I don't know if this is the case of not; but if I can't look over to the left at my list of Labels and see something like:
Well, you can do that - I have filters set up to label particular emails and then not bother showing them in the inbox. And my label list on the left shows labels with emails that are unread in bold, with the number of unread mails in brackets after the label names. i.e. exactly what you want.
If it helps: labels are just like normal folders, except you can put more than one label on an email.
Labels seem great to me - never had any problems with them.
In short, you've bought something that does not claim to be a CD, and yet you expect it to behave identically to a CD. That's not actually the manufacturers problem.
Or, to put it another way, I bought something that looks like a CD, is in exactly the same packaging as a CD, is sitting on the shelf next to other legitimate CDs, and is in the section of the store marked 'Compact Discs'.
In the UK, we have a govt body called the Trading Standards Authority, and at a push, they'd probably have something to say about that practice. I'm guessing it wouldn't be favourable.
My computer's optical drive does, thus indicating that it is compatible with the CD specification laid down by Philips and Sony, and the manufacturer lists CDDA as a supported format, so I should be able to play CDs with that logo on any hardware device that (legally) displays that logo (or supports the standard).
That is the point of the logo, after all, to ensure compatibility and consumer confidence. Now, of course, the weasels don't put the logo on copy-protected CDs that violate the standard - but still sell them as audio CDs, of course (I'm just waiting for the DVD Video logo to be devalued in the same way).
So I'm not entirely sure why, when I have a media PC in my living room partly for the purpose of playing CDs, I should have to go and buy a 'CD player' in order to play CDs. I'm pretty sure I already have a CD player. It's in my media PC.
I very much doubt most people would miss them if they weren't there. In my whole life, surrounded by people with mobile phones, I have met one person who I've ever seen use his WAP browser. I have seen a calculator used on a mobile phone twice, and both times I'd worked out the correct answer in my head faster. You get the idea.
As regards the other features mentioned, it might be just me, but I think I've seen more than one instance of someone using their camera phone.
The consumer doesn't have to buy stupid bundles. They could exercise a little self control.
The thing is, people who will buy these bundles even though they don't really want all the stuff have more money than sense, and that's exactly who such bundles are aimed at.
Simple market place economics, really. Who'll buy this for $500? When you run out of those guys, you can see if anyone wants to buy at $450, etc.
Speaking for myself, I got an Xbox when they were £120 at Amazon with 4 games. Yes, 2 of the games were crap, but I judged that the bits I actually wanted were worth the price.
Actually, the main problem I have with bundles is they usually include an extra controller. But it's one of those lame 3rd party controllers. Which suck. But then you have 2 controllers, so you can play multiplayer. But you really want a decent second controller. But you can't justify buying a 'proper' one, because, well, you already have a second controller. But it sucks.
It's a dilemma:-)
(BTW, the universally acknowledged solution to this problem is for the platform to have a Mario Kart game, then you just have to buy 4 proper controllers, no questions asked. Job done. If you disagree with me, I'll see you on Toad's Turnpike. Mirror track.)
The short answer is simple: Drive at a speed that allows you to stop within the distance you can see. If people tail-end you, it's their friggin' problem.
Correct, and in the UK, that's actually the offence. I once ran into a car from behind (well, 4 people collided, all in a row because someone 4 cars ahead decided to slow down suddenly to turn off without indicating).
As it happened, a police car passed by a minute later, and stopped. The policeman told me that I'd committed an offence, which was "Driving at a speed from which you could not stop in the distance you could see to be clear." (It rolled off his tongue like he'd said it many times before)
Unlike seemingly many people, I didn't get annoyed with him - I accepted it was my fault, and learned the lesson. I now drive far enough behind other cars to stop.
As mentioned, the "how the hell else am I supposed to drive really fast in driving snow" argument is bullshit. Reminds me of the time during bad weather in the UK with torrential rain, some random motorist was on the TV news blaming the police for accidents because they hadn't turned on the temporary (slower) speed limit signs. The guy actually said, and I quote, "How the hell do they expect me to drive at 70mph in this weather?"
Sometimes people's arrogance and stupidity is overwhelming.
The under 21 thing doesn't sound elitist - it sounds a bit dumb. I've never found a person's age to be an indicator of whether they're going to STFU while watching a movie.
I've seen plenty of kids watch a movie quietly, whereas, e.g. '28 Days Later' was nearly ruined for me at the cinema by a bunch of muppets who all looked over 21.
In a way I remember it fondly because near the end of the movie, I was just about to say "Oh will you just shut the fuck up?", when someone behind me said to the muppets "Oh will you just shut the fuck up?", followed by lots of people saying "Yeah, shut up."
I used to recommend (well, I still do, actually) Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire to programmers. (Nowadays I guess it's a bit C-centric, but the principles are the same, and I'd say if you have trouble grasping the code concepts in the book, you're not ever going to write solid code anyway.)
Some people had the typical "Ha! Microsoft! What can they tell me about writing solid code?!" attitude.
A while later they'd finish it, and usually derisively tell me they'd learned nothing from it.
Almost invariably with such people, I would later look at the code they produced and think, "You're right. You learned absolutely nothing from that book."
I'd have to agree with that - I'm definitely of the Walkman Generation, and had a walkman and now have an iPod, and so have listened to music on portable devices for around 20 years.
My hearing's fine - I've not noticed any problems and I think I can still hear the flyback whine when a TV loses sync.
Then again, I don't listen to music really loud. I am agog at people who use earbud headphones on the tube (subway) loud enough that I can still hear the music across the carriage. I tried that once, by turning up the volume so I could hear it with my headphones not in my ears. I then tried putting the headphones in - basically, I was too scared to put them in properly - it was that loud. Of course, when you put the headphones in your ears, you probably dampen the sound, so they're probably listening to it even louder.
Essentially, if you're so goddamn stupid to listen to music that loud habitually, then you're going to lose your hearing, and you shouldn't be that surprised about it.
Having spent a not insignificant portion of my life interacting with the output of printer manufacturers and (saints preserve us) the output of said manufacturers' driver developers (shudder), I'd say it's most likely because the different printers have different printable areas. A difference in vertical printable area size is the most common, hence affecting pagination.
Oh, I forgot - something I liked from that article was this:
But that's not the way it works: instead, you have to connect the phone to your computer (using a slow USB connection) and get songs from your iTunes music library - just as you do with a conventional iPod.
(My emphasis)
From what I've read, the USB interface is USB 2. Is downloading music over a 3G network really faster than a wired USB 2 connection? It seems unlikely. I guess the reviewer doesn't have USB 2 on their Mac/PC.
From reading that article, can anyone explain why this phone is significantly different to other phones that you can upload mp3s to and listen to them on the phone? A friend of mine had one of those at least two years ago, iirc.
Is it simply that it plays protected iTMS AAC files? The 'iTunes' on your phone doesn't seem that radical - I'm guessing (from pictures I've seen) that it's simply the hierarchical genre/artist/album UI of iTunes and not much else. (I'm not sure how necessary that is for 100 songs, of course, but presumably that will change over time).
Am I missing something? Is it just the DRM'd AAC support?
You can say you're studing gamma emissions at some location described by a bunch of numbers and letter (I have no idea how it's described, actually), or instead you say, "near the handle of the Big Dipper".
Sure, for the person you're talking to, they don't have any more real/useful information. But you've helped connect what you know to something they know, and from a PR point of view, that's more useful than you might imagine.
Well, if that's the case, why bother learning the constellations? Just say "It's near the Big Dipper", or "It's just next to Seven Sisters", and you're golden.
Instead of just blocking all attachments that end with EXE, why can the OS let me run the EXE and warn me if the EXE is trying to modify critical system info, or access the internet in an unpermitted way?
Or, for instance, deleting all your data?
How is the OS supposed to judge the friendliness of an app? (The Psychic Friends Network?:-))
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Well, you can do that - I have filters set up to label particular emails and then not bother showing them in the inbox. And my label list on the left shows labels with emails that are unread in bold, with the number of unread mails in brackets after the label names. i.e. exactly what you want.
If it helps: labels are just like normal folders, except you can put more than one label on an email.
Labels seem great to me - never had any problems with them.
Or, to put it another way, I bought something that looks like a CD, is in exactly the same packaging as a CD, is sitting on the shelf next to other legitimate CDs, and is in the section of the store marked 'Compact Discs'.
In the UK, we have a govt body called the Trading Standards Authority, and at a push, they'd probably have something to say about that practice. I'm guessing it wouldn't be favourable.
My computer's optical drive does, thus indicating that it is compatible with the CD specification laid down by Philips and Sony, and the manufacturer lists CDDA as a supported format, so I should be able to play CDs with that logo on any hardware device that (legally) displays that logo (or supports the standard).
That is the point of the logo, after all, to ensure compatibility and consumer confidence. Now, of course, the weasels don't put the logo on copy-protected CDs that violate the standard - but still sell them as audio CDs, of course (I'm just waiting for the DVD Video logo to be devalued in the same way).
So I'm not entirely sure why, when I have a media PC in my living room partly for the purpose of playing CDs, I should have to go and buy a 'CD player' in order to play CDs. I'm pretty sure I already have a CD player. It's in my media PC.
As regards the other features mentioned, it might be just me, but I think I've seen more than one instance of someone using their camera phone.
It's lame :-)
Darn it, I just posted a reply along these lines to another post, but in case you don't see it, have a look at Synergy
It's not quite what you're asking for, but I thought you might be interested, as it's close in some ways.
That's when you need to leverage your synergy :)
(Disclaimer: never used it, but it sounds cool!)
The consumer doesn't have to buy stupid bundles. They could exercise a little self control.
The thing is, people who will buy these bundles even though they don't really want all the stuff have more money than sense, and that's exactly who such bundles are aimed at.
Simple market place economics, really. Who'll buy this for $500? When you run out of those guys, you can see if anyone wants to buy at $450, etc.
Speaking for myself, I got an Xbox when they were £120 at Amazon with 4 games. Yes, 2 of the games were crap, but I judged that the bits I actually wanted were worth the price.
Actually, the main problem I have with bundles is they usually include an extra controller. But it's one of those lame 3rd party controllers. Which suck. But then you have 2 controllers, so you can play multiplayer. But you really want a decent second controller. But you can't justify buying a 'proper' one, because, well, you already have a second controller. But it sucks.
It's a dilemma :-)
(BTW, the universally acknowledged solution to this problem is for the platform to have a Mario Kart game, then you just have to buy 4 proper controllers, no questions asked. Job done. If you disagree with me, I'll see you on Toad's Turnpike. Mirror track.)
Correct, and in the UK, that's actually the offence. I once ran into a car from behind (well, 4 people collided, all in a row because someone 4 cars ahead decided to slow down suddenly to turn off without indicating).
As it happened, a police car passed by a minute later, and stopped. The policeman told me that I'd committed an offence, which was "Driving at a speed from which you could not stop in the distance you could see to be clear." (It rolled off his tongue like he'd said it many times before)
Unlike seemingly many people, I didn't get annoyed with him - I accepted it was my fault, and learned the lesson. I now drive far enough behind other cars to stop.
As mentioned, the "how the hell else am I supposed to drive really fast in driving snow" argument is bullshit. Reminds me of the time during bad weather in the UK with torrential rain, some random motorist was on the TV news blaming the police for accidents because they hadn't turned on the temporary (slower) speed limit signs. The guy actually said, and I quote, "How the hell do they expect me to drive at 70mph in this weather?"
Sometimes people's arrogance and stupidity is overwhelming.
Chief Gaming Officer at Sun Microsystems? That's got to be one cushy number. Sign me up for that.
Then again, I suppose crappy Java games for mobile devices don't just write themselves! :-)
The under 21 thing doesn't sound elitist - it sounds a bit dumb. I've never found a person's age to be an indicator of whether they're going to STFU while watching a movie.
I've seen plenty of kids watch a movie quietly, whereas, e.g. '28 Days Later' was nearly ruined for me at the cinema by a bunch of muppets who all looked over 21.
In a way I remember it fondly because near the end of the movie, I was just about to say "Oh will you just shut the fuck up?", when someone behind me said to the muppets "Oh will you just shut the fuck up?", followed by lots of people saying "Yeah, shut up."
I guess they'll just have to make do with selling their software to the eighteen hojillion people on the planet that do use Windows.
I wonder if they'll cope without you?
I used to recommend (well, I still do, actually) Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire to programmers. (Nowadays I guess it's a bit C-centric, but the principles are the same, and I'd say if you have trouble grasping the code concepts in the book, you're not ever going to write solid code anyway.)
Some people had the typical "Ha! Microsoft! What can they tell me about writing solid code?!" attitude.
A while later they'd finish it, and usually derisively tell me they'd learned nothing from it.
Almost invariably with such people, I would later look at the code they produced and think, "You're right. You learned absolutely nothing from that book."
Ah well. Such is life.
I've always thought that engineering comes under the D part of R&D. I guess everyone has different ideas about what R&D means :)
If it bothers you so much, you should know about mirrordot
I'd have to agree with that - I'm definitely of the Walkman Generation, and had a walkman and now have an iPod, and so have listened to music on portable devices for around 20 years.
My hearing's fine - I've not noticed any problems and I think I can still hear the flyback whine when a TV loses sync.
Then again, I don't listen to music really loud. I am agog at people who use earbud headphones on the tube (subway) loud enough that I can still hear the music across the carriage. I tried that once, by turning up the volume so I could hear it with my headphones not in my ears. I then tried putting the headphones in - basically, I was too scared to put them in properly - it was that loud. Of course, when you put the headphones in your ears, you probably dampen the sound, so they're probably listening to it even louder.
Essentially, if you're so goddamn stupid to listen to music that loud habitually, then you're going to lose your hearing, and you shouldn't be that surprised about it.
Are you calling me an American?
Having spent a not insignificant portion of my life interacting with the output of printer manufacturers and (saints preserve us) the output of said manufacturers' driver developers (shudder), I'd say it's most likely because the different printers have different printable areas. A difference in vertical printable area size is the most common, hence affecting pagination.
Let me fix that up for ya:
French Clippy: "You look like you're trying to fight a war of independence. Would you like some help with that?"
The secret is to bang the iPods together, guys!
(My emphasis)
From what I've read, the USB interface is USB 2. Is downloading music over a 3G network really faster than a wired USB 2 connection? It seems unlikely. I guess the reviewer doesn't have USB 2 on their Mac/PC.
From reading that article, can anyone explain why this phone is significantly different to other phones that you can upload mp3s to and listen to them on the phone? A friend of mine had one of those at least two years ago, iirc.
Is it simply that it plays protected iTMS AAC files? The 'iTunes' on your phone doesn't seem that radical - I'm guessing (from pictures I've seen) that it's simply the hierarchical genre/artist/album UI of iTunes and not much else. (I'm not sure how necessary that is for 100 songs, of course, but presumably that will change over time).
Am I missing something? Is it just the DRM'd AAC support?
Well, if that's the case, why bother learning the constellations? Just say "It's near the Big Dipper", or "It's just next to Seven Sisters", and you're golden.
There should be a "-1, Used the word 'rig' to describe a computer" mod.
Or, for instance, deleting all your data?
How is the OS supposed to judge the friendliness of an app? (The Psychic Friends Network? :-))