Independent usenet providers are often vastly superior to ISP provided usenet anyway(unless they outsource)
this...
i've only ever used my ISP usenet as a backup/filler. retention is usually minimal as is the number of groups available.
funny thing, TWC usenet is limited to 3Mb on my 10Mb account. so, i doubt increasing bandwidth is a large factor in the usenet bannination. They could always throttle it some more. i doubt anyone would notice or care. I'd be willing to bet most heavy usenet users DO NOT use their ISP.
which is one of the things i loved when i switched from TWC to DISH, i toggle between all channels, subscribed channels and HD only channels with a push of a button on the remote. no more wading thru 400 channels i dont have. screwed yourself there TWC. of course, the weak HD selection, crappy UI and retarded DVR didn't help your cause much either. you aren't missed...
Lot of people quit or look for other things when they hit 70 and can't come up with anything else to do.
EXACTLY!!! I spent DAYS hitting 70 on my mage. Now what? I jokingly said when i hit 70 i would just quit. Well, it's coming true. The daily quest grind for gold and battlegrounds are getting old. It's becoming too much like work to get those gear upgrades and less like playing a game. I'm in a small guild with some friends, but the fact is i would have to leave and join a large one to do any real raiding. Without that, i can only progress so far.
that may be true, but i've notice that a lot of smart, wealthy successful people eventually "go home" in some sense, not always physically, of course. They may donate to local causes, invest, become involved in politics or advocacy. whatever they do, they probably would not have been able without opportunities like this.
And I assure you, unless you flip burgers or something then your time is valuable enough that you can certainly justify buying a bigger screen if you really need more working space
and that sir is the kind of elitist attitude that is so off putting to many non mac users. it is also one of the reasons macs have been and will remain niche (at least compared to the total computing market). The Apple philosophy is not that your screen should be used well, rather it should be used well if you spend enough money. The bigger the screen the better that interface seems to work. If you can't afford to spend the money, you still have a very large dock taking up valuable real estate.
absolutely. I sat out the format war until there was a clear winner even though it meant delaying a game system purchase. I got a PS3 a few days after Toshiba pulled out. Unfortunately for Microsoft, in my mind they tied the game system to the video format. had they not, i might have gotten a 360 a year ago. Once the format was decided, 360 was perceived as "damaged goods" to me.
A friend of mine had 4 consoles with red rings of death before giving up and getting a PS3. He commented today that until the toshiba decision, he didnt have any friends with a PS3. Now he has 5 of us in a matter of weeks.
some of the compUSA joints closing up have been unloading BR blanks for as low as $2/each... I just got a ps3 this weekend, finally figured it was safe to pick a format. About damn time.
i still just don't get it. how is this going to harm you? how many forms of id do you currently have? probably 3 or 4 (SSN, DL, Birth Certificate, Passport). When you are asked for ID do you piss and moan about your lack of privacy? no, you show the nice lady at the bank your DL. Do you really think that all of this data is not A) Already out there and B) readily accessible? The particular fear is that "the government" is going to see this information and use it to "get you". Does creation of a national ID somehow circumvent the constitution? Unreasonable search and seizure? Wouldn't they still require probable cause and a warrant to obtain this information? hey, some "government" guy can call my HMO and demand my records. Doesn't mean the HMO is going to provide them. are you really suggesting that "the government" is going to take all those millions of databases and merge them into some uber-base? if NOT then what changes? it is still the responsibility of the owner of the data to limit access to those with a legitimate and legal need for it.
And another thing... is it not in your best interest to have a single, verifiable identifier linked to you as an individual? it's gonna suck for you when during a search for "joe smith the serial killer" a duplicate record points the cops in YOUR direction. hope you're ready to provide some identification. I have a friend who has the same name as her mother. When she goes to apply for loans etc. her mothers information shows on HER credit report. this is despite giving her own SSN. Now, her mother has great credit, so it works in her favor that shes got 60 years of cars, houses, credit cards etc., but it could just as easily go the other way and keep her from getting those same things.
anyway, i still don't understand the paranoia. it's not just related to details like RFID, it's the entire CONCEPT that bugs people. Hey, we don't need no stinkin papers to have an oppressive, murdering government. It's happened without ID many times.
That's sad. I've always found Dish's UI to be vastly superior to DirecTV.
amen to that i have also found my dish dvr to be MUCH more user friendly and intuitive than boxes from directTV, comcast and time warner. it would take a big spike in Dish prices to make me switch at this point. i couldn't live with the crappy DVR's i've suffered with elsewhere.
i work for a very large company, and our adoption of instant messaging (MS Communicator) made a real impact in this kind of email traffic. it also provides a great CYA as we can email ourselves transcripts of the chat. woot! once you implement, users can help by refusing to engage in email chat. i will IM the person if it looks like the email conversation is going to go that route. helps to be proactive...
the first post i've seen by someone that actually sounds like they have kids. the DVD player in the car was a godsend on a recent 1800 mile round trip drive. i also would lose the ability to back up that expensive dvd. standard practice for me is to make a copy of kids movies for 2 reasons. 1 if it gets scratched i dont have to buy another, 2 i can strip out all the ads,previews,warnings and other crap. put it in, movie plays. it can take minutes to actually get the damn movie started on some discs thanks to previews you can't skip or FF thru (i'm looking at you disney). when the kids are screaming that seems like eternity...
2 comments. the first is it's funny how DLP bugs some people but not others. I have a 65" DLP here at home and I've never had an issue, but i've got friends that get a headache.
the second is that the visible lines on this monitor are one of the issues that will be resolved by the time it ships, so calm down people, or read the article...
i ran across the Terminator 2: Judgment Day ultra-mega-super-extra edition at wal-mart recently. $5. I was enticed by the hi-def windows media version of the film included on the 2nd disc. wellllllll. i still can't get it to play. i've tried every dvd player i can download, installed codecs and drm packages, googled. i finally gave up. it refuses to play and usually throws errors about drm this or that. who needs all that crap? it's funny that i can't get a legit movie in a microsoft format to play in a microsoft media player on a microsoft OS. thanks guys.
ok, i'm going to respond to this one as it will encompass the other replies i got...
* If you don't normally use an alarm clock but a specific need for one to wake up for a specific event, you were possibly preoccupied with the next day's event. i use an alarm clock every day. however in these instances i'm using my phone so as not to disturb my wife when i need to get up at a different time than we usually do * You may have had an uncomfortably strange lump under your pillow. possible, but unlikely, thin,flat phone, blackberry pearl under 2 pillows. we usually watch a little tv in bed before crashing, and i have a habit of stuffing the remote under the pillow, i've never noticed it, or a change in my sleep from it * Were you at home, or on the road or in a hotel? Most people sleep "differently" when not in their own bed. home... * Does your phone emit an ultrasonic whine? not that i've ever noticed, although with my tinnitus, i would probably never notice it consciously. * You might subconsciously be worried about the RF you believe you are exposing yourself to. i don't lose sleep over it... or dooo i? i can't recall ever WORRYING about it. i just observed that i seem to be less rested for the same amount of sleep when i put my phone under the pillow. * If you had a hand beneath the pillow while you slept, it might have made contact with the unfamiliar texture of the phone. could be, again, the remote often finds its way under there too, and i sleep fine.
ANYWAY. i was just offering my anecdotal observation. most of the time i can point to a totally mundane explanation for a lack of quality sleep. could there be another explanation, sure, but i also think it's plausible that the old cell phone is disturbing brain waves. those waves are just EM and can be detected via sensors outside the skull,right? the phone is giving off EM radation that can penetrate walls, right? is it so far fetched to think that there might be some interference? hell, maybe it is.
i have occasionally slept with my phone under my pillow to use as an alarm. i noticed that when i did so, i did NOT sleep as well. I also tended to wake up with a headache. no phone = better sleep overall, phone = less restful sleep. it's pretty consistent, and i could duplicate these results any time by sleeping with my phone. take it for what you will, YMMV.
welcome to Dallas... we've had 1 paper here for over a decade and it shows. not in the day to day mundan-ity, but in the bigger issues that plague this city. rose tinted glasses over there my friend. unless they can reinforce stereotypes by pinning the bad news on the minority population, of course.
obviously you don't live in a major metro area that has only one daily newspaper. A paper that panders to the good old boy monied interests. If you DID, your perception of newspapers as unbiased and relatively trustworthy sources might be a little different...
from the dallas news article "One of the few complaints I have is after a day of heavy use, my iPhone warns me of a low battery by the time I'm finished with dinner. This means I have to charge the iPhone each night before I go to bed. That's not always convenient."
uhhhhhhh. god forbid you have to reach out a hand and plug it in. i imagine that must be really taxing after a long day on the phone. i guess he must sleep in a tent without access to power. wonder how he pays for his iPhone...
i remember seeing a show on PBS or Discovery and i can't remember the name. Anyway, at one point they discussed how pigeons can seem to wait until the last second to fly away when getting run down by a car. The reason, they explained, was that that the bird had essentially a higher sampling rate than we do. As a result it was like having a high-speed camera for eyes. A second still took a second to pass, but for the pigeon it SEEMED much longer giving them more time to react. Now i'm no expert, but i could certainly see where in an adrenaline fueled moment, things might kick into overdrive in our own bodies.
i'll throw out one of my own personal experiences here. 11 yrs old or so. riding my bike. i take a corner waaaaaay too fast. the entire process of crashing: losing control, sliding out, impact, sliding some more, bike going one way and me another, sliding some more obviously happened in a brief amount of time. However like someone else mentioned earlier, i EXPERIENCED it in slo-mo, not after the fact. If these people are really testing whether time ACTUALLY SLOWS DOWN then it sounds like they have too much time on their hands to me...
corporations are bad! money is bad! spectrum is bad! it's nice to know there are so many self-employed philanthropists on/. would you guys get together in utopia and bid on this for the benefit of all mankind? please? dunno, i'm willing to give google a chance on this one. there's NO WAY they can be as inept, immoral, incompetent and possibly inbred as the rest of the mobile carriers in the U.S.
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Independent usenet providers are often vastly superior to ISP provided usenet anyway(unless they outsource) this... i've only ever used my ISP usenet as a backup/filler. retention is usually minimal as is the number of groups available. funny thing, TWC usenet is limited to 3Mb on my 10Mb account. so, i doubt increasing bandwidth is a large factor in the usenet bannination. They could always throttle it some more. i doubt anyone would notice or care. I'd be willing to bet most heavy usenet users DO NOT use their ISP.
which is one of the things i loved when i switched from TWC to DISH, i toggle between all channels, subscribed channels and HD only channels with a push of a button on the remote. no more wading thru 400 channels i dont have. screwed yourself there TWC. of course, the weak HD selection, crappy UI and retarded DVR didn't help your cause much either. you aren't missed...
Lot of people quit or look for other things when they hit 70 and can't come up with anything else to do. EXACTLY!!! I spent DAYS hitting 70 on my mage. Now what? I jokingly said when i hit 70 i would just quit. Well, it's coming true. The daily quest grind for gold and battlegrounds are getting old. It's becoming too much like work to get those gear upgrades and less like playing a game. I'm in a small guild with some friends, but the fact is i would have to leave and join a large one to do any real raiding. Without that, i can only progress so far.
that may be true, but i've notice that a lot of smart, wealthy successful people eventually "go home" in some sense, not always physically, of course. They may donate to local causes, invest, become involved in politics or advocacy. whatever they do, they probably would not have been able without opportunities like this.
but is that gonna be enough for windows? i'm partial to Biggabyte.
I thought this was a Warcraft post at first. damn deceptive titles.
And I assure you, unless you flip burgers or something then your time is valuable enough that you can certainly justify buying a bigger screen if you really need more working space
and that sir is the kind of elitist attitude that is so off putting to many non mac users. it is also one of the reasons macs have been and will remain niche (at least compared to the total computing market). The Apple philosophy is not that your screen should be used well, rather it should be used well if you spend enough money. The bigger the screen the better that interface seems to work. If you can't afford to spend the money, you still have a very large dock taking up valuable real estate.
absolutely. I sat out the format war until there was a clear winner even though it meant delaying a game system purchase. I got a PS3 a few days after Toshiba pulled out. Unfortunately for Microsoft, in my mind they tied the game system to the video format. had they not, i might have gotten a 360 a year ago. Once the format was decided, 360 was perceived as "damaged goods" to me.
A friend of mine had 4 consoles with red rings of death before giving up and getting a PS3. He commented today that until the toshiba decision, he didnt have any friends with a PS3. Now he has 5 of us in a matter of weeks.
some of the compUSA joints closing up have been unloading BR blanks for as low as $2/each... I just got a ps3 this weekend, finally figured it was safe to pick a format. About damn time.
we took a car to the moon to look for moon babes. now we can get their phone numbers!
i still just don't get it. how is this going to harm you? how many forms of id do you currently have? probably 3 or 4 (SSN, DL, Birth Certificate, Passport). When you are asked for ID do you piss and moan about your lack of privacy? no, you show the nice lady at the bank your DL. Do you really think that all of this data is not A) Already out there and B) readily accessible? The particular fear is that "the government" is going to see this information and use it to "get you". Does creation of a national ID somehow circumvent the constitution? Unreasonable search and seizure? Wouldn't they still require probable cause and a warrant to obtain this information? hey, some "government" guy can call my HMO and demand my records. Doesn't mean the HMO is going to provide them. are you really suggesting that "the government" is going to take all those millions of databases and merge them into some uber-base? if NOT then what changes? it is still the responsibility of the owner of the data to limit access to those with a legitimate and legal need for it.
And another thing... is it not in your best interest to have a single, verifiable identifier linked to you as an individual? it's gonna suck for you when during a search for "joe smith the serial killer" a duplicate record points the cops in YOUR direction. hope you're ready to provide some identification. I have a friend who has the same name as her mother. When she goes to apply for loans etc. her mothers information shows on HER credit report. this is despite giving her own SSN. Now, her mother has great credit, so it works in her favor that shes got 60 years of cars, houses, credit cards etc., but it could just as easily go the other way and keep her from getting those same things.
anyway, i still don't understand the paranoia. it's not just related to details like RFID, it's the entire CONCEPT that bugs people. Hey, we don't need no stinkin papers to have an oppressive, murdering government. It's happened without ID many times.
That's sad. I've always found Dish's UI to be vastly superior to DirecTV.
amen to that i have also found my dish dvr to be MUCH more user friendly and intuitive than boxes from directTV, comcast and time warner. it would take a big spike in Dish prices to make me switch at this point. i couldn't live with the crappy DVR's i've suffered with elsewhere.
i work for a very large company, and our adoption of instant messaging (MS Communicator) made a real impact in this kind of email traffic. it also provides a great CYA as we can email ourselves transcripts of the chat. woot! once you implement, users can help by refusing to engage in email chat. i will IM the person if it looks like the email conversation is going to go that route. helps to be proactive...
the first post i've seen by someone that actually sounds like they have kids. the DVD player in the car was a godsend on a recent 1800 mile round trip drive. i also would lose the ability to back up that expensive dvd. standard practice for me is to make a copy of kids movies for 2 reasons. 1 if it gets scratched i dont have to buy another, 2 i can strip out all the ads,previews,warnings and other crap. put it in, movie plays. it can take minutes to actually get the damn movie started on some discs thanks to previews you can't skip or FF thru (i'm looking at you disney). when the kids are screaming that seems like eternity...
2 comments. the first is it's funny how DLP bugs some people but not others. I have a 65" DLP here at home and I've never had an issue, but i've got friends that get a headache.
the second is that the visible lines on this monitor are one of the issues that will be resolved by the time it ships, so calm down people, or read the article...
i ran across the Terminator 2: Judgment Day ultra-mega-super-extra edition at wal-mart recently. $5. I was enticed by the hi-def windows media version of the film included on the 2nd disc. wellllllll. i still can't get it to play. i've tried every dvd player i can download, installed codecs and drm packages, googled. i finally gave up. it refuses to play and usually throws errors about drm this or that. who needs all that crap? it's funny that i can't get a legit movie in a microsoft format to play in a microsoft media player on a microsoft OS. thanks guys.
ok, i'm going to respond to this one as it will encompass the other replies i got...
* If you don't normally use an alarm clock but a specific need for one to wake up for a specific event, you were possibly preoccupied with the next day's event.
i use an alarm clock every day. however in these instances i'm using my phone so as not to disturb my wife when i need to get up at a different time than we usually do
* You may have had an uncomfortably strange lump under your pillow.
possible, but unlikely, thin,flat phone, blackberry pearl under 2 pillows. we usually watch a little tv in bed before crashing, and i have a habit of stuffing the remote under the pillow, i've never noticed it, or a change in my sleep from it
* Were you at home, or on the road or in a hotel? Most people sleep "differently" when not in their own bed.
home...
* Does your phone emit an ultrasonic whine?
not that i've ever noticed, although with my tinnitus, i would probably never notice it consciously.
* You might subconsciously be worried about the RF you believe you are exposing yourself to.
i don't lose sleep over it... or dooo i? i can't recall ever WORRYING about it. i just observed that i seem to be less rested for the same amount of sleep when i put my phone under the pillow.
* If you had a hand beneath the pillow while you slept, it might have made contact with the unfamiliar texture of the phone.
could be, again, the remote often finds its way under there too, and i sleep fine.
ANYWAY. i was just offering my anecdotal observation. most of the time i can point to a totally mundane explanation for a lack of quality sleep. could there be another explanation, sure, but i also think it's plausible that the old cell phone is disturbing brain waves. those waves are just EM and can be detected via sensors outside the skull,right? the phone is giving off EM radation that can penetrate walls, right? is it so far fetched to think that there might be some interference? hell, maybe it is.
i have occasionally slept with my phone under my pillow to use as an alarm. i noticed that when i did so, i did NOT sleep as well. I also tended to wake up with a headache. no phone = better sleep overall, phone = less restful sleep. it's pretty consistent, and i could duplicate these results any time by sleeping with my phone. take it for what you will, YMMV.
welcome to Dallas... we've had 1 paper here for over a decade and it shows. not in the day to day mundan-ity, but in the bigger issues that plague this city. rose tinted glasses over there my friend. unless they can reinforce stereotypes by pinning the bad news on the minority population, of course.
obviously you don't live in a major metro area that has only one daily newspaper. A paper that panders to the good old boy monied interests. If you DID, your perception of newspapers as unbiased and relatively trustworthy sources might be a little different...
Fine, those were easy. Lets see google understand this one: Women. /. would know whether the results were accurate or not. sheeeesh.
like anyone on
from the dallas news article "One of the few complaints I have is after a day of heavy use, my iPhone warns me of a low battery by the time I'm finished with dinner. This means I have to charge the iPhone each night before I go to bed. That's not always convenient."
uhhhhhhh. god forbid you have to reach out a hand and plug it in. i imagine that must be really taxing after a long day on the phone. i guess he must sleep in a tent without access to power. wonder how he pays for his iPhone...
i remember seeing a show on PBS or Discovery and i can't remember the name. Anyway, at one point they discussed how pigeons can seem to wait until the last second to fly away when getting run down by a car. The reason, they explained, was that that the bird had essentially a higher sampling rate than we do. As a result it was like having a high-speed camera for eyes. A second still took a second to pass, but for the pigeon it SEEMED much longer giving them more time to react. Now i'm no expert, but i could certainly see where in an adrenaline fueled moment, things might kick into overdrive in our own bodies.
i'll throw out one of my own personal experiences here. 11 yrs old or so. riding my bike. i take a corner waaaaaay too fast. the entire process of crashing: losing control, sliding out, impact, sliding some more, bike going one way and me another, sliding some more obviously happened in a brief amount of time. However like someone else mentioned earlier, i EXPERIENCED it in slo-mo, not after the fact. If these people are really testing whether time ACTUALLY SLOWS DOWN then it sounds like they have too much time on their hands to me...
corporations are bad! money is bad! spectrum is bad! it's nice to know there are so many self-employed philanthropists on /. would you guys get together in utopia and bid on this for the benefit of all mankind? please?
dunno, i'm willing to give google a chance on this one. there's NO WAY they can be as inept, immoral, incompetent and possibly inbred as the rest of the mobile carriers in the U.S.