Amen to that. I really have to question the UI design on this one. Make something imperfect, and use an imperfect algorithm to guess what it should have been? Let's try this one again, Apple...
Sit at your desk. Now, the whole time you're normally at your computer, keep your hand suspended in the air touching the screen. This is why we don't see ubiquitous touch screens on computers. Hammer, problem, nail, etc.
1. My 99 Saturn has an alarm system. Press the key fob once to lock, press twice to arm. Except it ALWAYS went off if you did not use the remote to unlock it. If you used the key it would sound the alarm evIen if you didn't explicitly arm it. I eventually disabled it using a hack online involving jumping pins on the computer connector (it said the dealer could do it, but they insisted it would screw up my entire remote entry system - it didnt).
2. My dad's Samsung cell phone had a button on the outside. It adjusted the ringer volume when the phone was open. When it was closed, it automatically triggered silent mode. It was very easy to hit.
3. Is it really necessary to require me to push a button or tap the screen for the stupid "warning" about seizures on my DS? Display it with the logo and be done.
How do you turn it off? My RAZR and V557 before that both did it - even in silent mode it would beep for low battery. The worst was when it beeped loud enough to integrate the noise into my dreams but too soft to wake me up.
In addition to what the first reply to your post said, even if a person lives in a high sales tax state, they can order the item over the internet and not pay any tax, just shipping.
Unless the shipper has sales locations in the state the purchase is being made in. Like Dell has to charge sales tax cause of those mall kiosks.
In the words of Henry Drumond in Inherit the Wind, "I hate to think of the state our education system would be in if we all had your driving curiosity"
but didn't the FCC (or someone like them) pass a regulation saying that a person can change carriers without having to buy a new phone and could keep their old number?
They passed a law saying you must be able to transfer your number to another carrier. They never said anything about phones. Or exclusivity deals. You're also welcome to bring unlocked phones onto the network if they work (ie: you can't use a Verizon CDMA phone on a Cingular GSM network). No one's forcing you to give up your number or buy an iPhone when you sign up for Cingular.
Of course, Algore could just claim "no controlling legal authority...except Appleinc." to get around it.
Al Gore holds no office and has no power to levy laws.
Something tells me the target market for the Nintendo Wii and Dell Home computers isn't Joe Slashdot who wants to rack mount them, it's John Public who's gonna stick it in his home entertainment center.
I know real bartenders that can tell more about a person (age, if they are going to be a problem, who their friends are, what sports teams they like, blah, blah, blah) just by looking at them when they walk in the door. When you work in that business for a decade or two you start to get a feel for things. None of these bartenders rely on ID scanners.
We're not talking about where everybody knows your name. We're talking about The Boulevard Dive in your local college town that has constant people underage trying to get it. If they can say "look everyone we swiped in was over 21" then they're covered if the town tries to take their liquor license on such accusations.
As a circumsized male I'm not quite sure if you're basing this on fact or anecdotal evidence. I don't have any noticeable scar tissue (meaning that I've noticed), I have no problem w/ sensation during sex (cue but this is/. jokes), no problems masturbating w/ just my hand (again), or any other "oddities".
Print it out, grab an envelope out of the drawer, stick a stamp on it (if you're not sure if it's gone up since your last mailing, stick 2 for good measure), put it in your outside mailbox and put the flag up.
See? Much simpler when you don't make it a 5 step list process with extraneous steps like reminiscing.
That's because it was before the bigwigs realized that if you put something on TV, the masses will demand it in stores so they can buy it... thus making them more money than Bill Gates, or Jesus.
Yeah, because there was absolutely no product placement on television in the 1950s. They didn't throw commercials into the dialog at all.
2. It will be designed to work with Apple's true video iPod player (aka vPod), as some have suggested for its name).
Now that's just stupid. If Apple was going to call it a vPod, then the original iPod would have been called an mPod or tPod. The i is from the branding they use for most all their consumer products - iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iMac - and the Pod is a name that, as we are seeing, was intended to allow future expansion beyond music (remember everyone asking about the 1G why it was called iPod and not iMusic or iWalkman or something to that effect).
Why is everyone telling him to buy his dad a Mac and put Linux on it? that makes no sense at all.
Buy a mac mini and cheap LCD or an iMac. Get OS X updated and ready to go. Create a new account with "Simple Finder" enabled. Give your dad access to Safari, Mail, Text Edit, QuickTime, and maybe Chess. Plus any other apps you feel would be useful. Keep the administrator account on there, and when it needs updating come over and do it.
Given that in the past a person was booted off a plane for refusing to shut off his cellphone (which was really a lighter) I'm not confident in airplane mode keeping crews happy
One anecdotal piece of evidence does not represent airplanes as a whole.
I guess thats why they banned lighters now.
Yeah, it's such a good idea allowing fire-making devices in a closed in space where there's compressed oxygen as well. If you can't smoke on a plane you have no good reason for a lighter.
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Amen to that. I really have to question the UI design on this one. Make something imperfect, and use an imperfect algorithm to guess what it should have been? Let's try this one again, Apple...
Sit at your desk. Now, the whole time you're normally at your computer, keep your hand suspended in the air touching the screen. This is why we don't see ubiquitous touch screens on computers. Hammer, problem, nail, etc.
Have you played Open TTD? There are plenty of places you can erm acquire the tilesets for it.
Switch to detail view in the finder. Press CMD+J. Check "Calculate all sizes"
1. My 99 Saturn has an alarm system. Press the key fob once to lock, press twice to arm. Except it ALWAYS went off if you did not use the remote to unlock it. If you used the key it would sound the alarm evIen if you didn't explicitly arm it. I eventually disabled it using a hack online involving jumping pins on the computer connector (it said the dealer could do it, but they insisted it would screw up my entire remote entry system - it didnt).
2. My dad's Samsung cell phone had a button on the outside. It adjusted the ringer volume when the phone was open. When it was closed, it automatically triggered silent mode. It was very easy to hit.
3. Is it really necessary to require me to push a button or tap the screen for the stupid "warning" about seizures on my DS? Display it with the logo and be done.
How do you turn it off? My RAZR and V557 before that both did it - even in silent mode it would beep for low battery. The worst was when it beeped loud enough to integrate the noise into my dreams but too soft to wake me up.
Yeah, all the 12 year olds I know are using Konqueror/KDEwallet and Firefox.
Oh wait, they're all using IE6 and whoever was at the computer when IE asked if you wanted to remember all passwords probably just hit yes.
Unless the shipper has sales locations in the state the purchase is being made in. Like Dell has to charge sales tax cause of those mall kiosks.
How's the serenity?
In the words of Henry Drumond in Inherit the Wind, "I hate to think of the state our education system would be in if we all had your driving curiosity"
Well, with the camera on the back and screen on the front it wouldn't be much of a video conference now would it?
Alright
They passed a law saying you must be able to transfer your number to another carrier. They never said anything about phones. Or exclusivity deals.
You're also welcome to bring unlocked phones onto the network if they work (ie: you can't use a Verizon CDMA phone on a Cingular GSM network).
No one's forcing you to give up your number or buy an iPhone when you sign up for Cingular.
Al Gore holds no office and has no power to levy laws.
It won't be called iTV because it's too similar to Elgato's EyeTV product.
It won't be called iTV because Steve Jobs said it wouldn't, and he's the guy who gets to make that decision (being CEO and all).
Something tells me the target market for the Nintendo Wii and Dell Home computers isn't Joe Slashdot who wants to rack mount them, it's John Public who's gonna stick it in his home entertainment center.
Seriously now
I know real bartenders that can tell more about a person (age, if they are going to be a problem, who their friends are, what sports teams they like, blah, blah, blah) just by looking at them when they walk in the door. When you work in that business for a decade or two you start to get a feel for things. None of these bartenders rely on ID scanners.
We're not talking about where everybody knows your name. We're talking about The Boulevard Dive in your local college town that has constant people underage trying to get it. If they can say "look everyone we swiped in was over 21" then they're covered if the town tries to take their liquor license on such accusations.
As a circumsized male I'm not quite sure if you're basing this on fact or anecdotal evidence. I don't have any noticeable scar tissue (meaning that I've noticed), I have no problem w/ sensation during sex (cue but this is /. jokes), no problems masturbating w/ just my hand (again), or any other "oddities".
Print it out, grab an envelope out of the drawer, stick a stamp on it (if you're not sure if it's gone up since your last mailing, stick 2 for good measure), put it in your outside mailbox and put the flag up.
See? Much simpler when you don't make it a 5 step list process with extraneous steps like reminiscing.
That's because it was before the bigwigs realized that if you put something on TV, the masses will demand it in stores so they can buy it... thus making them more money than Bill Gates, or Jesus.
Yeah, because there was absolutely no product placement on television in the 1950s. They didn't throw commercials into the dialog at all.
Now that's just stupid. If Apple was going to call it a vPod, then the original iPod would have been called an mPod or tPod. The i is from the branding they use for most all their consumer products - iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iMac - and the Pod is a name that, as we are seeing, was intended to allow future expansion beyond music (remember everyone asking about the 1G why it was called iPod and not iMusic or iWalkman or something to that effect).
The fact the only DRM'd tracks in iTunes are those you buy from the iTMS which are not in MP3 format?
Why is everyone telling him to buy his dad a Mac and put Linux on it? that makes no sense at all.
Buy a mac mini and cheap LCD or an iMac.
Get OS X updated and ready to go.
Create a new account with "Simple Finder" enabled. Give your dad access to Safari, Mail, Text Edit, QuickTime, and maybe Chess. Plus any other apps you feel would be useful.
Keep the administrator account on there, and when it needs updating come over and do it.
No, could care less is the proper phrase. It's meant to be ironic. You know, like rain on your wedding day or a free ride when you already paid?
Just like it was going to vanish in 2006?
And 2004?
And 2002?
Time Machine != System Restore
.mac than Windows System Restore
Time Machine is more akin to the Backup.app offered with
One anecdotal piece of evidence does not represent airplanes as a whole.
Yeah, it's such a good idea allowing fire-making devices in a closed in space where there's compressed oxygen as well. If you can't smoke on a plane you have no good reason for a lighter.