Really, once we know the iPrice we'll know if the iUpload would be worth it. For now it seems like a strange thing, after all, if you have an iPod you pretty much HAVE to have a computer, yes? Why buy something to do something that you already have a computer to do it? This is not something that is completely portable either. Honestly I just don't see much use for it - "oh no, I don't want to have to use iTunes or [insert CDripper software] to make mp3s! I'd much rather have yet another thing to plug in to do something my computer would do if I just clicked a couple of things!"
Next we'll hear they have a iUploadremote to operate the iUpload from accross your living room...
But that's the thing, even if you buy a 'naked' Dell box where they 'only' supply FreeDOS (which they WILL NOT support) and then Linux on it; it's STILL MORE than a similar box running XP! I understand they don't want to support Linux, and I don't blame them. The only way they could do that would be to partner with Red Hat, then have RH do the support, but damnit, could you imagine the phone techs RH would need to supply? It's not feasable; so just gimme Dell hardware, with no OS and make it cheaper than a similar XP box and then I'll stop posting these rants!:0)
This makes more sense than Dell trying to dress up their systems with the XPS badge. Giving consumers a more highend (read needlessly expensive) systems will appeal more to the tweakers and neon windowed case types. Dell would cover all the bases; from a $399 complete system (after rebates) for Grandma, and a $3000 tricked out system for Johnny Freshman to frag on!
Now if Dell would offer Linux as a equal choice (I'm not talking about buying Linux or a 'naked' FreeDOS box on a similar system that is *more* than an XP box!). With Apple's Intel offerings starting to look great, people that want to run OS X for fun will be swayed once they try it, and people like me who have no use for XP are already planning on buying a new MacBook for OSX/Linux dual boot. If/when they have the abiltiy to run XP too, well I think Dell should be a bit worried, but they'll still beat them on price (well, not with these Aliens they won't!)
Re:A creature evolves and then forms a relgion!
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Spore Is EA's New Ace
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Wait, you read the article before commenting on it? What's wrong with you? You must be new here!
A creature evolves and then forms a relgion!
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I love the dicotamy of evolution leading to religion! That's gotta rub a ton of religious folks the wrong way, but file me into the camp that says this is EXACTLY how it happened in the real world. Kudos to EA!
"2006 will be the year of the Linux Desktop" get's a smack. Look, we all know a Linux desktop can replace a Windows one; many of us have proven this for years and years by running a Linux desktop in corpy-corp environments. When they allow it all I ask for is an IP - and from there I need no support. Still, it's going to be the decision makers, you know the old adage, "no one was ever fired for buying IBM"? It's the same for MS. While managers want to play it safe and have the $ to buy into MS's lockin, nothing will change. I can only hope that IT departments can have MORE say in what kind of infrastructure a corp has; only then will new/inventive ideas come to the forefront. As for now the MS FUD machine will stop all but the small copanies from even considering a widespread migration to free software on the desktop.
First of all, accountability; having a person take on a task and be responsible for it, seeing it through and doing what they say they'll do. If they can't do it for whatever reason, present those reasons to you end users. Visability; get out of the office, walk around and talk to the end users, what kind of day to day problems are they having? Allot of times their frustration can be allieviated just by helping them figure out something minor; something they likely wouldn't have sub'd a ticket for. Plus when they need help it's easier to help ppl you have a repore with.
Anyway, worked for me when I was a tech some 9 yrs back.
I just wrote about this topic, and it's something that has been ignored for far too long. http://fak3r.com/articles/2006/02/06/rating-the-ri sks The idea that people can come and go with USB drives on their keychain, a 60GIG drive in their iPod and unfethered Internet access is just an unlocked door. I'm all for privacy and freedom of speech, but a company HAS to be able to control it's DATA. IMO this is not happening anywhere in corp America.
Yep, and that's why I like them so much. If you call and have a question the person who answers (and that usually takes 2-3 rings) will know what's up. Linux question? Go for it. Server question? Same thing...they know their stuff and are a joy to deal with, that's why I'm happy I'm going to get to move voice alongside data to Speakeasy.
How much would the voip cost you on top of your regular ISP bill?
$27.95 per month - much less than the ~40$ we're giving to Bell right now.
They don't list the 'advanced' features that you're talking about, but still, it looks like you can do a ton more with it than with a standard POTS line:
So at the very least I'll finally be able to say f-you to the 'big bells' and get voicemails as email attachments.
Is this compatible with consumer VoIP?
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Will this be compatible with consumer VoIP? In otherwords, I'm considering signing up for Speakeasy VoIP (already have DSL with them) which would cut out our phone company ( something I'd love to do ), so would this work with that? At home I would use a normal 'phone' but on the road could I use this to make/recieve calls on my laptop? What other advantages would this provide? Back in the day I did some internet phoney thing, but it was early in dev and not very useful. With all our calls going out on TCP/IP I'd imagine this app would be helpful, but I still haven't grasped what it's all about.
Why do you need to have fixed definitions? That means that if you, for some reason, can't update for two weeks you've got a huge hole in your protection. T
Since the updates would happen when you're online - why wouldn't you be able to update? If you can check your email you can get the updates...right?
I like AVG much better than any other anti-virus - even without specific detection rules it can guess (with a reasonable degree of accuracy) if a file is infected or not.
I agree with that, however a basyian tech is going to be something that's easier to distribute, and gather, than having to have a virus scanner 'learn' on it's own (exposing the user during that period). If I'm missing something with AVG let me know, but I know this is what I see as a pro and con of something like DSPAM. For me things like Spamassain (updated via Rules Du JOur nightly), DCC, Razor, ClamAV, bitdefender all bound by MailScanner is the way to go; however I'm *always* ready to learn new/better ways of dealing with this.
With the scams changing so rapidly moving detection to a web browser just makes sense. When these things aren't tagged by the users email server (ClamAV is excellent for this) or client, this would be a great 'saftey net' from stopping me...err...grandma from entering her login info for PayPal/eBay/etc. Plus with FF online updating I could see them having a plugin/extention that would have.dat files with the latest Phishing definitions they could download and update to daily; ala virus checkers.
Just because it's in AJAX doesn't make it any more of a good idea.
Ah, this needs to be a new mantra - if I read about another new project that has the 'feature' of 'AJAX-goodness' I'm gonna puke. They need to go back and study USEability.
I thought this article was going to be a slam at the standard/. meme; a loaner living in his parents basement playing World of Warcraft all hours of the night!
As it stands, it's a nice idea to try and spread music/art this way, but it will *never* come close to providing the atomosphere/feeling that one gets at a concert or art gallery.
I hear ya, my 5 1/2 and 3 year olds love it; SSX Tricky/3/Tour, Mario Double Dash, Mario Party 7, Mario DDR, and most recently Super Mario Strikers - that's a game the whole fam (all 4 of us) can play together, and it's still challenging enough for me to take on my 5 1/2 year old one on one! It's a blast, viva la Gamecube!
I always thought the NYTimes Ad thing was a bit silly, I mean come on, this is software; it should lead by example and be used by people in the know. People learn about new software from reviews and co-workers/friends. Mozilla is not Microsoft, they shouldn't spend money in an attempt to gain marketshare. This is not a case for old school marketing, this is a new way of thinking; let the software speak for itself.
Thank you for your post, it's probably the most intelligent I've read here in a long time. Most knee jerks just yell, "Crazy liberal" without every giving their opinions, that you replied to that says volumes about you. Gracias.
as a teenager who grew up (age wise) in the 80s, I thought of this yesterday when I was talking to a contractor on building a room in my basement. I could just see a couple of machines side by side with a barstool nearby to sit on, and a load of quarters (you know, to complete the experience). I'm sure I want the ones that are in demand, and thus expensive, but Donkey Kong, Defender and Centipede would be oh-so sweet!
While I appreciate this review, is the book really neccessary? AJAX moves very quickly, with new/better examples popping up everyday. Maybe it's me but I find less of a need for technical books and magazines since I can get all of my information from the internet. The personal example I'll use is Sys Admin; great magazine but I haven't leanred much from it during the last year. If I want to learn a specific server app or hack it's just easier and more up to date to grep it online.
Damn, forgot gay marriage, or I'm sorry, "The attack on traditional values" fuck. Thanks for the post, it's encouraging when ppl start thinking for themselves, as for educated canidates...yeah, we can hope...
We know Vista will have a ton of advantages over previous Windows incarations, either by innovation or outright copying ideas that have come along and work, so the question should be 'Why would Joe User -or- Corporate Cathy want/need to upgrade from XP, vs 1) staying with XP (or 2000) 2) migrating to another OS (Linux?) that won't force them to buy new hardware or 3) move to Mac, since they have to buy new hardware anyway.
Oh, and if someone posts, "This is the year for Linux on the desktop" now, well, it'll be foretold.
..but again let me ask, why do Multi-Million dollar companies fail to have their SMTP servers setup correctly, but lame geeks such as myself and other/. readers have their POSTFIX servers set to deny emails that don't have any TO: or FROM: headers? I mean come on, here's a HOWTO that I worked with that started out in 2001 for hell's sake: Postfix Anti-UCE
Still, there's going to be a ton of companies that don't know what they're doing, or who they're hiring; problems like these will only continue to surface.
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Really, once we know the iPrice we'll know if the iUpload would be worth it. For now it seems like a strange thing, after all, if you have an iPod you pretty much HAVE to have a computer, yes? Why buy something to do something that you already have a computer to do it? This is not something that is completely portable either. Honestly I just don't see much use for it - "oh no, I don't want to have to use iTunes or [insert CDripper software] to make mp3s! I'd much rather have yet another thing to plug in to do something my computer would do if I just clicked a couple of things!" Next we'll hear they have a iUploadremote to operate the iUpload from accross your living room...
But that's the thing, even if you buy a 'naked' Dell box where they 'only' supply FreeDOS (which they WILL NOT support) and then Linux on it; it's STILL MORE than a similar box running XP! I understand they don't want to support Linux, and I don't blame them. The only way they could do that would be to partner with Red Hat, then have RH do the support, but damnit, could you imagine the phone techs RH would need to supply? It's not feasable; so just gimme Dell hardware, with no OS and make it cheaper than a similar XP box and then I'll stop posting these rants! :0)
This makes more sense than Dell trying to dress up their systems with the XPS badge. Giving consumers a more highend (read needlessly expensive) systems will appeal more to the tweakers and neon windowed case types. Dell would cover all the bases; from a $399 complete system (after rebates) for Grandma, and a $3000 tricked out system for Johnny Freshman to frag on!
Now if Dell would offer Linux as a equal choice (I'm not talking about buying Linux or a 'naked' FreeDOS box on a similar system that is *more* than an XP box!). With Apple's Intel offerings starting to look great, people that want to run OS X for fun will be swayed once they try it, and people like me who have no use for XP are already planning on buying a new MacBook for OSX/Linux dual boot. If/when they have the abiltiy to run XP too, well I think Dell should be a bit worried, but they'll still beat them on price (well, not with these Aliens they won't!)
Wait, you read the article before commenting on it? What's wrong with you? You must be new here!
Too hard to pronounce.
I love the dicotamy of evolution leading to religion! That's gotta rub a ton of religious folks the wrong way, but file me into the camp that says this is EXACTLY how it happened in the real world. Kudos to EA!
"2006 will be the year of the Linux Desktop" get's a smack. Look, we all know a Linux desktop can replace a Windows one; many of us have proven this for years and years by running a Linux desktop in corpy-corp environments. When they allow it all I ask for is an IP - and from there I need no support. Still, it's going to be the decision makers, you know the old adage, "no one was ever fired for buying IBM"? It's the same for MS. While managers want to play it safe and have the $ to buy into MS's lockin, nothing will change. I can only hope that IT departments can have MORE say in what kind of infrastructure a corp has; only then will new/inventive ideas come to the forefront. As for now the MS FUD machine will stop all but the small copanies from even considering a widespread migration to free software on the desktop.
First of all, accountability; having a person take on a task and be responsible for it, seeing it through and doing what they say they'll do. If they can't do it for whatever reason, present those reasons to you end users. Visability; get out of the office, walk around and talk to the end users, what kind of day to day problems are they having? Allot of times their frustration can be allieviated just by helping them figure out something minor; something they likely wouldn't have sub'd a ticket for. Plus when they need help it's easier to help ppl you have a repore with. Anyway, worked for me when I was a tech some 9 yrs back.
I just wrote about this topic, and it's something that has been ignored for far too long. http://fak3r.com/articles/2006/02/06/rating-the-ri sks The idea that people can come and go with USB drives on their keychain, a 60GIG drive in their iPod and unfethered Internet access is just an unlocked door. I'm all for privacy and freedom of speech, but a company HAS to be able to control it's DATA. IMO this is not happening anywhere in corp America.
Yep, and that's why I like them so much. If you call and have a question the person who answers (and that usually takes 2-3 rings) will know what's up. Linux question? Go for it. Server question? Same thing...they know their stuff and are a joy to deal with, that's why I'm happy I'm going to get to move voice alongside data to Speakeasy.
How much would the voip cost you on top of your regular ISP bill?
$27.95 per month - much less than the ~40$ we're giving to Bell right now.
They don't list the 'advanced' features that you're talking about, but still, it looks like you can do a ton more with it than with a standard POTS line:
http://speakeasy.net/home/voip/features.php
So at the very least I'll finally be able to say f-you to the 'big bells' and get voicemails as email attachments.
Will this be compatible with consumer VoIP? In otherwords, I'm considering signing up for Speakeasy VoIP (already have DSL with them) which would cut out our phone company ( something I'd love to do ), so would this work with that? At home I would use a normal 'phone' but on the road could I use this to make/recieve calls on my laptop? What other advantages would this provide? Back in the day I did some internet phoney thing, but it was early in dev and not very useful. With all our calls going out on TCP/IP I'd imagine this app would be helpful, but I still haven't grasped what it's all about.
Thanks.
Why do you need to have fixed definitions? That means that if you, for some reason, can't update for two weeks you've got a huge hole in your protection. T
Since the updates would happen when you're online - why wouldn't you be able to update? If you can check your email you can get the updates...right?
I like AVG much better than any other anti-virus - even without specific detection rules it can guess (with a reasonable degree of accuracy) if a file is infected or not.
I agree with that, however a basyian tech is going to be something that's easier to distribute, and gather, than having to have a virus scanner 'learn' on it's own (exposing the user during that period). If I'm missing something with AVG let me know, but I know this is what I see as a pro and con of something like DSPAM. For me things like Spamassain (updated via Rules Du JOur nightly), DCC, Razor, ClamAV, bitdefender all bound by MailScanner is the way to go; however I'm *always* ready to learn new/better ways of dealing with this.
With the scams changing so rapidly moving detection to a web browser just makes sense. When these things aren't tagged by the users email server (ClamAV is excellent for this) or client, this would be a great 'saftey net' from stopping me...err...grandma from entering her login info for PayPal/eBay/etc. Plus with FF online updating I could see them having a plugin/extention that would have .dat files with the latest Phishing definitions they could download and update to daily; ala virus checkers.
Just because it's in AJAX doesn't make it any more of a good idea.
Ah, this needs to be a new mantra - if I read about another new project that has the 'feature' of 'AJAX-goodness' I'm gonna puke. They need to go back and study USEability.
I thought this article was going to be a slam at the standard /. meme; a loaner living in his parents basement playing World of Warcraft all hours of the night!
As it stands, it's a nice idea to try and spread music/art this way, but it will *never* come close to providing the atomosphere/feeling that one gets at a concert or art gallery.
Start the conspiracy theories!
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=itunes
iTunes is currently unavailable.
I think I'm still running 6.0.1 at home on my iBook...
I hear ya, my 5 1/2 and 3 year olds love it; SSX Tricky/3/Tour, Mario Double Dash, Mario Party 7, Mario DDR, and most recently Super Mario Strikers - that's a game the whole fam (all 4 of us) can play together, and it's still challenging enough for me to take on my 5 1/2 year old one on one! It's a blast, viva la Gamecube!
I always thought the NYTimes Ad thing was a bit silly, I mean come on, this is software; it should lead by example and be used by people in the know. People learn about new software from reviews and co-workers/friends. Mozilla is not Microsoft, they shouldn't spend money in an attempt to gain marketshare. This is not a case for old school marketing, this is a new way of thinking; let the software speak for itself.
Thank you for your post, it's probably the most intelligent I've read here in a long time. Most knee jerks just yell, "Crazy liberal" without every giving their opinions, that you replied to that says volumes about you. Gracias.
as a teenager who grew up (age wise) in the 80s, I thought of this yesterday when I was talking to a contractor on building a room in my basement. I could just see a couple of machines side by side with a barstool nearby to sit on, and a load of quarters (you know, to complete the experience). I'm sure I want the ones that are in demand, and thus expensive, but Donkey Kong, Defender and Centipede would be oh-so sweet!
While I appreciate this review, is the book really neccessary? AJAX moves very quickly, with new/better examples popping up everyday. Maybe it's me but I find less of a need for technical books and magazines since I can get all of my information from the internet. The personal example I'll use is Sys Admin; great magazine but I haven't leanred much from it during the last year. If I want to learn a specific server app or hack it's just easier and more up to date to grep it online.
Damn, forgot gay marriage, or I'm sorry, "The attack on traditional values" fuck. Thanks for the post, it's encouraging when ppl start thinking for themselves, as for educated canidates...yeah, we can hope...
We know Vista will have a ton of advantages over previous Windows incarations, either by innovation or outright copying ideas that have come along and work, so the question should be 'Why would Joe User -or- Corporate Cathy want/need to upgrade from XP, vs 1) staying with XP (or 2000) 2) migrating to another OS (Linux?) that won't force them to buy new hardware or 3) move to Mac, since they have to buy new hardware anyway.
Oh, and if someone posts, "This is the year for Linux on the desktop" now, well, it'll be foretold.
..but again let me ask, why do Multi-Million dollar companies fail to have their SMTP servers setup correctly, but lame geeks such as myself and other /. readers have their POSTFIX servers set to deny emails that don't have any TO: or FROM: headers? I mean come on, here's a HOWTO that I worked with that started out in 2001 for hell's sake: Postfix Anti-UCE
Still, there's going to be a ton of companies that don't know what they're doing, or who they're hiring; problems like these will only continue to surface.