No I didn't. I only heard a sarcastic reference to The Point, a conservative editorial segment on News Central. Please, Mark Hyman, stop pandering to the Slashdot crowd.
Google doesn't pay for content. Just look at how awful Google Maps is when you search for anything by keyword. If they licensed real Yellow Pages data, as they did in the UK, you would get better results.
How is Google Ride any better than, say, going outside and hailing a cab? New Yorkers don't have to reserve cabs or anything... there's plenty to go around.
It didn't include a display. Dell sometimes tosses in a cheap low-end display (say a 15" CRT) with their cheapest towers, but I would have declined that. So with a display, figure $350 (or one hundred thousand times the average annual salary in Third World Country Of Your Choice) for a cheap Dell, or maybe $100-$150 used.
So? I didn't buy this machine to play games. I bought it to run Quicken, which it will do, and to use any Windows-specific gadgets, which it also can do. (It has six USB ports, two of which are on the front.)
Now if I don't play games on a $300 PC, why exactly should I be moaning about an AGP slot?
We already have the Mac Mini, a computer that includes neither a keyboard nor a mouse yet sells for $200 more than comparable (albeit larger) PCs that include both. You can spin anything nowadays.
It's there. I own one. Dell Dimension 2400 cost me $300 with a DVD-ROM drive, 40 GB HD, some kind of Celeron, 64 MB graphics card (not shared mem), and 256 MB RAM.
They only include a 90-day warranty, but upgrading it to two years cost me $120 minus $50 rebate.
eBay, Half.com (now owned by eBay), and Amazon have tons of used-CD sellers at their disposal. I've been burned once, and it took about a month to get my $8 refunded, but generally my experience with Half.com has been pretty positive.
$8 for a used CD that serves as a lossless backup, or $20 for a "value added" DRM-restricted copy of the music that dies when your hard drive does. Same-day shipping sure is expensive.
I understood that it's possible to buy an HDMI-to-DVI connector that lets you plug a DVI video card into such a TV. You lose audio, of course, but that's easy to get using a different input on the TV.
HDMI supports HDCP, the DRM that the entertainment industry wants, but I don't think it's a requirement. With luck, it'll turn out to be as DRM-laden as Secure Digital cards (which I can use without any DRM restrictions).
Some Samsung sets actually have both a VGA-in and DVI-in port. That's a nice touch.
HDMI, DVI, HDCP, DRM, HDTV, LCOS, DLP, LCD, EDTV, DVD, HD-DVD, VGA. God damn, buying a television is like reading an eye chart.
Including a price for my time, $420 is a pretty good deal for a PC that's warranted for two years. I'm sure I could've assembled one for $200, but a legit Windows license adds some extra dollars and I'm too busy with other home stuff to actually put it all together.
They sold me a $300 desktop with a $120 warranty. Having never used it (the monitor gets here today) I can say that it's about the best deal you can get for a national-brand PC. I can only hope that the service plan I bought helps me bypass the hold times and level-1 techs that plague all companies' (yes, even Apple's) tech support nowadays.
Google Voice was surprisingly good at spelling. I tossed it proper names, foreign names, etc., and it got them right every time. Google didn't actually give any feedback on the phone besides "wait for the screen to refresh."
I suspect they took it down because it was getting to be too much of a strain on phone lines. Either that or they had a really good speller manning the phones and typing things in.
But you're not the only S.J.Baker on the Internet -- just the first to register his name as a.org domain. Good move.:)
The plan ages ago was to create some kind of hierarchy: us.az.phoenix.elm-street.542.john-smith, for example, to describe everyone. Then you could just bookmark your favorite people, and it would be the same net effect as putting all those 10-digit numbers in a phone book. Services like AIM and Skype rely on usernames to be unique, and those too become hard to join when you have millions of users each trying to be individualistic.
Google used to have a search by telephone service where you called in, said a series of search terms, and watched a results page refresh. Looks like they've taken it down, though.
Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. It's lots of fun, you can be mentally defective and still play, and you get a gold medal if you win!
I don't understand what you mean. You own a PC that can play movies, right? A while back, BMW commissioned a few short films for distribution over the Internet. They did so as a marketing method.
PSP owners don't have to download this content; it is just made available for people who want something free to download.
This is the digital equivalent of giving away free t-shirts, caps, etc. Feel free to mock people who download all this junk, but why go after the provider here?
The really sad thing is that with Mac OS X 10.0-10.3, Apple didn't even have "that puzzle game with the Apple logo." It was restored in the form of a Dashboard widget in 10.4.
I recommend KMail. It's the best IMAP client I've found when it comes to new-mail checking, aesthetics, and integration with a desktop environment (although KDE is still pretty immature there). Of course, like all KDE applications, it takes forever to install on Mac OS X and looks even worse than Thunderbird when installed on a Mac. If you have an all-KDE setup, it looks great.
Thunderbird can't even tell me when I have new mail. If I have checked my mail on another computer, Thunderbird persistently flashes its green "new mail" icon badge even though none of the folders appear to have new mail. I click "Check Mail" and the badge disappears; five minutes pass, and the badge reappears. This is a bug that dates back to Netscape 4, and in five years Thunderbird/Mozilla developers have done nothing to fix it.
A mail client that can't properly check mail -- that's about par for the course for Mozilla.
The one nice thing about Skype's IM client is that you can send text strings to the person you're on the phone with. For example, instead of saying "Go to our web site at aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash double-you double-you..." you can just paste a URL to them by IM and say "Go to the URL I just sent."
It would be nice if Skype were integrated with other IM networks, but I'm not complaining. It works very well and even works in a very Mac-like way on Mac OS X.
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No I didn't. I only heard a sarcastic reference to The Point, a conservative editorial segment on News Central. Please, Mark Hyman, stop pandering to the Slashdot crowd.
You might have to do a little searching, like http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=7 3010&pageset=Aim&client=no">clicking the link marked "Register."
Google doesn't pay for content. Just look at how awful Google Maps is when you search for anything by keyword. If they licensed real Yellow Pages data, as they did in the UK, you would get better results.
Google: Blindly Trusting the Web since 1998.
How is Google Ride any better than, say, going outside and hailing a cab? New Yorkers don't have to reserve cabs or anything... there's plenty to go around.
It didn't include a display. Dell sometimes tosses in a cheap low-end display (say a 15" CRT) with their cheapest towers, but I would have declined that. So with a display, figure $350 (or one hundred thousand times the average annual salary in Third World Country Of Your Choice) for a cheap Dell, or maybe $100-$150 used.
So? I didn't buy this machine to play games. I bought it to run Quicken, which it will do, and to use any Windows-specific gadgets, which it also can do. (It has six USB ports, two of which are on the front.)
Now if I don't play games on a $300 PC, why exactly should I be moaning about an AGP slot?
If you have Excel 97 or later (sorry, not OpenOffice) then you can play Pacelman. It's Pac-Man written in Excel complete with sound effects!
Imagine being able to run one 25-year-old program entirely within another 20+-year-old program. That's computing with power.
We already have the Mac Mini, a computer that includes neither a keyboard nor a mouse yet sells for $200 more than comparable (albeit larger) PCs that include both. You can spin anything nowadays.
It's there. I own one. Dell Dimension 2400 cost me $300 with a DVD-ROM drive, 40 GB HD, some kind of Celeron, 64 MB graphics card (not shared mem), and 256 MB RAM.
They only include a 90-day warranty, but upgrading it to two years cost me $120 minus $50 rebate.
eBay, Half.com (now owned by eBay), and Amazon have tons of used-CD sellers at their disposal. I've been burned once, and it took about a month to get my $8 refunded, but generally my experience with Half.com has been pretty positive.
$8 for a used CD that serves as a lossless backup, or $20 for a "value added" DRM-restricted copy of the music that dies when your hard drive does. Same-day shipping sure is expensive.
I understood that it's possible to buy an HDMI-to-DVI connector that lets you plug a DVI video card into such a TV. You lose audio, of course, but that's easy to get using a different input on the TV.
HDMI supports HDCP, the DRM that the entertainment industry wants, but I don't think it's a requirement. With luck, it'll turn out to be as DRM-laden as Secure Digital cards (which I can use without any DRM restrictions).
Some Samsung sets actually have both a VGA-in and DVI-in port. That's a nice touch.
HDMI, DVI, HDCP, DRM, HDTV, LCOS, DLP, LCD, EDTV, DVD, HD-DVD, VGA. God damn, buying a television is like reading an eye chart.
Yes, that's why I bought it.
Including a price for my time, $420 is a pretty good deal for a PC that's warranted for two years. I'm sure I could've assembled one for $200, but a legit Windows license adds some extra dollars and I'm too busy with other home stuff to actually put it all together.
They sold me a $300 desktop with a $120 warranty. Having never used it (the monitor gets here today) I can say that it's about the best deal you can get for a national-brand PC. I can only hope that the service plan I bought helps me bypass the hold times and level-1 techs that plague all companies' (yes, even Apple's) tech support nowadays.
Google Voice was surprisingly good at spelling. I tossed it proper names, foreign names, etc., and it got them right every time. Google didn't actually give any feedback on the phone besides "wait for the screen to refresh."
I suspect they took it down because it was getting to be too much of a strain on phone lines. Either that or they had a really good speller manning the phones and typing things in.
But you're not the only S.J.Baker on the Internet -- just the first to register his name as a .org domain. Good move. :)
The plan ages ago was to create some kind of hierarchy: us.az.phoenix.elm-street.542.john-smith, for example, to describe everyone. Then you could just bookmark your favorite people, and it would be the same net effect as putting all those 10-digit numbers in a phone book. Services like AIM and Skype rely on usernames to be unique, and those too become hard to join when you have millions of users each trying to be individualistic.
Google used to have a search by telephone service where you called in, said a series of search terms, and watched a results page refresh. Looks like they've taken it down, though.
Do you have some bandwidth this afternoon? I'd like to action a go-round to trial a proposal with you. The key is to be proactive in such a paradigm.
Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. It's lots of fun, you can be mentally defective and still play, and you get a gold medal if you win!
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I don't understand what you mean. You own a PC that can play movies, right? A while back, BMW commissioned a few short films for distribution over the Internet. They did so as a marketing method.
PSP owners don't have to download this content; it is just made available for people who want something free to download.
This is the digital equivalent of giving away free t-shirts, caps, etc. Feel free to mock people who download all this junk, but why go after the provider here?
The really sad thing is that with Mac OS X 10.0-10.3, Apple didn't even have "that puzzle game with the Apple logo." It was restored in the form of a Dashboard widget in 10.4.
So in short, yes it does.
I recommend KMail. It's the best IMAP client I've found when it comes to new-mail checking, aesthetics, and integration with a desktop environment (although KDE is still pretty immature there). Of course, like all KDE applications, it takes forever to install on Mac OS X and looks even worse than Thunderbird when installed on a Mac. If you have an all-KDE setup, it looks great.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26336 7
Copy and paste the link above, omitting the space that Slashdot inserted. Bugzilla doesn't like it when people link from Slashdot to Bugzilla.
It's a real bug, and this is the most recent report of it. Some of the developers get quite snippy when they hear that Thunderbird isn't perfect.
Thunderbird can't even tell me when I have new mail. If I have checked my mail on another computer, Thunderbird persistently flashes its green "new mail" icon badge even though none of the folders appear to have new mail. I click "Check Mail" and the badge disappears; five minutes pass, and the badge reappears. This is a bug that dates back to Netscape 4, and in five years Thunderbird/Mozilla developers have done nothing to fix it.
A mail client that can't properly check mail -- that's about par for the course for Mozilla.
The one nice thing about Skype's IM client is that you can send text strings to the person you're on the phone with. For example, instead of saying "Go to our web site at aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash double-you double-you ..." you can just paste a URL to them by IM and say "Go to the URL I just sent."
It would be nice if Skype were integrated with other IM networks, but I'm not complaining. It works very well and even works in a very Mac-like way on Mac OS X.