I did give a female coworker my "nano" though. *snicker*
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Is it possible to use an AOL IM account with Gaim and talk with people on Jabber? Is there any IM client that can do that? Thanks.
Um. Yeah.... That's the entire point of Jabber. If you want to use an AOL account, use a jabber server that has an AIM transport. Same with Yahoo! and any of the others.
This whole complaint for the article is just stupid. Yeah, using linux really cuts you out from being able to communicate with people what with there only being a crapload of chat clients for it of which tkabber, Gabber, PSI and GAIM are only a few of the some 30 Jabber clients for the platform.
I'm okay with MP3 (I don't give a rat's ass about AAC) and I don't need OGG except that often a lot of good stuff is distributed only in OGG and it'd be nice to just have the support for it built in for those occasions. It's not like it's a difficult thing for them to do and some/most other portable players do have it.
Of course iPod is sadly the benchmark player and every other player seems to be lacking in even bigger areas than the few minor ones iPod does.:/
I don't care if it's super slim. The size of the original generation of iPods is just fine. All I care about are:
1) SIZE. 60gb doesn't cut it. 200gb would be a good start. 300gb would be a great start. 2) Battery life. More than a few hours and make it a consumer replacable part! 3) Durability. No screen scratching. Don't want to freak out of it's dropped.
Aren't companies already held liable for their bugs?
Lots of bugs and security holes causes customers to find alternatives from other companies, damaging your bottom line.
Rather than holding companies liable for bugs, perhaps they should be required to divulge the bugs and fixes to their customers? You can't reasonably to expect software to be completely perfect and bugfree anymore than you can expect any other non-physical product to be absolutely perfect (how many times have you read a published book with incorrect facts, typos or grammatical errors?). If you have problems in your software, that's okay. It's all about how you deal with it. Do you cover it up and avoid it or do you "do the right thing"?
In all seriousness, size is the only reason I haven't bought an iPod. I bought one in 2003 and gave it away by the end of the year to a coworker. I don't want to just carry a few songs with me. I want to carry my entire collection. And not just MP3s and AACs, but OGGs, too. Theoretically, I would like to store and listen to all of my music on a single device. I don't want to store 100% of my collection on an external drive, plug it into my laptop, connect the ipod to my laptop and copy of 20% of my collection at any one time.
So as soon as these suckers hit around 300gbs, I'll be buying one.
Going to Yahoo!, creating an account, dealing with their spam emails and offers all the time in the future and then logging into Yahoo! with that special Yahoo! account is not transparent whatsoever. And not enough people use Yahoo! to justify creating a special account just to talk to them.
Yahoo! probably realized this and gave up the ship.
So now I can't use the excuse that "I don't use Yahoo!" anymore to avoid talking to those douchebags who are too dumb to use something else. Even though I use jabber, I'm not going to bother creating a yahoo! account for the 1% of chat users that use Yahoo! just so I can connect with the transit plugin for their protocol.
Robbie the Robot wasn't just a lightstick, either - but it still sucked.
Show me evidence that it works, accurately, without glitches on the majority of televisions (not just those at least as big as my 50" at home) and I might have some interest. Still, I would rather get to play Halo 2 with my mouse and keyboard than some stupid pointy device.
I mean, honestly, I'm up for something new as much as the next guy but the controller just seems overhyped to me. The controller just seems like something that would come with a knock-off videogame system. You know, like you wanted an Xbox or a PS3 and your parents didn't know anything different, so they bought you this thing they saw at K-Mart called a "GameMaster System 3D" or something. With three unique games and a half-assed controller.
And really, are people going to competitively play FPS games by pointing a stick at a screen and shooting? I'm kind of doubting it. It'll more likely be used for some dorky version of "bubble bobble" where bubbles fall from the top of the screen and you pop them with the pointer. Whoooo.
Anyway, doesn't this already exist? In gameplay to some degree, at least. It's called a stylus for the DS...
The new controller isn't going to make new anything. Not new anything that works at least.
I mean, come on - what kind of revolutionary games will take advantage of the analog stick being separated from the D-PAD and buttons? And oooh - it has a lightstick thingy like the old gun in duck hunt. We all know how well *those* things work. All the controller will do is span new attempts at new games that frustrate players because they don't work as advertised.
I'm almost 30 and I've been playing video games for much of the last ten years and this will be the first time in my life that I buy a console. I'll be buying the 360 and the PS3 at launch and I might be buying the Revolution after it has been out for a year or so and the price drops.
The fans are useless. Out of 23 external USB drives, only half of them still have working fans. They burn out and stop running very quickly. I've found this to be true with almost every encloser. At least, the ones under $30/ea. Because after all, if I'm going to spend much more than that per encloser, I might as well just be building a couple extra computers and dumping the drives right into them.
I'm pretty sure you can't just own a random patent and enforce it. You have to show that you are doing something with it. It isn't enough to be the first person to come up with an idea. You have to have clear intentions to capitalize on that idea through development, research and production of it - not capitalization based on hoping someone else does all of that so you can sue them into oblivion later.
Additionally, these devices have been around for quite awhile. How valid is it if they only start going after them once the company is huge, established and done all the work to build an infrastructure around the technology on which the patent is based?
I'm an American and my government has been upgrading Freedom without telling the American people for a number of years now. Typically, they perform the Freedom upgrade in the middle of the night, when few legislators can attend and they can quickly make small changes to the Freedom upgrades without a quarrel. I just thought I would point out that Apple isn't the only organization that clearly cares so much about their clients!
There are certainly plenty of spoiled children - and I wouldn't be surprised if half of all 16 to 18 year olds own or have access to a car - possibly even their own. However, I think that the number of people who just flat out buy a car for their child is slim. Perhaps as a graduation present - I don't know. I'd never buy one for my kid. Nobody ever bought one for me. My two siblings worked their asses off at low-paying crappy highschool jobs to afford their own used cars and most people I know both my age group and theirs (they're a decade younger than I am) paid for their own.
Now, the number of "necessities" for young people these days could be one aspect of why gaming is "down" (at least, in the context of number of hours the average person plays). That is, unless you come from an upper-middle class to wealthy family, your parents probably are not paying for your college, your car and insurance, your cell phone or any other activities. This means young people are working as early as allowed and putting in plenty of hours to afford the things they need and want to have.
When I was a kid (and probably you, too) - a cell phone was hardly a necessity. The bus system probably served us to get to and from our first jobs until we were a bit older. We set our sites on hanging out and doing things at the arcade or the mall or downtown with our buddies rather than going on vacation on the other side of the country with our friends and expensive accomodations.
I just get irked when I hear people talk as if most or even all kids are just given cell phones or cars or parents are just simply expected to dump $100k on their child's college. It does a disservice to all of the hard working kids out there who have to bust their asses for each and every one of those things - either because mom and dad are of modest means, are actually poor or maybe they just decided that Junior was going to have to foot his own bill in life if he wanted all those extra things.
Now, as far as the whole premise of this "study" - I think it's misguided. Gaming is more popular than ever. The average hours played may go down, but that's because of the number of new players getting into the world, dropping the average - because not every new gamer is going to be a 40 hour per week gamer like many of the older gamers would be.
This is just sensational crap to get some hits and attention, anyway.
a more mobile generation/society where a typical 16th birthday gift for kids is at least a used car.
Maybe in Belaire. I have news for you - most kids still work for their own cars - if they get one at all. The average gift for a 16 year old is certainly NOT a car of any sort. You've been watching far too much "Super Sweet 16" on MTV.
And cable isn't responsible for taking kids away from videogames. Television viewing is on the decline among the young. And how many young people are smart enough to figure out how to use streaming video or webcams and all that other crap? Sheesh. The average teenager today can barely figure out how to operate AIM so they can join chatrooms and A/S/L everyone.
Battle Star Galactica (the new one) is okay. But come on - it's based on some 30 year old TV series. That's hardly "good new science fiction". That's like remaking Citizen Kane and claiming cinema is reborn again.
And yes - we're in a dry spell. The best shows on TV are all non-science fiction right now. In fact, you can barely name any science fiction shows on TV today (meaning new, current series). There's Stargate. There's Battle Star Galactica. There's... um... Oh, I guess that's it. There's a whole two science fiction shows currently being produced on television - and both of those are on cable. Yes. We're not in a dry spell at all. *eyeroll*
That's right. Instead, we need to keep beating the "the bitter song about going down in a theater was about the love of her life that broke her heart - Dave Goullea(sp) - the douchebag from Full House and one of those Funny Videos type shows" thing to death.
I'm going to get modded troll or flamebait for this, like any post that ever questions the success of Firefly... However...
It would seem to me that with the dismal showing at the box office, they are now trying to literally "give it away". Let's see if they can even do that.
It's amusing that everyone was all a flutter about this movie and how it was going to be so successful and awesome because so many people wanted it to come back... and... then.... BOOM!... One giant bomb.
Speaking of which, I just saw a listing in my digital cable guide today that said there was an episode of Firefly on tonight (on Sci-Fi) and it says "(new)"... Um... Are they producing new episodes of firefly now or something? I would imagine it could do okay on Sci-Fi (after all, Quick Silver, Wonder Woman, old Buck rogers and Battle Star episodes and all sorts of other random crap seem to be doing well on that station...).
Speaking of which, whatever happened to all the "FreeBSD is Dying!" drumbeats in the last year or two? I haven't kept up with FreeBSD/NetBSD news, but it would seem some series of events has really turned people around, even though it doesn't seem BSD use is necessarily skyrocketing.
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No, I gave the full size ipod to a male coworker.
I did give a female coworker my "nano" though. *snicker*
Is it possible to use an AOL IM account with Gaim and talk with people on Jabber? Is there any IM client that can do that? Thanks.
Um. Yeah.... That's the entire point of Jabber. If you want to use an AOL account, use a jabber server that has an AIM transport. Same with Yahoo! and any of the others.
This whole complaint for the article is just stupid. Yeah, using linux really cuts you out from being able to communicate with people what with there only being a crapload of chat clients for it of which tkabber, Gabber, PSI and GAIM are only a few of the some 30 Jabber clients for the platform.
You've never heard of a backup, huh?
I'm okay with MP3 (I don't give a rat's ass about AAC) and I don't need OGG except that often a lot of good stuff is distributed only in OGG and it'd be nice to just have the support for it built in for those occasions. It's not like it's a difficult thing for them to do and some/most other portable players do have it.
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Of course iPod is sadly the benchmark player and every other player seems to be lacking in even bigger areas than the few minor ones iPod does.
I don't care if it's super slim. The size of the original generation of iPods is just fine. All I care about are:
1) SIZE. 60gb doesn't cut it. 200gb would be a good start. 300gb would be a great start.
2) Battery life. More than a few hours and make it a consumer replacable part!
3) Durability. No screen scratching. Don't want to freak out of it's dropped.
Aren't companies already held liable for their bugs?
Lots of bugs and security holes causes customers to find alternatives from other companies, damaging your bottom line.
Rather than holding companies liable for bugs, perhaps they should be required to divulge the bugs and fixes to their customers? You can't reasonably to expect software to be completely perfect and bugfree anymore than you can expect any other non-physical product to be absolutely perfect (how many times have you read a published book with incorrect facts, typos or grammatical errors?). If you have problems in your software, that's okay. It's all about how you deal with it. Do you cover it up and avoid it or do you "do the right thing"?
In all seriousness, size is the only reason I haven't bought an iPod. I bought one in 2003 and gave it away by the end of the year to a coworker. I don't want to just carry a few songs with me. I want to carry my entire collection. And not just MP3s and AACs, but OGGs, too. Theoretically, I would like to store and listen to all of my music on a single device. I don't want to store 100% of my collection on an external drive, plug it into my laptop, connect the ipod to my laptop and copy of 20% of my collection at any one time.
So as soon as these suckers hit around 300gbs, I'll be buying one.
its all Transparent to me cause i use Gaim
But, it's not.
Going to Yahoo!, creating an account, dealing with their spam emails and offers all the time in the future and then logging into Yahoo! with that special Yahoo! account is not transparent whatsoever. And not enough people use Yahoo! to justify creating a special account just to talk to them.
Yahoo! probably realized this and gave up the ship.
So now I can't use the excuse that "I don't use Yahoo!" anymore to avoid talking to those douchebags who are too dumb to use something else. Even though I use jabber, I'm not going to bother creating a yahoo! account for the 1% of chat users that use Yahoo! just so I can connect with the transit plugin for their protocol.
Robbie the Robot wasn't just a lightstick, either - but it still sucked.
Show me evidence that it works, accurately, without glitches on the majority of televisions (not just those at least as big as my 50" at home) and I might have some interest. Still, I would rather get to play Halo 2 with my mouse and keyboard than some stupid pointy device.
I mean, honestly, I'm up for something new as much as the next guy but the controller just seems overhyped to me. The controller just seems like something that would come with a knock-off videogame system. You know, like you wanted an Xbox or a PS3 and your parents didn't know anything different, so they bought you this thing they saw at K-Mart called a "GameMaster System 3D" or something. With three unique games and a half-assed controller.
And really, are people going to competitively play FPS games by pointing a stick at a screen and shooting? I'm kind of doubting it. It'll more likely be used for some dorky version of "bubble bobble" where bubbles fall from the top of the screen and you pop them with the pointer. Whoooo.
Anyway, doesn't this already exist? In gameplay to some degree, at least. It's called a stylus for the DS...
The new controller isn't going to make new anything. Not new anything that works at least.
I mean, come on - what kind of revolutionary games will take advantage of the analog stick being separated from the D-PAD and buttons? And oooh - it has a lightstick thingy like the old gun in duck hunt. We all know how well *those* things work. All the controller will do is span new attempts at new games that frustrate players because they don't work as advertised.
I'm almost 30 and I've been playing video games for much of the last ten years and this will be the first time in my life that I buy a console. I'll be buying the 360 and the PS3 at launch and I might be buying the Revolution after it has been out for a year or so and the price drops.
The fans are useless. Out of 23 external USB drives, only half of them still have working fans. They burn out and stop running very quickly. I've found this to be true with almost every encloser. At least, the ones under $30/ea. Because after all, if I'm going to spend much more than that per encloser, I might as well just be building a couple extra computers and dumping the drives right into them.
No, dumbass. Nobody will be playing, but they'll all be buying. Duh! ;)
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Can we get these for all the religious addicts in this country, too?
What patent law is there to reform?
I'm pretty sure you can't just own a random patent and enforce it. You have to show that you are doing something with it. It isn't enough to be the first person to come up with an idea. You have to have clear intentions to capitalize on that idea through development, research and production of it - not capitalization based on hoping someone else does all of that so you can sue them into oblivion later.
Additionally, these devices have been around for quite awhile. How valid is it if they only start going after them once the company is huge, established and done all the work to build an infrastructure around the technology on which the patent is based?
I'm an American and my government has been upgrading Freedom without telling the American people for a number of years now. Typically, they perform the Freedom upgrade in the middle of the night, when few legislators can attend and they can quickly make small changes to the Freedom upgrades without a quarrel. I just thought I would point out that Apple isn't the only organization that clearly cares so much about their clients!
There are certainly plenty of spoiled children - and I wouldn't be surprised if half of all 16 to 18 year olds own or have access to a car - possibly even their own. However, I think that the number of people who just flat out buy a car for their child is slim. Perhaps as a graduation present - I don't know. I'd never buy one for my kid. Nobody ever bought one for me. My two siblings worked their asses off at low-paying crappy highschool jobs to afford their own used cars and most people I know both my age group and theirs (they're a decade younger than I am) paid for their own.
Now, the number of "necessities" for young people these days could be one aspect of why gaming is "down" (at least, in the context of number of hours the average person plays). That is, unless you come from an upper-middle class to wealthy family, your parents probably are not paying for your college, your car and insurance, your cell phone or any other activities. This means young people are working as early as allowed and putting in plenty of hours to afford the things they need and want to have.
When I was a kid (and probably you, too) - a cell phone was hardly a necessity. The bus system probably served us to get to and from our first jobs until we were a bit older. We set our sites on hanging out and doing things at the arcade or the mall or downtown with our buddies rather than going on vacation on the other side of the country with our friends and expensive accomodations.
I just get irked when I hear people talk as if most or even all kids are just given cell phones or cars or parents are just simply expected to dump $100k on their child's college. It does a disservice to all of the hard working kids out there who have to bust their asses for each and every one of those things - either because mom and dad are of modest means, are actually poor or maybe they just decided that Junior was going to have to foot his own bill in life if he wanted all those extra things.
Now, as far as the whole premise of this "study" - I think it's misguided. Gaming is more popular than ever. The average hours played may go down, but that's because of the number of new players getting into the world, dropping the average - because not every new gamer is going to be a 40 hour per week gamer like many of the older gamers would be.
This is just sensational crap to get some hits and attention, anyway.
a more mobile generation/society where a typical 16th birthday gift for kids is at least a used car.
Maybe in Belaire. I have news for you - most kids still work for their own cars - if they get one at all. The average gift for a 16 year old is certainly NOT a car of any sort. You've been watching far too much "Super Sweet 16" on MTV.
And cable isn't responsible for taking kids away from videogames. Television viewing is on the decline among the young. And how many young people are smart enough to figure out how to use streaming video or webcams and all that other crap? Sheesh. The average teenager today can barely figure out how to operate AIM so they can join chatrooms and A/S/L everyone.
Interesting. I watch lots of very watchable streaming stuff and my high resolution screen is a 30" ACD.
Battle Star Galactica (the new one) is okay. But come on - it's based on some 30 year old TV series. That's hardly "good new science fiction". That's like remaking Citizen Kane and claiming cinema is reborn again.
And yes - we're in a dry spell. The best shows on TV are all non-science fiction right now. In fact, you can barely name any science fiction shows on TV today (meaning new, current series). There's Stargate. There's Battle Star Galactica. There's... um... Oh, I guess that's it. There's a whole two science fiction shows currently being produced on television - and both of those are on cable. Yes. We're not in a dry spell at all. *eyeroll*
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That's right. Instead, we need to keep beating the "the bitter song about going down in a theater was about the love of her life that broke her heart - Dave Goullea(sp) - the douchebag from Full House and one of those Funny Videos type shows" thing to death.
I'm going to get modded troll or flamebait for this, like any post that ever questions the success of Firefly... However...
... and... then.... BOOM!... One giant bomb.
It would seem to me that with the dismal showing at the box office, they are now trying to literally "give it away". Let's see if they can even do that.
It's amusing that everyone was all a flutter about this movie and how it was going to be so successful and awesome because so many people wanted it to come back
Speaking of which, I just saw a listing in my digital cable guide today that said there was an episode of Firefly on tonight (on Sci-Fi) and it says "(new)"... Um... Are they producing new episodes of firefly now or something? I would imagine it could do okay on Sci-Fi (after all, Quick Silver, Wonder Woman, old Buck rogers and Battle Star episodes and all sorts of other random crap seem to be doing well on that station...).
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Speaking of which, whatever happened to all the "FreeBSD is Dying!" drumbeats in the last year or two? I haven't kept up with FreeBSD/NetBSD news, but it would seem some series of events has really turned people around, even though it doesn't seem BSD use is necessarily skyrocketing.