- 3 USB 2.0 ports are included; 2 on the left, 1 on the right
OMG!
I've been thinking about upgrading my old G4 powerbook for sometime, but have not been able to find a notebook from any vendor with 3 usb ports (and on different sides!!!!!)
The most intersting part of the letter is where szulik puts a new twist on the (always perfect) car / computer analogy
I have a much better appreciation of the challenges the Japanese carmakers faced when attempting to break into the domestic US market while competing against historical industry practices and the personal networks that stood in the way of customers having access to a lower-cost, higher-value alternative. Open source software and Red Hat continue to face similar challenges. But in the end, through innovation and a commitment to the customer, the Japanese automakers delivered choice to the customer. The US automotive industry is a good case study, in comparison to the state of the domestic US software industry.
I'm sorry but 5k for a little chip that makes my opteron a little faster? I could just buy another opteron for that price: http://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/419325-1.htm> The price is supposed to drop to 3k next year.
You're quite right that these are not for you - their to run highly specialised calculations (the oil & gas industries are mentioned in TFA).
They make some operations much faster (think of a hardware mpeg decoder, useless for most things, but much more efficient for the single thing it can do then a general purpose CPU)
How does this affect cooling?
These things consume 10-20 watts compared to an Opeteron's 80, so it's affect on cooling is minimal (far less then adding the second opteron that you propose)
You have to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.
Do you really believe all of your ancestors came to America "legally"?
Anyway, screw it, the US has behaved so appallingly in latin America, that the immigrants have the right to come & try and get a little of their wealth back (and they work damn hard for it too)
A new user gets a karma bonus by posting comments that are consistently insightful/informative/etc.
I generally agree with your post - but the pov I was arguing against was "Apple will not get Time covers in future if think secret are alloewd to publish rumours"
Because when your only choices are between two guys that can be bought and sold so cheaply, that's what you pick.
Sorry - I find that argument quite irritating.
You have plenty of choice. A vote for a third candidate does not throw your vote away - even if that candidate is not elected, an increase in other party's showing sends a message to the incumbrents.
Voter turnout is low for this among other reasons.
Voter turnout is low because of stupidity & apathy. People need to understand that you do not have to get your party voted in to make a difference
Say you're a libertarian (I'm not), you feel that there is no point voting as your candidate will never get elected, but if the candidates percentage of the vote is 1% one year, then 1.2%, then 3%, etc, the major parties will notice that & attempt to make their policies closer to the libertarian (or whatever) ideal.
Lamar Smith, Christian Scientist, hater of immigrants & proud possessor of one of the stupidest middle names eve (Seeligson).
Reading Open Secret's page about him, you see the usual line up of Legal firms, Content & Tech companies. Just the people who stand to benefit from this legislation the most.
I really don't understand why people vote for politicians who are bought & sold so easily (and cheaply).
No, but I'm sure I came across sounding like I did. It's probably the weather. I think weeks and weeks of overcast sky are finally driving me to lunacy. Too much time in the virtual world, not enough running around outdoors.
*sighs* The curse of antipodeans stuck in the north hemisphere.
Political conservatism has nothing to do with conservation of resources.
I didn't mention political conservatism (although to be far, it was contrasted with liberalism).
The core tenet of political conservatism is small government and personal freedom. That means _less_ government regulation on everything, _including_ environmental issues.
Nope, you're going to have to get more specific than political conservatism for that to be true.
The world is not black and white (this should be my sig!)
Interesting that this announcement from Apple came the quarter after PortalPlayer announced a new technology (called Preface) that's designed to work with Windows Vista only.
So - were they dumped for practical reasons or for punitive reasons? What do people think?
Onto a different aspect of this story - the company being touted as the most likely supplier of replacement chips is Samsung (allready a supplier of a good deal of ipod flash memory). Is it really wise for Apple to trust a competitor with components crucial to Apple's core business? (ipods are Apple's core business now).
but by touting on the one hand to give people a total digital professional workspace in OSX on the one hand and then proport that anything developed therin is not professional (journalism, in this case) is a complete 180.
That is a damn good point. It really does highlight Apple's hypocrisy here.
Good attitude - but it means you should read the article. Check out the second paragraph:
Apple claims they should not. Its lawyers say in court documents that Web scribes are not "legitimate members of the press" when they reveal details about forthcoming products that the company would prefer to keep confidential.
I look on this more as Apple looking for a means to protect their trade secrets. I hope that the bloggers do actually get to count as journalists, but at this point I don't see Apple as doing anything that is going to hurt their consumers directly.
Apple is trying to hurt bloggers directly, by ensuring they're not given the protections given to journalists.
This has nothing to do with general Apple consumers.
News magazines aren't put together at the last minute you know.
Thanks for the info!
If everything had been leaked weeks in advance they probably still would have run the feature and interview with Jobs.
But you said "With[out] an exclusive a Mac isn't even *on* the news agenda for Time."
I was just pointing out that it was not an exclusive, invalidating your argument.
But it would not have been on the cover, in front of 29 million readers, and *that* is what Apple cared about. Full page colour ads in Time *start* at $246,000
Again, thanks for the info - not to sure how it relates to the discussion at hand, but nice to know.
If pictures had appeared prematurely, no way would the iMac have gotten on the front cover.
As I posted elsewhere in this thread - the Time magazine cover was not an exclusive.
Furthermore, the link you provided is irrelevant. Quoting it:
Unfortunately, somehow the San Jose Mercury found out that we had been granted the Newsweek cover, and mentioned it in their business gossip column that came out on Friday. Newsweek didn't want the world to think their cover was pre-determined, so that was enough to make them change it - switching, at the last minute, to a standy-by cover asking the burning question "Can We Keep The Skies Safe?"
Losing the cover had nothing to do with leaks of the mac's appearance (and who's to know if Andy's annecdote is completely correct & newsweek were just string Apple along, with the Macintosh story as the standy-by cover).
Slashdot Mirror
Oh everything's stolen these days.
I wasn't saying Apple stole it, but saying they 'invented' it is lying.
They've taken an exisitng invention and stuck it on their notebooks. A great idea, but not an invention by any stretch of the imagination.
- 3 USB 2.0 ports are included; 2 on the left, 1 on the right
OMG!
I've been thinking about upgrading my old G4 powerbook for sometime, but have not been able to find a notebook from any vendor with 3 usb ports (and on different sides!!!!!)
Now, I know exactly what to buy!
Thanks Apple!
Invented by Apple?
Let have a look at available from amazon These things have been standard in the food industry for years & are compulsory on some cookers in Japan.
I think Apple meant to say Meh. Anyway, there a couple of pics at the Apple store, looks pretty nice, but nothing particularly new to see here.
+1 Slashvertisment.
There is also a no-reg-required mirror at the zimbabwe open source software society.
The most intersting part of the letter is where szulik puts a new twist on the (always perfect) car / computer analogyWell put.
I'm sorry but 5k for a little chip that makes my opteron a little faster? I could just buy another opteron for that price: http://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/419325-1.htm> The price is supposed to drop to 3k next year.
You're quite right that these are not for you - their to run highly specialised calculations (the oil & gas industries are mentioned in TFA).
They make some operations much faster (think of a hardware mpeg decoder, useless for most things, but much more efficient for the single thing it can do then a general purpose CPU)
How does this affect cooling?
These things consume 10-20 watts compared to an Opeteron's 80, so it's affect on cooling is minimal (far less then adding the second opteron that you propose)
You have to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.
Do you really believe all of your ancestors came to America "legally"?
Anyway, screw it, the US has behaved so appallingly in latin America, that the immigrants have the right to come & try and get a little of their wealth back (and they work damn hard for it too)
A new user gets a karma bonus by posting comments that are consistently insightful/informative/etc.
I generally agree with your post - but the pov I was arguing against was "Apple will not get Time covers in future if think secret are alloewd to publish rumours"
That pov is just not true at all.
Because when your only choices are between two guys that can be bought and sold so cheaply, that's what you pick.
Sorry - I find that argument quite irritating.
You have plenty of choice. A vote for a third candidate does not throw your vote away - even if that candidate is not elected, an increase in other party's showing sends a message to the incumbrents.
Voter turnout is low for this among other reasons.
Voter turnout is low because of stupidity & apathy. People need to understand that you do not have to get your party voted in to make a difference
Say you're a libertarian (I'm not), you feel that there is no point voting as your candidate will never get elected, but if the candidates percentage of the vote is 1% one year, then 1.2%, then 3%, etc, the major parties will notice that & attempt to make their policies closer to the libertarian (or whatever) ideal.
Lamar Smith, Christian Scientist, hater of immigrants & proud possessor of one of the stupidest middle names eve (Seeligson).
Reading Open Secret's page about him, you see the usual line up of Legal firms, Content & Tech companies. Just the people who stand to benefit from this legislation the most.
I really don't understand why people vote for politicians who are bought & sold so easily (and cheaply).
Sorry publishers, the future of education is free.
(at least you have entertainment to fall back on)
No, but I'm sure I came across sounding like I did. It's probably the weather. I think weeks and weeks of overcast sky are finally driving me to lunacy. Too much time in the virtual world, not enough running around outdoors.
*sighs* The curse of antipodeans stuck in the north hemisphere.
*snort*
Cute!
You really thought that the time on the newstands might be different from the scanned image of the cover on their website?
Credible posts - you should try it sometime.
Political conservatism has nothing to do with conservation of resources.
I didn't mention political conservatism (although to be far, it was contrasted with liberalism).
The core tenet of political conservatism is small government and personal freedom. That means _less_ government regulation on everything, _including_ environmental issues.
Nope, you're going to have to get more specific than political conservatism for that to be true.
The world is not black and white (this should be my sig!)
The sun doesn't really revolve around Apple.
Blasphemer!
(heh)
liberals and environmental groups are for it...
liberal != environmentalist
A good environemntalist is a conservative - they conserve their energy use by being conservative with their power needs.
Life is never black & white.
Interesting that this announcement from Apple came the quarter after PortalPlayer announced a new technology (called Preface) that's designed to work with Windows Vista only.
So - were they dumped for practical reasons or for punitive reasons? What do people think?
Onto a different aspect of this story - the company being touted as the most likely supplier of replacement chips is Samsung (allready a supplier of a good deal of ipod flash memory). Is it really wise for Apple to trust a competitor with components crucial to Apple's core business? (ipods are Apple's core business now).
Well, I guess Apple are happy doing business like this
but by touting on the one hand to give people a total digital professional workspace in OSX on the one hand and then proport that anything developed therin is not professional (journalism, in this case) is a complete 180.
That is a damn good point. It really does highlight Apple's hypocrisy here.
Good attitude - but it means you should read the article. Check out the second paragraph: I look on this more as Apple looking for a means to protect their trade secrets. I hope that the bloggers do actually get to count as journalists, but at this point I don't see Apple as doing anything that is going to hurt their consumers directly.
Apple is trying to hurt bloggers directly, by ensuring they're not given the protections given to journalists.
This has nothing to do with general Apple consumers.
Not often you see a clockwork orange ref on /. :-)
here's an image to go with that script snippet.
*heh*
:-)
If you were as knowledgable about the publishing industry as you amde yourself about to be, that would have been the first thing you pointed out.
You are now my friend
Hmmmn, I don't really expect you to read the article, but at least read the first line of the summary:
News magazines aren't put together at the last minute you know.
Thanks for the info!
If everything had been leaked weeks in advance they probably still would have run the feature and interview with Jobs.
But you said "With[out] an exclusive a Mac isn't even *on* the news agenda for Time."
I was just pointing out that it was not an exclusive, invalidating your argument.
But it would not have been on the cover, in front of 29 million readers, and *that* is what Apple cared about. Full page colour ads in Time *start* at $246,000
Again, thanks for the info - not to sure how it relates to the discussion at hand, but nice to know.
As I posted elsewhere in this thread - the Time magazine cover was not an exclusive.
Furthermore, the link you provided is irrelevant. Quoting it:Losing the cover had nothing to do with leaks of the mac's appearance (and who's to know if Andy's annecdote is completely correct & newsweek were just string Apple along, with the Macintosh story as the standy-by cover).