I agree,
The new transcriber input option in Windows Mobile 6 is pretty awesome, the fact that it recognizes my scribble pretty probably 95% accurate impresses me.
and I will take my Samsung SCH-i760 over the iPhone any day.
I provide support for a certain digital music player and application that goes along with it. I deal with way more requests for how to rip a cd then how to add "My Shared Folder" into the music library. I think Ballmer does not realize that for every teeny bopper raping kazaa there are probably 3 professional responisble people who are using legally purchased music. Or maybe the teeny boppers just do not call support...
What you should probably consider is that Cringely has been doing this sort of thing (writing columns about and predicting future trends and strategies in the computer industry) for a very long time. He has a lot of people who are "in the know" about emerging technologies and trends and when he says things like this he is correct maybe not most of the time but enough that people give head to what he says. Go back in his archives and check out his predictions for the coming year and see how many things he is right about.
I have no particular love for Cringley either (mostly the tinge of egoism in every column) but you gotta give it to the guy, he tends to be right.
You should have waited until the filemaker developer conference is over (aug 29-sept 1) before submitting the story It would have made for much more interesting slashdotting and probably some more informed opinions as the whole slew of FM/database geeks are away from slashdot.
Actually the iPod mini only uses USB 2.0 for pc it only works with FW on the Mac and usb 2 and FW are pretty equivalent in terms of data transfer (480 vs 400 mbps)
If you notice Apple and many other companies no longer refer to Portable computers as laptops. They refer to them as "Portable Computers" because you are not supposed to use them on your lap because of the heat and the fact that it prevents the machine from disappating as much heat (especially powerbooks) Also FYI if you want to make it generate less heat you can go into your energy saver system preferences and reduce the processor performance (you may feel less manly but it will generate less heat and give you more battery life)
If one conults the guide:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D.."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
The kernel runs as a 64-bit process while the majority of other OS components remain 32-bit processes. Applications are run as 32-bit processes unless that application can specifically benefit from 64-bit memory addressing
when I went to *boot* her new G3 iBook into OS X for the first time, the damn thing locked up and would no longer boot, even off the CD, just presenting some weird message to cycle the power thats 10.2's kernel panic message and it is covered by the warranty if it is a hardware issue (you get 90 days free phone support from apple and a 1 year hardware warranty
if you are going to trash the company at least make sure what you say is true
and as for things not "just working" in 10.2 all those prepress people have to realize that OS X is not OS 9 was not meant to be OS 9 and if you are approaching things in the OS as if it were OS 9 of course it isn't going to work
What about Darwin? you get the meat of OS X just no pretty GUI yet. and i say yet because i personally believe it would be a tremendously smart move for Apple to release a PC version of OS X. honestly if i could have dual athlons running os x i dont think i would leave the house
Lets face it. it is inevitable that M$ is going to get its ass kicked by the open source community eventually. Could M$ be aquiring Connectix in order to be able to offer people complete opensource compatability tucked away inside of Windoze 200X?
Would they still allow tapers? Almost my entire music collection consists of live recordings (thank you furthurnet.com and etree.org) But i doubt they would waste their time with the music that i listen to.
i have to say working for a small company is one of the best things that has happened to me in recent memory. starting out with 4 weeks of vacation in addition to sick time, being able to have meetings with the entire company in attendance and the annonymous suggestion box read and publicly answered by the president of the company? these are all things i wished for so desperately when i worked at places like Worldcom and SCI Sanmina (thinking about both those companies sorta makes me wretch)
read your warantee you get 90 days free support when you buy any apple product, if you have an applecare protection plan you get 3 years phone and 3 years hardware
also furthurnet includes trading of videos of live shows but there arent many out there. the ones i have found have been pretty decent though.
now if only ipods supported SHNs....
seems to me that the last time i was at Stevens Institue of Technology which sits on the hudson rive and i walked out to Castle point (neat little spot with an old school cannon from which stevens students used to shoot flaming tennis balls at boats) there was a sign posted down at the rivers edge that advised people not to eat any fish caught in those waters. Seems to me if you arent supposed to eat anything from the waters immediately around manhattan you wouldnt want to swim there either
I can assure you it is true (if you want confimation call 1-800-apl-care thats 180-275-2273 for those of you who dont want to figure it out. it is currently stated apple policy
ya know you can format when you are booted to the os x cd right? its that amazing thing called disk utility (click on the installer menu before you select language and go down to open disk utility)
and hey if OS X is hosed hold down the command key (apple key) and S to boot into the command line and do what you need to do there.
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I agree,
The new transcriber input option in Windows Mobile 6 is pretty awesome, the fact that it recognizes my scribble pretty probably 95% accurate impresses me.
and I will take my Samsung SCH-i760 over the iPhone any day.
I provide support for a certain digital music player and application that goes along with it. I deal with way more requests for how to rip a cd then how to add "My Shared Folder" into the music library. I think Ballmer does not realize that for every teeny bopper raping kazaa there are probably 3 professional responisble people who are using legally purchased music. Or maybe the teeny boppers just do not call support...
What you should probably consider is that Cringely has been doing this sort of thing (writing columns about and predicting future trends and strategies in the computer industry) for a very long time. He has a lot of people who are "in the know" about emerging technologies and trends and when he says things like this he is correct maybe not most of the time but enough that people give head to what he says. Go back in his archives and check out his predictions for the coming year and see how many things he is right about. I have no particular love for Cringley either (mostly the tinge of egoism in every column) but you gotta give it to the guy, he tends to be right.
You should have waited until the filemaker developer conference is over (aug 29-sept 1) before submitting the story It would have made for much more interesting slashdotting and probably some more informed opinions as the whole slew of FM/database geeks are away from slashdot.
etree furthurnet Live Music Archive
Actually the iPod mini only uses USB 2.0 for pc it only works with FW on the Mac and usb 2 and FW are pretty equivalent in terms of data transfer (480 vs 400 mbps)
If you notice Apple and many other companies no longer refer to Portable computers as laptops. They refer to them as "Portable Computers" because you are not supposed to use them on your lap because of the heat and the fact that it prevents the machine from disappating as much heat (especially powerbooks) Also FYI if you want to make it generate less heat you can go into your energy saver system preferences and reduce the processor performance (you may feel less manly but it will generate less heat and give you more battery life)
If one conults the guide: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D.." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
The kernel runs as a 64-bit process while the majority of other OS components remain 32-bit processes. Applications are run as 32-bit processes unless that application can specifically benefit from 64-bit memory addressing
just buy a damned ipod
when I went to *boot* her new G3 iBook into OS X for the first time, the damn thing locked up and would no longer boot, even off the CD, just presenting some weird message to cycle the power
thats 10.2's kernel panic message and it is covered by the warranty if it is a hardware issue (you get 90 days free phone support from apple and a 1 year hardware warranty
if you are going to trash the company at least make sure what you say is true
and as for things not "just working" in 10.2 all those prepress people have to realize that OS X is not OS 9 was not meant to be OS 9 and if you are approaching things in the OS as if it were OS 9 of course it isn't going to work
die OS 9 die!!!!
What about Darwin? you get the meat of OS X just no pretty GUI yet. and i say yet because i personally believe it would be a tremendously smart move for Apple to release a PC version of OS X. honestly if i could have dual athlons running os x i dont think i would leave the house
Lets face it. it is inevitable that M$ is going to get its ass kicked by the open source community eventually. Could M$ be aquiring Connectix in order to be able to offer people complete opensource compatability tucked away inside of Windoze 200X?
Rendevous wasnt intended to have a massive scale, it only works over the same subnet
Would they still allow tapers? Almost my entire music collection consists of live recordings (thank you furthurnet.com and etree.org) But i doubt they would waste their time with the music that i listen to.
yeah but when you play games against a computer you dont get to talk all 1337 like and use great phrases like
"pump shotty pwnage"
"AWP wh0r3"
and everyones favorite "teh gay haxx0r"
i have to say working for a small company is one of the best things that has happened to me in recent memory. starting out with 4 weeks of vacation in addition to sick time, being able to have meetings with the entire company in attendance and the annonymous suggestion box read and publicly answered by the president of the company? these are all things i wished for so desperately when i worked at places like Worldcom and SCI Sanmina (thinking about both those companies sorta makes me wretch)
yup definitely braindead
read your warantee you get 90 days free support when you buy any apple product, if you have an applecare protection plan you get 3 years phone and 3 years hardware
I work for apple and i have never heard of this... funny
also furthurnet includes trading of videos of live shows but there arent many out there. the ones i have found have been pretty decent though. now if only ipods supported SHNs....
go into your os 9 system folder and trash the following files classic classic support classic support ui you friendly apple tech support troll
seems to me that the last time i was at Stevens Institue of Technology which sits on the hudson rive and i walked out to Castle point (neat little spot with an old school cannon from which stevens students used to shoot flaming tennis balls at boats) there was a sign posted down at the rivers edge that advised people not to eat any fish caught in those waters. Seems to me if you arent supposed to eat anything from the waters immediately around manhattan you wouldnt want to swim there either
I can assure you it is true (if you want confimation call 1-800-apl-care thats 180-275-2273 for those of you who dont want to figure it out. it is currently stated apple policy
ya know you can format when you are booted to the os x cd right? its that amazing thing called disk utility (click on the installer menu before you select language and go down to open disk utility) and hey if OS X is hosed hold down the command key (apple key) and S to boot into the command line and do what you need to do there.