Probably not... but I figured that was the easiest way to ensure those unfamiliar with the commandline wouldn't wind up in the middle of a 'less' pager and not know how to get out. ;)
Those who are unfamiliar with the command line ought not be pasting commands from a blog into their terminal emulator without understanding what they are doing.
Indeed. I realize this likely predates OS X entirely, but... you're right: casual audience and.. TMO's Mac focus. But yep, as many here have pointed out, it's certainly not limited to the Mac.
Interesting report from Intel came out recently which is also (sparsely) corroborated by Apple's FAQ entry on the subject. Very interesting... and surprising. You'd think that perhaps someone like the FCC would have rules in place to keep this kind of thing from happening!
This isn't something that FCC regulations would easily catch. I'm assuming that the USB connector is properly grounded when the hard drive was being tested and no device was connected when the laptop was being tested.
Well said, John. I don't blame you for not doing the radio interview that night. It hit me a lot harder than I expected, as well. I realized the stuff that I'd used since I was about 10 years old was all influenced or even created by him. But mostly I was sad for him and his family -- here he had worked so hard for everyone else's benefit all his life, and never got to fully focus on or enjoy his family life. Sad.
It's definitely interesting to me that some developers call people who purchase their app through the App Store "customers" when, in reality, they have NO way of knowing who these people are, contacting them outside the app, or really doing anything with them at all. That, to me, does not a customer make.
If you don't have a way of "doing anything with" your customers that functions independent of holding their email address and/or credit card number, you're not doing something "with" them so much as doing something "to" them.
Not every application needs to be a goddamned community experience wherein the original transaction spawns a lifetime of subtle sales attempts from the developer. Be happy that someone paid to use what you built. If you want more money from them, or you want their email address, build so much cool shit that they want to hear about what's next.
A lifetime ago I worked as a reporter, but also did page layout. One of the stories I wrote was about a local food pantry at a church that was running low. I don't remember exactly what my headline was, but I left the "r" out of "pantry."
I think it's beautiful. This let him buck authority and beat the system at the same time. There was a monetary cost involved (and it could be argued that the system beat him out of fresh registration fees every 6 months), but... still. You gotta admire the gusto. ;)
I recently got an 11" air, and honestly can't see the need for a 13 or a 15". The latter would, in my opinion, stop being an "Air" and be more of a "brick" in terms of weight and size. The beauty of the MBA (ok, one of the beauties) is its portability.
I have to admit, though, choosing the 11" didn't come easily. I knew I wanted it for its compactness, but I was convinced the screen would be too small.
Do yourself the favor and challenge your assumptions. Go play with it. Especially play with it using Lion and its full-screen mode for apps like Safari and Mail. This is where the Air really shines.
To me the only benefit to the 13" is the larger battery. Otherwise the 11" is perfect.
Contrasting opinion: I _despise_ Lion fullscreen for built-in applications. It's hard to describe, but I just find it to be a waste of time. I really find that full-screen applications become harder to use, not easier. That said, Mission Control is great on the Air; I tend to have one desktop with Adium, IRC, and my mail client, and others as-needed for other stuff. (Mission Control is emphatically terrible on a dual-monitor Mini at all, but the Air makes it work brilliantly. On the desktop, MC is so bad that I wish I still had Spaces for the Mini. Fullscreen on multi-monitor desktops is likewise putrid; it full-screens on one desktop and your others are left blank.)
The 11" screen isn't really a hindrance for me at all, IMO - either in Xcode or Photoshop or IntelliJ OS X or when in Visual Studio on Windows.
my reason is specifically for split view coding. you really feel comfortable in xcode with 11"? hmm.. i think i'll go to the mall now and try that out.
