Asda, http://www.asda.co.uk/ is the name they use in in the UK. True they bought out an existing company.
Tessco and others were around in the UK with their super centers offering more than just groceries long before Walmart even opened one of the their super centers. And I wouldn't put it past WM for "swiping" the concept from Tessco and others.
Non-business customers won't tolerate the scam that Cisco make you go through when buying second-hand kit -- that they make sure you "relicense" the embedded software to the new owner when selling on your....
Not only this but they are going to have change their entire support model for the consumer area.
Consumers are not going to purchase yearly SmartNet contracs on EVERY device so they can get firmware aka IOS upgrades on their products. They are not even going to play the game of purchasing the cheapest SNT contract on one device to get access to IOS, let alone renew it yearly.
Cisco would enjoy a broader reach into the SOHO, small business, and power user market if they were to make their firmware upgrades available, for FREE.
Also come on Cisco wheres the replacement for the UBR924/925's ? ? ? Wheres the 926? ? With SIP ports instead of H.323 and with the ability to get back into the router section while the crapble co locks the modem part down from changes? ? The 924/925 where the peferct home, SOHO, and small business device, just ahead of their time and with a few quirks that easily could be worked out. You've got the relevant parts between Cisco, Linksys and now with SA!
What is even dumber is whole "clocks changing" half the year standard time, half the year daylight savings time. It makes little sense today.
EXACTLY! There is NO NEED for this nonsense in the 21st century.
There are no energy savings from this real or otherwise. Unless were going to go back to the way it used to be. No Sunday shopping, stores close at 1900 or 2000 Mon thru Sat.. Offices operate 0900-1500.
That scenario just won't work in the 21st century. Its a 24/7/365 world.
I can also hear the "What about the children!" hue & cry. Quite blunty I DON'T GIVE A DAMN about the children! (I am on/., so no I don't have kids, thankfully.) It was dark when I got on the school bus for all levels of school in all different places and I managed to survive. Those hordes of SUV/MiniVans/cars at bus stops need to go too!
This whole practice of DST just needs to be outlawed completely and the time zones need some readjusting on their boundaries as well.
I use hosts. & eDexter (java on linux) on Linux and wimpsleze
I also use Peer Guardian to block sites using IP or whole parasite blocks for ads, virii, & spyware etc..
I also use SlimBrowser which has built in ad blocking and also has URL black list using partial URL's for when I can not block a site via hosts.
Why? "Wheres the money!" Wheres my cut? ? I viewed the ad that will be $0.05/view. Most of its not related to the content or its a scam are other reasons. I used MY bandwidth to view your ad so your need to PAY for it, otherwise >/dev/null/
I don't watch commercials, I don't listen to commercials on the radio, and I don't read newspapers
SECAM was designed by the Russians & French for the exact purpose its not so elegant acronym stands for. It was designed so those persons in Communist Block countries and especially East Berlin could not receive outside bourgeois propaganda.
missing one of the main points of TFA - the interpersonal culture of the coffee shop was disappearing.
OK, I admit I am missing the point here.
I don't care for coffee/espresso/latte/capucinno at all. So they better serve hot tea, sweet tea, hot chocolate, or pop, along with a selection of some sort of pastries.
So I am not the target audience, but if I wanted a drink & a pastry and the choices come down to shop a and shop b, where shop a has no wifi, then shop B it is! And this stunt of off on weekends, would be a deal breaker too. I wouldn't want to have to keep track of if the wifi might be on or off at shop a v. shop b.
I am not here to meet people, work or otherwise, I am here to get my drink/pastry and be LEFT ALONE! I don't want to talk to a bunch of strangers, make new friends or any of that other nonsense. This would hold true if I had my laptop with me or not. I don't want to talk to you people or interact in any form. I am going to quietly drink my drink, eat my pastry, and if I happen to need to browse for things, email etc. I will do that.
For the so called "wifi squatters" I agree 10000% that if your going to take up space inside the shop then you NEED TO BUY SOMETHING! Thats what the shop is there for, free wifi is a benefit from that PURCHASE. That also doesn't mean one drink and then squatting for 8 hrs like its a Rent a Office. A purchase of something about every 2 hours or so would be about right. If your spending the day any way you need drinks at least.
If the "meet culture" is all that important, put up a sign "NO GEEKS!" Or probably better just pull the wifi out. Your going to loose the business that finds the wifi to be the more important factor, like me, but these are the people who are least interested in your "culture" and most likely to be potential squatters.
One person mentioned turning up the AC, PLEASE DO! I am sick and tired of freezing in offices and other places and the pat excuse "Its for the computers/equipment!" BS! My house is quite nicely heated from my equipment, and its not Antartica cold inside from the AC, and its not Sahara hot from the equipment either. I am sick and tired of living in a warm state and wearing a winter coat inside the office!
One thing that GSM did do right is the idea behind SIM cards. CDMA has the like R-UDIM card, but like I said the one phone I know of has it disabled, by CARRIER REQUEST.
I do agree that this "lock in" needs to die. There should just be a store with phones pick the one you like that matches your network CDMA, 1900 & 800, or what ever.
Unfortunately its been that way since things started nearly 20 years ago. The first phones put into my cars all were practically cheap or free with a free or low cost installation, but you were committed for 2 years or $175. Nothings really changed other than now its pocket sized phones v. installed car phones.
The idea is that $xx.xx *24 for the 2 years will cover the cost of the phone and be quite profitable in the long run.
New phone comes out and they get you for another 2 years. I don't buy phones from the carrier I get them off EBay. I have not been under contract for 3 years and am not about to change it. Not that I am likely to leave my carrier any way. The present choices from my carrier are too feature overloaded and 99% are flip style which I can not stand. I want to smack the Motorola egnineer who came up with those stupid StarTAC's!
You should walk into Cellular World Super Center and pick your phone out, swap what ever kind of chip SIM/R-UDIM, and out the door you go.
All those who are slaves to "cool" phones could change to their hears content.
In the US you can not just purchase any old phone and use it on any network with out a lot of hoops.
This is done to lock you into the carrier. Also in the US many carriers have Early Termination Fees (ETF) so if you sign up and cancel, normally before 2 years, its normally a $175 charge. This is especially true if your on promotional plans and getting 50 phones for $0.01. They want you to pay air time charges for all those free phones.
GSM Based Networks:
Cingular/ATT, Tmobile
Since they use GSM they have SIM cards thus you can *normally* can get a phone from say EBay that has previously been used on the same network and swap SIM cards no problem. This can be locked by the carrier if they choose, but most allow SIM swaps on phones which have been used on their network.
Phones from other networks will REQUIRE an unlock code or software. Most of the times a quick call to the carrier and they will provide the code over the phone or email.
CDMA:
CDMA does not use SIMS, there is a similar R-UIDM card available, but the one phone in the US market that has it the carrier specifically locked its use out.
Alltel:
Phones not locked, but BEWARE: Alltel is absolutely anal about this! NO ANALOG AMPS or NON GPS phones will be activated on their network, period. So if you want to keep your ancient phone around as a back up and use while you get a replacement think again. You must call to do an ESN change, no web changes. NO GPS, NO SWAP/ACTIVATE, AMPS only, NO!
Verizon:
Phones are not locked, except old PrimeCO units that may be floating around, probably all gone now unless your like me and don't change phones every other day.
Online ESN swap for FREE, $15 charge via phone. If its not a phone they have used on their network you may have to call and tell them its a similar phone to get it to do the PRL update.
NOTE: If your a Bluetooth fanatic, DO NOT USE VERIZON! They will disable most of the usable functions of Bluetooth as they did on the V710. They also will disable any thing that would allow you to put ring tones on the phone or take pictures off the phone via PC or avoid the charge to do so. You need to get a NON VERIZON version of any BT phone to use any thing other than headset mode.
SprintPCS:
Phones LOCKED REQUIRE the Master Subsidy Lock (MSL) code to reprogram to another network. Hit or miss on getting this code from them. Also ESN can be locked to SprintPCS. Many carriers especially Verizon will NOT activate former SprintPCS phones and they can tell by the ESN.
MetroPCS
Phones locked will require an unlock code to mirgrate to another carrier.
iDEN-TDMA
Nextel/Boost:
Nextel/Boost does use SIM's but Nextel likes to tie the SIM to the phone so you have to get a new SIM on every new phone.
You can swap a Boost SIM into a Nextel phone with out issue, you need to UNLOCK Boost phones to use a Nextel SIM in them.
ALL NEW Boost phones are "double locked" with a code that has not been cracked, yet. This is NOT the Subsidy Lock that can be defeated via certain software on Nextel/Boost.
I propose that a NIMBY database be developed for any one who signs or protests or what ever cell phone or radio services towers of any sort.
Then when they try to get cellular service, they are DENIED flat out. "Sorry, your a NIMBY, we don't offer service to NIMBY's!"
If they have servce now it should be terminated with one of those curt legal letters they send out. Should specifically outline you a NIMBY jerk and your service has been terminated. Don't bother with the other carriers, we told them too! They don't want you either! Go AWAY!
Just like the article states they want ALL the services but don't want to support it. Too bad.
Wow, your DVB-T decoders are $100? You really have overpriced electronics over in the states then. They cost about 20ukp here in the UK.
DVB-T is not used in the US for the new DTV format. The ATSC to NTSC (old analog, akin to PAL) converters are high priced now as no one NEEDS them or wants them.
If you have cable there will be no need to switch unless you want HD. The crapbleco's will do the needed ATSC to QAM conversion at the headend and send it out that way.
DVB is used by DishNetwork for its DBS (akin to BSkyB in UK) service in the US, but thats it.
The US missed the boat on the TV upgrade and should have chosen to use DVB-T.
I'd be happy with re-enabling the read-only 'public' SNMP on the local IP address of the cable modem... it was really nice pointing MRTG at 192.168.100.1 and reading the transferred-bytes numbers straight out of the modem interface, to say nothing of the signal strength and other genuinely useful info you can read with docsdiag.
EXACTLY!
I have ZERO interest in "uncapping" I am quite happy with my speed.
What I would like is the ability to use the SNMP READ to get info as listed above. I am NOT ASKING for or do I want the WRITE SNMP string.I alsp don't want locked out of the ability to CONFIG *MY* EQUIPMENT!
I simply want to be able to read stats and info on the link, data sent etc..
Also the ability to change out modems on my end with out calling up the ISP, since my cable ISP doesn't have this online ability would be great. A simple change of the MAC to the presently autorhized one in their system would allow me to swap out the Ericsson PipeRider and Toshiba I have to MY Cisco UBR924's. I'll put the 2 cableco units in the closet(s) for use when I need to check problems, but otherwise I want more robust equipment, BUT I am not going to get LOCKED out of MY EQUIPMENT EITHER!
and why every Wal-Mart in a region looks the same.
I WISH! All the WM in my area or even better nationwide were looked/stocked the same.
3 WM in my county, and 1 is brand new, about 4 months. Doesn't stock the same food stuffs as the other 2. One example, Sams Choice 1/2 gallon OJ (NOT from concentrate) stocked in the 2 older WM, not in the new one. Gallon of Grade A Whole (none of the white water, please) Milk in the 2 older WM its $2.98, in the new one it $3.06, and in the Sams Club ACCROSS THE STREET from one of the older WM its $2.06. 1/2 gallon prices were the same.
Each of the 3 carries a little different variety of stuff that the others don't carry. Annoying, but I can deal with it. It would be better if EVERY WM was SETUP & STOCKED the SAME. Aisle 5 cereal, aisle 7 potato chips, etc.. Same selection, same price, all stores. If any store could do this its WM.
WM needs to get it in gear with all this data processing ability and make it so I can punch in the UPC's or use my own bar code reader (NON tracking, thank you, no reapeats on the CueCats) to enter my order online for an employee to pull and have ready for pick up. They do this now for Sams Club. I want the ENTIRE STORE online. From clothes to tires to food to electronics, not just a selection of stuff. I am sick and tired of having to actually leave the house to get food.
No regular user should ever need write access to the hostsfile. That's the way Linux works by default. If you do need to modify it, you probably are root anyway . ..To allow ordinary users to edit the hostsfile is stupid,
I have to disagree strongly with that, I edit the hosts file on my Linux and wimpdoze boxes daily. Why?
ADS! ADS! POPUPS! ADS etc...
I don't want ads or anything else and the hosts file stops 99% of it. The rest my wimpdoze browser has a URL filter to kill and its popup kill gets what few popups still get thru.
I hate using even simple web sites like newspapers etc. at work due to all the ads, annoying. I now do what I need and move on due to the ads etc..
And what is the attraction of online banking anyway?
Simple software allows me to keep an accurate record of my banking needs, pay bills, and I am not talking about using the banks websites. I am talking about using, Quicken as an example, to DL/UL transactions, and bill pay requests, directly in the software using OFX. Anything that can not be direct debit'd is setup as an auto repeating transaction online, till I kill it.
I have not been inside a bank in 4 years except to start the account when I moved. The closest I get is to deposit the few checks that I still get now and then, but thats probably maybe 20 times tops in 4 years.
Need cash.. ATM or money back at the local store of choice, and money back beats the ATM fee in most places if your bank charges them. The rest DEBIT CARD! ! ! This is the best thing every created. I rarely carry cash, and any place that doesn't take my debit I probably don't need to go anyway.
90% of all bills are direct debit to the account, as well as direct deposit of pay. Why cant the US and the rest of the world move to a cash free society.
I hardly see the point in having a picture-phone, but thats just me. I can understand how some people would WANT a picture phone, but not a PC phone.
I couldn't agree more.
I don't want some fancy phone thats a PDA, PC, camera, or really anything else other than a, PHONE.
I would rather see that the carriers worried more about coverage in CDMA digital. Without coverage no phone is going to make a call, peiod. And the manufacturers should worry about making better performing on the RF side v. adding cameras etc..
Also make these thinks big enough so a REAL human can 1) Fit their finger on the buttons and 2) Read the screen.
No I don't want to match my outfit for the day, my shoes, my socks or anything else. I want it to make a call when I neeed to make a call.
You want to improve the phone then here is what I am looking for:
1) Ban flip phone style, useless.
2) Put a REAL antenna on them. Not just some piece of wire. A real antenna. At 800 & 1900MHz a decent 3-4db gain antenna is possible. NO its not going to fit in your purse, pocket or anything. Don't care.
3) A real anteanna connector like TNC, SMA or something not 2 pins that might connect to some adaptor that has a real TNC or SMA on it. So I can connect it to an antenna mounted on the car
4) Full analog support at 600mW, not every where is digital
5) 1x and Fax support to connect to my laptop to access internet and send/receiver faxes on a laptop as needed.
Now if you want to combine some useful things into a phone heres what could be useful in a cell phone:
1) MP3 player with SD/MMC memory reader
2) FM stereo/TV audio/WX receiver with alerts
3) Even better would be #2 plus 108-960MHz scanner with PL/DPL/trunking/AM & FM, digital mode(s) support
4) Flex pager for the 900MHz band that can supplement SMS service
5) Why not add a GMRS/FRS handheld in as well at 2W
All the above make sense, they are radio or communication related. No where does this phone look good, match my car, purse, or fit into a pocket.
Just a while ago Tom's Hardware reviewed a product that was a USB->Ethernet converter.
The idea was you installed a driver on your PC. Then you plugged your USB stuff into this device, which plugged into ethernet. Then any computer on your ethernet network could use that USB device (assuming it had all the drivers/etc).
Do you have a link to this review, a search at Toms Hardware did not provide any thing similar. Just usb devices.
Anybody else notice that the network attached storage specifically says it's *NOT* wireless?
GOOD! Why would you want a wireless NAS? ? ?
WEP, WPA, etc are not 100% secure as a wired connection.
I am certainly not going to connect a NAS device up wirelessly to my network for it to be a potential security leak of personal or corporate documents.
May as well throw gasoline on the fire. Thats just tempting wardrivers to see whats on that NAS.
I dont use my wireless LAN even with 128bit WEP, MAC FILTER, internal IP limits to access things like banking sites etc. for a reason, it sends this data via RF and its INSECURE.
I'll take WIRED NAS any day.
So if your going to pitch any of those old Netgear ND508 or ND520's out for these, how about letting me know which dumpster so I can take them off your hands.
I too would also like suggestions on stand alone boxes that can meet a similar need.
Require:
SIP p2p Peer to Peer support T.38 fax upto 14.4K w/ECM DHCP NAT Traversal or NAT compat. CallerID Remote configureable & manageable Encryption of the VOIP stream via AES, DES, Blowfish would be a major plus, but not required.
Intergrate with FWD etc. so that each site could have its own private VOIP #, a FWD # if desired
Ability to VOIP into the remote device enter a code, enter password and dial out on local POTS
Reverse of the above POTS to any of the networks VOIP sites
Intelligent routing so as to have it VOIP to a remote site and connect the call via the local POTS as it would be a local call at that site. A device which could sit behind the NID for POTS and intergrate all the phones at that site so that dialing 7 digits went local POTS, 10 digits went via VOIP if in routing table to a remote site to dial out local POTS call. 10 digits if not routable went to POTS LD. All with little or no user intervention.
Automatic fowarding of inbound POTS from any site to any selected site. selectable on/off, remote controllable.
Slow speed link codec (G.711) support to at least 128K ISDN and 802.11b & a wifi connections
Ability to intergrate POTS and VOIP via the device or a IP phone into a seamless network. A IP phone would have 2 or more "lines" which line 1 may be POTS, line 2 private VOIP, line 3 FWD etc..
Asterik may suited to this, but at this time I have sites which are not user friendly to having a PC running * 24/7 where as a simple little box to interface with the broadband modem, router, ups etc. in a closet is no problem. Especially since some of these sites could have 0 people present for 5-6 months at a time, but need the VOIP to POTS to VOIP to work with out user intervention.
Which also leads to . ..
Can the voice ports off a Cisco ubr924/925 be used with some standalone H.323 device to roll your own mini VOIP setup or does it require a Cisco server of some sort to operate those ports.
Why do trains in the wide open midwest not make sense?
The total lack of rail service in the US similar to Europe is a disgrace.
The wide open midwest would allow for high speed rail trains where as in the clogged northeast there is little room to build new right of ways for these. The NE corridor is limited to upgrading to operate at best 120MPH. I am talking 200+ bullet trains. Wide open space is wide open to build rail right of ways.
Public transport outside major metro areas, mostly NYC & Chicago is absolute junk or non exsistant.
If NYC & Chicago can have x many rails lines bringing in millions of workers daily, why cant the rest of the US?
Why cant the rest of the US have reliable, high speed rail service from city to city?
I would gladly take a train/subway to and from work, provided:
1) Met the same time schedule as me driving
2) Operated in the eveings & weekends, past 10PM, not everyone works 9-5 M to F
3) FREE SAFE parking
4) Cost no more than driving in my car monthly
The US government should never have let the railroads abandon passenger service.
Amtrak though also is not helping matters by asking US$1,000/per person for a berth to travel across country.They are pricing the people they want to attract into flying or worse taking a bus, or maybe not even going at all.
The real reason Comcast bought TechTV is so they can control the flow of technical information.
Comcast along with Cisco/Linksys and CableLabs plan to SNOOP on YOUR HOME NETWORK!
"I have a router and NAT." NO PROBLEM. ATT is working on fixing that bothersome little problem.
And if your using their new extreme tier with that fancy new Cisco/Linksys WCG2000 router/modem/SNOOPER no problem. CableHome aka SpyHome will allow them to:
CableHome 1.0 support for the ability to deliver secure, managed services from Comcast's head-end network to the subscribers' home network
TRANSLATION:
The goals for the CableHome Management Portal include:
* Enable viewing of LAN IP Device information obtained via the CableHome DHCP Portal (CDP)
* Enable viewing of the results of LAN IP Device performance monitoring done by the CableHome Test Portal (CTP)
* Provide the capability to disable LAN segments
You can read more here.
So TechTV had to go! Too much info in the wrong hands!
Sun aquired Cobalt and their line of 1U RAQ servers and the Qube boxes, but has now EOL'd them.I don't think Sun knew how to market these after they aquired them.
Big MISTAKE, BIG!
I've been picking these things up cheap on EBay to do various things like web development, back up web, my own DNS server w/edited records to kill spam/ad/malware etc., email etc..
By developing a MediaQube Sun could come in put a box in the home with:
NAT DHCP Personal Email server Personal Web server HOME Video server HOME Audio server DVR backend with compatability to MythTV/KnoppMyth, those Happauge set top interface boxes VPN for telecommuters and remote workers during imclement weather, part time workers Home file server (NASRaQ)
One little MediaQUBE that even the clods at home can install & maintain and they could oust sleaszsoft and others media PC's.
Homes are becoming more and more reliant on some of the same technology that business has/now relies on daily. Especially as more and more homes move to broadband cable or xDSL access.
Put some of that brain power to work along with some decent Happaugge DVR350 cards, a decent DVB card for DBS DishNetwork users and this machine could rock. Simple plug up the connectors, and setup via the LCD like the RAQ/Qubes.
It also serves to get Johnny and/or Janey learning Linux! As mom & dad are going to turn it over to them to admin, unless their here already. Sooner or later they are going to want to learn its inner workings and tweak it. So they learn Linux and don't get sucked into the wimpdoze spell.
OK, folks its time to quit asking every one BUT YOURSELFS to be your mommy!
You want the goverment to censor this, censor that. You want your DVD player to censor this and that too! Please.
The education system in this country is nothing more than a glorified babysitting service, so mom can hang out at the mall or the country club or what have you. If you didn't want the responsability of a child and actually PARENTING the child then you should have taken measures to not had [a] kid[s] in the first place!
Its is NOT the goverments or soceity in general responsability to do your parenting.
If you purchased a DVD that contains lanquage that is not suitable for you or your rugrats then why did you purchase or rent it? ? DVD players should not be ADDING in more DRM crap!
If the movie/show on the DVD is that offensive to you then maybe YOU should NOT be watching it anyway. Leave it for the ADULTS of soceity to watch.
Parenting requires INVOLMENT and guess what that means you need to know what your deliquents are doing and watching on TV, radio, internet etc.. It also means YOU the PARENT need to TEACH THEM that some things are shown on a DVD are not considered proper lanquage.
Just like this crap over Janet Jackson, Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge et al.. I don't really care for any of them. I don't care that one bared her breast on TV. As far as I am concerned more power to her!
This country is SERIOUSLY BEHIND the times on broadcast & media free speech as compared to the rest of the world. Its time to get over it! If you don't like whats being said or shown on the radio or TV CHANGE THE CHANNEL or TURN IT OFF!
Use YOUR BRAIN and quit asking the government, or any one else, to be a Censor Nanny.
1) Leo cuts back to CfH, then quits Cfh (Probably is seeing the writing on the wall.)
2) Talent LOSS MUST stop. TT has lost 2 fantastic anchors Erica Hill & Sumi Das to other media. Need to keep the talent to keep the people watching.
3) Comcrap hates DBS and BUD, thats why the regional sports channel in the Philadelphia area is distibuted via microwave or fiber. Thus comcrap doesn't have to share with DBS. I look for this to happen w/ TT as each contract with the cable MSO's, DBS and regional carriers come up for renewal, w/exception of comcrap areas.
4) Better programming! SS, CfH great. As for the anime DUMP IT! robot wars/battle DUMP IT! Bring back Max Headroom ! XPlay - DUMP IT! PLEASE! Put Morgan back on SS or some place else, but shows about games need to go. FFM, Spy School, Conspiraces, Wired for Sex all good. Now as for Martin Sargent, So long as he stays where he is and OFF SS and other shows he stay. In the "Late Night" format he's fine, but in any other area he doesn't belong. I am not a fan, but can deal with the show where it is now.
5) STORY REPEATS! ! STALE NEWS! TechLive needs to cease immediatley padding their shows with reruns of stories from previous shows. TL also needs to quit discussing movies, MOST ESPECIALLY I am sick and tired of hearing about bullet time, any thing related to matrix, and lord whatever, disney, nemo, animated any thing. I am not interested in these crap books and/or movies. They are not worth the time spent on them, not they worth the awards nominated or received by them. Same goes for ipods, overpricesd. My $30 cd player does just fine at playing CD's and MP3 CD's in the car and at the beach.
A daily TechNews Cast, which I know TL is trying so hard to be, but is not cutting it.
Now about those commercials. If I see one more ditech, diet pill or some other related scammercial I am going to die. I am sick of hearing about it. Also that stupid commercial for training with the klaxon blowing, annoying!
I don't know what G4 was/is but if its related to gaming, my days of watching TT may be over shortly.
More shows on home automation, home technology like power cells, solar panels, voip, how to set up this stuff and use, etc. (NO this has nothing to do about being a weeenie greenie.) Putting technology to work in the home for security and convienence.
More Linux!
A new software show that reviews and tests new software for the PC. (NOT GAMES! and NO MS software allowed, open source, shareware, freeware, and NON MS/Apple.)
LESS MtraSh
SS - LESS Case modding. I don't care that theres little LED's on the fans, or theres a neon light or anything else. All the PC's are stuck behind a desk, in a closest or buried behind something.
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The UK has a WalMart, just not called WalMart:
Asda, http://www.asda.co.uk/ is the name they use in in the UK. True they bought out an existing company.
Tessco and others were around in the UK with their super centers offering more than just groceries long before Walmart even opened one of the their super centers. And I wouldn't put it past WM for "swiping" the concept from Tessco and others.
Non-business customers won't tolerate the scam that Cisco make you go through when buying second-hand kit -- that they make sure you "relicense" the embedded software to the new owner when selling on your ....
Not only this but they are going to have change their entire support model for the consumer area.
Consumers are not going to purchase yearly SmartNet contracs on EVERY device so they can get firmware aka IOS upgrades on their products. They are not even going to play the game of purchasing the cheapest SNT contract on one device to get access to IOS, let alone renew it yearly.
Cisco would enjoy a broader reach into the SOHO, small business, and power user market if they were to make their firmware upgrades available, for FREE.
Also come on Cisco wheres the replacement for the UBR924/925's ? ? ? Wheres the 926? ? With SIP ports instead of H.323 and with the ability to get back into the router section while the crapble co locks the modem part down from changes? ? The 924/925 where the peferct home, SOHO, and small business device, just ahead of their time and with a few quirks that easily could be worked out. You've got the relevant parts between Cisco, Linksys and now with SA!
What is even dumber is whole "clocks changing" half the year standard time, half the year daylight savings time. It makes little sense today.
/., so no I don't have kids, thankfully.) It was dark when I got on the school bus for all levels of school in all different places and I managed to survive. Those hordes of SUV/MiniVans/cars at bus stops need to go too!
EXACTLY! There is NO NEED for this nonsense in the 21st century.
There are no energy savings from this real or otherwise. Unless were going to go back to the way it used to be. No Sunday shopping, stores close at 1900 or 2000 Mon thru Sat.. Offices operate 0900-1500.
That scenario just won't work in the 21st century. Its a 24/7/365 world.
I can also hear the "What about the children!" hue & cry. Quite blunty I DON'T GIVE A DAMN about the children! (I am on
This whole practice of DST just needs to be outlawed completely and the time zones need some readjusting on their boundaries as well.
I block any and all ads.
I use hosts. & eDexter (java on linux) on Linux and wimpsleze
I also use Peer Guardian to block sites using IP or whole parasite blocks for ads, virii, & spyware etc..
I also use SlimBrowser which has built in ad blocking and also has URL black list using partial URL's for when I can not block a site via hosts.
Why? "Wheres the money!" Wheres my cut? ? I viewed the ad that will be $0.05/view. Most of its not related to the content or its a scam are other reasons. I used MY bandwidth to view your ad so your need to PAY for it, otherwise >/dev/null/
I don't watch commercials, I don't listen to commercials on the radio, and I don't read newspapers
SECAM was designed by the Russians & French for the exact purpose its not so elegant acronym stands for. It was designed so those persons in Communist Block countries and especially East Berlin could not receive outside bourgeois propaganda.
Here's what my local channel map looks like. 9.1 CBS HD
9.2 a doppler radar display (SD)
GOOD for them. Finally some one realizes what to do with this stuff rather than waste it on HD.
26.1 PBS Prime SD/ HD in evenings
26.2 PBS SD
26.3 PBS Kids SD (days only)
26.4 PBS Plus SD (days only)
Maybe you can get your local PBS to follow along with KET and send the EMWIN WX info in their stream too.
See KET: http://www.ket.org/dtv/datacasting.htm
missing one of the main points of TFA - the interpersonal culture of the coffee shop was disappearing.
OK, I admit I am missing the point here.
I don't care for coffee/espresso/latte/capucinno at all. So they better serve hot tea, sweet tea, hot chocolate, or pop, along with a selection of some sort of pastries.
So I am not the target audience, but if I wanted a drink & a pastry and the choices come down to shop a and shop b, where shop a has no wifi, then shop B it is! And this stunt of off on weekends, would be a deal breaker too. I wouldn't want to have to keep track of if the wifi might be on or off at shop a v. shop b.
I am not here to meet people, work or otherwise, I am here to get my drink/pastry and be LEFT ALONE! I don't want to talk to a bunch of strangers, make new friends or any of that other nonsense. This would hold true if I had my laptop with me or not. I don't want to talk to you people or interact in any form. I am going to quietly drink my drink, eat my pastry, and if I happen to need to browse for things, email etc. I will do that.
For the so called "wifi squatters" I agree 10000% that if your going to take up space inside the shop then you NEED TO BUY SOMETHING! Thats what the shop is there for, free wifi is a benefit from that PURCHASE. That also doesn't mean one drink and then squatting for 8 hrs like its a Rent a Office. A purchase of something about every 2 hours or so would be about right. If your spending the day any way you need drinks at least.
If the "meet culture" is all that important, put up a sign "NO GEEKS!" Or probably better just pull the wifi out. Your going to loose the business that finds the wifi to be the more important factor, like me, but these are the people who are least interested in your "culture" and most likely to be potential squatters.
One person mentioned turning up the AC, PLEASE DO! I am sick and tired of freezing in offices and other places and the pat excuse "Its for the computers/equipment!" BS! My house is quite nicely heated from my equipment, and its not Antartica cold inside from the AC, and its not Sahara hot from the equipment either. I am sick and tired of living in a warm state and wearing a winter coat inside the office!
One thing that GSM did do right is the idea behind SIM cards. CDMA has the like R-UDIM card, but like I said the one phone I know of has it disabled, by CARRIER REQUEST.
I do agree that this "lock in" needs to die. There should just be a store with phones pick the one you like that matches your network CDMA, 1900 & 800, or what ever.
Unfortunately its been that way since things started nearly 20 years ago. The first phones put into my cars all were practically cheap or free with a free or low cost installation, but you were committed for 2 years or $175. Nothings really changed other than now its pocket sized phones v. installed car phones.
The idea is that $xx.xx *24 for the 2 years will cover the cost of the phone and be quite profitable in the long run.
New phone comes out and they get you for another 2 years. I don't buy phones from the carrier I get them off EBay. I have not been under contract for 3 years and am not about to change it. Not that I am likely to leave my carrier any way. The present choices from my carrier are too feature overloaded and 99% are flip style which I can not stand. I want to smack the Motorola egnineer who came up with those stupid StarTAC's!
You should walk into Cellular World Super Center and pick your phone out, swap what ever kind of chip SIM/R-UDIM, and out the door you go.
All those who are slaves to "cool" phones could change to their hears content.
Coporate greed gets in the way of this though.
In the US you can not just purchase any old phone and use it on any network with out a lot of hoops.
This is done to lock you into the carrier. Also in the US many carriers have Early Termination Fees (ETF) so if you sign up and cancel, normally before 2 years, its normally a $175 charge. This is especially true if your on promotional plans and getting 50 phones for $0.01. They want you to pay air time charges for all those free phones.
GSM Based Networks:
Cingular/ATT, Tmobile
Since they use GSM they have SIM cards thus you can *normally* can get a phone from say EBay that has previously been used on the same network and swap SIM cards no problem. This can be locked by the carrier if they choose, but most allow SIM swaps on phones which have been used on their network.
Phones from other networks will REQUIRE an unlock code or software. Most of the times a quick call to the carrier and they will provide the code over the phone or email.
CDMA:
CDMA does not use SIMS, there is a similar R-UIDM card available, but the one phone in the US market that has it the carrier specifically locked its use out.
Alltel:
Phones not locked, but BEWARE: Alltel is absolutely anal about this! NO ANALOG AMPS or NON GPS phones will be activated on their network, period. So if you want to keep your ancient phone around as a back up and use while you get a replacement think again. You must call to do an ESN change, no web changes. NO GPS, NO SWAP/ACTIVATE, AMPS only, NO!
Verizon:
Phones are not locked, except old PrimeCO units that may be floating around, probably all gone now unless your like me and don't change phones every other day.
Online ESN swap for FREE, $15 charge via phone. If its not a phone they have used on their network you may have to call and tell them its a similar phone to get it to do the PRL update.
NOTE: If your a Bluetooth fanatic, DO NOT USE VERIZON! They will disable most of the usable functions of Bluetooth as they did on the V710. They also will disable any thing that would allow you to put ring tones on the phone or take pictures off the phone via PC or avoid the charge to do so. You need to get a NON VERIZON version of any BT phone to use any thing other than headset mode.
SprintPCS:
Phones LOCKED REQUIRE the Master Subsidy Lock (MSL) code to reprogram to another network. Hit or miss on getting this code from them. Also ESN can be locked to SprintPCS. Many carriers especially Verizon will NOT activate former SprintPCS phones and they can tell by the ESN.
MetroPCS
Phones locked will require an unlock code to mirgrate to another carrier.
iDEN-TDMA
Nextel/Boost:
Nextel/Boost does use SIM's but Nextel likes to tie the SIM to the phone so you have to get a new SIM on every new phone.
You can swap a Boost SIM into a Nextel phone with out issue, you need to UNLOCK Boost phones to use a Nextel SIM in them.
ALL NEW Boost phones are "double locked" with a code that has not been cracked, yet. This is NOT the Subsidy Lock that can be defeated via certain software on Nextel/Boost.
I propose that a NIMBY database be developed for any one who signs or protests or what ever cell phone or radio services towers of any sort.
Then when they try to get cellular service, they are DENIED flat out. "Sorry, your a NIMBY, we don't offer service to NIMBY's!"
If they have servce now it should be terminated with one of those curt legal letters they send out. Should specifically outline you a NIMBY jerk and your service has been terminated. Don't bother with the other carriers, we told them too! They don't want you either! Go AWAY!
Just like the article states they want ALL the services but don't want to support it. Too bad.
Cellular services need towers. Done.
Wow, your DVB-T decoders are $100? You really have overpriced electronics over in the states then. They cost about 20ukp here in the UK.
DVB-T is not used in the US for the new DTV format. The ATSC to NTSC (old analog, akin to PAL) converters are high priced now as no one NEEDS them or wants them.
If you have cable there will be no need to switch unless you want HD. The crapbleco's will do the needed ATSC to QAM conversion at the headend and send it out that way.
DVB is used by DishNetwork for its DBS (akin to BSkyB in UK) service in the US, but thats it.
The US missed the boat on the TV upgrade and should have chosen to use DVB-T.
I love that startup sound! Its a whole lot better than that annoying sleazdoze startup sound. Thats all I hear all day.
Its even better when connected to the whole house audio system and it goes thru all the speakers in the house.
Nope, got my own house so its not going bother mom.
If I want to really drive people crazy, I'll turn on the outside speakers
I'd be happy with re-enabling the read-only 'public' SNMP on the local IP address of the cable modem... it was really nice pointing MRTG at 192.168.100.1 and reading the transferred-bytes numbers straight out of the modem interface, to say nothing of the signal strength and other genuinely useful info you can read with docsdiag.
EXACTLY!
I have ZERO interest in "uncapping" I am quite happy with my speed.
What I would like is the ability to use the SNMP READ to get info as listed above. I am NOT ASKING for or do I want the WRITE SNMP string.I alsp don't want locked out of the ability to CONFIG *MY* EQUIPMENT!
I simply want to be able to read stats and info on the link, data sent etc..
Also the ability to change out modems on my end with out calling up the ISP, since my cable ISP doesn't have this online ability would be great. A simple change of the MAC to the presently autorhized one in their system would allow me to swap out the Ericsson PipeRider and Toshiba I have to MY Cisco UBR924's. I'll put the 2 cableco units in the closet(s) for use when I need to check problems, but otherwise I want more robust equipment, BUT I am not going to get LOCKED out of MY EQUIPMENT EITHER!
and why every Wal-Mart in a region looks the same.
I WISH! All the WM in my area or even better nationwide were looked/stocked the same.
3 WM in my county, and 1 is brand new, about 4 months. Doesn't stock the same food stuffs as the other 2. One example, Sams Choice 1/2 gallon OJ (NOT from concentrate) stocked in the 2 older WM, not in the new one. Gallon of Grade A Whole (none of the white water, please) Milk in the 2 older WM its $2.98, in the new one it $3.06, and in the Sams Club ACCROSS THE STREET from one of the older WM its $2.06. 1/2 gallon prices were the same.
Each of the 3 carries a little different variety of stuff that the others don't carry. Annoying, but I can deal with it. It would be better if EVERY WM was SETUP & STOCKED the SAME. Aisle 5 cereal, aisle 7 potato chips, etc.. Same selection, same price, all stores. If any store could do this its WM.
WM needs to get it in gear with all this data processing ability and make it so I can punch in the UPC's or use my own bar code reader (NON tracking, thank you, no reapeats on the CueCats) to enter my order online for an employee to pull and have ready for pick up. They do this now for Sams Club. I want the ENTIRE STORE online. From clothes to tires to food to electronics, not just a selection of stuff. I am sick and tired of having to actually leave the house to get food.
No regular user should ever need write access to the hostsfile. That's the way Linux works by default. If you do need to modify it, you probably are root anyway . . .To allow ordinary users to edit the hostsfile is stupid,
.. ATM or money back at the local store of choice, and money back beats the ATM fee in most places if your bank charges them. The rest DEBIT CARD! ! ! This is the best thing every created. I rarely carry cash, and any place that doesn't take my debit I probably don't need to go anyway.
I have to disagree strongly with that, I edit the hosts file on my Linux and wimpdoze boxes daily. Why?
ADS! ADS! POPUPS! ADS etc...
I don't want ads or anything else and the hosts file stops 99% of it. The rest my wimpdoze browser has a URL filter to kill and its popup kill gets what few popups still get thru.
I hate using even simple web sites like newspapers etc. at work due to all the ads, annoying. I now do what I need and move on due to the ads etc..
And what is the attraction of online banking anyway?
Simple software allows me to keep an accurate record of my banking needs, pay bills, and I am not talking about using the banks websites. I am talking about using, Quicken as an example, to DL/UL transactions, and bill pay requests, directly in the software using OFX. Anything that can not be direct debit'd is setup as an auto repeating transaction online, till I kill it.
I have not been inside a bank in 4 years except to start the account when I moved. The closest I get is to deposit the few checks that I still get now and then, but thats probably maybe 20 times tops in 4 years.
Need cash
90% of all bills are direct debit to the account, as well as direct deposit of pay. Why cant the US and the rest of the world move to a cash free society.
I hardly see the point in having a picture-phone, but thats just me. I can understand how some people would WANT a picture phone, but not a PC phone.
I couldn't agree more.
I don't want some fancy phone thats a PDA, PC, camera, or really anything else other than a, PHONE.
I would rather see that the carriers worried more about coverage in CDMA digital. Without coverage no phone is going to make a call, peiod. And the manufacturers should worry about making better performing on the RF side v. adding cameras etc..
Also make these thinks big enough so a REAL human can 1) Fit their finger on the buttons and 2) Read the screen.
No I don't want to match my outfit for the day, my shoes, my socks or anything else. I want it to make a call when I neeed to make a call.
You want to improve the phone then here is what I am looking for:
1) Ban flip phone style, useless.
2) Put a REAL antenna on them. Not just some piece of wire. A real antenna. At 800 & 1900MHz a decent 3-4db gain antenna is possible. NO its not going to fit in your purse, pocket or anything. Don't care.
3) A real anteanna connector like TNC, SMA or something not 2 pins that might connect to some adaptor that has a real TNC or SMA on it. So I can connect it to an antenna mounted on the car
4) Full analog support at 600mW, not every where is digital
5) 1x and Fax support to connect to my laptop to access internet and send/receiver faxes on a laptop as needed.
Now if you want to combine some useful things into a phone heres what could be useful in a cell phone:
1) MP3 player with SD/MMC memory reader
2) FM stereo/TV audio/WX receiver with alerts
3) Even better would be #2 plus 108-960MHz scanner with PL/DPL/trunking/AM & FM, digital mode(s) support
4) Flex pager for the 900MHz band that can supplement SMS service
5) Why not add a GMRS/FRS handheld in as well at 2W
All the above make sense, they are radio or communication related. No where does this phone look good, match my car, purse, or fit into a pocket.
Just a while ago Tom's Hardware reviewed a product that was a USB->Ethernet converter. The idea was you installed a driver on your PC. Then you plugged your USB stuff into this device, which plugged into ethernet. Then any computer on your ethernet network could use that USB device (assuming it had all the drivers/etc).
Do you have a link to this review, a search at Toms Hardware did not provide any thing similar. Just usb devices.
Anybody else notice that the network attached storage specifically says it's *NOT* wireless?
GOOD! Why would you want a wireless NAS? ? ?
WEP, WPA, etc are not 100% secure as a wired connection.
I am certainly not going to connect a NAS device up wirelessly to my network for it to be a potential security leak of personal or corporate documents.
May as well throw gasoline on the fire. Thats just tempting wardrivers to see whats on that NAS.
I dont use my wireless LAN even with 128bit WEP, MAC FILTER, internal IP limits to access things like banking sites etc. for a reason, it sends this data via RF and its INSECURE.
I'll take WIRED NAS any day.
So if your going to pitch any of those old Netgear ND508 or ND520's out for these, how about letting me know which dumpster so I can take them off your hands.
I too would also like suggestions on stand alone boxes that can meet a similar need.
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Require:
SIP
p2p Peer to Peer support
T.38 fax upto 14.4K w/ECM
DHCP
NAT Traversal or NAT compat.
CallerID
Remote configureable & manageable
Encryption of the VOIP stream via AES, DES, Blowfish would be a major plus, but not required.
Intergrate with FWD etc. so that each site could have its own private VOIP #, a FWD # if desired
Ability to VOIP into the remote device enter a code, enter password and dial out on local POTS
Reverse of the above POTS to any of the networks VOIP sites
Intelligent routing so as to have it VOIP to a remote site and connect the call via the local POTS as it would be a local call at that site. A device which could sit behind the NID for POTS and intergrate all the phones at that site so that dialing 7 digits went local POTS, 10 digits went via VOIP if in routing table to a remote site to dial out local POTS call. 10 digits if not routable went to POTS LD. All with little or no user intervention.
Automatic fowarding of inbound POTS from any site to any selected site. selectable on/off, remote controllable.
Slow speed link codec (G.711) support to at least 128K ISDN and 802.11b & a wifi connections
Ability to intergrate POTS and VOIP via the device or a IP phone into a seamless network. A IP phone would have 2 or more "lines" which line 1 may be POTS, line 2 private VOIP, line 3 FWD etc..
Asterik may suited to this, but at this time I have sites which are not user friendly to having a PC running * 24/7 where as a simple little box to interface with the broadband modem, router, ups etc. in a closet is no problem. Especially since some of these sites could have 0 people present for 5-6 months at a time, but need the VOIP to POTS to VOIP to work with out user intervention.
Which also leads to . .
Can the voice ports off a Cisco ubr924/925 be used with some standalone H.323 device to roll your own mini VOIP setup or does it require a Cisco server of some sort to operate those ports.
Trains make no sense in the wide-open Midwest
Why do trains in the wide open midwest not make sense?
The total lack of rail service in the US similar to Europe is a disgrace.
The wide open midwest would allow for high speed rail trains where as in the clogged northeast there is little room to build new right of ways for these. The NE corridor is limited to upgrading to operate at best 120MPH. I am talking 200+ bullet trains. Wide open space is wide open to build rail right of ways.
Public transport outside major metro areas, mostly NYC & Chicago is absolute junk or non exsistant.
If NYC & Chicago can have x many rails lines bringing in millions of workers daily, why cant the rest of the US?
Why cant the rest of the US have reliable, high speed rail service from city to city?
I would gladly take a train/subway to and from work, provided:
1) Met the same time schedule as me driving
2) Operated in the eveings & weekends, past 10PM, not everyone works 9-5 M to F
3) FREE SAFE parking
4) Cost no more than driving in my car monthly
The US government should never have let the railroads abandon passenger service.
Amtrak though also is not helping matters by asking US$1,000/per person for a berth to travel across country.They are pricing the people they want to attract into flying or worse taking a bus, or maybe not even going at all.
The real reason Comcast bought TechTV is so they can control the flow of technical information.
Comcast along with Cisco/Linksys and CableLabs plan to SNOOP on YOUR HOME NETWORK!
"I have a router and NAT." NO PROBLEM. ATT is working on fixing that bothersome little problem.
And if your using their new extreme tier with that fancy new Cisco/Linksys WCG2000 router/modem/SNOOPER no problem. CableHome aka SpyHome will allow them to:
CableHome 1.0 support for the ability to deliver secure, managed services from Comcast's head-end network to the subscribers' home network
TRANSLATION:
The goals for the CableHome Management Portal include:
* Enable viewing of LAN IP Device information obtained via the CableHome DHCP Portal (CDP)
* Enable viewing of the results of LAN IP Device performance monitoring done by the CableHome Test Portal (CTP)
* Provide the capability to disable LAN segments
You can read more here.
So TechTV had to go! Too much info in the wrong hands!
Sun aquired Cobalt and their line of 1U RAQ servers and the Qube boxes, but has now EOL'd them.I don't think Sun knew how to market these after they aquired them.
Big MISTAKE, BIG!
I've been picking these things up cheap on EBay to do various things like web development, back up web, my own DNS server w/edited records to kill spam/ad/malware etc., email etc..
By developing a MediaQube Sun could come in put a box in the home with:
NAT
DHCP
Personal Email server
Personal Web server
HOME Video server
HOME Audio server
DVR backend with compatability to MythTV/KnoppMyth, those Happauge set top interface boxes
VPN for telecommuters and remote workers during imclement weather, part time workers
Home file server (NASRaQ)
One little MediaQUBE that even the clods at home can install & maintain and they could oust sleaszsoft and others media PC's.
Homes are becoming more and more reliant on some of the same technology that business has/now relies on daily. Especially as more and more homes move to broadband cable or xDSL access.
Put some of that brain power to work along with some decent Happaugge DVR350 cards, a decent DVB card for DBS DishNetwork users and this machine could rock. Simple plug up the connectors, and setup via the LCD like the RAQ/Qubes.
It also serves to get Johnny and/or Janey learning Linux! As mom & dad are going to turn it over to them to admin, unless their here already. Sooner or later they are going to want to learn its inner workings and tweak it. So they learn Linux and don't get sucked into the wimpdoze spell.
Recite after me:
MediaQube, MEDIAQube.
OK, folks its time to quit asking every one BUT YOURSELFS to be your mommy!
You want the goverment to censor this, censor that. You want your DVD player to censor this and that too! Please.
The education system in this country is nothing more than a glorified babysitting service, so mom can hang out at the mall or the country club or what have you. If you didn't want the responsability of a child and actually PARENTING the child then you should have taken measures to not had [a] kid[s] in the first place!
Its is NOT the goverments or soceity in general responsability to do your parenting.
If you purchased a DVD that contains lanquage that is not suitable for you or your rugrats then why did you purchase or rent it? ? DVD players should not be ADDING in more DRM crap!
If the movie/show on the DVD is that offensive to you then maybe YOU should NOT be watching it anyway. Leave it for the ADULTS of soceity to watch.
Parenting requires INVOLMENT and guess what that means you need to know what your deliquents are doing and watching on TV, radio, internet etc.. It also means YOU the PARENT need to TEACH THEM that some things are shown on a DVD are not considered proper lanquage.
Just like this crap over Janet Jackson, Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge et al.. I don't really care for any of them. I don't care that one bared her breast on TV. As far as I am concerned more power to her!
This country is SERIOUSLY BEHIND the times on broadcast & media free speech as compared to the rest of the world. Its time to get over it! If you don't like whats being said or shown on the radio or TV CHANGE THE CHANNEL or TURN IT OFF!
Use YOUR BRAIN and quit asking the government, or any one else, to be a Censor Nanny.
This may well be the beginning of the end.
1) Leo cuts back to CfH, then quits Cfh (Probably is seeing the writing on the wall.)
2) Talent LOSS MUST stop. TT has lost 2 fantastic anchors Erica Hill & Sumi Das to other media. Need to keep the talent to keep the people watching.
3) Comcrap hates DBS and BUD, thats why the regional sports channel in the Philadelphia area is distibuted via microwave or fiber. Thus comcrap doesn't have to share with DBS. I look for this to happen w/ TT as each contract with the cable MSO's, DBS and regional carriers come up for renewal, w/exception of comcrap areas.
4) Better programming! SS, CfH great. As for the anime DUMP IT! robot wars/battle DUMP IT! Bring back Max Headroom ! XPlay - DUMP IT! PLEASE! Put Morgan back on SS or some place else, but shows about games need to go. FFM, Spy School, Conspiraces, Wired for Sex all good. Now as for Martin Sargent, So long as he stays where he is and OFF SS and other shows he stay. In the "Late Night" format he's fine, but in any other area he doesn't belong. I am not a fan, but can deal with the show where it is now.
5) STORY REPEATS! ! STALE NEWS! TechLive needs to cease immediatley padding their shows with reruns of stories from previous shows. TL also needs to quit discussing movies, MOST ESPECIALLY I am sick and tired of hearing about bullet time, any thing related to matrix, and lord whatever, disney, nemo, animated any thing. I am not interested in these crap books and/or movies. They are not worth the time spent on them, not they worth the awards nominated or received by them. Same goes for ipods, overpricesd. My $30 cd player does just fine at playing CD's and MP3 CD's in the car and at the beach.
A daily TechNews Cast, which I know TL is trying so hard to be, but is not cutting it.
Now about those commercials. If I see one more ditech, diet pill or some other related scammercial I am going to die. I am sick of hearing about it. Also that stupid commercial for training with the klaxon blowing, annoying!
I don't know what G4 was/is but if its related to gaming, my days of watching TT may be over shortly.
More shows on home automation, home technology like power cells, solar panels, voip, how to set up this stuff and use, etc. (NO this has nothing to do about being a weeenie greenie.) Putting technology to work in the home for security and convienence.
More Linux!
A new software show that reviews and tests new software for the PC. (NOT GAMES! and NO MS software allowed, open source, shareware, freeware, and NON MS/Apple.)
LESS MtraSh
SS - LESS Case modding. I don't care that theres little LED's on the fans, or theres a neon light or anything else. All the PC's are stuck behind a desk, in a closest or buried behind something.