A better analogy would be that a Mac is like a Lotus. While the engine (CPU) may be smaller and have less horsepower than the competition, the total output (efficiency) is higher than the competition due to the car being engineered to be light (nice interface (OS)). On YouTube, there's a video with a F40 vs. Elise going around a track. While it's obvious that the Ferrari has way more power, the Elise can almost keep up due to being fastest in the corners.
The appeal of Macs is partly the nice packaging (the computer), but once you get to know OS X, Windows is just a kludge, and you have difficulty going back. The Lotus is the same, since other fast cars are generally heavy and can be cumbersome to get around the corners. The Lotus drives like it's on rails.
Disclosure: I switched to Macs 2.5 years ago. I've never even touched a Lotus. I've been a passenger in an F40 once when I was like 12 at some charity-thing.
I seem to recall that what Bill was talking about was how XP was booting much faster than 2000, and that their goal originally was to boot in less than 30 seconds. Why Vista takes 3 times that, I don't know... I'd just be happy if the shutdown button on the start menu actually did that, instead of sleeping. Unless of course there's updates to install.
As for the "accidentally brushing the Touchpad," it's a non-issue on the MacBook Pro.
why is that? Is it not as over-sensitive as others I've tried? I've never had the opportunity to use a Mac.
I'm not sure why, but it's true. Maybe it's because it's not setup with the tap = click "feature"?
At least this explanation makes sense. tap = click would be very non-Appleish when there's a big button just below.
Also, Apple trackpads are about twice the size of all other brands making them about 1000 times more useable.
Still, I'm a clit-mouse lover stuck with the only (actually useable) non-windows computer available (OK, I love OS X but I'd still give my left nut to have a clit-mouse on my MB Pro. Usually I bring along a mouse (bonus note, trackpad is disabled when a mouse is plugged in. Sweet!)).
You could have gotten a Mac Mini but you choose to bitch and moan... Yes, Apple hardware is expensive but if you compare it fairly it isn't bad. Especially not when you factor in OS X.
CoolTechZone are all trolls, all the time. I have no idea why they keep getting linked here. Even with this review, it's so obvious they completely and totally subscribe to the Microsoft line when they review something that didn't come from Microsoft.
Whith articles such as there, who can take them seriously? "Report: Mac OS X Market Share Declines" "iPhone and Mobile OS X: Doomed to Fail!" "Amazon Unbox: iTunes Movie Store In Jeopardy" "Apple: Mac OS X Doomed?" "Column: Apple Tries Hard to Wake Up to Consumerism"
With the previous initiative, apparently 2 of 19 hijackers in the 9/11 tragedy could have been caught. With this new improved initiative, maybe they could have caught 5 of the 19... Wow. That will clearly to put an end to 'domestic terrorism'.
And I've spent more than a year living there. However, I'll be damned if I'll set foot in a country that brands me as a criminal the instant I step off the plane. It's no surprise the RIAA/MPAA comes from the same place... It's bad enough with the ridiculous video branding me when I just bought the damn movie.
Paranoia is nice under some circumstances, but this is just ridiculous. Like they actually think it'll do any good? It'll be really nice to know who blew up WTC v2.0 after the fact, yeah...
come on, make ALL of those popup dialogs keyboard accessible!
They are.
Use [tab] to select and [space] to "click". You need to look after the faint blue highlight around the button though, and if you press [Enter], the blue button is selected, not the higlight.
I'll wait till this thing is thoroughly 'hacked'......and someone take what may be decent hardware (just guessing here), and makes it useful with non MS and non-RIAA backed 'prisonware'......once opensource works on this, it may be worth getting.
Dude, the black Zune (@ #37) is beaten by the 1st generation 4GB iPod Nano (@ #35) which is $10 more than the new one (@ #30)... It must *really* sell...
On the other hand, I have put out cigarettes in gas cans full of gas.
Luckily, the flash point of gas is lower that the heat of a burning cigarette. (usually)
First, you must be pretty fucking stupid to do that.
Second, the flash point of gasoline is -38 degrees Celsius (or -36 degrees Fahrenheit). Do you think your cigarette burns at -40 degrees?!?
The real reason you are still alive is that gasoline can only burn at a very specific mixture of (AFAIR) between 8-12% vapour to air. If you exit this narrow mix, it will not burn.
Gasoline, in liquid form, is not explosive, nor does it burn all that fast.
Wrong.
Gasoline, in liquid form, is not explosive, nor can it burn at all.
Gasoline, in vaporized form, burns very well and extremely fast under strict limits. AFAIR it is between 8-12% vapour (don't quote me on that).
Obviously, people don't have the brain capacity to be serious about security. What should we do? It's simple: Shut down the internet. No more easily-guessed passwords or dissemination of information on how to break into stuff. No child porn proliferation and no worries about your 9yr old girl chatting with 45yr olds. An extreme decline in virii and similar stuff for everyone's favorite OS.
Armrests have been really bad for me, although there may have been other factors involved. Basically, the armrests went against the table, forcing me to sit further back than I should. The desk being a corner-type one only aggravated the situation. This forced the chair too far out from the table and me sitting on the front edge, slouching.
The fix for me is to place the screen as far back as possible, leaving room for my elbows at the edge of the table with my forearms resting on the table. My LCD has also really helped with table real estate with respects to this. Back when I had dual 19" CRTs and the table at a wall, there was barely room for the keyboard at the front edge of the table.
I knew a guy that had the reverse effect, although he had to actually use the computer for it to go into effect...
A freshly installed file server running Windows 98 (yeah, way back when), he sits down in front of it to browse through the files on it and within 5 minutes he gets a BSOD by just using Explorer and me looking over his shoulder...
I thought I just had bad karma with D-Link, but it seems it's not just me...
Out of the 5 D-Link products I've had, 3 (2x16 and 1x24 port switches) have just stopped passing data through (but the LED's indicated everything was A-OK) after approx. 2 years, one (5-port switch) has a physically broken wall wart (but still works if i fiddle the wall wart into the receptacle in the wall) and the last one (Wi-Fi router) *probably* works if it gets a new wall wart but it's incompatible with my 3com 802.11b card and drops SSH connections after a few minutes without activity.
For some reason I'm not really inclined to buy D-Link again... I guess it's in the name too, De-Link...
There's no reason for DRM since the MP3 is personalized*
* The amount of personalization is debateable since they have probably automated the integration of the names in the music (imagine having to sing a few hundred names... gah) but acquiring the complete library of different versions would be completely ridiculous so...
Imagine the riot if a passenger got shot during takeoff or landing... Maybe once a week or so, at different airports... THAT, my friends, is terrorism. The shooter only needs to fire a few times to achieve a reasonable chance of success...
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Bridges aren't that expensive, it's the assembly and installation that kills you.
... so it's like buying Ikea?
A better analogy would be that a Mac is like a Lotus. While the engine (CPU) may be smaller and have less horsepower than the competition, the total output (efficiency) is higher than the competition due to the car being engineered to be light (nice interface (OS)). On YouTube, there's a video with a F40 vs. Elise going around a track. While it's obvious that the Ferrari has way more power, the Elise can almost keep up due to being fastest in the corners.
The appeal of Macs is partly the nice packaging (the computer), but once you get to know OS X, Windows is just a kludge, and you have difficulty going back. The Lotus is the same, since other fast cars are generally heavy and can be cumbersome to get around the corners. The Lotus drives like it's on rails.
Disclosure: I switched to Macs 2.5 years ago. I've never even touched a Lotus. I've been a passenger in an F40 once when I was like 12 at some charity-thing.
I seem to recall that what Bill was talking about was how XP was booting much faster than 2000, and that their goal originally was to boot in less than 30 seconds. Why Vista takes 3 times that, I don't know... I'd just be happy if the shutdown button on the start menu actually did that, instead of sleeping. Unless of course there's updates to install.
At least this explanation makes sense. tap = click would be very non-Appleish when there's a big button just below.
Also, Apple trackpads are about twice the size of all other brands making them about 1000 times more useable.
Still, I'm a clit-mouse lover stuck with the only (actually useable) non-windows computer available (OK, I love OS X but I'd still give my left nut to have a clit-mouse on my MB Pro. Usually I bring along a mouse (bonus note, trackpad is disabled when a mouse is plugged in. Sweet!)).
You could have gotten a Mac Mini but you choose to bitch and moan...
Yes, Apple hardware is expensive but if you compare it fairly it isn't bad. Especially not when you factor in OS X.
CoolTechZone are all trolls, all the time. I have no idea why they keep getting linked here. Even with this review, it's so obvious they completely and totally subscribe to the Microsoft line when they review something that didn't come from Microsoft.
Whith articles such as there, who can take them seriously?
"Report: Mac OS X Market Share Declines"
"iPhone and Mobile OS X: Doomed to Fail!"
"Amazon Unbox: iTunes Movie Store In Jeopardy"
"Apple: Mac OS X Doomed?"
"Column: Apple Tries Hard to Wake Up to Consumerism"
With the previous initiative, apparently 2 of 19 hijackers in the 9/11 tragedy could have been caught.
With this new improved initiative, maybe they could have caught 5 of the 19... Wow. That will clearly to put an end to 'domestic terrorism'.
And I've spent more than a year living there. However, I'll be damned if I'll set foot in a country that brands me as a criminal the instant I step off the plane. It's no surprise the RIAA/MPAA comes from the same place... It's bad enough with the ridiculous video branding me when I just bought the damn movie.
Paranoia is nice under some circumstances, but this is just ridiculous. Like they actually think it'll do any good? It'll be really nice to know who blew up WTC v2.0 after the fact, yeah...
Which would be pretty incredibly stupid to pay £65mil for, considering what the "Royal Family" did to HavenCo.
http://havenco.venona.com/
Use [tab] to select and [space] to "click". You need to look after the faint blue highlight around the button though, and if you press [Enter], the blue button is selected, not the higlight.
Dude, the black Zune (@ #37) is beaten by the 1st generation 4GB iPod Nano (@ #35) which is $10 more than the new one (@ #30)...
It must *really* sell...
Second, the flash point of gasoline is -38 degrees Celsius (or -36 degrees Fahrenheit). Do you think your cigarette burns at -40 degrees?!?
The real reason you are still alive is that gasoline can only burn at a very specific mixture of (AFAIR) between 8-12% vapour to air. If you exit this narrow mix, it will not burn.
Gasoline, in vaporized form, burns very well and extremely fast under strict limits. AFAIR it is between 8-12% vapour (don't quote me on that).
Obviously, people don't have the brain capacity to be serious about security.
:D
What should we do?
It's simple: Shut down the internet.
No more easily-guessed passwords or dissemination of information on how to break into stuff.
No child porn proliferation and no worries about your 9yr old girl chatting with 45yr olds.
An extreme decline in virii and similar stuff for everyone's favorite OS.
In total? Awesomeness
Armrests have been really bad for me, although there may have been other factors involved.
Basically, the armrests went against the table, forcing me to sit further back than I should. The desk being a corner-type one only aggravated the situation. This forced the chair too far out from the table and me sitting on the front edge, slouching.
The fix for me is to place the screen as far back as possible, leaving room for my elbows at the edge of the table with my forearms resting on the table. My LCD has also really helped with table real estate with respects to this. Back when I had dual 19" CRTs and the table at a wall, there was barely room for the keyboard at the front edge of the table.
What will happen?
We'll all die. Simultaneously. Noone will feel anything.
What's the big problem aside from the end of the earth?
It worked again, yes, but the problem was not fixed...
I knew a guy that had the reverse effect, although he had to actually use the computer for it to go into effect...
A freshly installed file server running Windows 98 (yeah, way back when), he sits down in front of it to browse through the files on it and within 5 minutes he gets a BSOD by just using Explorer and me looking over his shoulder...
I thought I just had bad karma with D-Link, but it seems it's not just me...
Out of the 5 D-Link products I've had, 3 (2x16 and 1x24 port switches) have just stopped passing data through (but the LED's indicated everything was A-OK) after approx. 2 years, one (5-port switch) has a physically broken wall wart (but still works if i fiddle the wall wart into the receptacle in the wall) and the last one (Wi-Fi router) *probably* works if it gets a new wall wart but it's incompatible with my 3com 802.11b card and drops SSH connections after a few minutes without activity.
For some reason I'm not really inclined to buy D-Link again... I guess it's in the name too, De-Link...
There's no reason for DRM since the MP3 is personalized*
* The amount of personalization is debateable since they have probably automated the integration of the names in the music (imagine having to sing a few hundred names... gah) but acquiring the complete library of different versions would be completely ridiculous so...
Imagine the riot if a passenger got shot during takeoff or landing... Maybe once a week or so, at different airports... THAT, my friends, is terrorism.
The shooter only needs to fire a few times to achieve a reasonable chance of success...
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