(I know a guy who has bought "Dark Side of the Moon" on 8-track, LP, cassette, and twice on CD)
He's in good company.
Thomas Dolby said in an interview: "I've bought six copies of [Pink Floyd's] Dark Side of the Moon over the years, but I don't happen to have a copy of it sitting where I am right now. I kind of like the idea that once I've paid for it, I have the right to dial it up. What I've paid for is the right to listen to that music -- once, or twice, or for life."
ButtonSwitcherPro is an utility to let you launch 24 favorite applications quickly and easily by hardware buttons and calculator silk button. You may assigned maximum 4 different applications to a single button for short tapping, and these 4 applications will be cycled each time you tap the button, or there 4 applications can be shown up for selection. And one application can be assigned to each single button for long pressing (>= 1 second pressing time).
There's been a solution for this in web browsers for years now:
User-defined custom CSS stylesheets.
With these, you can disable what you want, remove backgrounds, remove blink tags, and turn all text to Times New Roman.
Unfortunately, they haven't made it into e-mail clients yet (with the possible exception of Mozilla; I haven't checked this one).
I think HTML mail is great in principle, and nobody complains much about gaudy web pages with balloon backgrounds and blinking text, even though they're just as easy to make as gaudy e-mail messages. It's a social thing, not a technical thing. You ignore web pages that don't appeal to you; why not the same for e-mail?
Besides, text mail is (to me) a throwback to 1970... monospaced, 80x24 terminals. I know this is Slashdot and people love stuff like that, but it doesn't appeal to me.
Skinnier columns of text allows you to get away with less line-spacing (or leading) - the blank space between lines of text.
It's why newspapers have text crammed together, whereas manuscripts for novels (for instance) ask for one-and-a-half or double spacing... because the text goes all the way across the page.
(The extra spacing makes it easier for your eye to track from the end of one line to the start of the next.)
I'm not arguing which is better, just noting that you make the above out to be alot harder than it really is.
Not so. It's easy and obvious for you. It's easy and obvious for me. In fact, it's easy and obvious for most Slashdot readers out there.
The point of the original post is that it's confusing for large chunks of the population, and especially confusing for large chunks of the population who are in grade school, where they're learning it.
Put another way, at zero degrees C, liquid water stays liquid and ice stays ice. (This is a simplification, so if you respond and add detail, you're missing my point.)
This line of reasoning drives me crazy. For the last 20 years we have had an open, digital, non-DRM music standard which has succeded wildly. And yet now people are constantly praising FairPlay, because it is the least restrictive of the new DRM schemes... FairPlay is not the best DRM - no DRM is the best DRM.
FairPlay is the best DRM for people who realise that there should be a compromise between consumers and publishers. This is distinct from people who think that consumers should have all the rights and publishers none (disclaimer: extreme example used to make a point; not claiming that this represents anybody).
Most people using ADSL technology have upload speeds lower than download speeds. For example, 256/64 down/up, or 512/128. That's asymmetric - the 'A' in ADSL.
In BitTorrent, your download speed is theoretically capped to your upload speed (if you're sharing with a ratio of 1:1).
The labels have absolutely no need to listen to apple at all. period. the labels can say screw, and then apple is on their own with their cute little device.
Apple sold a hell of a lot of iPods before the iTunes Music Store came online. They are currently selling a hell of a lot of iPods in the 90% of the world that doesn't have an iTunes Music Store.
Sure, it's an important part of their strategy. But it's not like they're betting the farm on it.
This is faster as it does not need to send information between two processes using an IPC mechanism (the pipe) and it avoids unecessary computation ("grep filename" may be slower (depending on the grep implementation) than simple filename comparison a la fgrep).
It's also slower in the sense that you've got to do more typing. Most of the time, the limiting factor is in how much finger acrobatics you do, rather than the speed of your system.
Yes. Now... how many Mac OS X users use grep and pipes?
In some ways, Mac OS X is spitting in the face of Unix. It's taken the back-end subsystems, the kernel, the memory systems, etc. But as to the userland, which Dennis Ritchie and our beloved Slashdot readers hold so dear, Apple is throwing it out and telling us to use Mac tools instead. Aqua. iTunes. Safari.
Nobody else has pulled this off. Is this because it's not in the Unix culture to do it? If so, then Apple is spitting in the face of that culture.
Handspring have a flash rom on the treo because the current rom has bugs and they want the ability to update it. There's already been a flash update for early Treo 180 models. Once they iron out the bugs, they'll burn it in a masked rom for new models, and save money.
There is no space for user apps on the rom by default, the OS takes up all 4MB, but you can delete the foreign language apps to free up space
The rom is a toshiba type
There is 2MB (maybe 3MB, I forget) of flash on the mobile radio too.
Handspring have always admitted to having a flash rom, but do not support any utility which modifies it, the article is in one of their knowledge-base pages.
There probably won't be any major Palm OS upgrades in the foreseeable future, and almost certainly not for the Treo. Palm OS 5 won't run on it.
The search for a new splash screen is well-documented as http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32218. Note that the current splash screen may have legal implications, as mozilla.org may not have image rights to the green dinosaur... also well documented as http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28028. (Bugzilla doesn't liked being linked to from Slashdot, so copy and paste... and please don't slashdot 'em too bad.)
It was a necessary design decision; Mozilla.org simply doesn't have the resources needed to customise the GUI for every platform it supports. I see it this way: if they had to use native widgets, then the only platform that Mozilla would be programmed for would be Win32.
It's either emulated widgets or no Mozilla at all for Mac OS. (Yes, I believe that Mozilla may always be sub-par for Mac OS, but better that than nothing.)
Of course, Mozilla is open-source, so if anyone has the resources and motivation to program native widgets, please do so!
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Maybe Apple has found a way to pack two of them in each iPod!
Bring on 120GB...
He's in good company.
Thomas Dolby said in an interview: "I've bought six copies of [Pink Floyd's] Dark Side of the Moon over the years, but I don't happen to have a copy of it sitting where I am right now. I kind of like the idea that once I've paid for it, I have the right to dial it up. What I've paid for is the right to listen to that music -- once, or twice, or for life."
http://www.macworld.com/2000/09/features/trendssix /
A quick search at PalmGear found the following:
http://www.hiratte.com/bspro.html
There's been a solution for this in web browsers for years now:
User-defined custom CSS stylesheets.
With these, you can disable what you want, remove backgrounds, remove blink tags, and turn all text to Times New Roman.
Unfortunately, they haven't made it into e-mail clients yet (with the possible exception of Mozilla; I haven't checked this one).
I think HTML mail is great in principle, and nobody complains much about gaudy web pages with balloon backgrounds and blinking text, even though they're just as easy to make as gaudy e-mail messages. It's a social thing, not a technical thing. You ignore web pages that don't appeal to you; why not the same for e-mail?
Besides, text mail is (to me) a throwback to 1970... monospaced, 80x24 terminals. I know this is Slashdot and people love stuff like that, but it doesn't appeal to me.
Whilst we're on the trivial factoids:
Skinnier columns of text allows you to get away with less line-spacing (or leading) - the blank space between lines of text.
It's why newspapers have text crammed together, whereas manuscripts for novels (for instance) ask for one-and-a-half or double spacing... because the text goes all the way across the page.
(The extra spacing makes it easier for your eye to track from the end of one line to the start of the next.)
Not so. It's easy and obvious for you. It's easy and obvious for me. In fact, it's easy and obvious for most Slashdot readers out there.
The point of the original post is that it's confusing for large chunks of the population, and especially confusing for large chunks of the population who are in grade school, where they're learning it.
Put another way, at zero degrees C, liquid water stays liquid and ice stays ice. (This is a simplification, so if you respond and add detail, you're missing my point.)
FairPlay is the best DRM for people who realise that there should be a compromise between consumers and publishers. This is distinct from people who think that consumers should have all the rights and publishers none (disclaimer: extreme example used to make a point; not claiming that this represents anybody).
Most people using ADSL technology have upload speeds lower than download speeds. For example, 256/64 down/up, or 512/128. That's asymmetric - the 'A' in ADSL.
In BitTorrent, your download speed is theoretically capped to your upload speed (if you're sharing with a ratio of 1:1).
Apple sold a hell of a lot of iPods before the iTunes Music Store came online. They are currently selling a hell of a lot of iPods in the 90% of the world that doesn't have an iTunes Music Store.
Sure, it's an important part of their strategy. But it's not like they're betting the farm on it.
Argh, didn't mean to post that without qualifying it.
It's not an argument for being "purist" or "technically correct". Just a small observation. Also, by that criteria, locate is faster still.
It's also slower in the sense that you've got to do more typing. Most of the time, the limiting factor is in how much finger acrobatics you do, rather than the speed of your system.
Yes. Now... how many Mac OS X users use grep and pipes?
In some ways, Mac OS X is spitting in the face of Unix. It's taken the back-end subsystems, the kernel, the memory systems, etc. But as to the userland, which Dennis Ritchie and our beloved Slashdot readers hold so dear, Apple is throwing it out and telling us to use Mac tools instead. Aqua. iTunes. Safari.
Nobody else has pulled this off. Is this because it's not in the Unix culture to do it? If so, then Apple is spitting in the face of that culture.
Say you want to create a generic shape_array which you can only put shape objects in.
In Eiffel, you declare class SHAPE_ARRAY[G -> SHAPE].
In C++, you can't restrict the generic parameter. So you have to stoop to checking it at runtime using RTTI...
Handspring have a flash rom on the treo because the current rom has bugs and they want the ability to update it. There's already been a flash update for early Treo 180 models. Once they iron out the bugs, they'll burn it in a masked rom for new models, and save money.
There is no space for user apps on the rom by default, the OS takes up all 4MB, but you can delete the foreign language apps to free up space
The rom is a toshiba type
There is 2MB (maybe 3MB, I forget) of flash on the mobile radio too.
Handspring have always admitted to having a flash rom, but do not support any utility which modifies it, the article is in one of their knowledge-base pages.
There probably won't be any major Palm OS upgrades in the foreseeable future, and almost certainly not for the Treo. Palm OS 5 won't run on it.
The search for a new splash screen is well-documented as http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32218. Note that the current splash screen may have legal implications, as mozilla.org may not have image rights to the green dinosaur... also well documented as http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28028. (Bugzilla doesn't liked being linked to from Slashdot, so copy and paste... and please don't slashdot 'em too bad.)
An unofficial group to do a new splash screen is hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/splashzilla.
Ahh, whilst I'm here, why not a shameless plug. My own splash screen
Someone made the point that they spend more money making a film like Armageddon than they do actually looking for incoming rocks in space.
It was a necessary design decision; Mozilla.org simply doesn't have the resources needed to customise the GUI for every platform it supports. I see it this way: if they had to use native widgets, then the only platform that Mozilla would be programmed for would be Win32.
It's either emulated widgets or no Mozilla at all for Mac OS. (Yes, I believe that Mozilla may always be sub-par for Mac OS, but better that than nothing.)
Of course, Mozilla is open-source, so if anyone has the resources and motivation to program native widgets, please do so!