Here's the problem with the idea of "Oh, it's just a measley $5...": When you suddenly have ALL of your favourite websites saying "Hey, it's just $5! That's so cheap!" it sounds cheap to them, but to you, the reader, it's not. Next thing you know you're paying $20...$40..$60 per month to read websites that used to be free. It adds up really quick.
What's next? people pirating web content that they're paying for? Cutting/pasting Salon articles and putting them on their own website? People already do this with porn sites, why not text as well?
you know what, Linux World has been going that way for a few years now. The first two shows were pretty nice (in SF) but overall it's become nothing more than a buzzword driven show filled with whoever marketing felt like sending to the show. As a wise friend of mine described it, the type was "Have your people call my people and we'll see how much money we can make with this linux thing.."
The geekfest that it once was has been bought out. =/
Yup, that's Caltrans.. the fools building the bridges/etc. I think that Caltrans workers really are the Dozers. The people that had the freeway plans have long since passed on, but the Dozers just keeeeep on building and building and building...
At least that clusterfuck that is 880 vs 237 is being worked on:P~ I'm sure they'll finish it one day, too!
Of course, now Fry's Electronics owns (most) of outpost.com.... you know, Fry's.. the same store that was selling a barebones PC with "linux shell 1.2 installed"...
... and a cute little banner saying "UPGRADE to Windows XP!"... right next to it.;)
Fry's employees are usually lucky if they can tell you where the bathroom is...
"In 2-3 years Linux will be in a SERIOUS position to threaten ALL aspects of MS business, the beauty is there is absolutley nothing MS can do to stop it, or even slow it down, soon will come the time they have to embrace it offering their apps for it, when that happens it will be the death knell of MS operationg systems...... "
I saw the exact same statements 2-3 years ago. It's made improvements, yes, but most certainly is NOT where everyone would thought it would be 2-3years ago.
Also, transitioning from linux -> Mac OS X is easy, too.;)
"Using both forearms, the owner flipped them all on at once. The sound of all those classic machines firing up simultaneously damn near brought tears of nostalgia to my eyes"
If you did that in California, it would bring tears of "Oh crap, another rolling blackout!" to the eyes of millions.;)
I wish I could find some old school games.. I would LOVE to find a working "Sinistar" game.
I used to feed that game so many quarters.. at least it was fun, unlike Gauntlet that just ripped me off. I was only 9yrs old and it took me until level 96 before I realized that it was never going to end until it had driven me into the poorhouse...
Didn't that Transmeta webpad thing AOL had (it flopped) run a Linux variant? Perhaps AOL could help Red Hat out and do cool things with it. I mean, I'm sure they don't want to buy Red Hat so they can destroy it or anything... let's not be so pessimistic about the whole idea. If Alan Cox wants to leave, that's his perogative. He will still come up with cool ideas no matter where he is.
Hopefully nobody gets screwed over and laid off. When the AOL/TW thing went through, I was still working at Netscape. They axed a TON of people there. I tried and tried to get myself fired or laid off, but all I got was more stupid stock options.
I guess me calling Steve Case and leaving voicemail expressing my anger over our missing espresso machine just wasn't enough.:-(
The free smoothwall is good if you have one IP and a small LAN.
I've got 32 IP addresses and the need for a DMZ. I contacted the Smoothwall folks about this, and received a prompt and detailed response. I got another response a few days later with an organized product map and descriptions of the products. The prices aren't bad, and aside from the odd crabby person on the IRC channel, the experience has been pretty good so far.
I don't know one way or the other about the GPL violations... I just want a firewall product that's easy to deal with and *works* - ipchains/etc is too difficult for some clients to manage, but smoothwall isn't.
I guess I was just kind of surprised to see them shipping it with iTunes.
Then again, the Rio products used to ship with SoundJam, and since that's no longer being produced.... iTunes is the next best alternative.
There are plenty of Mac mp3 *players* but none of them seem to communicate with these devices, aside from iTunes (and the original SoundJam)
Same with the Mac, basically... but around here what you'll see are people saying that it sucks because it doesn't ship with Linux software, despite the fact that a search on Sourceforge will probably come up with many acceptable results.;)
I have a 128mb Rio 500 (2x64mb) and I use it with an older Power Macintosh G3. It's perfect for my many walks around downtown, but for a long drive up to the mountains or a REALLY long hike, I would much prefer the iPod.:-)
hmm.. I don't see iTunes listed anywhere on that page.
Why would Apple license iTunes out for this product when it's trying to be a direct competitor to the iPod?
I don't see it happening. Sure, iTunes will probably support it, but I highly doubt that iTunes is shipping with this thing.
No mp3 player that expects us to deal with USB is an "iPod killer"
Can this thing be used as an external drive?
Battery life?
Interface with iTunes or does it require its own software?
It's probably cheaper. Just find some sultry sounding girl to answer the phone and pretend she's the IVR. People will just press random buttons to see what she'll say next.
Please don't forget that Roxio also makes Toast for the Macintosh, which most certainly does not suck. Toast 5.0.2 has been the most worthwhile software purchase I've made in quite a while. Never had it crash, it's dead easy to uninstall, they fixed the conflicts with Apple's own Disc Burner (which won't work for me on my spare-parts beige G3/300 with my CD-RW) and they even sent me a few free blank CD-R discs just for bothering to register the product. I haven't burned one single coaster in *months* (which is rare for me! heh)
Overall I've been really happy with Roxio and especially Toast. I don't have much experience with their Windows products, so I cannot speak for them.
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There are a few new phones, actually. Nokia 8390 and the Ericsson T68 are among the new offerings.
Basically, marketing got too much money and boy, did they run with it..hehe
Here's the problem with the idea of "Oh, it's just a measley $5...":
When you suddenly have ALL of your favourite websites saying "Hey, it's just $5! That's so cheap!" it sounds cheap to them, but to you, the reader, it's not. Next thing you know you're paying $20...$40..$60 per month to read websites that used to be free. It adds up really quick.
What's next? people pirating web content that they're paying for? Cutting/pasting Salon articles and putting them on their own website? People already do this with porn sites, why not text as well?
Oh, yea... that's worked REAL well with shareware over the years. How about Loki games? People wantwantwant but very few actually gave any $$.
:(
Not a bad idea, but in real world situations it doesn't pan out how we'd all like it to.
It's the multiple angle pr0n flicks that sold DVD to Joe Sixpack. :P~
you know what, Linux World has been going that way for a few years now. The first two shows were pretty nice (in SF) but overall it's become nothing more than a buzzword driven show filled with whoever marketing felt like sending to the show. As a wise friend of mine described it, the type was "Have your people call my people and we'll see how much money we can make with this linux thing.."
The geekfest that it once was has been bought out. =/
Yeah, I know.. that just happened to be the number that came out as I bashed my head on the keypad. ;)
The guy with the 5624 day uptime that just will NOT reboot for ANY kernel upgrade, damn it! :P
:-)
either that, or people are just too lazy to bother with it.
Britney Spears is in some schlop called "Crossroads" - a movie about growing up as a teen.
:P
*yawn*
Of course, I'll go see it as a matinee, hoping for the swimsuit scene.
by the time they finish it, nobody will live down there anymore..
:P
... they're all buying up the property here in Sacramento and driving up prices.
Ever see "Fraggle Rock?"
:P~ I'm sure they'll finish it one day, too!
Remember the "Dozers?"
Yup, that's Caltrans.. the fools building the bridges/etc. I think that Caltrans workers really are the Dozers. The people that had the freeway plans have long since passed on, but the Dozers just keeeeep on building and building and building...
At least that clusterfuck that is 880 vs 237 is being worked on
Of course, now Fry's Electronics owns (most) of outpost.com.... you know, Fry's.. the same store that was selling a barebones PC with "linux shell 1.2 installed" ...
;)
... and a cute little banner saying "UPGRADE to Windows XP!"... right next to it.
Fry's employees are usually lucky if they can tell you where the bathroom is...
"In 2-3 years Linux will be in a SERIOUS position to threaten ALL aspects of MS business, the beauty is there is absolutley nothing MS can do to stop it, or even slow it down, soon will come the time they have to embrace it offering their apps for it, when that happens it will be the death knell of MS operationg systems...... "
;)
I saw the exact same statements 2-3 years ago. It's made improvements, yes, but most certainly is NOT where everyone would thought it would be 2-3years ago.
Also, transitioning from linux -> Mac OS X is easy, too.
"Using both forearms, the owner flipped them all on at once. The sound of all those classic machines firing up simultaneously damn near brought tears of nostalgia to my eyes"
;)
If you did that in California, it would bring tears of "Oh crap, another rolling blackout!" to the eyes of millions.
You're right, but nothing compares to the joystick frenzy... and hearing "Beware! I live!" out of 4 speakers... ;)
I wish I could find some old school games.. I would LOVE to find a working "Sinistar" game.
:P
I used to feed that game so many quarters.. at least it was fun, unlike Gauntlet that just ripped me off. I was only 9yrs old and it took me until level 96 before I realized that it was never going to end until it had driven me into the poorhouse...
Stupid game.
Didn't that Transmeta webpad thing AOL had (it flopped) run a Linux variant? Perhaps AOL could help Red Hat out and do cool things with it. I mean, I'm sure they don't want to buy Red Hat so they can destroy it or anything... let's not be so pessimistic about the whole idea. If Alan Cox wants to leave, that's his perogative. He will still come up with cool ideas no matter where he is.
:-(
Hopefully nobody gets screwed over and laid off. When the AOL/TW thing went through, I was still working at Netscape. They axed a TON of people there. I tried and tried to get myself fired or laid off, but all I got was more stupid stock options.
I guess me calling Steve Case and leaving voicemail expressing my anger over our missing espresso machine just wasn't enough.
It might happen... so QUICK, patent the idea while you can. :-)
The free smoothwall is good if you have one IP and a small LAN.
I've got 32 IP addresses and the need for a DMZ. I contacted the Smoothwall folks about this, and received a prompt and detailed response. I got another response a few days later with an organized product map and descriptions of the products. The prices aren't bad, and aside from the odd crabby person on the IRC channel, the experience has been pretty good so far.
I don't know one way or the other about the GPL violations... I just want a firewall product that's easy to deal with and *works* - ipchains/etc is too difficult for some clients to manage, but smoothwall isn't.
Actually, it's the 4th link. :P~
I guess I was just kind of surprised to see them shipping it with iTunes.
Then again, the Rio products used to ship with SoundJam, and since that's no longer being produced.... iTunes is the next best alternative.
There are plenty of Mac mp3 *players* but none of them seem to communicate with these devices, aside from iTunes (and the original SoundJam)
Same with the Mac, basically... but around here what you'll see are people saying that it sucks because it doesn't ship with Linux software, despite the fact that a search on Sourceforge will probably come up with many acceptable results. ;)
:-)
I have a 128mb Rio 500 (2x64mb) and I use it with an older Power Macintosh G3. It's perfect for my many walks around downtown, but for a long drive up to the mountains or a REALLY long hike, I would much prefer the iPod.
hmm.. I don't see iTunes listed anywhere on that page.
Why would Apple license iTunes out for this product when it's trying to be a direct competitor to the iPod?
I don't see it happening. Sure, iTunes will probably support it, but I highly doubt that iTunes is shipping with this thing.
No mp3 player that expects us to deal with USB is an "iPod killer"
Can this thing be used as an external drive?
Battery life?
Interface with iTunes or does it require its own software?
Still USB.... blah.
It's probably cheaper. Just find some sultry sounding girl to answer the phone and pretend she's the IVR. People will just press random buttons to see what she'll say next.
:-)
Please don't forget that Roxio also makes Toast for the Macintosh, which most certainly does not suck. Toast 5.0.2 has been the most worthwhile software purchase I've made in quite a while. Never had it crash, it's dead easy to uninstall, they fixed the conflicts with Apple's own Disc Burner (which won't work for me on my spare-parts beige G3/300 with my CD-RW) and they even sent me a few free blank CD-R discs just for bothering to register the product. I haven't burned one single coaster in *months* (which is rare for me! heh)
Overall I've been really happy with Roxio and especially Toast. I don't have much experience with their Windows products, so I cannot speak for them.
So basically, I don't have to worry because everybody else I know badmouths them for me. :P