While it's great an alternative to AirPlay had been released, I doubt it'll get much support from accessory manufacturers unless the likes of Samsung decide to integrate it with their phones.
On the approach the intersection there are left turn lights clearly visible for the traffic traveling from left to right on-screen. If you look along the pole holding the lights for the right to left traffic you can see there are two lights for left turning traffic just as there are for the opposite direction. While not the clearest, they are definitely red.
Indeed, but it's pretty damn hard for a 6 year old to walk into a Verizon store and walk out with a $100/month plan. Making an in app purchase is very easy, and doesn't always require verification of the user. The problem isn't the in app purchasing, it's the fact it's used in app targeted at kids that don't understand that they are spending real money.
You had me until the second to last paragraph. Macs wouldn't evolve nearly as fast if there wasn't Windows (and to some extent, Linux) adding new stuff. With a lot of the cool things Apple do, they aren't the one to first do something, they are the first to do it in a way that appeals to the mainstream. Look at smartphones, Windows Mobile phones were around way before the iPhone, but they were never popular in the mainstream because they didn't have the "cool factor". And if it weren't for webOS and Android, iOS would quite possibly still have the crap notifications system that just got replaced with iOS 5.
So, yes, Apple are great at what they do, but to say that they would be where they are without the competition is ridiculous.
As I read it, teachers would not only be unable to email their own children, they would be unable to be a member of an email service. Well, one that uses a web client. Using a Facebook application on their iPhone is fine, because the law specifies webpages.
No, manuals are what really shine in the city. My family have a '98 Toyota Camry manual, and an '06 Hyundai Sonata auto. Both have the same EPA rating, both get about the same mileage for long distance highway trips. But in the mixed driving my family usually does, we get about 31MPG in the Camry, and 27MPG in the Sonata.
The reason for this is that during acceleration, the manual is a physical connection, while the automatic is lucky to be 80% efficient. DSG transmissions make up for this by being automated manual transmissions, they have a clutch (that the driver doesn't push), just like a manual. The only way an auto with a torque converter can get close to a manual is if it is a CVT, and that is because it can lock the torque converter (so it's basically a physical connection), and then hold the engine revs near the most efficient. Even with these new-generation automatics, they can virtually never beat a driver that's driving carefully (for both efficiency and safety, most gas saving tricks involve being more aware of your surroundings.)
The Toyota Yaris hatchback is sold in Europe with a 1.0L engine. I doubt it'll go much over 80mph, but that should be enough for every day driving. Also, the Fiat 500 Twin Air could also be sold in the US, the regular Fiat 500 is.
No need for higher fuel taxes, just stop paying subsidies to the oil giants, and gas prices will go up naturally, and the government will have reduced spending. Then again, some conservative will point out that it's not okay to stop giving money to private companies, they'd much rather the government stopped giving healthcare to the elderly.
I'm all for capitalism, but not when it means that the government is spending the little guys' money on making the big guys bigger.
Yes, and not only that, but the article is more about how SUVs should be for people that *need* the space than how small cars are bad for safety. The only thing making small cars unsafe is the number huge vehicles that so many people drive without reason.
EuroNCAP (who do safety tests like the IIHS) quite clearly state that crashes are only comparable within a class, and then mass wins over safety features. Interestingly, the side impact test is done with an object which is always the same weight, which shows that some light cars are actually better than their heavier counterparts in a side-on accident.
Only if those notes were written in a secret language that only you could decode. It would be their problem to try and translate them, forcing you to do so should be able to be avoided with the fifth amendment.
There is nothing stopping iTunes-bought music being played on other devices. TV shows and movies are another story, but from what I could see when I got my Android phone, practically all smartphones and even a lot of feature phones support playing AAC files.
The matter of getting music on to an iOS device is a bit more complex, as the only way to load new music onto the device is with the iTunes Store App or iTunes. Up until now, iTunes has been required to use an iOS device, so getting music from other sources has been simple. However, with iOS 5, Apple are saying that no computer is required, so it is possible that a user could be stuck in the position where the only possible way to get music on his/her iOS device is via the iTunes Store App, effectively boosting iTunes music sales with the popularity of iOS devices.
I just got a HP USB docking station that I hook up to my Dell Latitude E6400, which already has dual outputs on its dock. For monitors I have a Dell SP2309W (the only 23" I could find with a 2048x1152 resolution), and two HP 17"s, one on each side of the 23". One of the 17"s is using the USB connection, and it's not the best (video is very jumpy), but it's sufficient for reading slashdot or documentation.
Apple was also selling the iPhone 3G at that time, it was still a current model. It's one thing to stop offering updates, it's another to offer updates that make a device unusable and then drop support. I like Apple for the most part, but I think what they did to iPhone 3G/ iPod touch 2G users was shit.
Not only can you use a standard user most of the time, but by deafult Windows Vista and 7 run programs as a standard user even if you log in as an admin. That's what the User Account Control (UAC) stuff that so many people complain about does.
Stupidly, most people I know disable it because they find it annoying, then complain about how Windows runs everything as an admin when it could just ask for permissions when needed. I do like how much less software is requesting admin rights to do basic tasks than was common when Vista was first released.
My 1998 Toyota Camry gets 32MPG (city or highway, thanks to shutting off the engine at red lights), and it is a lot more practical and safer than a '72 Beetle.
I completely agree that modern cars are too large and over powered, but really old cars are not the answer.
Properly small cars (like are seen in Europe) with modern engines are a much better idea. By far the biggest problem is that gas is too cheap to get people out of their massive SUVs and into cars that meet the needs of everyday driving, not off-roading and track days.
Mac OS 10.6 most certainly does have support for H.264 out of the box, and I imagine that 10.5 and possibly earlier versions have it as well.
I'm not usually too keen of what MS do, but I think that using the OS's native codecs makes a lot of sense, and Mozilla really need to get off their high horse and implement native plugin use for all OSes that they support. A plugin is not ideal, but it's a hell of a lot better than not having H.264 support in Firefox, hopefully Mozilla will look at this and decide it is something that should be built in to their browser.
I'm assuming this is the end of Flash updates on Software Update. I heard on Engadget that Apple are going to stop supporting Java, which is much bigger news, as Oracle doesn't currently offer a Mac build.
I use Chrome to get around this. The dev build has click to run for plugins, which is so much better than manually disabling Flash and then enabling it for sites you want to use it on.
My 13" MBP's battery life has gone from 4.5-5.5 hours to 5.5-6.5 hours when web browsing. No more getting bored in the last lecture of day because the battery has gone flat.
Unless your N95 is completely different to the two Symbian phones I have owned, you can move the icons into different folders and put them where you want. I have a folder called "Crap" for all the apps I don't use. You access the move functions by pressing Options in the menu (left soft key).
I agree, I use the Expose four finger swipe very frequently (so much I feel lost on my iMac), but the side to side application switching is useless, Cmd+Tab is way faster.
iPad does 720p. In fact, in some countries (including my own), Apple TVs and iPads are the only way to buy HD movies on iTunes. Funny, seeing as the iPad hasn't launched here yet.
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While it's great an alternative to AirPlay had been released, I doubt it'll get much support from accessory manufacturers unless the likes of Samsung decide to integrate it with their phones.
On the approach the intersection there are left turn lights clearly visible for the traffic traveling from left to right on-screen.
If you look along the pole holding the lights for the right to left traffic you can see there are two lights for left turning traffic just as there are for the opposite direction. While not the clearest, they are definitely red.
Indeed, but it's pretty damn hard for a 6 year old to walk into a Verizon store and walk out with a $100/month plan. Making an in app purchase is very easy, and doesn't always require verification of the user. The problem isn't the in app purchasing, it's the fact it's used in app targeted at kids that don't understand that they are spending real money.
You had me until the second to last paragraph. Macs wouldn't evolve nearly as fast if there wasn't Windows (and to some extent, Linux) adding new stuff. With a lot of the cool things Apple do, they aren't the one to first do something, they are the first to do it in a way that appeals to the mainstream. Look at smartphones, Windows Mobile phones were around way before the iPhone, but they were never popular in the mainstream because they didn't have the "cool factor". And if it weren't for webOS and Android, iOS would quite possibly still have the crap notifications system that just got replaced with iOS 5.
So, yes, Apple are great at what they do, but to say that they would be where they are without the competition is ridiculous.
But how do you prove that the signature on a fax wasn't just a jpeg pasted in the document before sending?
As I read it, teachers would not only be unable to email their own children, they would be unable to be a member of an email service. Well, one that uses a web client. Using a Facebook application on their iPhone is fine, because the law specifies webpages.
No, manuals are what really shine in the city. My family have a '98 Toyota Camry manual, and an '06 Hyundai Sonata auto. Both have the same EPA rating, both get about the same mileage for long distance highway trips. But in the mixed driving my family usually does, we get about 31MPG in the Camry, and 27MPG in the Sonata.
The reason for this is that during acceleration, the manual is a physical connection, while the automatic is lucky to be 80% efficient. DSG transmissions make up for this by being automated manual transmissions, they have a clutch (that the driver doesn't push), just like a manual. The only way an auto with a torque converter can get close to a manual is if it is a CVT, and that is because it can lock the torque converter (so it's basically a physical connection), and then hold the engine revs near the most efficient. Even with these new-generation automatics, they can virtually never beat a driver that's driving carefully (for both efficiency and safety, most gas saving tricks involve being more aware of your surroundings.)
The Toyota Yaris hatchback is sold in Europe with a 1.0L engine. I doubt it'll go much over 80mph, but that should be enough for every day driving. Also, the Fiat 500 Twin Air could also be sold in the US, the regular Fiat 500 is.
No need for higher fuel taxes, just stop paying subsidies to the oil giants, and gas prices will go up naturally, and the government will have reduced spending. Then again, some conservative will point out that it's not okay to stop giving money to private companies, they'd much rather the government stopped giving healthcare to the elderly.
I'm all for capitalism, but not when it means that the government is spending the little guys' money on making the big guys bigger.
Yes, and not only that, but the article is more about how SUVs should be for people that *need* the space than how small cars are bad for safety. The only thing making small cars unsafe is the number huge vehicles that so many people drive without reason.
EuroNCAP (who do safety tests like the IIHS) quite clearly state that crashes are only comparable within a class, and then mass wins over safety features. Interestingly, the side impact test is done with an object which is always the same weight, which shows that some light cars are actually better than their heavier counterparts in a side-on accident.
Only if those notes were written in a secret language that only you could decode. It would be their problem to try and translate them, forcing you to do so should be able to be avoided with the fifth amendment.
There is nothing stopping iTunes-bought music being played on other devices. TV shows and movies are another story, but from what I could see when I got my Android phone, practically all smartphones and even a lot of feature phones support playing AAC files.
The matter of getting music on to an iOS device is a bit more complex, as the only way to load new music onto the device is with the iTunes Store App or iTunes. Up until now, iTunes has been required to use an iOS device, so getting music from other sources has been simple. However, with iOS 5, Apple are saying that no computer is required, so it is possible that a user could be stuck in the position where the only possible way to get music on his/her iOS device is via the iTunes Store App, effectively boosting iTunes music sales with the popularity of iOS devices.
I just got a HP USB docking station that I hook up to my Dell Latitude E6400, which already has dual outputs on its dock. For monitors I have a Dell SP2309W (the only 23" I could find with a 2048x1152 resolution), and two HP 17"s, one on each side of the 23". One of the 17"s is using the USB connection, and it's not the best (video is very jumpy), but it's sufficient for reading slashdot or documentation.
I use a GeForce GT210 in my low profile HTPC, they are under $40 at newegg
Apple was also selling the iPhone 3G at that time, it was still a current model. It's one thing to stop offering updates, it's another to offer updates that make a device unusable and then drop support. I like Apple for the most part, but I think what they did to iPhone 3G/ iPod touch 2G users was shit.
Not only can you use a standard user most of the time, but by deafult Windows Vista and 7 run programs as a standard user even if you log in as an admin. That's what the User Account Control (UAC) stuff that so many people complain about does.
Stupidly, most people I know disable it because they find it annoying, then complain about how Windows runs everything as an admin when it could just ask for permissions when needed. I do like how much less software is requesting admin rights to do basic tasks than was common when Vista was first released.
My 1998 Toyota Camry gets 32MPG (city or highway, thanks to shutting off the engine at red lights), and it is a lot more practical and safer than a '72 Beetle.
I completely agree that modern cars are too large and over powered, but really old cars are not the answer.
Properly small cars (like are seen in Europe) with modern engines are a much better idea. By far the biggest problem is that gas is too cheap to get people out of their massive SUVs and into cars that meet the needs of everyday driving, not off-roading and track days.
I meant native codecs, not native plugins.
Mac OS 10.6 most certainly does have support for H.264 out of the box, and I imagine that 10.5 and possibly earlier versions have it as well.
I'm not usually too keen of what MS do, but I think that using the OS's native codecs makes a lot of sense, and Mozilla really need to get off their high horse and implement native plugin use for all OSes that they support. A plugin is not ideal, but it's a hell of a lot better than not having H.264 support in Firefox, hopefully Mozilla will look at this and decide it is something that should be built in to their browser.
I'm assuming this is the end of Flash updates on Software Update. I heard on Engadget that Apple are going to stop supporting Java, which is much bigger news, as Oracle doesn't currently offer a Mac build.
I use Chrome to get around this. The dev build has click to run for plugins, which is so much better than manually disabling Flash and then enabling it for sites you want to use it on.
My 13" MBP's battery life has gone from 4.5-5.5 hours to 5.5-6.5 hours when web browsing. No more getting bored in the last lecture of day because the battery has gone flat.
Unless your N95 is completely different to the two Symbian phones I have owned, you can move the icons into different folders and put them where you want. I have a folder called "Crap" for all the apps I don't use. You access the move functions by pressing Options in the menu (left soft key).
I agree, I use the Expose four finger swipe very frequently (so much I feel lost on my iMac), but the side to side application switching is useless, Cmd+Tab is way faster.
iPad does 720p. In fact, in some countries (including my own), Apple TVs and iPads are the only way to buy HD movies on iTunes. Funny, seeing as the iPad hasn't launched here yet.
Umm... more like almost 75% market share.