Well, I had so much hope for joost when it first came up.
Leo Laporte and Amber Macarther talked so much about it.
I had to run out and get me a beta test. The first branch of i.p. TV tree had sprouted. They had a program you had to install that seems a whole lot like what is now called Adobe Air. The program and the videos ran and played really smooth, looked pretty good also. One day a bunch of people started complaining about the install process (a whole 4 seconds to download, 12 seconds to install..) So the Joost team dropped the installer and started at going with online streaming video, much like Hulu. I really liked the program, it ran like a torrent program or good ol Kazzaa. On a peer program.
Sad to say though, Joost never had any really good videos, other than “The Lexx”.
Joost is sold to a company called “Adconion Media” . Really I never heard of them. I hope they make the best of it. I was actually hoping for nbc,cbs and or hbo/showtime/usa to merger on a deal to buy it. Oh well .
Hopefully this means teh end of sprints crappy CDMA signal and growth of Tmobiles more dominant gsm signal.
One of the greatest features of gsm is the ability to just yank your sim card out and plug it into another phone you have and make it work, until you can replace your broken phone. So if this happens, cross your fingers and hope for gsm. Some people like to travel, and many people like Tmobile.
A woman from Canada lost her insurance after facebook visit from her insurance company. seems they saw her vacation pictures and said ” Hey you not so cool”
A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company’s decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party………..
Ok, You back from reading that?Really it is a short read so if you haven’t read it . Go read it.
She goofed by giving the insurance company the same email address she registered her Facebook account with. But that does not make her a bad person. Really it makes her insurance company practically an internet Stalker. Facebook is pretty strict and locked tight. Most profiles, you can’t see someone’s profile unless you are invited to see it, or if you request to be their friend and they accept. So somewhere in that area she made a mistake. That of course is not against the law. Tricking her into thinking she is going to have a new friend is deceptive though.
An insurance agent over-riding the doctor’s request, is foul, and well here in the united states, the doctor would probably sue the insurance company because of the claim against the doctor’s credibility.
Good Day,
I am Andrei Raz***hov, I have a business brief which might interest you on the instruction of a business tycoon in Moscow whose business interest spans crude oil refining, mining, construction, real estate and tourism.
Over the past years the policies of the Kremlin has not been favorable towards his business and more importantly towards his person who seem to have a different political view from that of the Kremlin. Without boring you with politics of Russia, I will go straight to the point to ask for your cooperation to discreetly re-profile funds worth 52.2 Million euro own by this business tycoon from its present location via a bank in eastern Europe to a new investment location.
You will be paid 8% for your ‘management consultancy fees’, if we are able to reach terms. If you are interested, please write back to my senior colleague Mr. Andrev Sl**vik at **** and provide your telephone number and private e-mail address and he will provide further details.
Write back, we wait for your response.
Regards,
Andrei Raz***hov
Really if you get anything in the email from someone you do not know as an established bank that wants your routing number, credit card number, or anything that you don’t want a crack head to have…..DON’T FRICKEN GIVE IT AWAY.
Logged into my ups account and checked tracking. They left the dang thing on the front porch. A $400 phone left on the porch. Really?
Oh well had family at home to bring it in for me. So I called.
Good thing, after the scare I had last night with my Blackberry 8100 (lol just look at last night’s post.) I have two phones in my pocket. Only one has the sim card, the other is ready and waiting for just in case the BB8100 craps out on me.
I myself do not have the funds to be an early adapter. I find this convenient because by the time I purchase the cool stuff, it is already on the second edition, all of the bugs are worked out, and tons of people have tweaked and modded it to make so much more use of said products.
So here we are on my fifth month using a Blackberry 8100.
Moving up from my Motorolla Rizr to the bb was a huge step up. I didn’t actually need to install opera mini on it but i did it anyway. Everyone had millions of applications to use on the device. Applications that where out from “mod my moto” that actually worked 100 times better on the blackberry version. Opera mini actually worked better on the blackberry, but I got a better advantage from the moto though.. moto browser just sucked bad.
I had issues with the firmware though. As I tried to install themes, my Blackberry started crashing a whole lot. I mean I was getting lock ups all the time already, but it got really bad when I downloaded themes and activated them. so I hobbled over to the Forums at blackberryforums.com and found a thread about upgrading blackberry firmware . Great thread . Leads you to the actual firmware . See it seems the firmware we have in the united states that is on the blackberry website, or in the u.s. is like version 1.? (that is one point something or other). The version on the Asian server is like version 4.0 something or other. It’s crazy how it works. It actually took me off what the heck ever network I was on and put me on the edge network. oh just for a heads up. the people at Tmobile informed me that if you see a lowercase “edge” in the signal area, you have a crappier signal than if you see it all caps.
I got locked out of my blackberry after a theme install
Techy Tools use that to sync up with your Blackberry.
Ok while I am writing this. I kind of had to throw out some links I thought you may want while I goof around and try the newest version of the firmware. So.. there’s the links. Right now while I am typing this, I am 5 minutes into the upgrade
screenshot of the actual install
and crossing my toes and keeping the page on “previous versions” hot in my clipboard and the page open. in case it all goes wacky on me. Also I might look around and see if people have a specific choice of versions. maybe I will see why and try them all. I have just hours before my g1 shows up in the mail, I will use that one for a week or so and then sell it on ebay or what ever at barely used price. I will check it out just to review, but I really love my blackberry and all of the tweaks out there for it. from browser to notepad.
Er crap.
Just got a bad error saying that some junk had to be saved as a back up and I should reload and restore. i think my cat jumped on it and wiggled it loose before the install was complete. Ok freak out time. 1 am and I have to work tomorrow. So now I am doing it all again, but not selecting the “back up” feature. I already have a back up of everything still in good. I don’t want it to back up the crap version, over the full version.
Ok crap just got the notice again.. This time I copied so i could paste it here for everyone to see.
A fatal error has occurred while updating your device’s software. Please try again.
Yeah this isn’t good. so.. I go off and try and fix this.. meanwhile I se a black screen and blinking LED.
Erm.. Uh oh.. Now the program does not detect anything on the end of the usb cable.. did I mention the “uh oh” part?
Battery pull time… lol the action of a desperate man.
Dang… Blinking light… now I run back to the forums!!!!!
Ok that was scary. computer wouldn’t identify the usb device (my fricken phone) so none of the software would work.. I left the update program open at first page disconnected the phone, yanked out the battery and waited a second or so, plugged back in and bam… windows identified it. I am updating now :-)
Erm
Error 507 a circle a square a triangle with a circle around them all and line through the circle.. so I disconnect reconnect and rerun program
1. Monetary status is not a mark of an I.Q., Money does not make a man wiser. Example, there is one job that everyone says is the big money maker. not the biggest but the most known.. a doctor. ok.. What do you call a doctor who graduates worst in his class and with the most errors but passes just enough to pass???? well you call him doctor… of course.. what do you call the doctor who cheated most of the year off a classmate’ss stuff? yes you guessed it again, Doctor… see you get it..
2. If you are pro choice, then you need to be pro life for the entire life time of everyone.
3. If someone disagrees with you and points out the flaws and errors in what you say and shows you the truth and proof. don’t call them fear mongers. That’s worse than calling someone who is protecting your rights a redneck.
I have to say , ” My hat is off to ijji.com” These people took some game engines from I have no idea where and made new games. Or they made their own games from complete scrap. But what ever the deal is, they made them good, they made them free. They even have done extensive measures to reduce the cheaters.
IJJI.COM Has a huge set of games. I’m not fond of the racing one. It seems kinda like an old 80s arcade game, always eating and wanting more quarters. all of their games you can add money to your accounts and get more stuff, kinda like the games on myspace. It’s great to not pay for anything and be able to slaughter the people who spent tons on the extra equipment. On another note, to have the ability to slaughter them people without buying, but go ahead and buy anyway because you just have to see what it does, must be natural because I really want to try everything. I know, you might not have an idea what i am rambling about, no worries.. You will soon. Very soon.
My favorite IJJI game is
Soldier front Fast paced Capture the flag type games in a small area so the battles can go nuts and be loud almost seem chaotic at first. Once you settle into the game, it is so addictive you get 8 hours consumed and not ever notice.
Man you can crank the graphics up really well on this one, be sure and check the “manual” check dot. If you do not have at least 2 g processor and an nvidia 9 card with 2 gigs mem, I would not suggest you crank anything up. By all gaming means these days, those are low low low specifications. from what I see, the better settings they have are at 720p. it may go higher but I didn’t push a whole lot of my Rig.
AVA screenshot
The fire looks crappy, will remind you of grand theft auto III, with a crappy gif looking flame in the middle of it.
Now a good game that will remind you of doom and quake
Gunz just not enough people on it. looks a bit like anime . If you have a network of computers at your house and a bunch of friends over to play a game, this one is perfect for that. because it is a great game, but not enough players for anything fun to happen of it. Not to be played alone.
Ok for the nvidia
Warmonger These guys need to take a tip from ijji and clean and lean up the game a tad bit. a bit to taxing for a freebee.
This game is the game to make halo look like pacman, to make grand theft auto play like doom1.
The in game looks like cutscenes from starcraft II. if you know anything about stracraft cinema , you know there is major extreme detail in their characters and images. The terrain looks amazing.The skin has pores, the hairs are all single images and dimensions, instead of one blob with hair drawn in. IJJI has out done everything there is to play. and the fricken game is free.
Kills me that while I was in my game testing phase, the game was still in beta. and I only have videos to go by. The smoke looks like smoke, the explosions are unruly real explosions.
These have to be the best of the best free first person video games. The internet needs more of these.
If you know any video games that are totally free and legal to download, please leave some information here in a response
Seems I am the only person who get this information out, because I did not update every single wordpress script on all of my websites.. This one is the one to get the message out. I have not yet found the solution to akismet crashing my rss feeds on all of my sites but this post is my original post about akismet being down and not working well with wordpress 2.8.5.
Maybe I am totally wrong and someone knows the fix for my issue. If so please post it on the site, in case someone else thinks the same as myself.
So much writing has gone to waste over the past 4 days.
