Yes. Yes and yes thanks to great aerodynamic design and light weight. Nope, most of it is either fiberglass or carbon/plastic composites, with the heaviest parts being frame, batteries, and solar panels. Hell I think one car had all four wheels lighter than a single car battery.
I'll bet on liar all around. I've been working in solar/green industries for several years. I bet this person hasn't even stepped foot in any solar manufacturing plants, several of which are *GASP* powered by the sun and competely off-grid.
"Look, if it was really possible to power a car with water (or even get the infamous "100 MPG" you hear about occasionally"
Someone doesn't pay attention to SAE supermileage events where high school kids and university students build cars that drop 1,000 MPG (Yes THOUSAND) on a *REGULAR* basis.
I think the current record is over three thousand MPG.
I know sunlight hurts but it pays to step outside now and then.
"Nope. Outer Space Treaty makes it impossible to recover the costs of exploration, since you're not allowed to actually claim anything up there as belonging to you. "
Thankfully most countries with desirable launch areas aren't signatories of that treaty, rendering that null and void.
"When in fact it ends up being that statements like the one you made generally come from your fevered imagination, and not from any one Apple advocate. Care to find a link from ANYONE who said that?"
Steve himself said it at the prior keynote or before that.last one. I attended, did you?
That's your problem if you didn't.
I love how you think I'm an Apple hater. Guess what sucker? I still have a fully functional Powerbook Duo 210 with OS8. I still use it. I love it.
That's what originally got me into being an Apple repair tech, starting out with the G3 line of iBooks and going all the way up to the G5. Then Apple went Intel and there was zero point trying to work for them, because I knew tat in order to try to differentiate themselves, they were going to start a massive campaign of bullshit. I don't associate with companies that do that.
That's another thing you Apple lovers ALWAYS do - you pretend you know something, but in reality, you don't. Just like you assumed I'm an Apple hater, o' ignorant brainless twit. It's quite obvious you've been drinking too much kool-aid and can't think past face value of words.
I hate the current Apple. If this were the old Apple, I'd likely be happy with them.
But, Apple today is 100% BULLSHIT. Want proof? What gets fucked every hack to win contest, FIRST EVERY TIME? Which company is busy trying to sue and bullshit its way into every market? Apple (plus Microsoft, let's not be exclusive here.) Which company is busy trying to hide the fact they're spying on their users and attempting to restrict how the users being spied upon can control their information? Apple.
FACT: If you buy an Apple product today, you are buying a LIE. A damned expensive one, at that.
And those that defend a liar are by proxy and association liars as well. Which makes you a liar and therefore your words are untrustworthy, and which makes YOU untrustworthy.
"Non-cloud server backups also aren't easy to do but you'd be called an utter fool for not doing so."
What are you talking about? It was ungodly simple for me to do, and my backup server sits right here in my living room. My main hosting provider stops responding and my system automatically kicks in to pick up. I may have ten seconds of downtime before my backup starts.
Took less than 20 minutes to setup. But of course, this is why you DO IT YOURSELF instead of relying upon someone else to fuck it up for you.
"I guess what we should learn from this is to put your failover in separate regions, not separate availability zones?"
No, you keep a backup ON SITE.
Christ, even my website has an emergency backup server. While Amazon was fucking everyone else, I was still happily online doing business as usual.
I have said repeatedly that cloud computing wasn't going to be worth a shit. Go ask Reddit how its working out for them right now. Go ask Microsoft about their little fuckup.
No, I rely upon books that have been vetted and proven over and over again to be correct. That which is theoretical, I have my subscriptions to paper journals which do get updated as soon as someone decides to test it out for themselves and validate with their findings.
But seriously, these students today can't even remember simple things. They've lost critical thinking skills and are taking everything at face value.
The majority of these people can be easily found, and where are they? Doing the dumbest things on the dumbest sites, usually. Facebook? Myspace? It's like television, but your IQ drops faster. They get warned about things and they carry on without a care. They're MINDLESS.
Newer PS3 models can't do what older ones could (backwards compatibility.). Saying it does everything when the newer model actually doesn't do what the original does is a flat out lie.
I'd give a damn, actually. Current ads for the PS3 are "It does everything" when the original had more capability. It's a flat-out lie and Sony should be sued over that as well.
"The trouble you Apple haters have, and has always have, is distinguishing between adoration and insight."
You're so full of shit that your eyes are brown, son. And that's coming from someone with WAY more inside knowledge than you'll ever have of the product.
Enjoy sucking that Apple cock! Congratulations on helping steer a generation or two towards a fully closed "1984" computing environment.
You been swallowing that anti-84 ad kool-aid for too long, have ya? Too blind to see how blatantly Apple lies?
"AN SSD IN A MAC DOESN'T NEED TRIM!"
*Adds TRIM in 10.7*
Enjoy being fucked by marketing like every other ignorant Apple tool.
What's your definition of comparable? Horsepower? Pentium D computers from the age of Doom 3 could spank the shit out of the iPad all day.Educational Software? What a waste, the most educational website on the internet that I've ever seen (Khan Academy, 100% free) won't ever work with an iPad, because it won't support Flash. Whoops. And that's pretty much a full education up to Bacheor's or Master's degree level, FREE. You'll NEVER get that quality on an iPad for free, EVER.
Capability? I can actually extend the capability of even my Pentium 3 laptop far more than your tablet. Battery life, sure you win, but you're running a limited piece of hardware to begin with, if it actually sucked any real power it'd be considered a bigger piece of shit than NetBurst.
Size? Yea, you win thre.
But when it comes down to it, again, you're paying more for underpowered hardware and for less capability, plus the free handcuffs that chain you to Jobs' bed. That's all there is to it.
Nope. I've already had two friends break the screens on theirs this week. Your unibody design is shit with a thin glass cover. It doesn't survive backpacks, apparently.
But this is what you get when you only consider form and design over actual engineering concerns.
Speaking as a former Apple repair tech, I can clearly state Apple's hardware engineering is absolute shit. I can pinch the iPad and crack the glass, but then again I'm not entirely flesh and bone, either.
"That path has been tried and found wanting because it keeps the kids separated from computers for all but a short time each day instead of giving them the chance to understand how a computer around you constantly can augment your abilities as a human."
Have you even been paying attention to our computer-attached newer generations? Augment? They are not even capable of using a fucking spelling checker.
All it's doing is making them extremely stupid. Half of these people can't think for themselves and rely upon Google to retain information they should have acquired and locked in back during middle school.
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Yes.
Yes and yes thanks to great aerodynamic design and light weight.
Nope, most of it is either fiberglass or carbon/plastic composites, with the heaviest parts being frame, batteries, and solar panels. Hell I think one car had all four wheels lighter than a single car battery.
Maybe you should actually compete like my brother did last year.
Proving you now jack. You've never even seen the vehicles.
I'll bet on liar all around. I've been working in solar/green industries for several years. I bet this person hasn't even stepped foot in any solar manufacturing plants, several of which are *GASP* powered by the sun and competely off-grid.
I don't recall John Carmack or Richard Branson's signatures on that document.
Care to show me where they're located?
"Look, if it was really possible to power a car with water (or even get the infamous "100 MPG" you hear about occasionally"
Someone doesn't pay attention to SAE supermileage events where high school kids and university students build cars that drop 1,000 MPG (Yes THOUSAND) on a *REGULAR* basis.
I think the current record is over three thousand MPG.
I know sunlight hurts but it pays to step outside now and then.
"we'd best spend some energy keeping what we've got habitable."
Quit fucking wasting the energy in the first place and this wouldn't be an issue. Quit using dirty energy, as well.
"Nope. Outer Space Treaty makes it impossible to recover the costs of exploration, since you're not allowed to actually claim anything up there as belonging to you. "
Thankfully most countries with desirable launch areas aren't signatories of that treaty, rendering that null and void.
"When in fact it ends up being that statements like the one you made generally come from your fevered imagination, and not from any one Apple advocate. Care to find a link from ANYONE who said that?"
Steve himself said it at the prior keynote or before that.last one. I attended, did you?
That's your problem if you didn't.
I love how you think I'm an Apple hater. Guess what sucker? I still have a fully functional Powerbook Duo 210 with OS8. I still use it. I love it.
That's what originally got me into being an Apple repair tech, starting out with the G3 line of iBooks and going all the way up to the G5. Then Apple went Intel and there was zero point trying to work for them, because I knew tat in order to try to differentiate themselves, they were going to start a massive campaign of bullshit. I don't associate with companies that do that.
That's another thing you Apple lovers ALWAYS do - you pretend you know something, but in reality, you don't. Just like you assumed I'm an Apple hater, o' ignorant brainless twit. It's quite obvious you've been drinking too much kool-aid and can't think past face value of words.
I hate the current Apple. If this were the old Apple, I'd likely be happy with them.
But, Apple today is 100% BULLSHIT. Want proof? What gets fucked every hack to win contest, FIRST EVERY TIME? Which company is busy trying to sue and bullshit its way into every market? Apple (plus Microsoft, let's not be exclusive here.) Which company is busy trying to hide the fact they're spying on their users and attempting to restrict how the users being spied upon can control their information? Apple.
FACT: If you buy an Apple product today, you are buying a LIE. A damned expensive one, at that.
And those that defend a liar are by proxy and association liars as well. Which makes you a liar and therefore your words are untrustworthy, and which makes YOU untrustworthy.
Begone.
"Wikileaks doesn't make the claim that their leaks come from members of their organization."
They don't have to, it's implied as they're in the direct chain of leaking.
"As if 4chan would offer any insight in to anything."
You further prove your ignorance.
What makes you think the fire suppression systems themselves won't catch fire and thus utterly fail?
The fact that they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars? Go look at some nuclear centrifuges sometime.
"Non-cloud server backups also aren't easy to do but you'd be called an utter fool for not doing so."
What are you talking about? It was ungodly simple for me to do, and my backup server sits right here in my living room. My main hosting provider stops responding and my system automatically kicks in to pick up. I may have ten seconds of downtime before my backup starts.
Took less than 20 minutes to setup. But of course, this is why you DO IT YOURSELF instead of relying upon someone else to fuck it up for you.
"I guess what we should learn from this is to put your failover in separate regions, not separate availability zones?"
No, you keep a backup ON SITE.
Christ, even my website has an emergency backup server. While Amazon was fucking everyone else, I was still happily online doing business as usual.
I have said repeatedly that cloud computing wasn't going to be worth a shit. Go ask Reddit how its working out for them right now. Go ask Microsoft about their little fuckup.
"Wikileaks relies on others to commit crimes."
As if Anonymous isn't comprised entirely of 'others.'
You're very naive about this subject. Go newfag about it on 4chan and watch how fast you get eaten alive for your ignorance.
No, I rely upon books that have been vetted and proven over and over again to be correct. That which is theoretical, I have my subscriptions to paper journals which do get updated as soon as someone decides to test it out for themselves and validate with their findings.
But seriously, these students today can't even remember simple things. They've lost critical thinking skills and are taking everything at face value.
The majority of these people can be easily found, and where are they? Doing the dumbest things on the dumbest sites, usually. Facebook? Myspace? It's like television, but your IQ drops faster. They get warned about things and they carry on without a care. They're MINDLESS.
You're only encouraging it, it seems.
Does your PS3 have backwards compatibility?
Newer PS3 models can't do what older ones could (backwards compatibility.). Saying it does everything when the newer model actually doesn't do what the original does is a flat out lie.
I'd give a damn, actually. Current ads for the PS3 are "It does everything" when the original had more capability. It's a flat-out lie and Sony should be sued over that as well.
iPad barely reaches 2 GFLOPs. My Pentium D 840 can reach 16GFLOPS with minor overclocking.
You're wrong. Go linpack test it and find out for yourself.
"The trouble you Apple haters have, and has always have, is distinguishing between adoration and insight."
You're so full of shit that your eyes are brown, son. And that's coming from someone with WAY more inside knowledge than you'll ever have of the product.
Enjoy sucking that Apple cock! Congratulations on helping steer a generation or two towards a fully closed "1984" computing environment.
You been swallowing that anti-84 ad kool-aid for too long, have ya? Too blind to see how blatantly Apple lies?
"AN SSD IN A MAC DOESN'T NEED TRIM!"
*Adds TRIM in 10.7*
Enjoy being fucked by marketing like every other ignorant Apple tool.
"Find a comparable device for a lower price.
"
What's your definition of comparable? Horsepower? Pentium D computers from the age of Doom 3 could spank the shit out of the iPad all day.Educational Software? What a waste, the most educational website on the internet that I've ever seen (Khan Academy, 100% free) won't ever work with an iPad, because it won't support Flash. Whoops. And that's pretty much a full education up to Bacheor's or Master's degree level, FREE. You'll NEVER get that quality on an iPad for free, EVER.
Capability? I can actually extend the capability of even my Pentium 3 laptop far more than your tablet. Battery life, sure you win, but you're running a limited piece of hardware to begin with, if it actually sucked any real power it'd be considered a bigger piece of shit than NetBurst.
Size? Yea, you win thre.
But when it comes down to it, again, you're paying more for underpowered hardware and for less capability, plus the free handcuffs that chain you to Jobs' bed. That's all there is to it.
"great quality screens"
Nope. I've already had two friends break the screens on theirs this week. Your unibody design is shit with a thin glass cover. It doesn't survive backpacks, apparently.
But this is what you get when you only consider form and design over actual engineering concerns.
Speaking as a former Apple repair tech, I can clearly state Apple's hardware engineering is absolute shit. I can pinch the iPad and crack the glass, but then again I'm not entirely flesh and bone, either.
"That path has been tried and found wanting because it keeps the kids separated from computers for all but a short time each day instead of giving them the chance to understand how a computer around you constantly can augment your abilities as a human."
Have you even been paying attention to our computer-attached newer generations? Augment? They are not even capable of using a fucking spelling checker.
All it's doing is making them extremely stupid. Half of these people can't think for themselves and rely upon Google to retain information they should have acquired and locked in back during middle school.
"I can create music easier on an iPad alone than with a laptop."
http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
Oh yea, I can do it much easier. iPad doesn't have flash and this can make endless variations if done properly.
Your point?
Uh, duh, considering the PS3 uses a modified 7800.
Surprise the 6150 actualy beats the HD4200 in most games I've played.
Sorry, a 7800-series GeForce is pretty low-end today.
Most modern GPUs ALONE have as much power as the entire PS3.