Also the Apple SDK has made it more not less enterprise ready.
Please stop.
I haven't laughed this hard in ages.
The company I worked for recently tried to replace the expensive tablet PC's (A$4000 +) in some emergency services vehicles with Ipads, I won A$150 on that failure, the first $100 on the fact that the project would fail and an additional $50 on the fact that it would fail because of the Ipad. The reason it failed is because Apple rejected the application we developed, it was simply too complex to fit within the application guidelines so the old Windows based tablet PC's went back in.
In addition to that, we didn't make cent on the hardware, which is quite odd for us, given our wholesaler status we can generally add between 8 and 20% mark-up and still be highly competitive.
So... ready for the enterprise... But hey, thanks for the laugh.
I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at, but you do realize that MacBooks are easy to upgrade
But you said
It's not any harder than doing it on Dell machines. Yes, you have to go to Mac Fixit to see just how it comes apart instead
This contradicts itself.
With a Dell I simply have to look for a HDD sized compartment, usually marked with a little disk icon and remove two, sometimes four screws. Same with the RAM, clearly marked
With a Macbook, you have to remove the entire outer casing and keyboard and I need to look it up because it's not clearly marked.
I'm sorry but tech friendliness fails when a tech, who has literally removed hundreds of hard drives need to go and look up how to do it. I assemble PC's in 15 minutes and regularly work inside IBM servers (which are an absolute pleasure to work inside, everything is clearly marked and there's always a nice map on the lid if you get lost, I swear if BMW made computers they would be IBM servers), mac's are terrible for user servicing..
instead of randomly attacking screws on the bottom of the case
It seems like you don't have much experience in these matters. Especially if you cant read labels on the outside of the case.
Have you ever owned or opened one up to service one?
Yes, have you.
I've stripped down multiple Apple laptops, from the G3 and earlier generation up to the Intel era
I have my doubts
I've had fix mac's from G4's to the 2nd Gen Intel units and the Intel units were a PITA but a hell of a lot better then the old G4's, a hell of a lot better.
With the G4 laptops, to get out the hard drive you had to disassemble most of the laptop. With the Intel units you had to remove the hard casing (without damaging it, feck knows the hissy fit a mac user would go into if there was one tiny scratch) which included removing the keyboard but then you could access the HDD.
Comparing that to a 2006 Dell Inspiron, where the HDD and RAM (most common user replaced components) had external doors. The HDD was secured in by two screws and the drive bay would just slot out after that. Hell even replacing the wireless card only required me to remove the keyboard..
By all means, look it up. Dell publishes how to disassemble their laptops, the most poorly designed Dell was a delight to disassemble to the nightmare of a G4.
You must mistake the laptop market with the Apple market, and users by Apple-customers.
How, I didn't see the OP mention Apple once?
Apple consumers and other consumers have little difference in the way they treat their machines. Apple does not want you upgrading your Macbook, they want your to buy the newer model, each and every year. Heck, Apple does not even want you upgrading their desktop machines.
The only difference between Apple consumers and other laptop consumers is that Apple consumers don't seem to understand that they are paying 50%+ more for the exact same hardware made in the exact same Chinese factories.
Almost all laptop users understand that they at some point would want a bigger harddrive,
But how many know how to change them themselves? It's a dead simple procedure but most people don't want to learn it. They're happy to believe it's a magic box with blinking lights and whistles. If they need more storage space they'll buy another magical box (external hard drive) that gives them more storage. People wanted cheap laptops, the manufacturers gave them what they wanted.
The GP is quite correct, only geeks want disassembable laptops and they are a very small market. Even business these days consider machines too cheap to spend man hours fixing,
Angry Birds -not- an exception. The original games that Angry Birds is copied/based on was released almost a decade ago.
A week late, I know.
The original Angry Birds concept was written several decades ago, it's almost as old as video gaming itself. in 1992 I had several games written in basic that used the exact same principal, Tank Wars is a famous example from 1990, almost everyone who had a DOS based computer had Tank Wars.
That is the weak point that allows governments to set-up their recorders and track everything the citizens do.
Why break free?
In an online race between captors and captee's the captee's always have the advantage. Imagine TOR like system implemented in 90, 70 even 40% of consumer routers, If so many POP's (Point Of Presence) were to spew forth the data from 100 other POP's then which monitors would know the difference, the results to an automated, ever human monitored search would take so much time that it would be pointless to watch even one POP.
If given the chance, wouldn't most people and ISP's take this?
Vote parent up! The AC is right: voting IS mandatory in Australia, unless you are resident overseas.
Or get yourself stricken off the electoral rolls, not that hard if you try.
However I doubt not voting will do anything. If anything anyone dissatisfied with the two party government should vote for the independents or minor parties. At the current state of play in the Oz parliament the minor parties prevent the major parities (Liberal and Labor) from ruling by fiat. So a vote for a minor party is a vote against Liberal or Labor.
I don't consider my copper DSL (2Mbps/256k) or Cable (10/1Mbps offered, 3Mbps/512k actual) options here to be very broadband
Luxury,
The luddites in the previous government of my nation (Australia) declared anything over 56 K to be "broadband". Average speed here is about 1.4 Mbit\s and most of the nation is connected via ADSL 2RE
Looking at the TPG map and seeing nothing west of Griffith (hint for those playing along at home, Griffith is east of Melbourne, this network is for New South Welshmen only) I can only say, Julia, bring on the NBN.
I'm not sure if we are going to see any NBN love before 2014 with Worst Australia being a Liberal loving state.
...why Apple's "Walled Garden" for the iPhone is such a bad thing?
Because it doesn't work. Worse yet in instils a false sense of security in its users.
There is nothing stopping the same kind of attack in IOS, in fact like Android its designed to allow programs access to the internet. Instead of being aware of security issues, you're relying on someone else to spot all the badness in the world for you and it's not like Apple have let malicious programs into their walled garden before.
The guys over at jalopnik aren't so sure, unless he's traded in his Mercedes SL55 AMG for a 10+ year old Honda Civic...
When you're trying to avoid media attention do you drive a late model Merc or a non descript Honda?
I dislike the man, not only is he a bad Buddhist, he's just a bad person in general. It's little wonder he'll spend a lot to prolong his life, I doubt he'll be reincarnated as a higher being.
But anyway, leave the man alone for Buddha's sake. The only people his health should concern are him, his family and Apple shareholders, further more shareholders should only be notified by means of a press release, not a bloody tabloid.
It's not at all a technical issue. Both iOS and WP7 can handle multitasking just fine on OS level, and you can see that in action if you use the stock apps (e.g. media player, which plays in background). It's strictly a limitation on third-party software, deliberately enforced.
Basically, what you're saying is that Apple and Microsoft could not make an operating system that could be relied upon to sandbox processes and terminate aberrant or non-responsive ones.
However did Google manage this well tested feat of engineering?
I would have modded you up, if you were not already at +5.
You are doing exactly what a parent should do, instead of trying to protect your children from all the violence and evil in the world by hiding it, you're preparing your child on how to deal with it as a normal human being.
Now if the people who make these complaints spent as much time caring for their children as they did making complaints, we would not have to worry about violent movies/games.
As a side note, how is this different from the wholesome activity of sending your (not the GP, society in general) kids out to play in the yard with plastic guns so they can pretend to kill each other?
The girls just wanted a group to talk about girly things with other girls?
What the hell is wrong with that. They can still communicate with the male students, they just have a group where they can talk about how dreamy Abdul is amongst themselves.
How does further subdividing by sex change anything?
No, no,
For sex change in the Middle east, you need to look at Iran. I'm not joking, Iran does more gender re-assignments than any other nation except Thailand.
They aren't asking for segregation on facebook. They requested a group for female students (in addition to the main group).
Damnit, stop being so level headed and rational.
This is the evil Mooselims we are talking about.
Because women of other cultures dont form their own groups with other women of similar age and interests to talk about the things that they want to talk about in private. This would never happen in good old western culture.
No, both of those phones are subsided by the service contract you took out. You have paid full price for them, just in hidden monthly instalments over 2 years.
I paid A$600 for my Moto Milestone unlocked and unbranded. I then pay A$30 a month for service and 1 GB data. To get the same deal paying "$0" I would be paying A$70 a month for 24 months and be locked into Australia's worst carrier. So I'm saving $300, getting a phone months before it's released in Oz and my choice of carrier.
People really need to get it into their heads that "free" ($0) phones aren't free.
Nokia and Ericsson (SonyEricsson) USED to make good phones,
SE has always been shite, they've just been popular in Japan.
Nokia still does make good hardware but their software is nowhere near competitive with more advanced platforms. The E7x series performed its job brilliantly and had good battery life but they were really designed for a very specific function. When people complain about Nokia's, they complain about high end Nokia's like N8's which really are shite, because the OS is shite whilst the HW is fine.
Nokia's mid and low end phones are fantastic. My 6500 Classic runs perfectly after 3 years. 3xxx's only need to be replaced when they switch off the older 1 and 2 G networks. Battery life is phenomenal. Hardware is almost indestructible.
I can hardly get my iPhone to last more than a day
The way to fix that is not to use 3G, WiFi, GPS or Bluetooth, but then what's the point.
I took an old G1 to Thailand, 2G networks only, no data a spattering of WiFi and I charged it once every 4 days. When I used to use it for work it would last about 16-30 hours depending on usage.
Consider that today we have the most depraved violence in history, and the lowest violence rate.
I wouldn't say that, violence has always been pretty depraved throughout history, we just dont write that bit in the history books. We tend to remember the past with rose tinted glasses.
But the second part is true, we have the lowest rates of murders, domestic violence, assaults and several other crimes in the last 100 odd years. Personally I put this down to cultural shifts away from the glorification of actual violence and education. Particularly in the area of domestic violence, I think anti-DV campaigns have been pretty successful.
Violence in media does not change our reaction to violence, when you see an actor in a movie rough up his wife in the movie, is your reaction (emotion) any different to seeing a real person backhand his wife?
What level of violence and nudity should "clearly" be restricted?
Bleargh anti-gubbermint rant.
If you bothered to find out anything, you would have learned that:
1. the classification board is an independent entity, which is why the Pro R rating government has been able to do nothing about the lack of an R rating for games.
2. Restricted is the term for the R rating which can only be sold to people over the age of 18. In other words, it does not mean what you think it means.
But dont let any of that get in the way of your senseless rant.
basicaly another gaming niche that currently belongs to nintendo that apple will tackle and probably be successfull.
Right,
You do know that when facing competition that Apple, historically loses.
The only two companies really making money out of gaming machines at the moment are Nintendo and IBM.
Nintendo have a massive back catalogue of extremely popular games from over 20 years of released consoles and several extremely profitable 1st party IP's (Mario, Zelda). Apple has a bunch of Flash games written by 3rd parties. In this regard, Apple only competes with the Wii virtual console, not with actual Wii or DS games.
IBM, oh yes them. They make the chips for the PS3, Xbox360 and Wii.
Slashdot Mirror
Please stop.
I haven't laughed this hard in ages.
The company I worked for recently tried to replace the expensive tablet PC's (A$4000 +) in some emergency services vehicles with Ipads, I won A$150 on that failure, the first $100 on the fact that the project would fail and an additional $50 on the fact that it would fail because of the Ipad. The reason it failed is because Apple rejected the application we developed, it was simply too complex to fit within the application guidelines so the old Windows based tablet PC's went back in.
In addition to that, we didn't make cent on the hardware, which is quite odd for us, given our wholesaler status we can generally add between 8 and 20% mark-up and still be highly competitive.
So... ready for the enterprise... But hey, thanks for the laugh.
But you said
This contradicts itself.
With a Dell I simply have to look for a HDD sized compartment, usually marked with a little disk icon and remove two, sometimes four screws. Same with the RAM, clearly marked
With a Macbook, you have to remove the entire outer casing and keyboard and I need to look it up because it's not clearly marked.
I'm sorry but tech friendliness fails when a tech, who has literally removed hundreds of hard drives need to go and look up how to do it. I assemble PC's in 15 minutes and regularly work inside IBM servers (which are an absolute pleasure to work inside, everything is clearly marked and there's always a nice map on the lid if you get lost, I swear if BMW made computers they would be IBM servers), mac's are terrible for user servicing..
It seems like you don't have much experience in these matters. Especially if you cant read labels on the outside of the case.
Yes, have you.
I have my doubts
I've had fix mac's from G4's to the 2nd Gen Intel units and the Intel units were a PITA but a hell of a lot better then the old G4's, a hell of a lot better.
With the G4 laptops, to get out the hard drive you had to disassemble most of the laptop. With the Intel units you had to remove the hard casing (without damaging it, feck knows the hissy fit a mac user would go into if there was one tiny scratch) which included removing the keyboard but then you could access the HDD.
Comparing that to a 2006 Dell Inspiron, where the HDD and RAM (most common user replaced components) had external doors. The HDD was secured in by two screws and the drive bay would just slot out after that. Hell even replacing the wireless card only required me to remove the keyboard..
By all means, look it up. Dell publishes how to disassemble their laptops, the most poorly designed Dell was a delight to disassemble to the nightmare of a G4.
How, I didn't see the OP mention Apple once?
Apple consumers and other consumers have little difference in the way they treat their machines. Apple does not want you upgrading your Macbook, they want your to buy the newer model, each and every year. Heck, Apple does not even want you upgrading their desktop machines.
The only difference between Apple consumers and other laptop consumers is that Apple consumers don't seem to understand that they are paying 50%+ more for the exact same hardware made in the exact same Chinese factories.
But how many know how to change them themselves? It's a dead simple procedure but most people don't want to learn it. They're happy to believe it's a magic box with blinking lights and whistles. If they need more storage space they'll buy another magical box (external hard drive) that gives them more storage. People wanted cheap laptops, the manufacturers gave them what they wanted.
The GP is quite correct, only geeks want disassembable laptops and they are a very small market. Even business these days consider machines too cheap to spend man hours fixing,
Me neither.
A week late, I know.
The original Angry Birds concept was written several decades ago, it's almost as old as video gaming itself. in 1992 I had several games written in basic that used the exact same principal, Tank Wars is a famous example from 1990, almost everyone who had a DOS based computer had Tank Wars.
Fsck, no one in Oz drinks Fosters (owned by the bloody Dutch IIRC). Fosters is only for Export, nothing is too bad for the rest of the world.
Why break free?
In an online race between captors and captee's the captee's always have the advantage. Imagine TOR like system implemented in 90, 70 even 40% of consumer routers, If so many POP's (Point Of Presence) were to spew forth the data from 100 other POP's then which monitors would know the difference, the results to an automated, ever human monitored search would take so much time that it would be pointless to watch even one POP.
If given the chance, wouldn't most people and ISP's take this?
You mean like a Zombie?
Or get yourself stricken off the electoral rolls, not that hard if you try.
However I doubt not voting will do anything. If anything anyone dissatisfied with the two party government should vote for the independents or minor parties. At the current state of play in the Oz parliament the minor parties prevent the major parities (Liberal and Labor) from ruling by fiat. So a vote for a minor party is a vote against Liberal or Labor.
Luxury,
The luddites in the previous government of my nation (Australia) declared anything over 56 K to be "broadband". Average speed here is about 1.4 Mbit\s and most of the nation is connected via ADSL 2RE
Looking at the TPG map and seeing nothing west of Griffith (hint for those playing along at home, Griffith is east of Melbourne, this network is for New South Welshmen only) I can only say, Julia, bring on the NBN. I'm not sure if we are going to see any NBN love before 2014 with Worst Australia being a Liberal loving state.
Because it doesn't work. Worse yet in instils a false sense of security in its users.
There is nothing stopping the same kind of attack in IOS, in fact like Android its designed to allow programs access to the internet. Instead of being aware of security issues, you're relying on someone else to spot all the badness in the world for you and it's not like Apple have let malicious programs into their walled garden before.
When you're trying to avoid media attention do you drive a late model Merc or a non descript Honda?
I dislike the man, not only is he a bad Buddhist, he's just a bad person in general. It's little wonder he'll spend a lot to prolong his life, I doubt he'll be reincarnated as a higher being.
But anyway, leave the man alone for Buddha's sake. The only people his health should concern are him, his family and Apple shareholders, further more shareholders should only be notified by means of a press release, not a bloody tabloid.
Basically, what you're saying is that Apple and Microsoft could not make an operating system that could be relied upon to sandbox processes and terminate aberrant or non-responsive ones.
However did Google manage this well tested feat of engineering?
Sir,
I would have modded you up, if you were not already at +5.
You are doing exactly what a parent should do, instead of trying to protect your children from all the violence and evil in the world by hiding it, you're preparing your child on how to deal with it as a normal human being.
Now if the people who make these complaints spent as much time caring for their children as they did making complaints, we would not have to worry about violent movies/games.
As a side note, how is this different from the wholesome activity of sending your (not the GP, society in general) kids out to play in the yard with plastic guns so they can pretend to kill each other?
Your sig says otherwise.
What?
The girls just wanted a group to talk about girly things with other girls?
What the hell is wrong with that. They can still communicate with the male students, they just have a group where they can talk about how dreamy Abdul is amongst themselves.
No, no,
For sex change in the Middle east, you need to look at Iran. I'm not joking, Iran does more gender re-assignments than any other nation except Thailand.
Damnit, stop being so level headed and rational.
This is the evil Mooselims we are talking about.
Because women of other cultures dont form their own groups with other women of similar age and interests to talk about the things that they want to talk about in private. This would never happen in good old western culture.
No, both of those phones are subsided by the service contract you took out. You have paid full price for them, just in hidden monthly instalments over 2 years.
I paid A$600 for my Moto Milestone unlocked and unbranded. I then pay A$30 a month for service and 1 GB data. To get the same deal paying "$0" I would be paying A$70 a month for 24 months and be locked into Australia's worst carrier. So I'm saving $300, getting a phone months before it's released in Oz and my choice of carrier.
People really need to get it into their heads that "free" ($0) phones aren't free.
SE has always been shite, they've just been popular in Japan.
Nokia still does make good hardware but their software is nowhere near competitive with more advanced platforms. The E7x series performed its job brilliantly and had good battery life but they were really designed for a very specific function. When people complain about Nokia's, they complain about high end Nokia's like N8's which really are shite, because the OS is shite whilst the HW is fine.
Nokia's mid and low end phones are fantastic. My 6500 Classic runs perfectly after 3 years. 3xxx's only need to be replaced when they switch off the older 1 and 2 G networks. Battery life is phenomenal. Hardware is almost indestructible.
The way to fix that is not to use 3G, WiFi, GPS or Bluetooth, but then what's the point.
I took an old G1 to Thailand, 2G networks only, no data a spattering of WiFi and I charged it once every 4 days. When I used to use it for work it would last about 16-30 hours depending on usage.
I wouldn't say that, violence has always been pretty depraved throughout history, we just dont write that bit in the history books. We tend to remember the past with rose tinted glasses.
But the second part is true, we have the lowest rates of murders, domestic violence, assaults and several other crimes in the last 100 odd years. Personally I put this down to cultural shifts away from the glorification of actual violence and education. Particularly in the area of domestic violence, I think anti-DV campaigns have been pretty successful.
Violence in media does not change our reaction to violence, when you see an actor in a movie rough up his wife in the movie, is your reaction (emotion) any different to seeing a real person backhand his wife?
Bleargh anti-gubbermint rant.
If you bothered to find out anything, you would have learned that:
1. the classification board is an independent entity, which is why the Pro R rating government has been able to do nothing about the lack of an R rating for games.
2. Restricted is the term for the R rating which can only be sold to people over the age of 18. In other words, it does not mean what you think it means.
But dont let any of that get in the way of your senseless rant.
Right,
You do know that when facing competition that Apple, historically loses.
The only two companies really making money out of gaming machines at the moment are Nintendo and IBM.
Nintendo have a massive back catalogue of extremely popular games from over 20 years of released consoles and several extremely profitable 1st party IP's (Mario, Zelda). Apple has a bunch of Flash games written by 3rd parties. In this regard, Apple only competes with the Wii virtual console, not with actual Wii or DS games.
IBM, oh yes them. They make the chips for the PS3, Xbox360 and Wii.