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Episode 876 |
In these troubled times, RIAA can’t afford to sue you
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10127003-93.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122966038836021137.html
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-recording-industry-moves-away-from-lawsuits-enlists-isps-in-piracy-figh/
Universal Music seeing ‘tens of millions’ from YouTube
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10126439-93.html
Silent protest planned for Jobs-less keynote,
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/12/19/silent-protest-planned-for-jobs-less-keynote
Gates Foundation to help libraries be better free ‘net cafes
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081218-gates-foundation-to-help-libraries-be-better-free-net-cafes.html
Number of landline-free households up 10 percent in U.S.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081218-number-of-landline-free-households-up-10-in-us.html
LCD TV revenues to dip for first time ever
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10126273-92.html
Toshiba to OEM laptops with OpenSolaris
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F19%2F1332225&from=rss
NPR now lets you roll your own podcast feed
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/npr_now_lets_you_roll_your_own_podcasts.php
Samsung Electronics will launch Google phone in Q2
http://english.etnews.co.kr/news/detail.html?id=200812190010
Trek creator’s widow dies aged 76
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7791210.stm
Voice mail
Oaf-er? SoCal - Nova? Really Palm?
DEBUNKED! http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Chris the Podcaster - Don’t hire podcaster?!!!! Really?
Anonymous - Monstrous problem
E-mail
Happy Holidays, Buzz-folk!
It may seem like $6 million is a lot to pay to have a space shuttle delivered (BOL 875), until you realize that $2.5 million is just for the bubble wrap! Not to mention all the !$&#^*# foam peanuts…
LTS/KUTGW!
Regards,
Steve L.
South Jersey
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I think buying the space shuttle is a great idea! I want to chip in with $1000 USD, but since i can’t send actual money i figured i should send you $1000 USD in winkeys. I’m sure Oleg Teterin will be more than happy to buy them from us once we raise enough for the shuttle. In theese troubled times i can only afford $1000USD and i dont know how much that is in winkeys so please send the change back….preferably in sets of 
or :-o. Thank you and Love the show! - HinDRAncE
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To the Nearly Omniscient Leaders of the Buzz Army,
I heard your cries of suffering over the way Firefox skips over drop
down lists on the Mac. I too felt this pain in the past, but today I
bring you good news.
For some reason, Apple decided that the default behavior of OS X should
be to only set the focus on lists and text boxes when tabbing through a
screen. They did have the foresight, however, to let users change that
behavior in the “Keyboard and Mouse” preference pane.
Check out this handy blog entry for the full details, and fear no longer
the Firefox:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/apple/why-doesnt-tab-work-for-drop-down-controls-in-firefox-on-os-x/
Matt The Java Developer
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Hey JaMoToNat,
There's a cool Facebook Group where Aaron Sorkin himself has been answering posts, in an effort to do some background research for his Facebook script. I'm a huge fan of his writing, so it made my day when he posted back. Other actors like Josh Malina and Kim Webster have posted as well.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33807262256
Love the show,
John in San Diego
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The hardware website Sharkeyextreme.com does a price check of various computer parts every month, and they just started checking SSD prices.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/guides/article.php/10704_3787791__6
Long story short: prices vary considerably, this seems to depend on drives which are enterprise vs consumer focused, SLC vs MLC. budget speeds vs higher speed. etc.
Best deal though: OCZ “core V2″ 30gig drive is $70 or 2.33/GB
Worst Deal: Super Talent MasterDrive PX 64 GB goes for $807 or $12.61/GB (though i would assume its Crazy fast though)
check it out
Faiz
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Episode 875 |
Personalized spam rising sharply, study finds
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F18%2F1417232
Cable to temporarily pause digital switch
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10126105-93.html
What does Andy Samberg’s YouTube hit say about NBC sites?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10125961-93.html
Toshiba launches 512GB SSD using 43nm MLC NAND
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/12/18/toshiba-launches-512gb-ssd-using-43nm-mlc-nand/
Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/osx-netbook-compatib.html
Texting ‘is a sign of recovery’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7787768.stm
iPhone thief thwarted by MobileMe sync
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/17/iphone-thief-thwarted-by-mobileme-sync/
Linux-ignorant teacher spat with Helios resolved (Thanks Amanda!)
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/character-assasinations-aint-us.html
BlackBerry Storm buyers returning phones en masse?
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/blackberry-storm-returns
…or maybe not?
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/verizon-blackberry-storm-return-rates-lowest-of-any-smartphone
Why the BlackBerry Storm needs Wi-Fi: iPhone owners love theirs
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/blackberry-storm-wifi
Researchers test whether sharks enjoy Christmas songs
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F17%2F1622228
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/15/funny-pictures-sumfing-brushed-my-leg/
Voice mail
Shalin - time to buy a Shuttle
David in Colorado - About the billboard that watches you
E-mail
In these troubled economic times the outtakes should not be equal in length to the show. In fact, it wouldn't bother me if you lose the outtakes altogether. If Molly wasn't involved she would probably be ranting about it.
Danke.
Howard
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I'm so happy you guys included some extra chit chat after the podcast on episode 874. I love that stuff. Sometimes your 35-40 minute shows just aren’t enough to get me through the hell that is work. I think you should record everything from the time you guys get in the studio until you leave and just have that edition available as a download on the blog (so as not to create too much extra work for Jason, unless he really wants to create an extra iTunes feed for it). Love the show!
Have a Merry Christmas,
Daniel
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I agree with Kaadi, you guys are wrong and your insubstantiated rumours
are driving my feet into the ground!
I haven’t bought a pair of shoes in TWO YEARS! When are my fabled Steve
Jobs shoes coming? You led me astray BOL! Shame on you!
-ANkh, the computer engineering student in Dublin, Ireland.
Oh and tell Coolie to try Symbian.
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Hey guys. I just had a quick one. I am creating some policy rules in a device and have to use a web form to do it, and I am wondering something. Why the hell does Firefox on the Mac skip over drop down list boxes? Its a pretty big pain in the butt to be going along line by line (tab-tab-tab-tab-tab——mouse over to drop down click —–tab-tab-tab). I figured since Molly ranted so much about the Flash bug in FF, she’s want this one. As far as I know it has been this way for ever, and Safari doesn’t do it.
Love the show,
Jason in Cincinnati
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Dudes,
Regarding Monster and the whole company name controversy, the Linux
shampoo is one thing, but remember that video about the window wash I
found called ‘Vista — for windows’?
My argument still stands: that would still be a hilarious lawsuit. For
us, that is. Less funny for the company that makes the product (which
was called ‘Merrit’, in case you’d forgotten).
Nate
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On a very special Buzz Out Loud, we discover that we, much to our surprise and chagrin, are the cause for the ongoing economic crisis in this country. Who knew? Also, of course, we dissect at length the news that Apple is pulling out of future Macworld Expo conferences after this year, and the even bigger news that Steve Jobs won't be giving this last keynote. Heartbreak ensues.
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EPISODE 874 |
Without Macworld, how will Apple create the buzz?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10124956-37.html
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/12/16macworld.html
What went wrong?
http://www.macworld.com/article/137596/2008/12/apple_kills_expo_reax.html
Microsoft plans quick fix for IE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7787445.stm
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212500756&subSection=Vulnerabilities+and+threats
Suit: Microsoft knew Xbox could damage discs
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/156941.asp
Report: Palm to battle iPhone, BlackBerry with new OS at CES
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081215-report-palm-to-battle-iphone-blackberry-with-new-os-at-ces.html
Yahoo updates privacy controls on search, pageviews
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-updates-privacy-controls-on-search-pageviews/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10125132-83.html
Nvidia targets Netbooks, Intel with 9400M chip
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10125087-64.html
Clearwire’s $150 dual-mode WiMAX / Sprint CDMA modem launches Sunday
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/clearwires-150-dual-mode-wimax-sprint-cdma-modem-launches-su/
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/double-impact-s.html
MySpace quietly begins encouraging users to use their real names
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/myspace-quietly-begins-encouraging-users-to-use-their-real-names/
World’s first computer rebuilt, rebooted after 2,000 years
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/2000-year-old-a.html
VOICE MAIL
Hayden from BC: Steve is leaving!
Hey guys,
I thought this article about the emotional reaction to the end of the Phoenix Mars Lander was rather interesting. This article talks about how Twitter was used to anthropomorphize the Phoenix Lander, and, thus, cause the mission to gain alot more interest.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1270/1
Perhaps this technique can be used to humanize other things, like Brian Cooley.
Chris the Commuter
It won’t be ready until at least 2012, but Los Alamos National Lab is demonstrating an MRI-based liquid identification machine for airport security. The press release is here
http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/15343
And a local news segment on the machine at the Albuquerque airport
http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/15343
2 interesting bits:
1) There’s a Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency now? And you thought DARPA was weird.
B) If you can quickly identify liquid chemistry in a shampoo bottle, what other things can you identify? Could be lots of medical or industrial uses beyond saving you $4 for a bottle of water at the airport.
Love the show,
-Mark the supercomputer repairman
Hello Buzz Crew!
I thought this would be a good time to drop you a mail, as it is clear to me that you do not realize your contribution to the economic crisis.
Every time you give credit to a stupid rumor about a nonexisting product (Apple tablet, some cool new iPhone killer smartphone) you are directly influencing the economic slowdown of your country. Consumers are already reluctant when it comes to buying useless/redundant gadgets, but when they hear that maybe, someday, somehow a better/cooler/sexier product will come out they will hold out and save their money for that nonexisting product, which may never even make it to the drawing board. You should urge buyers to just go out and buy the best of what is out there.
by the way, do you actually realize how stupid is to give credit and report unfunded rumors? A 12 year old “analyst” can come up with random ideas for products, put it on a blog and a large media outlet will bring it as “industry inside information”.
example:
HTC is going to launch a touch phone based on x86 microprocessor architecture that runs a componentized version of Windows XP with multi touch interface. It will come out in Q3/09.
Dell will sell a netbook based on the dual core Intel Atom processor starting february 2009.
Apple is going to make toasters and coffee makers with bluetooth connectivity. The devices will connect to the iPhone and make you breakfast in the morning.
Guess which one is fake?
PS: when you say the word ANALyst in the context of an unfunded/undocumented report, imagine the place the “information” was pulled out of. But of course you can always mask false reporting by making up reverse report, like “Intel decided to put on hold plans for launching 24 core desktop processors in 2009 as market research shows low demand for the segment”.
Kaadi (Romania)
Hey Molly Tom and Jason and Cooley or whatever other people join in,
I saw this story on Massively and found it interesting, apparently employers are saying thanks but no thanks to anyone they find that plays World of Warcraft, The story mentions a recruiter was told by companies to out right avoid anyone that is found to be a player of WoW. I guess this is because most anyone who plays WoW gets no sleep, gets angry easily when someone messes up something important (raids), and is likely to shout the name of Leeroy Jenkins before single handedly screwing up whatever project is underway.
http://www.massively.com/2008/12/16/employers-screening-wow-players-during-recruitment/
For the record I play Lineage 2 and many other games, and steer clear of WoW because I can’t stand Blizzard’s art style and the endless quests and raids which I so often hear about from friends who play it for months only to finally quit saying it was a mistake and cursing it endlessly.
Love the show 
Oh and a suggestion for the live stream, maybe Jason could find an image relating to each story, and put it in the empty corner where the BOL logo usually is, and change it as you go along. Not sure what use that would have but I like images, not that Molly isn’t pretty enough
Byebye!
-Kassandra
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EPISODE 873 |
Major security alert for Microsoft Internet Explorer
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/12/16/major-security-alert-for-microsoft-internet-explorer/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/16/AR2008121601022.html
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/16/1319217
Apple will unveil Netbooks next month, says analyst
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123578&intsrc=news_ts_head
New Mac mini to be announced at Macworld San Francisco 2009?
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/12/16/new-mac-mini-to-be-announced-at-macworld-san-francisco-2009/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/155554/latest_mac_rumors_netbooks_and_new_mac_minis.html
Report: Mac desktop sales hit a slowdown
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10123934-37.html
http://www.betanews.com/article/Analysts_PC_growth_rate_eclipses_Macs_in_November/1229442244
iPhone 3G unlocked by iPhone Dev-Team, codenamed “yellowsn0w”
http://www.obsessable.com/news/2008/12/16/iphone-3g-unlocked-by-iphone-dev-team-codenamed-yellowsn0w/
http://www.macworld.com/article/137576/2008/12/iphone3g_unlocked.html
Apple kills iPhone app, claiming API violation
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10123619-37.html
Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue
http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/15/twitter-has-made-dell-1-million-in-revenue/
So much for the digital audio revolution: Consumers are listening less
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081210005653&newsLang=en
Legal papers served via Facebook
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7785004.stm
Japanese billboards are watching back
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/index.php?q=article/270798/japanese_billboards_watching_back&fp=&fpid=
VOICEMAIL
Shane from Las Vegas: Photosynth is so … use … ful?
E-MAIL
Seems Monster Cable is letting the Monster Mini Golf off “easy” with a settlement - Monster Mini Golf can continue to use “Monster” as long as they pay Monster Cable $100 a month. Monster Cable will then in turn donate the money to a charity. The details are up on the site http://monsterminigolftruth.com/
Be sure to scroll down about a few pages to enjoy the founder of Monster Cable trying to justify their legal target practice.
(Pulled this from: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/monster-cable-still-evil-will-allow-monster-mini-golf-to-exist/)
smikwily
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http://alt1040.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/chromefirefox.jpg
Chrome replaced Firefox in Google Pack. FF is in trouble! It’s Yahoo! and Microsoft all over again…
Paco
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Walkstation - Not a Gym Car but a Gym Station
Run while you work.
http://store.steelcase.com/go/products/detail/A7T/
Brad
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Hey Buzz Crew,
Just wanted to comment on yesterday’s story on Online Voting in
Estonia. We have a limited version of this in Municipal Elections
this past October. You got a card with a code on it, had to
authenticate using your Birthday and where allowed to vote. However,
there where two problems with this. First, Online voting was only
allowed on days of Advance Polls, which fell on the two Saturday’s
before the election. Secondly, apparently they sent out cards to
people who had been deceased, and some people received more than one
card. So it’s not without it’s glitches. Now, if we could just move
Online voting to the Provincial and Federal levels.
Love the Show,
Nathaniel, the IT Student
Nova Scotia, Canada
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The sex vs. the Internet seems a little silly because for many guys their sex life is the Internet.
Great show,
Matt
P.S. Natali is awesome.
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It's a racy Buzz Out Loud as Natali Del Conte and Molly Wood double-team Jason Howell. Yes, by the way, that was the most blatant click-bait I've ever written. We discuss who's the bigger liar: Google or the Wall Street Journal. Plus, mobile news galore, including FCC approval of the Garmin Nuviphone. And then it gets too hot to remain in the studio and we flee to cooler climates.
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EPISODE 872 |
Does Google want Net priority?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/net-neutrality-and-benefits-of-caching.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081215-google-backing-off-net-neutrality-with-isp-deal-not-really.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10122935-38.html
Gmail views PDFs
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/fast-pdf-viewing-right-in-your-browser.html
Obama mobile application
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/obama_iphone_app_now_available.php
Microsoft releases its first-ever iPhone application
http://www.pcworld.com/article/155482/microsoft_releases_its_firstever_iphone_application.html
Nuvifone gets FCC approval
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/14/garmin-nuvifone-gets-fcc-approval/
Push to talk BlackBerry
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/15/sprint-launches-blackberry-curve-8350i-first-push-to-talk-black/
Estonia mobile voting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081212/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_estonia_cellular_voting_1
Gym car looks ridiculous
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/12/get-pumped-up-o.html
A movie about Facebook?
http://gawker.com/5109810/facebook-movie-book-deals-confirmed-by-fabricating-boston-author
Internet or sex, which would you choose?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10123138-52.html
VOICEMAIL
Roger the therapist: Fast-talking WoW stuff
Hi Buzz-town -
Although attributing the increased college drop out rate to World of Warcraft addiction being completely unsubstantiated, I too think she could absolutely be right (although it would be interesting to know if there has been an steep increase in WoW subscriptions). I graduated from a 5 year Engineering program in Canada in April, during my first year I had 5 friends who played Final Fantasy XI (although its not WoW, its similar) - 2 of them failed out in first year, and a third failed out 2 years later. During our last two years my remaining gaming friends quit playing FFXI and switched to WOW, although I wouldn’t describe most of their behavior as an addiction - it was a little excessive. My only friend who still plays the game after graduation from University, is very involved in game and is a the guild leader of a 100+ member guild - unfortunatly hes having trouble striking a balance between relationships online/ingame and those in the non-virtual world. We haven’t lost our friend yet, but I can see how easily it could happen.
oh and I love the show.
Jillian
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Hey buzz Crew:
Today, I finally gave up, and tried to download Google chrome to test if it's better than Opera (I think opera is so much better and cooler that Firefox), then what the .... ?
Google has blocked Iran's IP range or maybe as I have searched the whole middle east IP rang, and we can not download the browser, why Google why? Why? Why? Why Google why? We are blocked?
To make sure I connected a VPN with USA IP address that I use to watch Hulu.com and get past the stupid filtering, and then I was able to download it, so only USA? Or every where except Middle East and Iran?
Siavash
It’s true!
http://www.surfchrome.com/index.php/home/news-list-mode/89-google-chrome-blacklists-syria-iran-north-korea-and-more
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While it’s good to get it out of Beta, the real answer as to why - may be Android.
It is very likely Android will be moving to PC platforms in the next few years - maybe not in time for Windows7, but by 2010? Netbooks first, maybe low end desktops as well. The leap from smartphone to netbook cannot be that far away, with their closed and proprietary components(no dealing with every random driver out there, yet). Why not push hard to get it out before Windows7? Undercut them, remove a LOT of their thunder, and be a real competitor.
Once you do that, you get a netbook loaded with Google Apps, Docs, Gears, Talk, Chrome. Everything most basic users need. Keep an eye as to when Docs goes live, and Android development.
Of course, theory only - but sure does sound interesting, right?
–dave
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It’s been almost two years since the CES where we reviewed Digeo’s Moxi, a CableCard DVR that could finally bring some competition to the market that TiVo’s been holding. Last week, with little fanfare, Digeo soft-launched the Moxi on Amazon, and a full launch is expected next month. It’s a far sleeker device than what we reviewed last year–perhaps the outcome of the company’s refocusing efforts at the start of this year. The bad news is that it’s $800 (TiVo Series 3’s initial price point), and it won’t order pizza from Domino’s. The good news is that there are no additional monthly subscription fees for TV listings and updates, and it includes 500GB of storage that you can extend using any eSATA drive. Add that all up, and it’s actually cheaper than TiVo’s new high-capacity unit with lifetime service.
Whatever the price, I’m happy to see a new consumer DVR option in the market. TiVo’s been alone on retail shelves for quite some time now, and it’s time they see some competition in this space. In the long run, I think it will be good for everyone.
Richard Gunther
Washington, D.C.
P.S. I had to have it, so I ordered one, and it’s tracking to arrive today. Besides, I don’t really like Domino’s anyway.
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Wow - I listened to Thursday’s podcast (episode 870) as I was walking Sander (my dog) and all I can say is wow. When I got home I checked the mirror for my scarlet A.
I don’t know how it went from a funny idea I had while out “in the wild” with my NetBook to me looking to steal husbands, but dang - not what was intended! In fact, I wasn’t even thinking of the idea for myself - just as a funny idea. Mostly b/c it allowed me to suggest an online dating site with Matchbook in the name!
Also, while I’m complaining - I’m bummed that Molly wasn’t there on Wednesday to appreciate the fact that my netbook fits in almost all my purses - that’s almost the best part!
Cheers,
Hester (AKA Heather in Boston)
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Hey JaMoTo??,
In the last few weeks many of the members of Buzz Town have been creating there own vertions of “In the wild BINGO.” There have been many places that the BINGO cards can be found so, i created a category on the buzz town wiki where anyone can index there BINGO cards in one place. The index can be found at http://buzzoutloud.wikia.com/wiki/Category:BOL_Bingo.
lightningboy7
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Hey Guys,
I was browsing the internet when I can across a mug that says on one side “In These Troubled Times” and the other side it says “DRINK!”. Just thought that I should run this by you guys. LINK: http://www.zazzle.com/in_these_troubled_times_mug-168795800428642129
Steve
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Episode 871 |
Chrome breaks outta beta
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10120965-2.html
Nintendo Wii outsells Xbox 360 more than two-to-one
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/peripherals/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212500018&subSection=All+Stories
Sony’s PS3 A sinking ship: Sales plummet (SNE)
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/sonys-ps3-a-sinking-ship-sales-plummet-sne
Acer Aspire One goes official on AT&T’s 3G network
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/acer-aspire-one-goes-official-on-atandts-3g-network/
http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/12/acers-99-netboo.html
Android susceptible to apps that turn on roaming
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F12%2F149242
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/g1_roaming/
Cellphone jammer crammed into key fob, ends texting / talking while driving (thanks, Greg and Michael and Jordan et al)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/12/cellphone-jammer-crammed-into-key-fob-ends-texting-talking-wh/
FCC Commissioner blames World of Warcraft addiction for huge college dropout rate
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/fcc-blames-college-dropout-rate-on-world-of-warcraft-addiction
Five PC power myths debunked
http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2008/12/pc_power_manage_1.html
NFL launches “Game Rewind”, every game on-demand in HD with no commercials
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/12/nfl-launches-game-rewind-every-game-ondemand-in-hd-with-no-commercials.html
Russian hopes to cash in on 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7778767.stm
Puppy Cam: Viewed 15 million times, for 773 years
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/puppy-cam-viewed-15-million-times-for-773-years
E-mail
Hello Buzz crew,
Since you talk about it SO MUCH, yesterday I finally signed up for Twitter . And looking for CNET celebrities to follow, I went to see who does Rafe Needleman follow. Guess who. Yahoo’s top search term for 2008. That’s right, Rafe Needleman follows Britney Spears on Twitter. I just can’t imagine Rafe listening to "Baby One More Time," so, may I ask why?
Love the show.
Regards,
Bernardo
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Have you all been following the USPS outages? I am 2 episodes behind (been to cold and rainy to walk my dog), so apologize if you've mentioned.
http://www.usps.com/homearea/onlinesysteminterruptions.htm
Seems it is affecting small business, too:
http://cbs3.com/local/Loca.l.Business.2.884808.html
LTS,
/John in Fairfax
AAAAAND its fixed.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10121982-38.html
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Hey JaMoTo / buzz crew +1,
I think the whole ‘In The Wild’ bingo game is great, and I’m just
waiting for someone to run up and snap a picture of me, being that I
bring my Kindle everywhere and I am a ‘Kindle in the wild’.
Anyhow, after yesterday’s show where Molly mentioned a Retro Edition
of BOL Bingo would be fun, I decided she shouldn’t be denied and I
made one up and attached it below. I’ve also uploaded it to my Flickr
account so it can be shared with the citizens of Buzz Town. It can be
found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98865482@N00/3102895508/
I hope you enjoy it. Love the show!
-Aaron the Delorean driver (and Kindle in the wild)
New York
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Hi guys!
In the last show, Molly made a comment about how the ustream
video-page “isn’t an RSS-feed”. Well, now it is! I used Yahoo! Pipes
to create an RSS-feed of your live video shows. I wrote it up in the
forums, at:
Hope you like it!
–Oskar
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Ahoy Buzz Brigade,
Regarding episode 870 on LTE, y’all made a few missteps about the facts.
First off, the commonly held misconception is that LTE has anything to do with GSM. This is similar to the misconception that WCDMA, more commonly known as the tech behind UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA and HSPA+, has anything to do with GSM. While the tech that preceded GSM for AT&T, TDMA, was the technical precursor to the speaker-buzzing wonder iPhone fans know and love, HSPA (the 3G in the iPhone 3G, etc.) is only GSM’s successor because that was the preferred upgrade path of most GSM carriers. LTE is OFDM-based (as is 802.11g WiFi and…gasp…WiMAX in higher-speed modulations), and is thus another completely different underlying technology with no built-in backward compatibility to either GSM or HSPA. However, the majority of GSM carriers across the world, plus many CDMA carriers (Verizon being one of them) have chosen LTE as their upgrade path. It’s like saying that Mac OS X is a technical upgrade to OS 9…while the same company is going with the precedent as the successor, OS X is based on BSD/Unix while OS 9 is based on some witch’s brew Apple cooked up eons ago.
To be clear, I’m not bashing LTE, though WiMAX is out in the field now whereas LTE has so far not ventured out of lab doors. But to say either technology is the technical successor to either GSM/HSPA or CDMA (which has a direct 3G upgrade, EvDO) would be flawed. Though the same standards board responsible for GSM and WCDMA also dreamed up LTE (3GPP)…
Second and finally, though tests confirm that LTE, at similar range to WiMAX it seems, can provide link speeds comparable to WiFi, you won’t see speeds like those in the wild for quite awhile. The reason is mostly that of backhaul. To provide 100 Mbps to a subscriber, LTE not only needs a liberal swatch of spectrum (something only ClearWire, the WiMax guys, has), but it needs a tower connected to some serious backhaul. To give you an idea of how serious this backhaul would need to be, think about your local cable company’s node, that serves a few hundred people. If your cable operator is Comcast and you just got a speed upgrade, they can offer a total of 114 Mbps over an entire node on the downstream, and 30 Mbps on the upstream. This would be enough for a single LTE customer to get full-speed access. Then again, AT&T U-Verse and Verizon FiOS have the infrastructure for LTE at the node level, but you’re still looking at more bandwidth than anybody is pushing over copper or cable right now. Of course, if Verizon rolls it out in FiOS areas (WiFiOS anyone?) it’ll work on the backhaul side, but…
…you have the problem of femtocells. Anyone using a femtocell for LTE has their internet connection as the bottleneck for service. You can’t get 100 Mbps over a 6 Mbit cable connection. Of course, if Verizon allowed femtocells to hook directly into customers’ FiOS installs, independent of the 10-50 mbps download and 2-20 mbps upload limits on users’ accounts, that’d work. But that’s about the only solution if they want to actually get the speeds they’re boasting about.
Hope this clears things up and love the show!
Ian (the Colorado college student, iansltx on Twitter)
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On today's show, we discover that "scareware" is a thing (that never should have been) and that you can tell a bad business idea by the bad name. Also, PlayStation Home comes out (in beta) after a year and a half in development, and it seems kind of lame, and we talk about the few folks making money in TTT (These Troubled Times).
Listen now: Download today's podcast
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EPISODE 870 |
PlayStation Home opens its doors
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7777122.stm
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_SONY_PLAYSTATION_VIRTUAL_WORLD?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-12-11-07-55-27
Reselling MP3s: The music industry’s new battleground?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10120951-93.html
Verizon ups ante on LTE deployment: 2009
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081210-verizon-says-early-lte-deployment-in-2009.html
U.S. district court puts scareware on ice
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081211-us-district-court-puts-scareware-on-ice.html
Report: Tumblr rolls into new financing round
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10121055-93.html
YouTube videos pull in real money
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html
iPhone copy and paste now working between Safari and Mail
http://gizmodo.com/5107138/iphone-copy-and-paste-now-working-between-safari-and-mail
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10121068-37.html
Apple and AT&T bring back iPhone home activation
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/apple-and-atandt-bring-back-iphone-home-activation/
Google doubles Street View coverage in U.S.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10120351-2.html
VOICEMAIL
Jason from Georgia: gimme that song
Jomo? the Janitor: riding robots, yippee!
Roy: Spare a thought for the Kiwis
http://roythekid.tumblr.com/post/63980981/my-voicemail
E-MAIL
Hi Guys,
Just listening to Tuesdays show and wanted to chime in, myself a being Java developer by profession. The promise of write once, deploy anywhere actually did pan out, but only on the server side. Java is still the number one most used programming language and many of the most popular web applications are powered by a Java back-end.
Now, to the point you made in the show, it did fail as a client/presentation layer for a few reasons. Firstly, the overhead of downloading the entire JVM and the fact that the browser would block while loading an applet made it obnoxious to load an applet based page, especially for those with slower machines/connections. One major reason why Flash took off was because the plugin was small in size and the overhead of install and running were/are negligible. It is unfortunate, because there are a ton of people with proficieny in the Java language, which is arguably superior to Flash and definitely has a much richer developer toolset.
GNC may take off if it can avoid the pitfalls of client Java while giving a more familiar programming environment than Flash does, but it should be noted that a huge part of the upcomming Java release is focused on browser performance. The new version of the JVM will give the ability to download components on an”as need” basis, and the applet initialization will now be non-blocking. This could be a huge step forward for Java in the browser, though I fear the bad reputation is already ingrained in the minds of the average web user, and it may be too little too late.
Love the show!
Nick the Software Engineer from Boston
Nicholas Bonatsakis
Software Engineer
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hi guys,
The google list was “fastest *rising* google searches” right? The Yahoo list was just plain old “most searched” terms. Maybe Google gets 10 000 000 brittney searches last year and only 1000 more than that number this year, meaning it didn’t make the “fastest rising” list. Perhaps Yahoo’s gets a consistent 90 000 000 and that would qualify brittney for the list cus their list isn’t about rising searches.
Adel
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Hi Tom, Molly and Jason +1,
I was listening to the BBC World Service this morning and came across a story that would tie in very well with Jason’s idea of having the holograms in your car, from a few episodes ago. Although, this seems like a scary slippery slope to head towards. Scientists in Japan claim the can “read images from the human brain.”
Here is the link:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20081211TDY01306.htm
I, for one, am not entirely sure I’d want to “see” what’s going on in someone else’s brain, but I can only imagine where that might go…(I’ll keep those thoughts to myself).
Anyway, thought you BOL chieftans might enjoy the story and run away with it (and please do).
Always love the show and keep up the great work.
Nuno, nthsquare in the chat and forums.
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Okay, okay, okay
That dude by the trian called in about the singing captcha, but I’ve got a better idea- RAPTCHA! A couple lines pop up from a popluar hip-hop song and it uses the built-in mic to validate what you rap! Amazing! Surely that would fool the phishbots. LOL
(T&C’s): warning, may cause immediate removal from current location and user may be relocated to a place with pearly gates.
Love the show
Chris the Designer from Bristol, UK
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Bonjour Dame et Messieurs,
This is Katie Noor, Elam’s wife!
Yesterday you decided that you might have created/discovered a “love
connection” between Elam and Heather from Boston because of a comical
cut & paste error.
Just wanted to say that, in the future, I would appreciate it if you
would at least…consult me before trying to set my husband up with
random citizens of buzz town. I mean, I don’t even know this Heather
from Boston. I disapprove. Back off Heather, he’s taken!
Love you guys!
Katie
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Hi JaMoTo and Guest
I am sick of hearing about BOL Bingo. I cant contribute because there are a few products on the list that are unavailable here in OZ. So I made one for us. Presenting BOL Bingo Australia!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23696006@N08/3099539782/
Sam
Melbourne, Australia
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Hey Buzzards,
In regards to the no smiling policy for Indiana driver’s licenses, they will continue to allow facial hair right? Because my friend (photo attached), and every Hoosier who can grow one, should be entitled to the half-beard.
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/33/l90579e347fa2d74bb8136fob2.jpg
btw, i’m subscribed to the audio/video combo podcast through itunes but i never receive a video version… am i doing something wrong??
~dave (indianapolis, in)
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Buzz Out Loud Video (Past episodes!)
http://www.ustream.tv/cnetstudio/videos
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A high school teacher finds it inconceivable that any software could be free. I wonder if she uses Internet Explorer? We also talk about the failure of not one but two big Internet filters, and get the scoop from Caroline McCarthy on why YouTube isn't in decline.
Listen now: Download today's podcast
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EPISODE 869 |
Google to take Chrome out of beta
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/10/google-takes-chrome-out-of-beta/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10120049-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Australian plan to censor Internet in shreds
http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/labor-plan-to-censor-internet-in-shreds/2008/12/09/1228584820006.html
IWF backs down on Wiki censorship
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7774102.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10119879-93.html
ComScore: 100 million YouTube viewers in October
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10120027-93.html
TV has license to kill movies at iTunes, Netflix
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10119509-93.html
Bebo launches Social Inbox aggregation service
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10119389-2.html
Quantum memory in the cloud--a cold, metallic gas cloud
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081209-quantum-memory-in-the-clouda-cold-metallic-gas-cloud.html
When teachers are obstacles to Linux in education
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F10%2F001236
Linux Defenders to protect open source from patent suits
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081210-linux-defenders-to-protect-open-source-from-patent-suits.html
Maybe I’m Code 11 but I haven’t heard any of this so-called ‘tech’ slang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7775013.stm
Google’s 2008 Zeitgeist lists of most popular searches
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10120008-80.html
BONUS:At the end of today’s show is a song that Buzz citizen Amanda French wrote!
http://allmyinternetfriends.com/
VOICE MAIL
Jason in Cincy
BOL fights crime. (He reviewed the TiVo)
Tom in Colorado
I have a brilliant idea.
Hi JaMoToGu(est),
While listening to BOL 868, I noted Molly and Brian’s brief exchange, concluding that Sony are not producing smartphones. A solitary tear fell as unavoidably as a failed marketing initiative onto the 800×480 resolution touchscreen of my new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, then rolled disconsolately across it onto the full QWERTY keyboard. Maybe you’re not ’smart’, but don’t worry little guy - you’re trying your best.
-Mike in Perth, Western Australia
Hey Hot ToMolly, (and Jason:)
Sony denies Netflix is coming to the PS3, we buzzards know what that means riiight? Netflix is coming to the PS3!
What was the rule? 1 month from denial a feature/change shows up?
http://gizmodo.com/5105558/sony-has-no-plans-to-put-netflix-on-ps3
Elam
Owner of an Asus Eee PC 900HA
Hi T,M,J and ?,
I was sitting at a local bar tonight, working on my netbook and thinking about the recent rash of near miss encounters with netbook users. This may present a matchmaking opportunity! I’m envisioning “matchbook.com” - online dating for netbook owners and the people who want to love them. What do you think?
Cheers,
Heather in Boston
Owner of an Asus Eee PC 900HA
PS: I’d love for someone to chat me up about my netbook, I L-O-V-E it and welcome any opportunity to show it off.
PPS: Molly, it fits in almost ALL my purses!
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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Episode 868 |
The mouse hits 40-year milestone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7768481.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7761262.stm
http://news.cnet.com/2300-1041_3-6248261.html
Rumor: Apple’s iTunes going DRM-free starting Tuesday
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/08/rumor_apples_itunes_going_drm_free_starting_tuesday.html
(Or not, says News.com)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10118706-93.html
Voluntary campus-wide music licenses could stop the lawsuits
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081208-voluntary-campus-wide-music-licenses-could-stop-the-lawsuits.html
Google’s answer to Java, Flash, Windows: Native Client
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118792-92.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F09%2F1459230
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10118019-16.html
Sony to lay off 16,000
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10118970-92.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiP0oocLk1KY
Tech Spending to Grow 1.6% in 2009
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/12/09/tech-spending-to-grow-16-in-2009/
Free crapware removal from Support.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10118333-1.html
Indiana bans driver’s license smiles, for security
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F09%2F1315248
MySpace ‘Connects’ with Google for MySpaceID
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10118553-2.html
HP unveils displays that yields to the touch
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10118330-1.html
Voice mail
Joe from Boston: Singing by the train
Hey Tom Molly Jason and Guest, B from New Orleans I just wanted to
comment on the bingo like game that we are all playing ( to get
pictures of certain items in the wild). I just heard someone say, get
a picture of Steve Jobs with a g1 in his hand and natali said that
someone was gonna have to force it in his hand. This disturbed me a
bit, does the movie fight club ring a bell. This is how it all starts
first pics of kindles in the wild, then netbooks, then someone
kidnapping Steve Jobs and putting a g1 in his hand to get the picture.
This must be all apart of Molly's evil plan.?.?.? Love the show
Sent from B’s iPhone
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In response to your hunt for Android phones [Android chaser jingle
anyone?], engadget reported on Sunday that China has announced a new
phone running on the OS. It’s going to be called the QiGi i6. Pricing
hasn’t been announced yet but the touch screen looks every bit as
responsive as the G1. However, in these troubled economic times [drink]
they did have to cut a major part of the phone’s design out: the
keypad. As Android doesn’t natively have an onscreen keyboard this
seems like a fairly big omission because when you buy it you’ll have no
way of making any sort of text input like URLs, text messages,
phonebook entries, etc. Here’s the original article:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/07/video-of-chinas-android-running-qigi-i6-in-action-unearthed/
Oh, and if you haven’t already heard, Wal-Mart has officially announced
it’ll be carrying the iPhone in 8GB and 16GB but mentioned nothing of
the illusive 4GB one.
http://www.pmptoday.com/2008/12/08/official-walmart-iphone-3g-starts-at-197/
Love the show
Alex from the UK
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Hey for those of us in rural areas, the bingo is impossible. How
about a little cultural bias to help us with the last mile problem,
like:
guy on a tractor using a cell phone
Cows with headphones
opportunistic wifi deer
someone surfing on a 26K dial up in the wild
Love the show!
Anthony Soucek [so-check]
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Hey Jamoto+1,
Do you guys remember when molly was talking about netbooks with 3g
capabilities and how it would be better then the gigantic cell phone
thats trying to be a netbook? Well here you go
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/08/contract-laden-3g-acer-aspire-one-hitting-us-at-just-99/
love the show
Brad from buffalo
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Episode 867 |
UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009938o-2000331777b,00.htm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10116543-93.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/07/how-the-great-firewa.html
Technology start-ups to be given £1B fund
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/07/nesta-plan-technology-startups
BlackBerry Storm firmware update
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10114383-1.html
WalMart: Wiis and iPhones
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4B608520081207
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4YIU21gLaSY
Google to sell truly open Android dev phone
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/12/08/1324256.shtml
ViaSat satellite approved for broadband in 2011
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081206/tc_pcworld/usbroadbandinternetsatellitescheduledforlaunchin2011
Spore most pirated game of 2008
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/12/06/spore-tops-list-2008039s-most-pirated-pc-games
EMI joins Tap Tap Revenge
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2336325,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121
Computer scientists find audio CAPTCHAs easy to crack
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081208-computer-scientists-find-audio-captchas-easy-to-crack.html
TiVo launches Netflix streaming for its Series3 DVRs
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10114609-1.html
Voice mail
Anon from NH - Facebook and eyeballs
Lee in Boston - Podcast guilt
Tom, Molly, Jason and whatever other wayward employee you happen to snag
out of the office today,
I guess you have dramatically underestimated your audience with respect
to the difficulty level in the bingo card. Perhaps you should look at a
task you might have previously considered impossible. I think you
should require a picture of Steve Jobs in the wild using a Gphone.
Just a thought.
Love the show,
Vic the Texas Rancher Pilot
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Hi Guys,
This is Chris the Frapper Map guy.
Is it just me of you've missed to talk about the opening of Amazon MP3 Store in the UK ?
If I missed it please let me know which episode so I can go back and re-listen. If not, please do mention on your next talk, it's quite important for us here to know this. It's even got cheaper price compare to iTunes !
Here is my blog post talking about it : http://www.toogeektobetrue.com/2008/12/04/amazon-mp3-store-uk-launches-with-songs-cheaper-than-itunes-take-that-apple/
Cheers ! Love the Show !
Chris Prakoso
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I figured by Monday you'll be talking about the Consumer survey that claims that Google uses 21 times more bandwidth then it pays for, and I wanted to chime in.
First of all, the numbers are right. The costs are drastically different between what I pay and what Google pays for bandwidth, but Its comparing apples to oranges, consumers to business... of course the numbers are going to be dramatically different.
The company doesn't even get "Costco level" economics. You buy a jar of peanut butter at the grocery store you pay one price, but if you buy a two gallon jar at Costco, you get a much better cost per weight and comparatively Google buys jars as big as your house.
Their conclusion shows just how little this company understands their own numbers. Using the peanut butter example, they look at Google's massive jar and then their own and are shocked by the fact Google's rates are a lot better then theirs. Rather then put their blame on the ISP's for their apparent shafting, they point the finger at Google cause they buy in bulk and say they're not paying their fair share.
The fact is everyone is paying their fair share, its just that anyone who wants Google's rates will have to pay mortgage on their peanut jar. Ok... so the analogy is getting a little wonky here, but you get the point.
These 'facts' are being used in a net neutrality argument regarding infrastructure costs... but the problem is what it always has been... ISP's are bottle necked at the 'last mile' and Google's express lane to the still free flowing internet backbone has absolutely no effect on the problem the ISP's got themselves into by overselling and saturating their connections at the local level and now want someone else to foot the bill.
Ben @ Nova Scotia
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Hello Tom, Molly, Jason, & other,
This is Jerry, the US Navy Seabee serving in Italy. Please inform
CMDR Mark that if e-mailing him the show doesn't work out, I would be
willing to burn him a CD each week of that week's shows and mail it to
him. If he is being deployed to Europe or the Middle East I could
mail it for free and it should get to him fairly quickly. Just give
him my email allias, and we will give it a try.
As a "Dirt Sailor," I would be more than happy to help a shipmate
out. I know this method doesn't sound like the best but when I was
deployed to Iraq my wife would shoot video of her and our baby boy
each month and mail a DVD to me. The significance of those DVDs &
what the did to keep me going can not be overstated. Perhaps Buzz Out
Loud will not hold such a high significance for CMDR Mark but it would
be one more thing to look forward to and help to time fly by.
Keep up the great work,
Jerry
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