Mac OS X works phenomenally well if you use the sound and video cards that Apple sells -- and they sell some decent ones. They can actually test a full driver set with each release, whereas Windows can easily be foiled by one lousy sound/video driver. My PowerBook has never had a single problem with sound or video, and based on this I can only extrapolate that nobody ever has had problems with sound on the Mac.
If I buy a TV tuner card, I don't want to examine the model numbers of all the chips on it just so I can use it to watch TV. I want to insert it into my computer, toss in a CD, reboot, and then watch American Idol until my brain falls out.
It's open source, right? That means that anyone could be an xscreensaver maintainer! Everyone can modify the code and the software will be updated forever and ever!
Cable companies can license the Phantom and bundle it with cable modems for little to no extra money up front. Companies like Comcast and Dish Network have their own video recorders which have taken quite a lot of TiVo's potential customer base away. For an extra ten bucks a month to play however many video games the Phantom will support, cable companies might just make money on the deal.
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It's already possible to watch porn on a GBA using that SD-card media adapter that's for sale in Japan. The GBA is not region-locked so that adapater would work in the U.S. too.
I had a Compaq laptop until early last year. After the HP-Compaq merger in 2002, all the support got outsourced. When I called during the day or in the early evening I got routed to India. It gets better: when I called late at night (like 1:00 AM EST) I got routed to people in Canada. British Columbia to be specific.
Apparently HP hires help desk people specifically to work the night shift. I thought that graveyard shifts cost more.
Your copy of Office/PPC will still work, but it will be slow because it has to go through a translation layer. They demoed it during the keynote. Of course, Microsoft has stated that they'd be happy to offer you an $x00 upgrade to the Mac/x86 version.
That's nice, but like 99% of extensions it doesn't yet work with the next version of Firefox. I can only hope that some nice Firefox developer patches it up or forks the code.
In my opinion, crash recovery isn't something that belongs in an extension. Anyone remember Norton Crashguard for Windows?
It'll be available about 30 seconds after DVD-Jon releases a patch to install Mac OS X on any Dell, and it will be withdrawn about 30 seconds later after Apple mobilizes all Mac OS X 10.4 machines into a botnet to DDOS the living crap out of any server which serves a copy of said patch.
In my experience as a registered Opera user, Opera has lots of features and is very compact, but crashes more often than Firefox does. Granted, Opera can recover from crashes by saving its state -- something I wish Firefox can do -- but I'd rather it not crash quite so much.
Firefox is fairly stable, more so than most of the alternative browsers I've tried. It still leaks memory, but you can afford to restart your web browser every day or so.
Sharpies are okay. You get carded for things like "Magnum" markers that have two-inch-wide tips and that can clear out a room with their noxious fumes.
Are that many bloggers really that obsessed with the Entertainment Tonight genre of "infotainment"?
This is pathetic. In such a short time, a community has taken everything despicable about celebrity worship and reimplemented it on the Internet. Worshipping a Hollywood celebrity is cliche, apparently; you need to blogroll yourself a blogebrity to be important now.
Boy, there must be a cold going around or something. You should try non-drowsy DayQuil. Non-drowsy DayQuil works for up to eight hours and relieves cough, sneezing, stuffy head, fever, and other bothersome cold symptoms.
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How is that any more significant than just putting up a web page, offering MP3 downloads, and waiting for the bandwidth bill to bite you in the ass?
Hooray, you can have a program that downloads files on a preset schedule. I think I'm going to invent a program that downloads my new e-mail and call it Mailcasting. Can I get on Slashdot for that?
How exactly is podcasting different from Shoutcast?
Oh, you can download stuff and listen to it later. How exactly is that different from Shoutcast with Steramripper?
So now instead of listening to what the Evil Corporate Companies want you to hear, you can listen to some random ClearChannel viral advertising campaign. Congratulations.
Podcasting is to radio as blogging is to news. Pockets of people think it's the greatest thing ever, but the vast majority of people have common sense.
State taxing authorities know that on-line shopping is extremely common. If you made a lot of money but claimed you never bought anything out of state, that is a big fat "audit me" sign.
Some states (PA is not one) actually have a formula they advise that you use. If you don't know specifics, take your salary and multiply it by some value, and that's how much people in your income bracket spend on out-of-state purchases. The multiplier itself is a function of your salary, though of course it's a gross oversimplification.
The "use tax" is perhaps the least-collected tax besides the "Prohibited Items Tax" imposed by several states including Kansas.
Many states have a "use tax" where you have to pay the sales tax on out-of-state shipments as part of your income tax return. If you don't pay, you could be audited.
With all due respect, when wasn't Google an advertising company?
Google makes over a billion dollars a year in advertising, and their new products (mail, maps, local, etc) serve to enhance their knowledge of their users. They sell other products, like licensing and search appliances, but that revenue is miniscule compared with their ad revenue.
Much of the time, comparisons between Google and Yahoo! or MSN are less appropriate than comparisons between Google and Doubleclick (or Overture, which is now owned by Yahoo). Google makes money off ad revenue -- always has, always will.
What's amazing is that the Slashdot crowd, many of whom are vigorously anti-advertising, has embraced Google and does not regard Google as evil.
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Mac OS X works phenomenally well if you use the sound and video cards that Apple sells -- and they sell some decent ones. They can actually test a full driver set with each release, whereas Windows can easily be foiled by one lousy sound/video driver. My PowerBook has never had a single problem with sound or video, and based on this I can only extrapolate that nobody ever has had problems with sound on the Mac.
If I buy a TV tuner card, I don't want to examine the model numbers of all the chips on it just so I can use it to watch TV. I want to insert it into my computer, toss in a CD, reboot, and then watch American Idol until my brain falls out.
It's open source, right? That means that anyone could be an xscreensaver maintainer! Everyone can modify the code and the software will be updated forever and ever!
If you need me, I'll be in my ivory tower.
Cable companies can license the Phantom and bundle it with cable modems for little to no extra money up front. Companies like Comcast and Dish Network have their own video recorders which have taken quite a lot of TiVo's potential customer base away. For an extra ten bucks a month to play however many video games the Phantom will support, cable companies might just make money on the deal.
It's already possible to watch porn on a GBA using that SD-card media adapter that's for sale in Japan. The GBA is not region-locked so that adapater would work in the U.S. too.
Don't worry. I'm sure the maps will be better once Google Maps is out of beta.
You wouldn't trust a beta service to do something as vital as navigation, now would you?
I had a Compaq laptop until early last year. After the HP-Compaq merger in 2002, all the support got outsourced. When I called during the day or in the early evening I got routed to India. It gets better: when I called late at night (like 1:00 AM EST) I got routed to people in Canada. British Columbia to be specific.
Apparently HP hires help desk people specifically to work the night shift. I thought that graveyard shifts cost more.
Your copy of Office/PPC will still work, but it will be slow because it has to go through a translation layer. They demoed it during the keynote. Of course, Microsoft has stated that they'd be happy to offer you an $x00 upgrade to the Mac/x86 version.
That's nice, but like 99% of extensions it doesn't yet work with the next version of Firefox. I can only hope that some nice Firefox developer patches it up or forks the code.
In my opinion, crash recovery isn't something that belongs in an extension. Anyone remember Norton Crashguard for Windows?
A thousand bucks for the dev kit, plus $500 or more to become a developer, and you can get it pre-ordered at the WWDC ($1500 a head to attend).
Apple sure does know how to make a buck.
It'll be available about 30 seconds after DVD-Jon releases a patch to install Mac OS X on any Dell, and it will be withdrawn about 30 seconds later after Apple mobilizes all Mac OS X 10.4 machines into a botnet to DDOS the living crap out of any server which serves a copy of said patch.
C|Net employs journalists, not bloggers.
It's in beta. I'm sure that once it comes out of beta, it'll be as mind-blowing as Google News or Google Groups 2 or maybe even Orkut.
In my experience as a registered Opera user, Opera has lots of features and is very compact, but crashes more often than Firefox does. Granted, Opera can recover from crashes by saving its state -- something I wish Firefox can do -- but I'd rather it not crash quite so much.
Firefox is fairly stable, more so than most of the alternative browsers I've tried. It still leaks memory, but you can afford to restart your web browser every day or so.
Sharpies are okay. You get carded for things like "Magnum" markers that have two-inch-wide tips and that can clear out a room with their noxious fumes.
Are that many bloggers really that obsessed with the Entertainment Tonight genre of "infotainment"?
This is pathetic. In such a short time, a community has taken everything despicable about celebrity worship and reimplemented it on the Internet. Worshipping a Hollywood celebrity is cliche, apparently; you need to blogroll yourself a blogebrity to be important now.
Dude I am totally blogging this.
Did you get the "I'm blogging this" t-shirt I blogged about? I totally moblogged it when I was at BloggerCon.
omg I want to be a Blogebrity! I am Wil Wheaton. Which Blogebrity are you? Find out at BlogMemes.blog!
That's been the law in New York state for many years. No spray paint or big permanent markers can be sold to minors.
Boy, there must be a cold going around or something. You should try non-drowsy DayQuil. Non-drowsy DayQuil works for up to eight hours and relieves cough, sneezing, stuffy head, fever, and other bothersome cold symptoms.
Click here for a free coupon for 50 cents off your next purchase of non-drowsy DayQuil.
How is that any more significant than just putting up a web page, offering MP3 downloads, and waiting for the bandwidth bill to bite you in the ass?
Hooray, you can have a program that downloads files on a preset schedule. I think I'm going to invent a program that downloads my new e-mail and call it Mailcasting. Can I get on Slashdot for that?
How exactly is podcasting different from Shoutcast?
Oh, you can download stuff and listen to it later. How exactly is that different from Shoutcast with Steramripper?
So now instead of listening to what the Evil Corporate Companies want you to hear, you can listen to some random ClearChannel viral advertising campaign. Congratulations.
Podcasting is to radio as blogging is to news. Pockets of people think it's the greatest thing ever, but the vast majority of people have common sense.
State taxing authorities know that on-line shopping is extremely common. If you made a lot of money but claimed you never bought anything out of state, that is a big fat "audit me" sign.
Some states (PA is not one) actually have a formula they advise that you use. If you don't know specifics, take your salary and multiply it by some value, and that's how much people in your income bracket spend on out-of-state purchases. The multiplier itself is a function of your salary, though of course it's a gross oversimplification.
The "use tax" is perhaps the least-collected tax besides the "Prohibited Items Tax" imposed by several states including Kansas.
Many states have a "use tax" where you have to pay the sales tax on out-of-state shipments as part of your income tax return. If you don't pay, you could be audited.
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With all due respect, when wasn't Google an advertising company?
Google makes over a billion dollars a year in advertising, and their new products (mail, maps, local, etc) serve to enhance their knowledge of their users. They sell other products, like licensing and search appliances, but that revenue is miniscule compared with their ad revenue.
Much of the time, comparisons between Google and Yahoo! or MSN are less appropriate than comparisons between Google and Doubleclick (or Overture, which is now owned by Yahoo). Google makes money off ad revenue -- always has, always will.
What's amazing is that the Slashdot crowd, many of whom are vigorously anti-advertising, has embraced Google and does not regard Google as evil.