The problem really is that his writing was entirely on the basis that a 14 year old mistakenly said invented when he probably meant modded, while giving an impromptu interview.
And yet as a boy, I would learn about electronics, not by reading or listening to a teacher, but by taking things apart and then putting it back together. I say kudos for going one step further and seeing what he could put it in and reassembling it in the new case. Sure it's not genius level work, but I say it's a good start.
My current computer is much like yours. Just didn't build it myself. Got one of the first Dell XPS's (which they renamed slightly after to the XPS 435mt).
Intel Core i7-920 6GB RAM 600 GB HD ATI Radeon 4850 HD
After a few years it ended up having 24 GB RAM (when I got it, it was so cheap to buy went ahead and maxed it out) 120 GB SSD (SATA 3 but of course it doesn't support sata 3 so I have to stick with sata 2 speed) and a ATI Radeon 6850 HD video card (which is the highest model this computer it can take)
Still runs great, but those little things bug me, and just like you stated, doesn't have USB 3, memory speed and has the old PCIx stuff. Added to that the lack an easily replaceable power supply, inability to take a faster video card, and in general no expandability options at all, I'm currently building my next computer as I write this
New computer will have Core i7 4790k 16GB RAM 250 GB SSD (and all the old drives) NVidia GeForce GTX 960 And a case that's easy to add and upgrade items as I please
I'm also building this thing for absolute silence most of the time. All the parts have fans that won't spin up until a temperature threshold is reached, after that they spin up but stay quiet and really I won't care since I'll probably be gaming, transcoding, or doing a software build.
I have both a MX Revolution and 2 Performance MX's. I prefer the weight of the MX revolution's wheel especially when doing free scrolling. The Performance MX does let you use the scroll wheel as a middle button and has a separate button to make it switch between click/free scrolling. I also really like the Revolution's thumb wheel which they got rid of for the Performance MX, but now they have somewhere to go when making an ultimate MX mouse! Either way they are fantastic mice all of them.
So jailbreaking can actually help the security of your phone before Apple has a chance to fix it. One more reason for jailbreaking beyond the usual stuff.
The fault in the logic here is that them saying.5% of people reported the problem, people think that.5% of the people actually have the problem. This one is actually belongs to both Apple and media. I have an iPhone 4 and have the problem. I already live in a poor reception area and having a phone that can be slightly better than average or significantly worse than average reception kinda makes my head spin.
But I didn't report it! Why you say? Because it's already a big deal to the media who's been schlepping this story around for the last month. I didn't think I needed to report it. And everyone I know who has an iPhone talks about the news stories about the terrible reception, but again never report it. They figure if it's this big a news then Apple should be able to see it's more than just a few thousand people having the issue.
Again this is both sides' fault, but I guarantee the number of problem phones is a bit greater than.5%
About the heart thing. I know it might be several different factors but it does sound a lot like what I have. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachardia. https://health.google.com/health/ref/Paroxysmal+supraventricular+tachycardia+(PSVT) Just for information if anyone else suffers from it. It's a problem because it's so sporadic that figuring out what it is from a normal doctor is crazy hard
The link shows a technique to stop it when it's happening and it's helped me nearly every time. It takes a few times but eventually it goes away.
Now everybody this has helped go ahead and send me a few bucks so that I can afford to go back to the doctor and tell him I'm doing his job for him. =P
I just want XBMC to hardware decode all that hidef stuff with an ATI card. That means UVD support both at Ati's end and of course the XBMC project end. I'm using an Nvidia 9400gt right now in my media center and it works fine and all, I just want to have more choices. Is that too much to ask?
They'll only have huge problems if they are afraid of change. Which means that they shouldn't be doing the very thing you are proposing they should do. Which is to change their operating system.
So forget changing them to any other system, whether it be OSX or some distro of Linux. But lets take a look at those who can change.
Grouping applications under one icon makes a lot of sense, especially when you start opening up a lot of applications. Maybe they shouldn't, maybe they don't care, but keeping the taskbar clean is the only way to take care of many applications running at once without going to some other application management.
The icons can have text if you want them to, just one more option. The point of the icons pinned to the taskbar is that people DON'T NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S RUNNING. If you want to have Firefox open, click the firefox icon. If it's not running it'll start running. If it is running then it'll just go to the last instance of it. Either way you get what you want, which is to a firefox window.
The taskbar will append applications to the end as long as they aren't already pinned to the taskbar. Need to have your applications one after the other? Just don't pin anything to the taskbar(although I don't really understand the point). The icons are pretty big. I don't think people are that dumb(and if they are why are we arguing here it won't matter) that they can't figure out their Excel spreadsheet is under the excel icon which the icon looks a little different now that it has an active window. Give them a second, I bet they can figure it out.
I doubt they're gonna be really confused about the mouse gestures. To activate Aero Shake, you really have to shake it like you mean it. Unless they are doing it just for fun. Maximizing by dragging it to the top isn't confusing. Move it to the top and they see the window maximize move it down a bit and it reverts back. I really wish the window would snap to the side full screen so i can have a side by side view of two windows. And there is Aero Snap, which is very convenient even to the most staunch. Did I mention if you don't like any of this, you can just turn it off?
And yeah it's the same basic interface, but many people use their own style, moving the taskbar to the left or right of the screen. Which is very nice for widescreen monitors which are becoming all the rage. And the icon based taskbar works very well on the side there.
Hah even that version number is wrong. When Apple gave us the 2.0 firmware it was really 1.2.0 firmware. So what we're looking at here is really 1.2.0.2.
Well no wonder it doesn't work, it's still in the first rev. Wait for it...
I wouldn't think that it's an issue only because they are totally separate things. Even if you could read a book on an iPhone not many people would. It's not that it's terrible, it's just that you can read it more comfortably using a different medium. I've read several books on my PDA and it's easy enough to do day to day. But at the end of the day my eyes are more comfortable with something like Sony's Reader.
This is where the comparison goes horribly wrong. The iPhone's very existence(and to some extent the iTouch) is meant to do many things, most of which is media centric. What I want from a eBook, is almost completely opposite. I don't want it to have flashy graphics, output sound or require me to anything fancy to just start reading. And I want to not charge it for months at a time. And last but not least, I want it to have a clear picture that I can read for hours and hours without a hint of eyestrain. I want it to be a freakin book but in electronic format. This is where Sony got it right. All these things can be found in Sony's Reader but not the iPhone and that's the way they should be. They are separate types of devices and trying to combine these into something "cooler" just makes my brain hurt.
TM aggregates changes and you can roll back to any point in time.
No not really. TM does not aggregate changes in the way aggregate means. It determines if there is changes to a file and provides a hardlink if there is no changes. Otherwise it either deletes the file from the copy it produces for that time or it copies another complete file to the backup.
Think of it as CVS. It tages backup times but actually only copies new data as it's checked in.
CVS and SVN will only backup changes to what's stored reducing the the need for a whole bunch of disk space when things don't change that much. But in TM if you change a small thing in a big file, you're gonna need roughly twice the space of the big file to store it and it's backup, not to mention each time you make a small change you'll need even more space.
The rest of what you say is spot on. The interface is great and lots of applications(mostly those Apple-made) have direct integration so it's easy to find what you're looking for and get it back from the depths of file death.
The complaints about the iPhone never seem to come from iPhone users. The highest customer satisfaction in phones is iPhone at 82%, the next best is Blackberry at 51%, then ALL THE REST are below 50%.
This is incredibly misleading. I'm not saying that the iPhone isn't a very satisfying phone. It's just that the research was done on the entire collection of phones from any one provider. Apple only has 1 phone. That skews the perspective a huge amount. Lets say that LG had a phone that was piss poor and everyone wanted to give the damn thing away. Then a month later they come out with the best phone anyone on the planet has ever seen, learning from their past mistakes. You get a customer satisfaction of %50. But that shouldn't take away from the fact that their latest phone was more satisfying from the consumer point of view than that of the iPhone.
Generally speaking the more you pay for a phone the more features and the more care the phone builder probably took into making that phone. The iPhone is a high ticket item. It was bound to be pretty good. But any other company already has far more than 1 phone out in the market with some of those phones only there to serve the bare necessities of the market.
I'm going to say this not to say that my phone is the greatest... it's just that because my phone is so good I'm not really looking to replace it for an iPhone. I have a Sony Ericsson W810i and when I got it, it was the best phone I have ever ever used. But it took me a long time to get myself to buy it because I hated the old SE phones. They were slow, unresponsive and crashed if you tried to do anything that wasn't on it's time schedule. But the W810i... just beautiful. It's small, syncs great with Mac's and does everything that I want to in a fashion that is very intuitive to me. Because of this I have gotten 6 friends/family members to switch to the phone and they all exclaim how they should have switched months ago. Oh well hindsight really is 20/20.
Worldwide, Wii outsold 360 in September, 1,075,000 to 735,000. The 360 managed to hold a lead over Wii for a mere two weeks and is now trailing again.
And this is why I hate articles like this. What is this some kind of freakin contest? Wii sold blah. 360 sold more blah. And then the Ps3 is blah behind. Who cares! I surely don't care who is in the "lead" as long as the consoles I have still put out decent games. Both the Xbox 360(which I own) and the Wii(which I want) have very solid exclusive titles. Sometimes I want to wave around a stick to feel immersed in the game and sometimes I don't. Tennis? Sure move that thang. Street Fighter 4? ummm no, do not make me do a Shoryuken just so that one of my fighters can beat the computer. Gah. People please get over the numbers and just play the game.
I'm pretty much in the same situation but with one small difference. I do have AT&T here. But really, that's not a choice. It's either Comcast or AT&T DSL and honestly AT&T is definitely a worse proposition. I hate to be cliche but it's really a case of choosing the best of the worst.
I can't say no to both of them. I work from home and the internet is literally my livelihood, without one of the high-speed internet's these bastards provide I'm done for. I keep looking for an alternative but for now, comcast is the only real game in town.
I know this is unnecessary with the idea that you switched 4 years ago... but seriously, it bugs me when nobody mentions that this is nowhere near the case now. So this post goes out to all the people who haven't used winamp or are trying to see which one is better right now.
All the problems you faced are gone. Drag and drop is there. Insert disc + rip is there. Smart playlists are there(and are a quite bit more flexible). Making playlists and smartlists is quite easy. Sorting by any column all there. But here are the things that will make me never switch to iTunes.
iTunes is crazy with the services. When you close iTunes there are still 2 services running in the background taking up resources for absolutely no reason. I can pretty much use any format that has ever been in existence with Winamp. Mp3's, AAC's, and Ogg are nice but then if you like you can have ALAC, FLAC, Monkey audio, AIFF, MIDI, WMA, and even the almighty MOD. Plays video if you want it to and not just the MP4 kind. Syncs perfect with my iPod and has some pretty cool utilities(with ml_ipod anyways). And it'll sync with damn near anything else. I currently have it sync my iPod, my phone(the awesome SE w810i), and a flash drive(which I can just stick in various media players and have it just work). It has a windowshade mode which means that's it's always on the screen up where the Title bar is (as thin as the title bar) and I always have access to the program and I can easily see exactly what is playing and where in the track it is. Built in customizable global hotkeys means I don't have to touch the mouse at all to do damn near anything with winamp. And of course skins which you can use to make it as useful or as gawdy as you like.
And since I'm bored I'm gonna end with plugins. There is just a whole lot more of them for Winamp making it be able to do even more stuff. Again this wasn't really targeted at the parent post. Just showing that Winamp can make a better case than iTunes with today's versions.
What's going to really get you in the morning is that they went from having no tactile controls to today's click wheel back to no tactile controls (ipod 3g-> ipod 5g -> ipod touch). It's a crazy world I tell ya.
While this would probably be a better solution what would happen if say, oh I don't know, he just piggybacks on a neighbors wifi... Not that I do that... just saying.
These things are true unless:
1) They know they can't get enough stock to deliver before Barcelona hits.
2) You don't want to crush them. Just make sure they don't retake the market. Remember these are the major players in the market and Intel doesn't want to appear to be monopolistic.
3) They just bring the processors out on the day AMD brings theirs out. They can use their coming out party to show them up. They'll spend less money if they just come in and say "Hey great party you got here. But wait... We got some other stuff right here that costs the same but performs quite a bit better." Or in other words use their announcements against them.
While these two Goliaths are locking horns and fighting over soon-to-be-obsolete technology, a third player will sneak behind them and steal the pot of gold.
Yeah good luck with that. And this will be the year of Linux.
Man I HATE this phrase "console war." Are you telling me that in 3 years the PS3 and 360 will simply not exist cause it was blasted to kingdom come by the Wii? Sure it's selling like hot cakes but the other consoles will still be here providing entertainment to gamers all over the world. And just because the damn thing is a godsend for a certain type of game (and a lot of innovation) it doesn't mean that some games would do better and would be funner using a classical approach. Shit all I want them to do is bring back MegaMan (more actual Megaman and less Zero) with all it's side scrolling glory on the big screen. But that's just my insane wishes.
Hell no 1GB isn't enough for a Mac. I got a shiny new Black Macbook last Christmas and as soon as I started getting programs that I would use everyday I noticed immediately that OS X is a RAM hog. I figure I'd use it like any Mac user would. I do use widgets but I don't think that it's that bad. Once I open a fresh Firefox session + OpenOffice + Adium + Thunderbird, I'm well within striking distance of filling up all my RAM. I wouldn't consider this to be very difficult as I do a similar thing with my Windows desktop with 512MB of RAM
I see the argument of high acceleration being put all over this discussion. I'll have to point out a few things. Whenever you increase the acceleration you reduce the precision of the entire mouse system period. Okay you can get to the menu in one sweep of the mouse on a very high resolution monitor. But then what? You select what you want from the menu and then you'll have to do something that probably isn't close to the edge of the monitor(ie, get back to where you were). This is especially bad if you work in non-maximized windows which most OS X apps I've seen are like. If you try to get back to where you were(or to a dialog box that opened up) quickly you'll just bounce off the other side of the screen. High acceleration has downfalls just as much as edge menus.
I agree 100%. I have a w810i too, I love it(seriously does anyone not like the w810i? I have to date converted 7 people over to the w810i side of things and they LOVE it). But it's totally up to the service provider what you can do with it. Thankfully Cingular(now AT&T) seemed to be fine with the ringtone thing and also the notebook tethering thing. But it's sad when you are forced to install the original firmware(from the cell maker) in order to get the features the phone should already come with.
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The problem really is that his writing was entirely on the basis that a 14 year old mistakenly said invented when he probably meant modded, while giving an impromptu interview.
And yet as a boy, I would learn about electronics, not by reading or listening to a teacher, but by taking things apart and then putting it back together. I say kudos for going one step further and seeing what he could put it in and reassembling it in the new case. Sure it's not genius level work, but I say it's a good start.
My current computer is much like yours. Just didn't build it myself. Got one of the first Dell XPS's (which they renamed slightly after to the XPS 435mt).
Intel Core i7-920
6GB RAM
600 GB HD
ATI Radeon 4850 HD
After a few years it ended up having
24 GB RAM (when I got it, it was so cheap to buy went ahead and maxed it out)
120 GB SSD (SATA 3 but of course it doesn't support sata 3 so I have to stick with sata 2 speed)
and a ATI Radeon 6850 HD video card (which is the highest model this computer it can take)
Still runs great, but those little things bug me, and just like you stated, doesn't have USB 3, memory speed and has the old PCIx stuff. Added to that the lack an easily replaceable power supply, inability to take a faster video card, and in general no expandability options at all, I'm currently building my next computer as I write this
New computer will have
Core i7 4790k
16GB RAM
250 GB SSD (and all the old drives)
NVidia GeForce GTX 960
And a case that's easy to add and upgrade items as I please
I'm also building this thing for absolute silence most of the time. All the parts have fans that won't spin up until a temperature threshold is reached, after that they spin up but stay quiet and really I won't care since I'll probably be gaming, transcoding, or doing a software build.
I can't wait til I'm done!
I have both a MX Revolution and 2 Performance MX's. I prefer the weight of the MX revolution's wheel especially when doing free scrolling. The Performance MX does let you use the scroll wheel as a middle button and has a separate button to make it switch between click/free scrolling. I also really like the Revolution's thumb wheel which they got rid of for the Performance MX, but now they have somewhere to go when making an ultimate MX mouse! Either way they are fantastic mice all of them.
There is a sort of "fix" for this if you have jailbroken your iPhone.
http://www.cultofmac.com/software-hack-to-plug-jailbreak-pdf-hole-is-released/53557
So jailbreaking can actually help the security of your phone before Apple has a chance to fix it. One more reason for jailbreaking beyond the usual stuff.
The fault in the logic here is that them saying .5% of people reported the problem, people think that .5% of the people actually have the problem. This one is actually belongs to both Apple and media. I have an iPhone 4 and have the problem. I already live in a poor reception area and having a phone that can be slightly better than average or significantly worse than average reception kinda makes my head spin.
.5%
But I didn't report it! Why you say? Because it's already a big deal to the media who's been schlepping this story around for the last month. I didn't think I needed to report it. And everyone I know who has an iPhone talks about the news stories about the terrible reception, but again never report it. They figure if it's this big a news then Apple should be able to see it's more than just a few thousand people having the issue.
Again this is both sides' fault, but I guarantee the number of problem phones is a bit greater than
About the heart thing. I know it might be several different factors but it does sound a lot like what I have. Paroxysmal supraventricular tachardia. https://health.google.com/health/ref/Paroxysmal+supraventricular+tachycardia+(PSVT) Just for information if anyone else suffers from it. It's a problem because it's so sporadic that figuring out what it is from a normal doctor is crazy hard
The link shows a technique to stop it when it's happening and it's helped me nearly every time. It takes a few times but eventually it goes away.
Now everybody this has helped go ahead and send me a few bucks so that I can afford to go back to the doctor and tell him I'm doing his job for him. =P
I just want XBMC to hardware decode all that hidef stuff with an ATI card. That means UVD support both at Ati's end and of course the XBMC project end. I'm using an Nvidia 9400gt right now in my media center and it works fine and all, I just want to have more choices. Is that too much to ask?
They'll only have huge problems if they are afraid of change. Which means that they shouldn't be doing the very thing you are proposing they should do. Which is to change their operating system.
So forget changing them to any other system, whether it be OSX or some distro of Linux. But lets take a look at those who can change.
Grouping applications under one icon makes a lot of sense, especially when you start opening up a lot of applications. Maybe they shouldn't, maybe they don't care, but keeping the taskbar clean is the only way to take care of many applications running at once without going to some other application management.
The icons can have text if you want them to, just one more option. The point of the icons pinned to the taskbar is that people DON'T NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S RUNNING. If you want to have Firefox open, click the firefox icon. If it's not running it'll start running. If it is running then it'll just go to the last instance of it. Either way you get what you want, which is to a firefox window.
The taskbar will append applications to the end as long as they aren't already pinned to the taskbar. Need to have your applications one after the other? Just don't pin anything to the taskbar(although I don't really understand the point). The icons are pretty big. I don't think people are that dumb(and if they are why are we arguing here it won't matter) that they can't figure out their Excel spreadsheet is under the excel icon which the icon looks a little different now that it has an active window. Give them a second, I bet they can figure it out.
I doubt they're gonna be really confused about the mouse gestures. To activate Aero Shake, you really have to shake it like you mean it. Unless they are doing it just for fun. Maximizing by dragging it to the top isn't confusing. Move it to the top and they see the window maximize move it down a bit and it reverts back. I really wish the window would snap to the side full screen so i can have a side by side view of two windows. And there is Aero Snap, which is very convenient even to the most staunch. Did I mention if you don't like any of this, you can just turn it off?
And yeah it's the same basic interface, but many people use their own style, moving the taskbar to the left or right of the screen. Which is very nice for widescreen monitors which are becoming all the rage. And the icon based taskbar works very well on the side there.
Hah even that version number is wrong. When Apple gave us the 2.0 firmware it was really 1.2.0 firmware. So what we're looking at here is really 1.2.0.2.
Well no wonder it doesn't work, it's still in the first rev. Wait for it...
I wouldn't think that it's an issue only because they are totally separate things. Even if you could read a book on an iPhone not many people would. It's not that it's terrible, it's just that you can read it more comfortably using a different medium. I've read several books on my PDA and it's easy enough to do day to day. But at the end of the day my eyes are more comfortable with something like Sony's Reader.
This is where the comparison goes horribly wrong. The iPhone's very existence(and to some extent the iTouch) is meant to do many things, most of which is media centric. What I want from a eBook, is almost completely opposite. I don't want it to have flashy graphics, output sound or require me to anything fancy to just start reading. And I want to not charge it for months at a time. And last but not least, I want it to have a clear picture that I can read for hours and hours without a hint of eyestrain. I want it to be a freakin book but in electronic format. This is where Sony got it right. All these things can be found in Sony's Reader but not the iPhone and that's the way they should be. They are separate types of devices and trying to combine these into something "cooler" just makes my brain hurt.
The rest of what you say is spot on. The interface is great and lots of applications(mostly those Apple-made) have direct integration so it's easy to find what you're looking for and get it back from the depths of file death.
Generally speaking the more you pay for a phone the more features and the more care the phone builder probably took into making that phone. The iPhone is a high ticket item. It was bound to be pretty good. But any other company already has far more than 1 phone out in the market with some of those phones only there to serve the bare necessities of the market.
I'm going to say this not to say that my phone is the greatest... it's just that because my phone is so good I'm not really looking to replace it for an iPhone. I have a Sony Ericsson W810i and when I got it, it was the best phone I have ever ever used. But it took me a long time to get myself to buy it because I hated the old SE phones. They were slow, unresponsive and crashed if you tried to do anything that wasn't on it's time schedule. But the W810i... just beautiful. It's small, syncs great with Mac's and does everything that I want to in a fashion that is very intuitive to me. Because of this I have gotten 6 friends/family members to switch to the phone and they all exclaim how they should have switched months ago. Oh well hindsight really is 20/20.
I'm pretty much in the same situation but with one small difference. I do have AT&T here. But really, that's not a choice. It's either Comcast or AT&T DSL and honestly AT&T is definitely a worse proposition. I hate to be cliche but it's really a case of choosing the best of the worst.
I can't say no to both of them. I work from home and the internet is literally my livelihood, without one of the high-speed internet's these bastards provide I'm done for. I keep looking for an alternative but for now, comcast is the only real game in town.
Shouldn't the story title be "The Year of Linux(Based Cellphones)." Just sayin
I know this is unnecessary with the idea that you switched 4 years ago... but seriously, it bugs me when nobody mentions that this is nowhere near the case now. So this post goes out to all the people who haven't used winamp or are trying to see which one is better right now.
All the problems you faced are gone. Drag and drop is there. Insert disc + rip is there. Smart playlists are there(and are a quite bit more flexible). Making playlists and smartlists is quite easy. Sorting by any column all there. But here are the things that will make me never switch to iTunes.
iTunes is crazy with the services. When you close iTunes there are still 2 services running in the background taking up resources for absolutely no reason. I can pretty much use any format that has ever been in existence with Winamp. Mp3's, AAC's, and Ogg are nice but then if you like you can have ALAC, FLAC, Monkey audio, AIFF, MIDI, WMA, and even the almighty MOD. Plays video if you want it to and not just the MP4 kind. Syncs perfect with my iPod and has some pretty cool utilities(with ml_ipod anyways). And it'll sync with damn near anything else. I currently have it sync my iPod, my phone(the awesome SE w810i), and a flash drive(which I can just stick in various media players and have it just work). It has a windowshade mode which means that's it's always on the screen up where the Title bar is (as thin as the title bar) and I always have access to the program and I can easily see exactly what is playing and where in the track it is. Built in customizable global hotkeys means I don't have to touch the mouse at all to do damn near anything with winamp. And of course skins which you can use to make it as useful or as gawdy as you like.
And since I'm bored I'm gonna end with plugins. There is just a whole lot more of them for Winamp making it be able to do even more stuff. Again this wasn't really targeted at the parent post. Just showing that Winamp can make a better case than iTunes with today's versions.
What's going to really get you in the morning is that they went from having no tactile controls to today's click wheel back to no tactile controls (ipod 3g-> ipod 5g -> ipod touch). It's a crazy world I tell ya.
While this would probably be a better solution what would happen if say, oh I don't know, he just piggybacks on a neighbors wifi... Not that I do that... just saying.
These things are true unless:
1) They know they can't get enough stock to deliver before Barcelona hits.
2) You don't want to crush them. Just make sure they don't retake the market. Remember these are the major players in the market and Intel doesn't want to appear to be monopolistic.
3) They just bring the processors out on the day AMD brings theirs out. They can use their coming out party to show them up. They'll spend less money if they just come in and say "Hey great party you got here. But wait... We got some other stuff right here that costs the same but performs quite a bit better." Or in other words use their announcements against them.
Man I HATE this phrase "console war." Are you telling me that in 3 years the PS3 and 360 will simply not exist cause it was blasted to kingdom come by the Wii? Sure it's selling like hot cakes but the other consoles will still be here providing entertainment to gamers all over the world. And just because the damn thing is a godsend for a certain type of game (and a lot of innovation) it doesn't mean that some games would do better and would be funner using a classical approach. Shit all I want them to do is bring back MegaMan (more actual Megaman and less Zero) with all it's side scrolling glory on the big screen. But that's just my insane wishes.
Hell no 1GB isn't enough for a Mac. I got a shiny new Black Macbook last Christmas and as soon as I started getting programs that I would use everyday I noticed immediately that OS X is a RAM hog. I figure I'd use it like any Mac user would. I do use widgets but I don't think that it's that bad. Once I open a fresh Firefox session + OpenOffice + Adium + Thunderbird, I'm well within striking distance of filling up all my RAM. I wouldn't consider this to be very difficult as I do a similar thing with my Windows desktop with 512MB of RAM
I see the argument of high acceleration being put all over this discussion. I'll have to point out a few things. Whenever you increase the acceleration you reduce the precision of the entire mouse system period. Okay you can get to the menu in one sweep of the mouse on a very high resolution monitor. But then what? You select what you want from the menu and then you'll have to do something that probably isn't close to the edge of the monitor(ie, get back to where you were). This is especially bad if you work in non-maximized windows which most OS X apps I've seen are like. If you try to get back to where you were(or to a dialog box that opened up) quickly you'll just bounce off the other side of the screen. High acceleration has downfalls just as much as edge menus.
I agree 100%. I have a w810i too, I love it(seriously does anyone not like the w810i? I have to date converted 7 people over to the w810i side of things and they LOVE it). But it's totally up to the service provider what you can do with it. Thankfully Cingular(now AT&T) seemed to be fine with the ringtone thing and also the notebook tethering thing. But it's sad when you are forced to install the original firmware(from the cell maker) in order to get the features the phone should already come with.
In all fairness it isn't just Apple who has a stake in this one. AT&T also has a say, and I bet they aren't really thrilled.