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Living Room / Re: Google PowerMeter: One step closer to the Google Toilet

« Last post by rgdot on August 31, 2010, 04:36 PM »

I am not excusing big corporations including power companies, I would never do that, I am more 'left' than most of you. But under the current set up or system being green is not and will not be cheap, I remember people complaining at municipal meetings when (green box) recycling was being implemented. By 'current setup' I mean when companies, even if non-profit, take up operations such as recycling, green power generation, etc

Sorry for veering off topic

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Living Room / Re: Google PowerMeter: One step closer to the Google Toilet

« Last post by rgdot on August 31, 2010, 03:17 PM »

I signed up via my local power company, can see daily usage stats among others. Useful in some ways, privacy notwithstanding. Although I don't see how this is really a big privacy thing considering that the power company installs 'smart meters' and that's very mandatory but yes signing up to view stats adds a point of entry to snoops I guess.

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Living Room / Re: List the crappiest websites you know here. (warning: potentially NSFW)

« Last post by rgdot on August 30, 2010, 09:19 PM »

Experts-exchange you can see the answers if you visit the site via google search results. Some are actually good but as far as 'business model' goes it's pretty much anti-spirit-of-internet

A bad site in my view is something like godaddy.com, when trying to buy or manage a domain, a mish mash of extra options and extra screens just to get to where you want to go.

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Living Room / Re: How much would it cost to create my own high-speed server hosting solution?

« Last post by rgdot on August 20, 2010, 10:10 PM »

Very few if any ISPs allow 'home servers' no matter what you pay them. Like mouser says perhaps the more common method is renting a dedicated server where your expenditure would be good hardware housed inside a good data center. There are famous or reputable data centers with good links to major providers. Real dedicated servers range from $100/month and up.

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Living Room / Re: On the Web: Google net neutrality stance gives Net’s future to corporations

« Last post by rgdot on August 12, 2010, 02:39 PM »

Google's response convinces me even more that we are finished

So, for example, broadband providers could offer a special gaming channel, or a more secure banking service, or a home health monitoring capability – so long as such offerings are separate and apart from the public Internet

(Emphasis mine)
 

My reaction is:

WHAT THE....?

http://googlepublicp...work-neutrality.html

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Living Room / Re: On the Web: Google net neutrality stance gives Net’s future to corporations

« Last post by rgdot on August 11, 2010, 11:17 PM »

Those airwaves belong to the people -- licensed through their government -- in which the corporation wishes to profit from, not the corporations. The reality is that telecom giants have always written their own laws (and most regs) for the politicians (in the US) to pass. You'd be surprised how little money it takes to sway a politicians vote on any issue, especially tech issues. Profits are fine and well, but not at the expense of liberty, which corporations are first to exclude right out of the EULA and TOS.

The "internet" as we know it would have never happened -- or been created -- if it were left to corporations. They would have throttled us all to Compuserve or some nonsense. There certainly would be no companies built for searching it! You either have a neutral Net or you don't. Corporations can't stand the internet in its original form -- not enough money in it for THEM. Google and Verizon have decided on their own that it's okay to discriminate data priority, depending on whose sending (profiting) and who's receiving (paying). Simply put, this is a sellout for Google, a company built by hackers. The bigger a company gets, the more money they make, the less they defend anything to do with their original hacking roots.

-zridling (August 11, 2010, 09:10 PM)

+1 and then some

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Living Room / Re: On the Web: Google net neutrality stance gives Net’s future to corporations

« Last post by rgdot on August 10, 2010, 10:01 PM »

@JavaJones Talking in general here...FCC's power is much vaguer than any legislation type of thing. If you are unsatisfied with those you voted for imagine how you must feel about appointees or whatever those people at the FCC are called. Google doesn't have to be as evil as anybody, they have lots of power and by sitting down with a major carrier to 'suggest' something that will affect millions they are being evil enough.

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Living Room / Re: On the Web: Google net neutrality stance gives Net’s future to corporations

« Last post by rgdot on August 10, 2010, 08:48 PM »

This may sound bad but here goes....if anybody believes a slogan then he/she is part of the problem.

I like gmail and a couple of other google products but I always know that when a company, a big company, reaches IPO or public and therefore profit phase it's done. Don't be surprised to see google backtrack only publicly to appease some of the don't be evil believers but at the end of the day profit driven is profit driven. If you really need to use these products you just have to make your judgment based on the old 'lesser of evils' saying.

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Living Room / Re: Bermuda Triangle Solved

« Last post by rgdot on August 10, 2010, 11:35 AM »

Now you should be asking who created those fissions and therefore gases and why there...the mystery lives on  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which archive software are we using in 2010 (and why)?

« Last post by rgdot on August 09, 2010, 10:07 PM »

Have been back and forth between Winrar and 7zip for years now, haven't really needed anything else.

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« Last post by rgdot on August 08, 2010, 10:17 AM »

WeHazDock

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Group files from within folders

« Last post by rgdot on August 07, 2010, 03:40 PM »

Love it thanx, did a review of it on my site (http://www.rgdot.com...es-with-file-bucket/).
One thing I mentioned in the review is that any filtering must be done before files are added (?) but since the filter button is on the right it can get confusing and not go with a left to right flow.

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« Last post by rgdot on August 07, 2010, 11:44 AM »

TakeThatDock

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« Last post by rgdot on August 06, 2010, 09:37 PM »

"What Dock"

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Living Room / Re: Google demonstrates new communication platform "WAVE": mail, chat , wiki, ..

« Last post by rgdot on August 05, 2010, 10:45 PM »

Well, word is the Wave engineers were/are allocated to an upcoming Google made Facebook competitor...that would be an even bigger risk for Google I think.

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Living Room / Re: Google demonstrates new communication platform "WAVE": mail, chat , wiki, ..

« Last post by rgdot on August 04, 2010, 04:32 PM »

RIP Wave!  Lots of lessons to be learned in the 'mashup' concept of things in my opinion

http://googleblog.bl...-on-google-wave.html

We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects

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Living Room / Re: Honestly, who here actually owns an iPad? be honest!

« Last post by rgdot on August 03, 2010, 10:33 PM »

I'm THIS close to getting an ipad.  Am I going to be the first DC member with one?  What if I turn into an apple fanboy?  Oh man...you guys are in for it!

-superboyac (August 03, 2010, 09:46 PM)

Can a charter membership be revoked?  

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Living Room / Re: Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

« Last post by rgdot on August 03, 2010, 03:21 PM »

<offtopic or something> Just do like I do, For every 'commit' use power pro *keys to open the save dialog box and then insert file name with a time stamp...my very own version control   

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Living Room / Re: You are Not So Smart: A Celebration of Delusion and the Anchoring Effect

« Last post by rgdot on July 28, 2010, 09:46 PM »

I was reading a somewhat recent article in a print magazine about iPhone making inroads into the enterprise, at the expense of Blackberry and shaking my head about how the article was sounding like the 'cool kidz' you describe.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Embeding content on your web pages -- iframes vs native content?

« Last post by rgdot on July 28, 2010, 05:04 PM »

One site I set up with a CMS needed to include a third party poll script that wouldn't play nice with the CMS so I had to add it to the page within an iframe. Otherwise I see no reason to stop disliking iframe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dell drops ubuntu support

« Last post by rgdot on July 28, 2010, 11:32 AM »

It won't be until it is available installed on a computer and in stores. Of course peripheral and other support is important but from a stand point of 'general sales' to the public it will catch on if it's sitting there on a shelf meters away from a PC and a Mac

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Living Room / Re: Maslows Hierarchy of internet needs

« Last post by rgdot on July 24, 2010, 06:25 PM »

"Give love to one's self"

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« Last post by rgdot on July 24, 2010, 09:39 AM »

"I use my browser more than I use my operating system" one of the first lines, what in the world does this mean?   

Interesting concept, not sure there is much overhead or that much of a learning curve. Has potential in my opinion.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Aloha, free HTML5 Editor

« Last post by rgdot on July 22, 2010, 03:52 PM »

Question marks here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Google Chrome Problem

« Last post by rgdot on July 21, 2010, 06:37 PM »

@MilesAhead Thanx, it's happening on XP SP3 desktop

I will try your suggestion and say the thing you said next time too