paid someone for the components. He would only do this if he expects a return on his investment. I assume, that for him, a robot would be cheaper than paying for a human to do the work. So, he would be able to make more profit. > So we can all agree that we have all things for free since robots made them No, the man who owns the bot wont let that happen. >or we have to create bullshit jobs no one needs to distribute the money No one is going to pay anyone for doing a bullshit jobs. The only way out of this problem, is if everyone gets paid a Basic Income by the government. Money for nothing. Its inevitable this will have to happen.
BUT.....wait, without these people, those who have the machines wont have enough customers to turn a profit, and will probably go bankrupt after investing so much in the first place..... This is a house of cards. Get rid of the poor people, and those above them will fall.
I think if I knew about TDD at the start of wanting to learn to program, I think I would have avoided it completely, and done something else with my time. Seriously, for all the advantages of TDD, the problem is it is just not fun at all.