That's all well and good, but now with ATT Broadband they give you modems that have to authenticate with thier servers. If you DON'T run the stupid software your modem drops it's internet access after 1 day. I called them up and they said, "You need to register your modem before access is re-established." So I had to click the TOS/EULA whatever agreement, install their damn software, and use their damn proxies.
Yeah, but I have been told repeatedly by my cable modem provider that I cannot under any circumstances use a router because that's stealing internet access. They want me to pay an extra 5$ per computer simply because I want more than one computer connected. If I have 2 computers or just one downloading at full speed, I'm stil using the maximum bandwidth of my cable modem. What do they care if it's split between 1 comptuer or 30 of my computers? Just because some TOS/AUP/FAP/EULA agreement I supposedly signed (or rather I clicked "agree") says I can't have a router, doesn't mean (A) I should follow it, and (B) more importantly that they are in the right. I could make a EULA saying if you read this you have to send me 10$. It's wrong, and you know it and won't follow it, and probably will still read the message.
People have done much more amazing hacks than that on DVD players, such as the Apex AD600A, despite the use of a non-standard microprocessor.
I wouldn't call getting into the service menu of the Apex AD600A an amazing feat. It was simply done by using a key combination, no hacking. There was a AD600A-2 which had a "fixed" menu-- maybe that is what you are talking about? Since they are nearly identical, I don't see how it would be easier to hack the AD600A-2 over a cable modem since the correct code was already available from the AD600A.
Instead of getting crappy sat service I would upgrade my local service to the business version. Every cable modem provider and DSL provider in my area offers faster upload and download speeds if you pay more. Sometimes it's a lot, but usually it's not too bad in comparison with the headaches you'd get from switch to sat service.
We partially built machines from scratch. We ordered all the parts from once place with specifc model numbers and specs. We got about 20 in and they were great. We created a ghost, and everything was fine until we recieved another 20. They all had slightly different motherboards and video cards... they were better, which is why the company thought it was okay to replace them, but it caused complete havoc because we didn't know they changed them, and had no idea why things weren't working. Now we have to have three ghosts for the three sets, various driver disks labeled appropriately, and have to go through the building labeling the computers as having specific hardware. It was a mess. Moral is order from someone with large stock of the same model number, or make damn sure the company doesn't try to do you any "favors" by upgrading.
This is sad... I downloaded IE 5.1.4 for OS9 with IE 5.1 and the file I downloaded was only 512k, but IE said it was completed. I tried re-downloading, and it just used the cache file and kept getting the same 512k file. So I deleted the cache file and it still somehow downloaded just the 512k file. I opened up Netscape and it downloaded just fine. It's so sad it's not even funny.
"Examples where this has happened before? The Sony Clie, PSX, Dreamcast, PS2, lots of hifis.. if its desirable home entertainment, then this is the obvious sales plan."
When did the PS2 go down in price? No one told me about this? It's still $299 like before isn't it? PS1 went down after at least a year. Components get cheaper in one year. Everything works like this anyway, I don't know how it works to be some kind of underhanded sales ploy. Plus I'm sure a lot of products have very vauge cost estimates, but as time goes on they can refine the actual cost of the device, and hence the price to consumers.
Sorry, no... the site was taken down 2 years ago after it became the Palm user group (DoH!) Oh well... I can email the guy and ask him about the software if someone is interested.
A guy I worked with had the local Newton user group's web site run off his Newton 2100 (had an ethernet card installed obviously). Kinda cuts down on the mobility (drum hit). I saw it in action and put out the info (all text) at a decent speed. Point is that it was kinda neat.
Maybe they can have Wesley's girlfriend be Britney Spears, but she can have red hair, and she can be a mind-reading prostitude who has some sort of special psychic bond with large rodants. She could go around the ship "silently" singing via esp in people's head to lure them into sex ("I'ma Sllllllllave for u, if you pay me 3500 credits"), yet the audience would get the privlage of hearing it.
Wait, that would be silly... Britney can't have red hair! What was I thinking...
Apple better rethink their now-out-dated paperweight iMac! I think this is a strong contender for computer design of the year... I can see it now inside the Apple design plant "No! Don't spray so evenly... randomize! randomize! This is chaos, not art!"
Yeah because scissors are so hard to come by these days... especially since stores have started the 10-day waiting period and intense screening proceedures that include hard-hitting questions like "Do you plan to, at any time, use said scissors in child-abduction scheme to remove tracking device from child's wrist?" and "Will the said scissors be used at any time as a weapon, or used to commit any crime?" If you answer yes to either of those questions you could be looking at a wait of at least 30 days, and that's just for the plastic-safety scissors.
What good is a super drive with Linux?? Seems odd they would force you to buy essentially a $450 useless component if you got the Yellow Dog linux version. Even if you got the OSX server version DVD-R burning does not seem fast enough for server backups, especially automated ones. That is the biggest flaw right there.
Disney is right, just the other day I put in a CD and the computer said "do you want to make multiple copies for your friends" and it was the veronica voice so I couldn't turn her down, it was so tempting. Apple forced me to commit a crime through their oh-so-super-sexy-veronica(high-quality) speech to text module!
Slashdot should charge for people to read the comments. This doesn't require any "original" content to be made for the paying customers, but gives paying customers a significant advantage. I like reading the comments, and I would pay to read them. I will not pay to remove ads because I am used to them because I see them everywhere these days. What is the motivation? Slashdot could even give a teaser of the highest ranked message subjects to lure people into paying for the comments part. I bet more people would sign up, and others who could not afford, or did not want to pay for comments can still read the other content.
Everyone knows that 10MB of storage is more then enough space. 136 GB? That's enough storage for 3600 friends... Nobody has THAT many friends... except for maybe Zorro.
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That's all well and good, but now with ATT Broadband they give you modems that have to authenticate with thier servers. If you DON'T run the stupid software your modem drops it's internet access after 1 day. I called them up and they said, "You need to register your modem before access is re-established." So I had to click the TOS/EULA whatever agreement, install their damn software, and use their damn proxies.
Yeah, but I have been told repeatedly by my cable modem provider that I cannot under any circumstances use a router because that's stealing internet access. They want me to pay an extra 5$ per computer simply because I want more than one computer connected. If I have 2 computers or just one downloading at full speed, I'm stil using the maximum bandwidth of my cable modem. What do they care if it's split between 1 comptuer or 30 of my computers? Just because some TOS/AUP/FAP/EULA agreement I supposedly signed (or rather I clicked "agree") says I can't have a router, doesn't mean (A) I should follow it, and (B) more importantly that they are in the right. I could make a EULA saying if you read this you have to send me 10$. It's wrong, and you know it and won't follow it, and probably will still read the message.
People have done much more amazing hacks than that on DVD players, such as the Apex AD600A, despite the use of a non-standard microprocessor.
I wouldn't call getting into the service menu of the Apex AD600A an amazing feat. It was simply done by using a key combination, no hacking. There was a AD600A-2 which had a "fixed" menu-- maybe that is what you are talking about? Since they are nearly identical, I don't see how it would be easier to hack the AD600A-2 over a cable modem since the correct code was already available from the AD600A.
Instead of getting crappy sat service I would upgrade my local service to the business version. Every cable modem provider and DSL provider in my area offers faster upload and download speeds if you pay more. Sometimes it's a lot, but usually it's not too bad in comparison with the headaches you'd get from switch to sat service.
We partially built machines from scratch. We ordered all the parts from once place with specifc model numbers and specs. We got about 20 in and they were great. We created a ghost, and everything was fine until we recieved another 20. They all had slightly different motherboards and video cards... they were better, which is why the company thought it was okay to replace them, but it caused complete havoc because we didn't know they changed them, and had no idea why things weren't working. Now we have to have three ghosts for the three sets, various driver disks labeled appropriately, and have to go through the building labeling the computers as having specific hardware. It was a mess. Moral is order from someone with large stock of the same model number, or make damn sure the company doesn't try to do you any "favors" by upgrading.
This is sad... I downloaded IE 5.1.4 for OS9 with IE 5.1 and the file I downloaded was only 512k, but IE said it was completed. I tried re-downloading, and it just used the cache file and kept getting the same 512k file. So I deleted the cache file and it still somehow downloaded just the 512k file. I opened up Netscape and it downloaded just fine. It's so sad it's not even funny.
"Examples where this has happened before? The Sony Clie, PSX, Dreamcast, PS2, lots of hifis.. if its desirable home entertainment, then this is the obvious sales plan."
When did the PS2 go down in price? No one told me about this? It's still $299 like before isn't it? PS1 went down after at least a year. Components get cheaper in one year. Everything works like this anyway, I don't know how it works to be some kind of underhanded sales ploy. Plus I'm sure a lot of products have very vauge cost estimates, but as time goes on they can refine the actual cost of the device, and hence the price to consumers.
Sorry, no... the site was taken down 2 years ago after it became the Palm user group (DoH!) Oh well... I can email the guy and ask him about the software if someone is interested.
A guy I worked with had the local Newton user group's web site run off his Newton 2100 (had an ethernet card installed obviously). Kinda cuts down on the mobility (drum hit). I saw it in action and put out the info (all text) at a decent speed. Point is that it was kinda neat.
PLEASE GOD NO!!!
Maybe they can have Wesley's girlfriend be Britney Spears, but she can have red hair, and she can be a mind-reading prostitude who has some sort of special psychic bond with large rodants. She could go around the ship "silently" singing via esp in people's head to lure them into sex ("I'ma Sllllllllave for u, if you pay me 3500 credits"), yet the audience would get the privlage of hearing it.
Wait, that would be silly... Britney can't have red hair! What was I thinking...
Apple better rethink their now-out-dated paperweight iMac! I think this is a strong contender for computer design of the year... I can see it now inside the Apple design plant "No! Don't spray so evenly... randomize! randomize! This is chaos, not art!"
Yeah because scissors are so hard to come by these days... especially since stores have started the 10-day waiting period and intense screening proceedures that include hard-hitting questions like "Do you plan to, at any time, use said scissors in child-abduction scheme to remove tracking device from child's wrist?" and "Will the said scissors be used at any time as a weapon, or used to commit any crime?" If you answer yes to either of those questions you could be looking at a wait of at least 30 days, and that's just for the plastic-safety scissors.
What good is a super drive with Linux?? Seems odd they would force you to buy essentially a $450 useless component if you got the Yellow Dog linux version. Even if you got the OSX server version DVD-R burning does not seem fast enough for server backups, especially automated ones. That is the biggest flaw right there.
Disney is right, just the other day I put in a CD and the computer said "do you want to make multiple copies for your friends" and it was the veronica voice so I couldn't turn her down, it was so tempting. Apple forced me to commit a crime through their oh-so-super-sexy-veronica(high-quality) speech to text module!
Slashdot should charge for people to read the comments. This doesn't require any "original" content to be made for the paying customers, but gives paying customers a significant advantage. I like reading the comments, and I would pay to read them. I will not pay to remove ads because I am used to them because I see them everywhere these days. What is the motivation? Slashdot could even give a teaser of the highest ranked message subjects to lure people into paying for the comments part. I bet more people would sign up, and others who could not afford, or did not want to pay for comments can still read the other content.
Everyone knows that 10MB of storage is more then enough space. 136 GB? That's enough storage for 3600 friends... Nobody has THAT many friends... except for maybe Zorro.