Neither of these impressed me much. They're hideous next to an iPod.
Anyone know of a CompactFlash based MP3 player? CF type I is now coming in sizes up to 1GB, and could be used to make an absolutely TINY device. (never mind the power-hungry IBM Microdrives)
caduguid said... ".doc files often contain viruses, they're hard for many people to read, _and_ they encourage microsoft to keep up its efforts to lock up the entire computing universe."
And I say it's a rant. I agree with Otter, no need for additional information. Just instructions on how to save as RTF and a polite request for documents to be sent that way.
It really would hurt to add the line "Besides..." as it would bring religion into the picture, and there's no reason to evangalize while in most professional environments.
There's a set of ATM/Bank Machines on Numancia around the Sants train station in Barcelona with some sort of "fatal exception error" message on the screen for all of last week.
Who in the world would use NT as the OS for an ATM? And do you think they've kept up to date with their security patches?:-)
This movie project was my first experience with OSX, and the first real time I've spent with a Mac since I gave away my 7100 a few years ago... With so much control over the OS and a system that didn't crash on me once I think I'll be spending more time with it.
All I know is that it's a G4 at somewhere in that range. Maybe it's 466? It's gray and white, and I bought one of those nifty 17" flat panels for it.
It was idle and had been running OS 9. I swiped it and installed 10 on it because I needed to produce a video in short order and didn't want to fuck around with installing a firewire card and Adobe Premier in my NT workstation.
Really iMovie seems to be a cool program. It was no problem to import the video, cut it up, resequence it, add transitions, sound, etc. The only problem I had was that the output for full-screen high quality was 4+ GB, and compressing it so that it would look good took me several tries of multiple-hour conversions.
I'd really like a cheap farm for video compression. I tied up a G4 433 for six hours last week compressing a 20 minute movie using Sorenson 3. Fortunately was using OSX and so the machine remained relatively responsive, but still, six hours pinned just for 20 minutes. (Of course it did take a 4GB movie down to 150 MB)
So now that we have a cheap supercomputer, all we need is cheap software.:-) I imagine Apple won't be porting iDVD to Linux anytime soon, and the stuff the studios use is either custom or very expensive.
So is the ban of sales of alcohol on Sunday in some states. That's quite unfair to several religions. And it pisses me off. I think if I win the lottery I'll use a few million to sue state governments over this.
You'll be glad to know though, that people on the Mass Pike from Springfield to Boston were not celebrating Christmas in any way, shape, or form. It was war as usual.
I remember quite clearly that the contract I had with AT&T @Home didn't say a damn thing about bandwidth. Why don't you scan in a copy of your agreement and post it on a web page, with the parts that have been violated underlined.
(What I'm saying is, I don't believe your claim that the terms of your agreement have been violated.)
Considering the fact that the auto-installer has already updated my XP box to fix this hole, I think that I'm pretty safe. As are the vast majority of XP users, who don't turn off auto-update, which seems to be on by default.
Another great service my Linux boxen don't enjoy that would protect me from Code Red is McAfee XP (.net) which is running on my box and getting virus updates several times a week without my intervention.
Beat on their business practices all you want, because M$ deserve it, but don't knock XP until you've put in some time evaluating it.
There are quite a few ways to legally stretch licenses. There are programs that will run on a network server that will monitor the number of copies of any software, including Office. On a budget, it's a much better idea to buy 20 copies of Office for 50 people, and use one of these license tracking applications than it is to illegally stretch or to choose a free office package that may not suit the needs of the business.
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Add to the the list of companies you respect - Microsoft.
Last night I upgraded to Money 2002 (Money is a fantastic product) and there were three unchecked boxes which, if checked, would have allowed me to opt-in to marketing from Microsoft and their partners.
I did not opt-in, but was at least impressed that I was given the appearance of an option.:-)
A manufacturer who sells $10 million in product a year is still a small business. With low margins many have trouble paying the 20-50k/year for a good MRP/Accounting package and the consulting time needed to keep it running and up-to-date. Once you get into paying for NT server and a license for each client, you're dealing with even more money. Running an MRP/Accounting system on Linux would be a good way to cut costs while using a robust, stable OS.
What in the world is wrong with you that you have to say such things just because you dislike Katz?
I would normally let this go, as it's off-topic, but your aggregious slander of Mr. Katz has prompted my reply.
I had skipped the Afghanistan article, as I do most of his articles, but have just read it because of your post.
It is entirely plausable that a man has dug up an Amiga, plugged it in, and has connected to the Net. It's not rocket science. Having lived in and travelled around Eastern Europe, I've seen and used some pretty low tech solutions to surf the net.
You can get a modem to connect at 9600 baud across lines that you wouldn't think could support a telephone conversation, and computers you wouldn't think could run a browser. (The web is still very usable over a 9600 baud connection, especially with images off as older browsers allow)
And answering how an Afghani would have this knowledge and ability, you ignore reality:
1. Five years ago you could still have a computer in Afghanistan
2. It's a country with many smart people, educated there and abroad
3. People with chicken coops aren't necessarily poor peasants
4. Borders are porous and different people have different reasons for living in a particular place; this guy may well have lived half his life in New York for all you know.
Before you slander Katz you should get out of college and in to the rest of the world. See what goes on and how people adapt to not being in an environment so sheltered as yours. At 21 you may think you know everything, but in time you'll find you most certainly don't.
We may not like or appreciate Katz, but he is one of the few legitimage journalists (in Print and on the web) with an extensive knowledge of technology and it's impacts on the world. Don't call him a liar if you don't have some serious proof.
Any information can be filtered. If we have such a system, we certainly wouldn't have to receive everything all the time.
Just look at Slashdot. I browse at +2, unless I have time and desire to read more. Slashdot certainly has a lot of crap, but I choose to filter is. It would be trivial to implement such a system for HP's Cooltown.
Taking that further, I can see location-based annotation as a pay service. If I were Zagat I could charge people for the service of displaying ratings when they walked in front of a Restaurant. I know I would pay for such a service. I like walking around and finding nice places (As opposed to planning in advance), and I would pay to know beforehand from a reliable source what I should expect from the food.
I can think of many other examples, but I think I'll rush to patent them instead of posting them on/.:-)
These ads are not targeted at you, nor at consumers who fit your profile. The tech-saavy user who is bothered by intrusive ads does not register on the radar screen of the advertisers and ad firms buying these ads on sites such as boston.com and weather.com.
I like to think these ads are targeted at my parents. Mom is not going to stop visiting weather.com because an ad for allergy medicine dumped a bunch of colored leaves on her web page for a few seconds. In fact, she likes the ad. (If you haven't seen this ad, get on an XP system with IE 6 and watch. It's actually pretty cool.)
While it probably annoys dad, he's not going to go back to watching the weather channel on TV, because the web site gets him the weather instantly compared to waiting for the local forecast on TV. And it would take quite an interruption for him to make him seek out another website for his weather.
Bottom line is that "joe-average users" don't give a shit about ads, and aren't going to alter their media consumption patterns to keep them away from what you may consider "lousy ads." The advertisers know this, and so are keeping up with technology in the name of competition.
JB
(IANAA, but I do have a degree in Advertising.)
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The X2 is a toy. It certainly isn't going to move my 175 lb body up a steep hill.
I happen to live in a city. I take a tram to work every day, and it takes me around 40 minutes to go 2.5 miles, with the last 1/2 mile walking. This is stupid. It should not take me 40 minutes to go 2.5 miles.
Sometimes I bike, but there's a serious hill to deal with. (this takes 25 minutes) Sometimes I drive. (this takes 12 minutes)
I'm considering a motorcycle or a Vespa. But I'll also consider this, seriously.
Get off your $300 horse though, because that won't buy you jack. $3k is a reasonable price for such transportation.
I've had no trouble with my Samsung Yepp. AFAIK it needs windows software to transfer files, but it doesn't care a lick about what the files are or where they came from. My LAME encoded VBR files sound fantastic on it. Stuff obtained elsewhere on the Internet is fine too.
Considering it comes with 128MB out of the box, it's a good buy. I advise however ditching the headphones and the remote, and plugging a good pair of headphones directly into the unit. I only wish for a better design and a built-in rechargable battery with charging stand.
The guy who called likely cost your company a dollar. Unless you were very poorly paid, in a conversation lasting long enough for you to "lay down the law" he actually achieved his objective.
I personally value my time too much to fuck around with spammers or telemarketers (aside from adding myself to DMA do not mail and do not call lists).
So I went the route of a proper dispute, and came upon WIPO Arbitration.
The gist of it is, if you don't want to deal with Lawyers and lawsuits, and you want to get your domain back the "right way" you have to go into arbitration.
Here's the scheudle of fees from WIPO: http://arbiter.wipo.int/arbitration/fees/ If you want your domain back, you'll have to deal with the cost of arbitration. All the arbitration companies that NetSol works with want the same cash outlay. (It's fixed.)
I didn't have the cash to deal with it the right way, and I decided other ways, so that was that.
Actually, I ended up with quite a few tracks that had nothing to do with radiohead or the beastie boys, yet had those names in their titles. Out of six gigs from Napster, almost the only tracks that were fucked with were those.
(needless to say I didn't have any pleasant surprises)
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Neither of these impressed me much. They're hideous next to an iPod.
Anyone know of a CompactFlash based MP3 player? CF type I is now coming in sizes up to 1GB, and could be used to make an absolutely TINY device. (never mind the power-hungry IBM Microdrives)
caduguid said... ".doc files often contain viruses, they're hard for many people to read, _and_ they encourage microsoft to keep up its efforts to lock up the entire computing universe."
And I say it's a rant. I agree with Otter, no need for additional information. Just instructions on how to save as RTF and a polite request for documents to be sent that way.
It really would hurt to add the line "Besides..." as it would bring religion into the picture, and there's no reason to evangalize while in most professional environments.
There's a set of ATM/Bank Machines on Numancia around the Sants train station in Barcelona with some sort of "fatal exception error" message on the screen for all of last week.
:-)
Who in the world would use NT as the OS for an ATM? And do you think they've kept up to date with their security patches?
Here's one from IBM. Resoultion is 2560*2048, but you can scale it down to 1600*1200 if you really want.
I hope the car is nice!
Thanks! I'll try it out when I get back to work.
This movie project was my first experience with OSX, and the first real time I've spent with a Mac since I gave away my 7100 a few years ago... With so much control over the OS and a system that didn't crash on me once I think I'll be spending more time with it.
All I know is that it's a G4 at somewhere in that range. Maybe it's 466? It's gray and white, and I bought one of those nifty 17" flat panels for it.
It was idle and had been running OS 9. I swiped it and installed 10 on it because I needed to produce a video in short order and didn't want to fuck around with installing a firewire card and Adobe Premier in my NT workstation.
Really iMovie seems to be a cool program. It was no problem to import the video, cut it up, resequence it, add transitions, sound, etc. The only problem I had was that the output for full-screen high quality was 4+ GB, and compressing it so that it would look good took me several tries of multiple-hour conversions.
I'd really like a cheap farm for video compression. I tied up a G4 433 for six hours last week compressing a 20 minute movie using Sorenson 3. Fortunately was using OSX and so the machine remained relatively responsive, but still, six hours pinned just for 20 minutes. (Of course it did take a 4GB movie down to 150 MB)
:-) I imagine Apple won't be porting iDVD to Linux anytime soon, and the stuff the studios use is either custom or very expensive.
So now that we have a cheap supercomputer, all we need is cheap software.
So is the ban of sales of alcohol on Sunday in some states. That's quite unfair to several religions. And it pisses me off. I think if I win the lottery I'll use a few million to sue state governments over this.
You'll be glad to know though, that people on the Mass Pike from Springfield to Boston were not celebrating Christmas in any way, shape, or form. It was war as usual.
I remember quite clearly that the contract I had with AT&T @Home didn't say a damn thing about bandwidth. Why don't you scan in a copy of your agreement and post it on a web page, with the parts that have been violated underlined.
(What I'm saying is, I don't believe your claim that the terms of your agreement have been violated.)
Considering the fact that the auto-installer has already updated my XP box to fix this hole, I think that I'm pretty safe. As are the vast majority of XP users, who don't turn off auto-update, which seems to be on by default.
Another great service my Linux boxen don't enjoy that would protect me from Code Red is McAfee XP (.net) which is running on my box and getting virus updates several times a week without my intervention.
Beat on their business practices all you want, because M$ deserve it, but don't knock XP until you've put in some time evaluating it.
There are quite a few ways to legally stretch licenses. There are programs that will run on a network server that will monitor the number of copies of any software, including Office. On a budget, it's a much better idea to buy 20 copies of Office for 50 people, and use one of these license tracking applications than it is to illegally stretch or to choose a free office package that may not suit the needs of the business.
Add to the the list of companies you respect - Microsoft.
:-)
Last night I upgraded to Money 2002 (Money is a fantastic product) and there were three unchecked boxes which, if checked, would have allowed me to opt-in to marketing from Microsoft and their partners.
I did not opt-in, but was at least impressed that I was given the appearance of an option.
A manufacturer who sells $10 million in product a year is still a small business. With low margins many have trouble paying the 20-50k/year for a good MRP/Accounting package and the consulting time needed to keep it running and up-to-date. Once you get into paying for NT server and a license for each client, you're dealing with even more money. Running an MRP/Accounting system on Linux would be a good way to cut costs while using a robust, stable OS.
What in the world is wrong with you that you have to say such things just because you dislike Katz?
I would normally let this go, as it's off-topic, but your aggregious slander of Mr. Katz has prompted my reply.
I had skipped the Afghanistan article, as I do most of his articles, but have just read it because of your post.
It is entirely plausable that a man has dug up an Amiga, plugged it in, and has connected to the Net. It's not rocket science. Having lived in and travelled around Eastern Europe, I've seen and used some pretty low tech solutions to surf the net.
You can get a modem to connect at 9600 baud across lines that you wouldn't think could support a telephone conversation, and computers you wouldn't think could run a browser. (The web is still very usable over a 9600 baud connection, especially with images off as older browsers allow)
And answering how an Afghani would have this knowledge and ability, you ignore reality:
1. Five years ago you could still have a computer in Afghanistan
2. It's a country with many smart people, educated there and abroad
3. People with chicken coops aren't necessarily poor peasants
4. Borders are porous and different people have different reasons for living in a particular place; this guy may well have lived half his life in New York for all you know.
Before you slander Katz you should get out of college and in to the rest of the world. See what goes on and how people adapt to not being in an environment so sheltered as yours. At 21 you may think you know everything, but in time you'll find you most certainly don't.
We may not like or appreciate Katz, but he is one of the few legitimage journalists (in Print and on the web) with an extensive knowledge of technology and it's impacts on the world. Don't call him a liar if you don't have some serious proof.
Any information can be filtered. If we have such a system, we certainly wouldn't have to receive everything all the time.
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Just look at Slashdot. I browse at +2, unless I have time and desire to read more. Slashdot certainly has a lot of crap, but I choose to filter is. It would be trivial to implement such a system for HP's Cooltown.
Taking that further, I can see location-based annotation as a pay service. If I were Zagat I could charge people for the service of displaying ratings when they walked in front of a Restaurant. I know I would pay for such a service. I like walking around and finding nice places (As opposed to planning in advance), and I would pay to know beforehand from a reliable source what I should expect from the food.
I can think of many other examples, but I think I'll rush to patent them instead of posting them on
These ads are not targeted at you, nor at consumers who fit your profile. The tech-saavy user who is bothered by intrusive ads does not register on the radar screen of the advertisers and ad firms buying these ads on sites such as boston.com and weather.com.
I like to think these ads are targeted at my parents. Mom is not going to stop visiting weather.com because an ad for allergy medicine dumped a bunch of colored leaves on her web page for a few seconds. In fact, she likes the ad. (If you haven't seen this ad, get on an XP system with IE 6 and watch. It's actually pretty cool.)
While it probably annoys dad, he's not going to go back to watching the weather channel on TV, because the web site gets him the weather instantly compared to waiting for the local forecast on TV. And it would take quite an interruption for him to make him seek out another website for his weather.
Bottom line is that "joe-average users" don't give a shit about ads, and aren't going to alter their media consumption patterns to keep them away from what you may consider "lousy ads." The advertisers know this, and so are keeping up with technology in the name of competition.
JB
(IANAA, but I do have a degree in Advertising.)
The X2 is a toy. It certainly isn't going to move my 175 lb body up a steep hill.
I happen to live in a city. I take a tram to work every day, and it takes me around 40 minutes to go 2.5 miles, with the last 1/2 mile walking. This is stupid. It should not take me 40 minutes to go 2.5 miles.
Sometimes I bike, but there's a serious hill to deal with. (this takes 25 minutes) Sometimes I drive. (this takes 12 minutes)
I'm considering a motorcycle or a Vespa. But I'll also consider this, seriously.
Get off your $300 horse though, because that won't buy you jack. $3k is a reasonable price for such transportation.
I'd quite like to see a walking tree.
I should note I was speaking of the "Techno Yepp," as opposed to the CD, Hip-Hop, Mini, or Pendant Yepp.
I've had no trouble with my Samsung Yepp. AFAIK it needs windows software to transfer files, but it doesn't care a lick about what the files are or where they came from. My LAME encoded VBR files sound fantastic on it. Stuff obtained elsewhere on the Internet is fine too.
Considering it comes with 128MB out of the box, it's a good buy. I advise however ditching the headphones and the remote, and plugging a good pair of headphones directly into the unit. I only wish for a better design and a built-in rechargable battery with charging stand.
The guy who called likely cost your company a dollar. Unless you were very poorly paid, in a conversation lasting long enough for you to "lay down the law" he actually achieved his objective.
I personally value my time too much to fuck around with spammers or telemarketers (aside from adding myself to DMA do not mail and do not call lists).
It's rough. The US Code is online, but it's a miserable read. Find it here: www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong013.html.
:-)
Laws in progress (and insane shit that thankfully never makes it into law) can be found at thomas.loc.gov.
Too many hours browsing this shit will drive you crazy, make you want to move to Belgium.
nice Slashcode. I previewed the parent comment and it wasn't mangled. What did lovely Slashcode do to it when I clicked the submit button? balls.
Here's your answer. You're in a pickle. I am/was in a situation where known domain name pirate Jung Hochul (with prior arbitration judgements against him... he lost in the clubmed case) registered the domain waxman.com in a very sketchy way with help from someone inside NetSol. (Representing trademark holders waxmancandles.com I negotiated with former owners (company that bought Waxman camera and ceased using the Waxman name). During NetSol's "holding period" after a name expires the domain somehow slipped beyond their control. hmm.) Anyway, Mr. Hochul (no it's not his real name) wanted seven thousand USD cash for it last time we had contact.
So I went the route of a proper dispute, and came upon WIPO Arbitration.
The gist of it is, if you don't want to deal with Lawyers and lawsuits, and you want to get your domain back the "right way" you have to go into arbitration.
Here's the scheudle of fees from WIPO: http://arbiter.wipo.int/arbitration/fees/ If you want your domain back, you'll have to deal with the cost of arbitration. All the arbitration companies that NetSol works with want the same cash outlay. (It's fixed.)
I didn't have the cash to deal with it the right way, and I decided other ways, so that was that.
I hope you have better luck.
Actually, I ended up with quite a few tracks that had nothing to do with radiohead or the beastie boys, yet had those names in their titles. Out of six gigs from Napster, almost the only tracks that were fucked with were those.
(needless to say I didn't have any pleasant surprises)