Seriously tho' - take a look at the photo of Bill & Steve answering questions - have you ever seen such defensive body language? I almost felt sorry for them - but then I remembered they were responsible for Windows 95.
You can get a year old regular desktop for the same price and run an operating system of your choice,
You can get a big, noisy, ugly, year old desktop, high power-consuming, requiring an O/S reinstall, along with hunting down all the applications (a no-no for the masses), with god-only-knows-what sort of hardware problems.
Or you can get one of these things - and have all common workflows (skype, office, google, music) working out of the box.
Hard drives have entered terabytes territory, and you think 256GB SSD drives are "large enough"?
Yup, even 64GB is easily large enough for my primary hdd on my laptop - I'd pay a premium far larger than 30% if the price/performance relationship was linear.
Until SSD drives cost only around 10-25% more than a regular drive of the same capacity, they're not replacing them at all. For most consumers, capacity is king, not speed.
But, the bulk of my content resides on network servers (same holds true for my less geeky friends - but for them, substitute 'usb drive' for 'network servers').
*sighs* The fact that some plants reproduce asexually as well as sexually reinforces, rather than contradicts my point. Life attempts where possible to produce copies of itself.
that the keyboard on the iPhone (since it isn't physical) can adapt to whatever situation it needs to in order
Yes, (patiently explains *again*), it could be - but the submitter was asking for something now, not for something that may have these features & may be ready a few months after the SDK's release.
Your cue: OMG! Thirdd Fanboi alertz
Sorry, you're being a little too reasonable & a little too late posting to be a true whiney apple fanboy. Try harder next time.
Presumably...could also be...Possibly....potentially better...possibility.... don't....what if they did add a model with a physical keyboard?...we do not know everything...so much in the world may change...
Do you want to use a few more weasel words in your post? Qualify things a little more?
Yes, for short messages, typing in URLs, etc, it is fine.
What the submitter asked for is not fine general text entry, but the best choice, specifically for ssh. An iPhone (where every slash, period & ampersand is three taps away) is a poor choice for ssh text entry.
Don't be so dismissive until you see what terminal possibilities might arrive with the SDK.
Right, thanks - we're looking for a solution right now, not a possible solution that may come about one day.
When I read the headline, I thought "I wonder how long it's going to take for some fanboy to recommend the iPhone, despite the fact that it doesn't have a keyboard & is inferior for text entry compared to say a blackberry, or even some of the HTC monstrosities."
And there you were - right in the first post. Thank you for reaffirming my faith in fanboi nature.
Why not just use QuickTime's control panel to tell it you don't want an icon in the notification area? Then it will never return.
Why not just use Quicktime Alternative & never have to bother with Quicktime's arrogance / spamminess / attempts to install other software / irritating update / etc?
I was hoping the pun would be that the gentoo fork was using apt;-)
Oh well.
I've read both FAs and I can't see why. Am I missing something obvious?
Interestingly, a search for Exherbo on google only yields 116 results as I write this; the lowest I've ever seen for something I've searched for from a slashdot headline. I wonder how many search results google will be returning by morning?
(funnily enough, a yahoo search for the same item returns fewer, but more relevant results - another first for me).
Interestingly, the first ever computer bug was also of the 'physical' variety - See here
From the article you link to:
So, where did the term "bug" come from?
Well, the entry ("First actual case of bug being found.") shows that the term was already in use before the moth was discovered. Grace Hopper also reported that the term "bug" was used to describe problems in radar electronics during WWII [emph mine]
Only had one problem on my Acer Laptop (TravelMate 8210) with SP3, it forgot that I had a wireless card, restarted and been fine since then (almost a week) so I'd say no problems for me
Wow! Your anecdote (in which you don't even mention if you're using intel or AMD) has totally changed my mind about the reliability of SP3!
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If Apple won't fix it, why doesn't someone fork the project
Because Safari is not Open Source.
It was way better than 3.1..
The advantages (pentium support, better 32 bit support) were outweighed by its stability problems.
Seriously tho' - take a look at the photo of Bill & Steve answering questions - have you ever seen such defensive body language? I almost felt sorry for them - but then I remembered they were responsible for Windows 95.
I am surprised this one is so large.
Large HDD & optical device.
You can get a year old regular desktop for the same price and run an operating system of your choice,
You can get a big, noisy, ugly, year old desktop, high power-consuming, requiring an O/S reinstall, along with hunting down all the applications (a no-no for the masses), with god-only-knows-what sort of hardware problems.
Or you can get one of these things - and have all common workflows (skype, office, google, music) working out of the box.
Still using safari or IE? Means you're probably not too bright.
What you're saying is that some scientists can make a better living with IP protection.
The OP insinuated is that scientists will have to rob others if deprived of IP protection.
Hard drives have entered terabytes territory, and you think 256GB SSD drives are "large enough"?
Yup, even 64GB is easily large enough for my primary hdd on my laptop - I'd pay a premium far larger than 30% if the price/performance relationship was linear.
Until SSD drives cost only around 10-25% more than a regular drive of the same capacity, they're not replacing them at all. For most consumers, capacity is king, not speed.
But, the bulk of my content resides on network servers (same holds true for my less geeky friends - but for them, substitute 'usb drive' for 'network servers').
Plants do not reproduce in the manner you think.
*sighs* The fact that some plants reproduce asexually as well as sexually reinforces, rather than contradicts my point. Life attempts where possible to produce copies of itself.
Monsanto does own their seeds because they invested a lot of time and money in the traits of those seeds.
IP laws shouldn't be applied to plants. IP laws exist to prevent copying items & plant's only purpose in life is to make copies of itself.
person who thinks scarcity is artificial,
The OP didn't say scarcity is artificial, but instead they disliked scarcity caused by artificial means.
Now at the same time, Monsanto does not get to fly those seeds over random farms and drop them and then sue those farmers,
Have you heard of pollen? You clearly have no understanding of the issues at all.
otherwise all that scientist can do for a living is steal shit from you
What? You're saying scientists would have no way of making a living without IP protections? Dumbass.
I agree with you completely; comments inappropriately bringing up the iPhone can be likened to spam.
Thanks for the backup.
that the keyboard on the iPhone (since it isn't physical) can adapt to whatever situation it needs to in order
Yes, (patiently explains *again*), it could be - but the submitter was asking for something now, not for something that may have these features & may be ready a few months after the SDK's release.
Your cue: OMG! Thirdd Fanboi alertz
Sorry, you're being a little too reasonable & a little too late posting to be a true whiney apple fanboy. Try harder next time.
And now it's over 100k.
116 to 121,000 in 5 days flat. Nice.
That's some googceleration (coined a new term).
Presumably...could also be...Possibly....potentially better...possibility.... don't....what if they did add a model with a physical keyboard?...we do not know everything ...so much in the world may change...
Do you want to use a few more weasel words in your post? Qualify things a little more?
You'd make a great white house spokesperson.
I'm not sure I'd want to program on it. It likes to tell you what you mean.
Yes, that wouldn't be a lot of fun programming, or using a shell.
The iPhone is fine for typing text.
Yes, for short messages, typing in URLs, etc, it is fine.
What the submitter asked for is not fine general text entry, but the best choice, specifically for ssh. An iPhone (where every slash, period & ampersand is three taps away) is a poor choice for ssh text entry.
Don't be so dismissive until you see what terminal possibilities might arrive with the SDK.
Right, thanks - we're looking for a solution right now, not a possible solution that may come about one day.
Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time. He took credit for other's work. (like Apple?)
When I read the headline, I thought "I wonder how long it's going to take for some fanboy to recommend the iPhone, despite the fact that it doesn't have a keyboard & is inferior for text entry compared to say a blackberry, or even some of the HTC monstrosities."
And there you were - right in the first post. Thank you for reaffirming my faith in fanboi nature.
Wow, so Apple haters have now reached the new low of comparing Jobs to Kim Jong Il.
I know! Unbelievable isn't it? Especially when Mussolini is a much more appropriate comparison.
Mussolini made the trains run on time, right?
Wrong, but Apple, like Mussolini does take the credit for other's work/innovations, so perhaps the analogy is apt.
Why not just use QuickTime's control panel to tell it you don't want an icon in the notification area? Then it will never return.
Why not just use Quicktime Alternative & never have to bother with Quicktime's arrogance / spamminess / attempts to install other software / irritating update / etc?
"aptly named Exherbo"
;-)
I was hoping the pun would be that the gentoo fork was using apt
Oh well.
I've read both FAs and I can't see why. Am I missing something obvious?
Interestingly, a search for Exherbo on google only yields 116 results as I write this; the lowest I've ever seen for something I've searched for from a slashdot headline. I wonder how many search results google will be returning by morning?
(funnily enough, a yahoo search for the same item returns fewer, but more relevant results - another first for me).
From the article you link to:
Free (as in Beer) Beer.
Change your nick to GoodAnalogyGuy - there is no analogy that is not improved with a beer analoguy.
Only had one problem on my Acer Laptop (TravelMate 8210) with SP3, it forgot that I had a wireless card, restarted and been fine since then (almost a week) so I'd say no problems for me
Wow! Your anecdote (in which you don't even mention if you're using intel or AMD) has totally changed my mind about the reliability of SP3!