Well, there was a small window of time where he was right, but that's changed probably in the last 1-1.5 years. 4GB config on MBP is $100, you can find it or less than that from newegg and the like, and Dell was selling theirs for only $50.
Ok that's great, but what about keyboard users? They don't see all the sub links. And nav menus are hardly a proof that the net doesn't need javascript. I suppose in 5 years we won't need to do the same things with JS (form validation, rich text editing, zebra striping, animation, etc.), but since we're not in the future, I think it's safe to say that there are some legitimate uses for JS.
Joel at Joel on Software wrote an article I remember reading that said starting over is more often than not a bad idea. For one thing, it's counterproductive as you spend exorbitant amounts of time building things that you've already built at some point. Another thing is that this is probably also a theory that will ultimately lead to "leaky abstraction". This new internet will inevitably run into problems because users do unexpected things. I can't remember who, but someone once said (Perelman perhaps?), that as technology becomes more secure, more technology becomes available to break it.
All that being said though, there are perhaps building new technologies. This is why scientists have been researching internet 2. Faster speeds, better securty, etc.: all good. However, we need to compromise and integrate old and new.
Will the controller rely on the accuracy or efficiency? I don't want my finances calculated rightly 99.9% (or in the case of this chip 99%) of the time.
Ok, so not only do I have to give up efficiency in the chip itself, but now my efficiency suffers because I now have to determine which chips are useful for which applications. I don't want to have to start thinking about whether or not I plan to use my new laptop for anything requiring accuracy greater than such and such a percentage. I suppose this might be effective for niche markets, but it seems messy if you try to make it part of all computing platforms.
According to, "What Color is Your Parachute?" 2009 ed., around 4% of people using solely the internet to search for jobs successfully find employment. The number is up to 7% for tech jobs. There are still much more effective ways to search for jobs, though not necessarily more convenient.
"By no means is the one you're seeing our favicon final; it was a first step to a more unified set of icons. However, we really value feedback from users and want to hear your ideas that we may have missed."
I wouldn't say it's crap, necessarily (I'd try it out first), but it is definitely late in the game, and doesn't seem to offer enough to make it really worth selling my iPhone for.
Wow, talk about amazing battery life. Currently, it gets one, and they hope to bump it to three! This thing would make a horrible keyboard, remote, etc. However, this could make a nice email checker (not sure for who though because my grandmother uses her computer constantly).
Basically this thing contains the fewest number of marks that can be etched onto a ruler and still allow you measure all shorter (integer distances)? This is the kind of efficiency that most people would call stupid or way more complicated than it needs to be.
Worst ruler ever!
Ok, so not everyone is likely to post on the Apple forums, but 300 messages? This sounds like it's an awful lot of noise coming from an awfully small group of people considering how large Apple's marketshare is.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't it "Monday detail?" With reference to a case of the Mondays.
Quantum physics actually.
AHA! There's the problem-diebold is making these things. They can't even reliably tell which button you press.
Seriously, the banking system is way overcomplicated and ineffective. My IM conversations are more secure than this.
Opensource Financial anyone?
You're all a sad group of people! I, frankly, don't have time to be achievement whoring on /.. That's what WOW is for.
Well, there was a small window of time where he was right, but that's changed probably in the last 1-1.5 years. 4GB config on MBP is $100, you can find it or less than that from newegg and the like, and Dell was selling theirs for only $50.
Can you develop some software that interprets the data inside the doodles? I'm sure they're just coded notes!
It has resizable text; no squinting required.
Ok that's great, but what about keyboard users? They don't see all the sub links. And nav menus are hardly a proof that the net doesn't need javascript. I suppose in 5 years we won't need to do the same things with JS (form validation, rich text editing, zebra striping, animation, etc.), but since we're not in the future, I think it's safe to say that there are some legitimate uses for JS.
Yup, I can make IE7 break layouts 30 times faster, or I can make it crash 30 times faster, all kinds of things IE7 can do WAY faster than safari...
Two words: user stylesheets. If you don't want fonts, it's easy to force all content to render in whatever font you want (from a user standpoint).
Joel at Joel on Software wrote an article I remember reading that said starting over is more often than not a bad idea. For one thing, it's counterproductive as you spend exorbitant amounts of time building things that you've already built at some point. Another thing is that this is probably also a theory that will ultimately lead to "leaky abstraction". This new internet will inevitably run into problems because users do unexpected things. I can't remember who, but someone once said (Perelman perhaps?), that as technology becomes more secure, more technology becomes available to break it.
All that being said though, there are perhaps building new technologies. This is why scientists have been researching internet 2. Faster speeds, better securty, etc.: all good. However, we need to compromise and integrate old and new.
Will the controller rely on the accuracy or efficiency? I don't want my finances calculated rightly 99.9% (or in the case of this chip 99%) of the time.
Ok, so not only do I have to give up efficiency in the chip itself, but now my efficiency suffers because I now have to determine which chips are useful for which applications. I don't want to have to start thinking about whether or not I plan to use my new laptop for anything requiring accuracy greater than such and such a percentage. I suppose this might be effective for niche markets, but it seems messy if you try to make it part of all computing platforms.
According to, "What Color is Your Parachute?" 2009 ed., around 4% of people using solely the internet to search for jobs successfully find employment. The number is up to 7% for tech jobs. There are still much more effective ways to search for jobs, though not necessarily more convenient.
If you don't know what ./ is your nerd card will be rm'd from your pocket immediately
You can't say that because if there was no Philosophy our entire universe would be different. We changed it by using Philosophy.
Education, however, is a place where Apple holds a substantial portion of the market, and is the market.
"By no means is the one you're seeing our favicon final; it was a first step to a more unified set of icons. However, we really value feedback from users and want to hear your ideas that we may have missed."
Google: even our logo is beta.
I wouldn't say it's crap, necessarily (I'd try it out first), but it is definitely late in the game, and doesn't seem to offer enough to make it really worth selling my iPhone for.
Wow, talk about amazing battery life. Currently, it gets one, and they hope to bump it to three! This thing would make a horrible keyboard, remote, etc. However, this could make a nice email checker (not sure for who though because my grandmother uses her computer constantly).
-Citation Needed
"No definitions were found for condescendation."
Me thinks you meant condescension.
"If there is hope, it lies in the proles..."
Parent was saying that the content in the windows is done with XML/XSLT, not the window itself.
Basically this thing contains the fewest number of marks that can be etched onto a ruler and still allow you measure all shorter (integer distances)? This is the kind of efficiency that most people would call stupid or way more complicated than it needs to be. Worst ruler ever!
Ok, so not everyone is likely to post on the Apple forums, but 300 messages? This sounds like it's an awful lot of noise coming from an awfully small group of people considering how large Apple's marketshare is.
(Still think removing FW was premature BTW)