It's funny that you actually believe Apple's marketing to be the truth. Wake up, Apple is a for profit company that will protect it's interests. You're naive to think otherwise.
oh instead of complaining about, go install something else on your computer. Sheesh.
If you were talking about the 13" unibody Macbook that was availible up until a week ago, then it was the EXACT same machine as the Mac Mini.
Even, now, the macbook and the mini are both relatively the same machine (minor diffs in memory, hd proc speed) But I doubt that there's anything a "power" user can do on a Macbook, that they can't on a Mini, at about 10-15% slower speed.
At the high end, sure, but if GP wanted a low end iMac, as long as he was OK with doing a little upgrading of a mini, it's pretty comparable to the low end iMacs.
Hrm.. while I'm dubious that apple has the only hot swappable SIM card, I think the main reason was probably that every other phone manufacturer decided to put their SIM card _BEHIND_ the freakin' battery.
and arguably, you can say that Apple's implementation sucked cause you have to have a paper clip to replace the SIM card. Not so in other phones.
While I don't disagree you there. More codec support is always welcome. I think there are some advantages to running lossy codecs on portable players.
1) Capacity 2) Battery Life
Capacity isn't quite where we need to be for the average person to use lossless all the time. Assuming people have roughly 1700 songs on it (A reference on Slashdot! woot!). If each mp3 song is 5megs you need an 8gig player to hold that. The lossless copy, is what? 30megs? You'd need about 50gigs to hold that same data, which is around, but not exactly mainstream yet. This problem will be mostly solved in 2-3 years.
Battery Life, might be the harder problem to solve. Cause just reading the bits and processing them with always take more energy than the lossy copies. I'm curious to know the battery life difference if anyone has done an experiment with their player? But battery life will become more important as people are integrating their mp3 players with their phones. Who cared if your iPod ran out of juice. People care a lot more when their iPhone runs out of power.
Dude. It's not a question of who's better at what for what (tho generally I agree with you), but it's just the fact that someone wanted to buy intel integrated graphics, which directly refuted your original blanket statement. Which you chose to ignore in this post. That's all.
I don't understand how this is objectionable. It's product differentiation and it pretty much happens with every product on the market to hit price points. Not everyone needs to create DVDs. Not everyone needs to backup a computer. (Think about it.)
If anything, I'd say you got a great salesperson for actually understanding your needs and recommending the appropriate software for you. Better that than buying it, going home, installing it, only to find out that it doesn't do what you need it to.
While, yes, the hype is there, I must say that I'm pretty happy that Slashdot didn't go all iPhone 3G news/rumor crazy in the past couple of weeks... I was suprised at the restrait.:)
and groceries? c'mon man, where are your priorities?!?
> Having said that, I recommend TIFF plus search text metadata for archival, not PDF.
Can I ask why? You whole post seemed to slam TIFF - that it's too varied from the actual spec. How does that translate to being a good archival format? Or are you just saying, use TIFF if you follow the spec?
There would be a dedicated area for cyclists. It would be safe, and relatively out of the way for cars.
I know drivers get pissed at cyclists taking up the lane and everything. But like you said in some other posts, cyclists take advantage of their dual status as a car/pedestrian. We (cyclists) can't have it both ways.
And that's where the drivers are confused. Because there are different rule sets for walkers and bikers to follow depending and individual cyclists pick and choose from those sets at will. So it's hard for a driver to anticipate what any particular cyclist is going to do.
So sometimes, in tricky intersections, I try to act as a car as much as possible - take the lane, signal, turn from the left turn lane, etc... I think this helps the driver to frame my actions, so that they can anticipate what my next move is. And if they can do that, that means they aren't going to hit me. And I won't die.
I would think the phone contract is enough to dissuade people. There are already people out there that would've bought gen1 except for a) the carrier b) existing phone contracts.
I've got a long and short reply to the first part of your situation...
long - not to take away from your experience at the store, but honestly, how often are you expecting to be in an Apple store? But you're using your computer everyday. I would think the compute experience would out weigh the customer service crappiness that you experienced. Who cares if there are 20 something's hanging out in the store. Sure you might have to go back for repairs or whatnot, but I figure you've got to be pretty computer literate as you are on slashdot and using Ubuntu. I think you can handle most computer issues on your own.
Also, I will say _most_ retail salespeople do not know what they are talking about. There are several really good ones out there that know their stuff, but haven't you learned not to trust what salespeople say. Plus why do you need to ask the salespeople anything? You already did the research online - pretty much everything you would want to know about Apple products is online. Hell, you could've ordered your machine online. (I understand the need to feel the product in person tho)
short - obviously you've never shopped at Fry's before.:)
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It's funny that you actually believe Apple's marketing to be the truth. Wake up, Apple is a for profit company that will protect it's interests. You're naive to think otherwise.
oh instead of complaining about, go install something else on your computer. Sheesh.
If you were talking about the 13" unibody Macbook that was availible up until a week ago, then it was the EXACT same machine as the Mac Mini.
Even, now, the macbook and the mini are both relatively the same machine (minor diffs in memory, hd proc speed) But I doubt that there's anything a "power" user can do on a Macbook, that they can't on a Mini, at about 10-15% slower speed.
kissing your wife is simple, harmless, and costless TO ME.
kissing your wife is NOT harmless, and costless TO YOU.
borrowing a friend's laptop is simple, harmless, and costless TO YOU.
borrowing a friend's laptop is NOT harmless or costless TO AUTHOR.
connection yet? :P
Let me kiss your wife. It's a simple, harmless, and costless request.
Not true. It's the perfect accessory. My girlfriend will tell you so!
Well do you consider the school computer to be a government computer? He did hack it to change the number of sick days on his record.
Whoa. Is the current QWERTY keyboard really a good design? A Standard, yes, but a good design? Think about that for a second.
GP was only talking about gaming resolution, not about desktop resolution. They are two different arenas.
I don't understand - how exactly is Apple making it hard to play your DRM free tracks on other media players?
At the high end, sure, but if GP wanted a low end iMac, as long as he was OK with doing a little upgrading of a mini, it's pretty comparable to the low end iMacs.
Hrm.. while I'm dubious that apple has the only hot swappable SIM card, I think the main reason was probably that every other phone manufacturer decided to put their SIM card _BEHIND_ the freakin' battery.
and arguably, you can say that Apple's implementation sucked cause you have to have a paper clip to replace the SIM card. Not so in other phones.
Funny? Insightful?
I guess I'll just say the obvious. Yes. you can't put _Digital_ Rights Management on a rock.
However regular rights management of a rock is infinitely easier. :)
While I don't disagree you there. More codec support is always welcome. I think there are some advantages to running lossy codecs on portable players.
1) Capacity
2) Battery Life
Capacity isn't quite where we need to be for the average person to use lossless all the time. Assuming people have roughly 1700 songs on it (A reference on Slashdot! woot!). If each mp3 song is 5megs you need an 8gig player to hold that. The lossless copy, is what? 30megs? You'd need about 50gigs to hold that same data, which is around, but not exactly mainstream yet. This problem will be mostly solved in 2-3 years.
Battery Life, might be the harder problem to solve. Cause just reading the bits and processing them with always take more energy than the lossy copies. I'm curious to know the battery life difference if anyone has done an experiment with their player? But battery life will become more important as people are integrating their mp3 players with their phones. Who cared if your iPod ran out of juice. People care a lot more when their iPhone runs out of power.
Great. I'll have 80% of the capacity of my MP3 player used up by bits I will never access. Great job solving the problem fellas.
Dude. It's not a question of who's better at what for what (tho generally I agree with you), but it's just the fact that someone wanted to buy intel integrated graphics, which directly refuted your original blanket statement. Which you chose to ignore in this post. That's all.
Yup. I have to laugh at all those prognosticators who thought that Cell would take over the world. Parallel programming is hard.
Hrm. I'm not sure that Nintendo has ever released a console with a "2" moniker yet?
I don't understand how this is objectionable. It's product differentiation and it pretty much happens with every product on the market to hit price points. Not everyone needs to create DVDs. Not everyone needs to backup a computer. (Think about it.)
If anything, I'd say you got a great salesperson for actually understanding your needs and recommending the appropriate software for you. Better that than buying it, going home, installing it, only to find out that it doesn't do what you need it to.
While, yes, the hype is there, I must say that I'm pretty happy that Slashdot didn't go all iPhone 3G news/rumor crazy in the past couple of weeks... I was suprised at the restrait. :)
and groceries? c'mon man, where are your priorities?!?
I have 2 comments
1) You seem bitter not being able to walk out of the store with an iPhone 3G.
2) Loyal fans will say enough when the value of all those combined experiences outweighs the value of having an iPhone 3G.
By the masses that walked out with unactivated phones, something tells me that we are far from that breakpoint.
> Having said that, I recommend TIFF plus search text metadata for archival, not PDF.
Can I ask why? You whole post seemed to slam TIFF - that it's too varied from the actual spec. How does that translate to being a good archival format? Or are you just saying, use TIFF if you follow the spec?
The answer is more bike lanes.
:)
There would be a dedicated area for cyclists. It would be safe, and relatively out of the way for cars.
I know drivers get pissed at cyclists taking up the lane and everything. But like you said in some other posts, cyclists take advantage of their dual status as a car/pedestrian. We (cyclists) can't have it both ways.
And that's where the drivers are confused. Because there are different rule sets for walkers and bikers to follow depending and individual cyclists pick and choose from those sets at will. So it's hard for a driver to anticipate what any particular cyclist is going to do.
So sometimes, in tricky intersections, I try to act as a car as much as possible - take the lane, signal, turn from the left turn lane, etc... I think this helps the driver to frame my actions, so that they can anticipate what my next move is. And if they can do that, that means they aren't going to hit me. And I won't die.
That's pretty good motivation in my mind.
I would think the phone contract is enough to dissuade people. There are already people out there that would've bought gen1 except for a) the carrier b) existing phone contracts.
I've got a long and short reply to the first part of your situation...
:)
long - not to take away from your experience at the store, but honestly, how often are you expecting to be in an Apple store? But you're using your computer everyday. I would think the compute experience would out weigh the customer service crappiness that you experienced. Who cares if there are 20 something's hanging out in the store. Sure you might have to go back for repairs or whatnot, but I figure you've got to be pretty computer literate as you are on slashdot and using Ubuntu. I think you can handle most computer issues on your own.
Also, I will say _most_ retail salespeople do not know what they are talking about. There are several really good ones out there that know their stuff, but haven't you learned not to trust what salespeople say. Plus why do you need to ask the salespeople anything? You already did the research online - pretty much everything you would want to know about Apple products is online. Hell, you could've ordered your machine online. (I understand the need to feel the product in person tho)
short - obviously you've never shopped at Fry's before.
Get someone to reply to your post pointing out the biases of the modders, get modded back insightful.