I think that slashdot will fall over for a while too. I mean, look at all of the Google articles that get posted here. Every time someone burps about the "Summer of Code" Slashdot posts another article about it.
As for other search engines, you're right.. a cool one has sprung up.. Clusty - rather innovative, imho.
I'm the only guy in the state of California that's actually happy with Comcast.
Yeah, there was a pseudo-outage (2000ms ping times, issue went on for about 2 days) and tech support was less than useless, but otherwise everything has been fine.
4mbit down/384kbps up. $45/mo if you're a cable tv subscriber. When I move to a different apartment and go back to Dish Network, Comcast will try and rape me, though. ($70/mo for non-cable subscribers)
Oh, I read the article. I meant that DVforge is acting surprised that they're getting hit with a patent claim, but they're well aware of the competition's product. I didn't see the idea of dvforge actually admitting that DLO might be kind of right here, just them complaining that they have to kill a product because it's already patented.
"I want to let the many thousands of you who have contacted us since January about wanting a PodBuddy that I have asked Jeff Grady, the owner at DLO to produce the product for you. And, I have offered him all of our development work, prototypes, production tooling, intellectual property releases, several purchase orders we have here from national buyers, and, our entire list of email inquiries from folks like you. Our price to Jeff?... the $23,000 we have invested in just the hard injection mold tooling. His answer?... No way. He is not interested."
So, he said "Ok, then you make the product, since you've got the patent for it.." and they said "No, not interested."
The patent system allows patents for products that you have *no interest* in producing.
Our patent system sucks, that's for sure.
But, maybe DLO isn't interested because they already make a similar product. I didn't see that mentioned in the dvforge article..
"DLO TransPod FM All-In-One Car Solution - Silver Edition Item #: w009-2002s
Price: $99.99
The DLO TransPod is the only car accessory an iPod owner will ever need. Now in Silver"
"Several people have suggested backing up vital unchanging files to DVD (video, images,) and continue backing up frequently accessed files to harddrive"
They've already considered hard drives. Since he's dismissed hard drives and seemingly all forms of optical media, the only thing that I can think of for this article getting posted is that the submitter *really* wants Slashdot to tell him that "Yes, it's ok to mortgage the house to buy that new Network Appliance SAN you've been drooling over."
I agree with that to a point, but I don't think that the kids are the problem in that aspect.. it's the parents that will flip out and sue the school district for billions when they find out that "evil internet pornography" is accessable from school computers.
When it comes to "Free Speech of minors" or "protecting children (even though they're 16-17) from that evil internet porn" - the "protect the children" mentality seems to win out more often than not. Often times, the results aren't pretty.:(
It's certainly kept me employed in this market. HR drones & their stupidity aside, having decent knowledge of both Windows & UNIX can be a good thing because 1)it can weed out the zealots and 2)it shows that you have the interest in the subject at hand.
Besides, a lot of issues that pop up *are* cross platform issues, and instead of saying "Oh, that's because Windows sucks." you can say "Windows sucks at that, and here is why: ""
I'm working in a heavy OS X environment with a bunch of Solaris boxes, a handful of Linux boxes, and a bunch of Windows boxes. We have a full time Windows guy, I handle the rest. I also have a Windows admin background and as a result, it's a lot less of a hassle to work with the Windows guy to address issues.
Hopefully this made some sense.. after all, it's 4:15pm on Friday..:)
People are far more likely to tell people about a negative experience with a company than a positive one.
Now, couple those people with their blogs, and you have the makings of a public relations nightmare on your hands, just because some "a list blogger" blogged about a bad experience with your company. That's even MORE scary when you realize that no matter what you do, some customers aren't going to be happy.
There's a reason that I discount most anything I read in a blog. It's just too easy for bloggers to spread FUD.
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you'd think that DVDs have destroyed the movie industry, but they certainly haven't. DVD media sales have surpassed VHS, DVD hardware sales have surpassed VHS hardware. DVD burners are shipping with many new laptops, desktops, etc and if you don't already have one, you can pick them up for under $100. DVD burning software is everywhere and it's easy.
Yet DVDs are selling like hotcakes. Movie theatres are suffering from the popularity of DVDs, however. Check out this article for more information. It notes that those that download movies from internet often see *more* movies in theatres even!
When I lived in Yokohama, the prefectures would all have very detailed map books, literally listing the name of the house resident. (We were renting a house, and our family name was right there in the book on the right house.. I was able to find all of my friends there on the maps too)
Japan does a great job at mapping their urban areas. Although, Dominos Pizza was always late delivering my pizzas because the maps didn't account for a large apartment building blocking any view of my house or the tiny ass alleyway (driveway, if you even want to call it that) leading to it.;)
but do you really trust that this current fear mongering Bush administration won't screw with SA somehow?
I'm in Mountain View, CA. My usually very reliable Garmin eTrex was giving *wildly* inaccurate readings, putting me nearly 1/4 mile off and saying that I was at 2,400 feet. The GPS said that it had excellent signal strength from no less than 5 satellites, yet it was completely off. Defective unit? No. I took the same unit camping the following weekend and it was accurate down to 5 feet.
Maybe the fact that Moffett Field/Onizuka AFB/NASA Ames Research Center is close by? Since the military can (and has) jammed GPS in a limited area, how are we to know whether or not it's happening to us *right now?* I suppose we could wait months for a FOIA request to come back, but otherwise.. we wouldn't know.
And trying to contact them for an RMA was such a waste of time that I just ended up buying another one.
Soyo, Asus, ECS.. had boards from them fail at one time or another. The only boards I've *never* had fail are the stock Intel ones, Apple, and Sun. I've never had a hardware failure on a Sun box - ever. Must have been all of those chickens..
"Users average a 53-minute-a-day productivity gain, says Research in Motion."
What the article fails to mention is the 8 hour/week headache that the IT staff gets to deal with. "Productivity gain" is so subjective.:P
As for Apple being #1, it's not really a surprise to me. The iPod is *everywhere* - and in recent days, so is the Mac mini. OS X has been getting glowing reviews all over the place too.
Note that it also says they have an 18% "brand owners market capitalization" - maybe someone that speaks Wall Street can explain that one in English?
At least in the US.. do you really think that the "blocked phone number" means squat? If you're calling an 800 number, they can get your digits, blocked number or not.
Do it the right way. Call from a pay phone 2 states over.:)
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Is Kucinich running in 2008?? :O
I think that slashdot will fall over for a while too. I mean, look at all of the Google articles that get posted here. Every time someone burps about the "Summer of Code" Slashdot posts another article about it.
As for other search engines, you're right.. a cool one has sprung up.. Clusty - rather innovative, imho.
"not pornographic or obscene" - who gets to decide what's obscene? Google or the guy that's uploading it?
What's obscene to one person is art to another.
I see what they're trying to do, but still..
I'm the only guy in the state of California that's actually happy with Comcast.
Yeah, there was a pseudo-outage (2000ms ping times, issue went on for about 2 days) and tech support was less than useless, but otherwise everything has been fine.
4mbit down/384kbps up. $45/mo if you're a cable tv subscriber. When I move to a different apartment and go back to Dish Network, Comcast will try and rape me, though. ($70/mo for non-cable subscribers)
With all the pornography that I download, the more bandwidth, the better. :)
Also, I rsync stuff from boxes at my colo to boxes at home (ghetto backup) so for me, bandwidth is great.
" Forget China, what happens if the spammer is in South Dakota?"
:)
Oh, that's easy. Teey'll just shut off the ISDN line to South Dakota. Problem will be solved in 10 minutes.
Oh, I read the article. I meant that DVforge is acting surprised that they're getting hit with a patent claim, but they're well aware of the competition's product. I didn't see the idea of dvforge actually admitting that DLO might be kind of right here, just them complaining that they have to kill a product because it's already patented.
Damn it, I didn't hit "Preview" first on my other post. Anyway, it appears that DLO/everythingipod already makes a *very* similiar product.
It appears that DVforge is making (or not making) a nearly identical product.
"DLO TransPod FM
All-In-One Car Solution - Silver Edition
Item #: w009-2002s
Price: $99.99
The DLO TransPod is the only car accessory an iPod owner will ever need. Now in Silver"
"I want to let the many thousands of you who have contacted us since January about wanting a PodBuddy that I have asked Jeff Grady, the owner at DLO to produce the product for you. And, I have offered him all of our development work, prototypes, production tooling, intellectual property releases, several purchase orders we have here from national buyers, and, our entire list of email inquiries from folks like you. Our price to Jeff?... the $23,000 we have invested in just the hard injection mold tooling. His answer?... No way. He is not interested."
So, he said "Ok, then you make the product, since you've got the patent for it.." and they said "No, not interested."
The patent system allows patents for products that you have *no interest* in producing.
Our patent system sucks, that's for sure.
But, maybe DLO isn't interested because they already make a similar product. I didn't see that mentioned in the dvforge article..
"DLO TransPod FM
All-In-One Car Solution - Silver Edition
Item #: w009-2002s
Price: $99.99
The DLO TransPod is the only car accessory an iPod owner will ever need. Now in Silver"
In a few weeks, I think Hitachi is releasing 500gb drives. :)
Those 400gb Seagate drives are already less than $300 at Fry's.
Not from TFA, from TF synopsis:
"Several people have suggested backing up vital unchanging files to DVD (video, images,) and continue backing up frequently accessed files to harddrive"
They've already considered hard drives. Since he's dismissed hard drives and seemingly all forms of optical media, the only thing that I can think of for this article getting posted is that the submitter *really* wants Slashdot to tell him that "Yes, it's ok to mortgage the house to buy that new Network Appliance SAN you've been drooling over."
I agree with that to a point, but I don't think that the kids are the problem in that aspect.. it's the parents that will flip out and sue the school district for billions when they find out that "evil internet pornography" is accessable from school computers.
:(
When it comes to "Free Speech of minors" or "protecting children (even though they're 16-17) from that evil internet porn" - the "protect the children" mentality seems to win out more often than not. Often times, the results aren't pretty.
It's certainly kept me employed in this market. HR drones & their stupidity aside, having decent knowledge of both Windows & UNIX can be a good thing because 1)it can weed out the zealots and 2)it shows that you have the interest in the subject at hand.
:)
Besides, a lot of issues that pop up *are* cross platform issues, and instead of saying "Oh, that's because Windows sucks." you can say "Windows sucks at that, and here is why: ""
I'm working in a heavy OS X environment with a bunch of Solaris boxes, a handful of Linux boxes, and a bunch of Windows boxes. We have a full time Windows guy, I handle the rest. I also have a Windows admin background and as a result, it's a lot less of a hassle to work with the Windows guy to address issues.
Hopefully this made some sense.. after all, it's 4:15pm on Friday..
Did you update your blog to reflect that Travelodge had restored your faith in them?
that's the problem with blogs - people often *don't* update the story and all that's left behind is the negative press.
(Granted, this happens in the MSM as well - doesn't make it any better)
People are far more likely to tell people about a negative experience with a company than a positive one.
Now, couple those people with their blogs, and you have the makings of a public relations nightmare on your hands, just because some "a list blogger" blogged about a bad experience with your company. That's even MORE scary when you realize that no matter what you do, some customers aren't going to be happy.
There's a reason that I discount most anything I read in a blog. It's just too easy for bloggers to spread FUD.
his website works.
;)
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Point, the other guy.
you'd think that DVDs have destroyed the movie industry, but they certainly haven't. DVD media sales have surpassed VHS, DVD hardware sales have surpassed VHS hardware. DVD burners are shipping with many new laptops, desktops, etc and if you don't already have one, you can pick them up for under $100. DVD burning software is everywhere and it's easy.
Yet DVDs are selling like hotcakes. Movie theatres are suffering from the popularity of DVDs, however. Check out this article for more information. It notes that those that download movies from internet often see *more* movies in theatres even!
yourmusic.com appears to be an offshoot of the BMG record club ideas..
At the very least, it's owned by BMG. I was also unable to find any of the artists I like, the best example being an Ozzfest band "Mastadon"
When I lived in Yokohama, the prefectures would all have very detailed map books, literally listing the name of the house resident. (We were renting a house, and our family name was right there in the book on the right house.. I was able to find all of my friends there on the maps too)
;)
Japan does a great job at mapping their urban areas. Although, Dominos Pizza was always late delivering my pizzas because the maps didn't account for a large apartment building blocking any view of my house or the tiny ass alleyway (driveway, if you even want to call it that) leading to it.
but do you really trust that this current fear mongering Bush administration won't screw with SA somehow?
I'm in Mountain View, CA. My usually very reliable Garmin eTrex was giving *wildly* inaccurate readings, putting me nearly 1/4 mile off and saying that I was at 2,400 feet. The GPS said that it had excellent signal strength from no less than 5 satellites, yet it was completely off.
Defective unit? No. I took the same unit camping the following weekend and it was accurate down to 5 feet.
Maybe the fact that Moffett Field/Onizuka AFB/NASA Ames Research Center is close by?
Since the military can (and has) jammed GPS in a limited area, how are we to know whether or not it's happening to us *right now?*
I suppose we could wait months for a FOIA request to come back, but otherwise.. we wouldn't know.
And trying to contact them for an RMA was such a waste of time that I just ended up buying another one.
Soyo, Asus, ECS.. had boards from them fail at one time or another. The only boards I've *never* had fail are the stock Intel ones, Apple, and Sun. I've never had a hardware failure on a Sun box - ever.
Must have been all of those chickens..
If you're both in the shower, and she's hogging the water, it's a very effective way to get her to move over. :P
"Users average a 53-minute-a-day productivity gain, says Research in Motion."
:P
What the article fails to mention is the 8 hour/week headache that the IT staff gets to deal with. "Productivity gain" is so subjective.
As for Apple being #1, it's not really a surprise to me. The iPod is *everywhere* - and in recent days, so is the Mac mini. OS X has been getting glowing reviews all over the place too.
Note that it also says they have an 18% "brand owners market capitalization" - maybe someone that speaks Wall Street can explain that one in English?
I submitted this yesterday, and it was rejected. Oh well.
Full length article mirrored here.. the cbs.ca one cuts things a bit short.
At least in the US.. do you really think that the "blocked phone number" means squat? If you're calling an 800 number, they can get your digits, blocked number or not.
:)
Do it the right way. Call from a pay phone 2 states over.