You "buy" the right to watch the movie for 24 hours and it starts pretty much the moment you select it. You can stop it, rewind it, pause it.
I don't think satelleite would be able to do that, the way it works in the cable network (to my understanding) is that the cable headend houses the "movie" server and just streams it down from there.
In a satellite environment (which by default is one way) you would need to find a way to communicate back AND you would need a dedicated channel for EACH individual user who wants to watch the movie.
Looking at the screenshot of Oddpost I have to say I am not too thrilled with it.
I like the gmail interace, it is the first email interface I can see myself using extensivly and without too much of a fuzz or the fact that it would feel like a Webmail Interface.
Where Gmail's is slick the one on Oddpost just... Well, looks odd to me, like a cross between Outlook and some old browser.
OWA in Exchange 2003 is pretty cool (when you use IE), but from the all out web interfaces Gmail right now wins for me.
Nice to know, I thought I was the only one with those problems (never bothered to check).
The last updated hosed some things for me for a bit but now it's fine, let's see when I lose my connection the next time, so far for the past three days it was fine, but I hate it when it happens while I am doing something over an NFS mount.
Perhaps the fact that *I* get paid in CAN$ and thus pay a higher price?
I don't make more in CAN$ than you do in USD, so no, it is NOT better for me, I am getting jacked on this (if I would buy anything from there, they don't let me as I don't run Windoze).
I had a keyboard failure on my Dell notebook two weeks after I got it.
The first thing they proposed was to "reinstall Windows" as windows was probably the reason why certain keys didn't work.
When I told him that it doesn't even work in the Bios he was still insisting that it is a Windows problem.
Finally he agreed to maybe put their trouble shooting disk in. He tells me where to go on the menu (as I clearly can't read) etc. etc.
When we get to the keyboard test he says: "Press Enter".
Me: "I would like to, but unfortunatly the enter key is one of the keys that does not work." He: "Oh, looks like the Keyboard is defective, we ship you a new one."
Only took me an hour to get to this point.
Now Apple on the other hand, I call, I tell, I get the freaking thing turned around in 2 days.
Things are even worse now that games are getting to be so complicated. Unless I can pick up a game, figure it out in 10 minutes, I don't want to play it. I refuse to commit large chunks of time to games anymore. Which is why I still play Tetris and all the classics on a Game Boy when I have a few minutes to kill on a commute or something.
See, I think games haven't become that complicated, in fact:
Back in the early to mid '90s simulations where all the rage, I had the entire Microprose collection and loved every minute of it.
Where are the GOOD flight simulators today? The only one left is pretty much Microsofts Flight Simulator.
What about Falcon 5.0? We'll never see it because these days people don't WANT to read a 500 pages manual, regardless of how good it is.
In the past the majority of people who played games where computer geeks anyways, they liked to tinker and think. The majority of people these days is looking for some leisure activity that doesn't use the brain too much.
No, games haven't become more complex, just the opposit, and it won't change.
OBL stated he wanted the US military out of Saudi Arabia. We were there at the behest of the Saudi govt.
Actually the Saudi Government wanted the US troops out as well. For quite some time.
They want to reverse 500-800 years of history, and restore Moslem rule in Spain. If not, hey...let's blow something up.
Because of the bombs in Madrid? As far as I remember there was never anybody really claimning responsiblity, it all seems to be speculation and even that claimed it was because of Spains involvement in Iraq.
Blow up a hotel in Bali.
Who claimed responsibility for that?
Gas a train in Japan.
Homegrown Terrorists.
Fertilizer bombs in London.
Also homegrown terrorism.
It's far more than the current US foreign policy.
Dude, I got some news for you: The rest of the world has lived with terrorism (state and "personal") for most of history, it hasn't brought civilization to an end and bombs going up in the US won't do that either.
"Fighting" Terrorism (preventing it would be a better word) is a generational effort and not something you can solve by shoving some people some rockets up their asses. And it will never EVER go away completly.
The sooner you and the rest of the world who thinks "war on terror" is the best thing since sliced bread understand and accept this the sooner we can maybe start on the slow treck to prevent a lot of those.
This is what will happen if biometric passports are unleashed. The EU is already well advanced in its plans to build its centralized database of all biometric identifiers; do you really believe that they wont keep a detailed record of who crosses into and out of the EU, and how many times and where they have done it? And do you really believe that they will not share this data? Like I say elsewhere in this thread, the EU has already agreed to share passenger data with the USA; this will be no different.
There is going to be one slight difference: The privacy "czars" in Europe have a bit more bite than the one in the US.
Or differently: Yes, the data will be collected, but it will be watched over what happens to the data. The US has not even yet announced what they are planning on doing with all the data they are going to get from the EU, the guess is: They keep it 'til the end of time.
This is an intelligent group. Can the negativity and come up with something!
(Oh, and stamping your feet and yelling "Get rid of Bush!" isn't the answer.This has been going on far, far longer than Bush has been president, and will continue long after he's gone.)
You said it yourself --> Better living conditions for everybody.
And yes, that won't happen, and no removing Bush won't make that happen. Live with it. The US has one big ugly bulls eye on on her ass and if the US doesn't change the tone in their foreign policy someone might want to kick again.
The entire pricing structure smells of Big Corps pricing scheme.
Whoever came up with the tiered model clearly didn't had the end user like you and me in mind.
And that's the crux. It'll cost me way too much to update to a current version, I host a couple of blogs for friends of mine and I clearly won't be able to shell out $600.
There is a fine line between getting your moneys worth and pure greed. SA clearly went on the greed side from my POV.
2.661 it is then and I guess further down the road maybe another package.
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Actually, Rogers here is offering 5Mbps down and 800Kbps upstream..... And I do get that speed most of the time.
So the pipes are clearly wider than it appears.
Rogers here in Canada has Video on Demand.
You "buy" the right to watch the movie for 24 hours and it starts pretty much the moment you select it. You can stop it, rewind it, pause it.
I don't think satelleite would be able to do that, the way it works in the cable network (to my understanding) is that the cable headend houses the "movie" server and just streams it down from there.
In a satellite environment (which by default is one way) you would need to find a way to communicate back AND you would need a dedicated channel for EACH individual user who wants to watch the movie.
Cable cleary wins on this one.
Looking at the screenshot of Oddpost I have to say I am not too thrilled with it.
I like the gmail interace, it is the first email interface I can see myself using extensivly and without too much of a fuzz or the fact that it would feel like a Webmail Interface.
Where Gmail's is slick the one on Oddpost just... Well, looks odd to me, like a cross between Outlook and some old browser.
OWA in Exchange 2003 is pretty cool (when you use IE), but from the all out web interfaces Gmail right now wins for me.
Well,
;)
yeah that's how Toronto is on the surface, but there is a very active scene here as well.
I have been to both, and though I think I would like Montreal better, Toronto is a very livable city (especially by North American standards).
Not all is golden and shiny here but neither is Montreal, and at least nobody here gives the city money to stay in Canada
When's the 610 up? I am looking for a new phone / PDA (in that order) and it came down to the P900 / Treo 600 and at one point in time the XDA II.
Right now it looks like only the P900 is the only option as the 600 doesn't have bluetooth and that is one of my core requirements.
Nice to know, I thought I was the only one with those problems (never bothered to check).
The last updated hosed some things for me for a bit but now it's fine, let's see when I lose my connection the next time, so far for the past three days it was fine, but I hate it when it happens while I am doing something over an NFS mount.
The TAN is for online banking only online banking not for the ATM.
Banks in Germany always required you to have:
Login & Password.
And then for EACH transaction an TAN (TransActionNumber) which was a one time password that they mailed to you in a batch of I think 25.
So in order to complete a transaction you not only needed the username and Password but also a TAN.
More secure than they do it here, where you just log in and then it's a free for all.
Considering that they usually go with 100 Yen increments I'd say it would probably be 99 Yen.
Perhaps the fact that *I* get paid in CAN$ and thus pay a higher price?
I don't make more in CAN$ than you do in USD, so no, it is NOT better for me, I am getting jacked on this (if I would buy anything from there, they don't let me as I don't run Windoze).
Yeah well,
too bad though that I don't get paid in USD but in Canadian Dollars.
99cents Canadian are exactly that to me: 99 cents.
Or do you think you should pay $1.39 because it's still cheaper than the 99pence the guy in the UK would be paying?
Commerical Radio is just (brain)dead, but there is some really good programming out there.
KEXP in Seattle comes to mind, or on the internet, Radio Paradise is one example.
I had a keyboard failure on my Dell notebook two weeks after I got it.
The first thing they proposed was to "reinstall Windows" as windows was probably the reason why certain keys didn't work.
When I told him that it doesn't even work in the Bios he was still insisting that it is a Windows problem.
Finally he agreed to maybe put their trouble shooting disk in. He tells me where to go on the menu (as I clearly can't read) etc. etc.
When we get to the keyboard test he says: "Press Enter".
Me: "I would like to, but unfortunatly the enter key is one of the keys that does not work."
He: "Oh, looks like the Keyboard is defective, we ship you a new one."
Only took me an hour to get to this point.
Now Apple on the other hand, I call, I tell, I get the freaking thing turned around in 2 days.
See, I think games haven't become that complicated, in fact:
Back in the early to mid '90s simulations where all the rage, I had the entire Microprose collection and loved every minute of it.
Where are the GOOD flight simulators today? The only one left is pretty much Microsofts Flight Simulator.
What about Falcon 5.0? We'll never see it because these days people don't WANT to read a 500 pages manual, regardless of how good it is.
In the past the majority of people who played games where computer geeks anyways, they liked to tinker and think. The majority of people these days is looking for some leisure activity that doesn't use the brain too much.
No, games haven't become more complex, just the opposit, and it won't change.
Heck, anyone remember "Deer Hunter"?
I had the problem with the old Bittorrent version 3.4.1 I think there was a bug when too many connections where open it would just crash.
3.4.1a fixes this and it is now rock solid, regardless of how many connections I have open within bittorrent.
Actually the Saudi Government wanted the US troops out as well. For quite some time.
Because of the bombs in Madrid? As far as I remember there was never anybody really claimning responsiblity, it all seems to be speculation and even that claimed it was because of Spains involvement in Iraq.
Who claimed responsibility for that?
Homegrown Terrorists.
Also homegrown terrorism.
Dude, I got some news for you: The rest of the world has lived with terrorism (state and "personal") for most of history, it hasn't brought civilization to an end and bombs going up in the US won't do that either.
"Fighting" Terrorism (preventing it would be a better word) is a generational effort and not something you can solve by shoving some people some rockets up their asses. And it will never EVER go away completly.
The sooner you and the rest of the world who thinks "war on terror" is the best thing since sliced bread understand and accept this the sooner we can maybe start on the slow treck to prevent a lot of those.
There is going to be one slight difference: The privacy "czars" in Europe have a bit more bite than the one in the US.
Or differently: Yes, the data will be collected, but it will be watched over what happens to the data. The US has not even yet announced what they are planning on doing with all the data they are going to get from the EU, the guess is: They keep it 'til the end of time.
Isn't THAT safety as well?
Besides, if someone wants to detonate a bomb they will find a way, and if they have to press the button themselves.
You said it yourself --> Better living conditions for everybody.
And yes, that won't happen, and no removing Bush won't make that happen. Live with it. The US has one big ugly bulls eye on on her ass and if the US doesn't change the tone in their foreign policy someone might want to kick again.
I think you crossed EU and US.
It is mainly what happens to EU citizens when entering the US.
And unlike the EU the US is very silent about what happens to the data and how long it is going to be retained.
The EU takes privacy (still) a lot more serioius than the US does.
And there I was just telling somebody it wouldn't be long before this would happen ;)
How would migrating an(y) existing blog(s) work?
You overlooked the part where it said: 1 Poster and 3 Blogs.
That is clearly an issue for my installation.
The entire pricing structure smells of Big Corps pricing scheme.
Whoever came up with the tiered model clearly didn't had the end user like you and me in mind.
And that's the crux. It'll cost me way too much to update to a current version, I host a couple of blogs for friends of mine and I clearly won't be able to shell out $600.
There is a fine line between getting your moneys worth and pure greed. SA clearly went on the greed side from my POV.
2.661 it is then and I guess further down the road maybe another package.
No it doesn't only if the program would want to do something that requires root privliges.
ANY user can execute an rm -rf / it would just fail on all the files the Unix user does not have permissions on.
M.