Develop an interest in manual analysis with a pencil. I get lots of resumes from people that can make finite element meshes and run NASTRAN, what I want is people who know what a piece of structure should look like and why and you get that ability from just sitting and thinking about things and reading the bible "Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures" by E.H. Bruhn. That book is 40 years old and anyone who knows it forward and backward can get their $200K job.
Amazing how aeronautical engineering texts seem to stay the same - one om the ones I used was in a Smithsonian display. My structures prof was one of the best I had - he taught you to understand and visualize the affects of the various forces acting on a structure; not the use of rote calculations; as well as the proper way to use a plumbers wrench to calibrate train and pressure gauges. As he put it "Mother nature doesn't give a damn about your calculations..." forces. Doc Bailey was a real character.
...however, since everyone is offering anecdotal "evidence", I'll point out that we have two 3G iPhones in our home, and neither have had 3G issues. A few applications crash on startup, but most of my apps run just fine, before and after the 2.0.2 update.
My biggest gripe is -- Apple has neither stated there is a known 3G connectivity problem, nor did they state the 2.0.2 patch contains a 'fix' for any such problems. So ask yourself, how have these people writing articles about it able to claim such a thing? The answer is, the same reason everyone thinks there's a widespread problem with 3G... hear-say.
As someone who is having 3G issues, I can say there is a problem - I just have no idea how widespread it is.
The RDF is real. When I used Windows, if something was broken or I needed some application to do something, I would get a range of suggestions and, frequently, sympathetic remarks from other Windows users with the same problems. The attitude from Apple forums is generally that if an Apple product doesn't meet my needs or expectations, there's something wrong with my needs and expectations. There is a lot I like about my MacBook, but I'm getting fed up.
Obviously you need to readjust your threshold of pain...
I wonder how long before there is a class action lawsuit?
Kind of sad that this is the first thing on peoples' minds. Would you not prefer Apple to recall the phones for a fix, or issue a firmware update that takes care of the problem? No.... you were wronged and therefore must sue.
First of all, my opinion on Class Actions is irrelevant to my musing about what may happen. The conditions are ripe for a CA - large class, deep pocket defendant.
You might consider the question before you make assumptions about a poster's preferences.
Most of the advice you've gotten was how to screw your company - who paid you to do the work - and may result in your getting sued if you follow some of it around publishing your work.
Independent of why you want to avoid a patent on your ideas or my personal viewpoint of the patent system and how it's broke; if I was your boss and you pulled most of the stuff/. suggests I'd fire your ass. Why - because you've shown me you will first resort to causing problems when you don't agree with what the company wants to do; who knows when that will happen again and what the stakes will be then?
It's not like we are asking you to break the law; that would be different and a different approach is warranted.
OTOH; if you come and rationally voice your concerns I'd listen. I may not agree and decide still to patent; but I'd appreciate your openness and that you approached the issue in an adult, rational manner. It tells me you will speak up when something bothers you in a way that contributes to the solution, not compound the problem; I (and most bosses) would appreciate and value that.
As for those that will say "What if he is critical to the company" - those employees that are know they can speak up and their concerns will be heard; they are often sought out in advance for input. Unfortunately, to many people find out after they cross the line they are not as valuable as they thought.
So, I suggest you talk to the boss so he or she understands you concerns; but more importantly listen and understand their reasoning as well.
Of course most customers will use this as is. I'm thankful that HP isn't so paranoid of what their niche customers might do. The right of people to tweak products to suit their needs is a right that needs to be preserved.
Considering HP has made available the code to a number of their calculators to allow emulators to run on various platforms, such as WinCE and PalmOS; they're pretty good at taking care of their customers and trusting them.
Their calculator division, at least, has always truck me as a group run by engineers and people who understand technology as well as how to make it into useful tools.
I still have my HP-45; and it still runs. The only problem I ever had was trying to use it on a submarine when we rigged for red.
No it wasn't... the first (cellular) call of a mobile phone would have been somewhere in the mid-60's...
The first "mobile" phone call, was probably in the early 1900's, using radio, however it was limited to a few channels, but could be linked into an actual phone network, albeit cumbersome and annoying, with middle-men.
Well, ship to shore phones were used in cars in at least in the 70's; a friend's 928 had one. It was pretty cool to see the looks on people's faces when you made a call from the car. It used an operator to do the connect.
Flint and obsidian are both flame-resistant. The heat required to cause loss of structural integrity would be approximately similar to that required to melt glass. (Besides, they didn't want to always be waiting for a dead tree to be struck by lightning.) As a result, the caveman tended to favour normal wars to flamewars, and conveniently enough the overall consensus was that flint and obsidian were each an excellent means to this end.
1. Every computer app ever designed involved programmers to a very great extent.
That's not the problem; the problem is having programmers involved in areas where they don't care about the results or lack expertise. Interface design requires a POV and expertise just like programming; and designers need to be involved throughout the project. Programmers that don't understand the user requirements or the concepts behind good interface design will produce an interface they can live with; resulting in a horrible user experience.
2. Have you used it lately? The scripting window doesn't pop open when you start it. Maybe the programmers hadn't created a GUI for the startup yet... what does that prove, anyway?
That they aren't interested in one - whether or not it would make the program more attractive to more users.
3. It's able to do everything I learned to do in my Photoshop class. So maybe I'm not a professional graphics design artist... GIMP suits me fine.
If it works for you then that's great; but that doesn't mean it is a workable solution for anyone else. Different people value or need different things.
I've used it and recommended it to people who can't afford PS; but I would never chose it over PS if I had the choice.
4. The user interface is terrible? Well, I can live with some inconveniences to save hundreds of dollars. It's still functional. And since it's an open-source project, all it means is smart people like you need to get involved and make the interfaces better.
That, IMHO, is the biggest thing holding back wider adoption of OSS. Most people have no desire to spend time improving their tools; they want them to work. As a result, they are willing to trade money for time and buy commercial products. Without some overall guidance OSS lurches from point to point without much thought to where it is going.
People use the mantra "it's free" as if that trumps all the issues a user has with it. Yes, it is free, and I use it when it meet my needs (such as NeoOffice) and live with its limitations, but if it doesn't do something I need it is far more efficient for me to go out and buy a product than try to fix a piece of OSS.
Many OSS projects are clones of existing commercial products - which is not a bad approach - MS made a lot of money being second with a piece of software. But, if you are trying to create an OSS version of a proprietary product, you should reproduce the interface as closely as possible - so that users can switch without having to relearn the interface. Many people simply do not want to do that and so resist switching.
As a side note, MS screws it u as well - their Office interface redesign was a horrid idea - nothing is where it was and rather than constantly looking for menu items I simply go back to the previous version. Carrying that over to OSS; it simply isn't worth the hassle to try to learn a new UI to save a few hundred bucks for many users.
Also, for the record, it's properly referred to by simply "GIMP". The name is an acronym. "The" isn't part of the name. The logo is in informal all-lowercase, "gimp", but the name is never printed that way in normal English usage.
I find that most times when people say "If you can't tell, don't bother. But those of us who can, it's totally worth it" tend to be either scam artists or they have confirmation bias affecting their judgment. At least you issued a caveat, but the second sentence there is pretty much indicative of every pseudoscientific medical device available on the internet. And there are people who buy magnetic rings and the like and claim life-changing benefits.
While there tends to be confirmation bias - "I paid xx so it must be good" and scammers prey on human nature "You are smarter / have better taste/etc so can appreciate this (unlike those not as smart as you who don't buy it.", as well as the placebo effect (I think it helps so I feel better); that's not what I meant.
I'll give you some examples from my anecdotal experience:
1. Cheap tools won't hold up under serious use. Quality socket heads (expensive) don't break under heavy load like the cheap ones in a $10 tool set,for example. So for me, to work on a car, I buy quality. OTOH, if all you need to do is occasionally tighten a bolt on a chair or PC, then a cheap set will probably be fine.
2, Chocolate. Nuff said,
3. Wine. I find the bottom of a mid range price bottle provides just as good a drink as one 3x as much. YMMV.
4. Laundry supplies - my COSTCO detergent works just as well as the brand name stuff.
The goal is to maximize the benefit from my money. In some cases that means buying a $30 ratchet and a $10 bottle of wine. You may prefer the reverse, in real life. On the internet and USENET, we buy neither because we are too busy flaming the others choice; something that started with cavemen and the great flint vs. obsidian flamewar.
Out of curiosity, what makes expensive shoes better than cheap shoes? I don't think I've ever spent more than $30-40 on a pair of shoes, and I tend to wear them at least a couple years before they wear out. I do a lot of walking too, so if my shoes were not up to the task I think I'd notice. What do you get for your extra $100?
If you can't tell the difference then there is no reason to spend more; however for those that can it is worth it.
That, of course, is true for most things - why buy a more expensive item when a cheaper one works just as well?
If you want people to embrace the desktop, you need to convince people that they love it, not argue with them when they try to compare KDE+GNOME to their old Windows installation.
Well said - belittling someone else's tools is not the way to win them over to your side.
Apple seems to have accepted this reality--and the market share of OSX in the desktop space has been increasing the last 5 years.
But Apple has a big advantage over Linux - a tightly controlled environment that simply works. No need to build programs, tight, consistent integration of look and feel across the environment; and a big company behind its products.
Having a dictator running the show has advantages.
Just keep doing cool stuff on your own workstation or your laptop, and share it with.
Jealousy is the best and fastest way to spark adoption.
I'd argue money is the fastest way to speed adoption in the business world.
The PRC says it 'owns exclusive rights to the broadcast of all audio and video content via online and mobile distribution channels across Mainland China' and wants to protect it from 'piracy.'
To be honest, I thought I would miss cut and paste more than I have, because I used to use it a lot on the Treo. E.g. someone texts you someone else's number, you copy and paste it into a new contact etc. Or, you have a note you wrote to yourself and want to add it as a text to someone. But the iPhone's interface is compensates for this very well, generally allowing you to move this sort of data around without needing to copy and paste - that's genius. I'm sure it only works 95% of the time, but I'm surprised I've not missed the feature.
As for the other ones you mention, I'm sure they will come in time. Tethering is certainly in the birthing process right now;)
For your email blackout, why not just turn off Push for that time? Sure it's not automated, but easy to get to.
Hmm, I still haven't fiqured out how to move data - the downside of having no printed manual to read.
turning off push works; I just liked the Treo's ability to select when to receive Push email and when to not to.
As big a palm fanboy as I am; unless they come out with some real improvements in the next generation Treo their day may have passed; especially once other major US carriers get iPhones. At $199 it's now a viable alternative to Treos; if they implement Blackberry Connect RIM will be next in Apple's sights; although by implementing Exchange Activesync their letting MS make RIM less relevant. As one boss I admired said - if the 800lb gorilla will fight your battle for you, let it.
Oh, absolutely. Interestingly enough, the list includes some things I much prefer the old version of (eg, wet shaving), but some I prefer the new of too. The point is I *tried* them all enough to decide I preferred one over another, which I think everyone needs to do before they discount something. Sometimes it surprised me too (I wish I preferred electric shavers, so much more convenient) There are a lot of very entrenched bigots out there, and closed-mindedness is the most unfortunate thing.
I think we're in violent agreement here - as my mom used to say - "Don't say you don't like something until you try it." Interetsingly enough; it works both ways - some people are so enamoured of the new that they refuse to give the old a second look; or act like you're some kind of a Luddite becasue you respond to their "you really should use this" with "Why? What I have works fine,is reliable, and does exactly what I need." That's the flip side of the grumy old man.
And, Mom, if your reading/.; I still hate cooked tomatoes.
As soon as you try the current iPhone keyboard for more than 10 minutes and see it actually is REALLY good.
As a long-time Treo 600/650 user I was really sceptical about not having a proper keyboard, but the fact is that I (and everyone I know who has tried it for a while) got used to it surprisingly quickly, 3 days at most I'd say, and now can type on it about as fast as I could my Treo. At first the predictive text (which I have to say is better than most) helped, but now I simply don't make that many mistakes.
As a long time Treo user and new IPhone user as well, (650-700p-700w-700wx) I agree with your keyboard comments. Once you adapt to teh idea that lifting the finger releases the key, not the press, it is a remarkably good keyboard.
Apple makes stuff that works well - it's the first phone that I've heard people who used to think a phone is a phone say "I love this phone, I won't use any other;" beacuse Apple has the user experience down.
It has its quirks - no cut and past, no tethering, can't edit word or excel (it's the first phone I would actually try to use as a mini-pc; Docs to Go was just too painful for anything but writing a first draft). I'd also like to be able to customize it more - set blackout times on weekends so I don't get emails ( so I can have that thing rumored to be a life), synch tasks, record videos, to name a few. I trust Apple will add features,especially those for busienss use, with new software releases, as eveidenced by teh addition of Exchange.
I wish it had HWR - but after living throught the Nevtin, Nowton, err Newton's HWR I can understand Apple's reluctance to risk aggravating iPhone users.
Finally, Apple understands tech support - my phone died yesterday. Went to teh Apple store, no appointments available. teh guy in orange signed me up for a walkup - 10 minutes later Jill was helping me. Two hours later, my phone was working - turned out ATT screwed up the SIM activation. Did Jill say - go to ATT? No, she got me a new SIM and solved the problem.
Jill at the Grove in LA - you are a godess.
Comments implying it's unusable without a physical keyboard just perpetuate the fallacy that there is no other alternative. There's just stubborn people, the same ones who last generation refused to adapt to touch-tone phones, broadband, automatic gearboxes, digital synths, electric shavers, you name it. Welcome to being a Grumpy Old Man;)
There is a difference from refusing to adapt and believing taht just because something is new that it is automatically better. New technology has it's own limts - ever dial a touch tone phone using the hook? Navigated a ship when LORAN-C was not able to lock or you can't get a GPS signal? Keeping old capabilities while using new ones is a good thing, IMHO.
Finally, if you like cars, driving performance car with a stick on a windy country road is a joy not to be missed.
99% of 'real troll' is copy and paste and catching whoever wasn't paying attention last time. The last 1% is an artform. And hey, if you don't like the NYT calling anyone being a massive asshole on the internet a troll, get the rest of the internet from doing that first.
Unfortunately, once the mainstream press picks up a term it defines hat it will mean going forward. Stopping that is like trying to stop the tide.
It doesn't have to be incorrect information. It can just be a post made to enrage.
Like going on a holocaust survivors forum and posting 'I've been to Treblinka. Doesn't seem too hard.'
That's a flame or flamebait; people who post those are flamers; a term that has fallen from use and now is encompassed by troll.
It never even occurred to me that troll would be a respectable term to anyone. The bastardization of hacker always bothered me, but I never particularly liked the bastardization of cracker the community was trying to push as an alternative for script kiddies either. But troll? Seriously?
Actually, yes. Anyone can post something that pisses someone off or pushes their buttons; that's a flamer posting flame bait.
Now social engineering a single person into doing something for you. That is an art. If trolling is an axe, social engineering is a surgeons knife.
True, trolling somewhat takes advantage of numbers, which is why trolling rec.orf.mensa nor any of the start trek or star wars groups was not considered sporting.
What we are seeing is how terms morph into things way beyond their original meaning, often because people do not understand nor have experience, the history behind the term.
It's not just descriptive terms for actions on the internet (or USENET); concepts such as open source and free software are moving past the original intent of the terms as well.
This is simply a reflection of how language changes over time, a phenomena that predates the internet by a large margin. Stopping that is also like trying to hold back the tide.
respectable term. First hacker, now troll. A real troll is a work of art - designed to drive some unsuspecting fool to post a correction to some obviously wrong information, without stopping to think if the poster is serious. AFU was perhaps the premier site for trolling USENET; ROM was like shooting fish in a barrel since mensanites can't refrain from showing off their superior knowledge.
Try PDANet if you have a WM or PalmOS device such as a Treo:
http:\\www.junefabrics.com
It violates the TOS, but everyone I know that uses it has had no problems; but they use it mostly for light web surfing and VPN/Outlook email, no P2P or streaming video.
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Develop an interest in manual analysis with a pencil. I get lots of resumes from people that can make finite element meshes and run NASTRAN, what I want is people who know what a piece of structure should look like and why and you get that ability from just sitting and thinking about things and reading the bible "Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures" by E.H. Bruhn. That book is 40 years old and anyone who knows it forward and backward can get their $200K job.
Amazing how aeronautical engineering texts seem to stay the same - one om the ones I used was in a Smithsonian display. My structures prof was one of the best I had - he taught you to understand and visualize the affects of the various forces acting on a structure; not the use of rote calculations; as well as the proper way to use a plumbers wrench to calibrate train and pressure gauges. As he put it "Mother nature doesn't give a damn about your calculations..." forces. Doc Bailey was a real character.
My biggest gripe is -- Apple has neither stated there is a known 3G connectivity problem, nor did they state the 2.0.2 patch contains a 'fix' for any such problems. So ask yourself, how have these people writing articles about it able to claim such a thing? The answer is, the same reason everyone thinks there's a widespread problem with 3G... hear-say.
As someone who is having 3G issues, I can say there is a problem - I just have no idea how widespread it is.
The RDF is real. When I used Windows, if something was broken or I needed some application to do something, I would get a range of suggestions and, frequently, sympathetic remarks from other Windows users with the same problems. The attitude from Apple forums is generally that if an Apple product doesn't meet my needs or expectations, there's something wrong with my needs and expectations. There is a lot I like about my MacBook, but I'm getting fed up.
Obviously you need to readjust your threshold of pain...
Actually they could provide servers to d/l legitimate copies and use an ASCAP model and divide the revenue based on d/l volume.
Kind of sad that this is the first thing on peoples' minds. Would you not prefer Apple to recall the phones for a fix, or issue a firmware update that takes care of the problem? No.... you were wronged and therefore must sue.
First of all, my opinion on Class Actions is irrelevant to my musing about what may happen. The conditions are ripe for a CA - large class, deep pocket defendant.
You might consider the question before you make assumptions about a poster's preferences.
I've turned 3G off because Edge gives me better battery life; with 3G I also have coverage problems.
I wonder how long before there is a class action lawsuit?
Most of the advice you've gotten was how to screw your company - who paid you to do the work - and may result in your getting sued if you follow some of it around publishing your work.
Independent of why you want to avoid a patent on your ideas or my personal viewpoint of the patent system and how it's broke; if I was your boss and you pulled most of the stuff /. suggests I'd fire your ass. Why - because you've shown me you will first resort to causing problems when you don't agree with what the company wants to do; who knows when that will happen again and what the stakes will be then?
It's not like we are asking you to break the law; that would be different and a different approach is warranted.
OTOH; if you come and rationally voice your concerns I'd listen. I may not agree and decide still to patent; but I'd appreciate your openness and that you approached the issue in an adult, rational manner. It tells me you will speak up when something bothers you in a way that contributes to the solution, not compound the problem; I (and most bosses) would appreciate and value that.
As for those that will say "What if he is critical to the company" - those employees that are know they can speak up and their concerns will be heard; they are often sought out in advance for input. Unfortunately, to many people find out after they cross the line they are not as valuable as they thought.
So, I suggest you talk to the boss so he or she understands you concerns; but more importantly listen and understand their reasoning as well.
Ultimately it comes down to do I do it or quit.
Of course most customers will use this as is. I'm thankful that HP isn't so paranoid of what their niche customers might do. The right of people to tweak products to suit their needs is a right that needs to be preserved.
Considering HP has made available the code to a number of their calculators to allow emulators to run on various platforms, such as WinCE and PalmOS; they're pretty good at taking care of their customers and trusting them.
Their calculator division, at least, has always truck me as a group run by engineers and people who understand technology as well as how to make it into useful tools.
I still have my HP-45; and it still runs. The only problem I ever had was trying to use it on a submarine when we rigged for red.
No it wasn't... the first (cellular) call of a mobile phone would have been somewhere in the mid-60's...
The first "mobile" phone call, was probably in the early 1900's, using radio, however it was limited to a few channels, but could be linked into an actual phone network, albeit cumbersome and annoying, with middle-men.
Well, ship to shore phones were used in cars in at least in the 70's; a friend's 928 had one. It was pretty cool to see the looks on people's faces when you made a call from the car. It used an operator to do the connect.
Flint and obsidian are both flame-resistant. The heat required to cause loss of structural integrity would be approximately similar to that required to melt glass. (Besides, they didn't want to always be waiting for a dead tree to be struck by lightning.) As a result, the caveman tended to favour normal wars to flamewars, and conveniently enough the overall consensus was that flint and obsidian were each an excellent means to this end.
Flint rules. Obsidian drools.
1. Every computer app ever designed involved programmers to a very great extent.
That's not the problem; the problem is having programmers involved in areas where they don't care about the results or lack expertise. Interface design requires a POV and expertise just like programming; and designers need to be involved throughout the project. Programmers that don't understand the user requirements or the concepts behind good interface design will produce an interface they can live with; resulting in a horrible user experience.
2. Have you used it lately? The scripting window doesn't pop open when you start it. Maybe the programmers hadn't created a GUI for the startup yet... what does that prove, anyway?
That they aren't interested in one - whether or not it would make the program more attractive to more users.
3. It's able to do everything I learned to do in my Photoshop class. So maybe I'm not a professional graphics design artist... GIMP suits me fine.
If it works for you then that's great; but that doesn't mean it is a workable solution for anyone else. Different people value or need different things.
I've used it and recommended it to people who can't afford PS; but I would never chose it over PS if I had the choice.
4. The user interface is terrible? Well, I can live with some inconveniences to save hundreds of dollars. It's still functional. And since it's an open-source project, all it means is smart people like you need to get involved and make the interfaces better.
That, IMHO, is the biggest thing holding back wider adoption of OSS. Most people have no desire to spend time improving their tools; they want them to work. As a result, they are willing to trade money for time and buy commercial products. Without some overall guidance OSS lurches from point to point without much thought to where it is going.
People use the mantra "it's free" as if that trumps all the issues a user has with it. Yes, it is free, and I use it when it meet my needs (such as NeoOffice) and live with its limitations, but if it doesn't do something I need it is far more efficient for me to go out and buy a product than try to fix a piece of OSS.
Many OSS projects are clones of existing commercial products - which is not a bad approach - MS made a lot of money being second with a piece of software. But, if you are trying to create an OSS version of a proprietary product, you should reproduce the interface as closely as possible - so that users can switch without having to relearn the interface. Many people simply do not want to do that and so resist switching.
As a side note, MS screws it u as well - their Office interface redesign was a horrid idea - nothing is where it was and rather than constantly looking for menu items I simply go back to the previous version. Carrying that over to OSS; it simply isn't worth the hassle to try to learn a new UI to save a few hundred bucks for many users.
Also, for the record, it's properly referred to by simply "GIMP". The name is an acronym. "The" isn't part of the name. The logo is in informal all-lowercase, "gimp", but the name is never printed that way in normal English usage.
Who cares?
Are you sure it's not confirmation bias?
I find that most times when people say "If you can't tell, don't bother. But those of us who can, it's totally worth it" tend to be either scam artists or they have confirmation bias affecting their judgment. At least you issued a caveat, but the second sentence there is pretty much indicative of every pseudoscientific medical device available on the internet. And there are people who buy magnetic rings and the like and claim life-changing benefits.
While there tends to be confirmation bias - "I paid xx so it must be good" and scammers prey on human nature "You are smarter / have better taste /etc so can appreciate this (unlike those not as smart as you who don't buy it.", as well as the placebo effect (I think it helps so I feel better); that's not what I meant.
I'll give you some examples from my anecdotal experience:
1. Cheap tools won't hold up under serious use. Quality socket heads (expensive) don't break under heavy load like the cheap ones in a $10 tool set,for example. So for me, to work on a car, I buy quality. OTOH, if all you need to do is occasionally tighten a bolt on a chair or PC, then a cheap set will probably be fine.
2, Chocolate. Nuff said,
3. Wine. I find the bottom of a mid range price bottle provides just as good a drink as one 3x as much. YMMV.
4. Laundry supplies - my COSTCO detergent works just as well as the brand name stuff.
The goal is to maximize the benefit from my money. In some cases that means buying a $30 ratchet and a $10 bottle of wine. You may prefer the reverse, in real life. On the internet and USENET, we buy neither because we are too busy flaming the others choice; something that started with cavemen and the great flint vs. obsidian flamewar.
Cheers,
-jlc
Out of curiosity, what makes expensive shoes better than cheap shoes? I don't think I've ever spent more than $30-40 on a pair of shoes, and I tend to wear them at least a couple years before they wear out. I do a lot of walking too, so if my shoes were not up to the task I think I'd notice. What do you get for your extra $100?
If you can't tell the difference then there is no reason to spend more; however for those that can it is worth it.
That, of course, is true for most things - why buy a more expensive item when a cheaper one works just as well?
Another nutty ruling.. if you willingly sign a contract that contained a non-complete clause, that's your issue with the company you should fight for.
But wacky judges just says these are no good.
Actually, the judges are saying you can't enforce contractual language that violates CA Law.
You would think that companies would not put in language that is unenforceable; but that clearly isn't the case.
If you want people to embrace the desktop, you need to convince people that they love it, not argue with them when they try to compare KDE+GNOME to their old Windows installation.
Well said - belittling someone else's tools is not the way to win them over to your side.
Apple seems to have accepted this reality--and the market share of OSX in the desktop space has been increasing the last 5 years.
But Apple has a big advantage over Linux - a tightly controlled environment that simply works. No need to build programs, tight, consistent integration of look and feel across the environment; and a big company behind its products.
Having a dictator running the show has advantages.
Just keep doing cool stuff on your own workstation or your laptop, and share it with.
Jealousy is the best and fastest way to spark adoption.
I'd argue money is the fastest way to speed adoption in the business world.
What happened to Socialism and the idea of everything being free?
Theory got run over by practice.
The PRC says it 'owns exclusive rights to the broadcast of all audio and video content via online and mobile distribution channels across Mainland China' and wants to protect it from 'piracy.'
What? No $1 DVD's of the broadcasts?
To be honest, I thought I would miss cut and paste more than I have, because I used to use it a lot on the Treo. E.g. someone texts you someone else's number, you copy and paste it into a new contact etc. Or, you have a note you wrote to yourself and want to add it as a text to someone. But the iPhone's interface is compensates for this very well, generally allowing you to move this sort of data around without needing to copy and paste - that's genius. I'm sure it only works 95% of the time, but I'm surprised I've not missed the feature.
As for the other ones you mention, I'm sure they will come in time. Tethering is certainly in the birthing process right now ;)
For your email blackout, why not just turn off Push for that time? Sure it's not automated, but easy to get to.
Hmm, I still haven't fiqured out how to move data - the downside of having no printed manual to read.
turning off push works; I just liked the Treo's ability to select when to receive Push email and when to not to.
As big a palm fanboy as I am; unless they come out with some real improvements in the next generation Treo their day may have passed; especially once other major US carriers get iPhones. At $199 it's now a viable alternative to Treos; if they implement Blackberry Connect RIM will be next in Apple's sights; although by implementing Exchange Activesync their letting MS make RIM less relevant. As one boss I admired said - if the 800lb gorilla will fight your battle for you, let it.
Oh, absolutely. Interestingly enough, the list includes some things I much prefer the old version of (eg, wet shaving), but some I prefer the new of too. The point is I *tried* them all enough to decide I preferred one over another, which I think everyone needs to do before they discount something. Sometimes it surprised me too (I wish I preferred electric shavers, so much more convenient) There are a lot of very entrenched bigots out there, and closed-mindedness is the most unfortunate thing.
I think we're in violent agreement here - as my mom used to say - "Don't say you don't like something until you try it." Interetsingly enough; it works both ways - some people are so enamoured of the new that they refuse to give the old a second look; or act like you're some kind of a Luddite becasue you respond to their "you really should use this" with "Why? What I have works fine,is reliable, and does exactly what I need." That's the flip side of the grumy old man.
And, Mom, if your reading /.; I still hate cooked tomatoes.
As soon as you try the current iPhone keyboard for more than 10 minutes and see it actually is REALLY good.
As a long-time Treo 600/650 user I was really sceptical about not having a proper keyboard, but the fact is that I (and everyone I know who has tried it for a while) got used to it surprisingly quickly, 3 days at most I'd say, and now can type on it about as fast as I could my Treo. At first the predictive text (which I have to say is better than most) helped, but now I simply don't make that many mistakes.
As a long time Treo user and new IPhone user as well, (650-700p-700w-700wx) I agree with your keyboard comments. Once you adapt to teh idea that lifting the finger releases the key, not the press, it is a remarkably good keyboard.
Apple makes stuff that works well - it's the first phone that I've heard people who used to think a phone is a phone say "I love this phone, I won't use any other;" beacuse Apple has the user experience down.
It has its quirks - no cut and past, no tethering, can't edit word or excel (it's the first phone I would actually try to use as a mini-pc; Docs to Go was just too painful for anything but writing a first draft). I'd also like to be able to customize it more - set blackout times on weekends so I don't get emails ( so I can have that thing rumored to be a life), synch tasks, record videos, to name a few. I trust Apple will add features,especially those for busienss use, with new software releases, as eveidenced by teh addition of Exchange.
I wish it had HWR - but after living throught the Nevtin, Nowton, err Newton's HWR I can understand Apple's reluctance to risk aggravating iPhone users.
Finally, Apple understands tech support - my phone died yesterday. Went to teh Apple store, no appointments available. teh guy in orange signed me up for a walkup - 10 minutes later Jill was helping me. Two hours later, my phone was working - turned out ATT screwed up the SIM activation. Did Jill say - go to ATT? No, she got me a new SIM and solved the problem.
Jill at the Grove in LA - you are a godess.
Comments implying it's unusable without a physical keyboard just perpetuate the fallacy that there is no other alternative. There's just stubborn people, the same ones who last generation refused to adapt to touch-tone phones, broadband, automatic gearboxes, digital synths, electric shavers, you name it. Welcome to being a Grumpy Old Man ;)
There is a difference from refusing to adapt and believing taht just because something is new that it is automatically better. New technology has it's own limts - ever dial a touch tone phone using the hook? Navigated a ship when LORAN-C was not able to lock or you can't get a GPS signal? Keeping old capabilities while using new ones is a good thing, IMHO.
Finally, if you like cars, driving performance car with a stick on a windy country road is a joy not to be missed.
99% of 'real troll' is copy and paste and catching whoever wasn't paying attention last time. The last 1% is an artform. And hey, if you don't like the NYT calling anyone being a massive asshole on the internet a troll, get the rest of the internet from doing that first.
Unfortunately, once the mainstream press picks up a term it defines hat it will mean going forward. Stopping that is like trying to stop the tide.
It doesn't have to be incorrect information. It can just be a post made to enrage.
Like going on a holocaust survivors forum and posting 'I've been to Treblinka. Doesn't seem too hard.'
That's a flame or flamebait; people who post those are flamers; a term that has fallen from use and now is encompassed by troll.
It never even occurred to me that troll would be a respectable term to anyone. The bastardization of hacker always bothered me, but I never particularly liked the bastardization of cracker the community was trying to push as an alternative for script kiddies either. But troll? Seriously?
Actually, yes. Anyone can post something that pisses someone off or pushes their buttons; that's a flamer posting flame bait.
Now social engineering a single person into doing something for you. That is an art. If trolling is an axe, social engineering is a surgeons knife.
True, trolling somewhat takes advantage of numbers, which is why trolling rec.orf.mensa nor any of the start trek or star wars groups was not considered sporting.
What we are seeing is how terms morph into things way beyond their original meaning, often because people do not understand nor have experience, the history behind the term.
It's not just descriptive terms for actions on the internet (or USENET); concepts such as open source and free software are moving past the original intent of the terms as well.
This is simply a reflection of how language changes over time, a phenomena that predates the internet by a large margin. Stopping that is also like trying to hold back the tide.
respectable term. First hacker, now troll. A real troll is a work of art - designed to drive some unsuspecting fool to post a correction to some obviously wrong information, without stopping to think if the poster is serious. AFU was perhaps the premier site for trolling USENET; ROM was like shooting fish in a barrel since mensanites can't refrain from showing off their superior knowledge.
Paging Ted Frank...
Yeh, but it's fun knowing people will "fix" that after the C not realizing the browser properly parses forward and backslashes.
Try PDANet if you have a WM or PalmOS device such as a Treo:
http:\\www.junefabrics.com
It violates the TOS, but everyone I know that uses it has had no problems; but they use it mostly for light web surfing and VPN/Outlook email, no P2P or streaming video.
The only problem is the dolphins are asking for Corona or Tequila....
Screw those stupid dolphins; always laughing at us humans. Just to spite them we should fill the ocean with Bud Light!
No, no, no - it's the fish they appreciate.