The network is 1. GSM, 2. 1900Mhz only. This means that you can order a phone from Europe or Asian way in advance of the US release.
I got a Nokia 7610 for $380 in September. It's out now on Cingular for something like $320 with a two year contract.
You won't have service in the middle of nowhere though. That doesn't bother me since I spend most of my time in cities and the suburbs around them. It does bother some people. It's all about what you want; I want cool phones without having to wait for the US release.
bluetooth keyboard. It doesn't work with a 6600 but a 6620 would work. Or a 7610 (what I have. It's got all of the features of the 6600 but it's smaller and weirder looking).
The CoB guys say there isn't much else to do in Finald but that sounds like fun to me... (the guitarist was drunk off of his ass at the time while wearing a Heinekin bottle and declaring himself the "King of Mother Fucking Finland" Feeeenland).
I'm using WindowMaker and all of the GIMP windows have one icon. It's called SharedAppIcon mode. It's the default in newer version of WindowMaker.
When I click on the GIMP AppIcon all of the GIMP windows come to the front. When I alt-tab or manually click on a window only that window comes to the front. NetWM has (IIRC) a hint for specifying if the window is a floating pallet type of window. If GIMP isn't using it now all it has to do is set the hint for its windows (if GDK has support for a compatible hint; if not it should be added and wouldn't be too much work).
Sorry, but MDI interfaces are dumb. No one bitches about how Photoshop on the Mac has a very similar UI. GIMP 2.x has menubars on the image windows now (unless you turn them off, as I have) so no one can complain about having to right-click being non-intuitive.
The menu structure could maybe use a bit of a reorganization, but the interface has no major flaws.
The FireGL 8800 is the fastest r200 card. The Radeon 9100 is the second fastest and is way cheaper and easier to find. The Radeon 9200 is slower than the 9100.
The Gtk+ 1.2 file dialogs were copies of the Classic Mac OS ones.
Everyone bitched endlessly about how files and directories were separated...my first computer was a mac and I didn't really even notice until it was pointed out to me years later. It doesn't seem that odd really.
Apple is capable of committing no evil around here, you know?
Re:Hooray for dumbing down?
on
GIMP 2.2 Released
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Easy solution: Make the text box viewable in the box and make ctrl-l focus it.
It's still obvious that you can type the filename in if you'd like and you no longer have to use the mouse (unless you wish to) to make the text box have focus.
At the same time it won't confuse them either. Just because it's there doesn't mean they have to use it.
Windows has a text line for entering a filename in the standard open dialog. The classic Mac OS did too (and it even had the split pane between directories and files). An appeal to popularity is an invalid method of arguing but no one seems to be confused by having a line that a filename can be typed into.
Making people type ctrl-l to get that functionality or making people use the text line exclusively are confusing. Providing both is not.
The Gtk+ 1.2 open dialog was identical the Classic MacOS dialog. If Apple does it then it's cool. If the Gtk+ developers do it it's bad. Right.
The new file dialogs suck. It wouldn't confuse anyone to just put a single text entry line instead of having to make users press ctrl-l (which has to be pointed out to them and makes doing something that some of us have become reliant on harder).
They make money touring. T-Shirts are concert tickets make way more money than a CD. An artist is lucky to make $1 or $2 on a CD. A T-Shirt can sell for anywhere from $15-$40 at a concert. You can get two color silk-screened shirts done in small runs for around $5-$6 total cost. Selling a single shirt at $16 makes the artist around $10.
The problem is that people view this as a problem. The record industry's job is to promote artists. They therefore take most of the money from album sales but they don't touch the musician's merchandise and ticket sales.
The only people really suffering are people who are obsessed with achieving worldwide fame and getting to the top quickly. It takes a long time and a lot of work to become sucessful. Regularly performing live is probably the most important part of that. Eventually someone will notice if you're good. Maybe not one of the Big Five but someone.
Dream Theater is one of the most popular Progressive Rock bands currently making music.
James LaBrie is the singer.
Their albums tend to at least go gold and their tours (they tour at least twice a year and I'm talking huge tours headlining or co-headlining with people like Yes and Queensrÿche) sell out quickly.
Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't make them popular. Have you ever heard of a little band called Nightwish? Their last album went platinum in Finland in about a week...(they've only toured North America once and that was earlier this year and the US screwed up the issuing of their work visas so they had to cancel the show near me...grrr).
"Dude, dude, dude......guess where I am? Hehehe, dude, I am in a plane he he whoooooaaaa dude" your breaking up there.....CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??? HOW ABOUT NOW????!!!?.
Kind of off-topic but...
I've always wondered why cell phones didn't apply a huge gain and then hard limit the mic. You're only transmitting voice so losing dynamic range isn't a big deal and would eliminate the need for yelling since speaking softly and yelling would be at nearly the same volume at the other end...
Same thing on the incoming signal.
It couldn't be that difficult (especially when you can buy phones that walk your dog and do the laundry for you now).
The key to making the FM transmitter work in DC/Baltimore is to make sure the Neuros is plugged into your ciggarrette light adaptor. Or just take off your external attenna.
I took off my attenna because I was tired of people changing the radio station on me (I listen to European metal for the most part and the radio sucks) and my Camaro looks better without an attenna:)
You could also resolder the RF port to the internal attenna and try that.
Getting a Neuros II would fix it automatically because those things have godly FM transmitters (grr, I convinced a friend to get a Neuros II and I want to steal his head to replace my Neuros I head...I could do it if I swapped the casing...evil).
You may not have 80GB of music, but those of us with hundreds of gigs' worth are drooling over the idea of an 80GB iPod.
I've had an 80G portable music player since May.
It plays Ogg Vorbis (and MP3 and WMA but I don't use them) and gets an eight hour battery life. Since June 03.
It also records (noisy biult-in mic [works good for lectures] and line-in).
I paid $400 for it with a 20G HD in June 03, dropped it while it was spinning in May 04, and got an 80G HD for it for $160. You can get it new with an 80G HD right now for $400. Or $250 for the 20G.
Why is an 80G iPod (released at the earliest in Fall 2005) big news? It's not.
Did I mention the firmware was released as Free Software?
You could set up a proxy on your computer and set it up to resize images and block known ad hosts (can squid be programmed to do stuff like this? It couldn't be too hard to customize a proxy to resize all images...). It would work with Opera (since you can set the proxy) but I don't think it would work with the Sidekick (stupid closed platform).
Slashdot Mirror
Ten years of web design experience isn't that much. The web wasn't as popular back in 1995 but it was there.
Most European phones are tri-band (900/1800/1900). Cingular uses 850 so you have to wait for the 850/1800/1900 version.
My point still stands.
Switch to T-Mobile USA.
The network is 1. GSM, 2. 1900Mhz only. This means that you can order a phone from Europe or Asian way in advance of the US release.
I got a Nokia 7610 for $380 in September. It's out now on Cingular for something like $320 with a two year contract.
You won't have service in the middle of nowhere though. That doesn't bother me since I spend most of my time in cities and the suburbs around them. It does bother some people. It's all about what you want; I want cool phones without having to wait for the US release.
Nokia 1100. Nokia 3120 (if you want color).
I'll keep my though. A SmartPhone seems kind of useless until you get one and then you realize all the stuff you can do with it (e.g. GPRS modem anywhere I have cell service, remote control for XMMS using bemused+bluetooth, wasting lots of time, ...). It works great as a PDA too.
To each his own I guess.
bluetooth keyboard. It doesn't work with a 6600 but a 6620 would work. Or a 7610 (what I have. It's got all of the features of the 6600 but it's smaller and weirder looking).
You can drink a lot, smoke a lot of pot, and start a successful death metal band.
The CoB guys say there isn't much else to do in Finald but that sounds like fun to me ... (the guitarist was drunk off of his ass at the time while wearing a Heinekin bottle and declaring himself the "King of Mother Fucking Finland" Feeeenland).
I'm using WindowMaker and all of the GIMP windows have one icon. It's called SharedAppIcon mode. It's the default in newer version of WindowMaker.
When I click on the GIMP AppIcon all of the GIMP windows come to the front. When I alt-tab or manually click on a window only that window comes to the front. NetWM has (IIRC) a hint for specifying if the window is a floating pallet type of window. If GIMP isn't using it now all it has to do is set the hint for its windows (if GDK has support for a compatible hint; if not it should be added and wouldn't be too much work).
Then we can blame the window managers :)
The Neuros version of Tremor runs on a TI DSP that has access to 64K of memory (total, for the code and data).
It works fine. The source is available too.
There's nothing to change. It's fine as it is.
Sorry, but MDI interfaces are dumb. No one bitches about how Photoshop on the Mac has a very similar UI. GIMP 2.x has menubars on the image windows now (unless you turn them off, as I have) so no one can complain about having to right-click being non-intuitive.
The menu structure could maybe use a bit of a reorganization, but the interface has no major flaws.
When I'm at work I keep my phone in my shirt pocket.
I guess my heart is going to die now.
The FireGL 8800 is the fastest r200 card. The Radeon 9100 is the second fastest and is way cheaper and easier to find. The Radeon 9200 is slower than the 9100.
The 9100 is your best bet.
The Gtk+ 1.2 file dialogs were copies of the Classic Mac OS ones.
Everyone bitched endlessly about how files and directories were separated...my first computer was a mac and I didn't really even notice until it was pointed out to me years later. It doesn't seem that odd really.
Apple is capable of committing no evil around here, you know?
Easy solution: Make the text box viewable in the box and make ctrl-l focus it.
It's still obvious that you can type the filename in if you'd like and you no longer have to use the mouse (unless you wish to) to make the text box have focus.
At the same time it won't confuse them either. Just because it's there doesn't mean they have to use it.
Windows has a text line for entering a filename in the standard open dialog. The classic Mac OS did too (and it even had the split pane between directories and files). An appeal to popularity is an invalid method of arguing but no one seems to be confused by having a line that a filename can be typed into.
Making people type ctrl-l to get that functionality or making people use the text line exclusively are confusing. Providing both is not.
That's an extra step that isn't needed.
The Gtk+ 1.2 open dialog was identical the Classic MacOS dialog. If Apple does it then it's cool. If the Gtk+ developers do it it's bad. Right.
The new file dialogs suck. It wouldn't confuse anyone to just put a single text entry line instead of having to make users press ctrl-l (which has to be pointed out to them and makes doing something that some of us have become reliant on harder).
Musicians don't make money selling albums.
They make money touring. T-Shirts are concert tickets make way more money than a CD. An artist is lucky to make $1 or $2 on a CD. A T-Shirt can sell for anywhere from $15-$40 at a concert. You can get two color silk-screened shirts done in small runs for around $5-$6 total cost. Selling a single shirt at $16 makes the artist around $10.
The problem is that people view this as a problem. The record industry's job is to promote artists. They therefore take most of the money from album sales but they don't touch the musician's merchandise and ticket sales.
The only people really suffering are people who are obsessed with achieving worldwide fame and getting to the top quickly. It takes a long time and a lot of work to become sucessful. Regularly performing live is probably the most important part of that. Eventually someone will notice if you're good. Maybe not one of the Big Five but someone.
Dream Theater is one of the most popular Progressive Rock bands currently making music.
James LaBrie is the singer.
Their albums tend to at least go gold and their tours (they tour at least twice a year and I'm talking huge tours headlining or co-headlining with people like Yes and Queensrÿche) sell out quickly.
Just because you haven't heard of them doesn't make them popular. Have you ever heard of a little band called Nightwish? Their last album went platinum in Finland in about a week...(they've only toured North America once and that was earlier this year and the US screwed up the issuing of their work visas so they had to cancel the show near me...grrr).
This place is probably too far from the CO to get any kind of DSL service at all.
"Dude, dude, dude......guess where I am? Hehehe, dude, I am in a plane he he whoooooaaaa dude" your breaking up there.....CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW??? HOW ABOUT NOW????!!!?.
Kind of off-topic but ...
I've always wondered why cell phones didn't apply a huge gain and then hard limit the mic. You're only transmitting voice so losing dynamic range isn't a big deal and would eliminate the need for yelling since speaking softly and yelling would be at nearly the same volume at the other end...
Same thing on the incoming signal.
It couldn't be that difficult (especially when you can buy phones that walk your dog and do the laundry for you now).
The key to making the FM transmitter work in DC/Baltimore is to make sure the Neuros is plugged into your ciggarrette light adaptor. Or just take off your external attenna.
I took off my attenna because I was tired of people changing the radio station on me (I listen to European metal for the most part and the radio sucks) and my Camaro looks better without an attenna :)
You could also resolder the RF port to the internal attenna and try that.
Getting a Neuros II would fix it automatically because those things have godly FM transmitters (grr, I convinced a friend to get a Neuros II and I want to steal his head to replace my Neuros I head...I could do it if I swapped the casing...evil).
You may not have 80GB of music, but those of us with hundreds of gigs' worth are drooling over the idea of an 80GB iPod.
I've had an 80G portable music player since May.
It plays Ogg Vorbis (and MP3 and WMA but I don't use them) and gets an eight hour battery life. Since June 03.
It also records (noisy biult-in mic [works good for lectures] and line-in).
I paid $400 for it with a 20G HD in June 03, dropped it while it was spinning in May 04, and got an 80G HD for it for $160. You can get it new with an 80G HD right now for $400. Or $250 for the 20G.
Why is an 80G iPod (released at the earliest in Fall 2005) big news? It's not.
Did I mention the firmware was released as Free Software?
You could set up a proxy on your computer and set it up to resize images and block known ad hosts (can squid be programmed to do stuff like this? It couldn't be too hard to customize a proxy to resize all images...). It would work with Opera (since you can set the proxy) but I don't think it would work with the Sidekick (stupid closed platform).
Opera has a proxy service that resizes images and stuff to make web pages on mobile devices faster to download.
When you buy Opera (at least for a Series60 Nokia phone) you get a 90 trial. It is well worth subscribing to.
You could get a 3660 which has a normal keypad.
Or a Nokia 6600. Or 7610. Or one of the many other Series60 phones. Not all of them have IR though.
None of them are as weird as the 3650 though. Except for the one that's the size of a lipstick container and is voice operated...
An independent dealer issued the advertising materials and Nextel acted quickly to cut relations with them and stop the advertisements.