If you device supports downloading just download the program. It by passes the 2/4 streamming limit. You can download a show while other family members are watching the other streams. And watching downloaded programs don't count towards streams. Leave the 2 streams for devices that can't download.
Learn this one when me and my kids were fighting over the 2 streams.
Except cable companies are government sponsored monopolies. At the time of their creation there were no alternatives. This was especially true in rural areas where even broadcast tv didn't reach. Luckily for us Hulu isn't so lucky. At the end of the day they have to offer something better than, cable, broadcast tv, satellite, networks own websites, itunes, amazon video on demand, dvds, netflix, and finally bittorrent.
If people are blocking ads, the problem is with your advertising, not with the people. Adverting by definition, is a request for attention, not a requirement. Ad block software is our way of telling you, you f'd up, and we're not paying attention until you, the site owners, fix it. I have no sympathy if your site goes under because of your poor business model advertising decisions.
I keep hearing that the level of viruses in Microsoft is because of its popularity. If that is the case can someone please point me to the figures that back this up. I'd like to see the figures showing the relationship of an OS's market share to the percentage of viruses. If Microsoft has 90% market share and 70k viruses and Mac has 2% market share does that mean Mac has 1000 to 2000 viruses? Does OSX even have 100 viruses? Does the popularity of an OS invalidate its security model? If Mac had 90% market share would it have 70k viruses. Linux? BSD?
How about all the im networks get off their buts and allows communication between networks. I don't need to have a Yahoo account just to email Yahoo users. Or an Aol account to email Aol users. I should be able to use my Yahoo Account/Client to talk to Aol, google, msn, etc users.
What it should be like: 1) Decent hardware. 2) Full documentation for hardware. 3) ALL the source code. 4) A free cross-platform dev environment that is easy to install and setup. Gcc/linux/cygwin maybe?
I just about spit my soda all over the page when I read his comment about installing the Firefox fix. He forgot to add the Firefox security fix was a work-around to a Microsoft vulnerability not a Firefox bug itself.
Textbook manufacturers won't go for this because they 'claim' printing costs are the main reason textbooks cost are so high. If they offered an electronic version of a book it'd totally ruin the scam they and the colleges have setup.
I wish some of the hardware manufacturers would implement something like the Archos/Rockboxx model, but on purpose. Put together a decent set of hardware, a nominal software/firmware package, and release the source and docs. If it's a decent bit of hardware and picked up by a set of developers you should get a rock solid, feature rich firmware in a few short months. Incorporate the code back into your product for the next release and bam instant added value for the company. Just look at what the Rockboxx people have done with no documentation.
This whole thing is beyond funny. The new governer ran on a platform of schools and education. The first thing she did after being elected was backtrack and cut the funding to every district in the state. Teachers have been let go in every school. Many haved moved out of state to look for work. NOW they want to give every 6th grader a computer. Total BS.
I wish I could remember where I read it but I thought even if you had a long lifespan you'd only live to be about 200. Something about your chances of having a serious accident reach 100% about the age of 200.
That is if you can even get their internet service in Michigan. Charter has been telling me they'll have it in my area in three months for THE LAST THREE YEARS.:(
If I can send an email across town and across the world for the same price. A local phone call. Why is it a local call and a long distance call cost different?
Voice over ip. Charge by bandwidth usage. A call across town should cost the same as a call across the world.
50 years? I'd say more like 6 years maybe 10 if you push it.
Sure there were computer around 50 years ago but they were limited to high-end researchers and the government. I have calculator more powerful than those earlier computers.
30 years ago maybe a select few in colleges. Even then you had to schedule time.
20 years ago. The first desktop computers. A few geeky kids (myself included). Businesses just starting to use word processors and spreadsheets in everyday usage. Maybe a computer lab in a public school.
10 years ago. Required classes in high school. Computers and computer time available. Computers finally making its way in to the everyday consciousness.
Mid 90's. Internet. Societal change. Whether computers brought the internet home or The internet brought the computer into the house. It's now an everyday tool.
So really we have a technology with six years of experience with the every day users. The term "open source" is just now reaching the masses. Mozilla the poster child for open source has after 5 years hit the end of its first cycle. The last of the 3.x and 4.x browsers should finally be disappearing as legacy systems are replaced. Opening the way for Netscape, Mozilla, or one of its derivates to gain momentum.
As computer prices continue to get cheaper the cost of software will become more apparent. Computer are powerful enough now that you don't need a high end bleeding edge machine to run a basic office suite. So corporate executives are going to look at software costs as the next big savings area. That makes programs like Open Office very appealing.
So, I think the revolution is just now starting. Give it a few more years for more apps like Mozilla and Open office to drop out.
Tie that in with broadband reaching the last of the masses in the next year and a half or so and Mp3 and file trading coming to a head. I'm thinking 2005 should be a very interesting year.
You can slice the battle a thousand different ways with Batman winning one time and Superman the next. Superman using his many powers or Batman using kryptonite, super armor, or whatever. But it all comes down to one thing, willpower. And when it's a question of willpower Batman wins every time.
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If you device supports downloading just download the program. It by passes the 2/4 streamming limit. You can download a show while other family members are watching the other streams. And watching downloaded programs don't count towards streams. Leave the 2 streams for devices that can't download. Learn this one when me and my kids were fighting over the 2 streams.
Except cable companies are government sponsored monopolies. At the time of their creation there were no alternatives. This was especially true in rural areas where even broadcast tv didn't reach. Luckily for us Hulu isn't so lucky. At the end of the day they have to offer something better than, cable, broadcast tv, satellite, networks own websites, itunes, amazon video on demand, dvds, netflix, and finally bittorrent.
If people are blocking ads, the problem is with your advertising, not with the people.
Adverting by definition, is a request for attention, not a requirement.
Ad block software is our way of telling you, you f'd up, and we're not paying attention until you, the site owners, fix it.
I have no sympathy if your site goes under because of your poor business model advertising decisions.
If I'm being charge by the byte do I get to charge back sites for obnoxious (large) ads they add to their sites?
I keep hearing that the level of viruses in Microsoft is because of its popularity. If that is the case can someone please point me to the figures that back this up. I'd like to see the figures showing the relationship of an OS's market share to the percentage of viruses. If Microsoft has 90% market share and 70k viruses and Mac has 2% market share does that mean Mac has 1000 to 2000 viruses? Does OSX even have 100 viruses? Does the popularity of an OS invalidate its security model? If Mac had 90% market share would it have 70k viruses. Linux? BSD?
Dead industry, ignore them, they'll just go away.
How about all the im networks get off their buts and allows communication between networks. I don't need to have a Yahoo account just to email Yahoo users. Or an Aol account to email
Aol users. I should be able to use my Yahoo Account/Client to talk to Aol, google, msn, etc users.
What it should be like:
1) Decent hardware.
2) Full documentation for hardware.
3) ALL the source code.
4) A free cross-platform dev environment that is easy to install and setup. Gcc/linux/cygwin maybe?
And finally port and extend the rockbox firmware. http://www.rockbox.org/
Nope. That would be podcasting.
http://www.ipodder.org/
I was thinking more of some kind of super thin cutting device to compete with lasers, water jet cutters, and wire edms in the machining industry.
:)
bryan
I just about spit my soda all over the page when I read his comment about installing the Firefox fix. He forgot to add the Firefox security fix was a work-around to a Microsoft vulnerability not a Firefox bug itself.
bryan
Weighted random shuffle for Winamp
:)
http://www.robodj.org/
Best plugin ever
Bryan
HSC and QVC actually pay the cable companies to carry their stations. So if you 'choose' those channels your bill would go down.
:)
Bryan
Textbook manufacturers won't go for this because they 'claim' printing costs are the main reason textbooks cost are so high. If they offered an electronic version of a book it'd totally ruin the scam they and the colleges have setup.
bryan
I wish some of the hardware manufacturers would implement something like the Archos/Rockboxx model, but on purpose. Put together a decent set of hardware, a nominal software/firmware package, and release the source and docs. If it's a decent bit of hardware and picked up by a set of developers you should get a rock solid, feature rich firmware in a few short months. Incorporate the code back into your product for the next release and bam instant added value for the company. Just look at what the Rockboxx people have done with no documentation.
Bryan
Actually the tivo user are so pissed they are just cancelling the NBC shows. Works out better for CBS.
:)
Bryan
This whole thing is beyond funny. The new governer ran on a platform of schools and education. The first thing she did after being elected was backtrack and cut the funding to every district in the state. Teachers have been let go in every school. Many haved moved out of state to look for work. NOW they want to give every 6th grader a computer. Total BS.
I wish I could remember where I read it but I thought even if you had a long lifespan you'd only live to be about 200. Something about your chances of having a serious accident reach 100% about the age of 200.
:)
Bryan
That is if you can even get their internet service in Michigan. Charter has been telling me they'll have it in my area in three months for THE LAST THREE YEARS. :(
:)
Bryan
If I can send an email across town and across the world for the same price. A local phone call. Why is it a local call and a long distance call cost different?
:)
Voice over ip. Charge by bandwidth usage. A call across town should cost the same as a call across the world.
Anybody?
Bryan
50 years? I'd say more like 6 years maybe 10 if you push it.
:)
Sure there were computer around 50 years ago but they were limited to high-end researchers and the government. I have calculator more powerful than those earlier computers.
30 years ago maybe a select few in colleges. Even then you had to schedule time.
20 years ago. The first desktop computers. A few geeky kids (myself included). Businesses just starting to use word processors and spreadsheets in everyday usage. Maybe a computer lab in a public school.
10 years ago. Required classes in high school. Computers and computer time available. Computers finally making its way in to the everyday consciousness.
Mid 90's. Internet. Societal change. Whether computers brought the internet home or The internet brought the computer into the house. It's now an everyday tool.
So really we have a technology with six years of experience with the every day users. The term "open source" is just now reaching the masses. Mozilla the poster child for open source has after 5 years hit the end of its first cycle. The last of the 3.x and 4.x browsers should finally be disappearing as legacy systems are replaced. Opening the way for Netscape, Mozilla, or one of its derivates to gain momentum.
As computer prices continue to get cheaper the cost of software will become more apparent. Computer are powerful enough now that you don't need a high end bleeding edge machine to run a basic office suite. So corporate executives are going to look at software costs as the next big savings area. That makes programs like Open Office very appealing.
So, I think the revolution is just now starting. Give it a few more years for more apps like Mozilla and Open office to drop out.
Tie that in with broadband reaching the last of the masses in the next year and a half or so and Mp3 and file trading coming to a head. I'm thinking 2005 should be a very interesting year.
Bryan
You can slice the battle a thousand different ways with Batman winning one time and Superman the next. Superman using his many powers or Batman using kryptonite, super armor, or whatever. But it all comes down to one thing, willpower. And when it's a question of willpower Batman wins every time.
Bryan
Actually that should be, I get taxed when I earn it and then taxed again when I draw it out of social security.
Or taxed when I earned it and taxed again when my descendants get it after I die.