spamgourmet is great. I've been using it for years and years... Still got over 2000 spam emails in my gmail spam folder though.
I list it above ^^ just for kicks. I have no interest in receiving mails from people on/. but spamgourmet keeps track of emails trapped. Boy, this site get harvested a lot! Who'd of thunk it?
There are already flash applications that use P2P for streaming. Illegal streaming of sporting events, I might add. Not sure about the protocol they use though.
No big buttons are required - it just works, like you tube just works.
Are Apple really doing that well? I've yet to see one in the UK. Name me another phone on the market, and yes, I've probably seen it.
I have a 4gb micro-sd card in my phone. How does the iPhone top this? I can bluetooth MP3s to it, use the cable that came with the phone, upload MP3s to my webserver and download them on the phone, MMS them, the list goes on.
Visual Voicemail? My phones have done that via MMS for years. MMS is far more powerful too.
Their hardware experience is so-say. My phone is the size of a Nano, stores as many tunes as the Nano, has a battery that lasts longer than the Nano and the screen doesn't scratch.
iPhone has a nice screen for surfing the web and that's about it. And the adverts in the UK make me chuckle; who in the UK doesn't know where their closest airport is? ho ho ho
I find it funny that people here are stating that TV keeps them up until the early hours. TV sends me to sleep. I can't sleep without it.
And it's not the boredom that sends me off. I often fall asleep while watching late night football game repeats, only to wake up when the adverts comes on. This is real end to end football; soccer, as some of you would call it.
Without the TV on in bed, all I can hear is the PC fan downstairs, the pump on freezer, bubbles from the fish tank, train in the distance... It's too much.
This is probably a get-off-my-lawn moment but this whole online dating thing amazes me.
I was chatting with an old mate a month or so back. Face to face chatting. You know? He was telling me about his son who I'd not seen in ten years and I was asking questions, as you do. - Where is he? - Out with his new girlfriend in Leeds - Leeds? How did he meet her then? - Same place he meets all his girlfriends; the internet.
Yep, I installed MS's recommended nVidia drivers last week and Vista would blue screen when trying to play videos. (I say blue screen because that's what the event logs say but, in truth, it auto-reboots).
Compatability problems? Where are these problems you speak of?
All my old software has installed and worked flawlessly since I've been on Vista. Some of it dates back to when I used W98.
All my old games work. Ah, except CIV4, which needed DX9 if I remember correctly. What? Need to install DX to play a certain game? Hardly a new experience for PC gamers.
All my old cracks work. Key Gens work.
All my old cameras, scanner, mp3 player, printer, USB mass storage devices just work.
I'll admit Vista is not perfect but it's not the dog everyone makes out it to be.
Well I just bought a HP Laptop and yes there is a 10gb partition containing a factory backup. It also came with software for making your own recovery disks. This was the second thing I did after reading the instructions. I needed two DVDs. The first DVD boots.
I bet most people don't read the instructions and don't make recovery disks.
They're £50 ($100) in the UK at the moment. With a USB slot in the front that claims DiVX playback. People here, in the near future, will no longer buy normal DVD players.
Why should I pay to download content from my ISP's server? The server sits on their network. I'm doing them a favour by not going outside their network.
"And rather than improve bandwidth or set up a new pricing structure (abandoning the silly pretense of "unlimited" usage)..."
A new pricing structure will never happen. Bandwidth is so cheap that 'normal' users would only pay $1 a month. 90gb costs me $25... Not going to happen.
My Uncle T. was a finance geek. He was the finance director of oil mining drill bit company. Used to carry around a small bag of black diamonds with him and I thought this was the coolest thing ever.
He had portable computer the size of a suitcase. It was as heavy as a......as a suitcase full of clothes. It had an 8cm green screen and an integrated keyboard. Very noisy piece of kit. This would have been about 1980, I think.
There was a game on it where you stood on a mountain shooting cannon balls across the valley trying to hit player two on the other side. You had to type in the weight on the ball, the angle of attack, the power, etc. I couldn't get enough of it.
He would never let me play it for long because of the risk of breaking it - it got so hot. I would have done the washing up for a year if he'd have let me have a decent go.:)
I did the Pong thing, NES and all that, but this was my first go on a PC playing games. (Actually that might be a lie because I remember playing Animal when I was a boy too - which came first?)
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Dom Jolly of Trigger Happy TV does this. I'd be 99% sure YouTube would have a few of his sketches. Check them out.
1ghz and 512mb RAM? You lucky, lucky...
FF3b4 runs sweet on my P3 450 with 384mb SD RAM. Loading my dozen homepage tabs at start-up is a major improvement on FF2.
spamgourmet is great. I've been using it for years and years... Still got over 2000 spam emails in my gmail spam folder though.
/. but spamgourmet keeps track of emails trapped. Boy, this site get harvested a lot! Who'd of thunk it?
I list it above ^^ just for kicks. I have no interest in receiving mails from people on
I'd happy-slap them.
Sorry if I've missed something but it is possible to delete what it's learned.
1. Type something like "slash"
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight the first title to delete.
3. Hold down the delete key.
I don't fancy clearing my browsing history, but I expect doing so would clear the lot.
And it seems to put your bookmarked URLs at the top. I've bookmarked links into an obscure folder for this purpose only.
I like this new feature... I can understand why others don't.
gamecopyworld.com - that's got to be one of the best sites ever.
There are already flash applications that use P2P for streaming. Illegal streaming of sporting events, I might add. Not sure about the protocol they use though.
No big buttons are required - it just works, like you tube just works.
Are Apple really doing that well? I've yet to see one in the UK. Name me another phone on the market, and yes, I've probably seen it.
I have a 4gb micro-sd card in my phone. How does the iPhone top this? I can bluetooth MP3s to it, use the cable that came with the phone, upload MP3s to my webserver and download them on the phone, MMS them, the list goes on.
Visual Voicemail? My phones have done that via MMS for years. MMS is far more powerful too.
Their hardware experience is so-say. My phone is the size of a Nano, stores as many tunes as the Nano, has a battery that lasts longer than the Nano and the screen doesn't scratch.
iPhone has a nice screen for surfing the web and that's about it. And the adverts in the UK make me chuckle; who in the UK doesn't know where their closest airport is? ho ho ho
iPhone is marketing rubbish.
I laugh because this concerns little emails.
When I lived in the small Wiltshire village of Mildenhall, we often had convoys of military vehicles being misdelivered.
"Where's the air base?" the lead driver would ask.
"150 miles North East of here!" we'd all reply.
I find it funny that people here are stating that TV keeps them up until the early hours. TV sends me to sleep. I can't sleep without it.
And it's not the boredom that sends me off. I often fall asleep while watching late night football game repeats, only to wake up when the adverts comes on. This is real end to end football; soccer, as some of you would call it.
Without the TV on in bed, all I can hear is the PC fan downstairs, the pump on freezer, bubbles from the fish tank, train in the distance... It's too much.
TV, set on a 20 minute timer, perfect
This is probably a get-off-my-lawn moment but this whole online dating thing amazes me.
I was chatting with an old mate a month or so back. Face to face chatting. You know? He was telling me about his son who I'd not seen in ten years and I was asking questions, as you do. - Where is he? - Out with his new girlfriend in Leeds - Leeds? How did he meet her then? - Same place he meets all his girlfriends; the internet.
Is it really that easy these days?
Yep, I installed MS's recommended nVidia drivers last week and Vista would blue screen when trying to play videos. (I say blue screen because that's what the event logs say but, in truth, it auto-reboots).
They should just leave things as they are.
* Sold in Tescos, Asda Walmart, Argos...
* PAYG.
Those two sum up the UK non-corporate market for me.
Compatability problems? Where are these problems you speak of?
All my old software has installed and worked flawlessly since I've been on Vista. Some of it dates back to when I used W98.
All my old games work. Ah, except CIV4, which needed DX9 if I remember correctly. What? Need to install DX to play a certain game? Hardly a new experience for PC gamers.
All my old cracks work. Key Gens work.
All my old cameras, scanner, mp3 player, printer, USB mass storage devices just work.
I'll admit Vista is not perfect but it's not the dog everyone makes out it to be.
"Baaaaaa" said the Slashdot sheep.
Mark Globocnik is a funny man. I like him. I wish to shake his hand.
+1 troll for me... probably.
Well I just bought a HP Laptop and yes there is a 10gb partition containing a factory backup. It also came with software for making your own recovery disks. This was the second thing I did after reading the instructions. I needed two DVDs. The first DVD boots.
I bet most people don't read the instructions and don't make recovery disks.
"[War: It's] interesting to watch events."
Today is a sad, sad day.
Please you two, stick to betting on the horses.
Then the GP is right. MMS can do exactly the same thing the Apple are touting.
I MMS the wife. Her phone says "Inda has sent a message" she chooses to see/hear it at her convenience.
In fact, MMS can do so much more and it's not nearly as expensive as everyone thinks it is.
Google searches TBP just fine. I see no problem.
I have the same experience as you. Get her to share the controller and let other people play is the big hurdle at the moment.
:)
I caught her one day, aged 5, copying words from her books into Google. I stopped her doing that quickly.
They're £50 ($100) in the UK at the moment. With a USB slot in the front that claims DiVX playback. People here, in the near future, will no longer buy normal DVD players.
Why should I pay to download content from my ISP's server? The server sits on their network. I'm doing them a favour by not going outside their network.
All ISPs should offer a server like this.
"And rather than improve bandwidth or set up a new pricing structure (abandoning the silly pretense of "unlimited" usage)..."
A new pricing structure will never happen. Bandwidth is so cheap that 'normal' users would only pay $1 a month. 90gb costs me $25... Not going to happen.
My Uncle T. was a finance geek. He was the finance director of oil mining drill bit company. Used to carry around a small bag of black diamonds with him and I thought this was the coolest thing ever.
...as a suitcase full of clothes. It had an 8cm green screen and an integrated keyboard. Very noisy piece of kit. This would have been about 1980, I think.
:)
He had portable computer the size of a suitcase. It was as heavy as a...
There was a game on it where you stood on a mountain shooting cannon balls across the valley trying to hit player two on the other side. You had to type in the weight on the ball, the angle of attack, the power, etc. I couldn't get enough of it.
He would never let me play it for long because of the risk of breaking it - it got so hot. I would have done the washing up for a year if he'd have let me have a decent go.
I did the Pong thing, NES and all that, but this was my first go on a PC playing games. (Actually that might be a lie because I remember playing Animal when I was a boy too - which came first?)
That'll teach me for googling the latin numbers and not spotting that dec is actually 10, not 12. Obvious when you think about it. :)