300GB might be plenty for people who are just browsing the web and checking their e-mail. But I just checked, and my average usage over the last 3 months is 700GB. That's for 3 people, streaming Twtich and Netflix and Pandora, and downloading games from Steam. I don't think this is an extreme use case, this strikes me as average. There is a helpful note on my usage page which states "Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended". I think that, instead of up-charging people who go OVER 300GB, they should be offering a deal to people who stay UNDER 300GB.
I'm amused that someone is still talking about the Samsung Stratosphere. The first model was obsolete nearly as soon as it came out, in the sense that Android 4.0 came out a week after the Stratosphere, but the phone never received an update past 2.3 (the two it did receive brought it up to 2.3.6). I've never used the Stratosphere 2, and it sounds like that's where most of Bennett's complaints are coming from. One the Strat 1, I've never experienced the calendar bug, and the screen always comes back on when I'm on a call and pull the phone away from my face.
I will commiserate about the fact that there are almost no phones coming out anymore with a slideout keyboard.
I have a feeling the same thing has happened to me. I noticed a week ago that I was no longer able to log into my router. I was planning on trying to reset the router to default settings just so I could get back into it to administer my network. If a notice was sent about the change, I'm sure it was sent to the verizon.net e-mail address attached to the account, which I don't have access to, and my roommate (whose name is on the bill) never checks.
This action by Verizon is very irritating, to say the least.
30,000 songs at 5 to 6 MB each (high quality vbr mp3) adds up to about 160 GB.
250,000 pictures, at 2 MB each (that's about average for what comes out of my digital camera) adds up to about 480 GB.
13,000,000 e-mails at 50 KB each (averaging my inbox, with a few dozen attachments, and a few hundred html or plain text) adds up to about 620 GB
Averaging these out it comes to 420 GB. I'm pretty sure I've never reached that much in a month.
Of course all these numbers are arbitrary, and Comcast can see if you're downloading more than 99% of the other users on that segment (or whatever it's called), and either give you a warning, or shut you off, at their discretion. But you have to be doing some serious downloading to get those kinds of numbers...
If I have a video card that is HDCP Enabled (nVidia GeForce 8800GTS) and a monitor that is HDCP Enabled (Dell 2407wfp) should I expect to never run into this problem?
when i swipe my debit card through the machine at stop and shop, it says "approved". At that point, the money is wired from my bank to stop and shop, and my personal information should be purged. or am i mistaken, and is there a reason for stop and shop keeping everyone's crdit and debit card numbers?
I think most Miaden albums have been remastered, re-packaged, and re-released at this point, so it is a "new" product to the record stores. This process has happened to a lot of classic rock and classic metal bands. The record store i usually go to (Newbury Comics, which is a "small" retail chain with only 27 location, only in New England), Has a good selection, and decent prices, and different sales every week. I too noticed that Iron Maiden albums go for $15-$17, but I've been able to pick up a few for maybe $12-14 if I wait long enough. Same goes for Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, etc.
I love WERS. indie and folk in the morning, jazz during mid-day, and world music until the evening. On the weekends, it's broadway tunes, a capella, then kids music.
And don't forget WGBH radio; Public radio (NPR, PRI) in the afternoon, and then jazz all night.
i'm curious to know how a defualt installation of XP 9home or pro) with service pack 2 would fare. doesnt it have windows firewall enabled by default?
and on a related note, a friend of mine recently reinstalled xp home, sp1, using the disc that came with his computer (emachines). he's on dial-up, and is only connected for a little while at a time, and he still got infected with a few things.
another friend got a laptop that was a few years old, and i installed a wireless card. at that time, the computer was clean. a few weeks later he came to me and it had a massive spyware/adware/virus infection (again, xp home, sp1). and he had barely used it during that time.
Apple doesn't make a boatload of money on the hardware (why else are they able to effectively price-match other MP3 players), but a huge amount from Itunes.
You have that completely backwards. Apple's profit margin on the iPod is huge compared to what they're making on iTunes downloads...
floppy drives are still absolutely necessary for at least one thing: installing windows onto non-IDE hard drives, for most SATA controllers and some SCSI controllers. for some reason, the only place the windows installer will accept drivers fro is from a floppy. i think this will be fixed in windows vista, a feature that's about 5 years late IMO.
I rip the caps lock key right off of my keyboard, because i'm always accidentally pressing it when i'm aiming for tab or shift. on the rare occasion i need to turn capslock on, i can stick a pen through to press the button...
I just installed the latest version of Vista available to TechNet subscribers, build 5308. While it's not as bad as was described here, it hasnt been completely smooth running either.
It seems to do some thing well. Dual booting with XP works great. maybe better than with win2k and XP. All the visual effects run fine, even on my integrated graphics (GeForce 6150, admittedly higher end for integraded graphics). Normal operation is a little sluggish, and sometimes it gets really bad. I've had it lock up completely at least 3 times, doing completely different things. One time it was just trying to open Freecell (which, by the way, they have updated).
I saw a post from a guy who works for microsoft, who said he's been running Vista for a few months, and doing all his work on it. From what i've seen of the build i'm running, I don't see myself being as productive on it as I am with my current XP setup, just becuase of some of these problems. on the other hand, it looks like once they get these things straightened out, it should be fine.
if i could buy a DVD without the fancy packaging, without and of the hours and hours of extras they put on dvd releases nowadays, and pay $5-10 for it, i would probably be buying all sorts of DVDs, maybe a few a month. instead of only buying ones i KNOW i'm going to want to watch a few times or more, becuase they cost goddamn $25+
How'd you make this crunching noise, in this part of the song, here?
Well, it's, it's really a combination of... I used celery. I broke celery sticks, and then pitched it down, and I added lots of reverb. I guess I'm giving away some trade secrets here.
But nobody will ever really know exactly how much celery you used.
I also added corn starch, and then we went and crashed our van. And recorded that. And I mixed it in.
The definition of sexually explicit broadly covers depictions of everything from sexual intercourse and masturbation to "sadistic abuse" and close-ups of fully clothed genital regions.
HOW CAN A FULLY-CLOTHED ANYTHING BE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT? I know some law enforcement already has some messed up ideas about what types of pornography should be considered legal, and what types are too dirty and need to be outlawed. But this is one of the most ridiculous things i've ever heard.
My company runs 2 Pelco DX7000s, 26 cameras in total. i'm not sure what you mean when you say "their Pelco PC DVR's are hubs for viruses". i dont think we've ever had any sort of virus on either of our systems...
it is true, in these types of games, that putting in more time euqals getting more rewards. if you are going on raids with your guild every day, you do deserve to get more of those epic drops because you are more valuable to your team. ad just being there more often means getting more of the better gear, just because you are there.
obviously this doesnt always apply to real life. i don't know who said it did. i dont know why the author of the article is trying to apply the facts of a game to real life, and saying that a game is teaching kids the wrong lessons. if you are so dependent on games to give you advice about the real world, you are most likely not a successful person, and you will be in a position where more hours put in at work = more pay. i.e., flipping burgers, the more you work, the more burgers you have flipped, and the more you get paid. if you are a successful person, in a position where skill is valued over amount of time put in, you are not the kind of person who is letting games dictate your life. even if you do play games, even play games a lot, you already have the skills you need, and are not learning life lessons from a game.
Actually most of the music that TMBG has released online isn't free. Back on eMusic, and now on their own website, they are selling most of their albums, and starting with their 2005 tour, most of their live shows. Their podcast, however, is free. They also release an occasiaonal free mp3 on their website as well.
Air America Radio just moved to paid podcasts. It's $7 a month for a single show, (or $11 for all shows). that's seven different shows, daily. if ricky gervais keeps doing a half hour show, weekly, $7/mo seems a little steep...
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300GB might be plenty for people who are just browsing the web and checking their e-mail. But I just checked, and my average usage over the last 3 months is 700GB. That's for 3 people, streaming Twtich and Netflix and Pandora, and downloading games from Steam. I don't think this is an extreme use case, this strikes me as average. There is a helpful note on my usage page which states "Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended". I think that, instead of up-charging people who go OVER 300GB, they should be offering a deal to people who stay UNDER 300GB.
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I'm amused that someone is still talking about the Samsung Stratosphere. The first model was obsolete nearly as soon as it came out, in the sense that Android 4.0 came out a week after the Stratosphere, but the phone never received an update past 2.3 (the two it did receive brought it up to 2.3.6). I've never used the Stratosphere 2, and it sounds like that's where most of Bennett's complaints are coming from. One the Strat 1, I've never experienced the calendar bug, and the screen always comes back on when I'm on a call and pull the phone away from my face.
I will commiserate about the fact that there are almost no phones coming out anymore with a slideout keyboard.
I have a feeling the same thing has happened to me. I noticed a week ago that I was no longer able to log into my router. I was planning on trying to reset the router to default settings just so I could get back into it to administer my network. If a notice was sent about the change, I'm sure it was sent to the verizon.net e-mail address attached to the account, which I don't have access to, and my roommate (whose name is on the bill) never checks.
This action by Verizon is very irritating, to say the least.
30,000 songs at 5 to 6 MB each (high quality vbr mp3) adds up to about 160 GB.
250,000 pictures, at 2 MB each (that's about average for what comes out of my digital camera) adds up to about 480 GB.
13,000,000 e-mails at 50 KB each (averaging my inbox, with a few dozen attachments, and a few hundred html or plain text) adds up to about 620 GB
Averaging these out it comes to 420 GB. I'm pretty sure I've never reached that much in a month.
Of course all these numbers are arbitrary, and Comcast can see if you're downloading more than 99% of the other users on that segment (or whatever it's called), and either give you a warning, or shut you off, at their discretion. But you have to be doing some serious downloading to get those kinds of numbers...
Well, the "browse" function does this to a degree; it doesn't do "sub-genre", I don't recall there being a sub-genre ID3 tag...
If I have a video card that is HDCP Enabled (nVidia GeForce 8800GTS) and a monitor that is HDCP Enabled (Dell 2407wfp) should I expect to never run into this problem?
when i swipe my debit card through the machine at stop and shop, it says "approved". At that point, the money is wired from my bank to stop and shop, and my personal information should be purged. or am i mistaken, and is there a reason for stop and shop keeping everyone's crdit and debit card numbers?
I think most Miaden albums have been remastered, re-packaged, and re-released at this point, so it is a "new" product to the record stores. This process has happened to a lot of classic rock and classic metal bands. The record store i usually go to (Newbury Comics, which is a "small" retail chain with only 27 location, only in New England), Has a good selection, and decent prices, and different sales every week. I too noticed that Iron Maiden albums go for $15-$17, but I've been able to pick up a few for maybe $12-14 if I wait long enough. Same goes for Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, etc.
I love WERS. indie and folk in the morning, jazz during mid-day, and world music until the evening. On the weekends, it's broadway tunes, a capella, then kids music.
And don't forget WGBH radio; Public radio (NPR, PRI) in the afternoon, and then jazz all night.
is it me or does it sound like he's describing morlocs? h.g. wells had the same idea 110 years ago.
i'm curious to know how a defualt installation of XP 9home or pro) with service pack 2 would fare. doesnt it have windows firewall enabled by default?
and on a related note, a friend of mine recently reinstalled xp home, sp1, using the disc that came with his computer (emachines). he's on dial-up, and is only connected for a little while at a time, and he still got infected with a few things.
another friend got a laptop that was a few years old, and i installed a wireless card. at that time, the computer was clean. a few weeks later he came to me and it had a massive spyware/adware/virus infection (again, xp home, sp1). and he had barely used it during that time.
Apple doesn't make a boatload of money on the hardware (why else are they able to effectively price-match other MP3 players), but a huge amount from Itunes.
You have that completely backwards. Apple's profit margin on the iPod is huge compared to what they're making on iTunes downloads...
floppy drives are still absolutely necessary for at least one thing: installing windows onto non-IDE hard drives, for most SATA controllers and some SCSI controllers. for some reason, the only place the windows installer will accept drivers fro is from a floppy. i think this will be fixed in windows vista, a feature that's about 5 years late IMO.
I rip the caps lock key right off of my keyboard, because i'm always accidentally pressing it when i'm aiming for tab or shift. on the rare occasion i need to turn capslock on, i can stick a pen through to press the button...
I just installed the latest version of Vista available to TechNet subscribers, build 5308. While it's not as bad as was described here, it hasnt been completely smooth running either.
It seems to do some thing well. Dual booting with XP works great. maybe better than with win2k and XP. All the visual effects run fine, even on my integrated graphics (GeForce 6150, admittedly higher end for integraded graphics). Normal operation is a little sluggish, and sometimes it gets really bad. I've had it lock up completely at least 3 times, doing completely different things. One time it was just trying to open Freecell (which, by the way, they have updated).
I saw a post from a guy who works for microsoft, who said he's been running Vista for a few months, and doing all his work on it. From what i've seen of the build i'm running, I don't see myself being as productive on it as I am with my current XP setup, just becuase of some of these problems. on the other hand, it looks like once they get these things straightened out, it should be fine.
if i could buy a DVD without the fancy packaging, without and of the hours and hours of extras they put on dvd releases nowadays, and pay $5-10 for it, i would probably be buying all sorts of DVDs, maybe a few a month. instead of only buying ones i KNOW i'm going to want to watch a few times or more, becuase they cost goddamn $25+
How'd you make this crunching noise, in this part of the song, here?
Well, it's, it's really a combination of... I used celery. I broke celery sticks, and then pitched it down, and I added lots of reverb. I guess I'm giving away some trade secrets here.
But nobody will ever really know exactly how much celery you used.
I also added corn starch, and then we went and crashed our van. And recorded that. And I mixed it in.
It sounds incredible.
The definition of sexually explicit broadly covers depictions of everything from sexual intercourse and masturbation to "sadistic abuse" and close-ups of fully clothed genital regions.
HOW CAN A FULLY-CLOTHED ANYTHING BE SEXUALLY EXPLICIT? I know some law enforcement already has some messed up ideas about what types of pornography should be considered legal, and what types are too dirty and need to be outlawed. But this is one of the most ridiculous things i've ever heard.
anyone that reads slashdot knows that myspace is a hodgepodge of horribly unintuitive features that is so ugly to look at it makes one want to cry
i thought the same thing until i looked at friendster recently...
My company runs 2 Pelco DX7000s, 26 cameras in total. i'm not sure what you mean when you say "their Pelco PC DVR's are hubs for viruses". i dont think we've ever had any sort of virus on either of our systems...
it is true, in these types of games, that putting in more time euqals getting more rewards. if you are going on raids with your guild every day, you do deserve to get more of those epic drops because you are more valuable to your team. ad just being there more often means getting more of the better gear, just because you are there.
obviously this doesnt always apply to real life. i don't know who said it did. i dont know why the author of the article is trying to apply the facts of a game to real life, and saying that a game is teaching kids the wrong lessons. if you are so dependent on games to give you advice about the real world, you are most likely not a successful person, and you will be in a position where more hours put in at work = more pay. i.e., flipping burgers, the more you work, the more burgers you have flipped, and the more you get paid. if you are a successful person, in a position where skill is valued over amount of time put in, you are not the kind of person who is letting games dictate your life. even if you do play games, even play games a lot, you already have the skills you need, and are not learning life lessons from a game.
Actually most of the music that TMBG has released online isn't free. Back on eMusic, and now on their own website, they are selling most of their albums, and starting with their 2005 tour, most of their live shows. Their podcast, however, is free. They also release an occasiaonal free mp3 on their website as well.
Air America Radio just moved to paid podcasts. It's $7 a month for a single show, (or $11 for all shows). that's seven different shows, daily. if ricky gervais keeps doing a half hour show, weekly, $7/mo seems a little steep...
Do we need any more evidence that the folks in the WHite house aren't really Republicans?
no, they are fucking fascists who do whatever the hell they want, and somehow fucking get away with it every time.