I used to have a program on my old Nokia phone called "miniGPS". It allowed you to see cell phone tower IDs and script events based off of that. So when I would drive to school or work my phone would go into vibration mode automatically because I was always connected to the same set of tower IDs when I was on campus.
I'm assuming this works the exact same way. Your phone obviously knows tower IDs and strength....how the hell do you think all the handing-off works.
why is this being modded as informative? it is wrong
You only have to register the mac address of your cable modem (on the HFC interface) so they "allow" your modem onto their system. That's it. Nothing has to be done to your computer whatsoever.
In fact, come to think of it I have never ran their crappy software.
don't get why everyone is bashing google about this
to anyone who writes software and wants to make a living developing software: you want this to happen!
it's great there is a new powerful force ready to take on microsoft.
microsoft is a convicted monopolist and isn't granted the usual rights that so many of you are screaming about "it's their product they should be able to do what they want blah blah"
if we didn't have these laws, then microsoft could completely remove any incentive to get into the software business. why would you spend all the money on years of R&D only to find out microsoft in one quick instant can put you out of business. This is why microsoft should be split into an OS company and a general software company. There is no reason to write software for the most popular operating system when the same people who make the operating system control what runs on it or not.
and I realize this may sound like a google-fanboy-rant, but shut up about google desktop being spyware. you can turn those features off. actually, IIRC you have to opt-in to those features. yeah google is only doing this for their own benefit, but we consumers benefit from that.
I can understand being annoyed by TALKING on the phone in a movie theater, but texting?
why are you annoyed by people texting during a movie? I'd rather have people do that then talking on the phone. If the little glow of an LCD screen throws off your concentration from a movie then goto a doctor about your ADD or start watching more interesting films.
what, do you get annoyed when some teenage kids are making out in the back too? sheesh
"I don't see the average new Ubuntu user feeling comfortable with the installation techniques Google currently supports."
you mean clicking on a.deb file URL link, selecting "open", and pressing an "install" button? (oh yeah, and entering a super-user password)
seems pretty easy to me. about the same steps as installing on windows. This is why I think Ubuntu really has a chance in being THE linux desktop.
the repo instructions were there for people who wanted other options.
I was just about to say that.
Everyone is concerned over security....but you can turn OFF any chattering with google's servers. There has yet to be any reports of it violating privacy.
I also find it terrible that so many of you are bitching about this. A major corporation is starting to embrace Linux and you guys just shit over anything they put out? I thought this was a good thing.
anyway, I installed this on my debian machine and it rocks. Really fast and really slick.
As always Apple proves they are the masters of interface.
I absolutely LOVE my blackberry pearl. It can do all those things shown in that video. I use google maps all the time to locate places and call them. I'm hooked on the whole blackberry bandwagon.
What the iPhone does in functionality, is absolutely nothing new at all. Us blackberry and nokia owners know this.
But apple has taken all these ideas and made the best interface for it. As easy as my blackberry is to use, it still perplexes anyone who picks it up off the table. my only gripe with the iPhone will be lack of tactile feedback for dialing a phone number.....but with all phones these days, dialing phone numbers is the function least paid attention too. you only need to dial a number once, and from then on you just click on it or a name representing it. phone number dialing will become what "installing a new program" is like to computer users.
Just like the iPod, apple is doing what they have always done best: interface. While the nerds cry about restrictive lock-in, lack of things to tinker with, etc, etc.....apple's only business is interface. They are a company that excels at interfacing humans with technology. and it amazes me that they seem to be of the very few electronic companies that 'get it'. example: the touch-sensitive click wheel and solid case housing is WHAT made the ipod. nothing more.
While some of us prefer the GUI's of Windows and the many from Linux, and even for us command-line junkies.....you will see hand held electronics become even more interface driven then the desktop market. Apple may be able to steal a couple consumers with a fancy pretty GUI on the desktop field, but in hand held electronics people care more about interface then any other technology....and it may not exactly be a conscious thing either. the ratio of slick interface to feature set will ALWAYS be high. We can even joke that this is true with most people's preference to sexual partners. this is why apple has such a "religion" hold over people. People appreciate that apple builds products that try to understand you more then how well they can answer your request.
Zip ahead into the future when computers will be dancing around the line of "human". who you think is gonna be the "hip" thing to like and the "square".
I'm guessing that the most complex part of the iPhone (the electronic guts inside of it!) was probably the last thing that was being designed. It seems to me that apple started with the outside and brain stormed human INPUT. You are going to be holding this in your pocket everyday, so it makes sense that most people want a companion then just a tool.
because that "Hello, is SO AND SO there? Yeah. Yeah. It's Billie. 'O, o joy ur so kul'. -CHUCKLE- Ok, see you later. By by. " can be compressed into a 160 byte text message. thats why. if texting is so much cheaper to communicate, then people would talk less, which means less money for the cell company.
they're not charging for data, they're charging for communication.
whoa there, you can't just make a jump from music genre to race slander.
parent never said anything about "niggers being dumb".
People like you just fuel stereotypes like "rap" music only being associated with "niggers"
For the record I agree that saying educated people don't listen to rap music was a bad thing to say, but you didn't really prove anything by connecting it straight to racial slandering.
on-board just didn't eat the low-end, the high-end as well. many audiophiles spend their money on external hardware and audio processors, while the computer is just used for s/pdif pass-through.
straight untouched digital audio out to expensive hardware is the way to go (for audiophile consumer, not anyone dealing with recording)
I'm sure it's intentional.
If webmasters can't test for older versions of Internet Explorer, then they will end up writing code that only works on newer versions. Sure, this might be bad for the webmaster, but when people start going to web sites that don't work for them spitting errors "you need latest version of IE or Vista" then it will motivate people to upgrade their clients.
Thus, more IE and/or Vista penetration.
Same goes for software. If devs can't write completely bug-free code for any system vista ultimate, then people will start thinking that all these program crashes on their XP or Vista standard are from not buying the latest and greatest versions.
so it goes.
yeap. It's called Rockbox. It supports LAME GAPLESS headers and will even do crossfades if you want. oh yeah, and FLAC, OGG, the whole shibang...on your ipod
The whole reason the Internet has been the way it has is because of the FCC regulation.
This got voted down....THIS IS BAD.
Companies like Barnes and Noble would have the cash to have their page served to you fast, while your local library would run slower then a 56k modem. (Analogy from http://www.savetheinternet.com/ This creates a Walmart effect!
no, ripping to FLAC is fine. The "raw" wav data you speak of can be rebuilt from the FLAC file. It's just compressed mathematically, hence, "Lossless Compression"
no way. After buying a Nokia 3650, I am obcessed with the idea of having a digital camera on my phone. It's great because it is always with you. Whenever someone forgets to bring a camera, you got a backup. For that hot girl, that awesome concert, or even to sneak picturs at the museum.
what sucks the most is when you look at the pictures on your computer, the 1-megapixel just doesn't cut it. I can't wait till I got 5 mexapixels on my phone
supposedly one of the big major recording companies has a super-computer that has all of the past 50 years greatest hits stored in it, and it tries to calculate the next big hit song structure.
in 2005, we have things like myspace, computer search engines invanding our sexual dating lives.
now we have computers generating art for us
scary, but beautiful
simply put, it's computers injected into our sex lives. search engines at use on uploaded personality samples to rapidly get to people we think we would find interesting.
it's about time we have the google of our dating lives. bars are getting obsolete
as much as I'm jealous over my brothers iRiver,
I still baught an iPod photo 60gig.
why? because I have such a massive music collection, I wanted the Rolls-Royce of music players.
and as much as the iPod lacks so many features, the thing that sells me over is the clickwheel + ability to play my mp3s. I don't know why any other company hasn't made a touch-sensitive wheel on theirs (im sure Apple has some legal lock in on that) but seriously, for a hand held music player, that clickwheel is the best interface i've seen yet.
what a fucking pussy
I've been using windows all my life (yes, I use linux on another box as well) and I don't have all these problems. Like most of the slashdot community I use my computer for far more things than just e-mail and web surfing. I have even setup medium sized networks and locked them up tight as well.
If you really need to switch to mac to avoid spyware and the like, you really shouldn't have a career in something to do with computers anyway.
also,
people just don't go and getup and get to the level of intelligence required for finding cures overnight. this type of thinking that this guy had is possibly what can find a cure for cancer.
the talented people who are very close to finding cures for cancer have done their own little clever bio-hacks in the lab im sure. its intellectual excersize.
who knows.....maybe 30 years from now when we have nano-computers swimming around in our blood looking for stuff like cancer, we can count on someone like this ipodhacking guy to write the software for it.
yes, too over-exadderated....but its to prove a point
bullshit
i have me a set of logitech z-680's hooked up to my onboard sound via optical s/pdif.
i can tell the difference between my flac albums and mostly any mp3s from lame. and by lame mp3s, i talking --alt-preset standard or --alt-preset extreme. the difference is all in the high frequencies. and i dont have perfect hearing either.
because even at hi-quality MP3s (for example, --alt-preset extreme), mp3s still don't sound as good as FLACs or any lossless audio on a good system. mp3s are great for portable players, but horrible for archival use. i have several thousand albums in mp3 and now im getting into FLAC, wishing I had gotten into it long ago.
I live in Philadelphia, and have PECO as my power company. When I signed up, they told me they do all their meter reading automatically with a computer through the power lines. so isn't BPL already being used by electric companies to monitor and config their own equipment?
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I used to have a program on my old Nokia phone called "miniGPS". It allowed you to see cell phone tower IDs and script events based off of that. So when I would drive to school or work my phone would go into vibration mode automatically because I was always connected to the same set of tower IDs when I was on campus.
I'm assuming this works the exact same way. Your phone obviously knows tower IDs and strength....how the hell do you think all the handing-off works.
why is this being modded as informative? it is wrong
You only have to register the mac address of your cable modem (on the HFC interface) so they "allow" your modem onto their system. That's it. Nothing has to be done to your computer whatsoever.
In fact, come to think of it I have never ran their crappy software.
don't get why everyone is bashing google about this
to anyone who writes software and wants to make a living developing software: you want this to happen! it's great there is a new powerful force ready to take on microsoft.
microsoft is a convicted monopolist and isn't granted the usual rights that so many of you are screaming about "it's their product they should be able to do what they want blah blah"
if we didn't have these laws, then microsoft could completely remove any incentive to get into the software business. why would you spend all the money on years of R&D only to find out microsoft in one quick instant can put you out of business. This is why microsoft should be split into an OS company and a general software company. There is no reason to write software for the most popular operating system when the same people who make the operating system control what runs on it or not.
and I realize this may sound like a google-fanboy-rant, but shut up about google desktop being spyware. you can turn those features off. actually, IIRC you have to opt-in to those features. yeah google is only doing this for their own benefit, but we consumers benefit from that.
I can understand being annoyed by TALKING on the phone in a movie theater, but texting?
why are you annoyed by people texting during a movie? I'd rather have people do that then talking on the phone. If the little glow of an LCD screen throws off your concentration from a movie then goto a doctor about your ADD or start watching more interesting films.
what, do you get annoyed when some teenage kids are making out in the back too? sheesh
"I don't see the average new Ubuntu user feeling comfortable with the installation techniques Google currently supports." you mean clicking on a .deb file URL link, selecting "open", and pressing an "install" button? (oh yeah, and entering a super-user password)
seems pretty easy to me. about the same steps as installing on windows. This is why I think Ubuntu really has a chance in being THE linux desktop.
the repo instructions were there for people who wanted other options.
I was just about to say that. Everyone is concerned over security....but you can turn OFF any chattering with google's servers. There has yet to be any reports of it violating privacy. I also find it terrible that so many of you are bitching about this. A major corporation is starting to embrace Linux and you guys just shit over anything they put out? I thought this was a good thing. anyway, I installed this on my debian machine and it rocks. Really fast and really slick.
As always Apple proves they are the masters of interface. I absolutely LOVE my blackberry pearl. It can do all those things shown in that video. I use google maps all the time to locate places and call them. I'm hooked on the whole blackberry bandwagon. What the iPhone does in functionality, is absolutely nothing new at all. Us blackberry and nokia owners know this. But apple has taken all these ideas and made the best interface for it. As easy as my blackberry is to use, it still perplexes anyone who picks it up off the table. my only gripe with the iPhone will be lack of tactile feedback for dialing a phone number.....but with all phones these days, dialing phone numbers is the function least paid attention too. you only need to dial a number once, and from then on you just click on it or a name representing it. phone number dialing will become what "installing a new program" is like to computer users. Just like the iPod, apple is doing what they have always done best: interface. While the nerds cry about restrictive lock-in, lack of things to tinker with, etc, etc.....apple's only business is interface. They are a company that excels at interfacing humans with technology. and it amazes me that they seem to be of the very few electronic companies that 'get it'. example: the touch-sensitive click wheel and solid case housing is WHAT made the ipod. nothing more. While some of us prefer the GUI's of Windows and the many from Linux, and even for us command-line junkies.....you will see hand held electronics become even more interface driven then the desktop market. Apple may be able to steal a couple consumers with a fancy pretty GUI on the desktop field, but in hand held electronics people care more about interface then any other technology....and it may not exactly be a conscious thing either. the ratio of slick interface to feature set will ALWAYS be high. We can even joke that this is true with most people's preference to sexual partners. this is why apple has such a "religion" hold over people. People appreciate that apple builds products that try to understand you more then how well they can answer your request. Zip ahead into the future when computers will be dancing around the line of "human". who you think is gonna be the "hip" thing to like and the "square". I'm guessing that the most complex part of the iPhone (the electronic guts inside of it!) was probably the last thing that was being designed. It seems to me that apple started with the outside and brain stormed human INPUT. You are going to be holding this in your pocket everyday, so it makes sense that most people want a companion then just a tool.
because that "Hello, is SO AND SO there? Yeah. Yeah. It's Billie. 'O, o joy ur so kul'. -CHUCKLE- Ok, see you later. By by. " can be compressed into a 160 byte text message. thats why. if texting is so much cheaper to communicate, then people would talk less, which means less money for the cell company. they're not charging for data, they're charging for communication.
whoa there, you can't just make a jump from music genre to race slander.
parent never said anything about "niggers being dumb".
People like you just fuel stereotypes like "rap" music only being associated with "niggers"
For the record I agree that saying educated people don't listen to rap music was a bad thing to say, but you didn't really prove anything by connecting it straight to racial slandering.
on-board just didn't eat the low-end, the high-end as well. many audiophiles spend their money on external hardware and audio processors, while the computer is just used for s/pdif pass-through. straight untouched digital audio out to expensive hardware is the way to go (for audiophile consumer, not anyone dealing with recording)
I'm sure it's intentional. If webmasters can't test for older versions of Internet Explorer, then they will end up writing code that only works on newer versions. Sure, this might be bad for the webmaster, but when people start going to web sites that don't work for them spitting errors "you need latest version of IE or Vista" then it will motivate people to upgrade their clients. Thus, more IE and/or Vista penetration. Same goes for software. If devs can't write completely bug-free code for any system vista ultimate, then people will start thinking that all these program crashes on their XP or Vista standard are from not buying the latest and greatest versions. so it goes.
yeap. It's called Rockbox. It supports LAME GAPLESS headers and will even do crossfades if you want. oh yeah, and FLAC, OGG, the whole shibang...on your ipod
what?
The whole reason the Internet has been the way it has is because of the FCC regulation.
This got voted down....THIS IS BAD.
Companies like Barnes and Noble would have the cash to have their page served to you fast, while your local library would run slower then a 56k modem. (Analogy from http://www.savetheinternet.com/ This creates a Walmart effect!
no, ripping to FLAC is fine. The "raw" wav data you speak of can be rebuilt from the FLAC file. It's just compressed mathematically, hence, "Lossless Compression"
no way. After buying a Nokia 3650, I am obcessed with the idea of having a digital camera on my phone. It's great because it is always with you. Whenever someone forgets to bring a camera, you got a backup. For that hot girl, that awesome concert, or even to sneak picturs at the museum. what sucks the most is when you look at the pictures on your computer, the 1-megapixel just doesn't cut it. I can't wait till I got 5 mexapixels on my phone
supposedly one of the big major recording companies has a super-computer that has all of the past 50 years greatest hits stored in it, and it tries to calculate the next big hit song structure. in 2005, we have things like myspace, computer search engines invanding our sexual dating lives. now we have computers generating art for us scary, but beautiful
simply put, it's computers injected into our sex lives. search engines at use on uploaded personality samples to rapidly get to people we think we would find interesting. it's about time we have the google of our dating lives. bars are getting obsolete
as much as I'm jealous over my brothers iRiver, I still baught an iPod photo 60gig. why? because I have such a massive music collection, I wanted the Rolls-Royce of music players. and as much as the iPod lacks so many features, the thing that sells me over is the clickwheel + ability to play my mp3s. I don't know why any other company hasn't made a touch-sensitive wheel on theirs (im sure Apple has some legal lock in on that) but seriously, for a hand held music player, that clickwheel is the best interface i've seen yet.
i wonder if they will get sued for apple, or got the proper rights for that clickwheel
what a fucking pussy
I've been using windows all my life (yes, I use linux on another box as well) and I don't have all these problems. Like most of the slashdot community I use my computer for far more things than just e-mail and web surfing. I have even setup medium sized networks and locked them up tight as well.
If you really need to switch to mac to avoid spyware and the like, you really shouldn't have a career in something to do with computers anyway.
big boys use windows
a man uses linux
also, people just don't go and getup and get to the level of intelligence required for finding cures overnight. this type of thinking that this guy had is possibly what can find a cure for cancer. the talented people who are very close to finding cures for cancer have done their own little clever bio-hacks in the lab im sure. its intellectual excersize. who knows.....maybe 30 years from now when we have nano-computers swimming around in our blood looking for stuff like cancer, we can count on someone like this ipodhacking guy to write the software for it. yes, too over-exadderated....but its to prove a point
bullshit i have me a set of logitech z-680's hooked up to my onboard sound via optical s/pdif. i can tell the difference between my flac albums and mostly any mp3s from lame. and by lame mp3s, i talking --alt-preset standard or --alt-preset extreme. the difference is all in the high frequencies. and i dont have perfect hearing either.
because even at hi-quality MP3s (for example, --alt-preset extreme), mp3s still don't sound as good as FLACs or any lossless audio on a good system. mp3s are great for portable players, but horrible for archival use. i have several thousand albums in mp3 and now im getting into FLAC, wishing I had gotten into it long ago.
I live in Philadelphia, and have PECO as my power company. When I signed up, they told me they do all their meter reading automatically with a computer through the power lines. so isn't BPL already being used by electric companies to monitor and config their own equipment?
the AthlonFX-51 runs at a clock-speed of 2.2ghz can this really compete with a p4 chip running at 3.2ghz?