Until Recently Full of Promise,
Satellite Radio Runs Into Static -- paid subscription required
Death by podcast.
Satellite Radio Runs Into Static -- paid subscription required
When iconic morning host Howard Stern moved from regular radio to satellite earlier this year, it was supposed to be a coming of age. Instead, the industry's two rivals, XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., are still reporting heavy losses, despite a few years ago telling investors they would need four million customers each to break even. XM crossed that mark more than a year ago; Sirius hit it earlier this year. Last year, XM lost $667 million, and Sirius lost $863 million. And Sirius is facing a potential exodus of subscribers as a clutch of promotional one-year trials soon comes to an end.
Death by podcast.
Google's gift
INFORMAL TEST RUN GOES SMOOTHLY FOR FREE WIFI SERVICE, BUT DON'T EXPECT LIVE HUMAN TECH SUPPORT
INFORMAL TEST RUN GOES SMOOTHLY FOR FREE WIFI SERVICE, BUT DON'T EXPECT LIVE HUMAN TECH SUPPORT
Verizon launches the three-channel DVR Verizon has a fiber-based IPTV system, which uses MPEG-2 video.
This description of an installation may give you an idea why the FIOS system will cost Verizon billions more than the SBC/AT&T approach: plain old twisted pair, plus advance modulation and advance video compression.
This description of an installation may give you an idea why the FIOS system will cost Verizon billions more than the SBC/AT&T approach: plain old twisted pair, plus advance modulation and advance video compression.
I registered this domain 7 years ago today.
joe klein: professional wanker
beerfest starting august 25th
a fun dave 3m0ry tin foil hat thread
janis on sundance
blogofascist humor
You know, some might argue that Chuck Roberts blows retired crack whores in exchange for their used Burger King collectable cups. Not ME, mind you -- I'm just sayin' some people might argue that.
I watched without sound, so I must have missed something, but apprarently this film sent to me by the JPost proves that the rumors of a protracted Israeli attack on Lebanon over the past month are completely false.
i did not know that...
As the July edition of the Washingtonian Magazine notes, Friedman lives in "a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club." He "married into one of the 100 richest families in the country" - the Bucksbaums, whose real-estate Empire is valued at $2.7 billion.
splitters!
The JPost says there's a good chance that the wobbly Olmert government will accept this resolution. Over at NRO's corner, John Podhoretz contends that this would mean the end of the Olmert government. I'm tempted to suggest that our government, having seemingly lost its will to oppose (or even to let others oppose) our deadliest enemies, deserves the same fate. But let's wait until the facts are in.
via ezra klein via Think Progress:
39% of Americans believe that Muslims should be force to keep special ID. 49% say that Muslim citizens aren't "loyal" to the United States.
via billmon:
The bad news:
Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
The good news:
While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks. (emphasis added)
39% of Americans believe that Muslims should be force to keep special ID. 49% say that Muslim citizens aren't "loyal" to the United States.
via billmon:
The bad news:
Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
The good news:
While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks. (emphasis added)
lets joe crazy
“I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us — more evil, or as evil, as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War,” Mr. Lieberman said.
josh gives joe back class ring. tells girlfriends joes a two-timer.
And yesterday, after I saw Greg Sargent's update that Lieberman was going down the 'A win for Lamont will be a victory for the terrorists' track, I openned up our chat and wrote something to the effect of, "I've always liked Joe, but with this 'victory for the terrorists', it's enough. F--k him.
In case you missed Wednesday's Daily Show -- Opportunity Knocks
Maxian T700, another PMP -- [Portable Media Player]
Maxian's announcement page, translated.
This device features a 480x272 resolution screen, which they describe as WQVGA ( wide quarter VGA). This is the same resolution as the Sony PSP. The T700 spec claims support for a wide array of video formats, including h.264.
Maxian's announcement page, translated.
This device features a 480x272 resolution screen, which they describe as WQVGA ( wide quarter VGA). This is the same resolution as the Sony PSP. The T700 spec claims support for a wide array of video formats, including h.264.
Japanese Cos. Plan Web TV Joint Standard
OKYO (AP) - Sony, Matsushita and three other Japanese electronics makers plan to develop a join standard for new Internet televisions that will make it easier for people to see video available on the Web, a Sony spokeswoman said Thursday.
The TVs aim to make accessing video and similar online content easier than with computers, spokeswoman Mina Naito. The other companies involved are Sharp Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.
OKYO (AP) - Sony, Matsushita and three other Japanese electronics makers plan to develop a join standard for new Internet televisions that will make it easier for people to see video available on the Web, a Sony spokeswoman said Thursday.
The TVs aim to make accessing video and similar online content easier than with computers, spokeswoman Mina Naito. The other companies involved are Sharp Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd.
Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router with built-In 160GB Drive:
Cool that you can add another drive to make a RAID (RAID 1 presumably.) I wonder if two drives is the limit? Probably. It would be really cool if you could keep daisy chaining drives and it would just automagically grow the RAID array (maybe RAID 5.) That's the sort of thing Sun's ZFS filesystem can do.
Anyway, this Asus router looks good.
It has a built in network iTunes client, so it'll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically (and 10 FTP or web streams at the same time.) That's with your PC off, all downloads handled by the router.This is the right idea I think. Having the BitTorrent client inside the router should (if they were smart) get around the big set up hassle with BitTorrent - namely, if you're running behind a router you have to forward the right ports to your machine, and to be reliable you have to have the router assign you a static IP instead of using DHCP, so it's doubly tricky. Presumably this device should be able to handle all firewall traversal issues on it's own since it is the firewall.
Cool that you can add another drive to make a RAID (RAID 1 presumably.) I wonder if two drives is the limit? Probably. It would be really cool if you could keep daisy chaining drives and it would just automagically grow the RAID array (maybe RAID 5.) That's the sort of thing Sun's ZFS filesystem can do.
Anyway, this Asus router looks good.
