Oh I've gone from fan-boy to fanboi? Hurrah, you have managed to upgrade me. Hopefully without injuring yourself.
*Stares at hand built (hand put-together? I dunno, it's not like I designed anything inside it) PC running W7 64/Ubuntu, is typing on a ThinkPad X61 running Vista, notices MacBook Pro happily sitting in the corner, printing out my fanboi badge*
Oh wait. I run Vista, Win7 64, Linux and OSx. Arg, can I still be an Apple fanboi? Please??
"presumably because he needed a new machine." Or he might have wanted an upgrade more significant than just memory or HDD. Or he broke his last laptop by dropping it. Who knows. Remember what they say about assumptions, it's asses all the way down. Or something. Anyway, how about this one:
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~ Alan Alda
You now have to be a fan-boy to buy Apple products? They are no longer available to the public? Since when? Do I need a badge? To join some kind of club?
Oh wait, maybe Apple came around your house and clubbed your puppy to death? No?
Perhaps take a deep breath and relax. People are free to choose Apple, Linux and even Windows. Each has strong points and reasons why they are good at what they do, so no need to start dropping both your IQ and elitist tech wang on the table by throwing the term 'fan-boys' around.
Wait, didn't you get the memo? We now have to dislike Apple!
Sarcasm aside, I agree with you, I think the update that just happened was the biggest leap forward since the introduction of the unibody enclosure. Big enough to make me sell my 2 year old MacBook Pro and upgrade.
"If I made a product and Europe told me I HAD to include other people's 3rd party software in my software product, I'd tell them where to shove their 3rd part code."
And you'd lose the world's largest business market. Congratulations.
Rank Country GDP (PPP) $m EU European Union 14,953,057 1 United States 13,543,330 2 China 11,606,3361 3 India 4,726,537 4 Japan 4,346,080 5 Germany 2,714,469 6 United Kingdom 2,270,884 7 France 2,040,109 8 Brazil 2,013,893 9 Russia 1,908,739 10 Italy 1,888,492
The European parliament makes laws that can be enforced across all member countries. Most of the time the countries act as individual countries, but above them all is European law which can dictate certain stances and actions right across Europe.
So while the EU Parliament does not have direct power over bodies such as the G8 they can enact/enforce laws in all EU countries in the G8.
You do know that the G8 consists of: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Together, these countries represent about 65% of the world economy. Half the G8 is European and can vote as a block for European interests. Aside from a 2 country North America block, the other countries have no reason to be unified, unlike the European countries.
So in fact the EU Parliament does have huge influence in the G8.
The big early adopters for this are Sony, and shortly Apple. I'm betting a Macbook Pro comes out in January that is going to be startlingly similar to this in spec and price.
The big drawback is space, "6GB of that space is taken by a hidden partition (for system recovery) and still more is take by the operating system (Windows Vista Business)." So you are losing 14GB for the recovery, OS and a couple of apps; nearly half the space gone before you start saving things.
Might not be too much of an issue for people saving documents, presentations and so on. For geeks that small amount of space would be very restricting.
This strikes me as a good example of the reusing old tech.
I think some of the article misses the point:
'What if fuel prices go down?' What if they don't? Prices will not go down in the long term and the companies using these will benefit the most.
'These can't be used in a head wind.' Well no sh*t Sherlock, thanks for that. It's to cut fuel use, not eliminate it. Any cut will be good for the company and the environment.
Kindle also has a long latency, this is due to the use of eInk. It's supposed to be a lot easier on the eyes than Sony's reader - but as I've never seen either, who knows.
I'd like colour but for reading a book it does seem a bit redundant, but the Kindle can browse the internet as well. So really I expect to see colour in a future revision.
For now, the iPod Touch is the best reader/browser combination.
I was wondering the same thing. On some level it has to have an effect but at the same time he's been around here a long while. He knows the/. crowd and I'm betting does a pretty good job at filtering it out from his reality. Well done on book 3 Wil. Was it harder or easier than the dreaded book 2...
Funnily enough I was on the phone to Apple last night, I have three ongoing problems with my 2 yr old powerbook. I purchased Applecare so I thought I'd phone them and see if they could resolve the issues.
1) Finish around the keyboard, to the right of the trackpad, has worn away. Cosmetic wear, not covered by Apple.
2) Keys on the left side of the keyboard have a very different feel than those on the right, it makes it uncomfy to type and is really annoying. Ergonomic issue, not covered by Apple.
3) One of the feet is missing underneath. Apple covered, they are sending me 8 feet so that I have spares.
While the support was nice, polite and friendly I found the whole expreience pretty pointless, and now I'm wondering why I bothered with Applecare at all. OK I can understand 1 not getting covered, but 2? The keyboard is fundamental. Apple, feel free to mail me and set things right... (I wish)
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My reasoning is summed up nicely by this post - http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2138492&cid=36073566
It isn't - http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2138492&cid=36073566
Yes, it is. But why wait, or even ask Apple, when /. can run an anti-Apple piece.
Remember kids, if you want page hits slag off Apple, works every time.
You quoted Duke Nukem? You clearly win my dear sir, I cannot compete with intelligence at your level.
Oh I've gone from fan-boy to fanboi? Hurrah, you have managed to upgrade me. Hopefully without injuring yourself.
*Stares at hand built (hand put-together? I dunno, it's not like I designed anything inside it) PC running W7 64/Ubuntu, is typing on a ThinkPad X61 running Vista, notices MacBook Pro happily sitting in the corner, printing out my fanboi badge*
Oh wait. I run Vista, Win7 64, Linux and OSx. Arg, can I still be an Apple fanboi? Please??
"presumably because he needed a new machine." Or he might have wanted an upgrade more significant than just memory or HDD. Or he broke his last laptop by dropping it. Who knows. Remember what they say about assumptions, it's asses all the way down. Or something. Anyway, how about this one:
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~ Alan Alda
Well done, you. Nice and thrifty, plus no laptop in a landfill. Though I'm unsure of the point you were making with that post.
Was it to say that Dell laptops don't ever need replacing?
You now have to be a fan-boy to buy Apple products? They are no longer available to the public? Since when? Do I need a badge? To join some kind of club?
Oh wait, maybe Apple came around your house and clubbed your puppy to death? No?
Perhaps take a deep breath and relax. People are free to choose Apple, Linux and even Windows. Each has strong points and reasons why they are good at what they do, so no need to start dropping both your IQ and elitist tech wang on the table by throwing the term 'fan-boys' around.
Wait, didn't you get the memo? We now have to dislike Apple!
Sarcasm aside, I agree with you, I think the update that just happened was the biggest leap forward since the introduction of the unibody enclosure. Big enough to make me sell my 2 year old MacBook Pro and upgrade.
You're trying to reason with someone who believe that a fairer society is 'communist.'
After all all fair societies have a wall around them to prevent people from 'escaping', right?
You are aware that the EU is a larger, and richer, market than the USA, right?
No company wants to blow off the main users of its product.
"If I made a product and Europe told me I HAD to include other people's 3rd party software in my software product, I'd tell them where to shove their 3rd part code."
And you'd lose the world's largest business market. Congratulations.
The Russian economy is pretty large now thanks to the natural resources it has, specifically gas and oil. in fact it is the 9th largest in the world.
The USA does not have a bigger economy. Of course it depends on how you are measuring that. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Rank Country GDP (PPP) $m
EU European Union 14,953,057
1 United States 13,543,330
2 China 11,606,3361
3 India 4,726,537
4 Japan 4,346,080
5 Germany 2,714,469
6 United Kingdom 2,270,884
7 France 2,040,109
8 Brazil 2,013,893
9 Russia 1,908,739
10 Italy 1,888,492
Can you back this up? I'm curious.
The European parliament makes laws that can be enforced across all member countries. Most of the time the countries act as individual countries, but above them all is European law which can dictate certain stances and actions right across Europe.
So while the EU Parliament does not have direct power over bodies such as the G8 they can enact/enforce laws in all EU countries in the G8.
That is power.
Enlightened Europeans? Care to be more racist? Geez.
It's not like anywhere else uses censorship in dumb ways, right? http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/28/1953222
Lets keep the discussion sane and avoid the anti-European crap, it's offtopic and stupid.
NB: I live in North America.
You do know that the G8 consists of: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Together, these countries represent about 65% of the world economy. Half the G8 is European and can vote as a block for European interests. Aside from a 2 country North America block, the other countries have no reason to be unified, unlike the European countries.
So in fact the EU Parliament does have huge influence in the G8.
Anyone know the intentions on Microsoft when it comes to exFAT?
...
Will it hold tight, like it has on NTFS, or allow cheap access to the net version of FAT?
I want exFAT on OS X
Wish I had mod points for you. Insightful.
The big early adopters for this are Sony, and shortly Apple. I'm betting a Macbook Pro comes out in January that is going to be startlingly similar to this in spec and price.
The big drawback is space, "6GB of that space is taken by a hidden partition (for system recovery) and still more is take by the operating system (Windows Vista Business)." So you are losing 14GB for the recovery, OS and a couple of apps; nearly half the space gone before you start saving things.
Might not be too much of an issue for people saving documents, presentations and so on. For geeks that small amount of space would be very restricting.
This strikes me as a good example of the reusing old tech.
I think some of the article misses the point:
'What if fuel prices go down?' What if they don't? Prices will not go down in the long term and the companies using these will benefit the most.
'These can't be used in a head wind.' Well no sh*t Sherlock, thanks for that. It's to cut fuel use, not eliminate it. Any cut will be good for the company and the environment.
The Kindle is not an LCD display, it uses e Ink, 6-inch SVGA 800x600, 4 grey scales. Supposed to be very easy on the eyes.
Kindle also has a long latency, this is due to the use of eInk. It's supposed to be a lot easier on the eyes than Sony's reader - but as I've never seen either, who knows.
I'd like colour but for reading a book it does seem a bit redundant, but the Kindle can browse the internet as well. So really I expect to see colour in a future revision.
For now, the iPod Touch is the best reader/browser combination.
I wonder how many units were made available.
I somehow doubt it is a case of 'we made lots, but demand outstripped supply'. More likely this was a limited production run to test the waters.
I was wondering the same thing. On some level it has to have an effect but at the same time he's been around here a long while. He knows the /. crowd and I'm betting does a pretty good job at filtering it out from his reality. Well done on book 3 Wil. Was it harder or easier than the dreaded book 2 ...
Funnily enough I was on the phone to Apple last night, I have three ongoing problems with my 2 yr old powerbook. I purchased Applecare so I thought I'd phone them and see if they could resolve the issues.
... (I wish)
1) Finish around the keyboard, to the right of the trackpad, has worn away. Cosmetic wear, not covered by Apple.
2) Keys on the left side of the keyboard have a very different feel than those on the right, it makes it uncomfy to type and is really annoying. Ergonomic issue, not covered by Apple.
3) One of the feet is missing underneath. Apple covered, they are sending me 8 feet so that I have spares.
While the support was nice, polite and friendly I found the whole expreience pretty pointless, and now I'm wondering why I bothered with Applecare at all. OK I can understand 1 not getting covered, but 2? The keyboard is fundamental. Apple, feel free to mail me and set things right