I love my Tivo and am happy to pay the Tivo company for my listings and updates, but if they go out of business i'm not to worried because the Tivo is an open system. My investment is resonably safe because there is a development/hacking community built up around the box and it will continue to work and be supported by the community. This illustrates an important reason to buy Linux based products from a consumers point of view. Many of these new devices are great but aren't guaranteed to survive. If you buy a device based on a closed technology, it will probably be useless if the vendor goes out of business, if you buy one based on an open technology, you at least have a chance of it still being useful. Cases in point are the Audrey and Rio Receiver.
Wierd stuff used to put a sticker on things saying "This is guarenteed not to work, if it does work you are welcome to return it for one that doesn't?"
If this is true, can you imagine how much bandwidth and disk space is wasted by spam. I'd be willing to bet that the money lost to spam exceeds the money lost to pirate software and mp3's combined.
No doubt they mean it will run on your M$ stereo centre. It is microsoft's unstated goal to corner the entertainment industry and make it so that content will only be delivered in M$ formats and playable on devices running M$ software. Paladium is the platform that they hope will enable their evil plans to come to fruition.
It has CD Extra on it and includes a video which would make it seem PC friendly. I put it in my PC under windoze and the machine locked up. Ejected it and put it in my cd burner and it was able to start CD Extra and i could play the video. Could not listen to the CD however even by trying to play it under the CD Extra program. Tried it on the Mac and it works fine. I can play it and rip it under iTunes. Tried it on the same PC under linux and was able to play it fine. Some thing is definitely going on with the disk but not working under windoze is the norm as far as i'm concerned.
My guess is that yahoo is sending them directly to the id of the watch and that they are different from regular pages as they don't cause it to vibrate and they show up with the little i icon.
I have the same problem with my watch. It was receiving messages before i signed up for the paging service and still gets them after i've signed up and have configured it under Yahoo! Alerts. My guess is that Yahoo has a separate ID for the watch and does not know that it should be associated with the phone number that skytel gave me.
But it seems to me, from the couple i looked over at a local store, that tablets are really just nicely packaged laptops with touch screens. Since there seems to be such a variety of manufactures making these, hardware inteface must be reasonably well defined. It should be long before a real O/S is booted on one.
My company's spam filtering software seems to not be able to recognize the fact the email with the following words in the subject Enlarger You Penis are spam. It does seem to tag internal mass postings from the HR dept. as spam though. My home machine running spam assasin on the other hand never fails to recognize spam.
I just bought a video camera and picked up a firewire cable to hook it to my iBook. As I connected it I thought about the girl on the switch commercial talking about how her dad was spending Christmas day downloading drivers trying to get his video camera to work under windoze and how she just plugged it into her mac and was away to the races. So I'm thinking as I plug the cable into the camera and into the iBook, "this better just work". It did, i fired up iMovie and and could access the camera, downloaded a clip edited it and created a.mov file in less than 20 minutes. I'd switch, except i already did:).
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I heard that there was a nycwireless node in Rector Park, which is a little park in Battery Park City surrounded by appartment buildings. So one day a couple of weeks ago i was walking past and figured i would give it a go. Opened my ibook, fired up macstumbler and found about 2 dozen nets, 2 of which were nycwireless. I was able to connect to and use all of the ones i tried, thought the nycwireless ones by far had the best signal. I'm willing to bet that if you go and sit near enough to some upscale apartment buildings (or for that matter, live in one) you can be pretty sure of getting access for free. It seems that most people think these things are plug and play.
Excuse me, but they've known this for years and they still have not been able to create a decent product. All they have done is piled more and more complexity on windows and made the problem worse. Please stop appologizing for them.
Personally I'm really only interested in getting mail from people I know and receipes for things that i buy online. I think one way to help enforce this would be for people to start using digital certificates to sign thier mail. They are available for free from thawte.com. It would be nice if you could configure your email application/spam filter to give special treatment to mail from someone that your have a certificate for. On the otherside of the coin, spamassasin works pretty darn well at identifying spam, unfortunately it also tends to identify any kind of mass mailing as spam (ie. mailing lists) which makes it a little hard to trust. Hopefully it will get to the point where I can feel confident that I can just delete everything it marks without having to check.
I've been using a G400 with two 17" flat panels at work for the last year or two and things were working pretty good. Upgraded to Redhat 8.0 and things are not longer so good. Xinerama still works but characters from the left display get painted on the right randomly. The problem seems only to be related to kde apps mostly. The matrox support guy is aware of the problem (many people have it) but does not seem to be doing a whole lot to help solve it. The last beta release of the drivers was last february so i'm not to happy with Matrox's commitment to Linux. Time to pick up a new card. Suggestions anyone? It's gotta be cheap and it's gotta do dual heads.
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I disagree, the fact that the Tivo is Linux based makes it much more accessible to the hacker community.
I love my Tivo and am happy to pay the Tivo company for my listings and updates, but if they go out of business i'm not to worried because the Tivo is an open system. My investment is resonably safe because there is a development/hacking community built up around the box and it will continue to work and be supported by the community. This illustrates an important reason to buy Linux based products from a consumers point of view. Many of these new devices are great but aren't guaranteed to survive. If you buy a device based on a closed technology, it will probably be useless if the vendor goes out of business, if you buy one based on an open technology, you at least have a chance of it still being useful. Cases in point are the Audrey and Rio Receiver.
I think the GPL is just as Borg-like as MS.
Ooo look someone actually bought the M$ GPL FUD.
I read the /. blurb and in my mind i substituted "imaged objects" with "imagined objects" and it made more sense :)
Any desktop enviroment that does not let you push (lower) a window down on the window stack is fundamentally crippled.
Wierd stuff used to put a sticker on things saying "This is guarenteed not to work, if it does work you are welcome to return it for one that doesn't?"
If this is true, can you imagine how much bandwidth and disk space is wasted by spam. I'd be willing to bet that the money lost to spam exceeds the money lost to pirate software and mp3's combined.
But IMO Charisma Carpenter [fhm.com] is way hotter than SMG.
Maybe she was, but she frumpted out big time once she cut her hair.
KDE - Kraut Desktop Environment
No doubt they mean it will run on your M$ stereo centre. It is microsoft's unstated goal to corner the entertainment industry and make it so that content will only be delivered in M$ formats and playable on devices running M$ software. Paladium is the platform that they hope will enable their evil plans to come to fruition.
It took him a year to do and required a lot of engineering including:
It is a facinating project and there have never been that many of these taken. The building in the picture is Bell Labs by the way.
It has CD Extra on it and includes a video which would make it seem PC friendly. I put it in my PC under windoze and the machine locked up. Ejected it and put it in my cd burner and it was able to start CD Extra and i could play the video. Could not listen to the CD however even by trying to play it under the CD Extra program. Tried it on the Mac and it works fine. I can play it and rip it under iTunes. Tried it on the same PC under linux and was able to play it fine. Some thing is definitely going on with the disk but not working under windoze is the norm as far as i'm concerned.
I wrote an instant messenging app called pixelboard in 1993. How can i contribute to the prior art process?
My guess is that yahoo is sending them directly to the id of the watch and that they are different from regular pages as they don't cause it to vibrate and they show up with the little i icon.
I have the same problem with my watch. It was receiving messages before i signed up for the paging service and still gets them after i've signed up and have configured it under Yahoo! Alerts. My guess is that Yahoo has a separate ID for the watch and does not know that it should be associated with the phone number that skytel gave me.
But it seems to me, from the couple i looked over at a local store, that tablets are really just nicely packaged laptops with touch screens. Since there seems to be such a variety of manufactures making these, hardware inteface must be reasonably well defined. It should be long before a real O/S is booted on one.
My company's spam filtering software seems to not be able to recognize the fact the email with the following words in the subject Enlarger You Penis are spam. It does seem to tag internal mass postings from the HR dept. as spam though.
My home machine running spam assasin on the other hand never fails to recognize spam.
I just bought a video camera and picked up a firewire cable to hook it to my iBook. As I connected it I thought about the girl on the switch commercial talking about how her dad was spending Christmas day downloading drivers trying to get his video camera to work under windoze and how she just plugged it into her mac and was away to the races. So I'm thinking as I plug the cable into the camera and into the iBook, "this better just work". It did, i fired up iMovie and and could access the camera, downloaded a clip edited it and created a .mov file in less than 20 minutes. I'd switch, except i already did :).
I heard that there was a nycwireless node in Rector Park, which is a little park in Battery Park City surrounded by appartment buildings. So one day a couple of weeks ago i was walking past and figured i would give it a go. Opened my ibook, fired up macstumbler and found about 2 dozen nets, 2 of which were nycwireless. I was able to connect to and use all of the ones i tried, thought the nycwireless ones by far had the best signal. I'm willing to bet that if you go and sit near enough to some upscale apartment buildings (or for that matter, live in one) you can be pretty sure of getting access for free. It seems that most people think these things are plug and play.
It will have the GPL, the best form of digital rights.
But it's evil soul still lives on in all microsoft products.
By removing the ability to play CD's on normal CD players they are just giving people incentive to abandon buying them altogether. Stoooopid.
Excuse me, but they've known this for years and they still have not been able to create a decent product. All they have done is piled more and more complexity on windows and made the problem worse. Please stop appologizing for them.
Personally I'm really only interested in getting mail from people I know and receipes for things that i buy online. I think one way to help enforce this would be for people to start using digital certificates to sign thier mail. They are available for free from thawte.com. It would be nice if you could configure your email application/spam filter to give special treatment to mail from someone that your have a certificate for. On the otherside of the coin, spamassasin works pretty darn well at identifying spam, unfortunately it also tends to identify any kind of mass mailing as spam (ie. mailing lists) which makes it a little hard to trust. Hopefully it will get to the point where I can feel confident that I can just delete everything it marks without having to check.
I've been using a G400 with two 17" flat panels at work for the last year or two and things were working pretty good. Upgraded to Redhat 8.0 and things are not longer so good. Xinerama still works but characters from the left display get painted on the right randomly. The problem seems only to be related to kde apps mostly. The matrox support guy is aware of the problem (many people have it) but does not seem to be doing a whole lot to help solve it. The last beta release of the drivers was last february so i'm not to happy with Matrox's commitment to Linux. Time to pick up a new card. Suggestions anyone? It's gotta be cheap and it's gotta do dual heads.