Agreed. This is a great song. I'm old enough to remember when it was popular on MTV. The title track from this album ("Whenever You Need Somebody") is even better.
I'm obviously getting into the comments very late, but I felt the need to reply.
If you plan on replacing your nytimes.com reading with BBC News, you obviously have never read both of them. They are nothing alike. Whereas the BBC mainly reports strictly news (with an arguable anti-US spin that has grown tiresome to me), the NYTimes produces fantastic journalism. They have the best columnists and investigative reporters anywhere. Their travel and food sections are second to none. I also enjoy the tone of their writing -- it carries a more traditional, formal language than many newspapers these days.
I will watch with great interest how this plays out. I love my nytimes.com and would have to think hard about whether to pay for it.
I bet well over 90% of Palm users WOULD care if informed of this. It does not take a geek to understand that this is a serious invasion of privacy. I'd think most people would very clearly understand what is going on here.
This is nonsense. The contract fees are specifically designed to keep you from jumping ship. They don't want you moving to a competitor. They want to be able to abuse you as a consumer and they use the fee as a fear tactic. Jump ship and they still get a ton of money out of you.
Probably because AT&T offered the most money! It's all about money. Apple and AT&T are in business to MAKE MONEY. Private companies want to MAKE MONEY. Every decision they consider and every project they undertake is designed to MAKE MONEY.
Sorry, I'm not picking on you. Just irritated -- people stamp their feet when companies do things they don't like, forgetting of course that these companies are in business to MAKE BLOODY MONEY.
Why do you think Apple is so against replaceable batteries in their phones? Why don't they allow storage cards? It's about MONEY.
I disagree. Everyone knows murder is illegal; that's been well-established. What's going on in this trial isn't so clear-cut. This is a conflict of interest, without question.
I've been a T-Mobile customer since 2001 and have been generally satisfied with their service.
However, recently, I started receiving spam SMS. Since I NEVER use SMS, I called customer service. I politely but very firmly told them that they textWILL now disable e-mailed SMS from my account. This was done. I also very firmly told them that, as a long-time customer, it is completely ridiculous to charge me 15 cents for each SMS that I don't want and don't use.
The guy gave me 30 free SMS and told me to call back and refresh it after a while. I absolutely refuse to pay any money for a technology that obviously is very low-tech and costs the carrier basically zilch.
Someday the SMS scam will be over. Then maybe I'll use it. When my then-fiance was in Ireland for four months in 2001, I could her for free. T-Mobile (then Voicestream) didn't charge a thing. Then some bean counter realised they could make a killing each time some 14-year-old texts "LOL" to her bratty friend!
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please do not access the site, it would be hypocritical of you.
I disagree. Thinking the liberation was wrong does not imply a disregard for the current state of affairs in Iraq.
Whether or not you supported the war, we must deal with the situation as it stands, and Iraq can use all the help it can get. I fully support a free software initiative in Iraq.
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA -- Admittedly, the Hilton Garden Inn's gadget-crammed Room 267 is not your typical lodging. But stay just one night there, and you'll want it to be.
The invitation-only "Room of the Future" is housed in a special Hilton University wing of the property near Los Angeles International Airport. It comes furnished with a legion of next-generation products to enhance guests' business productivity, comfort, and entertainment.
Futuristic Features
"Not all the devices that we expect to be a hit with guests are," notes Barbara Bejan, the hotel's general manager. "But that's fine, since the room's main purpose is to see what guests like and dislike."
Among the niceties of this high-tech hotel room are:
a wall-mounted, 42-inch flat-screen HDTV Panasonic plasma television connected to a Technics receiver with surround-sound Bose speakers;
a Philips DVD/CD player;
a second, smaller flat-screen LCD monitor next to the Jacuzzi bathtub;
motion-detection lights that activate when guests enter the room;
a biometric room safe that uses a thumbprint as the lock and key;
free broadband, accessible via laptop or the TV;
a Panja touch-panel remote control that manages lighting levels and room climate; opens and closes the drapes; controls the TV, radio, and DVD player; and even repositions the head and foot of the king-size bed;
a compressor-less mini-refrigerator that is completely silent;
a Panasonic massage chair, a heated toilet seat/bidet, a computerized five-nozzle shower, and a defogging bathroom mirror.
Features that click with customers may eventually be implemented in other rooms in the Hilton family of properties, which also includes Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn, and Homewood.
Already a hit is free guest-room printing, Bejan says. Hilton teamed with PrinterOn, a site that enables remote printing. After guests log on to the PrinterOn page devoted to Hilton Garden Inn, they can send a print job to the hotel business center's color printer, which is available around the clock. Or, guests can forward the print job to another hotel in the chain, which will secure the printout until they arrive at the location.
PC World Tests the Room When Hilton invited PC World to stay a night in the Room of the Future, I jumped at the opportunity. It might be work, but it's work in what Bejan calls "a boy's playroom."
A Smart Card reader lock system allows entry with an enhanced credit card such as the American Express Blue card. I used the hotel-supplied card and immediately spotted the TV camera by the front door. The camera was handy later that evening, when I used the room's Airphone to view and talk with a visitor before opening the door.
Security extended to the in-room safe, which was large enough to hold my laptop. A single flick of my thumb was all I needed to secure my belongings. Another touch of my thumb opened the safe, an easier method than remembering a combination or trying to properly punch buttons.
The wood-paneled room's T-shaped wood desk with its ergonomic chair offered adjustable lighting and a convenient ethernet port for the free Internet access. No notebook? I could have used the wireless keyboard to surf, with the 42-inch plasma TV as a monitor (for $10 a day).
But it was difficult to sit behind a computer with so many other toys available to test. The Panasonic massage chair, a leather recliner with a remote control, seemed uncomfortable at first. After I started its massager, the stress of the day melted away. Wait--now the room was too bright! Using the Panja universal touchscreen remote, I closed the curtains and blinds, dimmed the lights, turned on the TV, and switched channels. I was all but ready to move in permanently.
High-Tech Bathing I walked to the bathroom, which was replete with a glassed-in shower offering five nozzles and computerized water-temperature control. While it sounded luxurious, it proved ultimatel
My apartment complex is its own ISP. They installed ethernet in their buildings in 1996, starting with two T-1 lines.
With approximately 1000 total residents for all the buildings, this setup worked fairly well at first because not very many people had computers that were network-ready.
Around late 1999, the network began slowing down. A year later, streaming video was impossible, and by late 2001, I was better off using a dialup. It was BAD.
About a year ago, they added two more T-1s, and it's been smooth sailing since. There are about 400 people in my building, maybe 500 in the next, and 100 or so in the other places. The network is almost always fast. Obviously this is due to adding the extra bandwidth. One can assume that the user-base has reached its saturation by now (almost everyone has a computer with a NIC, since it's a student-oriented place), so they probably won't have any more speed problems.
They banned Kazaa and Morpheus, and apparently that helped. They don't give you an e-mail address or server space. They simply provide network connectivity. It's actually not a bad deal -- at $100/year, it's as fast an any cable modem or DSL connection.
I think two T-1s would probably be alright for only 160 units. And I might recommend Cat-5E wiring. We just rewired my work's building with about 500 data ports, using 5E. Everything is gigabit ready. Sure, 100-base-T is fast, but are you gonna want to rewire the whole damn place in five years when you want gig? Probably not. It cost us $120,000 for those 500 data ports and about 300 voice ports. Plan ahead!
These galleries didn't work for me. Apparently they use Flash for the ads, which I have disabled.
I have a batch file that renames the Flash plugin. I've noticed almost zero decrease in the quality of my net experience -- it seems to me most uses of Flash are obnoxious, irritating adverts. The web is a quieter, friendlier place without Flash.
If you're using IE under Windows, the plugin can be found at:
Sure it's trivial to incorporate rectifiers into new devices but do you want to be the guy from the electricity company having to tell people that they now have to replace their $5000 amp?
If you can afford a $5000 amp, you can afford another one.
Until I realized that using OS/2 on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM, and playing Doom under Windows under OS/2, all the while running WWIV in the background, was not such a good idea.
How long until Duracell and Energizer sue these guys for unfairly promoting competition and the environment at the same time?
Seriously, someone will bitch. You're talking about solar panels that could potentially be much more versatile than conventional panels -- which means they could get used a lot more. I'm not a solar expert, but it seems to me, once they're sold, there's no revenue. They just happily generate free electricity.
Some mega-corporation somewhere (or maybe even George Bush) will sue these guys. It's the American way!
Say Lexis Nexis has "hijacked" our access to the cases is not entirely accurate. What you're paying for is the service of bringing you that data.
It's like saying the water company shouldn't be allowed to charge for a natural resource which is rightfully everyone's. Again, you're paying for the service of bringing it to you.
The iMac is a great example of how popularity is not a measure of success. At least in my experience, the iMac has proven this.
The one iMac we have in my office building contributes to about 80% of our computer problems. In addition, I find the lack of LEDs for the network card and hard drive, the lack of a floppy drive, and the lack of being able to connect an external monitor very frustrating. All these things and more make it virtually impossible to do any troubleshooting.
Even with the new OS, I still maintain that Macs are for people who either can't or won't learn how a computer works (which is not necessarily a bad thing for them, but it pisses me off).
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Agreed. This is a great song. I'm old enough to remember when it was popular on MTV. The title track from this album ("Whenever You Need Somebody") is even better.
Astley does have a great voice.
I'm obviously getting into the comments very late, but I felt the need to reply.
If you plan on replacing your nytimes.com reading with BBC News, you obviously have never read both of them. They are nothing alike. Whereas the BBC mainly reports strictly news (with an arguable anti-US spin that has grown tiresome to me), the NYTimes produces fantastic journalism. They have the best columnists and investigative reporters anywhere. Their travel and food sections are second to none. I also enjoy the tone of their writing -- it carries a more traditional, formal language than many newspapers these days.
I will watch with great interest how this plays out. I love my nytimes.com and would have to think hard about whether to pay for it.
Disagree.
I bet well over 90% of Palm users WOULD care if informed of this. It does not take a geek to understand that this is a serious invasion of privacy. I'd think most people would very clearly understand what is going on here.
This is a great idea for a movie. Alien vs Titanic!
This is nonsense. The contract fees are specifically designed to keep you from jumping ship. They don't want you moving to a competitor. They want to be able to abuse you as a consumer and they use the fee as a fear tactic. Jump ship and they still get a ton of money out of you.
It's anti-competitive, pure and simple.
Probably because AT&T offered the most money! It's all about money. Apple and AT&T are in business to MAKE MONEY. Private companies want to MAKE MONEY. Every decision they consider and every project they undertake is designed to MAKE MONEY.
Sorry, I'm not picking on you. Just irritated -- people stamp their feet when companies do things they don't like, forgetting of course that these companies are in business to MAKE BLOODY MONEY.
Why do you think Apple is so against replaceable batteries in their phones? Why don't they allow storage cards? It's about MONEY.
I disagree. Everyone knows murder is illegal; that's been well-established. What's going on in this trial isn't so clear-cut. This is a conflict of interest, without question.
I've been a T-Mobile customer since 2001 and have been generally satisfied with their service.
However, recently, I started receiving spam SMS. Since I NEVER use SMS, I called customer service. I politely but very firmly told them that they textWILL now disable e-mailed SMS from my account. This was done. I also very firmly told them that, as a long-time customer, it is completely ridiculous to charge me 15 cents for each SMS that I don't want and don't use.
The guy gave me 30 free SMS and told me to call back and refresh it after a while. I absolutely refuse to pay any money for a technology that obviously is very low-tech and costs the carrier basically zilch.
Someday the SMS scam will be over. Then maybe I'll use it. When my then-fiance was in Ireland for four months in 2001, I could her for free. T-Mobile (then Voicestream) didn't charge a thing. Then some bean counter realised they could make a killing each time some 14-year-old texts "LOL" to her bratty friend!
So the person whose brain is most relaxed wins?
Sounds like a great game for George Bush. He'll destroy the competition with his relaxed brain!
Globe199
Crappy cybercafe listing on Cybercafes.com. It still lists Cyber X in Minneapolis. That place has been out of business for many years.
The site doesn't even have a function to add or modify listings. All it has is a banner ad for cheese!
Globe199
Yes, the PS2 runs linux:
http://playstation2-linux.com/
Quite well-established, actually.
Globe199
please do not access the site, it would be hypocritical of you.
I disagree. Thinking the liberation was wrong does not imply a disregard for the current state of affairs in Iraq.
Whether or not you supported the war, we must deal with the situation as it stands, and Iraq can use all the help it can get. I fully support a free software initiative in Iraq.
Globe199
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA -- Admittedly, the Hilton Garden Inn's gadget-crammed Room 267 is not your typical lodging. But stay just one night there, and you'll want it to be.
The invitation-only "Room of the Future" is housed in a special Hilton University wing of the property near Los Angeles International Airport. It comes furnished with a legion of next-generation products to enhance guests' business productivity, comfort, and entertainment.
Futuristic Features
"Not all the devices that we expect to be a hit with guests are," notes Barbara Bejan, the hotel's general manager. "But that's fine, since the room's main purpose is to see what guests like and dislike."
Among the niceties of this high-tech hotel room are:
a wall-mounted, 42-inch flat-screen HDTV Panasonic plasma television connected to a Technics receiver with surround-sound Bose speakers;
a Philips DVD/CD player;
a second, smaller flat-screen LCD monitor next to the Jacuzzi bathtub;
motion-detection lights that activate when guests enter the room;
a biometric room safe that uses a thumbprint as the lock and key;
free broadband, accessible via laptop or the TV;
a Panja touch-panel remote control that manages lighting levels and room climate; opens and closes the drapes; controls the TV, radio, and DVD player; and even repositions the head and foot of the king-size bed;
a compressor-less mini-refrigerator that is completely silent;
a Panasonic massage chair, a heated toilet seat/bidet, a computerized five-nozzle shower, and a defogging bathroom mirror.
Features that click with customers may eventually be implemented in other rooms in the Hilton family of properties, which also includes Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn, and Homewood.
Already a hit is free guest-room printing, Bejan says. Hilton teamed with PrinterOn, a site that enables remote printing. After guests log on to the PrinterOn page devoted to Hilton Garden Inn, they can send a print job to the hotel business center's color printer, which is available around the clock. Or, guests can forward the print job to another hotel in the chain, which will secure the printout until they arrive at the location.
PC World Tests the Room
When Hilton invited PC World to stay a night in the Room of the Future, I jumped at the opportunity. It might be work, but it's work in what Bejan calls "a boy's playroom."
A Smart Card reader lock system allows entry with an enhanced credit card such as the American Express Blue card. I used the hotel-supplied card and immediately spotted the TV camera by the front door. The camera was handy later that evening, when I used the room's Airphone to view and talk with a visitor before opening the door.
Security extended to the in-room safe, which was large enough to hold my laptop. A single flick of my thumb was all I needed to secure my belongings. Another touch of my thumb opened the safe, an easier method than remembering a combination or trying to properly punch buttons.
The wood-paneled room's T-shaped wood desk with its ergonomic chair offered adjustable lighting and a convenient ethernet port for the free Internet access. No notebook? I could have used the wireless keyboard to surf, with the 42-inch plasma TV as a monitor (for $10 a day).
But it was difficult to sit behind a computer with so many other toys available to test. The Panasonic massage chair, a leather recliner with a remote control, seemed uncomfortable at first. After I started its massager, the stress of the day melted away. Wait--now the room was too bright! Using the Panja universal touchscreen remote, I closed the curtains and blinds, dimmed the lights, turned on the TV, and switched channels. I was all but ready to move in permanently.
High-Tech Bathing
I walked to the bathroom, which was replete with a glassed-in shower offering five nozzles and computerized water-temperature control. While it sounded luxurious, it proved ultimatel
I'm not necessarily talking about the FCC chairman. The vote today was along party lines. It is controlled by the republicans, 3-2.
I don't care who brought the chairman on board. It was still the republicans who voted for this.
Globe199
Welcome to life under the Republicans. Please remember this blatant, greedy power-trip in November 2004. Thank you.
Globe199
My apartment complex is its own ISP. They installed ethernet in their buildings in 1996, starting with two T-1 lines.
With approximately 1000 total residents for all the buildings, this setup worked fairly well at first because not very many people had computers that were network-ready.
Around late 1999, the network began slowing down. A year later, streaming video was impossible, and by late 2001, I was better off using a dialup. It was BAD.
About a year ago, they added two more T-1s, and it's been smooth sailing since. There are about 400 people in my building, maybe 500 in the next, and 100 or so in the other places. The network is almost always fast. Obviously this is due to adding the extra bandwidth. One can assume that the user-base has reached its saturation by now (almost everyone has a computer with a NIC, since it's a student-oriented place), so they probably won't have any more speed problems.
They banned Kazaa and Morpheus, and apparently that helped. They don't give you an e-mail address or server space. They simply provide network connectivity. It's actually not a bad deal -- at $100/year, it's as fast an any cable modem or DSL connection.
I think two T-1s would probably be alright for only 160 units. And I might recommend Cat-5E wiring. We just rewired my work's building with about 500 data ports, using 5E. Everything is gigabit ready. Sure, 100-base-T is fast, but are you gonna want to rewire the whole damn place in five years when you want gig? Probably not. It cost us $120,000 for those 500 data ports and about 300 voice ports. Plan ahead!
Globe199
These galleries didn't work for me. Apparently they use Flash for the ads, which I have disabled.
I have a batch file that renames the Flash plugin. I've noticed almost zero decrease in the quality of my net experience -- it seems to me most uses of Flash are obnoxious, irritating adverts. The web is a quieter, friendlier place without Flash.
If you're using IE under Windows, the plugin can be found at:
c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash\Flash.ocx
Globe199
Or maybe you should just worry about something important!
Globe199
Sure it's trivial to incorporate rectifiers into new devices but do you want to be the guy from the electricity company having to tell people that they now have to replace their $5000 amp?
If you can afford a $5000 amp, you can afford another one.
Globe199
You people complain about spam, then you complain when someone tries to do something about it.
Please, make up your mind.
Globe199
I loved owning a BBS.
Until I realized that using OS/2 on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM, and playing Doom under Windows under OS/2, all the while running WWIV in the background, was not such a good idea.
Globe199
How long until Duracell and Energizer sue these guys for unfairly promoting competition and the environment at the same time?
Seriously, someone will bitch. You're talking about solar panels that could potentially be much more versatile than conventional panels -- which means they could get used a lot more. I'm not a solar expert, but it seems to me, once they're sold, there's no revenue. They just happily generate free electricity.
Some mega-corporation somewhere (or maybe even George Bush) will sue these guys. It's the American way!
Globe199
Say Lexis Nexis has "hijacked" our access to the cases is not entirely accurate. What you're paying for is the service of bringing you that data.
It's like saying the water company shouldn't be allowed to charge for a natural resource which is rightfully everyone's. Again, you're paying for the service of bringing it to you.
Globe199
I find it oddly amusing that SimDesk -- a company whose main goal is to dethrone Microsoft -- uses ASP for their web site.
Globe199
The iMac is a great example of how popularity is not a measure of success. At least in my experience, the iMac has proven this.
The one iMac we have in my office building contributes to about 80% of our computer problems. In addition, I find the lack of LEDs for the network card and hard drive, the lack of a floppy drive, and the lack of being able to connect an external monitor very frustrating. All these things and more make it virtually impossible to do any troubleshooting.
Even with the new OS, I still maintain that Macs are for people who either can't or won't learn how a computer works (which is not necessarily a bad thing for them, but it pisses me off).
Globe199