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Man modifies third-party Zapper knock-off (Joystiq Nintendo)

Oct 13th 2007 11:36AM dude should clean his room

Microsoft: download IE7 without WGA validation (Download Squad)

Oct 4th 2007 5:53PM Perhaps Microsoft just doesn't want to make it any more difficult to install IE than to install Firefox.

Prince sues to protect copyright, Trent Reznor encourages illegal downloads (Download Squad)

Sep 13th 2007 7:17PM Hey, Prince still pwns. Sorry guys, "Purple Rain" is a classic number. "Head like a Hole?" eh, not so much. Reznor makes far more sense in this case, though.

DOJ: No legislation for Network Neutrality (Download Squad)

Sep 8th 2007 1:35PM The other piece of this issue is preventing access providers from penalizing their customers who choose to receive competing services using the bandwidth they provide. This is probably the only area where noot legislation makes any sense. But on the issue of competing access, I'll suggest that our "lack of choice" is caused by the following problems:

1. The telecommunications industry is regulated 'too much' by the fed, and tariffs regressively set prices because access providers are subsidized through the fed by means of USF, abatements of tax based on volume of business, and other unfair policies which would be considered absurd in other service industries (mass media, for example).

2. The ILECs were hamstrung by Telecom 96, which was a bad law, plain and simple. Artificial competition is the same thing as no competition. Say it's Green Bay versus Baltimore, but the Ravens get to use Brett Favre on all their offensive plays. That's essentially what CLEC colocation, established by that law, means. So the costs to the subsidized players (ILECs) are driven up, their tax abatements likewise rise, and they have no incentive to reduce prices. The result? Hundreds of repetitive CLEC bankruptcies, stock devaluation and wasted effort. Customers still pay buku bucks for access, bottom line.

3. Independent WiMax has promise but isn't completely there yet due to a lack of consumer-grade equipment that will allow the public to adopt the technology, freeing them from copper.

4. The fed "regulated" a solution to encourage building out a last-mile fiber infrastructure by cutting a deal with incumbants stating that their fiber access network could be free of competing information services as long as it merely gets build. Wow, nice job Uncle Sam.

That's why I'm against regulation. It never works as intended in this industry.

Meteorologist makes checking the weather a breeze (Download Squad)

Sep 8th 2007 1:42AM Who said anything about midwest? Oh and I think most would agree that mideast is places like Iraq and Syria, not good ol' Cleveland. Thanks for the comm.

DOJ: No legislation for Network Neutrality (Download Squad)

Sep 8th 2007 1:41AM As far as AOL goes, they have very little to know editorial control over this blog, as far as I know. I'm not a netnoot supporter. So we have a difference of opinion. Access providers should have the same freedom to set prices as you and I have to choose access providers. Legislating rules into the system takes away both freedoms.

Yahoo! releases Messenger for Mac 3.0 (Download Squad)

Sep 7th 2007 5:13PM Actually I think, of all the IM/chat solutions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Yahoo remains the weakest. That's probably why I spend more time on Gizmo and Skype than anything else. And yes, when something needs improved, Mac users tend to be more vocal than Windows users. Not sure why, maybe Mac folks just care more. Ha!

Yahoo! releases Messenger for Mac 3.0 (Download Squad)

Sep 7th 2007 1:15PM The voice feature will never come to the Mac version because the Truespeech codec used is licensed to Microsoft (not Yahoo) exclusively and the last reference version of the codec for the Mac was on Mac OS 8.6. Interestingly, Gizmo Project has enabled Mac-to-Windows Yahoo voice talks using a system of proxies, but it's still a crappy-at-best solution.

When GarageBand just isn't musical enough (Download Squad)

Aug 24th 2007 9:08PM Actually it says 'Commercial' because the software I blogged about is commercial software. And yes there is quite a demand for the iApps on Windows. Hence Apple's policy of keeping them Mac-only. I believe the idea is to keep them exclusive to the OS X platform as a way of driving sales of Macs, at least that's the theory. Thanks for commenting my blog.

MMOs and the Secondary Market (WoW)

Aug 1st 2006 7:22PM That's why I've parked my mage at level 29. No rat race, just pretty evenly matched PVP battles with a minimal time commitment. I'll probably never seriously PVP at level 60.