Don't care. If they had the absence of mind to install LimeWire, there's no telling what other crap is running 24/7 on that machine (and, consequently, my network).
Yeah, MAC filtering seems to be the only way to secure my network with minimal ass-pain-age. Ironically my router is insecure and I've forgotten the password (it must be too strong!) so I have to reset it and start from zero when I get the chance.
This is my apartment we're talking about; someone hopped on because their laptop thought it'd be convenient to latch onto the nearest open signal. (Every laptop does this; the newer OSes ask the user first, but who ever reads a computer dialog box?) To create a buffer zone for visitors would be more difficult (with my non-Linux-running WRT54G) than to create a WEP key and have my guests type it in hexchar by hexchar.
No, this isn't about security; anything truly secure goes over SSL. I'd just rather have all the bandwidth I paid for, with none of it going to ignorant laptop users running LimeWire.
I've lived in two places where I set up my access point with no encryption. In both places, I've fired up iTunes to see someone else sharing music on my LAN. This didn't bother me until I read the name of the share: "(name)'s LimeWire Tunes."
I don't mind if people want to check their e-mail on my WAP. I do mind when they idle on file sharing services, using lots of bandwidth and exposing me to potential legal liability.
It's a shame that I have to protect my router somehow, especially because one of my devices (a Nintendo DS) doesn't support WPA at all.
I bought a Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks a couple of months ago on a lark* and I've been pretty happy with it. The USB adapter fits into the bottom of the mouse and works as a power switch: when you take the USB adapter out, the mouse turns on, and when you put it back in, the mouse turns off. Pretty smart. Not as convenient as Bluetooth, but at least I can use it on any PC or Mac I've come across.
* I had a couple hundred shekels left over, and one of the many duty free shops in the Tel Aviv airport sold computer gear.
Seeing as though both Windows Live Local (JavaScript) and Yahoo! Maps Beta (Flash) already let you view live traffic on the web, I'd guess it's only a matter of time before Google adds traffic as an option to their full-scale mapping app.
That's a pretty low-risk thing to get into an ATM area. Once you've passed through the man trap you're in a tiny camera-filled room with nothing more than a few ATMs. They only put that man trap in there to prevent bums from setting up camp in the ATM room.
Somehow I suspect that the iTunes Movie Rental service will be tied in with the release of the much-ballyhooed "real video iPod." Maybe it'll have a big prism-shaped battery-filled base so it'll stay upright while you watch hours of video on its screen. (I get about two hours of battery life on my 30GB 5G iPod when watching videos, incidentally)
Show me how to compress 5 Gbps down to 54 Mbps, giving you the benefit of the doubt on both ends (802.11g is much slower than 54 Mbps in real use), with the final result being "something close" to the original. Apple's been going after video on iPods only; their videos look awful on anything larger than an iPod screen.
HDMI provides 5 Gbps of bandwidth, and the recent 1.3 spec of HDMI ups that to 10.2 Gbps. I don't know of any 802.11_ standard that even comes close to streaming HDMI over the air, unless you consider Apple's 320x200 widescreen TV shows to be "HD."
Sure you can. Winternals and Sysinternals utilities don't require WGA and there's nothing but Slashdot FUD stating that they will require WGA. Download them now, burn them to Blu-Ray disc, and use them forever.
Flash Player for Mac OS X/PPC is notoriously slow. I've seen Flash animations that crawl on Safari when they run superbly on a supposedly-slower x86 computer. Even the poor-quality streaming video everyone watches in Flash requires a lot of CPU power to churn through.
The most overtly negative Genesis ads were targeted squarely at the NES since the Genesis beat the SNES to market. There were also a few negative ads that Sega ran against the Game Boy when the Game Gear came out. The interview suggests that this was the strategy from day 1: the Sega Master System was not at all successful in the US, so they led a full-scale assault to make the NES seem uncool.
Later Sega ads were less extremely negative, but no less extreme (the "SEGA!!" scream was their trademark for years).
The problem I have with counter-marketing is that it causes the target market to see the promoted product only in the context of another, more well-known product. By saying "a Mac is just like a PC, only better" Apple keeps the notion of a Windows PC as standard in the customer's mind. By contrast, Apple has never made any sort of comparison with iPod -- they rarely refer to it as a "music player" or "MP3 player" like so many of their competitors do. Even though the iPod had fewer features than its perceived competition at launch ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.") Apple kept marketing the positive features while leaving it to the fanboys to explain away the shortcomings (iPod mini: "No, you don't need flash memory" / iPod 4G: "No, you don't need to play videos" / etc).
To swing this thread back on-topic, Sega made the same mistake. Nintendo distinguished itself from Atari before it by redesigning even the look and feel of the console's hardware, never even acknowledging Atari's existence. Had Sega marketed the Genesis on its own merits without mentioning Nintendo, perhaps they could have gained more traction and goodwill.
One quote stood out: "you've got to advertise against Nintendo, you know, make fun of them. Ridicule Nintendo and make kids think that the NES is absolutely the uncoolest machine to own."
Marketing is essential in getting a product out there, but counter-marketing never seems to work. "Genesis does what Nintendon't" was Sega's counter to the NES, but then the SNES came around with a lot of things that Genesis... didn't do. Likewise, I remember the Atari Jaguar's ads "Why spend $300 on a 32-bit PlayStation when you can get a 64-bit Jaguar for only $199?" Even Apple's "switch" ads didn't produce any perceptible benefit for the company.
It seems like the best marketing is positive, marketing features that others may have but touting yours above all else. The commercials for the Genesis could have been done even better without the anti-Nintendo slaps and with 30-60 solid seconds of gameplay with a Genesis logo in the corner.
Define "public." Slashdot will forever hate Microsoft (childish Borg icon, thousands of "M$" comments) but the general public hates Microsoft more due to the mediocrity of Windows 98 than due to their "battleground" tactics. Please don't buy into the Slashdot tabloid mentality of every conflict being a war, a battleground, a struggle. Judge products on their own merits and perhaps you'll gain a better understanding of why OpenOffice.org still has a very long way to go before it can displace Microsoft Office in a large business.
Wow, only $499 (or $599)? That's an awesome deal. I heard there are some suckers out there who pay upwards of one thousand dollars for a compubox that can play video games.
Virtually any version of Opera and Internet Explorer 7 zoom both images and text (surprising since IE6 didn't zoom ANYTHING on most sites). I'm sure there are a few Firefox extensions out there that do the same.
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Don't care. If they had the absence of mind to install LimeWire, there's no telling what other crap is running 24/7 on that machine (and, consequently, my network).
Yeah, MAC filtering seems to be the only way to secure my network with minimal ass-pain-age. Ironically my router is insecure and I've forgotten the password (it must be too strong!) so I have to reset it and start from zero when I get the chance.
This is my apartment we're talking about; someone hopped on because their laptop thought it'd be convenient to latch onto the nearest open signal. (Every laptop does this; the newer OSes ask the user first, but who ever reads a computer dialog box?) To create a buffer zone for visitors would be more difficult (with my non-Linux-running WRT54G) than to create a WEP key and have my guests type it in hexchar by hexchar.
No, this isn't about security; anything truly secure goes over SSL. I'd just rather have all the bandwidth I paid for, with none of it going to ignorant laptop users running LimeWire.
I've lived in two places where I set up my access point with no encryption. In both places, I've fired up iTunes to see someone else sharing music on my LAN. This didn't bother me until I read the name of the share: "(name)'s LimeWire Tunes."
I don't mind if people want to check their e-mail on my WAP. I do mind when they idle on file sharing services, using lots of bandwidth and exposing me to potential legal liability.
It's a shame that I have to protect my router somehow, especially because one of my devices (a Nintendo DS) doesn't support WPA at all.
Wouldn't that lead to situations like the Loews Aleph_0-Plex from Futurama, with a countably infinite set of movies to choose from?
I bought a Microsoft Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks a couple of months ago on a lark* and I've been pretty happy with it. The USB adapter fits into the bottom of the mouse and works as a power switch: when you take the USB adapter out, the mouse turns on, and when you put it back in, the mouse turns off. Pretty smart. Not as convenient as Bluetooth, but at least I can use it on any PC or Mac I've come across.
* I had a couple hundred shekels left over, and one of the many duty free shops in the Tel Aviv airport sold computer gear.
Seeing as though both Windows Live Local (JavaScript) and Yahoo! Maps Beta (Flash) already let you view live traffic on the web, I'd guess it's only a matter of time before Google adds traffic as an option to their full-scale mapping app.
I prefer the tested Will Wright formula of "Try to play to win, then after that gets boring unleash hell on the simulation."
That's a pretty low-risk thing to get into an ATM area. Once you've passed through the man trap you're in a tiny camera-filled room with nothing more than a few ATMs. They only put that man trap in there to prevent bums from setting up camp in the ATM room.
Somehow I suspect that the iTunes Movie Rental service will be tied in with the release of the much-ballyhooed "real video iPod." Maybe it'll have a big prism-shaped battery-filled base so it'll stay upright while you watch hours of video on its screen. (I get about two hours of battery life on my 30GB 5G iPod when watching videos, incidentally)
Show me how to compress 5 Gbps down to 54 Mbps, giving you the benefit of the doubt on both ends (802.11g is much slower than 54 Mbps in real use), with the final result being "something close" to the original. Apple's been going after video on iPods only; their videos look awful on anything larger than an iPod screen.
1. Go to mail room
2. Place Netflix envelope in outgoing mail pile
3. Tip cap to mail room guy
4. Profit!
HDMI provides 5 Gbps of bandwidth, and the recent 1.3 spec of HDMI ups that to 10.2 Gbps. I don't know of any 802.11_ standard that even comes close to streaming HDMI over the air, unless you consider Apple's 320x200 widescreen TV shows to be "HD."
Sure you can. Winternals and Sysinternals utilities don't require WGA and there's nothing but Slashdot FUD stating that they will require WGA. Download them now, burn them to Blu-Ray disc, and use them forever.
Flash Player for Mac OS X/PPC is notoriously slow. I've seen Flash animations that crawl on Safari when they run superbly on a supposedly-slower x86 computer. Even the poor-quality streaming video everyone watches in Flash requires a lot of CPU power to churn through.
The submitter thinks a mediocre JavaScript e-mail client, a mediocre JavaScript word processor, and a mediocre JavaScript spreadsheet program comprise an "on-line operating system." This operating system, unlike most released in the last 20 years, relies on the Internet being reliable and fast, which it rarely is.
The most overtly negative Genesis ads were targeted squarely at the NES since the Genesis beat the SNES to market. There were also a few negative ads that Sega ran against the Game Boy when the Game Gear came out. The interview suggests that this was the strategy from day 1: the Sega Master System was not at all successful in the US, so they led a full-scale assault to make the NES seem uncool.
Later Sega ads were less extremely negative, but no less extreme (the "SEGA!!" scream was their trademark for years).
The problem I have with counter-marketing is that it causes the target market to see the promoted product only in the context of another, more well-known product. By saying "a Mac is just like a PC, only better" Apple keeps the notion of a Windows PC as standard in the customer's mind. By contrast, Apple has never made any sort of comparison with iPod -- they rarely refer to it as a "music player" or "MP3 player" like so many of their competitors do. Even though the iPod had fewer features than its perceived competition at launch ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.") Apple kept marketing the positive features while leaving it to the fanboys to explain away the shortcomings (iPod mini: "No, you don't need flash memory" / iPod 4G: "No, you don't need to play videos" / etc).
To swing this thread back on-topic, Sega made the same mistake. Nintendo distinguished itself from Atari before it by redesigning even the look and feel of the console's hardware, never even acknowledging Atari's existence. Had Sega marketed the Genesis on its own merits without mentioning Nintendo, perhaps they could have gained more traction and goodwill.
One quote stood out: "you've got to advertise against Nintendo, you know, make fun of them. Ridicule Nintendo and make kids think that the NES is absolutely the uncoolest machine to own."
Marketing is essential in getting a product out there, but counter-marketing never seems to work. "Genesis does what Nintendon't" was Sega's counter to the NES, but then the SNES came around with a lot of things that Genesis... didn't do. Likewise, I remember the Atari Jaguar's ads "Why spend $300 on a 32-bit PlayStation when you can get a 64-bit Jaguar for only $199?" Even Apple's "switch" ads didn't produce any perceptible benefit for the company.
It seems like the best marketing is positive, marketing features that others may have but touting yours above all else. The commercials for the Genesis could have been done even better without the anti-Nintendo slaps and with 30-60 solid seconds of gameplay with a Genesis logo in the corner.
Define "public." Slashdot will forever hate Microsoft (childish Borg icon, thousands of "M$" comments) but the general public hates Microsoft more due to the mediocrity of Windows 98 than due to their "battleground" tactics. Please don't buy into the Slashdot tabloid mentality of every conflict being a war, a battleground, a struggle. Judge products on their own merits and perhaps you'll gain a better understanding of why OpenOffice.org still has a very long way to go before it can displace Microsoft Office in a large business.
Wow, only $499 (or $599)? That's an awesome deal. I heard there are some suckers out there who pay upwards of one thousand dollars for a compubox that can play video games.
Somehow I don't think Microsoft covets the demographic of "people too cheap to spend $4.17 per month on on-line gaming."
You don't need to pay $50/yr to access Live marketplace.
Google revealed this CNN article from November 1996, also about an auction of Einstein's personal papers.
Virtually any version of Opera and Internet Explorer 7 zoom both images and text (surprising since IE6 didn't zoom ANYTHING on most sites). I'm sure there are a few Firefox extensions out there that do the same.