Anyone else impressed with how well this site is taking on the traffic of slashdot? Usually niche sites like viahardware go down in an instant or slow down to a crawl especially when the review is so graphics intensive. My congrats go out to Viahardware.com's sysadmin, we have have been defeated.
Well at least someone was representing the interests of the general public. I didn't watch the grammeys(Oysterhead wasn't nominated???) but from the accounts I heard there were a lot of "arists" who were complaing about Mp3's and P2P.
If that were true why is Microsoft fighting so desperately to prevent an open marketplace where computers are sold with or without OS just like they are sold with or without monitor?
Because it just makes good business sense for them, they want to have the largest market share possible. If every PC has windows installed by default, MS gets more money. Running a business isn't about being "fair" or encouraging "competition" and "openess", its about increasing shareholder value.
What makes this player so nice is the fact that it is reasonably priced compared other offerings such as the RioCar or the Kenwood Music Keg, which is actually the same thing as a phatnoise phatbox, but phatnoise decided to supply the traditional head unit manufactures rather than compete with them.
Overall, there are not a lot of reasonable offerings in a marketplace which shows a lot of promise. What I would like to see is a complete car package that offers:
Large Capacity with standard drives
Radio and CD player
The CD player doubles as a ripper
Wireless Access
Car 2 Car IM
Easily Navigable
Imagine a car player with built in wireless access so you can easily add songs to your car but also trade songs with others, sort of like a p2p network on the road. Besides trading songs people could also IM each other, I think this would really catch on among teenagers, a demographic that tends to embrace IM, likes to cruise, and many teens tend to have run down cars with nice stereos. Obviously there are safety and security considerations to consider but I'm sure a compromise could be made.
I have a bunch of friends from college, who got hotmail accounts after they graduated when the university cancelled their e-mail accounts. Their favorite net activity is cracking in to a hotmail account of someone we know and impersonating them. Hotmail has a security question which asks questions that only the specific user would know such as "What is the name of my CAT?" This is great for attackers who don't know you personally but what about the perspective intruders who do know you personally?
My solution is not to use hotmail although there is no reason for me to use hotmail in the first place, but I have so many non-techie friends who love hotmail and will never switch.
Can anyone think of an application where the soundbug would be preferential over standard or wireless speakers? I don't think cost is really an issue since you can pick up cheap speakers for under $10 or even used ones for less than that. The article mentions teleconferencing but people who are partaking in activities such as teleconferencing tend to have deep enough pockets to splurge for a decent sound system.
I like the concept and I thought the "bill of rights" was right on target but that website could use some more content. Possibly message boards and some type of petition to sign. A donations page is usually standard with these grass route advocacy pages. You think these guys would have their act together if they were getting linked from the WSJ.
I can't believe AT&T wireless spent all that money on the mlife campaign without releasing any new phones. I've been an AT&T customer for many years now; their flagship phone is the nokia 8260 which has been available for over 2 years! You think AT&T's marketing department would have enough sense to introduce new phones during the campaign, especially since the 8260 is what drove a lot of consumers their way since everyone wants to have the smallest phone. Look at a company like Nextel, people switch to Nextel specifically for the phones and features.
This was intentionally leaked. To make clear to SH that the same rules still apply, and that use of chem/bio weapons on US troops really _will_ be met with nuclear weapons.
I don't think this was intentionally leaked considering that Cheney is scheduled to visit the middle east in a few days.
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Well with the exception of DV editing and an ipod what would one use firewire for? I guess you need integrated firewire on macs since there is not enough room to add multiple hard drives. The "ugly" alluminum box I have has 4 drives spinning in it.
I really wouldn't classify Apple as beating Gateway to the punch with the 20th anniversary mac. With a $7,500 price tag and a limited release, the anniversary mac is more of a concept machine than a mass market box.
The fee is $1.40 per thousand listeners for Internet-only stations, and 70 cents per thousand listeners for over-the-air stations that simultaneously broadcast online.
How would the record companies enforce such a payment structure? It seems to me that would be no method of counting the listeners that couldn't possibly be altered by the webcasters especially with all the different webcasting programs out there. Does anyone have a clue how the Record Companies were planning to accurately count listeners?
Macs are elegant, I guess that is a concern for people who make their computer purchase decisions based upon appearances. There are plenty of PC's out there that appeal to the eye. As far as cost is concerned low end macs are completely priced compared to their pc counterparts but high end macs are completely overpriced.
I've played around with OSX on my boss's TiBook and I must admit it is very nice and all, but the problem is you are forced to buy Mac hardware. I don't care how good OSX is if I can't run it on a Box that I can build with my own two hands, OSX is useless to me. The great thing about Linux and to a much lesser extent windows is choice. Linux users are not limited to any particular hardware platform where OSX is made specifically to sell a particular hardware platform.
I have no problem paying for slashdot, in fact this is one of the few sites that is worth paying for, but I have one question: Will there be any form of customer service? I have not had moderation points for 2 months even though I've reached the Karma cap. I have e-mailed taco twice with no reply or explanation from him. I was just about to transfer the funds from my paypal account when I realized that I should not pay until I have the ability to moderate. What is slashdot going to do assist it's customers?
So basically this guy had a grudge against Konqueror because he had trouble upgrading KDE. I wouldn't call this a very objective or informative review. The other weakness he cites with Konqueror is lack of features, but most people don't even use the latest "bells and whistles" offered with a new browser build. Usually those "Features" turn out to be annoyances like sidebars.
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Yes, I know the feeling. All of my good articles never get posted. I've sent in about 15 or so submissions and had 2 accepted. Most of the rejected articles were much more compelling than the accepted articles.
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Anyone else impressed with how well this site is taking on the traffic of slashdot? Usually niche sites like viahardware go down in an instant or slow down to a crawl especially when the review is so graphics intensive. My congrats go out to Viahardware.com's sysadmin, we have have been defeated.
Is your going to advertise porn on slashdot at least make sure it's a free site like the autopr0n guy. We don't need pay for porn adverts on here.
Well at least someone was representing the interests of the general public. I didn't watch the grammeys(Oysterhead wasn't nominated???) but from the accounts I heard there were a lot of "arists" who were complaing about Mp3's and P2P.
mmm Stunts.. I don't know how many countless hours I spent playing that game. The track editor was so much fun.
Because it just makes good business sense for them, they want to have the largest market share possible. If every PC has windows installed by default, MS gets more money. Running a business isn't about being "fair" or encouraging "competition" and "openess", its about increasing shareholder value.
Overall, there are not a lot of reasonable offerings in a marketplace which shows a lot of promise. What I would like to see is a complete car package that offers:
Imagine a car player with built in wireless access so you can easily add songs to your car but also trade songs with others, sort of like a p2p network on the road. Besides trading songs people could also IM each other, I think this would really catch on among teenagers, a demographic that tends to embrace IM, likes to cruise, and many teens tend to have run down cars with nice stereos. Obviously there are safety and security considerations to consider but I'm sure a compromise could be made.
My solution is not to use hotmail although there is no reason for me to use hotmail in the first place, but I have so many non-techie friends who love hotmail and will never switch.
I don't want to spoil the open source pep rally here but there is ONE MS product that beats the equivalent OSS product, MS Office.
One of my older systems had a pretty cool temp and fan monitor availible here and probably many other places
Even my Osbourne One only weighs twenty-four pounds.
Can anyone think of an application where the soundbug would be preferential over standard or wireless speakers? I don't think cost is really an issue since you can pick up cheap speakers for under $10 or even used ones for less than that. The article mentions teleconferencing but people who are partaking in activities such as teleconferencing tend to have deep enough pockets to splurge for a decent sound system.
I like the concept and I thought the "bill of rights" was right on target but that website could use some more content. Possibly message boards and some type of petition to sign. A donations page is usually standard with these grass route advocacy pages. You think these guys would have their act together if they were getting linked from the WSJ.
I can't believe AT&T wireless spent all that money on the mlife campaign without releasing any new phones. I've been an AT&T customer for many years now; their flagship phone is the nokia 8260 which has been available for over 2 years! You think AT&T's marketing department would have enough sense to introduce new phones during the campaign, especially since the 8260 is what drove a lot of consumers their way since everyone wants to have the smallest phone. Look at a company like Nextel, people switch to Nextel specifically for the phones and features.
Actually the LAtimes did not break the story they were just the paper linked. The nytimes militray correspondent broke the story.
I don't think this was intentionally leaked considering that Cheney is scheduled to visit the middle east in a few days.
Well with the exception of DV editing and an ipod what would one use firewire for? I guess you need integrated firewire on macs since there is not enough room to add multiple hard drives. The "ugly" alluminum box I have has 4 drives spinning in it.
I really wouldn't classify Apple as beating Gateway to the punch with the 20th anniversary mac. With a $7,500 price tag and a limited release, the anniversary mac is more of a concept machine than a mass market box.
The fee is $1.40 per thousand listeners for Internet-only stations, and 70 cents per thousand listeners for over-the-air stations that simultaneously broadcast online.
How would the record companies enforce such a payment structure? It seems to me that would be no method of counting the listeners that couldn't possibly be altered by the webcasters especially with all the different webcasting programs out there. Does anyone have a clue how the Record Companies were planning to accurately count listeners?
Macs are elegant, I guess that is a concern for people who make their computer purchase decisions based upon appearances. There are plenty of PC's out there that appeal to the eye. As far as cost is concerned low end macs are completely priced compared to their pc counterparts but high end macs are completely overpriced.
I've played around with OSX on my boss's TiBook and I must admit it is very nice and all, but the problem is you are forced to buy Mac hardware. I don't care how good OSX is if I can't run it on a Box that I can build with my own two hands, OSX is useless to me. The great thing about Linux and to a much lesser extent windows is choice. Linux users are not limited to any particular hardware platform where OSX is made specifically to sell a particular hardware platform.
I have no problem paying for slashdot, in fact this is one of the few sites that is worth paying for, but I have one question: Will there be any form of customer service? I have not had moderation points for 2 months even though I've reached the Karma cap. I have e-mailed taco twice with no reply or explanation from him. I was just about to transfer the funds from my paypal account when I realized that I should not pay until I have the ability to moderate. What is slashdot going to do assist it's customers?
So basically this guy had a grudge against Konqueror because he had trouble upgrading KDE. I wouldn't call this a very objective or informative review. The other weakness he cites with Konqueror is lack of features, but most people don't even use the latest "bells and whistles" offered with a new browser build. Usually those "Features" turn out to be annoyances like sidebars.
To post those gutted Indigo cases on Ebay ;)
Yes, I know the feeling. All of my good articles never get posted. I've sent in about 15 or so submissions and had 2 accepted. Most of the rejected articles were much more compelling than the accepted articles.
perhaps I should have said observed? my bad.. oh BTW I did read the article..