You got it right the first time - to control the charging process. That is the "non predatory" reason that lithium ion batteries have chips in them, and it is *absolutely* not unique to Apple.
Don't let facts get in the way of a good Apple bash though!
He's being pretty mild by the standards of what anyone who has even a vaguely positive stance on Apple receives when they post here. Not that two wrongs make a right, but sometimes being totally passive is the wrong approach.
They design the boards that connect those standard parts together, rather than say just buying a motherboard from new egg for whatever is on sale that week. They also engineer the "crappy little case" beyond just picking the CPU and RAM an so on that most armchair PC designers seem to think is involved in making a product. Everything from materials testing, to thermal management, recycling ability etc - you know, rather than just a standard ATX beige box.
Just because they don't design their own CPUs and GPUs down to the transistor level does not mean you can dismiss them out of hand as a hardware designer. There are many, many levels between "design your own CPU" to "ask someone to design and build a PC that you then market"
Now we all know you're tragic fanboy and have trouble admitting this but Apple and Jobs himself are experts at lying through statistics. I know every company does it to a degree, it's called PR but Apple turn it up to 11.
The statistic that "Apple is 10% in the US" is including Ipads and ignores the fact that the US is a very small market. It also disguises the fact that Apple isn't doing so well in the rest of the world. Now the US PC market is shrinking whilst the PC market in Asia is growing but Apple's share in the Asian market is practically non-existent.
Lying through statistics is easy when you cherry pick what statistics to show. 78% of people know that.
We know hater trolls love to hate, and you're like stuck records, but repeating it often enough with your face all scrunched up and *really wishing hard* will not make it true.
That just explains why pc manufacturers and peripheral makers tended to use the official IEEE number to refer to the port rather than firewire, with some exceptions. The port certainly wasn't unheard of in the PC arena (especially in the 4 pin form on laptops), but it never got the consumer penetration that it should have due to the cost of implementation (which wasn't all down to licensing and patent fees - the chipsets were more expensive than the same stuff needed to do USB2, since that palmed off all that work on the host computer and had various other compromises that made it worse than firewire).
iPads are not included in those figures. Macs (as in, specifically *not* iOS devices) make up 10% of new PC sales in the US, and Apple is one of the few individual vendors who are actually growing their business (in an overall decline in market growth compared to previous years).
Where's the "-1 totally, utterly spouting bullshit" moderation option.
Any old bluetooth keyboard works with the iPad. You can also hook up usb keyboards via the USB adapter and they work too. No need to buy the iPad accessory one.
Why do you think he's bragging? He's directly answering a post from the GP that Apple is "still a far cry from the "other" desktop computers" (direct quote). He's pointing out that, in fact, they are the third biggest.
I'm not sure what "a far cry" means in your world, but generally not "third biggest", unless there are only three participants I suppose.
Firewire was a huge success (and still is), just not in the consumer space. Even FW400 (the slowest speed in a non-prototype product) is still faster and more robust than USB2.
If you needed fast, reliable, low resource using external bus, then Firewire was excellent and is the de-facto standard for consumer DV cameras, pro-sumer stuff (before you start looking at things like SDI and so on), and used for things like external sound cards, hard drives, high-bandwidth scanners and cameras and so on.
It only lost out in the consumer space because it was more expensive to implement than USB2 (and the fact that Intel essentially put 22" rims and a huge engine into a Toyota Tercel and called it a sports car - USB was never designed for high throughput, and it suffers as a result at USB2 speeds, to the point that a FW400 bus [400Mb/s] almost always outperforms a USB2 bus [theoretically 480Mb/s but good luck] in real world use).
I have an affordable 50Mb cable connection, but then I don't live in the US. I will have to pay slightly more for Lion as a consequence. It won't take me anywhere near 30 minutes to download though.
If you're talking about Greece, then yes - one of the EU countries who had a culture of "low or no taxes" for the wealthy and businesses at all costs. Sort of like another, slight larger, economy that is similarly struggling.
You know, it's funny but when you don't have income (in the form of taxes), you can't spend it on things that you're paying for anyway, like air conditioning Afghanistan.
It goes into the pockets of people like the Koch brothers. That is, it's removed from circulation in the "trickle up" effect. At least, removed until election time rolls around... but then it never circulates far from the vine after that.
If you think "discovering a few new elements" is all that has changed in 25 years then you're just not keeping up, but if it's not your field then it may not look like much has changed.
I suppose nothing has changed in computing in the last 25 years. I mean, computers have got a little bit faster, but do we really need a new textbook to tell us that? Just a scratch on the surface.
Chemistry hasn't changed much in 100 years? What are you smoking and where can I get some?
Even the intro/101 stuff has changed. Not enough for a new edition of a textbook every year, but you could not teach modern chemistry from a 100 year old textbook. Even a 50 year old textbook.
Well, I expected a patch, but it wasn't to "stop jailbreaking" as much as slashdot would like to think so. It's not some machiavellian plot to thwart homebrew, but a patch to close a gaping security hole (you know, what Apple gets flamed for "not doing quickly enough").
Colour me unsurprised they patched a hole that allowed root escalation via the PDF handler. I would call that "due diligence", and would be lauded by slashdot if it were fixed by anyone except Apple.
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You got it right the first time - to control the charging process. That is the "non predatory" reason that lithium ion batteries have chips in them, and it is *absolutely* not unique to Apple.
Don't let facts get in the way of a good Apple bash though!
OS X can do that too.
The original article is uninformed and sensationalist. But this is slashdot, so what else did you expect?
He's being pretty mild by the standards of what anyone who has even a vaguely positive stance on Apple receives when they post here. Not that two wrongs make a right, but sometimes being totally passive is the wrong approach.
Why burn a DVD x times?
Once the installer is on the local network, just install it that way. Or put it on a USB stick.
Unless you're saying your company network can't handle local transfers of 3.5GB files without choking.
They design the boards that connect those standard parts together, rather than say just buying a motherboard from new egg for whatever is on sale that week. They also engineer the "crappy little case" beyond just picking the CPU and RAM an so on that most armchair PC designers seem to think is involved in making a product. Everything from materials testing, to thermal management, recycling ability etc - you know, rather than just a standard ATX beige box.
Just because they don't design their own CPUs and GPUs down to the transistor level does not mean you can dismiss them out of hand as a hardware designer. There are many, many levels between "design your own CPU" to "ask someone to design and build a PC that you then market"
Except that they are.
Now we all know you're tragic fanboy and have trouble admitting this but Apple and Jobs himself are experts at lying through statistics. I know every company does it to a degree, it's called PR but Apple turn it up to 11.
The statistic that "Apple is 10% in the US" is including Ipads and ignores the fact that the US is a very small market. It also disguises the fact that Apple isn't doing so well in the rest of the world. Now the US PC market is shrinking whilst the PC market in Asia is growing but Apple's share in the Asian market is practically non-existent.
Lying through statistics is easy when you cherry pick what statistics to show. 78% of people know that.
We know hater trolls love to hate, and you're like stuck records, but repeating it often enough with your face all scrunched up and *really wishing hard* will not make it true.
http://macdailynews.com/2011/01/12/gartner_apple_mac_posts_24_yoy_growth_to_grab_9-7_u-s-_market_share/
Check table two - it shows Apple's 9.7% share, and then specifically mentions this quote right underneath. It's hard to miss.
Note: Data includes desk-based PCs, mobile PCs, including mini-notebooks but not media tablet such as the iPad. Source: Gartner (January 2010)
Next time you want to troll, stick to facts - you won't look so foolish.
That just explains why pc manufacturers and peripheral makers tended to use the official IEEE number to refer to the port rather than firewire, with some exceptions. The port certainly wasn't unheard of in the PC arena (especially in the 4 pin form on laptops), but it never got the consumer penetration that it should have due to the cost of implementation (which wasn't all down to licensing and patent fees - the chipsets were more expensive than the same stuff needed to do USB2, since that palmed off all that work on the host computer and had various other compromises that made it worse than firewire).
iPads are not included in those figures. Macs (as in, specifically *not* iOS devices) make up 10% of new PC sales in the US, and Apple is one of the few individual vendors who are actually growing their business (in an overall decline in market growth compared to previous years).
Where's the "-1 totally, utterly spouting bullshit" moderation option.
Any old bluetooth keyboard works with the iPad. You can also hook up usb keyboards via the USB adapter and they work too. No need to buy the iPad accessory one.
Why do you think he's bragging? He's directly answering a post from the GP that Apple is "still a far cry from the "other" desktop computers" (direct quote). He's pointing out that, in fact, they are the third biggest.
I'm not sure what "a far cry" means in your world, but generally not "third biggest", unless there are only three participants I suppose.
Firewire was a huge success (and still is), just not in the consumer space. Even FW400 (the slowest speed in a non-prototype product) is still faster and more robust than USB2.
If you needed fast, reliable, low resource using external bus, then Firewire was excellent and is the de-facto standard for consumer DV cameras, pro-sumer stuff (before you start looking at things like SDI and so on), and used for things like external sound cards, hard drives, high-bandwidth scanners and cameras and so on.
It only lost out in the consumer space because it was more expensive to implement than USB2 (and the fact that Intel essentially put 22" rims and a huge engine into a Toyota Tercel and called it a sports car - USB was never designed for high throughput, and it suffers as a result at USB2 speeds, to the point that a FW400 bus [400Mb/s] almost always outperforms a USB2 bus [theoretically 480Mb/s but good luck] in real world use).
They sell 2560x1440 IPS panels with LED backlights for $329? Can you pick a few up for me?
I have an affordable 50Mb cable connection, but then I don't live in the US. I will have to pay slightly more for Lion as a consequence. It won't take me anywhere near 30 minutes to download though.
You forgot to log in.
Also, your mom says your Eggo is ready.
At least granddad didn't have a floating point precision bug! Progress eh?!
If you're talking about Greece, then yes - one of the EU countries who had a culture of "low or no taxes" for the wealthy and businesses at all costs. Sort of like another, slight larger, economy that is similarly struggling.
You know, it's funny but when you don't have income (in the form of taxes), you can't spend it on things that you're paying for anyway, like air conditioning Afghanistan.
It goes into the pockets of people like the Koch brothers. That is, it's removed from circulation in the "trickle up" effect. At least, removed until election time rolls around... but then it never circulates far from the vine after that.
If you think "discovering a few new elements" is all that has changed in 25 years then you're just not keeping up, but if it's not your field then it may not look like much has changed.
I suppose nothing has changed in computing in the last 25 years. I mean, computers have got a little bit faster, but do we really need a new textbook to tell us that? Just a scratch on the surface.
I think you need to check your facts. Just believing hard enough that it's not true will not make it so. OS X is absolutely Unix compliant.
Chemistry hasn't changed much in 100 years? What are you smoking and where can I get some?
Even the intro/101 stuff has changed. Not enough for a new edition of a textbook every year, but you could not teach modern chemistry from a 100 year old textbook. Even a 50 year old textbook.
Well, I expected a patch, but it wasn't to "stop jailbreaking" as much as slashdot would like to think so. It's not some machiavellian plot to thwart homebrew, but a patch to close a gaping security hole (you know, what Apple gets flamed for "not doing quickly enough").
Colour me unsurprised they patched a hole that allowed root escalation via the PDF handler. I would call that "due diligence", and would be lauded by slashdot if it were fixed by anyone except Apple.
No, pretty much nailed it first time round. If I'd have meant chauvinism I'd have typed that. The OP was not being patriotic.
Never tell me the odds!
Or "winningest"... *shudder*.
I think I just had a small stroke while typing that.
BP is at least as American as it is British - the current BP was formed by the merger of two large corporations, one British the other American.
Also, nice racism there. Because no one but America can make something that won't fail and cause massive pollution... oh wait.