in some high security you need to be able to get hdd out for repair and some OEM's even let you destroy a bad HDD and still be able to swap it out under warranty.
...which, other than it being an SSD rather than an HDD, you can do with a Retina MBP, albeit only with the help of the Special Magic Screwdriver mentioned in my linked-to post (available from iFixit) and with a replacement SDD with the appropriate connector (available from Other World Computing, and maybe the high-security customers in question could get them, as well as the Special Magic Screwdriver, from Apple as well).
they'll never release a retina display. it's not their style. they'll release a display with 300dpi or thereabouts, but they wont call it retina any more than Epson call them "retina printers".
Exactly. Most of us couldn't give a rat's ass about retina displays which i personally think on a smaller screen is kinda stupid
And which, having just gotten a 15" Retina MBP (and having just gotten a quick glance at some pictures on somebody's iPhone 4S), I think actually looks rather nice even on smaller screens. I'm not sure whether, had there been a 2.02kg non-Retina 15" MBP with 16GB of memory and ~750GB of secondary storage, I would have opted for that instead.
This is why I'll never be an Apple customer, I LIKE being able to upgrade my laptop or netbook so I can get more usage out of it
I'm curious how long it'll take before 16GB isn't enough memory - I think it was about 4 to 4 1/2 years before my old 4GB MacBook Pro started showing its age in that regard. (Maybe it was too many Safari updates - Safari is not exactly the most abstemious browser on the planet; maybe Chrome would've done better.)
BTW slightly OT but has anyone else noticed that Apple users just don't seem to be happy unless they can convince you "the Apple way" is the RIGHT way? They just don't seem to be able to be happy with a product unless they can somehow get others to think they were "right" and the other way is "wrong".
As an Apple user, I don't give a fuck as long as somebody else isn't trying to argue that their way is "right" in some absolute sense and the other way is "wrong" in some absolute sense (whether it's "wrong for everybody" or even just "wrong for geeks" - I didn't get that 16GB so that I can sit in some cafe writing the Great American Novel or whatever the people here who love using the word "hipster" when mocking Mac owners think everybody with a Mac does, I got it so that I can do a make or a Wireshark regression run and/or run a VM to deal with platform-dependent issues on {libpcap, tcpdump, Wireshark} or add new platform-specific code to libpcap on some other platform without having them fight to the death with Safari or Mail or Quicken or... over limited memory).
Lol, that sounds like a Rush Limbaugh pitch. Enjoy your large footprint under-the-monitor desktop with the giant red rocker power switch on the side and turbo button.
Actually, Rush is apparently doing so, except that the Mac Pro has a power button on the front and no turbo button. He's also waiting for the Mac Pro to get an upgrade.:-)
...although if you're willing to hit the command line, you can get it in Mountain Lion Server. (Dunno why there are no GUI knobs; perhaps they figure not enough customers want it for them to spend the effort maintaining GUI knobs - maybe some third-party vendor will provide and maintain shiny GUI knobs for those who want them.)
As genie for today, I will grant you your wish: Apple Recycling Program. Not only do they pay shipping, you get a gift card, too.
This serves two purposes. Firstly it reduces the number of macs in the second hand market. Second, it is silly "green" propaganda/public relations so hippsters will buy more Macs and feel good about it.
Real recycling would be encourage the second market, don't expect that from Apple any time soon.
What’s the difference between “reuse” and “recycling”?
Equipment may qualify for reuse if it has monetary value and can be resold in the secondary electronics market. Equipment qualifies for recycling if it does not have monetary value; it will be dismantled so that materials such as metals, plastics, and glass can be collected for use in the manufacturing of new products, reducing the need to mine raw materials.
Why should I use the Apple Recycling Program?
By participating in the Apple Recycling Program you are helping the environment by extending the useful life of products that have value in the secondary electronics market. You are also ensuring that products that have reached the end of their useful life are recycled in an environmentally responsible manner in North America.
As an added benefit, if your product qualifies for reuse — meaning it has monetary value — you’ll receive an Apple Gift Card equivalent to its fair market value as determined by PowerON. You can use the gift card for eligible purchases at any U.S. Apple Retail Store or the U.S. Apple Online Store. If your product does not have monetary value, we’ll recycle it at no cost to you.
Even at that, the Fed and Military would have a real cow under that architecture since they chop up drives are part of their data security process.
So, at least for the Retina MBP, they'd buy some of these fancy screwdrivers (USD 13, assuming it doesn't turn into something like the USD 436 hammer), open up the Retina MBP, yank out the removable SSD, and crush it into little tiny pieces (dunno whether it's easier to chop an SSD into tiny pieces than to chop a disk drive into tiny pieces - I'd guess so, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that my "common sense" is wrong there).
Memory? Maybe, there's increasing uses for more RAM. Also it only ships with 8GB by default and 16GB is a highly overpriced upgrade ($200 is not what 16GB of RAM costs these days). One could easily want to go from 8GB to 16GB when it costs less, and pro users might want 32GB. I'm looking at knocking 32GB in my desktop for use with virtual instruments (audio composition).
Possibly - right now, 16GB is plenty - unlike the case with my old 4GB MBP, I don't, for example, think "oh, shit, this is going to take a while, and it's going to make everything else on the machine suck horribly as most of their pages are going to get evicted, and god forbid I try doing a compile" before firing up a VM to try something out on Windows or Linux or Solaris or... - but, then again, my old 4GB MBP was super cool and studly when I bought it almost 5 years ago. Dunno when 16GB is going to be "oh, shit, this is going to take a while, and...".
I think some people question if the tradeoffs for the small form factor are worth it
And it might not be worth it for them. It might be worth it for others.
They seem uninterested in building embedded systems themselves, with the exception of accesspoints and low-end NAS boxes and possibly set-top boxes (if those don't acquire support for third-party apps, at which point I'm not sure to what extent I'd consider them "embedded"). However, they're probably not too opposed to people using their hardware and OS in systems that might be considered "embedded" (just as, for example, Digital Equipment sold tons of PDP-11's for use inside various embedded systems).
The agribusinesses are right, it is anti-science, and it is bullshit. In this case, the side with the truth also has the money. Imagine that.
The "truth" about a food includes whether genetically-modified organisms were involved in producing it. Perhaps those advocating labeling are doing so for reasons that aren't scientifically valid, but, hey, maybe the answer to bad speech is more speech - why don't the agribusinesses spend their money making the case for food the production of which involves GMOs rather than saying "trust me, you don't need to know this". It's not as if it's banning GMO-based foods.
It's unusual to perform a major upgrade on a modern laptop, but it's not unusual to want to repair it or to extract the hard disk from it if the rest of the machine dies - and I mean without smashing the case into little bits to do it.
The machine in question doesn't have a "hard disk" in the sense of spinning rust-coated platters, but it does have a removable SSD. Opening it up is possible - the whole box is not sealed - but it requires a Special Magical Screwdriver, a version of which the iFixit people are claiming to offer. Hopefully Apple won't go after them....
I could deal with a beak to become a super genius I think. Having my genitals shrink away to nothing on the other hand...
At that point in your life cycle you've probably reproduced and, in any case, have more important things to worry about than getting laid, such as defending your kids (or, if no kids, defending your species).
At least as of 2012-08-19 19:15:55, the second word of the second paragraph of that page is "Norwegian", not "Swedish"; you might want to cite something else to support your assertion.
Never mind that he/they have only "over turned power and exposed secrets" when it negatively impacted the West and/or the US. Unless, of course we're supposed to believe that he/they were never handed any embarrassing information or secrets about China/Iran/Russia/whoever. Nope, just the US and the West. No agenda there, is there?
Yup, they only release secrets about Western allies such as Syria.
That may be true but it was because GPL forced them to give back when Apple was still using gcc. Apple doesn't like giving back. They stated as much as their motivation for using llvm. They said that they did not want to have to share their code generation optimizations as their motivation for abandoning gcc.
At the time, it was the prettiest of all. I mean it was so much better than XT or Athena.
If by "XT" you mean "Xt", it had no look-and-feel; it wasn't a toolkit, the "t" in "Xt" standing for "toolkit" nonwithstanding. The full title is "X Toolkit Intrinsics", or just "the Intrinsics", as per the documentation; as the documentation says:
The Intrinsics are a programming library tailored to the special requirements of user interface construction within a network window system, specifically the X Window System. The Intrinsics and a widget set make up an X Toolkit.
The Athena Widgets were a widget set using the Xt Intrinsics; I'm not sure looking even remotely pretty was a goal of that widget set.
Motif was also implemented as a widget set atop the Xt Intrinsics (and there was an OPEN LOOK widget set, OLIT, as well, in addition to Sun's XView port-and-OPEN LOOKification of SunView atop Xlib).
OPEN LOOK or however it was capitalized was just a look and feel specification.
Sun open-sourced XView, a/k/a "SunView atop X11 rather than atop SunWindows", ages ago; I don't know whether AT&T ever open source OLIT, the Xt-based widget set that also implemented the OPEN LOOK specification. I don't know whether NeWS or The NeWS Toolkit were open-sourced.
I don't remember whether there were multiple window managers for OPEN LOOK; Sun did, as far as I know, open-source olwm.
I'm not sure whether any of the desktop environment applications for any OPEN LOOK implementations were open-sourced.
OFDMA resembles code division multiple access (CDMA) spread spectrum, where users can achieve different data rates by assigning a different code spreading factor or a different number of spreading codes to each user.
"Resembles" CDMA, not "is an enhanced form of CDMA". "...where users can achieve different data rates by..." applies to CDMA, not OFDMA.
The article also says that OFDMA "is a multi-user version of the popular orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) digital modulation scheme.", noting that "Multiple access is achieved in OFDMA by assigning subsets of subcarriers to individual users as shown in the illustration below."
I have been using a dual sim GSM quad band for travel from the US to Germany. Looks like I'll have to carry two phones again.:(
Is that "GSM" as in "it only does TDMA, not any flavor of CDMA including those used for UMTS in Germany", so that it won't work on AT&T once they shut down 2G and wouldn't work on any 3G or later networks in Europe either, only on European 2G networks, or "GSM" as in "it only supports the GSM/3GPP protocol stack, but handles both 2G and 3G", so that it'll continue to work on AT&T?
Or is it that the only frequencies it works on with AT&T are their 2G frequencies, so that, whilst it might continue to work fine in Europe if it handles their 3G frequencies, it won't work with AT&T in the US once AT&T stops using those frequencies for 2G unless AT&T switches them to services that your phone also supports?
If by "crippled folder system" you mean "silo for each app, with no subfolders in a silo",
Under IOS, a folder can hold 20 apps. No more. It can't hold subfolders at all.
And it can't handle anything other than apps.
None of this is new, though; it's been that way since "folders" were introduced, and, before that, you couldn't even put apps into some form of organization fancier than "screens in Springboard".
IOS's folder system is one tiny, dysfunctional step above not having folders. It makes organization a problem, it's inconvenient, and it's wasteful of the limited organizing space you have on a tablet. It's a failure of vision.
And the underlying OS and file system support directories inside directories inside directories (good grief, it's UN*X with HFS+ as the underlying file system, for crying out loud), but no, you can't expose that to users, their head would explode or something. Also, grandpa.
The American curriculum has been dumbed down to pass increasing numbers of ignorant minorities. Eventually we'll have a completely unqualified President who majored in Black Studies. Oh wait...
I speculate GP just made up an equation that is quite easy to prove, but otherwise pointless, presumably to make a point about people who speak or act based on prejudice about people who cannot prove pointless equations.
If by "GP" you mean "the person who made this post", he did not make up the equation, he copied it from Prof Hacker's article and pasted it into his posting (and converted it to use BASIC-style syntax for exponentiation because he didn't trust it to survive Slashdot's posting tools otherwise - just pasting it definitely didn't work, and at least one person quoting me tried using HTML entities without success, either, although maybe they just did it wrong), so, no, he didn't make it up.
It would, however, have been helpful if GP would have hit reply on the post he was replying to instead of on the/. summary; without context, his post appears just slightly more random than mine. Or is that because we're both playing the "parse this sentence" game?
He wasn't replying to a post. He was, in effect, replying to a whole crapload of posts in which people seemed to think Prof. Hacker was saying math, or algebra, was completely useless, which, as anybody who Read The Fucking Article would see, is not what he was saying.
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in some high security you need to be able to get hdd out for repair and some OEM's even let you destroy a bad HDD and still be able to swap it out under warranty.
...which, other than it being an SSD rather than an HDD, you can do with a Retina MBP, albeit only with the help of the Special Magic Screwdriver mentioned in my linked-to post (available from iFixit) and with a replacement SDD with the appropriate connector (available from Other World Computing, and maybe the high-security customers in question could get them, as well as the Special Magic Screwdriver, from Apple as well).
they'll never release a retina display. it's not their style. they'll release a display with 300dpi or thereabouts, but they wont call it retina any more than Epson call them "retina printers".
It's not because "it's not their style", it's because Apple would probably sue them if they tried.
Exactly. Most of us couldn't give a rat's ass about retina displays which i personally think on a smaller screen is kinda stupid
And which, having just gotten a 15" Retina MBP (and having just gotten a quick glance at some pictures on somebody's iPhone 4S), I think actually looks rather nice even on smaller screens. I'm not sure whether, had there been a 2.02kg non-Retina 15" MBP with 16GB of memory and ~750GB of secondary storage, I would have opted for that instead.
This is why I'll never be an Apple customer, I LIKE being able to upgrade my laptop or netbook so I can get more usage out of it
I'm curious how long it'll take before 16GB isn't enough memory - I think it was about 4 to 4 1/2 years before my old 4GB MacBook Pro started showing its age in that regard. (Maybe it was too many Safari updates - Safari is not exactly the most abstemious browser on the planet; maybe Chrome would've done better.)
BTW slightly OT but has anyone else noticed that Apple users just don't seem to be happy unless they can convince you "the Apple way" is the RIGHT way? They just don't seem to be able to be happy with a product unless they can somehow get others to think they were "right" and the other way is "wrong".
As an Apple user, I don't give a fuck as long as somebody else isn't trying to argue that their way is "right" in some absolute sense and the other way is "wrong" in some absolute sense (whether it's "wrong for everybody" or even just "wrong for geeks" - I didn't get that 16GB so that I can sit in some cafe writing the Great American Novel or whatever the people here who love using the word "hipster" when mocking Mac owners think everybody with a Mac does, I got it so that I can do a make or a Wireshark regression run and/or run a VM to deal with platform-dependent issues on {libpcap, tcpdump, Wireshark} or add new platform-specific code to libpcap on some other platform without having them fight to the death with Safari or Mail or Quicken or... over limited memory).
Lol, that sounds like a Rush Limbaugh pitch. Enjoy your large footprint under-the-monitor desktop with the giant red rocker power switch on the side and turbo button.
Actually, Rush is apparently doing so, except that the Mac Pro has a power button on the front and no turbo button. He's also waiting for the Mac Pro to get an upgrade. :-)
(Oh, and Obama quite likely knows about Apple....)
DHCP comes to mind...
...although if you're willing to hit the command line, you can get it in Mountain Lion Server. (Dunno why there are no GUI knobs; perhaps they figure not enough customers want it for them to spend the effort maintaining GUI knobs - maybe some third-party vendor will provide and maintain shiny GUI knobs for those who want them.)
As genie for today, I will grant you your wish: Apple Recycling Program. Not only do they pay shipping, you get a gift card, too.
This serves two purposes. Firstly it reduces the number of macs in the second hand market. Second, it is silly "green" propaganda/public relations so hippsters will buy more Macs and feel good about it.
Real recycling would be encourage the second market, don't expect that from Apple any time soon.
Yeah, it's not as if Apple does something silly such as selling refurbished Macs.
As the Apple Recycling Program FAQ says:
Even at that, the Fed and Military would have a real cow under that architecture since they chop up drives are part of their data security process.
So, at least for the Retina MBP, they'd buy some of these fancy screwdrivers (USD 13, assuming it doesn't turn into something like the USD 436 hammer), open up the Retina MBP, yank out the removable SSD, and crush it into little tiny pieces (dunno whether it's easier to chop an SSD into tiny pieces than to chop a disk drive into tiny pieces - I'd guess so, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that my "common sense" is wrong there).
Memory? Maybe, there's increasing uses for more RAM. Also it only ships with 8GB by default and 16GB is a highly overpriced upgrade ($200 is not what 16GB of RAM costs these days). One could easily want to go from 8GB to 16GB when it costs less, and pro users might want 32GB. I'm looking at knocking 32GB in my desktop for use with virtual instruments (audio composition).
Possibly - right now, 16GB is plenty - unlike the case with my old 4GB MBP, I don't, for example, think "oh, shit, this is going to take a while, and it's going to make everything else on the machine suck horribly as most of their pages are going to get evicted, and god forbid I try doing a compile" before firing up a VM to try something out on Windows or Linux or Solaris or... - but, then again, my old 4GB MBP was super cool and studly when I bought it almost 5 years ago. Dunno when 16GB is going to be "oh, shit, this is going to take a while, and...".
I think some people question if the tradeoffs for the small form factor are worth it
And it might not be worth it for them. It might be worth it for others.
They seem uninterested in embedded systems.
They seem uninterested in building embedded systems themselves, with the exception of access points and low-end NAS boxes and possibly set-top boxes (if those don't acquire support for third-party apps, at which point I'm not sure to what extent I'd consider them "embedded"). However, they're probably not too opposed to people using their hardware and OS in systems that might be considered "embedded" (just as, for example, Digital Equipment sold tons of PDP-11's for use inside various embedded systems).
The agribusinesses are right, it is anti-science, and it is bullshit. In this case, the side with the truth also has the money. Imagine that.
The "truth" about a food includes whether genetically-modified organisms were involved in producing it. Perhaps those advocating labeling are doing so for reasons that aren't scientifically valid, but, hey, maybe the answer to bad speech is more speech - why don't the agribusinesses spend their money making the case for food the production of which involves GMOs rather than saying "trust me, you don't need to know this". It's not as if it's banning GMO-based foods.
This is not a winning move for Apple.
It's unusual to perform a major upgrade on a modern laptop, but it's not unusual to want to repair it or to extract the hard disk from it if the rest of the machine dies - and I mean without smashing the case into little bits to do it.
The machine in question doesn't have a "hard disk" in the sense of spinning rust-coated platters, but it does have a removable SSD. Opening it up is possible - the whole box is not sealed - but it requires a Special Magical Screwdriver, a version of which the iFixit people are claiming to offer. Hopefully Apple won't go after them....
I could deal with a beak to become a super genius I think. Having my genitals shrink away to nothing on the other hand...
At that point in your life cycle you've probably reproduced and, in any case, have more important things to worry about than getting laid, such as defending your kids (or, if no kids, defending your species).
No, Sweden is just another 51st state.
At least as of 2012-08-19 19:15:55, the second word of the second paragraph of that page is "Norwegian", not "Swedish"; you might want to cite something else to support your assertion.
Never mind that he/they have only "over turned power and exposed secrets" when it negatively impacted the West and/or the US. Unless, of course we're supposed to believe that he/they were never handed any embarrassing information or secrets about China/Iran/Russia/whoever. Nope, just the US and the West. No agenda there, is there?
Yup, they only release secrets about Western allies such as Syria.
That may be true but it was because GPL forced them to give back when Apple was still using gcc. Apple doesn't like giving back. They stated as much as their motivation for using llvm. They said that they did not want to have to share their code generation optimizations as their motivation for abandoning gcc.
Do you have a citation for that? And what parts of their code generation are missing from the llvmCore directory of their open-source llvm-gcc or clang's CodeGen directory and not contributed back to the LLVM project?
At the time, it was the prettiest of all. I mean it was so much better than XT or Athena.
If by "XT" you mean "Xt", it had no look-and-feel; it wasn't a toolkit, the "t" in "Xt" standing for "toolkit" nonwithstanding. The full title is "X Toolkit Intrinsics", or just "the Intrinsics", as per the documentation; as the documentation says:
The Athena Widgets were a widget set using the Xt Intrinsics; I'm not sure looking even remotely pretty was a goal of that widget set.
Motif was also implemented as a widget set atop the Xt Intrinsics (and there was an OPEN LOOK widget set, OLIT, as well, in addition to Sun's XView port-and-OPEN LOOKification of SunView atop Xlib).
They opensourced Open Look a long time ago.
OPEN LOOK or however it was capitalized was just a look and feel specification.
Sun open-sourced XView, a/k/a "SunView atop X11 rather than atop SunWindows", ages ago; I don't know whether AT&T ever open source OLIT, the Xt-based widget set that also implemented the OPEN LOOK specification. I don't know whether NeWS or The NeWS Toolkit were open-sourced.
I don't remember whether there were multiple window managers for OPEN LOOK; Sun did, as far as I know, open-source olwm.
I'm not sure whether any of the desktop environment applications for any OPEN LOOK implementations were open-sourced.
That is not true. LTE does not use OFDM. It uses OFDMA, which is an enhanced form of CDMA.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Orthogonal_frequency-division_multiple_access
OFDMA resembles code division multiple access (CDMA) spread spectrum, where users can achieve different data rates by assigning a different code spreading factor or a different number of spreading codes to each user.
"Resembles" CDMA, not "is an enhanced form of CDMA". "...where users can achieve different data rates by..." applies to CDMA, not OFDMA.
The article also says that OFDMA "is a multi-user version of the popular orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) digital modulation scheme.", noting that "Multiple access is achieved in OFDMA by assigning subsets of subcarriers to individual users as shown in the illustration below."
Uninformed? Verizon has no 2G network. 1xRTT and EVDO are both 3G.
So they've already shut down their cdmaOne network?
you are mixing stuff up, very badly. '4G' LTE is an overall product, CDMA or WCDMA is a only a wireless system.
LTE is an overall product that doesn't use CDMA for its air interface; instead, it uses OFDMA.
I have been using a dual sim GSM quad band for travel from the US to Germany. Looks like I'll have to carry two phones again. :(
Is that "GSM" as in "it only does TDMA, not any flavor of CDMA including those used for UMTS in Germany", so that it won't work on AT&T once they shut down 2G and wouldn't work on any 3G or later networks in Europe either, only on European 2G networks, or "GSM" as in "it only supports the GSM/3GPP protocol stack, but handles both 2G and 3G", so that it'll continue to work on AT&T?
Or is it that the only frequencies it works on with AT&T are their 2G frequencies, so that, whilst it might continue to work fine in Europe if it handles their 3G frequencies, it won't work with AT&T in the US once AT&T stops using those frequencies for 2G unless AT&T switches them to services that your phone also supports?
FileVault2 is worthwhile.
...and was introduced in Lion.
Under IOS, a folder can hold 20 apps. No more. It can't hold subfolders at all.
And it can't handle anything other than apps.
None of this is new, though; it's been that way since "folders" were introduced, and, before that, you couldn't even put apps into some form of organization fancier than "screens in Springboard".
IOS's folder system is one tiny, dysfunctional step above not having folders. It makes organization a problem, it's inconvenient, and it's wasteful of the limited organizing space you have on a tablet. It's a failure of vision.
And the underlying OS and file system support directories inside directories inside directories (good grief, it's UN*X with HFS+ as the underlying file system, for crying out loud), but no, you can't expose that to users, their head would explode or something. Also, grandpa.
The American curriculum has been dumbed down to pass increasing numbers of ignorant minorities. Eventually we'll have a completely unqualified President who majored in Black Studies. Oh wait...
Yes, you'll have to wait (unless "we" refers to something other than the United States), as the United States doesn't currently have a president who majored in Black Studies.
I speculate GP just made up an equation that is quite easy to prove, but otherwise pointless, presumably to make a point about people who speak or act based on prejudice about people who cannot prove pointless equations.
If by "GP" you mean "the person who made this post", he did not make up the equation, he copied it from Prof Hacker's article and pasted it into his posting (and converted it to use BASIC-style syntax for exponentiation because he didn't trust it to survive Slashdot's posting tools otherwise - just pasting it definitely didn't work, and at least one person quoting me tried using HTML entities without success, either, although maybe they just did it wrong), so, no, he didn't make it up.
It would, however, have been helpful if GP would have hit reply on the post he was replying to instead of on the /. summary; without context, his post appears just slightly more random than mine. Or is that because we're both playing the "parse this sentence" game?
He wasn't replying to a post. He was, in effect, replying to a whole crapload of posts in which people seemed to think Prof. Hacker was saying math, or algebra, was completely useless, which, as anybody who Read The Fucking Article would see, is not what he was saying.