When the alternative is dunce AI, any online interaction is welcome. My first online experiences were provided by my father, who created a student acct for me at the university he worked for in the early 80's. Our computer was a thin terminal, so it was online via phone/suction cups or nothing. I fondly recall competing against the college students for Rogue high scores.
Later in the late 80's I got invited to join by some neighborhood kid riding around on a bike giving out accounts for his basement bbs. More fond memories of flying asci spaceships and trading.
By the time the gui based internet of the 90's came around it felt quite robust and mature.
Suddenly this technology exists where there was nothing before, so of course when there's an uptick of use and associated news it's time to break out the tin-foil hat.
Obviously these guys were part of a large government/media/. scheme to brainwash you into jubilant acceptance of your new flying overlords.
Long time rockbox user on sansa devices, cheap and easy and lots of storage. However once I got an android handset with good ad2p performance and some wireless headphones I found myself not using the rockbox sansa anymore.
Also spotify(and many others)/network allows for the network to cover for any lack of storage.
If I want better quality sound I just plug some headphones in.
Even given unlimited unmetered bandwidth, I'd have no interest in watching more than a couple minutes programming on my phone. It looks good at 720p, but given the choice between phone and laptop, desktop, or tv, the phone is in last by a long shot.
There is a funny disconnect between network speeds and bandwidth caps in mobile right now, but even with what I consider heavy use and an 'unlimited' plan I'm never even using 1GB. I want to be upset, but I simply don't want or need very much transfer on my phone yet.
When the android market started banning apps based on carrier request it only increased demand for such a market. As the number of people using modified phones increases, the incentive to make something better than the shady file locker/forum distribution method will only increase. Megaupload and similar sites falling apart may help the momentum even more. Cyanogen/Koush are in the best position to launch a new product like this since they can roll out new apps cooked into the ROM and they are already the most well known, trusted, and user base.
150GB converted to popular torrent media formats
CD Rip: About 100MB - ~1500 per month
Standard DVD Rip: About 700MB - ~215 per month
Netflix Movie: About 1400MB ~ 107 per month
Blu-Ray Rip: About 4000MB - ~37 per month
In metorological circles he's known for hype
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Claiming that all Joe Bastardi ("JB") cares about is accuracy is ludicrous. He is known to hype more than any other weather forecaster. From what I've observed, his main motivations are 1. Ego 2. Profit
You listen to your portable music player with an environment and with amplification equipment that let you readily tell the difference between high-bitrate MP3 and FLAC?
Hang on, I'm going to go and sell some new clothes to an emperor...
Perhaps he doesn't want to re-encode his FLAC files as high-bitrate MP3 specially for his player.
If you think Vonage is going to be a big player long term in VOIP.. BUY
If you think Vonage is going to get buried by ATT, Skype, Verizon, Sprint, etc.. Don't buy
I'm thinking Vonage is not going to live up to expectations since you can now get similar things from the companies people know.
Also the POTS companies are waking up a little bit. My in-laws are FINALLY dropping dial up because Sprint is offering them unlimited domestic POTS and ADSL for $70 a month. About the same price as cable broadband + Vonage. Bottom line is that Vonage's previous competitive advnatage (Price) is less of a factor or no factor. And their service is inferior to POTS IMO.
Note. I'm a former Vonage subscriber now using a combination of cellular and Skype for voice. In my case the price of Vonage was too high and the service redundant YMMV
The company I work for colocates servers and allows the customer to have root access while we have none. How are we technically going to retain these records on servers we don't even have access to? What if the customer is from outside the USA?
And the really stupid thing is that only non-techies users don't know how to cover their tracks by using Tor, proxy, hacked proxies, etc. What a waste.
sounds good, but over 10 years of realnetworks has taught me to know you guys are bullshit. You have inferior products that define nagware and a malicious team of lawyers.
Does anyone else remember the opt in list of crapware with real player where the list of checkbox options scrolls.. All of the options in view are unchecked, but if you scroll down the rest are all checked, so users just click next and "opt in" to install a ton of crapware. Everything they ever do reeks of stuff like this.
Real will always sell the end user out for an extra $.01 of revenue.
3Gb/s is wrong
3Gb/s = 3 Gigabits per second = 384 MB/s = 384 MegaBytes per second
The spec is:
300 MB/s = 300 MegaBytes per second = 2.344 Gb/s = 2.344 Gigabits per second
Spec: http://www.sata-io.org/esata.asp Calculator
The real problem with this is that:
1. It wasn't documented, so people had to discover this non-intuitive exception.
2. It defeats the purpose of the hosts file.
Had they also included the other AV vendors in the list and made the function public it may have seemed like a practical band aid to the hosts file hijacking problem. Instead they made it M$ only and hid it so it looks slimy.
The issue is being addressed is also PEBKAC related.. If Windows users weren't logged in as admin the hosts file would be off limits.
Plug-ins to Avoid
FasterFox [mozdev.org] - Over the last few months the amount of visitors using Mozilla Firefox has grown to about 25%. The amount of bandwidth being used has also increased a large amount. Part of the reason behind this is that many Firefox users use an extension called "Fasterfox". This extension "pre-fetches" links on a page so that if the user were to click on a link it would load much faster because its already been downloaded. This may be more convenient for viewer, but is a major problem for many webmasters who are low on bandwidth. Since Fasterfox constantly requests new files, it can cause many servers to overload much faster than if a person viewing the same content without Fasterfox were to view it.
Fasterfox does some nice things and IMO belongs on the list of good extensions.. As far as the author's claim.. In the fasterfox config there is a tab for "Enhanced Prefetching" which comes disabled by default and has the following warning:
That page has some interesting answers on prefetching and seems to show that fasterfox is playing by the rules.
I don't think the author has shown much expertise in the extensions field. Also if he's upset at fasterfox for bandwidth wait until he gets the bill from this slashdotting:)
Exciting headline, but no story to back it up.
It's a little early to put the nail in the coffin on the PS3 already. I don't see how the author makes the jump to the buyout. This opinion article doesn't belong on the frontpage of anything.
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Love the idea, not so much on the execution, tried this out and ended up with errors and a bsod. Uninstalled.
When the alternative is dunce AI, any online interaction is welcome. My first online experiences were provided by my father, who created a student acct for me at the university he worked for in the early 80's. Our computer was a thin terminal, so it was online via phone/suction cups or nothing. I fondly recall competing against the college students for Rogue high scores. Later in the late 80's I got invited to join by some neighborhood kid riding around on a bike giving out accounts for his basement bbs. More fond memories of flying asci spaceships and trading. By the time the gui based internet of the 90's came around it felt quite robust and mature.
Suddenly this technology exists where there was nothing before, so of course when there's an uptick of use and associated news it's time to break out the tin-foil hat. Obviously these guys were part of a large government/media/. scheme to brainwash you into jubilant acceptance of your new flying overlords.
Volume+ https://market.android.com/details?id=com.FREE.android.lvh
Long time rockbox user on sansa devices, cheap and easy and lots of storage. However once I got an android handset with good ad2p performance and some wireless headphones I found myself not using the rockbox sansa anymore. Also spotify(and many others)/network allows for the network to cover for any lack of storage. If I want better quality sound I just plug some headphones in.
The cheaper internet competitors from other places cannot enter this market.
Even given unlimited unmetered bandwidth, I'd have no interest in watching more than a couple minutes programming on my phone. It looks good at 720p, but given the choice between phone and laptop, desktop, or tv, the phone is in last by a long shot. There is a funny disconnect between network speeds and bandwidth caps in mobile right now, but even with what I consider heavy use and an 'unlimited' plan I'm never even using 1GB. I want to be upset, but I simply don't want or need very much transfer on my phone yet.
When the android market started banning apps based on carrier request it only increased demand for such a market. As the number of people using modified phones increases, the incentive to make something better than the shady file locker/forum distribution method will only increase. Megaupload and similar sites falling apart may help the momentum even more. Cyanogen/Koush are in the best position to launch a new product like this since they can roll out new apps cooked into the ROM and they are already the most well known, trusted, and user base.
150GB converted to popular torrent media formats CD Rip: About 100MB - ~1500 per month Standard DVD Rip: About 700MB - ~215 per month Netflix Movie: About 1400MB ~ 107 per month Blu-Ray Rip: About 4000MB - ~37 per month
Just a note is that a large percent of the geek population is trusting ROMs with full root access. Just internet access for some sandbox app is small potatoes. Here's an example of a "good" developer making a simple mistake with their ROM http://www.droidforums.net/forum/liberty-rom-d2/125447-so-who-just-had-their-phone-taken-control-liberty-1-5-a.html Imagine what a malicious developer could accomplish.
Running fission http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851623 rom on my Droid 2 now.. these phones are ok for running roms with koush's bootloader http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/08/droid-x-recovery.html
Claiming that all Joe Bastardi ("JB") cares about is accuracy is ludicrous. He is known to hype more than any other weather forecaster. From what I've observed, his main motivations are 1. Ego 2. Profit
Makes sense, for the first time since cassettes, itunes allowed direct legit purchases of music in the proper format for the player.
You listen to your portable music player with an environment and with amplification equipment that let you readily tell the difference between high-bitrate MP3 and FLAC? Hang on, I'm going to go and sell some new clothes to an emperor...
Perhaps he doesn't want to re-encode his FLAC files as high-bitrate MP3 specially for his player.
If you think Vonage is going to be a big player long term in VOIP.. BUY
If you think Vonage is going to get buried by ATT, Skype, Verizon, Sprint, etc.. Don't buy
I'm thinking Vonage is not going to live up to expectations since you can now get similar things from the companies people know.
Also the POTS companies are waking up a little bit. My in-laws are FINALLY dropping dial up because Sprint is offering them unlimited domestic POTS and ADSL for $70 a month. About the same price as cable broadband + Vonage. Bottom line is that Vonage's previous competitive advnatage (Price) is less of a factor or no factor. And their service is inferior to POTS IMO.
Note. I'm a former Vonage subscriber now using a combination of cellular and Skype for voice. In my case the price of Vonage was too high and the service redundant YMMV
The company I work for colocates servers and allows the customer to have root access while we have none. How are we technically going to retain these records on servers we don't even have access to? What if the customer is from outside the USA?
And the really stupid thing is that only non-techies users don't know how to cover their tracks by using Tor, proxy, hacked proxies, etc. What a waste.
you can buy a cordless phone for $5 at the drugstore.. WAKE UP
I hope they enjoy my many logins with bogus user information :P
sounds good, but over 10 years of realnetworks has taught me to know you guys are bullshit. You have inferior products that define nagware and a malicious team of lawyers.
Does anyone else remember the opt in list of crapware with real player where the list of checkbox options scrolls.. All of the options in view are unchecked, but if you scroll down the rest are all checked, so users just click next and "opt in" to install a ton of crapware. Everything they ever do reeks of stuff like this.
Real will always sell the end user out for an extra $.01 of revenue.
3Gb/s is wrong
3Gb/s = 3 Gigabits per second = 384 MB/s = 384 MegaBytes per second
The spec is:
300 MB/s = 300 MegaBytes per second = 2.344 Gb/s = 2.344 Gigabits per second
Spec: http://www.sata-io.org/esata.asp
Calculator
The real problem with this is that: 1. It wasn't documented, so people had to discover this non-intuitive exception. 2. It defeats the purpose of the hosts file. Had they also included the other AV vendors in the list and made the function public it may have seemed like a practical band aid to the hosts file hijacking problem. Instead they made it M$ only and hid it so it looks slimy. The issue is being addressed is also PEBKAC related.. If Windows users weren't logged in as admin the hosts file would be off limits.
Any time I visit a Myspace page I use my "Zap" http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html bookmarklet to quiet the damn thing down
Fasterfox does some nice things and IMO belongs on the list of good extensions..
As far as the author's claim.. In the fasterfox config there is a tab for "Enhanced Prefetching" which comes disabled by default and has the following warning:
That page has some interesting answers on prefetching and seems to show that fasterfox is playing by the rules. I don't think the author has shown much expertise in the extensions field. Also if he's upset at fasterfox for bandwidth wait until he gets the bill from this slashdotting
Exciting headline, but no story to back it up. It's a little early to put the nail in the coffin on the PS3 already. I don't see how the author makes the jump to the buyout. This opinion article doesn't belong on the frontpage of anything.