I, unfortunately, spent a good many years in sales for a now-deceased electronics retailer (the old Crazy Eddie's, not whatever they are now) and throughout the 80s we saw a marked decrease in quality in their TV and personal electronics hardware. I doubt you can buy a Sony TV that's as well-made and long lasting anymore - it's really no better than any other electronics brand...4-5 years for a VCR, 8 for a TV, if you're lucky. I won't pay a premium anymore, having seem what I've seen...
But it's not like I can pick a winner either - my TV and VCR's are Grundig...feh!
Wow - and I thought my P800 was a brick in my pocket (well, compared to my old Siemens SL-45, it was, but not compared to my SL-45 AND Palm Vx in the same pocket).
This baby's huge - and I can easily view MP4's on my phone, admittedly not as fast while oline, but at that resolution...why?
I agree with you - which is why I used my "flowing water" analogy:
* The water analogy better describles the physics of how the network is distributed, as if it is being poured out, uncontrolled, onto the street. Broadcasting is really more like flowing water than some car/road analogy. It's a radiating, unobfuscated, natural phenominon.
* The water analogy better defines the broadcasted network in a more-logical fashion: it is a resource commodity managed as a utility. i.e, you can catch water in buckets, even MAKE it if you want, but we prefer to get it upstream, from a reliable source. The same with out networking: We pay a price for the Internet's availability and management: the ISP or the company doesn't make it. They open a pipe and send it to us, and if we allow anyone to use it, then we should be responsible for the costs.
This latter point is what makes the whole "car/road" or "house unlocked" logic faulty. I'm not breaking in, hunting for a particular item of their creation or ownership - I'm finding a resource flowing in every possible direction, onto my street, through the walls of my house, all in the air...everywhere, depending on the antenna.
We're talking about OPEN networks - those left unsecured. If you hack into a closed, wep'd network, then that *should* be a crime. But non-existant controls on your resources is no excuse for losing them.
Remember - this is MY public space too. If your resource leaks into my public space, it's YOUR fault, not mine. Don't be surprise when I use it.
Hmmm - "Cruddy website"...makes me suspicious (well, actaully, reading/. also makes me chronically suspicious)...
For a legit company, with an expensive product, it *is* a really cruddy site - lots of small images that you can't see in detail, nothing but duplicate pages in the descriptions, bold-faced words when value is stressed too hard, and the PVR looks like a PShopped-bit of Onkyo stereo hardware. I could make this site in an hour or two if I had content (for which I would need a marketing weasel).
But *IS* this really legit? I can think of a few examples recently of legit-looking sites advertising to a hungry market, not shipping product and then vanishing (think Macintosh clone)...
What tipped it for me was the "backup DVDs" function - really, they're just ASKING for a lawsuit.
Let's seperate the two - what you Kazaa is a seperate issue.
The whole idea of "stealing" a public hotspot is stupid - if it's public, then your access to it isn't stealing. If it's private, it's got 128-bit WEP encryption and is closed - right?
It's like leaving the water on in your house, watching it flow out onto the street and then crying foul when people line up with buckets...
It's no prob on my 2001 iBook - Either you color calibration is off or you've got font smoothing set wrong. Go to Preferences > Appearance and set your Font Smoothing to Medium - best for LCDs. You could alos have a corrupted font, but in any event it's not a problem here...
The real issue is that most people's choice of tools are the ones they can grab from a friend or download of Kazaa - ethics go to hell in a handbasket then. Sure, we could all use Linux, but people keep WINE or a Win box around to Quake a bit on the side. To switch hardware platforms, you have to give up the latter, and that's what keeping the fight going...easy access to pirate warez.
I've had loooong arguments with friends on PC vs. Macs. (Ok - I *really* don't care what you use as long as you don't take choice from me, but I'm always up for the good fight). As usual, "software choice" always came in last as the deciding factor for a PC over a Mac.
But this time I asked "oh yeah? Just *show* me all this software!" and the PC guy opens his desk drawer and produces boxes of CDs. All copies. All pirate. I asked him where is ethics were now, and what platform he was really supporting? He just laught it off, and then turned around to find a very disgusted wife.:)
Ethics are, and should, be ethics - universal constants. Situational ethics are no ethics at all.
I actually OWN what I use. Even Photoshop - I have since version 3. Not that it makes me superior of anything (far from it) but I want to support the programmers of my chosen platform. If you don't at least do that, you can't argue for ethics, or choice or fairness at all...
First, I should apologize for going-off on you. You sound like a rational person, and I think I've been spending too much time on/. recently - the wackos are getting to me.
But seriously - do you *know* for a fact that Apple doesn't see this as their market? That they've actually refused it?
I betcha Steve would like to hear about these things ("...heads will roll!")
I worked with a group called Progressive Peripherals a loooong time ago, and they used Apple IIxs' back then to do their '040 tracing, check timings and do board design. I thought elecronics design was *in* the Apple cadre; the sciences were always Apple-friendly, but I could be wrong.
Apple's supposed to be chasing around now, looking for keystone applications in fields they're not in - CAD, for instance. Seems like a little birdie should whisper into an Apple Evangelists ear...
Oh, for God's sake - please read the post before replying. Sarcasm, I *thought*, was the common coin on/.
To the blind, ignorant and incredibly dense who can't figure it out for themselves: I was MOCKING you...you - the user of exclaimations.
Your argument is the usual hogwash, not by a "vast PC conspiracy" but by the usual rantings of somone who cares not to think before writing - Your argument is MY argument: they're just computers. If a 166Mhz Pentium works for you, or an iMac or a G5 or a dual Xeon, hey, whatever rocks your socks.
But just READ before going off on people - nothing you wrote applies to me. Everything applies to you.
And for the matter - Yes, I own a Mac. I own a PC (Win2K). I own 2 Sun 5s (one SuSE, one Solaris) and I own a P800 (Symbian 7).
I'll say it s-l-o-w-l-y for you: they're just tools.
Odd though - the other posters are right in that it sounds alot like SMIL, but since QT 5 (for PC and Mac) you can embed Flash layers on the view as overlays.
What I see is: * Streaming video * Triggered text tracks * Links (either external, internal, scheduled or overlayed/flash)
Nothing new, but maybe I should download it first and then try it, and then comment...um, wait. Nevermind. Forgot where I was...
The article's about taking some personal responsibility to fact-check the crap you read - turn your brain on instead of take what you hear for granted - whether here, on Fox or CNN, from the govt. of your choice or even the online rantings of your Uncle Morty... perhaps especially your Uncle Morty.
The big problem here always is signal-to-noise, and the weenies who stopped doing "FP!" now contribute with their idea of wit. But often "witless" comes closer to the truth, in every sense of the word. Will it spark some kind of discussion? 'Prolly not - I'll just get flamed out the wazoo for saying it. Whoops, there goes my lousy 2 karma points.
It's easier to jabber on, brain in check, no matter what you believe. Blind faith in the worst makes you no smarter, no wiser and no productive than blindly believing in the positive.
Got a gripe? Listen, think, act - how hard is it? DO something about it. Heathly scepticism is a good thing, as long as it's combined with an inquisitive mind.
Very likely - I've not yet gotten our people here to invest in OS X Server, but it does work for the client-end systems and FTP, making developer tools like DreamWeaver MX work the way they're supposed to. You have NO idea how much annoyance this had produced for me...it's important for users to know about it.
Still, this or RH, SuSE, Deb...I'll take OS X anyday.
I believe that it's only for removing the bridge (northbridge to southbridge bus) from the architecture - and at "6.4 gigabytes to 12.8 GigaBYTES/second" rate too. Wheee! But alas internal...
What version of Bluetooth in the P800 are you users on? (To find out, do this: Go to Applications (4 dots), menu: View, then System Information. When the System Infomation panel is open, click the arrow (go to the second page).
My Bluetooth verison is CXC12529 R5A
It's been updated TWICE in the past 2 months (once at CeBIT and once recently in the mass update). SE has really messed-up the Bluetooth implementation so that the Auto mode doesn't work with headsets (and possibly the Mac, when the phone rings for example). It only supports the most basic OBEX Push for Bluetooth.
We might soon either have a workaround from Apple, or a new revision for compliance from SonyEricsson.
Indeed - I've had 2 panics, both because I pulled-out a PowerMate USB controller after a put the iBook to sleep - but it seem 10.2.6 fixed that for good (I've continued to do "bad things" to my iBook, and it now just keeps chugging along.) Never had a panic on the old G4/450 though...it's slow but seems to be a champ.
But don't even GET me started on my Inspiron running RedHat. Feh! It's going out the door this week! Soon I'll be only Mac. Odd. But good!
Now to get rid of my Sun 5 and a box of about 25 Intel ProShare cards & cams. Anyone near Amsterdam want to start a porn site?
It's not SHARING if it's being downloaded. Let's look at it this way. What do you define as sharing?
1) You've got your window open, blaring your radio the 5-person crowd on the street. THIS is iTunes sharing...
2) You've got your stereo on and are copying your music collection to cd, then placing them on the window sill for anyone to take. Or worse, people are reaching in, up to 5 at a time, and taking those cds without asking you. THIS is what Apple stopped.
I can't see why this is hard to understand - in the second scenario, you're either distributing or being stolen from, and that's all that's changed.
You can still tunnel to the Mac if you want, and you can still set up web sharing to give out your music if you want. But *you* have to do it - Apple won't do it for you!
And can you blame them? (Obviously, some can...maybe we need to start teaching civics and ethics again).
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I, unfortunately, spent a good many years in sales for a now-deceased electronics retailer (the old Crazy Eddie's, not whatever they are now) and throughout the 80s we saw a marked decrease in quality in their TV and personal electronics hardware. I doubt you can buy a Sony TV that's as well-made and long lasting anymore - it's really no better than any other electronics brand...4-5 years for a VCR, 8 for a TV, if you're lucky. I won't pay a premium anymore, having seem what I've seen...
But it's not like I can pick a winner either - my TV and VCR's are Grundig...feh!
"Also, -R/RW seems to be the cheaper media wherever I check."
Do the words, "economy of scale" mean anything you?
The only thing ready for the bargain-bin is you logic...
Wow - and I thought my P800 was a brick in my pocket (well, compared to my old Siemens SL-45, it was, but not compared to my SL-45 AND Palm Vx in the same pocket).
This baby's huge - and I can easily view MP4's on my phone, admittedly not as fast while oline, but at that resolution...why?
I agree with you - which is why I used my "flowing water" analogy:
* The water analogy better describles the physics of how the network is distributed, as if it is being poured out, uncontrolled, onto the street. Broadcasting is really more like flowing water than some car/road analogy. It's a radiating, unobfuscated, natural phenominon.
* The water analogy better defines the broadcasted network in a more-logical fashion: it is a resource commodity managed as a utility. i.e, you can catch water in buckets, even MAKE it if you want, but we prefer to get it upstream, from a reliable source. The same with out networking: We pay a price for the Internet's availability and management: the ISP or the company doesn't make it. They open a pipe and send it to us, and if we allow anyone to use it, then we should be responsible for the costs.
This latter point is what makes the whole "car/road" or "house unlocked" logic faulty. I'm not breaking in, hunting for a particular item of their creation or ownership - I'm finding a resource flowing in every possible direction, onto my street, through the walls of my house, all in the air...everywhere, depending on the antenna.
We're talking about OPEN networks - those left unsecured. If you hack into a closed, wep'd network, then that *should* be a crime. But non-existant controls on your resources is no excuse for losing them.
Remember - this is MY public space too. If your resource leaks into my public space, it's YOUR fault, not mine. Don't be surprise when I use it.
Hmmm - "Cruddy website"...makes me suspicious (well, actaully, reading /. also makes me chronically suspicious)...
For a legit company, with an expensive product, it *is* a really cruddy site - lots of small images that you can't see in detail, nothing but duplicate pages in the descriptions, bold-faced words when value is stressed too hard, and the PVR looks like a PShopped-bit of Onkyo stereo hardware. I could make this site in an hour or two if I had content (for which I would need a marketing weasel).
But *IS* this really legit? I can think of a few examples recently of legit-looking sites advertising to a hungry market, not shipping product and then vanishing (think Macintosh clone)...
What tipped it for me was the "backup DVDs" function - really, they're just ASKING for a lawsuit.
Let's seperate the two - what you Kazaa is a seperate issue.
The whole idea of "stealing" a public hotspot is stupid - if it's public, then your access to it isn't stealing. If it's private, it's got 128-bit WEP encryption and is closed - right?
It's like leaving the water on in your house, watching it flow out onto the street and then crying foul when people line up with buckets...
It's no prob on my 2001 iBook - Either you color calibration is off or you've got font smoothing set wrong. Go to Preferences > Appearance and set your Font Smoothing to Medium - best for LCDs. You could alos have a corrupted font, but in any event it's not a problem here...
Hey - he's no troll. He's got a legit complaint.
.make - OS X is spoiling me badly...and I'm liking it.
Frankly, I'm moving away from the old ways of
The real issue is that most people's choice of tools are the ones they can grab from a friend or download of Kazaa - ethics go to hell in a handbasket then. Sure, we could all use Linux, but people keep WINE or a Win box around to Quake a bit on the side. To switch hardware platforms, you have to give up the latter, and that's what keeping the fight going...easy access to pirate warez.
:)
I've had loooong arguments with friends on PC vs. Macs. (Ok - I *really* don't care what you use as long as you don't take choice from me, but I'm always up for the good fight). As usual, "software choice" always came in last as the deciding factor for a PC over a Mac.
But this time I asked "oh yeah? Just *show* me all this software!" and the PC guy opens his desk drawer and produces boxes of CDs. All copies. All pirate. I asked him where is ethics were now, and what platform he was really supporting? He just laught it off, and then turned around to find a very disgusted wife.
Ethics are, and should, be ethics - universal constants. Situational ethics are no ethics at all.
I actually OWN what I use. Even Photoshop - I have since version 3. Not that it makes me superior of anything (far from it) but I want to support the programmers of my chosen platform. If you don't at least do that, you can't argue for ethics, or choice or fairness at all...
Careful - I tried that joke before and the firestorm was SO devistating! ;)
Indeed, you're correct. I should have known better.
;)
I'm just getting tired of tirades, so I thought I'd throw one and see who comes to the party.
But I've had enough. Thanks for the dinner idea - I ordered hot wings and a pizza. df0 is always pizza here...
First, I should apologize for going-off on you. You sound like a rational person, and I think I've been spending too much time on /. recently - the wackos are getting to me.
But seriously - do you *know* for a fact that Apple doesn't see this as their market? That they've actually refused it?
I betcha Steve would like to hear about these things ("...heads will roll!")
I worked with a group called Progressive Peripherals a loooong time ago, and they used Apple IIxs' back then to do their '040 tracing, check timings and do board design. I thought elecronics design was *in* the Apple cadre; the sciences were always Apple-friendly, but I could be wrong.
Apple's supposed to be chasing around now, looking for keystone applications in fields they're not in - CAD, for instance. Seems like a little birdie should whisper into an Apple Evangelists ear...
Oh, for God's sake - please read the post before replying. Sarcasm, I *thought*, was the common coin on /.
To the blind, ignorant and incredibly dense who can't figure it out for themselves: I was MOCKING you...you - the user of exclaimations.
Your argument is the usual hogwash, not by a "vast PC conspiracy" but by the usual rantings of somone who cares not to think before writing - Your argument is MY argument: they're just computers. If a 166Mhz Pentium works for you, or an iMac or a G5 or a dual Xeon, hey, whatever rocks your socks.
But just READ before going off on people - nothing you wrote applies to me. Everything applies to you.
And for the matter - Yes, I own a Mac. I own a PC (Win2K). I own 2 Sun 5s (one SuSE, one Solaris) and I own a P800 (Symbian 7).
I'll say it s-l-o-w-l-y for you: they're just tools.
Odd though - the other posters are right in that it sounds alot like SMIL, but since QT 5 (for PC and Mac) you can embed Flash layers on the view as overlays.
What I see is:
* Streaming video
* Triggered text tracks
* Links (either external, internal, scheduled or overlayed/flash)
Nothing new, but maybe I should download it first and then try it, and then comment...um, wait. Nevermind. Forgot where I was...
Gee whiz - you sound like an Intel zealot!
"CHEATING! CHEATING! CHEATIE-CHEAT-CHEAT-CHEATIE!"
Oh get a life - it's just a fscking computer.
Hey...you want electronic design - go bitch to Cadence and Synopsys.
Apple's job is to make kickass hardware, and they've MORE than done *their* job...
Seriously kids, FOCUS!! Idiotic arguments, sometimes...
Sometimes I can't stand this group.
The article's about taking some personal responsibility to fact-check the crap you read - turn your brain on instead of take what you hear for granted - whether here, on Fox or CNN, from the govt. of your choice or even the online rantings of your Uncle Morty... perhaps especially your Uncle Morty.
I wish I could convince this group that sarcasm isn't truth. It's not even entirely healthy - it's as dangerous as naiveté and certainly more destructive.
The big problem here always is signal-to-noise, and the weenies who stopped doing "FP!" now contribute with their idea of wit. But often "witless" comes closer to the truth, in every sense of the word. Will it spark some kind of discussion? 'Prolly not - I'll just get flamed out the wazoo for saying it. Whoops, there goes my lousy 2 karma points.
It's easier to jabber on, brain in check, no matter what you believe. Blind faith in the worst makes you no smarter, no wiser and no productive than blindly believing in the positive.
Got a gripe? Listen, think, act - how hard is it? DO something about it. Heathly scepticism is a good thing, as long as it's combined with an inquisitive mind.
Talk is cheap - even more so nowadays.
Very likely - I've not yet gotten our people here to invest in OS X Server, but it does work for the client-end systems and FTP, making developer tools like DreamWeaver MX work the way they're supposed to. You have NO idea how much annoyance this had produced for me...it's important for users to know about it.
Still, this or RH, SuSE, Deb...I'll take OS X anyday.
Nothing a "umask 002" couldn't fix...
Sheesh - you kids.
I believe that it's only for removing the bridge (northbridge to southbridge bus) from the architecture - and at "6.4 gigabytes to 12.8 GigaBYTES/second" rate too. Wheee! But alas internal...
Is it me, or do these books always come out 3 months before a new version of the operating system comes out??
What version of Bluetooth in the P800 are you users on? (To find out, do this: Go to Applications (4 dots), menu: View, then System Information. When the System Infomation panel is open, click the arrow (go to the second page).
My Bluetooth verison is CXC12529 R5A
It's been updated TWICE in the past 2 months (once at CeBIT and once recently in the mass update). SE has really messed-up the Bluetooth implementation so that the Auto mode doesn't work with headsets (and possibly the Mac, when the phone rings for example). It only supports the most basic OBEX Push for Bluetooth.
We might soon either have a workaround from Apple, or a new revision for compliance from SonyEricsson.
Indeed - I've had 2 panics, both because I pulled-out a PowerMate USB controller after a put the iBook to sleep - but it seem 10.2.6 fixed that for good (I've continued to do "bad things" to my iBook, and it now just keeps chugging along.) Never had a panic on the old G4/450 though...it's slow but seems to be a champ.
But don't even GET me started on my Inspiron running RedHat. Feh! It's going out the door this week! Soon I'll be only Mac. Odd. But good!
Now to get rid of my Sun 5 and a box of about 25 Intel ProShare cards & cams. Anyone near Amsterdam want to start a porn site?
um. Sarcasm.
SAR - CAS - M!
sarcasm... (sigh)
It's not SHARING if it's being downloaded.
Let's look at it this way. What do you define as sharing?
1) You've got your window open, blaring your radio the 5-person crowd on the street. THIS is iTunes sharing...
2) You've got your stereo on and are copying your music collection to cd, then placing them on the window sill for anyone to take. Or worse, people are reaching in, up to 5 at a time, and taking those cds without asking you. THIS is what Apple stopped.
I can't see why this is hard to understand - in the second scenario, you're either distributing or being stolen from, and that's all that's changed.
You can still tunnel to the Mac if you want, and you can still set up web sharing to give out your music if you want. But *you* have to do it - Apple won't do it for you!
And can you blame them? (Obviously, some can...maybe we need to start teaching civics and ethics again).