Apple's notebooks are currently in 5th place, behind HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Gateway.
Apple's notebooks constantly lag behind in feature set and performance.
You obviously lack reading comprehension. TFA was not talking about current Apple laptops - it was talking about the first Apple laptops. You know, the ones which defined the form-factor of modern laptops? That's why it mentions all previous laptops.
Remember before Apple's first Powerbooks came along? They had crap like trackballs which would hang off the side of the laptop and be stored separately - or no pointer input device at all. Apple put the trackball in front of the keyboard, and used the area to the side as wrist rests. How many laptops today do you see that don't have that configuration (albeit with a trackpad instead of a trackball)? Yet, before Apple's laptops, nobody had that configuration. Quite similar to how Apple changed the whole computing paradigm with the introduction of the first mainstream mouse and GUI system. Today, Linux, Windows, etc - are all more or less based on the original MacOS. And the mouses we use today are based on Apple's approach to the mouse.
To me it seems like LORD OF THE FLIES meets SESEAME STREET!
That sounds totally awesome. I wasn't interested in this show before, but now you put it that way, I think I must watch. How could anybody not want to watch Lord of the Flies meets Sesame Street? It could be even better than Meet the Feebles.
but what people want to know is, will Jake hook up with the blonde or the brunette? And what impact would post-apocalyptic panic have on rural thanksgiving celebrations?"
Executive Gamma: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors? Executive Alpha: 80% likely. Executive Gamma: It will play in Peoria. Executive Beta: Game shows are back!
then it's over the line and I consider it reasonable to levy a fine for such. It's surprising how many people here can't see that.
Why is it surprising? Do you think that most people should be as stupid as you, and think that accessing a resource that allows itself to be accessed is worthy of a fine? Tell me, why is it "over the line" to use a public access point in public? If they did not want it to be used, then they could have denied access.
I find it surprising that anybody lacks enough common sense to argue that this should be an offence or worthy of a fine.
The genie is out of the bottle and cat is out of the bag....
But is the cat out of the bottle? Is the genie out of the bag? Have you counted your ducks before they have hatched? Have the cows come home to roost? Are all the chickens lined up in a row? Have the gerbils
Why would you use Lightscribe? The results look crap, and it is sloooooow to burn the labels. Why not just get inkjet printable discs, and print better looking labels in a fraction of the time?
The original post said "12 bucks for a spindle." Now, you link to someone selling 10 discs for $15.99, and think it's a good price? It's not. It's a rip-off. Note that when people say "spindle," they usually mean 50 or 100 discs, not 10. And even with your 10-disc "spindle" you still aren't getting it for $12.
Huh? This is a discussion about some guy's comments about Open Source. "Value" has many other meanings apart from the economic meaning. In fact, it originally would have not been an economic term. Who are you to dictate that we can only talk about economics in this thread?
Yes, I have. But economics isn't the only force in the world. People who only think in terms of money are very narrow-minded, and come up with crazy ideas. besides, much of economics is bullshit.
Yet this extremely useful resource is free. Why? Because it isn't scarce. Scarcity is a necessary component for something to have economic value.
See, you just proved my point. Just because it isn't scarce, doesn't mean it isn't valuable. Economic value isn't the only type of value. The post I was responding to did not specify "monetary value." It's people only thinking in this way that is larging screwing the world up. The best things in life are free, as the cliche goes.
For an item to have value, it must have utility and scarcity.
Bullshit. For an item to have value, it simply must be of value to someone. This usually comes in the form of it being useful. There is no requirement for it to be scarce. There's not even a requirement for it to be useful - some things are valuable to people just for aesthetic reasons, not practical reasons.
Where exactly do you get this strange idea from that things have to be useful and scarce to be valuable? Reality contradicts it.
It'll just take Apple to license their patents and place an order for 105,000,000 OLED keys...
Hey, I want more keys too, but I don't think I need more than 200 keys on my board. 100 million would be somewhat unmanageable, even for AutoCAD users. Besides, wouldn't Apple rather design a single-button keyboard?
Anti-war politicians utterly refusing to speak of the consequences of US actions should make any human sick.
But they never wanted the invasion in the first place. Suddenly they are to blame for the consequences, when this never would have happened if they were listened to before the war. What about the same standards for those who pushed to go to war? They never spoke of the consequences. It was supposed to be an easy war, where we would be greeted with flowers as liberators. Even after the war, we were supposed to believe that Iraq is a happy, burgeoning democracy.
Why doesn't it also make you sick that all those people who talk about staying in Iraq never talk about the consequences of staying? There will bve violence either way. You seem to believe that the US occupation is somehow stopping violence. There is no evidence of this, there's tons of violence right now, much of it inspired by the occupation. Do you have any definitive evidence to show that violence would increase after a withdrawal?
I think the final estimate of who was producing crap here, is best summed up with the headline.
PC World Brings Editor Back, Removes CEO
Uhhh, what? how does a headline about a personal political feud determine the quality of a magazine article? Wouldn't the actual quality of articles the articles be more relevant?
Anyways, you really don't get to be editor in chief by running crap,
What the fuck? PC World constantly publishes crap. There are many editors who publish shit, and it's often rewarded. It's more likely that PC World was offended by a push for higher standards, so they could continue in their usual lazy way.
All you have to do is look at the actual articles in question. They are absolute shit. There is no way they can be seen as quality writing, or something worthy of being published. It's like they were written by a two-year-old.
Well, that's either a highly unusual police force, or you are looking at them with rose-tinted glasses. most cops really aren't decent. They don't have a good sense of ethics, and don't believe in innocence until proven guilty. Quite the opposite, they believe they are always right about who is a criminal. Most cops will take any opportunity available to inflict violence on a suspect. Most are willing to lie or exaggerate events in order to incarcerate someone they dopn't like.
Those who join the force as decent human beings usually leave, or the job drives them crooked. Honest people don't last very long as cops.
I imagine your perception of them is shaped by the role you were playing - they treated you differently because cooperating with you was part of their job. So, you only saw their good sides, not what they were really like. That's one thing cops are good at - creating a good public face to cover up their crimes. They are expert liars and deceivers.
So, where would you find statistics on that? There are no hard numbers, but all you have to do is observe how cops behave in the real world, and you'll see that most of them aren't shining examples of humanity.
If you used a proxy to cache YouTube videos, it would hardly be an issue. Because of the viral nature of YouTube, a surprising number of people will be watching the same videos. Especially in an group like soldiers in Iraq- where people are living closely together, and discussing things together, and have little contact with the outside world. So, word about a popular video is spread rapidly among soldiers. The proxy could download the video once, and then be played back thousands of times to soldiers without using any more bandwidth. For the entertainment value and stress relief, that's an incredibly good bang-for-the-buck from the bandwidth.
It is a waste of taxpayer resources to have GIs visiting sites such as YouTube, MTV, etc., as these sites are not mission essential.
You can't be serious.
I guess GIs should not be allowed to have any reading material, and music. No DVDs, either. No recreation time. After all, none of those things are "mission essential." The only thing they should be allowed to read is operations manuals.
Yeah, I'm sure that's going to make for happy troops. It's so great to ask these soldiers to supposedly defend America's freedom, while not allowing them to have any of that freedom. Makes total sense. Won't cause lower morale at all. Will help recruiting efforts immensely.
Operational security prohibits visiting any web site that permits posting of messages, or in this case, videos.
By this logic, they shouldn't be allowed to write any letters home, either. Do you have some pathological hatred for humanity?
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You obviously lack reading comprehension. TFA was not talking about current Apple laptops - it was talking about the first Apple laptops. You know, the ones which defined the form-factor of modern laptops? That's why it mentions all previous laptops.
Remember before Apple's first Powerbooks came along? They had crap like trackballs which would hang off the side of the laptop and be stored separately - or no pointer input device at all. Apple put the trackball in front of the keyboard, and used the area to the side as wrist rests. How many laptops today do you see that don't have that configuration (albeit with a trackpad instead of a trackball)? Yet, before Apple's laptops, nobody had that configuration. Quite similar to how Apple changed the whole computing paradigm with the introduction of the first mainstream mouse and GUI system. Today, Linux, Windows, etc - are all more or less based on the original MacOS. And the mouses we use today are based on Apple's approach to the mouse.
That sounds totally awesome. I wasn't interested in this show before, but now you put it that way, I think I must watch. How could anybody not want to watch Lord of the Flies meets Sesame Street? It could be even better than Meet the Feebles.
Executive Gamma: It's funny but is it going to get them off their tractors?
Executive Alpha: 80% likely.
Executive Gamma: It will play in Peoria.
Executive Beta: Game shows are back!
It featured Common Gateway Interface? That seems rather unusual.
There was obviously a lot of advances in CGI between Tron and The Abyss.Perhaps there were, but I'm still trying to work out what Common Gateway Interface has to do with making movies.
7 years is an unusually long phone conversation. I'd be more worried about your bills, they must be astronomical!
But what difference does it make if it's pictures? 2GB is 2GB, regardless of the source.
I know it's a word. But I'm astounded as to why it was used in this context. Did the person even know what the word means?
Seinfeld is the greatest TV show ever??? In which miserable reality is that true?
Why is it surprising? Do you think that most people should be as stupid as you, and think that accessing a resource that allows itself to be accessed is worthy of a fine? Tell me, why is it "over the line" to use a public access point in public? If they did not want it to be used, then they could have denied access.
I find it surprising that anybody lacks enough common sense to argue that this should be an offence or worthy of a fine.
But is the cat out of the bottle? Is the genie out of the bag? Have you counted your ducks before they have hatched? Have the cows come home to roost? Are all the chickens lined up in a row? Have the gerbils
been lubricated?*raises hand*
I'm not sure how anyone serious about burning discs can not have heard of Taiyo Yuden. Or were you just being sarcastic?
By the way, it's "your hand." Writing "you're" is a contraction for "you are," while "your" is the posessive.
Why would you use Lightscribe? The results look crap, and it is sloooooow to burn the labels. Why not just get inkjet printable discs, and print better looking labels in a fraction of the time?
Are you even reading along with the rest of us?
The original post said "12 bucks for a spindle." Now, you link to someone selling 10 discs for $15.99, and think it's a good price? It's not. It's a rip-off. Note that when people say "spindle," they usually mean 50 or 100 discs, not 10. And even with your 10-disc "spindle" you still aren't getting it for $12.
Yeah, you can take a whole 2GB worth of pics and movies.
Wreaks? What the hell is that word supposed to mean? Where did you come across that one?
Wreaks, for god's sake! What is the world coming to?
Huh? This is a discussion about some guy's comments about Open Source. "Value" has many other meanings apart from the economic meaning. In fact, it originally would have not been an economic term. Who are you to dictate that we can only talk about economics in this thread?
Yes, I have. But economics isn't the only force in the world. People who only think in terms of money are very narrow-minded, and come up with crazy ideas. besides, much of economics is bullshit.
Yet this extremely useful resource is free. Why? Because it isn't scarce. Scarcity is a necessary component for something to have economic value.See, you just proved my point. Just because it isn't scarce, doesn't mean it isn't valuable. Economic value isn't the only type of value. The post I was responding to did not specify "monetary value." It's people only thinking in this way that is larging screwing the world up. The best things in life are free, as the cliche goes.
Bullshit. For an item to have value, it simply must be of value to someone. This usually comes in the form of it being useful. There is no requirement for it to be scarce. There's not even a requirement for it to be useful - some things are valuable to people just for aesthetic reasons, not practical reasons.
Where exactly do you get this strange idea from that things have to be useful and scarce to be valuable? Reality contradicts it.
Hey, I want more keys too, but I don't think I need more than 200 keys on my board. 100 million would be somewhat unmanageable, even for AutoCAD users. Besides, wouldn't Apple rather design a single-button keyboard?
But they never wanted the invasion in the first place. Suddenly they are to blame for the consequences, when this never would have happened if they were listened to before the war. What about the same standards for those who pushed to go to war? They never spoke of the consequences. It was supposed to be an easy war, where we would be greeted with flowers as liberators. Even after the war, we were supposed to believe that Iraq is a happy, burgeoning democracy.
Why doesn't it also make you sick that all those people who talk about staying in Iraq never talk about the consequences of staying? There will bve violence either way. You seem to believe that the US occupation is somehow stopping violence. There is no evidence of this, there's tons of violence right now, much of it inspired by the occupation. Do you have any definitive evidence to show that violence would increase after a withdrawal?
Uhhh, what? how does a headline about a personal political feud determine the quality of a magazine article? Wouldn't the actual quality of articles the articles be more relevant?
Anyways, you really don't get to be editor in chief by running crap,What the fuck? PC World constantly publishes crap. There are many editors who publish shit, and it's often rewarded. It's more likely that PC World was offended by a push for higher standards, so they could continue in their usual lazy way.
All you have to do is look at the actual articles in question. They are absolute shit. There is no way they can be seen as quality writing, or something worthy of being published. It's like they were written by a two-year-old.
Well, that's either a highly unusual police force, or you are looking at them with rose-tinted glasses. most cops really aren't decent. They don't have a good sense of ethics, and don't believe in innocence until proven guilty. Quite the opposite, they believe they are always right about who is a criminal. Most cops will take any opportunity available to inflict violence on a suspect. Most are willing to lie or exaggerate events in order to incarcerate someone they dopn't like.
Those who join the force as decent human beings usually leave, or the job drives them crooked. Honest people don't last very long as cops.
I imagine your perception of them is shaped by the role you were playing - they treated you differently because cooperating with you was part of their job. So, you only saw their good sides, not what they were really like. That's one thing cops are good at - creating a good public face to cover up their crimes. They are expert liars and deceivers.
So, where would you find statistics on that? There are no hard numbers, but all you have to do is observe how cops behave in the real world, and you'll see that most of them aren't shining examples of humanity.
If you used a proxy to cache YouTube videos, it would hardly be an issue. Because of the viral nature of YouTube, a surprising number of people will be watching the same videos. Especially in an group like soldiers in Iraq- where people are living closely together, and discussing things together, and have little contact with the outside world. So, word about a popular video is spread rapidly among soldiers. The proxy could download the video once, and then be played back thousands of times to soldiers without using any more bandwidth. For the entertainment value and stress relief, that's an incredibly good bang-for-the-buck from the bandwidth.
You can't be serious.
I guess GIs should not be allowed to have any reading material, and music. No DVDs, either. No recreation time. After all, none of those things are "mission essential." The only thing they should be allowed to read is operations manuals.
Yeah, I'm sure that's going to make for happy troops. It's so great to ask these soldiers to supposedly defend America's freedom, while not allowing them to have any of that freedom. Makes total sense. Won't cause lower morale at all. Will help recruiting efforts immensely.
Operational security prohibits visiting any web site that permits posting of messages, or in this case, videos.By this logic, they shouldn't be allowed to write any letters home, either. Do you have some pathological hatred for humanity?