Right now I'm in a market for a 15" MBP to replace a PPC Powerbook but the glossy screen is preventing me from purchasing it.
Why don't you buy the Lenovo recommended in the story & install (a retail copy of) OS X on it? That way you'll have the best of both worlds. Decent hardware & a unixy OS that runs your workflow tools.
Sounds to me like they deliberately choose an option with hope of failure. The matte display has been an option since the previous macbook introduction.
Yes, because someone who concluded 18 months ago that "Apple was making one of the finest laptop screens we'd seen for use in a pro digital photography workflow." is bound to be setting Apple up for failure.
Thank you for reaffirming my belief in self-delusional fanboi nature.
Nice. The Linux kernel guys did this and look at the result--it is a bitch for hardware guys to write drivers for Linux
Bullshit. The result is that it's a bitch for proprietary guys to write binary only drivers for linux.
And you know - why should the GCC & Linux projects make things easy for the proprietary guys? It's not like the proprietary guys go out of their way to make life easier for OSS.
So, what you are saying is that it isn't possible to extrapolate global warming on Mars in even a short term because of a lack of understanding of the overall physics and insufficient data points.
I didn't say anything of the kind. Read my post again.
I find it odd that your link that supposedly shows Apple sued a school doesn't even mention a school, and also says nothing about Apple suing anybody, [emph mine] Says nothing about Apple suing anybody? The headline is "Apple sues Big Apple". I don't expect people to read the article, but at least read the headline.
Seriously, yes, I linked to the wrong article. Here's the correct one.
Mars and Jupiter have been experiencing "global warming", too.
Oh yes, you're totally right! I bet you're the sort who argues over accuracy of Earth's temperature records, but you're willing to believe that we have enough data to show global warming on Mars and Jupiter FFS.
Recently, there have been some suggestions that "global warming" has been observed on Mars (e.g. here). These are based on observations of regional change around the South Polar Cap, but seem to have been extended into a "global" change, and used by some to infer an external common mechanism for global warming on Earth and Mars (e.g. here and here). But this is incorrect reasoning and based on faulty understanding of the data.
A couple of basic issues first : the Martian year is about 2 Earth years (687 days). Currently it is late winter in Mars's northern hemisphere, so late summer in the southern hemisphere. Martian eccentricity is about 0.1 - over 5 times larger than Earth's, so the insolation (INcoming SOLar radiATION) variation over the orbit is substantial, and contributes significantly more to seasonality than on the Earth, although Mars's obliquity (the angle of its spin axis to the orbital plane) still dominates the seasons. The alignment of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to "great" summers and winters on time scales of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years). Since Mars has no oceans and a thin atmosphere, the thermal inertia is low, and Martian climate is easily perturbed by external influences, including solar variations. However, solar irradiance is now well measured by satellite and has been declining slightly over the last few years as it moves towards a solar minimum.
If your ethical system agrees with patents and enforcing them in court, then it's perfectly ethical.
So, you see no difference between (say) a patent troll, a broad, over-reaching patent, a concise patent on something genuinely novel & a patent on something with prior art?
The ethics of filing for & using court to enforce each of the patent types above is different. I certainly do.
You seem to have a rather naive view that people think either patents are inherently evil or OK. Like most things in life, there are shades of grey.
It's certainly legal.
Legal != ethical. I don't know why the fuck you bought that up.
Yes, but not everybody thinks that the concept of Intellectual Property is inherently evil.
Sure - hardly anyone thinks all Intellectual Property laws are inherently evil, but threatening that you "are ready to suit up and go against anyone," is not the actions of a company that's as ethical as Apple like to present itself.
While many people paint Apple as a friendly company, (who wouldn't sue a school), the fact is that COO Tim Cook said recently (at a quarterly earnings conference call):
We approach this business as a software platform business. We are watching the landscape. We like competition as long as they don't rip off our IP. And if they do, we will go after anyone who does.
and
I don't want to talk about any specific company. We are ready to suit up and go against anyone. However, we will not stand for having our IP ripped off.
Until you go through the same hell in college that degreed mechanical/electrical/aero/civil engineers go through in college and have a chance to obtain a PE, you are not an engineer.
Repeat after me, you are not an engineer.
Unless you work on / maintain an engine, you are not an engineer. Or.... perhaps that word has changed a bit over the years. First to include the structural & eletrical fields, then to include anything where you methodically apply technical knowledge & repeatable natural laws to solve a problem.
No they haven't. (The EU will ban most 100W incandescents come September however)
As in, you sell it, you go to jail.
Completely wrong. Link to (proposed or actual) jail-time penalties if you think you're right.
OT: Your sig: Watching Idiocracy and posting on Slashdot at the same time is, umm, spooky.
Replying to people who are smugly watching Idiocracy & oozing their sense of self-superiority, when they obviously believe everything they read in the daily mail is, umm, scary.
It's one thing to care about the environment. It's another thing entirely to use the force of criminal law to impose your conservationist concerns on the rest of society.
Oh cry me a river. Hyperbole much? A little regulation on power consumption is not criminal law you stupid fucking whiner.
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And the situation is the same for desktop, servers and network equipment as well.
You wouldn't seriously run OS X on network equipment would you?
(or servers for that matter, but at least there's some cases where you'll want to)
Right now I'm in a market for a 15" MBP to replace a PPC Powerbook but the glossy screen is preventing me from purchasing it.
Why don't you buy the Lenovo recommended in the story & install (a retail copy of) OS X on it? That way you'll have the best of both worlds. Decent hardware & a unixy OS that runs your workflow tools.
Sounds to me like they deliberately choose an option with hope of failure. The matte display has been an option since the previous macbook introduction.
Yes, because someone who concluded 18 months ago that "Apple was making one of the finest laptop screens we'd seen for use in a pro digital photography workflow." is bound to be setting Apple up for failure.
Thank you for reaffirming my belief in self-delusional fanboi nature.
*cough*90%ofthesoftwaremarket*cough*
Source? I'd believe 90% of the desktop market - 90% of software? Bollocks.
That sounds suspiciously like "if we don't allow binary versions, we don't have any backwards compatibility to regard,
Not true. The APIs tend to be backwards compatable (to a point), the ABIs tend to not.
Because biting the hand that feeds you have never been a good strategy.
Providing a closed source driver/gcc plugin is not feeding Linux/gcc.
I was going to write a serious answer to you, but instead:
Because the proprietary guys hold all of the cards
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry to break this to you, but proprietary rules the world.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH*cough*youfuckingdumbass*cough*HAHAHAHAHA!
Out of all the slashdot stories posted in the last fortnight - you choose a story on a game to post your 1984 excerpt?
Jeepers! My guess is that you're Mum is trying to get your pudgy ass to do some exercise and you feel oppressed. Tell me I'm right.
Nice. The Linux kernel guys did this and look at the result--it is a bitch for hardware guys to write drivers for Linux
Bullshit. The result is that it's a bitch for proprietary guys to write binary only drivers for linux.
And you know - why should the GCC & Linux projects make things easy for the proprietary guys? It's not like the proprietary guys go out of their way to make life easier for OSS.
Go to the GCC Plugins Wiki & search for "Potential use cases".
you mean hurd?
No, the hurd is the kernel, GNU is the (still incomplete) Operating System.
So, what you are saying is that it isn't possible to extrapolate global warming on Mars in even a short term because of a lack of understanding of the overall physics and insufficient data points.
I didn't say anything of the kind. Read my post again.
I find it odd that your link that supposedly shows Apple sued a school doesn't even mention a school, and also says nothing about Apple suing anybody, [emph mine]
Says nothing about Apple suing anybody? The headline is "Apple sues Big Apple". I don't expect people to read the article, but at least read the headline.
Seriously, yes, I linked to the wrong article. Here's the correct one.
Well, if WMF knows no prior art, that must be proof prior art exists. And since he knows nothing...
The obliviousness-in-the-face-of-sarcasm is strong in this one.
Watch - (s)he will post again, proving me right.
Mars and Jupiter have been experiencing "global warming", too.
Oh yes, you're totally right! I bet you're the sort who argues over accuracy of Earth's temperature records, but you're willing to believe that we have enough data to show global warming on Mars and Jupiter FFS.
Anyway. From Realclimate:
If your ethical system agrees with patents and enforcing them in court, then it's perfectly ethical.
So, you see no difference between (say) a patent troll, a broad, over-reaching patent, a concise patent on something genuinely novel & a patent on something with prior art?
The ethics of filing for & using court to enforce each of the patent types above is different. I certainly do.
You seem to have a rather naive view that people think either patents are inherently evil or OK. Like most things in life, there are shades of grey.
It's certainly legal.
Legal != ethical. I don't know why the fuck you bought that up.
I don't recall having seen anything like the iPhone until the iPhone came out
Well! That's enough for me! If zappepcs has no knowledge of Prior Art, then it can't exist!
Thanks for clearing that up for us. Everyone debating the merits of this patent can stop commenting & get back to work now.
Yes, but not everybody thinks that the concept of Intellectual Property is inherently evil.
Sure - hardly anyone thinks all Intellectual Property laws are inherently evil, but threatening that you "are ready to suit up and go against anyone," is not the actions of a company that's as ethical as Apple like to present itself.
While many people paint Apple as a friendly company, (who wouldn't sue a school), the fact is that COO Tim Cook said recently (at a quarterly earnings conference call):
and
So can I get a Gnome install without Gnibbles?
Do you really care about Gnibbles that much? Delete the binary & remove it from your menu.
Remember - one mans crapware is another man's treasure. Its only 60k, so why remove it?
Actually read the article.
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Watching Idiocracy and posting on Slashdot at the same time is, umm, spooky.
You know - one of the best ways to show that you're a member of the idioacry is to uncritically believe everything you read.
Well done.
Repeat after me, you are not an engineer.
Until you go through the same hell in college that degreed mechanical/electrical/aero/civil engineers go through in college and have a chance to obtain a PE, you are not an engineer.
Repeat after me, you are not an engineer.
Unless you work on / maintain an engine, you are not an engineer. Or.... perhaps that word has changed a bit over the years. First to include the structural & eletrical fields, then to include anything where you methodically apply technical knowledge & repeatable natural laws to solve a problem.
You have a 5 digit ID and this is your first post? You've really been lurking for a decade?
You'd be surprised. I've got a friend with a fairly low ID, has never posted and gets offered moderation points all the time.
(I tried to offer advice on how to use those mod points, but they weren't interested)
There's good reasons to sign up for /. other than posting.
Dude, they banned the sane of 100W bulbs.
No they haven't. (The EU will ban most 100W incandescents come September however)
As in, you sell it, you go to jail.
Completely wrong. Link to (proposed or actual) jail-time penalties if you think you're right.
OT: Your sig: Watching Idiocracy and posting on Slashdot at the same time is, umm, spooky.
Replying to people who are smugly watching Idiocracy & oozing their sense of self-superiority, when they obviously believe everything they read in the daily mail is, umm, scary.
It's one thing to care about the environment. It's another thing entirely to use the force of criminal law to impose your conservationist concerns on the rest of society.
Oh cry me a river. Hyperbole much? A little regulation on power consumption is not criminal law you stupid fucking whiner.