You forgot the software key (20 characters), time zone/country selection page (1 button), network type (basic/custom - 1 button), Computer name/Domain/Workgroup Name (~25characters) and at least 1 other dialog...
That being said, It still takes me 8hrs to set up & troubleshoot a linux box the way I like versus 3hrs for Windows (including Office & DevStudio). Must be the practice:)
I believe it to be because anyone who actually likes the "hits" merely has to wait 30 minutes before it comes back up in any top 40 radio station's rotation.
Holy cow, could it be that ClearChannel is actually killing the RIAA? Ah the sweet sweet irony!
As a long-time geek/packrate, I've got at least a dozen old systems around that don't support booting from a CD-ROM. Thanks to the oft-touted low system requirements of linux, these machines are still actually doing something, rather than being replaced by something newer (in order to run the bloated Windows OS) that supports booting from the CD.
If I could just install any piece of Windows software by typing "make install" instead of having to use useless installers, I would probably use it more often, too.
As a medium-skill Linux user, I'm still scared sh!tless of text-editing./configure to change the install-to location or to not install a certain component without totally crapping out dependancies or even worse, making a stupid typo. Wheras with Windows, it's usually 3 clicks, a navbox and I dont have to worry about a thing.
If they find someone who is sharing music that could only be there if it was pirated.
I think the issue is that they're sharing the music, not whether they legally own it in the first place. Although if the user sharing the music also doesn't own it originally, that compounds things.
I wonder if that would give the RIAA a legal footing to get a search warrant to find out if the user does in fact own the original CDs?
I dunno about you, but we've always had pictures taped to our frige. More than once, the not-so-magnetic magnets has failed and dropped one under the fridge, or slid down enough to get folded the next time someone closed the lower door.
I dunno, I've yet to see a house fridge that isn't plastered with notes, a calender, lists, and pictures. Why not go digital? I, for one, love the idea that I can think of something to add to the grocery list while at work, email it to the fridge and not have to worry about remembering it later.
The real shortcoming of the device is lack of a printer/ir port. What's the point in having a digital grocery list if you still have to copy it to paper when you go shopping?
why in the world would you care if you can take the drive out and replace it?
When (not if) the drive crashes, you can replace it without needing to buy a new unit.
Granted, right now the HD cost is probably close to 3/4 of the device cost, but I'd speculate that as the competition heats up and the R&D costs are recovered, the cost of drives is going to fall a lot faster than the cost of the shell.
Getting Windows hardware certification is a major PITA. You submit your GM software and hardware to a verification process with upwards of a 30 day turnaround time. In a competitive industry, telling your sales/marketing group "yes, it's done, but we have to wait 30 days to start production, assuming we pass certification." will often get you fired.
What's tacky is instituting a "mandatory" review process and not guaranteeing same-week turnarounds.
They managed to combine a flimsy flip-cover, guaranteed to snap off within a year with an exposed keyboard, guaranteed to accidentally dial people while the phone's in your pocket (yes, I know you can lock most phones, but can any regular cell user tell me they've never forgotten to lock the phone even once?)
At least it looks like the flimsy cover isn't actually wired, so replacements won't cost an arm and a leg.
That sucks. I guess I'll have to go download the MP3 from some file sharing network if I want to listen on my computer?
Or does Sony think their act of good faith will prompt me to buy a Sony desktop CD player? Maybe the RIAA would have more luck getting in on the war on drugs and busting whoever's selling Sony the crack?
I picked up a pair of AT's, one for the bedroom and one for the living room. They're both conceptually very cool. In practice, they're not quite so perfect. The fact that you need to re-scan the entire library after a power cycle or to re-arrange tracks is horrible (it seems to clock in around somewhere around 1 minute per 1000 tracks). Navigating a large collection is almost impossible on the small screen. Creating playlists does help, but that adds even more overhead. I've also noticed frequent lockups while quickly surfing through tracks.
Despite all my pains to archive/organize my music, I've ended up switching both units to Streaming Radio Mode only, which works very well.
I was thinking about this as a nightstand radio. I dont know what kind of nightstand you've got, but there's no way I can fit a PC, keyboard, and monitor on mine. Not to mention the HD whine keeping me up all night.
I will not endorse a product that holds support hostage for 'donations' in the manner Smoothwall has. I've got no issues with donating for a product I can servicably use, but when even basic "how to get it running" support is denied, that's just bad customer relations.
There's too many other similar products out there to be treating your customers like that.
The basic diference is social interaction, for those that don't have an idea of what this is I will explain. Social interaction is made when ypup interact, face to face, with fesh and bones people. This kind of interaction can be very pleasant and sometime it could even ending in meeting a significant other.
Chances are also good that you'll end up meeting a total asshole. On TV, assholes usually get killed or at least lose really badly. In real life, they usually just stay assholes:)
I paid so much and winter olyimpics is all i get? Heck, i stay with my 10 year old Sony.
The olympics were in HD? -100 points for miserable PR on that one. As an HDTV owner who's not yet found a good reason to pick up a tuner, I place a big chunk of blame on the companies who carry content in not advertising it. It took me a good 10 minutes (that's 3 hours in internet time, folks) of searching to find out whether the superbowl was going to be broadcast in HD this year (it wasn't). I can't help but think if the broadcasters actually tagged commercials with 'Now in HD!' (well, maybe not quite that cheesy, but you get the idea), people might actually start buying HD sets. That and actually providing HD programming that should be in HD (do we really need to see Friends at 1080?).
It's like being ticketed for driving your car down the wrong side of the road at 90 miles per hour and then being pissed off that the cop did not provide you with free driving lessons and give you 10-15 days to stop driving like that.
Not quite. You're required to take a test and become registered with a central database to become a legal driver. Any idiot with a 486 and a net card can set up a mail system after reading a few how-to's and I've seen plenty of highly underqualified people get sucked into maintaining the corporate email servers. Not that I'm siding with the defendant here, but maybe the solution is stricter codes on who can actually set up and administer a "legal" mail system. Oops, that's starting to sound like government intervention.
"Transfered two files from client X with incorrect MD5 hashes - assuming bad netlink or untrusted peer", "Data transfered is not advertized size", etc.
And suddenly all those mp3's that I spent hours fixing the ID3 tag on are earning me bad credit? Feh!
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You forgot the software key (20 characters), time zone/country selection page (1 button), network type (basic/custom - 1 button), Computer name/Domain/Workgroup Name (~25characters) and at least 1 other dialog...
That being said, It still takes me 8hrs to set up & troubleshoot a linux box the way I like versus 3hrs for Windows (including Office & DevStudio). Must be the practice
Holy cow, could it be that ClearChannel is actually killing the RIAA? Ah the sweet sweet irony!
Not until it learns it's way around a corporate firewall, something that SomaFM, MonkeyRadio, and other shoutcast streams have overcome.
As a long-time geek/packrate, I've got at least a dozen old systems around that don't support booting from a CD-ROM. Thanks to the oft-touted low system requirements of linux, these machines are still actually doing something, rather than being replaced by something newer (in order to run the bloated Windows OS) that supports booting from the CD.
As a medium-skill Linux user, I'm still scared sh!tless of text-editing ./configure to change the install-to location or to not install a certain component without totally crapping out dependancies or even worse, making a stupid typo. Wheras with Windows, it's usually 3 clicks, a navbox and I dont have to worry about a thing.
I think the issue is that they're sharing the music, not whether they legally own it in the first place. Although if the user sharing the music also doesn't own it originally, that compounds things.
I wonder if that would give the RIAA a legal footing to get a search warrant to find out if the user does in fact own the original CDs?
if I didn't have such a buggy development environment.
I dunno about you, but we've always had pictures taped to our frige. More than once, the not-so-magnetic magnets has failed and dropped one under the fridge, or slid down enough to get folded the next time someone closed the lower door.
I'm all for a digital picture frame.
I dunno, I've yet to see a house fridge that isn't plastered with notes, a calender, lists, and pictures. Why not go digital? I, for one, love the idea that I can think of something to add to the grocery list while at work, email it to the fridge and not have to worry about remembering it later.
The real shortcoming of the device is lack of a printer/ir port. What's the point in having a digital grocery list if you still have to copy it to paper when you go shopping?
why in the world would you care if you can take the drive out and replace it?
When (not if) the drive crashes, you can replace it without needing to buy a new unit.
Granted, right now the HD cost is probably close to 3/4 of the device cost, but I'd speculate that as the competition heats up and the R&D costs are recovered, the cost of drives is going to fall a lot faster than the cost of the shell.
several executives who said they favor the establishment of an agency that would exert a flat royalty rate - say, 6 percent or so
I wonder what percentage the artists will get of that...
Comes with an unsigned Windows driver. Tacky.
Getting Windows hardware certification is a major PITA. You submit your GM software and hardware to a verification process with upwards of a 30 day turnaround time. In a competitive industry, telling your sales/marketing group "yes, it's done, but we have to wait 30 days to start production, assuming we pass certification." will often get you fired.
What's tacky is instituting a "mandatory" review process and not guaranteeing same-week turnarounds.
the built in beer tap is hidden from view in this picture?
The potential ability for this company to collect a lot of data on "typical" viewing habits is a bit scary.
Yes, God forbid the networks find out everyone I know watches the now-cancelled Futurama while nobody I know watches Everybody Loves Raymond.
They managed to combine a flimsy flip-cover, guaranteed to snap off within a year with an exposed keyboard, guaranteed to accidentally dial people while the phone's in your pocket (yes, I know you can lock most phones, but can any regular cell user tell me they've never forgotten to lock the phone even once?)
At least it looks like the flimsy cover isn't actually wired, so replacements won't cost an arm and a leg.
So I could run gigabit to my cable modem for better downloads, ya?
That sucks. I guess I'll have to go download the MP3 from some file sharing network if I want to listen on my computer?
Or does Sony think their act of good faith will prompt me to buy a Sony desktop CD player? Maybe the RIAA would have more luck getting in on the war on drugs and busting whoever's selling Sony the crack?
I picked up a pair of AT's, one for the bedroom and one for the living room. They're both conceptually very cool. In practice, they're not quite so perfect.
The fact that you need to re-scan the entire library after a power cycle or to re-arrange tracks is horrible (it seems to clock in around somewhere around 1 minute per 1000 tracks). Navigating a large collection is almost impossible on the small screen. Creating playlists does help, but that adds even more overhead. I've also noticed frequent lockups while quickly surfing through tracks.
Despite all my pains to archive/organize my music, I've ended up switching both units to Streaming Radio Mode only, which works very well.
I was thinking about this as a nightstand radio. I dont know what kind of nightstand you've got, but there's no way I can fit a PC, keyboard, and monitor on mine. Not to mention the HD whine keeping me up all night.
I will not endorse a product that holds support hostage for 'donations' in the manner Smoothwall has.
I've got no issues with donating for a product I can servicably use, but when even basic "how to get it running" support is denied, that's just bad customer relations.
There's too many other similar products out there to be treating your customers like that.
The basic diference is social interaction, for those that don't have an idea of what this is I will explain. Social interaction is made when ypup interact, face to face, with fesh and bones people. This kind of interaction can be very pleasant and sometime it could even ending in meeting a significant other.
:)
Chances are also good that you'll end up meeting a total asshole. On TV, assholes usually get killed or at least lose really badly. In real life, they usually just stay assholes
I paid so much and winter olyimpics is all i get? Heck, i stay with my 10 year old Sony.
The olympics were in HD? -100 points for miserable PR on that one. As an HDTV owner who's not yet found a good reason to pick up a tuner, I place a big chunk of blame on the companies who carry content in not advertising it. It took me a good 10 minutes (that's 3 hours in internet time, folks) of searching to find out whether the superbowl was going to be broadcast in HD this year (it wasn't).
I can't help but think if the broadcasters actually tagged commercials with 'Now in HD!' (well, maybe not quite that cheesy, but you get the idea), people might actually start buying HD sets.
That and actually providing HD programming that should be in HD (do we really need to see Friends at 1080?).
It's like being ticketed for driving your car down the wrong side of the road at 90 miles per hour and then being pissed off that the cop did not provide you with free driving lessons and give you 10-15 days to stop driving like that.
Not quite. You're required to take a test and become registered with a central database to become a legal driver. Any idiot with a 486 and a net card can set up a mail system after reading a few how-to's and I've seen plenty of highly underqualified people get sucked into maintaining the corporate email servers. Not that I'm siding with the defendant here, but maybe the solution is stricter codes on who can actually set up and administer a "legal" mail system. Oops, that's starting to sound like government intervention.
And suddenly all those mp3's that I spent hours fixing the ID3 tag on are earning me bad credit? Feh!
For the uninitiated, what's wrong with NAT?