3D Touch has completely changed the iPhone's utility in music production and creation of visual arts.
I'm sorry that it doesn't help you use Waze or Mail any faster. It's not all about that.
If 3D Touch is on its way out, then the iPhone Xs may be in my pocket until it dies and parts are no longer available. I use it every day and it would be a sorely missed piece of my creative suite should it die.
In the AT&T contract details for the iPhone plans there is a little gem: You pay $0.50 for each "message" over 300KB. It doesn't clearly define what a "message" is. This kind of paper trail, however, would let you see exactly when you sent that "message", and would allow them a little firmness to the ground on which they'd be standing. "See? On 8/15/07 at 2150 you sent 302KB. That'll be $0.50 please."
I wonder if their gains from this billing pay for their costs in sending such bills.
Given the glacial pace of software lawsuits, how exactly is this going to benefit Microsoft in any way? If the "OSS folks" - whoever they are - come to the bargaining table, there's this thing called "discovery" and after that, the OSS community will be happily a-codin' away on solutions, at which point... well, that's where I'm lost. Can they claim past damages? Is ignorance of the patent sufficient defense? How does this play out?
And who, exactly, are they expecting to squeeze money from? Isn't "free software" pretty synonymous with "not making money on the software itself"? And thus also "not making money on the patents"?
I was grossly disappointed to learn that my new MacBook Pro had EIGHT LEDs, up from the PowerBook's seven. This giant increase, coming with the "iSight Active" warning LED, is hardly acceptable. Five on the battery, one on each of (caps|num)lock, one on the latch to indicate sleep, and now one more on the screen bezel itself.
If this keeps up, the next generation *Book might actually have an LED that I see illuminated. And that's just ridiculous.
Well said. He got away with it until he was stopped, be it by his own hand or others. The threat in a situation like this continues until it's neutralized; Virginia Tech believes that its classrooms should be "free from fear", and implies strongly that fear comes from having firearms in the classroom. I think my fear, and the rational fear of anyone today, would come from knowing that the only firearms coming on to campus would be in the hands of someone intending to use them on students, or on the belt of someone that the Supreme Court has ruled has no duty to protect me individually.
I think there are at least 31 families who would disagree with Virginia Tech's stated policy today. And I pray that everyone at that campus realizes that they could have stopped this themselves if they'd been in the right place with the right opportunities at hand.
Statistically, 33% more people will die today in drunk driving accidents. Far more from heart disease. But here are at least 30 that didn't have to, and just as with taking the keys from a drunk pal at the bar, being ready to act in situations like this - be it with equal deadly force or merely the training to know what to do, who to call, and how to effectively manage panic in yourself and others - can save lives. It probably won't, but you never know when you'll be in the wrong place at the right time.
I don't have a working vinyl player anymore and I don't think my particular equipment is good enough for digitizing the audio. It would probably come out worse than the lossy audio I can get.
I think the biggest favor you can do yourself in this case is to replace your computer, then, with one that has an optical drive. Starting as recently as 1982, music has been available on optical media - completely uncompressed, and free of DRM. Interestingly, you pay a very small premium for this, though you do have to venture to the outside world or place an order to be delivered.
Basically, your complaints seem to boil down to the same as the article. Even though there are ways to do what you want, you want to do this one narrow thing in one narrow way. I'm sorry it frustrates you.
"You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff."
It's tragic and depressing, it is. If only there were a way for me to burn my FairPlay music to CDs! Then I could listen to it on any device, anywhere, anytime, or even re-rip it, thus ending up with unencumbered music.
C'mon. You're already buying compressed audio or video. If you were serious about quality - or "freedom!!1!!!1!" - you'd be purchasing the highest-quality source material possible, and using lossless compression to archive it. But you're not. Instead, you're complaining because your convenience is inconvenienced by FairPlay. Pfft.
If they also release JUST the (tiny!) GSM+EDGE portion, I'll be the happy one. I'd like an Apple Phone - hold the 'i', please. I have a PowerBook for all that.
Please bear in mind, we're now comparing against the iPhone. Personally, I really want ONLY A PHONE, without glitz and amazingness. Yet I'm still considering shelling out $money for one of these because Apple tends to be very good at making products I didn't know I always wanted. The market knows this too.
So aside from the real problem here being writers that contribute only "OMG SKY FALLING (perhaps) NOTHING IS ACTUALLY GOOD HEAR ME WHINE", I think what we have is an experiment. And when Apple is one of the reagents, the reactions differ.
The Zune tanked because it was horrible. The iPhone is not awful. It has some problems that keep nitpickers writing, but this is a smartphone that teenagers want. Where's its competition for that market? It's a smartphone that everyone who has a phone and an iPod and has thought, "Gosh, I wish I had three hands or five pockets" will at least glance at next time they're at the Apple Store.
And above all, it's shiny, it's Apple, and people have proven time and time again that they're willing to pay Apple's premium.
T-Mobile, however, does have a roaming agreement in place with Cingular.
Why is this critically important? Well, for those lucky T-Mobile folks with phones that'll work with Cingular's 850Mhz GSM towers, they drastically improved their indoor coverage.
This, to me, is what "sharing" means. If you have a toy and you let the neighbors play with it, you're sharing your toy. Cingular's sharing its toy. The two share the toy. The toy is shared?
Connecting to Google Talk is nice. Holding voice conversations with my contacts is both nice and necessary - if I just wanted text communication, I'd stick with IRC. Or ICQ. Or AIM. Or MSN. Or Yahoo!. Or any of the other countless instant messaging systems that have come and gone over the years.
As an added-value comment, I'll also note that everything Skype does is encrypted - EVERYTHING. That's a plus. Is Google Talk encrypting passwords yet? iChat doesn't think so when I connect with it...
This is an "alternative to Skype" in the same way that Google Talk is - it's an alternative if you happen to be running Windows 2000/XP. I have too much to do during the day to mess with running Windows, so it looks like I'm sticking with Skype or GizmoProject. No affiliation with either, aside from liking the fact that they work on more than one OS.
My kudos to you, CNN, for airing the Crossfire with Jon Stewart. Have you considered hiring him? He seems to have nailed the exact reasons why no one I know will watch Crossfire - that is, it's not a source of news, and perhaps should, in its current form, be relegated to MTV or some other network meant for entertainment.
Jon's points about journalistic responsibility were fantastic to hear broadcast, and I believe you would do well to consider them. It's time to move back to a model where the media serves the checks and balances more than those needing to be checked and balanced.
Like, you mean, it's free for two weeks then I have to buy it? Or you mean that it's not free, but you found a place to pirate it?
Or...no. It... it's not possible. Are you seriously coming here, to Slashdot, and telling us that there are software packages that we don't have to pay for, and can still legally use?
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3D Touch has completely changed the iPhone's utility in music production and creation of visual arts.
I'm sorry that it doesn't help you use Waze or Mail any faster. It's not all about that.
If 3D Touch is on its way out, then the iPhone Xs may be in my pocket until it dies and parts are no longer available. I use it every day and it would be a sorely missed piece of my creative suite should it die.
Does it not seem odd that the Government's reaction to the potential invasion of privacy by a corporation is to... insist upon seeing all of the data?
Why is there not an achievement for having, say, better gear than CmdrTaco?
The possibilities of WoW tie-ins are endless... and terrifying.
In the AT&T contract details for the iPhone plans there is a little gem: You pay $0.50 for each "message" over 300KB. It doesn't clearly define what a "message" is. This kind of paper trail, however, would let you see exactly when you sent that "message", and would allow them a little firmness to the ground on which they'd be standing. "See? On 8/15/07 at 2150 you sent 302KB. That'll be $0.50 please."
I wonder if their gains from this billing pay for their costs in sending such bills.
First thing? I say hello to my team. Because even though "IT" comes before "Manager" in the title, it comes a distant second in terms of priority.
Given the glacial pace of software lawsuits, how exactly is this going to benefit Microsoft in any way? If the "OSS folks" - whoever they are - come to the bargaining table, there's this thing called "discovery" and after that, the OSS community will be happily a-codin' away on solutions, at which point... well, that's where I'm lost. Can they claim past damages? Is ignorance of the patent sufficient defense? How does this play out?
And who, exactly, are they expecting to squeeze money from? Isn't "free software" pretty synonymous with "not making money on the software itself"? And thus also "not making money on the patents"?
I am obviously not a lawyer. Are you? Fill me in.
I was grossly disappointed to learn that my new MacBook Pro had EIGHT LEDs, up from the PowerBook's seven. This giant increase, coming with the "iSight Active" warning LED, is hardly acceptable. Five on the battery, one on each of (caps|num)lock, one on the latch to indicate sleep, and now one more on the screen bezel itself.
If this keeps up, the next generation *Book might actually have an LED that I see illuminated. And that's just ridiculous.
Well said. He got away with it until he was stopped, be it by his own hand or others. The threat in a situation like this continues until it's neutralized; Virginia Tech believes that its classrooms should be "free from fear", and implies strongly that fear comes from having firearms in the classroom. I think my fear, and the rational fear of anyone today, would come from knowing that the only firearms coming on to campus would be in the hands of someone intending to use them on students, or on the belt of someone that the Supreme Court has ruled has no duty to protect me individually.
I think there are at least 31 families who would disagree with Virginia Tech's stated policy today. And I pray that everyone at that campus realizes that they could have stopped this themselves if they'd been in the right place with the right opportunities at hand.
Statistically, 33% more people will die today in drunk driving accidents. Far more from heart disease. But here are at least 30 that didn't have to, and just as with taking the keys from a drunk pal at the bar, being ready to act in situations like this - be it with equal deadly force or merely the training to know what to do, who to call, and how to effectively manage panic in yourself and others - can save lives. It probably won't, but you never know when you'll be in the wrong place at the right time.
I don't have a working vinyl player anymore and I don't think my particular equipment is good enough for digitizing the audio. It would probably come out worse than the lossy audio I can get.
I think the biggest favor you can do yourself in this case is to replace your computer, then, with one that has an optical drive. Starting as recently as 1982, music has been available on optical media - completely uncompressed, and free of DRM. Interestingly, you pay a very small premium for this, though you do have to venture to the outside world or place an order to be delivered.
Basically, your complaints seem to boil down to the same as the article. Even though there are ways to do what you want, you want to do this one narrow thing in one narrow way. I'm sorry it frustrates you.
"You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff."
It's tragic and depressing, it is. If only there were a way for me to burn my FairPlay music to CDs! Then I could listen to it on any device, anywhere, anytime, or even re-rip it, thus ending up with unencumbered music.
C'mon. You're already buying compressed audio or video. If you were serious about quality - or "freedom!!1!!!1!" - you'd be purchasing the highest-quality source material possible, and using lossless compression to archive it. But you're not. Instead, you're complaining because your convenience is inconvenienced by FairPlay. Pfft.
If they also release JUST the (tiny!) GSM+EDGE portion, I'll be the happy one. I'd like an Apple Phone - hold the 'i', please. I have a PowerBook for all that.
To clarify:
Please bear in mind, we're now comparing against the iPhone. Personally, I really want ONLY A PHONE, without glitz and amazingness. Yet I'm still considering shelling out $money for one of these because Apple tends to be very good at making products I didn't know I always wanted. The market knows this too.
So aside from the real problem here being writers that contribute only "OMG SKY FALLING (perhaps) NOTHING IS ACTUALLY GOOD HEAR ME WHINE", I think what we have is an experiment. And when Apple is one of the reagents, the reactions differ.
The Zune tanked because it was horrible. The iPhone is not awful. It has some problems that keep nitpickers writing, but this is a smartphone that teenagers want. Where's its competition for that market? It's a smartphone that everyone who has a phone and an iPod and has thought, "Gosh, I wish I had three hands or five pockets" will at least glance at next time they're at the Apple Store.
And above all, it's shiny, it's Apple, and people have proven time and time again that they're willing to pay Apple's premium.
What percentage of the market has spent more than $400 on a phone that doesn't completely suck?
T-Mobile, however, does have a roaming agreement in place with Cingular.
Why is this critically important? Well, for those lucky T-Mobile folks with phones that'll work with Cingular's 850Mhz GSM towers, they drastically improved their indoor coverage.
This, to me, is what "sharing" means. If you have a toy and you let the neighbors play with it, you're sharing your toy. Cingular's sharing its toy. The two share the toy. The toy is shared?
...do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?
Absolutely. And it's none of your business why.
The Simpson is Movie, Zonk?
Apostrophes are for possessives and contractions. Pluralization does not allow an apostrophe.
Aww. That's so cute! A digital restriction on your right to restrict rights digitally!
That'll show 'em, FSF. Use their own powers against them... or... something.
Wait. I don't get it.
Connecting to Google Talk is nice. Holding voice conversations with my contacts is both nice and necessary - if I just wanted text communication, I'd stick with IRC. Or ICQ. Or AIM. Or MSN. Or Yahoo!. Or any of the other countless instant messaging systems that have come and gone over the years.
As an added-value comment, I'll also note that everything Skype does is encrypted - EVERYTHING. That's a plus. Is Google Talk encrypting passwords yet? iChat doesn't think so when I connect with it...
This is an "alternative to Skype" in the same way that Google Talk is - it's an alternative if you happen to be running Windows 2000/XP. I have too much to do during the day to mess with running Windows, so it looks like I'm sticking with Skype or GizmoProject. No affiliation with either, aside from liking the fact that they work on more than one OS.
I totally agree. After all, research talks; bull$#!+ walks.
Oh, wait.
Perhaps this will help cool the American debate over embryonic stem cells.
Yes, Karen, you can get stem cells without harvesting embryos. No, really!
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Every six seconds, another American hates Milkman Dan.
My kudos to you, CNN, for airing the Crossfire with Jon Stewart. Have you considered hiring him? He seems to have nailed the exact reasons why no one I know will watch Crossfire - that is, it's not a source of news, and perhaps should, in its current form, be relegated to MTV or some other network meant for entertainment.
Jon's points about journalistic responsibility were fantastic to hear broadcast, and I believe you would do well to consider them. It's time to move back to a model where the media serves the checks and balances more than those needing to be checked and balanced.
I hope it's heard. Thanks for the link.
It's still a competition for the silver medal, however, after the last two Matrix films set a world record in the 200 Minute Suck.
Wait, wait, wait.
Did I read this right?
FREE software?
Like, you mean, it's free for two weeks then I have to buy it? Or you mean that it's not free, but you found a place to pirate it?
Or...no. It... it's not possible. Are you seriously coming here, to Slashdot, and telling us that there are software packages that we don't have to pay for, and can still legally use?
Holy crap, man.
This vulnerability only affects those rare few that actually leave their computers and do things in the "real" world.
Those rebels deserve whatever they get.