You connect the cartridge to your PC via USB to upload songs. The major disadvantage is that it requires a Kenwood head unit. I look forward to when other car audio companies release competing products and they come down in price some.
I just checked my MSN account and I also only still have 3 meg. I clicked the get extra storage link, pricing for a 10 meg account is $19.95/year, and 25 meg accounts are $29.95/year.
For $19.99/year with Yahoo, I can get a 2 Gig account.
I'm glad Yahoo upgraded to 100 megs, I've had the same yahoo alias for several years and never gotten spam to it, I use yahoo notepad all the time.
With hotmail, I have created uncommon aliases and gotten spam to them before even having a chance to give out the address.
You are looking at $2300 just for software on the machine (most of which are still on NT).
So the hardware is possibly behind the times, this means a future upgrade will likely include hardware + new version of Linux distro, which may be more prone to introducing compatibility problems than Windows.
So they may also have to recompile some of the software they are using upon upgrading.
It seems to me more like they are sacrificing themselves to help pave the way for others, it is going to be a long time before they start to see the savings.
They started this 2 or 3 years ago, already are spending way more than they planned, and it's going to take them till 2008 to finish. Call it a hunch, but it may be a little more complicated than just just doing a norton ghost of the HDD's.
Yes, but that cost would likely be offset when people read that only the free accounts were nuked. Non-free accounts were not nuked, so many of the free users probably would have been willing to pay to upgrade their service in order to keep it.
Well, there is an interesting comment here the Java benchmarks do not factor in many things like loading and killing the clunky virtual machine. Sure it may not be fair to count slow VM performance when evaluating the application speed, but in any event the JVM still takes time and Java + JVM is still many times slower than compiled C++
I wonder how they manage to have 3D representations of buildings and map out what laned are left turn only etc.?
It would have to download cities as you enter them because there is no way it has that much HDD space.
I am also pretty sure it only supports larger cities, unless Japanese tour busses are not really for tourists, maybe they are just here to take digital pictures for 3D maps. Think about it.
I currently have a $35 per month plan + $20 to have another phone on it. (Cell One)
There are a host of stupid fees like, $10 per month for free in network calling for one phone, and $3.25 for free in network calling on the other phone I am calling.
I have not gone over my minutes since I got the phones, my bill is [drum roll].... $78 per month after hidden charges.
It would cost about $3 more to have the phones on 2 separate plans and they wouldn't have to share the same bucket of minutes.
I once had a phone with the same provider a few years ago and they has my SSN wrong, it took my nearly 4 months to get them to let me discontinue the service because my SSN was not the one on the account.
I was like "look, either admit it is my phone and let me discontinue service or admit it is not my phone and quit sending me the bill, but you can't have it both ways!"
I spent 6 hours on the phone the day I finally got rid of the service. One rep left me on hold for nearly 3 hours before I hung up when I asked to be xfered to someone that could credit my account, she wrote in my account that I hung up on her. I spent the 3 hours she had me on hold writing a letter to the BBB.
I recently had to upgrade my service with the company to GSM to add a second phone, I had to buy 2 phones for $300 and give them my old phone that I paid for. None of their towers have been upgraded to GSM so I paid $300 + $78/month for 2 phones that can rarely ever complete a phone call.
If people want to call me they can leave a message on my Vonage phone and I can still check my voicemail away from home. That is one phone company I don't hate.
300 miles in 10 hours is 60 mph (96 kmh) average. The 300 miles is the way the bird flies, actual driven miles after obstacles is more. Also, having to compensate slowdowns for maneuvers, the vehicle will need to frequently manage traveling at nearly 100 mph (160 kph) to complete to course on time.
Considering this is not a paved road (or even a path to follow) this task might be difficult for even many human drivers without the right vehicle.
I hope the new contestants learn a great deal from last years challenge.
Well maybe you and the other 3 people in your circle jerk will just have to parse that when most people say Ogg, they are referring to it in the Vorbis form.
Having your own sourceforge project bars you from being able to declare that mainstream users need to use your Jargon.
Think of it kind of like the Matrix, remember the guy that crossed Neo and others because he was promised to be plugged back into the Matrix and given money and power there? There is real money to be made by selling people power in a virtual world.
Not a MS apologist, just annoyed with the mud slinging tactics from Slashdot. The fact that Slashdot has to constantly misrepresent information to make Microsoft look bad says more for Microsoft than it does against them.
I know MS is evil, we all do becasue we keep hearing it all the time. But the type of blind misrepresentation on Slashdot only makes me more likely to consider the source and the actual information presented.
Sadly enough, with most Slashdot stories I usually tend to agree with MS after reading past the yellow journalism.
If not for the religious blindness and false claims made from many in the Linux camp I would probably be part of the Linux community myself.
I happen to think Linux is great, it's just too bad I can't stand any of the people that use it.
MS WAS NOT GRANTED A PATENT FOR DOUBLE CLICK. Not that I expect you to read the article before taking the statement out of context and giving the slashdot auto response.
Why don't you show me your statement is little more than blind ignorance and explain to me ONE company that is using or has used this technology in the past other than MS?
The subject line of the article was sensationalized just to stir up people exactly like you and you responded exactly like the puppet you apparently are.
See, a moderator has noticed you are blossoming into a slashbot quite well and rewarded you with a Karma point. Well done, you are almost to the point were Slashdot does all your thinking for you.
Well the intent of the patent is for use with PocketPC PDA's. The patent is simply launching different application behaviors based on how the application is launched. Patents have been granted for less.
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You connect the cartridge to your PC via USB to upload songs. The major disadvantage is that it requires a Kenwood head unit. I look forward to when other car audio companies release competing products and they come down in price some.
Tell me you didn't just thank Fark?
For $19.99/year with Yahoo, I can get a 2 Gig account.
I'm glad Yahoo upgraded to 100 megs, I've had the same yahoo alias for several years and never gotten spam to it, I use yahoo notepad all the time.
With hotmail, I have created uncommon aliases and gotten spam to them before even having a chance to give out the address.
So the hardware is possibly behind the times, this means a future upgrade will likely include hardware + new version of Linux distro, which may be more prone to introducing compatibility problems than Windows.
So they may also have to recompile some of the software they are using upon upgrading.
It seems to me more like they are sacrificing themselves to help pave the way for others, it is going to be a long time before they start to see the savings.
Well, yes!
They started this 2 or 3 years ago, already are spending way more than they planned, and it's going to take them till 2008 to finish. Call it a hunch, but it may be a little more complicated than just just doing a norton ghost of the HDD's.
It is going to ship as a seperate product from the OS.
Yes, but that cost would likely be offset when people read that only the free accounts were nuked. Non-free accounts were not nuked, so many of the free users probably would have been willing to pay to upgrade their service in order to keep it.
Well, there is an interesting comment here the Java benchmarks do not factor in many things like loading and killing the clunky virtual machine. Sure it may not be fair to count slow VM performance when evaluating the application speed, but in any event the JVM still takes time and Java + JVM is still many times slower than compiled C++
He probably made more money than he lost, I'd apologize too.
Because I always see people complaining about how Firefox is crashing all the time??
It would have to download cities as you enter them because there is no way it has that much HDD space.
I am also pretty sure it only supports larger cities, unless Japanese tour busses are not really for tourists, maybe they are just here to take digital pictures for 3D maps. Think about it.
I have not gone over my minutes since I got the phones, my bill is [drum roll].... $78 per month after hidden charges.
It would cost about $3 more to have the phones on 2 separate plans and they wouldn't have to share the same bucket of minutes.
I once had a phone with the same provider a few years ago and they has my SSN wrong, it took my nearly 4 months to get them to let me discontinue the service because my SSN was not the one on the account.
I was like "look, either admit it is my phone and let me discontinue service or admit it is not my phone and quit sending me the bill, but you can't have it both ways!"
I spent 6 hours on the phone the day I finally got rid of the service. One rep left me on hold for nearly 3 hours before I hung up when I asked to be xfered to someone that could credit my account, she wrote in my account that I hung up on her. I spent the 3 hours she had me on hold writing a letter to the BBB.
I recently had to upgrade my service with the company to GSM to add a second phone, I had to buy 2 phones for $300 and give them my old phone that I paid for. None of their towers have been upgraded to GSM so I paid $300 + $78/month for 2 phones that can rarely ever complete a phone call.
If people want to call me they can leave a message on my Vonage phone and I can still check my voicemail away from home. That is one phone company I don't hate.
For US users, you can pick up Zalman headphones here for $44, you can add a clip on Zalman microphone for it for another $8.
PS. I think I pulled the 60 mph # from an article I read on the first challenge a long time ago, did the numbers change since the first challenge?
Considering this is not a paved road (or even a path to follow) this task might be difficult for even many human drivers without the right vehicle.
I hope the new contestants learn a great deal from last years challenge.
Having your own sourceforge project bars you from being able to declare that mainstream users need to use your Jargon.
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Download is for "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit"
Think of it kind of like the Matrix, remember the guy that crossed Neo and others because he was promised to be plugged back into the Matrix and given money and power there? There is real money to be made by selling people power in a virtual world.
Not grabbing at straws there. I claim Prior Art too, if you shake more than 3 times you are playing with it.
I know MS is evil, we all do becasue we keep hearing it all the time. But the type of blind misrepresentation on Slashdot only makes me more likely to consider the source and the actual information presented.
Sadly enough, with most Slashdot stories I usually tend to agree with MS after reading past the yellow journalism.
If not for the religious blindness and false claims made from many in the Linux camp I would probably be part of the Linux community myself.
I happen to think Linux is great, it's just too bad I can't stand any of the people that use it.
It seems to me that if they really wanted to do something about these companies they could start by not accounting for 31% of their profits.
Why don't you show me your statement is little more than blind ignorance and explain to me ONE company that is using or has used this technology in the past other than MS?
The subject line of the article was sensationalized just to stir up people exactly like you and you responded exactly like the puppet you apparently are.
See, a moderator has noticed you are blossoming into a slashbot quite well and rewarded you with a Karma point. Well done, you are almost to the point were Slashdot does all your thinking for you.
Well the intent of the patent is for use with PocketPC PDA's. The patent is simply launching different application behaviors based on how the application is launched. Patents have been granted for less.
That is the reason I play CZ. It plays the same online but the cheaters have not gotten past the security measures yet.