I expect so. Management types always need a new status symbol while they look at spreadsheets and write emails.
My wife, a professional writer and game coder would absolutely love this machine,
A "writer"? I think that market is served by a 20 year old notebook with wordperfect 5. In fact i know a couple professional writers still on that setup.
And what professional 'game coder' doesn't use a desktop as their primary dev machine? Seriously. A decent keyboard and big screen(s!) is a pre-req for anything serious.
I code, i have a macbook pro laptop, I can use it to code in a pinch, but I'd rather gouge my eyes out than do any serious programming work on it. A few code windows, history/diff/change summary, specs, application window, debug/watch windows,... I suppose I could plug my laptop into the dual monitors on my desk... but its simpler to just leave them plugged them into a desktop that's always there and has far more storage, ram, and video horsepower.
Seriously, I'll probably buy another mac down the line... but i'll just get an air. If I'm just going to use it to write email and browse the web and need dongles to attach it to anything anyway; then what does the 'pro' give me?
What does your wife need from the new pro that the air doesn't do? Because that's what the new pro is. Hell.. the macbook air is almost redundant... the new pro is pretty much the air with a specs bump and all the ports converted to usbc... which is exactly what we'd expect from the next macbook air anyway.
Bull crap! American companies better not start doing this too. I'm one of the few people who does not use Facebook, or any social media for that matter. If a company starts using Facebook data to determine things about me, they better ASSUME THE BEST or it is downright discrimination. So for auto insurance, I better get the best rate, as if I had everything they were looking for on my non-existing Facebook account.
Just like how they assume the best about you when you apply for a mortage and have no credit history because you don't use credit cards, and use a pre-paid phone, etc?
Good luck with that.
On the upside at least, if your someone who doesn't use facebook, you can hire someone to create a profile for you, and have them go around liking 'seatbelts'*1, non-alcoholic beer *2, MADD, Volvo Wagons *3, and making periodic posts saying you will be picking up the milk, bread, cheese, and organic lettuce, at the whole foods*4 at 321 Main Street, at 4:35 pm (*5), unless it is raining*6
*1 - safety! *2 - non drinker *3 - boring and safe *4 - healthy! *5 - organized and precise *6 - because you don't make unnecessary trips if it is raining.
Make it a modular part? That's a great idea. Like, maybe they could make it detachable, and then it would be easy to swap.
I meant modular as in built-in but still a replaceable module. You know, the way the DVD drive is on your desktop, or the harddrive.SO when it breaks its a few screws a plug and you are good to go.
Ports are inherently a little bit fragile due to whatever being stuck in them can act as a lever, so being able to replace the receptacle easily is a nice feature of any professional tool.
That's one of the problems with dongles is that they tend to act as levers on the USB ports. So not having to use them is a real bonus especially on portable devices... like laptops.
Not all people that buy Mac Pros are photography professionals.
Of course!
We have a Nikon D3s at home--a pro level camera--and it uses compact flash, so we've NEVER used the SD card slot.
First, I'd argue that adding a CF slot to the pro makes MORE sense than removing the SD card slot. Instead of pissing off half the photographers out there, you'd make the other half a lot happier.
Second, so you've already got an adapter then. Which also won't work, because they didn't include a goddamned USB port either. You can either buy a new CF adapter to USBC or you can buy a USB to USBC adapter and chain them together.
Either way, the mac pro didn't get any better for you and you even have to buy another adapter even though you already have one. And it got objectively worse for everyone who uses SD Cards too. Who is this laptop actually better for? It seems nobody. (Hence the griping.)
More ports, yes, but more multi-use ports.
You are like the 3rd person who I've addressed (over multiple/. articles) with this argument. And I agree... I love that the macbook pro is loaded with multi-use USBC ports. That's great. But there's not even a damned regular rectangular USB-A style port on it. You need an adapter. It should have all the ports it does have so that it has all the multiuse flexibility and goodness you like about it. AND it should have the MOST commonly needed regular ports... ethernet, usb-A, hdmi, etc.
It's simply not an either or question. There's room for more than a couple USB-C ports. And if there wasn't, make it bigger. Because pros who need tools weren't asking for 'thinner'.
Where is the use case that they are lugging around a DSLR, lenses, lights, tripods, and a laptop but are really put out by the SD reader?
Its not about the 'lugging it around'; its not even about the cost; it's about the sheer blind arrogance and idiocy of making a tool less useful. The 'pro' series stuff is supposed to be a TOOL for PROFESSIONALS.
Tools are supposed to be functional. When they are less functional for absolutely no good reason, people who use them get pissed.
Nobody thought that macbook pro was too big, nobody wanted it thinner. Nobody wanted them to remove the sd card.
Meanwhile apple comes out with this nonsense...
"and because wireless transfer technology for cameras is "proving very useful" as an alternative"
You know how a photographer works? They fill a card, pull it out, and put in the next one and keep going. They don't sit around for 2 hours doing an 8 or 16GB wireless transfer.
" Then there are very fine and fast USB card readers,"
And it used to be built in.
"and then you can use CompactFlash as well as SD"
Great idea Apple. Add a CF slot. That would be an actual feature.
"we picked SD because more consumer cameras have SD but you can only pick one"
Bullshit. You can pick more than one. You've got all that space from taking the DVD out, and the expresscard slot out, and the SSD is a fraction of the size of the old hard drive... so room isn't a problem. Add the 2nd most popular slot, and watch people actually get excited about the new laptop instead.
Better still make it a modular part, so if it breaks, it's easy to replace. That would be how you design a professional tool.
Oh... you took all that space and made it thinner instead... nobody wanted it thinner.
Imagine you used a heavy duty pickup truck for work.
Then the next years model is announced its new truck, basically a Porsche 911 with a trailer hitch.. And the maker told you, well... this is better because people need to carry different cargo... and this way you can buy exactly the trailer you need!! Oh and with the availability of courier services (aka 'wireless transfer') a lot of people don't even need a truck bed at all... they just make a phone call and the cargo shows up at the destination!!
And just look at this new 'truck' its smaller, and lighter, and handles great. Look how sleek it is. (Well.. until you actually hook up a trailer (aka usb dongle) to it and then its unwieldy as shit... but we didn't REALLY want you to use a trailer with it... did we mention you can get a courier to move stuff for you!!)
Oh, and it's virtually un-serviceable except at specialized dealers; so keep it in the city and maybe the highway -- don't take this truck onto farm roads and mountain roads. Its just not built for that. If you need something from a farm or mountain road... it has this great built in phone you can use to call real professional with actual tools to do it for you!
That's about apple's recent approach to dealing with 'professionals' who need 'tools'.
max fine total. so no ratcheting 30 separate songs into a suit for 150,000 or anything like that.
And for a first offense without... a fine of $100 or $200 is more likely.
Canada's law isn't perfect, but its not a bad law, it puts punishment for non-commercial copyright infringement into the 'petty / misdemeanor' class that it is, especially for first offenses.
. If anything it was an O'Neill Cylinder that was tailored to fit the forces that longitudinal space travel would impart upon it, with the high wall on one side of the "ocean".
Rama was a cylindrical rotating habitat, yes. An Oneill cylinder, to me at least, and from what I can tell online is specifically:
Two counter rotating cylinders (to cancel out gryo effects) (Rama wasn't that) Stripes of habit and windows (so the habitats had sky) (Rama wasn't that)
Rama was a rotating cylindrical habitat ship, but I don't think that's enough to make it an o'neill cylinder.
Still trying to decide if I want to read the somewhat ghost-written sequels or not
"noncomittal sound". I've read them... as the other commenter said, it's focused far more on the social aspects; and is a character driven story... where with Rendezvous well... wasn't.
You've probably done your own research... but it's not Rama sequels ghost written by Gentry Lee. Its really a novel by Gentry Lee in the 'universe' of the first Rama.
Frankly, in my opinion, It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really what I *wanted* from the Rama sequels. I'd have probably enjoyed it more if it hadn't been tied to Clarke's work; or if at least I hadn't been psyched for another Rendezvous with Rama when I read it.
Ultimately, Gentry Lee's novels are not a story about Rama... it's about people. The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K Le Guin) is maybe something in the same... genre as Gentry Lee's Rama books.
Actually, per wikipedia, the idea of a rotating cylindrical habitat was put forth in 1920 in "Beyond the Planet Earth", Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. (published in English in 1960)...
And maybe he's not the first either.
Besides, the O'Niell Cylinder is a very particular layout. The one in Rama was not an O'Neill cylinder AT ALL.
There was an ocean in Rama that was a ring around the center, and the habitat as i recall was the entire cylinder? (been years since I read it...) for example, while an ONeil cylinder in contrast has alternating lengthwise strips of habitat and windows (sky).
Nope I'm not. I've consistently said that 2012 MBP I have (with gigabit and a DVDRW) was perfectly fine as a form factor.
In 2016... the same form factor would be awesome, keep the ethernet port, keep the magsave, use all the extra space for more battery... and an extra SSD bay, upgradeable ram sockets.
My 2015 macbook pro... its thinner and faster and has better battery than my 2012 one. But I'd much rather it have been thicker with even MORE battery, upgradeable ram, and an ethernet port.
On some level... who cares? I can plug in rhe xps if it runs low. I cant add ram to the mac.
Dell precision laptops can run xeons with 64gb ecc if i want. Its nice to have choice so you can get what you need and make your own decisions about weight / battery vs perfomance. Dell has xps and precision so you can get what ylu need.
Apple just has something like xps... and its less capable then the xps. Its a joke next to the precision.
And its not like apple even had to make it thinner. They could have added ram and battery and made it a touch thicker.
I see a difference between instructing a mail carrier to deliver a flyer to a predominantly white neighborhood, versus instructing the mail carrier not to deliver the flyer to any homes in that neighborhood that have non-white residents.
Actions are perceived differently when it gets to an individual/personal differentiation.
The new HP Spectra and Dell XPS are two excellent laptops.
Yup, that's probably what I'll end up doing. Dell precision makes a good pro laptop... all the ports including usbc, gobs of ram. 2nd hard drive. keyboard has all it's keys.
They'll even ship it with ubuntu if I want. Although I'll probably get Windows10 and use the new linux services stuff for the unixy stuff I want.
Why did I buy macbook pro's the last 10 years?
- Magsafe -- now gone. After losing a couple laptops over the years, I really valued this. Now its gone.
- upgradable -- not in years now. My 2011 mbp got an SSD upgrade, and a ram upgrade a couple years later. My 2015 is stuck with what it came with.
- Unix -- windows is basically caught up for my needs (between linux subsystem and hyperV...) nice big multitouch touchpad - used to be pretty mac exclusive, now everyone has them
- build quality -- apple still has good build quality, but lots of PC vendors make comparably good equipment
- keyboard... for a while PC vendors were doing stupid layouts with a slash next to a shortened enter key -- while my desktop keyboard has a wide enter key with the slash above it, so whenever i switch to the laptop, I'd hit \ instead of enter every single time. Mac's always had the wide enter key... but now that trend has mostly faded on the PC, while the mac goes and removes the function keys and the esc key.
- price was never a primary motivator; and I'll pay top dollar for a good product; but this latest batch of macs ratchets up the price for no discernible relative increase in capabilities. I'm not 'price sensitive' but I'm also not going to stand around and just get ripped off.
Maybe I'll buy a dell for a work laptop and a 13" macbook air as a toy for browsing the web on the couch and replying to email; and to keep at least a toe in OSX. But no point in buying a macbook pro for that. And that's just it... there's really nothing pro about the "pro" laptop. Its just a faster more expensive macbook air now.
Why can't you have both? I'd like 4 USBC ports. And HDMI. And ethernet. And 1-2 USB3 A style port that's backwards compatible all the way back.
Now we''ve got the same 4 ports your perfect laptop has so anything you can do with your perfect laptop I can do with mine. Plus you don't need an adapter for 90% of the stuff you are likely to run into in the real world today.
As for gigabit ethernet: I dig why they don't want to put that on the laptop. The laptop is too thin to fit the jack,
I didn't ask for it to be that thin. Give me a thicker laptop with more battery, more ram slots, room for a 2nd SSD... If I wanted a thin laptop, then I'd understand giving up the ethernet port... and I'd buy a macbook air.
But thinner than the 2012 macbook pro (with gigabit port) ? I never asked for that. I liked the form factor of the 2012 just fine. (the minidisplay port was ass though). But then Apple made it thinner... and took away the ethernet because... Apple.
A USB-C/Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter is $30. Plug your patch cord - that you have to have anyway - into it,
So now I have to carry around "my special ethernet cord" everywhere I go. Whereas before i could use any ethernet cord on the planet or buy a new one anywhere for $5 if I left mine at home. A compromise made Just so my laptop could be extra thin... which is a 'feature' I never asked for. That's not progress.
the peripheral manufacturers will start making devices with the USB-C connector.
Yeah, well, if that pans out, 20 years from now a pro laptop can have just USB-C connectors. But it won't pan out, 5 years from now, USBC will probably be replaced by something else again.
If apple had kept an old-stipe USB-A connector on the Mac [...] and you need 103 different cables stuffed into a drawer.
That's exactly the situation the macbook pro has created for users TODAY.
Get a dock if you want to use lots of (legacy) ports on a compact laptop!
Uh... if I wanted a 'compact laptop' I'd buy a macbook air.
I wanted a pro laptop; I want a gigabit ethernet port. That is not a "legacy" port. I want regular USB. I want HDMI. These are not legacy ports either. These are what the other devices you will encounter on the road have. From the TV in the hotel to the flash drive a coworker will hand you. I don't want to have reach into a bag of dongles to find an adapter for every goddamned thing.
I'm fine with it being a bit heavier, and a bit thicker if it gives me more ports and more battery. Again, I wanted a pro laptop... if I wanted a compact laptop that focused on minimalism... I'd have bought a macbook air.
I want more RAM, I want more SSD. This laptop might be a fine device... but its just a fancy macbook air. I'm in the market for a pro laptop.
Anyone that's somehow finding it possible to be hurting for an additional $25 after buying a $2,000+ computer can just get on ali or amazon or ebay and pick up two cables for $6 shipped or something like that.
Its not the money for the cables, its having to buy them at all. Its that I spent $2000+ for a computer with all the functionality I wanted built in. I wasn't trying to save money; I was trying to buy a pro laptop. Charge me another $200 and build-in the fucking ports. Not having to carry around a bag of shit is worth it to me.
Get a dock! Problem solved, and solved well.
A dock is something you leave on your desk. I need the ports to follow me around so I can use them where I go.
So your solution is Buy a laptop for $2000+ Then buy another slightly smaller laptop sized dongle to fix all the shortcomings of the first laptop.
FFS that is not a problem solved well. You know what a problem solved well would be... build the fucking dock INTO the goddamned laptop, and call that a "pro" laptop.
One anecdote deserves another. I've talked to the police lots of times, and never regretted it nor had any negative outcomes nor had any suspicion placed on me.
I've watched that video a couple times, and legally, its really good advice. BUT its also a recipe for a shitty society.
Ctrl-Click has worked for right click since Mac OS 8.
Yes.
So yes, you could right click even with the single button mouse.
No.
A 'right click' is to click on the right mouse button. A mouse that does not have a right mouse button cannot be right-clicked. Ctrl-click as an alternative way to send a right click is a fine workaround, but it is not a right click.
This is important. Because while you and I might have abstracted 'right click' into an event that can be triggered by a) clicking the right mouse button, b) ctrl-clicking a singular mouse button, c) two finger tapping a touchpad, etc... the average person when instructed to right click ONLY knows to press the 'button on the right side of a mouse'.
So mac applications (and mac users) don't use the right mouse button much because its functionality isn't very discoverable. Anyone with a two button mouse instinctively knows what a right mouse click is; and is apt to click it to see what happens -- so its functionality is very discoverable.
Ctrl-click... by comparison is arcane. Nobody is going to find that unless they are told. I mean, when was the last time you pushed the Command key, the escape key, and clicked at the same time? Maybe that does something in some application too...;)
From 1983 to 2005 all apple sold was one button mice. The 2005 mighty mouse was the first one that actually had a 'right click'.
That said the mighty mouse/magic mouse being multitouch devices with capacitive touch continued to make right clicking far less discoverable to users than a typical PC mouse which clearly had 2 clickable surfaces, one on the left, and one on the right.
And that continues even to today. And frankly the apple might/magic mice are utter garbage; designed for people who spend more time admiring their mouse then using it.
Chiming in to agree; BUT quality isn't the only factor here. You simply couldn't engineer a smartwatch that anyone would want to wear 40 years from now. Even if it worked good as new, it would still be a ridiculously obsolete piece of gear that needs to pair with a "phone" equally out of date and totally incompatible with the networks, and completely unable to render a 'webpage', and all of its client/server apps would be broken.
Maybe steampunk types or some future equivalent "LED-punk" would wear one, with an oculus rift converted into a bike helmet... to conventions... but that's about it.
Artificial Intelligence is a computer that can trick a person into thinking it is a real person.
Well that premise is flawed out of the gate. I've never heard any one ever say that.
That means it has to have as many flaws as a real human as well.
Flawed conclusion, from a flawed premise.
If you were going to put a piece of software with intentional human flaws in charge of something, then that is a fairly big mistake.
True dat.
I would rather put an intelligent computer, rather than an AI, in charge of making decisions. That will reduce the risk of very bad decisions being made.
Will it? What would a flawless AI conclude? What if it decides humans are awful things, and should be limited to a handful of specimens kept in a wildlife preserve on Proxima 4 for study and preservation.
You know, the same way we treat certain viruses.
Is that a 'good' decision? For the AI maybe it is.
I still fear a large increase in the error rate for manual driving by drivers who become rusty and have to take over under the worst driving situations (possibly after being summoned from a nap).
yeah, I think its going to be interesting as autonomous vehicles escalate to the human whenever it runs into somehting it can't handle it's basically setting human up for even more errors.
As in... here' you tune out and let your driving skills atrophy while I do your driving. Uh oh... I know its been 3 years since you've driven the car... but its snowing something fierce and i cant' see... I'm out you drive home today!
And then a guy who hasn't driven in years has to drive in the worst conditions possible. multiplied by the entire city.
On the upside, the carnage will make the autonomous drivers look good right? See how bad it is when human drive!
Citation? There's about 57,000 "Dell Precision" laptops. Got a particular one in mind? For example, I don't see ANY Dell Precision Laptop that offers more than 32 GB of RAM, and even that one (7510) doesn't have USB-C, even as an option.
operating systems: Windows 7 pro / windows 7 pro / or Ubuntu 14 LTS ram : 8GB to 64GB RAM -- both ECC (for Xeons) and Non-ECC for i5/i7
USBC / Thunderbolt 3 are the same thing from everything I've read (am I wrong?). It's a 28$ option. Again, on that page... between the processors and the OS choices. Dell calls it a USBC port elsewhere too.
And in the end, it's still a POS plastic laptop with a POS Operating System.
Its really not though; its really well built. And it comes with Ubuntu LTS if you want it so its not even 'windows only'. Linux support from the OEM. You just burn your credibility by claiming its a POS.
And I say all this as a macbook pro owner. I've got 2 of them. 2011 and 2015. The high end dell business stuff is well made.
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Froth all you want, but these will sell very well
I expect so. Management types always need a new status symbol while they look at spreadsheets and write emails.
My wife, a professional writer and game coder would absolutely love this machine,
A "writer"? I think that market is served by a 20 year old notebook with wordperfect 5. In fact i know a couple professional writers still on that setup.
And what professional 'game coder' doesn't use a desktop as their primary dev machine? Seriously. A decent keyboard and big screen(s!) is a pre-req for anything serious.
I code, i have a macbook pro laptop, I can use it to code in a pinch, but I'd rather gouge my eyes out than do any serious programming work on it. A few code windows, history/diff/change summary, specs, application window, debug/watch windows, ... I suppose I could plug my laptop into the dual monitors on my desk... but its simpler to just leave them plugged them into a desktop that's always there and has far more storage, ram, and video horsepower.
Seriously, I'll probably buy another mac down the line... but i'll just get an air. If I'm just going to use it to write email and browse the web and need dongles to attach it to anything anyway; then what does the 'pro' give me?
What does your wife need from the new pro that the air doesn't do? Because that's what the new pro is. Hell.. the macbook air is almost redundant... the new pro is pretty much the air with a specs bump and all the ports converted to usbc ... which is exactly what we'd expect from the next macbook air anyway.
Bull crap! American companies better not start doing this too. I'm one of the few people who does not use Facebook, or any social media for that matter. If a company starts using Facebook data to determine things about me, they better ASSUME THE BEST or it is downright discrimination. So for auto insurance, I better get the best rate, as if I had everything they were looking for on my non-existing Facebook account.
Just like how they assume the best about you when you apply for a mortage and have no credit history because you don't use credit cards, and use a pre-paid phone, etc?
Good luck with that.
On the upside at least, if your someone who doesn't use facebook, you can hire someone to create a profile for you, and have them go around liking 'seatbelts'*1, non-alcoholic beer *2, MADD, Volvo Wagons *3, and making periodic posts saying you will be picking up the milk, bread, cheese, and organic lettuce, at the whole foods*4 at 321 Main Street, at 4:35 pm (*5), unless it is raining*6
*1 - safety!
*2 - non drinker
*3 - boring and safe
*4 - healthy!
*5 - organized and precise
*6 - because you don't make unnecessary trips if it is raining.
* (indicating your are very health conscious)
Make it a modular part? That's a great idea. Like, maybe they could make it detachable, and then it would be easy to swap.
I meant modular as in built-in but still a replaceable module. You know, the way the DVD drive is on your desktop, or the harddrive.SO when it breaks its a few screws a plug and you are good to go.
Ports are inherently a little bit fragile due to whatever being stuck in them can act as a lever, so being able to replace the receptacle easily is a nice feature of any professional tool.
That's one of the problems with dongles is that they tend to act as levers on the USB ports. So not having to use them is a real bonus especially on portable devices ... like laptops.
Not all people that buy Mac Pros are photography professionals.
Of course!
We have a Nikon D3s at home--a pro level camera--and it uses compact flash, so we've NEVER used the SD card slot.
First, I'd argue that adding a CF slot to the pro makes MORE sense than removing the SD card slot. Instead of pissing off half the photographers out there, you'd make the other half a lot happier.
Second, so you've already got an adapter then. Which also won't work, because they didn't include a goddamned USB port either. You can either buy a new CF adapter to USBC or you can buy a USB to USBC adapter and chain them together.
Either way, the mac pro didn't get any better for you and you even have to buy another adapter even though you already have one. And it got objectively worse for everyone who uses SD Cards too. Who is this laptop actually better for? It seems nobody. (Hence the griping.)
More ports, yes, but more multi-use ports.
You are like the 3rd person who I've addressed (over multiple /. articles) with this argument. And I agree... I love that the macbook pro is loaded with multi-use USBC ports. That's great. But there's not even a damned regular rectangular USB-A style port on it. You need an adapter. It should have all the ports it does have so that it has all the multiuse flexibility and goodness you like about it. AND it should have the MOST commonly needed regular ports... ethernet, usb-A, hdmi, etc.
It's simply not an either or question. There's room for more than a couple USB-C ports. And if there wasn't, make it bigger. Because pros who need tools weren't asking for 'thinner'.
Where is the use case that they are lugging around a DSLR, lenses, lights, tripods, and a laptop but are really put out by the SD reader?
Its not about the 'lugging it around'; its not even about the cost; it's about the sheer blind arrogance and idiocy of making a tool less useful. The 'pro' series stuff is supposed to be a TOOL for PROFESSIONALS.
Tools are supposed to be functional. When they are less functional for absolutely no good reason, people who use them get pissed.
Nobody thought that macbook pro was too big, nobody wanted it thinner. Nobody wanted them to remove the sd card.
Meanwhile apple comes out with this nonsense...
"and because wireless transfer technology for cameras is "proving very useful" as an alternative"
You know how a photographer works? They fill a card, pull it out, and put in the next one and keep going. They don't sit around for 2 hours doing an 8 or 16GB wireless transfer.
" Then there are very fine and fast USB card readers,"
And it used to be built in.
"and then you can use CompactFlash as well as SD"
Great idea Apple. Add a CF slot. That would be an actual feature.
"we picked SD because more consumer cameras have SD but you can only pick one"
Bullshit. You can pick more than one. You've got all that space from taking the DVD out, and the expresscard slot out, and the SSD is a fraction of the size of the old hard drive... so room isn't a problem. Add the 2nd most popular slot, and watch people actually get excited about the new laptop instead.
Better still make it a modular part, so if it breaks, it's easy to replace. That would be how you design a professional tool.
Oh... you took all that space and made it thinner instead... nobody wanted it thinner.
Imagine you used a heavy duty pickup truck for work.
Then the next years model is announced its new truck, basically a Porsche 911 with a trailer hitch.. And the maker told you, well... this is better because people need to carry different cargo... and this way you can buy exactly the trailer you need!! Oh and with the availability of courier services (aka 'wireless transfer') a lot of people don't even need a truck bed at all... they just make a phone call and the cargo shows up at the destination!!
And just look at this new 'truck' its smaller, and lighter, and handles great. Look how sleek it is. (Well.. until you actually hook up a trailer (aka usb dongle) to it and then its unwieldy as shit... but we didn't REALLY want you to use a trailer with it... did we mention you can get a courier to move stuff for you!!)
Oh, and it's virtually un-serviceable except at specialized dealers; so keep it in the city and maybe the highway -- don't take this truck onto farm roads and mountain roads. Its just not built for that. If you need something from a farm or mountain road... it has this great built in phone you can use to call real professional with actual tools to do it for you!
That's about apple's recent approach to dealing with 'professionals' who need 'tools'.
Near as I can tell it's the same. Why wouldn't it be?
max fine total. so no ratcheting 30 separate songs into a suit for 150,000 or anything like that.
And for a first offense without... a fine of $100 or $200 is more likely.
Canada's law isn't perfect, but its not a bad law, it puts punishment for non-commercial copyright infringement into the 'petty / misdemeanor' class that it is, especially for first offenses.
. If anything it was an O'Neill Cylinder that was tailored to fit the forces that longitudinal space travel would impart upon it, with the high wall on one side of the "ocean".
Rama was a cylindrical rotating habitat, yes.
An Oneill cylinder, to me at least, and from what I can tell online is specifically:
Two counter rotating cylinders (to cancel out gryo effects) (Rama wasn't that)
Stripes of habit and windows (so the habitats had sky) (Rama wasn't that)
Rama was a rotating cylindrical habitat ship, but I don't think that's enough to make it an o'neill cylinder.
Still trying to decide if I want to read the somewhat ghost-written sequels or not
"noncomittal sound". I've read them... as the other commenter said, it's focused far more on the social aspects; and is a character driven story... where with Rendezvous well... wasn't.
You've probably done your own research ... but it's not Rama sequels ghost written by Gentry Lee. Its really a novel by Gentry Lee in the 'universe' of the first Rama.
Frankly, in my opinion, It wasn't bad, but it wasn't really what I *wanted* from the Rama sequels. I'd have probably enjoyed it more if it hadn't been tied to Clarke's work; or if at least I hadn't been psyched for another Rendezvous with Rama when I read it.
Ultimately, Gentry Lee's novels are not a story about Rama... it's about people. The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K Le Guin) is maybe something in the same ... genre as Gentry Lee's Rama books.
Actually, per wikipedia, the idea of a rotating cylindrical habitat was put forth in 1920 in "Beyond the Planet Earth", Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. (published in English in 1960)...
And maybe he's not the first either.
Besides, the O'Niell Cylinder is a very particular layout. The one in Rama was not an O'Neill cylinder AT ALL.
There was an ocean in Rama that was a ring around the center, and the habitat as i recall was the entire cylinder? (been years since I read it...) for example, while an ONeil cylinder in contrast has alternating lengthwise strips of habitat and windows (sky).
Nope I'm not. I've consistently said that 2012 MBP I have (with gigabit and a DVDRW) was perfectly fine as a form factor.
In 2016... the same form factor would be awesome, keep the ethernet port, keep the magsave, use all the extra space for more battery... and an extra SSD bay, upgradeable ram sockets.
My 2015 macbook pro... its thinner and faster and has better battery than my 2012 one. But I'd much rather it have been thicker with even MORE battery, upgradeable ram, and an ethernet port.
On some level... who cares? I can plug in rhe xps if it runs low. I cant add ram to the mac.
Dell precision laptops can run xeons with 64gb ecc if i want. Its nice to have choice so you can get what you need and make your own decisions about weight / battery vs perfomance. Dell has xps and precision so you can get what ylu need.
Apple just has something like xps... and its less capable then the xps. Its a joke next to the precision.
And its not like apple even had to make it thinner. They could have added ram and battery and made it a touch thicker.
Really?
I see a difference between instructing a mail carrier to deliver a flyer to a predominantly white neighborhood, versus instructing the mail carrier not to deliver the flyer to any homes in that neighborhood that have non-white residents.
Actions are perceived differently when it gets to an individual/personal differentiation.
I expect the courts to agree.
The new HP Spectra and Dell XPS are two excellent laptops.
Yup, that's probably what I'll end up doing. Dell precision makes a good pro laptop... all the ports including usbc, gobs of ram. 2nd hard drive. keyboard has all it's keys.
They'll even ship it with ubuntu if I want. Although I'll probably get Windows10 and use the new linux services stuff for the unixy stuff I want.
Why did I buy macbook pro's the last 10 years?
- Magsafe -- now gone. After losing a couple laptops over the years, I really valued this. Now its gone.
- upgradable -- not in years now. My 2011 mbp got an SSD upgrade, and a ram upgrade a couple years later. My 2015 is stuck with what it came with.
- Unix -- windows is basically caught up for my needs (between linux subsystem and hyperV ...)
nice big multitouch touchpad - used to be pretty mac exclusive, now everyone has them
- build quality -- apple still has good build quality, but lots of PC vendors make comparably good equipment
- keyboard... for a while PC vendors were doing stupid layouts with a slash next to a shortened enter key -- while my desktop keyboard has a wide enter key with the slash above it, so whenever i switch to the laptop, I'd hit \ instead of enter every single time. Mac's always had the wide enter key... but now that trend has mostly faded on the PC, while the mac goes and removes the function keys and the esc key.
- price was never a primary motivator; and I'll pay top dollar for a good product; but this latest batch of macs ratchets up the price for no discernible relative increase in capabilities. I'm not 'price sensitive' but I'm also not going to stand around and just get ripped off.
Maybe I'll buy a dell for a work laptop and a 13" macbook air as a toy for browsing the web on the couch and replying to email; and to keep at least a toe in OSX. But no point in buying a macbook pro for that. And that's just it... there's really nothing pro about the "pro" laptop. Its just a faster more expensive macbook air now.
I wish every vendor did that on their laptops.
Why can't you have both? I'd like 4 USBC ports. And HDMI. And ethernet. And 1-2 USB3 A style port that's backwards compatible all the way back.
Now we''ve got the same 4 ports your perfect laptop has so anything you can do with your perfect laptop I can do with mine. Plus you don't need an adapter for 90% of the stuff you are likely to run into in the real world today.
As for gigabit ethernet: I dig why they don't want to put that on the laptop. The laptop is too thin to fit the jack,
I didn't ask for it to be that thin. Give me a thicker laptop with more battery, more ram slots, room for a 2nd SSD... If I wanted a thin laptop, then I'd understand giving up the ethernet port... and I'd buy a macbook air.
But thinner than the 2012 macbook pro (with gigabit port) ? I never asked for that. I liked the form factor of the 2012 just fine. (the minidisplay port was ass though). But then Apple made it thinner... and took away the ethernet because... Apple.
A USB-C/Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter is $30. Plug your patch cord - that you have to have anyway - into it,
So now I have to carry around "my special ethernet cord" everywhere I go. Whereas before i could use any ethernet cord on the planet or buy a new one anywhere for $5 if I left mine at home. A compromise made Just so my laptop could be extra thin... which is a 'feature' I never asked for. That's not progress.
Everything with the same connector. At last!
Except it doesn't. Not in the real world.
the peripheral manufacturers will start making devices with the USB-C connector.
Yeah, well, if that pans out, 20 years from now a pro laptop can have just USB-C connectors. But it won't pan out, 5 years from now, USBC will probably be replaced by something else again.
If apple had kept an old-stipe USB-A connector on the Mac [...] and you need 103 different cables stuffed into a drawer.
That's exactly the situation the macbook pro has created for users TODAY.
Get a dock if you want to use lots of (legacy) ports on a compact laptop!
Uh... if I wanted a 'compact laptop' I'd buy a macbook air.
I wanted a pro laptop; I want a gigabit ethernet port. That is not a "legacy" port. I want regular USB. I want HDMI. These are not legacy ports either. These are what the other devices you will encounter on the road have. From the TV in the hotel to the flash drive a coworker will hand you. I don't want to have reach into a bag of dongles to find an adapter for every goddamned thing.
I'm fine with it being a bit heavier, and a bit thicker if it gives me more ports and more battery. Again, I wanted a pro laptop ... if I wanted a compact laptop that focused on minimalism... I'd have bought a macbook air.
I want more RAM, I want more SSD. This laptop might be a fine device... but its just a fancy macbook air. I'm in the market for a pro laptop.
Anyone that's somehow finding it possible to be hurting for an additional $25 after buying a $2,000+ computer can just get on ali or amazon or ebay and pick up two cables for $6 shipped or something like that.
Its not the money for the cables, its having to buy them at all. Its that I spent $2000+ for a computer with all the functionality I wanted built in. I wasn't trying to save money; I was trying to buy a pro laptop. Charge me another $200 and build-in the fucking ports. Not having to carry around a bag of shit is worth it to me.
Get a dock! Problem solved, and solved well.
A dock is something you leave on your desk. I need the ports to follow me around so I can use them where I go.
So your solution is Buy a laptop for $2000+ Then buy another slightly smaller laptop sized dongle to fix all the shortcomings of the first laptop.
FFS that is not a problem solved well. You know what a problem solved well would be... build the fucking dock INTO the goddamned laptop, and call that a "pro" laptop.
I've had the cords themselves go, but the connector itself has always been fine.
magsafe is, or should I say *was*, one of the big selling points for the macbook pros for me.
I can't really see buying another one though. The new one is not merely underwhelming, its a straight up downgrade.
Their Sales VP needs [...] to come up with a plan that lights a fire under the sales team
Easy. Make the sales team sit on the recalled note 7s.
One anecdote deserves another. I've talked to the police lots of times, and never regretted it nor had any negative outcomes nor had any suspicion placed on me.
I've watched that video a couple times, and legally, its really good advice. BUT its also a recipe for a shitty society.
Ctrl-Click has worked for right click since Mac OS 8.
Yes.
So yes, you could right click even with the single button mouse.
No.
A 'right click' is to click on the right mouse button. A mouse that does not have a right mouse button cannot be right-clicked. Ctrl-click as an alternative way to send a right click is a fine workaround, but it is not a right click.
This is important. Because while you and I might have abstracted 'right click' into an event that can be triggered by a) clicking the right mouse button, b) ctrl-clicking a singular mouse button, c) two finger tapping a touchpad, etc... the average person when instructed to right click ONLY knows to press the 'button on the right side of a mouse'.
So mac applications (and mac users) don't use the right mouse button much because its functionality isn't very discoverable. Anyone with a two button mouse instinctively knows what a right mouse click is; and is apt to click it to see what happens -- so its functionality is very discoverable.
Ctrl-click ... by comparison is arcane. Nobody is going to find that unless they are told. I mean, when was the last time you pushed the Command key, the escape key, and clicked at the same time? Maybe that does something in some application too... ;)
"Been able to right click for decades.... Why do you guys that have zero experience with a MAC keep trying to bring that fake piece of info Up?"
Decades? Sure, you've been able to right click in OSX for as long as I can remember.
Sure. Just not with the mice apple sold you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
From 1983 to 2005 all apple sold was one button mice. The 2005 mighty mouse was the first one that actually had a 'right click'.
That said the mighty mouse/magic mouse being multitouch devices with capacitive touch continued to make right clicking far less discoverable to users than a typical PC mouse which clearly had 2 clickable surfaces, one on the left, and one on the right.
And that continues even to today. And frankly the apple might/magic mice are utter garbage; designed for people who spend more time admiring their mouse then using it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Chiming in to agree; BUT quality isn't the only factor here. You simply couldn't engineer a smartwatch that anyone would want to wear 40 years from now. Even if it worked good as new, it would still be a ridiculously obsolete piece of gear that needs to pair with a "phone" equally out of date and totally incompatible with the networks, and completely unable to render a 'webpage', and all of its client/server apps would be broken.
Maybe steampunk types or some future equivalent "LED-punk" would wear one, with an oculus rift converted into a bike helmet... to conventions... but that's about it.
Artificial Intelligence is a computer that can trick a person into thinking it is a real person.
Well that premise is flawed out of the gate. I've never heard any one ever say that.
That means it has to have as many flaws as a real human as well.
Flawed conclusion, from a flawed premise.
If you were going to put a piece of software with intentional human flaws in charge of something, then that is a fairly big mistake.
True dat.
I would rather put an intelligent computer, rather than an AI, in charge of making decisions. That will reduce the risk of very bad decisions being made.
Will it? What would a flawless AI conclude? What if it decides humans are awful things, and should be limited to a handful of specimens kept in a wildlife preserve on Proxima 4 for study and preservation.
You know, the same way we treat certain viruses.
Is that a 'good' decision? For the AI maybe it is.
I still fear a large increase in the error rate for manual driving by drivers who become rusty and have to take over under the worst driving situations (possibly after being summoned from a nap).
yeah, I think its going to be interesting as autonomous vehicles escalate to the human whenever it runs into somehting it can't handle it's basically setting human up for even more errors.
As in... here' you tune out and let your driving skills atrophy while I do your driving. Uh oh... I know its been 3 years since you've driven the car... but its snowing something fierce and i cant' see... I'm out you drive home today!
And then a guy who hasn't driven in years has to drive in the worst conditions possible. multiplied by the entire city.
On the upside, the carnage will make the autonomous drivers look good right? See how bad it is when human drive!
Citation? There's about 57,000 "Dell Precision" laptops. Got a particular one in mind? For example, I don't see ANY Dell Precision Laptop that offers more than 32 GB of RAM, and even that one (7510) doesn't have USB-C, even as an option.
Yeah, the 7510
http://configure.us.dell.com/d...
operating systems: Windows 7 pro / windows 7 pro / or Ubuntu 14 LTS
ram : 8GB to 64GB RAM -- both ECC (for Xeons) and Non-ECC for i5/i7
USBC / Thunderbolt 3 are the same thing from everything I've read (am I wrong?). It's a 28$ option. Again, on that page... between the processors and the OS choices. Dell calls it a USBC port elsewhere too.
And in the end, it's still a POS plastic laptop with a POS Operating System.
Its really not though; its really well built. And it comes with Ubuntu LTS if you want it so its not even 'windows only'. Linux support from the OEM. You just burn your credibility by claiming its a POS.
And I say all this as a macbook pro owner. I've got 2 of them. 2011 and 2015. The high end dell business stuff is well made.