Vodfone makes some. These were launched last month. They are aimed at users that want something that is easy to use and who don't want feature overload with bluetooth, phones, fancy ringtones, etc.
I have always wanted to build a cell phone into an old heavy duty phone handset. Those have space for a huge battery and you could put in a nice speaker and microphone so that the sound quality would be good.
The reason that the Shuffle can be a success is that iTunes provides a nice interface to it. I have a similar no-screen flash player. It doesn't have any software, you just drag files onto it. If it could automagically be filled with fresh music each time I synched it I would like it more. Notice that the player itself wouldn't have changed, just the integration with the software.
I have seen informal pushiness on such issues outside of church. I have not seen anybody preach over the pulpit to vote a certain way. The only thing I've heard over the pulpit is the statement encouraging members to participate in the political process and to not use church facilities for any such purposes.
In Utah this year there was a press release from Church HQ that sort of supported the very poorly worded gay marriage proposition. Prominent members of the church from both parties spoke out against the proposition, but it passed anyhow. The Salt Lake Tribune did an analysis and showed that there was very high correlation between the % of the population in each county that was LDS and the % that voted for the prop. That was good for a chuckle.
If you like snow skiing, hiking, mountain biking, camping, fishing, rock climbing, or any number of other outdoor activities, Utah is a great place to live. Not only does it have real seasons (snow in the winter, sun in the summer) but there is a real diversity of terrain. You can go from desert to glaciers pretty quickly in some places.
If you really, really, really hate Mormons (and I'd love to know why if you do, please say "intolerance on their part" so I can laugh at your intolerance), and you like to complain about obnoxious liquor laws, then it might not be the right place for you. The liquor lawas seem to be more of a problem for the tourists than for the locals, since the real problem is just understanding them. Anybody that wants to drink in Utah drinks whatever they want to.
Even if you have no desire to live there, it is really worth a visit while on holiday. There are a large number of national parks and some really spectacular scenery.
While LDS friends tell me that the Church has an actual policy against peddling its political preferences at the pulpit, I'm almost certain that it happens all the time. If not during normal "service" (whatever they call it), very likely during the various other activities the church members engage in.
I over 30 years of attending the LDS church, I have never seen anyone endorse a candidate or even a position over the pulpit. I have heard people say things as part of a classroom discussion, and I've seen those people get shot down as well. The LDS Church is not nearly as overtly political as many other churches in America. Note that every Sunday during campaign season across most of the USA where are the candidates? Making speeches at churches. Note that they are never caimpaigning at LDS churches.
That is actually an interesting question. I am guessing that in the short term they would rather you pirate it than not use it at all. Does that suddenly make it moral to pirate Apple's software? Nope.
However it does put Apple in an interesting position. Given the three above having any particular consumer: 1. Pay for OSx86 (moral) 2. Pirate OSx86 to run on my white box (not moral) 3. Not run OSx86 at all (moral)
I would guess that Apple would rank them according to prefence in exactly that order. So while it isn't moral for me to pirate it, that doesn't mean that Apple will strongly condemn it, at least at first.
Also note the story from a few days ago that anticipated that since the dev release isn't TPM enabled it will be widely pirated and then when the real thing arrives it will use TPM, making it harder to pirate. Does Apple intend this to have an informal "try it before you buy it" effect? They'd never admit to it in any formal way of course, but it might be a brilliant strategy.
In my experience, even those that are very nervous about trying out OS X end up being comfortable with it very quickly. Afterwards they wonder what it was they feared. Maybe Apple knows that just getting people to try the software is the way to get them to buy the hardware/software combo.
Personally, I think they make nice stuff, so I wish them well and I will continue to buy their products.
Good for you! I'm not rationalizing anything. I purchased my mac with actual money, thank you much! I'm simply pointing out the reality of the situation. In this case a short-term wrong committed against Apple might become a long-term right. Leave it up to Apple to decide this.
Which is probably just fine with Apple. The more that gets pirated the more that gets sold. It has worked well for MS, it will work for Apple as well. Remember, if you pirate it and you like it and you want to use it at work then you are going to get your work to buy it.
Where's that jerk As Seen On TV? All this interesting Apple stuff happening and he isn't here to spout off about it. Could it be that he was silenced, or even better, sacked?
How long is Apple going to provide OS upgrades for the PowerPC line of Macs? Forever? Five years? Do we even know?
While they might (and certainly could) go on supporting the old machines for a decade by releasing two versions of every OS this seems unlikely. If you want to have the latest and greatest software for a long time then a G5 might not be the way to go.
Of course they are reactive. That was my point. They've built up a series of defenses by reacting to attacks. I very much doubt that they've anticipated much of anything.
FK, you should check out Taco's recent JE on AC comments.
What is interesting to me is that/. has some defenses against crapflooding and trolling. These defenses have been built up over years and years to react to new threats. Then the/. user population was unleashed on the LA Times page, with no defenses. Of course it was a disaster./. bred trolls against a brand new site. Good luck.
I hope that this experience doesn't end the experiment for the LA Times. Maybe they need to build some anti-crap measures into their system first and be ready to react.
Add to that the fact that unless this guy speaks Japanese and is familiar with the culture, would he even know what their snickering looks like? Maybe they were saying, "What a terrible thing to do! I am full of shame!" Who knows?
Apple doesn't want to give it away now and then charge for it later because that leads to complaining. Look at how people have reacted to having to pay full price for 10.x upgrades that used to be free.
By putting out a developer image that they know works on generic PCs and then moving to a TCPM version later, they are enabling piracy in the short term without having to be seen as the bad guy yanking the freebie away later.
This is the best of both worlds for them. Everyone can use the dev version and then they'll have to pay for the hardware to get the new OS.
O dinheiro vai para os ricos; as pessoas da classe média ficam mais pobres.
The technical term for this in economics is "brazilianization". No, I am not kidding.
I've lived in both countries and I love both. There are a lot of great things about Brazil, but I feel safer in the USA, and I don't see the government in the USA as being nearly as corrupt.
Go to the nearest university. Talk to people in the comp sci, engineering, and science depts. Work in a graduate student lab during the summer. They are usually willing to use cheap, talented labor. If your grades show you to be as smart as you think you are, somebody will hire you.
I worked in a physics lab one summer and a chem.E lab the next. I got to play with computers, did useful work, and was offered a bunch of scholarships.
the non-native resolution it can look like utter garbage
Put a bit on emphasis on the "can" there. I've had some laptops that look like crap any resolution that isn't native. This is due to how they scale the image. My current laptop (a Thinkpad T40) looks great at a variety of resolutions, though it does look best at the native resolution.
As you say, there are examples where porting has helped a project. I know that in porting one of my games to four platforms (Classic Mac OS -> Windows -> Linux -> OS X) has helped eliminate bugs that I never knew were there. Also, I learned things that have made my later projects easier to port since I more able to write them "correctly" to begin with. By avoiding platform specific libraries and techniques I write better code.
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I have always wanted to build a cell phone into an old heavy duty phone handset. Those have space for a huge battery and you could put in a nice speaker and microphone so that the sound quality would be good.
Actually it didn't burn a hole in the tank. It ignited gas that was leaking from the tank.
You know that it was the liquid fuel that went boom on Challenger, right?
The reason that the Shuffle can be a success is that iTunes provides a nice interface to it. I have a similar no-screen flash player. It doesn't have any software, you just drag files onto it. If it could automagically be filled with fresh music each time I synched it I would like it more. Notice that the player itself wouldn't have changed, just the integration with the software.
In Utah this year there was a press release from Church HQ that sort of supported the very poorly worded gay marriage proposition. Prominent members of the church from both parties spoke out against the proposition, but it passed anyhow. The Salt Lake Tribune did an analysis and showed that there was very high correlation between the % of the population in each county that was LDS and the % that voted for the prop. That was good for a chuckle.
All my friends did though.
Anyhow this ocnversation seems strangely familiar...
If you really, really, really hate Mormons (and I'd love to know why if you do, please say "intolerance on their part" so I can laugh at your intolerance), and you like to complain about obnoxious liquor laws, then it might not be the right place for you. The liquor lawas seem to be more of a problem for the tourists than for the locals, since the real problem is just understanding them. Anybody that wants to drink in Utah drinks whatever they want to.
Even if you have no desire to live there, it is really worth a visit while on holiday. There are a large number of national parks and some really spectacular scenery.
I over 30 years of attending the LDS church, I have never seen anyone endorse a candidate or even a position over the pulpit. I have heard people say things as part of a classroom discussion, and I've seen those people get shot down as well. The LDS Church is not nearly as overtly political as many other churches in America. Note that every Sunday during campaign season across most of the USA where are the candidates? Making speeches at churches. Note that they are never caimpaigning at LDS churches.
That said, Utah does tend to vote as a bloc.
However it does put Apple in an interesting position. Given the three above having any particular consumer:
1. Pay for OSx86 (moral)
2. Pirate OSx86 to run on my white box (not moral)
3. Not run OSx86 at all (moral)
I would guess that Apple would rank them according to prefence in exactly that order. So while it isn't moral for me to pirate it, that doesn't mean that Apple will strongly condemn it, at least at first.
Also note the story from a few days ago that anticipated that since the dev release isn't TPM enabled it will be widely pirated and then when the real thing arrives it will use TPM, making it harder to pirate. Does Apple intend this to have an informal "try it before you buy it" effect? They'd never admit to it in any formal way of course, but it might be a brilliant strategy.
In my experience, even those that are very nervous about trying out OS X end up being comfortable with it very quickly. Afterwards they wonder what it was they feared. Maybe Apple knows that just getting people to try the software is the way to get them to buy the hardware/software combo.
Personally, I think they make nice stuff, so I wish them well and I will continue to buy their products.
Good for you! I'm not rationalizing anything. I purchased my mac with actual money, thank you much! I'm simply pointing out the reality of the situation. In this case a short-term wrong committed against Apple might become a long-term right. Leave it up to Apple to decide this.
I agree. Check out my post here, where I basically say the same thing, just a bit earlier:e ment.htm
http://panela.blog-city.com/apples_latest_announc
Which is probably just fine with Apple. The more that gets pirated the more that gets sold. It has worked well for MS, it will work for Apple as well. Remember, if you pirate it and you like it and you want to use it at work then you are going to get your work to buy it.
Where's that jerk As Seen On TV? All this interesting Apple stuff happening and he isn't here to spout off about it. Could it be that he was silenced, or even better, sacked?
While they might (and certainly could) go on supporting the old machines for a decade by releasing two versions of every OS this seems unlikely. If you want to have the latest and greatest software for a long time then a G5 might not be the way to go.
Of course they are reactive. That was my point. They've built up a series of defenses by reacting to attacks. I very much doubt that they've anticipated much of anything.
This is the best AC post I've read in a while. I agree, that would be a great poll.
What is interesting to me is that /. has some defenses against crapflooding and trolling. These defenses have been built up over years and years to react to new threats. Then the /. user population was unleashed on the LA Times page, with no defenses. Of course it was a disaster. /. bred trolls against a brand new site. Good luck.
I hope that this experience doesn't end the experiment for the LA Times. Maybe they need to build some anti-crap measures into their system first and be ready to react.
Add to that the fact that unless this guy speaks Japanese and is familiar with the culture, would he even know what their snickering looks like? Maybe they were saying, "What a terrible thing to do! I am full of shame!" Who knows?
Seriously though, I really like shopping there. Stuff that should be cheap (cables for instance) is, and their sales people have half a clue.
By putting out a developer image that they know works on generic PCs and then moving to a TCPM version later, they are enabling piracy in the short term without having to be seen as the bad guy yanking the freebie away later.
This is the best of both worlds for them. Everyone can use the dev version and then they'll have to pay for the hardware to get the new OS.
Oh, I think both governments are incredibly corrupt. But really, Brazil takes the cake. Or the puddim, or bolo, or what have you.
The technical term for this in economics is "brazilianization". No, I am not kidding.
I've lived in both countries and I love both. There are a lot of great things about Brazil, but I feel safer in the USA, and I don't see the government in the USA as being nearly as corrupt.
I worked in a physics lab one summer and a chem.E lab the next. I got to play with computers, did useful work, and was offered a bunch of scholarships.
Put a bit on emphasis on the "can" there. I've had some laptops that look like crap any resolution that isn't native. This is due to how they scale the image. My current laptop (a Thinkpad T40) looks great at a variety of resolutions, though it does look best at the native resolution.
As you say, there are examples where porting has helped a project. I know that in porting one of my games to four platforms (Classic Mac OS -> Windows -> Linux -> OS X) has helped eliminate bugs that I never knew were there. Also, I learned things that have made my later projects easier to port since I more able to write them "correctly" to begin with. By avoiding platform specific libraries and techniques I write better code.