while that is, for the most part true, I think it points out a larger problem that apple has, for the most part, addressed - why can't the OS come bundled with "all the little utilities and applications" you've come to depend on? aside from professional audio recording software and a GUI FTP client, I don't have much software that I use regularly at all that didn't come with the mac - as for your settings, they can be exported on a mac (maybe on windows too - I don't really know it that well) - would be neat to get to a world where the CD that comes with your computer has all the programs you need on it.... -w
hi - no offense to your viewpoint, but I find this unfathomable - at work, we use ms outlook/exchange and I despise organizing things into folders - the reason is that some things are applicable to multiple categories - for example, my company has multiple software products and each has a build and automated test cycle - so when product B is built, I get an e-mail about the build, and when it's smoke tested, I get another e-mail - I would like to label these as "product B" (for both e-mails) and "build results" and "test results" for the others, respectively - seems to me that you only gain functionality this way - using gmail's implementation as an example: you can then click on the label that says "product b" and see all the stuff (build and test results) for that product exactly the same way you would as if there were folders... actually, I just thought of a difference: you don't get a folder hierarchy... dunno, that doesn't seem like a huge loss to me - is that why you prefer folders? seriously - I'm baffled as to why anyone would prefer folders vs a label/tag system.... to each his own - cheers -w
Re:AT&T Math? Misleading advertising?
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Is $0.99/min roaming "pennies per minute?"
ha - it's like when advertisers say "X is only a fraction of the price of Y!".... well, 9999999/2 is a fraction;)
I'm not fucking around anymore - the next time someone says "my bla bla bla does JUST ABOUT everything the iPhone does" I'm going to smack him/her - cut it - your phone doesn't do dick compared to the iPhone - it's not about you being a feature douchebag or a nerd - quite simply: the iPhone isn't for you because you don't get it - just because you don't get it doesn't mean anyone wants to hear about your problems
yawn.... I'm tired of listening to all of you - this is, quite literally, the first step in a huge future - actually, it's not literal at all - anyway, I've said it before and I'll say it again - the "return of the newton" that the parent's parent was talking about is coming - it isn't the iphone mark i, but it'll be here soon - this is going to make the UMPC/origami and "smart phones" seem like the jokes they truly are in the next few years - what's the quote jobs had about looking where the ball/puck is going to be rather than where it is? I remember reservations that I had about the ipod and they've all been tossed to the wind since actually owning one (4 now at this point - people keep stealing mine, so they must be OK).... I saw some post (cause I guess I'm a fanboy and read a lot of this iphone garbage that people post) the other day where somebody was claiming that the iphone would be failure because it didn't have huge security features like automagically taking photos of the thief and whatnot - baloney - just wait - this is mark i - mark ii is going to blow your mind - when's it coming? who cares? when it gets here it will be more usable and popular than anything else on the market just like the mark i will be - mark my words - you'll know by august.... -w
I've started using AT&T Wireless with my first mobile phone in 1999 - they switched to cingular a few years later and I stayed with them - now they're back to AT&T and I'm still here - I have never had any kind of issue with them at all - the prices are reasonable - the coverage is excellent in the US - even in the bumfuck town in northeast PA where I grew up - last summer a DBA at my office set me up with a pager alert system he was using so we would know if anything was going awry with our instance(s) - there was a bug in his process and I ended up getting 3,000 text messages in a 2-day period! I called cingular and in a very short time they reversed the charges on my bill - again, I have nothing but good things to say about AT&T and cingular - they have those funny "dropped calls" commercials (like the one with that hot piece of jailbait with the huge eyes that was on 24) and I can't even relate - I don't even know what a dropped call is - is that when the phone loses signal when you go in the subway or something? seriously, when I'm on the phone, I'm on until one of us hangs up. I'd be curious to read what your consumer reports is telling you.
Is this about fighting "crime" ? or identifying "anti-social behaviour" ?
Seems like it's none of the polices business if I don't like talking to people, no? Or is this just some language barrier thing between the US and UK English? -w
we use a thing called "marimba" at work - I'm not an IT guy, so I can't really tell you much about it... actually, I can tell you a little, from what I hear it basically does a file system diff - I think you take a baseline of a hard drive, then run the apps installation program, tweak anything you need to, then take another snapshot of the drive - anything that's different, marimba pushes out to client machines in the right spot... or something -w
sounds like are talking about "compression" which is dynamics processing, but not EQ - a compressor (like any audio processor) has an input and an output - you define a threshold and every time the input gain surpasses the threshold, the gain is reduced by a specified ratio and that becomes the output - as you mentioned, this is typically followed by some make-up gain - basically the point of the compressor is to lower the dynamic range of sound - since the peaks don't get as high as they used to, the overall gain can be increased without clipping whatever is next in the signal chain - this allows you to hear the quieter stuff better - also, multi-band compressors also exist - these allow you to set a different threshold and ratio for different frequency ranges, so bass can be reduced more than treble for example - also, just fyi since you mention 'limiter' - a limiter, by definition, is a compressor with a ratio of infinity to 1 - so, not matter how many decibels above the threshold you go, the output never crosses the threshold - a ratio of 1 to 1 yield no compression - for every decibel over the threshold on the input side, we get a decibel above the threshold on the output side - cheers -w
I can't figure out which argument you are supporting here - I mean, I use all of those utilities on my unix systems and windows DOES NOT interfere with that at all - I am an emacs user - I use hummingbird exceed as an x-windows server and I open emacs to the host I want to work on and I've got shells and a great file editor and internal copying/pasting (that also flops over to windows too) - my desktop is windows, and I run outlook and a few other this-has-to-be-windows tools (like BMC's Control-M client software) and x-windows/emacs/xterm (and even putty if I want to do something so quick and short term that it's not worth waiting 8 seconds for emacs) - I can use grep and awk and work with tarballs and all that other crap you mention - why does this guy need a unix desktop? I can't think of a good reason... oh, my entire CS curriculum at school was on unix desktop (those sun pizza box guys) and I don't miss it at all - I can still do every unix thing I ever wanted to do, plus all the windows stuff I have to do - I'm also a "power user" - I type extremely fast and I move data extremely fast - often times people watching me (to learn) are like "whoa whoa whoa slow down I can't tell what you're doing" so obviously, windows is not impeding my performance.... actually that's not true - I do waste a lot of time waiting for windows to do stuff, but it's all windows stuff that takes too long (like searching for text in files - why is that so much slower than grep??) on the local machine - fortunately, I'm a unix guy, so all my stuff is on unix, so searching for files in windows land doesn't really matter
you know, the "N" in "PIN" stands for "number"... so a "PIN Number" is a "personal identification number number"... similar for the "M" in "ATM" (which stands for "machine") so, going to an "ATM Machine" doesn't make sense either... I also hate when people talk about "DNS Servers".... I just thought I should tell you
I think these precise timings are important - one of my huge gripes with windows 2000 (that I use at work - I'm not intimately familiar with XP though, at one point, there was a computer in my apartment with XP on it) is how long it takes to do, um, everything.
For example, oftentimes when I'm using an explorer window to look in a folder, I want to search for something. so I push ctrl-e to open the search sidebar, windows conveniently drops my cursor to the filename line. I type in the file name, say for example, "dookie.porn" and hit enter. Oftentimes, I get a dialogue saying "You must enter a folder in which to search" This infuriates me. Why? Because fucking windows can't figure out what folder I'm in and put it in the "search in this folder" line in the amount of time it takes me to type the name of the thing I'm searching for. Typically, when this happens, I can hit "enter" to ditch the dialogue box, shift-tab to get into the location bar, ctrl-x to copy the location, tab, tab, tab to get to the folder entry line and ctrl-v to paste it BEFORE windows can fill the damn thing in on me. Granted, I'm a fast typer and good with the keyboard, but the whole ENTIRE point of computers is to do things faster than people. If this damn windows computer can't put "X:\porn\ffm\mixed" into the damn directory entry box before I can, then it is practically worthless to me (meaning that it has failed to do that operation faster than me, therefore is no longer needed to do that operation).
yeah, we're talking about a few seconds at most, but it happens easily once a week for me. Not to mention the number of times I hit ctrl-escape and WAIT for the start menu to come up. Or even better, have you ever actually used the "Open With" choice on a file's context menu? How F-ing long does it take to make that pop-up window pop-up?? It takes several seconds for me each time I do it. This feature is so slow that I cringe when I'm forced to use it. I know you probably think I'm being some super up-tight power-user and maybe I am, but these things honestly bug me on a daily basis.
um.... if by "rhymes" you mean "doesn't rhyme, but starts with the same 3 letters" then yes, by that definition it would "rhyme" with smurf.... -w
Re:The plan will make or break the iPhone
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I'm very curious to see how you came up with the $100 figure above - why would cingular be that much more expensive / month that Sprint? I don't buy it - I think you just made up that number - I'm calling your bluff: let's see some math:) (seriously, I don't believe you - let's see the computation and be sure to show your work) -w
what a stupid thing to say (the quote above, not what you said - I don't care about what you said, only this quote interests me - fuck clapton, lucas is god)
I think you've got it here only I don't think it will be limited to a "communications" device
I think that apple went this direction rather than introducing a) a 'regular' touch- and wide-screen ipod or b) some type of handheld origami-type thing - mark my words, this is the start of the real future of personal computing - you'll have something like an imac or a mini at home for your main storage area and you'll use your phone or a mini computer and everything else wirelessly - wearable computers and all that jive are getting closer and closer to a reality
it starts here with the phone, in about a year you'll see these features in a stand-alone (no phone) ipod and apple will introduce a step-up device like this, but without the phone functionality to compete with the origami.... wait wait, did he say that right? "compete with origami"? yeah, I know - there's no market there... yet... the iphone will change all that because when apple releases it's handheld computer, it will be awesomely-featured and precisely-timed.... because they started people thinking about what can really be done with a really portable computing device
I usually find that when I start getting nerdy and wanting something, it arrives about 2 years later - I wanted something like an origami/umpc for a while and there's just starting to be available - by the time apple produces something like that, the general consumer market will be ready for it....
I use cingular - I've been using it for years - I got my first mobile phone in 1999 (with AT&T wireless) and when they merged/switched/whatever-i-really-don't-care-about -those-kinds-of-details with/to cingular, I stayed - I pay about as much as my friends do with other providers for similar plans and when someone calls me, the phone rings and I get to talk to them - what's not to like? seriously. -w
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while that is, for the most part true, I think it points out a larger problem that apple has, for the most part, addressed - why can't the OS come bundled with "all the little utilities and applications" you've come to depend on? aside from professional audio recording software and a GUI FTP client, I don't have much software that I use regularly at all that didn't come with the mac - as for your settings, they can be exported on a mac (maybe on windows too - I don't really know it that well) - would be neat to get to a world where the CD that comes with your computer has all the programs you need on it ....
-w
hi - no offense to your viewpoint, but I find this unfathomable - at work, we use ms outlook/exchange and I despise organizing things into folders - the reason is that some things are applicable to multiple categories - for example, my company has multiple software products and each has a build and automated test cycle - so when product B is built, I get an e-mail about the build, and when it's smoke tested, I get another e-mail - I would like to label these as "product B" (for both e-mails) and "build results" and "test results" for the others, respectively - seems to me that you only gain functionality this way - using gmail's implementation as an example: you can then click on the label that says "product b" and see all the stuff (build and test results) for that product exactly the same way you would as if there were folders ... actually, I just thought of a difference: you don't get a folder hierarchy ... dunno, that doesn't seem like a huge loss to me - is that why you prefer folders? seriously - I'm baffled as to why anyone would prefer folders vs a label/tag system.... to each his own - cheers
-w
ha - it's like when advertisers say "X is only a fraction of the price of Y!"
-w
I'm not fucking around anymore - the next time someone says "my bla bla bla does JUST ABOUT everything the iPhone does" I'm going to smack him/her - cut it - your phone doesn't do dick compared to the iPhone - it's not about you being a feature douchebag or a nerd - quite simply: the iPhone isn't for you because you don't get it - just because you don't get it doesn't mean anyone wants to hear about your problems
yawn .... I'm tired of listening to all of you - this is, quite literally, the first step in a huge future - actually, it's not literal at all - anyway, I've said it before and I'll say it again - the "return of the newton" that the parent's parent was talking about is coming - it isn't the iphone mark i, but it'll be here soon - this is going to make the UMPC/origami and "smart phones" seem like the jokes they truly are in the next few years - what's the quote jobs had about looking where the ball/puck is going to be rather than where it is? I remember reservations that I had about the ipod and they've all been tossed to the wind since actually owning one (4 now at this point - people keep stealing mine, so they must be OK) .... I saw some post (cause I guess I'm a fanboy and read a lot of this iphone garbage that people post) the other day where somebody was claiming that the iphone would be failure because it didn't have huge security features like automagically taking photos of the thief and whatnot - baloney - just wait - this is mark i - mark ii is going to blow your mind - when's it coming? who cares? when it gets here it will be more usable and popular than anything else on the market just like the mark i will be - mark my words - you'll know by august....
-w
actually, stylus devices (like my old palm pilot) and the iphone both have keyboards.
-w
I've started using AT&T Wireless with my first mobile phone in 1999 - they switched to cingular a few years later and I stayed with them - now they're back to AT&T and I'm still here - I have never had any kind of issue with them at all - the prices are reasonable - the coverage is excellent in the US - even in the bumfuck town in northeast PA where I grew up - last summer a DBA at my office set me up with a pager alert system he was using so we would know if anything was going awry with our instance(s) - there was a bug in his process and I ended up getting 3,000 text messages in a 2-day period! I called cingular and in a very short time they reversed the charges on my bill - again, I have nothing but good things to say about AT&T and cingular - they have those funny "dropped calls" commercials (like the one with that hot piece of jailbait with the huge eyes that was on 24) and I can't even relate - I don't even know what a dropped call is - is that when the phone loses signal when you go in the subway or something? seriously, when I'm on the phone, I'm on until one of us hangs up. I'd be curious to read what your consumer reports is telling you.
done.
Is this about fighting "crime" ? or identifying "anti-social behaviour" ?
Seems like it's none of the polices business if I don't like talking to people, no? Or is this just some language barrier thing between the US and UK English?
-w
What about "The World's Oldest Profession" ??
we use a thing called "marimba" at work - I'm not an IT guy, so I can't really tell you much about it ... actually, I can tell you a little, from what I hear it basically does a file system diff - I think you take a baseline of a hard drive, then run the apps installation program, tweak anything you need to, then take another snapshot of the drive - anything that's different, marimba pushes out to client machines in the right spot ... or something
-w
sounds like are talking about "compression" which is dynamics processing, but not EQ - a compressor (like any audio processor) has an input and an output - you define a threshold and every time the input gain surpasses the threshold, the gain is reduced by a specified ratio and that becomes the output - as you mentioned, this is typically followed by some make-up gain - basically the point of the compressor is to lower the dynamic range of sound - since the peaks don't get as high as they used to, the overall gain can be increased without clipping whatever is next in the signal chain - this allows you to hear the quieter stuff better - also, multi-band compressors also exist - these allow you to set a different threshold and ratio for different frequency ranges, so bass can be reduced more than treble for example - also, just fyi since you mention 'limiter' - a limiter, by definition, is a compressor with a ratio of infinity to 1 - so, not matter how many decibels above the threshold you go, the output never crosses the threshold - a ratio of 1 to 1 yield no compression - for every decibel over the threshold on the input side, we get a decibel above the threshold on the output side - cheers
-w
I can't figure out which argument you are supporting here - I mean, I use all of those utilities on my unix systems and windows DOES NOT interfere with that at all - I am an emacs user - I use hummingbird exceed as an x-windows server and I open emacs to the host I want to work on and I've got shells and a great file editor and internal copying/pasting (that also flops over to windows too) - my desktop is windows, and I run outlook and a few other this-has-to-be-windows tools (like BMC's Control-M client software) and x-windows/emacs/xterm (and even putty if I want to do something so quick and short term that it's not worth waiting 8 seconds for emacs) - I can use grep and awk and work with tarballs and all that other crap you mention - why does this guy need a unix desktop? I can't think of a good reason ... oh, my entire CS curriculum at school was on unix desktop (those sun pizza box guys) and I don't miss it at all - I can still do every unix thing I ever wanted to do, plus all the windows stuff I have to do - I'm also a "power user" - I type extremely fast and I move data extremely fast - often times people watching me (to learn) are like "whoa whoa whoa slow down I can't tell what you're doing" so obviously, windows is not impeding my performance .... actually that's not true - I do waste a lot of time waiting for windows to do stuff, but it's all windows stuff that takes too long (like searching for text in files - why is that so much slower than grep??) on the local machine - fortunately, I'm a unix guy, so all my stuff is on unix, so searching for files in windows land doesn't really matter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1eA3XCvrK90
why no picture of the bathroom?
you know, the "N" in "PIN" stands for "number" ... so a "PIN Number" is a "personal identification number number" ... similar for the "M" in "ATM" (which stands for "machine") so, going to an "ATM Machine" doesn't make sense either ... I also hate when people talk about "DNS Servers" .... I just thought I should tell you
I think these precise timings are important - one of my huge gripes with windows 2000 (that I use at work - I'm not intimately familiar with XP though, at one point, there was a computer in my apartment with XP on it) is how long it takes to do, um, everything.
For example, oftentimes when I'm using an explorer window to look in a folder, I want to search for something. so I push ctrl-e to open the search sidebar, windows conveniently drops my cursor to the filename line. I type in the file name, say for example, "dookie.porn" and hit enter. Oftentimes, I get a dialogue saying "You must enter a folder in which to search" This infuriates me. Why? Because fucking windows can't figure out what folder I'm in and put it in the "search in this folder" line in the amount of time it takes me to type the name of the thing I'm searching for. Typically, when this happens, I can hit "enter" to ditch the dialogue box, shift-tab to get into the location bar, ctrl-x to copy the location, tab, tab, tab to get to the folder entry line and ctrl-v to paste it BEFORE windows can fill the damn thing in on me. Granted, I'm a fast typer and good with the keyboard, but the whole ENTIRE point of computers is to do things faster than people. If this damn windows computer can't put "X:\porn\ffm\mixed" into the damn directory entry box before I can, then it is practically worthless to me (meaning that it has failed to do that operation faster than me, therefore is no longer needed to do that operation).
yeah, we're talking about a few seconds at most, but it happens easily once a week for me. Not to mention the number of times I hit ctrl-escape and WAIT for the start menu to come up. Or even better, have you ever actually used the "Open With" choice on a file's context menu? How F-ing long does it take to make that pop-up window pop-up?? It takes several seconds for me each time I do it. This feature is so slow that I cringe when I'm forced to use it. I know you probably think I'm being some super up-tight power-user and maybe I am, but these things honestly bug me on a daily basis.
we're all switching to macs anyway ... yawn.
um.... if by "rhymes" you mean "doesn't rhyme, but starts with the same 3 letters" then yes, by that definition it would "rhyme" with smurf ....
-w
I'm very curious to see how you came up with the $100 figure above - why would cingular be that much more expensive / month that Sprint? I don't buy it - I think you just made up that number - I'm calling your bluff: let's see some math :) (seriously, I don't believe you - let's see the computation and be sure to show your work)
-w
... check out this guy's movie collection! nothing but a bunch of geeky crap ... ;)
"as you know, our blockade is perfectly legal"
what a stupid thing to say (the quote above, not what you said - I don't care about what you said, only this quote interests me - fuck clapton, lucas is god)
-w
I think you've got it here only I don't think it will be limited to a "communications" device
.... wait wait, did he say that right? "compete with origami"? yeah, I know - there's no market there ... yet ... the iphone will change all that because when apple releases it's handheld computer, it will be awesomely-featured and precisely-timed .... because they started people thinking about what can really be done with a really portable computing device
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I think that apple went this direction rather than introducing a) a 'regular' touch- and wide-screen ipod or b) some type of handheld origami-type thing - mark my words, this is the start of the real future of personal computing - you'll have something like an imac or a mini at home for your main storage area and you'll use your phone or a mini computer and everything else wirelessly - wearable computers and all that jive are getting closer and closer to a reality
it starts here with the phone, in about a year you'll see these features in a stand-alone (no phone) ipod and apple will introduce a step-up device like this, but without the phone functionality to compete with the origami
I usually find that when I start getting nerdy and wanting something, it arrives about 2 years later - I wanted something like an origami/umpc for a while and there's just starting to be available - by the time apple produces something like that, the general consumer market will be ready for it
yeah, my lady friend is a consumer, but it works out for me
-w
I use cingular - I've been using it for years - I got my first mobile phone in 1999 (with AT&T wireless) and when they merged/switched/whatever-i-really-don't-care-about -those-kinds-of-details with/to cingular, I stayed - I pay about as much as my friends do with other providers for similar plans and when someone calls me, the phone rings and I get to talk to them - what's not to like? seriously.
-w