FTA: The good thing is that Microsoft will be able to get Windows explained appropriately on the sales floor.
Oh my God, does this sound ominous. Any Best Buy employee explaining Windows "inappropriately" will be taken out back by a Windows Guru and "evangelized".
Remember all those hyped up stories where some dude's wife is missing and the guy swears he had nothing to do with her disappearance but then they find out that he googled "how to kill my wife" a week before she went missing?
"All the other handset vendors - including Apple - are essentially niche players," ABI Research noted.
For some background, I'm in IT and I work almost exclusively on Microsoft products and groan all you want but I'm a fan of theirs. I recently wanted to buy a smart phone. Mostly, something that was good at general web surfing, reading email and more. I saw my friends' iPhones and it was exactly what I was looking for but I have a natural anti-Apple bias so I didn't get one.
Then I started a search for a phone that met the requirements I have that didn't have an Apple on the back of it. Last Friday, I eliminated the final contender (AT&T Tilt) and gave up and bought an iPhone 3G.
It's not perfect, but it is amazingly good. I've yet to see a Windows Mobile device come close to it. The Samsung Omnia and Nokia Tube mentioned in the article don't appear to be available and to be honest, I didn't realize the other Windows Mobile devices sucked until I held them in my hand.
Does anyone know of a Windows Mobile device that matches the iPhone in web surfing? I'd love to hear about it.
I may be inadvertently responsible for Internet Explorer 8's use of separate processes for each tab. Months ago, when they invited me to install the beta of their latest web browser, I told them to do something that sounds very similar to "Go fork yourself!"
I heard J.K. Rowling interviewed on NPR about this. She listed many of the books that are derivative works that she is thrilled about. The commonality with acceptable books is that they add original thoughts. The targeted book contained no original thoughts but just indexed material from her books, in many cases copying the content and even indexes from her books verbatim.
The lawsuit was to stop the publication of the book; it had nothing to do with the $6k.
I read the Slashdot summary, the entire news.com article, the second article in the news.com article linked from the first article and I still don't know how much they need.
But at least I know that there's a problem and two separate foundations have turned them down for grant money. I guess that's a start.
If anyone deserves a trip to the ISS, I guess the creator of the best RPG of all time (Ultima IV) probably does.
I thought the DNA promotion was a little silly until I saw his name associated with it. That guy has karma to burn for several more decades as far as I'm concerned.
How hard would it be to broadcast on all common channels in the area a fixed pattern that says something along the lines of, "TV broadcasts using your current equipment are no longer available. Please conatct... blah blah blah".
Seems that would be better than just turning it off. Maybe just run it for a week or so.
Something tells me that after several delays and numerous announcements that the people that are unaware of the switch to digital TV probably wouldn't be too upset about missing out on TV for a few days while they track down an analog->digital converter.
The next time you have an extra $20 million...all you'll need to do is fire up Twitterrific and announce how much better you are than your Earth-based friends
The next time I have an extra $20 million, I won't need Twitterific or even a visit to the ISS to let my friends know how much better I am than them. I'll hire people to follow my friends around town to let them know that fact on an hourly basis.
Isn't that bad for electronics?
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Google envisions a world where 'computing centers are located on a ship or ships
My father-in-law worked as a linesman for AT&T about 30 years at a beach town in southern New Jersey. He told me that they had to replace electrnoic components almost twice as quickly as more inland areas because of the more corrosive saltwater air.
If this is a real effect, I imagine that it will be difficult to prevent on a ship in the ocean.
Steins is one of the relatively rare E-type asteroids.
The summary says they're rare, but the Wikipedia article indirectly linked says they form a majority of the asteroids "inward of the main belt". I'm very confused!
This is a sore subject for me right now. I bought a new 750 GB Seagate hard drive from Newegg about 2.5 weeks ago. I put it into my system, took about a day to install OS and all applications on it. Four days later, it died. I needed a replacement hard drive right away, so I was just going to RMA it as a return and buy one local but then I get hit with the 15% restocking fee. Newegg says they're not responsible for failures because they don't manufacture it. Well they're more responsible than I am, yet I'm the one that has to pay $10 to ship it back to them and I'm the one that has to pay 15% restocking fee on top of that?
I ended up doing a replacement RMA and was without a hard drive for 11 days while they dickered around with the paperwork and shipping back and forth.
I know they have to do it to keep their costs low, but honestly I'll be paying extra to buy locally in the future. The little bit of money you might save is not worth the risk or hassle.
Once you know about the restocking fee, you don't Newegg.
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
This should read:
Considering open access to ad-free shows and movies via BitTorrent, is Amazon's service too pricey?
I firmly believe that if content owners and distributors charged a reasonable rate to download a TV show (maybe 10 cents), piracy would be a thing of the past. For 10 cents, very few people would choose black or gray market distribution channels. Of course, that would have the negative effect of MTV's Cribs not being quite as exciting. Instead of 5 Bentleys and 2 Cadillac Escalades they'd have maybe a Ford Taurus and a Honda Accord.
Or we can just continue with this charade. Personally, I'd like to start charging people for looking in my direction. If you look at me without paying me, it's stealing. Because I say so.
So far we've gotten an apology and a quick amendment that eliminates the offending clause. Now we just need for the group responsible for the oversight to be fired and one or two sacrificial killings and we'll call it even.
This sounds almost exactly like something I did back in nineteen dickety two. We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word for "twenty." I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.
I must admit it's to me surprising that a slashdot user would pay their bill on an old domain like that and trust that AT&T won't do something equally as stupid
I'm quite sure that AT&T is just that stupid. However, I'm too lazy to do anything about it.
SOCA remains entirely unrepentant for the lapse. "SOCA is aware that registration of the domain www.nhtcu.org has lapsed and is taking the necessary steps to remind partners and stakeholders that the NHTCU became SOCA e-crime in April 2006
I guess admitting that they goofed by letting the domain accidentally lapse would be too much. Instead they have to pretend like the domain is worthless since they changed their name two years ago.
With that reasoning, I guess AT&T can just let "cingular.com" lapse even though I still type that in every time I go to pay my AT&T wireless bill.
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Well, last week I discovered the prime number 37. It was only a matter of time before I discovered one greater than 10 million digits.
Now these show-offs have gone ahead and spoiled it for the rest of us.
FTA: The good thing is that Microsoft will be able to get Windows explained appropriately on the sales floor.
Oh my God, does this sound ominous. Any Best Buy employee explaining Windows "inappropriately" will be taken out back by a Windows Guru and "evangelized".
Remember all those hyped up stories where some dude's wife is missing and the guy swears he had nothing to do with her disappearance but then they find out that he googled "how to kill my wife" a week before she went missing?
I guess those stories are done.
Dude. Android. Maybe you've heard of it?
Of course I've heard of it. And I get it... where? Oh, it's not available generally yet.
"All the other handset vendors - including Apple - are essentially niche players," ABI Research noted.
For some background, I'm in IT and I work almost exclusively on Microsoft products and groan all you want but I'm a fan of theirs. I recently wanted to buy a smart phone. Mostly, something that was good at general web surfing, reading email and more. I saw my friends' iPhones and it was exactly what I was looking for but I have a natural anti-Apple bias so I didn't get one.
Then I started a search for a phone that met the requirements I have that didn't have an Apple on the back of it. Last Friday, I eliminated the final contender (AT&T Tilt) and gave up and bought an iPhone 3G.
It's not perfect, but it is amazingly good. I've yet to see a Windows Mobile device come close to it. The Samsung Omnia and Nokia Tube mentioned in the article don't appear to be available and to be honest, I didn't realize the other Windows Mobile devices sucked until I held them in my hand.
Does anyone know of a Windows Mobile device that matches the iPhone in web surfing? I'd love to hear about it.
I may be inadvertently responsible for Internet Explorer 8's use of separate processes for each tab. Months ago, when they invited me to install the beta of their latest web browser, I told them to do something that sounds very similar to "Go fork yourself!"
I think they took that as architectural advice.
I heard the same story on NPR yesterday. Here's a link to the story summary and the full audio with Rowling's explanation:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94407484
I heard J.K. Rowling interviewed on NPR about this. She listed many of the books that are derivative works that she is thrilled about. The commonality with acceptable books is that they add original thoughts. The targeted book contained no original thoughts but just indexed material from her books, in many cases copying the content and even indexes from her books verbatim.
The lawsuit was to stop the publication of the book; it had nothing to do with the $6k.
I desperately need new recruits willing to read and type in CAPTCHAs for 20 hours and 3 cents per day.
Thank you, Google!
I read the Slashdot summary, the entire news.com article, the second article in the news.com article linked from the first article and I still don't know how much they need.
But at least I know that there's a problem and two separate foundations have turned them down for grant money. I guess that's a start.
There are countries with as few people, but they still sell mobile phones there
Do you think government subsidies have anything to do with that?
Add up all the blind people everywhere, go global and it's possible to make a profit.
Obviously, there are easier ways to make a profit or you or someone else would be doing it now.
I always wonder why nobody has done a phone with a Braile output
Because there aren't enough blind people to make it profitable. There are 1.3 million legally blind people in the United States. That's less than one half of one percent of the current population.
Complex Problem + Increased R&D spending + Small Market = Few Products
Glad to see there are some players in this niche though.
If anyone deserves a trip to the ISS, I guess the creator of the best RPG of all time (Ultima IV) probably does.
I thought the DNA promotion was a little silly until I saw his name associated with it. That guy has karma to burn for several more decades as far as I'm concerned.
How hard would it be to broadcast on all common channels in the area a fixed pattern that says something along the lines of, "TV broadcasts using your current equipment are no longer available. Please conatct... blah blah blah".
Seems that would be better than just turning it off. Maybe just run it for a week or so.
Something tells me that after several delays and numerous announcements that the people that are unaware of the switch to digital TV probably wouldn't be too upset about missing out on TV for a few days while they track down an analog->digital converter.
The next time you have an extra $20 million...all you'll need to do is fire up Twitterrific and announce how much better you are than your Earth-based friends
The next time I have an extra $20 million, I won't need Twitterific or even a visit to the ISS to let my friends know how much better I am than them. I'll hire people to follow my friends around town to let them know that fact on an hourly basis.
Google envisions a world where 'computing centers are located on a ship or ships
My father-in-law worked as a linesman for AT&T about 30 years at a beach town in southern New Jersey. He told me that they had to replace electrnoic components almost twice as quickly as more inland areas because of the more corrosive saltwater air.
If this is a real effect, I imagine that it will be difficult to prevent on a ship in the ocean.
Steins is one of the relatively rare E-type asteroids.
The summary says they're rare, but the Wikipedia article indirectly linked says they form a majority of the asteroids "inward of the main belt". I'm very confused!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-type_asteroid
This is a sore subject for me right now. I bought a new 750 GB Seagate hard drive from Newegg about 2.5 weeks ago. I put it into my system, took about a day to install OS and all applications on it. Four days later, it died. I needed a replacement hard drive right away, so I was just going to RMA it as a return and buy one local but then I get hit with the 15% restocking fee. Newegg says they're not responsible for failures because they don't manufacture it. Well they're more responsible than I am, yet I'm the one that has to pay $10 to ship it back to them and I'm the one that has to pay 15% restocking fee on top of that?
I ended up doing a replacement RMA and was without a hard drive for 11 days while they dickered around with the paperwork and shipping back and forth.
I know they have to do it to keep their costs low, but honestly I'll be paying extra to buy locally in the future. The little bit of money you might save is not worth the risk or hassle.
Once you know about the restocking fee, you don't Newegg.
Everyone seems to have a problem with it. It's really bugged me that I've never been able to get to bugmenot from work:
Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason:
The Websense category "Hacking" is filtered.
URL:
http://www.bugmenot.com/
Considering alternative, ad-based, free online video sites such as Hulu, is Amazon's service too pricey?
This should read:
Considering open access to ad-free shows and movies via BitTorrent, is Amazon's service too pricey?
I firmly believe that if content owners and distributors charged a reasonable rate to download a TV show (maybe 10 cents), piracy would be a thing of the past. For 10 cents, very few people would choose black or gray market distribution channels. Of course, that would have the negative effect of MTV's Cribs not being quite as exciting. Instead of 5 Bentleys and 2 Cadillac Escalades they'd have maybe a Ford Taurus and a Honda Accord.
Or we can just continue with this charade. Personally, I'd like to start charging people for looking in my direction. If you look at me without paying me, it's stealing. Because I say so.
So far we've gotten an apology and a quick amendment that eliminates the offending clause. Now we just need for the group responsible for the oversight to be fired and one or two sacrificial killings and we'll call it even.
This sounds almost exactly like something I did back in nineteen dickety two. We had to say "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen our word for "twenty." I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.
I must admit it's to me surprising that a slashdot user would pay their bill on an old domain like that and trust that AT&T won't do something equally as stupid
I'm quite sure that AT&T is just that stupid. However, I'm too lazy to do anything about it.
SOCA remains entirely unrepentant for the lapse. "SOCA is aware that registration of the domain www.nhtcu.org has lapsed and is taking the necessary steps to remind partners and stakeholders that the NHTCU became SOCA e-crime in April 2006
I guess admitting that they goofed by letting the domain accidentally lapse would be too much. Instead they have to pretend like the domain is worthless since they changed their name two years ago.
With that reasoning, I guess AT&T can just let "cingular.com" lapse even though I still type that in every time I go to pay my AT&T wireless bill.