I bought a Samsung smart tv last year. Generally I like the TV, but the smart TV features are not very good. I tried Chromecast and then settled on Roku (I prefer a physical remote). You could just buy the Samsung TV and then not use the smart features. Streaming devices like chromecast, roku, fire tv, apple tv aren't that expensive, and are much better.
Hudson: 9 meters. 7. 6. Ripley: That can't be; that's inside the room. Hudson: It's reading right man, look! Hicks: Then you're not reading *it* right. Hudson: 5 meters, man. 4. What the hell?
I use it, and I quite like it. I don't use the number that google provides, but I have linked my voice mail to gvoice so that rather than going to my Tmobile vmail messages go to Google voice. The transcriber is not so great. You can usually get the gist of a message, but it makes a lot of mistakes. That said, the other voice mail functionality is much better than Tmobile's standard offering, so on the whole the voice mail is much better.
Also, even without using the google voice number I can initate calls to Canada for free, which is nice.
If I did use the google voice number you get a lot more features (recording calls, etc. You can look them up). But I find it quite awkward. For instance, if I give everyone my google voice number then they can call and text me there. But if I call them directly, without going through google voice, their caller ID is going to show my tmobile assigned number. I could initiate the call through google voice, but that's a bit of a pain in the ass.
I have a blackberry, and the google voice app for bberry should make some of this easier, but it's pretty terrible. It's very slow, and lately it's been throwing errors saying it can validate google voice's SSL certificate. It's really not ready for primetime.
So, I do like google voice, considering it's free it adds some value, especially the voice mail functionality. But it's got a lot of rough edges.
A little bit OT, but in the states if you buy an unlocked phone can you get a plan that does not include a subsidy for another phone? That is, if I buy an iPhone I'm going to pay $90/month or so, but some of that includes the price of the phone. If I have my own iPhone, or after my initial two year contract (after I've paid off the phone) is it possible to get a cheaper plan? My understanding is no, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
So, if I buy a nexus one unlocked can I get a cheaper plan than if I bought the $180 one?
I gotta say that Google Voice is way better than the iPhone's visual vmail. They're really different things: google transcribes your voice mail and SMS or emails them to you (among lots of other things). Visual vmail just shows you who called you without having to dial in.
A friend of mine is a commercial pilot. Immediately after 9/11 he had his nail clippers confiscated when going through security. He mentioned to security that not only is there a fire ax in the cockpit, but he's the pilot and can just steer the plane into the ground if he wants to crash it. They didn't seem to get understand.
The real story is not that microsoft.com is on the list, it's all the other sites. Ostensibly this is a list of sites that are not standards compliant, which IE8 will treat in as non-standard so they display correctly. But if you check the list you'll find wikipedia.org, google.com, mozilla.com(!!). Are these sites really non-compliant? Or is IE8 just incompatible with them?
Indeed. Everyone knows that when you drive your company into the ground through incompetence you don't give up! You go to Washington to get your bail out. That's the American way.
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Windows 2000 was pretty good.
I bought a Samsung smart tv last year. Generally I like the TV, but the smart TV features are not very good. I tried Chromecast and then settled on Roku (I prefer a physical remote). You could just buy the Samsung TV and then not use the smart features. Streaming devices like chromecast, roku, fire tv, apple tv aren't that expensive, and are much better.
Hudson: 9 meters. 7. 6.
Ripley: That can't be; that's inside the room.
Hudson: It's reading right man, look!
Hicks: Then you're not reading *it* right.
Hudson: 5 meters, man. 4. What the hell?
http://xkcd.com/1050/
Thanks.
Must you use livescribe's paper with their pens? Seems like a good solution, though the paper seems pricey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch#The_De_Laurentiis_films.2C_Dune_and_Blue_Velvet:_1983.E2.80.931986
http://www.slashfilm.com/david-lynch-talks-about-not-directing-return-of-the-jedi/
Sir, I would like to buy your monkeys.
She could have quit like this: http://5secondfilms.com/watch/last_anchor_standing
Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: It's some obscure number, you've never heard of it.
Seems appropriate.
Check it: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0022253/Try-Out-Chrome-OS-In-a-Virtual-Machine?from=rss
Also, this is a pretty interesting article about Chrome OS: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/chrome-os-interview-1.ars
I use it, and I quite like it. I don't use the number that google provides, but I have linked my voice mail to gvoice so that rather than going to my Tmobile vmail messages go to Google voice. The transcriber is not so great. You can usually get the gist of a message, but it makes a lot of mistakes. That said, the other voice mail functionality is much better than Tmobile's standard offering, so on the whole the voice mail is much better.
Also, even without using the google voice number I can initate calls to Canada for free, which is nice.
If I did use the google voice number you get a lot more features (recording calls, etc. You can look them up). But I find it quite awkward. For instance, if I give everyone my google voice number then they can call and text me there. But if I call them directly, without going through google voice, their caller ID is going to show my tmobile assigned number. I could initiate the call through google voice, but that's a bit of a pain in the ass.
I have a blackberry, and the google voice app for bberry should make some of this easier, but it's pretty terrible. It's very slow, and lately it's been throwing errors saying it can validate google voice's SSL certificate. It's really not ready for primetime.
So, I do like google voice, considering it's free it adds some value, especially the voice mail functionality. But it's got a lot of rough edges.
Not exactly a good fit for one week, but Geek Corps does this kind of thing.
Uhhh... yes the do (as of a few days ago): http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGmailBlog+(Gmail+Blog)
A little bit OT, but in the states if you buy an unlocked phone can you get a plan that does not include a subsidy for another phone? That is, if I buy an iPhone I'm going to pay $90/month or so, but some of that includes the price of the phone. If I have my own iPhone, or after my initial two year contract (after I've paid off the phone) is it possible to get a cheaper plan? My understanding is no, but please correct me if I'm wrong. So, if I buy a nexus one unlocked can I get a cheaper plan than if I bought the $180 one?
I gotta say that Google Voice is way better than the iPhone's visual vmail. They're really different things: google transcribes your voice mail and SMS or emails them to you (among lots of other things). Visual vmail just shows you who called you without having to dial in.
I think there are 1 or 2. Or 3. Maybe 5... or 7. Possibly 11 or 13. 17?
Tangentially related, but pretty funny: http://xkcd.com/596/
A friend of mine is a commercial pilot. Immediately after 9/11 he had his nail clippers confiscated when going through security. He mentioned to security that not only is there a fire ax in the cockpit, but he's the pilot and can just steer the plane into the ground if he wants to crash it. They didn't seem to get understand.
Cheezburger?
Reminds me of a joke:
Q: Why is toilet paper like the Starship Enterprise?
A: They both circle around Uranus wiping out Klingons.
Candy bars!?!? I thought you were happy to see me!
The real story is not that microsoft.com is on the list, it's all the other sites. Ostensibly this is a list of sites that are not standards compliant, which IE8 will treat in as non-standard so they display correctly. But if you check the list you'll find wikipedia.org, google.com, mozilla.com(!!). Are these sites really non-compliant? Or is IE8 just incompatible with them?
Indeed. Everyone knows that when you drive your company into the ground through incompetence you don't give up! You go to Washington to get your bail out. That's the American way.