Yeah, and they don't even HAVE it available for people like me who actually do have coke-bottle glasses. (I had some laser surgeries as a kid that let me wear contacts, which are awesome. But no lasik for me.)
I dropped my 40G iPod (horror of horrors!) while sprinting to class. It slammed really hard onto a stone walkway. When I plugged the headphones back in, the song was still playing. Later that week, I had some problems with it (crashed but wouldn't turn off, overheated), but that was only for one day. That was a few months ago, and I haven't had any problems since, except that the back is pretty scratched.
that while the article waxes hyperbole about how revolutionary and transformative this is, the site's founder is quoted as saying he's gotten bored of it?
I wonder about the expense in time and effort involved in keeping patches from illegitimate users. At my college, at least, there would be a huge strain on the computing assistants. They'd have to explain exactly why they couldn't fix the computer and why they wouldn't allow it back on the network until it had been fixed (MUCH more time than just patching the darn things). They'd also have to provide advice about switching to a more affordable, if maybe more difficult to use, OS (prohibitive cost is the only reason I, at least, would pirate software). I'm not saying that pirate users deserve this kind of support, but it would be such a big deal to lack it that MS's image would surely suffer with the people who have been oblivious to its ugly practices in the past, because they'll be the ones waiting and paying for all this extra support time.
By two-thirds-coverage, they must mean proximity to a hotspot, right? Like being in the same town as a cafe with one? Maybe I'm seriously misinformed about the current range of these things, but I can't imagine 280 hotspots covering two-thirds of the total area of the country. But no matter how the country is covered, I don't see the problem, especially if wireless just happens to be the simplest way to get everyone Internet access. As long as for most people the Internet remains a means to various ends, rather than an end in itself (hm, perhaps this isn't something I should be expressing on slashdot!)
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Yeah, and they don't even HAVE it available for people like me who actually do have coke-bottle glasses. (I had some laser surgeries as a kid that let me wear contacts, which are awesome. But no lasik for me.)
I dropped my 40G iPod (horror of horrors!) while sprinting to class. It slammed really hard onto a stone walkway. When I plugged the headphones back in, the song was still playing. Later that week, I had some problems with it (crashed but wouldn't turn off, overheated), but that was only for one day. That was a few months ago, and I haven't had any problems since, except that the back is pretty scratched.
that while the article waxes hyperbole about how revolutionary and transformative this is, the site's founder is quoted as saying he's gotten bored of it?
I wonder about the expense in time and effort involved in keeping patches from illegitimate users. At my college, at least, there would be a huge strain on the computing assistants. They'd have to explain exactly why they couldn't fix the computer and why they wouldn't allow it back on the network until it had been fixed (MUCH more time than just patching the darn things). They'd also have to provide advice about switching to a more affordable, if maybe more difficult to use, OS (prohibitive cost is the only reason I, at least, would pirate software). I'm not saying that pirate users deserve this kind of support, but it would be such a big deal to lack it that MS's image would surely suffer with the people who have been oblivious to its ugly practices in the past, because they'll be the ones waiting and paying for all this extra support time.
By two-thirds-coverage, they must mean proximity to a hotspot, right? Like being in the same town as a cafe with one? Maybe I'm seriously misinformed about the current range of these things, but I can't imagine 280 hotspots covering two-thirds of the total area of the country. But no matter how the country is covered, I don't see the problem, especially if wireless just happens to be the simplest way to get everyone Internet access. As long as for most people the Internet remains a means to various ends, rather than an end in itself (hm, perhaps this isn't something I should be expressing on slashdot!)
Well, if one of your main points is DVD playback, it's also there in 10.1.5.