I think if someone is close enough to me to do such a wireless exchange, they might as well just pick my pocket and take the keys.:P Saves them the cost of the sniffer doohickey, plus you get the physical key along with the electronic one.
No, I think they're saying that we need to buy intel's networking products.. they're obviously better than cisco's stuff, because that evil cisco "may have other ideas"!!
To me, "the old fashioned way" was when you happened to find a good song on an FTP server.. ah, the old days of websites or ratio ftp servers full of mp3s and then later people started making search engines to scour loads of them at a time for something in particular.:)
I, for one, see the logic in Steve's argument there. iTMS has changed the way I search for music - now my process is to first see if it's available on iTMS, if not I try P2P, then if it's obscure enough to not be found through P2P networks, I'll resort to Amazon.com and waiting for the physical CD in the mail.
There have been a couple times that an album I'll find on iTMS is only available by adding the whole album and paying full list price (half the songs are $.99, the rest are "album only" and the total price is more than the amount of tracks times 99 cents) in which case, I turned to Amazon, since they sell below list price on most CDs.
..is all the hooplah over this issue. It's not like this is a new paradigm. Even windows used to be spatial - win95 before they came up with the whole browser integration thing.
In Linux, I still prefer to use the command line. I'm just a keyboard whore.:) To me, "mv *../foo" requires less effort than the GUI equivalent.
My first real computer (trs-80's don't count) was an Amiga and it used a spatial interface - tho I preferred to use Directory Opus, an ol' midnight commander style file manager, for my hardcore file management.
Even on my dad's DOS machine, I primarily used Stereo Shell (another of the MC style).
So, whatever happened to that paradigm?:) Side-by-side lists of files, each navigational, but a lot more useful that the web-browser-like navigation. People are forgetting that we used to use file managers to manage the files and only sometimes open them - most of the time files were opened from the program that we were wanting to use them in. When was the last time you launched an application and THEN opend the file with the 'Open' option in the File menu?
After about 6 months of hardcore battery use, my iPod still had enough batter life to last while I flew literally to the other side of the planet. I charged it in Virginia, USA and it still worked when I got to South Korea. I listened to quite a bit of music on the plane and in the terminals.
Of course, this wasn't a scientific study, so I didn't log the hours, but I know it was several.
All I can say is that battery life (no matter how "smart" batteries become) depends on how it is used. AFAIK, a well-used battery will have better performance than one that sits stagnate for long periods.
That's if you have filevault turned on. I tried it, but it created all kinds of trouble for me, to include an incredible decrease in system responsiveness and instability that made windows 95 look good. All was back to normal when I disabled it. (1ghz iBook G4/14"/640mb)
I'm just responsible with my notebook in public areas, so the only way to get it from me is physical assault - which doesn't go over too well in modern US airports.
Shouldn't Petronas be first, since it's two towers at 451.9m ea., making it 903.8m overall.:) Can't blame the designer for being smart and defying gravity by splitting the mass into two separate chunks.
It's like this: If Billy the cashier at McDonald's works 6 hours everyday, does he only get paid minimum wage * 6? No, you have to factor in the number of days. And if he wears a spire on his head, he'll get paid even more!
Seems odd that it happened to be exactly 1,667 feet... like maybe they added a little bit extra to get past that 1,666 mark.
Actually, 1,666.7 is more accurate, I think. (that is, if it is exactly 508.0 meters) If you round off to the nearest whole foot, the guy that builds one at 1,667.2 is gonna get short-changed.
Of course they are, silly! I have over 1300 audio files on mine, mostly in mp3 format. Am I missing something here?
Oh, audiophiles... my bad. those are what the RIAA doesn't hate. Hmm.. What if we spelled MP3 differently? Empy Thrii? "I am an audiophile of discerning tastes and I encode my empy-thrii's at 256mega-giga-bps!"
What's the URL^H^H^H Phone number? It's worth a long-distance call to experience that kind of nostalgia. I wonder if the slashdot-effect counts for BBS's...
Maybe I'll dialin with my TRS-80 Model 100 - the world's best designed laptop! I even have the external 3.5" floppy drive for it and the Y2K patch so that the main menu shows the right year.
I was thinking of putting an tiny Linux computer inside my dad's TRS-80 Model 4 (in place of one of the full-height 5.25" floppy drives) and use it from the TRS-80 itself, via serial. Think of it, surfin' the net with lynx on a TRS-80.;)
The keyboard on the "ColorTRaSh" was eventually improved, but the earlier models had Fisher-Price written all over.
I wasted a few years of my childhood with one of those blasted things. Any wonder I could never touch-type until I replaced it with an IBM XT with the Model M keyboard. Been using the Model M ever since.:)
I was thinking along the same lines when LawMeme said "The King does have a point: when your "business" consists of shoplifting and the corner store installs a security camera, you're going to go out of business quickly enough that an injunction is your only hope."
I won't go into the risks of having LASIK or PRK done, as I'm sure the other thousands of positively and negatively biased replies here should cover that.
But.. If you get LASIK now and if it gives you 20/20 vision, what happens when you go back to work and continue staring at that monitor again? I think in your case, it might only be temporary as you continue to use a computer for long periods.
Remember that when you're in those marathon coding sessions, you are focusing on one fixed point for hours on end. Also, as studies have found, your blink rate decreases dramatically so your eyes aren't moisturized as well as they should be.
My advice would be this: Think very hard and read as much as you can about it.. And figure out what habits you need to change to avoid future eye-strain.
Why not build this mod into the spot where the floppy drive used to be? I just tried it with my Cassiopeia E-125 (which is about the thickest PDA released in recent years) and it fits just fine. The cradle is a bit bulky but it hangs over niceley behind my hard drive, which is in the bay immediately below.
One thing I've noticed with using computers with "Secret" stickers slapped all over it is that the software itself can be unclassified, but the computer becomes Secret when it starts processing data. I work with some systems in the USAF that are like that - the OS (solaris or windows for example) is unclas, the software installer (on a dat tape) is unclas -- but when you install everything and configure it, the system becomes secret.
Also, if you know anything about COMSEC, you might notice how a crypto device that is zeroized can be stored in plain old room (locked only to prevent theft) and you can even find schematics of some of this equipment on the net.
Yes, next thing you know, they'll become frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, and experiment briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demand participation in the decision-making process and finally resort to squatting in basements, sulking. Maybe then I can get a job counseling nerotic elevators, as The Guide mentions.
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By 'top', he meant bottom.. and by 'left', he meant right. Common mistake, y'know ;)
Try again... Next.
Dictionaries can also be purchased separately.
I think if someone is close enough to me to do such a wireless exchange, they might as well just pick my pocket and take the keys. :P Saves them the cost of the sniffer doohickey, plus you get the physical key along with the electronic one.
No, I think they're saying that we need to buy intel's networking products.. they're obviously better than cisco's stuff, because that evil cisco "may have other ideas"!!
To me, "the old fashioned way" was when you happened to find a good song on an FTP server.. ah, the old days of websites or ratio ftp servers full of mp3s and then later people started making search engines to scour loads of them at a time for something in particular. :)
I, for one, see the logic in Steve's argument there. iTMS has changed the way I search for music - now my process is to first see if it's available on iTMS, if not I try P2P, then if it's obscure enough to not be found through P2P networks, I'll resort to Amazon.com and waiting for the physical CD in the mail.
There have been a couple times that an album I'll find on iTMS is only available by adding the whole album and paying full list price (half the songs are $.99, the rest are "album only" and the total price is more than the amount of tracks times 99 cents) in which case, I turned to Amazon, since they sell below list price on most CDs.
..is all the hooplah over this issue. It's not like this is a new paradigm. Even windows used to be spatial - win95 before they came up with the whole browser integration thing.
:) To me, "mv * ../foo" requires less effort than the GUI equivalent.
:) Side-by-side lists of files, each navigational, but a lot more useful that the web-browser-like navigation. People are forgetting that we used to use file managers to manage the files and only sometimes open them - most of the time files were opened from the program that we were wanting to use them in. When was the last time you launched an application and THEN opend the file with the 'Open' option in the File menu?
In Linux, I still prefer to use the command line. I'm just a keyboard whore.
My first real computer (trs-80's don't count) was an Amiga and it used a spatial interface - tho I preferred to use Directory Opus, an ol' midnight commander style file manager, for my hardcore file management.
Even on my dad's DOS machine, I primarily used Stereo Shell (another of the MC style).
So, whatever happened to that paradigm?
After about 6 months of hardcore battery use, my iPod still had enough batter life to last while I flew literally to the other side of the planet. I charged it in Virginia, USA and it still worked when I got to South Korea. I listened to quite a bit of music on the plane and in the terminals.
Of course, this wasn't a scientific study, so I didn't log the hours, but I know it was several.
All I can say is that battery life (no matter how "smart" batteries become) depends on how it is used. AFAIK, a well-used battery will have better performance than one that sits stagnate for long periods.
... is where on Earth can you be 40 miles out of range of cell service, anymore?
That's if you have filevault turned on. I tried it, but it created all kinds of trouble for me, to include an incredible decrease in system responsiveness and instability that made windows 95 look good. All was back to normal when I disabled it. (1ghz iBook G4/14"/640mb)
I'm just responsible with my notebook in public areas, so the only way to get it from me is physical assault - which doesn't go over too well in modern US airports.
Is that "no use at all" like the pre-Y2K world-coming-to-an-end kinda way, or like the post-Y2K lot-of-hoopla-over-nothing kinda way?
It's like this: If Billy the cashier at McDonald's works 6 hours everyday, does he only get paid minimum wage * 6? No, you have to factor in the number of days. And if he wears a spire on his head, he'll get paid even more!
Seems odd that it happened to be exactly 1,667 feet... like maybe they added a little bit extra to get past that 1,666 mark.
Actually, 1,666.7 is more accurate, I think. (that is, if it is exactly 508.0 meters) If you round off to the nearest whole foot, the guy that builds one at 1,667.2 is gonna get short-changed.
Of course they are, silly! I have over 1300 audio files on mine, mostly in mp3 format. Am I missing something here?
Oh, audiophiles... my bad. those are what the RIAA doesn't hate. Hmm.. What if we spelled MP3 differently? Empy Thrii? "I am an audiophile of discerning tastes and I encode my empy-thrii's at 256mega-giga-bps!"
Maybe I'll dialin with my TRS-80 Model 100 - the world's best designed laptop! I even have the external 3.5" floppy drive for it and the Y2K patch so that the main menu shows the right year.
I was thinking of putting an tiny Linux computer inside my dad's TRS-80 Model 4 (in place of one of the full-height 5.25" floppy drives) and use it from the TRS-80 itself, via serial. Think of it, surfin' the net with lynx on a TRS-80. ;)
I'm kinda partial to "dd MMM yy" format (ie. 16 OCT 02) but maybe that's just influence from the US military.
I wasted a few years of my childhood with one of those blasted things. Any wonder I could never touch-type until I replaced it with an IBM XT with the Model M keyboard. Been using the Model M ever since. :)
I was thinking along the same lines when LawMeme said "The King does have a point: when your "business" consists of shoplifting and the corner store installs a security camera, you're going to go out of business quickly enough that an injunction is your only hope."
I won't go into the risks of having LASIK or PRK done, as I'm sure the other thousands of positively and negatively biased replies here should cover that.
But.. If you get LASIK now and if it gives you 20/20 vision, what happens when you go back to work and continue staring at that monitor again? I think in your case, it might only be temporary as you continue to use a computer for long periods.
Remember that when you're in those marathon coding sessions, you are focusing on one fixed point for hours on end. Also, as studies have found, your blink rate decreases dramatically so your eyes aren't moisturized as well as they should be.
My advice would be this: Think very hard and read as much as you can about it.. And figure out what habits you need to change to avoid future eye-strain.
Why not build this mod into the spot where the floppy drive used to be? I just tried it with my Cassiopeia E-125 (which is about the thickest PDA released in recent years) and it fits just fine. The cradle is a bit bulky but it hangs over niceley behind my hard drive, which is in the bay immediately below.
One thing I've noticed with using computers with "Secret" stickers slapped all over it is that the software itself can be unclassified, but the computer becomes Secret when it starts processing data. I work with some systems in the USAF that are like that - the OS (solaris or windows for example) is unclas, the software installer (on a dat tape) is unclas -- but when you install everything and configure it, the system becomes secret.
Also, if you know anything about COMSEC, you might notice how a crypto device that is zeroized can be stored in plain old room (locked only to prevent theft) and you can even find schematics of some of this equipment on the net.
Yes, next thing you know, they'll become frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, and experiment briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demand participation in the decision-making process and finally resort to squatting in basements, sulking. Maybe then I can get a job counseling nerotic elevators, as The Guide mentions.