Whoa, whoa, whoa... where does it say in the two Firefox articles that Firefox is going to be the default browser? Granted, it says it's going to be on the desktop, and that's a big deal. However, there's a big difference between being on the desktop and being the default browser.
At the first fight scene, I was wondering why the director kept using closeup shots. You couldn't see the setting that well. Without a background, I thought it took away from the whole majesty of a good martial-arts fight (See Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Matrix). Then I saw the the military uniforms. God awful. Wow, they were cheap looking. These guys looked like they came out of an 80's Sci-Fi Movie. I realized that this is probably a pretty low-budget flick. A simple search on Google confirmed it.
Basically, Charlize is ok. The actors were pretty good. It was helluva lot better than SW Ep I-III acting. I the story was out there, but it's sci-fi, so I'll let it slide. The cheap look, though, really took away from the one area that I was expecting it to excel.
Just out of curiosity, why are so many of these dealerships located in NY/NJ? Is there something in the laws of these states that makes it easy to do this type of stuff?
I agree. Motorola did not help themselves with the design choices made on this phone.
My gripe is not with the 100 song limit. I didn't fill my Rokr up completely with songs. Then again, I might not be a "typical" Rokr user. I hold about 60 random songs on it and fill the rest up with podcasts, which I listen to on my morning commute. These podcasts last anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour each, so with that type of song to size ratio, I hit the 512 meg limit way before the 100 song limit.
The 100 song limit is, IMHO, much ado about nothing. There's plenty of other shortcomings of this phone. First, the USB 1.1 interface is ridiculous. It takes it an HOUR to fill up the 512 meg card. I understand that the write speed of the Trans-flash card is just slightly higher than the USB 1.1 speed anyways. Therefore, they should have used an SD and slapped a USB 2 cable into it.
At one hour of activity, this pounds the battery. Not a lot, but in a year, when my battery starts to hold less, I can just imagine a situation where I fill up the card, then have to immediately charge. Even worse, the battery may die before the transaction completes. They could have solved this issue by making the phone chargeable via the cable, but it's not. Really lame.
If the transaction dies, I could just start over, right? Wrong. If you drag a whole bunch of songs in the Rokr, it moves the file in a transaction-like copy. That is, all the files have to successfully copy over before it shows up on the phone. If you copy 50 songs and the cable disconnects at 49, the transaction fails and you have to start all over. I haven't tried this with Autofill, but when you drag and drop groups of songs in iTunes to the phone, it defintely does this.
Related to this, the cable connection is incredibly fragile. I don't know if it's just me, but the slightest bump will disconnect the device. I'm talking something as simple as gently moving it out of the way. I haven't done this at song number 49 out of 50, but I've done it at 48. Again, I had to start all over. I've resorted to placing the Rokr on the *floor* during large downloads. This is just a really crappy design decision by Motorola.
I'm glad it's failed because Motorola hopefully learned a lesson from this to make a better device. Still, I'm going to keep mine. Why? Because it's fine for listening to podcasts on the commute. I have a Shuffle for excercising and an iPod Photo for all other stuff. Most importantly, it does a fine job of being a phone, which is what I really needed in the first place. Imagine that.
You have the option, set in the preferences, to downgrade all songs to 128kbps. It does NOT do it automatically. However, at only 512 megs, you definitely should do this, otherwise, you won't ever have to worry about coming close to the 100 song limit.
And for the people that ask you about it, do you say, "If I told you, I'd have to kill you"? That's probably bad PR for Firefox, though. Forget I said anything.
I just interviewed at a company that basically wanted me to completely rewrite their web app. The original code base was a complete mess, and impossible to maintain. My job would be to rewrite it in OO-style and make it modular. Who originally wrote it? It was outsourced to an Indian company.
I am Asian. I was in the passenger seat of a car driven by a female friend of mine. We're waiting for this guy to pull out of a parking spot and he's being really slow and tardish. I make the crack, "Damn, is it a chick driving that thing?" He pulls out and it's a man. I remark, "Hmmm. No, a guy." My friend then asks, "Is he Asian?"
How can they forget zap.com? The whole story of zap.com is as ludicrous as it gets.
Zapata Corporation, a fish oil company with no internet experience, was determined to cash in on the internet gold rush in the late 90's. Zap.com, an internet portal site, was one of a whole slew of sites that were trying to compete with Yahoo!. Mismanaged, and arriving too late for the portal game, zap.com lasted less than a year.
And remember, their customer-hostile policies were directly driven by this ass of a CEO. He's the one that allegedly said "All customers are liars, thieves, and bastards" in an exec meeting. Everyone was screaming for an OS X version of Quark it took them how many years to come out with one? You can certainly make a point that Quark was the biggest obstructionist in OS X's adoption by keeping the publishing company on hold. Good riddance. Without this guy, maybe a Intel Mac version of Quark will be released in a reasonable time.
* Apple will release a tablet * Apple will release a new PDA * Apple will release a cell phone * Apple will move to Intel chips
The same damn rumors keep popping up over and over and over and over and over again. Enough already. If I was Jobs, I'd swear never to do any of the four just to piss people off.
It's a status for professors at the university level that prevents them from getting fired. It's to protect the teaching of unpopular beliefs. They basically have to perform gross violations of ethics like plagarism or molesting little kids to get fired.
There's a lot of comments here about how he should have gotten tenure, spoke to a union, in the U.S pressured resignation == firing, in the U.S. pressured resignation != firing, etc. How about someone from Spain actually chiming in? Is there a tenure system in Spanish universities? Teacher's union?
This whole article is flamebait and doesn't provide any new insight. Dvorak's taking a fringe minority of the Linux community and presenting them as the larger group. There's nothing new about death threats. Small groups of angry people make death threats all the time over everything. It's always happened in society and will continue to happen.
What is new these days, and I think Dvorak and other "journalists" are having trouble grasping, is that the media is now being held accountable. Since the late 90's there's been a larger number of reporters who have had to resign in disgrace over fabricated stories. Jayson Blair, Dan Rather, and just this week, Newsweek is being raked over the coals. News execs are certainly afraid with some comments lashing out at "bloggers." They should be afraid because in their history, they've never been under more scrutiny by their audience. Journalists are more afraid these days, and I don't think that's a bad thing. For once, there's a checks and balances system for them.
You shouldn't be using PHP to write optimistic crackpot theories of this size. It doesn't scale and it's slow. Ruby or Python are much better for these kinds of theories because of blah blah blah blah blah.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa... where does it say in the two Firefox articles that Firefox is going to be the default browser? Granted, it says it's going to be on the desktop, and that's a big deal. However, there's a big difference between being on the desktop and being the default browser.
The "crap" is CSS and JavaScript.
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And if you look at the list of supported phones, you'll see that the Rokr is not on there.
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> Every good programmer loves garfield?
I assume the article writer was asking a question. The answer is no.
At the first fight scene, I was wondering why the director kept using closeup shots. You couldn't see the setting that well. Without a background, I thought it took away from the whole majesty of a good martial-arts fight (See Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Matrix). Then I saw the the military uniforms. God awful. Wow, they were cheap looking. These guys looked like they came out of an 80's Sci-Fi Movie. I realized that this is probably a pretty low-budget flick. A simple search on Google confirmed it.
Basically, Charlize is ok. The actors were pretty good. It was helluva lot better than SW Ep I-III acting. I the story was out there, but it's sci-fi, so I'll let it slide. The cheap look, though, really took away from the one area that I was expecting it to excel.
Just out of curiosity, why are so many of these dealerships located in NY/NJ? Is there something in the laws of these states that makes it easy to do this type of stuff?
I agree. Motorola did not help themselves with the design choices made on this phone.
My gripe is not with the 100 song limit. I didn't fill my Rokr up completely with songs. Then again, I might not be a "typical" Rokr user. I hold about 60 random songs on it and fill the rest up with podcasts, which I listen to on my morning commute. These podcasts last anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour each, so with that type of song to size ratio, I hit the 512 meg limit way before the 100 song limit.
The 100 song limit is, IMHO, much ado about nothing. There's plenty of other shortcomings of this phone. First, the USB 1.1 interface is ridiculous. It takes it an HOUR to fill up the 512 meg card. I understand that the write speed of the Trans-flash card is just slightly higher than the USB 1.1 speed anyways. Therefore, they should have used an SD and slapped a USB 2 cable into it.
At one hour of activity, this pounds the battery. Not a lot, but in a year, when my battery starts to hold less, I can just imagine a situation where I fill up the card, then have to immediately charge. Even worse, the battery may die before the transaction completes. They could have solved this issue by making the phone chargeable via the cable, but it's not. Really lame.
If the transaction dies, I could just start over, right? Wrong. If you drag a whole bunch of songs in the Rokr, it moves the file in a transaction-like copy. That is, all the files have to successfully copy over before it shows up on the phone. If you copy 50 songs and the cable disconnects at 49, the transaction fails and you have to start all over. I haven't tried this with Autofill, but when you drag and drop groups of songs in iTunes to the phone, it defintely does this.
Related to this, the cable connection is incredibly fragile. I don't know if it's just me, but the slightest bump will disconnect the device. I'm talking something as simple as gently moving it out of the way. I haven't done this at song number 49 out of 50, but I've done it at 48. Again, I had to start all over. I've resorted to placing the Rokr on the *floor* during large downloads. This is just a really crappy design decision by Motorola.
I'm glad it's failed because Motorola hopefully learned a lesson from this to make a better device. Still, I'm going to keep mine. Why? Because it's fine for listening to podcasts on the commute. I have a Shuffle for excercising and an iPod Photo for all other stuff. Most importantly, it does a fine job of being a phone, which is what I really needed in the first place. Imagine that.
This is a oft-repeated falsehood.
You have the option, set in the preferences, to downgrade all songs to 128kbps. It does NOT do it automatically. However, at only 512 megs, you definitely should do this, otherwise, you won't ever have to worry about coming close to the 100 song limit.
And don't forget Al Gore, who championed the Clipper Chip.
And for the people that ask you about it, do you say, "If I told you, I'd have to kill you"? That's probably bad PR for Firefox, though. Forget I said anything.
I'll tell you what's a security nightmare - dealing with all the trojans, viruses, and spybots that IE lets in.
But just today, the U.N. says the ozone layer is healing.
More annecdotal evidence:
I just interviewed at a company that basically wanted me to completely rewrite their web app. The original code base was a complete mess, and impossible to maintain. My job would be to rewrite it in OO-style and make it modular. Who originally wrote it? It was outsourced to an Indian company.
I am Asian. I was in the passenger seat of a car driven by a female friend of mine. We're waiting for this guy to pull out of a parking spot and he's being really slow and tardish. I make the crack, "Damn, is it a chick driving that thing?" He pulls out and it's a man. I remark, "Hmmm. No, a guy." My friend then asks, "Is he Asian?"
Touche, Patricia.
How can they forget zap.com? The whole story of zap.com is as ludicrous as it gets.
Zapata Corporation, a fish oil company with no internet experience, was determined to cash in on the internet gold rush in the late 90's. Zap.com, an internet portal site, was one of a whole slew of sites that were trying to compete with Yahoo!. Mismanaged, and arriving too late for the portal game, zap.com lasted less than a year.
Ack, you are indeed correct about Ebrahimi.
I've heard at least three locations where he supposedly made this statement - at an exec meeting, a company-wide meeting, and MacWorld.
And remember, their customer-hostile policies were directly driven by this ass of a CEO. He's the one that allegedly said "All customers are liars, thieves, and bastards" in an exec meeting. Everyone was screaming for an OS X version of Quark it took them how many years to come out with one? You can certainly make a point that Quark was the biggest obstructionist in OS X's adoption by keeping the publishing company on hold. Good riddance. Without this guy, maybe a Intel Mac version of Quark will be released in a reasonable time.
I hope no one finds out you can burn a gazillion copies from the CDR!
* Apple will release a tablet
* Apple will release a new PDA
* Apple will release a cell phone
* Apple will move to Intel chips
The same damn rumors keep popping up over and over and over and over and over again. Enough already. If I was Jobs, I'd swear never to do any of the four just to piss people off.
It's a status for professors at the university level that prevents them from getting fired. It's to protect the teaching of unpopular beliefs. They basically have to perform gross violations of ethics like plagarism or molesting little kids to get fired.
*sigh*
There's a lot of comments here about how he should have gotten tenure, spoke to a union, in the U.S pressured resignation == firing, in the U.S. pressured resignation != firing, etc. How about someone from Spain actually chiming in? Is there a tenure system in Spanish universities? Teacher's union?
And the first google ad right below this article here?
Download BitTorrent Now
Thousands of movies. Tutorials Millions of MP3s. Videogames
I read it as "Download the BitTorrent Now." What? Really? Where? Isn't Lucas going to get pissed?
This whole article is flamebait and doesn't provide any new insight. Dvorak's taking a fringe minority of the Linux community and presenting them as the larger group. There's nothing new about death threats. Small groups of angry people make death threats all the time over everything. It's always happened in society and will continue to happen.
What is new these days, and I think Dvorak and other "journalists" are having trouble grasping, is that the media is now being held accountable. Since the late 90's there's been a larger number of reporters who have had to resign in disgrace over fabricated stories. Jayson Blair, Dan Rather, and just this week, Newsweek is being raked over the coals. News execs are certainly afraid with some comments lashing out at "bloggers." They should be afraid because in their history, they've never been under more scrutiny by their audience. Journalists are more afraid these days, and I don't think that's a bad thing. For once, there's a checks and balances system for them.
You shouldn't be using PHP to write optimistic crackpot theories of this size. It doesn't scale and it's slow. Ruby or Python are much better for these kinds of theories because of blah blah blah blah blah.
My theory - they were the only ones to have witnessed Annie and Padme's wedding.