IntenseDebate - Rob Lombardi

13 years ago @ The Blazing Center - Does Using Apple Produ... · 1 reply · -1 points

I, for the most part, stick to the more expensive PC's and use only well tested software and proven software. The more expensive PC's are about the same price as the Apples and sometimes cheaper. I have few to no reboots and a very fast PC with Logos 4, Bibleworks 8 , Nota Bene for research writing and information management. If I was to try this on a Mac, I would have to run a PC emulator, which introduces it's own set of problems.What's the point of that?

14 years ago @ Becoming A Writer Seri... - MacCompanion's Special... · 1 reply · +1 points

Have you had a chance to compare Nota Bene and Mellel yet? I've been using Nota Bene now for approximately a year. I've re-looked at Mellel and I'm also not impressed. I think Nota Bene is incredible and I wish it had more people supporting it. They are working on a version 10 of Nota Bene that will be the next major leap for the tool's technology. If you are interested in comparing, wait until Nota Bene 10 comes out sometime this year or next year.

14 years ago @ ChurchCrunch - The Value of Facebook ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I use bit.ly to create links that I place on Facebook and Twitter. Then bit.ly tracks the popularity of the link. So whether someone clicks on it from Facebook or Twitter, I can see exactly how many people clicked on it. If Google ties into bit.ly links, then there's the missing link (no pun intended).

14 years ago @ ChurchCrunch - Linear Comments Are Dead · 1 reply · +1 points

The trade-offs are important. Loosing comments, being unable to get them back. Sometimes the most valuable thing about the post is the comments.

I would prefer if an add-on was created for my CMS (Expression Engine), that could handle threaded comments. At the moment, I don't get much comments on my site, so it doesn't matter.

Software wise, threaded comments aren't really "threaded" in a software sense. They are just hierarchical with a parent comment containing children comments. I would suspect this could be fairly easy to implement.

My understanding was that Disqus and ID had the added "social" dimension of being able to view a persons comments on various blogs. Has anyone found THAT to be useful. If that's not useful, then forget ID and Disqus, someone just needs to develop a threaded comment add-on for Wordpress, Expression Engine, etc.

14 years ago @ The Gimcrack Miscellany - Why I Don't Have AT&T ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm in San Jose and one evening experienced a download of 500 Mbytes in what seemed like 5-10 seconds. I thought is was an error so I checked the file size again and confirmed it.

I looked at my neighbors new U-Verse. I think the video quality is not as good. Jaggies, over sharpened, and compression so that motion looked a little riddled with artifacts. They say you have to use their wireless router too. I have a very good wireless N dual band. Theirs is single band G. I think I'll stick with Comcast for now.

14 years ago @ ChurchCrunch - Post.ly (The New Face ... · 3 replies · +1 points

I've been using bit.ly and like the addition of the statistics reporting. Their bookmarklet is very straightforward and can post to Facebook and Twitter. If I combined the two, I would get a bit.ly link from the bookmarklet, copy it into an email and send to posterous@posterous.com. I'll have to try that out.

14 years ago @ The Gimcrack Miscellany - Why I Don't Have AT&T ... · 1 reply · +2 points

We would have two T.V.'s at the moment. Really, we just have one, but have been contemplating another for the children to watch while we watch something else. Currently, in order to get a better price, I have to call up Comcast, telling them that I'm contemplating cutting services because the cost is too high. So the AT&T U-Verse looked like a better deal to get the same channels. Perhaps I need to do the math again.

14 years ago @ The Gimcrack Miscellany - Why I Don't Have AT&T ... · 3 replies · +2 points

All this talk about AT&T U-Verse and Fiber, in comparison to Comcast and Coax had me wondering.

They opened up U-Verse to our neighborhood recently and I'm trying to figure out if it will be better than my existing Comcast. My biggest concern is image and sound quality of HD content, and internet speed. It seems that Comcast has the edge when there's coax coming up to the house.

They say cable shared bandwidth with other houses, but if my bandwidth is being shared, on a much more higher bandwidth connection; let's say there's a 1 GBit coax coming from the curb to my house, but the shared connection with the other houses is a 100 GBit conneciton, then it's perhaps not such an issue. But I realize its not possible to split a 100Gbit connection into 1 - 1 Gbit connection without a router. Hmm, just trying to think through this.

14 years ago @ The Gimcrack Miscellany - Why I Don't Have AT&T ... · 7 replies · +2 points

So Comcast doesn't have fiber in their networks?

14 years ago @ ChurchCrunch - Is Your Ministry Tryin... · 0 replies · +1 points

The message of the gospel is already unique. The church just needs to focus on making the website usable, and filling it with content that ministers to the hearts of the people under their care. Focus on truth, and teaching the truth and tailor the website to make those goals possible for the web; which for me includes being able to communicate the truth easily from our website to feed readers, social websites, etc.

I created our church website in a little over a month with very little background experience. It's not the greatest looking site, but it has the functionality our little church plant needs and it's ministering in a way that's appropriate for us. www.veritascc.org

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