I am an ATT Wireless subscriber and they contacted me about my free upgrade to the Sony Ericsson T226 from my beloved T68i. I had already heard about the upgrade and checked out the feature set and told the ATT Representative that I was not interested. She said that was fine.
So let me repeat, because I have not seen this mentioned anywhere else, but I was told by an ATT Rep that there would be no consequence to keeping my old phone.
Just wanted to say that the iPod Mini's hard drive is the same compact flash situation as Creative's MuVo2.
As was documented by Christopher Breen of Macworld, the iPod Mini's hard drive is "encased in compact flash form". Some cameras support using this 4GB compact flash card, but not Mr. Breen's. He does note that it works in his USB Media Reader attached to a PowerBook G4, shows up on the desktop as a 3.6GB volume.
For the iPod to support the WMA format in any form, would require Apple to license Windows Media from Microsoft, there-by cutting in Microsoft on Apple's whole gig. Basically knocking on Microsoft's door and saying
'hey, we've been making so much money on the iPod, we'd like to cut you in on the deal'
Fuck any of you who think Apple needs to cut Microsoft in on the iPod cash-cow. Microsoft doesn't deserve the money, the marketshare, and the propreitary Windows Media format is certainly not special enough to mandate being included on the iPod.
". ..You might make a case that the iPod could support unprotected WMA files, but this follow-up column from Thurrott shows that he's clearly talking about WMA files protected with Microsoft's proprietary DRM. How could it possibly benefit either HP or Apple to cut Microsoft in on this? They might as well pull down their pants and get out the Vaseline while they're at it."
Sorry to burst your bubble but this is most certainly not the default setting. The default setting is to hold down the Menu button for 2 seconds if you would like the backlight on. You can change the backlight settings if you want, which you obviously did to make it come on after any activity at all.
May we all live happily with our iPods, and may the Rio users never understand it.
I'm not trying to troll, really I'm not. But I have many home user clients, and can attest that most of them really have no desire/ability to change any default sayings unless I walk them through it.
But not allowing them to have control over their own computers and relying on someone else to install applications, rather than at their own convenience. I just don't think its right. The better method is to educate your users, I'm not expecting them to become geeks, or really care about it. But educating them on why not to install software like that, and reccomend software that you can trust.
While I do have home users of both Macs and Windows, I will say that this is far easier with the Mac users, because there really isnt much in the way of spyware, and malware that will do something harmful to the system.
Having Microsoft finally add this into their own web browser is a wonderful thing. It is long overdue, and I've had to answer the question "why doesnt internet explorer have pop-up blocking" and not have an answer, way too many times. I hope their is an announcement for a junk mail filter in their e-mail clients as well.
When was it that you applied last? I'm guessing you were under 21? Perhaps you should try again now that you are on your own. . . you are on your own, right?
My point is, i see no reason why your parents income should even be considered. Sign those loans, get your degree, get the hell out of Oregon (or sell services to companies in other parts of the country), and make that money.
Oh, and one more thing, sell yourself and do it well, because if you don't, someone else will do it for you, and you'll make less because of it.
Slashdot has a user base large enough to ACCIDENTLY crash most webservers. Accidently because we are not purposely being malicious, but it just so happens that there are enough people reading/., and clicking through to the article, that it can overload most servers not prepared for such traffic.
No,/. is not "one of the largest", in a top 10 sense, but it's deffinitely in the top 1000, and on a network of millions of websites, i'd say that's a pretty big deal.
Just because your grandma and grandpa dont know about it, doesnt mean its not mainstream.
I love the idea of having 802.11b (g would be even better) in a proffesional level Digital SLR. The examples cited here for photographers to automatically send their shots to clients, to their own computers for instant editing, are great.
But I would like to see a consumer digital camera with Bluetooth, not for file transfers though. It would be nice if it had that ability, but the practical applications that i'm thinking of is controling the digital camera with my computer and/or bluetooth capable cell phone. I'd want to be able to tell it to take a picture, zoom in, and generally control the comera's complete operating system via bluetooth.
Sony will probably do it first, because they seem to like bluetooth the most out of the various camera companies.
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You should give Crutchfield a try, they have great service, and a great selection of Car Stereo equipment. There are many head units that have AUX In these days, i have a great Panasonic head unit that i bought in 2000, and it has AUX In on the back. If you don't feel like digging through their website, just give them a call on the phone, their sales people know the products very well and can reccomend something for you and your car.
She was also involved in a rescent project with Ben Gifford of Death Cab for Cutie, called The Postal Service. I personally like all these bands mentioned, but to each his own if you dont.
Another interesting thing of note is that Pinsky from Salute Your Shorts is in Rilo Kiley as well, his name is Blake Soper
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Soper,%20Blake
Oh come on, this is a little silly. Lets not forget that the majority of the people on these networks are not geeks, and their eyes glaze over at the site of IRC, you can watch their heads spin as you explain bots.
All of these systems that they are trying to shut down are very simple to use. It brings piracy to the masses, not just the uber l33t groups.
If you would like to use OS X Server (or regular OS X) without the GUI, just use "console" as your login name in the login window, and any administrator password will work. Voila!
hate to destroy your little rant and all.....but the pismo didnt have AGP 2x. It does have an ATi Rage 128 Mobility with 8MB, which is the same as the original PowerBook G4 released in January of 2001.
either you have a poorly configured setup, or you just dont use your bandwith. I AVERAGED 500K/sec with @home, i peeked at 750K/sec. ATT Broadband has this lovely cap on me where i cant get any faster than 200K/sec. And dont tell me that 200K/sec is enough, thats like saying "why do you need ATA133, ATA33 should be enough for your needs". This isnt about need, its about want.
I actually wasnt trolling, i'm trying to stir some activity of some sort on this site, cause right now it's a ghost town.
i understand what you are saying, you are right, and you made some good points, but you are talking about turning off articles on the main site. People who just read the main site wont see the Apple articles, because in order to see the apple articles, you have to go to a seperate site. Why dont they have a seperate site for Windows news? i dont get it. Why cant it all be under the main site?
I'll understand if this gets modded down, but my intention isnt to be a troll or to be "flamebait".
I'm a huge mac guy, matter of fact, its all i am. but i think this new apple.slashdot.org site is a bad idea. all it is doing is seperating the Mac news from regular news, so we become second class citizens. Because apparently, Mac news is soo vastly different we have to have a seperate site.
its a slap in the face really, i mean at first glance it looks like its a great thing. "Slashdot cares so much about Apple they are going to have a seperate site". But in reality its just segregating us.
Perhaps someone at/. was tired of seeing Apple news on the site "all the time".
right. cause they are really marketing this towards college students. good job on picking that one up sonny.
They made this thing totally for the businessman, plain and simple. I work for a relatively small computer consulting company. All of our consultants are considering buying one of these just to make their lives a little more simple.
They know the price is high for college students, pre-schoolers, and bums on the street. But this is not a product for them, its a product for proffesionals.
good design? Have you looked at the kyocera? it's kind of a ugly piece of junk. i wouldnt want to carry it on me.
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Outsourced most of the work? how so? like they used other people's chipsets and hardware? go look at a Power Mac G4 logic board, its got Texas Instrument chip sets, motorola, IBM, and a few other smaller comapnies. apple really doesnt make many chipsets of their own, there was a time when they did more of that, but it was dumb and costly.
so yes they used outside hardware, as they do 90% of the time. so what did apple do themselves? well how about the design? how about putting it all together to work so perfectly? how about the easiest MP3 player interface ever to be released today!
ive heard many people talking about the archaos MP3 player, have you ever navigated through over 1000 songs on there, looking for one paticulair song? its a nightmare! apple knows interfaces, they are one of the best at it, its so easy with the ipod.
before i let ya go, id like to address your BOLD statement. "Apple did not make a $400 MP3 player so they could sell more $800 desktop computers". you are very right my friend, they did not do it to sell 800 dollar boxes, cause apple wishes they didnt even have to sell an 800 dollar box. they want this to increase the sale of iBooks and Power Books and Power Macs and top of the line iMacs. of course they are making some money off the iPod, but its all about selling macs, thats all its EVER about with Apple. i gurantee you that.
Ok, everyone keeps talking about the Nomad Jukebox and other similar players, and must of the crazy apple people have defended the iPod with it's other features.
but this crazy apple guy (that would be me) has a better defense....have you ever used the interface on the jukebox or other large MP3 players? they have horrible navigation, i cringe everytime at the idea of finding one paticulair song out of over a thousand on one of those players.
but the iPod is different, its taken a lot of influence from the iTunes software, the interface is intuitive easy to use and fast. You can sort by just about any tag, and furthermore it fully supports ID3 tags, not just ID3 v1.1, but all the way up to 2.3 i believe.
also, the iPod has a scroll wheel type thing on it to further help you navigate quickly.
maybe im insane, but ill take an overpriced, well designed, easy to use apple product any day over some cheap generic device.
are there any valid reasons why he'd like to stay away from macs? macs are more widely used in the recording industry than windows. they are excellent for what he needs, and are not complicated. im sorry maybe im being a typical mac user, but i dont see what's missing.
this is a recording studio we are talking about, if they are at all proffesional they dont need to be dealing with the normally non existant support on linux.
so unless the guy is a big linux geek, or the idea of being fired sounds good to him. i say a Power Mac 9600 running Mac OS 8.6 should do the trick.
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Many consulting companies in large cities would charge over $150 for that same work.
I am an ATT Wireless subscriber and they contacted me about my free upgrade to the Sony Ericsson T226 from my beloved T68i. I had already heard about the upgrade and checked out the feature set and told the ATT Representative that I was not interested. She said that was fine.
So let me repeat, because I have not seen this mentioned anywhere else, but I was told by an ATT Rep that there would be no consequence to keeping my old phone.
Just wanted to say that the iPod Mini's hard drive is the same compact flash situation as Creative's MuVo2.
As was documented by Christopher Breen of Macworld, the iPod Mini's hard drive is "encased in compact flash form". Some cameras support using this 4GB compact flash card, but not Mr. Breen's. He does note that it works in his USB Media Reader attached to a PowerBook G4, shows up on the desktop as a 3.6GB volume.
'hey, we've been making so much money on the iPod, we'd like to cut you in on the deal'
Fuck any of you who think Apple needs to cut Microsoft in on the iPod cash-cow. Microsoft doesn't deserve the money, the marketshare, and the propreitary Windows Media format is certainly not special enough to mandate being included on the iPod.
As quoted from John Gruber on this exact topic:
". . .You might make a case that the iPod could support unprotected WMA files, but this follow-up column from Thurrott shows that he's clearly talking about WMA files protected with Microsoft's proprietary DRM. How could it possibly benefit either HP or Apple to cut Microsoft in on this? They might as well pull down their pants and get out the Vaseline while they're at it."
Sorry to burst your bubble but this is most certainly not the default setting. The default setting is to hold down the Menu button for 2 seconds if you would like the backlight on. You can change the backlight settings if you want, which you obviously did to make it come on after any activity at all.
May we all live happily with our iPods, and may the Rio users never understand it.
I'm not trying to troll, really I'm not. But I have many home user clients, and can attest that most of them really have no desire/ability to change any default sayings unless I walk them through it.
But not allowing them to have control over their own computers and relying on someone else to install applications, rather than at their own convenience. I just don't think its right. The better method is to educate your users, I'm not expecting them to become geeks, or really care about it. But educating them on why not to install software like that, and reccomend software that you can trust.
While I do have home users of both Macs and Windows, I will say that this is far easier with the Mac users, because there really isnt much in the way of spyware, and malware that will do something harmful to the system.
Having Microsoft finally add this into their own web browser is a wonderful thing. It is long overdue, and I've had to answer the question "why doesnt internet explorer have pop-up blocking" and not have an answer, way too many times. I hope their is an announcement for a junk mail filter in their e-mail clients as well.
When was it that you applied last? I'm guessing you were under 21? Perhaps you should try again now that you are on your own. . . you are on your own, right?
My point is, i see no reason why your parents income should even be considered. Sign those loans, get your degree, get the hell out of Oregon (or sell services to companies in other parts of the country), and make that money.
Oh, and one more thing, sell yourself and do it well, because if you don't, someone else will do it for you, and you'll make less because of it.
Slashdot has a user base large enough to ACCIDENTLY crash most webservers. Accidently because we are not purposely being malicious, but it just so happens that there are enough people reading /., and clicking through to the article, that it can overload most servers not prepared for such traffic.
/. is not "one of the largest", in a top 10 sense, but it's deffinitely in the top 1000, and on a network of millions of websites, i'd say that's a pretty big deal.
No,
Just because your grandma and grandpa dont know about it, doesnt mean its not mainstream.
I love the idea of having 802.11b (g would be even better) in a proffesional level Digital SLR. The examples cited here for photographers to automatically send their shots to clients, to their own computers for instant editing, are great.
But I would like to see a consumer digital camera with Bluetooth, not for file transfers though. It would be nice if it had that ability, but the practical applications that i'm thinking of is controling the digital camera with my computer and/or bluetooth capable cell phone. I'd want to be able to tell it to take a picture, zoom in, and generally control the comera's complete operating system via bluetooth.
Sony will probably do it first, because they seem to like bluetooth the most out of the various camera companies.
You should give Crutchfield a try, they have great service, and a great selection of Car Stereo equipment. There are many head units that have AUX In these days, i have a great Panasonic head unit that i bought in 2000, and it has AUX In on the back. If you don't feel like digging through their website, just give them a call on the phone, their sales people know the products very well and can reccomend something for you and your car.
She was also involved in a rescent project with Ben Gifford of Death Cab for Cutie, called The Postal Service. I personally like all these bands mentioned, but to each his own if you dont. Another interesting thing of note is that Pinsky from Salute Your Shorts is in Rilo Kiley as well, his name is Blake Soper http://us.imdb.com/Name?Soper,%20Blake
As The Apple Turns makes sure to never take itself quite too seriously, i think that's what makes it best of all.
And at leas they admit it when they are reporting information from another rumor site. MacOSRumors and AppleInsider dont even give you that respect.
Strike that. Reverse it. Motorola calls it Altivec, and Apple calls it Velocity Engine.
Why use kazaa or napster?
Oh come on, this is a little silly. Lets not forget that the majority of the people on these networks are not geeks, and their eyes glaze over at the site of IRC, you can watch their heads spin as you explain bots.
All of these systems that they are trying to shut down are very simple to use. It brings piracy to the masses, not just the uber l33t groups.
We are fighting over convenience.
indeed.
If you would like to use OS X Server (or regular OS X) without the GUI, just use "console" as your login name in the login window, and any administrator password will work. Voila!
SWGS
hate to destroy your little rant and all.....but the pismo didnt have AGP 2x. It does have an ATi Rage 128 Mobility with 8MB, which is the same as the original PowerBook G4 released in January of 2001.
SWGS
either you have a poorly configured setup, or you just dont use your bandwith. I AVERAGED 500K/sec with @home, i peeked at 750K/sec. ATT Broadband has this lovely cap on me where i cant get any faster than 200K/sec. And dont tell me that 200K/sec is enough, thats like saying "why do you need ATA133, ATA33 should be enough for your needs". This isnt about need, its about want.
I actually wasnt trolling, i'm trying to stir some activity of some sort on this site, cause right now it's a ghost town.
i understand what you are saying, you are right, and you made some good points, but you are talking about turning off articles on the main site. People who just read the main site wont see the Apple articles, because in order to see the apple articles, you have to go to a seperate site. Why dont they have a seperate site for Windows news? i dont get it. Why cant it all be under the main site?
I'll understand if this gets modded down, but my intention isnt to be a troll or to be "flamebait".
I'm a huge mac guy, matter of fact, its all i am. but i think this new apple.slashdot.org site is a bad idea. all it is doing is seperating the Mac news from regular news, so we become second class citizens. Because apparently, Mac news is soo vastly different we have to have a seperate site.
/. was tired of seeing Apple news on the site "all the time".
its a slap in the face really, i mean at first glance it looks like its a great thing. "Slashdot cares so much about Apple they are going to have a seperate site". But in reality its just segregating us.
Perhaps someone at
This idea is gonna fail like eWorld baby!
right. cause they are really marketing this towards college students. good job on picking that one up sonny.
They made this thing totally for the businessman, plain and simple. I work for a relatively small computer consulting company. All of our consultants are considering buying one of these just to make their lives a little more simple.
They know the price is high for college students, pre-schoolers, and bums on the street. But this is not a product for them, its a product for proffesionals.
SWGS
good design? Have you looked at the kyocera? it's kind of a ugly piece of junk. i wouldnt want to carry it on me.
Outsourced most of the work? how so? like they used other people's chipsets and hardware? go look at a Power Mac G4 logic board, its got Texas Instrument chip sets, motorola, IBM, and a few other smaller comapnies. apple really doesnt make many chipsets of their own, there was a time when they did more of that, but it was dumb and costly.
so yes they used outside hardware, as they do 90% of the time. so what did apple do themselves? well how about the design? how about putting it all together to work so perfectly? how about the easiest MP3 player interface ever to be released today!
ive heard many people talking about the archaos MP3 player, have you ever navigated through over 1000 songs on there, looking for one paticulair song? its a nightmare! apple knows interfaces, they are one of the best at it, its so easy with the ipod.
before i let ya go, id like to address your BOLD statement. "Apple did not make a $400 MP3 player so they could sell more $800 desktop computers". you are very right my friend, they did not do it to sell 800 dollar boxes, cause apple wishes they didnt even have to sell an 800 dollar box. they want this to increase the sale of iBooks and Power Books and Power Macs and top of the line iMacs. of course they are making some money off the iPod, but its all about selling macs, thats all its EVER about with Apple. i gurantee you that.
Ok, everyone keeps talking about the Nomad Jukebox and other similar players, and must of the crazy apple people have defended the iPod with it's other features.
but this crazy apple guy (that would be me) has a better defense....have you ever used the interface on the jukebox or other large MP3 players? they have horrible navigation, i cringe everytime at the idea of finding one paticulair song out of over a thousand on one of those players.
but the iPod is different, its taken a lot of influence from the iTunes software, the interface is intuitive easy to use and fast. You can sort by just about any tag, and furthermore it fully supports ID3 tags, not just ID3 v1.1, but all the way up to 2.3 i believe.
also, the iPod has a scroll wheel type thing on it to further help you navigate quickly.
maybe im insane, but ill take an overpriced, well designed, easy to use apple product any day over some cheap generic device.
SWGS
are there any valid reasons why he'd like to stay away from macs? macs are more widely used in the recording industry than windows. they are excellent for what he needs, and are not complicated. im sorry maybe im being a typical mac user, but i dont see what's missing.
this is a recording studio we are talking about, if they are at all proffesional they dont need to be dealing with the normally non existant support on linux.
so unless the guy is a big linux geek, or the idea of being fired sounds good to him. i say a Power Mac 9600 running Mac OS 8.6 should do the trick.
SWGS