Maybe this should be a sign to NASA or someone that a concerted space junk pickup program should be initiated. Someone needs to take the initiative here. I was looking at a map of where man made objects are orbiting, and they were extremely concentrated around the equator. I know that's still a big circle, but eventually this will become a problem. Sure the space shuttle could pick these things up and bring them home, but isn't there an easy way to break them up into smaller pieces and deorbot them without launching and relaunching the vehicle that does this? Maybe an orbiting arm that can rip old satelites apart and drop the pieces one at a time. Any ideas?
I've had a stowaway for about 2 months now and love it. (Actually mine is for the Palm, and appears to be distributed by Palm Inc.) There are a couple of things that I have noticed about it that get in the way. The fact that it bends in the middle is annyoing. That combined with the fragile docking layout makes it next to impossible to type on your lap. But, put a book in your lap and you're good to go. The second thing that gets me is the lack of some important keys. There is no home or end key which can get very frustrating. You can scroll around word-at-a-time with this one though, just by using the CTRL key. The final thing that gets in the way of a total 5 start rating is that one of the programs I use all of the time, Brain Forest, doesn't have all of it's commands fully supported, especially cmd-1 which is mapped to something else on the keyboard. All and all, I love it. Especially since I got mine for $20 when Office Depot miss printed their add.
I think that too many of these wireless companies are targeting businesses when they should be targeting the unconnected residential users. I live in Kansas, and there are currently no high-speed options for me. I would jump at the chance to get a high speed connection what ever form it came it. Wireless is perfect for connecting many disparate users with little infrastructure. There are very few companies that have targeted us. The only bright spot I see is that the Satelite TV companies are getting in to it. It's a little more than DSL or cabel, but it's fast. SIGN ME UP!!
What's interesting here is that inadverently, GWB's case has transferred a significant amount of power from the States to the Federal Government.
What this shows is that the Florida Supreme Court went outside it's legal bounds according to it's own constitution. Would you have the Florida Supreme Court decide it's own guilt? You must appeal to a higher authority. That authority is ultimatly, if not immediatly, the US Supreme Court. It's like your parents saying "Are you sure you want to do that?" When you've clearly overstepped your bounds.
Unless you are French, you don't have any gripe in this regard. . . . Let the French make their own laws, as ridiculous as they may seem.
About 70 years ago, Nazi Germany began persecuting their own citizens. No one said anything because it was Germans on Germans. Then Germany took over Austria, then more neighbors. But those countries were mostly German anyway, so no one said anything. Then the Germans took over most of the continent and it took 5 years to get them out of power. Maybe it does make sense to take an active interest in the internal laws of other countries.
So you think that 50% voting turnout is good? There are countries that get 80% turnout routinly. I think we should strive to get less than 1/2 of the population sitting at home and not involved.
Come on! How many times do we have to go through this!? Netscape has to release a product NOW if they want to remain a MARKETABLE, MAINSTREAM browser. Yes,/.ers will go on using beta releases liek we always have, but normal people need a real release. Corporate bosses need a normal release, and no one is going to commit to a beta version of anything.
Yes there are bugs. Guess what, every software is released with bugs, usually documented and sometimes fixed bugs. But it's a matter of drawing a line. The difference between a good artist and a great artist, is that the great ones know when to stop. Release the damn browser and lets get it out there then have the fixes in the inevitable 6.1 release.
So you'd like the politicians to change their answers depending on the audience their talking to? Just tell us what we want to hear? That's been the problem for the last 8 years. Everyone thinks their getting what they want, because that's what their told. You can't please all of the people all the time, so stick to your beliefs and tell it like it is.
I wonder if Macs will become standard issue to the web hsoting community. Designers already love them, and admins are just screaming for more power to their *nix like boxes. With all of the hardware power that Apple has been putting in their boxes, does this make OSX the perfect box? What about performance compared to a Linux box running on a P3 Intel box? Where the software is free mind you.
How Unix-like is OSX? I haven't found anything saying that is will have the sime kind of mindshare as *nix. I'm curious what makes you say that it will has a true Unix core?
This is definetly a PHB article. High on opinions, and low on details. I've used CF alot, and think it's a great language. It actually does have a lot of functionality, and the custom tags let you create anything you want. I haven't used JSP, but others at my company seem to think that it's really where it's at. ASP is definetly not a good tool. Compared to the other languages, it has been shoehorned into being a web based language. It takes much more code, and it is harder to understand what that code is doing. I've just started using PHP, but I see a lot of similarities between it and CF, and think that it will be a contendor. Don't flame me on this, but the disadvantage of Perl is that you have to do all of the prints and subroutine calls. With the other langugaes, you intersperse the code in with your HTML and that allows you to develop and alter the pages more quickly. I wonder if any of these languages will come out on top, or if we'll be having this discussion again in 3 years.
The questions that went to the Carnivore reviewers were riddled with similar and repetive questions. Is there some way you can audit the questions without taking the meat out of them?
We keep seeing these new hardware options with color here, wireless there. When will all of the options be brought together? My mouth drools at the thought of a color screen like the Prism, a slim factor like the PalmV, a Wireless conection like the PalmVII, and the expandability of the Handsprings. I guess the cost would be unbelievable, but I get the feeling that we're being fed the low end stuff at $200 so that the "latest model" can be $500. I look at my 3 year old PalmIII and wonder. "What is the big improvement?"
I just tried to by a Dell a couple of weeks ago sans OS, and they told me that they didn't want to expose me to the trouble that would cause me. So I went elsewhere. Problem solved.
Aren't Java Server Pages, well on the server? Unless I'm mistaken, they generate an html page that is sent to the browser. Maybe it's your page design that doesn't work.
In case you didn't see it in the Corel announcement, 24 million shares work out to about 25% of the outstanding shares of common stock. I'm not sure what percentage Corel owns, but that is a very hefty sum.
But if you look at the new focus on making a computer more than a beige box, that has to be attributed to Jobs, or at least his company. Sure to a true geek the color of your hardware makes no difference, but to an everyday user, it makes a lot of difference. That's why you can buy your car in more colors than just black.
Read the article It will have lithium-ion batteries. Everyone talks about color draining your batteries, but the 3c can go 3 weeks without a charge, and with the charger in the cradle, it's easy to just let it recharge while you're at your desk. Unless you plan to be away from electricity for more than 3 weeks, in which case I direct you to the/. tagline News for Nerds and ask you to leave.:)
How has handspring competed on price? Sure you can get the crappy 2MB edition for $179, now beaten by the new palm, but the decent 8MB version is $249. That's about in line with similarly equiped palms.
What will happen if one Linux distrubutor becomes so dominate as to knock the others out of business? Do they become the new MS? Sure geeks will get it from anywhere they want, but what will regular users see on the shelves? Let's say that RH does become overly dominant. They can esentially control what version will get rolled out to the public, and what gets included in that distro. Is this a scenario to be concerned about?
Why on earth would you want to read your email, browse anything, or pull up someone in your address book on your watch? Hell, you cna hardly read the things that come over phone without scrolling through ten pages to read a paragraph. There is a use for watches, telling time. Sheesh!
Nate
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Maybe this should be a sign to NASA or someone that a concerted space junk pickup program should be initiated. Someone needs to take the initiative here. I was looking at a map of where man made objects are orbiting, and they were extremely concentrated around the equator. I know that's still a big circle, but eventually this will become a problem. Sure the space shuttle could pick these things up and bring them home, but isn't there an easy way to break them up into smaller pieces and deorbot them without launching and relaunching the vehicle that does this? Maybe an orbiting arm that can rip old satelites apart and drop the pieces one at a time. Any ideas?
Nate
I've had a stowaway for about 2 months now and love it. (Actually mine is for the Palm, and appears to be distributed by Palm Inc.) There are a couple of things that I have noticed about it that get in the way. The fact that it bends in the middle is annyoing. That combined with the fragile docking layout makes it next to impossible to type on your lap. But, put a book in your lap and you're good to go. The second thing that gets me is the lack of some important keys. There is no home or end key which can get very frustrating. You can scroll around word-at-a-time with this one though, just by using the CTRL key. The final thing that gets in the way of a total 5 start rating is that one of the programs I use all of the time, Brain Forest, doesn't have all of it's commands fully supported, especially cmd-1 which is mapped to something else on the keyboard. All and all, I love it. Especially since I got mine for $20 when Office Depot miss printed their add.
Nate
I think that too many of these wireless companies are targeting businesses when they should be targeting the unconnected residential users. I live in Kansas, and there are currently no high-speed options for me. I would jump at the chance to get a high speed connection what ever form it came it. Wireless is perfect for connecting many disparate users with little infrastructure. There are very few companies that have targeted us. The only bright spot I see is that the Satelite TV companies are getting in to it. It's a little more than DSL or cabel, but it's fast. SIGN ME UP!!
Nate
What's interesting here is that inadverently, GWB's case has transferred a significant amount of power from the States to the Federal Government.
What this shows is that the Florida Supreme Court went outside it's legal bounds according to it's own constitution. Would you have the Florida Supreme Court decide it's own guilt? You must appeal to a higher authority. That authority is ultimatly, if not immediatly, the US Supreme Court. It's like your parents saying "Are you sure you want to do that?" When you've clearly overstepped your bounds.
Nate Baxley
Unless you are French, you don't have any gripe in this regard. . . . Let the French make their own laws, as ridiculous as they may seem.
About 70 years ago, Nazi Germany began persecuting their own citizens. No one said anything because it was Germans on Germans. Then Germany took over Austria, then more neighbors. But those countries were mostly German anyway, so no one said anything. Then the Germans took over most of the continent and it took 5 years to get them out of power. Maybe it does make sense to take an active interest in the internal laws of other countries.
Nate
To bad I work in the IT/Technical field. I guess I'll just have to find a new line of work.
Nate
So you think that 50% voting turnout is good? There are countries that get 80% turnout routinly. I think we should strive to get less than 1/2 of the population sitting at home and not involved.
Nate
Come on! How many times do we have to go through this!? Netscape has to release a product NOW if they want to remain a MARKETABLE, MAINSTREAM browser. Yes, /.ers will go on using beta releases liek we always have, but normal people need a real release. Corporate bosses need a normal release, and no one is going to commit to a beta version of anything.
Yes there are bugs. Guess what, every software is released with bugs, usually documented and sometimes fixed bugs. But it's a matter of drawing a line. The difference between a good artist and a great artist, is that the great ones know when to stop. Release the damn browser and lets get it out there then have the fixes in the inevitable 6.1 release.
Sheesh,
Nate Baxley
Any info on pricing?
I don't have any statistics in front of me, but . . . something on the order of 10-15% of IT workers are pagan
Well, if you don't have any statistics in front of you, just make up something that fits your argument. 10-15%? Where did you pull that number from?
Nate
So you'd like the politicians to change their answers depending on the audience their talking to? Just tell us what we want to hear? That's been the problem for the last 8 years. Everyone thinks their getting what they want, because that's what their told. You can't please all of the people all the time, so stick to your beliefs and tell it like it is.
Nate
I wonder if Macs will become standard issue to the web hsoting community. Designers already love them, and admins are just screaming for more power to their *nix like boxes. With all of the hardware power that Apple has been putting in their boxes, does this make OSX the perfect box? What about performance compared to a Linux box running on a P3 Intel box? Where the software is free mind you.
Nate
How Unix-like is OSX? I haven't found anything saying that is will have the sime kind of mindshare as *nix. I'm curious what makes you say that it will has a true Unix core?
Nate
This is definetly a PHB article. High on opinions, and low on details. I've used CF alot, and think it's a great language. It actually does have a lot of functionality, and the custom tags let you create anything you want. I haven't used JSP, but others at my company seem to think that it's really where it's at. ASP is definetly not a good tool. Compared to the other languages, it has been shoehorned into being a web based language. It takes much more code, and it is harder to understand what that code is doing. I've just started using PHP, but I see a lot of similarities between it and CF, and think that it will be a contendor. Don't flame me on this, but the disadvantage of Perl is that you have to do all of the prints and subroutine calls. With the other langugaes, you intersperse the code in with your HTML and that allows you to develop and alter the pages more quickly. I wonder if any of these languages will come out on top, or if we'll be having this discussion again in 3 years.
Nate Baxley
The questions that went to the Carnivore reviewers were riddled with similar and repetive questions. Is there some way you can audit the questions without taking the meat out of them?
Nate
We keep seeing these new hardware options with color here, wireless there. When will all of the options be brought together? My mouth drools at the thought of a color screen like the Prism, a slim factor like the PalmV, a Wireless conection like the PalmVII, and the expandability of the Handsprings. I guess the cost would be unbelievable, but I get the feeling that we're being fed the low end stuff at $200 so that the "latest model" can be $500. I look at my 3 year old PalmIII and wonder. "What is the big improvement?"
Nate
First you need someone worth voting for. Here's to the end of choosing the lesser of two evils.
Nate Baxley
I just tried to by a Dell a couple of weeks ago sans OS, and they told me that they didn't want to expose me to the trouble that would cause me. So I went elsewhere. Problem solved.
Nate Baxley
Aren't Java Server Pages, well on the server? Unless I'm mistaken, they generate an html page that is sent to the browser. Maybe it's your page design that doesn't work.
In case you didn't see it in the Corel announcement, 24 million shares work out to about 25% of the outstanding shares of common stock. I'm not sure what percentage Corel owns, but that is a very hefty sum.
Nate
But if you look at the new focus on making a computer more than a beige box, that has to be attributed to Jobs, or at least his company. Sure to a true geek the color of your hardware makes no difference, but to an everyday user, it makes a lot of difference. That's why you can buy your car in more colors than just black.
Nate
Read the article It will have lithium-ion batteries. Everyone talks about color draining your batteries, but the 3c can go 3 weeks without a charge, and with the charger in the cradle, it's easy to just let it recharge while you're at your desk. Unless you plan to be away from electricity for more than 3 weeks, in which case I direct you to the /. tagline News for Nerds and ask you to leave. :)
Nate
How has handspring competed on price? Sure you can get the crappy 2MB edition for $179, now beaten by the new palm, but the decent 8MB version is $249. That's about in line with similarly equiped palms.
Nate
What will happen if one Linux distrubutor becomes so dominate as to knock the others out of business? Do they become the new MS? Sure geeks will get it from anywhere they want, but what will regular users see on the shelves? Let's say that RH does become overly dominant. They can esentially control what version will get rolled out to the public, and what gets included in that distro. Is this a scenario to be concerned about?
nate
Why on earth would you want to read your email, browse anything, or pull up someone in your address book on your watch? Hell, you cna hardly read the things that come over phone without scrolling through ten pages to read a paragraph. There is a use for watches, telling time. Sheesh! Nate