Yeah. They don't have to accept it. It's like when Apple decided to deny people from using cash to buy the iPhones. However, they probably would kick you out for a while and it would really piss them off. - Brandon Titus
exactly what I thought happened. Too many new users flooded the network. - Bwana McCall
Hmm. That explains why AT&T sent out a text to remind people about this update when they have never texted about updates before. Certainly makes since. I'm still not upgrading though since my phone is jailbroken :P - Brandon Titus
Yeah, suck it up. I'm an Australian-- not only do I have slow internet (512kb/s) I'm on a 20GB cap. :-) - David Adam
Its been like this in the UK for years as well and as Nick said 250GB is a lot in comparison to what we get - Arthur Guy
Do you feel that if you had unlimited bandwidth, you would use the internet more? And for different reasons? If I had a cap on my bandwidth, I would always be worried about what pages I visit and would probably not use the internet as much. - Andrew Baron
Considering that most people have 250GB drives or less, this is really a pretty large monthly bandwidth for all but the most extreme users. Even streaming music constantly for a month at 128kbps would yield only 44GB download (assuming I did my math right). - Logical Extremes
I have access to a fast unlimited connection at work and I don't download that much more than at home so no I don't think I would use the internet more if it was unlimited. - Arthur Guy
What about all of the musicians and people who use youtube? They will not be able to compete and suddenly it could cost millions of dollars again to distribute your work. - Andrew Baron
250GB is hardly a "cap". That's a LOT of data. If you're a residential customer, you would just about have to be on the internet 16 hours a day to reach that limit. Business customers don't have the cap, I don't think. - Jason Huebel
I fully agree that unlimited bandwidth is best for a lot of reasons, but I think it comes down to whether Internet is a utility or a free market, and the US hasn't really made up its mind. It's certainly not a free market (evil oligopolies at best in each of the phone/cable/satellite markets), but we haven't set it up as a free god-given right like TV was in the '50s and '60s either. - Logical Extremes
I'm completely 100% OK with this. If you want unlimited data, you're going to have to pay for it. - Ben Jackson via twhirl
Also, even if you can d/l a lot of mp3's at 2 megs each, will you be happy when your friends are downloading songs that are no longer compressed and may be 100megs each or even a gig each? For people who use software like Miro and iTunes, we are stuck d/l videos with low quality due to technical restrictions but as the bandwisth goes up, the compression will go down and soon we could d/l full quality files that could cost 250G per. - Andrew Baron
@Ben Meanwhile, while most people on FF will pay an extra fee to raise the cap, guess who will not be able to afford a higher cap? Yep, the people who could use the opportunity the most. Thus, it naturally shuts out people from participating. - Andrew Baron
One last thing to consider. Maybe 250G seems like a lot to you now because the internet is the way it is. The US, for instance, is moving quickly towards Fiber speeds as well as TV over IP and in two years from now, many people will use up 250G transfer in each and every sitting. - Andrew Baron
You're assuming that most people who can't pay for this will go over 250GB. 99% of them won't. I think that tiered bandwith plans benefit everyone. Grandma won't be paying for stuff she isn't using and the people that use more then average bandwith have to pay for it. Fair is fair. - Ben Jackson via twhirl
Andrew The issue is that most ISP can't afford that amount of bandwidth. So, rather then jack up everyone's prices (unfair) they're jacking up people who take a disproportionate amount. - Ben Jackson via twhirl
Just posted a link to my FF regarding bandwidth "neutrality" etc - Ben Jackson via twhirl
I think the key is not to be able to discriminate on what kind of traffic it is. In other words, Comcast (and every other provider of bits) should not be allowed to distinguish TV bits from YouTube bits, and set a cap or tiers from there. If that's done, then what is the harm of paying for what you get? - Logical Extremes
If you saturate a T1 12 hours a day for 30 days, you have 250GB. Just sayin. - Matthew Davidson via twhirl
If most people wont use that much bandwidth, then why the need to cap it? - Andrew Baron
It's not for most people, it's for the people that go over it. - Ben Jackson via twhirl
A T1 is 1.5MB. Cable companiers are offering 3MB or more these days. With an always on connection and a desire to have your own digital version of the library of congress a person could do it theoretically. I agree, though, that most will not go over the 250GB unless you do download a lot of movies or MP3's every month. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
You guys are clearly Comcast business supporters. Who would outright "support" this? Im not buying it. Om Malik is not buying it either: http://gigaom.com/2008/08/28/m... - Andrew Baron
I'm with you Andrew, metering is not the way to go. Sure 250GB seems like a lot now (to some, myself not included), but capping and metering place arbitrary limits on future innovations that may take up larger amounts of bandwidth. As we move ever closer to the browser being the OS this is a huge step in the wrong direction. - Aaron Krug
Here in the uk, our ISP's are selling connections at below cost. The rise of video is making them face bankruptcy. Sadly, they seem to have painted themselves into a corner where it comes to price. Never forget that the net was originally metered by the minute, every other comms system is metered. Personally, I view DPI is a *far* bigger threat to the net than metering ever will be! The ability to analyse packets in real time and censor or replace that data? Now that TRULY sends shivers down my spine. - alphaxion
Wow. I am impressed with that. If they could add that capability to the upcoming 50D then they might get a few more people to upgrade. - John Ford
I might try and rent one for my wedding just for kicks. It could be really fun. [edit]. So from what someone mentioned on an email list at work, there may possibly be a firmware update coming soon for us D300/700/3 owners :) ... which would be completely rad! - Dustin
Having just received our D700 yesterday, I'm very much hoping this is the case. Technically, it looks like live preview is the essential hardware feature to enable this, so it certainly sounds plausible. - Kevin Fox
Is it MF only while recording? (I assume so) - Benjamin Golub
Yes, but honestly that's how you'd want it. An SLR's AF would be to snappy and jittery. - Kevin Fox
Agreed. Not sure how useful the auto focus would be unless you were recording yourself and you were moving around. Also, the other concern for D700 owners is the 'no mic' whereas the D90 has a mono-mic. But really, I'd be down with silent movies, or have the ability to plug in a mic. - Dustin
"Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it," Chu said. - Mona N. via Bookmarklet
"We chose the term 'market' rather than 'store' because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available." Not-so-subtle dig? - Cains
thank you Google. if you're going to provide a client platform, don't put up or reinforce walled gardens between app developers and consumers. just focus on reducing friction. - Jon Price
This looks Great! But, I'll hold off till I see the first phone with Android loaded on it availible at my cellphone provider. - Bluesun 2600 via twhirl
I think if they had maybe a 1 day trial to test the app before you buy would kick apples ass. One complaint I here alot is that no one knows what the app will do till they buy and then it's to late. - Zod the Shodai Taiyoukage
agree. big miss on Apple's part for not supporting a try-before-buy biz model. props to the enterprising developers who are offering both free a pay versions though. my favorite is Labyrinth... the freebie is just enough to get you hooked and want the pay version. lame that you have to go through an entirely new transaction to get it. - Jon Price
Bluesun: I think I may just be with you, on that :) @Zod and Jon: YA And they don't even refund!! - Mona N.
Well, that's smart, but is this why they took Bluetooth out of the API? - Cyndy
Cyndy: I don't think so... Android will support BT headsets, but the Android BT API was erroneous, and were making unnecessary calls. So (according to the dev blog) they decided to hold off, in lieu of shipping with a 'broken API' http://bit.ly/1hH2t7 - Mona N.
"Sure, feel free to post links and even alter this script if you would like. I'll be throwing it up on GitHub soon so people can collaborate on it (I know it's only one file but it'd be nice to have SOME version control :P)" - Brandon Titus
Nice find! There are some cool ones: ※, ⁂, ⁛, ⁙, ℬ, ⌨ - The ✖ is 10006. You guys having problems are probably not seeing them because they are Unicode characters and I don't think IE displays Unicode. - Brandon Titus
The version that he used must have been in UTF-8 or something else that Windows doesn't support. You should be able to type it yourself by doing alt+2716. Link: http://bit.ly/1kBZEJ . Not sure though. Clearly I'm not a Unicode expert :P - Brandon Titus
£ <-----ALT+2716 I believe that is the British Pound? - Josh Haley
There are a lot of factors that determine whether or not you will be able to see certain fonts. OS (and version), Browser, and the tiny men that sneak into your house at night to steal your underwear. - Brandon
I have the same problem :P. That's why the FriendFeed command is basically the Twitter and get-lyrics commands customized for FriendFeed. - Brandon Titus
@Matt I was actually thinking about something similar to that.. I have a larger avatar set now (I was missing a bunch of people) and there is a lot to fit. - Tim Hoeck
Well you will have to pay me $100 everytime you wear the shirt if you are going to have my image on it. :P - Mathew Ballard
2x, 8y = awesome, and honored. Enjoy the shirt, and let us know if people ask you who everyone on the back is while wearing it, and what your responses are :) - Nathan Chase
"And today, authorities announced a new form of depression caused by not being "friended" by important people on friendfeed. Apparently Dr. Wadda Frack has postulated that as recognition from thought leaders in the social media arena has become a form of social currency, that the "poor" among us are prone to depressive fits of outrage at not being included on the friendfeed t-shirts of the rich and shameless. To quote Dr. Frack, "This is very sad. The poor are always the last to know." ;-) - Bill Sanders
And Dr. Frack also wants to know where to order said FriendFeed Tee. - Bill Sanders
:0 cool, can i send them a higher res av image? - sergiooo
what a devious way to get more subscribers! hahaha - tagami
That is SO cool. (as I'm sure you already know) - Brandon Titus
So what's the deal, you just going to print on iron-on transfer or what? - Josh Haley
@tagami .. I realized that might happen after the post. FYI: new subscriptions will not be on the tee! I have the ones I am putting on there cached already (the pic above is not everyone) - Tim Hoeck
not to mention, these are the people I am subscribed to, not the ones subscribed to me! :) - Tim Hoeck
Is there a T-shirt service that let's you dynamically "program" t-shirts? I smell a business idea. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
And when I say that I mean a custom t-shirt for each buyer, based on a username on something like FriendFeed - Jesse Stay via twhirl
@Jesse Stay yeah there must be something I mean wheather you have charity or some cause you want to support there seems to be ways to get customized logos on shirts. I've heard of ways to even print a photo onto a shirt. - Colide81
"I completely agree with posting of pictures but I want to make sure it's implemented right and not just stolen from the bookmarklet with no real thought." - Brandon Titus
"I'm still considering changing to FF and I may create a little script creator that allows you to choose the command name and other options before you even subscribe to the command. I think it's a good idea to post the title of the page with the status as a comment since it would fit better with the Extension. The only problem I have with that is there needs to be a way to edit the Title.
I want to add the ability to post pictures like in the Bookmark and to do more things like selecting of text and finding related FriendFeed posts while out on other pages." - Brandon Titus
3.0 is still far too slow compared to saf 3.1. the Fx nightlies have been getting more use from me than Fx 3.0 did but I suspect it won't be interesting until they dump spidermonkey/tracemonkey(which is too unstable to turn on yet) for tamarin. - Michael J Cohen
I know what you mean. Firefox is still a HUGE resource hog for me. To be honest, Quicksilver is a way better alternative than Ubiquity at the moment (although the ease of development on Ubiquity is awesome). I'm super excited about the concept though and being able to use something like this cross platform will be great. - Brandon Titus
