As it turns out, the Newsweek thing wasn't inaccurate; it was just imprecise; or maybe it would be better to say that Newsweek needed a higher-resolution picture. Ok, so, the military didn't flush a Koran down the toilet, but it did kick one, douse one in water, and urinate on one.
The analogy here would be if Apple announces tomorrow that they're using Intel in devices like the Airport base station (or if the Mac mini becomes some sort of quasi-embedded device rather than a pure personal computer).
Was Fear and Loathing good? I still haven't seen it, but my 69-year-old father, of all people, told me it was awesome.. he said Johnny Depp is single-handedly saving cinema..
He is a bright light, but every time I see him, I think "21 Jump Street"... (and, in another OT note, I didn't know Depp was in "Platoon".. thanks IMDB)
Damn you. I was just swinging by and I was going to make a witty comment like "Hey! Am I too late? How many pr0n jokes did I miss?" But there's one right there at the top... *sigh*
There's a John Kerry joke in there somewhere... "Yes, folks, we were just working out the bugs with that release. We'll keep you updated on the status of DemPartyCandidate 2.0 as we get closer to a release."
Based on your username, you're Alaskan... couldn't you calculate population figures, like, on the back of a stamp?
I keed, I keed...
Your state is much prettier than my red-clay-and-kudzu-infested hell hole of a state. Unless you're not actually Alaskan, in which case I retract everything I just said pending the outcome of a fuller investigation.
The Razr V3 is much like a supermodel: from afar it is exquisite, but up close, it's annoying, hard to deal with, and hard to justify.
See, the Razr is gorgeous (though it's slightly odd proportions take some getting used to). The keypad actually works. And it's almost stunning to whip one of those things out and watch people ooo and ahhh.
On the other hand, the UI is godawful slow, the address book is confounding ("add digits"?), the screen doesn't make very good use of its size, voice command is a joke, and it STILL won't vibrate and ring at the same time.
But this is a response to a question about iTunes on the Razr, and I can answer it thus: the current Razr has 6MB of memory, without an expansion slot. The new black Razr announced today has the same. Only the new candybar V8 (healthy too!) Razr has a transflash slot. So, 6MB. You could fit one song in that space, and then you'd have no room left over for MP3 ringtones, photos from the camera, or your address book.
I'm not knocking your post, since I too would love to see iTunes on the Razr, but first I'd like to see a Razr that can handle iTunes.
Aw, that sucks... 3 minutes late, and you don't get the extra "Funny" point... c'mon Mods... boost a brother up... he's just as funny, just a little, uh, slow.:)
If I could make one change to the iPod OS, it would be to add an (optional) alphabetical layer to browsing. I know the scrolling accelerates, but, jesus, it's a crap shoot to hit a song in the middle of the alphabet... I'd get to the T's faster by scrolling to the letter T in an alpha-list and then find my song, artist, whatever. The scroll wheel is brilliant, but it's pushing its utility (finding items quickly) in my 17GB collection. I can't imagine what it'll be like when I finally get to 40, or upgrade to the inevitable 80GB iPod. The image of someone standing there scrolling down, down, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, zing! will (eventually) make the iPod a joke, without something to clean up the process. Just a bit. Nothing revolutionary...
Look again. The first gen had four buttons around a mechanical wheel. The second had four buttons around a touchpad. The third had four buttons above the touchpad wheel. The fourth has four buttons ON the wheel.
IMHO, the second and fourth gen are by far the best.
Why on earth is this offtopic? Hello integration is a major feature of Picasa, and if the poster hates Picasa but loves Hello, surely that's relevant... Mods...
What I'd like to know (and I could probably figure it out if I wanted to spend 15 minutes hunting the answer) is whether Gnome and its HIG are based on solid research into human interface methods, whether they piggyback on others' research, or whether they're just good guesses. I - personally - like Gnome better than KDE (KDE looks to me like the markdown stripmall it's-all-on-sale suburban desktop, i.e., shallow, garish, and overwhelming), but things like using the checkbox for the drive capabilities is perplexing.
Why not just have two lists "Your drive is designed to" and "Your drive is not designed to" and then list the relevant items underneath each? My first thought when my gaze swept across the image was "Oh look, there's a way to activate and deactivate certain attributes." Oops. Exactly the errors that Windows used to make but makes less and less because of the millions of dollars MS spends on interface design. The Fisher-Price theme may not be attractive, but it's mostly consistent (3rd party apps are another matter entirely).
Anyway, nobody will ever see this comment since it's all buried down here in Purgatory..:)
...good design isn't necessarily worth $100 to most people....
Oh? Apple's continued dominance of the market would suggest otherwise. As would, for example, the continued success of Sony and Samsung in the US DVD player market over competing, more fully-featured brands such as Apex.
Now, if by "good design" you simply mean aesthetics, I would say that you're even more wrong (sorry, heh, since I agree with almost all the rest of what you say) than if you were talking about function. Look at the Moto Razr -- it's no better as a phone than the V500 (same awful phonebook, same slow menus), but it's so attractive that Cingular is making it the centerpiece of an advertising campaign (Cingular is a US cell phone provider, for anyone who doesn't know). So, this beautiful phone with a poor UI can sell for $500 when Cingular is giving away phones with similar features.
Anyway, good comment, but that "good design" observation doesn't pass muster.
This is somewhat off topic, but it relates to the USB2.0/Firewire debate. Just two days ago, I had to move about 300GB of files from an internal harddrive to an external drive. Initially, I attached the drive through USB2.0. Every time, about 15-20 minutes into the transfer, it would crap out (this was in XP). Windows would spawn errors and the little blue LED on the drive would fade out, Terminator-style. The people who needed this done had discovered a few weeks before that you could move files one by one, and it would work, but with 300GB of data, that would be unreasonable.
So I picked up the drive, unplugged the USB2.0 cable and plugged it via Firewire. First time through it worked like a champ. Couldn't tell you if it was faster or not, because the USB connection hadn't ever gotten far enough to be meaningful.
(Note: the USB problem occurred both on a 3-year-old install of XP and, on the same machine, on a squeaky new install on a new harddrive.)
What's the moral? Well, I dunno. Maybe my experience with an external harddrive doesn't translate exactly to the iPod. But, then again, the iPod is really just an external harddrive. Anyway, maybe USB2.0 is, in fact, faster, but for bulk data transfers, I'll stick with Firewire.
Slashdot Mirror
Venti?
Just watch out for your dogs and cats living together down there...
oh, wait... wrong website... shits.
As it turns out, the Newsweek thing wasn't inaccurate; it was just imprecise; or maybe it would be better to say that Newsweek needed a higher-resolution picture. Ok, so, the military didn't flush a Koran down the toilet, but it did kick one, douse one in water, and urinate on one.
The analogy here would be if Apple announces tomorrow that they're using Intel in devices like the Airport base station (or if the Mac mini becomes some sort of quasi-embedded device rather than a pure personal computer).
Was Fear and Loathing good? I still haven't seen it, but my 69-year-old father, of all people, told me it was awesome.. he said Johnny Depp is single-handedly saving cinema..
He is a bright light, but every time I see him, I think "21 Jump Street"... (and, in another OT note, I didn't know Depp was in "Platoon".. thanks IMDB)
Um, no. I had a D600. It had a smartcard. (I never used it, but it was there.) The product spec PDF might help.
Damn you. I was just swinging by and I was going to make a witty comment like "Hey! Am I too late? How many pr0n jokes did I miss?" But there's one right there at the top... *sigh*
So:
Slashdot - computers = idiots?
Slashdot - idiots = computers?
And, most disturbingly...
Slashdot - computers - idiots = 0
Does that mean this is all there is? Oh god NO!
Well, you did better than I did... I read the parent as "foghat" and I thought, "Man, their last tour must've ended baaaad..(ly)"
There's a John Kerry joke in there somewhere... "Yes, folks, we were just working out the bugs with that release. We'll keep you updated on the status of DemPartyCandidate 2.0 as we get closer to a release."
Based on your username, you're Alaskan... couldn't you calculate population figures, like, on the back of a stamp?
I keed, I keed...
Your state is much prettier than my red-clay-and-kudzu-infested hell hole of a state. Unless you're not actually Alaskan, in which case I retract everything I just said pending the outcome of a fuller investigation.
but again: it's a _BETA_.
Well, ok, now I'm perplexed... you're saying it is and it isn't almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a beta?
Oh, my bad. I guess they fixed that. Now why can't the V600 be flashed to do that?
The Razr V3 is much like a supermodel: from afar it is exquisite, but up close, it's annoying, hard to deal with, and hard to justify.
See, the Razr is gorgeous (though it's slightly odd proportions take some getting used to). The keypad actually works. And it's almost stunning to whip one of those things out and watch people ooo and ahhh.
On the other hand, the UI is godawful slow, the address book is confounding ("add digits"?), the screen doesn't make very good use of its size, voice command is a joke, and it STILL won't vibrate and ring at the same time.
But this is a response to a question about iTunes on the Razr, and I can answer it thus: the current Razr has 6MB of memory, without an expansion slot. The new black Razr announced today has the same. Only the new candybar V8 (healthy too!) Razr has a transflash slot. So, 6MB. You could fit one song in that space, and then you'd have no room left over for MP3 ringtones, photos from the camera, or your address book.
I'm not knocking your post, since I too would love to see iTunes on the Razr, but first I'd like to see a Razr that can handle iTunes.
"Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!"
Meh.
Congratulations, you beat the Internet. Three - three?! - WarGames references in a two-line comment... that's fantastic.
Aw, that sucks... 3 minutes late, and you don't get the extra "Funny" point... c'mon Mods... boost a brother up... he's just as funny, just a little, uh, slow. :)
Geek irony, clearly. Like "The Vagina Monologues" with software.
If I could make one change to the iPod OS, it would be to add an (optional) alphabetical layer to browsing. I know the scrolling accelerates, but, jesus, it's a crap shoot to hit a song in the middle of the alphabet... I'd get to the T's faster by scrolling to the letter T in an alpha-list and then find my song, artist, whatever. The scroll wheel is brilliant, but it's pushing its utility (finding items quickly) in my 17GB collection. I can't imagine what it'll be like when I finally get to 40, or upgrade to the inevitable 80GB iPod. The image of someone standing there scrolling down, down, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, zing! will (eventually) make the iPod a joke, without something to clean up the process. Just a bit. Nothing revolutionary...
Look again. The first gen had four buttons around a mechanical wheel. The second had four buttons around a touchpad. The third had four buttons above the touchpad wheel. The fourth has four buttons ON the wheel.
IMHO, the second and fourth gen are by far the best.
Why on earth is this offtopic? Hello integration is a major feature of Picasa, and if the poster hates Picasa but loves Hello, surely that's relevant... Mods...
"Paypal Founder's Merlin Rocket Engine Fires Up" ... shouldn't it be firing down? *rimshot!
Like eventually...
*ahem*
(NB, 'rimshot'!='rimjob')
What I'd like to know (and I could probably figure it out if I wanted to spend 15 minutes hunting the answer) is whether Gnome and its HIG are based on solid research into human interface methods, whether they piggyback on others' research, or whether they're just good guesses. I - personally - like Gnome better than KDE (KDE looks to me like the markdown stripmall it's-all-on-sale suburban desktop, i.e., shallow, garish, and overwhelming), but things like using the checkbox for the drive capabilities is perplexing.
:)
Why not just have two lists "Your drive is designed to" and "Your drive is not designed to" and then list the relevant items underneath each? My first thought when my gaze swept across the image was "Oh look, there's a way to activate and deactivate certain attributes." Oops. Exactly the errors that Windows used to make but makes less and less because of the millions of dollars MS spends on interface design. The Fisher-Price theme may not be attractive, but it's mostly consistent (3rd party apps are another matter entirely).
Anyway, nobody will ever see this comment since it's all buried down here in Purgatory..
Oh? Apple's continued dominance of the market would suggest otherwise. As would, for example, the continued success of Sony and Samsung in the US DVD player market over competing, more fully-featured brands such as Apex.
Now, if by "good design" you simply mean aesthetics, I would say that you're even more wrong (sorry, heh, since I agree with almost all the rest of what you say) than if you were talking about function. Look at the Moto Razr -- it's no better as a phone than the V500 (same awful phonebook, same slow menus), but it's so attractive that Cingular is making it the centerpiece of an advertising campaign (Cingular is a US cell phone provider, for anyone who doesn't know). So, this beautiful phone with a poor UI can sell for $500 when Cingular is giving away phones with similar features.
Anyway, good comment, but that "good design" observation doesn't pass muster.
This is somewhat off topic, but it relates to the USB2.0/Firewire debate. Just two days ago, I had to move about 300GB of files from an internal harddrive to an external drive. Initially, I attached the drive through USB2.0. Every time, about 15-20 minutes into the transfer, it would crap out (this was in XP). Windows would spawn errors and the little blue LED on the drive would fade out, Terminator-style. The people who needed this done had discovered a few weeks before that you could move files one by one, and it would work, but with 300GB of data, that would be unreasonable.
So I picked up the drive, unplugged the USB2.0 cable and plugged it via Firewire. First time through it worked like a champ. Couldn't tell you if it was faster or not, because the USB connection hadn't ever gotten far enough to be meaningful.
(Note: the USB problem occurred both on a 3-year-old install of XP and, on the same machine, on a squeaky new install on a new harddrive.)
What's the moral? Well, I dunno. Maybe my experience with an external harddrive doesn't translate exactly to the iPod. But, then again, the iPod is really just an external harddrive. Anyway, maybe USB2.0 is, in fact, faster, but for bulk data transfers, I'll stick with Firewire.