Maybe I was a little hasty by broadly referring to "Macs". The design is usually superior to other offerings on the market. There are a number of unique features which some of their products have, such as the MagSafe. While these are all nice features, none of them are real deal-makers. The Ambieent light sensor can be found on competitor's machines and the eeePC has a multi-touch pad.
And saying that netbooks are pieces of junk is just being ignorant. Every time I have seen a new one, I have been amazed by the build quality.
All in all, It's Apple being itself again and they're refusing to acknowledge price shifting in the market. Their bad I guess, but sooner or later they are going to have to respond, or people are going to be buying a hell of a lot less Macbooks.
People have been saying that Moore's law will fix Window's slowness for years, but I'll believe it when it stops being a problem.
And Microsoft seems to be winning on the Netbook sector as well. I don't think there are any Netbooks out there which aren't at least sold with Windows as an option. Although Linux usually works much better, most people are stupid and only use Windows. Not only that, their presence is actively harming the market. They have maximum specs to qualify for their Ultra-Low-Cost-PC version of Windows, so any manufacturer who wants to sell anything has to limit things like the screen resolution, RAM etc. or pay the full price of a Windows license. And God knows what other unholy deeds are hidden away in NDA's not meant for our eyes.
The result: All Netbooks are designed for Windows, and manufacturers have even less incentive to use Linux than in the higher cost segment.
Exactly. Apple charge a minimum of $600 for their pieces of junk. Seriously, is there anyone here who really believes Macs are something more than generic PC hardware which is allowed to play use their DRM'd OS? It may come in a shiny white case, but that really is just about it.
In order to be useful, you'll have this thing attached to the USB port of your PC or from a wall wart. Trust me, it save so much UL/EU testing if you are not plugging into an AC outlet.
Anyone that tells me they can do direct AC wall outlet conversion to RF at 90% efficiency is lying.
Power From Electric outlet -> DC @ 80% efficiency Wireless power at 75% -> 90% efficiency
80% x 75% = 60% 80% x 90% = 72%
Guys... In case you don't know, we should be saving power... So throwing away power so that you can avoid a power cord that is close to 100% efficient for power transfer DOES NOT make sense.
You can save a hell of a lot more energy by using switched-mode power supplies.
The situation you described seems to be using the iPhone mainly as an external storage device. While the idea seems nice, the concept can be largely realised with a bootable USB key. Plus, it still requires a computer at the workplace, whether you call it a docking station or a PC.
But as far as storage goes, it's much easier to store your data on the Web than it is to be constantly thinking about backing up and syncing your devices.
but that reduces the numbers of USB keys and external storage and laptops that I need to move around with.
Why do you need so much in first place. Even today one Laptop and/or storage device should do everything, shouldn't it? For most neads, a 9'' netbook and a large SD card would suffice.
With hard drives a decent data recovery company may have chance of recovering your data if your drive died. What's it like for flash drives?
That's a result of failing to backup critical Data. If you avoid storage devices because of the chance of recovery, then you'll have enough sense to backup your files.
They will probably keep performing better on the cost/memory scale, but you also have to remember that an HDD is also a fairly expensive piece of equipment. For low capacity requirements, Flash beats HDDs all the way. Today, for the price of the cheapest Laptop HDDs, you can get roughly 20-30 GB of Flash (In the form of SD cards). Just one or two years ago this would have seemed rediculous.
That's what they say. But children must also be taught that if they get too close, they'll be spaghettified to a stream of nucleons, by which time they will easily fit through a drain.
This is getting complicated now, but there are different methods of debiting an account. The method which was referred to further up, in which you need only give the name and bank number is a system which will only work for german banks, so no foreign transfers. To qualify to use this service to charge customers, you need to be a registered business and fulfill certain requirements. Generally the system is considered quite safe.
The second statement is a common fact that is tought at the very basic level of (serious) selfe-defense. The idea of defending yourself against a mugger is rediculous. Crime is the criminal's job. Would you expect to be able to outsmart him, even when he is prepared and has set everything to his advantage? Would you expect the mugger to have a chance if he say, turned up at you office and were to do your job? The best strategy is de-escelation, so the last thing you want to do is start waving your gun about. For more on this topic, I would recommend some of the articles at http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/robbers.htm Unfortunately I could only find a study about carrying guns specifically for the workplace: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1449263
Haead tracking isn't intended for a fixed perspective like in an FPS. Head tracking is meant to give you projection of a model suited to your position. Think of it as more of a hologram where you can see a model just behind the screen.
On a FPS though, you're looking in the direction of the character you play.
It is a good thing that Beethoven is long dead because he would not ever wish to hear the game's lifeless version of Ode to Joy.
What a douchebag. Beethoven would be thrilled to be able to hear it all, as he was practically deaf when he finished his ninth. And sure, he wouldn't be amazed by MIDI sequencing and the possibilities it gives to composers, but would be dissapointed that he could (or probably couldn't!) tell the diffference between a real piano performance and a sequenced track.
Whenever you see a reviewer bashing "MIDI" it shows you that they have absoutely no clue. "Amateur" and "archaic"? What a retard! The fidelity depends purely on the quality of the synthesizer. If it was MIDI that made it sound bad, then 95% of all game soundtracks would sound bad.
Your average robber will have driven off in the victims car before most elderly people will have reacted. If I were a robber and saw an elderly person fumbling to point a gun at me, I'd be sure to shoot them first. And violent criminals don't suddenly become peaceful citizens they reach retirement age. If they're not out robbing people they'll probably give the gun to their family or fellow gang members, or simply sell it for cash.
(a) Most gun deaths aren't caused by criminals, but are suicides and accidents. Another large chunk are actually normal disputes which escelate as the direct result of the presence of a gun. Even if you are held up by a robber, you better fucking hope you don't have a gun on you, cause if you do and he notices you're much more likely to be shot yourself.
They tried, but they failed because of the difficulty of reverse-engineering the Apple hardware at the time, not because of some stupid DRM law. It used to be the other way round. Back in the eighties, it was Nintendo being sued for their DRM mechanisms. From today's perspective, it seems crazy, but people thought that the company suing them had a solid case back then.
That's how examination methods work though. And it requires the students to at least be familiar with solving the problems. Exam papers aren't exactly unique. You can improve your grades by practicing the old exams that test only basic knowledge too, it's just ludicrously easy.
That's absurd. Just about the only science in which you don't need numerical questions is maths. Later school education should give students a good impression of the kind of education that they might later attend in universities.
In addition, your expected use is critical - movies and sport tend to suggest a plasma will suit your needs, whereas lots of normal broadcast TV/desktop-type computer use might be better suited to an LCD.
It's actually quite the opposite for movies. Plasmas flicker quite a lot which is more distrating on the slow 24fps when the camera pans. I haven't seen a new good LCD in a while that has had issues with blurring, I think that's largely a thing of the past. And the "colour issue" is down to the fact that most people buy matt screens, although they degrade the picture quality. An LCD with a clear panel can easily keep up with the colours on a Plasma.
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Maybe I was a little hasty by broadly referring to "Macs".
The design is usually superior to other offerings on the market. There are a number of unique features which some of their products have, such as the MagSafe.
While these are all nice features, none of them are real deal-makers.
The Ambieent light sensor can be found on competitor's machines and the eeePC has a multi-touch pad.
And saying that netbooks are pieces of junk is just being ignorant. Every time I have seen a new one, I have been amazed by the build quality.
All in all, It's Apple being itself again and they're refusing to acknowledge price shifting in the market. Their bad I guess, but sooner or later they are going to have to respond, or people are going to be buying a hell of a lot less Macbooks.
People have been saying that Moore's law will fix Window's slowness for years, but I'll believe it when it stops being a problem.
And Microsoft seems to be winning on the Netbook sector as well. I don't think there are any Netbooks out there which aren't at least sold with Windows as an option. Although Linux usually works much better, most people are stupid and only use Windows.
Not only that, their presence is actively harming the market. They have maximum specs to qualify for their Ultra-Low-Cost-PC version of Windows, so any manufacturer who wants to sell anything has to limit things like the screen resolution, RAM etc. or pay the full price of a Windows license.
And God knows what other unholy deeds are hidden away in NDA's not meant for our eyes.
The result: All Netbooks are designed for Windows, and manufacturers have even less incentive to use Linux than in the higher cost segment.
I don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that at least 50% of the PCs sold in shops are laptops these days.
There, fixed it for you.
Exactly. Apple charge a minimum of $600 for their pieces of junk.
Seriously, is there anyone here who really believes Macs are something more than generic PC hardware which is allowed to play use their DRM'd OS? It may come in a shiny white case, but that really is just about it.
Let do some simple math:
In order to be useful, you'll have this thing attached to the USB port of your PC or from a wall wart. Trust me, it save so much UL/EU testing if you are not plugging into an AC outlet.
Anyone that tells me they can do direct AC wall outlet conversion to RF at 90% efficiency is lying.
Power From Electric outlet -> DC @ 80% efficiency
Wireless power at 75% -> 90% efficiency
80% x 75% = 60%
80% x 90% = 72%
Guys... In case you don't know, we should be saving power... So throwing away power so that you can avoid a power cord that is close to 100% efficient for power transfer DOES NOT make sense.
You can save a hell of a lot more energy by using switched-mode power supplies.
The situation you described seems to be using the iPhone mainly as an external storage device.
While the idea seems nice, the concept can be largely realised with a bootable USB key.
Plus, it still requires a computer at the workplace, whether you call it a docking station or a PC.
But as far as storage goes, it's much easier to store your data on the Web than it is to be constantly thinking about backing up and syncing your devices.
but that reduces the numbers of USB keys and external storage and laptops that I need to move around with.
Why do you need so much in first place. Even today one Laptop and/or storage device should do everything, shouldn't it?
For most neads, a 9'' netbook and a large SD card would suffice.
With hard drives a decent data recovery company may have chance of recovering your data if your drive died. What's it like for flash drives?
That's a result of failing to backup critical Data. If you avoid storage devices because of the chance of recovery, then you'll have enough sense to backup your files.
They will probably keep performing better on the cost/memory scale, but you also have to remember that an HDD is also a fairly expensive piece of equipment. For low capacity requirements, Flash beats HDDs all the way.
Today, for the price of the cheapest Laptop HDDs, you can get roughly 20-30 GB of Flash (In the form of SD cards).
Just one or two years ago this would have seemed rediculous.
That's what they say. But children must also be taught that if they get too close, they'll be spaghettified to a stream of nucleons, by which time they will easily fit through a drain.
You certain about that? Cause that's what this guy in the UK thought.
This is getting complicated now, but there are different methods of debiting an account. The method which was referred to further up, in which you need only give the name and bank number is a system which will only work for german banks, so no foreign transfers. To qualify to use this service to charge customers, you need to be a registered business and fulfill certain requirements. Generally the system is considered quite safe.
The work of Arthur Kellermann is probably the most comprehensive. Here's a few of his statistics. Scroll down and click on the tables for a quick overview.
The second statement is a common fact that is tought at the very basic level of (serious) selfe-defense.
The idea of defending yourself against a mugger is rediculous. Crime is the criminal's job. Would you expect to be able to outsmart him, even when he is prepared and has set everything to his advantage? Would you expect the mugger to have a chance if he say, turned up at you office and were to do your job?
The best strategy is de-escelation, so the last thing you want to do is start waving your gun about.
For more on this topic, I would recommend some of the articles at http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/robbers.htm
Unfortunately I could only find a study about carrying guns specifically for the workplace: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1449263
600 liters is bearly enough to cover you floor
General MIDI too, is just a list of instruments. How the sound is sythesized is another matter.
Haead tracking isn't intended for a fixed perspective like in an FPS.
Head tracking is meant to give you projection of a model suited to your position. Think of it as more of a hologram where you can see a model just behind the screen.
On a FPS though, you're looking in the direction of the character you play.
Go and play more than one game, and them come back.
It is a good thing that Beethoven is long dead because he would not ever wish to hear the game's lifeless version of Ode to Joy.
What a douchebag.
Beethoven would be thrilled to be able to hear it all, as he was practically deaf when he finished his ninth.
And sure, he wouldn't be amazed by MIDI sequencing and the possibilities it gives to composers, but would be dissapointed that he could (or probably couldn't!) tell the diffference between a real piano performance and a sequenced track.
Whenever you see a reviewer bashing "MIDI" it shows you that they have absoutely no clue. "Amateur" and "archaic"? What a retard!
The fidelity depends purely on the quality of the synthesizer. If it was MIDI that made it sound bad, then 95% of all game soundtracks would sound bad.
Or actually giving us TV tuners that "just work"... *cymbal crash*
Or giving us TV tuners that "just work"... Bada boom!
Your average robber will have driven off in the victims car before most elderly people will have reacted. If I were a robber and saw an elderly person fumbling to point a gun at me, I'd be sure to shoot them first.
And violent criminals don't suddenly become peaceful citizens they reach retirement age. If they're not out robbing people they'll probably give the gun to their family or fellow gang members, or simply sell it for cash.
(a) Most gun deaths aren't caused by criminals, but are suicides and accidents. Another large chunk are actually normal disputes which escelate as the direct result of the presence of a gun.
Even if you are held up by a robber, you better fucking hope you don't have a gun on you, cause if you do and he notices you're much more likely to be shot yourself.
They tried, but they failed because of the difficulty of reverse-engineering the Apple hardware at the time, not because of some stupid DRM law.
It used to be the other way round. Back in the eighties, it was Nintendo being sued for their DRM mechanisms. From today's perspective, it seems crazy, but people thought that the company suing them had a solid case back then.
That's how examination methods work though. And it requires the students to at least be familiar with solving the problems.
Exam papers aren't exactly unique. You can improve your grades by practicing the old exams that test only basic knowledge too, it's just ludicrously easy.
That's absurd. Just about the only science in which you don't need numerical questions is maths.
Later school education should give students a good impression of the kind of education that they might later attend in universities.
In addition, your expected use is critical - movies and sport tend to suggest a plasma will suit your needs, whereas lots of normal broadcast TV/desktop-type computer use might be better suited to an LCD.
It's actually quite the opposite for movies. Plasmas flicker quite a lot which is more distrating on the slow 24fps when the camera pans.
I haven't seen a new good LCD in a while that has had issues with blurring, I think that's largely a thing of the past. And the "colour issue" is down to the fact that most people buy matt screens, although they degrade the picture quality. An LCD with a clear panel can easily keep up with the colours on a Plasma.