Yeah, i had a Newton 1.0, I think it was the very first to come out, and it was worse than useless. I would spend hours training it to read my handwriting, then I would try to enter one sentence and it would completely bugger it up.
Then my mates would pick it up, write something, and it would read it perfectly (even the left handed bloke)..... BASTARD MACHINE!
All you need is 2 50-giggers, which you can recoup the cost of by selling the CDs (possibly even make a profit!)
I was only thinking about this the other day...
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Right. First catch your asteroid, with a goodly proportion of Iron or Aluminium. Feed it into a processing plant. Processing plant grinds it down, smelts it, purifys it, does whatever it has to do, then extrudes a 20ft diameter hollow tube, curved to a radius of 200 foot. Repeat. Make another 2 with a cross sectional radius of about a foot less, then feed them inside your first two. Bolt em to an I-shaped center piece and viola! instant space station!
Spin it, spray the insides with insulation, put up some dry wall and some nice drapes... home!
I have been keeping my eye on Qubit who seem to be near to a web tablet with a wireless connection to a base station with either a modem or ethernet connection.
I want to kit out our whole office with these and Star Portal (or some such). If they ever reach these shores... (Ireland)
Forget Palms, what happens when Bluetooth becomes commonplace? For instance, a mobile phone virus that makes the phone ring uncontrollably once it has passed the virus on. Imagine a crowded train platform with a wave of ringing phones going across it...
I have a siemensS25 mobile phone. It is meant to have WAP in it, but only 1.0 (totally unsupported in this country (Ireland)).
However, the S25 has a built in modem, which connects through the infra-red port.
It took me 5 minutes to set up a palm III (yes, the same as you already have) to surf the web and collect email directly (pdq), using my standard dial-up free isp.
A little slow, perhaps, but easy and cheap (you only have to buy the phone)
M$ Law-talking-guy: So you can't pull the posts because the comments are owned by the posters, right? Roblimo a-quivering: Yes. M$LTG: But what about the book? RLAQ: Book? M$LTG: The one where you used posters comments without their permission, doesn't that mean that you really think that the posts are owned by you? RLAQ: DAMN YOU KATZ, YOU'VE SUNK US!
Okay. I live in Ireland, but I think I have a point.
The views of the individual mean very little in this type of situation (Not even yours, michael;). Time Warner AOL is a very big corporation, with a lot of backing and many good legal minds behind it. You need to band together to show that its not just 70 people that don't like this.
Take the letter above, or something similar, and attach a list of cosignatories. All American members of slashdot who consent have their names and addresses added to the list. There. Instant petition.
Just do something. There's already DVD's I can't get over here, or have to wait 6 months for.
I started off (admittedly a bit earlier than 13) on stuff like Harry Harrison, Douglas Adams, Doc Smith's Lensman series. It was only later I started getting into Frank Herbert's Dune, and Iain M Banks' Culture.
Good lord, it's like saying War and Peace makes a good reading primer! (ie. worthy, but no way is it gonna be read)
Display Electronics in the UK is "Europe's Largest Surplus Supplier". They have 3U 19" racks available for £39.95 Sterling or $65.91US, plus a lot more besides.
I have bought 2 units off them for work: a 42U for £345 and a 32U for £245. Both came with all the fixin's, lockable doors and side panels, elecricity distribution panel, etc. They have been in place about a year now, and no probs
Please note, I have no personal connection, yada yada yada, only a satisfied customer, blah blah blah
In my last job, I was paid a salary. I had to travel a lot, and it was felt that fixed monthly pay was the easiest way to pay us. I was living in an expensive city (Dublin) and was just about managing.
Then my car got nicked...
There was no way I could replace it. As I was travelling so much there was no way I could moonlight to make extra cash. I was also having problems with not getting paid for losing an entire weekend travelling. So I quit.
I now work for an engineering firm (aircraft maint) where everyone except the very top level get paid a wage, with 1.5 time for evenings and sat morning, and double time after that. While I already had a better basic pay than the last job, I have earned all of that and almost half again already, since April!
Once you use an electronic time booking system, there are no issues with filling out time cards- all that is done just with a barcode swipe morning and evening.
Trust me, after seeing both sides of the coin, getting paid extra money for doing extra work is the only way to fly...
Not a million miles away: Shannon, Co. Clare. email me on devans@shannonmro.nospam.ie if you want to know anything. Also there's an org called shannonsoft (chaired by my brother in law) that is a group of software companies in the shannon region (clare, limerick, North tipp, south offaly)
Ireland is great to live in. But, you should probably note some of this stuff first: Housing is Dublin is expensive. Like £90K($121K) for a one bed apartment / £170K($229K) for a 3 bed terrace type expensive. Cheaper outside of Dublin - my 3bed in the west would cost about £70K($95K) now. Cars in Ireland are expensive. The gov charges import duty on cars, then VAT (21%) on top of that. A Ford Mondeo 1.6l (US=Contour) costs upwards of £16K($21.5K) Tax is high. 46% over £14K PA, with a tax free allowance of £120/Week, works out to more than 1/4 of your pay. Petrol is expensive. £0.65 per litre, or over £3($4.25) per gallon. Pay is quite good. I'm admin for a 40-user network in a production environment in the west of Ireland, with no formal qualifications but 3 yrs experience, and I'm on about £24K ($32K). With an MCSE I could add £10K to that. Mind you, if anyone from the States offered...
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Yeah, i had a Newton 1.0, I think it was the very first to come out, and it was worse than useless. I would spend hours training it to read my handwriting, then I would try to enter one sentence and it would completely bugger it up.
Then my mates would pick it up, write something, and it would read it perfectly (even the left handed bloke)..... BASTARD MACHINE!
All you need is 2 50-giggers, which you can recoup the cost of by selling the CDs (possibly even make a profit!)
Spin it, spray the insides with insulation, put up some dry wall and some nice drapes... home!
Rouge? IIRC, Asteroids was a black and white vector graphics game, how did they manage to get some red in there?
Damn, them Atari programmers must have been good....
That's funny. Didn't they release an album called "I'm sick of this American Life"?
...if only to piss him off
I want to kit out our whole office with these and Star Portal (or some such). If they ever reach these shores... (Ireland)
knacker (v) (1) to bollox something up; (2) to tea leaf something; (3) (n) an Irish tinker
Forget Palms, what happens when Bluetooth becomes commonplace? For instance, a mobile phone virus that makes the phone ring uncontrollably once it has passed the virus on. Imagine a crowded train platform with a wave of ringing phones going across it...
I use e-smith Server and Gateway. They are just about to bring out V4.0, which has lots of functionality over the V3.1 that I am using (and, may I say, am extremely happy with). When you order it you get a floppy and a CD. Stick them both in a pentium with 2 NICs and it will rewrite the hard drive with Red Hat, configure Apache, Qmail, Squid, SMB/Appletalk for use either as a full-blown web server or intranet server, then let you change config with a web interface while still letting you telnet in as root to add other stuff (most RPMs).
When I first bought this, I was a complete Linux newbie, and I had it running inside 30 minutes.
However, the S25 has a built in modem, which connects through the infra-red port.
It took me 5 minutes to set up a palm III (yes, the same as you already have) to surf the web and collect email directly (pdq), using my standard dial-up free isp.
A little slow, perhaps, but easy and cheap (you only have to buy the phone)
I can see it now: Roblimo is on the stand...
M$ Law-talking-guy: So you can't pull the posts because the comments are owned by the posters, right?
Roblimo a-quivering: Yes.
M$LTG: But what about the book?
RLAQ: Book?
M$LTG: The one where you used posters comments without their permission, doesn't that mean that you really think that the posts are owned by you?
RLAQ: DAMN YOU KATZ, YOU'VE SUNK US!
How did they do this without getting killed???
I have 67,000 copies of MS Windows 2000 for sale. They are a little gold-looking, but they work fine!!
Installs in an hour, add addresses via a web interface and so much more, it's really quite exhilarating....;-)
The views of the individual mean very little in this type of situation (Not even yours, michael ;). Time Warner AOL is a very big corporation, with a lot of backing and many good legal minds behind it. You need to band together to show that its not just 70 people that don't like this.
Take the letter above, or something similar, and attach a list of cosignatories. All American members of slashdot who consent have their names and addresses added to the list. There. Instant petition.
Just do something. There's already DVD's I can't get over here, or have to wait 6 months for.
Yeah, what if the script kiddie lives a way more interesting life than you, buys cooler geek toys, subscribes to cooler mail lists than you?
You'll have to pretend your name is Manonna and say you're Dutch.
No, Pennsylvania Dutch....
I started off (admittedly a bit earlier than 13) on stuff like Harry Harrison, Douglas Adams, Doc Smith's Lensman series. It was only later I started getting into Frank Herbert's Dune, and Iain M Banks' Culture.
Good lord, it's like saying War and Peace makes a good reading primer! (ie. worthy, but no way is it gonna be read)
I have bought 2 units off them for work: a 42U for £345 and a 32U for £245. Both came with all the fixin's, lockable doors and side panels, elecricity distribution panel, etc. They have been in place about a year now, and no probs
Please note, I have no personal connection, yada yada yada, only a satisfied customer, blah blah blah
Try an XKR if you don't want to end up looking like you've been testing JTO units on an Impala ;-)
no. Automatable is. (see Websters)
In my last job, I was paid a salary. I had to travel a lot, and it was felt that fixed monthly pay was the easiest way to pay us. I was living in an expensive city (Dublin) and was just about managing.
Then my car got nicked...
There was no way I could replace it. As I was travelling so much there was no way I could moonlight to make extra cash. I was also having problems with not getting paid for losing an entire weekend travelling. So I quit.
I now work for an engineering firm (aircraft maint) where everyone except the very top level get paid a wage, with 1.5 time for evenings and sat morning, and double time after that. While I already had a better basic pay than the last job, I have earned all of that and almost half again already, since April!
Once you use an electronic time booking system, there are no issues with filling out time cards- all that is done just with a barcode swipe morning and evening.
Trust me, after seeing both sides of the coin, getting paid extra money for doing extra work is the only way to fly...
Not a million miles away: Shannon, Co. Clare. email me on devans@shannonmro.nospam.ie if you want to know anything. Also there's an org called shannonsoft (chaired by my brother in law) that is a group of software companies in the shannon region (clare, limerick, North tipp, south offaly)
Ireland is great to live in. But, you should probably note some of this stuff first: Housing is Dublin is expensive. Like £90K($121K) for a one bed apartment / £170K($229K) for a 3 bed terrace type expensive. Cheaper outside of Dublin - my 3bed in the west would cost about £70K($95K) now. Cars in Ireland are expensive. The gov charges import duty on cars, then VAT (21%) on top of that. A Ford Mondeo 1.6l (US=Contour) costs upwards of £16K($21.5K) Tax is high. 46% over £14K PA, with a tax free allowance of £120/Week, works out to more than 1/4 of your pay. Petrol is expensive. £0.65 per litre, or over £3($4.25) per gallon. Pay is quite good. I'm admin for a 40-user network in a production environment in the west of Ireland, with no formal qualifications but 3 yrs experience, and I'm on about £24K ($32K). With an MCSE I could add £10K to that. Mind you, if anyone from the States offered...