I think you're missing the point. What if you know what you want, and the camera isn't giving you what you want? Do you think the team of design engineers would magically know how to read your mind as a photographer?
If you bought a cheapie HP digital camera, you will be stunned and amazed to find that your picture will look the way it does and there is nothing you can do about it. If you buy a compact digital snapshop camera with full manual controls, you may be able to get the picture you want. If you buy a DSLR, you can probably get that same picture without trying to manually focus using one of those 'focus zoom' boxes, squinting in blinding daylight at an LCD the size of a postage stamp while pushing buttons with your fat fingers.
You are very observant. I don't know how many people call me at my job, then put me on hold to take another call on their cell or something.
That red button's there for a reason. You don't want to take a call? Push it. Nothing bad's gonna happen. In fact, if it's a job interview or something, pushing that button will save your ass - taking the call and saying you can't talk will lose you the interview. I know this from experience.
Actually, there is a way for Sprint to stop you from installing applications on your Treo. However, Sprint/Nextel doesn't make use of it on Pocket PC devices. Actually, they don't make use of it on any device except for the Motorola i930. The i930 has stricter application signing requirements than any other Windows Mobile Smartphone currently on the market, meaning it is very difficult for some applications to install to it. This is supposedly so they cannot 'take down' Nextel's 'always on' iDEN phone network.
I'd point to some weblink for proof of this, but I don't have one. I do have a word document from Nextel business support explaining this at work though.
To be completely honest, even though I work for a PDA software company, installing third-party software on your Windows Mobile device is why it's going to end up being all clunky and slow, at least more than it was when you took it out of the box. "Wow I have like ten Today Plugins and all this crap all over it and voice command and blah blah blah, why's it slow and crashy? MS sucks!" well, you want a multitasking device, you get what you pay for.
saying, "What's so hard about Dynix?" is apparently being said from the perspective of someone who knows what search system is being used by the library. Which is something people who aren't geeks probably wouldn't care one smidge about.
Almost every ATM I've seen where I live (Michigan) has a button with braille under it that will cause the ATM to read everything on the screen to the person using it.
I think the complaint comes from the fact that it's not illegal to do something, it's illegal to let someone else do something.
It actually is illegal in michigan to be intoxicated if you are under 21, because it is illegal to be in possession of alcohol and intoxication counts as possession, at least under the zero tolerance law.
Mind you, this is what we were taught when I was in high school, which was six years ago.
I don't understand why it's illegal for a store to sell cigarettes to a kid, but it isn't illegal for the kid to possess them. If it's so bad for the kid to possess them, why don't they start busting kids? Is this simple reasoning, or do the current laws miss an obviousness?
That's so crazy it just might work. I always marveled at the propane refrigerators my parents had at our cabin - you boil something to make something else cold! Wow!
Solar-powered air conditioning, using no electrical conversion at all... brilliant.
Doesn't hurt the copyright holder... as far as I know, copyright laws protect against unauthorized use. If the copyright holder doesn't say that cleanflix can do what they want, then it's unauthorized use even if cleanflix reimburses the holder.
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Start a co-op? Do you know how hard it is, for example, to start a DSL co-op?
Don't get into one of those libertarian, "you should do it for yourself!" things, because if you're not 100% hardcore, you're going down.
Am I the only person who isn't bothered by the integrated graphics?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I KANT PLAY TEH GAMEZ ON MACBOOK:(:(:(:(:(
Wow, really? DON'T FREAKIN' BUY THE ENTRY LEVEL LAPTOP THEN. BUY THE ONE MADE TO BE POWERFUL FOR GAMING!
"I can't play games on my mac mini!"
I doubt that's what the Mini's intended for. Did you ever think about that? I have a sneaking suspicion that the GMA950 is a lot more powerful than the GeForce FX 5200 that came in my PowerMac G5 I'm getting rid of, and you know what? That was one of Apple's PRO machines. The 5200 was underpowered when it came out.
"I've read about significant outbreaks of Morgellon's Syndrome in non-mainstream publications like the Fortean Times."
Yeah. Uh. I applaud people who constantly look outside mainstream stuff for answers.... you're going to find some, and a few answers will sound nuts but turn out to be legit...
but really, saying, "I've read about outbreaks of a disease in a magazine known to cater to ufologists and people who'd call Art Bell!" is kind of shooting yourself in the foot.
This obviously isn't a medical advice forum, but I'm a nail-biter and generally anxious/obsessive and I have resolved a good 50% or more of my problems with the nutritional supplement inositol. About 1.3g a day of it.
I think it has some sort of effect similar to tricyclic antidepressants, without the 'oh my god I can't stand up without fainting and I'm getting fat' problems.
I bought a wireless access point (AirPort Express) because I was moving into an apartment without drop ceilings and did not want cables strewn about or have to choose rooms just because of where the phone ports were already built in.
Every so often (sometimes many times within an HOUR) my AE would crap out, ceasing to transmit and dumping our network. The neighbors' network would be fine, however the signal was weak and that was fairly useless when they locked down their router and my roommate wanted to play games that require port-forwarding.
I bought a Linksys WRT54G, hoping for it to solve this problem. Now, every so often, it completely ceases to transmit and must be rebooted.
This is the biggest PITA I've ever had to deal with. I didn't get wireless because it was cool or because I wanted to play WoW in my bathtub, I got it because I wanted convienience. I got unreliable networking equipment, interference or something, and a lot swearing and desk-pounding.
Why can't you buy just a phone? That's a good question - why couldn't you? I just switched to cingular and my family plan came with a Nokia 6010 or something similar, which is pretty much Just A Phone. You can SMS from it, IM from it (which is the same as SMS), and I think you can play a couple games. You can play solitaire on the iPod and no one whinges about that, so I think we're safe saying that this phone is Just A Phone. (I use an SMT5600, my partner uses the 6010.. I do QA for a PDA software company so I wanted the phone for a reason)
On the other hand, you decided you were going to buy a Windows Mobile smartphone and spend the extra money on a shitload of features you didn't need, and now you're going to bitch at slashdot because you can't buy 'just a phone'.
so, you're bitching because you have to pay for something you aren't going to use.
I bought a car and it came with a car stereo. I was going to use my own car stereo in it, so I ripped it out and put in my own.
I didn't complain that Toyota put a car stereo in the car that I didn't want. if they had to make a version of the car without the car stereo that'd cost more money and that'd be passed along to me, and buying a Scion wouldn't be a cheap deal.
Just like no one seems to realize you can use a VESA mounting arm to attach the iMac to whatever you want, you could use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse along with wireless ethernet. With the airport extreme, or other wireless print servers, you can print without cabling from the computer to the printer.
sure, you can also plug everything in, but you can also NOT plug anything in except firewire storage.
How is downloading your music from iTunes/Musicmatch/Napster 2.0/whatever P2P? there's no 'peer to peer'... you're downloading it all from a central server like you would any other data. It's not coming from someone else's personal computer that's sharing the data.
This sort of thing is for SomethingAwful, not SlashDot. this is a news site for geeks, not a site for people to point at something and go, "ew, gross!"
Grow up, anyway. If it can be corrupted by a sexual image, it has, probably a while ago. It's an irrevocable part of life, and not really something that deserves to be made fun of on a site devoted to geeky tech news.
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I think you're missing the point. What if you know what you want, and the camera isn't giving you what you want? Do you think the team of design engineers would magically know how to read your mind as a photographer?
If you bought a cheapie HP digital camera, you will be stunned and amazed to find that your picture will look the way it does and there is nothing you can do about it. If you buy a compact digital snapshop camera with full manual controls, you may be able to get the picture you want. If you buy a DSLR, you can probably get that same picture without trying to manually focus using one of those 'focus zoom' boxes, squinting in blinding daylight at an LCD the size of a postage stamp while pushing buttons with your fat fingers.
You are very observant. I don't know how many people call me at my job, then put me on hold to take another call on their cell or something.
That red button's there for a reason. You don't want to take a call? Push it. Nothing bad's gonna happen. In fact, if it's a job interview or something, pushing that button will save your ass - taking the call and saying you can't talk will lose you the interview. I know this from experience.
So, without ads, where do they get the money to stay online?
That's the obvious question. Do people just volunteer and donate all their time and money? Have you ever done that to help something else?
Actually, there is a way for Sprint to stop you from installing applications on your Treo. However, Sprint/Nextel doesn't make use of it on Pocket PC devices. Actually, they don't make use of it on any device except for the Motorola i930. The i930 has stricter application signing requirements than any other Windows Mobile Smartphone currently on the market, meaning it is very difficult for some applications to install to it. This is supposedly so they cannot 'take down' Nextel's 'always on' iDEN phone network.
I'd point to some weblink for proof of this, but I don't have one. I do have a word document from Nextel business support explaining this at work though.
To be completely honest, even though I work for a PDA software company, installing third-party software on your Windows Mobile device is why it's going to end up being all clunky and slow, at least more than it was when you took it out of the box. "Wow I have like ten Today Plugins and all this crap all over it and voice command and blah blah blah, why's it slow and crashy? MS sucks!" well, you want a multitasking device, you get what you pay for.
saying, "What's so hard about Dynix?" is apparently being said from the perspective of someone who knows what search system is being used by the library. Which is something people who aren't geeks probably wouldn't care one smidge about.
Almost every ATM I've seen where I live (Michigan) has a button with braille under it that will cause the ATM to read everything on the screen to the person using it.
I think the complaint comes from the fact that it's not illegal to do something, it's illegal to let someone else do something.
It actually is illegal in michigan to be intoxicated if you are under 21, because it is illegal to be in possession of alcohol and intoxication counts as possession, at least under the zero tolerance law.
Mind you, this is what we were taught when I was in high school, which was six years ago.
I don't understand why it's illegal for a store to sell cigarettes to a kid, but it isn't illegal for the kid to possess them. If it's so bad for the kid to possess them, why don't they start busting kids? Is this simple reasoning, or do the current laws miss an obviousness?
That's so crazy it just might work. I always marveled at the propane refrigerators my parents had at our cabin - you boil something to make something else cold! Wow!
Solar-powered air conditioning, using no electrical conversion at all... brilliant.
year or two? XP: 2001. Vista: 2007?
Doesn't hurt the copyright holder... as far as I know, copyright laws protect against unauthorized use. If the copyright holder doesn't say that cleanflix can do what they want, then it's unauthorized use even if cleanflix reimburses the holder.
Start a co-op? Do you know how hard it is, for example, to start a DSL co-op?
Don't get into one of those libertarian, "you should do it for yourself!" things, because if you're not 100% hardcore, you're going down.
I only say this from experience.
Am I the only person who isn't bothered by the integrated graphics?
:(:(:(:(:(
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I KANT PLAY TEH GAMEZ ON MACBOOK
Wow, really? DON'T FREAKIN' BUY THE ENTRY LEVEL LAPTOP THEN. BUY THE ONE MADE TO BE POWERFUL FOR GAMING!
"I can't play games on my mac mini!"
I doubt that's what the Mini's intended for. Did you ever think about that? I have a sneaking suspicion that the GMA950 is a lot more powerful than the GeForce FX 5200 that came in my PowerMac G5 I'm getting rid of, and you know what? That was one of Apple's PRO machines. The 5200 was underpowered when it came out.
"I've read about significant outbreaks of Morgellon's Syndrome in non-mainstream publications like the Fortean Times."
Yeah. Uh. I applaud people who constantly look outside mainstream stuff for answers.... you're going to find some, and a few answers will sound nuts but turn out to be legit...
but really, saying, "I've read about outbreaks of a disease in a magazine known to cater to ufologists and people who'd call Art Bell!" is kind of shooting yourself in the foot.
This obviously isn't a medical advice forum, but I'm a nail-biter and generally anxious/obsessive and I have resolved a good 50% or more of my problems with the nutritional supplement inositol. About 1.3g a day of it.
I think it has some sort of effect similar to tricyclic antidepressants, without the 'oh my god I can't stand up without fainting and I'm getting fat' problems.
I bought a wireless access point (AirPort Express) because I was moving into an apartment without drop ceilings and did not want cables strewn about or have to choose rooms just because of where the phone ports were already built in.
Every so often (sometimes many times within an HOUR) my AE would crap out, ceasing to transmit and dumping our network. The neighbors' network would be fine, however the signal was weak and that was fairly useless when they locked down their router and my roommate wanted to play games that require port-forwarding.
I bought a Linksys WRT54G, hoping for it to solve this problem. Now, every so often, it completely ceases to transmit and must be rebooted.
This is the biggest PITA I've ever had to deal with. I didn't get wireless because it was cool or because I wanted to play WoW in my bathtub, I got it because I wanted convienience. I got unreliable networking equipment, interference or something, and a lot swearing and desk-pounding.
Why can't you buy just a phone? That's a good question - why couldn't you? I just switched to cingular and my family plan came with a Nokia 6010 or something similar, which is pretty much Just A Phone. You can SMS from it, IM from it (which is the same as SMS), and I think you can play a couple games. You can play solitaire on the iPod and no one whinges about that, so I think we're safe saying that this phone is Just A Phone. (I use an SMT5600, my partner uses the 6010.. I do QA for a PDA software company so I wanted the phone for a reason)
On the other hand, you decided you were going to buy a Windows Mobile smartphone and spend the extra money on a shitload of features you didn't need, and now you're going to bitch at slashdot because you can't buy 'just a phone'.
so, you're bitching because you have to pay for something you aren't going to use.
I bought a car and it came with a car stereo. I was going to use my own car stereo in it, so I ripped it out and put in my own.
I didn't complain that Toyota put a car stereo in the car that I didn't want. if they had to make a version of the car without the car stereo that'd cost more money and that'd be passed along to me, and buying a Scion wouldn't be a cheap deal.
Just like no one seems to realize you can use a VESA mounting arm to attach the iMac to whatever you want, you could use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse along with wireless ethernet. With the airport extreme, or other wireless print servers, you can print without cabling from the computer to the printer.
sure, you can also plug everything in, but you can also NOT plug anything in except firewire storage.
The secret service is also in charge of copyright violation prosecution. If I'm not mistaken, that was the original reason why they were formed.
How is downloading your music from iTunes/Musicmatch/Napster 2.0/whatever P2P? there's no 'peer to peer'... you're downloading it all from a central server like you would any other data. It's not coming from someone else's personal computer that's sharing the data.
Casemodding isn't modding when everyone does it.
Just like 'everyone, be different!' is a paradox.
I work for University Housing's tech people, at my university, and just installed the latest Quark on someone's machine.
It had one CD. Maybe the education version's different? The registration stuff was annoying, though.
of course he wasn't buttoned down. jobs wears turtlenecks.
Because people want it to.
This sort of thing is for SomethingAwful, not SlashDot. this is a news site for geeks, not a site for people to point at something and go, "ew, gross!"
Grow up, anyway. If it can be corrupted by a sexual image, it has, probably a while ago. It's an irrevocable part of life, and not really something that deserves to be made fun of on a site devoted to geeky tech news.