I've had a 17" 1920x1200 MBP for a year. I ummed and aahed over the matte/glossy - but the glossy is *much* nicer. As the previous posted said, a slight twist of the angle removes the glare, and it looks so much *richer* that I can't imagine buying matte again unless I worked in a goldfish bowl.
DV has the great advantage of being uncompressed video. Nice and cheap (from a CPU standpoint) to edit. DVD-recording camcorders are terrible if you want to edit. Compressed footage is lossy, and also computationally slow to edit as it needs to be uncompressed on the fly. Ugh.
Shame the MB doesn't have an Expresscard slot to add firewire. Does seem a major omission in a media laptop.
I'd be surprised if the Apple connector supports HDCP, which makes it a pretty useless replacement for HDMI as no content such as bluray will ever work with it if it doesn't support HDMI's DRM. Oh, and HDMI can also carry audio.
Just sayin'
...the bank can turn around and say "you must have disclosed your PIN". Much as with keylogging trojans, they can pass the blame to you. (I'm not saying yours *would*, just that they *can*).
In the case of keylogging trojans, it's not strictly speaking the banks fault that your PIN was captured. Similarly, it's not necessarily their fault you used a hacked card reader, like the Ingenico 3300 ones widely used in the UK recently found to be fitted with internal cellular data devices for sniffing.
Sure, you can say that they should have higher standards of device certification and maybe a SecurID-RSA-type online bank security system, but that's not going to help you if you're hit by either scenario and your bank decides to play hardball.
..is obviously to have lights that flash very rapidly when the brakes are on and the ABS has triggered. This is in fact the way some cars already work such as (I think) some BMWs. The new Fiat 500 does it slightly differently and flashes the indicators when the ESP is triggered and the car is starting to slip - which is quite fun to watch on a track.
...it says "removeable". So it doesn't end up in landfill.
Nothing to stop Apple shipping the iPhone with a sticker saying "when device has reached end of life, simply snap phone in half and battery will pop out" or similar. The phone doesn't have to survive the swap.
Me, I kind of think I've been a cell phone user for well over 10 years, with at least 15 handsets, and I've never had a battery outlast the phone.
Sweet. I'd not realised they'd raised the baggage weight limits that much. I'll simply pack my stuff in the trunk of my car next time, and forget the suitcase for the plane.
Here we go: uninformed attack. This is what does my head in about/. these days.
firstly, no. It's not a crappy ECG platform. What do you think a *good* ECG platform is? Do you have *any* experience of them?
For the record, I'm talking about a pretty much top-of-the-line machine such as this: http://www.schiller.ch/Products/Resting_ECG/New:_CARDIOVIT_CS-200_Excellence/-45-962-224-en-hq-/cms.html
These are about as good as they get, and this is one of the industry-standard tools that is used (in my case) to develop drugs for a major global pharma company in Phase 1 clinical trials. These are about as accurate as they get, have amongst the highest sampling rate, and record full uncompressed electronic ECGs. And yes, I have been responsible for selecting these devices in conjunction with a team of world-reknowned cardiologists. Sorry we forgot to include you in those discussions, we'll know for next time.
Second, "The Quantas incident is nothing more than pilot error or incompetence" Again, you do not know that to be a fact. You are speculating. Sure, you may be right, but the FAA/CAA isn't going to take a post on/. as gospel. If someone wants to spend enormous sums of money testing, say, an inflight micro GSM cell for mobile phone usage, then sure: they'll review the evidence and make a ruling. They won't just say "we don't think it's true, so go ahead".
I'd consider these points self evident with just a moment of thinking about it.
It's the same one as the "I must be allowed to have my cell phone on in the hospital" argument.
Put simply, in safety-critical situations, particularly highly-regulated ones, the default answer is "no". If you can't actively prove that it's safe, you don't do it. Saying "there's no way that..." doesn't cut it. Sure, it may be unlikely, but that doesn't mean there isn't some infinitesimal risk, and an individual with a cell phone or wireless device doesn't get to make the call - the airline, the pilot, and the civil aviation authority do.
Personally, I used to support PC-based ECG capture devices. I used to really like taking people who claimed their phone had no effect on medical devices, and taking them to stand in front of an ECG monitoring screen and *showing* them the effect on the traces that it had.
Rubbish. It's SIM locked because you're getting it at a subsidy. Give it 12 months and they'll unlock it, and there will almost certainly be quasi-legal ways of doing it in the interim, although given you buy them on a 12 month contract rather than handset-only at present, I can't see the point just yet.
Woah there! You expect us to listen to you when you come up with a simple solution, applicable on all systems, and with zero cost? This is slashdot! C'mon, we need an enormously over-complicated code solution - preferably with some OS zealotry thrown in to keep it interesting.
Um, no. You have a constitutional right to have your constitutional rights abused at the whim of the US government, on a trumped-up anti-terrorism accusation. You also have the right to have habeus corpus suspended.
Seriously, I can see what you're getting at, but if you think the establishment is going to agree with you I think you're wrong.
It's possibly a combination of the two. My old work laptop (Tosh Centrino, 1.6 or 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, Win2K) used to take around 12 minutes to boot from cold. Quite a bit of this is due to the Pointsec full disk encryption software, followed by SAV, followed by the usual corporate crippleware. Horrible. In the end it became a tethered desktop as I couldn't be bothered taking it anywhere.
I've never heard of Focus's being unsafe.
Hmm, let's look into it. Europe's car safety assessment body is called NCAP.
What do they think? http://www.safermotoring.co.uk/NCAPSafetyRatings.html - 2004 model "For adult safety, the car models with the best safety ratings were the BMW 1-series (2004), the Citröen C4 (2004), the Ford Focus (2004), the Mercedes-Benz A-class (2005), the Vauxhall Astra (2004), the Renault Mégane (2003), the Renault Mégane CC (2004) and the Volkswagen Golf (2004). These models scored the maximum five stars for adult safety."
I'm not sure what your point is. I could read between the lines and assume it's USAsian-bashing of smaller European cars, but that'd be uncharitable. Perhaps you know someone who had a minor prang and the crumple zones in their car did the job, rather than transmitting the energy of the collision to the occupants, who don't dent?
I would expect to be able to phone O2 after 2 years of ownership and say "unlock this, please" and have them do it. Mind you, I'd also expect within 12 months to be bored stupid of my handset and have changed it for something else, and I expect their 2 year contract (which is otherwise unheard of in the UK) takes this into account and expects most users to swap out for an iPhone gen 3 in a year, and further extend their contract.
The broadcasters are regulated, aren't they? They are in the UK, anyway. Any station found deliberately misusing the tags on their feed like that wouldn't retain their licence very long.
We already have a very basic form of this - e.g. UK satellite TV via Sky can be made to prompt for a PIN if you want to watch live TV intended for an audience over a certain age, or on prerecorded material on the PVR.
I don't tend to watch much in the way of ads, I fast forward past them and don't watch a huge amount of live TV - neither do my kids.
I don't particularly advocate censorship for them, either - they just don't get to watch stuff when we're not around so the problem doesn't really come up. However, I can see that tagging media is generally a good, useful thing.
Imagine how much more powerful MythTV would be if you could set it to automagically record TV programmes that you just might like to watch based on the tags contained therein. Even better - use the subtitles - these are machine-readable and could probably auto-generate useful information about the programmes.
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I've had a 17" 1920x1200 MBP for a year. I ummed and aahed over the matte/glossy - but the glossy is *much* nicer. As the previous posted said, a slight twist of the angle removes the glare, and it looks so much *richer* that I can't imagine buying matte again unless I worked in a goldfish bowl.
Shame the MB doesn't have an Expresscard slot to add firewire. Does seem a major omission in a media laptop.
I'd be surprised if the Apple connector supports HDCP, which makes it a pretty useless replacement for HDMI as no content such as bluray will ever work with it if it doesn't support HDMI's DRM. Oh, and HDMI can also carry audio. Just sayin'
In the case of keylogging trojans, it's not strictly speaking the banks fault that your PIN was captured. Similarly, it's not necessarily their fault you used a hacked card reader, like the Ingenico 3300 ones widely used in the UK recently found to be fitted with internal cellular data devices for sniffing.
Sure, you can say that they should have higher standards of device certification and maybe a SecurID-RSA-type online bank security system, but that's not going to help you if you're hit by either scenario and your bank decides to play hardball.
..sponsored by IBM Deathstar?
It's there already, it's just obfuscated.
..is obviously to have lights that flash very rapidly when the brakes are on and the ABS has triggered. This is in fact the way some cars already work such as (I think) some BMWs. The new Fiat 500 does it slightly differently and flashes the indicators when the ESP is triggered and the car is starting to slip - which is quite fun to watch on a track.
Nothing to stop Apple shipping the iPhone with a sticker saying "when device has reached end of life, simply snap phone in half and battery will pop out" or similar. The phone doesn't have to survive the swap.
Me, I kind of think I've been a cell phone user for well over 10 years, with at least 15 handsets, and I've never had a battery outlast the phone.
+1 "Faraday Robe" reference
Sweet. I'd not realised they'd raised the baggage weight limits that much. I'll simply pack my stuff in the trunk of my car next time, and forget the suitcase for the plane.
Dude, they've got a robotic suit. I'm picturing armies of elderly gundams. They can take what they want - who's going to stop them?
firstly, no. It's not a crappy ECG platform. What do you think a *good* ECG platform is? Do you have *any* experience of them?
For the record, I'm talking about a pretty much top-of-the-line machine such as this:
http://www.schiller.ch/Products/Resting_ECG/New:_CARDIOVIT_CS-200_Excellence/-45-962-224-en-hq-/cms.html These are about as good as they get, and this is one of the industry-standard tools that is used (in my case) to develop drugs for a major global pharma company in Phase 1 clinical trials. These are about as accurate as they get, have amongst the highest sampling rate, and record full uncompressed electronic ECGs. And yes, I have been responsible for selecting these devices in conjunction with a team of world-reknowned cardiologists. Sorry we forgot to include you in those discussions, we'll know for next time.
Second, "The Quantas incident is nothing more than pilot error or incompetence" Again, you do not know that to be a fact. You are speculating. Sure, you may be right, but the FAA/CAA isn't going to take a post on /. as gospel. If someone wants to spend enormous sums of money testing, say, an inflight micro GSM cell for mobile phone usage, then sure: they'll review the evidence and make a ruling. They won't just say "we don't think it's true, so go ahead".
I'd consider these points self evident with just a moment of thinking about it.
Personally, I used to support PC-based ECG capture devices. I used to really like taking people who claimed their phone had no effect on medical devices, and taking them to stand in front of an ECG monitoring screen and *showing* them the effect on the traces that it had.
Rubbish. It's SIM locked because you're getting it at a subsidy. Give it 12 months and they'll unlock it, and there will almost certainly be quasi-legal ways of doing it in the interim, although given you buy them on a 12 month contract rather than handset-only at present, I can't see the point just yet.
Woah there! You expect us to listen to you when you come up with a simple solution, applicable on all systems, and with zero cost? This is slashdot! C'mon, we need an enormously over-complicated code solution - preferably with some OS zealotry thrown in to keep it interesting.
We're all going bankrupt quite nicely without involving healthcare, thank you
Please tell me that doesn't mean what it sounds like.
Seriously, I can see what you're getting at, but if you think the establishment is going to agree with you I think you're wrong.
hey, why did I get modded funny?
It's possibly a combination of the two. My old work laptop (Tosh Centrino, 1.6 or 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, Win2K) used to take around 12 minutes to boot from cold. Quite a bit of this is due to the Pointsec full disk encryption software, followed by SAV, followed by the usual corporate crippleware. Horrible. In the end it became a tethered desktop as I couldn't be bothered taking it anywhere.
Hmm, let's look into it. Europe's car safety assessment body is called NCAP.
What do they think?
http://www.safermotoring.co.uk/NCAPSafetyRatings.html - 2004 model
"For adult safety, the car models with the best safety ratings were the BMW 1-series (2004), the Citröen C4 (2004), the Ford Focus (2004), the Mercedes-Benz A-class (2005), the Vauxhall Astra (2004), the Renault Mégane (2003), the Renault Mégane CC (2004) and the Volkswagen Golf (2004). These models scored the maximum five stars for adult safety."
For a highly detailed report on the new Focus, see here:
http://www.euroncap.com/tests/ford_focus_1999/34.aspx
Oh, look. Pretty much maximum safety rating.
I'm not sure what your point is. I could read between the lines and assume it's USAsian-bashing of smaller European cars, but that'd be uncharitable. Perhaps you know someone who had a minor prang and the crumple zones in their car did the job, rather than transmitting the energy of the collision to the occupants, who don't dent?
I'm here all week. Try the veal.
I would expect to be able to phone O2 after 2 years of ownership and say "unlock this, please" and have them do it. Mind you, I'd also expect within 12 months to be bored stupid of my handset and have changed it for something else, and I expect their 2 year contract (which is otherwise unheard of in the UK) takes this into account and expects most users to swap out for an iPhone gen 3 in a year, and further extend their contract.
We already have a very basic form of this - e.g. UK satellite TV via Sky can be made to prompt for a PIN if you want to watch live TV intended for an audience over a certain age, or on prerecorded material on the PVR.
I don't tend to watch much in the way of ads, I fast forward past them and don't watch a huge amount of live TV - neither do my kids.
I don't particularly advocate censorship for them, either - they just don't get to watch stuff when we're not around so the problem doesn't really come up. However, I can see that tagging media is generally a good, useful thing. Imagine how much more powerful MythTV would be if you could set it to automagically record TV programmes that you just might like to watch based on the tags contained therein. Even better - use the subtitles - these are machine-readable and could probably auto-generate useful information about the programmes.
Yes, those we outsource instead.