I'm not sure about that. It seems like half of the time those super high speed services are run by the government monopoly and can afford to do that because they're subsidized. In small countries it seems like privitized telcos with competition are the exception rather than the norm.
Fox did the same thing in the States. I missed well over half of the shows when it originally aired because the timeslot kept jumping around so much that my local newspaper's TV listings were always out of date.
It wasn't until years later when TBS aired the series in order and in a stable timeslot that I was able to really appreciate it.
If you've never missed a payment on any of your three cars, then I doubt they'll ever bother putting one of these on your car. These are for people who are considered high risk because they've failed to make payments or whatnot in the past. It's generally for the 200 Credit Score crowd, not you.
The advantages of ICQ (over AIM) with the default clients are:
1. Offline messages. Extremely handy for a lot of things.
2. Stored History. Unbelievably useful when trying to find something someone mentioned to you 6 months ago. Grepping through the licq history has been a livesaver for me. AIM clients can of course implement it too, but a lot of them don't for some bizarre reason, or they require you to manually tell it where to store files.
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Times have changed. All of my local theatres card everyone that isn't greying after one "concerned parent" with ties to the town council got one fined and shut down for letting her son see Eyes Wide Shut. They even have guys standing next to the doors that card you again.
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Hey, they deliver votes so it's no surprise that they get attention in Congress. Do you really think Bush would have won the last election if he wasn't pandering to the religious right so heavily?
The only reason it worked for you is because you asked for a channel that doesn't have strings attached. If you had asked for ESPN, MTV, or Comedy Central without any of the other channels they would not have been able to do it. viacom and company generally attach a lot of strings to their popular channels that require cable companies to bundle their useless stupid channels if they want the good ones.
Every fan dub I've ever seen is a parody. Most hardcore fans prefer subtitles anyway, so going to the massive extra effort to dub something seems kinda weird. It's not impossible for someone to create a serious fan dub, but I can't imagine trying to find good voice actors that will work for free with a bunch of nerds. At least with fansubs it doesn't matter if you have a nasally voice.
Parodies on the other hand have a lot more latitude in what they can do and the dub route is certainly an option.
Windows 98sp2 was actually pretty stable right out of the box, but there were tons and tons of badly behaved applications out there that would slightly corrupt the install and cause all sorts of havoc. Of course Microsoft did themselves no favors by supressing almost all useful diagnostic output from programs and leaving (expert) users in the dark as to what exactly just happened when their machine crashed.
It only took one application installing a slightly older DLL of some part of DirectX over top of your existing install to cause no end of headaches and random crashes in Win98.
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I know you love your m88k boxes, but it's time to let go.
From the point of view of the cell phone companies, you just designed the worst phone ever. No connector conspiracy? What are you thinking? Loading (possibly pirated) music from the computer without paying $2 for each one? Prepostrous! No DRM? What, do you want to be sued?
Sure it would be a great phone, but no service provider would carry it because they are far more interested in new ways to pull money out of your wallet than installing features you're actually asking for.
On the other hand, the ROKR is somewhat close to what you asked for. It syncs over USB (but has a custom connector of course) and uses an almost standard headphone jack (there's even an adapter that comes with the phone to let you use a normal one). It has good long playtime and technically the songs are stored on a memory card (a compact SD card). Of course there is the retarded 100 song limit (100 songs pretty much fill a 512MB compact SD card though). Even that took a full power Reality Distortion Field to bring to light, I wouldn't count on finding something like you actually want anytime soon.
Look at it this way, you're getting a USB stick and two albums for $30. That's not so bad, and you can delete all of the songs that suck and put good ones back in place.
I thought the USB ports on TiVos were only USB 1.1? G support is kinda moot (except for keeping your network out of mixed mode) when you're limited to USB speeds.
Yes, I have used TiVo2Go several times in the past and the transfer times are seriously painful. You basically have to plan a day in advance if you want to load shows on something. Still, it works pretty nicely after that and the quality is pretty good.
The crux of the matter is that TiVo2Go gave people something they've been wanting for a long time: An easy way to get a particular show they want (and this decision is made AFTER the show has been watched one in many cases) onto their PC where they can burn it to a DVD or send it to a friend. While it's been possible to capture data from the TV for a long time, few people wanted to go to the trouble to get a $50 Tuner card and haul their computer down to the living room just to transfer a single show once every 4 months or so. TiVos solution is close to exactly what people wanted (the extra step of ripping off the DRM is annoying though).
My Blackberry 7100t (T-Mobile) allows me to upload applications over the included USB cable. There is no charge for doing this. Impressively, the phone also charges over USB (so you can plug it into your laptop to recharge it) and the connector is a standard (small) USB connector instead of some proprietary crap connector like most cell phones.
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But did the Japanese grandparents smoke? Life expectancy is a trailing indicator of the health of a population, you don't notice the decline until it's already well underway.
I've got to remember to get these links before they show up on the main page. These hardware sites always collapse under the weight of the Slashdot crowd. The link was even broken on this article for some people and it still collapsed.
Yeah, they labeled you a pirate, assumed you would have bought 500 CDs a day otherwise, calculated how much profit they would get from 500 CDs a day, and used that as an excuse to create rootkit enabled CDs. Good job Guppy06, way to ruin it for the rest of us.
The catch is that a large number of users will be in violation of their ISP's TOS if they subscribe to this service. Peer to Peer programs almost always run afoul of the "no servers" rule that nearly every ISP puts in the TOS for their "home" packages. In some TOSes they can terminate your account (with no refund) for simply responding to a ping.
Of course almost no ISPs enforce their TOS agreements, but they are legally binding and you are in violation of contract when you do stuff like this.
It's like most any other Cellphone. It has a single custom battery. It's theoretically possible to swap the battery out, but it's probably impractical.
My wife tells me that playing music appears to have almost no impact on battery life though, even if you're using it like a mini boombox instead of having the headphones plugged in. The battery is dead after a day or two, regardless of how much music you play. she often leaves it on and playing for 8 hours each day at work. It actually has better battery life than my old 3G iPod she used to use when you leave it on constantly.
That's why I think there must be a firmware bug (some process is spinning the CPU 100% of the time) that will probably be fixed later and give it the advertised battery life.
It's 128kbps AAC. The sound quality is good enough IMHO since you're generally listening to this while out jogging or doing work. You're not going to bring your cellphone into a soundproof room and hook up $2000 headphones to it (well, I'm not at least).
What I'm saying is that the 100 song limit is stupid because you'll be out of space by the time you get to 100 songs anyway. It's just bad press and serves no purpose, but it doesn't really hurt the owner of the phone because they couldn't fit more than 100 songs on there anyway.
No, it was a 4 or 5 year old Nokia phone that obviously didn't support GSM. Also, whenever she turned it on, it took forever to find a signal and was always in "extend" mode. It also became really hard to call the phone (5 times out of 6 you would get the "All circuits are busy" message). Plus the battery was mostly cooked. It was time for an upgrade.
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I'm not sure about that. It seems like half of the time those super high speed services are run by the government monopoly and can afford to do that because they're subsidized. In small countries it seems like privitized telcos with competition are the exception rather than the norm.
Fox did the same thing in the States. I missed well over half of the shows when it originally aired because the timeslot kept jumping around so much that my local newspaper's TV listings were always out of date.
It wasn't until years later when TBS aired the series in order and in a stable timeslot that I was able to really appreciate it.
If you've never missed a payment on any of your three cars, then I doubt they'll ever bother putting one of these on your car. These are for people who are considered high risk because they've failed to make payments or whatnot in the past. It's generally for the 200 Credit Score crowd, not you.
At average human typing speeds the total bandwidth consumed was negligable, even on modem.
The advantages of ICQ (over AIM) with the default clients are:
1. Offline messages. Extremely handy for a lot of things.
2. Stored History. Unbelievably useful when trying to find something someone mentioned to you 6 months ago. Grepping through the licq history has been a livesaver for me. AIM clients can of course implement it too, but a lot of them don't for some bizarre reason, or they require you to manually tell it where to store files.
Times have changed. All of my local theatres card everyone that isn't greying after one "concerned parent" with ties to the town council got one fined and shut down for letting her son see Eyes Wide Shut. They even have guys standing next to the doors that card you again.
Hey, they deliver votes so it's no surprise that they get attention in Congress. Do you really think Bush would have won the last election if he wasn't pandering to the religious right so heavily?
The only reason it worked for you is because you asked for a channel that doesn't have strings attached. If you had asked for ESPN, MTV, or Comedy Central without any of the other channels they would not have been able to do it. viacom and company generally attach a lot of strings to their popular channels that require cable companies to bundle their useless stupid channels if they want the good ones.
Every fan dub I've ever seen is a parody. Most hardcore fans prefer subtitles anyway, so going to the massive extra effort to dub something seems kinda weird. It's not impossible for someone to create a serious fan dub, but I can't imagine trying to find good voice actors that will work for free with a bunch of nerds. At least with fansubs it doesn't matter if you have a nasally voice.
Parodies on the other hand have a lot more latitude in what they can do and the dub route is certainly an option.
Windows 98sp2 was actually pretty stable right out of the box, but there were tons and tons of badly behaved applications out there that would slightly corrupt the install and cause all sorts of havoc. Of course Microsoft did themselves no favors by supressing almost all useful diagnostic output from programs and leaving (expert) users in the dark as to what exactly just happened when their machine crashed.
It only took one application installing a slightly older DLL of some part of DirectX over top of your existing install to cause no end of headaches and random crashes in Win98.
I know you love your m88k boxes, but it's time to let go.
From the point of view of the cell phone companies, you just designed the worst phone ever. No connector conspiracy? What are you thinking? Loading (possibly pirated) music from the computer without paying $2 for each one? Prepostrous! No DRM? What, do you want to be sued?
Sure it would be a great phone, but no service provider would carry it because they are far more interested in new ways to pull money out of your wallet than installing features you're actually asking for.
On the other hand, the ROKR is somewhat close to what you asked for. It syncs over USB (but has a custom connector of course) and uses an almost standard headphone jack (there's even an adapter that comes with the phone to let you use a normal one). It has good long playtime and technically the songs are stored on a memory card (a compact SD card). Of course there is the retarded 100 song limit (100 songs pretty much fill a 512MB compact SD card though). Even that took a full power Reality Distortion Field to bring to light, I wouldn't count on finding something like you actually want anytime soon.
Look at it this way, you're getting a USB stick and two albums for $30. That's not so bad, and you can delete all of the songs that suck and put good ones back in place.
Wait, CSI:Miami? Does anybody actually watch that one? I've yet to see an episode (although I have given it only few chances) that wasn't horrible.
I thought the USB ports on TiVos were only USB 1.1? G support is kinda moot (except for keeping your network out of mixed mode) when you're limited to USB speeds.
Yes, I have used TiVo2Go several times in the past and the transfer times are seriously painful. You basically have to plan a day in advance if you want to load shows on something. Still, it works pretty nicely after that and the quality is pretty good.
The crux of the matter is that TiVo2Go gave people something they've been wanting for a long time: An easy way to get a particular show they want (and this decision is made AFTER the show has been watched one in many cases) onto their PC where they can burn it to a DVD or send it to a friend. While it's been possible to capture data from the TV for a long time, few people wanted to go to the trouble to get a $50 Tuner card and haul their computer down to the living room just to transfer a single show once every 4 months or so. TiVos solution is close to exactly what people wanted (the extra step of ripping off the DRM is annoying though).
My Blackberry 7100t (T-Mobile) allows me to upload applications over the included USB cable. There is no charge for doing this. Impressively, the phone also charges over USB (so you can plug it into your laptop to recharge it) and the connector is a standard (small) USB connector instead of some proprietary crap connector like most cell phones.
But did the Japanese grandparents smoke? Life expectancy is a trailing indicator of the health of a population, you don't notice the decline until it's already well underway.
I've got to remember to get these links before they show up on the main page. These hardware sites always collapse under the weight of the Slashdot crowd. The link was even broken on this article for some people and it still collapsed.
Yeah, they labeled you a pirate, assumed you would have bought 500 CDs a day otherwise, calculated how much profit they would get from 500 CDs a day, and used that as an excuse to create rootkit enabled CDs. Good job Guppy06, way to ruin it for the rest of us.
The catch is that a large number of users will be in violation of their ISP's TOS if they subscribe to this service. Peer to Peer programs almost always run afoul of the "no servers" rule that nearly every ISP puts in the TOS for their "home" packages. In some TOSes they can terminate your account (with no refund) for simply responding to a ping.
Of course almost no ISPs enforce their TOS agreements, but they are legally binding and you are in violation of contract when you do stuff like this.
Well duh, this is Sony we're talking about. They fired her because she was fooling the players into beliveing that Sony gave a damn.
It's like most any other Cellphone. It has a single custom battery. It's theoretically possible to swap the battery out, but it's probably impractical.
My wife tells me that playing music appears to have almost no impact on battery life though, even if you're using it like a mini boombox instead of having the headphones plugged in. The battery is dead after a day or two, regardless of how much music you play. she often leaves it on and playing for 8 hours each day at work. It actually has better battery life than my old 3G iPod she used to use when you leave it on constantly.
That's why I think there must be a firmware bug (some process is spinning the CPU 100% of the time) that will probably be fixed later and give it the advertised battery life.
It's 128kbps AAC. The sound quality is good enough IMHO since you're generally listening to this while out jogging or doing work. You're not going to bring your cellphone into a soundproof room and hook up $2000 headphones to it (well, I'm not at least).
What I'm saying is that the 100 song limit is stupid because you'll be out of space by the time you get to 100 songs anyway. It's just bad press and serves no purpose, but it doesn't really hurt the owner of the phone because they couldn't fit more than 100 songs on there anyway.
No, it was a 4 or 5 year old Nokia phone that obviously didn't support GSM. Also, whenever she turned it on, it took forever to find a signal and was always in "extend" mode. It also became really hard to call the phone (5 times out of 6 you would get the "All circuits are busy" message). Plus the battery was mostly cooked. It was time for an upgrade.