Live now: This Week In Tech 215 with John C.... - TWiT Conversations

FIRST - Mark

i have a good feeling about this TWiT - Chris Heath

Abby's picture can be found at: http://images.google.com/images... - shelter watch

Dvorak again, eh? The "Live From Caracas" pic should be used whether or not he has video. - Kevykev

Meh! This thing'll never catch on! Meh! - Mark

Doesn't even look like the Firefox logo - TC

The first doll had Bill the Cat eyes. - Kevykev

Looks more like a racoon! - Ben

Flaps down, wheels up... - T C Sandford

What camera is that John is using? Looks really good. - Ben

http://friendfeed.com/twit-st... is fed from http://delicious.com/twit/215 - Chris Heath

logitech 9000 - T C Sandford

The firefox doll is from: http://store.mozilla.org/ "The Mozilla Store has been closed for maintenance" - Kevykev

Wow, it's pretty cheap too! £49 - Ben

Hopefully this show is better than the last few - Ben

Show Title: This Week in Technical Difficulties - Kevykev

Pets are over vaccinated too. http://hemopet.org http://weim.net/emberwe... - shelter watch

Come on guys, it's getting late here in the UK! - Ben

Ted's house? - T C Sandford

So it's not a river in Egypt? - Johnny

Duh-nile - T C Sandford

But isn't it good for them cause they still have to serve all those channels all the time. If you can serve just those shows being watched, that has to save on infrastructure. - Johnny

http://friendfeed.com/twit-co... for the clean embed version of this page - Chris Heath

thanks for the link chris ! - cxx dxx

So they want to buy NBC so they can charge other cable competitors more $$$? - TC

channelflip inst an arrogation Leo, its all their own stuff. - Mark

Jesse Eisenberg = Zuckerberg. Timberlake is playing Sean Parker. - Ken Sheppardson

Where is the impulse buy though? I buy all types of weird stuff seeing ads on the side of Google - Johnny

Edward Bernays - russtbarnacle

Everyting I know about advertising I learned from Mad Men. Just smoke alot, drink at work, and write cool catch phrases. - Ken Sheppardson

Sorry Leo but you use this in your Carbonite adverts sometimes when you talk about the "risk" of losing data, your personal photos etc. - Mark

You will get BO if you don't buy our deoderant or You will lose your photos without Carbonite - Mark

Seems like we're confusing Advertising and Marketing... - Ken Sheppardson

"If anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself" - Bill Hicks - Ghworg

0_o - Johnny

You could sing like Jerry Lewis every Labor Day! - shelter watch

This is a great discussion about the Ben Sparks article at mashable.com. This is the sort of high point that TWIT should aspire to for all it podcasts. It can't all be at this level, but when we see this, we should compliment it. - JR Holmes

Local advertising still uses the feature/benefit model - it's the big national brand campaigns that focus on creating fear. - Steve Burgess

I feel a sense of belonging... Like I have some skin in the TWiT game - Johnny

Windows 7 retail boxes hitting storeshttp://www.engadget.com/2009... - pcguru626

My video keeps buffering, damn internet :( - Simon Wicks

Songsmith and Bill & Jerry and now this. MS is sucking cause they know it gets talked about - Johnny

Bullcrap, Windows 7 RTM is fine - TC

The TechGrouch lol - Mark

I hope newegg doesn't change too much - TC

Typecast - Mark

SNAPSHOT OF LEO drinking Whisky...haha :) - http://ff.im/9dYKi - Mike Bracco

LOL LMAO - Mark

Will Dvorak win an Emmy for this? - Johnny

Oh My God thats Hilarious - Mark

Fingers in ears? - Johnny

Tech Grouch will go viral - Mark

Same here in Oz - Johnny

Leo, you might want to mention this: http://digg.com/tech_ne...: Kevin Rose confirms digg iPhone app in development. - Daniel Rowley

Buonasera from Italy :-) - FullSite

How much was Alta Vista, Geocities, ICQ and Myspace worth? - Johnny

To many new shoes... - Johnny

On the contrary, many of my clients are looking forward to it. But they aren't running out and buying new PCs unless they needed to buy the PCs anyway - TC

Will are still on XP cause Vista sucked. I'm very hesitant to upgrade our work to Windows 7 since I have so much skin in current programs - Johnny

Plus, my mum is going to buy a new PC. Not because of Windows 7, just her old one broke - Johnny

Any programs that work with Vista will work fine with 7 - TC

Windows 2000 was solid - TC

All companies will jump Vista and now roll out Win7 as XP is getting long in the tooth. The CEO will get Win7 on a home machine then love it and the rest of the company will get it installed within 6 months of that. It's a general view but it will happen. - Nathan Davies

Only problem with that is I tried to get MYOB working over the network on Vista... It was complete FAIL. 2 days of lost productivity. Now my boss won't write me the cheque for Windows 7. Perception wins over fact... - Johnny

Once your programs are Vista compatible, they will work with 7 - TC

Be that as it may... I have to convince my boss of that fact. THAT is the hard part - Johnny

Does the size of your front-end matter? - Johnny

Paybacks to Microsoft? Maybe Microsoft is getting karma for thinking everyone is a pirate and stealing from them. - shelter watch

That's why I'm glad I'm a consultant, since they pay me for my opinion they are far more likely to listen to it - TC

It should be a hybrid - Johnny

You're also assuming that the cloud provider will back up for you... but I've seen several sites (EZBoard, BeyondUnreal....) who had massive failures. When it's on the cloud, you probably CANNOT back up your data. - Phopo Jijo

Yes, I love the cloud for mail, contacts, calendar. How would my iPod sync 80 gigs of data over the cloud? - TC

Dropbox is a GREAT example of a hybird that works great - TC

Indeed -- I use Dropbox -- it's supplementary to my on-site backup. - Phopo Jijo

Not ALL photos should be oline though... - Johnny

Cloud is here - don't fight it - Bandwidth will increase, security will improve - Don Bonaddio

The issue still remains, however, that you're trusting your backups to the cloud -- you're trusting your *processing* to the cloud... if the service doesn't like what you're executing -- you simply won't. hence why I hate OnLive's premise. - Phopo Jijo

WAHOO1 We're in the final! - Johnny

so we should put up with crappy bandwidth and insecurty NOW? argument doesn't make sense - TC

and until this nonsense about metered bandwidth gets settled it will hold cloud applications back - TC

Flickr and CoolIris is way quicker than than going through physical photos. - Ben

Cloud only makes sense when it is trivial to get your data in and out of multiple competing services. Depending on a single source, whether in the cloud or locally is never a good idea. - Ghworg

exactly, ghworg... cloud-vased suncing is wonderful. i'm not a fan of cloud apps tho - Hipp from IM

security is good but it will continue to improve, bandwidth costs continue to decrease - Don Bonaddio

*cloud-based syncing - Hipp from IM

Yes but when broadband providers whine that they need to charge consumers MORE when these costs are actually decreasing something is wrong. - TC

Security is adequate provided there is proper implementation, I agree. - TC

Bandwidth is not continuing to decrease actually... Bell Canada *reduced* their bandwidth caps to 75GB for their *most expensive* service... which is why the CRTC should hurt them. - Phopo Jijo

This is down from 100GB for reference - Phopo Jijo

BREAKING? http://arnteriksen.com/kevin-r... - tehsnknplnt

That's purely profiteering. - TC

the new itunes made the itunes store into garbage - cxx dxx

Exactly TC - Phopo Jijo

He always forget about Boxee. It has a good TWit app. - archaictree

lol iTunes store=ghetto - TC

I'm technically unlimited because we've signed on back in '05. As long as I don't change our download speeds or move or anything I'll remain unlimited... which grates on my patience of course - Phopo Jijo

I don't even bother with iTunes I buy from amazon. Although I was chagrined to find out you can't RE-download music you've bought already. Big gotcha. Be sure you backup - TC

When is TWiT going to be available on Tivo? Revision3 is all over Tivo - I would love to see TWiT programming there as well. - David Gallo

and there's the name of the show "wii wii"" - Don Bonaddio

Is there any hope of Twit on Xbox360? - TC

But NO ONE wants ads... - Johnny

Raffle tickets - Johnny

Is it possible to get AdBlock on television? - Devon Blugh from twhirl

Devon: Yes, it's called a DVR. - Ghworg

The audible ads are the only ones I don't fast track through - TC

I got up early on a Sunday morning just to watch it :) - Johnny

Do you get a discount on yacht wax? - Johnny

Have you seen the cost of Leo's Yacht Wax? - JR Holmes

You beat me Johnny - JR Holmes

I think Wave is a niche product at least for a while - TC

It's intra-office email - Johnny

Yes Wave could gain ground in small business - TC

Leo, for people who don't know what wave is http://www.youtube.com/watch... - russellcoleman

I definitely have a vertical market application in mind for Wave. - Steve Burgess

It will be interesting to see how it can be built upon and used - TC

I do not know what wave is, for I have been living in a cave, on Mars, for the last year. - Ghworg

i think wave's best for enterprise/corporate, atm. don't expect google to make it work for the rest of us right away. other developers can do that. - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

it's document collaboration - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

15 hours for an 18 minute speech? Sounds like a job for Go to Meeting! - Steve Burgess

lol - TC

Wave could give sharepoint some good competition - TC

Steve, he mentioned that during the ad - Chris Heath

going to CES Leo - mflstc

Wil should broadcast from a darkened room with only a single dim list showing. That way he would actually show like he is broadcasting from the middle of the night as he actually is. - JR Holmes

Wil, Don't want to wake the spouse. - JR Holmes

Show Title: "Releasing The Wii-Wii" - Johnny

leo, think Big Oil when you're there - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

Big Oil, lush green golf courses in the desert... things that "extra" money can do - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

Show title: Where's the Money? - JR Holmes

"Who Needs this Crap" is the most literal title for TWiT ever! - Devon Blugh from twhirl

Audible Pick: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, http://www.audible.com/adbl... - Leo Laporte

Tease: Will Comcast buy NBC? Will Windows 7 sell PCs? is Google Wave a sleeper? and John C. Dvorak is The Tech Grouch. - Leo Laporte

Answers: No, no, and no. There, now I freed up some of your time. - Fleagle

24/7 streaming is the way to go! - Per-Olov Jernberg

Frank was concerend about his old MSMoney transactions. Intuit is building a new converter. https://qlc.intuit.com/post... - Dan Morgan

Actually, you cannot take the circuit board from on HD and transfer it to another, even if it is the same model. The bad block table is stored there and special software is required to read and write this information. - Dennis Houseknecht