As far as I'm concerned, if you're a potential customer, a company damn well ought to listen to you if they want to sell their products. Open-source drivers are a feature that a lot of users want, whether to use cards on other architectures, to fix bugs sooner, to improve their performance, to audit them for use in security-sensitive deployments, etc.
And that's another problem with the open-source advocates, overestimating the size of their marketshare. Yeah there are customers who want open source drivers, and the company wants to sell products to customers (of course). But does the company want to release their drivers as open source, possibly exposing trade secrets that would effect their entire market for the product, just to gain a few percentage more sales? No.
Patrons nationwide are urged to quickly return their M-logoed sticks for replacement or call a 24hr hotline, if unsure.
They're labeled M for malicious!
It could take off... in about ten years.
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After reading the article, I have to say it's not bad for a start. I know people who have literally shelves and shelves full of books. What would it be like to keep an entire library in a single tablet? (that was somewhat of a deja vu for when we asked "What's it like to keep an entire encylopedia on a single CD-ROM?" back in 1991)
There are a few glaring details that need to be addressed.
The price. $250 is entirely too much for the reader. Time will make it cheaper, though. When it hits the $99 mark I'll be interested.
The screen size is too small. TFA mentions Acrobat documents being shrunk down and becoming unreadable. Obviously because most PDFs are formatted to U.S. Letter or A4 size. Make the screen larger and you have a worthwhile device for this.
Screen refresh is too long. This is something else I expect to be improved in time.
More color. This thing will do much better in the market once it hits thousands of colors. Hearing the description of "black on light grey paper" as a comparison to the display brought to mind one thing - newspapers. The biggest single-use, cheap, printed material. Imagine downloading your daily news to your ePaper (a larger, two-sided version perhaps?) and reading it on the subway. Take it home and refresh it the next morning.
More resolution. I don't know what the device has now but I'm sure it's not enough to duplicate a printed page. Small fonts are easier to read in paper than on a computer screen, so maybe when we hit 150 or 300 dpi we'll have our ePaper.
Wireless. Doesn't need to be WiFi, high bandwidth bluetooth style is fine. Imagine a board meeting and the presenter sends the report to everyone's tablet for them to read instead of passing out a dozen Kinko's-bound copies. Also, of course wireless syncing of the library at home and daily news downloading.
The interface sucks according to TFA, how about searching - with handwriting recognition (but this would require adding touch sensitivity which might add weight/thickness, also screen refresh time will be a problem.
TFA also mentions Amazon is working on a e-reader, too. But I think it's butt-ugly. Reminds me of old chess computers or children's electronic edutainment devices.
I am so sick of seeing that phrase attached to devices that never make any sizable impact on iPod marketshare and many times cease to exist themselves first.
There needs to be some kind of rule that until a new media player has been shown to effect the marketshare of the iPod at least 20% (I know it sounds high but we are using the term "killer" here) it cannot be mentioned in any press release or news story that contains the phrase "iPod killer" unless the sentence is "iPod killer strikes again, slaughtering another competitor!"
That threw me in a loop for a bit until I realized you meant "Adult sites" webmasters. I mean, come on, it sounded like all those under 18 webmasters caught on early and us clueless adults as usual are two years too late to the party.
I did the same thing. Although I was confusing Zango with 'Zanga' and was thinking of Xanga, which is known for having lots of kids like MySpace and the other social networking sites, so it made sense in context.
But that's the point, though. The judegement wouldn't be against YOU. Because you're not that person. Don't they ask you if you're the party they are seeking when they show up to serve the papers? If the person answers "No, I'm not." why would they continue to serve you. Aren't they under some legal obligation to actually serve the correct person?
He didn't beat them in court, there was no judgement. They just backed out of the lawsuit. And do you support a legal system where someone can sue YOU, using information that is so inaccurate that they actually don't even have your proper name?
How do you get dragged into the lawsuit to begin with when it isn't your name? When they brought the papers by why didn't he just say "Sorry. That's not my name, you have the wrong address," and close the door on them?
We're supposed to use it to take advantange of those of lower intelligence. The more information we have about superstitions the easier it is to use it against someone.
Awesome sig. I wanted to mod you up, but then I realized I couldn't tell you why.
Except you can Windows on a Mac now, so it can play games. So Macintosh hardware can do everything a Mac can do and everything a PC can do, making the Mac the superior hardware choice.
but my question is shouldn't this be happening all along since youtube is popular BEFORE google decided to buy it out?
It's probably caused by a bunch of investors who have never heard of YouTube but feel they had better visit the site so when their clients ask them about Google's decision to purchase the company they won't look like idiots when they don't know what it is.
Did Creative offer the OP the opportunity to return his player if dissatisfied with the feature change?
No, and neither did TiVo. They said you can cancel your service. It doesn't say you can return your TiVo. What's a consumer supposed to do with a TiVo with no service? Use it as a $200 paperweight?
SO YEA IT IS FREAKING WRONG TO REPRESENT ANYONE AS SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT! IT IS ALSO FREAKING WRONG TO REPRESENTS ANYONES SEXUALITY WITH OUT THEIR PERMISSION!
They meant that there nothing wrong being homosexual, dumbass. It's a joke from Seinfeld that plays off the prevalent idea a straight person does not want to be associated as being gay (becuase so many people are homophobic, not in a bigotted or violent sense, but in that you will be treated differently - especially by the opposite sex - if you are). So while Jerry and George are very strong in their protests they are NOT gay on the show after someone comes to the conclusion they are, they are caught in the trap of appearing to think that being gay is "wrong" because they are so adamantly against being associated with it.
IANAL, but if Creative, in any way, induced you to upgrade the firmware (i.e., it fixed an existing bug), then they have just handed the class action vultures a nice gift. Can't sell a product based on features, and then take them away.
I've used Eudora since the early 1990s, except for one very painful stretch in the early 2000s where it was "strongly suggested" that I use Outlook at work... I can't say I was fond of the programs ad sponsored option, though... In the end, the program got really expensive -- maintaining an annual subscription is a slight embarrassment when the accounting department calls me to query the need to "buy another copy of the same program").
That's why I gave it up. Had a paid version of Eudora starting at version 4.2, I got annoyed at how little was done with it (especially the interface) as Qualcomm kept upping the version number and asking for an upgrade fee. Then version 6.0 came out - with all it's bugs. I used it but when the maintenence release (6.0.1) came out to squash those bugs, and Qualcomm wanted a full upgrade fee for it, I was through. I jumped to O.E. for awhile and then to Thunderbird and have been mostly happy since.
If this project comes through, I might consider changing back, at the least I think it will improve the Thunderbird codebase as well and maybe we'll just see a merging of the two if Qualcomm really is trying to abandon it.
The Coke machine at my office won't sell me a Pepsi, either.
Mine will. There is some Mountian Dew Code Red in the Coke machine here, which I'm sure is a violation of the vending company's licensing agreements with BOTH Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
From the article: 'Starting on Tuesday, enthusiasts from around the world will have a chance to submit text, images, video and sounds that reflect human nature to be included in the message.'
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And that's another problem with the open-source advocates, overestimating the size of their marketshare. Yeah there are customers who want open source drivers, and the company wants to sell products to customers (of course). But does the company want to release their drivers as open source, possibly exposing trade secrets that would effect their entire market for the product, just to gain a few percentage more sales? No.
They're labeled M for malicious!
There are a few glaring details that need to be addressed.
TFA also mentions Amazon is working on a e-reader, too. But I think it's butt-ugly. Reminds me of old chess computers or children's electronic edutainment devices.
I am so sick of seeing that phrase attached to devices that never make any sizable impact on iPod marketshare and many times cease to exist themselves first.
There needs to be some kind of rule that until a new media player has been shown to effect the marketshare of the iPod at least 20% (I know it sounds high but we are using the term "killer" here) it cannot be mentioned in any press release or news story that contains the phrase "iPod killer" unless the sentence is "iPod killer strikes again, slaughtering another competitor!"
The project must be to bring back the old Ma Bell through time travel since they're working on slowing down the speed of light.
I did the same thing. Although I was confusing Zango with 'Zanga' and was thinking of Xanga, which is known for having lots of kids like MySpace and the other social networking sites, so it made sense in context.
But that's the point, though. The judegement wouldn't be against YOU. Because you're not that person. Don't they ask you if you're the party they are seeking when they show up to serve the papers? If the person answers "No, I'm not." why would they continue to serve you. Aren't they under some legal obligation to actually serve the correct person?
That's not a priority. Suspicious-looking suitcases don't blow up planes.
Oh, wait...
Anyway it wont happen, because in Soviet Russia, luggage tags track YOU!
How do you get dragged into the lawsuit to begin with when it isn't your name? When they brought the papers by why didn't he just say "Sorry. That's not my name, you have the wrong address," and close the door on them?
We're supposed to use it to take advantange of those of lower intelligence. The more information we have about superstitions the easier it is to use it against someone.
Except you can Windows on a Mac now, so it can play games. So Macintosh hardware can do everything a Mac can do and everything a PC can do, making the Mac the superior hardware choice.
It's probably caused by a bunch of investors who have never heard of YouTube but feel they had better visit the site so when their clients ask them about Google's decision to purchase the company they won't look like idiots when they don't know what it is.
No, and neither did TiVo. They said you can cancel your service . It doesn't say you can return your TiVo. What's a consumer supposed to do with a TiVo with no service? Use it as a $200 paperweight?
They meant that there nothing wrong being homosexual, dumbass. It's a joke from Seinfeld that plays off the prevalent idea a straight person does not want to be associated as being gay (becuase so many people are homophobic, not in a bigotted or violent sense, but in that you will be treated differently - especially by the opposite sex - if you are). So while Jerry and George are very strong in their protests they are NOT gay on the show after someone comes to the conclusion they are, they are caught in the trap of appearing to think that being gay is "wrong" because they are so adamantly against being associated with it.
Yup, just put on your Jaws DVD. Then you can watch a shark with a friggin laser-drawn head.
Sure you can. Haven't you read the TiVo user agreement? (See section 6)
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That's why I gave it up. Had a paid version of Eudora starting at version 4.2, I got annoyed at how little was done with it (especially the interface) as Qualcomm kept upping the version number and asking for an upgrade fee. Then version 6.0 came out - with all it's bugs. I used it but when the maintenence release (6.0.1) came out to squash those bugs, and Qualcomm wanted a full upgrade fee for it, I was through. I jumped to O.E. for awhile and then to Thunderbird and have been mostly happy since.
If this project comes through, I might consider changing back, at the least I think it will improve the Thunderbird codebase as well and maybe we'll just see a merging of the two if Qualcomm really is trying to abandon it.
Better than supporting Microsoft.
[kidding! kidding!]
Mine will. There is some Mountian Dew Code Red in the Coke machine here, which I'm sure is a violation of the vending company's licensing agreements with BOTH Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.
But thanks to those millions of samples, we can now transcribe "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" very accurately.
It's like MySpace... In spaaaaaaace!
No, but it does have a psyc attack factor of +6, and is a prerequisite to building the Dream Twister in Alpha Centauri.
More like an ivory tower...
You could just order a cd to be shipped to you. They'll only charge a small shipping fee they say.