Shame they didn't include Seamonkey 2.0 (b1). If you consider the fact that many people have some sort of email app open or running in background to check emails, seamonkey really comes out ahead thanks to good integration of browser and mail client.
I went to the spotify home page and there was a link to "find out why spotify is not available in your country" I didn't click it, but I'm pretty sure it would just link to a picture of Bush or would take me straight to the RIAA's homepage.
I bet their Friggin' "Ecstatic"! Most of the big broadcasters will easily make double the fee over the next year in increased traffic from all the people that no longer can listen to the really good smaller radio stations.
instead of "at all costs" I think you meant "and with bountiful gains"
apple isn't exactly throwing themselves under the bus to protect us from complexity.
You exist in a very scary state of mind when more options to execute your desires and achieve your goals is called "the nightmare"
If it's to study "why men don't like condoms", as it is being widely reported, then yes, the study is a waste of money. The reason is obvious to anybody that's ever used one.
Have you ever been to the NIH? While there are plenty more women than here on slashdot, the net sexual activity is probably pretty similar.
And Holland's tourism industry would crash, I mean without the windmills, why would you want to go to the Netherlands... I mean isn't that what draws all those young folks to Amsterdam these days?
...but they've worked it out and plan to release it in Windows7 as a key selling point. I'm pumped, this will make installing kings quest 1-4 much easier.
Ha Ha suckerZ! I was pre approved for the SuperAdvanced DiscoverCard - "the card that actually pays U late fees" and used it to pre-advance purchase the DVR-SuperAdvance HD! U foolz will still be watching the office season 12 in standard definition where you will barely even be able to see the subtle details in Steve Correls wrinkled face that make the situational humour work while I'm watching Top Model 2021 where I can make out each sulcus of Tyra Bank's petrified brain in a jar as it passes jealous judgment upon reincarnations of her own narcissism.
oh yeah, my version also gets C-SPAN superadvance channel..BTW - vote Krador in 2016
just tell them you're compensating for an unusually large ___ [fill in the blank]. Some suggested answers include (Hard drive, mortgage, hemorrhoid), but be creative - this could be a great line.
hmm, I've never heard the phrase "everything just works" for the iphone. I think most of us have had the opposite experience. It has a bunch of really cool features that would be awesome if they actually did just work.
1. PHONE - let's start with the basics, this is probably the worst cell-phone most people have ever used. It drops calls like crazy, has no message LED, it's really easy to accidentally dial contacts, and the attempts to switch between networks automatically can wreck havoc on its reception.
2. Internet - it's on ATT's 3G network - which is ok i guess if you get signal and don't travel anywhere. Any argument that apple forcing you to use ATT is a good thing is a load of crap.
3. Accelerometer - on my phone at least, half the time I have to repeatedly shake the stupid thing to shift from portrait to landscape - this makes me look like a total idiot - I would love to have a button on the side that "just worked" rather than constantly shaking my phone like I have a tic.
4. Network - "The network knows you'd prefer to use WiFi rather than 3G" it "knows" this by constantly searching for wifi - draining battery and connecting to wifi when you very well may not want to connect to wifi (i.e. if an access point has the same name as a friendly access point and uses the same password or lack there of, all of the sudden your data is flowing across a rogue network while your phone is just sitting in your pocket). I'd rather let my phone know which network I wanted to use via a simple selection on the homescreen rather than having to let the phone guess by itself or surf deep into preference menus.
5. Applications - "no more web-trawling to find a half-baked PoS app" - Indeed! the appstore is full of them - easily accessible right from your phone. Of course many charge nominal fees that can't be refunded and have no demos available.
I'm afraid I also can't believe anyone would refer to the iphone as the most 'personal' personal computing device they've ever used. It's the most generic, do things this way and be happy with it, device I've ever seen. To even begin to personalize the iphone you need to "jailbreak" it - that certainly doesn't sound user friendly.
With the popularity of handheld devices / nifty cell phones, my tolerance for boot time has gone way down. Not so much for my desktop, but I would love to be able to flip open my laptop and pop off a new email then shut the laptop down completely to save battery in a very short amount of time (ideally quickly enough that using the larger keyboard I could do this + attach a file quicker than it would take me to type it out on a handheld device).
we've made that sacrafice for computing platforms which are all almost always connected to the internet (my pc is on the internet a lot more than my iphone thanks to AT&T) . Without getting into a flamewar about fundamental organization of business and society, I can't really argue with your watchdog philosophy - I can only say that I disagree, and I'll take risk and freedom over protection and monopolization any day.
I call bullshit. There are plenty of apps available from the appstore that I think most people would agree are of extremely low quality. Apple wants to profit off of every piece of software that is made for the iphone, hence the app-store etc. They will continue to do this until developers lose interest because of more flexible devices with higher market shares. Until then, they will stand behind this quality argument which is clearly a load of wet poop.
you can peel my goofy Slashdotter ideals out of my cold dead hands.
not to mention that while seamonkey still carries the mozilla/netscape "bloatware" rep, it runs better than any other browser on my older machine (933Mhz, 512MB SDRAM). I've found it to be snappier than firefox 3.x and I can run seamonkey mail and browse with multiple tabs with a much smaller memory footprint than if I simultaneously run firefox and thunderbird. Not to mention the startup time of seamonkey is quicker than the combined startup time of firefox + thunderbird. I know I'll get stoned for saying it, but the divorce of email and the browser was a travesty. The only shortcoming of seamonkey is that it is not modular/customizable with regards to the different apps in the suite - it would have a bigger market share if you could easily add/remove mail or composer post installation.
Exactly - I'd wager that a decent percentage of the slashdot audience has probably at least browsed these ads before - nerds that wouldn't pick up chicks on the street are a huge target for this kind of business model - but be warned - you'd have to be crazy to respond to these ads. A large percentage of them are probably honeypots posted by authorities, and the government has full backdoor access to everything that goes through craigslist (thank you patriot act) including email addresses. I'd love to know the ratio of arrests to actual successful prostitution related business transactions through craigslist - I bet it's greater than one. Also, let's not forget that nearly every major city has a newspaper with an erotic personals section - this sort of thing is nothing new.
In some fantasy universe where people also want crack houses left alone in order to provide a supply of dealers to bust, and bars to serve up alcohol in drive through windows in order to create more drunks on the road. In this fantasy universe 'intelligent' people don't care about the victims, they just want criminals to bust.
Hey, wait a second... that's not a fantasy universe, that's Wyoming.
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Shame they didn't include Seamonkey 2.0 (b1). If you consider the fact that many people have some sort of email app open or running in background to check emails, seamonkey really comes out ahead thanks to good integration of browser and mail client.
I went to the spotify home page and there was a link to "find out why spotify is not available in your country" I didn't click it, but I'm pretty sure it would just link to a picture of Bush or would take me straight to the RIAA's homepage.
I bet their Friggin' "Ecstatic"! Most of the big broadcasters will easily make double the fee over the next year in increased traffic from all the people that no longer can listen to the really good smaller radio stations.
instead of "at all costs" I think you meant "and with bountiful gains"
apple isn't exactly throwing themselves under the bus to protect us from complexity.
You exist in a very scary state of mind when more options to execute your desires and achieve your goals is called "the nightmare"
If it's to study "why men don't like condoms", as it is being widely reported, then yes, the study is a waste of money. The reason is obvious to anybody that's ever used one.
Have you ever been to the NIH? While there are plenty more women than here on slashdot, the net sexual activity is probably pretty similar.
And Holland's tourism industry would crash, I mean without the windmills, why would you want to go to the Netherlands... I mean isn't that what draws all those young folks to Amsterdam these days?
how does converting apr03 to April-03-2007 cause any data loss?
...but they've worked it out and plan to release it in Windows7 as a key selling point. I'm pumped, this will make installing kings quest 1-4 much easier.
Sounds like a nice warm place.
hell or the children's pants?
Ha Ha suckerZ! I was pre approved for the SuperAdvanced DiscoverCard - "the card that actually pays U late fees" and used it to pre-advance purchase the DVR-SuperAdvance HD! U foolz will still be watching the office season 12 in standard definition where you will barely even be able to see the subtle details in Steve Correls wrinkled face that make the situational humour work while I'm watching Top Model 2021 where I can make out each sulcus of Tyra Bank's petrified brain in a jar as it passes jealous judgment upon reincarnations of her own narcissism.
oh yeah, my version also gets C-SPAN superadvance channel ..BTW - vote Krador in 2016
who pisses their pants on beaches? people that are ghastly afraid of sharks?
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hmm, I've never heard the phrase "everything just works" for the iphone. I think most of us have had the opposite experience. It has a bunch of really cool features that would be awesome if they actually did just work.
1. PHONE - let's start with the basics, this is probably the worst cell-phone most people have ever used. It drops calls like crazy, has no message LED, it's really easy to accidentally dial contacts, and the attempts to switch between networks automatically can wreck havoc on its reception.
2. Internet - it's on ATT's 3G network - which is ok i guess if you get signal and don't travel anywhere. Any argument that apple forcing you to use ATT is a good thing is a load of crap.
3. Accelerometer - on my phone at least, half the time I have to repeatedly shake the stupid thing to shift from portrait to landscape - this makes me look like a total idiot - I would love to have a button on the side that "just worked" rather than constantly shaking my phone like I have a tic.
4. Network - "The network knows you'd prefer to use WiFi rather than 3G" it "knows" this by constantly searching for wifi - draining battery and connecting to wifi when you very well may not want to connect to wifi (i.e. if an access point has the same name as a friendly access point and uses the same password or lack there of, all of the sudden your data is flowing across a rogue network while your phone is just sitting in your pocket). I'd rather let my phone know which network I wanted to use via a simple selection on the homescreen rather than having to let the phone guess by itself or surf deep into preference menus.
5. Applications - "no more web-trawling to find a half-baked PoS app" - Indeed! the appstore is full of them - easily accessible right from your phone. Of course many charge nominal fees that can't be refunded and have no demos available.
I'm afraid I also can't believe anyone would refer to the iphone as the most 'personal' personal computing device they've ever used. It's the most generic, do things this way and be happy with it, device I've ever seen. To even begin to personalize the iphone you need to "jailbreak" it - that certainly doesn't sound user friendly.
With the popularity of handheld devices / nifty cell phones, my tolerance for boot time has gone way down. Not so much for my desktop, but I would love to be able to flip open my laptop and pop off a new email then shut the laptop down completely to save battery in a very short amount of time (ideally quickly enough that using the larger keyboard I could do this + attach a file quicker than it would take me to type it out on a handheld device).
we've made that sacrafice for computing platforms which are all almost always connected to the internet (my pc is on the internet a lot more than my iphone thanks to AT&T) . Without getting into a flamewar about fundamental organization of business and society, I can't really argue with your watchdog philosophy - I can only say that I disagree, and I'll take risk and freedom over protection and monopolization any day.
I call bullshit. There are plenty of apps available from the appstore that I think most people would agree are of extremely low quality. Apple wants to profit off of every piece of software that is made for the iphone, hence the app-store etc. They will continue to do this until developers lose interest because of more flexible devices with higher market shares. Until then, they will stand behind this quality argument which is clearly a load of wet poop.
you can peel my goofy Slashdotter ideals out of my cold dead hands.
not to mention that while seamonkey still carries the mozilla/netscape "bloatware" rep, it runs better than any other browser on my older machine (933Mhz, 512MB SDRAM). I've found it to be snappier than firefox 3.x and I can run seamonkey mail and browse with multiple tabs with a much smaller memory footprint than if I simultaneously run firefox and thunderbird. Not to mention the startup time of seamonkey is quicker than the combined startup time of firefox + thunderbird. I know I'll get stoned for saying it, but the divorce of email and the browser was a travesty. The only shortcoming of seamonkey is that it is not modular/customizable with regards to the different apps in the suite - it would have a bigger market share if you could easily add/remove mail or composer post installation.
Exactly - I'd wager that a decent percentage of the slashdot audience has probably at least browsed these ads before - nerds that wouldn't pick up chicks on the street are a huge target for this kind of business model - but be warned - you'd have to be crazy to respond to these ads. A large percentage of them are probably honeypots posted by authorities, and the government has full backdoor access to everything that goes through craigslist (thank you patriot act) including email addresses. I'd love to know the ratio of arrests to actual successful prostitution related business transactions through craigslist - I bet it's greater than one. Also, let's not forget that nearly every major city has a newspaper with an erotic personals section - this sort of thing is nothing new.
In some fantasy universe where people also want crack houses left alone in order to provide a supply of dealers to bust, and bars to serve up alcohol in drive through windows in order to create more drunks on the road. In this fantasy universe 'intelligent' people don't care about the victims, they just want criminals to bust.
Hey, wait a second... that's not a fantasy universe, that's Wyoming.
sigh. It's tore up dummy.
nice to see some NSF funds going to good use.
welcome to the post-bush era. it's going to be next to impossible to turn back now.
whoops, my very clever tags didn't show up.
But count me in for something a little thicker with a lot more functionality.