I wasn't going to pimp my carrier but whatever. I pay $64 and change (including taxes etc) for my T-Mobile account, which includes all inclusive Blackberry service, unlimited email (through blackberry), unlimited text and unlimited (for me, its actually 1000) minutes which can be tethered to a laptop as well. I can also take my quadband curve to any of the carriers you listed. Plus T-Mobile chipped in for something like half the cost of my blackberry. Its a fucking fantastic deal.
Oh, and my phone works outside of major cities. I'll be month to month with T-Mobile in six months, I plan on upgrading to a Blackberry Bold via Ebay or similar so I can "can give them the finger and take my CDMA phone (which I *own* thank you very much) to any other CDMA ("3G") carrier I like: Sprint, AT&T, Cingular, &c.".
It's not a bad deal by any strech, plus I have fucking fantastic customer service, which is amazing. Infinitely better than Sprint's customer service.
Yes you have (typically) 30 days from when they change the TOS to terminate your contract at no charge. My friend and his GF both terminated their phone contracts to go with a third provider so they could talk to eachother for free based on the fact that they'd upped thier SMS fees three times in the last six months without giving them written notice. If you need to dump your provider jan-feb is the time to do it, which is when your TOS are usually changed. Only noobs pay early termination fees.
Not suprising. I got 5mb down when torrenting that film and I live less than a mile from that datacenter. I never get more than 3.8mb typically for steam downloads, let alone regular torrents (1-2mb). The dialog is awful btw
Lack of scalable volume/tracking sliders for a start. I haven't used it in a while (switched back to 0.8.6) but its a significantly worse GUI than what they had before. I mean, it WORKS, it's just not something you'd use when there are so many other free alternatives that are easier to USE.
Are you kidding? You have three ways to open; drag and drop support, apple+o and traditional pull down. Close is apple w or apple q depending on options.
THANK YOU. Somewhere along the line they borked up the GUI starting with anything after 0.8.6. The current GUI looks like it was designed by the MOSAIC team for compatibility with Win3.1
VLC peaked at version 0.8.6. This was the last version to use the "correct" user interface on windows. That version was a very easy to use interface that looked like it had been designed after 1995. The 0.9 and forward versions have a poorly designed interface that looks like they ripped off the Mosaic interface for Win 3.1
VLC has an amazing GUI (Especially at full-screen mode) for OSX, and the linux version isn't far behind. I don't see why VLC for WIN32 has to be so awful, considering that Win32 is by far their largest audience.
VLC hasnt added any significant functionality since 0.8.6 so while I'll check out recent releases, until they fix the awful interface that is on all the 0.9.x series, I'm sticking with that. Yes, I am aware that 0.9.x is skinnable, but there is no true "classic" skin for the 0.9.x series.
You have no idea how much I truly loathe being stuffed between the fat stinky guy and the window. By the time I make it through the "security checkpoint" in the airport I can hardly keep my tempter. Fortnuately the warm glow of a flat panel display connected to the inter-tubes cures my internet-partum anxiety. If I have to pay $290 instead of $240 for the plane ticket, I really don't give a damn; the $300 cost of going to the airport/travel expenses is already figured in to my travel budget anyways.
On a flight > 2 hours, I would buy a plane ticket from American for up to $50 more just for the privilege to surf the web during those two hours. There's only so much cached slashdot I can read before I want something live, or responding to emails while on the road, browsing forums, uploading photos or updating my personal website. After the $10 service charge, American has just gotten an extra $60 out of me on what's an essentially fixed cost flight for them.
There was a slashdot article two months ago about how ubuntu was moving away from the brown theme as standard to something a little more inviting. I pointed out that the blue theme was KDE: either I wasn't very clear or your reading comprehension is very low.
Sadly this is how it actually works in Texas. Maybe not at the local level, but state education contracts are deterimned by total discount as a percentage rather than total dollars saved. Educational contractors have evolved their pricing so that their actual asking cost is 50% (or so) of the MSRP in most cases. High dollar bidding is a bizzare art/dark magic and is completely void of any reason. Fortunately I don't work in state contracts so I'm not breaking any NDAs by saying this.
Hard to argue for free software when the buyer's bonuses are based on saving % off MSRP (as it is in government contract procurements). Also if a big name like IBM or Microsoft crashes and burns nobody points the finger at you because there's an entrenched certification system for the monkeys maintaining the damn thing.
Counter-Strike is one of the top 5 games played on any list avalible on the web. Even today. This is like saying the shooter had watched a drama DVD or listened to alternative music the day before. Statistically it's very likely.
10% of 14 million is still a sizable market share. There are countries all over the world that are smaller than that number that speak their own unique language. The netbook might not be most people's primary machine, but 1.4 million people who are now OK with using linux that would have blindly bought a windows PC before is a giant leap in terms of consumer penetration. 10% penetration is a number Apple's been clawing after for years.
I only heard of UT3 in a forum two months ago (January 2009!) when one guy pointed out that he built his "rig" for UT3 and then that died so he went to TF2 instead. My response was "buh?". If anyone does a halfway competent study on video game advertising, they should figure out who they advertised with and through what mediums, and completely avoid those, because they're obviously flawed and people with actual money to buy games clearly don't read those magazines/websites. Whoever had the advertising portfolio for UT3 completely dropped the ball. Hell, valve was advertising L4D in NYC subways and did wacky promotions like the L4D 4 pack and all that. Valve is like the southwest airlines of the video game developers.
Actually it's just an internet meme of what would have happened if one of the id developers for doom had gone rouge and blown his entire fortune making a terrible game and blogging about it in a creatively named website named afterhimself. Fortunately that has never happened so we can all safely assume something that awful has never, and will never happen. And if it did happen, we'd never speak of it. Because you were joking when you replied to that guy, right?
That's a definite possibility. Most headphones already have a bendy adapter like you speak of (for the first 1/4" or so), but it certainly couldn't hurt to try that. I think the biggest problem is stress on the cable by being pulled straight out due to being snagged, or the cable too tightly wrapped around the headset itself or similar. Adding an input jack as opposed by soldering the cable directly to the headset gives you a much easier repairable point of failure (just plug the cable back in, or buy a new cable) instead of praying that the solder keeps the cable in place. It seems silly to make a hardwired connection at what is essentially the only point of failure on a device. A 1/4" jack at radioshack costs less than $3.00, so in quantity the device only adds perhaps $0.50 to the cost of the device.
But then you lose the planned obsolescence of the device. Heaven forbid we don't have to replace our $40-80 headphones due to design flaws every 12 months.
Those don't even have an input jack, the cable is soldered to the headphones just like every other standard headphone. I'll check out those websites though, thanks.
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I wasn't going to pimp my carrier but whatever. I pay $64 and change (including taxes etc) for my T-Mobile account, which includes all inclusive Blackberry service, unlimited email (through blackberry), unlimited text and unlimited (for me, its actually 1000) minutes which can be tethered to a laptop as well. I can also take my quadband curve to any of the carriers you listed. Plus T-Mobile chipped in for something like half the cost of my blackberry. Its a fucking fantastic deal.
Oh, and my phone works outside of major cities. I'll be month to month with T-Mobile in six months, I plan on upgrading to a Blackberry Bold via Ebay or similar so I can "can give them the finger and take my CDMA phone (which I *own* thank you very much) to any other CDMA ("3G") carrier I like: Sprint, AT&T, Cingular, &c.".
It's not a bad deal by any strech, plus I have fucking fantastic customer service, which is amazing. Infinitely better than Sprint's customer service.
Yes you have (typically) 30 days from when they change the TOS to terminate your contract at no charge. My friend and his GF both terminated their phone contracts to go with a third provider so they could talk to eachother for free based on the fact that they'd upped thier SMS fees three times in the last six months without giving them written notice. If you need to dump your provider jan-feb is the time to do it, which is when your TOS are usually changed. Only noobs pay early termination fees.
Not suprising. I got 5mb down when torrenting that film and I live less than a mile from that datacenter. I never get more than 3.8mb typically for steam downloads, let alone regular torrents (1-2mb). The dialog is awful btw
Lack of scalable volume/tracking sliders for a start. I haven't used it in a while (switched back to 0.8.6) but its a significantly worse GUI than what they had before. I mean, it WORKS, it's just not something you'd use when there are so many other free alternatives that are easier to USE.
Are you kidding? You have three ways to open; drag and drop support, apple+o and traditional pull down. Close is apple w or apple q depending on options.
THANK YOU. Somewhere along the line they borked up the GUI starting with anything after 0.8.6. The current GUI looks like it was designed by the MOSAIC team for compatibility with Win3.1
VLC peaked at version 0.8.6. This was the last version to use the "correct" user interface on windows. That version was a very easy to use interface that looked like it had been designed after 1995. The 0.9 and forward versions have a poorly designed interface that looks like they ripped off the Mosaic interface for Win 3.1
VLC has an amazing GUI (Especially at full-screen mode) for OSX, and the linux version isn't far behind. I don't see why VLC for WIN32 has to be so awful, considering that Win32 is by far their largest audience.
VLC hasnt added any significant functionality since 0.8.6 so while I'll check out recent releases, until they fix the awful interface that is on all the 0.9.x series, I'm sticking with that. Yes, I am aware that 0.9.x is skinnable, but there is no true "classic" skin for the 0.9.x series.
You have no idea how much I truly loathe being stuffed between the fat stinky guy and the window. By the time I make it through the "security checkpoint" in the airport I can hardly keep my tempter. Fortnuately the warm glow of a flat panel display connected to the inter-tubes cures my internet-partum anxiety. If I have to pay $290 instead of $240 for the plane ticket, I really don't give a damn; the $300 cost of going to the airport/travel expenses is already figured in to my travel budget anyways.
On a flight > 2 hours, I would buy a plane ticket from American for up to $50 more just for the privilege to surf the web during those two hours. There's only so much cached slashdot I can read before I want something live, or responding to emails while on the road, browsing forums, uploading photos or updating my personal website. After the $10 service charge, American has just gotten an extra $60 out of me on what's an essentially fixed cost flight for them.
It's very functional, but something blue or green would have been a better choice IMO.
There was a slashdot article two months ago about how ubuntu was moving away from the brown theme as standard to something a little more inviting. I pointed out that the blue theme was KDE: either I wasn't very clear or your reading comprehension is very low.
I thought they "fixed" the brown desktop theme? There are blue desktop screenshots but that's for KDE or some such.
No offense, but try saying that outloud (youtube has this feature, why not slashdot?)And imagine a manager's resulting response.
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Sadly this is how it actually works in Texas. Maybe not at the local level, but state education contracts are deterimned by total discount as a percentage rather than total dollars saved. Educational contractors have evolved their pricing so that their actual asking cost is 50% (or so) of the MSRP in most cases. High dollar bidding is a bizzare art/dark magic and is completely void of any reason. Fortunately I don't work in state contracts so I'm not breaking any NDAs by saying this.
Hard to argue for free software when the buyer's bonuses are based on saving % off MSRP (as it is in government contract procurements). Also if a big name like IBM or Microsoft crashes and burns nobody points the finger at you because there's an entrenched certification system for the monkeys maintaining the damn thing.
Counter-Strike is one of the top 5 games played on any list avalible on the web. Even today. This is like saying the shooter had watched a drama DVD or listened to alternative music the day before. Statistically it's very likely.
10% of 14 million is still a sizable market share. There are countries all over the world that are smaller than that number that speak their own unique language. The netbook might not be most people's primary machine, but 1.4 million people who are now OK with using linux that would have blindly bought a windows PC before is a giant leap in terms of consumer penetration. 10% penetration is a number Apple's been clawing after for years .
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I only heard of UT3 in a forum two months ago (January 2009!) when one guy pointed out that he built his "rig" for UT3 and then that died so he went to TF2 instead. My response was "buh?". If anyone does a halfway competent study on video game advertising, they should figure out who they advertised with and through what mediums, and completely avoid those, because they're obviously flawed and people with actual money to buy games clearly don't read those magazines/websites. Whoever had the advertising portfolio for UT3 completely dropped the ball. Hell, valve was advertising L4D in NYC subways and did wacky promotions like the L4D 4 pack and all that. Valve is like the southwest airlines of the video game developers.
Actually it's just an internet meme of what would have happened if one of the id developers for doom had gone rouge and blown his entire fortune making a terrible game and blogging about it in a creatively named website named afterhimself. Fortunately that has never happened so we can all safely assume something that awful has never, and will never happen. And if it did happen, we'd never speak of it. Because you were joking when you replied to that guy, right?
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That's a definite possibility. Most headphones already have a bendy adapter like you speak of (for the first 1/4" or so), but it certainly couldn't hurt to try that. I think the biggest problem is stress on the cable by being pulled straight out due to being snagged, or the cable too tightly wrapped around the headset itself or similar. Adding an input jack as opposed by soldering the cable directly to the headset gives you a much easier repairable point of failure (just plug the cable back in, or buy a new cable) instead of praying that the solder keeps the cable in place. It seems silly to make a hardwired connection at what is essentially the only point of failure on a device. A 1/4" jack at radioshack costs less than $3.00, so in quantity the device only adds perhaps $0.50 to the cost of the device.
But then you lose the planned obsolescence of the device. Heaven forbid we don't have to replace our $40-80 headphones due to design flaws every 12 months.
Those don't even have an input jack, the cable is soldered to the headphones just like every other standard headphone. I'll check out those websites though, thanks.
Those cost twice as much as the 505s, and require an adapter
Interesting; I just wish they cost less than $180.00 (!)