Wow, if that isn't pointless nitpicking...
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"excuse me here, but i thought a retina display implied ~300dpi this one falls a fair bit short of the mark if i'm not mistaken so once again apple marketing triumphs over al"l
264 dpi, 2048x1536 in 10 inches... maybe your complaint is about some imagined deficiency, but if you'd care to explain how this is actually a failure, I'd love to hear it. Are you actually complaining that if you freeze frame and squint really hard from two inches away you can actually make out... (gasp)... pixels? Because you couldn't make them out at normal viewing distance.
In other words, tell me how your post isn't just a knee-jerk, pointless, anti-apple jab with no redeeming value.
I hope the programmers among us actually read some of this study before chiming in based on it's veracity... I'm just a few pages in and alarm bells are going off all over the place.
Given an organization of any significant size, and given a complex situation, you'll always be able to pick and choose emails from people who are confused and not in the loop, and who describe problems and alternatives that seem disjointed.
Me (English): "I swear you netbook-fixated iPad haters just don't have a clue what a tablet is about..."
You (English as a second language): "So you are telling me that everybody who "hates" iPads have a fixation on netbooks and hate the tablet formfactor."
No. I was specifically addressing that subset of iPad haters that are netbook-fixated, and placing the original poster in that group.
You and I will walk down the street. You have your netbook, I'll have an iPad. Then we'll time who can check their stocks and email, or pull up the local map for directions the quickest. Perhaps we'll watch some videos. Heck, perhaps we'll sit side by side on the couch instead of walking down the street. You can put the netbook on your lap and see how much fun that is.
Of course there's little or no hope of the netbook actually competing because it's not a mobile device. It's a stationary one that is light enough to carry from one fixed location to another, and there's a huge difference.
I swear you netbook-fixated iPad haters just don't have a clue what a tablet is about, and you're just so intent on not learning. It's the worst kind of ignorance - defiant and purposeful.
Since I bought my iPad my Asus netbook has languished on the shelf. The only time I use it is when I have to do extensive note-taking. I'm getting pretty good at using the iPad keyboard, so I just might sell the netbook.
"Alberta is the home of the tar sands... the dirtiest source of petroleum. Do you actually think they are interested in cutting carbon emissions?"
I live in Alberta, I've flown over the oil sands, and I've seen the tailing ponds. Calling it the dirtiest source of petroleum is just stupid.
If you don't think resarch is being done to reduce carbon emissions, then it's clear you haven't actually looked into the matter. All the major players are invested in it, often collaboratively. Same with research on tailing ponds - which, finally, are starting to be reclaimed. Slowly, to be sure. It's a tough problem.
Now go and research what's been done all over Africa and Asia, where unrestricted petroleum industry has left vastly polluted environments, and toxic chemicals in riverbeds. Try the Niger Delta, and get a little perspective. Quit quoting similarly misinformed environmental nutbags.
Alberta has its problems, but we're working on it. Now perhaps you go away, whittle yourself a computer out of some plentiful wood that runs on a light breeze and a hint of jasmine and uses a reflecting pool for display, and then come back and engage in unreasonable hyperbole again.
It's almost like betting on the sun rise happening but you fanbois will go around making him sound like a prophet for predicting the end of a technology that already had a standardized replacement in place with growing adoption.
What the hell are you on about? I recognize your right to be an overly sensitive pinhead, but I feel l must protest. All I did was make a joke about Adobe's timing and the little war they had. I note that some others actually got it.
I leased an RX-8 from 2006 to 2009 and I loved it. I had it up to 230 kmph on new pavement and there was no vibration at all. It just ran smooth as butter. Crappy mileage, but so much fun. And not one single thing ever went wrong with it.
Wasn't the best car I ever had - I consider my 1998 Miata to be that - but it was awesome fun.
Cue dickheads making derogatory statements about iOS device owners for no good reason other than an assumed - and misplaced - feeling of technical superiority.
Most of me rejects the idea of forcing people to disclose who they are online for many reasons. There is a small part of me that thinks that the anonymity of the internet allows assholes to be assholes at a whole other level, and it wouldn't be a terrible idea for somebody to show up at their door with a crowbar once in a while.
In a decade the original scandal will still be passed back and forth as fact.
It's SOP for conspiracy theorists. Completely fail to internalize anything contradictory to your view, and accept anything confirmatory with little or no analysis.
Not yet. They need economic growth, manufacturing jobs, and educated students to become China. Of course an attitude of disdain towards the environment is needed too, but the Republicans are well on their way to making sure that's reality.
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"excuse me here, but i thought a retina display implied ~300dpi this one falls a fair bit short of the mark if i'm not mistaken so once again apple marketing triumphs over al"l
264 dpi, 2048x1536 in 10 inches... maybe your complaint is about some imagined deficiency, but if you'd care to explain how this is actually a failure, I'd love to hear it. Are you actually complaining that if you freeze frame and squint really hard from two inches away you can actually make out... (gasp)... pixels? Because you couldn't make them out at normal viewing distance.
In other words, tell me how your post isn't just a knee-jerk, pointless, anti-apple jab with no redeeming value.
Why did you need proof of the perfectly self-evident?
Hep A vaccinations aren't given until after one year of age.
It's just awes... Waiting on cache...
I hope the programmers among us actually read some of this study before chiming in based on it's veracity... I'm just a few pages in and alarm bells are going off all over the place.
Given an organization of any significant size, and given a complex situation, you'll always be able to pick and choose emails from people who are confused and not in the loop, and who describe problems and alternatives that seem disjointed.
"Up!" Enough said.
Waiting for cache...
Me (English): "I swear you netbook-fixated iPad haters just don't have a clue what a tablet is about..."
You (English as a second language): "So you are telling me that everybody who "hates" iPads have a fixation on netbooks and hate the tablet formfactor."
No. I was specifically addressing that subset of iPad haters that are netbook-fixated, and placing the original poster in that group.
You and I will walk down the street. You have your netbook, I'll have an iPad. Then we'll time who can check their stocks and email, or pull up the local map for directions the quickest. Perhaps we'll watch some videos. Heck, perhaps we'll sit side by side on the couch instead of walking down the street. You can put the netbook on your lap and see how much fun that is.
Of course there's little or no hope of the netbook actually competing because it's not a mobile device. It's a stationary one that is light enough to carry from one fixed location to another, and there's a huge difference.
I swear you netbook-fixated iPad haters just don't have a clue what a tablet is about, and you're just so intent on not learning. It's the worst kind of ignorance - defiant and purposeful.
Since I bought my iPad my Asus netbook has languished on the shelf. The only time I use it is when I have to do extensive note-taking. I'm getting pretty good at using the iPad keyboard, so I just might sell the netbook.
Get on a help desk for some industrial company doing grunt work. Do it well.
Know why help desks generally suck? Because competent people on the help desk stand out and get hired away.
"Alberta is the home of the tar sands... the dirtiest source of petroleum. Do you actually think they are interested in cutting carbon emissions?"
I live in Alberta, I've flown over the oil sands, and I've seen the tailing ponds. Calling it the dirtiest source of petroleum is just stupid.
If you don't think resarch is being done to reduce carbon emissions, then it's clear you haven't actually looked into the matter. All the major players are invested in it, often collaboratively. Same with research on tailing ponds - which, finally, are starting to be reclaimed. Slowly, to be sure. It's a tough problem.
Now go and research what's been done all over Africa and Asia, where unrestricted petroleum industry has left vastly polluted environments, and toxic chemicals in riverbeds. Try the Niger Delta, and get a little perspective. Quit quoting similarly misinformed environmental nutbags.
Alberta has its problems, but we're working on it. Now perhaps you go away, whittle yourself a computer out of some plentiful wood that runs on a light breeze and a hint of jasmine and uses a reflecting pool for display, and then come back and engage in unreasonable hyperbole again.
It's almost like betting on the sun rise happening but you fanbois will go around making him sound like a prophet for predicting the end of a technology that already had a standardized replacement in place with growing adoption.
What the hell are you on about? I recognize your right to be an overly sensitive pinhead, but I feel l must protest. All I did was make a joke about Adobe's timing and the little war they had. I note that some others actually got it.
Can't believe they would actually hold out until it was certain Steve Jobs couldn't say, "I told you so!"
My god... it's Steve Jobs laughing.
Difficult to use, and once applied no solvent in the world will take it off.
All geckos will suddenly go extinct, and we'll see a "Scotch" brand van disappear into the night.
"...PC owners won't want to mess with control of their hardware and would happily concede that to operating system makers and hardware manufacturers."
Put the word "most" in front of that and I'm on board. The PC as appliance that just works is really is what "most" PC owners want.
I leased an RX-8 from 2006 to 2009 and I loved it. I had it up to 230 kmph on new pavement and there was no vibration at all. It just ran smooth as butter. Crappy mileage, but so much fun. And not one single thing ever went wrong with it.
Wasn't the best car I ever had - I consider my 1998 Miata to be that - but it was awesome fun.
Cue dickheads making derogatory statements about iOS device owners for no good reason other than an assumed - and misplaced - feeling of technical superiority.
Most of me rejects the idea of forcing people to disclose who they are online for many reasons. There is a small part of me that thinks that the anonymity of the internet allows assholes to be assholes at a whole other level, and it wouldn't be a terrible idea for somebody to show up at their door with a crowbar once in a while.
In a decade the original scandal will still be passed back and forth as fact.
It's SOP for conspiracy theorists. Completely fail to internalize anything contradictory to your view, and accept anything confirmatory with little or no analysis.
Must be nice to have nothing better to dlo.
Not yet. They need economic growth, manufacturing jobs, and educated students to become China. Of course an attitude of disdain towards the environment is needed too, but the Republicans are well on their way to making sure that's reality.
"Surely a better idea would be to patent your innovative technology and then ask Microsoft for $200,000,000 to license it?"
It's only a better idea if they actually say yes.