Just depends who you are and where you are. I'd almost have a hard time listing people I know that *don't* have iPods. Quite a few people at my day job have them. I work at a technical college and probably a 20-30% of the students there have one. (And those are just the ones I see--the ones that listen to them in lab.) Quite a few people in my LUG have one. Whenever I'm out--at a mall, at a fast food place, walking through the hotel near my work--I see them.
But anecdotal evidence doesn't matter. "Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods." Even if they were only $100 apiece on average, that's 9 BILLION dollars in five years. And since the few sub-$100 models are *not* the vast majority of iPods sold, you can probably add 50% to that number, or maybe even double it. Even if 2/3 of those iPods were sold overseas, that's 30 million iPods in the US, and given that the population of the US is around 300 million, that means, on average, 1 American in 10 owns an iPod. So, the fact that you don't know any is literally a statistical anomaly.
I almost agree--it may not set the world on fire the day it's released, but if you're talking about the iPhone overall, it'll be huge. Just like the iPod--$399 for 5 GB wasn't too great, but a few revs, more capacity, lower prices, and look at it today. ($349 for 80 GB, plus color screen and the ability to show pics and movies, if anyone's keeping score.) Two or three years from now, everyone will have 32-GB $299 iPhones.
Partly, it'll depend on the service--will it be a decent data plan for $40/mo, or will it cost $100/mo to take advantage of the Google Maps & everything else when you're not near a WiFi hotspot? Apple can't control that as much as they can control the release of 4, 8, 14, and 32-GB models.
Sorry, this thread is for bashing Dvorak and Zonk. Any actual insightful comments should be reserved for a later article on the iPhone. The next iPhone story--possibly from a more benign source, like CNet--should be up shortly. Check back in about two hours.
With over a million member UIDs, even if only a tiny percentage of deviants--newbies, mostly--actually reads TFAs, that's still a good number of people. Same principal as spam but, like, backwards or something.
Just to put your mind to rest: yes, I am kidding. The campaign against voter apathy has obviously been as (un)successful as the last 5 decades' worth of campaigns against poverty, drugs, terrorism, etc etc etc. My point being, they'll raise awareness a bit, but they won't be the thing that wins or loses this battle.
For more sarcasm, see my comment here. (Read the parent/thread/article for context.)
I've never liked threaded views much. And it sure does make evaluating spam easier when you're looking at a hundred messages a time and can see that blocks of 5 or 10 have identical subjects.
Also, threads won't show me my largest messages. And sometimes I want to sort by sender to see all the *different* things we've talked about. Etc etc etc. Conversation threads and search ability aren't the answer to everything. Some people work well with lists. I'm one of them.
How about the ability to copy one line, move elsewhere, select some other text, and when you paste, the selected text gets overwritten with the original selection? Using your method, you lose the first clipboard when you select the second batch of text. No, it's not *essential* to work this way, but once you're used it it, it's damn handy.
Dude, shut up, we need them! Musicians have already ended voter apathy, and I seem to remember a very successful "rock (or rockers) against drugs" campaign, and now they're turning their attention to our cause. Sweet! We're bound to win!
'Sucks' is in the eye of the beholder. Here are my favorite Yahoo! features that kill Gmail: - one click to sort by sender, size, date, subject* - I can open messages in tabs or new windows
Paid-for service removes on-screen and in-message ads. I'm sure some people see it as a shortcoming of Gmail that they *don't* give the option to pay money for no ads. $20/year? The service is good and I don't mind paying for extra features (more storage, more filters, no ads in outgoing messages, choice of return addresses.)
That said, I prefer Yahoo's old interface to the beta. I hope they never get rid of it. Then again, it's not like the structure of email will drastically change, so they should be able to keep the old interface alive forever.
* Seriously--am I blind, or is this most basic of all features missing? Am I the only one who does this?
Yeah, and everyone should eat their vegetables, brush their teeth, drive the speed limit, etc etc etc. My code would probably make a seasoned developer weep but my apps are simple, they work, I'm able to maintain them easily, and hundreds of people use them daily with no ill effects. The whole point of PHP--and I've heard Rasmus Lerdorf say this personally--is to make it easy for people to crank out apps that are useful. Period. I don't stay awake worrying that some CS grad (or worse, some self-taught RoR fanboy) won't like that I've mixed data and presentation. I try to keep things somewhat neat, but if I need to jump into the middle of a table and say <td<?php if ('somethingBad'==$currentValue) { print ' bgcolor="red"'; } ?>> I will.
Pretty clever to do that with just the header. Photoshop lets you create images up to 300,000x300,000 pixels, but even a 30,000x30,000px image saved as lowest-possible quality JPEG is 9MB.
BTW, there's a typo on your burger page--'each' instead of 'eat.'
Especially considering how much worthwhile stuff you can do on a laptop with 8 GB. No, you won't capture and edit lots of DV or have your whole music collection with you, but you can do plenty. I really want Apple to make a 10" laptop (my name for it: "MacBook Elite") with a ~1024x768 screen (1400x1050 is Leopard's resolution independence turns out to be as good as we think), 8 GB or so of solid state disk, fast bootup time, and 10 hrs+ battery life. Web, email, iChat for the traveler, it'd be awesome. It should also have built-in CF and SD slots for backups.
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Continuing from above: Does TM have some great features? I'm sure it does. Would it take a long time for me to unlearn all my BBEdit skillz and learn the new ones? Yes. Would the whole thing be worth it? Not for the few features of TM that I'd like to have. I don't do *that* much coding. Maybe I'll look at it some day if I have some time, but it's unlikely to happen.
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For everyone's information, the free version of BBEdit is actually called 'Text Wrangler.' * There is, of course, a free-for-30-days demo version of BBEdit as well. The fine folks at BareBones have even have a handy chart to compare the versions.
As you can see, there is very little in BBEdit that is not in TextWrangler. For me, the only things I miss are that BBEdit has HTMLTidy built-in and the newest version (which I don't have yet) has code folding. Like the parent, I've got BBEdit at work and TW everywhere else.
Note: I've pretty much only ever used GUI editors. When SSHing I use Pico or Nano, or vi if I have to. I've never spent any time in emacs. Overall, I think the best editor is whichever one you get used to, learn the shortcuts in and quirks of, and learn the best. Whichever one puts what's in your brain onto the page with the lest amount of "wait, how do I _______?" is the one to use. If you think you can gain productivity by switching, by all means, look around. But everyone I know who does any amount of editing pretty much learns one editor and sticks with it, only changing when something drastically different comes along. Does TM have some great features? I'm sure it does. Would it take a long time for me to unlearn
* Once upon a time, Bare Bones Software made BBEdit. Like many other companies, they made a free version ('BBEdit Lite') and a pay-for version. It was pretty much *the* text editor for Macs. The Pro version had more features, of course, but the free version was great, did what most people needed, and didn't expire or nag you to upgrade.
Then they quit making BBEdit Lite. They thought they could fill the gap with $49 low-end editor called TextWrangler. But (this is my guess) TW didn't do to well, and many other great and free editors came out for Mac OS X. Bare, so Bones, afraid of slipping out of the collective awareness of Mac users, (end speculation) made TextWrangler free, just like BBEdit Lite used to be.
Actually, what my company calls 'IT' includes application developers, networking & server support, etc.--not just helpdesk type stuff. Our helpdesk is maybe ~20 people, and we also partially support our sister companies.
Anyone who has ever had to make a cross platform GUI application that works identically on Linux, Mac, and Windows, can tell you what a nightmare it is.
Almost by definition. Differnt OSs have different widgets, different appearances, different window behavior, keystrokes do different things, etc etc etc on purpose. Good or bad, it's not an accident that different OSs look and behave differently. Trying to make them identical is like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. If you make them look identical, you're either a) using lowest-common-denominator widgets or b) annoy users who want your program to look like all the others on their platform. It's jarring to see Firefox's ugly-ass form elements when running on OS X.
I don't think Apollo will find much success, because, like Flash things in web pages, developers will probably have to reinvent widgets and behavior, and will do so badly. Every single time I see some craptastic, data-heavy Flash site, I'm bugged to no end how things don't work--certain keystrokes inside of text boxes*, I can't click in the dead space of a scrollbar to jump down a page, etc etc etc. There are different platforms, and one-size-fits-all is NOT the answer to everything.
* for example, 'up' and 'down' won't bring me to the beginning or end of a line. (Hell, this doesn't even work in Firefox's URL box.) Yes, I know home/end is broken on Macs, but we're used to it, and we stick with it because the system is otherwise great.
Jeez, how many times does this have to be said? THE PLURAL OF 'ANECDOTE' IS NOT 'DATA.' You worked for a shitty company, or had shitty bosses, or both. I.T. is not a dream job--but hell, MOST jobs are not dream jobs--but the I.T. department where I work (1200 people, maybe 50-75ish in I.T.?) is NOTHING like what you describe. Don't let your experience lead you to say al I.T. jobs suck. I know a few unhappy programmers.
Holy crap, I didn't even know. What a bummer. I *loved* Platypus Man and just re-watched Big Steaming Pile a couple weeks ago. Well, I guess he can hang out with Kinison & Hicks now. Bye bye, Richard. Thanks for all the laughs.
Yeah, or this: "With this way I was easily up and running with mp3 and many video codecs support in minutes. However, not all is great with this as new bugs arise: I manually installed libdvdcss because this is not included in the restricted list and Totem now refuses to playback any DVD if you try to load it via Totem's menu -- although it plays fine via HAL when you popup the DVD in the drive (but no chapters or fast forward is possible as all DVD menu options are frozen)."
Or they just want to continue never, ever having to worry about viruses and spyware. But you're right, a lot of it is inertia and momentum--the same inertia that keeps Windows in the financial and government worlds, keeps Macs in the creative world--because that's what all your vendors, printers, artists, etc. use. Most people don't work in a vacuum.
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Just depends who you are and where you are. I'd almost have a hard time listing people I know that *don't* have iPods. Quite a few people at my day job have them. I work at a technical college and probably a 20-30% of the students there have one. (And those are just the ones I see--the ones that listen to them in lab.) Quite a few people in my LUG have one. Whenever I'm out--at a mall, at a fast food place, walking through the hotel near my work--I see them.
But anecdotal evidence doesn't matter. "Through the end of 2006, customers purchased a total of 90 million iPods." Even if they were only $100 apiece on average, that's 9 BILLION dollars in five years. And since the few sub-$100 models are *not* the vast majority of iPods sold, you can probably add 50% to that number, or maybe even double it. Even if 2/3 of those iPods were sold overseas, that's 30 million iPods in the US, and given that the population of the US is around 300 million, that means, on average, 1 American in 10 owns an iPod. So, the fact that you don't know any is literally a statistical anomaly.
I almost agree--it may not set the world on fire the day it's released, but if you're talking about the iPhone overall, it'll be huge. Just like the iPod--$399 for 5 GB wasn't too great, but a few revs, more capacity, lower prices, and look at it today. ($349 for 80 GB, plus color screen and the ability to show pics and movies, if anyone's keeping score.) Two or three years from now, everyone will have 32-GB $299 iPhones.
Partly, it'll depend on the service--will it be a decent data plan for $40/mo, or will it cost $100/mo to take advantage of the Google Maps & everything else when you're not near a WiFi hotspot? Apple can't control that as much as they can control the release of 4, 8, 14, and 32-GB models.
Sorry, this thread is for bashing Dvorak and Zonk. Any actual insightful comments should be reserved for a later article on the iPhone. The next iPhone story--possibly from a more benign source, like CNet--should be up shortly. Check back in about two hours.
With over a million member UIDs, even if only a tiny percentage of deviants--newbies, mostly--actually reads TFAs, that's still a good number of people. Same principal as spam but, like, backwards or something.
>> Musicians have already ended voter apathy
> You've got to be kidding, right?
Just to put your mind to rest: yes, I am kidding. The campaign against voter apathy has obviously been as (un)successful as the last 5 decades' worth of campaigns against poverty, drugs, terrorism, etc etc etc. My point being, they'll raise awareness a bit, but they won't be the thing that wins or loses this battle.
For more sarcasm, see my comment here. (Read the parent/thread/article for context.)
I've never liked threaded views much. And it sure does make evaluating spam easier when you're looking at a hundred messages a time and can see that blocks of 5 or 10 have identical subjects.
Also, threads won't show me my largest messages. And sometimes I want to sort by sender to see all the *different* things we've talked about. Etc etc etc. Conversation threads and search ability aren't the answer to everything. Some people work well with lists. I'm one of them.
How about the ability to copy one line, move elsewhere, select some other text, and when you paste, the selected text gets overwritten with the original selection? Using your method, you lose the first clipboard when you select the second batch of text. No, it's not *essential* to work this way, but once you're used it it, it's damn handy.
Dude, shut up, we need them! Musicians have already ended voter apathy, and I seem to remember a very successful "rock (or rockers) against drugs" campaign, and now they're turning their attention to our cause. Sweet! We're bound to win!
'Sucks' is in the eye of the beholder. Here are my favorite Yahoo! features that kill Gmail:
- one click to sort by sender, size, date, subject*
- I can open messages in tabs or new windows
Paid-for service removes on-screen and in-message ads. I'm sure some people see it as a shortcoming of Gmail that they *don't* give the option to pay money for no ads. $20/year? The service is good and I don't mind paying for extra features (more storage, more filters, no ads in outgoing messages, choice of return addresses.)
That said, I prefer Yahoo's old interface to the beta. I hope they never get rid of it. Then again, it's not like the structure of email will drastically change, so they should be able to keep the old interface alive forever.
* Seriously--am I blind, or is this most basic of all features missing? Am I the only one who does this?
Yeah, and everyone should eat their vegetables, brush their teeth, drive the speed limit, etc etc etc. My code would probably make a seasoned developer weep but my apps are simple, they work, I'm able to maintain them easily, and hundreds of people use them daily with no ill effects. The whole point of PHP--and I've heard Rasmus Lerdorf say this personally--is to make it easy for people to crank out apps that are useful. Period. I don't stay awake worrying that some CS grad (or worse, some self-taught RoR fanboy) won't like that I've mixed data and presentation. I try to keep things somewhat neat, but if I need to jump into the middle of a table and say
<td<?php if ('somethingBad'==$currentValue) { print ' bgcolor="red"'; } ?>>
I will.
Pretty clever to do that with just the header. Photoshop lets you create images up to 300,000x300,000 pixels, but even a 30,000x30,000px image saved as lowest-possible quality JPEG is 9MB.
BTW, there's a typo on your burger page--'each' instead of 'eat.'
Especially considering how much worthwhile stuff you can do on a laptop with 8 GB. No, you won't capture and edit lots of DV or have your whole music collection with you, but you can do plenty. I really want Apple to make a 10" laptop (my name for it: "MacBook Elite") with a ~1024x768 screen (1400x1050 is Leopard's resolution independence turns out to be as good as we think), 8 GB or so of solid state disk, fast bootup time, and 10 hrs+ battery life. Web, email, iChat for the traveler, it'd be awesome. It should also have built-in CF and SD slots for backups.
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Continuing from above: Does TM have some great features? I'm sure it does. Would it take a long time for me to unlearn all my BBEdit skillz and learn the new ones? Yes. Would the whole thing be worth it? Not for the few features of TM that I'd like to have. I don't do *that* much coding. Maybe I'll look at it some day if I have some time, but it's unlikely to happen.
For everyone's information, the free version of BBEdit is actually called 'Text Wrangler.' * There is, of course, a free-for-30-days demo version of BBEdit as well. The fine folks at BareBones have even have a handy chart to compare the versions.
As you can see, there is very little in BBEdit that is not in TextWrangler. For me, the only things I miss are that BBEdit has HTMLTidy built-in and the newest version (which I don't have yet) has code folding. Like the parent, I've got BBEdit at work and TW everywhere else.
Note: I've pretty much only ever used GUI editors. When SSHing I use Pico or Nano, or vi if I have to. I've never spent any time in emacs. Overall, I think the best editor is whichever one you get used to, learn the shortcuts in and quirks of, and learn the best. Whichever one puts what's in your brain onto the page with the lest amount of "wait, how do I _______?" is the one to use. If you think you can gain productivity by switching, by all means, look around. But everyone I know who does any amount of editing pretty much learns one editor and sticks with it, only changing when something drastically different comes along. Does TM have some great features? I'm sure it does. Would it take a long time for me to unlearn
* Once upon a time, Bare Bones Software made BBEdit. Like many other companies, they made a free version ('BBEdit Lite') and a pay-for version. It was pretty much *the* text editor for Macs. The Pro version had more features, of course, but the free version was great, did what most people needed, and didn't expire or nag you to upgrade.
Then they quit making BBEdit Lite. They thought they could fill the gap with $49 low-end editor called TextWrangler. But (this is my guess) TW didn't do to well, and many other great and free editors came out for Mac OS X. Bare, so Bones, afraid of slipping out of the collective awareness of Mac users, (end speculation) made TextWrangler free, just like BBEdit Lite used to be.
Nice to know that CS geeks can't spell 'seamless.'
.WAV available? This is a 20-something geek talking, not the London Symphony Orchestra.
In all seriousness, it sounds interesting, but I don't have 90 minutes to listen to someone talk. Anyone know if transcriptions are being worked on?
And why would they even bother to make a
"Broadcast TV is dead, by the way."
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Then how do the torrents get made in the first place?
Actually, what my company calls 'IT' includes application developers, networking & server support, etc.--not just helpdesk type stuff. Our helpdesk is maybe ~20 people, and we also partially support our sister companies.
Anyone who has ever had to make a cross platform GUI application that works identically on Linux, Mac, and Windows, can tell you what a nightmare it is.
Almost by definition. Differnt OSs have different widgets, different appearances, different window behavior, keystrokes do different things, etc etc etc on purpose. Good or bad, it's not an accident that different OSs look and behave differently. Trying to make them identical is like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. If you make them look identical, you're either a) using lowest-common-denominator widgets or b) annoy users who want your program to look like all the others on their platform. It's jarring to see Firefox's ugly-ass form elements when running on OS X.
I don't think Apollo will find much success, because, like Flash things in web pages, developers will probably have to reinvent widgets and behavior, and will do so badly. Every single time I see some craptastic, data-heavy Flash site, I'm bugged to no end how things don't work--certain keystrokes inside of text boxes*, I can't click in the dead space of a scrollbar to jump down a page, etc etc etc. There are different platforms, and one-size-fits-all is NOT the answer to everything.
* for example, 'up' and 'down' won't bring me to the beginning or end of a line. (Hell, this doesn't even work in Firefox's URL box.) Yes, I know home/end is broken on Macs, but we're used to it, and we stick with it because the system is otherwise great.
Maybe HTA's, too.
Jeez, how many times does this have to be said? THE PLURAL OF 'ANECDOTE' IS NOT 'DATA.' You worked for a shitty company, or had shitty bosses, or both. I.T. is not a dream job--but hell, MOST jobs are not dream jobs--but the I.T. department where I work (1200 people, maybe 50-75ish in I.T.?) is NOTHING like what you describe. Don't let your experience lead you to say al I.T. jobs suck. I know a few unhappy programmers.
Holy crap, I didn't even know. What a bummer. I *loved* Platypus Man and just re-watched Big Steaming Pile a couple weeks ago. Well, I guess he can hang out with Kinison & Hicks now. Bye bye, Richard. Thanks for all the laughs.
Yeah, or this: "With this way I was easily up and running with mp3 and many video codecs support in minutes. However, not all is great with this as new bugs arise: I manually installed libdvdcss because this is not included in the restricted list and Totem now refuses to playback any DVD if you try to load it via Totem's menu -- although it plays fine via HAL when you popup the DVD in the drive (but no chapters or fast forward is possible as all DVD menu options are frozen)."
Or they just want to continue never, ever having to worry about viruses and spyware. But you're right, a lot of it is inertia and momentum--the same inertia that keeps Windows in the financial and government worlds, keeps Macs in the creative world--because that's what all your vendors, printers, artists, etc. use. Most people don't work in a vacuum.
"high security prison" + escape
bribing + (jury or juror)
"insanity defense" -twinkie
Ask.com: "how to kill a judge"
"soap-on-a-rope"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of Law & Order episodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI
Ah yes, doesn't that pretty much sum up Linux in a nutshell? (Pun not intended.) Bad grammar in the message that tells you about a broken feature.