I wonder what the percentage of Americans have a TV? Many people have more than one TV, yet only have one computer. Cost may be a factor in that, but seeing as you can buy cheap computers from companies like Dell, I don't think that price is that big of an issue. Somehow people finding sitting infront of a computer for 2-3 hours bad, but sitting infront of the TV for an entire day fine. Is the general population afraid of computers? Or do they like to put their mind into coast mode and have content spoon fed to them.
The way the post hyped it up, I was expecting something actually exciting. I get TFA, and it mainly goes on and on about external programs. Yes I see a few cool features, but nothing really groundbreaking.
I'm a student of UNB. I'm very excited that my university is working on this kind of research. Dr. McGrady is making a guest lecture to my chemistry class.
You're my new hero. Hedgehogs? Brilliant!
Does it really matter overall? Most people either sit in the AMD camp, or the Intel camp. Or at least from my personal experience.
I have had problems with iTunes on Vista. Since I'm dual booting Vista and XP, I don't want my iPod to erase itself and "bond" with Vista. In order to play my music on Vista, I had to manually go in and copy my music over. When I installed iTunes, disk access stopped working, however, when I went to enable it in iTunes, it would freeze up for 30 seconds, and then throw an error at me. Uninstalling iTunes worked.
"I couldn't believe it when I called 911 and found myself talking to a billing rep. I told her I was upset, but that I'd talk about the issue if she'd kindly phone for a fire truck to my location. She told me matter of factly that she wouldn't do that"
We get a quarter, actually. Obviously people are going to defend what they like. I like Firefox, although I never used to. I used to hate Mozilla, Netscape and family. I used Opera for a while, but I just don't like IE. I'm sure the day is soon coming when FireFox will have exploit after exploit.
I agree, but if was seemingly random people calling, one could set the ringer to silent and set only the people you want to get calls from with an audible ringer. Hundreds of bytes? Please! My phone has a 40MB memory.
Maybe with a runway that size I could actually land on it. Heck, all runways should be that long, so that planes won't "overshoot" the runway like you see in the news.
How well will this stand up to a lower bitrate/encoding setting?
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I've been waiting for programmable ring times for a long while. To me, as a student, it just makes sense. I would rather have my cell phone switch between loud and vibrate according to the times I'm in school (so I don't have to try and remember to turn it on loud when I'm walking home, a time when I would never feel a phone vibrating). A day based schedule would work best, with an option in the contact list for an alternative schedule or override.
I live in Nova Scotia, and everybody I know uses MSN. One person I know from the states uses all of them on Trill, I know nobody on Skype or Google. Only a few years ago, just about everybody was using ICQ. I havn't really used ICQ in years and I still know my number...
Mod me down if you must, but some of Linux's apps are starting to feel more " windowsy," and now MS is getting into gear and adding "security" and no seems to be copying X. What's next, they both use the same filesystem?
You know, sometimes, when a program is taking more than it's fair share of resources, the system is so bogged down that the system can't even bring up the task manager thing (What happened to the old style stop-the-system-on-3-finger-salute to bring up the process dialog anyways? I rarely care how much CPU is being used when I want to close a process.)
Is anybody else having a problem with the Real Media stream? I get:
Unable to locate server. The server does not have a DNS entry. Please check the server name in the URL and try again. rtsp://rmbcast.nasa-us1e.speedera.net/alias_ashbur n1_btn/encoder/rmbcast.nasa-us1e/rmbcast_nasa-us1e _jan022004_1034_92105.rm
However the Windows Media Player stream works just fine, but crappy quality (thought maybe the "Real" one might be better.
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It's impressive to think the resources it would take to run this service. I wonder what software they use to do the voice recognition.
I wonder what the percentage of Americans have a TV? Many people have more than one TV, yet only have one computer. Cost may be a factor in that, but seeing as you can buy cheap computers from companies like Dell, I don't think that price is that big of an issue. Somehow people finding sitting infront of a computer for 2-3 hours bad, but sitting infront of the TV for an entire day fine. Is the general population afraid of computers? Or do they like to put their mind into coast mode and have content spoon fed to them.
The way the post hyped it up, I was expecting something actually exciting. I get TFA, and it mainly goes on and on about external programs. Yes I see a few cool features, but nothing really groundbreaking.
I'm a student of UNB. I'm very excited that my university is working on this kind of research. Dr. McGrady is making a guest lecture to my chemistry class.
You're my new hero. Hedgehogs? Brilliant! Does it really matter overall? Most people either sit in the AMD camp, or the Intel camp. Or at least from my personal experience.
I have had problems with iTunes on Vista. Since I'm dual booting Vista and XP, I don't want my iPod to erase itself and "bond" with Vista. In order to play my music on Vista, I had to manually go in and copy my music over. When I installed iTunes, disk access stopped working, however, when I went to enable it in iTunes, it would freeze up for 30 seconds, and then throw an error at me. Uninstalling iTunes worked.
"I couldn't believe it when I called 911 and found myself talking to a billing rep. I told her I was upset, but that I'd talk about the issue if she'd kindly phone for a fire truck to my location. She told me matter of factly that she wouldn't do that"
Is this legal?
On second thought, why not just use telnet? Surely that'll be safe from everything...right?
We get a quarter, actually. Obviously people are going to defend what they like. I like Firefox, although I never used to. I used to hate Mozilla, Netscape and family. I used Opera for a while, but I just don't like IE. I'm sure the day is soon coming when FireFox will have exploit after exploit.
Just one more reason to stick to Firefox. Better yet, everybody switch to lynx.
Teach me.
I agree, but if was seemingly random people calling, one could set the ringer to silent and set only the people you want to get calls from with an audible ringer. Hundreds of bytes? Please! My phone has a 40MB memory.
The one feature I really wish my phone had was time based ringers (during class silent, after school on loud, and soft at night).
That's alright, I can't do either part.
Maybe with a runway that size I could actually land on it. Heck, all runways should be that long, so that planes won't "overshoot" the runway like you see in the news.
How well will this stand up to a lower bitrate/encoding setting?
I've been waiting for programmable ring times for a long while. To me, as a student, it just makes sense. I would rather have my cell phone switch between loud and vibrate according to the times I'm in school (so I don't have to try and remember to turn it on loud when I'm walking home, a time when I would never feel a phone vibrating). A day based schedule would work best, with an option in the contact list for an alternative schedule or override.
I don't think there's a salary that can get me to slashdot for $.01 per visit.
Hopefully they won't do away with that Pixar lamp, I kind liked the little guy.
I live in Nova Scotia, and everybody I know uses MSN. One person I know from the states uses all of them on Trill, I know nobody on Skype or Google. Only a few years ago, just about everybody was using ICQ. I havn't really used ICQ in years and I still know my number...
Mod me down if you must, but some of Linux's apps are starting to feel more "
windowsy," and now MS is getting into gear and adding "security" and no seems to be copying X. What's next, they both use the same filesystem?
You know, sometimes, when a program is taking more than it's fair share of resources, the system is so bogged down that the system can't even bring up the task manager thing (What happened to the old style stop-the-system-on-3-finger-salute to bring up the process dialog anyways? I rarely care how much CPU is being used when I want to close a process.)
Is anybody else having a problem with the Real Media stream? I get:
However the Windows Media Player stream works just fine, but crappy quality (thought maybe the "Real" one might be better.
It seems that they renamed Dr. DivX to DivX Converter. I've used Dr. DivX for a while and I liked it.
Actually Dr. DivX was a cute name, mostly because it was orginal and not cheesey... I can't wait to try this new software out.
I'd really like to be able to have my ringers on a time basis.
From 11PM-7AM, silent
From 7AM-8:30AM, ring
From 8:30-11:30 vibe
From 11:30-12:15 ring
From 12:15-3:00 vibe
From 3:00-11:00 ring
That way I don't have to keep frigging with my phone between classes.