I ended up purchasing a Wifi Seeker a few months ago and so far I've been very impressed. In the use case of finding a good signal spot at the flying J truck stop, the wifi seeker would probably be the better option.
I don't want to carry another PDA sized device in my laptop bag just to detect wifi networks. A key chain device seems to be the better form factor, even if it doesn't list the networks.
Sounds like an excuse by a sony fanboy to down play the story
I am not a sony "fanboy," and I'm not saying Sony is not blame, what I am saying is "buyer beware" when you buy a 1st rev product, regardless of who the manufacturer is. That being said, my gamebody advance sp works just fine.
If you choose to buy the first release of any consumer electronic, you are playing Russian roulette, especially with portable electronics such as (game handhelds and mp3 players). Not that a stern warning will deter the mindless herds from waiting outside of electronic retail conglomerates in the cold, in order to buy a product at the highest possible retail price.
"My PowerBook is literally the best of both worlds. I can run the older unix-based apps I need to for work, and use Microsoft programs and play fancy games when I want."
That goes for my thinkpad running Linux too. I can run microsoft programs, I don't but I could, and play "fancy games." While the game collection for OSX and Linux is increasing, its usually older games. I really don't find gaming enjoyable on a laptop anyway. My powermac G5 is a nice gaming machine with the addition of a sensible mouse. Now all I need to do is wait for Doom3 and Half Life 2. By the time they come out, my one year Apple warranty will have expired.
Let me rephrase, I'm not looking for free support for a downloadable product. I want pay support for a product that I can download, install, and run for free.
I am not critical of redhat for the practice pf charging for support. I'm critizing Redhat for dropping support on 2 very widely used products and not providing support for its freely downloadable product. (Fedora)
I should have been a little more clear, grown up support that is NOT hardware specific. Will HP support debian linux on Dell, IBM, whiteboxes, etc? When I pay for rhel i get hardware agnostic support from a name managers know, Debian needs a similar provider.
I gave them up a few years ago, ever since they decided not provide support for freely downloadable ISO's. I went to debian for most of our servers, gentoo on my own desktops. We still have fedora dual booting on our intern desktops but I have no interest in giving redhat money for enterprise linux. Debian has turned out to be a great solution for us. I'm not saying its a redhat replacement, the fact is, Debian really needs a "grown up" large company to provide commercial support, that will quiet the fears of managers. Yes, I've seen the the Debian contractors page.
Our organization even has a Redhat site license that drops the cost down to $30 a desktop per year, but after they decided to effectively drop support for the millions of redhat 8 and 9 installations, I have no interest in dealing with a company that can make such a profound shift without considering the needs of their existing customers. Yes, we did pay for Redhat support! Suse looks like its moving in the opposite direction of redhat so that might be an option for a good option down the road.
Getting every movie theater in the World to install this technology, thats not going to happen anytime soon. Paying to have this installed in a couple hundred movie theaters, isn't going to make a dent in piracy.
The movie people seem to be as dumb as they music people. The way Internet file sharing works is that you only need one source. Just one person with a camera, to distribute a movie around the globe. So protecting a few movie screens with this tech will not accomplish a damn thing. Just like the music industry, who spends so much time, money, and effort on poorly securing digital files, while at the same time it releases a lossless copy of the same content on an unprotected format.
About a year ago I decided to build a mediapc to play mp3, divx, aac, flac, shn, along with the traditional CD's and DVD's, and mame games. I had a budget of $500.
I ended up building a mini-itx 2ghz athlon nforce2 machine using a coolermaster case that looked just like a stereo component.
For software I deicded to use gentoo and freevo. For input I have a standard remote, a wireless keyboard, and a wireless game controller.
Offered by Comcast or Microsoft, but a join effort between both these companies? Thats a recipe for a very bad product. Speaking of Comcast, last weekend I went down to stay at friend's in Philly. They did not set their newly arrived Comcast cable modem yet, so i offered to hook it up.
So with the three different cable modem providers I had in the past, you simply hook up the cable modem and go, but not Comcast. Once you open your browser for the first time, you are directed to some setup page. But the page states that you must be using a windows or OSX box, apparently linux is no good.. So I grabbed my ibook out of the trunk of the car and booted it up. Booted up safari and of course, the installer requires IE! I called support but got crap responses from people who sounded like they were randomly picked off the street. I'm moving to Philadelphia soon but it will be a cold day in hell before i buy anything from Comcast.
A company who's main product is a device designed to monitor and cache P2P network traffic, has a study that shows P2P networks account for an insane amount of network traffic.
Certainly no reason not believe them, its not like they have a conflict of interest or anything. Nothing to see here, move along please!
Tivo should be looking to expand their functionality at this point in time. With companies such Dish network and comcast rolling out their own pvr services, Tivo needs to do more to make a cost justification for the service. Sorry, downloadable movies and dvd burning aren't going to bring the masses or keep your existing customers. Reducing what they can record will drive people away in droves. Unless, Tivo makes a major paradigm shift towards increase the function of the device instead of increasing revenue through partners by sacrificing user freedom.
"Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers."
First off I'm voting for Kerry, but the idea that new legislation is going curb the tax advantages of outsourcing is ludicrous. So lets say Kerry does pass such a bill, what will happen? Large companies will simple open up offshore subsiaries to skirt the law, similiar to what Haliburton did under the leadership of Dick Cheney, by having a Caymen islands phantom corporation in order to business with nations like Iran.
Get nearly as much press as the VT cluster, since it doesn't run on Apple hardware. Will Wired (aka Apple Corporate PR Monthly) even bother writing about it?
Can anyone tell me if this will come with an imap/s client? I would have purchased the 600 when it came out but I refuse to pay $60 for an e-mail client on my palm. When I buy a $500+ phone I expect to be able to check my e-mail securely.
Any more, most of the PDA's I see people carrying are also cell phones. I see a lot of people carrying Blackberries, Treos, and PocketPCs with phone capability. What is the advantage of carrying two different devices? From what I can tell the sharp line offered no phone capabilities and the wifi option drained way too much power to make it practical.
While a 12 ibook was considered small 3 years ago, there are a lot better options when considering a portable laptop. The IBM x40, Fujitsu P series, or the Sony Picturebook are just a few examples.
In the mid late 90's when everyone was going to use the netscape web browser and Sun's java to run all their applications from applets on thin-client sun terminals. Oh, and all your news would come from "Push" technology like Pointcast.
The problem is while this may be an opt-in trial offer it could easily evolve in to the standard. As many others have pointed out, the grocery store discount cards are a good example.
10-15 years ago, the cards were a trial new technology that offered consumers a discount. Now, you can't get a decent price at a grocery store without using a discount card. The "discount price" is actually the market price while the non-discount price is just a tax on people who don't adopt. What happens if this technology is adopted in the same manner? The only way you can get a decent price for auto insurance is by having a tracking device attached to your vehicle!
Something like a trial for this tracking technology may seem benign at first, but the potential consequences could be frightening. The worse case scenario would be that governments decide to make these devices mandatory.
The nytimes is a great resource that provides excellent content free of charge. I registered once probably eight years ago and it hasn't been an annoyance since then. I am accessing their content free of charge, what is wrong with registration. Especially considering they don't even force you to verify the information?
Now for other sites, I would probably avoid depending on the amount and quality of content. I would certainly not waste the time to register for my local paper's website or something of similar value to me. If you don't think getting access to the nytimes for free is not worth the "hassle" of registering, boycott the nytimes. Otherwise, don't complain.
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I don't want to carry another PDA sized device in my laptop bag just to detect wifi networks. A key chain device seems to be the better form factor, even if it doesn't list the networks.
I am not a sony "fanboy," and I'm not saying Sony is not blame, what I am saying is "buyer beware" when you buy a 1st rev product, regardless of who the manufacturer is. That being said, my gamebody advance sp works just fine.
If you choose to buy the first release of any consumer electronic, you are playing Russian roulette, especially with portable electronics such as (game handhelds and mp3 players). Not that a stern warning will deter the mindless herds from waiting outside of electronic retail conglomerates in the cold, in order to buy a product at the highest possible retail price.
That goes for my thinkpad running Linux too. I can run microsoft programs, I don't but I could, and play "fancy games." While the game collection for OSX and Linux is increasing, its usually older games. I really don't find gaming enjoyable on a laptop anyway. My powermac G5 is a nice gaming machine with the addition of a sensible mouse. Now all I need to do is wait for Doom3 and Half Life 2. By the time they come out, my one year Apple warranty will have expired.
Let me rephrase, I'm not looking for free support for a downloadable product. I want pay support for a product that I can download, install, and run for free.
I am not critical of redhat for the practice pf charging for support. I'm critizing Redhat for dropping support on 2 very widely used products and not providing support for its freely downloadable product. (Fedora)
I should have been a little more clear, grown up support that is NOT hardware specific. Will HP support debian linux on Dell, IBM, whiteboxes, etc? When I pay for rhel i get hardware agnostic support from a name managers know, Debian needs a similar provider.
Our organization even has a Redhat site license that drops the cost down to $30 a desktop per year, but after they decided to effectively drop support for the millions of redhat 8 and 9 installations, I have no interest in dealing with a company that can make such a profound shift without considering the needs of their existing customers. Yes, we did pay for Redhat support! Suse looks like its moving in the opposite direction of redhat so that might be an option for a good option down the road.
The movie people seem to be as dumb as they music people. The way Internet file sharing works is that you only need one source. Just one person with a camera, to distribute a movie around the globe. So protecting a few movie screens with this tech will not accomplish a damn thing. Just like the music industry, who spends so much time, money, and effort on poorly securing digital files, while at the same time it releases a lossless copy of the same content on an unprotected format.
lol! yep, my ancient CRT TV is not cutting it anymore. I wish I could stop the machine addiction.
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I ended up building a mini-itx 2ghz athlon nforce2 machine using a coolermaster case that looked just like a stereo component.
For software I deicded to use gentoo and freevo. For input I have a standard remote, a wireless keyboard, and a wireless game controller.
the box
on the rack
playing tapper
I already have a Tivo so I didn't bother setting up the TV features, but it works great as an all purpose media player.
So with the three different cable modem providers I had in the past, you simply hook up the cable modem and go, but not Comcast. Once you open your browser for the first time, you are directed to some setup page. But the page states that you must be using a windows or OSX box, apparently linux is no good.. So I grabbed my ibook out of the trunk of the car and booted it up. Booted up safari and of course, the installer requires IE! I called support but got crap responses from people who sounded like they were randomly picked off the street. I'm moving to Philadelphia soon but it will be a cold day in hell before i buy anything from Comcast.
Certainly no reason not believe them, its not like they have a conflict of interest or anything. Nothing to see here, move along please!
Tivo should be looking to expand their functionality at this point in time. With companies such Dish network and comcast rolling out their own pvr services, Tivo needs to do more to make a cost justification for the service. Sorry, downloadable movies and dvd burning aren't going to bring the masses or keep your existing customers. Reducing what they can record will drive people away in droves. Unless, Tivo makes a major paradigm shift towards increase the function of the device instead of increasing revenue through partners by sacrificing user freedom.
First off I'm voting for Kerry, but the idea that new legislation is going curb the tax advantages of outsourcing is ludicrous. So lets say Kerry does pass such a bill, what will happen? Large companies will simple open up offshore subsiaries to skirt the law, similiar to what Haliburton did under the leadership of Dick Cheney, by having a Caymen islands phantom corporation in order to business with nations like Iran.
Get nearly as much press as the VT cluster, since it doesn't run on Apple hardware. Will Wired (aka Apple Corporate PR Monthly) even bother writing about it?
Can anyone tell me if this will come with an imap/s client? I would have purchased the 600 when it came out but I refuse to pay $60 for an e-mail client on my palm. When I buy a $500+ phone I expect to be able to check my e-mail securely.
- Is there a campuswide network?: yes
- Is there a wireless network?: yes
- Can students access e-mail away from school?: yes
- Does the school provide Web pages?: yes
- Does the school offer classes online?:
- Can students register online?: yes
- Can students do other administrative functions online?: yes
- Are students required to own a computer?: No, thats what labs are for!
- :Can students get discounted computers? yes
- Does the school support handheld computers? yes
- Does the school stream audio or video of any courses?: yes
- Is network access available in dorm rooms?: yes
- Is network access available in dormitory lounges?: yes
- Is a computer ethics policy in place for the school?: yes
- :Do students have access to Usenet newsgroups?: yes
- Does tuition include a computer?: No, thats what labs are for!
- Does the school provide multimedia equipment?: yes
- Does the school offer courses in emerging technologies?: yes
- Does the school stream its campus radio or TV stations?: yes
Looks like they didn't even bother doing the minimal amount of research.Any more, most of the PDA's I see people carrying are also cell phones. I see a lot of people carrying Blackberries, Treos, and PocketPCs with phone capability. What is the advantage of carrying two different devices? From what I can tell the sharp line offered no phone capabilities and the wifi option drained way too much power to make it practical.
While a 12 ibook was considered small 3 years ago, there are a lot better options when considering a portable laptop. The IBM x40, Fujitsu P series, or the Sony Picturebook are just a few examples.
In the mid late 90's when everyone was going to use the netscape web browser and Sun's java to run all their applications from applets on thin-client sun terminals. Oh, and all your news would come from "Push" technology like Pointcast.
10-15 years ago, the cards were a trial new technology that offered consumers a discount. Now, you can't get a decent price at a grocery store without using a discount card. The "discount price" is actually the market price while the non-discount price is just a tax on people who don't adopt. What happens if this technology is adopted in the same manner? The only way you can get a decent price for auto insurance is by having a tracking device attached to your vehicle!
Something like a trial for this tracking technology may seem benign at first, but the potential consequences could be frightening. The worse case scenario would be that governments decide to make these devices mandatory.
Now for other sites, I would probably avoid depending on the amount and quality of content. I would certainly not waste the time to register for my local paper's website or something of similar value to me. If you don't think getting access to the nytimes for free is not worth the "hassle" of registering, boycott the nytimes. Otherwise, don't complain.