Why do people consider FM radio to be a wanted feature? Isn't the point of these players to GET AWAY from the commercial waste of time that is radio these days?
If you really want radio, a pocket-sized FM radio is like $10...For the whole damn thing!
And just those ten or so DVDs would be bigger than the whole iPod. Now add in your player.
I prefer not to carry around a backpack full of stuff wherever I go. I already have a walet, a phone, keys, etc...
There definitely is a price trade-off here, but it's paying for convenience and ease of use. The same reason most "normal" people will take a subscrition based TiVo in favor of a do-it-yourself media box solution.
Grepping through files on a laptop is pretty much useless when you're using it in comparing to a *portable* music player. iPod users can grep through their desktop's files too. You have to have the computer with your either way.
Isn't gator's main function to store form information like credit card numbers, so you don't have to fill it in again? I hope people don't really use it to store CC numbers!
Actually, you shouldn't have to do that either. When you install them, they *should* ask you whether you want to install it in the program folder or profile folder and then have the option of OK or CANCEL. You have to actually read each one, because it's not very standardized yet and each entension writer just kinda does their own thing with that box. Some are OK to install into the profile and some are OK to install into the program directory.
I upgraded from 0.6.1 to 0.7 w/o having to install any of my 5 or 6 extentions.
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In the US, so will any GSM provider with a nationwide network. This has nothing to do with the technology. It depend instead on what the majority consumers are (or are not) interested in doing with their phones.
How does this not depend on the technology? CDMA does not have sim cards. GSM does. Seems like the sim card was built in to the specification.
Over here, only a supergeek would want to switch cards between phones or to use a friend's old phone. (No offense intended)
So your phones are indestructible over there? What are these super-phones made out of?
And don't people upgrade their phones ever? Why wouldn't they just swap the sim card. You get to keep your number and address book that way. Is there something I'm missing here?
This needs to be pointed out each and everytime someone thinks that using wma's isn't any different than mp3s.
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With GSM you get the sim card.
You can own three phones, and pop your card in one, and off you go with your same number, phone book, and everything. Your drop your phone and break it, put the card in another phone. You want to use your friend's old phone that he doesn't need anymore? Pop that sucker in there. No need to change service/number, etc. And of course, any CDMA provider will charge you to perform any of the above.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm always curious what you do with the open PS/2 ports after you decide to use a USB keyboard and mouse. I mean, is there another use for these ports? It's seems to me that the smart thing to do would be to use them for the ONLY thing they work for, and save 2 USB ports for other things. But that's just me.
Netscape 7 is more usable than IE6, IMO. It's just not set up correctly out of the box. Once you turn off all the silly javascript tricks that are enabled by default, turn on tabbed browsing, turn on pop-up blocking and clear out the "except for:" box, it's like using Moz. Of course Firebird takes this to another level completely, but it's still much nicer than IE6. It just gets a bad wrap because of all the fuckin AOL garbage that's forced with it.
Does anyone else find it ironic that MS, with all it's proprietary solutions, actually has the more attractive product in this case, directly because it's proprietary solution is the easiest one to break?
Leave it to Sony to teach MS how to implement a proprietary solution, so locked down, that it actually makes Microsoft's product look "open" in comparison!
It's also very ironic that one of the big reasons Sony's Playstation series got off to such a good (read: dominating) start, is because the original Playstations were so easily mod chipped. Now it looks like the XBox is the one with this feature. Interesting cycle.
Every time you click a link opening a new window, you have to click BACK to the window you were currently reading. With tabs, it goes straight to the background, leaving you uninterrupted from the article, until you are ready to view the link. And by that time, the tab is already finished loading and ready to go.
"Windows E + M" is "Minimize all." Yes, there is a difference. The first will put everything in the background, while the second will only minimize windows that have the standard "minimize" control. Experiement with winamp open...
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Now the transmitter would be worth it...
Why do people consider FM radio to be a wanted feature? Isn't the point of these players to GET AWAY from the commercial waste of time that is radio these days?
If you really want radio, a pocket-sized FM radio is like $10...For the whole damn thing!
And just those ten or so DVDs would be bigger than the whole iPod. Now add in your player.
I prefer not to carry around a backpack full of stuff wherever I go. I already have a walet, a phone, keys, etc...
There definitely is a price trade-off here, but it's paying for convenience and ease of use. The same reason most "normal" people will take a subscrition based TiVo in favor of a do-it-yourself media box solution.
Grepping through files on a laptop is pretty much useless when you're using it in comparing to a *portable* music player. iPod users can grep through their desktop's files too. You have to have the computer with your either way.
For everyone that's heard St. Anger!
Oh wow, that's a very nice list. Thanks for the tip.
Why hasn't the guy taken it back? This is a serious question... I took back a Sony 5-disc DVD changer when I found out it wouldn't play audio CD-R's.
The lesson learned is never buy anything that plays CD's w/o testing CD-R's. Even in 2003.
I would be quite easy to say that it only works at 20 inches, when it actually works passively at 5 feet.
I mean, who could tell the difference?
I will repeat what the grandparent already said and you seemed to ignore:
This is why its important to disallow HTML-capable email clients from loading anything from a web server.
The clear jpeg trick isn't going to work if no external http access is allowed from inside the client. Mozilla Thunderbird has such an option.
Oh man... That made my day. Thanks!
Isn't gator's main function to store form information like credit card numbers, so you don't have to fill it in again? I hope people don't really use it to store CC numbers!
FYI, the Texas anti-sodomy law has just been repealed this June.
building? What does it have, like 3 actual floors? That's hardly a building in the same use of the word as the 101 or the sears tower.
Or you could just Window key + R -> services.msc, then disable messenger service.
Actually, you shouldn't have to do that either. When you install them, they *should* ask you whether you want to install it in the program folder or profile folder and then have the option of OK or CANCEL. You have to actually read each one, because it's not very standardized yet and each entension writer just kinda does their own thing with that box. Some are OK to install into the profile and some are OK to install into the program directory.
I upgraded from 0.6.1 to 0.7 w/o having to install any of my 5 or 6 extentions.
In the US, so will any GSM provider with a nationwide network. This has nothing to do with the technology. It depend instead on what the majority consumers are (or are not) interested in doing with their phones.
How does this not depend on the technology? CDMA does not have sim cards. GSM does. Seems like the sim card was built in to the specification.
Over here, only a supergeek would want to switch cards between phones or to use a friend's old phone. (No offense intended)
So your phones are indestructible over there? What are these super-phones made out of?
And don't people upgrade their phones ever? Why wouldn't they just swap the sim card. You get to keep your number and address book that way. Is there something I'm missing here?
This needs to be pointed out each and everytime someone thinks that using wma's isn't any different than mp3s.
With GSM you get the sim card.
You can own three phones, and pop your card in one, and off you go with your same number, phone book, and everything. Your drop your phone and break it, put the card in another phone. You want to use your friend's old phone that he doesn't need anymore? Pop that sucker in there. No need to change service/number, etc. And of course, any CDMA provider will charge you to perform any of the above.
I'd call that a pretty damn big plus.
You need to delete the firebird folder. Not unzip over the top.
Ditto for my USB mouse, my USB keyboard
Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm always curious what you do with the open PS/2 ports after you decide to use a USB keyboard and mouse. I mean, is there another use for these ports? It's seems to me that the smart thing to do would be to use them for the ONLY thing they work for, and save 2 USB ports for other things. But that's just me.
Wow. 90 comments and Sevn has already got SIX +5's! I don't know that I've ever seen that before...
Netscape 7 is more usable than IE6, IMO. It's just not set up correctly out of the box. Once you turn off all the silly javascript tricks that are enabled by default, turn on tabbed browsing, turn on pop-up blocking and clear out the "except for:" box, it's like using Moz. Of course Firebird takes this to another level completely, but it's still much nicer than IE6. It just gets a bad wrap because of all the fuckin AOL garbage that's forced with it.
Does anyone else find it ironic that MS, with all it's proprietary solutions, actually has the more attractive product in this case, directly because it's proprietary solution is the easiest one to break?
Leave it to Sony to teach MS how to implement a proprietary solution, so locked down, that it actually makes Microsoft's product look "open" in comparison!
It's also very ironic that one of the big reasons Sony's Playstation series got off to such a good (read: dominating) start, is because the original Playstations were so easily mod chipped. Now it looks like the XBox is the one with this feature. Interesting cycle.
Every time you click a link opening a new window, you have to click BACK to the window you were currently reading. With tabs, it goes straight to the background, leaving you uninterrupted from the article, until you are ready to view the link. And by that time, the tab is already finished loading and ready to go.
Make sense?
Actually, "Windows E + D" is "Show Desktop."
"Windows E + M" is "Minimize all." Yes, there is a difference. The first will put everything in the background, while the second will only minimize windows that have the standard "minimize" control. Experiement with winamp open...
Also, in WinXP or higher
What's this "or higher" you speak of?