All my computers (minus my Laptop) use CRT... and my TV's are all Tubes too...
but recently got an LCD TV!
17" Samsung... and I must admit I am impressed.
I wouldn't watch action movies on it... but it's bright, clear, sharp, and just absolutely great looking. I can't really find a complaint about it. It's sleek, stylish.
The picture quality IMHO is absolutely fine for normal TV use. If your a gamer, or watch lots of action movies, not for you, but for regular TV watching, perfect. The TV isn't used that often. Just on occasion. That's why it's an LCD... so it takes up minimal space, and doesn't stand out to much.
IMHO LCD's have pretty much come of age. There not ready for everyone...
But if you are willing to pay a more for a sleek looking TV... it's so worth it.
College textbooks ("International Edition") are sometimes cheaper than their rediculus US counterparts...
so what some of the textbook companies have been doing is finding ways to force those editions to stay out of the country (or be useless within the country).
1. Just drop a random chapter 2. Don't include suplemental material found in US version (and encourage professor to use the garbage). 3. Campaign against it.
The most popular is suplemental material. A stupid CD-ROM, Packet, or something... well copyright protected (hard to copy)... might be the basis of a class or two. Don't buy the book legitimately... don't get access to what could be the case you write a paper on.
But they claim they barely make any money... yea, right.
Isn't this really a new varient of 'man in the middle' (quite literally)?
Here a few ideas:
1. An easy way to prevent this is to have your Access Point assign you a strange IP address. That way if you normally get 192.168.1.251... and you end up with 192.168.1.1... you have an idea something is wrong.
A simple way to get a clue.
2. Another way to do this is a bit more complex. If you have another computer or file server at home, set up a webserver. Make sure this system is wired. Set your computer's homepage to that system (using your internal 192.168.x.x ip).
Now whe you open your web browser... if your using your own access point, you can view that site. If your being tricked onto another Access Point... you won't be able to view it.
3. Setup your computer to ONLY use WEP enabled Access points. Then the only way your connected is if your computer successfuly connects to an access point using your WEP key.... that requires the hacker to know your WEP key. Not available on all wireless software packages, etc. etc.... but for those who have the option, another decent trick.
Every time there's a new Linux Distro, someone brings up an argument that it will kill all the others, and be the only one in existance... each one is deemed perfect, and makes the others look bad.
Ends up each one has it's own strong points, weaknesses... each has a niche audience of it's own... who find it perfect.
IMHO that's the direction search is going. A9 will specialize a bit more in print service (since Amazon excels in that). I wouldn't be suprised if Amazon gets into eCommerce...
allow other companies to signup and use their one-click ecommerce technology via... amazon takes a small commission.
A9 becomes a search technology for print and merchandise.... one click shopping... literally. search and buy.
Will google still exist? Oh yea, there's a lot more that google can do. But google doesn't have a foot in the door of ecommerce. Froogle isn't that great.
Amazon has proven to be good at ecommerce.... zshops
I don't know about anyone else... but I've been asked those questions (practically word for word) on any intercontinental flight over the past several years (even pre-9/11).
This is far from anything new. I've been on many flights where right at the gate they asked every party boarding the plane these questions. If you didn't speak the language at the airport, you sat on the side, and a few minutes later someone who did speak your language came.
Doesn't matter if you spoke Japaneese in Amsterdam on a flight to NYC. In a few minutes a Japaneese speaking rep was there.
When will companies realize: cool products are great, but they have a hard time selling.
For that money, I can build a pretty decent PC... buy a Mac Mini... get more than one iPod... by several hundred iTunes....
you get the idea. It's hard to justify.
Especially when there are quite a few Windows PDA's, and Palm OS PDA's available.
Hard to convince the consumer this is good.
When someone creates the PDA hardware cheap...
LINUX WILL FLY!
trust me on that. It's got all the potential. It's just the hardware is painfully expensive. So much so that nobody could justify the cost. But it's got a ton of potential.
Is the Airport/Bluetooth card available?
on
Mac mini Dissection
·
· Score: 1
I see it in the store as a custom option when building a mini.
But is the card itself available? IMHO I'd like the option to upgrade to it. Won't need it initially, but I can see neededing it in the near future.
Considering it's both bluetooth and airport... it would be pretty sweet.
I just hope Apple makes it available like the Airport Extreme card.... so we can upgrade ourselves.
Put 1GB RAM in, and a 7200 RPM ATA/100 HD... and that box is kicking ass.
considering the distribution of attacks these days... I'm pretty convinced at least some of this stuff is being done by trojans, or some other hijack method. This isn't a webserver scanning the web. Most of these are home (comcast, roadrunner, etc. etc.)
The problem is there's no motivation to stop what they have going. Not everyone will patch. So there's still some benefit.
If they made the tag give negative carma... perhaps when found in high doses (more than the normal commenter)... perhaps there would be incentive to cut out the attacks.
I can see this removed the big motive to spam... but it didn't motivate them to stop the attacks taking place already.
At this point it's clear that Windows doesn't do enough to prevent these types of problems. Microsoft is the only company with complete access to Outlook AND the OS itself.
Now if a regular companies product is misused... the company still ends up with lawsuits (Toro, being the most famous). The product is defective... tons of lawsuits.
Yet Microsoft, despite it's weak software costing companies billions in lost revenue, and even having crippled a Naval ship, shut down governmental departments, etc....
Why aren't they held to this standard in the US "lawsuit happy" system?
IMHO it's a bit unfair that they have remained immune for so long.
If I come up with a product that's so terrible companies loose millions... there lawyers are after my ass.
Slashdot Mirror
I must compliment LJ for at least being honest with their system... many would lie and say "it was the datacenter's fault".
They at least admit their own systems weren't perfect... and clearly explained each fault they observed.
Good info.
Stan Lee sues the simpsons... says Comic Book Guy is offensive to "guys like Stan Lee". ... worst joke _ever_
All my computers (minus my Laptop) use CRT... and my TV's are all Tubes too...
but recently got an LCD TV!
17" Samsung... and I must admit I am impressed.
I wouldn't watch action movies on it... but it's bright, clear, sharp, and just absolutely great looking. I can't really find a complaint about it. It's sleek, stylish.
The picture quality IMHO is absolutely fine for normal TV use. If your a gamer, or watch lots of action movies, not for you, but for regular TV watching, perfect. The TV isn't used that often. Just on occasion. That's why it's an LCD... so it takes up minimal space, and doesn't stand out to much.
IMHO LCD's have pretty much come of age. There not ready for everyone...
But if you are willing to pay a more for a sleek looking TV... it's so worth it.
If you look on this webpage, there is a paypal subscribe button.
;-)
You can 'subscribe' to Thunderbird too.
IMHO that's a better option. Cheaper, better software.
Could someone claim that Microsoft illegially used their code... and have a court require Microsoft to reveal the code?
Hmm... any takers?
This could be fun. Lets Open Source Windows!
Sigh... link got lost...
/ 01/20/831-printing-xml-why-css-is-better-than-xsl
http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?2005
Could always run VirtualPC.. use your PC software on that sexy Mac hardware.
Though I find most people who try Mac's quickly learn that there is a >= Mac product for most windows software. Often >.
I found VirtualPC is really a security blanket.
Once you play with iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie... and see that there are quite a few great products out there.
Those ugly awkward Windows Apps no longer have a place.
This wasn't inspired by a post on Daniel Glazman's blog was it?
This is isn't flamebait... just someone who uses linux occasionally (prefers Mac OS X).
No mater what system I use, I've really never had a simple time getting WiFi working. Always several steps... always ugly.
IMHO Linux would have a bit better marketing if it focused on being as close to 0Config as possible. There's a ton of potential.
The best experience I've had is with Knoppix. And even that wasn't perfect.
College textbooks ("International Edition") are sometimes cheaper than their rediculus US counterparts...
so what some of the textbook companies have been doing is finding ways to force those editions to stay out of the country (or be useless within the country).
1. Just drop a random chapter
2. Don't include suplemental material found in US version (and encourage professor to use the garbage).
3. Campaign against it.
The most popular is suplemental material. A stupid CD-ROM, Packet, or something... well copyright protected (hard to copy)... might be the basis of a class or two. Don't buy the book legitimately... don't get access to what could be the case you write a paper on.
But they claim they barely make any money... yea, right.
Isn't this really a new varient of 'man in the middle' (quite literally)?
Here a few ideas:
1. An easy way to prevent this is to have your Access Point assign you a strange IP address. That way if you normally get 192.168.1.251... and you end up with 192.168.1.1... you have an idea something is wrong.
A simple way to get a clue.
2. Another way to do this is a bit more complex. If you have another computer or file server at home, set up a webserver. Make sure this system is wired. Set your computer's homepage to that system (using your internal 192.168.x.x ip).
Now whe you open your web browser... if your using your own access point, you can view that site. If your being tricked onto another Access Point... you won't be able to view it.
3. Setup your computer to ONLY use WEP enabled Access points. Then the only way your connected is if your computer successfuly connects to an access point using your WEP key.... that requires the hacker to know your WEP key. Not available on all wireless software packages, etc. etc.... but for those who have the option, another decent trick.
Just a few pretty simple tricks.
I'm just thinking
play, stop, on, off, forward, back, repeat
nothing fancy.
Just hands free access. Put a tiny mic on the controls for the high end headphones.
I'm suprised Apple didn't do this...
or Griffin, or some other accessory company.
Every time there's a new Linux Distro, someone brings up an argument that it will kill all the others, and be the only one in existance... each one is deemed perfect, and makes the others look bad.
Ends up each one has it's own strong points, weaknesses... each has a niche audience of it's own... who find it perfect.
IMHO that's the direction search is going. A9 will specialize a bit more in print service (since Amazon excels in that). I wouldn't be suprised if Amazon gets into eCommerce...
allow other companies to signup and use their one-click ecommerce technology via... amazon takes a small commission.
A9 becomes a search technology for print and merchandise.... one click shopping... literally. search and buy.
Will google still exist? Oh yea, there's a lot more that google can do. But google doesn't have a foot in the door of ecommerce. Froogle isn't that great.
Amazon has proven to be good at ecommerce.... zshops
IMHO it's already falling into place.
I don't know about anyone else... but I've been asked those questions (practically word for word) on any intercontinental flight over the past several years (even pre-9/11).
This is far from anything new. I've been on many flights where right at the gate they asked every party boarding the plane these questions. If you didn't speak the language at the airport, you sat on the side, and a few minutes later someone who did speak your language came.
Doesn't matter if you spoke Japaneese in Amsterdam on a flight to NYC. In a few minutes a Japaneese speaking rep was there.
So no.... this isn't an American Airlines policy.
I don't think I ever flew AA internationally.
Most net traffic is P2P these days.
So they can safely watch most of it pretty easily...
and for minimal cash be able to say they watch the majority of web traffic.
If that's effective or not... that's another story.
But the FBI is just a government organization. It's goal is to keep the public calm and stay within budget. That's it's only goal.
When will companies realize: cool products are great, but they have a hard time selling.
For that money, I can build a pretty decent PC... buy a Mac Mini... get more than one iPod... by several hundred iTunes....
you get the idea. It's hard to justify.
Especially when there are quite a few Windows PDA's, and Palm OS PDA's available.
Hard to convince the consumer this is good.
When someone creates the PDA hardware cheap...
LINUX WILL FLY!
trust me on that. It's got all the potential. It's just the hardware is painfully expensive. So much so that nobody could justify the cost. But it's got a ton of potential.
I see it in the store as a custom option when building a mini.
But is the card itself available? IMHO I'd like the option to upgrade to it. Won't need it initially, but I can see neededing it in the near future.
Considering it's both bluetooth and airport... it would be pretty sweet.
I just hope Apple makes it available like the Airport Extreme card.... so we can upgrade ourselves.
Put 1GB RAM in, and a 7200 RPM ATA/100 HD... and that box is kicking ass.
considering the distribution of attacks these days... I'm pretty convinced at least some of this stuff is being done by trojans, or some other hijack method. This isn't a webserver scanning the web. Most of these are home (comcast, roadrunner, etc. etc.)
The problem is there's no motivation to stop what they have going. Not everyone will patch. So there's still some benefit.
If they made the tag give negative carma... perhaps when found in high doses (more than the normal commenter)... perhaps there would be incentive to cut out the attacks.
I can see this removed the big motive to spam... but it didn't motivate them to stop the attacks taking place already.
Me to... somewhat.
during that 1 week trial... I didn't even sleep.
I was flying around the world like Santa. I visited everyone.
From navigating the streets in North Korea, to my own home...
I was pathetic... but it was too cool.
Don't know about anyone else, but I've been using that for a while.
1 /Jun/01 09.html
Many content management systems use xml, and have such a syntax, including logic. Interwoven Teamsite is one of them.
Some tags:
http://cms.filsa.net/archives/cms-list/200
Particularly useful (though sometimes a pain) was iw_iterate. Which I guess was prettymuch a foreach
Firefox has the priviliage of saying it's used on all 7 continents (thanks to an Antartic researcher).
Perhaps now we will be able to say Firefox goes into space?
At this point it's clear that Windows doesn't do enough to prevent these types of problems. Microsoft is the only company with complete access to Outlook AND the OS itself.
Now if a regular companies product is misused... the company still ends up with lawsuits (Toro, being the most famous). The product is defective... tons of lawsuits.
Yet Microsoft, despite it's weak software costing companies billions in lost revenue, and even having crippled a Naval ship, shut down governmental departments, etc....
Why aren't they held to this standard in the US "lawsuit happy" system?
IMHO it's a bit unfair that they have remained immune for so long.
If I come up with a product that's so terrible companies loose millions... there lawyers are after my ass.
Here's a spread Britney Spears did (may not be safe for work, depending on where you are).
For those not turned on by Billy Gates.
When the get to much power they take advantage (sitefinder). IMHO when a company has poor ethics, they like to show it.
They showed us their ethics... we can do better. Lets look at other companies.