My 2011 Mini is more powerful than my 2005 Mac Pro. There aren't many people who need a desktop computer with more guts than the Mac Mini.
They currently max out at 16GB of RAM and have an Intel graphics chip.
There are a lot of people for whom that is a show stopper, yet don't want to dish out over $2000 for a mac pro.
But the only thing between the mini and the pro is the macbooks.
Something about the size of a Shuttle but with the expected Apple quality and slightly more flexability for parts and priced at say twice the price of a mini would prevent me from having to solve that equation with a PC.
Even more than that, a PC from 1980 is still a PC. A keyboard connected to a tablet (which works just fine today), and you have PC that would be the envy of power users from 1980.
Exactly, I use an iPad with the Logitech keyboard cover and it's far more useful and powerful than anything I used in the 80's except it lacks the precision for graphics you could get in autocad (yes autocad is that old, I used it on an 8086 with an amber screen) and there are almost no onboard development tools.
And there is no reason why you cannot attach a tablet to a bigger screen or keyboard or mouse should the need arise. (it doesn't work the other way around though)
Other than that tablets are designed for touch interfaces and make crappy desktops and laptops as a result.
Yes, todays tablets. But in 1980 if you said that PCs would soon be on every office workers desks and within 15 years it would be possible for average people to instantly talk to anyone at a computer almost anywhere in the world they would have been equally puzzled.
And here we are 15 years after that and I bet your mom can now do it with her phone. (Current generation of smartphones is more powerful than the supercomputers of the '80s)
Never say never my friend. My bet is that 15 years from now the "PC" format will be back to the hands of the elite that had them in the early 1990's while everyone else is able to do EVERYTHING with their phone... or watch... or... *sigh* glasses...
... and interests groups that still fight and rationalize the archaic practice of dishing rubber-shit-tasting whale meat as part of a daily breakfast
It is by eating sandwiches in pubs at Saturday lunchtime that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They're not altogether clear what those sins are, and don't want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever sins there are are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.
If there is anything worse than the sandwiches, it is the sausages which sit next to them. Joyless tubes, full of gristle, floating in a sea of something hot and sad, stuck with a plastic pin in the shape of a chefs hat: a memorial, one feels, for some chef who hated the world, and died, forgotten and alone among his cats on a back stair in Stepney.
The sausages are for the ones who know what their sins are and wish to atone for something specific.
-- Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
OK you 3D printing addled technogeeks - here's a challenge:
Figure out how to spool Spam(TM) (the real thing, not the email counterfeit) in a 3D printer. Print out "tiger penises" and "gall bladders". Add some Viagra (TM) to the former and Capsaicin to the latter.
Profit ! And save the world while you're at it. Better than stupid zip guns.
Better idea,
- get a hold of some of this surplus whale meat
- add Ricin
- label as Tiger Penis and Bear Gall Bladder
- find an unscrupulous import/export inspector
- ??
- profit?
((Damn slashdot for now allowing us to modify comments...))
This is why some countries have a charge of perverting the course of justice. Refusing to decrypt a hard drive is no different to destroying evidence.
I think given the fifth amendment it would have to be used very carefully, but to me the idea that you can sit back and laugh at the police because you encrypted a drive seems to contradict the normal rules of evidence.
Firstly the just says the 5th amendment prohibits the government from requiring he provide evidence with which to charge and possibly convict the defendant. That was a fact set in stone.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,"
That's not the same as being ordered to provide access to forensic evidence. (Though if I recall, in some jurisdictions the courts have said that it does cover genetic sampling and it can only be done if the suspect does it voluntarily, I do not understand this interpretation. Your fingerprints and your genetic makeup do not constitute testimony, they are forensic evidence. But then IANAL... so my opinion is worthless...) It would seem that they have more than enough evidence to justify a search warrant, legally there's no difference between a locked filing cabinet and an encrypted hard drive, the problem is that the encrypted hard drive is a lot harder to break into.
Now if I was a judge in this kind of thing I'd be telling the guy that if he helps out and provides access to all the information he will be seen to be cooperating and it would help in sentencing, meanwhile if he refuses to cooperate and forces the court to wait for a decryption he will be seen as unrepentant and therefore subject to a much more severe sentence.
You want to travel AND you want to grow as a developer? Well if you want to travel and enjoy yourself why take work with you. And if you want to grow y our development skills why not stay home and take classes or something.
I'm not sure why this is flamebait, but sadly I'd rather comment than moderate.
I would suggest breaking the time into phases: travel and study. Say spend a month wandering around, then pick a city and settle in for some serious study time.
despite all of opera's hype about a claimed 100+ million users, the real stats from any huge website will tell a different tale: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari dominate the hits, while opera is something like 0.5% That's still impressive, to be there at all, but it's kind of like a Linux desktop. small pressence in the world of webdom
Heavens only knows how accurate that is, but that tells me that Opera isn't even close to the same level of penetration as Linux in the desktop market. There are more Vista users out there than bloody Opera.
Opera users are like Amiga fans, there's only a handful of them, but they're very very loud.
However, this page says that the Opera market share is much higher than 0.5, putting it firmly in the desktop Linux range.... and still only a fraction of Vista.
Not exactly a great selling point "My product is even less popular than Windows Vista"
despite all of opera's hype about a claimed 100+ million users, the real stats from any huge website will tell a different tale: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari dominate the hits, while opera is something like 0.5% That's still impressive, to be there at all, but it's kind of like a Linux desktop. small pressence in the world of webdom
Heavens only knows how accurate that is, but that tells me that Opera isn't even close to the same level of penetration as Linux in the desktop market. There are more Vista users out there than bloody Opera.
Opera users are like Amiga fans, there's only a handful of them, but they're very very loud.
How many Navajo speakers don't speak English? A few thousand at best? Most of them elderly.
That's not the point, but I suspect that those in "the great melting pot" don't get it most of the time.
This is not about money, this is not about showing Star Wars to the non-english speakers of the Navajo nation, the point is to make Navajo relevant to those who have inherited it.
Did english have words for space ships, robots and laser beams 100 years ago?
And English even stole the word "robot" from Czech!
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a crib-house whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James D. Nicoll
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My 2011 Mini is more powerful than my 2005 Mac Pro. There aren't many people who need a desktop computer with more guts than the Mac Mini.
They currently max out at 16GB of RAM and have an Intel graphics chip.
There are a lot of people for whom that is a show stopper, yet don't want to dish out over $2000 for a mac pro.
But the only thing between the mini and the pro is the macbooks.
Something about the size of a Shuttle but with the expected Apple quality and slightly more flexability for parts and priced at say twice the price of a mini would prevent me from having to solve that equation with a PC.
But I couldn't find the MacBook Pro running Windows 8 via Boot Camp.
Get your dirty hands off my macbook!
(It's for testing, it's the only Windows 8 install I have, I swear!)
Except for the fact that they paid more taxes in the US than any other company.
But why let facts get in the way of anti-Apple spin, amiright.
*Looks at sign*
Yes sir, you are in a designated fact-free zone, you may flame at will.
Even more than that, a PC from 1980 is still a PC. A keyboard connected to a tablet (which works just fine today), and you have PC that would be the envy of power users from 1980.
Exactly, I use an iPad with the Logitech keyboard cover and it's far more useful and powerful than anything I used in the 80's except it lacks the precision for graphics you could get in autocad (yes autocad is that old, I used it on an 8086 with an amber screen) and there are almost no onboard development tools.
Perhaps Orion will take care of that...
And there is no reason why you cannot attach a tablet to a bigger screen or keyboard or mouse should the need arise. (it doesn't work the other way around though)
Other than that tablets are designed for touch interfaces and make crappy desktops and laptops as a result.
Yes, todays tablets. But in 1980 if you said that PCs would soon be on every office workers desks and within 15 years it would be possible for average people to instantly talk to anyone at a computer almost anywhere in the world they would have been equally puzzled.
And here we are 15 years after that and I bet your mom can now do it with her phone. (Current generation of smartphones is more powerful than the supercomputers of the '80s)
Never say never my friend. My bet is that 15 years from now the "PC" format will be back to the hands of the elite that had them in the early 1990's while everyone else is able to do EVERYTHING with their phone... or watch... or ... *sigh* glasses...
I've thought a lot about this exact point. I, too, would like to see Apple come out with less expensive and expandable systems.
This.
Something between the mini and the pro where it's possible for us geeks to replace or upgrade drives and memory would be nice.
... and interests groups that still fight and rationalize the archaic practice of dishing rubber-shit-tasting whale meat as part of a daily breakfast
It is by eating sandwiches in pubs at Saturday lunchtime that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They're not altogether clear what those sins are, and don't want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever sins there are are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.
If there is anything worse than the sandwiches, it is the sausages which sit next to them. Joyless tubes, full of gristle, floating in a sea of something hot and sad, stuck with a plastic pin in the shape of a chefs hat: a memorial, one feels, for some chef who hated the world, and died, forgotten and alone among his cats on a back stair in Stepney.
The sausages are for the ones who know what their sins are and wish to atone for something specific.
-- Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
OK you 3D printing addled technogeeks - here's a challenge:
Figure out how to spool Spam(TM) (the real thing, not the email counterfeit) in a 3D printer. Print out "tiger penises" and "gall bladders". Add some Viagra (TM) to the former and Capsaicin to the latter.
Profit ! And save the world while you're at it. Better than stupid zip guns.
Better idea,
- get a hold of some of this surplus whale meat
- add Ricin
- label as Tiger Penis and Bear Gall Bladder
- find an unscrupulous import/export inspector
- ??
- profit?
we are coming to a point where we can literally grow our foods
Oh dear, have I accidentally set my time machine 10000 years too far into the past? I was supposed to end up in 2013.
Hmm... social media in the cuniform era...
Has chipper.com been registerd?
This one? Not many of those out there, Compaq was struggling by then.
Compaq does not get a lot of love for it's machines from the '80s, but those of us that used them have a certain fondness.
I have a Compaq Transportable. Amber Plasma display and all. I think the processor is a '286.
All the ones I saw were 8086, (I have a clone we bought in asia in 1986, you have to re-seat the daughter boards every time you move it...)
So why do you support this? Because you're an ignorant cretin who can't even begin to THINK about the most basic things in the world.
Oh... if only you had actually been aiming for irony.
You probably forgot to install libmalware.
That was deprecated in favor of libopenmalware ages ago, do try to keep up.
oh oh, gotta go, the webcam is up and... oooooh my....
Pervy Hobbit fancier!
Do you really think Stallman spents time on movies and television ? I really doubt he thinks it is interresting.
I'm sure he doesn't, which is why I'm sure he hasn't noticed.
I am waiting for Stallman to figure out that movies and television shows are not free either.
((Damn slashdot for now allowing us to modify comments...))
This is why some countries have a charge of perverting the course of justice. Refusing to decrypt a hard drive is no different to destroying evidence.
I think given the fifth amendment it would have to be used very carefully, but to me the idea that you can sit back and laugh at the police because you encrypted a drive seems to contradict the normal rules of evidence.
Firstly the just says the 5th amendment prohibits the government from requiring he provide evidence with which to charge and possibly convict the defendant. That was a fact set in stone.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,"
That's not the same as being ordered to provide access to forensic evidence. (Though if I recall, in some jurisdictions the courts have said that it does cover genetic sampling and it can only be done if the suspect does it voluntarily, I do not understand this interpretation. Your fingerprints and your genetic makeup do not constitute testimony, they are forensic evidence. But then IANAL... so my opinion is worthless...) It would seem that they have more than enough evidence to justify a search warrant, legally there's no difference between a locked filing cabinet and an encrypted hard drive, the problem is that the encrypted hard drive is a lot harder to break into.
Now if I was a judge in this kind of thing I'd be telling the guy that if he helps out and provides access to all the information he will be seen to be cooperating and it would help in sentencing, meanwhile if he refuses to cooperate and forces the court to wait for a decryption he will be seen as unrepentant and therefore subject to a much more severe sentence.
And you never hacked a fucking kernel in your life, you silly poseur.
"cd /src/linux && make && make install" isn't hacking.
And this kids is what happens when you start drooling on the keyboard.
Unless you have a big enough bankroll... which I thought was the premise of the whole question.
You want to travel AND you want to grow as a developer? Well if you want to travel and enjoy yourself why take work with you. And if you want to grow y our development skills why not stay home and take classes or something.
I'm not sure why this is flamebait, but sadly I'd rather comment than moderate.
I would suggest breaking the time into phases: travel and study. Say spend a month wandering around, then pick a city and settle in for some serious study time.
Seems like the best of both worlds to me.
despite all of opera's hype about a claimed 100+ million users, the real stats from any huge website will tell a different tale: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari dominate the hits, while opera is something like 0.5% That's still impressive, to be there at all, but it's kind of like a Linux desktop. small pressence in the world of webdom
Usage share of operating systems
Heavens only knows how accurate that is, but that tells me that Opera isn't even close to the same level of penetration as Linux in the desktop market. There are more Vista users out there than bloody Opera.
Opera users are like Amiga fans, there's only a handful of them, but they're very very loud.
However, this page says that the Opera market share is much higher than 0.5, putting it firmly in the desktop Linux range.... and still only a fraction of Vista.
Not exactly a great selling point "My product is even less popular than Windows Vista"
despite all of opera's hype about a claimed 100+ million users, the real stats from any huge website will tell a different tale: IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari dominate the hits, while opera is something like 0.5% That's still impressive, to be there at all, but it's kind of like a Linux desktop. small pressence in the world of webdom
Usage share of operating systems
Heavens only knows how accurate that is, but that tells me that Opera isn't even close to the same level of penetration as Linux in the desktop market. There are more Vista users out there than bloody Opera.
Opera users are like Amiga fans, there's only a handful of them, but they're very very loud.
How many Navajo speakers don't speak English? A few thousand at best? Most of them elderly.
That's not the point, but I suspect that those in "the great melting pot" don't get it most of the time.
This is not about money, this is not about showing Star Wars to the non-english speakers of the Navajo nation, the point is to make Navajo relevant to those who have inherited it.
Did english have words for space ships, robots and laser beams 100 years ago?
And English even stole the word "robot" from Czech!
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a crib-house whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” – James D. Nicoll