My BluRay player is down to $278 at WalMart.com. It was $299 when I bought it, during a promotion where I got a $100 WalMart gift card with any BluRay player purchase, so I effectively got it for $199 (the gift card was used for stuff I'd buy anyway). But I agree, it would be nice to see the movie prices closer to DVD, which I assume will eventually happen (for a while DVD was more expensive than VHS).
Buying a text message package isn't paying to block it, rather it's prepaying a certain number of messages. If you want to block it completely, contact your cell provider. I don't know about any of the Canadian companies, but I do know someone who was able to get text messaging disabled with Verizon Wireless in the US -- people can text him all he want, but he doesn't pay to receive the messages since they never get delivered to his phone.
EV-DO is a data only technology, it complements Verizon's existing CDMA voice networks. And despite Verizon allowing non-Verizon devices on their network, it still has to be a CDMA device, which the iPhone isn't.
You should be able to respin on other platforms. Running Fedora 8 on i386, Revisor gives me the option of building Fedora 6, 7, or 8, CentOS 5, or Rawhide media, for i386, x86_64, or PPC. It actually defaults to Fedora 7 i386.
Not that it actually works as sometime in the past month or so, something broke, but that's another issue entirely.
The original Mac keyboards had only the Command symbol; adding the Open Apple to the key didn't come about until the advent of ADB, used on both the Apple IIGS and Macs from the Mac SE and Mac II until the iMac came along. I had assumed that a major reason that the Open Apple was added was since the Apple II family used it, it was needed to make things easier for users who wanted to use the same ADB keyboards on an Apple IIGS and on Macs. Though that doesn't explain why the Open Apple was kept on the keyboard once the Apple II line was no longer relevant; the OS never switched the keyboard shortcut graphic in menus from the Command symbol to the Open Apple.
Because DVDs will still work on BluRay or HD-DVD players -- unlike VHS which doesn't work on DVD players. And some of us don't want to wait for Comedy Central to get around to chopping up Bender's Big Score.
I assume he's talking more about how all the Apple apps work together, like how iPhoto and iMovie show you your iTunes playlist when you want to add music to a slideshow or movie. I don't see any reason why other music players couldn't access the iTunes database either. iEatBrainz is a third party freeware app that uses the MusicBrainz database to help fix MP3/AAC file info in the iTunes database, so it's possible.
What about radio? It seems like radio would have less power demands (no picture to decode and display); in fact you can get radios that are hand cranked so you can recharge the battery with no electricity. I haven't heard anything about plain old AM/FM analog radio going away anytime soon, though I have heard occasional mentions of "HD Radio".
What I really hate is all these ads on TV about giving a Mobile Phone as a Christmas gift. A gift with a contract Last night on the radio was an ad suggesting buying a new music playing cell phone or something as a Christmas gift. The ad pointed out that you didn't have to activate the phone right away, suggesting that you could give the phone as a gift and the recipient could activate it after they received it.
But then, in the fast-talk "fine print" at the end of the ad, I'm pretty sure the guy said "must be activated by 12/24".
startrekmovie.com is already registered and after after TrekMovie.com was featured on G4 (but the name StarTrekMovie.com was given for the site on the show), an agreement was reached to redirect startrekmovie.com to trekmovie.com.
I like the idea of supporting the small, independent places, but am put off by their advertising. Around here they advertise in free computer magazines (printed on newsprint) and almost all advertise prices that reflect a cash discount. Here in California it's illegal to place a surcharge on credit card transactions, but it is allowed to offer a cash discount. It's a loophole I'd rather not encourage.
By the same token, whenever possible I don't buy gas at gas stations that charge two different prices for cash and credit (though I do at ARCO, which doesn't take credit cards and charges a $0.45 transaction fee for ATM cards, but their per-gallon prices are usually lower by enough to make it worthwhile).
Requiring somebody to purchase a license from a single entity of some sort gives a worry that the people collecting the money from the licenses may not be available if you don't have the license and really need the software. Under this sort of arrangement, how would you solve this problem without resorting to something like the GPL? One option might be to have some sort of "abandonware" clause in the license that states that in the event the company or any successor company is no longer willing or able to make licenses available for purchase, the software license automatically converts to GPL (or Apache or MPL or BSD or whatever free software license they like).
An interesting thought, but I think this would still work out. Comcast and other ISPs/mail providers could simply offer spam filtering as an optional service (and I don't think many end-users would complain if this were a "default-on" type of thing). Then the ISP would be able to state that they were simply following a customer's instructions to provide a spam filtering service. I would compare it to services from the phone company that let you reject any incoming calls where the caller has blocked Caller ID (AT&T, for example, calls it Anonymous Call Rejection).
Nobody really wants ISPs to be common carriers. ISPs were all for being considered common carriers when people were threatening to hold them liable for their customers illegal actions. It's only after someone came up with the idea of providing faster access to certain "preferred" sites that they decided that maybe they didn't want to be common carriers anymore.
Make the initial conversation be with a different computer than the one you will connect to. No. You just made the certificate exchange with the first computer meaningless, as you haven't authenticated the second machine.
My parents got their HDTV at Kmart. We hit up the usual places (Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, WalMart, Costco, Sears). We were getting burned out on the shopping (all in one day as they wanted to get it while I was visiting so I could help set it up) but decided to stop by Kmart as we drove by. They happened to have on sale a 37" set similarly priced to the 32" sets we had been looking at, and a brand that was highly rated by Consumer Reports. So we bought it. I find that, in general, Kmart is a generally mediocre store that comes through at the strangest, most unexpected times.
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My BluRay player is down to $278 at WalMart.com. It was $299 when I bought it, during a promotion where I got a $100 WalMart gift card with any BluRay player purchase, so I effectively got it for $199 (the gift card was used for stuff I'd buy anyway). But I agree, it would be nice to see the movie prices closer to DVD, which I assume will eventually happen (for a while DVD was more expensive than VHS).
Buying a text message package isn't paying to block it, rather it's prepaying a certain number of messages. If you want to block it completely, contact your cell provider. I don't know about any of the Canadian companies, but I do know someone who was able to get text messaging disabled with Verizon Wireless in the US -- people can text him all he want, but he doesn't pay to receive the messages since they never get delivered to his phone.
EV-DO is a data only technology, it complements Verizon's existing CDMA voice networks. And despite Verizon allowing non-Verizon devices on their network, it still has to be a CDMA device, which the iPhone isn't.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fault_(geology)
You know, the places where earthquakes happen.
You should be able to respin on other platforms. Running Fedora 8 on i386, Revisor gives me the option of building Fedora 6, 7, or 8, CentOS 5, or Rawhide media, for i386, x86_64, or PPC. It actually defaults to Fedora 7 i386.
Not that it actually works as sometime in the past month or so, something broke, but that's another issue entirely.
At least Earthlink gives you the option of using DNS servers that don't do it. I used them until I switched ISPs. http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?article=187117
Support for AIM Offline Messages was added in Pidgin 2.4.0, released February 29, 2008: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
AOL demonstrated an iPhone AIM app at the iPhone SDK event today.
The original Mac keyboards had only the Command symbol; adding the Open Apple to the key didn't come about until the advent of ADB, used on both the Apple IIGS and Macs from the Mac SE and Mac II until the iMac came along. I had assumed that a major reason that the Open Apple was added was since the Apple II family used it, it was needed to make things easier for users who wanted to use the same ADB keyboards on an Apple IIGS and on Macs. Though that doesn't explain why the Open Apple was kept on the keyboard once the Apple II line was no longer relevant; the OS never switched the keyboard shortcut graphic in menus from the Command symbol to the Open Apple.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Apple_512k.jpg shows an early Mac keyboard with no Open Apple.
Because DVDs will still work on BluRay or HD-DVD players -- unlike VHS which doesn't work on DVD players. And some of us don't want to wait for Comedy Central to get around to chopping up Bender's Big Score.
I assume he's talking more about how all the Apple apps work together, like how iPhoto and iMovie show you your iTunes playlist when you want to add music to a slideshow or movie. I don't see any reason why other music players couldn't access the iTunes database either. iEatBrainz is a third party freeware app that uses the MusicBrainz database to help fix MP3/AAC file info in the iTunes database, so it's possible.
Futurama's New New York is a thousand years in the future. This article is rather short-sighted, looking only a hundred years in the future.
What about radio? It seems like radio would have less power demands (no picture to decode and display); in fact you can get radios that are hand cranked so you can recharge the battery with no electricity. I haven't heard anything about plain old AM/FM analog radio going away anytime soon, though I have heard occasional mentions of "HD Radio".
It actually survived into the 21st Century as well, though it didn't last much beyond the year 2040.
Answer: Yes.
But then, in the fast-talk "fine print" at the end of the ad, I'm pretty sure the guy said "must be activated by 12/24".
startrekmovie.com is already registered and after after TrekMovie.com was featured on G4 (but the name StarTrekMovie.com was given for the site on the show), an agreement was reached to redirect startrekmovie.com to trekmovie.com.
I like the idea of supporting the small, independent places, but am put off by their advertising. Around here they advertise in free computer magazines (printed on newsprint) and almost all advertise prices that reflect a cash discount. Here in California it's illegal to place a surcharge on credit card transactions, but it is allowed to offer a cash discount. It's a loophole I'd rather not encourage.
By the same token, whenever possible I don't buy gas at gas stations that charge two different prices for cash and credit (though I do at ARCO, which doesn't take credit cards and charges a $0.45 transaction fee for ATM cards, but their per-gallon prices are usually lower by enough to make it worthwhile).
An interesting thought, but I think this would still work out. Comcast and other ISPs/mail providers could simply offer spam filtering as an optional service (and I don't think many end-users would complain if this were a "default-on" type of thing). Then the ISP would be able to state that they were simply following a customer's instructions to provide a spam filtering service. I would compare it to services from the phone company that let you reject any incoming calls where the caller has blocked Caller ID (AT&T, for example, calls it Anonymous Call Rejection).
My parents got their HDTV at Kmart. We hit up the usual places (Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack, WalMart, Costco, Sears). We were getting burned out on the shopping (all in one day as they wanted to get it while I was visiting so I could help set it up) but decided to stop by Kmart as we drove by. They happened to have on sale a 37" set similarly priced to the 32" sets we had been looking at, and a brand that was highly rated by Consumer Reports. So we bought it. I find that, in general, Kmart is a generally mediocre store that comes through at the strangest, most unexpected times.
I, on the other hand, bought my HDTV at Woot.com.