So I can go with Apples new pretty junk and putz around at 11 mb/s (and pay more) Or I can go with Intel's recently released 802.11A wireless cards, pay less, and get 54 mb/s.
I believe you meant to use the words "recently sampled" or are you under the impression that the latency on your 802.11a wireless network is just pretty f-ing severe?
You might also want to check your calculator. Something is severely wrong with it as well.
... I didn't do it because I wanted to, I did it because I could no longer longer afford it due to various changes in my life (married, baby, house, etc.) I'm hoping to be back to broadband (probably DSL this time) sometime in the near future. My experience with cable-modem was overall positive, especially in retrospect. In the early days it was a nightmare in terms of reliability, but they got much, much better. It's not even funny how much I want broadband again. No, it isn't as fast as they say, but it is still pretty fast even in the worst case and it isn't anywhere near as slow as a 56k modem. Oh, and man do I hate dialing in....
Everything except hard drive storage is covered by getting an existing Handspring Visor and getting a few springboard modules. Get the Sprint or Handspring visor phone springboard module, get an mp3 player springboard module. There is at least one MP3 module that offers SD/MMC slot(s). There is also a GPS unit with two SD/MMC slots.
Switch modules as needed. Also you can add CF 1&2 compatibility (sans microdrive) with a CF FlashAdapter module along with Kopsis' software (including VFS.)
The size issue is why they should replace use of sprinboard with a CF+ slot. For Springboard users provide a CF+ adapter, allowing them to use new modules as well as their existing springboard ones.
I could forgo the springboard slot if it at least offered an SD/MMC slot or equivalent, but stuck at 16 MB this thing is just a cell phone with a medicore PDA attached to it.
What I want is a new Visor Prism with a CF+ slot (in place of Springboard) as well as an SD/MMC slot and VFS, plus a Sony CLIE type high res/high color screen. Let me add my prefered wireless phone service via a CF+ card (if that is possible - otherwise stick with Springboard + an SD/MMC slot) so I can easily swap in the device I need at the time.
Make sure you also uncheck the "send all files to microsoft and then trash the hard drive" option in the preferences. Fortunately, only a dunderhead wouldn't think to look for that and uncheck it before using IE.
You might also want to uncheck the "auto-install child pornagraphy and 'accidentally' send email to the FBI offering them to come on by and pick up some free child porn" option.
As soon as you log in to the internet with a fingerprint set it sends the fingerprint to the FBI, their systems search their databases, and soon agents are at your door holding a glove for you to try on.
That it hits the Mozilla theme seems like an error of Apple legal department. Applications are free to try and match their UI to look like the rest of the OS.
Actually, Apple has had the position that it isn't legal to copy or simulate an Apple designed look and feel without permission, especially not on other OSs. This fits right in with their stance on the Mozilla Aqua-ish theme(s), which not only are poor simulations of Aqua, but can be used on other operating systems.
Such efforts can have a negative impact upon Apple - some may associate the software, even the OS it is running on, directly with Apple. Indeed, sometimes I wonder if people here who make wildly inaccurate claims about Aqua aren't basing them upon poor simulations of Aqua in their favorite "themable" applications and OSs.)
Perhaps in the minority, but I agree and sympathize with Apple's position. I'm no lawyer so I can't comment on the legality of it, but while Microsoft can rely upon having a stranglehold on the market, Apple must rely upon its designs.
You said: "In fact, Apple stopped being about usability and technology long ago."
Why do you say this? OS X made a lot of changes to the OS 9 interface and that has been a shock to the system for many, however, once you give it a chance you find that the vast majority of those changes are improvements in usability and efficiency, including those which many of you pass off as "just eye candy".
As for your claim that Apple is no longer about technology: you've got to be kidding, right?
You said: "As a UI designer, where exactly do you think is the advantage of having glass-like buttons and gum drops with few or no comprehensible labels on them?"
This simply is not true. Have you actually tried OS X for real or do you just vaguely recall a friend saying they once saw a blurry picture of it? Inspired by your claim I just looked at a wide variety of applications (Apple written and 3rd party) aside from the ones I was already using. The only label-less buttons I could find were in Sherlock and QuickTime Player, and icons in the Dock.
QuickTime Player's label-less buttons have icons that are standard fair for video/audio controls on VCRs, CD players, DVD players, etc) and thus labels aren't needed. The channel buttons are not textually labeled, but do contain the logo of the content they result in which in all cases includes the name (for example, "The Weather Channel".)
I agree that the search channel icons in Sherlock and some icons in the dock (specifically folder, drive and document icons) should have (optional) labels and not just tooltips, as docs/folders/drives can look identical and are thus only distinguishable by their names. The same is not true of applications which have unique icons, though I still wouldn't mind a label with those as an option. So there's a few things. Send them feedback on it - OS X 10.1 proves they are listening.
As for confusing labels - I don't see them. what is confusing about labels such as "Reply", "Cancel", "Save", "Back", "Connect", "Smaller", "Bigger", "Displays", "Sound", etc, etc?
Incidentally, labels in toolbars and other places can be turned off by the user. They are on by default. You can have icons only, labels only or both.
The internet provides a great means for observing the progression of mental illness throughout the world regardless of race, religion and OS affiliation.
Yesterday I dropped my unprotected first generation iBook onto concrete. I did not grip it as well as I should have and it slipped from my grasp, dropping about 3-4 feet and landing rather abruptly, with a disturbing crash, onto the concrete sidewalk. It had been in sleep mode. When I picked it up and opened the case it woke up and worked just fine, aside from a slight marring on the case. Durability is good.
It will not be available for download, or so reports tell us. However, it is supposed to be available for free at many Apple retailers, not just Apple Stores.
You can send for a CD for $19.99, or you can go to an Apple retailer and get a free update there at no cost. Also, the CDs will be in stores this Saturday. I would list the URL of the site doing live coverage of the keynote today, but they are already swamped./.-ing them would certainly bring them down for good. If you are Mac news savvy you can easily find it.
Firewire is better, but the USB 2.0 devices I've looked at say that they also work on a USB 1.x connection, albeit at a slower speed (obviously). It would appear not be the case that "2.0 devices will not work on 1.x buses". Maxtor, for example, has USB 2.0 products that say they are backwardly compatible with 1.x USB ports.
It's very, very silly that people are saying oh, it's OK because it's just components for the server. I.e. if you are a gung-ho-Microsoft-can do-no-wrong kind of person you get full use of the software you paid for, but if you even question Microsoft once on your web site you lose the right to use parts of the software you paid for?
Here's the next step: Microsoft Word XP2: new clause in the license makes it such that if you ever write anything bad about Microsoft in a document created with Word XP2 you may no longer use the "Save component".
If anyone should be allowed to spy on anyone else, then it should be the citizens of the US whom are allowed to spy on their own government in order to keep them in check, not the other way 'round. Allowing a government to spy on its own people is right up there with the KGB and Communism. Didn't we fight that once?
All we Americans can think to do is blow some people up, batten down the hatches (and in the process attack america by taking away basic freedoms that are the very heart of our country and for which we have allegedly fought and died for) and hope for the best. It's time to look up from your shoes, folks. Building our own Wall Of China is not the solution.
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XBox simply proves that, just like what Windows fans have said since the beginning days of the Macintosh - The Mac is a toy. No... wait a minute...
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Does the printing feature work with Macs or is it Windows only?
I believe you meant to use the words "recently sampled" or are you under the impression that the latency on your 802.11a wireless network is just pretty f-ing severe?
You might also want to check your calculator. Something is severely wrong with it as well.
... I didn't do it because I wanted to, I did it because I could no longer longer afford it due to various changes in my life (married, baby, house, etc.) I'm hoping to be back to broadband (probably DSL this time) sometime in the near future. My experience with cable-modem was overall positive, especially in retrospect. In the early days it was a nightmare in terms of reliability, but they got much, much better. It's not even funny how much I want broadband again. No, it isn't as fast as they say, but it is still pretty fast even in the worst case and it isn't anywhere near as slow as a 56k modem. Oh, and man do I hate dialing in....
Yes, it has upgradable firmware. Just look at the specs. "Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats"
Everything except hard drive storage is covered by getting an existing Handspring Visor and getting a few springboard modules. Get the Sprint or Handspring visor phone springboard module, get an mp3 player springboard module. There is at least one MP3 module that offers SD/MMC slot(s). There is also a GPS unit with two SD/MMC slots.
Switch modules as needed. Also you can add CF 1&2 compatibility (sans microdrive) with a CF FlashAdapter module along with Kopsis' software (including VFS.)
The size issue is why they should replace use of sprinboard with a CF+ slot. For Springboard users provide a CF+ adapter, allowing them to use new modules as well as their existing springboard ones.
I could forgo the springboard slot if it at least offered an SD/MMC slot or equivalent, but stuck at 16 MB this thing is just a cell phone with a medicore PDA attached to it.
What I want is a new Visor Prism with a CF+ slot (in place of Springboard) as well as an SD/MMC slot and VFS, plus a Sony CLIE type high res/high color screen. Let me add my prefered wireless phone service via a CF+ card (if that is possible - otherwise stick with Springboard + an SD/MMC slot) so I can easily swap in the device I need at the time.
Make sure you also uncheck the "send all files to microsoft and then trash the hard drive" option in the preferences. Fortunately, only a dunderhead wouldn't think to look for that and uncheck it before using IE.
You might also want to uncheck the "auto-install child pornagraphy and 'accidentally' send email to the FBI offering them to come on by and pick up some free child porn" option.
So, aside from blocking playback on computers, make it impossible to play on any other equipment as well.
As soon as you log in to the internet with a fingerprint set it sends the fingerprint to the FBI, their systems search their databases, and soon agents are at your door holding a glove for you to try on.
That it hits the Mozilla theme seems like an error of Apple legal department. Applications are free to try and match their UI to look like the rest of the OS.
Actually, Apple has had the position that it isn't legal to copy or simulate an Apple designed look and feel without permission, especially not on other OSs. This fits right in with their stance on the Mozilla Aqua-ish theme(s), which not only are poor simulations of Aqua, but can be used on other operating systems.
Such efforts can have a negative impact upon Apple - some may associate the software, even the OS it is running on, directly with Apple. Indeed, sometimes I wonder if people here who make wildly inaccurate claims about Aqua aren't basing them upon poor simulations of Aqua in their favorite "themable" applications and OSs.)
Perhaps in the minority, but I agree and sympathize with Apple's position. I'm no lawyer so I can't comment on the legality of it, but while Microsoft can rely upon having a stranglehold on the market, Apple must rely upon its designs.
You said: "In fact, Apple stopped being about usability and technology long ago."
Why do you say this? OS X made a lot of changes to the OS 9 interface and that has been a shock to the system for many, however, once you give it a chance you find that the vast majority of those changes are improvements in usability and efficiency, including those which many of you pass off as "just eye candy".
As for your claim that Apple is no longer about technology: you've got to be kidding, right?
You said: "As a UI designer, where exactly do you think is the advantage of having glass-like buttons and gum drops with few or no comprehensible labels on them?"
This simply is not true. Have you actually tried OS X for real or do you just vaguely recall a friend saying they once saw a blurry picture of it? Inspired by your claim I just looked at a wide variety of applications (Apple written and 3rd party) aside from the ones I was already using. The only label-less buttons I could find were in Sherlock and QuickTime Player, and icons in the Dock.
QuickTime Player's label-less buttons have icons that are standard fair for video/audio controls on VCRs, CD players, DVD players, etc) and thus labels aren't needed. The channel buttons are not textually labeled, but do contain the logo of the content they result in which in all cases includes the name (for example, "The Weather Channel".)
I agree that the search channel icons in Sherlock and some icons in the dock (specifically folder, drive and document icons) should have (optional) labels and not just tooltips, as docs/folders/drives can look identical and are thus only distinguishable by their names. The same is not true of applications which have unique icons, though I still wouldn't mind a label with those as an option. So there's a few things. Send them feedback on it - OS X 10.1 proves they are listening.
As for confusing labels - I don't see them. what is confusing about labels such as "Reply", "Cancel", "Save", "Back", "Connect", "Smaller", "Bigger", "Displays", "Sound", etc, etc?
Incidentally, labels in toolbars and other places can be turned off by the user. They are on by default. You can have icons only, labels only or both.
The internet provides a great means for observing the progression of mental illness throughout the world regardless of race, religion and OS affiliation.
Yesterday I dropped my unprotected first generation iBook onto concrete. I did not grip it as well as I should have and it slipped from my grasp, dropping about 3-4 feet and landing rather abruptly, with a disturbing crash, onto the concrete sidewalk. It had been in sleep mode. When I picked it up and opened the case it woke up and worked just fine, aside from a slight marring on the case. Durability is good.
I can only presume, given such an amazingly redundant post like that one, that your I-time score of II is now I.
It will not be available for download, or so reports tell us. However, it is supposed to be available for free at many Apple retailers, not just Apple Stores.
Noon pacific or Noon eastern or Noon ??? I don't know, but that's the news at Seybold from the Man himself.
You can send for a CD for $19.99, or you can go to an Apple retailer and get a free update there at no cost. Also, the CDs will be in stores this Saturday. I would list the URL of the site doing live coverage of the keynote today, but they are already swamped. /.-ing them would certainly bring them down for good. If you are Mac news savvy you can easily find it.
10.1 uses hotspot, or so Apple has said and, as far as I know, it is true.
Firewire is better, but the USB 2.0 devices I've looked at say that they also work on a USB 1.x connection, albeit at a slower speed (obviously). It would appear not be the case that "2.0 devices will not work on 1.x buses". Maxtor, for example, has USB 2.0 products that say they are backwardly compatible with 1.x USB ports.
It's very, very silly that people are saying oh, it's OK because it's just components for the server. I.e. if you are a gung-ho-Microsoft-can do-no-wrong kind of person you get full use of the software you paid for, but if you even question Microsoft once on your web site you lose the right to use parts of the software you paid for?
Here's the next step: Microsoft Word XP2: new clause in the license makes it such that if you ever write anything bad about Microsoft in a document created with Word XP2 you may no longer use the "Save component".
I did not know who she was until I first heard her story. Barbara Lee is a hero. 'nuff said.
If anyone should be allowed to spy on anyone else, then it should be the citizens of the US whom are allowed to spy on their own government in order to keep them in check, not the other way 'round. Allowing a government to spy on its own people is right up there with the KGB and Communism. Didn't we fight that once?
All we Americans can think to do is blow some people up, batten down the hatches (and in the process attack america by taking away basic freedoms that are the very heart of our country and for which we have allegedly fought and died for) and hope for the best. It's time to look up from your shoes, folks. Building our own Wall Of China is not the solution.