I am tired of Intel's crap. Dozens and dozens of different processors that vary by speed, features, and price, and completely artificial restrictions on which processor(s) can be put into which products. How does even Intel keep them all straight? All if it is designed to do nothing more than screw the consumer.
What I would like to see is it all simplified down to a couple processor families -- Low End and High End, with one processor in each of those families with maybe 4 or 5 different speed grades with all the features in all of the processors. I cannot believe that Intel wouldn't make more money mass producing a few models with greater economies of scale than this huge number that vary only by who has virturalization here and who has hyper-threading there, plus who actually has both. And eventually the High End is replaced by the New High End, and the old High End becomes the New Low End.
I'm in the market for a netbook to buy over the next few months. I need something to take on the road to be small, inexpensive, handle e-mail, browse the web, and allow me to write with a reasonably full-sized standard keyboard and acceptable battery life. I am so disgusted with Intel's phony restrictions that I'm going to wait and see what the ARM-powered netbooks turn out like before I make my final decision. I don't fear a unix machine.
The ugly (to Intel) truth is that even lower end processors these days are all most people need if they don't buy into the Microsoft garbage that you can't enjoy the Windows 7 experience without a top-end processor from no longer than 6 months ago, 4GB minimum of memory, and a DX11 graphics card that isn't even out on sale yet.
Oh Wow, SSDs still have issues. Hey it's new technology, it's still very expensive relative to the technology it replaces, we haven't yet seen how well it holds up long term, and everyone who jumped to it early because it was the new bright and shiny thing should consider being a bit more cautious next time.
So there's a question about the authenticity of this e-mail. Yeah, it's hard to verify by itself. What the Apple guy should have done is respond by a link to a YouTube video of him reading his e-mail aloud. That might authenticate him a bit more firmly. I'm sure he could make one easily from his MacBook since it just works.
the Ninjawords application is that it provided access to other more vulgar terms than those found in traditional and common dictionaries, words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable.
...after which I will send my Kindle back to amazon for a full refund. If necessary I'll invoke VISA's help to charge it back. It wasn't part of the contract for amazon to erase my 1984 book off my kindle, or to reveal my info to third party assholes. I can tolerate some things but this passes the line.
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This video reveals Obama's Real Agenda in his own words - foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=7478735
I think Apple would love to sell you an iPhone that works on any carrier. They would make more money
And I think you are completely WRONG there. This is completely about money and that's why Apple is only selling through AT&T. In the beginning they had a limited number of iPhones available to sell. AT&T offered the most amount of kickback from the subscribers in return for an exclusive market. That deal wouldn't exist if the iPhone could run on any system. But in this process Apple has made the same mistakes that they make far too often.
TYPICAL APPLE MISTAKE #1: Apple believes that people only value what they have to pay through the nose for. This opens them up to cheaper competition in the same way that the superior Betamax system lost out to the cheaper VHS.
TYPICAL APPLE MISTAKE #2: While Apple fiddled around trying to get their act together they left open a huge window of opportunity for cheaper competitors to move into the field they had invented. Hello, Android!
TYPICAL APPLE MISTAKE #3: Refusal to learn from Mistakes #1 & #2.
The real question is: Does Apple really want to learn?
Apple computers have always had this 'elitest' mentality...
It's hard to be 'elitest' and #1 at the same time. In fact, I think that they're mutually exclusive. Evidence over all these years seems conclusive that Steve Jobs has exactly the computer company that he always wanted to have...
...and that this vision means that the rest of us don't matter in relationship to that vision. It's simply take-it-or-leave-it -- you don't get to pick and choose.
That the company trumpeting how 1984 wouldn't be like 1984 was the company to most make it like 1984?
Very insightful, and I'd Mod you to +6 if I could. However, I make the case that Amazon.com is currently duking it out with Apple over the top position in the 1984 mentality race of late.
Then again, if Amazon deleted 1984 off of the Kindle reader software on your iPhone then it all comes together and I can see the Big Picture now.
I'm not going to do anything to reduce the already marginal reliability of the cell network.
Congratulations, you just won the prize for buying into AT&T's Propaganda Campaign against jailbreaking your phone.
Oh, pleeeese don't do that! You'll break the network if you do that!
The number of contradictions in AT&T's public position on this (no Sling media, but yes MLB streaming; no VOIP here, but yes on other AT&T phones...) are too numerous to enumerate here, so I'll put it in simple terms: It's about the money, Stupid, and screw you!
In fact, if anything, AT&T is doing more damage to their own network by causing people go to alternate sources for their software where said software may not be as well reviewed and corrected as in the App Store.
YOU ARE DEFENDING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT AND COULD NEVER BE IN YOUR INTERESTS, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT FOR ANY REASON?!
I say exactly the same thing about people who voted for Obama because "Change" was more important to them than understanding just what kind of "Change" he had in mind for everybody.
Good for them. Apple needs to be told that once I pay for it that it's my iPhone and I'll use it as I please without their nanny-state anti-competitive meddling.
Apple may be the source of many new, good, and original ideas, but they aren't the only source of them. If it doesn't damage the AT&T system -- or any other carrier I chose to give my business to with my iPhone -- (and tethering and VOIP don't damage the under-provisioned AT&T system since I pay for the right to transport my bits) then I should be able to do it. The rest are just stupid restrictions designed with the sole purpose of ripping me off even worse than you're already ripping me off.
Quit trying to hold back and prevent the rest of us from being able to benefit from the advances in technology with your old voice business model.
Everybody who wants to opt out should call Comcast Customer Service, rant for a minute about how they hate having this done to them, then get detailed instructions leading them through the process -- not just a web page to go to -- and keep the customer service rep on the line until it is completely undone. A few hundred thousand phone calls of people wanting to be led through the process might actually get their attention.
And while you're on the line with them, explain the concept of Opt In in words that any 6th grader can understand.
Alright, inquiring minds want to know just who at Apple looked up all these words to see that they were actually in this app in the first place? Who has that dirty little mind to look up all these naughty words -- and is still allowed to work at bright shining, purer than Ivory Soap Apple?
Apple is just like any other corporation. Wow, who saw that coming?
I, for one, wish that the fanbois would just shut up about Apple's supposed superiority. You get what you pay for, Apple costs more, it ought to be better. Better != Divine.
Sounds like a one-to-many distribution or broadcast. Wow, that's original. Patents like this should have failed the obviousness test and if the patent holder had some novel method that made it work better than any other system, then protect it by a trade secret.
Real clever of those Tevatron people to masquerade as electricians during the LHC construction. They'll have the God Particle safely in the bag while those upstart Europeans are still chasing their tail.
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I am tired of Intel's crap. Dozens and dozens of different processors that vary by speed, features, and price, and completely artificial restrictions on which processor(s) can be put into which products. How does even Intel keep them all straight? All if it is designed to do nothing more than screw the consumer.
What I would like to see is it all simplified down to a couple processor families -- Low End and High End, with one processor in each of those families with maybe 4 or 5 different speed grades with all the features in all of the processors. I cannot believe that Intel wouldn't make more money mass producing a few models with greater economies of scale than this huge number that vary only by who has virturalization here and who has hyper-threading there, plus who actually has both. And eventually the High End is replaced by the New High End, and the old High End becomes the New Low End.
I'm in the market for a netbook to buy over the next few months. I need something to take on the road to be small, inexpensive, handle e-mail, browse the web, and allow me to write with a reasonably full-sized standard keyboard and acceptable battery life. I am so disgusted with Intel's phony restrictions that I'm going to wait and see what the ARM-powered netbooks turn out like before I make my final decision. I don't fear a unix machine.
The ugly (to Intel) truth is that even lower end processors these days are all most people need if they don't buy into the Microsoft garbage that you can't enjoy the Windows 7 experience without a top-end processor from no longer than 6 months ago, 4GB minimum of memory, and a DX11 graphics card that isn't even out on sale yet.
Oh Wow, SSDs still have issues. Hey it's new technology, it's still very expensive relative to the technology it replaces, we haven't yet seen how well it holds up long term, and everyone who jumped to it early because it was the new bright and shiny thing should consider being a bit more cautious next time.
Don't forget: Newton.
I'd Mod you Insightful+1, but now I've gone and posted here instead.
So there's a question about the authenticity of this e-mail. Yeah, it's hard to verify by itself. What the Apple guy should have done is respond by a link to a YouTube video of him reading his e-mail aloud. That might authenticate him a bit more firmly. I'm sure he could make one easily from his MacBook since it just works.
Oh, wait, YouTube is a Google site!
Only if you look them up, fool!
A little conflicted here, are we?
Talk about a reason not to own a Kindle.
And I think you are completely WRONG there. This is completely about money and that's why Apple is only selling through AT&T. In the beginning they had a limited number of iPhones available to sell. AT&T offered the most amount of kickback from the subscribers in return for an exclusive market. That deal wouldn't exist if the iPhone could run on any system. But in this process Apple has made the same mistakes that they make far too often.
TYPICAL APPLE MISTAKE #1: Apple believes that people only value what they have to pay through the nose for. This opens them up to cheaper competition in the same way that the superior Betamax system lost out to the cheaper VHS.
TYPICAL APPLE MISTAKE #2: While Apple fiddled around trying to get their act together they left open a huge window of opportunity for cheaper competitors to move into the field they had invented. Hello, Android!
TYPICAL APPLE MISTAKE #3: Refusal to learn from Mistakes #1 & #2.
The real question is: Does Apple really want to learn?
It's hard to be 'elitest' and #1 at the same time. In fact, I think that they're mutually exclusive. Evidence over all these years seems conclusive that Steve Jobs has exactly the computer company that he always wanted to have...
...and that this vision means that the rest of us don't matter in relationship to that vision. It's simply take-it-or-leave-it -- you don't get to pick and choose.
Very insightful, and I'd Mod you to +6 if I could. However, I make the case that Amazon.com is currently duking it out with Apple over the top position in the 1984 mentality race of late.
Then again, if Amazon deleted 1984 off of the Kindle reader software on your iPhone then it all comes together and I can see the Big Picture now.
Congratulations, you just won the prize for buying into AT&T's Propaganda Campaign against jailbreaking your phone.
Oh, pleeeese don't do that! You'll break the network if you do that!
The number of contradictions in AT&T's public position on this (no Sling media, but yes MLB streaming; no VOIP here, but yes on other AT&T phones...) are too numerous to enumerate here, so I'll put it in simple terms: It's about the money, Stupid, and screw you!
In fact, if anything, AT&T is doing more damage to their own network by causing people go to alternate sources for their software where said software may not be as well reviewed and corrected as in the App Store.
I say exactly the same thing about people who voted for Obama because "Change" was more important to them than understanding just what kind of "Change" he had in mind for everybody.
Good for them. Apple needs to be told that once I pay for it that it's my iPhone and I'll use it as I please without their nanny-state anti-competitive meddling.
Apple may be the source of many new, good, and original ideas, but they aren't the only source of them. If it doesn't damage the AT&T system -- or any other carrier I chose to give my business to with my iPhone -- (and tethering and VOIP don't damage the under-provisioned AT&T system since I pay for the right to transport my bits) then I should be able to do it. The rest are just stupid restrictions designed with the sole purpose of ripping me off even worse than you're already ripping me off.
Quit trying to hold back and prevent the rest of us from being able to benefit from the advances in technology with your old voice business model.
This will hardly make Apple products cheaper since it will lead to higher hardware prices.
I guess MacBooks have to fall into the camp of Not Exactly Designed for Windows 7.
Nothing succeeds in making your point like a hugely public embarrassing success against a vested party.
Better here than secretively out in the wild.
We may have the first recorded instance of Bing Bombing.
Everybody who wants to opt out should call Comcast Customer Service, rant for a minute about how they hate having this done to them, then get detailed instructions leading them through the process -- not just a web page to go to -- and keep the customer service rep on the line until it is completely undone. A few hundred thousand phone calls of people wanting to be led through the process might actually get their attention.
And while you're on the line with them, explain the concept of Opt In in words that any 6th grader can understand.
Alright, inquiring minds want to know just who at Apple looked up all these words to see that they were actually in this app in the first place? Who has that dirty little mind to look up all these naughty words -- and is still allowed to work at bright shining, purer than Ivory Soap Apple?
Apple is just like any other corporation. Wow, who saw that coming?
I, for one, wish that the fanbois would just shut up about Apple's supposed superiority. You get what you pay for, Apple costs more, it ought to be better. Better != Divine.
Sounds like a one-to-many distribution or broadcast. Wow, that's original. Patents like this should have failed the obviousness test and if the patent holder had some novel method that made it work better than any other system, then protect it by a trade secret.
But wait, it's not Vista 3.0 yet.
Yeah, all fine and good, but what's it's battery life?
And does it use cheap NiMH AA cells, or some propitiatory battery that costs tens of dollars to buy a spare?
Took them a whole year to find this clown. I'd like to think that our enforcement efforts were a little better than this.
Real clever of those Tevatron people to masquerade as electricians during the LHC construction. They'll have the God Particle safely in the bag while those upstart Europeans are still chasing their tail.