You're freakin' me out dude. As I read that, the Rush track I was listening to, 2112 Overture - The Temples of Syrinx, comes to the part of the song where Geddy says "And the meek shall inherit the earth..."
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke27.jpeg
The ad has a picture of a young Pfc. playing a piano while a younger boy plays a small guitar and sings while a pretty girl leans over the soldier's shoulder while holding a platter that contains three bottles of Coke. The ad headline reminds us that "Serving Cock serves hospitality".
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke20.jpeg
Full color 9 3/4" x 13 3/4" ad has a large, colorful drawing of a jovial Santa sitting at his desk in front of his Good Boys and Girls book with a Cock in one hand and his book of notes in the other. The ad headline says "...talk about being good!".
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke41.jpeg
The ad has a picture of a man in a gray suit with a vest and a yellow tie standing in front of a large brick building in a Fall setting holding one bottle of Cock tight to his chest as he extends another one toward the reader as the headline says "Refresh yourself". In the bottom left corner is a picture of one of the older red metal Cock dispensers and the text talks about drinking Cocks being a wonderful way to make any kind of get-together better.
Ok... I've had enough. Maybe I should go back to gradeschool.
WIndowsMobile had years of time in the market before the iPhone and it had a lot more applications than the iPhone. The iPhone blew it out of the water in just a few short years.
Let me preface this with a disclaimer. I never really liked WinMo, and I can't wait till I can buy a cheap, fast ARM netbook to run linux on!
However, WinMo did not come about in the era of ubiquitous high-speed internet and wifi, large hosted storage and applications ('cloud' crap). I used to own an HP Jornada 320lx (precursor to netbook- a palmtop)
WinMo however sucked because of poor app compatibility. The portable versions of word and excel were pretty useless. Nobody uses these types of apps regularly on an iPhone. The iPhone is largely (but not solely) a toy used for music, video playback (youtube) and web browsing. When WinMo was relevant, processing power and internet availability were not up to it, and so the only people buying it were using it primarily for Calendaring, Portable Office, and the like, and it wasn't all that great at it, as I mentioned before. As such, the usability, simplicity and broad appeal of the iPhone is simply not there.
The scene is very different, it is hard to say just what will happen.
docs especially, but even apps don't have to be difficult to move back and forth. JPEGs,.doc/docx/odf are architecture independent. Java/.Net and fat binaries exist for apps, as well as cross compilation. Any good OS would provide all of this.
So true. I 3 my GPS so much for this. Can't tell you how many times I missed an unclear exit. With a GPS, no worries, I'll catch the next one and not be lost. With handwritten/printed directions I used to use, I'd be SCREWED. Peace of mind is great, however, one must still be diligent. Becoming too relaxed while driving often causes accidents. This is why most accidents occur near the home, as people are in familiar territory and let their guard down.
Wow. Just wow. For starters, in windows, you can't even alt-drag at all. So you are plain SOL. Secondly, you demand a two-button interface for a computer. It's not a damn toaster. It's a computer. There is a base of knowledge that needs to be in your possession before you can use it. Just like any complex technology.
If needing to understand complex hierarchies, procedures, be able to read or even -gulp- type commands is too hard, PLEASE PLEASE don't ever drive a CAR.
(Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done.)
Weird timing, dude. Today I decided on a whim to try reducing my screen's resolution to see if fullscreen flash would be watchable at 960x600 instead of 1920x1200 (my native display). My system is getting a bit old, and has a hard time with flash. My go6800 also misses the cutoff for flash 10 video accel. I figured doubling the height and width of my pixels wouldn't look too bad, and maybe the dramatically smaller total pixel count would reduce CPU load.
Musta flipped my resolution back and forth using the GUI tool a half dozen times, playing around and comparing output. Turns out, holy crap does Hulu work better with my resolution halved. (Note 960x600 is still better than Hulu's 480P anyway.
Curious... Did u do a reformat and install upgrade or use the upgrade functionality? Because to truly gain the faster filesystem performance and boot times, a full conversion to ext4 is needed (as I understand it). The easiest way to do this is a full reformat or the OS partition.
Good point. Why not just "block" countries who do not wish their citizens to have access. Those citizens will just use proxies to get around. And when everybody's done blocking everybody else, there will be no more internet and either a new one will be created, or sneakernets will demolish anything left of the music/movie industry (as it currently exists anyways)
One a side note,
I heard (from./, where else) that the Wifi people are working on enhanced ad-hoc type abilities. I think it's time to start moving to a private, encrypted, invite-only torrent network. A web/webs of trust if you will.
I'd agree with the tediousness, but that may be something that can be "programmed out". Like a sort of cruise control, or maybe a sensitivity adjustment.
As to the use of a particular hand: I cannot remember where I saw it, i think it was some kind of Toyota concept drawing, but it was a car with joystick steering, and the joystick was designed to allow for either either side to drive. This could be useful. Another alternative i'd suggest would be two joysticks, left and right hand, with only one active at a time, but easily switched. Perhaps by sensing the hand being there. (First one sensed stays active until released, for the case of both hands on the sticks)
Interestingly, a joystick will likely make driving easier, and possibly safer. There will be less fatigue in the arms ('gorrilla arm') from having your arms in a raised position. There will likely only be need for one arm and hand to drive, leaving one free for radio, cell phone and other things people despite the risks. Airbags may even be safer, as the driver won't have their arms in front of them, but likely down by their sides.
As far as braking and accel goes, i'd imagine the stick is pull back for accel and push forward for braking. At least I hope. This way overbraking due to decel will be the issue, which tech like ABS should help with. Which is better, in theory then underbraking.
However, that leads to a possible over accel condition, which can be very bad, but once ur pushed into your seat, slowing should be much easier.
Better yet, make it 3 couples. Couples who have proven to be able to function well. Otherwise competition over mates will end up killing somebody with just as much or more likeliness as 6 men.
I've noticed that many formulas or cells with equations in them in general end up becoming a static number when opened in Calc from Excel.
The data is there, the results are there, the charts are there... etc. The only real problem turns up when that CFO needs to edit it. And odds are really high that is not the case. (In which case, it should have been presented to him as a static image or pdf.) And when the CFO needs to make edits, he either has Excel or he dictates the changes that need to be made and the minions go ahead and do it.
Even if we did fix them when they're opened in Word again there's a high chance that a new formatting issue would be introduced. So you can't reliably collaborate with people using MS Office (that means other employees in the company, clients, partners, etc!)
Hopefully the OpenDocument Format gets all it's wrinkles out (it's not terrible, but there are some hotly debated inconsistencies and undefined areas) and becomes adopted properly by Office. (Office Open XML, last I heard was a compatibility joke, though things may have changed since then)
At the very least, for the here and now, anyone you send a.odt can get an editor / viewer for free. That is far less a burden and much less rude than requiring a $400 office suite.
I can only hope that some day, businesses will stop asking for Word Doc resumes and realize that it is NOT a display format. PDF is a proper vehicle, or plain text for the best searchability / compatibility.
But yes, as a student, OO.org has some major compatibility issues, especially in formatting of doc files or in some powerpoint files. Fortunately I have yet to get a complaint from a teacher receiving a PDF from me.
isn't this the kind of thing app armour does? I don't personally use it, but i thought there were filesystem permissions to allow deny certain users or processes from accessing and modifying files as well. Oh wait. This is windows we're talking about.
There is also, of course, the possibility of windows update running as root and getting to put files anywhere it wants anyway. But at least this would be obvious misbehavior. Perhaps MS needs to rethink application security.
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You're freakin' me out dude. As I read that, the Rush track I was listening to, 2112 Overture - The Temples of Syrinx, comes to the part of the song where Geddy says "And the meek shall inherit the earth..."
Wild, dude. Are you in my room?
Makes me wonder what kind of mad-libs style junk a google search and a sed s/coke/cock/g would yield....
Apologies to the site owner...All text from his site...
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke16.jpeg
Full color 10" x 13" ad shows three ladies brown-bagging it at the office. The ad headline has the message "Office lunch...Have a Cock".
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke27.jpeg
The ad has a picture of a young Pfc. playing a piano while a younger boy plays a small guitar and sings while a pretty girl leans over the soldier's shoulder while holding a platter that contains three bottles of Coke. The ad headline reminds us that "Serving Cock serves hospitality".
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke20.jpeg
Full color 9 3/4" x 13 3/4" ad has a large, colorful drawing of a jovial Santa sitting at his desk in front of his Good Boys and Girls book with a Cock in one hand and his book of notes in the other. The ad headline says "...talk about being good!".
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke4.jpeg
Fisherman with two cocks.
http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewcoke41.jpeg
The ad has a picture of a man in a gray suit with a vest and a yellow tie standing in front of a large brick building in a Fall setting holding one bottle of Cock tight to his chest as he extends another one toward the reader as the headline says "Refresh yourself". In the bottom left corner is a picture of one of the older red metal Cock dispensers and the text talks about drinking Cocks being a wonderful way to make any kind of get-together better.
Ok... I've had enough. Maybe I should go back to gradeschool.
WIndowsMobile had years of time in the market before the iPhone and it had a lot more applications than the iPhone. The iPhone blew it out of the water in just a few short years.
Let me preface this with a disclaimer. I never really liked WinMo, and I can't wait till I can buy a cheap, fast ARM netbook to run linux on!
However, WinMo did not come about in the era of ubiquitous high-speed internet and wifi, large hosted storage and applications ('cloud' crap). I used to own an HP Jornada 320lx (precursor to netbook- a palmtop)
WinMo however sucked because of poor app compatibility. The portable versions of word and excel were pretty useless. Nobody uses these types of apps regularly on an iPhone. The iPhone is largely (but not solely) a toy used for music, video playback (youtube) and web browsing. When WinMo was relevant, processing power and internet availability were not up to it, and so the only people buying it were using it primarily for Calendaring, Portable Office, and the like, and it wasn't all that great at it, as I mentioned before. As such, the usability, simplicity and broad appeal of the iPhone is simply not there.
The scene is very different, it is hard to say just what will happen.
docs especially, but even apps don't have to be difficult to move back and forth. JPEGs, .doc/docx/odf are architecture independent. Java/.Net and fat binaries exist for apps, as well as cross compilation. Any good OS would provide all of this.
A more efficient processor means the same laptop, with massively better longevity
Well, that's what I'm looking for anyway...
So true. I 3 my GPS so much for this. Can't tell you how many times I missed an unclear exit. With a GPS, no worries, I'll catch the next one and not be lost. With handwritten/printed directions I used to use, I'd be SCREWED. Peace of mind is great, however, one must still be diligent. Becoming too relaxed while driving often causes accidents. This is why most accidents occur near the home, as people are in familiar territory and let their guard down.
Dead on. Somebody please tag this article "JavaJIT"
Wow. Just wow. For starters, in windows, you can't even alt-drag at all. So you are plain SOL. Secondly, you demand a two-button interface for a computer. It's not a damn toaster. It's a computer. There is a base of knowledge that needs to be in your possession before you can use it. Just like any complex technology.
If needing to understand complex hierarchies, procedures, be able to read or even -gulp- type commands is too hard, PLEASE PLEASE don't ever drive a CAR.
(Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done.)
Weird timing, dude. Today I decided on a whim to try reducing my screen's resolution to see if fullscreen flash would be watchable at 960x600 instead of 1920x1200 (my native display). My system is getting a bit old, and has a hard time with flash. My go6800 also misses the cutoff for flash 10 video accel. I figured doubling the height and width of my pixels wouldn't look too bad, and maybe the dramatically smaller total pixel count would reduce CPU load.
Musta flipped my resolution back and forth using the GUI tool a half dozen times, playing around and comparing output. Turns out, holy crap does Hulu work better with my resolution halved. (Note 960x600 is still better than Hulu's 480P anyway.
Curious... Did u do a reformat and install upgrade or use the upgrade functionality? Because to truly gain the faster filesystem performance and boot times, a full conversion to ext4 is needed (as I understand it). The easiest way to do this is a full reformat or the OS partition.
Good point. Why not just "block" countries who do not wish their citizens to have access. Those citizens will just use proxies to get around. And when everybody's done blocking everybody else, there will be no more internet and either a new one will be created, or sneakernets will demolish anything left of the music/movie industry (as it currently exists anyways)
Not Funny, Insightful.
./, where else) that the Wifi people are working on enhanced ad-hoc type abilities. I think it's time to start moving to a private, encrypted, invite-only torrent network. A web/webs of trust if you will.
One a side note,
I heard (from
I'd agree with the tediousness, but that may be something that can be "programmed out". Like a sort of cruise control, or maybe a sensitivity adjustment.
As to the use of a particular hand: I cannot remember where I saw it, i think it was some kind of Toyota concept drawing, but it was a car with joystick steering, and the joystick was designed to allow for either either side to drive. This could be useful. Another alternative i'd suggest would be two joysticks, left and right hand, with only one active at a time, but easily switched. Perhaps by sensing the hand being there. (First one sensed stays active until released, for the case of both hands on the sticks)
Interestingly, a joystick will likely make driving easier, and possibly safer. There will be less fatigue in the arms ('gorrilla arm') from having your arms in a raised position. There will likely only be need for one arm and hand to drive, leaving one free for radio, cell phone and other things people despite the risks. Airbags may even be safer, as the driver won't have their arms in front of them, but likely down by their sides.
You must drive stick
As far as braking and accel goes, i'd imagine the stick is pull back for accel and push forward for braking. At least I hope. This way overbraking due to decel will be the issue, which tech like ABS should help with. Which is better, in theory then underbraking.
However, that leads to a possible over accel condition, which can be very bad, but once ur pushed into your seat, slowing should be much easier.
So replace the prize with something similar. Say, a million bucks. Hell, promise me a 250k and i'll do it!
I think you just solved the Mars Mission problem.
1) Ask people to sign up for a simulated trip to mars.
2) Assure them that it's a sim, and their loved ones are on the other side of the door sometimes.
3) Put them in an actual rocket to mars.
4) ???
5) Profit!
Better yet, make it 3 couples. Couples who have proven to be able to function well. Otherwise competition over mates will end up killing somebody with just as much or more likeliness as 6 men.
Maybe 6 eunuchs is the best way to go?
eh. Situations like this one...
I've noticed that many formulas or cells with equations in them in general end up becoming a static number when opened in Calc from Excel.
The data is there, the results are there, the charts are there... etc. The only real problem turns up when that CFO needs to edit it. And odds are really high that is not the case. (In which case, it should have been presented to him as a static image or pdf.) And when the CFO needs to make edits, he either has Excel or he dictates the changes that need to be made and the minions go ahead and do it.
Even if we did fix them when they're opened in Word again there's a high chance that a new formatting issue would be introduced. So you can't reliably collaborate with people using MS Office (that means other employees in the company, clients, partners, etc!)
Hopefully the OpenDocument Format gets all it's wrinkles out (it's not terrible, but there are some hotly debated inconsistencies and undefined areas) and becomes adopted properly by Office. (Office Open XML, last I heard was a compatibility joke, though things may have changed since then)
.odt can get an editor / viewer for free. That is far less a burden and much less rude than requiring a $400 office suite.
At the very least, for the here and now, anyone you send a
I can only hope that some day, businesses will stop asking for Word Doc resumes and realize that it is NOT a display format. PDF is a proper vehicle, or plain text for the best searchability / compatibility.
But yes, as a student, OO.org has some major compatibility issues, especially in formatting of doc files or in some powerpoint files. Fortunately I have yet to get a complaint from a teacher receiving a PDF from me.
Here's what I want: That sound ALWAYS gets mixed. No ifs, no buts. System-wide for anything at all that tries to play sound.
Agreed. I'm a 4 year linux user (Noobuntu- shrugs), but pulseaudio is definitely my biggest annoyance.
In windows XP and Vista, one can Fast User Switch while playing audio, which plays through uninterrupted. This is the behavior I would expect.
isn't this the kind of thing app armour does? I don't personally use it, but i thought there were filesystem permissions to allow deny certain users or processes from accessing and modifying files as well. Oh wait. This is windows we're talking about.
There is also, of course, the possibility of windows update running as root and getting to put files anywhere it wants anyway. But at least this would be obvious misbehavior. Perhaps MS needs to rethink application security.
Battery Swap Stations?