We're seeing too much of that on Slashdot these days, not just the astroturfers posting their messages, but endless bombardment of MS-oriented slashvertisements in place of real articles.
I'd say there was far more Apple astroturfing. However, that just might be the editors pandering to a userbase that is historically pro-Apple products rather than a concerted campaign. I have my doubts though, there has been an iPhone article on the front page for months now, tying along nicely with Apples huge campaign on the phone.
It's in the UK. The US is the same though as far as I know. UK. NT stands for "no text" as in my message is completely contained in the subject. Saves people opening it up.
Wow, your 700w will sync your music, movies, address contacts, bookmarks, and other miscellany without user action?
Yes it will and I cannot imagine the iPhone being any easier. You dock and ActiveSync phone for the first time and it asks you if you want to sync or just use it as a guest. The latter gives you net access and the ability to copy files to and from the device, as well as install software.
Should you opt to sync, it next asks you what you want to sync. On some computers I use mine with I sync everything but for example I don't sync some things to my work PC.
Once you click finish it syncs. That's all there is to it, subsequent ones just require you to dock. The only caveat is if you set PIN lock on the phone ActiveSync asks for this though there is a "save password" option. This is all 100% desirable IMHO as you don't want a lost phone to be an identity-theft kit.
I'm sure that China's political prisoners share your views on Chinese freedoms.
What about America's political prisoners? The hundreds of people who have different views on church and state as well as morality and are being flown about by the CIA? Many of them haven't done anything but are held without trial because their beliefs are deemed a threat.
You guys really haven't noticed the changes over the past 40 years, have you?
So about these other countries that you reckon behave like America: they are obviously not Europe or the UK or Australia, are they? China? North Korea? Iran? Is that who you are emulating?
When I visited China 10 years ago it was friendlier that the US and this is before the recent financial and cultural changes that have made it more open. You did need to get a visa posted from the Chinese embassy first, but once I had that I went to passport control in Beijing, handed over my visa and passport, the guy smiled and waved me through after stamping my passport.
I visited the US the same year. No visa required IIRC but we did have to fill out forms on the aircraft and wait for two hours at the two of ten desks that we processing non-american passengers. Wait time for Americans was ten minutes and there was much discussion of this in the queue. Welcome to America.
No, I don't think so. But once someone subpoenas the information you have to go back to TRACE.
From a performance standpoint, that is insane. You won't be able to serve as many users if you are doing that level of logging, it's a lot of I/O traffic. Especially if it's a single log file for all client-handling threads; you are adding an artificial thread-synchronized block of code to every action. Ouch!
You could have a policy to shred day to day stuff (i.e. you're in ERROR mode).
The problem is that the judges paper analogy doesn't hold; you aren't shredding because you never had the info in the first place. Should we be logging all HTTP headers for example? The referal ID might be useful in a criminal case.
Another analogy might be my daily activies. Say I was asked by the authorities what bus I caught to town six months ago. Was it the 08:30 or the 8:45 one? I had the information at the time, but never logged it as it has no reasonable use at a later date.
they resemble what they would look like in print, important for desktop publishing. Windows happily renders fonts inaccurately so that they're 1-pixel thin and packed into a pixel grid.
Yes, heaven forbid an OS rendering things for maximum on-screen legibility. Everyone should just print off an updated copy of the interweb each morning before work like I do.
I suppose flying on airlines that provide power plugins is impossible for you.
The PSU and phone charger are usually in my stow-away luggage. Why carry them all day? Besides, I'm at the mercy of my schedule and company budget, you don't get power hookups on most flights.
Do you use your phone in a plane ? Over the Atlantic ? Enough to discharge the battery ?
Easily, most PDA phones have a 'flight mode' with a picture of a plane to make it easy to convince the aircrew. I've never even had a second glance while using it. Plus, I'll use the wifi in the airport before I go, that's a battery eater, plus undoubtably I'd be listening to mp3s most of the time. And on the plane watching some divx movies or playing a 3D game like Call of Duty hammers the battery by pegging the CPU at 100% with the backlight on. The only thing you could do to make it worse would be to activate bluetooth (e.g a wireless headset) or WiFi to access some of the new airline net services that are being deployed.
You can drain my PDA in about 2 hours if you push it hard. Normal use is about two days.
Isn't it possible that having data wherever you go, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, via different means, is the best of all worlds?
Not when you are forced into signing up to something that adds e.g. $40 per month to your bill, which is a common figure for high-speed data plans on a smartphone.
Assuming a conservative half of that, $20 pcm, that's still $240 per year. Over the two year fixed plan it doubles the cost of the phone...for something that many people do not want or need.
The slashdot mindset when it comes to Apple is wierd. If this was any other company they'd be universally slated for it.
All touch screens are bad for data entry, dual touch won't make a bit of difference. You need to constantly be looking at the keys to use them as there is no tactile feedback.
Also, it makes some software annoying, such as stop watches. You cannot rest your finger on the lap button while watching the race etc. Anything that warrants keeping your finger ready and doing something else is next to impossible.
Even if the device were similar to an iPod in terms of how easy it is to open, a google search will reveal dozens of firms who will replace your iPod battery for you when it wears out.
What use is that to folk that do business travel e.g. transatlantic flights? I have two batteries for my laptop and two batteries for my phone. Standard practice for me when you have 12+ hour flights from time to time.
The only way I would shell out $600 for one of these suckers is if it had free wireless and Skype. Unfortunately the iPhone is a bit too big for my preferences too. Tell me when they come out with one that's the size of a RAZR and I might consider it.
There are several phones on the market that meet your requirements already. Skype has been available on mobile platforms for about two years at least.
There are a LOT of PDA phones out there, and at least some of them allow you to use WiFi without a contract.
ALL of them do, this iPhone setup is indeed revolutionary. Hell, you don't even need a sim card to use everything but the phone functionality on most of them.
As more recently used by gmail to create demand. The invite system and restricted beta was a briliant stroke of marketing genius. Want a gig storage? Tough!
The ability to use hot spots would definitely go a ways towards justifying a higher price.
Only if it's a subscription plan to a decent hotspot provider. If it's just 'enabling wifi' as TFA suggests, then it's bull. They have to compete against the dozens of phones with WiFi that have no restrictions.
It may be a side-effect of Apple's desire to make computing easier. On mobile phone forums most of the queries and problems people have are relating to WiFi connectivity. Perhaps Apple are wanting to hide the complexities of WiFi encryption by providing a pre-configured service.
I would take that with a pinch of salt. I've been a bleeding-edge user of mobiles for quite some time, using forums to find out what's out there and what's coming soon. The customer service reps usually got these things wrong, they aren't exposed to the products until a week or so before they start selling them. They aren't a reliable source, you'd need to speak to their marketing department to get decent new-product info.
I hear what you are saying and I agree that far more research is required. In my limited personal experience on the incident that I described, it was completely subconcious after playing the game for several hours beforehand. I definately think it was a factor for me.
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I'd say there was far more Apple astroturfing. However, that just might be the editors pandering to a userbase that is historically pro-Apple products rather than a concerted campaign. I have my doubts though, there has been an iPhone article on the front page for months now, tying along nicely with Apples huge campaign on the phone.
It's in the UK. The US is the same though as far as I know. UK. NT stands for "no text" as in my message is completely contained in the subject. Saves people opening it up.
As subject.
Yes it will and I cannot imagine the iPhone being any easier. You dock and ActiveSync phone for the first time and it asks you if you want to sync or just use it as a guest. The latter gives you net access and the ability to copy files to and from the device, as well as install software.
Should you opt to sync, it next asks you what you want to sync. On some computers I use mine with I sync everything but for example I don't sync some things to my work PC.
Once you click finish it syncs. That's all there is to it, subsequent ones just require you to dock. The only caveat is if you set PIN lock on the phone ActiveSync asks for this though there is a "save password" option. This is all 100% desirable IMHO as you don't want a lost phone to be an identity-theft kit.
Sounds like war in general...
And the best way to make children want something is to tell them that they cannot have it.
What about America's political prisoners? The hundreds of people who have different views on church and state as well as morality and are being flown about by the CIA? Many of them haven't done anything but are held without trial because their beliefs are deemed a threat.
You guys really haven't noticed the changes over the past 40 years, have you?
When I visited China 10 years ago it was friendlier that the US and this is before the recent financial and cultural changes that have made it more open. You did need to get a visa posted from the Chinese embassy first, but once I had that I went to passport control in Beijing, handed over my visa and passport, the guy smiled and waved me through after stamping my passport.
I visited the US the same year. No visa required IIRC but we did have to fill out forms on the aircraft and wait for two hours at the two of ten desks that we processing non-american passengers. Wait time for Americans was ten minutes and there was much discussion of this in the queue. Welcome to America.
From a performance standpoint, that is insane. You won't be able to serve as many users if you are doing that level of logging, it's a lot of I/O traffic. Especially if it's a single log file for all client-handling threads; you are adding an artificial thread-synchronized block of code to every action. Ouch!
The problem is that the judges paper analogy doesn't hold; you aren't shredding because you never had the info in the first place. Should we be logging all HTTP headers for example? The referal ID might be useful in a criminal case.
Another analogy might be my daily activies. Say I was asked by the authorities what bus I caught to town six months ago. Was it the 08:30 or the 8:45 one? I had the information at the time, but never logged it as it has no reasonable use at a later date.
Makes you wonder what browser the Apple astroturfers use when they hit slashdot.
Yes, heaven forbid an OS rendering things for maximum on-screen legibility. Everyone should just print off an updated copy of the interweb each morning before work like I do.
So, when you switch logging from TRACE to ERROR you are breaking the law?
The PSU and phone charger are usually in my stow-away luggage. Why carry them all day? Besides, I'm at the mercy of my schedule and company budget, you don't get power hookups on most flights.
Easily, most PDA phones have a 'flight mode' with a picture of a plane to make it easy to convince the aircrew. I've never even had a second glance while using it. Plus, I'll use the wifi in the airport before I go, that's a battery eater, plus undoubtably I'd be listening to mp3s most of the time. And on the plane watching some divx movies or playing a 3D game like Call of Duty hammers the battery by pegging the CPU at 100% with the backlight on. The only thing you could do to make it worse would be to activate bluetooth (e.g a wireless headset) or WiFi to access some of the new airline net services that are being deployed.
You can drain my PDA in about 2 hours if you push it hard. Normal use is about two days.
Not when you are forced into signing up to something that adds e.g. $40 per month to your bill, which is a common figure for high-speed data plans on a smartphone.
Assuming a conservative half of that, $20 pcm, that's still $240 per year. Over the two year fixed plan it doubles the cost of the phone...for something that many people do not want or need.
The slashdot mindset when it comes to Apple is wierd. If this was any other company they'd be universally slated for it.
rev 1 is always crap from just about everyone.
All touch screens are bad for data entry, dual touch won't make a bit of difference. You need to constantly be looking at the keys to use them as there is no tactile feedback.
Also, it makes some software annoying, such as stop watches. You cannot rest your finger on the lap button while watching the race etc. Anything that warrants keeping your finger ready and doing something else is next to impossible.
Along with waranty-voiding instructions on how to use a heat gun to open it up so you can actually access the sim card. It's locked away.
What use is that to folk that do business travel e.g. transatlantic flights? I have two batteries for my laptop and two batteries for my phone. Standard practice for me when you have 12+ hour flights from time to time.
There are several phones on the market that meet your requirements already. Skype has been available on mobile platforms for about two years at least.
ALL of them do, this iPhone setup is indeed revolutionary. Hell, you don't even need a sim card to use everything but the phone functionality on most of them.
As more recently used by gmail to create demand. The invite system and restricted beta was a briliant stroke of marketing genius. Want a gig storage? Tough!
Only if it's a subscription plan to a decent hotspot provider. If it's just 'enabling wifi' as TFA suggests, then it's bull. They have to compete against the dozens of phones with WiFi that have no restrictions.
It may be a side-effect of Apple's desire to make computing easier. On mobile phone forums most of the queries and problems people have are relating to WiFi connectivity. Perhaps Apple are wanting to hide the complexities of WiFi encryption by providing a pre-configured service.
I would take that with a pinch of salt. I've been a bleeding-edge user of mobiles for quite some time, using forums to find out what's out there and what's coming soon. The customer service reps usually got these things wrong, they aren't exposed to the products until a week or so before they start selling them. They aren't a reliable source, you'd need to speak to their marketing department to get decent new-product info.
I hear what you are saying and I agree that far more research is required. In my limited personal experience on the incident that I described, it was completely subconcious after playing the game for several hours beforehand. I definately think it was a factor for me.