Yeah. And on Mac OS X you can drive GUI without ever touching the mouse or trackpad. Expose for switching between windows (including multiple app windows) and spotlight for launching apps or finding and opening your documents.
It really is kind of like working in the terminal (of course there is no piping of commands), but it beats clicking everywhere in Windows.
Of all the Antec cases, I have used the Sonata ("silence is beautiful" TM) series of cases. However, they are not that sturdy and will rattle if loaded with 4 hard drives.
You are kidding right? You are actually comparing that helicopter sounding fugly plastic case to the beauty, simplicity, silence and elegance of Mac Pro? Some people just don't have taste and I suppose you can't make them see:D.
Well, to each his own. I'm tired of looking for reviews, getting parts from zillion different sources, and then spending my valuable time building a franken machine that sucks in the end anyway. Install Windows on it and you have a shitty package...
My time is important to me now, and I'd rather pay someone else for a good product, and enjoy my life. Apple is giving me an affordable product that gives me what I need. Obviously not everyone sees the value, but life would be boring if we all thought the same.
I don't know about that. I have Mac Pro and at the time I could not buy any other machine with same performance, fantastic design (and it matters to me: the cooling solution is brilliant, everything is accessible and above all, the machine is ultra quiet).
Now just buy the base config from Apple and upgrade the rest yourself for much less.
Of all the things Mac Pro does and has, the fact that is is running cool and with NO NOISE or rattle of any kind is worth a lot to me.
People will easily pay (and I have) several thousand dollars extra for a quiet case, quiet hard drive enclosure, quiet power supply etc and still won't have as quiet system.
I built my PCs for ages, and spent up to $5000 and still could not have as well made system.
Macbook and Macbook pros are beautiful machines and a joy to use. Everything from the looks to the OS is well put together and to some of us that is worth the money.
I have not seen a single PC or laptop that I would want to buy at any price segment. Just look at those God awful keyboards with 15 letters written on each key, and non standard layouts, and the whole things creaks when you hold it. Thanks but no thanks.
There are plenty of people who know how the economy works. Which is not to say they can predict how the market will evolve exactly because it involves so many random "on the whim" decisions to sell or buy.
For a really good summary of the issues with glossy displays. These are exactly my concerns and problems with them (and many non-glossy LCDs that are just too bright).
so idea is not foreign to me. But having something that confidential on a laptop is not a good idea anyway.
And if the evil government suspects you have something important on your laptop, they won't even try to break in, they will go straight to torture until you tell them.
Obviously, as the population size converges to zero the usefulness of the statistic approaches the zero as well. If there was a country with one person living in it, and that person won the Nobel prize, that country would be "the smartest country".
But comparing countries that are similar in population or perhaps small multiples of each other does say something about the total state of education and culture/civilization level of the country.
Austria has beaten US (and so has Sweden for example and others), if you look at number of prize winners per head of population. It has 19 Nobel prize winners and only 10 million people (currently). Translated to US population, that would be 570 winners. Sweden is even better, it would have 840, Switzerland 937, UK 684 etc.
Also, did you notice that a lot of the US winners were not born or educated in the US, but were imported, 68 of them in fact.
Also, quite a few of the winners are also peace prizes.
So, your superficial stats do not support your thesis.
I used to think like that, but then all the things you talk about are just syntactic sugar. There is nothing you can do with proper generic that you can't do in Java or C#. Yes, C++ is way more expressive than almost any other language, but that is also its peril.
And when was the last time you used meta programming to solve a concrete problem that could not be elegantly solved otherwise.
Most people learn how to calculate a factorial using meta programming techniques and stop right there. It's more of a curiosity than useful practical technique.
probably also think that Internet is local US phenomenon and the extension of the media companies, and hence logically can be controlled by those same companies.
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Yes, on Mac OS X, you often times have to since on Mac esp. spaces in file/directory names are so common.
Yeah. And on Mac OS X you can drive GUI without ever touching the mouse or trackpad. Expose for switching between windows (including multiple app windows) and spotlight for launching apps or finding and opening your documents.
It really is kind of like working in the terminal (of course there is no piping of commands), but it beats clicking everywhere in Windows.
So there were 2-300=-298 people? Does that mean 298 votes will be missing?
Of all the Antec cases, I have used the Sonata ("silence is beautiful" TM) series of cases. However, they are not that sturdy and will rattle if loaded with 4 hard drives.
You are kidding right? You are actually comparing that helicopter sounding fugly plastic case to the beauty, simplicity, silence and elegance of Mac Pro? Some people just don't have taste and I suppose you can't make them see :D.
Well, to each his own. I'm tired of looking for reviews, getting parts from zillion different sources, and then spending my valuable time building a franken machine that sucks in the end anyway. Install Windows on it and you have a shitty package...
My time is important to me now, and I'd rather pay someone else for a good product, and enjoy my life. Apple is giving me an affordable product that gives me what I need. Obviously not everyone sees the value, but life would be boring if we all thought the same.
I don't know about that. I have Mac Pro and at the time I could not buy any other machine with same performance, fantastic design (and it matters to me: the cooling solution is brilliant, everything is accessible and above all, the machine is ultra quiet).
Now just buy the base config from Apple and upgrade the rest yourself for much less.
Of all the things Mac Pro does and has, the fact that is is running cool and with NO NOISE or rattle of any kind is worth a lot to me.
People will easily pay (and I have) several thousand dollars extra for a quiet case, quiet hard drive enclosure, quiet power supply etc and still won't have as quiet system.
I built my PCs for ages, and spent up to $5000 and still could not have as well made system.
Macbook and Macbook pros are beautiful machines and a joy to use. Everything from the looks to the OS is well put together and to some of us that is worth the money.
I have not seen a single PC or laptop that I would want to buy at any price segment. Just look at those God awful keyboards with 15 letters written on each key, and non standard layouts, and the whole things creaks when you hold it. Thanks but no thanks.
There are plenty of people who know how the economy works. Which is not to say they can predict how the market will evolve exactly because it involves so many random "on the whim" decisions to sell or buy.
A little "firewall" app for iPhone called MCleaner has the exact same functionality and only costs $20.
Ok, then, would you like those experiments done one you? If you think monkeys don't care if experiments are done on them you are sadly mistaken.
It always amazes me how disassociated and disconnected from life some of the dwellers here are. Sociopathic if you ask me.
They were made paralyzed by "scientists" aka torturers/mutilators. That's an important distinction.
It really amazes me that we still allow this kind of "research" on sentient beings, who are well aware of themselves and their surroundings.
For a really good summary of the issues with glossy displays. These are exactly my concerns and problems with them (and many non-glossy LCDs that are just too bright).
It's the limitation of the chipset being used.
I'm using 8GB on my Mac Pro already. And the few 64 bit apps benefit from it. But the biggest hog of them all is Photoshop which is still 32 bit.
so idea is not foreign to me. But having something that confidential on a laptop is not a good idea anyway.
And if the evil government suspects you have something important on your laptop, they won't even try to break in, they will go straight to torture until you tell them.
truly paranoid need drugs not Linux.
has a dynamically grown swap file currently at 64 MB.
I have 8 GB of RAM and never page out even when I run dozens of memory hungry apps (photoshop, nikon capture etc).
The general rule is if you are swapping pages out when running typical apps you use daily, get more RAM.
Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick with Maple, Mathematica and MATLAB.
and their inverse motion commands since 1976.
Obviously, as the population size converges to zero the usefulness of the statistic approaches the zero as well. If there was a country with one person living in it, and that person won the Nobel prize, that country would be "the smartest country".
But comparing countries that are similar in population or perhaps small multiples of each other does say something about the total state of education and culture/civilization level of the country.
Austria has beaten US (and so has Sweden for example and others), if you look at number of prize winners per head of population. It has 19 Nobel prize winners and only 10 million people (currently). Translated to US population, that would be 570 winners. Sweden is even better, it would have 840, Switzerland 937, UK 684 etc.
Also, did you notice that a lot of the US winners were not born or educated in the US, but were imported, 68 of them in fact.
Also, quite a few of the winners are also peace prizes.
So, your superficial stats do not support your thesis.
I used to think like that, but then all the things you talk about are just syntactic sugar. There is nothing you can do with proper generic that you can't do in Java or C#. Yes, C++ is way more expressive than almost any other language, but that is also its peril.
And when was the last time you used meta programming to solve a concrete problem that could not be elegantly solved otherwise.
Most people learn how to calculate a factorial using meta programming techniques and stop right there. It's more of a curiosity than useful practical technique.
I just don't like the expression, since it is quite imprecise. Languages are not fast? Is English faster than Japanese?
Languages can be more concise or terse, i.e. you write little and say a lot.
Now language implementation can be faster or slower (for exact same code), and almost always is (e.g. Intel's C++ compiler vs. GNU gcc).
17mm on a FF sensor will give you a view so wide that you will have your feet in the shot when you point the camera only couple of degrees down.
So, the common technique street photographers use is to point an ultra wide angle lens in a different direction from subjects they wish to photograph.
The subjects then continue about their business thinking this guy is photographing something in the sky or the car passing by.
probably also think that Internet is local US phenomenon and the extension of the media companies, and hence logically can be controlled by those same companies.
Can you imagine how he puts on a condom?