Since I play Blizzard's other bottomless pot of gold, World of Warcraft, I'm used to have to be connected to servers to play games anyway. That you need it for D3 for DRM or so your mates can play co-op I don't care. D3 is beautiful on my 27in iMac. And when my broadband dropped out the other day? No problem. I switched the mac to wifi, fired up the hotspot on my android, and carried on playing...
Surely people read the tech specs before they buy. If you're the type who gets a computer from PC World because its blue then you deserve to be disappointed.
No shit music and protectionism is what's helping to kill the music industry. Why should a club have to pay a licence fee to play music which was created by a band that is friends of that clubs owners and is not signed to a record company? Because they do and the musicians see nothing of it. Remember the Pratchett book with the guild of musicians. That's the modern music industry that is!
I'm old but you make me feel young. If kids can learn about electronics from Arduinos they can learn about it from Raspberry PIs. Get off your fecking hobby horse about Turbo Pascal (shite!) and PC parallel ports.
Not sure what's worse, the misogyny in China or the misogyny in this thread. At least China's a developing nation. What's the excuse for the Neanderthal behaviour here!
I love how everyone's suddenly saying. Of course I knew it was a hoax. Where were you guys when the original article came out. Humans can't power flight like small birds which flap to fly, pidgeon, black bird, etc. But human powered flight is very possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRyyKQQtYqg
So the trick would be to emulate a bird like an albatross. That can't flap its wings very well either. Its a soaring bird that rides the air currents. I'm sure you could could up with a pair of wings to act like that.
...apparently not well known enough. In fact if you google Cyberspice I'm most of the first page and have been for years. However the google name police got me a while ago and I closed my account rather than put my real name on Google minus.
I do not torrent movies. I do not torrent music. I do torrent and watch the occasionally TV program from the States.
Why?
Because I have many friends in the States and I want to discuss stuff with them / not be spoilered / etc. So why do I have to wait months sometimes to watch the same show in the UK. Its not like it has to be dubbed or anything. So I torrent usually just after it has been broadcast over there and then buy the DVDs when they finally appear over here.
To me Steam and iTunes are excellent examples of services that do work. I buy a game on Steam and then I can install it on all my machines. I've bought more games on 'PC' (Well iMac running OSX / Windows7) in the last few months than I did in the entire few years. I buy media on iTunes too.
If the TV companies made the shows available to download at say $2 a pop right after they've been broadcast I would be buying them like there's no tomorrow.
Finally there's one other kind of show I torrent. Those I just can't get in the UK. For example the Legend of Neil is not available at all over here. Only season one is available on iTunes (US - Store). So there's no choice. I have to torrent and the company loses a sale.
Basically media companies drag yourselves in to the 20th (I mean that) century. Stop trying to prop up a tired and dated business model.
I use OO/LO regular to write reports and documentation. Previously I used to use Word in a different company to write business plans. I find Word more polished that OO/LO but not enough for me to pay out for it (especially as I try and avoid Windows). However if i was to write another academic paper I would immediately reach for Latex. Anything involving complete formulae, scientific stuff etc. both LO/OO and Word suck.
As I'm really not keen on Facebook or its (lack of) privacy I though that Google+ would be ideal for me. And it was for about two months until the 'real name' police caught up with me. So I killed my account. Google doesn't seem to realise that they can get people transfer from Facebook if they provide a service that addresses privacy issue that Facebook has. Unfortunately they seem to be just copying Facebook and why would someone use a copy Facebook if there's Facebook.
@Richard Lloyd - I once applied (and was offered - I never took it up though) a job coding games for the Spectrum. The company used a whole load of Einsteins which they'd bought cheap. Yeah, no one used the Spectrum for actual programming!
So by the time you got your BBC Micro it was at least 1986 which means that the Achimedes was just about to be launched and the world's first RISC desktop would arrive pre-dating Apple's PowerPC and causing a law suit.
BTW I love my 21 century Macs. In the 80s there was only one thing better than Apple kit for me and that was Acorn kit.
I was one of those kids who did a paper round to pay for her BBC Micro. The machine taught me all about software, hardware, concurrency, interrupts and basically gave me the founding for my career. I still have the machine. Here is is at Makefaire last year!
When I look in to the parking lot I see mercs and bmws and jags as well as fords. Why? Surely they're all just cars with four wheels, a place to sit and a place to store stuff? Why pay more for the german hardware? Because they look nice, they're a pleasure to drive, and because if you can afford the vehicle you may value other aspects of a vehicle than mere price.
Its the same for me with my iPhone. I bought an iphone not because its the latest and greatest. Not because its better than X or Y. But because it was elegantly designed, worked with my existing kit (an iMac and a Mac Book Pro) and because I've never had a single issue with any apple kit *I* have ever bought. Its not like I can't use anything else (I'm an embedded Linux developer with hardware design skills).
Similarly I will pay for content and apps. I will read the reviews and then pick what appears to be the right app for me. I have no issue with paying for what I get or reimbursing the developer for the hardware they've put in to developing a polished, quality controlled, virtually bug free piece of code. (Quality control is substantially lacking in the FLOSS environment without commercial backing).
I just I just want my stuff to work and since I can afford the cost why shouldn't I? I'm not some imbecile drawn in to marketing or what ever. I value aspects of my life above money. So why don't you an-droid types just take your sour grapes vitriol off somewhere else, or go play with your nob or something.
You can create an iTunes account without a credit card. I have done so pretty recently. In fact Apple have a tech note about it! http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534
Got a good investment in M$ shares have you? That's the only reason I can see why you're spouting the drivel that you are!
As a company that plays catch up most of the time Microsoft is only of importance really on the desktop and some areas of the server market where you want to employ staff who don't need the skills to run a proper UNIX set up. You as a "web specialist" must know that most of the servers running sites out there and *NIX systems. When you look at smart phones and other devices too M$ very much has a catch up position.
Sure for the average home user who wants a cheap laptop and an operating system on it to browse the web, reply to e-mails, play a bit of games, and watch porn windows is good enough. In fact I finally bought a copy of Windows 7 for gaming (dual boot my machine). But the users also don't need to upgrade to the latest and greatest if the OS does what they need it to do. What would Windows 8 give them on top of what they have?
For the company with a mass install of 'doze they've all just spent money finally to upgrade from XP straight to Windows 7 (bypassing the abominable Vista). They're not going to pay out again for 8. In fact I predict 8 to be the next Windows Vista.
As for Ubuntu. My elderly father copes quite happily with it on his netbook (he's in his 70s) after having several Windows machines and hardly using them. Again all he wants to do is browse the web, read e-mail, and watch iPlayer. The company I work for has standardised on Ubuntu on the desktop (because we are mainly developers and so need a reliable operating system - Windows if needed is run in a VM under Linux). This is not an issue for us because we have IT staff who actually know what they are doing and haven't done some M$ "learn which boxes to click" course.
I will be sticking with my "old-fashioned and obsolete software" in so much as I will not be upgrading my Windows 7 installs in the foreseable future. I would rather keep a stable current install than risk getting the bleeding edge. Its the reason why I haven't installed Lion as the main OS on my MacBook Pro yet. These things are tools and as such I need a reliable tool.
I can't have children so family has never been an issue for me. I am moderately ambitious. I enjoy work and like being challenged but don't want to work all the time. However I left my previous job because I did hit the glass ceiling. Despite basically doing the job for 18 months in an 'acting' position my misogynistic boss would never actually promote me to the position. When questioned it was never my technical or managerial ability that was at issue. I also had lots of support from other colleagues who wanted me to get the position. But this guy always said "I didn't have the complete" package. In the end I decided the complete package was a set of testicles and changed company. I'm now a senior consultant in a company that actually advises me previous employer and I've watched us grow as they've shrunk...
I agree with the poster that the lack of proper OBEX in iOS is annoying. I work in a very RF noisy environment where WiFi doesn't really work. When I take a photo of the whiteboard at the end of a meeting it would be nice to send it to other peoples' phones. Its an annoyance rather than a deal breaker though. I connect my phone to my laptop and send it from there.
I love bluetooth and have been using it for years. I used to use my old SE K750 with Saling Clicker to control my Mac remotely from across the room before the days of iPhones. I've done networking in GPRS days through my phone from the linux laptop I had at the time using PAN. I've even done it with a Zaurus. Now I get in my car and my iPhone connects to it. I can listen to music whilst I'm driving and have the tom tom app interrupt it when it needs to tell me something. Can even make calls through the car. Nothing special technologically just nice. No wires and seamless integration.
Now if only apple would make an extended version of their bluetooth keyboard. My track pad is wireless my keyboard is wired because I want a full one.
Dudes. The poor guy has been dying for years. I think I would be somewhat pissed off and ranty if my health was so poor. So he said some unadvisable things. Give the guy a break.
P.S. I don't think Apple invented smart phones, or the point and click UI, or what ever. What they did do how ever is make them work for the man in the street. I've been using and developing Linux since 95 and other OSs (non windows) much longer. However my computers at home are OSX because they just work. I bought an iPod because when I looked at MP3 players it was the one that was easiest to use with my stuff. So when it came time for a smart phone I bought the iPod with the cellphone built in. I didn't buy the first one because it didn't do 3G. I currently have an iPhone 4 which I bought outright so I wasn't tied to a contract. I won't be getting the 4S because the 4 does everything I want it to do. In a year's time I will look again to see what there is.
I've tried Android and in isolation its a good system now (it took until 2.2 for it to get good). My problem with Android is its just too damn messy when trying to work with other devices. And that's the crux. I know you can get device X for less money than the iPhone. So what if I save 200 quid. That's a few hours of my time. If I save a few hours over the life of the phone by spending that money then its worth buying the more expensive devices. For me time is my scarce resource, not cash.
Dear coward (who's not willing to stand up and be identified),
1) Everyone is using 'chinese slave labour' right now. The whole electronics industry gets stuff made in China. How did you post your comment in the first place? Carrier pidgeon!
2) How can you play on people's greed *and* charge 'hugely inflated prices'. Surely one negates the other. People who are greedy want something for nothing not something for a high price.
3) Actually all Total Cost of Ownership studies show that apple computers are value for money. As for the mobile tech. Its no more expensive than similar specced devices from the opposition. That's why they failed and apple didn't.
i always wanted to know. Just as the fanbois love anything apple regardless. There are the android lot who hate it just because. What do you call those with an irrational hatred of apple? Enquiring minds want to know.
As for me. I'm holding off to see what the 5 is like. I develop embedded linux products as a day job so Android is too much a busman's holiday. The iPhone does what I want a phone to do. It just works. I have Apple computers so it works seamlessly with them. It looks nice. And I can afford it.
Its like buying a BMW. You can get a Ford cheaper, may be quicker, may be more up to date. But BMW sell and there's a reason!
"How is this different from Apple? Isn't it running on windows capable intel chips now? And it only runs windows with boot camp beneath it? What is the catch to run Windows in the bare metal Apple hardware ( not that you would want to do it) "
Actually all boot camp is is a way of supporting an MBR in a partition on a disk that isn't in DOS partition format combined with a partitioning tool. This is because the Apple boot manager can only boot off of Mac partitioned disks. Windows *will* run on a mac without any apple software installed within Windows itself. Apple just provides a set of drivers to support the Apple hardware better than the standard Windows drivers.
"What about the reverse, why can't they sell Apple OS to x86 PC machines, like all those hackintoshes we hear so much about"
Because then they would have to support many many more devices and motherboards than they support now. Apple's success is because they have a defined sub-set of hardware within their products. This means they can develop device drivers which work well and with one another and test nearly all the combinations. Windows often relies on the hardware supplier for theirs and that supplier can't ever test all the combinations. Hackintoshes only work on a sub-set of hardware.
One of the reasons Apple was an early adopter of bus standards like USB and Firewire is because of the defined protocols they use. Support one HID device and you support them all. PCI-E cases are coming for thunderbolt. It will be interesting to see how many cards actually work with OS-X.
Apple can sell software cheaply because the development cost is covered by the margin on selling hardware.
Basically you fail at business and technical know-how. However I do agree the MS thing looks bad.
Wow that is a shock! I actually don't care for all the copyright/design/patent fighting. Both companies are behaving badly there. However I am wondering what Samsung has actually done that's innovative. The didn't write the OS. They don't write the apps. They didn't design the processor. They didn't come up with the UI metaphors. What do they do other than regurgitate other peoples' work and bang out cheap phones.
By the time I was a teenager I was programming in multiple languages and at least a couple of assembly languages. At a minimum these kids should be being taught from 11 years old if not earlier.
Even if you teach ICT rather than computer science you should at least make it more generic and not the microsoft training course it seems to be right now.
@Sabba - Shows how little you know. They're basically the same. Do you really think Windows 7 is a complete re-write? No its just an upgrade with some components re-written or updated. Ignore the 10. That's just a name. The version is 7. This is OS X version 7. And the point releases are like service packs in windows
And anyway its XP -> Vista -> 7. Your comparison is like comparing Leopard to Lion.
Its like DNA's dolphins. I'm not using Windows unless I really have to precisely because it is a 15 year old operating system.
Adobe isn't the be all or end all. I have their apps installed yes. Hardly use them and will probably remove them when I upgrade to Lion. The Adobe updater is regularly leaking memory and stealing CPU when all its doing is just sitting there waiting for an update. Its just shoddy code.
As a developer I want a machine I can develop on with easy. My Mac gives me that (with the options to run Windows or Linux in a VM when necessary). I like that OS X evolves with each major release. I like that it isn't slower than the previous version. I like that you don't need the latest hardware to run it. I like that it cost me £20 to upgrade both my machines and not the £70 I paid for one install of W7.
...a company is getting big. Because all the gripers are the first to post comments. OS X has now surpassed windows, in one area. Now its the windows fanboys who lay in to Apple rather than the other way around.
Its a data port. Its basically an extension of the PCI-E data lines with interleaved video with backwards compatibility to mini display port. I have a brand new iMac with thunderbolt and yet I can plug my old Dell monitor in to it with the mini display port to DVI adapter I bought for my old MacBook.
So you can use your laptop in clamshell mode of course. I didn't buy the old apple monitor preferring to get a dell to work with my apple laptop but the I found the lack of camera in the monitor inconvenient.
Go to the Dell website and spec a desktop machine with the same spec (completely) as an iMac and come back to me. You have to spec like for like so that's USB 3 instead of thunderbolt and a 27 inch monitor, bluetooth, wifi, sandybridge etc.... Last time I tried it was 700 quid *more* than the iMac.
And buying a kit of parts from arthur daley's cheap pc emporium is not like for like. If I'm buying a PC I do not expect "some assembly required"
"I'm just awaiting the first Acorn Archimedes 1U rack server...."
Another challenge. I'm just finishing the 1.8Ghz Dual Core BBC Micro PC. I have some other Acorns around. A 1U server wouldn't be difficult and I've already had Linux running on them.
I still have my 30+ y/o Miranda SLR. Its Pentax K mount compatible. It was a nice little started SLR with a 50mm fixed length lens. It tought me a lot about photography and was robust enough to cope with being dropped a few times.
I assume that it was a pre-Dixons Miranda product.
The iMac has a thunderbolt port and firewire. You're not expected to get a pair of suckers, lift out the glass, drop the flat panel and change the hard drive yourself. Connect a large external drive. If the drive fails within warranty get Apple to replace it.
If I run Linux I will build a computer or use a pc laptop. However my throw in the bag and take anywhere laptop is a 2008 Unibody MacBook. I've had a similarly specced Dell for the same period. Over that time the motherboard, keyboard and harddrive (twice) has been replace on the Dell. The Macbook is fine. Both have covered about 100K miles in my backpack.
Why do write "Teenage girl" like that? You seem as dubious as Forbes is about the age or gender of the individual concern. Of course there's no way they can be that young, or heaven forbid, a girl! Way to go with the misogyny.
I would like to point out that I was 13 when I learnt to program and was hacking not long after. This was the end of the 70s and early 80s. If you read Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown (the book about Operation Sundevil from the very early 90s) you'll see there were also teenage female hackers then.
Mods do not have to make your insurance null and void. I mod cars and I tell the insurance. They adjust my premiums appropriately. I still don't get the car company coming around to sue me because I modified the car I owned.
I'm a hardware hacker, a software hacker and a maker. I carry a multi-meter in my purse. I have paid for all the music I own (sometimes more than once) and the movies. I own all console games. However I have a couple of old PS-2s I want to experiment with. At some point in the future I will want to do the same with the PS-3 when it gets to the end of its life. Why shouldn't I. This may mean changing the software on the machine. That Sony doesn't want me to do. I'm not breaking the software licence. I'm just changing the software...
You don't properly own something unless you can hack it (in the traditional sense not the cracker sense).
Your analogy would involve you going to Ford to find out if it was okay for you to have modified your Ford motor car. Instead we're talking about going to an independent third party.
Now if you could go to some place that *Isn't* Sony and say I'm modifying my console because of X. I'm letting you know. That would be better. But at the moment Sony are judge, jury and executioner and that isn't fair.
You sir, are a sheep! Willingly flowing the flock and then trying to justify it with floored logic.
Even during Sep 11 less people died that die on US roads every year and that was a bad bad day. You would have to ring down several jumbos a year to kill as many as die on UK roads. Even with the security of ten years ago the risk when flying is far far less than your journey to the airport.
There is a law of diminishing returns and we've long since reached the point at which an addition measures have any effectiveness. This isn't about security, this is about controlling the population. If people accept this, what else can governments get them to accept. Its a power play.
I have various friends who have genuine reasons why both the scan and or the grope will traumatised. Rape, abuse, in-compatible genetalia to name three reasons. Just image if you are male, with the appropirate birth certificate, passport, etc. accept for one minor issue. You were born female. These transport Nazis will make your journey hell.
To (badly) quote Ben franklin "He who gives up liberty for safety deserves neither!"
At least one of the countries using "Imperial" measurements is doing it wrong. They're called "English" units over there however there's 16Floz in a US pint. Which makes their pints and quarts 20% smaller than the true Imperial versions. Also they don't know what a stone is.
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That is offensive on so many levels. Its offensive to asian women, its offensive to trans women and its offensive to the hubby.
Whine whine whine DRM whine whine whine...
Since I play Blizzard's other bottomless pot of gold, World of Warcraft, I'm used to have to be connected to servers to play games anyway. That you need it for D3 for DRM or so your mates can play co-op I don't care. D3 is beautiful on my 27in iMac. And when my broadband dropped out the other day? No problem. I switched the mac to wifi, fired up the hotspot on my android, and carried on playing...
Re: I was a bit slow
I got the same e-mail!
Tech specs
Surely people read the tech specs before they buy. If you're the type who gets a computer from PC World because its blue then you deserve to be disappointed.
Re: The users lose out
No shit music and protectionism is what's helping to kill the music industry. Why should a club have to pay a licence fee to play music which was created by a band that is friends of that clubs owners and is not signed to a record company? Because they do and the musicians see nothing of it. Remember the Pratchett book with the guild of musicians. That's the modern music industry that is!
Re: Me personally,
I'm old but you make me feel young. If kids can learn about electronics from Arduinos they can learn about it from Raspberry PIs. Get off your fecking hobby horse about Turbo Pascal (shite!) and PC parallel ports.
Not locked up for going on line...
But for being a crap hacker and being caught going on line...
Sigh!
Not sure what's worse, the misogyny in China or the misogyny in this thread. At least China's a developing nation. What's the excuse for the Neanderthal behaviour here!
Pick the right bird to mimic
I love how everyone's suddenly saying. Of course I knew it was a hoax. Where were you guys when the original article came out. Humans can't power flight like small birds which flap to fly, pidgeon, black bird, etc. But human powered flight is very possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRyyKQQtYqg
So the trick would be to emulate a bird like an albatross. That can't flap its wings very well either. Its a soaring bird that rides the air currents. I'm sure you could could up with a pair of wings to act like that.
Being the top hit on google.com is...
...apparently not well known enough. In fact if you google Cyberspice I'm most of the first page and have been for years. However the google name police got me a while ago and I closed my account rather than put my real name on Google minus.
Simultaneous release in US and UK?
I do not torrent movies. I do not torrent music. I do torrent and watch the occasionally TV program from the States.
Why?
Because I have many friends in the States and I want to discuss stuff with them / not be spoilered / etc. So why do I have to wait months sometimes to watch the same show in the UK. Its not like it has to be dubbed or anything. So I torrent usually just after it has been broadcast over there and then buy the DVDs when they finally appear over here.
To me Steam and iTunes are excellent examples of services that do work. I buy a game on Steam and then I can install it on all my machines. I've bought more games on 'PC' (Well iMac running OSX / Windows7) in the last few months than I did in the entire few years. I buy media on iTunes too.
If the TV companies made the shows available to download at say $2 a pop right after they've been broadcast I would be buying them like there's no tomorrow.
Finally there's one other kind of show I torrent. Those I just can't get in the UK. For example the Legend of Neil is not available at all over here. Only season one is available on iTunes (US - Store). So there's no choice. I have to torrent and the company loses a sale.
Basically media companies drag yourselves in to the 20th (I mean that) century. Stop trying to prop up a tired and dated business model.
OO/LO, MS Office and Latex
I use OO/LO regular to write reports and documentation. Previously I used to use Word in a different company to write business plans. I find Word more polished that OO/LO but not enough for me to pay out for it (especially as I try and avoid Windows). However if i was to write another academic paper I would immediately reach for Latex. Anything involving complete formulae, scientific stuff etc. both LO/OO and Word suck.
Google-
As I'm really not keen on Facebook or its (lack of) privacy I though that Google+ would be ideal for me. And it was for about two months until the 'real name' police caught up with me. So I killed my account. Google doesn't seem to realise that they can get people transfer from Facebook if they provide a service that addresses privacy issue that Facebook has. Unfortunately they seem to be just copying Facebook and why would someone use a copy Facebook if there's Facebook.
The Einstein
@Richard Lloyd - I once applied (and was offered - I never took it up though) a job coding games for the Spectrum. The company used a whole load of Einsteins which they'd bought cheap. Yeah, no one used the Spectrum for actual programming!
Apple Mac was '84
So by the time you got your BBC Micro it was at least 1986 which means that the Achimedes was just about to be launched and the world's first RISC desktop would arrive pre-dating Apple's PowerPC and causing a law suit.
BTW I love my 21 century Macs. In the 80s there was only one thing better than Apple kit for me and that was Acorn kit.
Built to last!
I was one of those kids who did a paper round to pay for her BBC Micro. The machine taught me all about software, hardware, concurrency, interrupts and basically gave me the founding for my career. I still have the machine. Here is is at Makefaire last year!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/4440207275/
Anti-elistist an-droids!
When I look in to the parking lot I see mercs and bmws and jags as well as fords. Why? Surely they're all just cars with four wheels, a place to sit and a place to store stuff? Why pay more for the german hardware? Because they look nice, they're a pleasure to drive, and because if you can afford the vehicle you may value other aspects of a vehicle than mere price.
Its the same for me with my iPhone. I bought an iphone not because its the latest and greatest. Not because its better than X or Y. But because it was elegantly designed, worked with my existing kit (an iMac and a Mac Book Pro) and because I've never had a single issue with any apple kit *I* have ever bought. Its not like I can't use anything else (I'm an embedded Linux developer with hardware design skills).
Similarly I will pay for content and apps. I will read the reviews and then pick what appears to be the right app for me. I have no issue with paying for what I get or reimbursing the developer for the hardware they've put in to developing a polished, quality controlled, virtually bug free piece of code. (Quality control is substantially lacking in the FLOSS environment without commercial backing).
I just I just want my stuff to work and since I can afford the cost why shouldn't I? I'm not some imbecile drawn in to marketing or what ever. I value aspects of my life above money. So why don't you an-droid types just take your sour grapes vitriol off somewhere else, or go play with your nob or something.
Re: Leaving asside the rampant fanboy-ism
You can create an iTunes account without a credit card. I have done so pretty recently. In fact Apple have a tech note about it! http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534
Re: Windows 8 will be here to stay
Dear Claire Web Specialist,
Got a good investment in M$ shares have you? That's the only reason I can see why you're spouting the drivel that you are!
As a company that plays catch up most of the time Microsoft is only of importance really on the desktop and some areas of the server market where you want to employ staff who don't need the skills to run a proper UNIX set up. You as a "web specialist" must know that most of the servers running sites out there and *NIX systems. When you look at smart phones and other devices too M$ very much has a catch up position.
Sure for the average home user who wants a cheap laptop and an operating system on it to browse the web, reply to e-mails, play a bit of games, and watch porn windows is good enough. In fact I finally bought a copy of Windows 7 for gaming (dual boot my machine). But the users also don't need to upgrade to the latest and greatest if the OS does what they need it to do. What would Windows 8 give them on top of what they have?
For the company with a mass install of 'doze they've all just spent money finally to upgrade from XP straight to Windows 7 (bypassing the abominable Vista). They're not going to pay out again for 8. In fact I predict 8 to be the next Windows Vista.
As for Ubuntu. My elderly father copes quite happily with it on his netbook (he's in his 70s) after having several Windows machines and hardly using them. Again all he wants to do is browse the web, read e-mail, and watch iPlayer. The company I work for has standardised on Ubuntu on the desktop (because we are mainly developers and so need a reliable operating system - Windows if needed is run in a VM under Linux). This is not an issue for us because we have IT staff who actually know what they are doing and haven't done some M$ "learn which boxes to click" course.
I will be sticking with my "old-fashioned and obsolete software" in so much as I will not be upgrading my Windows 7 installs in the foreseable future. I would rather keep a stable current install than risk getting the bleeding edge. Its the reason why I haven't installed Lion as the main OS on my MacBook Pro yet. These things are tools and as such I need a reliable tool.
Melanie (Senior Software Consultant)
Ambition is not always the problem.
I can't have children so family has never been an issue for me. I am moderately ambitious. I enjoy work and like being challenged but don't want to work all the time. However I left my previous job because I did hit the glass ceiling. Despite basically doing the job for 18 months in an 'acting' position my misogynistic boss would never actually promote me to the position. When questioned it was never my technical or managerial ability that was at issue. I also had lots of support from other colleagues who wanted me to get the position. But this guy always said "I didn't have the complete" package. In the end I decided the complete package was a set of testicles and changed company. I'm now a senior consultant in a company that actually advises me previous employer and I've watched us grow as they've shrunk...
A school year book?
@Johnny What's a school year book? We don't have those either.
I agree with the poster that the lack of proper OBEX in iOS is annoying. I work in a very RF noisy environment where WiFi doesn't really work. When I take a photo of the whiteboard at the end of a meeting it would be nice to send it to other peoples' phones. Its an annoyance rather than a deal breaker though. I connect my phone to my laptop and send it from there.
I love bluetooth and have been using it for years. I used to use my old SE K750 with Saling Clicker to control my Mac remotely from across the room before the days of iPhones. I've done networking in GPRS days through my phone from the linux laptop I had at the time using PAN. I've even done it with a Zaurus. Now I get in my car and my iPhone connects to it. I can listen to music whilst I'm driving and have the tom tom app interrupt it when it needs to tell me something. Can even make calls through the car. Nothing special technologically just nice. No wires and seamless integration.
Now if only apple would make an extended version of their bluetooth keyboard. My track pad is wireless my keyboard is wired because I want a full one.
The man was dying!
Dudes. The poor guy has been dying for years. I think I would be somewhat pissed off and ranty if my health was so poor. So he said some unadvisable things. Give the guy a break.
P.S. I don't think Apple invented smart phones, or the point and click UI, or what ever. What they did do how ever is make them work for the man in the street. I've been using and developing Linux since 95 and other OSs (non windows) much longer. However my computers at home are OSX because they just work. I bought an iPod because when I looked at MP3 players it was the one that was easiest to use with my stuff. So when it came time for a smart phone I bought the iPod with the cellphone built in. I didn't buy the first one because it didn't do 3G. I currently have an iPhone 4 which I bought outright so I wasn't tied to a contract. I won't be getting the 4S because the 4 does everything I want it to do. In a year's time I will look again to see what there is.
I've tried Android and in isolation its a good system now (it took until 2.2 for it to get good). My problem with Android is its just too damn messy when trying to work with other devices. And that's the crux. I know you can get device X for less money than the iPhone. So what if I save 200 quid. That's a few hours of my time. If I save a few hours over the life of the phone by spending that money then its worth buying the more expensive devices. For me time is my scarce resource, not cash.
Inflated prices???
Dear coward (who's not willing to stand up and be identified),
1) Everyone is using 'chinese slave labour' right now. The whole electronics industry gets stuff made in China. How did you post your comment in the first place? Carrier pidgeon!
2) How can you play on people's greed *and* charge 'hugely inflated prices'. Surely one negates the other. People who are greedy want something for nothing not something for a high price.
3) Actually all Total Cost of Ownership studies show that apple computers are value for money. As for the mobile tech. Its no more expensive than similar specced devices from the opposition. That's why they failed and apple didn't.
@Homer1 Sorry but I find you offensive! But that doesn't mean I'm going to slag you off when you're dead. I'm just going to do it now! Go get a life!
What do you call an anti-fanboi?
i always wanted to know. Just as the fanbois love anything apple regardless. There are the android lot who hate it just because. What do you call those with an irrational hatred of apple? Enquiring minds want to know.
As for me. I'm holding off to see what the 5 is like. I develop embedded linux products as a day job so Android is too much a busman's holiday. The iPhone does what I want a phone to do. It just works. I have Apple computers so it works seamlessly with them. It looks nice. And I can afford it.
Its like buying a BMW. You can get a Ford cheaper, may be quicker, may be more up to date. But BMW sell and there's a reason!
Different to Apple Bootcamp?
"How is this different from Apple? Isn't it running on windows capable intel chips now? And it only runs windows with boot camp beneath it? What is the catch to run Windows in the bare metal Apple hardware ( not that you would want to do it) "
Actually all boot camp is is a way of supporting an MBR in a partition on a disk that isn't in DOS partition format combined with a partitioning tool. This is because the Apple boot manager can only boot off of Mac partitioned disks. Windows *will* run on a mac without any apple software installed within Windows itself. Apple just provides a set of drivers to support the Apple hardware better than the standard Windows drivers.
"What about the reverse, why can't they sell Apple OS to x86 PC machines, like all those hackintoshes we hear so much about"
Because then they would have to support many many more devices and motherboards than they support now. Apple's success is because they have a defined sub-set of hardware within their products. This means they can develop device drivers which work well and with one another and test nearly all the combinations. Windows often relies on the hardware supplier for theirs and that supplier can't ever test all the combinations. Hackintoshes only work on a sub-set of hardware.
One of the reasons Apple was an early adopter of bus standards like USB and Firewire is because of the defined protocols they use. Support one HID device and you support them all. PCI-E cases are coming for thunderbolt. It will be interesting to see how many cards actually work with OS-X.
Apple can sell software cheaply because the development cost is covered by the margin on selling hardware.
Basically you fail at business and technical know-how. However I do agree the MS thing looks bad.
Samsung has done some innovation?
Wow that is a shock! I actually don't care for all the copyright/design/patent fighting. Both companies are behaving badly there. However I am wondering what Samsung has actually done that's innovative. The didn't write the OS. They don't write the apps. They didn't design the processor. They didn't come up with the UI metaphors. What do they do other than regurgitate other peoples' work and bang out cheap phones.
Too old!
By the time I was a teenager I was programming in multiple languages and at least a couple of assembly languages. At a minimum these kids should be being taught from 11 years old if not earlier.
Even if you teach ICT rather than computer science you should at least make it more generic and not the microsoft training course it seems to be right now.
How quaint!
Can't remember the last time I listened to FM radio. Radio yes, but its always digitally.
Re: Surely...
@Sabba - Shows how little you know. They're basically the same. Do you really think Windows 7 is a complete re-write? No its just an upgrade with some components re-written or updated. Ignore the 10. That's just a name. The version is 7. This is OS X version 7. And the point releases are like service packs in windows
And anyway its XP -> Vista -> 7. Your comparison is like comparing Leopard to Lion.
Re: best possible experience?
I'll comment later. I'm going to be putting it on my first gen unibody core 2 duo macbook today.
Re: No problems here,... we're on PC's
Its like DNA's dolphins. I'm not using Windows unless I really have to precisely because it is a 15 year old operating system.
Adobe isn't the be all or end all. I have their apps installed yes. Hardly use them and will probably remove them when I upgrade to Lion. The Adobe updater is regularly leaking memory and stealing CPU when all its doing is just sitting there waiting for an update. Its just shoddy code.
As a developer I want a machine I can develop on with easy. My Mac gives me that (with the options to run Windows or Linux in a VM when necessary). I like that OS X evolves with each major release. I like that it isn't slower than the previous version. I like that you don't need the latest hardware to run it. I like that it cost me £20 to upgrade both my machines and not the £70 I paid for one install of W7.
You know when...
...a company is getting big. Because all the gripers are the first to post comments. OS X has now surpassed windows, in one area. Now its the windows fanboys who lay in to Apple rather than the other way around.
Its not a video port!
Its a data port. Its basically an extension of the PCI-E data lines with interleaved video with backwards compatibility to mini display port. I have a brand new iMac with thunderbolt and yet I can plug my old Dell monitor in to it with the mini display port to DVI adapter I bought for my old MacBook.
Why the camera?
So you can use your laptop in clamshell mode of course. I didn't buy the old apple monitor preferring to get a dell to work with my apple laptop but the I found the lack of camera in the monitor inconvenient.
Yes my entire drive *is* encrypted
Er, yes, yes everything I do is on an encrypted drive.
What's wrong with that?
That tired old story...
@rentaguru
Go to the Dell website and spec a desktop machine with the same spec (completely) as an iMac and come back to me. You have to spec like for like so that's USB 3 instead of thunderbolt and a 27 inch monitor, bluetooth, wifi, sandybridge etc.... Last time I tried it was 700 quid *more* than the iMac.
And buying a kit of parts from arthur daley's cheap pc emporium is not like for like. If I'm buying a PC I do not expect "some assembly required"
A challenge...
"I'm just awaiting the first Acorn Archimedes 1U rack server...."
Another challenge. I'm just finishing the 1.8Ghz Dual Core BBC Micro PC. I have some other Acorns around. A 1U server wouldn't be difficult and I've already had Linux running on them.
I wonder why... you don't do your research!
"you can't talk face-to-face with anyone but Apple"
I was talking to someone quite happily using a Skype video call on my iPhone just yesterday. And what's the bollocks you're talking about video.
Get your facts straight. iPhones have issues but complain about the ones they really have.
Miranda
I still have my 30+ y/o Miranda SLR. Its Pentax K mount compatible. It was a nice little started SLR with a 50mm fixed length lens. It tought me a lot about photography and was robust enough to cope with being dropped a few times.
I assume that it was a pre-Dixons Miranda product.
Thunderbolt
Meh. Apple bashing again.
The iMac has a thunderbolt port and firewire. You're not expected to get a pair of suckers, lift out the glass, drop the flat panel and change the hard drive yourself. Connect a large external drive. If the drive fails within warranty get Apple to replace it.
If I run Linux I will build a computer or use a pc laptop. However my throw in the bag and take anywhere laptop is a 2008 Unibody MacBook. I've had a similarly specced Dell for the same period. Over that time the motherboard, keyboard and harddrive (twice) has been replace on the Dell. The Macbook is fine. Both have covered about 100K miles in my backpack.
Why the quotes?
Why do write "Teenage girl" like that? You seem as dubious as Forbes is about the age or gender of the individual concern. Of course there's no way they can be that young, or heaven forbid, a girl! Way to go with the misogyny.
I would like to point out that I was 13 when I learnt to program and was hacking not long after. This was the end of the 70s and early 80s. If you read Bruce Sterling's Hacker Crackdown (the book about Operation Sundevil from the very early 90s) you'll see there were also teenage female hackers then.
There have always been teenage female hackers.
You fail!
Love
Ms Cyberspice
Fail
Mods do not have to make your insurance null and void. I mod cars and I tell the insurance. They adjust my premiums appropriately. I still don't get the car company coming around to sue me because I modified the car I owned.
Sorry your argument is fail!
But some people *do* want to experiment.
I'm a hardware hacker, a software hacker and a maker. I carry a multi-meter in my purse. I have paid for all the music I own (sometimes more than once) and the movies. I own all console games. However I have a couple of old PS-2s I want to experiment with. At some point in the future I will want to do the same with the PS-3 when it gets to the end of its life. Why shouldn't I. This may mean changing the software on the machine. That Sony doesn't want me to do. I'm not breaking the software licence. I'm just changing the software...
You don't properly own something unless you can hack it (in the traditional sense not the cracker sense).
Not comparable.
Your analogy would involve you going to Ford to find out if it was okay for you to have modified your Ford motor car. Instead we're talking about going to an independent third party.
Now if you could go to some place that *Isn't* Sony and say I'm modifying my console because of X. I'm letting you know. That would be better. But at the moment Sony are judge, jury and executioner and that isn't fair.
Sheep!
You sir, are a sheep! Willingly flowing the flock and then trying to justify it with floored logic.
Even during Sep 11 less people died that die on US roads every year and that was a bad bad day. You would have to ring down several jumbos a year to kill as many as die on UK roads. Even with the security of ten years ago the risk when flying is far far less than your journey to the airport.
There is a law of diminishing returns and we've long since reached the point at which an addition measures have any effectiveness. This isn't about security, this is about controlling the population. If people accept this, what else can governments get them to accept. Its a power play.
I have various friends who have genuine reasons why both the scan and or the grope will traumatised. Rape, abuse, in-compatible genetalia to name three reasons. Just image if you are male, with the appropirate birth certificate, passport, etc. accept for one minor issue. You were born female. These transport Nazis will make your journey hell.
To (badly) quote Ben franklin "He who gives up liberty for safety deserves neither!"
Small market share
Rather than being dicked around all the time by an OS with an almost monopoly!
Not bricked then!
The EFI bootloader is in flash. Even if the entire hard disk is no longer
decryptable (probably because the encryption uses the MD5 checksum
or similar of the EFI image to ensure the correct machine) you would still
be able to boot from another (unencrypted) storage device. This in fact
appears to be the easy fix.
So the entire article is huburis. The machines are not in fact bricked. They
are in fact the complete opposite of bricked. They are easily fixable! May
be the reporter doesn't know what bricked means! (Completely unable to
restore the device to a working system *by any means* usually including
hardware programmers).
Imperial Measurements
At least one of the countries using "Imperial" measurements is doing it wrong. They're called "English" units over there however there's 16Floz in a US pint. Which makes their pints and quarts 20% smaller than the true Imperial versions. Also they don't know what a stone is.
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