It is called "rocker" keyboard. I got a P1i here myself and I believe T9 is involved in the word completion. We are a bit cheating on P1 since the device shows the words on top beginning with the letters we typed. I heard Blackberry was first to use that keyboard variant.
BTW If you don't know already, the word completion trick is in Settings/Device/Text Input/Predictive Text.
Of course most P1 users mix keyboard,scroll wheel and even handwriting recognition.
Really sad thing that UIQ died in hands of Sony and Motorola and we won't likely see things like "t9nav" which does amazing things on Symbian S60.
What about 8000 college students who has no obligation to put quality code or no clue about real life/business needs adding "features" each day to a billion dollar/year selling product? Business people getting kicked/banned from IRC channels or looking up dictionary trying to understand what "RTFM" is?
People should think why businesses buy IBM software/services and why IBM is called "Big Blue" before asking them such things.
If Hulu shows me "Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States", I can't really care about them. They didn't understand the Internet's 101. If their market is USA, there is something called Tivo and TV on/off button:)
I'd check Norton Systemworks since it comes with Norton Unerase wizard and Norton protected recycle bin. There are 3 editions of it, I couldn't find which edition has it (or all?).
Scientology has massive amount of adwords etc. bought. I'd point finger to the advertising provider and the youtube channel provider. That is why people got real anxious about a web advertising monopoly at first place.
I remember it happened once more on a completely real science related story. I guess one of words triggered their ads.
and how come MS can't sit and code their own basic defragmenter even with stuff copied from OS X like small file auto defragmentation etc? HFS+ is not magic, it is just OS X is way more careful not to defrag the disk and do some auto defrag tricks as far as it doesn't danger the stability and performance of system.
They coded NTFS (and its father, HPFS) for God's sake. It is their fs, they are the ones who knows its internals. It is absolutely stupid sounding really...
It they have Business/GOVERNMENT section at their site you can easily understand the stand of USA Govt. in that case.
Let me remind and sorry to repeat, disk defragmenters need to access entire disk, at sector level, as "super user" (root,admin,whatever).
The built in defrag in XP is more than that. There is a defrag framework in XP which all developers are supposed to use. I don't know if they actually use it since I am not following Windows too much.
You can use Dubai as a benchmark to see how sold out the media and some governments are. Having properties, financial interest and huge advertising income from there, you will never hear them talk about lack of democracy, human rights etc.
UAE can do anything they want, even build a total fantasy crap which will do gigantic harm to the nature and natural life. They would buy couple of advertising minutes from media, offer couple of homes to high level execs, hire couple of Hollywood actors/ singers to present them and problem is solved.
Do you still take "java is dead" posts serious enough to reply?
Desktop Java woke up from dead right after MS was disallowed to put that junk JVM into Windows and Sun made a end user friendly Java.com site which installs Java way easier than MS.NET with a comical download size (14 mb I guess).
The comments you see about Java is people who ignores huge numbers of end user Java desktop downloads, App scene (Azureus/Vuze and Limewire leading) and the enterprise scene. When they say "Java sux", they talk about 1999's MS raped Java.
Microsoft's customerbase including the regular home users are afraid to run/allow updates because MS did things like shipping "Genuine Advantage Validation" which is in court for being spyware as a "critical update".
People trusting to them ended up with a total spyware checking their system with horrible CPU usage "weekly" (MS says) but in fact, it is almost daily. It also brings down any good antivirus with heuristics down to its knees because it acts like a virus.
MS lost customer trust regarding updates. Now, that is a big deal. Even if they put a super cool rsync based update, half of people will be afraid to run it. Apple users on the other hand, except very high end Workstation configurations install whatever Apple ships blindly. Workstations generally test/backup before rolling of course.
BTW, Apple can't update other parties software because of commercial and support reasons. If you install a open source based package manager like Fink or Macports, you will see it updates whatever it installed just like Linux/FreeBSD. Of course, there is no "Adobe" there. Imagine Apple shipped Adobe CS4 update and Adobe (as usual) forgot something. People would call/blame Apple.
The "Sparkle" Framework which is completely open has made into everything on OS X, down to very expensive commercial apps. They use it instead.
I bet you had "Automatically Updates on" kind of setting with Auto install before they ripped off their own customers by "Windows Genuine Advantage". That junk made hundreds of millions of people set "Choose whether to install them" setting or basically disabling updates.
I went to microsoft.com support pages on purpose, with unpatched IE.
They spam Silverlight 2.x install on the pages instead of "update your Internet Explorer NOW!" in same fashion. I call it "spam", total spam I tell you. It is like whole page darkens before you can click anything and middle of page, there is "Install Silverlight Now!". Based on the hugeness of the security bug, I would cheer if they showed that IE warning in ALL MS sites including MSN. I saw MSN too, it has 1 liner "Download urgent Internet Explorer update". Of course it was blocked by "See your specific country page now!", another pop-in trick.
What kind of purpose will Silverlight 2 serve at Support pages to "enhance" my experience besides not being Adobe Flash?
Oh BTW, guess what XP SP3 installs. Flash Player 6. Yes, SIX. On the other hand, Apple updates all their customers Flash to secured 9.x version.
They really believed that buying Yahoo for 46 billion would fix that logical problem?
We have seen what happened to "Fanboys" when Windows 95 shipped. They all abandoned the ship and real Apple users, mostly professional market kept Apple alive.
If Apple is happy with Web 2.0 junk out there already rumouring SJobs is dead/dying and hurting their stock price, let them be.
Yea, shipping a Mach/Unix/NeXT/FreeBSD/BSD Lite/MacOS salad, one of the nerdiest weird operating systems on paper as a upgrade to single user operating system and make ordinary people choose it over Windows "because it is easier" is not a revolution.
You don't see revolution and it is the genius part. That is the same Apple menu and Finder running on a completely different OS.
Or while the policies are absolute scandal, shipping World's first usable Unix (or same as above) based handset and make people buy it for the OS X reasons is not revolution too.
I tried to do a favour to a place I went just 2 hours ago. Their entire network capability of a laptop was broken. I tried every kind of trick for an hour and at last, I said "we are wasting our time. put the Pictures etc. to a DVD-R and tell that computer service to format/install clean XP".
It is what MS along with IE has become. It isn't even funny anymore. I still wonder how many billions MS lost by just pushing IE in terms of development time, security and of course the most important: Brand image.
I haven't seen a Mac user totally hating Mac IE (part of history now). It was a slow performer with lame MS tricks (Use of WIn-charsets) but nobody hated it. Why? Because as well as all Mac Apps, you could drag it to trash and get rid of it. If MS kept IE like IE 1.x and 2.x (used both), you wouldn't see a hysterical reaction.
If the issue is that big, every single application linked to MS Html rendering framework is in danger and exploitable. Just using something else doesn't matter, every single app which uses their framework should be disabled. That is the size of security flaw for you.
Watching the Linux (especially 64bit) community feedback for such a favour from Sun in disaster economy could be the reason why I hold back from Linux. I bet MS and their Mono/Moonlight puppets must be smiling now.
Kaspersky online AV checker (which is Win32 only) and Trend Micro Housecall both uses advanced/signed applets to do their job or monitor it. Trend's implementation is particularly impressive since it runs on Windows, OS X, Linux.
Java Applet games are a huge business even scaling to full feature games like Runescape.
They memorised the JVM 1.1 junk in 1990s and it gives them good karma. Besides pros who are out there to show everything except.NET/Mono as junk, it is the deal. It is ignorance.
You wrote too much. You should tell them to get Vuze and see that "1,500,000 users" written on status bar. They are Windows, OS X and Linux users combined running single professionally written open source code which uses native apps when in need.
You can easily understand why nobody bothered if you look at junk like feedback at this story from people disconnected from real life, Mono developers or just trolls.
I still wonder why Sun, Adobe and Real Networks (Helix) spare their precious development time for a community like that.
For example, Sun should prepare Cocoa Java 6-7 for OS X and keep it on a secure server just in case if they get MS treatment from Apple too.
Satisfying couple of "pure 64bit 133t" nerds shouldn't be at first of list. Java Applet market happily runs 32bit browsers and they need better performing, more compatible Java applet support.
They could buy a Apple mini, download XCode (or install from DVD), launch XCode and code kernel extension of whatever chip they will support. Others could ship PCI/PCI-X cards based on their chip and put "OS X compatible" to the box.
They don't do it and yet they help hackintosh community or something?
It seems Apple got rid of Realtek junk on next edition of Macs and someone is out to take revenge.
In real life, near all OS X native browsers and even commercial password manager 1Password uses keychain. On Gnome and KDE, only their own default browsers use their subsystems.
Apple made it somehow easy to integrate with keychain no matter how your application is coded in whatever language. Even AppleScript/OSAScript "Apps" use Keychain very effectively.
Firefox and Opera doesn't use it because they don't feel like it, that is all. I mean, that is why both browsers can't be "tried" on a up and running OS X since nobody would bother to type in 200 passwords while they got them recorded elsewhere and perfectly used by Omniweb etc.
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It is called "rocker" keyboard. I got a P1i here myself and I believe T9 is involved in the word completion. We are a bit cheating on P1 since the device shows the words on top beginning with the letters we typed. I heard Blackberry was first to use that keyboard variant.
BTW If you don't know already, the word completion trick is in Settings/Device/Text Input/Predictive Text.
Of course most P1 users mix keyboard,scroll wheel and even handwriting recognition.
Really sad thing that UIQ died in hands of Sony and Motorola and we won't likely see things like "t9nav" which does amazing things on Symbian S60.
What about 8000 college students who has no obligation to put quality code or no clue about real life/business needs adding "features" each day to a billion dollar/year selling product? Business people getting kicked/banned from IRC channels or looking up dictionary trying to understand what "RTFM" is?
People should think why businesses buy IBM software/services and why IBM is called "Big Blue" before asking them such things.
Look to this site/page:
http://www.vuze.com/ , WB is participating too. Also there is Miro ( http://www.getmiro.com/ ) which will do lot better than Hulu.
If Hulu shows me "Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States", I can't really care about them. They didn't understand the Internet's 101. If their market is USA, there is something called Tivo and TV on/off button :)
I'd check Norton Systemworks since it comes with Norton Unerase wizard and Norton protected recycle bin. There are 3 editions of it, I couldn't find which edition has it (or all?).
Scientology has massive amount of adwords etc. bought. I'd point finger to the advertising provider and the youtube channel provider. That is why people got real anxious about a web advertising monopoly at first place.
I remember it happened once more on a completely real science related story. I guess one of words triggered their ads.
and how come MS can't sit and code their own basic defragmenter even with stuff copied from OS X like small file auto defragmentation etc? HFS+ is not magic, it is just OS X is way more careful not to defrag the disk and do some auto defrag tricks as far as it doesn't danger the stability and performance of system.
They coded NTFS (and its father, HPFS) for God's sake. It is their fs, they are the ones who knows its internals. It is absolutely stupid sounding really...
It they have Business/GOVERNMENT section at their site you can easily understand the stand of USA Govt. in that case.
Let me remind and sorry to repeat, disk defragmenters need to access entire disk, at sector level, as "super user" (root,admin,whatever).
The built in defrag in XP is more than that. There is a defrag framework in XP which all developers are supposed to use. I don't know if they actually use it since I am not following Windows too much.
I would be very careful where I buy my disk defragger since they (naturally) access the disk and data at sector level.
The question is, who coded Microsoft Windows defrag framework? The one all forced to use?
You can use Dubai as a benchmark to see how sold out the media and some governments are. Having properties, financial interest and huge advertising income from there, you will never hear them talk about lack of democracy, human rights etc.
UAE can do anything they want, even build a total fantasy crap which will do gigantic harm to the nature and natural life. They would buy couple of advertising minutes from media, offer couple of homes to high level execs, hire couple of Hollywood actors/ singers to present them and problem is solved.
Do you still take "java is dead" posts serious enough to reply?
Desktop Java woke up from dead right after MS was disallowed to put that junk JVM into Windows and Sun made a end user friendly Java.com site which installs Java way easier than MS .NET with a comical download size (14 mb I guess).
The comments you see about Java is people who ignores huge numbers of end user Java desktop downloads, App scene (Azureus/Vuze and Limewire leading) and the enterprise scene. When they say "Java sux", they talk about 1999's MS raped Java.
Microsoft's customerbase including the regular home users are afraid to run/allow updates because MS did things like shipping "Genuine Advantage Validation" which is in court for being spyware as a "critical update".
People trusting to them ended up with a total spyware checking their system with horrible CPU usage "weekly" (MS says) but in fact, it is almost daily. It also brings down any good antivirus with heuristics down to its knees because it acts like a virus.
MS lost customer trust regarding updates. Now, that is a big deal. Even if they put a super cool rsync based update, half of people will be afraid to run it. Apple users on the other hand, except very high end Workstation configurations install whatever Apple ships blindly. Workstations generally test/backup before rolling of course.
BTW, Apple can't update other parties software because of commercial and support reasons. If you install a open source based package manager like Fink or Macports, you will see it updates whatever it installed just like Linux/FreeBSD. Of course, there is no "Adobe" there. Imagine Apple shipped Adobe CS4 update and Adobe (as usual) forgot something. People would call/blame Apple.
The "Sparkle" Framework which is completely open has made into everything on OS X, down to very expensive commercial apps. They use it instead.
It is because how the system works, deep down in NTFS/FAT32 filesystem itself and of course how MS Windows has been engineered.
Also by tying it to MS IE (and HTML control in Vista), they almost guarantee that every security update related to IE will require reboot.
I bet you had "Automatically Updates on" kind of setting with Auto install before they ripped off their own customers by "Windows Genuine Advantage". That junk made hundreds of millions of people set "Choose whether to install them" setting or basically disabling updates.
I went to microsoft.com support pages on purpose, with unpatched IE.
They spam Silverlight 2.x install on the pages instead of "update your Internet Explorer NOW!" in same fashion. I call it "spam", total spam I tell you. It is like whole page darkens before you can click anything and middle of page, there is "Install Silverlight Now!". Based on the hugeness of the security bug, I would cheer if they showed that IE warning in ALL MS sites including MSN. I saw MSN too, it has 1 liner "Download urgent Internet Explorer update". Of course it was blocked by "See your specific country page now!", another pop-in trick.
What kind of purpose will Silverlight 2 serve at Support pages to "enhance" my experience besides not being Adobe Flash?
Oh BTW, guess what XP SP3 installs. Flash Player 6. Yes, SIX. On the other hand, Apple updates all their customers Flash to secured 9.x version.
They really believed that buying Yahoo for 46 billion would fix that logical problem?
We have seen what happened to "Fanboys" when Windows 95 shipped. They all abandoned the ship and real Apple users, mostly professional market kept Apple alive.
If Apple is happy with Web 2.0 junk out there already rumouring SJobs is dead/dying and hurting their stock price, let them be.
Yea, shipping a Mach/Unix/NeXT/FreeBSD/BSD Lite/MacOS salad, one of the nerdiest weird operating systems on paper as a upgrade to single user operating system and make ordinary people choose it over Windows "because it is easier" is not a revolution.
You don't see revolution and it is the genius part. That is the same Apple menu and Finder running on a completely different OS.
Or while the policies are absolute scandal, shipping World's first usable Unix (or same as above) based handset and make people buy it for the OS X reasons is not revolution too.
I tried to do a favour to a place I went just 2 hours ago. Their entire network capability of a laptop was broken. I tried every kind of trick for an hour and at last, I said "we are wasting our time. put the Pictures etc. to a DVD-R and tell that computer service to format/install clean XP".
It is what MS along with IE has become. It isn't even funny anymore. I still wonder how many billions MS lost by just pushing IE in terms of development time, security and of course the most important: Brand image.
I haven't seen a Mac user totally hating Mac IE (part of history now). It was a slow performer with lame MS tricks (Use of WIn-charsets) but nobody hated it. Why? Because as well as all Mac Apps, you could drag it to trash and get rid of it. If MS kept IE like IE 1.x and 2.x (used both), you wouldn't see a hysterical reaction.
If the issue is that big, every single application linked to MS Html rendering framework is in danger and exploitable. Just using something else doesn't matter, every single app which uses their framework should be disabled. That is the size of security flaw for you.
Watching the Linux (especially 64bit) community feedback for such a favour from Sun in disaster economy could be the reason why I hold back from Linux. I bet MS and their Mono/Moonlight puppets must be smiling now.
Kaspersky online AV checker (which is Win32 only) and Trend Micro Housecall both uses advanced/signed applets to do their job or monitor it. Trend's implementation is particularly impressive since it runs on Windows, OS X, Linux.
Java Applet games are a huge business even scaling to full feature games like Runescape.
They memorised the JVM 1.1 junk in 1990s and it gives them good karma. Besides pros who are out there to show everything except .NET/Mono as junk, it is the deal. It is ignorance.
You wrote too much. You should tell them to get Vuze and see that "1,500,000 users" written on status bar. They are Windows, OS X and Linux users combined running single professionally written open source code which uses native apps when in need.
You can easily understand why nobody bothered if you look at junk like feedback at this story from people disconnected from real life, Mono developers or just trolls.
I still wonder why Sun, Adobe and Real Networks (Helix) spare their precious development time for a community like that.
For example, Sun should prepare Cocoa Java 6-7 for OS X and keep it on a secure server just in case if they get MS treatment from Apple too.
Satisfying couple of "pure 64bit 133t" nerds shouldn't be at first of list. Java Applet market happily runs 32bit browsers and they need better performing, more compatible Java applet support.
They could buy a Apple mini, download XCode (or install from DVD), launch XCode and code kernel extension of whatever chip they will support. Others could ship PCI/PCI-X cards based on their chip and put "OS X compatible" to the box.
They don't do it and yet they help hackintosh community or something?
It seems Apple got rid of Realtek junk on next edition of Macs and someone is out to take revenge.
If Realtek helped they can kiss their contract renewal goodbye.
In fact I fail to understand what realtek chip does inside an Apple computer.
In real life, near all OS X native browsers and even commercial password manager 1Password uses keychain. On Gnome and KDE, only their own default browsers use their subsystems.
Apple made it somehow easy to integrate with keychain no matter how your application is coded in whatever language. Even AppleScript/OSAScript "Apps" use Keychain very effectively.
Firefox and Opera doesn't use it because they don't feel like it, that is all. I mean, that is why both browsers can't be "tried" on a up and running OS X since nobody would bother to type in 200 passwords while they got them recorded elsewhere and perfectly used by Omniweb etc.
If Sun actually cared for the "long term unix community" you speak of, you wouldn't have that "unix like" OS in hand.
Thank God both them and various companies are wise to ignore such long term communities so they keep doing favours.