Jaikus from CAW
Monday, 12 May 2008
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It's a marketer's wet dream. But not very useful if you ask me. Usually, game soundtracks are something I want to get rid of, not purchase for use elsewhere. What would have been really cool is if Rockstar had teamed up with something like last.fm so that you could have the virtual radios in your car stream music from last.fm based on your channel(s) there. Then you'd have a game with constantly changing soundtrack that won't have you reaching for the sound options to mute in-game music after the first day. Friday, 9 May 2008
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Drobo's website. They are a smart drive enclosure, the size is up to you. They do data redundancy, but not using traditional RAID schemes. As such, you can put in whatever drives you want, as drives fail or you need more capacity, you put in newer/bigger drives and it "just works". I ordered one pre-loaded with 4 1TB drives. When the 4TB drives become available, I can later replace the 1TB drives with 4TB ones if/when the drives fail or I need more space (which with digital cameras these days, it's easy to fill up a lot of space even when you are aggressive about deleting the shots you know you'll never use). -
(FYI: I did club photography for about three years, with full booth access. So I got to see these guys up close and personal.) -
@MoreBore: Tiesto used to actually be a good DJ. But now he's usually too drunk/doped to spin properly and just looking for which girl he's gonna take back to his hotel and bang. -
Armin is always a fun time. And of the big-name DJs, is still actually pretty down to earth. His ego hasn't taken over him, like it did with Tiesto. Ferry is the coolest of them, though -- and often has his wife with him wherever he travels. -
Not to say that competition for Skype wouldn't be a good thing, BTW. Just that I have a very hard time believing that the legacy carriers would pull it off. -
I haven't listened to the podcast, but when I saw the various discussions about this on Skype Journal, all I could do is roll my eyes. The carriers will have to be awefully good to make any impact against Skype's user base. And Skype is much more than just a 'phone', which I doubt the carriers really get. The carriers are gonna have to make something easier to use than Skype, better/more-feature-rich than Skype, and most importantly cheaper than Skype if they want to see any adoption of their program at all. And I have a very hard time they will deliver on that "cheaper" part... (...) Thursday, 8 May 2008
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Any ETA on the EV:DO card? You requested that a while ago, didn't you? Also, be curious to see if it better informs you about dead-spots and such than you've been getting via Bluetooth DUN. I've never used the HSDPA card in my laptop during a commute through a dead spot, so I don't know what mine would actually do. -
Wearing it for more than a handful of minutes at a time, it really starts to hurt. Wednesday, 7 May 2008
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UK drug store would be more akin to Boots, though that's really more like a Walgreens here than a pure drug store. (We don't have Duane Reade in Chicago, so if that's like Walgreens too, then forgive me.) (...) -
Digsby needs an option to run locally only and not upload your usernames and passwords to their servers before I will ever use it. -
@colinmercer: TexMex The spices and such used are often a little different, as are the way the meats are prepared (e.g., barbacoa is more a TexMex thing). Tuesday, 6 May 2008
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My guess: mostly because they want to keep the SKU cost as low as possible. Ultimately, consumers are cheap. -
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@phoneboy: And she'd be right. :) When I finally got all my debt paid off years ago, I swore never again. If I can't pay for it in cash (metaphorically speaking, usually its my ATM/Debit card), I don't buy it. The only thing I'd consider fair to take on as debt these days is a home mortgage, since the mortgage cost and rent costs are comparable. -
I kinda like how MS made the XBox Live Gamertag and Zune Social Tag one and the same. No need to go friending people all over again for another service. That's one of the most annoying things about all the various social networks -- how many times over do we have to re-friend everyone as each service comes into existence? Really, it's getting kinda old at this point... -
@Texrat: Oh, I for sure believe we'll be giving it all right back to the guberment. Even the people who didn't get a stimulus bonus (like me) will be paying it back. -
I don't get this whole economic stimulus package. Other than that Bush is trying to win some brownie points before his term ends. I don't see how giving people a few bucks really helps when the real problem is that the economy is in the toilet. Rather than handing out a small token freebie, they need to be doing this to actually, oh, I dunno.... create new jobs, etc. -
Right now, my iPod Touch reports everything network-based is unavailable, yet my other machines (Windows and Mac OS) work find. Nslookup on my laptop shows that the primary DNS server for my ISP is currently not responding, and that the computers are falling over to the backup to do their resolution. -
If they had an XMPP gateway, then I'd just add it as another account in the multi-account IM apps I use (e.g., JiveTalk on the BlackBerry). Then if someone does want to chat via Facebook, it's not a painful experience. But it still wouldn't be my preferred choice, just something I'd be willing to support in case someone wants to get a hold of me that way. -
Again, I wasn't the one who initiated it. I'd have just used normal messaging... :) -
Well, Digsby is out because of the massive security vulnerability built into it as a "feature". And it won't run on mobile devices, where XMPP clients are easy and thus would allow access to Facebook chat on the go. (...) -
Their web UI chat experience blows. Seriously in the stone-age as chats go, and not friendly to the browser being an overlay and a postage-stamp-sized-one at that.
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