No, he's right. Why hasn't Apple released a Netbook? They could have put there OS on a tiny underpowered device with a 800x600 screen and called it a Netbook. But they didn't. Why do you think that is? Maybe they're not fixating on new technology. Maybe they don't "ideologically" repackage products to fit every new product category like other companies do.
I mean, people wanted an iPhone for years before Apple release it and it turned the market upside down. If they just put an iPod on a phone or a phone on an iPod nobody would have cared except for a few fanboys. Instead they made a truly innovative device and entered the market when the time was right -- when they had something interesting.
The same thing will likely happen with the Apple Netbook. They'll enter the market for sure, but not just for the sake of entering the market. They'll have something to offer, something that will take two years for the market to catchup with.
It's not the same thing jackass. We are paying for a "standard" connection to the Internet at rate X. If a company is going to break that standard and make money in the process we are no longer paying for "standard" Internet at rate X. The company is making X+b for a broken Internet connection and the customer is getting F*cked. The least they could do is offer the connection at X-b. Employee != customer. An employee serves the company, the company serves the customer. Got it?
Everyone wants to save money on textbooks. We get it! However, when you really think about it what we really need is textbooks we're going to keep. The mentality of everyone from the publishers to the students (government, schools and book stores) needs to change. Textbooks should have lasting value. They should be an integral part of education and something a person would refer back to in their career. I wouldn't mind spending money on books if that were the case.
Renting textbook or selling them back or trying to artificially cheapen them in some way only compounds the problem. Let's fix the root of the problem for once instead mending it with stupid schemes.
No. It was able to sniff my history and I'm running Safari 4.0.1 (5530.18).
This has more to do with JavaScript and CSS breaking the fundamental user model of the web. It's not a problem with any particular browser, it's the web standard that is flawed. As we move toward better DOM, JavaScript and web apps, expect this kind of stuff even more.
You use the word "junk", but your post says nothing about the quality of the laptop. You're complaining mostly about the laptop's not having pre-laptop era design decisions -- that hardly makes them junk.
On the other hand, I've owned a few Apple laptops over the years and have had nothing but problems with them. I returned 3 MacBook Pro's before I got one that worked. I also replaced the hard drive 3 times and the RAM twice (not Apple's fault with the RAM), but the Seagate drive it came with must of had a high failure rate.
And still I wouldn't call them junk. In fact the keyboard and the trackpad have changed the way I work for the better. Plus the laptops come with all the good design choices and extras that make them worth every penny. MagSafe anyone? How about the battery indicator? Optical audio? Etc..
None of them have nipples
The glass trackpad makes a nipple pointless. Seriously the only reason anyone would use a nipple is because the trackpad would make their finger tips hurt after extended use, but guess what? That's right, the glass trackpad doesn't make your finger hurt.
they only have a single mouse button
Really? No seriously, really? This argument? Are you out of your goddamn mind? For one, the new laptops have ZERO buttons! You may have heard of this new thing called gestures that is far superior to buttons. What's that, your HP only has one scroll area? Lame. And you have to do what to zoom in? How quaint.
and they're all shortscreen. Mind you, most laptops are shortscreen now, but that doesn't make it any better.
<sarcasm>OMG it's not square! I can't think of any reason I'd want a wide screen laptop. Why would any one want two documents open side by side?</sarcasm>
I wrote a small script that wraps rsync, so all I have to do is type:
msync push school
And then my school directory on my laptop is synced with my desktop. I can also pull and it's even smart enough to know which machine it's on and adjust the source/destination accordingly.
That's why they need plans that don't subsidize phones. I'd like to actually pay for service and not pay back the cost of the phone.
Plus it would give people perspective to where there money was actually going. Is that transparency? IDK, but I still want to be able to purchase the hardware and the plan separately.
Currently I have an iPhone that I bought unsubsidized, yet I still pay the same monthly rate that the subsidized buyers pay. That's just plain unfair.
No it is not. Ever heard of the Wii or the Nintendo DSi or the Nintendo DS Browser or Opera Mini? How about some little companies like: Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung or T-Mobile?
That makes no sense. Tomatoes weren't even introduced to italy until the late 15th century, and weren't ever really popular there (partly due, I'm sure, to the fact that tomatoes are members of the deadly nightshade family.)
Tell that to the folks at Oxford University Press. I took the first part of that straight from the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition.
pizza n. 1. a dish of Italian origin consisting of a flat, round base of dough baked with a topping of tomato sauce and cheese, typically with added meat or vegetables. 2. if made by pizza hut, a disgusting dish akin to greasy moldy toast with a ketchup spread, heavily marketed to children and low income families despite being overpriced
They're probably not cross platform. I just bought some chapters from a well known eTextbook provider. Not only do they only work on Windows and Mac, but you need Adobe Reader & a plugin (SealedMedia or something stupid like that). To top it off you can't print, preview a print, export text or even copy text and there is a *&$%ing watermark in the middle of every page (directly under text that you're supposed to read). At least I could read the chapters on two different device at the same time with the same login information, but I'm sure they'll seal that hole once kids start sharing books.
Be that as it may, my concern isn't about DRM'd textbooks. I'm more concerned about doublespeak like "the internet is the best way to learn in classrooms." Seriously??? What are kids going to go to class just to logon to the internet? Don't computers cost more than book? Or will every kid be required to bring their own computer?
Arnold is really just grasping at straws trying to justify bad decisions while frantically working on his budget.
I think the textbook industry is as bad as the next guy, but this won't fix it. It will make it worse. When textbooks go electronic you won't be buying textbooks, you'll be renting them. The textbooks will expire after one semester you'll have to rent them again the next semester. When new editions come out you'll have to rent the new edition even if you're okay with being an edition or two behind because you will not be able to use the old edition -- it will expire and no longer open.
Textbooks will be cheaper to produce if they are electronic so the textbooks publishers will have higher profit margins for new editions. Think of semester turnarounds and not 2-3 year turnarounds. I'm saying, and you can quote me, that they'll release new edition more frequently than ever.
Did you really like that textbook for your science class? Well too bad you can't keep it. It is no longer physical property. You'll never be able to refer back to the old edition because, like I've been emphasizing, they'll have expired.
The trouble with textbooks isn't the format. Bound books are just fine and I'm okay with electronic version that supplement the bound books for easily carrying on a laptop or for textual searching, etc. The real problem with textbooks is the constant revenue stream for publishers by release new $150 editions every few years with minor changes. That and the fact that the textbooks are so full of irrelevant graphics, sidebars, asides, and pointless information that the are not generally useful. The other issue is that problem sets and questions are included in the textbook instead of as a separate plain paper packet. The publishers can just change the order of the problems to force students to keep up with new editions.
I've personally found that any textbook has about one hundred typed pages of relevant useful information. If textbook publishers would just publish the useful informations and charge about $10 for them this problem would be solved.
It won't happen until people like Arnold, parents, students, schools and teachers start looking for real solutions instead of blindly thinking that technology is going to save us all. Technology is not some holy grail. Many universities are figuring that out after years of paying Blackboard for the online classroom, but now they're stuck paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees because getting rid of it would mean redesigning courses and retraining lazy technology illiterate teachers that have come to rely on the the system. Meanwhile none of the students are getting the educations they deserve or are paying for.
what about those of us who bought the iPhone at full cost ($599) the first week it was released. Why the fuck do we have to pay the same monthly fee as if we were paying for the more recent subsidized phones? Why do I have to pay for unlimited Data when I'v never used more than 500 MB in a month? (Why does EDGE suck so bad? Why does it never work when I need directions or a phone number?) Why the fuck do I have to pay for minutes I never use? Why can't I apply my rollover minutes as credits toward my phone bill? Why do I love my phone, buy hate everything about my service? Why am I stupid enough to pay $900 a year for service that is so flaky?
Unless AT&T can address my concerns, I don't really care how much the subsidized phone costs. Unless the TCO can come down to a reasonable price and the data features actually work when I need them, I will not be renewing my contract -- not even for a new subsidized phone.
I'd rather pay for the hardware and decent service than to keep throwing away money at service that doesn't meet my needs.
Google are btw getting worse at finding the stuff I need, so there's an opening there.
I've noticed this too. Google search is broken, it ranks link farms, retailers, knockoff sites, unofficial mailing list archives (with AdSense ads), and worst of all 3xp3rts-xchng way to high for my liking.
Um the tax payers would have to pay for the sheriff deputies, the highway patrol troopers, the patrol's airplane, two K9 units, several fire departments and 100 individuals on foot. Somehow I think an extra $60 in paper work divided amongst a population of over 3,000 tax payers wouldn't f*ckin matter.
This kind of stuff is exactly what the 2nd Amendment exist for. If every household owned a gun and would shot anyone trying to enter against the owners will (law enforcement or not) the government would certainly think twice about this kind of unconstitutional nonsense.
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No, he's right. Why hasn't Apple released a Netbook? They could have put there OS on a tiny underpowered device with a 800x600 screen and called it a Netbook. But they didn't. Why do you think that is? Maybe they're not fixating on new technology. Maybe they don't "ideologically" repackage products to fit every new product category like other companies do. I mean, people wanted an iPhone for years before Apple release it and it turned the market upside down. If they just put an iPod on a phone or a phone on an iPod nobody would have cared except for a few fanboys. Instead they made a truly innovative device and entered the market when the time was right -- when they had something interesting. The same thing will likely happen with the Apple Netbook. They'll enter the market for sure, but not just for the sake of entering the market. They'll have something to offer, something that will take two years for the market to catchup with.
That thing causes RSI. It's not ergonomic in the least.
Qwest does it. They allow a opt-out, but still most people don't know that it's happening, let alone why it is bad/wrong.
It's not the same thing jackass. We are paying for a "standard" connection to the Internet at rate X. If a company is going to break that standard and make money in the process we are no longer paying for "standard" Internet at rate X. The company is making X+b for a broken Internet connection and the customer is getting F*cked. The least they could do is offer the connection at X-b. Employee != customer. An employee serves the company, the company serves the customer. Got it?
Everyone wants to save money on textbooks. We get it! However, when you really think about it what we really need is textbooks we're going to keep. The mentality of everyone from the publishers to the students (government, schools and book stores) needs to change. Textbooks should have lasting value. They should be an integral part of education and something a person would refer back to in their career. I wouldn't mind spending money on books if that were the case. Renting textbook or selling them back or trying to artificially cheapen them in some way only compounds the problem. Let's fix the root of the problem for once instead mending it with stupid schemes.
How long did you wait?
No. It was able to sniff my history and I'm running Safari 4.0.1 (5530.18). This has more to do with JavaScript and CSS breaking the fundamental user model of the web. It's not a problem with any particular browser, it's the web standard that is flawed. As we move toward better DOM, JavaScript and web apps, expect this kind of stuff even more.
I have a lighttpd instance running
Mongoose would probably be even better.
New question: what came first the dinosaur or the egg?
Doesn't change much does it?
There's no magic. All we need is someone to write the driver for it.
Damn it, I'll bite.
Except that Apple laptops are junk.
You use the word "junk", but your post says nothing about the quality of the laptop. You're complaining mostly about the laptop's not having pre-laptop era design decisions -- that hardly makes them junk.
On the other hand, I've owned a few Apple laptops over the years and have had nothing but problems with them. I returned 3 MacBook Pro's before I got one that worked. I also replaced the hard drive 3 times and the RAM twice (not Apple's fault with the RAM), but the Seagate drive it came with must of had a high failure rate.
And still I wouldn't call them junk. In fact the keyboard and the trackpad have changed the way I work for the better. Plus the laptops come with all the good design choices and extras that make them worth every penny. MagSafe anyone? How about the battery indicator? Optical audio? Etc..
None of them have nipples
The glass trackpad makes a nipple pointless. Seriously the only reason anyone would use a nipple is because the trackpad would make their finger tips hurt after extended use, but guess what? That's right, the glass trackpad doesn't make your finger hurt.
they only have a single mouse button
Really? No seriously, really? This argument? Are you out of your goddamn mind? For one, the new laptops have ZERO buttons! You may have heard of this new thing called gestures that is far superior to buttons. What's that, your HP only has one scroll area? Lame. And you have to do what to zoom in? How quaint.
and they're all shortscreen. Mind you, most laptops are shortscreen now, but that doesn't make it any better.
<sarcasm>OMG it's not square! I can't think of any reason I'd want a wide screen laptop. Why would any one want two documents open side by side?</sarcasm>
I wrote a small script that wraps rsync, so all I have to do is type:
msync push school
And then my school directory on my laptop is synced with my desktop. I can also pull and it's even smart enough to know which machine it's on and adjust the source/destination accordingly.
That's a great idea. I will definitely look into doing that, as my contract is up.
That's why they need plans that don't subsidize phones. I'd like to actually pay for service and not pay back the cost of the phone.
Plus it would give people perspective to where there money was actually going. Is that transparency? IDK, but I still want to be able to purchase the hardware and the plan separately.
Currently I have an iPhone that I bought unsubsidized, yet I still pay the same monthly rate that the subsidized buyers pay. That's just plain unfair.
Opera is is in trouble. .
No it is not. Ever heard of the Wii or the Nintendo DSi or the Nintendo DS Browser or Opera Mini? How about some little companies like: Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung or T-Mobile?
That makes no sense. Tomatoes weren't even introduced to italy until the late 15th century, and weren't ever really popular there (partly due, I'm sure, to the fact that tomatoes are members of the deadly nightshade family.)
Tell that to the folks at Oxford University Press. I took the first part of that straight from the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition.
pizza n.
1. a dish of Italian origin consisting of a flat, round base of dough baked with a topping of tomato sauce and cheese, typically with added meat or vegetables.
2. if made by pizza hut, a disgusting dish akin to greasy moldy toast with a ketchup spread, heavily marketed to children and low income families despite being overpriced
Lies, damned lies.
Sport is a type of car where cost approaches out-of-my-price-range for large values of features or for certain values of make.
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Take the problem sets out of the textbook and put them in a cheap disposable plain paper packet where they belong.
Math concepts are timeless and belong in a textbook! Problems are cheap and do need frequent updating. Publish them separate. Problem solved!
They're probably not cross platform. I just bought some chapters from a well known eTextbook provider. Not only do they only work on Windows and Mac, but you need Adobe Reader & a plugin (SealedMedia or something stupid like that). To top it off you can't print, preview a print, export text or even copy text and there is a *&$%ing watermark in the middle of every page (directly under text that you're supposed to read). At least I could read the chapters on two different device at the same time with the same login information, but I'm sure they'll seal that hole once kids start sharing books.
Be that as it may, my concern isn't about DRM'd textbooks. I'm more concerned about doublespeak like "the internet is the best way to learn in classrooms." Seriously??? What are kids going to go to class just to logon to the internet? Don't computers cost more than book? Or will every kid be required to bring their own computer?
Arnold is really just grasping at straws trying to justify bad decisions while frantically working on his budget.
I think the textbook industry is as bad as the next guy, but this won't fix it. It will make it worse. When textbooks go electronic you won't be buying textbooks, you'll be renting them. The textbooks will expire after one semester you'll have to rent them again the next semester. When new editions come out you'll have to rent the new edition even if you're okay with being an edition or two behind because you will not be able to use the old edition -- it will expire and no longer open.
Textbooks will be cheaper to produce if they are electronic so the textbooks publishers will have higher profit margins for new editions. Think of semester turnarounds and not 2-3 year turnarounds. I'm saying, and you can quote me, that they'll release new edition more frequently than ever.
Did you really like that textbook for your science class? Well too bad you can't keep it. It is no longer physical property. You'll never be able to refer back to the old edition because, like I've been emphasizing, they'll have expired.
The trouble with textbooks isn't the format. Bound books are just fine and I'm okay with electronic version that supplement the bound books for easily carrying on a laptop or for textual searching, etc. The real problem with textbooks is the constant revenue stream for publishers by release new $150 editions every few years with minor changes. That and the fact that the textbooks are so full of irrelevant graphics, sidebars, asides, and pointless information that the are not generally useful. The other issue is that problem sets and questions are included in the textbook instead of as a separate plain paper packet. The publishers can just change the order of the problems to force students to keep up with new editions.
I've personally found that any textbook has about one hundred typed pages of relevant useful information. If textbook publishers would just publish the useful informations and charge about $10 for them this problem would be solved.
It won't happen until people like Arnold, parents, students, schools and teachers start looking for real solutions instead of blindly thinking that technology is going to save us all. Technology is not some holy grail. Many universities are figuring that out after years of paying Blackboard for the online classroom, but now they're stuck paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees because getting rid of it would mean redesigning courses and retraining lazy technology illiterate teachers that have come to rely on the the system. Meanwhile none of the students are getting the educations they deserve or are paying for.
what about those of us who bought the iPhone at full cost ($599) the first week it was released. Why the fuck do we have to pay the same monthly fee as if we were paying for the more recent subsidized phones? Why do I have to pay for unlimited Data when I'v never used more than 500 MB in a month? (Why does EDGE suck so bad? Why does it never work when I need directions or a phone number?) Why the fuck do I have to pay for minutes I never use? Why can't I apply my rollover minutes as credits toward my phone bill? Why do I love my phone, buy hate everything about my service? Why am I stupid enough to pay $900 a year for service that is so flaky?
Unless AT&T can address my concerns, I don't really care how much the subsidized phone costs. Unless the TCO can come down to a reasonable price and the data features actually work when I need them, I will not be renewing my contract -- not even for a new subsidized phone.
I'd rather pay for the hardware and decent service than to keep throwing away money at service that doesn't meet my needs.
Google are btw getting worse at finding the stuff I need, so there's an opening there.
I've noticed this too. Google search is broken, it ranks link farms, retailers, knockoff sites, unofficial mailing list archives (with AdSense ads), and worst of all 3xp3rts-xchng way to high for my liking.
Um the tax payers would have to pay for the sheriff deputies, the highway patrol troopers, the patrol's airplane, two K9 units, several fire departments and 100 individuals on foot. Somehow I think an extra $60 in paper work divided amongst a population of over 3,000 tax payers wouldn't f*ckin matter.
This kind of stuff is exactly what the 2nd Amendment exist for. If every household owned a gun and would shot anyone trying to enter against the owners will (law enforcement or not) the government would certainly think twice about this kind of unconstitutional nonsense.