I know the US is a big (the biggest?) and important market, but with Zune sales it's a different story in the UK. When I looked just now, the first Zune appears in 61st position, with iPods of all kinds dominating the top ten. Of course, the position changes all the time but I've been looking at this every time I see a story on Zune's top spot on Amazon US and the highest position I've seen for Zune is 35th.
They forgot to mention those stickers that you can put on your cell phone battery that will magically boost your reception. While they aren't as expensive as a Q-ray bracelet, I'm sure they make up for it in volume.
I actually bought one of these - the i-tena for my iphone. Naturally, it made absolutely no difference whatsoever. There's no excuse really, thirty seconds of Googling shows these signal booster stickers do absolutely nothing. I guess I wanted it to work, so I conned myself into thinking it would...
I think it was irresponsible and inconsiderate to do that.
Come on - do you think any self-respecting Slashdotter wouldn't know full well that this would be easy to discover and the winner would be outed within minutes in the comments?
Besides, there's no shame in buying a low/. UID at a charity auction. It's doing something that's cool, to get something that's, well, arguably cool.
I'm an audio geek and you should hate me for it. Yes, I'm one of those losers who spends $300 on an interconnect.
Download, CD and vinyl formats each have their benefits and I would hate to lose any of them. I like online music stores because they're a great way to discover and buy music. I like the CD for quality and because it's the most ubiquitous format; in all likelihood a CD will play on your PC, Hi-Fi, your car and your friend's car. I like vinyl because it has a different sound that's rather good.
The recent Radiohead release was perfect for me - the box set includes the album on CD, vinyl and MP3, all in one price. You get the download instantly and the rest will follow in the post. If the Radiohead release is popular then you might find other releases, especially remastered/rereleased albums like Tubular Bells, will come out in premium download/CD/vinyl sets too.
I choose the unholy union of C# and Perl (aka Windows Powershell) and Aero Glass! And just try to defeat my unstoppable DirectX 10... Tremble in fear!!!1!!1eleven
That's great! Now all you need is Silverlight and Mic^H^H^Hyou will be UNSTOPPABLE!!1
Sheesh, I guess CD's are really really expensive to burn in the UK! There's no excuse for this, it's just greed.
While it does appear to be true that we are targeted as a high-profit market (car manufacturers call us the Golden Island), there *are* valid reasons for *some* of the additional cost against the US prices:
- Exchange rates. Sterling happens to be really strong right now but companies can't bet on it not going back to $1.4 to the £1
- Tax. A common excuse, but remember the US prices quoted usually don't include sales tax whereas the UK prices almost always do, and the UK rate is also higher.
- It costs more to do business in the UK. Stricter trading standards, stronger consumer rights and different employment laws all benefit UK residents but all that doesn't come for free.
Probably because the version of OS X that potentially meets those standards was only released today
Yes that's true of the 'certified Unix' bit, but I believe everything else still stands.
And I'm sceptical about the "fluid and high performance GUI", since 'teh snappay' of 10.4 would need to have increased *massively* to qualify.
Play a 720p H.264 in Quicktime, run iTunes with another video going, add several browsers showing web pages with animated Flash bits. Now use Expose to show all these windows at once. My MacBook Pro with el cheapo ATI onboard graphics can handle that, but try the same with Flip 3-D on Vista (which is nothing like as useful or elegant as Expose), even with an uber Quadro card, and you'll see why I say OSX has a high performance GUI.
For programming and the command line, give me bash. For anything graphical at all, I'll take vista any day.
Clearly you haven't tried OSX. You get a consistent, fluid and high performance GUI. When you want a shell, you get a Unix one on a certified Unix OS; in a fancy translucent window if you so choose. Beats having to run Cygwin on a Windows box.
Linux just doesn't have a mature desktop environment available, and that's the point of a graphical interface!
Er, who's talking about Linux? This story is about Mac OSX Leopard...
On Vista you can run several CAD/High End graphical applications under the Aero interface and not lose performance in any of the applications, even with them performing side by side. (This is the same paradigm shift that pre-emptive CPU operations offered applications, and Vista has extended this concept to the GPU subsystem.)
I can tell you that Vista offers nothing but complications and poorer performance for these applications. CAD/CAM demands RAM; Vista takes it away with bloat and poor memory handling. CAD/CAM demands graphics power; Vista keeps the GPU busy with its own tasks and has poor OpenGL performance.
Far and away the best Windows OS for CAD/CAM is XP Pro x64. I would strongly advise users to stay with XP, think about going x64, but definitely skip the current generation. Or see if your vendor supports OSX/Linux/Unix.
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Hell, I just now figured out how to empty the trash by holding down the mouse button for X number of seconds
Ooh - nice tip!
Well as long as this is the "point out flaws in daybot's posts" thread...
Too true!
you might want to go look up what it means to beg the question
Interesting - I didn't know there was any argument over what this means...
Possibly related to the fact that the Zune isn't launched in the UK yet. You reckon?
Er... oops! That does beg the question though, why launch a portable music player in only one country?
So does every other chinese factory. I know cuz I own several of those. With three kids...
I hope the conditions in your Chinese factories are better than those at Foxconn. Just think: would you send your kids to work in your factory?
I know the US is a big (the biggest?) and important market, but with Zune sales it's a different story in the UK. When I looked just now, the first Zune appears in 61st position, with iPods of all kinds dominating the top ten. Of course, the position changes all the time but I've been looking at this every time I see a story on Zune's top spot on Amazon US and the highest position I've seen for Zune is 35th.
Do some research and you'll find you don't need a service pack to tune Vista
I did some research and the general consensus was to upgrade to XP. I chose XP x64 and have never looked back!
If I were them, I'd be very careful about jaywalking
Just like the piracy laws in Sweden, there is no such crime as jaywalking. Sheesh - and they call the US "land of the free"!
They forgot to mention those stickers that you can put on your cell phone battery that will magically boost your reception. While they aren't as expensive as a Q-ray bracelet, I'm sure they make up for it in volume.
I actually bought one of these - the i-tena for my iphone. Naturally, it made absolutely no difference whatsoever. There's no excuse really, thirty seconds of Googling shows these signal booster stickers do absolutely nothing. I guess I wanted it to work, so I conned myself into thinking it would...
Being Canadian.... being made standard in Britian... Americans...don't deseve all the critism they get for them.
Agreed. Clearly more criticism should be aimed at Canadians.
Do you prefer to break the entire language to get rid of a anachronism
God, I hate that. It's an anachronism.
It isn't exactly waist land 10 miles outside every city
I dunno, suburban life can make you pretty fat...
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Fixed it for you...
WTF? Why was I moderated "Over-rated" down to 0 on the parent post? If you've got something to say about the post, why not, like, join the discussion?
If he cared, why would he use an ebay account with the same name to submit the winning bid?
I think it was irresponsible and inconsiderate to do that.
Come on - do you think any self-respecting Slashdotter wouldn't know full well that this would be easy to discover and the winner would be outed within minutes in the comments?
Besides, there's no shame in buying a low /. UID at a charity auction. It's doing something that's cool, to get something that's, well, arguably cool.
I'm an audio geek and you should hate me for it. Yes, I'm one of those losers who spends $300 on an interconnect.
Download, CD and vinyl formats each have their benefits and I would hate to lose any of them. I like online music stores because they're a great way to discover and buy music. I like the CD for quality and because it's the most ubiquitous format; in all likelihood a CD will play on your PC, Hi-Fi, your car and your friend's car. I like vinyl because it has a different sound that's rather good.
The recent Radiohead release was perfect for me - the box set includes the album on CD, vinyl and MP3, all in one price. You get the download instantly and the rest will follow in the post. If the Radiohead release is popular then you might find other releases, especially remastered/rereleased albums like Tubular Bells, will come out in premium download/CD/vinyl sets too.
I choose the unholy union of C# and Perl (aka Windows Powershell) and Aero Glass! And just try to defeat my unstoppable DirectX 10... Tremble in fear!!!1!!1eleven
That's great! Now all you need is Silverlight and Mic^H^H^Hyou will be UNSTOPPABLE!!1
I'm quite sure that a Quad 2.66Ghz with 2GB of ram would be quite snappy in Vista too.
That's a negative. I run quad 2.66 with 4GB RAM with a Quadro graphics card performance still sucks.
Sheesh, I guess CD's are really really expensive to burn in the UK! There's no excuse for this, it's just greed.
While it does appear to be true that we are targeted as a high-profit market (car manufacturers call us the Golden Island), there *are* valid reasons for *some* of the additional cost against the US prices:
- Exchange rates. Sterling happens to be really strong right now but companies can't bet on it not going back to $1.4 to the £1
- Tax. A common excuse, but remember the US prices quoted usually don't include sales tax whereas the UK prices almost always do, and the UK rate is also higher.
- It costs more to do business in the UK. Stricter trading standards, stronger consumer rights and different employment laws all benefit UK residents but all that doesn't come for free.
Probably because the version of OS X that potentially meets those standards was only released today
Yes that's true of the 'certified Unix' bit, but I believe everything else still stands.
And I'm sceptical about the "fluid and high performance GUI", since 'teh snappay' of 10.4 would need to have increased *massively* to qualify.
Play a 720p H.264 in Quicktime, run iTunes with another video going, add several browsers showing web pages with animated Flash bits. Now use Expose to show all these windows at once. My MacBook Pro with el cheapo ATI onboard graphics can handle that, but try the same with Flip 3-D on Vista (which is nothing like as useful or elegant as Expose), even with an uber Quadro card, and you'll see why I say OSX has a high performance GUI.
For programming and the command line, give me bash. For anything graphical at all, I'll take vista any day.
Clearly you haven't tried OSX. You get a consistent, fluid and high performance GUI. When you want a shell, you get a Unix one on a certified Unix OS; in a fancy translucent window if you so choose. Beats having to run Cygwin on a Windows box.
Linux just doesn't have a mature desktop environment available, and that's the point of a graphical interface!
Er, who's talking about Linux? This story is about Mac OSX Leopard...
The UK government is threatening to introduce new legislation if ISPs *don't* play a more active role in fighting illegal filesharing.
Crikey, calm down dear! - the parent post was pretty rubbish, but you must be having a bad day!
>I can only imagine how many emails you will get today with "WTF?" as the subject line
Bah - there goes my plan for "First WTF?"
On Vista you can run several CAD/High End graphical applications under the Aero interface and not lose performance in any of the applications, even with them performing side by side. (This is the same paradigm shift that pre-emptive CPU operations offered applications, and Vista has extended this concept to the GPU subsystem.)
Er... no.
I can tell you that Vista offers nothing but complications and poorer performance for these applications. CAD/CAM demands RAM; Vista takes it away with bloat and poor memory handling. CAD/CAM demands graphics power; Vista keeps the GPU busy with its own tasks and has poor OpenGL performance.
Far and away the best Windows OS for CAD/CAM is XP Pro x64. I would strongly advise users to stay with XP, think about going x64, but definitely skip the current generation. Or see if your vendor supports OSX/Linux/Unix.