Your memory is a little generous. Hotmail had an insanely low 2mb limit at one time!!! A few e-mails would freeze your inbox. Only after gmail appeared were they so generous to offer 100mb.
Yep. It was $10 an month (or year) to raise that to 10mb if I recall correctly.
Also, how in hell do you get through life without music?
I wish I did listen to music but I have no taste and prefer the quiet.
This is a social handicap. I really miss out on a lot of conversations since I do not listen to music nor do I watch sports.
Unfortunately, where I live - and I imagine most places, - there are not many other things to talk about with people. You can only get by on the weather so long. And where I work, most people do not read nor camp which kills my two main passions.
I from Texas as well and we always refer to the Civil Was as the Civil War.
You should have been modded funny, not insightful, but unfortunately most northern people's view on the south comes from the media interviewing stupid hicks that no one local ever talks to (which is why they are so excited to talk to the media) and hollywood.
People judge the south based on a very vocal minority (and a very small minority at that.) It is funny that hollywood and media liberals constantly do this and then criticize when people lump all Muslims as terrorists and bigots.
The more aware people are of their ability to make better choices is a step in the right direction and if a seal on a video game box helps in part to achieve that goal, all the better I say.
I got the wii fit and - to my horror - it said that I was obese. I was always the skinny kid in school and never really paid attention to the scale that would go up 2 pounds a month. It was a real wake up call.
I started exercing using the wii fit games (I really like the obstacle course where you are jumping from ledge to ledge and avoiding giant wrecking balls.) I stopped because my downstairs neighbor started banging on her ceiling.
The embarrassment of being told I was obese (no doctor ever said that to my face) combined with my neighbor thinking her ceiling was going to collapse simple by me running and jumping really inspired me.
In the past 8 months, I have lost close to 60 pounds and am well past the obese range. I have 5 pound to go to no longer being overweight. I still use the wii fit, but as a measuring tool and will start using it for exercise soon since I should be nearing the point where I no longer shake the entire apartment.
The only downside to losing the weight is that I have the same stretch marks as a woman who gave birth. But since it was a lot of work to lose that weight - and since I am already married - I see those as marks of pride and accomplishment.
pipatron acted like what.cd was a viable alternative to limewire and google so this post was a reasonable request.
I don't listen to any music that is not playing on a movie or tv show (and only then while it I am watching the movie or tv show - I won't seek out the song/music) but I know that what.cd is impossible to get in-to and a terrible example to use as an alternative.
I'd rather record which I used to be able to do on VCRs.
I really don't get why they encrypt everything since it is already on the web (and usually within an hour of the show - and three weeks early for this American Doctor Who fan.)
If they let me record, they would at least have me watch/fastford the commercials since I never watch anything live. I wouldn't be able to remove the commercials (on first run at least) without spoiling bits of the show for me since I would have to skip through the show to find the commercials.
But instead, they do not let me record. I have more hard drive space than any dvr that Time Warner could provide so I can't just keep my collection there (add to that, the interface is ugly and sorted in date order versus show order which gets annoying when you re-watch multiple shows.)
The funny thing is that when I could record shows, I would go out and buy the show on VHS or DVD afterwords that way I would have the pretty casing and the commercial free content. I never would have had a reason to look online if they wouldn't had been so controlling.
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I don't usually waste my time with these trolls. The post is for any mods that have not read the faq and are wasting their mod points with this trash rather than on legitimate posts.
Leave it to the editors to down-mod these stupid posts since they are obvious trolls and the editors have unlimited mod points. In fact, based on the faq, I imagine how that is how we are suppose to do it.
I prefer to spend my time modding up people.
Do Editors Moderate?
The Slashdot Editors have unlimited mod points, and we have no problem using them......
The editors tend to find crapfloods and moderate them down: a single malicious user can post dozens of comments, which would require several users to moderate them down, but a single admin can take care of it in seconds. This tends to remove the obvious garbage from the discussion so that the general population can use their mod points to determine good. Otherwise, a few crapfloods could suck a lot of moderator points out of the system and throw things out of whack.
If I had a cable provider that actually let me record the cable out (I have time warner and an apartment complex that has just started including time warner cable as part of our "utilities" that we are required to pay $40 a month for,) I would have jumped on mythtv a long time ago. Guess I am stuck with downloading for current shows on my media library.
It is really a neat project.
Sort of related (but still useless to me,) but xbmc is going to support pvr within the coming months (unless they dropped that from their milestone.)
The phrase "disable tracking from google" gave me the referenced link as first result.
I tried a bing search and not until the 5th result did I even get an official msn link (and that link seems to have nothing to do with my query.) The other official microsoft link was for a pdf file. No other results on that page nor the next (it defaults to 10 results per page.)
1 and 3. Clicking "turn off buzz" hides the Buzz label, but doesn't delete the content you've posted, including comments. You'll need to delete those directly if you want to erase your footprint entirely. Check out the article linked below for more.
2. Actually, this isn't true. When you @reply someone, you can see their address because they were previously in your contacts. However, this address isn't exposed to others viewing the post.
4. Interesting. I have some theories on why that might be happening but will look into it.
5. Yep, that's a known issue, although it doesn't have any effect.
I tried it and cannot seen any emails on comments when I log out (I actually cannot see the comments either.)
AMD made $5.4 billion last year and Intel made around $35 billion. Each of these companies make more revenue in an hour than the yearly revenue of any of these companies.
They also make more than most proprietary software/hardware companies.
What it does do is try to provide a frame-by-frame signature of video, so if a video's been ripped, they know which copy it was.
Until, of course, those in part 2 and 3 above start detecting and scrubbing that data.
At least the screeners we download will no longer need to have a modest portion of the image blurred to cover the serial numbers previously used to determine where the video came from.
So actually, they may be doing the downloaders a favor.
For those that don't know, "acting like a know-it-all" is just something that less knowledgeable people like to say about us more knowledgeable people, as if they are taking some moral high ground by being less knowledgeable.
Explain Western Europe then. They have universal health care, social security, free education etc. but ACTA and DMCA didn't originate there and they certainly don't have the PATRIOT act.
Yes, because there are not camera's in almost every British street watching its citizens.
Because Britain did not used to strip search passengers going to and from Ireland.
Because Britain does not have a state controlled news channel.
Man, I wish the US was as "free" as parts of Western Europe are.
And bring up ACTA and DMCA as US evils only works if Western Europe was doing something different instead of adopting it as well. (Heck, they are even surpassing us - just look at Newsbin)
You folks have no idea what a normal political spectrum is I am afraid, the influence of the Republicans over the past 100 years or so seems to have skewed things greatly to me.
If Canada is as liberal as you state (where our liberals look like conservatives to you,) maybe it is Canada that is lacking a normal political spectrum.
Or maybe, different countries have different founding ideologies and the normal political spectrum is based upon those ideologies. In which case, it makes sense that there would be different political spectrum from country to country.
Are they trying to run an IT department without any IT people or something? Exactly what kind of "support" are they getting from the likes of Dell? Are they trying to use Dell CS as their sysadmins?
I think it is more a cover your ass type thing.
If you can fix it, great and you look good. If you can't, you can say you are "still waiting for the Dell/IBM guys."
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That should be "why i like google", with quotes.
It was with quotes. Look at his link:
http://www.bing.com/search?q="why+i+like+google"
No, seriously, step 3 is more like, "you have to press 'Yes' to continue"
Unless I am missing what you are saying, that was step 3
Your memory is a little generous. Hotmail had an insanely low 2mb limit at one time!!! A few e-mails would freeze your inbox. Only after gmail appeared were they so generous to offer 100mb.
Yep. It was $10 an month (or year) to raise that to 10mb if I recall correctly.
Can you imagine the original Mario Brothers using this model? It would be really fun and a great work out.
Monsters to jump on, places to run, ledges to jump, obstacles to avoid, and so on.
I have never had to stop a game where I had to stop and catch a breath, but I certainly would here.
Also, how in hell do you get through life without music?
I wish I did listen to music but I have no taste and prefer the quiet.
This is a social handicap. I really miss out on a lot of conversations since I do not listen to music nor do I watch sports.
Unfortunately, where I live - and I imagine most places, - there are not many other things to talk about with people. You can only get by on the weather so long. And where I work, most people do not read nor camp which kills my two main passions.
I from Texas as well and we always refer to the Civil Was as the Civil War.
You should have been modded funny, not insightful, but unfortunately most northern people's view on the south comes from the media interviewing stupid hicks that no one local ever talks to (which is why they are so excited to talk to the media) and hollywood.
People judge the south based on a very vocal minority (and a very small minority at that.) It is funny that hollywood and media liberals constantly do this and then criticize when people lump all Muslims as terrorists and bigots.
No they weren't. Mexico actually paid people and gave land to move to Texas.
The more aware people are of their ability to make better choices is a step in the right direction and if a seal on a video game box helps in part to achieve that goal, all the better I say.
I got the wii fit and - to my horror - it said that I was obese. I was always the skinny kid in school and never really paid attention to the scale that would go up 2 pounds a month. It was a real wake up call.
I started exercing using the wii fit games (I really like the obstacle course where you are jumping from ledge to ledge and avoiding giant wrecking balls.) I stopped because my downstairs neighbor started banging on her ceiling.
The embarrassment of being told I was obese (no doctor ever said that to my face) combined with my neighbor thinking her ceiling was going to collapse simple by me running and jumping really inspired me.
In the past 8 months, I have lost close to 60 pounds and am well past the obese range. I have 5 pound to go to no longer being overweight. I still use the wii fit, but as a measuring tool and will start using it for exercise soon since I should be nearing the point where I no longer shake the entire apartment.
The only downside to losing the weight is that I have the same stretch marks as a woman who gave birth. But since it was a lot of work to lose that weight - and since I am already married - I see those as marks of pride and accomplishment.
Why was this modded down?
pipatron acted like what.cd was a viable alternative to limewire and google so this post was a reasonable request.
I don't listen to any music that is not playing on a movie or tv show (and only then while it I am watching the movie or tv show - I won't seek out the song/music) but I know that what.cd is impossible to get in-to and a terrible example to use as an alternative.
According to this, I get the network channels many times over. I did not see USA, SciFi, TNT, Lifetime, etc on the list.
http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lineup_web/US:78229
I have wondered about the analog because the TV in my bedroom is analog.
I wish there was a tvcard that pretended to be a tv so I could just output the signal from my cable card to my tv card.
I'd rather record which I used to be able to do on VCRs.
I really don't get why they encrypt everything since it is already on the web (and usually within an hour of the show - and three weeks early for this American Doctor Who fan.)
If they let me record, they would at least have me watch/fastford the commercials since I never watch anything live. I wouldn't be able to remove the commercials (on first run at least) without spoiling bits of the show for me since I would have to skip through the show to find the commercials.
But instead, they do not let me record. I have more hard drive space than any dvr that Time Warner could provide so I can't just keep my collection there (add to that, the interface is ugly and sorted in date order versus show order which gets annoying when you re-watch multiple shows.)
The funny thing is that when I could record shows, I would go out and buy the show on VHS or DVD afterwords that way I would have the pretty casing and the commercial free content. I never would have had a reason to look online if they wouldn't had been so controlling.
I don't usually waste my time with these trolls. The post is for any mods that have not read the faq and are wasting their mod points with this trash rather than on legitimate posts.
Leave it to the editors to down-mod these stupid posts since they are obvious trolls and the editors have unlimited mod points. In fact, based on the faq, I imagine how that is how we are suppose to do it.
I prefer to spend my time modding up people.
Do Editors Moderate?
The Slashdot Editors have unlimited mod points, and we have no problem using them. .....
The editors tend to find crapfloods and moderate them down: a single malicious user can post dozens of comments, which would require several users to moderate them down, but a single admin can take care of it in seconds. This tends to remove the obvious garbage from the discussion so that the general population can use their mod points to determine good. Otherwise, a few crapfloods could suck a lot of moderator points out of the system and throw things out of whack.
If I had a cable provider that actually let me record the cable out (I have time warner and an apartment complex that has just started including time warner cable as part of our "utilities" that we are required to pay $40 a month for,) I would have jumped on mythtv a long time ago. Guess I am stuck with downloading for current shows on my media library.
It is really a neat project.
Sort of related (but still useless to me,) but xbmc is going to support pvr within the coming months (unless they dropped that from their milestone.)
I don't expect - nor want - any company to refuse a lawfully issued warrant.
I do expect for them to wait for that warrant which only Google did.
Yeah. It's too bad they don't have easy to follow instructions on how to disable that.
The phrase "disable tracking from google" gave me the referenced link as first result.
I tried a bing search and not until the 5th result did I even get an official msn link (and that link seems to have nothing to do with my query.) The other official microsoft link was for a pdf file. No other results on that page nor the next (it defaults to 10 results per page.)
did you read the reply?
1 and 3. Clicking "turn off buzz" hides the Buzz label, but doesn't delete the content you've posted, including comments. You'll need to delete those directly if you want to erase your footprint entirely. Check out the article linked below for more.
2. Actually, this isn't true. When you @reply someone, you can see their address because they were previously in your contacts. However, this address isn't exposed to others viewing the post.
4. Interesting. I have some theories on why that might be happening but will look into it.
5. Yep, that's a known issue, although it doesn't have any effect.
I tried it and cannot seen any emails on comments when I log out (I actually cannot see the comments either.)
http://www.google.com/profiles/101337690637283539403#buzz
And I tried the account the next reply had but do not see any email addresses, just likes to their buzz profile when they are public
http://www.google.com/profiles/gallant.allison
AMD made $5.4 billion last year and Intel made around $35 billion. Each of these companies make more revenue in an hour than the yearly revenue of any of these companies.
They also make more than most proprietary software/hardware companies.
My copy of 7 takes longer from a cold boot when using virtual box.
XP was under a minute with the same resources allocated to it..
What it does do is try to provide a frame-by-frame signature of video, so if a video's been ripped, they know which copy it was.
Until, of course, those in part 2 and 3 above start detecting and scrubbing that data.
At least the screeners we download will no longer need to have a modest portion of the image blurred to cover the serial numbers previously used to determine where the video came from.
So actually, they may be doing the downloaders a favor.
For those that don't know, "acting like a know-it-all" is just something that less knowledgeable people like to say about us more knowledgeable people, as if they are taking some moral high ground by being less knowledgeable.
A Know-it-all
I realized that which is why I specified a country in Western Europe.
The poster I replied to stated the US (versus North America) and compared it to a general region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe#Population_of_Western_Europe
Explain Western Europe then. They have universal health care, social security, free education etc. but ACTA and DMCA didn't originate there and they certainly don't have the PATRIOT act.
Yes, because there are not camera's in almost every British street watching its citizens.
Because Britain did not used to strip search passengers going to and from Ireland.
Because Britain does not have a state controlled news channel.
Man, I wish the US was as "free" as parts of Western Europe are.
Look at the countries that still have mandatory conscription
And bring up ACTA and DMCA as US evils only works if Western Europe was doing something different instead of adopting it as well. (Heck, they are even surpassing us - just look at Newsbin)
You folks have no idea what a normal political spectrum is I am afraid, the influence of the Republicans over the past 100 years or so seems to have skewed things greatly to me.
If Canada is as liberal as you state (where our liberals look like conservatives to you,) maybe it is Canada that is lacking a normal political spectrum.
Or maybe, different countries have different founding ideologies and the normal political spectrum is based upon those ideologies. In which case, it makes sense that there would be different political spectrum from country to country.
I don't think I want to live in a country where Obama and Clinton would be considered conservatives.
At least in the US, the only ones that say things like this are people who are so far left, most people realize them for what they are.
Are they trying to run an IT department without any IT people or something? Exactly what kind of "support" are they getting from the likes of Dell? Are they trying to use Dell CS as their sysadmins?
I think it is more a cover your ass type thing.
If you can fix it, great and you look good. If you can't, you can say you are "still waiting for the Dell/IBM guys."