Modern operating systems do that automatically anyway, as long as there's free RAM. It'd probably be less expensive to add another 32-64GB of RAM to your PC, than it would be to buy dedicated hardware to do that job.
This doesn't help you when you need:
1: Access to a file or files totaling more than 64 GB (or however much ram you have for caching) 2: Files not yet cached
Mostly I'm thinking games is where FS caching is less than optimum, since some of the resource files can easily exceed the amount of system memory available and if you like being competitive, the faster you load the game the better... and the FS cache won't help you there.
You also run into the problem of most motherboards don't support more than 8 GB (for older MB's), 16 GB for semi-newer MB or 32GB for some of the newest boards. Only a select few will support more than 64GB and those are the expensive boards, but to be fair most anyone considering an SSD purchase and/or 64 GB of RAM is likely to have a board like that anyway.
I run 24 GB on my system, and I don't see the FS cache filling up available RAM like I think it should. I'm not sure if that means I'm using less than 24 GB of data regularly (unlikely, since I play a lot of games and do large photo work), or the FS caching isn't designed around caching that much data and kind of tapers off after 8 or 10 GB.
The best euthanasia would be being trampled to death by a harem of attractive woman.
Might need something work for women and people who don't like women; and its not as painless, but it'll be awesome.
I'm thinking this is fairly easy to accomplish. Just go marry several attractive women, promise them things their heart desires, gather them all in one room and tell them it was a joke and you married all of them at the same time just to be a dick. I suspect trampling is going to be in your future.
Completely unable to refute a single point, so that is your response. About as much as I expected from someone who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about!
Ahh so you are unable to refute it and instead belittle it and use revisionist history to claim you didn't REALLY mean there was no economy, but you REALLY meant a POOR economy. WTG!
You are such an idiot. It would be impossible to satisfy your criteria since it would continually change, just like every other person who argues on the internet and loses. Way to be unique, just like everyone else.
Actually it's pretty clear you have no idea what you are talking about, and have not been keeping up with current events, at all.
Drugs and the silk road are a big thing with bitcoins. Most of the rest of what can be bought with them is various forms of hosting. There are very, very few real-world goods that they are useful for.
Since I've already provided you with links to show that what you are saying is complete and utter bullshit, I won't provide them here again. It's very, very clear that you have absolutely no idea about anything you're talking. You keep spouting this nonsense and are unable to provide a shred of evidence to back up anything you say, whereas I have provided you with several links and can provide hundreds more to backup what I say. You are just pulling it out of your ass and hoping people believe you.
Eclipse MC generates bitcoins, not dollars, from a quick reading of that site. I see nothing there about directly earning non BTC currencies.
Again, this shows how unintelligent and misinformed you are. You are even incapable of reading that Eclipse MC pays out in PPUSD as well as BTC. It's pretty obvious on the site.
You are woefully misinformed about the exchange and other site stuff. Let's see -
Again, you show how ignorant you are: Lets see indeed:
Mt Gox. hack
Yep, your one and only example.
Mybitcoin hack/fraud (was that resolved?)
Not an exchange.
Tradehill/Dwolla chargeback fraud
This is a Dwolla issue, not a Tradehill issue. It has nothing to do with BTC other than the fact that it happened to be BTC that brought this to light. It could just have easily been any other currency.
bitomat.pl disappeared overnight.
And then came back. Although I will grant you this was also sketchy, score one out of 100 for you, yay!
And as for features, well one of the features I actually like about htings like credit cards is chargeback, as a consumer, so biitcoin loses out as a method of exchange on that.
So what? One of the things I like about cash is that I don't have to provide personal details for the transaction. It's also one of the things I like about BTC. So Credit Cards lose out as a method of exchange on that.
And another thing is the deflationary nature of it - I fundamentally disagree that this is a good thing.
Again, so what? Your already obviously misinformed "opinions" of everything else BTC related are suppose to provide what in the terms of credibility for this? That's right, absolutely zero. You can't even get basic facts about BTC straight, why on earth should anyone listen to you about something as complex as deflationary currencies?
So I suggest that you are the one that's uninformed and trying to whitewash. Accuse me of being a bitcoin hater all you like, but uninformed I am not.
Suggest all you want but you are obviously, clearly and demonstrably wrong on nearly EVERY SINGLE POINT you've made in this post and others. You've provided absolutely nothing to back up your claims and your claims have been and can continually be shown to be 100% incorrect, yet you persist. Again, it either makes you incredibly stupid or you just want to spread FUD.
Paypal isn't a currency, it's a payment mechanism.
FAIL
But your stupid arguments are that you can't spend BTC. Doesn't matter if it's a currency or not. You can't spend PPUSD either, yet somehow it manages to survive.
Oh I dunno, maybe if the most of the people who are actually enthusiasts (see bitcoin forums for instance) used it to buy and sell something other than Euro or USD that would be a start.
At the moment actual purchases are rare so far as I can tell, most of the adherents seem to be hoarding in anticipation of a perpetually rising value. There is a large transaction volume daily, but it's the exchanges that drive it.
And you, once again, woefully misinformed, stupid or intentionally spreading FUD. I honestly can't tell which, but probably a lot of the second, some of the first and a bit of the last thrown in for good measure.
This is exactly the problem with BitCoin: you can't actually use it as a currency. You have to liquidate it in order to spend it, meaning that you have to treat it as an asset rather than a currency. However, as an asset it has no intrinsic value because you can't do anything with it except trade it.
By this logic, you can't buy anything with Paypal either, yet somehow Paypal manages to survive.
Not from what I've been reading. The money has to go via various other services and exchanges just to get to your bank account, with a variety of fees imposed along the way, and delays of up to several days.
Easy enough if the bitcoins were 'free' I suppose, but not so much for anyone thinking of them as anything other than a scam.
So I've refrained from replying to a number of your ill-informed posts. Everything you've posted so far in this article has been either an outright lie or you are so woefully misinformed as to be almost criminal. In either case, you should really purchase the smallest of clues before you continue to post about Bitcoins, because it's clear you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
A small sampling:
Your claim that only drugs and other illicit items can be purchased with bitcoins. Demonstrably false, too many to list. Your claim that the money has to got to various other services and exchanges to get to your bank account. Demonstrably false, one example is direct to PP mining on the Eclipse pool (https://eclipsemc.com) Your claim of various exchange-related losses, scandals and frauds. Also false. MtGox is the only exchange related issue. Even if true, this is different than other exchanges, how? Your claim about the lack of features of a decent monetary system. Such as?
Etc... ad nauseum.
Please try to be at least marginally informed before posting. I know this is/. and all, but come on.
Good reply. The GP is one of those people who think that we should never advance ourselves because we can't do everything perfectly the first time, so we should just stay where we are. It's people like the GP that have kept us from going to space en masse and held the world back from advancing. They just can't understand that it just because you can't do everything at once to improve a system doesn't mean you shouldn't make incremental improvements. It's a sad, pathetic existence to be like the GP, always trapped in the past and unable to even comprehend the meaning of simple changes.
"Illegal generation of bitcoins? Not as far as the bitcoin system is concerned."
"The unauthorized use of computer systems is a problem"
How are these things not connected in your mind? Some of the currency is being generated illegally. No, the bitcoin system doesn't know or care. This is a further strike against it.
To this, I have only one thing to say... in a picture... which is worth a thousand words:
I think the idea is that you'll give up your home Internet and pay for a mobile data plan. To run big downloads such as a movie, a large game, or an operating system upgrade, you'll go to a restaurant and use its Wi-Fi. But seriously, I've been told mobile broadband is a lot cheaper in mainland Europe than in the United States.
Wow, I can't imagine downloading the ~100GB - ~300 GB a month I use at home over a Wifi and only when I go to those places. I have automated processes running at home that handle that for me, I dont' want to sit at Starbucks for hours and hours downloading crap over a slow Wifi.
Yeah... replacing a wired broadband with mobile is not even vaguely practical. It would definitely have to be in tandem with wired broadband and in my experience it's not that affordable in Europe, though I've not been to every market in Europe of course. Again, if it's more than a couple bucks a month it's not affordable, it's excessive.
On top of that, your speeds are slower typically and caps are lower. Not really practical in any sense to replace it, price not withstanding.
litigant Noun: A person involved in a lawsuit. Adjective: Involved in a lawsuit: "the parties litigant".
Hey thanks for your lesson in how to not look something up before obnoxiously correcting someone though.
And you would unfortunately be wrong. So hey, thanks for the lesson on how to look stuff up before obnoxiously correcting someone, but please learn to look something up and properly understand WHAT you've looked up.
Litigant is typically applied to the two (or more) parties involved, not the lawyers handling the legal aspects of the case.
Don't hate because you look like an idiot on the internet. But go on and hate because someone made you look stupid, it just reinforces the fact that you are, in fact, an idiot.
So is this the official turning point of Apple from a product innovator to a run of the mill "I'm going to sue anyone and everyone so I don't have to put money into R&D to make better products!" company?
Seems like it... when was the last time Apple came out with something innovative? iPad 1 I'd say. iPhone 5 is shaping up to be more of the same, iPad 2 is more of the same. Macbooks, more of the same... Can't think of anything recently that Apple came up with that others aren't doing already or doing better in some cases.
The iPad 2 is so lackluster that Apple is scared the Tab and Xoom might prove to be more popular with consumers since it is at least on par and in some cases exceeds the iPad 2 in functionality.
It's a shame Motorola and Samsung are charging so much... if they dropped the price by a couple hundred bucks...
I already have a tablet with HDMI output that I can plug into a big screen. It has a USB host mode, so I can connect it to 1TB+ worth of hard drive space, as well as full sized keyboards, mice (though I could equally do those with Bluetooth) etc.
The one I have now has a 1GHz dual core cpu and an OS that makes it feel instantly responsive. Later this year, quad core versions of the same CPU will be available.
What can your full-size box offer me that I don't already have?
Yeah, you go ahead and try to get any real work done on that baby. Won't happen anytime soon. What can my full size box do that your little toy can't? Lets just bring up a brief list:
1. Have multiple windows open and displayed at once. 2. Connect to more than one screen. 3. Output that screen in a non-crappy resolution (Sorry Charlie, but 1920x1080p is a crappy resolution, don't even try to pass that off as anything but barely adequate) 4. Play high quality games. Sorry, Cut-The-Rope and Words with Friends are not high quality games. Popular? Yes. High Quality? Not even close. 5. Compile large projects in less than a glacial age 6. Write a novel. Sorry, taking 10 months to do what takes two weeks on a PC doesn't count. 7. Plug in all sorts of interesting peripherals.
I can go on for quite awhile.
There's a reason the Mouse/Keyboard/Screen model has basically not changed in 30 years (ok, the addition of the mouse to the screen/keyboard model) - because it's the most efficient means of input for a great majority of things.
Will a new input method come along at some point? Probably, but that point is a long, long way off. Voice recognition? It will have to be flawless or so near to flawless as to be almost indistinguishable. Along with that voice recognition will have to come cognitive abilities to divine meaning and intention - that's even FARTHER off than basic flawless voice recognition.
Touchless interface you way? Probably not... at least anytime soon. Muscle memory typically requires a resistive force of some sort - a touchless interface does not offer this and thus hinders input in high volumes. There are probably ways around this and new methods to compensate or replace what's lost, but those methods and procedures are a long way off.
Direct neural input? Now you're talking... but you're talking decades in the future.
No... sorry, your little tablet is not and probably never will be suited for real work. Tablets are great toys and excel in some areas of business that is tailored to their form factor, portability and input method. Unfortunately, the real work works on data input and output methods not suited to the tablet. The tablet is the netbook of the current technological generation. It's flashy and cool, but will eventually fade to a device that has it's place in the hierarchy of technological goodness and tools that you pull out to fit a given situation. The PC is also in this hierarchy and is not going anywhere anytime soon.
May I be allowed to say: holy fucking shit. 250,000 patents in one phone? Insane. Absolutely insane. The patent system is supposed to be used so a new device has maybe a handful of patents in it. Quite often, only one. Because very few inventions are really novel and deserving of protection. But everyone on/. should know this already, and I'm just treading old ground.
I'll end this by just saying: fuck lawyers. There is good reason why so many people despise and hate them, and our present patent system is an excellent example. Leeches, most of 'em (to be fair, a few are alright... but very, very few.)
Lawyers are a consequence of bad law, not the other way around. Lawyers are not the problem for the most part... it's the people you elected to office and passed the laws that make lawyers necessary.
Indirectly, it's more your fault than the lawyers.
When you speak about other items do you always use the generic term? Is it the car or is it the Acura? Is it the bike or is it the Cervelo?
Mostly, yes and most everyone I know does the same. I never call my car the VW or the Dodge unless I need to specifically differentiate between the two for some purpose. But I sure as hell don't say the "Dodge D150 RAM" when I need to differentiate. If there was some specific reason to differentiate his monitor between any generic monitor and an Apple monitor, then I could see the case for stating it's an Apple monitor. But for the purposes of the article, there was no reason except to be pretentious.
I myself refer to my computers as the macbook and the dell. I don't specify that it's a macbook PRO and that it's 13". I also don't give specs on the Dell and I could just as easily call it the office or the windows laptop.
I think that calling something a macbook, imac, ipad or iphone is a reflection of a great branding effort from Apple.
And if he had just said "Macbook" instead of "Macbook Air" then I'd agree with you. But tacking on "Air" is like tacking on 27" Apple to the monitor reference. I agree it's part of a greater branding effort from Apple and it shows why people who buy Apple buy into the bullshit and are a bunch of sheep who can't understand why people who aren't under the spell see what Apple products really are: Quality made products... nothing more. There's nothing special about an Apple product. It's just a well made product, like many of the other well made products. iOS is showing it's age, but beyond that there's nothing unusual, good or bad, about Apple products. So differentiating them when writing an article like the author did is nothing but pretentiousness.
There are quite a few other household items that are called by their brand.. sometime not even the right brand but just the dominant one(kleenex). My PS3 is a ps3.. not a console even if it would be faster to pronounce.
But again, you aren't saying the "Playstation 3 60 GB" or the "Xbox 360 20GB" or even just "Xbox 360" unless you are differentiating between the original and the 360. You aren't going around saying "Kleenex UltraSoft with Aloe."
Adding the size spec 27" or qualifying macbook with macbook air does seem to be going out of his way. There is currently this aura that Apple product are just better and quite frankly I agree and I myself own a few of them. I wonder how many people cal their cars a Kia instead of just a car vs those that own a Mercedes?
Just better than what? They are quality products, I agree... but they aren't exceptional. There are other quality products out there, some better than Apple, many worse. But that is really immaterial, there was no need to put that kind of crap in the article. I doubt few people call their cars "Kia" instead of "the car" unless there's a specific need. But yes, I would imagine there are more that call it the Mercedes, and those idiots would be just as big douchebags as the author of the article for saying 27" Apple Monitor.
You do realize that you look like a much bigger asshole for turning an offhanded comment into such a big deal?
The only thing worse than a fan of Apple products is a person who goes off their head the moment they see someone using or mentioning Apple products. And "Fanboi"? Really? Holy shit, grow up.
It's not an offhanded comment. It's the author being a pretentious prick, just like every other Apple user. This is me expounding on the fact.
You, Mr. AC, are also a giant asshole for posting as AC.
I know this is completely off topic, but pretentious assholes like this writer are the reason people hate you Apple Fanboi idiots.
When I woke up this morning, I was just a writer and tech investor, tucked behind the warm glow of my 27-inch Apple monitor.
Did you really need to specify it was a 27" APPLE monitor? Did it add anything to that sentence, other than to underscore you're a prick? No, it didn't. The author could just as easily have said "the warm glow of my monitor." and had the same effect. But instead he had to underscore it was an APPLE monitor... like it was something SPECIAL and UNIQUE! Like he was COOL for having an Apple.
On a recent morning, my wife was busy with several work related tasks on her Macbook Air when our two year-old daughter
And the author does it again... couldn't just say "Laptop" or "Computer," but had to say Macbook Air! Again, like it was unique or special. News flash! Lots of people have those things and they can be acquired by anyone wishing to do so by traveling to your nearest web browser, Apple Store, Best Buy or other purveyor of overpriced shiny shit.
So just a note, it's exactly this kind of shit that makes people who haven't fallen under the spell of bullshit that Jobs has convinced hipster idiots that Apple products are so cool that they need to be identified separately from everything else. You are unique for using Apple Products, just like the other ten million (or however many) people who use the exact same product.
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Modern operating systems do that automatically anyway, as long as there's free RAM. It'd probably be less expensive to add another 32-64GB of RAM to your PC, than it would be to buy dedicated hardware to do that job.
This doesn't help you when you need:
1: Access to a file or files totaling more than 64 GB (or however much ram you have for caching)
2: Files not yet cached
Mostly I'm thinking games is where FS caching is less than optimum, since some of the resource files can easily exceed the amount of system memory available and if you like being competitive, the faster you load the game the better... and the FS cache won't help you there.
You also run into the problem of most motherboards don't support more than 8 GB (for older MB's), 16 GB for semi-newer MB or 32GB for some of the newest boards. Only a select few will support more than 64GB and those are the expensive boards, but to be fair most anyone considering an SSD purchase and/or 64 GB of RAM is likely to have a board like that anyway.
I run 24 GB on my system, and I don't see the FS cache filling up available RAM like I think it should. I'm not sure if that means I'm using less than 24 GB of data regularly (unlikely, since I play a lot of games and do large photo work), or the FS caching isn't designed around caching that much data and kind of tapers off after 8 or 10 GB.
The best euthanasia would be being trampled to death by a harem of attractive woman.
Might need something work for women and people who don't like women; and its not as painless, but it'll be awesome.
I'm thinking this is fairly easy to accomplish. Just go marry several attractive women, promise them things their heart desires, gather them all in one room and tell them it was a joke and you married all of them at the same time just to be a dick. I suspect trampling is going to be in your future.
Yes, you are an EPIC FAIL, totally correct.
Completely unable to refute a single point, so that is your response. About as much as I expected from someone who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about!
Good job for proving me right, thanks!
Ahh so you are unable to refute it and instead belittle it and use revisionist history to claim you didn't REALLY mean there was no economy, but you REALLY meant a POOR economy. WTG!
You are such an idiot. It would be impossible to satisfy your criteria since it would continually change, just like every other person who argues on the internet and loses. Way to be unique, just like everyone else.
Actually it's pretty clear you have no idea what you are talking about, and have not been keeping up with current events, at all.
Drugs and the silk road are a big thing with bitcoins. Most of the rest of what can be bought with them is various forms of hosting. There are very, very few real-world goods that they are useful for.
Since I've already provided you with links to show that what you are saying is complete and utter bullshit, I won't provide them here again. It's very, very clear that you have absolutely no idea about anything you're talking. You keep spouting this nonsense and are unable to provide a shred of evidence to back up anything you say, whereas I have provided you with several links and can provide hundreds more to backup what I say. You are just pulling it out of your ass and hoping people believe you.
Eclipse MC generates bitcoins, not dollars, from a quick reading of that site. I see nothing there about directly earning non BTC currencies.
Again, this shows how unintelligent and misinformed you are. You are even incapable of reading that Eclipse MC pays out in PPUSD as well as BTC. It's pretty obvious on the site.
You are woefully misinformed about the exchange and other site stuff. Let's see -
Again, you show how ignorant you are: Lets see indeed:
Mt Gox. hack
Yep, your one and only example.
Mybitcoin hack/fraud (was that resolved?)
Not an exchange.
Tradehill/Dwolla chargeback fraud
This is a Dwolla issue, not a Tradehill issue. It has nothing to do with BTC other than the fact that it happened to be BTC that brought this to light. It could just have easily been any other currency.
bitomat.pl disappeared overnight.
And then came back. Although I will grant you this was also sketchy, score one out of 100 for you, yay!
And as for features, well one of the features I actually like about htings like credit cards is chargeback, as a consumer, so biitcoin loses out as a method of exchange on that.
So what? One of the things I like about cash is that I don't have to provide personal details for the transaction. It's also one of the things I like about BTC. So Credit Cards lose out as a method of exchange on that.
And another thing is the deflationary nature of it - I fundamentally disagree that this is a good thing.
Again, so what? Your already obviously misinformed "opinions" of everything else BTC related are suppose to provide what in the terms of credibility for this? That's right, absolutely zero. You can't even get basic facts about BTC straight, why on earth should anyone listen to you about something as complex as deflationary currencies?
So I suggest that you are the one that's uninformed and trying to whitewash. Accuse me of being a bitcoin hater all you like, but uninformed I am not.
Suggest all you want but you are obviously, clearly and demonstrably wrong on nearly EVERY SINGLE POINT you've made in this post and others. You've provided absolutely nothing to back up your claims and your claims have been and can continually be shown to be 100% incorrect, yet you persist. Again, it either makes you incredibly stupid or you just want to spread FUD.
Paypal isn't a currency, it's a payment mechanism.
FAIL
But your stupid arguments are that you can't spend BTC. Doesn't matter if it's a currency or not. You can't spend PPUSD either, yet somehow it manages to survive.
Nursie = Double FAIL
Yes NitroWolf, give us the real inside scoop, because so far your posts have been content-free bullshit!
How many times do people need to point out the obvious before people like you stop spreading bullshit?
Well people will stop posting against bitcoin as soon as stupid bitcoin propaganda stops showing up on slashdot.
Post against it all you want... just stop lying about it to bolster your flawed arguments.
Stop reading the articles if you don't like them. Why are you even posting in this thread if you aren't interested in Bitcoin?
Oh I dunno, maybe if the most of the people who are actually enthusiasts (see bitcoin forums for instance) used it to buy and sell something other than Euro or USD that would be a start.
At the moment actual purchases are rare so far as I can tell, most of the adherents seem to be hoarding in anticipation of a perpetually rising value. There is a large transaction volume daily, but it's the exchanges that drive it.
And you, once again, woefully misinformed, stupid or intentionally spreading FUD. I honestly can't tell which, but probably a lot of the second, some of the first and a bit of the last thrown in for good measure.
This is exactly the problem with BitCoin: you can't actually use it as a currency. You have to liquidate it in order to spend it, meaning that you have to treat it as an asset rather than a currency. However, as an asset it has no intrinsic value because you can't do anything with it except trade it.
By this logic, you can't buy anything with Paypal either, yet somehow Paypal manages to survive.
Trivial?
Not from what I've been reading. The money has to go via various other services and exchanges just to get to your bank account, with a variety of fees imposed along the way, and delays of up to several days.
Easy enough if the bitcoins were 'free' I suppose, but not so much for anyone thinking of them as anything other than a scam.
So I've refrained from replying to a number of your ill-informed posts. Everything you've posted so far in this article has been either an outright lie or you are so woefully misinformed as to be almost criminal. In either case, you should really purchase the smallest of clues before you continue to post about Bitcoins, because it's clear you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
A small sampling:
Your claim that only drugs and other illicit items can be purchased with bitcoins. Demonstrably false, too many to list.
Your claim that the money has to got to various other services and exchanges to get to your bank account. Demonstrably false, one example is direct to PP mining on the Eclipse pool (https://eclipsemc.com)
Your claim of various exchange-related losses, scandals and frauds. Also false. MtGox is the only exchange related issue. Even if true, this is different than other exchanges, how?
Your claim about the lack of features of a decent monetary system. Such as?
Etc... ad nauseum.
Please try to be at least marginally informed before posting. I know this is /. and all, but come on.
Good reply. The GP is one of those people who think that we should never advance ourselves because we can't do everything perfectly the first time, so we should just stay where we are. It's people like the GP that have kept us from going to space en masse and held the world back from advancing. They just can't understand that it just because you can't do everything at once to improve a system doesn't mean you shouldn't make incremental improvements. It's a sad, pathetic existence to be like the GP, always trapped in the past and unable to even comprehend the meaning of simple changes.
"Illegal generation of bitcoins? Not as far as the bitcoin system is concerned."
"The unauthorized use of computer systems is a problem"
How are these things not connected in your mind?
Some of the currency is being generated illegally. No, the bitcoin system doesn't know or care. This is a further strike against it.
To this, I have only one thing to say... in a picture... which is worth a thousand words:
Callous Coin Does Not Care
I wish my sites had "No Users!" I'd be very pleased with the "No Users" count of 25 million.
I'm happy when there are 300 active users...
I think the idea is that you'll give up your home Internet and pay for a mobile data plan. To run big downloads such as a movie, a large game, or an operating system upgrade, you'll go to a restaurant and use its Wi-Fi. But seriously, I've been told mobile broadband is a lot cheaper in mainland Europe than in the United States.
Wow, I can't imagine downloading the ~100GB - ~300 GB a month I use at home over a Wifi and only when I go to those places. I have automated processes running at home that handle that for me, I dont' want to sit at Starbucks for hours and hours downloading crap over a slow Wifi.
Yeah... replacing a wired broadband with mobile is not even vaguely practical. It would definitely have to be in tandem with wired broadband and in my experience it's not that affordable in Europe, though I've not been to every market in Europe of course. Again, if it's more than a couple bucks a month it's not affordable, it's excessive.
On top of that, your speeds are slower typically and caps are lower. Not really practical in any sense to replace it, price not withstanding.
There's a secret government project to convert all those servers into Bitcoin Mining Rigs.
You didn't really think consumers were responsible for the shortage of high end AMD graphics cards, did you?
Or perhaps litigant works as well?
Hey thanks for your lesson in how to not look something up before obnoxiously correcting someone though.
And you would unfortunately be wrong. So hey, thanks for the lesson on how to look stuff up before obnoxiously correcting someone, but please learn to look something up and properly understand WHAT you've looked up.
Litigant is typically applied to the two (or more) parties involved, not the lawyers handling the legal aspects of the case.
Don't hate because you look like an idiot on the internet. But go on and hate because someone made you look stupid, it just reinforces the fact that you are, in fact, an idiot.
So is this the official turning point of Apple from a product innovator to a run of the mill "I'm going to sue anyone and everyone so I don't have to put money into R&D to make better products!" company?
Seems like it... when was the last time Apple came out with something innovative? iPad 1 I'd say. iPhone 5 is shaping up to be more of the same, iPad 2 is more of the same. Macbooks, more of the same... Can't think of anything recently that Apple came up with that others aren't doing already or doing better in some cases.
The iPad 2 is so lackluster that Apple is scared the Tab and Xoom might prove to be more popular with consumers since it is at least on par and in some cases exceeds the iPad 2 in functionality.
It's a shame Motorola and Samsung are charging so much... if they dropped the price by a couple hundred bucks...
A tablet also does for those living in a market with affordable mobile broadband.
What planet do you live on, BTW? It sounds nice.
Affordable broadband = free/included with my broadband service.
If I have to pay extra for that access then it's not affordable.
Let me know where that is that offers free 3G/4G, please! Cause I get "free" broadband on my PC already.
I already have a tablet with HDMI output that I can plug into a big screen. It has a USB host mode, so I can connect it to 1TB+ worth of hard drive space, as well as full sized keyboards, mice (though I could equally do those with Bluetooth) etc.
The one I have now has a 1GHz dual core cpu and an OS that makes it feel instantly responsive. Later this year, quad core versions of the same CPU will be available.
What can your full-size box offer me that I don't already have?
Yeah, you go ahead and try to get any real work done on that baby. Won't happen anytime soon. What can my full size box do that your little toy can't? Lets just bring up a brief list:
1. Have multiple windows open and displayed at once.
2. Connect to more than one screen.
3. Output that screen in a non-crappy resolution (Sorry Charlie, but 1920x1080p is a crappy resolution, don't even try to pass that off as anything but barely adequate)
4. Play high quality games. Sorry, Cut-The-Rope and Words with Friends are not high quality games. Popular? Yes. High Quality? Not even close.
5. Compile large projects in less than a glacial age
6. Write a novel. Sorry, taking 10 months to do what takes two weeks on a PC doesn't count.
7. Plug in all sorts of interesting peripherals.
I can go on for quite awhile.
There's a reason the Mouse/Keyboard/Screen model has basically not changed in 30 years (ok, the addition of the mouse to the screen/keyboard model) - because it's the most efficient means of input for a great majority of things.
Will a new input method come along at some point? Probably, but that point is a long, long way off. Voice recognition? It will have to be flawless or so near to flawless as to be almost indistinguishable. Along with that voice recognition will have to come cognitive abilities to divine meaning and intention - that's even FARTHER off than basic flawless voice recognition.
Touchless interface you way? Probably not... at least anytime soon. Muscle memory typically requires a resistive force of some sort - a touchless interface does not offer this and thus hinders input in high volumes. There are probably ways around this and new methods to compensate or replace what's lost, but those methods and procedures are a long way off.
Direct neural input? Now you're talking... but you're talking decades in the future.
No... sorry, your little tablet is not and probably never will be suited for real work. Tablets are great toys and excel in some areas of business that is tailored to their form factor, portability and input method. Unfortunately, the real work works on data input and output methods not suited to the tablet. The tablet is the netbook of the current technological generation. It's flashy and cool, but will eventually fade to a device that has it's place in the hierarchy of technological goodness and tools that you pull out to fit a given situation. The PC is also in this hierarchy and is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Row upon row of mindless litigant bastards that will close ranks when one of their number is befallen by a fatal case of morals or common sense.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Perhaps you mean "litigious?"
May I be allowed to say: holy fucking shit. 250,000 patents in one phone? Insane. Absolutely insane. The patent system is supposed to be used so a new device has maybe a handful of patents in it. Quite often, only one. Because very few inventions are really novel and deserving of protection. But everyone on /. should know this already, and I'm just treading old ground.
I'll end this by just saying: fuck lawyers. There is good reason why so many people despise and hate them, and our present patent system is an excellent example. Leeches, most of 'em (to be fair, a few are alright... but very, very few.)
Lawyers are a consequence of bad law, not the other way around. Lawyers are not the problem for the most part... it's the people you elected to office and passed the laws that make lawyers necessary.
Indirectly, it's more your fault than the lawyers.
Mostly agree with you but then again...
When you speak about other items do you always use the generic term? Is it the car or is it the Acura? Is it the bike or is it the Cervelo?
Mostly, yes and most everyone I know does the same. I never call my car the VW or the Dodge unless I need to specifically differentiate between the two for some purpose. But I sure as hell don't say the "Dodge D150 RAM" when I need to differentiate. If there was some specific reason to differentiate his monitor between any generic monitor and an Apple monitor, then I could see the case for stating it's an Apple monitor. But for the purposes of the article, there was no reason except to be pretentious.
I myself refer to my computers as the macbook and the dell. I don't specify that it's a macbook PRO and that it's 13". I also don't give specs on the Dell and I could just as easily call it the office or the windows laptop.
I think that calling something a macbook, imac, ipad or iphone is a reflection of a great branding effort from Apple.
And if he had just said "Macbook" instead of "Macbook Air" then I'd agree with you. But tacking on "Air" is like tacking on 27" Apple to the monitor reference. I agree it's part of a greater branding effort from Apple and it shows why people who buy Apple buy into the bullshit and are a bunch of sheep who can't understand why people who aren't under the spell see what Apple products really are: Quality made products... nothing more. There's nothing special about an Apple product. It's just a well made product, like many of the other well made products. iOS is showing it's age, but beyond that there's nothing unusual, good or bad, about Apple products. So differentiating them when writing an article like the author did is nothing but pretentiousness.
There are quite a few other household items that are called by their brand.. sometime not even the right brand but just the dominant one(kleenex). My PS3 is a ps3.. not a console even if it would be faster to pronounce.
But again, you aren't saying the "Playstation 3 60 GB" or the "Xbox 360 20GB" or even just "Xbox 360" unless you are differentiating between the original and the 360. You aren't going around saying "Kleenex UltraSoft with Aloe."
Adding the size spec 27" or qualifying macbook with macbook air does seem to be going out of his way. There is currently this aura that Apple product are just better and quite frankly I agree and I myself own a few of them. I wonder how many people cal their cars a Kia instead of just a car vs those that own a Mercedes?
Just better than what? They are quality products, I agree... but they aren't exceptional. There are other quality products out there, some better than Apple, many worse. But that is really immaterial, there was no need to put that kind of crap in the article. I doubt few people call their cars "Kia" instead of "the car" unless there's a specific need. But yes, I would imagine there are more that call it the Mercedes, and those idiots would be just as big douchebags as the author of the article for saying 27" Apple Monitor.
You do realize that you look like a much bigger asshole for turning an offhanded comment into such a big deal?
The only thing worse than a fan of Apple products is a person who goes off their head the moment they see someone using or mentioning Apple products. And "Fanboi"? Really? Holy shit, grow up.
It's not an offhanded comment. It's the author being a pretentious prick, just like every other Apple user. This is me expounding on the fact.
You, Mr. AC, are also a giant asshole for posting as AC.
I know this is completely off topic, but pretentious assholes like this writer are the reason people hate you Apple Fanboi idiots.
When I woke up this morning, I was just a writer and tech investor, tucked behind the warm glow of my 27-inch Apple monitor.
Did you really need to specify it was a 27" APPLE monitor? Did it add anything to that sentence, other than to underscore you're a prick? No, it didn't. The author could just as easily have said "the warm glow of my monitor." and had the same effect. But instead he had to underscore it was an APPLE monitor... like it was something SPECIAL and UNIQUE! Like he was COOL for having an Apple.
On a recent morning, my wife was busy with several work related tasks on her Macbook Air when our two year-old daughter
And the author does it again... couldn't just say "Laptop" or "Computer," but had to say Macbook Air! Again, like it was unique or special. News flash! Lots of people have those things and they can be acquired by anyone wishing to do so by traveling to your nearest web browser, Apple Store, Best Buy or other purveyor of overpriced shiny shit.
So just a note, it's exactly this kind of shit that makes people who haven't fallen under the spell of bullshit that Jobs has convinced hipster idiots that Apple products are so cool that they need to be identified separately from everything else. You are unique for using Apple Products, just like the other ten million (or however many) people who use the exact same product.