Amazon should have the blatantly obvious ability to use amazon gift certificate for Mp3 purchases as well. They were not on my Christmas list because of this while sites such as eMusic were.
It's an easy solution - During business hours, Monday through Friday 9am to 5pm, allow your employer to contact you via your mobile device. Outside of business hours, turn the thing off or don't respond to messages from your employer. They are not paying you to work 100% of the time, so they can pound sand. There is absolutely nothing so important that it can't wait until the next business day. If your employer is expecting you to be on call 24/7 then you have an abusive employer and I would recommend finding a job elsewhere. Note that if you are in IT or support, the situation may be different, but you signed up for that lifestyle.
The Lufthansa service wasn't bad. I tried it right before the decommissioned it (they gave it away for free during the final weeks of the service. While I wouldn't pay my own money for it (my company's is another story) it was nice.
Another anecdote, relevant to the discussion about voice calls over the service-- The guy seated next to me was making calls over Skype with it, and 1) Lufthansa's internet service seemed to work fine for voice communications 2) It wasn't annoying at all to me to be sitting next to someone talking on the phone. I think the entire reaction of "horrors! people will be able to make calls on the plane!" are pretty overblown.
You can also allow access to files on these devices via LightHTTPD on the device. At least that's how our admins at work have set it up. I would imagine the boneheaded restrictions only apply if you use their Mironet client.
Th parent wrote: "In fact Omega-3 is, IMHO, the new snake oil. It could have all sorts of benefits on everything from the heart and the brain to joints, only nobody's managed to back it up with a shred of evidence."
Not true. There is quite a bit of science behind the health benefits of Omega-3s. Read Susan Allport's book "The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them"
The policy at companies I've worked at has been that you are NOT to use your own encryption tools. Only the special encryption software provided by the company is allowed (with all the corporate back doors, etc. if they have to fire you or you lose your password). It's up to the the IT organization to provide appropriate encryption tools and the training to use them. If these government organizations are not doing this, then the government shouldn't be able to punish the individual employees. The law should hold the organization responsible, not the individual employees.
Is the Neo ever going to come to market? It seems like the holy grail of cell phones (open so you can do anything you want with it), but it was supposed to be released in October. It's November 13th today, and one still can't buy a consumer version of the OpenMoko Neo. Not a good sign.
The person this happened to should file a complaint with the state Attorney General. By giving him a box of tiles instead of a hard drive, Best Buy is committing fraud.
The Military-Industrial complex wanted their cold war and the associated government spending back. The "War on Terror" is the perfect successor - it's a 'war' that can't be won, has no foreseeable end, and trillions will be spent on it.
The thing Amazon has over eMusic is higher bitrate files. From what I saw in a rather cursory glance at their site, Amazon has 256kbps MP3s, whereas eMusic only has 196kbps. Storage is cheap these days, so to me 196kpbs is a little on the light side in my opinion; 256kbps Mp3s are better, Flac files are what I really would like to see offered.
Why not a product that whitelists numbers that will ring through? Why should I answer calls from random numbers? Those can go straight to voicemail. You would think the telcos would sell a service like this, but I've never seen it. I suppose one could route all calls through an Asterisk box and have rules set up for this...
As far as I know, there is no Linux-based DVD player that can be distributed without violating either the DVD Forum's or Macrovision's rights. All it would take is someone getting enough revenue to apply for and receive a license from both of these entities. Today, nobody has stepped up to the plate for Linux.
Alright, granted I'm using the Feisty release of Kubuntu (I personally absolutely hate Gnome) but when I first tried to play an MP3 I was prompted to download the codec, but for some reason setting up the codec this way failed. I'm assuming it a was Kubuntu specific problem. I had to manually install several packages (I don't remember which ones). The other problem I had was that Kubuntu didn't install the "Restricted Devices Manager" package by default either. I had to manually install that as well.
Don't get me wrong, I really love Kubuntu, but Canonical really needs to put equal focus on the Kubuntu and Ubuntu versions. Problems like this that don't exist in Ubuntu shouldn't exist in Kubuntu either.
Medicine screws up way too much. There's a reason they use the term "practicing" medicine. They don't know enough and truly are practicing--on their patients. If it doesn't work out, it's "oh well, we did all we could." This would be acceptable, if it wasn't for the unbearable arrogance of many in the medical profession, and their looking condescending attitude towards anyone who tries anything that has not been blessed by the high temple that is the American Medical Association.
Work with a company you feel you can trust, but certainly always take the approach that good fences make good neighbors... (Meaning, Trust, but Verify)... As long as Jobs is at the helm at Apple, though, I personally would never worry one bit about this sort of thing happen... He as a person is trust worthy in my opinion...
"1300 Unopened Liberty Mutual Insurance Payments Found In Dumpster." It would be from 1300 people who had filed big insurance claims, of course, so the company could get out of paying the claims by arguing the customers hadn't paid their premiums. Never trust an insurance company, all of them are crooks.
"Everyone is trying to kill us."
No, not everyone. Only manufactures in China and the greedy corporate pigs who outsource there. I still don't understand why Americans and other westerners buy products made in China, a communist country with a high degree of totalitarianism and an awful human rights record. Did we all forget the cold war and the cultural revolution?
Sure, you can show them the FCC ruling and force them to allow your antenna. But then the HOA is likely to hassle you for every other little thing they can. It's just not worth it.
Qwest just sucks. I moved to Denver (Qwest territory) from the SF Bay area earlier this year. Before I had At&T DSL, for $15/month and never had a single outage in the two years I was there (at two different addresses). Now I have Qwest VDSL (1.5Mbs) and I have an outage about once a month and pay twice as much. The other thing that sucks is that with VDSL Qwest could offer a true broadband connection of around 30Mbs, but instead they limit it to a max of 3Mbs and use all the bandwidth for their shitty TV service.
First of all, I commend the work the schedules direct folks have done and intend to subscribe, but not until the price drops. $5/month is too damn much.
For the next three months, there are a couple of free options that have been created for gbpvr: one gets guide data from Yahoo and one that gets data from TitanTV.
I know the TitanTV option does not screen scrape, it uses a SOAP interface to TitanTv. I'm not sure about the Yahoo option.
Both of them are windows-based and output a normal xmltv file; you do need to have a windows machine or use virtualization. I haven't gotten them to run under Wine (yet).
Yeah, the guitar guy is the same Ernie Ball the parent was referring to. His company got really burned in a BSA audit a few years ago, and he very publicly switched most (if not all) of his operation to Linux. I don't have a link, but I'm sure if you do a quick Google search you could find the details.
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Amazon should have the blatantly obvious ability to use amazon gift certificate for Mp3 purchases as well. They were not on my Christmas list because of this while sites such as eMusic were.
I had a horrible experience with Gutsy too, and ended up reverting to the Feisty release. The Kubuntu folks need to spend a little more time on QA.
It's an easy solution - During business hours, Monday through Friday 9am to 5pm, allow your employer to contact you via your mobile device. Outside of business hours, turn the thing off or don't respond to messages from your employer. They are not paying you to work 100% of the time, so they can pound sand. There is absolutely nothing so important that it can't wait until the next business day. If your employer is expecting you to be on call 24/7 then you have an abusive employer and I would recommend finding a job elsewhere. Note that if you are in IT or support, the situation may be different, but you signed up for that lifestyle.
Another anecdote, relevant to the discussion about voice calls over the service--
The guy seated next to me was making calls over Skype with it, and
1) Lufthansa's internet service seemed to work fine for voice communications
2) It wasn't annoying at all to me to be sitting next to someone talking on the phone. I think the entire reaction of "horrors! people will be able to make calls on the plane!" are pretty overblown.
You can also allow access to files on these devices via LightHTTPD on the device. At least that's how our admins at work have set it up. I would imagine the boneheaded restrictions only apply if you use their Mironet client.
Th parent wrote: "In fact Omega-3 is, IMHO, the new snake oil. It could have all sorts of benefits on everything from the heart and the brain to joints, only nobody's managed to back it up with a shred of evidence."
Not true. There is quite a bit of science behind the health benefits of Omega-3s. Read Susan Allport's book "The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them"
The policy at companies I've worked at has been that you are NOT to use your own encryption tools. Only the special encryption software provided by the company is allowed (with all the corporate back doors, etc. if they have to fire you or you lose your password). It's up to the the IT organization to provide appropriate encryption tools and the training to use them. If these government organizations are not doing this, then the government shouldn't be able to punish the individual employees. The law should hold the organization responsible, not the individual employees.
Is the Neo ever going to come to market? It seems like the holy grail of cell phones (open so you can do anything you want with it), but it was supposed to be released in October. It's November 13th today, and one still can't buy a consumer version of the OpenMoko Neo. Not a good sign.
The person this happened to should file a complaint with the state Attorney General. By giving him a box of tiles instead of a hard drive, Best Buy is committing fraud.
The Military-Industrial complex wanted their cold war and the associated government spending back. The "War on Terror" is the perfect successor - it's a 'war' that can't be won, has no foreseeable end, and trillions will be spent on it.
The thing Amazon has over eMusic is higher bitrate files. From what I saw in a rather cursory glance at their site, Amazon has 256kbps MP3s, whereas eMusic only has 196kbps. Storage is cheap these days, so to me 196kpbs is a little on the light side in my opinion; 256kbps Mp3s are better, Flac files are what I really would like to see offered.
Why not a product that whitelists numbers that will ring through? Why should I answer calls from random numbers? Those can go straight to voicemail. You would think the telcos would sell a service like this, but I've never seen it. I suppose one could route all calls through an Asterisk box and have rules set up for this...
As far as I know, there is no Linux-based DVD player that can be distributed without violating either the DVD Forum's or Macrovision's rights. All it would take is someone getting enough revenue to apply for and receive a license from both of these entities. Today, nobody has stepped up to the plate for Linux.
Dell could ship PowerDVD for Linux if they wanted to provide a legal way to play DVDs on Ubuntu. http://www.dvd-recordable.org/Article1087-mode=thread-order0-threshold0.phtml
Alright, granted I'm using the Feisty release of Kubuntu (I personally absolutely hate Gnome) but when I first tried to play an MP3 I was prompted to download the codec, but for some reason setting up the codec this way failed. I'm assuming it a was Kubuntu specific problem. I had to manually install several packages (I don't remember which ones). The other problem I had was that Kubuntu didn't install the "Restricted Devices Manager" package by default either. I had to manually install that as well.
Don't get me wrong, I really love Kubuntu, but Canonical really needs to put equal focus on the Kubuntu and Ubuntu versions. Problems like this that don't exist in Ubuntu shouldn't exist in Kubuntu either.
Medicine screws up way too much. There's a reason they use the term "practicing" medicine. They don't know enough and truly are practicing--on their patients. If it doesn't work out, it's "oh well, we did all we could." This would be acceptable, if it wasn't for the unbearable arrogance of many in the medical profession, and their looking condescending attitude towards anyone who tries anything that has not been blessed by the high temple that is the American Medical Association.
Work with a company you feel you can trust, but certainly always take the approach that good fences make good neighbors... (Meaning, Trust, but Verify) ... As long as Jobs is at the helm at Apple, though, I personally would never worry one bit about this sort of thing happen... He as a person is trust worthy in my opinion...
Are you smoking crack? Apple the next Microsoft. See http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/09/07/newms/index.php for an analysis of Apple as a monopolist.
You have it lucky. Here in the Denver area there is no real digital OTA due to a bunch of NIMBYs who have blocked construction of a new broadcast tower http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5312731,00.html And the local cable provider (comcast) will not sell basic cable either.
"1300 Unopened Liberty Mutual Insurance Payments Found In Dumpster." It would be from 1300 people who had filed big insurance claims, of course, so the company could get out of paying the claims by arguing the customers hadn't paid their premiums. Never trust an insurance company, all of them are crooks.
"Everyone is trying to kill us." No, not everyone. Only manufactures in China and the greedy corporate pigs who outsource there. I still don't understand why Americans and other westerners buy products made in China, a communist country with a high degree of totalitarianism and an awful human rights record. Did we all forget the cold war and the cultural revolution?
Sure, you can show them the FCC ruling and force them to allow your antenna. But then the HOA is likely to hassle you for every other little thing they can. It's just not worth it.
Qwest just sucks. I moved to Denver (Qwest territory) from the SF Bay area earlier this year. Before I had At&T DSL, for $15/month and never had a single outage in the two years I was there (at two different addresses). Now I have Qwest VDSL (1.5Mbs) and I have an outage about once a month and pay twice as much. The other thing that sucks is that with VDSL Qwest could offer a true broadband connection of around 30Mbs, but instead they limit it to a max of 3Mbs and use all the bandwidth for their shitty TV service.
And if they are really, really smart they will have a 64-bit version too!
First of all, I commend the work the schedules direct folks have done and intend to subscribe, but not until the price drops. $5/month is too damn much.
For the next three months, there are a couple of free options that have been created for gbpvr: one gets guide data from Yahoo and one that gets data from TitanTV.
http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?t=27491
http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?p=205143
I know the TitanTV option does not screen scrape, it uses a SOAP interface to TitanTv. I'm not sure about the Yahoo option.
Both of them are windows-based and output a normal xmltv file; you do need to have a windows machine or use virtualization. I haven't gotten them to run under Wine (yet).
"but Hungary is very much [europa.eu] into open source"
One could say they are hungry for it, even!
Yeah, the guitar guy is the same Ernie Ball the parent was referring to. His company got really burned in a BSA audit a few years ago, and he very publicly switched most (if not all) of his operation to Linux. I don't have a link, but I'm sure if you do a quick Google search you could find the details.