Delphi makes an XM-enabled product about the size of an iPod that not only can receive the satellite signal but can also record up to 5 hours of the stuff for later playback.
Bundling a satellite receiver with an iPod 20GB would probably not result in something terribly larger than a 40GB or at most iPod Photo.
Check out the MyFi, it's actually a pretty cool bit of equipment:
Delpi MyFi
Actually, "complicated spreadsheets" are not somewhat of an exception for many business users of Office software. While OO.o is perfect for many (and on this front, not even all) students and people that are using primarily Word/Powerpoint without many bells and whistles, for a whole lot of users out there Excel is the engine that drives their use of office software.
I don't however thing that is insurmountable for the OO.o dev team, but MS has a lot more experience when it comes to these formulas. What everyone needs to hope for is that they don't keep crating increasingly complicated formulas in Excel while OO.o plays catchup.
I agree that the OP idea is a little off.
It really doesn't matter if you match relevant files together -- the files being returned here are not the media (albums, movies, apps, etc) that the user is interested in -- they are the.torrent file which points the downloader to the correct content.
Basically if you find just one search result, it will be all you need. If the torrent is active, the.torrent will point you to the correct download.
Am I the only one surprised by the fact that this guy apparently used his "real" e-mail address while trying to illegally extort a major corporation? Has he not heard of proxy servers? Anonymous remailers? If he didn't use these, then all of these posts about this being no big deal are right on. If he was smart enough to do all of these things and the mystery government e-mail was still able to sniff him out, well then that makes me wonder...
That means even if 98 is working well for your needs (and especially computer specifications) and you want to pay for support (because that might cost less than switching hardware) you can't, because who will be able to patch eventual new bugs (security related or not) besides Microsoft?
I have yet to meet anyone for whom 98 meets their needs. The 95/98/Me kernel is just so bad, and so prone to crashing it is a complete waste of time. As someone who is pretty middle-of-the-road on Linux vs. MS, I will tell you that these OS are nowhere near as stable as 2k/XP.
Lastly, despite the fact that the tea has caffiene in it, does it really mean that you can't drink it anymore? I've cut all caffiene from my life, but I still enjoy the tea at the restaurant with no ill effect.
Yeah, that's a pretty accurate account. I did actually pick up some country music when I was down there, but it was mostly of the Johnny Cash, David Allan Coe variety (i.e. songs about murder and whiskey). Most of the crap they play on the radio is just pop music with steel guitars. 105.3 the bear is ok during the day with classic rock, but I swear to god Robbie Raggs is the most annoying radio personality around (quite an accomplishment). This will only be amusing to Blacksburg area people, but one day (after a paticularly hellish round of finals) me and a few friends had been drinking all day at BW3s. Courtney (Robbie Ragg's radio sidekick) was going some sort of promotion (on the air) at the take-and-bake pizza joint across the strip mall, when me and my motley crue stopped by:
Cortney: Hello sir, do you listen to 105.3 the Bear?
Me: Yeash...Rock and ROLL! WOOO!!!!! Hey do you work with Robbie Raggs?
Cortney: That's right, are you a listener!
Me: F*@# no, THAT GUY SUCKS! BOOOOOO!
Friends listening at the time told me that my choice comments we unfortunatly bleeped off the air, but I hear it was still pretty funnny at the time!
1. I swear, I did buy it! It's financed, but I technically walked in the showroom and bought it!
2. Again, I swear she's real. She's half-chinese if that helps!
3. BS, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 5 and a half years:)
4. I said that you could choose from these stations, of those I listen to only E! with any regularity.
I also came in second place at a Star Wars trivia contest in Disney World. Please, LET ME STAY!
Recently I purchased an 04 Accord with XM installed by default. I have to travel a lot in my car both for business and for pleasure (I have a girlfriend at the University I graduated from last year -- 500 miles away). I get a 2 month trial before I have to commit $9.95/month to get access, and I'm about three weeks in. What I had figured would be easy to decline may not be as simple as I had anticipated. While the music channels are ok, they're nothing mind-blowing. A good portion are commercial-free, which is nice. There is quite a bit more than you can get from the standard FM dial fare, and even nice you don't loose stations as your GPS location changes. This alone probably wouldn't get me to cough up the dough. The talk stations on the other hand, might.
Anyone who does a fair bit of travelling in a car can tell you that talk radio is a much better companion than music after about 3 hours. Previously I had a head unit that could play mp3-cds and I would routinely fill a disc withb audiobooks or clips from my favorite radio program (Howard Stern) which proved to be an invaluable trip companion. I thought the lack of mp3-cd capability would be awful for me, but XM is filling the gap nicely. There's lots to chose from -- ESPN for Sports, CNN and Fox News for headlines, and E! and Discovery radio for other special interest programming. The other night I had to drive around the block a few times as the Jesse Ventura E! True Hollywood Story finished. So, if you are looking for XM for music, you will be pleasently surprised but not blown away. For talk radio, it really is tough to beat, especially when you don't have to worry about losing signals as you move around.
When you think about it, it's not really all that surprising that open-source games are all too often not paticularly good. Among those that are even remotely good, many are clones (FreeCiv -> Civnet, TuxRacer -> MarioKart, etc). The fact is that a game remains one of the more difficult projects that someone can code. It's extremely expensive to come up with not only a good engine, but graphics, interface design, story, audio, etc, especially when the potential monetary gain is nil, and your audience is restricted to 5% of all computer users.
(travelling as hand baggage - she can't bear to be parted from it)
I GET IT! Bear to be parted! Get it? BEAR!
Wokka Wokka!
Anyway, I don't blaim the guy. I had a Teddy Ruxpin when I was younger and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear that he had fallen in with terrorist cells. He sure as hell freaked me out!
I have been a Red Hat loyalist since I first got into Linux about 2 year ago. I certainly think that they put out the most polished product, and I actually like their Bluecurve interface on Gnome. I think it's the perfect mix of stylish and functional. It's also close enough to the Windows style that I don't have to think about what I'm doing after I change a titlebar doubleclick to restore/maximize instead of shade. I hate SHADE! However having recently built a machine on an Asus A7N8X Delux motherboard, I will make the jump to Mandrake to see if it will support my AGP video card, which I could not get working no matter how much I patched the kernel in Red Hat. It seems like Red Hat (and the dissappointing Fedora) really are abandoning their desktop users by leaving out core desktop components like hardware support, mp3 decoding, and NTFS support of their releases. I know that most of these are just an RPM or two away, but upgrading a Linux kernel is not for the faint of heart and should not be left to (possibly newbie!) end-users. Even though I have felt Mandrake looked and felt a bit amateurish in the past, I'm far more willing to tool around with the interface (which I do under Windows anyway) than I am to have to modify key system components.
I understand that the idea of multiple workspaces (desktops, terminals, etc) is a traditional feature of UNIX, but I rarely use this feature. One of the strenths windows has over Linux is the ability to EASILY integrate applications into the system tray. I rarely get to the point of having 10 windows open, especially when I can have applications like Winamp and AIM reside in the system tray full time. One of my pet peeves of Linux is having to Alt+Tab through three windows for XMMS (player, playlist, equalizer). With this in mind, I can see why using multiple desktops could be helpful, but is it really a necessity?
I never did like this DivX Pro nonsense. Am I the only one to never make the jump from 3.11;) to 5.0? I tried installing it once on a new system but hated all the crap that came bundled with it as well as the idea to pay for it. AFAIK, (which in this area, admittedly isn't far) I still haven't found any files that I couldn't play. There are however alternatives. The Kazaa Lite codec pack is a good place to start, and it even included software to play Quicktime and RealMedia files without the attrocious software they come bundled with. Combine that with Media Player Classic and you have a robust, fully functional, and FREE media player under Windows, without the extra crap you don't need anyway!
That article didn't seem to be blaming texting, just sort of explaining things. It's true. In the past a huge marketing campaign could help a shitty summer blockbuster do fairly well initially, and only gradually drop of in profit in subsequent weeks. However I think that using texting as the only explanation is pretty lame. How about the increase in the accessability of information? Instead of having to wait for the 5 or 11 o'clock news, you can get movie reviews from a whole slew of critics of both the traditional (Roger Ebert) and fanboy (Harry Knowles) variety from the comfort of your PC. Also, channels like CNN routinely repeat capsulated reviews. So yes, the word gets out on whether or not a movie sucks much quicker these days than just a few years ago. Hey, at least they didn't blame piracy.
I hope that no one is actually considering this in any sort of "real" sense. Besides, is homelessness a temporary or permanent thing? Would you be opening these accounts to track on every kid that ran away and stopped by a soup kitchen for some food, or only the "terminally homeless"? Also, how do they plan on tieing an individaul to an account? I sincerely doubt that the majority of homeless people are going to give government officials their truthful name or SSN. Maybe we can implant them with chips the same way zoologists track endangered species or farmers track cattle!
C'mon people, I know someone had to be affected by LORD, Trade Wars, and Drug Wars. These three are the holy trinity of BBS Doors. Nothing gave me greater pleasure than logging into LORD and seeing that no one had married Violet, the bar whore. My puberty-stricken brain used to love to be the first to wed her. Then Trade Wars, which tought me valuable lessons about capitalism and screwing over the competition. Does anyone else think Microsoft should remake this and package it with Longhorn? It would at least show they have a sense of humor. And Drug Wars would later guid me through my college experimentations safely, steering me away from crack and heroin. In some ways I miss the old BBS's, they were sort of like the Cheers of networked computing...everyone knew your name, friendly banter, etc. But then when I think about the wait I got waiting for an ANSI welcome screen to load over my 2400 modem...nostalgia's a bitch.
I disagree. I think that many people do not vote because it is simply time-consuming and does not fit into their schedule. While it will not be as simple as voting in Slashdot poll (for example), the process will be considerably simpler that going to a B&M voting booth. Compare e-filing of taxes and standard paper filing. I think that more people are now able to take a process that they previously found so difficult they had others do it for them, and now can get it done in their own home in an hour or two.
If voting were simpler, those people disillusioned with the two bipartisan condidates might be more willing to cast their vote for a third-party candidate.
Also, eVoting would perhaps lessen the value of the poor voter. While lazy upper/middle-class voters with home computers and Internet connections could easily vote, those without them are still unlikely to vote.
Am I the only one that is not using Wine and prefers to just deal booth with Windows? I had no idea how quickly Wine had become popular, and to what degree.
Anyway, Kudos to Red Hat, I have been running this the last few days too, and I must say it's a quality release. The Bluecurve interface layout is nice, and has the potential to give Linux a "Look" all its own. I know that diehard Linux geeks love all the control you have over your desktop, but if you really want it to catch on I think it needs to have its own look and feel, just as Mac OS or Windows has. I am running on a really slow computer (Celeron 333), and I think that the use of POSIX threads actually makes a noticable difference in speed. Yay Red Hat!
I am burning the ISOs right now, and probably will install them before the day is through, but I was really hoping that this release would allow you to read NTFS without recompiling the kernel. It seems silly to me that Red Hat doesn't allow this. Mandrake, among others gives users that option to mount NTFS partitions right out of the box. I am not sure if Red Hat is afraid of action by MS since NTFS is proprietary, or thinks that not allowing NTFS will discourage users from using it. I know that there a probably a lot of people running XP or 2000 on a dual boot system that would find this useful.
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Delphi makes an XM-enabled product about the size of an iPod that not only can receive the satellite signal but can also record up to 5 hours of the stuff for later playback. Bundling a satellite receiver with an iPod 20GB would probably not result in something terribly larger than a 40GB or at most iPod Photo. Check out the MyFi, it's actually a pretty cool bit of equipment: Delpi MyFi
Actually, "complicated spreadsheets" are not somewhat of an exception for many business users of Office software. While OO.o is perfect for many (and on this front, not even all) students and people that are using primarily Word/Powerpoint without many bells and whistles, for a whole lot of users out there Excel is the engine that drives their use of office software. I don't however thing that is insurmountable for the OO.o dev team, but MS has a lot more experience when it comes to these formulas. What everyone needs to hope for is that they don't keep crating increasingly complicated formulas in Excel while OO.o plays catchup.
I agree that the OP idea is a little off. It really doesn't matter if you match relevant files together -- the files being returned here are not the media (albums, movies, apps, etc) that the user is interested in -- they are the .torrent file which points the downloader to the correct content.
Basically if you find just one search result, it will be all you need. If the torrent is active, the .torrent will point you to the correct download.
Actually, it was on the front page of CNN.com this morning around 11 AM EST. Kindly remove the tin foil hat, sir.
Am I the only one surprised by the fact that this guy apparently used his "real" e-mail address while trying to illegally extort a major corporation? Has he not heard of proxy servers? Anonymous remailers? If he didn't use these, then all of these posts about this being no big deal are right on. If he was smart enough to do all of these things and the mystery government e-mail was still able to sniff him out, well then that makes me wonder...
I have yet to meet anyone for whom 98 meets their needs. The 95/98/Me kernel is just so bad, and so prone to crashing it is a complete waste of time. As someone who is pretty middle-of-the-road on Linux vs. MS, I will tell you that these OS are nowhere near as stable as 2k/XP.
Ummm....apparently you haven't. :)
And move.
Cortney: Hello sir, do you listen to 105.3 the Bear?
Me: Yeash...Rock and ROLL! WOOO!!!!! Hey do you work with Robbie Raggs?
Cortney: That's right, are you a listener!
Me: F*@# no, THAT GUY SUCKS! BOOOOOO!
Friends listening at the time told me that my choice comments we unfortunatly bleeped off the air, but I hear it was still pretty funnny at the time!
1. I swear, I did buy it! It's financed, but I technically walked in the showroom and bought it! :)
2. Again, I swear she's real. She's half-chinese if that helps!
3. BS, Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 5 and a half years
4. I said that you could choose from these stations, of those I listen to only E! with any regularity.
I also came in second place at a Star Wars trivia contest in Disney World. Please, LET ME STAY!
Anyone who does a fair bit of travelling in a car can tell you that talk radio is a much better companion than music after about 3 hours. Previously I had a head unit that could play mp3-cds and I would routinely fill a disc withb audiobooks or clips from my favorite radio program (Howard Stern) which proved to be an invaluable trip companion. I thought the lack of mp3-cd capability would be awful for me, but XM is filling the gap nicely. There's lots to chose from -- ESPN for Sports, CNN and Fox News for headlines, and E! and Discovery radio for other special interest programming. The other night I had to drive around the block a few times as the Jesse Ventura E! True Hollywood Story finished. So, if you are looking for XM for music, you will be pleasently surprised but not blown away. For talk radio, it really is tough to beat, especially when you don't have to worry about losing signals as you move around.
When you think about it, it's not really all that surprising that open-source games are all too often not paticularly good. Among those that are even remotely good, many are clones (FreeCiv -> Civnet, TuxRacer -> MarioKart, etc). The fact is that a game remains one of the more difficult projects that someone can code. It's extremely expensive to come up with not only a good engine, but graphics, interface design, story, audio, etc, especially when the potential monetary gain is nil, and your audience is restricted to 5% of all computer users.
Wokka Wokka!
Anyway, I don't blaim the guy. I had a Teddy Ruxpin when I was younger and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear that he had fallen in with terrorist cells. He sure as hell freaked me out!
I have been a Red Hat loyalist since I first got into Linux about 2 year ago. I certainly think that they put out the most polished product, and I actually like their Bluecurve interface on Gnome. I think it's the perfect mix of stylish and functional. It's also close enough to the Windows style that I don't have to think about what I'm doing after I change a titlebar doubleclick to restore/maximize instead of shade. I hate SHADE! However having recently built a machine on an Asus A7N8X Delux motherboard, I will make the jump to Mandrake to see if it will support my AGP video card, which I could not get working no matter how much I patched the kernel in Red Hat. It seems like Red Hat (and the dissappointing Fedora) really are abandoning their desktop users by leaving out core desktop components like hardware support, mp3 decoding, and NTFS support of their releases. I know that most of these are just an RPM or two away, but upgrading a Linux kernel is not for the faint of heart and should not be left to (possibly newbie!) end-users. Even though I have felt Mandrake looked and felt a bit amateurish in the past, I'm far more willing to tool around with the interface (which I do under Windows anyway) than I am to have to modify key system components.
I understand that the idea of multiple workspaces (desktops, terminals, etc) is a traditional feature of UNIX, but I rarely use this feature. One of the strenths windows has over Linux is the ability to EASILY integrate applications into the system tray. I rarely get to the point of having 10 windows open, especially when I can have applications like Winamp and AIM reside in the system tray full time. One of my pet peeves of Linux is having to Alt+Tab through three windows for XMMS (player, playlist, equalizer). With this in mind, I can see why using multiple desktops could be helpful, but is it really a necessity?
I never did like this DivX Pro nonsense. Am I the only one to never make the jump from 3.11 ;) to 5.0? I tried installing it once on a new system but hated all the crap that came bundled with it as well as the idea to pay for it. AFAIK, (which in this area, admittedly isn't far) I still haven't found any files that I couldn't play. There are however alternatives. The Kazaa Lite codec pack is a good place to start, and it even included software to play Quicktime and RealMedia files without the attrocious software they come bundled with. Combine that with Media Player Classic and you have a robust, fully functional, and FREE media player under Windows, without the extra crap you don't need anyway!
That article didn't seem to be blaming texting, just sort of explaining things. It's true. In the past a huge marketing campaign could help a shitty summer blockbuster do fairly well initially, and only gradually drop of in profit in subsequent weeks. However I think that using texting as the only explanation is pretty lame. How about the increase in the accessability of information? Instead of having to wait for the 5 or 11 o'clock news, you can get movie reviews from a whole slew of critics of both the traditional (Roger Ebert) and fanboy (Harry Knowles) variety from the comfort of your PC. Also, channels like CNN routinely repeat capsulated reviews. So yes, the word gets out on whether or not a movie sucks much quicker these days than just a few years ago. Hey, at least they didn't blame piracy.
I hope that no one is actually considering this in any sort of "real" sense. Besides, is homelessness a temporary or permanent thing? Would you be opening these accounts to track on every kid that ran away and stopped by a soup kitchen for some food, or only the "terminally homeless"? Also, how do they plan on tieing an individaul to an account? I sincerely doubt that the majority of homeless people are going to give government officials their truthful name or SSN. Maybe we can implant them with chips the same way zoologists track endangered species or farmers track cattle!
C'mon people, I know someone had to be affected by LORD, Trade Wars, and Drug Wars. These three are the holy trinity of BBS Doors. Nothing gave me greater pleasure than logging into LORD and seeing that no one had married Violet, the bar whore. My puberty-stricken brain used to love to be the first to wed her. Then Trade Wars, which tought me valuable lessons about capitalism and screwing over the competition. Does anyone else think Microsoft should remake this and package it with Longhorn? It would at least show they have a sense of humor. And Drug Wars would later guid me through my college experimentations safely, steering me away from crack and heroin. In some ways I miss the old BBS's, they were sort of like the Cheers of networked computing...everyone knew your name, friendly banter, etc. But then when I think about the wait I got waiting for an ANSI welcome screen to load over my 2400 modem...nostalgia's a bitch.
If voting were simpler, those people disillusioned with the two bipartisan condidates might be more willing to cast their vote for a third-party candidate.
Also, eVoting would perhaps lessen the value of the poor voter. While lazy upper/middle-class voters with home computers and Internet connections could easily vote, those without them are still unlikely to vote.
Am I the only one that is not using Wine and prefers to just deal booth with Windows? I had no idea how quickly Wine had become popular, and to what degree. Anyway, Kudos to Red Hat, I have been running this the last few days too, and I must say it's a quality release. The Bluecurve interface layout is nice, and has the potential to give Linux a "Look" all its own. I know that diehard Linux geeks love all the control you have over your desktop, but if you really want it to catch on I think it needs to have its own look and feel, just as Mac OS or Windows has. I am running on a really slow computer (Celeron 333), and I think that the use of POSIX threads actually makes a noticable difference in speed. Yay Red Hat!
I am burning the ISOs right now, and probably will install them before the day is through, but I was really hoping that this release would allow you to read NTFS without recompiling the kernel. It seems silly to me that Red Hat doesn't allow this. Mandrake, among others gives users that option to mount NTFS partitions right out of the box. I am not sure if Red Hat is afraid of action by MS since NTFS is proprietary, or thinks that not allowing NTFS will discourage users from using it. I know that there a probably a lot of people running XP or 2000 on a dual boot system that would find this useful.
How about the dolphins that they already using in the Middle East right now? They could use ill-tempered dolphins at the very least!