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Yes, this. I get people to go to PC World and play with all the laptops there - then tell me which was their favourite in terms of the keyboard, screen, size, and look and feel.
I then get them that model (from a decent retailer, NOT PC World, with the technical options (RAM, CPU, GPU, HDD/SDD, etc) that I think are appropriate for what they're going to use it for.
To clarify:
The books that existed before Hypertext came along were the way they were because of the medium. Books are linear, searching is a PITA, pictures were expensive and static..
HTML and related technologies changed that. Many forms of delivering literature have flourished - youtube.com, 4chan.org and bbcnews.com spring to mind of examples of completely different formats of delivering content that can include story-telling, education and much more.
There's more literature out there than there ever has been before, and a lot of it is hypertext. Is all of it good, or high quality, or of lasting value? Of course not. But then there's plenty of dross printed on dead tree too.
I haven't read TFA, but if the summary is anything like right, then they are dead wrong. From very recently,
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
http://www.pottermore.com/
And more people are reading more than ever before using hypertext - fiction, fact, opinion - every kind of literature you can think of. I think it's called the web, or something.
He's right. This is what I do - I can't be arsed to walk to the nearest scanner at work anymore, as a simple shot of my iPhone takes a good-enough picture of a side of paper.
"I know kung fu."
Show me.
Maybe to get that beautiful video of the awesome view of the Earth from so high it was curved? And the cool way the balloon got so big it almost looked like a straight line on the video and then popped - also cool. Or to put it another way, why the fuck not?
While earthquakes being caused by fracking cater to our common senses, there just isn't ANY evidence that the two are linked. And I mean in that statistical "causation" way. *NO* regulatory agency, body, or otherwise has indicated otherwise.
play Quake?
A good question. I ran the numbers, and the answer is FUCKING quickly.
As someone else has already pointed out, it is not a competitor to USB.
As to the RAID box, well, something has to be first. But there are already three others I'm aware of:
There is already also a Sony laptop with a Thunderbolt connector to docking station which has an optical drive, a graphics chip, *and* USB 2.0 and 3.0 sockets. The newer Apple monitors, as well as the new iMacs, use it for USB and DisplayPort. The laptops with it can use a powered-down iMac as a monitor. You can't do a lot of that with USB.
As usual with technologies like this, as soon as it's integrated into chipsets and/or standard motherboards, the products will follow. Just the fact that Apple are selling hundreds of thousands of units with this integrated will help stimulate companies to produce more products that use it...
Being open means that these drivers won't simply go away once the product line is deprecated in favour of the newest and coolest graphics card, and that it will be able to receive improvements and bug fixes essentially until the last working piece of hardware dies off.
I wish that was true - but unless I'm being misled, these drivers already don't support my 2-year-old card or the generation after it. Is there anything concrete to give me hope this will change, and the 6000 series they're now making great steps forward with will be supported for more than 10 minutes after the 7000 series is released?
A shapely CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL is FIDGETING inside my costume..