Here is a thought. Build a dragster without a driver.
A light sensor to detect the "Go" light. (Yeah I know tons about racing.)
A little computer power to keep it running straight, and to tell it when to start and stop.
Well, Pat Robertson would know all about deals with the devil.
I mean it is not like he would forget the deal he himself made with haiti only 200 years ago.
There are 2 computers sitting on a table one costs $1199, and the other costs $729. Which are you going to try to hack?
$1199 = Cheepest MacBook Pro.
$729 = Dell Vostro with comparable specs.
paperbacks don't survive too many readings; they're designed to be semi-disposable.
Interesting, because I have a number of paperback books published in the 1950's Well, worn, but still just as readable as the day they were printed.
This is one of the main things that stops me from embracing e-books. How do you read 60 year old data? For the most part the hardware no longer exists to read data from 1950s - 1960s computers. If I buy an e-book today will I be able to reread it in 2070? If I buy a paper book, I will.
All right thinking people prefer their porn to be clean, hygienic and a respectful paean to the mortal incarnation of the Earth Goddess. In fact, I'll only watch procreative missionary sex between a husband and wife. Fully clothed. Shot in the dark.
Due to the advent of IR cameras this type of porn is getting more popular.;)
I picked up a copy of PM, for the train trip home. Over all not bad, but I kept looking forward to the ads in the back. When I finally got the the ads, I was disappointed. No ads for highly improbable devices, no ads for army surplus jeeps at $20. I miss the old days!
You are seriously "just making a childhood memory better than it really was". I watched it through a few months ago. Honestly it is best left in your treasured childhood memories. For me, Star Trek the Animated Series wins hands down as worst piece of crap that I liked when I was a kid.
Well, there is Entourage. But every Mac user I know who is using it hates it. I do recall reading somewhere that M$ is finally porting Outlook fully to the Mac, but I don't remember where I read it.
Of course you could always do yourself a a favor and toss the exchange server and replace it with the far superior Kerio mailserver. Then you can use Mac Mail, and iCal on the Mac, and Outlook for the poor bastards still forced to use windows. http://www.kerio.com/mailserver
The trackpad on the HP is pretty bad. But since the only thing I use the HackBook for, is video, and sometimes a little mild surfing on my commute I can deal with it.
Stealing all my snow. Bastards! I live further than anyone else from the office, if it snows I get a snow day. So far this winter it has snowed once on my way home from work, and it was all gone by morning.
I can hear you asking where I live... I live in the best place in the world! Vancouver Canada.
I thought it was quite obvious. Mods need a sense of humour implant.
Controller: I know but this guy has no flying experience at all. He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too.
Note: Humour spelled correctly in houour of the Great Leslie Nielsen.
I am advocating that next election we simply remove the party leaders. They have shown over and over again that that are incapable of leading, and don't even seem to be able to work and play well with others.
As you so rightly pointed out there are no good choices. I for one would vote for the first one that can show me they realize that if you have $10 you can't spend $20. This simple concept seems to be beyond most/all politicians.
I have little doubt the businesses will find uses for tablets. But for that to happen they will need to be made much more rugged. Most businesses will buy an expensive rugged product over a cheep disposable product every time.
Just thinking about it now, perhaps ChromeOS would be a good match for such a device.
For some reason everyone seems to think a tablet is the holy grail of computing. I can tell you, for most uses they don't add any value. I have owned two of them, and found both to be uncomfortable, and difficult to use. On the other hand, my HackBook Mini (AKA HP Mini 1000 with Snow leopard) gets used daily, and is an absolute pleasure to use.
Tablets seem like a solution in search of a problem to me.
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I wouldn't know, I have been buying only AMD chips for over a decade.
There will be an app for that. :)
That is funny, I would call them time wasters. Including gmail. I hate webmail!
Get off my lawn!
I would bow to your expertise, but for some reason I really don't feel like bending over right now. :)
Here is a thought. Build a dragster without a driver.
A light sensor to detect the "Go" light. (Yeah I know tons about racing.)
A little computer power to keep it running straight, and to tell it when to start and stop.
I wonder how it would do against a living driver.
I always found it interesting that Starships have mainframes.
Well, Pat Robertson would know all about deals with the devil.
I mean it is not like he would forget the deal he himself made with haiti only 200 years ago.
There are 2 computers sitting on a table one costs $1199, and the other costs $729. Which are you going to try to hack?
$1199 = Cheepest MacBook Pro.
$729 = Dell Vostro with comparable specs.
Interesting, because I have a number of paperback books published in the 1950's Well, worn, but still just as readable as the day they were printed.
This is one of the main things that stops me from embracing e-books. How do you read 60 year old data? For the most part the hardware no longer exists to read data from 1950s - 1960s computers. If I buy an e-book today will I be able to reread it in 2070? If I buy a paper book, I will.
Due to the advent of IR cameras this type of porn is getting more popular. ;)
You are lucky... I pick up the 24 hour all Polka all the time station on my dental work.
I picked up a copy of PM, for the train trip home. Over all not bad, but I kept looking forward to the ads in the back. When I finally got the the ads, I was disappointed. No ads for highly improbable devices, no ads for army surplus jeeps at $20. I miss the old days!
Now get off my lawn!
You are seriously "just making a childhood memory better than it really was". I watched it through a few months ago. Honestly it is best left in your treasured childhood memories. For me, Star Trek the Animated Series wins hands down as worst piece of crap that I liked when I was a kid.
Well, there is Entourage. But every Mac user I know who is using it hates it. I do recall reading somewhere that M$ is finally porting Outlook fully to the Mac, but I don't remember where I read it.
Of course you could always do yourself a a favor and toss the exchange server and replace it with the far superior Kerio mailserver. Then you can use Mac Mail, and iCal on the Mac, and Outlook for the poor bastards still forced to use windows.
http://www.kerio.com/mailserver
The trackpad on the HP is pretty bad. But since the only thing I use the HackBook for, is video, and sometimes a little mild surfing on my commute I can deal with it.
for every BS Apple product rumor, I could probably afford the new Apple iTablet when it finally comes out in 2025.
For the record I own a MacBook Pro, and a Mac Mini.
Not to mention my HackBook Mini. (HP mini 1116 running Snow Leopard.)
Stealing all my snow. Bastards! I live further than anyone else from the office, if it snows I get a snow day. So far this winter it has snowed once on my way home from work, and it was all gone by morning.
I can hear you asking where I live... I live in the best place in the world! Vancouver Canada.
I thought it was quite obvious. Mods need a sense of humour implant.
Controller: I know but this guy has no flying experience at all. He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too.
Note: Humour spelled correctly in houour of the Great Leslie Nielsen.
I am advocating that next election we simply remove the party leaders. They have shown over and over again that that are incapable of leading, and don't even seem to be able to work and play well with others.
As you so rightly pointed out there are no good choices. I for one would vote for the first one that can show me they realize that if you have $10 you can't spend $20. This simple concept seems to be beyond most/all politicians.
Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
Fugnutish, is a perfectly cromulent word.
It embiggens all who use it.
I have little doubt the businesses will find uses for tablets. But for that to happen they will need to be made much more rugged. Most businesses will buy an expensive rugged product over a cheep disposable product every time.
Just thinking about it now, perhaps ChromeOS would be a good match for such a device.
For some reason everyone seems to think a tablet is the holy grail of computing. I can tell you, for most uses they don't add any value. I have owned two of them, and found both to be uncomfortable, and difficult to use. On the other hand, my HackBook Mini (AKA HP Mini 1000 with Snow leopard) gets used daily, and is an absolute pleasure to use.
Tablets seem like a solution in search of a problem to me.
That is what they want you to believe! They got to you didn't they!
You had little rocks!?!???!?!? Luxury. We had to make do with big rocks, and bigger rocks. A "Hello World" program could weigh several tons.