If Apple is willing to take all old devices for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling (and I believe they are), then the EPEAT certification is of no great value to the environment in the case of Apple's devices.
Actually, Apple would need to provide the assurance, i.e. a trust fund or what-not, that the for disposal of their non-recyclable products will be paid for even if Apple goes out of business (we can hope, can't we?)
I see no reason why people who care about the environment should have to pray for the health of Apple.
And who does the audit trail on Apple? Do we even know that they're responsibly recycling their old product? I recall massive landfills full of old Apple product from the past (the termination of the Lisa)
Nothing with a 'capacitive touch screen' will do. They make styluses for the iPad and the finger-touch tablets, but it's a big blunt stylus, so the best you can do is the equivalent of drawing with a crayon.
Your Fujitsu likely has an older resistive touch screen, which means it uses a sharp pointed stylus and you can draw fine lines with it.
The iPod/Pad and the Android tablets are not meant for detailed drawing, or any form of content creation at all, except for snapshot photos.
It's pretty easy and obvious to tell that nobody has 800GB of executable binaries on their local storage. You could do that, to be certain. It wouldn't fool anybody.
I wouldn't say that Apple has never invested a dime in research.
They pissed away millions trying to write a next generation MacOS before giving up, acknowledging their developers weren't up to the task, and buying NeXT.
Back in about 1995 the Slackware distros included a complete Objective-C build environment as a set of packages. That's where I first saw it. It was presented as a parallel option of about the same size and significance as the plain vanilla C build environment. How it turned into an Apple-owned deal I don't understand. It's from NeXT, isn't it? (almost everything good from Apple comes from outside the Infinite Loop)
Microsoft can 'subsidize' their product with Corporate data-center integration.
Do you seriously think businesses want to give their employees smartphones that they can download games onto from App Stores. If Microsoft finally does it right and integrates their business apps (Office, Exchange, etc.) it won't matter what other smartphone vendors offer. Corporate IT will tell people what they are getting. And when said people realize how well their Outlook works, they'll be satisfied.
Actually, the only reason Apple shines is that they limit the scope of their target hardware so much that it becomes an easy job for them to support their product. The Hacintosh could never be more than a nerd's project, because Apple isn't even capable of supporting their own hardware more than a few years on their OS platform.
Actually, what it sounds like is that the cost of hurling more space junk up there will go down by a factor of a hundred. For better or for worse, humanity doesn't seem to have it's act together yet for it to be cheap to drag more litter up into orbit.
No, what he meant was that he wishes/. would return back to being a friendly gathering place of nerds where every incident isn't capitalized on as an opportunity to attack other peoples' core beliefs.
Me, I don't think we can ever go back. There are too many Apple and Microsoft enthusiasts here now, meaning people who either fanboy or have their livelihood tied to the proprietary software world.
Apple actually managed to make high DPI applications usable in 1/100th of the time we've been struggling with the same on Windows.
Microsoft could do the same, if their platform only had to run a little boutique of apps, and if their customer base was accustomed to having to upgrade everything, all the time, after every OS upgrade.
Indeed. Why would you need eBay, unless you want do something as questionable as paying $100 less, including shipping? Don't do it! Your friends will make fun of you for not having the proper branding on your purchase.
The EU is an economic basket case for 'doing way more for their citizens' and may soon cease to exist. This new move sounds a little like Nero fiddling to me.
When the marketing slime move in (that's basically what 'social networking' is) it sucks all the oxygen up. They employ a lot of really talented people in selling shit instead of creating useful things.
I notice a lot of really 'intelligent' people have jumped into this thread to defend Facebook and 'social networking.' It's really sad that they've invested their lot into marketing culture. At the end of the day, being a fucking salesman is an empty existence.
So you are making the claim that people only posting updates or sending email when they have something actually relevant to say is hyperbole? What's your point, anyway?
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If Apple is willing to take all old devices for free environmentally responsible disposal / recycling (and I believe they are), then the EPEAT certification is of no great value to the environment in the case of Apple's devices.
Actually, Apple would need to provide the assurance, i.e. a trust fund or what-not, that the for disposal of their non-recyclable products will be paid for even if Apple goes out of business (we can hope, can't we?)
I see no reason why people who care about the environment should have to pray for the health of Apple.
And who does the audit trail on Apple? Do we even know that they're responsibly recycling their old product? I recall massive landfills full of old Apple product from the past (the termination of the Lisa)
Nothing with a 'capacitive touch screen' will do. They make styluses for the iPad and the finger-touch tablets, but it's a big blunt stylus, so the best you can do is the equivalent of drawing with a crayon.
Your Fujitsu likely has an older resistive touch screen, which means it uses a sharp pointed stylus and you can draw fine lines with it.
The iPod/Pad and the Android tablets are not meant for detailed drawing, or any form of content creation at all, except for snapshot photos.
It's pretty easy and obvious to tell that nobody has 800GB of executable binaries on their local storage. You could do that, to be certain. It wouldn't fool anybody.
I wouldn't say that Apple has never invested a dime in research.
They pissed away millions trying to write a next generation MacOS before giving up, acknowledging their developers weren't up to the task, and buying NeXT.
It's a cult. They probably believe their own shit.
Jobs didn't take his pilgrimage to India to learn how to code in Assembly Language.
Back in about 1995 the Slackware distros included a complete Objective-C build environment as a set of packages. That's where I first saw it. It was presented as a parallel option of about the same size and significance as the plain vanilla C build environment. How it turned into an Apple-owned deal I don't understand. It's from NeXT, isn't it? (almost everything good from Apple comes from outside the Infinite Loop)
Microsoft can 'subsidize' their product with Corporate data-center integration.
Do you seriously think businesses want to give their employees smartphones that they can download games onto from App Stores. If Microsoft finally does it right and integrates their business apps (Office, Exchange, etc.) it won't matter what other smartphone vendors offer. Corporate IT will tell people what they are getting. And when said people realize how well their Outlook works, they'll be satisfied.
Actually, the only reason Apple shines is that they limit the scope of their target hardware so much that it becomes an easy job for them to support their product. The Hacintosh could never be more than a nerd's project, because Apple isn't even capable of supporting their own hardware more than a few years on their OS platform.
Actually, what it sounds like is that the cost of hurling more space junk up there will go down by a factor of a hundred. For better or for worse, humanity doesn't seem to have it's act together yet for it to be cheap to drag more litter up into orbit.
That would really be no different than, if one were traveling, using someone else's land-line phone to call 911.
No, what he meant was that he wishes /. would return back to being a friendly gathering place of nerds where every incident isn't capitalized on as an opportunity to attack other peoples' core beliefs.
Me, I don't think we can ever go back. There are too many Apple and Microsoft enthusiasts here now, meaning people who either fanboy or have their livelihood tied to the proprietary software world.
You're applying the Cold War version of the 'three worlds' theory. That's considered obsolete.
Apply Chariman Mao's Theory of Three Worlds instead.
I'm pretty sure, though it may have changed, that RMS doesn't drive.
I didn't get a license until my mid 20's so I am not throwing stones.
Apple actually managed to make high DPI applications usable in 1/100th of the time we've been struggling with the same on Windows.
Microsoft could do the same, if their platform only had to run a little boutique of apps, and if their customer base was accustomed to having to upgrade everything, all the time, after every OS upgrade.
Indeed. Why would you need eBay, unless you want do something as questionable as paying $100 less, including shipping? Don't do it! Your friends will make fun of you for not having the proper branding on your purchase.
The 'branding' folks are pleased. 'This one is properly conditioned now' one of them exclaims to the other.
Fiction isn't for making you think about anything exactly.
Maybe you're better off reading Technical Reference Manuals.
You're likely to never 'get it.' It's a pity, too.
Psychotic? You're going to apply a psychological diagnosis to entire cultures? Isn't that racist?
The EU is an economic basket case for 'doing way more for their citizens' and may soon cease to exist. This new move sounds a little like Nero fiddling to me.
Key it in? Your bootstrap loader brings up a terminal? Everybody else has to toggle it in on the front panel.
The rock and roll generation are running the country now.
You misspelled 'ruining.'
The problem is, the generalizations you just made are essentially 70's comic-bookstore-guy stereotypes.
So basically you're saying you were raised in a Company Town and everybody around you better frickin' pay their dues to the Company Store. Or Else.
When the marketing slime move in (that's basically what 'social networking' is) it sucks all the oxygen up. They employ a lot of really talented people in selling shit instead of creating useful things.
I notice a lot of really 'intelligent' people have jumped into this thread to defend Facebook and 'social networking.' It's really sad that they've invested their lot into marketing culture. At the end of the day, being a fucking salesman is an empty existence.
So you are making the claim that people only posting updates or sending email when they have something actually relevant to say is hyperbole? What's your point, anyway?