I implemented the workaround a while ago (set it to 4 megs instead of the 60 suggested). i have a single window open with about 20 tabs and my memory usage is 416 megs. Any other ideas? (seriously love firefox but the resource intensiveness is more then mildly annoying)
Couple of features I'd like from the ipod?
1) use scroll wheel to zoom in/out of pictures (like u can on most cameras)
2) Ability to directly interface with camera's w/o an adapter (like the JetAudio M5, i think USB master mode?)
rest are superflous but still:P
3) built in bluetooth (for wireless headsets and perhaps a remote control), yes i crave a wireless headset / hate to have a wire runing from my pocket/arm etc
4) Built-in FM.. transmit and receive
5) Built-in Microphone for dictation
hehe yes i know y'all hate the idea but would be cool to have another iPod with the features? iPod Geek edition?
Disclaimer: I dont use Itunes
But judging from the other comments they already embrace alternative/indie music. someone commenting that they've seen albums for $1. The way I see it if Apple consolidates the market they'll pwn the RIAA. Say 50% of all music distribution is through iTunes. RIAA doesnt wanna play fine? dont somehow doubt they'd be able to part with 50% of their revenue w/o some heartache? and eventually (yes idealistic) it'll give indies et. al more exposure to cut down on RIAA's dominance anyways. One can hope?:)
With firefox, I have the option to allow 'all' popups from a specific site. (In essence adding the site to a list of sites that i trust). I didnt see any such option in Opera which caused me to switch back. A couple of sites I use (2-3) regularly have an unhealthy reliance on popup windows.
I haven't used ITunes so not sure if they do this but in general how about the right to get the same track without having to pay for it again (same format / download quality perhaps?).
Additionally, even though I liked Opera better then Firefox (stability, memory profile and zoom uniformly zooming the page instead of text only). I had another issue besides lacking plugings which may have just been me not finding the right options but how do you disable popup blocking per site or make a site trusted.
I currently have the RAZR admittedly not a great phone but I was comparing the the upper flip part of the fone with the nano and both are about the same thickness and cover the same area (RAZR's flip top is wider but shorter). My point? If they can fit something to the same profile (nano) as half the RAZR i'm sure they could integrate a decent phone in the same sized package? Imagine a flip with the top being like an ipod nano and the bottom being the numeric keypad? Sounds pretty cool to me.
Also along the line of convergence most new subcompact digital camera's do a decent job of capturing 30 fps video (MJPEG / MPEG etc). Yes they dont compare with a video camera but the convenience alone is worth it. Give it another generation or two and I dont see most people (casual video makers) caring enough to buy two separate devices, this will eventually happen with cell phones as well.
The same place place Hindu fanatics read about who tearing down a mosque is a good thing, murdering 3 thousand people in gujarat is a good thing where christian fundo's read that nuking the world is a good thing, where jewish fundo's believe bombing british embassies is a good thing? It's all the same thing, its very easy to ascribe ones intolerance and bigoted attitudes to religion, as in the other examples its invariably an easy scapegoat. Most religions including Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism dictate peace and abhor murder
Read up on both ends of what you're saying and dont limit yourself to any single source (everybody lies)...
Also by asserting something that means bad news for our country without actually having at least gone through it first you're doing a disservice to the US of A
I just Googled for guantanamo bay prisoners, first few hits (feel free to check them out)
Europe Criticizes Treatment of Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay...
Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Complain of A Year Long Torture by US...
New revelations about Guantanamo Bay prisoners
A recent story in the Los Angeles Times reports that at least 10 percent of the 625 war prisoners captured in Afghanistan and now held at the notorious US naval base prison in Guantanamo Bay have no meaningful connection with the Taliban or Al Qaeda.
Sorry for replying to my own message but look at http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ and the number of those movies that were 'made' because of star power...
Big name actors are needed for shitty movies perhaps. But look at most big hits and they have great storylines and good acting. No offense to actors but they arent as rare as great compelling stories. List our your all time favourite movies and how having a big ticket star would make or break them. Most of the movies i've enjoyed over the past few years were largely great movies and had little to do with who was in them. Did you guys watch the first Matrix because of Keanu's acting chops? not so much, wedding crashers? batman begins? My big fat greek wedding? the original star wars? the titanic was popular among teens because of dicaprio's n kate winslet's star status? my point being great movies make stars not the other way around. And hollywood is well aware of that. On the other hand people do go to watch stars which acts as an insurance policy when they think their movie may be a stinker
802.11g sucks for anything that is remotely video related. I've been wanting to run gigabit for a while but my issue is that my computers are in different rooms and i'm not good with my hands, have no idea how to run copper through the walls (townhouse) and what chance i have of screwing stuff up big time:-D. Is your equipment all in the same location? if not how did you manage the wiring?
Running multiple HDTV/SDTV streams? I've currently got a mediacenter setup with multiple tuners, would be awesome if I could add some more tuners and then stream it wirelessly to all rooms in the house without having to run more copper. I'm sure there are thousands of other uses for the bandwidth that other slashdotters can come up with.
Yes but unlike the Shuffle it has an OLED display to show you tracks, it also has an FM Player/Voice Recorder. And its volume is less then shuffle not significantly but it is smaller. (I dont have the exact dimensions with me at the moment but did a comparison when I first saw this). I prefer the shuffle form factor but the lack of the other features especially FM is a dealbreaker.
It's not about throwing Israel to the wolves. Its about right vs wrong.
Invasion of privacy is wrong (Patriot Act) Unproportional response is wrong(demolishing homes in Palestine)
Extra Judicial Killing is wrong(Executions in Afghanistan etc of suspected Al Qaeda ppz)
Imprisonment without a fair trial is wrong(Guantanamo)
Overthrowing a democratic government (Iran) is wrong(50's / Mossadeq n Chavez recently)
Invasion for economic gain (Iraq) is wrong
Not counting people killed in a war is wrong (Iraqi civilians)
Coddling allied dictatorships is wrong (Arabia)
Counting number of americans / israeli's etc dead vs counting the PEOPLE that died is wrong
Tarring a 5th of the worlds population with the same brush is wrong (Communists? Muslims?)
Believing violence is the solution to violence is wrong (despite being proven wrong time n time again)
The solution is to be fair and just. An american death is no more horrible then an Iraqi death or an Afghani death or an Israeli death or a Palestinian death. Not to mention for those grieving their is little difference between a freedom fighter, a terrorist or state sponsored terror (regardless of which side you blame).
FIOS is being deployed in my area and suddenly COX bumped their uplink to 2 mbps and their premier package from 5 Meg/768K to 15/2M. Called them up n was talking with the rep who said outright said that it was because of FIOS.
A significant percentage of the access is through satellite linkups. The dominant state run telco (monopoly?) Paktel has a receiver farm setup on the outskirts of Karachi (near the airport for ppl in the area). As well as links offered through various other ISP's. Yes a significant portion may be dead because of fiber disruption but no way could it be anywhere near 'all'. Also for those talking about redundancy submarine cables are an expensive proposition especially for third world countries. From my experience in Pakistan they heavily oversubscribe before actually having enough capital to expand capacity.
As the others said your deluding yourself (until last year I had the same point of view as you currently do). "Today we are at a critical point in history and you have an opportunity to lead a mobilization that shapes your future. Both corporate-controlled political parties are taking our country over a cliff, the Democrats are just doing it a little slower. Political pundits will tell you to accept the lesser of two evils, to support an overall pro-war, pro-corporate globalization party, and put your idealism on the shelf. I, like many of you, have reached a breaking point with the two-party system. It either must be driven toward the people or driven out in the coming years" - Ralph Nader
Ok disclaimer first off. I 'was' a rabid Howard Dean supporter.
I put a lot of effort in the last election primaries but the way people failed to actually analyze the positions of the candidates and simply listened to what the news fed them (Howard Dean screamin' crackpot, Kerry being a vet can beat Bush) was sickening. From the early primaries Kerry was the worst of the major candidates but as Jon Stewart said on Crossfire when asked if Kerry was the best candidate, he's the 'best according to the system'. If the avg person can't even bother to try to make a rational choice on whose values and record they identify with then whats the point of fighting it? And i'm not saying HD was the be all end all just that Kerry wasnt. I don't know I've just gotten extremely disillusioned..
Osama is one person, even if he is the worlds evilest most twisted mofo he needs to have people that believe in what he believes in, people that hate the US as much as he does to act as his foot soldiers, improve the US's image in the world , and the size of the pool of his foot soldiers decreases dramatically. Case in point the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, pissed off a bunch of people (I'm not debating whether the action was right or wrong) but for the first time in Pakistani history hardline religious fundamentalists came to power in multiple states and were on the verge of gaining power nationally, not a pleasant thought? (If you don't rem Pakistan is nuke country:)). Repeat ad nauseum, the more friends one has the more chances of one having your back? Read up on it anywhere anti-US sentiment is currently at an all time high (at least compared to recent history)
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I implemented the workaround a while ago (set it to 4 megs instead of the 60 suggested). i have a single window open with about 20 tabs and my memory usage is 416 megs. Any other ideas? (seriously love firefox but the resource intensiveness is more then mildly annoying)
Couple of features I'd like from the ipod? 1) use scroll wheel to zoom in /out of pictures (like u can on most cameras)
2) Ability to directly interface with camera's w/o an adapter (like the JetAudio M5, i think USB master mode?)
rest are superflous but still :P
3) built in bluetooth (for wireless headsets and perhaps a remote control), yes i crave a wireless headset / hate to have a wire runing from my pocket/arm etc
4) Built-in FM.. transmit and receive
5) Built-in Microphone for dictation
hehe yes i know y'all hate the idea but would be cool to have another iPod with the features? iPod Geek edition?
Disclaimer: I dont use Itunes But judging from the other comments they already embrace alternative/indie music. someone commenting that they've seen albums for $1. The way I see it if Apple consolidates the market they'll pwn the RIAA. Say 50% of all music distribution is through iTunes. RIAA doesnt wanna play fine? dont somehow doubt they'd be able to part with 50% of their revenue w/o some heartache? and eventually (yes idealistic) it'll give indies et. al more exposure to cut down on RIAA's dominance anyways. One can hope? :)
With firefox, I have the option to allow 'all' popups from a specific site. (In essence adding the site to a list of sites that i trust). I didnt see any such option in Opera which caused me to switch back. A couple of sites I use (2-3) regularly have an unhealthy reliance on popup windows.
I haven't used ITunes so not sure if they do this but in general how about the right to get the same track without having to pay for it again (same format / download quality perhaps?).
Additionally, even though I liked Opera better then Firefox (stability, memory profile and zoom uniformly zooming the page instead of text only). I had another issue besides lacking plugings which may have just been me not finding the right options but how do you disable popup blocking per site or make a site trusted.
I currently have the RAZR admittedly not a great phone but I was comparing the the upper flip part of the fone with the nano and both are about the same thickness and cover the same area (RAZR's flip top is wider but shorter). My point? If they can fit something to the same profile (nano) as half the RAZR i'm sure they could integrate a decent phone in the same sized package? Imagine a flip with the top being like an ipod nano and the bottom being the numeric keypad? Sounds pretty cool to me.
Also along the line of convergence most new subcompact digital camera's do a decent job of capturing 30 fps video (MJPEG / MPEG etc). Yes they dont compare with a video camera but the convenience alone is worth it. Give it another generation or two and I dont see most people (casual video makers) caring enough to buy two separate devices, this will eventually happen with cell phones as well.
The same place place Hindu fanatics read about who tearing down a mosque is a good thing, murdering 3 thousand people in gujarat is a good thing where christian fundo's read that nuking the world is a good thing, where jewish fundo's believe bombing british embassies is a good thing? It's all the same thing, its very easy to ascribe ones intolerance and bigoted attitudes to religion, as in the other examples its invariably an easy scapegoat. Most religions including Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism dictate peace and abhor murder
Arent all american bombs happy bombs? :)
World != US. I'm sure China, Korea, India, Japan etc will be more then happy to pick up the slack :)
Read up on both ends of what you're saying and dont limit yourself to any single source (everybody lies)... ...
Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Complain of A Year Long Torture by US ...
New revelations about Guantanamo Bay prisoners
A recent story in the Los Angeles Times reports that at least 10 percent of the 625 war prisoners captured in Afghanistan and now held at the notorious US naval base prison in Guantanamo Bay have no meaningful connection with the Taliban or Al Qaeda.
Also by asserting something that means bad news for our country without actually having at least gone through it first you're doing a disservice to the US of A
I just Googled for guantanamo bay prisoners, first few hits (feel free to check them out) Europe Criticizes Treatment of Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
Sorry for replying to my own message but look at http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/ and the number of those movies that were 'made' because of star power...
Big name actors are needed for shitty movies perhaps. But look at most big hits and they have great storylines and good acting. No offense to actors but they arent as rare as great compelling stories. List our your all time favourite movies and how having a big ticket star would make or break them. Most of the movies i've enjoyed over the past few years were largely great movies and had little to do with who was in them. Did you guys watch the first Matrix because of Keanu's acting chops? not so much, wedding crashers? batman begins? My big fat greek wedding? the original star wars? the titanic was popular among teens because of dicaprio's n kate winslet's star status? my point being great movies make stars not the other way around. And hollywood is well aware of that. On the other hand people do go to watch stars which acts as an insurance policy when they think their movie may be a stinker
Energy efficiency? What the heck is that?!? Some kind of commie pinko thing? damn insensitive clod....
802.11g sucks for anything that is remotely video related. I've been wanting to run gigabit for a while but my issue is that my computers are in different rooms and i'm not good with my hands, have no idea how to run copper through the walls (townhouse) and what chance i have of screwing stuff up big time :-D. Is your equipment all in the same location? if not how did you manage the wiring?
Wiki on 802.11i they're already available and you probably are using it or its subset WPA :)
Running multiple HDTV/SDTV streams? I've currently got a mediacenter setup with multiple tuners, would be awesome if I could add some more tuners and then stream it wirelessly to all rooms in the house without having to run more copper. I'm sure there are thousands of other uses for the bandwidth that other slashdotters can come up with.
Yes but unlike the Shuffle it has an OLED display to show you tracks, it also has an FM Player/Voice Recorder. And its volume is less then shuffle not significantly but it is smaller. (I dont have the exact dimensions with me at the moment but did a comparison when I first saw this). I prefer the shuffle form factor but the lack of the other features especially FM is a dealbreaker.
Unproportional response is wrong(demolishing homes in Palestine)
Extra Judicial Killing is wrong(Executions in Afghanistan etc of suspected Al Qaeda ppz)
Imprisonment without a fair trial is wrong(Guantanamo)
Overthrowing a democratic government (Iran) is wrong(50's / Mossadeq n Chavez recently)
Invasion for economic gain (Iraq) is wrong
Not counting people killed in a war is wrong (Iraqi civilians)
Coddling allied dictatorships is wrong (Arabia)
Counting number of americans / israeli's etc dead vs counting the PEOPLE that died is wrong
Tarring a 5th of the worlds population with the same brush is wrong (Communists? Muslims?)
Believing violence is the solution to violence is wrong (despite being proven wrong time n time again)
The solution is to be fair and just. An american death is no more horrible then an Iraqi death or an Afghani death or an Israeli death or a Palestinian death. Not to mention for those grieving their is little difference between a freedom fighter, a terrorist or state sponsored terror (regardless of which side you blame).
And to finish off my lil 'rant' let me quote Martin Luther?
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government
FIOS is being deployed in my area and suddenly COX bumped their uplink to 2 mbps and their premier package from 5 Meg/768K to 15/2M. Called them up n was talking with the rep who said outright said that it was because of FIOS.
A significant percentage of the access is through satellite linkups. The dominant state run telco (monopoly?) Paktel has a receiver farm setup on the outskirts of Karachi (near the airport for ppl in the area). As well as links offered through various other ISP's. Yes a significant portion may be dead because of fiber disruption but no way could it be anywhere near 'all'. Also for those talking about redundancy submarine cables are an expensive proposition especially for third world countries. From my experience in Pakistan they heavily oversubscribe before actually having enough capital to expand capacity.
lol @ ur sig. fyi i'm muslim :)
As the others said your deluding yourself (until last year I had the same point of view as you currently do).
"Today we are at a critical point in history and you have an opportunity to lead a mobilization that shapes your future. Both corporate-controlled political parties are taking our country over a cliff, the Democrats are just doing it a little slower. Political pundits will tell you to accept the lesser of two evils, to support an overall pro-war, pro-corporate globalization party, and put your idealism on the shelf. I, like many of you, have reached a breaking point with the two-party system. It either must be driven toward the people or driven out in the coming years" - Ralph Nader
Ok disclaimer first off. I 'was' a rabid Howard Dean supporter.
I put a lot of effort in the last election primaries but the way people failed to actually analyze the positions of the candidates and simply listened to what the news fed them (Howard Dean screamin' crackpot, Kerry being a vet can beat Bush) was sickening. From the early primaries Kerry was the worst of the major candidates but as Jon Stewart said on Crossfire when asked if Kerry was the best candidate, he's the 'best according to the system'. If the avg person can't even bother to try to make a rational choice on whose values and record they identify with then whats the point of fighting it? And i'm not saying HD was the be all end all just that Kerry wasnt. I don't know I've just gotten extremely disillusioned..
Osama is one person, even if he is the worlds evilest most twisted mofo he needs to have people that believe in what he believes in, people that hate the US as much as he does to act as his foot soldiers, improve the US's image in the world , and the size of the pool of his foot soldiers decreases dramatically. Case in point the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, pissed off a bunch of people (I'm not debating whether the action was right or wrong) but for the first time in Pakistani history hardline religious fundamentalists came to power in multiple states and were on the verge of gaining power nationally, not a pleasant thought? (If you don't rem Pakistan is nuke country :)). Repeat ad nauseum, the more friends one has the more chances of one having your back? Read up on it anywhere anti-US sentiment is currently at an all time high (at least compared to recent history)