Yes, I don't like flash for it being a huge resource hog and buggy and I am always for open source, but blocking flash right now is like start demolishing the bridge while you are still crossing it. HTML5 is just not ready for prime time yet.
+1 for Sipdroid, I am currently spending a few months overseas and Sipdroid + sipgate.com work flawlessly for me every time. Sipgate actually gives you a phone number and unlimited incoming calls for free, and there are ways to integrate Goolge Voice to it (and they are having a promotion, you get an hour of outgoing air time free), between that and Skype, it basically covers all my long distance calls.
Alternatively, check with your cellphone carrier to see if you can get a femtocell. If you are with them for a few years, they will usually waive the device and monthly fee (especially if you call retention and threaten to leave). Then you will be able to use your regular cellphone.
"would also forbid air travelers from carrying spare alkaline or NiMH batteries in their checked-in luggage"
If it's so "dangerous" to be in the checked bags, then why is it safe to be on carry-on bags?
"You own your own IP space and you're your own ISP at that point."
I believe this sentence was designed to make youtube commenters' heads to explode......your you're you what?
While that may be true for those of us nerds that always want the greatest and latest, but there are also some little old ladies that have been watching the same TV for the last 30 years and don't care about HDMI or 1080p, all they care is something that they don't have to rebuy till the day they die.
Another example is other appliances that you probably care more about reliability than new functions. Like my uncle, he has been this same rice cooker that's basically nothing more than a heater coil and a bowl on top of it for the last 30 years, all while my parents kept getting new models with fuzzy logic and all the other non-sense built in. I lost count how many times we had to replace ours.
Just like they said about shopping for expensive audio equipment or HDTV's, if you can't the difference between 720p and 1080p, don't waste your money, some people can see the additional details, some can't. That being said, I listen mostly to classical music, bit rates and a good pair of headphones make a big difference.
It would be the equivalent of 22 Internets So our President was right about the "Internets" after all, he must have access to a few of those 22 Internets!
I had my account deleted years ago, when I jokingly put "1" as my age in the profile, apparently they will get rid of your account if you put anything less than 13 in there.
A few buddies and I have a website with a forum, whenever I tried to admin it on my mac with firefox, it will tell me they don't support firefox and will only work with IE, then they go as far as telling me "IE is superior" and includes some links to "firefox myths". I just love how the lazy developers completely ignore other platforms and open standards while blaming their lazy asses on someone else.
"Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge."
How about changing the title to: Human Stupidity-a Threat to National Security?
"SFGate has the story of the cutoff date for those rabbit ear antennas that some of us grew up with"
That's not true, you can use rabbit ear antennas with ATSC turners as well, so next time you at the store looking for a "HDTV antenna" just grab those old cheapo rabbit ears.
I have no problem with this "E-fee" concept, I actually think it may be a good idea if it really helps to recycle old electronics. That being said, I hope the fees collected will actually be used on recycling old electronics, not used on some government bureaucrat for totally unrelated things, just like the telephone tax that was supposed to help fund the Spanish-American War.
I remember reading an article about the Nissan manufacturing plant in Mississippi had to face similar problems with hail storms damaging their newly built cars. Then they put sonic wave generators all around the lot pointing skyward, the sonic wave will blast the hail into smaller, more harmless pieces. Do they have similar systems in NASA/elsewhere?
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I did the same and no forced update either.
But sadly, there's no patch for stupidity.
Good to know that the computers I have at home are better protected against power failure than the ICBMS we have!
Yes, I don't like flash for it being a huge resource hog and buggy and I am always for open source, but blocking flash right now is like start demolishing the bridge while you are still crossing it. HTML5 is just not ready for prime time yet.
+1 for Sipdroid, I am currently spending a few months overseas and Sipdroid + sipgate.com work flawlessly for me every time. Sipgate actually gives you a phone number and unlimited incoming calls for free, and there are ways to integrate Goolge Voice to it (and they are having a promotion, you get an hour of outgoing air time free), between that and Skype, it basically covers all my long distance calls. Alternatively, check with your cellphone carrier to see if you can get a femtocell. If you are with them for a few years, they will usually waive the device and monthly fee (especially if you call retention and threaten to leave). Then you will be able to use your regular cellphone.
"would also forbid air travelers from carrying spare alkaline or NiMH batteries in their checked-in luggage" If it's so "dangerous" to be in the checked bags, then why is it safe to be on carry-on bags?
I guess I need to draw some clothes on my stick figure man just to be safe from now on.
Leave it to the Tupperware Stacking Agency to come up with all this security theater non sense, pretty soon they will ban farting on airplanes.
"You own your own IP space and you're your own ISP at that point." I believe this sentence was designed to make youtube commenters' heads to explode......your you're you what?
Said video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO0PgyPWE3o
While that may be true for those of us nerds that always want the greatest and latest, but there are also some little old ladies that have been watching the same TV for the last 30 years and don't care about HDMI or 1080p, all they care is something that they don't have to rebuy till the day they die. Another example is other appliances that you probably care more about reliability than new functions. Like my uncle, he has been this same rice cooker that's basically nothing more than a heater coil and a bowl on top of it for the last 30 years, all while my parents kept getting new models with fuzzy logic and all the other non-sense built in. I lost count how many times we had to replace ours.
Now if they would build that automatic spring puncher thing and the rotor blades like they had for Hawkings in the Simpsons...
You may as well add Australia to the 53rd state too I guess...
Why is this tagged "USA"? I thought nerds were better at geography than this.
Just like they said about shopping for expensive audio equipment or HDTV's, if you can't the difference between 720p and 1080p, don't waste your money, some people can see the additional details, some can't. That being said, I listen mostly to classical music, bit rates and a good pair of headphones make a big difference.
and not to mention you feel every single bump and crack on the track, and then there is the fear of the walls around the track in real life.
I had my account deleted years ago, when I jokingly put "1" as my age in the profile, apparently they will get rid of your account if you put anything less than 13 in there.
I don't really know much about voice encryptions, but does the regular "dumb" phones even have enough power to do voice encryption?
A few buddies and I have a website with a forum, whenever I tried to admin it on my mac with firefox, it will tell me they don't support firefox and will only work with IE, then they go as far as telling me "IE is superior" and includes some links to "firefox myths". I just love how the lazy developers completely ignore other platforms and open standards while blaming their lazy asses on someone else.
"Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge."
How about changing the title to: Human Stupidity-a Threat to National Security?
"SFGate has the story of the cutoff date for those rabbit ear antennas that some of us grew up with"
That's not true, you can use rabbit ear antennas with ATSC turners as well, so next time you at the store looking for a "HDTV antenna" just grab those old cheapo rabbit ears.
I have no problem with this "E-fee" concept, I actually think it may be a good idea if it really helps to recycle old electronics. That being said, I hope the fees collected will actually be used on recycling old electronics, not used on some government bureaucrat for totally unrelated things, just like the telephone tax that was supposed to help fund the Spanish-American War.
I remember reading an article about the Nissan manufacturing plant in Mississippi had to face similar problems with hail storms damaging their newly built cars. Then they put sonic wave generators all around the lot pointing skyward, the sonic wave will blast the hail into smaller, more harmless pieces. Do they have similar systems in NASA/elsewhere?
I can use that for my roomba too.