That is so true. I don't think any company should release anything, beta or otherwise, until it is available for all browsers, in all countries, in all languages. I don't care if it takes them an extra couple years to do things like this. Just because I live in the US and this is incredibly useful to me right now I think they should hold off until it works for EVERY FREAKING INCH of the globe. The fact that it helps me find a pizza place down the street is worthless if I can't find a McDonalds in Iceland. Sheesh, it might as well be hampsterdance.com. How dare they provide a free and useful service to a quarte billion people without catering to every other person on the globe. Who do they think they are? Didn't we learn early in life, "If you don't have enough for everyone don't bring any at all."
Ok...what I don't understand...why would anybody, with a real ISP, broadband account be going through AOL in the first place??
I posed this question in the mid 90's figuring AOL was pretty much useless since you could get the connection without the annoying fluff. Apparently I unerestimated how much people like annoying fluff. Now that I am a bit older, I have realized the #1 rule of marketing: People are stupid.
An USB dongle may get lost or stolen (even easier than a stationary desktop machine). An ISP colocation may be entered by anyone posing as a serviceman, if their security is sufficiently lax (which it way too often is); social engineering is a king here.
Okay, how about this then: Set up 4 hot swap drives in a Raid 0 array with an encrypted file system. Every morning, take three of the drives out. Put two in separate safe deposit boxes at two different banks. Keep the other one with you at all times. For the fourth drive in your PC still at home, set up a dead mans switch to power on and format (fifteen times, all zeros, random data rotation, you know the drill) the drive automatically (i.e. boot-and-nuke type bootable floppy) if you are not home by dinner. Oh, and be sure to carry your keyboard with you to avoid hardware loggers. Practical? No. Effective? I think so.
You want to know something ironic? I use GMail and I think it rocks, especially since it's free (for now). I've had a free yahoo account for ages so a lot of people still send mail there. I never considered paying for yahoo until GMail came along, now I am thinking about it. Why? So I can automatically forward my email to GMail. I have already set up my regular pop email accounts to forward to GMail.
The one big thing GMail has (aside from labels, nice interface, etc.) is the notifier. The main reason I would want POP acces is simply to always know when I have email without having to open a browser. I don't understand why the other email services don't do this. The "hacked" solutions don't count, and Outlook/Hotmail is a pain. It is so simple and it still gets people to visit the web page to view their email (i.e. ads).
All that stuff is indeed very cool, and I do envy your setup. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or money to set up something of that magnitude.
I refuse to pay the local cable company for "Digital" (i.e. looks like sh*t on my 50" DLP) cable. DirecTv is the lesser of two evils. And the DirecTivo is very nicely integrated. No fuss no muss.
As for multiple tuners, yes 5 is overkill, but 2 is a minimum for me. I enjoy spending time with my wife, but I also really enjoy shows she would rather not watch. With two tuners we can watch something we both enjoy together while recording my show to watch later. This was a bigger issue, of course, before TechTV got raped, beaten, and left for dead by G4. But I digress...
Bottom line, a well integrated dual tuner DirecTiVo is the best solution for me in all aspects. Given the details above, there is just no way to beat the one time $99 setup and $5 monthly for the increase in quality of life.
5 DirecTV tuners in one box? So, where did you get those DirecTV tuner cards for your Myth box? I would love to get my hands on just one of those cards. If they existed. Which they don't, and never will, ever.
I can attest to solid IBM drive performance. I have a 20GB drive that I got with a Dell in 1999. The computer it is in is on 24/7. The S.M.A.R.T info on the drive indicates the total power on hours over 25,000 hours. Yes, the drive has been on for well over 25,000 hours. Much of that time it was caked with dust and pet hair. It will be a sad day when it dies.
You know what it all boils down to? War and pr0n. That's right, if you think about it, tons of great innovations derrive from war and pr0n. To name a few:
I may just be ignorant, but have there been any actual surface temperature readings from Titan? Everyone quotes "-290F" but that may be wrong. I remember a Russian probe sent to Venus a couple decades ago melted on the surface because the temperature was vastly understimated by designers.
My personal (albeit un-informed) hunch is that the surface will be much warmer than -290F. We'll know soon I suppose.
Schrodinger and Heisenberg are driving down the road, and Heisenberg says, 'Hey, I think you just ran over a cat.' And Schrodinger says, 'Is it dead?' Heisenberg says, 'I can't be certain.'
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Amen. The point at which I completely dumped Screen Savers and removed it from TiVo's to do list was the day they were discussing static electricity and computer components. I kid you not, they thought "new" components were not sensitive to static anymore. To prove this, they shocked a couple sticks of RAM using a Vandergraph generator and then a STUN GUN and were genuinely surprised when the ram didn't function anymore.
Are you implying that people who oppose the aforementioned act are anti-American?
I am American and I feel extememly fortunate to be an American. I'm a dubya supporter for many reasons and reasonably conservative, but I am against the current PAT RIOT act. Many aspects of the act itself are un-patriotic in the true spirit of what America stands for. If acronyms could be oxymorons this would be the posterchild.
Sweet, gold-plated ignorance. There are companies who's existance is founded on ignorant people. Try buying a DVI cable in a physical store for less than $100. Because everyone knows a high quality, well protected, gas injected, triple-layer shielded bitstream is better than THE EXACT SAME BITSTREAM over a $20 cable available here.
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That is so true. I don't think any company should release anything, beta or otherwise, until it is available for all browsers, in all countries, in all languages. I don't care if it takes them an extra couple years to do things like this. Just because I live in the US and this is incredibly useful to me right now I think they should hold off until it works for EVERY FREAKING INCH of the globe. The fact that it helps me find a pizza place down the street is worthless if I can't find a McDonalds in Iceland. Sheesh, it might as well be hampsterdance.com. How dare they provide a free and useful service to a quarte billion people without catering to every other person on the globe. Who do they think they are? Didn't we learn early in life, "If you don't have enough for everyone don't bring any at all."
You must not speak of such things. You will make the leader mad.
A much better example would have been Ashley Simpson.
Definately. Over 250,000 people strongly agree with you. It was at 281,724 when I submitted this.
Quite often it is automatically translated. So, if the results are more relevant, then yes I would like that.
Ok...what I don't understand...why would anybody, with a real ISP, broadband account be going through AOL in the first place??
I posed this question in the mid 90's figuring AOL was pretty much useless since you could get the connection without the annoying fluff. Apparently I unerestimated how much people like annoying fluff. Now that I am a bit older, I have realized the #1 rule of marketing: People are stupid.
Okay, how about this then: Set up 4 hot swap drives in a Raid 0 array with an encrypted file system. Every morning, take three of the drives out. Put two in separate safe deposit boxes at two different banks. Keep the other one with you at all times. For the fourth drive in your PC still at home, set up a dead mans switch to power on and format (fifteen times, all zeros, random data rotation, you know the drill) the drive automatically (i.e. boot-and-nuke type bootable floppy) if you are not home by dinner. Oh, and be sure to carry your keyboard with you to avoid hardware loggers. Practical? No. Effective? I think so.
You haven't used GMail, have you?
GMail is far more pleasant to use than Yahoo!, Hotmail, et al. Hell, managing email in GMail is usually faster than using Outlook.
Granted, I'm sure this technology will get abused just like every other potentially cool web feature. But, when used politely, it is very nice.
True, but I would also pay for GMail in a heartbeat if they started charging.
You want to know something ironic? I use GMail and I think it rocks, especially since it's free (for now). I've had a free yahoo account for ages so a lot of people still send mail there. I never considered paying for yahoo until GMail came along, now I am thinking about it. Why? So I can automatically forward my email to GMail. I have already set up my regular pop email accounts to forward to GMail.
The one big thing GMail has (aside from labels, nice interface, etc.) is the notifier. The main reason I would want POP acces is simply to always know when I have email without having to open a browser. I don't understand why the other email services don't do this. The "hacked" solutions don't count, and Outlook/Hotmail is a pain. It is so simple and it still gets people to visit the web page to view their email (i.e. ads).
All that stuff is indeed very cool, and I do envy your setup. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or money to set up something of that magnitude.
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I refuse to pay the local cable company for "Digital" (i.e. looks like sh*t on my 50" DLP) cable. DirecTv is the lesser of two evils. And the DirecTivo is very nicely integrated. No fuss no muss.
As for multiple tuners, yes 5 is overkill, but 2 is a minimum for me. I enjoy spending time with my wife, but I also really enjoy shows she would rather not watch. With two tuners we can watch something we both enjoy together while recording my show to watch later. This was a bigger issue, of course, before TechTV got raped, beaten, and left for dead by G4. But I digress
Bottom line, a well integrated dual tuner DirecTiVo is the best solution for me in all aspects. Given the details above, there is just no way to beat the one time $99 setup and $5 monthly for the increase in quality of life.
5 DirecTV tuners in one box? So, where did you get those DirecTV tuner cards for your Myth box? I would love to get my hands on just one of those cards. If they existed. Which they don't, and never will, ever.
I can attest to solid IBM drive performance. I have a 20GB drive that I got with a Dell in 1999. The computer it is in is on 24/7. The S.M.A.R.T info on the drive indicates the total power on hours over 25,000 hours. Yes, the drive has been on for well over 25,000 hours. Much of that time it was caked with dust and pet hair. It will be a sad day when it dies.
I haven't busted out laughing from a slashdot post in a while. Thank you for that, you made my Friday.
You know what it all boils down to? War and pr0n. That's right, if you think about it, tons of great innovations derrive from war and pr0n. To name a few:
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War:
Jet engines, rockets, internet, satellites, radar, gps, nuclear power.
pr0n:
VHS, DVD, internet technologies (compression, p2p, etc.), blue-ray (HD pr0n anyone
I may just be ignorant, but have there been any actual surface temperature readings from Titan? Everyone quotes "-290F" but that may be wrong. I remember a Russian probe sent to Venus a couple decades ago melted on the surface because the temperature was vastly understimated by designers.
My personal (albeit un-informed) hunch is that the surface will be much warmer than -290F. We'll know soon I suppose.
Magicians and comedians hate you don't they?
My favorite:
Schrodinger and Heisenberg are driving down the road, and Heisenberg says, 'Hey, I think you just ran over a cat.' And Schrodinger says, 'Is it dead?' Heisenberg says, 'I can't be certain.'
Amen. The point at which I completely dumped Screen Savers and removed it from TiVo's to do list was the day they were discussing static electricity and computer components. I kid you not, they thought "new" components were not sensitive to static anymore. To prove this, they shocked a couple sticks of RAM using a Vandergraph generator and then a STUN GUN and were genuinely surprised when the ram didn't function anymore.
I can see the future now:
- 1.0 Tbps Cable Internet
- 10 GHz processor
New PC with Windows Longhorn installed is compromised before the usere lifts his or her finger off the power button.
Er, huh?
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Are you implying that people who oppose the aforementioned act are anti-American?
I am American and I feel extememly fortunate to be an American. I'm a dubya supporter for many reasons and reasonably conservative, but I am against the current PAT RIOT act. Many aspects of the act itself are un-patriotic in the true spirit of what America stands for. If acronyms could be oxymorons this would be the posterchild.
So what? I gave one of those to my 8 year old neice for her birthday. Er, wait, what are we talking about again?
Or if you fell asleep and started having crazy dreams.
Sweet, gold-plated ignorance. There are companies who's existance is founded on ignorant people. Try buying a DVI cable in a physical store for less than $100. Because everyone knows a high quality, well protected, gas injected, triple-layer shielded bitstream is better than THE EXACT SAME BITSTREAM over a $20 cable available here.