This is probably the single biggest FAIL of the iPhone.* Steve Jobs has some asshole reason for not wanting MMS on the iPhone but I'll be damned if I know what it is. That's the only reason to explain its absence. It must have to do with him wanting email to win, or wanting to send higher-quality pics for a better experience or something. "Emailing a picture" is NOT a substitute because MOST PEOPLE DON'T GET EMAIL ON THEIR FUCKING PHONES! However, almost ALL cell phones handle SMS and MMS just fine.
Plus their implementation of INCOMING MMS sucks EVEN MORE!, if such a thing is possible. If someone sends me an MMS I get an SMS from AT&T saying "Someone sent you an MMS. To view it, go to example.com/yourMMS123" but because that text message does NOT include "http://" the iPhone does NOT TURN IT IN TO A CLICKABLE LINK!!!!!! So since there is (of course) no copy and paste I've got to WRITE THE FUCKING ADDRESS DOWN so I can see the damn thing! Oh, and did I mention the URLs expire, so if you don't get around to it for a while it's GONE? FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* iPhone owner here, twice--bought an original and a 3G. Some major annoyances, some minor ones, but still a great device overall. It's just sad when it can't do things that my previous phones, some almost ten years old now, could do--like make ANY ringtone ascend, have different profiles (i.e., more than just "normal", "silent", or "off")... and send or receive an MMS.
I seem to remember a parody starting off "A far time ago, in a galaxy long, long away..." I thought it was Hardware Wars but checking YouTube I see that that starts with the equally-funny "Meanwhile... in another part of the galaxy, later that same day..." Oh well, at least it gives me an excuse to link to Hardware Wars.:-)
Seriously. Not the crappy, ugly version that comes with Vista, not one of the so-so clones, just the good old, highly-addictive, always-winnable*, 8-bit-graphics version that came with Windows from 95 through XP.
Related question: has anyone tried running SSH on another service's port if you're not using that port--say, running sshd on 21 if you're not running ftpd?
I, for one consumer, already have [boycotted Apple]... My ex uses a Mac Mini.
Wow, that's a pretty severe boycott--breaking up with someone just for using Apple products!;-)
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Whatever you do, stay away from that guy Jose Cuervo. I've got nothing against mexicans in general, but he'll make you wish you were never born. I mean, he's fun to hang around with and all, but soon enough you'll be like "man, I wish I never met that guy."
The less restrictions you put on them, the less time the students will spend trying to get around them. For every move there's a counter, for every counter there's a move. If you lock it down too tight they'll reinstall OS X or boot from an external drive. If you apply a firmware password they'll quickly learn how to crack them open and find the firmware reset button. Remember, just like pirating movies (arrgh!) all it takes is one person to crack it and post the movie, or in this case the instructions, for everyone to have it.
Another note: while in class, if the work being done doesn't require the laptop, have every teacher make the students close the lids and/or put them away. Always. Period.
... Apple entered the portable mp3 player market late, and with an, arguably, inferior product. But, through marketing... [emphasis mine]
Hi, I'm here to argue with you.:-) No, what Apple did was show that good construction, a solid feel, and a good UI were more important than a geekgasm-inducing list of features. ("No wireless. Less space than a Nomad.") It's also a great lesson in how to build a great product organically.* First it was Mac only, music only, black and white text, and FireWire. They focused on a few key things and made a good product. Over time it gained Windows compatibility, USB, photos, video, and eventually made the quantum leap to iPod + phone + internet.
* Furthermore, it is a great lesson in turning a single great device into a large but relatively closed platform: iPod + 1 hardware connection (the Dock Connector) + 1 software connection (iTunes.) But without a great product in the first place it would all fail. Microsoft built up their monopoly from nothing but NOW they use it as the starting point on their products. Same with Sony - another company that starts with a locked-down device and hopes it takes off. This is why we like getting screwed by Apple and Google more than MS or Sony--because they buy us dinner first.:-)
And I don't worry about the RIAA lawyers reading them, because they can't read.
Good one.:-)
Ray, let me be among the many who say thanks for your work against the RIAA, and thanks for contributing so greatly to Slashdot. You're the best thing to happen to this site in five years.
I didn't mind the metaphor, my problem was with what he thought were factual statements: "Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially." This from the man in charge of regulating it.
What the hell? Is this the new quarterly NAS discussion?
Yes, I hope it is. Maybe not quarterly, but I have no problem "revisiting the classics" periodically. Technology marches on, best practices come and go, so it is useful to cover the same ground every so often. Seven years ago the coolest story ever was covered here: build a Terabyte fileserver for less than $5,000!!! (Note to visitors from the future: it is late 2008 and you can buy an external terabyte hard drive for a little over $100. Call it $125. That same five grand could buy you FORTY terabytes today. You probably got a 1TB USB jump drive in your cereal this morning.)
Plus, not everyone has been around as long as you and I. Won't somebody please think of the n00bs?!?:-)
... don't be too hard on Phil. NO ONE has Steve's "showmanship and star power." At least he's kind of fun and entertaining. Should still be good. And as fun as it is to watch him Steve present, what will matter after the RDF wears off is what was announced. The only difference between Steve and Phil presenting is that with Phil, you'll notice the one secret sucky thing Apple builds into every product within 30-90 minutes instead of the customary 6-36 hours.
Just remember to buy on the rumor, sell on the announcement, and start the framework of your "This product is the BEST THING EVER except for the (crappy battery life/DRM/Apple lock-in/no wireless)" blog entry so you can just fill in the blanks and be the first one to share your oh-so-valuable opinion with the world. Be sure to talk about how Apple is going to be out of business in 3 months because they didn't listen to you.
In other words, just sit back and make the usual preparations and get ready to enjoy the Last Big Show.
A couple small points from someone who skimmed your FA and read Lee Iacocca's biography in the 1980s: - Chrysler wasn't offered a bailout, they asked for (and were given) a loan. (Third sentence from your FA: "... Lee lacocca... had received a call from Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who told him that [Chrysler] was going to get the Government aid that it had been seeking since August. [emphasis mine]" - Let me repeat, it was a LOAN, which they paid back with interest, early. (According to the book... if you've got the book, just skip to the pictures in the middle; look for Lee with a giant check and a champagne glass.)
And, for those who weren't around at the time, Chrysler DID make some efficient cars, including the K-car and the original minivan (which had a smaller engine and was front-wheel drive and was much more efficient than larger, conventional vans.)
IIRC, Iacocca also took a $1 annual salary at the time. (He was already wealthy, having been at Ford during the time of the Mustang.)
Not defending where they are today; I think all the Big 3 have been royally fucking up for decades. But Chrysler in the 80s (and the 50s, in the peak of their over-engineering days) was something to admire.
Launching applications is easier and faster: (1) press ctrl+esc to bring up start menu (2) press N (first letter of "notepad" (3) press O (4) press Enter (autocompletion) Five keystrokes, about 500ms, and way faster than navigating to it with the mouse. And similarly for launching most of the apps I use.
Sorry, but I am literally LAUGHING OUT LOUD here. If you use a program often, add it to your start menu. Then, IN ANY VERSION OF WINDOWS SINCE 1995... (1) Press ctrl-esc to bring up the start menu (or, if you're uuber-7337, press the Windows key on your keyboard) (2) Press the first letter of the program's name. (3) THERE IS NO STEP 3! If the first letter of the app (shortcut, actually) is unique, the program will launch. (If it's in the top level of the menu--not in "Programs", I mean right there above run, find, etc.) If not, it'll jump to the first one on the list and you can use the arrow keys followed by 'Enter' to launch the right one.
Or, if you want to get extra-fancy, create a shortcut on your desktop. Right-click and choose 'properties.' Click in the text box for "shortcut" and give it one--I always used shift-control-letter. One key combo... what is that, less than 200ms? Again, since 1995. Shit-control-N was Netscape,...-P was Photoshop,...-E was email, etc. That way I could just hit three keys at once instead of pressing one and then another for my start menu trick.
To navigate to a network share that I used recently (1) ctrl+esc (2) \ (first character of "\\herbert") (3) \ (4) h (5) down cursor key into the auto-completion list (6) Enter
Or, since 1995 (AFAIK, maybe 1998? Can't say for sure)... (1)Since you've got that Windows key on your keyboard, press Windows-R to bring up the 'run' dialog (2) The rest of the steps are pretty much the same. It'll show anything you've typed into the 'run' dialog. Once you start using it, all your things will quickly collect themselves there.
I liked Windows A LOT more than Mac OS for a long time. (Been using both full time since 1995.) I had ALL these kinds of shortcuts that just weren't possible in OS 7, 8, and 9. (At least not by default. Apple didn't even have a task-switcher (alt-tab/command-tab) until 8.5.) Windows 2000 was a pinnacle of human achievement. Then, XP came out and I hated it, * OS X got slicker and slicker, and around the time that 10.2/10.3 were out I had pretty much totally switched camps.
* You know all those people who talk about how great XP is and how bad Vista is, and then people say "Didn't you say the same thing about 2000 -> XP?" Yes, I did, I was one of those people... and I, for one, NEVER MOVED ON. My last home Windows desktop ran 2000 until the day it was retired (earlier this year; 1 GHz PIII, ran like a damn Swiss watch until my 15-year-old got onto it and royally borked it in a single afternoon of unsupervised surfing... I survived 8 years without needing antivirus myself, you see...) and I only use XP where it's required--at my company-supplied computer at work, on my Boot Camp partition (where only XP or Vista will run), in VirtualBox (the enhancements only go back to XP; Parallels supports 2K nicely but I don't use it enough to make it worth paying for), etc.
Thanks for the tip. I actually wasn't saying, or even meaning to imply, that you should avoid WD. (I've had drives from all the major brands die at one time or another.) I really, literally only meant, "Hey! WD doesn't have their warranty info straight! If you bought a drive thinking you had a 5-year warranty, go online and check, and here's how to fix it." It would suck to have one die at 3.5 years and find out THEN that they thought you were only covered for 3.
A couple related things: - this might make it harder to find things when you want to start exloring a new field. Like if I want to learn about squid, the animal, but it returns results for squid, the proxy server, because I've done network-related searches in the past. - sometimes I'm looking for new information, sometimes I'm looking for old information again. If I searched for disk recovery tools six months ago and I'm looking again today, maybe I want to find what I found last time because it worked, maybe I'm looking for something new because it didn't.
Every time I use anyone's computer that has google as their homepage I invariably google a url or two. I'm used to my own systems, which come up with a blank start page, but google.com has that javascript thing that puts the cursor into the search box.
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Dude, didn't you RTFM? It clearly states "Avoid missing ball for high score."
This is probably the single biggest FAIL of the iPhone.* Steve Jobs has some asshole reason for not wanting MMS on the iPhone but I'll be damned if I know what it is. That's the only reason to explain its absence. It must have to do with him wanting email to win, or wanting to send higher-quality pics for a better experience or something. "Emailing a picture" is NOT a substitute because MOST PEOPLE DON'T GET EMAIL ON THEIR FUCKING PHONES! However, almost ALL cell phones handle SMS and MMS just fine.
Plus their implementation of INCOMING MMS sucks EVEN MORE!, if such a thing is possible. If someone sends me an MMS I get an SMS from AT&T saying "Someone sent you an MMS. To view it, go to example.com/yourMMS123" but because that text message does NOT include "http://" the iPhone does NOT TURN IT IN TO A CLICKABLE LINK!!!!!! So since there is (of course) no copy and paste I've got to WRITE THE FUCKING ADDRESS DOWN so I can see the damn thing! Oh, and did I mention the URLs expire, so if you don't get around to it for a while it's GONE? FAIL FAIL FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* iPhone owner here, twice--bought an original and a 3G. Some major annoyances, some minor ones, but still a great device overall. It's just sad when it can't do things that my previous phones, some almost ten years old now, could do--like make ANY ringtone ascend, have different profiles (i.e., more than just "normal", "silent", or "off")... and send or receive an MMS.
I seem to remember a parody starting off "A far time ago, in a galaxy long, long away..." I thought it was Hardware Wars but checking YouTube I see that that starts with the equally-funny "Meanwhile... in another part of the galaxy, later that same day..." Oh well, at least it gives me an excuse to link to Hardware Wars. :-)
For those who don't eat fruit, Braeburn is a kind of apple.
Seriously. Not the crappy, ugly version that comes with Vista, not one of the so-so clones, just the good old, highly-addictive, always-winnable*, 8-bit-graphics version that came with Windows from 95 through XP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell_(Windows)
* according to Wikipedia, there is one deal in the Windows version that is unsolvable.
Related question: has anyone tried running SSH on another service's port if you're not using that port--say, running sshd on 21 if you're not running ftpd?
I, for one consumer, already have [boycotted Apple]... My ex uses a Mac Mini.
Wow, that's a pretty severe boycott--breaking up with someone just for using Apple products! ;-)
Whatever you do, stay away from that guy Jose Cuervo. I've got nothing against mexicans in general, but he'll make you wish you were never born. I mean, he's fun to hang around with and all, but soon enough you'll be like "man, I wish I never met that guy."
Are you of the Boston 438@@/arcCHKs?
The less restrictions you put on them, the less time the students will spend trying to get around them. For every move there's a counter, for every counter there's a move. If you lock it down too tight they'll reinstall OS X or boot from an external drive. If you apply a firmware password they'll quickly learn how to crack them open and find the firmware reset button. Remember, just like pirating movies (arrgh!) all it takes is one person to crack it and post the movie, or in this case the instructions, for everyone to have it.
Another note: while in class, if the work being done doesn't require the laptop, have every teacher make the students close the lids and/or put them away. Always. Period.
... Apple entered the portable mp3 player market late, and with an, arguably, inferior product. But, through marketing... [emphasis mine]
Hi, I'm here to argue with you. :-) No, what Apple did was show that good construction, a solid feel, and a good UI were more important than a geekgasm-inducing list of features. ("No wireless. Less space than a Nomad.") It's also a great lesson in how to build a great product organically.* First it was Mac only, music only, black and white text, and FireWire. They focused on a few key things and made a good product. Over time it gained Windows compatibility, USB, photos, video, and eventually made the quantum leap to iPod + phone + internet.
* Furthermore, it is a great lesson in turning a single great device into a large but relatively closed platform: iPod + 1 hardware connection (the Dock Connector) + 1 software connection (iTunes.) But without a great product in the first place it would all fail. Microsoft built up their monopoly from nothing but NOW they use it as the starting point on their products. Same with Sony - another company that starts with a locked-down device and hopes it takes off. This is why we like getting screwed by Apple and Google more than MS or Sony--because they buy us dinner first. :-)
And I don't worry about the RIAA lawyers reading them, because they can't read.
Good one. :-)
Ray, let me be among the many who say thanks for your work against the RIAA, and thanks for contributing so greatly to Slashdot. You're the best thing to happen to this site in five years.
I didn't mind the metaphor, my problem was with what he thought were factual statements: "Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially." This from the man in charge of regulating it.
What the hell? Is this the new quarterly NAS discussion?
Yes, I hope it is. Maybe not quarterly, but I have no problem "revisiting the classics" periodically. Technology marches on, best practices come and go, so it is useful to cover the same ground every so often. Seven years ago the coolest story ever was covered here: build a Terabyte fileserver for less than $5,000!!! (Note to visitors from the future: it is late 2008 and you can buy an external terabyte hard drive for a little over $100. Call it $125. That same five grand could buy you FORTY terabytes today. You probably got a 1TB USB jump drive in your cereal this morning.)
Plus, not everyone has been around as long as you and I. Won't somebody please think of the n00bs?!? :-)
That was my first thought too. An "injectable bone" that "hardens at body temperature"? I think I've got prior art. :-)
They can just pay back the loan with WoW gold.
... don't be too hard on Phil. NO ONE has Steve's "showmanship and star power." At least he's kind of fun and entertaining. Should still be good. And as fun as it is to watch him Steve present, what will matter after the RDF wears off is what was announced. The only difference between Steve and Phil presenting is that with Phil, you'll notice the one secret sucky thing Apple builds into every product within 30-90 minutes instead of the customary 6-36 hours.
Just remember to buy on the rumor, sell on the announcement, and start the framework of your "This product is the BEST THING EVER except for the (crappy battery life/DRM/Apple lock-in/no wireless)" blog entry so you can just fill in the blanks and be the first one to share your oh-so-valuable opinion with the world. Be sure to talk about how Apple is going to be out of business in 3 months because they didn't listen to you.
In other words, just sit back and make the usual preparations and get ready to enjoy the Last Big Show.
A couple small points from someone who skimmed your FA and read Lee Iacocca's biography in the 1980s:
- Chrysler wasn't offered a bailout, they asked for (and were given) a loan. (Third sentence from your FA: "... Lee lacocca... had received a call from Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who told him that [Chrysler] was going to get the Government aid that it had been seeking since August. [emphasis mine]"
- Let me repeat, it was a LOAN, which they paid back with interest, early. (According to the book... if you've got the book, just skip to the pictures in the middle; look for Lee with a giant check and a champagne glass.)
And, for those who weren't around at the time, Chrysler DID make some efficient cars, including the K-car and the original minivan (which had a smaller engine and was front-wheel drive and was much more efficient than larger, conventional vans.)
IIRC, Iacocca also took a $1 annual salary at the time. (He was already wealthy, having been at Ford during the time of the Mustang.)
Not defending where they are today; I think all the Big 3 have been royally fucking up for decades. But Chrysler in the 80s (and the 50s, in the peak of their over-engineering days) was something to admire.
One reason people say Linux has a hard time gaining ground is because it's free so people think it's shit so it has to be given away.
So, you're saying Canonical should charge 3x what they currently charge for Ubuntu?
Sorry, but I am literally LAUGHING OUT LOUD here. If you use a program often, add it to your start menu. Then, IN ANY VERSION OF WINDOWS SINCE 1995...
(1) Press ctrl-esc to bring up the start menu (or, if you're uuber-7337, press the Windows key on your keyboard)
(2) Press the first letter of the program's name.
(3) THERE IS NO STEP 3! If the first letter of the app (shortcut, actually) is unique, the program will launch. (If it's in the top level of the menu--not in "Programs", I mean right there above run, find, etc.) If not, it'll jump to the first one on the list and you can use the arrow keys followed by 'Enter' to launch the right one.
Or, if you want to get extra-fancy, create a shortcut on your desktop. Right-click and choose 'properties.' Click in the text box for "shortcut" and give it one--I always used shift-control-letter. One key combo... what is that, less than 200ms? Again, since 1995. Shit-control-N was Netscape, ...-P was Photoshop, ...-E was email, etc. That way I could just hit three keys at once instead of pressing one and then another for my start menu trick.
Or, since 1995 (AFAIK, maybe 1998? Can't say for sure)...
(1)Since you've got that Windows key on your keyboard, press Windows-R to bring up the 'run' dialog
(2) The rest of the steps are pretty much the same. It'll show anything you've typed into the 'run' dialog. Once you start using it, all your things will quickly collect themselves there.
I liked Windows A LOT more than Mac OS for a long time. (Been using both full time since 1995.) I had ALL these kinds of shortcuts that just weren't possible in OS 7, 8, and 9. (At least not by default. Apple didn't even have a task-switcher (alt-tab/command-tab) until 8.5.) Windows 2000 was a pinnacle of human achievement. Then, XP came out and I hated it, * OS X got slicker and slicker, and around the time that 10.2/10.3 were out I had pretty much totally switched camps.
* You know all those people who talk about how great XP is and how bad Vista is, and then people say "Didn't you say the same thing about 2000 -> XP?" Yes, I did, I was one of those people... and I, for one, NEVER MOVED ON. My last home Windows desktop ran 2000 until the day it was retired (earlier this year; 1 GHz PIII, ran like a damn Swiss watch until my 15-year-old got onto it and royally borked it in a single afternoon of unsupervised surfing... I survived 8 years without needing antivirus myself, you see...) and I only use XP where it's required--at my company-supplied computer at work, on my Boot Camp partition (where only XP or Vista will run), in VirtualBox (the enhancements only go back to XP; Parallels supports 2K nicely but I don't use it enough to make it worth paying for), etc.
Thanks for the tip. I actually wasn't saying, or even meaning to imply, that you should avoid WD. (I've had drives from all the major brands die at one time or another.) I really, literally only meant, "Hey! WD doesn't have their warranty info straight! If you bought a drive thinking you had a 5-year warranty, go online and check, and here's how to fix it." It would suck to have one die at 3.5 years and find out THEN that they thought you were only covered for 3.
You're reading Slashdot, the site that does not advocate the cooool crime of extortion.
A couple related things:
- this might make it harder to find things when you want to start exloring a new field. Like if I want to learn about squid, the animal, but it returns results for squid, the proxy server, because I've done network-related searches in the past.
- sometimes I'm looking for new information, sometimes I'm looking for old information again. If I searched for disk recovery tools six months ago and I'm looking again today, maybe I want to find what I found last time because it worked, maybe I'm looking for something new because it didn't.
Every time I use anyone's computer that has google as their homepage I invariably google a url or two. I'm used to my own systems, which come up with a blank start page, but google.com has that javascript thing that puts the cursor into the search box.
The WebKit team and anyone who ever contributed to it should also get praise. Without it Chrome would never have seen the light of day.
Unless they went with Gecko. Or wrote their own. WebKit is great but the rendering engine is the (relatively) easy part.