that's true. without looking at the screen the IDrive is unusable.
i have a car with IDrive since 2 years and while it's neat in someways the most annoying thing is responsiveness. most of the times it's like an 6 year old digital sat receiver it's nice but switching channels feels way to slow. and so is the experience in my car. pushing the idrive up/down/left/right results in a 1-2 second wait until s.th. happens. and the magnetic force-feedback feels awkard, when you hit the top or bottom from a scrolling view it just doesn't feel right.
but as i said my car is now 2 years old, they maybe have it working much better these days.
i remember ppl saying the same about windows 98SE when w2k was released. ppl like you prefer the eye-candyless w2k. and i now hear ppl saying it about XP since vista is out (including me). and i'm pretty sure ppl will say the same about vista once the successor is released.
so like someone earlier posted: it's ok to live in the past
(for a while at least) we don't want to come to a total halt in technology
there are so many ajax enabled frameworks. most if not all of them aren't even tied to a specific server-side technology -> so more choice.
they point out it's open source? hey of course it is! the major part is in javascript. it's open by design and even if it were possible to scramble, obfuscate and encrypt their code. it would be useless because developers will have the need to extend the widgets to their specific needs at a certain level.
i think all we need is an near 100% reliable "suspend-to-some-super-fast-non-volatile-ram"
when we have that a reboot will be more like compiling the current state. as long as you don't change any configration no reboot should be necessary at all. just suspend and restore all the time.
i would say thats not even necessary. imho most important is convertibility. so whenever a new format comes available you should be able to convert it to the new media yourself. not being forced to re buy or keep "antique" hardware players just to see a movie/song/album you bought these days again in say 10 or 20 years.
since this is the crap that the content industry wants to make us believe all the time we don't buy a physical product but the license to "consume the content".
if that would be true then we should be able use vinyl and cd's as a license to get the digital versions of the songs for free. and not such crappy codes inside for some bad-website to get weird proprietary drm'ed files that only plays on non-standard players that will just cease to exist someday anyway.
and how the hell are you supposed to lend and album to a friend who wants to listen to it? or bring an album to a party? like generations did before with vinyl and cd's ?
how should that be ever possible with various proprietary drm formats controlled by the industry?
an ending ";" is never required. it's a separator telling the rendering engine that the definition ended and the following is a new one.
when there are no declarations following, it's neither needed nor required. see the specs. even on w3c.org they omit them.
saves a byte of bandwidth everywhere;)
they're just too expensive for him as a hobbyist breeder (and a pensioner as well!).
he's neither a professional breeder nor a farmer, a farmer doubtlessly would have the ressources to feed them in large numbers.
as the article says "12 rabbits so far" so just small scale breeding.
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that's true. without looking at the screen the IDrive is unusable.
i have a car with IDrive since 2 years and while it's neat in someways the most annoying thing is responsiveness.
most of the times it's like an 6 year old digital sat receiver it's nice but switching channels feels way to slow. and so is the experience in my car. pushing the idrive up/down/left/right results in a 1-2 second wait until s.th. happens. and the magnetic force-feedback feels awkard, when you hit the top or bottom from a scrolling view it just doesn't feel right.
but as i said my car is now 2 years old, they maybe have it working much better these days.
strange. i'm using kde and konversation for years and i never had any problems with it.
:D
ok, besides the mixed keyboard and middle-mouse-button controlled clipboard confusion hitting me randomly but that effects every application
it was the font size that was so tiny you couldn't even read the numbers correctly.
;)
not your fault!
exactly!
albums made by musicians these days mostly have lots of lame fillers.
albums made by musicians that happen to be artists as well generally have enough good songs for a full album.
i remember ppl saying the same about windows 98SE when w2k was released.
ppl like you prefer the eye-candyless w2k.
and i now hear ppl saying it about XP since vista is out (including me).
and i'm pretty sure ppl will say the same about vista once the successor is released.
so like someone earlier posted:
it's ok to live in the past
(for a while at least)
we don't want to come to a total halt in technology
there are so many ajax enabled frameworks.
most if not all of them aren't even tied to a specific server-side technology -> so more choice.
they point out it's open source? hey of course it is! the major part is in javascript. it's open by design and even if it were possible to scramble, obfuscate and encrypt their code. it would be useless because developers will have the need to extend the widgets to their specific needs at a certain level.
bullets are so 20th century...
;D
think about the future -> ray guns, we need to control or even ban them too
i think all we need is an near 100% reliable "suspend-to-some-super-fast-non-volatile-ram"
when we have that a reboot will be more like compiling the current state.
as long as you don't change any configration no reboot should be necessary at all.
just suspend and restore all the time.
you're right! it's just the new DirectX 10 that makes it look way better these days ;)
"comes in many formats"
i would say thats not even necessary.
imho most important is convertibility. so whenever a new format comes available you should be able to convert it to the new media yourself. not being forced to re buy or keep "antique" hardware players just to see a movie/song/album you bought these days again in say 10 or 20 years.
since this is the crap that the content industry wants to make us believe all the time we don't buy a physical product but the license to "consume the content".
if that would be true then we should be able use vinyl and cd's as a license to get the digital versions of the songs for free. and not such crappy codes inside for some bad-website to get weird proprietary drm'ed files that only plays on non-standard players that will just cease to exist someday anyway.
and how the hell are you supposed to lend and album to a friend who wants to listen to it? or bring an album to a party? like generations did before with vinyl and cd's ?
how should that be ever possible with various proprietary drm formats controlled by the industry?
an ending ";" is never required. it's a separator telling the rendering engine that the definition ended and the following is a new one. when there are no declarations following, it's neither needed nor required. see the specs. even on w3c.org they omit them. saves a byte of bandwidth everywhere ;)
they're just too expensive for him as a hobbyist breeder (and a pensioner as well!). he's neither a professional breeder nor a farmer, a farmer doubtlessly would have the ressources to feed them in large numbers. as the article says "12 rabbits so far" so just small scale breeding.
if you compare the possible financial losses and other potential consequences reulting from
a) illegally downloading a _single_ song alone
or
b) physically stealing the whole album in a store
i'd say visiting store wins!
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