I've had my MacBook since 1 week after they went on sale. I only hear the fan when I inadvertenty block the port, I use it on my lap all the time without cooking the boys. I have no discoloration except for a slight smudge on the "y" key. I haven't had it spontaneously shut down. Never been bothered by screen glare. No issues at all. Except it could use a bigger screen.
Personally, I think it's just the internet amplification effect.
With $900M, now maybe Tom can afford to hire a programmer who can write decent code. Near as I can tell, the back-end was writen in HyperCard by Tom's little brother.
Unless you're on a mainframe, in which case there may be anywhere from 7 to 10 bits in a byte. Maybe HP is intending this memory for people who still buy mainframes?
Right now I see 12 wireless networks, only 3 of them encrypted, most of them on channel 6, and 3 of them with the default id's (meaning a lot of them probably still have the default password, also). If I try to drive around with my PDA wireless on, the damn thing beeps every constantly telling me it's found a new network to log onto. I'm thinking the cops are going to ditch this one when when they get tired of stopping every 2 minutes to stick a brochure on somebody's door.
We feel that it is our duty to inform you that you might want to rethink you position regarding:Serfur Gurl:. Our advanced algorithms have indicated that she does not "&3" you, a fact that she expressed in her recent bulletin, title "OMG! Josh, please leave me alone!". Besides, after cross-referencing her photographs, we have determined that she is using "the angles" to her maximum advantage, in fact, her Hot or Not rating is an unimpressive 4.7. You can do better. Please consider combing the hair out of you right eye and buying a new T-shirt. Yellowcard is so 2 years ago.
Also, we have noticed that you repeatedly fall for the "OH MY GOD!! IT REALLY WORKS" MySpace tracker scheme. This is only serving to annoy your "friends", approximately 78% of which we have determined have never met in real-life.
Sincerely, Your new friends at the National Security Agency
You're supposed to be teaching programming. The less time you spend teaching them a new editor, the more time you spend tecaching them programming.
I remember we had an algortihms class that the instructor decided should be taught using PL-1* on an IBM 360 mainframe**. We spent the first 2 weeks learning JCL*** to get our code to compile, the next 4 weeks learning PL-1, and after the first half of the quarter had been wasted, we finally moved on to the subject he was supposed to be teaching us. Look at how useful all of that is now.
*PL-1 = Programming Language 1. Somebody had a burst of creativity that day.
**Mainframe = A room-filling computer that was used before there were minicomputers. They were not capable of playing Doom.
***JCL = Job Control Language. Like a shell script, only with an anal retentiveness for formatting that would make a Fortran compiler look like a pothead.
He's not refusing to give DNA, he's refusing to give blood, on religious grounds. He has offered up DNA in other forms, but the state says they can only process DNA from blood.
Amen, Brother. You'd think that the schools would already be filtering out these sites to keep kids from screwing around when they're supposed to be learning.
I'm sure that by now both the XBox and PS2 are being sold above production costs. Also look at some of the VIA boards which retail under $100 and have everything you need except a case (roll your own), power supply ($20), memory ($40), and drives ($30 HD + $20 CD). You can build a full-up computer for less than $225 paying retail prices. I imagine if you paid wholesale, it would easily be less than $150.
I'm tired of seeing these el-cheapo computers heralded as an achievement. X Box costs $150, PS2 is $130. Both of those systems could run linux probably as well as or better than this box.
Actually, I agree with him. From a pure supply and demand perspective, the 360 should have been priced $200-300 higher in the US at release. But the high demand would have only lasted for a few months, and then Microsoft would have had to drop it. Imagine how PO'd you'd be if a product dropped in price by 50% 3 months after you bought it?
Well, isn't constant crashing the quality Mac users have come to expect over the years? I have friends who've given their sad Macs a name.:)
Maybe I should have said "consistent user experience Mac users have come to expect." There is a look and feel they expect, and that's hard to pull off with open source.
Plus, how do you keep your new features a secret if you're giving so many outsiders access? Steve wants control over everything, including how new products are revealed to the public. Pretty widgets and black turtlenecks are all part of the Apple Mystique.
What Boot Camp seeks to do is give those Windows users who would like to try a Mac, but have that one Windows-only app that they need (in my case, lspCAD - there is no Mac equivalent) a safety net when switching. It is not, as the Ziff-Davis commentator states, intended to ween Mac users off of Mac hardware.
With all attention turned in that direction, there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes.
Except rake in the profits. If Apple loses quality control by going open source, their product won't meet the standards of their users. Also, it would be mere minutes before an open-source OS X was ported to run on non-Apple hardware, essenitally knocking themselves out of the computer business.
Step 2: Determining functionality without risk.
The definition of a public beta test.
In other words, can the community at large live with the idea of Windows running on a Mac?
Yes, they can, they've been doing it for a while through various emulators. Maybe if your head was someplace with a more panoramic view than the orifice where you usually keep it, you'd have noticed this.
If the Windows test keeps going the way it's going, the results may indicate that Mac users are more likely to shift to Windows than we used to think.
That's a baseless conclusion, and is based on the assumtion that Mac users don't really want to run OS X and are looking for an alternative, an assumption that we all know is wrong.
But what will happen to Mac OS X?
It's userbase will grow. That's what happens when you make a good product more useful to more people.
I will not use the author's name because I think this article is nothing more than a publicity stunt. But I will give my opinion of him - he is one of those crusty old men hanging around your local computer club meetings waxing poetic about the days of DOS and trying to impress you with his library of obscure and outdated computer trivia ("In the old days, we used to print by copying the file to LPT1 on port 378h."). He has never been able to maintain an up-to-date understanding of what is going on in this industry. He is an anachronism.
So Johnny, let me give give you a key insight you'll need to hold onto whenever you write anything about Apple: Jobs doesn't want to win, he wants to be the best.
(PS - I do not and have never owned an Apple computer, so this is not fanboi crap.)
"Now we are talking about Microsoft having the freedom to check your computer for any sort of illegal or fraudulent activity you might be participating in. Without your knowledge or consent. It is giving up your rights to privacy." --State Rep. Mike Reynolds
They just don't get it. According to the article, ANYBODY who can get you to click an "accept" button can take any personal information they want, and/or do any amount of destruction to your computer without liability. They can do anything they want, all they have to do is bury some innocuous sounding phrase in their 5,000 word EULA.
These laws should be written to require companies to inform you each time they transmit information back to the mother ship, tell you what information they're taking, and require to you specifically approve each transmission, and allow you to opt out of any further transmissions at any time. If you want to protect the consumer, stop creating loopholes which can be used to abust them.
Apple doesn't want you to buy OS X. They want you to buy hardware. If Apple was trying to sell software, they would have switched over to PCs 15 years ago.
OK, the first obvious question is, how do you "end" something that never got started? How many people do you know that have HTPC's? Zero? That's what I thought.
Viiv is just another solution to a problem that nobody has, or even cares about.
And a whole bunch of new action figures to go with them. Maybe Lucas should start actually developing the characters he creates instead of just turning them into over-priced bits of revenue-producing plastic.
But then again, I could say that if I had his ability to turn crap into cash that I would be able to resist it either.
If you have a dozen monkeys typing on a dozen typewriters for a dozen days, you would have an analysis of Linux vs. XP vs OS X with a dozen times as much depth as this one. About all I got out of it was the there's no tax software on Linux. The author seemed to think writing important-sounding sentences would cover up the fact that he didn't have anything to say. The few times an actual idea was introduced, it wasn't expounded on, and strengthening examples were left out. If this were a technical writing class, this paper would get a "C-", and then only because it was mostly grammatically correct.
A note to people writing articles on linux: Don't start off like this:
Officially released on Wednesday, GNOME 2.14 is available on a live CD based on Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake). The live CD is currently in the 2.12 repository (look at the bottom of the list of files). Alternatively, you can install the latest build for Ubuntu 6.04 or Fedora Core 5. Both distributions will demonstrate the increase in speed in 2.14 better than the live CD, although you might check the GNOME 2.14 start page to add any packages that are excluded. You can also use Garnome, a program designed to install a GNOME release on an existing system without affecting your current GNOME installation. However, I don't recommend trying this method if you're only mildly curious, because checking Garnome's dependencies -- 70 for Debian -- and compiling it is probably more trouble than you would care to take. The hard-core, of course, may prefer to compile from source, possibly automating the process with JHBuild.
That kind of undecipherable insider argot is not exactly the way to convince Windows users to convert. I've used Unix before, and have a spare machine and would like to try out Linux, but everywhere I look I see this kind of crap, and eventually decide that the process of figuring out which file I need to download is too complex to be worth the bother.
Three years from now we'll be buying HD-DVD/BluRay/DVD/CD/SACD/DVD-A combo players for $79.95 out of a wire basket parked in the middle of the cold medicine aisle at RexAll Drugs. There's not going to be a winner or a loser, nor will there be a war or even a battle. Everything will just merge.
The only losers will be the fanboys. And they're already losers.
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Three-and-a-half, I think. Unless you thought the Ewoks were a good thing.
I've had my MacBook since 1 week after they went on sale. I only hear the fan when I inadvertenty block the port, I use it on my lap all the time without cooking the boys. I have no discoloration except for a slight smudge on the "y" key. I haven't had it spontaneously shut down. Never been bothered by screen glare. No issues at all. Except it could use a bigger screen.
Personally, I think it's just the internet amplification effect.
PS - It's my first and only Mac. I'm no fanboy.
With $900M, now maybe Tom can afford to hire a programmer who can write decent code. Near as I can tell, the back-end was writen in HyperCard by Tom's little brother.
Unless you're on a mainframe, in which case there may be anywhere from 7 to 10 bits in a byte. Maybe HP is intending this memory for people who still buy mainframes?
"Large Hadron Collider"
I had to read that twice to figure out it had to do with physics, not physiques.
Right now I see 12 wireless networks, only 3 of them encrypted, most of them on channel 6, and 3 of them with the default id's (meaning a lot of them probably still have the default password, also). If I try to drive around with my PDA wireless on, the damn thing beeps every constantly telling me it's found a new network to log onto. I'm thinking the cops are going to ditch this one when when they get tired of stopping every 2 minutes to stick a brochure on somebody's door.
Dear EmOgOd69,
:Serfur Gurl:. Our advanced algorithms have indicated that she does not "&3" you, a fact that she expressed in her recent bulletin, title "OMG! Josh, please leave me alone!". Besides, after cross-referencing her photographs, we have determined that she is using "the angles" to her maximum advantage, in fact, her Hot or Not rating is an unimpressive 4.7. You can do better. Please consider combing the hair out of you right eye and buying a new T-shirt. Yellowcard is so 2 years ago.
We feel that it is our duty to inform you that you might want to rethink you position regarding
Also, we have noticed that you repeatedly fall for the "OH MY GOD!! IT REALLY WORKS" MySpace tracker scheme. This is only serving to annoy your "friends", approximately 78% of which we have determined have never met in real-life.
Sincerely,
Your new friends at the National Security Agency
PS - Thanks for the add!!
You're supposed to be teaching programming. The less time you spend teaching them a new editor, the more time you spend tecaching them programming.
I remember we had an algortihms class that the instructor decided should be taught using PL-1* on an IBM 360 mainframe**. We spent the first 2 weeks learning JCL*** to get our code to compile, the next 4 weeks learning PL-1, and after the first half of the quarter had been wasted, we finally moved on to the subject he was supposed to be teaching us. Look at how useful all of that is now.
*PL-1 = Programming Language 1. Somebody had a burst of creativity that day.
**Mainframe = A room-filling computer that was used before there were minicomputers. They were not capable of playing Doom.
***JCL = Job Control Language. Like a shell script, only with an anal retentiveness for formatting that would make a Fortran compiler look like a pothead.
He's not refusing to give DNA, he's refusing to give blood, on religious grounds. He has offered up DNA in other forms, but the state says they can only process DNA from blood.
Amen, Brother. You'd think that the schools would already be filtering out these sites to keep kids from screwing around when they're supposed to be learning.
I'm sure that by now both the XBox and PS2 are being sold above production costs. Also look at some of the VIA boards which retail under $100 and have everything you need except a case (roll your own), power supply ($20), memory ($40), and drives ($30 HD + $20 CD). You can build a full-up computer for less than $225 paying retail prices. I imagine if you paid wholesale, it would easily be less than $150.
I'm tired of seeing these el-cheapo computers heralded as an achievement. X Box costs $150, PS2 is $130. Both of those systems could run linux probably as well as or better than this box.
Actually, I agree with him. From a pure supply and demand perspective, the 360 should have been priced $200-300 higher in the US at release. But the high demand would have only lasted for a few months, and then Microsoft would have had to drop it. Imagine how PO'd you'd be if a product dropped in price by 50% 3 months after you bought it?
Well, isn't constant crashing the quality Mac users have come to expect over the years? I have friends who've given their sad Macs a name. :)
Maybe I should have said "consistent user experience Mac users have come to expect." There is a look and feel they expect, and that's hard to pull off with open source.
Plus, how do you keep your new features a secret if you're giving so many outsiders access? Steve wants control over everything, including how new products are revealed to the public. Pretty widgets and black turtlenecks are all part of the Apple Mystique.
What Boot Camp seeks to do is give those Windows users who would like to try a Mac, but have that one Windows-only app that they need (in my case, lspCAD - there is no Mac equivalent) a safety net when switching. It is not, as the Ziff-Davis commentator states, intended to ween Mac users off of Mac hardware.
So Johnny, let me give give you a key insight you'll need to hold onto whenever you write anything about Apple: Jobs doesn't want to win, he wants to be the best.
(PS - I do not and have never owned an Apple computer, so this is not fanboi crap.)
Surprisingly, "Crack Whore" has failed to break into the top 50 jobs this year, although it did manage to edge out "Civil Servant".
They just don't get it. According to the article, ANYBODY who can get you to click an "accept" button can take any personal information they want, and/or do any amount of destruction to your computer without liability. They can do anything they want, all they have to do is bury some innocuous sounding phrase in their 5,000 word EULA.
These laws should be written to require companies to inform you each time they transmit information back to the mother ship, tell you what information they're taking, and require to you specifically approve each transmission, and allow you to opt out of any further transmissions at any time. If you want to protect the consumer, stop creating loopholes which can be used to abust them.
Apple doesn't want you to buy OS X. They want you to buy hardware. If Apple was trying to sell software, they would have switched over to PCs 15 years ago.
Since when is one less CNET columnist a bad thing?
OK, the first obvious question is, how do you "end" something that never got started? How many people do you know that have HTPC's? Zero? That's what I thought.
Viiv is just another solution to a problem that nobody has, or even cares about.
But then again, I could say that if I had his ability to turn crap into cash that I would be able to resist it either.
If you have a dozen monkeys typing on a dozen typewriters for a dozen days, you would have an analysis of Linux vs. XP vs OS X with a dozen times as much depth as this one. About all I got out of it was the there's no tax software on Linux. The author seemed to think writing important-sounding sentences would cover up the fact that he didn't have anything to say. The few times an actual idea was introduced, it wasn't expounded on, and strengthening examples were left out. If this were a technical writing class, this paper would get a "C-", and then only because it was mostly grammatically correct.
Three years from now we'll be buying HD-DVD/BluRay/DVD/CD/SACD/DVD-A combo players for $79.95 out of a wire basket parked in the middle of the cold medicine aisle at RexAll Drugs. There's not going to be a winner or a loser, nor will there be a war or even a battle. Everything will just merge.
The only losers will be the fanboys. And they're already losers.