You reinstall the OS using a USB/FireWire slimline external drive. There are bus-powered CD-RW drives available, but I think the DVD burners require more power than USB is designed to carry, so even if you have a slimline one, you have a second power cable to go along with it. Not slick enough for Apple. They could always use a proprietary connector, though.
I had a Toshiba notebook with an external, bus-powered PCMCIA CD reader. It was smaller and lighter than my 12" PowerBook is. I would be first in line to buy a small, thin, lightweight Apple notebook with a decent keyboard and no internal optical drive.
I also have a 3120 (see my post in the same thread) and like it. The menu 1-2-3-4 commands still work, just not in the way that you're used to. You press the number of the menu you want then wait a second or two without pressing anything, and it enters the menu. I suppose that was the design trade-off they chose when they went to having more than ten menus.
It's not as customizable as the Motorolas, but not as fragile, either. I've noticed that my battery stays at seven bars for a day or two, then decreases by one to two bars each day after that. I like having more battery bars--Motorola has only three, and it's harder to judge when they need to be charged.
Sounds like my story... I bought a Motorola V400 over whatever Nokia models were out at the time, for the PC data connectivity (that I ended up using for a month or two and dropping) and cool factor. The earpiece got weaker and weaker. I disassembled the phone, cleaned the earpiece contacts, and put a shim on the earpiece to ensure good contact, which worked for a few months. It started acting up again, and I bought a Nokia 3010 as a replacement. I bought a grey-market Motorola V3i when they first came out, and recently turned it into a brick trying to upgrade the firmware on it, so I'm using the Nokia 3010 again. It just works. Only thing I really hate about it is the powder-blue factory faceplate.
The only phone that can or will tempt me is an Apple iPhone.
I don't see what the fuss is over going to a web-based application. If it's on the Internet, and your T1 goes down, you're fucked. If it's on your company intranet, and you need mobile access from your laptop, you'd better have a good cellular data provider or 802.11 access, or you're fucked. Can't access your documents, can't pass go, can't collect $200. Fucked.
(they've taken YEARS and still haven't achieved feature parity with Outlook 2001)
And...? Intuit is an independent software developer, and the Mac version of Quicken has been in existence for, what, two decades now, and still hasn't achieved parity with the Windows version... Which is why I'm using a Mac, but still running the Windows version of Quicken.
Whatever are they talking about? My Betamax VCR, Digital Audio Tape deck, and Minidisc player were widely adopted and it's easy to find media for them.
I had a first-gen Shuffle, which my father is now using, but it's still going. I now have a first-gen nano, and it's still going with no issues. (The second-gen nano doesn't really offer that many new features, so I haven't upgraded. I'm still waiting for the iPhone.) In spite of your bad experience, I'd suggest another iPod, but perhaps spring for the AppleCare plan this time.
Anyone sued for violating the patent can argue that displaying the artist, title, and/or track is a necessary or essential part of an MP3 player and therefore not patentable.
If this patent were so valuable, why haven't they started enforcing it?
Many of the rules regarding health insurance are state-specific. Georgetown University has published consumer guides for each state. They're very helpful and available here:
I haven't seen an ISA graphics card in anything newer than a 486 computer. Pentium machines tended to have PCI, and Pentium II and newer usually had some form of AGP. Perhaps AMD should start from scratch rather than try to cobble together something based on decades-old technology.
AFAIK Apple only sells their hardware with OS X. And if you bought it without an OS, you probably wouldn't be switching. Also, the "Switch" ad campaign has been replaced with the "Get a Mac" ad campaign:
16 contestants. The best of them will get to show a collection of apps at MacWorld Expo, and the winner will receive $100,000 to start their own line of software and a new VW Rabbit with iPod connectivity.
Steve Jobs, Guy Kawasaki, and Steve Wozniak will judge the contestants' performance each week in a series of challenges. Each week, there will be one winner and one loser (who gets to go home), because in the world of software design, you're either in, or you're out.
I had Apple's FileVault enabled on my Powerbook. I decided that I no longer needed it and tried to disable it. I moved all the large files out of my personal folder first, so it would take less time to decrypt. I had plenty of free disk space, and the dumb thing still wouldn't decrypt! I ended up wiping out that install of OS X to get the encryption turned off.
One was an old Quantum low-end 3.5" model in the 2-4GB range...
Quantum Fireball perhaps? I remember an extremely high failure rate on those, usually just out of the 1-year warranty on the computer, with normal usage.
Good for them. I am buying a copy of LimeWire Pro, and will renew it every six months as long as they are standing up to the record companies in this manner.
Agreed... There also needs to be some sort of accountability so that the first person to submit a story gets some sort of credit for it, even if their summary isn't used, as opposed to the current random system.
In the words of one of my friends, "Slashdot is dead to me." Personally, I am loyal to things long after they start sucking, so I'll probably be here a while longer.
Slashdot Mirror
They could do one under 3 lbs. if they ditched the internal optical drive. I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
You used "Windows" and a form of the adjective "stable" in the same sentence, with no modifiers...
Cloning/reverse-engineering Windows will be a tough task--you would need an awfully large team to get through the ten godzillion lines of code.
You reinstall the OS using a USB/FireWire slimline external drive. There are bus-powered CD-RW drives available, but I think the DVD burners require more power than USB is designed to carry, so even if you have a slimline one, you have a second power cable to go along with it. Not slick enough for Apple. They could always use a proprietary connector, though.
I had a Toshiba notebook with an external, bus-powered PCMCIA CD reader. It was smaller and lighter than my 12" PowerBook is. I would be first in line to buy a small, thin, lightweight Apple notebook with a decent keyboard and no internal optical drive.
The things I find most irritating are sites that employ Javascript to disable right-click and sites that get past my pop-up blockers.
If I type in "hirusite hermaphrodite midget donkey porn" and click "I'm feeling lucky," I wonder what the risk of the linked results will be...
I also have a 3120 (see my post in the same thread) and like it. The menu 1-2-3-4 commands still work, just not in the way that you're used to. You press the number of the menu you want then wait a second or two without pressing anything, and it enters the menu. I suppose that was the design trade-off they chose when they went to having more than ten menus.
It's not as customizable as the Motorolas, but not as fragile, either. I've noticed that my battery stays at seven bars for a day or two, then decreases by one to two bars each day after that. I like having more battery bars--Motorola has only three, and it's harder to judge when they need to be charged.
Edit: My durable Nokia with the powder-blue faceplate is a 3120, not a 3010.
Sounds like my story... I bought a Motorola V400 over whatever Nokia models were out at the time, for the PC data connectivity (that I ended up using for a month or two and dropping) and cool factor. The earpiece got weaker and weaker. I disassembled the phone, cleaned the earpiece contacts, and put a shim on the earpiece to ensure good contact, which worked for a few months. It started acting up again, and I bought a Nokia 3010 as a replacement. I bought a grey-market Motorola V3i when they first came out, and recently turned it into a brick trying to upgrade the firmware on it, so I'm using the Nokia 3010 again. It just works. Only thing I really hate about it is the powder-blue factory faceplate.
The only phone that can or will tempt me is an Apple iPhone.
I don't see what the fuss is over going to a web-based application. If it's on the Internet, and your T1 goes down, you're fucked. If it's on your company intranet, and you need mobile access from your laptop, you'd better have a good cellular data provider or 802.11 access, or you're fucked. Can't access your documents, can't pass go, can't collect $200. Fucked.
(they've taken YEARS and still haven't achieved feature parity with Outlook 2001)
And...? Intuit is an independent software developer, and the Mac version of Quicken has been in existence for, what, two decades now, and still hasn't achieved parity with the Windows version... Which is why I'm using a Mac, but still running the Windows version of Quicken.
Whatever are they talking about? My Betamax VCR, Digital Audio Tape deck, and Minidisc player were widely adopted and it's easy to find media for them.
I had a first-gen Shuffle, which my father is now using, but it's still going. I now have a first-gen nano, and it's still going with no issues. (The second-gen nano doesn't really offer that many new features, so I haven't upgraded. I'm still waiting for the iPhone.) In spite of your bad experience, I'd suggest another iPod, but perhaps spring for the AppleCare plan this time.
Anyone sued for violating the patent can argue that displaying the artist, title, and/or track is a necessary or essential part of an MP3 player and therefore not patentable.
If this patent were so valuable, why haven't they started enforcing it?
Many of the rules regarding health insurance are state-specific. Georgetown University has published consumer guides for each state. They're very helpful and available here:
http://www.healthinsuranceinfo.net/
So, this is a RPG where you are a grad student trying to finish their thesis? Cool! It's all about flow!
I went to the website but there was just this floaty thing moving around some dots. Maybe I downloaded the wrong game.
Anyone have a mirror?
I haven't seen an ISA graphics card in anything newer than a 486 computer. Pentium machines tended to have PCI, and Pentium II and newer usually had some form of AGP. Perhaps AMD should start from scratch rather than try to cobble together something based on decades-old technology.
AFAIK Apple only sells their hardware with OS X. And if you bought it without an OS, you probably wouldn't be switching. Also, the "Switch" ad campaign has been replaced with the "Get a Mac" ad campaign:
http://www.apple.com/getamac/
Thank you for including scrolling acceleration in Firefox 2.0. It's smoother than before, but still not as smooth as Apple's Safari. What gives?
I can see the voiceover now:
This is the search for the next killer app...
16 contestants. The best of them will get to show a collection of apps at MacWorld Expo, and the winner will receive $100,000 to start their own line of software and a new VW Rabbit with iPod connectivity.
Steve Jobs, Guy Kawasaki, and Steve Wozniak will judge the contestants' performance each week in a series of challenges. Each week, there will be one winner and one loser (who gets to go home), because in the world of software design, you're either in, or you're out.
I had Apple's FileVault enabled on my Powerbook. I decided that I no longer needed it and tried to disable it. I moved all the large files out of my personal folder first, so it would take less time to decrypt. I had plenty of free disk space, and the dumb thing still wouldn't decrypt! I ended up wiping out that install of OS X to get the encryption turned off.
I hear there's rumours on the Internets...
One was an old Quantum low-end 3.5" model in the 2-4GB range...
Quantum Fireball perhaps? I remember an extremely high failure rate on those, usually just out of the 1-year warranty on the computer, with normal usage.
Good for them. I am buying a copy of LimeWire Pro, and will renew it every six months as long as they are standing up to the record companies in this manner.
Agreed... There also needs to be some sort of accountability so that the first person to submit a story gets some sort of credit for it, even if their summary isn't used, as opposed to the current random system.
In the words of one of my friends, "Slashdot is dead to me." Personally, I am loyal to things long after they start sucking, so I'll probably be here a while longer.