As the original poster of this sub-thread, I say that you sir make excellent points and deserve modding up. Everything you said is true, especially about the keyboard and mouse. I did find that to be annoying and remapped some of the keys because I couldn't retrain my brain not to use the CTRL key. I use an external Logitech keyboard and magic mouse when working at home. BTW, the Magic mouse is really cool:) The sharp keyboard edge is also annoying. I rounded mine off a bit with a de-burring tool.
My other laptop is a Thinkpad T-series and agree they are the absolute best in the PC world.
But getting back to your coke story, did your T-61 survive the incident? Did the drain holes work?
I agree and disagree on the magnetic power adaptor. Right after diet coke spills, the second biggest cause of laptop destruction is the power adapter yanking the laptop to its death or cracking the solder joints in the motherboard. The Apple design solves both of those problems.
As for for the lack of a trackstick vs. gesturing on the touchpad, it is simply retraining the brain. In the beginning, I was still cheating and slipping over to the PC to do development work, because it was a faster interface. Now I have made friends with the Mac and installed MagicPrefs and and made a few other customizations and workspeed is about the same.
Excellent points... All of these should go directly to Apple R&D for fixing. However, while the Thinkpad has the Thinklight, the MAC has the backlit keyboard.
I can understand your bitter attitude, though, having no certain future for your Solaris training.
That's just harsh man. Solaris is an excellent O/S in the server/database space. I used to have a Solaris 8 certification as well, but time has marched on and Oracle is now at Solaris 11 (I think). Worst case scenario, if Solaris loses market share, Linux will surely gain and in the world of virtualization, skills transfer fairly easily from Solaris to Linux to even windows.
Sun was an impressive company as well, producing their own CPUs and tightly integrated O/S similar to Apple, however as commodity hardware got faster and faster, they started to lose market share as the lower-cost Intel chips with Linux gained group.
Fun Fact: The Solaris PROM bootloader runs a language called FORTH:)
Many great products have failed to due to a crappy economy. This is news. The other story could be, really innovative company with high priced product, far ahead of it's time fails due to worst economy since the 1930's.
Google just needs to buy Apple for world domination.:)
Apple is going to have to go through a ton of unnecessary work to build a cloud infrastructure, when Google has it already done and ready to use. Google + Apple would be an unstoppable force for good and innovation.
I am a Opensource promoter, RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) and an all around techie. Awhile ago, I wrote a sensible article on my four month experience as a MacBook Pro user and received viscous comments like, "The almighty doesn't even get reviews like this from the pope."
I feel very vindicated by this article and have but one thing to say, "IN YOUR FACE, I TOLD YOU SO!"
ok... sorry, that was immature, but the Apple stuff is innovative, solid, and amazing. If you are still not convinced, go down to your local OfficeMax and spend some time with a droid tablet or try to edit AVCHD Video on WIndows 7 PC. Really, I am not an Apple fan-boy. I am just really busy and need my technology to work NOW!
Oracle just got $4B from SAS so they have cash to spend on lawyers. I imagine Oracle will make this part of their standard business practice now. Sue everyone, sue big, demand license fees even on stuff you don't own.:)
You are correct and GMAIL can work with Active Directory for GMAIL domain users. I moved my domain there long ago and my users are much happier. Users especially like the fact that they have unlimited email storage and can search gigs in seconds.
And on the home-front, make sure the exchange server is slow, unreliable, and forces users to constantly delete emails due to quotas. Then once your users are in full revolt against exchange, switch to the nirvana of GMAIL. With all the pain and expense of hosting an exchange server, I am not sure why everyone hasn't outsourced to GMAIL.
SSDs are still not a good value for their MBTF (Mean Time Between Failures). I predict the hybrid harddrive/SSD combo drive will be the near term winner (assuming laptops don't all get as small as the Air). I have had several friends recently purchase and install hybrid drives in their laptops and they gave it a "thumbs up" for performance but are very paranoid about failure, so they backup much more frequently. Additionally, these drives spin down quite regularly which increase battery life, however there are concerns about the duty cycle of spinup/spindown before failure.
Example Hybrid Drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591&cm_re=hybrid_hard_drive-_-22-148-591-_-Product
Wow... remind me not to post anything positive about Apple/Mac to Slashdot. I didn't realize Stallman and Ballmer had so many mod points.
Ok, I have seen the light. Apple is evil and not open. It's not really UNIX. Apple has adopted embrace and extend. The MAC converts all MP3's to MP3a's where "a" stands for Apple. Also, MacBooks don't have BlueRay burners and Apple called Google evil. This proves everything.
Apple just keeps pumping out the same old dated product over and over. The Apple Magic Mouse and trackpad are nothing new and these ideas were stolen from Google and Microsoft. The iPad is really just a ripoff of the Etch-a-Sketch.
Steve Jobs is making the computer easier to use so that he can trap people on his platform and take over the world. Real computer users should have to fight with drivers and config files for weeks before getting things to work as well as roll up their sleeves and fix a few bugs in the code. Shame on Apple for building a computer that can quickly and reliable come out of sleep mode. And that back light keyboard on the MacBookPro is nothing more than show, totally useless.
Right now OS/X ships with a terminal (bash shell) and Perl installed but it is just a ruse to get the Unix/Linux crowd to move over to a new platform. Soon these tools will disappear along with the keyboard.
Anyone using an Mac is just a frog in a pot with the heat slowly getting turned up. We are all just pawns in Steve Job's plan to take over the world. Apple has achieved roughly 3% market share and once they get to 5% market share, nothing will be able to stop them.
Did I get it right this time?
Posted from a MacBook Pro running Firefox, but not for long because Steve Jobs is taking Firefox away next week.
This is true. As a developer instead of negotiating with Best Buy, Amazon, and WalMart for 15% margins, you set the price and make 70% profit off your apps. This is motivation to code and make good stuff as well as leveling the playing field for the small developer. I predict this is a very smart move.
I agree with your Borg comment, but MS never created the same value proposition as Apple. Windows is always more of the same.. I spend money, I get the same thing I had, just prettier. Apple on the other hand really gives you amazing stuff that just works. See this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlD6JS0mD7E
I am willing to give Apple money for their new software, in fact I already ordered iLife 11 for $50 yesterday. I begrudge giving MS money because it's the same old thing release after release. If you look at MS's top 10 list to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, their marketing department struggles to make the case. Apple and Mac are fundamentally changing the way we interact with technology and innovating with each and every release.
Just spend some time with iMovie and GarageBand and you will understand the shift. And don't bother looking for the mouse button because Apple got rid of that as well, we gesture now.
Guys. I've been an Amiga/PC/Red Hat person for years and got my first Mac Book Pro four months ago. The platform is "the most innovative and best platform" I have EVER USED. I have a new high end Windows 7-64 bit box sitting here collecting dust. The MAC is innovative right down to the power connector that is attached magnetically so it doesn't crack the solder joints in the motherboard when I trip over the laptop cord.
Based on what I have seen and the value and productivity increase I get from using the Mac, I am willing to let them be the gatekeeper. The Apple product is solid, stable, and (secure???) and by providing a gatekeeper to the store and features it limits the damage to the platform and (I hope) upholds standards.
There is a place for Open-ness and a place for megalomania, but I can get nearly any open source package for the Mac and any hooks to the "offlimit" API's will be worked around to make all the interface features available. I say let Apple keep growing and providing value and innovative products. If Apple fumbles the ball, we can revolt, but right now it's a very good platform on which to work extremely efficiently.
Anyone who manages large systems know that this is very true, yet the data piles up. I've often wished that databases would allow us to make a view or some other type of abstraction which would allow you to make the decision whether or not to join an archive table. Right now, everything needs to be handled on a program by program or query by query basis. Hey, maybe I should quickly patent this idea, then I can license it to Oracle.:)
This is what I love about AMD, other than the price and ability to overclock. I can upgrade the BIOS and pop this CPU in my system without throwing out the MOBO and having to reload the O/S. If this were Intel, I would have to buy a new motherboard to support the slightly new CPU.
Thank you AMD for not playing socket-a-paloozo like Intel!
Oh, BTW, my 3.2Ghz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition runs stable at 3.8Ghz for $160.:) If I ever win the lotto I will buy an an i7, until then, GO AMD!
Good job Oracle! You will only hurt the ones that buy your hardware:) I know, I know, I know maintaining that 20-30% annual support contract is part of the business model, but FIRMWARE updates? Please.....
In other news, Gigabyte and ASUS will start charging for BIOS updates. You just thought your were going to purchase that new 6-core AMD PhenomII and use it with your motherboard. Not so fast... get a premium support contract first! Of course I am just kidding, I hope. Better go download the new BIOS just in case it disappears.
Kind sir, computers are "fad". A mere inconsequential passing fancy. Computers are either used as tools of amusement (aka Windows, the formerly best $80 Solitaire game money could buy) and for destruction of the world (aka, hypertrading systems on Wall Street and cruise missile guidance systems).
Why does a small business need computers? Think about how much more efficient you could be without all of those mumbo-jumbo computers and all the click-happy workers amusing themselves while back-doors and trojans compromise your network and data (on company time of course).
Carbon paper, filing cabinets, and shredders. This is the path to an efficient small business. You may even want to question why your small business needs so many phone lines. Sorry I could not be more helpful, but just step back and ask yourself, "is all this technology really necessary?" I think you will agree, it is a fad that simply over-complicates everything.
First off, this is total spinelessness on Youtube's part. This type of content is CLEARY PROTECTED BY THE PARODY as part of US copyright law. I need to watch the "Hitler Find out his Cloud Applications" episode and never downloaded it. If you have a link or reupload it, please reply to my post.
There are interesting branches of research which study these phenomenon of "Stochastic Events" and "probability theory". There is more of this going on than you may realize, especially in modern CPUs and high speed non-ECC RAM. I sometimes get frightened when I realize that we have built our civilization on technology that has so many problems and can be so easily interfered with or destroyed.
A wise women once said, "Everything effects everything."
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Grandma wants to show off pictures and movies of her grandkids and family on the iPad, and it does the absolute best job of ANY device for this task.
Never discount Solitare... I used to have this T-shirt.
Windows, the best $80 Solitare program money can buy.
As the original poster of this sub-thread, I say that you sir make excellent points and deserve modding up. Everything you said is true, especially about the keyboard and mouse. I did find that to be annoying and remapped some of the keys because I couldn't retrain my brain not to use the CTRL key. I use an external Logitech keyboard and magic mouse when working at home. BTW, the Magic mouse is really cool :) The sharp keyboard edge is also annoying. I rounded mine off a bit with a de-burring tool.
My other laptop is a Thinkpad T-series and agree they are the absolute best in the PC world.
But getting back to your coke story, did your T-61 survive the incident? Did the drain holes work?
I agree and disagree on the magnetic power adaptor. Right after diet coke spills, the second biggest cause of laptop destruction is the power adapter yanking the laptop to its death or cracking the solder joints in the motherboard. The Apple design solves both of those problems.
As for for the lack of a trackstick vs. gesturing on the touchpad, it is simply retraining the brain. In the beginning, I was still cheating and slipping over to the PC to do development work, because it was a faster interface. Now I have made friends with the Mac and installed MagicPrefs and and made a few other customizations and workspeed is about the same.
Excellent points... All of these should go directly to Apple R&D for fixing. However, while the Thinkpad has the Thinklight, the MAC has the backlit keyboard.
I can understand your bitter attitude, though, having no certain future for your Solaris training.
:)
That's just harsh man. Solaris is an excellent O/S in the server/database space. I used to have a Solaris 8 certification as well, but time has marched on and Oracle is now at Solaris 11 (I think). Worst case scenario, if Solaris loses market share, Linux will surely gain and in the world of virtualization, skills transfer fairly easily from Solaris to Linux to even windows.
Sun was an impressive company as well, producing their own CPUs and tightly integrated O/S similar to Apple, however as commodity hardware got faster and faster, they started to lose market share as the lower-cost Intel chips with Linux gained group.
Fun Fact: The Solaris PROM bootloader runs a language called FORTH
Many great products have failed to due to a crappy economy. This is news. The other story could be, really innovative company with high priced product, far ahead of it's time fails due to worst economy since the 1930's.
Google just needs to buy Apple for world domination. :)
Apple is going to have to go through a ton of unnecessary work to build a cloud infrastructure, when Google has it already done and ready to use. Google + Apple would be an unstoppable force for good and innovation.
I am a Opensource promoter, RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) and an all around techie. Awhile ago, I wrote a sensible article on my four month experience as a MacBook Pro user and received viscous comments like, "The almighty doesn't even get reviews like this from the pope."
I feel very vindicated by this article and have but one thing to say, "IN YOUR FACE, I TOLD YOU SO!"
ok... sorry, that was immature, but the Apple stuff is innovative, solid, and amazing. If you are still not convinced, go down to your local OfficeMax and spend some time with a droid tablet or try to edit AVCHD Video on WIndows 7 PC. Really, I am not an Apple fan-boy. I am just really busy and need my technology to work NOW!
I think because they did the hacking using a Bot-Net instead of computers under their own control.
Oracle just got $4B from SAS so they have cash to spend on lawyers. I imagine Oracle will make this part of their standard business practice now. Sue everyone, sue big, demand license fees even on stuff you don't own. :)
You are correct and GMAIL can work with Active Directory for GMAIL domain users. I moved my domain there long ago and my users are much happier. Users especially like the fact that they have unlimited email storage and can search gigs in seconds.
You sir, are a wise man. Like you in my opinion, GMAIL and iGoogle stomp exchange in terms of reliability, speed, cost, and performance.
Outlook 2010 vs. iGoogle = iGoogle wins (my opinion). I wish exchange would just go away, especially the wretched OWA (Outlook Web Access).
And on the home-front, make sure the exchange server is slow, unreliable, and forces users to constantly delete emails due to quotas. Then once your users are in full revolt against exchange, switch to the nirvana of GMAIL. With all the pain and expense of hosting an exchange server, I am not sure why everyone hasn't outsourced to GMAIL.
SSDs are still not a good value for their MBTF (Mean Time Between Failures). I predict the hybrid harddrive/SSD combo drive will be the near term winner (assuming laptops don't all get as small as the Air). I have had several friends recently purchase and install hybrid drives in their laptops and they gave it a "thumbs up" for performance but are very paranoid about failure, so they backup much more frequently. Additionally, these drives spin down quite regularly which increase battery life, however there are concerns about the duty cycle of spinup/spindown before failure. Example Hybrid Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591&cm_re=hybrid_hard_drive-_-22-148-591-_-Product
Wow... remind me not to post anything positive about Apple/Mac to Slashdot. I didn't realize Stallman and Ballmer had so many mod points.
Ok, I have seen the light. Apple is evil and not open. It's not really UNIX. Apple has adopted embrace and extend. The MAC converts all MP3's to MP3a's where "a" stands for Apple. Also, MacBooks don't have BlueRay burners and Apple called Google evil. This proves everything.
Apple just keeps pumping out the same old dated product over and over. The Apple Magic Mouse and trackpad are nothing new and these ideas were stolen from Google and Microsoft. The iPad is really just a ripoff of the Etch-a-Sketch.
Steve Jobs is making the computer easier to use so that he can trap people on his platform and take over the world. Real computer users should have to fight with drivers and config files for weeks before getting things to work as well as roll up their sleeves and fix a few bugs in the code. Shame on Apple for building a computer that can quickly and reliable come out of sleep mode. And that back light keyboard on the MacBookPro is nothing more than show, totally useless.
Right now OS/X ships with a terminal (bash shell) and Perl installed but it is just a ruse to get the Unix/Linux crowd to move over to a new platform. Soon these tools will disappear along with the keyboard.
Anyone using an Mac is just a frog in a pot with the heat slowly getting turned up. We are all just pawns in Steve Job's plan to take over the world. Apple has achieved roughly 3% market share and once they get to 5% market share, nothing will be able to stop them.
Did I get it right this time?
Posted from a MacBook Pro running Firefox, but not for long because Steve Jobs is taking Firefox away next week.
This is true. As a developer instead of negotiating with Best Buy, Amazon, and WalMart for 15% margins, you set the price and make 70% profit off your apps. This is motivation to code and make good stuff as well as leveling the playing field for the small developer. I predict this is a very smart move.
I agree with your Borg comment, but MS never created the same value proposition as Apple. Windows is always more of the same.. I spend money, I get the same thing I had, just prettier. Apple on the other hand really gives you amazing stuff that just works. See this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlD6JS0mD7E
I am willing to give Apple money for their new software, in fact I already ordered iLife 11 for $50 yesterday. I begrudge giving MS money because it's the same old thing release after release. If you look at MS's top 10 list to upgrade to Windows 7 from XP, their marketing department struggles to make the case. Apple and Mac are fundamentally changing the way we interact with technology and innovating with each and every release.
Just spend some time with iMovie and GarageBand and you will understand the shift. And don't bother looking for the mouse button because Apple got rid of that as well, we gesture now.
Guys. I've been an Amiga/PC/Red Hat person for years and got my first Mac Book Pro four months ago. The platform is "the most innovative and best platform" I have EVER USED. I have a new high end Windows 7-64 bit box sitting here collecting dust. The MAC is innovative right down to the power connector that is attached magnetically so it doesn't crack the solder joints in the motherboard when I trip over the laptop cord.
Based on what I have seen and the value and productivity increase I get from using the Mac, I am willing to let them be the gatekeeper. The Apple product is solid, stable, and (secure???) and by providing a gatekeeper to the store and features it limits the damage to the platform and (I hope) upholds standards.
There is a place for Open-ness and a place for megalomania, but I can get nearly any open source package for the Mac and any hooks to the "offlimit" API's will be worked around to make all the interface features available. I say let Apple keep growing and providing value and innovative products. If Apple fumbles the ball, we can revolt, but right now it's a very good platform on which to work extremely efficiently.
Anyone who manages large systems know that this is very true, yet the data piles up. I've often wished that databases would allow us to make a view or some other type of abstraction which would allow you to make the decision whether or not to join an archive table. Right now, everything needs to be handled on a program by program or query by query basis. Hey, maybe I should quickly patent this idea, then I can license it to Oracle. :)
This is what I love about AMD, other than the price and ability to overclock. I can upgrade the BIOS and pop this CPU in my system without throwing out the MOBO and having to reload the O/S. If this were Intel, I would have to buy a new motherboard to support the slightly new CPU.
:) If I ever win the lotto I will buy an an i7, until then, GO AMD!
Thank you AMD for not playing socket-a-paloozo like Intel!
Oh, BTW, my 3.2Ghz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition runs stable at 3.8Ghz for $160.
Good job Oracle! You will only hurt the ones that buy your hardware :) I know, I know, I know maintaining that 20-30% annual support contract is part of the business model, but FIRMWARE updates? Please.....
In other news, Gigabyte and ASUS will start charging for BIOS updates. You just thought your were going to purchase that new 6-core AMD PhenomII and use it with your motherboard. Not so fast... get a premium support contract first! Of course I am just kidding, I hope. Better go download the new BIOS just in case it disappears.
Kind sir, computers are "fad". A mere inconsequential passing fancy. Computers are either used as tools of amusement (aka Windows, the formerly best $80 Solitaire game money could buy) and for destruction of the world (aka, hypertrading systems on Wall Street and cruise missile guidance systems).
Why does a small business need computers? Think about how much more efficient you could be without all of those mumbo-jumbo computers and all the click-happy workers amusing themselves while back-doors and trojans compromise your network and data (on company time of course).
Carbon paper, filing cabinets, and shredders. This is the path to an efficient small business. You may even want to question why your small business needs so many phone lines. Sorry I could not be more helpful, but just step back and ask yourself, "is all this technology really necessary?" I think you will agree, it is a fad that simply over-complicates everything.
Send them an email and let them know how you feel about the takedown! zentrale@constantin-film.de
First off, this is total spinelessness on Youtube's part. This type of content is CLEARY PROTECTED BY THE PARODY as part of US copyright law. I need to watch the "Hitler Find out his Cloud Applications" episode and never downloaded it. If you have a link or reupload it, please reply to my post.
There are interesting branches of research which study these phenomenon of "Stochastic Events" and "probability theory". There is more of this going on than you may realize, especially in modern CPUs and high speed non-ECC RAM. I sometimes get frightened when I realize that we have built our civilization on technology that has so many problems and can be so easily interfered with or destroyed.
A wise women once said, "Everything effects everything."