Sounds accurate. I had a build-to-order PowerMac G5 in '03 that was from Elk Grove, and I've seen people post online much more recently that their BTO Mac Pro's came from Elk Grove or Texas as well (and, I think, XServes). Offshoring production to Foxconn makes perfect sense if you're going to crank out tens of thousands of identical units, but if somebody's paying you to customize something, you lose that efficiency of scale.
This may, incidentally, explain why build-to-order options on Macs seem so expensive - we're seeing the cost of having American workers do the customization.
Yes, it did that from 10.0 to 10.3, when frankly all the bugs were getting fixed and all the things that hadn't made it into the system in the first place were being added. And yes, it did that from 10.7 to 10.8 for some reason. But from 10.3 to 10.7, major releases of OS X came two years apart. Has "ExtremeTech" not heard of "Wikipedia?"
It's safer to say that by and large, major releases of OS X happen every 1-2 years, depending on how long it takes Apple to get them ready. Major versions of Windows have also sometimes come out after only 1 year if Microsoft feels they're ready - Windows XP was released the year after Windows 2000 and Windows Me, remember? - but on the flip side, they ran with Windows XP for five years before releasing Vista, close to three years from Vista to 7, and three years again from 7 to 8.
We all know what happens when Apple ships stuff before it's ready. We just had yet another headline about iOS 6 Maps. Some of us remember iCloud's teething pains. And so on. Rushing releases of Windows is likely to be every bit as unwise. If they really want to take an Apple approach, "every 1-2 years, depending on when they're ready" might be safer.
(If the linked article and the summary here on Slashdot want to talk about an Apple OS that does get a major release every year, there's iOS, of course.)
My bad - turned out they're using some scripting for layout, and I had NoScript active. So NoScript was what made everything end up piled on top of each other.
Thanks, by the way, for the reply, which goaded me into actually investigating!
I switched to Chrome (which also offers multiple-profile support) anyway...;)
Okay, well, 8 years ago. But now I'm clearly going to have to find something else to do. Kind of a toss-up between turnip farming, long-haul trucking, and niche porn*, I suppose. *Turnip-farmer porn, long-haul trucker porn, turnip-farming long-haul trucker porn...
1. Declare a national holiday so all can vote on a day off to eliminate the lines.
Actually, making early voting available nationwide (it is where I live) would probably do a lot more on this front. If 50% of your voters are spread out over a week and a half, starting two weeks before election day, it's harder to have long lines.
As an old UNIX/BSD hand who's now using a Mac, I'm a little hopeful that this might somehow make FOSS builds on the Mac easier, or make MacPorts a little more bulletproof.
Yeah, link to the Plasma Active page to remind me that the Seamonkey project obviously hasn't gotten Mozilla's latest rendering engine, since in Seamonkey, the Plasma Active page lays out like something a dog threw up. Thanks for designing to fall back gracefully on browsers that don't support whatever bleeding-edge features you're using, guys.;)/actual captcha word: disgust
I dunno, I can get usless friends/followers with spammy profiles for free on Hi5, Tagged, Netlog or Google+, so I'd say this guy clearly paid too much.
I haven't followed the WinPhone/WinRT dichotomy too closely - was just thinking that on Android or iOS, you code something, build it, and it works on both phones and tablets, unless you make it tablet-only (which isn't necessarily the same as "optimized for tablets"). Sounds like WinPhone and WinRT are going to require separate builds - are the APIs at least pretty identical?
Sure, they're only 2880x1800 or whatever, but hey, I could build a frickin' Beowulf cluster of 'em for the cost of this TV!
On a more serious note, a hypothetical future 21.5" panel (the smallest size used by the most popular desktops right now) with a "Retina" display (say, 200px) would be able to handle this kind of resolution natively. C'mon, panel manufacturers, get the yields up already, so we can have 'em by the time there's any content worth mentioning?/I'd also settle for a 4K projector I could hook a laptop to... oh, and a laptop with the video guts to drive it. I have a sneaky feeling my 2009-vintage one is lacking.
I got back on Facebook in early September, after spending a while away from it. I'd been on it, on and off, since the.edu-address-required days, and have a lot of friends on there. I started adding them, and before long, Facebook decided I must clearly be a spammer, since no "new" user could possibly know a couple hundred people. It banned me from everything but posting to my own wall, accepting friend requests, and poking people, for a solid month.
Windows 7 is undoubtedly mature, Windows 8 is arriving, and Windows Phone is getting to the point where it no longer blows (whole herds of syphilitic) goats. And surely all those smartphones running WP aren't Intel inside. Is Windows RT a tacit admission that Windows Phone doesn't, won't, or can't scale to devices with larger screens?
Actually, I'm pretty sure any photo frame that's digital is at least second generation - a "first generation photo frame" to me is something made of wood or metal that I can put a print in. I have several of those, but none of the digital kind.
I had a classmate who once decided that if bleach was good for mopping the floor in a hospital, and ammonia was good for mopping the floor too, surely they'd be even better together.
Fortunately, he became an airline pilot, where he's not required to know so much about chemistry.
...my kid in Year 9 (that's 8th grade to Americans) is taking chemistry. And biology. And physics. Next year? Oh yes, more chemistry, more biology, and more physics. And the year after as well.
But hey, I support this father's desire to prepare his kid for different career paths. After all, if my kid's "EdExcel Triple Science" path to the GCSEs leads to inventing something, founding a company and being a bazillionaire by age 25, I'm sure the company will need an HTML coder.
Why would I want software to train mice? I don't even have any mice, let alone a behavioral research lab. The market for this sort of thing must be small./I want to sing!
Just a clarification: NRAO also manages the VLA, and is involved in ALMA and other projects - GBT and VLBA are just the NRAO-managed things at risk of losing NSF funding.
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Apple's not the only one to design machines in the US.
Yeah, I heard the new Samsung Chromebook was designed in California too, by Jony Ive.
Sounds accurate. I had a build-to-order PowerMac G5 in '03 that was from Elk Grove, and I've seen people post online much more recently that their BTO Mac Pro's came from Elk Grove or Texas as well (and, I think, XServes). Offshoring production to Foxconn makes perfect sense if you're going to crank out tens of thousands of identical units, but if somebody's paying you to customize something, you lose that efficiency of scale.
This may, incidentally, explain why build-to-order options on Macs seem so expensive - we're seeing the cost of having American workers do the customization.
Yes, it did that from 10.0 to 10.3, when frankly all the bugs were getting fixed and all the things that hadn't made it into the system in the first place were being added. And yes, it did that from 10.7 to 10.8 for some reason. But from 10.3 to 10.7, major releases of OS X came two years apart. Has "ExtremeTech" not heard of "Wikipedia?"
It's safer to say that by and large, major releases of OS X happen every 1-2 years, depending on how long it takes Apple to get them ready. Major versions of Windows have also sometimes come out after only 1 year if Microsoft feels they're ready - Windows XP was released the year after Windows 2000 and Windows Me, remember? - but on the flip side, they ran with Windows XP for five years before releasing Vista, close to three years from Vista to 7, and three years again from 7 to 8.
We all know what happens when Apple ships stuff before it's ready. We just had yet another headline about iOS 6 Maps. Some of us remember iCloud's teething pains. And so on. Rushing releases of Windows is likely to be every bit as unwise. If they really want to take an Apple approach, "every 1-2 years, depending on when they're ready" might be safer.
(If the linked article and the summary here on Slashdot want to talk about an Apple OS that does get a major release every year, there's iOS, of course.)
I'm pondering which villain from Batman would do this sort of thing.
I'm sure a co-worker's method of cooking other meats could be adapted to a turkey...
My bad - turned out they're using some scripting for layout, and I had NoScript active. So NoScript was what made everything end up piled on top of each other.
Thanks, by the way, for the reply, which goaded me into actually investigating!
I switched to Chrome (which also offers multiple-profile support) anyway... ;)
Okay, well, 8 years ago. But now I'm clearly going to have to find something else to do.
Kind of a toss-up between turnip farming, long-haul trucking, and niche porn*, I suppose.
*Turnip-farmer porn, long-haul trucker porn, turnip-farming long-haul trucker porn...
1. Declare a national holiday so all can vote on a day off to eliminate the lines.
Actually, making early voting available nationwide (it is where I live) would probably do a lot more on this front. If 50% of your voters are spread out over a week and a half, starting two weeks before election day, it's harder to have long lines.
Yeah, probably not.
As an old UNIX/BSD hand who's now using a Mac, I'm a little hopeful that this might somehow make FOSS builds on the Mac easier, or make MacPorts a little more bulletproof.
Yeah, link to the Plasma Active page to remind me that the Seamonkey project obviously hasn't gotten Mozilla's latest rendering engine, since in Seamonkey, the Plasma Active page lays out like something a dog threw up. Thanks for designing to fall back gracefully on browsers that don't support whatever bleeding-edge features you're using, guys. ;) /actual captcha word: disgust
From what I've seen lately, that's pretty much what NASCAR drivers are already trying to do.
I dunno, I can get usless friends/followers with spammy profiles for free on Hi5, Tagged, Netlog or Google+, so I'd say this guy clearly paid too much.
I haven't followed the WinPhone/WinRT dichotomy too closely - was just thinking that on Android or iOS, you code something, build it, and it works on both phones and tablets, unless you make it tablet-only (which isn't necessarily the same as "optimized for tablets"). Sounds like WinPhone and WinRT are going to require separate builds - are the APIs at least pretty identical?
Sure, they're only 2880x1800 or whatever, but hey, I could build a frickin' Beowulf cluster of 'em for the cost of this TV!
On a more serious note, a hypothetical future 21.5" panel (the smallest size used by the most popular desktops right now) with a "Retina" display (say, 200px) would be able to handle this kind of resolution natively. C'mon, panel manufacturers, get the yields up already, so we can have 'em by the time there's any content worth mentioning? /I'd also settle for a 4K projector I could hook a laptop to... oh, and a laptop with the video guts to drive it. I have a sneaky feeling my 2009-vintage one is lacking.
I got back on Facebook in early September, after spending a while away from it. I'd been on it, on and off, since the .edu-address-required days, and have a lot of friends on there. I started adding them, and before long, Facebook decided I must clearly be a spammer, since no "new" user could possibly know a couple hundred people. It banned me from everything but posting to my own wall, accepting friend requests, and poking people, for a solid month.
Windows 7 is undoubtedly mature, Windows 8 is arriving, and Windows Phone is getting to the point where it no longer blows (whole herds of syphilitic) goats. And surely all those smartphones running WP aren't Intel inside. Is Windows RT a tacit admission that Windows Phone doesn't, won't, or can't scale to devices with larger screens?
Actually, I'm pretty sure any photo frame that's digital is at least second generation - a "first generation photo frame" to me is something made of wood or metal that I can put a print in. I have several of those, but none of the digital kind.
I had a classmate who once decided that if bleach was good for mopping the floor in a hospital, and ammonia was good for mopping the floor too, surely they'd be even better together.
Fortunately, he became an airline pilot, where he's not required to know so much about chemistry.
...my kid in Year 9 (that's 8th grade to Americans) is taking chemistry. And biology. And physics. Next year? Oh yes, more chemistry, more biology, and more physics. And the year after as well.
But hey, I support this father's desire to prepare his kid for different career paths. After all, if my kid's "EdExcel Triple Science" path to the GCSEs leads to inventing something, founding a company and being a bazillionaire by age 25, I'm sure the company will need an HTML coder.
Why would I want software to train mice? I don't even have any mice, let alone a behavioral research lab. The market for this sort of thing must be small. /I want to sing!
Quick, notify JFK, Romney, Limbaugh, and whoever's hosting "Coast to Coast" these days.
This calls for derp-rage.
He's a fitness freak. Maybe endorphins? 'roids?
The project is under way at a remote observatory on a windswept mountainside in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the High Arctic.
Oh, don't be silly, it's not like I'd be trying to get turn-by-turn directions to a place like that, anyway.
Got to have one of those. To keep the neighbors from spying on your RF emissions... or whatever.
Just a clarification: NRAO also manages the VLA, and is involved in ALMA and other projects - GBT and VLBA are just the NRAO-managed things at risk of losing NSF funding.