Microsoft has one big advantage here in that everyone has invested so heavily into the applications they're running.
You are absolutely right. Part of the reason it took so long for me to switch was fear of the bill that would be involved to buy all of my old Windows apps for the Mac. When i did switch, I bit the bullet and bought them all, even the ones that I'd P2Ped, I bought legit for the Mac -- sort of a fresh start on the high road.
Apple needs to better convey the message to people that the same, better, or equivalent applications they need from the Windows world exist on the Mac platform.
Further, Apple should financially encourage software companies to allow people to send in the discs or whatever to cross-grade from one platform to the other for free or for only a nominal fee. I envision more switchers if that were the case.
I've found that the speed of Bluetooth varies greatly by device.
When I transfer a file from my PowerBook to my SonyEricsson T86mc phone, it only goes about 5k/sec. When I transfer a file from my PowerBook to my Sony UX-50 (Palm Pilot-type thingy), I get 35-40k/sec.
I don't know if this is a software issue, or just that the processor in the device has a hard time keeping up, or what.
For those of us who live in small spaces, and travel a lot, Bluetooth is a Godsend. I have nine Bluetooth devices, and can't imagine going back to wires.
Ick. I've gotten better customer service from Best Buy than Newegg. At least there was someone at Best Buy I could talk to. Good luck getting to Newegg's phone bank, or even getting them to respond to an e-mail.
Don't go to someone else's store and demand they have to offer the same.
Heck, this isn't even limited to electronics. I once had a boss who would bring Hardee's coupons from the paper to Burger King and demand they match the price. The amazing part is, they always did. This was in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. If anyone in the area wants to try it -- go ahead.
Consoles provide a very small, fixed set of possible configs to test against.
Sounds like a Mac -- a fixed number of upgrade options. And pretty much any Mac that runs OS X is going to have very similar specs. Seems like one of the things that the Wintel world bashes Apple about would make it an easier platform to develop games for. Not necessarily more profitable, but certainly easier.
Article summaries like this are one of the reasons I seldom visit Slashdot anymore. I used to check it out a few times a day. Now it's a couple of times a week. Sometimes less.
These days, the headlines and articles are full of fear-mongering, misrepresentations, and outright lies. It's like Jerry Springer or the Weekly World News is writing them.
People here complain about the media sensationalizing stories for profit. Why blame a newspaper or TV, when I get all the bogus trumped-up stories I can ingest on the front page of Slashdot?
The government should not dictate what can be said over ANY MEDIUM
The United States Supreme Court disagrees with you.
The court decided that the government can regulate content on broadcast (AM, FM, TV) airwaves because it is a finite piece of spectrum. Because it is a finite resource, the court says the government (via the FCC) can decide its best use and how it should serve the public.
The court has ruled that the government CANNOT regulate print content, because that medium is virtually limitless, and thus there is more room for everyone to express themselves freely.
Now, as to whether the government/FCC is doing a good job of regulating that portion of the spectrum is a different argument altogether. But just because you don't think the U.S. government should be allowed to regulate the airwaves doesn't mean it's true. It's your opinion. The court has another opinion. And since they enforce the laws, they win.
Don't like it? Change the system from within, or move to another country.
It's only censorship when it happens to a loud-mouth Democratic millionaire.
Censoring 20-30% (a minority) of the population is just fine if they're middle-class tax-paying Americans. Espeically if they're Republican. Democrats love oppressing minorities. Remember which party freed the American slaves (Republican), and which fought hard even into the 1950's and 60's (and some places even today) to keep blacks oppressed (Democrats).
Glad I have a crap-load of karma. I'm going to need it after this one.
Howard hasn't been #1 in most markets in years and years -- it's just something he likes to tell his followers on his show so they feel good about themselves ("We're #1! Woooooo!")
For example -- WGN(AM) is the #1 station in Chicago, even when Howard is on.
And Howard wasn't even on the air on any station in Houston for the five years I lived there (1999-2004). I've heard that since I left he's been added to the lineup on a 250-watt daytimer AM rimshot that can't even be heard in most of the city.
Chicago is the #3 market. Houston is #10. Certainly doesn't back up your/Howard's assertion that he's " #1 in most or all of the markets he's broadcast in".
I believe the truck-going-up-in-flames thing was NBC, not CBS. CBS was the network that aired the fake documents about Bush's National Guard service.
Still, it seems like there should be some penalty for broadcasting made-up stuff as news. But then all the psuedo-journalists would scream that it was restricting their right to lie ^H^H^H^H free speech.
This is common for stations streaming content in the United States. The people who do the commercials (actors, musicians, etc...) sued because they weren't getting extra money when the commercials were streamed on the internet. The solution for many stations is to simply black out the commercials so they aren't heard at all.
One station that does a really good job with this is WGN Radio in Chicago. They actually play generic music and internet-specific promos to people listening online so they don't think the station is sending out dead air.
WGN's signal gets messed up in my apartment when I have the computer on, so this is how I listen when I'm online.
They must be running their server on DSL, too. This is what happened when I went there:
Server Error in 'FiosForHome' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
It depends on where you live. In most of the United States, airports aren't public places like they used to be. Now they are the private property of the city/town/region's "port authority" or some similar semi-private group. It's one of the things that keeps the religious nuts out these days. They used to infest some airports by the dozens.
DVD Player/CD Burner Drive
1.5GHz Intel Pentium M Processor
High Performance Video
512MB SDRAM Memory (expandable to 2GB)
120GB Hard Drive
6 USB ports (3 in node; 3 in nodeboard)
Firewire ports
Broadband-ready with Built-In Ethernet and 802.11 Wireless
Integrated Microphone
Customizable skins Sweepstakes LED for contests & promotions
Oh, great. So not only do I get spam, I get my computer blinking at me in the middle of the night to let me know that I have spam.
I was taking some pictures of a cathedral in Vienna when some heavily-armed police officers walked past. I immediatley stopped until they were gone. I make it a policy not to take pictures of people who are carrying guns. I guess you just got unlucky. I know that the United States is supposed to be the wild West and the rest of the world more civilized, but an American it freaks me out whenever I'm in another country and see policemen carrying machine guns (so far, in France and Austria).
But the current administration doesn't appear to be doing much to track down who first leaked Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA secret agent.
Not much? I thought I recalled that a couple of weeks ago there were congressional hearings on it, and a federal investigation led by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Just because you haven't been keeping up on the case doesn't mean nothing's happening.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft has one big advantage here in that everyone has invested so heavily into the applications they're running.
You are absolutely right. Part of the reason it took so long for me to switch was fear of the bill that would be involved to buy all of my old Windows apps for the Mac. When i did switch, I bit the bullet and bought them all, even the ones that I'd P2Ped, I bought legit for the Mac -- sort of a fresh start on the high road.
Apple needs to better convey the message to people that the same, better, or equivalent applications they need from the Windows world exist on the Mac platform.
Further, Apple should financially encourage software companies to allow people to send in the discs or whatever to cross-grade from one platform to the other for free or for only a nominal fee. I envision more switchers if that were the case.
You go around flashing expensive toys on the subway you might find yourself SOL anyway.
Sounds like someone from the 'burbs. Time to get over your fears and come live in the real world.
I've found that the speed of Bluetooth varies greatly by device.
When I transfer a file from my PowerBook to my SonyEricsson T86mc phone, it only goes about 5k/sec.
When I transfer a file from my PowerBook to my Sony UX-50 (Palm Pilot-type thingy), I get 35-40k/sec.
I don't know if this is a software issue, or just that the processor in the device has a hard time keeping up, or what.
For those of us who live in small spaces, and travel a lot, Bluetooth is a Godsend. I have nine Bluetooth devices, and can't imagine going back to wires.
Ick. I've gotten better customer service from Best Buy than Newegg. At least there was someone at Best Buy I could talk to. Good luck getting to Newegg's phone bank, or even getting them to respond to an e-mail.
Don't go to someone else's store and demand they have to offer the same.
Heck, this isn't even limited to electronics. I once had a boss who would bring Hardee's coupons from the paper to Burger King and demand they match the price. The amazing part is, they always did. This was in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. If anyone in the area wants to try it -- go ahead.
Consoles provide a very small, fixed set of possible configs to test against.
Sounds like a Mac -- a fixed number of upgrade options. And pretty much any Mac that runs OS X is going to have very similar specs. Seems like one of the things that the Wintel world bashes Apple about would make it an easier platform to develop games for. Not necessarily more profitable, but certainly easier.
Commercial speech != free speech.
I guess that'll be enough to run Longhorn then.
But OS X on Pear PC will still be a laggy.
(Posted from my beloved Powerbook, so Apple fanbois shouldn't mod me down. I'm in a two-Mac household).
Thank you, AC, for setting the record straight.
Article summaries like this are one of the reasons I seldom visit Slashdot anymore. I used to check it out a few times a day. Now it's a couple of times a week. Sometimes less.
These days, the headlines and articles are full of fear-mongering, misrepresentations, and outright lies. It's like Jerry Springer or the Weekly World News is writing them.
People here complain about the media sensationalizing stories for profit. Why blame a newspaper or TV, when I get all the bogus trumped-up stories I can ingest on the front page of Slashdot?
CityOfChicago.Org would be better as CityOfChicago.gov
Don't forget TV and audio post-production houses. I'm sure we'll see:
Professional.post
FullColor.post
SatelliteScreen.post
The government should not dictate what can be said over ANY MEDIUM
The United States Supreme Court disagrees with you.
The court decided that the government can regulate content on broadcast (AM, FM, TV) airwaves because it is a finite piece of spectrum. Because it is a finite resource, the court says the government (via the FCC) can decide its best use and how it should serve the public.
The court has ruled that the government CANNOT regulate print content, because that medium is virtually limitless, and thus there is more room for everyone to express themselves freely.
Now, as to whether the government/FCC is doing a good job of regulating that portion of the spectrum is a different argument altogether. But just because you don't think the U.S. government should be allowed to regulate the airwaves doesn't mean it's true. It's your opinion. The court has another opinion. And since they enforce the laws, they win.
Don't like it? Change the system from within, or move to another country.
It's only censorship when it happens to a loud-mouth Democratic millionaire.
Censoring 20-30% (a minority) of the population is just fine if they're middle-class tax-paying Americans. Espeically if they're Republican. Democrats love oppressing minorities. Remember which party freed the American slaves (Republican), and which fought hard even into the 1950's and 60's (and some places even today) to keep blacks oppressed (Democrats).
Glad I have a crap-load of karma. I'm going to need it after this one.
Howard hasn't been #1 in most markets in years and years -- it's just something he likes to tell his followers on his show so they feel good about themselves ("We're #1! Woooooo!")
For example -- WGN(AM) is the #1 station in Chicago, even when Howard is on.
And Howard wasn't even on the air on any station in Houston for the five years I lived there (1999-2004). I've heard that since I left he's been added to the lineup on a 250-watt daytimer AM rimshot that can't even be heard in most of the city.
Chicago is the #3 market. Houston is #10. Certainly doesn't back up your/Howard's assertion that he's " #1 in most or all of the markets he's broadcast in".
I believe the truck-going-up-in-flames thing was NBC, not CBS. CBS was the network that aired the fake documents about Bush's National Guard service.
Still, it seems like there should be some penalty for broadcasting made-up stuff as news. But then all the psuedo-journalists would scream that it was restricting their right to lie ^H^H^H^H free speech.
This is common for stations streaming content in the United States. The people who do the commercials (actors, musicians, etc...) sued because they weren't getting extra money when the commercials were streamed on the internet. The solution for many stations is to simply black out the commercials so they aren't heard at all.
One station that does a really good job with this is WGN Radio in Chicago. They actually play generic music and internet-specific promos to people listening online so they don't think the station is sending out dead air.
WGN's signal gets messed up in my apartment when I have the computer on, so this is how I listen when I'm online.
Sirius tested this about a year ago. You could tune to the special test channels, but there was no audio. Don't know what happened with it.
On the other hand -- Sirius is currently available on Dish Network. Perhaps it will flow the other way soon.
It takes me to the DSL order page...
/system.web
/configuration
/system.web
/configuration
They must be running their server on DSL, too. This is what happened when I went there:
Server Error in 'FiosForHome' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
configuration
system.web
customErrors mode="Off"/
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
!-- Web.Config Configuration File --
configuration
system.web
customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"
defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/
I find this interesting because Sony recently closed its high-profile store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, just a block away from the Apple Store.
It depends on where you live. In most of the United States, airports aren't public places like they used to be. Now they are the private property of the city/town/region's "port authority" or some similar semi-private group. It's one of the things that keeps the religious nuts out these days. They used to infest some airports by the dozens.
I guess my question is -- what happens if I answer one of these and fill in all bogus information? Would that help banks track these people down?
Click on "Spec" and you get this:
DVD Player/CD Burner Drive
1.5GHz Intel Pentium M Processor
High Performance Video
512MB SDRAM Memory (expandable to 2GB)
120GB Hard Drive
6 USB ports (3 in node; 3 in nodeboard)
Firewire ports
Broadband-ready with Built-In Ethernet and 802.11 Wireless
Integrated Microphone
Customizable skins
Sweepstakes LED for contests & promotions
Oh, great. So not only do I get spam, I get my computer blinking at me in the middle of the night to let me know that I have spam.
IBM is in the solutions business.
IBM is making copy machines now? Oh wait -- that's marketing jargon from a different product sector.
I was taking some pictures of a cathedral in Vienna when some heavily-armed police officers walked past. I immediatley stopped until they were gone. I make it a policy not to take pictures of people who are carrying guns. I guess you just got unlucky. I know that the United States is supposed to be the wild West and the rest of the world more civilized, but an American it freaks me out whenever I'm in another country and see policemen carrying machine guns (so far, in France and Austria).
But the current administration doesn't appear to be doing much to track down who first leaked Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA secret agent.
Not much? I thought I recalled that a couple of weeks ago there were congressional hearings on it, and a federal investigation led by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Just because you haven't been keeping up on the case doesn't mean nothing's happening.