Mine has held up very well, except for reception which seems to have steadily degraded since Dec 2002 when I got it. It is covered in scratches, the corners are polished smooth, I drop it all the time. All I want to know about SK2 is if reception is better, as it has always stunk. My wife has a sprint treo 600 and gets reception everywhere, while I can't get any in our house, at the grocery store, etc. etc. but I'm waiting for either sk2 or the treo 650.
I've always wondered what would happen if some 15-year-old math wiz who is playing around in Mathematica comes up with a novel approach to factoring; and then what effect that would have on modern cryptography and communications.
And we, the customer, support this by buying crap, time and time again.
Woah. I just realized that I haven't bought a new game since, oh, 1989 or so. iirc, I think it was the Magic Candle, or something like that, for the apple ][. Well, I guess it can be said that I don't support any of this newfangled crap!
Well, now you should go and rent Giochi erotici nella 3a galassia (Escape from Galaxy 3). Cardboard, glitter, smoke and softcore porn to disco synth music in 1981 on a high school drama club budget (most of which must have been spent on drugs). What could possibly be worse?
Really? I've never gotten into tasting my books, or listening to them.
Yeah... well,
I don't think you can do anything in the "real world" without using all of your senses. No, I don't taste my books.
also don't do braille, which limits my ability to use me sense of touch to search for information in a book.
Aw come on now. You hold books. You flip the pages. Some books are glossy and others are rougher. You dog-ear pages, probably, and can find dog-eared pages without even looking. Surely you've held a book by the covers to try and shake papers and other crap out of it. I've even ripped them up to use the pages for packing material. That's all a part of the paper book experience. paper books are used for much more than simply storing printed data. I know by sound and touch where certain information is, and I'd have to say the layout of a book (including the font), the thickness of the pages, even how it smells - and many such details do play a significant role in which book I buy, among a group covering the same topic. For better or worse. I'm not claiming superiority of paper over ebooks, just remarking on what a vastly different experience they give.
I don't see any reason e-books need to replace printed books to be successful. A purpose for e-books will emerge. It may be entirely different than for printed books, for instance, in places where paper or plastic pages don't work well, such as underwater, in space, other harsh environments, or for one- or no-handed operation.
I like reading stuff on the computer, like news, but like many others, I prefer to see printed books on the shelf to documents hidden away on a hard drive. I can use all of my senses searching for information in printed books, but only one (sight) for finding stuff on the computer.
I don't think you read the article. He says that for media companies to survive today, they need to own the whole chain - everything. In addition, he says he tried to do just that, but failed. It was his job. You run a company, you have to play by the rules or fail. Or quit. He says the rules need to be changed. Who else do you expect to speak out and be listened to?
To me this sounds like a clear case of "technology X is really cool. Let's find some reason to include it in product Y." Which often means that product Y becomes much more complicated than it needs to be.
They have the same advantage over pc's that firefox has over IE, mostly that they dont have much of a market share, so hackers dont spend that much time making viruses for them. As long as they stay relatively unused by the mass public, it will stay that way. If everyone gets the same idea to move to a mac, virus wirters will shift their attention to macs.
No, it's because of Aqua, which dilutes pathogens. The bigger marketshare Apple gets, the more Aqua there is, and obviously this means there will be less virus problems.
A note about one point this Dvorak character makes: he seems to think that one day there will be unification among competing open source projects. He states that from an outsider's perspective, it all seems confusing. Well isn't that always the case? If you know which are the most popular, then don't you pick one of those? ie, go to the computer section at Barnes & Noble and buy one of the ones in the box. I doubt there are many non-drivers waiting till there is only one car to buy.
I also have to say that there will not be unification of competing projects in general - but quite the opposite. Projects will be forked and specialized or created anew because they can be; what unification that may happen may be in the form of common component architectures or other standards like common file, DB formats that make such specialization possible. However, to an outsider, it will still look the same even if all the projects are perfectly interchageable and interoperable, which is not unlike the linux situation. Where would project unification motivation come from? I just don't see it (generally) when these projects are for insiders, not for outsiders.
Think there are too many competing {standards|projects|languages|ideas} today? Consider retirement.
Ok, its not like a design from first principles, but its still way to search the parameter space without having to test all coimbinations of parameters
So-called first principles are explanation, not design tools. In other words - guess what? - nature is still surprising even if it can be "explained" by what we already know. We can explain stuff. It's the construction that we don't understand so well.
The big picture answer is that life will end with the death of the sun. But life doesn't want to die. It will spread from Earth and this solar system one way or another. We're a piece of the puzzle whether we want to be or not, whether now or in a million years.
I seem to remember that OSX had a new interface also that people had to spend a little time getting used to it. And I recall in the pre-press shop I worked at people saying "I don't want to get used to it! I hate it! HATE IT!" with that too. But after a few days they couldn't live without it.
we miss our correctly operating spatial Finder though. OS 9 got many of those tiny details right. I never liked the NeXT column browser. spatial nautilus? No comparison to the mac, even system 6 (six), although for linux it rocks. (can't stand file browsers, well, except for ls, which on OS X, I use just as much as the Finder!)
You gotta love the press quotes on Apple's G5 page, like: "it's the fastest Mac I've ever used in my entire life". yeah, that SE/30 was a screamer, but this G5 toasts it, no contest.
Sorry, I don't spend > $1000 on a Mac based on a 10 minute demo from some neighbor. Your argument might be valid for Linux but I don't think it's helping Apple
You might not, but then you're a slashdot reader. A Mac demo is a mighty impressive sight to a typical PC user, at least, one ready to upgrade.
Wrong. Here on my PowerBook running OS X, I can have iChat my active application, and then click on a bookmark-toolbar menu in Safari while it is still in the background. Safari comes to the front and the menu is displayed, all in ONE click.
We're talking about the management of X11 windows, not OS X native windows. X11 window managers usually give the user more flexibility than OS X in determining when and how windows recieve focus, and what to do with them when they do. for instance, if you're typing in several windows, in X11 you might prefer to simply point at the window (without click) and type. that's focus follows mouse. you might then want that window you've pointed at to move to the front (or not) without a click - that's auto raise. Lots more of that kind of thing. X11 is good for people who like to configure things... endlessly...
Having to click on buttons several times to active is also a symptom of running under X11. I have GIMP2 on my powerbook and it's *horrible* to work with because of the way that focus works in a mac so each time you click from window to window in the gimp you have to click once to give the window focus, and then again to activate the menu/tool/etc.
It is indeed horrible. However, you can fix it with focus follows mouse:
I belive you are mistaken, patents actually are one of the greatest inventions to incentivate intellectual production. According to economists, and even empirically, is easy to observe that unless you have a strong incentive to produce and the rights to your production assured, its very unlikely that you will move a finger to do anything at all. That's what happened for instance in the russian revolution, when all excedent grains were confiscated by the government. The farmers stopped planting, and millions starved.
I think Ben Franklin would disagree with you. The difference between Russia and the United States is not merely the difference between legal structures - you cannot ignore history and culture. There is a reason we cannot drop the American system into place in, say, Iraq, and expect it to work there as it does here. It is the culture - the way people think and act based on their history that makes the most difference.
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Try Juan Cole's Informed Comment. His September 11 post was brilliant.
Mine has held up very well, except for reception which seems to have steadily degraded since Dec 2002 when I got it. It is covered in scratches, the corners are polished smooth, I drop it all the time. All I want to know about SK2 is if reception is better, as it has always stunk. My wife has a sprint treo 600 and gets reception everywhere, while I can't get any in our house, at the grocery store, etc. etc. but I'm waiting for either sk2 or the treo 650.
I've always wondered what would happen if some 15-year-old math wiz who is playing around in Mathematica comes up with a novel approach to factoring; and then what effect that would have on modern cryptography and communications.
Such people may be hired by the NSA
And we, the customer, support this by buying crap, time and time again.
Woah. I just realized that I haven't bought a new game since, oh, 1989 or so. iirc, I think it was the Magic Candle, or something like that, for the apple ][. Well, I guess it can be said that I don't support any of this newfangled crap!
Well, now you should go and rent Giochi erotici nella 3a galassia (Escape from Galaxy 3). Cardboard, glitter, smoke and softcore porn to disco synth music in 1981 on a high school drama club budget (most of which must have been spent on drugs). What could possibly be worse?
happened to me with my linksys router. I decided well, I've been wanting wifi anyway...
Really? I've never gotten into tasting my books, or listening to them.
Yeah... well, I don't think you can do anything in the "real world" without using all of your senses. No, I don't taste my books.
also don't do braille, which limits my ability to use me sense of touch to search for information in a book.
Aw come on now. You hold books. You flip the pages. Some books are glossy and others are rougher. You dog-ear pages, probably, and can find dog-eared pages without even looking. Surely you've held a book by the covers to try and shake papers and other crap out of it. I've even ripped them up to use the pages for packing material. That's all a part of the paper book experience. paper books are used for much more than simply storing printed data. I know by sound and touch where certain information is, and I'd have to say the layout of a book (including the font), the thickness of the pages, even how it smells - and many such details do play a significant role in which book I buy, among a group covering the same topic. For better or worse. I'm not claiming superiority of paper over ebooks, just remarking on what a vastly different experience they give.
I don't see any reason e-books need to replace printed books to be successful. A purpose for e-books will emerge. It may be entirely different than for printed books, for instance, in places where paper or plastic pages don't work well, such as underwater, in space, other harsh environments, or for one- or no-handed operation.
I like reading stuff on the computer, like news, but like many others, I prefer to see printed books on the shelf to documents hidden away on a hard drive. I can use all of my senses searching for information in printed books, but only one (sight) for finding stuff on the computer.
I don't think you read the article. He says that for media companies to survive today, they need to own the whole chain - everything. In addition, he says he tried to do just that, but failed. It was his job. You run a company, you have to play by the rules or fail. Or quit. He says the rules need to be changed. Who else do you expect to speak out and be listened to?
To me this sounds like a clear case of "technology X is really cool. Let's find some reason to include it in product Y." Which often means that product Y becomes much more complicated than it needs to be.
Sounds like a plan.
They have the same advantage over pc's that firefox has over IE, mostly that they dont have much of a market share, so hackers dont spend that much time making viruses for them. As long as they stay relatively unused by the mass public, it will stay that way. If everyone gets the same idea to move to a mac, virus wirters will shift their attention to macs.
No, it's because of Aqua, which dilutes pathogens. The bigger marketshare Apple gets, the more Aqua there is, and obviously this means there will be less virus problems.
A note about one point this Dvorak character makes: he seems to think that one day there will be unification among competing open source projects. He states that from an outsider's perspective, it all seems confusing. Well isn't that always the case? If you know which are the most popular, then don't you pick one of those? ie, go to the computer section at Barnes & Noble and buy one of the ones in the box. I doubt there are many non-drivers waiting till there is only one car to buy.
I also have to say that there will not be unification of competing projects in general - but quite the opposite. Projects will be forked and specialized or created anew because they can be; what unification that may happen may be in the form of common component architectures or other standards like common file, DB formats that make such specialization possible. However, to an outsider, it will still look the same even if all the projects are perfectly interchageable and interoperable, which is not unlike the linux situation. Where would project unification motivation come from? I just don't see it (generally) when these projects are for insiders, not for outsiders.
Think there are too many competing {standards|projects|languages|ideas} today? Consider retirement.
Ok, its not like a design from first principles, but its still way to search the parameter space without having to test all coimbinations of parameters
So-called first principles are explanation, not design tools. In other words - guess what? - nature is still surprising even if it can be "explained" by what we already know. We can explain stuff. It's the construction that we don't understand so well.
Dension ICELink
The big picture answer is that life will end with the death of the sun. But life doesn't want to die. It will spread from Earth and this solar system one way or another. We're a piece of the puzzle whether we want to be or not, whether now or in a million years.
Yes, beer is important too.
I seem to remember that OSX had a new interface also that people had to spend a little time getting used to it. And I recall in the pre-press shop I worked at people saying "I don't want to get used to it! I hate it! HATE IT!" with that too. But after a few days they couldn't live without it.
we miss our correctly operating spatial Finder though. OS 9 got many of those tiny details right. I never liked the NeXT column browser. spatial nautilus? No comparison to the mac, even system 6 (six), although for linux it rocks. (can't stand file browsers, well, except for ls, which on OS X, I use just as much as the Finder!)
You gotta love the press quotes on Apple's G5 page, like: "it's the fastest Mac I've ever used in my entire life". yeah, that SE/30 was a screamer, but this G5 toasts it, no contest.
I admit it. I'm one of those people that likes long and slow movies that require lots of concentration.
So let's have your list of movies we should see (or avoid as the case may be)
Sorry, I don't spend > $1000 on a Mac based on a 10 minute demo from some neighbor. Your argument might be valid for Linux but I don't think it's helping Apple
You might not, but then you're a slashdot reader. A Mac demo is a mighty impressive sight to a typical PC user, at least, one ready to upgrade.
Next time you're in Philly, be sure to visit La Colombe Torrefaction.
I don't know about you, but I don't live at work. I actually go home every day, and do non-work things in the evenings and on weekends.
cool! tell us what it's like!
Wrong. Here on my PowerBook running OS X, I can have iChat my active application, and then click on a bookmark-toolbar menu in Safari while it is still in the background. Safari comes to the front and the menu is displayed, all in ONE click.
We're talking about the management of X11 windows, not OS X native windows. X11 window managers usually give the user more flexibility than OS X in determining when and how windows recieve focus, and what to do with them when they do. for instance, if you're typing in several windows, in X11 you might prefer to simply point at the window (without click) and type. that's focus follows mouse. you might then want that window you've pointed at to move to the front (or not) without a click - that's auto raise. Lots more of that kind of thing. X11 is good for people who like to configure things... endlessly...
Having to click on buttons several times to active is also a symptom of running under X11. I have GIMP2 on my powerbook and it's *horrible* to work with because of the way that focus works in a mac so each time you click from window to window in the gimp you have to click once to give the window focus, and then again to activate the menu/tool/etc.
It is indeed horrible. However, you can fix it with focus follows mouse:
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true
A small thing that makes all the difference.
I belive you are mistaken, patents actually are one of the greatest inventions to incentivate intellectual production. According to economists, and even empirically, is easy to observe that unless you have a strong incentive to produce and the rights to your production assured, its very unlikely that you will move a finger to do anything at all. That's what happened for instance in the russian revolution, when all excedent grains were confiscated by the government. The farmers stopped planting, and millions starved.
I think Ben Franklin would disagree with you. The difference between Russia and the United States is not merely the difference between legal structures - you cannot ignore history and culture. There is a reason we cannot drop the American system into place in, say, Iraq, and expect it to work there as it does here. It is the culture - the way people think and act based on their history that makes the most difference.