This is Apple. The lack of goofy random stuff like this is a huge part of the Apple experience. You pay a relatively small amount of money (about 2 lattes per month). It just works. Game over. No meaningless decisions to make, no asking people to decide between three different versions of the same product, heck, no need to work with ad agencies. Simplicity. Functionality. Relatively cheap price. What is problem?
I've had a 2001 A6 and a 2005 allroad. Both are Audis, both have ABS, and neither has behaved anywhere close to the way that you're describing. It sounds very much like your car had a serious brake problem, which needed to be corrected in the same way that any other issue with the brakes is. It also sounds like half your post is describing traction control (which you can shut off in most Audis) rather than ABS. In fact, the only modern car I've ever had where you could disable the ABS was my C5, and they didn't make it terribly easy to do there (and after playing around a couple of times, I left it active even on the track, because quite frankly it was better than I was in unexpected situations).
According to this story, the engineering is merely a path to what you really want, getting great sales figures.
Er, yeah, that's pretty much a true statement. When you're owning a business, you need to be making money to stay afloat. When you're running a publicly traded company you owe it to the owners (your shareholders) to make as much money as you can at your stated objective. The goal is not to have the best engineered products but never sell them. Companies like Xerox, TI, et cetera have been really good at that in the past... and failed miserably (at least in those areas). Think about how much the PC field owes to both of those companies. Think about the last time you bought yourself a Xerox system.
For example, Firewire is crucial for the pro audio space, where all of the audio interfaces worth buying (IMHO) are Firewire. USB not only hasn't taken off, but the USB interfaces that exist out there are either limited in the number of channels, have problems with pops and crackles, or both
Right.... well, let's take it as granted in this discussion. You know what though? We're only talking about Firewire 800, which is almost totally useless in the audio world. And the new MBP has Firewire 400 built right in, just like the PowerBook did. So what's the problem here exactly?
Good call on the Airport Extreme - that's what its there for. As far as the cables and whatnot though, I'm assuming that you either have in your laptop case, or leave at the house, a long cable with an RJ11 jack on each end, right? Well, slip a streamlined USB modem onto one end of it, and think of it as a cable that does RJ11USB. No more "pieces," very little additional space taken up, and one end of your cable is just a little less flexible than the other end. This is really not a big deal.
I'm sorry, usually I dispise "Funny" mods (even browsing them at -1) but I have to admit... this was funny. Maybe not to everyone, but it was to me. Good on yer.
Maybe so, but the inverse, "All customers hate DRM," isn't true either. As the GP posted, when it doesn't get in the way for most people (like a speed limiter on your car set at the 130mph factory tire rating), they generally don't care.
Er, yeah. Check your graphics card. All major modern cards, I believe, come with Windows drivers that allow you to rotate the screen. Your monitor "drivers" are basically color information only, unless there's a smart-switch in there that rotates the image automatically or something. On my monitor (Dell 23") I can rotate it, then click the adapter button to change orientation. I never do, but I could.
LAMP is very good at scaling if your problem domain is shallow, but broad. In LJs case its many people reading the same data, with only one person occasionally allowing to update any given piece of data. This model matches well with a lot of public-facing webapps. It matches very poorly with a lot of enterprise business requirements.
Actually a surprising number of scenes performed by good actors, they're doing an awful lot of variance based on knowing the scene, knowing their characters. Lines can often change from take to take.
I try very hard to make sure that accessories I buy (camera, cel phone, garmin forerunner gps, etc) all charge over the standard micro usb port. Its damned convenient to have one car charger for everything, and I absolutely adore being able to charge my phone off my laptop when I'm travelling. I still need the laptop charger, but that's all I need (and I use a 12V/110V vers. model).
I have never seen a laptop that had two hardware buttons and was comfortable to use.
Well, 99% of the time I just click the trackpad when I want to use the left mouse button. I guess the question is, which is easier, hitting a new right mouse button below the pad and to the right... or holding down a meta-key while clicking? I'd say that the former would win in all but the strangest situations.
Then again, one interesting possibility would be to remap the large physical button to "right-click" if I could do that and keep the typepad-click as left-click. Unfortunately I've never seen a way to do this - it may be that this is handled in hardware and the system cannot differentiate between the two types of click even in the driver.
plus the design of only *needing* 1 buttons is great.
Sure. And you only need 1024x768 too. That doesn't mean that I want to plan my hardware purchases around a lowest-common-denominator need. I want the ability to do a "right-click" with a single keypress, especially when using software like Eclipse that takes extensive advantage of it. I'm willing to pay extra for the powerBook in order to do this. All I'm saying is that I'd like the option.
I don't like suits either but then I am not a typical user.
How so? Do you wear them inside out? Or over fireman's gear? I can see how that could be a problem actually. Maybe we need adaptive suits that expand and contract as needed?
if I'm logged onto to someone's personal ftp site I'll use a standalone client out of courtesy
Why is that? I've never heard of there being a politeness issue with using a browser-based FTP client. Are there some technical issues I'm unaware of around this?
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I'd be happy if it was offered as a two-button mouse on the powerbook, personally. Everything else is easy enough to swap out - and I could even see keeping it to one-button on the iSeries. But I'd like a two-button on my next OSX laptop.
Then there's the follow on. In the original (or a frequent variation thereof), the pilot chews the information-giver out by saying, "Well, its obvious that I'm in Seattle, because...." Its also usually a balloon that's being piloted in order for the exchange to work.
The.com version added, "I bet you're a [consultant/VBer/whatever]," said the man in the building. "What makes you say that," asks the pilot? "You don't know where you are, or how you got here. You're just as lost as you were a few minutes ago, but now its my fault.
Or something like that. There are better versions of the joke out there, but I'm too lazy to google for them.
And don't forget all of the older AS/400 folk. I actually do know that OS/2 is still a significant presence... just couldn't resist the joke. As most people figured it out to be.
There are various ways to combine letters to make different sounds; different court reporters use different theories in their work. Although most writing is similar, most stenographers cannot read another's work, as it is highly personalized.
I don't think this would quite cut it in day-to-day non transcription use. Too bad, really. Not that there aren't other layouts, but the traditional court reporting style are just a little too vague.
Saying, "This company sucks," is generally protected speech. Its an opinion, and you can voice it as you wish. Saying, "This company can't ever meet its 4th quarter numbers because its project managers are incompetent," on the other hand, might be libelous if it wasn't true, because it deals (albeit obliquely) with falsifiable facts. If the company can show that its project managers are indeed competent, you could be sued. Although, if its PMs really are idiots, you're probably safe. I believe the burden of proof is on the company in that case but, as the old saying goes, IANAL.
These persons, referred to as "Does 1-10" in the court complaint (as in "John Doe," or anonymous), are being accused by Juniper of posting harmful statements about the company and its executives on Light Reading's message boards
Just so you don't think that they're being sued for, oh, installing mod-chips in their routers or something. Basically they seem to be accused of providing inaccurate information in an attempt to influence the price of the stock (directly or indirectly).
At this point we don't even particularly want a happy medium. I can type pretty effectively on split and non-split keyboards, but it still takes me a minute or two to switch between them. I'd hate to think about getting used to a totally different layout and then having to go and type effectively on somebody else's computer, especially if I only did it occasionally. And no, I'm not going to carry my keyboard around with me. Besides, what if I wanted to let someone else type on mine for whatever reason? The QWERTY keyboard is a reasonable standard, its universally accepted in the US (and in many other countries with some pretty minor variations), and with practice and training you can type remarkably quickly on it, especially if you have a keyboard with selectable sensitivity so that you can crank it up as you get better.
So I guess that, by that theory, if the DNS folks don't "take care" of the problem, then responsible web-browsers such as Firefox and Safari (and, eventually, IE) should start replacing their sites with some kind of warning page? Be very very careful when you start assuming that a downstream problem should have an upstream solution. Even if you ignore the huge amount of work, think of the potential for abuse - if some human somewhere gets to decide, based on no legal (including contract) justification, that your site goes away... that sounds very much like censorship to me.
If scientists record the hand of God, Zeus, UFOs, or His Noodleness spontaneously converting one species to another spices, we will all eat our words.
But that poses an unintentional ethical question of its own. If, for example, all kittens become nutmeg according to your theory, and I am a vegetarian, will He allow me to use them to season my words?
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This is Apple. The lack of goofy random stuff like this is a huge part of the Apple experience. You pay a relatively small amount of money (about 2 lattes per month). It just works. Game over. No meaningless decisions to make, no asking people to decide between three different versions of the same product, heck, no need to work with ad agencies. Simplicity. Functionality. Relatively cheap price. What is problem?
I've had a 2001 A6 and a 2005 allroad. Both are Audis, both have ABS, and neither has behaved anywhere close to the way that you're describing. It sounds very much like your car had a serious brake problem, which needed to be corrected in the same way that any other issue with the brakes is. It also sounds like half your post is describing traction control (which you can shut off in most Audis) rather than ABS. In fact, the only modern car I've ever had where you could disable the ABS was my C5, and they didn't make it terribly easy to do there (and after playing around a couple of times, I left it active even on the track, because quite frankly it was better than I was in unexpected situations).
According to this story, the engineering is merely a path to what you really want, getting great sales figures.
Er, yeah, that's pretty much a true statement. When you're owning a business, you need to be making money to stay afloat. When you're running a publicly traded company you owe it to the owners (your shareholders) to make as much money as you can at your stated objective. The goal is not to have the best engineered products but never sell them. Companies like Xerox, TI, et cetera have been really good at that in the past... and failed miserably (at least in those areas). Think about how much the PC field owes to both of those companies. Think about the last time you bought yourself a Xerox system.
For example, Firewire is crucial for the pro audio space, where all of the audio interfaces worth buying (IMHO) are Firewire. USB not only hasn't taken off, but the USB interfaces that exist out there are either limited in the number of channels, have problems with pops and crackles, or both
Right.... well, let's take it as granted in this discussion. You know what though? We're only talking about Firewire 800, which is almost totally useless in the audio world. And the new MBP has Firewire 400 built right in, just like the PowerBook did. So what's the problem here exactly?
Good call on the Airport Extreme - that's what its there for. As far as the cables and whatnot though, I'm assuming that you either have in your laptop case, or leave at the house, a long cable with an RJ11 jack on each end, right? Well, slip a streamlined USB modem onto one end of it, and think of it as a cable that does RJ11USB. No more "pieces," very little additional space taken up, and one end of your cable is just a little less flexible than the other end. This is really not a big deal.
I'm sorry, usually I dispise "Funny" mods (even browsing them at -1) but I have to admit... this was funny. Maybe not to everyone, but it was to me. Good on yer.
No customer wants DRM
Maybe so, but the inverse, "All customers hate DRM," isn't true either. As the GP posted, when it doesn't get in the way for most people (like a speed limiter on your car set at the 130mph factory tire rating), they generally don't care.
Er, yeah. Check your graphics card. All major modern cards, I believe, come with Windows drivers that allow you to rotate the screen. Your monitor "drivers" are basically color information only, unless there's a smart-switch in there that rotates the image automatically or something. On my monitor (Dell 23") I can rotate it, then click the adapter button to change orientation. I never do, but I could.
LAMP is very good at scaling if your problem domain is shallow, but broad. In LJs case its many people reading the same data, with only one person occasionally allowing to update any given piece of data. This model matches well with a lot of public-facing webapps. It matches very poorly with a lot of enterprise business requirements.
Actually a surprising number of scenes performed by good actors, they're doing an awful lot of variance based on knowing the scene, knowing their characters. Lines can often change from take to take.
I try very hard to make sure that accessories I buy (camera, cel phone, garmin forerunner gps, etc) all charge over the standard micro usb port. Its damned convenient to have one car charger for everything, and I absolutely adore being able to charge my phone off my laptop when I'm travelling. I still need the laptop charger, but that's all I need (and I use a 12V/110V vers. model).
When Steve announces a product, he makes it available. There's no coming soon, or available within 4 years, or in the near future crap...
Well... occasionally, yes, that's pretty much the opposite of his slightly less recent track record. But, other than that, your statement holds true.
I have never seen a laptop that had two hardware buttons and was comfortable to use.
Well, 99% of the time I just click the trackpad when I want to use the left mouse button. I guess the question is, which is easier, hitting a new right mouse button below the pad and to the right... or holding down a meta-key while clicking? I'd say that the former would win in all but the strangest situations.
Then again, one interesting possibility would be to remap the large physical button to "right-click" if I could do that and keep the typepad-click as left-click. Unfortunately I've never seen a way to do this - it may be that this is handled in hardware and the system cannot differentiate between the two types of click even in the driver.
plus the design of only *needing* 1 buttons is great.
Sure. And you only need 1024x768 too. That doesn't mean that I want to plan my hardware purchases around a lowest-common-denominator need. I want the ability to do a "right-click" with a single keypress, especially when using software like Eclipse that takes extensive advantage of it. I'm willing to pay extra for the powerBook in order to do this. All I'm saying is that I'd like the option.
I don't like suits either but then I am not a typical user.
How so? Do you wear them inside out? Or over fireman's gear? I can see how that could be a problem actually. Maybe we need adaptive suits that expand and contract as needed?
if I'm logged onto to someone's personal ftp site I'll use a standalone client out of courtesy
Why is that? I've never heard of there being a politeness issue with using a browser-based FTP client. Are there some technical issues I'm unaware of around this?
I'd be happy if it was offered as a two-button mouse on the powerbook, personally. Everything else is easy enough to swap out - and I could even see keeping it to one-button on the iSeries. But I'd like a two-button on my next OSX laptop.
Then there's the follow on. In the original (or a frequent variation thereof), the pilot chews the information-giver out by saying, "Well, its obvious that I'm in Seattle, because...." Its also usually a balloon that's being piloted in order for the exchange to work.
.com version added, "I bet you're a [consultant/VBer/whatever]," said the man in the building. "What makes you say that," asks the pilot? "You don't know where you are, or how you got here. You're just as lost as you were a few minutes ago, but now its my fault.
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Or something like that. There are better versions of the joke out there, but I'm too lazy to google for them.
And don't forget all of the older AS/400 folk. I actually do know that OS/2 is still a significant presence... just couldn't resist the joke. As most people figured it out to be.
From that very article:
There are various ways to combine letters to make different sounds; different court reporters use different theories in their work. Although most writing is similar, most stenographers cannot read another's work, as it is highly personalized.
I don't think this would quite cut it in day-to-day non transcription use. Too bad, really. Not that there aren't other layouts, but the traditional court reporting style are just a little too vague.
They should at least recommend a specific product, else the remaining OS/2 userbase will entirely fragment.
What, both of them?
Saying, "This company sucks," is generally protected speech. Its an opinion, and you can voice it as you wish. Saying, "This company can't ever meet its 4th quarter numbers because its project managers are incompetent," on the other hand, might be libelous if it wasn't true, because it deals (albeit obliquely) with falsifiable facts. If the company can show that its project managers are indeed competent, you could be sued. Although, if its PMs really are idiots, you're probably safe. I believe the burden of proof is on the company in that case but, as the old saying goes, IANAL.
From TFA:
These persons, referred to as "Does 1-10" in the court complaint (as in "John Doe," or anonymous), are being accused by Juniper of posting harmful statements about the company and its executives on Light Reading's message boards
Just so you don't think that they're being sued for, oh, installing mod-chips in their routers or something. Basically they seem to be accused of providing inaccurate information in an attempt to influence the price of the stock (directly or indirectly).
At this point we don't even particularly want a happy medium. I can type pretty effectively on split and non-split keyboards, but it still takes me a minute or two to switch between them. I'd hate to think about getting used to a totally different layout and then having to go and type effectively on somebody else's computer, especially if I only did it occasionally. And no, I'm not going to carry my keyboard around with me. Besides, what if I wanted to let someone else type on mine for whatever reason? The QWERTY keyboard is a reasonable standard, its universally accepted in the US (and in many other countries with some pretty minor variations), and with practice and training you can type remarkably quickly on it, especially if you have a keyboard with selectable sensitivity so that you can crank it up as you get better.
This is a poor solution for a non-problem.
So I guess that, by that theory, if the DNS folks don't "take care" of the problem, then responsible web-browsers such as Firefox and Safari (and, eventually, IE) should start replacing their sites with some kind of warning page? Be very very careful when you start assuming that a downstream problem should have an upstream solution. Even if you ignore the huge amount of work, think of the potential for abuse - if some human somewhere gets to decide, based on no legal (including contract) justification, that your site goes away... that sounds very much like censorship to me.
If scientists record the hand of God, Zeus, UFOs, or His Noodleness spontaneously converting one species to another spices, we will all eat our words.
But that poses an unintentional ethical question of its own. If, for example, all kittens become nutmeg according to your theory, and I am a vegetarian, will He allow me to use them to season my words?