"Its Hopper digital video recorder can record and store prime-time content from the four major networks for up to eight days. And the Autohop feature lets viewers skip advertisements completely — rather than fast-forwarding through them — at the press of a button."
Okay, half of that is relevant, the other half (hell, the whole thing) feels like it's pulled straight from the ads for it.
I work a small startup MSP maintaining the networks for several small businesses. There are two of us. My average work day will have me dealing with everything from Exchange 2003 on Server '03 up to everything on an SBS 2011, with SQL, Sharepoint, and about 30 client specific apps (medical, CRMs, etc) in between. I honestly don't have the time to memorize Powershell. I know it's important, and it's something I'm working on, but when I sit down at the first machine running Exchange '07 that I've seen in 4 months, I don't have time to remember which cmdlets exist and what they are and how to syntax them, so I just open the GUI and hope I can get what I need done without googling the shell commands.
Yeah but we're talking about the server market, not the desktop market. In a consumer workstation it may be impossible to buy a blank machine, but it's very easy to do in the server market.
You weren't paying for a me.com e-mail address, but rather for webhosting, idisk, and basically all of the other stuff that's now free in iCloud, and the me.com e-mail address came along with it.
While that's legitimate, this is unfortunately become par for the course with nearly all ARM platforms it seems (See: Android phones with locked boot loaders, iOS devices, etc)
Well, duh. The whole idea of Secure Boot is to prevent malware from compromising your boot loader. How? By preventing software from interfering.
Honestly, anyone loading Linux themselves should be more than capable of going into the UEFI setup and flipping it to off. If they're not, then god help them when they try to actually install Linux (and find drivers, etc).
Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-band management connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.
Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-band management connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.
I don't think there's much to have "play out." Just turn it off if you don't like it.
Nah, it's Adobe's fault that Adobe made he spend several thousand dollars. Apple said "hey this is going away" a long time ago, and Adobe said "well when it does, people will just buy the new one!"
Streaming to a TV via HDMI is achievable via a dongle. Not as elegant to be sure (and not discounting your point, just clarifying a detail) but it is possible.
For reference, I use Safari on OSX for little more than watching youtube videos and light web browsing (this site, XKCD, Anandtech, etc) and the memory usage blows up over time. I've found through Activity Monitor that's it's really the flash plugin. It appears that it never gives back the RAM it takes until I close Safari (or force quit the plugin, but then I have no Flash until I reboot Safari).
That, combined with the fact that I have occasional stutters playing back an HD Flash video with a 2.8GHz C2D and 3GB of RAM makes me unsurprised that Apple hates Adobe and all things Flash.
Calling an i5 a desktop chip and an Atom the mobile chip is fairly inaccurate. Intel has a whole line of mobile Core i parts that are much lower power than their desktop variants. This isn't the old days of shoving Pentium 4s into laptops, and an Atom is NOT a good choice for a full size laptop (nor is it anywhere close to a Turion in performance), being designed for netbooks.
The only problem I have with this is the statement that "Intel graphics downright stink." For gaming? Mostly. For everything else in the world? Intel graphics are more than enough. The HD3000 that came with SandyBridge (and the new IvyBridge GPU... HD4000?) is good enough to play Diablo 3 pretty well, and definitely good enough for any general desktop work.
Though, also to be fair, 2006 is what, 7 years after HL1 came out, and several years after HL2? I think by that point the game had long been in the bargain bin that spurred this topic.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, we're talking about them replacing a 5 year out of warranty iPod Nano. Who gives a shit if you're without it for a week? It's an iPod!
I do recall the guy going to plug an external hard drive with a label saying something like "GPU Test" on it. My impression was they boot from that drive and it runs some sort of, well, GPU test. The way my GPU failed though just displayed ridiculous graphical corruption on the screen, so when the tech powered it on and saw the screen he just said "yup, that's a GPU failure" and skipped any further testing.
When I was still young enough that I regularly would go to my friends' to play Xbox games I would typically log into my account on their xbox either way so that my gameplay would still go towards my stats/unlocks/achievements etc. That, and on the xbox, online multiplayer wasn't free so often times you *had* to be logged in to play or to get full support (typically guests don't have voice chat). Finally, logging in let you play as you, with your gamer tag that you use and not just a (1) after your friend's name.
I'd imagine taking your profile with you would be the prevalent method of bringing a game over, rather than your whole console.
Then again, I am/was a fairly hardcore gamer, so maybe all of those reasons to sign in anyway don't apply to the rest of the market. Either way, it would be more convenient than lugging your console, though lugging a console isn't that big of a deal (2-3 cords to unplug, swap it in when you get there to their existing cords).
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"Its Hopper digital video recorder can record and store prime-time content from the four major networks for up to eight days. And the Autohop feature lets viewers skip advertisements completely — rather than fast-forwarding through them — at the press of a button."
Okay, half of that is relevant, the other half (hell, the whole thing) feels like it's pulled straight from the ads for it.
Ironic, no?
Same for Colorado. Labor is tax free.
This. A million times this.
I work a small startup MSP maintaining the networks for several small businesses. There are two of us. My average work day will have me dealing with everything from Exchange 2003 on Server '03 up to everything on an SBS 2011, with SQL, Sharepoint, and about 30 client specific apps (medical, CRMs, etc) in between. I honestly don't have the time to memorize Powershell. I know it's important, and it's something I'm working on, but when I sit down at the first machine running Exchange '07 that I've seen in 4 months, I don't have time to remember which cmdlets exist and what they are and how to syntax them, so I just open the GUI and hope I can get what I need done without googling the shell commands.
Is this ideal? No. Is it practical? Absolutely.
Yeah but we're talking about the server market, not the desktop market. In a consumer workstation it may be impossible to buy a blank machine, but it's very easy to do in the server market.
You weren't paying for a me.com e-mail address, but rather for webhosting, idisk, and basically all of the other stuff that's now free in iCloud, and the me.com e-mail address came along with it.
While that's legitimate, this is unfortunately become par for the course with nearly all ARM platforms it seems (See: Android phones with locked boot loaders, iOS devices, etc)
Well, duh. The whole idea of Secure Boot is to prevent malware from compromising your boot loader. How? By preventing software from interfering.
Honestly, anyone loading Linux themselves should be more than capable of going into the UEFI setup and flipping it to off. If they're not, then god help them when they try to actually install Linux (and find drivers, etc).
Except they can just turn off SecureBoot
As posted above, from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/jj128256
Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-band management connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.
Do your research before you condemn, please.
As posted above by an Anon, from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/jj128256
Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-band management connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.
I don't think there's much to have "play out." Just turn it off if you don't like it.
Nah, it's Adobe's fault that Adobe made he spend several thousand dollars. Apple said "hey this is going away" a long time ago, and Adobe said "well when it does, people will just buy the new one!"
Also, I fail to understand why upgrading to Lion (which worked on the existing hardware) forced her to buy new hardware (which came with Lion)?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the video card requirement is about OpenCL. AFAIK the video card cutoff is at the OpenCL compatibility line.
+1. I put Mountain Lion on both my Macbook Pro and iMac, both mid 2007 models. That's 5 years old. I spent under $1000 for both of them combined.
Streaming to a TV via HDMI is achievable via a dongle. Not as elegant to be sure (and not discounting your point, just clarifying a detail) but it is possible.
I don't think there's a software warranty on a machine even with the factory load, is there?
For reference, I use Safari on OSX for little more than watching youtube videos and light web browsing (this site, XKCD, Anandtech, etc) and the memory usage blows up over time. I've found through Activity Monitor that's it's really the flash plugin. It appears that it never gives back the RAM it takes until I close Safari (or force quit the plugin, but then I have no Flash until I reboot Safari).
That, combined with the fact that I have occasional stutters playing back an HD Flash video with a 2.8GHz C2D and 3GB of RAM makes me unsurprised that Apple hates Adobe and all things Flash.
Calling an i5 a desktop chip and an Atom the mobile chip is fairly inaccurate. Intel has a whole line of mobile Core i parts that are much lower power than their desktop variants. This isn't the old days of shoving Pentium 4s into laptops, and an Atom is NOT a good choice for a full size laptop (nor is it anywhere close to a Turion in performance), being designed for netbooks.
The only problem I have with this is the statement that "Intel graphics downright stink." For gaming? Mostly. For everything else in the world? Intel graphics are more than enough. The HD3000 that came with SandyBridge (and the new IvyBridge GPU... HD4000?) is good enough to play Diablo 3 pretty well, and definitely good enough for any general desktop work.
Though, also to be fair, 2006 is what, 7 years after HL1 came out, and several years after HL2? I think by that point the game had long been in the bargain bin that spurred this topic.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, we're talking about them replacing a 5 year out of warranty iPod Nano. Who gives a shit if you're without it for a week? It's an iPod!
I do recall the guy going to plug an external hard drive with a label saying something like "GPU Test" on it. My impression was they boot from that drive and it runs some sort of, well, GPU test. The way my GPU failed though just displayed ridiculous graphical corruption on the screen, so when the tech powered it on and saw the screen he just said "yup, that's a GPU failure" and skipped any further testing.
That's strange... I had this exact same problem and Apple replaced my motherboard for free when the time came. I wonder why they denied it for him?
Woah woah woah.
You mad bro?
When I was still young enough that I regularly would go to my friends' to play Xbox games I would typically log into my account on their xbox either way so that my gameplay would still go towards my stats/unlocks/achievements etc. That, and on the xbox, online multiplayer wasn't free so often times you *had* to be logged in to play or to get full support (typically guests don't have voice chat). Finally, logging in let you play as you, with your gamer tag that you use and not just a (1) after your friend's name.
I'd imagine taking your profile with you would be the prevalent method of bringing a game over, rather than your whole console.
Then again, I am/was a fairly hardcore gamer, so maybe all of those reasons to sign in anyway don't apply to the rest of the market. Either way, it would be more convenient than lugging your console, though lugging a console isn't that big of a deal (2-3 cords to unplug, swap it in when you get there to their existing cords).
Oops, modded you overrated instead of underrated. Posting to wipe it, since you are correct.