TV with DVR & Internet: $89.90/moSo, in Florida they're taping magnets to crocodiles heads to keep them from moving back to suburbia. It's also last call for Vista, with SP2 released to developers. And we talk about good sex and how it shouldn't be filtered in Australia. Oh, and flying cars. Of course.
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EPISODE 919 |
Nintendo needs help with piracy
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/26/1118217
http://kotaku.com/5160062/what-countries-made-nintendos-rampant-piracy-list-this-year
Australian Internet censorship plan torpedoed
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/26/1344207
U.S. antitrust judge examining Windows 7 documents
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/2322227
Announcing the service pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 RC
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/02/25/announcing-the-service-pack-2-for-windows-vista-and-windows-server-2008-rc.aspx
Study: Listening to podcasts better than going to lectures
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/study-listening-to-podcasts-better-than-going-to-lectures.ars
Intel joins Netbook trademark suit, flames Psion
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/02/game-on-intel-joins-netbook-trademark-suit-flames-psion.ars
Nokia considering entering laptop industry
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51O6Z320090225
Yahoo closing Briefcase. In other news, what the heck was Briefcase?
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc//home
Designer babies
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/2319232
Disrupting alligators commutes with magnets
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/1635252
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/feb/23/get-lost-state-hopes-thwart-crocodiles-homing-inst/
Flying car flies from London to Africa
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/1929244
VOICEMAIL
RogueTess
Appropriate use of correct speech
Beast33
Today show about LimeWire
E-MAIL
Bolton,
Nat, I don’t know about the exploding car/divorce. Well not with sugar at least.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp
Snopes is challenging you on that. Car talk does, too.
http://www.cartalk.com/content/columns/Archive/2001/February/02.html
I like how Snopes suggests that you just leave a little sugar on the ground near the gas tank and leave the take door open. That’s enough to make someone “think” that they’ve been sugared.
Jason the runner in Marietta, GA.
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Hey JaNaTo,
In regards to yesterday’s episode (918) about the flexible displays, I am excited about when this gets ruggedized and put on a quarterbacks arm. They could add plays on the fly wirelessly to his armband and also if they needed to draw up a play in the huddle, the quarterback could do so with the addition of touchscreen to it.
Keep up the good work in these troubled times,
-Mike in Des Moines
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Hey JaToNa + Brian Tong (Maybe since he is usually on Thursdays but he was on early in the week– So Who then Cooley?)-
Anyhow just wanted to say ‘Thanks’ for bringing up “Spotify”. I went to check it out, great instant streaming music site. Funny thing though- I didn’t need an invite to join! I just looked up Spotify through Google and then clicked ‘join’ and signed up no problem.
Of course that could have been luck or maybe even that I’m on a mac, but I guess I should suggest trying it for yourself (or at least for those outside the US) and see how long this lasts!
Only downside to the service is that music is country specific. It varies what you can and cannot listen to depending where you live.
The “ads” are a joke, meaning they are just a small banner ad at the bottom of the player and randomly insert a 20 second spot to join their premium service. If this is their model and plan to keep sticking with it, I’m gonna use them from now on!
Cheers from Oxford, England!
Tom Merritt the Doppelganger
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Hey Buzzards,
I have nothing terribly relevant to say today, but I do have something
very important that I think we should remember. 18 years ago today,
Tim Berners-Lee released the first ever Web browser. We should all
remember this day as one of the most important days in the history of
computer science, and should all honour it as such.
LTS,
DanielInHell
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I don't recommend running Xslimmer to cut down on the size of applications on OS X. While it does reduce the size of applications, it can potentially break the Automatic Update feature of OS X, as it is no longer able to properly identify the files that make up applications, and therefore doesn't know how to apply updates. If someone chooses to shrink their apps, they should download the full packaged versions of Apple's updates directly from their web site instead of using Automatic Update, something some users don't know how, or don't want to do.
-Doug
P.S. I'm not a psycho; I'm about the most docile person you could ever meet. What else do you do with an old broken television besides smash it with a sledgehammer?
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EPISODE 721 |
House overwhelmingly passes controversial Pro-IP Act
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080508-house-overwhelmingly-passes-controversial-pro-ip-act.html
Infringement ‘detrimental to the public health, safety’
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/09/0029224
Windows XP SP3 sows havoc, users complain
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/
operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207600950
New bill ties net neutrality to antitrust law
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080508-new-bill-ties-net-neutrality-to-antitrust-law.html
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters
http://www.latimes.com/technology/
la-fi-apple9-2008may09,1,7640101.story
Nokia aiming to reinvent itself as an “Internet company”
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20080509-nokia-aiming-to-reinvent-itself-as-an-internet-company.html
Interactive Liberty City map help guide
http://grandtheftauto.ign.com/articles/features/373/
Interactive-Liberty-City-Map-Help-Guide
R2D2 DVD projector
http://www.nikkor2d2.com/
Get out and play
http://www.get-out-and-play.com/index.php
Using a record-cutter to turn old CDs into 45rpm singles
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/using-a-recordcutter.html
This Week in Buzz Tech Out Loud Geek Brief - EP1
http://www.archive.org/details/
ThisWeekInBuzzTechOutLoudGeekBrief-Ep1
VOICE MAIL
Javier Puerto Rico
Some research into gaming data usage.
The new SecuROM
My group of friends and I have an annual vacation / LAN party where we don’t have Internet access for the week. This trend of games developers assuming we all have Internet access at all times makes it even more unlikely we will be able play their games at our get together. First it was Steam and not being able to install new games when we got there from a boxed copy. Then it was not having matching versions and giving us no way to patch without connecting to some far off server (I’m looking at you, Team Fortress 2). Now with this new SecuROM idea, we will might be able to play for the first few days but then the game disables itself because it can’t call home? Madness! Can we please just go back to the days were we could install and play an offline game while being offline.
Great show,
--Jack
Toledo, Ohio
Well actually (ISP backups)
Tom, Molly and Jason,
I’m just listening to episode 720 here while selling drugs to people I don’t know and I could swear I just heard Tom say the “ISPs have better backup systems than you do….” (32:43) What??? Do I have to remind you that my current provider, Charter, accidentally deleted e-mail accounts of thousands of subscribers earlier this year and basically said, “Whoops, we don’t have a backup. Our subscribers should take responsibility for this.” This is just one reason they are on the way out the door as my provider.
Keep up the great work, you bring sunshine to my nights.
Love the show,
--Kyle, the night pharmacist in Minnesota
Best Buy employees are liars (or just uninformed!)
I recently sold my Wii and went to Best Buy to get grab a Xbox 360. I know all about the Red Ring of Death and how Microsoft extended their warranty to 3 years because of this problem. Not to mention since they got the new Falcon chipsets those problems have been reduced. So the Bust Buy employee tried to sell me the service plan, no problem. I said no thanks and he came back at me and said Microsoft only has a 1 year warranty and it does not cover the red ring of death. WTF???? Not the mention he told me that rock band has no warranty at all!!!!!! I have no problem with employees selling service plans but don’t lie. If it was some mom buying a 360 for their 12-year-old son I’m sure see would have bought it hook line and sinker.
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/support/systemsetup/xbox360/ resources/warrantyupdate.htm
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20273
--Andrew
A detail of the Eee PC story
In episode 720 you missed one detail about the Eee PC with Linux costing more than the Eee PC with Windows. The Linux version comes with 20GB of flash storage, while the Windows version only comes with 12GB. I looked into how this would effect the price difference between the Linux and Windows versions based on the price of USB flash drives. The conclusion that the Linux version costs too much is still true, however, it is worth noting that some of the price difference (around $50) can be accounted for by this difference.
I wrote out my conclusion and my explanation for how I got to that conclusion here if you are interested:
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/05/08/ analyzing-the-eee-pc-windows-linux-price-issue/
Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
--Anonymous
Comcast 250GB limit
Say you try and replace Comcast TV with watching videos on XBox 360 or Apple TV. The average American watches 4 hours and 35 minutes a day (2006). Assuming HD, at 6Mbps this uses 346GB in a 28 day month, more than the cap.
--GW
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