Queue their live stream up and see what good radio should be. My two favorite DJ's on radio are on on weekdays. 3-7pm gives Mary Lucia (She used to host a "regular" show and a great local music show on Rev 105 before Disney purchased it and eventually fired the entire staff) and 7-10 has Mark Wheat (who I first discovered on the University of Minnesota's station and is so incredibly knowledgeable about music). Bonus points for not having commercials--it's a radio station you can just turn on and listen to music.
Somewhere on their site they also have a full listenable archive of in-studio performances, most of which are quite good.
I think the issue is more about installation than use (of course after it comes through your router, anything is going to work).
That being said, I had comcast installed a month ago and hadnt yet ran a cable to my desktop so when the installer needed me to plug in and test it, I used my xubuntu laptop which worked just fine (although the installer had a laptop there with IE so if there was some required step, he may have completed it).
Also, taking time to explicitly say you are not optimized for something means they just have a crappy web developer who clearly knows that other platforms exist and just doesnt want to support them. Of course I have never been to comcast's customer portal site so it doesnt really matter what browser it requires
In the dorm right now, my xbox is connected to the network running XBMC with a 5inch PSone screen attached to it in the bathroom.
It's used as an over-glorified shower radio right now but at home for the summers (and coming up in my apartment) it gets used connected to the TV. This lets me watch TV shows and other computer video content on a TV from a device that has GREAT video output for a TV (way better than the s-video connection on my laptop).
the best part is that you can even send them for free from the service providor's website.
I once (back in my younger days...and when the prices were lower) went to www.t-mobile.com/messaging and sent my friend a series like "hah" "this" "costs" "you" "money"
Let me preface this by saying that I attend one of the best universities in the country. One of my friends (also happens to play a lot of video games and use IM) seems to be completely unable to use the proper form of your/you're in his informal writing. In formal writing he seems to manage to do it (or more...word's grammar check is decent at picking the right form) but his informal writing is just plagued with that sort of error. I remember when we were on vacation abroad and he was writing an email to a girl he had a thing for...we forced him to correct upwards of 3 glaring errors (that made him look like a total dumbfuck) in the contents of a 5 line (total including the greeting and signature lines) email. Really its just embarrassing, especially at the speeds a competent person can type, the extra 2 characters (or the same amount in there/their) that anyone outside of elementary school should make the mistake.
Even when texting, with almost all phones having functional predictive text, it is not hard at all to use proper words in their entirety.
In her car that her parents also bought for her and pay the insurance and repair for so that she has absolutely no idea what the real world costs of owning a car are. That way its easier for her to be reckless and not worry about the $1000 repair bill she runs up while using her driving time to run up her $1000 texting bill.
As another poster mentioned, you are locked into a 2-year contract (almost everyone is). You can not leave due to a raise in the text message rates. Some people try to use text message increases as a change in contract loophole to break their contracts but it only works when you get an inept customer service person answering (breaking due to a per-minute cost change or a plan cost change however is guaranteed to work). They claim that since it is an add-on service that you do not have the right to break your contract without paying the $200 cancellation when its price increases.
they used to be something like 5 to send free to recieve. Then it was 5 to send 5 to recieve, then it was 10 to send 5 to recieve.
Now it is 15c each way. I dont see how they can justify charging that much for a tiny exchange of data. It has risen WAY faster than the rate of inflation on a technology that should become cheaper (look at how minutes have come down) and it is ridiculous. My guess is that the only reason it works for the phone companies to do this is that the first people to start using them heavily are the kids with their parents buying them mobile phones. They dont have to pay per message so they dont think about the ridiculous costs (look at how much data is in a text message and how much a provider charges for data usage and it becomes clear how much of a rip off it is).
I once got reported for something along the lines of telling someone to fuck off of they didnt like my healing. They were being a total jackass though they never actually swore so when they reported me, the logs were clean for them. I get an email later saying if I do that too much more I will get suspended/banned. I think this is a definite abuse considering the presence of an ingame profanity filter (I wasnt saying "fu ck" or something to get around the filter...he had it off) that is enabled by default. It's a mature rated game and I wasn't being particularly offensive, I was just giving the jackass what he had coming. After he pulled a guaranteed wipes worth of mobs and hearthed himself out I simply added him to my friends list with the note "Do not Party With"
Best part was that his char name was clearly a play on the word penis. a few weeks later I saw someone swear mildly in city general chat and I see this guy say "reported" and I thought what a dick...he should mind his own business and turn on his profanity filter instead of reporting random people in city chat. So...I decided to report him for his name and some of my guildies did the same. The next day I see some random name on my friends list and penis-dude is gone
you cant autoboot but all it takes is a quick glance from a GM at message logs to determine whether or not someone was ignored 50 times because they are a spammer or 50 times simply because they are annoying
My fender amp came with a schematic (on a seperate piece of paper no less) about 6 years ago.
Was kind if interesting but simple and my guess would be that circuits these days are either going to be too simple to bother or too complex (and proprietary)
It's a law these kids have no hope of changing. People will just say that they are "just a bunch of kids wanting to get drunk" and write it off. When they actually turn 21, they will lose interest in fighting an incredibly difficult battle since they can already drink legally. Same with the DMCA: People will see a complaint and think its from "some slashdot poster/hippie pirate/etc."
You repeat it enough times and violate it blatently and you reduce the credibility of the law. When the law (or at least parts of it in the case of the DMCA) looks like a total joke, it's enforcment will start to fall back and eventually it will be pretty easy to get it off the books.
Most fake ID's that you pay any decent money for will scan just fine. The contents of the mag stripe are just some sort of a hash against your name/height/weight/etc and not some secret code that is checked over the internet against a government computer. Also, I wouldn't be so sure that transaction scan couldnt count as a "visual and tactile scan of the card" since I have never actually seen a liquor store or casual sounding bar pull out a scanner and start scanning cards. This would be the reason that cops dont send in kids to test liquor stores with fake IDs, they can only bust the store if they sell it to the minor without seeing proof of age.
Granted, I don't personally agree with this business. I've been to countries with all sorts of drinking ages lower than 21 (from no enforced requirement to 18-19) and it does not seem to make a difference. In many places, alcohol is not only more available to minors but significantly cheaper and the people there seem to be doing just fine. Having the drinking age in this country set at 21 just seems strange for so many reasons. There are the cliched reasons such as "they can be drafted into the military and cant even wash away their tour of duty with a few beers" or "its unfair that the government thinks they are adult enough to pay taxes but not adult enough to have a beer".
Personally, I would be satisfied with almost any lowering of the drinking age but my proposal would take the age down to 19 at first with rather liberal enforcement. College is as good a place as any to start drinking and the average college freshman turns 19 during their first year (and those who dont would have plenty of 19 year olds around to help). On the same hand, very very few high school students turn 19 during high school and this would protect against peoples fears of 18 year olds being able to buy booze and have it trickle down instantly to 14 year old freshman. I doubt we are anywhere closer to changing the drinking age though...silly us
my guess is that you have since most people who play use their bittorrent tool. It's automatic and reasonably fast, no searching out the right file and waiting in lines at fileplanet.
This is sort of what blizzard does with WoW patches. The patch downloader is a simple torrent client so all users are able to use the torrent without dealing with people who dont know what torrents are.
Blizzard then has an http seed running. If the program determines that you are incapable of recieving a torrent (firewall or driver issues), then your entire download comes straight from blizzard's http seed. If the program is able to connect to the swarm, you then start recieving data down from the other people downloading the patch AS WELL as the blizzard seed. Likewise, if you connect a long time after the patch comes out and there is nobody left downloading the patch, you still get the data straight from blizzard without having to find the file in a different manner.
In this model you have basically a standard server/client relationship when only one person is downloading and it scales out to a p2p model as additional people connect.
you could just do it anyway, CD's read from the center so you would just have to make sure you dont file away further than the disk has been written to
I reformatted on march 16th and I am still working on it (granted I was out of the country for a week in there).
I got the main stuff installed right away...(office, gaim/firefox/thunderbird/etc)and have been slowly adding things back as I need them...its annoying when you go and try do do something and it works different than how you had it set up before but I find that a full copy of the Documents and Settings folder jsut comes with too much junk so I selectively copy settings from application data but...its not perfect that way..
contrast this with my laptop on ubuntu where I just save my home directory and I am pretty much set (add a few nonstandard applications maybe...)
yup (and I think that last digit can go as high as 5...but I always just use 4.2.2.2)
They are the easiest to remember DNS servers out there and it must be a well enough known thing...the only DNS I remember from my university is our copycat IP that is *.*.4.2 on our block.
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Queue their live stream up and see what good radio should be. My two favorite DJ's on radio are on on weekdays. 3-7pm gives Mary Lucia (She used to host a "regular" show and a great local music show on Rev 105 before Disney purchased it and eventually fired the entire staff) and 7-10 has Mark Wheat (who I first discovered on the University of Minnesota's station and is so incredibly knowledgeable about music). Bonus points for not having commercials--it's a radio station you can just turn on and listen to music.
Somewhere on their site they also have a full listenable archive of in-studio performances, most of which are quite good.
I am sure there are exceptions but speed dial 1 is almost always voicemail
coding is fast but...feels too loose (variables arent typed at all) and as such preformance is terrible. TERRIBLE
That being said, I had comcast installed a month ago and hadnt yet ran a cable to my desktop so when the installer needed me to plug in and test it, I used my xubuntu laptop which worked just fine (although the installer had a laptop there with IE so if there was some required step, he may have completed it).
Also, taking time to explicitly say you are not optimized for something means they just have a crappy web developer who clearly knows that other platforms exist and just doesnt want to support them. Of course I have never been to comcast's customer portal site so it doesnt really matter what browser it requires
Never implied that he did though...
It's used as an over-glorified shower radio right now but at home for the summers (and coming up in my apartment) it gets used connected to the TV. This lets me watch TV shows and other computer video content on a TV from a device that has GREAT video output for a TV (way better than the s-video connection on my laptop).
I once (back in my younger days...and when the prices were lower) went to www.t-mobile.com/messaging and sent my friend a series like "hah" "this" "costs" "you" "money"
Even when texting, with almost all phones having functional predictive text, it is not hard at all to use proper words in their entirety.
mmmm great...
As another poster mentioned, you are locked into a 2-year contract (almost everyone is). You can not leave due to a raise in the text message rates. Some people try to use text message increases as a change in contract loophole to break their contracts but it only works when you get an inept customer service person answering (breaking due to a per-minute cost change or a plan cost change however is guaranteed to work). They claim that since it is an add-on service that you do not have the right to break your contract without paying the $200 cancellation when its price increases.
Now it is 15c each way. I dont see how they can justify charging that much for a tiny exchange of data. It has risen WAY faster than the rate of inflation on a technology that should become cheaper (look at how minutes have come down) and it is ridiculous. My guess is that the only reason it works for the phone companies to do this is that the first people to start using them heavily are the kids with their parents buying them mobile phones. They dont have to pay per message so they dont think about the ridiculous costs (look at how much data is in a text message and how much a provider charges for data usage and it becomes clear how much of a rip off it is).
Best part was that his char name was clearly a play on the word penis. a few weeks later I saw someone swear mildly in city general chat and I see this guy say "reported" and I thought what a dick...he should mind his own business and turn on his profanity filter instead of reporting random people in city chat. So...I decided to report him for his name and some of my guildies did the same. The next day I see some random name on my friends list and penis-dude is gone
you cant autoboot but all it takes is a quick glance from a GM at message logs to determine whether or not someone was ignored 50 times because they are a spammer or 50 times simply because they are annoying
Was kind if interesting but simple and my guess would be that circuits these days are either going to be too simple to bother or too complex (and proprietary)
It's a law these kids have no hope of changing. People will just say that they are "just a bunch of kids wanting to get drunk" and write it off. When they actually turn 21, they will lose interest in fighting an incredibly difficult battle since they can already drink legally. Same with the DMCA: People will see a complaint and think its from "some slashdot poster/hippie pirate/etc."
You repeat it enough times and violate it blatently and you reduce the credibility of the law. When the law (or at least parts of it in the case of the DMCA) looks like a total joke, it's enforcment will start to fall back and eventually it will be pretty easy to get it off the books.
Granted, I don't personally agree with this business. I've been to countries with all sorts of drinking ages lower than 21 (from no enforced requirement to 18-19) and it does not seem to make a difference. In many places, alcohol is not only more available to minors but significantly cheaper and the people there seem to be doing just fine. Having the drinking age in this country set at 21 just seems strange for so many reasons. There are the cliched reasons such as "they can be drafted into the military and cant even wash away their tour of duty with a few beers" or "its unfair that the government thinks they are adult enough to pay taxes but not adult enough to have a beer".
Personally, I would be satisfied with almost any lowering of the drinking age but my proposal would take the age down to 19 at first with rather liberal enforcement. College is as good a place as any to start drinking and the average college freshman turns 19 during their first year (and those who dont would have plenty of 19 year olds around to help). On the same hand, very very few high school students turn 19 during high school and this would protect against peoples fears of 18 year olds being able to buy booze and have it trickle down instantly to 14 year old freshman. I doubt we are anywhere closer to changing the drinking age though...silly us
my guess is that you have since most people who play use their bittorrent tool. It's automatic and reasonably fast, no searching out the right file and waiting in lines at fileplanet.
too bad their signups are closed :(
Anyone have a torrent of that album? It would be great to hear it again.
Thinking about loading it up on another box and opening up another 10mbit port
Blizzard then has an http seed running. If the program determines that you are incapable of recieving a torrent (firewall or driver issues), then your entire download comes straight from blizzard's http seed. If the program is able to connect to the swarm, you then start recieving data down from the other people downloading the patch AS WELL as the blizzard seed. Likewise, if you connect a long time after the patch comes out and there is nobody left downloading the patch, you still get the data straight from blizzard without having to find the file in a different manner.
In this model you have basically a standard server/client relationship when only one person is downloading and it scales out to a p2p model as additional people connect.
you could just do it anyway, CD's read from the center so you would just have to make sure you dont file away further than the disk has been written to
I got the main stuff installed right away...(office, gaim/firefox/thunderbird/etc)and have been slowly adding things back as I need them...its annoying when you go and try do do something and it works different than how you had it set up before but I find that a full copy of the Documents and Settings folder jsut comes with too much junk so I selectively copy settings from application data but...its not perfect that way..
contrast this with my laptop on ubuntu where I just save my home directory and I am pretty much set (add a few nonstandard applications maybe...)
I liked it better that way...for videos sometimes I have reasons to have more than one open at a time
They are the easiest to remember DNS servers out there and it must be a well enough known thing...the only DNS I remember from my university is our copycat IP that is *.*.4.2 on our block.