It's the iBoner. On sale Valentine's day 2007. Pre-announced by Steve recently. Syncs w/ iTunes and finds your highest BPM songs in iTunes, for well, obvious use.
As long as the ethernet port on the back of the thing is gigabit, I couldn't care what wifi chipset they have in the thing.
My ReplayTV already has cat5 going to it. So I'll either add another jack or add a cheap gigabit switch. No need to deal with wifi problems. Or if the ReplayTV dies (had it for years, it's started acting up lately, my wife's getting fed up with it) I'd just plop the iTV in place.
However, I'd still need to purchase something to capture the video to replace the ReplayTV. This'd be so much easier if the iTV had the ability to capture built into it and small hard drive to keep the capture and later xfer it to your main file server (ie machine running iTunes).
"Well you can just buy all the music again if your hard drive crashes, Sir" attitude.
I have seen plenty of posts by people who've lost it all, contacted the iTunes Store, and Apple let them re-download everything they'd purchased.
iTunes Music Store Says "In the event that a customers entire music library is lost, the iTunes Music Store does re-grant the purchases history. Please keep in mind that Apple does not offer protection against the loss of purchases, so this is a one-time exception."
Their TOS says they do not _have_ to let you do this. But it'd be a publicity nitemare if they didn't. However, it's obvious why they don't want many people doing this - bandwidth cost. Your single purchase covered all their costs (and the cost of the download). Now you're wanting to download again. Bandwidth ain't free.
Can you purchase a 'season subscription' to NPR to receive all their shows as podcasts? Now that would be sweet. Something like $40 for an entire year's worth.
This zune looks pretty nice. Not that I'd ever watch more then a music-video or clips people email (or snag off video-websites) on either the Zune or a video iPod. (I might put a DVD movie on it and play the movie to a friend's TV, however). The picture sharing looks very cool. However, most people I know either email, use flickr, or use their.mac account to share pictures with me. So cool yes, useful, not so much.
What concerns me is battery for both the big color screen and the wifi. I know when wifi's powered up on my laptop the battery doesn't last near as long.
But coming this product coming from MS? I find myself impressed. Especially after watching the Zune video on YouTube.
not that anyone ever actually bothers to contribute anything more than ideas and complaints
Perhaps if we heard from Taco about where the project's headed, what's needed, what's wanted. Explicitly point out how people can help (be blatently obvious here). Give people who are willing to develop more of a heads-up about what's around the bend. Maybe a monthly "this is the state of things". There's an entire slashcode-development listserv that is so very desperately underused.
Maybe if Taco started perusing, and posting to that list, it would garner more of the positive support we'd all like to see for the project.
And I mean information related to slashcode, not slashdot. Yes, they are obviously related, but they are not one in the same.
That brings up something I'd had thought about. What about a "if I'm using a mobile, I want these discussion default settings, otherwise I want _these_ settings".
That way if I'm using the damned tiny screen pda, if I hit a discussion thread, I can have it just show me the top N (say 10) most highly rated comments in flat mode in D1 and leave it at that.
IE doesn't work... but hey, only a quarter of you use it! Screw that attitude!
Look, it's an issue of resources. Developers cost money. They're only given so much of an allotment in the budget to hire quality codemonkeys. So you have them do as much as you can. And it's beta. It's not like they're saying "we're never going to support ie". Chill out.
That's how we hired our last one. By demonstrated-skillset, attitude and "seems like he'll fit in"-value.
I didn't give two squats about his resume's credentials. Though, his cover letter and what was mentioned on his resume did get his foot in the door for the first interview.
rsync to big external f/w ide hd's on a seperate box. depending on the data, daily backup, sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly. add int cvs repo's and tarballs of those and it's pretty easy to cron up. the lesser used f/w drives you can turn off between backup runs. you can pickup some fairly large ide drives and el cheapo enclosures to slap them in.
if you really want to be careful, you'd have a few to rotate and then you could drop one at the safe-deposit-box.
But going forward, Office 2004 for Mac will no longer be availble and no IT manager in his right mind will go with an office suite that doesn't support scripting.
No staffer within one of my departments has ever, to my knowledge, used the scripting capabilities within MS Office. That's over ~15 years that I've been doing this, and have worked at some fairly large places.
It's really not something that's used too often. Most people type a document, write a spreadsheet with a few formulas to add a few columns, avg's, etc. Create a graph. Maybe include the graph into a word doc. Maybe mailmerge it out to a bunch of people via email or snailmail.
The article title seems misleading. It's not just Ford, it's GM (and Mazda).
But this has been Ford's, and American auto manufacturer's problem. They're behind the times.
I bought a Ford Escape 2005 (in 2004) a few years ago. Asked if their stereos could handle the iPod (I already had an iTtrip). The sales guy says "a what". Ended up talking to the sales manager, discussed it with him. He bluffed that he knew what I was talking about.:(
While this is great news, in that it can only help sales, they should eat the cost and build it into every single auto they manufacture. The iPods are that prevalent that the small cost (and write-off) to them is relatively insignificant, compared to the positive sales and attitude towards the American manufacturer.
And yes, I come from a long line of family who's worked for Ford. It's depressing to see them doing so poorly. But that's another topic in and of itself.
My employment terms essentially say that any code of any sort that I create at any time (even after regular work-hours) during my period of employment belongs to my employer.
Is a contract such as that legal where you live? Enforcable/binding?
I've never worked where there was such a contract 'forced down your throat'. I can understand an employer not wanting an employee working on a competing product. But other then that, what they apparently have had you sign is ridiculous and should not be, in my world, binding.
I'm a semi-Apple fan and tend to buy some of their stuff. I bought the Mighty Mouse and I like it. Why?
* Right size and not painful. I have I guess average hands, and the mouse fits fine, as does my MS Intellimouse etc etc.
* You can't press left and right buttons at the same time! I've never had the need to do that, that I can recall. Ymmv. In X11 I use the option and cmd keys. But I think you're right, I'm trying it now and I haven't been able to click both at the same time.
* Squeeze click is just fine.
* Cable is ridiculously short
Fully agree with you here.
As for the mouse wheel, that's why I bought it. After trying it at the store, I thought "kickass". Been becoming more and more addicted to it's benefits each day.
Same here, till I started using the Mighty Mouse. Difficult to do if your keyboard (MS Ergo) doesn't have/isn't USB, and the machine is across the desk and down from you.
Maybe that's why they released the first version with such a short cord... frustrate everyone with that damned too-short cord so they'll buy the wireless version when it's released. Now that's marketing!
I wonder what the percentage of regular slashdot users who don't comment is.
I think it's quite high, more-so then you'd think. If you look in some of some of CmdrTaco's journals I think he talks about it a number of times. I've linked it, but I'm honestly too lazy to go back and try to find anything specific.
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It's the iBoner. On sale Valentine's day 2007. Pre-announced by Steve recently. Syncs w/ iTunes and finds your highest BPM songs in iTunes, for well, obvious use.
As long as the ethernet port on the back of the thing is gigabit, I couldn't care what wifi chipset they have in the thing.
My ReplayTV already has cat5 going to it. So I'll either add another jack or add a cheap gigabit switch. No need to deal with wifi problems. Or if the ReplayTV dies (had it for years, it's started acting up lately, my wife's getting fed up with it) I'd just plop the iTV in place.
However, I'd still need to purchase something to capture the video to replace the ReplayTV. This'd be so much easier if the iTV had the ability to capture built into it and small hard drive to keep the capture and later xfer it to your main file server (ie machine running iTunes).
I have seen plenty of posts by people who've lost it all, contacted the iTunes Store, and Apple let them re-download everything they'd purchased.
Their TOS says they do not _have_ to let you do this. But it'd be a publicity nitemare if they didn't. However, it's obvious why they don't want many people doing this - bandwidth cost. Your single purchase covered all their costs (and the cost of the download). Now you're wanting to download again. Bandwidth ain't free.
Moral of the story. Backup!!!
Incase you're wondering if the port on the thing will be physically similar to the iPod's, it doesn't look like it.
Pictures: small or large
Can you purchase a 'season subscription' to NPR to receive all their shows as podcasts? Now that would be sweet. Something like $40 for an entire year's worth.
I'm on my 2nd iPod, a 60GB 3G.
.mac account to share pictures with me. So cool yes, useful, not so much.
This zune looks pretty nice. Not that I'd ever watch more then a music-video or clips people email (or snag off video-websites) on either the Zune or a video iPod. (I might put a DVD movie on it and play the movie to a friend's TV, however). The picture sharing looks very cool. However, most people I know either email, use flickr, or use their
What concerns me is battery for both the big color screen and the wifi. I know when wifi's powered up on my laptop the battery doesn't last near as long.
But coming this product coming from MS? I find myself impressed. Especially after watching the Zune video on YouTube.
not that anyone ever actually bothers to contribute anything more than ideas and complaints
Perhaps if we heard from Taco about where the project's headed, what's needed, what's wanted. Explicitly point out how people can help (be blatently obvious here). Give people who are willing to develop more of a heads-up about what's around the bend. Maybe a monthly "this is the state of things". There's an entire slashcode-development listserv that is so very desperately underused.
Maybe if Taco started perusing, and posting to that list, it would garner more of the positive support we'd all like to see for the project.
And I mean information related to slashcode, not slashdot. Yes, they are obviously related, but they are not one in the same.
Anyway, that's my suggestion....
That brings up something I'd had thought about. What about a "if I'm using a mobile, I want these discussion default settings, otherwise I want _these_ settings".
That way if I'm using the damned tiny screen pda, if I hit a discussion thread, I can have it just show me the top N (say 10) most highly rated comments in flat mode in D1 and leave it at that.
Firefox can report that processing the Javascript has taken too long
A large discussion can throw httpd proxies/firewalls for a loop with the xfer size just being too damn big, too.
I'll even wager that people like us (who post to threads) are in the minority of the /. userbase.
;)
I recall seeing older Taco JE's where he's said exactly that. I'd search and link directly to one, if I weren't so lazy
here: Submit new bug to Slashcode's SF Homepage
IE doesn't work... but hey, only a quarter of you use it! Screw that attitude!
Look, it's an issue of resources. Developers cost money. They're only given so much of an allotment in the budget to hire quality codemonkeys. So you have them do as much as you can. And it's beta. It's not like they're saying "we're never going to support ie". Chill out.
That's how we hired our last one. By demonstrated-skillset, attitude and "seems like he'll fit in"-value.
I didn't give two squats about his resume's credentials. Though, his cover letter and what was mentioned on his resume did get his foot in the door for the first interview.
just has to be encouraged by the community (web devs) to happen over time
You've not worked in a corporate environment have you?
In an ideal world yeah, it'd be the webdev's or html jockies that could fix this with a bit of code and a few regex's and everything'd be a-ok.
Too bad that's not the case. Atleast, not the case anywhere I've ever worked.
Your assumption that a website is visual, is shortsighted.
Read this comment. The author is right on the money.
lifetime appointment judges
This is an entirely different topic, though I totally agree with you.
rsync to big external f/w ide hd's on a seperate box. depending on the data, daily backup, sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly. add int cvs repo's and tarballs of those and it's pretty easy to cron up. the lesser used f/w drives you can turn off between backup runs. you can pickup some fairly large ide drives and el cheapo enclosures to slap them in.
if you really want to be careful, you'd have a few to rotate and then you could drop one at the safe-deposit-box.
But going forward, Office 2004 for Mac will no longer be availble and no IT manager in his right mind will go with an office suite that doesn't support scripting.
No staffer within one of my departments has ever, to my knowledge, used the scripting capabilities within MS Office. That's over ~15 years that I've been doing this, and have worked at some fairly large places.
It's really not something that's used too often. Most people type a document, write a spreadsheet with a few formulas to add a few columns, avg's, etc. Create a graph. Maybe include the graph into a word doc. Maybe mailmerge it out to a bunch of people via email or snailmail.
That's it.
The article title seems misleading. It's not just Ford, it's GM (and Mazda).
:(
But this has been Ford's, and American auto manufacturer's problem. They're behind the times.
I bought a Ford Escape 2005 (in 2004) a few years ago. Asked if their stereos could handle the iPod (I already had an iTtrip). The sales guy says "a what". Ended up talking to the sales manager, discussed it with him. He bluffed that he knew what I was talking about.
While this is great news, in that it can only help sales, they should eat the cost and build it into every single auto they manufacture. The iPods are that prevalent that the small cost (and write-off) to them is relatively insignificant, compared to the positive sales and attitude towards the American manufacturer.
And yes, I come from a long line of family who's worked for Ford. It's depressing to see them doing so poorly. But that's another topic in and of itself.
Do they atleast let you download the presentation materials from other concurrent sessions?
Or download a video (or podcast) of it?
After shelling out the $ to attend the sessions, I would hope they'd do this.
One way to solve this would be for the server code to be open sourced,
Yes, but you still don't know what of the source has been patched, unless you've got admin access.
My employment terms essentially say that any code of any sort that I create at any time (even after regular work-hours) during my period of employment belongs to my employer.
Is a contract such as that legal where you live? Enforcable/binding?
I've never worked where there was such a contract 'forced down your throat'. I can understand an employer not wanting an employee working on a competing product. But other then that, what they apparently have had you sign is ridiculous and should not be, in my world, binding.
I'm a semi-Apple fan and tend to buy some of their stuff. I bought the Mighty Mouse and I like it. Why?
* Right size and not painful. I have I guess average hands, and the mouse fits fine, as does my MS Intellimouse etc etc.
* You can't press left and right buttons at the same time! I've never had the need to do that, that I can recall. Ymmv. In X11 I use the option and cmd keys. But I think you're right, I'm trying it now and I haven't been able to click both at the same time.
* Squeeze click is just fine.
* Cable is ridiculously short
Fully agree with you here.
As for the mouse wheel, that's why I bought it. After trying it at the store, I thought "kickass". Been becoming more and more addicted to it's benefits each day.
Same here, till I started using the Mighty Mouse. Difficult to do if your keyboard (MS Ergo) doesn't have/isn't USB, and the machine is across the desk and down from you.
Maybe that's why they released the first version with such a short cord... frustrate everyone with that damned too-short cord so they'll buy the wireless version when it's released. Now that's marketing!
I wonder what the percentage of regular slashdot users who don't comment is.
I think it's quite high, more-so then you'd think. If you look in some of some of CmdrTaco's journals I think he talks about it a number of times. I've linked it, but I'm honestly too lazy to go back and try to find anything specific.
I'm very happy with the two BackSlash stories that I've read this week.
I'll second that.