My understanding is it's called "Black" Friday because it's when retailers generally move into the black (profit colour) on their accounts, due to Thanksgiving's buying frenzy.
Just bought mine with an SSD and the non-glossy Hi-res Screen and it is fantastic. I got the non-glossy because I can't stand the reflectiveness of the normal set-up and the Hi-Res (1680 x 1050) is a nice bonus, making for a great desktop space.
With the SSD, this thing IS silent and starts up in about 10 seconds. Apps launch almost instantly. I am very happy with it and hope it will be powerful and reliable enough to last 5 years or so, which will make it pretty good value.
...fit an SSD to these, If you can. The difference is unbelievable. Mine boots up in about 10 seconds and programs launch immediately. No more watching the bouncing dock icon whilst listening to the drive click about inside - fabulous!
I went for the 15' because I just can't get along with those reflective "glossy' screens and the extra resolution is a nice bonus - 1680 x 1050 makes for a great amount of viewing space.
I am an airline pilot, so please let me add something to the debate.
No-one runs laptop-based Maintenance Manuals, as these manuals are what the regulators audit regularly and/or use to prosecute licensed pilots/engineers if things go wrong. If they were electronic, they could be tampered with to cover things up, so they won't allow this.
The story is that this aircraft had a huge history of slat/flap problems that the central maintenance computer should have picked up and alerted the engineer controllers to bring it into the hangar and rectify. It did not and here is where the Trojans/OS issue is brought up.
The end result was that the pilots were trying to keep to schedule (long day, close to limits for duty time, etc) when the flaps would not extend. So they taxied back to the stand (more delay) for the engineer to rectify it. He over-rode some of the protections (and warnings) to get the job done, it appears. In their rush to recover the delay, the pilots forgot to run the flaps for take-off, there was no warning any more, people died.
So yes the ultimate blame lies with the pilots, but then the pilots are usually the last line of defence against systemic problems with the operation - an operation in this case possibly affected by Trojans! The Trojans didn't directly cause the crash, but crashes are usually caused by many little errors/conflicts and they were one part of that.
Just so you can enjoy your next flights, aircraft do not run Windows or similar commercial ("non-critical" OSes)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/fail_32.png So are ATC incapable of making mistakes, then? I would not want to trust my life to someone with no flying skills, no threat of death if they make a mistake, nor to a worn-out, low-paid single pilot trying to monitor if there is one! How comfortable would you feel flying through Chinese/Philippine/Indonesian/Korean/Middle-Eastern/African/S-American airspace, with their piss-poor controllers?
Air Traffickers (particularly in the US) have always resented the pay levels of pilots (despite the fact a lot of pilots are now paid less!) and want to replace them. I really hope this experiment gets nowhere, because a lot of people will lose their lives to it.
Of course accuracy was greater, Mr GE-Goebbels, the system works more quickly. But accuracy in current aviation is not a problem, safety is, so stop introducing irrelevances.
One more word for consideration by this muppet blanket-stackers: WEATHER!
"it's still stealthy enough due to it's massive range" - sooooo, the U-2, the Airbus A340-500 or B777-300ER are REALLY stealthy?
"i've read that the machine can actually keep flying even when both wings AND it's tail is shot" - did it say in this piece for how long? I'd suggest it would be 'flying' a parabola at that stage and definitely no further!
Maybe you need to check your sources of "information".
Personally I think that F-22 is the ultimate fighter, even if possibly not quite as stealthy as claimed (shock!) and to say that they're not needed is like saying dodos never needed to fly!
Shame about that slow HDD... ...why use such poor-performance hardware in such a fine machine?
Those "uni-bodies" do feel so much stronger than the previous model (I am one of those seething previous-model guys, although at least I paid nothing like £1799!), but to NEVER be able to change the battery is of concern; I'd be worried every time I unplugged the thing!
The crews DO get treated pretty much the same way (although not from Immigration, but "Security") because the security staff love being able to order around pilots/cabin crew and force them to take shoes off/empty bags out and mess them around. Also crews have to do it far more often than passengers, don't forget. Fancy going through such pain every day you go to work?
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My understanding is it's called "Black" Friday because it's when retailers generally move into the black (profit colour) on their accounts, due to Thanksgiving's buying frenzy.
So, no racist angle there.
A superb set-up
Just bought mine with an SSD and the non-glossy Hi-res Screen and it is fantastic. I got the non-glossy because I can't stand the reflectiveness of the normal set-up and the Hi-Res (1680 x 1050) is a nice bonus, making for a great desktop space.
With the SSD, this thing IS silent and starts up in about 10 seconds. Apps launch almost instantly. I am very happy with it and hope it will be powerful and reliable enough to last 5 years or so, which will make it pretty good value.
Aha!
What about the size of the pages - is that defined? Apple could just use the required font and use bigger pages :-)
Hat,coat,etc.
p.s.
What's the difference between a lawyer and a parasite?
Parasites leave you alone once you die.....
Firefox....
...also fell quickly. Why no mention of that?
You've got to....
...fit an SSD to these, If you can. The difference is unbelievable. Mine boots up in about 10 seconds and programs launch immediately. No more watching the bouncing dock icon whilst listening to the drive click about inside - fabulous!
I went for the 15' because I just can't get along with those reflective "glossy' screens and the extra resolution is a nice bonus - 1680 x 1050 makes for a great amount of viewing space.
Paper Logbooks
I am an airline pilot, so please let me add something to the debate.
No-one runs laptop-based Maintenance Manuals, as these manuals are what the regulators audit regularly and/or use to prosecute licensed pilots/engineers if things go wrong. If they were electronic, they could be tampered with to cover things up, so they won't allow this.
The story is that this aircraft had a huge history of slat/flap problems that the central maintenance computer should have picked up and alerted the engineer controllers to bring it into the hangar and rectify. It did not and here is where the Trojans/OS issue is brought up.
The end result was that the pilots were trying to keep to schedule (long day, close to limits for duty time, etc) when the flaps would not extend. So they taxied back to the stand (more delay) for the engineer to rectify it. He over-rode some of the protections (and warnings) to get the job done, it appears. In their rush to recover the delay, the pilots forgot to run the flaps for take-off, there was no warning any more, people died.
So yes the ultimate blame lies with the pilots, but then the pilots are usually the last line of defence against systemic problems with the operation - an operation in this case possibly affected by Trojans! The Trojans didn't directly cause the crash, but crashes are usually caused by many little errors/conflicts and they were one part of that.
Just so you can enjoy your next flights, aircraft do not run Windows or similar commercial ("non-critical" OSes)
Bye-bye Chrome (hello Camino)
Well that's Chrome un-installed from my (OS X) machine, then!
Would I trust the advertiser Google to "do no evil" with Flash? errr, no.
Flash is just a battery-cooking app. in OS X (and not much else is)
Steve's da man!
OOPS
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/fail_32.png So are ATC incapable of making mistakes, then? I would not want to trust my life to someone with no flying skills, no threat of death if they make a mistake, nor to a worn-out, low-paid single pilot trying to monitor if there is one! How comfortable would you feel flying through Chinese/Philippine/Indonesian/Korean/Middle-Eastern/African/S-American airspace, with their piss-poor controllers?
Air Traffickers (particularly in the US) have always resented the pay levels of pilots (despite the fact a lot of pilots are now paid less!) and want to replace them. I really hope this experiment gets nowhere, because a lot of people will lose their lives to it.
Of course accuracy was greater, Mr GE-Goebbels, the system works more quickly. But accuracy in current aviation is not a problem, safety is, so stop introducing irrelevances.
One more word for consideration by this muppet blanket-stackers: WEATHER!
200°C water-world?
Shouldn't that be a "Steam-World" then. at least on the surface?
The biggest distillery yet known to man, perhaps?
This just after...
...admitting that CCTV is useless for crime-prevention?
4 minutes a day?
No wonder there was no benefit after 6 months!
Compare that with the average of 5 HOURS a day of TV-watching in the US and is it a surprise that the lard-quotient is almost unchanged?
I bet if they stuck to 30 minutes or more a day there would be significant benefits, but I guess Wii Fit is just plain DULL?
My 3 favourite Finder improvements.....
1) FruitMenu (for heirachical menus)
2) MenuMeters (for network monitor)
3) iStatMenus (for the calendar widget)
All nerfed - damn! Hope the fixes don't take too long, as I won't be able to upgrade and enjoy the speed increases until at least 2 are fixed.
@Danny 5
"it's still stealthy enough due to it's massive range" - sooooo, the U-2, the Airbus A340-500 or B777-300ER are REALLY stealthy?
"i've read that the machine can actually keep flying even when both wings AND it's tail is shot" - did it say in this piece for how long? I'd suggest it would be 'flying' a parabola at that stage and definitely no further!
Maybe you need to check your sources of "information".
Personally I think that F-22 is the ultimate fighter, even if possibly not quite as stealthy as claimed (shock!) and to say that they're not needed is like saying dodos never needed to fly!
Lets the side down...
Shame about that slow HDD... ...why use such poor-performance hardware in such a fine machine?
Those "uni-bodies" do feel so much stronger than the previous model (I am one of those seething previous-model guys, although at least I paid nothing like £1799!), but to NEVER be able to change the battery is of concern; I'd be worried every time I unplugged the thing!
@Dennis
Unbelievably,
The crews DO get treated pretty much the same way (although not from Immigration, but "Security") because the security staff love being able to order around pilots/cabin crew and force them to take shoes off/empty bags out and mess them around. Also crews have to do it far more often than passengers, don't forget. Fancy going through such pain every day you go to work?
Good for BALPA, I say.
RE: It's just a typical EC shakedown
Industry Leaders:
Nokia,
Pagani,
Ferrari,
Mercedes-Benz,
BMW,
Audi,
McLaren,
QinetiQ,
Novartis,
Airbus,
BAe Systems,
Rolls-Royce,
French Nuclear Industry,
.......or do you just mean Information Tech?
What about...
1) STAR WARS; The name of the anti-missile systems started by Ronnie Reagan? Did that go into the Dictionary?
2) The Borg COLLECTIVE; that word's been there for a long time, collective!
3) STAR TREK; Both very old words I reckon!
4) FOREVER WAR....
yeesh!
@Take 6 men
Bit difficult to open the doors when the aircraft is pressurised....!
What I want to know is, why would anyone want the list to be secret? What's the point?