PCMCIA = People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PC Card = a card that won't fit in my MacBook (see it's made only for PCs, right?)
(My 9-year-old is saving for an Asus EEE PC; he's willing to compromise on the resolution -- I would love to go that route if only it was 1024 pixels wide...)
"All I did was link to publicly available information. I didn't do anything further with it myself, what others did with it is up to them. If anyone really did abuse it (and I doubt that they did; any looneys would have looked up the info themselves) they will have to live with the consequences, not me." -VJ42
What you did (despite the lame attempt to cast aside responsibility) is to pretend that you aren't aware of 1) the large percentage of people that will skim across this forum and NOT realize that this teacher does not need thousands of hate-letters, 2) that many readers will not care that despite their mob-mentality -- their chastisement of the teacher would not have changed his/her behavior if he/she HAD done something wrong, and that 3) our legal system has fully vetted the "I didn't kill they guy I just left a bunch of guns around his little brother's room and what the kid does with them is his fault, not mine." -- and found it lacking in sound logic.
You are showing a method of rationalizing a witch trial that you believe in burning someone for, but can't support with your own logic -- so you hope others will anonymously carry out the sentence for you.
Shame on you. Whatever your political strip, civilized society does not value anarchy without reason. When there is a punishment without a crime, the punishment becomes the crime, and the leader of the torch-bearing mob the criminal.
You have branded yourself -- so don't get all upset that some readers here have pointed you out.
When the Intel 'books came out, I was happily plugging away on a 12" PowerBook G4, and had been preaching (to deaf ears) to others just coming into Mac ownership that portability makes their tool much more valuable than acres of screen real-estate.
Now, some three years after their first purchase, each one of those people has scaled down (at least from the 17" to the 15", if not down to a 12- or 13"). If you really are a road-rat, you realize the value of having a Hulk-powered, oversized 'Palm Pilot' versus 360 degrees of LCD vision. (OK, if you're really just looking for a desktop replacement that is ALSO portable, this may not be you... there is a strong market for each of these models.)
Anyway, when I found out that the 13" was to be the smallest Mac portable available, I was greatly dismayed... and wondered if I would even be able to keep the various types of luggage I had so carefully selected over the last few years (including saddlebags for my 1984 Honda Magna).
I am very happy with the current MacBook -- even like it better than the Pro's (for my purposes I don't see a lack of power or ports). Because I know that on my desk at work, there is a 17" LCD panel and a full keyboard with built-in USB hub waiting. What I'd love to have is a 10" screen that is still 1024 pixels wide. These can be had in several Sony, Toshiba, and lesser-known brands -- but if you flip through a few catalogs you will see that smaller screens actually cost MORE now than the typical 15" laptop on the market. Though it used to be true that the larger the display, the greater the price; the truth is tied very closely to the law of supply and demand: most people are buying 15" laptops, so their screens are dirt-cheap, and a smaller display can add 30 percent to the overall cost of the 'book.
It would be both 'a little retro' and a bit ballsy for Apple to come out with a smaller laptop now -- whether it had a touch screen or not (though I can't imagine they would leave a touch screen out). Regardless, I'm feeling like Apple is just the company to finally awaken this part of the market. Microsoft has tried to get manufacturers on-board with 'Origami'; but they all have a deserved sense of intrepidation here -- the parts are high-value when touch- and write-on screens are involved, and if a model fails, it means a substantial gamble in a market of slim margins leaves a scar that can take several fiscal years to recover.
But Apple is different... even taking into account the wild-eyed fan-base that will opine the apparent angelic inspiration of such a thing, it may take several years for an Apple sub to take hold in a subtantial way. But Apple has a tendency to stick with a design until it works; sometimes this means it takes longer for something to die that the market isn't quite ready for (Newton, QuickTake, eMate, Pippin, etc.) but the positive side of it is that Apple will stay on the ride until it comes to a complete stop. And it has the momentum and fans to do so without taking a big PR hit that could damage the sales of other lines (MacBook, Mac Pro, mini, iPod, Apple Phone, etc.).
Whatever it is, I'm looking forward to seeing it leave the gate, and will be extolling the virtues of *really* portable computing to my employer and minions for the next decade. Whether Apple does or does not lead, this part of the market will eventually grow when the right designs come along.
All games will install through the iTunes Store. At first, they will all cost $$$; but eventually (version 2.x?), there will be a way to subscribe to game RSS feeds (as podcasts), so that consumers can subscribe to a feed which gains them a new game every week or even ever day (the free game every day thing has sold a lot of hardware into the kid market for years).
There will never be a need to install a program directly on the iPhone; because everything will always sync through iTunes (which someday may have to be renamed).
This kind of drivel makes me tired. Steve Jobs stood up there and explained that Apple is a HARDWARE company, and the the new version of the OS (built to run on Intel) would be designed to run only on hardware that Apple produces. How else is that supposed to be accomplished without exactly this kind of DRM? These people just like to complain. Trolls.
Anyway, to shorten the rope on this thread -- it's entirely possible that someday, Apple may license their OS for installation on 'white boxes'; but it would be silly for them to do so right out of the gate because they have no experience at that. Let them do what they know how to do well, and then branch out from there. There is no conspiracy.
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You forgot, "...and grab your ankles..."
You Microsoft guys are always forgetting important user interface guidelines.
It's PEOPLE!
PCMCIA = People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PC Card = a card that won't fit in my MacBook (see it's made only for PCs, right?)
(My 9-year-old is saving for an Asus EEE PC; he's willing to compromise on the resolution -- I would love to go that route if only it was 1024 pixels wide...)
"All I did was link to publicly available information. I didn't do anything further with it myself, what others did with it is up to them. If anyone really did abuse it (and I doubt that they did; any looneys would have looked up the info themselves) they will have to live with the consequences, not me." -VJ42
What you did (despite the lame attempt to cast aside responsibility) is to pretend that you aren't aware of 1) the large percentage of people that will skim across this forum and NOT realize that this teacher does not need thousands of hate-letters, 2) that many readers will not care that despite their mob-mentality -- their chastisement of the teacher would not have changed his/her behavior if he/she HAD done something wrong, and that 3) our legal system has fully vetted the "I didn't kill they guy I just left a bunch of guns around his little brother's room and what the kid does with them is his fault, not mine." -- and found it lacking in sound logic.
You are showing a method of rationalizing a witch trial that you believe in burning someone for, but can't support with your own logic -- so you hope others will anonymously carry out the sentence for you.
Shame on you. Whatever your political strip, civilized society does not value anarchy without reason. When there is a punishment without a crime, the punishment becomes the crime, and the leader of the torch-bearing mob the criminal.
You have branded yourself -- so don't get all upset that some readers here have pointed you out.
Strange -- it works for me exactly as advertised. Did you try washing _from_head_to_toe_ with it, or just the parts that you thought mattered?
When the Intel 'books came out, I was happily plugging away on a 12" PowerBook G4, and had been preaching (to deaf ears) to others just coming into Mac ownership that portability makes their tool much more valuable than acres of screen real-estate.
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Now, some three years after their first purchase, each one of those people has scaled down (at least from the 17" to the 15", if not down to a 12- or 13"). If you really are a road-rat, you realize the value of having a Hulk-powered, oversized 'Palm Pilot' versus 360 degrees of LCD vision. (OK, if you're really just looking for a desktop replacement that is ALSO portable, this may not be you... there is a strong market for each of these models.)
Anyway, when I found out that the 13" was to be the smallest Mac portable available, I was greatly dismayed... and wondered if I would even be able to keep the various types of luggage I had so carefully selected over the last few years (including saddlebags for my 1984 Honda Magna).
I am very happy with the current MacBook -- even like it better than the Pro's (for my purposes I don't see a lack of power or ports). Because I know that on my desk at work, there is a 17" LCD panel and a full keyboard with built-in USB hub waiting. What I'd love to have is a 10" screen that is still 1024 pixels wide. These can be had in several Sony, Toshiba, and lesser-known brands -- but if you flip through a few catalogs you will see that smaller screens actually cost MORE now than the typical 15" laptop on the market. Though it used to be true that the larger the display, the greater the price; the truth is tied very closely to the law of supply and demand: most people are buying 15" laptops, so their screens are dirt-cheap, and a smaller display can add 30 percent to the overall cost of the 'book.
It would be both 'a little retro' and a bit ballsy for Apple to come out with a smaller laptop now -- whether it had a touch screen or not (though I can't imagine they would leave a touch screen out). Regardless, I'm feeling like Apple is just the company to finally awaken this part of the market. Microsoft has tried to get manufacturers on-board with 'Origami'; but they all have a deserved sense of intrepidation here -- the parts are high-value when touch- and write-on screens are involved, and if a model fails, it means a substantial gamble in a market of slim margins leaves a scar that can take several fiscal years to recover.
But Apple is different... even taking into account the wild-eyed fan-base that will opine the apparent angelic inspiration of such a thing, it may take several years for an Apple sub to take hold in a subtantial way. But Apple has a tendency to stick with a design until it works; sometimes this means it takes longer for something to die that the market isn't quite ready for (Newton, QuickTake, eMate, Pippin, etc.) but the positive side of it is that Apple will stay on the ride until it comes to a complete stop. And it has the momentum and fans to do so without taking a big PR hit that could damage the sales of other lines (MacBook, Mac Pro, mini, iPod, Apple Phone, etc.).
Whatever it is, I'm looking forward to seeing it leave the gate, and will be extolling the virtues of *really* portable computing to my employer and minions for the next decade. Whether Apple does or does not lead, this part of the market will eventually grow when the right designs come along.
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My previous opinations:
http://macbigot.blogspot.com/2006/03/dear-steve-t
http://macbigot.blogspot.com/2005/07/oqo-growing-
http://macbigot.blogspot.com/2005/07/what-hasnt-a
All games will install through the iTunes Store. At first, they will all cost $$$; but eventually (version 2.x?), there will be a way to subscribe to game RSS feeds (as podcasts), so that consumers can subscribe to a feed which gains them a new game every week or even ever day (the free game every day thing has sold a lot of hardware into the kid market for years).
There will never be a need to install a program directly on the iPhone; because everything will always sync through iTunes (which someday may have to be renamed).
That was an early alpha... specifically, 10.007, I think.
This kind of drivel makes me tired. Steve Jobs stood up there and explained that Apple is a HARDWARE company, and the the new version of the OS (built to run on Intel) would be designed to run only on hardware that Apple produces. How else is that supposed to be accomplished without exactly this kind of DRM? These people just like to complain. Trolls. Anyway, to shorten the rope on this thread -- it's entirely possible that someday, Apple may license their OS for installation on 'white boxes'; but it would be silly for them to do so right out of the gate because they have no experience at that. Let them do what they know how to do well, and then branch out from there. There is no conspiracy.