Comments on: BostonGeek Podcast: Episode 24

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:30:11 +0000

Ass.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:52:56 +0000

Yes, yes I do.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:29:32 +0000

So, let me get this straight. You just finished wetting yourself talking about the podcast class at BU, but now you need to mock LinuxWorld guys as being taped-glass wearing geeks?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:25:06 +0000

Why, lord, why would you go to the scary “one time, at podcast camp” place when you could go to the happy “say my name, bitch” allison hannigan place?

Mmm…allison hannigan.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:18:29 +0000

Ehm, meh…covers of video game music not really my thang.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:16:09 +0000

Why do you lend credence to lone random aberrations? Nearly every Revolution article to date places the price in the $249-299 range. Don’t be that guy, Carl, don’t be that guy who reports on some random crackpot’s rantings as possible fact.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:02:30 +0000

Boom. And Carl yet again takes a mildly clever “special pants” joke and ruins it.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:02:00 +0000

Mmm..Dreamcast games. I mean, MS already stole the controller design…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:55:27 +0000

Yeah, but then you’ve inevitably got the degraded service problem, as you’ve got to harass both the reseller and Verizon if you want to get anything fixed.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:54:20 +0000

At the moment, it seems bare internet service with FIOS is an option...they're going for the carrot approach. $5 off for either signing a 1-year contract or having "qualifying voice service". Not bad.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:54:02 +0000

Well, Verizon does allow 3rd-party providers to sell their DSL without phone service, just as Comcast does (and not incur the $15 fee).

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:50:08 +0000

Right now cannot get “bare” DSL from Verizon. You have to buy a landline from them in order to buy their DSL. Hell, you can’t even find out for sure if DSL is available unless you (or the previous occupant, if you’re moving) have Verizon phone service. As their absolute cheapest phone plan is $38/mo, that’s a pretty steeply priced prerequisite.

Comcast goes for the carrot, rather than the stick. You can get bare internet service from them, it’s just like $15/mo more than if you get cable tv as well. They also have 3-play bundles as well. But there’s at least the option of just internet service.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:32:20 +0000

The one thing Iâ€™m worried about is FIOS. The bandwidth and ability to flip Comcast off is enticing, but I just know the fuckers are going to bundle it with their crap phone service.

With only phone service? We will be lucky if they don’t bundle it with a new tv/cable service as well.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:30:58 +0000

The funny thing is the reason MS delayed home editions of Vista was specifically because they didn’t think they’d be able to meet the deadlines the OEMs had to be able to get the install process put into place in their factories.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:29:11 +0000

The one thing I’m worried about is FIOS. The bandwidth and ability to flip Comcast off is enticing, but I just know the fuckers are going to bundle it with their crap phone service.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:27:57 +0000

And yeah, the pronging you get from Verizon is so painful that it’s worth the minor inconveniences you get with Vonage.

And jesus does Carl sound like the Fox news guys. “BEWARE! 911 WILL FAIL AND YOU WILL DIE!”

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:27:20 +0000

While waiting for my telephone number to be ported from AT&T to Vonage, I kept one cordless phone hooked up to the telco. With my wiring setup, it was really easy to do.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:25:15 +0000

The batphone technique is actually a good idea, it just makes using the existing house wiring with Vonage trickier…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:11:59 +0000

Wow, nice…auto-linky, and it didn’t flag that comment as spam (which is why I left them unlinked).

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:08:48 +0000

Dug up some articles talking about 911 service on Vonage, and some of the other VOIP services. Basically, the baby Bells dragged their feet as long as they possibly could in allowing Vonage access to their E911 databases and infrastructure. Shocking, I know. SBC/at&t have been particular dicks, even after Qwest and Verizon signed deals. It was only after the FCC mandate that they even talked to them.

http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3493996
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3502621
http://www.vonage-forum.com/article1804.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=397

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:05:01 +0000

Well, I ‘owned’ a pocketPC, which I really only used to play MP3’s and an NES emulator.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:57:22 +0000

wait, didn’t you carry a windows portable device, like a dell or something, for a while? or does that not count because it’s not from palm?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:55:15 +0000

So, seriously, how are you making the jump between “that study claiming that our competitor is as good as us was crap science” to the mpaa and riaa suing the shit out of their customers?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:52:52 +0000

blah blah blah…britannica is teh evil…blah blah

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:44:21 +0000

(listening to the cast again while at work)

Colin, you are officially banned from any ululation on the cast from now on. I really will come down to your house and mace you if I have to.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:42:24 +0000

Maybe…but Tron was also a nancy boy. You don’t want to be a nancy boy, do you?

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:51:43 +0000

Bah. Horse hockey. Tron didn’t have to do stuff like that.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:25:24 +0000

for reference: < = “<” and > = “>”

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:21:01 +0000

Old joke. And you need to enter html code for less-than or greater-than signs, since they're used to mark the start and end of html tags. The full list of characters is over at w3.org as usual.

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:33:49 +0000

See that is what I was trying to do and it won’t let me. What’s so hard about putting a 1?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:43:50 +0000

Show me a 1, J…show me a 1.

By: jcarreiro

jcarreiro — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:37:36 +0000

See, Remy got it wrong too. Just like I did. Wait, I’m like Remy? Is that good or bad?

Anyway, it is true that I < Dave << Remy, strictly in terms of mass of course! :^/

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:38:48 +0000

Wow, that formatting got messed up.

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:03:48 +0000

Whoops change that

Jay

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:03:01 +0000

Well, technically Jay is smaller than Dave so the IDave>>Remy

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:33:53 +0000

Oh, I guess I was reading too much into it when you said “I < Dave”

By: jcarreiro

jcarreiro — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:06:55 +0000

awww crap.

I <3 Dave.

See how hard that is for me to remember to do right? Freakin’ markdown has corrupted me, I guess.

By: jcarreiro

jcarreiro — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:05:53 +0000

I < Dave.

As for the comment thing, from a user point of view, having to remember to encode my HTML entities myself … well, it’s not very friendly is it? ;^)

By: jcarreiro

jcarreiro — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:03:49 +0000

Colin?!? No love for the TurboGrafx16?

My friend had a TurboGrafx16. Kicked ass. I didn’t like SplatterHouse that much, but Blazing Lazers was good.

Also, I heard that not every game will be available for the Revolution. Something about how only the “best games” would be, according to Iwata-san’s speech at this year’s GDC.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:55:58 +0000

Who’s the man, J?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:55:38 +0000

Yah, it’s funny how a comment form that accepts html would barf on that. Maybe <3 will work?

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:50:57 +0000

Death to the Wiki.

By: jcarreiro

jcarreiro — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:32:09 +0000

Aw, c’mon. Seriously. I can’t type <3? Anyway, I tried to write “I heart Wikipedia!”, but it done died on me.

Also I am listening to the podcast again — at work, no less. I had stopped for a while, sorry.

Show notes?

By: jcarreiro

jcarreiro — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:30:22 +0000