Uh, have you tried just plugging one in? They work fine...
a FM radio receiver
Entirely possible without needing a receiver. The Public Radio application streams NPR audio from anywhere to anywhere - I can listen to Cincinnati's NPR station from here in Rochester. Superior to a radio tuner.
I'm amazed more radio stations aren't putting out apps to do this.
MMS
Attach your pics to an e-mail! One of the many benefits of an actual e-mail client on the phone.
You will never see line-item veto again since SCOTUS ruled it was unconstitutional.
If only there were a way to change the Constitution. What's a good word for that? Oh! Amending! Wouldn't it be cool if someone had thought of that when they wrote the thing?
Drupal doesn't come with a WYSIWYG editor, and it is not integrated in anyway with the CMS itself. Joomla does come with TinyMCE standard and image inserting tools (mambots).
Yes, these come as separate modules in Drupal. This is a Good Thing(TM). I can choose any WYSIWYG editor to hook into Drupal - there are modules for all of the big ones, and you can write your own if you like. Same thing for image inserting - there are a number of ways. I'm not locked into one way of setting a site up for a client, which allows me to meet their actual needs instead of telling them how they're going to have to run their site.
You need a handful of modules added on just give the basic functionality of editing content. Drupal houses have this as part of their workflow, but why should it be?
First off, you can edit content in plain text or HTML out-of-the-box. As for things like WYSIWYG, they're left to modules because it gives you much greater flexibility. The truly universal modules get absorbed into core when it becomes obvious they're vital (happening to CCK and Views, for example).
Your approach is like saying "Windows has everything you need, there's no reason for third party apps! It has games! Image editor! Text editor! Web browser!" Drupal's approach is "Minesweeper, MS Paint, Notepad and IE might not be the perfect solution for everyone...".
At the end of the day, think of the client and your costs.
I do, and that's why I avoid Joomla like the plague.
and you will get recommendations because they actually ENJOY managing their website
I get plenty of those from my Drupal work, thanks.
Joomla comes out-of-the-box as a quite powerful but extremely restrictive system. If your site needs to work exactly as Joomla's developers intended, great.
If your site doesn't exactly fit their cookie-cutter mold, though, you are screwed. Most tweaks to the way the site works will have to be done by either a) hacking core code (and thus meaning upgrades are a nightmare) or b) replacing core modules wholesale.
An example: I was an intern and the project specs called for Joomla. The project also required articles to be categorised in more than one category - i.e. it might be in the 'nightlife' category and the 'downtown' category. Joomla's categorisation system, however, allows only one category for a content item.
To have multiple categorisation, I had two options - hack apart much of Joomla's core code to wedge that functionality in, or buy commercial replacements to the main com_content module. Plus, if we'd decided we wanted a second feature that commercial replacement didn't have, we'd then have to hack apart that component too.
Add in the heavily pay-to-play nature of Joomla extensions - an oddity for a GPL project - and getting a site set up can be a nasty, nasty proposition.
If a PHP CMS is what you're looking for, my favourite is indeed Drupal. The key in Drupal is its API - you can alter essentially every bit of Drupal, even core components, without having to hack core code. As an example, API hooks like hook_nodeapi and hook_form_alter allow developers to modify any form in the Drupal installation. Want to change the username field in the signup form to a checkbox? You can do that.
Modules like CCK (allows web-based configuration of content types) and Views (lets you easily set up, via a web interface, filters and criteria for displaying content) are wonderful helps, and include their own APIs so you can extend them, again without hacking their code. There's a vibrant developer community with well over a thousand contributed modules - and all free, and (in my opinion) of higher quality than most of the ones I came across in Joomla.
It's a bit longer of a learning curve than Joomla, but the result is a far less frustrating development experience.
I agree - it's an absolutely moronic business decision. I'm just disappointed the NY Times didn't tell Gatehouse to stuff it and proceed to court - I'd love to see their response when The Batavian got brought up.
It won't fit at most airports due to its dimensions. I suspect that would be too limiting for Air Force One.
The problem with A380s is with jetways for boarding and disembarking. As Air Force One doesn't use jetways - they use the tarmac stairs - that's not a problem.
Any runway that can take a 747 can take an A380, even if the terminal can't handle the dual deck.
It did tell me that my OpenID is: www.google.com/o8/id
I undoubtedly will not remember that, nor do I believe it is even accurate.
That's Google's fault, not OpenIDs. They could allow 'gmail.com' as their OpenID URL for their users. Their implementation is clearly half-arsed for the time being.
I seem to get Mollum captchas on every site that uses it. My IP, user agent, etc. are almost completely static. My comments are grammatically correct, never spammy, etc.
If their system hasn't identified me as safe by now, there's something wrong.
In contrast, to my knowledge Akismet has never flagged me. My comments go straight up on blogs using it. On my personal site, I've had maybe 10 false positives out of several thousand caught.
The SDK is free. $0. You can develop anything you want in it, at no cost to you.
Deploying to the iPhone requires $99, but that's an entirely different issue. If your apps aren't worth paying a one-time fee of $99 to distribute on the App Store, you really might as well not be writing apps at all.
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compatibility with standard headphones
Uh, have you tried just plugging one in? They work fine...
a FM radio receiver
Entirely possible without needing a receiver. The Public Radio application streams NPR audio from anywhere to anywhere - I can listen to Cincinnati's NPR station from here in Rochester. Superior to a radio tuner.
I'm amazed more radio stations aren't putting out apps to do this.
MMS
Attach your pics to an e-mail! One of the many benefits of an actual e-mail client on the phone.
I like my battery to last more than 15 minutes, thanks. The Mac version of Flash has always slowed systems to a crawl - even my work Mac Pro.
That's simple - you use one iTunes account on both iPhones. Everyone I know with more than one iPhone in the family already does this.
And if you'd keep reading it, the next section ("Sergei Khrushchev") has someone disputing that one guy's story.
Pretty unreliable stories, it would seem.
These days no flash == broken.
Uh, to many of us, no Flash == much more functional, not broken.
You will never see line-item veto again since SCOTUS ruled it was unconstitutional.
If only there were a way to change the Constitution. What's a good word for that? Oh! Amending! Wouldn't it be cool if someone had thought of that when they wrote the thing?
Drupal doesn't come with a WYSIWYG editor, and it is not integrated in anyway with the CMS itself. Joomla does come with TinyMCE standard and image inserting tools (mambots).
Yes, these come as separate modules in Drupal. This is a Good Thing(TM). I can choose any WYSIWYG editor to hook into Drupal - there are modules for all of the big ones, and you can write your own if you like. Same thing for image inserting - there are a number of ways. I'm not locked into one way of setting a site up for a client, which allows me to meet their actual needs instead of telling them how they're going to have to run their site.
You need a handful of modules added on just give the basic functionality of editing content. Drupal houses have this as part of their workflow, but why should it be?
First off, you can edit content in plain text or HTML out-of-the-box. As for things like WYSIWYG, they're left to modules because it gives you much greater flexibility. The truly universal modules get absorbed into core when it becomes obvious they're vital (happening to CCK and Views, for example).
Your approach is like saying "Windows has everything you need, there's no reason for third party apps! It has games! Image editor! Text editor! Web browser!" Drupal's approach is "Minesweeper, MS Paint, Notepad and IE might not be the perfect solution for everyone...".
At the end of the day, think of the client and your costs.
I do, and that's why I avoid Joomla like the plague.
and you will get recommendations because they actually ENJOY managing their website
I get plenty of those from my Drupal work, thanks.
Mac OS X doesn't run natively on all PCs, so Microsoft doesn't have anything to be afraid of.
If people never bought new computers, this might be true.
Joomla comes out-of-the-box as a quite powerful but extremely restrictive system. If your site needs to work exactly as Joomla's developers intended, great.
If your site doesn't exactly fit their cookie-cutter mold, though, you are screwed. Most tweaks to the way the site works will have to be done by either a) hacking core code (and thus meaning upgrades are a nightmare) or b) replacing core modules wholesale.
An example: I was an intern and the project specs called for Joomla. The project also required articles to be categorised in more than one category - i.e. it might be in the 'nightlife' category and the 'downtown' category. Joomla's categorisation system, however, allows only one category for a content item.
To have multiple categorisation, I had two options - hack apart much of Joomla's core code to wedge that functionality in, or buy commercial replacements to the main com_content module. Plus, if we'd decided we wanted a second feature that commercial replacement didn't have, we'd then have to hack apart that component too.
Add in the heavily pay-to-play nature of Joomla extensions - an oddity for a GPL project - and getting a site set up can be a nasty, nasty proposition.
If a PHP CMS is what you're looking for, my favourite is indeed Drupal. The key in Drupal is its API - you can alter essentially every bit of Drupal, even core components, without having to hack core code. As an example, API hooks like hook_nodeapi and hook_form_alter allow developers to modify any form in the Drupal installation. Want to change the username field in the signup form to a checkbox? You can do that.
Modules like CCK (allows web-based configuration of content types) and Views (lets you easily set up, via a web interface, filters and criteria for displaying content) are wonderful helps, and include their own APIs so you can extend them, again without hacking their code. There's a vibrant developer community with well over a thousand contributed modules - and all free, and (in my opinion) of higher quality than most of the ones I came across in Joomla.
It's a bit longer of a learning curve than Joomla, but the result is a far less frustrating development experience.
Amen to that. Mod parent up, please.
I agree - it's an absolutely moronic business decision. I'm just disappointed the NY Times didn't tell Gatehouse to stuff it and proceed to court - I'd love to see their response when The Batavian got brought up.
I work for the Democrat and Chronicle, and Gatehouse scrapes our headlines out of our RSS feed for their right-hand sidebar's "Regional News" block.
Bloody hypocrites.
Uh, right. The Obama team has had a 10 week transition period. Not enough time to set up email accounts?
How would they do that without access to the White House's IT systems during the transition?
The BBC says Sydney had to strengthen a tunnel under a runway and realign a few taxiways. I can't find anything on runway expansion specifically for A380s at Sydney.
Wikipedia lists the A380's max-weight takeoff roll as being shorter than a 747-400 (by more than a thousand feet for a 747-400ER).
It won't fit at most airports due to its dimensions. I suspect that would be too limiting for Air Force One.
The problem with A380s is with jetways for boarding and disembarking. As Air Force One doesn't use jetways - they use the tarmac stairs - that's not a problem.
Any runway that can take a 747 can take an A380, even if the terminal can't handle the dual deck.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Ground_operations
It did tell me that my OpenID is: www.google.com/o8/id
I undoubtedly will not remember that, nor do I believe it is even accurate.
That's Google's fault, not OpenIDs. They could allow 'gmail.com' as their OpenID URL for their users. Their implementation is clearly half-arsed for the time being.
That's by no means a solution, as it ignores entirely the main reason for OpenID - avoiding registration.
Yes, the rovers have photographed both moons.
... realize that neither Facebook or MySpace is the place for such content...
Why not, and says whom?
I work for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper, and a Gatehouse site, The Batavian, uses our headlines in their sidebar.
This is a boneheaded, hypocritical move by a desperate company - their market cap has dropped to about $2 million.
If AT&T's service was down, how would they send you a text or voicemail?
I seem to get Mollum captchas on every site that uses it. My IP, user agent, etc. are almost completely static. My comments are grammatically correct, never spammy, etc.
If their system hasn't identified me as safe by now, there's something wrong.
In contrast, to my knowledge Akismet has never flagged me. My comments go straight up on blogs using it. On my personal site, I've had maybe 10 false positives out of several thousand caught.
Mollom, IMO, has a long way to go.
You're just reiterating what I said.
The SDK is free. $0. You can develop anything you want in it, at no cost to you.
Deploying to the iPhone requires $99, but that's an entirely different issue. If your apps aren't worth paying a one-time fee of $99 to distribute on the App Store, you really might as well not be writing apps at all.
Uh, the SDK is free.
Here's their GetSatisfaction page.