E-mail is not a guaranteed-delivery medium as it is. If some ISP decides to cut off all e-mail unless it is paid $1 per message, then we'll all learn to route around that ISP. If they all do? Well, that sucks and we'll have to use something better than e-mail. Something not hacked up as a weekend project in the '70s, preferably. (Banks and other security-conscious firms already know not to send anything potentially private by e-mail. Let's do something to improve that.)
Install Growl and run HardwareGrowler (included with the download). It'll give you an unobtrusive, customizable notification when you connect or disconnect a piece of hardware.
Just because someone sends e-mail doesn't mean they "spend their entire life on the Internet." Besides, I'm already used to my postal mail taking a few days to reach my family -- what's so awful about an ordinary e-mail taking so long? (Unless you purchase an "express e-mail" stamp, of course.)
So we're clear, I still want Net Neutrality to exist. I just don't think it's captured the hearts and minds of the voting public to the extent that other issues have.
Is there a way to effect change by growing one's "fringe web news organization" or by uniting several such organizations? I know various blogs seem to think they can influence voting patterns by spreading a message across many like-minded sites, but they still have a very long way to go in effecting change at the high levels of government and influence. (Liebermann didn't lose in CT because of DailyKos, for example.)
I didn't doubt that 10 corporations own the mass media. I did doubt that Net Neutrality is a significant item of interest for the population at large. Net Neutrality gets an awful amount of attention on Internet news sites since those news sites, looking out for their own interests, see their own viability potentially damaged by a lack of neutrality among ISPs.
When I look at sites like Indymedia and Alternet, I see that they report on issues that mainstream outlets won't. That's good. I still don't care about most of those issues, though. Furthermore just because something makes news in a mass media outlet doesn't make it a critical issue for most of the population. I don't see Slashdot opining about the Thai coup attempt (CNN's top story) and I bet even fewer than 7% of Americans will consider it a newsworthy event a month from now, for example.
If nothing else, this article just highlights the disconnect between Internet news/opinion sources and the general public. No amount of condescending "the megacorporations are to blame" rhetoric will change that.
Personally, I think it's because 93% of Americans don't spend their entire lives on the Internet and as such they don't feel like Internet neutrality is an issue worth as much attention as other issues. I don't think it has to do with "megacorporations" owning the news media.
Lobbying groups show anti-Net-Neutrality commercials in Seattle too. The jist is that "Congress wants you to pay more for Internet access" and the cable companies' hands are tied.
Maybe your comment was posted at the request of YouTube who is trying to astroturf by enlisting otherwise trustworthy Slashdot posters!! I'm on to you!
Once people actually get high-speed Internet access at home (fibre, not cable/DSL) it could work. As it stands, Comcast serves HDTV movies on demand to its cable boxes. The quality is good and it takes 20-30 seconds from the time you hit "play" to where it's buffered up enough to play reliably. That can only improve but it's a great start.
When you consider that most home Internet connections became fast enough for streaming good quality music just a few years ago, I'd say that we have a ways to go before video is going to be fast enough. (Insert doom-and-gloom prediction about Net Neutrality ruining it for all the little guys out there)
The iTV is $300. For that price you could get an entry-level PC or perhaps a secondhand Mac mini. The kicker is that the iTV was actually designed with a 10' interface in mind, whereas you'll have to hack up an interface with a PC solution.
And I agree, YouTube video would look even worse on a big screen than it does in that little Flash player.
"The ultimate iPod accessory is Fendi's Juke Box, a $1,500 carrying case for transporting multiple iPods."
"German designer and iPod fanatic Karl Lagerfeld . . . now owns 40 iPods, according to the latest issue of French Elle. Modeling a silver jogging suit, Lagerfeld confesses to owning 40 of the devices. Although at first glance the reader may assume he means a single 40-GB iPod, he meant what he said: He has 40 iPods.
"Lagerfeld has converted his collection of 60,000 compact discs to a unique iPod storage system, according to a recent report in Womens Wear Daily. Lagerfeld keeps most of the iPods scattered around his various homes, which, in turn, are scattered around the globe. "
Yes, Google has been doing a fine job of imitating Yahoo!. Once their services come out of beta (both Google's and Yahoo!'s) the two portals will be even better.
Right, just like we all replaced our boring old PCs with i-Openers and BeIA devices six years ago.
Seriously, if you want a computer and you only have $300 to spend, get a cheapo Dell. In fact, a Dell and a Wii combined cost less than a PlayStation 3 (MOD UP BECAUSE I SAID SOMETHING COST LESS THAN A PLAYSTATION 3).
Most of the casual games on Xbox Live Marketplace sell for about $5, too. The sweet spot is apparently ($250 to $400) for a piece of hardware and $5 for each casual game.
Then why not ask to borrow a classmate's notes? Not all my professors made notes available at all on the web, so that's what I did when I missed a lecture.
Hmm... perhaps students could undercut the professor by selling their own notes. I have to tell my friend Cliff about this!
Clearly you are unaware of the spelling and pronunciation revolution that Web 3.0 will bring. Don't worry. There's a Firefox extension in beta that will sort it all out.
or: #3 - they upgraded the software after I terminated my service.
A coworker of mine had the same problems I did. We both had a phone number that went to the dev team's voice mail. Who knew that they would actually fix some of those bugs?
(Oddly enough, it never occurred to Dish that my box might have been defective; not once did they offer to swap it out for a better one.)
Considering how many useful services in "the cloud" currently bear "beta" tags, I think it's a pretty easy to argument to make that reliability will improve. Google's own search engine was "beta" the first time I used it 7-8 years ago.
Of course, by the time Gmail is out of beta we'll all be salivating over ZMvnxjowi (pronounced "Leonard") mail, and the cycle will begin anew.
I remember when my Mac-fan friends defended the use of brushed metal for some apps ("Supposed to evoke a hardware device," etc) and plain for others. Then out came GarageBand with its wooden interface, and all the other interfaces Apple introduces on a whim, and all you can do is commiserate with Tog.
God, I hope not. The Dish 9xx series looks fantastic except when I had one (last year) it repeatedly failed to record things I had asked it to. That's the primary function of a DVR box. Since then I've had two different Comcast boxes; my current one, which is "Powered by Microsoft," spontaneously reboots at least once a day while I'm watching something.
Apparently he does. Most of the Wayback Machine links that you and others have posted in this discussion don't work any more. He must have directed the Internet Archive to delete his site's archives.
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E-mail is not a guaranteed-delivery medium as it is. If some ISP decides to cut off all e-mail unless it is paid $1 per message, then we'll all learn to route around that ISP. If they all do? Well, that sucks and we'll have to use something better than e-mail. Something not hacked up as a weekend project in the '70s, preferably. (Banks and other security-conscious firms already know not to send anything potentially private by e-mail. Let's do something to improve that.)
Install Growl and run HardwareGrowler (included with the download). It'll give you an unobtrusive, customizable notification when you connect or disconnect a piece of hardware.
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Just because someone sends e-mail doesn't mean they "spend their entire life on the Internet." Besides, I'm already used to my postal mail taking a few days to reach my family -- what's so awful about an ordinary e-mail taking so long? (Unless you purchase an "express e-mail" stamp, of course.)
So we're clear, I still want Net Neutrality to exist. I just don't think it's captured the hearts and minds of the voting public to the extent that other issues have.
Is there a way to effect change by growing one's "fringe web news organization" or by uniting several such organizations? I know various blogs seem to think they can influence voting patterns by spreading a message across many like-minded sites, but they still have a very long way to go in effecting change at the high levels of government and influence. (Liebermann didn't lose in CT because of DailyKos, for example.)
I didn't doubt that 10 corporations own the mass media. I did doubt that Net Neutrality is a significant item of interest for the population at large. Net Neutrality gets an awful amount of attention on Internet news sites since those news sites, looking out for their own interests, see their own viability potentially damaged by a lack of neutrality among ISPs.
When I look at sites like Indymedia and Alternet, I see that they report on issues that mainstream outlets won't. That's good. I still don't care about most of those issues, though. Furthermore just because something makes news in a mass media outlet doesn't make it a critical issue for most of the population. I don't see Slashdot opining about the Thai coup attempt (CNN's top story) and I bet even fewer than 7% of Americans will consider it a newsworthy event a month from now, for example.
If nothing else, this article just highlights the disconnect between Internet news/opinion sources and the general public. No amount of condescending "the megacorporations are to blame" rhetoric will change that.
So go to Digg and stay off Slashdot. Or go muck around on Kuro5hin, the site that completely obsoleted Slashdot five years ago.
Personally, I think it's because 93% of Americans don't spend their entire lives on the Internet and as such they don't feel like Internet neutrality is an issue worth as much attention as other issues. I don't think it has to do with "megacorporations" owning the news media.
Lobbying groups show anti-Net-Neutrality commercials in Seattle too. The jist is that "Congress wants you to pay more for Internet access" and the cable companies' hands are tied.
Maybe your comment was posted at the request of YouTube who is trying to astroturf by enlisting otherwise trustworthy Slashdot posters!! I'm on to you!
And you! and you! and you! and all of you!
Most of the color systems had obvious inferiorities as well: lousy battery life (3 hours on 6 AAs), cost, size, and weight to name four.
Once people actually get high-speed Internet access at home (fibre, not cable/DSL) it could work. As it stands, Comcast serves HDTV movies on demand to its cable boxes. The quality is good and it takes 20-30 seconds from the time you hit "play" to where it's buffered up enough to play reliably. That can only improve but it's a great start.
When you consider that most home Internet connections became fast enough for streaming good quality music just a few years ago, I'd say that we have a ways to go before video is going to be fast enough. (Insert doom-and-gloom prediction about Net Neutrality ruining it for all the little guys out there)
The iTV is $300. For that price you could get an entry-level PC or perhaps a secondhand Mac mini. The kicker is that the iTV was actually designed with a 10' interface in mind, whereas you'll have to hack up an interface with a PC solution.
And I agree, YouTube video would look even worse on a big screen than it does in that little Flash player.
From Wired, 2004:
"The ultimate iPod accessory is Fendi's Juke Box, a $1,500 carrying case for transporting multiple iPods."
"German designer and iPod fanatic Karl Lagerfeld . . . now owns 40 iPods, according to the latest issue of French Elle. Modeling a silver jogging suit, Lagerfeld confesses to owning 40 of the devices. Although at first glance the reader may assume he means a single 40-GB iPod, he meant what he said: He has 40 iPods.
"Lagerfeld has converted his collection of 60,000 compact discs to a unique iPod storage system, according to a recent report in Womens Wear Daily. Lagerfeld keeps most of the iPods scattered around his various homes, which, in turn, are scattered around the globe. "
The photo is just priceless too.
For $600,000, they got thousands of people like you to post their name to various corners of the web.
Ask 100 people to name an Internet casino. I bet the majority will say Golden Palace. That's what they buy with their zany expenses.
Yes, Google has been doing a fine job of imitating Yahoo!. Once their services come out of beta (both Google's and Yahoo!'s) the two portals will be even better.
Right, just like we all replaced our boring old PCs with i-Openers and BeIA devices six years ago.
Seriously, if you want a computer and you only have $300 to spend, get a cheapo Dell. In fact, a Dell and a Wii combined cost less than a PlayStation 3 (MOD UP BECAUSE I SAID SOMETHING COST LESS THAN A PLAYSTATION 3).
Most of the casual games on Xbox Live Marketplace sell for about $5, too. The sweet spot is apparently ($250 to $400) for a piece of hardware and $5 for each casual game.
Then why not ask to borrow a classmate's notes? Not all my professors made notes available at all on the web, so that's what I did when I missed a lecture.
Hmm... perhaps students could undercut the professor by selling their own notes. I have to tell my friend Cliff about this!
Clearly you are unaware of the spelling and pronunciation revolution that Web 3.0 will bring. Don't worry. There's a Firefox extension in beta that will sort it all out.
or: #3 - they upgraded the software after I terminated my service.
A coworker of mine had the same problems I did. We both had a phone number that went to the dev team's voice mail. Who knew that they would actually fix some of those bugs?
(Oddly enough, it never occurred to Dish that my box might have been defective; not once did they offer to swap it out for a better one.)
Considering how many useful services in "the cloud" currently bear "beta" tags, I think it's a pretty easy to argument to make that reliability will improve. Google's own search engine was "beta" the first time I used it 7-8 years ago.
Of course, by the time Gmail is out of beta we'll all be salivating over ZMvnxjowi (pronounced "Leonard") mail, and the cycle will begin anew.
I remember when my Mac-fan friends defended the use of brushed metal for some apps ("Supposed to evoke a hardware device," etc) and plain for others. Then out came GarageBand with its wooden interface, and all the other interfaces Apple introduces on a whim, and all you can do is commiserate with Tog.
It sucked. Don't pair Jimmy Fallon (as Axel) and Queen Latifah (as B.D. Joe) in a buddy comedy.
God, I hope not. The Dish 9xx series looks fantastic except when I had one (last year) it repeatedly failed to record things I had asked it to. That's the primary function of a DVR box. Since then I've had two different Comcast boxes; my current one, which is "Powered by Microsoft," spontaneously reboots at least once a day while I'm watching something.
Apparently he does. Most of the Wayback Machine links that you and others have posted in this discussion don't work any more. He must have directed the Internet Archive to delete his site's archives.