I hear the company that makes the iPod has a couple of these...but i dont think their web servers get very high traffic...especially around launch dates...so its probably not a good example.
the other cool (legitimate) thing to do with the hard drive is rip CD tracks to it...some games allow you to change the in game audio to this music you ripped.
Well its a good way for them to save money, i know my Xbox hard drive is only 2% full or something...i just hope the removable hard drive doesnt use some proprietary connection, because if its just a standard hard drive this would make it easy for anyone to add an 80GB drive, which cost about as much as an 8MB memory card from Sony these days. Really what Microsoft should do is make the Xbox work with thumbdrives standard, that way i can bring a gig of data from my xbox to a friend's as easily as i would on a memory card...plus it would hold enough for me to store downloaded levels etc...
I thought the iPod photo was useless too until now, when they added the functionality to download from your digital camera to it. It's also useful for being able to outsnob the people who own monochrome ipods, as iPod photo has a fancy color display.
People in "the know" like us dont click them, but when grandma or mom and dad type www.dotyahoo.com or www.yahho.com or whatever and see a search box, the really don't know to even think its illegitimate.
Customs really does not check for things like this...just give it a shot sometime, order some Absinthe or perscription drugs or whatever from another country, and it has a 90% of making it here untouched. There is simply too much mail, and as long as it doesn't look suspicious it will get through. High Dev video cards are really WAY low in terms of seizure priority, when there are weapons, drugs etc to worry about.
I have Comcast OnDemand and the Comcast DVR. I was ready to buy a Tivo until comcast started offering their DVR...no hardware to buy, it records HD, about 40 hours of programming, and only $10 a month? Sure the functionality is no where near as cool as Tivo (Comcast's is really barebones), but the cost of Tivo hardware just puts it too far out of the ballgame, and the fact that it couldn't do HD until recently, plus all their latest content restrictions for the Tivo to go make it really lose its shine. As far as OnDemand goes, its definitely no substitute for a DVR, but it is still really useful if you don't want to pony up the money for one. If you have HBO for instance, you can view any movie or TV series HBO is currently showing. Say I can't record the Sopranos on Sunday cuz i'm already recording desperate housewives or whatever...with Tivo i would have to wait til the next airing of the Sopranos, say Tuesday night, but with OnDemand, its already ready for me to watch Monday morning (if not sunday night).
While some would say it has a left-wing bias too, I think the Washington Post provides much better coverage without the bias, and certainly without all the fake story scandals.
As long as it doesn't require free registration this could be good. About.com has alot of great content, on topics like cooking, pets, and cities (but not cooking pets in the city). But alot of it is outdated and flooded by popup ads. If NYT can improve the content then I say this is good news.
While what you say is true, the same thing could have been said about Microsoft in 1982...we hope to see these things coming BEFORE they happen now. Google is acting like Microsoft in the sense that they are buying every vertical and horizontal and then integrating them to show ads. They may not be evil now, but that doesn't mean they don't have the potential to be. They have already raised some eyebrows with the desktop search and gmail as far as privacy issues. Like others have said, the toolbar is optional, but Google already is scaring me by going so far away from its core search functionality, which I would argue could still use some work itself.
We're spinning in the middle of cold cold space, people can whine about the eskimos who can't hunt Polar Bears now, and the ocean rising 1cm a year. But luckily we can continue to grow crops farther and farther north and feed this overpopulated world. If we were to enter into another ice age we would all be screwed.
At least around here small claims court cases cost $35 to file. If you sue a major corporation in one, no lawyers or company representatives will show up...it costs more to pay them to come (I went to a case where someone sued calvin klein). You may even get a judgement against the company, although that is unlikely. That doesn't mean anything will ever come of it, major companies often have tons of claims against them, their legal departments can tie things up forever and the money you spent would have been better spent buying a new copy. The only way things like this are taken seriously is through class action lawsuits.
Because Google made a MAJOR error during its IPO process, every individual employee's stock sales are public information (usually company's use a loophole so that only directors and execs have to report). So you can see exactly who does and doesn't care about the money at google (at least immediate money). Like good old Washington Wong who sold 10 shares for a couple thousand quick bucks.
They love to take the easy way out of things. Since they can't pass a law to make Parents more responsible they do this. Your average kid under the age of 17 doesnt have $50 to spend on violent video games...if they have the money its cuz their parents gave it to them. All this law means is that friends older brothers and drunk guys in the alley will be buying violent games for your children. If you dont want a child having a violent video game, don't let him have a TV in his room, look through his game collection, and don't buy him any! There was a big protest near me last week (Washington DC) of parents complaining, and when the Post interviewed game stores in the area they all said that whenever they refuse to sell a kid a game, the kid just returns with a grownup.
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I think it proves more that their search logic needs work...i wish they would stop with their other fun projects and improve the bloody search
I hear the company that makes the iPod has a couple of these...but i dont think their web servers get very high traffic...especially around launch dates...so its probably not a good example.
the other cool (legitimate) thing to do with the hard drive is rip CD tracks to it...some games allow you to change the in game audio to this music you ripped.
Well its a good way for them to save money, i know my Xbox hard drive is only 2% full or something...i just hope the removable hard drive doesnt use some proprietary connection, because if its just a standard hard drive this would make it easy for anyone to add an 80GB drive, which cost about as much as an 8MB memory card from Sony these days. Really what Microsoft should do is make the Xbox work with thumbdrives standard, that way i can bring a gig of data from my xbox to a friend's as easily as i would on a memory card...plus it would hold enough for me to store downloaded levels etc...
I thought the iPod photo was useless too until now, when they added the functionality to download from your digital camera to it. It's also useful for being able to outsnob the people who own monochrome ipods, as iPod photo has a fancy color display.
You mean with a press release?
People in "the know" like us dont click them, but when grandma or mom and dad type www.dotyahoo.com or www.yahho.com or whatever and see a search box, the really don't know to even think its illegitimate.
I think it may be because most searches for "Paris" are for the Hilton variety, rather then the city.
Customs really does not check for things like this...just give it a shot sometime, order some Absinthe or perscription drugs or whatever from another country, and it has a 90% of making it here untouched. There is simply too much mail, and as long as it doesn't look suspicious it will get through. High Dev video cards are really WAY low in terms of seizure priority, when there are weapons, drugs etc to worry about.
Why does the harmonica count as a gadget? (#85)
I have Comcast OnDemand and the Comcast DVR. I was ready to buy a Tivo until comcast started offering their DVR...no hardware to buy, it records HD, about 40 hours of programming, and only $10 a month? Sure the functionality is no where near as cool as Tivo (Comcast's is really barebones), but the cost of Tivo hardware just puts it too far out of the ballgame, and the fact that it couldn't do HD until recently, plus all their latest content restrictions for the Tivo to go make it really lose its shine. As far as OnDemand goes, its definitely no substitute for a DVR, but it is still really useful if you don't want to pony up the money for one. If you have HBO for instance, you can view any movie or TV series HBO is currently showing. Say I can't record the Sopranos on Sunday cuz i'm already recording desperate housewives or whatever...with Tivo i would have to wait til the next airing of the Sopranos, say Tuesday night, but with OnDemand, its already ready for me to watch Monday morning (if not sunday night).
While some would say it has a left-wing bias too, I think the Washington Post provides much better coverage without the bias, and certainly without all the fake story scandals.
As long as it doesn't require free registration this could be good. About.com has alot of great content, on topics like cooking, pets, and cities (but not cooking pets in the city). But alot of it is outdated and flooded by popup ads. If NYT can improve the content then I say this is good news.
While what you say is true, the same thing could have been said about Microsoft in 1982...we hope to see these things coming BEFORE they happen now. Google is acting like Microsoft in the sense that they are buying every vertical and horizontal and then integrating them to show ads. They may not be evil now, but that doesn't mean they don't have the potential to be. They have already raised some eyebrows with the desktop search and gmail as far as privacy issues. Like others have said, the toolbar is optional, but Google already is scaring me by going so far away from its core search functionality, which I would argue could still use some work itself.
We're spinning in the middle of cold cold space, people can whine about the eskimos who can't hunt Polar Bears now, and the ocean rising 1cm a year. But luckily we can continue to grow crops farther and farther north and feed this overpopulated world. If we were to enter into another ice age we would all be screwed.
The brown haired thinner one that went to Yale, not the hard partying blond one that went to U Texas.
I hope you talking about the elder Barbara Bush, cuz George W Bush's daughter Barbara is smokin'!
it does, but again, good luck getting that money.
At least around here small claims court cases cost $35 to file. If you sue a major corporation in one, no lawyers or company representatives will show up...it costs more to pay them to come (I went to a case where someone sued calvin klein). You may even get a judgement against the company, although that is unlikely. That doesn't mean anything will ever come of it, major companies often have tons of claims against them, their legal departments can tie things up forever and the money you spent would have been better spent buying a new copy. The only way things like this are taken seriously is through class action lawsuits.
There already is a Stonehenge II, in: Hunt, TX
Because Google made a MAJOR error during its IPO process, every individual employee's stock sales are public information (usually company's use a loophole so that only directors and execs have to report). So you can see exactly who does and doesn't care about the money at google (at least immediate money). Like good old Washington Wong who sold 10 shares for a couple thousand quick bucks.
Brin said that Google has an "objective this year of becoming an international company"....
....so we've kicked off the year by offering a mapping program that only works for the USA.
Google Maps is awesome, but i cant believe it doesn't have a scale bar! Its really difficult to tell what mileage things are as the crow flys.
star three times bigger than the sun, leaving our galaxy at a speed of over 1.5 million miles per hour (670 kilometers per second).
;)
Thats only 1 million miles per hour faster then a UMD flying out of a Sony PSP
They love to take the easy way out of things. Since they can't pass a law to make Parents more responsible they do this. Your average kid under the age of 17 doesnt have $50 to spend on violent video games...if they have the money its cuz their parents gave it to them. All this law means is that friends older brothers and drunk guys in the alley will be buying violent games for your children. If you dont want a child having a violent video game, don't let him have a TV in his room, look through his game collection, and don't buy him any! There was a big protest near me last week (Washington DC) of parents complaining, and when the Post interviewed game stores in the area they all said that whenever they refuse to sell a kid a game, the kid just returns with a grownup.