This is stupid, Linux as a distro is a complete solution from A-Z... Vista is a bit of a solution as its just an operating system with limited services.
That's why he did just a minimal base install this time. No bells and whistles, just the operating environment.
I remember two people in a guild I was in accidently typed a message into the guild chat instead of between themselves and it became obvious what they were doing.
And that was the day I stopped three-boxing. Sorry about that!
My bad, thanks for the clarification. I was thinking of the restart function hidden in away in the settings menu. I didn't realize Tivos never power down their drives though...is that common to all set top dvrs? My inlaws have a dvr built into their dish network receiver, and every time it starts to record something you can hear the hard drive click on and start whirring away.
a single person who sleeps 8 hrs a day, and works 8 hrs a day could have their TVPC...essentially powered off for 16 hours a day.
Here I thought the point of having a DVR was to record all the stuff you couldn't watch because you were asleep or at work. I guess I've been doing it wrong all this time!
Anyway, it's not like Tivos don't have power buttons. The same power saving techniques you could use on a PC could also be used on a 'traditional' DVRs, so you still end up using more electricity with a PC.
Actually I built a MythTV box a while ago. If my wife would let me buy one, I'd take a Tivo over my MythTV box though. From my experience, they just plain work better, smaller form factor, etc etc.
I don't suppose you expect to get your TiVo service for free, do you?
You might want to read the summary, or even the title. From what our fine/. editors have implied, you won't be getting your MythTV feeds free either.
TCO indeed...when you figure in TCO for MythTV, you are taking into account the risk you take in your reliance on a free service that you have absolutely no control over, right? Because that's kind of necessary.
How are they supposed to know if that person doesn't live there anymore? Comcast irritates me as much as the next guy, but it's hard to blame them for checking. In college there were 5 of us in one apartment/townhome. Every six months Charter would run a special on their service, and we'd cancel the old service and set up the next guy as a "new" customer. We never stiffed them on the bill, but as far as they knew people just didn't stay at that address very long...
Where is TomTom's announcement saying they'll support the iPhone? Outside of any Web2.0 apps, where is ANY third party software support for the iPhone? It kind of comes out in less than two weeks, there should at least be a few companies on board by now.
Wow, nice little tirade there. I was merely pointing out that there are phones with VGA screens on about the same size packages already. Check out the Glofish sometime. But thanks for bothering to look past the first link. Don't know where you pulled the 0.6% market share for WM out from, but I'm guessing its a dark place indeed. You're off by just a smidgen, roughly 16%, but don't worry about it.
But outside of whatever Jobs told you to say, what does web2.0 have to do with any of this? My phone loads flickr, myspace, youtube, etc etc just fine. Opera mobile has the option of 'doing away with style sheets' to view the webpage as a window. Oh, pocket internet exlorer does too, but opera does it a little better since it actually changes the user-agent string to force the desktop view. Oh, have you tried browsing on the Nintendo Wii? Because it looks EXACTLY like navigating the web from the iPhone commercials. Click and drag stuff around, zoom in/out, etc. It's not that great of an experience.
But let's forget all that and revel in the iPhone's presence. afterall, nothing beats having to put your hands in the way of what you're trying to read to navigate, smudging up the screen with finger prints. Don't forget to buy a little bottle of windex when you get yours. You'll have plenty of time to wipe the screen off while you're waiting 10 minutes for everything to load over that WONDERFUL(!) 2G network they provided you with. Remember dialup? Remember loading image heavy webpages (Your wonderful web2.0 applications) over dialup? Get excited!!11!1~
"The changes, based on the success of a pilot program that placed games based on "The Sims" franchise into their own unit, mean it will require fewer executives to sign off on new games or to approve launching an existing game on a different platform or in a different regions.
I guess its the bureaucracy that's been holding them back from releasing madden twice a year then? I'm definitely looking forward to madden 07.5 now!
My high school bypassed the survey and went straight for locking everyone in while the dogs sniffed through everyone's car in the parking lot. That was after we were required to wear ID badges to enter the school. And that was after we were ranked one of the safest cities in the US.
I can't speak for quicken specifically, but at my job they thoroughly sell this about working there. It basically comes down to flexible hours. As long as you get your 40 in, its all good. Then again my company is more engineering than IT, so who knows.
That's funny, it looks like mobile phone makers have been moving to VGA (higher than the iphone) since well before the iPhone was announced. HTC announced a VGA phone almost two years before the iPhone. Are you sure Apple is one step ahead? Looks like they're half a step behind on the resolution front.
Obviously this won't apply to the iPhone, but TomTom* can be installed onto PDA phones. So if the phone already has GPS, you just need to get the software to turn it into a 'dedicated' device.
he press release is about the physical attributes of the iPhone, so the comparison charts deal strictly with physical attributes, not things like GPS.
Explain to me how Talk Time, Internet Use, Video Playback, and Audio Playback are physical attributes?
Finally, slimness is what consumers care about. If you want to make l x w x h comparisons, all that data is readily available.
When it's down to a few mm width really doesn't matter. And if the data is readily available, why didn't they include it? This IS a physical attributes comparison chart after all. H x L x W and weight are generally the most important attributes when describing the physical make up of a product.
Not going to go into a battle of product features, but my current phone does all of that, except it supports products that are installed on ~90% of the market, instead of ~5%. Not saying it isn't feature rich, but what you listed is nothing special (feature wise), except the bigger screen.
Just because you're a user of product by choice does not mean that the positives outweigh the negatives of the product, it could just mean that the negatives for that choice aren't as bad as the negatives in the competition. For instance, most of the time at home I'm running Windows XP. Not necessarily because I want to, but because the competition just doesn't provide the operating environment I need. If I could easily run all the things I needed on OSX or Fedora, I would.
There are always negatives to point out about a product, and being able to point those out from time to time is absolutely necessary to providing an objective opinion. Ignoring the negatives of a product is generally how I define 'fanboy'.
Yeah, but they only get one hot pocket per day, and they probably get the chicken and broccoli kind too. No one should have to suffer through those kind of conditions.
Was I the only one dorky enough to receive both the "Number Munchers King" and "Oregon Trail King" awards in front of the entire elementary school at the end of the year?
Depends on how you define "simpler to implement." Getting approval to install an open source program with the latest warning advisory to view your top secret documents on a top secret desktop wouldn't exactly be a walk in the park. Actually you wouldn't be walking anywhere, because you'd get your knee caps broken for installing it anyway.
I quote myself, from the comment you just replied to:
And for your obstacle, simply open a document and 'print' it to PDF. Simple enough. You're basically suggesting that files be saved twice. My response to that was to have a "Master" copy (the original doc), and a "distribution" copy (the exported PDF). Where's the confusion here? If you want it done from within Word, open the "Master" copy, do a file --> remove hidden data. Save it to originalfilename_distro.doc, and automatically remove the data. Then do a tools --> protect document. You could probably write a macro within word to do this with a simple keystroke.
If you want this done automatically, then you'll be constantly saving to multiple files. Writing to a file share over a slow network link is painful enough as is, I don't need twice the overhead. Then there's the space requirements of having two files saved. Multiple that by a few hundred users, and your IT department is going to get a little irritated.
If your complaint is that it isn't user friendly, then your users need training. Especially if you have employees sending documents to someone outside the company. Then it's their JOB to know how to use Office. Pack 'em all in a room, pull up Word on an projector, and get it done with. Send 'em back to their desks with a handout with directions.
...instead of burying a "Remove Hidden Data" option...what about engineering the product so that the file format only keeps the information actually displayed in the document?
Just because you might not use the hidden data doesn't mean others don't. I know I'm treading on MS fanboy status saying this (don't worry, I'm typing this from a fedora core 4 laptop), but I actually like and use the the 'hidden' data. If a document I create gets handed around the office, I want people to be able to find out that I created it if they have other questions. If I'm sending a document around for review, I want people to see the different revisions, what changes have been made, who made them, etc. Think "Content Management". If I ever send a document to another business area, I simply remove the data.
That said, I do think there should be the option to stop saving that type of data though. I wouldn't want that as the default though, for the above reasons. And for your obstacle, simply open a document and 'print' it to PDF. Simple enough.
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This is stupid, Linux as a distro is a complete solution from A-Z ... Vista is a bit of a solution as its just an operating system with limited services.
That's why he did just a minimal base install this time. No bells and whistles, just the operating environment.
Here ya go! Let me know when you're finished, thanks!
I remember two people in a guild I was in accidently typed a message into the guild chat instead of between themselves and it became obvious what they were doing.
And that was the day I stopped three-boxing. Sorry about that!
My bad, thanks for the clarification. I was thinking of the restart function hidden in away in the settings menu. I didn't realize Tivos never power down their drives though...is that common to all set top dvrs? My inlaws have a dvr built into their dish network receiver, and every time it starts to record something you can hear the hard drive click on and start whirring away.
a single person who sleeps 8 hrs a day, and works 8 hrs a day could have their TVPC...essentially powered off for 16 hours a day.
Here I thought the point of having a DVR was to record all the stuff you couldn't watch because you were asleep or at work. I guess I've been doing it wrong all this time!
Anyway, it's not like Tivos don't have power buttons. The same power saving techniques you could use on a PC could also be used on a 'traditional' DVRs, so you still end up using more electricity with a PC.
Thankfully MythTV can't guarantee lifetime free service, but right now they're giving you a three month free trial!
Actually I built a MythTV box a while ago. If my wife would let me buy one, I'd take a Tivo over my MythTV box though. From my experience, they just plain work better, smaller form factor, etc etc.
I don't suppose you expect to get your TiVo service for free, do you?
/. editors have implied, you won't be getting your MythTV feeds free either.
You might want to read the summary, or even the title. From what our fine
TCO indeed...when you figure in TCO for MythTV, you are taking into account the risk you take in your reliance on a free service that you have absolutely no control over, right? Because that's kind of necessary.
Great! Where can I get a MythTV box preconfigured for $100? I will patiently await your link. Thanks ahead of time!
How are they supposed to know if that person doesn't live there anymore? Comcast irritates me as much as the next guy, but it's hard to blame them for checking. In college there were 5 of us in one apartment/townhome. Every six months Charter would run a special on their service, and we'd cancel the old service and set up the next guy as a "new" customer. We never stiffed them on the bill, but as far as they knew people just didn't stay at that address very long...
Where is TomTom's announcement saying they'll support the iPhone? Outside of any Web2.0 apps, where is ANY third party software support for the iPhone? It kind of comes out in less than two weeks, there should at least be a few companies on board by now.
Wow, nice little tirade there. I was merely pointing out that there are phones with VGA screens on about the same size packages already. Check out the Glofish sometime. But thanks for bothering to look past the first link. Don't know where you pulled the 0.6% market share for WM out from, but I'm guessing its a dark place indeed. You're off by just a smidgen, roughly 16%, but don't worry about it.
But outside of whatever Jobs told you to say, what does web2.0 have to do with any of this? My phone loads flickr, myspace, youtube, etc etc just fine. Opera mobile has the option of 'doing away with style sheets' to view the webpage as a window. Oh, pocket internet exlorer does too, but opera does it a little better since it actually changes the user-agent string to force the desktop view. Oh, have you tried browsing on the Nintendo Wii? Because it looks EXACTLY like navigating the web from the iPhone commercials. Click and drag stuff around, zoom in/out, etc. It's not that great of an experience.
But let's forget all that and revel in the iPhone's presence. afterall, nothing beats having to put your hands in the way of what you're trying to read to navigate, smudging up the screen with finger prints. Don't forget to buy a little bottle of windex when you get yours. You'll have plenty of time to wipe the screen off while you're waiting 10 minutes for everything to load over that WONDERFUL(!) 2G network they provided you with. Remember dialup? Remember loading image heavy webpages (Your wonderful web2.0 applications) over dialup? Get excited!!11!1~
"The changes, based on the success of a pilot program that placed games based on "The Sims" franchise into their own unit, mean it will require fewer executives to sign off on new games or to approve launching an existing game on a different platform or in a different regions.
I guess its the bureaucracy that's been holding them back from releasing madden twice a year then? I'm definitely looking forward to madden 07.5 now!
My high school bypassed the survey and went straight for locking everyone in while the dogs sniffed through everyone's car in the parking lot. That was after we were required to wear ID badges to enter the school. And that was after we were ranked one of the safest cities in the US.
I can't speak for quicken specifically, but at my job they thoroughly sell this about working there. It basically comes down to flexible hours. As long as you get your 40 in, its all good. Then again my company is more engineering than IT, so who knows.
That's funny, it looks like mobile phone makers have been moving to VGA (higher than the iphone) since well before the iPhone was announced. HTC announced a VGA phone almost two years before the iPhone. Are you sure Apple is one step ahead? Looks like they're half a step behind on the resolution front.
Obviously this won't apply to the iPhone, but TomTom* can be installed onto PDA phones. So if the phone already has GPS, you just need to get the software to turn it into a 'dedicated' device.
*Agreed.
How exactly is removing features to extend other features brilliant? Don't forget they removed the battery cover, circuitry for 3G, GPS, etc etc.
he press release is about the physical attributes of the iPhone, so the comparison charts deal strictly with physical attributes, not things like GPS.
Explain to me how Talk Time, Internet Use, Video Playback, and Audio Playback are physical attributes?
Finally, slimness is what consumers care about. If you want to make l x w x h comparisons, all that data is readily available.
When it's down to a few mm width really doesn't matter. And if the data is readily available, why didn't they include it? This IS a physical attributes comparison chart after all. H x L x W and weight are generally the most important attributes when describing the physical make up of a product.
Not going to go into a battle of product features, but my current phone does all of that, except it supports products that are installed on ~90% of the market, instead of ~5%. Not saying it isn't feature rich, but what you listed is nothing special (feature wise), except the bigger screen.
Just because you're a user of product by choice does not mean that the positives outweigh the negatives of the product, it could just mean that the negatives for that choice aren't as bad as the negatives in the competition. For instance, most of the time at home I'm running Windows XP. Not necessarily because I want to, but because the competition just doesn't provide the operating environment I need. If I could easily run all the things I needed on OSX or Fedora, I would.
There are always negatives to point out about a product, and being able to point those out from time to time is absolutely necessary to providing an objective opinion. Ignoring the negatives of a product is generally how I define 'fanboy'.
Yeah, but they only get one hot pocket per day, and they probably get the chicken and broccoli kind too. No one should have to suffer through those kind of conditions.
Was I the only one dorky enough to receive both the "Number Munchers King" and "Oregon Trail King" awards in front of the entire elementary school at the end of the year?
Depends on how you define "simpler to implement." Getting approval to install an open source program with the latest warning advisory to view your top secret documents on a top secret desktop wouldn't exactly be a walk in the park. Actually you wouldn't be walking anywhere, because you'd get your knee caps broken for installing it anyway.
If you want this done automatically, then you'll be constantly saving to multiple files. Writing to a file share over a slow network link is painful enough as is, I don't need twice the overhead. Then there's the space requirements of having two files saved. Multiple that by a few hundred users, and your IT department is going to get a little irritated.
If your complaint is that it isn't user friendly, then your users need training. Especially if you have employees sending documents to someone outside the company. Then it's their JOB to know how to use Office. Pack 'em all in a room, pull up Word on an projector, and get it done with. Send 'em back to their desks with a handout with directions.
...instead of burying a "Remove Hidden Data" option...what about engineering the product so that the file format only keeps the information actually displayed in the document?
Just because you might not use the hidden data doesn't mean others don't. I know I'm treading on MS fanboy status saying this (don't worry, I'm typing this from a fedora core 4 laptop), but I actually like and use the the 'hidden' data. If a document I create gets handed around the office, I want people to be able to find out that I created it if they have other questions. If I'm sending a document around for review, I want people to see the different revisions, what changes have been made, who made them, etc. Think "Content Management". If I ever send a document to another business area, I simply remove the data.
That said, I do think there should be the option to stop saving that type of data though. I wouldn't want that as the default though, for the above reasons. And for your obstacle, simply open a document and 'print' it to PDF. Simple enough.