Actually, most phones can do MMS but not e-mail. So basically Apple is locking iPhone users into sending photos only to other iPhone users, plus a handful of others who have true smartphones.
I can't say I don't understand the logic behind it--give users *one way* to send pictures. The problem is that by that logic you might as well cut out the SMS functionality too, since e-mails are just as good for messaging people, right?
People, this is a good thing that the data plan will be required. The iPhone would be practically useful without it anyway, which would just result in dissatisfied customers. This way, AT&T will be forced to make their "iPhone plan" halfway reasonably-priced in order to draw customers in, which will in turn help drive down data plan rates from all carriers across the board.
I honestly don't get it. The whole deal with tactile feedback isn't just the sensation of pressing buttons, but also the ability to feel where the buttons are in reference to each other. Vibrational feedback won't allow for this, thus texting still won't be possible without looking at the screen.
You can also do so the easy way, by going to Tools, Options, Netscape.com, and clicking the option at the bottom, "Disable integrated Netscape.com voting and story submission."
Actually, AFAIK Old Netscape was trashed and they started Mozilla from scratch after they tried to use Old Netscape's source code but it was just too messy and irreparable.
I was doing an ethnomusicology project a couple of years ago on the music of Trinidad and Tobago, and I got half of the music samples off of websites offering "samples" that were actually just low-bitrate full-length songs. But get this: every single one of them was in RealAudio format! Guess it's still got a pretty big stronghold in some parts of the world....
Also a point of interest: After my sometimes harrowing but nonetheless workable efforts to download the files from the streaming media links, I was able to use Real's free Windows player to transcode the files into MP3 so I could take them with me in the car. Not too shabby!
Actually, I went through a period when I was quite enamored with the interface of Real's Windows client (version 10) and even went so far as to try the 14-day trial and then cancel it immediately just so I could get the Pro version that let me rip at high bitrates etc. After the 3rd time having to reinstall Windows and confronted with pulling this scheme again, though, I gave up and switched to iTunes. Then iTunes got bloated and I switched to Winamp, which I still enjoy using to this day on my Windows partition, and which I consider to be the most flexible player out there on any OS.
Only possible diff it could make is if you have an exposed slot on the outside of a device that is built for SD. In that case it's probably wiser to go with SD, since it is thicker than the MMC and thereby more likely to block out dirt from getting inside the slot. This is exactly the case I had to consider when buying a new expansion card for my Cowon D2.
Based on Cameron's comments in the article, it seems he has always felt that a centralized Passport-like system is the ideal, but now he's realized it will never reach 100% coverage so he's settled for trying to control the technology behind the system, even if the data itself won't be stored on central servers. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this guy has thought a lot about how to make online identification a simpler and more secure process, but his line of thinking is just a bit too totalitarian for my taste.
From my perspective, there are three big problems with this technology:
1) I don't care what they say about this being an "open" standard; for all intents and purposes it is controlled by MS and tied to their software. The internet deserves better.
2) No matter how supposedly secure the technology is, if someone gets a hold of your computer (or your physical login-ID card which I imagine is envisioned for transportability in the future) it is just as easy or perhaps even easier for that person to pretend to be you compared to current systems.
3) What is the point of using such a system in an anonymous use-case scenario, if not to make that scenario less anonymous? Please explain to me how the sentence "I am required to identify myself anonymously" is not an oxymoron.
I agree, there are bright and very nice people who work at Microsoft; however there are also quite a few shady characters (especially including the big cheese Ballmer himself). No matter how good the technology MS might create is, I will never hand over yet another monopoly to them (indeed in this case one the size of the entire world wide web), because the threat of them misusing their power will always loom.
Not sure what you mean about Access having no interest in updating the PalmOS. Acess Linux Platform has a Garnet backwards-compatible mode, and its interface looks very similar to the PalmOS interfaces of yore. It's not called "Palm" though. Maybe that's what your talking about.
One thing still makes no sense to me, though: If Access (ex-PalmSource) needed two-odd years to come up with their new Linux-based solution (plus having a head-start thanks to Access's existing technology), how on earth is Palm the hardware company going to create its own entirely new platform in less than a year?
Methinks Palm may end up using ALP after all. Right now they're talking big, because they want to have better bargaining chips and a backup plan in case ALP flops. But having Linux-based Palms with an in-house OS on them out the door within the year? Sounds unlikely. (Unless they pulled an Apple and were developing this thing in secret for a long time.)
1) when you for copy files to a USB pen and then the USB pen is full. It will display "Can not copy files....its full.." and then delete the files it just copied to that USB pen.
Actually, in my experience Windows XP does not delete the files it already copied. However, since it copies files in disk order (rather than alphabetically) it's near impossible to figure out which files were already copied and which were not. One solution if I recall correctly is to use xcopy from the command prompt, which does result in an alphabetical copying process, thereby making it a lot easier to pick up where you left off.
Then again we'd also probably notice the huge string of DNA without a purpose that for some reason didn't change over billions of years. Such worthless information tends to go away in the long term as thing evolve, since there is no reason for it not to just because of the law of large numbers.
Oh. So then it would never happen that 95% of our DNA would be non-coding, I guess? Since the "law of large numbers" would make everything not being used just go away?
Maybe you should know something about a topic before you pretend to be an expert on it.
It's not just the religious slant. It's also the fact that within the scientific community, there's still quite a bit of debate about whether adaptation can occur within just a few life cycles. The classical definition defined it as taking thousands of years at best, but new evidence suggests otherwise. So it really may be about scientists taking precautions that have nothing to do with religious nuts.
I agree with you, except for the bit about Sun. Because you forgot to mention the most important thing IBM brings to the table: fabrication technology. AFAIK their fabs are on a par with Intel's, or at the very least very close to being so. AMD's fabs, meanwhile, have lagged behind for years.
With a combination of IBM's fabs and AMD's designs, plus the fact that IBM already bases a lot of their products on Opterons (blades for instance), I think such a deal would actually make a lot of sense. Finally all barriers to AMD competing on a level playing field with Intel would be gone. (Since Intel's real advantage at this point lies almost entirely in the fact that they can produce chips at obscenely small levels of miniaturization).
My parents have Verizon DSL too, and have never gotten a single spam from them. Not one. Maybe it's because I made sure to go into marketing settings and turn off all communications. Maybe you should look into that one, instead of just complaining about it.
It's not the act of copying and pasting that's difficult, it's the act of FINDING the command SOMEWHERE on the web that you're supposed to BE copying and pasting, and also the fact that you would then have NO IDEA what you just copied and pasted actually does, so there is nothing learned from it.
It's as simple as this: GUIs allow for an exploratory approach. CLIs require a didactic (or autodidactic) approach. If you're not that motivated to search through man pages on the web/your system, and you don't have a teacher there to teach you the way the commands work, you're not going to be able to deal with the CLI. Whereas with the GUI, once you've accessed the "Control Panel" once, for instance, you'll know to go back there and explore it again when you want to achieve a different configuration task, and you won't need to Google a gosh-darn thing to figure it out.
It's exactly as the poster above said. There really is nothing to doubt about this. If her files were in MP3 format, they should stay that way.
If however they were in WMA format (Windows Media), then it's a whole different story. Then, yes, iTunes would force you to convert the files to AAC (with an m4a extension).
Unfortunately, it looks like no one involved in this story had any desire to look into changing the defaults on any of their software. Your friend apparently let Windows Media Player rip all of her music into WMA (instead of changing it to MP3) and with iTunes the same thing happened--the default format is AAC, but can be changed by going into the preferences.
It's sad that people need to be so vigilant about changing the settings on all of their apps to MP3 BEFORE they rip/import anything, but that's what you've got to do if you want to sidestep the format wars going on between Microsoft, Apple, and the various other device makers out there.
Well, they've already got shortcut files that handle all of the user-based link-creation tasks. I can't see how the creation of symlinks as opposed to.lnk files is really that important for the average end user, given that they already have a method that works well enough and that they have experience using. Also, shortcut files displays little arrows on their icons so the user is less likely to confuse the shortcut with the real thing--not sure if that is the case with the new soft links.
Whoa, check it out! All of the old catalogue of Sysinternals/Winternals software, plus some new stuff, has all been released as freeware! There's some useful stuff in there!
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Actually, most phones can do MMS but not e-mail. So basically Apple is locking iPhone users into sending photos only to other iPhone users, plus a handful of others who have true smartphones. I can't say I don't understand the logic behind it--give users *one way* to send pictures. The problem is that by that logic you might as well cut out the SMS functionality too, since e-mails are just as good for messaging people, right?
You seem to be claiming that both GPRS and UMTS are 3G technologies. GPRS is not. In fact, EDGE is a superset of GPRS.
Thanks for the tip, Mr. Almighty Coward Regulator of the English Language.
There is no contest in life for which the unprepared have the advantage. What about the contest for "least prepared person"?
People, this is a good thing that the data plan will be required. The iPhone would be practically useful without it anyway, which would just result in dissatisfied customers. This way, AT&T will be forced to make their "iPhone plan" halfway reasonably-priced in order to draw customers in, which will in turn help drive down data plan rates from all carriers across the board.
I honestly don't get it. The whole deal with tactile feedback isn't just the sensation of pressing buttons, but also the ability to feel where the buttons are in reference to each other. Vibrational feedback won't allow for this, thus texting still won't be possible without looking at the screen.
You can also do so the easy way, by going to Tools, Options, Netscape.com, and clicking the option at the bottom, "Disable integrated Netscape.com voting and story submission."
Actually, AFAIK Old Netscape was trashed and they started Mozilla from scratch after they tried to use Old Netscape's source code but it was just too messy and irreparable.
As I recall Netscape was also based on Mosaic. Perhaps that's what the parent poster was referring to.
I was doing an ethnomusicology project a couple of years ago on the music of Trinidad and Tobago, and I got half of the music samples off of websites offering "samples" that were actually just low-bitrate full-length songs. But get this: every single one of them was in RealAudio format! Guess it's still got a pretty big stronghold in some parts of the world.... Also a point of interest: After my sometimes harrowing but nonetheless workable efforts to download the files from the streaming media links, I was able to use Real's free Windows player to transcode the files into MP3 so I could take them with me in the car. Not too shabby! Actually, I went through a period when I was quite enamored with the interface of Real's Windows client (version 10) and even went so far as to try the 14-day trial and then cancel it immediately just so I could get the Pro version that let me rip at high bitrates etc. After the 3rd time having to reinstall Windows and confronted with pulling this scheme again, though, I gave up and switched to iTunes. Then iTunes got bloated and I switched to Winamp, which I still enjoy using to this day on my Windows partition, and which I consider to be the most flexible player out there on any OS.
Only possible diff it could make is if you have an exposed slot on the outside of a device that is built for SD. In that case it's probably wiser to go with SD, since it is thicker than the MMC and thereby more likely to block out dirt from getting inside the slot. This is exactly the case I had to consider when buying a new expansion card for my Cowon D2.
Based on Cameron's comments in the article, it seems he has always felt that a centralized Passport-like system is the ideal, but now he's realized it will never reach 100% coverage so he's settled for trying to control the technology behind the system, even if the data itself won't be stored on central servers. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this guy has thought a lot about how to make online identification a simpler and more secure process, but his line of thinking is just a bit too totalitarian for my taste.
From my perspective, there are three big problems with this technology:
1) I don't care what they say about this being an "open" standard; for all intents and purposes it is controlled by MS and tied to their software. The internet deserves better.
2) No matter how supposedly secure the technology is, if someone gets a hold of your computer (or your physical login-ID card which I imagine is envisioned for transportability in the future) it is just as easy or perhaps even easier for that person to pretend to be you compared to current systems.
3) What is the point of using such a system in an anonymous use-case scenario, if not to make that scenario less anonymous? Please explain to me how the sentence "I am required to identify myself anonymously" is not an oxymoron.
I agree, there are bright and very nice people who work at Microsoft; however there are also quite a few shady characters (especially including the big cheese Ballmer himself). No matter how good the technology MS might create is, I will never hand over yet another monopoly to them (indeed in this case one the size of the entire world wide web), because the threat of them misusing their power will always loom.
Not sure what you mean about Access having no interest in updating the PalmOS. Acess Linux Platform has a Garnet backwards-compatible mode, and its interface looks very similar to the PalmOS interfaces of yore. It's not called "Palm" though. Maybe that's what your talking about.
Sounds exactly like Access Linux Platform.
One thing still makes no sense to me, though: If Access (ex-PalmSource) needed two-odd years to come up with their new Linux-based solution (plus having a head-start thanks to Access's existing technology), how on earth is Palm the hardware company going to create its own entirely new platform in less than a year?
Methinks Palm may end up using ALP after all. Right now they're talking big, because they want to have better bargaining chips and a backup plan in case ALP flops. But having Linux-based Palms with an in-house OS on them out the door within the year? Sounds unlikely. (Unless they pulled an Apple and were developing this thing in secret for a long time.)
A better player, such as? Most players have this limitation built in.
Actually, in my experience Windows XP does not delete the files it already copied. However, since it copies files in disk order (rather than alphabetically) it's near impossible to figure out which files were already copied and which were not. One solution if I recall correctly is to use xcopy from the command prompt, which does result in an alphabetical copying process, thereby making it a lot easier to pick up where you left off.
Then again we'd also probably notice the huge string of DNA without a purpose that for some reason didn't change over billions of years. Such worthless information tends to go away in the long term as thing evolve, since there is no reason for it not to just because of the law of large numbers. Oh. So then it would never happen that 95% of our DNA would be non-coding, I guess? Since the "law of large numbers" would make everything not being used just go away? Maybe you should know something about a topic before you pretend to be an expert on it.
It's not just the religious slant. It's also the fact that within the scientific community, there's still quite a bit of debate about whether adaptation can occur within just a few life cycles. The classical definition defined it as taking thousands of years at best, but new evidence suggests otherwise. So it really may be about scientists taking precautions that have nothing to do with religious nuts.
I agree with you, except for the bit about Sun. Because you forgot to mention the most important thing IBM brings to the table: fabrication technology. AFAIK their fabs are on a par with Intel's, or at the very least very close to being so. AMD's fabs, meanwhile, have lagged behind for years. With a combination of IBM's fabs and AMD's designs, plus the fact that IBM already bases a lot of their products on Opterons (blades for instance), I think such a deal would actually make a lot of sense. Finally all barriers to AMD competing on a level playing field with Intel would be gone. (Since Intel's real advantage at this point lies almost entirely in the fact that they can produce chips at obscenely small levels of miniaturization).
In fact, I would not be surprised if we see a chimaera which has PPC and AMD chips on the same MB in less than 3 years.
IBM is already building a supercomputer that uses both Opterons and Cells.
IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer
My parents have Verizon DSL too, and have never gotten a single spam from them. Not one. Maybe it's because I made sure to go into marketing settings and turn off all communications. Maybe you should look into that one, instead of just complaining about it.
It's not the act of copying and pasting that's difficult, it's the act of FINDING the command SOMEWHERE on the web that you're supposed to BE copying and pasting, and also the fact that you would then have NO IDEA what you just copied and pasted actually does, so there is nothing learned from it. It's as simple as this: GUIs allow for an exploratory approach. CLIs require a didactic (or autodidactic) approach. If you're not that motivated to search through man pages on the web/your system, and you don't have a teacher there to teach you the way the commands work, you're not going to be able to deal with the CLI. Whereas with the GUI, once you've accessed the "Control Panel" once, for instance, you'll know to go back there and explore it again when you want to achieve a different configuration task, and you won't need to Google a gosh-darn thing to figure it out.
It's exactly as the poster above said. There really is nothing to doubt about this. If her files were in MP3 format, they should stay that way. If however they were in WMA format (Windows Media), then it's a whole different story. Then, yes, iTunes would force you to convert the files to AAC (with an m4a extension). Unfortunately, it looks like no one involved in this story had any desire to look into changing the defaults on any of their software. Your friend apparently let Windows Media Player rip all of her music into WMA (instead of changing it to MP3) and with iTunes the same thing happened--the default format is AAC, but can be changed by going into the preferences. It's sad that people need to be so vigilant about changing the settings on all of their apps to MP3 BEFORE they rip/import anything, but that's what you've got to do if you want to sidestep the format wars going on between Microsoft, Apple, and the various other device makers out there.
Well, they've already got shortcut files that handle all of the user-based link-creation tasks. I can't see how the creation of symlinks as opposed to .lnk files is really that important for the average end user, given that they already have a method that works well enough and that they have experience using. Also, shortcut files displays little arrows on their icons so the user is less likely to confuse the shortcut with the real thing--not sure if that is the case with the new soft links.
Whoa, check it out! All of the old catalogue of Sysinternals/Winternals software, plus some new stuff, has all been released as freeware! There's some useful stuff in there!