On my work trip to Singapore, I knew that chewing gum was not legal there. So I went to the local convenience shop, and of course there was no gum, but a large assortment of legal candies. As an internet tech goon, I was drawn to the little plastic box (similar to TicTac) with little purple sugar pills labelled "I Love Flash". Oh and those Singapore immigration landing cards are a hoot, with large red friendly letters "possession of drugs is punished by DEATH'. Of course the US is not THAT bad...
Same here, I use pine, it fits my simplistic view of the world. But the PowerPoint jockeys who populate the business world go catatonic at something like that. If I can keep one or two of them away from that pile of yak-barf called Outlook, I'm happy.
A stable mail client that's been around 'forever', guaranteeing its future. I hope that many lusers are prevented from going with that non-portable klient-O-krap from Redmond by this development.
Nokia 6230i. If my (Logitech) headset is 'connected', I can't connect to the phone from other devices, such as my laptop. Do not see any 'shared Bluetooth' settings on the phone.
So this means, no headset.
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My phone won't attach to more than one bluetooth device at a time. Which means that if you use this watch, you can't use other BT doodads.
Skype is a closed secretive disaster. The community RANTED when MSN/AIM/Yahoo messenger played games to cut out client choice (Gaim, Trillian, et al.). If you want simple, use Gizmo ( http://www.gizmoproject.com/ ) which has a very economical and functional interface to the regular phone system (POTS). Even cheaper, try http://www.voipstunt.com/ or http://www.freecall.com/ All of these are street-legal SIP, and you can use any SIP-capable device you like, or use your computer if you want to.
I don't get it. I've been using fetchyahoo for years, and have had to upgrade every few months as Yahoo has f*cked with their system, but it works great. What, exactly, are they 'giving away'?
Good comment, but once the bits are onto a person's machine, be it the Itunes-style download, or a Rhapsody/Napster subscription, if the person is of a larcenous mentality, they will get the file. This is NOT the point. DRM does not stop this activity. Proven fact. What it DOES do is confuse people with nonsense like "backing up your license files", and other idiocy. Make online digital music a trivially easy and satisfying experience (i.e., a lot better than Kazaa and BitTorrent), and people will use it. Make it a complicated encumbered pile of shit, and you will have a limited, frustrated customer base, and justify the freeloaders. The not-very-forced gun control analogy stands.
despite their DRM being yet another monopolistic trap.
It's about DRM being like gun control (don't get me wrong, I HATE guns and private gun ownership): DRM punishes the honest, and does nothing about people who are going to steal.
Make 'legal' online music consumption easy for the consumer, and they will be happy, and you will make money. Treat them like criminals, and... well, you'll just be cultivating this behaviour.
They are an essential part of the terrorists' support chain. After that, the gas stations. Do we care about defeating the evildoers or not? This is no time to be weak!
Ditto here. I have numerous asterisk machines, none fancy, around the world (also running on Slackware!). No problems at all. Also with the $169. Polycom 501. Great central administration, excellent sound. The users love them. Hint: DO NOT go cheap and get Polycom 301 phones. They work fine, but the UI is unusable. And NEVER have both in the same office, the people with the 301s will hate you and feel they've been branded as second class citizens.
I'm as virulent a Microsoft-hater as you'll find on Slashdot, but the lesson here is not that they suck (which they do, badly). It's a lesson about company A (Verizon in this case) subbing out an important business segment to company B (Microsoft, the promise-anything, and ship whatever company). If something is THAT important to your business, dammit, get it done yourself! 9 out of 10 times something goes to shit, and you either had smart lawyers (as Verizon clearly did) that at least gives you -some- chance of inconveniently, expensively bailing the project out.
The deal-making pinheads will never figure this out however, their retinas, and the brains behind them, are all fatigued from staring at Powerpoint slides and Blackberry thingies.
This is just grand. Just as police here in Freedomland can confiscate (and keep permanently!) property belonging to people -suspected- of drug trafficking or other Freedom Hating Activities, we have Yet Another Way that a few stray bits in a database, or a spurious / malignant accusation can f*ck up somebody's life bigtime.
Why not do financial scans on -current- employees? How about starting with HR people applying this lovely policy? Perhaps that would slow down the implementation, a bit.
That lame dancing by the clowns in the aluminised bunny suits will not be missed. Hooray for competition, this clearly signals the end of the monopoly. Hopefully this trend will continue to the desktop OS (or more properly, Program Loading Environment with a bunch of device drivers) market.
I carry a phone around (Nokia 6230i) which is originally from a major UK network, I unlocked it with a code obtained online. I travel a lot for work, and have working SIM cards from: UK, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and oh yeah, Podunk-land (the big thing with Flyover Country in the middle).
T-mobile beats the hell out of Cingular. T-mobile is nice to customers, Cingular tries to f*ck them over a thousand ways. The 10 cents/min prepay deal is great for most people, the one thing it's lacking is any kind of call detail info. (Your balance is easily obtained, but WHOM you called is not known, except in the phone's memory, if you use that)
My biggest fear about this are the recurring rumours that T-Mobile USA will be sold to some bigger outfit. This will be the end of decent GSM in Podunk-Land.
Yeah, you're probably right. I was using my personal perspective of the last 20 years of travelling all over the world. The situation has deteriorated rapidly since the God Squad stole the 2000 election, and somehow enabled/allowed the 9/11 event (aka "Reichstag Fire - The Sequel") to occur. Not a ranting conspiracy-theory, just asking the question "Who benefitted from all this?" Follow the money....
I love the head-in-the-sand morons who deny reality. Just keep repeating the Big Lie, like our moron-led government does now about so many things, like the WMD idiocy. And "9/11" has gone from a tragedy for a few thousand people, to an excuse to bankrupt the country, discard the US Constitution and Amendments, and move the USA from the most-admired to the most-loathed country on Earth. This is not just bombast, I travel overseas about half the time, if you go around starting wars for no reason, and deny obvious facts like manmade global warming, people tend to mistrust/hate you. What a surprise!
War is Peace. Hate is Love. Oil Companies are a LOT richer than they were 5 years ago. All is well.
The young son of a long-time co-worker died in that crash; the parents have not gotten into a plane since. My job has involved dozens upon dozens of intercontinental trips in DC-10s. I am so happy that they are almost out of the US fleet. Frequent mechanical delays & problems, they are total shit. HEY NORTHWEST! GET RID of THE REST! NOW!
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On my work trip to Singapore, I knew that chewing gum was not legal there. So I went to the local convenience shop, and of course there was no gum, but a large assortment of legal candies. As an internet tech goon, I was drawn to the little plastic box (similar to TicTac) with little purple sugar pills labelled "I Love Flash". Oh and those Singapore immigration landing cards are a hoot, with large red friendly letters "possession of drugs is punished by DEATH'. Of course the US is not THAT bad...
And if everybody ran 10 miles before breakfast, we'd all be unbelievably fit! WTF is your point? Get back on your knees, Bill is not a patient man.
I thought not.
Nothing to see here, just moronic borgslaves, move along....
WHY don't all these moron CTO's and VP's of IS get their asses canned, paying MS for their shit?
Same here, I use pine, it fits my simplistic view of the world. But the PowerPoint jockeys who populate the business world go catatonic at something like that. If I can keep one or two of them away from that pile of yak-barf called Outlook, I'm happy.
A stable mail client that's been around 'forever', guaranteeing its future. I hope that many lusers
are prevented from going with that non-portable klient-O-krap from Redmond by this development.
Nokia 6230i. If my (Logitech) headset is 'connected', I can't connect to the phone from other devices, such as my laptop. Do not see any 'shared Bluetooth' settings on the phone.
My phone won't attach to more than one bluetooth device at a time. Which means that if you use this watch, you can't use other BT doodads.
Skype is a closed secretive disaster. The community RANTED when MSN/AIM/Yahoo messenger played games to cut out client choice (Gaim, Trillian, et al.). If you want simple, use Gizmo ( http://www.gizmoproject.com/ ) which has a very economical and functional interface to the regular phone system (POTS). Even cheaper, try http://www.voipstunt.com/ or http://www.freecall.com/
All of these are street-legal SIP, and you can use any SIP-capable device you like, or use your computer if you want to.
And of course you can use Asterisk ( http://www.asterisk.org/ ) which is best of all!
Skype belongs in the shitbin of history. Closed systems suck.
It's just a goddamned piece of paper! So shut up!
I don't get it. I've been using fetchyahoo for years, and have had to upgrade every few months as Yahoo has f*cked with their system, but it works great. What, exactly, are they 'giving away'?
Good comment, but once the bits are onto a person's machine, be it the Itunes-style download, or a Rhapsody/Napster subscription, if the person is of a larcenous mentality, they will get the file. This is NOT the point. DRM does not stop this activity. Proven fact. What it DOES do is confuse people with nonsense like "backing up your license files", and other idiocy. Make online digital music a trivially easy and satisfying experience (i.e., a lot better than Kazaa and BitTorrent), and people will use it. Make it a complicated encumbered pile of shit, and you will have a limited, frustrated customer base, and justify the freeloaders. The not-very-forced gun control analogy stands.
despite their DRM being yet another monopolistic trap.
It's about DRM being like gun control (don't get me wrong, I HATE guns and private gun ownership):
DRM punishes the honest, and does nothing about people who are going to steal.
Make 'legal' online music consumption easy for the consumer, and they will be happy, and you will make money.
Treat them like criminals, and... well, you'll just be cultivating this behaviour.
They are an essential part of the terrorists' support chain. After that, the gas stations. Do we care about defeating the evildoers or not? This is no time to be weak!
Wow, we are really peeling back the foreskin of quality here. You could probably do better shopping for bureaucrats at Wal-Mart.
Wii can only hope, but I would give it only a wii chance of going away.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!
Ditto here. I have numerous asterisk machines, none fancy, around the world (also running on Slackware!). No problems at all. Also with the $169. Polycom 501. Great central administration, excellent sound. The users love them. Hint: DO NOT go cheap and get Polycom 301 phones. They work fine, but the UI is unusable. And NEVER have both in the same office, the people with the 301s will hate you and feel they've been branded as second class citizens.
I'm as virulent a Microsoft-hater as you'll find on Slashdot, but the lesson here is not that they suck (which they do, badly). It's a lesson about company A (Verizon in this case) subbing out an important business segment to company B (Microsoft, the promise-anything, and ship whatever company). If something is THAT important to your business, dammit, get it done yourself! 9 out of 10 times something goes to shit, and you either had smart lawyers (as Verizon clearly did) that at least gives you -some- chance of inconveniently, expensively bailing the project out.
The deal-making pinheads will never figure this out however, their retinas, and the brains behind them, are all fatigued from staring at Powerpoint slides and Blackberry thingies.
This is just grand. Just as police here in Freedomland can confiscate (and keep permanently!) property belonging to people -suspected- of drug trafficking or other Freedom Hating Activities, we have Yet Another Way that a few stray bits in a database, or a spurious / malignant accusation can f*ck up somebody's life bigtime.
Why not do financial scans on -current- employees? How about starting with HR people applying this lovely policy?
Perhaps that would slow down the implementation, a bit.
That lame dancing by the clowns in the aluminised bunny suits will not be missed. Hooray for competition, this clearly signals the end of the monopoly. Hopefully this trend will continue to the desktop OS (or more properly, Program Loading Environment with a bunch of device drivers) market.
I carry a phone around (Nokia 6230i) which is originally from a major UK network, I unlocked it with a code obtained online. I travel a lot for work, and have working SIM cards from: UK, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and oh yeah, Podunk-land (the big thing with Flyover Country in the middle).
T-mobile beats the hell out of Cingular. T-mobile is nice to customers, Cingular tries to f*ck them over a thousand ways. The 10 cents/min prepay deal is great for most people, the one thing it's lacking is any kind of call detail info. (Your balance is easily obtained, but WHOM you called is not known, except in the phone's memory, if you use that)
My biggest fear about this are the recurring rumours that T-Mobile USA will be sold to some bigger outfit. This will be the end of decent GSM in Podunk-Land.
Yeah, you're probably right. I was using my personal perspective of the last 20 years of travelling all over the world. The situation has deteriorated rapidly since the God Squad stole the 2000 election, and somehow enabled/allowed the 9/11 event (aka "Reichstag Fire - The Sequel") to occur. Not a ranting conspiracy-theory, just asking the question "Who benefitted from all this?" Follow the money....
I love the head-in-the-sand morons who deny reality. Just keep repeating the Big Lie, like our moron-led government does now about so many things, like the WMD idiocy. And "9/11" has gone from a tragedy for a few thousand people, to an excuse to bankrupt the country, discard the US Constitution and Amendments, and move the USA from the most-admired to the most-loathed country on Earth. This is not just bombast, I travel overseas about half the time, if you go around starting wars for no reason, and deny obvious facts like manmade global warming, people tend to mistrust/hate you. What a surprise!
War is Peace. Hate is Love. Oil Companies are a LOT richer than they were 5 years ago. All is well.
The young son of a long-time co-worker died in that crash; the parents have not gotten into a plane since. My job has involved dozens upon dozens of intercontinental trips in DC-10s. I am so happy that they are almost out of the US fleet. Frequent mechanical delays & problems, they are total shit. HEY NORTHWEST! GET RID of THE REST! NOW!