Yeah. I spent big bucks on a supposedly bulletproof Billion. Rave reviews yet it died within 18 months. The damn thing kept overheating until it karked. I got the cheapest replacement (D-Link 520) which is still working fine.
I disagree and I think that there are others also that have issues with current Macs. The significant issue here is that the gui is not user friendly, consequently many feel cheated by the promise of easy computing from Apple being unfulfilled. Typically, my average clientelle: 1. Can't exit a program. 2. Can't use the docks as they keep changing when they get overfilled. 3. Can't use a single button mouse. 4. Can't easily customise programs. 5. Unintuitiveness - comments like 'Where is it'? "I know I saved it but I can't find it" Plus a few others. It just goes to show that an over simplistic operating manual becomes pointless. Face it. An average Apple newbie needs a few training sessions and hopefully manage to retain some introduced skills. Even so, cutting and pasting between apps is almost as difficult to do as with Windows 8. The problem with Windows is that it has always been too nerdy, and Apple has always been too different for easy uptake. For example, Safari is a good browser, but put a Windows user in front of it and they give up as you need Finder and Safari to be able to use it. I've seen systems with countless apps and docs opened, multitudes of browser tabs opened for months as it goes into hibernation because there is no obvious indication to the user of running programs! So don't be too overjoyed about how easy a Mac is to operate. And those "just worked" plug ins? Fantastic - but it's only as good as Windows 7/8 that can download 3rd party drivers without user intervention. Sure they are fine machines but try and use one intuitively and it fails. The same for Windows 8. A Windows 8 desktop with multiple programs running is a pure mess. You just can't use a phone/tablet OS on a PC. It just don't work too good. 8.1 is a compromise, but I fear that MS has shot themselves in the foot. I'm sure that Windows 9 will be much more functional and more automated in the sense that MS intended Win 8 to be.
nah they come from that mysteriously popular school that thinks that if you abuse customers and they dislike you, then abuse them some more so that they will hate you, and if you keep abusing them the whole situation emerges from the far side of the black hole and then sales magically go up and they win.
Is that what Adobe is trying to do?
The point to be made is that there is a trade-off between the actual usefulness of a piece of tech and PC trend of morally justifying damning the company that make it. To me, if GoPro is what I need, then I'll buy it.The idiot that used the take-down has nothing to do with the actual tech.
Sure! I think you're implying something more profound. That Apple won't move on this issue because it is ridiculous regarding the fan, but I'm not too sure about the electrical port protection. It is impossible to get electrocuted with the current setup, so maybe the EU is more concerned with the internal shielding of all appliances. Apple have decided not to comply which means: 1. Apple can afford not to market their MacPro's to the EU (see point 7) 2. Apple think that the cost of redesign is not worth the effort, as I doubt they would make an EU only model. If they redesign, then that single design would be for established markets in toto. Almost like making a car that complies with every country's design rules. 3. Apple is betting on the EU making an exception on their product family and hope that public pressure will force the EU to rescind the requirement. 4. Apple have inside information that the EU is going to fall apart 'real-soon-now' and so the modification is pointless. 5. Apple are betting on grey/black market imports. 6. Apple have enough economic, multinational importance to ignore the EU altogether in a delusional world-view sourced from France. 7. Apple sell more than enough iProduct in the EU that already complies.
I'm actually quite happy about this as it adds to the current stratification of geo-politics.
$100/year may be steep, but considering that MS is charging $169 in Australian dollars AND since the $AUS=$US, then this is a digital rip off. Other companies have been nabbed doing the same thing, geo-locking software downloads and charging whatever they want for the same product. I am really surprised at MS for doing this.
The AC comment has merit. I see the novellas "By His Bootstraps" (Anson McDonald~Robert Heinlein) and Henry Hasse's "He Who Shrank" (1936) deal with, respectively, time travel and dimensionality in original ways, not as a cheap shot but as a thoroughly thought out, mind bending, scrape the stars with your mind kind of story. He Who Shrank was immortalized poorly in the Incredible Shrinking Man movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050539/ but never approached Hasse's stunning conclusion. That is a property (in the Hollywood sense) that has never been explored. There are a lot of concepts out there that only the imagination can create and understand, way beyond those concepts foisted upon us by Sci-Fi writers who distinctly lack imagination.
A small car engine is rated at ~200 KW (i.e. Ford Focus Spec at 223 KW)
A normally aspirated 2 litre motor is around 100-110 KW with around 200nm of torque, nowhere near a 200kw spec. Maybe if you add a turbo you'll get close to it and you really don't need that much power. Also the power output whilst maintaining acceptable speed can be little as a few kw.
I think this is almost like the flying car scenario. A true Solar car would generate its own power and store the excess for night driving (when it's parked for example). And let's not assume for now that Solar = electrical. The fact that this is impossible to do today, doesn't make the concept stupid. We don't have solar cars as yet - they are electric cars and they don't need solar energy to operate.
Disagree there. Maybe you're looking at Bhuddism in its most basic and public form. Most certainly it answers the ontological question. What is interesting about Bhuddism is the level of apparent ancient sciences that are part of its world view.
My dad collected a pile of dog poo that he put into an empty beer case, stuck it in the back tray of his pickup to be dumped somewhere. He stopped off at a store and when he got back, someone stole his 'beer'. Hahahaha!
The HD 7870 (now almost all brands are OC'd) is a good alternative to Nvidia which seems to crap its pants, especially in SLI mode. But wait till the new processors are out and pay for what you can afford.
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Exactly! It wouldn't of been brain surgery to form a detent on one side.
Yeah. I spent big bucks on a supposedly bulletproof Billion. Rave reviews yet it died within 18 months. The damn thing kept overheating until it karked.
I got the cheapest replacement (D-Link 520) which is still working fine.
I disagree and I think that there are others also that have issues with current Macs.
The significant issue here is that the gui is not user friendly, consequently many feel cheated by the promise of easy computing from Apple being unfulfilled.
Typically, my average clientelle:
1. Can't exit a program.
2. Can't use the docks as they keep changing when they get overfilled.
3. Can't use a single button mouse.
4. Can't easily customise programs.
5. Unintuitiveness - comments like 'Where is it'? "I know I saved it but I can't find it"
Plus a few others. It just goes to show that an over simplistic operating manual becomes pointless.
Face it. An average Apple newbie needs a few training sessions and hopefully manage to retain some introduced skills. Even so, cutting and pasting between apps is almost as difficult to do as with Windows 8.
The problem with Windows is that it has always been too nerdy, and Apple has always been too different for easy uptake.
For example, Safari is a good browser, but put a Windows user in front of it and they give up as you need Finder and Safari to be able to use it. I've seen systems with countless apps and docs opened, multitudes of browser tabs opened for months as it goes into hibernation because there is no obvious indication to the user of running programs!
So don't be too overjoyed about how easy a Mac is to operate. And those "just worked" plug ins? Fantastic - but it's only as good as Windows 7/8 that can download 3rd party drivers without user intervention.
Sure they are fine machines but try and use one intuitively and it fails. The same for Windows 8. A Windows 8 desktop with multiple programs running is a pure mess. You just can't use a phone/tablet OS on a PC. It just don't work too good. 8.1 is a compromise, but I fear that MS has shot themselves in the foot. I'm sure that Windows 9 will be much more functional and more automated in the sense that MS intended Win 8 to be.
Nothing wrong with B.A.S.I.C.
Otherwise alter the arry +- 1 and try that.
You mean "That is no small feet" don't you?
On the other hand, any newbie can create a torrent file and let others download from him, with a lot of benefits.
I can't.
I've tried numerous times:
1. Create torrent (easy)
2. Wait (easy)
3. No-one downloads torrent (fail).
Apart from P4P, I've given up on uploading torrents as NO-ONE IS INTERESTED.
Yours,
Failed Newbie
I like this guy's modality.
Programming a machine to teach is not as hard as it sounds.
nah they come from that mysteriously popular school that thinks that if you abuse customers and they dislike you, then abuse them some more so that they will hate you, and if you keep abusing them the whole situation emerges from the far side of the black hole and then sales magically go up and they win.
Is that what Adobe is trying to do?
The point to be made is that there is a trade-off between the actual usefulness of a piece of tech and PC trend of morally justifying damning the company that make it.
To me, if GoPro is what I need, then I'll buy it.The idiot that used the take-down has nothing to do with the actual tech.
Yeah sure. And this news comes from people who gave us Phlogiston and Ether!
Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
Bad predictors predict that their predictions are bad?
There's a word for that!
Sure! I think you're implying something more profound. That Apple won't move on this issue because it is ridiculous regarding the fan, but I'm not too sure about the electrical port protection. It is impossible to get electrocuted with the current setup, so maybe the EU is more concerned with the internal shielding of all appliances.
Apple have decided not to comply which means:
1. Apple can afford not to market their MacPro's to the EU (see point 7)
2. Apple think that the cost of redesign is not worth the effort, as I doubt they would make an EU only model. If they redesign, then that single design would be for established markets in toto. Almost like making a car that complies with every country's design rules.
3. Apple is betting on the EU making an exception on their product family and hope that public pressure will force the EU to rescind the requirement.
4. Apple have inside information that the EU is going to fall apart 'real-soon-now' and so the modification is pointless.
5. Apple are betting on grey/black market imports.
6. Apple have enough economic, multinational importance to ignore the EU altogether in a delusional world-view sourced from France.
7. Apple sell more than enough iProduct in the EU that already complies.
I'm actually quite happy about this as it adds to the current stratification of geo-politics.
I prefer the 'Policeman' walk - gait or whatever. It's a one leg leap forward with a pointed foot. Gracefull but silly.
$100/year may be steep, but considering that MS is charging $169 in Australian dollars AND since the $AUS=$US, then this is a digital rip off.
Other companies have been nabbed doing the same thing, geo-locking software downloads and charging whatever they want for the same product. I am really surprised at MS for doing this.
but Corporations are people too!
Oh for mod points!
I get maybe 25 of them so far this month, but nothing left for this!
The AC comment has merit. I see the novellas "By His Bootstraps" (Anson McDonald~Robert Heinlein) and Henry Hasse's "He Who Shrank" (1936) deal with, respectively, time travel and dimensionality in original ways, not as a cheap shot but as a thoroughly thought out, mind bending, scrape the stars with your mind kind of story.
He Who Shrank was immortalized poorly in the Incredible Shrinking Man movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050539/ but never approached Hasse's stunning conclusion. That is a property (in the Hollywood sense) that has never been explored.
There are a lot of concepts out there that only the imagination can create and understand, way beyond those concepts foisted upon us by Sci-Fi writers who distinctly lack imagination.
Yes but does it work with Windows?
Well there goes quality. Anything left?
A small car engine is rated at ~200 KW (i.e. Ford Focus Spec at 223 KW)
A normally aspirated 2 litre motor is around 100-110 KW with around 200nm of torque, nowhere near a 200kw spec. Maybe if you add a turbo you'll get close to it and you really don't need that much power. Also the power output whilst maintaining acceptable speed can be little as a few kw.
I think this is almost like the flying car scenario. A true Solar car would generate its own power and store the excess for night driving (when it's parked for example). And let's not assume for now that Solar = electrical.
The fact that this is impossible to do today, doesn't make the concept stupid. We don't have solar cars as yet - they are electric cars and they don't need solar energy to operate.
Disagree there. Maybe you're looking at Bhuddism in its most basic and public form. Most certainly it answers the ontological question. What is interesting about Bhuddism is the level of apparent ancient sciences that are part of its world view.
My dad collected a pile of dog poo that he put into an empty beer case, stuck it in the back tray of his pickup to be dumped somewhere. He stopped off at a store and when he got back, someone stole his 'beer'. Hahahaha!
The HD 7870 (now almost all brands are OC'd) is a good alternative to Nvidia which seems to crap its pants, especially in SLI mode. But wait till the new processors are out and pay for what you can afford.
Yeah. It's called Australia.