I'm not sure I'd say this was easy. Also, in the UK, getting caught carries a 5 year prison sentence. I jest not.
Anyway, it's a GSM phone. GSM networks don't care which handset you use on them, so long as it's a GSM one. Insert valid SIM card, turn on, it works.
Woah there. Want the good news or the bad news?
Bad news: if you've got an Nvidia GPU, your MBP's fvcked. The GPU's almost certainly one of the very, very large number Nvidia managed to screw up. The ball array soldering is faulty, and it isn't fixable.
So what are you saying, your MBP doesn't get hot at idle? I'd hope not.
My 17" 2.4GHz Santa Rosa MBP gets too hot to touch above CPU and GPU (strip on top of keyboard) when I run a 3d game in Bootcamp if I don't manually crank the fans to max before I start and lift the rear of the machine off the desk.
Do anything CPU or GPU intensive (and if you never do this, why did you buy a MBP?) and it gets *hot*. This, combined with the ticking timebomb of poor quality Nvidia GPUs that are goign to fail en masse, isnt' a good thing.
Here's the thing. It wasn't really an argument. It was a slightly-tongue-in-cheek post pointing out that over the last few years, Apple's hardware has had significant issues. In short, their engineering-fu, their quality control, and their balance of form vs engineering seem out of wack.
I've been a Mac user for about 2-3 years, and in that time I've seen:
* Macbook: known issues with discolouring to top casing - design defect
* cracking top cases on MBs acknowledged as design defect. Happened to me and they fixed it, but it's a sign of poor hardware QC
* millions of seagate drives in Macbooks dying horrible heat deaths, due to poor basic thermal design of the laptop - all documented and acknowledged as a design fault
* those 1st gen Macbooks that shipped with huge amounts of thermal gunk on their heatsinks, leading to overheating problems
* batches of faulty swelling batteries
* replacement program for Macbook and Macbook Pro PSUs - in the main due to the lack of a strain relief on the magsafe end - a design decision
* millions of MBPs shipped with faulty Nvidia GPUs due to Nvidia manufacturing defect
* the brand new MB's exhibiting heat-related GPU lockups and failures
* iPhones with cracking casings due to plastics used
I'm sure there's more, but my basic thesis is they used to make great hardware and software. They now make great *looking* hardware and great software, and have a high incidence of hardware failure down to either poor QA or bad design decisions, where form has taken precedence over function.
I still buy Apple hardware like the tart I am, but I also buy Applecare now.
I'm not a hardware engineer but even I think that the fact my 17" Macbook Pro (lovely as it is apart from the Nvidia ticking time bomb inside it) gets too hot to touch in places during normal use Isn't A Good Thing.
If the reason for adding liquid cooling is so they can make the things a fraction slimmer, I'd say I wouldn't trust them at present to get the balance right, and I'd prefer an extra mm of thickness versus yet another dodgy Rev A hardware release.
Oh, the other thing when last I checked (early FF3 build) is the font rendering isn't as nice as Camino's, which uses the native QE stuff I think. A little thing, but annoying, and as Camino doesn't really lack anything compared to FF for my purposes I'm sticking with it for now. Sure, the lack of plugins is a bit rough, but it does basic adblocking, which is good enough for me.
+1 to all above, and in addition:
Pricing is seldom just ordering of a specific licence or service. HP (and any other big vendor) will want to consider what other services they'll be selling alongside that, and make a pricing decision based on the bigger picture. E.g. we've just got a 75% discount on Oracle licencing - partly because it's their year end coming up and they want the sales numbers, and partly because they know that the project the licences are being used for will scale up and up over the next couple of years and they'll make a boatload of money. It makes most economic sense for them to snag us by discounting the licences now.
Surely the point is that money can be created, weird artificial financial instruments can use/abuse that money, and certain individuals can make a huge amount of personal wealth in the process. Long term, it kills the economy and screws the working man, obviously, but this short-term-ism is the reason we're in this mess.
+1 to the simplicity aspect. Ideally there'd be a common defacto standard or two (e.g. Skype - something that works robustly through NAT, anyway) and clients for Wii, Apple TV, and other simple or embedded devices. Build it into set top TV boxes and stick a USB socket on for a webcam. Make it as trivial for people to VC as it is to watch TV. Certainly for the older generation the thought of setting this up - buy laptop, get to grips with a computer, work out how to setup accounts, webcams etc - is quite daunting.
By contrast, *everyone* knows how to work a phone.
Pleo? Check
World's biggest marble run? Check
Massive array of technical lego? Check
Want a Rovio for Xmas? Check
In much the same vein, my first Mac was justified as "It'll make me get around to editing all those videos of the kids to DVD", and my Canon DSLR "would take better pictures of the kids"
It's got to the point where she just glazes over and goes "That's nice, dear" when I talk about products like this: I'm so transparent.
Don't get me wrong, my 2 year old loves my iPhone. Wouldn't get her one, as she'd trash it like she trashed my other half's Centro last week by washing it in the bath, but she does like looking at pictures of her sister and family by flicking her finger in Photo. I don't think it's educational at all, but it does *interest* her. Particularly useful when we're out and about and she throws a tantrum and needs distracting.
I've actually been looking for proper educational games/apps for the iTouch/iPhone and have been really disappointed so far. You'd think it'd be ripe for this kind of thing but nothing doing that I've found so far. I'll check out Preschool Adventures though.
What's he going to do with that? Play some nice educational web flash games? Nope, not on the iTouch, doesn't support flash. Haven't seen any decent preschool educational stuff *at all* for the iTouch/iPhone yet, and I *have* been looking. No real keyboard either, so no teaching letters. No tactile feedback at all, for that matter. The iTouch is a terrible choice as an educational toy.
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I'm not sure I'd say this was easy. Also, in the UK, getting caught carries a 5 year prison sentence. I jest not.
Anyway, it's a GSM phone. GSM networks don't care which handset you use on them, so long as it's a GSM one. Insert valid SIM card, turn on, it works.
That would be Nicholas Sarkozy, the *French* premier, not Berlusconi
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/23/unrepentant-berlusconi-st_n_145821.html?show_comment_id=18253942
However, Silvio's quite capable of putting his foot in it, as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3041288.stm
My favourite?
"On his equal opportunities minister and former model Mara Carfagna: "I'd go anywhere with you, even to a desert island. If I weren't already married, I would marry you straight away."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3398962/Silvio-Berlusconis-top-10-gaffes.html
Yes, it's great when you have a load of individuals who are just like each other!
Good news: Apple have acknowledged this as an issue and are fixing out of warranty. See http://apcmag.com/apple_acknowledges_macbook_pro_graphics_glitch_offers_fix.htm for details.
Mine's in the faulty date of manufacture range so I'm just waiting to get hit with it too. Ric
Always wondered how British Telecom got away with this.
My work email address is a .coop one. Try explaining that to people: a lot of web pages won't accept it as a valid email address, either.
My 17" 2.4GHz Santa Rosa MBP gets too hot to touch above CPU and GPU (strip on top of keyboard) when I run a 3d game in Bootcamp if I don't manually crank the fans to max before I start and lift the rear of the machine off the desk.
Do anything CPU or GPU intensive (and if you never do this, why did you buy a MBP?) and it gets *hot*. This, combined with the ticking timebomb of poor quality Nvidia GPUs that are goign to fail en masse, isnt' a good thing.
I've been a Mac user for about 2-3 years, and in that time I've seen:
* Macbook: known issues with discolouring to top casing - design defect
* cracking top cases on MBs acknowledged as design defect. Happened to me and they fixed it, but it's a sign of poor hardware QC
* millions of seagate drives in Macbooks dying horrible heat deaths, due to poor basic thermal design of the laptop - all documented and acknowledged as a design fault
* those 1st gen Macbooks that shipped with huge amounts of thermal gunk on their heatsinks, leading to overheating problems
* batches of faulty swelling batteries
* replacement program for Macbook and Macbook Pro PSUs - in the main due to the lack of a strain relief on the magsafe end - a design decision
* millions of MBPs shipped with faulty Nvidia GPUs due to Nvidia manufacturing defect
* the brand new MB's exhibiting heat-related GPU lockups and failures
* iPhones with cracking casings due to plastics used
I'm sure there's more, but my basic thesis is they used to make great hardware and software. They now make great *looking* hardware and great software, and have a high incidence of hardware failure down to either poor QA or bad design decisions, where form has taken precedence over function.
I still buy Apple hardware like the tart I am, but I also buy Applecare now.
I'm not a hardware engineer but even I think that the fact my 17" Macbook Pro (lovely as it is apart from the Nvidia ticking time bomb inside it) gets too hot to touch in places during normal use Isn't A Good Thing.
If the reason for adding liquid cooling is so they can make the things a fraction slimmer, I'd say I wouldn't trust them at present to get the balance right, and I'd prefer an extra mm of thickness versus yet another dodgy Rev A hardware release.
What could possibly go wrong?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1464395&tstart=990
It's another built-in-defect waiting to happen, along with the dodgy Nvidia GPUs in Macbook Pros, those heat-deaths of HDDs in Macbooks etc...
Oh, the other thing when last I checked (early FF3 build) is the font rendering isn't as nice as Camino's, which uses the native QE stuff I think. A little thing, but annoying, and as Camino doesn't really lack anything compared to FF for my purposes I'm sticking with it for now. Sure, the lack of plugins is a bit rough, but it does basic adblocking, which is good enough for me.
Firefox 3 doesn't integrate with OS X's keychain, which is damn annoying. I'll switch when it does.
Just out of vicarious interest, how long would you expect downloading an 800MB, heavily-seeded DVD rip to take at those speeds?
+1 to all above, and in addition:
Pricing is seldom just ordering of a specific licence or service. HP (and any other big vendor) will want to consider what other services they'll be selling alongside that, and make a pricing decision based on the bigger picture. E.g. we've just got a 75% discount on Oracle licencing - partly because it's their year end coming up and they want the sales numbers, and partly because they know that the project the licences are being used for will scale up and up over the next couple of years and they'll make a boatload of money. It makes most economic sense for them to snag us by discounting the licences now.
Surely the point is that money can be created, weird artificial financial instruments can use/abuse that money, and certain individuals can make a huge amount of personal wealth in the process. Long term, it kills the economy and screws the working man, obviously, but this short-term-ism is the reason we're in this mess.
Ideally there'd be a common defacto standard or two (e.g. Skype - something that works robustly through NAT, anyway) and clients for Wii, Apple TV, and other simple or embedded devices. Build it into set top TV boxes and stick a USB socket on for a webcam. Make it as trivial for people to VC as it is to watch TV. Certainly for the older generation the thought of setting this up - buy laptop, get to grips with a computer, work out how to setup accounts, webcams etc - is quite daunting.
By contrast, *everyone* knows how to work a phone.
http://xkcd.com/327/
Including "synergy", "downsize", "outsource" and "proactive".
World's biggest marble run? Check
Massive array of technical lego? Check
Want a Rovio for Xmas? Check
In much the same vein, my first Mac was justified as "It'll make me get around to editing all those videos of the kids to DVD", and my Canon DSLR "would take better pictures of the kids"
It's got to the point where she just glazes over and goes "That's nice, dear" when I talk about products like this: I'm so transparent.
I've actually been looking for proper educational games/apps for the iTouch/iPhone and have been really disappointed so far. You'd think it'd be ripe for this kind of thing but nothing doing that I've found so far. I'll check out Preschool Adventures though.
We tried that. Wouldn't recommend it. I'd prefer tantrums to the vulcan death grips we get now.
What's he going to do with that? Play some nice educational web flash games? Nope, not on the iTouch, doesn't support flash. Haven't seen any decent preschool educational stuff *at all* for the iTouch/iPhone yet, and I *have* been looking. No real keyboard either, so no teaching letters. No tactile feedback at all, for that matter. The iTouch is a terrible choice as an educational toy.
Note to self: another justification for that new Macbook: the keys don't come off
That'd be "sensory cues". Did you learn English from a Speak'n'Spell?
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A Thinkpad *and* an M5? Man, when *I* was a kid...
Or at least choose the Ubuntu "Human" theme so it matches