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James Williams (willia4) posted a message
“Stack Overflow Question: "How do I concatenate Excel files?" Potential Answer: "Well, you can access excel using the Jet database drivers..."”
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And I thought I liked convoluted techniques. - James Williams (willia4)
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file.open("name.xls").Append(file.open("othername.xls")); :D - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
Screw ODBC. What you need is to write a script that parses the file's XML into a DOM tree, traverse the tree for the nodes you want and clone them into the new tree. Then just write the file out. Yeah, that's the ticket! - Paul Reynolds
Print. Tape. Done. - abacab
The easiest solution would be to farm it out to Amazon's Turk service. - James Williams (willia4)
Oooh, I like where abacab is heading. Step: 3 OCR Scanning - Paul Reynolds
Print. Tape. Keep on Wooden Table. Photograph. Transfer. OCR. Correct. Done. Ass simple ass that! ;) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Print, shred, send to document recovery service, with specific instructions on how it needs to look when done. - abacab
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manuscrypts posted a message
“no, i have nothing in common with lindsay lohan..just for the record..”
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You don't like girls? :P - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
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in her case, its girls and boys... so doesnt count - manuscrypts
Missed that bit. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Me neither - Morton Fox
I have nothing in common with her either. - Roshni
no firecrotch or love of booze? - Outsanity
Thanks for clearing that up :) - Flippity
ah morton, roshnimo, three's company :D @outsanity nope... @flippity i had a feeling it was expected of me ;) - manuscrypts
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Lion pride gets a chilly awakening as temperatures plunge below zero across the UK
Lion pride gets a chilly awakening as temperatures plunge below zero across the UK
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"There's nothing a lion likes better than stretching out in the sun to take a lazy afternoon nap. But if they had any hopes of warm weather, this pride in Scotland were in for a big disappointment when temperatures dropped below zero yesterday. The shivering group of lions certainly don't look too impressed with the cold, as they prowl on the icy grass at the Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling. The freezing conditions couldn't be more different from the semi-arid plains of their native Africa. And unfortunately they'll have to get used to the cold, as forecasters have warned temperatures are set to plunge as low as minus 8C in the north of Britain. But the chilly beasts were in for another seasonal surprise to raise their spirits. Staff brightened up the twelve-strong lion pride enclosure for St Andrews day by decorating it with the Scottish national flag." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet
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lions and tigers are badass as is, but in a snowy setting? man.... - Cee Bee
As if it wasn't cruel to keep animals captive :( These Big Cats deserve to atleast live in their habitat! If you can't keep them warm, they shouldn't be allowed to keep them. - Parth Awasthi
i can agree with that. i was taken by the photos and the incongruence of it all - Cee Bee
they don't like it ... pretty obvious - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
:-( - Lisa L. Seifert
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lego ho
lego ho
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Love! - BeeLing
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LOVE - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
lol - Michael W. May via twhirl
LOL! - Niki Costantini
haha that is awesome! - (jeff)isageek
I hope Mr. J Worthington doesn't get too upset at this one...haha! - Live4SoccerVacations
LOVE - Johnny Worthington
VIOLATION! HAHAHAAHA! - Yolanda
hahahaha it's a legho. hahahah - Carmen
So, what about that hole under her feet, hm? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Ah yes, using cuneiforms can certainly spice things up in the bedroom. - Grant Fitzgerald
haha... nsfw if you read it! :D - AJ Batac
good point Tina....that's what I like about you...your attention to detail...leave no stone unturned! :-) - Live4SoccerVacations
@AJ - also NSFW cause you can clearly see some nippage... - Live4SoccerVacations
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Tamar Weinberg posted a message
“So I reformatted my computer today. And then I installed the list of must-have apps I use on my Windows machine. List to follow.”
Tuesday at 1:54 pm - Link
Dimension 4 v.50 (an atomic time synchronizer), Search Everything (awesome file search tool), Irvanview (graphics editor), Notepad2, RescueTime, VLC, Taskbar Shuffle, WinRAR, Pidgin, iTunes (for my iPod Touch), and Firefox (duh). - Tamar Weinberg
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Am I missing anything? - Tamar Weinberg
Hi. - Tamar Weinberg
:) - Doruk
Well, I guess everyone on Friendfeed is a Mac fanboy :P - Tamar Weinberg
Don't forget about us Linux geeks :P - Cains
I would add Adobe Creative Suite CS3, gTalk, Notepad++ and possibly Blackbox - Mo Kargas
Notepad2 covers Notepad++. I'm installing Photoshop CS3 now, but I don't need the other apps. gTalk is covered by Pidgin, and I have no idea what Blackbox is. - Tamar Weinberg
Yes, you are missing TONS! I'll put together a list with URL's and post the link to it in a bit. - April Russo
@Tamar Blackbox is a shell replacement. It's kinda getting old but I still love if for XP. http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.... - Mo Kargas
Launchy, ultramon, digsby, taskbar shuffler, and window clippings - Alan Le
Also, Notepad++ > Notepad 2 :D. Edit: Also try launchy - Mo Kargas
Editpad - Michael W. May via twhirl
gom player, daemon tools, ccleaner, pidgin, foldershare, foxit reader, 7-zip, ffdshow - Rodfather
thinking about doing the same thing once i get a new pc. anticipating that list. - John Jackson
Got Launchy/Taskbar Shuffle, not using Digsby (I use Pidgin!), got CCleaner, I also installed Adobe Acrobat 9, so I don't need another reader. 7-zip replaced by WinRAR, ffdshow? Why? VLC covers all codecs - Tamar Weinberg
every time i work on someone else's pc i realize how much i need Launchy. my ctrl+space hand twitches. - John Jackson
I have gom player, vlc, ffdshow, CoreAVC codec installed. Never know when a video file won't work with one but will work on another. I find gom player a better overall player than vlc. I like 7-zip for the decoding speed. I can't stand Adobe reader and love foxit's speed and light weight. SuperWebCam is handy if you have a webcam.. Notebook Hardware Control for laptops.. uTorrent.. putty for ssh client. - Rodfather
FF3, VLC, Audacity, Utorrent, OpenOffice, Paint.NET, Ableton Live 6, really isn't much else, bring on cloud PC - HollowMarkeD
I have SecureCRT. But Putty is good for free. I don't do Torrents on this machine, but I have uTorrent installed on the one that I do use. Yeah, that's all. I think I'm done. - Tamar Weinberg
nice list Tamar! :) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
OK, here is my list, with URL's (everything is free): http://appsapps.info/stuff/sof... - April Russo
I have a long list but the first three I usually install are Servant Salamander, Vim, and K-Meleon. - Morton Fox
There was plenty more I could have added to my list, but either the software was already mentioned by others, she already has something with the same functionality, it's not freeware, it's very old and near impossible to find a download for it, or it's a bit specialized towards programmers. It took me almost a month to install all my software after I got my new PC. I also left out most of my own software because I didn't think it would be right to "toot my own horn", even if the stuff is free. - April Russo
+1 Paint.Net. Never leave home without it. - Steve Lynch
Can't help as I made the big switch to Ubuntu. No more Windows anything. - Internet Strategist
Hijackthis, CC Cleaner, PartitionMagic, PrevxCSI did not see any cleaners so above is my 2cents :) - SekhemetsHathor
Yeah - I put CCleaner there. I forgot TEXTER though! oops. - Tamar Weinberg
I had a really nasty trojan on a user's machine that came back today after I thought I had banished it yesterday, was getting a lot of bad image popups from one of the DLLs I originally banished. I had hijackthis on it from yesterday but I wound up having to use ComboFix (bleepingcomputer.com) to fix it. - Jeff Quinton
Process Explorer & Autoruns? Visual Studio & Powershell guy here :) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Opera and I live and die on CS3 Web. Also, Adobe AIR is pretty important. OneNote and MindManager are also essentials. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
Cool, thanks. I think I have all I need. I wish I could ghost the thing without being disconnected from the Internets! :) - Tamar Weinberg
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Bitchfest: orionstarr posted a message
“I'm over my superficial friends, I'm sick of not having "real" friends. For some reason it's always been this way.. Maybe that's just how people are.”
yesterday at 6:41 am - Link
Yeah - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I have better online friends than actual real friends it appears, just a sign of the times... - orionstarr
i think we just have to be careful of the people we choose to get close to and then again we also have to be consciously aware that all people are flawed, and therefore accept these flaws in our friends (unless they're....i dunno sleeping with ur woman lol) stay hopeful tho good ppl r out there :-) - Cardeen Martinez
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Bitchfest: Cardeen Martinez posted a message
“thoughts on being sick......it sux :-(”
yesterday at 5:36 am - Link
First hand confirmation here. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
sry to hear that :-( i think i'm just gonna curl up in bed and wait for my better half to take pity on me and bring me some chicken soup...i'll let u kno if the tactic works lol - Cardeen Martinez
totally didn't work :-( - Cardeen Martinez
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Bitchfest: Toby Graham posted a message
“Simon Cowell - His hair annoys me more than you could ever imagine.”
Simon Cowell - His hair annoys me more than you could ever imagine.
Monday at 10:48 am - Link
What a smug looking bell - Toby Graham
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In his defence, he's usually quite truthful about wannabe musical acts! But yes, his hair is and has been quite, quite rediculous... - VickyPearce
He's just trying to look like a dick! - Flippity
@Flippity: Coming from the other side of the world, I have no idea who he is. However, I do have to say that if he is trying to look like a dick, he's doing rather well! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
@Yuvi think of him as Anu Malik on Indian Idol. - Flippity
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l0ckergn0me posted a link
Apparently, God Likes JavaScript
Apparently, God Likes JavaScript
Tuesday at 10:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
That's so God. - Steve Craft
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Awesome :) - Joe Dawson (beta)
Wow.... - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
Great way to spoil my keyboard. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
lol - mikepk
People (is) disabled ;) - Kristian Salonen
God also gets pissed if you use tables for layout. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
♥♥♥♥♥ - Yolanda
...or IFRAMES! - Kristian Salonen
Whoa. My fav JS disabled message I came across is by getsatisfaction.com .... "You have Javascript turned off! Ummm...yeah... I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to turn that back on." - Micah Wittman
Forgive my sin for using NoScript @God - LouCypher
@Micah thats pretty funny. But did you do it? - Jay
@Jay Yes, I did set NoScript phasers to 'Stun' - for once the <noscript>Attention Tinfoil Hats:</noscript> was written for me, so they earned it. - Micah Wittman
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ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ posted a link
Don’t blame technology for your lack of self-control — TechWhimsy
Don’t blame technology for your lack of self-control — TechWhimsy
Tuesday at 10:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"“Information overload” is a fantasy, an illusion, and deep down inside you know it, too. Crying about living in some sort of poorly articulated temporal poverty doesn’t change the foundation of the problem – this is your life because this is how you choose to live it." - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ via Bookmarklet
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seriously. people avoiding "chemicals" gets on my nerves, too. - Kamilah Gill
+1 Kamilah. Unfortunately, TV is full of 'em over here :( - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
" the real problem – you" This is like saying drugs are not the problem, you are. Which is silly. Our environment impacts us and mostly it does this unconsciously. The problem is the brain is designed to process new information. You are rewarded for it. So while ya, it's our responsibility to deal with it, don't make it sound like there's nothing to deal with or it's not difficult or if you are recidivist you are failed human being. - todd
I don't think he's getting at it being easy, just that at the end of the day it is our fault and our fault alone. Too often we lay the blame on something else instead of realising they are our actions. - alphaxion
That's like saying it's your fault a knife penetrates skin when stabbed. Until it's realized how strongly the brain reacts to environmental influences it won't be possible to deal with them. - todd
I took it to be more along the lines of it is each of our own responsibility to be aware of what we're doing and the impact it has on our present and future-selves. About not creating obstacles out of stepping stones and keeping your own life and goals in perspective while trying to stay in or near the stream of change. It's tricky, all right. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
The key here is "technology" in quotes. For instance, the artifacts of literacy (books, written speeches, language itself) are all examples of technology. Some complain and/or telegraph disdain for "technology" while conveniently using an instance of the very thing. - Micah Wittman
todd: that's quite an extreme to use, but without knowing the context of the stabbing it could well be their fault ;P Still, I was more getting at the people who blame everyone but themselves for an action/activity that is through their own volition. Give you an example, I was addicted to WoW. Me, not anyone else, the game didn't force me... it was ME. I hate it when people absolve themselves of blame when it is theirs. - alphaxion
It's only extreme if you consider your brain somehow special, not open to attacks or manipulation. You certainly were addicted WoW. There would scientific reasons for that would help you understand what's going on and help get over it. Some people are for more open to certain types of addiction. I hate it when people attribute blame incorrectly. It's just simple thinking. - todd
It’s nice to see so many people liked the post. The point I was trying to make was that a lot of stress that comes from being overwhelmed by the firehose stems from an inability to apply that information in a way that you feel appropriate or useful. In my own experience, fixing that disconnect between what you consume and what you feel is important to that has had the most impact. However, you can’t really take that step until you are more mindful of how you are using these tools as well as the environment you have shaped around you. Sure, our environment impacts on us but I believe that we choose our environments. Take responsibility for your environmental inputs and try and get that stimulus/response working in a way that makes you more comfortable with how you are spending your time. The fact that this hasn’t come through in the post is a valuable experience to me as a writer who has let his skills go rusty – I must try and craft my thoughts more clearly next time :-) - Shane Perris
@todd I now regret the drug references in my post as it makes it all too easy to raise straw man arguments about addiction and chemical dependencies. It wasn’t my intention to bring addiction into the debate. The fault is mine there. Having said that, I have my own views on addiction and personal responsibility gleaned from some difficult life lessons but I doubt that this is the place for that particular discussion - Shane Perris
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Thomas Hawk posted a link
Xbox 360 Registers Biggest Black Friday in Its History: Xbox 360 consoles and games sell at record levels; outsells PlayStation 3 by three-to-one ratio.
Tuesday at 10:25 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 1, 2008 — Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system kicked off the holidays with record-breaking console sales on one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year in the U.S. Retailers reported Xbox 360 console sales over the Black Friday weekend were on pace to beat previous years, outselling the PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one ratio and estimating a 25 percent increase from Xbox 360 Black Friday sales figures from 2007." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
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outsold PS3 three to one. wow. - Thomas Hawk
I saw a guy buying 6 Wii Fits two weeks ago from the grey market. In India. Wow. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I have to say wandering around Best Buy on black Friday, it was impressive to see two full aisles of stuff for the XB360. - Phil Glockner
the XBox 360 is Microsoft's trojan horse towards taking over the living room of tomorrow. Just you watch. They are positioning it to be so much more than a game machine. This will all unfold in the next few years as the cable/satellite industry gets crushed. Stage one is to get as many of them into the hands of the general public as possible. - Thomas Hawk
hmmm - silpol
+1 Thomas - Shey
Price, it appears, matters. - Matt
XBoxes make great little webservers, once you install Linux on them. ;-) - April Russo
Thomas, I have to agree with you. They have already made big strides toward taking away any reason why someone would want to hack the XB360 for additional features. A web browser and/or YouTube (or even Hulu) support is a miss, but otherwise it supports media center, DivX, uPNP, DVD, rip music and games to HDD, the works. Oh, and now NetFlix streaming. - Phil Glockner
I just bought a used one from a tech friend (price was way right, clean unit), installed it last night, and I was blown away at how great it looks over HDMI. Not only that, but the movie and TV offerings was exactly how I got it passed by the 'finance committee' :D - Bob M. Montgomery via twhirl
LOL Matt. Price and, I would add, MS has not announced a new version and the current line is still good for, at least, another year. - Robert Miller
I love that I can hook up my Zune to my Xbox 360 - Shey
Shey, not only does a Zune work great, but it even controls an iPod with ease, after installing a tiny free download. - Phil Glockner
no iPhone support tho - John Cozen
You know, I'd give up my PS3 and switch to XBOX 360 if it could play Blu-Ray discs. Those movies in 1080P and non-compressed audio are just a blast. - Odi Kosmatos
Nothing can touch how useful the Live! compenent of the 360 is... its simply awesome. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Add Blu Ray and I'll be there. - Jason Kaneshiro
I agree - the 360 is great on a multitude of levels. Can't say I've ever used a PS3, but I also can't say I ever regretted getting a 360. I use it to listen to music while I do things around the house, I use it to show photos to friends, I use it to watch video from my computer on the big screen, now I get to use it for watching streaming Netflix movies... and of course I use it to school chumps in Halo. - Tom Harrison
@Tom Harrison , how has the Netflix + 360 experience been? worth the Live Gold membership? - Joel Tanner
XBOX 360 absolutely rocks online.. its what makes it soo much fun! Me and my friends still have the 360 vs PS3 argument, but I just cant justify buying one just to get the typical sony bulls&&t - Jez Arnold
@Thomas. The noise that the damn thing makes will put most people off using it for anything but games. I bet most consumers don't even realise that it can be used as a media player. - Paul Grav
Paul, the new units are far, far, quieter than the original ones. Interestingly, when I sent my two original units in for repair, MSFT returned 2 new ones to me that were *far* quieter than the original units. I think they've got the noise problem down now. - Thomas Hawk
The last one I just received from repair is way way quieter. you don't even notice it running now. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Also, the new desktop OS lets you rip a game to the hard disk, so it's faster and doesn't activate the DVD drive while playing, which results in a lot less noise and heat. - Kevin Fox
I bought one yesterday, for the game Lips. ;) - Paul Whitaker
@Joel Tanner $7.99 for Gold + $8.99 for Netflix, I would say that's a fine price for watching streaming movies instantly on my TV. That is especially considering I frequently buy PPV movies from cable, which I won't do anymore. The Netflix video quality is very good, and I've watched 3 movies so far without getting any buffering or lag. My only complaint is that there are many, many, many movies that are not available for streaming. - Tom Harrison
I remember back when On Demand channels came out - it was quite apparent "on demand" is the future of entertainment (except of course for things such as sporting events, to which there is a significant draw to watching live). Netflix and Microsoft are absolutely on the right track with this. I'd cancel cable TV if I wasn't the only one in the house. - Tom Harrison
I'd cancel my cable but crappy AT&T forces me to buy TV from them if I want their high speed fiber UVerse internet service. Somehow that seems wrong to me. - Thomas Hawk
that sucks Thomas, what a scam - John Cozen
I know. I totally don't want their TV service but am essentially paying for it anyways because I value faster internet that much. I think that they should let me cancel the TV service and just pay for the internet. - Thomas Hawk
The NXE with Netflix streaming is the best thing to happen to the Xbox in a while. I'm getting so much more use out of it now.. and Rock Band 2 is awesome. The starting price of $200 for the Xbox 360 Arcade must have opened a lot of eyes this holiday season. - Rodfather
I've heard you can get a u-verse package, then cancel the TV and keep the internet. Haven't been willing to try it myself though. - invariant
I'm not surprised...I've played both and I love my Xbox 360 even with the latest goofy update that 'Wii-ified' with silly avatar crap...which I ignore. I think Sony just blew it, plain and simple, with that launch. - Rich Harris
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The Incredible Convenience of Mathematica Image Processing
Tuesday at 8:17 am - Link
I will never ever ever be able to afford Mathematica. But it's still pretty cool. - James Williams (willia4)
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1. I thought Mathematica was cheap/free for students to use? You simply have to figure out how to convince a local university you are still a student. 2. Kudos to this article for using a digitized photo (the mandrill) that pre-dates the Internet. - Phil Glockner
Wait - means I can get Mathematica for free? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
@Yuvi, close.. http://www.wolfram.com/product... - Phil Glockner
70$ is half the price of a college textbook? :O My entire set of textbooks cost that much. Ofcourse, most of them are shit, but still.... ;) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I think convincing a university that I'm a student would cost more money than just buying Mathematica. ;) - James Williams (willia4)
Mathematica CalcCenter (the only product that lists its retail price online) is $259. Mathematica 7 is "Call for price".. also, there are many, many books on Amazon specifically for certain Mathematica operations that are twice the cost of the full student edition. - Phil Glockner
To be honest with you though, I think they should give Mathematica to students. The more students who are hooked on it like drug users, the more copies they will sell when the students enter the workforce. - Phil Glockner
Phil - They list the prices at http://store.wolfram.com/view/... . Mathemtiac Professional 7 is $2495 USD. - James Williams (willia4)
Students generally get access to Mathematica via campus labs. Grad students and GTA genreally get their own copy for free. Some colleges may give it out for free to certain majors. At Auburn all engineers got a free set of CDs loaded up with software, stuff like solid source, matlab, grasp, psplice, etc. Cheap versions of real programs, so you could learn the basics. - xero
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There Are Two Phones In this World: iPhone and Not iPhone
There Are Two Phones In this World: iPhone and Not iPhone
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This post made me laugh, but is so true. - Justin Korn
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bah... there are better phones out there than the iphone. show me the iphone mk 3 or 4.... - Terry O'Fee
There are two phones in this world : ones with good cameras and ones with 2 mega pixel camera? - Alastair Montgomery
@Alastair, almost all the photos on my SmugMug were with the iPhone. http://friendfeed.com/louisgra... Look great to me! - Louis Gray
@Louis, true they aren't bad but when most other cell phones passed the 2MP barrier a while back seems a bit of a lapse to me. One thing we can thank the iPhone for is raising the design bar for other cell phones. - Alastair Montgomery
I dont call something a phone unless it is used 50% or more as a phone. - Joelle Nebbe
The appeal of the iphone camera is not in quality but in immediacy. A proper camera takes proper pictures. An iphone shares pictures on the internets, location and all - without hassle. Companies would stop marketing specs and features to us if only people would stop being guided by them. If only "users" would take a moment to observe their own actual use of those feature ridden devices. - Alexander Kohlhofer
@Alexander, I thought you couldn't send pictures over MMS with the iPhone, doesn't sound like easy sharing to me? - Alastair Montgomery
It's about software. S60 reminds me of Windows 3.1. Add a fat processor and graphics card, you're still using a clunky interface. - Rodfather
Am I the only one who actually likes using S60? - Tyson Key
The new lineup of phones from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony devices can do all iPhone does and in some area's with better specs.. and Android is not a phone, it's a platform ;) ..only thing Apple does better then the others is marketing and creating a hype around thin air. - Pascal
How many people use there 'real' 6-8 MP cameras on full quality? I would venture that most drop the 'quality' to save memory and drop the resolution to somewhere equivalent to a 2-3 MP camera anyway (not all you tech bloggers of course). The main issue with the iPhone is the lack of video, which is becoming more apparent with the uptake of services like qik - Alistair
Once you have used an iPhone or an iPod Touch, Symbian looks so 10 years ago. (I have an E61i) - Zio Bonino
Like Bud guys' said, "True, true..." Same confessions we all had i guess http://tinyurl.com/5o3j3h - Olcayto Cengiz
Are developers excited to write apps for anything other than the iPhone or Android? I don't see anything like Ocarina on other phones. OSX on the iPhone is the most exciting platform I've seen in a long time. - Rodfather
Jobs does not care about developers. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - scott anderson
True dat. The attention to detail And User Experience are light years ahead of the rest of the pack. - vijay
Apple fanboys. They're always good for a giggle.. - Terry O'Fee
@Terry heh - somehow I am managing just fine without one and will continue to do so. I would like an iPod Touch, however. :) - Mattb4rd
I am an Apple fanboy but bought an Nokia N82 recently. Why? Because an iPhone sold by, in my case, T-mobile is not an iPhone yet. I wait till Apple finalises the iPhone and sells the finished product in the Apple store. - Henk de Kruyff
smacks of kool-aid to me; love the iphone, love it but a closed/controlled environment is no way to win if you're confident you're the best; the bulk of people will stick with whatever nokia / the carriers are incentivised to push and first and foremost they want a phone, for now - Bob
Well written argument on how not to be a doofnutt and own a Blackberry( which I do). So I'm a doofnutt, now what happens? Hahah - Terence Washington
I have to admire a man who dares confess his love of the iPhone to those who just can't get past the apple juice. Integration, ease of use, sheer elegance and panache are not appreciated by those with other priorities. Intangibles to personalities not in tune with subtleties. It's the software, stupid. - Phil Boiarski
I'm 28 years old, I have never owned a cell before the iPhone. It us now closer to me than my right hand LoL. - Missile-TOW
Hmm. I think 99% of people I know love the iPhone for the features also found in the Touch. They just don't prefer to carry around a separate phone. They also mostly hate AT&T. Lots of iPhone love, but it's almost entirely for the non-phone-related features they can get with a Touch. Lots of frustration, too, though, mostly phone-related. - abacab
We have an iPod Touch (shared with the wife), and I do like it a lot. We also have cellphones with AT&T. It would be nice to have one less gadget to carry around, so the next time we replace the cellphones it will probably be for two iPhones. - Denton Gentry
Meh. I love my Android G1. It does everything I need and then some. And it has a better camera than the iPhone (at least we can do macro photography without having to buy a special case with a lens enhancement), we can type more easily on the full keyboard, and we have a nice trackball to make fat-fingering a lot harder to do. You can keep the iPhone and AT&T (AT&T is the main reason I didn't get one before the G1 came out). I'm happy with my Android. - Lindsay Donaghe
I am loving my iPhone - my new office phone (plugged in of course)... awesome! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Flash News: The World != The US. That said, I'd not take any phone which won't let me develop for it without paying someone else. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I ditto everything Lindsay just said, especially the part about AT&T =P - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
With all of the things my iPhone does not have such as a high quality still and video camera, digital compass, background notifications for all my apps (especially Facebook and Google Talk) and maybe a digital TV and radio tuner, I still don't care for any other phone. I show it to friends and family and they are instantly sold. The latest update by Google Maps for public transit is just killer. - Rolf Schewe
I loved the post, and totally understand...for me it's more important to get quality out of what I could create with an N97, than the quality of the phone itself when I demonstrate it to people...but that's a fairly unusual perspective by the looks of things...I like the iPhone, but would love N97 functionality with it! - Badger Gravling
Others may not agree with my conclusion, but every time I see a "non-iPhone" now, I know people are selling themselves short. And every time there are new applications developed for the platform, Apple's lead gets bigger. - Louis Gray
I stopped in to a Verizon store to try out the Storm. I walked out about 30 seconds later thinking the exact same thing... there's 2 phones. iPhone and not iPhone. - Fraser
@Fraser: I haven't had a chance to try out the Storm yet. What did you not like about it? - Jay
@Jay - they removed the things that used to make the BlackBerry a BlackBerry (and a good alternative to the iPhone in some people's eyes) and tried to make a phone that could compete head-on with the iPhone. The touch screen felt like a toy, clicking to select a key was odd, the UI was not intuitive nor natural for a touch screen, etc. By going down this path they open a direct 1:1 comparison with the iPhone. Which is a brutal mistake. - Fraser
Having purchased my iPhone just a short 3 days ago, you are preaching to the choir of the converted Louis. Now lets see how long it takes me to migrate my computer from PC to Mac :) - Mark Krynsky
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OPEC Failure Foretells Decline 10 Years After $10 Oil | Bloomberg
OPEC Failure Foretells Decline 10 Years After $10 Oil | Bloomberg
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"A decade after OPEC failed to prevent oil from collapsing to $10 a barrel, the world’s biggest producers are delaying actions needed to arrest the steepest slide in energy prices. Ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries postponed debate on a second cut in output in as many months during meetings in Cairo Nov. 29..." - Anthony Citrano
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oil is a mystery - Gregory Lent
Can someone explain this stuff to me? A few months back, it was 'damn this stuff costs too much, we need to look for something else', and now it's 'geez, what are these losers doing? can't even make the cost go up'. wtf? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Yuvi - read some Matt Simmons ... dips, yes, but I still think the long-term trend is up, (and hard.) - Anthony Citrano
P.S. Simmons' advisory firm is at: http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/ ... for investors with any cash left, this smells like