That's got to be one of Apple's trademarks - Whenever you buy a product, you can be sure that within two months, there's a new model for less than you bought.
It's the changing rate of technology, and you can't expect them to hold back just so that you can feel you got your money's worth.
You don't expect them to be able to provide you 8 hours of life no matter what you are doing, do you?
The battery life is incredibly dependent on what you do with your iPod - Do you use the backlight? What kind of songs (compression) do you play? How much do you skip through songs? How much does the HDD spin? Do you use the equaliser settings? What kind of charge cycle do you use?
All Apple does is assume the best possible conditions and combine that with what the battery should provide in theory.
(BTW, if your battery holds less than 50% charge, Apple will replace it for free (within warranty)).
I'm drawing a distinction between the hardware update and the firmware.
In your example, I should be demanding that Apple fit me up with a click-wheel. What I'm saying is that they should let older users update using the new firmware (assuming it's a software updater restriction and not a technical restriction).
I'm not bitching at Apple that they should upgrade my iPod with the latest tricks. But if there are features that are clearly accessible to older users (unlike what it was between the generation 1/2 and 3), Apple just doesn't want to let you update them, that just seems like a 'fuck you' from Apple.
The buttons are integrated onto the wheel and they (including the 'select' button) requires a physical push down to select. I think that the design on how it works is also different (and less sensitive - a good thing). This means that you can scroll and select in a single action without moving to the other buttons.
I don't see any technical reason why things like multiple generated playlists, speed-variable playback and hearing the clicker through the headphones can't be done on current iPods. However, the current update page seems to restrict those features the the newest model.
I wish Apple wouldn't try and alienate their older customers so much like this. With software, it isn't so bad since the investment usually isn't as large. But with firmware and hardware, the investment can be quite conciderable.
I have my own domain and I disconnected the catch-all pretty quick. Why? Because there's no point in having it. You're either going to email me at my correct mailbox (which isn't too hard to remember - it's one letter long) or try and be a smart-ass (in which case, I don't want your crap anyway).
Unless you spend your Mac OS X days on an almost hidden terminal emulator, there's also the file hierarchy that many visual programs use.
Programs uses the same one as the terminal and the rest of the system. The 'other' hierarchy is one for legacy programs which like to use:Macintosh HD: instead of / and separate directories with : instead.
that contains three marginally but not entirely independent file hierarchies
Three? You only list two.
have to remember what crap you have in/, what crap you have in/sw, and what crap you have in both but is marginally different because / has the BSD version and/sw has the gnu version.
/ and/sw are far from 'marginally different'.
/ contains the OpenStep layout, including a whole lot of symlinks and the use of/private in order to make sure that any BSD/POSIX-like applications can still find the right directories.
I think the 'beauty' is that neither of these systems get involved with or fuck-over each other. I just leave/sw and fink to it's own devices and lay my waste on the rest of the system.
(BTW, you've also got darwin-ports if fink is not powerful enough for you)
would love to try out a Linux on the Powerbook and make use of the great hardware.
How can you 'make use' of the hardware when you install an OS with poor hardware support, weak drivers and virtually no software being written to take advantage of it? Then when/if you run something like MOL, you're just beating yourself over the head.
There's no advantage, just a whole heap of disadvantages (even when it comes to software support and speed), except for being able to say "I'm running Linux on a Mac!" And wait for an "Ooooo."
In order for people to send an SMS from the Telecom to Vodafone network (BTW, these are the ONLY two mobile networks in this country), Telecom has to pay Vodafone $0.13, per SMS. When you're only charging your customers $10 a month for a potentially unlimited stream of messages to another network, it only takes 77 before you break-even. Given the popularity of SMS in this country, I'd say that most customers who went for this deal were doing a shit-load more than that.
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That's just insult to injury.
That's got to be one of Apple's trademarks - Whenever you buy a product, you can be sure that within two months, there's a new model for less than you bought.
It's the changing rate of technology, and you can't expect them to hold back just so that you can feel you got your money's worth.
You don't expect them to be able to provide you 8 hours of life no matter what you are doing, do you?
The battery life is incredibly dependent on what you do with your iPod - Do you use the backlight? What kind of songs (compression) do you play? How much do you skip through songs? How much does the HDD spin? Do you use the equaliser settings? What kind of charge cycle do you use?
All Apple does is assume the best possible conditions and combine that with what the battery should provide in theory.
(BTW, if your battery holds less than 50% charge, Apple will replace it for free (within warranty)).
I'm drawing a distinction between the hardware update and the firmware.
In your example, I should be demanding that Apple fit me up with a click-wheel. What I'm saying is that they should let older users update using the new firmware (assuming it's a software updater restriction and not a technical restriction).
Alienate was an exaggeration.
I'm not bitching at Apple that they should upgrade my iPod with the latest tricks. But if there are features that are clearly accessible to older users (unlike what it was between the generation 1/2 and 3), Apple just doesn't want to let you update them, that just seems like a 'fuck you' from Apple.
I hope so. I don't know the technical details of the new iPod though (and Apple tend not to reveal that readily).
The buttons are integrated onto the wheel and they (including the 'select' button) requires a physical push down to select. I think that the design on how it works is also different (and less sensitive - a good thing).
This means that you can scroll and select in a single action without moving to the other buttons.
I wish!
I don't see any technical reason why things like multiple generated playlists, speed-variable playback and hearing the clicker through the headphones can't be done on current iPods.
However, the current update page seems to restrict those features the the newest model.
I wish Apple wouldn't try and alienate their older customers so much like this. With software, it isn't so bad since the investment usually isn't as large. But with firmware and hardware, the investment can be quite conciderable.
I have my own domain and I disconnected the catch-all pretty quick.
Why?
Because there's no point in having it. You're either going to email me at my correct mailbox (which isn't too hard to remember - it's one letter long) or try and be a smart-ass (in which case, I don't want your crap anyway).
Think of it as an asshole-filter.
Unless you spend your Mac OS X days on an almost hidden terminal emulator, there's also the file hierarchy that many visual programs use.
:Macintosh HD: instead of / and separate directories with : instead.
Programs uses the same one as the terminal and the rest of the system.
The 'other' hierarchy is one for legacy programs which like to use
that contains three marginally but not entirely independent file hierarchies
/, what crap you have in /sw, and what crap you have in both but is marginally different because / has the BSD version and /sw has the gnu version.
/sw are far from 'marginally different'.
/private in order to make sure that any BSD/POSIX-like applications can still find the right directories.
/sw and fink to it's own devices and lay my waste on the rest of the system.
Three? You only list two.
have to remember what crap you have in
/ and
/ contains the OpenStep layout, including a whole lot of symlinks and the use of
I think the 'beauty' is that neither of these systems get involved with or fuck-over each other. I just leave
(BTW, you've also got darwin-ports if fink is not powerful enough for you)
would love to try out a Linux on the Powerbook and make use of the great hardware.
How can you 'make use' of the hardware when you install an OS with poor hardware support, weak drivers and virtually no software being written to take advantage of it? Then when/if you run something like MOL, you're just beating yourself over the head.
There's no advantage, just a whole heap of disadvantages (even when it comes to software support and speed), except for being able to say "I'm running Linux on a Mac!" And wait for an "Ooooo."
(cough, inside source, hmm)
Inside source? Just call them up and ask! It's not hidden knowledge.
wouldn't a boot floppy do the same? all you need is chroot.
Theoretically, they can't... but given the size of an md5 hash, that can't always be true. There's already a project to try and find collisions.
Think it might be a typo for fool?
Until we get a seek time of 0ms, it doesn't matter as much as you'd hope it does.
What a great idea! Plug your own site on slashdot, when you have no idea what you're in for.
Telecom is CDMA.
Slightly different in NZ.
That MSN service doesn't work outside of the US and it's sender-pays (which I think makes a lot more sense).
1) Not sure where you are, but in most places it's 160 chars/msg.
Only over the GSM network here. SMS over Telecom is 140.
Remember, fewer characters, more messages, more $$$
I think the real reason was economic -
In order for people to send an SMS from the Telecom to Vodafone network (BTW, these are the ONLY two mobile networks in this country), Telecom has to pay Vodafone $0.13, per SMS.
When you're only charging your customers $10 a month for a potentially unlimited stream of messages to another network, it only takes 77 before you break-even.
Given the popularity of SMS in this country, I'd say that most customers who went for this deal were doing a shit-load more than that.
Telstra's nice to us.
(Apart from their money-sucking pairing deals... bastards).
Take three things -
1. Phone with bluetooth support
2. Mac OSX
3. AppleScript knowledge
And flood the airwaves.
I've done that before, except they didn't put a password on it (and it was an Apple Airport).
I'm well aware of that, I was just extending the analogy of physical clicking devices.