No, they don't. People are going to look at this and say "I have e-mail, why don't they?" and then they are going to think about it for about 2.2 seconds until the teaser for American Idol, The Apprentice, or Survivor come on and they forget all about it.
1. Read the changelog. Do you see anything in there that applies to you (new features, bugs that you have encountered that are now fixed, or serious security updates)?
2. Do you have any stability issues with 2.6.14?
3. Are you really that concerned with upgrading your kernel again? It's not a status symbol afterall.
4. I'm still running 2.4.x because I have no need to run 2.6.x (I use it strictly as a console machine) Linux supplication 2.4.32 #4 Tue Jan 3 18:35:16 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
I don't trust corporations, ever. Yes, that means Google too!
My point of the "survey" is that I think people trust Google less now than in the past.
If by "people" you mean Slashdotters and general conspiracy theorists and paranoid tin-foil hat wearers (that's me too, FYI) then yes, I agree. If by "people" you mean the general computer-using public, then no. They don't have a clue.
Is Google "less evil" than any other corporation out there? That I don't have the answer to. Perhaps they are just able to make shit look and smell like roses better than everyone else.
"The technology we have is incredibly empowering to citizens," he said. For all the countries we don't like, he suggested we might their change behavior more by giving their citizens PCs, fast connections, and access.
It doesn't empower citizens of countries that do everything they can to proxy out that information. While I 99% agree with what Google did in China, I don't agree that giving citizens PCs, connections, and access will stop their governments from doing what they do.
Fuck, the USA is supposedly "free" and "open" and we have quite a bit of the population with access and yet we just let our leaders take FAT SHITS in front of our faces and then smile when they waft the stentch towards us.
No thanks; I don't want any government anywhere near my connection.
I'm actually surprised that the "New Aged GOP" (I refuse to refer to them as the Republican Party -- because they are not) aren't the ones trying to push for wide adoption of broadband. They would have better control over pushing their agenda of big-business support as well as big-government and spying.
One of these days, a thief is going to raid my mailbox before I get home and get a credit card in my name.
Last summer I had a notice in my mailbox from the Postmaster that stated there were reports of mail theft in our neighborhood and that we should be watching closely for ID theft.
My wife is concerned with throwing mail away and the thieves getting it there. Why would they bother to go through my trash and get dirty when they can get it fresh from my mailbox w/no one the wiser.
Why are you complaining? It sounds like they fixed a user caused problem for free. Sometimes you have to grease the wheels a little to get them to go around.
I don't consider "good support" to include misinformation, hassles, and multiple phone calls *after* they already have taken your device hostage.
Most people would probably bend, needing their device ASAP, and pay the $300 instead of the $27.
When 2 of my keys fell off on the 4th day I owned the laptop, the CS Rep (Juan) informed me that he couldn't replace the keyboard because it was more than 3 days old, but he "off the record" suggested superglue to me.
Oh, so they are just like Dell? When the tilde key broke on my laptop they told me to ship it in to them for warranty repair. When it got there they told me it broke from abuse (mind you this key was about 1/3 the size of any other key on the keyboard and when this occured ~ was common in URLs). Great. How much will it be then? They told me $300!
I looked up their part list online and found the keyboard new for $27. I told them to ship it back to me and I'd replace it myself. Their response? "You'll void your warranty." After I told them that my warranty wasn't doing much for me in this case anyway they agreed to fix it free of charge.
While that Dell laptop is still working to this day, I am weary about buying another.
As an American, I read about these nifty phone network upgrades and know that I will not see them for at least 3 years.
EDGE has already been rolled out in the Minneapolis metro. I know it has already been launched elsewhere as well. I guess it's not "three years" for everyone.
Well, not that I use their network for calls all that much, I must say that I have *never* had a call drop on their network here in the Twin Cities. AT&T (prior to the Cingular buyout) dropped calls for me daily. Especially at the intersection of MN-13 and Cliff Rd in Burnsville.
T-Mobile will offer the new service to customers using laptops and dual mode PDAs, such as the T-Mobile MDA Pro, beginning in summer 2006.
I don't have one, but from what I've read about the MDA is that it already supports EDGE, GPRS, and wifi. I currently use a Sidekick 2 (hiptop) and it uses only GPRS. I don't know if it's because some people have moved over to the EDGE network with compatible devices but I have noticed a significant speed increase on their GPRS network.
I am drooling over the MDA (minus the fact that it runs Windows Mobile). Connection, at broadband speeds, pretty much whereever I am is a great thing to look forward to. I have to decide if it's worth switching to Windows Mobile and paying $450+ for it;)
You know, I don't know what the problem is but whenever I try to do a large batch (20 or so images) with ImageMagick inside a loop it hangs my machine. It only started happening when I upgraded to a 7MP camera and the images (not at full resolution either!) were in the 4.5MB range.
Now I have to break the images up into batches of 5 and run the script each time for those. Bleh.
How about using the computer to mark the paper ballot? Use a touch screen computer, similar to the Diebold setup to allow the voter to vote. Then the machine prints out a human readable, but scanable ballot that the voter checks, and deposits in a ballot box. You can use the scanner to count votes, and humans can also count them if needed.
How about both and we let the voters decide what they want to use? Marking a couple of circles is easy enough for me (native English reader/writer) but maybe not for someone else (ESL/ELL). Let them use the computer screens. I'll stick to my old fashioned ways.
This is not an Apple device and thus it shouldn't be under "Apple". Just because it is a media player doesn't mean it's an "iPod assassin".
When making the title of an article, please include the name of the actual device and not some pointless and off-topic title which doesn't relate to the actual item being reviewed.
They will have to lower their prices for their services, otherwise they will start losing millions. So this a win-win situation for the consumer?
They are going to charge for the bandwith to go over their lines, attempt to pay off legislators to block its adoption, make sure it becomes "unreliable" when reaching customers that use their lines, put millions into advertising against it, etc.
With the (again, bleh) continued consolidation of the telcos, they are only getting stronger. You think that they are going to stand by while some grassroots/cheaper option takes over? Give me a break.
DVR's so completely change how you think about your time, especially in relation to TV (obviously) - but I've used some of the "other" ones and nothing does it for me like a TiVo.
Don't you mean "you stop thinking about how your time relates to TV"? Other people I talk to are "disconnected" for 24, Survivor, etc. I don't have the faintest idea when any of these shows are on and that's a good thing.
Dude, maybe if you concentrated on losing weight your BP would come under control? Let me guess...
I was a Division I college athelete and had high BP. They attributed it, at the time, to my training. After I stopped competing, I still had the issues so we started on meds.
At 183 pounds and very little body fat, I really doubt that weight was an issue.
All of google's products are Beta and work perfectly.
GMail hasn't been working all that great for me since they introducted GTalk. I had been having laggy service when logging in including errors that I should wait a while and try refreshing. Since then, I have been communicating with GTalk people via bitlbee and have it disabled in GMail (click the link at the bottom). That solved my issues.
While I believe that Google's "Beta" products are generally in perfect working order, I won't say that they are all "working perfectly".
I was basically forced to quit drinking caffeine in Decemeber. This was not something I ever expected to be able to do. The migraine lasted for about a week straight but I have been basically fine since.
Since I was 22 I have had high blood pressure. I've spoken here about it before and complained about the high cost of Rx meds to control it and my belief that my Doctor (undercompensated by my insurance provider) is possibly pushing name-brand drugs instead of their generic counterparts to recoup some of that cost in kick-backs.
Anyway, I was gaining on 200mg daily of various meds to control the BP. I was also gaining in daily consumption of caffeine. After switching to Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper (aka Liquid Crack) I was heading for 5 to 6 20oz bottles a day (at work) plus 5 to 10 12oz cans every two days (at home).
After quitting the caffeine habbit I'm on 10mg of BP meds (about $10 a month) and water.
So, if you're looking to limit your heart disease and the high cost of protecting yourself against it with prescriptions, you might want to first take a look at your caffeine intake. It worked for me.
Here's a hint: if you're trying to write a positive review of software, try not to use analogies that indicate that the UI is arcane and unintuitive!
More importantly, don't make normal old features (available in every other data charting software) out to be something more than they are. I found the article to be nothing but boring and sensationalist.
Why would I want to give all my very personal information to a potential advertiser? It makes me cringe all of the suckers out there that will store their private word, excel or other docs and have no idea how insecure it is.
Because most people see that getting something "free" in return for giving up their personal information is worth it. Hell, there have been countless "studies" that asked people for their personal identifiable information including mother's maiden name and birthdate with nothing more than a phone call.
I thought it was common knowledge that a large portion of bloggers (the majority?) simply copy text from elsewhere as their "blog".
The only time that I copy/paste stuff into the posts on my site is when I'm directly quoting a source or posting a copy of an e-mail from staff members or inviduals that opted to e-mail me directly instead of posting a comment.
The rest of the time my thoughts and writings are my own worthlessness. I personally don't know any other local bloggers that copy much content. I guess I only read the worthwhile ones?
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What is going on? And, does anyone even care?
No, they don't. People are going to look at this and say "I have e-mail, why don't they?" and then they are going to think about it for about 2.2 seconds until the teaser for American Idol, The Apprentice, or Survivor come on and they forget all about it.
Any point in me upgrading the kernel from 2.6.14?
1. Read the changelog. Do you see anything in there that applies to you (new features, bugs that you have encountered that are now fixed, or serious security updates)?
2. Do you have any stability issues with 2.6.14?
3. Are you really that concerned with upgrading your kernel again? It's not a status symbol afterall.
4. I'm still running 2.4.x because I have no need to run 2.6.x (I use it strictly as a console machine) Linux supplication 2.4.32 #4 Tue Jan 3 18:35:16 CST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
So, welcome to the future of the internet as envisioned by Bell South.
You mean AT&T. Or whoever buys them out.
Do you trust Google less today than one year ago?
I don't trust corporations, ever. Yes, that means Google too!
My point of the "survey" is that I think people trust Google less now than in the past.
If by "people" you mean Slashdotters and general conspiracy theorists and paranoid tin-foil hat wearers (that's me too, FYI) then yes, I agree. If by "people" you mean the general computer-using public, then no. They don't have a clue.
Is Google "less evil" than any other corporation out there? That I don't have the answer to. Perhaps they are just able to make shit look and smell like roses better than everyone else.
"The technology we have is incredibly empowering to citizens," he said. For all the countries we don't like, he suggested we might their change behavior more by giving their citizens PCs, fast connections, and access.
It doesn't empower citizens of countries that do everything they can to proxy out that information. While I 99% agree with what Google did in China, I don't agree that giving citizens PCs, connections, and access will stop their governments from doing what they do.
Fuck, the USA is supposedly "free" and "open" and we have quite a bit of the population with access and yet we just let our leaders take FAT SHITS in front of our faces and then smile when they waft the stentch towards us.
No thanks; I don't want any government anywhere near my connection.
I'm actually surprised that the "New Aged GOP" (I refuse to refer to them as the Republican Party -- because they are not) aren't the ones trying to push for wide adoption of broadband. They would have better control over pushing their agenda of big-business support as well as big-government and spying.
One of these days, a thief is going to raid my mailbox before I get home and get a credit card in my name.
Last summer I had a notice in my mailbox from the Postmaster that stated there were reports of mail theft in our neighborhood and that we should be watching closely for ID theft.
My wife is concerned with throwing mail away and the thieves getting it there. Why would they bother to go through my trash and get dirty when they can get it fresh from my mailbox w/no one the wiser.
Why are you complaining? It sounds like they fixed a user caused problem for free. Sometimes you have to grease the wheels a little to get them to go around.
I don't consider "good support" to include misinformation, hassles, and multiple phone calls *after* they already have taken your device hostage.
Most people would probably bend, needing their device ASAP, and pay the $300 instead of the $27.
When 2 of my keys fell off on the 4th day I owned the laptop, the CS Rep (Juan) informed me that he couldn't replace the keyboard because it was more than 3 days old, but he "off the record" suggested superglue to me.
Oh, so they are just like Dell? When the tilde key broke on my laptop they told me to ship it in to them for warranty repair. When it got there they told me it broke from abuse (mind you this key was about 1/3 the size of any other key on the keyboard and when this occured ~ was common in URLs). Great. How much will it be then? They told me $300!
I looked up their part list online and found the keyboard new for $27. I told them to ship it back to me and I'd replace it myself. Their response? "You'll void your warranty." After I told them that my warranty wasn't doing much for me in this case anyway they agreed to fix it free of charge.
While that Dell laptop is still working to this day, I am weary about buying another.
As an American, I read about these nifty phone network upgrades and know that I will not see them for at least 3 years.
EDGE has already been rolled out in the Minneapolis metro. I know it has already been launched elsewhere as well. I guess it's not "three years" for everyone.
Well, not that I use their network for calls all that much, I must say that I have *never* had a call drop on their network here in the Twin Cities. AT&T (prior to the Cingular buyout) dropped calls for me daily. Especially at the intersection of MN-13 and Cliff Rd in Burnsville.
T-Mobile will offer the new service to customers using laptops and dual mode PDAs, such as the T-Mobile MDA Pro, beginning in summer 2006.
;)
I don't have one, but from what I've read about the MDA is that it already supports EDGE, GPRS, and wifi. I currently use a Sidekick 2 (hiptop) and it uses only GPRS. I don't know if it's because some people have moved over to the EDGE network with compatible devices but I have noticed a significant speed increase on their GPRS network.
I am drooling over the MDA (minus the fact that it runs Windows Mobile). Connection, at broadband speeds, pretty much whereever I am is a great thing to look forward to. I have to decide if it's worth switching to Windows Mobile and paying $450+ for it
Straight from the local HD. Not from the memory card and not on Windows.
You know, I don't know what the problem is but whenever I try to do a large batch (20 or so images) with ImageMagick inside a loop it hangs my machine. It only started happening when I upgraded to a 7MP camera and the images (not at full resolution either!) were in the 4.5MB range.
Now I have to break the images up into batches of 5 and run the script each time for those. Bleh.
How about using the computer to mark the paper ballot? Use a touch screen computer, similar to the Diebold setup to allow the voter to vote. Then the machine prints out a human readable, but scanable ballot that the voter checks, and deposits in a ballot box. You can use the scanner to count votes, and humans can also count them if needed.
How about both and we let the voters decide what they want to use? Marking a couple of circles is easy enough for me (native English reader/writer) but maybe not for someone else (ESL/ELL). Let them use the computer screens. I'll stick to my old fashioned ways.
This is not an Apple device and thus it shouldn't be under "Apple". Just because it is a media player doesn't mean it's an "iPod assassin".
When making the title of an article, please include the name of the actual device and not some pointless and off-topic title which doesn't relate to the actual item being reviewed.
They will have to lower their prices for their services, otherwise they will start losing millions. So this a win-win situation for the consumer?
They are going to charge for the bandwith to go over their lines, attempt to pay off legislators to block its adoption, make sure it becomes "unreliable" when reaching customers that use their lines, put millions into advertising against it, etc.
With the (again, bleh) continued consolidation of the telcos, they are only getting stronger. You think that they are going to stand by while some grassroots/cheaper option takes over? Give me a break.
DVR's so completely change how you think about your time, especially in relation to TV (obviously) - but I've used some of the "other" ones and nothing does it for me like a TiVo.
Don't you mean "you stop thinking about how your time relates to TV"? Other people I talk to are "disconnected" for 24, Survivor, etc. I don't have the faintest idea when any of these shows are on and that's a good thing.
Dude, maybe if you concentrated on losing weight your BP would come under control? Let me guess...
I was a Division I college athelete and had high BP. They attributed it, at the time, to my training. After I stopped competing, I still had the issues so we started on meds.
At 183 pounds and very little body fat, I really doubt that weight was an issue.
All of google's products are Beta and work perfectly.
GMail hasn't been working all that great for me since they introducted GTalk. I had been having laggy service when logging in including errors that I should wait a while and try refreshing. Since then, I have been communicating with GTalk people via bitlbee and have it disabled in GMail (click the link at the bottom). That solved my issues.
While I believe that Google's "Beta" products are generally in perfect working order, I won't say that they are all "working perfectly".
I was basically forced to quit drinking caffeine in Decemeber. This was not something I ever expected to be able to do. The migraine lasted for about a week straight but I have been basically fine since.
Since I was 22 I have had high blood pressure. I've spoken here about it before and complained about the high cost of Rx meds to control it and my belief that my Doctor (undercompensated by my insurance provider) is possibly pushing name-brand drugs instead of their generic counterparts to recoup some of that cost in kick-backs.
Anyway, I was gaining on 200mg daily of various meds to control the BP. I was also gaining in daily consumption of caffeine. After switching to Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper (aka Liquid Crack) I was heading for 5 to 6 20oz bottles a day (at work) plus 5 to 10 12oz cans every two days (at home).
After quitting the caffeine habbit I'm on 10mg of BP meds (about $10 a month) and water.
So, if you're looking to limit your heart disease and the high cost of protecting yourself against it with prescriptions, you might want to first take a look at your caffeine intake. It worked for me.
Here's a hint: if you're trying to write a positive review of software, try not to use analogies that indicate that the UI is arcane and unintuitive!
More importantly, don't make normal old features (available in every other data charting software) out to be something more than they are. I found the article to be nothing but boring and sensationalist.
I'm sure someone could easily write a script to handle incoming SMS (or e-mail) and submit the updates to the Tivo website.
Personally I just record stuff by the season. Anything else that I "miss" won't be a big loss.
Why would I want to give all my very personal information to a potential advertiser? It makes me cringe all of the suckers out there that will store their private word, excel or other docs and have no idea how insecure it is.
Because most people see that getting something "free" in return for giving up their personal information is worth it. Hell, there have been countless "studies" that asked people for their personal identifiable information including mother's maiden name and birthdate with nothing more than a phone call.
I thought it was common knowledge that a large portion of bloggers (the majority?) simply copy text from elsewhere as their "blog".
The only time that I copy/paste stuff into the posts on my site is when I'm directly quoting a source or posting a copy of an e-mail from staff members or inviduals that opted to e-mail me directly instead of posting a comment.
Take for example the comments from the Copper Bleu Training Manager regarding my disappointment in their Guinness Pours or the comments from a comic in training at Acme Comedy Company.
The rest of the time my thoughts and writings are my own worthlessness. I personally don't know any other local bloggers that copy much content. I guess I only read the worthwhile ones?