Really? I just typed a nonsensical domain name into IE on my Windows computer, and I got "Cannot find server or DNS Error" with no ads or MSN search boxes. I've seen that MSN behavior in the past, but not recently.
They could try a bait-and-switch approach like Apple did with iTools (now.Mac) and start charging an annual fee, but something suggests Gmail will be a net gain since it keeps people on the Google family of sites. (Yes, Gmail provides POP access, but that doesn't let you organize messages the way IMAP servers or Google's web client let you do.)
Any recommendations for that? I've taken to rebooting to an OS X install CD and running Disk Utility every week, but it'd be better if I could use Dan the Automator to do the backup every night.
Sure. Buy a used CD and rip to whatever format you want. Much cheaper than iTunes though you have to wait for the CD to be delivered.
Or buy songs from Allofmp3.com. Either way, you get all the music without giving a penny to those selfish artists who have the audacity to record music you like to listen to.
Perhaps you missed the part where I said I've played Tetris DS multiplayer hundreds of times, and I'll play it hundreds more.
All the various Tetris clones offer an amazing single-player mode, but Tetris DS + wifi = addictiveness reborn.
Best of luck with Letris, Netris, Oetris, Metris, Petris, Quetris, Setris, Vetris, and all the other innovative homebrew games you can play on your GamePark GP2X Linux handheld gaming console dot net.
No. Google Checkout is just a credit card processing system. It doesn't let private citizens transfer money among themselves. It doesn't compete with PayPal on all the different levels that PayPal operates.
If anything, Froogle + Google Checkout is a Yahoo! Store killer, but that doesn't sound as sensational when you write tech headlines.
In the US, to have a truly "always on" Internet connection over a mobile network costs at least $60 per month, and that won't work on airplanes or in areas lacking cell phone coverage. Until all these JavaScript "competitors to MS Office" have off-line counterparts, count me out. I like being able to compose documents without paying $700 per year in Internet access charges.
I have. I dropped Dish network a couple of months after I started because they didn't carry local channels in HD. The cost to purchase and install an antenna (on a 30 foot pole -- that's what I get for living in a tree-lined area) far exceeded the cancellation charges Dish charged.
Comcast's video quality is pretty terrible, but at least I get marginally high-definition content without having a gigantic antenna on top of my home.
I remember Digg the first time around, when it was called Kuro5hin.
I visited Digg a while back. It offered nothing I hadn't seen on Slashdot or Fark, and furthermore there's no filter for me to ignore the sensationalist pseudo-political bullshit on Digg like there is on Slashdot.
Have fun with the Alexa rankings, though. As MySpace has proven, if something is more popular it must be better.
So all you have to do is build a search engine that will search YouTube, Google Video, Vobbo, Xflks, Uapoql, and all the other video search engines.
eBay succeeded once they built up a centralized community: people could build up a good rep, something useful when you actually intend to pay a total stranger. Sharing video clips is something that has no "stickiness" by comparison. I liken it to search engines: there's nothing stopping you from moving from Yahoo! to Google, or from Google to Qauzmn, or from Qauzmn to (Unicode 5.0 symbols) for your web searching.
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SoaP was worth seeing on opening night at a giant beautiful theater specifically for the "sheer rudeness of humanity." It was worth $10 to have 800+ other people laughing and cheering through all of the deliciously awful moments of the movie.
Some of the early reviews compared SoaP to a 2000s-era "Rocky Horror Picture Show" for the level of audience participation involved. If you rented RHPS from Netflix and watched it at home, you wouldn't get the same experience as watching it at a theater full of eclectic movie fans.
It came in first in one of the slowest weekends of the year. Furthermore, a good sign of a movie's quality is the dropoff from week 1 to week 2. I suspect that if you didn't see it during week 1, it's unlikely you'll see it in week 2.
Like most movies, "SoaP" will eventually turn a profit after international release, television rights, DVD rights, etc. A lot of the lessons on viral marketing will certainly be dampened by the lack of a big payoff though.
"When I miss a call, I'd like it to tell me the time the call came in. I hate it when I get up in the morning, and it says "3 missed calls". It will tell me who called, but did they call me right after I went to bed, or five minutes earlier?"
Please read this post again. You want detailed search and an extensible call log. The original poster wanted to know when the last three people who called him called him.
Your phone doesn't let you see a "Missed Calls Log"? Mine (Motorola v325) displays a list of who called me and what time it was. Even my cheapie Nokia did that. You just have to drill into the menus, unpleasant as that may be.
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Really? I just typed a nonsensical domain name into IE on my Windows computer, and I got "Cannot find server or DNS Error" with no ads or MSN search boxes. I've seen that MSN behavior in the past, but not recently.
They could try a bait-and-switch approach like Apple did with iTools (now .Mac) and start charging an annual fee, but something suggests Gmail will be a net gain since it keeps people on the Google family of sites. (Yes, Gmail provides POP access, but that doesn't let you organize messages the way IMAP servers or Google's web client let you do.)
Thanks! I had used CCC in the past, but I stopped when I upgraded to Tiger and CCC wasn't compatible. Appreciate the help.
Any recommendations for that? I've taken to rebooting to an OS X install CD and running Disk Utility every week, but it'd be better if I could use Dan the Automator to do the backup every night.
Until my landlord accepts Slashdot karma points in lieu of cash for the rent, I haven't won anything. :(
Bzzzt. Wrong. I buy good music on used CDs. Somehow I don't expect many new releases from, say, John Coltrane.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt. Slashdot is like a game show now. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.
Sure. Buy a used CD and rip to whatever format you want. Much cheaper than iTunes though you have to wait for the CD to be delivered.
Or buy songs from Allofmp3.com. Either way, you get all the music without giving a penny to those selfish artists who have the audacity to record music you like to listen to.
Right beneath this article on my front page is one called Ten Gaming Myths Debunked. Myth #1: "The PlayStation 3 Will Fail"
The real winners in the Sony-Nintendo-Microsoft battle for console supremacy: on-line advertisers and opinion columnists.
Perhaps you missed the part where I said I've played Tetris DS multiplayer hundreds of times, and I'll play it hundreds more.
All the various Tetris clones offer an amazing single-player mode, but Tetris DS + wifi = addictiveness reborn.
Best of luck with Letris, Netris, Oetris, Metris, Petris, Quetris, Setris, Vetris, and all the other innovative homebrew games you can play on your GamePark GP2X Linux handheld gaming console dot net.
No. Google Checkout is just a credit card processing system. It doesn't let private citizens transfer money among themselves. It doesn't compete with PayPal on all the different levels that PayPal operates.
If anything, Froogle + Google Checkout is a Yahoo! Store killer, but that doesn't sound as sensational when you write tech headlines.
In the US, to have a truly "always on" Internet connection over a mobile network costs at least $60 per month, and that won't work on airplanes or in areas lacking cell phone coverage. Until all these JavaScript "competitors to MS Office" have off-line counterparts, count me out. I like being able to compose documents without paying $700 per year in Internet access charges.
And here I was, thinking I could write a text document without Internet access. How stupid of me.
I don't read Digg, so I appreciate Slashdot reporting on the topic anyway.
I have. I dropped Dish network a couple of months after I started because they didn't carry local channels in HD. The cost to purchase and install an antenna (on a 30 foot pole -- that's what I get for living in a tree-lined area) far exceeded the cancellation charges Dish charged.
Comcast's video quality is pretty terrible, but at least I get marginally high-definition content without having a gigantic antenna on top of my home.
I remember Digg the first time around, when it was called Kuro5hin.
I visited Digg a while back. It offered nothing I hadn't seen on Slashdot or Fark, and furthermore there's no filter for me to ignore the sensationalist pseudo-political bullshit on Digg like there is on Slashdot.
Have fun with the Alexa rankings, though. As MySpace has proven, if something is more popular it must be better.
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#2 should be:
Since people had the source, they could just comment out the check code, release a forked version of bnetd, and go on with life.
After all, who would download bnetd when you can get bnetd-nocheck for the same low price of $0?
So all you have to do is build a search engine that will search YouTube, Google Video, Vobbo, Xflks, Uapoql, and all the other video search engines.
eBay succeeded once they built up a centralized community: people could build up a good rep, something useful when you actually intend to pay a total stranger. Sharing video clips is something that has no "stickiness" by comparison. I liken it to search engines: there's nothing stopping you from moving from Yahoo! to Google, or from Google to Qauzmn, or from Qauzmn to (Unicode 5.0 symbols) for your web searching.
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No. I will wait to buy certain movies (the Star Wars prequels, for starters) on a high definition medium of some kind, though.
I could also sign up with Netflix to rent X high definition discs at a time for only $Y per month.
I care about HD. It looks much better. Your opinion on DVDs is your own.
In other news, my PC-AT still works great, so I never bothered to upgrade.
Link to the article, not the blog.
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SoaP was worth seeing on opening night at a giant beautiful theater specifically for the "sheer rudeness of humanity." It was worth $10 to have 800+ other people laughing and cheering through all of the deliciously awful moments of the movie.
Some of the early reviews compared SoaP to a 2000s-era "Rocky Horror Picture Show" for the level of audience participation involved. If you rented RHPS from Netflix and watched it at home, you wouldn't get the same experience as watching it at a theater full of eclectic movie fans.
It came in first in one of the slowest weekends of the year. Furthermore, a good sign of a movie's quality is the dropoff from week 1 to week 2. I suspect that if you didn't see it during week 1, it's unlikely you'll see it in week 2.
Like most movies, "SoaP" will eventually turn a profit after international release, television rights, DVD rights, etc. A lot of the lessons on viral marketing will certainly be dampened by the lack of a big payoff though.
"When I miss a call, I'd like it to tell me the time the call came in. I hate it when I get up in the morning, and it says "3 missed calls". It will tell me who called, but did they call me right after I went to bed, or five minutes earlier?"
Please read this post again. You want detailed search and an extensible call log. The original poster wanted to know when the last three people who called him called him.
Your phone doesn't let you see a "Missed Calls Log"? Mine (Motorola v325) displays a list of who called me and what time it was. Even my cheapie Nokia did that. You just have to drill into the menus, unpleasant as that may be.