I got my iPhone4 earlier this year when it came out on Verizon. I was living in Milwaukee and I was suprised by the call quality. (the lack of it) In July I moved to Albuquerque, NM. My call quality improved big time! No more dropped calls, no more issues with people breaking up. My conclusion was it isn't just the phone that matters.
That said, there is definitely an issue. My wife's dumbphone worked completely fine in Milwaukee and so was my previous phone. What about the iPhone is giving people these issues? Obviously we can point at the antenna. But why would it work completely fine in some areas and not others? Milwaukee is MUCH larger than Albuquerque. Am I to believe that Verizon's network is actually better in a smaller metropolis? Or is there some other combination of things that is going on here. A quick search of android call quality shows that there are plenty of folks out there with issues on those phones too. So what gives?
Every google search algorithm change has come with criticism by those who are negatively effected by it. I can't recall a change that didn't. In fact, as a web developer (but not an SEO person) I often find out there was a change from bad press.
The thing is, bad press doesn't matter. Outside the technical community, no one notices these things. And as long as Google has great revenues, wall street won't give a rats ass either.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here. The average person simply has no need to upgrade the hard drive. I'm a professional and I haven't replaced a hard drive in a decade. When drives hit the 120gb range, I had a very hard time filling it up. My current iMac is 3 years old and still has 99gb free. Granted I'm a web developer so its not like my dev files take a lot of space and I really don't install much on it. Unless you are a hard core gamer, a major video producer or a heavy media consumer, you simply don't need to touch the thing.
All these comments about privacy. My understanding of our basic rights is that we have them as long as they don't infringe upon the rights of others. All of you are blindly trying to say we all have the right to P2P. While true, we do not have the right to hand out our music or games to others for free. It is one thing to burn a friend a cd of some songs, its entirely different to burn 1000 discs and hand them out blindly. You would be infringing upon someone's right to make a living. (yes even the evil RIAA) I hate them as much as the next person, but most P2P that I see is illegal sharing of (mostly porn) stuff people have no rights to give away en mass. Those of you that participate in this practice, sorry, but law enforcement should have the power to throw your ass in jail. It is thieving plain and simple.
I think this makes for an interesting discussion. Here is what top reports on my iMac. I can't remember when I last restarted Firefox. Had to of been a couple of days ago.
But Apple has made no secret of this concept AT ALL. If you go out and do your proper research, you KNOW you can only buy an Apple OS (easily) via Apple themselves. You KNOW you will have to get Mac hardware. That is Apple's concept. They want to control these things. There is choice in this market. You can go buy whatever hardware you want and put Linux/Windows on it. There is no one holding a gun to anyone's head. Apple becoming more successful is only a good thing. Microsoft isn't going to just disappear, and Linux will fill its niche for years to come. (maybe even someday convincing big companies to release software for it)
and ya, I write this from my iMac which I freaking love. I'm not anti-MS anymore and I don't hate linux. this computer and this os are simply what I have learned to really love because I get real work done on it faster than any other computer I have ever had. It suits me. Some may hate my choice, and even call me fanboi? Fine by me. I will continue to love what I do everyday on a computer that is great for me, and I will continue to roll my eyes at every Apple article on Slashdot.
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one reason: because they will be forcing ~40million uninsured to become insured. A lot of those people however simply can not afford insurance. So the government will subsidize them. That will be a major cost each year.
Those degrees are not completely worthless. However, I do believe there should be some heavier guidance in getting those degrees. No one should be allowed a Psychology degree unless they have very specific plans to at least get their Masters. (and even that isn't near as good as going for the PHD) My wife is just about to finish getting her PHD and our checkbook strongly disagrees that the underlying Psychology degree was worthless. That said, I know another person who got the degree and that was all he did for college. He hasn't worked a truly professional job since. So for him, you are right. It was worthless to get the degree and not continue in some form of advanced degrees. It just depends on what you are getting the degree for and what you plan on doing with it.
Did he buy it from Lucasfilms? From what I remember from The Pixar Story (2007) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059955/). Lucasfilms employed Ed Catmull who created the Pixar technology. Lucas got what he needed from it and told him that he couldn't invest any more into the technology and that he was free to take it and continue his work. (really amazing he did that). Ed then had the fortune of meeting John Lasseter and they in turn had the fortune of proposing the technology and their ideas to Steve Jobs. Jobs loved the concept and started writing checks. I really recommend that documentary to anyone who likes Pixar or 3D movie technology. It really is a fascinating story with a lot of happy endings for all involved.
this type of comment comes up every single article on slashdot. Enough already.
I just read 2 books recently on my ipod touch. Its an experience I will repeat. I have absolutely no problems with lcd screens. I read them all damn day as I code. I get absolutely no eye strain whatsoever. I can lie in bed comfortably with the lights off and have a nicely lit book that isn't too bright to read from.
This comes down to vision I think. Some people will get eye strain from LCD, others will be fine. Just because you can't tolerate looking at an LCD for too long, doesn't mean its a bad device.
So it IS an eReader and a damn fine one. For some people. You go buy your kindle, I'll go buy my iPad. To each his own.
uhm.. I bought a mac 3 years ago and it runs snow leopard just fine. Why not just upgrade the OS? (snow leopard was what 30 bucks?) I would also like to ask, why not just fork the code to a Tiger Version. Firefox is pretty damn stable so only security updates would need to be applied to that version. Otherwise it could just sit in an archive for folks still running Tiger.
Another question. Would removing that old bit of code make my Firefox any faster or smaller? If so then I vote yes.
sorry but the book I just recently bought thru the kindle store on my ipod was $16. So Amazon apparently has no problem selling expensive books. I really don't understand what Amazon is trying to do here. I admire their effort to try and get publishers to realize that the distribution model should warrant discounts, but they are likely to fail. Supply and demand of a book is going to lead to a natural price point regardless of what Amazon or the rest of us would like to see the books priced at.
t-mobile pissed me off by having shitty service at my home in Dallas of all places. Customer service was flat out stupid about it too. Telling me to "go outside". (that didn't even help). So I finally said well you give me no choice but to switch to a new carrier and they said that will be a $200 termination fee please. Greedy assholes have you by the balls. Sure its great when you never have service issues.
Verizon has been the only one where I have literally never had bad service.
We all have our nightmare stories about each carrier. Its a fact of business when you get into the millions of customers.
I'm sorry. I just went to my facebook account and got the popup for the new settings. There were what, 10 settings to choose? Sure the defaults were as open as possible, but is it so f'ing difficult to click 10 times and hit save? And I don't see what they are talking about either. I can still set all my settings to friends only or friends of friends, or everyone. It took me all of 1 minute to answer the pop up questions. Another minute digging into the privacy screens show nothing out of the ordinary.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and defend this. (I have nothing whatsoever to do with the site or the company, which I've never heard of)
Is this site not much more than a CMS with some cool extras? Yes. But only on the surface.
This is a site that receives a ton of traffic. You know, the kind of site that needs a larger infrastructure than your blog about your family. This is also a site that likely takes a large amount of resources to manage on an ongoing basis. There is a lot of cost in doing that.
Also, the 18M is for the life of the contract I would assume. So for however long they agreed to run the thing is how long that 18M needs to last for the duration of the contract.
This is also a government website. These sites come under attack much more often than your normal site. The security that needs to be in place for this just isn't that cheap. And any updates done to the code during the life of the project have to go thru security audits. It is simply a lot more time consuming to do.
I dunno. Playing devils advocate. How about ask the slashdot creators what they would charge to build and run slashdot for 2-3 years.
I'm a small developer. I know I could have built this site for a lot cheaper too until I think about it. I just don't have the resources to build and maintain something of that magnitude. It would take a large effort to do, especially in a small time frame.
And lets imagine for a minute that this did go thru a bidding process. This company was probably on the cheaper end of things.
The majority of the Senate, both republicans and democrats passed version one. The house republicans blocked it. Yet, when they threw more spending and earmarks or pork on it, it sailed thru the house with a majority.
Both parties hold equal blame for this. Lets not say its the democrats fault. (and i am a registered Republican..though sick of my party.)
I think the vast majority of people hated the bailout but most agreed we had to try something. And they have revised how they are going to go about spending that money since it has passed. What was important was passing a bill that gave the government money to take action with. I dunno though. We will see what happens in months to come.
Look, I don't blame you for not being thrilled with either main candidate. But the fact is, Obama or McCain WILL be president. So don't waste your vote. Pick the one that you like best and vote for them. Doing a write in or voting for some no name is such a waste.
first of all. for all those wanting to end the war. Ok thats fine and dandy. However, realistically the damage is done. Pulling out quickly would be a disaster. Al Qaeda and the fundamentalists would roll in and tear Iraq apart. I'm sick of the politicians that are running on the basis of pulling out immediately. The first week in office, the new president is going to talk to all the international bigwigs and they are going to come out and say you can't just leave.
We have to get past how badly Bush messed up Iraq. The new President must gain perspective on the situation. I would work with congress and the military leadership. A consensus must be made. It must be collectively implemented. We as a nation need to collectively see this through. The end goal is for Iraq to be stable. The Iraqi security forces must be able to maintain peace by themselves. One idea I'd propose is a withdrawal of US forces from populated cities. We could sit on the outskirts and provide a support role. This would be a good compromise for those that want us completely out. It would also allow the Iraqi forces to scale their need of us as they see fit. Anyway, I could write a book on this.
Enough of that. Other big issues. Flat out, we need to become an energy independent country. The technology already exists to get the job done. US oil should be forced to perform much of the research too. (tax incentives to encourage them) If hydrogen is going to be an integral part of the future, then a date needs to be set for hydrogen at every gas station. Aside from transportation energy, the power grid needs to be overhauled. More solar and more wind. I would look into wave technology as well. I would want to pass an energy bill that requires a certain amount of clean energy by a reasonably aggressive year. I would overturn the latest administration blunder making states follow the national standard instead of allowing the states to do their own thing. I'm also curious about solar on the big buildings of major cities. All that roof top space that serves no purpose. would it be bad to put solar up there or would it create too much of a glare? Anyway, Oil companies free ride is over. No longer would they be allowed to raise their profits so grossly without passing it back to the consumer. Either directly via gas prices or indirectly via research into our future.
Next, the environment. So much needs to be done here. Much can be achieved from the energy issue. There is much more that can be done too. Builders need to stop being cheap when they build houses. New insulation standards need to be set. Houses should not be sold without the best air/heat option available that fits the size house. There are insulation techniques that can greatly improve the retention of cold/hot air as well. Recycling is another big deal. When I lived in Albuquerque, recycling was not easy to do. My first place here in dallas area was no good either. However, when I moved down the road in the same dallas suburb, my house came with a huge recycling container. (40 gallon bin) I now fill it very easily for every pick up. (every other week) A national standard should be set to make recycling as easy as possible. Perhaps implement a discount to folks that fill that can every pick up period. (while in the end, the customers should pay for recycling costs, something needs to be done to get people in the habit) Encourage increasing the pick up from every other week to every week. I would look into other easy to do things that are good for the environment and your monthly energy bills and make sure the people knew about everything already out there.
Education. The education system is horrible. It caters to only a certain style of learning. Teachers are grossly underpaid. In Texas, it was recently reported that the state lottery raised 10 billion dollars over the last 10 years for education. Why aren't teachers seeing this? Most of it goes to college scholarship programs. While thats good, better educatio
I'd just like to share with you my general satisfaction with logmein.com. I've used it a few times for clients and it has saved me a lot of time. I haven't had issues with it in terms of firewalls. It has even come in handy when I'm too lazy to go in the other room to check something in IE.
I also recently played with Yuuguu for the mac (and pc). It is kind of slow but its interface is quite good. The chat on the side of the window share is quite nice.
I used to work on a site that had this happen. It ends up that past practices from the company led to the penalty and delisting. Unfortunately, google will not tell you exactly what you are doing wrong.
It pretty much led to the demise of the company. Sales plummeted so far that the investor pulled the plug. We did actually end up fixing the issue and relisted but the damage was done. (amongst other problems the company had...wasn't only google that did them in)
There really should be a tool provided by google that tests your site and tells you if and what it finds wrong. You would think this would be easy considering the code already exists.
Perhaps it could even just be a tool provided only to advertisers.
Well, I was just viewing Daily Show clips last night online. They impose a commercial after every 2 clips OR pre-clip after you click a video clip link.
I didn't mind the ads because I could watch the clips I wanted when I wanted. I like the Daily Shows view on things but I don't watch much TV.
I really don't care about ads. All I want is to be able to watch things when I want.
You downloaded a pilot for free to check it out. You decided it was a great show, you bought the rest.
iTunes needs to figure this out. Forget about free being a promotion. Free needs to be the first 2-3 episodes of a show. This lets people try shows, decide if they like them. Move on if they don't. This is the only way people can find new shows without already having cable television.
Perhaps Apple already knows this but can't convince MPAA or whoever that this is the way it should be.
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I got my iPhone4 earlier this year when it came out on Verizon. I was living in Milwaukee and I was suprised by the call quality. (the lack of it) In July I moved to Albuquerque, NM. My call quality improved big time! No more dropped calls, no more issues with people breaking up. My conclusion was it isn't just the phone that matters.
That said, there is definitely an issue. My wife's dumbphone worked completely fine in Milwaukee and so was my previous phone. What about the iPhone is giving people these issues? Obviously we can point at the antenna. But why would it work completely fine in some areas and not others? Milwaukee is MUCH larger than Albuquerque. Am I to believe that Verizon's network is actually better in a smaller metropolis? Or is there some other combination of things that is going on here. A quick search of android call quality shows that there are plenty of folks out there with issues on those phones too. So what gives?
I think you have a short term memory.
Every google search algorithm change has come with criticism by those who are negatively effected by it. I can't recall a change that didn't. In fact, as a web developer (but not an SEO person) I often find out there was a change from bad press.
The thing is, bad press doesn't matter. Outside the technical community, no one notices these things. And as long as Google has great revenues, wall street won't give a rats ass either.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here. The average person simply has no need to upgrade the hard drive. I'm a professional and I haven't replaced a hard drive in a decade. When drives hit the 120gb range, I had a very hard time filling it up. My current iMac is 3 years old and still has 99gb free. Granted I'm a web developer so its not like my dev files take a lot of space and I really don't install much on it. Unless you are a hard core gamer, a major video producer or a heavy media consumer, you simply don't need to touch the thing.
All these comments about privacy. My understanding of our basic rights is that we have them as long as they don't infringe upon the rights of others. All of you are blindly trying to say we all have the right to P2P. While true, we do not have the right to hand out our music or games to others for free. It is one thing to burn a friend a cd of some songs, its entirely different to burn 1000 discs and hand them out blindly. You would be infringing upon someone's right to make a living. (yes even the evil RIAA) I hate them as much as the next person, but most P2P that I see is illegal sharing of (mostly porn) stuff people have no rights to give away en mass. Those of you that participate in this practice, sorry, but law enforcement should have the power to throw your ass in jail. It is thieving plain and simple.
I think this makes for an interesting discussion. Here is what top reports on my iMac. I can't remember when I last restarted Firefox. Had to of been a couple of days ago.
PID COMMAND %CPU TIME RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VPRVT VSIZE FAULTS
439- firefox-bin 4.6 09:24:11 339M 52M 523M 477M 1920M 209400752+
I run firebug, web dev, yslow, colorzilla, and adblock plus
I've seen Firefox climb to the 1gb mark. That is normally when I notice and restart it.
But Apple has made no secret of this concept AT ALL. If you go out and do your proper research, you KNOW you can only buy an Apple OS (easily) via Apple themselves. You KNOW you will have to get Mac hardware. That is Apple's concept. They want to control these things. There is choice in this market. You can go buy whatever hardware you want and put Linux/Windows on it. There is no one holding a gun to anyone's head. Apple becoming more successful is only a good thing. Microsoft isn't going to just disappear, and Linux will fill its niche for years to come. (maybe even someday convincing big companies to release software for it)
and ya, I write this from my iMac which I freaking love. I'm not anti-MS anymore and I don't hate linux. this computer and this os are simply what I have learned to really love because I get real work done on it faster than any other computer I have ever had. It suits me. Some may hate my choice, and even call me fanboi? Fine by me. I will continue to love what I do everyday on a computer that is great for me, and I will continue to roll my eyes at every Apple article on Slashdot.
one reason: because they will be forcing ~40million uninsured to become insured. A lot of those people however simply can not afford insurance. So the government will subsidize them. That will be a major cost each year.
Those degrees are not completely worthless. However, I do believe there should be some heavier guidance in getting those degrees. No one should be allowed a Psychology degree unless they have very specific plans to at least get their Masters. (and even that isn't near as good as going for the PHD) My wife is just about to finish getting her PHD and our checkbook strongly disagrees that the underlying Psychology degree was worthless. That said, I know another person who got the degree and that was all he did for college. He hasn't worked a truly professional job since. So for him, you are right. It was worthless to get the degree and not continue in some form of advanced degrees. It just depends on what you are getting the degree for and what you plan on doing with it.
Did he buy it from Lucasfilms? From what I remember from The Pixar Story (2007) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059955/). Lucasfilms employed Ed Catmull who created the Pixar technology. Lucas got what he needed from it and told him that he couldn't invest any more into the technology and that he was free to take it and continue his work. (really amazing he did that). Ed then had the fortune of meeting John Lasseter and they in turn had the fortune of proposing the technology and their ideas to Steve Jobs. Jobs loved the concept and started writing checks. I really recommend that documentary to anyone who likes Pixar or 3D movie technology. It really is a fascinating story with a lot of happy endings for all involved.
this type of comment comes up every single article on slashdot. Enough already.
I just read 2 books recently on my ipod touch. Its an experience I will repeat. I have absolutely no problems with lcd screens. I read them all damn day as I code. I get absolutely no eye strain whatsoever. I can lie in bed comfortably with the lights off and have a nicely lit book that isn't too bright to read from.
This comes down to vision I think. Some people will get eye strain from LCD, others will be fine. Just because you can't tolerate looking at an LCD for too long, doesn't mean its a bad device.
So it IS an eReader and a damn fine one. For some people. You go buy your kindle, I'll go buy my iPad. To each his own.
uhm.. I bought a mac 3 years ago and it runs snow leopard just fine. Why not just upgrade the OS? (snow leopard was what 30 bucks?) I would also like to ask, why not just fork the code to a Tiger Version. Firefox is pretty damn stable so only security updates would need to be applied to that version. Otherwise it could just sit in an archive for folks still running Tiger.
Another question. Would removing that old bit of code make my Firefox any faster or smaller? If so then I vote yes.
sorry but the book I just recently bought thru the kindle store on my ipod was $16. So Amazon apparently has no problem selling expensive books. I really don't understand what Amazon is trying to do here. I admire their effort to try and get publishers to realize that the distribution model should warrant discounts, but they are likely to fail. Supply and demand of a book is going to lead to a natural price point regardless of what Amazon or the rest of us would like to see the books priced at.
t-mobile pissed me off by having shitty service at my home in Dallas of all places. Customer service was flat out stupid about it too. Telling me to "go outside". (that didn't even help). So I finally said well you give me no choice but to switch to a new carrier and they said that will be a $200 termination fee please. Greedy assholes have you by the balls. Sure its great when you never have service issues.
Verizon has been the only one where I have literally never had bad service.
We all have our nightmare stories about each carrier. Its a fact of business when you get into the millions of customers.
I'm sorry. I just went to my facebook account and got the popup for the new settings. There were what, 10 settings to choose? Sure the defaults were as open as possible, but is it so f'ing difficult to click 10 times and hit save? And I don't see what they are talking about either. I can still set all my settings to friends only or friends of friends, or everyone. It took me all of 1 minute to answer the pop up questions. Another minute digging into the privacy screens show nothing out of the ordinary.
excuse the ignorance but BSH? googled it but too vague.
this makes me think of Spaceballs. Just comb the desert.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and defend this. (I have nothing whatsoever to do with the site or the company, which I've never heard of)
Is this site not much more than a CMS with some cool extras? Yes. But only on the surface.
This is a site that receives a ton of traffic. You know, the kind of site that needs a larger infrastructure than your blog about your family. This is also a site that likely takes a large amount of resources to manage on an ongoing basis. There is a lot of cost in doing that.
Also, the 18M is for the life of the contract I would assume. So for however long they agreed to run the thing is how long that 18M needs to last for the duration of the contract.
This is also a government website. These sites come under attack much more often than your normal site. The security that needs to be in place for this just isn't that cheap. And any updates done to the code during the life of the project have to go thru security audits. It is simply a lot more time consuming to do.
I dunno. Playing devils advocate. How about ask the slashdot creators what they would charge to build and run slashdot for 2-3 years.
I'm a small developer. I know I could have built this site for a lot cheaper too until I think about it. I just don't have the resources to build and maintain something of that magnitude. It would take a large effort to do, especially in a small time frame.
And lets imagine for a minute that this did go thru a bidding process. This company was probably on the cheaper end of things.
The majority of the Senate, both republicans and democrats passed version one. The house republicans blocked it. Yet, when they threw more spending and earmarks or pork on it, it sailed thru the house with a majority.
Both parties hold equal blame for this. Lets not say its the democrats fault. (and i am a registered Republican..though sick of my party.)
I think the vast majority of people hated the bailout but most agreed we had to try something. And they have revised how they are going to go about spending that money since it has passed. What was important was passing a bill that gave the government money to take action with. I dunno though. We will see what happens in months to come.
what a waste of time and your vote.
Look, I don't blame you for not being thrilled with either main candidate. But the fact is, Obama or McCain WILL be president. So don't waste your vote. Pick the one that you like best and vote for them. Doing a write in or voting for some no name is such a waste.
first of all. for all those wanting to end the war. Ok thats fine and dandy. However, realistically the damage is done. Pulling out quickly would be a disaster. Al Qaeda and the fundamentalists would roll in and tear Iraq apart. I'm sick of the politicians that are running on the basis of pulling out immediately. The first week in office, the new president is going to talk to all the international bigwigs and they are going to come out and say you can't just leave.
We have to get past how badly Bush messed up Iraq. The new President must gain perspective on the situation. I would work with congress and the military leadership. A consensus must be made. It must be collectively implemented. We as a nation need to collectively see this through. The end goal is for Iraq to be stable. The Iraqi security forces must be able to maintain peace by themselves. One idea I'd propose is a withdrawal of US forces from populated cities. We could sit on the outskirts and provide a support role. This would be a good compromise for those that want us completely out. It would also allow the Iraqi forces to scale their need of us as they see fit. Anyway, I could write a book on this.
Enough of that. Other big issues. Flat out, we need to become an energy independent country. The technology already exists to get the job done. US oil should be forced to perform much of the research too. (tax incentives to encourage them) If hydrogen is going to be an integral part of the future, then a date needs to be set for hydrogen at every gas station. Aside from transportation energy, the power grid needs to be overhauled. More solar and more wind. I would look into wave technology as well. I would want to pass an energy bill that requires a certain amount of clean energy by a reasonably aggressive year. I would overturn the latest administration blunder making states follow the national standard instead of allowing the states to do their own thing. I'm also curious about solar on the big buildings of major cities. All that roof top space that serves no purpose. would it be bad to put solar up there or would it create too much of a glare? Anyway, Oil companies free ride is over. No longer would they be allowed to raise their profits so grossly without passing it back to the consumer. Either directly via gas prices or indirectly via research into our future.
Next, the environment. So much needs to be done here. Much can be achieved from the energy issue. There is much more that can be done too. Builders need to stop being cheap when they build houses. New insulation standards need to be set. Houses should not be sold without the best air/heat option available that fits the size house. There are insulation techniques that can greatly improve the retention of cold/hot air as well. Recycling is another big deal. When I lived in Albuquerque, recycling was not easy to do. My first place here in dallas area was no good either. However, when I moved down the road in the same dallas suburb, my house came with a huge recycling container. (40 gallon bin) I now fill it very easily for every pick up. (every other week) A national standard should be set to make recycling as easy as possible. Perhaps implement a discount to folks that fill that can every pick up period. (while in the end, the customers should pay for recycling costs, something needs to be done to get people in the habit) Encourage increasing the pick up from every other week to every week. I would look into other easy to do things that are good for the environment and your monthly energy bills and make sure the people knew about everything already out there.
Education. The education system is horrible. It caters to only a certain style of learning. Teachers are grossly underpaid. In Texas, it was recently reported that the state lottery raised 10 billion dollars over the last 10 years for education. Why aren't teachers seeing this? Most of it goes to college scholarship programs. While thats good, better educatio
I'd just like to share with you my general satisfaction with logmein.com. I've used it a few times for clients and it has saved me a lot of time. I haven't had issues with it in terms of firewalls. It has even come in handy when I'm too lazy to go in the other room to check something in IE.
I also recently played with Yuuguu for the mac (and pc). It is kind of slow but its interface is quite good. The chat on the side of the window share is quite nice.
My 2 cents.
This is how google does business
I used to work on a site that had this happen. It ends up that past practices from the company led to the penalty and delisting. Unfortunately, google will not tell you exactly what you are doing wrong.
It pretty much led to the demise of the company. Sales plummeted so far that the investor pulled the plug. We did actually end up fixing the issue and relisted but the damage was done. (amongst other problems the company had...wasn't only google that did them in)
There really should be a tool provided by google that tests your site and tells you if and what it finds wrong. You would think this would be easy considering the code already exists.
Perhaps it could even just be a tool provided only to advertisers.
Well, I was just viewing Daily Show clips last night online. They impose a commercial after every 2 clips OR pre-clip after you click a video clip link.
I didn't mind the ads because I could watch the clips I wanted when I wanted. I like the Daily Shows view on things but I don't watch much TV.
I really don't care about ads. All I want is to be able to watch things when I want.
In a way, you hit the nail on the head.
You downloaded a pilot for free to check it out. You decided it was a great show, you bought the rest.
iTunes needs to figure this out. Forget about free being a promotion. Free needs to be the first 2-3 episodes of a show. This lets people try shows, decide if they like them. Move on if they don't. This is the only way people can find new shows without already having cable television.
Perhaps Apple already knows this but can't convince MPAA or whoever that this is the way it should be.
ok yes that reads wrong. we don't like finding results on google that lead to yet more search results.