I have cable internet. I turned off the video, turned in the box, and put an antenna in my attic pointed at the HD towers.
I get great picture, never have to hear my wife say "we pay for this?!" or care about how many channels are showing variants of "Law and Order."
Of course, when they do actually do the transition, the bastards are changing the frequencies they broadcast on, so instead of being all UHF, they'll be back in VHF as well. I'll need to get another antenna, and rescan for channels.
Why they couldn't just stick with the mapping of 59.xx to 5-1 which has worked well for the past few years, I do not know.
Example, or not, they wrote an application to the API and worked with Google to perfect the application. The Apple-proclaimed reasoning was that doing so allows them to give the user greater control than is possible through the web interface alone.
My experience with the application on the phone bears that out. When you step through the travel instructions, the map zooms out and in as needed (it just seems to get the level of zoom correct at each step without my need to pinch-zoom to adjust it), and it gracefully slides the map around at the same time.
Switching to the list view and back to map didn't require any hit on the edge network, it cached the whole thing first. In a browser, it would hit up the network again.
So I find Apple's claims to be sound, that it needed to be a separate application to deliver the experience.
I expect that Google and Apple will work together when the API for maps changes to avoid breaking it.
I want to snap a picture of a business card and have it OCR'd and added as a vcard in my phone's phonebook, and when it syncs with the computer, it will be in Address Book. I can discard the stacks of business cards and not carry a goofy card scanner to conventions.
I want to be able to photograph receipts and OCR them, have them compile into an expense report and email them, so that I don't have to fool with losing a receipt or leaving it off a report.
Sure, I have manual ways of addressing both problems currently, but devices are meant to make my life easier and geekier. A 2 megapixel camera is sufficient for OCR. These things should be possible.
Bellsouth is now blocking all port 25 traffic, whether or not they sell the customer a static IP.
I had a mail server running on static IP for over a year and they've just blocked it as of last night- Their third tier support claimed that it was because they were being threatened with being blocked by other ISPs.
Get two 12/600 or 12/660 Apple color laserwriters from ebay or usenet. Prices will range from 50-200. Combine parts from the two to make a working printer.
Advantage? It's a postscript color laser with ethernet/tcp-ip so drivers for nearly any OS will not be a problem. Granted, it won't be a photo printer, but for most things it will work quite nicely.
This doesn't really fix the problems here, it's a band-aid on a gaping wound.
This is a nice idea, and one way to approach things. I'm just not positive that it's effective.
The RIAA won against Verizon in court, and can now request IP addys, logs, and user contact info. So, this doesn't really slow them in that sense.
Additionally, what's to stop the RIAA from getting a bunch of DHCP home accounts under a subsidiary's name instead of their own? The possibilities for playing catch up here to add more IP ranges are endless.
This is a neat little effort, but doesn't fix the greater problem of balance in copyright law/infringement/fair-use.
It's the proverbial finger in the hole in the dam.
the ultraTEK/*TEK etc. do work. You install it, you install the bios for it found at macsales.com, and it works. Takes all of one minute. Works in OS 9 and OS X.
CDBaby is fine and well for the listener, but it sucks for the artist-
The artist has to invest in a huge amount of CD manufacturing to send off to CDBaby in the hopes that they'll sell.
At LuluMUSIC the artist uploads their work for free, sets the royalty and price they want to recieve, and are done. No upfront costs to them, and they have control over pricing and licensing. Want to use the Founder's Copyright instead of the traditional current copyright? Go right ahead.
So, Apple is going to get indie labels. Good for them. Matador and SubPop are relatively large anyway, and they don't do much to help the artist financially.
emusic is fine and well, presuming you can bet they have enough music you'll like to justify a subscription. Most folks can't.
Lulu.com started by Bob Young formerly of RedHat actually empowers the artist. The artist gets to decide what distribution format to sell in, set their own price, and set their own royalty. The artist also gets to decide if they want to use the Founder's Copyright or any other license instead of traditional copyright.
It's putting the artist back in control of their work, something Apple hasn't considered. Apple just does the same thing as Sam Goody's or Tower, only over the internet. Big deal. The only nice thing they've got with it is the iTunes integration.
re-posted because I missed catching URL errors in preview. DOH.
Collaboration is a good thing. It's the foundation of things like the Free Software movement, and Open Source movement. It's how performers make good music.
Arguably, it also produces a lot of trash, but hey, there's a market for that, too.
The interesting thing here is that O'Reilly is taking this up with Gillmor. Not everyone can get published by O'Reilly, so what's a regular guy to do?
Use Lulu.com, a new site founded by Bob Young, formerly of RedHat. You register as an author, and your collaborators register as an author, and you can all submit chapters to each other's books for collaboration. Then you can set price for online, print, or cd distribution, collecting an 80% royalty. No other publishing deal I know of sets an 80% royalty to the author.
Or choose no royalty and set the price for online distribution to free. Books can be published under any license you like, just place the copyright page with the license you like in the book when you upload it.
Collaboration is a good thing. It's the foundation of things like the Free Software movement, and Open Source movement. It's how performers make good music.
Arguably, it also produces a lot of trash, but hey, there's a market for that, too.
The interesting thing here is that O'Reilly is taking this up with Gillmor. Not everyone can get published by O'Reilly, so what's a regular guy to do? Use Lulu.com, a new site founded by Bob Young, formerly of RedHat. You register as an author, and your collaborators register as an author, and you can all submit chapters to each other's books for collaboration. Then you can set price for online, print, or cd distribution, collecting an 80% royalty. No other publishing deal I know of sets an 80% royalty to the author.
Or choose no royalty and set the price for online distribution to free. Books can be published under any license you like, just place the copyright page with the license you like in the book when you upload it.
Ok, I see the Kramer Ripley with pan pots, which is news to me- but did EVH actually ever use one? My inclination is to think, no he didn't.
Man, would I like to get ahold of the pickup they used in that thing- actually, the pickup probably sounds like crud, but the notion of six outputs is still pretty cool.
Van Halen guitars are always an interesting topic- He built a number of different strat style Frankensteins- the first was a 1961 Fender Strat that he hacked up. The others were Charvels. He took Gibson PAFs and DiMarzios, rewound them, and potted them with surfboard wax.
He really only used one pickup and one volume pot in the guitar, but when people started wanting to emulate his playing style and sound, he loaded guitars up with extra pots and pickups that weren't even connected electrically, just to confuse the public.
Of course, I may be forgetting the particular guitar you're mentioning in which case, I need to check that out.
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I can't see that old press release, but I do know that the 802.11g standard has not been ratified at this time. There have been several drafts and balloting, and now it's in the approval stage.
Most of the implementations out there are based on the 5th draft of the standard.
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Shimon Peres' son is the owner of iDigital, the authorized reseller/importer.
You'd think the son of a former Prime Minister might be able to make a few phone calls, wouldn't you?
I use OTA.
I have cable internet. I turned off the video, turned in the box, and put an antenna in my attic pointed at the HD towers.
I get great picture, never have to hear my wife say "we pay for this?!" or care about how many channels are showing variants of "Law and Order."
Of course, when they do actually do the transition, the bastards are changing the frequencies they broadcast on, so instead of being all UHF, they'll be back in VHF as well. I'll need to get another antenna, and rescan for channels.
Why they couldn't just stick with the mapping of 59.xx to 5-1 which has worked well for the past few years, I do not know.
Example, or not, they wrote an application to the API and worked with Google to perfect the application. The Apple-proclaimed reasoning was that doing so allows them to give the user greater control than is possible through the web interface alone.
My experience with the application on the phone bears that out. When you step through the travel instructions, the map zooms out and in as needed (it just seems to get the level of zoom correct at each step without my need to pinch-zoom to adjust it), and it gracefully slides the map around at the same time.
Switching to the list view and back to map didn't require any hit on the edge network, it cached the whole thing first. In a browser, it would hit up the network again.
So I find Apple's claims to be sound, that it needed to be a separate application to deliver the experience.
I expect that Google and Apple will work together when the API for maps changes to avoid breaking it.
I know why I want OCR on the phone.
I want to snap a picture of a business card and have it OCR'd and added as a vcard in my phone's phonebook, and when it syncs with the computer, it will be in Address Book. I can discard the stacks of business cards and not carry a goofy card scanner to conventions.
I want to be able to photograph receipts and OCR them, have them compile into an expense report and email them, so that I don't have to fool with losing a receipt or leaving it off a report.
Sure, I have manual ways of addressing both problems currently, but devices are meant to make my life easier and geekier. A 2 megapixel camera is sufficient for OCR. These things should be possible.
In WWII, soldiers grew attached to their Jeeps, and anthropomorphised them as well.
This is nothing new.
Some of us have old accounts, but mostly read not-logged in anyway. I haven't logged in except to submit a story in....
ages.
It might even be since 2001 that I haven't bothered to log in.
Bellsouth is now blocking all port 25 traffic, whether or not they sell the customer a static IP.
I had a mail server running on static IP for over a year and they've just blocked it as of last night- Their third tier support claimed that it was because they were being threatened with being blocked by other ISPs.
actually, the lenses are compatible with the new digital pentax SLR body.
So start out with film, graduate to digital and take the lenses with you from one to the other.
Which was inspired by the seamless functionality of AppleTalk, an Apple invention.
ZeroConf is not revolutionary, it's evolutionary. But then, most ideas have to come from somewhere.
Get two 12/600 or 12/660 Apple color laserwriters from ebay or usenet. Prices will range from 50-200. Combine parts from the two to make a working printer.
Advantage? It's a postscript color laser with ethernet/tcp-ip so drivers for nearly any OS will not be a problem. Granted, it won't be a photo printer, but for most things it will work quite nicely.
This is a nice idea, and one way to approach things. I'm just not positive that it's effective.
The RIAA won against Verizon in court, and can now request IP addys, logs, and user contact info. So, this doesn't really slow them in that sense.
Additionally, what's to stop the RIAA from getting a bunch of DHCP home accounts under a subsidiary's name instead of their own? The possibilities for playing catch up here to add more IP ranges are endless.
This is a neat little effort, but doesn't fix the greater problem of balance in copyright law/infringement/fair-use.
It's the proverbial finger in the hole in the dam.
Lulu.com- publish your stuff! Creative commons compliant.
ATA Cards: YES.
the ultraTEK/*TEK etc. do work. You install it, you install the bios for it found at macsales.com, and it works. Takes all of one minute. Works in OS 9 and OS X.
The artist has to invest in a huge amount of CD manufacturing to send off to CDBaby in the hopes that they'll sell.
At LuluMUSIC the artist uploads their work for free, sets the royalty and price they want to recieve, and are done. No upfront costs to them, and they have control over pricing and licensing. Want to use the Founder's Copyright instead of the traditional current copyright? Go right ahead.
It isn't a choice for the artists. It's a choice for the labels. the artist has nearly no say in the matter.
In fact, it appears that Apple doesn't wish to talk to indie artists at all, just indie labels- and only the bigger ones of those.
"Meet the new boss- same as the old boss."
So, Apple is going to get indie labels. Good for them. Matador and SubPop are relatively large anyway, and they don't do much to help the artist financially.
emusic is fine and well, presuming you can bet they have enough music you'll like to justify a subscription. Most folks can't.
Lulu.com started by Bob Young formerly of RedHat actually empowers the artist. The artist gets to decide what distribution format to sell in, set their own price, and set their own royalty. The artist also gets to decide if they want to use the Founder's Copyright or any other license instead of traditional copyright.
It's putting the artist back in control of their work, something Apple hasn't considered. Apple just does the same thing as Sam Goody's or Tower, only over the internet. Big deal. The only nice thing they've got with it is the iTunes integration.
NPR stood up and said that we don't need Low Power FM- all the community and public radio we need should be provided by them.
The functional reason is that this is how the iPod knows artist, album, and genre name.
Hey, I chose no karma bonus when I posted. I wasn't asking to get modded up on the second one, I just wanted to get the links right.
Collaboration is a good thing. It's the foundation of things like the Free Software movement, and Open Source movement. It's how performers make good music.
Arguably, it also produces a lot of trash, but hey, there's a market for that, too.
The interesting thing here is that O'Reilly is taking this up with Gillmor. Not everyone can get published by O'Reilly, so what's a regular guy to do?
Use Lulu.com, a new site founded by Bob Young, formerly of RedHat. You register as an author, and your collaborators register as an author, and you can all submit chapters to each other's books for collaboration. Then you can set price for online, print, or cd distribution, collecting an 80% royalty. No other publishing deal I know of sets an 80% royalty to the author.
Or choose no royalty and set the price for online distribution to free. Books can be published under any license you like, just place the copyright page with the license you like in the book when you upload it.
LULU.COM
Arguably, it also produces a lot of trash, but hey, there's a market for that, too.
The interesting thing here is that O'Reilly is taking this up with Gillmor. Not everyone can get published by O'Reilly, so what's a regular guy to do? Use Lulu.com, a new site founded by Bob Young, formerly of RedHat. You register as an author, and your collaborators register as an author, and you can all submit chapters to each other's books for collaboration. Then you can set price for online, print, or cd distribution, collecting an 80% royalty. No other publishing deal I know of sets an 80% royalty to the author.
Or choose no royalty and set the price for online distribution to free. Books can be published under any license you like, just place the copyright page with the license you like in the book when you upload it.
Ok, I see the Kramer Ripley with pan pots, which is news to me- but did EVH actually ever use one? My inclination is to think, no he didn't.
Man, would I like to get ahold of the pickup they used in that thing- actually, the pickup probably sounds like crud, but the notion of six outputs is still pretty cool.
Van Halen guitars are always an interesting topic- He built a number of different strat style Frankensteins- the first was a 1961 Fender Strat that he hacked up. The others were Charvels. He took Gibson PAFs and DiMarzios, rewound them, and potted them with surfboard wax.
He really only used one pickup and one volume pot in the guitar, but when people started wanting to emulate his playing style and sound, he loaded guitars up with extra pots and pickups that weren't even connected electrically, just to confuse the public.
Of course, I may be forgetting the particular guitar you're mentioning in which case, I need to check that out.
And Roland has staked out the idea of individual string pickups with the V guitar pickup.
But the six individual pickups predate the MIDI era.
I have one of these http://www.si.edu/lemelson/guitars/noframes/de08.
Most of the implementations out there are based on the 5th draft of the standard.
Here's the standards process-at-a-glance: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/glance.html