Eventually they might even come out with a tablet with connectivity. The one I just acquired has a USB port on it. Two USB ports, actually. One to connect it to a host, i.e. a PC, and one to be a host for other plug-in devices, like USB drives (well, any drive at all with a FAT or NTFS partition actually) and mice, game controllers, keyboards, etc. Connectivity is why I bought the thing. For about 20% more I could have bought an iPad with similar internal specs, but a locked OS and inferior connectivity.
I don't think I am alone. People are figuring this stuff out. Apple better be ready, because they're mostly relying on fashion at this point.
How and why did they learn you were using an Apple computer?
When I am wearing fruit-of-the-loom underwear I don't broadcast it on IRC channels. Likewise with whatever computer I happen to be logged on with. You only told half of the story. Was there some reason, i.e. gloating or showing off, that you chose to mention your 'mac'? Why did they even know? I like Logitech mice, but I don't carry on about it in chat channels.
He's creepy as hell, but the fact that Apple chose to trump him with their own creepy behavior isn't comforting. There were many other means at their disposal to deal with the issue, that they chose to call up a Secret Police organization is sorta telling.
The Young Steve Jobs went on a pilgrimage to India in his 20's. People act like they are being ironic when they refer to the cultlike nature of the Apple organization. Jobs knew exactly what he was doing.
The way Apple crassly and commercially manipulate this stuff, it's surprising more spiritually minded people don't call out Apple for it. Then again, Jobs studied under Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi who was the same huckster cult operator who hooked in on the Beatles.
Jobs set up Apple to be sort of a Moonie outfit. Quite literally cultilike.
Small scale tribal communities will only scale well after an apocalypse.. And even then, they'll amount to bully-rules, as they always have. Something like the Taliban or the Pentacostals always turns up.
Now, let's have a nice long troll about Dvorak keyboard layouts, etc.
Maybe someone can chime in with some rambling about their 'special' IBM Model M keyboard. My personal favorite is the IBM 84 key PC-AT keyboard. The function keys on the side are nice,
So who is the target audience, then? Macintosh 68K machine language enthusiasts? I have a few SE/30s in storage, but won't be plugging them in and booting them up for this.
Possibly the best encryption needed would be to store the poem in plaintext on an 800K Mac floppy diskette.....
'Bad' is not a binary absolute. It is an attribute of degrees. Perhaps Gibson's poem is just mediocre. Certainly many people could say that. And they could put it more simply by just saying it is a bad poem.
Just because somebody doesn't understand it doesn't mean it isn't bad. There is a lot of terrible drivel out there. And remarkably, Gibson is not renowned for his poetry.
If I find it distasteful to see, or even think about, somebody picking their nose and eating it, does that mean I am nose-picking-phobic? Why do people assume that other people who are not interested in their public parading of their sexual practices, who might even find it repulsive, are being phobic?
Nobody deserves to be 'fag bashed.' But there are plenty of laws on the book to deal with that. Ask for enforcement of the same regular laws as anybody else, if you want to be accepted into the mainstream. Don't try to become a protected special class. You're not 'special' because of your sexual preferences.
One of the reasons I abandoned the Republican party was because they could never face up to their own failures or take responsibilities for their mistakes.
I'll assume that you're not voting for the incumbent in the Pres. election in November, then. 'Four More Years' is sort of frightening to think about.
Microsoft sells a lot of mice, keyboards, web cameras, and game consoles to consumers.
Percentage-wise regarding total revenue for Microsoft, it's not that big a chunk of cash. But they're fairly strong in those areas, and thus have a significant presence in the consumer market. And a well known brand, obviously.
Does MacOS X run well enough on VirtualBox to let people run the iOS toolchain on it? Would Apple be able to tell if you registered as a developer and did that?
Because without X86 support MSFT is well and truly fucked
Why would they care about that? They have the Office flagship and it's going on their upcoming tablet platform. Which will come in x86 and ARM flavors. Microsoft is likely counting on all the app developers for their x86 platform will also port what is appropriate to the ARM flavor.
It will be fun to see who puts Windows 8 on a jailbroken iPad first. Not that anybody would want to, really, because the connectivity on iPads is so pitiful. But Windows 8 on the Android tablets sounds interesting. And Apple might even be helping advocate that, with their full-on attack of Android on the ARM tablets.
Android might soon be the third place on tablets. The iPad could end up in second place. If Microsoft executes the 'Surface' rollout properly. We'll see. They haven't been good in the past, but the times are changing.
It would be delicious in a way to see Jobs vision of 'killing' Android coming to pass, but it not mattering much.
It is a liability to anybody who hopes that Apple will be out of business soon. I don't care that they think they will be in business forever. If/when they shut down, I doubt if they'll be taking their old product back to recycle.
Businesses fail all the time and leave behind messes. Until Apple can show they have a recovery program in place that is long-term and doesn't depend on the company existing long-term, i.e. a trust fund sort of thing, it isn't acceptable.
You're talking about gluing versus welding of the frame of a vehicle. We are talking about gluing versus design of a device so that the battery can be serviced. Your Lotus doesn't have the hood glued shut. You don't have to shitcan it if the spark plugs get corrupt.
Battery compartments are the most expensive part of case design. Particularly if designed to use commercial off-the-shelf batteries, which have varying dimensions.
It's beyond Apple's design capabilities to produce a product with a removable battery. It's expensive and it requires top-tier engineers. Apple couldn't even design a preemptive multitasking OS that anybody wanted to use. They just bought in NeXT. They're more of a cosmetic/marking operation than an design/engineering firm.
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Oh, come on. Apple has lots in the pipeline.
iPad 4. iPad5.
Eventually they might even come out with a tablet with connectivity. The one I just acquired has a USB port on it. Two USB ports, actually. One to connect it to a host, i.e. a PC, and one to be a host for other plug-in devices, like USB drives (well, any drive at all with a FAT or NTFS partition actually) and mice, game controllers, keyboards, etc. Connectivity is why I bought the thing. For about 20% more I could have bought an iPad with similar internal specs, but a locked OS and inferior connectivity.
I don't think I am alone. People are figuring this stuff out. Apple better be ready, because they're mostly relying on fashion at this point.
How and why did they learn you were using an Apple computer?
When I am wearing fruit-of-the-loom underwear I don't broadcast it on IRC channels. Likewise with whatever computer I happen to be logged on with. You only told half of the story. Was there some reason, i.e. gloating or showing off, that you chose to mention your 'mac'? Why did they even know? I like Logitech mice, but I don't carry on about it in chat channels.
Naw, Apple isn't quaking in their boots.
They should be nervous, though, that people are more and more noticing the subtle stench that they emit.
He's creepy as hell, but the fact that Apple chose to trump him with their own creepy behavior isn't comforting. There were many other means at their disposal to deal with the issue, that they chose to call up a Secret Police organization is sorta telling.
The Young Steve Jobs went on a pilgrimage to India in his 20's. People act like they are being ironic when they refer to the cultlike nature of the Apple organization. Jobs knew exactly what he was doing.
The way Apple crassly and commercially manipulate this stuff, it's surprising more spiritually minded people don't call out Apple for it. Then again, Jobs studied under Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi who was the same huckster cult operator who hooked in on the Beatles.
Jobs set up Apple to be sort of a Moonie outfit. Quite literally cultilike.
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So, you're implying that John Lennon was an asshole?
Hadn't heard that one yet, but it's plausible I guess.
Small scale tribal communities will only scale well after an apocalypse.. And even then, they'll amount to bully-rules, as they always have. Something like the Taliban or the Pentacostals always turns up.
When I think X11/Linux it is the ribbon in my Selectric that comes to mind, not the Ribbon in Microsoft Office.
Now, let's have a nice long troll about Dvorak keyboard layouts, etc.
Maybe someone can chime in with some rambling about their 'special' IBM Model M keyboard. My personal favorite is the IBM 84 key PC-AT keyboard. The function keys on the side are nice,
So who is the target audience, then? Macintosh 68K machine language enthusiasts? I have a few SE/30s in storage, but won't be plugging them in and booting them up for this.
Possibly the best encryption needed would be to store the poem in plaintext on an 800K Mac floppy diskette.....
You aren't supposed to know what color the Emperor's clothing is. You darn peasant.
'Bad' is not a binary absolute. It is an attribute of degrees. Perhaps Gibson's poem is just mediocre. Certainly many people could say that. And they could put it more simply by just saying it is a bad poem.
Just because somebody doesn't understand it doesn't mean it isn't bad. There is a lot of terrible drivel out there. And remarkably, Gibson is not renowned for his poetry.
What's homophobia, in the first place?
If I find it distasteful to see, or even think about, somebody picking their nose and eating it, does that mean I am nose-picking-phobic? Why do people assume that other people who are not interested in their public parading of their sexual practices, who might even find it repulsive, are being phobic?
Nobody deserves to be 'fag bashed.' But there are plenty of laws on the book to deal with that. Ask for enforcement of the same regular laws as anybody else, if you want to be accepted into the mainstream. Don't try to become a protected special class. You're not 'special' because of your sexual preferences.
I'll assume that you're not voting for the incumbent in the Pres. election in November, then. 'Four More Years' is sort of frightening to think about.
Microsoft sells a lot of mice, keyboards, web cameras, and game consoles to consumers.
Percentage-wise regarding total revenue for Microsoft, it's not that big a chunk of cash. But they're fairly strong in those areas, and thus have a significant presence in the consumer market. And a well known brand, obviously.
Does MacOS X run well enough on VirtualBox to let people run the iOS toolchain on it? Would Apple be able to tell if you registered as a developer and did that?
I suppose one could say that OS X has widened it's userbase. They sure have a bigger userbase than they did as NeXT OS.
But, uh.....
Because without X86 support MSFT is well and truly fucked
Why would they care about that? They have the Office flagship and it's going on their upcoming tablet platform. Which will come in x86 and ARM flavors. Microsoft is likely counting on all the app developers for their x86 platform will also port what is appropriate to the ARM flavor.
It will be fun to see who puts Windows 8 on a jailbroken iPad first. Not that anybody would want to, really, because the connectivity on iPads is so pitiful. But Windows 8 on the Android tablets sounds interesting. And Apple might even be helping advocate that, with their full-on attack of Android on the ARM tablets.
Android might soon be the third place on tablets. The iPad could end up in second place. If Microsoft executes the 'Surface' rollout properly. We'll see. They haven't been good in the past, but the times are changing.
It would be delicious in a way to see Jobs vision of 'killing' Android coming to pass, but it not mattering much.
It's even possible that same-sex marriage will come into being in the EU before the EU itself is dissolved. Not likely, though.
Reminds me of the Monty Python line:
"Help, help, I'm being oppressed!"
Import restrictions would suffice, since nothing Apple sells in any volume is produced in the US anymore.
they had a bumpy history when they fired the goose that laid Apple Computers.
You surely aren't talking about Steve Jobs.
Back when they canned him, he was more proficient at laying lines of white powder along a mirror than anything more technical than that.
Just like any other marketing type.
It is a liability to anybody who hopes that Apple will be out of business soon. I don't care that they think they will be in business forever. If/when they shut down, I doubt if they'll be taking their old product back to recycle.
Businesses fail all the time and leave behind messes. Until Apple can show they have a recovery program in place that is long-term and doesn't depend on the company existing long-term, i.e. a trust fund sort of thing, it isn't acceptable.
You're talking about gluing versus welding of the frame of a vehicle. We are talking about gluing versus design of a device so that the battery can be serviced. Your Lotus doesn't have the hood glued shut. You don't have to shitcan it if the spark plugs get corrupt.
Battery compartments are the most expensive part of case design. Particularly if designed to use commercial off-the-shelf batteries, which have varying dimensions.
It's beyond Apple's design capabilities to produce a product with a removable battery. It's expensive and it requires top-tier engineers. Apple couldn't even design a preemptive multitasking OS that anybody wanted to use. They just bought in NeXT. They're more of a cosmetic/marking operation than an design/engineering firm.