DirectNIC used to be me registrar of choice. My first domain ever was purchased through them. They were my training wheels in the world of internet domains and hosted my accounts for years.
I fired them back in July when I moved the last of my hosted accounts from DirectNIC over to GoDaddy.
It was purely for business reasons. But God, I feel terrible for them. I feel like I abandoned them even though I know my little domains probably never mattered to them. Just one of many customers.
And as of yesterday, the customer control panel was still working!
I am deeply impressed with their courage and bravery in the face of the terrible situation.
Nah, the phone will incorporate something called "iradio" which will let you link the phone's playlist to your home PC's music collection.
Anything you have at home, you can stream to the phone. And if you don't have it, you can use iTunes to buy it and then stream to the phone.
Is it just me or does this sound a bit like glorified "music on hold" and a great way to make sure I have no battery left for making actual calls. There must be a service fee involved.
I'd rather save my battery for calling the boss or my SO or 911 when needed instead of playing music.
You still can't figure out why they bought TechTV???
There was only ever one reason: TechTV was on DirecTV and Dish Network. They had channel space.
Comcast was never able to get channel space for G4. Nobody wanted to carry it. Buying TechTV gave them the channel space they so badly wanted.
They were probably hoping to gain TechTVs viewers too but they mostly has not happened. The gamers are too busy playing games to watch TV shows about games, and the people seeking tech content got nothing.
Comcast has recently done some housecleaning at G4 -about time considering the channel has used up more than a billion of Comcast's investor's dollars with nothing to show for it- and brought in some new programming people. Can't do a lot worse than the idiots they had running the channel.
Comcast announced this summer than they are going to be demanding better results from their cable channels and G4 will be expected to perform. No more free lunch.
I'd start with putting back the tech programming, treating employees better than dirt (no 401(K), no vacation days paid or otherwise), and fire the consultants.
The two-way signal is used for the room information screens among other things.
For example, most hotels will allow you to use the TV remote to review your charges, extend your checkout time, checkout, order food, etc. The TV is communicating with a hotel computer somewhere to facilitate that. The computer generates a video channel specifically for that room.
There is also sometimes an alarm signal on the wire to detect if someone disconnects the TV to hook up a DVD player or game (they want your to rent THEIR DVD player or SNES from the front desk) or just unhooks the TV perhaps with the intent of stealing it.
I know, with TVs as cheap as they are and as advanced as they are, it makes no sense to steal a worn out old hotel TV.
OMG! It's a twenty SEVEN inch Zenith with fuzzy mono audio! W0W! Must STEAL!
Color lasers monitor their ink level very carefully and some check for the physical presense of the cartridge/bottle/whatever.
Even if you could substitute another color for yellow, the dots would still print but in the new color, and of course the rest of your print job would look like crap.
Toy company Bandai makes the toys for Power Rangers and Voltron. Toei company made the Voltron cartoons and also the live-action Ranger shows. (this is horribly simplified, I know that)
Toei makes a ton of TV shows and movies of all sorts. They are comparable to a Paramount or Universal. In other words, a lot of stuff gets made my them. Most of it has nothing to do with anything else.
Bandai is IIRC the largest toy company in the world along with owning animation companies (Sunrise), and things like Gundam.
Back in 1981-82, a TV station in St. Louis formed a company to dub some cartoons from Toei and turned that into the Voltron TV show. Bandai had been selling some of the toys themselves to little success. Matchbox stepped in and bought the toys from Bandai which they then resold as Matchbox products. LJN sold another version of the toys.
It was huge hit. (Huge amounts of simplification)
A couple years later, cartoon music composer (Inspector Gadget, Mask, Wheeled Warriors, HeMan, Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Littles, etc etc -he was MISTER Cartoon Music through the 80's) Haim Saban bought the rights to the Toei live-action Ranger shows and started making the Power Rangers franchise. Bandai stepped in and sold the toys themselves this time, which they continue to do although sales are way down.
Saban eventually sold his company to Disney so the current Power Rangers series is actually produced and owned by the mouse.
Nah. The numbers are wrong. Gigantor had one pilot, Voltron had five (stereotypical five-member team format), or 15 (overkill) depending on which part.
Voltron's roots in Japan are firmly in the sentai universe of five-person team shows which were produced by the same company, Toei, and funded by the toy company Bandai.
Exactly my thought: street cops have no business or legal standing to decide which antennas or transmitters are legal or not.
That is solely up to the FCC. This issue has been proven in court before. For example, vehicle operators in NY charged with assorted violations for having equipment in the vehicle capable of receiving police radio calls. Courts have repeatedly found that the local police have no jurisdiction to regulate a federally licensed use, i.e. ham radios that happen to be capable of receiving police radio. The cops don't like that, of course. They want to have jurisdiction over everything. I know of cases where aircraft have had to make emergency landings on roads and been issued traffic tickets for things like illegal parking, etc. The cops justify their own existance by how many tickets they write. (See how many tickets I wrote? Of COURSE we need more cops and more laws!)
In this case, the 2.4gHz ISM band is unregulated and you certainly CAN own and use any receive-only antenna and operate any approved transmit antenna. Hams can operate any 2.4gHz antenna they want and at higher power levels to boot.
Any dispute over someone's right to operate in that band is up to the FCC, who has their own invesigative and enforcement officers (a small outfit called the FBI, perhaps you've heard of them?), thank you very much local copper.
My main question is why they are even bringing up this issue. If the guy was accessing the wifi network without authorization, bust him for that. There's no need to go chasing after "illegal" antennas. Unless they haven't got any other solid evidence. Hmmm.
There are a couple different things that can happen.
The retailers got the games from a distributor, and they probably would have had a return clause just as they do with most DVDs, books, etc. That means that things that don't sell after X weeks can be sent back for full credit. They should be able to use that clause to send the games back.
So the unsold games will go back to the distributors, who will either send them back to Rockstar or Rockstar's distributor, or the games will be resold to a store that will keep carrying the game -anyone know of a retailer who IS going to keep selling it? I need to buy a copy.
Of course, Walmart and the others have the option to bypass the distributors and resell the games direct to other retailers if they so desire.
Or they can set up a shell company and dump the unsold games on eBay for more than they could have gotten at retail.
I'd like to see more practical applications of acoustic refrigeration.
Apparently Ben and Jerry's is installing them in stores. Forget that. I want to be able to buy one at Home Depot so I don't have to keep buying crappy standard window air conditioners with their loud compressors.
It won't happen. Some of the biggest remaining OS/2 users are goverment agencies and banks.
Many -if not the majority- of the world's ATM bank machines run OS/2. There is no way the banks would tolerate IBM releasing code that might, in theory, aid someone who wanted to hack an ATM. Nevermind that someone can simply steal the whole machine, and nevermind that the hackable Windows is slowly replacing OS/2 as the OS of choice for ATMs.
Where I work, there is a goverment-owned blackbox (yes, it's even black) server installed on our LAN. The box lives in it's own little world and we don't ever touch it, but there is video out and we have seen it rebooted remotely. It runs OS/2. Why? Because they expect it to crash and there's no access to push the reset button. Just pull the plug and reboot. OS/2 is happy to deal with the mess left by a crash.
Don't forget the time he said Gateway's retail computer stores were the best idea ever and would revolutionize retailing and sell a PC to the entire world+dog. There'd be a store on every corner!
Yeah. Right.
Dvorak says a lot of stuff. He's kind of a living opinion blog. Most of what he says is interesting to hear, about half of it is right. Not a lot different than other news people but most of them aren't so blatantly off the wall. They just manage to hide it better.
Yeah, it's the same thing TechTV and later G4 tried when they found out the Thunderbirds movie was about to come out.
Run the TV show and hope to boost the movie, and if the movie does well, hope that translates back into big TV ratings.
Except it didn't work. And the movie bombed. And the show went off the air almost immediately.
But fans of the Firely TV show need not worry too much about box office sales. SciFi tends to rerun stuff for years and years and years and it doesn't even have to be good or get good ratings. They'll run pretty much any old crap they have laying around.
Someday I'm gonna make a movie about transdimensional genetically engineered dinosaurs from space who come to Earth to cause chickens to mutate so they can become intelligent and secretly take over the bodies of the Federal Reserve's board of governorrs. I know SciFi will buy it and want to show it over and over and over.
Of course that's the issue: Bram was working on a way to do searching and whatever via some sort of framework -which perhaps he was going to monitize or sell to someone else who would monitize it- but now other people have gone and given out search tools for free. Bram was on Webtalkradio recently where he said searching was going to be his focus going forward.
Now he's been trumped, left out of the loop, and sidelined, much as he was once the sole source for BT clients until 15 other clients popped up.
I feel sorry for the man but not enough to stop using competing clients and search tools. I feel sorry for Dennis Hayes too. But I still use ethernet.
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That's because companies are only looking as far ahead as the next quarterly report, or maybe the next annual report. That's all the shareholders care about so that's all the companies care about.
China, Inc. and others are looking much farther down range. China is working on 50-year plans, which currently involve them taking over the world in many different areas of commerce if not military.
Shortsighted American and Japanese companies worried about short-term profit and loss can't compete against something willing to take losses for decades. Eventually the US companies die or get bought out by China on the cheap.
If there's ever a war between the US and China -and I think there will be one within the next 100 years- we're going to have a difficult time sourcing parts. China will be sure to ban trade with the US so nobody else will sell to us, and meanwhile the US will have totally gotten out of the R&D, chipfab and assembly business. Nobody will know how to make anything and it will take years to get going again.
There's at least one other way: if Joe Smith opens his bank statement and finds pages of Mike Jones' statement mixed in. Worse if they are from two different banks -outsourcing means your bank may have statements printed by an outside company who may also print for other banks.
This page merge kind of thing can happen with high speed mail handling machines, either by machine error or by operator error. Stuff happens.
At my workplace, we mail an awful lot of bank statements, forms, and other things full of personal information. We pay the machine ops just above minimum wage. Most of them are temps and no, they don't really give a damn. Yet they are the last line of defense before the mail goes out the door.
Management has refused to hire a dedicated QA person, on the grounds that everybody would allow themselves to screw up because the QA would catch it.
So now and then, person A gets person B's statement. The bank gets a complaint call from either or both parties, then the bank calls us and bitch. They are also obligated to tell the FTC and others.
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Why are they only streaming this stuff between 11 and 6?
How about streaming it at other times so people who can't watch at night might actually see it?
I work the graveyard shift (fewer managers, no traffic, more pay, etc) so I'm not home when this stuff is on.
DirectNIC used to be me registrar of choice. My first domain ever was purchased through them. They were my training wheels in the world of internet domains and hosted my accounts for years.
I fired them back in July when I moved the last of my hosted accounts from DirectNIC over to GoDaddy.
It was purely for business reasons. But God, I feel terrible for them. I feel like I abandoned them even though I know my little domains probably never mattered to them. Just one of many customers.
And as of yesterday, the customer control panel was still working!
I am deeply impressed with their courage and bravery in the face of the terrible situation.
Good luck and God bless -and keep the ammo dry!
Nah, the phone will incorporate something called "iradio" which will let you link the phone's playlist to your home PC's music collection.
Anything you have at home, you can stream to the phone. And if you don't have it, you can use iTunes to buy it and then stream to the phone.
Is it just me or does this sound a bit like glorified "music on hold" and a great way to make sure I have no battery left for making actual calls. There must be a service fee involved.
I'd rather save my battery for calling the boss or my SO or 911 when needed instead of playing music.
You still can't figure out why they bought TechTV???
There was only ever one reason: TechTV was on DirecTV and Dish Network. They had channel space.
Comcast was never able to get channel space for G4. Nobody wanted to carry it. Buying TechTV gave them the channel space they so badly wanted.
They were probably hoping to gain TechTVs viewers too but they mostly has not happened. The gamers are too busy playing games to watch TV shows about games, and the people seeking tech content got nothing.
Comcast has recently done some housecleaning at G4 -about time considering the channel has used up more than a billion of Comcast's investor's dollars with nothing to show for it- and brought in some new programming people. Can't do a lot worse than the idiots they had running the channel.
Comcast announced this summer than they are going to be demanding better results from their cable channels and G4 will be expected to perform. No more free lunch.
I'd start with putting back the tech programming, treating employees better than dirt (no 401(K), no vacation days paid or otherwise), and fire the consultants.
The two-way signal is used for the room information screens among other things.
For example, most hotels will allow you to use the TV remote to review your charges, extend your checkout time, checkout, order food, etc. The TV is communicating with a hotel computer somewhere to facilitate that. The computer generates a video channel specifically for that room.
There is also sometimes an alarm signal on the wire to detect if someone disconnects the TV to hook up a DVD player or game (they want your to rent THEIR DVD player or SNES from the front desk) or just unhooks the TV perhaps with the intent of stealing it.
I know, with TVs as cheap as they are and as advanced as they are, it makes no sense to steal a worn out old hotel TV.
OMG! It's a twenty SEVEN inch Zenith with fuzzy mono audio! W0W! Must STEAL!
TFA says his first was modeled after a five-year old Japanese girl.
I find something creepy and totally Japanese about that. It makes total sense and yet makes me ill all at the same time.
Color lasers monitor their ink level very carefully and some check for the physical presense of the cartridge/bottle/whatever.
Even if you could substitute another color for yellow, the dots would still print but in the new color, and of course the rest of your print job would look like crap.
Not exactly.
Toy company Bandai makes the toys for Power Rangers and Voltron. Toei company made the Voltron cartoons and also the live-action Ranger shows. (this is horribly simplified, I know that)
Toei makes a ton of TV shows and movies of all sorts. They are comparable to a Paramount or Universal. In other words, a lot of stuff gets made my them. Most of it has nothing to do with anything else.
Bandai is IIRC the largest toy company in the world along with owning animation companies (Sunrise), and things like Gundam.
Back in 1981-82, a TV station in St. Louis formed a company to dub some cartoons from Toei and turned that into the Voltron TV show. Bandai had been selling some of the toys themselves to little success. Matchbox stepped in and bought the toys from Bandai which they then resold as Matchbox products. LJN sold another version of the toys.
It was huge hit. (Huge amounts of simplification)
A couple years later, cartoon music composer (Inspector Gadget, Mask, Wheeled Warriors, HeMan, Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Littles, etc etc -he was MISTER Cartoon Music through the 80's) Haim Saban bought the rights to the Toei live-action Ranger shows and started making the Power Rangers franchise. Bandai stepped in and sold the toys themselves this time, which they continue to do although sales are way down.
Saban eventually sold his company to Disney so the current Power Rangers series is actually produced and owned by the mouse.
Nah. The numbers are wrong. Gigantor had one pilot, Voltron had five (stereotypical five-member team format), or 15 (overkill) depending on which part.
Voltron's roots in Japan are firmly in the sentai universe of five-person team shows which were produced by the same company, Toei, and funded by the toy company Bandai.
Dairuggar rules.
Golion kicks ass too. It's a lot better than the Voltron version.
Exactly my thought: street cops have no business or legal standing to decide which antennas or transmitters are legal or not.
That is solely up to the FCC. This issue has been proven in court before. For example, vehicle operators in NY charged with assorted violations for having equipment in the vehicle capable of receiving police radio calls. Courts have repeatedly found that the local police have no jurisdiction to regulate a federally licensed use, i.e. ham radios that happen to be capable of receiving police radio. The cops don't like that, of course. They want to have jurisdiction over everything. I know of cases where aircraft have had to make emergency landings on roads and been issued traffic tickets for things like illegal parking, etc. The cops justify their own existance by how many tickets they write. (See how many tickets I wrote? Of COURSE we need more cops and more laws!)
In this case, the 2.4gHz ISM band is unregulated and you certainly CAN own and use any receive-only antenna and operate any approved transmit antenna. Hams can operate any 2.4gHz antenna they want and at higher power levels to boot.
Any dispute over someone's right to operate in that band is up to the FCC, who has their own invesigative and enforcement officers (a small outfit called the FBI, perhaps you've heard of them?), thank you very much local copper.
My main question is why they are even bringing up this issue. If the guy was accessing the wifi network without authorization, bust him for that. There's no need to go chasing after "illegal" antennas. Unless they haven't got any other solid evidence. Hmmm.
There are a couple different things that can happen.
The retailers got the games from a distributor, and they probably would have had a return clause just as they do with most DVDs, books, etc. That means that things that don't sell after X weeks can be sent back for full credit. They should be able to use that clause to send the games back.
So the unsold games will go back to the distributors, who will either send them back to Rockstar or Rockstar's distributor, or the games will be resold to a store that will keep carrying the game -anyone know of a retailer who IS going to keep selling it? I need to buy a copy.
Of course, Walmart and the others have the option to bypass the distributors and resell the games direct to other retailers if they so desire.
Or they can set up a shell company and dump the unsold games on eBay for more than they could have gotten at retail.
Sounds like a new idea for a razor product.
There's money to be made in hair removal AND in hair replacement.
1) Invent gadget for hair removal, open chain of shops.
2) Profit!
3) Open hair replacement chain.
4) Profit!
5) Goto 1
I'd like to see more practical applications of acoustic refrigeration.
Apparently Ben and Jerry's is installing them in stores. Forget that. I want to be able to buy one at Home Depot so I don't have to keep buying crappy standard window air conditioners with their loud compressors.
It won't happen. Some of the biggest remaining OS/2 users are goverment agencies and banks.
Many -if not the majority- of the world's ATM bank machines run OS/2. There is no way the banks would tolerate IBM releasing code that might, in theory, aid someone who wanted to hack an ATM. Nevermind that someone can simply steal the whole machine, and nevermind that the hackable Windows is slowly replacing OS/2 as the OS of choice for ATMs.
Where I work, there is a goverment-owned blackbox (yes, it's even black) server installed on our LAN. The box lives in it's own little world and we don't ever touch it, but there is video out and we have seen it rebooted remotely. It runs OS/2. Why? Because they expect it to crash and there's no access to push the reset button. Just pull the plug and reboot. OS/2 is happy to deal with the mess left by a crash.
Don't forget the time he said Gateway's retail computer stores were the best idea ever and would revolutionize retailing and sell a PC to the entire world+dog. There'd be a store on every corner!
Yeah. Right.
Dvorak says a lot of stuff. He's kind of a living opinion blog. Most of what he says is interesting to hear, about half of it is right. Not a lot different than other news people but most of them aren't so blatantly off the wall. They just manage to hide it better.
Yeah, thanks to Erin, I went into puberty about two years early.
Lynda Carter didn't hurt either tho.
Don't you mean Mad Dog %20/%20?
(shameless attempt at humor. Yes I know what MD2020 is, thanks. I've seen Top Secret.)
Yeah, it's the same thing TechTV and later G4 tried when they found out the Thunderbirds movie was about to come out.
Run the TV show and hope to boost the movie, and if the movie does well, hope that translates back into big TV ratings.
Except it didn't work. And the movie bombed. And the show went off the air almost immediately.
But fans of the Firely TV show need not worry too much about box office sales. SciFi tends to rerun stuff for years and years and years and it doesn't even have to be good or get good ratings. They'll run pretty much any old crap they have laying around.
Someday I'm gonna make a movie about transdimensional genetically engineered dinosaurs from space who come to Earth to cause chickens to mutate so they can become intelligent and secretly take over the bodies of the Federal Reserve's board of governorrs. I know SciFi will buy it and want to show it over and over and over.
I'll get rich! You'll see!
Of course that's the issue: Bram was working on a way to do searching and whatever via some sort of framework -which perhaps he was going to monitize or sell to someone else who would monitize it- but now other people have gone and given out search tools for free. Bram was on Webtalkradio recently where he said searching was going to be his focus going forward.
Now he's been trumped, left out of the loop, and sidelined, much as he was once the sole source for BT clients until 15 other clients popped up.
I feel sorry for the man but not enough to stop using competing clients and search tools. I feel sorry for Dennis Hayes too. But I still use ethernet.
That's because companies are only looking as far ahead as the next quarterly report, or maybe the next annual report. That's all the shareholders care about so that's all the companies care about.
China, Inc. and others are looking much farther down range. China is working on 50-year plans, which currently involve them taking over the world in many different areas of commerce if not military.
Shortsighted American and Japanese companies worried about short-term profit and loss can't compete against something willing to take losses for decades. Eventually the US companies die or get bought out by China on the cheap.
If there's ever a war between the US and China -and I think there will be one within the next 100 years- we're going to have a difficult time sourcing parts. China will be sure to ban trade with the US so nobody else will sell to us, and meanwhile the US will have totally gotten out of the R&D, chipfab and assembly business. Nobody will know how to make anything and it will take years to get going again.
There's at least one other way: if Joe Smith opens his bank statement and finds pages of Mike Jones' statement mixed in. Worse if they are from two different banks -outsourcing means your bank may have statements printed by an outside company who may also print for other banks.
This page merge kind of thing can happen with high speed mail handling machines, either by machine error or by operator error. Stuff happens.
At my workplace, we mail an awful lot of bank statements, forms, and other things full of personal information. We pay the machine ops just above minimum wage. Most of them are temps and no, they don't really give a damn. Yet they are the last line of defense before the mail goes out the door.
Management has refused to hire a dedicated QA person, on the grounds that everybody would allow themselves to screw up because the QA would catch it.
So now and then, person A gets person B's statement. The bank gets a complaint call from either or both parties, then the bank calls us and bitch. They are also obligated to tell the FTC and others.
They are order confirmations, not a mailing list.
Amazon.de carries things that Amazon.com does not. Same with Amazon Japan.
Are those vent holes in the top?
Note that the LCD is sitting off to one side. Is that to show-off the case or because it has to?
Make this work with Gmail and I'd even pay money for it!
Tired of getting email from Amazon.DE on my Gmail account and having to copy and paste it over to Babelfish.
That would be very useful for me.