You're operating on old information-- both you and the parent post. iMacs have had a mini-DVI out port for at least a few generations now. I have a Dell 24" LCD connected to my 2 yr old iMac 17". Video performance running both screens is more than good enough for me, tho I'm not a gamer.
Still, would love to have a moderately priced tower/mini-tower/something with easy HD access and at least 1 slot.
Bayesian has failed?! News to me. True, I have seen an increase in spam lately; but greater than 95% of it is still caught by my Bayesian filter at MailSift.com. Getting 5-10 spams a day rather than more than 200 sure seems worth it in my book.
I use Vonage (3yrs) and Sunrocket (6mos). I finally ported my POTS number over to SR end of last year and canceled my POTS line. Quality with SR was spotty, but has been steadily improving. Quality with Vonage has not been an issue. I do not miss my POTS line at all.
The catch is that I'm in FIOS-land, so having 2Mbps upload certainly helps (not to mention 15Mbps down:-)
(I have both because I use Vonage for my business 800 number, which SR does not offer. SR offers better pricing for my residential # usage, however at a slightly reduced, yet improving, quality level.)
I have Verizon's FIOS service. 15Mb/2Mb. I absolutely love having the extra b/w. Most importantly it makes it easier to multi-task your internet connection. Eg, I now rely on SunRocket.com for phone service entirely. Previously, VoIP was a little tougher becuase anytime a big download started, there was a chance an ongoing phone call would suffer.
The downside? I tend to abuse it.:-/ That latest Linux ISO? Sure, let's try it out! It only takes 4 minutes to download, what the heck.
My gmail account has FP's almost daily. In fact, I've been quite shocked/disappointed that Google dropped the ball so badly on the spam filter. I expected better out of them. (I correct the filter daily, but it doesn't seem to be getting any brighter.)
Nor mine... http://mailsift.com/. Mx-logic sounds very similar, tho MailSift also handles individual POP accounts. I've gone from 1000+ spams a day, to 1 or 2 a month. Haven't had a false-positive in months.
Simple to use, eerily accurate, cheap: choose any 3!
RAM is so cheap, why the small bufer?! 25 minutes of "skip protection" just isn't enough. I still use my Rio500 for running cuz my iPod just can't take it. Bigger buffer gets you more jogging time AND more battery life. Seems the returns on this minor investment would be big enough to justify it.
One of the domains we process mail for gets > 100k bogus RCPTs a day. At the peak of this 6 month old dictionary attack, it reached 1.5M per day. Thunderbird is good, but that may take a while to download and process.
I thought the same thing last year when I lost my Nokia. Plus, I wanted Bluetooth and ATT had very few options there. So I bought an S56. What a piece of sh!t. By far, the worst phone I've owned. Crashes. Very poor battery life. Completely incomprehensible menu structure. Horrible key layout and feel. Volume that is much too soft. The 'cons' list goes on and on. BT and size are the only 'pros' I can think of.
I really miss my Nokia days.
You gets what you pays for. Nokia, in my expeience, generally means quality. Siemens? Not so much.
NEWS FLASH! Gaddafi is no longer a threat!... Why? Because of Bush's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Riiiight. Nevermind he's been capitualting since the 90's. In your zeal to crown W, you're too stupid to realize that Bush I and Ray-gun played a huge part in his change in attitude. Same old politics: good things are because of King George, bad things (and I mean all bad things) are because of Clinton, Carter, JFK and FDR. And above all, Hillary.
The Iraq war was not about weapons of mass destruction.
Then W shouldn't have told us it was. Insisted on it. Absolutely rammed it down the world's throat. And now that the truth is out, step up and take it like a man. I'd actually have some respect for him if he'd admit his plans for Iraq. Heck, if a single one of you Bushies could admit he's made a SINGLE mistake, I'd be blown away.
It was about a lot of things, and in the real world (not the one fabricated by liberal media and the Demo'rats)
When you can't argue, blame it on the Biased Liberal Media. Ya know, the one that slaughtered Clinton during BJ-gate. The one that claimed wag-the-dog, along with the GOP, when Clinton started unpopular military action. The one that heavily favored W in 2000. Yeah, that one. Just because every outlet isn't as blatently biased Right as Fox, doesn't make them all Left.
Because of Iraq's relation with these terrorist organizations, it's hard to believe that Saddam excluded Al Qaeda.... it just doesn't make sense.
Spoken like a true Bushie: "Facts mean nothing. I believe what I believe and I'll twist the facts to make it work." Please fill us in on the intel you have. I'm sure Bush would love to have it since he's been trying make the connection for 2.5 years now at least.
You probably also believe Clarke is part of some cabal of turncoats that Bush was duped into hiring.
Crikey. I guess we aimed too low on our price scale. We start at $3/mo for domains and stop viruses and spam at hit rates of approximately 99% with fewer than.1% FPs.
a) one alternative is some of the worst cable service ever... which, BTW, just increased their rates by 70%!
b) the other is DTV, which won't give me distant locals for some reason. I've got them with Dish. Until HD DirecTiVo, the horrid interface and buggy DVR-that's-really-just-a-VCR wasn't enough to overcome the distant locals' loss and effort in changing.
If Dish would just go ahead and license TiVo s/w, I'd be theirs for good.
I've been a DishNet sub for 8 yrs now. To say I'm unhappy with the quality of their products would be an understatement. I'm ready to jump ship to DTV as soon as the HD DirecTiVo ships.
BUT, Viacom is the evil party here IMO. They're holding Dish and all of its customers hostage until Dish accepts unreasonable contract terms. I for one, don't want higher TV monthly charges just because Viacom forces Dish to carry some obscure channels that the vast majority of subs will never watch.
A la carte pricing would address this, but that's a whole nuther discussion.
> there a lot of things the DirecTV version of Tivo does not have
And even more that Dush lacks
> HMO is NOT an option for any DirecTV based Tivo
Nor is it an option for ANY Dish PVR, HD or otherwise.
> The 921 DOES run on Linux you idiot.
Ah name calling in all its beauty.
How's Dish PVR hacking going? Adding HD's and things like that? Ethernet ports? Simply basing your product on Linux doesn't make it golden.
Dish's PVR's are shit. I just wasted 15 minutes trying to get my Dish PVR to display a list of recorded programs. Finally, I had to reboot it by removing power (warm restarts failed to recover). This happens every coupla weeks, vs my TiVo's 2 yrs of solid service. Oh yeah, this is my 3rd unit from Dish cuz the first 2 died (wouldn't revover from from cold restarts).
And we're not even addressing the "interface" on Dish junk. I can see, what, 4 channels at once in the guide, comprising maybe 8 programs? Ooooh. And the "browsing?" What a joke. 99% of the time, I can only go forward one program slot. The data caching algorithm sucks like the rest of Dish's interface efforts. I forgave it back in '97 with the 4000, but crikey man, the entire 14 day program should be queued up and ready to go with today's RAM prices and a 60G drive at your disposal. Even in the guide, I still get "info not availble" sometimes. Dish S-U-C-K-S.
Gotta go... wife's pissed cuz her "While you were out" recording is totally fubar'd. Again.
Been a DishNetwork sub for 8 years now, and a Dish PVR user for a little over a year. I also have a TiVo (2 yrs old). There simply is no comparison. Going from the TiVO to Dish's PVR is like going from XP/OSX back to Windows 1.0. The interface is so horrible in comparison. It just plain sucks. AND the damn thing's buggy (I have to cold reboot it once every coupla weeks). AND it does weird things (stops buffering the current show if you play a recorded event, eg). And you can't easily add HD space.
I was all set to switch to DTV when their HD TiVo combo comes out... Problem is DirectTV may be owned by Rupert soon. Yech! Hate the idea of feeding money to that monster. Support The Evil Empire, or buy (vastly) inferior tech. Arg.
If only Dish would use TiVo instead of torturing their customers with their horribly inadequate PVR skillz.
You make some good points, and then fade into the mantra of no new power plants, ostensibly because of the dreaded liberal agenda. Back in reality, the power companies deliberately turned down generators to create the power shortage, working the broken deregulation laws to their max benefit-- illegally.
Before the right-wing idealogues jump all over me for supporting "my buddy Davis," I'm not a fan of his. In the case of the power crisis, Davis did the equivalent of leaving the door to his house open. However, it was Enron and other power co's who walked in and robbed it.
You are correct. It didn't have anything to do with Big Bro, but it sure smelled like it. Two big diffs: the government wouldn't let us see the altered phots at all, or would hire actors to stage the shoot, as with the incubator lie and the fake/nonexistent satellite photos that helped make the case for GW I.
(and plenty of other places if you google some or visit your local library)
And the puppeteers in Washington would never admit to it, even in the face of convincing proof.
Move along citizen, nothing to see here. You can trust us. We're only doing what's best for you. blah blah blah.
Kudos to the Times for admitting the gaff, and to whomever spotted it in the first place. That said, in this particular case, I really don't think it changed the overall message of the picture any. IMHO of course.
The article erroneously propagates the urban legend that QWERTY was developed to slow typists down. The QWERTY design was developed to prevent jamming by placing most often used keys at opposite ends off the board. Prevent jamming != slow down.
The Economist ran an article in April of 1999 about the various studies comparing the layouts. Very minimal, if any, advantage to Dvorak.
Maybe they need to make better servers? I've got a lowly PPro 200 here with ancient SCSI hardware that currently pushes right about 1M hits a day. Workload avg's.2. Granted, it runs FreeBSD, but Apache on FreeBSD and Apache on Linux are not that different. Throw NT and IIS on that system, and it would probably slow to a crawl.
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You're operating on old information-- both you and the parent post. iMacs have had a mini-DVI out port for at least a few generations now. I have a Dell 24" LCD connected to my 2 yr old iMac 17". Video performance running both screens is more than good enough for me, tho I'm not a gamer.
Still, would love to have a moderately priced tower/mini-tower/something with easy HD access and at least 1 slot.
Bayesian has failed?! News to me. True, I have seen an increase in spam lately; but greater than 95% of it is still caught by my Bayesian filter at MailSift.com. Getting 5-10 spams a day rather than more than 200 sure seems worth it in my book.
Dear Troll,
MS's own DRM-crippled music files are proprietary.
iPod's can play plain ol' MP3s just fine. They do not require AAC.
Signed,
Fake-troll-hater hater
I use Vonage (3yrs) and Sunrocket (6mos). I finally ported my POTS number over to SR end of last year and canceled my POTS line. Quality with SR was spotty, but has been steadily improving. Quality with Vonage has not been an issue. I do not miss my POTS line at all.
:-)
The catch is that I'm in FIOS-land, so having 2Mbps upload certainly helps (not to mention 15Mbps down
(I have both because I use Vonage for my business 800 number, which SR does not offer. SR offers better pricing for my residential # usage, however at a slightly reduced, yet improving, quality level.)
I do plan on buying into the IPO. I think. Maybe.
I have Verizon's FIOS service. 15Mb/2Mb. I absolutely love having the extra b/w. Most importantly it makes it easier to multi-task your internet connection. Eg, I now rely on SunRocket.com for phone service entirely. Previously, VoIP was a little tougher becuase anytime a big download started, there was a chance an ongoing phone call would suffer.
:-/ That latest Linux ISO? Sure, let's try it out! It only takes 4 minutes to download, what the heck.
The downside? I tend to abuse it.
Why are the ALT tags for the chart images "Harry Potter?" Am I missing some inside joke?
My gmail account has FP's almost daily. In fact, I've been quite shocked/disappointed that Google dropped the ball so badly on the spam filter. I expected better out of them. (I correct the filter daily, but it doesn't seem to be getting any brighter.)
Nor mine... http://mailsift.com/. Mx-logic sounds very similar, tho MailSift also handles individual POP accounts. I've gone from 1000+ spams a day, to 1 or 2 a month. Haven't had a false-positive in months.
Simple to use, eerily accurate, cheap: choose any 3!
RAM is so cheap, why the small bufer?! 25 minutes of "skip protection" just isn't enough. I still use my Rio500 for running cuz my iPod just can't take it. Bigger buffer gets you more jogging time AND more battery life. Seems the returns on this minor investment would be big enough to justify it.
One of the domains we process mail for gets > 100k bogus RCPTs a day. At the peak of this 6 month old dictionary attack, it reached 1.5M per day. Thunderbird is good, but that may take a while to download and process.
This is exactly why services like MailSift.com and Postini.com exist.
I thought the same thing last year when I lost my Nokia. Plus, I wanted Bluetooth and ATT had very few options there. So I bought an S56. What a piece of sh!t. By far, the worst phone I've owned. Crashes. Very poor battery life. Completely incomprehensible menu structure. Horrible key layout and feel. Volume that is much too soft. The 'cons' list goes on and on. BT and size are the only 'pros' I can think of.
I really miss my Nokia days.
You gets what you pays for. Nokia, in my expeience, generally means quality. Siemens? Not so much.
You probably also believe Clarke is part of some cabal of turncoats that Bush was duped into hiring.
Alternate reality indeed.
Crikey. I guess we aimed too low on our price scale. We start at $3/mo for domains and stop viruses and spam at hit rates of approximately 99% with fewer than .1% FPs.
:-(
Apparently no marketing skills though.
a) one alternative is some of the worst cable service ever... which, BTW, just increased their rates by 70%!
b) the other is DTV, which won't give me distant locals for some reason. I've got them with Dish. Until HD DirecTiVo, the horrid interface and buggy DVR-that's-really-just-a-VCR wasn't enough to overcome the distant locals' loss and effort in changing.
If Dish would just go ahead and license TiVo s/w, I'd be theirs for good.
I've been a DishNet sub for 8 yrs now. To say I'm unhappy with the quality of their products would be an understatement. I'm ready to jump ship to DTV as soon as the HD DirecTiVo ships.
BUT, Viacom is the evil party here IMO. They're holding Dish and all of its customers hostage until Dish accepts unreasonable contract terms. I for one, don't want higher TV monthly charges just because Viacom forces Dish to carry some obscure channels that the vast majority of subs will never watch.
A la carte pricing would address this, but that's a whole nuther discussion.
> there a lot of things the DirecTV version of Tivo does not have
And even more that Dush lacks
> HMO is NOT an option for any DirecTV based Tivo
Nor is it an option for ANY Dish PVR, HD or otherwise.
> The 921 DOES run on Linux you idiot.
Ah name calling in all its beauty.
How's Dish PVR hacking going? Adding HD's and things like that? Ethernet ports? Simply basing your product on Linux doesn't make it golden.
Dish's PVR's are shit. I just wasted 15 minutes trying to get my Dish PVR to display a list of recorded programs. Finally, I had to reboot it by removing power (warm restarts failed to recover). This happens every coupla weeks, vs my TiVo's 2 yrs of solid service. Oh yeah, this is my 3rd unit from Dish cuz the first 2 died (wouldn't revover from from cold restarts).
And we're not even addressing the "interface" on Dish junk. I can see, what, 4 channels at once in the guide, comprising maybe 8 programs? Ooooh. And the "browsing?" What a joke. 99% of the time, I can only go forward one program slot. The data caching algorithm sucks like the rest of Dish's interface efforts. I forgave it back in '97 with the 4000, but crikey man, the entire 14 day program should be queued up and ready to go with today's RAM prices and a 60G drive at your disposal. Even in the guide, I still get "info not availble" sometimes. Dish S-U-C-K-S.
Gotta go... wife's pissed cuz her "While you were out" recording is totally fubar'd. Again.
Been a DishNetwork sub for 8 years now, and a Dish PVR user for a little over a year. I also have a TiVo (2 yrs old). There simply is no comparison. Going from the TiVO to Dish's PVR is like going from XP/OSX back to Windows 1.0. The interface is so horrible in comparison. It just plain sucks. AND the damn thing's buggy (I have to cold reboot it once every coupla weeks). AND it does weird things (stops buffering the current show if you play a recorded event, eg). And you can't easily add HD space.
I was all set to switch to DTV when their HD TiVo combo comes out... Problem is DirectTV may be owned by Rupert soon. Yech! Hate the idea of feeding money to that monster. Support The Evil Empire, or buy (vastly) inferior tech. Arg.
If only Dish would use TiVo instead of torturing their customers with their horribly inadequate PVR skillz.
Before the right-wing idealogues jump all over me for supporting "my buddy Davis," I'm not a fan of his. In the case of the power crisis, Davis did the equivalent of leaving the door to his house open. However, it was Enron and other power co's who walked in and robbed it.
- In other words, most people should ignore floating-point results because they do not use floating-point anyway (or not much).
Yeah, we may as well just leave the FPUs off of CPUs since no one actually uses them.Not sure which is worse, the author or those people so enamored with him simply cuz he's calling out Apple for something every 'puter mfg does.
You are correct. It didn't have anything to do with Big Bro, but it sure smelled like it. Two big diffs: the government wouldn't let us see the altered phots at all, or would hire actors to stage the shoot, as with the incubator lie and the fake/nonexistent satellite photos that helped make the case for GW I.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.ht
(and plenty of other places if you google some or visit your local library)
And the puppeteers in Washington would never admit to it, even in the face of convincing proof.
Move along citizen, nothing to see here. You can trust us. We're only doing what's best for you. blah blah blah.
Kudos to the Times for admitting the gaff, and to whomever spotted it in the first place. That said, in this particular case, I really don't think it changed the overall message of the picture any. IMHO of course.
The article erroneously propagates the urban legend that QWERTY was developed to slow typists down. The QWERTY design was developed to prevent jamming by placing most often used keys at opposite ends off the board. Prevent jamming != slow down.
The Economist ran an article in April of 1999 about the various studies comparing the layouts. Very minimal, if any, advantage to Dvorak.
Maybe they need to make better servers? I've got a lowly PPro 200 here with ancient SCSI hardware that currently pushes right about 1M hits a day. Workload avg's .2. Granted, it runs FreeBSD, but Apache on FreeBSD and Apache on Linux are not that different. Throw NT and IIS on that system, and it would probably slow to a crawl.
Just what is it that Dell is smoking?