What I really want is some screenshots of what the anti-phishing behavior looks like. For all this talk about Safari 3.2 no one has bothered to try out the new features.
...I'm sick of the "cloud". I like the idea of syncing data over the net, but I hate the idea of having to be online to do work. Worse yet, I hate the idea of using web-based interface. They all work differently, they all look different and frankly they suck. It's hard for them to be open source, they're hard to extend and hard to deploy.
I'm making no claims about his copyright or license, frankly I don't care. All I'm saying is he claims he doesn't have the content he claims to own. Suspicious. That's all. Remember when people used to do publicity stunts, I sure do.
I don't even care if his stuff was really taken down or not. I think he allowed it to go down for publicity. Or he was really an idiot and the ISP took his stuff down at which point he seized the opportunity.
I don't even care if I'm right, I'm just pointing out my observation. When I start yelling about copyright -- you get ready and repost. Okay? Okay.
Right, and he just happens to need people to download his content on P2P and send it to him. He never thought to make a backup or even to burn a CD. Get real.
That's clearly not the case. It's not artificial separation if the market has shifted in that direction. FW was not "deemed" anything, the market adopted USB for most (as of 2008 all) consumer devices. The market for FW is basically high end A/V equipment hence the "pro" market. No one, not even Apple, ever "artificially" changed the direction of FW. There is no way Apple dropped FW from the MacBook to create an "artificial" difference. If the MacBook had FW there would still be a market for MacBook Pros, a larger screen, faster CPU, better graphics, an ExpressCard slot and dual display capability are all clear differences that some people will want and others could careless about.
Everyone is screaming about this without taking two seconds to think about it. I agree its more bad than good that functionality has been removed, but truth be told what was anyone going to do with the FW port on their MacBook? Why is it so bad that it's not there? Answering legacy support for old consumer devices just doesn't cut it. Answering that someone might want to buy a $1800 8 channel mixer for their $1200 laptop is just downright silly.
The MacBook doesn't have FW because people buying the MacBook don't need FW. They're not going to miss it. They're not even going to notice it's gone.
"Have had" and "had" don't cut it. FW could have been a great consumer technology, but virtually no consumer products made today use FW -- they use USB. You can't argue with that, unless you are arguing from the point of view of a consumer in the time of FW camcorders and iPods (~10 years ago). Its really time to move on, Apple is pretty good at not beating dead horses.
Just plain wrong. Apple removed the FW port because FW isn't a consumer technology and doesn't belong on a consumer product. It was nothing about differentiation. As a whole the Pro gets you
A larger screen
Faster CPU
Better graphics
A ExpressCard slot
Dual display capability
FireWire 800 for pro devices
Together those are major differences. Period. The FireWire port is a minor addition that no consumer is going to miss. I have a rev 1 Pro and have never used my FW port. I just bought a new MacBook (not a Pro) and couldn't care less about the Pro features I don't have, because I have never, and likely will never need them.
I use a USB interface for recording my guitar on my MacBook Pro with Logic Express it's not too bad, but I've never used a FW interface for recording so I don't have anything to compare it to. It looks like most of the pro audio interface equipment uses FW, if I was serious about audio work I would have purchased another Pro. I bought the consumer MacBook and didn't think twice about it not having FW. I only own one FireWire device and frankly I have been noticing the writing on the wall for years: FW is for high end professional equipment. USB is both ubiquitous and cheap. I think Apple made the right choice here.
Yet Mac OS X 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 makes a lot of sense. Makes you think. Though there are those silly cat names too, but at least they aren't as silly a gust gibbon, feisty fawn et al.
Oh come on, our electronic spying system only tracks communication with keywords, not EVERY email. BOMB ANTRAX NUCLEAR CIA NSA TERROR IN MY PANTS. Sometimes I'm not 100% serious and I use rhetoric, for an example see the post in which you just replied.
You're one of the lucky ones then. I'd move away from here, but I'm committed to my school. Plus the world really needs my vote in November to keep a certain senator from Arizona from ruling the world.
Sometimes I am happy to be an American. Seriously for every stupid freedom killing thing we think of, you guys seem to come up with something 10 times worse. Fuck man, get out while you can!
It is not a threat, it's a fucking joke designed to disrupt morons that are already wasting their time chasing dragons and hunting witches! Also I don't care about frivolous illegalities. I'll joke about whatever I goddamn choose to joke about. If someone has a problem with that I think they should be shot.
I'm not surprised, but here is how I feel about it: Let them watch, let them make their stupid list, its up to us to overload them with false positives. That's right I'm advocating fucking with them. Talk about drugs on the phone even if you don't use them, talk about shooting politicians, talk about bombs, the CIA, the NSA, whatever you want. Buy chemicals, buy guns, go to protest, fuckin' call them up and ask them to put you on the list. Who give a shit, they want to waste their time, fuck um waste their time.
Exactly asking him to prove it was a cute rhetorical question, but the answer will always be that he is *thinking* should a definition of thinking be given. Anyone that doubts that should try coming up with a definition of thinking that could exclude the original poster. Heck don't even assume you need anything more to work with than the original post.
I disagree. While building a taller building has no real benefit, that is there is no reason not to build a wide building or gasp multiple buildings. (Honestly I'd be more impressed with safer buildings). Supercomputing does have benefits, the faster you can do calculations the better for many scientific problems. While I don't really care who has the fastest supercomputer, advances in supercomputing are welcomed achievements and I applaud those that put the work into progressing the field. I wish my school could get funding for something like this.
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I thought it was a perfect score. Not a almost perfect score.
What I really want is some screenshots of what the anti-phishing behavior looks like. For all this talk about Safari 3.2 no one has bothered to try out the new features.
I have 5 machines, all Mac. What are you talking about?
Is there a reason why I quoted cloud? I think there might be. Perhaps I was emphasizing the looseness of the term?
...I'm sick of the "cloud". I like the idea of syncing data over the net, but I hate the idea of having to be online to do work. Worse yet, I hate the idea of using web-based interface. They all work differently, they all look different and frankly they suck. It's hard for them to be open source, they're hard to extend and hard to deploy.
No problem man. Sorry if I was harsh.
I'm making no claims about his copyright or license, frankly I don't care. All I'm saying is he claims he doesn't have the content he claims to own. Suspicious. That's all. Remember when people used to do publicity stunts, I sure do.
I don't even care if his stuff was really taken down or not. I think he allowed it to go down for publicity. Or he was really an idiot and the ISP took his stuff down at which point he seized the opportunity.
I don't even care if I'm right, I'm just pointing out my observation. When I start yelling about copyright -- you get ready and repost. Okay? Okay.
Right, and he just happens to need people to download his content on P2P and send it to him. He never thought to make a backup or even to burn a CD. Get real.
...publicity stunt.
That's clearly not the case. It's not artificial separation if the market has shifted in that direction. FW was not "deemed" anything, the market adopted USB for most (as of 2008 all) consumer devices. The market for FW is basically high end A/V equipment hence the "pro" market. No one, not even Apple, ever "artificially" changed the direction of FW. There is no way Apple dropped FW from the MacBook to create an "artificial" difference. If the MacBook had FW there would still be a market for MacBook Pros, a larger screen, faster CPU, better graphics, an ExpressCard slot and dual display capability are all clear differences that some people will want and others could careless about.
Everyone is screaming about this without taking two seconds to think about it. I agree its more bad than good that functionality has been removed, but truth be told what was anyone going to do with the FW port on their MacBook? Why is it so bad that it's not there? Answering legacy support for old consumer devices just doesn't cut it. Answering that someone might want to buy a $1800 8 channel mixer for their $1200 laptop is just downright silly.
The MacBook doesn't have FW because people buying the MacBook don't need FW. They're not going to miss it. They're not even going to notice it's gone.
"Have had" and "had" don't cut it. FW could have been a great consumer technology, but virtually no consumer products made today use FW -- they use USB. You can't argue with that, unless you are arguing from the point of view of a consumer in the time of FW camcorders and iPods (~10 years ago). Its really time to move on, Apple is pretty good at not beating dead horses.
Together those are major differences. Period. The FireWire port is a minor addition that no consumer is going to miss. I have a rev 1 Pro and have never used my FW port. I just bought a new MacBook (not a Pro) and couldn't care less about the Pro features I don't have, because I have never, and likely will never need them.
I use a USB interface for recording my guitar on my MacBook Pro with Logic Express it's not too bad, but I've never used a FW interface for recording so I don't have anything to compare it to. It looks like most of the pro audio interface equipment uses FW, if I was serious about audio work I would have purchased another Pro. I bought the consumer MacBook and didn't think twice about it not having FW. I only own one FireWire device and frankly I have been noticing the writing on the wall for years: FW is for high end professional equipment. USB is both ubiquitous and cheap. I think Apple made the right choice here.
Blink, blink. I thought Vista was XP 2.0 aka W2K 3.0 aka NT 5.3 or is that NT 4.4 or is it 6.0 aka window 7 - 1 ......headexplodes!
Yet Mac OS X 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 makes a lot of sense. Makes you think. Though there are those silly cat names too, but at least they aren't as silly a gust gibbon, feisty fawn et al.
But if you really need it you can checkout the 0.x from CVS, that is if we didn't switch to SVN or git.
Oh come on, our electronic spying system only tracks communication with keywords, not EVERY email. BOMB ANTRAX NUCLEAR CIA NSA TERROR IN MY PANTS. Sometimes I'm not 100% serious and I use rhetoric, for an example see the post in which you just replied.
You're one of the lucky ones then. I'd move away from here, but I'm committed to my school. Plus the world really needs my vote in November to keep a certain senator from Arizona from ruling the world.
Sometimes I am happy to be an American. Seriously for every stupid freedom killing thing we think of, you guys seem to come up with something 10 times worse. Fuck man, get out while you can!
It is not a threat, it's a fucking joke designed to disrupt morons that are already wasting their time chasing dragons and hunting witches! Also I don't care about frivolous illegalities. I'll joke about whatever I goddamn choose to joke about. If someone has a problem with that I think they should be shot.
John McCain
I'm not surprised, but here is how I feel about it: Let them watch, let them make their stupid list, its up to us to overload them with false positives. That's right I'm advocating fucking with them. Talk about drugs on the phone even if you don't use them, talk about shooting politicians, talk about bombs, the CIA, the NSA, whatever you want. Buy chemicals, buy guns, go to protest, fuckin' call them up and ask them to put you on the list. Who give a shit, they want to waste their time, fuck um waste their time.
Exactly asking him to prove it was a cute rhetorical question, but the answer will always be that he is *thinking* should a definition of thinking be given. Anyone that doubts that should try coming up with a definition of thinking that could exclude the original poster. Heck don't even assume you need anything more to work with than the original post.
What is this cashier thing you speak of? And why would someone argue with it? Is it some kind of improvement to the self-checkout system?
Since when does caring a computer around make one look like a damn fool? Did I miss a meeting?
I disagree. While building a taller building has no real benefit, that is there is no reason not to build a wide building or gasp multiple buildings. (Honestly I'd be more impressed with safer buildings). Supercomputing does have benefits, the faster you can do calculations the better for many scientific problems. While I don't really care who has the fastest supercomputer, advances in supercomputing are welcomed achievements and I applaud those that put the work into progressing the field. I wish my school could get funding for something like this.