Read the article and see that "Samsung, which will disclose quarterly sales today, expects to roll out 50 phone models in Korea alone, plus dozens of related models in other countries."
Just thought I'd mention.
I can't find any numbers on other companies, but I haven't looked really.
American Public: We demand that gas prices go down! OPEC: Well, what if they don't? AP: We'll just keep buying gas for our SUVs OPEC: OK, so when did this become a concern for us?
This list surprises me quite a bit. I have been with T-Mobile for almost a year now and so far their customer service with me has been top notch. I changed my number when moving to a different locale with no issues, and once a CS rep gave me free minutes on my plan since I was concerned that I was going to go over my plan (I was in a remote time zone, hense the concern). Never once has there been a problem with my bill. Of course, when my contract's up I will leave them because they don't have very good phone service; that is, reception areas are horrible compared to the competitors like Verizon (and even Sprint). That is maybe why T-Mobile is one of the most hated.
I thik some posters above you already figured in Natalie Portman when discussing masturbating.
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Um, yeah, but nobody thought that The Core or either of the "destroy the asteroids before they hit earth" movies were really plausable anyway. The scientific community hardly needed to tell people "no, that's completely outrageous."
Concert and theater goers are annoyed very often by cell phones ringing at classical music concerts, plays, movies, etc. I'm all for blocking cell phone service out of theaters where such events take place.
The bandwidth problem still exists though. Content blocked with Adblock is still downloaded, it's just kept from view. I'm fine with this on my cable connection with unlimited download a month, but my mom on her dial-up and our Aussie friends who pay by the meg still get hurt, even if they don't see the ads.
Have you used outlook since the XP version or even better yet the new 2003 version? I haven't even needed virus protection because outlook has blocked attachments.
To date I've recieved over 100 email messages with virus attachments (many not requiring me to do anything) yet outlook blocked them soon enough so that Norton Antivirus has yet to encounter a single virus on my system in about 2 years. I have only used the default settings for security.
I consider myself a power user and don't know how to get already blocked attachments (.exe or.vbs etc.) unblocked (not that I've ever looked for that feature) so I doubt a less informed user will. Outlook is a pretty smart piece of software despite the slashdot communities perception of it.
Outlook Express, on the other hand, should never be installed on any system.
STATE OF THE ART Video Chat Software Reviewed By DAVID POGUE
NSTANT messaging certainly has its charms. You and a conversation partner on the Internet type back and forth in a narrow window, your quips scrolling up the screen like a hastily written script. The fact that you can't see or hear the other person is either the best feature or the worst, depending on how self-conscious you are and how your hair looks.
Better start combing. Last week both Microsoft and Apple incorporated audio and video into their popular chat programs, now called MSN Messenger 6 and iChat AV. You can download them free at messenger.msn.com or apple.com/ichat, respectively, as part of a public beta test - a software company's way of saying, "Sure they're buggy, but what do you want for free?"
Even in their preliminary incarnations, these programs illustrate two important points. First, the addition of voice and video changes the experience so profoundly, it's not really chat any more. Second, Apple and Microsoft may as well have come from different planets.
For example, Microsoft, true to tradition, has focused on expanding its list of features, while Apple has worked toward elegance and simplicity. Messenger is a cacophony of brightly colored buttons, panels, blinking advertisements and, in the new version, animated (and even homemade) smileys; iChat AV maintains the clean lines and brushed-metal "surfaces" of its text-only predecessors. The new features of Messenger 6 include custom window backgrounds and interactive games like checkers; iChat AV is dedicated solely to communication. Messenger 6, in its ultimate form, will be free; iChat AV will cost $30 (but will be free with Apple's next operating-system release, Mac OS X 10.3, code-named Panther, due by year's end).
MSN Messenger works with almost any old Webcam, like one of those $60 golf-ball cameras that you perch on your monitor and plug into your PC with a U.S.B. cable. (You also need a free MSN.com or Hotmail account; iChat AV requires a free.Mac or AOL Instant Messenger account. The MSN-Hotmail and.Mac-AIM networks are still, alas, mutually incompatible.)
If both conversation partners have high-speed Internet connections or are on the same office network, Messenger's video looks very good. You have only three size choices for the video - small, smaller or microscopic - but it's bona fide video.
If one of you works in a corporate office, however, and therefore sits behind a firewall (a layer of hacker-proof hardware or software), much less data wriggles through. What you see isn't so much video as a series of stuttering still images, sent once or twice a second, like someone illuminated by a strobe light in a dance club.
Unfortunately, you get the same effect if one or both of you connects to the Internet using a dial-up modem. Phone lines just aren't fat enough to transmit quality video, so all MSN Messenger can do is fake it. Maybe that's why Messenger's typed chat area remains open even during voice or video calls, just in case.
Apple, on the other hand, would sooner die than release anything that could be described as "stuttering" or "microscopic." In iChat AV, video is as crisp, clear, bright and smooth as television (640 by 480 pixels), in a window as small as a Triscuit or as big as your screen. Unless you begin to type, the typed-chat window isn't even visible during a video or audio call.
Beware, however: Apple offers this top-tier experience only if you have top-tier gear. Video calls require high-speed Internet connections at both ends; dial-up fans need not apply. Apple says that audio calls work over dial-up connections, but mine didn't work without a broadband hookup on at least one end.
And iChat AV turns up its nose at those U.S.B. golf-ball Webcams. It requires a video camera with FireWire (a very fast connector also found on every Macintosh).
www.littlepc.com
It's the smallest computer I've seen and it's even more powerful if not impossible to upgrade. All you need is a firewire hard drive and you could be all set (if you choose not to have one of those flash hard drives as an option).
So it's basically a laptop in the shape of a 5 1/2 in drive bay. Beowulf that!
You can listen to it yourself on the site as posted. If you don't think you hear anything skip ahead to about 4 minutes into 1.1
It doesn't sound like the granular synthesis like mentioned above. It actually sounds pretty smooth. Like the orchestra is playing it really really slowly. There's a bit of flange, but I think it's caused by the vibrato of the players being so slowed.
And it's not slowed down like it would if you played a tape slowly or something, the pitches are the same as what you would normally hear - just at a really slow tempo.
They had listener replies to it on just this evening. The reviews were as varied there as they are here. Some people said we could invade Iraq with this piece instead of nerve gas. Other people really liked it.
I belive you're referring to Steve Reich, but close enough. And incidentally, only a very limited ammount of his music can be considered ambient, and he wasn't really a minimalist after about 1970 anyway (he hated the term really).
Try listening to the 'opera "Einstein on the Beach" by Philip Glass. To me that's actually worse than the topic at hand. For some reason the title of this work reminds me of the title of said Philip Glass opera. interesting.
Ambient music I like: Discrete Music by Brian Eno
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You should check out Ursula K. LeGuin's website about the Earthsea movies. she hates them more than we do!
The last Homegame before that election was against the Colts, and they lost 31-16. Fits the pattern. Read snopes.
Read the article and see that "Samsung, which will disclose quarterly sales today, expects to roll out 50 phone models in Korea alone, plus dozens of related models in other countries."
Just thought I'd mention.
I can't find any numbers on other companies, but I haven't looked really.
Your case would not be tried before a jury, so it would be up to the judge completely, and he might side with MS.
Remind anyone about the price of gas lately?
American Public: We demand that gas prices go down!
OPEC: Well, what if they don't?
AP: We'll just keep buying gas for our SUVs
OPEC: OK, so when did this become a concern for us?
This list surprises me quite a bit. I have been with T-Mobile for almost a year now and so far their customer service with me has been top notch. I changed my number when moving to a different locale with no issues, and once a CS rep gave me free minutes on my plan since I was concerned that I was going to go over my plan (I was in a remote time zone, hense the concern). Never once has there been a problem with my bill. Of course, when my contract's up I will leave them because they don't have very good phone service; that is, reception areas are horrible compared to the competitors like Verizon (and even Sprint). That is maybe why T-Mobile is one of the most hated.
I thik some posters above you already figured in Natalie Portman when discussing masturbating.
Um, yeah, but nobody thought that The Core or either of the "destroy the asteroids before they hit earth" movies were really plausable anyway. The scientific community hardly needed to tell people "no, that's completely outrageous."
Concert and theater goers are annoyed very often by cell phones ringing at classical music concerts, plays, movies, etc. I'm all for blocking cell phone service out of theaters where such events take place.
The bandwidth problem still exists though. Content blocked with Adblock is still downloaded, it's just kept from view. I'm fine with this on my cable connection with unlimited download a month, but my mom on her dial-up and our Aussie friends who pay by the meg still get hurt, even if they don't see the ads.
Have you used outlook since the XP version or even better yet the new 2003 version? I haven't even needed virus protection because outlook has blocked attachments.
.vbs etc.) unblocked (not that I've ever looked for that feature) so I doubt a less informed user will. Outlook is a pretty smart piece of software despite the slashdot communities perception of it.
To date I've recieved over 100 email messages with virus attachments (many not requiring me to do anything) yet outlook blocked them soon enough so that Norton Antivirus has yet to encounter a single virus on my system in about 2 years. I have only used the default settings for security.
I consider myself a power user and don't know how to get already blocked attachments (.exe or
Outlook Express, on the other hand, should never be installed on any system.
I checked the username www.k-lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@KaZaA and found out that I'm wanted! Should I call my lawyer?
Unless someone beat me to it:
.Mac or AOL Instant Messenger account. The MSN-Hotmail and .Mac-AIM networks are still, alas, mutually incompatible.)
STATE OF THE ART
Video Chat Software Reviewed
By DAVID POGUE
NSTANT messaging certainly has its charms. You and a conversation partner on the Internet type back and forth in a narrow window, your quips scrolling up the screen like a hastily written script. The fact that you can't see or hear the other person is either the best feature or the worst, depending on how self-conscious you are and how your hair looks.
Better start combing. Last week both Microsoft and Apple incorporated audio and video into their popular chat programs, now called MSN Messenger 6 and iChat AV. You can download them free at messenger.msn.com or apple.com/ichat, respectively, as part of a public beta test - a software company's way of saying, "Sure they're buggy, but what do you want for free?"
Even in their preliminary incarnations, these programs illustrate two important points. First, the addition of voice and video changes the experience so profoundly, it's not really chat any more. Second, Apple and Microsoft may as well have come from different planets.
For example, Microsoft, true to tradition, has focused on expanding its list of features, while Apple has worked toward elegance and simplicity. Messenger is a cacophony of brightly colored buttons, panels, blinking advertisements and, in the new version, animated (and even homemade) smileys; iChat AV maintains the clean lines and brushed-metal "surfaces" of its text-only predecessors. The new features of Messenger 6 include custom window backgrounds and interactive games like checkers; iChat AV is dedicated solely to communication. Messenger 6, in its ultimate form, will be free; iChat AV will cost $30 (but will be free with Apple's next operating-system release, Mac OS X 10.3, code-named Panther, due by year's end).
MSN Messenger works with almost any old Webcam, like one of those $60 golf-ball cameras that you perch on your monitor and plug into your PC with a U.S.B. cable. (You also need a free MSN.com or Hotmail account; iChat AV requires a free
If both conversation partners have high-speed Internet connections or are on the same office network, Messenger's video looks very good. You have only three size choices for the video - small, smaller or microscopic - but it's bona fide video.
If one of you works in a corporate office, however, and therefore sits behind a firewall (a layer of hacker-proof hardware or software), much less data wriggles through. What you see isn't so much video as a series of stuttering still images, sent once or twice a second, like someone illuminated by a strobe light in a dance club.
Unfortunately, you get the same effect if one or both of you connects to the Internet using a dial-up modem. Phone lines just aren't fat enough to transmit quality video, so all MSN Messenger can do is fake it. Maybe that's why Messenger's typed chat area remains open even during voice or video calls, just in case.
Apple, on the other hand, would sooner die than release anything that could be described as "stuttering" or "microscopic." In iChat AV, video is as crisp, clear, bright and smooth as television (640 by 480 pixels), in a window as small as a Triscuit or as big as your screen. Unless you begin to type, the typed-chat window isn't even visible during a video or audio call.
Beware, however: Apple offers this top-tier experience only if you have top-tier gear. Video calls require high-speed Internet connections at both ends; dial-up fans need not apply. Apple says that audio calls work over dial-up connections, but mine didn't work without a broadband hookup on at least one end.
And iChat AV turns up its nose at those U.S.B. golf-ball Webcams. It requires a video camera with FireWire (a very fast connector also found on every Macintosh).
For this purpose, you can use an ordinary digital
www.littlepc.com It's the smallest computer I've seen and it's even more powerful if not impossible to upgrade. All you need is a firewire hard drive and you could be all set (if you choose not to have one of those flash hard drives as an option). So it's basically a laptop in the shape of a 5 1/2 in drive bay. Beowulf that!
"accelerate the growing use of Linux in embedded systems and devices." is what the end of the topic says. Ya'll can read, can't you?
that's only if you want one of the first 100 produced. If you don't care until after 400 have already been shipped it's only $500,000. [/satire]
and honestly, a really lame trailer at that. The trailer for the Fellowship was waaaay better.
and he immediately corrected himself in his next post. give the guy a break. and read more next time.
You can listen to it yourself on the site as posted. If you don't think you hear anything skip ahead to about 4 minutes into 1.1
It doesn't sound like the granular synthesis like mentioned above. It actually sounds pretty smooth. Like the orchestra is playing it really really slowly. There's a bit of flange, but I think it's caused by the vibrato of the players being so slowed.
And it's not slowed down like it would if you played a tape slowly or something, the pitches are the same as what you would normally hear - just at a really slow tempo.
They had listener replies to it on just this evening. The reviews were as varied there as they are here. Some people said we could invade Iraq with this piece instead of nerve gas. Other people really liked it.
I belive you're referring to Steve Reich, but close enough. And incidentally, only a very limited ammount of his music can be considered ambient, and he wasn't really a minimalist after about 1970 anyway (he hated the term really). Try listening to the 'opera "Einstein on the Beach" by Philip Glass. To me that's actually worse than the topic at hand. For some reason the title of this work reminds me of the title of said Philip Glass opera. interesting. Ambient music I like: Discrete Music by Brian Eno