Comment Re:The age I live to may vary (Score 1) 575
Besides, doesn't the claim "no hypothesis can be proven" invalidate itself?
Not if the claim is an axiom, instead of a hypothesis.
Besides, doesn't the claim "no hypothesis can be proven" invalidate itself?
Not if the claim is an axiom, instead of a hypothesis.
If you fly to Australia (presumably from the U.S. and not from NZ or something) and need your laptop the whole time, invest in an airline power adaptor and check to see if your airline has connectors here. Or you know... buy a different laptop.
According to the site that you linked:
[...]because of the limited amount of power draw per seat, it is possible that your laptop won't get enough power to both operate and charge. Some airlines, like Continental Airlines, specifically state that battery charging is not allowed and ask you to remove your rechargeable battery from your device.
So if you plan to use the laptop on flights, buying a different laptop certainly seems like the way to go, here. Then again, if you plan to use a laptop on an airplane, you probably aren't looking at a 17" model, anyway.
If the BBC author "knows what it does," he and other journalists would stop referring to Pirate Bay as a "file-sharing site." Use of that term is tantamount to referring to O.J. Simpson during his murder trial as "The murderer O.J. Simpson."
I disagree. Unlike murder, "file-sharing" is not inherently illegal. And TPB definitely allows the uploading and downloading -- i.e. "sharing" -- of
Dammit Palm, you had a complete market cornered, why did you have to drop the ball so stupidly? If you had developed a decent OS (with a f**kin filesystem!) for your devices 5 years ago, you would still be relevant today...
It's even more sad than you think. They actually bought one -- BeOS. But even though they had an excellent OS with an excellent filesystem, they never bothered to do anything with it.
Firewire is actually fairly common on even budget PC notebooks, including Dells, so this omission by Apple is all the more perplexing. And Apple still doesn't offer Blu-ray drives or 3G wireless at any price on any model. (No 3G wireless option from the iPhone company!)
I'm fairly sure that's a form-factor issue. The Macbooks are pretty cramped for space. Function follows form these days.
It also amazes me that their latest hardware refresh still caps RAM at 4G maximum. Even Dell has figured out how to go to 8G max on a notebook.
4 GB DDR3 modules for laptops don't exist yet.
That said, there is some great design in these new MacBooks. But Apple engineers waxing eloquently about "unibody" construction (it isn't, by the way) when they forgot the damn Firewire port is a bit too much to stomach.
see above about form factor limitations. They wanted it small and pretty, so "big" things like firewire controller chips had to go.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
