I haven't seen that on my P800, and that's IMHO a SERIOUS bonus.. I couldn't give two poops for the skinned interface, but getting even fixed-res fullscreen landscape video would be a super win..
Less'n there's been firmware updates to P800 that I can't get in the US:(
... that biodegrades in a few weeks, for the RIAA..
Seriously though, how better for the recording fatcats to make nice nice than to go 'organic' and tout these discs, then get to boost the price a few $$ even though the media price differential is less than $1..
Apple make nice friendly computers for home users and the occasional corporate desktop. They will never attempt to enter the big iron market because they a) don't have the expertise, b) wouldn't want to as it's outside their (profitable) niche, and c) no company on Earth would by a 64 processor Apple over a Sun or IBM box.
Here's a scary headline..
'Apple to acquire Sun'
Still, AFAICR you could build a hypertransport-based server that would take a SPARC's memory bandwidth apart. The questions are.. could they make money on it, and would anyone trust their billion dollar software on it?
Then again, Apple buying Sun.. IBM could never do it for antitrust reasons..
Re:Just ask the Mac owner who has Bluetooth...
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That's quite a wish list.
I'm quite a toy freak;)
All I really want is a car stereo that I can link to my T68i, so when I make or take a call the stereo mutes itself for the duration without me having to touch it.
If you're not buying a new car with BT (from DaimlerChrysler last time I heard) you can add a handsfree unit to your car stereo's carphone plug, which will mute the stereo when your phone rings. I have the Ericsson HCB-30, and when I place or receive a call thru it my TrafficPro will mute the music, 'Phone' displays on the face, and it pauses the CD if I'm listening to a CD. I have a speaker mounted under the armrest, but if I spent a little more money I could have gotten an adapter that would use the stereo speakers. I considered it, but the speaker works great and doesn't take up any space I care about.
I wish you luck, but last time I looked into the N-GAGE, it didn't play nice with either wireless headset or handsfree profiles.
Nokia historically has also had shite BT support, locking you into Nokia BT accessories.
Luckily, SonyEricsson has done a really great job supporting BT (particularly with the T68 series, which is SO COOL in SEClicker on OS X, which can't be done on my P800 because it doesn't support building interfaces via AT commands:/)..
Just ask the Mac owner who has Bluetooth...
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... Here's what it does for me, today:
Wireless car phone so I don't get traffic tickets in NY. Works great since it plugs into my GPS receiver's carphone jack.
Wireless headset. Motorola vs Ericsson? No problemo.
Syncing addressbook, calendar and phone numbers to my P800.
Sharing phonebook/vcards, pictures, sounds, etc with other BT phones, such as the T68i and P800.
Multiplayer 'battleship';)
What I want:
Bluetooth iPod that can transmit digital audio directly into...
Bluetooth stereo headphones, with or without microphone
Bluetooth motorcycle helmet. Bluetooth HUD would be super wicked fresh, particularly if joined with...
Bluetooth Carputer, which fits in a standard DIN enclosure and has an internal LCD, video outs, digital/analog line outs, bluetooth, 802.11, DVD, internal HDD, USB and Firewire. Maybe a VIA mini-itx system?
And SimCity 4, Age of Empires, Neverwinter Nights (finally!), Quicken, OmniGraffle (visio XML interchange), M$ Word (for the PHBs).
You can make linux do a lot of this stuff too, but you can't make it easy to do it without spending $$$...
And yeah, you can bolt GPS, seat warmers, a trip computer, and other stuff into your Camry but it'll never match the design of a Benz.. (recent quality notwithstanding;)
I've bought the 7.1 and 8.0 powerpacks, and I'd consider the 9.2 powerpack, but you should get at least some form of club membership (silver for 6 mos, for example) when you buy the box set.
Napster has caused so many problems with legit PTP systems. My problem with it was it was so flagrant. It was a dumb mans PTP system and it brought attention to other areas that otherwise didn't want it.
"Nobody ever went broke appealing to dumb men." - Someone, I'm sure.
The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke, presenter of the TV series of the same name, as well as the Connections series. This is the first (and best) of his explorations of the causes and effects behind modernity. My favorite section describes the evolution of medicine from theater to science, thanks to battlefield surgery (which had many opportunities to develop thanks to the French Revolution, Napoleon, the Civil War, etc.).
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson. He has many other popular histories (Modern Times, Intellectuals, History of America, History of the Jews among my favorites) but this one studies a particular period of time where many modern sensibilities were formed. With a strong bent towards affairs in England and Europe, it's still enlightening to read. There's an interesting section discussing the split between arts and science which came about during this time, with both beginning to specialize.
How The Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman. Smith, Hume, Watt, Bell, Carnegie.. All their works built the world we live in today, all Scots. It's amazing what a nation as impoverished as Restoration Scotland was able to accomplish, even within a few generations.
There's lots more, and you never can know too much history, but these seem fairly apropos of the period Stephenson covers, and may offer a bit more understanding of the period and characters.
First I had to take the entire thing apart. This, if you've been inside a laptop, is not an easy trivial task. It needs the battery and case to come off, the drive and optical drive to come out, and apples STUPID design inside them meant I had to file away some parts as they were put in without obviously meaning to be taken apart again.
RTFM, dumbass.
For starters, Apple's optional AirPort is built to use the pre-wired Powerbook antennae (for what they're worth in the TiPB) so it's a custom part. You _can_ use a standard part (such as an 802.11g) in the PC-card slot, though it's uglier.
In addition, according to Apple's free installation documentation, you remove the battery, pull the base plate, slip in the airport card, attach antenna, and close it up. They even draw you a picture!
If you were pulling optical drives or filing pieces, then you obviously didn't RTFM.
OTOH, having worked on junker PC laptops for the better part of a decade, I have to say that the PB is probably the easiest to work on I've ever owned. I had to reseat the 'q' key at one point after I dropped something on the keyboard, and luckily the keyboard is removable via ribbon connector! I restored the kybd with a bit of under-membrane surgery and tweezing, and I couldn't have asked for better. BTW, if you want to upgrade the PB RAM, the SODIMM slot is under the easily-removed keyboard.
I plan on holding onto mine until the toy budget recovers and/or the G5 Powerbook is available.
I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MACS
There are perfectly valid reasons to hate Macs. Your rant, OTOH, is just sad.
Anyway, I've talked my friend into getting rid of her Mac addiction, she will definitely be buying a Dell next!
My main point (you didn't know I had one, did you?) is that there are some things that Sun does *very* well and they have no real peer. Oh, you can talk about IBM or HP, but will my EDA applications run there? Nope, so it's a moot point. The installed based gives Sun the edge there, even if their system architecture could be shown to be lacking with respect to those vendors.
Power4 or PA-RISC systems would do well in these domains (and Power4 would probably smoke the SPARCs), but replacing one proprietary unix with another is a hard sell these days...
but of course, now that I've said something positive about Microsoft I'm doomed to be modded down by these faggots.
No, you'll be modded down because IIS sucks donkey ballz in terms of stability and security, and because of the obvious flamebait.
I suppose you _could_ run ASP in Apache, but for gods sake why?
I have issues with PHP meself (method signature overloading please???) but I'd take it in a heartbeat over any M$ junk, if only because I'd need M$ junk to test, debug and deploy it...
Auto workstation add via LDAP? LDAP in general?
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How's support for LDAP in 3?
Last time I touched samba, there were issues joining machines to a domain where I had to manually add LDAP entries for machines, then join them.. Kinda tedious..
Also, passwd sync was hell, I ended up writing a password change web CGI that fed values into ldapmodify and smbpasswd to keep passwds in sync, since samba used LM and NT passwd fields within the samba ldap schema. Has this been addressed? It made using standard LDAP GUI utils rather painful..
Let's see, and, companies are going to make it easy for everyone to compare their prices without adequately describing the subtleties of their value proposition.
Four words: Securities and Exchange Commission.
Maybe there isn't enough outrage left from this last corporate corruption cycle, but next time around we may very well see a codified, detailed accounting standard which would mandate structured reporting file standards. Who knows, there may very well be an ISO accounting standard, once the rest of the industrialized world has their own accounting revelations.
(ObOffTopic: Then again, I thought there'd be enough outrage about the 2000 election that we'd see a push for the abolition of the electoral college, but it's just degenerated into whining and sniping..)
There's no difference between Torvalds and Gates, except one begs for money and the other earns it.
More like one works for his money and the other uses his powers as a convicted monopolist to extort it.
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I haven't seen that on my P800, and that's IMHO a SERIOUS bonus.. I couldn't give two poops for the skinned interface, but getting even fixed-res fullscreen landscape video would be a super win..
:(
Less'n there's been firmware updates to P800 that I can't get in the US
Here's hoping the 900 software is available as a firmware upgrade on the P800...
... that biodegrades in a few weeks, for the RIAA..
Seriously though, how better for the recording fatcats to make nice nice than to go 'organic' and tout these discs, then get to boost the price a few $$ even though the media price differential is less than $1..
Naah, this'd be more like an addon to a dam outflow or something..
Depending on how restrictive something like this has to be, perhaps we'll see community water power stations on rivers?
Just a Q that someone might have the A to.. When you rip CDs into iTunes AAC, are they DRM'd to the ripping machine or are they open ala ripped MP3s?
I still rip MP3 (128k VBR) but I'm interested in saving a bit of space...
Mmmmm... brown sugar...
Apple make nice friendly computers for home users and the occasional corporate desktop. They will never attempt to enter the big iron market because they a) don't have the expertise, b) wouldn't want to as it's outside their (profitable) niche, and c) no company on Earth would by a 64 processor Apple over a Sun or IBM box.
Here's a scary headline..
'Apple to acquire Sun'
Still, AFAICR you could build a hypertransport-based server that would take a SPARC's memory bandwidth apart. The questions are.. could they make money on it, and would anyone trust their billion dollar software on it?
Then again, Apple buying Sun.. IBM could never do it for antitrust reasons..
That's quite a wish list.
;)
I'm quite a toy freak
All I really want is a car stereo that I can link to my T68i, so when I make or take a call the stereo mutes itself for the duration without me having to touch it.
If you're not buying a new car with BT (from DaimlerChrysler last time I heard) you can add a handsfree unit to your car stereo's carphone plug, which will mute the stereo when your phone rings. I have the Ericsson HCB-30, and when I place or receive a call thru it my TrafficPro will mute the music, 'Phone' displays on the face, and it pauses the CD if I'm listening to a CD. I have a speaker mounted under the armrest, but if I spent a little more money I could have gotten an adapter that would use the stereo speakers. I considered it, but the speaker works great and doesn't take up any space I care about.
I wish you luck, but last time I looked into the N-GAGE, it didn't play nice with either wireless headset or handsfree profiles.
:/)..
Nokia historically has also had shite BT support, locking you into Nokia BT accessories.
Luckily, SonyEricsson has done a really great job supporting BT (particularly with the T68 series, which is SO COOL in SEClicker on OS X, which can't be done on my P800 because it doesn't support building interfaces via AT commands
What I want:
You can have your little semitransparent apple.
;)
And SimCity 4, Age of Empires, Neverwinter Nights (finally!), Quicken, OmniGraffle (visio XML interchange), M$ Word (for the PHBs).
You can make linux do a lot of this stuff too, but you can't make it easy to do it without spending $$$...
And yeah, you can bolt GPS, seat warmers, a trip computer, and other stuff into your Camry but it'll never match the design of a Benz.. (recent quality notwithstanding
I've bought the 7.1 and 8.0 powerpacks, and I'd consider the 9.2 powerpack, but you should get at least some form of club membership (silver for 6 mos, for example) when you buy the box set.
The irony of course is that OSS fans are probably far more likely than the average browser to run adblocker proxies..
... anyone writing this kind of junk that hides behind a feedback form is IMHO safely ignored.
Even M$ flunky Charles Cooper from CNET has a mailto link for 'corrections'..
one or both of these companies might be incorporated there?
Lots of companies incorporate in DE for many reasons..
Napster has caused so many problems with legit PTP systems. My problem with it was it was so flagrant. It was a dumb mans PTP system and it brought attention to other areas that otherwise didn't want it.
"Nobody ever went broke appealing to dumb men."
- Someone, I'm sure.
There's lots more, and you never can know too much history, but these seem fairly apropos of the period Stephenson covers, and may offer a bit more understanding of the period and characters.
First I had to take the entire thing apart. This, if you've been inside a laptop, is not an easy trivial task. It needs the battery and case to come off, the drive and optical drive to come out, and apples STUPID design inside them meant I had to file away some parts as they were put in without obviously meaning to be taken apart again.
RTFM, dumbass.
For starters, Apple's optional AirPort is built to use the pre-wired Powerbook antennae (for what they're worth in the TiPB) so it's a custom part. You _can_ use a standard part (such as an 802.11g) in the PC-card slot, though it's uglier.
In addition, according to Apple's free installation documentation, you remove the battery, pull the base plate, slip in the airport card, attach antenna, and close it up. They even draw you a picture!
If you were pulling optical drives or filing pieces, then you obviously didn't RTFM.
OTOH, having worked on junker PC laptops for the better part of a decade, I have to say that the PB is probably the easiest to work on I've ever owned. I had to reseat the 'q' key at one point after I dropped something on the keyboard, and luckily the keyboard is removable via ribbon connector! I restored the kybd with a bit of under-membrane surgery and tweezing, and I couldn't have asked for better. BTW, if you want to upgrade the PB RAM, the SODIMM slot is under the easily-removed keyboard.
I plan on holding onto mine until the toy budget recovers and/or the G5 Powerbook is available.
I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MACS
There are perfectly valid reasons to hate Macs. Your rant, OTOH, is just sad.
Anyway, I've talked my friend into getting rid of her Mac addiction, she will definitely be buying a Dell next!
With friends like you, who needs Saddam Hussein?
My main point (you didn't know I had one, did you?) is that there are some things that Sun does *very* well and they have no real peer. Oh, you can talk about IBM or HP, but will my EDA applications run there? Nope, so it's a moot point. The installed based gives Sun the edge there, even if their system architecture could be shown to be lacking with respect to those vendors.
Power4 or PA-RISC systems would do well in these domains (and Power4 would probably smoke the SPARCs), but replacing one proprietary unix with another is a hard sell these days...
but of course, now that I've said something positive about Microsoft I'm doomed to be modded down by these faggots.
No, you'll be modded down because IIS sucks donkey ballz in terms of stability and security, and because of the obvious flamebait.
I suppose you _could_ run ASP in Apache, but for gods sake why?
I have issues with PHP meself (method signature overloading please???) but I'd take it in a heartbeat over any M$ junk, if only because I'd need M$ junk to test, debug and deploy it...
How's support for LDAP in 3?
Last time I touched samba, there were issues joining machines to a domain where I had to manually add LDAP entries for machines, then join them.. Kinda tedious..
Also, passwd sync was hell, I ended up writing a password change web CGI that fed values into ldapmodify and smbpasswd to keep passwds in sync, since samba used LM and NT passwd fields within the samba ldap schema. Has this been addressed? It made using standard LDAP GUI utils rather painful..
two words: ass fountain..
WTF? mebbe it no likey me privoxy..
OK, I'll bite..
Let's see, and, companies are going to make it easy for everyone to compare their prices without adequately describing the subtleties of their value proposition.
Four words: Securities and Exchange Commission.
Maybe there isn't enough outrage left from this last corporate corruption cycle, but next time around we may very well see a codified, detailed accounting standard which would mandate structured reporting file standards. Who knows, there may very well be an ISO accounting standard, once the rest of the industrialized world has their own accounting revelations.
(ObOffTopic: Then again, I thought there'd be enough outrage about the 2000 election that we'd see a push for the abolition of the electoral college, but it's just degenerated into whining and sniping..)
There's no difference between Torvalds and Gates, except one begs for money and the other earns it.
More like one works for his money and the other uses his powers as a convicted monopolist to extort it.
ObSimpsons
Or, you can just get a dialling wand...