Who the hell wants to see 5342 screenshots? Why so many? Why not just give us 50 good ones? Do they really think that I have the time to look through more than 100 considering all the millions of other sites that compete for my attention each day?
Yeah, but now that Palm have got their foot in the door, many people might decide that they're offering a better product. So the RIM lawsuit is still of some benifit to Palm.
The reason I didn't get a Treo was the data plan that they wanted to sell me.
Bloody US cell networks... Vodafone didn't sell the Treo 600 in a nice, Vodafone branded box when I was looking to buy it, so I simply bought it from a local computer store and inserted my Vodafone SIM card into it.:)
The only time my Treo 600 has crashed when I was using a 3rd party hack. And even then, it wasn't often or very bad. And of course they don't multitask very well, nothing that size does in practice. Just how many applications do you need to be running at the same time on a mobile phone/PDA?
On an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, a fellatio teacher tells Larry Davis that eating chilli peppers makes your semen taste sweet. So if someone else will be doing the stimulating, eat away!
I think "zoning out" may be "zoning in"/hyper-focusing on the wrong task. Although, "zoning out" often feels like quite a blank state of mind, rather than focusing on something else, unless that something else is nothing.
I'm getting tired of the general lack of understanding on just what a disorder is.
OK people, listen up...
A disorder when something affects you (or others) enough to impare your ability to function properly in daily life. And yes, it is subjective, but it's also pretty clear.
Your personality may resemble that of someone with ADD, or depression, or whatever. But unless it affects you life in such a way that it's causing a significant problem, then it's not really a disorder.
Did everybody get that? Good.
So... Your "Why is it that we must label everything that is not perfectly matched..." rant is really quite irrelivant. But you do partly get the idea.
Clarification: Caffine, junkfood, and poor diets can cause ADD-like symptoms, so they are a good place to start. But if fixing these issues, and all other issues that can cause ADD-like symptoms, doesn't work, then it's time to consider ADD.
Yes! It was all made up! It's just a conspiracy by the giant, multi-national phamacutical corporations to make lots of money! No middle ground, such as over-diagnosis, here!
Honestly, do you have the slightest clue as to what you are talking about? My gawd... linking Ritalin use to increase in drug use when studies show the opposite effect? Have you even read any ADD/ADHD related studies or books? Or are you just going by what you think, or what other non-experts on the web say?
I don't see how. The old minis had 32MB video RAM, the new chip takes an 80MB (16MB for drivers etc.) share of the main RAM. Sure, it's slower, but it's also twice as much, and it probably won't be long until someone will release a hack to increase it to over 200MB. That's more video RAM. And now that the mini supports 2GBs of RAM, sharing the main RAM with the video card isn't such a deal. Also, the new minis support Quartz Extreme. If you want to be pedantic, yes, it's less RAM, but since it's main RAM, you can just buy more of it.
Don't get me wrong, I would have wanted better video card, but I think people are blowing this out of proportion. We can sit here and discuss computer harware architecture for days, but your average Mac mini user probably won't even notice the difference. Your gamer will, but since when was the Mac mini targeted at gamers?
See the link in my other reply. I guess if you want the Mac mini to play games, they you're probably better off looking elsewhere. But for normal usage, it doesn't seem to be downgrade... possibly even an improvment. But I'll be sitting on the fence untill I hear more about it. But I'm sure it's not the total disaster that some people are making it out to be.
I haven't read anywhere that the GUI feels slower. That's all most people care about. Most people don't run benchmarks in their spare time, and many Mac mini owners are not going to be playing games on it.
More video RAM means more windows open with less swapping etc.. This is far, far more important to me and many Mac mini users than hardcore 3D game performace.
The problem you have there is that you think less is best...
No, I don't. Don't tell me what I think. I said that less is better in the case of FrontRow for Apple's target audience.
I don't see what the rest of your post has to do with me specificly. I don't recal saying that Apple over-hyped anything, or that the new Mac mini had amazing new features, so why address it to me? I was simply pointing out that more features is not always what people are after, and that Apple knows this very well.
Apparently, the new Intel on-board graphics is still better than the old Mac mini graphics, it's just that people like to assume things rather that really think about them rationally. After all, do you really think Apple would have gone with this Intel graphics chip if they didn't think it was going to do the job?
Their interfaces are generally good. Perhaps it's just a case of using the wrong tool for the job? I'm not sure why you'd want to write a letter on a PDA. They're not intended for that type of thing. They intended for looking up and entering small (but useful) amounts of data.
Heh. I found just the opposite. I hardly ever make mistakes anymore, and it's much quicker. I never could get the hang of graffiti. I'm never buying another cellphone/PDA without a keyboard again. BTW. How do you enter data into your PDA with only one hand if you are using a sylus? Do you tape it to the back of your hand or something?;)
And you don't look like an idiot trying to hold a cellphone to your ear while trying to use a PDA at the same time? Looks pretty geeky to me. Why not just use a headphone and mic set anyway? My Treo came with one, and it just looks like you are listening to your iPod and only using one of the ear buds, hell, it's not even white! I spose it might make you look like the CIA or something...
Fat chance. Tablet PCs are more likely to take over part of the laptop segment. Maybe a small part of the really big, powerful PDAs that are a pain in the ass to carry and hardly anyone uses anyway.
Do I need to explain why tablet PCs won't replace PDAs, or were you just trolling?
Damn straight. While better visual systems help a lot, it's still the act of doing another task that causes many of the problems. The proof in the pudding is the recent article saying that simply talking to passangers while driving can be as bad as talking on a cellphone.
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Who the hell wants to see 5342 screenshots? Why so many? Why not just give us 50 good ones? Do they really think that I have the time to look through more than 100 considering all the millions of other sites that compete for my attention each day?
Yeah, but now that Palm have got their foot in the door, many people might decide that they're offering a better product. So the RIM lawsuit is still of some benifit to Palm.
Bloody US cell networks... Vodafone didn't sell the Treo 600 in a nice, Vodafone branded box when I was looking to buy it, so I simply bought it from a local computer store and inserted my Vodafone SIM card into it. :)
The only time my Treo 600 has crashed when I was using a 3rd party hack. And even then, it wasn't often or very bad. And of course they don't multitask very well, nothing that size does in practice. Just how many applications do you need to be running at the same time on a mobile phone/PDA?
BTW, I have no idea if this is true.
And an iPod video for watching important, work-related tutorials.
And you really think that Microsoft is going to be the one to bring UI improvments to Photoshop? It's not exactly their strong suit.
I think "zoning out" may be "zoning in"/hyper-focusing on the wrong task. Although, "zoning out" often feels like quite a blank state of mind, rather than focusing on something else, unless that something else is nothing.
OK people, listen up...
A disorder when something affects you (or others) enough to impare your ability to function properly in daily life. And yes, it is subjective, but it's also pretty clear.
Your personality may resemble that of someone with ADD, or depression, or whatever. But unless it affects you life in such a way that it's causing a significant problem, then it's not really a disorder.
Did everybody get that? Good.
So... Your "Why is it that we must label everything that is not perfectly matched ..." rant is really quite irrelivant. But you do partly get the idea.
Clarification: Caffine, junkfood, and poor diets can cause ADD-like symptoms, so they are a good place to start. But if fixing these issues, and all other issues that can cause ADD-like symptoms, doesn't work, then it's time to consider ADD.
Honestly, do you have the slightest clue as to what you are talking about? My gawd ... linking Ritalin use to increase in drug use when studies show the opposite effect? Have you even read any ADD/ADHD related studies or books? Or are you just going by what you think, or what other non-experts on the web say?
Score:-1, Complete, fucking, idiot.
The only real bad point here is that Apple still only ships 512MBs RAM by default.
Don't get me wrong, I would have wanted better video card, but I think people are blowing this out of proportion. We can sit here and discuss computer harware architecture for days, but your average Mac mini user probably won't even notice the difference. Your gamer will, but since when was the Mac mini targeted at gamers?
See the link in my other reply. I guess if you want the Mac mini to play games, they you're probably better off looking elsewhere. But for normal usage, it doesn't seem to be downgrade ... possibly even an improvment. But I'll be sitting on the fence untill I hear more about it. But I'm sure it's not the total disaster that some people are making it out to be.
This dispells a few myths about the chip.
More video RAM means more windows open with less swapping etc.. This is far, far more important to me and many Mac mini users than hardcore 3D game performace.
No, I don't. Don't tell me what I think. I said that less is better in the case of FrontRow for Apple's target audience.
I don't see what the rest of your post has to do with me specificly. I don't recal saying that Apple over-hyped anything, or that the new Mac mini had amazing new features, so why address it to me? I was simply pointing out that more features is not always what people are after, and that Apple knows this very well.
Yeah, and the key here is that Apple knows that most people don't want to do more. Some people just don't get it.
Apparently, the new Intel on-board graphics is still better than the old Mac mini graphics, it's just that people like to assume things rather that really think about them rationally. After all, do you really think Apple would have gone with this Intel graphics chip if they didn't think it was going to do the job?
Their interfaces are generally good. Perhaps it's just a case of using the wrong tool for the job? I'm not sure why you'd want to write a letter on a PDA. They're not intended for that type of thing. They intended for looking up and entering small (but useful) amounts of data.
...And your way of doing things is supposed to be better for everyone?
Heh. I found just the opposite. I hardly ever make mistakes anymore, and it's much quicker. I never could get the hang of graffiti. I'm never buying another cellphone/PDA without a keyboard again. BTW. How do you enter data into your PDA with only one hand if you are using a sylus? Do you tape it to the back of your hand or something? ;)
And you don't look like an idiot trying to hold a cellphone to your ear while trying to use a PDA at the same time? Looks pretty geeky to me. Why not just use a headphone and mic set anyway? My Treo came with one, and it just looks like you are listening to your iPod and only using one of the ear buds, hell, it's not even white! I spose it might make you look like the CIA or something...
Do I need to explain why tablet PCs won't replace PDAs, or were you just trolling?
Damn straight. While better visual systems help a lot, it's still the act of doing another task that causes many of the problems. The proof in the pudding is the recent article saying that simply talking to passangers while driving can be as bad as talking on a cellphone.