It sounds like (RTFA? who, me?) they're focussing on either reducing the amount of heat generated or finding ways to dispose of it more efficiently. Important, sure... but what about developing more heat-tolerant processors? If things ran reliably at 600C, you'd have an easier time moving x amount of waste heat away to the ambient (room-temp) environment, no? Proportional to the 4th power of the temperature difference, no?
Is Dashboard/Kornfabulator really anything more than a pretty toy?
For you, at this point, perhaps not. Stock quotes and realtime airline flight tracking are also commonly mentioned as Dashboard uses, as are currency converters, calculators, webcam monitors, whatnot. I suspect that many people will find one or more of these quite useful; if you don't then that's fine: don't use them.
Personally like the notion of having a hide-able layer; others may prefer a 3rd party solution to do virtual desktops in OS X to contain these minor items - something that I personally don't care for. Dashboard is just another option; take it or leave it.
They want a blindingly fast machine with a 90 inch display that fits on their keychain and uses no power. They want this machine to be completely secure while allowing random applications to do whatever necessary to squeeze their hardware. They want it to use an OS that is unpopular enough instill geek pride but is somehow the primary development platform of all cool games.
Oh, and it should be Free as in speech, Free as in beer, and produced by a trusted public company that somehow makes money off this without doing anything that would make them unloved.
And they want cute little penguins to somehow get them laid by actual women, generally without them having to go anywhere they might actually meet women.
Point three: The law says that it's illegal to knowingly publish trade secrets.
Slashdot isn't publishing any secrets, trade or not. They're quoting another site that may or may not have done so. For something to be a trade secret it needs to be... um, secret. That's hardly the case here and now.
I wonder too if the deliberate denial of critical fixes to product flaws rises to the level of egregious behavior, opening them to liability suits from the majority of their customers? It's my (likely flawed) understanding that they're generally well shielded from such unless their conduct is so ethically outrageous that that their protections from product liability law (under law, and under the EULA) are deemed void.
Cute wording too; nobody is getting it "early" - they're delivering it late to the majority. Unless one wants to believe that they have a practice of holding products ready to ship for a month in order to further tarnish their own reputation.
Yout point about the one-month vulnerability window is well taken, but I think misses the mark slightly. I suspect one of the larger underlying reasons is to afford the government a window during which they're patched but those they wish to spy on are not. At the expense of a lot of innocents, but who the fuck cares about the unwashed masses? Certainly few people in this Administration.
Of course anyone who objects will be met with "Oh! So you want Osama (or whoever the current bogeyman may be) to be patched current? You must be a terrorist [ communist | socialist | anti-Jesus | pro-abortion | anti-marriage ] sympathizer!"
Ideally, I guess, there would be a user preference to choose between several possible ways of making it obvious, ranging from colors as I suggested, bolding the IDN characters, emitting a distinctive sound when you initially enter such a domain, displaying in icon in the location and/or status bar, etc.
Or even an option (not default, presumably) to turn the warnings off.
Wouldn't rendering the characters in question as black-on-red in the status and location bar be a more effective solution? Or the entire background changes to red to warn the user that the characters they can read aren't the "actual" characters in the domain name?
I find it objectionable that somebody would place data in the public domain like on the net and then expect that they can actually hope to control it. My objection comes from my gut reaction to IDIOTS.
Yep, they're idiots. The even used a routable IP address for what they seem to consider their intranet!
...do you really want to be nagged every time she cant use expose or a lickable UI?
Besides, she inquired about the Mini. Getting that rather than something you consider equivalent would increase the odds of her doing an expose of her own and licking your UI.
Gigabit would have been nice, sure. But consider the target audience. I don't think they're going to be moving huge files around locally often enough that 100baseT is much of an inconvenience. And would someone in the market for a $500 box pay for a connection that would come close to saturating 100bT, even if it were available to them?
As to component failure, you have a valid point. I've personally had luck with the hardware Apple uses... a 13 year old LC-II, a Quadra 650 (maybe 8 years? I bought it used), one of the first dual-500MHz G4's, and a 400MHz G3 Powerbook (4+ years). The first two were simply retired after many years of use without anything failing; The G4 is also fine except that one of 3 SCSI disk drives died after 3 years of 24/7 use, and the PowerBook died through my own fault*. The dual G4 is still my primary machine.
Whether they cut corners on the quality of the components in the Mini to save money is an open question, though.
*After dropping the removable DVD/CD drive, I used it without checking it carefully enough for damage; it shed springs and small screws onto the motherboard which made it very unhappy. That machine had been through airline Hell as well, though.
I perhaps wasn't clear why I found this of particular concern...
(1) Now any 10 year old can write malware. Before it required perhaps a 13 year old. (2) Users aren't going to see widgets as "installing a program" - Apple has been hyping that they're based on HTML, CSS and javascript, so Joe Sixpack is likely to dimly remember that and think that installing a widget is the equivalent of merely visiting a webpage. (3) Because they're so easy to write, I expect a lot of them to be available from a wide variety of sources. I expect a "set my desktop to random pr0n every 5 minutes (and nuke my home directory on April Fool's Day)" to be a popular one. For a while.
Yeah, so technologically it's not a particularly new risk. But it still seems to invite disaster... unless it's drilled into users heads very firmly that Widgets carry the same risks as random downloaded applications despite them appearing as harmless toys.
Yeah, but it's the ease with which malware can we written and the (presumed) lack of caution that users might exhibit by not seeing the cute widgets as "programs" but more as "ornaments"
The ability to run arbitrary shell commands worries me a bit. I can imagine that with widgets being so easy to write, people will get used to downloading the latest cute clock, RSS-parse-my-favorite-site, stock ticker, etc..
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Or perhaps I'm grossly physics-impaired.
Personally like the notion of having a hide-able layer; others may prefer a 3rd party solution to do virtual desktops in OS X to contain these minor items - something that I personally don't care for. Dashboard is just another option; take it or leave it.
"Rights", perhaps, but I don't see the corresponding responsibilities. Absent those what they have are not rights, but rather privileges.
Cute wording too; nobody is getting it "early" - they're delivering it late to the majority. Unless one wants to believe that they have a practice of holding products ready to ship for a month in order to further tarnish their own reputation.
Yout point about the one-month vulnerability window is well taken, but I think misses the mark slightly. I suspect one of the larger underlying reasons is to afford the government a window during which they're patched but those they wish to spy on are not. At the expense of a lot of innocents, but who the fuck cares about the unwashed masses? Certainly few people in this Administration.
Of course anyone who objects will be met with "Oh! So you want Osama (or whoever the current bogeyman may be) to be patched current? You must be a terrorist [ communist | socialist | anti-Jesus | pro-abortion | anti-marriage ] sympathizer!"
"l33tspeak" was never cool, is not "elite" and isn't spoken.
Retarded, yes. Or about like pig-latin as an amusement for children.
Or even an option (not default, presumably) to turn the warnings off.
Wouldn't rendering the characters in question as black-on-red in the status and location bar be a more effective solution? Or the entire background changes to red to warn the user that the characters they can read aren't the "actual" characters in the domain name?
Or perhaps the change will raise the overall level of discourse. Hard to say.
That was obviously directed at the original poster...
I was omiting the radix points and taking it as 1111
Gigabit would have been nice, sure. But consider the target audience. I don't think they're going to be moving huge files around locally often enough that 100baseT is much of an inconvenience. And would someone in the market for a $500 box pay for a connection that would come close to saturating 100bT, even if it were available to them?
As to component failure, you have a valid point. I've personally had luck with the hardware Apple uses... a 13 year old LC-II, a Quadra 650 (maybe 8 years? I bought it used), one of the first dual-500MHz G4's, and a 400MHz G3 Powerbook (4+ years). The first two were simply retired after many years of use without anything failing; The G4 is also fine except that one of 3 SCSI disk drives died after 3 years of 24/7 use, and the PowerBook died through my own fault*. The dual G4 is still my primary machine.
Whether they cut corners on the quality of the components in the Mini to save money is an open question, though.
*After dropping the removable DVD/CD drive, I used it without checking it carefully enough for damage; it shed springs and small screws onto the motherboard which made it very unhappy. That machine had been through airline Hell as well, though.
(1) Now any 10 year old can write malware. Before it required perhaps a 13 year old.
(2) Users aren't going to see widgets as "installing a program" - Apple has been hyping that they're based on HTML, CSS and javascript, so Joe Sixpack is likely to dimly remember that and think that installing a widget is the equivalent of merely visiting a webpage.
(3) Because they're so easy to write, I expect a lot of them to be available from a wide variety of sources. I expect a "set my desktop to random pr0n every 5 minutes (and nuke my home directory on April Fool's Day)" to be a popular one. For a while.
Yeah, so technologically it's not a particularly new risk. But it still seems to invite disaster... unless it's drilled into users heads very firmly that Widgets carry the same risks as random downloaded applications despite them appearing as harmless toys.
Yeah, but it's the ease with which malware can we written and the (presumed) lack of caution that users might exhibit by not seeing the cute widgets as "programs" but more as "ornaments"
Wow. That's just fundamentally stupid. I must be reading it wrong.
Then it only takes one to
to ruin your whole day...Given that Apple has about 70% of the market for online music sales, aren't the others all "minor" if numerous?
Well, Keynote 2 is in fact an update. Pages is new.