I like Slashdot. I like it when it covers tech stuff and informs me of interesting phenomena. I really start to dislike it when it gets political. I am a bit tired of the whole "government is evil" and going to tun everyone into free-spending consumers of DRM-laced kool-aid chanting along to the Pledge of Allegiance. If I wanted to conspiracy theories, propaganda, and politically biased and charged articles...I would read Moveon.org or Bushcountry.com. I am seriously thinking of not visiting/. anymore. It has become a real chore to get through some of this stuff. My $0.02, your mileage may vary.
I was so frustrated with my mobile company (T- mobile), that I was red in the face every time I had to deal with them. I had been a loyal customer for two years and was ready to upgrade my phone. They had no upgrade plan. I had to pay the full $400 for a phone that was $199 ($99 after rebate) for a new customer. I talked to the sales rep, talked to a customer service person on the phone, etc. They understood my problem, but the company had no official position on upgrades at the time. I wound up purchasing a new phone at the higher rate. One year later, I wanted a phone that would synch with my Mac via Bluetooth. Again, I have the same dilemma! they still had no official plan or offer.
This was the end. I switched to AT&T and haven't been sorry. AT&T *HAS* an upgrade policy in place. I just wish that I could have moved my number too. I just didn't want to wait for number portability. When I called T-mobile to cancel my account...they asked why I was canceling and I told them. The lady (very pleasant lady BTW) said that she could give me a better deal on a phone if I stayed a customer. I asked her why the official T-mobile store and the phone rep that I talked with couldn't do it before and she replied that they only offer it when the customer is about to cancel service. She also stated that number portability has forced them to draft new policies on phone upgrades! The ONLY reason I did not like their company was this upgrade problem.
I really think that this number portability plan will be a wake-up call for mobile companies and force them to be a better provider. Otherwise customers will vote with their pocket books when their contracts are up. I am finally glad to see something coming out of Washington that is worth a damn.
These days I only keep the Britannica "Great Books" series in my home and assorted DVDROM encyclopedias. I rarely use the DVDs though.
I used to buy the newspaper for movies. The telephone book for numbers. The TV Guide (in the Sunday paper) for TV shows. Now all of that is taken care of in Apple's Sherlock or Watson. I don't even mail anything these days...I use email. I do mail stuff for half.com sales and netflix.com....but even my bills are starting to be handled through an online bill pay service.
I am starting to get a lot of my news from the internet too. Soon, I will only watch TV for news commentary and shows...on Tivo, of course!:-)
It worked...but there seemed to be a big. I wasn't able to grab a name from the address book and have it fill in the correct info. Your own mileage may vary. It is going to be the best tool when it is refined and released. Trust me. It just rocks. I really think that it was a bug when I wasn't able to get the fax number to populate. I was able to just type the fax number in the "Send to" (or whatever) box and it dialed and sent the fax.
This will hopefully (probably) be refined when the OS ships.
I have been using Panther for a week and have found many good improvements.
1. File browser (a la windows) is fast and can be changed back to a "normal" window.
2. Expose is brilliant. Though it may conflict with the screensaver settings when corners are used. I personally like using the f-keys for expose and the corners for the screensaver (activation and deactivation).
3. Faxing is as easy as printing and saving as PDF. You can also have received faxes mailed or printed. Faxing is very very easy in 10.3.
4. Preview.app is faster and works in a similar fashion as Acrobat Reader. Nice.
5. Fast user switching is just brilliant (graphically). It will be very useful when you have a shared machine.
6. Secure "Empty Trash" is a nice feature. I am not sure if I will use it...but someone in my office thinks it is the Holy Grail. I am not that excited about it...but it is probably useful.
7. Color Coded Folders/Files (the text is color coded in actuality) is nice and saves me time when digging for a file or group of files.
8. The "eject" menu icon in the right hand side of the menu bar is interesting. But it only worked with the drive tray. It would be nice if it would eject mounted items and servers.
9. User customization of desktop pics and colors is refined and much friendlier.
10. The print center is much improved.
This is the bad stuff...
1. The fax feature did not integrate well with the address book. BUT...you can have one machine as the dedicated fax machine and all other computers in the office can fax through it.
2. Some photoshop filter controls did not draw correctly on the screen or didn't show up at all.
3. There seemed to be some cut and paste clipboard errors. It seemed to show up in Safari and the Address Book.
4. Quicken 2003 seems to have strange behavior when used in 10.3. But it is usable.
Features that will hopefully show up in the actual release:
1. Piles. I know they seem trivial. But I would like it.
2. Themes. I really like the idea of customizing my OS and maybe tone down Aqua a bit.
3. Multiple docks. One for office apps. One for games. One for graphical/web apps. And in the darkness bind them...;-P Just being silly.
I know this is a preview release...but it is very stable and usable. I cannot wait until the actual release. The fax sharing and abilities are worth the price of the upgrade. The rest is just gravy. My $.02.
I have come to the conclusion that files purchased and downloaded from Audible.com are NOT visible when streaming. I have a playlist that lists all of my audio books purchased from audible.com. These files are not visible to people who are listening to my music via "sharing".
I just started to use the audio blog feature on blogger. It is still in the early stages of implementation, but seems to work. I told me girl friends about it and she thought it was silly. I told my buddy about it and he thought that it might have some good use for posting to his site to explain homework assignments for his students (he is a college level professor).
The whole talking head aspect is interesting to show folks what you look like or to pan around the room while talking, but it isn't really that practical...other than for wow factor. But someone might really enjoy it and have a good reason to have it.
I don't follow bench marks or processor speeds. I have 2 Macs in my home and use a Mac at work. I use them because they are EASY and don't require much maintenance. OS X is very stable and all of my apps run on it without much (or any) problem. I have tried about every version of Windows since 3.1 and I can't say the same for the Microsoft product.
Benchmark all you want...it just doen't matter to me.
As a former Marine, I find it very interesting that your find...
* attacking that supertanker the other month - terrorism. * ramming the Cole - legit. * blowing up the WTC - terrorism. * blowing up the Pentagon - legit. * shooting off-duty US marines in Yemen - legit
...these things "legit". I always found it very interesting that the "enemy" can use any means to kill Americans and we were always having to fight with one hand tied behind our backs by following the rules of war (no glass rounds, gases, torture, flame throwers, no killing captured/wounded/surrendered enemy COMBATANTS). I am glad I am finished serving a country full of liberal, trash talking, idealist, idiots like you.
A few of my buddies are some place in the Persian Gulf now. I sincerely hope that they come back in one piece...even though they are following rules that none of our enemies follow! Go fuck yourself.
I have about 15,000 MP3s, a few OGG files, and tried the MPEG-4 out. I really like the MPEG-4. way smaller than MP3s, plays natively in iTunes, and sounds great. I purchased Quicktime Pro and "rip" CDs to MPEG-4 with a nice applescript from this site:
I could really care less about the box office. Everytime I go to the movies...
1. The food portions are smaller than a few years ago. 2. The price is WAY WAY higher! 3. People's cell phones are going off. 4. Some a**hole is giving comentary to the person sitting next to him/her.
I don't think Mac users are smarter or anything else because they use Macs...I think that they are people who are willing to try something different than what the masses use (Windows). If this theory is true, than any person who uses an alternative to Windows is smarter. I really think that people that follow a "herd" mentality are really going through life with blinders on and might not be flexing their intellectual muscle. This might be true in many aspects of life and not just computing.
A few weeks ago I started to really think about all of the math that I missed or didn'tpay that much attention to in high school and college. Most of my study was on liberal art topics and not sciences, nor mathmatics.
I went to my local Borders Books and picked up a copy of Algebra for Dummies. It helped to knock the rust off of my math memories. After finishing the Algebra book, I plan on getting Geometry for Dummies, Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide (Self-Teaching Guide) by Stephen L. Slavin, Mathematics at Work: Practical Applications of Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Logarithms to the Step-By-Step Solutions of mechanica by Henry H. Ryffel, and Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide (Self-Teaching Guide) by Karl F. Kuhn.
I carefully looked through the books and reviews on Amazon.com. I think that when I am finished going over these books...i will have quenched my thirst for mathmatics revival!
The rest of the world finds the fetish the US makes over its flag somewhat peculiar.
That isn't entirely true. I was in Thailand and bought a pair of running shorts. I also had a Thai flag sewn on the leg...I guess that it was because I really liked Thailand and felt compelled to wear their flag while I was there.
The lady would not sew it on. She said it was disrespectful to sew the flag on below the waist. I find it very odd that Americans don't have that same kind of respect for our flag. We shit on it, wear it as a diaper, use it for firestarter, etc.
I admire people that try to hold on to respect for one's country and symbols of that union.
Since when was it allowed that taxpayer funded endeavors can't be used with out permission? All taxpayer funded works can be used without care in any endeavor. I am not a lawyer, but one just has to look at the National Archives to see works from Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. Go there download to your hearts content and use how you wish. Pay a little money for higher res versions of the same photographs. I would think the same would be true of the NPR site. But you never know.
http://www.nara.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=im ag es.txt&id=demo&pass=&OK=OK
I read some place that because of accelerated bone loss, women might not be able to make the trip. They would be toothless and have fragile bones by the time they got back. the lack of gravity on the way over and back being the culprit. It would still do the same to men...but not to such a radical and damaging degree.
It just isn't science fiction or political correctness that should be the judge in picking a crew...but in success of mission...and who would reasonably be expected to complete the mission.
I did the same thing. I love my VisorPhone. I did upgrade the browser....other than that...it has worked perfectly. There are a few differences in the software of the VisorPhone itself...but there doesn't seem to be an update or upgrade for the embedded software itself.
A very cool device and WAY WAY cheaper than the TREOs.
I have a visorphone and find it to be a very valuable asset. I used to carry around 3 devices all the time:
1. Cell phone 2. Visor 3. iPod
Now, I am down to two devices and feel pretty damn lucky to be rid of that damn phone. Doing text messaging was a joke. And now I have internet access...and not on some small little screen... I love my visorphone.
Just going on a tangent here...but the human race has never been so large in poulation before either. You buy a damn lojak for your car...why not for your kid? Better than putting them on leashes like some parents do. Obviously, this is not an ideal tool for older children. I am a good parent...but is my observation of my child enough to thwart some jackass looking to grab a kid? Think about that.
You are wrong in saying that this device is wrong. Wait until the first time your 6 year old happens to walk away in a crowded place like 6 Flags. I am a very vigilant parent...I try and be careful about my son's well being 24/7. But it sometimes isn't enough. He has walked off 2 times in 8 years. He didn't go far...and luckily I found him within minutes. But children sometimes are abducted within those few minutes. If I would have had access to this watch when he was younger...I would have bought two. One for him and a back-up. There is nothing more important that my kid's safety.
Every single article that I read by Mr. Raskin has vilified and bitchified Steve Jobs and his user interface. I am starting to wonder if there isn't another reason why he seems to bitch so much. Is this more of a personal assault to Jobs & company or does he truly think that skins and OS X, in particular, are just poop? It makes me wonder if he doth ccomplain too much?
He will continue to complain until he starts to become annoying and then folks will start to dismiss him. It kind of happened to Jakob Nielsen. He complained so much about new web technologies that I started to see people ignore him. These are both super smart people, but I haven't seen a whole lot of cutting edge stuff from them. I am starting to become tired of the hooey from both of them.
Slashdot Mirror
I like Slashdot. I like it when it covers tech stuff and informs me of interesting phenomena. I really start to dislike it when it gets political. I am a bit tired of the whole "government is evil" and going to tun everyone into free-spending consumers of DRM-laced kool-aid chanting along to the Pledge of Allegiance. If I wanted to conspiracy theories, propaganda, and politically biased and charged articles...I would read Moveon.org or Bushcountry.com. I am seriously thinking of not visiting /. anymore. It has become a real chore to get through some of this stuff. My $0.02, your mileage may vary.
I was so frustrated with my mobile company (T- mobile), that I was red in the face every time I had to deal with them. I had been a loyal customer for two years and was ready to upgrade my phone. They had no upgrade plan. I had to pay the full $400 for a phone that was $199 ($99 after rebate) for a new customer. I talked to the sales rep, talked to a customer service person on the phone, etc. They understood my problem, but the company had no official position on upgrades at the time. I wound up purchasing a new phone at the higher rate. One year later, I wanted a phone that would synch with my Mac via Bluetooth. Again, I have the same dilemma! they still had no official plan or offer.
This was the end. I switched to AT&T and haven't been sorry. AT&T *HAS* an upgrade policy in place. I just wish that I could have moved my number too. I just didn't want to wait for number portability. When I called T-mobile to cancel my account...they asked why I was canceling and I told them. The lady (very pleasant lady BTW) said that she could give me a better deal on a phone if I stayed a customer. I asked her why the official T-mobile store and the phone rep that I talked with couldn't do it before and she replied that they only offer it when the customer is about to cancel service. She also stated that number portability has forced them to draft new policies on phone upgrades! The ONLY reason I did not like their company was this upgrade problem.
I really think that this number portability plan will be a wake-up call for mobile companies and force them to be a better provider. Otherwise customers will vote with their pocket books when their contracts are up. I am finally glad to see something coming out of Washington that is worth a damn.
These days I only keep the Britannica "Great Books" series in my home and assorted DVDROM encyclopedias. I rarely use the DVDs though.
:-)
I used to buy the newspaper for movies. The telephone book for numbers. The TV Guide (in the Sunday paper) for TV shows. Now all of that is taken care of in Apple's Sherlock or Watson. I don't even mail anything these days...I use email. I do mail stuff for half.com sales and netflix.com....but even my bills are starting to be handled through an online bill pay service.
I am starting to get a lot of my news from the internet too. Soon, I will only watch TV for news commentary and shows...on Tivo, of course!
360 degree porn...no seams...no wrinkles....all action.
1. Get up at 4:30 (am) and jog for 30 minutes to an hour before work. 4 days a week.
2. Cross-train. Yoga, cycle, swim, resistance training, etc. 1 morning a week. There are plenty of yoga DVDs or bike shops everywhere.
3. Stop drinking beer. Stop drinking soda and sugary drinks. No more desserts and pastries. Period.
You will lose the weight.
It worked...but there seemed to be a big. I wasn't able to grab a name from the address book and have it fill in the correct info. Your own mileage may vary. It is going to be the best tool when it is refined and released. Trust me. It just rocks. I really think that it was a bug when I wasn't able to get the fax number to populate. I was able to just type the fax number in the "Send to" (or whatever) box and it dialed and sent the fax.
This will hopefully (probably) be refined when the OS ships.
I have been using Panther for a week and have found many good improvements.
;-P Just being silly.
1. File browser (a la windows) is fast and can be changed back to a "normal" window.
2. Expose is brilliant. Though it may conflict with the screensaver settings when corners are used. I personally like using the f-keys for expose and the corners for the screensaver (activation and deactivation).
3. Faxing is as easy as printing and saving as PDF. You can also have received faxes mailed or printed. Faxing is very very easy in 10.3.
4. Preview.app is faster and works in a similar fashion as Acrobat Reader. Nice.
5. Fast user switching is just brilliant (graphically). It will be very useful when you have a shared machine.
6. Secure "Empty Trash" is a nice feature. I am not sure if I will use it...but someone in my office thinks it is the Holy Grail. I am not that excited about it...but it is probably useful.
7. Color Coded Folders/Files (the text is color coded in actuality) is nice and saves me time when digging for a file or group of files.
8. The "eject" menu icon in the right hand side of the menu bar is interesting. But it only worked with the drive tray. It would be nice if it would eject mounted items and servers.
9. User customization of desktop pics and colors is refined and much friendlier.
10. The print center is much improved.
This is the bad stuff...
1. The fax feature did not integrate well with the address book. BUT...you can have one machine as the dedicated fax machine and all other computers in the office can fax through it.
2. Some photoshop filter controls did not draw correctly on the screen or didn't show up at all.
3. There seemed to be some cut and paste clipboard errors. It seemed to show up in Safari and the Address Book.
4. Quicken 2003 seems to have strange behavior when used in 10.3. But it is usable.
Features that will hopefully show up in the actual release:
1. Piles. I know they seem trivial. But I would like it.
2. Themes. I really like the idea of customizing my OS and maybe tone down Aqua a bit.
3. Multiple docks. One for office apps. One for games. One for graphical/web apps. And in the darkness bind them...
I know this is a preview release...but it is very stable and usable. I cannot wait until the actual release. The fax sharing and abilities are worth the price of the upgrade. The rest is just gravy. My $.02.
I have come to the conclusion that files purchased and downloaded from Audible.com are NOT visible when streaming. I have a playlist that lists all of my audio books purchased from audible.com. These files are not visible to people who are listening to my music via "sharing".
I just started to use the audio blog feature on blogger. It is still in the early stages of implementation, but seems to work. I told me girl friends about it and she thought it was silly. I told my buddy about it and he thought that it might have some good use for posting to his site to explain homework assignments for his students (he is a college level professor).
The whole talking head aspect is interesting to show folks what you look like or to pan around the room while talking, but it isn't really that practical...other than for wow factor. But someone might really enjoy it and have a good reason to have it.
I don't follow bench marks or processor speeds. I have 2 Macs in my home and use a Mac at work. I use them because they are EASY and don't require much maintenance. OS X is very stable and all of my apps run on it without much (or any) problem. I have tried about every version of Windows since 3.1 and I can't say the same for the Microsoft product.
Benchmark all you want...it just doen't matter to me.
* attacking that supertanker the other month - terrorism.
* ramming the Cole - legit.
* blowing up the WTC - terrorism.
* blowing up the Pentagon - legit.
* shooting off-duty US marines in Yemen - legit
A few of my buddies are some place in the Persian Gulf now. I sincerely hope that they come back in one piece...even though they are following rules that none of our enemies follow! Go fuck yourself.
I have about 15,000 MP3s, a few OGG files, and tried the MPEG-4 out. I really like the MPEG-4. way smaller than MP3s, plays natively in iTunes, and sounds great. I purchased Quicktime Pro and "rip" CDs to MPEG-4 with a nice applescript from this site:
e mpeg4.shtml
http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/itinfo/makemin
Yeah, the files don't play in my iPod...and that is a cryin' shame. Otherwise, I can't find anything wrong with MPEG-4.
I could really care less about the box office. Everytime I go to the movies...
1. The food portions are smaller than a few years ago.
2. The price is WAY WAY higher!
3. People's cell phones are going off.
4. Some a**hole is giving comentary to the person sitting next to him/her.
Overall, not a very pleasant experience.
I was (am) a big PHP, MySQL, ASP, Perl, etc newbie. i found most of the stuff on Devhed.com to be of great value. Kind of like webmonkey for big kids.
I don't think Mac users are smarter or anything else because they use Macs...I think that they are people who are willing to try something different than what the masses use (Windows). If this theory is true, than any person who uses an alternative to Windows is smarter. I really think that people that follow a "herd" mentality are really going through life with blinders on and might not be flexing their intellectual muscle. This might be true in many aspects of life and not just computing.
A few weeks ago I started to really think about all of the math that I missed or didn'tpay that much attention to in high school and college. Most of my study was on liberal art topics and not sciences, nor mathmatics.
I went to my local Borders Books and picked up a copy of Algebra for Dummies. It helped to knock the rust off of my math memories. After finishing the Algebra book, I plan on getting Geometry for Dummies, Precalculus: A Self-Teaching Guide (Self-Teaching Guide) by Stephen L. Slavin, Mathematics at Work: Practical Applications of Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Logarithms to the Step-By-Step Solutions of mechanica by Henry H. Ryffel, and Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide (Self-Teaching Guide) by Karl F. Kuhn.
I carefully looked through the books and reviews on Amazon.com. I think that when I am finished going over these books...i will have quenched my thirst for mathmatics revival!
That isn't entirely true. I was in Thailand and bought a pair of running shorts. I also had a Thai flag sewn on the leg...I guess that it was because I really liked Thailand and felt compelled to wear their flag while I was there.
The lady would not sew it on. She said it was disrespectful to sew the flag on below the waist. I find it very odd that Americans don't have that same kind of respect for our flag. We shit on it, wear it as a diaper, use it for firestarter, etc.
I admire people that try to hold on to respect for one's country and symbols of that union.
Since when was it allowed that taxpayer funded endeavors can't be used with out permission? All taxpayer funded works can be used without care in any endeavor. I am not a lawyer, but one just has to look at the National Archives to see works from Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. Go there download to your hearts content and use how you wish. Pay a little money for higher res versions of the same photographs. I would think the same would be true of the NPR site. But you never know.
m ag es.txt&id=demo&pass=&OK=OK
http://www.nara.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=i
I read some place that because of accelerated bone loss, women might not be able to make the trip. They would be toothless and have fragile bones by the time they got back. the lack of gravity on the way over and back being the culprit. It would still do the same to men...but not to such a radical and damaging degree.
It just isn't science fiction or political correctness that should be the judge in picking a crew...but in success of mission...and who would reasonably be expected to complete the mission.
I did the same thing. I love my VisorPhone. I did upgrade the browser....other than that...it has worked perfectly. There are a few differences in the software of the VisorPhone itself...but there doesn't seem to be an update or upgrade for the embedded software itself.
A very cool device and WAY WAY cheaper than the TREOs.
I have a visorphone and find it to be a very valuable asset. I used to carry around 3 devices all the time:
1. Cell phone
2. Visor
3. iPod
Now, I am down to two devices and feel pretty damn lucky to be rid of that damn phone. Doing text messaging was a joke. And now I have internet access...and not on some small little screen... I love my visorphone.
Just going on a tangent here...but the human race has never been so large in poulation before either. You buy a damn lojak for your car...why not for your kid? Better than putting them on leashes like some parents do. Obviously, this is not an ideal tool for older children. I am a good parent...but is my observation of my child enough to thwart some jackass looking to grab a kid? Think about that.
You are wrong in saying that this device is wrong. Wait until the first time your 6 year old happens to walk away in a crowded place like 6 Flags. I am a very vigilant parent...I try and be careful about my son's well being 24/7. But it sometimes isn't enough. He has walked off 2 times in 8 years. He didn't go far...and luckily I found him within minutes. But children sometimes are abducted within those few minutes. If I would have had access to this watch when he was younger...I would have bought two. One for him and a back-up. There is nothing more important that my kid's safety.
I would be very happy if the RIAA labeled music "copy protected". I would be able to skip over them in the record store! ;-)
Every single article that I read by Mr. Raskin has vilified and bitchified Steve Jobs and his user interface. I am starting to wonder if there isn't another reason why he seems to bitch so much. Is this more of a personal assault to Jobs & company or does he truly think that skins and OS X, in particular, are just poop? It makes me wonder if he doth ccomplain too much?
He will continue to complain until he starts to become annoying and then folks will start to dismiss him. It kind of happened to Jakob Nielsen. He complained so much about new web technologies that I started to see people ignore him. These are both super smart people, but I haven't seen a whole lot of cutting edge stuff from them. I am starting to become tired of the hooey from both of them.
Just a thought.