Years ago, I had a portable CD player, a car-mount kit, and a cassette adapter. It was inconvenient and ugly with cables all over. Never again.
I think the iPod is cool, but it just doesn't work in a car. So I went with an in-trunk HDD player that has adapters for Alpine, Kenwood, Pioneer, and VW head units to make it appear to be either a Siruis radio or multi-disc CD changer. The only cable is hidden in your car just like an ordinary in-trunk disc changer.
When I want to sync music, I slide the unit out of the trunk and slide it into a USB bay connected to my Mac. The disk mounts on the desktop. It all works fairly well.
Since the unit is in the trunk, it's not sitting in a cup-holder in plain view as a tasty morsel to a passer-by theif.
Why buy yet another device? Why not simply buy a (much cheaper) USB data cable for a high-speed-data-capable cell phone and use it as a wireless modem? Preasumeably, you'd want to use a cell phone (as a phone) too.
Recently, Verizon changed the way their Express Network is provisioned. All new America's Choice plans get Express Network at no extra cost per month and use comply out of your minutes (i.e., billed only as MOU = minutes of use). With an "unlimited nights & weekends" plan, you effectively have unlimited data (during nights and weekends).
This isn't mentioned on Verizon's web site, but it's true nonetheless. I've been using Express Network via my Kyocera 7135 for a while now and it works great.
A large mass may "pull" the spacetime sheet down into a funnel shape, but it doesn't address why a smaller mass placed within that funnel slides downhill into it.
Yes it does. The smaller mass is moving inertially in a "straight" line having no forces act upon it. But since space-time is itself curved, the mass "slides downhill" (to use your words). It's kind of like riding on a train: if the train turns, it's because the tracks curve. As far as the train is concerned, it's just going forward.
... it may be an interesting step towards discovering a true anti-gravity device...
If you view gravity as nothing more than the curvature of space-time (as opposed to a "force") caused by the presence of mass, then there's no way to obtain an "inverse curvature" at a given point in space. Hence, there can be no anti-gravity.
I mean, you could put local disk places (like Home, Applications, Network, etc) in the Dock. Clicking and holding pops up a menu so you can go to sub-places even. Hence I don't see why Steve is all excited about the Places sidebar.
Who was saying they didn't want to pay for this?... If its free to owners of 10.2, then great. If not, then I may hold off till the next major release...
You just said you didn't want to pay for it because you will hold off.
Based on the 10.1-to-10.2 transition, probably not. The x.y.z (where the z varies) updates are free.
Geez... you're getting oodles of new features and can't cough up the modest price to support the company? Why do people always expect new software releases to be free and are outraged when they're not? Software isn't free. It takes developer and Q/A time (which is very expensive given developer salaries) plus web site and documentation updates (which is also done by expensive people).
I have been thinking of switching over to Apple, and now that many designers are coming up with cool products with OSX support, I am paying much more attention to Mac.
Does that imply that you are using your current computers for out-of-the-ordinary things that Macs currently can not do either at all or at least as well? If the answer is "no," then you could have already switched.
So looking at Hyper Transport, at this stage, I'm a tad leery of it because it didn't come from Apple.
Uhm, the CPUs don't come from Apple (they're not in the CPU business); the hard drives don't come from Apple (they're not in the hard drive business); the memory doesn't come from Apple (they're not in the memory business); the LCD screens don't come from Apple (they're not in the LCD business); etc.
Apple contracts with dozens of commodity hardware manufactures to build components. Rebranding other-manufacturer items with the Apple logo doesn't make them "come from Apple."
... is this going to be the next evolutionary step for Apple, or is it just an added hardware feature that is relatively minor?
Is this issue really the show-stopper preventing you from using Macs? Seems kind of odd.
But, as I originally said, it can be sold, hence it's property. If you sell it to a comany that doesn't pay, you can sue them, hence trade secrets are not devoid of rights.
However, the RIAA... often refer to unsanctioned copying as, "stealing."
The mistake you're making is that you're assuming the stealing is being from from the person who has a purchased (legal) copy (e.g., your friend). That's not at all the case. The stealing is being done from the record labels because, once you have a perfect digital copy that you ordinarily would have gotten from the record labels, you are taking their content without paying them.
Nothing in the above should be construed to mean that I support the RIAA. I'm merely clarifying "stealing."
Intellectual property also includes trade secrets that, barring the leaking of said secrets, can be held forever. Trade secrets can be sold from one company to another just like real property.
How do you pay? If I get an SMS, I don't pay anything.
This is carrier-dependent. You don't pay to receive if you're an AT&T customer. You pay $0.02/msg to receive if you're a Verizon customer (unless you buy a bulk package, then you pay to receive only if you've exceeded your package). Other carriers vary also.
The person here sending the SMS message pays also. But that's irrelevant since many wireless carriers provide e-mail-to-SMS gateways and there's no charge for sending e-mail (even if mutates into an SMS). The spam originates as e-mail so, to the spammer, your cell phone SMS is just another e-mail address.
You can use macros up the wazoo, but the program as a whole can still make heavy use of OOP. The fact that they can be seen as functions in some sense is irrelevant. An OO program uses functions, although they tend to be called methods. Hence using functions doesn't make a program any less OO.
The problem with macros, is they sorta defeat Java's OOP
Macros have nothing to do with programming methodology (OOP, procedural, functional, etc).
Defining a symbol, just to be replaced in thousands of other places where it's written, tied only to the global space.
Yes? So? What things are named or what text is substituted before the compiler looks at it has nothing to do with OOP.
Sounds awfully like a procedure/function to me.
Macros are text substitution or syntax tree manipulation alone. Macros are not called, so why you think they have anything to with procedures or functions?
Virtual PC software emulates commodity PC hardware. It does not emulate Windows. If you choose to use Windows under Virtual PC, you use a bona fide Microsoft Windows installer CD. Alternatively, you're free to install x86 Linux under Virtual PC as well.
The last thing I want anyway is to be constantly wired up so that idiots can call me and instant message
The simple (and I would have thought obvious) solution to that is: don't give said idiots your mobile number. I have a mobile phone for my convenience, not other people's.
Combo will either be too big for an ideal phone or too small for an ideal pda
The Kyocera 7135 is only a couple of millimeters bigger than a Motorola Startac, a very popular phone. As for being too small for a PDA, the 2" screen of the 7135 is quite readable and bright (even outdoors). Also, because the number of pixels on the screen is the same as a regular Palm device, the pixel density is higher which makes the image sharper (more pixels/inch).
PDAs should have long battery life. But they don't when part of a power-guzzling cellphone.
In this case, you forget about the PDA part: since you have to charge your phone every couple of days anyway, sticking the unit (where the PDA goes along for the ride) into the charger is no more work since you'd be doing this anyway. You're actually doing less since now you no longer also have to concern yourself with charging your PDA on a different schedule.
Can't talk and tap at the same time.
One word: speakerphone.
PDA/cellphones usually seem to be less expandable or a few OS versions behind the latest solo PDAs.
Granted (as far as the OS goes), but, personally, I don't care. It does everything I want. An OS upgrade doesn't make, say, my AddressBook work any better. As for expandibility, well, I clearly don't need to add-on a modem to hook into the 'net. It still has it's serial cable so I can use any Palm device that attaches via a serial cable, and the 7135 has an MMC/SD slot. Seems pretty expandable to me.
In the US, switching to a different wireless carrier means switching to a different phone. With a combo unit, you'd have to switch to a different PDA too.
True, but how often do people switch carriers? It also means that you have to change your phone number too and people don't like doing that. Once somebody finds a carrier s/he likes, s/he tends to stick with it.
Sure, transmitters either fire, or they don't. The amount of signal communicated by that firing isn't gauranteed.
Yes? So? This still has nothing whatsoever to do with my point.
My point is that if you take lots of brain cells, congeal them together, wire them just right, you get intelligence. This is despite the fact that each lone neuron has no intelligence unto itself any more than a single bit of RAM does. Hence the original assertion that you can't have AI because it's just 1s and 0s is false. The fact that the human brain is more analog (as you pointed out) is irrelevant. If it makes you happy, you're free to use an analog computer rather than a digital one.
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I think the iPod is cool, but it just doesn't work in a car. So I went with an in-trunk HDD player that has adapters for Alpine, Kenwood, Pioneer, and VW head units to make it appear to be either a Siruis radio or multi-disc CD changer. The only cable is hidden in your car just like an ordinary in-trunk disc changer.
When I want to sync music, I slide the unit out of the trunk and slide it into a USB bay connected to my Mac. The disk mounts on the desktop. It all works fairly well.
Since the unit is in the trunk, it's not sitting in a cup-holder in plain view as a tasty morsel to a passer-by theif.
At $500 a pop, they'd damn well better be giving out some free beer.
Recently, Verizon changed the way their Express Network is provisioned. All new America's Choice plans get Express Network at no extra cost per month and use comply out of your minutes (i.e., billed only as MOU = minutes of use). With an "unlimited nights & weekends" plan, you effectively have unlimited data (during nights and weekends).
This isn't mentioned on Verizon's web site, but it's true nonetheless. I've been using Express Network via my Kyocera 7135 for a while now and it works great.
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I mean, you could put local disk places (like Home, Applications, Network, etc) in the Dock. Clicking and holding pops up a menu so you can go to sub-places even. Hence I don't see why Steve is all excited about the Places sidebar.
Apple contracts with dozens of commodity hardware manufactures to build components. Rebranding other-manufacturer items with the Apple logo doesn't make them "come from Apple."
Is this issue really the show-stopper preventing you from using Macs? Seems kind of odd.But, as I originally said, it can be sold, hence it's property. If you sell it to a comany that doesn't pay, you can sue them, hence trade secrets are not devoid of rights.
Nothing in the above should be construed to mean that I support the RIAA. I'm merely clarifying "stealing."
Intellectual property also includes trade secrets that, barring the leaking of said secrets, can be held forever. Trade secrets can be sold from one company to another just like real property.
The person here sending the SMS message pays also. But that's irrelevant since many wireless carriers provide e-mail-to-SMS gateways and there's no charge for sending e-mail (even if mutates into an SMS). The spam originates as e-mail so, to the spammer, your cell phone SMS is just another e-mail address.
You can use macros up the wazoo, but the program as a whole can still make heavy use of OOP. The fact that they can be seen as functions in some sense is irrelevant. An OO program uses functions, although they tend to be called methods. Hence using functions doesn't make a program any less OO.
Virtual PC software emulates commodity PC hardware. It does not emulate Windows. If you choose to use Windows under Virtual PC, you use a bona fide Microsoft Windows installer CD. Alternatively, you're free to install x86 Linux under Virtual PC as well.