Sprint and Verizon each use phones specifically tailored for their service. Unlocked phones that'll work with both are a rarity and never quite work well. For it to be unlocked it'd have to be GSM, which leaves AT&T and T-Mobile. Features on the phone that Apple wanted to implement were carrier dependent (visual voicemail, etc)
Also the main reason: I'm a T-Mobile dealer that also sells unlocked phones. Both AT&T and T-Mobile want absolutely nothing to do with you if you're using an unlocked phone. They will literally get you off the line ASAP if they hear you're not using one of their branded phones... Plus typically some features are only locked to carrier locked/branded phones. This doesn't quite translate well to the "Mac experience" being "It just works, and if it doesn't we'll take care of it for you" So for them to offer the "experience" that makes Apple products unique.... they'd have to pair up with a carrier.
Try any of Nokia's music phones...The N73 Music Edition is merely a 2GB Mini Card and a black paint job but the 5300 and the 5700 MusicXpress series are fantastic. The 5300 music playing experience beats the SE hands down, at least compared to my old SE W810. My current music phone pick is a Motorola ROKR E2. 1.3MP Camera, great reception (close to SE and Nokia in that aspect), stereo bluetooth, standard SD Card memory cards, and runs Linux so it's fairly tweakable (2.4.20 if anyone asks), durable, QVGA Screen, external music controls and a hardware keylock switch. And it's a respectable $250 without contract, unlocked:)
hmmm, what kind of ATI card do you have, are you using the radeon driver or the open source driver, and what theme is that? I'm toying around with fawn now and it's... glitchy. Might just be the radeon 9600 mobility I'm running...
Are we using the same RTM? I've got it installed on a AMD A64 3200+ with 1.5GB of ram and a Geforce 6600GT 256MB.
Not sure about the Exchange stuff, didn't try to install it.
Windows Live Messenger - I've had no such problems.
Nero 7.5 - Works just fine. Burns CDs, DVDs, without a hitch.
iTunes 7.0.2 - While I do get ONE graphical glitch from iTunes, it fixes itself quickly and works fine. When you first open the program it's window is nothing but flat black. Maximize and minimize the window and it redraws it properly.
Firefox 2.0 - Works just fine.
NVidia drivers - Graphical system was buggy BEFORE installing the latest version, afterwards made it incredibly stable.
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I find the interface to be quite snappy. The "shiny"(tm) shouldn't bog your system down at all due to its sitting on your 3d card, not your system.
The only major quibble I've had is the driver for Broadcom wireless cards currently sucks. Every once in a blue moon it gets a bug up its ass and does a cycle of connect/disconnect until you reboot. Flaky drivers are to be expected with a new OS however...
Not trying to say you're lying, just that maybe you got an incredibly buggy install.
Hell World of Warcraft averages 5 fps more on my vista box than on XP. I've always stuck to OS X for my "fuck around on the internet" and IM usage... Windows was just games, that was it. Now Microsoft has finally made a Windows that I feel is comfortable to sit down and use for whatever I need. Yeah, yeah. Some things changed. It happens. If it didn't change people would be bitching "What did they do then with all that time!?"
Apple at least has the balls to say "Ok, listen. We're changing it. Deal with it. Oh, and if your computer is more than X years old...we won't even let you install it." This I feel is needed for an easier path forward. Vista really needs to start cutting off the tail end of it's legacy support... just little by little... I've always felt that Windows was weighed down by it's legacy... if they said "Ok, nothing made before XP is working with Vista..." it'd be a decent start.
Meh, went on a rant there, but I see too many people saying they used it and it sucks and assuming that's the "experience" for everyone. Buggy installs happen. Happens on Mac, happens on Windows, and to a limited degree, Linux can get it too, as I've learned with Gentoo.
It actually is the best attempt they've done so far. XP made them look like they weren't even trying. Vista at least shows there is some effort to it.
From my experience, you right click on the program, and set compatibility mode to XP SP2 and the drivers install themselves like the old way.
As far as my understanding was all of the new models (video drivers, Direct X 10, etc) had wrappers built in to allow for old drivers to be used...
Psychologists are well aware of this sort of effect, that's why double-blind experiments are usually pretty revealing in their outcomes. Neither those directly performing the treatment or those receiving it are aware if they're taking the real deal or the placebo. Of course this is lumped in with all the other experiments they do, but in my limited (psych undergrad) experience, the double blinds were usually the most revealing.
Nextel uses a highly bastardized hodgepodge of technologies to work. Part of the system IS GSM because you can take the SIM card from any Nextel and put it into a unlocked GSM phone, and use it for international roaming (you get charged out the ass, but it works)
Not that it really matters anyways.... iDen will be gone in about two years. Good riddance...
(I sell T-Mobile, Sprint and Nextel... and I hate Nextel.)
Having worked in a Sears in Toms River, NJ in the same department... it's not so much that they're doping the signal... it's that retards wire the displays. No TV shop is going to be able to show you the full quality of a TV using an HD signal. Sears had their feed from DirecTV... the non HDTVs were put to the plain ol' Discovery Channel. Now... the splitters they use for the HD screens... are pretty efficient... but there is still a quality loss at each split. The non-HDTVs were hooked up via run of the mill coax going through (as far as I could count) 80 RF splitters... these splits are NOT as efficient. Also, for some reason, some TVs took the split signal fine, others wouldn't touch it and a lot of the LCD TVs (~20 inches) put out the most god awful picture ever. The DirecTV sat box pushing the HD signal was set to 480p... nicer than regular TV but nowhere near the level that the TVs could produce.
I rewired a bit of the store (my manager didn't give a shit cause the better the TVs looked, the more likely we were to sell). All of the top-shelf TVs (particularly the Sony XBR LCoS line) were hooked up to Samsung or Sony upconversion DVD players via HDMI. Pretty much I could say "This is exactly how DVDs will look on your TV, and full HD service even better." And customers ate it up. Eventually I swapped DirecTV boxes out of the break room and into the display and low and behold 1080i went to all of the HDTVs.
The difference was immediately noticable and sales surged. I was then fired for not selling enough warranties, my 9.5% not up to their 10% "desired goal", regardless of the big increase of sales I brought in... If the way that store is run is any indication of how Sears as a whole opperate... I give it a decade until they're all K-Marts. They'd shut off the AC on 100 degree days at 8PM (closing time is 10) to save money. Older folks were about ready to have heat strokes, and as was I, surrounded by CRT and Plasma screens all day...
Hmm, I don't own a Corvette, and I don't really know anyone who does. I know they're driven in some situations, but they definately weren't a roaring success...
That sort of "I don't use it therefore it's not "there"" logic is asinine at best.
I work at a cell phone shop in Central New Jersey as my secondary job. We sell T-Mobile and we also import phones from overseas to see unlocked. I'd have to say "Camera" is the most often asked for feature, with Bluetooth pulling in second place by a hair. In a normal day of business I'm selling 5 Bluetooth headsets a day. (the Moto HS-850, good unit, have one myself)
My friend has bluetooth in his stereo unit in his car... when he sits in his car the stereo bonds with his phone, and whenever he gets a call, the music pauses, Caller ID info comes up on the unit, he hits the touchscreen, and the stereo system becomes a car-wide speakerphone. It's impressive to watch.
Bluetooth is there, it's just not being flung out in buzzwords like WiFi was.
Hell, I just got a Chevy Cobalt and I having been in quite a few GM cars (my father was a parts manager for one, I was brought home in a Chevy Nova, and continuing on to an Izuzu trooper, then a Rodeo, then a Chevy Lumina (which I inherited as my second car, to replace my 72 Beetle) and now I have the Cobalt. The local dealership offered me every other model they had because they didn't have a Cobalt with what I wanted. I sat in Cavaliers (pieces of shit), Aveos (a fucking joke on wheels), Malibus (poor man's family sedan), and Impallas. The only other car out of that whole lot I would consider is the Impalla but it was orders of magnitude more expensive. Older Chevys (like my 93 Lumina) lasted forever. Where I am you still see tons of 92-94 Luminas and Coriscas... dinky little cars but they last. The Cobalt is one of the most well built lower end Chevy's I've ever seen. It's very well made, very well finished, and it seems durable as all hell. Mileage is fantastic (26 with A/C on, 32 with it off, highway) and the performance of it is pretty impressive for such a small car. I forget where I read but out of the three players (Honda Civic, Chevy Cobalt and the Toyota Celica), the Celica won on MPG but it was the heaviest, the Cobalt was second heaviest but had the 2nd best mileage and the best performance of the three, and I can believe it. I'm friends with someone at the local Honda dealership and he told me that at least in the local area (Central NJ) Cobalts are trouncing on the Civics in sales. I got mine after promotions from Chevy for $9500. Show me a NEW car that you can get for THAT price that is as nice as a Cobalt. Yeah, I'm sure a 1999 Audi A4 is a nice car (it was my other option) but the cost of maitenence and fixing it if god forbid anything happens to it... I'd be broke. The Cobalt with the exception of key peices, such as interior, exterior and perhaps a few drive train parts, most of the mechanical stuff has been used in plenty of other cars so the parts are cheap.
Toyota cars are horrible from an interior ergonomics aspect. I've been in Celicas, and I was looking at the Matrix and Scions (the xA), and the interiors are so... uncomfortable. As a front passenger in a Celica I'm rarely comfortable and in the rear seat I might as well be in the trunk. The Matrix while being a decent car (suffiently quick, lots of storage room) the guage panels and such were so awkward looking. Honda's... I've driven Civics before... and I swore I left the e-brake on when I didn't. The only Honda in my opinion that is passable as a decent option is the Accord (2001+). There's a current resurgence in the American automotive indutry. Some people are calling it the "Second Horsepower War" but there's another one not being talked about. The "quality" war. Yeah, the specs on some of these cars may not be as good as the others in comparison, but seeing how well built American cars are becomming (the Cobalt, the new Corvette (with its surprizingly good gas mileage, the 2005 Mustang, the new redesigned Focus) I think you're going to see another resurgence in American cars soon. My parents are trading in their Durrango for a 2005 Mustang GT Convertible, and I have to say, it's a well built car that's very VERY fun to drive. While the Americans have stuck to their guns in regards to high end cars... the Cobalt and the Focus are signs that the Commuter-boxen Japanese cars are in for a fight.
Thanks for the correction. I was trying to remember from high school (six years ago)... I just knew there was "man == crushed" in relation to Venus, I just forgot the vector of the crushing:)
unless you've got an adimantium spine and legs I don't think humans will be living on Venus. The gravity alone is enough to crush a man like a empty soda can. The environmental pressure doesn't help either... from my understanding.
have you seen how thin the nano is? The headphone jack is pretty much the entire width of it. How are they supposed to wedge a headphone jack and the screen over eachother and all the circuitry to drive these parts in such a thin casing? The nano was designed to be hanging from your neck like the shuffle, and I'd definately pick up a set of the lanyard headphones, if only I didn't loath in-ear headphones.
a small tradeoff for such a small device. you're not going to buy a superior product because the headphone jack in the only place they could feasably fit it? While I'm definately considering picking up an "old" mini right now for my parents (they don't care about flash this or battery life that... and the nano is TOO small for them) only because you can probably get one for less than $200 now.
1) Dock Connector: That's what Apple calls it, it's really just power, data and audio connections put into one plug (the connector also has a line-out ability) It's a multifunction port and when Apple first put it in iPods, the only thing out there for it was the DOCK. So that's what they called it but now you can hook up the camera connector, FM transmitters, all sorts of stuff. If you've bothered to ever use an iPod you'd know the cable that comes with it has USB or Firewire on one end, and the dock connector on the other end for the iPod OR Dock (the Dock is pretty much just a nice passthru that stands the iPod up)
2) Go into iTunes, then iPod options. Click "Enable Drive Usage" wow... my iPod is now a drive under Windows AND Mac, and I've seen it done with Linux. Unless you're touching the files needed for the music player, the iPod is simply a USB hard drive. Shut up troll.
3) And why should they bend over backwards for your measly $300 for their iPod when you're too stubborn and arrogant to support a popular standard. I don't bitch at Sony about where my copy of Sin City on BetaMax is.
Wait and see all you want. You won't buy one. People just like to bitch about something they can't have or can't afford.
The printer plans are and will always be replacement. In fact they're at home now too. They ship you a new one, you ship them the broken one back. If its too old to be replaced, you get a gift card. The digital cameras and PDAs are repair plans, and they finally put in 4 year warranties on the laptops and the warranties for the uber cheap laptops are actually respectable now and not ludacris....ex-CompUSA monkey, I now make a hell of a lot more money at the electronics department in Sears.
So you're complaining that WMP 6.4 can't play WMP 9 and 10 files? Can Quicktime 5 play Quicktime 7 files? Can a VCD player play DVDs? Can my floppies work in my new holographic storage drive? Can this clay tablet fit into my dvd burner? Christ.
It's like driving a 70 muscle car and bitching that you dont have the sleek lines and gas mileage of the newest cars. Upgrade you bastard! This is a tech site! Bleeding edge! Keep up or die trying!
So a few code tweaks and a recompile is keeping you from developing for a computing market that is going to explode once it catches on? Wow. Top notch stuff there chief. I'm not one to advocate outsourcing of tech jobs but I say yours should be the first to go.
Uh, it was a single P4 at... 3.6Ghz if my memory is correct. Pentium 4s don't do multiprocessor anyways. Thats what the Xeon is for. Do not pass go, do not collect $200
Yes, but Apple is a HARDWARE company. Running OS X on your POS Dell mean's one less Mac Apple sold. Enough people do this all their sales will be Final Cut Studio and iPods...
And after how many Windows developers I know that want to stab themselves in the eyes than poke around the APIs (even.NET) and have flipped through my cocoa books in awe ("Holy shit they give you THAT in their basic framework!?" Was a common utterance)
I'd say Apple stands to gain a great deal of developers because they have a very very elegant development system that they give away for free! Visual Studio.NET means you're paying out the ass to use a shitty API thats over 10 years old. At least Cocoa was rehashed and got reworked when it got into OS X. OS X development makes stuff a breeze, and it's quite fun. I haven't gotten too deep into it yet (Java development for work takes up most of my time at the moment) but it truely is great to code for. Developers will appreciate this and will start to develop for Mac. Plus this means we get more games because if all it is is a slight change in GUI code to run on a Mac... Doom 4 could be a simultaneous release on both! Hell, maybe in the same box. Once that happens Mac users will be happy as hell...
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I have done my homework and read countless reviews. That is why I have not bought either an iPhone or Touch.
Oh, really now...
know that the iPhone does not have WiFi and the Touch does.
Really? Huh. Guess I somehow unlocked some magical high-speed data connection on my iPhone, but I'll be darned if it only works near WiFi points...
Do some more homework.
Sprint and Verizon each use phones specifically tailored for their service. Unlocked phones that'll work with both are a rarity and never quite work well. For it to be unlocked it'd have to be GSM, which leaves AT&T and T-Mobile. Features on the phone that Apple wanted to implement were carrier dependent (visual voicemail, etc)
Also the main reason: I'm a T-Mobile dealer that also sells unlocked phones. Both AT&T and T-Mobile want absolutely nothing to do with you if you're using an unlocked phone. They will literally get you off the line ASAP if they hear you're not using one of their branded phones... Plus typically some features are only locked to carrier locked/branded phones. This doesn't quite translate well to the "Mac experience" being "It just works, and if it doesn't we'll take care of it for you" So for them to offer the "experience" that makes Apple products unique.... they'd have to pair up with a carrier.
Try any of Nokia's music phones...The N73 Music Edition is merely a 2GB Mini Card and a black paint job but the 5300 and the 5700 MusicXpress series are fantastic. The 5300 music playing experience beats the SE hands down, at least compared to my old SE W810. My current music phone pick is a Motorola ROKR E2. 1.3MP Camera, great reception (close to SE and Nokia in that aspect), stereo bluetooth, standard SD Card memory cards, and runs Linux so it's fairly tweakable (2.4.20 if anyone asks), durable, QVGA Screen, external music controls and a hardware keylock switch. And it's a respectable $250 without contract, unlocked :)
hmmm, what kind of ATI card do you have, are you using the radeon driver or the open source driver, and what theme is that? I'm toying around with fawn now and it's... glitchy. Might just be the radeon 9600 mobility I'm running...
I've been running Command and Conquer 3 for 5 days now on Vista Ultimate without a problem...
Are we using the same RTM? I've got it installed on a AMD A64 3200+ with 1.5GB of ram and a Geforce 6600GT 256MB.
Not sure about the Exchange stuff, didn't try to install it.
Windows Live Messenger - I've had no such problems.
Nero 7.5 - Works just fine. Burns CDs, DVDs, without a hitch.
iTunes 7.0.2 - While I do get ONE graphical glitch from iTunes, it fixes itself quickly and works fine. When you first open the program it's window is nothing but flat black. Maximize and minimize the window and it redraws it properly.
Firefox 2.0 - Works just fine.
NVidia drivers - Graphical system was buggy BEFORE installing the latest version, afterwards made it incredibly stable.
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I find the interface to be quite snappy. The "shiny"(tm) shouldn't bog your system down at all due to its sitting on your 3d card, not your system.
The only major quibble I've had is the driver for Broadcom wireless cards currently sucks. Every once in a blue moon it gets a bug up its ass and does a cycle of connect/disconnect until you reboot. Flaky drivers are to be expected with a new OS however...
Not trying to say you're lying, just that maybe you got an incredibly buggy install.
Hell World of Warcraft averages 5 fps more on my vista box than on XP. I've always stuck to OS X for my "fuck around on the internet" and IM usage... Windows was just games, that was it. Now Microsoft has finally made a Windows that I feel is comfortable to sit down and use for whatever I need. Yeah, yeah. Some things changed. It happens. If it didn't change people would be bitching "What did they do then with all that time!?"
Apple at least has the balls to say "Ok, listen. We're changing it. Deal with it. Oh, and if your computer is more than X years old...we won't even let you install it." This I feel is needed for an easier path forward. Vista really needs to start cutting off the tail end of it's legacy support... just little by little... I've always felt that Windows was weighed down by it's legacy... if they said "Ok, nothing made before XP is working with Vista..." it'd be a decent start.
Meh, went on a rant there, but I see too many people saying they used it and it sucks and assuming that's the "experience" for everyone. Buggy installs happen. Happens on Mac, happens on Windows, and to a limited degree, Linux can get it too, as I've learned with Gentoo.
It actually is the best attempt they've done so far. XP made them look like they weren't even trying. Vista at least shows there is some effort to it.
Your country doesn't have a Typematic Lexicon Standards Body? Savage.
From my experience, you right click on the program, and set compatibility mode to XP SP2 and the drivers install themselves like the old way. As far as my understanding was all of the new models (video drivers, Direct X 10, etc) had wrappers built in to allow for old drivers to be used...
Universal Binary most likely. It contains executable code and resources for both X86 and PowerPC based Mac platforms...
Psychologists are well aware of this sort of effect, that's why double-blind experiments are usually pretty revealing in their outcomes. Neither those directly performing the treatment or those receiving it are aware if they're taking the real deal or the placebo. Of course this is lumped in with all the other experiments they do, but in my limited (psych undergrad) experience, the double blinds were usually the most revealing.
Nextel uses a highly bastardized hodgepodge of technologies to work. Part of the system IS GSM because you can take the SIM card from any Nextel and put it into a unlocked GSM phone, and use it for international roaming (you get charged out the ass, but it works)
Not that it really matters anyways.... iDen will be gone in about two years. Good riddance...
(I sell T-Mobile, Sprint and Nextel... and I hate Nextel.)
Having worked in a Sears in Toms River, NJ in the same department... it's not so much that they're doping the signal... it's that retards wire the displays. No TV shop is going to be able to show you the full quality of a TV using an HD signal. Sears had their feed from DirecTV... the non HDTVs were put to the plain ol' Discovery Channel. Now... the splitters they use for the HD screens... are pretty efficient... but there is still a quality loss at each split. The non-HDTVs were hooked up via run of the mill coax going through (as far as I could count) 80 RF splitters... these splits are NOT as efficient. Also, for some reason, some TVs took the split signal fine, others wouldn't touch it and a lot of the LCD TVs (~20 inches) put out the most god awful picture ever. The DirecTV sat box pushing the HD signal was set to 480p... nicer than regular TV but nowhere near the level that the TVs could produce.
I rewired a bit of the store (my manager didn't give a shit cause the better the TVs looked, the more likely we were to sell). All of the top-shelf TVs (particularly the Sony XBR LCoS line) were hooked up to Samsung or Sony upconversion DVD players via HDMI. Pretty much I could say "This is exactly how DVDs will look on your TV, and full HD service even better." And customers ate it up. Eventually I swapped DirecTV boxes out of the break room and into the display and low and behold 1080i went to all of the HDTVs.
The difference was immediately noticable and sales surged. I was then fired for not selling enough warranties, my 9.5% not up to their 10% "desired goal", regardless of the big increase of sales I brought in... If the way that store is run is any indication of how Sears as a whole opperate... I give it a decade until they're all K-Marts. They'd shut off the AC on 100 degree days at 8PM (closing time is 10) to save money. Older folks were about ready to have heat strokes, and as was I, surrounded by CRT and Plasma screens all day...
You mean just like how the XBox 360 has most of the XBox library as well as it's launch games?
Hmm, I don't own a Corvette, and I don't really know anyone who does. I know they're driven in some situations, but they definately weren't a roaring success... That sort of "I don't use it therefore it's not "there"" logic is asinine at best. I work at a cell phone shop in Central New Jersey as my secondary job. We sell T-Mobile and we also import phones from overseas to see unlocked. I'd have to say "Camera" is the most often asked for feature, with Bluetooth pulling in second place by a hair. In a normal day of business I'm selling 5 Bluetooth headsets a day. (the Moto HS-850, good unit, have one myself) My friend has bluetooth in his stereo unit in his car... when he sits in his car the stereo bonds with his phone, and whenever he gets a call, the music pauses, Caller ID info comes up on the unit, he hits the touchscreen, and the stereo system becomes a car-wide speakerphone. It's impressive to watch. Bluetooth is there, it's just not being flung out in buzzwords like WiFi was.
Hell, I just got a Chevy Cobalt and I having been in quite a few GM cars (my father was a parts manager for one, I was brought home in a Chevy Nova, and continuing on to an Izuzu trooper, then a Rodeo, then a Chevy Lumina (which I inherited as my second car, to replace my 72 Beetle) and now I have the Cobalt. The local dealership offered me every other model they had because they didn't have a Cobalt with what I wanted. I sat in Cavaliers (pieces of shit), Aveos (a fucking joke on wheels), Malibus (poor man's family sedan), and Impallas. The only other car out of that whole lot I would consider is the Impalla but it was orders of magnitude more expensive. Older Chevys (like my 93 Lumina) lasted forever. Where I am you still see tons of 92-94 Luminas and Coriscas... dinky little cars but they last. The Cobalt is one of the most well built lower end Chevy's I've ever seen. It's very well made, very well finished, and it seems durable as all hell. Mileage is fantastic (26 with A/C on, 32 with it off, highway) and the performance of it is pretty impressive for such a small car. I forget where I read but out of the three players (Honda Civic, Chevy Cobalt and the Toyota Celica), the Celica won on MPG but it was the heaviest, the Cobalt was second heaviest but had the 2nd best mileage and the best performance of the three, and I can believe it. I'm friends with someone at the local Honda dealership and he told me that at least in the local area (Central NJ) Cobalts are trouncing on the Civics in sales. I got mine after promotions from Chevy for $9500. Show me a NEW car that you can get for THAT price that is as nice as a Cobalt. Yeah, I'm sure a 1999 Audi A4 is a nice car (it was my other option) but the cost of maitenence and fixing it if god forbid anything happens to it... I'd be broke. The Cobalt with the exception of key peices, such as interior, exterior and perhaps a few drive train parts, most of the mechanical stuff has been used in plenty of other cars so the parts are cheap.
Toyota cars are horrible from an interior ergonomics aspect. I've been in Celicas, and I was looking at the Matrix and Scions (the xA), and the interiors are so... uncomfortable. As a front passenger in a Celica I'm rarely comfortable and in the rear seat I might as well be in the trunk. The Matrix while being a decent car (suffiently quick, lots of storage room) the guage panels and such were so awkward looking. Honda's... I've driven Civics before... and I swore I left the e-brake on when I didn't. The only Honda in my opinion that is passable as a decent option is the Accord (2001+). There's a current resurgence in the American automotive indutry. Some people are calling it the "Second Horsepower War" but there's another one not being talked about. The "quality" war. Yeah, the specs on some of these cars may not be as good as the others in comparison, but seeing how well built American cars are becomming (the Cobalt, the new Corvette (with its surprizingly good gas mileage, the 2005 Mustang, the new redesigned Focus) I think you're going to see another resurgence in American cars soon. My parents are trading in their Durrango for a 2005 Mustang GT Convertible, and I have to say, it's a well built car that's very VERY fun to drive. While the Americans have stuck to their guns in regards to high end cars... the Cobalt and the Focus are signs that the Commuter-boxen Japanese cars are in for a fight.
Thanks for the correction. I was trying to remember from high school (six years ago)... I just knew there was "man == crushed" in relation to Venus, I just forgot the vector of the crushing :)
unless you've got an adimantium spine and legs I don't think humans will be living on Venus. The gravity alone is enough to crush a man like a empty soda can. The environmental pressure doesn't help either... from my understanding.
have you seen how thin the nano is? The headphone jack is pretty much the entire width of it. How are they supposed to wedge a headphone jack and the screen over eachother and all the circuitry to drive these parts in such a thin casing? The nano was designed to be hanging from your neck like the shuffle, and I'd definately pick up a set of the lanyard headphones, if only I didn't loath in-ear headphones.
a small tradeoff for such a small device. you're not going to buy a superior product because the headphone jack in the only place they could feasably fit it? While I'm definately considering picking up an "old" mini right now for my parents (they don't care about flash this or battery life that... and the nano is TOO small for them) only because you can probably get one for less than $200 now.
1) Dock Connector: That's what Apple calls it, it's really just power, data and audio connections put into one plug (the connector also has a line-out ability) It's a multifunction port and when Apple first put it in iPods, the only thing out there for it was the DOCK. So that's what they called it but now you can hook up the camera connector, FM transmitters, all sorts of stuff. If you've bothered to ever use an iPod you'd know the cable that comes with it has USB or Firewire on one end, and the dock connector on the other end for the iPod OR Dock (the Dock is pretty much just a nice passthru that stands the iPod up)
2) Go into iTunes, then iPod options. Click "Enable Drive Usage" wow... my iPod is now a drive under Windows AND Mac, and I've seen it done with Linux. Unless you're touching the files needed for the music player, the iPod is simply a USB hard drive. Shut up troll.
3) And why should they bend over backwards for your measly $300 for their iPod when you're too stubborn and arrogant to support a popular standard. I don't bitch at Sony about where my copy of Sin City on BetaMax is.
Wait and see all you want. You won't buy one. People just like to bitch about something they can't have or can't afford.
Funny thing is, I thought the same thing, until I went to creative's player... It actually IS Neeon. Blame Creative, not /.
The printer plans are and will always be replacement. In fact they're at home now too. They ship you a new one, you ship them the broken one back. If its too old to be replaced, you get a gift card. The digital cameras and PDAs are repair plans, and they finally put in 4 year warranties on the laptops and the warranties for the uber cheap laptops are actually respectable now and not ludacris. ...ex-CompUSA monkey, I now make a hell of a lot more money at the electronics department in Sears.
So you're complaining that WMP 6.4 can't play WMP 9 and 10 files? Can Quicktime 5 play Quicktime 7 files? Can a VCD player play DVDs? Can my floppies work in my new holographic storage drive?
Can this clay tablet fit into my dvd burner? Christ.
It's like driving a 70 muscle car and bitching that you dont have the sleek lines and gas mileage of the newest cars. Upgrade you bastard! This is a tech site! Bleeding edge! Keep up or die trying!
So a few code tweaks and a recompile is keeping you from developing for a computing market that is going to explode once it catches on? Wow. Top notch stuff there chief. I'm not one to advocate outsourcing of tech jobs but I say yours should be the first to go.
Uh, it was a single P4 at... 3.6Ghz if my memory is correct. Pentium 4s don't do multiprocessor anyways. Thats what the Xeon is for. Do not pass go, do not collect $200
Yes, but Apple is a HARDWARE company. Running OS X on your POS Dell mean's one less Mac Apple sold. Enough people do this all their sales will be Final Cut Studio and iPods... And after how many Windows developers I know that want to stab themselves in the eyes than poke around the APIs (even .NET) and have flipped through my cocoa books in awe ("Holy shit they give you THAT in their basic framework!?" Was a common utterance)
I'd say Apple stands to gain a great deal of developers because they have a very very elegant development system that they give away for free! Visual Studio .NET means you're paying out the ass to use a shitty API thats over 10 years old. At least Cocoa was rehashed and got reworked when it got into OS X. OS X development makes stuff a breeze, and it's quite fun. I haven't gotten too deep into it yet (Java development for work takes up most of my time at the moment) but it truely is great to code for. Developers will appreciate this and will start to develop for Mac. Plus this means we get more games because if all it is is a slight change in GUI code to run on a Mac... Doom 4 could be a simultaneous release on both! Hell, maybe in the same box. Once that happens Mac users will be happy as hell...