If you're in a place with too much WiFi noise, try using the Japanese-only channel 14 - it doesn't overlap with any other channels, and you're pretty much guaranteed to be the only person using it. DD-WRT and other alternative firmwares will broadcast on 14, and Windows just requires a simple registry hack to receive on 14. Macs, I believe, can connect without hassle. It's technically illegal, but the likelihood of being caught is pretty much nil. I've still never found an explanation for what this frequency is used for in the US, if anything.
Just because Apple's first attempt to license the OS was unsuccessful doesn't mean that it can't work now, if it were executed properly. Now that Macintoshes run on normal PC hardware, Apple could just expand the range of supported chipsets/hardware and certify systems from major OEMs to be MacOS compatible. The hackintosh community has already done a great deal of work in supporting regular hardware - if you buy the correct parts and download one of the easy-to-install MacOS distros, there's almost zero tinkering to be done. If the hobbyists can make that much progress, Apple could obviously do a much better job. If they could seriously challenge Windows with a strategy like this, I think it could be far more lucrative than the hardware profits they reap from their 10% marketshare.
Wow, how did this get modded up to 5? The WRT54GL is intended for the hacker-hobbyist, but ships with standard Linksys firmware just link the rest of their routers.
I received my coupon and was prepared to buy a receiver, then I found the antennaweb.org signal tool. It turns out that I, like most people, am not capable of receiving digital TV without a rooftop antenna. Since digital is all-or-nothing reception, you're just left with nothing. I guess I'll be watching absolutely everything on xvid now.
Um, so what did you buy? I've wanted to make a similar purchase, but was having a hard time even finding something matching the description aside from really expensive Cisco gear.
My father was in advertising, and he always spoke, as if it were a rule, that you NEVER respond to criticism in an advertisement, only assert your strengths. The fact that Microsoft feels cornered like this speaks volumes. While they're still the 800lb gorilla, they perceive Apple as a real threat now.
I was once a patient of a certain Dr. Skank. Apparently it's a proud Norwegian(?) name that his father refused to let him change. I felt so juvenile, but it cracked me up every time.
You always hear the Verizon story, but I have to wonder if Apple was only talking to them as a ploy, always intending to end up with AT&T. Apple would have been required to have a domestic CDMA model a GSM iPhone for the rest of the world, which doesn't strike me as something Apple would do.
I think the real reason for the rise of SUVs is that people felt old and lame driving minivans. Getting a big SUV with a bull bar made them feel like some kind of rugged adventurer instead of an emasculated suburban brood slave.
Back when people were starting to drive them for the first time, it was bizarre to hear them gleefully talk about how people "got out of their way" when they were driving them. And it's true, people love(d) to drive them like assholes. Of course, I always try to box aggressive drivers in rather than let them by.
Except Demonoid wasn't really private. Torrents less than two weeks old could be downloaded by anybody, but ones older than that required registration. If you got that torrent from a torrent search engine, you never had to register at all, as the tracker itself wasn't private. Third party indexing of their older torrents was kind of spotty, so it helped to have an account, but it was never a real deterrent to leeching.
Given that Apple seems to have sold a huge number of iPhones to people other than American AT&T customers, I don't think it's a coincidence that Apple has released four firmware revisions now and still haven't managed to lock it down. Once June arrives and it's confirmed that the iPhone can still be unlocked, I'll happily buy one and use it on T-Mobile, as I have no interest in switching to AT&T.
Microsoft got in trouble for leveraging their OS monopoly to squash Netscape, and Apple has no such monopoly to leverage. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with limiting what applications can run on your device, nor is there anything wrong with integrating a browser, but there are some behaviors that monopolies cannot engage in that a smaller company can.
You bought an Apple device, you couldn't have been expecting open-ness.
My friend has gotten his cable internet shut off a multitude of times because he can't seem to remember to stop seeding torrents. Each time, he calls up the cable co, gives them some excuse about how it was someone other than him, and swears it'll never happen again. Each time, they warn him about their "three strikes" policy, but he's on at least his sixth strike. Delightfully toothless.
From Beta to MiniDisc to Memory Stick, Sony never successfully pushes a format on the market. I can only conclude that BluRay will be supplanted by an as-of-yet-unrevealed third technology. My fragile worldview cannot accept any other alternatives.
Was this for attention? Was this really what he believed? I'm not sure what personally made him feel this way
Acute mental illness. For some reason, many people with paranoid schizophrenia find an outlet in antisemitism, like John Nash of A Beautiful Mind fame. I think the harshness of Fischer's comments should be tempered with consideration of the fact that he just wasn't well in the head. This is not a courtesy I extend to Mel Gibson.
As one of those 5% people, if they roll this out in my area, I'll become a DSL subscriber!
I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't exactly what the cable companies want. 5% of their customer base leaves, and the money they lose is more than offset by the infrastructure that they don't have to upgrade. PROFIT!
Likely? I do my fair share of drinking, and have never encountered an ID scanner outside of a convenience store, and I believe that they only read the magstrip and not the bar code. Unless these things are legally mandated, I can't imagine why a bar or restaurant would use one of these devices.
While the prospect of a nuclear Iran seems disquieting on the surface, I have to wonder if that's really the case. The only time nuclear weaponry has ever been used was at a time when only one power possessed the technology. Mutually assured destruction is a very powerful deterrent. Sure, you can find a few extremist crazies willing to give up their lives, but getting an entire nation to suicide bomb is a harder prospect.
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If you're in a place with too much WiFi noise, try using the Japanese-only channel 14 - it doesn't overlap with any other channels, and you're pretty much guaranteed to be the only person using it. DD-WRT and other alternative firmwares will broadcast on 14, and Windows just requires a simple registry hack to receive on 14. Macs, I believe, can connect without hassle. It's technically illegal, but the likelihood of being caught is pretty much nil. I've still never found an explanation for what this frequency is used for in the US, if anything.
Transitioning to LTE is going to take quite a while. Verizon is going to be depending on CDMA for many years to come.
Just because Apple's first attempt to license the OS was unsuccessful doesn't mean that it can't work now, if it were executed properly. Now that Macintoshes run on normal PC hardware, Apple could just expand the range of supported chipsets/hardware and certify systems from major OEMs to be MacOS compatible. The hackintosh community has already done a great deal of work in supporting regular hardware - if you buy the correct parts and download one of the easy-to-install MacOS distros, there's almost zero tinkering to be done. If the hobbyists can make that much progress, Apple could obviously do a much better job. If they could seriously challenge Windows with a strategy like this, I think it could be far more lucrative than the hardware profits they reap from their 10% marketshare.
Wow, how did this get modded up to 5? The WRT54GL is intended for the hacker-hobbyist, but ships with standard Linksys firmware just link the rest of their routers.
I received my coupon and was prepared to buy a receiver, then I found the antennaweb.org signal tool. It turns out that I, like most people, am not capable of receiving digital TV without a rooftop antenna. Since digital is all-or-nothing reception, you're just left with nothing. I guess I'll be watching absolutely everything on xvid now.
Except, of course, for the Antec EarthWatts. And the TruePower series. Both of which are... made by Seasonic.
I found a screenshot of the new release - looks awesome!
Um, so what did you buy? I've wanted to make a similar purchase, but was having a hard time even finding something matching the description aside from really expensive Cisco gear.
Yes, if only we'd had a computer to tell us that creating money out of thin air has negative economic consequences.
My father was in advertising, and he always spoke, as if it were a rule, that you NEVER respond to criticism in an advertisement, only assert your strengths. The fact that Microsoft feels cornered like this speaks volumes. While they're still the 800lb gorilla, they perceive Apple as a real threat now.
I was once a patient of a certain Dr. Skank. Apparently it's a proud Norwegian(?) name that his father refused to let him change. I felt so juvenile, but it cracked me up every time.
You always hear the Verizon story, but I have to wonder if Apple was only talking to them as a ploy, always intending to end up with AT&T. Apple would have been required to have a domestic CDMA model a GSM iPhone for the rest of the world, which doesn't strike me as something Apple would do.
Back when people were starting to drive them for the first time, it was bizarre to hear them gleefully talk about how people "got out of their way" when they were driving them. And it's true, people love(d) to drive them like assholes. Of course, I always try to box aggressive drivers in rather than let them by.
Serious question - where else could they have been made? Every motherboard I've handled has been made in Taiwan/China.
Except Demonoid wasn't really private. Torrents less than two weeks old could be downloaded by anybody, but ones older than that required registration. If you got that torrent from a torrent search engine, you never had to register at all, as the tracker itself wasn't private. Third party indexing of their older torrents was kind of spotty, so it helped to have an account, but it was never a real deterrent to leeching.
Given that Apple seems to have sold a huge number of iPhones to people other than American AT&T customers, I don't think it's a coincidence that Apple has released four firmware revisions now and still haven't managed to lock it down. Once June arrives and it's confirmed that the iPhone can still be unlocked, I'll happily buy one and use it on T-Mobile, as I have no interest in switching to AT&T.
Microsoft got in trouble for leveraging their OS monopoly to squash Netscape, and Apple has no such monopoly to leverage. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with limiting what applications can run on your device, nor is there anything wrong with integrating a browser, but there are some behaviors that monopolies cannot engage in that a smaller company can.
You bought an Apple device, you couldn't have been expecting open-ness.
Would you rather our youth learn about cameltoe on the streets?
My friend has gotten his cable internet shut off a multitude of times because he can't seem to remember to stop seeding torrents. Each time, he calls up the cable co, gives them some excuse about how it was someone other than him, and swears it'll never happen again. Each time, they warn him about their "three strikes" policy, but he's on at least his sixth strike. Delightfully toothless.
From Beta to MiniDisc to Memory Stick, Sony never successfully pushes a format on the market. I can only conclude that BluRay will be supplanted by an as-of-yet-unrevealed third technology. My fragile worldview cannot accept any other alternatives.
Was this for attention? Was this really what he believed? I'm not sure what personally made him feel this way
Acute mental illness. For some reason, many people with paranoid schizophrenia find an outlet in antisemitism, like John Nash of A Beautiful Mind fame. I think the harshness of Fischer's comments should be tempered with consideration of the fact that he just wasn't well in the head. This is not a courtesy I extend to Mel Gibson.
As one of those 5% people, if they roll this out in my area, I'll become a DSL subscriber!
I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't exactly what the cable companies want. 5% of their customer base leaves, and the money they lose is more than offset by the infrastructure that they don't have to upgrade. PROFIT!
Likely? I do my fair share of drinking, and have never encountered an ID scanner outside of a convenience store, and I believe that they only read the magstrip and not the bar code. Unless these things are legally mandated, I can't imagine why a bar or restaurant would use one of these devices.
While the prospect of a nuclear Iran seems disquieting on the surface, I have to wonder if that's really the case. The only time nuclear weaponry has ever been used was at a time when only one power possessed the technology. Mutually assured destruction is a very powerful deterrent. Sure, you can find a few extremist crazies willing to give up their lives, but getting an entire nation to suicide bomb is a harder prospect.