Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
The soldered RAM makes sense because they're using LPDDR3 memory (I think because of the Intel CPU models they're using) and AFAIK there's no LPDDR3 SODIMMs.
But it still pisses me off to have to pay Apple's prices for RAM.
If they at least made the Mac mini smaller, but nope. And when they do make it smaller, I'm pretty sure it will lose a lot of ports too, which means it's Hackintosh or nothing for my next computer.
He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!
The way I see it, it's often the programmers who are the problem. They think they're the special snowflakes and their way of seeing things is the one and only way of doing things and everybody else got it wrong.
The best example I can think of is GIMP. Every other pixel-based editor on the planet works similarly enough that there's almost no learning curve. If you know one, you can work in the others. But GIMP? Of course not, GIMP is a special snowflake and the users are the problem.
From TFA: "She began by sketching arrows, paintbrushes, and pointing hands in a notebook because the application for designing icons on screen hadn’t been coded yet. These casual prototypes of the new, user-friendly face of computing were initially drawn with a pencil on graph paper, each square representing a pixel."
Yeah sure, waste your money on a solid gold watch that's going to be obsolete in a year.
Of course, the computer is totally encapsulated so we may be able to just upgrade that part alone. It would allow for upgrades at a lower price and a lower environmental cost.
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It's less than 5000$ to register a trademark in all countries?
Cut them dome slack, it's not like they're paid to do this job.
Even at 64GB people would say it's a typical overpriced Apple toy which only fashion-oriented idiots would buy.
But Google releases the same thing with lower specifications and people stay silent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They need another country to do it first so they can copy it.
Here you go.
Gold-pressed lead... that's from the Bizarro Star Trek Universe, right?
No idea. I prefer perpendicular anyway.
Took them long enough!
I think the iPod shuffle also went up 10$, it's still listed for 50$ on thesource.ca.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
The soldered RAM makes sense because they're using LPDDR3 memory (I think because of the Intel CPU models they're using) and AFAIK there's no LPDDR3 SODIMMs.
But it still pisses me off to have to pay Apple's prices for RAM.
If they at least made the Mac mini smaller, but nope. And when they do make it smaller, I'm pretty sure it will lose a lot of ports too, which means it's Hackintosh or nothing for my next computer.
He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
The way I see it, it's often the programmers who are the problem. They think they're the special snowflakes and their way of seeing things is the one and only way of doing things and everybody else got it wrong.
The best example I can think of is GIMP. Every other pixel-based editor on the planet works similarly enough that there's almost no learning curve. If you know one, you can work in the others. But GIMP? Of course not, GIMP is a special snowflake and the users are the problem.
Do prime numbers work in something else than base 10 or are we simply assuming all other intelligent beings in the Universe use base 10 too?
I think the digital equivalent of "hold the film up to the light and look in a magnifying glass" is punched tape.
There is a precedent of such technology being used in Italy, decades ago. It was a bit more painful than this new method though.
Put the video on an Apple Time Capsule and put it inside the Time Capsule.
I don't care if it works or not, just do it to confuse the people who will be digging it up in 50 or 100 years.
Search "disc rot". It doesn't only affect home-burned discs, commercial discs are not immune.
For the power problem, why not put a hand crank generator in there too?
Why RGB? I thought everything non-digital used CYMK?
Alright, alright! We're getting off your lawn!
It will, as soon as systemd assimilates Java.
systemd = The Borg
From TFA: "She began by sketching arrows, paintbrushes, and pointing hands in a notebook because the application for designing icons on screen hadn’t been coded yet. These casual prototypes of the new, user-friendly face of computing were initially drawn with a pencil on graph paper, each square representing a pixel."
Yeah sure, waste your money on a solid gold watch that's going to be obsolete in a year.
Of course, the computer is totally encapsulated so we may be able to just upgrade that part alone. It would allow for upgrades at a lower price and a lower environmental cost.