Is TomTom's navigation software silly? The Epocrates medication identification tool? IM on the go? Cookbooks? Dictionaries? Can Google provide portable games where there's no Internet? I like loading up my PDA with toys and tools when going on a longer train ride or flight. What's silly is the amount of money the AppStore brings in:)
80GB+ players still exist, and not just from Apple. You need to learn how to use that Google thing you mentioned! Not that even the 160GB iPod Classic will suffice for my needs...it's still a hard drive-based unit, not flash, so you can't take it for a run (go on - try that with any such player and see how long it lasts). I also need a bit more than 200GB. We're almost there with flash-based players;)
iPod touch is basically a PDA with music and movie playing capability. iPhone is that+camera+AGPS. The iPods still remain music/movie players, except the new nano, which confuses the hell out of some:)
Buying programs to do more stuff makes sense once you see them in action. Especially games:)
Nobody beat him to the iPhone. Delicious Library has its own iPhone app which has been out for a while. You might not know this, being an obvious non-Mac user, but Delicious Library is actually fairly big on that platform.
Adobe are a Windows-first company nowadays, so they could be doing some pretty retarded things on OS X. I don't care, though, since I got Acorn for cheap with the latest MacHeist:)
There is a full price edition - Mac Box Set. It contains the OS, iWork and iLife. That one is targetted at 10.4 users, according to the info page. Leopard users already have iWork and iLife, and at least iLife is available as a very cheap upgrade for those who have '08.
What, you don't like paying more than an upgrade price to get the latest OS? Fuck you for not buying a newer Mac:) (The box set is priced about the same as MS Office home editions in my Apple online store)
Both are OK when they don't drive too far. Sure, I'll make an effort to slash the tires of the Google car, but it's technically legal. It's only when they drive far onto private property that they can expect trouble.
I read the screenplay for this in 1999. They have changed a little, but yeah, the trailer pretty much gives it all away. I still want to see it, though.
I only know Pragmatic Programmers as a user, but I love that they're open to a PDF version, and letting people preview the book while it's being written. For some tech books, this is basically free quality control:)
Average Joe won't have trouble doing the jailbreaking thing. They do protest about doing anything that *sounds* complicated. Some people don't *want* to learn anything about computers and electronic devices.
So Apple's own AppStore is safe because most people are lazy idiots:)
I get this problem with the Vista2 RC. Only the OS, Impulse and Steam, plus four older games are installed. One in ten shutdowns something hangs. I can't tell what it is, either.
That and compatibility with old copy protection is all the trouble I have with the new OS from the bastards in Redmond. But since my main use for Windows is games, and I play a ton of old games, that's a fucking huge drawback;)
Same reason as with anything: Because you can't. 4'6" and dreaming of pro football? Forget it:) Hulk-sized and want to be a jockey? Hah! Wheelchair-bound? Steeplechase is not for you.
An online world where you can pick from a number of sports are excellent then. Plus, it might even be A NICE DIVERSION, WHICH IS THE BLOODY REASON PEOPLE PLAY ANY , computer or not!
How are web hosts going to handle dangerous files they find, if they start searching the users' stuff? That upload of the latest Conficker might not be malicious (user rents serverspace to host virus/trojan/worm research), the upload might be referenced in a database by the CMS (whoops, it's gone - does the user know how to fix the now-apparent bug in the CMS' filehandling?).
How does a virus scanner even know if the file is visible to the outside world? You have.htaccess files, scripts which may or may not display the files in an index (and it doesn't have to be anywhere near the same directory) and non-Apache/IIS systems which serve up content based on Python, Java or whatever.
Lots of issues with automated scanning/removal before you even start to consider the processing power to scan. Although that could be handled by having a reasonably beefy cluster of pure file servers which the web servers get their user directories from.
Yeah, bugfixes can take a while. I reported a bug in one distro back around xmas 2005, and it was assigned to someone a few months ago. Not reported fixed, mind you. ASSIGNED to someone who presumably knows what to do with it.
Snow Leopard is $10-$30, depending on when you got your current Mac. Vista 2 is a bit more for upgrade versions. Not quite the same magnitude of fleecing from Apple:)
Panasonic is not off my list yet, because I actually buy Panasonic AA and AAA batteries when I need new ones. They seem to last longer for me than Duracell.
But it's OK, actually. Most big cities in the north and west of Europe are getting expensive, but salaries are matching. Apartments can range from a few thousand NOK if you have luck (my cave is one of the cheap ones) to 15000 NOK (well over $2000) if you're an idiot. You don't need to live smack-dab in the middle of downtown, especially if you don't actually work there. It's also a relatively small city, so despite the best efforts of Ruter/NSB, you can get to work fast enough.
This emulator wouldn't really threaten Apple's revenue stream if it used the new Store Kit. They take a cut of everything going through that system, too. App rejection really is random.
I agree all of that is stupid, but the maximise button can actually maximise. It's possible to have your program fill the screen if you want to. Apple's thinking is that it should expand the windows to fit the contents, but I'd rather have contents contract to fit my browser window (fit to width in Opera:).
But you aren't locked into Apple's ways when writing your own programs. Lots of people do it the way every other GUI does it, fortunately.
I guess Tomboy is a nice test-case. But all that junk to install just for a note-taking program? Also, wouldn't it be nice if the Slashdot summary told me what Tomboy does?
They could also be one of the many kids with a $229 iPod touch and no monthly contract. With nearly half the iDevices being touches, I'm sure there are at least a few kids among them. Isn't a PSP slightly more expensive, or around the same price?
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Is TomTom's navigation software silly? The Epocrates medication identification tool? IM on the go? Cookbooks? Dictionaries? Can Google provide portable games where there's no Internet? I like loading up my PDA with toys and tools when going on a longer train ride or flight. What's silly is the amount of money the AppStore brings in :)
80GB+ players still exist, and not just from Apple. You need to learn how to use that Google thing you mentioned! Not that even the 160GB iPod Classic will suffice for my needs...it's still a hard drive-based unit, not flash, so you can't take it for a run (go on - try that with any such player and see how long it lasts). I also need a bit more than 200GB. We're almost there with flash-based players ;)
iPod touch is basically a PDA with music and movie playing capability. iPhone is that+camera+AGPS. The iPods still remain music/movie players, except the new nano, which confuses the hell out of some :)
Buying programs to do more stuff makes sense once you see them in action. Especially games :)
Nobody beat him to the iPhone. Delicious Library has its own iPhone app which has been out for a while. You might not know this, being an obvious non-Mac user, but Delicious Library is actually fairly big on that platform.
If your Safari doesn't have AdBlock, install it: http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock
(32-bit for now...source available)
I also recommend ClickToFlash: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/
What if this is part of Google's smear-campaign against MS? ;)
It actually frees more than that, but feck knows how much it REALLY frees because of the unit conversion! (I got 13000000000 bytes out of it, I think)
Adobe are a Windows-first company nowadays, so they could be doing some pretty retarded things on OS X. I don't care, though, since I got Acorn for cheap with the latest MacHeist :)
1+3: Lies.
There is a full price edition - Mac Box Set. It contains the OS, iWork and iLife. That one is targetted at 10.4 users, according to the info page.
Leopard users already have iWork and iLife, and at least iLife is available as a very cheap upgrade for those who have '08.
What, you don't like paying more than an upgrade price to get the latest OS? Fuck you for not buying a newer Mac :)
(The box set is priced about the same as MS Office home editions in my Apple online store)
Both are OK when they don't drive too far. Sure, I'll make an effort to slash the tires of the Google car, but it's technically legal. It's only when they drive far onto private property that they can expect trouble.
I read the screenplay for this in 1999. They have changed a little, but yeah, the trailer pretty much gives it all away. I still want to see it, though.
I only know Pragmatic Programmers as a user, but I love that they're open to a PDF version, and letting people preview the book while it's being written. For some tech books, this is basically free quality control :)
Average Joe won't have trouble doing the jailbreaking thing. They do protest about doing anything that *sounds* complicated. Some people don't *want* to learn anything about computers and electronic devices.
So Apple's own AppStore is safe because most people are lazy idiots :)
I get this problem with the Vista2 RC. Only the OS, Impulse and Steam, plus four older games are installed. One in ten shutdowns something hangs. I can't tell what it is, either.
That and compatibility with old copy protection is all the trouble I have with the new OS from the bastards in Redmond. But since my main use for Windows is games, and I play a ton of old games, that's a fucking huge drawback ;)
(DRM kills kittens. Do not support DRM.)
...unless raiding together IS what the two of them like to do for their anniversary :P
Same reason as with anything: Because you can't. 4'6" and dreaming of pro football? Forget it :)
Hulk-sized and want to be a jockey? Hah! Wheelchair-bound? Steeplechase is not for you.
An online world where you can pick from a number of sports are excellent then. Plus, it might even be A NICE DIVERSION, WHICH IS THE BLOODY REASON PEOPLE PLAY ANY , computer or not!
How are web hosts going to handle dangerous files they find, if they start searching the users' stuff? That upload of the latest Conficker might not be malicious (user rents serverspace to host virus/trojan/worm research), the upload might be referenced in a database by the CMS (whoops, it's gone - does the user know how to fix the now-apparent bug in the CMS' filehandling?).
How does a virus scanner even know if the file is visible to the outside world? You have .htaccess files, scripts which may or may not display the files in an index (and it doesn't have to be anywhere near the same directory) and non-Apache/IIS systems which serve up content based on Python, Java or whatever.
Lots of issues with automated scanning/removal before you even start to consider the processing power to scan. Although that could be handled by having a reasonably beefy cluster of pure file servers which the web servers get their user directories from.
Honestly, when was the last time you did a thorough scientific experiment in your personal life?
Yeah, people don't let me handle explosives. Not after The Incident. Mythbusters is all I've got!
Yeah, bugfixes can take a while. I reported a bug in one distro back around xmas 2005, and it was assigned to someone a few months ago. Not reported fixed, mind you. ASSIGNED to someone who presumably knows what to do with it.
Snow Leopard is $10-$30, depending on when you got your current Mac. Vista 2 is a bit more for upgrade versions. Not quite the same magnitude of fleecing from Apple :)
Panasonic is not off my list yet, because I actually buy Panasonic AA and AAA batteries when I need new ones. They seem to last longer for me than Duracell.
I think Dubai was more expensive than Oslo :)
But it's OK, actually. Most big cities in the north and west of Europe are getting expensive, but salaries are matching. Apartments can range from a few thousand NOK if you have luck (my cave is one of the cheap ones) to 15000 NOK (well over $2000) if you're an idiot. You don't need to live smack-dab in the middle of downtown, especially if you don't actually work there. It's also a relatively small city, so despite the best efforts of Ruter/NSB, you can get to work fast enough.
This emulator wouldn't really threaten Apple's revenue stream if it used the new Store Kit. They take a cut of everything going through that system, too. App rejection really is random.
I agree all of that is stupid, but the maximise button can actually maximise. It's possible to have your program fill the screen if you want to. Apple's thinking is that it should expand the windows to fit the contents, but I'd rather have contents contract to fit my browser window (fit to width in Opera :).
But you aren't locked into Apple's ways when writing your own programs. Lots of people do it the way every other GUI does it, fortunately.
I guess Tomboy is a nice test-case. But all that junk to install just for a note-taking program? Also, wouldn't it be nice if the Slashdot summary told me what Tomboy does?
The project page is a little more informative:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tomboy
They could also be one of the many kids with a $229 iPod touch and no monthly contract. With nearly half the iDevices being touches, I'm sure there are at least a few kids among them. Isn't a PSP slightly more expensive, or around the same price?