From what I've been reading, the contact information in the WHOIS record is no longer valid for him, because neither his email address nor his cell phone number work any more.
Gee, I hope he fixes that soon. I'd hate for someone malicious to fill out a WHOIS Data Problem Report and get his domain revoked. That would be mean and sucky.
I'm just surprised that after all this time, Dallas still figures so prominently in the consolidation. That's where the old Babbage's Inc., headquarters was, and also Babbage's Store #1 in Northpark Center, where I worked as a seasonal employee one Christmas back in the early 1990s:)
I remember saving up my money and getting my employee discount, to buy the first Stereo SoundBlaster at that store for something like $186.11.
knowing those pictures of you and your spouse, from that vacation where you never left the bedroom, aren't decorating the employee lounge at WalMart: priceless
Give Mom a pretty bracelet with an RFID tag in it, and tape one to the top bar of Grandpa's walker. They can just arrive at the door and wave at it/bump against it. A device to pop the latch itself, not just the lock, and swing the door open an inch would make this great.
Still, like someone else mentioned, in a fire all this tech would be useless.
Unless everyone starts wearing gloves, they'll be leaving their fingerprints on their wallets. Well, at least the leather ones. And if not there, then on their credit cards, inside. So now, the thieves just have to be extra light-fingered, so to speak, and then they can go back to their lair, turning the goods over to their boss, who has some tape ready...
Good news is, at least Oliver will eat more regularly, since Fagin probably won't have to worry about PINs any more.
The music industry needs to see what would happen if they kill this cash cow by trying to milk it too hard. One day would probably not be sufficient, so let's have a week, or maybe just 5 days, where you can't buy anything from the iTunes store. Make it be the last week or 5 days days in a reporting period, because a lot of the pent-up demand will recover the next week, probably.
Better yet, let's see Steve Jobs say, okay, you want variable pricing, we'll hook up with Magnatunes and CDBaby and sell their tracks for 50-75 cents, or something. Those indy labels could really use the visibility, and the artists might see more revenue even at that lower rate than the ones beholden to RIAA and the big corporations. Some of them might even ask Apple to distribute their tracks as m4as, not m4ps, and would probably volunteer a lot more free tracks of the week.
Also, I can't believe they want some of the revenue stream from iPod sales. They had nothing to do with their creation, sales, marketing, etc. They're just becoming more obviously money-hungry than ever before.
I've been a Viewsonic guy for years, but now that prices have dropped, I might go NEC for my next one. I feel really stupid for letting a CompUSA person talk me into a drop/replace warranty on a Viewsonic LCD 17" panel a couple years ago, in fact... the panel was discounted, but with the warranty it was probably as much as a top of the line one. Not to mention I shouldn't have bought a warranty like that anyway, they're always ripoffs.:\
If Bell had designed the first PC, it would be modular, run on 48V and have a cool black Bakelite case.
Actually, it would have been hardwired in, you wouldn't have been allowed to use third-party equipment, and you'd have been charged a monthly fee for rental:) You're right, though, about using batteries in line. Even without all the other benefits, like conditioning, it's a built in UPS, if the battery set is large enough.:)
I prefer to think of warranties as a practical gauge of how much a manufacturer trusts its own workmanship, rather than something I will necessarily choose to exercise rights under.
If one of my 5-year Seagate hard drives fails, I'm probably not going to ship it back to them for "repair," or at least I'm going to eBay whatever refurb they send me -- but I know from experience not to trust drives with 1-year warranties, any more, and 5 years tells me that if it's not DOA or within the first 30 days, it'll probably last a while.
If my CRT dies, I'm not going to ship it out, especially not at my own expense, and definitely not when it's big enough that the shipping company might destroy it in transit. If I can, I'll take it to a "local authorized repair facility," and I would be a fool not to have looked to ensure there was one before buying the CRT. Again, though, if it's not DOA or dead in 30 days, the warranty tells me how long it will probably last.
On the other hand, sometimes it does pay to go premium and get a product that has free shipping and even pre-ship as part of the warranty coverage, if the price difference isn't too great. At the time I bought some memory from Mushkin, I was paying a premium, but they had a good rep, and hand picked their own chips and boards, etc. I expected to never have to use the warranty before I obsoleted the equipment, really. Several years later, though, the memory failed. They sent me new memory as soon as I told them of my Memtest86 results, letting me ship the defective memory back afterwards, so my downtime was minimized. Obviously, memory is easy to ship, but still, FedExing back and forth, on top of the cost of another vendor I might have gone with with a long warranty but no shipping, would have been more than the cost of what I paid for the premium brand. And if I had bought cheap memory, and it failed a couple years later, I'd have had to just buy new sticks all over, which certainly would have been more.
Oh, yes, I have an Antec True 430, also:) It's probably about 4 years old, now. I bought it because it had the best reviews and a good warranty. I live in the USA, too, so theoretically I could ship it back easily. I've since heard some people claim their cases have caught fire, etc., but I really think they had to have been misusing the equipment by overloading or not venting properly, or not paying attention to warning signs. In my case, pun intended, I've never had a problem. Maybe because it's an Antec tower case, too:) (the case came with a smaller PSU, originally, but I wanted more power)
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and later the company takes away some of that capability, do you have some legal basis for claiming false advertising, or reneging on contract, or something like that?
I think this would be more of a question for people who paid for a lifetime subscription, but it also throws into the question the value of any future lifetime subscriptions, because if their contract allows them to start adding restrictions after the fact, is it really of much value?
Perhaps a similar question could have been first pursued back when the company started venturing into adding advertising into the skip features, etc., as well.
There's no proof offered, yet. I only skimmed the page, because it's in a crazy-blogger color scheme, but everything I saw seemed to be stuff seen on/. within the last year. Give us something new, something groundbreaking and (newly) newsworthy.
Component CD recorders in the USA, like the kind you'd put in your stereo cabinet, are required to use those special CDS. So basically you can think of them as looking for a "tax bit" before you can record -- even if you're recording your daughter's violin recital. Sections 7-17 and 7-18 of that same FAQ explain this a little.
You know how people keep trying to have "Microsoft Tax" refund days? Everyone who uses their Type 2 discs for personal recording, or recording of material in the public domain, ought to agitate for refunds, also. This "tax," which is turned over to a private concern to be given only to its clients, should be declared illegal. I'd like to see independent artists band together to sue for their share of the "tax," in the meantime.
I think it's idiotic that I need to pay 13 bucks a month just so it can know when a TV show is on.
Couldn't you have bought out the subscription? Of course, then you have to admit that your bargain priced hardware actually cost you $300-400+, but that's still cheaper than the monthly subscription, if you think it will last long enough.
I remember when it was free, and I was adding content to it. then it went private, and I was annoyed they made money off my time and effort. Then IMDB started up, and I thought, surely they won't do the same thing... but they did.
I know, fool me twice, shame on me. So I haven't helped with Wikipedia or TVTome:)
Market positioning to preserve revenue for other products, and annoying the competition. Seems like the actual utility to consumers was just an afterthought, this time out. Seriously.
If you want to give someone a "taste" or preview, that's a demo or a trial, and ought to be priced accordingly. Limiting the device arbitrarily to 100 songs isn't a feature, and not using a common memory card standard is a very Sony-style way of locking people into proprietary, overpriced hardware.
This may not have been a picture of a lost opportunity to evacuate before, but it certainly is a picture of a lost opportunity to evacuate after.
The author neglects to consider the possibility that they could have rounded up bus drivers to just take the (working) buses out of the floodplain -- not filling them with passengers and not taking them out of state, etc. Just out of the floodplain. Then they could try to bring them back in, afterwards. That'd be a much cheaper pricetag for the taxpayers in the event of less damage, and it seems likely that, being out of the floodplain, at least a few would have been around to pick up survivors.
Let's say you only had 10 busdrivers. Let's say they shared a bus back to the lot, even. If they took 10 trips, and stayed away on the last trip, they'd have saved 91 buses. I don't know how big the floodplain extends beyond where they are, either, but I'm guessing they had enough time and drivers into getting "a lot" out, if not "the lot."
Of course, if you tell me these are actually on high ground, away from the flood plain, I'm going to say, okay, never mind.:) Maybe they could have thought of a higher place, maybe not.
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When I Google for geocaching, the first page is an article about the thing that's being talked about here, and it says the 'first thing I thought of was Akamai'. I expected you to do a little more research.
I did. I don't get the same links you did, obviously. Please provide a link to the article you found on the front page of Google that refers to your definition of geocaching, since my search keeps bringing up the one I'm talking about.
People have been using geocaching as a type of caching since before 2000. I guess Akamai are tired of people using their term. A technical site with an article that promises to be all about, say, DNS, should say 'road DNS' if they mean 'Driving Near Stuff'.
Even if that explains why Akamai's own website doesn't list geocaching, it doesn't explain why a Google search of bind + geocaching or squid + geocaching turns up nothing, if those are commonly used with your definition.
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Why would you tell me to pick another word?
The name's been used for this since 2000. Even the whois for the domain name reports it was registered July 3rd of that year.
Put "akamai geocaching" into Google. There's nothing about geographically-based content delivery, there, at least not on the front page. Put "geocaching" into the search engine at akamai.com: nothing there, either. And to answer your follow-up post, try "bind geocaching" and "squid geocaching," also. Guess what Webster's says?
If I sound slightly annoyed, it's because I expected someone to do a little more thinking and research before telling me that hundreds of thousands of people are misusing the term. You're a little early for Troll Tuesday.
Over the life of the console, this will come down significantly. So the average cost of that player will end up being somewhat less. Also, if you consider what a new standalone Blu-Ray player will likely cost when Sony introduces the PS3, it makes the PS3 look like a much better deal, even to people who mostly just want to play Blu-Ray, not games.
As I recall, in markets outside the United States, the PS2 saw a large percentage of its initial sales attributable to being an inexpensive (for the time) DVD player, that happened to also play games. It looks like they're repeating what worked well for them, before.
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From what I've been reading, the contact information in the WHOIS record is no longer valid for him, because neither his email address nor his cell phone number work any more.
Gee, I hope he fixes that soon. I'd hate for someone malicious to fill out a WHOIS Data Problem Report and get his domain revoked. That would be mean and sucky.
...as soon as I can trade saved Duke Nukem Forever games between it and my Phantom.
I'm just surprised that after all this time, Dallas still figures so prominently in the consolidation. That's where the old Babbage's Inc., headquarters was, and also Babbage's Store #1 in Northpark Center, where I worked as a seasonal employee one Christmas back in the early 1990s :)
I remember saving up my money and getting my employee discount, to buy the first Stereo SoundBlaster at that store for something like $186.11.
Sony says that if you've already paid, to contact one of the listed service centers.
printer/scanner/copier: ~$150
ink cartridges: ~$50
knowing those pictures of you and your spouse, from that vacation where you never left the bedroom, aren't decorating the employee lounge at WalMart: priceless
Give Mom a pretty bracelet with an RFID tag in it, and tape one to the top bar of Grandpa's walker. They can just arrive at the door and wave at it/bump against it. A device to pop the latch itself, not just the lock, and swing the door open an inch would make this great.
Still, like someone else mentioned, in a fire all this tech would be useless.
Unless everyone starts wearing gloves, they'll be leaving their fingerprints on their wallets.
Well, at least the leather ones. And if not there, then on their credit cards, inside.
So now, the thieves just have to be extra light-fingered, so to speak, and then they can go back to their lair, turning the goods over to their boss, who has some tape ready...
Good news is, at least Oliver will eat more regularly, since Fagin probably won't have to worry about PINs any more.
how can they get away with calling it a DVD?
The music industry needs to see what would happen if they kill this cash cow by trying to milk it too hard. One day would probably not be sufficient, so let's have a week, or maybe just 5 days, where you can't buy anything from the iTunes store. Make it be the last week or 5 days days in a reporting period, because a lot of the pent-up demand will recover the next week, probably.
Better yet, let's see Steve Jobs say, okay, you want variable pricing, we'll hook up with Magnatunes and CDBaby and sell their tracks for 50-75 cents, or something. Those indy labels could really use the visibility, and the artists might see more revenue even at that lower rate than the ones beholden to RIAA and the big corporations. Some of them might even ask Apple to distribute their tracks as m4as, not m4ps, and would probably volunteer a lot more free tracks of the week.
Also, I can't believe they want some of the revenue stream from iPod sales. They had nothing to do with their creation, sales, marketing, etc. They're just becoming more obviously money-hungry than ever before.
I've been a Viewsonic guy for years, but now that prices have dropped, I might go NEC for my next one. I feel really stupid for letting a CompUSA person talk me into a drop/replace warranty on a Viewsonic LCD 17" panel a couple years ago, in fact... the panel was discounted, but with the warranty it was probably as much as a top of the line one. Not to mention I shouldn't have bought a warranty like that anyway, they're always ripoffs. :\
Actually, it would have been hardwired in, you wouldn't have been allowed to use third-party equipment, and you'd have been charged a monthly fee for rental
I prefer to think of warranties as a practical gauge of how much a manufacturer trusts its own workmanship, rather than something I will necessarily choose to exercise rights under.
:) It's probably about 4 years old, now. I bought it because it had the best reviews and a good warranty. I live in the USA, too, so theoretically I could ship it back easily. I've since heard some people claim their cases have caught fire, etc., but I really think they had to have been misusing the equipment by overloading or not venting properly, or not paying attention to warning signs. In my case, pun intended, I've never had a problem. Maybe because it's an Antec tower case, too :) (the case came with a smaller PSU, originally, but I wanted more power)
If one of my 5-year Seagate hard drives fails, I'm probably not going to ship it back to them for "repair," or at least I'm going to eBay whatever refurb they send me -- but I know from experience not to trust drives with 1-year warranties, any more, and 5 years tells me that if it's not DOA or within the first 30 days, it'll probably last a while.
If my CRT dies, I'm not going to ship it out, especially not at my own expense, and definitely not when it's big enough that the shipping company might destroy it in transit. If I can, I'll take it to a "local authorized repair facility," and I would be a fool not to have looked to ensure there was one before buying the CRT. Again, though, if it's not DOA or dead in 30 days, the warranty tells me how long it will probably last.
On the other hand, sometimes it does pay to go premium and get a product that has free shipping and even pre-ship as part of the warranty coverage, if the price difference isn't too great. At the time I bought some memory from Mushkin, I was paying a premium, but they had a good rep, and hand picked their own chips and boards, etc. I expected to never have to use the warranty before I obsoleted the equipment, really. Several years later, though, the memory failed. They sent me new memory as soon as I told them of my Memtest86 results, letting me ship the defective memory back afterwards, so my downtime was minimized. Obviously, memory is easy to ship, but still, FedExing back and forth, on top of the cost of another vendor I might have gone with with a long warranty but no shipping, would have been more than the cost of what I paid for the premium brand. And if I had bought cheap memory, and it failed a couple years later, I'd have had to just buy new sticks all over, which certainly would have been more.
Oh, yes, I have an Antec True 430, also
and later the company takes away some of that capability, do you have some legal basis for claiming false advertising, or reneging on contract, or something like that?
I think this would be more of a question for people who paid for a lifetime subscription, but it also throws into the question the value of any future lifetime subscriptions, because if their contract allows them to start adding restrictions after the fact, is it really of much value?
Perhaps a similar question could have been first pursued back when the company started venturing into adding advertising into the skip features, etc., as well.
There's no proof offered, yet. I only skimmed the page, because it's in a crazy-blogger color scheme, but everything I saw seemed to be stuff seen on /. within the last year. Give us something new, something groundbreaking and (newly) newsworthy.
Component CD recorders in the USA, like the kind you'd put in your stereo cabinet, are required to use those special CDS. So basically you can think of them as looking for a "tax bit" before you can record -- even if you're recording your daughter's violin recital. Sections 7-17 and 7-18 of that same FAQ explain this a little.
You know how people keep trying to have "Microsoft Tax" refund days? Everyone who uses their Type 2 discs for personal recording, or recording of material in the public domain, ought to agitate for refunds, also. This "tax," which is turned over to a private concern to be given only to its clients, should be declared illegal. I'd like to see independent artists band together to sue for their share of the "tax," in the meantime.
Couldn't you have bought out the subscription? Of course, then you have to admit that your bargain priced hardware actually cost you $300-400+, but that's still cheaper than the monthly subscription, if you think it will last long enough.
involving 4xxx series, 50xx series, and 55xx series under certain controlled conditions, but we won't mention that here on /., will we? :)
I remember when it was free, and I was adding content to it. then it went private, and I was annoyed they made money off my time and effort. Then IMDB started up, and I thought, surely they won't do the same thing... but they did.
:)
I know, fool me twice, shame on me. So I haven't helped with Wikipedia or TVTome
Market positioning to preserve revenue for other products, and annoying the competition. Seems like the actual utility to consumers was just an afterthought, this time out. Seriously.
If you want to give someone a "taste" or preview, that's a demo or a trial, and ought to be priced accordingly. Limiting the device arbitrarily to 100 songs isn't a feature, and not using a common memory card standard is a very Sony-style way of locking people into proprietary, overpriced hardware.
This may not have been a picture of a lost opportunity to evacuate before, but it certainly is a picture of a lost opportunity to evacuate after.
:) Maybe they could have thought of a higher place, maybe not.
The author neglects to consider the possibility that they could have rounded up bus drivers to just take the (working) buses out of the floodplain -- not filling them with passengers and not taking them out of state, etc. Just out of the floodplain. Then they could try to bring them back in, afterwards. That'd be a much cheaper pricetag for the taxpayers in the event of less damage, and it seems likely that, being out of the floodplain, at least a few would have been around to pick up survivors.
Let's say you only had 10 busdrivers. Let's say they shared a bus back to the lot, even. If they took 10 trips, and stayed away on the last trip, they'd have saved 91 buses. I don't know how big the floodplain extends beyond where they are, either, but I'm guessing they had enough time and drivers into getting "a lot" out, if not "the lot."
Of course, if you tell me these are actually on high ground, away from the flood plain, I'm going to say, okay, never mind.
I did. I don't get the same links you did, obviously. Please provide a link to the article you found on the front page of Google that refers to your definition of geocaching, since my search keeps bringing up the one I'm talking about.
Even if that explains why Akamai's own website doesn't list geocaching, it doesn't explain why a Google search of bind + geocaching or squid + geocaching turns up nothing, if those are commonly used with your definition.
Why would you tell me to pick another word?
The name's been used for this since 2000. Even the whois for the domain name reports it was registered July 3rd of that year.
Put "akamai geocaching" into Google. There's nothing about geographically-based content delivery, there, at least not on the front page. Put "geocaching" into the search engine at akamai.com: nothing there, either. And to answer your follow-up post, try "bind geocaching" and "squid geocaching," also. Guess what Webster's says?
If I sound slightly annoyed, it's because I expected someone to do a little more thinking and research before telling me that hundreds of thousands of people are misusing the term. You're a little early for Troll Tuesday.
Over the life of the console, this will come down significantly. So the average cost of that player will end up being somewhat less. Also, if you consider what a new standalone Blu-Ray player will likely cost when Sony introduces the PS3, it makes the PS3 look like a much better deal, even to people who mostly just want to play Blu-Ray, not games.
As I recall, in markets outside the United States, the PS2 saw a large percentage of its initial sales attributable to being an inexpensive (for the time) DVD player, that happened to also play games. It looks like they're repeating what worked well for them, before.
My ReplayTV uses VxWorks, and it just reboots when it gets too busy. (I think it's got a "heartbeat" routine to detect when it's thrashing?)
No idea what rebooting a probe would do, though.