I got that too. I bought an album last week, and I am SO picking up some more this week. I have several albums I'd like to get from them, and a few trashed tapes I'll be re-purchasing from them.
Why don't you email Apple a list? Or, better yet, have the smaller bands send them something. I'm sure Apple would love to help the indies, but the problem with indies, is they are, well... indies.
iSync on the Mac can do this. I think you didn't understand the point of my post. Bluetooth rocks, but the software for it is very much so beta. Lots of missing features. Compared to say... IR, which has most of the software support it needs.
I appreciate the link, though. I'll go check it out.
What I have found in my personal Bluetooth net (Apple G4 desktop, Powerbook G4, S/E T68i, Palm Tungsten T) is that Bluetooth is an almost technology. It almost solves all your problems. It almost is awesome, and it almost is worth the trouble.
For example, I love the SMS bluetooth stuff on the Tungsten. I can feel my phone buzz during a meeting, and just hit my hotkey on the palm (which I was taking notes on) to see/respond to the message. But I can't send attachments or text via SMS unless I use the email program to dial my ISP. WTF?
Again, I can hotsync with my Mac using Bluetooth. This is super awesome. But, I can't hotsync repeating appointments with my phone. Only single occurance appointments. WTF?
The bluetooth headsets which could be so hot for gaming/chatting/etc if they would work with every device (the SOCOM/CS/Diablo implications are fantastic), but OS 10.2 doesn't have the voice gateway working properly for the headset, and the Palm ignores it entirely! WTF?
See, my point is that everything Bluetooth can do is already implemented in hardware, but all the developers are still pushing beta software for it.
If the market people will just cool their jets for a bit, it will become amazing. Too bad we'll probably lose the single coolest Super Local LAN due to the lack of good software.
It's called a key. Just take a sharpish key (Titan keys are really good, so are many car keys), slice directly against the edge on the back of the package.
I do it all the time, and it works really well on that darn blister pack stuff. Even allows for returns.
Those are some funky shadows. Perhaps that is what they are talking about. The boy should be casting a nice distinct shadow to his left, and there is also a weird (and identical) shadow in the other image.
Both shadows look vaguely like some kind of tower or antenna (sp).
-WS
Actually, I know exactly what you mean. I have an ancient GTE/Sylvania one with the numbers that flip (on the little plates). I should find a date on it somewhere, but I know I've used it my whole life.
I disagree. I am an old school computer user, and I think that Macs make too much sense.
I frequently spend twenty minutes hunting through menus on my Mac trying to figure out where the heck something is, only to find it was right in front of me all the time. iPhoto, for example.
I could not figure out how to import photos from disk. I spent almost 30 minutes trying, until my wife said "why not just drag the folder thingy onto the app thingy?" I looked at her like she was nuts. Then, I tried it. It worked.
Whoops. That's what happens when I try to submit to/. when I'm too busy.
I meant to say that I hear typing and mouse-clicks, and the calls are now taking 3-4 minutes each.
-WS
From working with 24 hour nursing staff and call center staffers is that the average nurse can be trained to type so damn fast its impossible to see the screens. A call every 1-2 minutes. Wow.
That was, until we went to a GUI from our venerable VMS and OS/390 systems. Productivity fell so fast it whistled.
Now, I walk around those call centers, and I hear typing and
Sounds like me. I once thought that money was everything, and I pursued it relentlessly. I am now just beginning to wake up, and say "Whoops". Sitting in a life with more debt than I could have imagined having, tons of stuff I have begun to realize means nothing to me, and a job I loathe, I now have begun to understand. I was a brat who once told a 60 year old City College Physics teacher that he had a cool job, but that I wanted to make something of my self.
He just smiled, and said that I would understand later. Well, the joke is on me. It is later than I thought.
Sounds like the Mail app in OS X. I find that it works really well, myself. I actually have set up a rule to take the following: everything that is spam, everything from people who aren't in my address book, and everything that contains the words "viagra", "sex", "free", etc. and puts it into a folder called Junk. It does not delete it for 30 days.
Then, about once a week, I zip through it all.
Better yet, I created my favorite rules, which auto-color and auto-file the email from family, friends, and mailing lists so that what is left in my inbox is just the stuff the mail app doesn't know how to handle.
I'd say it rocks. I spend an hour a day cleaning the spam out of my work system, and about 3 minutes from my home system, despite getting way more spam at home.
Ok, fair enough. But, I must contend that many projects (especially open-source) get stuck into a state where the GUI takes a back seat to features or stability. It happened to WordPerfect for a long time. It happened to 3D Studio Max, and it happens every day to many more applications. Developers or PMs say "hey, this is buggy", or "I need this to do this". Rarely do people stop and say "Wouldn't this be better if I spent some money on UI R&D?".
No kidding. Look at Open Office on Mac compared to Office X on Mac. Microsoft completely integrated into the style guidelines, and the Open Office stuff looks like some ancient OS/2 or Windows 3.1 app.
I am a developer, but I think that UI design should be handled by artists. When coders do all of it, you get things like twm and Win 3.1, not things like Enlightenment, Aqua, and Win XP.
Of course, some people like that kind of thing, I guess.
Not to toot my own horn, but I have two old laptops: 1) a Fujitsu 280dx, and 2) an IBM 365x.
Both of these have a battery life under RH 7.2 of about 1.5 hours, which is about the same as they ever had. Both have been used constantly for years. The Fujitsu, in fact, has a flaky power plug, so it is frequently switching between AC and Battery power, yet it has no battery life issues.
My point being, it is not all IBMs, all laptops, or even normal. If you're having an issue, report it to the company. If the company won't help, report it to the BBB.
Why not just have a pair of glasses that contain the computer? A nice pair of wraparounds should certainly have room to accomodate a small enough system by the time we have good enough displays.
Then, all you need is roll-up keyboard, or a laser projection keyboard.
Of course, in all seriousness, I find that the ideal form factor would be something the size of a Zippo lighter, that projected both text and keyboard onto other surfaces. Perhaps the display onto your eyes, and the keyboard onto a desk?
No kidding. I spend all day doing systems admin ( 6 years at the same company now) and programming. On the weekends and after work, all I can think of is crafting. Something. Anything. So right now I'm restoring a 75 Stingray Corvette, and turning a Corvair Monza into a Corvair GTO.
It's really weird. I don't see why it is that so many "computer professionals" spend so much time crafting, but they sure do. I don't know why I do it either.
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I got that too. I bought an album last week, and I am SO picking up some more this week. I have several albums I'd like to get from them, and a few trashed tapes I'll be re-purchasing from them.
Apple Rules!!
-WS
Why don't you email Apple a list? Or, better yet, have the smaller bands send them something. I'm sure Apple would love to help the indies, but the problem with indies, is they are, well... indies.
-WS
iSync on the Mac can do this. I think you didn't understand the point of my post. Bluetooth rocks, but the software for it is very much so beta. Lots of missing features. Compared to say... IR, which has most of the software support it needs.
I appreciate the link, though. I'll go check it out.
-WS
For example, I love the SMS bluetooth stuff on the Tungsten. I can feel my phone buzz during a meeting, and just hit my hotkey on the palm (which I was taking notes on) to see/respond to the message. But I can't send attachments or text via SMS unless I use the email program to dial my ISP. WTF?
Again, I can hotsync with my Mac using Bluetooth. This is super awesome. But, I can't hotsync repeating appointments with my phone. Only single occurance appointments. WTF?
The bluetooth headsets which could be so hot for gaming/chatting/etc if they would work with every device (the SOCOM/CS/Diablo implications are fantastic), but OS 10.2 doesn't have the voice gateway working properly for the headset, and the Palm ignores it entirely! WTF?
See, my point is that everything Bluetooth can do is already implemented in hardware, but all the developers are still pushing beta software for it. If the market people will just cool their jets for a bit, it will become amazing. Too bad we'll probably lose the single coolest Super Local LAN due to the lack of good software.
Sounds like OSS to the rescue?
-WS
It's called a key. Just take a sharpish key (Titan keys are really good, so are many car keys), slice directly against the edge on the back of the package.
I do it all the time, and it works really well on that darn blister pack stuff. Even allows for returns.
-WS
Those are some funky shadows. Perhaps that is what they are talking about. The boy should be casting a nice distinct shadow to his left, and there is also a weird (and identical) shadow in the other image. Both shadows look vaguely like some kind of tower or antenna (sp). -WS
Don't forget, however, that selective service is why there is no draft.
It's the perfect loophole. We "voluntarily" sign on (as opposed to voluntarily going to jail), and then if they call on us, we have to go.
It's bullshit. Make the damn president fight his own war.
-WS
Actually, I know exactly what you mean. I have an ancient GTE/Sylvania one with the numbers that flip (on the little plates). I should find a date on it somewhere, but I know I've used it my whole life.
-WS
Well, yeah, but I think he meant what things like making fuel-efficient cars, safe nuclear energy, and really good beer.
No, wait. Wrong there too.
Hmmm, the US has got to be best at something, darn it!
Well, we're still the land of innovative companies like Starbucks, McDonalds, and Microsoft!
Hmmm. Well, that didn't go so well, now did it?
-WS
I frequently spend twenty minutes hunting through menus on my Mac trying to figure out where the heck something is, only to find it was right in front of me all the time. iPhoto, for example.
I could not figure out how to import photos from disk. I spent almost 30 minutes trying, until my wife said "why not just drag the folder thingy onto the app thingy?" I looked at her like she was nuts. Then, I tried it. It worked.
My point, exactly.
-WS
Read the geekcode, moron. -WS
I look forward to seeing this one. Animatrix rules! -WS
Whoops. That's what happens when I try to submit to /. when I'm too busy.
I meant to say that I hear typing and mouse-clicks, and the calls are now taking 3-4 minutes each.
-WS
That was, until we went to a GUI from our venerable VMS and OS/390 systems. Productivity fell so fast it whistled.
Now, I walk around those call centers, and I hear typing and
-WS
He just smiled, and said that I would understand later. Well, the joke is on me. It is later than I thought.
-WS
Then, about once a week, I zip through it all.
Better yet, I created my favorite rules, which auto-color and auto-file the email from family, friends, and mailing lists so that what is left in my inbox is just the stuff the mail app doesn't know how to handle.
I'd say it rocks. I spend an hour a day cleaning the spam out of my work system, and about 3 minutes from my home system, despite getting way more spam at home.
-WS
-WS
I am a developer, but I think that UI design should be handled by artists. When coders do all of it, you get things like twm and Win 3.1, not things like Enlightenment, Aqua, and Win XP.
Of course, some people like that kind of thing, I guess.
-WS
Both of these have a battery life under RH 7.2 of about 1.5 hours, which is about the same as they ever had. Both have been used constantly for years. The Fujitsu, in fact, has a flaky power plug, so it is frequently switching between AC and Battery power, yet it has no battery life issues.
My point being, it is not all IBMs, all laptops, or even normal. If you're having an issue, report it to the company. If the company won't help, report it to the BBB.
-WS
Then, all you need is roll-up keyboard, or a laser projection keyboard.
Of course, in all seriousness, I find that the ideal form factor would be something the size of a Zippo lighter, that projected both text and keyboard onto other surfaces. Perhaps the display onto your eyes, and the keyboard onto a desk?
-WS
It's really weird. I don't see why it is that so many "computer professionals" spend so much time crafting, but they sure do. I don't know why I do it either.
-WS
-WS
Especially funny since he actually pronounced it that way until we corrected him. Never let a child use one of these things unsupervised!
-WS
That is a super-cool idea. I loved the Ultima Runes. -WS