No dice with that application. These things use entirely different environmental chips and as of yet, there is no place I can find that has an application with ProBook support. But I can tell you, I've had this laptop on my lap for about an hour and a half now in a server room where ambient temp is 71 degrees F and a slight breeze from the A/C units. The bottom is definitely warm, but not to the point of burning you... however, from experience yesterday, much like my 12" 1.5Ghz Powerbook G4 that this (2.0Ghz MacBook Pro (ProBook)) heats up significantly under load or on an insulating surface like my bed! To the point of being very hot! This machine doesn't run any cooler nor very much hotter than any other Powerbook.
The switch was more about performance per watt and the fact that the Core Duo doesn't melt if it doesn't have a huuuuuge heatsink on it.
In any case, I love this thing dispite a few flaws here and there. (P.S. no piece of computer equipment is perfect but this definitely suits me better than any other laptop).
While I'm spouting loveliness, I must point out the fact that nobody has released Intel recompiled codecs for OS X to be an EXTREME disappointment. Honestly, how hard are they to port to an OS X that's virtually the same? Flip4Mac? Nope. XviD? Nope. AC3? Nope. DivX? Yeah, ok, one! Granted the daily snapshot of VLC that's compiled for Intel works but you can kiss goodbye any kind of Quicktime integration until these guys get off their butt.
On the flip side, let me commend the good people at Keyspan... they DO have an Intel OS X driver for their USB-Serial adapter which makes it possible for me to completely get rid of my Dell from work since I needed a serial port to access routers, switches and sun boxes. A thousand high-fives to Keyspan.
I have absolute confidence that every point release of OS X on the new Intel hardware will make the machine overall faster and in some cases give it more battery life. It's all part of the Apple strategy to give mild disappointment at first and the blow you away with their miraculous hardware/software skills. Just like the inexplicable speed bump prior to release.
All of a sudden, you're getting more value than you paid for, and people will woo and ahh. And I will be one of them as I'm typing this on my spankin' new ProBook (or MacBook Pro for you that like to call it the rather lame proper name).
When it's reinstated and they're making millions upon millions of dollars per year on a product that isn't even theirs, they'll still insist that the recording industry is dying and it's all because of you downloading/burning scum! "Never mind the fact that we're making a profit on that too".
However, who in their right mind would put 'exit' under the "File" menu? 'print' and 'close' makes sense, but 'exit' is to exit a program, not do anything with a file.
You can bet US media companies would jump all over this if the UK did extend copyrights. There'd be a "see, another country did it!@#" whine from the industry and of course, the heavily financed politians would bow immediately.
This is just freaking ridiculous. When will it end if copyright just keeps being extended? It quite frankly never will. It's ludicris to think that the creator of something _needs_ to be able to make profits on that something for over 40 years, even 20 years is pushing it. 40 years is HALF OF A PERSON'S LIFE EXPECTANCY. I'm starting to think twice about DeBeer's slogan, it should be "A copyright is forever".
A copyright longer than 20 years serves one and only one purpose, to make the rich richer. That's it. It does nothing for the consumer or aspiring content makers.
Actually, I have Cringely on my sidebar because he amuses me (at least he makes more SENSE than Dvorak) and thought this one was particularly amusing so I submitted it, completely independent of Digg. Imagine that! It's a very small Internet after all.
"In 1992, Mr. Campana and Mr. Stout agreed to form NTP. The company was never about making things or selling things. It was about protecting potentially valuable ideas, some of which dealt with sending messages to wireless devices. And for nearly a decade, Mr. Campana's patents lay dormant, just waiting for RIM to produce the BlackBerry."
Protecting from what? Protecting from someone who independently envisions and creates the idea? That's called following through with an idea. That's called innovation. Something NTP never bothered to do because they were too lazy and/or lacked the ability.
It's different from cable because when you purchase a DVD, you're paying for one specific program whereas paying your cable bill gets you roughly 10,000 times more content. Granted you only watch a fraction of it.
Since everybody is so confused about the point I was making, I'll spell it out: I'm not debating the quality of all the content on TV, I'm defending TV as a delivery method. As of right now, the TV business model works. This will undoubtedly change in the future but I think if TV disappeared and we were only left with a system where we have to explicitly purchase the program we want, it'd be a much more miserable system due to the fact you need to be "aware" of things before you "want" to purchase them.
I'd agree with people that say most of TV content is crap. But jesus people, you don't have to like everything, in fact, it's better if you don't because that's what makes us individuals. And if you think you're only entertained by "high brow, intellectual" entertainment, I think you'd be surprised. You don't need to be running at 100% brain activity all the time, just relax, that's what entertainment is there for.
A completely retarded response. Expected from an anonymous post.
In any event, I'm not saying that "hey, I'm a mindless twit that wants everything decided for me". That's just absurd.
My point was when I want to be entertained after work or whatnot, I don't want to have to go down another path of decisions just to get that entertainment. I rather just flip a switch and watch. We're just talking about a television show/movie for christ sake, not making a decision that will influence the outcome of the galaxy.
You can take all your "sheep" comments and shove it since I'm sure you're not exactly the model example of a freedom fighting guerrilla either.
See how much software patents suck when you're on the recieving end?
Dear NTP,
Have you ever had the desire to work for your money?
Now, can someone remind me why there can't be two different pieces of software accomplishing a similar task in the "free" market? Wouldn't the laws of capitalism decide which one is "better"?
This "me first" junk has got to stop. If someone releases a better product and puts the first out of business isn't that just how the market works? Can McDonalds sue McDonalds for putting out a similar product? I personally am going to sue dogs around the world for having the same lung mechanism to inhale and process their oxygen... oh, that's right, I just need to get the patent first.
Just nitpicking here but I'm tired of people ragging on TV. People, mostly geeks, complain about how TV is just pure crap but then in the next breath they talk about a TV show they just bought on DVD. Ugh. So you don't hate TV for all of it's content obviously. But I will agree that about 1% of TV shows are "lowest common denomonator" that a majority of people can enjoy. So that leaves another 99% and of that you may like a huge chunk of it but obviously a sizeable piece of all TV is going to be "crap" to you. You can't win them all. Especially when there's hundreds of channels with about 12 hours per day of programming.
Channels serve a useful purpose to me. When I want to be "entertained" and I don't want to stress my already-indecisive brain, I just turn on the TV and "see what's on". I _hate_ hovering over a stack of DVDs and trying to decide what sounds appetizing to me at that moment. This is the same reason I prefer "radio" (sat. or mp3 streams) to playing straight mp3s or cds.
I rather let somebody do the deciding for me most of the time. Which of course freaks out anybody that is a control freak. Just relax, and say it with me: Everything will be ok.
Which also brings up that in the DVD method, titles need to be selected and paid for (either by renting or buying) before you watch them. I'm more of a try-before-you-buy chap.
I think ProBook would've been optimal as it drops the superfluous use of 2 words and gets the point across as well as separating the iBook and "MacBook Pro" lines.
As far as I'm concerned that's the ancillary point. Maybe it's a petty emotion to not want someone to make easy money when I have to actually work for it, but I still feel cheated in some way.
Keep doing what you are doing. It will work itself out. Just post the best submissions you get. Good is good, regardless of the source. We the readers are smart enough to figure this stuff out. And the moderators will tire of the OT ramblings and squash them. It's a good system.
That's really not the issue though. We're not saying that a bunch of Slashdot users click on his link and end up at his site. We're saying that because the link is on Slashdot (a page with a very high hit count), BB's website gets pushed up in Google rankings and other people looking for Beatles or George Harrison or whatnot get subjected to his crappy portal site and he profits from it.
Is it right that he should profit from Slashdot and Google by abusing how they work?
It does please me to see that he actually does care, at least a little.
The problem is that "Conspiracy Theorist" comes up numerous times in the post. Let me point out that I was one of the first to get angry about last night's story. I do not consider myself a "Conspiracy Theorist", here's why.
By definition, a "CT" takes nothing and makes it something, looking for subtle details and making them the backbone of a theory. The situation here that we're debating about isn't subtle! It's a brick to the side of the face!
Our main moaning points are:
1) BB has an _insane_ amount of submissions approved EXTREMELY disproportionately approved by ScuttleMonkey.
2) BB is obviously abusing Google's page rank system by using Slashdot as a referer.
3) BB has never (to my knowledge) posted in any discussions! His submissions are generic as you've already admitted.
#3 only reinforces #2. And #1 isn't a conspiracy theory made out of some subjective evidence, it's a freaking overwelming fact.
Seriously, I appreciate you trying to explain the situation but I also would love a little common sense. If you're _so_ hands off that you allow people to abuse the system even when we're screaming that they are, then that is just as bad if not worse as "editing submitters". If BB was actually a part of the community instead of a spammer that found a way to do his dirty work through Slashdot, then I may not "want blood". But as it stands, he isn't.
My personal vote is not to accept any BB posts because of glaring point #2 and #3. And I seriously doubt we'd be discussing this at all if it weren't for point #1.
Um, ok, How is the DVD dead when the next technology is just essentially a backwards-compatible, high density version?
Boy, those high density floppies really killed floppies... wtf? And if I recall high density 3.5" media lived alot longer than the low density 3.5", granted ED disks didn't catch on but that's because better alternatives were available RIGHT THEN. (zip disk, cd-rom)
The DVD will last a very long time, at least another 10 years before something not backwards compatible replaces it.
Firefly is one of the most original and true series I have seen in a long time.
I really have to take issue with this. Let me say, I really did enjoy the series/movie but it was far from original. It was very much a formula western set in space. The uniqueness did come from the characters and the storylines around them. But for the most part, the series was hardly "original".
Oh come on, he happens to make this statement on the very day the DVD is set to be released? Sounds like a marketing gimmick to me... If the DVD sales are amazing - and they might be, considering the cult status of the show - he can then announce a miraculous comeback.
Seems to me that it's more likely that a news outlet (Entertainment Weekly) contacted him to ask him his opinion on the future of the series so that they can run it with a "Hey, don't forget this DVD is coming out today".
Unfortunately, he wasn't very optimistic. But I agree with other people out there that feel that he made the movie in the way he did so that he could give a sense of finality to the series. (The last episode of the TV series is not very fulfilling at all as far as a finale goes.)
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I was referring to the lobbying groups, not the artists.
No dice with that application. These things use entirely different environmental chips and as of yet, there is no place I can find that has an application with ProBook support. But I can tell you, I've had this laptop on my lap for about an hour and a half now in a server room where ambient temp is 71 degrees F and a slight breeze from the A/C units. The bottom is definitely warm, but not to the point of burning you... however, from experience yesterday, much like my 12" 1.5Ghz Powerbook G4 that this (2.0Ghz MacBook Pro (ProBook)) heats up significantly under load or on an insulating surface like my bed! To the point of being very hot! This machine doesn't run any cooler nor very much hotter than any other Powerbook.
The switch was more about performance per watt and the fact that the Core Duo doesn't melt if it doesn't have a huuuuuge heatsink on it.
In any case, I love this thing dispite a few flaws here and there. (P.S. no piece of computer equipment is perfect but this definitely suits me better than any other laptop).
While I'm spouting loveliness, I must point out the fact that nobody has released Intel recompiled codecs for OS X to be an EXTREME disappointment. Honestly, how hard are they to port to an OS X that's virtually the same? Flip4Mac? Nope. XviD? Nope. AC3? Nope. DivX? Yeah, ok, one! Granted the daily snapshot of VLC that's compiled for Intel works but you can kiss goodbye any kind of Quicktime integration until these guys get off their butt.
On the flip side, let me commend the good people at Keyspan... they DO have an Intel OS X driver for their USB-Serial adapter which makes it possible for me to completely get rid of my Dell from work since I needed a serial port to access routers, switches and sun boxes. A thousand high-fives to Keyspan.
I'm very pleased for you. I however am more pleased for myself that I won't have to stare at the kludge that is X or... Dell for that matter.
I have absolute confidence that every point release of OS X on the new Intel hardware will make the machine overall faster and in some cases give it more battery life. It's all part of the Apple strategy to give mild disappointment at first and the blow you away with their miraculous hardware/software skills. Just like the inexplicable speed bump prior to release.
All of a sudden, you're getting more value than you paid for, and people will woo and ahh. And I will be one of them as I'm typing this on my spankin' new ProBook (or MacBook Pro for you that like to call it the rather lame proper name).
When it's reinstated and they're making millions upon millions of dollars per year on a product that isn't even theirs, they'll still insist that the recording industry is dying and it's all because of you downloading/burning scum! "Never mind the fact that we're making a profit on that too".
However, who in their right mind would put 'exit' under the "File" menu? 'print' and 'close' makes sense, but 'exit' is to exit a program, not do anything with a file.
Certainly, no operating system would do something that logical.
You can bet US media companies would jump all over this if the UK did extend copyrights. There'd be a "see, another country did it!@#" whine from the industry and of course, the heavily financed politians would bow immediately.
This is just freaking ridiculous. When will it end if copyright just keeps being extended? It quite frankly never will. It's ludicris to think that the creator of something _needs_ to be able to make profits on that something for over 40 years, even 20 years is pushing it. 40 years is HALF OF A PERSON'S LIFE EXPECTANCY. I'm starting to think twice about DeBeer's slogan, it should be "A copyright is forever".
A copyright longer than 20 years serves one and only one purpose, to make the rich richer. That's it. It does nothing for the consumer or aspiring content makers.
Edward Murrow was a communist agent?
Watch this movie for some McCarthy'ism.
My head just exploded after reading that.
Actually, I have Cringely on my sidebar because he amuses me (at least he makes more SENSE than Dvorak) and thought this one was particularly amusing so I submitted it, completely independent of Digg. Imagine that! It's a very small Internet after all.
"In 1992, Mr. Campana and Mr. Stout agreed to form NTP. The company was never about making things or selling things. It was about protecting potentially valuable ideas, some of which dealt with sending messages to wireless devices. And for nearly a decade, Mr. Campana's patents lay dormant, just waiting for RIM to produce the BlackBerry."
Protecting from what? Protecting from someone who independently envisions and creates the idea? That's called following through with an idea. That's called innovation. Something NTP never bothered to do because they were too lazy and/or lacked the ability.
It's different from cable because when you purchase a DVD, you're paying for one specific program whereas paying your cable bill gets you roughly 10,000 times more content. Granted you only watch a fraction of it.
Since everybody is so confused about the point I was making, I'll spell it out: I'm not debating the quality of all the content on TV, I'm defending TV as a delivery method. As of right now, the TV business model works. This will undoubtedly change in the future but I think if TV disappeared and we were only left with a system where we have to explicitly purchase the program we want, it'd be a much more miserable system due to the fact you need to be "aware" of things before you "want" to purchase them.
I'd agree with people that say most of TV content is crap. But jesus people, you don't have to like everything, in fact, it's better if you don't because that's what makes us individuals. And if you think you're only entertained by "high brow, intellectual" entertainment, I think you'd be surprised. You don't need to be running at 100% brain activity all the time, just relax, that's what entertainment is there for.
A completely retarded response. Expected from an anonymous post.
In any event, I'm not saying that "hey, I'm a mindless twit that wants everything decided for me". That's just absurd.
My point was when I want to be entertained after work or whatnot, I don't want to have to go down another path of decisions just to get that entertainment. I rather just flip a switch and watch. We're just talking about a television show/movie for christ sake, not making a decision that will influence the outcome of the galaxy.
You can take all your "sheep" comments and shove it since I'm sure you're not exactly the model example of a freedom fighting guerrilla either.
Dear RIM,
See how much software patents suck when you're on the recieving end?
Dear NTP,
Have you ever had the desire to work for your money?
Now, can someone remind me why there can't be two different pieces of software accomplishing a similar task in the "free" market? Wouldn't the laws of capitalism decide which one is "better"?
This "me first" junk has got to stop. If someone releases a better product and puts the first out of business isn't that just how the market works? Can McDonalds sue McDonalds for putting out a similar product? I personally am going to sue dogs around the world for having the same lung mechanism to inhale and process their oxygen... oh, that's right, I just need to get the patent first.
Ok, I'm raged out... for now.
In the respect that they were killed in the vain of trying to push our boundaries of what we can do as humans, this accident qualifies as a tragedy.
Just because you accept risk doesn't mean you waive all rights to sympathy, especially in light of more "noble" causes.
Just nitpicking here but I'm tired of people ragging on TV. People, mostly geeks, complain about how TV is just pure crap but then in the next breath they talk about a TV show they just bought on DVD. Ugh. So you don't hate TV for all of it's content obviously. But I will agree that about 1% of TV shows are "lowest common denomonator" that a majority of people can enjoy. So that leaves another 99% and of that you may like a huge chunk of it but obviously a sizeable piece of all TV is going to be "crap" to you. You can't win them all. Especially when there's hundreds of channels with about 12 hours per day of programming.
Channels serve a useful purpose to me. When I want to be "entertained" and I don't want to stress my already-indecisive brain, I just turn on the TV and "see what's on". I _hate_ hovering over a stack of DVDs and trying to decide what sounds appetizing to me at that moment. This is the same reason I prefer "radio" (sat. or mp3 streams) to playing straight mp3s or cds.
I rather let somebody do the deciding for me most of the time. Which of course freaks out anybody that is a control freak. Just relax, and say it with me: Everything will be ok.
Which also brings up that in the DVD method, titles need to be selected and paid for (either by renting or buying) before you watch them. I'm more of a try-before-you-buy chap.
I'll keep my TV thanks.
I think ProBook would've been optimal as it drops the superfluous use of 2 words and gets the point across as well as separating the iBook and "MacBook Pro" lines.
As far as I'm concerned that's the ancillary point. Maybe it's a petty emotion to not want someone to make easy money when I have to actually work for it, but I still feel cheated in some way.
Keep doing what you are doing. It will work itself out. Just post the best submissions you get. Good is good, regardless of the source. We the readers are smart enough to figure this stuff out. And the moderators will tire of the OT ramblings and squash them. It's a good system.
That's really not the issue though. We're not saying that a bunch of Slashdot users click on his link and end up at his site. We're saying that because the link is on Slashdot (a page with a very high hit count), BB's website gets pushed up in Google rankings and other people looking for Beatles or George Harrison or whatnot get subjected to his crappy portal site and he profits from it.
Is it right that he should profit from Slashdot and Google by abusing how they work?
It does please me to see that he actually does care, at least a little.
The problem is that "Conspiracy Theorist" comes up numerous times in the post. Let me point out that I was one of the first to get angry about last night's story. I do not consider myself a "Conspiracy Theorist", here's why.
By definition, a "CT" takes nothing and makes it something, looking for subtle details and making them the backbone of a theory. The situation here that we're debating about isn't subtle! It's a brick to the side of the face!
Our main moaning points are:
1) BB has an _insane_ amount of submissions approved EXTREMELY disproportionately approved by ScuttleMonkey.
2) BB is obviously abusing Google's page rank system by using Slashdot as a referer.
3) BB has never (to my knowledge) posted in any discussions! His submissions are generic as you've already admitted.
#3 only reinforces #2. And #1 isn't a conspiracy theory made out of some subjective evidence, it's a freaking overwelming fact.
Seriously, I appreciate you trying to explain the situation but I also would love a little common sense. If you're _so_ hands off that you allow people to abuse the system even when we're screaming that they are, then that is just as bad if not worse as "editing submitters". If BB was actually a part of the community instead of a spammer that found a way to do his dirty work through Slashdot, then I may not "want blood". But as it stands, he isn't.
My personal vote is not to accept any BB posts because of glaring point #2 and #3. And I seriously doubt we'd be discussing this at all if it weren't for point #1.
Thanks for your time..
Here, here. I second and third and fourth this.
Taco doesn't read the site and SM abuses the crap out of the system.
Digg is looking better all the time.
Some people choose to buy drugs, some people choose to meet people, some people choose to listen to music, some people choose to....
A social network imitating society.. what are the odds?
Um, ok, How is the DVD dead when the next technology is just essentially a backwards-compatible, high density version?
Boy, those high density floppies really killed floppies... wtf? And if I recall high density 3.5" media lived alot longer than the low density 3.5", granted ED disks didn't catch on but that's because better alternatives were available RIGHT THEN. (zip disk, cd-rom)
The DVD will last a very long time, at least another 10 years before something not backwards compatible replaces it.
Firefly is one of the most original and true series I have seen in a long time.
I really have to take issue with this. Let me say, I really did enjoy the series/movie but it was far from original. It was very much a formula western set in space. The uniqueness did come from the characters and the storylines around them. But for the most part, the series was hardly "original".
Oh come on, he happens to make this statement on the very day the DVD is set to be released? Sounds like a marketing gimmick to me... If the DVD sales are amazing - and they might be, considering the cult status of the show - he can then announce a miraculous comeback.
Seems to me that it's more likely that a news outlet (Entertainment Weekly) contacted him to ask him his opinion on the future of the series so that they can run it with a "Hey, don't forget this DVD is coming out today".
Unfortunately, he wasn't very optimistic. But I agree with other people out there that feel that he made the movie in the way he did so that he could give a sense of finality to the series. (The last episode of the TV series is not very fulfilling at all as far as a finale goes.)
Oh well, back to Battlestar it is.