I'm a Beatles fan from back in the 60s. The burglars got surprised and left my house with CDs "A" thru "D", so no more Beatles CDs, save for Abbey Road that was in the car at the time. The files from the net were mostly badly done. I'll be getting these on iTunes. (I wish I had all the original 45s we would buy weekly at the old 5&10, the proceeds from those would likely pay for the entire repertoire.)
Toshiba Portege 2000, as purchased 2002. Sony VAIO PCV-LX800, as purchased 2000. Ran just fine for years under 98se. Got them sitting right over there. XP Pro on the Toshiba, XP Home on the VAIO. Just the few mainstream apps we need. Horrible without being dialed down for performance. Not faster under the next OS like our Macs have been consistently.
Ah. Pronoun trouble. Appreciate the edit. "Linguistically challenged"? Thanks.
Deal with Cingular / SBC for more than a week. You'll see that they make the everyday seem very very hard and twice as expensive. "Dismissive" is the mildest emotion you'll be left with.
I said "or", not "and". Toys have been used to hide IEDs. A lite brite 10 in an unusual place. That pretty much says kid's toy, and pretty much says out of place. Two strikes. I don't care for BPD or anyone else to wait for the third.
Panther was the saviour of our Bondi iMacs - faster than ever before - ditto Tiger for my G3 iBook.
I have circa 2001 mainstream PCs that choke on XP. And that's with all the pretty colors turned off. Which is the only way to tell you're ruinning XP anyway. God, I'm sick of having to 'splain why everything's grey again.
On this and the MOAB claims that Apple doesn't fix bugs that are reported thru the official channels.
Show us specific, documented examples of bug reports sent to Apple that they have refused to address.
If MOAB doesn't like the attitudes of some users, then go kick some tires. But exhaust the official channels with Apple or 3d party developers, be professional, or you're going to be dismissed by professionals as dangerous and immature.
Instead, they've come out swinging at not only the Mac community that apparently makes them upset, but also - and more specifically and personally (some quite sick) at the professionals who have been addressing and provising solutions. They've even denigrated Apple for the time taken to provide fixes for the QT issues. Apple has to certify a fix to an OS and underlying technology - not just put fingers in eyes.
The thread here suggests that everyone should immediately recognize all the characters from some show on Cartoon Network, and that odd out of place new objects won't be bombs.
Hint #1: watch the commercials on Cartoon Network - they're not aiming for Boston cop and State Atty General.
Hint #2: Our friends' son has finished 2 tours on an Army bomb squad in Iraq. It sucks. He can't wait to go back to defusing munitions, at least you know what you've got, it's in a catalog somewhere with instructions.
Here's the rules for IEDs : there are no rules. There are several ways to make a successful IED: either hide it, or make it look like a normal object.
There's no signal for the latter, the signal for the former is simply "out of place". These were.
What do visible IEDs look like? Radios, clocks, phones, thermos, flashlights, lunchboxes...
And they do have either a timing device or electronic detoonator of some kind, and they come in all stripes.
This prank was by no means a slam dunk except possibly to people who watch ATHF and don't pay attention to the details of IEDs.
The truth is PCs running Windows are more problematic than Macs.
Just yesterday it took a half an hour to get a mainstream quickcam out of the box and showing video. iSight? No longer than it takes to launch the app than needs it.
Use a thumb drive on a Windows PC. As in, go hunt for it once you plug it in - then use it.
Picasa vs. iPhoto. No contest.
Actually, Picasa (and much of the rest of Google's stuff) has saved Microsoft's bacon as far as good app experiences go - Bill and Steve B should face Mt View and pray every morning in gratitude.
Add a printer? 90% of them work in OSX with included drivers.
Need to do something tough in networking? Go buy another version of Windows. Need to be a media center? Goi buy another version of Windows.
"Could you write an app to allow your winPhone to do the same with Callwave through a screenscraper of their software, or a hack separate email address? Yeah, but it would be a PITA."
You assume I have a winphone, and either the sw I'd write would be a pain in the ass or the process of me doing it would be...
"If you don't care to make that tradeoff, don't buy it. I will..."
Where'd that come from?
Lot of assumptions about me and my life for "nothing else".
"I watch about four different television shows on a regular basis - Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and typically a current reality show (which is Grease: You're The One That I Want right now)"
*blink*
OK - of all the content on a full menu of cable or sat, this is the sum total of what you find compelling?
I know there's no accounting for taste, but you're hardly their typical demo.
Most of us are paying full price for a house and really only using three rooms and reallly only for a half the day at best. What's up with that raw deal?
You pay the $1 or 2 to listen or watch whenever you want, as often as you want. No one's holding a gun to your head, and it's an alternative to buying DVR etc. This is a vaguely similar argument to the music sedction, usually pointed at Apple - thet they're "forcing" you to adopt their model. Wrong. There are many music providers. being the market leader is not the same as being an unregulated monopoly.
Which leads us to the cable company. They deregulated cable AFTER the wires were laid down, and unlike the local telcos who are merely the custodian of the infrastructure and must let anyone send their info over the copper, the cable companies have no established way of letting anyone else down the coax. The satellite system is similar - as long as the financial agent owns the pipe, it's their ball and they can go home.
About the only thing I'd change about any video delivery model is make sure it's a la carte, for the sake of scaling down rising cost. The industry is claiming that it will cost a bajillion dollars per person to do this, but that's what they said about seat belts, air bags, ABS, flying car^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H personal cell phones and DVD players.
1. i can't write either approach - don't know why you're making it my issue. 2. i never complained about apple - i'm a big supporter. love the iphone, will have one as soon as they ship. i don't have a "winphone". 3. my point is that cell companies in general have been telling us how things have to be - all shoehorns and bags of money - when it's not always the case. see my other post on this story.
The cell phone service is going to be the 4th commmunications industry to pass thru this ridiculous hoop.
First was the US Mail - who realized the carriers had to walk the route each day and walk past each house each route. They oculd support fixed message cost, and it made them wildly successful. Sears didn't mind it either.
Next was the data networks, which charged per message, and when we all figured out they weren't epoxying together a brand new tube for each message, went to fixed cost per period.
Then we knocked on the telco's door and told them we figured out that they didn't have to run a new wire everytime we called someone, not even for the first time. They 99% went to fixed cost per period, with some sucker plans for people who still didn't get it and thought they could beat the telco out of the 99% plan. Vonage et. al. pretty much dope slapped anyone who still didn't get it.
Now come the cells. They still make us think that they have to send a squadron of pixies, who subsist on gold and caviar, flying out of the hayloft every time we want to place a call or send a message. Apparently the text pixies have never seen a salad, and the 411 pixies are down-right clones of Roseanne.
In the days of tower buiilding, when no one knew we'd all have these glued to our ears constantly, charging by the message unit was the only way anyone was ever going to let you take a risk like that.
That's all changed. The network is in place. The towers, T1s and infrastructure are all on, all the time - their operating cost is known and predictably rising with the cost of energy, inflation etc. The system scales now. Your unit revenue per user should find a point where it supports the scaling. Energy costs marginally less at night than at daytime, but it's always daytime somewhere in the net.
It's all a matter of who blinks first. Nights and weekends is slowly creeping wider, the others will have to follow. They are slowly, inexorably creeping towards flat monthly, but they're still betting some of us will put up with the sucker's bet.
I hope it works that way - in the telco case we had help from non-traditional suppliers who had nothing to lose and could bust the Bell model. In the cell case, there's the big six(?) who may slowly compete to some equilibrium, it won't be the rest that bust it - as MVNOs they just follow what the biggies do.
Here's hoping, anyway. Nice to see that Apple can make them think about dancing, though.
... it was going to be too hard to implement the system. Imagine this cockpit conversation:
"Denver, AA325 - Requesting clearance to LAN - over" "Negative, AA325 - do not land - over." "No, not land, LAN - over" "Landover? No - this is Denver - over." "Roger, Denver..." "Sorry, Clarence, no clearance." etc...
At first I thought this was going to be a CanonCAT / command line nostalgia mashup, but I was pleasantly surprised.
OK - was a little scared when the presentation sharted with "computers are too hard" and realized none of these guys were programming when computers were much harder, but let's see how it goes.
I'm still not sure if they're on to something per se, or if they're on the front steps of a finally useful voice recognition system.
This fix is in line with the typical timing and attention given Apple security updates - relatively quick and competent.
This pretty much busts MOAB's claims of Apple's ignorance and/or hostility at bug reports.
Apple has been doing better than most, fixing 99.9% of their problems through their established channels without MOAB's brand of nonsense. Count all the bugs fixed thru the normal dev bug report process. Count all those fixed by MOAB's. Compare.
IIRC nearly a third of their "Apple Bugs" are 3rd party problems to begin with.
MOAB are still flaming Apple Inc., Apple users, and anyone else who critiques their methods, and it's gotten personal and insulting. They come out swinging their fists at the Apple community, then cry foul because someone hits back.
If Apple users make you cry, go kick your tires. You want the world to believe that you're a responsible developer that anyone will listen to or hire, prove it in daylight.
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"While companies like eMusic sell these same songs without DRM, Apple FORCES them to take DRM. "
So why do they care if Apple DRMs it? It's getting out there without DRM, what's the harm in offering the Apple version as well?
I'm a Beatles fan from back in the 60s.
The burglars got surprised and left my house with CDs "A" thru "D", so no more Beatles CDs, save for Abbey Road that was in the car at the time.
The files from the net were mostly badly done.
I'll be getting these on iTunes.
(I wish I had all the original 45s we would buy weekly at the old 5&10, the proceeds from those would likely pay for the entire repertoire.)
Toshiba Portege 2000, as purchased 2002.
Sony VAIO PCV-LX800, as purchased 2000.
Ran just fine for years under 98se.
Got them sitting right over there.
XP Pro on the Toshiba, XP Home on the VAIO.
Just the few mainstream apps we need.
Horrible without being dialed down for performance.
Not faster under the next OS like our Macs have been consistently.
...another for the screaming to stop.
Five minutes. Done.
Ah. Pronoun trouble. Appreciate the edit. "Linguistically challenged"? Thanks.
Deal with Cingular / SBC for more than a week. You'll see that they make the everyday seem very very hard and twice as expensive. "Dismissive" is the mildest emotion you'll be left with.
I said "or", not "and".
Toys have been used to hide IEDs.
A lite brite 10 in an unusual place.
That pretty much says kid's toy, and pretty much says out of place.
Two strikes. I don't care for BPD or anyone else to wait for the third.
Panther was the saviour of our Bondi iMacs - faster than ever before - ditto Tiger for my G3 iBook.
I have circa 2001 mainstream PCs that choke on XP.
And that's with all the pretty colors turned off.
Which is the only way to tell you're ruinning XP anyway.
God, I'm sick of having to 'splain why everything's grey again.
On this and the MOAB claims that Apple doesn't fix bugs that are reported thru the official channels.
Show us specific, documented examples of bug reports sent to Apple that they have refused to address.
If MOAB doesn't like the attitudes of some users, then go kick some tires. But exhaust the official channels with Apple or 3d party developers, be professional, or you're going to be dismissed by professionals as dangerous and immature.
Instead, they've come out swinging at not only the Mac community that apparently makes them upset, but also - and more specifically and personally (some quite sick) at the professionals who have been addressing and provising solutions. They've even denigrated Apple for the time taken to provide fixes for the QT issues. Apple has to certify a fix to an OS and underlying technology - not just put fingers in eyes.
The thread here suggests that everyone should immediately recognize all the characters from some show on Cartoon Network, and that odd out of place new objects won't be bombs.
Hint #1: watch the commercials on Cartoon Network - they're not aiming for Boston cop and State Atty General.
Hint #2: Our friends' son has finished 2 tours on an Army bomb squad in Iraq. It sucks. He can't wait to go back to defusing munitions, at least you know what you've got, it's in a catalog somewhere with instructions.
Here's the rules for IEDs : there are no rules.
There are several ways to make a successful IED: either hide it, or make it look like a normal object.
There's no signal for the latter, the signal for the former is simply "out of place". These were.
What do visible IEDs look like? Radios, clocks, phones, thermos, flashlights, lunchboxes...
And they do have either a timing device or electronic detoonator of some kind, and they come in all stripes.
This prank was by no means a slam dunk except possibly to people who watch ATHF and don't pay attention to the details of IEDs.
1 install of ecamm's mac software, they all work.
"mentioning how Mac software never has problems"
That's not been said in any ad.
The truth is PCs running Windows are more problematic than Macs.
Just yesterday it took a half an hour to get a mainstream quickcam out of the box and showing video. iSight? No longer than it takes to launch the app than needs it.
Use a thumb drive on a Windows PC. As in, go hunt for it once you plug it in - then use it.
Picasa vs. iPhoto. No contest.
Actually, Picasa (and much of the rest of Google's stuff) has saved Microsoft's bacon as far as good app experiences go - Bill and Steve B should face Mt View and pray every morning in gratitude.
Add a printer? 90% of them work in OSX with included drivers.
Need to do something tough in networking? Go buy another version of Windows.
Need to be a media center? Goi buy another version of Windows.
There's more but I have to get to work...
Enjoy your stay. Next up - firewire and USB.
Better hold on to something...
Love,
Steve
"Nothing else."
oh?
"Could you write an app to allow your winPhone to do the same with Callwave through a screenscraper of their software, or a hack separate email address? Yeah, but it would be a PITA."
You assume I have a winphone, and either the sw I'd write would be a pain in the ass or the process of me doing it would be...
"If you don't care to make that tradeoff, don't buy it. I will..."
Where'd that come from?
Lot of assumptions about me and my life for "nothing else".
"I watch about four different television shows on a regular basis - Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and typically a current reality show (which is Grease: You're The One That I Want right now)"
*blink*
OK - of all the content on a full menu of cable or sat, this is the sum total of what you find compelling?
I know there's no accounting for taste, but you're hardly their typical demo.
Most of us are paying full price for a house and really only using three rooms and reallly only for a half the day at best. What's up with that raw deal?
You pay the $1 or 2 to listen or watch whenever you want, as often as you want. No one's holding a gun to your head, and it's an alternative to buying DVR etc. This is a vaguely similar argument to the music sedction, usually pointed at Apple - thet they're "forcing" you to adopt their model. Wrong. There are many music providers. being the market leader is not the same as being an unregulated monopoly.
Which leads us to the cable company. They deregulated cable AFTER the wires were laid down, and unlike the local telcos who are merely the custodian of the infrastructure and must let anyone send their info over the copper, the cable companies have no established way of letting anyone else down the coax. The satellite system is similar - as long as the financial agent owns the pipe, it's their ball and they can go home.
About the only thing I'd change about any video delivery model is make sure it's a la carte, for the sake of scaling down rising cost. The industry is claiming that it will cost a bajillion dollars per person to do this, but that's what they said about seat belts, air bags, ABS, flying car^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H personal cell phones and DVD players.
1. i can't write either approach - don't know why you're making it my issue.
2. i never complained about apple - i'm a big supporter. love the iphone, will have one as soon as they ship. i don't have a "winphone".
3. my point is that cell companies in general have been telling us how things have to be - all shoehorns and bags of money - when it's not always the case. see my other post on this story.
The cell phone service is going to be the 4th commmunications industry to pass thru this ridiculous hoop.
First was the US Mail - who realized the carriers had to walk the route each day and walk past each house each route. They oculd support fixed message cost, and it made them wildly successful. Sears didn't mind it either.
Next was the data networks, which charged per message, and when we all figured out they weren't epoxying together a brand new tube for each message, went to fixed cost per period.
Then we knocked on the telco's door and told them we figured out that they didn't have to run a new wire everytime we called someone, not even for the first time. They 99% went to fixed cost per period, with some sucker plans for people who still didn't get it and thought they could beat the telco out of the 99% plan. Vonage et. al. pretty much dope slapped anyone who still didn't get it.
Now come the cells. They still make us think that they have to send a squadron of pixies, who subsist on gold and caviar, flying out of the hayloft every time we want to place a call or send a message. Apparently the text pixies have never seen a salad, and the 411 pixies are down-right clones of Roseanne.
In the days of tower buiilding, when no one knew we'd all have these glued to our ears constantly, charging by the message unit was the only way anyone was ever going to let you take a risk like that.
That's all changed. The network is in place. The towers, T1s and infrastructure are all on, all the time - their operating cost is known and predictably rising with the cost of energy, inflation etc. The system scales now. Your unit revenue per user should find a point where it supports the scaling. Energy costs marginally less at night than at daytime, but it's always daytime somewhere in the net.
It's all a matter of who blinks first. Nights and weekends is slowly creeping wider, the others will have to follow. They are slowly, inexorably creeping towards flat monthly, but they're still betting some of us will put up with the sucker's bet.
I hope it works that way - in the telco case we had help from non-traditional suppliers who had nothing to lose and could bust the Bell model. In the cell case, there's the big six(?) who may slowly compete to some equilibrium, it won't be the rest that bust it - as MVNOs they just follow what the biggies do.
Here's hoping, anyway. Nice to see that Apple can make them think about dancing, though.
visual voicemail?
Little Callwave is doing it. For free.
Big Cingular makes things seem hard when they aren't.
It's llike the current administration does:
Programs in cities that succeed in stopping teen pregnancy get more money.
Schools in cities that don't effectively increased student achievement get less money.
(Hint: the successful programs don't need more money - they're doing the job. The schools who aren't need to be analyzed and fixed, not clobbered.)
It's an annoying little bubble that comes up on your screen when you least need it.
But that's not important right now.
... it was going to be too hard to implement the system. Imagine this cockpit conversation:
"Denver, AA325 - Requesting clearance to LAN - over"
"Negative, AA325 - do not land - over."
"No, not land, LAN - over"
"Landover? No - this is Denver - over."
"Roger, Denver..."
"Sorry, Clarence, no clearance."
etc...
At first I thought this was going to be a CanonCAT / command line nostalgia mashup, but I was pleasantly surprised.
OK - was a little scared when the presentation sharted with "computers are too hard" and realized none of these guys were programming when computers were much harder, but let's see how it goes.
I'm still not sure if they're on to something per se, or if they're on the front steps of a finally useful voice recognition system.
But I'm installing it ASAP...
there's a Home Depot just an a.u. down the road - we should ve able to swap that out with a longer cycle dimmer and all will be well.
...one heckova case of the bends.
This fix is in line with the typical timing and attention given Apple security updates - relatively quick and competent.
This pretty much busts MOAB's claims of Apple's ignorance and/or hostility at bug reports.
Apple has been doing better than most, fixing 99.9% of their problems through their established channels without MOAB's brand of nonsense. Count all the bugs fixed thru the normal dev bug report process. Count all those fixed by MOAB's. Compare.
IIRC nearly a third of their "Apple Bugs" are 3rd party problems to begin with.
MOAB are still flaming Apple Inc., Apple users, and anyone else who critiques their methods, and it's gotten personal and insulting. They come out swinging their fists at the Apple community, then cry foul because someone hits back.
If Apple users make you cry, go kick your tires.
You want the world to believe that you're a responsible developer that anyone will listen to or hire, prove it in daylight.
... we can buy shipstones. Slide the rest of these posts under the door one lot over.