Thanks for all that. Eventually I seem to have got there by restoring the 3G as a NEW iPhone. It seems that it's the backup and restore process that is causing problems--mine, and other people's, too. Not sure it's entirely working, because now my music is going back on, and as I've used the useful facility to transcode to 128 kbps, that is taking a l o o o ng time--like, overnight and still going. Hope it's worth it in the end.
When it started to go wrong on my 3G, I searched for tips about the Error -34 I was getting. This doesn't seem to be the common one, but there are plenty of people having problems.
Buying Apple stuff is a compromise, like all such decisions. But what you expect is a very smooth user experience, so you don't have to worry about the technicalities. This ain't happening this time, for me or a lot of people. So, I'm sure at some time it will get all nice, but WAIT.
Yes, I know I should have known better, but I thought it had been out for about 24 hours, and the stories ought to have been appearing. Where were all the Apple haters, when they could have been useful?
Against the warnings of years of disappointment, I started to upgrade my 3G earlier this evening (I'm in New Zealand). It is taking a very long time (and it doesn't seem to be waiting for downloads from Apple: it's in the backup and restore part). It crapped out after a couple of hours--no, call that three--with error messages, and I seem to have iOS 4, but none of my music and my non-Apple apps don't run. After powering off and restarting iTunes on my Mac (so this is not a Windows problem), it's now offering to do a restore, and I shall see what happens. But I seem not to be the only one.
DO NOT "UPGRADE" NOW, people. I have not had an experience like this since the days of Windows 9x. I'm sure it will get sorted in due course, but it ain't smooth now.
I really like the iPhone--it's replaced the Palm Tungsten and various smartphones and featurephones I've tried. But it is annoying that occasionally an attempt to scroll a page selects text instead. Yes, I know how to deselect, and yes, the wonderful digital (yok!YOK!) interface is necessarily a compromise, so sometimes also when scrolling a link-rich page you trigger one of the links, but it is, nonetheless, annoying. Sure, I'm 65, but I don't suffer from any other disabilities. But I guess you also get exasperated with n00bs who don't see how easy Linux is if they'll only learn to use the command line and edit a few config files.
Further, a home product investigation lab could be good, all ways. Here in funny little NZ, two girls needed a project for their school's science fair. So they thought they'd measure the vitamin C in Ribena (blackcurrant drink, advertised as source of vitamin C). So they do it, and they're all like "OMG there's no vitamin C!" And the Ribena company is like, "Errrmm..." Much publicity, good item on their CVs, girls can do science, big corporation gets shafted by consumers for a change. See also Dan's Data.
Yes, and hand-writing recognition. I'm afraid we have to blame Gary Trudeau for the absence of that feature from the iPhone. Also, something like a proper Today page would be a real improvement. Actual multi-tasking I can do without, but Graffiti works and I want to be able to see at first glance what I've got to do today.
Don't know what it's like in the US, but here in funny little New Zealand iPods are definitely price competitive; in fact, it's hard to find a PMP with a brand-name you've heard of that sells for less than the equivalent Apple product. The iPhone (which is here sold unlocked, without a SIM card, on a straight-out retail basis) is price-competitive with grey market smartphones. Computers, not so much, but yes, Apple can meet the market.
If you were to RTFA (why yes, I am new around here) you might come to the conclusion that restricting specific amino acids will prolong your life as a fruitfly.
Well, I guess it wouldn't be too bad if you lived in an Apple.
You won't get everything you want, but you'll get a fair proportion of it if you buy a phone from somewhere in the Rest of the World.
I had an HTC Windows Mobile phone here in NZ, and it did a lot of what you want, quite well. I sold it off to get an iPhone, but that's because 1) I could buy it as a bare phone (and it is actually cheaper than some of the alternatives here); 2) I can use it on prepay 3) it has the standard lexicon of Ancient Greek available as an app, which is a killer a. for me.
I think most of the problems people have with the iPhone in the USA are really carrier problems, but you seem to have some of the shittiest carriers in the world.
Great Mercury Island is actually off the East Coast of the North Island, about the same latitude as Auckland. I expect they've designed it so it will work in the rain.
Tulips and iPhones will still exist, but they won't be fetish objects to otherwise normal people any more, and so their prices will no longer reflect emotional baggage unrelated to function or utility.
Well, here in New Zealand all phones have to be sold as bare handsets, without contracts (and so without subsidies); also, parallel importing is explicitly permitted by law. In this market, the iPhone is actually cheaper than comparable smartphones, even the parallel imported ones. The Palm Pre looks very nice, and I'd really like multi-tasking and a better camera, and access to all those old Palm programs would be really nice, but I'm guessing it'll cost half as much again as the iThing.
A retired medievalist says, you gotta lose that idea that there's an Apple Tax or that they're selling pure image.
Why are people so resistant to simply admitting it's a fashion accessory? There's no shame in wanting something for status'sake. You don't have to make up rationalizations.
Name me one other smartphone or PDA on which you can install Liddell & Scott's Greek English Lexicon (that's the big Liddell, with tiny print and 2,000 A4 size pages). As well as Lewis & Short's Latin Dictionary, which beats shit out of Whitaker's Words on a Palm.
Your stupid antifanboi attitude means you're depriving yourself of a really useful tool for the study of ancient Greek. Kids these days.
Yes, indeed. What we need is a non-threatening name that will take the curse of the tech thing. Something suggesting playfulness. Something with the innocence of childhood. Something that kiddies play in.
iMac, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse here: does the right click thing occasionally, also. Quite relieved to discover this is a known problem--thought it was the dithers on my part.
She wasn't talking as a public servant. Microsoft as a monopoly is last century, because old laws ought to be adequate to deal with it (they're not, of course, but because Microsoft has the power of money, but that is, like, so last millennium or three). Google, on the other hand, is interesting not because, maybe, it is a monopoly yet, but it could become an abusive monopoly, but it's not clear whether current anti-trust laws could cope.
There is a point here, though. For the past year, the media here in NZ, and I guess it's the same everywhere, have been full of stuff about Darwin's Great Idea, Darwin had the single best idea in all of science, and so on. The biological establishment *is* tying our understanding of the development of life to a single person, and is also playing into the fundies' hands by pushing an intellectually vacuous form of atheism (please, I know there are intellectually rigorous forms of atheism, but they're not being pushed by Dawkins, and they're not what got the Anglican priest arseholed from his job with the Royal Society).
By all means celebrate great thinkers, but there is an excessive emphasis on Darwin in the PR: why not talk about Darwin-Wallace-Mendelian ideas, and their modern development? Focussing on Darwin does tend, also to equate Evolution with Marxism and Freudianism, and we wouldn't want that, would we?
A lot of academic work is collaborative, and some commercial software is standard.
I've never used Endnote, but for some people it's critical. I have used MS Word a lot. Nerds tend to think that wordprocessing is trivial use, but if you're trying to put together a book with several authors, in a variety of languages, it gets pretty intricate (ah, Wordperfect--I never liked it, but it could cope with that Polish z-with-a-dot-over-it).
Even MS Word doesn't have reliable file portability with that level of difficulty, and early on I learned that "Reads other programs' formats" is about as misleading a statement as you can make without actually lying.
Answer: for each program you want to replace, find some heavy users who are basically favourable to FOSS, and work with them until you *know* there aren't any problems left. Else, actually, forget it, and concentrate on the places where you know FOSS is good (servers, perhaps).
>We finally have been able to measure black-hole >and bulge masses in several galaxies seen as they >were in the first billion years after the Big Bang
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Thank you for that post. When I have retrieved my balls from my chest cavity, I will comment further.
Thanks for all that. Eventually I seem to have got there by restoring the 3G as a NEW iPhone. It seems that it's the backup and restore process that is causing problems--mine, and other people's, too. Not sure it's entirely working, because now my music is going back on, and as I've used the useful facility to transcode to 128 kbps, that is taking a l o o o ng time--like, overnight and still going. Hope it's worth it in the end.
When it started to go wrong on my 3G, I searched for tips about the Error -34 I was getting. This doesn't seem to be the common one, but there are plenty of people having problems.
Buying Apple stuff is a compromise, like all such decisions. But what you expect is a very smooth user experience, so you don't have to worry about the technicalities. This ain't happening this time, for me or a lot of people. So, I'm sure at some time it will get all nice, but WAIT.
Yes, I know I should have known better, but I thought it had been out for about 24 hours, and the stories ought to have been appearing. Where were all the Apple haters, when they could have been useful?
Against the warnings of years of disappointment, I started to upgrade my 3G earlier this evening (I'm in New Zealand). It is taking a very long time (and it doesn't seem to be waiting for downloads from Apple: it's in the backup and restore part). It crapped out after a couple of hours--no, call that three--with error messages, and I seem to have iOS 4, but none of my music and my non-Apple apps don't run. After powering off and restarting iTunes on my Mac (so this is not a Windows problem), it's now offering to do a restore, and I shall see what happens. But I seem not to be the only one.
DO NOT "UPGRADE" NOW, people. I have not had an experience like this since the days of Windows 9x. I'm sure it will get sorted in due course, but it ain't smooth now.
I really like the iPhone--it's replaced the Palm Tungsten and various smartphones and featurephones I've tried. But it is annoying that occasionally an attempt to scroll a page selects text instead. Yes, I know how to deselect, and yes, the wonderful digital (yok!YOK!) interface is necessarily a compromise, so sometimes also when scrolling a link-rich page you trigger one of the links, but it is, nonetheless, annoying. Sure, I'm 65, but I don't suffer from any other disabilities. But I guess you also get exasperated with n00bs who don't see how easy Linux is if they'll only learn to use the command line and edit a few config files.
Further, a home product investigation lab could be good, all ways. Here in funny little NZ, two girls needed a project for their school's science fair. So they thought they'd measure the vitamin C in Ribena (blackcurrant drink, advertised as source of vitamin C). So they do it, and they're all like "OMG there's no vitamin C!" And the Ribena company is like, "Errrmm..." Much publicity, good item on their CVs, girls can do science, big corporation gets shafted by consumers for a change. See also Dan's Data.
Hatred of wires may not be possessed by Joe Average, but it is by Jane Average. In the living room, this counts. See also WAF.
Yes, and hand-writing recognition. I'm afraid we have to blame Gary Trudeau for the absence of that feature from the iPhone. Also, something like a proper Today page would be a real improvement. Actual multi-tasking I can do without, but Graffiti works and I want to be able to see at first glance what I've got to do today.
Don't know what it's like in the US, but here in funny little New Zealand iPods are definitely price competitive; in fact, it's hard to find a PMP with a brand-name you've heard of that sells for less than the equivalent Apple product. The iPhone (which is here sold unlocked, without a SIM card, on a straight-out retail basis) is price-competitive with grey market smartphones. Computers, not so much, but yes, Apple can meet the market.
But, but... Surely vaporware is ideal for Cloud Computing?
If morals are inherently relative, does this mean that in some situations pedophilia is OK? Like, you know, if it's a good guy doing it?
Try reading with attention, eh?
Well, I guess it wouldn't be too bad if you lived in an Apple.
I had an HTC Windows Mobile phone here in NZ, and it did a lot of what you want, quite well. I sold it off to get an iPhone, but that's because 1) I could buy it as a bare phone (and it is actually cheaper than some of the alternatives here); 2) I can use it on prepay 3) it has the standard lexicon of Ancient Greek available as an app, which is a killer a. for me.
I think most of the problems people have with the iPhone in the USA are really carrier problems, but you seem to have some of the shittiest carriers in the world.
Great Mercury Island is actually off the East Coast of the North Island, about the same latitude as Auckland. I expect they've designed it so it will work in the rain.
Well, here in New Zealand all phones have to be sold as bare handsets, without contracts (and so without subsidies); also, parallel importing is explicitly permitted by law. In this market, the iPhone is actually cheaper than comparable smartphones, even the parallel imported ones. The Palm Pre looks very nice, and I'd really like multi-tasking and a better camera, and access to all those old Palm programs would be really nice, but I'm guessing it'll cost half as much again as the iThing.
A retired medievalist says, you gotta lose that idea that there's an Apple Tax or that they're selling pure image.
Name me one other smartphone or PDA on which you can install Liddell & Scott's Greek English Lexicon (that's the big Liddell, with tiny print and 2,000 A4 size pages). As well as Lewis & Short's Latin Dictionary, which beats shit out of Whitaker's Words on a Palm. Your stupid antifanboi attitude means you're depriving yourself of a really useful tool for the study of ancient Greek. Kids these days.
I know
The Sandbox
For lifetime job security, in a large, conservative organization
one word
COBOL
iMac, Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse here: does the right click thing occasionally, also. Quite relieved to discover this is a known problem--thought it was the dithers on my part.
She wasn't talking as a public servant. Microsoft as a monopoly is last century, because old laws ought to be adequate to deal with it (they're not, of course, but because Microsoft has the power of money, but that is, like, so last millennium or three). Google, on the other hand, is interesting not because, maybe, it is a monopoly yet, but it could become an abusive monopoly, but it's not clear whether current anti-trust laws could cope.
By all means celebrate great thinkers, but there is an excessive emphasis on Darwin in the PR: why not talk about Darwin-Wallace-Mendelian ideas, and their modern development? Focussing on Darwin does tend, also to equate Evolution with Marxism and Freudianism, and we wouldn't want that, would we?
Even MS Word doesn't have reliable file portability with that level of difficulty, and early on I learned that "Reads other programs' formats" is about as misleading a statement as you can make without actually lying.
Answer: for each program you want to replace, find some heavy users who are basically favourable to FOSS, and work with them until you *know* there aren't any problems left. Else, actually, forget it, and concentrate on the places where you know FOSS is good (servers, perhaps).
And the best of luck.
But, that's the long-awaited Write-Only Memory.
Galaxy cameltoe.