If money's a factor, you can always go the route I did - go to the Apple Store online and look in their refurb section. Everything on there is backed by the same warranty as the new stuff. They used to have (and may still have) first gen (black/white) 2Gb nanos for $99, for example.
For Christmas I got a refurb'd 60GB iPod video. I'd told my parents that I had no need for 80GB, but 30 was too small (they really should stick a 60GB in that $300 hole) and pointed them to Apple's refurb site. Since the 5G 60GB is for all intents and purposes the same as the current generation aside from the capacity, it seemed like a good call.
1) Gruber is respected in the Mac community, and for good reason; his reasoning is usually spot-on. 2) Gruber has both missed a key aspect of the developers' participation - their increased cashflow compared to a normal week - as well as underestimated the developers' intelligence.
The last point is the important one, and I think that's going to hurt Gruber in the long run.
a five page manual (even with a cautionary sticker) is hardly going to cover the fundamentals of wireless encryption and firewalling a user needs to approach the security of a wired connection.
Not every explanation of usage of a product needs to be as thorough as a man page.
I'll do it in one paragraph:
Open the router's configuration page (found at x.x.x.x) and enable WPA. Choose a password that contains letters, numbers, and punctuation. Check the "enable firewall" box on this page, as well.
People who don't understand Wifi, by and large, don't need to UNDERSTAND it in order to use it, given a few seconds of proper guidance during setup. No, really.
You can't read the fucking summary? he's trying to backup 30GB - a mere 7 or so DVDs. What he's asking is far from unreasonable to expect, and everyone's just like "stop trying."
New technology adds to our abilities. In the case of computers replacing paper, we've replaced than added to our abilities; this desktop seeks to augment the familiar real-world model with computer-age abilities (sorting, undoing, etc)
This is probably going to start a flamewar, but I'm going to post anyway because it needs to be said: This is an example of why outsourcing jobs is not a bad thing. Countries with the highest piracy rates were Vietnam, Ukraine, China, Zimbabwe and Indonesia while United States, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom had the lowest. The pattern is pretty obvious: the lower the income per capita, the higher the piracy. And why are these countries' incomes so low? Because we won't let jobs out of our greedy paws. And now we're reaping what we've sown: they can't be paid to produce products, so they can't afford to pay for the products we're producing.
Gee.. Modern console games limit framerates to 30 fps. That means each frame is ~33 miliseconds. You honestly believe that controllers lag for anywhere near 33 ms?
Do they? Last time I checked I could get 60fps on an efficient game.
If it was something other than what they had predicted it was going to be, the odds it would happen precisely at the moment it was predicted to happen (or rather, 2.2 billions years before, but who's counting) are insanely slim.
It's not a "bug" per se, I don't think - I would call it a 'design oversight'. It's in the same nature as popup ads: you want sites to be able to create windows, but only the ones the USER wants. Which is a fine line to walk.
The summary gives the impression that Dashboard programs can be run without any user intervention, but the fact is that this can cause easily removable adware AT WORST. Dashboard widgets can run executable code, but any widget that does so has to ask permission from the user.
IMHO, the best option would be a preference: "Always ask before installing Dashboard widgets". Simple, effective.
This has been bugging me for a long time - communism is not a bad thing if you can find a setting in which it works. The Internet is the first such setting, to my knowledge. Any software offerred for free, is part of the new communism - the good kind, the kind where it actually reaches its ideal phase.
The US government slapped such a negative connotation to the word "communist" during the Cold War, a connotation that belongs to "socialist". Not one of the countries we were against during the cold war was ever a really communist state, because a real communist state is impossible in this world.
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This is something I've never seen before, actually. Apple's new trackpad works differently than other scrolling trackpads, which set aside an area to be used to scroll. The Powerbook scroller detects that you are pressing two fingers rather than one, and uses that to decide whether to scroll.
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If money's a factor, you can always go the route I did - go to the Apple Store online and look in their refurb section. Everything on there is backed by the same warranty as the new stuff. They used to have (and may still have) first gen (black/white) 2Gb nanos for $99, for example.
For Christmas I got a refurb'd 60GB iPod video. I'd told my parents that I had no need for 80GB, but 30 was too small (they really should stick a 60GB in that $300 hole) and pointed them to Apple's refurb site. Since the 5G 60GB is for all intents and purposes the same as the current generation aside from the capacity, it seemed like a good call.
The ruckus is twofold:
1) Gruber is respected in the Mac community, and for good reason; his reasoning is usually spot-on.
2) Gruber has both missed a key aspect of the developers' participation - their increased cashflow compared to a normal week - as well as underestimated the developers' intelligence.
The last point is the important one, and I think that's going to hurt Gruber in the long run.
Does it look at the volume at all? I've noticed, almost globally, that commercials are much louder than the TV they're stuck between.
Just because it's out, doesn't mean you have to buy it.
I know quite a few girls who play WoW.
Most of the girls I know that don't play it, had been dumped for it at some point.
a five page manual (even with a cautionary sticker) is hardly going to cover the fundamentals of wireless encryption and firewalling a user needs to approach the security of a wired connection.
Not every explanation of usage of a product needs to be as thorough as a man page.
I'll do it in one paragraph:
Open the router's configuration page (found at x.x.x.x) and enable WPA. Choose a password that contains letters, numbers, and punctuation. Check the "enable firewall" box on this page, as well.
People who don't understand Wifi, by and large, don't need to UNDERSTAND it in order to use it, given a few seconds of proper guidance during setup. No, really.
You can't read the fucking summary? he's trying to backup 30GB - a mere 7 or so DVDs. What he's asking is far from unreasonable to expect, and everyone's just like "stop trying."
New technology adds to our abilities. In the case of computers replacing paper, we've replaced than added to our abilities; this desktop seeks to augment the familiar real-world model with computer-age abilities (sorting, undoing, etc)
Profit (even if you leave out the handhelds)? #2.
Really? I was under the impression neither Sony nor Microsoft was profiting from games right now. Who beat them?
They don't put anything there, it is gathered automatically without intent. Makes all the difference.
The owners of the Pirate Bay don't post any torrents. Even if they did, the data itself is gathered automatically via the BitTorrent protocol.
There are arguments to be made that Google caching is more legal than TPB, but that is definitely not one of them.
Or your laptop's motion sensor is miscalibrated. Might want to rotate the book around different directions to make sure.
The Macbook (and before it, Powerbook) line has had the motion sensor for a while now. The sensor isn't the news.
No, because computers are intelligently designed ....by Microsoft?
This is probably going to start a flamewar, but I'm going to post anyway because it needs to be said: This is an example of why outsourcing jobs is not a bad thing.
Countries with the highest piracy rates were Vietnam, Ukraine, China, Zimbabwe and Indonesia while United States, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom had the lowest.
The pattern is pretty obvious: the lower the income per capita, the higher the piracy. And why are these countries' incomes so low? Because we won't let jobs out of our greedy paws. And now we're reaping what we've sown: they can't be paid to produce products, so they can't afford to pay for the products we're producing.
Round and round we go....
Gee.. Modern console games limit framerates to 30 fps. That means each frame is ~33 miliseconds. You honestly believe that controllers lag for anywhere near 33 ms?
Do they? Last time I checked I could get 60fps on an efficient game.
I suspect what this means is that the PS3 will effectively act as a router - though for what purpose, I haven't a clue.
For example, using this terminology, your Linksys may have one "input" and four "output" Ethernet ports.
After all, you don't hear very often that a MS-Windows virus infects a Macintosh.
I actually hear that all the time, it's just not true.
If it was something other than what they had predicted it was going to be, the odds it would happen precisely at the moment it was predicted to happen (or rather, 2.2 billions years before, but who's counting) are insanely slim.
It's not a "bug" per se, I don't think - I would call it a 'design oversight'. It's in the same nature as popup ads: you want sites to be able to create windows, but only the ones the USER wants. Which is a fine line to walk.
The summary gives the impression that Dashboard programs can be run without any user intervention, but the fact is that this can cause easily removable adware AT WORST. Dashboard widgets can run executable code, but any widget that does so has to ask permission from the user.
IMHO, the best option would be a preference: "Always ask before installing Dashboard widgets". Simple, effective.
You owe me a new keyboard. :-P
If a bunch of people pool their resources and each takes out what he or she needs, we call it socialism.
Actually, I'd call that communism. If a government enforces such a system, then it would be socialism.
Speaking of quibbling =]
This has been bugging me for a long time - communism is not a bad thing if you can find a setting in which it works. The Internet is the first such setting, to my knowledge. Any software offerred for free, is part of the new communism - the good kind, the kind where it actually reaches its ideal phase.
The US government slapped such a negative connotation to the word "communist" during the Cold War, a connotation that belongs to "socialist". Not one of the countries we were against during the cold war was ever a really communist state, because a real communist state is impossible in this world.
Rather reminds me of the old Commie 64.
You were a Communist in 1964?
Of course, if you only have one finger and one hand, you're SOL and can't use it.
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At least you won't have any trouble with a one-button mouse.
On a side note... do you think this is implemented wholly in software? Will I be able to retrofit my Titanium PBook with it?
This is something I've never seen before, actually. Apple's new trackpad works differently than other scrolling trackpads, which set aside an area to be used to scroll. The Powerbook scroller detects that you are pressing two fingers rather than one, and uses that to decide whether to scroll.