I've had one since they first came out. The 100 song limit is waaaay down on my list of things I don't like about the phone.
The top two things I hate about the phone by far are... 1) USB 1.1 2) Sucky camera
Apple didn't do the hardware for this phone (though they might have asked for it to be this way).
A 100 song limit isn't bad at all, doesn't *anyone* remember the cassette walkman? That was one dedicated device that limited you to far less music...unless you swapped the cassette much like you can swap the flash card.
Not that I've ever swapped the flash card or had a desire to. I usually plug it in daily update my podcasts and whatever music playlists I happen to have going on. My problem is that it takes friggin forever because of USB 1.1. With my Shuffle or Nano (wait, why do I still have iPods?), it's totally a grab and go mentallity. The ROKR takes *my* time to deal with updating as well as computer time to actually make it so.
And the camera sucks.
The new Razor sounds promising, but only if it is USB2...the problem then is that the ROKR has a really great speaker, and not just for speaker phone...I use it for listening to podcasts in my car or on my boat like as if it were a small portable radio.
I happened to notice this last night as soon as it went live. This is nothing more than what already exists with TiVo.com and a Series 2 connected to the Net.
When you're on a tv.yahoo.com page, you'll see links to TiVo. You click on that link and you're presented with the old TiVo.com web programming pages, only with the tv show you selected from Yahoo.
From a tech perspective this was probably somebody's weekend project. Nothing to see here kinda thing.
From a biz-dev perspective, this probably took a lot longer, and the result is actually a nice win-win.
TiVo.com sucks. It has always sucked. Yahoo, IMHO, is a pretty decent site. As a Yahoo member, I'm now far more likely to go to Yahoo to program my TiVo. The experience is much better and fits in with what I'm already doing at Yahoo.
Of course, it would be nice if Yahoo could show what I have recorded on my TiVo, but maybe that's phase 2.
Oh, and as for security...it appears as though you need to log in to your Yahoo account *and* have your TiVo account activated for Yahoo, as well as your TiVo activated for Web programming.
I'm right there with you. I have a handful of 250GB drives and a couple of 400GB drives. I would pay *more* for my drives to be 5400...even that is overkill. I want them big, quiet, cool and reliable. Speed is simply a non-issue *for me*.
Keep in mind that up until TivoToGo was released, TiVo offered full Mac support, and did it very well. There was, and still is compatibility with the latest version of Mac OS and Tivo Desktop which works great with iTunes and iPhoto. Maybe the fact that the CEO of TiVo is a Maccie has and the amount of support TiVo has had, as well as all the buy-out rumors through the years, may have lead many Mac users to consider buying a TiVo...as well as the fact that TiVos weren't compatible with *any* computer without hacking for quite some time.
I have eyeTV as well as eyeHome, and they work well for what they are, but there are huge advantages to TiVo, and what Mac users are complaining about is that the final bridge to compatibility is not something that would be that hard for TiVo to do. Of course, the blame may be just as much directed at Apple as to TiVo.
Try using TiVo Desktop with Tiger 10.4.2. There's no TiVoToGo support of course, but the latest Tiger patch (as of this writing) fixed the incompatibility issue. In fact, it's now *much* more faster and reliable than Tivo Desktop was with 10.3.
I worked at a media company and did hardware, software and gadget reviews. Maybe it was just me, but I tended to purchase the products that I gave good reviews to as opposed to those that I thought sucked. Thus, I bought Macs, Apple software and iPods.
IOW:
Objective review -> Personal buying decision
Bias would've been if I had some vested interest in giving a positive review to an Apple product or negative review to others.
I also worked in content syndication and did analysis of what news/reviews were more popular. Apple stories always rated waaaaay higher than their market share would indicate. This is more due to the interest in their products, company and CEO personalities. They almost always have a good story or angle.
Over-covering Apple in this regard isn't showing bias...it may be selling out and not upholding high journalistic standards, but it's not bias.
Meanwhile, companies like Microsoft have blown their editorial interest wad on viruses, spyware, trojans, etc... And how many *news* articles can you do about Windows XP turning 1 year old, 2 years old, 3 years old...6 years old? Or how Internet Explorer may someday have the features found in other browsers for the past few years?
Ok, I could see how that made sense in the bricks world.
But now online, we could have:
Papers, classes, registration fees, license fees, tuition, bonds, fines and penalties.
Or the little thing called "the feedback button" and "user ratings".
Oh, like pawn shops and used stores aren't filled with stolen merchandise?
The point here is that there are mechanisms for protecting consumers. These are known to the user and the user has a choice. Why regulate something in a way that adds cost, doesn't provide a known significant increase in protection, and becomes a requirement for doing business?
Yes, DVD players from China can be quite good for many reasons. I've bought several for myself and friends. My iPod Nano came from China (I tracked its shipment online the whole way).
BUT...
As USA Consumer #1, I'm not the one China needs to convince. China needs to convince Universal, Warner, Paramount, etc... Because as much as I might love a CH-DVD player, it's the discs that I really care about.
While consumers may love complete lack of DRM, the studios have never met a DRM they didn't like...thus BD and HD-DVD are fighting over who can screw consumers the most with DRM features that the studios are asking for.
The 512MB iRiver T10 is $45 more than the 512MB iPod Shuffle and $65 more than the 1GB iPod Shuffle. The 2GB iPod Nano is only $10 more than the 1GB iRiver T10.
Personally, I would rather pay the extra $10 for 2GB as opposed to 1GB, and have a usable color LCD display, great interface, looks great, is the right size, plays *very* nicely with iTunes and iTMS. Radio and recordability may be nice features for some people and thus make a difference, but I never once used either of those on any of the walkmans or other nonPods I've ever had.
I want a totally pimped out mouse to match my Alienware PC. I want it to gangster lean when I get an IM, bounce when I get email, and give me a chrome mag wheel that continues to spin even after I've stopped scrolling. They should replace the red/blue tracking laser with a neon loop that goes around the entire base. The top of the mouse should have a LCD panel for playing DVDs
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"I'd like to know what technological breakthroughs were driven by Porn? Cameras weren't developed originally for Porn. Scanners weren't developed for Porn. Image viewers weren't originally developed for Porn."
I'm pretty sure the glory hole was invented specifically for porn. I'd consider that a "breakthrough"...get it? Breakthrough, cause you see the wall is broken through by...oh nevermind.
First, I can't believe how many misleading posts there are here from people.
There is tactile and audio feedback on the mouse. This includes all the buttons and scrolling.
You're not going to accidentally press a button or scroll by resting your finger somewhere...at least not compared to others I've used.
The scroll ball is SWEET! It's very small, which means you don't have to curl your finger much to use it. It's smooth and provides great feedback. It's the perfect blend of not feeling mechanical, but being very deliberate.
One potential downside...some might prefer a hard mechanical scroll wheel because it will give a ratchet like action...usefull for saying you want something positioned 1-2-3... versus a smooth and seemingly infinite positioning.
I can't say that I'm a big fan of the way they did the buttons on the sides. There are two buttons that must be pushed at the same time that result in "button #4". You're essentially pinching the mouse. This feels awkward, but I haven't used it enough to know for sure yet. I do know that I quite often accidentally activate the side (thumb) button on my Microsoft mouse, and may come to appreciate the pinching method.
I'm surprised Apple didn't release a BlueTooth version. Rumors commence in 3...2...1...
I've seen posts claiming that the one button capability of the mouse makes it hard to distinguish between left and right buttons. This also is not true. It's very clear which one you're clicking on and how they're distinguished. This is because you're clicking on the left of the sroll ball or on the right of the scroll ball. If you're operating in one-button mode, you just bang away at the whole thing. In fact, the thing defaults to a left button and right button action becomes more of a deliberate thing.
Why did it take Apple so long to come up with this mouse? Judging by the lines at the local Apple store, maybe it took this long to build up inventory;)
I haven't completely read BFAs, but it doesn't seem like either is a case of where someone broke the law or broke a contract with Apple to provide information which was solicited by the publishers.
IANAL, but it seems to me that what the courts are saying is that you can't protect a source if that source broke the law in telling you the information (see WORLD v. Karl Rove) and you can't protect a source if you broke the law in soliciting the source to violate a contract to provide you with information.
And yes, of course on a practical level, the little guys are low hanging fruit.
This is great news. My grandmother was feeling a little left out, being the *only* person on the face of the planet not have their opinions published for the "real" reason Apple switched to Intel.
Spin away grammy! There's a hungry RSS feed propagation system just waiting to hear from you...No, you don't need to know what in the sam hell I'm talking about.
(I apologize for using/. for posting notes for my grammy).
I use several email servers for several accounts for several reasons. I have to send email to Hotmail users (and no, I can't even try to convert them).
Is there any way to test this to see if Sender-ID is being properly inserted today?
I consider myself a diehard Maccie Fanboi, but really, is this news *at all*?
And no, I'm not new here. It's just that this one in particular seems like the most non-news story about Apple yet.
All that happened was that Apple dropped a configuration from a line-up of current models...perhaps because it was relatively underperforming in terms of sales, maybe...ya think?
I have more to say about this subject, but rumor has it that SJ just ripped a fart and I *must* drive down to Cupertino to see if I can speculate on what he had for dinner last night. The trolls are saying he had Kirk burgers, but I know that can't be right.
"even Yahoo has copied them to appear 'non-portal' like!"
Actually, http://search.yahoo.com/ was there (and "clean")waaaaay back in the 90s when Yahoo was going with the whole ____.yahoo.com and everyone else was paying buttloads of bucks for domain names.
Ever notice what happens *now* when you type ____.google.com? It follows exactly what Yahoo did first.
The main difference between Yahoo and Google is that Yahoo, being first/older has built/bought more. Some of what they built/bought along the way was a product of the times and pulled Yahoo in one direction or another. Good decisions and bad decisions were made along the way (buying Broadcast.com and not buying eBay were some really poor moves). While Yahoo has made some boneheaded investments involving cash, Google has invested huge amounts of time and resources in "pre..." (the steps before profit). It appears that more and more the "pre..." at Google is appearing to be more consumer application focused rather than research focused...gee, who would expect this from a post-IPO company!
I guess one could argue that their choice for what is their "front door" is a difference, but that's more of a marketing difference rather than a difference in what the companies actually do.
Oh, also there's about a $30 billion market cap difference (in favor of Google).
Where I live, my place heats up during the day, but it cold (outside) at night. I bet I could use this to cool the place in the late afternoons by simply catching the water in a buck in my outside basement and then swapping the buckets during the day.
I produce a porn site...actually I'm not sure it's porn. Who knows, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I do know that *I* don't think it's ok content for under 18 year olds, but that is my opinion. The site has no revenue, and I don't want to implement or block people with BS age-verification schemes.
If this Utah law was implemented across the board, this would be great for me. No effort on my part, and it's automagicalegally blocked at the ISP for those that request such blocking.
To be fair, there should be a review and appeals process, but personally in my case, I wouldn't care how my site was defined. If it was considered porn well then, kids get blocked, but either way there is a verbal warning, and my @ss is covered.
As a porn consumer, this means no having to deal with bs age-verifications schemes...this would lead to cheaper porn, and how can that be a bad thing?
Here are a couple of practical issues I have with this...
1) Education and awareness sites may be improperly blocked without appeal.
2) What happens to sites that start off being nice and clean and then decide one day to get nasty? I'm guessing this is actually the good thing about doing it as a black list instead of a white list. If it were a white list, web sites would be obligated to remain 100% porn free. As a black list, you just put it out there and let the review process take place.
The best way to ensure you won't lose your password is to store it on as many P2P networks as possible. This way all you ever need to do is search for the keywords username and password and ta-da, you'll get an easy text download of all of your usernames and passwords.
Try it for yourself. Try searching for "Macslut" and "password", oh wait....sh*t!
Really, common sense is needed here. Writing down a password hidden amongst a bunch of text on a bunch of papers on a desk that nobody has access to is not as risky as writing down the password that unlocks everything on the bottom panel of your monitor.
I used to have a sys admin who was a jerk about resetting passwords "for security", so I made a point of creating a dry erase panel on the bottom of the monitor that read "The Password is ___", and then filling in the password whenever it changed.
Tomorrow's headline:
"Revolutionary 'My' Removal Has Been Cut"
Microsoft Chief Muckety Muck released a statement today saying that the planned removal of the My prefix has had to be cut from Longhorn in order to meet the new expected ship date of 2008.
The day after tomorrow's headling:
"Microsoft to back port the revolutionary My prefix removal to Windows XP"
Ending speculation that Microsoft will be unable to drop the My prefix, muckety mucks at the software giant today announced plans to back port the My prefix removal to Windows XP. No date for this feature has yet been announced.
Geez, Mac OS X has had the My prefix removed for *years* now.
"There is a (sorta) good reason why [drag and drop to taskbar] doesn't work currently."
[techno-babble snip]
Wouldn't it be easier, faster, cheaper, and better to just buy Apple, rename the Dock the Taskbar and market that as Longhorn?
Geez, do I have to figure everything out for these people?
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I've had one since they first came out. The 100 song limit is waaaay down on my list of things I don't like about the phone.
The top two things I hate about the phone by far are...
1) USB 1.1
2) Sucky camera
Apple didn't do the hardware for this phone (though they might have asked for it to be this way).
A 100 song limit isn't bad at all, doesn't *anyone* remember the cassette walkman? That was one dedicated device that limited you to far less music...unless you swapped the cassette much like you can swap the flash card.
Not that I've ever swapped the flash card or had a desire to. I usually plug it in daily update my podcasts and whatever music playlists I happen to have going on. My problem is that it takes friggin forever because of USB 1.1. With my Shuffle or Nano (wait, why do I still have iPods?), it's totally a grab and go mentallity. The ROKR takes *my* time to deal with updating as well as computer time to actually make it so.
And the camera sucks.
The new Razor sounds promising, but only if it is USB2...the problem then is that the ROKR has a really great speaker, and not just for speaker phone...I use it for listening to podcasts in my car or on my boat like as if it were a small portable radio.
I happened to notice this last night as soon as it went live. This is nothing more than what already exists with TiVo.com and a Series 2 connected to the Net.
When you're on a tv.yahoo.com page, you'll see links to TiVo. You click on that link and you're presented with the old TiVo.com web programming pages, only with the tv show you selected from Yahoo.
From a tech perspective this was probably somebody's weekend project. Nothing to see here kinda thing.
From a biz-dev perspective, this probably took a lot longer, and the result is actually a nice win-win.
TiVo.com sucks. It has always sucked. Yahoo, IMHO, is a pretty decent site. As a Yahoo member, I'm now far more likely to go to Yahoo to program my TiVo. The experience is much better and fits in with what I'm already doing at Yahoo.
Of course, it would be nice if Yahoo could show what I have recorded on my TiVo, but maybe that's phase 2.
Oh, and as for security...it appears as though you need to log in to your Yahoo account *and* have your TiVo account activated for Yahoo, as well as your TiVo activated for Web programming.
I'm right there with you. I have a handful of 250GB drives and a couple of 400GB drives. I would pay *more* for my drives to be 5400...even that is overkill. I want them big, quiet, cool and reliable. Speed is simply a non-issue *for me*.
Keep in mind that up until TivoToGo was released, TiVo offered full Mac support, and did it very well. There was, and still is compatibility with the latest version of Mac OS and Tivo Desktop which works great with iTunes and iPhoto. Maybe the fact that the CEO of TiVo is a Maccie has and the amount of support TiVo has had, as well as all the buy-out rumors through the years, may have lead many Mac users to consider buying a TiVo...as well as the fact that TiVos weren't compatible with *any* computer without hacking for quite some time.
I have eyeTV as well as eyeHome, and they work well for what they are, but there are huge advantages to TiVo, and what Mac users are complaining about is that the final bridge to compatibility is not something that would be that hard for TiVo to do. Of course, the blame may be just as much directed at Apple as to TiVo.
Try using TiVo Desktop with Tiger 10.4.2. There's no TiVoToGo support of course, but the latest Tiger patch (as of this writing) fixed the incompatibility issue. In fact, it's now *much* more faster and reliable than Tivo Desktop was with 10.3.
I worked at a media company and did hardware, software and gadget reviews. Maybe it was just me, but I tended to purchase the products that I gave good reviews to as opposed to those that I thought sucked. Thus, I bought Macs, Apple software and iPods.
IOW:
Objective review -> Personal buying decision
Bias would've been if I had some vested interest in giving a positive review to an Apple product or negative review to others.
I also worked in content syndication and did analysis of what news/reviews were more popular. Apple stories always rated waaaaay higher than their market share would indicate. This is more due to the interest in their products, company and CEO personalities. They almost always have a good story or angle.
Over-covering Apple in this regard isn't showing bias...it may be selling out and not upholding high journalistic standards, but it's not bias.
Meanwhile, companies like Microsoft have blown their editorial interest wad on viruses, spyware, trojans, etc... And how many *news* articles can you do about Windows XP turning 1 year old, 2 years old, 3 years old...6 years old? Or how Internet Explorer may someday have the features found in other browsers for the past few years?
I have a small 1 bedroom cottage. In it, I have 12 "internet devices", only two of which are computers.
Ok, I could see how that made sense in the bricks world. But now online, we could have: Papers, classes, registration fees, license fees, tuition, bonds, fines and penalties. Or the little thing called "the feedback button" and "user ratings". Oh, like pawn shops and used stores aren't filled with stolen merchandise? The point here is that there are mechanisms for protecting consumers. These are known to the user and the user has a choice. Why regulate something in a way that adds cost, doesn't provide a known significant increase in protection, and becomes a requirement for doing business?
Yes, DVD players from China can be quite good for many reasons. I've bought several for myself and friends. My iPod Nano came from China (I tracked its shipment online the whole way). BUT... As USA Consumer #1, I'm not the one China needs to convince. China needs to convince Universal, Warner, Paramount, etc... Because as much as I might love a CH-DVD player, it's the discs that I really care about. While consumers may love complete lack of DRM, the studios have never met a DRM they didn't like...thus BD and HD-DVD are fighting over who can screw consumers the most with DRM features that the studios are asking for.
The 512MB iRiver T10 is $45 more than the 512MB iPod Shuffle and $65 more than the 1GB iPod Shuffle. The 2GB iPod Nano is only $10 more than the 1GB iRiver T10. Personally, I would rather pay the extra $10 for 2GB as opposed to 1GB, and have a usable color LCD display, great interface, looks great, is the right size, plays *very* nicely with iTunes and iTMS. Radio and recordability may be nice features for some people and thus make a difference, but I never once used either of those on any of the walkmans or other nonPods I've ever had.
I want a totally pimped out mouse to match my Alienware PC. I want it to gangster lean when I get an IM, bounce when I get email, and give me a chrome mag wheel that continues to spin even after I've stopped scrolling. They should replace the red/blue tracking laser with a neon loop that goes around the entire base. The top of the mouse should have a LCD panel for playing DVDs
"I'd like to know what technological breakthroughs were driven by Porn? Cameras weren't developed originally for Porn. Scanners weren't developed for Porn. Image viewers weren't originally developed for Porn." I'm pretty sure the glory hole was invented specifically for porn. I'd consider that a "breakthrough"...get it? Breakthrough, cause you see the wall is broken through by...oh nevermind.
First, I can't believe how many misleading posts there are here from people.
There is tactile and audio feedback on the mouse. This includes all the buttons and scrolling.
You're not going to accidentally press a button or scroll by resting your finger somewhere...at least not compared to others I've used.
The scroll ball is SWEET! It's very small, which means you don't have to curl your finger much to use it. It's smooth and provides great feedback. It's the perfect blend of not feeling mechanical, but being very deliberate.
One potential downside...some might prefer a hard mechanical scroll wheel because it will give a ratchet like action...usefull for saying you want something positioned 1-2-3... versus a smooth and seemingly infinite positioning.
I can't say that I'm a big fan of the way they did the buttons on the sides. There are two buttons that must be pushed at the same time that result in "button #4". You're essentially pinching the mouse. This feels awkward, but I haven't used it enough to know for sure yet. I do know that I quite often accidentally activate the side (thumb) button on my Microsoft mouse, and may come to appreciate the pinching method.
I'm surprised Apple didn't release a BlueTooth version. Rumors commence in 3...2...1...
I've seen posts claiming that the one button capability of the mouse makes it hard to distinguish between left and right buttons. This also is not true. It's very clear which one you're clicking on and how they're distinguished. This is because you're clicking on the left of the sroll ball or on the right of the scroll ball. If you're operating in one-button mode, you just bang away at the whole thing. In fact, the thing defaults to a left button and right button action becomes more of a deliberate thing.
Why did it take Apple so long to come up with this mouse? Judging by the lines at the local Apple store, maybe it took this long to build up inventory;)
I haven't completely read BFAs, but it doesn't seem like either is a case of where someone broke the law or broke a contract with Apple to provide information which was solicited by the publishers.
IANAL, but it seems to me that what the courts are saying is that you can't protect a source if that source broke the law in telling you the information (see WORLD v. Karl Rove) and you can't protect a source if you broke the law in soliciting the source to violate a contract to provide you with information.
And yes, of course on a practical level, the little guys are low hanging fruit.
This is great news. My grandmother was feeling a little left out, being the *only* person on the face of the planet not have their opinions published for the "real" reason Apple switched to Intel.
/. for posting notes for my grammy).
Spin away grammy! There's a hungry RSS feed propagation system just waiting to hear from you...No, you don't need to know what in the sam hell I'm talking about.
(I apologize for using
I use several email servers for several accounts for several reasons. I have to send email to Hotmail users (and no, I can't even try to convert them). Is there any way to test this to see if Sender-ID is being properly inserted today?
I consider myself a diehard Maccie Fanboi, but really, is this news *at all*?
And no, I'm not new here. It's just that this one in particular seems like the most non-news story about Apple yet.
All that happened was that Apple dropped a configuration from a line-up of current models...perhaps because it was relatively underperforming in terms of sales, maybe...ya think?
I have more to say about this subject, but rumor has it that SJ just ripped a fart and I *must* drive down to Cupertino to see if I can speculate on what he had for dinner last night. The trolls are saying he had Kirk burgers, but I know that can't be right.
"even Yahoo has copied them to appear 'non-portal' like!"
Actually, http://search.yahoo.com/ was there (and "clean")waaaaay back in the 90s when Yahoo was going with the whole ____.yahoo.com and everyone else was paying buttloads of bucks for domain names.
Ever notice what happens *now* when you type ____.google.com? It follows exactly what Yahoo did first.
The main difference between Yahoo and Google is that Yahoo, being first/older has built/bought more. Some of what they built/bought along the way was a product of the times and pulled Yahoo in one direction or another. Good decisions and bad decisions were made along the way (buying Broadcast.com and not buying eBay were some really poor moves). While Yahoo has made some boneheaded investments involving cash, Google has invested huge amounts of time and resources in "pre..." (the steps before profit). It appears that more and more the "pre..." at Google is appearing to be more consumer application focused rather than research focused...gee, who would expect this from a post-IPO company!
I guess one could argue that their choice for what is their "front door" is a difference, but that's more of a marketing difference rather than a difference in what the companies actually do.
Oh, also there's about a $30 billion market cap difference (in favor of Google).
I was distracted by my masturbating when it happened, so I didn't notice the earthquake. Damn, why does this always happen...oh wait, never mind.
Where I live, my place heats up during the day, but it cold (outside) at night. I bet I could use this to cool the place in the late afternoons by simply catching the water in a buck in my outside basement and then swapping the buckets during the day.
No electricity!
I produce a porn site...actually I'm not sure it's porn. Who knows, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I do know that *I* don't think it's ok content for under 18 year olds, but that is my opinion. The site has no revenue, and I don't want to implement or block people with BS age-verification schemes. If this Utah law was implemented across the board, this would be great for me. No effort on my part, and it's automagicalegally blocked at the ISP for those that request such blocking. To be fair, there should be a review and appeals process, but personally in my case, I wouldn't care how my site was defined. If it was considered porn well then, kids get blocked, but either way there is a verbal warning, and my @ss is covered. As a porn consumer, this means no having to deal with bs age-verifications schemes...this would lead to cheaper porn, and how can that be a bad thing? Here are a couple of practical issues I have with this... 1) Education and awareness sites may be improperly blocked without appeal. 2) What happens to sites that start off being nice and clean and then decide one day to get nasty? I'm guessing this is actually the good thing about doing it as a black list instead of a white list. If it were a white list, web sites would be obligated to remain 100% porn free. As a black list, you just put it out there and let the review process take place.
Try it for yourself. Try searching for "Macslut" and "password", oh wait....sh*t!
Really, common sense is needed here. Writing down a password hidden amongst a bunch of text on a bunch of papers on a desk that nobody has access to is not as risky as writing down the password that unlocks everything on the bottom panel of your monitor.
I used to have a sys admin who was a jerk about resetting passwords "for security", so I made a point of creating a dry erase panel on the bottom of the monitor that read "The Password is ___", and then filling in the password whenever it changed.
Because he writes good...err he writes well...no, he writes good...oh damn, he writes better than me ok?
Tomorrow's headline: "Revolutionary 'My' Removal Has Been Cut" Microsoft Chief Muckety Muck released a statement today saying that the planned removal of the My prefix has had to be cut from Longhorn in order to meet the new expected ship date of 2008. The day after tomorrow's headling: "Microsoft to back port the revolutionary My prefix removal to Windows XP" Ending speculation that Microsoft will be unable to drop the My prefix, muckety mucks at the software giant today announced plans to back port the My prefix removal to Windows XP. No date for this feature has yet been announced. Geez, Mac OS X has had the My prefix removed for *years* now.
"There is a (sorta) good reason why [drag and drop to taskbar] doesn't work currently." [techno-babble snip] Wouldn't it be easier, faster, cheaper, and better to just buy Apple, rename the Dock the Taskbar and market that as Longhorn? Geez, do I have to figure everything out for these people?