Rubbish, quite frankly. First off - he never claimed to invent it, in fact he showed competing flash-based devices such as the Rio at the launch speech. Second, comparing a 5Gb hard drive-based machine to a 32Mb (or 64Mb later I believe) Diamond Rio that could barely hold an album is silly. Remember the original marketing - 1,000 songs in your pocket? None of the other carry'able portables could do that - this is what Taco missed with his now-legendary "less space than a Nomad" comment. The Nomad was..err..20Gb from memory (could be wrong) but it was CD player-sized, not just fittable into a trouser pocket.
Next up is the interface. It's hard to remember now, but this was a head and shoulders above everything both in the way you chose a track and also in the way you interacted with your computer. iTunes was good in those days. Ripping a CD and putting it onto your portable player was made easy for non-technical people, and the store later made it easier still.
I was sooo close to buying one of those. Decided not to in the end, and then when the iPod came out I realised "£400 and I'll never have to listen to that annoying guy behind me ever again".
Bought that, a firewire interface for my PC and a piece of third party code (Xsomethingorother) that allowed you to treat it like a folder on a PC. Never looked back.
Yes, I just use https://www.bing.com/news/. Primarily read on a laptop rather than mobile, but then the same was true for Google News. On mobile I mostly use an RSS reader to collate multiple sources.
In fact Google recently pushed me over to Bing with their terrible, terrible Google News re'design'. It's truly awful, and Bing News is closer to the older Google News layout so off I went.
Because they exposed Windows features early to Office, and also allowed them to use private APIs. This gave MS Office an advantage over Joe Schmo Office that could never be pulled back. Not a problem in a non-monopoly situation, however Microsoft were, and indeed still are, in a monopoly situation. It was an abuse of that monopoly.
Which recommended explicitly to split MS into two companies - an OS company and an applications company- specifically to stop this kind of bundling from taking place and disadvantaging competitive companies.
I'm using an iPad 2 as a digital radio, via the TuneIn app and sat on a JBL speaker dock. Works well and is more functional than most digital radios you can get, plus I can still use youtube, look up a few things on Safari if necessary and it has reminders/calendar etc.. Makes a good kitchen 'computer'.
Virgin Mobile in the UK spent a good while trying to persuade me not to get an iPhone a few years back, because they didn't carry it or support it. I was interested in their four service bundle (internet, TV, home phone, mobile) at the time as well.
Still irritating to me that so few carriers in the UK fully support the iPhone - am specifically thinking Visual Voicemail here, and also native wifi calling as opposed to "here - download our horrible underdeveloped and intrusive app instead!". It was the O2 god-awful app (TuGo?) that finally pushed me off that network after having been on since the launch of the iPhone 3GS.
Well, "what kind of security enhancements" covers the existence of SMB v3. It's not surprising that v1 might not be up to modern security - it was written for a different time.
It's almost certainly an internal corporate division problem. I'll bet internal processes and/or corporate divisions meant that it was easier for one department to create an entirely new website with their own servers etc. than it was to get Samsung's corporate website, or more accurately the DNS for such, altered by the other project team.
Interesting. I'm in the UK and the prices vary enormously. I was thinking of this one, which is relatively cheap.
However I also had a person come round from a robot mower specialist, Autolawn. They recommended one about double the price, and said the reason was reliability. That seems to tie in with what you're saying.
In my case I'd also need to get outside power fitted, and in two lawns as well. The main problem for me though would be the dogs - the garden needs manual clearing, and a lot of it, which means all the nice scheduling and "mow at night" stuff just goes out of the window. A machine that could cope with dog dirt would be superb.
Aah - and immediately I post, I find the answer in one of the Kickstarter FAQs:
Will Tertill work on my lawn? Tertill is designed for home vegetable and flower gardens. Because it uses a hieght based approach, it is not suitable for use on grass.
OK, sold status rescinded. I need something that would handle grass, and I suspect many more people would as well.
Taking your comment po-faced (which yeah, I shouldn't be doing...) actually, I have been asking my children to help out more in the garden right now. For straight mowing it's easy, for hedge trimming I do the hedges and they load into the bins.
But weeding? Weeding is a bit more awkward and is rarely done by anybody with any great diligence. I also back on to a farmer's field, so I get a lot of stuff making its way over. Yeah - weeding for an inexpensive price I can see happening.
As I say, only real trouble I can think of is dogs. I have three, and the garden needs an amount of diligence because of it.
Last, but pretty major, concern would be grass. The video showa it working on dirt only, not on grass. It's saying the detection mechanism is 1 inch = weed - well, how about slightly overgrown grass? Would it sort that out or would it just spend its entire life trying to cut the grass? The video doesn't mention grass once, which does make me a bit suspicious.
I've been looking at robot lawnmowers recently. They require a bit more fuss than standard indoor robot vacs in that you need to lay guide borders and have outdoor power going to them.
That said, they're reasonably economical if viewed over a two year period vs a gardener. The downside is though - just mowing. So you're still left doing the weeding etc. yourself (or paying extra for a gardener).
Next step - add me a feature that can detect dog dirt and deal with it too. I would pay a lot for an outdoor-does-it-all device.
It seems to be if an alert is already triggered. Again it's not consistent, but it seems that if an alert has gone off and you then tell it to add a reminder for a different time, it updates the time of the triggered alert rather than add a new one.
It's not consistent, and the above is very trial and error. It's damned frustrating though.
I've noticed this too: "Add new reminder for 7pm today". Answer: "OK, I've updated your reminder". Aaargh - what have you done? What reminder have you changed? Wasn't the phrase "add new" enough for you?
This is an interesting one - their Pro base has a lot of music writers in it, and a lot of virtual instrements including major ones like Sylenth etc. are still 32bit only. Now previously there was a wrapper available that added a 64->32bit compatibility layer, but if I can't launch my 32 bit plugin at in the first place then such a wrapper is kind of pointless.
Could lose a lot of music production-related stuff this way.
Agreed. You get the feeling this is likely by accident though - some BSD library included that had support already or something. Reason for thinking that is that support doesn't actually appear in the music apps, but just in the Files app.
Oh yes, agreed. Just noting that the practical usefulness of these schemes are higher than standard card contactless, because you can avoid the £30 limit.
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Rubbish, quite frankly. First off - he never claimed to invent it, in fact he showed competing flash-based devices such as the Rio at the launch speech. Second, comparing a 5Gb hard drive-based machine to a 32Mb (or 64Mb later I believe) Diamond Rio that could barely hold an album is silly. Remember the original marketing - 1,000 songs in your pocket? None of the other carry'able portables could do that - this is what Taco missed with his now-legendary "less space than a Nomad" comment. The Nomad was..err..20Gb from memory (could be wrong) but it was CD player-sized, not just fittable into a trouser pocket.
Next up is the interface. It's hard to remember now, but this was a head and shoulders above everything both in the way you chose a track and also in the way you interacted with your computer. iTunes was good in those days. Ripping a CD and putting it onto your portable player was made easy for non-technical people, and the store later made it easier still.
There are reasons it became so dominant.
I was sooo close to buying one of those. Decided not to in the end, and then when the iPod came out I realised "£400 and I'll never have to listen to that annoying guy behind me ever again".
Bought that, a firewire interface for my PC and a piece of third party code (Xsomethingorother) that allowed you to treat it like a folder on a PC. Never looked back.
Yes, I just use https://www.bing.com/news/. Primarily read on a laptop rather than mobile, but then the same was true for Google News. On mobile I mostly use an RSS reader to collate multiple sources.
In fact Google recently pushed me over to Bing with their terrible, terrible Google News re'design'. It's truly awful, and Bing News is closer to the older Google News layout so off I went.
They weren't though - I had a first gen one and took it back to get the Voodoo. It was very underpowered in comparison.
Why did you remind me that existed? Why?
Sorry - I'm not rerunning a 17 year-old court case for you. It's all in the documents - really not sure why the aggression.
Because they exposed Windows features early to Office, and also allowed them to use private APIs. This gave MS Office an advantage over Joe Schmo Office that could never be pulled back. Not a problem in a non-monopoly situation, however Microsoft were, and indeed still are, in a monopoly situation. It was an abuse of that monopoly.
Which recommended explicitly to split MS into two companies - an OS company and an applications company- specifically to stop this kind of bundling from taking place and disadvantaging competitive companies.
Oh well.
Oh god please shut it down. So many DMARC issues if you're running a mailing list.
I'm using an iPad 2 as a digital radio, via the TuneIn app and sat on a JBL speaker dock. Works well and is more functional than most digital radios you can get, plus I can still use youtube, look up a few things on Safari if necessary and it has reminders/calendar etc.. Makes a good kitchen 'computer'.
Virgin Mobile in the UK spent a good while trying to persuade me not to get an iPhone a few years back, because they didn't carry it or support it. I was interested in their four service bundle (internet, TV, home phone, mobile) at the time as well.
Still irritating to me that so few carriers in the UK fully support the iPhone - am specifically thinking Visual Voicemail here, and also native wifi calling as opposed to "here - download our horrible underdeveloped and intrusive app instead!". It was the O2 god-awful app (TuGo?) that finally pushed me off that network after having been on since the launch of the iPhone 3GS.
Well, "what kind of security enhancements" covers the existence of SMB v3. It's not surprising that v1 might not be up to modern security - it was written for a different time.
It's almost certainly an internal corporate division problem. I'll bet internal processes and/or corporate divisions meant that it was easier for one department to create an entirely new website with their own servers etc. than it was to get Samsung's corporate website, or more accurately the DNS for such, altered by the other project team.
Interesting. I'm in the UK and the prices vary enormously. I was thinking of this one, which is relatively cheap.
However I also had a person come round from a robot mower specialist, Autolawn. They recommended one about double the price, and said the reason was reliability. That seems to tie in with what you're saying.
In my case I'd also need to get outside power fitted, and in two lawns as well. The main problem for me though would be the dogs - the garden needs manual clearing, and a lot of it, which means all the nice scheduling and "mow at night" stuff just goes out of the window. A machine that could cope with dog dirt would be superb.
Aah - and immediately I post, I find the answer in one of the Kickstarter FAQs:
Will Tertill work on my lawn?
Tertill is designed for home vegetable and flower gardens. Because it uses a hieght based approach, it is not suitable for use on grass.
OK, sold status rescinded. I need something that would handle grass, and I suspect many more people would as well.
Taking your comment po-faced (which yeah, I shouldn't be doing...) actually, I have been asking my children to help out more in the garden right now. For straight mowing it's easy, for hedge trimming I do the hedges and they load into the bins.
But weeding? Weeding is a bit more awkward and is rarely done by anybody with any great diligence. I also back on to a farmer's field, so I get a lot of stuff making its way over. Yeah - weeding for an inexpensive price I can see happening.
As I say, only real trouble I can think of is dogs. I have three, and the garden needs an amount of diligence because of it.
Last, but pretty major, concern would be grass. The video showa it working on dirt only, not on grass. It's saying the detection mechanism is 1 inch = weed - well, how about slightly overgrown grass? Would it sort that out or would it just spend its entire life trying to cut the grass? The video doesn't mention grass once, which does make me a bit suspicious.
I've been looking at robot lawnmowers recently. They require a bit more fuss than standard indoor robot vacs in that you need to lay guide borders and have outdoor power going to them.
That said, they're reasonably economical if viewed over a two year period vs a gardener. The downside is though - just mowing. So you're still left doing the weeding etc. yourself (or paying extra for a gardener).
Next step - add me a feature that can detect dog dirt and deal with it too. I would pay a lot for an outdoor-does-it-all device.
Not so - patch your kernals now!
It seems to be if an alert is already triggered. Again it's not consistent, but it seems that if an alert has gone off and you then tell it to add a reminder for a different time, it updates the time of the triggered alert rather than add a new one.
It's not consistent, and the above is very trial and error. It's damned frustrating though.
Not sure "releasing yet another Android phone, this time with a camera obscuring the screen" is necessary technological disruption...
I've noticed this too: "Add new reminder for 7pm today". Answer: "OK, I've updated your reminder". Aaargh - what have you done? What reminder have you changed? Wasn't the phrase "add new" enough for you?
This is an interesting one - their Pro base has a lot of music writers in it, and a lot of virtual instrements including major ones like Sylenth etc. are still 32bit only. Now previously there was a wrapper available that added a 64->32bit compatibility layer, but if I can't launch my 32 bit plugin at in the first place then such a wrapper is kind of pointless.
Could lose a lot of music production-related stuff this way.
Agreed. You get the feeling this is likely by accident though - some BSD library included that had support already or something. Reason for thinking that is that support doesn't actually appear in the music apps, but just in the Files app.
Oh yes, agreed. Just noting that the practical usefulness of these schemes are higher than standard card contactless, because you can avoid the £30 limit.