My spam problem is the reverse of most people's. Using grey listing I get basically no actual spam. It's wonderful - works very well. But that's not my problem. My problem is that some a$$hole spammer has decided to start using my domain as a from address in his spams. So I'm currently getting deluged by bounce messages for mails I never sent. I've published SPF records and that's helped a bit, but not a lot.
Now if only they could get the printer manufacturers to support those same "standards". Brother are one of the few I found that do, and installing my new Brother laser was much easier than my Canon photo printer. For the Canon I ended up having to use Ghostscript on a windows server to emulate a color pagewriter, and then tell the mac to print to that. Workable, but not great as I still don't have decent colour profile control from the mac.
OSX is young, and I'm sure things will improve, but right now, as a _platform_ it's missing a lot of important things (strangely, pretty much the same things than Linux & BSD are missing). Support from third party hardware manufacturers is one of those things.
Would you kick and scream on your car, pressing or pulling anything available while driving? No, because all cars have basically the same interface (for regular driving controls anyway). I am trained in two driving interfaces - manual and automatic. Provided the car has a steering wheel, gear shift, gas, brake and optionally a clutch, I'm good. If Mazda decided tomorrow to switch the order of gas and brake, replace the wheel with a joystick and use a touchscreen to select gears you'd be sure to see some accidents!
The problem with computers is two-fold: (a) there is no single standard interface (or even a small number of them) and (b) there is no mandatory training.
You're certainly not the only one out there. I find OSX somewhat painful, but I'm getting more used to it (my GF has an iBook which I of course have to admin). For example, getting network printing to work was remarkably difficult - which was mainly the printer manufacturer's fault for sure - but the OSX print driver model just isn't as well polished as XP's. With XP any print driver can work locally or on the network, installation on a network client is automatic when you connect, etc. It's all transparent. None of this is the case with OSX (which appears to have several mutually incompatible driver models for printers).
I'll admit OSX is pretty, sure. But I'm getting old and learning new GUIs is getting harder;)
I press the button on the front of the drive. Which doesn't exist on my GF's iBook (and I assume doesn't exist on an iMac), which means I have to futz around trying to figure out what to do. I admit it didn't take me 15 mins, but it did take 30 seconds of random clicking and cursing.
Sign me up to the "don't like OSX" list. I've got nothing against it, it's just not for me thanks.
I've never heard of Linux defragging on the fly, but it's possible I guess. OSX also doesn't AFAIK, but it does do a defrag anytime you install anything. Which I've always thought was weird, and kind of annoying at times.
All dance mix CDs (there's a few thousand straight away). For the rockers out there I think the White Album (or is it Abbey Road? I forget) is one of the traditional examples, plus Green Day, Pink Floyd and a ton of others (literally - I've seen lists running into the 100's). Plus most classical recordings, opera etc. And most live recordings.
Mostly don't CD tracks have a built-in fade or have a small period of silence on normal CD's? Most top 40 pop albums are indeed divided up into 4 minute individual tracks with a 2 second roll in/out. That is not (thankfully) most CDs.
I'm personally not sure I would like gapless but who knows, that could be a really nice feature I'm missing.
Why would you not like it? If your CD has gaps, you still get gaps. If it doesn't, you don't. And that's the killer. 90% of the music I listen to is mixed, which means no gaps. Listening on any player which doesn't do gapless (almost all DAPs - Apple are certainly not the only offender here) is an ear wrenching experience.
I prefer more of a cross-fade I think as I like transitions.
But when your music is already mixed, adding an artifical crossfade sounds even worse than a gap.
I've loved my Karma for over 18 months, and I just ordered another as a spare in case I break it. Fantastic piece of technology, and considerably more reliable than my GFs iPod which has had to be returned twice already.
The problem was Rio just didn't offer any compelling "stand-out" features They offered several features which were compelling to me (and not found in Apple products):
Gapless playback FLAC support Vorbis support
That's why I don't want an iPod at any price, and why I just ordered a spare Karma in case mine (now 18 months old) ever dies.
That's not a particularly big difference - there are plenty of good games for the PSP, maybe your local Frys had just sold out of them?
The screen is considerably larger than 2", movies look very good on it, although I obviously don't buy UMD movies. Ripping DVDs to flash memory is a lot more sensible.
If you don't want it, fine, but it is anything but a paperweight. That award would go to my GBA SP which is gathering dust.
It looks pretty nice, and is remarkably compatible with most sites. Navigation takes a bit of getting used to, as does text entry (it uses the same keypad as the rest of the PSP interface). Features:
JS: Yes SSL: Yes Flash: No Java: No ActiveX: No CSS: Yes
I'd agree with you except for the fact that UMD movies are selling amazingly well. No, I don't know why, and yes, they are a rip off, but hey.
As for failing miserably in general, I really don't think that's the case. As a new entrant into the market they have snapped up a pretty decent share of the market in both Japan and the US. I know my local EB Games has (and sells) more PSP stuff than DS. As for the games being good, I posted here previously that if you go to metacritic and compare DS to PSP you get a considerably higher number (and percentage) of games for the PSP rated highly. Whilst the PSP lineup is certainly not stellar right now (quiet summer season), there are some great games out there - Wipeout, Ridge Racers, Lumines & Mercury are all ones I really like. Others rave about MGA, Twisted Metal, etc. Looking at the currently available DS games, well, only a few really appeal to me at all. Sure there are supposed to be some good ones coming down the line, but they're not here yet.
Unless, of course, you have no interest in such homebrew stuff. Which would include me. I do however like using the web browser from the couch. Whatever floats your boat:)
Arguably, everyone owns Linux. I would argue that no one owns linux, well, not all of it anyway. The individual bits of code are owned by their authors, no single entity owns the whole thing.
Simply not true. You do not own linux (unless you wrote some of it, in which case you own that bit, and no more).
With windows, when you pay MS $100 they grant you a license to use their software, under certain conditions (like the 5 network connection limit you specify). With linux, you get a license (the GPL) for free. That license offers you many more freedoms that the linux one (for example, you can modify and redistribute the source if you want). You are still under a license, it's just a friendlier one. The GPL can still be revoked (for example if you break it's conditions, your right to use the software is automatically revoked). You do not own linux, your copy or linux, or anything to do with linux.
The situation is identical, it's just the terms of the license which differ.
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you're sitting on a time bomb without a LCD display telling you when it will go off
;)
Finally maybe Apple will get the message about the importance of LCD displays
My spam problem is the reverse of most people's. Using grey listing I get basically no actual spam. It's wonderful - works very well. But that's not my problem. My problem is that some a$$hole spammer has decided to start using my domain as a from address in his spams. So I'm currently getting deluged by bounce messages for mails I never sent. I've published SPF records and that's helped a bit, but not a lot.
Anyone got any good suggestions?
Now if only they could get the printer manufacturers to support those same "standards". Brother are one of the few I found that do, and installing my new Brother laser was much easier than my Canon photo printer. For the Canon I ended up having to use Ghostscript on a windows server to emulate a color pagewriter, and then tell the mac to print to that. Workable, but not great as I still don't have decent colour profile control from the mac.
OSX is young, and I'm sure things will improve, but right now, as a _platform_ it's missing a lot of important things (strangely, pretty much the same things than Linux & BSD are missing). Support from third party hardware manufacturers is one of those things.
Would you kick and scream on your car, pressing or pulling anything available while driving?
No, because all cars have basically the same interface (for regular driving controls anyway). I am trained in two driving interfaces - manual and automatic. Provided the car has a steering wheel, gear shift, gas, brake and optionally a clutch, I'm good. If Mazda decided tomorrow to switch the order of gas and brake, replace the wheel with a joystick and use a touchscreen to select gears you'd be sure to see some accidents!
The problem with computers is two-fold: (a) there is no single standard interface (or even a small number of them) and (b) there is no mandatory training.
You're certainly not the only one out there. I find OSX somewhat painful, but I'm getting more used to it (my GF has an iBook which I of course have to admin). For example, getting network printing to work was remarkably difficult - which was mainly the printer manufacturer's fault for sure - but the OSX print driver model just isn't as well polished as XP's. With XP any print driver can work locally or on the network, installation on a network client is automatic when you connect, etc. It's all transparent. None of this is the case with OSX (which appears to have several mutually incompatible driver models for printers).
;)
I'll admit OSX is pretty, sure. But I'm getting old and learning new GUIs is getting harder
I press the button on the front of the drive. Which doesn't exist on my GF's iBook (and I assume doesn't exist on an iMac), which means I have to futz around trying to figure out what to do. I admit it didn't take me 15 mins, but it did take 30 seconds of random clicking and cursing.
Sign me up to the "don't like OSX" list. I've got nothing against it, it's just not for me thanks.
Thanks for the correction :)
I've never heard of Linux defragging on the fly, but it's possible I guess. OSX also doesn't AFAIK, but it does do a defrag anytime you install anything. Which I've always thought was weird, and kind of annoying at times.
can't think of an example
All dance mix CDs (there's a few thousand straight away). For the rockers out there I think the White Album (or is it Abbey Road? I forget) is one of the traditional examples, plus Green Day, Pink Floyd and a ton of others (literally - I've seen lists running into the 100's). Plus most classical recordings, opera etc. And most live recordings.
Mostly don't CD tracks have a built-in fade or have a small period of silence on normal CD's?
Most top 40 pop albums are indeed divided up into 4 minute individual tracks with a 2 second roll in/out. That is not (thankfully) most CDs.
I'm personally not sure I would like gapless but who knows, that could be a really nice feature I'm missing.
Why would you not like it? If your CD has gaps, you still get gaps. If it doesn't, you don't. And that's the killer. 90% of the music I listen to is mixed, which means no gaps. Listening on any player which doesn't do gapless (almost all DAPs - Apple are certainly not the only offender here) is an ear wrenching experience.
I prefer more of a cross-fade I think as I like transitions.
But when your music is already mixed, adding an artifical crossfade sounds even worse than a gap.
D&M = Denon & Marantz
I've loved my Karma for over 18 months, and I just ordered another as a spare in case I break it. Fantastic piece of technology, and considerably more reliable than my GFs iPod which has had to be returned twice already.
The problem was Rio just didn't offer any compelling "stand-out" features
They offered several features which were compelling to me (and not found in Apple products):
Gapless playback
FLAC support
Vorbis support
That's why I don't want an iPod at any price, and why I just ordered a spare Karma in case mine (now 18 months old) ever dies.
Do you know where Sailors hang out? Where can i find Sailors?
2. Doesn't offer anything that I can't get from a cheaper system
/me looks around....err....nope nothing here.
What is this "cheaper system" of which you speak?
I've tried recently - all taken months ago :(
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OK: you're a troll, and your message is flamebait.
It's also crap. According to metacritic:
DS has 13 "good" games out of 38 total (and 3 of those are the same game - Nintendogs).
PSP has 11 "good" games out of 30 total.
That's not a particularly big difference - there are plenty of good games for the PSP, maybe your local Frys had just sold out of them?
The screen is considerably larger than 2", movies look very good on it, although I obviously don't buy UMD movies. Ripping DVDs to flash memory is a lot more sensible.
If you don't want it, fine, but it is anything but a paperweight. That award would go to my GBA SP which is gathering dust.
It looks pretty nice, and is remarkably compatible with most sites. Navigation takes a bit of getting used to, as does text entry (it uses the same keypad as the rest of the PSP interface). Features:
JS: Yes
SSL: Yes
Flash: No
Java: No
ActiveX: No
CSS: Yes
I'd agree with you except for the fact that UMD movies are selling amazingly well. No, I don't know why, and yes, they are a rip off, but hey.
As for failing miserably in general, I really don't think that's the case. As a new entrant into the market they have snapped up a pretty decent share of the market in both Japan and the US. I know my local EB Games has (and sells) more PSP stuff than DS. As for the games being good, I posted here previously that if you go to metacritic and compare DS to PSP you get a considerably higher number (and percentage) of games for the PSP rated highly. Whilst the PSP lineup is certainly not stellar right now (quiet summer season), there are some great games out there - Wipeout, Ridge Racers, Lumines & Mercury are all ones I really like. Others rave about MGA, Twisted Metal, etc. Looking at the currently available DS games, well, only a few really appeal to me at all. Sure there are supposed to be some good ones coming down the line, but they're not here yet.
Unless, of course, you have no interest in such homebrew stuff. Which would include me. I do however like using the web browser from the couch. Whatever floats your boat :)
It's not really hard to find a list of games for the 360, but here's a few of the one's I'm interested in just to save you the google:
PGR3
Perfect Dark Zero
Ridge Racer 6
Gears of War and Quake 4 are also big ones coming up, not yet sure if they will be launch titles.
Arguably, everyone owns Linux.
I would argue that no one owns linux, well, not all of it anyway. The individual bits of code are owned by their authors, no single entity owns the whole thing.
Simply not true. You do not own linux (unless you wrote some of it, in which case you own that bit, and no more).
With windows, when you pay MS $100 they grant you a license to use their software, under certain conditions (like the 5 network connection limit you specify). With linux, you get a license (the GPL) for free. That license offers you many more freedoms that the linux one (for example, you can modify and redistribute the source if you want). You are still under a license, it's just a friendlier one. The GPL can still be revoked (for example if you break it's conditions, your right to use the software is automatically revoked). You do not own linux, your copy or linux, or anything to do with linux.
The situation is identical, it's just the terms of the license which differ.
And then there are the licencing terms which mean that you don't own your OS
You don't own Linux either.