Once there was a mayor from somewhere in the US that got his computer searched at the border and he was outraged. Turns out he also liked to video teens in strip poker games. There may be some reason to wait for additional facts in this story but...
Wasn't this the USA that was horrified in 1989 after the revelations in Eastern Europe of mass spying on citizens?
I was literally just researching some films in the discussion boards. When you're looking up obscure films, the decade and a half of expertise that is buried in the comments and stories that people have — often by family members and friends of the cast and crew— are invaluable. Also useful are the tangential comments and links that take you from one title to another via the comments.
It was often just good reading.
Let's not be dramatic. This is not the burning of the library of Alexandria, but it's a unique resource and as someone said above, there's nothing close to a replacement in site. And if there was, there'd be no reason to go to it because it doesn't link from anything, or to anything.
They could at least zip up the archives and post them to the torrents for posterity. On the basis of killing off the comments, in my estimation, they've cut out a huge reason for me to visit their site.
Not making enough can mean many things and given how CEO statements can have an impact on the stock market, call me suspicious but the statement is ambiguous. Were they unable to make enough because they were running three shifts at a factory designed to run two shifts? Or have they been scaling back production to meet lukewarm demands?
I have only met one person – not know —met one person who has an iWatch. I'm just a bit suspicious of these statements.
What business are you in that you use 'irrelevant' to describe 15 per cent (I'm averaging here) of your business AND the inventory that acts enables for the other 85?
Apple has simplified their product parts bin so that everything is using laptop parts designed for their thinness at all costs product goals. This means even their desktop units are constrained by the same thermal throttling that kicks when put under load.
It's compounded by them taking forever to update their product line, some of which is outside their control. However, the RAM constraints put on them by their CPU constraints are a self-inflicted wound when it comes to their desktop products. In this sense, they're only offering one product -- old laptop parts -- just in different cases, including the Mini and the iMac.
I understand that simplifying their parts bin does make some things easier but please stop trying to sell me an economy car when I want an 18-Wheeler.
Where is my Mac Pro Tower with dual ethernet and room for six internal volumes? The Mac Pro was the Empire Strikes Back of cases. Will we ever see its like again? If people like us have noticed the lack of a full ecosystem of hardware from Apple, what do you expect us to recommend to our businesses, family and friends?
Oh, and as an aside, they really, really need to be taken to task on their irreparable computers. Want to extend the device's lifecycle by swapping the HD, adding ram or upgrading the internals? Screw you buy a new machine and throw out the old one! Apple should be given a medal by the landfill owner's association.
My understanding is that most of the Samsung batteries are made in Korea when the products are exported globally. China-only products are made — and correct me if I am wrong —in China. Apparently Samsung has started making batteries elsewhere such as Viet-Nam. I'd be curious to see where the problem happened. If it was only in one plant, particularly a new one, that's unfortunate but not as bad as batteries going sour from multiple locations. That would indicate broad, deeply rooted issues in their engineering and QA.
I am sure that some PR dolt is telling Apple that they really get to the public to understand their message. However, it seems clear that the sustained and pretty narrow criticism that their non-phone hardware is crappy is not a marginal opinion. They simplified their line into a 'use old laptop parts for everything' which may make sense from the perspective of simplifying their parts bin but not for much else.
This does mean they have a lot of options for correcting this tailspin. It may be selfish, but from my perspective I want a data truck. Give me a Mac Pro tower.
Remember when Bravia was the top of the line Sony television? Then they reduced the quality and rebranded the entire line as Bravia? This appears what Apple may be doing with the laptops. It seems possible that with the string of PR stumbles (not including a twenty-nine cent USB A to C adaptor in the box, power issues, inaccurate monitor [yes it's wider gamut but it's not particularly accurate one] and what ever else is lurking, we may see some PR retrenchment from Apple.
If the Mac Pros are basically consumer-grade Mac Airs now, are they planning on keeping a product differentiation for actual pro level machines? If so, what will these be called.
First off, the professional grade photo cameras which use Compact Flash/CFast or QXD aren't going to be a huge portion of the market. In fact, I doubt that that most people know of their existence. Journalists often send the Jpegs from their cameras to their phones (using WI-Fi adaptors in their camera SD slots) so it's not like Apple's doing them any favours.
SD is fine and great for large transfers so you don't have to congest your WiFi. This explanation that there are a lot of options 'creating confusion' is a non-explanation. Basically they cheaped out.
While I do like the idea of being able to power the laptop from any port, I think an intermediate step was needed. When wireless charging at a distance is here is the time to get rid of MagSafe not before. Parents who have kids running around absolutely love it!
With respect to the RAM, I see both sides of it. They wanted to get overdue machines out the door and with the processor chosen, they got limited to 16 Gigs however since the machines are marked 'Pro' and not consumer, I was expecting one with expandable memory slots. 'Cause that's what pros do. Gluing everything down and soldering the RAM simplifies the engineering no end and makes your machine slimmer but it also makes the machine a disposable one piece unit that is neither reparable or expandable.
As for the price -- I'll be giving it a big pass and hoping they bring back the Mac tower.
The biggest change to labour -- probably -- has been the early 20th century creation of the tractor and its attendant grain handling machines to agriculture. It wiped out the largest employee type in the world - agricultural labour. Of course there are plenty of people picking produce today but it's a fraction of the population compared to our grandparents' era.
That mines have become automated with pneumatic diggers happened in a generation ago and those of us who are old enough to remember the miner's strikes of the 1970s and 1980s watched entire communities vanish from the map. (Watch the film Brassed Off as an example with the amazing Pete Posthewait.) That digitization and robotics have now matured enough to finish the job is really an end game, not anything new.
I was up north when GPSs came in and guides were an ancient and honoured profession that got wiped out in ten years at the lumber camps.
Yahoo never recovered from Google. (Who has?) This makes all of their side bets into creating a social media network out of Flickr, Tumblr starting with their purchase of EGroups ten or more years ago so interesting. They had enough stuff to make a critical mass of a social media platform but never had the vision to unify those disparate products into one single space.
My guess is that there were a layer of vice presidents who each wanted to keep their own fifedoms and years of low level resistance prevented the 'Okay, let's turn this all into a single experience for the user'. They had a broad demographic spread over their different products but failed to reach ignition.
They're doing business in a few dozen countries. That means dealing with communications regulatory and tax collection agencies in all those places. With hundreds of millions of users, keeping all of those plates spinning does take a certain amount of work.
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Once there was a mayor from somewhere in the US that got his computer searched at the border and he was outraged. Turns out he also liked to video teens in strip poker games. There may be some reason to wait for additional facts in this story but...
Wasn't this the USA that was horrified in 1989 after the revelations in Eastern Europe of mass spying on citizens?
Can we start referring to him as the Odious Peter Thiel?
I was literally just researching some films in the discussion boards. When you're looking up obscure films, the decade and a half of expertise that is buried in the comments and stories that people have — often by family members and friends of the cast and crew— are invaluable. Also useful are the tangential comments and links that take you from one title to another via the comments.
It was often just good reading.
Let's not be dramatic. This is not the burning of the library of Alexandria, but it's a unique resource and as someone said above, there's nothing close to a replacement in site. And if there was, there'd be no reason to go to it because it doesn't link from anything, or to anything.
They could at least zip up the archives and post them to the torrents for posterity. On the basis of killing off the comments, in my estimation, they've cut out a huge reason for me to visit their site.
Not making enough can mean many things and given how CEO statements can have an impact on the stock market, call me suspicious but the statement is ambiguous. Were they unable to make enough because they were running three shifts at a factory designed to run two shifts? Or have they been scaling back production to meet lukewarm demands?
I have only met one person – not know —met one person who has an iWatch. I'm just a bit suspicious of these statements.
What business are you in that you use 'irrelevant' to describe 15 per cent (I'm averaging here) of your business AND the inventory that acts enables for the other 85?
>Sean Spicer just said that Apple had "sold more Macs last year than ever before".
It's an 'alternative fact'.
You know, you're absolutely right.
I'm going to march right over to the Apple store and take a look at their latest full size towers.
Apple has simplified their product parts bin so that everything is using laptop parts designed for their thinness at all costs product goals. This means even their desktop units are constrained by the same thermal throttling that kicks when put under load.
It's compounded by them taking forever to update their product line, some of which is outside their control. However, the RAM constraints put on them by their CPU constraints are a self-inflicted wound when it comes to their desktop products. In this sense, they're only offering one product -- old laptop parts -- just in different cases, including the Mini and the iMac.
I understand that simplifying their parts bin does make some things easier but please stop trying to sell me an economy car when I want an 18-Wheeler.
Where is my Mac Pro Tower with dual ethernet and room for six internal volumes? The Mac Pro was the Empire Strikes Back of cases. Will we ever see its like again? If people like us have noticed the lack of a full ecosystem of hardware from Apple, what do you expect us to recommend to our businesses, family and friends?
Oh, and as an aside, they really, really need to be taken to task on their irreparable computers. Want to extend the device's lifecycle by swapping the HD, adding ram or upgrading the internals? Screw you buy a new machine and throw out the old one! Apple should be given a medal by the landfill owner's association.
I loved Eudora. A great mail client.
No more machines made for vegetarians. Give me my data truck.
My understanding is that most of the Samsung batteries are made in Korea when the products are exported globally. China-only products are made — and correct me if I am wrong —in China. Apparently Samsung has started making batteries elsewhere such as Viet-Nam. I'd be curious to see where the problem happened. If it was only in one plant, particularly a new one, that's unfortunate but not as bad as batteries going sour from multiple locations. That would indicate broad, deeply rooted issues in their engineering and QA.
That's a promise.
And its spin off: My New 17 Inch Laptop.
I am sure that some PR dolt is telling Apple that they really get to the public to understand their message. However, it seems clear that the sustained and pretty narrow criticism that their non-phone hardware is crappy is not a marginal opinion. They simplified their line into a 'use old laptop parts for everything' which may make sense from the perspective of simplifying their parts bin but not for much else.
This does mean they have a lot of options for correcting this tailspin. It may be selfish, but from my perspective I want a data truck. Give me a Mac Pro tower.
What, is the voice actor for Gordon Freeman busy or something?
Remember when Bravia was the top of the line Sony television? Then they reduced the quality and rebranded the entire line as Bravia? This appears what Apple may be doing with the laptops. It seems possible that with the string of PR stumbles (not including a twenty-nine cent USB A to C adaptor in the box, power issues, inaccurate monitor [yes it's wider gamut but it's not particularly accurate one] and what ever else is lurking, we may see some PR retrenchment from Apple.
If the Mac Pros are basically consumer-grade Mac Airs now, are they planning on keeping a product differentiation for actual pro level machines? If so, what will these be called.
Apart from Hackintoshes, I mean.
First off, the professional grade photo cameras which use Compact Flash/CFast or QXD aren't going to be a huge portion of the market. In fact, I doubt that that most people know of their existence. Journalists often send the Jpegs from their cameras to their phones (using WI-Fi adaptors in their camera SD slots) so it's not like Apple's doing them any favours.
SD is fine and great for large transfers so you don't have to congest your WiFi. This explanation that there are a lot of options 'creating confusion' is a non-explanation. Basically they cheaped out.
While I do like the idea of being able to power the laptop from any port, I think an intermediate step was needed. When wireless charging at a distance is here is the time to get rid of MagSafe not before. Parents who have kids running around absolutely love it!
With respect to the RAM, I see both sides of it. They wanted to get overdue machines out the door and with the processor chosen, they got limited to 16 Gigs however since the machines are marked 'Pro' and not consumer, I was expecting one with expandable memory slots. 'Cause that's what pros do. Gluing everything down and soldering the RAM simplifies the engineering no end and makes your machine slimmer but it also makes the machine a disposable one piece unit that is neither reparable or expandable.
As for the price -- I'll be giving it a big pass and hoping they bring back the Mac tower.
The biggest change to labour -- probably -- has been the early 20th century creation of the tractor and its attendant grain handling machines to agriculture. It wiped out the largest employee type in the world - agricultural labour. Of course there are plenty of people picking produce today but it's a fraction of the population compared to our grandparents' era.
That mines have become automated with pneumatic diggers happened in a generation ago and those of us who are old enough to remember the miner's strikes of the 1970s and 1980s watched entire communities vanish from the map. (Watch the film Brassed Off as an example with the amazing Pete Posthewait.) That digitization and robotics have now matured enough to finish the job is really an end game, not anything new.
I was up north when GPSs came in and guides were an ancient and honoured profession that got wiped out in ten years at the lumber camps.
Very similar to vapirators in most respects.
I guess you don't do video.
With PCI slots room for multiple video cards and several hard drive bays. You know, a proper workstation.
Ditch the grand experiment of the trash can Mac and give me a new workstation-class case.
The Aviator or something. He was stopped by The Flash when trying to fly a remote controlled plane full of dynamite into Central City Hal.
Yahoo never recovered from Google. (Who has?) This makes all of their side bets into creating a social media network out of Flickr, Tumblr starting with their purchase of EGroups ten or more years ago so interesting. They had enough stuff to make a critical mass of a social media platform but never had the vision to unify those disparate products into one single space.
My guess is that there were a layer of vice presidents who each wanted to keep their own fifedoms and years of low level resistance prevented the 'Okay, let's turn this all into a single experience for the user'. They had a broad demographic spread over their different products but failed to reach ignition.
They're doing business in a few dozen countries. That means dealing with communications regulatory and tax collection agencies in all those places. With hundreds of millions of users, keeping all of those plates spinning does take a certain amount of work.