As a dialup user, I'm always excited to see a service like this that claims to support even down to 33.6K connections.
Well, first off, the download. Very resonably sized, and it took just shy of 20 minutes.
Second, the install. Just like Skype, for me anyhow. Unpack and exectue.
Third, the account registration. Just as simple.
Fourth, the first call. Laggy, quiet, and that stupid "presence" they add made it so that the person on the other end could hardly hear me.
The minute I tried to change the audio settings for auto gain, echo filter, etc., the program crashed, displayed checkboxes that didn't belong in certain places, and crashed again, and again, and again.
Yes, I know it is my responsibility to submit bug reports, but no, this project will not be able to compete with Skype. Skype is too easy to use and too reliable in comparison to Gizmo.
Also, Skype's search feature is a lot better. Gizmo's is limited and buggy as hell.
"Hello? Mom? Yeah... Do I have anything going on tomorrow at 3:00PM? What time do the guys need to have the first stage of CMS development done? Okay... Thanks for trying... Love you too. Bye."
It wasn't intended to "show them" anything. I just feel the need to advertise something, so why not replace some capitalist marketing with some F/OSS marketing?:)
I have to agree with this. I quit shopping with Tiger Direct a little less than a year ago because they refused to pay for my gas to go pick up an order from an address they delivered it to... Did I mention the address was wrong and I had to go ~120 miles round trip to fetch the package?
They completely refused to reimburse me for THEIR mistake. That mistake led me on a wild-goose-chase for 2 sticks of DDR that were worth ~$200 at the time. Luckily, the person that they shipped it to was a friend of mine and I was able to go pick it up without much hassle. It's just the fact that gas prices were high at the time, I had several schedules to keep, and I HAD TO PAY FOR THEIR MISTAKE!! It doesn't surprise me that they're pulling this. They're greedy and inconsiderate. Are they going to sue everyone that uses "tiger" in their name? What about just the software or hardware products?
All in all, New Egg has been much better. I've only gotten 1 piece of defective hardware from them, and they replaced it at their cost, 100%. They're a cool company too.:)
I don't see this bill getting passed, simply because of all the money that's been spent to create the public side of NOAA/NWS.
I use the NWS Doppler radar almost every day during the storm season. It's accurate and timely, unlike the other services out there (AccuWeather, TWC, Unisys). I used to use Unisys' maps (http://weather.unisys.com/) but they would be delayed by up to an hour at times!
When I finally found the public radar access provided by NOAA, I gave Unisys the finger.
I just can't see several thousand (millions maybe?) dollars worth of websites being shut down, the people that operate them getting the boot, and the country being happy.
Heh. I actually considered the concept of it once. My idea used public proxies. In fact, I did it once just to put some bogus referrers in a friend's httpd logs.:P
They should filter out the publishers, though. Each publisher gets a cookie set when they login. Granted, there's many people that have their cookies disabled, but there's many that don't as well. Just track that cookie.
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I'm one of the little guys, too. I have only ever clicked my own ads maybe twice. I never had more than 1 click per day, so they can't really bitch. What's worse, they refused to prove to me that there were actually invalid clicks. My solution: I removed the ads from all my sites and replaced them with "Get Firefox" ads.
I got sick of waiting for the DNS for a few domains I registered to propigate. I waited a month, and it still hadn't happened. I ended up setting up my own caching DNS server for here at home.
This is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed. It really doesn't take hardly ANY traffic to refresh the cache, but if the TTL is modified to something more like an hour, it'd be allright.
"...some amazing performance videos (many with him playing blindfolded)..."
I'm no Mozart, but even I can play my instrument with my eyes closed. What's that instrument? The bass guitar. I used to play the piano, and part of one of my lessons involved playing a song with my eyes closed.
I agree. I just downloaded one of the packages, CroftSoft, and it had absolutely NO documentation. The most I know is that it...
An Open Source portable pure Java game library with example games, Swing-based sprite animation engine, deployment framework, and firewall tunneling networking. The code is documented in the book Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.
Yes, nice... A book. Offer a package, but don't document it.
I don't mean to sound like a wet blanket and all, but I think this is something that is being hyped up too much before it's given a shot at reality. I do commend them for their efforts on getting it started though.
I've never even enjoyed this "holiday", and it seems that this year it's just gone overboard. Hell, look at that ThinkGeek ad up there... "iCopulate"?! An iPod dildo? WTF?!
If anyone needs me, I'll be living in reality for the rest of the day.
I wasn't referring to their stance on open source. I was referring to their position in the global technology market. Sure, Windows sucks, but that's not the point here. The point is that very few people know that there's an alternative to the "giant", because that's all they see and hear about. Google is headed down that same path, and in the interest of fair trade, it's not a good path to be taking.
Google is becoming too big in too short of a period of time. Sure, Microsoft probably exploded just as fast, but look at where it's gotten them: They monopolize the OS and productivity market, using claims that open source is insecure and vulnerable to attacks and source poisoning.
Yes, there will always be a smaller, less popular alternative, but that doesn't do a whole lot for the person that sees advertisements for Google all over the place. Telling people to just use Google is very analogous to Windows being pushed in classrooms and retail centers.
I agree with you there, but it creates headache for a customer that purchases hosting from a reseller who is a reseller of someone that operates the server, hosted in Utah, from somewhere other than there.
I, for one, have no idea what state my sites are being hosted from, and if I find that it is Utah, I'll be forced to spend the time necessary, working with customers and peers, to determine the actions needed to be taken on the 20+ sites. I can't imagine what it's like for people like myself that have way more sites than that to worry about.
I recently (6 months ago) made the switch from the $20 Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse to the $50 Logitech MX510. Aside from the seemingly thousands of buttons that this mouse has, and the incredible tracking, the way it fits my hand is simply out of this world.
I've never really been a fan of mice that are shaped like this one, but after using it for so long, it really makes my hand hurt to use anything else.
I have had pretty bad degenerative arthrits since I was quite young (5 years old), so I need the most comfort I can get. Being in the web development field, I spend a lot of time either alt+tab'ing my way between windows, or using my mouse to do the same. Because of this, I need the best equipment at an affordable price to minimize the discomfort and pain I experience.
Looking at the "horse" makes my hands hurt, thinking about how it would make my hand rest.
It wouldn't surprise me. I mean, we all know how anti-open source Microsoft is, and Firefox is in fact open source. Of course they're going to identify it as a threat.
I'm already trying to see what happens with my blog.
My theory is that they have a bot that searches for documents containing the words "GAIN", "Gator", and "Spyware". We'll see if and when they try to come after me. Big corporations have always taken a stab at the little guy. Maybe I'll get some sort of compensation. Maybe I'll go to jail.
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Microsoft may get upset with this, as it is similar than their patent on "Identifying when baseball is exciting".
As a dialup user, I'm always excited to see a service like this that claims to support even down to 33.6K connections.
Well, first off, the download. Very resonably sized, and it took just shy of 20 minutes.
Second, the install. Just like Skype, for me anyhow. Unpack and exectue.
Third, the account registration. Just as simple.
Fourth, the first call. Laggy, quiet, and that stupid "presence" they add made it so that the person on the other end could hardly hear me.
The minute I tried to change the audio settings for auto gain, echo filter, etc., the program crashed, displayed checkboxes that didn't belong in certain places, and crashed again, and again, and again.
Yes, I know it is my responsibility to submit bug reports, but no, this project will not be able to compete with Skype. Skype is too easy to use and too reliable in comparison to Gizmo.
Also, Skype's search feature is a lot better. Gizmo's is limited and buggy as hell.
"Hello? Mom? Yeah... Do I have anything going on tomorrow at 3:00PM? What time do the guys need to have the first stage of CMS development done? Okay... Thanks for trying... Love you too. Bye."
I really hate Windows with a passion. Does that count?
An elevator that is sucked up a tube... I can feel my ears popping just thinking about it.
I have no Windows. Just penguins. :)
Write your own virus to send them massive payloads of anti-virus software. :P
It wasn't intended to "show them" anything. I just feel the need to advertise something, so why not replace some capitalist marketing with some F/OSS marketing? :)
I have to agree with this. I quit shopping with Tiger Direct a little less than a year ago because they refused to pay for my gas to go pick up an order from an address they delivered it to... Did I mention the address was wrong and I had to go ~120 miles round trip to fetch the package?
:)
They completely refused to reimburse me for THEIR mistake. That mistake led me on a wild-goose-chase for 2 sticks of DDR that were worth ~$200 at the time. Luckily, the person that they shipped it to was a friend of mine and I was able to go pick it up without much hassle. It's just the fact that gas prices were high at the time, I had several schedules to keep, and I HAD TO PAY FOR THEIR MISTAKE!! It doesn't surprise me that they're pulling this. They're greedy and inconsiderate. Are they going to sue everyone that uses "tiger" in their name? What about just the software or hardware products?
All in all, New Egg has been much better. I've only gotten 1 piece of defective hardware from them, and they replaced it at their cost, 100%. They're a cool company too.
I don't see this bill getting passed, simply because of all the money that's been spent to create the public side of NOAA/NWS.
I use the NWS Doppler radar almost every day during the storm season. It's accurate and timely, unlike the other services out there (AccuWeather, TWC, Unisys). I used to use Unisys' maps (http://weather.unisys.com/) but they would be delayed by up to an hour at times!
When I finally found the public radar access provided by NOAA, I gave Unisys the finger.
I just can't see several thousand (millions maybe?) dollars worth of websites being shut down, the people that operate them getting the boot, and the country being happy.
They should filter out the publishers, though. Each publisher gets a cookie set when they login. Granted, there's many people that have their cookies disabled, but there's many that don't as well. Just track that cookie.Simple. I actually had that planned for an ads system that I started working. Too bad I got burned out with the idea though.
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I'm one of the little guys, too. I have only ever clicked my own ads maybe twice. I never had more than 1 click per day, so they can't really bitch. What's worse, they refused to prove to me that there were actually invalid clicks. My solution: I removed the ads from all my sites and replaced them with "Get Firefox" ads.
I got sick of waiting for the DNS for a few domains I registered to propigate. I waited a month, and it still hadn't happened. I ended up setting up my own caching DNS server for here at home. This is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed. It really doesn't take hardly ANY traffic to refresh the cache, but if the TTL is modified to something more like an hour, it'd be allright.
"...some amazing performance videos (many with him playing blindfolded)..."
I'm no Mozart, but even I can play my instrument with my eyes closed. What's that instrument? The bass guitar. I used to play the piano, and part of one of my lessons involved playing a song with my eyes closed.
Heh... I wonder how many students will try to exploit this and actually submit a paper generated from it.
I've got my eye on you. You appear to know too much. :P
Seriously though, it does make you wonder what they've actually got if someone built this as a hobby project.
I agree. I just downloaded one of the packages, CroftSoft, and it had absolutely NO documentation. The most I know is that it...
An Open Source portable pure Java game library with example games, Swing-based sprite animation engine, deployment framework, and firewall tunneling networking. The code is documented in the book Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.
Yes, nice... A book. Offer a package, but don't document it.
I don't mean to sound like a wet blanket and all, but I think this is something that is being hyped up too much before it's given a shot at reality. I do commend them for their efforts on getting it started though.
I've never even enjoyed this "holiday", and it seems that this year it's just gone overboard. Hell, look at that ThinkGeek ad up there... "iCopulate"?! An iPod dildo? WTF?!
If anyone needs me, I'll be living in reality for the rest of the day.
I wasn't referring to their stance on open source. I was referring to their position in the global technology market. Sure, Windows sucks, but that's not the point here. The point is that very few people know that there's an alternative to the "giant", because that's all they see and hear about. Google is headed down that same path, and in the interest of fair trade, it's not a good path to be taking.
Google is becoming too big in too short of a period of time. Sure, Microsoft probably exploded just as fast, but look at where it's gotten them: They monopolize the OS and productivity market, using claims that open source is insecure and vulnerable to attacks and source poisoning.
Yes, there will always be a smaller, less popular alternative, but that doesn't do a whole lot for the person that sees advertisements for Google all over the place. Telling people to just use Google is very analogous to Windows being pushed in classrooms and retail centers.
Pardon me while I don my tin foil hat.
I agree with you there, but it creates headache for a customer that purchases hosting from a reseller who is a reseller of someone that operates the server, hosted in Utah, from somewhere other than there.
I, for one, have no idea what state my sites are being hosted from, and if I find that it is Utah, I'll be forced to spend the time necessary, working with customers and peers, to determine the actions needed to be taken on the 20+ sites. I can't imagine what it's like for people like myself that have way more sites than that to worry about.
I recently (6 months ago) made the switch from the $20 Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse to the $50 Logitech MX510. Aside from the seemingly thousands of buttons that this mouse has, and the incredible tracking, the way it fits my hand is simply out of this world.
I've never really been a fan of mice that are shaped like this one, but after using it for so long, it really makes my hand hurt to use anything else.
I have had pretty bad degenerative arthrits since I was quite young (5 years old), so I need the most comfort I can get. Being in the web development field, I spend a lot of time either alt+tab'ing my way between windows, or using my mouse to do the same. Because of this, I need the best equipment at an affordable price to minimize the discomfort and pain I experience.
Looking at the "horse" makes my hands hurt, thinking about how it would make my hand rest.
It wouldn't surprise me. I mean, we all know how anti-open source Microsoft is, and Firefox is in fact open source. Of course they're going to identify it as a threat.
We'll see. I'm testing a theory here.
I'm already trying to see what happens with my blog.
My theory is that they have a bot that searches for documents containing the words "GAIN", "Gator", and "Spyware". We'll see if and when they try to come after me. Big corporations have always taken a stab at the little guy. Maybe I'll get some sort of compensation. Maybe I'll go to jail.