I agree. But if I am not mistaken the ability to have multiple versions of IE installed on the same machine hasn't been possible since IE 4.0. Since the whole integration with the desktop bit.
I have been using Vonage for about a year and a half now. The first year was in northern Colorado, and the rest has been in southern California. Short of a few minor voicemail hiccups (can't delete msgs via web interface), I have found the service to be outstanding.
I find VoIP to be the perfect supplement to my cell service. A basic VoIP plan is much cheaper than any basic traditional service and provides me with just enough minutes (500) to keep me from cell overages.
The one thing that I really like about VoIP is the increasing competition. Vonage prices have steadily dropped over the last year as a result of newcomers to the market. Since traditional line service is pretty much controlled by one company in every region their prices have never had to come down. With VoIP becoming a strong alternative traditional prices WILL decrease making a DSL/Telco solution just as feasible as a Cable/VoIP solution.
This thing stinks of early 90's teen marketing. The Hip-e looks more like something out of Zack's bedroom in Saved By The Bell than the next killer teen gadget. In fact, maybe Screech (or maybe this guy http://weallhaveaplan.biz/seminars/index.html) was hired to write the copy for the site...
"Now that you know what's up, it's time to get down to what the Hip-e is all about"
" Your life is at your fingertips and totally in synch"
"beatbox" ???
"Squad Leader"
"to bring you THE place to score downloads" score downloads??? righteous dude!
I don't know, the only market this thing will tap is the confused parent desperate to understand why his 16 year old doesn't like 'family night'. I guess if writing notes on his fore head whilst asleep doesn't work....
On the other hand, get P-Diddy, 50 cents and MTV on board and your golden.
Good Story...it had me till the end where he ponders what secrets the video camera he left running might hold and how it records in the dark. Even though while entering with the video camera he mentions that it is too dark to record the round rock and etchings...
I would really like to vote for a libertarian candidate, but right now is not the time.
My viewpoint on this is and has been for quite awhile: vote libertarian at the local level. The party HAS to be built first.
I am glad to see there is a Libertarian option on almost all the state ballots...it is good exposure....but voting Libertarian in this election will accomplish nothing.
What the Libertarian party needs to do is push hard and build up local constituencies...what good will it do this country to have a Libertarian president when he's controlled by a bipartisan congress?
The ideology of the Libertarian party must pervade through the house and senate before it can ever be effective in the White House.
I couldn't agree more.I love MM's artist on demand service, well worth the money. Yahoo buying MM is like Toys R Us buying Mandrake.
If that damned red Y! starts popping up all over MM I wouldn't hesitate to drop my subscription.
My comments about the elderly and the child were unrelated to the ACLU. My point was I don't mind a little extra security (perhaps in the form of public surveillance) if it means a kidnapped child or an assulated elderly were protected (either by deterence or visual evidence of the assailent).
My comments about the ACLU were in disagreement with the statement the parent made about the ACLU protecting us. My reasons for saying this are many...and slashdot is defintely not the place to debate them (as they are heavy for debate). I would be more than happy to share elsewhere, where ever that may be.
No need to be sarcastic man. My point is that there are wicked people out there and that case is a defining example of how video can help. I said nothing about the 'holy children'.
It seems to me that the video camera will aid your presumption of innocence. Give me an instance of when someone was accused of a crime through mistaken identity on a video tape. It is the loose interpretations by witnesses and police sketches that are putting the wrong people in prison.
I know if I looked like a bank robber, I would feel much better about having the actual criminal on video vs. some bloke on the corners description.
Don't support the ACLU and EFF. They might appear to be fighting for us, but what they are actually fighting for is the destruction of the moral and ethical foundation that made this country what it is.
I would rather NOT live with a little danger. Perhaps while you or I may be able to handle it, our loved ones may not. My 70 year old mother certainly cannot. My 10 year old daughter certainly cannot.
You may be able to take responsibility for your actions as you most likely have learned the difference between right and wrong. There is, however, a growing constituency of individuals who do not.
The solution to this problem is incredibly simple: family. A child needs a mother and father. A child needs love. With these, a child learns right and wrong, respect and reverence.
Unfortunately, the obfuscated attempts to 'protect us' from organizations like the ACLU make the once simple task of raising a child an exponentially more difficult endeavor.
Just reading through some of the conspiracy posts...I can only think of instances where cameras have helped, not hurt.
Remember Carlie Brucia? The 11 yrd old in Florida, her abducter was on tape and caught shortly there after. There are countless instances of police video helping and hurting the police, but in either instance it protected the innocent party.
I realize that its cases like this that help TO justify increasing use of video surveillance, and like most things that surveillance can always be taken to an extreme. But at what point can public surveillance actually hurt us? Does it infringe on our privacy when it monitors a public place in which we don't have any privacy anyway?
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I agree. But if I am not mistaken the ability to have multiple versions of IE installed on the same machine hasn't been possible since IE 4.0. Since the whole integration with the desktop bit.
It doesn't 'wipe out' it 'updates'. You can easily restore IE 6 by removing the update in the control panel.
I agree. That's why when I found this xbox/playstation add-on I went to straight out an acquired my first gaming console.
Interesting. I always thought this was the Chairman.
I have been using Vonage for about a year and a half now. The first year was in northern Colorado, and the rest has been in southern California. Short of a few minor voicemail hiccups (can't delete msgs via web interface), I have found the service to be outstanding.
I find VoIP to be the perfect supplement to my cell service. A basic VoIP plan is much cheaper than any basic traditional service and provides me with just enough minutes (500) to keep me from cell overages.
The one thing that I really like about VoIP is the increasing competition. Vonage prices have steadily dropped over the last year as a result of newcomers to the market. Since traditional line service is pretty much controlled by one company in every region their prices have never had to come down. With VoIP becoming a strong alternative traditional prices WILL decrease making a DSL/Telco solution just as feasible as a Cable/VoIP solution.
Spend 20 minutes typing a thoughful post and get modded down. Spend 15 seconds pointing out an AC's typo and get modded +3 insightful.
This thing stinks of early 90's teen marketing. The Hip-e looks more like something out of Zack's bedroom in Saved By The Bell than the next killer teen gadget. In fact, maybe Screech (or maybe this guy http://weallhaveaplan.biz/seminars/index.html) was hired to write the copy for the site...
"Now that you know what's up, it's time to get down to what the Hip-e is all about"
" Your life is at your fingertips and totally in synch"
"beatbox" ???
"Squad Leader"
"to bring you THE place to score downloads" score downloads??? righteous dude!
I don't know, the only market this thing will tap is the confused parent desperate to understand why his 16 year old doesn't like 'family night'. I guess if writing notes on his fore head whilst asleep doesn't work....
On the other hand, get P-Diddy, 50 cents and MTV on board and your golden.
I feel sorry for the /. subscribers....
It's kind of like paying to see a movie an having to sit through 10 minutes of commercials.
Good Story...it had me till the end where he ponders what secrets the video camera he left running might hold and how it records in the dark. Even though while entering with the video camera he mentions that it is too dark to record the round rock and etchings...
I would really like to vote for a libertarian candidate, but right now is not the time. My viewpoint on this is and has been for quite awhile: vote libertarian at the local level. The party HAS to be built first. I am glad to see there is a Libertarian option on almost all the state ballots...it is good exposure....but voting Libertarian in this election will accomplish nothing. What the Libertarian party needs to do is push hard and build up local constituencies...what good will it do this country to have a Libertarian president when he's controlled by a bipartisan congress? The ideology of the Libertarian party must pervade through the house and senate before it can ever be effective in the White House.
I couldn't agree more.I love MM's artist on demand service, well worth the money. Yahoo buying MM is like Toys R Us buying Mandrake. If that damned red Y! starts popping up all over MM I wouldn't hesitate to drop my subscription.
My comments about the elderly and the child were unrelated to the ACLU. My point was I don't mind a little extra security (perhaps in the form of public surveillance) if it means a kidnapped child or an assulated elderly were protected (either by deterence or visual evidence of the assailent).
My comments about the ACLU were in disagreement with the statement the parent made about the ACLU protecting us. My reasons for saying this are many...and slashdot is defintely not the place to debate them (as they are heavy for debate). I would be more than happy to share elsewhere, where ever that may be.
No need to be sarcastic man. My point is that there are wicked people out there and that case is a defining example of how video can help. I said nothing about the 'holy children'.
It seems to me that the video camera will aid your presumption of innocence. Give me an instance of when someone was accused of a crime through mistaken identity on a video tape. It is the loose interpretations by witnesses and police sketches that are putting the wrong people in prison.
I know if I looked like a bank robber, I would feel much better about having the actual criminal on video vs. some bloke on the corners description.
Don't support the ACLU and EFF. They might appear to be fighting for us, but what they are actually fighting for is the destruction of the moral and ethical foundation that made this country what it is.
I would rather NOT live with a little danger. Perhaps while you or I may be able to handle it, our loved ones may not. My 70 year old mother certainly cannot. My 10 year old daughter certainly cannot.
You may be able to take responsibility for your actions as you most likely have learned the difference between right and wrong. There is, however, a growing constituency of individuals who do not.
The solution to this problem is incredibly simple: family. A child needs a mother and father. A child needs love. With these, a child learns right and wrong, respect and reverence.
Unfortunately, the obfuscated attempts to 'protect us' from organizations like the ACLU make the once simple task of raising a child an exponentially more difficult endeavor.
Just reading through some of the conspiracy posts...I can only think of instances where cameras have helped, not hurt.
Remember Carlie Brucia? The 11 yrd old in Florida, her abducter was on tape and caught shortly there after. There are countless instances of police video helping and hurting the police, but in either instance it protected the innocent party.
I realize that its cases like this that help TO justify increasing use of video surveillance, and like most things that surveillance can always be taken to an extreme. But at what point can public surveillance actually hurt us? Does it infringe on our privacy when it monitors a public place in which we don't have any privacy anyway?