(This started out as a comment to (e:jenks) comment on (e:paul) 's journal, but I think it's gotten too long for a comment. )
I'll be getting an iPhone from work, hopefully, that we'll try to use with the ERP system we're developing.
We're kinda bummed that we can't take the OS X code that we're using in our database client and reuse it to make a stripped-down version that runs on the iPhone. And I'm personally bummed that there's not going to be, at least for a while, an iPhone Cocoa API that would vastly increase the potential job opportunies for myself (and (e:zobar) as well). So much for my fantasies of buying a house on Richmond with plenty of insulation, no dust, and central air.
Yes, it sucks, but then again, Cingular has been very good about respecting users' ability to use bluetooth and the users own file's however they see fit. Someone like T-Mobile or Verizon or Sprint deciding that I can't put a public-domain midi file on my phone as a ringtone and charging me $$$ to have to use their ringtone from their network, which I'll have to keep paying for over and over again when my subscription to ringtone runs out, pisses me off vastly more than the iPhone apps issue.
I've heard that one of the reasons why Apple went with Cingular (aka AT&T) only is that they were given a wide amount of latitude in what they are allowed to do. If Verizon or T-mobile had iPhones, they would probably put in enough restrictions that sucked even more than Apple's.
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06/27/2007 13:06 #39825
iPhoneCategory: tech
06/18/2007 10:19 #39715
Mail CallCategory: random
Got my package. But I have to reformat for leopard, so any work I save is meaningless until then. (e:paul), check these guys out. 
carolinian - 06/18/07 18:44
Yeah. The store kinda leaves something to be desired. I wanted to pay by two credit cards and it insisted I use one.
On the bright side, you're not paying any taxes. I used ADC partially to lower my sales tax liability for the purchase, and I still ended up paying a sizable sum to the state (and my business is not paying for my ADC).
Yeah. The store kinda leaves something to be desired. I wanted to pay by two credit cards and it insisted I use one.
On the bright side, you're not paying any taxes. I used ADC partially to lower my sales tax liability for the purchase, and I still ended up paying a sizable sum to the state (and my business is not paying for my ADC).
paul - 06/18/07 18:36
I am so freakin' jealous. My order was messed up sop bad because of our tax-exemption status and the fact that I signed up for ADC at the same time as ordering the macbook. I hate their store, you think it would be able to handle a simultaneous order of a new ADC account and a macbook pro from the ADC hardware discount store.
So now it will arrive some time between the 21st and 26th, blah.
I am so freakin' jealous. My order was messed up sop bad because of our tax-exemption status and the fact that I signed up for ADC at the same time as ordering the macbook. I hate their store, you think it would be able to handle a simultaneous order of a new ADC account and a macbook pro from the ADC hardware discount store.
So now it will arrive some time between the 21st and 26th, blah.
06/15/2007 01:13 #39666
Week RecapCategory: life
Tues: I ordered something. Something that will help a lot with work. Paul probably can guess what it is, but I'm not going to advertise that I've got one in my house.
Wed: Took (e:inscrutabale) to Baccus dinner & movie for her b-day. They were showing the Big Lebowski. After years hearing all sorts of nerdy folks make references to that movie, I can now be in on the joke, Dude. It's cool watching a movie in that kind of environment, although a city environment doesn't make it always the easiest to hear, especially with zillions of bikers roaring around downtown. I don't think all that wine made things any easier to follow, either.
Thu: (Tonight).
Had a decent walk to SPoT with (e:inscrutable). She ordered what could very well be the most tastiest thing I've had there, which tasted like rose petals and perfume. Which is really weird because you'd never expect such things to be tasty. On the way, some guy driving by saw me and (e:inscrutable) holding hands on the walk back to my apartment and yelled "faggot" at me. It took me as few seconds to realize that he was mistaking (e:inscrutable) for a guy (a girl with short hair wearing a hat looks like a guy with long hair wearing a hat, I guess). It was a little shocking at first, but we soon laughed it off.
Finally, I was surprised to find out that (e:inscrutable) successfully baked the gargoyle I made on Tues. It turned out pretty well considering I was just messing around with the leftover clay from her class and wasn't attempting to make any kind of masterpiece.
Wed: Took (e:inscrutabale) to Baccus dinner & movie for her b-day. They were showing the Big Lebowski. After years hearing all sorts of nerdy folks make references to that movie, I can now be in on the joke, Dude. It's cool watching a movie in that kind of environment, although a city environment doesn't make it always the easiest to hear, especially with zillions of bikers roaring around downtown. I don't think all that wine made things any easier to follow, either.
Thu: (Tonight).
Had a decent walk to SPoT with (e:inscrutable). She ordered what could very well be the most tastiest thing I've had there, which tasted like rose petals and perfume. Which is really weird because you'd never expect such things to be tasty. On the way, some guy driving by saw me and (e:inscrutable) holding hands on the walk back to my apartment and yelled "faggot" at me. It took me as few seconds to realize that he was mistaking (e:inscrutable) for a guy (a girl with short hair wearing a hat looks like a guy with long hair wearing a hat, I guess). It was a little shocking at first, but we soon laughed it off.
Finally, I was surprised to find out that (e:inscrutable) successfully baked the gargoyle I made on Tues. It turned out pretty well considering I was just messing around with the leftover clay from her class and wasn't attempting to make any kind of masterpiece.
inscrutable - 06/18/07 17:52
The Spotsicle is not the issue here!
The Spotsicle is not the issue here!
jenks - 06/15/07 09:32
since when is hand-holding so offense? People are retards. I was walking down the street last summer holding hands with a guy... and some guys in a truck yelled out "get married!!" and howled in laughter as they drove off, like it was the funniest, craziest idea ever.
so... whadja get for work? leopard? iphone? new powerbook? tell tell!
since when is hand-holding so offense? People are retards. I was walking down the street last summer holding hands with a guy... and some guys in a truck yelled out "get married!!" and howled in laughter as they drove off, like it was the funniest, craziest idea ever.
so... whadja get for work? leopard? iphone? new powerbook? tell tell!
paul - 06/15/07 08:01
Ya for said item, I ordered one too yesterday and now I am also officially in your club.
Ya for said item, I ordered one too yesterday and now I am also officially in your club.
06/12/2007 01:54 #39623
Weekend recapCategory: life
I went to the Allentown Art festival with (e:inscrutable) on Saturday. I had expected a festival somewhat similar in size (area-wise) to Durham's Eno Festival with one or two dozen tents on Allen. Let's just say once we hit Delaware and Allen, my outlook instantly changed to "will the art ever end?"
Later, the (e:inscrutable) helped me install my A/C unit, which after several hours of being in the hot sun looking at endless art, I'm surprised we actually got accomplished. Especially considering that the directions were useless and design of the unit did not accomodate easy, worry-free setup. And that was just small unit. For the 10,000+ BTU large living-room unit I'm probably going to have to hire the same folks who Sears hired last year to put it in, as it's well over 100 lbs and could fall out super-easy.
I now completely understand Azrael's line in Kevin Smith's Dogma "No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air" . I've joked with (e:inscrutable) about "Fleeing to Amherst" but it's starting to sound like something plausible. I've endured a year of pleurisy (WIKIPEDIA - pleurisy) to live in an old house in the city and it's really starting to get to me. It's kinda funny that I was able to grin and bear the wheezing, coughing, and sudden stabbing pains in my chest, yet having to attach several hundred lbs of junk to my windows every summer is proving to be "The Final Indignity"
To end on a happier note, I'm hoping to catch my first movie at Bacchus this wednesday. It sounds like a lot of fun.
with one or two dozen tents on Allen. Let's just say once we hit Delaware and Allen, my outlook instantly changed to "will the art ever end?" Later, the (e:inscrutable) helped me install my A/C unit, which after several hours of being in the hot sun looking at endless art, I'm surprised we actually got accomplished. Especially considering that the directions were useless and design of the unit did not accomodate easy, worry-free setup. And that was just small unit. For the 10,000+ BTU large living-room unit I'm probably going to have to hire the same folks who Sears hired last year to put it in, as it's well over 100 lbs and could fall out super-easy.
I now completely understand Azrael's line in Kevin Smith's Dogma "No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air" . I've joked with (e:inscrutable) about "Fleeing to Amherst" but it's starting to sound like something plausible. I've endured a year of pleurisy (WIKIPEDIA - pleurisy) to live in an old house in the city and it's really starting to get to me. It's kinda funny that I was able to grin and bear the wheezing, coughing, and sudden stabbing pains in my chest, yet having to attach several hundred lbs of junk to my windows every summer is proving to be "The Final Indignity"
To end on a happier note, I'm hoping to catch my first movie at Bacchus this wednesday. It sounds like a lot of fun.
mrmike - 06/12/07 13:11
Nothing like a good glass o wine with some decent company at Bacchus. Very cool. You'll enjoy. Don't let one landlord chase you to Newstead. Apartment living is ongoing. I liken it to job hunting, you never really stop looking
Nothing like a good glass o wine with some decent company at Bacchus. Very cool. You'll enjoy. Don't let one landlord chase you to Newstead. Apartment living is ongoing. I liken it to job hunting, you never really stop looking
james - 06/12/07 09:38
Baccus always has great movies and a wine selection that would bring dead wineos from the grave.
enjoy
Baccus always has great movies and a wine selection that would bring dead wineos from the grave.
enjoy
paul - 06/12/07 09:37
Look, you are already settling down and moving to the country, lol. There really are houses with modern central air and updated windows that are not in amherst. For example many of the new condos downtown but also in some houses.
Look, you are already settling down and moving to the country, lol. There really are houses with modern central air and updated windows that are not in amherst. For example many of the new condos downtown but also in some houses.
jenks - 06/12/07 08:39
so, i guess things are ok with 'match.com girl'? ;)
so, i guess things are ok with 'match.com girl'? ;)
06/11/2007 17:06 #39610
Testing the watersCategory: computers
Posting this entry from Safari running on Windows. Just to see if it feels weird.
jim - 06/11/07 18:19
Actually I shouldn't have said weak. I should have said fine.
Actually I shouldn't have said weak. I should have said fine.
jim - 06/11/07 18:11
It seemed like there was some sort of hooks - the LDAP app could link to the dialing functions and the like. Maybe you just hook in with :::link::: addresses though, which would be weak.
But it did look like nice.
It seemed like there was some sort of hooks - the LDAP app could link to the dialing functions and the like. Maybe you just hook in with :::link::: addresses though, which would be weak.
But it did look like nice.
zobar - 06/11/07 17:58
I found the WWDC keynote to be a bit underwhelming this year. I'm a total Apple fanboy, but this stuff is lame-ola.
AJAX on iPhone? Woop-de-doo. If what he says is true - that that's the full version of Safari on the iPhone - it would have been less than a day after release that we'd be doing that anyway. I understand they don't want to give away the SDK, but throw us a bone, not a kibble. A secure, limited Javascript API, like Dashboard widgets, would be pretty awesome. Hell, even J2ME would be ok, and J2ME is awful.
Who cares about Safari for Windows? I'd be ecstatic if they'd gone further and released Cocoa for Windows [I had my suspicions when I saw what Apple Software Update looks like on Windows, but now there's no doubt it exists and is relatively complete.]
You know how sometimes you run an application, and you can totally tell that it's a PC program written by PC people, and they just cranked it through the Qt cross-compile wizard? Safari for Windows is like that, only in reverse. Also, my IBM scroll nub doesn't work with the cute jellybean scroll bars.
- Z
I found the WWDC keynote to be a bit underwhelming this year. I'm a total Apple fanboy, but this stuff is lame-ola.
AJAX on iPhone? Woop-de-doo. If what he says is true - that that's the full version of Safari on the iPhone - it would have been less than a day after release that we'd be doing that anyway. I understand they don't want to give away the SDK, but throw us a bone, not a kibble. A secure, limited Javascript API, like Dashboard widgets, would be pretty awesome. Hell, even J2ME would be ok, and J2ME is awful.
Who cares about Safari for Windows? I'd be ecstatic if they'd gone further and released Cocoa for Windows [I had my suspicions when I saw what Apple Software Update looks like on Windows, but now there's no doubt it exists and is relatively complete.]
You know how sometimes you run an application, and you can totally tell that it's a PC program written by PC people, and they just cranked it through the Qt cross-compile wizard? Safari for Windows is like that, only in reverse. Also, my IBM scroll nub doesn't work with the cute jellybean scroll bars.
- Z
I will be interested to hear what you think of it once you've had it for a while.
My 13-year-old cousin got an iPhone the same weekend they came out. I got a text message from her that Sunday which was like, "Hey, just got my iPhone - here's my new number"... I wish I'd had that kind of cash when I was 13 (I believe she paid for the thing herself, tho' her parents will be paying for the service). At least she knows she's a lucky kid.
yeah, all good points- that's what I heard too. I just hope the network isn't as bad as they say it is.
I read somewhere that the "deal-breaker" is that you can't buy songs from itunes over-the-air.
WTF? I mean I guess that would be nice, but (until the iphone) I've always thought mp3-phones were pretty weak. I mean they hold like 12 songs and the interface is crap- I don't want some extra expensive plan to let me download the latest britney song.
not to mention, I would imagine they'll add that feature in eventually.