"Plugged into my car speakers, it was able to belt out the new Fountains of Wayne rocker, "Maureen," loudly enough to be heard perfectly, even though I was going 70 mph in a convertible with the top down.'"
He actually plugged it into his car's radio with an amplifier. The iPod Nano did not drive 4+ car speakers.
Audio quality is as good as the mp3/whatever encoding he uses - as long as the processor can keep up, and yes, all the iPod processors keep up.
Hey Everyone,
Just got an IM on Google Talk saying "The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!" Google Talk has gone live, officially.
I'd say Adium is better than iChat, Gaim, and Yahoo Messneger.
Adium gets out of your way when you're talking, iChat is too cartoony for me - and the lack of a name (since it uses buddy icons instead) is distracting.
Hovering over a user's name and seeing their status and picture is nice - in Gaim you see a lot that isn't relevant.
The fact Adium doesn't have ads makes it instantly nicer than the AIM client.
MSN's client is pretty awful, at least on OS X.
The polish & ability to let you get what you want done on Adium is very nice - something that I never found on another chat client.
Your milage may vary - but Adium and Quicksilver are the 2 major reasons I'll stick with Adium.
(Disclaimer: pretty soon I'm hoping to be an Adium bugfix contributor)
GFS (The google file system) stores everything in triplicate.
Right now, I have 2.5 gigs.
This means there's 7.5 gigs of storage dedicated to me.
Assuming the server costs nothing and their only cost for me is the hard drive space, and it costs $0.50 per gig, that's $3.75/user. This also is assuming they have all the hard drive space to allow everyone to use all their storage (big assumption).
I don't know about you, but I've probably never clicked more than 3 ads, at most $0.30/ad.
They're probably not breaking even on Gmail - yet.
C'mon slashdot - this is the 3rd one in a row, with little content and a lot of hype and flaming to come.
If the article had contained a SHRED of tech info, like how they hash l33tspeak, or why anyone would listen to whiny teenage messageboards, then it would be something.
As it stands, any idiot who would spend money to find out what people think through blogs is as good as broke anyway. There are too many trolls out there for this to work any better than focus groups. Next.....
Oh the irony.
You sound like a whiny teenage blogger.
You just spell better.
Some of us find this interesting. The fact that the government is making a database of teenagers, Ad-Block is pissing someone off, and marketers are looking at blogs to feel the public's pulse actually interests some of us
Things go in streaks. Three in a row is hardly a statistical anomoly
I believe that they released gmail and google maps for both IE and FireFox concurrently, and it was Explorer for OS X, Safari, and Opera that lagged behind...
But your point isn't meant to be an exact example but the general gist. So let's argue that.
IE on Windows is 90% of the market. Why not release for that, beta on IE and Firefox, get general reactions, ui testing, etc, and then move forward with the later releases on every browser?
With Javascript, you have to test interaction on every browser. Would you rather create the beta on 5 browsers, and then change 200 things on 5 browsers going from beta to release, or beta on 2 browsers, then change 200 things on those 2 browsers and create things anew on the rest of the browsers?
Google already does stock tracking (http://www.google.com/ig), but not portfolio tracking. They also look up today's chart and stock price if you search on a ticker symbol.
Grandparent isn't talking about open-sourcing code for RSA, he's talking about making the algorithm public. There's a big difference.
The idea behind an open encryption algorithm is that if there's a flaw in the algorithm, someone who would publish that flaw will find it. The first person to find it might not publicize it, but someone will. (This is what academics in math do)
With a closed encryption algorithm, if someone finds a flaw, they probably won't publish it as they probably shouldn't know the algorithm at all. Academics don't usually spend their time verifying algorithms they shouldn't know about - and the people who do spend their time doing that don't want you to know it's broken.
I'm usually a big fan of Google, but if Schmidt really means that general algorithms for encryption should be kept secret, he's being silly (and I doubt Larry or Sergey would agree with him on it).
Mod parent "Insightful", not Funny. The site was already slow before it was linked to by slashdot.
The page is buckling under the load. First it tells me my serial number is valid for the recall, then it says it isn't, and I can't get the procedure to finish.
Just called Apple Technical support and they'll have a special phone number for the recall tomorrow. (Think they'd get it up the first day when they sent the email and get the most responses, as I'd expect the responses per day to decrease monotonically)
I have an AMD 2200+ with 1 7200 RPM drive and a half gig of ram (and a crisp 17" LCD) but I use my 12" PowerBook for almost everything now. The only thing I use the desktop for is programming and papers.
OS X really has changed the way I expect to use a computer. So yeah, the mini is great because of its size and running OS X. I've thought about picking one up - if I were willing to also buy a DVI&USB KVM.
I do read the comments of the stories I'm interested in (filtered to Score 4 and 5), but I disagree with you in where I happen to find the true value of Slashdot.
Slashdot helps me keep up to date on the newest technologies (guess where I read about Ruby on Rails first?) and issues in the open source and free software movements.
I've had job interviews that I could answer some of the questions because I read Slashdot's front page. It helps me know what people are talking about when they're discussing the new and the hot.
Slashdot has changed a lot in the past year, I'd say (or maybe I've changed, or maybe the community's changed). But it keeps me from having to read the Google Blog, Ars Technica, Mac rumors sites, Apple's front page, and various news outlets for the latest from RMS.
Ah yes, lovely Palo Alto Apple Store (lived in Palo Alto last summer)
Well, for me, they meant it. I really won't get it til Monday. It's in New Jersey now, after being in Harrisburgh PA. (I live in Pittsburgh, so it makes no sense to make it further away. And guarantees my not having it today)
I switched 3 weeks ago and have been very, very happy
I added a 12" PowerBook in addition to my Athlon desktop last month, and I'll tell you why I did, and why I am glad I did
QuickSilver - with 5 keystrokes, max, launch any app or bookmark
Adium, an AIM & MSN (and more) client that I wish were on windows
Weight: 5 pounds. Very portable. It basically has the length and width of a piece of paper. Still a little taller than one
Monitor: Very crisp
2 finger scrolling: very useful and easy
$1299 at the local Apple Store, with edu discount
This laptop will probably convince me to buy a Mac desktop next. I keep trying to use Quicksilver on my Windows machine. I keep wishing the software I had on my Mac were available on my PC.
Yes, my iPod helped me become more comfortable with the Apple brand name before I bought my PowerBook. I used an old PowerBook at work before, and that got me hooked too.
I bought the laptop right before I left for the Middle East (Qatar to be specific) and wanted it to store images on. It cost a little bit more than a new, larger memory card. But it's been very, very worth it
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"Plugged into my car speakers, it was able to belt out the new Fountains of Wayne rocker, "Maureen," loudly enough to be heard perfectly, even though I was going 70 mph in a convertible with the top down.'"
He actually plugged it into his car's radio with an amplifier. The iPod Nano did not drive 4+ car speakers.
Audio quality is as good as the mp3/whatever encoding he uses - as long as the processor can keep up, and yes, all the iPod processors keep up.
Would someone please tell me why this was modded "Interesting" and "Insightful" instead of funny?
Cause it's the funniest post I see on this thread.
Hey Everyone,
Just got an IM on Google Talk saying "The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!"
Google Talk has gone live, officially.
I'd say Adium is better than iChat, Gaim, and Yahoo Messneger.
Adium gets out of your way when you're talking, iChat is too cartoony for me - and the lack of a name (since it uses buddy icons instead) is distracting.
Hovering over a user's name and seeing their status and picture is nice - in Gaim you see a lot that isn't relevant.
The fact Adium doesn't have ads makes it instantly nicer than the AIM client.
MSN's client is pretty awful, at least on OS X.
The polish & ability to let you get what you want done on Adium is very nice - something that I never found on another chat client.
Your milage may vary - but Adium and Quicksilver are the 2 major reasons I'll stick with Adium.
(Disclaimer: pretty soon I'm hoping to be an Adium bugfix contributor)
GFS (The google file system) stores everything in triplicate.
Right now, I have 2.5 gigs.
This means there's 7.5 gigs of storage dedicated to me.
Assuming the server costs nothing and their only cost for me is the hard drive space, and it costs $0.50 per gig, that's $3.75/user. This also is assuming they have all the hard drive space to allow everyone to use all their storage (big assumption).
I don't know about you, but I've probably never clicked more than 3 ads, at most $0.30/ad.
They're probably not breaking even on Gmail - yet.
Apparently it doesn't auto pull everyone from your address book, but after you first use Talk, it will add buddies when you email them.
Which client are you using? Adium doesn't auto-add anyone to the client, but gmail will add them to the address book when added in Adium.
You sound like a whiny teenage blogger.
You just spell better.
Some of us find this interesting. The fact that the government is making a database of teenagers, Ad-Block is pissing someone off, and marketers are looking at blogs to feel the public's pulse actually interests some of us
Things go in streaks. Three in a row is hardly a statistical anomoly
Am I the only one who thought a bunch of SoftWare Weenies were going to be ready for Country Music Television?
(Man I'm having a bad case of the Mondays)
IBM's pretty serious about releasing things to the public community:
Cloudscape
Eclipse
XML4J
Am I missing some? Unless you're talking about it being more liberal than GPL, then I might agree with you.
There are 2 types of people on earth, those with ADD
An acronym of ADD could lead to great jokes about... ... hey wanna go ride bikes?
Correction: Refactoring should not change behavior
I believe that they released gmail and google maps for both IE and FireFox concurrently, and it was Explorer for OS X, Safari, and Opera that lagged behind...
But your point isn't meant to be an exact example but the general gist. So let's argue that.
IE on Windows is 90% of the market. Why not release for that, beta on IE and Firefox, get general reactions, ui testing, etc, and then move forward with the later releases on every browser?
With Javascript, you have to test interaction on every browser. Would you rather create the beta on 5 browsers, and then change 200 things on 5 browsers going from beta to release, or beta on 2 browsers, then change 200 things on those 2 browsers and create things anew on the rest of the browsers?
Google already does stock tracking (http://www.google.com/ig), but not portfolio tracking. They also look up today's chart and stock price if you search on a ticker symbol.
Grandparent isn't talking about open-sourcing code for RSA, he's talking about making the algorithm public. There's a big difference.
The idea behind an open encryption algorithm is that if there's a flaw in the algorithm, someone who would publish that flaw will find it. The first person to find it might not publicize it, but someone will. (This is what academics in math do)
With a closed encryption algorithm, if someone finds a flaw, they probably won't publish it as they probably shouldn't know the algorithm at all. Academics don't usually spend their time verifying algorithms they shouldn't know about - and the people who do spend their time doing that don't want you to know it's broken.
I'm usually a big fan of Google, but if Schmidt really means that general algorithms for encryption should be kept secret, he's being silly (and I doubt Larry or Sergey would agree with him on it).
Mod parent "Insightful", not Funny. The site was already slow before it was linked to by slashdot.
The page is buckling under the load. First it tells me my serial number is valid for the recall, then it says it isn't, and I can't get the procedure to finish.
Just called Apple Technical support and they'll have a special phone number for the recall tomorrow. (Think they'd get it up the first day when they sent the email and get the most responses, as I'd expect the responses per day to decrease monotonically)
I have an AMD 2200+ with 1 7200 RPM drive and a half gig of ram (and a crisp 17" LCD) but I use my 12" PowerBook for almost everything now. The only thing I use the desktop for is programming and papers.
OS X really has changed the way I expect to use a computer. So yeah, the mini is great because of its size and running OS X. I've thought about picking one up - if I were willing to also buy a DVI&USB KVM.
I do read the comments of the stories I'm interested in (filtered to Score 4 and 5), but I disagree with you in where I happen to find the true value of Slashdot.
Slashdot helps me keep up to date on the newest technologies (guess where I read about Ruby on Rails first?) and issues in the open source and free software movements.
I've had job interviews that I could answer some of the questions because I read Slashdot's front page. It helps me know what people are talking about when they're discussing the new and the hot.
Slashdot has changed a lot in the past year, I'd say (or maybe I've changed, or maybe the community's changed). But it keeps me from having to read the Google Blog, Ars Technica, Mac rumors sites, Apple's front page, and various news outlets for the latest from RMS.
Ah yes, lovely Palo Alto Apple Store (lived in Palo Alto last summer)
Well, for me, they meant it. I really won't get it til Monday. It's in New Jersey now, after being in Harrisburgh PA. (I live in Pittsburgh, so it makes no sense to make it further away. And guarantees my not having it today)
Have fun with it!
Yeah, well I'm not getting it til Monday.
FedEx, surprisingly, (as I usually find them pretty smart) shipped it further away from me throughout the day.
Have fun with it
I ordered Tiger on April 12, which was the day its release was announced, and I got an email yesterday saying
"Due to an unexpected delay, we are unable to ship the following item(s) by the date that you were originally quoted:" (followed by my order for 10.4)
It shipped yesterday, won't arrive til Monday, when they guaranteed upon ordering that it'd be in on or before today.
Has anyone else had the same thing happen to them?
In Soviet Russia, "In Soviet Russia" jokes get tired of YOU!
Am I the only one who read that as REVENGE OF THE SHIT the first time?
Yes, but Gaim for me crashes on reading friends' profiles with greek characters (and having a bunch of friends in fraternities, that's a problem).
I switched 3 weeks ago and have been very, very happy
I added a 12" PowerBook in addition to my Athlon desktop last month, and I'll tell you why I did, and why I am glad I did
This laptop will probably convince me to buy a Mac desktop next. I keep trying to use Quicksilver on my Windows machine. I keep wishing the software I had on my Mac were available on my PC.
Yes, my iPod helped me become more comfortable with the Apple brand name before I bought my PowerBook. I used an old PowerBook at work before, and that got me hooked too.
I bought the laptop right before I left for the Middle East (Qatar to be specific) and wanted it to store images on. It cost a little bit more than a new, larger memory card. But it's been very, very worth it