Slashdot Mirror


User: W1BMW

W1BMW's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
35
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 35

  1. Re:So much for the marketing people on XM PCR Control Program for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    It would certainly be cool. I think it's a logical direction for Apple to take with support for either flavor of satellite radio given their digitial lifestyle focus.

    I have XM in each of my vehicles and have been waiting on getting one for the house until a device came out that I could control with the iMac I have dedicated to home automation. I ordered one within five minutes of seeing the screen shots of the application...time to dig out the applescript book again!

  2. Re:Hank Azaria - Also boinking Phoebe in Friends on Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday · · Score: 1

    You can see him occasionally on Friends, using his real voice. I still crack up at Mystery Men, even though my friends all hated it. /zim

  3. Re:Brilliant! on XPlay: iPod with Windows · · Score: 1

    You're still not getting anywhere near the bang for your buck as with an iPod. Let's figure for a moment that you can get an decent deal on CF memory at $50 per 128MB cartridge. By the time you get just 1GB worth of CF, you've now spent enough to buy a 5GB iPod.

    128MB oughta be enough for anyone, right Bill? See how many miles you get into a cross country trip before you give up on hearing the same 20 songs over and over. Change the cartridges on your bike while pedaling your ass off? Why bother. Get an iPod. (this is an apple discussion board, after all :)

    /zim

    Oh, we could talk about the user interface, but we'd only need one word. 'Painless'

  4. Re:Happy with XM on Satellite Radio - XM vs. Sirius? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, we screwed your mom last night before we made a jacket and some boots out of her. Does this count?

  5. Re:This is ridiculous on Flash and Open Source · · Score: 1

    Um, when you exporet your flash and it's carrier HTML, all the text used in the presentation is buried in the HTML just so it can get indexed. Use the tool before you knock it.

  6. Re:[work, friends, tv] - choose 2. on I STILL Want My HDTV · · Score: 1

    I bought a motorcycle in January of 2000.

    I disconnected my cable TV in February of 2000.

    If this spring is nice, I might even disconnect my DSL.

    I wish I'd have never sold my first bike back in the 80s.

  7. My co-workers and I ride together on Friendships in the IT Workplace? · · Score: 1

    4 of us (two from management, and two in the trenches) own BMW motorcycles and make it a point to take regular rides together. I feel a lot less concerned about the layoffs around here than the non-motorcycling techs.

  8. Re:My experience with linksys on Choosing a Router/Firewall for the Home LAN · · Score: 1

    I also have a dead 4 port Linksys sitting on my desk, behind the single port I bought to replace it so I could get back online. I gave up on trying to get an RMA from Linksys after the first day of dealing with their voice mail.

    If the unit wasn't so quick and easy, I would have built a PC based solution. Now I am using the switch and firewall built into my 3com WiFi Access Point. It does a fair job, but not as wasy to setup as the linksys.

  9. I believe you're correct. on Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For any kind of programming in the languages I'm familiar with (PHP, PERL, C++), I prefer a good old fashinioned text editor. I do find using tools like dreamweaver and such helpful in HTML, but I would go nuts if I had to rely on them totally. I say if you can't use either GUI or CLI, you've got problems - jst the same as if you can only write one language or for one OS.

  10. yeah, but... on Recording Police Misconduct is Illegal · · Score: 1

    the cop's aren't recording you secretly. That's the difference.