The cell phone market has ALWAYS been about nickel and diming the customer to death.
An interesting stance to take regarding the iPhone. Unlimited data and 200 text messages for ~20 bucks more than a basic cell plan seems mightily fair to me.
reality is that the iPhone simply isn't that great.
Did it occur to you that Apple is not targeting your market segment?
And, to respond to the rest of this thread, Gary Winston put it best:
Milo, I know, he thinks we've cloned too many programs; forced people to buy our inferior versions; blah, blah, blah. I've heard it all before. I even understand it. It's the nature of competitive business: When you're on top people attack the quality of your product.
In other words, don't bitch about Apple's high profile. They're being attacked, not punished.
Due to the security necessary, I could see it needing Select membership. That said, anyone intent on doing damage with the SDK (these days, organized crime) could easily purchase membership, so it could remain free.
I hope it uses the free membership, because I intend to develop a few personal apps which I'm not interested in selling.
It's a shame that they chose to use it to provide a service that the iphone really should have already had. Seams like they are trying to give people an app they get a revenue stream from instead of letting you use other available 3rd party apps where they don't profit.
I really don't understand where you're coming from here, particularly as the Maps application is third party--lest you forget, it's designed & maintained by Google.
I highly doubt Apple's primary intent with that partnership is profit. More likely, the partnership smokescreens an information exchange program with Google. I'm not entirely sure what was exchanged, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's SDK resembles (or even implements) Android.
Remote access via GigE to dedicated filers is faster than local spindles unless those spindles are in exotic raid arrays, and why would a `network' be any more likely to induce corruption than, oh, a fibre channel network?
My first guess is that FC networks tend to be dedicated to a particular purpose, home networks are not. E.g. FC tends to be run only by the technically proficient.
This still doesn't excuse WHS's behavior. The client should be saving a local copy of the data if there's a reasonable chance of failure on the server end.
The drivers supplied with Leopard feature the scrolling & double-tap support. It's more painful to use in windows, because windows is based on scroll-wheels, not smooth-scrolling.
I'm struck with how bad the previous versions of Apple's operating systems have been (at least version 9 which he disses left and right).
Troll much? Version 9 definitely sucked, but went out of fashion ages ago--about the same time MS released WinXP.
Concerning the source of kernel panics--these days, virtual memory systems function rather similarly under the sheets. Of course the errors will be similar when the problem stems from a faulty DIMM.
Finally, you're comparing anecdotal evidence (N=1) to a significantly larger sample (N=75). The comparison is absurd logically, let alone statistically.
Nah. The GP forgot to mention that some governments are more equal than others.
Honestly, the power of the US Federal Government extends primarily from three elements of the constitution acting in concert: the commerce clause, the 14th amendment, and judicial review.
Except that it wasn't working. The constitutional convention occurred precisely because the confederacy wasn't working. The confederacy lacked the authority to enforce its legislation, both politically and coercively.
Last I checked, two sizes of bulbs are sold. I use the larger in "standard" fixtures--track lights, ceiling fixtures, and indirect lighting. There's a slightly smaller bulb available that fits nicely in lamps and other small fixtures. Its still butt ugly, unfortunately.
In my experience, CFLs are inappropriate for short-duration work, such as the closet you noted. First you get a flicker, then you need to wait a minute or two before it reaches full brightness. That's really annoying for a light that's on all of 5 minutes a day, maybe a minute at a time.
You're ignoring the implications of extensions, however. If firefox were nothing more than a web browser (in the same way that, say, Safari is), you'd have a point. As soon as the FireFox developers decide to host mini-apps (extensions) in their browser, they should expose the functionality to manage those mini-apps.
FF should build in an extension management API, if only for the developers of those extensions. If the API is likewise accessible through extensions, then users will access the feature if they want it. If enough users clamor for the feature, then FF can bundle the extension.
They may view it as a loss of sovereignty regarding power generation. My guess is that Iran, as a member of OPEC, is well-aware of what can go wrong when you depend upon other countries for energy.
Or nukes. Obviously, MAD is just effective now as during the cold war.
I thought significant figures were what mattered in science, not orders of magnitude. (In which case, compare 2.080 million years to 4568 million years).
No doubt MS is always wrong on Slashdot, but they brought it on themselves, particularly through their anti-competitive practices. I see MS attempting to recover from this, and each time I give them a new chance. Each time I get burnt. Likewise, Slashdot's bias stems from years of backhanded MS dealings. I feel that we wouldn't be as quick to lay blame, if MS would come through once in a while, if they appeared to be on "our" side without some scheme to wreck us (OSS or even common developers).
This article could be a one-in-a-million occurrence, but it was definitely the XBox causing interference. For that reason, I'd recommend for your friend to unplug the 360 next time he's playing the PS3, and see if that helps the controller problems out.
(for the record, I don't own either console. I do have a Wii though.)
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An interesting stance to take regarding the iPhone. Unlimited data and 200 text messages for ~20 bucks more than a basic cell plan seems mightily fair to me.
Did it occur to you that Apple is not targeting your market segment?
And, to respond to the rest of this thread, Gary Winston put it best:
In other words, don't bitch about Apple's high profile. They're being attacked, not punished.
Due to the security necessary, I could see it needing Select membership. That said, anyone intent on doing damage with the SDK (these days, organized crime) could easily purchase membership, so it could remain free.
I hope it uses the free membership, because I intend to develop a few personal apps which I'm not interested in selling.
A great example of this is Single Threaded Apartments, which even plague WPF.
I really don't understand where you're coming from here, particularly as the Maps application is third party--lest you forget, it's designed & maintained by Google.
I highly doubt Apple's primary intent with that partnership is profit. More likely, the partnership smokescreens an information exchange program with Google. I'm not entirely sure what was exchanged, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's SDK resembles (or even implements) Android.
We'll know if I'm right in February.
The eject button has always bugged me. You need to approach the player to retrieve or exchange the disk. Why, oh why, have that button on the remote?
My first guess is that FC networks tend to be dedicated to a particular purpose, home networks are not. E.g. FC tends to be run only by the technically proficient.
This still doesn't excuse WHS's behavior. The client should be saving a local copy of the data if there's a reasonable chance of failure on the server end.
The drivers supplied with Leopard feature the scrolling & double-tap support. It's more painful to use in windows, because windows is based on scroll-wheels, not smooth-scrolling.
Troll much? Version 9 definitely sucked, but went out of fashion ages ago--about the same time MS released WinXP.
Concerning the source of kernel panics--these days, virtual memory systems function rather similarly under the sheets. Of course the errors will be similar when the problem stems from a faulty DIMM.
Finally, you're comparing anecdotal evidence (N=1) to a significantly larger sample (N=75). The comparison is absurd logically, let alone statistically.
That's me you insensitive clod!
And, for your information, I stopped trying to decipher what "Grande" means weeks ago.
But what purpose is there in an impotent government?
Nah. The GP forgot to mention that some governments are more equal than others.
Honestly, the power of the US Federal Government extends primarily from three elements of the constitution acting in concert: the commerce clause, the 14th amendment, and judicial review.
Do you care to elaborate and/or provide a link? I'd go looking, but don't know where to start.
Except that it wasn't working. The constitutional convention occurred precisely because the confederacy wasn't working. The confederacy lacked the authority to enforce its legislation, both politically and coercively.
It definitely stands to reason that if we could manage our own affairs, we wouldn't need government in the first place...
Last I checked, two sizes of bulbs are sold. I use the larger in "standard" fixtures--track lights, ceiling fixtures, and indirect lighting. There's a slightly smaller bulb available that fits nicely in lamps and other small fixtures. Its still butt ugly, unfortunately.
In my experience, CFLs are inappropriate for short-duration work, such as the closet you noted. First you get a flicker, then you need to wait a minute or two before it reaches full brightness. That's really annoying for a light that's on all of 5 minutes a day, maybe a minute at a time.
Einstein's theory of relativity features time dilation. Maybe that can help.
You're ignoring the implications of extensions, however. If firefox were nothing more than a web browser (in the same way that, say, Safari is), you'd have a point. As soon as the FireFox developers decide to host mini-apps (extensions) in their browser, they should expose the functionality to manage those mini-apps.
FF should build in an extension management API, if only for the developers of those extensions. If the API is likewise accessible through extensions, then users will access the feature if they want it. If enough users clamor for the feature, then FF can bundle the extension.
Hopefully Safari gets the updated KHTML code, coz it bombed on 9, bugged on 9, and passed the remaining 25.
It appears that the server problem is resolved now. Someone else hit FF up, and it's functioning again in safari.
They may view it as a loss of sovereignty regarding power generation. My guess is that Iran, as a member of OPEC, is well-aware of what can go wrong when you depend upon other countries for energy.
Or nukes. Obviously, MAD is just effective now as during the cold war.
I thought significant figures were what mattered in science, not orders of magnitude. (In which case, compare 2.080 million years to 4568 million years).
Hey, don't mess with Willis' track record.
No doubt MS is always wrong on Slashdot, but they brought it on themselves, particularly through their anti-competitive practices. I see MS attempting to recover from this, and each time I give them a new chance. Each time I get burnt. Likewise, Slashdot's bias stems from years of backhanded MS dealings. I feel that we wouldn't be as quick to lay blame, if MS would come through once in a while, if they appeared to be on "our" side without some scheme to wreck us (OSS or even common developers).
This article could be a one-in-a-million occurrence, but it was definitely the XBox causing interference. For that reason, I'd recommend for your friend to unplug the 360 next time he's playing the PS3, and see if that helps the controller problems out.
(for the record, I don't own either console. I do have a Wii though.)
Didn't I tell you to NOT press the big red button!!!!