Of course, ipod linux support only goes up to 3g ipods, and rockbox supports 4g and 5g. But we would have to RTFA to learn that, wouldn't we? Heaven forbid!
So, just so I'm straight on this - TFA seems to indicate that the only way to get files onto rockbox is drag and drop. How, exactly, is this better than auto-sync? I plug in my ipod, all my podcasts, videos automatically re-encoded by my eyetv, and any songs I've downloaded with cabos are all automatically added to the player. Yeah, it sucks that the directories aren't in human-readable formats on the ipod, but there are plenty of third party apps to pull songs off an ipod. I keep the installer for a windows and mac version stored on my ipod.
I have yet to find a player that gives me the functionality of itunes, either. I use smart playlists CONSTANTLY to generate groupings of songs I'm likely to want to hear. Again, all handled automatically and sync'ed every time I connect the ipod. Most players don't even have the library management I have come to enjoy from itunes. The closest I ever came when I was on windows was the MEXP plugin for winamp (http://www.mexp.dk/), but that's still a far cry from itunes.
I know a lot of people who don't own ipods and still use itunes to manage their music libraries. I guess if it doesn't run on your platform of choice, that means you can't use it - but it doesn't mean itunes sucks.
Can a clapper dim my lights as well as turning them on and off. Can it let me selectively turn off the lights that glare on the screen but leave the ones along the wall turned on so the room isn't TOO dark?
Can a security system be programmed from my computer and installed for the couple of bucks I spent on x10 software? Does Brinks give you a development kit so you can write custom code to automate it the way YOU want to do it?
Can a heavier dog water dish suddenly give my pooches infravision (in the D&D sense)?
The x10 solution works, and works well - your solutions are crappy workarounds that don't provide the functionality I already. A horse drawn carriage could get me to work every day, but I'll stick with my car, thanks
Were you dropped on your head as a child? Man, you know, wal-mart sells underwear, and I really hate the business practices of wal-mart, so I'm not wearing underwear anymore.
In my experience it's great - I use it heavily in my home. There are nice little things, like the fact that my TV remote also turns off my lights. Or the x10 remote on my night stand so I can turn the lights on or off from bed. Another huge benfit is the fact that lights can be automated to make it appear as if someone is home when I'm out of town. I travel a lot and this little extra bit of security helps keep me from worrying about robberies. I also use the motion sensors to trigger key lights in the house - if the dogs go downstairs for a drink of water at night, a light will kick on so they don't stumble over the water dish and knock it over (something that happened quite regularly, actually).
X-10 is a protocol. X10.com is one company which sells products using that protocol (as well as various other products, such as cheap wireless webcams). Companies such as smarthome are not associated with the pop-up/unders you despise so much. AFAIK X-10 is the only easily retrofitted home automation solution. I've never heard of this Insteon before, but I'll have to check it out - I have a fair bit of X-10 hardware already so I'd hate to start again from scratch.
What a stupid idea. As far as I know, there aren't many people out there who still worship the Roman gods. There are plenty of practicing Hindus, though. Using names of figures from an active religion is just ASKING for a public relations nightmare.
Uh... this is only relevant on the MacBook. The iMacs all ship with the two-button mighty mouse, and the mac mini is BYOKDM. And, as another poster pointed out, there are workarounds available. The software is BETA.
And again, I say watch the videos. The movement of the controller corresponds to a movement on the screen. That does not mean it's a direct line following some axis on the device. It is not. It's completely programmable. Moving the joystick side to side can move the pointer, and twisting it can cause some action. Repeating 50 times that it works like a laser pointer isn't going to make it any more true.
THIS IS NOT A LIGHT GUN. It doesn't shoot a beam at anything. There is a device, and there are sensors. The sensors detect the position of the device. Not a dot projected from the device. Not the motion of gyros in the device. The device itself. There is no wobbling dot on the wall.
Those little "air mice" use a gyroscope, which only measures relative motion, and not absolute position. The nintendo method triangulates its position using sensors placed on the sides of the TV - this measures absolute position and does not rely on gyroscopes, making it theoretically more accurate.
Considering the fact that companies are suing google for putting the first paragraph of their news tidbits on google news, how long will it be before someone sues webaroo for copyright infringement? Whether the claim is valid or reasonable or not is a moot point - someone is gonna see this as infringement and call out their pack of rabid lawyers.
Because he helped START the open source movement, and has had many significant contributions which have helped advance open source. He didn't just talk about it, he made things happen - both by talking and by doing.
Oh yeah, just like any other slashdotter - who happened to co-found the open source initiative and found the linux standard base. Exactly like any other random slashdotter who's written 20 books on open source, under open source licenses, published by prentice hall.
Really, why is this troll modded up? How many slashdotters were project head of Debian or the first open source evangelist to work in top management at a multi-billion dollar company? You might not like perens' views, but he's a whole fuckload more qualified to make these kinds of statements than the average living-in-mom's-basement slashdotter.
By that logic, the apple can easily have several buttons. Three buttons means three physical buttons. There are a couple of third party add-on drivers which use trackpad chording to give the apple a couple of buttons, too.
I don't know how it works for comp sci, but I do know that another highly in-demand career makes it trivial to get a green card. Nurses are in such high demand here, that the sometimes years-long process to obtain a green card can be shortened to a few months.
Your scenario is completely flawed. Apple is not SUPPORTING windows installs. They are allowing them. Apple saw that users were already using an ugly nasty hack to get XP booting on their intel macs, and that a lot of people were excited about the prospect, so they released a more elegant solution, with no warranty expressed or implied, to make life easier on those people. They WILL NOT answer a tech support call about removing spyware from your windows box, or how to change the resolution of XP. They don't support windows on a mac, they tolerate it.
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Of course, ipod linux support only goes up to 3g ipods, and rockbox supports 4g and 5g. But we would have to RTFA to learn that, wouldn't we? Heaven forbid!
So, just so I'm straight on this - TFA seems to indicate that the only way to get files onto rockbox is drag and drop. How, exactly, is this better than auto-sync? I plug in my ipod, all my podcasts, videos automatically re-encoded by my eyetv, and any songs I've downloaded with cabos are all automatically added to the player. Yeah, it sucks that the directories aren't in human-readable formats on the ipod, but there are plenty of third party apps to pull songs off an ipod. I keep the installer for a windows and mac version stored on my ipod.
I have yet to find a player that gives me the functionality of itunes, either. I use smart playlists CONSTANTLY to generate groupings of songs I'm likely to want to hear. Again, all handled automatically and sync'ed every time I connect the ipod. Most players don't even have the library management I have come to enjoy from itunes. The closest I ever came when I was on windows was the MEXP plugin for winamp (http://www.mexp.dk/), but that's still a far cry from itunes.
I know a lot of people who don't own ipods and still use itunes to manage their music libraries. I guess if it doesn't run on your platform of choice, that means you can't use it - but it doesn't mean itunes sucks.
Can a clapper dim my lights as well as turning them on and off. Can it let me selectively turn off the lights that glare on the screen but leave the ones along the wall turned on so the room isn't TOO dark?
Can a security system be programmed from my computer and installed for the couple of bucks I spent on x10 software? Does Brinks give you a development kit so you can write custom code to automate it the way YOU want to do it?
Can a heavier dog water dish suddenly give my pooches infravision (in the D&D sense)?
The x10 solution works, and works well - your solutions are crappy workarounds that don't provide the functionality I already. A horse drawn carriage could get me to work every day, but I'll stick with my car, thanks
Were you dropped on your head as a child? Man, you know, wal-mart sells underwear, and I really hate the business practices of wal-mart, so I'm not wearing underwear anymore.
In my experience it's great - I use it heavily in my home. There are nice little things, like the fact that my TV remote also turns off my lights. Or the x10 remote on my night stand so I can turn the lights on or off from bed. Another huge benfit is the fact that lights can be automated to make it appear as if someone is home when I'm out of town. I travel a lot and this little extra bit of security helps keep me from worrying about robberies. I also use the motion sensors to trigger key lights in the house - if the dogs go downstairs for a drink of water at night, a light will kick on so they don't stumble over the water dish and knock it over (something that happened quite regularly, actually).
X-10 is a protocol. X10.com is one company which sells products using that protocol (as well as various other products, such as cheap wireless webcams). Companies such as smarthome are not associated with the pop-up/unders you despise so much. AFAIK X-10 is the only easily retrofitted home automation solution. I've never heard of this Insteon before, but I'll have to check it out - I have a fair bit of X-10 hardware already so I'd hate to start again from scratch.
Bring Your Own Keyboard, Display, and Mouse.
What a stupid idea. As far as I know, there aren't many people out there who still worship the Roman gods. There are plenty of practicing Hindus, though. Using names of figures from an active religion is just ASKING for a public relations nightmare.
Uh... this is only relevant on the MacBook. The iMacs all ship with the two-button mighty mouse, and the mac mini is BYOKDM. And, as another poster pointed out, there are workarounds available. The software is BETA.
That all depends on whether or not you like cats
No kidding. The first thing to pop into my head was this...
"This just in, convicted murderer on death row to appeal sentence."
of COURSE they're going to appeal - when you have that much money for lawyers why wouldn't you?
And again, I say watch the videos. The movement of the controller corresponds to a movement on the screen. That does not mean it's a direct line following some axis on the device. It is not. It's completely programmable. Moving the joystick side to side can move the pointer, and twisting it can cause some action. Repeating 50 times that it works like a laser pointer isn't going to make it any more true.
Watch the demos - it's not simply projecting a line.
THIS IS NOT A LIGHT GUN. It doesn't shoot a beam at anything. There is a device, and there are sensors. The sensors detect the position of the device. Not a dot projected from the device. Not the motion of gyros in the device. The device itself. There is no wobbling dot on the wall.
Those little "air mice" use a gyroscope, which only measures relative motion, and not absolute position. The nintendo method triangulates its position using sensors placed on the sides of the TV - this measures absolute position and does not rely on gyroscopes, making it theoretically more accurate.
Considering the fact that companies are suing google for putting the first paragraph of their news tidbits on google news, how long will it be before someone sues webaroo for copyright infringement? Whether the claim is valid or reasonable or not is a moot point - someone is gonna see this as infringement and call out their pack of rabid lawyers.
Yeah, another poster pointed that out - my bad.
You're right - he was editor for the books, not the author. My mistake.
Good news! It's a suppository!
Because he helped START the open source movement, and has had many significant contributions which have helped advance open source. He didn't just talk about it, he made things happen - both by talking and by doing.
Oh yeah, just like any other slashdotter - who happened to co-found the open source initiative and found the linux standard base. Exactly like any other random slashdotter who's written 20 books on open source, under open source licenses, published by prentice hall.
Really, why is this troll modded up? How many slashdotters were project head of Debian or the first open source evangelist to work in top management at a multi-billion dollar company? You might not like perens' views, but he's a whole fuckload more qualified to make these kinds of statements than the average living-in-mom's-basement slashdotter.
By that logic, the apple can easily have several buttons. Three buttons means three physical buttons. There are a couple of third party add-on drivers which use trackpad chording to give the apple a couple of buttons, too.
I don't know how it works for comp sci, but I do know that another highly in-demand career makes it trivial to get a green card. Nurses are in such high demand here, that the sometimes years-long process to obtain a green card can be shortened to a few months.
Dells have three mouse buttons now?
Your scenario is completely flawed. Apple is not SUPPORTING windows installs. They are allowing them. Apple saw that users were already using an ugly nasty hack to get XP booting on their intel macs, and that a lot of people were excited about the prospect, so they released a more elegant solution, with no warranty expressed or implied, to make life easier on those people. They WILL NOT answer a tech support call about removing spyware from your windows box, or how to change the resolution of XP. They don't support windows on a mac, they tolerate it.