I couldn't agree more that AOL's software sucks, but the game is not over for them like so many are saying. Remember they still have 19mm customers. They're not all going to get up and walk away.
AOL could learn from it's competitiors and other people in the web space. They could scrap their bloat ware put NN to work. They could have a dial-up/broadband model that puts ads in a tasteful manner within the browser or in a separate window. You'll go through there portal, but it doesn't mean you'll be bombarded with ads. Maybe it's wishful thinking.
There could be a use for it nonetheless. Many of us have broadband at home, but when you go places where it's not available you could use AOL dial-up for free with the few annoying ads. So it may not be over. Should be interesting to see what they come up with.
I'm not sure what good will come from chairs being thrown at Microsoft. Not necessarily, the way people should fight the behemoth, but if it's helping, I'll throw one.
Try running a slew of virtual software synthesizers and effects and you'll be happy to see faster processors. I know I couldn't be happier and I can't wait to see which one Apples puts in it's next machine.
Speed is still a very important factor for quiet PC's. Many home studio musicians started the craze becaue you need to eliminate ambient noise when recording and mixing tracks. A 5400 hard drive wouldn't work well at all as it's slow and would cause all kinds of bottlenecks when mixing down a large number of tracks.
If quiet is what people are looking for, silentpcreview.com is a good place to go.
Your comments are spot on. I have to laugh. People complain for years that consolses can't be upgraded and need to be hacked. People complain about wanting the ultimate DVR/all in one system. Sony is in line to deliever and people complain that it's delivering too much. WTF. If the PS3 plays well with linux (PVR) with blue ray and networking ability, great games, and it's upgradable then I'm on board and I'm not a gamer. It sounds like they're about to deliever what everyone wants, but yet so many are complaining. Jackasses!!!
You're not looking at the big picture and long term goals. Of course we would like to hand them money and food, but that wont make them self sufficient. Ideally we will give them all three. Give them computers and a way they may educate themselves. Educated them so in the future they'll learn how support themselves so we wont have to give them money and food which are temporary fixes.
What a waste of time. If they were reasonable and just sold hard coppies of the movies for $4.99 and allowed them to be downloaded for $2.00, people would pirate a lot less and they'd sell a lot more. Yes, this would screw Blockbuster, but they're screwed regarldess, so is Netflix, unless they change their business model.
I agree with you. The way I voice my opinion on sites that do not support Firefox, Safari, or Mac's is by not going to the site. I will often contact them to let them know, but what I have found is the people running those sites say they don't get enough users of those browsers or OSs. So essentially your damned if you do and damned if you don't.
I like the idea of having a non-intrusive one line statement on the top of the page that suggests switching. Similar to when firefox asks you if you want to install a plugin.
They probably got them from TechData or IngramMicro. They are the big distributers in the US for most tech manufacturers. You don't see NEC, SONY, Hiatchi trucks running around because a middle man takes care of business and in the US these are the big boys.
assume that no driver can see you, ride as if you were invisible. == defensive driving
I use defensive driving no matter what vehicle I drive, even my boat. I used to think people in the SF Bay Area could drive, but now it's a mess. It's way too easy for fucktards to get a license. IMO American's could use some lessons from the British, they're fairly curtious and aware drivers.
We need harder driving schools in the US. People need to learn how to really drive a car then just learn the basic rules of the road. For example: People driving 50 MPH in the fast lane and forcing cars to go around them. The fast lane is meant to be a passing lane. Also, when someone wants to change lanes, Americans (I'm a native Californian) try to block them from merging instead of being courteous and letting them in. I call it the typical American attitude. Very selfish all bout me attitude.
Back on topic: I like the idea of having ethanol/gas as in E85 conversions to existing vehicles. It's my understanding that it doesn't take too much to convert modern cars, especially SUVs which are the gas guzzling kings.
Hybreds and the like are great, but your asking people to buy new cars, that should continue, but a faster and more logical way to be more bio-conservative is to convert existing vehicles. Obviously the major issue is availability of E85.
I wouldn't worry about it so much. Most SOHO manufactures D-Link, LinkSys, Netgear etc shipped products of 802.11G before it was ratified and they didn't run into any major hiccups as far as I know. It's pretty common for companies to push products before the standard has been ratified. No one is going to produce chips unless they are confident it will be safe when the standard is completely ratified. Often just a firmware update will complete the standard.
It may be a blatant for, but it sure as hell a good one. Sure, use Debian if you're fairly savvy and want to build a specialized server, but if you just want a desktop system, then Ubuntu is perfect. Debian for the hardcore and Ubuntu for the softcore. Oh and I have bad bad karma...
Talking about an ugly off-topic exchange of words.
There's plenty of rich and poor people that are liberal and conservative. We have two equations that get mixed up and confused. The first is the fact that if you're liberal you must be poor and have no faith. The second is if your conservative you must be rich and have faith. That is horse shit and silly argument. It's also silly to say if someone is rich they are going to screw some poor person over. To become rich you generally need the help of others and usually that means you employ people and give jobs to those that don't have one. The more money you make, the more you can expand your business and more jobs you provide.
I believe if you have a lot of money you have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate. I believe they call it philanthropy. You can be rich or poor, conservative or liberal and qualify as a philanthropist. If you have money and you don't give back to society, well then I believe you're a piece of shit, but that's a personal opinion. Oh and people of faith tend to want to help others. It's been shown over and over.
I may be a person of faith and if someone is gay, that's their choice (maybe not), but I certainly don't have an issues with it. All it means is that there's more women for me.:P
We need other service providers in all area's of media and communication. The only way I have choice for a land phone line is to have one or not, but with cell phones I have choice.
If I want broadband at home, I have to go with comcast because DSL isn't available in my area. So my only other choices are ultra expensive satellite or dial-up. With TV, I have more service provider choices, but still no programming choices unless I want to pay out my ass. We have less competition in these area's then we did years ago. I think this will hold true as long as we are tied to physical lines. The only way competition is going to get in the market in a reasonable way is through legislation or wireless.
I'd like to see every city bury power lines and add fiber to people's home or some type of wireless connection. Allow different media to have access to customers through a central office in the city where they can bid in the best interest of the customers.
They have a choice, but what you suggested is a valid option. If they run their own lines and have their own browser, chat client, mail, phone service, TV, movies, and other services, they could provide a whole new meaning to the word "portal." They would almost be the next AOL without charging for the ads and pushing their do no evil slogan and hopefully not have crappy ass software. Maybe it's smoke and mirrors. But they could really target the hell out of people knowing everything they're looking at. They could make the ads tasteful too, well, as far as ads go.
Comcast and DSL definitely need some competition and if this is one of the forms it comes in, great. If you're going with Comcast broadband you're probably paying close to $45 dollars a month $540 a year for service (just to access the fucking internet). That's ridiculous. Then add up what you pay for cable or satellite TV service. Basic Cable is another $45 to $50 a month and you get advertisements too, WTF!!! Add up your home and cell phone and then tell me if your butt-hole is starting to hurt. Especially since you probably only use these services a few hours a day, if that.
Google offering these services and some non-intrusive ads for the aforementioned services with no or a minimal monthly fee seems like a pretty damn sweet deal. Probably the only peoples that will think they're evil are the other service providers.
Everyone seems to gear this towards photo's, but it can be used for much more than that. You can soom in on an file and sort through them in a visual manner as opposed to a file structure, just like they said above about laying things out and orgainzing them. It's pretty cool and if it matures, I'd be interested.
From Wikipedia: In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts rude or offensive messages on the Internet, such as in online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. -- So you're right and wrong.
The parent post would be considered the original troll and I would be responding with a troll comment myself in the context of the article, although were not attacking the article in anyway. However marking someone a troll is not what you say it is in this context.
I thought the original conservative comment was funny as was mine and I was disappointed, but not surprised to see it modded down (negative/troll). However my original comment even makes me laugh harder because it rings some truth, just look how personal you took it. ha!ha!ha!
HA! I got modded a "Troll" for my comment. Typical slashdot liberals can dish out a joke, but can't take it. You're like Tom Cruise. He criticizes everyone else and all their beliefs but when it comes to Scientology..you can't say shit about it because "It's perfect".
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When I worked at DevX, are primary focus was reviewing third party products and selling third party development tools to corporations.
I couldn't agree more that AOL's software sucks, but the game is not over for them like so many are saying. Remember they still have 19mm customers. They're not all going to get up and walk away.
AOL could learn from it's competitiors and other people in the web space. They could scrap their bloat ware put NN to work. They could have a dial-up/broadband model that puts ads in a tasteful manner within the browser or in a separate window. You'll go through there portal, but it doesn't mean you'll be bombarded with ads. Maybe it's wishful thinking.
There could be a use for it nonetheless. Many of us have broadband at home, but when you go places where it's not available you could use AOL dial-up for free with the few annoying ads. So it may not be over. Should be interesting to see what they come up with.
I'm not sure what good will come from chairs being thrown at Microsoft. Not necessarily, the way people should fight the behemoth, but if it's helping, I'll throw one.
Try running a slew of virtual software synthesizers and effects and you'll be happy to see faster processors. I know I couldn't be happier and I can't wait to see which one Apples puts in it's next machine.
Get em while they're hot.
Speed is still a very important factor for quiet PC's. Many home studio musicians started the craze becaue you need to eliminate ambient noise when recording and mixing tracks. A 5400 hard drive wouldn't work well at all as it's slow and would cause all kinds of bottlenecks when mixing down a large number of tracks.
If quiet is what people are looking for, silentpcreview.com is a good place to go.
Should be enough for the embedded edition.
Yeah and I offer mine on a blue network for a half mile range, so be nice and be courteous.
Secure from people being able to use it productively.
Your comments are spot on. I have to laugh. People complain for years that consolses can't be upgraded and need to be hacked. People complain about wanting the ultimate DVR/all in one system. Sony is in line to deliever and people complain that it's delivering too much. WTF. If the PS3 plays well with linux (PVR) with blue ray and networking ability, great games, and it's upgradable then I'm on board and I'm not a gamer. It sounds like they're about to deliever what everyone wants, but yet so many are complaining. Jackasses!!!
You're not looking at the big picture and long term goals. Of course we would like to hand them money and food, but that wont make them self sufficient. Ideally we will give them all three. Give them computers and a way they may educate themselves. Educated them so in the future they'll learn how support themselves so we wont have to give them money and food which are temporary fixes.
What a waste of time. If they were reasonable and just sold hard coppies of the movies for $4.99 and allowed them to be downloaded for $2.00, people would pirate a lot less and they'd sell a lot more. Yes, this would screw Blockbuster, but they're screwed regarldess, so is Netflix, unless they change their business model.
I agree with you. The way I voice my opinion on sites that do not support Firefox, Safari, or Mac's is by not going to the site. I will often contact them to let them know, but what I have found is the people running those sites say they don't get enough users of those browsers or OSs. So essentially your damned if you do and damned if you don't.
I like the idea of having a non-intrusive one line statement on the top of the page that suggests switching. Similar to when firefox asks you if you want to install a plugin.
They probably got them from TechData or IngramMicro. They are the big distributers in the US for most tech manufacturers. You don't see NEC, SONY, Hiatchi trucks running around because a middle man takes care of business and in the US these are the big boys.
I use defensive driving no matter what vehicle I drive, even my boat. I used to think people in the SF Bay Area could drive, but now it's a mess. It's way too easy for fucktards to get a license. IMO American's could use some lessons from the British, they're fairly curtious and aware drivers.
We need harder driving schools in the US. People need to learn how to really drive a car then just learn the basic rules of the road. For example: People driving 50 MPH in the fast lane and forcing cars to go around them. The fast lane is meant to be a passing lane. Also, when someone wants to change lanes, Americans (I'm a native Californian) try to block them from merging instead of being courteous and letting them in. I call it the typical American attitude. Very selfish all bout me attitude.
Back on topic: I like the idea of having ethanol/gas as in E85 conversions to existing vehicles. It's my understanding that it doesn't take too much to convert modern cars, especially SUVs which are the gas guzzling kings.
Hybreds and the like are great, but your asking people to buy new cars, that should continue, but a faster and more logical way to be more bio-conservative is to convert existing vehicles. Obviously the major issue is availability of E85.
I wouldn't worry about it so much. Most SOHO manufactures D-Link, LinkSys, Netgear etc shipped products of 802.11G before it was ratified and they didn't run into any major hiccups as far as I know. It's pretty common for companies to push products before the standard has been ratified. No one is going to produce chips unless they are confident it will be safe when the standard is completely ratified. Often just a firmware update will complete the standard.
It may be a blatant for, but it sure as hell a good one. Sure, use Debian if you're fairly savvy and want to build a specialized server, but if you just want a desktop system, then Ubuntu is perfect. Debian for the hardcore and Ubuntu for the softcore. Oh and I have bad bad karma...
Talking about an ugly off-topic exchange of words.
:P
There's plenty of rich and poor people that are liberal and conservative. We have two equations that get mixed up and confused. The first is the fact that if you're liberal you must be poor and have no faith. The second is if your conservative you must be rich and have faith. That is horse shit and silly argument. It's also silly to say if someone is rich they are going to screw some poor person over. To become rich you generally need the help of others and usually that means you employ people and give jobs to those that don't have one. The more money you make, the more you can expand your business and more jobs you provide.
I believe if you have a lot of money you have a moral obligation to help the less fortunate. I believe they call it philanthropy. You can be rich or poor, conservative or liberal and qualify as a philanthropist. If you have money and you don't give back to society, well then I believe you're a piece of shit, but that's a personal opinion. Oh and people of faith tend to want to help others. It's been shown over and over.
I may be a person of faith and if someone is gay, that's their choice (maybe not), but I certainly don't have an issues with it. All it means is that there's more women for me.
I couldn't agree with you more. You're spot on.
We need other service providers in all area's of media and communication. The only way I have choice for a land phone line is to have one or not, but with cell phones I have choice.
If I want broadband at home, I have to go with comcast because DSL isn't available in my area. So my only other choices are ultra expensive satellite or dial-up. With TV, I have more service provider choices, but still no programming choices unless I want to pay out my ass. We have less competition in these area's then we did years ago. I think this will hold true as long as we are tied to physical lines. The only way competition is going to get in the market in a reasonable way is through legislation or wireless.
I'd like to see every city bury power lines and add fiber to people's home or some type of wireless connection. Allow different media to have access to customers through a central office in the city where they can bid in the best interest of the customers.
It's best when she says OMG a pony ride and then rides it.. Just think what she would say if it had glitter.
They have a choice, but what you suggested is a valid option. If they run their own lines and have their own browser, chat client, mail, phone service, TV, movies, and other services, they could provide a whole new meaning to the word "portal." They would almost be the next AOL without charging for the ads and pushing their do no evil slogan and hopefully not have crappy ass software. Maybe it's smoke and mirrors. But they could really target the hell out of people knowing everything they're looking at. They could make the ads tasteful too, well, as far as ads go.
Comcast and DSL definitely need some competition and if this is one of the forms it comes in, great. If you're going with Comcast broadband you're probably paying close to $45 dollars a month $540 a year for service (just to access the fucking internet). That's ridiculous. Then add up what you pay for cable or satellite TV service. Basic Cable is another $45 to $50 a month and you get advertisements too, WTF!!! Add up your home and cell phone and then tell me if your butt-hole is starting to hurt. Especially since you probably only use these services a few hours a day, if that.
Google offering these services and some non-intrusive ads for the aforementioned services with no or a minimal monthly fee seems like a pretty damn sweet deal. Probably the only peoples that will think they're evil are the other service providers.
He'd only throw the chair of Google came up with the solution.
Everyone seems to gear this towards photo's, but it can be used for much more than that. You can soom in on an file and sort through them in a visual manner as opposed to a file structure, just like they said above about laying things out and orgainzing them. It's pretty cool and if it matures, I'd be interested.
From Wikipedia: In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts rude or offensive messages on the Internet, such as in online discussion forums, to disrupt discussion or to upset its participants. -- So you're right and wrong.
The parent post would be considered the original troll and I would be responding with a troll comment myself in the context of the article, although were not attacking the article in anyway. However marking someone a troll is not what you say it is in this context.
I thought the original conservative comment was funny as was mine and I was disappointed, but not surprised to see it modded down (negative/troll). However my original comment even makes me laugh harder because it rings some truth, just look how personal you took it. ha!ha!ha!
HA! I got modded a "Troll" for my comment. Typical slashdot liberals can dish out a joke, but can't take it. You're like Tom Cruise. He criticizes everyone else and all their beliefs but when it comes to Scientology..you can't say shit about it because "It's perfect".
On another note, the game it damn cool.