Play team games of Starcraft over battle.net. Use Skype for Voice. I've had tons of fun doing this with friends, and there is a lot of waiting for things to build and the like, which provides for time for conversation. It may be old school, but its good. I guess you could subistitue WCIII or any other newer RTS...the nice thing about SC is there are still a lot of people playing it on battle.net and it has very low system requirements.
I too assume iTunes will begin to replace MusicMatch, if only to save on liscensing costs of MusicMatch (my iPod is three days old, but still came with MusicMatch). The interesting thing, and the reason why I assumed it couldn't hurt to try out iTunes in the first place, is that the original iPod manager has a small interface accessed by tray icon allowing you to choose a home application for when the iPod docks, but now they seem to have removed this functionality with iTunes 4! Also intersting is that if you ask MusicMatch to go to the web to look for player plugins, there is one for the "iPod" but the "iPod 2" link isn't active and simply says "Coming Soon"...oh well.
The new iTunes also broke my ability to use Music Match with my v2 iPod on Windows. More specifically, it seemed to delete the old iPod manager application and replace it with a service. Fine by me, except that Music Match isn't compatible with the new service.
Uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling the old manager (available only on the iPod driver CD) fixed things up.
I was hoping that I could use both iTunes and Music Match, but for now I think I'll stick with Music Match. Its a little harder to use, but can do a hell of a lot more (Supertagging, ripping at greater than 2.5x, etc.)
"The findings are bad news for the industry, as it suggests that the baffling terms are putting people off buying the latest gadget."
Doesn't sound like very bad news to me. Marketting is the last leg of the journy for a product lifecycle (well, not counting support). If all gadget firms have to do is change their vocabulary to sell more stuff, I'd say they're in decent shape.
In the realm of computers, even the bottom of the barel is more than enough for most people these days, so an uninformed buyer won't even be hurt much by not knowing what Ghz and Gigabytes are. Those of us who do know will continue to look for tech specs on the sidepanel. Who cares if they take specs off the product name (AMD has already headed in this direction with their meaningless numerical designations for the athlon XP line).
The funtionality seems fine, and that's all I _really_ care about, but why does it seem like this site was designed by a three year old?
But seriously, it seems somewhat counterproductive that the Fed do this _after_ so many states have set up local services. I meen this makes those registries useless.
I always give out my cell phone number as my contact number. I have gotten one telemarketer in 4 years on the cell phone, compared to daily calls on the landline (which number I never gave out, I have Verizon to thank for that).
The thing is, it is illegal to make telemarketing calls to cell phones (since it costs the recipient money). My theory is that the telemarketers have a "block list" of area code/exchanges that are used by the cell companies.
This makes it so that anyone with a Tivo becomes like a nealson family. This is good. Now watching TV is like voting for what you like (ideally). Sort of like when the music charts went from being determined by what critics say are the top ten to actually being based on CD sales.
One of the analysts quoted in the article pointed out that SCO didn't brand its unix very well in that it was tied to HP and other big hardware with the SCO name completely removed.
RedHat's up2date works pretty well so long as you stick to their RPM releases of the software you want to keep updated.
It works well for me, and all I need to stay on top of are things I build be hand (typically Webserver and its ilk plus kernel), but all my libraries stay nice and fresh.
The problem is, people want their music on their computer/portable player/car/etc and they want it as quickly as possible. P2P makes this easy. Order / Rip / Burn is slower. I frequently use P2P because it is faster or easier. Of course Kazaa sucks way more than a good legit service should. Make it easy and affordable for me to buy this stuff online and I will probably spend more money on music than I do now.
My experience is opposite. I've had D-Link switches slowly fail on me (starting at 100 mbps and working their way down to nothing over several days)...Everyone I talk to says stay away from D-Link.
This is a very elegant solution to most of the internets security problems. This could even prevent DDoS attacks! Does anyone know when the patched version of the SQL Slammer worm will be available, or should I just drop my firewall and let it install itself?
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Play team games of Starcraft over battle.net. Use Skype for Voice. I've had tons of fun doing this with friends, and there is a lot of waiting for things to build and the like, which provides for time for conversation. It may be old school, but its good. I guess you could subistitue WCIII or any other newer RTS...the nice thing about SC is there are still a lot of people playing it on battle.net and it has very low system requirements.
Yeah, its the size of a stack of papers just like my iPod weighs less than two CDs.
In other news, OQO will be serving its website entirely off of a single uPC
I too assume iTunes will begin to replace MusicMatch, if only to save on liscensing costs of MusicMatch (my iPod is three days old, but still came with MusicMatch). The interesting thing, and the reason why I assumed it couldn't hurt to try out iTunes in the first place, is that the original iPod manager has a small interface accessed by tray icon allowing you to choose a home application for when the iPod docks, but now they seem to have removed this functionality with iTunes 4! Also intersting is that if you ask MusicMatch to go to the web to look for player plugins, there is one for the "iPod" but the "iPod 2" link isn't active and simply says "Coming Soon"...oh well.
The new iTunes also broke my ability to use Music Match with my v2 iPod on Windows. More specifically, it seemed to delete the old iPod manager application and replace it with a service. Fine by me, except that Music Match isn't compatible with the new service.
Uninstalling iTunes and reinstalling the old manager (available only on the iPod driver CD) fixed things up.
I was hoping that I could use both iTunes and Music Match, but for now I think I'll stick with Music Match. Its a little harder to use, but can do a hell of a lot more (Supertagging, ripping at greater than 2.5x, etc.)
I think the point is that you don't have to be student / faculty to use this. Hence "largest public".
Yes. Things are much worse here in the US. I take public transit to work, so I have to walk a couple of blocks on each end of my communte.
I usually get acosted by at least four or five mimes a day.
no current internet radio software allows you to pick the songs you want to hear
False.
It is called Otto.
"The findings are bad news for the industry, as it suggests that the baffling terms are putting people off buying the latest gadget."
Doesn't sound like very bad news to me. Marketting is the last leg of the journy for a product lifecycle (well, not counting support). If all gadget firms have to do is change their vocabulary to sell more stuff, I'd say they're in decent shape.
In the realm of computers, even the bottom of the barel is more than enough for most people these days, so an uninformed buyer won't even be hurt much by not knowing what Ghz and Gigabytes are. Those of us who do know will continue to look for tech specs on the sidepanel. Who cares if they take specs off the product name (AMD has already headed in this direction with their meaningless numerical designations for the athlon XP line).
The funtionality seems fine, and that's all I _really_ care about, but why does it seem like this site was designed by a three year old?
But seriously, it seems somewhat counterproductive that the Fed do this _after_ so many states have set up local services. I meen this makes those registries useless.
Oh man, how long can this discussion go when you _can't_ RTFA?
No. They are (were) having auth server problems. Was getting that error before the story went live.
Before complaining at the lack of manned missions to mars any time soon.
15,000 / 50 = 300 kelvin
300 kelvin = 26.85 C = 80.33 F
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So, about 50 times room temp.
I always give out my cell phone number as my contact number. I have gotten one telemarketer in 4 years on the cell phone, compared to daily calls on the landline (which number I never gave out, I have Verizon to thank for that).
The thing is, it is illegal to make telemarketing calls to cell phones (since it costs the recipient money). My theory is that the telemarketers have a "block list" of area code/exchanges that are used by the cell companies.
This makes it so that anyone with a Tivo becomes like a nealson family. This is good. Now watching TV is like voting for what you like (ideally). Sort of like when the music charts went from being determined by what critics say are the top ten to actually being based on CD sales.
I strap a wireless access point to my back and run WASTE?
One of the analysts quoted in the article pointed out that SCO didn't brand its unix very well in that it was tied to HP and other big hardware with the SCO name completely removed.
RedHat's up2date works pretty well so long as you stick to their RPM releases of the software you want to keep updated.
It works well for me, and all I need to stay on top of are things I build be hand (typically Webserver and its ilk plus kernel), but all my libraries stay nice and fresh.
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The problem is, people want their music on their computer/portable player/car/etc and they want it as quickly as possible. P2P makes this easy. Order / Rip / Burn is slower. I frequently use P2P because it is faster or easier. Of course Kazaa sucks way more than a good legit service should. Make it easy and affordable for me to buy this stuff online and I will probably spend more money on music than I do now.
My experience is opposite. I've had D-Link switches slowly fail on me (starting at 100 mbps and working their way down to nothing over several days)...Everyone I talk to says stay away from D-Link.
Finished d/l...and...only dropped a couple kb/sec.
Getting 140 kb/sec...screw bitorent
This is a very elegant solution to most of the internets security problems. This could even prevent DDoS attacks! Does anyone know when the patched version of the SQL Slammer worm will be available, or should I just drop my firewall and let it install itself?