MY setup will always have a BIG keyboard and a BIG screen.
Think virtual reality. The screen can be as big as you like (movie screen, anyone?). I like the clickety of the keys, so I can see a good argument for keeping the keyboard, but perhaps something new will come along that I'll like better. Dunno.
Not to mention joysticks, flightsticks, speakers, printers, etc. Are all these GIANT devices going to attach to some walkman-sized PC kept in your pocket?
Think wireless. Nothing really HAS to plug into the computer.
I like my big-ass PC, too, but I really like my PDA, as well. If I could get the functionality of my PC into my PDA, I'd be all for that. I think that's the point behind the "end of the PC" arguments. I wouldn't be surprised to see the PC form-factor becoming reserved for server type things and little PDAs for printing and gaming and coding and such.
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But if you move the energy production to a place that can do it more cleanly and efficiently (like a city power plant) and away from the internal combustion engine, then it's still a net good.
DialPad consistently starts getting REAL bad (unintelligibly choppy) for me after about 3 or 4 minutes of conversation between me with ADSL and a friend with a cable modem (in another city in the same state in the US), so it's not a connection speed issue.
Notice the little down arrow next to the back arrow (at least on IE 5 for me)? Click on that to see a brief history of previously visited pages. You can select whichever page from that list you want and your browser will take you there. It's a good tool for this kind of problem. I'm surprised that you haven't run into this before. Netscape had this feature even before IE did, it's not a new thing.
At post number 35, I don't think that you've got a reasonable census for making such a statement. You should have waited another half hour or two before posting what you'd already decided to say.
Doubt it. Couples nowadays don't (usually) give birth to identical children, despite the chromosomes of the mom and dad remaining unchanged. Of course, there is always The Milkman theory of species diversification, but I tend to think that every sperm or egg contain unique genetic information even within a single individual (or however that should best be said, you know what I mean...)
I thought the Microsoft Intellimouse w/ IntelliEye was really cool until it just plain stopped working one day. I probably just got a lame mouse, and another would be great, but I have several normal mice and so can't justify getting another one.
Charity is nice, but inappropriate in this case. Part of the demographic information was annual income. Everyone I know that received one (including me) makes over $30K/year, and everyone (in my limited purview) also owns a computer already.
There's an add that uses Flash that sometimes shows up on webreference.com for some financial site that always captivates me. I know, stupid word for an ad, but it just looks so COOL. I clicked through to their site just to send them an email complimenting their banner ad.
You are right about the sliding scale thing, but the "market price" had nothing to do with it.
They wanted your credit card info because the computer was "worth" $500 the day it was delivered to you. Every month that you abided by their usage policy, it would be "worth" $10 less. So after a year, the computer would be "worth" $380... meaning that if you didn't abide by the usage policy and they wanted the computer back, you could either ship it back to them (at your expense) or pay $380 for it. Eventually, the $10/month would add up your owning the computer free and clear.
It depends on the model of FreePC she has. A friend of mine has his FreePC ad stuff done differently than mine. But the email I got from FreePC said to: 1.) boot into Safe Mode (press F8 a bunch after a reboot, until the boot menu comes up) 2.) open Windows Explorer 3.) navigate to Program Files 4.) delete the folder "PC" 5.) reboot, and that's it. no more ads.
Older FreePCs have a different setup, so if you don't see a PC folder when you are in Safe Mode, then ignore this list.
I had a linux guru friend of mine telnet into my machine later this evening, and he was able to get GNOME under RedHat v6.1 running at 1024x768x32 on my machine (but the monitor won't go above 60Hz at that res, and I know that from the Compaq specs for the monitor at that res, so there's some flicker to enjoy), so the roadblock was just me.
As a customer, I received an email at my contact email address that I specified when filling out their demographic application form. I also received mail by post to the address I specified in the application. Perhaps you didn't put accurate info in your application?
I received the email.... some time ago. I received the postal letter a week or two ago.
I was just in discussions with them about my FreePC not meeting my needs (because the ads made the K6-2 388 seem like a 386), and the probability of my returning the machine to them when the announcement came through.
The Presario 5301 (which is the version of FreePC I received) runs RedHat Linux v6.1, and Win98 as is. The imbedded SiS530 video makes X suck, so I'm mostly running without X, but if 800x600x8 is fine with you, then by all means X away.
Neither BeOS nor Caldera OpenLinux work on it. I don't have BSD to try it out.
1.) Couldn't we consider the location of the big bang singularity to be "the centre of the Universe"? I don't know relativity at all, so this may be a counter-intuitive feature of relativity, but even if EVERYTHING is expanding, then things on the OTHER SIDE of the point of the singularity would appear to be expanding away from us faster than the things that are expanding away from us nearby, right?
2.) Once a wavelength gets altered in its journey, how can you tell that it was ever a different wavelength?
3.) My own amateur and thoroughly unresearched thought on the age of the universe is that the universe is spacially infinite (and not in a mobius strip sense). There may have been a big bang that caused our own neck of the woods, but I think that you could fly right out of our "universe" and into the next one without even realizing it (except that everything would suddenly be moving apart at a different speed than we are accustomed to). My logic behind this is:
a.) If you accept that the light we are seeing from distant galaxies is x years old with a direct correlation to the speed of light in a vacuum, then it makes sense that if we just look past those galaxies we'll see farther and farther into the past, right? And somewhere farther in the past is the Big Bang. Have we just not built a powerful enough telescope to see the Big Bang yet? Even if you agree with some arguments saying that the universe expanded much faster than the speed of light, the light given off from it would tend to travel... at about the speed of light, right? So we may never see the light on the leading edge of the BB, but we'd HAVE to see the light from the trailing edge at some time... if the Big Bang expanded at more than three times the speed of light, then perhaps the light from the trailing edge is still traveling at twice the speed of light away from us?!? Light traveling faster than the speed of light has to throw a wrench into someone's equation.
1.) If there were a Big Bang that everything exploded from, why are we not substantially closer to one side of the background than the other? Say we look in a direction and the background is 14 billion light years away. We should be able to turn around in the other direction and see the background at 5 or 60 billion light years away, right? I didn't plug any math into this, I'm not making a point, just asking a question.
2.) X-rays are just another wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum, right? What says that a wavelength can't get changed in the course of its travels across the universe? Passing through nebulae, slipping around black holes, etc. seems like a wavelength would change fairly often from light year to light year, right? What makes us so sure that the x-rays CHANDRA is imaging are pristine, untampered, reliable wavelengths? Is there no method of turning a microwave into an x-ray, and vice versa, or even degrading the wavelength into the visible spectrum (and back)?
3.) If we really are seeing 14 billion years into the past, and this represents something close to the beginning of the universe, why are we seeing galaxies? The big bang isn't reported to have exploded into tidy little galaxies. Why aren't we seeing large, hazy globs or strings, or something? If we are seeing galaxies (or whatever being viewable as bounded pinpoints), then doesn't that imply that the universe is vastly older than the oldest images we have yet seen?
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Think virtual reality. The screen can be as big as you like (movie screen, anyone?). I like the clickety of the keys, so I can see a good argument for keeping the keyboard, but perhaps something new will come along that I'll like better. Dunno.
Not to mention joysticks, flightsticks, speakers, printers, etc. Are all these GIANT devices going to attach to some walkman-sized PC kept in your pocket?
Think wireless. Nothing really HAS to plug into the computer.
I like my big-ass PC, too, but I really like my PDA, as well. If I could get the functionality of my PC into my PDA, I'd be all for that. I think that's the point behind the "end of the PC" arguments. I wouldn't be surprised to see the PC form-factor becoming reserved for server type things and little PDAs for printing and gaming and coding and such.
Single user today, yes. Multiple user soon, yes.
But if you move the energy production to a place that can do it more cleanly and efficiently (like a city power plant) and away from the internal combustion engine, then it's still a net good.
DialPad consistently starts getting REAL bad (unintelligibly choppy) for me after about 3 or 4 minutes of conversation between me with ADSL and a friend with a cable modem (in another city in the same state in the US), so it's not a connection speed issue.
boxy but good is working on a nice X11 email app (TickMail), but it's a commercial app (not free). Another hat in a suddenly crowded ring.
zzzzzzzz...
Notice the little down arrow next to the back arrow (at least on IE 5 for me)? Click on that to see a brief history of previously visited pages. You can select whichever page from that list you want and your browser will take you there. It's a good tool for this kind of problem. I'm surprised that you haven't run into this before. Netscape had this feature even before IE did, it's not a new thing.
At post number 35, I don't think that you've got a reasonable census for making such a statement. You should have waited another half hour or two before posting what you'd already decided to say.
Doubt it. Couples nowadays don't (usually) give birth to identical children, despite the chromosomes of the mom and dad remaining unchanged. Of course, there is always The Milkman theory of species diversification, but I tend to think that every sperm or egg contain unique genetic information even within a single individual (or however that should best be said, you know what I mean...)
Would something like Freedom.net allow you to get around this whole internet tax thing by concealing the physical location of the point-of-sale?
I thought the Microsoft Intellimouse w/ IntelliEye was really cool until it just plain stopped working one day. I probably just got a lame mouse, and another would be great, but I have several normal mice and so can't justify getting another one.
Charity is nice, but inappropriate in this case. Part of the demographic information was annual income. Everyone I know that received one (including me) makes over $30K/year, and everyone (in my limited purview) also owns a computer already.
This story is almost a month old. Read the other comments, too.
There's an add that uses Flash that sometimes shows up on webreference.com for some financial site that always captivates me. I know, stupid word for an ad, but it just looks so COOL. I clicked through to their site just to send them an email complimenting their banner ad.
They wanted your credit card info because the computer was "worth" $500 the day it was delivered to you. Every month that you abided by their usage policy, it would be "worth" $10 less. So after a year, the computer would be "worth" $380... meaning that if you didn't abide by the usage policy and they wanted the computer back, you could either ship it back to them (at your expense) or pay $380 for it. Eventually, the $10/month would add up your owning the computer free and clear.
1.) boot into Safe Mode (press F8 a bunch after a reboot, until the boot menu comes up)
2.) open Windows Explorer
3.) navigate to Program Files
4.) delete the folder "PC"
5.) reboot, and that's it. no more ads.
Older FreePCs have a different setup, so if you don't see a PC folder when you are in Safe Mode, then ignore this list.
Bzzzzt! The FreePC Presario 5301 ships with an ISA 56K v.90 modem. Not a winmodem.
I had a linux guru friend of mine telnet into my machine later this evening, and he was able to get GNOME under RedHat v6.1 running at 1024x768x32 on my machine (but the monitor won't go above 60Hz at that res, and I know that from the Compaq specs for the monitor at that res, so there's some flicker to enjoy), so the roadblock was just me.
380 MHz AMD K6-2
512KB L2 Pipeline Burst Cache
64MB 100 MHz SyncDRAM
4.3GB UltraDMA Quantum Fireball HDD
32X MAx CD-ROM (IDE)
Integrated 2X AGP (SiS 530)
8MB shared video memory
56K ITU v.90 modem
and sound is also integrated onto the motherboard
and a 15" Compaq MV520 monitor and JBL Pro speakers (and keyboard and mouse)
I got a K6-2 388 in mine.
I received the email .... some time ago. I received the postal letter a week or two ago.
So that was pretty cool.
Neither BeOS nor Caldera OpenLinux work on it. I don't have BSD to try it out.
2.) Once a wavelength gets altered in its journey, how can you tell that it was ever a different wavelength?
3.) My own amateur and thoroughly unresearched thought on the age of the universe is that the universe is spacially infinite (and not in a mobius strip sense). There may have been a big bang that caused our own neck of the woods, but I think that you could fly right out of our "universe" and into the next one without even realizing it (except that everything would suddenly be moving apart at a different speed than we are accustomed to). My logic behind this is:
a.) If you accept that the light we are seeing from distant galaxies is x years old with a direct correlation to the speed of light in a vacuum, then it makes sense that if we just look past those galaxies we'll see farther and farther into the past, right? And somewhere farther in the past is the Big Bang. Have we just not built a powerful enough telescope to see the Big Bang yet? Even if you agree with some arguments saying that the universe expanded much faster than the speed of light, the light given off from it would tend to travel... at about the speed of light, right? So we may never see the light on the leading edge of the BB, but we'd HAVE to see the light from the trailing edge at some time... if the Big Bang expanded at more than three times the speed of light, then perhaps the light from the trailing edge is still traveling at twice the speed of light away from us?!? Light traveling faster than the speed of light has to throw a wrench into someone's equation.
Again, thanks.
2.) X-rays are just another wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum, right? What says that a wavelength can't get changed in the course of its travels across the universe? Passing through nebulae, slipping around black holes, etc. seems like a wavelength would change fairly often from light year to light year, right? What makes us so sure that the x-rays CHANDRA is imaging are pristine, untampered, reliable wavelengths? Is there no method of turning a microwave into an x-ray, and vice versa, or even degrading the wavelength into the visible spectrum (and back)?
3.) If we really are seeing 14 billion years into the past, and this represents something close to the beginning of the universe, why are we seeing galaxies? The big bang isn't reported to have exploded into tidy little galaxies. Why aren't we seeing large, hazy globs or strings, or something? If we are seeing galaxies (or whatever being viewable as bounded pinpoints), then doesn't that imply that the universe is vastly older than the oldest images we have yet seen?
Thanks.