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The 1.5 hour battery laptop serves (for me) an important niche. You see, I don't actually need a laptop. I need a portable desktop with built in battery backup, which is what the 1.5 hour battery laptop is.

Of course, it's entirely within Apple's prerogative to ignore that very niche market (I would if I were them) and it seems to be working well for them, but every odd ball computer configuration you see was created to meet the needs of at least one market. You are not the target market for the desktop replacement laptop. I am.
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To some people. I have an Air. I love it. It's small, It's light, It can fit anywhere. It takes up about as much room as a folder in my backpack, which is awesome for air travel, the more I can get in my carry ons, the less I'm paying for baggage.
When you've got to carry it, yes.
Single connector, but not single adapter. Daisy chaining also seems error prone. If all the adapters you have to take with you weigh 400g, you haven't really gained anything. Also, having to reattach everything all the time seems like a hassle if you have a lot of external devices to connect(is there a Macbook dock?). This ad satire is about the Air, but i think it sums up me reservations perfectly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnOCUkbix0
All Macs with 64 bit Intel processors. Not my 64 bit ppc...
This is not true for all new MacBook pro. All ram modules are soldered even for non retina display.
When you buy a PC, you should always get as much memory, disk, and CPU as you can afford. That was sound advice 20 years ago and it still fits today.
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Aren't tlds just a landgrab from the start, making money for the registrars? The original RFC882 never stated domain.com - their example was blue.colors, red.colors etc. What happened that we became stuck with these country level TLDs, and why can't I register myname.lastname?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882
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In my experience 1 in 4 upgrades are crap. Thinking back 10 or more years ago when I stuffed my PC with expansion cards. Sometimes these cards did not work, particular candidates were Modems and TV cards. Actually even half of my RAM upgrades were adventures, sometimes I had to remove all of the RAM and put it back in. (WTF?)

So this would be one explanation which I do experience. When I buy a Gadget and the cool stuff is hard-wired, this means to me: this Gadget is merged with the cool stuff.
Replace "wombat" with "software engineer" in this book, and you'll have it http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/061886864X/ref=oh_details...
"hand them all over to disqus"

What possible benefit do you get by having users login on your site as opposed to a disqus frame? Other than the "feel"?
That minute additional space would have made the ENTIRE laptop thicker.

And guess what. 99% of people would trade thinness over ability to use third party RAM.
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Personally, my fears are not about any current laws, but laws that might be created. I'd much rather for our society to respect privacy in these matters, especially if we have the potential to create laws I'd disagree with.

Also, if people have nothing to hide, let me access their computers for an evening, and also let me send any "proof" of breaking "stupid laws", like watching a dvd on their computer, or accessing a file with unwarranted DMCA takedown notice out for it. There's a lot of potential for innocent people going to jail in a video taped society.
> It stands to reason, when they do similar on the iOS products – the iPhone, iPad and iPod’s all have fixed storage and no way of using SD card’s, USB stick’s or change the battery like on competitors products, but RAM has always been upgradable.

It's also soldered on the Air, unsurprising that they'd do the same on a small-factor MBP.
First time seeing Tagstand yet I wondered after watching your videos why I have to hold up my phone up to the NFC sticker.

Wouldnt a better UX be the sticker and my device are self aware of each other? I get a notification to check in upon passing the sticker and or an option to allow such notifications?

Though is the field of range between phone and sticker only a short distance as of now?
They have VIP features where you can use your own login system.
You know we are talking about laptops, right ? By definition they are supposed to be portable.
The #1 reason I'm completely okay with the RAM being soldered to the mobo: NO CHANCE FOR A COLD BOOT ATTACK.
Because big companies are playing a different game. Their position in the market, the amount of money they have, the kind of problems they have...it's all very different from a start-up. And therefore the culture is different. It might be a great culture to work in, it's just not a startup culture.
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I'd love to see somebody develop a free clone of this which cuts out the middleman and lets you host it on your own server.

[edit] The videos are pretty good. Their use of "FaceCrack" in the second video is a little cringe-worthy though.
Yeah, the Macbook Airs have done that from the very start. Not sure about how widespread it is overall but both Sony's Vaio Custom Z and the ASUS Zenbook Prime have fixed non-upgradeable RAM.
Sure, Apple wants to sell as much as possible. But it's unclear to me if this decision has that effect. Not if many people are like me.

Knowing that there are upgrade options makes it easier for me to pay up for an expensive machine. But years later I never actually buy an upgrade because it feels like a waste to put money into a machine that is nearing the end of its useful life anyway.

I don't even want to know how much money I have wasted on buying "future proof" hardware. So if anything I have to thank Apple for making this perfectly clear to me and saving me from sinking $2200 into a laptop ;-)
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An issue has a one to many relationship with tickets. I built it, as I found I'd get many tickets about the same thing from different users. I wanted to be able to focus on solving the macro issue and not manage many issues. Terry Smith is one of the thinkers behind it.
I would say iOS already works like this. They push out OS updates to devices not capable of running them properly, and provide no easy path to roll back. Many non-technical users will just think their "old" phone has "gotten slow", as if that's the inevitable course that products take as they age. So they buy a new device.

The App Store only makes this worse, since at any given time you can only download the most recent version of any app. So if you don't upgrade iOS, you find yourself increasingly unable to install any new apps.

And all in all it seems very successful. There have only been 5 iterations of the iPhone over about 5 years, but how many people do you know that owned at least 3 of them?
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With a quick look there are some interesting things. Doesn't look like too many consumer companies came out to play. One of note is that Coca-Cola did not bid on .coke nor did P&G bid on anything.
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The license is not a fiction. It grants you powers that you would otherwise not have, only holding the installation media. For example, it grants you the right to make copies of the software - usually one for installation, one for execution and one for backup.

It does not, usually, grant you permission to make additional copies for execution on other computers (without deleting the first one).

Your use of this software is not limited by the license, it is extended. Without a license, installation media for copyrighted software has no legal value.
I agree. Its a bendable "rule" and Apple are willing to bend it in order to make gradual transition. But the Air is also an example that they return to clarity eventually. I don't think they'll continue to sell pros & airs for long if the only real difference is price. I definitely don't think they'll sell Air, Pro & Pro+ for long either, other wise they would have named it something else.

*Not a typo, but I clarified the sentence.
Sure. You create a support e-mail. Customers send to this e-mail, and tickets are auto-created.
I'm still kind of scratching my head about the use of SATA given these custom connectors. It keeps driver development simple, but at a cost in performance.
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I don't think you understand how RAM works. Hint: there is lots of caching goes on.
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Directions for future research:

1. Normalize for key: Express chords as I, ii, iii, IV, etc. This will permit analysis of chord progressions/exceptions (see below) across all keys.

2. Detect common constructs, e.g., 8-12-16 bar Blues, and analyze for exceptions, e.g., use of vi instead of I, use of V versus V7 as turnaround, etc. (And more interesting exceptions, e.g., resolution to ii or iii instead of I, etc.)

3. Related to #2, search for popular songs that do NOT follow/use common constructs. Are there are common characteristics across "second rank" popular songs (by which I mean "popular but not quite smashes, or short-duration - novelty - smashes")?

4. How much variation in key and/or chord progression is there for each artist?

Comments:

A. Not much of a surprise that C/Am is the most popular key: It is the most accessible - the white keys of the piano. It is also very accessible on the guitar, once one learns F...

B. ...but surprising to me that E is so unpopular, being "the natural key" of the guitar (E, A, B/B7 being so easy to learn and so common to the Blues). Analysis of key use by decade - or genre - could prove interesting....

C. Keys these days (the days of equal temperament) are chosen largely on accessibility: Can the soloist hit all of the notes important to the key? Can the accompanist make all the chords important to the song? Once upon a time, prior to equal temperament, keys had sounds and feels of their own, but nowadays, with equal temperament, the progression from unison to octave is by steps of absolutely the same value in each key.
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INC	11
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ART	10
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DESIGN 8
MOVIE	8
MUSIC	8
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Yes, this is actually what they meant by "no glass layer".

The integrated display isn't really a miracle of engineering. In my opinion it's more a miracle of business that they convinced their display manufacturer to make the retina display modules in the shape of the MBP's display assembly. This sort of thing has actually shown up in smartphones for a while but this is the first time we've seen it in a notebook computer.
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> It has much more in common with the Airs than the Pros.

Technologically yes, in terms of industrial design, power envelope and form-factor no, it doesn't have the characteristic tapered edge (or the possibility to slide it into an envelope), and it remains very heavy compared to an Air: the weight has gone down to that of the "old" 13" MBP (4.46 to 4.5 lbs), but it's half again the weight of the 13" Air 2.96 lbs) and almost twice the weight of the 11" (2.38 lbs).
Wow, how could the PRC products really need to cost $8000? It's buttons with a touch screen. Honestly, it sounds likelY that sfy is infringing. In our copyright system, unfortunately you have to pay or you have to wait for it to expire for cheaper options. However, it wasn't worth it to me, as part of the Public, to give PRC exclusive rights to those ideas, especially if they're going to sell them for that price.
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Original arguments for rewriting:
http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2010/11/26/umbraco...
Agreed.

They should get rid of that huge navigation bar. The last thing I want on my site/blog/whatever is additional, official-looking navigation buttons driving the user away from my site.

There's no reason for such a clumsy, intrusive widget. Disqus has plenty opportunity to brand the user within the registration popup already.

A tiny button with a popup-menu would serve their goals better. The current design will definitely turn off precisely the webmasters that would have been the most likely to consider a paid plan.
No, but you could have spent more effort figuring out the problem and try finding solutions.

You've used the same mail address again, so this wasn't the smartest move, because you can't assume that the problem is on the side of ycombinator.
Thanks for the feedback. Keeping the design clean was key to let the color palettes / products to pop out. About the name, I guess its too late to rethink that one :)
As a Swede, I might be biased -- but given that Stephen Colbert has asked to be an "Artificial Swedener"[1][2], I'd say it's a roaring success!

[1] https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/212753977018810368
[2] http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/41519...
The winner will be ICANN who laughs all the way to the bank with hundreds of new gTLD registration fees (equalling tens of millions of US$). The losers will most probably be companies like uniregistry.com (or, more specifically, their investors) who will register tens of new gTLDs and later find out that they are not worth as much.
Count me in as another one interested on this.
um, next to a picture like that it makes you pay attention to what's new about it.
when the maximum is 16g I really do not see the issue here. They charge the same price to upgrade the memory in the Retina Mac Pros as the regular ones.

Considering the for $400 more over the price of a standard Mac Pro notebook you get the new screen, 4g more memory, light weight, and SSD, it really comes off as a good deal in the scheme of Apple pricing. Yeah you lose the DVD, which I cannot recall when I last used one.

My suggestion is just order it maxed out in memory, if the $200 is something to quibble about in a $2200 laptop the you should not be buying one in the first place.
"What's so special about this application that a concerted week of coding could not duplicate?"

I wondered about that, although I am not a programmer. Thanks for the pictogram reference!

Please base the project outside the US, and build it for Android/Linux!
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I'll admit there is not much logic here. Was not needed for my use case. Feel free to contribute it, though!
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This is a huge advantage. I want to be a disqus user, not a user of 4000 tiny blogs. When I make comments on x, y and z random blogs, I want to be able to follow replies to them in one central place.

I especially don't want to give a username and password to all these little poorly-secured blogs.

If you want to "control" "your" users, build your own comments system. And turn off RSS.
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Appreciate the feedback. Will see how often this is reported. The fading is also handled in the main JS file, so you can disable it there.
Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .google, .guge (what?), .hangout, .here, .home, .how, .inc (really?), .ing, .kid, .live, .llc (really?), .llp, .lol (wtf?), .love (...), .mail (ambitious much?), .map, .mba (you can have them all), .med, .meme, .mom (awww), .moto, .mov (quicktime extension!), .movie, .music, .new ('nother file extension), .nexus, .page (web or larry?), .pet, .phd (duh), .play, .plus, .prod, .prof, .rsvp, .search, .shop, .show, .site, .soy, .spot, .srl, .store, .talk, .team, .tech, .tour, .tube, .vip, .web, .wow, .you, .youtube, .zip (file extension), .みんな, .グーグル, .谷歌

What the holy hell? Did google just have an employee suggestion box and they applied for all submitted names?

Apple wants: .apple

Microsoft wants: .azure, .bing, .docs, .hotmail, .live, .microsoft, .office, .skydrive, .skype, .windows, .xbox

Microsoft is just defending their own brands.

Only two applicants for .sex (and one for .sexy)

Amazon wants: .amazon, .app, .audible, .author, .aws, .book, .bot, .box, .buy, .call, .circle, .cloud, .coupon, .deal, .dev (nice way to snoop on poorly configured corporate dns too. in competition with google), .drive, .fast, .fire, .free, .game, .got, .group, .hot, .imdb, .jot, .joy (smells like zappos), .kids, .kindle, .like (only applicant), .mail, .map, .mobile, .moi, .movie, .music, .news (google didn't apply for .news), .now, .pay (dangerous), .pin, .play, .prime, .read, .room, .safe, .save, .search (woo), .secure, .shop, .show, .silk, .smile (aww), .song, .spot, .store, .talk, .tunes (ha!), .tushu, .video, .wanggou, .wow, .yamaxun, .you, .yun, .zappos, .zero, .アマゾン, .ストア, .セール, .ファッション, .ポイント, .亚马逊, .家電, .書籍, .通販, .食品

Amazon is part brand defense and part what-the-hell-are-you-doing too.

There will be no winners here. The best thing they can do now is cancel the idea of corporate TLD ownership.
>and it can be taken away

Except this has never, ever been done to anything but malware. Not even apps that flagrantly and blatantly violated the store rules and got taken down are removed from end user devices. Not even apps which were pulled down for patent or copyright infringement.

It isn't going to happen.

Until such time as the killswitch is abused, this remains a slippery slope argument with no basis in reality.

If you're worried about your apps, back up the IPA's. You kept your //e floppies around somewhere, didn't you? Is the problem that once apps are removed from the appstore, you can't redownload them? Can you buy Oregon Trail for the original Apple 2 officially anymore?
You just need to understand that you have become an edge case. The 1%.

People just aren't using Firewire, Optical Drives and Ethernet like they use to. And compromising the entire computer just to satisfy a minority isn't good business. And absolutely isn't Apple's style.

Most things are more expensive when you aren't buying the mainstream option. In your case having to buy the Superdrive, Firewire and GigE adapters.
You got incorrect info, non-Retina Macbook Pros have upgradeable memory and you can already buy it from suppliers like Crucial and OWC.
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How much do those cost again? A nice cash grab by the ICANN I presume.
Sorry but you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one to be honest if that is the case.

Apple are making an attempt to turn generic computers into disposable appliances with moves like these. I would never accept a compromise like that with a computer that I owned.

My rationale is as follows: If I pay £1800 for one of those machines, I expect to be able to repair common problems easily. That's a lot of money sitting in one component waiting to fail and considering the warranty is a year (or 3 if you are extorted for even more cash by Apple for their expensive AppleCare service).

First it was the batteries - now no longer replaceable by mere mortals, then the SSDs were brought in with proprietary interfaces, now the RAM is soldered on the board.

In the average 5 year life span of a computer, I have found that you will need to replace the battery between 1-2 times, the memory will need to be upgraded at least once and the disk will need to be upgraded. These are observations but rational ones.

I'm now sitting on a Lenovo T61 which is 5 years old. EVERY component in this machine can be replaced for literally nothing and very rapidly.

Sorry but stuff like this is just pandering to consumerism if it is disposable by design.

The design is retarded.

EDIT: It appears the battery is GLUED in so that's not replaceable any more either, even with the aid of a screwdriver.
Did anyone upgrade their Mac? Secondary market prices for Mac laptops are insanely high. Over the last several years, I've been buying a new MacBook every year. I buy at $1100 and sell around $800. $300 is less than I spend on coffee.
I launched an application which sends you an email a few months back (https://emailprivacytester.com/). It alerts you in real time when the email leaves my server and hits your MX or is rejected by your MX, keeping you informed on the page of any permanent/temporary rejection messages or the accept message from the remote MX.

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I block third-party cookies, and as a result I never see a Disqus comment. I've found that if I don't allow Disqus to set a cookie their JavaScript widget just spins ineffectively.

I wonder if the new Disqus will stop requiring me to send them a tracking cookie in order to read the comments. (I accept the need to identify myself if and when I want to post. But it would be nice to be able to visit a web site with Disqus installed without that visit going into my permanent record next to my name.)
Long term investment? Scorched earth strategy? Surely google can afford it. Some of those seem strange though.
The original Samsung Series 9 is about 10% thinner and had two DIMM slots; the battery did take up a bit less space though. I'm sure it would have been possible to fit two SODIMM slots, it would just have cost more in terms of design and sale price.
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Oh, yes, security! Strange this isn't discussed more. While a bomb in an airplane is bad enough imagine what a ripped vacuum tube under the ocean will do! Such a tube will be a high profile target for terrorism and an incident/accident would block/destroy the whole traffic.
The broad stats are cool, but I find that the value really comes from going back to the individual data points. For example, I want to hear the "most atypical" songs. Are they any good?
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> My guess is that this isn't a macbook pro. Not for long.

It most definitely is, they're going to deprecate the older design over time. Just look at the specs, CPU and GPU are the same between old-style and Retina, but only the Retina gets a 16GB RAM option (with 8 base, versus 4 base for old-style), a retina display, Retina gets HDMI (and a second TB, which is the future as far as Apple's concerned), an updated Magsafe design.

The old-style remains to clear inventory and to wait for the cost of making/buying retina panes to get lower.
The most contentious domains are .app (13 applications), .inc (11), .home (11), and .art (10), followed by .shop, .blog, and .book, and .llc at 9. Rough list here: https://gist.github.com/2923898
Link to the book, was at the bottom of this long article.

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Nothing-to-Hide/index...