Wow. Nine whole comments before the first troll. If you'd been reading/. or anything else on this subject, you'd know that's simply not true. But then, the world needs myopic lemmings, too.
When I lived in Sussex County (rural mountainous boondocks), New Jersey in the 70's and 80's, I had no problem with TV reception. I got all the New York stations (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25, 31, 41, 47, 68) plus a station on Long Island (21), a few out of Philadelphia (3, 6, 17, 29), some out of Hartford (8, 20), and a few from upstate New York (62, and some religious station out of Kingston).
The point is -- don't pretend that your experiences are those of the majority simply because they are the majority of your experience.
I know among techies "most people have cable/satellite" is true. However, in the real world, it's not.
In fact, in the very large American city I'm in (more than 2,000,000 people in the city, and double that for the metro), fewer than half the people have cable/satellite, and in some neighborhoods cable/satellite penetration is less than 30%.
I've been doing something like this for a year. Got an old banger laptop for $25, pulled out the guts and hot-glue-gunned them inside a $5 shadow box from Wal-Mart. Looks great. Works off Memory Sticks.
Got the idea when I saw a professional version of this on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer for $300, and realized I wanted it, but could never justify that expense.
It's not as large, and certainly not high-definition, but it uses less electricity, and I can put whatever pictures on it I want.
The DoD and the Russians have been doing something similar for decades in the Arctic -- dropping "Power Pigs" in remote areas where sensors and radios need power. They're baby nuke plants. The reason they're so small is because they can do a fair amount of cooling from the air, snow, and ice around them, simplifying the design. It was going on a lot in the 70's and 80's.
And didn't the Russians have mini-nuclear-type fuel cells? They used them to power remote lighthouses. It was one of the things the Homeland Security people were worried about because so many of them have disappeared over the years.
I wouldn't say there were NO good text editors for the 64.
Paperback Writer was way ahead of its time -- it had non-breaking spaces long before HTML.
And Compute! magazine put out a program called "Speedscript." It had this great Commodore-Z key combination that would transpose the adjacent two letters -- great for making quick typo corrections. I still haven't seen another word processor do that.
And then, of course, there was all the GEOS stuff.
It's about time the movie industry looked inward for the root of its problem. And while they're taking on awards screeners, how about the reviewers? Even before a movie hits the big screen, the movie companies send out DVD and VHS copies of the film to TV, radio, and newspaper critics around the country. A lot of the pirated films you see on the street are perfectly normal, except every 20 minutes or so a banner appears at the bottom of the screen, "This presentation intended for review purposes only" or some such.
Internet pirates? If you're looking for pirates, check your own back door.
If you look at Dell's past marketing endevours they have been quite successful at getting their products all over TV
Of course their products are all over TV -- they're buying ads! Buying a bunch of TV commericals isn't the same thing as marketing success. The Ronko Turnip Twaddler (or whatever) isn't a massive marketing success just because it's on TV all the time.
Galaxy IV's demise also affected hundreds of television stations. CBS, CBS Newspath, and a bunch of other broadcast TV services were on that bird. I remember when it went away. It just kind of faded from slate into static.
Broken checkouts, now it's the ATMs turn
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I actually stopped going to a particular grocery store in my city (*cough* Kroger! *ahem*) because its automated checkout system was broken so often.
They have 10 self-service checkouts running Windows, and whenever I would go there, more than half were crashed, and the rest were in other various error messages (like Mouse Not Found sort of things). That left one or two checkout people to handle a loooooong line of people trying to buy things.
Based on the success that I've seen with Windows at the grocery store, I think if my bank switches to Windows, I'll switch banks. Shame, too, since it took me a year to convince them to support Mozilla for online banking.
Wasn't that how AOL/PC Link/Q-Link/Quantum Link started out? Some sort of cart for the 2600 that downloaded games over the phone line? I don't think they were multi-player, but my memory is hazy these days.
I can understand the logic in a mouse charging base/dock thingy, but I think a keyboard dock would take up way too much desktop real estate. Remember, Apple is all about design and aesthetics. If it doesn't look good next to your Bang and Olfson stereo, then don't ship it. In fact, I'm surprised that the new iPods have a dock, but I guess a single dock is better than a tangle of cords.
While backwards compatability, etc... is nice, how exactly do you propose we stream video without a plug-in?
Remember, not every browser is connected to the internet. For example, when CBS News distributes its video to affiliates, producers can see the video on their desktop in their browser via a plug-in. It's all intranet, so there's no reason they can't max their own bandwidth if they want to. Are you suggesting that this timesaving tool shouldn't be allowed simply to appease a small percentage of the population?
Don't confuse Climate Change with Global Warming.
One is a proven fact, the other is still a theory inspiring heated debates among scientists. I know because I get to hear them arguing at work.
The reason the AV companies put this capability into their systems isn't to be friendly and let people know their computers are infected -- it's freepub. Imagine if you were an anti-virus company and had a list of the e-mails of all the world's infected computers -- you could spam them and get some small percentage of new customers. This automates the process, and in the case of falsified headers, only helps them spam and scare even more people.
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Actually, it was exactly the opposite.
The court ruled the Federal Trade Commission didn't have the authority, so the FCC stepped in and took over the list until it could all be sorted out.
They could have got at least double performance.
/. or anything else on this subject, you'd know that's simply not true. But then, the world needs myopic lemmings, too.
Wow. Nine whole comments before the first troll. If you'd been reading
You're reading the article?
You're trying to understand what really happened?
You're doing research, and not talking off the top of your head?
You must be new here(tm).
When I lived in Sussex County (rural mountainous boondocks), New Jersey in the 70's and 80's, I had no problem with TV reception. I got all the New York stations (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25, 31, 41, 47, 68) plus a station on Long Island (21), a few out of Philadelphia (3, 6, 17, 29), some out of Hartford (8, 20), and a few from upstate New York (62, and some religious station out of Kingston). The point is -- don't pretend that your experiences are those of the majority simply because they are the majority of your experience.
I know among techies "most people have cable/satellite" is true. However, in the real world, it's not.
In fact, in the very large American city I'm in (more than 2,000,000 people in the city, and double that for the metro), fewer than half the people have cable/satellite, and in some neighborhoods cable/satellite penetration is less than 30%.
I've been doing something like this for a year. Got an old banger laptop for $25, pulled out the guts and hot-glue-gunned them inside a $5 shadow box from Wal-Mart. Looks great. Works off Memory Sticks.
Got the idea when I saw a professional version of this on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer for $300, and realized I wanted it, but could never justify that expense.
It's not as large, and certainly not high-definition, but it uses less electricity, and I can put whatever pictures on it I want.
The DoD and the Russians have been doing something similar for decades in the Arctic -- dropping "Power Pigs" in remote areas where sensors and radios need power. They're baby nuke plants. The reason they're so small is because they can do a fair amount of cooling from the air, snow, and ice around them, simplifying the design. It was going on a lot in the 70's and 80's.
And didn't the Russians have mini-nuclear-type fuel cells? They used them to power remote lighthouses. It was one of the things the Homeland Security people were worried about because so many of them have disappeared over the years.
I wouldn't say there were NO good text editors for the 64.
Paperback Writer was way ahead of its time -- it had non-breaking spaces long before HTML.
And Compute! magazine put out a program called "Speedscript." It had this great Commodore-Z key combination that would transpose the adjacent two letters -- great for making quick typo corrections.
I still haven't seen another word processor do that.
And then, of course, there was all the GEOS stuff.
But can you run Linux on a Coke can GPS/GSM SMS thing?
It's about time the movie industry looked inward for the root of its problem. And while they're taking on awards screeners, how about the reviewers? Even before a movie hits the big screen, the movie companies send out DVD and VHS copies of the film to TV, radio, and newspaper critics around the country. A lot of the pirated films you see on the street are perfectly normal, except every 20 minutes or so a banner appears at the bottom of the screen, "This presentation intended for review purposes only" or some such.
Internet pirates? If you're looking for pirates, check your own back door.
I saw that headline on slashdot and immediately thought to myself, "this is definately one of those times to read the article and NOT the comments".
Strangely, I was thinking exactly the opposite.
Oh yes. Well it's always that way with the media it seems. Like how there can't be a story without it being a huge conflict of some kind.
It wasn't the big bad Media that turned it into a conflict. It was Slashdot, the supposed anti-media. The CNN article had it right. Read the article.
If you look at Dell's past marketing endevours they have been quite successful at getting their products all over TV
Of course their products are all over TV -- they're buying ads! Buying a bunch of TV commericals isn't the same thing as marketing success. The Ronko Turnip Twaddler (or whatever) isn't a massive marketing success just because it's on TV all the time.
the punishment for annoyance is death?
It works for lions, tigers, bears, cheetahs, whales, sharks, snakes, dogs, pumas, and police officers.
Go ahead... repeatedly vex one and see how long your heart remains beating.
Galaxy IV's demise also affected hundreds of television stations. CBS, CBS Newspath, and a bunch of other broadcast TV services were on that bird. I remember when it went away. It just kind of faded from slate into static.
I actually stopped going to a particular grocery store in my city (*cough* Kroger! *ahem*) because its automated checkout system was broken so often.
They have 10 self-service checkouts running Windows, and whenever I would go there, more than half were crashed, and the rest were in other various error messages (like Mouse Not Found sort of things). That left one or two checkout people to handle a loooooong line of people trying to buy things.
Based on the success that I've seen with Windows at the grocery store, I think if my bank switches to Windows, I'll switch banks. Shame, too, since it took me a year to convince them to support Mozilla for online banking.
Wasn't that how AOL/PC Link/Q-Link/Quantum Link started out? Some sort of cart for the 2600 that downloaded games over the phone line? I don't think they were multi-player, but my memory is hazy these days.
Maybe it's time to start an open-source alternative to AIM, MSN Messenger, etc...
I'm not programmer, but maybe it could include elements of P2P to make it efficient, and attractive.
Make the client light, fast, and free.
I predict the XXL, XXXL, and XXXXL shirts will sell out first.
Maybe there should be a Slashdot bib for all that Dorito/Chee-to dust.
Voice dialing works beautifully on my wife's cell phone, but I think you identified the source of your problem when you used the word, "Sprint."
I can understand the logic in a mouse charging base/dock thingy, but I think a keyboard dock would take up way too much desktop real estate. Remember, Apple is all about design and aesthetics. If it doesn't look good next to your Bang and Olfson stereo, then don't ship it. In fact, I'm surprised that the new iPods have a dock, but I guess a single dock is better than a tangle of cords.
While backwards compatability, etc... is nice, how exactly do you propose we stream video without a plug-in?
Remember, not every browser is connected to the internet. For example, when CBS News distributes its video to affiliates, producers can see the video on their desktop in their browser via a plug-in. It's all intranet, so there's no reason they can't max their own bandwidth if they want to. Are you suggesting that this timesaving tool shouldn't be allowed simply to appease a small percentage of the population?
Don't confuse Climate Change with Global Warming. One is a proven fact, the other is still a theory inspiring heated debates among scientists. I know because I get to hear them arguing at work.
Only 35 comments, and already the registration system is Slashdotted. Their loss. Not mine.
The reason the AV companies put this capability into their systems isn't to be friendly and let people know their computers are infected -- it's freepub. Imagine if you were an anti-virus company and had a list of the e-mails of all the world's infected computers -- you could spam them and get some small percentage of new customers. This automates the process, and in the case of falsified headers, only helps them spam and scare even more people.