I was out at Best Buy today, and was looking at a few cds. And came across a whole stack of cds with the suppossedly recalled xcp copy protection. I thought about saying something to the store. Sort of bewilders me that this shit is still sitting on shelves at the store. I almost bought one so I could join in the class action lawsuits.
This applies only to TDMA pay as you go phones.. if you have a gsm phone (on cingular at least) it won't effect you. -Trust me I looked it up when I saw this earlier today on engadget, since I just bought a gophone for my mom last night.
A few things to note. Dvorak is right and wrong. This is the only time apple could of made this transition. Right now they are sitting on like $5 billion in Cash (from iPod sales mostly).
If you listen to the TWIT Podcast, Leo and Dvorak were speculating about this on Sunday and Dvorak was preaching about all these people who would buy these new macs, and dual boot windows and osx. this is BS. dual booting is a PITA, and joe user from mac OSX won't give a hoot about dual booting.
Now on to why this will help linux. There is going to be a down turn in demand for apple's ppc equipment now that everyone knows they will be moving to intel. Linux runs great on most macs, and between a slow down in sales and a possible price reductions from lack of demand, plus the number of Macs available for resale during and after the transition, will be a nice base of machines to run linux on. A Dual 2 ghz G5 would make a great Web server that would be capable of a lot of load.
Dvorak makes reference to the crazy interfaces in Linux apps. I don't know if they are any harder, but different is harder sometimes. Also with Gnome's focus on usability and HIG I thing if anything It is getting easier to use than windows and even OSX in some instances. Is there room for improvement?... of course there is.
What about a bunch of XBoxes using XBox Media Server. A central server with samba shares, and a few wireless bridges and you are set. Also I guess you could go with MythTV clients to a single backend. Might be better since you already have access to the PC Equipment.
shn2mp3 is a perl script that can convert a folder of shorten files or flac files to mp3 or ogg.
this tool was written for live concert trading community so it is more tuned for concert recordings. ie it looks of the accomponing text info file for the concert, and uses the info in that file for the id3 tags (artist, date, venue, source).
My coworker and I each bought one about a month ago. For the price of the device I've been pretty happy. The Activation was a little troublesome, but what do you expect from ATTWS.
Why I like it... Well first off I work in court rooms, and 80% of the time you can't bring in phones.. that rules out use of a sidekick, treo6X0 or even something like the Nokia 6820 (did I get that right?). And about 100% of the time, you can't bring in cameras, so that rules out most new devices. For a while I was using my Zaurus with a GPRS CF modem, with T-Mobiles data only plan ($30/month). all I was using it for was IM and email.
Along comes the ogo.. it isn't a phone, not a camera, and is about half the monthly price of my tmobile data plan. SO it just seemed to make sense. (also a lot cheaper then a blackberry)
I like the device. The thumbboard is average, couple of the keys that I'd like available on top, or under the alt level aren't there, you have to go into a symbols menu. The Battery time is good. It charges over a 5v mini usb connection. I think it is just the power leads, as plugging it into the computer has no effect execpt to charge it. (which is nice for when you don't have an outlet handy or just one outlet and need to share it with your notebook). Coverage is good, but you do have to wait for a GPRS connection, so even if you have a signal, you aren't guarenteed a connection.
I haven't tried the bluetooth yet, so don't really know what that can and can't do.
As far as negatives.. the big draw back I don't like is that there is no way to delete multiple messages. you have to hit delete for each one.
Fees and what you get. I pay $17 a month and get access to AIM, and an AOL mailbox (if I had one), also I get as many pop3 mailboxes as I want. it just pulls the mail down directly from the mail server.
There is no html mail support, so that can be an issue, and if plain text isn't available the ogo won't display the message.
I've set up a mail account on my server that gets all the mail that gets through my spamassassin filters forwarded to it. I also tried to set up a procmail script that pipes html only mail through lynx and saves it out as text. That hasn't been working, and I haven't had time to check why.
Finally for News and Sports scores and stuff, you can just use AIM Bots liket WSJ, and AOLBuddy.
An Ideal solution for me would be a USB2 or ieee1394 (firewire) device that I could use on the road with my notebook, or at home with my desktop. Would love a usb tv tuner for my laptop, as far as I know current driver support for linux is abysmal.
Whenever I see it I think of the Band Phish who are now retired as a band. And weren't at all about attacks or fraud. Heck they probably hold a trademark on Phish, and should sue everyone for using it in this manner. This is a lot differnt then the spam and hormel thing. Spam ala hormel was bad ala mail spam. Phish ala the band isn't nearly as relatable to this "phishing" stuff.
I had LASIKs in both eyes last June. I'm seeing better than 20/20 out of both eyes now, before I couldn't see the big E!
I had made up my mind a long time ago I was going to get it done. I know somebuddy where things went bad too. I just was tired of glasses and contacts.
It was one of the scariest moments in my life though. My heart was beating so fast the computer had trouble locking on to my eye (I calmed eventually) And the smell of burning eye didn't bode well, but when I opened my eyes briefly at the end and could see the numbers on the clock hanging on the wall across the room (cloudy, but clear?) I was happy. 24 hours later I had 20/20 vision.
From what I learned before hand, it is all about planning. are you a good canidate or not, if there is any question to this question, don't do it! Also make sure you have a compident doc. any mess ups with the setup and you are screwed.
Recently Raytheon settled a class action case against them by share holders. the settlement was for $410 million. of that settlement the law firm gets 10% or $41 million. Now everyone of those little share holders are going to see maybe $500 at most (and I think that is an estimate about 500x too big).
Now I wonder who got helped more by helping all those children or families? The companies sued? The families represented? or Mr. Edwards and company? For tort lawyers its all about the almighty buck. Support Tort Reform!
Dude it was a press release straight from the law firm that yahoo picked up all the wires. Its nothing more than PR propaganda. read the top where it says "Press Release"
My point was that I own all the pieces of the puzzle to legally play DVDs yet am not allowed. I'm aware that it is because of the DMCA, and that is the obstacle. The DMCA ignores does not have provision for this, and it should.
Every Computer I have bought with a dvd drive, and every dvd drive I have bought for myself to put in a computer includes software to play back encrypted dvds (windvd etc). Point is if you buy the drive and it has the software, then you should have the right to use the drive to play dvds. Just because you aren't using the software, doesn't mean that the oem didn't have to give their $.10 to the MPAA to bundle it with the drive/computer. This is a fact that is ignored way too much.
And has for about the last year. No linux associated problems. The only problems are the "what do I do now?" questions that arise when she is using any piece of software. (evident when running turbotax inside of vmware... and yes she starts the vmware session all by herself). I gave her red hat 9 + ximian d2. and it seems a good fit.
Back in elementry school when I was running for treasurer of student council, my dad and I made up campaign posters with my face and name, and catch slogans on currancy. We did it all by and, copying the currancy, cutting out the portriat, and so on, and then replacing it with my image et. al. this was a long tedious process, but had photoshop or the gimp been around back then, we would of used that for sure. Sounds like now we'd be up a creek, even though what we were doing was pretty much as non-counterfit as it gets.
Have to agree on this. I got just a sleeve, and was in love with it, so I got the whole bag. Their iPod case is pretty nice too. Great design (read stylish, and tough) and great company, and all made in the usa.
I'm involved in a lawsuit in Chancery Court here in Delaware, and we have a motion from a year ago still waiting for the judge to rule on, also the motion for summary of judgement was finished in April still with no ruling.
granted our judge got moved to the state supreme court, and then the replacement got postponed as some other judge died.... still seems like an awful long time.
I was down there last week for the game, and the school is definitely transforming. also the links in the article point to off VT network sites, so is the comment warrented?
Does anyone know of any reason not to go north of the border to have lasiks done. I know that it is significantly cheaper, and they have been doing it longer, and use newer technology (I'm not sure on the last one). Draw backs would be the burden of traveling there, and the problem with follow--ups if need be.
know any good references for advantages, or disadvantages of going to canada?
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I was out at Best Buy today, and was looking at a few cds. And came across a whole stack of cds with the suppossedly recalled xcp copy protection. I thought about saying something to the store. Sort of bewilders me that this shit is still sitting on shelves at the store. I almost bought one so I could join in the class action lawsuits.
This applies only to TDMA pay as you go phones.. if you have a gsm phone (on cingular at least) it won't effect you. -Trust me I looked it up when I saw this earlier today on engadget, since I just bought a gophone for my mom last night.
A few things to note. Dvorak is right and wrong. This is the only time apple could of made this transition. Right now they are sitting on like $5 billion in Cash (from iPod sales mostly).
If you listen to the TWIT Podcast, Leo and Dvorak were speculating about this on Sunday and Dvorak was preaching about all these people who would buy these new macs, and dual boot windows and osx. this is BS. dual booting is a PITA, and joe user from mac OSX won't give a hoot about dual booting.
Now on to why this will help linux. There is going to be a down turn in demand for apple's ppc equipment now that everyone knows they will be moving to intel. Linux runs great on most macs, and between a slow down in sales and a possible price reductions from lack of demand, plus the number of Macs available for resale during and after the transition, will be a nice base of machines to run linux on. A Dual 2 ghz G5 would make a great Web server that would be capable of a lot of load.
Dvorak makes reference to the crazy interfaces in Linux apps. I don't know if they are any harder, but different is harder sometimes. Also with Gnome's focus on usability and HIG I thing if anything It is getting easier to use than windows and even OSX in some instances. Is there room for improvement?... of course there is.
I submitted this to slashdot about 2 weeks ago. Amazing
What about a bunch of XBoxes using XBox Media Server. A central server with samba shares, and a few wireless bridges and you are set. Also I guess you could go with MythTV clients to a single backend. Might be better since you already have access to the PC Equipment.
Do a serch for etree scripts and or shn2mp3.
shn2mp3 is a perl script that can convert a folder of shorten files or flac files to mp3 or ogg.
this tool was written for live concert trading community so it is more tuned for concert recordings. ie it looks of the accomponing text info file for the concert, and uses the info in that file for the id3 tags (artist, date, venue, source).
My coworker and I each bought one about a month ago. For the price of the device I've been pretty happy. The Activation was a little troublesome, but what do you expect from ATTWS.
Why I like it... Well first off I work in court rooms, and 80% of the time you can't bring in phones.. that rules out use of a sidekick, treo6X0 or even something like the Nokia 6820 (did I get that right?). And about 100% of the time, you can't bring in cameras, so that rules out most new devices. For a while I was using my Zaurus with a GPRS CF modem, with T-Mobiles data only plan ($30/month). all I was using it for was IM and email.
Along comes the ogo.. it isn't a phone, not a camera, and is about half the monthly price of my tmobile data plan. SO it just seemed to make sense. (also a lot cheaper then a blackberry)
I like the device. The thumbboard is average, couple of the keys that I'd like available on top, or under the alt level aren't there, you have to go into a symbols menu. The Battery time is good. It charges over a 5v mini usb connection. I think it is just the power leads, as plugging it into the computer has no effect execpt to charge it. (which is nice for when you don't have an outlet handy or just one outlet and need to share it with your notebook). Coverage is good, but you do have to wait for a GPRS connection, so even if you have a signal, you aren't guarenteed a connection.
I haven't tried the bluetooth yet, so don't really know what that can and can't do.
As far as negatives.. the big draw back I don't like is that there is no way to delete multiple messages. you have to hit delete for each one.
Fees and what you get. I pay $17 a month and get access to AIM, and an AOL mailbox (if I had one), also I get as many pop3 mailboxes as I want. it just pulls the mail down directly from the mail server.
There is no html mail support, so that can be an issue, and if plain text isn't available the ogo won't display the message.
I've set up a mail account on my server that gets all the mail that gets through my spamassassin filters forwarded to it. I also tried to set up a procmail script that pipes html only mail through lynx and saves it out as text. That hasn't been working, and I haven't had time to check why.
Finally for News and Sports scores and stuff, you can just use AIM Bots liket WSJ, and AOLBuddy.
Well hope that is helpful
An Ideal solution for me would be a USB2 or ieee1394 (firewire) device that I could use on the road with my notebook, or at home with my desktop. Would love a usb tv tuner for my laptop, as far as I know current driver support for linux is abysmal.
Where did this term Phishing come from?
Whenever I see it I think of the Band Phish who are now retired as a band. And weren't at all about attacks or fraud. Heck they probably hold a trademark on Phish, and should sue everyone for using it in this manner. This is a lot differnt then the spam and hormel thing. Spam ala hormel was bad ala mail spam. Phish ala the band isn't nearly as relatable to this "phishing" stuff.
I had LASIKs in both eyes last June. I'm seeing better than 20/20 out of both eyes now, before I couldn't see the big E!
I had made up my mind a long time ago I was going to get it done. I know somebuddy where things went bad too. I just was tired of glasses and contacts.
It was one of the scariest moments in my life though. My heart was beating so fast the computer had trouble locking on to my eye (I calmed eventually) And the smell of burning eye didn't bode well, but when I opened my eyes briefly at the end and could see the numbers on the clock hanging on the wall across the room (cloudy, but clear?) I was happy. 24 hours later I had 20/20 vision.
From what I learned before hand, it is all about planning. are you a good canidate or not, if there is any question to this question, don't do it! Also make sure you have a compident doc. any mess ups with the setup and you are screwed.
Recently Raytheon settled a class action case against them by share holders. the settlement was for $410 million. of that settlement the law firm gets 10% or $41 million. Now everyone of those little share holders are going to see maybe $500 at most (and I think that is an estimate about 500x too big).
Now I wonder who got helped more by helping all those children or families? The companies sued? The families represented? or Mr. Edwards and company? For tort lawyers its all about the almighty buck. Support Tort Reform!
Dude it was a press release straight from the law firm that yahoo picked up all the wires. Its nothing more than PR propaganda. read the top where it says "Press Release"
For the jokes, and the pretty pictures
my favorite ftp client by far is lftp.
My point was that I own all the pieces of the puzzle to legally play DVDs yet am not allowed. I'm aware that it is because of the DMCA, and that is the obstacle. The DMCA ignores does not have provision for this, and it should.
Every Computer I have bought with a dvd drive, and every dvd drive I have bought for myself to put in a computer includes software to play back encrypted dvds (windvd etc). Point is if you buy the drive and it has the software, then you should have the right to use the drive to play dvds. Just because you aren't using the software, doesn't mean that the oem didn't have to give their $.10 to the MPAA to bundle it with the drive/computer. This is a fact that is ignored way too much.
And has for about the last year. No linux associated problems. The only problems are the "what do I do now?" questions that arise when she is using any piece of software. (evident when running turbotax inside of vmware... and yes she starts the vmware session all by herself). I gave her red hat 9 + ximian d2. and it seems a good fit.
Foreign Language Film is the catagory I believe
Back in elementry school when I was running for treasurer of student council, my dad and I made up campaign posters with my face and name, and catch slogans on currancy. We did it all by and, copying the currancy, cutting out the portriat, and so on, and then replacing it with my image et. al. this was a long tedious process, but had photoshop or the gimp been around back then, we would of used that for sure. Sounds like now we'd be up a creek, even though what we were doing was pretty much as non-counterfit as it gets.
Have to agree on this. I got just a sleeve, and was in love with it, so I got the whole bag. Their iPod case is pretty nice too. Great design (read stylish, and tough) and great company, and all made in the usa.
I'm involved in a lawsuit in Chancery Court here in Delaware, and we have a motion from a year ago still waiting for the judge to rule on, also the motion for summary of judgement was finished in April still with no ruling.
granted our judge got moved to the state supreme court, and then the replacement got postponed as some other judge died.... still seems like an awful long time.
Go Hokies
I was down there last week for the game, and the school is definitely transforming. also the links in the article point to off VT network sites, so is the comment warrented?
no sales tax here... ie in the $1 store things really are $1 not $1.07 or what ever...
Does anyone know of any reason not to go north of the border to have lasiks done. I know that it is significantly cheaper, and they have been doing it longer, and use newer technology (I'm not sure on the last one). Draw backs would be the burden of traveling there, and the problem with follow--ups if need be.
know any good references for advantages, or disadvantages of going to canada?
thanks
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