The article doesn't blame MS, it just says that it's hurting Vista, and I agree.
Also, one positive change to activation on Vista over XP is that you can actually install your Vista without the key, and it will work (for 30 days) without any problem whatsoever. That should be more than enough time to locate your misplaced key, or contact someone back at home if you're (for some reason) installing an OS on the road. Additionally, if you had, say, the Basic Version, you could test drive the Ultimate version, although you'd have to completely reinstall afterward since there is no way to retroactively change the install version upon activation, AFAIK.
Vista does appear unfinished, even in RTM form. A few examples that I found are: Terrible driver support, although that's not strictly MS's fault (Hauppauge, I'm looking in your general direction). The button to lock WMP to fullscreen is easily overridden with CTRL-ALT-DEL (not sure what the purpose of that is to begin with though). The horizontal layout in Vista Media Center is horrible for browsing media, and with only thumbnails and no title until you select something (hey, let's take x000 years of 99% of the planet reading left to right, top to bottom, and turn it on its side.. oh, and let's throw out the labels. Good luck finding that video now!).
Looks like it would be marginally acceptable, but I have a GSM carrier and I'm on a contract. Even if I wasn't, I'd still prefer GSM for the portability when traveling.
The reality is that there should be a plethera of phones on the market that meet the minimal feature set I want, but manufacturers/providers are too busy trying to create artifical markets by limiting their product features and cripping their phones. I'm hopeful that, eventually, the market will realize that people want ease of portability (from one device to another), and someone will cater to the demand.
1) The Americas aren't, as believed by Columbus, east India. That doesn't change the fact that the term caught on, just like "chips" caught on in England, or any other regional dialectal examples you care to think of. 2) Its primary definition is different in non-American English. That doesn't change the fact that the original poster was, apparently, American, just like the poster who wrote about "Marks & Sparks" yesterday was apparently English.
It simply evolved to encompass a different group of people than it did originally.
Words are nothing more than verbal utterances agreed upon by a significant amount of people to represent and object or idea. They're inherently and involuntarily democratic, and they change over time. If a majority of people decide they mean one thing, then that's what they mean.
I agree that it's needlessly unspecific to use the term "Indian," but to say it's culturally insensitive is like saying that German is culturally insensitive because Germans call themselves Deutsch.
Yeah! And all those people who would want to, perhaps, carry a spare, or charge one while using the other are just plain crazy. Crazy, I tell you!
Hell, I have 3 (proprietary) batteries for my camera, and I barely use it. But when I do, I don't want to have to worry about the batteries going dead. Sure, I could probably find an outlet somewhere to recharge it, but it's about convenience, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but I sort of thought convenience was the whole point of a portable product.
Replace solder with contacts, and add a latch. It's really not that difficult -- every wireless remote control in the history of mankind has had one, including the one that fits in the ExpressCard slot of my laptop. On the other hand, the battery eventually goes out, and people are then forced to make a decision -- pay to replace it, or buy a shiny new iPod.
The honest truth is -- and it's not wrong, it's just the way it is -- Apple wants to sell more products. If they made the battery replacable, third party batteries would saturate the market, and Apple's marketshare for them would be next to nothing -- but they'd still have to sell the batteries to support the product.
As for the lack of an FM tuner: that would add bulk to the iPods, and probably wouldn't be used by many users anyway.
This sort of bulk? The thing fits on the cord of the headphones. I'm fairly certain that it would be even smaller if it had no controls on it. Honestly, if they can fit an FM tuner in this, and this, they can fit one in an iNormous-pod. I'm also fairly certain, although I could be wrong, that it would be used by AT LEAST all the people who have bought the tuner, which is likely a significant amount of people, otherwise they probably wouldn't be selling it.
Just because someone has an agenda doesn't mean what they are saying is false, nor does a lack of agenda (as if there were such a thing) provide any greater liklihood of discovering truth. It is, as the GP said, mostly irrelevant. Determining an agenda might explain WHY they want you to know something, but it lends no value to the argument's valididity, or lack thereof.
As a US citizen living overseas, I had similar confusion when reading the title.
Nonetheless, the term "indians" is commonly used to refer to indigenous Americans in the US. Whether it's technically right or wrong has no bearing on the word's connotation. Fries do not at all resemble any form of something that has been chipped, yet the English still call them chips. It's not wrong, it just different.
You can download songs only through the included USB cable. There's no way to transfer iTunes music wirelessly, you can't listen to music through a Bluetooth headset, and you can't use iTunes tracks as ring tones. The strict 100-song storage limit hasn't changed either, and all songs must be saved on the TransFlash card, assuming you haven't filled it up with a lot of other data. And forget the idea of storing more music on the phone's skimpy 5MB of integrated memory--it just isn't possible. So in other words, don't get too excited about circumventing the inadequate 100-song cap. Like the Rokr, the Slvr L7 also connects with only one computer at a time. When we tried connecting to a second computer, the Slvr L7, like the Rokr E1, erased all our previously loaded songs.http://reviews.cnet.com/Motorola_Slvr_L7/4505-6454 _7-31313329.html
So it would seem you couldn't just pop in a (micro) SD card with mp3s on it and go. Even worse, it's only USB 1.1.
From what I've read, it has a 100 song limit, and the file format (or perhaps filesystem format) is proprietary, meaning you couldn't just swap the card to another device. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't want a line-out, and I don't want to use proprietary software just to make a few MP3s portable. Copy, paste, done. Pop the SD card into my car stereo, go to work, plug it into the phone, go to the gym, back to the car for the drive home, put it in my camera to take some pictures, and then to the computer. Works on Windows, works on Linux, and I can even put data on it if I need/want to.
The opposition must have had technological morons as lawyers. There's got to be prior art on this. Modulated radio itself is just a way to "exchange large amounts of information wirelessly at high speed" -- a wireless network is simply a specific use of radio, and it's not as if wireless networking itself didn't exist before the 1990s. Military communications spring immediately to mind -- TADIL/Link 11 has been around since AT LEAST the 80s. Just because you use change it to "home or office" use doesn't mean something new has been created (or thought of, in this case). It's like patenting invisible pink unicorn saddles**.
* Yeah, I know the Al Gore thing is a misquote, it's just a joke. ** Yeah, I also know the invisible pink unicorn would NEVER allow itself to be saddled.
I just want a phone with an SD slot, quality playback, and decent folder navigation. The only time I listen to music on a portable player is at the gym, so I just want to be able to pop the card out of my PC and into my phone/MP3 player. I don't want to carry around seperate devices, I don't want to have to remember to charge a player I only use a few days a week, and I don't need a goddamned computer-in-a-phone. For the love of God, SD cards are up to 8GB now. It's the simplest and fastest way to transfer music, but almost nobody's supporting it because they all want you to use their proprietary crap, or pay-to-download, etc. I finally found a decent car stereo with SD support, but as far as I've seen, the phones that do have SD slots are all full-blown SmartPhones (sic) with some craptastic keyboard and/or a huge display that's just begging to get broken/scratched if I were to put it in my pocket.
Maybe I should just start my own company, use someone else's VC to fund it, and if it fails, at least I'll have exactly what I wanted.
So you change 1 point or 1 LSB on a texture. The entire hash changes and the protection is completely circumvented.
It would require something much more process intensive, such as similarity matching. That would be a PITA as well, since it would be much less process intensive to modify the object, but make it look the same, and if the comparison points are too broad, it could block anything that's even remotely similar -- all spheres, as a simple example.
Right, I believe this is legitimate.. some people just see it as a slippery slope. I think it's just a regular slope and we have to make sure it doesn't go to far. I think there will be a backlash as soon as someone tries to hide these things. They'll subsequently be removed, and as a direct result, the earth will keep spinning.
But there are some other necessities that need to be addressed, like reinforcing of the magnetic field during solar flares, the crater's proximity to other elements for the production of power and water, and the need for solar power.
Also what do to when whatever made the crater in the first place comes back!
who's up for a "no kids" airline? I'd definitely pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure there aren't any crying babies onboard.
They already have those -- they're called charter planes -- but they cost a lot more than $10 extra. I doubt any carrrier would willingly drop families as potential customers. I have no idea of the numbers, but I'd wager that vacationing families make up a significant portion of travelers. In short: Good luck with that.
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The article doesn't blame MS, it just says that it's hurting Vista, and I agree.
Also, one positive change to activation on Vista over XP is that you can actually install your Vista without the key, and it will work (for 30 days) without any problem whatsoever. That should be more than enough time to locate your misplaced key, or contact someone back at home if you're (for some reason) installing an OS on the road. Additionally, if you had, say, the Basic Version, you could test drive the Ultimate version, although you'd have to completely reinstall afterward since there is no way to retroactively change the install version upon activation, AFAIK.
Vista does appear unfinished, even in RTM form. A few examples that I found are: Terrible driver support, although that's not strictly MS's fault (Hauppauge, I'm looking in your general direction). The button to lock WMP to fullscreen is easily overridden with CTRL-ALT-DEL (not sure what the purpose of that is to begin with though). The horizontal layout in Vista Media Center is horrible for browsing media, and with only thumbnails and no title until you select something (hey, let's take x000 years of 99% of the planet reading left to right, top to bottom, and turn it on its side.. oh, and let's throw out the labels. Good luck finding that video now!).
By the time the game industry is dx10 mainstream WINE may support it well.
Ah man, that was the best laugh I've had all day. Thanks!
Looks like it would be marginally acceptable, but I have a GSM carrier and I'm on a contract. Even if I wasn't, I'd still prefer GSM for the portability when traveling.
The reality is that there should be a plethera of phones on the market that meet the minimal feature set I want, but manufacturers/providers are too busy trying to create artifical markets by limiting their product features and cripping their phones. I'm hopeful that, eventually, the market will realize that people want ease of portability (from one device to another), and someone will cater to the demand.
Better tell the Dictionary then.
It's only incorrect from two prespectives:
1) The Americas aren't, as believed by Columbus, east India. That doesn't change the fact that the term caught on, just like "chips" caught on in England, or any other regional dialectal examples you care to think of.
2) Its primary definition is different in non-American English. That doesn't change the fact that the original poster was, apparently, American, just like the poster who wrote about "Marks & Sparks" yesterday was apparently English.
It simply evolved to encompass a different group of people than it did originally.
Words are nothing more than verbal utterances agreed upon by a significant amount of people to represent and object or idea. They're inherently and involuntarily democratic, and they change over time. If a majority of people decide they mean one thing, then that's what they mean.
I agree that it's needlessly unspecific to use the term "Indian," but to say it's culturally insensitive is like saying that German is culturally insensitive because Germans call themselves Deutsch.
This hippy PC crap has got to stop.
Yeah! And all those people who would want to, perhaps, carry a spare, or charge one while using the other are just plain crazy. Crazy, I tell you!
Hell, I have 3 (proprietary) batteries for my camera, and I barely use it. But when I do, I don't want to have to worry about the batteries going dead. Sure, I could probably find an outlet somewhere to recharge it, but it's about convenience, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but I sort of thought convenience was the whole point of a portable product.
Replace solder with contacts, and add a latch. It's really not that difficult -- every wireless remote control in the history of mankind has had one, including the one that fits in the ExpressCard slot of my laptop. On the other hand, the battery eventually goes out, and people are then forced to make a decision -- pay to replace it, or buy a shiny new iPod.
The honest truth is -- and it's not wrong, it's just the way it is -- Apple wants to sell more products. If they made the battery replacable, third party batteries would saturate the market, and Apple's marketshare for them would be next to nothing -- but they'd still have to sell the batteries to support the product.
It's a business decision, plain and simple.
As for the lack of an FM tuner: that would add bulk to the iPods, and probably wouldn't be used by many users anyway.
This sort of bulk? The thing fits on the cord of the headphones. I'm fairly certain that it would be even smaller if it had no controls on it. Honestly, if they can fit an FM tuner in this, and this, they can fit one in an iNormous-pod. I'm also fairly certain, although I could be wrong, that it would be used by AT LEAST all the people who have bought the tuner, which is likely a significant amount of people, otherwise they probably wouldn't be selling it.
Just because someone has an agenda doesn't mean what they are saying is false, nor does a lack of agenda (as if there were such a thing) provide any greater liklihood of discovering truth. It is, as the GP said, mostly irrelevant. Determining an agenda might explain WHY they want you to know something, but it lends no value to the argument's valididity, or lack thereof.
As a US citizen living overseas, I had similar confusion when reading the title.
Nonetheless, the term "indians" is commonly used to refer to indigenous Americans in the US. Whether it's technically right or wrong has no bearing on the word's connotation. Fries do not at all resemble any form of something that has been chipped, yet the English still call them chips. It's not wrong, it just different.
Get over it.
Yeah, this is what turned me off:
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You can download songs only through the included USB cable. There's no way to transfer iTunes music wirelessly, you can't listen to music through a Bluetooth headset, and you can't use iTunes tracks as ring tones. The strict 100-song storage limit hasn't changed either, and all songs must be saved on the TransFlash card, assuming you haven't filled it up with a lot of other data. And forget the idea of storing more music on the phone's skimpy 5MB of integrated memory--it just isn't possible. So in other words, don't get too excited about circumventing the inadequate 100-song cap. Like the Rokr, the Slvr L7 also connects with only one computer at a time. When we tried connecting to a second computer, the Slvr L7, like the Rokr E1, erased all our previously loaded songs. http://reviews.cnet.com/Motorola_Slvr_L7/4505-645
So it would seem you couldn't just pop in a (micro) SD card with mp3s on it and go. Even worse, it's only USB 1.1.
From what I've read, it has a 100 song limit, and the file format (or perhaps filesystem format) is proprietary, meaning you couldn't just swap the card to another device. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't want a line-out, and I don't want to use proprietary software just to make a few MP3s portable. Copy, paste, done. Pop the SD card into my car stereo, go to work, plug it into the phone, go to the gym, back to the car for the drive home, put it in my camera to take some pictures, and then to the computer. Works on Windows, works on Linux, and I can even put data on it if I need/want to.
I bet Al Gore* is jealous.
The opposition must have had technological morons as lawyers. There's got to be prior art on this. Modulated radio itself is just a way to "exchange large amounts of information wirelessly at high speed" -- a wireless network is simply a specific use of radio, and it's not as if wireless networking itself didn't exist before the 1990s. Military communications spring immediately to mind -- TADIL/Link 11 has been around since AT LEAST the 80s. Just because you use change it to "home or office" use doesn't mean something new has been created (or thought of, in this case). It's like patenting invisible pink unicorn saddles**.
* Yeah, I know the Al Gore thing is a misquote, it's just a joke.
** Yeah, I also know the invisible pink unicorn would NEVER allow itself to be saddled.
I just want a phone with an SD slot, quality playback, and decent folder navigation. The only time I listen to music on a portable player is at the gym, so I just want to be able to pop the card out of my PC and into my phone/MP3 player. I don't want to carry around seperate devices, I don't want to have to remember to charge a player I only use a few days a week, and I don't need a goddamned computer-in-a-phone. For the love of God, SD cards are up to 8GB now. It's the simplest and fastest way to transfer music, but almost nobody's supporting it because they all want you to use their proprietary crap, or pay-to-download, etc. I finally found a decent car stereo with SD support, but as far as I've seen, the phones that do have SD slots are all full-blown SmartPhones (sic) with some craptastic keyboard and/or a huge display that's just begging to get broken/scratched if I were to put it in my pocket.
Maybe I should just start my own company, use someone else's VC to fund it, and if it fails, at least I'll have exactly what I wanted.
recutting Memento?
Done.
someone too immature to be yiffing
Cannot... process... contradictory... input.. aghhhff!
So you change 1 point or 1 LSB on a texture. The entire hash changes and the protection is completely circumvented.
It would require something much more process intensive, such as similarity matching. That would be a PITA as well, since it would be much less process intensive to modify the object, but make it look the same, and if the comparison points are too broad, it could block anything that's even remotely similar -- all spheres, as a simple example.
Linky (I think).
Zune zune zune!
Remind me to never eat French chicken then.
Link to the Target, for the lazy.
Right, I believe this is legitimate.. some people just see it as a slippery slope. I think it's just a regular slope and we have to make sure it doesn't go to far. I think there will be a backlash as soon as someone tries to hide these things. They'll subsequently be removed, and as a direct result, the earth will keep spinning.
But there are some other necessities that need to be addressed, like reinforcing of the magnetic field during solar flares, the crater's proximity to other elements for the production of power and water, and the need for solar power.
Also what do to when whatever made the crater in the first place comes back!
Just point all 3 air nozzles directly at them. This has the added benefit of preventing your balls from freezing off.
who's up for a "no kids" airline? I'd definitely pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure there aren't any crying babies onboard.
They already have those -- they're called charter planes -- but they cost a lot more than $10 extra. I doubt any carrrier would willingly drop families as potential customers. I have no idea of the numbers, but I'd wager that vacationing families make up a significant portion of travelers. In short: Good luck with that.