I followed this path and found a very significant problem with it. As probably most other geeks out there, I put the computer together and put Linux on it. And then I discovered that Linux doesn't have Netflix and Vudu. And this is not likely to change in near future, due to Microsoft DRM technologies used in those. For a HTPC, it's a very significant downsize. So now I'm faced with a choice of putting Windows on it (ugh), or shelling out for a Mac Mini, which will be twice as expensive at half the firepower. In retrospect, I should've just gotten a Boxee Box with an external hard drive.
I couldn't agree with you more. Unfortunately, with everything that's been happening in our country lately, it seems like the sane people are in the minority, and the majority, led by "The Messiah" feel like they're entitled to something, for doing nothing.
This is just great.
In NYC right now, they're cutting the city budget, implementing a whole slew of new taxes (taxing Itunes store purchases?), cutting subway service (while hiking the rates)... and what are they spending the money on?
That's right, replacing street lights with LED bulbs. Aren't there a little more important things to worry about/spend money on right now?
I'm sure if a company wants to get Iphones for all of their technical support people, they don't want to go to the store and activate each freaking one in turn...
Here in NYC, the cable companies have created a laughable charade to resemble "competition". It works like this: Time Warner and Cablevision have split the city into various districts. Depending on where you live, you can ONLY get either TW or Cablevision. They have exactly the same prices, too!
The only alternative is to get Dish Network.. which is problematic if you live in an apartment. This is total B.S. and I'm glad the FCC is finally doing something about it.
One of the reasons I love Slashdot is because here, comments like these (i.e. intelligently written, interesting, but still providing contrarian view point) get modded up to +5, while on sites like Reddit, anything that goes against the groupthink, gets buried mercilessly down to -100...
My first experience with Logo was in 7th grade.. Thinking back, it really helped me form the kind of thinking required for a developer. What I really loved about LOGO was how it was so easy to learn, yet at the same time you could do pretty complicated things with it.
And by "do" I mean "draw with the turtle, of course":-D For example, check out this gallery: http://www.ajlogo.com/gallery/
That could be a great business model guys - sell a few low-numbered UID's a month, with each selling for $1000+ (the auction has been running for only 1 hour and the price is already $300 with 14 bids).
If you do turn it in one, I demand my share of profits, and a low-numbered UID... preferrably 0, or 0, kthxbye.
First of all, how is this news? I did this about a year ago.
Now, I've been a hotmail user since early 1997. I switched to Gmail when it came out, but kept my Hotmail account for sentimental purposes. A few months back though, I finally completely gave up on it.
20 million feedbacks? Ha! Most likely, they haven't read any of it - and certainly haven't read mine. I wrote them about the maddening lack of 'Check all' function, and the fact that when you start checking emails one by one, if you miss by a few pixels - it will select that one email, and lose all your other selections.
This pretty much makes Live Hotmail completely unusable to anyone who needs to delete a bunch of spam emails (and with Hotmail, you get a LOT of spam.)
At least it sounded good in theory - Gmail is still far behind Outlook, imho. And when somebody makes GOOD web-based Outlook, I'll be sold.
My dad put his age as 13 when he signed up for exactly the same reason - he didn't think it was any of Microsoft's business to know how old he was. Lo and behold, he now needed parental permission to anything! Of course, changing his age to the real one didn't work.
I don't remember exactly what he did to change it, but it wasn't easy.
... thank you very much!
And if the UN don't like that, you know that they can do? That's right, sanction us! And write us a letter how terribly concerned they are.
.... and that's with a 2 year contract? Please. That's way too expensive.
But... I would actually consider it if it wasn't Cingular, which is THE crappiest phone service company [in the NYC area].
Sure, from a desperate anti-social loser's point of view, it's the truth. But I know plenty of women that can honestly admire other women's beauty without any ill feelings.
... when in a story like this, that really SHOULD be touching and make you feel excited about human progress, 95% of the (high rated) comments are the smart-ass remarks from cynical assholes and masturbation jokes. Way to go, guys!
Gee.. Thank God you're nothing but a lowlife loser with nothing better to do with his pathetic life, other than anybody with a slightest power to change any of the points above.
As a side note, I'd really like to see a script from Kevin Smith. Given a free reign (and a ban from using his friends as cast members)he could write the Starwars adventure we all think we remember.
Why ban him from using his friends as cast members? Think of all the great possibilities... Jason Mewes as Jar Jar, for example
Knowing how things are done in Russia, you should be a lot more concerned with things OTHER than Internet.. Everything is such a fucking mess over there, that's I really hope no serious injuries happen. I already read the news that sewer water is being dumped into the Moscow river because of a plant failure. In times like these, who gives a shit about Internet?
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I followed this path and found a very significant problem with it. As probably most other geeks out there, I put the computer together and put Linux on it. And then I discovered that Linux doesn't have Netflix and Vudu. And this is not likely to change in near future, due to Microsoft DRM technologies used in those. For a HTPC, it's a very significant downsize. So now I'm faced with a choice of putting Windows on it (ugh), or shelling out for a Mac Mini, which will be twice as expensive at half the firepower. In retrospect, I should've just gotten a Boxee Box with an external hard drive.
I couldn't agree with you more. Unfortunately, with everything that's been happening in our country lately, it seems like the sane people are in the minority, and the majority, led by "The Messiah" feel like they're entitled to something, for doing nothing.
This is just great. In NYC right now, they're cutting the city budget, implementing a whole slew of new taxes (taxing Itunes store purchases?), cutting subway service (while hiking the rates)... and what are they spending the money on? That's right, replacing street lights with LED bulbs. Aren't there a little more important things to worry about/spend money on right now?
.. that I've used 2.0.0.8 for years now and haven't ever needed to upgrade.
I'm sure if a company wants to get Iphones for all of their technical support people, they don't want to go to the store and activate each freaking one in turn ...
... hanging around... The kid's got alligator blood!
Thank you for making me spill my team all over the keyboard
Here in NYC, the cable companies have created a laughable charade to resemble "competition". It works like this: Time Warner and Cablevision have split the city into various districts. Depending on where you live, you can ONLY get either TW or Cablevision. They have exactly the same prices, too!
The only alternative is to get Dish Network.. which is problematic if you live in an apartment. This is total B.S. and I'm glad the FCC is finally doing something about it.
One of the reasons I love Slashdot is because here, comments like these (i.e. intelligently written, interesting, but still providing contrarian view point) get modded up to +5, while on sites like Reddit, anything that goes against the groupthink, gets buried mercilessly down to -100...
My first experience with Logo was in 7th grade.. Thinking back, it really helped me form the kind of thinking required for a developer. What I really loved about LOGO was how it was so easy to learn, yet at the same time you could do pretty complicated things with it.
:-D For example, check out this gallery: http://www.ajlogo.com/gallery/
And by "do" I mean "draw with the turtle, of course"
Uh that should've been a "0 or less than 0".. yeah, yeah, should've hit the "preview" button
That could be a great business model guys - sell a few low-numbered UID's a month, with each selling for $1000+ (the auction has been running for only 1 hour and the price is already $300 with 14 bids). If you do turn it in one, I demand my share of profits, and a low-numbered UID... preferrably 0, or 0, kthxbye.
I gotta say I'm very sad about this. Sunrocket was awesome, I was paying $15/month for them, and I never had any problems with their service.
I guess now we all gotta figure out what to switch to... apparently http://www.viatalk.com/ offers to take on any Sunrocket customers at $200/year.
Now, I've been a hotmail user since early 1997. I switched to Gmail when it came out, but kept my Hotmail account for sentimental purposes. A few months back though, I finally completely gave up on it.
20 million feedbacks? Ha! Most likely, they haven't read any of it - and certainly haven't read mine. I wrote them about the maddening lack of 'Check all' function, and the fact that when you start checking emails one by one, if you miss by a few pixels - it will select that one email, and lose all your other selections.
This pretty much makes Live Hotmail completely unusable to anyone who needs to delete a bunch of spam emails (and with Hotmail, you get a LOT of spam.)
At least it sounded good in theory - Gmail is still far behind Outlook, imho. And when somebody makes GOOD web-based Outlook, I'll be sold.
My dad put his age as 13 when he signed up for exactly the same reason - he didn't think it was any of Microsoft's business to know how old he was. Lo and behold, he now needed parental permission to anything! Of course, changing his age to the real one didn't work. I don't remember exactly what he did to change it, but it wasn't easy.
... thank you very much! And if the UN don't like that, you know that they can do? That's right, sanction us! And write us a letter how terribly concerned they are.
.... and that's with a 2 year contract? Please. That's way too expensive. But... I would actually consider it if it wasn't Cingular, which is THE crappiest phone service company [in the NYC area].
This is so goddamn awesome!!! My favorite cartoon, ever!!! This is gonna RULE!!!
Sure, from a desperate anti-social loser's point of view, it's the truth. But I know plenty of women that can honestly admire other women's beauty without any ill feelings.
Only on Slashdot can something like this get rated 'Insightful'.
... when in a story like this, that really SHOULD be touching and make you feel excited about human progress, 95% of the (high rated) comments are the smart-ass remarks from cynical assholes and masturbation jokes. Way to go, guys!
So I would probably be a loan shark, since that's the only thing that was allowed for our people.
Gee.. Thank God you're nothing but a lowlife loser with nothing better to do with his pathetic life, other than anybody with a slightest power to change any of the points above.
As a side note, I'd really like to see a script from Kevin Smith. Given a free reign (and a ban from using his friends as cast members)he could write the Starwars adventure we all think we remember.
Why ban him from using his friends as cast members? Think of all the great possibilities... Jason Mewes as Jar Jar, for example
Knowing how things are done in Russia, you should be a lot more concerned with things OTHER than Internet.. Everything is such a fucking mess over there, that's I really hope no serious injuries happen. I already read the news that sewer water is being dumped into the Moscow river because of a plant failure. In times like these, who gives a shit about Internet?