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Quote: Originally posted by THT The only big thing left (that looks to be attainable) is a natural language interface. We interact with the computer at a very basic level with a 2 word sentence consisting of a noun and a verb. Ie, select object a…
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Quote: Originally posted by melgross Apple accounted for that when they made their quarterly estimates last January. That's one of the major reasons why the stock is where it is now. Apple's low estimates accounted for the fact that they would no…
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It sounds like your database would be simple enough that it could also be easily implemented as a web application. A front page with three buttons for viewing, editing, and admin access. Use HTML forms to handle editing, and a simple display script …
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Making the quarterly estimates has got to be a big part of it, too. SJ has always made a priority of showing consistent quarterly profits. And here Apple managed to go for most of the quarter selling near-zero of the product line that is their singl…
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I finally did it! Got my order in for a shiny new MBP 2.0. I've been waiting since January for the wait times to drop - if I'm going to wait a month anyway, I'd rather wait it before plunking my money down. Today is the last day for Amazon's $150 re…
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Quote: Originally posted by Hattig I just don't like the long list of applications, including less used ones, when you open the Applications folder - I have it on my dock for quick access, it's far nicer to have a heirarchy (which is subjective o…
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I thought the consensus opinion on that melted MagSafe was that the cats peed on it.
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Quote: Originally posted by dschamis Spoken like someone who has never spent a lot of serious time in Excel. As someone who once tried to spend a lot of "serious time in Excel" I can say from experience that phrase is an oxymoron. A little …
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Quote: Originally posted by bigmig What would be interesting would be if they gave the R&D costs of OS X (and maybe iLife). Given the ~$500 million figure they cite, I'm guessing the OS X costs alone must be $250 million or less The only…
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Like the article says, R&D is growing healthily in absolute terms, it's just that sales have exploded in the last three years, so as a % of sales it looks lower. The fact that costs haven't scaled with sales doesn't surprise me, and most analyst…
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For small, light and fast I use SubEthaEdit. The older versions are available free. The only killer feature I miss in my free version is regular expression find-and-replace. I keep TextWrangler around for that, but I think the latest and greatest Su…
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Quote: Originally posted by lundy Marketing-speak also can claim that something is 64 or 128 or 256 bit when in fact they are referring to some internal bus in the product that has nothing to do with the CPU. I thought I remembered reading a …
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Quote: Originally posted by Chucker It might be possible for Apple to create a wrapper, but that gets messy fast. As of now, Windows can't handle Mach-O at all, nor NeXT-/OS X-style bundles in general. That's Red Box. We had a thread about i…
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I shrink from disagreeing with Kickaha, but I don't think the ribbon is an inherently terrible idea. It's essentially graphical menus. You only see one menu at a time, after all, and you can discover the options here by clicking through the tabs - j…
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Quote: Originally posted by Multimedia I don't mean a CLONE of the Toshiba G35. I mean a similar set of acvanced AV features. I agree it shouldn't be as heavy. And I agree pent up need for speed trumps advanced feature sets. But I don't want to …
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How long do you anticipate working in one outlet-less spot, away from home? You can almost always find a plug, even in coffeeshops, classrooms, libraries, etc. You learn to look carefully. I do find it's more convenient to be able to work without a…