Anime...seriously. I'm not trying to be funny. I feel the same way about television and movies (have been for years, now), so I started watching more anime a couple of years ago. It seems to me that manga and anime is an 'anything goes' medium, where, for the most part, there's no telling what you'll witness next. I've seen a whole lot of very compelling stories that would satisfy anyone, no matter what their tastes are in entertainment. I try not to listen to the English dubs, though.
When you pick up an anime DVD, you really have NO IDEA what you might be getting into. Pick up any American movie, TV show, or animation, and you practically know exactly what's going to happen in the end; you're just getting the DVD to find out how they'll get there. That gets tiresome.
Basically, I'm saying that my expectations are a bit higher, so I no longer watch TV, except for the news. I don't listen to popular music, because it's all trash. I definitely don't go to the movies all too often, except to get out of the house with my girlfriend once in a while (she no longer enjoys movie theatres that much anymore, either). I basically just watch anime, and hum various pieces of anime theme music all day (because most of it's beautiful - you anime-lovers know what I'm talking about).
I'd have to agree - although I think that there will always be the beefier, louder, hotter, and, as a result, FASTER computers available for the tech-heads that love video games and PC modding. I agree that somebody will manufacture a 'perfectly silent' computer, where the only thing you'd hear would be the optical drive - if even those exist. I think heatsinks will eventually replace fans, once we spend more R&D on making computers with NO MOVING PARTS.
It might be ultra-expensive, but I can see this perfectly-quiet machine - perhaps, even with an LCD built in, like a glorified PocketPC or iPod, with a 3D accelerator chip that blows anything before '07 out of the water. Maybe it's me, but I'll BET that if we could somehow find a way to 'empower' a device a smooth as a PocketPC or iPod, and combine it with some features found on devices like the Nintendo DS, Motorola Razr, and Sony PSP, and make it so that any OS would run on it, it would sell. And the key, of course, would be upgradeability. Imagine being able to open up the back of your unit and replace any component like memory, the flash 'hard' drive, video card, sound chip, whatever! Heck, the components could be available from Wal-mart by 2020...much like the SD chips are available for your cameras right now.
Notebooks, in particular, would benefit greatly from flash technology. Studying Cisco routers opened up my eyes to the possibilties of flash-based storage back several years ago. I'm sorry, but I see it comin'...
"I've never seen a mac in use by anyone but trendy mcpopcollars and wannabe computer guys. Face facts, it doesnt run the software that I (or the majority of the world) need on a day to day basis."
Wow. I guess this guy doesn't get out much. Apparently the world doesn't need MS Office, Final Cut Pro, iLife, Doom 3, MySQL, C++, and a multitude of other applications, programming languages, and games that are available. I guess since this guy's so smart, perhaps he can tell me how these companies somehow make a profit and pay the bills by providing software that he and the majority of the world 'don't' need on a day-to-day basis. I guess the US Army doesn't need the farm of Xserves they use to keep their Website running. I guess the sizeable percentage of music production studios and film houses - both indie and pro - don't need the plethora of software that helps give their projects life.
I guess the rest of the world relies only on SQL Server and Visual Studio on their laptops while they sip lattes at their local coffee houses. I guess all of the scientists, students, business owners, soccer moms, musicians, digital artists, magazine editors, and IT professionals (like me) don't use anything but Microsoft's wares to fulfill our every computing need. I guess we're all 'wannabe computer guys', just like the engineers at Apple, right?
Wow, what insight. I'll bet you can create an entire two-button Web form all by yourself in Visual Studio. Heck, I imagine that you can probably link controls and textboxes to records in your 20 GB database of p0rn and view them at will! Boy, ADO.NET really serves its purpose, doesn't it?
Outside of the dual GPUs and incredible weight of the aforementioned 'portable' products, my 17" PowerBook has all of the features listed. Including a wide-screen. And my Apple weighs less than seven pounds, and is about an inch thick. It feels like I'm carrying a magazine. That's why we won't 'shut the F up'. Mac users pretty much have everything that they need, including database software and development tools. For the most part, they like their computers, and like using them, instead of having to just deal with them.
And about the article, for the rest of the/.tters that may be reading this - personally, I can't help but to feel like chuckling when I read about how so many people who posted to this article mention how heavy laptops used to be, are now, and apparently will be, when Apple has provided such a slim and light unit. Of course, Mac OS X won't serve everyone's particular needs, but when I think about the sheer weight and girth of these new offerings from the major widget manufacturers, and the fact that they will SOON be available, I wonder if anyone would consider installing Windows XP or Vista on a MacBook Pro...when Apple works out the kinks.
Hey, Mr. Me-And-The-Rest-Of-The-World-Needs-Nothing-More-Th an-Dot-NOT, just let me know if you require any more reasons as to why Mac users won't 'shut the F up'. I'm dying to tell you.
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Anime...seriously. I'm not trying to be funny. I feel the same way about television and movies (have been for years, now), so I started watching more anime a couple of years ago. It seems to me that manga and anime is an 'anything goes' medium, where, for the most part, there's no telling what you'll witness next. I've seen a whole lot of very compelling stories that would satisfy anyone, no matter what their tastes are in entertainment. I try not to listen to the English dubs, though.
When you pick up an anime DVD, you really have NO IDEA what you might be getting into. Pick up any American movie, TV show, or animation, and you practically know exactly what's going to happen in the end; you're just getting the DVD to find out how they'll get there. That gets tiresome.
Basically, I'm saying that my expectations are a bit higher, so I no longer watch TV, except for the news. I don't listen to popular music, because it's all trash. I definitely don't go to the movies all too often, except to get out of the house with my girlfriend once in a while (she no longer enjoys movie theatres that much anymore, either). I basically just watch anime, and hum various pieces of anime theme music all day (because most of it's beautiful - you anime-lovers know what I'm talking about).
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...Which is why Mars is now uninhabited. ;)
Interesting comment...
I'll let the lack of firey responses clue you in on the silliness of your statements. I won't waste any more electrons.
I'd have to agree - although I think that there will always be the beefier, louder, hotter, and, as a result, FASTER computers available for the tech-heads that love video games and PC modding. I agree that somebody will manufacture a 'perfectly silent' computer, where the only thing you'd hear would be the optical drive - if even those exist. I think heatsinks will eventually replace fans, once we spend more R&D on making computers with NO MOVING PARTS.
It might be ultra-expensive, but I can see this perfectly-quiet machine - perhaps, even with an LCD built in, like a glorified PocketPC or iPod, with a 3D accelerator chip that blows anything before '07 out of the water. Maybe it's me, but I'll BET that if we could somehow find a way to 'empower' a device a smooth as a PocketPC or iPod, and combine it with some features found on devices like the Nintendo DS, Motorola Razr, and Sony PSP, and make it so that any OS would run on it, it would sell. And the key, of course, would be upgradeability. Imagine being able to open up the back of your unit and replace any component like memory, the flash 'hard' drive, video card, sound chip, whatever! Heck, the components could be available from Wal-mart by 2020...much like the SD chips are available for your cameras right now.
Notebooks, in particular, would benefit greatly from flash technology. Studying Cisco routers opened up my eyes to the possibilties of flash-based storage back several years ago. I'm sorry, but I see it comin'...
...Neither would I. ;)
"I've never seen a mac in use by anyone but trendy mcpopcollars and wannabe computer guys. Face facts, it doesnt run the software that I (or the majority of the world) need on a day to day basis."
.NET really serves its purpose, doesn't it?
/.tters that may be reading this - personally, I can't help but to feel like chuckling when I read about how so many people who posted to this article mention how heavy laptops used to be, are now, and apparently will be, when Apple has provided such a slim and light unit. Of course, Mac OS X won't serve everyone's particular needs, but when I think about the sheer weight and girth of these new offerings from the major widget manufacturers, and the fact that they will SOON be available, I wonder if anyone would consider installing Windows XP or Vista on a MacBook Pro...when Apple works out the kinks.
h an-Dot-NOT, just let me know if you require any more reasons as to why Mac users won't 'shut the F up'. I'm dying to tell you.
Wow. I guess this guy doesn't get out much. Apparently the world doesn't need MS Office, Final Cut Pro, iLife, Doom 3, MySQL, C++, and a multitude of other applications, programming languages, and games that are available. I guess since this guy's so smart, perhaps he can tell me how these companies somehow make a profit and pay the bills by providing software that he and the majority of the world 'don't' need on a day-to-day basis. I guess the US Army doesn't need the farm of Xserves they use to keep their Website running. I guess the sizeable percentage of music production studios and film houses - both indie and pro - don't need the plethora of software that helps give their projects life.
I guess the rest of the world relies only on SQL Server and Visual Studio on their laptops while they sip lattes at their local coffee houses. I guess all of the scientists, students, business owners, soccer moms, musicians, digital artists, magazine editors, and IT professionals (like me) don't use anything but Microsoft's wares to fulfill our every computing need. I guess we're all 'wannabe computer guys', just like the engineers at Apple, right?
Wow, what insight. I'll bet you can create an entire two-button Web form all by yourself in Visual Studio. Heck, I imagine that you can probably link controls and textboxes to records in your 20 GB database of p0rn and view them at will! Boy, ADO
Outside of the dual GPUs and incredible weight of the aforementioned 'portable' products, my 17" PowerBook has all of the features listed. Including a wide-screen. And my Apple weighs less than seven pounds, and is about an inch thick. It feels like I'm carrying a magazine. That's why we won't 'shut the F up'. Mac users pretty much have everything that they need, including database software and development tools. For the most part, they like their computers, and like using them, instead of having to just deal with them.
And about the article, for the rest of the
Hey, Mr. Me-And-The-Rest-Of-The-World-Needs-Nothing-More-T
Can't help you with the hug, though. Cheers.
(there goes my karma)