I bought the director's cut version on dvd and thought it was ridiculous that the bonus features was "interactive menus". No commentary, I don't remember them even including a trailer. A movie as important as this (to the sci-fi community) deserves a great dvd. Don't they have any production stills? Can't they get some cast and directors together to talk about the movie? How about the soundtrack... landmark soundtrack, how about the members of the band and the score director. Are these people all dead? If they put out a package as good as the Criterion version of Brazil.. they would sell a ton of them. It would be huge.
Sure this might replace a small router with a couple of interfaces, but it will no way replace a router with hundreds of gigabit interfaces capable of millions of packets per second.. Then there is the support issue, both hardware and software.. and the number of developers working on the project...
interesting, but I don't think Cisco is too scared.
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Well, your searching missed a good one. As someone else pointed out, Oracle Calendar is a great product. Oracle bough Stelltor's Corporate Time and integrated it into their collaboration suite. I like the way that Oracle's product works. I can't stand how with Exchange that if I don't use the heinous Entourage program, I need to be careful not to delete meeting invites, for if I do, it is gone forever...
There are many other things that drive me crazy about Exchange... I personally like how there is a separate UI (application) for email, calendar, and addressbook on the Mac. They all integrate, but the primary interface for all of them is not one application.. I don't have to open up my email app on the road to look up an address (of course I can just use my ipod for that)...
anyway... not a bad product and way better than exchange
This story is almost 24 hours old... Cisco most certainly wants to integrate itself into every part of digital data transmission. Since there are alot of people watching "digital tv" it is a sensible purchase.
If you get vonage, you often get a Cisco ATA box to turn your analog phone into a digital signal...
It is a great strategy for Cisco. They want to sell both parts of the package, the core routers for the Internet. DSL and cable modem concentrators for the central office. DSL and cable modems.
I wonder if they will keep the company name or roll them into Linksys as a consumer product. I also wonder how microsoft will react. They want to get a version of their OS on cable boxes.
I'm a bit younger than 45, but for me, after thinking of CMU, the next thing was "The Little Rascals" I got to watch the reruns when I was little (in the '70s). Their soap box racer, for those who did not see it, featured a dog on a tread mill chasing a cat... I might not remember correctly, but I would not put it past them to have had a turbo mode where the showed the cat a mouse and had a dog chasing a cat chasing a mouse for their engine...
And how do they propose to get.com's to pay them to "use their pipes?" What can they really do? Block access to google or Vonage? I don't think so... If they tried that with me... I would immediately switch ISPs... They would not be able to pay me to stay with them...
It is such an old school business attitude... The phone companies need to realize that the days of monopoly are over... The gig is up, the cat is out of the bag... etc... VoIP works great... Vonage is so simple to use... someone's grandparents could use it...
Even if there were some widespread blocking of Vonage... it would not be hard for them to get around it... It isn't like they have to stick to standard SIP ports... Their service could easily run over port 80... If they tried to block their IP address, could they not start using IP blocks from their ISPs? And hey.. aren't the ISPs already making money on transit costs for these companies...?
This guy is a real loser... Sell your stock in SBC
And we all know that Apple is making money off of the hardware... not the content... I might have to get my old mac mini hooked up to my cable to generate some content for my future new ipod...
Yep.. got to agree here.. I like the albums that come with a "free" video... in Apple's defense... outside of apple is there a way to buy a video and a song at the same time? you can buy a cd and a video dvd... but they are separate products...
In the new world, I often wish the audio only ipod could play the audio portion of quicktime movies... that would solve the issue.
to paraphrase... "I noticed that I cant drag just any music into my iTunes Library"
yes, that is true... I am sure the ipod video is unlikely to support divx... alot of techheads will complain... oh well... I guess mp4 will "have to do":-)
The old itunes had video support also, but I never used it.. I put movie trailers and such in my movies folder... (like the star wars version of cops... got to love that, troopers)... I admit, I like the video tab in the new itunes.. I have copied all my videos to itunes and am letting it manage them... including backing them up and search.
I think it is a great feature addition to an already great product.. Sure the article mentions a bunch of other products, but how well do the integrate together...
As for paying for video, I have already spent about 15 or 20 on a combination of music videos (high replay value) and a tv show (long length), the pilot to Night Stalker... and I don't even own a video capable ipod... People are talking about why a 3 or 4 minute video should cost the same as a tv episode... in most cases the tv episode will only be watched one time... maybe 2... I doubt I would ever "subscribe" to a tv show when I have a tivo... but I might get an episode here or there if they had a series that I watched often and wanted to take an episode with me...
A good video encoder card or box will cost, what, about $200.. if you want good quality... at least svideo in... That is 100 tv episodes.. Unless you were going to set up a computer based pvr or were serious about watching alot of tv on your computer... that will buy you an occasional tv episode from apple...
I think that mtv should be the next thing to worry about apple... radio stations are already suffering.. Now that people can download the videos they want and watch them where they want... why would you put up with mtv which is now as bad as the worst clearchannel station.
I understand the sentiment.... A recent PBS podcast talked about inertia and how it also relates to government... and how it is good that things do not happen too quickly... Clearly the "representatives of the people" are more interested in representing themselves... And the executive branch is such a club... not just the current administration... Cronyism... probably mentioned on the news more this week than ever, it has been going on for a long time... as a side note, loved SNL this weekend...
Not a huge deal people... Yes, lobbyists can be bad... I don't know who is looked up to more... pimps, used car salesmen, crack dealers, or lobbyists...... but... eff also has lobbyists, there has to be some linux centered lobbyists around d.c... it is a sad fact that money buys power and our congress is cheap.. I am surprised though it took this long to get google to have a three person office inside the beltway...
I just hope they can stop some of the insane things that other lobbyist try to put through.. like flags on digital tv content... bad congresscritter bad... sit in a corner in timeout for two minutes.
I am totally pleased with Battlestar Galactica in number 2.. the new one that is.. It is more than the Next Gen of the BG universe... The story lines are great.. If you have not had a chance, check out the podcasts... I just listen to them on the bus after I have seen the show.. it is great insight...
How about the mind control elements... there were definitely "science" based plot elements that fed into the "fiction" of the narrative... I could go through the episodes and try to pick out things... The Prisoner was not "Man from U.N.C.L.E."
I cannot believe that they missed the prisoner... How many of these shows have their own society that meets where the series was filmed... How many series can still blow your mind the way that #6 and his fellow prisoners did...
not to be a smart@ss, really... but this is a free service...
Here is what I think... fsck their security.. Don't rely on the wire to secure you... rely on your connections to your destinations... Once you pop out of google's concentrator, your packets are going to be free and wild of security...
There is ssl smtp and imap... https... ssh, jabber supports ssl...
As for the tunnel endpoints.. they can do clever things... they can have a backup tunnel config if the primary concentrator fails... even cooler, there is now support in certain hardware to share ipsec sa databases and have a hot standby ipsec tunnel endpoint... I really would not care if they just used GRE... You can also do bgp anycast announcing a/24 or so to isp's with "no export"
If they do their own backbone then they can just use ospf anycast... If you have the brains and cash of google, you can make this work pretty well...
It could end up being a hugely smart move.... I am sure that 90% of you have already figured out the business model... They will know exactly where you are (or close enough for hand grenades and horse shoes and... ads)...
Watch out clear channel... Why pay thousands to put your ad on an ugly billboard when you can put your ad less than two feet from a potential customers face... local.adwords.google.com.... (fake url) customers already use gmail and google at the hotspot, even without having some annoying gonna be hacked forced page to surf for free web machine, they can just set all the google sites that people already visit to places right around the corner...
If podcasts are going to replace radio, google wifi will replace ? (a question for all those who recently took the sat)
When people get/.'d they often change their content... It happens all the time...
Now they are pointing the www.fuddruckers.com to an individual vip on google... not even a cname pointing to www.google.com.. so now one cluster of google servers is getting more traffic then others since they are bypassing any layer 3 load balancing that google might be doing...
What kind of IT staff do they have? Are they contracting out all this stuff?
In my view, what the Burgertime clone guy did was the fast way to get a company that probably has one guy who does the entire website, to change their behaviour as quickly as possible... Would they have even responded to an email message to their webmaster@? I doubt it...
If fudruckers is allowed to hotlink, then I say that the other guy is free to change the content of the destination of that link.. they had no formal business agreement... hell it was the guys personal site... fud them.
"I spent 17 years in the music business the last several of which were all about pushing and prodding the painful development of legitimate on-line music."
Interesting way of putting it...
But not the iPod. even if the cheapest one costs a few hundred dollars."
No, it costs $99, not a few hundred... bitch
"The problem is that the iPod only works with either songs that you buy from the on-line Apple iTunes store or songs that you rip from your own CD's."
Or that are in mp3 format... not too many mp3's out there... Oh, heaven forbid some artist release their music for free, or on their own...
"But keeping the iTunes system a proprietary technology to prevent anyone from using multiple (read Microsoft) music systems is the most anti-consumer and user unfriendly thing any god can do."
Is bill paying her for this.. sounds like the recent texas representative that wanted to force apple to allow microsoft protected music to work on the iPod... what a bitch.
"Why am I complaining about this? Why isn't everyone?"
Believe me, there will be plenty of complaints, all for you.
I was 8 when it came out, and I can remember seeing the movie 9 different times. It was the first time I can remember that whenever a friend went to see it that their parents would take all the kids buddies. So my parents only took me once, but we all saw the movie multiple times... it was truly a group experience. I believe that is why it is such a cult movie.
On top of that, I clearly remember watching a documentary of the making of the movie, all the special effects, in school, in our library with all the third graders.
These are the reasons why so many people in their thirties have such a communal tie to Star Wars. Later when Empire was released, all of your friends who saw the first movie got back together to see the sequel. When Jedi came out, we were all older, and saw the Ewoks as this pandering too young kids, because we felt the movie was for us personally, those who saw the original Star Wars in the theater. We wanted Jedi to be targeted to us. When (understandably) Lucas wanted to bring more young children into the Star Wars cult, we protested. Take this to the ultimate level with Jar Jar and Phantom Menace, and we can see why so many felt the movie to be poisonous trash. It was taking our childhood youth icons and giving it away to others.
Perhaps if we could all watch Episode 3 through the eyes of an 8 or ten year old, we would enjoy the experience much better.
Well, since with Vonage, you can get a number in any exchange, If you lived in NY and they tried to levy taxes on vonage, get a NJ or CT phone number as your primary number and switch your current phone number to a secondary number that others can call you on, but your outgoing calls will never originate from.
On the other hand, I am pissed that a friend who switched to vonage on my recommendation has been paying for two accounts for six months. It seems that not only does one company own the phone line to your house, another the phone service, but another owns the phone number. They want to keep their original number, but company that give them service and the one that owns line aren't playing well together and they can't get the switch done. Vonage has been somewhat cool in giving them free service, but they have had to make a ton of calls to vonage to get this done. A bit of regulation in this case would not be too bad... In my state (PA) the state regulation board won't help.
So, NY people, pick a new area code. Voice over IP is completely illegal in Qatar, but there sure are people who use it over there, they just don't call the government regulation board when they have problems with their provider.
Hardware RAID rocks... My file system is already using software journalling. With four serial ATA interfaces, I would love to have my/home directory (/Users on my Mac) on a mirrored drive set. I want to use my backups for serious backups only. Like if my laptop catches on fire... Truth is, though, drives fail... and I don't want to spend days or weeks trying to get my system back to where is now, while losing a ton of time rebuilding it.
When one has a bit more money and a bit less time, an extra 250 GB sata drive isn't all that expensive. IMHO
I am hoping you know that MAC, in this context, stands for media access control. It is the hardware address of the NIC. But surely you know that and are only joking, and it is funny, sort of;-)
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I bought the director's cut version on dvd and thought it was ridiculous that the bonus features was "interactive menus". No commentary, I don't remember them even including a trailer. A movie as important as this (to the sci-fi community) deserves a great dvd. Don't they have any production stills? Can't they get some cast and directors together to talk about the movie? How about the soundtrack... landmark soundtrack, how about the members of the band and the score director. Are these people all dead? If they put out a package as good as the Criterion version of Brazil.. they would sell a ton of them. It would be huge.
Sure this might replace a small router with a couple of interfaces, but it will no way replace a router with hundreds of gigabit interfaces capable of millions of packets per second.. Then there is the support issue, both hardware and software.. and the number of developers working on the project...
interesting, but I don't think Cisco is too scared.
Well, your searching missed a good one. As someone else pointed out, Oracle Calendar is a great product. Oracle bough Stelltor's Corporate Time and integrated it into their collaboration suite. I like the way that Oracle's product works. I can't stand how with Exchange that if I don't use the heinous Entourage program, I need to be careful not to delete meeting invites, for if I do, it is gone forever...
There are many other things that drive me crazy about Exchange... I personally like how there is a separate UI (application) for email, calendar, and addressbook on the Mac. They all integrate, but the primary interface for all of them is not one application.. I don't have to open up my email app on the road to look up an address (of course I can just use my ipod for that)...
anyway... not a bad product and way better than exchange
This story is almost 24 hours old... Cisco most certainly wants to integrate itself into every part of digital data transmission. Since there are alot of people watching "digital tv" it is a sensible purchase.
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Look at what else Cisco has done. They have a voip phone that integrates with Skype
http://www1.linksys.com/international/product.asp
If you get vonage, you often get a Cisco ATA box to turn your analog phone into a digital signal...
It is a great strategy for Cisco. They want to sell both parts of the package, the core routers for the Internet. DSL and cable modem concentrators for the central office. DSL and cable modems.
I wonder if they will keep the company name or roll them into Linksys as a consumer product. I also wonder how microsoft will react. They want to get a version of their OS on cable boxes.
Time will tell
I'm a bit younger than 45, but for me, after thinking of CMU, the next thing was "The Little Rascals" I got to watch the reruns when I was little (in the '70s). Their soap box racer, for those who did not see it, featured a dog on a tread mill chasing a cat... I might not remember correctly, but I would not put it past them to have had a turbo mode where the showed the cat a mouse and had a dog chasing a cat chasing a mouse for their engine...
As Edith would have said, "Those were the days"
And how do they propose to get .com's to pay them to "use their pipes?" What can they really do? Block access to google or Vonage? I don't think so... If they tried that with me... I would immediately switch ISPs... They would not be able to pay me to stay with them...
It is such an old school business attitude... The phone companies need to realize that the days of monopoly are over... The gig is up, the cat is out of the bag... etc... VoIP works great... Vonage is so simple to use... someone's grandparents could use it...
Even if there were some widespread blocking of Vonage... it would not be hard for them to get around it... It isn't like they have to stick to standard SIP ports... Their service could easily run over port 80... If they tried to block their IP address, could they not start using IP blocks from their ISPs? And hey.. aren't the ISPs already making money on transit costs for these companies...?
This guy is a real loser... Sell your stock in SBC
And we all know that Apple is making money off of the hardware... not the content... I might have to get my old mac mini hooked up to my cable to generate some content for my future new ipod...
Yep.. got to agree here.. I like the albums that come with a "free" video... in Apple's defense... outside of apple is there a way to buy a video and a song at the same time? you can buy a cd and a video dvd... but they are separate products...
In the new world, I often wish the audio only ipod could play the audio portion of quicktime movies... that would solve the issue.
to paraphrase... "I noticed that I cant drag just any music into my iTunes Library"
:-)
yes, that is true... I am sure the ipod video is unlikely to support divx... alot of techheads will complain... oh well... I guess mp4 will "have to do"
The old itunes had video support also, but I never used it.. I put movie trailers and such in my movies folder... (like the star wars version of cops... got to love that, troopers)... I admit, I like the video tab in the new itunes.. I have copied all my videos to itunes and am letting it manage them... including backing them up and search.
I think it is a great feature addition to an already great product.. Sure the article mentions a bunch of other products, but how well do the integrate together...
As for paying for video, I have already spent about 15 or 20 on a combination of music videos (high replay value) and a tv show (long length), the pilot to Night Stalker... and I don't even own a video capable ipod... People are talking about why a 3 or 4 minute video should cost the same as a tv episode... in most cases the tv episode will only be watched one time... maybe 2... I doubt I would ever "subscribe" to a tv show when I have a tivo... but I might get an episode here or there if they had a series that I watched often and wanted to take an episode with me...
A good video encoder card or box will cost, what, about $200.. if you want good quality... at least svideo in... That is 100 tv episodes.. Unless you were going to set up a computer based pvr or were serious about watching alot of tv on your computer... that will buy you an occasional tv episode from apple...
I think that mtv should be the next thing to worry about apple... radio stations are already suffering.. Now that people can download the videos they want and watch them where they want... why would you put up with mtv which is now as bad as the worst clearchannel station.
I understand the sentiment.... A recent PBS podcast talked about inertia and how it also relates to government... and how it is good that things do not happen too quickly... Clearly the "representatives of the people" are more interested in representing themselves... And the executive branch is such a club... not just the current administration... Cronyism... probably mentioned on the news more this week than ever, it has been going on for a long time... as a side note, loved SNL this weekend...
Not a huge deal people... Yes, lobbyists can be bad... I don't know who is looked up to more... pimps, used car salesmen, crack dealers, or lobbyists... ... but... eff also has lobbyists, there has to be some linux centered lobbyists around d.c... it is a sad fact that money buys power and our congress is cheap.. I am surprised though it took this long to get google to have a three person office inside the beltway...
I just hope they can stop some of the insane things that other lobbyist try to put through.. like flags on digital tv content... bad congresscritter bad... sit in a corner in timeout for two minutes.
I am totally pleased with Battlestar Galactica in number 2.. the new one that is.. It is more than the Next Gen of the BG universe... The story lines are great.. If you have not had a chance, check out the podcasts... I just listen to them on the bus after I have seen the show.. it is great insight...
How about the mind control elements... there were definitely "science" based plot elements that fed into the "fiction" of the narrative... I could go through the episodes and try to pick out things... The Prisoner was not "Man from U.N.C.L.E."
:-)
But as always... YMMV
I cannot believe that they missed the prisoner... How many of these shows have their own society that meets where the series was filmed... How many series can still blow your mind the way that #6 and his fellow prisoners did...
oh well
not to be a smart@ss, really... but this is a free service...
/24 or so to isp's with "no export"
Here is what I think... fsck their security.. Don't rely on the wire to secure you... rely on your connections to your destinations... Once you pop out of google's concentrator, your packets are going to be free and wild of security...
There is ssl smtp and imap... https... ssh, jabber supports ssl...
As for the tunnel endpoints.. they can do clever things... they can have a backup tunnel config if the primary concentrator fails... even cooler, there is now support in certain hardware to share ipsec sa databases and have a hot standby ipsec tunnel endpoint... I really would not care if they just used GRE... You can also do bgp anycast announcing a
If they do their own backbone then they can just use ospf anycast... If you have the brains and cash of google, you can make this work pretty well...
Peter
It could end up being a hugely smart move.... I am sure that 90% of you have already figured out the business model... They will know exactly where you are (or close enough for hand grenades and horse shoes and... ads)...
Watch out clear channel... Why pay thousands to put your ad on an ugly billboard when you can put your ad less than two feet from a potential customers face... local.adwords.google.com.... (fake url) customers already use gmail and google at the hotspot, even without having some annoying gonna be hacked forced page to surf for free web machine, they can just set all the google sites that people already visit to places right around the corner...
If podcasts are going to replace radio, google wifi will replace ?
(a question for all those who recently took the sat)
When people get /.'d they often change their content... It happens all the time...
Now they are pointing the www.fuddruckers.com to an individual vip on google... not even a cname pointing to www.google.com.. so now one cluster of google servers is getting more traffic then others since they are bypassing any layer 3 load balancing that google might be doing...
What kind of IT staff do they have? Are they contracting out all this stuff?
In my view, what the Burgertime clone guy did was the fast way to get a company that probably has one guy who does the entire website, to change their behaviour as quickly as possible... Would they have even responded to an email message to their webmaster@? I doubt it...
If fudruckers is allowed to hotlink, then I say that the other guy is free to change the content of the destination of that link.. they had no formal business agreement... hell it was the guys personal site... fud them.
If you drop the price of the Mac Mini $500, you get a free computer... Sure it needs more ram, but as an owner, it is a nice little machine...
Lower the price of a 12inch powerbook $1000 and you have a free laptop...
Are you a student? They have nice student discounts that are super easy to get.
"I spent 17 years in the music business the last several of which were all about pushing and prodding the painful development of legitimate on-line music."
Interesting way of putting it...
But not the iPod. even if the cheapest one costs a few hundred dollars."
No, it costs $99, not a few hundred... bitch
"The problem is that the iPod only works with either songs that you buy from the on-line Apple iTunes store or songs that you rip from your own CD's."
Or that are in mp3 format... not too many mp3's out there... Oh, heaven forbid some artist release their music for free, or on their own...
"But keeping the iTunes system a proprietary technology to prevent anyone from using multiple (read Microsoft) music systems is the most anti-consumer and user unfriendly thing any god can do."
Is bill paying her for this.. sounds like the recent texas representative that wanted to force apple to allow microsoft protected music to work on the iPod... what a bitch.
"Why am I complaining about this? Why isn't everyone?"
Believe me, there will be plenty of complaints, all for you.
I was 8 when it came out, and I can remember seeing the movie 9 different times. It was the first time I can remember that whenever a friend went to see it that their parents would take all the kids buddies. So my parents only took me once, but we all saw the movie multiple times... it was truly a group experience. I believe that is why it is such a cult movie.
On top of that, I clearly remember watching a documentary of the making of the movie, all the special effects, in school, in our library with all the third graders.
These are the reasons why so many people in their thirties have such a communal tie to Star Wars. Later when Empire was released, all of your friends who saw the first movie got back together to see the sequel. When Jedi came out, we were all older, and saw the Ewoks as this pandering too young kids, because we felt the movie was for us personally, those who saw the original Star Wars in the theater. We wanted Jedi to be targeted to us. When (understandably) Lucas wanted to bring more young children into the Star Wars cult, we protested. Take this to the ultimate level with Jar Jar and Phantom Menace, and we can see why so many felt the movie to be poisonous trash. It was taking our childhood youth icons and giving it away to others.
Perhaps if we could all watch Episode 3 through the eyes of an 8 or ten year old, we would enjoy the experience much better.
Well, since with Vonage, you can get a number in any exchange, If you lived in NY and they tried to levy taxes on vonage, get a NJ or CT phone number as your primary number and switch your current phone number to a secondary number that others can call you on, but your outgoing calls will never originate from.
On the other hand, I am pissed that a friend who switched to vonage on my recommendation has been paying for two accounts for six months. It seems that not only does one company own the phone line to your house, another the phone service, but another owns the phone number. They want to keep their original number, but company that give them service and the one that owns line aren't playing well together and they can't get the switch done. Vonage has been somewhat cool in giving them free service, but they have had to make a ton of calls to vonage to get this done. A bit of regulation in this case would not be too bad... In my state (PA) the state regulation board won't help.
So, NY people, pick a new area code. Voice over IP is completely illegal in Qatar, but there sure are people who use it over there, they just don't call the government regulation board when they have problems with their provider.
Hardware RAID rocks... My file system is already using software journalling. With four serial ATA interfaces, I would love to have my /home directory (/Users on my Mac) on a mirrored drive set. I want to use my backups for serious backups only. Like if my laptop catches on fire... Truth is, though, drives fail... and I don't want to spend days or weeks trying to get my system back to where is now, while losing a ton of time rebuilding it.
When one has a bit more money and a bit less time, an extra 250 GB sata drive isn't all that expensive. IMHO
Go into the bios and disable it, or flash the bios.
Do they still call it bios?
I am hoping you know that MAC, in this context, stands for media access control. It is the hardware address of the NIC. But surely you know that and are only joking, and it is funny, sort of ;-)