To be hones, that has more to do with the dumbass, oligopolian US mobile phone marked. Of course the oligpol / cartel of mobile service providers want to control what their users access. And if they control what phones their customes are allowed to buy, it's like handing them the market control on a platter.
The european model is much, much better. Buy a GSM phone, get a povider. Use. Rinse, repeat. There are some providers that lock a phone to their network, if they have subsidized the phone, but that is about it.
From what I've seen with Windows Mobile (Or whatever they are calling it these days), crashing seems to be the trend. If your phone is 100% stock-from-the-box, it might be stable. But the moment it gets any load, like lots of appointments in the calendar or a third party program, it makes Windows ME look stable.
Now, I have my Sony Ericsson t68i, still, for a reason. It went 6 MONTHS without a reboot, an uptime I find quite incredible and somewhat of an ideal. I just made a habit of charging it every third day and shut the sound off in theatres and cinemas. The WM phones I have tried function OK the first two weeks, the star acting like they were on dope. They seem to suffer from the crud problem of Windows.
SubEthaEdit Site here! Absolutely incredible tool, useful as you would never think usefulness could be.
I don't think they want to launch a Windows version at all. "We love developing Macintosh applications with Cocoa and are determined to improve SubEthaEdit on that platform. We currently have neither resources nor experience to port our products to other platforms." So there you are.
That is bullshit of course. It works really nice with anything that supports it, not just Macs. We have a couple of zeroconf Linux servers at work, works like a charm with them. Others here report that they work just fine with TiVOs.
I get my Mac elitist asshole kick by watching IS support drones struggle to set up printers at work. In windows it takes (for them) 3 minutes pr. machine and some 20 odd mouseclicks and a lot typing and searching.For me it's option - space, tpe "Pri" choose Printer Tools, and pick the printer from the Rendevouz^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Bonjour list. Done in less than 10 seconds. It could be done faster, but after I started doing this, all the names on the printers have disappeared so I have to browse after MAC-address. wonder why.... My standard printer shows up automatically, however, so it's not a problem.
Also, I get that "oh shit! My job security would be shot if everyone could do this!" look everytime I do stuff like this.
Heh. That's a funny coincidence. Not more than two days ago, a Dell-fanatical friend of mine (Yeah, they do exist. Yes, they are a pain in the ass just like us Mac lovers) commented on how incredibly crappy Dells website had become over the last year.
With taxes that suck up to major industries like that, it seems like republicans already have won elections in Europe. And they have! The Netherlands is a lot more conservative now than they have been in the past.
We use Groupwise at work, doesn't work there. But there's something interesing about your statement. You didn't know it until now. In the Mac world, there's this wierd feeling you get that "this probably works" and you try it. Usually it works. It is difficult to explain, but the global drag and drop feature is so thightly integrated that one tend to use it. In Windows, it works in some situations and not others. I don't have the time to find out what apps / situations that can have DND to make them more efficient. In Mac, you just do it. Sorry for the bad explanation, but the feeling is difficult to describe.
I work in media. Some of us are talking about switching to Mac because of smart system apps like Dashboard. All of us need a world clock from time to time, even more often do we need currency / unit calc but most of all: Dashboard can give us the ultimate monitoring system for news media. We have a web based system for tracking news and it would only take a day or so to integrate this with Dashboard.
This comes in addition to all the other spiffy MacOS stuff.
Well, the main reason I use Macs and MacOS isn'nt blazing speed differences and OMG!!! It just works!!! statments. although I have yet to install a driver to get something om my PowerBook to work. I don't know how they do it, but most things seem to not need a driver or use a preinstalled driver of some sort.
I use Macs because they make me efficient. I feel more comfortable sith a Mac and lots and lots of nifty solutions make it a better platform for me. An example: When I work in Photoshop, all I need to do in order to view all the open pictures is to take the mouse in the lower right corner. Expose kicks in and I can see every picture I'm working on. If I want to see all the open apps and switch to another, mous in the lower left corner. Another example; everything is drag'n'drop. I'm composing an email and need a picture from a website? Just drag the pic from safari over in the email totally seamlessly. And both the email client and safari are preinstalled. Easy-peasy.
There is so much to tell, but just try it. If it is good for you use it. If not, don't.
I agree. When ever people say that I am an unconditional Microsoft hater, I can disagree with a good conscience. I really, really like Excel and MS has a very nice product on their hands with it. It is kinda like the iPod of Microsoft. Take an existing product and improve on it like there's no tomorrow. Profit.
Rumor has it that the iTMS is coming to Norway as well. Two weeks ago, four or five of the record company execs told the music industry rag that the store was coming, and on the 28th of April. They printed it, but the country manager did not comment anything.
Yesterday the TONO, rights holders organization, issued a press release about their agreement with iTunes (sic!). After that some forum guys went on to try local credit cards to purchase music with limited sucess and published the results. The country manager had to deny, deny, deny, looking like a fool in todays press conference about tiger. Nobody asked about Tiger, of course.
It may seem that the music industry do everything possible in their power to stop the *bang* PR factor of Apple. Apple loves the surprise element, but today the country manager just looked tired and sick of having to issue the company statement saying no over and over again. And Apple don't make mistakes like not having a NDA until launch time in their contracts.
Well, I think that all the G4 PowerBooks have the markings. And I've never even herad that Emacs has ever crashed. I'm a Vim / SubeEthaEdit user myself, but I respect Emacs it's just not for me.
I got a Mac at work a few weeks ago, a Powerbook G4 or something, probably about one year old.
I call troll.
If you have a one year old PB G4,or a PowerBook G4 or at all, it says so on the computer. Under the screen. In center. You would be blind not to see it, deliberate troll or a retard to call it "a Powerbook G4 or something" when it clearly says "PowerBook G4" on the computer.
Good question. I know that where I live (Norway) you wouldn't have the legal right to the work because of two reasons: 1) the work has to be published in order to let others have fair use and third party protection and 2) the copyright act specifically excludes fair use from computer programs.
I cringe everytime I see a person jogging down the street with their iPod on the side, listening to music. (If you didn't know the hard drive in the iPod if shaken/moved at an exact point when the HD spin, it can/will break the iPod and render it totally useless)
This is, of course, utter bullshit. Long explanation: The Apple crowd has a love / hate relationship with the company. They are total fanbois up to the point where they discover some glitch in the production and suddenly; the company is the devil.
Now, we all remember the battery discussion from a couple of years ago. this was startet, more or less, by the Neistat brothers with their "OMFG!!!! The battery only lasts a couple of months past the one year guarantee!!!" campaign. This is of course, true with any li-ion battery under certain circumstances. What they didn't mention was that any battery with a factory defect would fail a long time before the guarantee expired and could be returned. They also represented the moronic statements of a firest-line clueless helpdesk guy as the view of the company, they ignored the 99$ replacement program, the third-party alternatives etc.
Now, if what you said was true, the whole Internet would be chock full of postings about the "low quality" of the iPods. I have seen a lot of critisism of the iPod: The battery, the heaphone socket, broken iPods delivered and had to be returned, but I have never, ever seen an iPod HD fail due to sports activity. Not in real life, not on the net. I use my 3G iPod with sport activity (Jogging, biking and rowing. Shaking, hard falls and sea water. What a combo!) it works as good as ever. My faimly have severaly HD based iPods and jog with them. No failing.
So in conlusion; No, the HD is fine with normal sports activity.
What is unique on Slashdot is that it grabs everything from other sites, unlike modern blogs. So Slashdot would have been a very good site if the editors were: a) faster and b) more accurate.
Now, I get my news from Safaris "Open in tabs" function. Every site I like to check out is stored in bookmarks and gets a glance every day. That way, Slashdot is 99% old news. RSS is probably easier, but I have never gotten around to it.
Sites I like: Daring Fireball, Boing boing, Engadget, Gizmodo etc...
This place is going south, fast. I have paid my last subscription since I can no linger justify even 5 USD on this site. This just confirms my theories that the editors won't even bother to read to paragraph 3 in an article. And won't even do it when people spell it out for them via e-mail. Slashdot has become a shadow of its former self.
Yes, let's just tax everything. Well, we already do in one way or another. The question is how much.
If you "tax the hell out of fuel guzzling monster cars," then you are skipping taxation of older fuel guzzling cars that are not as efficient as the newest SUVs.
No. If we (you) tax the hell out of huge cars, and lower the tax on small cars, people will trade in their beaters to get a smaller cheap car. At least now when the petrol price is "high" (You think todays price is high? You're in for a surprise!)
If you tax gasoline more, you increase the burden on everyone, including poor people that cannot afford to buy a new gas-efficient car.
Eh, no. There is a price point that need to be found but good public campaigns and a really low price on efficient cars (and when they sell more, the price goes down. Yay capitalism). Expand train lines and use ISO containers more. Make trailers only do short haul. Watch the transport costs go down.
And where does the tax money go? Does it fund research on alternative fuel sources? No, it is spent on pork barrel projects by Congress.
Well I'm sure that you as a responisble citizen will see to that.
As/if oil gets scarce, the price will go up naturally, and the market forces will dictate people drive more efficient cars or alternatively-fueled cars.
Isn't it better to stop that from happening? And reduce the oil-producing countries' influence? Well, it's your call. Be sure to stop by when the US invades us, I live in Norway.
I think that as long as you really try to conserve petrol, you do the right thing. If it was the other way around, that you used the SUV for everyday purposes, then it would be a more "american" school of thought. Your gas prices are incredibly low, but then again, you don't have a lot of public transport.
This is a multiple front war: we need to cut down on petrol use. So we need better public transport, and cheaper. We need good prices on cars that are eco-friendly, and in USAians case; non-terrorist inticing. We need to get rid of the idiotic SUV class, and replace them with eco-friendly roomy cars like the Voyager class, but with better engine control. We need to scrap old cars that chug around and pollute. So; tax large engined cars a lot to finance way lower taxes on smaller cars. If you need extra space, go buy a trailer (I'm not quite sure what the exact word is) with some friends.
"Nobody drove in old New York. Too much traffic" - Fry, Futurama.
Seriously. There are many good cars that house 6 people and still are eco-friendly. Low engine volume is the key for many of them. I'm not terribly eco-nutty and understand that many have the need for a roomy car. But roomy doesn't mean that it have to be huge and have a 4 litre engine.
(excuse me for the bad typing, i hadsurgery in my hand...)
this is the way you want to save energy? a saving of 10 000 barrels / day? if you look out on the streets, do all the people that drive SUVs need to drive them? this is an argument that also apply for eupoe, but goes double for the us. tax the hell out of fuel guzzling monster cars (almost the same size as monster trucks) and lower the tax waaay down on cars like VW Polo, MB Smart and hybrids. this also deal with a lot of other problems like parking. some snowy staes might be a little m ore lean on the tax, like snowy states. But theres no need for an Suv in LA, NY, Paris or Oslo.
main stream press keep their daily schedule of reporting fairly amazingly trivial and non-important 'news
I call bullshit! The new INFOSOC compatible copyright law, made to comply with EEA, has been very well covered in the mainstream media in Norway. Just because it's not on the front page every day, ot's not equal to bad coverage. All the large papers have done several stories on the law. Like the ones here, here, here, here, here and here.
Well, DLink isn't only cheap shit, it's the higly available shit. I don't have the time to track down 3Com routers and the guy with the installation didn't have the patience to wait for it via courier. So DLink was all I had.
We got it to work, eventually. After a firmware update of the router, suddenly one of the cards worked well. After a reinstall of WinXP Home (*Shudder*.....) and the card drivers, it worked.
It goes without telling that my PB worked with the network after tyoing in the hidden SSID and WPA-PSK password. Which is about 3 hours, 59 minutes and 40 seconds less than what the other computers demanded to work.
It's called TCO, folks. Using Windows in an office is called "job security for IS department".
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To be hones, that has more to do with the dumbass, oligopolian US mobile phone marked. Of course the oligpol / cartel of mobile service providers want to control what their users access. And if they control what phones their customes are allowed to buy, it's like handing them the market control on a platter.
The european model is much, much better. Buy a GSM phone, get a povider. Use. Rinse, repeat. There are some providers that lock a phone to their network, if they have subsidized the phone, but that is about it.
From what I've seen with Windows Mobile (Or whatever they are calling it these days), crashing seems to be the trend. If your phone is 100% stock-from-the-box, it might be stable. But the moment it gets any load, like lots of appointments in the calendar or a third party program, it makes Windows ME look stable.
Now, I have my Sony Ericsson t68i, still, for a reason. It went 6 MONTHS without a reboot, an uptime I find quite incredible and somewhat of an ideal. I just made a habit of charging it every third day and shut the sound off in theatres and cinemas. The WM phones I have tried function OK the first two weeks, the star acting like they were on dope. They seem to suffer from the crud problem of Windows.
SubEthaEdit Site here! Absolutely incredible tool, useful as you would never think usefulness could be.
I don't think they want to launch a Windows version at all. "We love developing Macintosh applications with Cocoa and are determined to improve SubEthaEdit on that platform. We currently have neither resources nor experience to port our products to other platforms." So there you are.
That is bullshit of course. It works really nice with anything that supports it, not just Macs. We have a couple of zeroconf Linux servers at work, works like a charm with them. Others here report that they work just fine with TiVOs.
.For me it's option - space, tpe "Pri" choose Printer Tools, and pick the printer from the Rendevouz^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Bonjour list. Done in less than 10 seconds. It could be done faster, but after I started doing this, all the names on the printers have disappeared so I have to browse after MAC-address. wonder why.... My standard printer shows up automatically, however, so it's not a problem.
I get my Mac elitist asshole kick by watching IS support drones struggle to set up printers at work. In windows it takes (for them) 3 minutes pr. machine and some 20 odd mouseclicks and a lot typing and searching
Also, I get that "oh shit! My job security would be shot if everyone could do this!" look everytime I do stuff like this.
Heh. That's a funny coincidence. Not more than two days ago, a Dell-fanatical friend of mine (Yeah, they do exist. Yes, they are a pain in the ass just like us Mac lovers) commented on how incredibly crappy Dells website had become over the last year.
With taxes that suck up to major industries like that, it seems like republicans already have won elections in Europe. And they have! The Netherlands is a lot more conservative now than they have been in the past.
We use Groupwise at work, doesn't work there. But there's something interesing about your statement. You didn't know it until now. In the Mac world, there's this wierd feeling you get that "this probably works" and you try it. Usually it works. It is difficult to explain, but the global drag and drop feature is so thightly integrated that one tend to use it. In Windows, it works in some situations and not others. I don't have the time to find out what apps / situations that can have DND to make them more efficient. In Mac, you just do it.
Sorry for the bad explanation, but the feeling is difficult to describe.
I work in media. Some of us are talking about switching to Mac because of smart system apps like Dashboard. All of us need a world clock from time to time, even more often do we need currency / unit calc but most of all: Dashboard can give us the ultimate monitoring system for news media. We have a web based system for tracking news and it would only take a day or so to integrate this with Dashboard.
This comes in addition to all the other spiffy MacOS stuff.
Well, the main reason I use Macs and MacOS isn'nt blazing speed differences and OMG!!! It just works!!! statments. although I have yet to install a driver to get something om my PowerBook to work. I don't know how they do it, but most things seem to not need a driver or use a preinstalled driver of some sort.
I use Macs because they make me efficient. I feel more comfortable sith a Mac and lots and lots of nifty solutions make it a better platform for me. An example: When I work in Photoshop, all I need to do in order to view all the open pictures is to take the mouse in the lower right corner. Expose kicks in and I can see every picture I'm working on. If I want to see all the open apps and switch to another, mous in the lower left corner. Another example; everything is drag'n'drop. I'm composing an email and need a picture from a website? Just drag the pic from safari over in the email totally seamlessly. And both the email client and safari are preinstalled. Easy-peasy.
There is so much to tell, but just try it. If it is good for you use it. If not, don't.
I agree. When ever people say that I am an unconditional Microsoft hater, I can disagree with a good conscience. I really, really like Excel and MS has a very nice product on their hands with it. It is kinda like the iPod of Microsoft. Take an existing product and improve on it like there's no tomorrow. Profit.
Rumor has it that the iTMS is coming to Norway as well. Two weeks ago, four or five of the record company execs told the music industry rag that the store was coming, and on the 28th of April. They printed it, but the country manager did not comment anything.
Yesterday the TONO, rights holders organization, issued a press release about their agreement with iTunes (sic!). After that some forum guys went on to try local credit cards to purchase music with limited sucess and published the results. The country manager had to deny, deny, deny, looking like a fool in todays press conference about tiger. Nobody asked about Tiger, of course.
It may seem that the music industry do everything possible in their power to stop the *bang* PR factor of Apple. Apple loves the surprise element, but today the country manager just looked tired and sick of having to issue the company statement saying no over and over again. And Apple don't make mistakes like not having a NDA until launch time in their contracts.
Well, I think that all the G4 PowerBooks have the markings. And I've never even herad that Emacs has ever crashed. I'm a Vim / SubeEthaEdit user myself, but I respect Emacs it's just not for me.
I got a Mac at work a few weeks ago, a Powerbook G4 or something, probably about one year old.
I call troll.
If you have a one year old PB G4,or a PowerBook G4 or at all, it says so on the computer. Under the screen. In center. You would be blind not to see it, deliberate troll or a retard to call it "a Powerbook G4 or something" when it clearly says "PowerBook G4" on the computer.
Good question. I know that where I live (Norway) you wouldn't have the legal right to the work because of two reasons: 1) the work has to be published in order to let others have fair use and third party protection and 2) the copyright act specifically excludes fair use from computer programs.
I cringe everytime I see a person jogging down the street with their iPod on the side, listening to music. (If you didn't know the hard drive in the iPod if shaken/moved at an exact point when the HD spin, it can/will break the iPod and render it totally useless)
This is, of course, utter bullshit. Long explanation: The Apple crowd has a love / hate relationship with the company. They are total fanbois up to the point where they discover some glitch in the production and suddenly; the company is the devil.
Now, we all remember the battery discussion from a couple of years ago. this was startet, more or less, by the Neistat brothers with their "OMFG!!!! The battery only lasts a couple of months past the one year guarantee!!!" campaign. This is of course, true with any li-ion battery under certain circumstances. What they didn't mention was that any battery with a factory defect would fail a long time before the guarantee expired and could be returned. They also represented the moronic statements of a firest-line clueless helpdesk guy as the view of the company, they ignored the 99$ replacement program, the third-party alternatives etc.
Now, if what you said was true, the whole Internet would be chock full of postings about the "low quality" of the iPods. I have seen a lot of critisism of the iPod: The battery, the heaphone socket, broken iPods delivered and had to be returned, but I have never, ever seen an iPod HD fail due to sports activity. Not in real life, not on the net. I use my 3G iPod with sport activity (Jogging, biking and rowing. Shaking, hard falls and sea water. What a combo!) it works as good as ever. My faimly have severaly HD based iPods and jog with them. No failing.
So in conlusion; No, the HD is fine with normal sports activity.
What is unique on Slashdot is that it grabs everything from other sites, unlike modern blogs. So Slashdot would have been a very good site if the editors were: a) faster and b) more accurate.
Now, I get my news from Safaris "Open in tabs" function. Every site I like to check out is stored in bookmarks and gets a glance every day. That way, Slashdot is 99% old news. RSS is probably easier, but I have never gotten around to it.
Sites I like: Daring Fireball, Boing boing, Engadget, Gizmodo etc...
A hard reboot fixed it for me, but I'm still a little nervous.
;) Just kidding. I know you are a man, man.
So, have you backed up now or are you a man?
This place is going south, fast. I have paid my last subscription since I can no linger justify even 5 USD on this site. This just confirms my theories that the editors won't even bother to read to paragraph 3 in an article. And won't even do it when people spell it out for them via e-mail. Slashdot has become a shadow of its former self.
Yes, let's just tax everything.
Well, we already do in one way or another. The question is how much.
If you "tax the hell out of fuel guzzling monster cars," then you are skipping taxation of older fuel guzzling cars that are not as efficient as the newest SUVs.
No. If we (you) tax the hell out of huge cars, and lower the tax on small cars, people will trade in their beaters to get a smaller cheap car. At least now when the petrol price is "high" (You think todays price is high? You're in for a surprise!)
If you tax gasoline more, you increase the burden on everyone, including poor people that cannot afford to buy a new gas-efficient car.
Eh, no. There is a price point that need to be found but good public campaigns and a really low price on efficient cars (and when they sell more, the price goes down. Yay capitalism). Expand train lines and use ISO containers more. Make trailers only do short haul. Watch the transport costs go down.
And where does the tax money go? Does it fund research on alternative fuel sources? No, it is spent on pork barrel projects by Congress.
Well I'm sure that you as a responisble citizen will see to that.
As/if oil gets scarce, the price will go up naturally, and the market forces will dictate people drive more efficient cars or alternatively-fueled cars.
Isn't it better to stop that from happening? And reduce the oil-producing countries' influence?
Well, it's your call. Be sure to stop by when the US invades us, I live in Norway.
I think that as long as you really try to conserve petrol, you do the right thing. If it was the other way around, that you used the SUV for everyday purposes, then it would be a more "american" school of thought. Your gas prices are incredibly low, but then again, you don't have a lot of public transport.
This is a multiple front war: we need to cut down on petrol use. So we need better public transport, and cheaper. We need good prices on cars that are eco-friendly, and in USAians case; non-terrorist inticing. We need to get rid of the idiotic SUV class, and replace them with eco-friendly roomy cars like the Voyager class, but with better engine control. We need to scrap old cars that chug around and pollute. So; tax large engined cars a lot to finance way lower taxes on smaller cars. If you need extra space, go buy a trailer (I'm not quite sure what the exact word is) with some friends.
"Nobody drove in old New York. Too much traffic" - Fry, Futurama.
Seriously. There are many good cars that house 6 people and still are eco-friendly. Low engine volume is the key for many of them. I'm not terribly eco-nutty and understand that many have the need for a roomy car. But roomy doesn't mean that it have to be huge and have a 4 litre engine.
(Hey I can type agai! Yay!)
(excuse me for the bad typing, i hadsurgery in my hand...)
this is the way you want to save energy? a saving of 10 000 barrels / day? if you look out on the streets, do all the people that drive SUVs need to drive them? this is an argument that also apply for eupoe, but goes double for the us. tax the hell out of fuel guzzling monster cars (almost the same size as monster trucks) and lower the tax waaay down on cars like VW Polo, MB Smart and hybrids. this also deal with a lot of other problems like parking. some snowy staes might be a little m ore lean on the tax, like snowy states. But theres no need for an Suv in LA, NY, Paris or Oslo.
main stream press keep their daily schedule of reporting fairly amazingly trivial and non-important 'news
I call bullshit! The new INFOSOC compatible copyright law, made to comply with EEA, has been very well covered in the mainstream media in Norway. Just because it's not on the front page every day, ot's not equal to bad coverage. All the large papers have done several stories on the law. Like the ones here, here, here, here, here and here.
More likely, it's his Font Cache that screws up. Cleaning this can dramatically improve the boot process.
Well, DLink isn't only cheap shit, it's the higly available shit. I don't have the time to track down 3Com routers and the guy with the installation didn't have the patience to wait for it via courier. So DLink was all I had.
We got it to work, eventually. After a firmware update of the router, suddenly one of the cards worked well. After a reinstall of WinXP Home (*Shudder*.....) and the card drivers, it worked.
It goes without telling that my PB worked with the network after tyoing in the hidden SSID and WPA-PSK password. Which is about 3 hours, 59 minutes and 40 seconds less than what the other computers demanded to work.
It's called TCO, folks. Using Windows in an office is called "job security for IS department".