This is true, however I wanted to move my e-mail address to gmail and they said I could not do that unless I paid a "service fee". I told them that having a e-mail from a non-free service is something very easy and cheap to do and trivial and they did not care. They told me that it was for my own protection.....ooook. They are screwed up. One thing that is very much needed is a fraud department. How many times do we have to hear about horror stories of eBay purchases gone wrong? When they try to do something, it fails to do what they want and they ignore some of the stupid stuff that happens on ebay.
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This is not all that new. A friend of mine in college had a kick ass computer (a 386 when I had a 286) and had every game imagineable. All of which he got when in the military. One thing you have, if your single, when your on active duty is money. Yuo don't have to pay for clothes or food when your on active duty. Yuo still get paid and thus can buy alot of stuff at teh PX or on Amazon.com. Personally, I agree with others.....this war in Iraq is now about 3 years old and it's time for us to exit, or make sure we swap in fresh troops on a regular basis. Give the ones who have been out for a while a long leave. If this is impossible, then at least make the off duty hours comfortable.
What he is bringing up would not even be seen in OrCAD or even Pspice simulation. This is a physical design flaw. Orcad (which is just a schematic program) and Pspice (electronics simulator) won't even show this as an issue. The stress relief on the Powerbook Adapter is flawed.
I think the "problem" is that some people are looking for the next significant advance that i s AMAZING. Well, the iPod itself wasn't that amazing when it came out. What is more amazing is people bought em. Every release form Apple is not going to be awe inspiring or even that exciting. Personally what EVERYONE missed is that Apple pulled off the fastest platform switch EVER. Less then ONE YEAR after the announcement, other then repaired machines or refurbs, all new equipment coming from Apple are now running on the Intel platform. That is significant! Anyway, the new hardware kicks ass in my opinion. I probably will never have one.
Well, all in all I think it is what I expected. New MacPros, preview of Leopard with it being released this Spring (same pattern as Tiger). Now on my short list of new purchases to be made soon is a new Mac Mini. I don't need the firebreather (but BOY do I want one!).
Some Mac fan boi's are going to be disappointed they are going to say....What no iPhone? No new iPod's?? These are guys who SHOULDN'T pay attention to the WWDC. The D in WWDC means developers. IE, this isn't where consumer stuff will be introed and a iPOd is just that. With that said, loosing the good/better/best thing is the best thing I think they announced. Make one config and reduce the costs of add ins.....well they did not do that but anyway....
Looking forward to any new announcements coming in the next month or so....
I am probably on the opposite side of this kind of situation. We even had the vendor come in and do a complete analysis during one of our busiest times. They gave us a report that told us nothing new. Thier excuse? The next version, due any day now, is supposed to be faster then the old one and they only give us 7 months to upgrade to it(no,, not really, but in our case, we're a college....you DON'T launch new products during the Fall quarter! Which means we launch in April for summer registration, our lowest time of year). Anyway, we have had third parties VERIFY the issue is with the software, yet the VP's running the company have never heard of the issue. Oh and this is running on what is some of the fastest stuff available....16 processors and 100 gig of ram....tons of hardware....we could write a system that would be EASILY 3-4 times as fast as this crap we're running now....and NOT upgrade for another 4 years.....Yeah our version would nto be as complex, but it would do what WE want and not all of the extra junk. So when you THINK the customer is wrong, make sure you are really sure about that.
Amen. The biggest thing Digg needs is uber editors. SOme diggers would scream, but they need this because all too often some stupid or inaccurate story gets to the front page. In accurate stories need to be moved off much quicker and retractions put up as well. Digg is what it would be like to see the Slashdot submission queue in my opinion. Slashdot only puts up the quality posts/stories and the fact that most discussions on Slashdot are MUCH better then they are on digg. Digg only goes to two levels of post (won't let you reply to a reply...how stupid is that?) and in so many diggs have I seen a thread degenerate into flame wars MUCH quicker. Digg really needs to investigate:
1. A Editor or uber digger who can immedeately remove a post from the front page that is inaccurate or totally lame. You can't depend on the masses to do this for you.
2. Deeper comment system.
3. Better moderation.
Slashdot has all of those and a bit more. While I think Slashdot should try and be a little more like digg, they should not go whole hog. Let the readers of Slashdot vote on the submission queue, but the ultimate decision of what goes on the front page should still remain on the Slashdot editors. It never ceases to amaze me of the utter crap that gets digged to the digg.com frontpage. You think Slashdot is bad about the dupes? Digg is 10 times worse!
Ok, the fact that you can connect to a wireless set to access ANY accesss point, that's nothing new. The exploit is the issue...and from what I have seen, it's not just Mac's with the issue.
I don't like the idea of this. Why? The popular vote can be even more inaccurate then a electoral College. The compact idea will give voters LESS power....not more. Here's my idea:
Expand the idea of the electoral college. Let me explain....I live in Ohio. Ohio was VERY close to 50/50 in the last election in the popular vote. What I propose is states that exceed X amount of population be devided in half (just for the elctoral college). So instead of the whole of the Electoral Votes going to one or the other, you could split the state in the middle....East Ohio gives vote for Democract and West Ohio votes for the republican....
The sad side is most of this debacle of the Electoral College is not really controlled by the Federal goverment....State Law is what guides how the electoral vote is given. The states themselves would have to make laws that would make this possible as well as the Federal Government.
Can we make the Backslashes smaller like the lesser stories? Some Backslashes, like this one, just aren't useful to me, but I can't filter out specific Backslashes very easily.
The cell phone non-neutrality problem has even caused the government to go and buy thier own cell network. I would say that this would be a first since the birth of the states. I am talking about the Nextel iDEN network. Eventually all Nextel customers will be on Sprints network with PTT on it as well. Oh you forgot about the DoD buying one of the better networks out there? This has to be a first for the DoD. Usually DARPA invents it, sells it to the company who can make it fo the cheapest. In this case, they bought a whole cell Network for DHS.
This is the number one thing that pisses me off about all cell providers in the states. One example is Verizon Wireless seems to block a wap site outside of thier network. Why? I don't know, but the site I am talking about provides subway train info via wap browser. I can get to the site from my laptop outside of thier network, but on the phone I get nothing. I can get to google and I can get to gmail, but this subway thing? No dice. The reason? I don't really know, but I am guessing that maybe they are going to start selling a app that does the same thing and they'd rather me pay them instead of get it for free.
You know what....WHO CARES!:D You know there was a TON of sites down over the weekend. Yahoo instant messenger was among them too.....my brother and I were unable to connect to Yahoo Instant Messenger....no sweat....we have this thing called a PHONE!
This is a GREAT use of Backslash and the post even had a different look to it.....
Now on to my comments....
We all should want electric cars. The reasons are is they are not just cleaner to operate, they are also cheaper to maintain. There are less moving parts in a electric car and even the parts that are similar also get less use. The brakes don't need to be used near as much because of the regenerative braking the motor does. There's also no belts and no transmission.....no oil changes! I want a car like this. Electric cars CAN be more reliable then ICE cars. Th eoli companies just need to look at buying up some electric plants!
My son LOVES hotwheels. Granted, if I offer up my Nintendo DSlite for him to play Mario, he jumps, but he's just as happy pushing his hot wheel across the floor. I just wish Mattel would make more durable hot wheel tracks. Bought a cheap one for my son on Christmas Day and by the end of the week it was broke. The old one that looked like a race track with T-Handles was fun to play with when I was a kid.
Congratulations to NASA on a very successful mission. Most slashdotters will whine about spending money on this, but what we have to realize is the internet and much of our communications infrastructure depends on satellites and other things that the shuttle either researchs or launches directly. Many improvments in many things we use today are a result of research NASA either has did in space or did to get to space. GO NASA!:D
A old PC capable of running 98 is WAYY to underpowered to run a modern Linux distro that is user friendly like Ubuntu. I have no idea where TFA is getting their data. Schools will just suck it up and buy new machines that run XP because Reader Rabbit and all of that installs fine out of the box on a Windows machine. You may say run vm ware, but emulation or virtualization software may be cool and acceptable for geeks, but not for a overworked elementary school teacher or admin. They barely understand computers let alone you telling they have a computer within the computer(essentially the way you have to explain virtualization to noobs).
The person submitting the story is even wrong. As far as I know and what I read last week when the story broke, they said sentencing wasn't until October.
Re:Is it just me that HATES devices talking?
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Acutally I HATE reading the text. I would rather have in game hosts who don't use text bubbles and have a way to skip the tutorial crap all together.
Re:Still sounds dangerous...
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Talking iPods
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Voice recognition would be horrible. As I have said in another post, this is so blind people can use the iPod.
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This is true, however I wanted to move my e-mail address to gmail and they said I could not do that unless I paid a "service fee". I told them that having a e-mail from a non-free service is something very easy and cheap to do and trivial and they did not care. They told me that it was for my own protection.....ooook. They are screwed up. One thing that is very much needed is a fraud department. How many times do we have to hear about horror stories of eBay purchases gone wrong? When they try to do something, it fails to do what they want and they ignore some of the stupid stuff that happens on ebay.
This is not all that new. A friend of mine in college had a kick ass computer (a 386 when I had a 286) and had every game imagineable. All of which he got when in the military. One thing you have, if your single, when your on active duty is money. Yuo don't have to pay for clothes or food when your on active duty. Yuo still get paid and thus can buy alot of stuff at teh PX or on Amazon.com. Personally, I agree with others.....this war in Iraq is now about 3 years old and it's time for us to exit, or make sure we swap in fresh troops on a regular basis. Give the ones who have been out for a while a long leave. If this is impossible, then at least make the off duty hours comfortable.
No this would be from stowing the cord like your supposed to with the convenient flip out cord holder.
What he is bringing up would not even be seen in OrCAD or even Pspice simulation. This is a physical design flaw. Orcad (which is just a schematic program) and Pspice (electronics simulator) won't even show this as an issue. The stress relief on the Powerbook Adapter is flawed.
Sorry,but participation doesn't pay the bandwidth bills, nor the mortgage or for the server.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I think the "problem" is that some people are looking for the next significant advance that i s AMAZING. Well, the iPod itself wasn't that amazing when it came out. What is more amazing is people bought em. Every release form Apple is not going to be awe inspiring or even that exciting. Personally what EVERYONE missed is that Apple pulled off the fastest platform switch EVER. Less then ONE YEAR after the announcement, other then repaired machines or refurbs, all new equipment coming from Apple are now running on the Intel platform. That is significant! Anyway, the new hardware kicks ass in my opinion. I probably will never have one.
Well, all in all I think it is what I expected. New MacPros, preview of Leopard with it being released this Spring (same pattern as Tiger). Now on my short list of new purchases to be made soon is a new Mac Mini. I don't need the firebreather (but BOY do I want one!).
Some Mac fan boi's are going to be disappointed they are going to say....What no iPhone? No new iPod's?? These are guys who SHOULDN'T pay attention to the WWDC. The D in WWDC means developers. IE, this isn't where consumer stuff will be introed and a iPOd is just that. With that said, loosing the good/better/best thing is the best thing I think they announced. Make one config and reduce the costs of add ins.....well they did not do that but anyway....
Looking forward to any new announcements coming in the next month or so....
Not true. I just got a Nextel and there was a airplane mode that shut off the radios.
I am probably on the opposite side of this kind of situation. We even had the vendor come in and do a complete analysis during one of our busiest times. They gave us a report that told us nothing new. Thier excuse? The next version, due any day now, is supposed to be faster then the old one and they only give us 7 months to upgrade to it(no,, not really, but in our case, we're a college....you DON'T launch new products during the Fall quarter! Which means we launch in April for summer registration, our lowest time of year). Anyway, we have had third parties VERIFY the issue is with the software, yet the VP's running the company have never heard of the issue. Oh and this is running on what is some of the fastest stuff available....16 processors and 100 gig of ram....tons of hardware....we could write a system that would be EASILY 3-4 times as fast as this crap we're running now....and NOT upgrade for another 4 years.....Yeah our version would nto be as complex, but it would do what WE want and not all of the extra junk. So when you THINK the customer is wrong, make sure you are really sure about that.
Amen. The biggest thing Digg needs is uber editors. SOme diggers would scream, but they need this because all too often some stupid or inaccurate story gets to the front page. In accurate stories need to be moved off much quicker and retractions put up as well. Digg is what it would be like to see the Slashdot submission queue in my opinion. Slashdot only puts up the quality posts/stories and the fact that most discussions on Slashdot are MUCH better then they are on digg. Digg only goes to two levels of post (won't let you reply to a reply...how stupid is that?) and in so many diggs have I seen a thread degenerate into flame wars MUCH quicker. Digg really needs to investigate:
1. A Editor or uber digger who can immedeately remove a post from the front page that is inaccurate or totally lame. You can't depend on the masses to do this for you.
2. Deeper comment system.
3. Better moderation.
Slashdot has all of those and a bit more. While I think Slashdot should try and be a little more like digg, they should not go whole hog. Let the readers of Slashdot vote on the submission queue, but the ultimate decision of what goes on the front page should still remain on the Slashdot editors. It never ceases to amaze me of the utter crap that gets digged to the digg.com frontpage. You think Slashdot is bad about the dupes? Digg is 10 times worse!
Yep. This Web 2.0 stuff should be called Bubble 2.0.
I like Kevin and all, but how come everytime I see him he looks like he needs a shower and a haircut? Oh and new clothes too.
Ok, the fact that you can connect to a wireless set to access ANY accesss point, that's nothing new. The exploit is the issue...and from what I have seen, it's not just Mac's with the issue.
WHY CAN'T I ORDER ONE! Seriously! I'd pay up to 400 for one.
I don't like the idea of this. Why? The popular vote can be even more inaccurate then a electoral College. The compact idea will give voters LESS power....not more. Here's my idea:
Expand the idea of the electoral college. Let me explain....I live in Ohio. Ohio was VERY close to 50/50 in the last election in the popular vote. What I propose is states that exceed X amount of population be devided in half (just for the elctoral college). So instead of the whole of the Electoral Votes going to one or the other, you could split the state in the middle....East Ohio gives vote for Democract and West Ohio votes for the republican....
The sad side is most of this debacle of the Electoral College is not really controlled by the Federal goverment....State Law is what guides how the electoral vote is given. The states themselves would have to make laws that would make this possible as well as the Federal Government.
Can we make the Backslashes smaller like the lesser stories? Some Backslashes, like this one, just aren't useful to me, but I can't filter out specific Backslashes very easily.
The cell phone non-neutrality problem has even caused the government to go and buy thier own cell network. I would say that this would be a first since the birth of the states. I am talking about the Nextel iDEN network. Eventually all Nextel customers will be on Sprints network with PTT on it as well. Oh you forgot about the DoD buying one of the better networks out there? This has to be a first for the DoD. Usually DARPA invents it, sells it to the company who can make it fo the cheapest. In this case, they bought a whole cell Network for DHS.
This is the number one thing that pisses me off about all cell providers in the states. One example is Verizon Wireless seems to block a wap site outside of thier network. Why? I don't know, but the site I am talking about provides subway train info via wap browser. I can get to the site from my laptop outside of thier network, but on the phone I get nothing. I can get to google and I can get to gmail, but this subway thing? No dice. The reason? I don't really know, but I am guessing that maybe they are going to start selling a app that does the same thing and they'd rather me pay them instead of get it for free.
You know what....WHO CARES! :D You know there was a TON of sites down over the weekend. Yahoo instant messenger was among them too.....my brother and I were unable to connect to Yahoo Instant Messenger....no sweat....we have this thing called a PHONE!
This is a GREAT use of Backslash and the post even had a different look to it.....
Now on to my comments....
We all should want electric cars. The reasons are is they are not just cleaner to operate, they are also cheaper to maintain. There are less moving parts in a electric car and even the parts that are similar also get less use. The brakes don't need to be used near as much because of the regenerative braking the motor does. There's also no belts and no transmission.....no oil changes! I want a car like this. Electric cars CAN be more reliable then ICE cars. Th eoli companies just need to look at buying up some electric plants!
My son LOVES hotwheels. Granted, if I offer up my Nintendo DSlite for him to play Mario, he jumps, but he's just as happy pushing his hot wheel across the floor. I just wish Mattel would make more durable hot wheel tracks. Bought a cheap one for my son on Christmas Day and by the end of the week it was broke. The old one that looked like a race track with T-Handles was fun to play with when I was a kid.
And....my mom would shoot me. Open Office has to be a SLUG on this machine. My mom won't go for that.
Congratulations to NASA on a very successful mission. Most slashdotters will whine about spending money on this, but what we have to realize is the internet and much of our communications infrastructure depends on satellites and other things that the shuttle either researchs or launches directly. Many improvments in many things we use today are a result of research NASA either has did in space or did to get to space. GO NASA! :D
A old PC capable of running 98 is WAYY to underpowered to run a modern Linux distro that is user friendly like Ubuntu. I have no idea where TFA is getting their data. Schools will just suck it up and buy new machines that run XP because Reader Rabbit and all of that installs fine out of the box on a Windows machine. You may say run vm ware, but emulation or virtualization software may be cool and acceptable for geeks, but not for a overworked elementary school teacher or admin. They barely understand computers let alone you telling they have a computer within the computer(essentially the way you have to explain virtualization to noobs).
The person submitting the story is even wrong. As far as I know and what I read last week when the story broke, they said sentencing wasn't until October.
Acutally I HATE reading the text. I would rather have in game hosts who don't use text bubbles and have a way to skip the tutorial crap all together.
Voice recognition would be horrible. As I have said in another post, this is so blind people can use the iPod.