but without the word people, there's a natural stopping point right at the key word.. which will draw most people's attention to it. Much better to make it even more subtle.
Except that they already di. I've used plenty of macs that had a 'PC Card' in them, that was basically a PCI x86 motherboard.. it shared the HD and graphics card of the host system, I think. but there was a key combination and BAM, you were in windows.
Especially from a 1 star french chef. "As many stars in our solar system." Well.. that basically means that he has almost as many as.. one. The sun. And he isn't even quite there.
I'm one of those weirdos who uses the arrow keys, and/or the mouse when I'm in gvim. I'm actually a pretty novice vim user, I've just recently managed to get:make working with our strange compiler and everything.
None. But most people aren't going to reflash their BIOS (it'll likely be burned in.. it might not even be in the BIOS) to run an OS, especially with an uncertified patch. I like to think of myself as computer savvy, but would definitely be VERY wary of doing that myself. Perhaps this unease will decrease as people are less experienced, but who knows?
But the fact remains that there woudl be no computers other than Apple's that would come from the store ready to run OSX.
OSX provides a key layout such that shortcuts like copy & paste are mapped to the same key position on the keyboard.. so, for example, ctrl+c for copy on a qwerty keyboard is ctrl+j on a dvorak keyboard. This leaves them in the same spot and disassociates the concept of copying from the actual implementation of why they're the keys they are. (really, why is 'x' and 'v' used? because they're near 'c'. Not because they make too much sense for what they're used for).
That being said, I have no problems using vi, because I think in the key strokes instead of the concept.. I 'y' and 'x' and 'p', I don't 'copy' and 'cut' and 'paste'.. so when I switch to dvorak, that's not a problem for me at all.
But when I'm using Windows and need to ctrl+c, it's confusing.. same with new tab (Ctrl+T in firefox/qwerty, Ctrl+K (qwerty K) if my keymap is dvorak). That always throws me off as well. *shrug*:)
They already said they aren't using OpenFirmware, and they lock it to their current computers using a Copyright string in the OpenFirmware that is all kinds of illegal for another company to use.
I expect to see something similar.. a copyright string in the PC BIOS. Were Dell, Gateway, whatever to write this string in their BIOS, Apple would have no end to the possible lawsuits it would open up.
Yeah, it's really not so good of battery life for the money. I suspect it's the backlight, again.. considering the audio gets nearly 8x as much. Though, with video you'd have to keep the HD running more (less room to buffer) and work on decoding the video (can be pretty tough..)
I think they use specialized low power decoders and have smaller screens (less to light up), no HD, etc..
What laptops do you have? My T41 seems to like to start to choke and die after ~2hr. It's the work laptop, so I can't really replace it.. but I'm curious.
the T41 I'm typing this on right now has, regularly, four mice attached to it:
the eraser (which I use whenever I'm portable) the trackpad (which everyone else uses) the microsoft mouse at work and the bluetooth logitech mouse that I carry around with me whenever I'm going somewhere for a while.
So, the ThinkPads have a touchpad now. They did on the T30's as well. So, are you going to buy one now?
Why would the cell phone need a method to identify the user? Your mechanical key doesn't do so.
My car has similar to what you're describing. The remote IS the key. I walk up to my door, and pull on the door handle. The door checks, realizes the key is next to THAT door (it doesn't work if I'm standing on the other side of the car), unlocks, and opens. The car then knows that I'm inside of it, and I can turn it on. Key never leaves my pocket.
If the battery in the key dies, there's a mechanical key that unlocks the driver's side door only, and then I can put the key in to the dash, and it'll link up even if its batteries are dead. Not as spiffy, but a nice protection, just in case.
Integrating it in to the cell phone would be nice. I would love to have this tech on my house doors though, I leave my keys in the car all the time (the mechanical ones), as all I need to be able ot get in to the car is the little box in my pocket. The big key ring is unused except for my house doors.
Ah, sorry. there is one piece of hardware: my logitech quickcam. The single developer of the phillips driver that supports the quickcam was somewhat rudely 'forced out' of being a kernel contributor with his module, because it had a binary component. He thus stopped development on it.
This item normally works fine in Windows (with drivers from Logitech). However, to counter point.. I've never been able to get my apple wireless keyboard to work in Windows, while it works just fine in linux (though it wasn't the easiest to set up, until I discovered kbluetooth).
But other than those two, everything else HAS 'just worked' with linux. No driver cds. I plugged in a usb->bluetooth adapter, and turned on my mouse.. kbluetooth recognized it and it worked. I changed video cards, and it just worked (though I went from ati->ati.. I guess otherwise I'd have had to follow the instructions and type a command at the command prompt). I installed a firewire card AND a usb 2.0 card, and both worked without any additional drivers. My SB Live works just fine, with no additional drivers. My generic network card: just fine.
I don't know why I'm bothering to write all this.. so many have even better stories, I'm sure. But really.. if the person bought something that's as windows centric as most dells tend to be, I don't blame Linux for not supporting it, I blame Dell for not supporting Linux.
What did I say that was so bad? (seriously, I'm not trying to be an ass here). Up until the comment about Fedora, I was making counterpoints to his claims.
I've not had a problem getting linux to work with all of my hardware on most distros. The exception being any RedHat since 7. Nothing's ever worked out of the box. Mandrake is usually very good about it. Even debian has always had drivers available for what I needed. I haven't tried RedHat in a couple years, so maybe Fedora's better than RH used to be, but I've heard nothing but complaining about Fedora Core 2, so why would I want to switch to that?
He said something stupid. Obviously Mac OS is 'just going to work', because they control the HW and the OS. Windows never 'just works', but it comes close enough becaues of hours spent slaving away by developers trying to work through its inconsistencies (I'm a bit bitter, I'm one of them). Linux based operating systems usually have only volunteers working for them, and yet manage to still somewhat keep up with most mainstream things.
I've gotten linux running on several laptops. I blame Dell if it's making things that are using strange parts that don't work with Linux yet.
Sorry, not any car. Being in a hybrid article I feel no problem posting this: at least for low speeds, you're dead wrong. I can accelerate aggressively from the light, and reach 40 mph, let go of the gas, and drive on battery for the rest of the 16 seconds, meanwhile if I accelerate slowly up to 40, assuming the gas engine is on during acceleration, I'll end up using more gas.
My assumption, which you may not be making, is that you're also factoring in the fact that you can be operating at idle/no engine for the remainder of whatever time you'd otherwise be accelerating. If you take in to account ONLY the time it takes to get to your target speed, then perhaps you are right. If you take the slowest you can accelerate up to a given speed X, and then take the fastest and then coast for the remainder of the time, you are 1) much closer to your eventual destination, costing less time.. and if your engine is on at that speed, then less time with an idling engine, and 2) not putting stress on the engine for as long of time. Acceleration is where horsepower is needed, not coasting. Minimize the time that the engine is needing serious usage.
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but without the word people, there's a natural stopping point right at the key word.. which will draw most people's attention to it. Much better to make it even more subtle.
I'm confused. How is 1+1 == 11, which in binary is 3? unless you're doing a string concatenation..
dead people can read hex..
Except that they already di. I've used plenty of macs that had a 'PC Card' in them, that was basically a PCI x86 motherboard.. it shared the HD and graphics card of the host system, I think. but there was a key combination and BAM, you were in windows.
Azureus opens my port for me. Yay UPnP.
Especially from a 1 star french chef. "As many stars in our solar system." Well.. that basically means that he has almost as many as .. one. The sun. And he isn't even quite there.
Poor farmonauts.
I'm one of those weirdos who uses the arrow keys, and/or the mouse when I'm in gvim. I'm actually a pretty novice vim user, I've just recently managed to get :make working with our strange compiler and everything.
My dad just bought one that offers one touch dubbing VHS & DVD+R/RW, in addition to being able to record directly to either.. I think he paid $200.
None. But most people aren't going to reflash their BIOS (it'll likely be burned in .. it might not even be in the BIOS) to run an OS, especially with an uncertified patch. I like to think of myself as computer savvy, but would definitely be VERY wary of doing that myself. Perhaps this unease will decrease as people are less experienced, but who knows?
But the fact remains that there woudl be no computers other than Apple's that would come from the store ready to run OSX.
OSX provides a key layout such that shortcuts like copy & paste are mapped to the same key position on the keyboard.. so, for example, ctrl+c for copy on a qwerty keyboard is ctrl+j on a dvorak keyboard. This leaves them in the same spot and disassociates the concept of copying from the actual implementation of why they're the keys they are. (really, why is 'x' and 'v' used? because they're near 'c'. Not because they make too much sense for what they're used for).
.. so when I switch to dvorak, that's not a problem for me at all.
.. same with new tab (Ctrl+T in firefox/qwerty, Ctrl+K (qwerty K) if my keymap is dvorak). That always throws me off as well. *shrug* :)
That being said, I have no problems using vi, because I think in the key strokes instead of the concept.. I 'y' and 'x' and 'p', I don't 'copy' and 'cut' and 'paste'
But when I'm using Windows and need to ctrl+c, it's confusing
They already said they aren't using OpenFirmware, and they lock it to their current computers using a Copyright string in the OpenFirmware that is all kinds of illegal for another company to use.
I expect to see something similar.. a copyright string in the PC BIOS. Were Dell, Gateway, whatever to write this string in their BIOS, Apple would have no end to the possible lawsuits it would open up.
Yeah, it's really not so good of battery life for the money. I suspect it's the backlight, again.. considering the audio gets nearly 8x as much. Though, with video you'd have to keep the HD running more (less room to buffer) and work on decoding the video (can be pretty tough..)
:)
Dunno.
I think they use specialized low power decoders and have smaller screens (less to light up), no HD, etc..
What laptops do you have? My T41 seems to like to start to choke and die after ~2hr. It's the work laptop, so I can't really replace it.. but I'm curious.
"most laptops" my ass. Show me ONE that can spin a dvd and decode mpeg2 and last 4 hours.
the T41 I'm typing this on right now has, regularly, four mice attached to it:
the eraser (which I use whenever I'm portable)
the trackpad (which everyone else uses)
the microsoft mouse at work
and the bluetooth logitech mouse that I carry around with me whenever I'm going somewhere for a while.
So, the ThinkPads have a touchpad now. They did on the T30's as well. So, are you going to buy one now?
Why would the cell phone need a method to identify the user? Your mechanical key doesn't do so.
My car has similar to what you're describing. The remote IS the key. I walk up to my door, and pull on the door handle. The door checks, realizes the key is next to THAT door (it doesn't work if I'm standing on the other side of the car), unlocks, and opens. The car then knows that I'm inside of it, and I can turn it on. Key never leaves my pocket.
If the battery in the key dies, there's a mechanical key that unlocks the driver's side door only, and then I can put the key in to the dash, and it'll link up even if its batteries are dead. Not as spiffy, but a nice protection, just in case.
Integrating it in to the cell phone would be nice. I would love to have this tech on my house doors though, I leave my keys in the car all the time (the mechanical ones), as all I need to be able ot get in to the car is the little box in my pocket. The big key ring is unused except for my house doors.
As far as I know, apple doesn't have a spread sheet or a data base?
Ah, sorry. there is one piece of hardware: my logitech quickcam. The single developer of the phillips driver that supports the quickcam was somewhat rudely 'forced out' of being a kernel contributor with his module, because it had a binary component. He thus stopped development on it.
This item normally works fine in Windows (with drivers from Logitech). However, to counter point.. I've never been able to get my apple wireless keyboard to work in Windows, while it works just fine in linux (though it wasn't the easiest to set up, until I discovered kbluetooth).
But other than those two, everything else HAS 'just worked' with linux. No driver cds. I plugged in a usb->bluetooth adapter, and turned on my mouse.. kbluetooth recognized it and it worked. I changed video cards, and it just worked (though I went from ati->ati.. I guess otherwise I'd have had to follow the instructions and type a command at the command prompt). I installed a firewire card AND a usb 2.0 card, and both worked without any additional drivers. My SB Live works just fine, with no additional drivers. My generic network card: just fine.
I don't know why I'm bothering to write all this.. so many have even better stories, I'm sure. But really.. if the person bought something that's as windows centric as most dells tend to be, I don't blame Linux for not supporting it, I blame Dell for not supporting Linux.
What did I say that was so bad? (seriously, I'm not trying to be an ass here). Up until the comment about Fedora, I was making counterpoints to his claims.
I've not had a problem getting linux to work with all of my hardware on most distros. The exception being any RedHat since 7. Nothing's ever worked out of the box. Mandrake is usually very good about it. Even debian has always had drivers available for what I needed. I haven't tried RedHat in a couple years, so maybe Fedora's better than RH used to be, but I've heard nothing but complaining about Fedora Core 2, so why would I want to switch to that?
He said something stupid. Obviously Mac OS is 'just going to work', because they control the HW and the OS. Windows never 'just works', but it comes close enough becaues of hours spent slaving away by developers trying to work through its inconsistencies (I'm a bit bitter, I'm one of them). Linux based operating systems usually have only volunteers working for them, and yet manage to still somewhat keep up with most mainstream things.
I've gotten linux running on several laptops. I blame Dell if it's making things that are using strange parts that don't work with Linux yet.
Please tell me how you got Mac OS X playing sound on your new Dell laptop. When Mac OS X can do that, then you have a right to complain.
Just because Dell uses shit for parts, that only support windows, and Mac hardware almost always only supports mac os, doesn't make it Linux's fault.
Also, and this is where I start to troll, the rest is serious: RH and Fedora can go suck a nut. Worst. Distros. ever.
-20 below zero? Why, upstate new york gets colder than 20 degrees (above zero). I'm moving to alaska, it's warmer! ;)
I'm almost certain that it is entirely legal to call and make sure that your 911 service does, in fact, work.
Not having used opera for very long, what's so different about the two methods?
Sorry, not any car. Being in a hybrid article I feel no problem posting this: at least for low speeds, you're dead wrong. I can accelerate aggressively from the light, and reach 40 mph, let go of the gas, and drive on battery for the rest of the 16 seconds, meanwhile if I accelerate slowly up to 40, assuming the gas engine is on during acceleration, I'll end up using more gas.
My assumption, which you may not be making, is that you're also factoring in the fact that you can be operating at idle/no engine for the remainder of whatever time you'd otherwise be accelerating. If you take in to account ONLY the time it takes to get to your target speed, then perhaps you are right. If you take the slowest you can accelerate up to a given speed X, and then take the fastest and then coast for the remainder of the time, you are 1) much closer to your eventual destination, costing less time.. and if your engine is on at that speed, then less time with an idling engine, and 2) not putting stress on the engine for as long of time. Acceleration is where horsepower is needed, not coasting. Minimize the time that the engine is needing serious usage.
I welcome your challenge to these claims.
That's what I said? My original parent poster had it wrong. I was correcting.