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So you wrote an opinionated fanboi post about apple and then immediately submitted it to HN?

Protip, if it's worth submitting, someone else will do it for you.
New iMacs and Mac Pros in 2013 according to an Apple Executive
My man you must be mistaken ! Batterycare ain't no Samsung's !!! http://batterycare.net/en/index.html
The first post by jgrahamc sums it all up nicely. On the additional 77 EUR Apple charges in Europe, one may have to consider strikter recycling laws. As far as I know, the cost of recycling is already charged at the time of purchase of an electronic product in Europe. That may, at least in part, explain the 77 EUR margin.
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I used his products since 2008, very cost-effective and neat, it also tells you that there is money to be made in hardware, or software-hardware combined business at SV, not just facebook like companies there.
Meraki who is doing mesh wifi, to some extent similar to UBNT, did not do well somehow, even with google's backup in the early stage. On the other hand, UBUT does everything Wifi, but mesh.
There are various levies and duties, as well as storage and transportation that will go into the price differential too.
They fixed IPv6 support today or in the past couple days.
4 there is no such thing as a screen too big (or too many screens)
16 security problems bigger than Flame
LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts as distribution
Cost assessment from the auto transport quotes
>the one big thing that this one has going for it is its noiselessness due to using its case as a heat sink

I am going to disagree with that: IMHO the one big thing being fanless has going for it is lack of need for maintenance. Specifically, without a fan, the case can be designed so that much less dust gets into the case, and dust and moving parts are the main causes of need for maintenance.

The cost-effective way to lower noise is to use better fans (longer blades, better bearings, lower-RPM motors) or to use solid-state drives.

The company that makes the computers featured in the OP also makes a fanless computer powered by an Ivy Bridge Core i7: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/purchase/order-direct-intense-pc/. But they want $836 for the barebones (no RAM, no HDD) version!

One reason the price is so high is that they are forced to use an ultra-low-power (17-W-TDP) processor. If you add just one fan to your design, you can easily accommodate a 65-W-TDP processor, and in fact Intel does not even sell a retail processor (i.e., a processor marketed to people who build their own boxes) with less than 65 W TDP. To be precise, they didn't sell any such retail processors before Ivy Bridge started coming out -- I have not checked since then.

ADDED. I am talking here about systems with some oomph: if an ARM or an embedded-class processor will do the trick, then obviously being noiseless (and compact and low in power consumption and low maintenence) is easy.
The pure pragmatism of Torvalds and the "I won't use it unless it's 100% free software" attitude of RMS are both valid viewpoints. In practice most of us mere mortals accept some state of affairs in between those two poles.

Ignoring software freedom as an issue would IMHO be a major mistake given the overall direction in which contemporary society is going. In broad terms I think RMS was right in the sense that as software becomes ever more deeply embedded into all aspects of life, who owns and controls that software, and the ability to audit it, becomes an important question. Theoretically, in the long run it may not be possible to have a free society without some amount of free software infrastructure.
None. Its completely facile. A link-bait promotion piece for some second-rate analyst.

"Facebook is likely to disappear is the next, third generation of the web - which will be dominated by 'mobile', simply because mobile is not in it's DNA."

This doesn't mean anything. Theres nothing there.

Facebook has a lot of money and smart people. If mobile is getting big then those smart people will use that money to hire people that understand mobile and build-out products using mobile technology. Thats all.

Maybe they'll be successful, maybe they wont. But inventing some concept of metaphorical corporate DNA that can somehow have mobile 'in it' is just idiotic.
Would be nice to test with a sample PDF.
One can get libraries for cheap.

Calling Python from Arc with wrappers that return Python data structures as s-exps seems like a workable hack to get libraries in Arc, at least the ones written in a functional style.

Most libraries needed for web apps might be in Javascript.
> It's fine to run code written by other people, but that code should be run in a safe, completely sandboxed environment.

… which is what browsers do with JavaScript and have done since Netscape shipped the first Navigator beta with LiveScript. The problem is that no containment system is perfect because people want rich functionality which can be abused without significant care - your $.99 game certainly isn't supposed to be able to install a keylogger but in practice it's almost always been possible to do so because that operating system doesn't have magic security pixie dust, either, and mistakes are made.

The only reason browsers have a bad reputation for security is because Microsoft exposed a ton of native code, ignoring advice from security experts, and completely neglected their responsibility as a platform maintainer for almost a decade.

Firefox and Chrome are a different story, both having a better security track record than, say, a Microsoft operating system despite having a full rich experience. Chrome's better than your mobile operating system because it actually gets updated quickly whereas your mobile OS gets updated on a timescale of months (iOS, Android developer phones) to never (most Android phones and almost all others).

> The concept of a "web app" is fundamentally broken, but despite users largely rejecting it (see: popularity of native apps vs safari apps on iPhone), nerds keep pushing it because it seems like a cool plot to a sci-fi novel.

You have an uncommon and counter-factual understanding of the web and users. Please back up your claim that users don't actually want Gmail, Facebook, Flickr, Google Maps, etc. or that mobile users only want native applications despite mobile users showing heavy web activity.

> This is security after the fact. If they actually cared about security, they'd disable Javascript, disable Flash, disable WebGL, and turn Chrome back into a web browser.

Back into a 1995 web browser which wouldn't do anything which users expect. If you're so uncomfortable trusting a browser with a better security track record than most operating systems, you can easily disable all of those features but since the Chrome team both cares about and actually understands security they've focused on defense in depth and and rapid response rather than trying to convince users they don't actually want the things they ask for.
No soft corner for Apple, but guess this problem is not really apple specific. Even newer versions of Microsoft softwares are bloated and lower in performance on older hardware.

Ubuntu suddenly seems so practical for maintaining separate packages repositories for LTS versions for almost 5 years.
In Europe you are forced to give your customer 2 years of warranty on certain products. E.g. computer hardware or electronics.

To be honest, one would hope that a warranty term of 2 years would force manufacturers to make their products more reliable, rather than keeping the quality constant and increasing the price.

But, in an industry where it is normal to deprecate products in two years now (hi, iPad 1), I guess that's too much to ask.

I am sorry for our planet.
Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data
Thank you for the feedback. :-)

You are absolutely correct about users ignoring and mis-interpreting instructions, we constantly struggle with this. The suggestion is very good.

I find the multi-year-dropdown cumbersome, but maybe it is more functional and there's less probability of a mistake! One minor thing I'd like to add is users in India typically write date in the form of DD/mm/YYYY.
I came here to post on Brazilian prices, too. Luckily, it's not like buying a(n imported) car, in which case I would basically never buy one. To the point that I'm leaning on the side of buying an MBA here, it's not the end of the world if I have to pay 500US more (entry-level MBA here is actually R$3000/US$1500, according to Apple's Brazil site). It sucks...but everyone travels with their own computers these days so getting someone to bring one for me from the States is not likely.
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Nobody. Creative people use all sorts of things.

As a product though the Mac pro targets (not exclusively or exhaustingly) a section of creative professionals: designers, music industry people, video editors. The design choices & margins produce a price that basically targets a 'need what they need regardless of price' segment. They've been doing so for a long time. In the Apple dark ages these people were a big chunk of mac users. You can still see the vestiges of this heritage in modern macs, eg iLife: Consumer versions of what their professional (in that space) users use.