Except that standard Macbooks lack any Expresscard slot. That annoys me more than the omission of firewire. (Or would... if I didn't have a Pro being shipped to me right now.)
My grandfather always used to day, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."
The only way I've found to combat someone who has a false ideology isn't to slap them in the face and tell them how wrong they are--since, at the end of the day they're just going to dislike you on some level, but rather to prove why the position I am arguing for is right and how it better suits their life. (If they're religious, the fact that I know the Bible well often helps bring it into their court too.)
The only time I find it worth while to simply slap someone in the face with the "prove it, if not you're a moron" is in a public forum where my goal is has nothing to do with the person I'm arguing with but rather, the people watching and/or listening. (The other time is when dealing with the "truly converted." Then... I rarely engage. It's not even satisfying.)
I don't know about wake from sleep before I get the lid open, but it's less than 10 seconds generally (if I'm not running software requiring Rosetta or have a virtual machine open). And it reads FAT32 just fine.
The next thing you'll suggest is that people study and make an informed opinion and then even imply that politicians talk about issues.
Nonsense. Do you think the human race would have made it this far if vast majority of people engaged in this sort of well reasoned behavior? Trusting your gut is the American way! It's more American than apple pie.
High schools are the problem. "Government" schools, more specifically, are the blight.
"Hmmmm... let's see here. Who would I like teaching my child and deciding on his curriculum? Let's go with the organization that systematically lied to and exterminated the native people of the land, has done everything at its disposal to consolidate and expand its power, has ignored its own laws, thought the IRS was a good idea and created the CIA."
I will never understand how everyone--and I mean everyone aside from some smug asshole here and there--distrusts politicians and constantly comments on government waste and what a joke government programs are but, as soon as there's a problem, want this same group so solve it. "Well, we have a problem. Call in the fat, greedy, inept bastard to do it again. I mean, he's no good, but the rest of us are too lazy to do anything ourselves, so he'll have to due."
I agree. What I find hilarious is that people really care about who gets elected as president when few know who their local legislator is. It shows two things:
1. The screwed up priorities of the American voter.
2. The fact that outside of all the rhetoric, what people really want is a king anyway.
"That would require an Amendment to the Constitution. For no good reason."
I don't know what USA you're talking about, but the one I live in simply doesn't do that anymore. Close to 100 years ago it took a constitutional amendment to ban the SALE (not even the consumption, just the sale) of alcohol. Today we regulate and downright outlaw any number of substances at the whim and caprice of the Federal Government.
Face it, the Constitution has been mostly meaningless for some time. The Supreme Court affirms its existence now and then on some technical issue but for the most part, any time the Federal Government feels the need that it HAS to do something, the courts will usually point to some clause that magically overrides everything else or simply ignore it and move on.
I'm not saying I'm happy about this, but the reality is... we just don't pass constitutional amendments anymore and I actually fear the day we do again because it'll likely be in a post 9/11 style frenzy where the screaming and terrified lemmings of this country damn us all.
I'd say that the 14th and 17th amendments are both worse. The 14th is a mess and the use if "person" in all its legal ambiguity has been applied to things like corporations. It's also so poorly written that it's been interpreted in all sorts of ridiculous ways like, "it applies the Bill of Rights to the states." How can you apply "congress shall make no law..." to the states anymore than the Bill of Rights already did? I'm not even saying that's such a bad thing, but it's a dreadful way of doing it. Don't get me wrong, I believe there should have been a federal due process amendment. That's one area the Federal Government should have power. "No, you can't throw this guy in jail without a trial. Texas, we're looking at you."
The 17th amendment is where we saw people forget the fundamentals of a Republic, more specifically our Republic, and go straight for a "democracy" instead. Of course, the system t large had become so corrupt anyway people felt they had no recourse.
When people cease to be vigilant that's what happens though. Most people aren't concerned about rights though, they're concerned about government handouts.
It's extremely bad to throw the baby out with the bath water. States rights + a 13th amendment and a DECENT due process amendment (as in, not the 14th amendment) is a much better system than what we had originally and better than the current state of affairs. Just because a good system was implemented poorly doesn't mean it was a bad system. It's like saying, "Communism doesn't work," and then point to modern China as an example. And granted, that would be a valid argument if the Chinese were ever actual communists--but they really weren't and definitely aren't now.
The trouble is--having worked in the legal field--the Bar exam doesn't tell me if someone is a competent criminal defense attorney or an ambulance chaser or insurance defense or construction law or constitutional expert or whatever. IT is an area at least as broad as law. What the Bar says is, "well, this person knows the basic procedures and rules and knows where to look for further study." Working in law opens your eyes, painfully so, to the fact that lawyers know much less than most people think. What they do know (if they're worth their salt anyway) is where to look and how to research...
Those are the two main things I care about in an IT person. Can this person adapt? Can this person learn?
I wonder how many copies of An Inconvenient Truth were sold...
When we ditched R12 there was money to be made with R134a. When we ditch oil, the energy will come from something else and there's always money to be made. There are new construction materials, hybrid cars, efficient appliances, etc.
There might not be a "Global Warming Industry" per se (excluding political lobbying, government grants and university studies I suppose) but change always brings about new industries and where there is new industry, there is money to be made. Combatting global warming requires change like those mentioned above. There are industries that will have to adapt, others that will benefit directly and others that will lose depending on which way legislation and the sway of society goes. That's just the reality of things.
The idea that every person who is reporting/informing/pushing/(whatever spin you like) the idea of global warming is altruistic and just wants to help by asking people to conserve a little is as absurd as it is naive.
The only way that would make a difference in Python is if your text editor is using soft tabs (as in, X spaces inserted per tab) AND your text editor doesn't just toss in 8 spaces but rather takes it to the next tab point regardless.
I just recently ran into a Python problem like this, but it didn't take me that long to debug. It wouldn't have even with invisibles turned off.
I just want to make clear that this wasn't some major gripe against Windows. And yeah, I'm glad the AC posted that article. It's one of those passing curiosities that never lasted long enough for me to even research.
I especially liked the part in the article about the hardware manufacturer who used the SAME serial numbers in all the devices. That was pretty sweet.
I'm dead positive. XP service Pack 3 on my games machine and every time I moved the Logitech headset, boom. The mouse, a pretty generic Logitech, doesn't do EXACTLY the same thing, but it does take it time to recognize. For instance, if I put it in another slot while the machine is off--presuming it's a slot it's never been in before--then boot, no mouse at first. I was at a friend's place last night on his Vista machine, same deal with an external HD since I kept swapping between the front ports as we were doing stuff.
The headset and mouse, so far as I know, are using generic MS drivers, aren't they? Same with a USB mass storage device.
It's not really an "issue" per se, so much as an annoyance. I've just always wondered what was up with that.
What I want to know is... why the hell does Windows have to identify and "install" a driver every damn time I plug a USB device into a different USB slot? What the hell is up with that. Whether it be my mouse or Logitech headset... if it hasn't been in that particular USB slot yet, it'll detect and install as opposed to my Mac or my Linux but where it "just works."
(If I pay my neighbor $20 to clean my gutters because I cannot, or he gives me $50 for my old grill when I get a new one, that's income and we're supposed to be honest and report it! Yeah, right...)
Since when is that income? Have you ever read the tax code? (I'm not sure I suggest it since I think studying it myself has only managed to shave years off my life.)
And no one is honest with the IRS. Everyone fills out their W4s and 1040s and at the bottom say, more or less, "I understand what I'm doing, under penalty of perjury." No one understands. The IRS doesn't even understand because it's a bloated, broken and totally evil system at every level. The one thing you do point out is "the government would dearly love to have a piece of the action (as in taxes) as well as the information (who sold what to whom, and when, and why)..." And actually the latter is what's most important to them. In terms of our national budget, the federal income tax is not as huge as we "feel" like it is because the average person cannot imagine that "that much money" taken from him/her is really not all that much to the government. The IRS isn't about revenue. The IRS is about fear and control through audits and all the other crap they do. May every last agent rot in hell. It's the only thing that makes me hope for some kind of afterlife.
I know I'm not on topic, but mentioning how one dimensional the villains were reminded me that Billy Dee Williams was Harvey Dent in the first Batman movie (the Tim Burton one) and was so horribly mangled that he became one half Tommy Lee Jones and one half that purple thing.
What could have been... Billy Dee Williams as Two Face. He'll always be the best in my heart!
Yeah, in America we have to go through a painful process to change them and as such have decided it's better to simply ignore those rules when they're inconvenient. What good is a constitution if no one follows it and there is seemingly no penalty for constantly violating it?
"Give us the lovechild of the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, and it's all over."
It's called the MacBook. Lighter and smaller than the MBP yet more powerful and possessing more features than the MBA. I'm not quite sure what the lovechild of those two products would produce if not the regular MacBook. A slightly thinner MacBook? An aluminum MacBook?
Why not just say: "But we want dedicated video AND we want more ports and we want it thinner! Oh yes, and drop the price by $500.00 and we'd buy it in a heartbeat." Well, I really want some ice cream, and the nice thing is that unlike that sort of wish, I'm gonna get what I want in about 2 minutes.
It's not that gigantic. It looks like it's the same size as the one on the MacBooks. (Which isn't a big deal since I'm typing on one as we speak and have never had issue with it.)
I love reading macrumors.com whenever there is an impending product release like this.
I kid you not I read a comment that was something like, "if it has dedicated video, I'll buy it in a heartbeat." Yeah, because they're clearly going after the gamer and 3D development market with these babies. You can always expect the:
"If this product has I'll buy it in a heartbeat." or "If this product costs I'll snatch it up in a second." What we have above, concerning the battery is a sort of reverse play on the same old, same old:
"Man I want to buy this product but is a deal breaker." Good lord.
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Except that standard Macbooks lack any Expresscard slot. That annoys me more than the omission of firewire. (Or would... if I didn't have a Pro being shipped to me right now.)
My grandfather always used to day, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still."
The only way I've found to combat someone who has a false ideology isn't to slap them in the face and tell them how wrong they are--since, at the end of the day they're just going to dislike you on some level, but rather to prove why the position I am arguing for is right and how it better suits their life. (If they're religious, the fact that I know the Bible well often helps bring it into their court too.)
The only time I find it worth while to simply slap someone in the face with the "prove it, if not you're a moron" is in a public forum where my goal is has nothing to do with the person I'm arguing with but rather, the people watching and/or listening. (The other time is when dealing with the "truly converted." Then... I rarely engage. It's not even satisfying.)
I don't know about wake from sleep before I get the lid open, but it's less than 10 seconds generally (if I'm not running software requiring Rosetta or have a virtual machine open). And it reads FAT32 just fine.
What!?
The next thing you'll suggest is that people study and make an informed opinion and then even imply that politicians talk about issues.
Nonsense. Do you think the human race would have made it this far if vast majority of people engaged in this sort of well reasoned behavior? Trusting your gut is the American way! It's more American than apple pie.
I always counter by saying, "Yeah and a liberal is a conservative that's been abused by the police."
And historically... I wonder who has a higher body count, government goons or mere muggers.
High schools are the problem. "Government" schools, more specifically, are the blight.
"Hmmmm... let's see here. Who would I like teaching my child and deciding on his curriculum? Let's go with the organization that systematically lied to and exterminated the native people of the land, has done everything at its disposal to consolidate and expand its power, has ignored its own laws, thought the IRS was a good idea and created the CIA."
I will never understand how everyone--and I mean everyone aside from some smug asshole here and there--distrusts politicians and constantly comments on government waste and what a joke government programs are but, as soon as there's a problem, want this same group so solve it. "Well, we have a problem. Call in the fat, greedy, inept bastard to do it again. I mean, he's no good, but the rest of us are too lazy to do anything ourselves, so he'll have to due."
I agree. What I find hilarious is that people really care about who gets elected as president when few know who their local legislator is. It shows two things:
1. The screwed up priorities of the American voter.
2. The fact that outside of all the rhetoric, what people really want is a king anyway.
"That would require an Amendment to the Constitution. For no good reason."
I don't know what USA you're talking about, but the one I live in simply doesn't do that anymore. Close to 100 years ago it took a constitutional amendment to ban the SALE (not even the consumption, just the sale) of alcohol. Today we regulate and downright outlaw any number of substances at the whim and caprice of the Federal Government.
Face it, the Constitution has been mostly meaningless for some time. The Supreme Court affirms its existence now and then on some technical issue but for the most part, any time the Federal Government feels the need that it HAS to do something, the courts will usually point to some clause that magically overrides everything else or simply ignore it and move on.
I'm not saying I'm happy about this, but the reality is... we just don't pass constitutional amendments anymore and I actually fear the day we do again because it'll likely be in a post 9/11 style frenzy where the screaming and terrified lemmings of this country damn us all.
I'd say that the 14th and 17th amendments are both worse. The 14th is a mess and the use if "person" in all its legal ambiguity has been applied to things like corporations. It's also so poorly written that it's been interpreted in all sorts of ridiculous ways like, "it applies the Bill of Rights to the states." How can you apply "congress shall make no law..." to the states anymore than the Bill of Rights already did? I'm not even saying that's such a bad thing, but it's a dreadful way of doing it. Don't get me wrong, I believe there should have been a federal due process amendment. That's one area the Federal Government should have power. "No, you can't throw this guy in jail without a trial. Texas, we're looking at you."
The 17th amendment is where we saw people forget the fundamentals of a Republic, more specifically our Republic, and go straight for a "democracy" instead. Of course, the system t large had become so corrupt anyway people felt they had no recourse.
When people cease to be vigilant that's what happens though. Most people aren't concerned about rights though, they're concerned about government handouts.
It's extremely bad to throw the baby out with the bath water. States rights + a 13th amendment and a DECENT due process amendment (as in, not the 14th amendment) is a much better system than what we had originally and better than the current state of affairs. Just because a good system was implemented poorly doesn't mean it was a bad system. It's like saying, "Communism doesn't work," and then point to modern China as an example. And granted, that would be a valid argument if the Chinese were ever actual communists--but they really weren't and definitely aren't now.
It is state-by-state. In fact, some states, like Tennessee only provide a single plate.
The trouble is--having worked in the legal field--the Bar exam doesn't tell me if someone is a competent criminal defense attorney or an ambulance chaser or insurance defense or construction law or constitutional expert or whatever. IT is an area at least as broad as law. What the Bar says is, "well, this person knows the basic procedures and rules and knows where to look for further study." Working in law opens your eyes, painfully so, to the fact that lawyers know much less than most people think. What they do know (if they're worth their salt anyway) is where to look and how to research...
Those are the two main things I care about in an IT person. Can this person adapt? Can this person learn?
I wonder how many copies of An Inconvenient Truth were sold...
When we ditched R12 there was money to be made with R134a. When we ditch oil, the energy will come from something else and there's always money to be made. There are new construction materials, hybrid cars, efficient appliances, etc.
There might not be a "Global Warming Industry" per se (excluding political lobbying, government grants and university studies I suppose) but change always brings about new industries and where there is new industry, there is money to be made. Combatting global warming requires change like those mentioned above. There are industries that will have to adapt, others that will benefit directly and others that will lose depending on which way legislation and the sway of society goes. That's just the reality of things.
The idea that every person who is reporting/informing/pushing/(whatever spin you like) the idea of global warming is altruistic and just wants to help by asking people to conserve a little is as absurd as it is naive.
I always know someone is a total douche when they have to add [sic] to something in context like that.
The only way that would make a difference in Python is if your text editor is using soft tabs (as in, X spaces inserted per tab) AND your text editor doesn't just toss in 8 spaces but rather takes it to the next tab point regardless.
I just recently ran into a Python problem like this, but it didn't take me that long to debug. It wouldn't have even with invisibles turned off.
Interesting.
I just want to make clear that this wasn't some major gripe against Windows. And yeah, I'm glad the AC posted that article. It's one of those passing curiosities that never lasted long enough for me to even research.
I especially liked the part in the article about the hardware manufacturer who used the SAME serial numbers in all the devices. That was pretty sweet.
I'm dead positive. XP service Pack 3 on my games machine and every time I moved the Logitech headset, boom. The mouse, a pretty generic Logitech, doesn't do EXACTLY the same thing, but it does take it time to recognize. For instance, if I put it in another slot while the machine is off--presuming it's a slot it's never been in before--then boot, no mouse at first. I was at a friend's place last night on his Vista machine, same deal with an external HD since I kept swapping between the front ports as we were doing stuff.
The headset and mouse, so far as I know, are using generic MS drivers, aren't they? Same with a USB mass storage device.
It's not really an "issue" per se, so much as an annoyance. I've just always wondered what was up with that.
What I want to know is... why the hell does Windows have to identify and "install" a driver every damn time I plug a USB device into a different USB slot? What the hell is up with that. Whether it be my mouse or Logitech headset... if it hasn't been in that particular USB slot yet, it'll detect and install as opposed to my Mac or my Linux but where it "just works."
Since when is that income? Have you ever read the tax code? (I'm not sure I suggest it since I think studying it myself has only managed to shave years off my life.)
And no one is honest with the IRS. Everyone fills out their W4s and 1040s and at the bottom say, more or less, "I understand what I'm doing, under penalty of perjury." No one understands. The IRS doesn't even understand because it's a bloated, broken and totally evil system at every level. The one thing you do point out is "the government would dearly love to have a piece of the action (as in taxes) as well as the information (who sold what to whom, and when, and why)..." And actually the latter is what's most important to them. In terms of our national budget, the federal income tax is not as huge as we "feel" like it is because the average person cannot imagine that "that much money" taken from him/her is really not all that much to the government. The IRS isn't about revenue. The IRS is about fear and control through audits and all the other crap they do. May every last agent rot in hell. It's the only thing that makes me hope for some kind of afterlife.
I know I'm not on topic, but mentioning how one dimensional the villains were reminded me that Billy Dee Williams was Harvey Dent in the first Batman movie (the Tim Burton one) and was so horribly mangled that he became one half Tommy Lee Jones and one half that purple thing.
What could have been... Billy Dee Williams as Two Face. He'll always be the best in my heart!
Yeah, in America we have to go through a painful process to change them and as such have decided it's better to simply ignore those rules when they're inconvenient. What good is a constitution if no one follows it and there is seemingly no penalty for constantly violating it?
Loser.
The conclusion really killed me.
"Give us the lovechild of the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, and it's all over."
It's called the MacBook. Lighter and smaller than the MBP yet more powerful and possessing more features than the MBA. I'm not quite sure what the lovechild of those two products would produce if not the regular MacBook. A slightly thinner MacBook? An aluminum MacBook?
Why not just say: "But we want dedicated video AND we want more ports and we want it thinner! Oh yes, and drop the price by $500.00 and we'd buy it in a heartbeat." Well, I really want some ice cream, and the nice thing is that unlike that sort of wish, I'm gonna get what I want in about 2 minutes.
It's not that gigantic. It looks like it's the same size as the one on the MacBooks. (Which isn't a big deal since I'm typing on one as we speak and have never had issue with it.)
I love reading macrumors.com whenever there is an impending product release like this.
I kid you not I read a comment that was something like, "if it has dedicated video, I'll buy it in a heartbeat." Yeah, because they're clearly going after the gamer and 3D development market with these babies. You can always expect the:
"If this product has I'll buy it in a heartbeat." or "If this product costs I'll snatch it up in a second." What we have above, concerning the battery is a sort of reverse play on the same old, same old:
"Man I want to buy this product but is a deal breaker." Good lord.