However it's a bit hard to get an Apple laptop for £400, that's why I got my Dell.
Indeed. Apple competes well in the segments they are, but they don't cover every segment. Cheap laptops, servers, gaming machines are just three of the segments they just aren't targeting.
Linux: Expect around 2-3 days of hunting for audio and display drivers and tweaking with the configs until it works
Cool! So you were using linux in 1998! It's good to see somebody that gave it a go way back then but it's changed somewhat over the last decade and a bit. Now it's only MS Windows where you have to hunt around the net for drivers if you've lost your install CD.
In '98, it wasn't as much spending 2-3 days for display drivers as spending that (and more) time upfront researching and buying the right components. Of course, afterwards you spent far more than that tweaking the configuration, compiling your own kernels etc. to eek out as much of the performance as possible. It was both fun and educational
OS updates cost money with Windows? News to me.
An OS update is free with Windows, but an OS upgrade will cost you. On Mac, both kinds are free now.
Why don't support vesa mount?
Why no USB on keyboard?
Alas, nice package but more needed to be done to impress me...
The previous version - this one only changes the internal hardware - offered a VESA mount, so this might be made available again. As for USB on the keyboard, you'll get that if you select the wired keyboard rather than the wireless one.
I bought one - 27 inch, with all available upgrades except for the max memory. Memory is user replaceable, and it's cheaper to buy it elsewhere. Here are my impressions
The suit, originally brought forth by five software engineers in 2011, alleges that the anti-poaching agreements served to lessen their employment opportunities, thereby weakening their negotiating power and ultimately affecting the salaries they were able to command.
Wait, what?
I've been told for years that the only way employees can ever fight their employer is if a union represents them and does all the negotiations. Now you mean to tell me that even non-union employees have rights, too?
That depends. If you are able to sell a unique skill - yourself - you can do that well. If you are more of a commodity, you'll be nickel and dimed. Often with a salary so low you need public support on top of it, and also forego healthcare. These could really need a union.
That said, where I live I think unions are too strong. But they are a needed balance.
Well Windows Phone 7 seems to be great when it comes to power management.
Android is awful. (Suppose WP8 will be as bad as the rest).
You're right, my WP7 phone (a Lumia 900) lasts way longer than my Galaxy S3... Never mind that WP7 can't run any apps in the history of ever (most notably it cant run a microsoft account-capable version of Skype, a microsoft product) but hey the battery will be there when I NEED it...
Windows Phone has optimized the battery lifetime by analyzing typical usage patterns - by far the most power on iPhones and android phone is spent on running apps. By realizing this, and making sure that Windows Phone have on few, and rather bad, apps, battery lifetime on the phone goes sky high.
Not in my experience. Over the past twenty years I've run Linux on a large number of designed-for-Windows laptops; I've never seen worse battery performance under Linux than under Windows, and on some machine (including my current Asus Zenbook) considerably better.
Linux didn't run on many laptops in '93... and for a long time even this milennium, Linux on laptops was painful because of partially functioning hardware (docking and screen mirroring/dual screens), poorly working suspend/resume and poor battery life. While Linux was great for workstations - and by far the best choice for servers - let's not paint too pretty a picture. Working well on laptops is a far more recent addition.
It really is a simple question.
I just wish somebody could explain to me and Anand why Windows is so awful at managing idle power.
OK, Jeff and Anand, listen up: it's because Windows is doing things in the background.
What is it doing? Ask the engineers that built it. But there's no reason to ask stupid vague questions like that when the general answer is so obvious. Windows does a lot of things in the background, all the time. It sounds like that carried over to the mobile version. If you want to know exactly what it's doing in the background (for academic purposes, I assume, since that knowledge isn't very useful) then feel free to ask the people who designed and wrote the software instead of the general public.
The benchmark used by the Anand and Jeff is OS X, which is doing a lot better batterywise than Windows 8. Neither of these are mobile, and both of these have a lot of background processes.
This is the CEO implementing the classic death spiral - reduce employees rapidly to get a few good financial quarters until the customers desert. It can be difficult and expensive for customers to change vendors so you have time to collect enormous sums before the eventual collapse of earnings. I hear there is even a Harvard business school class on how to convert a dying company's assets to personal wealth.
OTOH, when a company is struggling and have been losing money for years you do need to cut costs. And Alcatel-Lucent has been losing money for a while. According to the article, they want to cut "sales, support and administrative areas" - in addition to legacy tech. So it looks as if they are trying to preserve most of their R&D.
Would you please switch to 64-bit already? It's the year 2013, no one who uses the newest Firefox has a 32-bit system anymore, and it's not possible in practice to fix crashes due to running out of memory in C/C++.
Firefox is 64 bit on Mac, unlike Chrome which is still just 32 bit. The latter is fairly annoying, since that means you can't run java in Chrome on 64 bit. When using a credit card issued b a Norwegian bank, you frequently need java to handle credit card authorization with an app and your security device.
Except Pandora is pretty much US only, and even though Spotify is available in about 3 dozen countries or so, still doesn't have a user base of more than 20 million. I suspect iTunes Radio will be available for every market where there's a local iTunes music store. A much much much bigger possible market.Will Pandora survive? Probably, though it will probably lose listeners. Spotify may not. In either case, I would think that iTunes radio would have a much bigger userbase than both combined.
No reason to suspect iTunes Radio will be available for every market where there's a local iTunes music store - it's missing in quite a few countries. E.g here in Norway. And there are tight links between iTunes Match and iTunes Radio - there's no ads in the radio if you have iTunes Match.
What is the patent involved here? Establishing a connection between two entities on an IP network? NAT traversal techniques? Usage of Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocols?
Following links in the article will eventually get you to an article listing the patents.
From your link: "None of the windows at Halden have bars"
That's not a remotely typical prison.
The prisoners make their own meals. In a typical prison, that would result in 125 dead of stab wounds.
It's not that different from most Norwegian prisons - it just happens to be the newest one. Norway puts a huge effort into rehabilitation, and as a result the recidivism rate is 20-30% - less than half of what it is in the UK, to give one example.
While one part of me doesn't want prison to be to comfortable and cushy, intellectually I prefer this as it makes most ex-cons a valuable part of society afterwards and they don't go back to prison.
Citation needed. Who said anything about them "deliberately" misusing Safari's broken features? Maybe you just pulled that part outta your ass?
Google was fined for tricking itself around "do not track" and "block third party cookies". The details are in the second url.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
