Yes, there's a difference between DVI-D and DVI-A. There's also a Mini-DisplayPort connector in addition to the HDMI which supports passive analog VGA. Monoprice has them for $13. Besides, unless you're using an ancient CRT, who doesn't have DVI or better on their display?
Two weeks ago, I drove from Washington DC to Cincinnati, OH. Here's roughly the route I took, because I-70 in Pennsylvania is perpetually under construction:
495 beltway north to I-270 "west" (it actually runs north-northwest) I-270 West to I-70 West I-70 West to I-68 West I-68 West to I-79 South I-79 South to US Highway 50, which runs all the way to Cincinnati.
US Highway 50, through West Virginia, was a ribbon of pristine pavement, with beautiful scenery and light traffic. It was a fantastic drive. However, immediately after crossing the Ohio River, the pavement became rutted and potholed, and was miserable in comparison.
If the Feds aren't maintaining the Federal Highway System, why would it be any different under some other scheme? Besides, he hasn't put the Department of Transportation on the chopping block...
The Mac Mini includes an HDMI to DVI adapter in the box. I don't know what else you'd want, except maybe this DVI to VGA adapter that costs all of $0.01. That's sure going to break the bank.
As for the annual renewals, that's a TCO argument rather than the original up-front costs argument. If you want to include that, you would also need to include possible revenues of any apps you develop and sell within the four years that you're renewing in that price, which could be far above the $99/year we're talking about.
Of course the iOS sim isn't completely accurate for how it's going to perform on a device. It's there for you to start learning the environment, in order to further lower the barriers to entry. Once you get an app designed that does something in the neighborhood of what you thought it would, that's when you go spend the extra $200 on the iPod Touch (or less for a used one on Craigslist / eBay), and tune it. If you're scraping by, as I said before.
As for the warranty, if it already has AppleCare on it, it's fully transferrable. You can add AppleCare if the used Mac is within the first year after purchase, as if you bought it new - Apple doesn't care if you're the one that originally unboxed it, or if someone else did.
Mac Mini: $599 iPod Touch: $199 iOS developer account that can publish to the iTunes store: $99
Total: $897
$897 seems to be less than $1250. Also, you can just use the iOS simulator in Xcode if you're really scraping by, and cut the iPod Touch out, for a total entry cost of less than $700.
Paraphrasing your own signature: Calling someone a "fanboy" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
FYI - my position on this isn't on either side. Apple's patents are ridiculous and shouldn't have ever been granted. Samsung is trying to set a dangerous precedent of being able to sue licensees of F/RAND technology pools because the licensee is doing something they don't like. What happens if they win? Do they start suing everyone else that didn't put tech into the 3G pool because it's a new revenue stream? Because no company in the history of technology has ever done THAT before...
One legal victory over a 3G patent that is included in the pool could lead to a whole lot of dominos falling behind the precedent. Sure, Apple and Samsung are having a bit of a bitchfest, but everyone else could end up collateral damage if Samsung wins these, except for other people in the 3G patent pool that could use the same precedent to fuck Samsung over.
The whole point of having a pool of technologies with "Fair, Reasonable, and Non-discriminatory" licensing is to make a tech like 3G communications available to everyone, as long as they pay up for the whole pool. If Samsung can go after one licensee in retribution for other legal action (whether justified or not), whats to stop them from going after others?
"Unfortunately, I expect that Samsung will fail partly because of overseas precedent, but mostly because their patents are sane, technical and narrow in scope (unlike the patent-a-rectangle nature of the opposition)."
Not even trying to hide the shilling now, eh? Clearly, Samsung trying to pull a Rambus on the worldwide 3G standards is sooooo much better than Apple's ridiculous design patents.
Your forgot about Wayne Morse, one of the two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which massively escalated the Vietnam War. He didn't think that the President had the constitutional grounds to take military action with the absence of a formal declaration of war. Sound familiar to any recent history?
He also crossed party lines to endorse Mark Hatfield for Governor in 1966, which really pissed off the Oregon Democratic Party. They put up a primary challenger in 1968, who he beat; but lost in the general election to Bob Packwood.
Seriously, what does the iPhone have to do with a Blackberry outage? No one using a Blackberry is going to switch to the iPhone, because the iPhone doesn't fill the same niche in any way. If you want a phone that can play Angry Birds, get an iPhone.
Good thing there's a mechanism for the legislature overriding a veto, isn't there?
Start calling up assembly representatives, and let them know that privacy concerns are the battleground for the next few elections. Then tell them that you know how they voted on this issue before, and that you expect them to do the right thing going forward.
Or, if your product doesn't wow the public like you think it will, and you've made 10 million of them, now you're the guy who has 10 million phones that nobody wants.
Regardless, there's no evidence to correlate with Apple purposefully reducing availability specifically for marketing purposes - every single launch of an iPhone or iPad has sold out of initial inventory, and had months of backorder after the launch. What would be the purpose of continuing to have a starved channel months after the launch has happened?
I think they are producing at capacity, and continue to produce at capacity until the next model is ready to be tooled. In order to increase capacity, they would need to increase manufacturing partners, which would exponentially increase the probability of a pre-launch leak.
Channel stuffing... like when we hear about hundreds of thousands of Blackberry PlayBooks being shipped, but don't see anyone actually using one?
Or rather when we hear about hundreds of thousands of Windows Phone 7 shipments, but have never seen one in use?
etc. etc. These are pre-orders from people with credit card numbers. Not Motorola bloviating about how many Xooms they've sent to Best Buy. These are actual sales.
Except that the genius of Woz, is that he found ways to combine software and hardware in a novel way that dramatically reduced price. To my knowledge, Linus isn't a hardware guy at all.
He's probably one of the people that seem to think that Apple should be the only OS manufacturer that has to bundle Adobe's crapware with their install.
Hint: no other OS or browser publisher does this either.
You just told us the same bullshit that RIM's executive team has been saying for years. Don't worry about how we're dropping like a stone in terms of market share, we've got piles of cash on hand!
I want you to think back to any game of Monopoly that you played. What happens to the player with a small amount of the shit cheap properties and a huge mountain of cash? It's only a matter of time.
Granted, this isn't a perfect analogy, because you can't add squares to the Monopoly board like you can in the tech world. I just don't see RIM even trying that hard right now. Cash is great, but expanding revenue wins, and they don't have it.
Remember when stock investments were speculative in nature? This is people crying about eating risk that they didn't understand. HP's PC division is profitable, and will continue to be profitable for the near term future. However, the management sees the downward trend, and they want to get out.
Don't like it? Sell your HP stock. Plenty of others did. Think it's a good move? Buy HP. It's real cheap at the moment. That's what the stock market is all about.
Plug in a USB keyboard Message 1: I've found new hardware! Message 2: Your hardware is a USB HID Device! Message 3: I'm installing a driver for your USB HID Device! Message 4: The driver is now installed for your USB HID Device! Message 5: Your device is ready to use!
Any other OS: Plug in a USB keyboard The caps lock light briefly illuminates as the device initializes You start typing, and see your keystrokes appear on the screen.
Oh and by the way, drivers are automatically downloaded upon detection of hardware that the OS didnt originally have drivers packaged for. (ubuntu is trying this with its WIFI and vid card drivers, but it isnt as good)
Unless your NIC and WiFi are some of the things it doesn't have drivers for. Nice try.
Now put it on a Windows 2003+ domain. Then give it a couple management agents for software delivery, security, remote control for support, etc. Then, if it's a laptop, and you work for a large company, encrypt the disk with a software solution.
Don't forget the login scripts and persistent drive mappings!
The summary is absolute shit; and if it's even close to accurate in portraying the article's content, then the article is absolute shit too.
Just because some random laptop with a crap 5400 RPM drive couldn't sustain 1Gbps, that means nobody needs it?
Bullshit. My Mac Pro can flush a 1Gbps ethernet connection with time to spare. Or, how about 5 of those random laptops all trying to do that 420 Mbps at the same time?
This is the kind of detritus that would have never made Slashdot back in the day./getoffmylawn
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Yes, there's a difference between DVI-D and DVI-A. There's also a Mini-DisplayPort connector in addition to the HDMI which supports passive analog VGA. Monoprice has them for $13. Besides, unless you're using an ancient CRT, who doesn't have DVI or better on their display?
Two weeks ago, I drove from Washington DC to Cincinnati, OH. Here's roughly the route I took, because I-70 in Pennsylvania is perpetually under construction:
495 beltway north to I-270 "west" (it actually runs north-northwest)
I-270 West to I-70 West
I-70 West to I-68 West
I-68 West to I-79 South
I-79 South to US Highway 50, which runs all the way to Cincinnati.
US Highway 50, through West Virginia, was a ribbon of pristine pavement, with beautiful scenery and light traffic. It was a fantastic drive. However, immediately after crossing the Ohio River, the pavement became rutted and potholed, and was miserable in comparison.
If the Feds aren't maintaining the Federal Highway System, why would it be any different under some other scheme? Besides, he hasn't put the Department of Transportation on the chopping block...
The Mac Mini includes an HDMI to DVI adapter in the box. I don't know what else you'd want, except maybe this DVI to VGA adapter that costs all of $0.01. That's sure going to break the bank.
As for the annual renewals, that's a TCO argument rather than the original up-front costs argument. If you want to include that, you would also need to include possible revenues of any apps you develop and sell within the four years that you're renewing in that price, which could be far above the $99/year we're talking about.
Of course the iOS sim isn't completely accurate for how it's going to perform on a device. It's there for you to start learning the environment, in order to further lower the barriers to entry. Once you get an app designed that does something in the neighborhood of what you thought it would, that's when you go spend the extra $200 on the iPod Touch (or less for a used one on Craigslist / eBay), and tune it. If you're scraping by, as I said before.
As for the warranty, if it already has AppleCare on it, it's fully transferrable. You can add AppleCare if the used Mac is within the first year after purchase, as if you bought it new - Apple doesn't care if you're the one that originally unboxed it, or if someone else did.
Mac Mini: $599
iPod Touch: $199
iOS developer account that can publish to the iTunes store: $99
Total: $897
$897 seems to be less than $1250. Also, you can just use the iOS simulator in Xcode if you're really scraping by, and cut the iPod Touch out, for a total entry cost of less than $700.
It's also a travesty that there is nowhere to buy refurbished Macs, or used Macs at a discount that work perfectly.
Thanks for playing.
Yeah, I'm a 'fanboy.'
Paraphrasing your own signature: Calling someone a "fanboy" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
FYI - my position on this isn't on either side. Apple's patents are ridiculous and shouldn't have ever been granted. Samsung is trying to set a dangerous precedent of being able to sue licensees of F/RAND technology pools because the licensee is doing something they don't like. What happens if they win? Do they start suing everyone else that didn't put tech into the 3G pool because it's a new revenue stream? Because no company in the history of technology has ever done THAT before...
One legal victory over a 3G patent that is included in the pool could lead to a whole lot of dominos falling behind the precedent. Sure, Apple and Samsung are having a bit of a bitchfest, but everyone else could end up collateral damage if Samsung wins these, except for other people in the 3G patent pool that could use the same precedent to fuck Samsung over.
The whole point of having a pool of technologies with "Fair, Reasonable, and Non-discriminatory" licensing is to make a tech like 3G communications available to everyone, as long as they pay up for the whole pool. If Samsung can go after one licensee in retribution for other legal action (whether justified or not), whats to stop them from going after others?
Exactly. It's clear that this summary was written either by a Samsung shill, or someone so incredibly biased it's not even funny.
Never mind that Samsung tried to Rambus the 3G F/RAND technology pool - that's perfectly OK because they're sticking it to Apple!
"Unfortunately, I expect that Samsung will fail partly because of overseas precedent, but mostly because their patents are sane, technical and narrow in scope (unlike the patent-a-rectangle nature of the opposition)."
Not even trying to hide the shilling now, eh? Clearly, Samsung trying to pull a Rambus on the worldwide 3G standards is sooooo much better than Apple's ridiculous design patents.
Your forgot about Wayne Morse, one of the two Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which massively escalated the Vietnam War. He didn't think that the President had the constitutional grounds to take military action with the absence of a formal declaration of war. Sound familiar to any recent history?
He also crossed party lines to endorse Mark Hatfield for Governor in 1966, which really pissed off the Oregon Democratic Party. They put up a primary challenger in 1968, who he beat; but lost in the general election to Bob Packwood.
Seriously, what does the iPhone have to do with a Blackberry outage? No one using a Blackberry is going to switch to the iPhone, because the iPhone doesn't fill the same niche in any way. If you want a phone that can play Angry Birds, get an iPhone.
Except that they are, and in droves.
Good thing there's a mechanism for the legislature overriding a veto, isn't there?
Start calling up assembly representatives, and let them know that privacy concerns are the battleground for the next few elections. Then tell them that you know how they voted on this issue before, and that you expect them to do the right thing going forward.
Or, if your product doesn't wow the public like you think it will, and you've made 10 million of them, now you're the guy who has 10 million phones that nobody wants.
Regardless, there's no evidence to correlate with Apple purposefully reducing availability specifically for marketing purposes - every single launch of an iPhone or iPad has sold out of initial inventory, and had months of backorder after the launch. What would be the purpose of continuing to have a starved channel months after the launch has happened?
I think they are producing at capacity, and continue to produce at capacity until the next model is ready to be tooled. In order to increase capacity, they would need to increase manufacturing partners, which would exponentially increase the probability of a pre-launch leak.
Anonymous coward calling someone an ass for "hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet." At least that guy used his Slashdot ID.
Channel stuffing... like when we hear about hundreds of thousands of Blackberry PlayBooks being shipped, but don't see anyone actually using one?
Or rather when we hear about hundreds of thousands of Windows Phone 7 shipments, but have never seen one in use?
etc. etc. These are pre-orders from people with credit card numbers. Not Motorola bloviating about how many Xooms they've sent to Best Buy. These are actual sales.
Except that the genius of Woz, is that he found ways to combine software and hardware in a novel way that dramatically reduced price. To my knowledge, Linus isn't a hardware guy at all.
Reboots usually don't happen because of hardware, and certainly not because of the type of RAM you're running. It's bad software.
He's probably one of the people that seem to think that Apple should be the only OS manufacturer that has to bundle Adobe's crapware with their install.
Hint: no other OS or browser publisher does this either.
to only including ANCIENT copies of GNU utilities on MacOS
Because something prevents you from downloading the latest code and compiling yourself when you need it? No wait, you can do exactly that, and I have.
You are correct. The usual abbreviation is DJIA. Dow Jones Industrial Average.
You just told us the same bullshit that RIM's executive team has been saying for years. Don't worry about how we're dropping like a stone in terms of market share, we've got piles of cash on hand!
I want you to think back to any game of Monopoly that you played. What happens to the player with a small amount of the shit cheap properties and a huge mountain of cash? It's only a matter of time.
Granted, this isn't a perfect analogy, because you can't add squares to the Monopoly board like you can in the tech world. I just don't see RIM even trying that hard right now. Cash is great, but expanding revenue wins, and they don't have it.
Remember when stock investments were speculative in nature? This is people crying about eating risk that they didn't understand. HP's PC division is profitable, and will continue to be profitable for the near term future. However, the management sees the downward trend, and they want to get out.
Don't like it? Sell your HP stock. Plenty of others did. Think it's a good move? Buy HP. It's real cheap at the moment. That's what the stock market is all about.
The one that I've never understood about windows:
Plug in a USB keyboard
Message 1: I've found new hardware!
Message 2: Your hardware is a USB HID Device!
Message 3: I'm installing a driver for your USB HID Device!
Message 4: The driver is now installed for your USB HID Device!
Message 5: Your device is ready to use!
Any other OS:
Plug in a USB keyboard
The caps lock light briefly illuminates as the device initializes
You start typing, and see your keystrokes appear on the screen.
Oh and by the way, drivers are automatically downloaded upon detection of hardware that the OS didnt originally have drivers packaged for. (ubuntu is trying this with its WIFI and vid card drivers, but it isnt as good)
Unless your NIC and WiFi are some of the things it doesn't have drivers for. Nice try.
Now put it on a Windows 2003+ domain.
Then give it a couple management agents for software delivery, security, remote control for support, etc.
Then, if it's a laptop, and you work for a large company, encrypt the disk with a software solution.
Don't forget the login scripts and persistent drive mappings!
The summary is absolute shit; and if it's even close to accurate in portraying the article's content, then the article is absolute shit too.
Just because some random laptop with a crap 5400 RPM drive couldn't sustain 1Gbps, that means nobody needs it?
Bullshit. My Mac Pro can flush a 1Gbps ethernet connection with time to spare. Or, how about 5 of those random laptops all trying to do that 420 Mbps at the same time?
This is the kind of detritus that would have never made Slashdot back in the day. /getoffmylawn