Well, first of all, being scuff-able is not a defect. My car gets scratches all the time too, just from everyday wear & tear. Does that mean I can sue Ford for their "defective" paint job?
Well, imagine you got a brand new car. You decide to take it through the car wash, and the brushes in the car wash scuff and scratch the crap out of the paint job. Yet any other type of car when it goes through the car wash emerges looking just fine. Wouldn't you be pissed?
Secondly, the core function is playing music, which it still does if scratched.
Then you go to Ford and they say "Well, it still drives fine, right?" Wouldn't you be even more pissed? It's kind of like that.
Maybe a diamond screen... If you are willing to pay like 10.000$ for it.
No need to go to extremes. The plastic used on most cellphone screens is pretty scratch resistant, and it must be cheap or else the cellphone manufacturers wouldn't use it.
So, Apple chose not to put a scratch-resistant surface on the screens of their low-budget flash-based iPod. Big fucking surprise.
Low-budget? The Nano costs $199 or $249, depending on which one you buy. As MP3 players go, that's pretty pricy. If it was some $50 cheapo thing from Korea, then maybe people wouldn't care - but if you're going to spend $200+ on a "premium" brand's MP3 player, I would expect more.
Utterly false. My last three video cards have cost around $100-$120 each; as long as you don't care to live on the bleeding edge (meaning, "decent" is good enough), you can get excellent price/performance ratios.
I wouldn't say it's utterly false. You can buy a Nintendo Gamecube for under $100 these days.
Just wish they made a left hand only keyboard. That would be cool.
They do. Not that I have ever tried one, but they do look interesting.
Alternatively, there are also Dvorak keyboard layouts optimized for one handed typing too. I haven't tried those either, but the basic idea (moving all the commonly used keys to one side of the keyboard) is pretty sound.
This is not insane - it's a perfectly legitimate decision. It's VASTLY cheaper to change DST than to mandate higher fuel economy standards.
Yeah, at a 1% energy savings per day that DST is in effect. The total savings from this change is less energy than Americans use in a day. A 1MPG increase in the nation's fleet of vehicles would be a 5% savings (and that's taking the average MPG of a vehicle to be 20MPG, which might be a bit generous). Heck, a national campaign to get people to properly inflate their tires would save more energy with less hassle - and probably would save some lives too. Changing DST is a just a feel-good measure that will probably end up causing more problems than it solves.
Having the sun get up at 4-30am is not as useful to 99% of the people as having a few hours to do stuff in the evening after work. WTF is with getting home from work at 6pm and it being dark?
Without DST in effect, the sun will be at its highest point in the sky at noon. Hence, if the sun is up at 4-4:30 in the morning, it will be setting at 7:30-8 in the evening, not at 6pm.
However, the article states that Hubble is using UV light, in particular it's working with UV wavelengths that are mostly absorbed by our atmosphere. The article is a bit light on details, but if we were to try to work in the far UV where the wavelength is around 50nm, we would only need a mirror 1/16 as big, or about 24 meters across... ok, you're still right:)
Actually, it is a disaster for some Mac users. Apple was slow at adopting USB 2.0, and because of that, there are plenty of newer Macs out there with just USB 1.1 and Firewire. Most of these computers lack expandibility, so these people just can't slap in a $20 USB 2.0 PCI card like a PC user can. They are just stuck.
I want devices that are designed to do one thing and do it perfectly. And the iPod is such a device. Don't mess with it.
You must not like the new iPods, because the last time I checked, they play music, play video, show pictures, and are a UMS device. That's atleast four things right there. Even the Shuffle is both a music player and a USB thumbdrive.
USB will not charge over the port unless the computer and device is on.
I have had several motherboards in my homebuilt PCs provides power to the USB ports when the computer is supposedly "off". So it depends on what kind of computer you're running. If anything, a powered USB hub should be able to charge the iPod too.
I wouldn't say Apple was really out of the hole until 2002 when 10.2 came out. The iMac was a big hit in 1998, but Apple needed a little more than translucent plastic and hockey puck mice to save itself. OSX was a big step forward of course - but the early versions of OSX were sluggish, buggy, had poor software support, and drew lots of criticism from people not wanting to upgrade from OS9. It wasn't really until 10.2 came out that Apple had really turned things around.
Well if that is the case then don't you think that MS is in the same situation now?
No. Microsoft has 90%+ of the desktop/workstation market, and a noticable portion of the server market. Their OS is installed on most new computers, and despite what people may say about Windows XP - it's one of the best operating systems Microsoft has ever been able to put out. Most businesses make use of their office suite. In comparision, Apple back in the 1990's had a tiny percentage of the desktop/workstation market, and negligable portions of the server market. Apple's OS in the late 90's was absolutely dreadful, as well as their hardware. The situations aren't simular at all.
I'm not saying that Microsoft can't wither and die, but it won't be anytime soon.
I use Macs, and while I think they are pretty nifty, I won't hesitate to bash Apple whenever they deserve a good bashing. Not everyone drinks the kool-aid, you know.
Who says anything about writing your own applications? The Video iPod claims that it supports MPEG4, in which case I'm pretty sure I could convince AutoGK to create compatible xvid files at a cost of $0. Of course, AutoGK is a Windows program, but I'm sure there are other options out there if you look.
One thing that gets me is that even in their top of the line machine, they still only put 512 megs of RAM? At this point in time (especially considering it will hold 16 gigs!) you would think they would at least put in one gig standard.
The really funny thing about this is that their new software package Aperture requires 1GB of ram to run, and recommends 2GB. Their top of the line $3000 computer can't even run it without an upgrade!
Check again - the required is only a single 1.8gHz system with (only) 1GB of RAM, a far cry from the recommended setup.
1GB of ram is pretty steep, especially considering that the top of the line Apple PowerMac still only ships with 512MB in its standard configuration, and hence doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for Aperture. Why does Apple always skimp on RAM anyway on their systems?
Let me guess, VIA chipset? I've known many people who have had VIA based AMD systems to have problems with the USB. If you are using some cheapo power supplies, that could be suspect too.
That is one thing Intel has on its side. When it comes to stability, nothing can touch Intel's chipsets.
I'm sorry, but you aren't listening to AMD very well if you call BS...in their own lawsuit they said they were selling every processor they could make
That's a dumb statement. What else is AMD going to do with the processors they make? Well of course they sell them! What do you think they do, dump half of their output into the ocean or something?
*Light up controls (C'mon, these things are meant to be used in the dark!) *Get rid of the snooze button. The snooze button is for the weak. *An alarm that starts out soft and gets louder over a short period of time. I know some alarm clocks have this, but it seems to be reserved for expensive models. *A display that shows the next time the alarm will go off. Make it easy to see that it is set the way you want it, especially if you are going to include 7+ alarm times. *Alarms that auto-shutoff after 15 minutes or some simular time period. If you have ever lived in a college dorm you know what I'm talking about. *No trendy bright blue displays.
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Well, first of all, being scuff-able is not a defect. My car gets scratches all the time too, just from everyday wear & tear. Does that mean I can sue Ford for their "defective" paint job?
Well, imagine you got a brand new car. You decide to take it through the car wash, and the brushes in the car wash scuff and scratch the crap out of the paint job. Yet any other type of car when it goes through the car wash emerges looking just fine. Wouldn't you be pissed?
Secondly, the core function is playing music, which it still does if scratched.
Then you go to Ford and they say "Well, it still drives fine, right?" Wouldn't you be even more pissed? It's kind of like that.
Maybe a diamond screen... If you are willing to pay like 10.000$ for it.
No need to go to extremes. The plastic used on most cellphone screens is pretty scratch resistant, and it must be cheap or else the cellphone manufacturers wouldn't use it.
So, Apple chose not to put a scratch-resistant surface on the screens of their low-budget flash-based iPod. Big fucking surprise.
Low-budget? The Nano costs $199 or $249, depending on which one you buy. As MP3 players go, that's pretty pricy. If it was some $50 cheapo thing from Korea, then maybe people wouldn't care - but if you're going to spend $200+ on a "premium" brand's MP3 player, I would expect more.
Utterly false. My last three video cards have cost around $100-$120 each; as long as you don't care to live on the bleeding edge (meaning, "decent" is good enough), you can get excellent price/performance ratios.
I wouldn't say it's utterly false. You can buy a Nintendo Gamecube for under $100 these days.
Just wish they made a left hand only keyboard. That would be cool.
They do. Not that I have ever tried one, but they do look interesting.
Alternatively, there are also Dvorak keyboard layouts optimized for one handed typing too. I haven't tried those either, but the basic idea (moving all the commonly used keys to one side of the keyboard) is pretty sound.
This is not insane - it's a perfectly legitimate decision. It's VASTLY cheaper to change DST than to mandate higher fuel economy standards.
Yeah, at a 1% energy savings per day that DST is in effect. The total savings from this change is less energy than Americans use in a day. A 1MPG increase in the nation's fleet of vehicles would be a 5% savings (and that's taking the average MPG of a vehicle to be 20MPG, which might be a bit generous). Heck, a national campaign to get people to properly inflate their tires would save more energy with less hassle - and probably would save some lives too. Changing DST is a just a feel-good measure that will probably end up causing more problems than it solves.
Having the sun get up at 4-30am is not as useful to 99% of the people as having a few hours to do stuff in the evening after work. WTF is with getting home from work at 6pm and it being dark?
Without DST in effect, the sun will be at its highest point in the sky at noon. Hence, if the sun is up at 4-4:30 in the morning, it will be setting at 7:30-8 in the evening, not at 6pm.
I don't like those either, but I can tell you the time is roughly 10:10 on the clock in the image.
What are you going to complain about when W is not longer in the whitehouse?
Well, whoever the next president is, of course. Just like how we used to bitch about Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, etc.
However, the article states that Hubble is using UV light, in particular it's working with UV wavelengths that are mostly absorbed by our atmosphere. The article is a bit light on details, but if we were to try to work in the far UV where the wavelength is around 50nm, we would only need a mirror 1/16 as big, or about 24 meters across... ok, you're still right :)
Not what I would call a disaster for Mac users
Actually, it is a disaster for some Mac users. Apple was slow at adopting USB 2.0, and because of that, there are plenty of newer Macs out there with just USB 1.1 and Firewire. Most of these computers lack expandibility, so these people just can't slap in a $20 USB 2.0 PCI card like a PC user can. They are just stuck.
I want devices that are designed to do one thing and do it perfectly. And the iPod is such a device. Don't mess with it.
You must not like the new iPods, because the last time I checked, they play music, play video, show pictures, and are a UMS device. That's atleast four things right there. Even the Shuffle is both a music player and a USB thumbdrive.
USB will not charge over the port unless the computer and device is on.
I have had several motherboards in my homebuilt PCs provides power to the USB ports when the computer is supposedly "off". So it depends on what kind of computer you're running. If anything, a powered USB hub should be able to charge the iPod too.
I wouldn't say Apple was really out of the hole until 2002 when 10.2 came out. The iMac was a big hit in 1998, but Apple needed a little more than translucent plastic and hockey puck mice to save itself. OSX was a big step forward of course - but the early versions of OSX were sluggish, buggy, had poor software support, and drew lots of criticism from people not wanting to upgrade from OS9. It wasn't really until 10.2 came out that Apple had really turned things around.
Well if that is the case then don't you think that MS is in the same situation now?
No. Microsoft has 90%+ of the desktop/workstation market, and a noticable portion of the server market. Their OS is installed on most new computers, and despite what people may say about Windows XP - it's one of the best operating systems Microsoft has ever been able to put out. Most businesses make use of their office suite. In comparision, Apple back in the 1990's had a tiny percentage of the desktop/workstation market, and negligable portions of the server market. Apple's OS in the late 90's was absolutely dreadful, as well as their hardware. The situations aren't simular at all.
I'm not saying that Microsoft can't wither and die, but it won't be anytime soon.
I use Macs, and while I think they are pretty nifty, I won't hesitate to bash Apple whenever they deserve a good bashing. Not everyone drinks the kool-aid, you know.
Who says anything about writing your own applications? The Video iPod claims that it supports MPEG4, in which case I'm pretty sure I could convince AutoGK to create compatible xvid files at a cost of $0. Of course, AutoGK is a Windows program, but I'm sure there are other options out there if you look.
One thing that gets me is that even in their top of the line machine, they still only put 512 megs of RAM? At this point in time (especially considering it will hold 16 gigs!) you would think they would at least put in one gig standard.
The really funny thing about this is that their new software package Aperture requires 1GB of ram to run, and recommends 2GB. Their top of the line $3000 computer can't even run it without an upgrade!
Check again - the required is only a single 1.8gHz system with (only) 1GB of RAM, a far cry from the recommended setup.
1GB of ram is pretty steep, especially considering that the top of the line Apple PowerMac still only ships with 512MB in its standard configuration, and hence doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for Aperture. Why does Apple always skimp on RAM anyway on their systems?
ECC is error correcting. If you don't know what it is, then you probably don't need it :)
speaking of dual core any apple users we have live updates of the apple event in one hour. Dual Dual-Core Powermacs expected.
And be sure to get them while they are good - that is, before Apple switches over to the power hungry, poor performing Intel dual core chips.
Or better yet, just get an AMD system.
Let me guess, VIA chipset? I've known many people who have had VIA based AMD systems to have problems with the USB. If you are using some cheapo power supplies, that could be suspect too.
That is one thing Intel has on its side. When it comes to stability, nothing can touch Intel's chipsets.
I'm sorry, but you aren't listening to AMD very well if you call BS...in their own lawsuit they said they were selling every processor they could make
That's a dumb statement. What else is AMD going to do with the processors they make? Well of course they sell them! What do you think they do, dump half of their output into the ocean or something?
Yeah, definitely need to be an independantly wealthy geek.
Or patient. In 15 years, systems with that kind of power will be sitting on the curb, free for the taking.
Also:
*Light up controls (C'mon, these things are meant to be used in the dark!)
*Get rid of the snooze button. The snooze button is for the weak.
*An alarm that starts out soft and gets louder over a short period of time. I know some alarm clocks have this, but it seems to be reserved for expensive models.
*A display that shows the next time the alarm will go off. Make it easy to see that it is set the way you want it, especially if you are going to include 7+ alarm times.
*Alarms that auto-shutoff after 15 minutes or some simular time period. If you have ever lived in a college dorm you know what I'm talking about.
*No trendy bright blue displays.