British is not lying on that one... I had to listen to Mix104 this summer at my job for 8 hours every day. I literally could set my watch based on their playlist.
99 Red Balloons? Time for first shift break. Girls just Wanna have Fun? Lunchtime. Rock the Casbah? That meant it was time to clock out.
Down with top-40 anything. I want to bring back 2000Flushes!
I recently upgraded my Nokia 8290 to a Sony Ericsson T610. The SE interface took some getting used to, but I love the additional features. I can sync, access the web, and control applications with my powerbook and bluetooth, it has a built in IMAP compatable e-mail client, WAP browser, and supports J2ME applications.
The size is amazingly close to the 8290 (which is already a little bit smaller than the 8260, from what I remember), and the battery life is about the same, even with the addition of a color screen, bluetooth constantly on.
I wish you had been around when I was trying to get W2k to work with my soundcard. Everything else about the OS was okay, with the exception of the driver support.
My soundcard worked fine under DOS, Win95, Win98, NT 4.0, and BeOS. W2K had NO support for it with any of the previous Windows drivers. In fact, I ended up having to go out and buy a new ($50) soundcard. People should consider things like that when figuring out the "hidden costs" in using Windows.
As a resident of Minnesota, I think I might pay this guy a visit. Just pull up to his parents house or wherever he lives now and strike up a conversation. He's at least getting a phone call.
Here this is interesting too: From the site: We have been around since February of 1995. Odd because according to whois, pagecreators.net was registered on 06-Feb-1999.
Note, it ONLY says the patent is for ISP's. That leaves all your non-isps on the web to pop up any banners they want.
Well Microsoft is an ISP (MSN). Does that mean they can't use pop up ads in their software products? Because like someone said earlier, Windows has ads when you install it.
And what about AOL? They've been doing pop up ads (outside of a browser) with their software far longer than NetZero has.
The patent says: "pop up windows, ouside the browser" All the web sites pop ads via the browser, not seperate software like the various ad banners the free ISP's use.
There are many programs that pop up ads "outside the browser."
For example, AceFTP pops up an ad when you quit it. This is outside any browser. Hotline Client has an ad running at all times. How are these different from the ads provided by NetZero's software?
At least Canada can figure out their election results. I think if someone was to figure out who our next president (here in America) is going to be and was to post the information on their website, they'd be regarded as a hero.
You know, for an organization that's geek heavy and has members that are often really interested in privacy, it's really idiotic that/. gives a point benefit to non-AC posts. I *always* post AC, and I *hate* my posts not showing up by default. Most of the stupid things and trolls I see are from members, not ACs.
If you're really that concerned about your privacy on slashdot, why don't you get a free e-mail account and register a slash id to that? That's anonymous. Or do you just not people to be able to match up the different posts you make? If that's the problem, create a few accounts. The trolls don't seem to have a problem doing it.
Here in Minnesota, I now get my telephone services through AT&T (formally MediaOne). It comes over my cable line, and it is a good deal compared to what I was paying UFWest (now Qwest).
I don't know if they're rolling out service in many other areas, but I am pleased with the quality, and it certainly is giving Qwest some competition.
My only gripe is that once again my local telephone service is being provided by Bell. How long until they get a monopoly on local service again and need be broken up?
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Your comment reminds me so much of the arguement the NAB (national association of broadcasters) uses to get the FCC to go after pirate stations and not allow low wattage non-commercial stations.
In reality, many pirate stations are considerate of the airwaves when they broadcast. The last pirate station here in Minneapolis was careful and made sure their transmitter only broadcast on the particular station they wanted. They were using commercial grade equipment, and were probably more careful about obeying FCC regulations by choice than some stations are by requirement.
Heh... I live in Minnesota and know of 93x... not the greatest station.
Minneapolis used to have a really really cool pirate station (it shut down after only about 2 weeks) on 94.1 FM. You could go on a website and upload MP3s, and the station would automatically play them back. Hopefully it'll come back soon. Not only good music for me to listen to in the car, but I also put up a webstream of it so people outside of the Twin Cities could listen. Hopefully if the station returns, I'll put the feed back up on my website.
Anyway, I can think of fun things to do with such a network. The base station would be reachable a fair distance outside the store.
Seeing as most cybercafes make you pay to surf, I can't imagine fucking STARBUCKS just giving away wireless net access. (even if they assume you'll buy their coffee.) So my guess is that they'll make you register your MAC address or something in order to get on. Yeah, you could still play around with their network, but probably not anything useful, like accessing the internet.
I could be overestimating their knowledge of networking and business logic though.
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British is not lying on that one... I had to listen to Mix104 this summer at my job for 8 hours every day. I literally could set my watch based on their playlist.
99 Red Balloons? Time for first shift break.
Girls just Wanna have Fun? Lunchtime.
Rock the Casbah? That meant it was time to clock out.
Down with top-40 anything. I want to bring back 2000Flushes!
I recently upgraded my Nokia 8290 to a Sony Ericsson T610. The SE interface took some getting used to, but I love the additional features. I can sync, access the web, and control applications with my powerbook and bluetooth, it has a built in IMAP compatable e-mail client, WAP browser, and supports J2ME applications.
The size is amazingly close to the 8290 (which is already a little bit smaller than the 8260, from what I remember), and the battery life is about the same, even with the addition of a color screen, bluetooth constantly on.
They charge for it, and people are willing to pay for it. That's not robery it's good business.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. But don't slam a company (Apple or Microsoft) just because they don't charge the prices you think they should.
My soundcard worked fine under DOS, Win95, Win98, NT 4.0, and BeOS. W2K had NO support for it with any of the previous Windows drivers. In fact, I ended up having to go out and buy a new ($50) soundcard. People should consider things like that when figuring out the "hidden costs" in using Windows.
Hrmm, no, you wouldn't be basing your life on the movie Office Space now, would you?
320 762 9060 Johnson,Rose 105 Linden Avenue Alexandria, MN 56308-8902
This is a residential street. Check on google.
Here this is interesting too: From the site: We have been around since February of 1995. Odd because according to whois, pagecreators.net was registered on 06-Feb-1999.
Well Microsoft is an ISP (MSN). Does that mean they can't use pop up ads in their software products? Because like someone said earlier, Windows has ads when you install it.
And what about AOL? They've been doing pop up ads (outside of a browser) with their software far longer than NetZero has.
There are many programs that pop up ads "outside the browser."
For example, AceFTP pops up an ad when you quit it. This is outside any browser. Hotline Client has an ad running at all times. How are these different from the ads provided by NetZero's software?
Sounded like a product announcement or infomercial.
So they'll end up having to re-release Office Space with the script changed to "Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Tuesdays.
Don't forget vodka. That's reliable as anything.
At least Canada can figure out their election results. I think if someone was to figure out who our next president (here in America) is going to be and was to post the information on their website, they'd be regarded as a hero.
If you're really that concerned about your privacy on slashdot, why don't you get a free e-mail account and register a slash id to that? That's anonymous. Or do you just not people to be able to match up the different posts you make? If that's the problem, create a few accounts. The trolls don't seem to have a problem doing it.
Yeah really. Not all of us are on a Slashdot Editor's salary.
Or you could just uninstall NT.
Here in Minnesota, I now get my telephone services through AT&T (formally MediaOne). It comes over my cable line, and it is a good deal compared to what I was paying UFWest (now Qwest).
I don't know if they're rolling out service in many other areas, but I am pleased with the quality, and it certainly is giving Qwest some competition.
My only gripe is that once again my local telephone service is being provided by Bell. How long until they get a monopoly on local service again and need be broken up?
Yeah, it seems like it... You site (http://fatsean.homeip.net) was down when I clicked the link.
My cablemodem sucks as a pipe to my webserver.
In reality, many pirate stations are considerate of the airwaves when they broadcast. The last pirate station here in Minneapolis was careful and made sure their transmitter only broadcast on the particular station they wanted. They were using commercial grade equipment, and were probably more careful about obeying FCC regulations by choice than some stations are by requirement.
Minneapolis used to have a really really cool pirate station (it shut down after only about 2 weeks) on 94.1 FM. You could go on a website and upload MP3s, and the station would automatically play them back. Hopefully it'll come back soon. Not only good music for me to listen to in the car, but I also put up a webstream of it so people outside of the Twin Cities could listen. Hopefully if the station returns, I'll put the feed back up on my website.
Seeing as most cybercafes make you pay to surf, I can't imagine fucking STARBUCKS just giving away wireless net access. (even if they assume you'll buy their coffee.) So my guess is that they'll make you register your MAC address or something in order to get on. Yeah, you could still play around with their network, but probably not anything useful, like accessing the internet.
I could be overestimating their knowledge of networking and business logic though.