Apple added this feature as an update with iTunes 7.
Are we sure this charge for the 802.11n update is official from Apple? They do include it on the disc that comes with the new Airport Extreme. I don't see it available anywhere else yet, or mentioned anywhere else.
As a Mac user I welcome the interface change. I've seen some screenshots here and there of Office 2007 and I have to say I'm eager to try out Office 2008 for the Mac when it comes out later this year. Even as a PC user I've found the last few iterations of Office to be a toolbar and menu nightmare. Too many options, too many badly rendered icons and the contextual menu, an abomination I'm sure all of us have turned off. That probably wasn't the reaction Microsoft's UI designers expected or wanted when Office 2003 came out.
I mean, where are these "Desktop Class Apps" touted in the keynote? All I see on the phone is Calender, Maps, Notes and a Web Browser. That's it? And we're supposed to be excited it took OSX to run those? How can this phone *not* be considered a tablet PC/phone?
Then why did Apple deem it necessary to compare the iPhone to the "usual suspects" of the Treo and other smartphones at the keynote and call it "5 years ahead of anything out there" when apparently the only thing now it has in common with them is it's also a phone?
So that's it? The iPhone saved space by not having a plastic keyboard? Please tell me after two days after the keynote that's not the only advantage it actually has.
No, OS/2 and Vista are nothing alike. I was a Warp 4 beta tester back in the day. I ran Warp 3 on some of the first Pentiums that came out. There was nothing bloated about OS/2, except that Warp 3 came on about 30 floppies. I had a pre-emptive multitasking system back when everyone else was clicking in amazement on the first Start button with that Rolling Stones song blaring in the background.
What doomed OS/2 was the apps and the drivers. I very much remember waiting and waiting and finally celebrating when Netscape came out for OS/2. A real native 32-bit OS/2 version of Netscape! Yes, it was sad but it was great at the same time.
Vista won't have any of those problems. Everything will be written for Vista. Vista will be preloaded on every PC out there from here on. OS/2 never had that.
BTW, on a sidenote, OS/2 also had a clunky interface by the time Warp 3 and 4 rolled around. Ever heard of that program called WindowBlinds? Of course you have. Well, the company that makes it is called Stardock. Stardock originally was an OS/2 developer. Their flagship product that got them started was called ObjectDesktop and all it was was a collection of UI programs that fixed all the OS/2 klunkiness. Like Windows-style X buttons on windows to close them with. And a sweet dock on the bottom of the screen to switch apps with. OS/2's interface, while object-oriented, was so painful that ObjectDesktop was a necessity.
I'm still not sure why we need the DVD Player app now that we have Front Row. It's a bit annoying to have to close the DVD Player app when I put a DVD in and then go into Front Row with the remote.
I suppose I could change the default behavior, but I'm lazy... and it's supposed to be Mac-easy, dammit.:)
Which also reminds me, I wish we had a way to convert all the heat that the black asphalt roads absorb during the summertime into energy we can use in cars. Have you ever put a bare foot on the street at 8pm after a 103F day in the summer?
Anyone? I can't even think if a reason to buy the existing video iPod, muchless a full screen model.
Since I own a video iPod (80GB woot), I can state my reasons:
1) I have my entire photo collection with me at all times. No more pictures in my wallet. 2) I watch lastnight's Daily Show before work every morning. 3) Video podcasts. 4) I can share music videos with others on a drinking night.
And I haven't even mentioned my music until just now.
OS/2 didn't die because of Win-OS/2. OS/2 died because nobody outside of a few of us knew what it was. Even people in IBM didn't even know what it was.
Every Motorola phone that I've used has a horrible menu and a buggy UI. Yes buggy, I've lost count how many times my Motorola V300 simply froze on me, requiring me to take the battery out (which is a pain in the fingers to get the cover off). Every RAZR I've used gets extremely hot against the ear after a 10 minute phone call. And don't even get me started on how much fun figuring out simple things like looking up a saved contact on the StarTacs was.
I've long waited for a mobile phone with a great interface that had the user in mind and not the carrier.
Point of sales devices are advancing pretty far to where they're not just primitive or proprietary now. The prepaid wireless phone industry doesn't just sell their minutes on those cards, there is also software written for these POS machines that print up top-up PINs at the register, as well as handle things like money transfers, bill payments, ID card validation, gift cards, etc. Companies like VeriFone, Lipman and Ingenico do provide some default programs for the POS machines they manufacture, but most of these new applications are being written by the various vendors for these machines. They're doing things with these machines that weren't being done a few years ago. Even some of the older POS machines like the VeriFone Tranz series (early 1980s pin pad devices with 300 baud modems) are seeing renewed life because of custom software being written for these new apps.
Computers at the register aren't quite the best solution for alot of retailers, mainly one because they're too expensive for most store managers to justify. For example, a 3 register gas station isn't going to place a 500-700 dollar computer at each station just to sell prepaid phone minutes and long distance cards. They'll sell those for years without paying for the terminal to sell them. They'd rather go onto eBay and buy an old Tranz 460 for $50-70 bucks and slap a custom app on there to do the sales and they'll break even in a few months on the equipment.
I did this for my junior high school back in 1989. We had a PC with one of those barcode reading light pens and stacks upon stacks of barcode stickers. Early on the two adults running the school library realized I had some sort of born knack for computer smarts, they put me, a 7th grader, in charge of organizing the effort. The way we converted the library over to barcode was we put a barcode sticker on each book as it was checked out to a student, and the kids with lightning fast data entry skills (me and two others) keyed in the book info in about 20-30 seconds. When there were no students checking out books, we went through the entire Dewey Decimal system, taking one shelf off at a time and entering them. It's been too many years to remember exactly how many books we had, but I can tell you the library in our junior high was a decent sized one. About the size of a basketball gym. It took us almost 5 months to convert most of it over to barcode.
If you want one single application taking up a full screen, doesn't it cease being "Windows" and become "DOS"?
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Apple added this feature as an update with iTunes 7.
Are we sure this charge for the 802.11n update is official from Apple? They do include it on the disc that comes with the new Airport Extreme. I don't see it available anywhere else yet, or mentioned anywhere else.
As a Mac user I welcome the interface change. I've seen some screenshots here and there of Office 2007 and I have to say I'm eager to try out Office 2008 for the Mac when it comes out later this year. Even as a PC user I've found the last few iterations of Office to be a toolbar and menu nightmare. Too many options, too many badly rendered icons and the contextual menu, an abomination I'm sure all of us have turned off. That probably wasn't the reaction Microsoft's UI designers expected or wanted when Office 2003 came out.
Bring on the ribbon.
A 320k MP3 is overkill for a portable device such as an iPod. And quite honestly, I've found 128K AAC files to sound pretty good.
Expect him to be the successor if and when Steve Jobs steps down.
If you don't know who he is, he's the designer who came up with the iMac, iPod and iPhone designs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive
I mean, where are these "Desktop Class Apps" touted in the keynote? All I see on the phone is Calender, Maps, Notes and a Web Browser. That's it? And we're supposed to be excited it took OSX to run those? How can this phone *not* be considered a tablet PC/phone?
Argh.
Then why did Apple deem it necessary to compare the iPhone to the "usual suspects" of the Treo and other smartphones at the keynote and call it "5 years ahead of anything out there" when apparently the only thing now it has in common with them is it's also a phone?
So that's it? The iPhone saved space by not having a plastic keyboard? Please tell me after two days after the keynote that's not the only advantage it actually has.
"Here I sit all broken hearted
I tried to..."
You know the rest.
No, OS/2 and Vista are nothing alike. I was a Warp 4 beta tester back in the day. I ran Warp 3 on some of the first Pentiums that came out. There was nothing bloated about OS/2, except that Warp 3 came on about 30 floppies. I had a pre-emptive multitasking system back when everyone else was clicking in amazement on the first Start button with that Rolling Stones song blaring in the background.
What doomed OS/2 was the apps and the drivers. I very much remember waiting and waiting and finally celebrating when Netscape came out for OS/2. A real native 32-bit OS/2 version of Netscape! Yes, it was sad but it was great at the same time.
Vista won't have any of those problems. Everything will be written for Vista. Vista will be preloaded on every PC out there from here on. OS/2 never had that.
BTW, on a sidenote, OS/2 also had a clunky interface by the time Warp 3 and 4 rolled around. Ever heard of that program called WindowBlinds? Of course you have. Well, the company that makes it is called Stardock. Stardock originally was an OS/2 developer. Their flagship product that got them started was called ObjectDesktop and all it was was a collection of UI programs that fixed all the OS/2 klunkiness. Like Windows-style X buttons on windows to close them with. And a sweet dock on the bottom of the screen to switch apps with. OS/2's interface, while object-oriented, was so painful that ObjectDesktop was a necessity.
Anyway, bad comparison.
Blame marketing.
I'm still not sure why we need the DVD Player app now that we have Front Row. It's a bit annoying to have to close the DVD Player app when I put a DVD in and then go into Front Row with the remote.
:)
I suppose I could change the default behavior, but I'm lazy... and it's supposed to be Mac-easy, dammit.
No, you really don't. Take the time to compare an $1100 17" iMac (which I own) to a similar priced Dell or HP and you'll find they're comparable.
Which also reminds me, I wish we had a way to convert all the heat that the black asphalt roads absorb during the summertime into energy we can use in cars. Have you ever put a bare foot on the street at 8pm after a 103F day in the summer?
Anyone? I can't even think if a reason to buy the existing video iPod, muchless a full screen model.
Since I own a video iPod (80GB woot), I can state my reasons:
1) I have my entire photo collection with me at all times. No more pictures in my wallet.
2) I watch lastnight's Daily Show before work every morning.
3) Video podcasts.
4) I can share music videos with others on a drinking night.
And I haven't even mentioned my music until just now.
OS/2 didn't die because of Win-OS/2. OS/2 died because nobody outside of a few of us knew what it was. Even people in IBM didn't even know what it was.
Every Motorola phone that I've used has a horrible menu and a buggy UI. Yes buggy, I've lost count how many times my Motorola V300 simply froze on me, requiring me to take the battery out (which is a pain in the fingers to get the cover off). Every RAZR I've used gets extremely hot against the ear after a 10 minute phone call. And don't even get me started on how much fun figuring out simple things like looking up a saved contact on the StarTacs was.
I've long waited for a mobile phone with a great interface that had the user in mind and not the carrier.
Point of sales devices are advancing pretty far to where they're not just primitive or proprietary now. The prepaid wireless phone industry doesn't just sell their minutes on those cards, there is also software written for these POS machines that print up top-up PINs at the register, as well as handle things like money transfers, bill payments, ID card validation, gift cards, etc. Companies like VeriFone, Lipman and Ingenico do provide some default programs for the POS machines they manufacture, but most of these new applications are being written by the various vendors for these machines. They're doing things with these machines that weren't being done a few years ago. Even some of the older POS machines like the VeriFone Tranz series (early 1980s pin pad devices with 300 baud modems) are seeing renewed life because of custom software being written for these new apps.
Computers at the register aren't quite the best solution for alot of retailers, mainly one because they're too expensive for most store managers to justify. For example, a 3 register gas station isn't going to place a 500-700 dollar computer at each station just to sell prepaid phone minutes and long distance cards. They'll sell those for years without paying for the terminal to sell them. They'd rather go onto eBay and buy an old Tranz 460 for $50-70 bucks and slap a custom app on there to do the sales and they'll break even in a few months on the equipment.
I did this for my junior high school back in 1989. We had a PC with one of those barcode reading light pens and stacks upon stacks of barcode stickers. Early on the two adults running the school library realized I had some sort of born knack for computer smarts, they put me, a 7th grader, in charge of organizing the effort. The way we converted the library over to barcode was we put a barcode sticker on each book as it was checked out to a student, and the kids with lightning fast data entry skills (me and two others) keyed in the book info in about 20-30 seconds. When there were no students checking out books, we went through the entire Dewey Decimal system, taking one shelf off at a time and entering them. It's been too many years to remember exactly how many books we had, but I can tell you the library in our junior high was a decent sized one. About the size of a basketball gym. It took us almost 5 months to convert most of it over to barcode.
What, no Linux or OS X versions?
Humbug!
You mean wait until they find a way to lock Apple out of the market?
They are a convicted monopoly over this question, after all.
If you want one single application taking up a full screen, doesn't it cease being "Windows" and become "DOS"?
I use VLC here at home to play the videos Quicktime won't, and I have a copy on my USB drive so I can also play videos and listen to AAC files on the Windows 2000 machines at work that I don't have admin permissions to install anything else on. Thanks for making a great player, a cross platform player, and a portable player. Software the way it ought to be.
And about 3 seconds after I hit a key on the keyboard to wake it back up.
If I do a complete shutdown, powerup to the Mac OS X login screen is about 15-20 seconds.
Yes, this is on a new Intel iMac with the Core 2 Duo.
Thanks, Yahoo.
Once again, all one has to do is acknowledge the Apache vs IIS marketshare numbers to realize that 'security through obscurity' isn't the entire picture.
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