This is one of the few things from RIM I wish was on iOS, time profiles for checking into mail systems, and alerts. I'd love for silent alarms from 11:00pm to 7:00am as if I forget to mote the phone and iPad, and computer, I hear the chime from my PC in my office (if it's really quiet at home) then my phone and iPad chime in too, charging beside the bed. If its on a list my wife also belongs to, her phone will ping too. 8) a couple of times of this happening at 2:am and I really think I should charge for it.
And the train or bus is where my desktop sucks, but for a measly $500 I built myself a great desktop that used my existing 23" monitor, and spent just another $799 on an iPad for mobile. Best of both worlds. If I was going to university again, this is the setup I would have loved, actually, I'd go one better, make sure the desktop also has hdmi out and go to a 40" display 8) TV, music, videos, streaming, office apps and a remote clie t for them all!
>They tried, years ago in a trial run somewhere. Customers hated it. Why? A few reasons: One, marking down the price sends the message "this movie sucks!" whether it's true or not, and nobody will go to see it. Two, people will feel like you're extorting them by charging more for the good movies (just like Coca-Cola found out when they decided they could add thermometers to Coke machines and charge more when it was really hot out).
Or the price they charge at Disneyland for a coke. US$5+, really, for a coke???? I know its 45 degrees, and the kids are all tired and hot from wating in line, and then all 4 want a drink, and somehting to eat!
There is also the option of making the cinema a destination to visit. Here in Wellington we have a few cineplexes, and some nice boutique operations too. I went to the Roxy to see Tin Tin with my son (really nice 1930 deco style, comfy couches in the bar in the waiting lounge, sculptures, everything clean. The ushers checking the tickets can seel you snacks right as you go in, and the sweets are like really old fashioned gumballs, and toffees, and free parking.) It cost a little more for the tickets, but I saved on parking and snacks, and it was a neat different outing (Tin Tin however was a little too long, and I fell asleep, but my son liked it) But back to movie economics, they all charge the same otherwise youd just judge a movie on its ticket price, and it doesnt matter howmuch they take at the box office, all the movies are geared to make a loss anyway.
Ive got Thunderbird and PGP set up on my Mac, on my linux laptop and my wifes windows PC. The problem is noone else I email does, so it's pretty useless. I also need a good PGP client on my iPhone that can just hook into my iMap server, otehrwise I loose that handy mobile access. Personally I wish all my mail stored on Gmail was encrypted seeing as US lay allows all that mail to be tapped for any reason without a warrant if older than (I think) 30 days.
I use an HP tc4400 tablet. A little on the old side, and I only get three eh ours out of the battery, and uses a stylus, but I've been using it as a linux tablet since 2008. I kept wondering what was taking people so long to work out tablets are a great idea for many things. I've seen a nice piece of hardware from dell running windows8. That should run well with Linux too. I just can't remember the model, but still low battery life. HP have a nice 13" elite book, running with a core i3 CPU, and 6 hrs battery, if only they would make a tablet version of that it would rock. The notebook is only $1300NZ, so removing the keyboard and adding touch shouldnt add too much to the cost. Plan B, make my own. Need biggest battery I can find, and an aluminium case to put it in 8)
I also rely in high power computing, every day, for my job. . But the iPad makes a perfect mobile terminal to access my servers back home. Browse torrent site on iPad, select file for download and mail the link home. Picked up by a daemon on my home server and download is started. One done, email sent to me to confirm it. Attach to home media server and start playing the file, being transcoded on the fly. If only the cell networks here were better.
TWiT do this now. Leo Laports model is the way of the future. You can watch live if you are in the right time zone, many of the simple talking head shows are on audio podcasts too, so I grab them for the gym or listening to on the way to work. I tend to get product review casts as vid casts, and some neat stuff on electric cars, green power, politics, comedy, the same way. Audio and video podcasts are my tv now.
Stop the stupid new format on discovery shows: Credits, 10 minutes telling you what's combing up in the show. Ad break Quick recap, some content, then a few more clips of things to come Ad break Recap of the previous segment, a little new content, and again the same 10 second teaser clip Adbreak Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz oh shit, I go so bored I switched it off, so I don't know what comes next.
I have cable, my Internet is delivered on it. 8) will be replaced by fibre the instant it rolls down my street. I look at a screen all day long, after the kids have gone to bed, I kick back and relax, in my den with my 32" display on my desktop PC, or on the couch with my iPad (unless my wife grabbed it first) then spend an hour or so catching up on what my friends have been into, waste a little time with zinga, then maybe watch an hour or so of video (note not necessarily TV) this might be a DVD from a mail rental service, a web tv show. Thanks to stupid international zones and rights, there is no streamed Netflix here, and the tv catch up services are web only and not all channels have it, and filled with ads, so I watch video from elsewhere. I'd buy access to it if I could, but no one in NZ seems to be interested in selling it to me in a format I can use. If you want to reinvent tv, put a player interface in front of a bit torrent service! Anything you want, whenever you want, on whatever device you want. I'd pay for that, and I don't want to have another settop box for each and every service!
Apple gear has its faults, but the few faults it does have are still better than having to put up wit a plastic piece of crap that will have no support or updates in 6 months. How many 'droids less than a year old are going to be able to upgrade to Android4?
I have just downloaded steam on my Mac two weeks ago, started portal an a couple of other games, then stean fucked up, and coul no longer start, 8 Ames I couldn't play. Nearly a week before I got a tech response from steam. Had to clear and redownload everything, and reboot. And then I hear steam just gave my credentials away to hackers. No more steam for me. Xbox live I gave up on when I just wanted to play a game and spent 2 hrs waiting for mandatory updates to apply. The Mac app store may have it issues, but you get the game, it runs on any Mac, and you don't have to have a net connection for it to work. I don't mind it's DRM so much, I can tolerate it. The issue is the cost of new release games, that's more than just an impulse buy. And then have to put up with DRM crap and buggy software!
My main use, converting DVDs I own into.avi files. It still cheaper to buy a movie on DVD and rip it than to buy it through iTunes and be locked into its DRM. That goodness I live in a free country rather than the USA.
And we know it can't carry a nuke just because they said so? What about a chemical weapon? Why do they think this won't lead to another Cuban missile crisis?
I agree, I mean, who would have throughout that a cheaper inferior product might sell better than a well made expensive one?? Over all, it will bring ebooks and tablet features to an audience who might not be able to afford an iPad. Doesnt mean its better though. Did you know Toyota Corollas sell more units than a BMW M1? How many Corolla buyers would buy an M1 instead if they had the money?
Oddly enough, one of the best reasons to use a MacBook for a Linux machine. Millions of them sold, and pretty good support for their hardware in linux. Most of the time I have a Linux vm running on my Mac mini using virtualbox, and just tunnel x11 over ssh to the apps in the vm. I can also boot it natively to Linux mint if I want to. Because the Linux vim is not the primary desktop OS I'm using, I can get away with a very light weight distro, and I don't loose any of the "just works" features in OSX. I have to deal with windows broken ass machines all day long. It's nice to get home and use some unix goodness 8)
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Interesting, as this could be considered fair use, as parody. It's not like anyone is making money off it!
This is one of the few things from RIM I wish was on iOS, time profiles for checking into mail systems, and alerts.
I'd love for silent alarms from 11:00pm to 7:00am as if I forget to mote the phone and iPad, and computer, I hear the chime from my PC in my office (if it's really quiet at home) then my phone and iPad chime in too, charging beside the bed. If its on a list my wife also belongs to, her phone will ping too. 8) a couple of times of this happening at 2:am and I really think I should charge for it.
They support it so that they can copy anything good they see in it.
And the train or bus is where my desktop sucks, but for a measly $500 I built myself a great desktop that used my existing 23" monitor, and spent just another $799 on an iPad for mobile. Best of both worlds. If I was going to university again, this is the setup I would have loved, actually, I'd go one better, make sure the desktop also has hdmi out and go to a 40" display 8)
TV, music, videos, streaming, office apps and a remote clie t for them all!
Nah, just watch the movies, you'll only loose 10 hrs or your life that way.
>They tried, years ago in a trial run somewhere. Customers hated it. Why? A few reasons: One, marking down the price sends the message "this movie sucks!" whether it's true or not, and nobody will go to see it. Two, people will feel like you're extorting them by charging more for the good movies (just like Coca-Cola found out when they decided they could add thermometers to Coke machines and charge more when it was really hot out).
Or the price they charge at Disneyland for a coke. US$5+, really, for a coke???? I know its 45 degrees, and the kids are all tired and hot from wating in line, and then all 4 want a drink, and somehting to eat!
There is also the option of making the cinema a destination to visit. Here in Wellington we have a few cineplexes, and some nice boutique operations too. I went to the Roxy to see Tin Tin with my son (really nice 1930 deco style, comfy couches in the bar in the waiting lounge, sculptures, everything clean. The ushers checking the tickets can seel you snacks right as you go in, and the sweets are like really old fashioned gumballs, and toffees, and free parking.) It cost a little more for the tickets, but I saved on parking and snacks, and it was a neat different outing (Tin Tin however was a little too long, and I fell asleep, but my son liked it)
But back to movie economics, they all charge the same otherwise youd just judge a movie on its ticket price, and it doesnt matter howmuch they take at the box office, all the movies are geared to make a loss anyway.
NAd just in time for Li-Ion to be replaced by Li-poly.
They dont call it a global village for nothing you know. Small minded mobs rule in villages all over the world.
Ive got Thunderbird and PGP set up on my Mac, on my linux laptop and my wifes windows PC. The problem is noone else I email does, so it's pretty useless. I also need a good PGP client on my iPhone that can just hook into my iMap server, otehrwise I loose that handy mobile access.
Personally I wish all my mail stored on Gmail was encrypted seeing as US lay allows all that mail to be tapped for any reason without a warrant if older than (I think) 30 days.
I use an HP tc4400 tablet. A little on the old side, and I only get three eh ours out of the battery, and uses a stylus, but I've been using it as a linux tablet since 2008. I kept wondering what was taking people so long to work out tablets are a great idea for many things.
I've seen a nice piece of hardware from dell running windows8. That should run well with Linux too. I just can't remember the model, but still low battery life.
HP have a nice 13" elite book, running with a core i3 CPU, and 6 hrs battery, if only they would make a tablet version of that it would rock. The notebook is only $1300NZ, so removing the keyboard and adding touch shouldnt add too much to the cost.
Plan B, make my own. Need biggest battery I can find, and an aluminium case to put it in 8)
Like when they launched a car over the back of their testing lot after crashing through a fruitstand.
I also rely in high power computing, every day, for my job. . But the iPad makes a perfect mobile terminal to access my servers back home.
Browse torrent site on iPad, select file for download and mail the link home. Picked up by a daemon on my home server and download is started. One done, email sent to me to confirm it. Attach to home media server and start playing the file, being transcoded on the fly. If only the cell networks here were better.
TWiT do this now. Leo Laports model is the way of the future. You can watch live if you are in the right time zone, many of the simple talking head shows are on audio podcasts too, so I grab them for the gym or listening to on the way to work.
I tend to get product review casts as vid casts, and some neat stuff on electric cars, green power, politics, comedy, the same way. Audio and video podcasts are my tv now.
Stop the stupid new format on discovery shows:
Credits, 10 minutes telling you what's combing up in the show.
Ad break
Quick recap, some content, then a few more clips of things to come
Ad break
Recap of the previous segment, a little new content, and again the same 10 second teaser clip
Adbreak
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz oh shit, I go so bored I switched it off, so I don't know what comes next.
I have cable, my Internet is delivered on it. 8) will be replaced by fibre the instant it rolls down my street.
I look at a screen all day long, after the kids have gone to bed, I kick back and relax, in my den with my 32" display on my desktop PC, or on the couch with my iPad (unless my wife grabbed it first) then spend an hour or so catching up on what my friends have been into, waste a little time with zinga, then maybe watch an hour or so of video (note not necessarily TV) this might be a DVD from a mail rental service, a web tv show.
Thanks to stupid international zones and rights, there is no streamed Netflix here, and the tv catch up services are web only and not all channels have it, and filled with ads, so I watch video from elsewhere. I'd buy access to it if I could, but no one in NZ seems to be interested in selling it to me in a format I can use.
If you want to reinvent tv, put a player interface in front of a bit torrent service! Anything you want, whenever you want, on whatever device you want. I'd pay for that, and I don't want to have another settop box for each and every service!
Apple gear has its faults, but the few faults it does have are still better than having to put up wit a plastic piece of crap that will have no support or updates in 6 months. How many 'droids less than a year old are going to be able to upgrade to Android4?
I have just downloaded steam on my Mac two weeks ago, started portal an a couple of other games, then stean fucked up, and coul no longer start, 8 Ames I couldn't play. Nearly a week before I got a tech response from steam. Had to clear and redownload everything, and reboot. And then I hear steam just gave my credentials away to hackers. No more steam for me. Xbox live I gave up on when I just wanted to play a game and spent 2 hrs waiting for mandatory updates to apply.
The Mac app store may have it issues, but you get the game, it runs on any Mac, and you don't have to have a net connection for it to work. I don't mind it's DRM so much, I can tolerate it.
The issue is the cost of new release games, that's more than just an impulse buy. And then have to put up with DRM crap and buggy software!
My main use, converting DVDs I own into .avi files. It still cheaper to buy a movie on DVD and rip it than to buy it through iTunes and be locked into its DRM. That goodness I live in a free country rather than the USA.
And we know it can't carry a nuke just because they said so? What about a chemical weapon? Why do they think this won't lead to another Cuban missile crisis?
I agree, I mean, who would have throughout that a cheaper inferior product might sell better than a well made expensive one??
Over all, it will bring ebooks and tablet features to an audience who might not be able to afford an iPad. Doesnt mean its better though.
Did you know Toyota Corollas sell more units than a BMW M1? How many Corolla buyers would buy an M1 instead if they had the money?
Oddly enough, one of the best reasons to use a MacBook for a Linux machine. Millions of them sold, and pretty good support for their hardware in linux.
Most of the time I have a Linux vm running on my Mac mini using virtualbox, and just tunnel x11 over ssh to the apps in the vm. I can also boot it natively to Linux mint if I want to. Because the Linux vim is not the primary desktop OS I'm using, I can get away with a very light weight distro, and I don't loose any of the "just works" features in OSX. I have to deal with windows broken ass machines all day long. It's nice to get home and use some unix goodness 8)
I thought that mostly they were raking in the dollars?
I'd say there needs to be another fork, and create Gbuntu to keep the gnome packages in the repos.
However after 11.4 I also switched to Mint.
It is if transferring an hour of 1080p video.