couple of things here... first, USB support first showed up in Win95c and was already in Win98 before 98SE came along.
second, aero doesn't require anything more than a 256 MB video card, which my laptop that's over a year old came with and i can run aero and all its glassy transparent beauty without a problem.
to go along with what a few others have been saying... i've been using vista since january (shortly after its release). i won't switch back to XP on that computer and can't wait to upgrade the machine i have at home that will remain a windows box so that i can run vista on it (it's only got like 256 or 512 MB of RAM right now, and i want at least 1GB, which is what my laptop has). the other machine at home will become a linux box. there's some flaws in vista, but i have yet to have it completely crash on me. if an application has a fatal error, it won't take the whole machine with it. vista recovers nicely from that. vista also starts up faster than XP for me. and because i'm not doing any gaming or high end stuff, i haven't noticed a performance drop since installing vista (and i'm using office 2007).
i don't even see a point to this article. why should apple be trying to beat vista anyways?
funny... i made my own ringtones and play them on my new chocolate just fine. use bitpim and it works just fine. you just need a USB cable to connect your phone to your computer.
all i have to say is good luck in the real world. the real world doesn't like spoiled brats like yourself. eventually thinking you have a good answer to everything will catch up to you.
i'm too busy to sit here and waste my time picking out all the holes in your arguments, but believe me, there are plenty of holes.
easy. computer goes in family room with monitor facing people. it gets locked up when you can't be watched. you get no car, you don't get to go visit friends, etc, etc, etc. your life eventually just starts to suck because you've proven you can't be trusted.
and yes, you do sound like a spoiled brat because you obviously don't know the meaning of the word spoiled... it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with physical objects. it's the non-physical stuff that matters most.
i guess you might be right if you discount southern new england as part of the US (with some of the highest population density in the country, it's kind of hard to ignore us over here). you can't find the wii here at all still. someone i know said they saw 1 in a store last week. but that probably didn't last long.
you're both right and wrong. yes, employees consider their passwords to protect their privacy, but the real reason behind them is to protect the privacy of the company and of anyone involved. for example, i work in a college IT department and at the college there are student employees in almost every department. my student employees have the opportunity to see things they probably shouldn't. they are required to sign a confidentiality agreement (they break it and they're fired and face the dean of students). offices are full of students (sometimes working in them, sometimes taking care of stuff), such as financial aid, payroll, etc. these students should not be able to see other students' grades, financial records, etc. that's why computers are locked when the employees step away. yes, it might be so people can't read their email, but that email might contain information that others shouldn't be looking at. employees at the college are given computers, email accounts, etc. these accounts and computers are for the purposes of working at the college and not personal purposes. while we all know everyone does personal stuff at work, you are not given the same type of privacy you would expect at home. the privacy at work is to protect the company/college/whatever from outsiders, but not to protect the employee from their manager.
your analogies don't make sense. i use tivo to watch tv. i hit pause during commercials, get up, come back and click through them using the 30 second skip easter egg for tivo. i choose not to take the opportunity to watch ads, even if they're for something i might want. that's the same thing as using adblock. i choose not to have the opportunity to see the ads.
if i really wanted the opportunity to see the ads, i'd turn off adblock.
if the website owner really didn't want his information to be public and wanted people to pay (one way or another) to see it (because people are paying by having to see stupid flashy ads), the website owner could force paid subscriptions. don't make the information public if you really need the ad revenue to pay for your site.
that's the thing... i don't mind advertising on sites (slashdot for example). it's advertising that prevents me from seeing the content i want to see or annoys me (flashing monkeys or whatever) or pops up or under. those deserve to be blocked.
as someone said above... if you choose to make money on ads you need to deal with the fact that no everyone wants to see them and will block them. it's not stealing just because your business model doesn't work. perhaps those who are losing money because people block their ads should be finding a different way of paying for their site.
that's not true though. you still have to buy an iphone, unless you steal it. so apple is still getting their money. it's AT&T that's isn't making money.
i missed that when reading it. i couldn't get beyond the picture of the tube thingy turning into a 10 legged spider.
calling the stuff in the book crackpottery is not the same as calling the author a crackpot. this is not at all libel. the reviewer really seems to keep the book the subject of his review and leaves the author out of most of it.
i searched the review linked in the article and couldn't find the word "crackpot". i don't think it's libel at all. the only thing the reviewer does is completely trash this guy's "science" and calls it "nothing more than a bunch of pictures". after reading the review, it's obvious that this guy came up with some completely outrageous theories and threw them into a book and called it "science".
funny... i've been driving through NY to philly somewhat regularly between 2005 and now and the tolls with the ez pass on the tappan zee and GW were $4 and $6 respectively.
i've had an ez pass for a few years from NY. i get charged the actual toll rates in NY. i think you might be confusing this with the special commuter packages for ez pass. those allow you to get discounted rates at certain tolls (mainly in and out of NYC i think and perhaps for parking at the airport). you have to pay an extra fee for those packages though.
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right... so take public transit into the city. again, driving is a luxury, especially in NYC.
the issue of tolls and gas tax money actually going (or not going) towards mass transit is not unique to NYC. it's a problem everywhere. unfortunately, this country is very auto-centric. so while NYC might be more transit-oriented, the rest of the state probably thinks that their money shouldn't be always going to NYC. look at the huge highway projects in CT... they should be working more on transit across southern CT and into NY rather than ripping up highways and constantly expanding them. work on getting people on the bus and on the train rather than in their cars.
i have no problem with people being tracked on the job... such as GPS units in trucks.
while the toll sucks, what it does is force people who want goods to order them in bulk and those delivering to deliver in bulk. it has double the benefit... cuts down on congestion and also on miles, meaning better for the environment. the toll for delivery trucks and work vehicles is something that i do disagree with to a point, but i can understand the need for it.
and for the record, items are delivered all the time in the city by foot, by bike, and by public transit.
and the toll doesn't have to exist 24 hours a day. they could just use it for certain hours... say 5 am until 10 pm.
well, that still proves my point. you don't have to use one. ez pass in some areas is cheaper than the regular toll (i think NYC in particular has special commuter packages for it).
no, i haven't. never had a reason to, never will. i tend to take public transit in cities. and when i do drive places, i know they can track where i've been with my ez pass, but it sure beats waiting in the cash lane.
so now you just walk or take public transit. last i checked there was no toll for walking or taking transit to enter manhattan.
you have to understand that driving is not necessary in places like new york. don't want to be tracked, don't drive. people who use the ez pass do it out of choice. you aren't required to use one on the highways. you can just pay cash at the tolls and not be tracked. or if you're still worried, take the bus or train. driving a car is not a necessity or requirement, it's a luxury.
musicians that came from somewhat different genres is what i meant by derek and the dominos. same goes for traveling wilburys. they all had their own careers that were successful and collaborated to come up with something different.
i have said over and over again, not that there are no unique bands, but that the vast overwhelming majority of them are not creative. the phenomenon that we are experiencing now is not that bands are trying to emulate something, but rather that the internet is allowing more and more people to spread their music. there are probably more "bands" and "musicians" out there now than in the 70's pushing their music through sites like myspace trying to get a national audience rather than trying to improve themselves by going out and playing shows at local venues. yes, i know there are unique bands out there now, but those are the exceptions. sure, the uncreative bands existed in the 60's and 70's, but there were a lot more bands that were collaborations of artists from other bands (new riders, JGB, derek and the dominos, dylan and the dead, entire concerts performed jointly between multiple bands all playing together rather than one at a time). that doesn't happen as often anymore. the collaboration is not as prevalent.
I listed bands who toyed with other genres and sounds. Bands who collaborated and worked regularly with other artists and musicians. Sure, the Beatles are the best of the best, but I am not talking about them in that way. I don't want another Beatles, I want bands who just make decent music or strive for it rather than striving to sound like their favorite band du jour.
i'm talking about the vast majority of bands i've heard on the internet trying to be something they're not because they're not opening their minds to other music, but think they're great because they can just push their music on myspace or garageband or purevolume.
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couple of things here... first, USB support first showed up in Win95c and was already in Win98 before 98SE came along.
second, aero doesn't require anything more than a 256 MB video card, which my laptop that's over a year old came with and i can run aero and all its glassy transparent beauty without a problem.
to go along with what a few others have been saying... i've been using vista since january (shortly after its release). i won't switch back to XP on that computer and can't wait to upgrade the machine i have at home that will remain a windows box so that i can run vista on it (it's only got like 256 or 512 MB of RAM right now, and i want at least 1GB, which is what my laptop has). the other machine at home will become a linux box. there's some flaws in vista, but i have yet to have it completely crash on me. if an application has a fatal error, it won't take the whole machine with it. vista recovers nicely from that. vista also starts up faster than XP for me. and because i'm not doing any gaming or high end stuff, i haven't noticed a performance drop since installing vista (and i'm using office 2007).
i don't even see a point to this article. why should apple be trying to beat vista anyways?
funny... i made my own ringtones and play them on my new chocolate just fine. use bitpim and it works just fine. you just need a USB cable to connect your phone to your computer.
all i have to say is good luck in the real world. the real world doesn't like spoiled brats like yourself. eventually thinking you have a good answer to everything will catch up to you.
i'm too busy to sit here and waste my time picking out all the holes in your arguments, but believe me, there are plenty of holes.
easy. computer goes in family room with monitor facing people. it gets locked up when you can't be watched. you get no car, you don't get to go visit friends, etc, etc, etc. your life eventually just starts to suck because you've proven you can't be trusted.
and yes, you do sound like a spoiled brat because you obviously don't know the meaning of the word spoiled... it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with physical objects. it's the non-physical stuff that matters most.
i guess you might be right if you discount southern new england as part of the US (with some of the highest population density in the country, it's kind of hard to ignore us over here). you can't find the wii here at all still. someone i know said they saw 1 in a store last week. but that probably didn't last long.
you're both right and wrong. yes, employees consider their passwords to protect their privacy, but the real reason behind them is to protect the privacy of the company and of anyone involved. for example, i work in a college IT department and at the college there are student employees in almost every department. my student employees have the opportunity to see things they probably shouldn't. they are required to sign a confidentiality agreement (they break it and they're fired and face the dean of students). offices are full of students (sometimes working in them, sometimes taking care of stuff), such as financial aid, payroll, etc. these students should not be able to see other students' grades, financial records, etc. that's why computers are locked when the employees step away. yes, it might be so people can't read their email, but that email might contain information that others shouldn't be looking at. employees at the college are given computers, email accounts, etc. these accounts and computers are for the purposes of working at the college and not personal purposes. while we all know everyone does personal stuff at work, you are not given the same type of privacy you would expect at home. the privacy at work is to protect the company/college/whatever from outsiders, but not to protect the employee from their manager.
your analogies don't make sense. i use tivo to watch tv. i hit pause during commercials, get up, come back and click through them using the 30 second skip easter egg for tivo. i choose not to take the opportunity to watch ads, even if they're for something i might want. that's the same thing as using adblock. i choose not to have the opportunity to see the ads.
if i really wanted the opportunity to see the ads, i'd turn off adblock.
if the website owner really didn't want his information to be public and wanted people to pay (one way or another) to see it (because people are paying by having to see stupid flashy ads), the website owner could force paid subscriptions. don't make the information public if you really need the ad revenue to pay for your site.
that's the thing... i don't mind advertising on sites (slashdot for example). it's advertising that prevents me from seeing the content i want to see or annoys me (flashing monkeys or whatever) or pops up or under. those deserve to be blocked.
as someone said above... if you choose to make money on ads you need to deal with the fact that no everyone wants to see them and will block them. it's not stealing just because your business model doesn't work. perhaps those who are losing money because people block their ads should be finding a different way of paying for their site.
that's not true though. you still have to buy an iphone, unless you steal it. so apple is still getting their money. it's AT&T that's isn't making money.
i missed that when reading it. i couldn't get beyond the picture of the tube thingy turning into a 10 legged spider.
calling the stuff in the book crackpottery is not the same as calling the author a crackpot. this is not at all libel. the reviewer really seems to keep the book the subject of his review and leaves the author out of most of it.
i searched the review linked in the article and couldn't find the word "crackpot". i don't think it's libel at all. the only thing the reviewer does is completely trash this guy's "science" and calls it "nothing more than a bunch of pictures". after reading the review, it's obvious that this guy came up with some completely outrageous theories and threw them into a book and called it "science".
funny... i've been driving through NY to philly somewhat regularly between 2005 and now and the tolls with the ez pass on the tappan zee and GW were $4 and $6 respectively.
i've had an ez pass for a few years from NY. i get charged the actual toll rates in NY. i think you might be confusing this with the special commuter packages for ez pass. those allow you to get discounted rates at certain tolls (mainly in and out of NYC i think and perhaps for parking at the airport). you have to pay an extra fee for those packages though.
right... so take public transit into the city. again, driving is a luxury, especially in NYC.
does the city have the money to offer much more support for it? the gas tax goes to the state.
the issue of tolls and gas tax money actually going (or not going) towards mass transit is not unique to NYC. it's a problem everywhere. unfortunately, this country is very auto-centric. so while NYC might be more transit-oriented, the rest of the state probably thinks that their money shouldn't be always going to NYC. look at the huge highway projects in CT... they should be working more on transit across southern CT and into NY rather than ripping up highways and constantly expanding them. work on getting people on the bus and on the train rather than in their cars.
i have no problem with people being tracked on the job... such as GPS units in trucks.
while the toll sucks, what it does is force people who want goods to order them in bulk and those delivering to deliver in bulk. it has double the benefit... cuts down on congestion and also on miles, meaning better for the environment. the toll for delivery trucks and work vehicles is something that i do disagree with to a point, but i can understand the need for it.
and for the record, items are delivered all the time in the city by foot, by bike, and by public transit.
and the toll doesn't have to exist 24 hours a day. they could just use it for certain hours... say 5 am until 10 pm.
well, that still proves my point. you don't have to use one. ez pass in some areas is cheaper than the regular toll (i think NYC in particular has special commuter packages for it).
no, i haven't. never had a reason to, never will. i tend to take public transit in cities. and when i do drive places, i know they can track where i've been with my ez pass, but it sure beats waiting in the cash lane.
so now you just walk or take public transit. last i checked there was no toll for walking or taking transit to enter manhattan.
you have to understand that driving is not necessary in places like new york. don't want to be tracked, don't drive. people who use the ez pass do it out of choice. you aren't required to use one on the highways. you can just pay cash at the tolls and not be tracked. or if you're still worried, take the bus or train. driving a car is not a necessity or requirement, it's a luxury.
support apple much? geez. you couldn't post links to their own site? is stevie paying you?
when i buy my TMBG music, i buy it free of DRM and usually off their website.
musicians that came from somewhat different genres is what i meant by derek and the dominos. same goes for traveling wilburys. they all had their own careers that were successful and collaborated to come up with something different.
i have said over and over again, not that there are no unique bands, but that the vast overwhelming majority of them are not creative. the phenomenon that we are experiencing now is not that bands are trying to emulate something, but rather that the internet is allowing more and more people to spread their music. there are probably more "bands" and "musicians" out there now than in the 70's pushing their music through sites like myspace trying to get a national audience rather than trying to improve themselves by going out and playing shows at local venues. yes, i know there are unique bands out there now, but those are the exceptions. sure, the uncreative bands existed in the 60's and 70's, but there were a lot more bands that were collaborations of artists from other bands (new riders, JGB, derek and the dominos, dylan and the dead, entire concerts performed jointly between multiple bands all playing together rather than one at a time). that doesn't happen as often anymore. the collaboration is not as prevalent.
I listed bands who toyed with other genres and sounds. Bands who collaborated and worked regularly with other artists and musicians. Sure, the Beatles are the best of the best, but I am not talking about them in that way. I don't want another Beatles, I want bands who just make decent music or strive for it rather than striving to sound like their favorite band du jour.
i'm talking about the vast majority of bands i've heard on the internet trying to be something they're not because they're not opening their minds to other music, but think they're great because they can just push their music on myspace or garageband or purevolume.