or we he decided to continue the very war he claimed to be against...However, wasn't the Messiah supposed to have ended this war that he's continuing to fight?
You should have used the word Messiah earlier in your post. That way I would have know you were trolling before I got all the way to the end. WTF war are you talking about us continuing to fight? Afghanistan? He's ALWAYS said he supported that war and believed we needed to scale it up. Iraq? Well, as unfortunate as it is, we cannot safely just pack our bags and leave. We need to slowly back our way out of the mess. The troop level in Iraq is now under 50,000. That's about one third of the 140,000 troops that were there when he took office.
Obama said it was necessary to give billions of dollars to GM and Chrysler
Give? You might want to learn about exactly how a loan works. There's quite a difference between giving and lending.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when did the Bush administration take a report written by non-government people, do a cut and paste job to make it say what they want, then get caught and say "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"?
The White House systematically minimized the significance of climate change by editing government climate change reports. Documents obtained by the Committee show that CEQ Chief of Staff Philip Cooney and other CEQ officials made at least 181 edits to the Administration’s Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties. They also made at least 113 additional edits to the plan to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming. Other Administration documents that were heavily edited by the White House include EPA’s Report on the Environment, the annual report to Congress entitled Our Changing Planet, and EPA’s Latest Findings on National Air Quality: 2002 Status and Trends.
So let's evaluate: Right click... open in new tab. Close. Right click... open in new tab. Close. Right click... open in new tab.... Finally at the right page I want.
Well, at least you get it. I was trying to get across the point that this new feature is faster without having to type out all the details, like why even tabs are slower (as you pointed out), and how opening several tabs can be annoying when they are filled with javascript and flash (without getting into the whole argument of why I don't want to use noscript/flashblock across the board), etc.
People bitch about every change on the internet. OMG MY FACEBOOKS!!!, or OMG GOOGLE AUTOCOMPLETE!!!
Tell me about it. It seems like 90% of the comments in this story can be summed up as "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!".
What's the value in seeing a small thumbail of the page? The text is too small to read anyway and this will only add to the distraction. You can't evaluate a page based on the layout or how it looks. You're usually looking for content when you search.
Actually, there is a lot of value in this, at least for me. A lot of times I find that I'm trying to go back and re-find some page the I found in the search results a while back. In my head, I know exactly what the page looks like, but currently I have to click on each link one at a time, wait 1 to 10 seconds for each page to load, go back, and repeat. This would be much quicker.
Aside from that, I'm sorry to tell you, but one often CAN evaluate a page based on how it looks.
The Dems had 60% of the Senate (counting the Indies).
Only from July 7,2009 when Al Franken was sworn in, up until August 25, 2009, when Ted Kennedy died. And the month long senate recess began on August 7.
How, exactly, could the right torpedo the plan when the Democrats had a huge majority in the house and a super majority in the Senate?
Supermajority? What supermajority would that be? You mean the 60 votes to required to overcome a filibuster and force cloture? Yeah, they had those 60 votes if you include 2 independents. They had them all the way from July 7,2009 when Al Franken was sworn in, up until August 25, 2009, when Ted Kennedy died. Yep, damn those democrats for not predicting Kennedy's death and rushing a health reform bill through in the 50 days during which they had complete, unobstructed control.
So what? Pretty much every business establishment that you go into is going to be monitoring you with cameras. They own the place, and they can do as they please. I really don't care why they watch, whether it be for security, loss prevention, marketing, or simply to get off on watching hot chicks (though I hope the latter group would get fired for not doing their job). As long as they keep the cameras out of the bathrooms and dressing rooms (which are probably the only places you should have any expectation of privacy in a business establishment) I really don't see what the problem is.
The article refuses to name which retailer shipped early, but does anyone have any idea who did it? I know that just recently, Newegg had messed up and shipped out Rock Band 3 about a month before release.
Darth Vader was hardly an intergalactic villain. His villainy was strictly limited to one galaxy.
How do you know that? At the end of TESB, you can see the rebel fleet traveled a good distance outside the galaxy. It's very feasible they could travel between galaxies in a reasonable time. AOTC indicated that there are even 2 very nearby galaxies.
It's interesting in that it's one of the cases where pursuit of an aesthetic has undermined functionality.
I don't think that's quite how I'd put it. They haven't chose to ship with the flaws, so I don't think that's undermining anything. It's just R&D that has (so far) failed to come up with a viable product.
When will people ever figure out how this works? A tax deduction doesn't mean no cost, it means no taxes (and thus reduced cost). If you donate $1000, a $1000 tax deduction doesn't make it so that it didn't cost you anything. Instead, you get taxed $200 less (or whatever percentage of $1000 corresponds to your marginal tax rate), so instead of being $1000 poorer, you are merely $800 poorer.
The way you are expecting it to work is not called a tax deduction, but rather a tax credit, and those are only available for a limited number of things (education, children, energy efficient cars and home renovations, etc).
You might want to make that an upper case T, or add the i flag to the end. And while you are adding flags, do NOT add the g flag (you won't like the result).
I watched that, and I saw the second part from the mirror that boarder8925 posted down below (the combined 17 minute video). There was nothing in there about taping killing the recording industry, other than a few second blurb where they listed home taping as one of 4 reasons for slumping sales. Other reasons listed were counterfeiting, availability of free music on radio, and failure of artists to deliver major records on a regular basis. The entire rest of the video is all about pinning their hopes on the video disc (with a very brief mention that they are working on preventing it from being copied). That's it. Nothing else about home taping in there.
Stop trolling him. You know exactly what he means. He's not honestly impressed that they were able to accomplish held-key-scrolling. He's happy that an essential feature that previously didn't exist now exists. The common usage of awesome doesn't literally mean "I'm in awe" these days. It's a way of saying "that's great"
I wish they'd stop sending me movies in the mail. I never use them. I've been sitting on the same DVD for several months because of this. Just as soon as they roll out a streaming-only plan, I'm upgrading.
What do you mean? I would assume that, since you don't want any movies in the mail, you have no need for having any movies in your shipping queue. I'd also assume that, if your queue is empty and you mail back your movie, they'll have nothing more to send you and thus you will get no DVDs mailed to you. Does this not work? Do they start mailing you random DVD then instead?
On the other hand, if for some odd reason you still want to have movies in your shipping queue but not have them mailed to you (like maybe a reminder for movies you want to see which aren't yet streamable but hopefully will be some day) , then just set up a secondary profile in your account and reassign all of your DVDs (which I assume is only 1) to that account, and leave its shipping queue empty. I've never done that, but I assume they won't send you anything. I have had a secondary account with only one movie in that queue, and when that movie was not currently available, they shipped nothing instead of shipping something from the other account's queue.
Thanks for the link. As a Linux/MythTV user, my biggest concern has always been that CableCard is an absolutely useless spec to me since they refuse to certify any devices the aren't completely locked down. Even the behemoth Microsoft has had a hell of a time getting them to open up and allow more CableCard devices for Windows. Linux is completely out of the question.
So I'm most interested in how (or even if) they changed any of the certification requirements in a way that would affect Linux users. The section covering certification is on pages 18-20 of that pdf. Of interest is the section:
adopt the proposed rule that prohibits CableLabs or other qualified testing facilities from refusing to certify UDCPs for any reason other than a failure to comply with the conformance checklists referenced in our current rules.
At first glance, this seems good in that there will no longer be any magic involved in a manufacturer getting their devices certified. However, I'm unaware of exactly what is in these "conformance checklists". I'm suspecting there is something in there that would still make this all a no-go for any open source systems. If I'm reading it right, that's kind of suggested by the following
In addition, certain commenters argue that the proposed device certification rule is not rigorous enough to assure a competitive device market. Specifically, CEA and Public Knowledge each encourage the Commission to extend the device certification rule to apply to CableCARD-compatible computers and computer peripheral devices and to limit the terms that CableLabs may dictate in licensing agreements.122 They assert that these steps will allow start-up companies like SageTV to develop their devices, and that the proposed rule will not be effective without this extension. Indeed, NCTA and MPAA acknowledge that the Commission’s proposed rule would have no effect on the SageTV certification problems that the Commission highlighted in the FNPRM.
Even though it's not open source, I think the needs of SageTV probably aren't that far off from what open source software would need, so if the proposed rule is of no use to them, certainly it's of no use to open source systems. What a shame.
That disappointment aside, skimming the rest of the paper I see that the new proposal requires cable companies to provide multi-stream cards (which can decode 6 channels at once) to customers by default unless the customer specifically requests older single-stream cards. This is a definite improvement, as is the requirement that forces cable providers to permit and support self-installation of cable cards. Most of the rest I have no clue about.
So it sounds like there were some good changes made, but the most important issue has not been addressed, so while it's better, it's still useless to people in my position.
If you impose a lot of rules, monitor every little thing that your child does, then all they will do is find a way around whatever blocks / rules you have in place.
I saw a story on the local news a few weeks ago. This mother had been monitoring her daughters text message and call logs to see what she had been up to. Nothing suspicious ever came up. Then she learned of a service that the cell carrier provided that would let her log on and monitor the communications that had taken place with the account. She did that and found out that there had been lots of sexting going on among a half dozen or so of her friends. It turns out her daughter had been outwitting her all the time by deleting the offending messages from the history. So you are right, kids definitely will figure out ways around things.
However, here's the part of the story the really got to me and showed what a terrible parent she was. When she found out, she reported all the details to the police. Yes, she reported her own kid. I haven't heard the followup to the story, but the police were considering filing charges against the kids. If they handle this the way a lot of other places I've read about do, then this mother just gave her daughter a place on the sex offenders registry. She may have screwed up her daughters entire future.
Maybe theres some states like Montana that don't have speed limits
Actually, Montana reinstated their speed limits years ago. I believe it had to do with a requirement for them to receive federal funding. Even beside that, the "no speed limit" thing was not true. It was no STATED speed limit. The actual speed limit was "a safe and reasonable speed" or something like that. My brother actually got pulled over for speeding there when there were no stated speed limits.
On top of this, it's going to be more expensive than it's competitors.
What competitors? From everything I've seen, the plug in prius is expected to be priced about $5-8K more than the current prius. And its all-electric range is only 13 miles compared to the volt's 40, which means that even if the price does end up significantly cheaper, it's still an apples-oranges comparison. A 40 mile round trip range is enough for a significant portion of the population to drive fully electric most of the time. 13 miles would work for almost nobody.
They already tested them secretly for more than 140k miles combined. Now they've announced it. Has that announcement rippled back through the timeline to expose the secret in the past?
You just showed that you can, for any specific apple device, enumerate the context-specific actions of a button on one hand.
You must have an interesting hand then, because I did not enumerate every single action of those buttons. For instance, double clicking also has a 6th and 7th option on non-multitasking hardware: 3b4) Behave as 2 separate single clicks when in an app folder and music is not playing 3b5) when playing music and in an app folder, it performs 2 actions: first it closes the app folder, then it launches the music controls.
By showing that there are a number of instances in which the buttons act differently dependent upon context, I think I did a pretty poor job of illustrating his point that "you never have context-specific behavior of any buttons"
Your example shows the major difference between the touch-based iOS devices and generic computers. On the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, you never have context-specific behavior of any buttons.
Never? Really? Wow, then I really need you to help me figure something out, because I'm suddenly very confused. When I single click my home button, it: 1) Exits an app if I'm in an app. 2) Exits the folder if I'm looking at an app folder. 3) Takes me to the home screen if I'm on any screen other than the home screen or an app folder. 4) Takes me to the search screen if I'm on the home screen
When I double click my home button, it: 1) Brings up the music controls if the device is locked 2) Hides the music controls if the device is locked and the music controls are already visible 3a) On a device that supports iOS4 multitasking, it brings up the task manager screen (don't recall the name of it) if the device is not locked 3b) On a device that doesn't support iOS4 multitasking, it: 3b1) Brings up the music controls if music is playing (and I should mention, that this is an entirely different looking set of music controls than the one it brings up when the device is locked). 3b2) Behaves like a single click if no music is playing and you are in an app or on a screen other than the home screen 3b2) Does absolutely nothing if no music is playing and you are already on the home screen
When I click the volume button, it: 1) Controls the volume (using the volume control overlay) when the the device isn't locked 2) Controls the volume (using the volume control overlay) when the device is locked and music is playing 3) Does absolutely nothing when the device is locked and music is not playing. 4) Controls the volume without displaying the volume control overlay on any screen where there is a volume slider showing. However, if you wait a few seconds and the UI autohides, then suddenly the volume button displays the overlay again.
That's funny. To me, that seems like a whole shitload of context-specific behaviors, but I'm more than willing to learn what it really is, since iOS apparently never has context-specific behavior of any buttons.
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or we he decided to continue the very war he claimed to be against...However, wasn't the Messiah supposed to have ended this war that he's continuing to fight?
You should have used the word Messiah earlier in your post. That way I would have know you were trolling before I got all the way to the end. WTF war are you talking about us continuing to fight? Afghanistan? He's ALWAYS said he supported that war and believed we needed to scale it up. Iraq? Well, as unfortunate as it is, we cannot safely just pack our bags and leave. We need to slowly back our way out of the mess. The troop level in Iraq is now under 50,000. That's about one third of the 140,000 troops that were there when he took office.
Obama said it was necessary to give billions of dollars to GM and Chrysler
Give? You might want to learn about exactly how a loan works. There's quite a difference between giving and lending.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when did the Bush administration take a report written by non-government people, do a cut and paste job to make it say what they want, then get caught and say "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"?
Well, I'm pretty sure there's more than one example of this, but I'll give you one:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/resources/globalwarming/documents/political-interference.pdf
Here's a choice quote:
The White House systematically minimized the significance of climate change by editing
government climate change reports. Documents obtained by the Committee show that
CEQ Chief of Staff Philip Cooney and other CEQ officials made at least 181 edits to the
Administration’s Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program to exaggerate or
emphasize scientific uncertainties. They also made at least 113 additional edits to the
plan to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming.
Other Administration documents that were heavily edited by the White House include
EPA’s Report on the Environment, the annual report to Congress entitled Our Changing
Planet, and EPA’s Latest Findings on National Air Quality: 2002 Status and Trends.
So let's evaluate: ... open in new tab. Close. Right click ... open in new tab. Close. Right click ... open in new tab. ... Finally at the right page I want.
Right click
Well, at least you get it. I was trying to get across the point that this new feature is faster without having to type out all the details, like why even tabs are slower (as you pointed out), and how opening several tabs can be annoying when they are filled with javascript and flash (without getting into the whole argument of why I don't want to use noscript/flashblock across the board), etc.
People bitch about every change on the internet. OMG MY FACEBOOKS!!!, or OMG GOOGLE AUTOCOMPLETE!!!
Tell me about it. It seems like 90% of the comments in this story can be summed up as "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!".
What's the value in seeing a small thumbail of the page? The text is too small to read anyway and this will only add to the distraction. You can't evaluate a page based on the layout or how it looks. You're usually looking for content when you search.
Actually, there is a lot of value in this, at least for me. A lot of times I find that I'm trying to go back and re-find some page the I found in the search results a while back. In my head, I know exactly what the page looks like, but currently I have to click on each link one at a time, wait 1 to 10 seconds for each page to load, go back, and repeat. This would be much quicker.
Aside from that, I'm sorry to tell you, but one often CAN evaluate a page based on how it looks.
The Dems had 60% of the Senate (counting the Indies).
Only from July 7,2009 when Al Franken was sworn in, up until August 25, 2009, when Ted Kennedy died. And the month long senate recess began on August 7.
I should also add that the Senate took recess beginning on Aug 7, 2009, so really they only had 31 days, not 50.
How, exactly, could the right torpedo the plan when the Democrats had a huge majority in the house and a super majority in the Senate?
Supermajority? What supermajority would that be? You mean the 60 votes to required to overcome a filibuster and force cloture? Yeah, they had those 60 votes if you include 2 independents. They had them all the way from July 7,2009 when Al Franken was sworn in, up until August 25, 2009, when Ted Kennedy died. Yep, damn those democrats for not predicting Kennedy's death and rushing a health reform bill through in the 50 days during which they had complete, unobstructed control.
So what? Pretty much every business establishment that you go into is going to be monitoring you with cameras. They own the place, and they can do as they please. I really don't care why they watch, whether it be for security, loss prevention, marketing, or simply to get off on watching hot chicks (though I hope the latter group would get fired for not doing their job). As long as they keep the cameras out of the bathrooms and dressing rooms (which are probably the only places you should have any expectation of privacy in a business establishment) I really don't see what the problem is.
The article refuses to name which retailer shipped early, but does anyone have any idea who did it? I know that just recently, Newegg had messed up and shipped out Rock Band 3 about a month before release.
Darth Vader was hardly an intergalactic villain. His villainy was strictly limited to one galaxy.
How do you know that? At the end of TESB, you can see the rebel fleet traveled a good distance outside the galaxy. It's very feasible they could travel between galaxies in a reasonable time. AOTC indicated that there are even 2 very nearby galaxies.
It's interesting in that it's one of the cases where pursuit of an aesthetic has undermined functionality.
I don't think that's quite how I'd put it. They haven't chose to ship with the flaws, so I don't think that's undermining anything. It's just R&D that has (so far) failed to come up with a viable product.
That's because it's a tax deduction
When will people ever figure out how this works? A tax deduction doesn't mean no cost, it means no taxes (and thus reduced cost). If you donate $1000, a $1000 tax deduction doesn't make it so that it didn't cost you anything. Instead, you get taxed $200 less (or whatever percentage of $1000 corresponds to your marginal tax rate), so instead of being $1000 poorer, you are merely $800 poorer.
The way you are expecting it to work is not called a tax deduction, but rather a tax credit, and those are only available for a limited number of things (education, children, energy efficient cars and home renovations, etc).
You might want to make that an upper case T, or add the i flag to the end. And while you are adding flags, do NOT add the g flag (you won't like the result).
I watched that, and I saw the second part from the mirror that boarder8925 posted down below (the combined 17 minute video). There was nothing in there about taping killing the recording industry, other than a few second blurb where they listed home taping as one of 4 reasons for slumping sales. Other reasons listed were counterfeiting, availability of free music on radio, and failure of artists to deliver major records on a regular basis. The entire rest of the video is all about pinning their hopes on the video disc (with a very brief mention that they are working on preventing it from being copied). That's it. Nothing else about home taping in there.
Stop trolling him. You know exactly what he means. He's not honestly impressed that they were able to accomplish held-key-scrolling. He's happy that an essential feature that previously didn't exist now exists. The common usage of awesome doesn't literally mean "I'm in awe" these days. It's a way of saying "that's great"
I wish they'd stop sending me movies in the mail. I never use them. I've been sitting on the same DVD for several months because of this. Just as soon as they roll out a streaming-only plan, I'm upgrading.
What do you mean? I would assume that, since you don't want any movies in the mail, you have no need for having any movies in your shipping queue. I'd also assume that, if your queue is empty and you mail back your movie, they'll have nothing more to send you and thus you will get no DVDs mailed to you. Does this not work? Do they start mailing you random DVD then instead?
On the other hand, if for some odd reason you still want to have movies in your shipping queue but not have them mailed to you (like maybe a reminder for movies you want to see which aren't yet streamable but hopefully will be some day) , then just set up a secondary profile in your account and reassign all of your DVDs (which I assume is only 1) to that account, and leave its shipping queue empty. I've never done that, but I assume they won't send you anything. I have had a secondary account with only one movie in that queue, and when that movie was not currently available, they shipped nothing instead of shipping something from the other account's queue.
Thanks for the link. As a Linux/MythTV user, my biggest concern has always been that CableCard is an absolutely useless spec to me since they refuse to certify any devices the aren't completely locked down. Even the behemoth Microsoft has had a hell of a time getting them to open up and allow more CableCard devices for Windows. Linux is completely out of the question.
So I'm most interested in how (or even if) they changed any of the certification requirements in a way that would affect Linux users. The section covering certification is on pages 18-20 of that pdf. Of interest is the section:
adopt the proposed rule that prohibits CableLabs or other qualified testing facilities from refusing to certify UDCPs for any reason other than a failure to comply with the conformance checklists referenced in our current rules.
At first glance, this seems good in that there will no longer be any magic involved in a manufacturer getting their devices certified. However, I'm unaware of exactly what is in these "conformance checklists". I'm suspecting there is something in there that would still make this all a no-go for any open source systems. If I'm reading it right, that's kind of suggested by the following
In addition, certain commenters argue that the proposed device
certification rule is not rigorous enough to assure a competitive device market. Specifically, CEA and
Public Knowledge each encourage the Commission to extend the device certification rule to apply to
CableCARD-compatible computers and computer peripheral devices and to limit the terms that
CableLabs may dictate in licensing agreements.122 They assert that these steps will allow start-up
companies like SageTV to develop their devices, and that the proposed rule will not be effective without
this extension. Indeed, NCTA and MPAA acknowledge that the Commission’s proposed rule would have
no effect on the SageTV certification problems that the Commission highlighted in the FNPRM.
Even though it's not open source, I think the needs of SageTV probably aren't that far off from what open source software would need, so if the proposed rule is of no use to them, certainly it's of no use to open source systems. What a shame.
That disappointment aside, skimming the rest of the paper I see that the new proposal requires cable companies to provide multi-stream cards (which can decode 6 channels at once) to customers by default unless the customer specifically requests older single-stream cards. This is a definite improvement, as is the requirement that forces cable providers to permit and support self-installation of cable cards. Most of the rest I have no clue about.
So it sounds like there were some good changes made, but the most important issue has not been addressed, so while it's better, it's still useless to people in my position.
If you impose a lot of rules, monitor every little thing that your child does, then all they will do is find a way around whatever blocks / rules you have in place.
I saw a story on the local news a few weeks ago. This mother had been monitoring her daughters text message and call logs to see what she had been up to. Nothing suspicious ever came up. Then she learned of a service that the cell carrier provided that would let her log on and monitor the communications that had taken place with the account. She did that and found out that there had been lots of sexting going on among a half dozen or so of her friends. It turns out her daughter had been outwitting her all the time by deleting the offending messages from the history. So you are right, kids definitely will figure out ways around things.
However, here's the part of the story the really got to me and showed what a terrible parent she was. When she found out, she reported all the details to the police. Yes, she reported her own kid. I haven't heard the followup to the story, but the police were considering filing charges against the kids. If they handle this the way a lot of other places I've read about do, then this mother just gave her daughter a place on the sex offenders registry. She may have screwed up her daughters entire future.
Maybe theres some states like Montana that don't have speed limits
Actually, Montana reinstated their speed limits years ago. I believe it had to do with a requirement for them to receive federal funding. Even beside that, the "no speed limit" thing was not true. It was no STATED speed limit. The actual speed limit was "a safe and reasonable speed" or something like that. My brother actually got pulled over for speeding there when there were no stated speed limits.
On top of this, it's going to be more expensive than it's competitors.
What competitors? From everything I've seen, the plug in prius is expected to be priced about $5-8K more than the current prius. And its all-electric range is only 13 miles compared to the volt's 40, which means that even if the price does end up significantly cheaper, it's still an apples-oranges comparison. A 40 mile round trip range is enough for a significant portion of the population to drive fully electric most of the time. 13 miles would work for almost nobody.
No, he's just high. He got his towels mixed up.
It varies from place to place. In urban and suburban areas, you typically do not own mineral rights. In rural areas you often do own those rights.
They already tested them secretly for more than 140k miles combined. Now they've announced it. Has that announcement rippled back through the timeline to expose the secret in the past?
Also, I should add:
You just showed that you can, for any specific apple device, enumerate the context-specific actions of a button on one hand.
You must have an interesting hand then, because I did not enumerate every single action of those buttons. For instance, double clicking also has a 6th and 7th option on non-multitasking hardware:
3b4) Behave as 2 separate single clicks when in an app folder and music is not playing
3b5) when playing music and in an app folder, it performs 2 actions: first it closes the app folder, then it launches the music controls.
I think you illustrated the GP's point.
By showing that there are a number of instances in which the buttons act differently dependent upon context, I think I did a pretty poor job of illustrating his point that "you never have context-specific behavior of any buttons"
Your example shows the major difference between the touch-based iOS devices and generic computers. On the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, you never have context-specific behavior of any buttons.
Never? Really? Wow, then I really need you to help me figure something out, because I'm suddenly very confused.
When I single click my home button, it:
1) Exits an app if I'm in an app.
2) Exits the folder if I'm looking at an app folder.
3) Takes me to the home screen if I'm on any screen other than the home screen or an app folder.
4) Takes me to the search screen if I'm on the home screen
When I double click my home button, it:
1) Brings up the music controls if the device is locked
2) Hides the music controls if the device is locked and the music controls are already visible
3a) On a device that supports iOS4 multitasking, it brings up the task manager screen (don't recall the name of it) if the device is not locked
3b) On a device that doesn't support iOS4 multitasking, it:
3b1) Brings up the music controls if music is playing (and I should mention, that this is an entirely different looking set of music controls than the one it brings up when the device is locked).
3b2) Behaves like a single click if no music is playing and you are in an app or on a screen other than the home screen
3b2) Does absolutely nothing if no music is playing and you are already on the home screen
When I click the volume button, it:
1) Controls the volume (using the volume control overlay) when the the device isn't locked
2) Controls the volume (using the volume control overlay) when the device is locked and music is playing
3) Does absolutely nothing when the device is locked and music is not playing.
4) Controls the volume without displaying the volume control overlay on any screen where there is a volume slider showing. However, if you wait a few seconds and the UI autohides, then suddenly the volume button displays the overlay again.
That's funny. To me, that seems like a whole shitload of context-specific behaviors, but I'm more than willing to learn what it really is, since iOS apparently never has context-specific behavior of any buttons.