No way was I entering 900+ contacts using that itty bitty kybd.
of course, you could also just import all your contacts using tmobile's own importing tools on their website. of course, that would be the simple way to do it i suppose and it wouldn't give you any reason to complain.
the sidekicks I and II are both great form factors. the only major beef i have with it is that the camera is really awful and the lack of a good syncing tool. even with those limitations i prefer it to the treo.
Microsoft just need to pay people to put the "PlaysForSure" logo on their music stores, and wait for the consumers (You know, the non-Slashdot crowd) to grow tired of different formats and confusion. All they need is to see the PlaysForSure logo on their player and the place they can buy music, and Microsoft is back to their comfortable 95% market share again.
what confusion? considering the high percentage of the player and legal download markets that apple has, there isn't all that much confusion in the marketplace. either you're using an ipod or you're not. since the majority of the people are using ipods, there isn't all that much confusion.
it's amazing to me after all these years that people still believe that microsoft can just snap their fingers and dominate a market segment. they haven't been able to really do it since web browsers. sure they're able to get in there and compete purely on brute force, but they haven't been able to just walk into a room and destroy all comers for a while. their IT business is still far behind. they are not the leaders in gaming. i think they might possibly be the leaders in the dying pda market at a point where it's becoming nearly unprofitable.
they're still talking like the 800-lb gorilla. but nobody seems to have noticed that they've lost a few pounds recently.
What amazed me when watching some 'MSDN TV' videos was that many of their developers work in tiny windowless offices. I wonder if the term 'stir crazy' features in many lunchtime chats.
microsoft's office assignments are based only on tenure with the company and not seniority. a manager can have a much smaller office than a subordinate if the manager is a new employee.
That can't be right. Allen and Albert Hughes directed Menace to Society, Dead Presidents, American Pimp and From Hell, and are both credited. The above doesn't make sense.
Why couldn't Rodriguez bring in a co-director? The guild has stuck to a one-director-per-film policy since 1978, to keep producers and stars from demanding "gift credits." Exceptions are made under special circumstances: The guild recognizes "bona fide directing teams," like the Coen brothers, the Farrelly brothers, and the Wachowski brothers; and the policy can be waived for directors on films with multiple languages or stories. Rodriguez was unable to get a waiver for Frank Miller, who had never directed a movie before, so he quit the guild.
Yet it wasn't until the 1978 contract negotiations that studios agreed that there would be only one director assigned to direct a motion picture at any given time. (Article 7-208 of the Basic Agreement)
No, they didn't kick him out. Rodriguez quit the Guild because they wouldn't let him give Frank Miller a directing credit on Sin City.
Similar, yet different.
specifically, the director's guild will not allow more than one director to be given credit for a movie. it really didn't have anything to do with frank miller himself or robert rodriguez. rodriguez has quit and rejoined the director's guild before. it's just one of those little annoyances that they go through. i believe he quit before when he participated in the movie "five rooms". since then, he rejoined, and quit again for sin city.
My Powerbook sounds like a jet engine is starting up on my lap when it gets too warm. Granted it's an older titanium model and I haven't used any of the new ones, but it's definitely not silent.
the older titaniums are definitely louder than the new aluminums. i had a 667 titanium and that thing's fan was on all the time. my 1 Ghz titanium's fan was still pretty active. i have a new 1.67 Al and it's pretty quiet. i have to be doing quite a bit to get the fan running and i've never heard it as loud as my titaniums. the cooler chips seem to be doing the trick.
from a photographer i once worked with was that the tablet was the original form factor for the newton messagepad. but the costs associated with making it in that size were prohibitive (recall the newton was already extremely expensive at he time). so they opted to go with a smaller form factor that became the newton.
i tend to believe him because he was actually shooting a photo documentary about the invention of the newton at the time.
Just keep in mind that buying a Mac Mini doesn't give you a license to put Tiger on your iBook. Not that anyone's stopping you, but if you don't care about proper licensing you might as well just pirate it in the first place.:-)
there is something stopping him though. the system restore discs that come with apple computers are specific to those machines and you cannot use them to install the system on other machines.
i believe there was a crack around for them at one point, but i'd suspect that apple has since closed up that hole.
by just leaving an aluminum tripod attached to the camera and folded up. hold the camera rig by a point further down on the folded tripod and you'll get the same look. plus, you get a nifty device for holding your camera up off the ground! this is really just a counterweight to move the COG further away from the lens.
iPod is a FASHION STATEMENT. There are better players out there, like the open source Neuros. http://mboverload.no-ip.org/tech/neuros.html
that all depends on what you mean by "better". more features != better all the time. what you write off as purely style is still a component of a consumer product. a big one actually. functionality isn't always measured in Gb and geegaws.
i don't mean to saw that no other player can meet my needs as well as an ipod, but since the ipod does it perfectly "as-is", there's no reason to look elsewhere.
the ipod is a success partly, yet, because of the "fadishness" of it. but you should also open yourself to the possibility that people are buying the ipod in droves because they actually find them better for their needs compared to other players. the recent estimates on the halo effect wouldn't be nearly as positive if the ipod were merely a fad. it seems people are examining macintoshes closer because they appreciate the functionality and elegance of the ipod and they believe that the ipod's fit-and-finish is indicative of apple products as a whole (which is largely true).
"Think Different" is not meant to say the same thing as "think differently."
They are suggesting you think about the concept of being different, using very casual conversational English to do so.
Sort of like how an interior designer might say "think deco," or a band-leader asking a soloist to mimic the bebop style a little more might say "think Bird."
You are too tied up in traditional ways of getting a message across and overlooking the simple poetry of a two-word marketing campaign. You could stand to take some of their advice. Think Different.
well, one of my best friends actually wrote that line and i think you've probably put more thought into it than he did. he explained to me once how they ended up leaving it "think different" and leaving off the "ly" at the end, but i don't think it was anything quite as eloquent as you've just said. i think his explanation was pretty close to what you've said. i will give him credit that it wasn't an unintentional grammar error. i should ask him again tonight at dinner. LOL.
you don't need their drive to burn a dvd, you need their drive to burn a video dvd from idvd. i can burn data dvd's on external drives all day long easily from the mac os x finder. it opens it as an empty volume and i drag and drop files onto it like any other disk. when i eject it asks me if i want to burn the disk.
plus, there are ways to get around the idvd restriction.
not to pick nits, but since i am in the advertising business, i don't see how this article should have anything to do with truth in advertising. this is a manufacturer possibly trying to manipulate test results in an editorial feature of a magazine rather than a falsehood published in a paid placement.
the advertising industry has enough baggage of its own without needing to absorb the dishonesties of another industry. LOL.
i actually heard part of tom welling's contract for smallville specifically stated that he would never wear "the costume." probably a wise move if he plans to have a career after smallville.
then again, i heard he didn't ever want to fly, but he did on the season opener this year. i doubt he'd want to commit himself to the big screen version requiring the suit and all.
i've toured the computer history museum a number of times. i did some advertising for them a couple years ago when they had just moved to their new facility (which used to be the sun micro building). "visible storage" is the area where they have all sorts of great vintage computing items.
if you're a fan of computing history, you really should take a trip out there to see the facility. i don't work with them anymore, but everyone there is very nice and some of the old computing devices will amaze you and some will crack you up (like the old air traffic controller computer that had built-in ashtrays!).
This new Rio Carbon is a true testament to the success of Apples approach to marketing style. They have duplicated it right down to the box. Unfortunately by doing so there is really no good reason for the masses to jump onboard. When mom or dad is buying an MP3 player for Christmas and they have to choose between the $249 5GB Rio Carbon or the $249 4GB iPod Mini which box do you think they will reach for?
i think you vastly overestimate the power of marketing. i'm an advertising creative. if it were as easy as you think to manipulate people into buying products, i'd be out of a job. also, the chronology of apple's marketing efforts regarding the ipod and its popularity isn't as clear as you'd suggest.
as a marketing professional, i believe the popularity of the ipod is a direct result of its usability. it's cool because it works right. because it works right, more people buy them. more people buy them the "cooler" they become. as a very respected ad exec once said "good advertising only hastens the death of bad products." the ipod succeeds because it is a good product, not because silhouettes are dancing on colorful backgrounds. if the ipod did NOT work properly or had a terrible price/performance ratio it would be dead now (like the g4 cube).
of course, apple is masterful at marketing their products as well. the white earbuds and cables were a stroke of genius i have to say. they created a very recognizable mnemonic simply by not using dye in their plastics. THAT was a stroke of brilliance.
"copy"
looks like a decent piece of machinery. but how lame is it that they've copied so many design characteristics from the ipod? look at the "commemorative" packagaing, which looks almost exactly like the ipod's packaging. and laser engraving on the chromed rear cover of a music player? wow, innovative.
i work in the entertainment industry so it stuck out as odd to me. but don't we all think steve jobs, who also happens to be the ceo of a major movie production studio, would know the significance of that phrase BEFORE he demo'd dashboard? most people in the entertainment field know what that means. i seriously doubt he would be caught unawares.
it COULD. the discover article someone mentioned earlier stated that you could use old computers, human refuse and many forms of waste to produce oil. the process didn't really care that much about what went in as long as it had the right base elements with which to work. they built the first plant next to a turkey processing plant for the sake of convenience. the turkey plant worked in conjunction with this company because they saved money on waste disposal. it was a test run. if it does well i'm excited to see them scale the process up and really put a dent into our foreign oil demand.
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with the handy process of "aging" i think i can actually meet that goal earlier if the computer and i just agree to meet in the middle.
the sidekicks I and II are both great form factors. the only major beef i have with it is that the camera is really awful and the lack of a good syncing tool. even with those limitations i prefer it to the treo.
it's amazing to me after all these years that people still believe that microsoft can just snap their fingers and dominate a market segment. they haven't been able to really do it since web browsers. sure they're able to get in there and compete purely on brute force, but they haven't been able to just walk into a room and destroy all comers for a while. their IT business is still far behind. they are not the leaders in gaming. i think they might possibly be the leaders in the dying pda market at a point where it's becoming nearly unprofitable.
they're still talking like the 800-lb gorilla. but nobody seems to have noticed that they've lost a few pounds recently.
great! now i can walk straight out of my local grocery store without the inconvenience of having to stop and pay for my prison inmate!
the older titaniums are definitely louder than the new aluminums. i had a 667 titanium and that thing's fan was on all the time. my 1 Ghz titanium's fan was still pretty active. i have a new 1.67 Al and it's pretty quiet. i have to be doing quite a bit to get the fan running and i've never heard it as loud as my titaniums. the cooler chips seem to be doing the trick.
i tend to believe him because he was actually shooting a photo documentary about the invention of the newton at the time.
it has already imagined a beowolf cluster of itself!
it actually stands for "raster image processor", just fyi.
i believe there was a crack around for them at one point, but i'd suspect that apple has since closed up that hole.
by just leaving an aluminum tripod attached to the camera and folded up. hold the camera rig by a point further down on the folded tripod and you'll get the same look. plus, you get a nifty device for holding your camera up off the ground! this is really just a counterweight to move the COG further away from the lens.
i don't mean to saw that no other player can meet my needs as well as an ipod, but since the ipod does it perfectly "as-is", there's no reason to look elsewhere.
the ipod is a success partly, yet, because of the "fadishness" of it. but you should also open yourself to the possibility that people are buying the ipod in droves because they actually find them better for their needs compared to other players. the recent estimates on the halo effect wouldn't be nearly as positive if the ipod were merely a fad. it seems people are examining macintoshes closer because they appreciate the functionality and elegance of the ipod and they believe that the ipod's fit-and-finish is indicative of apple products as a whole (which is largely true).
plus, there are ways to get around the idvd restriction.
the advertising industry has enough baggage of its own without needing to absorb the dishonesties of another industry. LOL.
NEWSFLASH! sarcasm discovered in slashdot post by all but one reader!
i actually heard part of tom welling's contract for smallville specifically stated that he would never wear "the costume." probably a wise move if he plans to have a career after smallville. then again, i heard he didn't ever want to fly, but he did on the season opener this year. i doubt he'd want to commit himself to the big screen version requiring the suit and all.
i've toured the computer history museum a number of times. i did some advertising for them a couple years ago when they had just moved to their new facility (which used to be the sun micro building). "visible storage" is the area where they have all sorts of great vintage computing items. if you're a fan of computing history, you really should take a trip out there to see the facility. i don't work with them anymore, but everyone there is very nice and some of the old computing devices will amaze you and some will crack you up (like the old air traffic controller computer that had built-in ashtrays!).
as a marketing professional, i believe the popularity of the ipod is a direct result of its usability. it's cool because it works right. because it works right, more people buy them. more people buy them the "cooler" they become. as a very respected ad exec once said "good advertising only hastens the death of bad products." the ipod succeeds because it is a good product, not because silhouettes are dancing on colorful backgrounds. if the ipod did NOT work properly or had a terrible price/performance ratio it would be dead now (like the g4 cube).
of course, apple is masterful at marketing their products as well. the white earbuds and cables were a stroke of genius i have to say. they created a very recognizable mnemonic simply by not using dye in their plastics. THAT was a stroke of brilliance.
"copy" looks like a decent piece of machinery. but how lame is it that they've copied so many design characteristics from the ipod? look at the "commemorative" packagaing, which looks almost exactly like the ipod's packaging. and laser engraving on the chromed rear cover of a music player? wow, innovative.
i work in the entertainment industry so it stuck out as odd to me. but don't we all think steve jobs, who also happens to be the ceo of a major movie production studio, would know the significance of that phrase BEFORE he demo'd dashboard? most people in the entertainment field know what that means. i seriously doubt he would be caught unawares.
it COULD. the discover article someone mentioned earlier stated that you could use old computers, human refuse and many forms of waste to produce oil. the process didn't really care that much about what went in as long as it had the right base elements with which to work. they built the first plant next to a turkey processing plant for the sake of convenience. the turkey plant worked in conjunction with this company because they saved money on waste disposal. it was a test run. if it does well i'm excited to see them scale the process up and really put a dent into our foreign oil demand.