I have solved this by picking up and playing with stuff at a dangerous rate. Last time I was just holding a mac mini and looking at it commenting loudly. I got help in seconds.
Are they going to go after dropbox, jungledisk, or any other generic cloud storage people have been using to do this well before amazon thought about it?
That said, this is the reason why a few months ago I got rid of cable and went to a netflix/hulu/ "Other streaming" only solution. I now find myself being more productive and finding my tv watching more enjoyable.
Now I watch the shows I like, fill late nights before bed with movies I've always wanted to watch and I save a thousand dollars a year I was using to create background noise. I can also fill my hulu queue full of crap and just let it play.
Exactly, when I stream a show I'm actively choosing to watch that show. Which is different then when nothing good is on and I just set it to G4 and let cops run to fill the background with noise.
ATT recently bought (well a few years ago) centennial wireless. Everything was great until the last few months (for me the last 3 weeks). I'm not sure what they are doing, but areas where I used to get 5 bars (that were not att areas but centennial wireless areas) I now get 2 or 3 bars. Calls are being dropped in areas where I used to have the best service. Everyone I know who used to use centennial wireless is having the same problems. No signal, droppped calls, etc.
I've been a long time ATT customer, but I'm thinking it's time for a change if this doesn't' improve in the next 5 months.
This is why I push so hard for coal mining to be banned. I've heard that entire US towns have been made uninhabitable due to coal fires that won't go out for hundreds if not thousands of years. ( http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm )
What he means is you can't get basic service with a smart phone (IE, no data).
There is no 3G service where I work (but there is at home). Everywhere I go has wifi. Yet I HAVE to have a data plan to use my iphone as a phone. I can't just get a dumb phone plan (which would be a LOT cheaper).
I have two choices.
1) buy a dumb phone and carry a ipod 2) pay for a much more expensive data plan that I can't even use most of the time.
Where is the option 3) no data service/wifi only smart phone plan.
I am a fulltime apple user that sometimes has to do some.NET work. I don't mind VS. It is nice and get's the job done. Personally though I want my IDE to be as light and as out of my way as possible. I enjoy XCode, but really I do most of my work in textmate (although when I'm doing web development I tend to use Coda).
I can't find any faults with VS except for it's just a little too heavy for my liking, but it's still a rock solid IDE.
Well if it is it's only available for the boxee box. I downloaded boxee and hulu was not available there on my mac mini. I have done a few hundred google searches and not found any proof that hulu plus is even available on the boxee box, but only "coming soon". It is also not on their list of apps and I can not find any confirmation of hulu plus on their website or forums.
I'd be happy with hulu plus honestly, it works fine on my ps3 and I need something for upstairs. Currently I'm using a mac mini with xbmc + hulu desktop.
I'm sick of boxee constantly advertising that it has a hulu app. There is no official hulu app for boxee. You have hit or miss hacks that may let you watch hulu. It's not like netflix.
Our problem is we have some core applications that require oracle databases. Until they support anything else we are stuck paying out the nose just because our processors changed from sparc to intel.
After spending 3 months just trying to get a software support contract for our servers so I could do what their support told me to do, we said screw it and started the process as well.
We are moving 12 servers to HP and linux. If only we could get rid of the Oracle database it's self I'd be in heaven.
How is the mac 'locked down'? It is no different from windows in terms of installing software. You find software, download software, and install software. Just like microsoft, apple bundles some useful software into their OS such as a media player, web browser, etc.
I use almost 100% open source software on my mac. There is no DRM and no lock out. This is not a iphone, this is a computer.
Now what the next revisions of osx will do (I'm worried about the app store direction) time will tell.
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Or could they?
Think about it....
Have you seen any terrorism around those cameras? No? Well then....
Obviously you need to not park near crime scenes...it's not rocket science. Do you really have any business being near crime scenes?
a penny saved is a penny earned.
I should pay extra for a candy bar because other jackasses can't limit themselves to just one?
I have solved this by picking up and playing with stuff at a dangerous rate. Last time I was just holding a mac mini and looking at it commenting loudly. I got help in seconds.
Are they going to go after dropbox, jungledisk, or any other generic cloud storage people have been using to do this well before amazon thought about it?
That said, this is the reason why a few months ago I got rid of cable and went to a netflix/hulu/ "Other streaming" only solution. I now find myself being more productive and finding my tv watching more enjoyable.
Now I watch the shows I like, fill late nights before bed with movies I've always wanted to watch and I save a thousand dollars a year I was using to create background noise. I can also fill my hulu queue full of crap and just let it play.
Exactly, when I stream a show I'm actively choosing to watch that show. Which is different then when nothing good is on and I just set it to G4 and let cops run to fill the background with noise.
What exactly are they trying to win? Less customers? Less Market share? Less relevance?
Ad revenue seems to work well for google....
ATT recently bought (well a few years ago) centennial wireless. Everything was great until the last few months (for me the last 3 weeks). I'm not sure what they are doing, but areas where I used to get 5 bars (that were not att areas but centennial wireless areas) I now get 2 or 3 bars. Calls are being dropped in areas where I used to have the best service. Everyone I know who used to use centennial wireless is having the same problems. No signal, droppped calls, etc.
I've been a long time ATT customer, but I'm thinking it's time for a change if this doesn't' improve in the next 5 months.
If these things are so efficient at producing heat, why are they 'spent'? Can't we use them to run steam turbines?
This is why I push so hard for coal mining to be banned. I've heard that entire US towns have been made uninhabitable due to coal fires that won't go out for hundreds if not thousands of years. ( http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm )
What he means is you can't get basic service with a smart phone (IE, no data).
There is no 3G service where I work (but there is at home). Everywhere I go has wifi. Yet I HAVE to have a data plan to use my iphone as a phone. I can't just get a dumb phone plan (which would be a LOT cheaper).
I have two choices.
1) buy a dumb phone and carry a ipod
2) pay for a much more expensive data plan that I can't even use most of the time.
Where is the option 3) no data service/wifi only smart phone plan.
I can pick uverse and have a 250 gig cap, or I can revolt and pick comcast and .....have a 250 gig cap.
Or I could try out verizon's 3g service in my home and pay out the ass for 5 gig...
There really is no competition for the majority of the population.
Personally, I want a pay per gig model. I'd gladly pay $0.6 to $0.10 a gig for downloads. In the long run I'd be saving money.
I am a fulltime apple user that sometimes has to do some .NET work. I don't mind VS. It is nice and get's the job done. Personally though I want my IDE to be as light and as out of my way as possible. I enjoy XCode, but really I do most of my work in textmate (although when I'm doing web development I tend to use Coda).
I can't find any faults with VS except for it's just a little too heavy for my liking, but it's still a rock solid IDE.
I'm still confused, apple can't choose to develop a new product and release it for free without getting in legal trouble?
Well if it is it's only available for the boxee box. I downloaded boxee and hulu was not available there on my mac mini. I have done a few hundred google searches and not found any proof that hulu plus is even available on the boxee box, but only "coming soon". It is also not on their list of apps and I can not find any confirmation of hulu plus on their website or forums.
I'd be happy with hulu plus honestly, it works fine on my ps3 and I need something for upstairs. Currently I'm using a mac mini with xbmc + hulu desktop.
I'm sick of boxee constantly advertising that it has a hulu app. There is no official hulu app for boxee. You have hit or miss hacks that may let you watch hulu. It's not like netflix.
Our problem is we have some core applications that require oracle databases. Until they support anything else we are stuck paying out the nose just because our processors changed from sparc to intel.
After spending 3 months just trying to get a software support contract for our servers so I could do what their support told me to do, we said screw it and started the process as well.
We are moving 12 servers to HP and linux. If only we could get rid of the Oracle database it's self I'd be in heaven.
I didn't say there was no alternative software. I said you don't have a choice in if you get itunes on your mac.
How is the mac 'locked down'? It is no different from windows in terms of installing software. You find software, download software, and install software. Just like microsoft, apple bundles some useful software into their OS such as a media player, web browser, etc.
I use almost 100% open source software on my mac. There is no DRM and no lock out. This is not a iphone, this is a computer.
Now what the next revisions of osx will do (I'm worried about the app store direction) time will tell.
I have bought 7 macbook pro's over the years for both home and work (3 for home, 4 for work), 3 mac mini's for work, and 30+ imacs for work.
Not a single one has ever had trial-ware, or bloat-ware on it. They ship with OSX and a full version of iLife. Nothing more, nothing less.