Animated LCD and programmable is neat, but they should really take a clue from the MX-1000. People like physical buttons.
I can fast-forward and rewind and pause and change the volume or channel without ever looking away from the TV because the physical buttons can be located by (get this) touch.
Oh yeah, most people can't live without their DISC and SCIFI (maybe you menat most slashdot readers?) And what the hell is CC?
CC == Comedy Central
Feel free to substitute in Toon Disney or CSPAN or History or A&E if that's your gig. The extended cable package here consists of about 40 channels and adds about $15 to your bill. Breaking out an individual channel costs you about $3.
Yeah, DRoA has hit us a couple of times. Their mailings are misleading in a number of ways:
First, they make it sound like they are already your current registrar, even if you aren't.
Second, the BS about how if you don't renew your domain 60 days it may be lost. They use this as a justification to send out the mailings a good 6 months before the domain is up for renewal
We had an extremely important domain name that was registered a long long time ago in the name of one our founding executives. They received the mail at home and simply wrote a check... I'm still trying to convince DRoA that we don't really want to switch to them and that I'll never approve the constant change requests they send.
Time Warner could save AOL in a heartbeat if they started really thinking about the products they could bring together.
The merger was touted as the beginning of that great "convergence" thing VC's were all abuzz about in the mid 90's
You want convergence? Offer AOL broadband subscribers the ability to stream Sopranos episodes on demand. Sex and the City episodes. Mind of the Married Man.
think about it, they own the client and the transmission technology... it'd be (almost) hack-proof digital distribution.
what I dont expect is for them to use this and other FUD to portray someone who is using his/her own equipemnt as a theif.
Well, if he/she is chipping his/her xBox to run copied games, then he/she IS a thief.
but to do it for the sole purpose of keeping people who buy it from uning it any way they see fit is what makes them scumbags..
There are a LOT of reasons to hate Microsoft. But if you are picking this one, you need to get out more.
Why would you want to use an xBox as anything other than a console gaming device?
Everyone talks about how great an xterm a $199 xbox would make... did they not read the stories about the $199 linux boxen being sold at walmart? Go buy one of those for heaven's sake, it'll come with a keyboard and mouse too!
Oh, wait, I guess then you wouldn't be "stickin' it to the man" or something.
And you can do whatever you want to it... Just don't ask Microsoft (or sony, or nintendo) to give you support in doing it.
If you buy an xBox just so you can hack it and use it for some purpose other than what Microsoft intended, and then you discover that recent changes to the hardware of said xBox prevent you from doing so, who's the idiot?
As an (xBox | ps2 | gamecube) hacker, (Microsoft | Sony | Nintendo) owes you one thing only: a machine that will play fully licensed copies of the games for that particular platform.
Heh, I popped in here to post that as well... Damn Microsoft for actually wanting email to travel bewtween an email server and the email client. Over email messages no less!
Dead tree version? Does that mean environmentalists shouldn't read that one?;)
Depends. Is the electronic device you are gonna read it causing more consumption that a book?
That's actually a good question... Unless you're solar charging your palm-device to read it, it's probably a tossup.
Why link to an article we can't read?
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Information gleaned from sending you email and watching your surfing habits != reading a Word document you wrote to your tax attourney.
There's a pretty big difference there.
Back to the original point, though... there's nothing in the EULA that I can find that says they have the right to read your data. Everyone is up in arms about "accessing" the machine, when HIPAA is concerned about the security of the data. There's nothing in the EULA that says MS is going to read your files.
The EULA states that MS has the right to install patches. it doesn't say anything about being able (legally) to transmit your personal data back to the mothership.
Can you imagine the cry that would be raised if someone discovered that MS was transmitting personal info or documents in Windows Update Requests? Do you remember Prodigy? Do you remember the Quicken scare? Compared to the number of installations of Win2k, those are tiny issues in comparison.
You (meaning the rabidly pro-linux crowd) should all be so lucky as to have Microsoft to this, it would virtually guarantee that the company would be regulated into oblivion. or Canada. Which is almost the same thing:-)
Couldn't they claim they licensed the patent under the previous scheme? is there something that makes such a license revokable? IANAL... or a doctor for that matter.
This sounds like you have a bad exchange setup, imho.
Here, we have one Exchange server for 150 people. But then there are 9 locations, from San Francisco to san Diego. They all hit the same server through the wan.
Then set up smaller exchange servers at the remote sites. Exchange is designed for this.
Remote users (15+) also use outlook web access (i't really Exchange web access if you think about it) to access their mail. We have to allow that traffic through the firewall.
Don't host OWA on the exchange server. Put it on a fairly capable web server on your dmz. Allow only port 80 and 443 traffic to it, then allow it to hit only your domain controllers and the exchange server.
And every single one of our people have one or more other email addresses (AOL, Earthlink, RR, whatever).
This has nothing whatsoever to do with exchange. It's a user issue.
But this may be the reason no open-sourcer wants to tackle that issue. It may subconsciously feel flawed to recreate the Exchange architecture.
Exchange's original architecture was centered around MSMail 3.0. And an ugly ugly beast that was, with very little support for internet email standards. Since then it has grown up to be a very standards compliant product. Are you really suggesting we need to ditch email as we know it? While I think it would be nice to get some features (authenticated From: addresses would be first on my long list) the chances of replacing email as we know it is slim to none. And wasn't that Slim climbing into his caddy?
Remember the bit about the headers though...
I'm not sure about your spam, but most of mine comes with headers that are remarkably similar to each other, and all those elements are receiving values as well...
So if Spamco.com sends you 80 messages, each with "visit my porn site" mispelled in a different way, eventually the domain itself is gonna get whacked, regardless of the mispellings.
Yeah, I've been amazed at how many recommendations I've seen here that suggest a cat5 solution. I thought this was slashdot... home of people who understood this stuff.:-)
Did you have an Odyssey or an Odyssey^2? The original Odyssey was VERY rudimentary. More details cam be found here.
I had one of these machines, and I had a friend who gave me a Channel F years later. I remember liking the airplane dogfight game on that alot, but the controllers were wierd.
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Aye. which is probably why they refused to say which ones were next.
Animated LCD and programmable is neat, but they should really take a clue from the MX-1000. People like physical buttons.
I can fast-forward and rewind and pause and change the volume or channel without ever looking away from the TV because the physical buttons can be located by (get this) touch.
A review of the MX-1000
Oh yeah, most people can't live without their DISC and SCIFI (maybe you menat most slashdot readers?) And what the hell is CC?
CC == Comedy Central
Feel free to substitute in Toon Disney or CSPAN or History or A&E if that's your gig. The extended cable package here consists of about 40 channels and adds about $15 to your bill. Breaking out an individual channel costs you about $3.
Our local cable company offers the ability to buy individual channels from the packages they offer.
However, unless you are buying less than 5 channels you'll spend more money than the package.
Since most people want at least MTV, TWC, CNN, DISC, CC and SCIFI it's kind of a moot point.
Yeah, DRoA has hit us a couple of times. Their mailings are misleading in a number of ways:
First, they make it sound like they are already your current registrar, even if you aren't.
Second, the BS about how if you don't renew your domain 60 days it may be lost. They use this as a justification to send out the mailings a good 6 months before the domain is up for renewal
We had an extremely important domain name that was registered a long long time ago in the name of one our founding executives. They received the mail at home and simply wrote a check... I'm still trying to convince DRoA that we don't really want to switch to them and that I'll never approve the constant change requests they send.
Time Warner could save AOL in a heartbeat if they started really thinking about the products they could bring together.
The merger was touted as the beginning of that great "convergence" thing VC's were all abuzz about in the mid 90's
You want convergence? Offer AOL broadband subscribers the ability to stream Sopranos episodes on demand. Sex and the City episodes. Mind of the Married Man.
think about it, they own the client and the transmission technology... it'd be (almost) hack-proof digital distribution.
When the G spot is reached the LED will flash green immediately, hold firmly and tighten the screw.
ah, you kids. Back in my day we had to find the G spot manually... and we were lucky if we got an audible alert.
what I dont expect is for them to use this and other FUD to portray someone who is using his/her own equipemnt as a theif.
Well, if he/she is chipping his/her xBox to run copied games, then he/she IS a thief.
but to do it for the sole purpose of keeping people who buy it from uning it any way they see fit is what makes them scumbags..
There are a LOT of reasons to hate Microsoft. But if you are picking this one, you need to get out more.
Why would you want to use an xBox as anything other than a console gaming device?
Everyone talks about how great an xterm a $199 xbox would make... did they not read the stories about the $199 linux boxen being sold at walmart? Go buy one of those for heaven's sake, it'll come with a keyboard and mouse too!
Oh, wait, I guess then you wouldn't be "stickin' it to the man" or something.
And you can do whatever you want to it... Just don't ask Microsoft (or sony, or nintendo) to give you support in doing it.
If you buy an xBox just so you can hack it and use it for some purpose other than what Microsoft intended, and then you discover that recent changes to the hardware of said xBox prevent you from doing so, who's the idiot?
As an (xBox | ps2 | gamecube) hacker, (Microsoft | Sony | Nintendo) owes you one thing only: a machine that will play fully licensed copies of the games for that particular platform.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of cargo plane filled with ait-3 tapes. :-)
Heh, I popped in here to post that as well... Damn Microsoft for actually wanting email to travel bewtween an email server and the email client. Over email messages no less!
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/21/18 23227&mode=thread&tid=146
Dead tree version? Does that mean environmentalists shouldn't read that one? ;)
Depends. Is the electronic device you are gonna read it causing more consumption that a book?
That's actually a good question... Unless you're solar charging your palm-device to read it, it's probably a tossup.
on a secure site? bizarre.
Information gleaned from sending you email and watching your surfing habits != reading a Word document you wrote to your tax attourney.
There's a pretty big difference there.
Back to the original point, though... there's nothing in the EULA that I can find that says they have the right to read your data. Everyone is up in arms about "accessing" the machine, when HIPAA is concerned about the security of the data. There's nothing in the EULA that says MS is going to read your files.
The EULA states that MS has the right to install patches. it doesn't say anything about being able (legally) to transmit your personal data back to the mothership.
:-)
Can you imagine the cry that would be raised if someone discovered that MS was transmitting personal info or documents in Windows Update Requests? Do you remember Prodigy? Do you remember the Quicken scare? Compared to the number of installations of Win2k, those are tiny issues in comparison.
You (meaning the rabidly pro-linux crowd) should all be so lucky as to have Microsoft to this, it would virtually guarantee that the company would be regulated into oblivion. or Canada. Which is almost the same thing
The big change is the removal of the "free players don't have to pay" clause.
Of course this was removed in July 2001, and Nullsoft (for example) had been licensing the tech for a few years before that.
no one can escape the wayback machine
Couldn't they claim they licensed the patent under the previous scheme? is there something that makes such a license revokable? IANAL... or a doctor for that matter.
Yeah, that's not expensive, time-consuming, or illegal at all...
(It's called 'shilling' and it's a type of fraud)
nah... do it to a bunch of companies and publish your work...
Then it's "research."
This sounds like you have a bad exchange setup, imho.
Here, we have one Exchange server for 150 people. But then there are 9 locations, from San Francisco to san Diego. They all hit the same server through the wan.
Then set up smaller exchange servers at the remote sites. Exchange is designed for this.
Remote users (15+) also use outlook web access (i't really Exchange web access if you think about it) to access their mail. We have to allow that traffic through the firewall.
Don't host OWA on the exchange server. Put it on a fairly capable web server on your dmz. Allow only port 80 and 443 traffic to it, then allow it to hit only your domain controllers and the exchange server.
And every single one of our people have one or more other email addresses (AOL, Earthlink, RR, whatever).
This has nothing whatsoever to do with exchange. It's a user issue.
But this may be the reason no open-sourcer wants to tackle that issue. It may subconsciously feel flawed to recreate the Exchange architecture.
Exchange's original architecture was centered around MSMail 3.0. And an ugly ugly beast that was, with very little support for internet email standards. Since then it has grown up to be a very standards compliant product. Are you really suggesting we need to ditch email as we know it? While I think it would be nice to get some features (authenticated From: addresses would be first on my long list) the chances of replacing email as we know it is slim to none. And wasn't that Slim climbing into his caddy?
Remember the bit about the headers though... I'm not sure about your spam, but most of mine comes with headers that are remarkably similar to each other, and all those elements are receiving values as well... So if Spamco.com sends you 80 messages, each with "visit my porn site" mispelled in a different way, eventually the domain itself is gonna get whacked, regardless of the mispellings.
Yeah, I've been amazed at how many recommendations I've seen here that suggest a cat5 solution. I thought this was slashdot... home of people who understood this stuff. :-)
I played the Stern Playboy pin a week or two ago.. very fun, VERY racy for a family arcade. (DMD nipples and bush shot! oh my!)
Fuck it. I tried to reply twice and got filtered based on time.
Did you have an Odyssey or an Odyssey^2? The original Odyssey was VERY rudimentary. More details cam be found here.
I had one of these machines, and I had a friend who gave me a Channel F years later. I remember liking the airplane dogfight game on that alot, but the controllers were wierd.