Stupid design, all they needed to do was not recess the plug
Is it? Apple has gathered failure stats from the large number of iPods out there.
They could have found that there were a high amount of failures from the headphone plug torquing the input jack when the iPod is carried in a pocket. Recessing the plug by.125" is an elegant fix to the problem. I doubt that they added that inset on a whim.
NN has always been an egomaniacal blowhard. His old prognostications in the first years of Wired read like a better pedigreed Dvorak. Now he heads out into the real world, gets spanked, and whines to the press that He could have been a Success if others didn't spoil his Grand Dream.
OLPC has been plagued by missteps from the start. The resulting XO is an ugly, no fun, poorly designed piece of junk that would be made more useful by smashing it with a rock to use the sharp bits to peel potatoes.
Intel did Negroponte a great favor by giving him a point of blame for OLPC's failure this early in the project. He's indeed doing just that.
So, when you swap that battery in your "critical use" blackberry, what happens during that swap? It stops getting calls?!?!!
Did they tell you that on the box? When you turn off the phone do you get a warning that the phone will no longer receive calls when the device is not turned on?
Yeah, kind of fun, if I didn't have anything better to do than make my own phone apps. It's somewhat attractive hardware, but it isn't inspiring great desire to get one. Sort of a crude iPhone with it's primary design elements lifted from the Sony Mylo.
I'm overclocking an off the shelf Q6600 to 3Ghz with a Zalman air cooler and an Intel XBX2 board. Going just past that and things fall apart quickly. I assume the E6600 "extreme" part, with the changable multiplier, could easily go to three and a half.
..if they make Leopard for *all* X86 systems, they might take over the desktops - I've met plenty of CIO's who want that...
I think that's what's coming in October and why Apple delayed the release. Lot's of drivers to get ready. There's now enough key applications that are running on OSX that the move now makes sense.
Look how the "I'm a Mac" ads are now focusing specifically on Vista, not just PCs in general.
So, one "boo" for using Windows *at all*, but one "thank g-d" for avoiding it where vehicle safety is concerned.
Doesn't everything in an automobile influence it's safety? The audio system, navigation, and environment controls are a "critical" system because of their frequency of use.
This will probably take a bunch of tactile interface controls (nice knobs and buttons) and replace them with auditory and visual feedback on a multi-mode LCD. Add to that a dash of Microsoft ugly and a dependence on having a home Vista PC running some nasty sync application that Microsoft will lose interest in supporting after v1.2.
...It's actually easier to return Windows than an OSX license for example... Probably because OSX doesn't require any registration to install and use.
You're also free to make all of the mp3 players, or players that use your own DRM. You can also listen to all the iTMS music you want on 5 machines and dozens of iPod variants. Some won't be satisfied until Apple gives everything away for free.
Wells Fargo pulled out in less than a month and moved to Active Worlds. I suppose that banks don't like excessive downtime in marketing campaigns. Linden Lab still hypes them as a customer for some reason.
In Second Life, an account is free but you have to make everything from scratch or buy from another player. Everything. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy. If you want a reasonable amount of land, you more or less buy the game over and over again each month or your stuff gets deleted.
But I guess that the endless downtime, the total lack of support, it's beyond belief lag and graphics that look 8 years old make it worthwhile to some people, and they'll be glad to tell you so.
Compared to Second Wife ^h^h^h^hLife, beautiful GT, even at $75 would be quite the bargain.
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Less features than a n800. Lame.
Stupid design, all they needed to do was not recess the plug
.125" is an elegant fix to the problem. I doubt that they added that inset on a whim.
Is it? Apple has gathered failure stats from the large number of iPods out there.
They could have found that there were a high amount of failures from the headphone plug torquing the input jack when the iPod is carried in a pocket.
Recessing the plug by
These days, AMD is running as a non-profit corporation, so you should like them twice as much.
NN has always been an egomaniacal blowhard. His old prognostications in the first years of Wired read like a better pedigreed Dvorak.
Now he heads out into the real world, gets spanked, and whines to the press that He could have been a Success if others didn't spoil his Grand Dream.
OLPC has been plagued by missteps from the start.
The resulting XO is an ugly, no fun, poorly designed piece of junk that would be made more useful by smashing it with a rock to use the sharp bits to peel potatoes.
Intel did Negroponte a great favor by giving him a point of blame for OLPC's failure this early in the project. He's indeed doing just that.
You have just destroyed one model XOJ-37 Nuclear Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker.
And you're gonna have to pay for it!
...Its not designed for continuity of service.
So, when you swap that battery in your "critical use" blackberry, what happens during that swap?
It stops getting calls?!?!!
Did they tell you that on the box?
When you turn off the phone do you get a warning that the phone will no longer receive calls when the device is not turned on?
Lawsuit!!!
It's a good thing that you missed the switch to touch-tone phones and unleaded gas.
It would have done you in.
* fear change!!! *
Actually, Windows95 "borrowed" much of it's look from NeXT.
The font, the bevel of the buttons, the layout of dialogs, window controls, and much more.
At the time, Microsoft didn't think anyone would notice.
Yeah, kind of fun, if I didn't have anything better to do than make my own phone apps.
It's somewhat attractive hardware, but it isn't inspiring great desire to get one.
Sort of a crude iPhone with it's primary design elements lifted from the Sony Mylo.
*shrug*
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Would everyone still be bitching if the battery cost 80 bucks but was easily replaceble behind a little door?
Probably, you whiny babies.
You wanna change some batteries? Go play with your Maglite.
you just have low expectations, that's all.
I'm overclocking an off the shelf Q6600 to 3Ghz with a Zalman air cooler and an Intel XBX2 board. Going just past that and things fall apart quickly.
I assume the E6600 "extreme" part, with the changable multiplier, could easily go to three and a half.
The 45mn parts are going to be much more fun.
The Intel Compiler Lab is based in two Russian cities - Moscow and Novosibirsk.
Probably the source of the less than optimal text.
How's the documentation on -your- compiler coming along?
..if they make Leopard for *all* X86 systems, they might take over the desktops - I've met plenty of CIO's who want that...
I think that's what's coming in October and why Apple delayed the release. Lot's of drivers to get ready.
There's now enough key applications that are running on OSX that the move now makes sense.
Look how the "I'm a Mac" ads are now focusing specifically on Vista, not just PCs in general.
So, one "boo" for using Windows *at all*, but one "thank g-d" for avoiding it where vehicle safety is concerned.
Doesn't everything in an automobile influence it's safety?
The audio system, navigation, and environment controls are a "critical" system because of their frequency of use.
This will probably take a bunch of tactile interface controls (nice knobs and buttons) and replace them with auditory and visual feedback on a multi-mode LCD.
Add to that a dash of Microsoft ugly and a dependence on having a home Vista PC running some nasty sync application that Microsoft will lose interest in supporting after v1.2.
Mmm. Fun.
Considering that Ford owns a big piece of Mazda....
Zune, Zune!
How many roads must a man walk down?
It would be great if OS(x) allowed running any dashboard applet and if Dashcode was a nice easy dev kit for this new series of devices.
...It's actually easier to return Windows than an OSX license for example...
Probably because OSX doesn't require any registration to install and use.
You're also free to make all of the mp3 players, or players that use your own DRM.
You can also listen to all the iTMS music you want on 5 machines and dozens of iPod variants.
Some won't be satisfied until Apple gives everything away for free.
...a greater computer than the Great Hyperbolic Omni Cognate Neutro Wrangler of Cisseronious 12?
Hmmm. +1 interesting
...as long as the four landowners adjacent to them agree to this?
Thinking in true 3D cube space, wouldn't there be 26 adjacent land owners?
Wells Fargo pulled out in less than a month and moved to Active Worlds.
I suppose that banks don't like excessive downtime in marketing campaigns.
Linden Lab still hypes them as a customer for some reason.
Jesus. What a mind job. So he was there to save the world. What do you say to something like that?
In Second Life, an account is free but you have to make everything from scratch or buy from another player. Everything. Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy.
If you want a reasonable amount of land, you more or less buy the game over and over again each month or your stuff gets deleted.
But I guess that the endless downtime, the total lack of support, it's beyond belief lag and graphics that look 8 years old make it worthwhile to some people,
and they'll be glad to tell you so.
Compared to Second Wife ^h^h^h^hLife, beautiful GT, even at $75 would be quite the bargain.