Apparently the only side-effect are that it susceptible to turning into an airborne virus and it turns you into a rabid vampire-like creature that is sensitive to sunlight and likes to feed on humans.:-(
I don't want a car that does 0-60mph in 4 seconds though, I want a commuter car that can hold 4 passengers and get me to and from work with a total range of at least 100 miles on a charge. It also needs to be under $25k.
I absolutely disagree. Procreation should absolutely be a right. What if the government required all males over the age of 12 to get a vasectomy to control population growth? Would you be willing to accept that as alright? What if women were required to get tubular ligation upon reaching puberty?
"Mommy? Are you in there? Mommy, are you coming out soon? *Sibling* woke up from his nap on the floor and is eating the cat food. Mommy? Where's Daddy? Hello? I hear you in there." *bang* *bang* *bang* on the door.
480p DVDs look just fine to me on my 52" LCD from 9' away. I'm sure if I really looked I'd see some pixelation, but I can't usually tell, especially if there is a lot of action involved. There's no way I'm buying into Blu-Ray until DVDs are no longer sold, and even then I'll likely continue buying DVDs from the bargain bin instead if I can find them. The added resolution is not worth a usual 33% markup on the movie.
Why don't they just link this feature to your iTunes account since you need one to activate your phone? That way everyone could benefit from this feature.
You know, for all these Nokia fanboys, the only people I've ever met that actually own a Nokia are ones that have the cheap piece of crap Nokia phone they got for free with their contract. *None* of them have ever had any kind of Nokia "smartphone". They're always some candybar phone or a cheap flip phone the store was giving away. For a supposed popular company, they sure are shit for marketing smartphones to the USA because over here the only smartphones I've ever seen are Blackberries, iPhones, or Windows Mobile-based devices.
It's even easier than that. You just fire all your current staff and hire new people in India. No pesky shipping or relocation costs involved. Obviously that's what he's implying they're going to do if the US doesn't buckle... it's not like they're going to box up their Seattle employees and help them all become Canadian citizens or something and move operations to Vancouver. It's cheaper and easier to fire all your employees and hire locals.
If you're using the car's radio to control the iPod then what is the point in having the iPod in the first place? Why not just make cars with built-in MP3 players and 160GB SSDs for storage? Add WiFi to the radio so you can sync the songs between your car and home PC while it sits in the garage overnight. The only thing halfway "cool" about iPods were they had a pretty decent user interface, although the requirement to use iTunes to sync your music over instead of just drag and dropping music into a music folder on the device sucked.
So why use it? I never really understood the fascination with Hulu, *especially* if you are watching it on your media center system where you could ostensibly just have recorded the content you're looking to watch from a tuner card. I could understand if they had a vast library of shows and you could go back and find any episode you want to satisfy your desire, but from looking through the catalog of shows I'm interested in they don't ever seem to have more than a few weeks worth of episodes online.
Some of the older shows off the air are even worse and just had a season or two online and not even all the episodes in the season were represented. Why the hell would I want to watch a show that is off the air that I may have never seen if I can't watch the complete series from start to finish? Hulu *could* have been completely awesome and replaced my DVR and/or cable TV if they would just keep all the episodes for all the shows they offer online for you to access immediately. I know the reason is the content providers don't like it, but why not? Why would they not want you to be able to watch any of their back catalog of shows on demand... lost DVD sales? Since Hulu runs commercials during the video it only seems to make sense that they'd want more people to watch older episodes, especially series that aren't even on the air anymore so they get ad revenue.
What do you mean you can't get 6 Mbps DSL? Did they test your line? You may be beyond the distance and they should downgrade your speed accordingly. I have 6 Mbps DSL and pretty consistently get 5 Mbps or so which I believe is just about maximum real life speed for a "6 Mbps" DSL connection with AT&T when you factor in protocol overhead.
The gun and knife in that example would've easily been detected by a traditional metal detector though so I'm not sure what they're trying to justify here. Sure it LOOKS cool, but if the metal detector already alerts you to the gun and knife, what is the point of putting them through some additional multi-million dollar scanner other than to further dehumanize people by making them perform for your obedience training?
Actually that's a good point. The last time I remember Java being needed was for my corporate SSL-VPN that I used about 9 months ago. Java is kind of obsolete these days in a browser what with Flash being everywhere (except my damn iPhone, which doesn't do Java either though anyway).
What happens when it breaks? Since jailbreaking voids the warranty you're just going to eat the $600+ loss and buy a new one? I'd consider it, but I've had to have two different iPhones (a 2G and a 3G) replaced under warranty in the past 18 months and I would've been screwed if I had jailbroken them and voided the warranty.
What on earth are you talking about? The voice plans for the iPhone are exactly the same as for any other AT&T phone. When I bought my iPhone the only extra charge was the $20 data plan. My voice plan stayed exactly the same.
I don't think it's worth risking not having enough operational nuclear warheads to ensure global-thermo-nuclear annihilation just to fuel a bunch of stupid probes. What if the fuel in one of those probes was the difference between the end of all mankind and human civilization continuing after a war? Would you want to have that to worry about on your plate on top of the fact that your family was vaporized and you're living underground? I don't think so.
I don't know, you'd probably have to ask the people still running DOS 3.3 based control systems in their factories or Windows 95 office machines with Word 97 in their offices for secretarial work. Windows 95 wasn't that bad and if Microsoft had continued to provide security patches for it I'm sure a lot more people would still be using it. Unfortunately they wanted to sell newer operating systems so they frightened people into upgrading.
Don't you watch the movies? They would've backtraced his IP address through their firewall with a Visual Basic program within seconds. You need to bounce around the world through at LEAST 15 anonymizing proxies for that to work and give you a minute or two of time to taunt them before you disconnect at the last minute just as the blue blipping blob on their VB.Net trace program is about to pinpoint your location in North America as the program starts zooming in on your location with Google Maps.
Click! All they know is you're in the northeast, but you told them that already right before you disconnected when you said you were calling them from a payphone across the street. When they rush out of their building all they find is an empty payphone with an acoustic coupler attached to the handset and interfaced to some kind of prepaid cell phone. You put down your binoculars that you've been using to watch the situation from the 5th floor of your hotel down the street and press a button on your computer which detonates the C4 conveniently hidden behind the payphone. Did they really think a silly god damn Windows spyware program was going to take you down so easily?
Why don't you just throw a tuner or two into your computer, install MythTV and be done with it? Why use Boxee at all? It seemed to me most of their content, other than the network television programming, was just crap.
Releases through any other publisher are not refundable except for exchange for the exact same product (i.e. you got bad discs, you can take it back and get the same piece of software). What stops someone from buying the software and then getting a refund on it and pirating the software otherwise? The only store I ever remember allowing software returns for cash was called Microcenter and they stopped allowing open-box software returns years ago.
You've got to be kidding me if you think people over the age of 30 are obsolete in technology fields. We grew up at the dawn of the Internet designing new protocols while watching snot-nosed kids currently in their 20s waste their time downloading music from Napster all day.
Measure twice, cut once. Seriously now, don't send stuff out you're not prepared to send! Maybe instead of a 5 second send rule they should just add an annoying "Are you SURE you want to send this message?" verification box. 5 seconds isn't enough to doublecheck a message... they should maybe let you queue it up for 5 minutes which would be more useful.
Why would non-geeks have to even worry about port forwarding? Any decent home NAT box will support UPnP so the torrent app (if it is any good) will just automatically configure port forwarding for them. I haven't had to manually forward ports to my bittorrent clients or gnutella clients in years.
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Apparently the only side-effect are that it susceptible to turning into an airborne virus and it turns you into a rabid vampire-like creature that is sensitive to sunlight and likes to feed on humans. :-(
He was giving it away for free on his Myspace page several years ago, but I can't find it there anymore. Try P2P networks.
I don't want a car that does 0-60mph in 4 seconds though, I want a commuter car that can hold 4 passengers and get me to and from work with a total range of at least 100 miles on a charge. It also needs to be under $25k.
I absolutely disagree. Procreation should absolutely be a right. What if the government required all males over the age of 12 to get a vasectomy to control population growth? Would you be willing to accept that as alright? What if women were required to get tubular ligation upon reaching puberty?
"Mommy? Are you in there? Mommy, are you coming out soon? *Sibling* woke up from his nap on the floor and is eating the cat food. Mommy? Where's Daddy? Hello? I hear you in there." *bang* *bang* *bang* on the door.
480p DVDs look just fine to me on my 52" LCD from 9' away. I'm sure if I really looked I'd see some pixelation, but I can't usually tell, especially if there is a lot of action involved. There's no way I'm buying into Blu-Ray until DVDs are no longer sold, and even then I'll likely continue buying DVDs from the bargain bin instead if I can find them. The added resolution is not worth a usual 33% markup on the movie.
Why don't they just link this feature to your iTunes account since you need one to activate your phone? That way everyone could benefit from this feature.
You know, for all these Nokia fanboys, the only people I've ever met that actually own a Nokia are ones that have the cheap piece of crap Nokia phone they got for free with their contract. *None* of them have ever had any kind of Nokia "smartphone". They're always some candybar phone or a cheap flip phone the store was giving away. For a supposed popular company, they sure are shit for marketing smartphones to the USA because over here the only smartphones I've ever seen are Blackberries, iPhones, or Windows Mobile-based devices.
It's even easier than that. You just fire all your current staff and hire new people in India. No pesky shipping or relocation costs involved. Obviously that's what he's implying they're going to do if the US doesn't buckle... it's not like they're going to box up their Seattle employees and help them all become Canadian citizens or something and move operations to Vancouver. It's cheaper and easier to fire all your employees and hire locals.
If you're using the car's radio to control the iPod then what is the point in having the iPod in the first place? Why not just make cars with built-in MP3 players and 160GB SSDs for storage? Add WiFi to the radio so you can sync the songs between your car and home PC while it sits in the garage overnight. The only thing halfway "cool" about iPods were they had a pretty decent user interface, although the requirement to use iTunes to sync your music over instead of just drag and dropping music into a music folder on the device sucked.
So why use it? I never really understood the fascination with Hulu, *especially* if you are watching it on your media center system where you could ostensibly just have recorded the content you're looking to watch from a tuner card. I could understand if they had a vast library of shows and you could go back and find any episode you want to satisfy your desire, but from looking through the catalog of shows I'm interested in they don't ever seem to have more than a few weeks worth of episodes online.
Some of the older shows off the air are even worse and just had a season or two online and not even all the episodes in the season were represented. Why the hell would I want to watch a show that is off the air that I may have never seen if I can't watch the complete series from start to finish? Hulu *could* have been completely awesome and replaced my DVR and/or cable TV if they would just keep all the episodes for all the shows they offer online for you to access immediately. I know the reason is the content providers don't like it, but why not? Why would they not want you to be able to watch any of their back catalog of shows on demand... lost DVD sales? Since Hulu runs commercials during the video it only seems to make sense that they'd want more people to watch older episodes, especially series that aren't even on the air anymore so they get ad revenue.
What do you mean you can't get 6 Mbps DSL? Did they test your line? You may be beyond the distance and they should downgrade your speed accordingly. I have 6 Mbps DSL and pretty consistently get 5 Mbps or so which I believe is just about maximum real life speed for a "6 Mbps" DSL connection with AT&T when you factor in protocol overhead.
The gun and knife in that example would've easily been detected by a traditional metal detector though so I'm not sure what they're trying to justify here. Sure it LOOKS cool, but if the metal detector already alerts you to the gun and knife, what is the point of putting them through some additional multi-million dollar scanner other than to further dehumanize people by making them perform for your obedience training?
Actually that's a good point. The last time I remember Java being needed was for my corporate SSL-VPN that I used about 9 months ago. Java is kind of obsolete these days in a browser what with Flash being everywhere (except my damn iPhone, which doesn't do Java either though anyway).
What happens when it breaks? Since jailbreaking voids the warranty you're just going to eat the $600+ loss and buy a new one? I'd consider it, but I've had to have two different iPhones (a 2G and a 3G) replaced under warranty in the past 18 months and I would've been screwed if I had jailbroken them and voided the warranty.
What on earth are you talking about? The voice plans for the iPhone are exactly the same as for any other AT&T phone. When I bought my iPhone the only extra charge was the $20 data plan. My voice plan stayed exactly the same.
I don't think it's worth risking not having enough operational nuclear warheads to ensure global-thermo-nuclear annihilation just to fuel a bunch of stupid probes. What if the fuel in one of those probes was the difference between the end of all mankind and human civilization continuing after a war? Would you want to have that to worry about on your plate on top of the fact that your family was vaporized and you're living underground? I don't think so.
I don't know, you'd probably have to ask the people still running DOS 3.3 based control systems in their factories or Windows 95 office machines with Word 97 in their offices for secretarial work. Windows 95 wasn't that bad and if Microsoft had continued to provide security patches for it I'm sure a lot more people would still be using it. Unfortunately they wanted to sell newer operating systems so they frightened people into upgrading.
I have to admit I may have used some plot points from several of those shows in this example. :-)
Don't you watch the movies? They would've backtraced his IP address through their firewall with a Visual Basic program within seconds. You need to bounce around the world through at LEAST 15 anonymizing proxies for that to work and give you a minute or two of time to taunt them before you disconnect at the last minute just as the blue blipping blob on their VB.Net trace program is about to pinpoint your location in North America as the program starts zooming in on your location with Google Maps.
Click! All they know is you're in the northeast, but you told them that already right before you disconnected when you said you were calling them from a payphone across the street. When they rush out of their building all they find is an empty payphone with an acoustic coupler attached to the handset and interfaced to some kind of prepaid cell phone. You put down your binoculars that you've been using to watch the situation from the 5th floor of your hotel down the street and press a button on your computer which detonates the C4 conveniently hidden behind the payphone. Did they really think a silly god damn Windows spyware program was going to take you down so easily?
Why don't you just throw a tuner or two into your computer, install MythTV and be done with it? Why use Boxee at all? It seemed to me most of their content, other than the network television programming, was just crap.
Releases through any other publisher are not refundable except for exchange for the exact same product (i.e. you got bad discs, you can take it back and get the same piece of software). What stops someone from buying the software and then getting a refund on it and pirating the software otherwise? The only store I ever remember allowing software returns for cash was called Microcenter and they stopped allowing open-box software returns years ago.
You've got to be kidding me if you think people over the age of 30 are obsolete in technology fields. We grew up at the dawn of the Internet designing new protocols while watching snot-nosed kids currently in their 20s waste their time downloading music from Napster all day.
Measure twice, cut once. Seriously now, don't send stuff out you're not prepared to send! Maybe instead of a 5 second send rule they should just add an annoying "Are you SURE you want to send this message?" verification box. 5 seconds isn't enough to doublecheck a message... they should maybe let you queue it up for 5 minutes which would be more useful.
Why would non-geeks have to even worry about port forwarding? Any decent home NAT box will support UPnP so the torrent app (if it is any good) will just automatically configure port forwarding for them. I haven't had to manually forward ports to my bittorrent clients or gnutella clients in years.