Even IBM with its huge resources wasn't able to do that with OS/2.
It doesn't have to out Microsoft Microsoft. All it has to do is prove to the world that there is yet another viable alternative to MS.
Given the fact that the EU keeps smacking MS down, other governments are making a genuine attempt to stop using MS products, and a partially renewed public interest in open-source, thanks to apps like Firefox & Thunderbird, SkyOS may not warrant change but it may become a great instrument to inspire change.
When folks find out I've been using the Mac OS for nearly twenty years, they seem amazed with the idea of my not relying on MS.
From the article: Gmail has done a lot to radically change the whole web-mail world. Their user interface is amazing.
No it hasn't & no it isn't. If you are using a publicly accessible browser you still have to log into, sort, log out and remember to scrub the browsers cache & history just like you would with any other web-mail service.
The only significant difference is that you can archive dump-loads of messages on their servers instead of yours and use the Google search engine to weed through all your crap.
Also, I know for a fact that some of my "archived" messages have disappeared with out me marking them for deletion, but since I have no access what-so-ever to the server, I have absolutely no way to recover them.
Gmail is nice and all, but it certainly hasn't changed the whole web-mail world for me.
Firefox does what it is intended to do: it's a damn good browser. IE unfortunately does not have that distinction for me. I'll be fair and note that I've only used the Mac version of IE and yes I'm aware it is a different creature than the Windows versions.
Regardless, the last version of IE I ever used was IE 5 for Mac OS 9. Back then I chose to switch to the Mozilla betas simply because they worked better than IE 5. I grew tired of IE's memory leaks. MacBU may have fixed the memory problems with the Mac OS X versions but I wouldn't know because by then it was too late. The problem existed so long without being addressed in the OS 9 version that I saw no reason to willingly use the X version.
Every other browser would have to suck royal before I would consider going back to IE.
I think that Apple's interest in a phone is not only to deliver some kind of music service, but I'd look for some kind of iChat hooks as well - either simple texting or building to some kind of eventual videophone functionality. Quicktime in the phone is overkill for just music - there are bigger goals here.
Making a phone that also works as an iPod would simply undermine regular iPod sales.
If anything, my guess is that the Apple/Moto phone would have the typical integration with iSync, Address Book and add to it tight integration with.Mac (web-mail) & iChat AV. The possibilities with that would be amazing.
I could be utter mad for even thinking this but by giving its Netscape browser the ability to behave like IE from within, AOL might be able to get some of their users to realize that IE does not behave well. In time the users will understand by experience that IE is lame and they will choose to use a Firefox based browser.
If most of their users, over time, "prefer" to use Firefox, AOL can argue that IE does not contribute to the user experience and ca try to dump it. Whereas if AOL simply took away the users ability to use IE they may complain, as ignorant people often do when something changes for reasons they don't understand or know, that AOL is making thing harder for them by changing it radically.
This idea seems to follow The Tao Te Ching's approach to opposition:
To reduce someone's influence, first expand it;
To reduce someone's force, first increase it;
To overthrow someone, first exalt them;
To take from someone, first give to them.
This is the subtlety by which the weak overcome the strong:
Fish should not leave their depths,
And swords should not leave their scabbards.
personally, I tend not to store important things in my rubbish bin, 'cause that's where rubbish goes.
Any file that I put in the trash is no longer of use to me and will only stay there for a day in the not-so unlikely event that someone else needs it. Other users at my company have the bad habit of selecting Empty Trash immediately after dragging a file into it.
Having to drag a disk icon to the trashbin to eject, while every other object you drag onto the trashbin gets deleted is not inuitive, its not an expected behaviour.
While I would agree that it is not intuitive, the behavior of the Mac OS/Mac OS X Trash does make sense if you liken it to discarding something:
If you no longer have any use for a file, you simply drag it to the Trash to notify to the OS that it is a file that should no longer be used or modified. The file does not get deleted, it's merely discarded and moved out of your way. As is with a real trash can, you can retrieve the file until the Trash is emptied. Then, in theory, it's gone.
Likewise, if you no longer have any use for a mounted volume (server or removable media), dragging it to the Trash tells the OS that you are done with it and it should no longer be recognized by the OS. The volume does not get deleted, it's merely discarded and moved out of your way.
The Trash is for discarding and moving files & volumes out of the way.
I have a 4MP Pentax Optio 43WR that absorbs battery power like a chamois absorbs water simply because there are a lot of power hungry components within it. I can't imagine a device, which has to power a 7MP sensor along with receiving and transmitting cellular signals, being remotely energy efficient.
I can appreciate combining two devices for practicality, but this does not seem practical to me. I mean, why not build an MRI with a rice cooker in it?
I'd have to agree that The Watchmen is one of the greatest comics. Just for the sake of putting it out there, I think it has the same calibre of greatness as Concrete, & The Dark Knight Returns.
All three would be nice on the big screen if they were done right. The problem with "comic" movies is that every comic reader imagines the reality of character's universe in a different way and is usually disappointed with the cinematic results.
I think Fry has the best review of what it probably tastes like: "What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up."
Tell me any album that has more than 30 minutes of music on it that is worth listening to from the last ten years.
Here's eleven from this year. The Wrens: The Meadowlands, The White Stripes: Elephant, Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell, The Postal Service: Give Up, Radiohead: Hail to the Thief, Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism, My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves, Notwist: Neon Golden, The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House, New Pornographers: Electric Version, & The Long Winters: When I Pretend to Fall.
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The iPod doesn't need to have Ogg support just because you want it to.
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Don't forget Dark Castle.
Damn those floating point errors!
It doesn't have to out Microsoft Microsoft. All it has to do is prove to the world that there is yet another viable alternative to MS.
Given the fact that the EU keeps smacking MS down, other governments are making a genuine attempt to stop using MS products, and a partially renewed public interest in open-source, thanks to apps like Firefox & Thunderbird, SkyOS may not warrant change but it may become a great instrument to inspire change.
When folks find out I've been using the Mac OS for nearly twenty years, they seem amazed with the idea of my not relying on MS.
is incredibly simple to use
has a clean design that makes it easily recognizable
includes an application that provides easy music/file management along with direct access to a legal source so the user can obtain more
does it all so well that it becomes a pop culture phenomenon all by word of mouth.
The iRiver seems like a nice device and all, but it's not, and most likely, won't be an iPod killer.
No it hasn't & no it isn't. If you are using a publicly accessible browser you still have to log into, sort, log out and remember to scrub the browsers cache & history just like you would with any other web-mail service.
The only significant difference is that you can archive dump-loads of messages on their servers instead of yours and use the Google search engine to weed through all your crap.
Also, I know for a fact that some of my "archived" messages have disappeared with out me marking them for deletion, but since I have no access what-so-ever to the server, I have absolutely no way to recover them.
Gmail is nice and all, but it certainly hasn't changed the whole web-mail world for me.
Regardless, the last version of IE I ever used was IE 5 for Mac OS 9. Back then I chose to switch to the Mozilla betas simply because they worked better than IE 5. I grew tired of IE's memory leaks. MacBU may have fixed the memory problems with the Mac OS X versions but I wouldn't know because by then it was too late. The problem existed so long without being addressed in the OS 9 version that I saw no reason to willingly use the X version.
Every other browser would have to suck royal before I would consider going back to IE.
So far we seem to be the only ones thinking in the same direction.
Making a phone that also works as an iPod would simply undermine regular iPod sales. If anything, my guess is that the Apple/Moto phone would have the typical integration with iSync, Address Book and add to it tight integration with .Mac (web-mail) & iChat AV. The possibilities with that would be amazing.
This is actually for all the folks who will try to correct the parent post. Jim Carrey is from Canada, but he is also a US citizen.
I could be utter mad for even thinking this but by giving its Netscape browser the ability to behave like IE from within, AOL might be able to get some of their users to realize that IE does not behave well. In time the users will understand by experience that IE is lame and they will choose to use a Firefox based browser.
If most of their users, over time, "prefer" to use Firefox, AOL can argue that IE does not contribute to the user experience and ca try to dump it. Whereas if AOL simply took away the users ability to use IE they may complain, as ignorant people often do when something changes for reasons they don't understand or know, that AOL is making thing harder for them by changing it radically.
This idea seems to follow The Tao Te Ching's approach to opposition:
To reduce someone's influence, first expand it;
To reduce someone's force, first increase it;
To overthrow someone, first exalt them;
To take from someone, first give to them.
This is the subtlety by which the weak overcome the strong:
Fish should not leave their depths,
And swords should not leave their scabbards.
personally, I tend not to store important things in my rubbish bin, 'cause that's where rubbish goes. Any file that I put in the trash is no longer of use to me and will only stay there for a day in the not-so unlikely event that someone else needs it. Other users at my company have the bad habit of selecting Empty Trash immediately after dragging a file into it.
I have a 4MP Pentax Optio 43WR that absorbs battery power like a chamois absorbs water simply because there are a lot of power hungry components within it. I can't imagine a device, which has to power a 7MP sensor along with receiving and transmitting cellular signals, being remotely energy efficient. I can appreciate combining two devices for practicality, but this does not seem practical to me. I mean, why not build an MRI with a rice cooker in it?
I'd have to agree that The Watchmen is one of the greatest comics. Just for the sake of putting it out there, I think it has the same calibre of greatness as Concrete , & The Dark Knight Returns .
All three would be nice on the big screen if they were done right. The problem with "comic" movies is that every comic reader imagines the reality of character's universe in a different way and is usually disappointed with the cinematic results.
Close, but no. Aaron was written by Greg Landweber. Greg and Arlo worked together to make Kaliedoscope.
The MDR-EX81SL's are better. They have very comfortable earclips that keep the cord from pulling the buds from your ears.
Posted at memepool on Friday, Aug2, 2002.
"The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'."
The current iPod has audio support for these formats:
AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 (32 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible, AIFF, WAV and Apple Lossless.
I'm certain Apple pays it's licensing fees for the formats it does not own. Ballmer's comments are nothing but spin to attarct attention to MS.
As long as I can open the file in GraphicConverter, I'll be fine.
I think Fry has the best review of what it probably tastes like: "What's the worst thing that can happen... ewww, it's like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up."
Tell me any album that has more than 30 minutes of music on it that is worth listening to from the last ten years.
Here's eleven from this year. The Wrens: The Meadowlands, The White Stripes: Elephant, Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell, The Postal Service: Give Up, Radiohead: Hail to the Thief, Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism, My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves, Notwist: Neon Golden, The Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House, New Pornographers: Electric Version, & The Long Winters: When I Pretend to Fall.
I guess she must have had a few quarks.
That's nothing, I was a supercollider in 1985.
LOL. This struck me as the funniest post I've read all month. But no I have to ask, what or who were you supercolliding in 1985?