Wow, I'm 23 and have never been behind the wheel of a car in my life and I live in America.
Then again, I also live in a city with public transportation that works (NYC.)
Seriously, that makes a driver's license different from a National ID. However, it also causes problems, because prior to getting a passport I had to use my birth certificate, university ID and social security card to prove my identity. Now I just use my passport.
God, his point is that his approach scales and yours doesn't.
Let's say he has 65 paintings by about 35 artists... sometimes the artists names are spilled differently or in a different format (Da Vinci vs Leonardo)
And now let's say you have 85 different songs (and in an ideal world the extension isn't there because it's a superfulous computer concept that really has no real world equivalent) by different artists, this still will take him about 5 seconds..
Now let's say I want some of these artists in impressionists and some in Avant Garde...
You see where he's getting?
The CLI user will be writing ALOT of lines of commands (or doing an ungodly amount of tab completion) to complete something that will take the desktop spatial user a few seconds at most.
Um, I was comparing the OP-ED pages of the WSJ to the OP-ED pages of the New York Times actually in my write up above. I don't really think the news articles in the New York Times are nearly as biased as, oh... something like Fox News which has bias even in simple reporting.
Once again, somebody brings up the Washington Post, and yes it does lean a little left... but it still has numerous well respected conservative op-ed writers. Compared to the Right's answer to the Washington Post, the Washington Times is a fucking crazy wacko right-wing scandal rag (sorta like comparing the sorta left leaning NYTimes to the wacko NYPost.)
My point was you just don't have as many wacko-weird-fucked-up-biased people on the left as you do on the right (ann coulter, rush limbaugh, bill o'reilly, sean hannity, carl tucker, pat buchanan, etc, etc...) Who do you have on the left other than Michael Moore?
You know what.. I'm sick of hearing about the "liberal mainstreeam media outlets" that all conservatives keep ranting on about.
I can name quite a few conservative outlets (and these aren't disputable by EVEN conservatives.) You got the "fair and balanced" Fox News, WABC with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, the WSJ opinion pages (which are the most partisan op-ed pages in history, and they revel in this fact), newsmax, the drudge report, the new york post, the National Review, the Economist, etc etc...
Now what "LIBERAL" sources are there? CNN? You mean the CNN with Robert Novak and Carl Tucker (two prominent conservatives, one being the FOUNDING editor of The National Review.)
ABC? You mean a station that broadcasts about 2 hours of news an evening? MSNBC which just hired Pat Buchanan? The New York Times which have more than their fair share of conserataives gracing their op-ed pages? The New Republic? Which is more hawkish than any democrat out there on issues like Israel?
No, face it. There are very very very very very very very few liberal sources of the like of the National Review and Newsmax... you know the type.. the ones that have NO liberal/democrat columnists and such bitter angry non-substantive rants against the dems.... Salon actually is the only I can think of, and EVEN they have columnists like Horowitz.
So let's stop this "The world is run by liberal media" bullshit... it makes me sick.
I spent alot of time in both systems (NYC's and the Tube) and some time in the Metro. I gotta say, especially in the last 5 - 6 years, the London system on average is cleaner than the NYC system, but the newer NYC subway cars and most Manhattan stations on the 4-5-6-1-2-3-9-N-R (about 90 or so stations) are MUCH cleaner than most of the stuff in the London system.
You also have to keep in mind that the NYC system is open 24-7-365 (not 20-7-364 like the London system) and has about 300 more stations (490+ total in NYC) than the Tube.
Aside from that, you RARELY (if ever) see graffiti in NYC subway cars anymore, which sadly is not the case in London. Besides, the new 4-5-6 trains totally kick ass... I can't stand the Picadilly line subway cars, I'm fairly short and my head almost hits the top of them!
In most areas of the US, I would say you have a valid point, but it's pretty easy to make a non-profit sustainable wireless zone over Manhattan because of the sheer density of the island.
The key is having enough wireless routers out there to provide a signal for a bunch of radii of coverage so that there are no "dead zones." In a place like LA, you'd need 100s and 100s of routers spread over relatively sparse sprawl. The nice thing about Manhattan is you can have one or two people put up a router and that router will theoretically cover hundreds to thousands of people.
This is exactly why (if you look at the map found at the wireless map) you'll see that Manhattan is ridiculously well covered, but the other boroughs (which are sparser) are not.
Will this work in all of America? Keep in mind that after Manhattan -- The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens are the three densest counties in America (with SF as #5.) And it's not really working in any borough outside of Manhattan...
Actually, I have a few friends who interned at MS this summer and apparently the phrase "eat your own dog food" is very very very popular on the campus.
If anything, including that phrase in the document only makes it seem MORE credible.
NY Times and NYT-owned papers (e.g. Boston Globe) have similar content partnerships.
Wrong. The Times has no major media company involved in ANY deal for content, and that is INTENTIONAL. No CNN. No MSNBC. No:shudder: Fox News. None. Don't you think one of those organizations (ok, maybe not Fox) would LOVE to have the NYT as a content supplier?
Same with the BBC, and same with the AP (which is completely independenty of any media organization.)
How dare you make blanket comments? Yes, the Post is working with MSNBC, yes CNN is owned by AOL/TW... those are obvious. I hate seeing/. trolls who lump the Times in with that crowd.
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If they supported my iPod, and I was even forced to download directly to the iPod and not even keep a copy of it on the computer, I'd be very happy.
Don't they realize that the people who will sign up for this service are the cutting edge music-listeners, the ones that will probably own an mp3 player and not a discman for their portable music needs?
Doing something big in New York City is more of a marketing thing than anything else. Face it, it's a BIGGER deal when anything is New York City.
Boston just doesn't carry that kind of weight all over the US or the world. You don't make as big a splash in Boston as you do in NYC. Everything is higher profile. Why do you think everything costs more in NYC?
Apple didn't build their flagship super-expensive store in Boston. They built it in SOHO. I've been to a few apple stores, and the one that opened in SOHO wasn't just another apple store... it was an event. A serious major super event that made the front page of apple.com. Why? Because it's New York City.
Apple wants the flashy splash that is New York. Everyone wants the flashy splash that is New York for a big event. That's why NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV and CNN all have shows that feature New York news/live shows with NYC and it's crowds as the backdrop. That's why Tiffany, Cartier and Toys R Us built their world-wide flagship stores in NYC.
Face it, there's a certain something about NYC... maybe it's becasue it's the cultural capital of america (and don't argue it's not... it's got more museums and the largest public library in the world) or maybe it's because it's where all the richest people are located (per capita, Manhattan's average income is a little over $100,000/person) or maybe it's the density.
I don't know why, but NYC carries a weight behind it and Apple sees this weight clearly. Most companies do. Boston is a great town, but it doesn't carry the clout that NYC does (frankly NO US city does).
Anyone else find it a bit ironic that an article that is offering suggestions for cleaner URLs and undoing the damage of CMS naming conventions is named "000058.php" ?
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Ok, I know this is a bit offtopic, but it's a question nobody seems to know the answer too.
I'm very very close to buying an ipod (10gig version.) I've had a a rio 300, nomad jukebox, and now one of those panasonic SD devices. I decided I want a small device that holds lots of music with an intutive interface, hence I'm getting the iPod.
But, I live in a Mac/PC household (ibook and big desktop PC.) Now I want to be able to use my iPod on both machines (or at least have the potential to use them on both.) So do I get the PC version (with the extra PC software) and if I do will that just plug into my ibook (since all the ipod software comes standard in Mac OS X) or will the Windows iPod be locked out of the Mac?
If that's the case, maybe a Mac iPod with ephpod or XPlay would be better? Hmm... Basically, anyone know if the windows ipod works on the mack?
But, even in the UK, we think of the Times (new york) as the most unbiased and objective news source in the english speaking world (the BBC has it's fair share of bias, and any Briton will tell you tell you that much.)
Secondly, Le Monde has just recently started carrying the NY Times as a supplement to their own paper, something they asked to Times for because they feel the Times is a very objective news source.
Finally, the NYTimes definitively sets the National agenda for news. The boston globe broke the chuck sex scandal story, but it didn't really make the press until it was fronted in the New York Times. I dare say, it also creates the international agenda for news.
AP is a great news source, but there's such a wide range in quality of articles that the AP has that it isn't as good an overall news source as the Times. Also, AP does NOT really influence the US national news media the way the Times does.
Do you really really really think that the New York Times, the most respected news source in the world BAR NONE, would risk ruining it's reputation by selling their email lists (which also means lying in their privacy policy) to some penis-enlarger spam guys?
Or maybe you just think that the world's "paper of record" (not to mention third highest circulated periodical in the world) is going to go bankrupt in a year and sell their assets (of which their most prized one is not the second tallest building in NYC [currently under construction] but their EMAIL LIST?)
This isn't fucking googl.com. It's the New York Times. They say they're not going to spam you, they won't. They are a very tightly-run organization and to this day none of the aggregated data has been stolen. Do you shop online at all? Do you have a slashdot account? Do you go to restaurants? Do you live in fear that your data will be used against you when you do any of these things?
The Times' reputation is FAR more important for them to risk selling their data or not protecting it closely. The Times is a family run business, so they don't need a quick buck (hence they avoided the whole rush-to-the-internet-consolidate-everywhere craze) and they're not a do-it-quick web operation.
If you don't believe in the free registration fine. But don't go onto the Times web site and fill in garbage information to read these articles that you obviously want to. I still can't believe the audacity of people on the Net. They're giving you their CONTENT FOR FREE, except for a small registration form which they won't sell.
I can't help but laugh at people who think the Times is some joe-smo dot.com publication.
Ok, I've been looking for a place that actually sells this case [the second from the bottom on page one] LIKE crazy (for MAMEing in front of a TV... two USB ports in the front is great!)
Where, oh where, can I find this case? I've sorta been interested in the DIGN case but there are no USB ports in the front and it's insanely expensive.... so anyone know where I can get the Cupid 2677 with USB?
Good luck typing with 6 fingers without a table near you to actually place it down. I, having owned both, can EASILY type faster on the Treo while standing up and holding it completely in my hand than the Communicator (where I only approach comparable typing speed if I put it in my lap.)
Also, the talktime of the communicator is NOWHERE near 10 hours in real life... in fact it's not even near 4 hours (as a former owner, I can attest to that, and am surprised that you don't either.)
Besides, who talks on their cell for 4 hours a day? I charge mine every night so it's not an issue, and if I ever do run out of battery life for the cell I can still use the Treo as a normal PALM without the wireless capabilities for another few hours, the communicator can't do that.
I for one love my Handspring Treo. Not only is it not nearly as bulky as the Communicator (I used to own that too) but it seems to be a bit faster, has better battery life and has a much much larger library of software.
It's also cheaper, and I find using the thumb to type on that keyboard (ala Blackberry) is ALOT easier than using the communicator keyboard. It also feels ALOT less awkward talking into the Treo with the flip open than with the communicator closed brick in your face.
I highly recommend the Treo. With Voicestream you even have free (well it uses your minutes but that's it) internet access, and with Treo Mail it even pages/beeps you when you get a new email to any POP email box.
No no no silly. Chicago is the #2 financial city in the country. Where did you come up with that stat about boston? In terms of capital that goes through the city? In terms of how many prominent investment banks are in the area? In terms of what financial exchanges are located there? In terms of how many skyscrapers are in the city? In terms of raw numbers of people in the finance industry? oh no, probably just out of your ass.
I love how Bostonians always compare their little metro system to the largest one in the western hemisphere. Guess why NYC's is more crowded? Because people ACTUALLY USE IT (it's the only transit system in America that over 50% of the residents use FREQUENTLY according to the census) You know what sucks about the T (aside from the fact that it closes, that half of it is not really a subway, that it has different fares for different stations), what sucks is getting from Quincy to BC requires you to go to a centralized hub to transfer over. None of that shit HAPPENS in NYC because it's system is not based on the hub concept (only system in the US to actually be that way.)
NYC restaurants suck? Nobu, Tribeca Grille, Daniels', and the Union Square Cafe suck? Let me guess, you've been in an Olive Garden in Times Square and now you're an expert on the world wide culinary arts. Face it, the best restaurants in the world (also the pricest unfortunately) are in New York City.
My God, are all Bostonians this delusional (2nd financial city in the country, HA HA HA HA HA)? The funny thing is, you sound so silly with your claims because they're not even debatable they're so far gone.
So let me get this straight (and I know some moderators here seem to be "ra ra Boston!" and will mod me down, but...)
You're comparing the largest subway system in the western hemisphere to Boston's and honestly trying to make them seem on par?
You're comparing a subway system that has, according to the census, a 60% FREQUENT ridership rate in the entire city (a city of 7.5 million) against Boston's (which is nowhere near the same magnitude.) You're comparing a ridership of about 250,000 a day (about 5K one-ways) (on the "real" train lines) against the 5th most used subway transportation system in the world?
Then you complain about the "complexity of the system" where in Boston I need to go to a centralized hub to even transfer to any subway lines. Meanwhile, in NYC you can transfer readily and easily without any "centralized hub" needed. And wow, you're complaining about "confusing" express lines? I'm sorry if MORE options are a problem, sounds like the typical Bostonians complaint when they come to NYC. You say "has less than 20 lines" like having 20 lines is a bad thing (it's 28 btw). It's like, "well we only have one road versus 30 in town, isn't that great?" NO, it's not.
Then again, you're also comparing a subway system that, at most, requires you to walk 5 blocks from ANY station in Manhattan against Boston's with it's monsterous walks to the T (or it's "silver line-because-we-really-want-to-call-it-a-subway" transfer lines.)
Finally, the worse part of the "T" is that, you're comparing a subway system that's open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year... a system, that suffered the greatest foreign attack on America soil ever yet reopened in less than 1 hour after the second tower went down (and I mean Manhattan lines,) against a system that shuts down at night for "maintenance?"
Even my friends from boston secretly admit to me there's no comparison. My question is, do you really honestly think this way regarding the subway, or are you one of those irrational "boston is great no matter what nyc sucks" type people?
1) Slashdot won't sell my e-mail address. NYT will.
They say they won't, and they're the most reputable and respected news source in the WORLD. They depend on their reputation. I'd expect/. (with VA as their parent company) to sell our email addresses WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY before the largest, richest, and arguably most powerful news source in the world.
2) Being a registered/. user provides me with significant benefits (increased posting level, accumulation of karma, a journal area, friend/foe tracking) above and beyond simple access. Obviously, you can read everything on/. as an AC, unlike NYT.
Since you aren't a NYT registered user, you have NO clue as to what extras you get for being a subscriber. How about trying it to see? (customization, custom stories sent to your email, custom story pages... very very nice overall)
That case is SO close to what I've been looking for in a HTPC case. I need two more things and I'd buy one in a second (especially since I can't add them myself because I love my appendages too much to try and cut alumnium cleanly)
1) Room in the front of the case for 2 USB/2 Firewire ports. I want to be able to plug my Playstation USB-modified controller into the front of my HTPC to play MAME and emulated games. It'd be nice to plug my iPod right in too, so I can sync it up before I go out.
2) An opening in the front for an IRMan or something similar. An HTPC needs an IR port in the front. Maybe it's there, (the review is slashdotted so I can only see the pics)
Finally, once again has anyone solved the problem of flipping channels on the cable box to get TiVo functionality? That's the last piece of my puzzle, and I don't know how I'd get PVR like functionality without the ability to change the television channels on my cable box. The TiVo has these IR emitters that do all the dirty work.
Oh well, time to look at the TiVo source when I have some free time.
Because poor people have a right to a computer. Like it or not, there are people that go to Sam's, Costco or some other discount warehouse and buy a $399 e-Machines Celeron with a 12" monitor, a CD-ROM drive and a modem. Many people can't (or won't) spend more than that on a computer.
True, just like poor people have a right to a car. That doesn't mean they have a right to a BMW or Mercedes, although nobody will argue that it doesn't lead to a better overall experience.
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Wow, I'm 23 and have never been behind the wheel of a car in my life and I live in America.
Then again, I also live in a city with public transportation that works (NYC.)
Seriously, that makes a driver's license different from a National ID. However, it also causes problems, because prior to getting a passport I had to use my birth certificate, university ID and social security card to prove my identity. Now I just use my passport.
God, his point is that his approach scales and yours doesn't.
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Let's say he has 65 paintings by about 35 artists... sometimes the artists names are spilled differently or in a different format (Da Vinci vs Leonardo)
And now let's say you have 85 different songs (and in an ideal world the extension isn't there because it's a superfulous computer concept that really has no real world equivalent) by different artists, this still will take him about 5 seconds
Now let's say I want some of these artists in impressionists and some in Avant Garde...
You see where he's getting?
The CLI user will be writing ALOT of lines of commands (or doing an ungodly amount of tab completion) to complete something that will take the desktop spatial user a few seconds at most.
that can be answered by popping the question into Google and looking at the first 10 results..
God I hate slashdot!
Um, I was comparing the OP-ED pages of the WSJ to the OP-ED pages of the New York Times actually in my write up above. I don't really think the news articles in the New York Times are nearly as biased as, oh... something like Fox News which has bias even in simple reporting.
Once again, somebody brings up the Washington Post, and yes it does lean a little left... but it still has numerous well respected conservative op-ed writers. Compared to the Right's answer to the Washington Post, the Washington Times is a fucking crazy wacko right-wing scandal rag (sorta like comparing the sorta left leaning NYTimes to the wacko NYPost.)
My point was you just don't have as many wacko-weird-fucked-up-biased people on the left as you do on the right (ann coulter, rush limbaugh, bill o'reilly, sean hannity, carl tucker, pat buchanan, etc, etc...) Who do you have on the left other than Michael Moore?
You know what.. I'm sick of hearing about the "liberal mainstreeam media outlets" that all conservatives keep ranting on about.
I can name quite a few conservative outlets (and these aren't disputable by EVEN conservatives.) You got the "fair and balanced" Fox News, WABC with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, the WSJ opinion pages (which are the most partisan op-ed pages in history, and they revel in this fact), newsmax, the drudge report, the new york post, the National Review, the Economist, etc etc...
Now what "LIBERAL" sources are there? CNN? You mean the CNN with Robert Novak and Carl Tucker (two prominent conservatives, one being the FOUNDING editor of The National Review.)
ABC? You mean a station that broadcasts about 2 hours of news an evening? MSNBC which just hired Pat Buchanan? The New York Times which have more than their fair share of conserataives gracing their op-ed pages? The New Republic? Which is more hawkish than any democrat out there on issues like Israel?
No, face it. There are very very very very very very very few liberal sources of the like of the National Review and Newsmax... you know the type.. the ones that have NO liberal/democrat columnists and such bitter angry non-substantive rants against the dems.... Salon actually is the only I can think of, and EVEN they have columnists like Horowitz.
So let's stop this "The world is run by liberal media" bullshit... it makes me sick.
I spent alot of time in both systems (NYC's and the Tube) and some time in the Metro. I gotta say, especially in the last 5 - 6 years, the London system on average is cleaner than the NYC system, but the newer NYC subway cars and most Manhattan stations on the 4-5-6-1-2-3-9-N-R (about 90 or so stations) are MUCH cleaner than most of the stuff in the London system.
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You also have to keep in mind that the NYC system is open 24-7-365 (not 20-7-364 like the London system) and has about 300 more stations (490+ total in NYC) than the Tube.
Aside from that, you RARELY (if ever) see graffiti in NYC subway cars anymore, which sadly is not the case in London. Besides, the new 4-5-6 trains totally kick ass... I can't stand the Picadilly line subway cars, I'm fairly short and my head almost hits the top of them!
Now the Paris system... now that's a SHITHOLE.
In most areas of the US, I would say you have a valid point, but it's pretty easy to make a non-profit sustainable wireless zone over Manhattan because of the sheer density of the island.
The key is having enough wireless routers out there to provide a signal for a bunch of radii of coverage so that there are no "dead zones." In a place like LA, you'd need 100s and 100s of routers spread over relatively sparse sprawl. The nice thing about Manhattan is you can have one or two people put up a router and that router will theoretically cover hundreds to thousands of people.
This is exactly why (if you look at the map found at the wireless map) you'll see that Manhattan is ridiculously well covered, but the other boroughs (which are sparser) are not.
Will this work in all of America? Keep in mind that after Manhattan -- The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens are the three densest counties in America (with SF as #5.) And it's not really working in any borough outside of Manhattan...
Actually, I have a few friends who interned at MS this summer and apparently the phrase "eat your own dog food" is very very very popular on the campus.
If anything, including that phrase in the document only makes it seem MORE credible.
NY Times and NYT-owned papers (e.g. Boston Globe) have similar content partnerships.
:shudder: Fox News. None. Don't you think one of those organizations (ok, maybe not Fox) would LOVE to have the NYT as a content supplier?
/. trolls who lump the Times in with that crowd.
Wrong. The Times has no major media company involved in ANY deal for content, and that is INTENTIONAL. No CNN. No MSNBC. No
Same with the BBC, and same with the AP (which is completely independenty of any media organization.)
How dare you make blanket comments? Yes, the Post is working with MSNBC, yes CNN is owned by AOL/TW... those are obvious. I hate seeing
If they supported my iPod, and I was even forced to download directly to the iPod and not even keep a copy of it on the computer, I'd be very happy.
Don't they realize that the people who will sign up for this service are the cutting edge music-listeners, the ones that will probably own an mp3 player and not a discman for their portable music needs?
Doing something big in New York City is more of a marketing thing than anything else. Face it, it's a BIGGER deal when anything is New York City.
Boston just doesn't carry that kind of weight all over the US or the world. You don't make as big a splash in Boston as you do in NYC. Everything is higher profile. Why do you think everything costs more in NYC?
Apple didn't build their flagship super-expensive store in Boston. They built it in SOHO. I've been to a few apple stores, and the one that opened in SOHO wasn't just another apple store... it was an event. A serious major super event that made the front page of apple.com. Why? Because it's New York City.
Apple wants the flashy splash that is New York. Everyone wants the flashy splash that is New York for a big event. That's why NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV and CNN all have shows that feature New York news/live shows with NYC and it's crowds as the backdrop. That's why Tiffany, Cartier and Toys R Us built their world-wide flagship stores in NYC.
Face it, there's a certain something about NYC... maybe it's becasue it's the cultural capital of america (and don't argue it's not... it's got more museums and the largest public library in the world) or maybe it's because it's where all the richest people are located (per capita, Manhattan's average income is a little over $100,000/person) or maybe it's the density.
I don't know why, but NYC carries a weight behind it and Apple sees this weight clearly. Most companies do. Boston is a great town, but it doesn't carry the clout that NYC does (frankly NO US city does).
Anyone else find it a bit ironic that an article that is offering suggestions for cleaner URLs and undoing the damage of CMS naming conventions is named "000058.php" ?
Ok, I know this is a bit offtopic, but it's a question nobody seems to know the answer too.
I'm very very close to buying an ipod (10gig version.) I've had a a rio 300, nomad jukebox, and now one of those panasonic SD devices. I decided I want a small device that holds lots of music with an intutive interface, hence I'm getting the iPod.
But, I live in a Mac/PC household (ibook and big desktop PC.) Now I want to be able to use my iPod on both machines (or at least have the potential to use them on both.) So do I get the PC version (with the extra PC software) and if I do will that just plug into my ibook (since all the ipod software comes standard in Mac OS X) or will the Windows iPod be locked out of the Mac?
If that's the case, maybe a Mac iPod with ephpod or XPlay would be better? Hmm... Basically, anyone know if the windows ipod works on the mack?
Actually, I'm half British, half American :)
But, even in the UK, we think of the Times (new york) as the most unbiased and objective news source in the english speaking world (the BBC has it's fair share of bias, and any Briton will tell you tell you that much.)
Secondly, Le Monde has just recently started carrying the NY Times as a supplement to their own paper, something they asked to Times for because they feel the Times is a very objective news source.
Finally, the NYTimes definitively sets the National agenda for news. The boston globe broke the chuck sex scandal story, but it didn't really make the press until it was fronted in the New York Times. I dare say, it also creates the international agenda for news.
AP is a great news source, but there's such a wide range in quality of articles that the AP has that it isn't as good an overall news source as the Times. Also, AP does NOT really influence the US national news media the way the Times does.
Do you really really really think that the New York Times, the most respected news source in the world BAR NONE, would risk ruining it's reputation by selling their email lists (which also means lying in their privacy policy) to some penis-enlarger spam guys?
Or maybe you just think that the world's "paper of record" (not to mention third highest circulated periodical in the world) is going to go bankrupt in a year and sell their assets (of which their most prized one is not the second tallest building in NYC [currently under construction] but their EMAIL LIST?)
This isn't fucking googl.com. It's the New York Times. They say they're not going to spam you, they won't. They are a very tightly-run organization and to this day none of the aggregated data has been stolen. Do you shop online at all? Do you have a slashdot account? Do you go to restaurants? Do you live in fear that your data will be used against you when you do any of these things?
The Times' reputation is FAR more important for them to risk selling their data or not protecting it closely. The Times is a family run business, so they don't need a quick buck (hence they avoided the whole rush-to-the-internet-consolidate-everywhere craze) and they're not a do-it-quick web operation.
If you don't believe in the free registration fine. But don't go onto the Times web site and fill in garbage information to read these articles that you obviously want to. I still can't believe the audacity of people on the Net. They're giving you their CONTENT FOR FREE, except for a small registration form which they won't sell.
I can't help but laugh at people who think the Times is some joe-smo dot.com publication.
Ok, I've been looking for a place that actually sells this case [the second from the bottom on page one] LIKE crazy (for MAMEing in front of a TV... two USB ports in the front is great!)
Where, oh where, can I find this case? I've sorta been interested in the DIGN case but there are no USB ports in the front and it's insanely expensive.... so anyone know where I can get the Cupid 2677 with USB?
Good luck typing with 6 fingers without a table near you to actually place it down. I, having owned both, can EASILY type faster on the Treo while standing up and holding it completely in my hand than the Communicator (where I only approach comparable typing speed if I put it in my lap.)
Also, the talktime of the communicator is NOWHERE near 10 hours in real life... in fact it's not even near 4 hours (as a former owner, I can attest to that, and am surprised that you don't either.)
Besides, who talks on their cell for 4 hours a day? I charge mine every night so it's not an issue, and if I ever do run out of battery life for the cell I can still use the Treo as a normal PALM without the wireless capabilities for another few hours, the communicator can't do that.
I for one love my Handspring Treo. Not only is it not nearly as bulky as the Communicator (I used to own that too) but it seems to be a bit faster, has better battery life and has a much much larger library of software.
It's also cheaper, and I find using the thumb to type on that keyboard (ala Blackberry) is ALOT easier than using the communicator keyboard. It also feels ALOT less awkward talking into the Treo with the flip open than with the communicator closed brick in your face.
I highly recommend the Treo. With Voicestream you even have free (well it uses your minutes but that's it) internet access, and with Treo Mail it even pages/beeps you when you get a new email to any POP email box.
No no no silly. Chicago is the #2 financial city in the country. Where did you come up with that stat about boston? In terms of capital that goes through the city? In terms of how many prominent investment banks are in the area? In terms of what financial exchanges are located there? In terms of how many skyscrapers are in the city? In terms of raw numbers of people in the finance industry? oh no, probably just out of your ass.
I love how Bostonians always compare their little metro system to the largest one in the western hemisphere. Guess why NYC's is more crowded? Because people ACTUALLY USE IT (it's the only transit system in America that over 50% of the residents use FREQUENTLY according to the census) You know what sucks about the T (aside from the fact that it closes, that half of it is not really a subway, that it has different fares for different stations), what sucks is getting from Quincy to BC requires you to go to a centralized hub to transfer over. None of that shit HAPPENS in NYC because it's system is not based on the hub concept (only system in the US to actually be that way.)
NYC restaurants suck? Nobu, Tribeca Grille, Daniels', and the Union Square Cafe suck? Let me guess, you've been in an Olive Garden in Times Square and now you're an expert on the world wide culinary arts. Face it, the best restaurants in the world (also the pricest unfortunately) are in New York City.
My God, are all Bostonians this delusional (2nd financial city in the country, HA HA HA HA HA)? The funny thing is, you sound so silly with your claims because they're not even debatable they're so far gone.
So let me get this straight (and I know some moderators here seem to be "ra ra Boston!" and will mod me down, but...)
You're comparing the largest subway system in the western hemisphere to Boston's and honestly trying to make them seem on par?
You're comparing a subway system that has, according to the census, a 60% FREQUENT ridership rate in the entire city (a city of 7.5 million) against Boston's (which is nowhere near the same magnitude.) You're comparing a ridership of about 250,000 a day (about 5K one-ways) (on the "real" train lines) against the 5th most used subway transportation system in the world?
Then you complain about the "complexity of the system" where in Boston I need to go to a centralized hub to even transfer to any subway lines. Meanwhile, in NYC you can transfer readily and easily without any "centralized hub" needed. And wow, you're complaining about "confusing" express lines? I'm sorry if MORE options are a problem, sounds like the typical Bostonians complaint when they come to NYC. You say "has less than 20 lines" like having 20 lines is a bad thing (it's 28 btw). It's like, "well we only have one road versus 30 in town, isn't that great?" NO, it's not.
Then again, you're also comparing a subway system that, at most, requires you to walk 5 blocks from ANY station in Manhattan against Boston's with it's monsterous walks to the T (or it's "silver line-because-we-really-want-to-call-it-a-subway" transfer lines.)
Finally, the worse part of the "T" is that, you're comparing a subway system that's open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year... a system, that suffered the greatest foreign attack on America soil ever yet reopened in less than 1 hour after the second tower went down (and I mean Manhattan lines,) against a system that shuts down at night for "maintenance?"
Even my friends from boston secretly admit to me there's no comparison. My question is, do you really honestly think this way regarding the subway, or are you one of those irrational "boston is great no matter what nyc sucks" type people?
1) Slashdot won't sell my e-mail address. NYT will.
/. (with VA as their parent company) to sell our email addresses WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY before the largest, richest, and arguably most powerful news source in the world.
/. user provides me with significant benefits (increased posting level, accumulation of karma, a journal area, friend/foe tracking) above and beyond simple access. Obviously, you can read everything on /. as an AC, unlike NYT.
They say they won't, and they're the most reputable and respected news source in the WORLD. They depend on their reputation. I'd expect
2) Being a registered
Since you aren't a NYT registered user, you have NO clue as to what extras you get for being a subscriber. How about trying it to see? (customization, custom stories sent to your email, custom story pages... very very nice overall)
Nevermind regarding point #2. It does have an IR port. Cool! Now just for #1.
Not to be a dick, but why pay $35 for Andromeda when you can download AMPache for free? :)
It works with apache so it works on everything too.
That case is SO close to what I've been looking for in a HTPC case. I need two more things and I'd buy one in a second (especially since I can't add them myself because I love my appendages too much to try and cut alumnium cleanly)
1) Room in the front of the case for 2 USB/2 Firewire ports. I want to be able to plug my Playstation USB-modified controller into the front of my HTPC to play MAME and emulated games. It'd be nice to plug my iPod right in too, so I can sync it up before I go out.
2) An opening in the front for an IRMan or something similar. An HTPC needs an IR port in the front. Maybe it's there, (the review is slashdotted so I can only see the pics)
Finally, once again has anyone solved the problem of flipping channels on the cable box to get TiVo functionality? That's the last piece of my puzzle, and I don't know how I'd get PVR like functionality without the ability to change the television channels on my cable box. The TiVo has these IR emitters that do all the dirty work.
Oh well, time to look at the TiVo source when I have some free time.
Because poor people have a right to a computer. Like it or not, there are people that go to Sam's, Costco or some other discount warehouse and buy a $399 e-Machines Celeron with a 12" monitor, a CD-ROM drive and a modem. Many people can't (or won't) spend more than that on a computer.
True, just like poor people have a right to a car. That doesn't mean they have a right to a BMW or Mercedes, although nobody will argue that it doesn't lead to a better overall experience.