Everyone seems to love Apple but no one talks about the dirty tricks they play on non-iPod users who still like iTunes (for example, in one release of iTunes, all files it found that were converted by JHymn were permanently locked!!)
Out of curiousity: why would you iTunes, which was designed for use with an iPod, with an MP3 player not officially supported?
Isn't that like using Real Jukebox and complaining when it doesn't work with the iPod? I'd say you take your chances using any music/ jukebox software with an unsupported MP3 player.
Thanks for yet another bastardization of the term "hackers." Virus writers are not hackers, and hackers get offended when you associate them with such cretins.
Not anymore. Popular press stole that moniker years ago. Hackers are now the digital equivalents of L.A. gang bangers...
Everything I've read on Slashdot and Wired talks to what will not be in Longhorn. What will be in Longhorn that will make it better than XP? More and different vulnerabilities? (Maybe it will ship with a demo.wmv file showing Microsoft executive throwing chairs around offices in response to other MS executives leaving for Google!)
Seriously... though I'm an Apple user from before Macs were released I've also used every version of Windows - always at work but I've also had every version except XP at home.
With each new Mac OS X release I look forward to what will be in that version - but there's little talk around the water cooler regarding what will actually be in Longhorn/ Vista. Unlike Mac OS releases, which people anticipate because of stuff like Dashboard, iTunes integration,.Mac integration, Spotlight and Automator, all I hear is what Longhorn/ Vista won't have...
Just what has Microsoft built from scratch? I can't think of a single application they've released that hasn't been a knock-off from something else. Excel, first released for the Mac (!) was VisiCalc.
I remember looking at Excel on the Mac - it did less than the $40 Word Processor/ Spreadsheet suite I had for my Commodore 64 in college. Flight Simulator was BAO's before MS bought it. Visio.
Seriously - has Microsoft produced anything that hasn't been done before?
What I really want to see is a GPS-enabled camera that records not only time and date in the metadata, but also latitude and longitude.
That's a fantastic idea! Since Google Earth came out I've been visiting a few places I've backpacked in the past to match photos to a location. Too may trails... not enough coordinates!
My defense is that my computer was infected by a trojan horse for many months without my knowledge
At that point the RIAA attorney shows the CD of an obscure 80s punk band named... Trojan Horse... and then you're hanging on to the bar of soap in the cell block shower!
"Allegations in an article over at CNET propose that alternate browsers such as Firefox and Opera impede law enforcement and investigation efforts because they "use different structures, files and naming conventions for the data that investigators are after", which can "cause trouble for examiners.""
This whole idea of "alternate" browsers is just crazy. My first "alternate" browser was Internet Explorer 3.0 on the Mac - after using Mac Lynx and Netscape Navigator I thought I'd give an "alternate" browser a shot - IE.
Furthermore, if a criminal investigation is held up because an alleged criminal use Opera or Firefox (if they used open source they were probably stealing MP3s!:-) then the state of technological forensics is about as poor as the emergency response our government mounted after Hurrican Katrina.
Then how come OSX is so freakin' easy for everyone to use? It only takes a few minutes.
Because Apple pays very close attention to user design. Linux may have more designers 'backing it' but how many of them have been using Linux for years and years and already know it?
I've used three distributions of Linux and none stacked up to the MacOS X. Certainly not OS X - but it was towards the end of OS 9 days I moved to Windows then I quickly tried Linux because I couldn't stand Windows.
Does Linux even have an active group working on U.I. design? The funny thing about MacOS X is, even with new software, I know where to look for something and I'd say 85%-90% of the time it's in the first place I look. Even for new software I've not used before.
Well, perhaps I can't answer for you but I can tell for me, my switch to Opera happened before Firefox was stable enough for everyday use.
Consider this: the web browser is a tool - nothing more nothing less. Like most tools one gets what they pay for. $40 for a great tool (fast, stable, compatible, and extremely configurable) is cheap.
Opera is to Internet Explorer what the BMW is to the Chrysler K car (for those old enough to remember those!).
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The Macintosh Classic had this. For some reason, during graduate school the night before a paper was due, my HD wouldn't boot. I accessed three keys on the keyboard while turning the machine on.
The Mac booted from a ROM OS and presto - my Mac was up and running and the HD, though unbootable, still worked so I could access my word processor and documents.
How is this wrong? People like this are keeping software developers on their toes. I say good on them...
Couldn't you make the same case for people shooting cops or driving drunk? In the first case it will spur body armor manufacturers to create more effective armor. In the later it may lead to safer cars?
Many indicators of the American educational system point to how low American's rate in the subjects of science and mathematics. Maybe we should off shore to those countries.
The people who got screwed by Apple get a $50 coupon that can be spent at an Apple store. Not everyone had an iPod with a defective battery - or even one that wore out prior to their battery life expectations. The $50 coupon is one option with the settlement.
The first gen buyers who paid the original $255 battery replacement fee, are out of pocket $205. This might be the case if their battery failed a second time. Same thing has happened to PC laptops I've owned: "Oh, you've owned it for 366 days, sorry - warranty has expired."
Apple continues to sell iPods without replaceable batteries. This is just simply false. The batteries are no replacable by the consumer because it requires breaking the case's seal. The battery can be replaced by a technician. It would be nice if the battery can be replaced by the consumer. But the smart consumer checks on these things first, or they learn a lesson from it.
iPod customers still have to backup and exchange their iPod to get a new battery unless they're brave and use a third party battery. Because the iPod syncs with the Mac or PC it's already backed up. This is a non issue.
The two attorneys get $2.7 million. Well, alright - you're dead on with this. Consumers are usually the losers in class action lawsuits.
People...see it as a real democratic institution in what is otherwise an authoritarian institution, a business.
If these are like America's democracy can they declare war on another country because it might have a product they don't like, even if there's no evidence the product exists?
There's a good article over on the BBC about the decline of science and technology in the U.S.
I think most technological advancements in the U.S. came about as a result of large wars. Technological advancements in electronics, aviation, ballistics, space travel and satellite saw huge increases as a direct result of World War II and the Cold War (I'm tossing the Vietnam War in as part of the Cold War).
And we've always distrusted science. This isn't the first time around for a legislated solution to the 'question' of evolution. The Scopes Trial happened in the mid 1920s.
Nuclear energy in American today is also a reflection of the distrust in science (stemming from ignorance or not).
Maybe Americans have always been distrustful of science. The lack of defense spending in the past 20 years could explain the slow down in technological advances as well.
With speeds like this (Tokyo to L.A. in four hours) the issue is ground transportation to and around the airport and then security lines.
A cross country flight for me, from Denver to Washington D.C. takes about four hours from aircraft door closing in Denver to opening in Washington DC.
But due to security constraints and the volume of air travellers I have to leave my home 2-1/2 hours before the flight leaves. It then takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to park and walk to the terminal or park in an outlying lot and taking the shuttle bus.
So from closing my door at home to stepping onto the airplane at the airport I'm looking at three hours for a four hour flight. Toss in a weather delay here in Colorado and I can often spend more time on the ground than in the air.
Well, I'll certainly grab this for use while at work, and engage in the Groups discussions.
But I'm stumped at the amount of stuff that Google releases that will only run on Windows:
Google Desktop 2
Google Earth
Google Video
Google Web Accelerator (currently unavailable and not likely I'd use anyway but it's still Windows only)
Google Deskbar
Google Desktop Search (probably can't touch Mac's Spotlight but it's still Windows only)
Google Compute
I like Google because their search engine rocks and their products serve great needs - they fill holes in my otherwise complete digital world. But Windows only for so much stuff? Come on... you're the company whose recent stock offering had the same number of shares the first eight digits of pi.
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Everyone seems to love Apple but no one talks about the dirty tricks they play on non-iPod users who still like iTunes (for example, in one release of iTunes, all files it found that were converted by JHymn were permanently locked!!)
Out of curiousity: why would you iTunes, which was designed for use with an iPod, with an MP3 player not officially supported?
Isn't that like using Real Jukebox and complaining when it doesn't work with the iPod? I'd say you take your chances using any music/ jukebox software with an unsupported MP3 player.
Won't we ever learn from our past mistakes?
We learn plenty from our mistakes. We have numerous State and Federal departments whose intention is soley the protection of the environment.
What we don't do is implement what we learn.
Thanks for yet another bastardization of the term "hackers." Virus writers are not hackers, and hackers get offended when you associate them with such cretins.
Not anymore. Popular press stole that moniker years ago. Hackers are now the digital equivalents of L.A. gang bangers...
Once we move Slashdot, work will begin on a new look & feel.
Will the new UI look just like Google's?
Wow. Can't wait to buy that!
Everything I've read on Slashdot and Wired talks to what will not be in Longhorn. What will be in Longhorn that will make it better than XP? More and different vulnerabilities? (Maybe it will ship with a demo .wmv file showing Microsoft executive throwing chairs around offices in response to other MS executives leaving for Google!)
Seriously ... though I'm an Apple user from before Macs were released I've also used every version of Windows - always at work but I've also had every version except XP at home.
With each new Mac OS X release I look forward to what will be in that version - but there's little talk around the water cooler regarding what will actually be in Longhorn/ Vista. Unlike Mac OS releases, which people anticipate because of stuff like Dashboard, iTunes integration, .Mac integration, Spotlight and Automator, all I hear is what Longhorn/ Vista won't have ...
Just what has Microsoft built from scratch? I can't think of a single application they've released that hasn't been a knock-off from something else. Excel, first released for the Mac (!) was VisiCalc. I remember looking at Excel on the Mac - it did less than the $40 Word Processor/ Spreadsheet suite I had for my Commodore 64 in college. Flight Simulator was BAO's before MS bought it. Visio. Seriously - has Microsoft produced anything that hasn't been done before?
What I really want to see is a GPS-enabled camera that records not only time and date in the metadata, but also latitude and longitude.
That's a fantastic idea! Since Google Earth came out I've been visiting a few places I've backpacked in the past to match photos to a location. Too may trails ... not enough coordinates!
My defense is that my computer was infected by a trojan horse for many months without my knowledge
At that point the RIAA attorney shows the CD of an obscure 80s punk band named ... Trojan Horse ... and then you're hanging on to the bar of soap in the cell block shower!
"Allegations in an article over at CNET propose that alternate browsers such as Firefox and Opera impede law enforcement and investigation efforts because they "use different structures, files and naming conventions for the data that investigators are after", which can "cause trouble for examiners.""
This whole idea of "alternate" browsers is just crazy. My first "alternate" browser was Internet Explorer 3.0 on the Mac - after using Mac Lynx and Netscape Navigator I thought I'd give an "alternate" browser a shot - IE.
Furthermore, if a criminal investigation is held up because an alleged criminal use Opera or Firefox (if they used open source they were probably stealing MP3s!:-) then the state of technological forensics is about as poor as the emergency response our government mounted after Hurrican Katrina.
Install an old version of windows, unpached with no firewall protection.
Install Windows XP and turn off auto update.
Then how come OSX is so freakin' easy for everyone to use? It only takes a few minutes.
Because Apple pays very close attention to user design. Linux may have more designers 'backing it' but how many of them have been using Linux for years and years and already know it?
I've used three distributions of Linux and none stacked up to the MacOS X. Certainly not OS X - but it was towards the end of OS 9 days I moved to Windows then I quickly tried Linux because I couldn't stand Windows.
Does Linux even have an active group working on U.I. design? The funny thing about MacOS X is, even with new software, I know where to look for something and I'd say 85%-90% of the time it's in the first place I look. Even for new software I've not used before.
To rephrase, why ought I migrate to Opera?
Well, perhaps I can't answer for you but I can tell for me, my switch to Opera happened before Firefox was stable enough for everyday use.
Consider this: the web browser is a tool - nothing more nothing less. Like most tools one gets what they pay for. $40 for a great tool (fast, stable, compatible, and extremely configurable) is cheap.
Opera is to Internet Explorer what the BMW is to the Chrysler K car (for those old enough to remember those!).
The Macintosh Classic had this. For some reason, during graduate school the night before a paper was due, my HD wouldn't boot. I accessed three keys on the keyboard while turning the machine on. The Mac booted from a ROM OS and presto - my Mac was up and running and the HD, though unbootable, still worked so I could access my word processor and documents.
How is this wrong? People like this are keeping software developers on their toes. I say good on them...
Couldn't you make the same case for people shooting cops or driving drunk? In the first case it will spur body armor manufacturers to create more effective armor. In the later it may lead to safer cars?
Many indicators of the American educational system point to how low American's rate in the subjects of science and mathematics. Maybe we should off shore to those countries.
So who won?
These statements are not entirely true ...
The people who got screwed by Apple get a $50 coupon that can be spent at an Apple store.
Not everyone had an iPod with a defective battery - or even one that wore out prior to their battery life expectations. The $50 coupon is one option with the settlement.
The first gen buyers who paid the original $255 battery replacement fee, are out of pocket $205.
This might be the case if their battery failed a second time. Same thing has happened to PC laptops I've owned: "Oh, you've owned it for 366 days, sorry - warranty has expired."
Apple continues to sell iPods without replaceable batteries.
This is just simply false. The batteries are no replacable by the consumer because it requires breaking the case's seal. The battery can be replaced by a technician. It would be nice if the battery can be replaced by the consumer. But the smart consumer checks on these things first, or they learn a lesson from it.
iPod customers still have to backup and exchange their iPod to get a new battery unless they're brave and use a third party battery.
Because the iPod syncs with the Mac or PC it's already backed up. This is a non issue.
The two attorneys get $2.7 million.
Well, alright - you're dead on with this. Consumers are usually the losers in class action lawsuits.
Richard Lynn, the emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University claims that, on average, men are more intelligent than women.
Yeah, well, my wife will still always be right.
People...see it as a real democratic institution in what is otherwise an authoritarian institution, a business.
If these are like America's democracy can they declare war on another country because it might have a product they don't like, even if there's no evidence the product exists?
So only US citizens are allowed to have cell phones in the US?
Homeland Security took care of the rest ;-)
I hit the theater maybe twice a year now. It used to be at least once or twice a month. I've stopped going for two reasons:
I will continue to see only blockbuster special effects films, like a Star Wars, Indiana Jones, or Lord of the Rings.
All the others I can buy the DVD for the cost of a ticket for myself and my wife.
There's a good article over on the BBC about the decline of science and technology in the U.S.
I think most technological advancements in the U.S. came about as a result of large wars. Technological advancements in electronics, aviation, ballistics, space travel and satellite saw huge increases as a direct result of World War II and the Cold War (I'm tossing the Vietnam War in as part of the Cold War).
And we've always distrusted science. This isn't the first time around for a legislated solution to the 'question' of evolution. The Scopes Trial happened in the mid 1920s.
Nuclear energy in American today is also a reflection of the distrust in science (stemming from ignorance or not).
Maybe Americans have always been distrustful of science. The lack of defense spending in the past 20 years could explain the slow down in technological advances as well.
With speeds like this (Tokyo to L.A. in four hours) the issue is ground transportation to and around the airport and then security lines.
A cross country flight for me, from Denver to Washington D.C. takes about four hours from aircraft door closing in Denver to opening in Washington DC.
But due to security constraints and the volume of air travellers I have to leave my home 2-1/2 hours before the flight leaves. It then takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to park and walk to the terminal or park in an outlying lot and taking the shuttle bus.
So from closing my door at home to stepping onto the airplane at the airport I'm looking at three hours for a four hour flight. Toss in a weather delay here in Colorado and I can often spend more time on the ground than in the air.
I like Google because their search engine rocks and their products serve great needs - they fill holes in my otherwise complete digital world. But Windows only for so much stuff? Come on ... you're the company whose recent stock offering had the same number of shares the first eight digits of pi.
"It is coated to prevent bacterial infection, and we have tried to arrange the seams so that they don't chafe,"
Nothing can ruin a battle faster than chafe from underwear seams.