My are(sic) point is that tech change is good for bottom feeders like me. I don't need the latest.
Not related to this point, but to the original article, I think they had a tech junkie heavy selection in their poll. It's a site touting the latest tech goodies. That will skew heavily to people that wouldn't use converters.
Hooray for old tech! I got a 60" 3 7" crt rear projector TV for free from Craig's list. Cost me $25 to replace the CRT coolant. Sure, it's not HD, but 99% of what I watch isn't either. I paid it forward by giving away my old 27" crt to a co-worker so her kid would have something to game on. I'd guess in a few years I'll get another old-tech tv, only with HD, for free or cheap from Craig's list.
I have been using it for the past couple of months on my netbook. It does a pretty good job as long as you aren't wearing glasses, and you are well lit. Most of the time, the lighting is not good enough, and I would need to remove my glasses. It seems to do well enough discriminating between other people though. I tried it with several different family members and co workers, and it never allowed them. It will log bad attempts, and save pictures of the attempted logins. It also has a mode to detect if a photo is being used to log in. That seemed to work blocking photos as well. I never tried the encryption mode, but since it is Lenovo, I'd bet it has a back door for the Chinese government.
Unless they get it to work in low light though, it's not ready for prime-time.
2 interesting observations. I just got back from vacation in Colorado driving a 10 year old 4 cyl manual Saturn L series. When driving on the interstate highway, I was driving between 75-80 MPH. I got around 30 MPG at that speed. When I was driving at high altitude(2400 to 3600 meters) with lots of climbing, I got 36 mpg on one tank, and 40 mpg on the other. The car had weak power though (non-turbo).
The other observation, was that with the lack of power, going up a steep climb, I got passed by a Prius. I am guessing the electric motor adds to the gas engine's power and allows it to not degrade as much as a normally aspirated gasoline engine does.
I get just over 1Mb and it is fine for just about anything. I stream Netflix at 3 to 4 bars. Youtube and torrents run fine, if a bit slow. More bandwidth would allow either better quality streams, or people to game or surf while Netflix is streaming. I don't know why they say everyone needs a ton of bandwidth. 1Mb is very serviceable.
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I had only watched the pilot, and it immediately "lost" me. As in, I never came back to the show.
I realize our household is atypical, as we don't have any cell phones, but we just bought 2 DS lites. We bought used, however, so don't contribute to Nintendo's bottom line. They were about $80 a piece.
Only Marketing/PR has access to Facebook and Twitter. Even our public wireless access points don't have it. What's funny is that every once in a while they have a drawing or promotion to get employees to follow or friend the company's accounts. The links to the Facebook and Twitter accounts are on the default home page for all the internal browsers.
I think there are still enough daredevil kids. Youtube is filled with video of kids doing stupid things. However, It's a wonder I am still alive with the crap I did as a kid. Poring gasoline in the alley and lighting it on fire so we could ride out stingray bikes through a wall of flames. Having bb gun wars in the woods and using fire crackers as hand grenades. Taking the catwalk out to the middle of the bridge crossing the river and then riding it when the bridge opened up for a barge. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Ftmadisontollbr.jpg
We have a crappy 3rd party system that replaced our printed paystubs. It's called MyHR. Only works with IE6, and only works with "real" Adobe PDF viewer. The only way employees can check their pay information is to use a computer at work, through a VPN Citrix session, or to have the old crap programs on their home PC.
With analog cable TV, I record those shows every night with windows media center. We then watch them the next day through the xbox 360. I can also copy them to my Creative Zen Touch 30 to watch on airplanes, etc. No charge for format shifting, unlike itunes.
I was part of a LAN gaming group. It was pretty much dieing anyway since more and more people were getting broadband then. Anyhow, we lost contact with the guy that had the domain, so we were not able to renew it when it expired several years ago. A few months ago, I was going through some old bookmarks, and lo and behold, the site was up and running. The forums weren't functional as they were based on custom code that they didn't manage to get. Other than that, it looked the same. The new domain contact info resolved back to some Russian place. BTW, there was no commercial value to the site, but it was a cool blast from the past to see it up again.
Not unlike what happened to me with a free download of an Amazon video on demand. After numerous attempts that I could never get to work, I gave up and torrented the movie.
[Starman is driving the car, and speeds across a recently turned red light, causing crashes for the other motorists] Starman: Okay? Jenny Hayden: Okay? Are you crazy? You almost got us killed! You said you watched me, you said you knew the rules! Starman: I do know the rules. Jenny Hayden: Oh, for your information pal, that was a *yellow* light back there! Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.
Not that I give a rat's ass about anything mobile. Why would I want to put anything into a "cloud" that I don't own or control? I didn't see anything about encryption, and without a high level of encryption that only I own the keys to, it would be not for me.
Broke my leg on vacation, but didn't know it. Thought it was a sprain. Ended up driving back home 500 miles with my manual transmission car. Not fun at all. Along with that time, getting stuck in a traffic jam, and traffic in an ice storm, those were the only times I did not like driving a manual shift car.
Still doesn't have the level of cookie control that I an using with Firefox. Get prompted for all cookies, session only, easy to add permissions with out manually typing URLs. I also did a search on google add-ons for cookie tools. There were none. Still a fail for me.
However, I did install it for my mother in law. No idea if she will use it though. Should be better for her since she is running on old hardware and she doesn't care about privacy.
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My are(sic) point is that tech change is good for bottom feeders like me. I don't need the latest.
Not related to this point, but to the original article, I think they had a tech junkie heavy selection in their poll. It's a site touting the latest tech goodies. That will skew heavily to people that wouldn't use converters.
Hooray for old tech! I got a 60" 3 7" crt rear projector TV for free from Craig's list. Cost me $25 to replace the CRT coolant. Sure, it's not HD, but 99% of what I watch isn't either. I paid it forward by giving away my old 27" crt to a co-worker so her kid would have something to game on. I'd guess in a few years I'll get another old-tech tv, only with HD, for free or cheap from Craig's list.
I have been using it for the past couple of months on my netbook. It does a pretty good job as long as you aren't wearing glasses, and you are well lit. Most of the time, the lighting is not good enough, and I would need to remove my glasses. It seems to do well enough discriminating between other people though. I tried it with several different family members and co workers, and it never allowed them. It will log bad attempts, and save pictures of the attempted logins. It also has a mode to detect if a photo is being used to log in. That seemed to work blocking photos as well. I never tried the encryption mode, but since it is Lenovo, I'd bet it has a back door for the Chinese government.
Unless they get it to work in low light though, it's not ready for prime-time.
2 interesting observations. I just got back from vacation in Colorado driving a 10 year old 4 cyl manual Saturn L series. When driving on the interstate highway, I was driving between 75-80 MPH. I got around 30 MPG at that speed. When I was driving at high altitude(2400 to 3600 meters) with lots of climbing, I got 36 mpg on one tank, and 40 mpg on the other. The car had weak power though (non-turbo).
The other observation, was that with the lack of power, going up a steep climb, I got passed by a Prius. I am guessing the electric motor adds to the gas engine's power and allows it to not degrade as much as a normally aspirated gasoline engine does.
I get just over 1Mb and it is fine for just about anything. I stream Netflix at 3 to 4 bars. Youtube and torrents run fine, if a bit slow. More bandwidth would allow either better quality streams, or people to game or surf while Netflix is streaming. I don't know why they say everyone needs a ton of bandwidth. 1Mb is very serviceable.
I had only watched the pilot, and it immediately "lost" me. As in, I never came back to the show.
When it gets the accelerator stuck, it plays "When the Devil Went Down to Georgia" on a golden violin in robot hell.
In the future, Fuddruckers becomes Buttfuckers. And a latte comes with a handjob.
I realize our household is atypical, as we don't have any cell phones, but we just bought 2 DS lites. We bought used, however, so don't contribute to Nintendo's bottom line. They were about $80 a piece.
Sounds kinda funny, but it's really brown and runny.
Only Marketing/PR has access to Facebook and Twitter. Even our public wireless access points don't have it. What's funny is that every once in a while they have a drawing or promotion to get employees to follow or friend the company's accounts. The links to the Facebook and Twitter accounts are on the default home page for all the internal browsers.
I think there are still enough daredevil kids. Youtube is filled with video of kids doing stupid things. However, It's a wonder I am still alive with the crap I did as a kid. Poring gasoline in the alley and lighting it on fire so we could ride out stingray bikes through a wall of flames. Having bb gun wars in the woods and using fire crackers as hand grenades. Taking the catwalk out to the middle of the bridge crossing the river and then riding it when the bridge opened up for a barge. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Ftmadisontollbr.jpg
etc. etc...
Because you obviously couldn't charge $1.99 for that book both places?
We have a crappy 3rd party system that replaced our printed paystubs. It's called MyHR. Only works with IE6, and only works with "real" Adobe PDF viewer. The only way employees can check their pay information is to use a computer at work, through a VPN Citrix session, or to have the old crap programs on their home PC.
With analog cable TV, I record those shows every night with windows media center. We then watch them the next day through the xbox 360. I can also copy them to my Creative Zen Touch 30 to watch on airplanes, etc. No charge for format shifting, unlike itunes.
I could care less what they use for a caller ID number as I am too cheap to pay An extra $2/month for caller id.
I was part of a LAN gaming group. It was pretty much dieing anyway since more and more people were getting broadband then. Anyhow, we lost contact with the guy that had the domain, so we were not able to renew it when it expired several years ago. A few months ago, I was going through some old bookmarks, and lo and behold, the site was up and running. The forums weren't functional as they were based on custom code that they didn't manage to get. Other than that, it looked the same. The new domain contact info resolved back to some Russian place. BTW, there was no commercial value to the site, but it was a cool blast from the past to see it up again.
Not unlike what happened to me with a free download of an Amazon video on demand. After numerous attempts that I could never get to work, I gave up and torrented the movie.
As Jeff Bridges said in the movie Starman.
[Starman is driving the car, and speeds across a recently turned red light, causing crashes for the other motorists]
Starman: Okay?
Jenny Hayden: Okay? Are you crazy? You almost got us killed! You said you watched me, you said you knew the rules!
Starman: I do know the rules.
Jenny Hayden: Oh, for your information pal, that was a *yellow* light back there!
Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.
Not only that, it's primarily fat PS3's that are bricking. I don't think they sell those anymore.
Not that I give a rat's ass about anything mobile. Why would I want to put anything into a "cloud" that I don't own or control? I didn't see anything about encryption, and without a high level of encryption that only I own the keys to, it would be not for me.
Broke my leg on vacation, but didn't know it. Thought it was a sprain. Ended up driving back home 500 miles with my manual transmission car. Not fun at all.
Along with that time, getting stuck in a traffic jam, and traffic in an ice storm, those were the only times I did not like driving a manual shift car.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Or a Star Trek self destruct sequence.
"Code zero zero zero. Destruct. Zero."
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Auto-destruct
Still doesn't have the level of cookie control that I an using with Firefox. Get prompted for all cookies, session only, easy to add permissions with out manually typing URLs. I also did a search on google add-ons for cookie tools. There were none. Still a fail for me.
However, I did install it for my mother in law. No idea if she will use it though. Should be better for her since she is running on old hardware and she doesn't care about privacy.