I downloaded it and began using it this morning. While I don't have to hold the phone an uncomfortable distance from my face in order to use the video chat feature, all I get is a talking head at the normal arm length. However, because previously we only had one computer with a video camera to do video chat and it was stationary and only available at home it was a bit of a pain in the ass to do BabyGrandparent chats due to scheduling conflicts. Thankfully now those scheduling conflicts are reduced and Grandmom and Grandpop will be happy again.
So while this isn't for everyone it works in my situation and I'm glad to have it. It'll be extra nice for when I'm at lunch and want to see my kid who's at home and I'm glad it's there. YMMV.
They can claim that spam is going down all they like but I haven't seen any reduction in my inbox and I have seen a HUGE increase (quick estimate is five-fold) in the spam comments which appear in my Akismet filter for Wordpress.
2010 has been all about tablets - there is the iPad and a plethora of Android tablets - and it seems like it is going to continue to 2011.
Now it seems we have a different contender. A few days back, some pictures of an unnamed tablet running Ubuntu has cropped up. The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant.
The specifications of the device are said to be as below:
UNE 10.10 supports multi-touch but there has been a dearth of devices which uses its multi-touch features. While I am very excited to see a tablet running Ubuntu, I do not think Ubuntu is ready for tablets yet. For now Honeycomb seems like the OS for tablets.
And another thing, in the images the button has the Windows logo. Puzzling!!
My car battery dies just about every winter because it's driven 1.5 miles to the transit station and 1.5 miles back. That type of driving takes a serious toll on a battery when the temps hover around a balmy -22F for several weeks a year. Will this restart the engine from the battery? If so, will Ford replace it under warranty for having a feature included for those of us who don't idle our cars ever because we take mass transit?
Yesterday it was noted that they can do this but getting all of those available will exceed their available cash. Seems like a waste of time and energy.
In my state you are on call for jury duty for a two week span. At least several days of which are spent in the active jury pool waiting to be called while sitting on your ass and not working. If you do not get on a jury immediately you will be out of work far longer, in most cases, than if you got on one right away, did your duty, and went home.
I was called for jury duty a few years ago. I was in and out in 3 days. So being an asshole and telling the judge you believe in jury nullification isn't going to do anything more for you here. But hey, be a dick and sit on your ass for two weeks doing nothing--I'd rather not.
Not many people in my list of (albeit small but above average) 205 friends use Facebook to share links. Hell, most people don't use it for much of anything it seems. Twitter and Tumblr, however, seem to be much more likely sources for link sharing.
It's possible that she wasn't college educated or wasn't college educated when Wikipedia was around. Remember, jury members come from all walks of life.
Because people commit crimes from outside the county but are included in the database. I track the addresses of criminals with complaints in my county and while the majority reside within the boundaries, there are the outliers who hail from all over the State of Minnesota (this is a rolling 30 day picture and is purposefully limited to only the MSP metro area for clarity's sake): http://www.lazylightning.org/dakota-county-criminal-complaints-mapped-again
Unless they were under 18, they're not boys, just like she's not a "girl".
Regardless of the coaching Zuck has received recently on how to act in an interview, based on his actions in public he is most definitely a "boy" even if his age is over 18.
"but the customers all tell us the food is great!" (to which Gordon usually responds "What customers?").
Yeah because AT&T has no customers and none of them think the service is acceptable--nope, not one. Please. I have an iPhone and while I wish I had a phone with a physical keyboard and true multitasking, the iPhone is a killer device and certainly still the best available for the touchscreen only market.
I rarely have dropped calls, I have 3G most everywhere I happen to be, and the service is acceptable to me. While I certainly wouldn't hesitate to jump ship to another network which was faster, cheaper, and offered a better phone, that doesn't mean I don't hate all mobile phone network operators equally.
Isn't it great, that threads like this can turn into open season on America and everyone can bash the shit out of the USA.
I don't live in other countries nor do I really care what they do to their people. I do, however, live in the US and believe that we are a free nation which based in our past history should be held to a much higher standard than Arab countries and North Korea (per your chosen examples).
The people of this country have the power and we should be the ones standing up to the government when they do things that are NOT aligned with what this country is supposed to stand for. Honestly the documents provided by WikiLeaks are nothing exciting to me. All countries do shady shit behind closed doors but what is shocking is the bullshit response to it.
I'm sorry but the reaction is not acceptable and all congressmen and senators who are condemning this by suggesting death should be put to death themselves.
I purposefully went to a business class connection so that I could do more with my connection. While I pay for 10/1 and generally get 20+/1 if I was still using my 4500/400 connection I wouldn't be hosting my own website, streaming Netflix nearly non-stop all night long, and having my wife and I surf the web the way we do because we simply would not have the bandwidth to do it.
I mean when I had a 640/160 DSL connection do you think I would have been uploading 500MB worth of fullsized DSLR photos to Flickr or HD videos to Vimeo? Hell no, I'd be resizing them on my computer and uploading only a few. Now what the hell do I care? It takes a couple minutes instead of a couple hours and I'm good to go.
This is the same thing. Verizon knows that people are going to go over their bandwidth limits and fast. That's exactly what they want.
RTFP. No, I don't have it because I'm not paying for it. And being that this law exists I shouldn't have to screen my calls through caller ID or any other method now should I?
I have a land line (it comes over my cable connection) because we only have one mobile phone and use the 400 minutes as our long distance service thus it's cheaper for us to have family call us on the land line. Aside from the handful of calls we get from family the rest of the time it's from scammers "trying to lower your interest rate on your credit card," who hang up when you press them for who they are or companies who do not follow the DNC list.
These companies know they have little chance of being prosecuted under the law so I end up with numerous phone calls and fights with supervisors of these companies to not call me again. Yet they keep trying to sell newspaper subscriptions and rug cleanings to me.
So after three phone calls from one company I finally get enough information to file a complaint with the FCC. I submit that complaint and it's rejected three different times for lack of information. While the FCC agent attempts to be helpful the entire process is cumbersome and difficult. I lack any confidence the calls will stop or the company will pay and even if they do the fine will be minimal and they'll just consider it the cost of doing business.
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So back to this particular new trend. Yeah, great, no more tracking online. It's a lot easier for me to block that stuff online while still enjoying a relatively easy browsing experience than it is for me to stop calls from ringing my phone which would include turning the ringer off (no, I'm not paying for call block or caller ID).
If the government wants to do this, and I'd love them to, they need to ensure that the laws, policies and enforcement are viable and actually benefit people rather than creating a whole new useless bureaucracy which spends money and doesn't accomplish a damn thing.
Technically, then, if I buy a $1,000 laptop from Amazon, I'm supposed to pay a $90 use tax when I file my taxes to my home state of California at the end of the year. I've never done this, and I bet you haven't either--almost nobody does, because states have no good way to enforce use tax collection.
Then stop whining about the lack of sales taxes. The taxes should be borne by the customer of Amazon, not Amazon (at least in the states in which it does not have a physical presence and no, affiliates are not physical presence no matter how bad the states want it to be). The government knows better than to enforce those taxes upon the citizenry as it only causes a minor inconvenience on a single online retailer, 300 million people are likely to be a lot more upset.
If NFL stars can kill dogs and rape women and still have amazing fanbases, why can't some dude in a foreign country release information to the public about their governments and rape and molest some women and still have people standing up for him?
They should have planted kiddie porn on his computer instead. That would have silenced him in the eyes of the US public for sure.
I have a Google Voice account. I have an iPhone. I now have the Google Voice iPhone application. I use Google Voice for free SMS (I refuse to pay AT&T for something the GSM standard provides for free with every packet) and a phone number where people can leave me a voicemail on my website. Because of these disclaimers I feel I can speak to the usefulness of the application and Google Voice.
1. The application is lame. Very lame. You'd think by them delaying it for 1.5 years Google would have had plenty of time to make it awesome. They were too busy working on Google Wave apparently. Example: I can't copy/paste a text message's content. Hell, I can't do anything with it--such as dial a phone number contained within it.
2. Even though I use it for free SMS and a voicemail service, Google Voice is of little use to me. You're not missing much not having it available to you in Canada, I promise.
Isn't the entire point of twitter communicating with a large audience? If no one knows who you are, then what's the point?
I don't care about the dude behind @ShitMyDadSays (the Twitter account, not the absolutely horrendous TV show) but I love what he puts out there (I follow him by RSS though). Hell, a lot of the people I follow on Twitter I don't know anything about but I find what they have to say interesting.
I read the complaint. Google argues that the solution offered by Microsoft is new and the only publicly available information about it and its security is a press release from Microsoft. It further states that due to this newness that no other government agencies are using the product and thus it has not been tested in the field.
Now, I'm not here to argue the merits of Google's claims or the security factors in allowing a third party to host the servers for you--even if they have received some sort of accreditation by some body which apparently states which are secure enough. All I am saying is that based on the complaint it appears as if Google has an interesting case and one which they will lose simply because that's how the government works.
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I host my own SMTP and I know exactly how much spam is hitting my server.
I downloaded it and began using it this morning. While I don't have to hold the phone an uncomfortable distance from my face in order to use the video chat feature, all I get is a talking head at the normal arm length. However, because previously we only had one computer with a video camera to do video chat and it was stationary and only available at home it was a bit of a pain in the ass to do BabyGrandparent chats due to scheduling conflicts. Thankfully now those scheduling conflicts are reduced and Grandmom and Grandpop will be happy again.
So while this isn't for everyone it works in my situation and I'm glad to have it. It'll be extra nice for when I'm at lunch and want to see my kid who's at home and I'm glad it's there. YMMV.
They can claim that spam is going down all they like but I haven't seen any reduction in my inbox and I have seen a HUGE increase (quick estimate is five-fold) in the spam comments which appear in my Akismet filter for Wordpress.
Google has a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h8oRGG22slsJ:gadgetizor.com/the-tablet-season-brings-a-new-ubuntu-powered-tablet/6304/+http://gadgetizor.com/the-tablet-season-brings-a-new-ubuntu-powered-tablet/6304/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Yeah, it's the first car I've ever had do this and it'll be the last. Mazda sucks.
My car battery dies just about every winter because it's driven 1.5 miles to the transit station and 1.5 miles back. That type of driving takes a serious toll on a battery when the temps hover around a balmy -22F for several weeks a year. Will this restart the engine from the battery? If so, will Ford replace it under warranty for having a feature included for those of us who don't idle our cars ever because we take mass transit?
Yesterday it was noted that they can do this but getting all of those available will exceed their available cash. Seems like a waste of time and energy.
Oh bullshit. I've been doing plenty of shoveling lately. Yup, you betcha.
In my state you are on call for jury duty for a two week span. At least several days of which are spent in the active jury pool waiting to be called while sitting on your ass and not working. If you do not get on a jury immediately you will be out of work far longer, in most cases, than if you got on one right away, did your duty, and went home.
I was called for jury duty a few years ago. I was in and out in 3 days. So being an asshole and telling the judge you believe in jury nullification isn't going to do anything more for you here. But hey, be a dick and sit on your ass for two weeks doing nothing--I'd rather not.
Not many people in my list of (albeit small but above average) 205 friends use Facebook to share links. Hell, most people don't use it for much of anything it seems. Twitter and Tumblr, however, seem to be much more likely sources for link sharing.
It's possible that she wasn't college educated or wasn't college educated when Wikipedia was around. Remember, jury members come from all walks of life.
Because people commit crimes from outside the county but are included in the database. I track the addresses of criminals with complaints in my county and while the majority reside within the boundaries, there are the outliers who hail from all over the State of Minnesota (this is a rolling 30 day picture and is purposefully limited to only the MSP metro area for clarity's sake): http://www.lazylightning.org/dakota-county-criminal-complaints-mapped-again
Regardless of the coaching Zuck has received recently on how to act in an interview, based on his actions in public he is most definitely a "boy" even if his age is over 18.
I was in Seattle back in April. I didn't have any reception problems anywhere while I was there.
"but the customers all tell us the food is great!" (to which Gordon usually responds "What customers?").
Yeah because AT&T has no customers and none of them think the service is acceptable--nope, not one. Please. I have an iPhone and while I wish I had a phone with a physical keyboard and true multitasking, the iPhone is a killer device and certainly still the best available for the touchscreen only market.
I rarely have dropped calls, I have 3G most everywhere I happen to be, and the service is acceptable to me. While I certainly wouldn't hesitate to jump ship to another network which was faster, cheaper, and offered a better phone, that doesn't mean I don't hate all mobile phone network operators equally.
I don't live in other countries nor do I really care what they do to their people. I do, however, live in the US and believe that we are a free nation which based in our past history should be held to a much higher standard than Arab countries and North Korea (per your chosen examples).
The people of this country have the power and we should be the ones standing up to the government when they do things that are NOT aligned with what this country is supposed to stand for. Honestly the documents provided by WikiLeaks are nothing exciting to me. All countries do shady shit behind closed doors but what is shocking is the bullshit response to it.
I'm sorry but the reaction is not acceptable and all congressmen and senators who are condemning this by suggesting death should be put to death themselves.
I purposefully went to a business class connection so that I could do more with my connection. While I pay for 10/1 and generally get 20+/1 if I was still using my 4500/400 connection I wouldn't be hosting my own website, streaming Netflix nearly non-stop all night long, and having my wife and I surf the web the way we do because we simply would not have the bandwidth to do it.
I mean when I had a 640/160 DSL connection do you think I would have been uploading 500MB worth of fullsized DSLR photos to Flickr or HD videos to Vimeo? Hell no, I'd be resizing them on my computer and uploading only a few. Now what the hell do I care? It takes a couple minutes instead of a couple hours and I'm good to go.
This is the same thing. Verizon knows that people are going to go over their bandwidth limits and fast. That's exactly what they want.
RTFP. No, I don't have it because I'm not paying for it. And being that this law exists I shouldn't have to screen my calls through caller ID or any other method now should I?
I have a land line (it comes over my cable connection) because we only have one mobile phone and use the 400 minutes as our long distance service thus it's cheaper for us to have family call us on the land line. Aside from the handful of calls we get from family the rest of the time it's from scammers "trying to lower your interest rate on your credit card," who hang up when you press them for who they are or companies who do not follow the DNC list.
These companies know they have little chance of being prosecuted under the law so I end up with numerous phone calls and fights with supervisors of these companies to not call me again. Yet they keep trying to sell newspaper subscriptions and rug cleanings to me.
So after three phone calls from one company I finally get enough information to file a complaint with the FCC. I submit that complaint and it's rejected three different times for lack of information. While the FCC agent attempts to be helpful the entire process is cumbersome and difficult. I lack any confidence the calls will stop or the company will pay and even if they do the fine will be minimal and they'll just consider it the cost of doing business.
---
So back to this particular new trend. Yeah, great, no more tracking online. It's a lot easier for me to block that stuff online while still enjoying a relatively easy browsing experience than it is for me to stop calls from ringing my phone which would include turning the ringer off (no, I'm not paying for call block or caller ID).
If the government wants to do this, and I'd love them to, they need to ensure that the laws, policies and enforcement are viable and actually benefit people rather than creating a whole new useless bureaucracy which spends money and doesn't accomplish a damn thing.
From the article:
Then stop whining about the lack of sales taxes. The taxes should be borne by the customer of Amazon, not Amazon (at least in the states in which it does not have a physical presence and no, affiliates are not physical presence no matter how bad the states want it to be). The government knows better than to enforce those taxes upon the citizenry as it only causes a minor inconvenience on a single online retailer, 300 million people are likely to be a lot more upset.
If NFL stars can kill dogs and rape women and still have amazing fanbases, why can't some dude in a foreign country release information to the public about their governments and rape and molest some women and still have people standing up for him?
They should have planted kiddie porn on his computer instead. That would have silenced him in the eyes of the US public for sure.
I have a Google Voice account. I have an iPhone. I now have the Google Voice iPhone application. I use Google Voice for free SMS (I refuse to pay AT&T for something the GSM standard provides for free with every packet) and a phone number where people can leave me a voicemail on my website. Because of these disclaimers I feel I can speak to the usefulness of the application and Google Voice.
1. The application is lame. Very lame. You'd think by them delaying it for 1.5 years Google would have had plenty of time to make it awesome. They were too busy working on Google Wave apparently. Example: I can't copy/paste a text message's content. Hell, I can't do anything with it--such as dial a phone number contained within it.
2. Even though I use it for free SMS and a voicemail service, Google Voice is of little use to me. You're not missing much not having it available to you in Canada, I promise.
Their counter resistance is a threat of a $10,000 civil suit after their own agents tell you to leave the airport: http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html
Isn't the entire point of twitter communicating with a large audience? If no one knows who you are, then what's the point?
I don't care about the dude behind @ShitMyDadSays (the Twitter account, not the absolutely horrendous TV show) but I love what he puts out there (I follow him by RSS though). Hell, a lot of the people I follow on Twitter I don't know anything about but I find what they have to say interesting.
YMMV.
I read the complaint. Google argues that the solution offered by Microsoft is new and the only publicly available information about it and its security is a press release from Microsoft. It further states that due to this newness that no other government agencies are using the product and thus it has not been tested in the field.
Now, I'm not here to argue the merits of Google's claims or the security factors in allowing a third party to host the servers for you--even if they have received some sort of accreditation by some body which apparently states which are secure enough. All I am saying is that based on the complaint it appears as if Google has an interesting case and one which they will lose simply because that's how the government works.