None of those examples removed functionality from other applications.
Neither does the cited camera app. When you're using the camera, the button does one thing. When you're not using the camera, it does something else. Nothing has been removed. Things have only been added. The concept of using one button for multiple actions has been around for as long as computers have had buttons. This is especially prevalent with console games. When you're on one screen a certain button has a certain action, when you're doing something else that button does something completely different. It's all about context. People are in fact intelligent enough to figure this out. Yes, even Apple users.
It does remove functionality. You can have music playing while you're doing other things, i.e., using the camera app. If I'm not using the POS apple headphones with built in volume controls, I have no way (other than using an experience interrupting pop up window) to change the volume of the music while using this camera app. How is that not taking functionality away? I'm not saying banning the application is the right choice, but there is logic to the decision.
Nitpick I know, and not trying to be a grammar nazi - but I like how the GP misused dual instead of duel, and the parent misused duel instead of dual. It's like you two traded words.
I find it VERY difficult to believe the average cell phone consumer can discern the service quality between AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc.
I live two miles from downtown in a densely residential area in the 4th largest city in the country(Houston) and at my home I have exactly no service from AT&T and Five bars from T-Mobile(both GSM) Believe it or not, I can tell the difference without any special training or tools. So I unlocked my iphone to work the T-mobile and turned down the update. Would I like to have double tap space for a period and itunes wifi store? Of course. Do I want that more than being able to take calls from my home? Of course not. People who are tech savvy enough to unlock their iphone but not tech savvy enough to read many warnings about what will happen if they update the firmware deserve what's coming to them.
What format is the download audio in?
While I can't find my source at the moment, I am 99% certain that it will be distributed in mp3 format.
Are any special tools required to download the audio?
I doubt it, as the audio is confirmed to be DRM free, and a special tool would be rather pointless. If, for some reason, a special tool is required, one could simply buy the album and then torrent it.
Is the "download code" good for several download attempts, should the first fail?
Regardless of whether or not the download code is valid for multiple attempts, you can purchase the album for $0.00, allowing you to retry.
Because, unfortunate though it may be, if you work in a business environment(not IT related, but in an industry that utilizes computers) sometime in the next 5 years, the odds are that you will be working on Windows.
Half the point of having the computers in school is to increase the students ability to operate the market standard operating system and be able to effectively complete tasks. Installing Ubuntu, or another linux distro effectively defeats that point.
[url]http://money-making-machines.blogspot.com/200 6/12/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-sets.html[/url]
They plan to spend all the money in it in the 50 years after there death. Assuming that bill gates lives for another 50 years- and assuming a 7.5% return on investments done by the foundation(they currently have roughly 60billion in it after Buffet's donation)- They will have donated over the next 100 years a rather huge some of money(over 100billion, realistically a lot more)-
That's kinda difficult to trivialize
Wow, I hope that's sarcasm.
The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation gives $800million a year towards world health initiatives. It provides 17% of the world budget for the eradication of polio, which is still a major problem in some developing countries.
Inside the US it has given 277million to various education foundations.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_G ates_Foundation#Global_Health_Program[/url]
Houston, Texas is currently in the early process of implementing city wide wifi, thought it's a lot more difficult here do the relative geographical sizes of the two cities.
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None of those examples removed functionality from other applications.
Neither does the cited camera app. When you're using the camera, the button does one thing. When you're not using the camera, it does something else. Nothing has been removed. Things have only been added. The concept of using one button for multiple actions has been around for as long as computers have had buttons. This is especially prevalent with console games. When you're on one screen a certain button has a certain action, when you're doing something else that button does something completely different. It's all about context. People are in fact intelligent enough to figure this out. Yes, even Apple users.
It does remove functionality. You can have music playing while you're doing other things, i.e., using the camera app. If I'm not using the POS apple headphones with built in volume controls, I have no way (other than using an experience interrupting pop up window) to change the volume of the music while using this camera app. How is that not taking functionality away? I'm not saying banning the application is the right choice, but there is logic to the decision.
Americas Army - http://www.americasarmy.com/
As that link seems to be slashdotted, here's a ahref=http://www.google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmodular.fas.harvard.edu%2Fsage%2Fscreen_shots%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-arel=url2html-17514http://www.google.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmodular.fas.harvard.edu%2Fsage%2Fscreen_shots%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a>
Nitpick I know, and not trying to be a grammar nazi - but I like how the GP misused dual instead of duel, and the parent misused duel instead of dual. It's like you two traded words.
I live two miles from downtown in a densely residential area in the 4th largest city in the country(Houston) and at my home I have exactly no service from AT&T and Five bars from T-Mobile(both GSM) Believe it or not, I can tell the difference without any special training or tools. So I unlocked my iphone to work the T-mobile and turned down the update. Would I like to have double tap space for a period and itunes wifi store? Of course. Do I want that more than being able to take calls from my home? Of course not. People who are tech savvy enough to unlock their iphone but not tech savvy enough to read many warnings about what will happen if they update the firmware deserve what's coming to them.
Got a little offtopic there, my bad
What format is the download audio in? While I can't find my source at the moment, I am 99% certain that it will be distributed in mp3 format. Are any special tools required to download the audio? I doubt it, as the audio is confirmed to be DRM free, and a special tool would be rather pointless. If, for some reason, a special tool is required, one could simply buy the album and then torrent it. Is the "download code" good for several download attempts, should the first fail? Regardless of whether or not the download code is valid for multiple attempts, you can purchase the album for $0.00, allowing you to retry.
As in "Take it with a grain of salt"
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/multimedia/fos sil.jpgDirect link to non resizing graphic.
at the risk of being a karma whore, here's the article without ads http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=122 116&print=true
Because, unfortunate though it may be, if you work in a business environment(not IT related, but in an industry that utilizes computers) sometime in the next 5 years, the odds are that you will be working on Windows. Half the point of having the computers in school is to increase the students ability to operate the market standard operating system and be able to effectively complete tasks. Installing Ubuntu, or another linux distro effectively defeats that point.
[url]http://money-making-machines.blogspot.com/200 6/12/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-sets.html[/url]
They plan to spend all the money in it in the 50 years after there death. Assuming that bill gates lives for another 50 years- and assuming a 7.5% return on investments done by the foundation(they currently have roughly 60billion in it after Buffet's donation)- They will have donated over the next 100 years a rather huge some of money(over 100billion, realistically a lot more)-
That's kinda difficult to trivialize
Wow, I hope that's sarcasm. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation gives $800million a year towards world health initiatives. It provides 17% of the world budget for the eradication of polio, which is still a major problem in some developing countries. Inside the US it has given 277million to various education foundations. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&_Melinda_G ates_Foundation#Global_Health_Program[/url]
Houston, Texas is currently in the early process of implementing city wide wifi, thought it's a lot more difficult here do the relative geographical sizes of the two cities.
http://savemuniwireless.org/blog/001109.html
http://houston.about.com/b/a/257244.htm
Philadelphia also has city-wide wifi at this point I believe.