That's a legacy of an NEA scare campaign from the 1980s. The public school lobby started tossing the term "computer literacy" around to scare the voters into funding computer labs in schools.
It's not just the PCs in that price range. I remember when you could buy an HP computer that would wear like a Sherman tank, but since the Dell/Gateway/Acer race to the bottom, there hasn't been enough profit margin in the windows world for hardware makers to afford to make anything that wasn't flimsy as hell. I use a unibody MacBook Pro, so I'm used to having a machine feel solid. I picked up a friend's Sony VAIO laptop a couple of days ago, and I could feel it flex just because was holding it by a corner.
at least some thought went into their industrial design
Thought, and a lot of testing.
The MagSafe adapter has saved me from destroying my computer on a number of occasions
I just wish they'd make MagSafe versions of all the other cables.
a dosage of common sense and logic about the firing.
We don't know that he was fired. Gruber said he was, but he cites an anonymous source. Until and unless Papermaster or Apple releases a statement about it, this is just speculation.
Speaking from my own anecdotal experience, I have a spot in my house, right in front of my fridge, where all of my previous phones (iPhone 3GS, original iPhone, and two Sony-Ericsson phones before that) would always drop the call if I walked into it. The iPhone 4G has no problem with it.
I still know a lot of people at Apple, and I hadn't heard any rumblings to the effect that Papermaster wasn't happy there, or that Apple wasn't satisfied with his performance. Of course, it's not like the man is going to find it hard to land another job.
I notice that you didn't show any evidence that my statement was incorrect, you merely bitched that Apple decided not to include the field test mode in the customer OS. Can you refute Anandtech's findings?
>Move along, these aren't the excuses we're looking for...
cause no Mac machine has ever had a manufacturing flaw,
who ever said that? Hardware failures are just far more rare for Apple products than they are for the flimsy machines that everybody in the windows market makes.
Rights only matter if people and governments respect them.
More to the point, rights depend on our willingness to demand, and if necessary, fight for them. That is the critical role of the second amendment, and why it comes right after freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights.
That would be the Empty Suit in Chief who signed the PATRIOT act extension, right?
I really pity the people who believed that asshole ever had any intention of fulfilling any of his campaign promises. He was bought and paid for before he ever set foot in the Senate chamber.
>Since he wasn't under arrest he had no right to a phone call.
If he was being forcibly detained, then he was under arrest. Courts have slapped cops many times for trying to pretend that someone wasn't under arrest when they weren't allowed to leave.
>Last time I checked, US Customs didn't need a reason to detain anyone crossing the border.
US Customs routinely operates outside the law. That's something we need to stop.
...is for Apple to revive the venerable MacPaint brand and release an image editing program based on CoreImage. Could be part of iLife, could be a developer sample code project, but either way, the Mac really should ship with a way for any user to take full advantage of all the investment Apple put into that framework.
I've never met a Libertarian who neglected to tell me what to do.
I'm sure you have plenty of people telling you fuck off and die, but that's orthogonal to whether they're libertarians. A libertarian isn't going put a gun to your head and force your compliance.
I'm not sure you're very familiar with Ayn Rand
Never met her, but I've read all of her novels, and quite a few of her articles. You, apparently, have only read left-wing distortions of her writings.
or her cult.
Tee, hee! You compared Ayn Rand's readers to members of a religion! Why, you're the very epitome of wit. I'm sure you're a big hit in snotty undergrad circles.
Rand's philosophy is all about not having people tell her what to do....or anyone else. Did you actually fail to comprehend that, or are you just parroting the common anti-Rand propaganda line?
it was pretty much her telling people what to do.
Insiting on being left alone is not the same as telling other people what to do. Your confusion over this point is a common characteristic of people with autocratic leanings.
Except you forget tat the harmonics *CAN* be picked up by the human ear.
He didn't dispute that. He was pointing out that what you're hearing is the harmonics, not the high frequency that you claim to be hearing. He's right, you're wrong.
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That's a legacy of an NEA scare campaign from the 1980s. The public school lobby started tossing the term "computer literacy" around to scare the voters into funding computer labs in schools.
-jcr
The $450-range Toshibas are pieces of shit.
It's not just the PCs in that price range. I remember when you could buy an HP computer that would wear like a Sherman tank, but since the Dell/Gateway/Acer race to the bottom, there hasn't been enough profit margin in the windows world for hardware makers to afford to make anything that wasn't flimsy as hell. I use a unibody MacBook Pro, so I'm used to having a machine feel solid. I picked up a friend's Sony VAIO laptop a couple of days ago, and I could feel it flex just because was holding it by a corner.
at least some thought went into their industrial design
Thought, and a lot of testing.
The MagSafe adapter has saved me from destroying my computer on a number of occasions
I just wish they'd make MagSafe versions of all the other cables.
-jcr
a dosage of common sense and logic about the firing.
We don't know that he was fired. Gruber said he was, but he cites an anonymous source. Until and unless Papermaster or Apple releases a statement about it, this is just speculation.
-jcr
They're trying to trivialize Watergate.
Watergate was the least of Nixon's crimes.
-jcr
>the Anandtech reviews certainly seemed to back up Apple's claims
Yes, they did, and so did these guys in Australia.
Speaking from my own anecdotal experience, I have a spot in my house, right in front of my fridge, where all of my previous phones (iPhone 3GS, original iPhone, and two Sony-Ericsson phones before that) would always drop the call if I walked into it. The iPhone 4G has no problem with it.
-jcr
>There have been signs of trouble for a while.
I still know a lot of people at Apple, and I hadn't heard any rumblings to the effect that Papermaster wasn't happy there, or that Apple wasn't satisfied with his performance. Of course, it's not like the man is going to find it hard to land another job.
-jcr
Maybe because people have forgotten about the Teapot Dome?
-jcr
I notice that you didn't show any evidence that my statement was incorrect, you merely bitched that Apple decided not to include the field test mode in the customer OS. Can you refute Anandtech's findings?
>Move along, these aren't the excuses we're looking for...
How very clever. Try again.
cause no Mac machine has ever had a manufacturing flaw,
who ever said that? Hardware failures are just far more rare for Apple products than they are for the flimsy machines that everybody in the windows market makes.
This is the kind of complete hyperbolic drivel
Yes, it is. Why don't you knock it off?
-jcr
For example, these days you don't get detained for being black very often
Unless, say, you drive a car through a neighborhood that the cops don't want you in.
-jcr
Rights only matter if people and governments respect them.
More to the point, rights depend on our willingness to demand, and if necessary, fight for them. That is the critical role of the second amendment, and why it comes right after freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights.
-jcr
When you are placed under arrest you are charged with a crime
No, that's an arraignment.
-jcr
Federal statutes don't trump the constitution.
-jcr
This is the Obama administration we're in.
That would be the Empty Suit in Chief who signed the PATRIOT act extension, right?
I really pity the people who believed that asshole ever had any intention of fulfilling any of his campaign promises. He was bought and paid for before he ever set foot in the Senate chamber.
-jcr
If a cop ever tells you that "You're not under arrest, but you can't leave", you tell him that's bullshit, and you demand your lawyer be present.
Better still, point out that if you're not under arrest, but the cop isn't letting you leave, then the cop is a kidnapper.
-jcr
>Since he wasn't under arrest he had no right to a phone call.
If he was being forcibly detained, then he was under arrest. Courts have slapped cops many times for trying to pretend that someone wasn't under arrest when they weren't allowed to leave.
>Last time I checked, US Customs didn't need a reason to detain anyone crossing the border.
US Customs routinely operates outside the law. That's something we need to stop.
-jcr
>Microsoft, why don't you just write some QUALITY software for the iPad instead of trying to go head on in competition?
Your question presumes a capability on their part.
-jcr
Microsoft needs twenty more Halo-sized hit games for the Xbox to go profitable. I don't see it happening, frankly.
-jcr
...is for Apple to revive the venerable MacPaint brand and release an image editing program based on CoreImage. Could be part of iLife, could be a developer sample code project, but either way, the Mac really should ship with a way for any user to take full advantage of all the investment Apple put into that framework.
-jcr
I'm guessing that most of the intelligent, technically knowledgeable people have left Microsoft
I wouldn't say "most". There are plenty of smart people there, they just have horribly dysfunctional management.
-jcr
I've never met a Libertarian who neglected to tell me what to do.
I'm sure you have plenty of people telling you fuck off and die, but that's orthogonal to whether they're libertarians. A libertarian isn't going put a gun to your head and force your compliance.
I'm not sure you're very familiar with Ayn Rand
Never met her, but I've read all of her novels, and quite a few of her articles. You, apparently, have only read left-wing distortions of her writings.
or her cult.
Tee, hee! You compared Ayn Rand's readers to members of a religion! Why, you're the very epitome of wit. I'm sure you're a big hit in snotty undergrad circles.
-jcr
Wow, I already got troll mods, why?
Be thankful. Richard Lindzen gets death threats.
-jcr
Rand's philosophy is all about not having people tell her what to do. ...or anyone else. Did you actually fail to comprehend that, or are you just parroting the common anti-Rand propaganda line?
it was pretty much her telling people what to do.
Insiting on being left alone is not the same as telling other people what to do. Your confusion over this point is a common characteristic of people with autocratic leanings.
-jcr
wait for Ayn Rand to descend from the heavens and tell us what to do
That may seem like a clever quip to you, but Rand's philosophy is all about not telling people what to do.
-jcr
Except you forget tat the harmonics *CAN* be picked up by the human ear.
He didn't dispute that. He was pointing out that what you're hearing is the harmonics, not the high frequency that you claim to be hearing. He's right, you're wrong.
-jcr