We have laws to protect people from being taken advantage of. Without enforcement of those laws the number of scammers will explode. Scientology's tactics get lots of money out of people, enough to own considerable amounts of expensive real estate. If scientology is left alone, it will continue its expansion.
Is there an extension that easily handles cookies, deleting the bad ones and keeping the ones I want to keep me logged in to slashdot? It could erase the tracking info from yahoo, but let me log in to my account.
I haven't gone looking, so maybe this already exists?
Are you saying all playback programs shouldn't be sophisticated, complete, and comprehensive? Is Photoshop a bad program for being feature-packed? Or does it get a pass for doing content-creation, instead of content-playback? ACDC is an excellent, comprehensive program for reviewing and sorting pictures. Sports Illustrated uses it. Would you say ACDC needs to pull some of those features out because they make it too usable?
Now iTunes is obviously targeting non-power-users, but it still has some more advanced features. Why would it be so difficult or bad if it had more of them? They could even be hidden away in the menus for power-users only. Even if iTunes will never have a great shuffle mode, foobar2000 or others could, but don't yet.
Way to go on being a snarky ass, but just sorting by Last Played won't also play highly rated songs more often, which is also desirable.
Apparently iTunes 7 now has a Skip Count to go along with Play Count. You and the grandparent poster must not have heard. If it also now tracks the last time a track played and was skipped, that would help solve the problem now wouldn't it? Skipping a track could be interpreted as "don't play this for a while".
Does it though? This guy just found that to play all 100 songs once took an average of 523 total plays. By that time the most-played song had played 11.3 times.
So if all Smart Shuffle does is prevent two songs from the same artist or album from playing too closely, it still might not even out the play count. It might mean that some songs still play three times in a list while some songs only play once. It's not good enough that over time they can average out, because users likely want consistently more-even play counts.
As well as posing physical danger, might robots also be dangerous to humans in less direct ways, by bringing out their worst aspects, from warfare to paedophilia? As Ron Arkin, a roboticist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, puts it: "If you kick a robotic dog, are you then more likely to kick a real one?"
And do violent video games increase or decrease the amount of physical violence in society? Seems like we really need to get more definitive answers to these kinds of questions and fast, before robots that look and talk like little Timmy or Kimmy come along in five or ten years.
I'd like to point out that plenty of phones have the numbered buttons perfectly flat and just half a milimeter from each other. Most people have to look to press those.
How about if that final clear coating was instead a piece of stamped plastic with a raised circle and grid pattern? You could feel the defined circle and know where the numbers are. To improve the feel, there would be no grid in the circle for buttons 1, 3, 7, and 9. The grid would just remind you where the iPod-navigating buttons are at for 2, 4, 6, and 8.
Plenty of consumer cameras are over $200, probably most. Until two years ago if you wanted a decent 3.2MP camera they cost $200. RAZR's are $100, but the more internet-enabled phones like the Treo 650 are way above $200. Most notably, iPod's with a hard drive start at $299. If you won't even pay for a 30GB iPod, what makes you think you're the intended consumer for a convergence product? YOU ARE NOT.
Sounds like Nokia and Apple should team up! Nokia probably has patents on cell phone features and UI that Apple will need if it ever wants to make a phone of it's own. Of course since Apple is dedicated to simplicity and intuitiveness, the versatility of the N93 probably makes it too complicated. Instead I fully expect to hear a future announcement from Motorola and Apple about a simple and Apple-styled phone that integrates the click wheel.
Solve the problem of tactile feedback. Users for the most part, want to feel a click as they press a button. They don't want to accidentally dial a "1 instead of a "2. Girls (and guys) with long nails makes this feature especially important. With a touch screen, clicking requires lifting the finger and tapping, like on a laptop's touchpad. On a cell phone and iPod, people are used to, and it's easier to slide a finger or thumb over the keys/wheel then press harder to select.
The problem with browsing songs on a cell phone is the lack of an iPod-like wheel to navigate with. Well you know how the iPod has tactile buttons under the scroll wheel? The cell phone solution to add twelve buttons instead of five like the ipod has. Put the buttons in a standard dial-pad orientation. Then replace the wheel shape with a rectangular touchpad. Print the image of the wheel and the numbers on top, and put a protective clear coating as the final layer. End result: A touchpad with cursor functionality if desired, standard dialing with the numbers in the right locations and tactile feedback, and iPod wheel navigation!
For naysayers out there who might complain the touchpad can't be made accurately enough for a cursor, fine. Forget that part. But the iPod wheel and dial-pad could be created today. It's just taking Apple's tech to the next step.
Are there likely to be any conflicts or issues when Microsoft issues official patches that overwrite or only partially overwrite changes the patch made?
Since the/. article blurb is accompanied by the "tagging beta" that says "slashvertisement", who really deserves blame here? Not the submitter, but either/., or the readers who clicked anyway and then complained.
I really wish Canon had put IS into it's S80. That's the key feature missing from it that the PowerShot S2 IS has. I can live without the massive 12x optical zoom because I want a compact size, which is what the S80 has instead. The S80 is the first Canon to add the iPod-like jog dial with four buttons underneath, making manual control a whole lot easier in the same amount of space.
Just because Fark.com is banned (I'm assuming), does it stop staffers from reading news sites, or finding recipes for what to cook that night? Back to your point, Wikipedia banning.gov addresses would presumably be voluntary, but it goes very much against the attitudes of those running the site.
Seems like Nintendo and Sony are both further behind than they cared to acknowledge a few months ago when there was speculation about an April or May launch. If the Revolution won't come until at least summer, perhaps Sony will go for a September or October release like the Dreamcast and PS2 had.
That works by focusing the sound from the speakers at one point, like a magnifying glass burning ants or leaves. Past the focus point, the sound will be much less harmful.
Instead of a concrete skyway like in the Florida Keys, the mayors of Oakland and SF, with the general backing of the Bay Area residents, wanted a signature span instead. The final design has never actually been built anywhere in the world on this scale. Consequently when bids went out for contractors, only one company decided to bid and get involved in this very political situation. Well that bids was far more than expected. Meanwhile over the years the cost of steel has increased dramatically, particularly steel made in the USA, which was a requirement for this project.
Just yesterday there was the story of how EA destroyed the creativity of Origin after merging. Origin was forced to focus on sequels and even recently, EA told shareholders their plan is to release about 20 sequels per year and just 1 original title. Frankly this collaboration doesn't make much sense unless Spielberg actually has some incredible ideas waiting to be realized.
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We have laws to protect people from being taken advantage of. Without enforcement of those laws the number of scammers will explode. Scientology's tactics get lots of money out of people, enough to own considerable amounts of expensive real estate. If scientology is left alone, it will continue its expansion.
Is there an extension that easily handles cookies, deleting the bad ones and keeping the ones I want to keep me logged in to slashdot? It could erase the tracking info from yahoo, but let me log in to my account.
I haven't gone looking, so maybe this already exists?
Are you saying all playback programs shouldn't be sophisticated, complete, and comprehensive? Is Photoshop a bad program for being feature-packed? Or does it get a pass for doing content-creation, instead of content-playback? ACDC is an excellent, comprehensive program for reviewing and sorting pictures. Sports Illustrated uses it. Would you say ACDC needs to pull some of those features out because they make it too usable?
Now iTunes is obviously targeting non-power-users, but it still has some more advanced features. Why would it be so difficult or bad if it had more of them? They could even be hidden away in the menus for power-users only. Even if iTunes will never have a great shuffle mode, foobar2000 or others could, but don't yet.
Way to go on being a snarky ass, but just sorting by Last Played won't also play highly rated songs more often, which is also desirable.
Apparently iTunes 7 now has a Skip Count to go along with Play Count. You and the grandparent poster must not have heard. If it also now tracks the last time a track played and was skipped, that would help solve the problem now wouldn't it? Skipping a track could be interpreted as "don't play this for a while".
Does it though? This guy just found that to play all 100 songs once took an average of 523 total plays. By that time the most-played song had played 11.3 times.
So if all Smart Shuffle does is prevent two songs from the same artist or album from playing too closely, it still might not even out the play count. It might mean that some songs still play three times in a list while some songs only play once. It's not good enough that over time they can average out, because users likely want consistently more-even play counts.
And do violent video games increase or decrease the amount of physical violence in society? Seems like we really need to get more definitive answers to these kinds of questions and fast, before robots that look and talk like little Timmy or Kimmy come along in five or ten years.
I'd like to point out that plenty of phones have the numbered buttons perfectly flat and just half a milimeter from each other. Most people have to look to press those.
How about if that final clear coating was instead a piece of stamped plastic with a raised circle and grid pattern? You could feel the defined circle and know where the numbers are. To improve the feel, there would be no grid in the circle for buttons 1, 3, 7, and 9. The grid would just remind you where the iPod-navigating buttons are at for 2, 4, 6, and 8.
Plenty of consumer cameras are over $200, probably most. Until two years ago if you wanted a decent 3.2MP camera they cost $200. RAZR's are $100, but the more internet-enabled phones like the Treo 650 are way above $200. Most notably, iPod's with a hard drive start at $299. If you won't even pay for a 30GB iPod, what makes you think you're the intended consumer for a convergence product? YOU ARE NOT.
Sounds like Nokia and Apple should team up! Nokia probably has patents on cell phone features and UI that Apple will need if it ever wants to make a phone of it's own. Of course since Apple is dedicated to simplicity and intuitiveness, the versatility of the N93 probably makes it too complicated. Instead I fully expect to hear a future announcement from Motorola and Apple about a simple and Apple-styled phone that integrates the click wheel.
Solve the problem of tactile feedback. Users for the most part, want to feel a click as they press a button. They don't want to accidentally dial a "1 instead of a "2. Girls (and guys) with long nails makes this feature especially important. With a touch screen, clicking requires lifting the finger and tapping, like on a laptop's touchpad. On a cell phone and iPod, people are used to, and it's easier to slide a finger or thumb over the keys/wheel then press harder to select.
The problem with browsing songs on a cell phone is the lack of an iPod-like wheel to navigate with. Well you know how the iPod has tactile buttons under the scroll wheel? The cell phone solution to add twelve buttons instead of five like the ipod has. Put the buttons in a standard dial-pad orientation. Then replace the wheel shape with a rectangular touchpad. Print the image of the wheel and the numbers on top, and put a protective clear coating as the final layer. End result: A touchpad with cursor functionality if desired, standard dialing with the numbers in the right locations and tactile feedback, and iPod wheel navigation!
For naysayers out there who might complain the touchpad can't be made accurately enough for a cursor, fine. Forget that part. But the iPod wheel and dial-pad could be created today. It's just taking Apple's tech to the next step.
Are there likely to be any conflicts or issues when Microsoft issues official patches that overwrite or only partially overwrite changes the patch made?
Since the /. article blurb is accompanied by the "tagging beta" that says "slashvertisement", who really deserves blame here? Not the submitter, but either /., or the readers who clicked anyway and then complained.
Except for the unfortunate amount of noise the Panasonic has, you're right that it's an excellent camera.
I really wish Canon had put IS into it's S80. That's the key feature missing from it that the PowerShot S2 IS has. I can live without the massive 12x optical zoom because I want a compact size, which is what the S80 has instead. The S80 is the first Canon to add the iPod-like jog dial with four buttons underneath, making manual control a whole lot easier in the same amount of space.
Just because Fark.com is banned (I'm assuming), does it stop staffers from reading news sites, or finding recipes for what to cook that night? Back to your point, Wikipedia banning .gov addresses would presumably be voluntary, but it goes very much against the attitudes of those running the site.
Just as long as they aren't removing facts that paint the Rep in a less favorable light.
NeMon'ess is a friend of mine and came over to visit. He forgot to logout when he was done using my computer so my post was through his account.
Seems like Nintendo and Sony are both further behind than they cared to acknowledge a few months ago when there was speculation about an April or May launch. If the Revolution won't come until at least summer, perhaps Sony will go for a September or October release like the Dreamcast and PS2 had.
That's Power Processing Element for everyone who doesn't know Sony marketing-speak.
Why should only your side get a nice suspension tower(s)? :)
That works by focusing the sound from the speakers at one point, like a magnifying glass burning ants or leaves. Past the focus point, the sound will be much less harmful.
Instead of a concrete skyway like in the Florida Keys, the mayors of Oakland and SF, with the general backing of the Bay Area residents, wanted a signature span instead. The final design has never actually been built anywhere in the world on this scale. Consequently when bids went out for contractors, only one company decided to bid and get involved in this very political situation. Well that bids was far more than expected. Meanwhile over the years the cost of steel has increased dramatically, particularly steel made in the USA, which was a requirement for this project.
Just yesterday there was the story of how EA destroyed the creativity of Origin after merging. Origin was forced to focus on sequels and even recently, EA told shareholders their plan is to release about 20 sequels per year and just 1 original title. Frankly this collaboration doesn't make much sense unless Spielberg actually has some incredible ideas waiting to be realized.
I think you're funny, but what isn't is /. not allowing strikethrough text. WTF Taco?
Thanks for the advice, it is much appreciated.