By sarcastically repeating the inane criticism offered in the article? How is 6.1 pounds heavy? It's lighter than a Macbook Pro 17 despite considerably more screen. It's only 1/2 pound heavier than a MBP 15 despite nearly double the screen space. 6 pounds has never been heavy for a notebook.
"PC motherboard makers are all STILL delivering boards with parallel printer ports and those awful separate printer and mouse ports and D25 external monitor ports. How brave of them. How daring."
They do that on specific models for specific reasons. Apple would too if they could sell into those accounts. Legacy ports are valuable to large business accounts that Apple wishes they could get a piece of.
"Apple is the only company with the balls to spit in the eye of backward compatibility."
No they aren't, but they are the only company that doesn't have any customers that would be especially unhappy with the move. Removing legacy ports was not an Apple idea. They did it in a desperation move with the iMac. The PC industry had been working on it for years.
"They're the only company who get it and don't mind pissing off their old customers by forcing them to adopt something new the next time they buy an Apple computer."
No they're not. What old customers did they piss off?
"Let Apple keep on innovating. They're not obsolescing my machines."
Apple did nothing for the adoption of USB and contributed absolutely nothing to its development. They piggybacked on the efforts of Intel and the PC industry and then claimed credit. They only convinced fanboys like you.
That all sounds fine until you are asked to list the specific colorations that vinyl adds that anyone might find pleasing. Could if be wow and flutter? Terrible channel separation? Pops and clicks? Raunchy frequency response? Compressed bass? Lousy dynamic range? Just what is it?
I would say you "get into this" from a point of ignorance.
"If you're going into the recent apps list (double clicking home) and remove every item, then what've you done is clear a recent app list, not close running applications."
No, it closes the applications.
"The whole point of the way iOS multitasking was design was that you shouldn't have to use a task manager."
No that's wasn't the whole point, but had they succeeded on that aspect there wouldn't be a task manager. There is.
Invalidating the marketing claim that the iPad would be the computer for the rest of us, the device that solves the usability problems that plague desktops, the solution to the problems that the Mac claimed to solve decades ago but apparently failed to.
Yes, and the same people who cheat their way through school cheat their way through life. For the most part, they are rewarded for it. That's the problem.
You have a limited grasp of the issues. 44K was not chosen as the sample rate for CDs because of the desire for 22K response, it was chosen to balance the difficult demands of data rate and implementation of the analog antialiasing filters required. A 48K sampling rate makes the filters much easier to make at the cost of higher data rates that have become trivial. Regarding your claim that the good listener's ear can hear "qualitative differences in a square wave and a smoother sine wave" "near the limits of resolution", you are totally full of sh*t. Eyesight has variable resolution, so that discussion is pointless anyway. You couldn't prove that handheld displays benefit for 300 dpi except under specific conditions, so suggesting 400 or 500 dpi is easy is really laughable.
"If 150 DPI is visually acceptable, why have I not seen a 150 DPI laser printer since the early 1990s?"
Ignoring that you've never seen a 150 dpi laser printer since they started at 300, the reason is that paper and monitors have different viewing distances. The intended viewing distance is what determines how many dpi are enough. 150 dpi is visually acceptable at typical monitor viewing distances, and considering you replied to a T221 comment, I bet you haven't even experienced using a T221 at normal distances. In order to use one effectively, you have to sit unusually close.
"...horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels."
No, horsePOWER is the "gauge of power". Horsepower "turns the wheels" while torque is an intermediate, and ultimately useless, term. This kind of misunderstanding is generally a symptom of trucker mentality.
Yeah, kinda like "nigger" means more than just black, it means anything particularly undesirable, as in "nigger-rigged". Both derive their meaning in the same way, they refer to the original hatred.
"I think if a car that was moving that fast being propelled by four independent motors suddenly found itself being propelled by thrust that was no longer balanced and centered -- I wouldn't want to be down range for quite some distance."
How is that different than having one motor and computer-controlled multi-wheel drive and braking systems?
"Gay" means "lame" only in the sense that homosexuality is "lame". That's where the meaning is derived.
Oddly, when I was a kid, roughly at the same time as you, I remember "you suck" also being a put-down yet I don't remember it having the specific meaning you describe. One could argue that its meaning in that respect is unchanged, just as the meaning for "gay" is unchanged. Make no mistake, calling something gay is negative because of the homosexual connotations.
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By sarcastically repeating the inane criticism offered in the article? How is 6.1 pounds heavy? It's lighter than a Macbook Pro 17 despite considerably more screen. It's only 1/2 pound heavier than a MBP 15 despite nearly double the screen space. 6 pounds has never been heavy for a notebook.
"PC motherboard makers are all STILL delivering boards with parallel printer ports and those awful separate printer and mouse ports and D25 external monitor ports. How brave of them. How daring."
They do that on specific models for specific reasons. Apple would too if they could sell into those accounts. Legacy ports are valuable to large business accounts that Apple wishes they could get a piece of.
"Apple is the only company with the balls to spit in the eye of backward compatibility."
No they aren't, but they are the only company that doesn't have any customers that would be especially unhappy with the move. Removing legacy ports was not an Apple idea. They did it in a desperation move with the iMac. The PC industry had been working on it for years.
"They're the only company who get it and don't mind pissing off their old customers by forcing them to adopt something new the next time they buy an Apple computer."
No they're not. What old customers did they piss off?
"Let Apple keep on innovating. They're not obsolescing my machines."
You just disproved your own fanboy claims.
Apple hardware IS Intel hardware. Not really that interesting.
Furthermore, if Light Peak is only for the SSD connection then it is a waste. There are other, existing interfaces that would be perfectly suitable.
Wow, that's quite a contribution that highly reputable journalistic resource described there. ;)
Who would have ever thought of an interoperable standard that could handle large amounts of data?
Apple did nothing for the adoption of USB and contributed absolutely nothing to its development. They piggybacked on the efforts of Intel and the PC industry and then claimed credit. They only convinced fanboys like you.
That's hardly an endorsement of the medium, is it?
That all sounds fine until you are asked to list the specific colorations that vinyl adds that anyone might find pleasing. Could if be wow and flutter? Terrible channel separation? Pops and clicks? Raunchy frequency response? Compressed bass? Lousy dynamic range? Just what is it?
I would say you "get into this" from a point of ignorance.
It's grim what it takes to be called a musician these days.
I would say that only pretend musicians will consider native MIDI support on their iPhones to be "huge".
"If you're going into the recent apps list (double clicking home) and remove every item, then what've you done is clear a recent app list, not close running applications."
No, it closes the applications.
"The whole point of the way iOS multitasking was design was that you shouldn't have to use a task manager."
No that's wasn't the whole point, but had they succeeded on that aspect there wouldn't be a task manager. There is.
Thus proving that Apple's bogeyman was a lie all along.
Invalidating the marketing claim that the iPad would be the computer for the rest of us, the device that solves the usability problems that plague desktops, the solution to the problems that the Mac claimed to solve decades ago but apparently failed to.
Yes, and the same people who cheat their way through school cheat their way through life. For the most part, they are rewarded for it. That's the problem.
What did he contribute to those abortions?
"GPL grants freedoms to end users that BSD does not."
Love to see a list of those freedoms.
"Or rather, certain interpretations of GPLv2 say that it allows these restrictions."
Only one interpretation matters, it is one of those.
You have a limited grasp of the issues. 44K was not chosen as the sample rate for CDs because of the desire for 22K response, it was chosen to balance the difficult demands of data rate and implementation of the analog antialiasing filters required. A 48K sampling rate makes the filters much easier to make at the cost of higher data rates that have become trivial. Regarding your claim that the good listener's ear can hear "qualitative differences in a square wave and a smoother sine wave" "near the limits of resolution", you are totally full of sh*t. Eyesight has variable resolution, so that discussion is pointless anyway. You couldn't prove that handheld displays benefit for 300 dpi except under specific conditions, so suggesting 400 or 500 dpi is easy is really laughable.
"If 150 DPI is visually acceptable, why have I not seen a 150 DPI laser printer since the early 1990s?"
Ignoring that you've never seen a 150 dpi laser printer since they started at 300, the reason is that paper and monitors have different viewing distances. The intended viewing distance is what determines how many dpi are enough. 150 dpi is visually acceptable at typical monitor viewing distances, and considering you replied to a T221 comment, I bet you haven't even experienced using a T221 at normal distances. In order to use one effectively, you have to sit unusually close.
For most people, the important metric is how much it costs them.
"...horse power is a misleading gauge of power, torque is what turns the wheels."
No, horsePOWER is the "gauge of power". Horsepower "turns the wheels" while torque is an intermediate, and ultimately useless, term. This kind of misunderstanding is generally a symptom of trucker mentality.
Yeah, kinda like "nigger" means more than just black, it means anything particularly undesirable, as in "nigger-rigged". Both derive their meaning in the same way, they refer to the original hatred.
"I think if a car that was moving that fast being propelled by four independent motors suddenly found itself being propelled by thrust that was no longer balanced and centered -- I wouldn't want to be down range for quite some distance."
How is that different than having one motor and computer-controlled multi-wheel drive and braking systems?
"Gay" means "lame" only in the sense that homosexuality is "lame". That's where the meaning is derived.
Oddly, when I was a kid, roughly at the same time as you, I remember "you suck" also being a put-down yet I don't remember it having the specific meaning you describe. One could argue that its meaning in that respect is unchanged, just as the meaning for "gay" is unchanged. Make no mistake, calling something gay is negative because of the homosexual connotations.
You need a lesson on what constitutes a CPU.
"Touchscreen phones were pretty much non-existent outside of the Palm and a few Windows Mobile 6 phones until the iPhone came out..."
Outside of the Palm? Windows Mobile 6? Go ahead, bury your head in the sand. Touchscreens were ubiquitous on smartphones before Apple.