Clearly you're wrong. One was posted by Zonk and the other by ScuttleMonkey. Look at the blurbs. Completely different content and title. It's not even a 1/4 dupe by Slashdot standards!
I just wanted to point out that tons of people do use the AIM client.
Being a past user of GAIM while I was using Linux as my main OS, I have to admit that GAIM sucks compared to the AIM client. I had constant problems connecting directly and doing file transfers with other AIM users. I also couldn't stand the way it looked on Windows (I haven't used the Linux version since college) and found that the AOL client (filtered through an adblock squid proxy) was much better.
At work I use bitlbee in my SSH session because it keeps all my stuff (via screen) in one window that doesn't show much on the taskbar.
Other than me, I don't know a single Windows user that uses anything other than the official AIM client from AOL. Those weirdo Mac users have a bunch of different clients though;)
The broadcast flag is bad for consumers and business.
Depends on the business. If your business is selling equipment that kowtows to the broadcast flag or your business depends on making the legal RIGHTS of your customers' a logistical nightmare then it's great for business.
It's bad for consumers because they are going to have to replace otherwise working radio equipment, right?
That didn't stop Congress from *forcing* digital TV adoption and even going so far as to say that they will pay for "low income households" to receive the converter boxes. The rest of us can eat shit and die and suffer and eat the broadcaster's protected content.
Very few people are about to spend $800 for a console - there's a lot better ways to spend that money (you could even buy a 360, and several games).
Umm, that's how much is costs Sony, not the consumer. Sony is going to be selling it at a considerably larger loss than Microsoft is for the 360. The PS3 will likely be priced at (or very near) that of the 360.
... and I can't stand it. I could enter data incredibly fast with one hand with pen on the palm, with the treo I have to fumble using those stupid small keyboards, which takes two hands and is very, very , very slow compared to just writing something with the pen.
Well, the Treo's keyboard is uncomfortably small, for me at least, but many people seem ok with it. My handheld device, a T-mobile sidekick, has a very comfortable keyboard and I find that I can type nearly as fast (with software key shortcuts (i.e. w and space = with, tho and space = though, etc) as I can on a regular keyboard).
Stylus data entry applications are slow, cumbersome, and annoying for me. I don't know how long you've had your Treo but after about 7 days of continuous use of my mobile device's keyboard I was able to touch type with my thumbs at a very acceptable rate.
Anyone care to take a guess on how long I'd be able to keep that up before they shut me down?
Anywhere from a few minutes to 24 hours. The uncapped modems were usually scanned for at least twice daily. First "offense" and your modem was cycled remotely and the correct cfg file was downloaded again "capping" your modem. Your account was flagged and a ticket was opened for you. If you did it again then you were booted permanently for a TOS violation. Depending on the severity of the uncapping (10+mbit/10+mbit) you might be banned on the first violation.
Some people were referred to legal services after their first offense and ATTBI was looking to prosecute for theft of service.
2) DRM - nobody wants to *PAY EXTRA* for less control. If you want BluRay to succeed, give the players away for $25 - (meaning cheaper than a standalone DVD-ROM drive current cost).
Uhh, 98% of people don't give a shit about DRM. It doesn't affect them at all. They don't know that you can burn your own DVDs and remove the advertisements, button ignore "features", etc. They just pop in their $3.99 rental from Blockbuster and watch the movie and return it 30 days later because there are no more "late fees".
People are going to buy whatever they are told to buy. If DVDs are slowly phased out by Blu-Ray and the technology is superior, regardles of DRM, then they'll buy it.
I live in Baltimore County. We just had a arrest of a man who went out on a date with a woman from myspace where he killed her on the date.
I think that the story could have ended there as it's no different than any other date... But nooooo. They had to go on and mention that they met on MySpace. I assume that meeting on MySpace is so much different than meeting in say, a bar, where you would probably be even more vunerable either by way of alcohol or open containers that are easy enough to slip in a drug.
And we all know the internet is the place where all the creepy and dangerous people are. Watch your TV, it tells you so! Or don't you believe anymore what you see on TV?
Back when I was younger I wasn't allowed to watch "You Can't do That on Television" and the Simpsons. I wasn't allowed to have an Nintendo (or a "game machine" as my father called it). Instead I was told to go play with my computer.
Its easy. Just do what we Americans do for prescription drugs. We buy them from Canada because they are about 1/2 the price.
The State of Minnesota asks that its employees purchase their prescription drugs from Canada for savings. That's great and all if Customs would stop seizing them.
I love being told by my Governor to break Federal Law. Awesome.
If that law was passed in the U.S.A., people would be protesting in front of Congress by burning blank CDs on their laptops and tossing them at their representatives.
Yeah, in the same country where we went to war on questionable intelligence and are still there fighting for who the fuck knows what reason. Or in the same country where e-voting fraud could occur and no one could give a shit. Or in the same country where the President authorized wiretaps on American citizens and no one batted an eye. Or perhaps in the same "free" country where protesters are told where they can and cannot protest and are removed for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
Right. Like anyone in America gives a fuck about their rights and how they are losing them.
Part of the reason I don't use anti-virus software, other than because they slow down and hamper your computer, is because they are the ONLY corporate entity that literally have it in their self-interest for a virus to show itself once in a while on your computer. I'm not saying they write the damn viruses (I'm not saying they don't either) but I do think they try to make sure something will slip by once in a while, just to keep it in the public's mind that they need this software, so that they'll keep it installed and pay for upgrades.
Users let viruses slip by not the Anti-Virus companies. That being said, I agree with you to a degree about it being a fishy business.
I'm not sure why this is instantly regarded as some sort of conspiracy rather than either hardware problems or incompetent voting machine vendors. Folks might want to consider the more mundane potential causes of these problems before heading for their tinfoil hat drawer.
I'm fairly positive that the time/date stamp on my handwritten ballot was correct. Also the pen that I used to fill out the ballot wasn't powered down at all during my use of it. I also have a feeling that when the vote officials from all parties looked in the ballot boxes prior to the vote that they were empty and that the counts of ballots handed out matched those that were in the boxes at the end of the day.
Sorry but there are few valid reasons for "updating" voting technology when pen and paper methods (used for thousands of years) have worked just fine.
It's not, for them, they aren't 100% in charge of how much Apple charges for the music. Steve is fighting the conglomorates to keep the prices on iTMS low. They want to raise the prices. Because they can't do as they wish it's not viable.
My text messages cost 10 cents per message. I'd have to talk for over 2 minutes to cost more than a text message and I can sure relay more information in that two minutes than most can in a text message and even get feedback during that time. Text messages have their uses but being cheaper isn't one of them. Besides, I thought the point of text messages was to annoy others trying to watch a movie in a movie theater.
That's you. T-mobile's Sidekick data plan includes unlimited SMS. Because I use SMS so frequently my wife, my father, and several friends have also picked up unlimited SMS plans to be able to contact me.
I wish that *more* people relied on SMS rather than making a phone call. It would keep the noise down in public places that people shouldn't be on the phone in, such as mass transit.
ISPs are not concerned with traffic "jams". They are concerned with their overselling of bandwidth and people beginning to actually use broadband the way it was intended to be used -- not to replace dialup for speedier POP e-mail and a couple of websites.
This scheme could have an advantage over straightforward quantum computing. "A non-running computer produces fewer errors," says Hosten. That sentiment should have technophobes nodding enthusiastically.
Duh! It's not running so it can't produce errors!:)
Not sure if there's a limit to the data transferred.
Well, it sure does look that way;-)
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Depends on what Microsoft's strategy is at the time. We are talking "a few years down the road" right? Perhaps MSFT goes for all online with a subscription based model (not all that different from their licenses now -- just more profitable for them because it removes some of the Warezing capabilities) and people get pissed off and want something else (either physical or free).
I don't believe that there are any viable alternatives, for the business world, other than MSFT Office products but that could all change. Just like it did for Lotus and WordPerfect.
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Clearly you're wrong. One was posted by Zonk and the other by ScuttleMonkey. Look at the blurbs. Completely different content and title. It's not even a 1/4 dupe by Slashdot standards!
Lucky you. DVDs at our libraries are .50c a day and the waiting lists are usually long, even for older "classics".
I'm better off paying for the rental at Blockbuster or Hollywood. The only "local" store is just a front for their porn section.
I just wanted to point out that tons of people do use the AIM client.
;)
Being a past user of GAIM while I was using Linux as my main OS, I have to admit that GAIM sucks compared to the AIM client. I had constant problems connecting directly and doing file transfers with other AIM users. I also couldn't stand the way it looked on Windows (I haven't used the Linux version since college) and found that the AOL client (filtered through an adblock squid proxy) was much better.
At work I use bitlbee in my SSH session because it keeps all my stuff (via screen) in one window that doesn't show much on the taskbar.
Other than me, I don't know a single Windows user that uses anything other than the official AIM client from AOL. Those weirdo Mac users have a bunch of different clients though
The broadcast flag is bad for consumers and business.
Depends on the business. If your business is selling equipment that kowtows to the broadcast flag or your business depends on making the legal RIGHTS of your customers' a logistical nightmare then it's great for business.
It's bad for consumers because they are going to have to replace otherwise working radio equipment, right?
That didn't stop Congress from *forcing* digital TV adoption and even going so far as to say that they will pay for "low income households" to receive the converter boxes. The rest of us can eat shit and die and suffer and eat the broadcaster's protected content.
What good is an SMTP server going to do you if no one can receive your messages because you haven't paid?
Uhh, no one is going to pay for e-mail. Ever.
Very few people are about to spend $800 for a console - there's a lot better ways to spend that money (you could even buy a 360, and several games).
Umm, that's how much is costs Sony, not the consumer. Sony is going to be selling it at a considerably larger loss than Microsoft is for the 360. The PS3 will likely be priced at (or very near) that of the 360.
They're trying to make a buck. Are you surprised? We are well our on way to paying for email.
Yeah ok, sure. Wake me up when SMTP is taxed by the government. Until then my mail server will happily send and receive mail.
... and I can't stand it. I could enter data incredibly fast with one hand with pen on the palm, with the treo I have to fumble using those stupid small keyboards, which takes two hands and is very, very , very slow compared to just writing something with the pen.
Well, the Treo's keyboard is uncomfortably small, for me at least, but many people seem ok with it. My handheld device, a T-mobile sidekick, has a very comfortable keyboard and I find that I can type nearly as fast (with software key shortcuts (i.e. w and space = with, tho and space = though, etc) as I can on a regular keyboard).
Stylus data entry applications are slow, cumbersome, and annoying for me. I don't know how long you've had your Treo but after about 7 days of continuous use of my mobile device's keyboard I was able to touch type with my thumbs at a very acceptable rate.
Keep working on it.
Anyone care to take a guess on how long I'd be able to keep that up before they shut me down?
Anywhere from a few minutes to 24 hours. The uncapped modems were usually scanned for at least twice daily. First "offense" and your modem was cycled remotely and the correct cfg file was downloaded again "capping" your modem. Your account was flagged and a ticket was opened for you. If you did it again then you were booted permanently for a TOS violation. Depending on the severity of the uncapping (10+mbit/10+mbit) you might be banned on the first violation.
Some people were referred to legal services after their first offense and ATTBI was looking to prosecute for theft of service.
Not a good idea, really.
Doesn't the Google Page Rank display on their toolbar help with this problem?
Unless you have some way of ranking a page, this may continue to be a problem.
I would guess that most people here don't use IE and thus don't have a need for Google's Toolbar and as such don't see what ranking the page has.
2) DRM - nobody wants to *PAY EXTRA* for less control. If you want BluRay to succeed, give the players away for $25 - (meaning cheaper than a standalone DVD-ROM drive current cost).
Uhh, 98% of people don't give a shit about DRM. It doesn't affect them at all. They don't know that you can burn your own DVDs and remove the advertisements, button ignore "features", etc. They just pop in their $3.99 rental from Blockbuster and watch the movie and return it 30 days later because there are no more "late fees".
People are going to buy whatever they are told to buy. If DVDs are slowly phased out by Blu-Ray and the technology is superior, regardles of DRM, then they'll buy it.
I live in Baltimore County. We just had a arrest of a man who went out on a date with a woman from myspace where he killed her on the date.
I think that the story could have ended there as it's no different than any other date... But nooooo. They had to go on and mention that they met on MySpace. I assume that meeting on MySpace is so much different than meeting in say, a bar, where you would probably be even more vunerable either by way of alcohol or open containers that are easy enough to slip in a drug.
Anything to make a story "interesting".
And we all know the internet is the place where all the creepy and dangerous people are. Watch your TV, it tells you so! Or don't you believe anymore what you see on TV?
;)
Back when I was younger I wasn't allowed to watch "You Can't do That on Television" and the Simpsons. I wasn't allowed to have an Nintendo (or a "game machine" as my father called it). Instead I was told to go play with my computer.
Boy have times changed
No, I just don't believe that one of my options for inexpensive prescription drugs should include breaking Federal Law.
Its easy. Just do what we Americans do for prescription drugs. We buy them from Canada because they are about 1/2 the price.
The State of Minnesota asks that its employees purchase their prescription drugs from Canada for savings. That's great and all if Customs would stop seizing them.
I love being told by my Governor to break Federal Law. Awesome.
If that law was passed in the U.S.A., people would be protesting in front of Congress by burning blank CDs on their laptops and tossing them at their representatives.
Yeah, in the same country where we went to war on questionable intelligence and are still there fighting for who the fuck knows what reason. Or in the same country where e-voting fraud could occur and no one could give a shit. Or in the same country where the President authorized wiretaps on American citizens and no one batted an eye. Or perhaps in the same "free" country where protesters are told where they can and cannot protest and are removed for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
Right. Like anyone in America gives a fuck about their rights and how they are losing them.
*You* believe that you are well adjusted. Hillary and Bush believe you are evil.
Remember people, looking at porn as a child makes you act like a bitch and an alcoholic cokehead as an adult.
Part of the reason I don't use anti-virus software, other than because they slow down and hamper your computer, is because they are the ONLY corporate entity that literally have it in their self-interest for a virus to show itself once in a while on your computer. I'm not saying they write the damn viruses (I'm not saying they don't either) but I do think they try to make sure something will slip by once in a while, just to keep it in the public's mind that they need this software, so that they'll keep it installed and pay for upgrades.
Users let viruses slip by not the Anti-Virus companies. That being said, I agree with you to a degree about it being a fishy business.
I'm not sure why this is instantly regarded as some sort of conspiracy rather than either hardware problems or incompetent voting machine vendors. Folks might want to consider the more mundane potential causes of these problems before heading for their tinfoil hat drawer.
I'm fairly positive that the time/date stamp on my handwritten ballot was correct. Also the pen that I used to fill out the ballot wasn't powered down at all during my use of it. I also have a feeling that when the vote officials from all parties looked in the ballot boxes prior to the vote that they were empty and that the counts of ballots handed out matched those that were in the boxes at the end of the day.
Sorry but there are few valid reasons for "updating" voting technology when pen and paper methods (used for thousands of years) have worked just fine.
Downloadable music isn't a viable music model.
It's not, for them, they aren't 100% in charge of how much Apple charges for the music. Steve is fighting the conglomorates to keep the prices on iTMS low. They want to raise the prices. Because they can't do as they wish it's not viable.
My text messages cost 10 cents per message. I'd have to talk for over 2 minutes to cost more than a text message and I can sure relay more information in that two minutes than most can in a text message and even get feedback during that time. Text messages have their uses but being cheaper isn't one of them. Besides, I thought the point of text messages was to annoy others trying to watch a movie in a movie theater.
That's you. T-mobile's Sidekick data plan includes unlimited SMS. Because I use SMS so frequently my wife, my father, and several friends have also picked up unlimited SMS plans to be able to contact me.
I wish that *more* people relied on SMS rather than making a phone call. It would keep the noise down in public places that people shouldn't be on the phone in, such as mass transit.
ISPs are not concerned with traffic "jams". They are concerned with their overselling of bandwidth and people beginning to actually use broadband the way it was intended to be used -- not to replace dialup for speedier POP e-mail and a couple of websites.
This scheme could have an advantage over straightforward quantum computing. "A non-running computer produces fewer errors," says Hosten. That sentiment should have technophobes nodding enthusiastically.
:)
Duh! It's not running so it can't produce errors!
Not sure if there's a limit to the data transferred.
;-)
Well, it sure does look that way
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What they may do is fill some very small gap.
Depends on what Microsoft's strategy is at the time. We are talking "a few years down the road" right? Perhaps MSFT goes for all online with a subscription based model (not all that different from their licenses now -- just more profitable for them because it removes some of the Warezing capabilities) and people get pissed off and want something else (either physical or free).
I don't believe that there are any viable alternatives, for the business world, other than MSFT Office products but that could all change. Just like it did for Lotus and WordPerfect.