If you can't see why having a thinner, lighter, laptop with a usable monitor and keyboard would be appealing, then it isn't made for you. I know plenty of business travelers who would love an ultra-thin laptop with an all-day battery. They don't care about having a hundred different ports, only how much crap they have to lug from client to client.
If you want a full featured desktop replacement, get a Macbook Pro (or any other laptop on the market). This is for people who want a full featured ultra-portable and willing to pay the premium.
So the watch battery lasts all day, but your iPhone doesn't.....Hmmmmm. Good luck with that.
What are you talking about? I have a 6 plus that I use all day and only charge at night, and I have yet to see the battery dip below 85%. Most of the time it doesn't go below 90%. Most iPhones will easily go a day or longer without charging.
Ma-Ma-Max Headroom here from Network 23. You don't have to be from 20 minutes into the future to realize that this is a great idea. Imagine, my shiny, chiseled visage adorning every TV set, 24 hours a day-day. Add to that the fact the I can see my adoring public as well, M-Magic!
Null Modem serial cable and download a copy of Kermit. I recently had to do this to transfer software from Windows 7 to a PLC network card that for some reason was a 286 embedded PC running DOS. Worked fairly well.
As I recall, Valve decided that VR hardware was not in their road map and decided to let go of the entire team, including female engineer extraordinaire Jeri Ellsworth. They also asked if they could take what they have done with them, and Valve gave them the Greenlight.
So, it appears that was shortsighted and they are now again pursuing VR hardware again? That is one company that just doesn't want to make sense, at least to me anyway.
Worse, at least you can play with toys and change their pose. Most collectibles are just cheap, painted plastic statuettes. God forbid you take them out of the package.
I bought mine from Amazon last summer with an extended 3 year warranty. But Sears was selling them in store as well. Walmart also had them Online only, I believe.
I actually learned about it on here as the Seiki 4K TVs have been coming up at every single monitor thread
I like my 55" Seiki 4K Set. It is dirt cheap (~$800), looks great, and Sounds OK. But the best feature is that it is just a TV. None of that smart crap. No Internet, no Apps, no camera and microphone, just a mid-end 4K TV.
Besides, everything has "Smart-TV" features these days. I can play Youtube, Netflix, and Amazon (if not browse the web outright) on my Wii, Wii U, PS3, 360, and my Media Center PC. Hell, even the cable box can connect to the internet. Why must my TV?
The franchise, yes. However, a few crossover characters would be pretty sweet. I'd love to see Ironman try to fight Magneto. I would totally go see an Avengers movie (Even a Spiderman movie) with Deadpool. Forget Shawarma, they all go out for Chimichangas.
Why? Except possibly for money, Oliver has a great gig at HBO. Total creative control, no sponsors to piss off, no forced interview to hock some lame movie or book, and only a half-hour to fill each week.
He would be crazy to give that up to go back to the Daily Show.
The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.[28] To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite.[29] On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
In case you didn't know, Mozilla Suite was the open sourced code base of Netscape Communicator. The "Mozilla" name being the original working name of Netscape Navigator.
I thought the goal was to take Netscape communicator, strip out all the crap, leaving just the lean, fast web browser. Funny they seem to have forgotten that as every release adds more and more bloat and unwanted "features". It might as well be Netscape all over again.
Teleconferencing is great for when you need to talk to people in China and Mexico at the same time for only an hour. Anything beyond that, "here's your plane ticket, it leaves first thing."
Telecommuting: if you're not in the office, you're not working.
On one hand, they are partially correct. Every PC, tablet, phone etc. has a damn calculator these days. Hell, anything that can query google can work as a calculator. At a certain point we are better spent learning why and how to use the math rather than forcing to learn time and again how to perform the calculations by hand.
On the other hand, multiplication is at such a low level, any person who can't do rudimentary multiplication in their head probably shouldn't be passed to the next grade much less graduate. If one can't do simple "Home economics"-type problems in their head (like estimating the cost of purchases or the such) they have been failed by their education.
Too be fair, the media and slashdot in particular has always had a love / hate relationship with the iPad. In one sense, it seems the media is in love with them in that pretty much every journalist and pundit I have ever seen is usually carrying one. On the other hand, most articles not from a Mac fan site, is usually going on and on about "Apple is doomed", "iOS is the worst OS ever and is a failure compared to the greatness of Android", "iPad is just an overpriced toy", "Bill Gates proved time and again that nobody wants tablet computers", etc.
I like my iPads and my computers (2 Windows Desktops and 2 Macs). If you like Android tablets, or Windows laptops, or whatever great, use what makes you happy. However, in the end, Apple just posted record profits which tells me they are at least putting out products that people want.
For a good bit of nostalgia, find the Slashdot post anouncing the iPad and look at the amount of vitriol and nay-saying.
Is the Star Trek universe full of clones whose previous iterations back to the original are long dead?
No. This was actually addressed in a hand-waving sort of way in an episode of Enterprise where the inventor of the transporter said that that particular metaphysical argument was poppycock.
Unfortunately, that means my days as both a graphics artist and a gamer will be over. Way to go Nadella, you greedy sack of shit.
Don't be such a drama queen. Mac's have been associated with graphic artists and "creative types" for over 30 years. Or you could always learn to use The Gimp like everyone else.
Also, I know it hurts to hear this as an PC Master-Race Ubermench, but millions of people play games on these things called "consoles." Sure, you have to ditch the mouse and keyboard, for something called a "gamepad" but it can theoretically be done. I know your Ubermench brethren will laugh at you for leaving the Gamer Gods to join the Konsole kiddies, but I'm sure they will understand your reasons and only laugh at you behind your back.
If I was using only native Mac apps, I would have been okay enough. But I was accessing Linux GUI apps within a VM, and linux console apps via SSH. It was a real challenge to get decent Mac-to-PC key bindings.
Just out of curiosity, what linux apps are you using that can't be installed using one of the many mac package managers such as Macports, Fink, Homebrew, etc? While I don't use fink or homebrew, Macports typically has pretty good support for a good swath of popular (and even some pretty obscure) console and GUI programs. If the translation of key mappings between host and VM is the issue, having a native version installed could help solve your problem.
Really? Emoji as they are being described here are part of the Unicode standard. If their textboxes blow up on account of stray unicode characters, then their software is crap to begin with. That isn't bloatware, that is bad design.
Bloatware is that desire to turn the web browser into a mail client, text editor, HTML IDE, chat client, music player, video editor, and all-around operating system. Giving full support to standard character sets is well within the core feature set of a program whose purpose is to connect to a site and display text and pictures.
I assume that you also believe the Wingding fonts were the biggest fundamental design flaw with Windows?
The problem is it is a terrible idea for a service because as it has mentioned by practically everyone in this forum, storage space is cheap, bandwidth is expensive, and kiddy pron. However, for a company to use on internal networks, it would be a pretty neat idea. It would be an interesting way of turning leased or purchased corporate PCs into cloud-based thin clients while still utilizing the (generally) large hard drives most laptop and desktop machines come with. It also means not needing a data center in every campus to house local cloud storage for employees as every computer on the network would be a (hopefully) redundant node of the local storage cloud.
I bought an iPad 2 last year and love the thing. I found that I use it as much for work as I do for home. So I bought an Air 2 to keep at home. They both work fine and I have no need to replace them until they can no longer fulfill their purpose of checking email, browsing the web for a few hours and playing the occasional video or game. Definitely not going to replace them every 2-3 years.
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If you can't see why having a thinner, lighter, laptop with a usable monitor and keyboard would be appealing, then it isn't made for you. I know plenty of business travelers who would love an ultra-thin laptop with an all-day battery. They don't care about having a hundred different ports, only how much crap they have to lug from client to client.
If you want a full featured desktop replacement, get a Macbook Pro (or any other laptop on the market). This is for people who want a full featured ultra-portable and willing to pay the premium.
So the watch battery lasts all day, but your iPhone doesn't.....Hmmmmm. Good luck with that.
What are you talking about? I have a 6 plus that I use all day and only charge at night, and I have yet to see the battery dip below 85%. Most of the time it doesn't go below 90%. Most iPhones will easily go a day or longer without charging.
Ma-Ma-Max Headroom here from Network 23. You don't have to be from 20 minutes into the future to realize that this is a great idea. Imagine, my shiny, chiseled visage adorning every TV set, 24 hours a day-day. Add to that the fact the I can see my adoring public as well, M-Magic!
Yep, this can only be good for your old pal Max.
Then don't play it. It isn't like there aren't thousands of other games in dozens of other genres to play.
Quick, time to call Guybrush Threepwood, mighty explorer.
Look behind you, a three-headed monkey god!
Null Modem serial cable and download a copy of Kermit. I recently had to do this to transfer software from Windows 7 to a PLC network card that for some reason was a 286 embedded PC running DOS. Worked fairly well.
Kermit For Windows
Kermit for DOS
As I recall, Valve decided that VR hardware was not in their road map and decided to let go of the entire team, including female engineer extraordinaire Jeri Ellsworth. They also asked if they could take what they have done with them, and Valve gave them the Greenlight.
So, it appears that was shortsighted and they are now again pursuing VR hardware again? That is one company that just doesn't want to make sense, at least to me anyway.
Worse, at least you can play with toys and change their pose. Most collectibles are just cheap, painted plastic statuettes. God forbid you take them out of the package.
Care to cite some sources there, Butch? Or were they covered up by the Illuminati at the last gathering of Masons on the Moon Landing set?
I bought mine from Amazon last summer with an extended 3 year warranty. But Sears was selling them in store as well. Walmart also had them Online only, I believe.
I actually learned about it on here as the Seiki 4K TVs have been coming up at every single monitor thread
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Just because you don't care for something doesn't mean no one else does.
I like my 55" Seiki 4K Set. It is dirt cheap (~$800), looks great, and Sounds OK. But the best feature is that it is just a TV. None of that smart crap. No Internet, no Apps, no camera and microphone, just a mid-end 4K TV.
Besides, everything has "Smart-TV" features these days. I can play Youtube, Netflix, and Amazon (if not browse the web outright) on my Wii, Wii U, PS3, 360, and my Media Center PC. Hell, even the cable box can connect to the internet. Why must my TV?
The franchise, yes. However, a few crossover characters would be pretty sweet. I'd love to see Ironman try to fight Magneto. I would totally go see an Avengers movie (Even a Spiderman movie) with Deadpool. Forget Shawarma, they all go out for Chimichangas.
Why? Except possibly for money, Oliver has a great gig at HBO. Total creative control, no sponsors to piss off, no forced interview to hock some lame movie or book, and only a half-hour to fill each week.
He would be crazy to give that up to go back to the Daily Show.
From Wikipedia:
The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser.[28] To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite.[29] On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.
In case you didn't know, Mozilla Suite was the open sourced code base of Netscape Communicator. The "Mozilla" name being the original working name of Netscape Navigator.
I thought the goal was to take Netscape communicator, strip out all the crap, leaving just the lean, fast web browser. Funny they seem to have forgotten that as every release adds more and more bloat and unwanted "features". It might as well be Netscape all over again.
Teleconferencing is great for when you need to talk to people in China and Mexico at the same time for only an hour. Anything beyond that, "here's your plane ticket, it leaves first thing."
Telecommuting: if you're not in the office, you're not working.
On one hand, they are partially correct. Every PC, tablet, phone etc. has a damn calculator these days. Hell, anything that can query google can work as a calculator. At a certain point we are better spent learning why and how to use the math rather than forcing to learn time and again how to perform the calculations by hand.
On the other hand, multiplication is at such a low level, any person who can't do rudimentary multiplication in their head probably shouldn't be passed to the next grade much less graduate. If one can't do simple "Home economics"-type problems in their head (like estimating the cost of purchases or the such) they have been failed by their education.
Too be fair, the media and slashdot in particular has always had a love / hate relationship with the iPad. In one sense, it seems the media is in love with them in that pretty much every journalist and pundit I have ever seen is usually carrying one. On the other hand, most articles not from a Mac fan site, is usually going on and on about "Apple is doomed", "iOS is the worst OS ever and is a failure compared to the greatness of Android", "iPad is just an overpriced toy", "Bill Gates proved time and again that nobody wants tablet computers", etc.
I like my iPads and my computers (2 Windows Desktops and 2 Macs). If you like Android tablets, or Windows laptops, or whatever great, use what makes you happy. However, in the end, Apple just posted record profits which tells me they are at least putting out products that people want.
For a good bit of nostalgia, find the Slashdot post anouncing the iPad and look at the amount of vitriol and nay-saying.
Is the Star Trek universe full of clones whose previous iterations back to the original are long dead?
No. This was actually addressed in a hand-waving sort of way in an episode of Enterprise where the inventor of the transporter said that that particular metaphysical argument was poppycock.
Unfortunately, that means my days as both a graphics artist and a gamer will be over. Way to go Nadella, you greedy sack of shit.
Don't be such a drama queen. Mac's have been associated with graphic artists and "creative types" for over 30 years. Or you could always learn to use The Gimp like everyone else.
Also, I know it hurts to hear this as an PC Master-Race Ubermench, but millions of people play games on these things called "consoles." Sure, you have to ditch the mouse and keyboard, for something called a "gamepad" but it can theoretically be done. I know your Ubermench brethren will laugh at you for leaving the Gamer Gods to join the Konsole kiddies, but I'm sure they will understand your reasons and only laugh at you behind your back.
If I was using only native Mac apps, I would have been okay enough. But I was accessing Linux GUI apps within a VM, and linux console apps via SSH. It was a real challenge to get decent Mac-to-PC key bindings.
Just out of curiosity, what linux apps are you using that can't be installed using one of the many mac package managers such as Macports, Fink, Homebrew, etc? While I don't use fink or homebrew, Macports typically has pretty good support for a good swath of popular (and even some pretty obscure) console and GUI programs. If the translation of key mappings between host and VM is the issue, having a native version installed could help solve your problem.
Really? Emoji as they are being described here are part of the Unicode standard. If their textboxes blow up on account of stray unicode characters, then their software is crap to begin with. That isn't bloatware, that is bad design.
Bloatware is that desire to turn the web browser into a mail client, text editor, HTML IDE, chat client, music player, video editor, and all-around operating system. Giving full support to standard character sets is well within the core feature set of a program whose purpose is to connect to a site and display text and pictures.
I assume that you also believe the Wingding fonts were the biggest fundamental design flaw with Windows?
The problem is it is a terrible idea for a service because as it has mentioned by practically everyone in this forum, storage space is cheap, bandwidth is expensive, and kiddy pron. However, for a company to use on internal networks, it would be a pretty neat idea. It would be an interesting way of turning leased or purchased corporate PCs into cloud-based thin clients while still utilizing the (generally) large hard drives most laptop and desktop machines come with. It also means not needing a data center in every campus to house local cloud storage for employees as every computer on the network would be a (hopefully) redundant node of the local storage cloud.
Same here.
I bought an iPad 2 last year and love the thing. I found that I use it as much for work as I do for home. So I bought an Air 2 to keep at home. They both work fine and I have no need to replace them until they can no longer fulfill their purpose of checking email, browsing the web for a few hours and playing the occasional video or game. Definitely not going to replace them every 2-3 years.