Considering that the linked article is gone and that the Japanese launch date is apparently the 2nd of December, I think this whole "Nov 19th, US$250" thing might be jumping the gun slightly.
If the way multiplayer on the DS is anything to go by it wont be as much fun as it could be. Go read about the "friend codes" business then tell me if you still care.
Lets not forget the other silly choices Nintendo has made for wi-fi. Hopefully they'll fix them though and we might actually see WPA support in the Wii.
...the first thing I do when I buy a Mac is buy or retask a logitech mouse to go with it.
For a long time that's what I did too. When I got my current iMac I didn't have an old mouse to spare (my MS Intellimouse broke). Using the mighty mouse was frustrating at first but I'm quite keen on it now.
people just get used to pressing the top of the mouse, and it clicks - but when there are multiple buttons that you can't see on the top of the mouse? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, even experienced computer users (Mac users) who weren't familiar with the mighty mouse could end up right-clicking without realizing that they COULD right click.
By default the right button is disabled (or set to act as a left click at any rate). You have to specifically set it to "right click" in the system prefs. From memory, the only extra button enabled by default is squeezing the mouse to activate Expose and people seem to work that one out very quickly.
We might actually be seeing the fall of good video programming. It may not exist in 10 years, except for amateur junk.
As someone who enjoys theatre (both professional and amateur) much more, let me be the first to say good riddance. There's very little good video programming that actually seems good without the hype.
The built in browser on my Nokia seems rather poor.
Which Nokia handset do you have? You've almost certainly got something that isn't running S60 3rd ed. Even if you do you might be using the WAP browser not the WebKit based one.
Apparently you know nothing about the Apple fan base.
Actually, I'm posting from a 20" Intel iMac. Most of the people I know who would be considered Mac fans will buy the white version just like they buy the white version of the iPod nano.
I don't think Apple is telling people to buy the black model by selling it for US$200 more, I think they're punishing people for not wanting the white model.
I'm sick of saying this: spell checking is the responsibility of the GUI toolkit not the application. Why does every damn application need to implement its own spell checker? Why does no-one other than Apple and the KDE team seem to realise that this kind of basic functionality should be available in every text box, anywhere in the GUI (but with the option for developers to disable it for fields at design time).
If Firefox 2 has a built in spell checker then it damn well better have an option to disable it and use the standard MacOS spell-checker (the one I already use for every single other application on my system) instead.
Don't even get me started on web-sites that implement a spell checker...
Probably because people usuallu buy these for chatting not for general listening.
People who want to use them with mobiles as well as with their computers generally don't want wrap around headsets.
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All these jokes have been made about the name but on the manufacturer's site, you'll find this
That wont stop people making fun of it though. People make unfunny jokes about Apple's iNames all the time. The only funny iName joke, and it's only funny given the way people poke fun at the iName branding, was the "iWas assembled in Taiwan" printed on the underside of the original iBooks. Takes the humour out of it, knowing that the people that thought it up realised it was going to happen before anyone else had a chance.
I'm sure we can all look forward to the BuzzBox 720 Special Chuck Norris Edition Mk. II Xtreme fans making jokes about how stupid the Wii name is for the next decade.
Pretty much any recent Nokia phone will work with iSync and I'd bet money on any Series 60 phone working with it (as soon as Apple releases device profiles or someone else puts one together).
Why should the cell phone company pay a $300 bill so you can take the phone somewhere else...
They shouldn't and the way it works in the places I've visited is the handset is locked to a particular network for some months, some amount of prepaid credit, however many calls, etc and is then unlocked (usually at the customers request). At that point you can do whatever you want with it.
I know there is an up-front cost to get an unlocked phone straight off but at least that's an option. If your phone company only offers contracts that come with phones then you should be able to get it unlocked after the contract expires and sell it to recover some of the cost.
How did mobile phones in the USA become so messed up in the first place? The idea of not being able to buy any handset to slip my existing SIM card into is strange to me.
I know that GSM networks haven't been big in the USA but surely they are an option by now?
Seriously "A pallet is a wooden or plastic platform that can be picked up using a forklift; palletized cargo is cargo placed on a pallet, which is how Newegg's inventory is shipped to them." is considered a story?
A lot of Slashdot readers may never have been close enough to a warehouse to know this kind of thing, sadly.
The pick and pack process for Newegg really isn't that interesting though. You'll find the same kind of setup in a lot of warehouses. Small warehouses wont have an automated conveyer system and a lot of large warehouses wont have as fancy a system though.
BBC reports about upcoming major changes in Intel in 2006
I hope by "upcoming" the article submitter meant "currently happening". It seems that the linked article doesn't actually mention the chips as upcoming and correctly treats them as a shipping product though so really only the submitter looks silly.
there are very limited UNIX-type tools included, such as there is no gcc, make, and X11.... OS X is a pop-in-the-disk-and-it-runs, which is good, but not very geeky.
Well pop in the developer tools CD and you might just find that gcc, make and X11 run for you. You did notice the developer tools CD that comes with all Macs, didn't you?
The new splash screen image looks very nice but I wish it wasn't there at all. Am I the only person who finds splash screens irritating?
At least it is less annoying with a program like the GIMP. It's almost unbearable when programs that are convenient to have automatically started upon login flash their pointless splash screens around right when I want to start working on other stuff (Skype, I'm looking at you).
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Considering that the linked article is gone and that the Japanese launch date is apparently the 2nd of December, I think this whole "Nov 19th, US$250" thing might be jumping the gun slightly.
They will as more and more access points stop using WEP in favour of something less brain-dead.
If the way multiplayer on the DS is anything to go by it wont be as much fun as it could be. Go read about the "friend codes" business then tell me if you still care.
Lets not forget the other silly choices Nintendo has made for wi-fi. Hopefully they'll fix them though and we might actually see WPA support in the Wii.
Okay, at the risk of showing my ignorance, why is this funny? Do such programs normally have a soundtrack?
...the first thing I do when I buy a Mac is buy or retask a logitech mouse to go with it.
For a long time that's what I did too. When I got my current iMac I didn't have an old mouse to spare (my MS Intellimouse broke). Using the mighty mouse was frustrating at first but I'm quite keen on it now.
Each to his own of course.
people just get used to pressing the top of the mouse, and it clicks - but when there are multiple buttons that you can't see on the top of the mouse? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, even experienced computer users (Mac users) who weren't familiar with the mighty mouse could end up right-clicking without realizing that they COULD right click.
By default the right button is disabled (or set to act as a left click at any rate). You have to specifically set it to "right click" in the system prefs. From memory, the only extra button enabled by default is squeezing the mouse to activate Expose and people seem to work that one out very quickly.
Most people have no problem with it though. It takes less than a week to adjust to it and once you do you obviously stop thinking about it.
We might actually be seeing the fall of good video programming. It may not exist in 10 years, except for amateur junk.
As someone who enjoys theatre (both professional and amateur) much more, let me be the first to say good riddance. There's very little good video programming that actually seems good without the hype.
Why yes I am a snob. Thanks for asking.
The built in browser on my Nokia seems rather poor.
Which Nokia handset do you have? You've almost certainly got something that isn't running S60 3rd ed. Even if you do you might be using the WAP browser not the WebKit based one.
Apparently you know nothing about the Apple fan base.
Actually, I'm posting from a 20" Intel iMac. Most of the people I know who would be considered Mac fans will buy the white version just like they buy the white version of the iPod nano.
I don't think Apple is telling people to buy the black model by selling it for US$200 more, I think they're punishing people for not wanting the white model.
in a stunning new black enclosure.
...for an extra US$200. I can't help but think that most people will go with the white model.
And Firefox 2 will have spell checking
I'm sick of saying this: spell checking is the responsibility of the GUI toolkit not the application. Why does every damn application need to implement its own spell checker? Why does no-one other than Apple and the KDE team seem to realise that this kind of basic functionality should be available in every text box, anywhere in the GUI (but with the option for developers to disable it for fields at design time).
If Firefox 2 has a built in spell checker then it damn well better have an option to disable it and use the standard MacOS spell-checker (the one I already use for every single other application on my system) instead.
Don't even get me started on web-sites that implement a spell checker...
Probably because people usuallu buy these for chatting not for general listening.
People who want to use them with mobiles as well as with their computers generally don't want wrap around headsets.
All these jokes have been made about the name but on the manufacturer's site, you'll find this
That wont stop people making fun of it though. People make unfunny jokes about Apple's iNames all the time. The only funny iName joke, and it's only funny given the way people poke fun at the iName branding, was the "iWas assembled in Taiwan" printed on the underside of the original iBooks. Takes the humour out of it, knowing that the people that thought it up realised it was going to happen before anyone else had a chance.
I'm sure we can all look forward to the BuzzBox 720 Special Chuck Norris Edition Mk. II Xtreme fans making jokes about how stupid the Wii name is for the next decade.
Pretty much any recent Nokia phone will work with iSync and I'd bet money on any Series 60 phone working with it (as soon as Apple releases device profiles or someone else puts one together).
The relevant bit of Apple's site has more info but hasn't been updated for these new phones.
That and GSM isn't particularly well implemented in the states.... snip
Ouch, that really does make it sound like something is very wrong with the GSM networks in the USA.
How many GSM networks/areas have you used? Are all GSM networks in the USA this bad?
Why should the cell phone company pay a $300 bill so you can take the phone somewhere else...
They shouldn't and the way it works in the places I've visited is the handset is locked to a particular network for some months, some amount of prepaid credit, however many calls, etc and is then unlocked (usually at the customers request). At that point you can do whatever you want with it.
I know there is an up-front cost to get an unlocked phone straight off but at least that's an option. If your phone company only offers contracts that come with phones then you should be able to get it unlocked after the contract expires and sell it to recover some of the cost.
Awesome phone? Carriers will cripple it.
How did mobile phones in the USA become so messed up in the first place? The idea of not being able to buy any handset to slip my existing SIM card into is strange to me.
I know that GSM networks haven't been big in the USA but surely they are an option by now?
Gah! Don't Apple realise what they've done? Dvorak is going to go absolutely nuts over this!
./ posts the 14th dupe of a story about Dvorak's latest deranged speculation.
You'll be upset too after
Seriously "A pallet is a wooden or plastic platform that can be picked up using a forklift; palletized cargo is cargo placed on a pallet, which is how Newegg's inventory is shipped to them." is considered a story?
A lot of Slashdot readers may never have been close enough to a warehouse to know this kind of thing, sadly.
The pick and pack process for Newegg really isn't that interesting though. You'll find the same kind of setup in a lot of warehouses. Small warehouses wont have an automated conveyer system and a lot of large warehouses wont have as fancy a system though.
BBC reports about upcoming major changes in Intel in 2006
I hope by "upcoming" the article submitter meant "currently happening". It seems that the linked article doesn't actually mention the chips as upcoming and correctly treats them as a shipping product though so really only the submitter looks silly.
However, if your zip code isn't 5 digits long, you probably wont receive the prize!
It seems to be possible to enter white space into the ZIP code box and still have it accepted.
there are very limited UNIX-type tools included, such as there is no gcc, make, and X11. ... OS X is a pop-in-the-disk-and-it-runs, which is good, but not very geeky.
Well pop in the developer tools CD and you might just find that gcc, make and X11 run for you. You did notice the developer tools CD that comes with all Macs, didn't you?
The new splash screen image looks very nice but I wish it wasn't there at all. Am I the only person who finds splash screens irritating?
At least it is less annoying with a program like the GIMP. It's almost unbearable when programs that are convenient to have automatically started upon login flash their pointless splash screens around right when I want to start working on other stuff (Skype, I'm looking at you).
Don Wiss has some photos of PriceRitePhoto.com's location (as well as some of related companies).