You then have to download the entire thing to find out if those blocks are part of IronMan2.avi are actually part of ironman2 movie or some dumb students project on feeding excessive iron to a man.
what percentage of the RIAA music takedowns where not actually infringing music but someone's project with a similar name? I know of at least 3 separate incidents where they made a school take down a professors own notes because of a file name.
And the same is true for me(I threw out my last printer almost a decade ago).
However at work some people must have hard copies. I finally figured out why recently. While you can multitask with any OS now but the monitors generally can only display ONE app at a time. even with widescreen monitors the majority of which have resolutions which really only allow decent reading of one document at a time. Which means if your reading from one or more sources, and compiling them on a third document you are constantly task switching back and forth which slows you down, You can stretch multiple documents out on your desk and glance at them to gather information as you type. Something that is only really possible with 2-3 monitors on computers.
At home I have 3 monitors and a TV which my computers can output on. however most people at work only get one monitor, two if they are lucky. Try working with just one piece of paper in front of you and stack all other work objects behind it. doesn't work so well does it?
The solution is either high resolution monitors(tough to find and expensive or multiple 1280x 1024 displays.
Not really no. China's leaders aren't stupid. They realized Russia fell trying tokeep pace Econmically with the USA. Then china realized theyout number us 4-1. So all they had to do was convert their poor peasants into manufacturers. The fastest wayto do that is to invite foriegn companies to use their labor. Putting their own people in place to learn the tricks of the various trades. After 20 years they will be teaching their own people to do that on their own. (current place). After that they can kick out the foriegners.
However in reality I think china and the USA are on a Course for merger in a couple of centuries. Slowly the USA will add socialist ideals totake dare of thosewho can't. And china won't be able to shake the grip of the captalism that is slowly changing their country.
The People of California are investigating a company who paid for stolen goods, disassembled said goods, and talked with everyone but the apple employee who lost the phone.
if this case goes to trial it won't be a civilian case, but a criminal one. Apple can't touch gizmodo for this. California however can try him for dealing with stolen goods.
He called one of what 10,000+ apple employees and asked if they lost a phone. What did he do call the local apple retail store? WHO at Apple did he talk to.
I dare you pick up the phone right now and call any major corporation and try talking to them about returning stolen property. Unless you knew who lost the phone and called him at his home would you stand any chance of actually returning it.
I can practically guarantee the guy never called the apple employee, and never once tried to find him in the phone book.
so what kind of moron are you that you don't know such a basic fact of reality?
Freedom fighters , terrorists, are not bound by rule of law or order. Hamas will fire rockets from the top schools that their own childern are in.
When people think of 9/11. It is always the trade centers that are talked about. Targeting of the pentagon while devastating was at least a military target.
Very few complain when Hamas bombs the isreali military. They only complain when the target can't fight back. Freedom fighters target militaries and their leadership. Terrorists targetthose who can't fight back or use civilians to shield themselves from militaries.
There is no consistent user Interface. HTC has one Interface, motoraola another, Google yet a third. how can droid hope to compete with the iphone if users can't expect the same interface on all models?
let alone some models have horrible interfaces which will put end users off on the entire line. you use a motorola droid and hate it. you will think twice about picking up an HTC android model even though the HTC is superior.
other than the itunes integration and multi tasking android has all those problems plus.
*the hard connections tend to be twice as fast as wireless. *android on AT&T has no tethering either. *no standard interface or even consistant interface. *random pricing. android phones become heavily subsidized by the carrier making the price of any one handset variable across regions let alone countries. *no standard store for picking up material. CArriers each have their own store, and limit features of the various phones *no two android phones work the same way
what would happen if the electric system started having those errors? Or what if a stock exchange started doing that?
while I wasn't worried and figured it to be mostly hype there were serious possibilities that could have happened. however those were fixed before hand. the last minute rushes were just companies trying to save themselves.
um Y2k did happen. The primary Server at my company switched from the year 2000 to the year 1900. Whenever the computer was rebooted the hardware switched it to the year 1900.
To fix it I had to manually adjust the OS software date/time back to the correct year.
It could calculate the correct time but it couldn't adjust to it by itself. So whenever we lost power, and at least twice a year I had to go back and fix the date manually. If I didn't the server would start updating everything it was working on with the date of 1900. Normally we caught it early, but having to go back and manually fix inventories, invoices, and accounting general ledger for the transactions was never fun.
xrandr doesn't support displaylink, and no version of xorg supports hot swapping between monitors of different resolutions without a complete lose everything restart. OS X does have to restart the display manager however it take 2 seconds and nothing else gets interrupted. you can do it while playing a flash video.
PC's still use x86 BIOS. Why? because MSFT won't support EFI unless it is a 64 bit os. half the problem is MSFT won't depreciate obsolete technologies. say what you will about apple's tendacies. They at least are willing to move computing forward(and sometimes sideways).
it has been standard in OSX since 10.3 at least. okay maybe not the displaylink part since they didn't exist back then but hot swapping monitors and adjusting resolution on the fly was. That's what 6-7 years ago.
I keep tryingLinux as I am waiting for displaylink support to come to xrandr. They are working on it. Like all linux projects involving X it goes very slowly.
I download the latest Ubuntu and other distro's from distrowatch once or twice a year.
Install them in and see if I can do things like resize my monitor without using vi and editing xconfig. I have yet to be able to do so. As long as I don't want to change monitors (which i do several times a week) it works okay on one display. However I run multiple monitors and swap which monitors I use on the fly while my system is running. Not only does X not support one of my monitors, (okay it does if I spend hours reconfiguring xconfig file to accept that one monitor, but if I do get the displays running things like xrandr break.
I can do everything I just said including hot swapping vga monitors with OS X. it took installing two drivers (one monitor is also a touch screen) and is a displaylink (USB ) display. Xorg can be hard configured to work but you lose all options like xrandr(not displaylink compatible yet).
So just three commands eh? xorg won't work with my displays with less than hundreds of commands and I lose features to do it.
and where do you find which command? how do you know the package name? where is that information. how do you know what's in each package? what happens when your distro doesn't have the package you want?
The linux command line is only useful if you happen to have memorized the hundreds of commands and their modifiers. If you don't know what you need to get started with however it is very very difficult to learn.
Why do you think I buried windows and got a mac? if I am going to have a nagging wife she had at least better look sexy even if she isn't any more functional.
Doesn't matter. I would be willing to bet that when andriod is fully ported it will still be slower and buggier than the iPhoneOS on that hardware. A vertical intergration in your hardware software stack means you can squeeze every drop of performance out of it. The horizantal software development favoured by msft and Linux crowds will always be lacking that.
well to start with Adobe would have to make a special version of flash for the ipad. Since Adobe generally treats anything but the windows version with scorn coming later, and with less features devoting time to keep flash updated on all platforms with reasonable speed requires more developers than adobe is willing to work with.
if Apple decides to do a processor change under the hood. native apps will port quickly but flash would take a year or so before it becomes ready.
Given by year end apple will have sold more ipads than all android models together I don't think they are going to lose much. Why Because apple spends as much on the interface to make it usable as they do on the hardware. Android is already fragmenting, with hardware manufactures stopping to allow upgrades at various versions, all of them with different UI's.
Maybe one day techies will realize that 90% of the population aren't techies, and aren't going to put up with the crap that techies do. Remember people who couldn't program their VCR's can use an iPhone but struggle to use Blackberries.
Given the number of people who can actually use bing and find stuff that is actually relevant you can probably run the servers on a couple of netbooks.
I randomly try to use bing to find stuff. I always get the wrong answer. I remember back when MSFT first switched windows live to bing you could search for Linux and get microsoft.com answers.
It has gotten better than that. but not nearly as much as MSFT wants you to believe.
I hate to say it but andriod is starting to fail already. 1.5,1.6 2.1. Each version uses a different UI, different pieces. Hardware manufacturers struggle toupdates with the majority of models only recieving security updates if they are lucky.
Apple is annoying with their lockdowns. However you know exactly what can and can't be done with a given apple product. Apple draws the line in features and upgrades. It may be arbitrary but you know where you stand. Unlike andriod where the end user has no idea what version they are running or when they last updated their phone as the various teleco, hardware manufacturers, and google all blame each other. Apple is the only party to blame in apple products.
Sure WinCE is used in millions of devices but none of them work very well.
Windows CE had ONE major problem it was never designed around a multi touch interface. It was basically a mouse touch which means you "click and drag" with your touch finger. WinCE and the related Applications held promise but failed to deliver a consistent user interface, designed for small screens, allow for mutli point touch and gestures, Oh and Not look like s standard desktop shrunk to a screen that a Command line interface would have a problem with usability on.
I repeat this over and over again a Tablet is not a desktop OS. you can't use a desktop application on a tablet and expect it to work well. You must shift the interface design away from desktop if you want your tablet to succeed. it is why Palm worked so well. it had a new interface. Windows CE, Mobile, all strived to look like windows Desktop and it was skinned horribly to hide that fact.
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you forgot the real part.
You then have to download the entire thing to find out if those blocks are part of IronMan2.avi are actually part of ironman2 movie or some dumb students project on feeding excessive iron to a man.
what percentage of the RIAA music takedowns where not actually infringing music but someone's project with a similar name? I know of at least 3 separate incidents where they made a school take down a professors own notes because of a file name.
And the same is true for me(I threw out my last printer almost a decade ago).
However at work some people must have hard copies. I finally figured out why recently. While you can multitask with any OS now but the monitors generally can only display ONE app at a time. even with widescreen monitors the majority of which have resolutions which really only allow decent reading of one document at a time. Which means if your reading from one or more sources, and compiling them on a third document you are constantly task switching back and forth which slows you down, You can stretch multiple documents out on your desk and glance at them to gather information as you type. Something that is only really possible with 2-3 monitors on computers.
At home I have 3 monitors and a TV which my computers can output on. however most people at work only get one monitor, two if they are lucky. Try working with just one piece of paper in front of you and stack all other work objects behind it. doesn't work so well does it?
The solution is either high resolution monitors(tough to find and expensive or multiple 1280x 1024 displays.
Not really no. China's leaders aren't stupid. They realized Russia fell trying tokeep pace Econmically with the USA. Then china realized theyout number us 4-1. So all they had to do was convert their poor peasants into manufacturers. The fastest wayto do that is to invite foriegn companies to use their labor. Putting their own people in place to learn the tricks of the various trades. After 20 years they will be teaching their own people to do that on their own. (current place). After that they can kick out the foriegners.
However in reality I think china and the USA are on a Course for merger in a couple of centuries. Slowly the USA will add socialist ideals totake dare of thosewho can't. And china won't be able to shake the grip of the captalism that is slowly changing their country.
Every once in a while I pull out my diablo ii cd's and play
certian movies put me in mood to play a turn based strategy game that came out in 1997 to the point I will install windows to play it.
Good games hold their replay value. Companies that limit that value undermine future game sales.
Apple isn't going after gizmodo.
The People of California are investigating a company who paid for stolen goods, disassembled said goods, and talked with everyone but the apple employee who lost the phone.
if this case goes to trial it won't be a civilian case, but a criminal one. Apple can't touch gizmodo for this. California however can try him for dealing with stolen goods.
He called one of what 10,000+ apple employees and asked if they lost a phone. What did he do call the local apple retail store? WHO at Apple did he talk to.
I dare you pick up the phone right now and call any major corporation and try talking to them about returning stolen property. Unless you knew who lost the phone and called him at his home would you stand any chance of actually returning it.
I can practically guarantee the guy never called the apple employee, and never once tried to find him in the phone book.
so what kind of moron are you that you don't know such a basic fact of reality?
Freedom fighters , terrorists, are not bound by rule of law or order. Hamas will fire rockets from the top schools that their own childern are in.
When people think of 9/11. It is always the trade centers that are talked about. Targeting of the pentagon while devastating was at least a military target.
Very few complain when Hamas bombs the isreali military. They only complain when the target can't fight back. Freedom fighters target militaries and their leadership. Terrorists targetthose who can't fight back or use civilians to shield themselves from militaries.
Tell that to alQueda please. Or maybe Hamas. Or every other violent organization that is willing to target a cafe instead of military targets.
then why do so many people switch windows aero interface back to the windows classic? Why do so many people make linux look like windows?
if it isn't a big deal then why go through all that effort?
That is the single problem with Android phones.
There is no consistent user Interface. HTC has one Interface, motoraola another, Google yet a third. how can droid hope to compete with the iphone if users can't expect the same interface on all models?
let alone some models have horrible interfaces which will put end users off on the entire line. you use a motorola droid and hate it. you will think twice about picking up an HTC android model even though the HTC is superior.
so you never used andriod then.
other than the itunes integration and multi tasking android has all those problems plus.
*the hard connections tend to be twice as fast as wireless.
*android on AT&T has no tethering either.
*no standard interface or even consistant interface.
*random pricing. android phones become heavily subsidized by the carrier making the price of any one handset variable across regions let alone countries.
*no standard store for picking up material. CArriers each have their own store, and limit features of the various phones
*no two android phones work the same way
what would happen if the electric system started having those errors? Or what if a stock exchange started doing that?
while I wasn't worried and figured it to be mostly hype there were serious possibilities that could have happened. however those were fixed before hand. the last minute rushes were just companies trying to save themselves.
um Y2k did happen. The primary Server at my company switched from the year 2000 to the year 1900. Whenever the computer was rebooted the hardware switched it to the year 1900.
To fix it I had to manually adjust the OS software date/time back to the correct year.
It could calculate the correct time but it couldn't adjust to it by itself. So whenever we lost power, and at least twice a year I had to go back and fix the date manually. If I didn't the server would start updating everything it was working on with the date of 1900. Normally we caught it early, but having to go back and manually fix inventories, invoices, and accounting general ledger for the transactions was never fun.
xrandr doesn't support displaylink, and no version of xorg supports hot swapping between monitors of different resolutions without a complete lose everything restart. OS X does have to restart the display manager however it take 2 seconds and nothing else gets interrupted. you can do it while playing a flash video.
Preach it, Brother Preach it
PC's still use x86 BIOS. Why? because MSFT won't support EFI unless it is a 64 bit os. half the problem is MSFT won't depreciate obsolete technologies. say what you will about apple's tendacies. They at least are willing to move computing forward(and sometimes sideways).
it has been standard in OSX since 10.3 at least. okay maybe not the displaylink part since they didn't exist back then but hot swapping monitors and adjusting resolution on the fly was. That's what 6-7 years ago.
I keep tryingLinux as I am waiting for displaylink support to come to xrandr. They are working on it. Like all linux projects involving X it goes very slowly.
I download the latest Ubuntu and other distro's from distrowatch once or twice a year.
Install them in and see if I can do things like resize my monitor without using vi and editing xconfig. I have yet to be able to do so. As long as I don't want to change monitors (which i do several times a week) it works okay on one display. However I run multiple monitors and swap which monitors I use on the fly while my system is running. Not only does X not support one of my monitors, (okay it does if I spend hours reconfiguring xconfig file to accept that one monitor, but if I do get the displays running things like xrandr break.
I can do everything I just said including hot swapping vga monitors with OS X. it took installing two drivers (one monitor is also a touch screen) and is a displaylink (USB ) display. Xorg can be hard configured to work but you lose all options like xrandr(not displaylink compatible yet).
So just three commands eh? xorg won't work with my displays with less than hundreds of commands and I lose features to do it.
and where do you find which command? how do you know the package name? where is that information. how do you know what's in each package? what happens when your distro doesn't have the package you want?
The linux command line is only useful if you happen to have memorized the hundreds of commands and their modifiers. If you don't know what you need to get started with however it is very very difficult to learn.
Why do you think I buried windows and got a mac? if I am going to have a nagging wife she had at least better look sexy even if she isn't any more functional.
Doesn't matter. I would be willing to bet that when andriod is fully ported it will still be slower and buggier than the iPhoneOS on that hardware. A vertical intergration in your hardware software stack means you can squeeze every drop of performance out of it. The horizantal software development favoured by msft and Linux crowds will always be lacking that.
Apple does more on less hardware.
well to start with Adobe would have to make a special version of flash for the ipad. Since Adobe generally treats anything but the windows version with scorn coming later, and with less features devoting time to keep flash updated on all platforms with reasonable speed requires more developers than adobe is willing to work with.
if Apple decides to do a processor change under the hood. native apps will port quickly but flash would take a year or so before it becomes ready.
Given by year end apple will have sold more ipads than all android models together I don't think they are going to lose much. Why Because apple spends as much on the interface to make it usable as they do on the hardware. Android is already fragmenting, with hardware manufactures stopping to allow upgrades at various versions, all of them with different UI's.
Maybe one day techies will realize that 90% of the population aren't techies, and aren't going to put up with the crap that techies do. Remember people who couldn't program their VCR's can use an iPhone but struggle to use Blackberries.
Given the number of people who can actually use bing and find stuff that is actually relevant you can probably run the servers on a couple of netbooks.
I randomly try to use bing to find stuff. I always get the wrong answer. I remember back when MSFT first switched windows live to bing you could search for Linux and get microsoft.com answers.
It has gotten better than that. but not nearly as much as MSFT wants you to believe.
no no they both leave.
Two planes enter flying, One plane leaves still flying.
I hate to say it but andriod is starting to fail already. 1.5,1.6 2.1. Each version uses a different UI, different pieces. Hardware manufacturers struggle toupdates with the majority of models only recieving security updates if they are lucky.
Apple is annoying with their lockdowns. However you know exactly what can and can't be done with a given apple product. Apple draws the line in features and upgrades. It may be arbitrary but you know where you stand. Unlike andriod where the end user has no idea what version they are running or when they last updated their phone as the various teleco, hardware manufacturers, and google all blame each other. Apple is the only party to blame in apple products.
Sent from my iPhone 3G.
Sure WinCE is used in millions of devices but none of them work very well.
Windows CE had ONE major problem it was never designed around a multi touch interface. It was basically a mouse touch which means you "click and drag" with your touch finger. WinCE and the related Applications held promise but failed to deliver a consistent user interface, designed for small screens, allow for mutli point touch and gestures, Oh and Not look like s standard desktop shrunk to a screen that a Command line interface would have a problem with usability on.
I repeat this over and over again a Tablet is not a desktop OS. you can't use a desktop application on a tablet and expect it to work well. You must shift the interface design away from desktop if you want your tablet to succeed. it is why Palm worked so well. it had a new interface. Windows CE, Mobile, all strived to look like windows Desktop and it was skinned horribly to hide that fact.