This argument is unclear. One of the antiphishing modes uses a blacklist and the other submits URLs to Google. So it at worst is not both weak and privacy-violating at the same time. Going further, however, I would ask for a less vague argument about privacy. Switching on full antiphishing protection displays a warning notice to the user specifying exactly what sorts of data is sent where, and for what purpose. I hardly consider it a violation of privacy to allow people to explicitly choose to send their data somewhere else. (Of course, given that Google doesn't actually do anything with this data other than feed it into their anti-phishing database, I don't consider it a violation of privacy regardless, but we have options precisely because not all users will feel this way.)
The design doc I found on this was very unclear about what the capabilities are, but seems the provider list is extensible through prefs.js. Is that correct? If so, isn't this just a file-write away from being configured to make GET requests containing the full URLs you visit somewhere other than Google, without the user specifically going through the warning notice, or even knowing this is happening? Again, please correct me, but those things seem like client flaws to me... it doesn't really matter how Google handles the data if it's not going to Google, and full URLs shouldn't be going anywhere.
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- The Enter key is where an Enter key is on a computer, and the "Backspace" button (a frequently used button) and the "Back" button. Seems sane to me. "Backspace" is an "accident" button, and it's in prime position to hit with the edge of your thumb when you make a mistake. The "Enter" key is one you know you're going to hit before you get to the end of the paragraph, and not that frequently used, so its location is also appropriate. I've tried a Treo 650 and found that to be OK, but I was accustomed to my Q already.
- Yeah, I don't like the scrollwheel. I can't get my hand in position to use it and find the D-pad and menu-letter shortcuts to be much faster and 1-hand-friendly.
- I've run it for 4 weeks. No stability issues or crashes. I sync with Exchange and POP frequently, use web search, calendar, make phone calls, etc... fairly normal usage.
- No AKU2, no problem. Every 15-minutes is plenty for me. There is an SMS-based solution to this anyway, supposedly, although I'm not what that requires on the server. It certainly requires free text messages.
- My battery lasts for 2-3 days with ~1 hour of talk time and 15-minute email syncing. I've heard MSN Messenger can run-away when you don't have a data connection... maybe that was it?
- Regarding charging off a computer... why?... you still need to pack a cable anyway. I simply don't use ActiveSync, because I can sync over the air, so I'm not plugging in for that either.
- Regarding build quality, I sort of agree, but it's mainly the battery cover that's at fault. I've read putting some sticky padding between it and the battery will solidify it.
- You never really mention how "most of these problems relate back to Smartphone edition." I switch to tasks in the background by hitting Home and clicking right once (for the most recent app) and clicking the "do it" button. That seems reasonable. I can probably do that faster than the time it takes to whip out the stylus. What do these other problems have to do with Smartphone vs. PocketPC?
On the contrary, I have a Q, and have used it plenty. I have not used a PocketPC-based phone, but have used a PocketPC-based PDA. I simply don't want to use a stylus when using a phone.
This is a bit religious, but I think it'd be garbage with the stylus-oriented PocketPC OS. As is, it's an "a-phone-first" which never requires more than one hand unless you want to "type" (which is faster than stylus input anyway.)
Availablity of a stylus turns Windows Mobile into Brain Age.
It depends on the software, but the Mac OS X Save As PDF most certainly does not just save an image inside the PDF. The text is fully selectable/searchable.
They certainly will have to change the business model if ubquitous software (like Office) prints to PDF. PDF's income potential is in the software that creates PDF (all of Adobe's other software.)
Even though a product may be flawed, or incomplete without certain features, what logic says a product must be complete or without flaws? It is what it is.
I'd argue a modern PC without a media player is flawed, but people still rant when it's included with Windows. Maybe Microsoft's doing the right thing here in giving people a choice. (And there may well be a better choice than whatever POS virus scanning they aquired.)
I get frequent timeouts trying to get to the site from multiple locations/computers. It isn't just you, and browser doesn't matter. They just don't have very good uptime... maybe Yahoo will give them some money for thier servers.
Well live TV isn't live either, but they still call it live TV. It's got to pass through nipple filters, and then it has to do that electromatic waves transmission thing.
Hell, given the speed of light being as slow as it is, life isn't live either.
Flip4Mac 2.0 & QT 7.0.4 work fine... BUT the QuickTime application crashes whenever you close a QuickTime window that was playing a WMV. I experienced this myself and every Mac forum I read had users saying the same thing.
I never tried it with anything before 7.0.4, so I don't know if this is caused by 7.0.4 or it's just inherent to Flip4Mac 2.0.
The review said: Many matches don't last more than 20 seconds or so, ensuring you'll get plenty of gameplay for your time invested.
Funny, I always thought of fighting as the "gameplay" of a fighting game. In most fighting game the camera pans around as you're Preparing to Fight!" and after "Maxi wins!" for more than 20 seconds... is the reviewer being sarcastic?
Oh, and after reading your comment one more time you said "and without having to look at the device." To use my method you have to look at iPod, because going from 0-star -> 1-star is a finese operation and it's easier if you look at the screen.
You could change the technique to get no-look. Going from X-stars to 0-stars is easy to do without looking at the screen... click, click, wheel-counterclockwise.
You can rate songs on the iPod which is a functional subsitute for being able to delete them. For example, all my unproven music syncs to the iPod at 0-stars (not yet rated.) If I hear a song I hate I set it to 1-star. This has the effect of "deleting" it because my other smart playlists exclude 1-star songs.
If you must delete them you can do it from iTunes later. (Syncing the iPod, sort Library by rating, select and delete all 1-star songs.)
Yes, but what % of all DVD sales go through Amazon? How much of Serenity's lift is caused by pre-order? And how much of Firefly's sales are due to Amazon having (at the time I got it) by far the lowest price? I'm not convinced Amazon sales rankings mean much in this case... I bet "mainstream" movies are selling much better if you look at the whole.
What exactly do the (3, I assume) axes in your DNS server image represent? What does the variation in color mean? What were you trying to understand with it? Were there outliers, groupings, or something in particular you were looking for?
If visualization is utterly useless 95% of the time, perhaps it's that 95% of the time you're choosing the wrong type of visualization. Just putting datapoints into any random image generation system won't help you find the answers (or the questions) you're looking for.
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This argument is unclear. One of the antiphishing modes uses a blacklist and the other submits URLs to Google. So it at worst is not both weak and privacy-violating at the same time. Going further, however, I would ask for a less vague argument about privacy. Switching on full antiphishing protection displays a warning notice to the user specifying exactly what sorts of data is sent where, and for what purpose. I hardly consider it a violation of privacy to allow people to explicitly choose to send their data somewhere else. (Of course, given that Google doesn't actually do anything with this data other than feed it into their anti-phishing database, I don't consider it a violation of privacy regardless, but we have options precisely because not all users will feel this way.)
The design doc I found on this was very unclear about what the capabilities are, but seems the provider list is extensible through prefs.js. Is that correct? If so, isn't this just a file-write away from being configured to make GET requests containing the full URLs you visit somewhere other than Google, without the user specifically going through the warning notice, or even knowing this is happening? Again, please correct me, but those things seem like client flaws to me... it doesn't really matter how Google handles the data if it's not going to Google, and full URLs shouldn't be going anywhere.
- The Enter key is where an Enter key is on a computer, and the "Backspace" button (a frequently used button) and the "Back" button. Seems sane to me. "Backspace" is an "accident" button, and it's in prime position to hit with the edge of your thumb when you make a mistake. The "Enter" key is one you know you're going to hit before you get to the end of the paragraph, and not that frequently used, so its location is also appropriate. I've tried a Treo 650 and found that to be OK, but I was accustomed to my Q already.
- Yeah, I don't like the scrollwheel. I can't get my hand in position to use it and find the D-pad and menu-letter shortcuts to be much faster and 1-hand-friendly.
- I've run it for 4 weeks. No stability issues or crashes. I sync with Exchange and POP frequently, use web search, calendar, make phone calls, etc... fairly normal usage.
- No AKU2, no problem. Every 15-minutes is plenty for me. There is an SMS-based solution to this anyway, supposedly, although I'm not what that requires on the server. It certainly requires free text messages.
- My battery lasts for 2-3 days with ~1 hour of talk time and 15-minute email syncing. I've heard MSN Messenger can run-away when you don't have a data connection... maybe that was it?
- Regarding charging off a computer... why?... you still need to pack a cable anyway. I simply don't use ActiveSync, because I can sync over the air, so I'm not plugging in for that either.
- Regarding build quality, I sort of agree, but it's mainly the battery cover that's at fault. I've read putting some sticky padding between it and the battery will solidify it.
- You never really mention how "most of these problems relate back to Smartphone edition." I switch to tasks in the background by hitting Home and clicking right once (for the most recent app) and clicking the "do it" button. That seems reasonable. I can probably do that faster than the time it takes to whip out the stylus. What do these other problems have to do with Smartphone vs. PocketPC?
On the contrary, I have a Q, and have used it plenty. I have not used a PocketPC-based phone, but have used a PocketPC-based PDA. I simply don't want to use a stylus when using a phone.
This is a bit religious, but I think it'd be garbage with the stylus-oriented PocketPC OS. As is, it's an "a-phone-first" which never requires more than one hand unless you want to "type" (which is faster than stylus input anyway.)
Availablity of a stylus turns Windows Mobile into Brain Age.
I wish I could add. $325-$425.
$150-250 on 2-year contract with no activation and $175 early termination... so $225-350. I think $419 or something when you lose it.
An article from 3 months ago saying essentially the same thing, that it's a "early 2007" release.
And droolaid is what's going on in this particular case.
It depends on the software, but the Mac OS X Save As PDF most certainly does not just save an image inside the PDF. The text is fully selectable/searchable.
They certainly will have to change the business model if ubquitous software (like Office) prints to PDF. PDF's income potential is in the software that creates PDF (all of Adobe's other software.)
In Office 2007.
The Power brand has nothing to do with PowerPC... it's merely coincidence. PowerBook existed 4 years or so before there was ever a PowerPC-based Mac.
Headers aren't compressed.
Not only did they read it, but that quote is pretty much verbatim from the preface of the book.
Even though a product may be flawed, or incomplete without certain features, what logic says a product must be complete or without flaws? It is what it is.
I'd argue a modern PC without a media player is flawed, but people still rant when it's included with Windows. Maybe Microsoft's doing the right thing here in giving people a choice. (And there may well be a better choice than whatever POS virus scanning they aquired.)
I get frequent timeouts trying to get to the site from multiple locations/computers. It isn't just you, and browser doesn't matter. They just don't have very good uptime... maybe Yahoo will give them some money for thier servers.
Well live TV isn't live either, but they still call it live TV. It's got to pass through nipple filters, and then it has to do that electromatic waves transmission thing.
Hell, given the speed of light being as slow as it is, life isn't live either.
Flip4Mac 2.0 & QT 7.0.4 work fine... BUT the QuickTime application crashes whenever you close a QuickTime window that was playing a WMV. I experienced this myself and every Mac forum I read had users saying the same thing.
I never tried it with anything before 7.0.4, so I don't know if this is caused by 7.0.4 or it's just inherent to Flip4Mac 2.0.
The review said: Many matches don't last more than 20 seconds or so, ensuring you'll get plenty of gameplay for your time invested.
Funny, I always thought of fighting as the "gameplay" of a fighting game. In most fighting game the camera pans around as you're Preparing to Fight!" and after "Maxi wins!" for more than 20 seconds... is the reviewer being sarcastic?
Oh, and after reading your comment one more time you said "and without having to look at the device." To use my method you have to look at iPod, because going from 0-star -> 1-star is a finese operation and it's easier if you look at the screen.
You could change the technique to get no-look. Going from X-stars to 0-stars is easy to do without looking at the screen... click, click, wheel-counterclockwise.
You can rate songs on the iPod which is a functional subsitute for being able to delete them. For example, all my unproven music syncs to the iPod at 0-stars (not yet rated.) If I hear a song I hate I set it to 1-star. This has the effect of "deleting" it because my other smart playlists exclude 1-star songs.
If you must delete them you can do it from iTunes later. (Syncing the iPod, sort Library by rating, select and delete all 1-star songs.)
Yes, but what % of all DVD sales go through Amazon? How much of Serenity's lift is caused by pre-order? And how much of Firefly's sales are due to Amazon having (at the time I got it) by far the lowest price? I'm not convinced Amazon sales rankings mean much in this case... I bet "mainstream" movies are selling much better if you look at the whole.
In a world where "in Soviet Russia" and "one step, followed by a blank step, followed by profit" is funny, that was actually funny. Thanks for that.
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What exactly do the (3, I assume) axes in your DNS server image represent? What does the variation in color mean? What were you trying to understand with it? Were there outliers, groupings, or something in particular you were looking for?
If visualization is utterly useless 95% of the time, perhaps it's that 95% of the time you're choosing the wrong type of visualization. Just putting datapoints into any random image generation system won't help you find the answers (or the questions) you're looking for.