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EPISODE 747 |
Firefox Download Day To Start At 10 a.m. PT
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/06/17/1250229.shtml
http://www.cnet.com/firefox-3/
Survey: Young people happy to pay for music--on their terms
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080616-survey-young-adults-willing-to-pay-for-musicon-their-terms.html
Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html
Ineligible AT&T customers need to pay full price for iPhone 3G
http://gizmodo.com/5016912/ineligible-att-customers-need-to-pay-full-price-for-iphone-3g
Apple settles suit over iPhone visual voice mail
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9969909-37.html
Cease-and-desist notices sent to Internet DNA testing centers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9970396-7.html
Support grows for universal power adapter (Thanks royterp!)
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/06/16/Support_grows_for_universal_power_adapter_1.html
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147086/support_grows_for_universal_power_adapter.html
Spore Creature Creator goes live
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2320409,00.asp
Road rage linked to automobile bumper stickers
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/17/0148238
VOICE MAIL
Doug DMCA Canada
About the DMCA…. In Canada.
Jeremy
Flash problems… Solution?
Hey JaMoTo,
Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems open-source guy, took a picture of the Sydney Opera House. He then tried to enter his photo into his portfolio at istockphoto.com. However, his photo was rejected as the opera house claims all copyrights on all images of the building.
He is trying to bring attention to this issue by entering his photo into a contest. Go to his Flickr page for details, and a link to the contest if you want to vote.
Flickr Page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webmink/480398424
Twitter Page:
http://twitter.com/webmink
–kevin
Hi Buzzers. I just listened to the joint rant on Ep. 746 about whether AT&T’s iPhone plans are unlimited, although they charge different rates for personal and business accounts. First, let me point out that they’ve done this with other smartphone users for some time. I don’t get my corporate e-mail on my personal BlackBerry because it’s not worth the extra $10 to me. Also, the entire crux of your objections is based on speculation that a personal user would be limited or forced into a business plan based on the amount of data that they use. Can you cite any document that AT&T plans to do this or point to any customers who have been forced to a business plan based on their data usage? The only “limit” that I’ve seen with these plans is not based on data usage but rather on using a specific application, Exchange. There is no evidence that the amount of data a personal user can consume is any more limited than a business user. Couldn’t part of that $10 difference be a licensing fee to Microsoft for providing Exchange connectivity or the cost of any additional infrastructure needed to support Exchange? Until someone can provide evidence that a personal plan user is allowed to consume less data than a business plan user, it is perfectly reasonable for both plans to be called “unlimited.” iPhone users, welcome to the world of us “average” smartphone users.
--Jeff, The Supercomputer Guy
Just threw together two quick Unmnemonic devices for the “new” plant list. Hope you like them. DOWN WITH PLUTOIDS!!!
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--Matt S
Baltimore, Md.
P.S. - [monotone voice] Love the show. [/monotone voice]
Hi Guys,
The U.K. military satellites known as Skynet that you discussed on ep. 745 is actually the fifth version of Skynet used by the U.K. military. The original Skynet was deployed in 1969, long before the Terminator. Maybe the guys who wrote the Terminator stole the name from the U.K. military and not the other way around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)
Kind regards,
--Andrew.
You have talked about the upcoming Firefox 3 download event in a couple of previous episodes. But so far I haven’t heard anyone remind you that Microsoft came up with this idea years ago. I still have the T-shirt from Midnight Madness, August 13, 1996, when we waited by our computers until 12 a.m. to download Internet Explorer (some 1,000,000 downloads if I remember correctly). Now that makes me “really” old!
--Pauline
Phoenix, Ariz.
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Our french and german colleagues even more so.
Glyn Moody does a very good job of trying to remind us how their release screwup affected people around the world who do NOT live in PST:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/firefox-3-given-world-%E2%80%93-or-maybe-not
This smelled of high school production values from the start, yet we still went along with it because, you know,..its Firefox (and those wonderful extensions!) and we figured that any publicity is good, even circus freakshows if necessary. And you know what? They failed.
They thought they had more raw hardware than the tried and tested method of spread the load on the servers throughout the days and they lost that bet.
It in no way changes the quality of FF3. I still need about 10% of my favorite extensions back and my life goes on as normal. Its the Mozilla/Google engineers and marketing teams that have eggs on their face, not the browser.
Please tell me why the launch wasnt taken care how Moody explains it:.
Millions of geeks across the nation going : "What were they thinking ?!?"
Even though most of them had the betas already.
Its not the incovenience that bothers us.
Its the predictability of the failure.
By tomorrow, we wont care..
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by Francis_Burdett
June 18, 2008 11:31 AM PDT
- One can only assume that the roughly seven and a half minutes of silence on the end of the Itunes download for this episode was merely an oversight and not some nefarious subliminal signal.
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by wizkids32
June 18, 2008 2:20 PM PDT
- I don't know why there was a seven and half minutes at the end of the show it might have been a glitch with what Jason was doing.
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