What about the rest of us? iPhone OS 3.0 will be available this Summer. A free update to all of our iPhone 3G customers. And it works on the original iPhone. Now the hardware has changed between these two devices. For instance, A2DP and MMS won't be available on the iPhone 1st gen.
So, it seems some of the features will be on the first-gen iPhone, but not ones that required a hardware change. (I guess they don't want you using MMS over an Edge network).
Maybe it's because you're constantly paying for the iPhone? (Perhaps AT&T funds some of the development cost, or maybe Apple gets some money from your service fee.)
Or maybe it's something like the Intel Macbook 802.11n firmware upgrade, that Apple said they charged money because of something in the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Linky. Of course, I'm still skeptical as to the validity of that claim.
The iPhone is too expensive and not worth the money. The average person would probably buy the iPod because it costs so much less than the iPhone. With the Apple stores and going online and looking around there are always have deals or a refurbished one, you just have to watch for them every few months.
Last I checked, the iPod Touch was $30 more than the iPhone hardware for an 8GB ($229), and the same price ($299) for the 16GB). (I last checked 1 minute ago.)
Now, if you're talking data plans, sure, the iPhone ends up more expensive after just one month. But the price difference obviously depends on your current phone plan. I had unlimited Internet on my old Blackjack, and getting the iPhone 3G was only $15/month more for me--and I was told I would have to pay $15/month more for any phone I got, as I was on an older, cheaper data plan than they currently offered (woo, prices went up!).
Yahoo has pretty good email actually and its filtering features are more flexible than gmail's.
People have already beaten the "folders vs. labels" argument to death. I just couldn't help but notice what you said above. I'm honestly curious--just how are Yahoo's filters superior? I just checked out both systems, and they appear (to me, at least) exactly the same. Except that Yahoo limits you to 15, and Google doesn't care how many you make.
Best to block it directly in the hosts file. That way you will never have anything to do with crap^H^H^H^Hmyspace. And best of all, it's cross-browser! (Plus, it has annoyed my sister to no end)
I agree completely with this. It seems like Nintendo relies solely on their cash cows to make money instead of going for new franchises (a generalization, I know).
One trend I've noticed with the Wii is that the majority of games are simply collections of mini-games. That doesn't inspire confidence to me, and TFA's claim that Warioware is "exactly the type of game the Wii needs" really makes me think that the Wii will become nothing but that: a mini-game console with little in the way of traditional (long) games.
Everything you just mentioned is possible and trivial without guns. Sure, you won't be shooting people, but some stabbing and/or clubbing with a metal bat will yield the same results.
I think the answer is dependent on the variety and differences between the choice. If there is little difference between the choices, they are likely superfluous and only confuse the matter. On the other hand, if there are clear differences (take KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, XfCE, Fluxbox, etc.), then choice is a Good Thing. I know if my only choice for a desktop GUI in Linux was KDE, I would still be on Windows right now.
And to those who say "how would you like to die" is bad, well, most people would appreciate being given the choice (though upset to have to have to make the decision), rather than have it made for them. I bet Socrates was glad he was allowed to pick hemlock rather than forced to drink a cup of boiling gold.
16 years and I'm still waiting for them to finish writing this damn page! How does anybody ever manage to set up one of these new-fangled WWW servers anyway?
From over here, I'd like to see the X11 dependence on the Macs go away. Pitch the GTK base and use QT, which is already efficiently cross-platform on Macs, Linux, and Windows.
I'll agree there shouldn't be an X11 dependency on Macs, but I think the odds of the GIMP, of all things, being ported to Qt are rather slim. After all, it's the original source of GTK.
I've had the Yahoo beta for a few months now. As it is not my primary email address (or my secondary, or...), I don't have a lot of experience with it, but here's some of the things I like about it:
1. You can sort email by subject, author, date, etc., which you can't do with Gmail.
2. It has email previews (this feature is nice, but not really a biggie; basically, it's nice to decide whether to stray away from your inbox)
3. It has tabs. This is perhaps my favorite feature. Double click on an email, and it opens in a new virtual tab (inside the Yahoo Mail console area). You can have multiple tabs, so it's easy to switch around between emails and different replies. I wish Gmail had something like this.
4. The interface feels just a little more polished (and professional), but that's pretty subjective.
5. Being able to drag-and-drop emails is kind of nice, but functionally not superior to Gmail's method.
6. You can have directory trees, unlike with labels and Gmail (nice to keep the folder pane less cluttered, though not essential)
Ultimately, I still would choose Gmail over it any day. Yahoo's offering, while very good (and better than Windows Live Mail, in my opinion), doesn't load as fast for me (and there is a noticeable delay when emails get marked as read; move too quickly, and they stay "new"); and I find the lack of conversation view debilitating, as I deal with very long email conversations. I also love the archive button in Gmail, rather than having to create my own "archive" folder and dragging everything into it. Gmail's search functionality is also much better, and has more storage space.
If you just use Yahoo mail, though, and haven't tried the new beta, I suggest you do immediately. It's lightyears ahead of the old implementation.
That's just it isn't it. To think that neither ATI or NVidia has never, even at a cursory level, revers engineered their competition's work seems a bit far fetched. NVidia probably knows more about ATI's work than what ATI provides publicly and vice versa.
Well, the solution is obvious, isn't it? Let nVidia release documentation on ATI's cards, and ATI release info on nVidia's cards.:)
But IE7 isn't out yet. The current IE (6) isn't shiny at all. In fact, I prefer the icons and widgets of the default Firefox theme to IE6's (though I don't like FF's defaults much at all). When IE7 goes gold, though, I fear you will be right:(
And what if the teacher was Muslim and the kid had a shaved head and was rumoured to hang around with white supremacists? What if he had a historical charge of violence against other people?
From TFA: "Aaron had no serious disciplinary problems until [the incident in question]." I would assume that such a person would likely have at least some record of delinquency.
Precedents are set by courts for a reason. If you analyse a specific case then decisions can seem over the top, or too lenient.
That's why an investigation is made. And one was. "As a result, the school district sent Aaron's parents a notice of a formal disciplinary hearing and also tipped off the sheriff's department (which declined to do anything, concluding that the icon was indeed a joke). Meanwhile, a psychologist concluded that Aaron did not pose a threat." As has been said quite a few times in the comments here, the school chose to ignore both the sheriff's department and a psychologist. Why bother going to the authorities if you aren't going to listen to their findings?
You must also take into account that the teacher was obviously not on great terms with the kid, and so seeing a broadcast death threat from someone like that would get you at least slightly worried.
And? Yes, I would be worried. I wouldn't really like that kid very much, either. But with the findings of both the police and a professional psychologist, I'm sure I would realize there was no actual threat. It would also be a great opportunity to evaluate my teaching method to find out why, exactly, this kid (and possibly others) hates me so much. Also, for the record (again), it wasn't a threat.
Instead of being rational about it, this kid was suspened for a semester. It's going to take him that much longer to graduate. Sure, he wasn't smart to do it, but at least there no actual physical harm came of the "threat" (and, apparently, none was intended or planned). Who benefits from the school's sentence? Nobody. Let the parents decide the punishment.
The icon didn't say "I will kill mr. cockgobbler", it said "kill mr. cockgobbler". It's an imperative, not a plan. And since it's something stupid, like a forum icon or IM icon or WTFever it was, it's pretty clear that it wasn't even a serious imperative, let alone a threat. Therefore, he didn't break the school's policies - clearly the cops didn't think it was a threat. They're the "experts", if they don't think it's a threat (even a psychologist agreed) then what the hell does the school know? Leave the psychoanalysis to those who know something.
Exactly. Mod parent up. If I walked up to you and said "Eat ham," would you think "Oh boy, this guy is going to go eat some ham!" Or would you think "Why the hell is this guy off the street telling me to eat ham?" Guess what, you would think the latter. Same case with this story. There was no threat.
I always thought it was really entertaining (and funny) to read them as if they were a normal book. The confusion that ensues if you read it out loud was always hilarious, especially if "you" die, but then are fine on the next page. This was especially amusing with the Goosebumps CYOA books.
About halfway through, though, it gets boring because you know all the storylines.
I like your ESRB conspiracy theory (not that I really believe it, but still...). You also have a good point that other forms of media should be affected: it really helps demonstrate the idiocy behind the bills.
As for my sig, I think I'll change it to say "convict". Thanks;)
I think the current idea with government is to see how big we can get it until it either a) implodes, or b) somehow becomes self-aware.
On-topic: I agree wholeheartedly. This type of policy only makes parents less and less accountable for their childrens' actions. It reminds me of the novel Brave New World: the concept of "family" and "parent" is becoming erased.
I couldn't agree more. I used to have one of those flashy cases, and I realized that it really wasn't as high a quality as the non-flashy ones (namely Antec). Plus, if your computer is in your bedroom, you have to cover it with towels when you're trying to sleep, otherwise it's bright as day with all those lights on;)
And maybe I'm crazy, but I've always thought a Shuttle would be the most impressive thing to bring to a LAN party, or at least excite the most comment.
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So, it seems some of the features will be on the first-gen iPhone, but not ones that required a hardware change. (I guess they don't want you using MMS over an Edge network).
Maybe it's because you're constantly paying for the iPhone? (Perhaps AT&T funds some of the development cost, or maybe Apple gets some money from your service fee.)
Or maybe it's something like the Intel Macbook 802.11n firmware upgrade, that Apple said they charged money because of something in the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Linky. Of course, I'm still skeptical as to the validity of that claim.
I agree it's dumb, though.
Last I checked, the iPod Touch was $30 more than the iPhone hardware for an 8GB ($229), and the same price ($299) for the 16GB). (I last checked 1 minute ago.)
Now, if you're talking data plans, sure, the iPhone ends up more expensive after just one month. But the price difference obviously depends on your current phone plan. I had unlimited Internet on my old Blackjack, and getting the iPhone 3G was only $15/month more for me--and I was told I would have to pay $15/month more for any phone I got, as I was on an older, cheaper data plan than they currently offered (woo, prices went up!).
YMMV.
People have already beaten the "folders vs. labels" argument to death. I just couldn't help but notice what you said above. I'm honestly curious--just how are Yahoo's filters superior? I just checked out both systems, and they appear (to me, at least) exactly the same. Except that Yahoo limits you to 15, and Google doesn't care how many you make.
Best to block it directly in the hosts file. That way you will never have anything to do with crap^H^H^H^Hmyspace. And best of all, it's cross-browser! (Plus, it has annoyed my sister to no end)
I agree completely with this. It seems like Nintendo relies solely on their cash cows to make money instead of going for new franchises (a generalization, I know).
One trend I've noticed with the Wii is that the majority of games are simply collections of mini-games. That doesn't inspire confidence to me, and TFA's claim that Warioware is "exactly the type of game the Wii needs" really makes me think that the Wii will become nothing but that: a mini-game console with little in the way of traditional (long) games.
Everything you just mentioned is possible and trivial without guns. Sure, you won't be shooting people, but some stabbing and/or clubbing with a metal bat will yield the same results.
Are more choices necessarily bad?
I think the answer is dependent on the variety and differences between the choice. If there is little difference between the choices, they are likely superfluous and only confuse the matter. On the other hand, if there are clear differences (take KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, XfCE, Fluxbox, etc.), then choice is a Good Thing. I know if my only choice for a desktop GUI in Linux was KDE, I would still be on Windows right now.
And to those who say "how would you like to die" is bad, well, most people would appreciate being given the choice (though upset to have to have to make the decision), rather than have it made for them. I bet Socrates was glad he was allowed to pick hemlock rather than forced to drink a cup of boiling gold.
16 years and I'm still waiting for them to finish writing this damn page! How does anybody ever manage to set up one of these new-fangled WWW servers anyway?
Am I the only one who finds it slightly ironic that (as of this writing), there is no entry for the Hutter Prize on Wikipedia?
Better yet, pi - (pi - 3)
I've had the Yahoo beta for a few months now. As it is not my primary email address (or my secondary, or...), I don't have a lot of experience with it, but here's some of the things I like about it:
1. You can sort email by subject, author, date, etc., which you can't do with Gmail.
2. It has email previews (this feature is nice, but not really a biggie; basically, it's nice to decide whether to stray away from your inbox)
3. It has tabs. This is perhaps my favorite feature. Double click on an email, and it opens in a new virtual tab (inside the Yahoo Mail console area). You can have multiple tabs, so it's easy to switch around between emails and different replies. I wish Gmail had something like this.
4. The interface feels just a little more polished (and professional), but that's pretty subjective.
5. Being able to drag-and-drop emails is kind of nice, but functionally not superior to Gmail's method.
6. You can have directory trees, unlike with labels and Gmail (nice to keep the folder pane less cluttered, though not essential)
Ultimately, I still would choose Gmail over it any day. Yahoo's offering, while very good (and better than Windows Live Mail, in my opinion), doesn't load as fast for me (and there is a noticeable delay when emails get marked as read; move too quickly, and they stay "new"); and I find the lack of conversation view debilitating, as I deal with very long email conversations. I also love the archive button in Gmail, rather than having to create my own "archive" folder and dragging everything into it. Gmail's search functionality is also much better, and has more storage space.
If you just use Yahoo mail, though, and haven't tried the new beta, I suggest you do immediately. It's lightyears ahead of the old implementation.
"Obviously the public wants it and who is the government to say we shouldn't have it? (if the item in question is legal)"
:)
Now, thanks to you, the government is going to try to outlaw these incredibly "violent" games. Do we really need to give them any more "good" ideas?
Well, the solution is obvious, isn't it? Let nVidia release documentation on ATI's cards, and ATI release info on nVidia's cards.
But IE7 isn't out yet. The current IE (6) isn't shiny at all. In fact, I prefer the icons and widgets of the default Firefox theme to IE6's (though I don't like FF's defaults much at all). When IE7 goes gold, though, I fear you will be right :(
For a time, at least.
I would assume that such a person would likely have at least some record of delinquency.
That's why an investigation is made. And one was. "As a result, the school district sent Aaron's parents a notice of a formal disciplinary hearing and also tipped off the sheriff's department (which declined to do anything, concluding that the icon was indeed a joke). Meanwhile, a psychologist concluded that Aaron did not pose a threat." As has been said quite a few times in the comments here, the school chose to ignore both the sheriff's department and a psychologist. Why bother going to the authorities if you aren't going to listen to their findings?
And? Yes, I would be worried. I wouldn't really like that kid very much, either. But with the findings of both the police and a professional psychologist, I'm sure I would realize there was no actual threat. It would also be a great opportunity to evaluate my teaching method to find out why, exactly, this kid (and possibly others) hates me so much. Also, for the record (again), it wasn't a threat.
Instead of being rational about it, this kid was suspened for a semester. It's going to take him that much longer to graduate. Sure, he wasn't smart to do it, but at least there no actual physical harm came of the "threat" (and, apparently, none was intended or planned). Who benefits from the school's sentence? Nobody. Let the parents decide the punishment.
I always thought it was really entertaining (and funny) to read them as if they were a normal book. The confusion that ensues if you read it out loud was always hilarious, especially if "you" die, but then are fine on the next page. This was especially amusing with the Goosebumps CYOA books.
About halfway through, though, it gets boring because you know all the storylines.
I like your ESRB conspiracy theory (not that I really believe it, but still...). You also have a good point that other forms of media should be affected: it really helps demonstrate the idiocy behind the bills.
;)
As for my sig, I think I'll change it to say "convict". Thanks
I think the current idea with government is to see how big we can get it until it either a) implodes, or b) somehow becomes self-aware.
On-topic: I agree wholeheartedly. This type of policy only makes parents less and less accountable for their childrens' actions. It reminds me of the novel Brave New World: the concept of "family" and "parent" is becoming erased.
According to this article, parents already seem to oversee game purchases.
And anyways, isn't this what the ESRB was started for?
I couldn't agree more. I used to have one of those flashy cases, and I realized that it really wasn't as high a quality as the non-flashy ones (namely Antec). Plus, if your computer is in your bedroom, you have to cover it with towels when you're trying to sleep, otherwise it's bright as day with all those lights on ;)
And maybe I'm crazy, but I've always thought a Shuttle would be the most impressive thing to bring to a LAN party, or at least excite the most comment.