You will use it sometimes when it's not plugged in, but for the most part, make sure it's plugged in when you're using it.
I tested my old white MB and the battery only lasted 1 year with one year of daily a "down to 20%" discharge and then a full charge.
I've been using my early 2011 MBP 17 with the "keep it charging, stupid" approach and the battery is still good for 2+ hours when unplugged, as long as I make sure to put Safari on standby when it's not in the foreground. Safari is a memory and processor pig to the extreme. Make sure to 1) not use it, or 2) use a script to set it and its child processes to be paused when in the background, or at least disable JavaScript when Safari is in the background.
Jobs simply took the skeuomorphic interfaces a little too far. It's not a bad concept, but he pushed it to the bad area.
We need a sense of realism so we can relate to the item, but you can take the concept too far so that it's gratuitous and ends up taking away from the overall design.
That's what happened with the leather stitching and leather.
On the other hand, when the pendulum swings way too far the other way and then off on a diagonal, you have this ugly beast that is iOS 7.
Disclosure: I've been using the Mac as my preferred platform wince 1985.
The recent releases of the Mac OS (post Snow Leopard) have been weird and much less useful. Everything is animated, you can't turn the animations off and often, you are forced to wait for the animations to finish.
This causes the UI to get in the way of productivity.
Many times the animations are distracting. Small, darty animations distract many and make them uneasy, since these are the same motions of a mouse or roach. These reactions are felt way before the human mind has a thought formed on what they have seen. It's a more innate reaction. The more you use the system, the more uncomfortable you get with it. And you can't turn them off.
Also, there has been this push to push UI metaphors from iOS on to the desktop. THIS IS TERRIBLE. On my 17" Macbook, in Lion, my scroll bars became the width of a quarter. How is this better than the previous OS? It isn't. Also, auto termination of apps, where the app isn't really auto terminated, but just the UI is? All to save 5 MB of RAM? I don't know about you, but I actually use my File: Open menu to open docs and when I can't tab to an app because it quit behind my back without my permission, I hate this.
iOS 7. OMG. Where to start? Simply by looking at the publicly released images, the design inspires "weak and feeble", with overly saturated (painful) colors against too much white. The functional gears Settings icon of the past has been replaced with a weak looking non functional design that can't work. It doesn't do anything. It's not connected to anything. It's thin and weak.
On this front, the initial releases looked terrible and were panned by many. Even the creator of the font that they used (Helvetica Neue) stated so. One terrible thing is that many elements that were buttons or tappable, used to have a button treatment that made the UI instantly more understandable since a button LOOKED like a button. Now, text is simply blue. Unless it's in another application and then it might be purple, or yellow. This is bad. This is a step back. This forces the user to guess more as to what is a clickable/tappable element and makes the elements harder to see. This isn't helping make an easier to use UI.
Sandboxing. This is the WRONG way to do security. I don't know what the right way is, but this is a royal PITA.
Devices. Gluing the contents to the case? So you can't even update your own machine? Even with the 2011 models, it's not rosy. Simply to replace the keyboard on my 17" MacBook will cost me 500 dollars. 500 damn dollars on a two year old Machine. Sweet mother of suck.
iTunes 11 shipped with a really easy to find data loss bug that cost me 6000 archived podcasts.
There may be some great engineering going on under the hood, but all I've seen coming out of Apple since Snow Leopard have been substandard OS releases that are slower than Snow Leopard, with questionable features that do not make the Mac easier to use. Even the look of the new software is not what it once was. Look at iTunes 11 (fugly) vs. iTunes 10 (crisp).
And no more 17" MBP? Look. We're all getting older and cramming more pixels into a smaller space isn't going to make the screen easier to read.
Airdrop? Who cares! Give me a FAST UI that doesn't burn my eyeballs off.
I'm really upset with the direction Apple's taking. Snow Leopard was the last release that I could use to get work done and from the publicly released photos of iOS 7, I'm sadly counting my days as a Mac user.
When these hybrids can reach the speeds of my SSDs, at > 400 MB/s r/w for larger than 8 GB of unique data, I'll be happy to consider replacing my SSDs with them.
Nothing like being able to duplicate a few TB in a few minutes.
When a wee pup in yon '70s of yore, my family would sometimes go down to Key West where we would stay at a hotel with a mini golf course and an enclosed lagoon with a trained dolphin.
As a whelp, (yes, that's the correct spelling) I would do nothing else but stand by the dolphin pool watching, or play mini golf.
After I had become a regular by the edge of the pool, every so often Sugar the dolphin would come up to me and click and wave a little and bob her head back, as if she was saying, "come on in!" I was simply entranced to be there and that a dolphin was paying attention to me.
The next year after we showed up and I took my place on the edge of the lagoon, it only took 1/2 an hour before Sugar stopped, turned around in the water, swam over to me and greeted me as if she actually remembered me from the year before. Honestly, I'd expected her to have remembered "me" sooner, but I was happy none the less that a dolphin seemed to know and remember me.
Sadly, we weren't able to go back the next summer, but the year after that we did. Eager to see if my friend Sugar remembered me, I stood by the pool for about an hour or two, knowing that she would come over when she realized it was me.
No dice.
No reaction at all.
I was a sad panda. An ignored sad panda.
This totally was a downer for me, and I realized that I might be wrong, that dolphins don't remember and aren't able to make out specific people. This was still on my mind the next morning when my parents and I walked off to breakfast and neared Sugar's lagoon.
Before I could even get close to the pool, I could see Sugar turn towards me, zip over to the side of the pool near me clicking and bobbing her head, making quite a fuss, telling me "I can't believe that was you yesterday and I didn't even remember you! Welcome back! It's great to see you again little monster! Come on in!"
I just wish that the fact that this is regularly wasn't mentioned, so we could see just how many idjits started talking about how this is a sign of "a new cosmic awakening", or some other BS like that.
There are no 1080i monitors. The i stands for interlaced, which means that under high data rate of playing back a video, every other line of the current frame is skipped and filled in in the next frame.
The monitors are p, which stands for progressive and the progressive is progressive scan, as in top to bottom. This, today, is not really relevant on non CRT displays either since the CRTs used scanlines to display the image.
FYI, a 1080p display should be 1920 x 1080 square pixels.
Slashdot Mirror
Pose with a glowing picture of the hypnotoad.
In Safari, Command Shift T, simply toggles the displayed tabs or does nothing.
Stop it. Just stop it.
> America is not a democracy.
Correct.
"and the Republic for which it stands."
We are! We are THE BEST in overall prison population.
USA USA!
We're also pretty good in scientific illiteracy.
Gooooo Jesus!
its useful lifetime, not it's useful lifetime
it's = it is
Intel provides* , not Intel provides.
OK. I have had an OWC SSD in my Mac for a year and get about 450 MB/s reads and writes. Totally worth it.
And it's "old fashioned", not "old fashion".
I learned this with my white MacBook.
Keep it plugged in.
You will use it sometimes when it's not plugged in, but for the most part, make sure it's plugged in when you're using it.
I tested my old white MB and the battery only lasted 1 year with one year of daily a "down to 20%" discharge and then a full charge.
I've been using my early 2011 MBP 17 with the "keep it charging, stupid" approach and the battery is still good for 2+ hours when unplugged, as long as I make sure to put Safari on standby when it's not in the foreground. Safari is a memory and processor pig to the extreme. Make sure to 1) not use it, or 2) use a script to set it and its child processes to be paused when in the background, or at least disable JavaScript when Safari is in the background.
Jobs simply took the skeuomorphic interfaces a little too far. It's not a bad concept, but he pushed it to the bad area.
We need a sense of realism so we can relate to the item, but you can take the concept too far so that it's gratuitous and ends up taking away from the overall design.
That's what happened with the leather stitching and leather.
On the other hand, when the pendulum swings way too far the other way and then off on a diagonal, you have this ugly beast that is iOS 7.
> Eberharts vision of the future
> Eberharts video
You mean, "Eberhart's vision of the future" and "Eberhart's video"
Eberharts = more than one Eberhart
Let's not forget that the apostrophe makes those words possessive. If you leave it out, they are just plural.
Here's why.
Disclosure: I've been using the Mac as my preferred platform wince 1985.
The recent releases of the Mac OS (post Snow Leopard) have been weird and much less useful. Everything is animated, you can't turn the animations off and often, you are forced to wait for the animations to finish.
This causes the UI to get in the way of productivity.
Many times the animations are distracting. Small, darty animations distract many and make them uneasy, since these are the same motions of a mouse or roach. These reactions are felt way before the human mind has a thought formed on what they have seen. It's a more innate reaction. The more you use the system, the more uncomfortable you get with it. And you can't turn them off.
Also, there has been this push to push UI metaphors from iOS on to the desktop. THIS IS TERRIBLE. On my 17" Macbook, in Lion, my scroll bars became the width of a quarter. How is this better than the previous OS? It isn't. Also, auto termination of apps, where the app isn't really auto terminated, but just the UI is? All to save 5 MB of RAM? I don't know about you, but I actually use my File: Open menu to open docs and when I can't tab to an app because it quit behind my back without my permission, I hate this.
iOS 7. OMG. Where to start? Simply by looking at the publicly released images, the design inspires "weak and feeble", with overly saturated (painful) colors against too much white. The functional gears Settings icon of the past has been replaced with a weak looking non functional design that can't work. It doesn't do anything. It's not connected to anything. It's thin and weak.
On this front, the initial releases looked terrible and were panned by many. Even the creator of the font that they used (Helvetica Neue) stated so. One terrible thing is that many elements that were buttons or tappable, used to have a button treatment that made the UI instantly more understandable since a button LOOKED like a button. Now, text is simply blue. Unless it's in another application and then it might be purple, or yellow. This is bad. This is a step back. This forces the user to guess more as to what is a clickable/tappable element and makes the elements harder to see. This isn't helping make an easier to use UI.
Sandboxing. This is the WRONG way to do security. I don't know what the right way is, but this is a royal PITA.
Devices. Gluing the contents to the case? So you can't even update your own machine? Even with the 2011 models, it's not rosy. Simply to replace the keyboard on my 17" MacBook will cost me 500 dollars. 500 damn dollars on a two year old Machine. Sweet mother of suck.
iTunes 11 shipped with a really easy to find data loss bug that cost me 6000 archived podcasts.
There may be some great engineering going on under the hood, but all I've seen coming out of Apple since Snow Leopard have been substandard OS releases that are slower than Snow Leopard, with questionable features that do not make the Mac easier to use. Even the look of the new software is not what it once was. Look at iTunes 11 (fugly) vs. iTunes 10 (crisp).
And no more 17" MBP? Look. We're all getting older and cramming more pixels into a smaller space isn't going to make the screen easier to read.
Airdrop? Who cares! Give me a FAST UI that doesn't burn my eyeballs off.
I'm really upset with the direction Apple's taking. Snow Leopard was the last release that I could use to get work done and from the publicly released photos of iOS 7, I'm sadly counting my days as a Mac user.
It's good to see the slashdot effect working again at full steam.
He needs to be smacked for calling America, "the Homeland".
The "Homeland"??
Fuck off, you fucking useless fuck. I can't state it any more clearly.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo 1953
This just strikes me as a pretty useless way to spend NASA's time and money.
When these hybrids can reach the speeds of my SSDs, at > 400 MB/s r/w for larger than 8 GB of unique data, I'll be happy to consider replacing my SSDs with them.
Nothing like being able to duplicate a few TB in a few minutes.
Read Modoc then. I'm sure you'll love it.
You, human. You are the bringer of food.
When a wee pup in yon '70s of yore, my family would sometimes go down to Key West where we would stay at a hotel with a mini golf course and an enclosed lagoon with a trained dolphin.
As a whelp, (yes, that's the correct spelling) I would do nothing else but stand by the dolphin pool watching, or play mini golf.
After I had become a regular by the edge of the pool, every so often Sugar the dolphin would come up to me and click and wave a little and bob her head back, as if she was saying, "come on in!" I was simply entranced to be there and that a dolphin was paying attention to me.
The next year after we showed up and I took my place on the edge of the lagoon, it only took 1/2 an hour before Sugar stopped, turned around in the water, swam over to me and greeted me as if she actually remembered me from the year before. Honestly, I'd expected her to have remembered "me" sooner, but I was happy none the less that a dolphin seemed to know and remember me.
Sadly, we weren't able to go back the next summer, but the year after that we did. Eager to see if my friend Sugar remembered me, I stood by the pool for about an hour or two, knowing that she would come over when she realized it was me.
No dice.
No reaction at all.
I was a sad panda. An ignored sad panda.
This totally was a downer for me, and I realized that I might be wrong, that dolphins don't remember and aren't able to make out specific people. This was still on my mind the next morning when my parents and I walked off to breakfast and neared Sugar's lagoon.
Before I could even get close to the pool, I could see Sugar turn towards me, zip over to the side of the pool near me clicking and bobbing her head, making quite a fuss, telling me "I can't believe that was you yesterday and I didn't even remember you! Welcome back! It's great to see you again little monster! Come on in!"
One hell of a great creature she was.
Oh, no. Not again.
I just wish that the fact that this is regularly wasn't mentioned, so we could see just how many idjits started talking about how this is a sign of "a new cosmic awakening", or some other BS like that.
I'll be in my bunk-er.
Game starts.
You take two steps.
You have died of dysentery. There is no explanation why this happened.
It doesn't take long before you search for something else that's a much better embodiment of fun.
So, who is it that called this game "fun"?
1080i?
There are no 1080i monitors. The i stands for interlaced, which means that under high data rate of playing back a video, every other line of the current frame is skipped and filled in in the next frame.
The monitors are p, which stands for progressive and the progressive is progressive scan, as in top to bottom. This, today, is not really relevant on non CRT displays either since the CRTs used scanlines to display the image.
FYI, a 1080p display should be 1920 x 1080 square pixels.