If VoIP is really Voice over IP, why are there any fee's, why are there any regulations? Why can't someone make a device that records my voice in real time, sends it to a different computer, where it is played?
The odds that the one Dell monitor you buy will burn up is fairly slim (though I wouldn't want to risk it), but visit any computer lab with something like 100 Dell monitors that are on continually, and you'll hear that probably 5-10 of them turned into an inferno, melted, etc.
That's one of the good reasons to use an LCD flat panel (like I have) if you're gonna get a Dell.
Using the UltraSharp LCD flat panel to read this right now.
because MSFT won't call them bugs and denies they exist.
In related news: Zombie World Population skyrockets.
Seriously, metrics are not useful unless all the measurements are done to the same or comparable standards. An IE bug tends to be what I would describe as a collection of 80-100 mozilla bugs - and even then is usually reported a year late after they refuse to admit they fixed it but the release is different on the MSDN disks for a program that's already been "updated"...
TERRIST B: "My morale lies in tatters on the open road, for without the crisp cool taste of Coca Cola I cannot plot these evil acts."
Ah, but just wait until Intelligent Machines pilot the WMD...
Missile One: "I was chatting with the Coke machine, and he agreed with the Laser Printer that flying can cause sunburn, and I should consider swimming instead."
Missile Two: "Swimming? Hmm, let's go Swimming to Cambodia!"
Okay, guys, here's a quick quiz: of the following possible combatants, which one has the most to lose in the event of an enemy hacker penetrating its computer security?
a) al-Qaeda b) China c) the United States d) North Korea
Um, I'm going to guess it's not A) al-Qaeda - because they have a truly distributed net and could care less.
Why is this news? Dell using AMD is just as possible as MS embracing Open Source methodologies and freely giving away all of their sourcecode.
From your keyboard to God's input devices.
Both are a possibility, but until either company is losing significant marketshare by staying the course they have traveled for so long... It won't happen.
So, is that why MSFT is spending a lot of money advertising Windows (just announced today)?
The amusing thing is that Dell has always been known for doing such tricks as overclocking their processors, having laptops that ran so hot they'd burn up, and generally not realizing that power consumption is a big deal to modern businesses.
So it's not surprising to read that they are avoiding the AMD chipset, if it consumes less power and runs much cooler.
And then some customers will get pissed off, tell Comcast to go fuck themselves, and their revenue decreases yet again. If this were to continue happening, their rates would be so high that people switch to _whatever_ else and they would go out of business OR stop being a bunch of pricks, suck up the loss and try not to do it again.
Seriously, I've noticed in the red states you guys don't seem to get upset by this much, but in this region of the US, it's something people get really passionate about.
Just because Comcast is the ISP here doesn't mean that her concerns about publishing her data aren't important - or more highly valued than the corporate greedfest that is Comcast.
One thing I never did understand is why when ever they are talking about distance, they always says kilometers never miles. Is there a reason for this? It is an American show.
Well, let's see.
First, it's scientific - we all use metric at the universities and research firms.
Second, it's supposedly a united earth - every single country other than the USA uses metric. Even Brunei and the UK switched over a while back.
Third, the show is broadcast around the world - in point of fact, they bring in more money from non-US sales - and it's supposed to be multi-cultural, in case you haven't noticed.
Fourth, I know for a fact that Romulan Ale is not measured in metric. It's measured in hangovers.
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In reading the PC Magazine review (parent above), my major impression was that Longhorn is really trying to capitalize on all the FUD that America is in, kind of a Homeland Insecurity version of Windows to make it safer.
Guess their marketing people think most consumers are very very scared, is all I can say.
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What I want is an OS thats fast and doesn't get in the way of me working with graphics, fiddlin with creating movies, playing music or blowing things up in Unreal. Longhorn?, don't thinks so, not from what I've been reading.
Yeah, the only reason I can see for them shipping it is the bug fixes and making us buy more hardware, so far as I can tell, and chip in a few thousand for software and license upgrades.
I just don't get why anyone would want what they're pushing as the features of Longhorn. I'm severely underwhelmed.
Is it just me, or does Longhorn sound boring?
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Seriously, I read the review and I was so underwhelmed I almost fell asleep.
Don't get me wrong - on my 2004 tax return there's a line item for $1099 for Microsoft software, I'm just saying the feature list was the kind of thing that made my eyes glaze over.
Where's the killer ap? Or should we all just give up and switch to Linux/BSD/Apple?
As we join the Royal Canadian Multi-stellar Police in their voyages across the Galaxy, we can remember they always get their lifeform...
At least they won't be censored like the US show was in showing Romulan Ale and other such things that scare the beejabbers out of the faint of heart Yanks... and they'll have more women on the crew too.
Not sure if I'm looking forward to all the filming of snow planets though, in search of a viable Hockey franchise...
Yes, I know there are several sources of legal MP3 music products, but they all fall into one of two categories: (a) small local individual efforts (such as your friends) (b) those that will eventually fall to the satanic wrath of the RIAA/etc. such as allofmp3.com When I can buy MP3s from several household name supplier for current or recent chart music, I'll concede that there's an MP3 market.
I live in Seattle. We are the household names. Just because the red state media won't carry us, doesn't mean we aren't the market.
I'd be a very happy person if there was a legal MP3 market, but alas the title is misleading.
Tons of my friends perform at local bars here in Fremont (in Seattle) and on Capitol Hill (same). Most of them have MP3 CDs and DVDs for sale - of their own music.
They get most of the money from their own music, as opposed to most labels which give an artist only 2 cents per CD/DVD sold, unless it's sold thru a local music store like Sonic Boom which gives local artists a large cut of the money for their own music.
Why do you hate capitalism so? Why do you love anti-capitalist anti-competitive concepts?
no matter how much companies like Sony and others try.
So long as you can buy a cheap iPod brand new for $99 at any Apple store - and pick up one on craigslist for about $50 - the hundreds of millions of consumers who use them will set the market.
Many markets do in fact have CNN on the radio. My hometown, for instance. It's just an audio feed of CNN HN, plus some local ads and a smidgen of specially produced content, but it does exist.
I know. When I travel that's what I tune to on the alarm clock, if they don't have NPR.
Seriously.
So an evil alarm clock will be tuned to Faux News, and a good alarm clock will be tuned to CNN radio (or at least NPR).
The thing is, one the days when the evil alarm clock purposefully doesn't wake you up, it will laugh in the dark laugh of Darth Vader, who as we all know is CNN's intro voice by James Earl Jones.
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that's where Naked DSL would go over really well.
But I hear they use FireWire there instead.
If VoIP is really Voice over IP, why are there any fee's, why are there any regulations? Why can't someone make a device that records my voice in real time, sends it to a different computer, where it is played?
Because we live in Soviet America.
The odds that the one Dell monitor you buy will burn up is fairly slim (though I wouldn't want to risk it), but visit any computer lab with something like 100 Dell monitors that are on continually, and you'll hear that probably 5-10 of them turned into an inferno, melted, etc.
That's one of the good reasons to use an LCD flat panel (like I have) if you're gonna get a Dell.
Using the UltraSharp LCD flat panel to read this right now.
Dude, you're catching on fire from your Dell!
because MSFT won't call them bugs and denies they exist.
...
In related news: Zombie World Population skyrockets.
Seriously, metrics are not useful unless all the measurements are done to the same or comparable standards. An IE bug tends to be what I would describe as a collection of 80-100 mozilla bugs - and even then is usually reported a year late after they refuse to admit they fixed it but the release is different on the MSDN disks for a program that's already been "updated"
Just sell them Windows.
That's against the Geneva Convention.
TERRIST B: "My morale lies in tatters on the open road, for without the crisp cool taste of Coca Cola I cannot plot these evil acts."
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Ah, but just wait until Intelligent Machines pilot the WMD
Missile One: "I was chatting with the Coke machine, and he agreed with the Laser Printer that flying can cause sunburn, and I should consider swimming instead."
Missile Two: "Swimming? Hmm, let's go Swimming to Cambodia!"
These things are connected to the internet?
...
No, but their printers are.
You'd be surprised how useful online resources in unexpected places are. Even Coke machines have processors
Okay, guys, here's a quick quiz: of the following possible combatants, which one has the most to lose in the event of an enemy hacker penetrating its computer security?
a) al-Qaeda
b) China
c) the United States
d) North Korea
Um, I'm going to guess it's not A) al-Qaeda - because they have a truly distributed net and could care less.
Can you imagine their Indian call center folk trying to even pronounce "AMD Opteron" ?
After the half-second time lag, yeah.
Why is this news? Dell using AMD is just as possible as MS embracing Open Source methodologies and freely giving away all of their sourcecode.
From your keyboard to God's input devices.
Both are a possibility, but until either company is losing significant marketshare by staying the course they have traveled for so long... It won't happen.
So, is that why MSFT is spending a lot of money advertising Windows (just announced today)?
The amusing thing is that Dell has always been known for doing such tricks as overclocking their processors, having laptops that ran so hot they'd burn up, and generally not realizing that power consumption is a big deal to modern businesses.
So it's not surprising to read that they are avoiding the AMD chipset, if it consumes less power and runs much cooler.
And then some customers will get pissed off, tell Comcast to go fuck themselves, and their revenue decreases yet again. If this were to continue happening, their rates would be so high that people switch to _whatever_ else and they would go out of business OR stop being a bunch of pricks, suck up the loss and try not to do it again.
Or we all go to free WiFi in the city of Seattle.
Starting to sound really nice, if you ask me.
so that's why I've been having problems recently ...
I'm not unhappy they're being sued.
Seriously, I've noticed in the red states you guys don't seem to get upset by this much, but in this region of the US, it's something people get really passionate about.
Just because Comcast is the ISP here doesn't mean that her concerns about publishing her data aren't important - or more highly valued than the corporate greedfest that is Comcast.
One thing I never did understand is why when ever they are talking about distance, they always says kilometers never miles. Is there a reason for this? It is an American show.
Well, let's see.
First, it's scientific - we all use metric at the universities and research firms.
Second, it's supposedly a united earth - every single country other than the USA uses metric. Even Brunei and the UK switched over a while back.
Third, the show is broadcast around the world - in point of fact, they bring in more money from non-US sales - and it's supposed to be multi-cultural, in case you haven't noticed.
Fourth, I know for a fact that Romulan Ale is not measured in metric. It's measured in hangovers.
In reading the PC Magazine review (parent above), my major impression was that Longhorn is really trying to capitalize on all the FUD that America is in, kind of a Homeland Insecurity version of Windows to make it safer.
Guess their marketing people think most consumers are very very scared, is all I can say.
What I want is an OS thats fast and doesn't get in the way of me working with graphics, fiddlin with creating movies, playing music or blowing things up in Unreal. Longhorn?, don't thinks so, not from what I've been reading.
Yeah, the only reason I can see for them shipping it is the bug fixes and making us buy more hardware, so far as I can tell, and chip in a few thousand for software and license upgrades.
I just don't get why anyone would want what they're pushing as the features of Longhorn. I'm severely underwhelmed.
Seriously, I read the review and I was so underwhelmed I almost fell asleep.
Don't get me wrong - on my 2004 tax return there's a line item for $1099 for Microsoft software, I'm just saying the feature list was the kind of thing that made my eyes glaze over.
Where's the killer ap? Or should we all just give up and switch to Linux/BSD/Apple?
Just like the casting of that other Canadian-produced show, Battlestar Galactica.
Oh, knock me over and feed me donuts and 7 percent hard cider in litre bottles.
Make it so, eh?
As we join the Royal Canadian Multi-stellar Police in their voyages across the Galaxy, we can remember they always get their lifeform ...
... and they'll have more women on the crew too.
...
At least they won't be censored like the US show was in showing Romulan Ale and other such things that scare the beejabbers out of the faint of heart Yanks
Not sure if I'm looking forward to all the filming of snow planets though, in search of a viable Hockey franchise
Yes, I know there are several sources of legal MP3 music products, but they all fall into one of two categories: (a) small local individual efforts (such as your friends) (b) those that will eventually fall to the satanic wrath of the RIAA/etc. such as allofmp3.com When I can buy MP3s from several household name supplier for current or recent chart music, I'll concede that there's an MP3 market.
I live in Seattle. We are the household names. Just because the red state media won't carry us, doesn't mean we aren't the market.
I'd be a very happy person if there was a legal MP3 market, but alas the title is misleading.
Tons of my friends perform at local bars here in Fremont (in Seattle) and on Capitol Hill (same). Most of them have MP3 CDs and DVDs for sale - of their own music.
They get most of the money from their own music, as opposed to most labels which give an artist only 2 cents per CD/DVD sold, unless it's sold thru a local music store like Sonic Boom which gives local artists a large cut of the money for their own music.
Why do you hate capitalism so? Why do you love anti-capitalist anti-competitive concepts?
Georgie only has around 200 songs loaded up, I like the list of suggested songs to fill some of the thousands of empty slots.
I think George has a lot of empty slots.
I'm surprised he even knows 200 songs, actually.
no matter how much companies like Sony and others try.
So long as you can buy a cheap iPod brand new for $99 at any Apple store - and pick up one on craigslist for about $50 - the hundreds of millions of consumers who use them will set the market.
Many markets do in fact have CNN on the radio. My hometown, for instance. It's just an audio feed of CNN HN, plus some local ads and a smidgen of specially produced content, but it does exist.
I know. When I travel that's what I tune to on the alarm clock, if they don't have NPR.
Seriously.
So an evil alarm clock will be tuned to Faux News, and a good alarm clock will be tuned to CNN radio (or at least NPR).
The thing is, one the days when the evil alarm clock purposefully doesn't wake you up, it will laugh in the dark laugh of Darth Vader, who as we all know is CNN's intro voice by James Earl Jones.