I'm not sure, but aren't the redundancy features of the Internet and web sites totally unrelated? Redundancy helps if a node in between the departure and destination nodes goes down. But a web site is often a destination node.
It's not like my email goes through Yahoo.com as a node on its way to being delivered. Yahoo is an endpoint, not a pathway.
Free-range search, comics copyrights... this doesn't seem to mix.
Unless we're talking only indy artists (I doubt United Features Syndicate would want Peanuts strips easily travelling, and then being searched, on the web).
Unless, of course, you are like myself and think George Lucas is the biggest candy stealer from young children in the history of modern cinema. In that case you don't give two shits on a monkey's ass that a new Star Wars movie is going to come out.
Wireless, wireless, wireless. The latest hubs are painfully easy to install (check out 3Com's HomeConnect section) offer decent bandwidth at 11 Mbps (more than enough to handle any current broadband connection) and best of all: no tearing up walls!
I got a TrueMobile (Lucent) as a gift to myself with my new laptop and I couldn't be happier. I could go from the kitchen to the bedroom to even the bathroom, always getting a crisp cable modem connection. I have since sold the TrueMobile for the 3Com, but the outcome is the same: once you go wireless you never go back. (Plus, upgrading will be a hell of a lot easier down the road.)
I still don't agree with Apple's response to the issue. Clearly, the RAM was in perfect working order -- it worked fine in OS 9 for over a year. It almost seemed (to me anyway) that they were trying to find yet another reason to sell hardware out of house.
Given their past history with 3rd-party hardware providers (a majority of my 3rd-party Mac hardware required updates not included in Mac OS X) this isn't totally unprecedented. I just know that a majority of my hardware drivers loaded correctly on my old box when I installed Windows 2000 -- Mac OS X maimed several of my pieces of hardware, and completely killed others (like my external floppy drive). Sorry, but that's unacceptable.
If they want the monopoly on hardware they should just say it.
Worse yet, I got a rude awakening when I turned the family's iMac on this morning. OS X was chugging along and reported 32 MB of RAM, instead of the 160 MB that's in the machine.
The culprit, of course, is the new firmware update Apple unceremoniously dropped onto Mac owners, the one that makes RAM that doesn't adhere to their "stability standards" appear unreadable. I purposely decided not to install the firmware update but, surprise, surprise, Mac OS X decided to install it in an automatic software upgrade. Great feature, but losing my RAM in the middle of the night was not something I bargained for.
Fortunately I read up online how to reverse the "upgrade", but Mac-users beware. This was just about the last straw before I suggested trashing this machine and getting a 3rd PC running Win2K/Redhat 7. (Mac owners, for more information you should read this document).
Yahoo is shifting their FinanceVision service to pay. Smart move. Hit the people with the deep pockets.
Personally, I don't think things like free email are ever going to become non-free. Services like Hotmail may begin to limit usage (You have to log in every 60 days now for the account to stay active. Maybe it'll go to 30 days?)
One service that still exists, and I can't understand how it's survived, is TellMe. The 1-800-555-Tell service that's like an uber version of Yahoo's. It's been completely free for a while now, and as far as I know the only company that's been advertising on it is AT&T (probably to lower their phone bill costs). I actually use the service pretty often when I'm away from the computer (check up on New Jersey Devils scores and the weather), but for how much longer? How are they making any money?
Chalk Keen.com up there. Are these people even thinking about the net and net mentality before they go out for venture capital? I'm going to call some total stranger, across country, and pay him for lackluster advice (when I can get better online advice for free)?
And they already wasted a good part of their budget on their TV ads decrying (what else in irony?) TV's. "People stop watching TV when they're on Keen.com." Which makes NO sense at all. Why would the TV be complaining? They should have some guy holding up man pages in pain.
Does KOffice save to Word files? Can it open Word files? I haven't gotten a chance to play with it and would like to use it for my normal.doc files.
Also, anyone have a distro of Linux that installs KDE2 and its associated applications correctly on a laptop with the ATI Rage Mobility chipset? The best I could get is KDE 1 compatibility with RedHat 7.0.
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I bought Tribes 2 for Windows already...
It's not like my email goes through Yahoo.com as a node on its way to being delivered. Yahoo is an endpoint, not a pathway.
Now I can play DVD's on a notebook. Wait, I've been able to do that on my Windows 2000 notebook for a year now...
Unless we're talking only indy artists (I doubt United Features Syndicate would want Peanuts strips easily travelling, and then being searched, on the web).
Unless, of course, you are like myself and think George Lucas is the biggest candy stealer from young children in the history of modern cinema. In that case you don't give two shits on a monkey's ass that a new Star Wars movie is going to come out.
Every other upgrade I've bought from them has worked beautifully, on multiple PC's. Only the Mac coughed up an error.
I got a TrueMobile (Lucent) as a gift to myself with my new laptop and I couldn't be happier. I could go from the kitchen to the bedroom to even the bathroom, always getting a crisp cable modem connection. I have since sold the TrueMobile for the 3Com, but the outcome is the same: once you go wireless you never go back. (Plus, upgrading will be a hell of a lot easier down the road.)
Given their past history with 3rd-party hardware providers (a majority of my 3rd-party Mac hardware required updates not included in Mac OS X) this isn't totally unprecedented. I just know that a majority of my hardware drivers loaded correctly on my old box when I installed Windows 2000 -- Mac OS X maimed several of my pieces of hardware, and completely killed others (like my external floppy drive). Sorry, but that's unacceptable.
If they want the monopoly on hardware they should just say it.
The culprit, of course, is the new firmware update Apple unceremoniously dropped onto Mac owners, the one that makes RAM that doesn't adhere to their "stability standards" appear unreadable. I purposely decided not to install the firmware update but, surprise, surprise, Mac OS X decided to install it in an automatic software upgrade. Great feature, but losing my RAM in the middle of the night was not something I bargained for.
Fortunately I read up online how to reverse the "upgrade", but Mac-users beware. This was just about the last straw before I suggested trashing this machine and getting a 3rd PC running Win2K/Redhat 7. (Mac owners, for more information you should read this document).
Personally, I don't think things like free email are ever going to become non-free. Services like Hotmail may begin to limit usage (You have to log in every 60 days now for the account to stay active. Maybe it'll go to 30 days?)
One service that still exists, and I can't understand how it's survived, is TellMe. The 1-800-555-Tell service that's like an uber version of Yahoo's. It's been completely free for a while now, and as far as I know the only company that's been advertising on it is AT&T (probably to lower their phone bill costs). I actually use the service pretty often when I'm away from the computer (check up on New Jersey Devils scores and the weather), but for how much longer? How are they making any money?
Sorry, I meant the bug debacle. Although weren't most of the bugs security-related?
My only concern: will security be tighter after the 7.0 debacle?
But what about those of us who just want to run it on the original WinCE?
hahahahaha... ha.... *belabored, nervous laugh* ha... uh, ahem.
Oh, I almost did skip this story over. Oh, it's about open source garbage software? I'm definitely skipping it over.
That was almost funny.
What's the secret to getting good PR? I don't know. Getting posted on Slashdot for free might work...
Actually, it's more like for every 100 dot-bombs there is 1 dot-fortune. Hell, even Amazon is still in the red.
Oh yeah, that one absolutely rocked. Would have loved if they were real teens though.
And they already wasted a good part of their budget on their TV ads decrying (what else in irony?) TV's. "People stop watching TV when they're on Keen.com." Which makes NO sense at all. Why would the TV be complaining? They should have some guy holding up man pages in pain.
"You mean the f**king paper clip? That was the most annoying thing since Microsoft Bob!"
It's nice to see that they have a little tongue in cheek (also, the reference to "developing his dot-net strategy" was clever).
The Flash animations are hysterical though. "Oh you mean that fucking paper clip?" "That was the most annoying thing since Microsoft Bob". hehe
Also, anyone have a distro of Linux that installs KDE2 and its associated applications correctly on a laptop with the ATI Rage Mobility chipset? The best I could get is KDE 1 compatibility with RedHat 7.0.
It's a troll. Why do all the GNU programs have to begin with a G? Gnome, Gnutella, Gunzip...
If it's Microsoft this isn't even a valid argument. They're not going under anytime soon, and they are the ones leading the push.