I lived in 3 different towns in NJ and one in CA and I think the landline has gone down like once in 25+ years. I've never had a landline to landline call dropped, ever. I didn't even think that was possible.
I have had the cable drop off dozens of times though as have most people I know. I'd rely on Verizon for VOIP in a second but I would trust Cablevision to deliver my email. If what they are saying is actually true on a national scale then I'm shocked.
Beyond Google's horrific privacy policies the one thing that gives me pause is its web based nature. Many individuals get by perfectly well with web only email but businesses especially very much want to have a local copy of their email and calendar available at all times. Imagine running your appointments off of google calendar and then you can't get them? What do you do when you need to print out an email from a year ago and your connection is down etc? The same goes for any online ASP but at least with some of them they have offline syncing available as part of the service. Without that I could never recommend the service to a business.
"For many other people, on the other hand, this represents a way to finally get rid of a subscription altogether. "
You think people are going to dump their cable tv/sat subscription for Itunes ala carte pricing?
Your flat out dreaming if you think this product has the possiblity of even gaining 1% of the market.
PVR's from cable/sat companies are the current and future for both recording and purchasing content. If you think they will let Apple do an end-run around them then you haven't been paying attention. Worst case they will simply lower prices to compete with anything Apple can do. And frankly apple's prices suck.
It's 1999 all over again! I predict similar results to almost ever other OSS project that tries to tackle this type of software. Ie software that never gets past the Alpha stage and a solution that relies on some proprietary connector that only works partly.
btw I realize there are some decent OSS groupware project going but the ratio of mature workable solutions vs projects that get announced with big fanfare, promise ease of use, and full Exchange compatibility is about 1,000 to 1.
Someone made a comment on Urge similar to that the day the new Zune software was announced.
So which software platform do people use? Use WMP 11 w/Urge, this new Zune application? Or some other application to manage their music? Which store to use again? With Zune MS has really muddied the waters here especially on the software front. They are really confusing consumers.
They want to have their cake and eat it too. Either do it all-in-one like Apple or stay out of it and let the market decide which of your partners to go with. I'd be pissed if I was a MS partner right now. Then again based on MS's past history why did they expect anything different.
I'll stick with Itunes 4.9. Oh wait....I can't. The assholes at Apple decided I should be forced to upgrade my software even though it works perfectly well. I have no use for downloading movies from Itunes and I guess I now have no use for the Itunes online store either.
"We have seen an explosion of telecommunication technology and consumer options since AT&T was broken up and the telephone industry was transformed from a monopoly into a set of carrriers that could each compete on level ground. "
You seem to be telling only half the story. Have you noticed how since the very day AT&T was broken up the telecom industry has spent every waking moment trying to merge back into one single company? What are we down to these days? Two companies? AT&T & Verizon? Why the hell has the Gov let this happen?
I still can't believe MS won't allow you to move some of the features around, notably the home button. It is unbeliveable awkward to go to the top left to go back and forward and then have to move way down and right to get to the home page button. You want to put all of those other little buttons off to the bottom right? Fine. But move the fucking home button back next to the navigation arrows where it is supposed to go. Oh and smart move to hide the file menu and all the other menus. Nobody uses those menus anyway.
Pluses?
Tabbed browing - Welcome to the 90s. Shrink to fit printing - Gee why would we need that? I like having 15% of every page I print cut off. RSS Feeds - Does anyone even use this? Integrated Search - About time.
Overall I think this is the browser that MS should have released 3-4 years ago. It is better than IE 6 in pretty much every way but I don't see Opera or Firefox users coming back anytime soon. I know that MS sees these changes as a big deal but I honestly expected more from a company that spends $1 Billion+ on R&D per year. With all of that money and talent the best they could do is copy features that other browsers have had for years and years? Talk about a total lack of innovation.
It's not a myth. Study after study has shown that CD-R's are a horribly unreliable medium for long term data storage. You've just been very lucky. Either way your playing russian roulette with your data.
Maxtor=crap. My experiences and many other techs that I spoken to have found that to be the case for the last several years. Everytime I have to work on a Dell with a failed/dying HD it turns out to be a POS Maxtor drive that is usually less than a year old. I'm beyond annoyed that Seagate would sully their name by purchasing them.
Unless your stuck with a 32MB thumb drive I just don't see why you wouldn't use Firefox portable instead. The whole point of a USB based browser is that you don't interact with or effect the main browser on the machine your working on. Using a brower that simple acts as a shell for the machines existing browser is a pretty bad idea in that case. Think about IE being infected and you thinking this browser which hooks into it will somehow be safe to use?
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Two processes are left running and sucking up memory. The programmer who is charge of the unistall routine should be tarred and feathered and then forbidden from ever working in the field again. Beyond the obvious issue think about this. Aol 9.0.3343 is updated to 9.0.4000 because of a massive security flaw in AOLServiceHost.exe. You uninstalled AOL before the update came out and yet there sits part of the old version of AOL running as part of your OS just inviting trouble.
IMHO the ship has passed and everyone who was interested in a calendaring solution from Mozilla moved on to something else years ago because they got tired of waiting. The project has just sat for too long without gaining any traction. Vista's calendar will end up taking over for Windows users and I don't see many Ical users jumping ship. Of course *nix users have several of these programs to choose from. Business users will continue to stick with Outlook. I've been a Moz booster for many years now but I simply just can't get excited about this project.
Don't confuse your need for conpensation with the reasons that others get involved with OSS. Do people volunteering for the Red Cross to help Katrina victims deserve compensation? Do people who volunteer every week at the local food bank deserve compenstion?
You got it wrong buddy. The idea that the work is useful to others and that you are helping people for Free IS the compensation with OSS. You cannot put a value on that and you cannot demand something in return for your work.
If you only want to do work that has immediate compensation stick to a regular job with a salary. If you can find an OSS job where the person who benefits from your code happens to want to kick back to you then fine, but don't go trying to turn one of the greatest things going into a quid pro quo situation. That is selfish and goes against much of what OSS stands for.
"To be honest, I would be suprised if Apple did NOT turn a blind eye to pirating of OSX"
Prepare to be surprised then. Apple is very much against this and actively goes after people trying to accomplish this. Apple's biggest nightmare is not being able to sell users overpriced hardware anymore. As soon as consumers realized that a $400 Dell runs OS X just as well as a $1000 Mac, Apple would be in big trouble. As I keep saying, they are a hardware company who just happens to make some neat software.
I call BS on that arguement. Then why do movies work? Somehow big studios are able to ensure tight control over their works when massive amounts of people see it.
Why can't crapspace et al have strict rules that are favorable to user ala what big studios have? Both big studios and users are putting up content that distributors make money off of. Myspace has an even better deal then movie theaters. They get the content for Free, make money off of it, and then tell the users to go F themselves if they want any sort of protection. They are IMHO even more beholden to look after users content because they pay nothing to acquire it. I'm honestly not up to speed on this whole situation but from the summary something here sounds very wrong.
Last time I flew I was delayed because someone with my name is on a "watch list". My name is generic as can be(think Dan Smith etc). They warned me that I should now get to the airport even earlier because this might happen every time I fly. Fuckers. I can't believe the xenophobic idiots we have running this country.
I don't know why anyone from the Middle East would possibly live here.
We always used to joke about spies listening in on our coversations 20 years ago. We all knew that the gov did wiretaps and listened in on our communications from time to time. But only the loons really thought that "average joe" was being spied on. We honesly didn't worry about it.
Well, now it's too late. Total Information Awareness is upon us and all of our communications by phone/cell/computer are being listened in on and filtered through. There really is nowhere go but downhill. You watch. Within 5 years all foreigners visiting the US will have to have GPS enabled chip implants. Within 10 all prisoners will have them. Within 15 it will be a Felony for any US citizen to remove/disable their chip implant. Anyone want to join me while I go live in cave somewhere?
Take it FWIW but I submitted 2 and got both pretty quickly and my father IIRC got one as well. Possibly your unit was not affected. They only sent replacements if it was from within a specific range.
Something is wrong with your PC then. I'm idling at 2% and part of that is task manager. If its at 11% then you just happen to be looking at your system while its updating something or XP is running backgroud tasks. The same thing happens on linux.
If through this app XP takes up 20% cpu just sitting there then the app is buggy.
"I want the genuine kernel , not some hacked about fuckup of a kernel that may or may not be stable just because Charlie Coder at Deadrat who whoever thought it would be "kool" to port some bleeding edge code back..."
Nice Troll. Yea who wants a hack from "Deadrat" like Alan Cox screwing with their kernel? There is a huge difference between joe user making up his own distro and backporting whatever the hell he wants and professional companys who often have kernel devs working for them back porting important features. Stock doesn't always mean best or most stable.
Wow. I'm sure it's not competely fair to say this since both technologies are new and Aero is a bit more than just window borders, but right now XGL is making Aero looks like a slow bloated piece of crap.
Cue someone pointing to that wikipeida entry which shows all those great features coming with Vista....
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To paraphrase you:
"You can't expect companies to actually know what they are selling to consumers at all times."
What the fuck kind of logic is that? You'd make a great spokesperson for the Spinach grower's association.
I lived in 3 different towns in NJ and one in CA and I think the landline has gone down like once in 25+ years. I've never had a landline to landline call dropped, ever. I didn't even think that was possible.
I have had the cable drop off dozens of times though as have most people I know. I'd rely on Verizon for VOIP in a second but I would trust Cablevision to deliver my email. If what they are saying is actually true on a national scale then I'm shocked.
Beyond Google's horrific privacy policies the one thing that gives me pause is its web based nature. Many individuals get by perfectly well with web only email but businesses especially very much want to have a local copy of their email and calendar available at all times. Imagine running your appointments off of google calendar and then you can't get them? What do you do when you need to print out an email from a year ago and your connection is down etc? The same goes for any online ASP but at least with some of them they have offline syncing available as part of the service. Without that I could never recommend the service to a business.
"For many other people, on the other hand, this represents a way to finally get rid of a subscription altogether. "
You think people are going to dump their cable tv/sat subscription for Itunes ala carte pricing?
Your flat out dreaming if you think this product has the possiblity of even gaining 1% of the market.
PVR's from cable/sat companies are the current and future for both recording and purchasing content. If you think they will let Apple do an end-run around them then you haven't been paying attention. Worst case they will simply lower prices to compete with anything Apple can do. And frankly apple's prices suck.
It's 1999 all over again! I predict similar results to almost ever other OSS project that tries to tackle this type of software. Ie software that never gets past the Alpha stage and a solution that relies on some proprietary connector that only works partly.
btw I realize there are some decent OSS groupware project going but the ratio of mature workable solutions vs projects that get announced with big fanfare, promise ease of use, and full Exchange compatibility is about 1,000 to 1.
Someone made a comment on Urge similar to that the day the new Zune software was announced.
So which software platform do people use? Use WMP 11 w/Urge, this new Zune application? Or some other application to manage their music? Which store to use again? With Zune MS has really muddied the waters here especially on the software front. They are really confusing consumers.
They want to have their cake and eat it too. Either do it all-in-one like Apple or stay out of it and let the market decide which of your partners to go with. I'd be pissed if I was a MS partner right now. Then again based on MS's past history why did they expect anything different.
I'll stick with Itunes 4.9. Oh wait....I can't. The assholes at Apple decided I should be forced to upgrade my software even though it works perfectly well. I have no use for downloading movies from Itunes and I guess I now have no use for the Itunes online store either.
If all you ever do is watch cd/dvds then you have zero reason for a HTPC in the first place.
"We have seen an explosion of telecommunication technology and consumer options since AT&T was broken up and the telephone industry was transformed from a monopoly into a set of carrriers that could each compete on level ground. "
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You seem to be telling only half the story. Have you noticed how since the very day AT&T was broken up the telecom industry has spent every waking moment trying to merge back into one single company? What are we down to these days? Two companies? AT&T & Verizon? Why the hell has the Gov let this happen?
AT&T with its recent acquisitions is now back to being the #1 phone comany.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2006/08/15/att-0815
I still can't believe MS won't allow you to move some of the features around, notably the home button. It is unbeliveable awkward to go to the top left to go back and forward and then have to move way down and right to get to the home page button. You want to put all of those other little buttons off to the bottom right? Fine. But move the fucking home button back next to the navigation arrows where it is supposed to go. Oh and smart move to hide the file menu and all the other menus. Nobody uses those menus anyway.
Pluses?
Tabbed browing - Welcome to the 90s.
Shrink to fit printing - Gee why would we need that? I like having 15% of every page I print cut off.
RSS Feeds - Does anyone even use this?
Integrated Search - About time.
Overall I think this is the browser that MS should have released 3-4 years ago. It is better than IE 6 in pretty much every way but I don't see Opera or Firefox users coming back anytime soon. I know that MS sees these changes as a big deal but I honestly expected more from a company that spends $1 Billion+ on R&D per year. With all of that money and talent the best they could do is copy features that other browsers have had for years and years? Talk about a total lack of innovation.
It's not a myth. Study after study has shown that CD-R's are a horribly unreliable medium for long term data storage. You've just been very lucky. Either way your playing russian roulette with your data.
Maxtor=crap. My experiences and many other techs that I spoken to have found that to be the case for the last several years. Everytime I have to work on a Dell with a failed/dying HD it turns out to be a POS Maxtor drive that is usually less than a year old. I'm beyond annoyed that Seagate would sully their name by purchasing them.
Unless your stuck with a 32MB thumb drive I just don't see why you wouldn't use Firefox portable instead. The whole point of a USB based browser is that you don't interact with or effect the main browser on the machine your working on. Using a brower that simple acts as a shell for the machines existing browser is a pretty bad idea in that case. Think about IE being infected and you thinking this browser which hooks into it will somehow be safe to use?
If it was just a few preferences left behind then there probably won't be any issue. But have a look at this screenshot. http://stopbadware.org/images/screenshots/AOL/AOL1 1.html
Two processes are left running and sucking up memory. The programmer who is charge of the unistall routine should be tarred and feathered and then forbidden from ever working in the field again. Beyond the obvious issue think about this. Aol 9.0.3343 is updated to 9.0.4000 because of a massive security flaw in AOLServiceHost.exe. You uninstalled AOL before the update came out and yet there sits part of the old version of AOL running as part of your OS just inviting trouble.
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IMHO the ship has passed and everyone who was interested in a calendaring solution from Mozilla moved on to something else years ago because they got tired of waiting. The project has just sat for too long without gaining any traction. Vista's calendar will end up taking over for Windows users and I don't see many Ical users jumping ship. Of course *nix users have several of these programs to choose from. Business users will continue to stick with Outlook. I've been a Moz booster for many years now but I simply just can't get excited about this project.
Don't confuse your need for conpensation with the reasons that others get involved with OSS. Do people volunteering for the Red Cross to help Katrina victims deserve compensation? Do people who volunteer every week at the local food bank deserve compenstion?
You got it wrong buddy. The idea that the work is useful to others and that you are helping people for Free IS the compensation with OSS. You cannot put a value on that and you cannot demand something in return for your work.
If you only want to do work that has immediate compensation stick to a regular job with a salary. If you can find an OSS job where the person who benefits from your code happens to want to kick back to you then fine, but don't go trying to turn one of the greatest things going into a quid pro quo situation. That is selfish and goes against much of what OSS stands for.
"To be honest, I would be suprised if Apple did NOT turn a blind eye to pirating of OSX"
Prepare to be surprised then. Apple is very much against this and actively goes after people trying to accomplish this. Apple's biggest nightmare is not being able to sell users overpriced hardware anymore. As soon as consumers realized that a $400 Dell runs OS X just as well as a $1000 Mac, Apple would be in big trouble. As I keep saying, they are a hardware company who just happens to make some neat software.
I call BS on that arguement. Then why do movies work? Somehow big studios are able to ensure tight control over their works when massive amounts of people see it.
Why can't crapspace et al have strict rules that are favorable to user ala what big studios have? Both big studios and users are putting up content that distributors make money off of. Myspace has an even better deal then movie theaters. They get the content for Free, make money off of it, and then tell the users to go F themselves if they want any sort of protection. They are IMHO even more beholden to look after users content because they pay nothing to acquire it. I'm honestly not up to speed on this whole situation but from the summary something here sounds very wrong.
Last time I flew I was delayed because someone with my name is on a "watch list". My name is generic as can be(think Dan Smith etc). They warned me that I should now get to the airport even earlier because this might happen every time I fly. Fuckers. I can't believe the xenophobic idiots we have running this country.
I don't know why anyone from the Middle East would possibly live here.
We always used to joke about spies listening in on our coversations 20 years ago. We all knew that the gov did wiretaps and listened in on our communications from time to time. But only the loons really thought that "average joe" was being spied on. We honesly didn't worry about it.
Well, now it's too late. Total Information Awareness is upon us and all of our communications by phone/cell/computer are being listened in on and filtered through. There really is nowhere go but downhill. You watch. Within 5 years all foreigners visiting the US will have to have GPS enabled chip implants. Within 10 all prisoners will have them. Within 15 it will be a Felony for any US citizen to remove/disable their chip implant. Anyone want to join me while I go live in cave somewhere?
Take it FWIW but I submitted 2 and got both pretty quickly and my father IIRC got one as well. Possibly your unit was not affected. They only sent replacements if it was from within a specific range.
Something is wrong with your PC then. I'm idling at 2% and part of that is task manager. If its at 11% then you just happen to be looking at your system while its updating something or XP is running backgroud tasks. The same thing happens on linux.
If through this app XP takes up 20% cpu just sitting there then the app is buggy.
"I want the genuine kernel , not some hacked about fuckup of a kernel that
may or may not be stable just because Charlie Coder at Deadrat who whoever
thought it would be "kool" to port some bleeding edge code back..."
Nice Troll. Yea who wants a hack from "Deadrat" like Alan Cox screwing with their kernel? There is a huge difference between joe user making up his own distro and backporting whatever the hell he wants and professional companys who often have kernel devs working for them back porting important features. Stock doesn't always mean best or most stable.
Wow. I'm sure it's not competely fair to say this since both technologies are new and Aero is a bit more than just window borders, but right now XGL is making Aero looks like a slow bloated piece of crap.
Cue someone pointing to that wikipeida entry which shows all those great features coming with Vista....