Agreed. Aside from the challenge of conducting such an exercise, is there any advantage to this port? While perhaps an interesting project, I am more impressed with the efforts to utilize Linux on the X-Box.
I certainly will not put anyone down for having the ability to facilitate such a port however. My hat off to them.
The 24-hour CNET Radio died quite a while ago. CNET no longer controls 910 KNEW Oakland or 890 WBPS, and the web stream has been kicked back to the semi-regular 5-minute bursts that they had back when they first started.
The "CNET Radio channel" on XM is now David Lawrence's 3-hour synidcated show (that CNET never owned, they just rented) called Online Tonight and that's it. The same 3 hour show repeated 8 times a day.:)... It's a ghost of its former self and is just screaming for XM to consolidate Online Tonight into one of its other talk formats to free up the channel slot. They'll likely do it the next time they realign the channels, but since that's only happened once so far it's hard to tell when they'll do that again.
Terrible! I had not used the radio enough yet to see that was the same show. I had mainly been listening to the music stations.
Things seem to get a little bit less cool with each post I read about XM here at Slashdot.:)
I have enjoyed it for what it is so far. "The System" is great. And at least Headline News is current.
Clear Channel has an investment in XM? I had not realized until you had mentioned. I just found this article confirming this. That seems unfortunate but so far I have not found the format to be as poor as most of Clear Channels stations (that prove to constantly play the same song over and over...). Hopefully the format can continue to be interesting. I am dissapointed to hear that XM is apparently limited to 200 stations due to bandwidth, however...
Hard to say if internet radio stations will be included but it does not immediately likely. The content seems to be very much in a specific network of stations. It would be nice if these could at least be added as "premium channels".
I recently received an XM radio. I used to be unimpressed with these services but the breadth of radio stations is actually quite good. With C-NET and Headline news I can keep up on events quite easily. The quality is phenomenal and it has become a cool way to find out about a lot of music I wouldn't otherwise be exposed to.
I have not had any experience with SIRIUS yet. Can anyone here attest to it's quality?
I saw Paycheck half a day ago, and strongly wish I could erase that perticular memory.
Agreed. I saw this movie several days ago as part of a "sneak preview". I'm so glad I did not pay one red cent for that movie as it was quite awful. Some parts about it were slightly intriguing but not really that great. The concept of the mind erasure was intriguing but not feasible.
Perhaps I should have taken the time to warn more people about this terrible movie. It may not have cost me any money but it took two hours of my life.
Spoiler: How about those over the top car explosions in the motorcycle chase scenes? That was especially awful! The methods he employed to solve those clues seemed fairly over the top and overly contrived as well.
Hilarious. So you are saying that my comment is a copy of my comment? Intriguing. I appreciate the interest but I am far from being a troll. All of my posts, for better or worse (the mods decide), are written by me. Perhaps you are just mad because you are one of the trolls on my troll blacklist?
Sorry everyone. I know, "Don't feed the trolls..." This accusation just seemed so laughable, though.
Thanks for the laugh.:)
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Well, Japan was intresting in the 90th but that's all over. In the art scene nobody is intrested in Japan anymore.
Perhaps we will import intresting stuff from Iraq soon...
Or find a special place... for instance in Germany holiday in Bitterfeld is on the rise. Bitterfeld, the ugliest city of Eastern Germany. That's cool.
Hollywood means boring culture industry targeted to an international audience. I prefer Nigerian films.
Quite frankly, I am not familiar with Bitterfield and I think that any imports from Iraq would be few and far between and unlikely to diffuse into our culture very quickly.
I do, however, agree that Hollywood is boring culture industry that often does not take chances and consequently churns out much of the same drivel year after year. Fortunately, a few gems are released every now and then that truly breath life into the industry.
Although I feel the diffusion is not optimal, I find the releases from India's "Bollywood" to be interesting and the burgeoning film industry there seems quite creative and full of life. Unfortunately, I don't see this as being an export of as much magnitude as Hollywood has yet.
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Actually, this is far from anything new. For the United States, as well as Japan, culture is a huge export. The United States, for example, exports much of Hollywood to other countries. This in turn ends up to equating an export of culture as the concepts of particular movies are absorbed by the individuals who view them. Hollywood is the best example but television and music also fit into the equation as well.
There's one thing that Japan has over the United States when it comes to the export of culture, though; that's Hentai.:)
It certainly is a ripoff. I hear that the intent is to eventually go nationwide. This however, as you have seen, has not happened yet. If actual nationwide penetration of access points was achieved then I could see the justification of such a fee. Still, it's a shame that they don't use WEP.
Why should they care? B is fast enough for anyone browsing the web. And why SHOULD the barista care?
If he calls you a dork for asking, and I'm there, I'll throw anouther buck in his tip jar.
They should care because the damn place sells internet access. If I ask the guy if they utilize a specific protocol I would expect them to know at least that. Not very technical or out of line.
Who cares if B is fast enough for anyone browsing the web if you have an A adapter (Granted B is pretty much the defacto standard)? WTF? You deserve to lose your buck to the clueless coffee jockey. Perhaps he can make better use of it since you seem willing to give it to any imbecile out there.
Didn't they cut this on the most recent version of the PS2?
Yes. I saw a report talking about the new PS2s and it was stated that the FireWire was not used by nearly enough people to justify the manufacture of PS2s with that feature. I find that somewhat disappointing but at the same time I have to state that I never used the FireWire on my PS2. It just is disappointing to see a device lose features.
He's still getting over his anger that she wasn't impressed by his laptop.
Heh. I see this among a lot of tech people. Saying your barista doesn't know about wifi access points is like complaining your doctor couldn't fix your car. He's not supposed to!
That's where your analogy falls through. Does the doctor's office sell car repairs? No. Does the coffee shop sell internet access? Yes. People working at the coffeeshop should at least have a vague idea of how to field questions from ther customers. Let's see, perhaps they don't make the scones either but I don't think it's far out of line for me to want to ask the coffee jockey what kind of scone it is.
While it may be only another online music seller, I'd hazard a guess that Wal-Mart has the name recognition to be the most prevalent music download service, especially among the tech-unsavvy.
I question the validity of this. I am not familiar with WalMart.com's sales but I bet they are dwarfed by Amazon's sales. (WalMart, in general, however I am sure dwarfs that.)
While cheap, it will take more than a few cents savings to convince people to use Walmart's service as opposed to using itunes. Hey, better yet, why not download for free? Seriously though, unlike their globally dominating bricks and mortar brand, I don't see this taking off as well. But maybe I'm wrong; perhaps WalMart's music service will take off. Hey while we are at it, maybe while people are at the site they will buy a bunch of Lindows PCs too.:)
Plus with the selection available at WalMart (or lack therof) I hazard a guess that WalMart will not be the most prevelant music download service...
This is great that they did this but perhaps resources would be better spent developing for Mozilla? It will be interesting to see how Microsoft react to this. Why is the group releasing this on their own? Was Microsoft contacted?
Unfortunately, with this being an unofficial release, I don't see many people likely to utilize this until it is released by Microsoft. In the meantime, I am enjoying reading this in Mozilla:)
Exactly. Even a 2.6 GHZ machine is not good anymore. My previous post on this reposted for your convenience...:)
Precisely! I recently purchased a computer for a family member who will only use it for some basic uses such as word processing, email, etc. Anyways, when I was out shopping at one store, the sales guy stated "This machine will be on sale the day after Thanksgiving, although it's only 2.6 GHZ..." ONLY?!?! What in the hell? Anyways, I ended up getting the person a Thanksgiving special at a different store (but it also was only 2.6 GHZ;)
Took the damn thing back to their house and a whole bunch of the extended family was there, it being the holidays and all. They check out the computer and they are all, "Nice computer, only 2.6 GHZ though..." What in the hell! These people are only going to use it for email and stuff. I couldn't believe the reaction I was getting from these people!
At least the person who received the computer appreciated it though. Sorry for the rant but I was amazed at this prevalent outlook on processor speed. Has anyone else run into this?
We might as well all get Athlon 64s to check email and run word processing because that is what the industry [Not just AMD, mind you] tells consumers that they need.;)
Certainly not groundbreaking, "In a move that will send shivers through the PC manufacturing and retailing sectors"
This seems awfully similar to the Free-PC campaign ran years ago.
Perhaps IBM can subsidize such a business model. As annoying as the advertising could be, I certainly would be interested in a free PC.
The disconcerting part of the article is the data-mining, however. The article claims that the personal information is confidential but it still makes me feel wary.
I'm curious as to what the specs on these machines are. It would have to be a damn good machine for me to consider such intrusive advertising practices. I recognize that, however is not likely.
While this is an interesting point to ponder, the viewpoint of Bill Joy is a valid counter-argument as well. I realize this has been discussed on Slashdot before but still, do we draw a line as to where the edge of technology is? I suppose we make these choices everyday but are they always the right ones? While I don't immediately subscribe to a theory of a robot takeover, as some fear, I wonder about the possibility of technology reaching points "out of control" of humanity.
Those points aside, I have been amazed by the research in nanotechnology and find the realm of mapping the human genome to be interesting as well. Perhaps subjects such as these would interest Amos? Perhaps these are not as obscure as other fields but these are certainly interesting studies.
I welcome Sun's support to OpenOffice.org. With options such as this, OpenOffice will likely have more market penetration in the Enterprise Environment. It's interesting to ponder if perhaps this will provide more of an impetus for managers to shift from proprietary solutions to Open Source. As we are aware of, management often does not wish to stray form the "tried and true" (I recall the saying, "Nobody gets fired for buying Intel and running Windows").
Each time I demonstrate Open Office to a friend, they are surprised that such an interoperable (With MS Office) office suite exists. My favorite is to provide them with a copy of the Open CD, which has a number of free and Open Source Software distributions.
Talk about the ultimate in social engineering! Perhaps the best piece of advice in the article was "Keep a watchful eye on your monthly statement, as well as your balance, and report any problems to your bank." This may seem obvious but with people buying legitimate ATM's and stealing your PIN while legitimately providing your money what much else can you do?
Perhaps I should just go to the barter system. "I'll give you this cow for that rack mounted server."
The Commodore 64 was fantastic when I first ran across it. It was the first computer that I recall any of my friends having. Unfortunately, my parents wouldn't think of buying a computer at the time (and I couldn't afford one being somewhere about 10 and all). I often would go to a friend's house and play on his family's computer and play games like Zork.
Unfortunately, it never went much further than that. However, the inclusion of the Apple Macintosh in our school computer labs was a huge influence as that is when I first recall seeing a GUI like that.
For those reasons, those computers will always remain classics for me and are definitely part of my top ten.
Point taken, but I don't think I am missing the point. I stated that these are "attempts" by Microsoft. And I still legitimately question as to how much of a penetration of Linux there is in Thailand.
It does give one pause, however, when you do mention how this is indeed a high price for a person in Thailand. My cousin has been putting together spare computers together from old parts and sending them over to Thailand. Perhaps I should talk about this more with him. It is interesting as to how many of the computer components are made in Asia yet few of the residents can actually afford the components. This is nothing new, however, as this is the same situation with sneakers, etc.
Regardless, I agree that these are still exorbitant prices for the average person in a developing country.
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I certainly will not put anyone down for having the ability to facilitate such a port however. My hat off to them.
The "CNET Radio channel" on XM is now David Lawrence's 3-hour synidcated show (that CNET never owned, they just rented) called Online Tonight and that's it. The same 3 hour show repeated 8 times a day. :)... It's a ghost of its former self and is just screaming for XM to consolidate Online Tonight into one of its other talk formats to free up the channel slot. They'll likely do it the next time they realign the channels, but since that's only happened once so far it's hard to tell when they'll do that again.
Terrible! I had not used the radio enough yet to see that was the same show. I had mainly been listening to the music stations.
Things seem to get a little bit less cool with each post I read about XM here at Slashdot. :)
I have enjoyed it for what it is so far. "The System" is great. And at least Headline News is current.
Clear Channel has an investment in XM? I had not realized until you had mentioned. I just found this article confirming this. That seems unfortunate but so far I have not found the format to be as poor as most of Clear Channels stations (that prove to constantly play the same song over and over...). Hopefully the format can continue to be interesting. I am dissapointed to hear that XM is apparently limited to 200 stations due to bandwidth, however...
I recently received an XM radio. I used to be unimpressed with these services but the breadth of radio stations is actually quite good. With C-NET and Headline news I can keep up on events quite easily. The quality is phenomenal and it has become a cool way to find out about a lot of music I wouldn't otherwise be exposed to.
I have not had any experience with SIRIUS yet. Can anyone here attest to it's quality?
Agreed. I saw this movie several days ago as part of a "sneak preview". I'm so glad I did not pay one red cent for that movie as it was quite awful. Some parts about it were slightly intriguing but not really that great. The concept of the mind erasure was intriguing but not feasible.
Perhaps I should have taken the time to warn more people about this terrible movie. It may not have cost me any money but it took two hours of my life.
Spoiler: How about those over the top car explosions in the motorcycle chase scenes? That was especially awful! The methods he employed to solve those clues seemed fairly over the top and overly contrived as well.
Hilarious. So you are saying that my comment is a copy of my comment? Intriguing. I appreciate the interest but I am far from being a troll. All of my posts, for better or worse (the mods decide), are written by me. Perhaps you are just mad because you are one of the trolls on my troll blacklist?
Sorry everyone. I know, "Don't feed the trolls..." This accusation just seemed so laughable, though. :)
Thanks for the laugh.
Perhaps we will import intresting stuff from Iraq soon...
Or find a special place... for instance in Germany holiday in Bitterfeld is on the rise. Bitterfeld, the ugliest city of Eastern Germany. That's cool.
Hollywood means boring culture industry targeted to an international audience. I prefer Nigerian films.
Quite frankly, I am not familiar with Bitterfield and I think that any imports from Iraq would be few and far between and unlikely to diffuse into our culture very quickly.
I do, however, agree that Hollywood is boring culture industry that often does not take chances and consequently churns out much of the same drivel year after year. Fortunately, a few gems are released every now and then that truly breath life into the industry.
Although I feel the diffusion is not optimal, I find the releases from India's "Bollywood" to be interesting and the burgeoning film industry there seems quite creative and full of life. Unfortunately, I don't see this as being an export of as much magnitude as Hollywood has yet.
There's one thing that Japan has over the United States when it comes to the export of culture, though; that's Hentai. :)
It certainly is a ripoff. I hear that the intent is to eventually go nationwide. This however, as you have seen, has not happened yet. If actual nationwide penetration of access points was achieved then I could see the justification of such a fee. Still, it's a shame that they don't use WEP.
Why should they care? B is fast enough for anyone browsing the web. And why SHOULD the barista care?
If he calls you a dork for asking, and I'm there, I'll throw anouther buck in his tip jar.
They should care because the damn place sells internet access. If I ask the guy if they utilize a specific protocol I would expect them to know at least that. Not very technical or out of line.
Who cares if B is fast enough for anyone browsing the web if you have an A adapter (Granted B is pretty much the defacto standard)? WTF? You deserve to lose your buck to the clueless coffee jockey. Perhaps he can make better use of it since you seem willing to give it to any imbecile out there.
Yes. I saw a report talking about the new PS2s and it was stated that the FireWire was not used by nearly enough people to justify the manufacture of PS2s with that feature. I find that somewhat disappointing but at the same time I have to state that I never used the FireWire on my PS2. It just is disappointing to see a device lose features.
Heh. I see this among a lot of tech people. Saying your barista doesn't know about wifi access points is like complaining your doctor couldn't fix your car. He's not supposed to!
That's where your analogy falls through. Does the doctor's office sell car repairs? No. Does the coffee shop sell internet access? Yes. People working at the coffeeshop should at least have a vague idea of how to field questions from ther customers. Let's see, perhaps they don't make the scones either but I don't think it's far out of line for me to want to ask the coffee jockey what kind of scone it is.
Converting metric to metric is pretty hard, yeah.
Precisely, my point exactly.
2. There is something on Mars which hates space probes!
Maybe the ESA has problems with metric conversions as well. I think NASA will have better luck in January, or at least I hope.
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It's like 1984 for teenagers. Turning off the cellphone to move without being tracked seems too similar to avoiding the telescreen.
Another interesting device mentioned in the article is the FollowIt, a vehicle tracking device. Big Brother eat your heart out.
Now for the two minutes of hate...
I question the validity of this. I am not familiar with WalMart.com's sales but I bet they are dwarfed by Amazon's sales. (WalMart, in general, however I am sure dwarfs that.)
While cheap, it will take more than a few cents savings to convince people to use Walmart's service as opposed to using itunes. Hey, better yet, why not download for free? Seriously though, unlike their globally dominating bricks and mortar brand, I don't see this taking off as well. But maybe I'm wrong; perhaps WalMart's music service will take off. Hey while we are at it, maybe while people are at the site they will buy a bunch of Lindows PCs too. :)
Plus with the selection available at WalMart (or lack therof) I hazard a guess that WalMart will not be the most prevelant music download service...
Unfortunately, with this being an unofficial release, I don't see many people likely to utilize this until it is released by Microsoft. In the meantime, I am enjoying reading this in Mozilla :)
Precisely! I recently purchased a computer for a family member who will only use it for some basic uses such as word processing, email, etc. Anyways, when I was out shopping at one store, the sales guy stated "This machine will be on sale the day after Thanksgiving, although it's only 2.6 GHZ..." ONLY?!?! What in the hell? Anyways, I ended up getting the person a Thanksgiving special at a different store (but it also was only 2.6 GHZ ;)
Took the damn thing back to their house and a whole bunch of the extended family was there, it being the holidays and all. They check out the computer and they are all, "Nice computer, only 2.6 GHZ though..." What in the hell! These people are only going to use it for email and stuff. I couldn't believe the reaction I was getting from these people!
At least the person who received the computer appreciated it though. Sorry for the rant but I was amazed at this prevalent outlook on processor speed. Has anyone else run into this?
We might as well all get Athlon 64s to check email and run word processing because that is what the industry [Not just AMD, mind you] tells consumers that they need. ;)
This seems awfully similar to the Free-PC campaign ran years ago.
Perhaps IBM can subsidize such a business model. As annoying as the advertising could be, I certainly would be interested in a free PC.
The disconcerting part of the article is the data-mining, however. The article claims that the personal information is confidential but it still makes me feel wary.
I'm curious as to what the specs on these machines are. It would have to be a damn good machine for me to consider such intrusive advertising practices. I recognize that, however is not likely.
Those points aside, I have been amazed by the research in nanotechnology and find the realm of mapping the human genome to be interesting as well. Perhaps subjects such as these would interest Amos? Perhaps these are not as obscure as other fields but these are certainly interesting studies.
Each time I demonstrate Open Office to a friend, they are surprised that such an interoperable (With MS Office) office suite exists. My favorite is to provide them with a copy of the Open CD, which has a number of free and Open Source Software distributions.
Perhaps I should just go to the barter system. "I'll give you this cow for that rack mounted server."
The Commodore 64 was fantastic when I first ran across it. It was the first computer that I recall any of my friends having. Unfortunately, my parents wouldn't think of buying a computer at the time (and I couldn't afford one being somewhere about 10 and all). I often would go to a friend's house and play on his family's computer and play games like Zork.
Unfortunately, it never went much further than that. However, the inclusion of the Apple Macintosh in our school computer labs was a huge influence as that is when I first recall seeing a GUI like that.
For those reasons, those computers will always remain classics for me and are definitely part of my top ten.
It does give one pause, however, when you do mention how this is indeed a high price for a person in Thailand. My cousin has been putting together spare computers together from old parts and sending them over to Thailand. Perhaps I should talk about this more with him. It is interesting as to how many of the computer components are made in Asia yet few of the residents can actually afford the components. This is nothing new, however, as this is the same situation with sneakers, etc.
Regardless, I agree that these are still exorbitant prices for the average person in a developing country.