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It may sound odd, but last year I had a 13" MBP (4.5 lbs), and its weight really bothered me. I actually swapped it for a mac mini that I carried to and from work each day, hooking it up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse at each place just because it was a bit lighter.

The only I'd want an air over a pro is the weight. As far as the X220 is concerned, weight would be my number #2 complaint after the OS. The lack of an Apple-level quality trackpad might be #3. The hundred bucks does matter, but honestly when you consider how many hours you, or at least I, spend on a computer, the price is almost negligible compared to improvements in user-experience or efficiency.
Future proofing a box with a non-user replaceable battery? They don't want future proof, they just have other gadgets to sell to the people that want mobile connectivity.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/20/everything_...

"The sharp drop in oil prices, from $66 a barrel in 1980 to $20 a barrel in 1986 (in 2000 prices) certainly was a heavy blow to Soviet finances. Still, adjusted for inflation, oil was more expensive in the world markets in 1985 than in 1972, and only one-third lower than throughout the 1970s. And at the same time, Soviet incomes increased more than 2 percent in 1985, and inflation-adjusted wages continued to rise in the next five years through 1990 at an average of over 7 percent."
They can't be serious with this legal "threat". They don't have a leg to stand on.
So, like MarkMonitor or InternetIdentity.
did not have to read the article before deciding to comment. This is the first article I've read that tries to see Apple for what it clearly is a - marketing company.

IPAD is winning not chiefly because of pricing. Yes pricing!. The other guys made a stuid mistake my pricing above or the same with the cheapest Ipad at first.

Apple's marketing stint worked perfectly - in the mind of all tablet wannabe purchasers, Ipad cost 499 even if they'd go an buy one that's over $700.

Competition did not breakdown theirs that way except amazon and amazon would make more profit by mimicking Apple's separation of specs just like the kindle eBook reader does.

should stop writing cheers.
sorta beside the point. the whole "being dead" part sort of precludes him from spending any of that rap beef money.
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Sony copy the Kickstarter's project Pebble watch?
How is HD resolution on an external display the same thing as DECODING IN SOFTWARE a HD flash video? Please keep in mind that Flash decoding is still not GPU supported on ARM devices (at least as far as I know).

And concerning a target market: Yes it might be useful for some audiences like sysadmins or people who don't really want to consume media on their computers. I still think that most people who want to use devices like these want to be able to watch videos. Even on iPads the lack of flash is what has been most limiting to many people - luckily the situation gets increasingly better with the adoption of iOS native formats. I guess we have to see.
It seems like the risk of not collecting $500 from a bunch of developers is peanuts compared to the real threat MSFT now faces of people choosing to develop non Windows-specific apps which happen to still work on Windows. How many "apps" have you installed lately which are really just local servers with web front-ends? Qt-based stuff? Java SWT/Swing? What else? While many of these apps likely are built upon 3rd party components developed using Visual Studio (perhaps a free version), the makers of these apps almost always provide a Mac and Linux version. Microsoft has passed a dangerous tipping point where it is now like Apple in the early 90's -- fighting to attract developers who will provide killer, platform-specific apps. We all laughed as Ballmer screamed, "Developers, developers, developers!" However, he's all too well aware of the danger Microsoft faces of losing its dominance as a platform provider. I'd say "lost" as I believe they're already running on fumes, but they still control a huge portion of the desktop market. They should be worrying that developers won't develop anything at all which relies on their APIs and forgo the overly ambitious goal of buying developers' use of Metro. In a storm, any 'ol port will do.
Oh Goad, magma is so SHIT. We've had one of their offerings in the 2000's and it smoked a high-end piece of hardware when it died. Cause? Very shitty chinese psu that went up in flames on its own. It was just after warranty, so they didn't take it back. In retrospect reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZDh8z9UDTo

Please, please don't use magma. It's for your own good.
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How is a 12 core 3.06ghz xeon not sufficient to develop Instapaper?
It would be a huge mistake for Apple not to keep the Mac Pro and the core of content creators/developers happy. We want/need a big machine to run OSX and Windows via Parallels, we need 16-32MB+ RAM minimum, We need many cores and lots of memory to do that with minimal problems. We want to run OSX. Where else can you run OSX on powerful hardware that isn't a Mac Pro? Apple better keep this in focus and see it as an investment.

I love my Mac Pro. It is the best desktop I've ever had and what actually got me into Apple products. I can also develop all my Mac/iOS, Android and Windows apps on it, without it I'd need a windows machine again.

The Mac Pro is still key to getting Windows people to switch so they can run it in parallels.
He's complaining about RDS in general, not this specifically priced offering of it.
I'm not at all a fan of Facebook, but I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt here since the author of this article doesn't provide any evidence at all that this problem was a deliberate ploy by Facebook to hurt Google+, let alone that Facebook is "paying Symantec to take the blame for the lie". Much more likely that it's a bug.

As Hanlon said: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
> Try running a really complicated Logic set with a lot of virtual instruments on a low-end machine and watch it grind to a halt.

Barking up the wrong tree, mate. Obviously he won't try it, because he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about - and certainly never heard of Logic.
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Client side form factor detection: nightmare mode
Clicking on twitter en the menu just takes me to the twitter account. I guess I'm missing something?
Does this picture show the 'ghost' of a universe pre Big Bang?
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Dude what the article is saying or trying to say is this. Apple knows that people would not go looking into the actual stats.
Like how Mac Os claims to be the most advanced operating system ever....?
Percentage-wise maybe they are telling the truth but they are hoping that people would interpret it as this...
"People don't own windows anymore, lets jump on the Apple Mac boat" - study a bit of marketing or consumer psychology and you'll understand perfectly.
You're not remembering silicon history well.

The 90's Apple clones didn't collapse itself because they were bad, Steve Jobs tried negotiating software licensing with manufacturers and Apple opted not to renew.

You're also rehashing some old point about Apple missing the boat on low end devices. Why does that matter? Apple sells millions of computers every quarter year over year. They have excessive cash holdings. What would be the point of chasing after some mythical unicorn low end cheap device that has no margins?

Evolutionary forces are indeed interesting. They do silly things like insisting on floppy disks, VGA ports, CD-ROMs, and other vestigial residues that hinders progress.
I think the frustration is the fact that Samsung has all the ingredients needed for success, except courage. We could certainly do with a serious Apple competitor (in the US).
However I think that fundamentally, Samsung cannot really change much. The Korean style of management, with strict adherence to hierarchy and deference to rank, may be the reason why the company can't market its own technologies (I'm completely speculating of course, but I have a strong feeling that this might be correct). Another reason may be that it is quite successful outside US. (e.g in India, Samsung == Apple in quality; that is the perception)
File sharing is normal for people today. I grew up with it and all people in my class exchanged games, music, movies etc. each other. Now I started working and it's nearly the same. I understand your point, of course. Music, Movies etc. are still protected by copyright, but I don't want to pay for a crappy service e.g DVD, which includes copyright violation warnings, previews of other movies and copy protection if I can get a better service for free. But I'll probably purchase the Tom Lowe movie, because he is a cool guy and offer the movie TimeScapes in various formats.
Synthetic Biology is in great need for computational tools and expertise to help advance the field.

Platforms like ClothoCAD are great places for those interested in open-source software and syn-bio applications.

http://www.clothocad.org/
In the course of my business, I deal with dozens of different embedded PC's. There's one thing I wish players in this space would keep in mind: If you want to take a shot at this window of power and performance (the level at which people start thinking "set-top box") you really have to beat out the $250 netbook I can get at walmart. If my first thought is, "nice form-factor but a netbook/mini-itx/mac-mini solves the problem for the same price", you pretty much lose just because the others are easier to get.

This is what really caught my attention about the Raspberry Pi. It was OpenWRT sized and priced, but promises netbook sized abilities. I just wish I knew how to get a case of them.
There is no doubt that IAM is the best thing to happen to Amazon AWS in a long time. The ability to have read-only and more importantly write-only access to SQS/S3/SimpleDB is brilliant. What is still needed though is a way to securely manage the keys/certificates on the actual server. Maybe Amazon could build a key store that only unlocks from certain processes at certain times and logs access attempts.
Care to explain? The "retina" iPhones have pixel dimensions of 640×960, where each pixel is composed of a red, green, and a blue cell. The OS UI widgets have been updated to display well on this new physical resolution. What do you mean by "how the retina iPhones are merely 320x480 point views"?
For more information, the appropriate search term is "collation" -- ordering words and terms according to the rules of an alphabet, case sensitivity, accent sensitivity...
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Is this a some kind of concentration game?
And bye bye 17inch macbook pro.

I guess it wasn't selling as good as the 15inch, ans is obsoleted by the retina one. But it's funny how there is so little mention of it, even if it was the top of the line for so long, representing the "everything's on board" mentality, just as the mac pro is.
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Congrats to the team. Would have been even sweeter if it would have been pre-Faceplant IPO!
I believe some countries require vendors to supply the computer with an OS installed; in this case not needing to include a half-assed version of Windows Home Underwhelm Experience can help them cut away those 10% of $300 low-end models. There's a reason many netbooks come with linux and it's not user-friendliness.

Additionally, more and more governments pass laws that require their institutions to use linux or open source, or choose bidders that do. Then you have an incentive for a company which wins such a bid to use linux on umpteens of desktops.

Those are just two incentives. There are probably more.
Not sure how I feel about the Facebook integration...
nice you worked on Merlin
A bit bummed that Siri in iOS 6 won't be supporting iPhone 4
I found it about ten times easier than changing the default search in IE.
Clicking the Search engine icon in FF and then clicking "Get More Search Engines" takes you to: http://www.linuxmint.com/searchengines.php#siteinfo-legal

From there you just have to click the icon of the one you want. They should put them at the top of that page and not the bottom though (I added the anchor to the bottom of the page).
Real logging of IAM access and key/role usage would be much appreciated for auditing. Tough now to figure out who is doing what, from where, and with what permissions.

Restricting AWS API access from sources outside the AWS network would also be pretty useful.
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3D maps looks promising.

I haven't read through the iOS 6 dev manual, but I wonder what implication it has on MKMapKit and developers.
I find this debate so very tedious. From a libertarian perspective, RMS's arguments are just utter bs. He's basically saying two independent parties have no right to enter into a contract that involves keeping secrets. That's what happens when you agree to a EULA. If you don't like the contract, don't accept it.

People have no more right to "free software" in the RMS absolutist sense than they have right to free beer, free lunch, or free anything. (And yes, I know the 'free as in speech' slogan, but my point is that I have a right to enter into a contract, or offer someone a contract that limits their rights to share certain information I want to protect.) The fact that the thing in question is information rather than something more 'real' doesn't change the morality of the situation one bit -- it's merely a practical consideration, that bits are easy to copy, and cars and lunch are not.
Due to the unexpected number of hits... Twitter is rate limiting the requests per hour... So instead of doing nothing it redirects to twitter...
One thing which I remember seeing once was that Lawyer A had emailed site B with some threat of a lawsuit, and B's lawyer immediately filed in court for a declaration that A's threat was frivolous and harrassing, so that B should get some sort of automatic damages if A ever sends another communication on the same topic again.

I wasn't sure what legal principles were involved, or whether that declaration was granted, but the whole idea was pretty kickass; "this is so obviously something which you can't sue me for that I'm going to have a court shove that fact up your rear end."
How so? The new one has a physical resolution of 2,880 × 1800 pixels. The density is higher, so text can be scaled smaller and still be legible. Are you questioning how large UI widgets will appear?
from my personal experience I have never used Gumroad before, so if it was $9.95 from Amazon and $9.95 from Gumroad then i would have bought from Amazon.
I think you may have made the same profit but your readership would have been much lower if you hadn't used Amazon, which is an important consideration if you want extra exposure.
I've read it. The purpose of a scientific paper is to state its assumptions and suppositions clearly. The fact that this one doesn't even manage that is a big knock against it, aside from the fact that the basic "theory" is fundamentally not falsifiable.
It works for me. What error message did you get?
Could you try again? http://www.delight.io
> Gonna play devil's advocate for a moment

ITYM fan, because "devil's advocate" means arguing for the sake of something you dislike a lot, in order to bring better criticism.

You're playing bait and switch. Can it be you have learnt this from AAPL?
sunlight labs api -- they're awesome. http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/
I should have been more specific. They're so much slower per thread that they're still slower overall even in heavily multithreaded tasks.

In this Anandtech review, the 16 core Opteron trades blows with a six core Xeon (clocked at 2.3ghz vs 2.66ghz):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5058/amds-opteron-interlagos-6...

The 8 core DP Xeons weren't out yet when that review took place, but the Sandy Bridge chip was a big improvement over Westmere, in addition to the extra cores.
Thanks -- your compliment is enough. We really wanted the app to be free. Just figured I'd share as it's definitely not profitable :).
>You thought that V=IR completely describes a physical resistor, when it does not.

V=IR is a mathematical model of a resistor, useful under most circumstances except pathological ones. Can the model be improved? In most cases yes, but then it loses some value due to complexity.

This is why there are scientists in Antarctica: they're testing the model, gathering new data to see how well the models hold up. But for some reason you're acting as if those poor scientists haven't realised this yet.

If you want to continue to argue the point feel free, but you're disagreeing with every scientist and engineer on the planet. Try looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_model - what do you see? Ooh - equations.

"essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful" -- George E. P. Box
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It occurs to me that the single biggest complaint about the current update is the lack of processing power in the current MacPro. Why not rig together a box the size of an external drive that contains a dozen core Xeon processor and 64GB of DDR3 RAM? Then you could attatch it to whatever Mac product you were using via Thunderbolt and have all the horsepower you needed. Has any company done this?
Completely agree on this. Moreover, the price of a Kindle book is often HIGHER than for the printed version, which is outrageous, especially because of the poor quality of the layout of many kindle books layouts.
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That's a 1-year measure, which has a lot of fluctuations; something like a 10-year measure, showing a general trend, is more interesting to me.

Clicking through a few times to http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/05/17/after-a-lull-s..., 2011 is apparently an anomaly, and around 20-25k new units (net) were added over the past decade. In addition, 2k new units were approved in 2011. Still not too high, admittedly (a 7% increase in housing stock over a decade).
Its not just you. I haven't gotten mine yet either. Should be coming along now from Newark any day now...

Its funny. My jaw dropped initially, not because of the cool software hack, but because here was a fellow that had managed to get two raspis!
It's not that C is a great language imho - it's the C tool chain - I can compile a c program on anything (except the coming windows 8 tablets - but I'm guessing it's a matter of time)
I don't have any debt and I don't plan to accumulate any debt. I don't live over my means and I have good savings. I am also very mobile and can live anywhere in the world since I don't own that many things and my work can be done using a computer and an internet connection. I do have some plans to own some properties, but this is only to diversify my investments.

A lot of people are living above their means or on a economy with no breathing room => I think this is a very bad strategy going forward.

Regarding my startup I am trying to build a profitable and sound business that targets the global market.
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Does it allow you to have multiple projects open at the same time yet? That was what prevented me from using it earlier.
Only if you believe he is really dead. Apparently you didn't attend Coachella?
Don't deceive yourself into thinking that you can program your way into biological research. Biological research has very little to do with apps/programming/web-development.

Synthetic biology requires an understanding of chemistry, molecular biology, and genetic structure.
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Alright. I'll bite. I'll deploy it tomorrow and give it a whirl and see how it stands up :)
Tracing the users, whose nest in the web got hammered or cleaned
New season of the certain, very hooking, television serie that mixes drama, fantasy and mysteries, has started. For some it is so badly needed that they'd do almost anything to get to watch it. However, again they are faced with the fact that either the whole website they used to find videolinks for watching the latest episodes has been hammered down or there has been massive clean up that forces them to find their "drug" from somewhere else.

Many of the "internet sheriffs" don't seem to see a possibility that Megavideo, for example, might not have been fully on the so-called pirate's side. Lots of data will again be gathered by many parties (advertising networks and "honey bot -blogs" included) while episode searchers try to find their ways to new areas where "the latest" still blossom.

Entertaining things are not the only ones for what one can become highly addicted to and thus become part of a personal psychology research that could be set up by unknown party. It could be a social psychology or sociology research too, if "drug users" talked or learned from the others while doing their searching, but in a case where they do it all by themselves it is more personal.

When a health related community (depression, schizophrenia etc.) gets plugged off in a relatively small country and where the discussion language was not english and stays that way for a long time (like weeks or even months) userbase is (kind of) required to find new ways to feel that they belong to something that they share. They need it. And like some "videodrug users" they might be loners. And that's exactly the core reason for research(s) that might be in place.

When you smash down a nest of living things they will have to find a new place to live or a new place where they can feel that they are alive. While they are doing that they might be traced (in multiple ways). In the Internet that might be more than easy -- for those, who have a power to do so. And if they do have it, would they always decide to not use it? Some might, some might not and some will use it, if they are "asked nicely" by authorities -- who ever that might be. In some cases authorities might not be "in the loop" at all.

The actual hypothesis or reasons for such researchs would start to make sense, when they are viewed from governing or conguering point of views. I mean, the conclusions from mentioned examples can be applied to other areas of interest, too. For a second or two, think about concept of the war. Think also the recent outage of the Facebook and how and especially where people complained it. Yes, they did it by sending tweets. But those tweets actually get read? Maybe, maybe not. Some do know, but most don't. And there resides the power of the information.