Are there others like me that had problems with Bitorrent? With legit items, I'd rather just download it via FTP or something, and less than legit items, I just have better things to do with my time than wait.
I have T1 access and with many files, I get less than 8kB/s, despite having capacity to near 180kB/s, bidirectional. It all seemed kind of pointless to me, if I wanted near-modem speed I would have stuck with a modem.
which, incidentally, won't be due to the batteries.
Incidentally, does anyone have hard information on how many batteries failed prematurely? I believe that site and the people that made it blew things way out of proportion. A battery can die "prematurely" (in 18 months) if say the iPod was used every day and charged every night, because that's about 500 charges. There are limits to LiOn chemistry, batteries can only be charged so much. At least there are first and third party battery replacement programs, and at 500 charges, that's about twenty cents per charge, still not a bad deal given the number of hours of use it brings.
I'd say those users think little of their PCs. They look more like riced computers than anything else.:)
Before you flame, I'm not a Mac user or owner. But seriously, IMO, usually the thing that happens when people individualize their PC make it uglier or more contrived. Same goes for cars too, most of the time.
That is IMO a shit warranty and unacceptable. I don't care if Microsoft or whoever is losing money on a device, a 90 day warranty is no good.
I don't consider extended warranties to be acceptable either because the stores that try to sell them lie to get people to buy them and and use any trick they can to avoid paying a claim.
You are guessing XBox has a 1 year warranty? IMO, it should have a 1 year warranty, minimum, but a lot of consumer electronics only have a 90 day warranty, or 90 days labor, 1 year parts which is just as useless as often the cost of fixing the device is 80%+ of the street price of a new one.
I can't find info on Microsoft's site, but it looks like a 90 day warranty.
They are still in compliance with GPL. The GPL does not require that binaries be provided at no cost, and IIRC it does not require the distribution of source code to people that have not paid for it.
If the wording is too obtuse for a senator or congressman to understand easily, then they shouldn't be writing such obtuse shit, or they should go back and really graduate from whatever college they did or didn't go to.
I'm sorry, but the grandparent post showed something that the Secret Service would give you a very tough time before 9/11, PATRIOT, etc. The Secret Service is paid to not have a sense of humor, a joke is supposed to be taken seriously.
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
Thankfully, my precinct was still using the scan forms during the primaries. The nice thing is that if your vote is invalid, such as checking off contradictory votes, filling in a circle that doesn't mean anything and such, it spits it back out for you to get a new form.
I wonder what it would take to get a better electronic system. My guess is that as long as both parties think they can manipulate the system, there is no point to
From the looks of it, what you did was basically validate the slashdot 503 error page. The checkbox on "show error page" shows this. Click the "source" and you can see it is Slashdot's 503 error page.
All you are proving is that the error page validates. It says NOTHING about/.'s comment or front pages.
Slashdot still causes 100+ validation errors, even when forcing a certain standard. Slashcode still needs to fix that. Slashcode is open source. I thought open source was supposed to fix theings faster, or is that for security holes only?
The only red flag I see is the comment on warranties. There are NO closed source programs that provide a meaningful warranty anyway. They won't give you any money if your data disappears, even if they knew about the bug and could have fixed the bug a year ago.
Yahoo alread does a large part of what Google is doing. Google is hardly the only source of any particular service that I am aware of, and it isn't like an operating system lock-in that I can't switch and the others don't have 100% of the software I need, I can pick and choose where to go for every particular service Google offers.
I can't accept that the children are necessarily guilty of the sins of the parents and must attone for them.
I try to correct wrongs when ever I can, but wrongs commited before I was born I have no control over. Most of those that have commited the crimes are long dead. The slaves are free, the natives are still being given reparations for events that happened over a century ago.
In fact, my own ancestors weren't even in the US during these times.
The Nomad Zen is quite a bit larger than iPod, IIRC about 50% on volume, so it is a lot easier to make them cheaper. The iRiver H120 has an odd protruding nipple contraption as a control, and costs just as much as iPod. The PMP-120 is pretty nice looking and possibly worth consideration, but I haven't found a whole lot of useful reviews for it yet.
Disney has made a fortune from copyrighting public domain fairy tales.
That is overly simplified. Disney didn't co-opt public domain works, they don't own the original fairy tales and don't suddenly own the original works, they can only copyright their own variation of it and its sub-derivatives. Others are still free to make works based on those original stories provided they don't take designs from Disney's works. You might not have noticed, but for a lot of Disney's animated movies, there have been a series of animated movies based on the same original stories.
Disney is also very careful to append the original title with "Disney's" so that they can own their own subvariants and designs.
That is the first I've heard of a "digital box set". Available on iTunes? Does that mean it is download-only? So I don't get any physical packaging, short of the iPod holding the tracks?
I hope the ensuing fight means the name "MyFi" goes to obscurity. What a shitty name. I hate WiFi because it really doesn't mean jack. "Wireless Fidelity" Huh? Fidelity to wired? At 1/5th the bandwidth of base-wired (54Mbps only gets ~20Mbps in actual performance)?
The Sandisk part you linked doesn't have a built-in screen and doesn't include storage.
That said, I don't think that a color screen alone is worth $100 unless it is a very high density one, and I think the screen could have been a bit better.
If the device is not for hauling around graphic design quality images to clients (i.e. just VGA quality shots are needed to show off pictures), I can imagine a PDA with a CF II (microdrive compatible) slot and use it for music and photos. IIRC, microdrive doesn't work in CF I slots, so not just any CF capable PDA will do.
To Apple's credit, it looks like the battery life is extended with iPod Photo.
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Are there others like me that had problems with Bitorrent? With legit items, I'd rather just download it via FTP or something, and less than legit items, I just have better things to do with my time than wait.
I have T1 access and with many files, I get less than 8kB/s, despite having capacity to near 180kB/s, bidirectional. It all seemed kind of pointless to me, if I wanted near-modem speed I would have stuck with a modem.
which, incidentally, won't be due to the batteries.
Incidentally, does anyone have hard information on how many batteries failed prematurely? I believe that site and the people that made it blew things way out of proportion. A battery can die "prematurely" (in 18 months) if say the iPod was used every day and charged every night, because that's about 500 charges. There are limits to LiOn chemistry, batteries can only be charged so much. At least there are first and third party battery replacement programs, and at 500 charges, that's about twenty cents per charge, still not a bad deal given the number of hours of use it brings.
I'd say those users think little of their PCs. They look more like riced computers than anything else. :)
Before you flame, I'm not a Mac user or owner. But seriously, IMO, usually the thing that happens when people individualize their PC make it uglier or more contrived. Same goes for cars too, most of the time.
Addendum: The warranty is apparently 90 days.
That is IMO a shit warranty and unacceptable. I don't care if Microsoft or whoever is losing money on a device, a 90 day warranty is no good.
I don't consider extended warranties to be acceptable either because the stores that try to sell them lie to get people to buy them and and use any trick they can to avoid paying a claim.
You are guessing XBox has a 1 year warranty? IMO, it should have a 1 year warranty, minimum, but a lot of consumer electronics only have a 90 day warranty, or 90 days labor, 1 year parts which is just as useless as often the cost of fixing the device is 80%+ of the street price of a new one.
I can't find info on Microsoft's site, but it looks like a 90 day warranty.
They are still in compliance with GPL. The GPL does not require that binaries be provided at no cost, and IIRC it does not require the distribution of source code to people that have not paid for it.
You can get White Box too.
If the wording is too obtuse for a senator or congressman to understand easily, then they shouldn't be writing such obtuse shit, or they should go back and really graduate from whatever college they did or didn't go to.
I'm sorry, but the grandparent post showed something that the Secret Service would give you a very tough time before 9/11, PATRIOT, etc. The Secret Service is paid to not have a sense of humor, a joke is supposed to be taken seriously.
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
By painting oral sex in a bad light?
Possibly implying homosexuality as bad? (and yes, I know about that stupid adage about assumptions)
It looked to me like a joke about forced sex, and I don't think that is a good thing to joke about.
Sorry, no. The fact that it portrayed oral sex in a bad light was what got me.
Thankfully, my precinct was still using the scan forms during the primaries. The nice thing is that if your vote is invalid, such as checking off contradictory votes, filling in a circle that doesn't mean anything and such, it spits it back out for you to get a new form.
I wonder what it would take to get a better electronic system. My guess is that as long as both parties think they can manipulate the system, there is no point to
OK, I call bullshit.
/.'s comment or front pages.
From the looks of it, what you did was basically validate the slashdot 503 error page. The checkbox on "show error page" shows this. Click the "source" and you can see it is Slashdot's 503 error page.
All you are proving is that the error page validates. It says NOTHING about
Slashdot still causes 100+ validation errors, even when forcing a certain standard. Slashcode still needs to fix that. Slashcode is open source. I thought open source was supposed to fix theings faster, or is that for security holes only?
The only red flag I see is the comment on warranties. There are NO closed source programs that provide a meaningful warranty anyway. They won't give you any money if your data disappears, even if they knew about the bug and could have fixed the bug a year ago.
A bug in the updater is nothing new. Has the updater ever worked to date?
Yahoo alread does a large part of what Google is doing. Google is hardly the only source of any particular service that I am aware of, and it isn't like an operating system lock-in that I can't switch and the others don't have 100% of the software I need, I can pick and choose where to go for every particular service Google offers.
I can't accept that the children are necessarily guilty of the sins of the parents and must attone for them.
I try to correct wrongs when ever I can, but wrongs commited before I was born I have no control over. Most of those that have commited the crimes are long dead. The slaves are free, the natives are still being given reparations for events that happened over a century ago.
In fact, my own ancestors weren't even in the US during these times.
Minidisk caught on in Japan, it had the same market share as CD for a good several years. Betamax was used by TV news stations for quite a long time.
"mask its innate desire for fascism?"
Huh? Where does that come from? From what theory is that derived?
The Nomad Zen is quite a bit larger than iPod, IIRC about 50% on volume, so it is a lot easier to make them cheaper. The iRiver H120 has an odd protruding nipple contraption as a control, and costs just as much as iPod. The PMP-120 is pretty nice looking and possibly worth consideration, but I haven't found a whole lot of useful reviews for it yet.
I think it's pretty sad that a crowd such as Slashdot that leans pretty liberal, that a sexually bigoted joke of gets modded up as funny.
Disney has made a fortune from copyrighting public domain fairy tales.
That is overly simplified. Disney didn't co-opt public domain works, they don't own the original fairy tales and don't suddenly own the original works, they can only copyright their own variation of it and its sub-derivatives. Others are still free to make works based on those original stories provided they don't take designs from Disney's works. You might not have noticed, but for a lot of Disney's animated movies, there have been a series of animated movies based on the same original stories.
Disney is also very careful to append the original title with "Disney's" so that they can own their own subvariants and designs.
That is the first I've heard of a "digital box set". Available on iTunes? Does that mean it is download-only? So I don't get any physical packaging, short of the iPod holding the tracks?
I hope the ensuing fight means the name "MyFi" goes to obscurity. What a shitty name. I hate WiFi because it really doesn't mean jack. "Wireless Fidelity" Huh? Fidelity to wired? At 1/5th the bandwidth of base-wired (54Mbps only gets ~20Mbps in actual performance)?
The Sandisk part you linked doesn't have a built-in screen and doesn't include storage.
That said, I don't think that a color screen alone is worth $100 unless it is a very high density one, and I think the screen could have been a bit better.
If the device is not for hauling around graphic design quality images to clients (i.e. just VGA quality shots are needed to show off pictures), I can imagine a PDA with a CF II (microdrive compatible) slot and use it for music and photos. IIRC, microdrive doesn't work in CF I slots, so not just any CF capable PDA will do.
To Apple's credit, it looks like the battery life is extended with iPod Photo.