The amount of garbage I've seen in email, snail mail, and cable TV has started to turn a mental red flag on: Beware of anything that comes from a Florida address.
It's not just spam. I've seen bogus sweepstakes from Clearwater, but most importantly, a vast majority of those "minimum investment required" "business opportunities" (the usual fodder of late-night cable TV ads) all come from south Florida...note all the addresses of the defendants in this comprehensive list.
The state, to me, seems to produce a disproportionate amount of schemes, spam, and crap. If I were a legitimate businessperson in southern Florida, I'd be really pissed because of all the negative associations.
Which of course begs the question--what is it about Florida that attracts such low life businesses? Mob connections, ineffective leadership, bad judicial processes?
Nice repeat of Microsoft marketing gimmickry. Microsoft's so complacent with their OS stability that they blatantly advertise their products as "more stable" than the release prior. No other company does this so proudly. Why isn't Windows six-sigma stable or three-nines stable to begin with?
Microsoft typically blames "faulty drivers" for OS failures. Imagine if a car company followed the same mantra--let's take, for example, a car that if a tire popped in a certain way, the axel would snap, and the whole car would be FUBAR'd. The car company solution would be to issue a recall, and strengthen the axel or whatever to prevent the car from dying.
Microsoft's approach, on the other hand, would be to blame the tire manufacturer while completely ignoring the problem of the faulty axel. But they'd continue to use the tires regardless, and certify them OK.
"Faulty drivers", that oh-so-convenient catch-all excuse, is simply an admission of irresponsibility, not something I can see them ethically justify.
The SEC is a burden to many small companies--most stocks that are seeing historically low values are going BACK to private ownership because the costs of having public ownership, eg, compliance with government/SEC regulation, are too high. Mandatory, increasing (Sarbanes-Oxley) government regulation on markets ensures that only companies that can pay for such high costs can remain public. Investor choice is dilluted, and with less viable companies, an industry's corporate oligopoly/duopoly/monopoly has more barriers to competition. We all have supposedly sound companies to invest, but there may be less and less of them and they ultimately, as enormous companies do, stagnate.
The SEC should be privatised into a non-profit or for-profit group, and they can put their "stamp on approval" on willing, paying corporations. Investors could see that regulations would still be in place for that company and continue to invest with a degree of confidence. It would be unlikely that established companies would forgo such voluntary regulation as they would want to maintain their investor confidence. Fraud would still be fraud in such a system--lying to the new SEC in order to recieve their blessing would still be illegal--and the new SEC would vigorously prosecute such offenses in order to protect its good name and investors would still have legal recourse to recoup losses in such a system. If the new SEC failed in its mission, the free market would give way to a better SEC. But this would be unlikely because the new SEC would have control over its own resources to ensure its good name--the government SEC is funded by tax dollars and has no real motivation to ensure compliance.
On the other hand, investors could invest in non-SEC compliant companies at their own risk if they felt that the company's resources would be better spent at improving the product instead of paying for the inherent cost of regulation and being a public company.
Most individual investors wouldn't make this decision anyway. Managers for pension and mutual funds (which hold most stocks in the US) would take the SEC blessing into the overall fund equation and come up with a risk value appropriate to the fund's holders and its mission. The NYSE and NASDAQ could continue to list compliant companies at their own discretion, new boards and exchanges could be created for approved and non-approved companies.
Non-governmental regulation exists in many places. Insurance companies test cars in addition to the USDOT, we see the TrustE seal on websites, and we can call up the Better Business Bureau to see a company's track record. Just because the SEC's been the same way for seventy years doesn't mean it's the best way, and it's certainly not the only way.
I'm largely Libertarian--and altho I don't agree with them on all issues, I think that when the discussion of politics focuses towards, as you so eloquently pointed out, government's role in providing and maintaining public sidewalks--this country will be FAR better off.
No party currently provides everything the voter wants. You vote for whom you most agree with, and hopefully when your party gains control you can filter out and finetune things through the usual legislative haggling process.
I vote Libertarian because I'm an optimist--I don't see real positive change even remotely possible when the Old Guard parties are in control. Libertarians are the only one that will provide that change, and I will continue voting for them and supporting their candidates in hopes that we will all eventually be able to marginalise out our differences.
The demo on Firefox w/ XP professional (i'm at work) keylocked the machine (eg, press caps lock, no light) and it appeared completely frozen until a couple three-finger-salutes woke the machine up enough to use the Back button to get out of the page.
I didn't hear any audio, but the video quality was wonderful. I'd love to dump Real et al. for this sort of thing--streaming media servers just tend to suck (anybody who's installed RealServer on a unix box will likely agree with me).
Moreover, if you have any sort of secure web application that has streaming video, you can just stick this in rather than trying to wrap the same security concept around two different application servers. That alone is Very Cool.
Startpagina.nl? Looks like one of the countless other sites that some RANDOM_IE_EXPLOIT bug makes as your home page, inadvertently, forever. People that usually load them usually have a spyware-infected PC/don't have a clue what they're doing online. I see it way too much. The 2.7% for Mozilla is only indicative of potential content on the page.
Using google or a site like this for stats is highly disproportionate--these pages get loaded once anybody opens up a browser window or tab, regardless of whether any content is accessed.
Most geeks I know use "about:blank" as their start page anyway.
Maybe I'm a trolling here... but I don't see that many improvements to the 600.
The keyboard is STILL too small. I've tried typing on the 600, and my fingers just do not fit on the board. Attempting to type one key will usually end up typing two to three. And I don't have fat fingers. In addition, I found the keys to be hard and uncomfortable. Rubberised keys like on the Kyocera 2235 would be more friendly to type on with less resistance.
No analog backup. Sorry, but in the US there's still massive spaces where digital just doesn't cover anything. Try driving up US-101 in CA or the highways between numerous cities in Arizona (AZ-260, 88, 89A, etc) and you'll have a several-hundred dollar paperweight. And for those of you pundits who think analog is the way of the past, just look at Verizon's or any other carrier's maps. I pay for the service, I pay for the phone. Within reason, I think it should work where I happen to be in the United States, eg, where there are people or modes of travel. Anything else is of diminished value. (BTW, I'm aware that Verizon and other carriers let you swap phones by calling with the ESN. But if your phone's dead, you really can't call, can you?:P)
No Compact Flash. I still fail to see the big deal with SD. The format is too small--both physically and in data storage size. Real, high-end digital cameras still use CF because there are serious limitations on what you can store with SD. It is still more expensive than CF, meg for meg. ($135 vs $82 for 512 MB CF and SD, respectively on froogle) Hardware availability is also limited--look at how long it took Palm to come up with an SD wifi card? You could argue that SD provides enough data storage for most mobile applications, but as the Treo 650 now has more RAM and more CPU, it's time the storage caught up to applications that will in time catch up to the specs.
Camera still limited. A rotating barrel camera like on the LG VX-7000 with some sort of flash (either integrated or attached) would be better regarded. I've tried to use the camera on my Audiovox CDM-8900 (w/ no flash) in any sort of low-light setting and it's worthless.
In summary, I'm sure I'll drop a match in the powder kegs of some Treo fanatics here, but I doubt I'm too illogical in some of my feature requests. Moreover, I could be unaware of various accessories that would give me features I requested, but I fail to see the logic in a product that requires accessories to do basic functionality, such as making calls in extended areas or taking pictures with the integrated camera.
Oh, one of the articles asked if that was a lens cover on the camera. It's a small mirror so that people getting photographed have a vague idea of where they are in the frame.
Poke fun as you may, but CD caddies simply rock for media storage and playback simply because you don't have to touch the disk to get it from the storage holder to the drive.
I don't know about most/. readers, but I find it infuriating to buy a $10 - $20 DVD or CD only to find it scratched a few months later and largely unplayable--you miss a scene because of a scratch on the DVD and the whole movie's screwed.
Caddies prevent scratching, dust, fingerprints, and a whole host of other maladies that CD's are succeptable to. Why we moved away from them is simply beyond me--storing optical media in a caddy just makes sense.
On a side note, does anybody remember the old Unisys machines that, with their "force read" option, would still even read a knife-slashed floppy? Whatever happened to that kind of media durability?
I could understand GIM and a whole host of other possible names for such a service, but Joogle--"Jewish Google (or Googling for Jews)" just seems like one of those things that wouldn't pass the marketroid litmus test.
I'd suggest Messoogle but then people might sign up thinking they'd be able to strike a conversation up with the Messiah.
but then I looked at the title--"Extreme World Championships"?
I looked deep into myself, seeing my suburban American white-bred, khaki-pants wearing, '84 Subaru-driving middle class lifestyle, and realised, that no, I couldn't be a part of it all. I'm just not "extreme" enough.
As the site has a very clean and professional look, as oppose to very corporate sites...
The last three pages of the linked PDF discussing where ads might end up may very well change your opinion. I thought this was merely the addition of three text ads on the actual GIS application, but they're really going all out.
I don't blame the county for doing this, all in all. From an urban-planning geek's perspective, it's one of the coolest local sites I know of. But serving 300,000 a month with what I assume to be an intensive GIS application can't be cheap.
The notion of having a user "pay" for government services rendered is of course nothing new (have you seen what some cities charge for copying fees?), and this really is an extension of that concept to the Internet.
But where does it stop? Where, for example, is the line drawn between a local government's Tourism Bureau and an all-out travel information website with hotel reservations, tickets to local shows, maps, guides, and whathaveyou? If you run a site like that, do you want to be competing against your Government?
I have an Inspiron 1100 notebook that has had a range of issues...minor stuff like a power cord starting to fray and a rubber foot or two falling off from it.
Calling up Dell and trying to explain anything is quite the exercise. I've called four times, and have never gotten anybody that natively speaks English. Each call lasts anywhere from about 45 - 90 minutes, the first half of which is trying to describe what part is actually broken. Most people know what a power cord is or a rubber foot in terms of what could go wrong with a laptop, but evidently, Dell's tech support monkeys have no flippant clue.
Oh, and all the while, I'm having to do an English-to-English translation in my head and anticipating what he's going to say next because his accent is so thick I can't just communicate normally.
And when I finally resolve the issue after being put in hold for about half an hour, two days later I get the rubber foot UPS'd to me in a box that could hold a VHS tape, surrounded with inch-thick foam padding. And what comes with that package but a $5 invoice for a freaking rubber foot. Then I get to call Dell and deal with the same people a couple more times to ensure I'm not being bullshitted when they say I don't have to pay it.
The moral of my story is that you have to weigh resolving the part of your computer being broken against getting three or four hours knocked out of the next couple days. Somedays I just don't have that kind of time to waste. I've heard Dell business support is good, but I find their approach in screwing the individual customer in favor of the business customer rather disenchanting.
Dell's stupidity in outsourcing person-to-person technical support to a country with vast cultural differences and a language barrier is truly monumental.
On a seedy Phoenix area bus, in 110 degree weather, on the 80386-powered 13-oz Nokia 9000i Communicator, over a 9600 bps connection provided by VoiceStream now T-Mobile Wireless in the summer of 2000. This I think was just about the cutting edge of accessing the mobile internet from a converged device in the US.
In 2001, I was reading slashdot on a Mitsubishi T250 wireless phone through evil ATT, on a marginally improved 14.4 k CDPD connection.
I didn't know anybody else doing what I was doing at the time, so I guess I'm cool like you all.
Say nothing about the province (snickers), but a Saskatchewan teacher of mine said "aboat" (or is that abote?). And yes, they do say aboot on Newsworld International, a CBC station which I get Stateside.
If you don't have a CueCat hooked up, you can google the barcode and it provides you a link to the UPC Database. Never mind the practical implications of googling a barcode for a product you have right in front of you...
And why is it that the rich are blessed with a large family? Poor people throw their money away on booze, but the rich always seem to have a well stocked bar. You're poor, you own a mutt--you're rich, you have a mixed breed. And they all seem to have comparibly ostentatious domiciles.
(Taken from http://wallofjokes.shacknet.nu/Misc/When_Poor_When _Rich.html)
Just because you see attributes among the poor does not mean that those attributes are exclusively found among the poor.
From the picture's on nokia's website, it appears that they are using a CCD-based camera which, especially compared to the crappy CMOS camera in my audiovox CDM-8900 (and most webcams) produces quite a good picture. I've done side-to-side comparisons w/ a CCD Nokia at the local pub here (eg, low light conditions) and you could actually discern what was in the picture quite easily, even on the Nokia's small low resolution display--my camera would have taken a big black field.
And besides...1152x864 ought to be enough for anybody anyway.:P
why Joe User or Bob, rather, is installing debian anyway? The last Debian install I did was on a AMD 5x86/100 tablet (three nights ago). Before that, it was on my Dell Inspiron 1100 that had a crockload of not-well-supported hardware that required me to get 2.5.69 (the latest release at the time).
Debian installs usually take me several hours to get most things going from the mini/net install (a linux distro occupying 80 MB on your HD?--yeah, debian does that) to a what-I-consider usable system. However, I've configured everything myself exactly to my liking and probably recompiled once or twice.
Before I go further on my disorganised rant, a graphical easy to use installer that detected everything and booted me into KDM/X with KDE (I use enlightenment and gtk apps) would do nobody in Debian's core audience any good whatsoever and probably only alienate them further.
Tho I have to say, a few years ago, Storm Linux had a really kickass installer. Progeny's doesn't/didn't require you to reboot afterwards.
So I probably should be saying that if Bob wants a Linux distro that's easy to install in the beginning yet insanely powerful in the end (thanks to apt), he should be dealing with Progeny or whatever other debian-based distros there are.
The article did Debian a tremendous disservice in juxtaposing a mythical user with a distro that he'd never try.
P.S. My favorite install of all time is OpenBSD's. A twenty minute script was all it took--and I hadn't installed OpenBSD before. How kickass it that?
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The amount of garbage I've seen in email, snail mail, and cable TV has started to turn a mental red flag on: Beware of anything that comes from a Florida address.
It's not just spam. I've seen bogus sweepstakes from Clearwater, but most importantly, a vast majority of those "minimum investment required" "business opportunities" (the usual fodder of late-night cable TV ads) all come from south Florida...note all the addresses of the defendants in this comprehensive list.
The state, to me, seems to produce a disproportionate amount of schemes, spam, and crap. If I were a legitimate businessperson in southern Florida, I'd be really pissed because of all the negative associations.
Which of course begs the question--what is it about Florida that attracts such low life businesses? Mob connections, ineffective leadership, bad judicial processes?
XP is 1000 times as stable as 2000
Nice repeat of Microsoft marketing gimmickry. Microsoft's so complacent with their OS stability that they blatantly advertise their products as "more stable" than the release prior. No other company does this so proudly. Why isn't Windows six-sigma stable or three-nines stable to begin with?
Microsoft typically blames "faulty drivers" for OS failures. Imagine if a car company followed the same mantra--let's take, for example, a car that if a tire popped in a certain way, the axel would snap, and the whole car would be FUBAR'd. The car company solution would be to issue a recall, and strengthen the axel or whatever to prevent the car from dying.
Microsoft's approach, on the other hand, would be to blame the tire manufacturer while completely ignoring the problem of the faulty axel. But they'd continue to use the tires regardless, and certify them OK.
"Faulty drivers", that oh-so-convenient catch-all excuse, is simply an admission of irresponsibility, not something I can see them ethically justify.
The SEC is a burden to many small companies--most stocks that are seeing historically low values are going BACK to private ownership because the costs of having public ownership, eg, compliance with government/SEC regulation, are too high. Mandatory, increasing (Sarbanes-Oxley) government regulation on markets ensures that only companies that can pay for such high costs can remain public. Investor choice is dilluted, and with less viable companies, an industry's corporate oligopoly/duopoly/monopoly has more barriers to competition. We all have supposedly sound companies to invest, but there may be less and less of them and they ultimately, as enormous companies do, stagnate.
The SEC should be privatised into a non-profit or for-profit group, and they can put their "stamp on approval" on willing, paying corporations. Investors could see that regulations would still be in place for that company and continue to invest with a degree of confidence. It would be unlikely that established companies would forgo such voluntary regulation as they would want to maintain their investor confidence. Fraud would still be fraud in such a system--lying to the new SEC in order to recieve their blessing would still be illegal--and the new SEC would vigorously prosecute such offenses in order to protect its good name and investors would still have legal recourse to recoup losses in such a system. If the new SEC failed in its mission, the free market would give way to a better SEC. But this would be unlikely because the new SEC would have control over its own resources to ensure its good name--the government SEC is funded by tax dollars and has no real motivation to ensure compliance.
On the other hand, investors could invest in non-SEC compliant companies at their own risk if they felt that the company's resources would be better spent at improving the product instead of paying for the inherent cost of regulation and being a public company.
Most individual investors wouldn't make this decision anyway. Managers for pension and mutual funds (which hold most stocks in the US) would take the SEC blessing into the overall fund equation and come up with a risk value appropriate to the fund's holders and its mission. The NYSE and NASDAQ could continue to list compliant companies at their own discretion, new boards and exchanges could be created for approved and non-approved companies.
Non-governmental regulation exists in many places. Insurance companies test cars in addition to the USDOT, we see the TrustE seal on websites, and we can call up the Better Business Bureau to see a company's track record. Just because the SEC's been the same way for seventy years doesn't mean it's the best way, and it's certainly not the only way.
I'm largely Libertarian--and altho I don't agree with them on all issues, I think that when the discussion of politics focuses towards, as you so eloquently pointed out, government's role in providing and maintaining public sidewalks--this country will be FAR better off.
No party currently provides everything the voter wants. You vote for whom you most agree with, and hopefully when your party gains control you can filter out and finetune things through the usual legislative haggling process.
I vote Libertarian because I'm an optimist--I don't see real positive change even remotely possible when the Old Guard parties are in control. Libertarians are the only one that will provide that change, and I will continue voting for them and supporting their candidates in hopes that we will all eventually be able to marginalise out our differences.
The demo on Firefox w/ XP professional (i'm at work) keylocked the machine (eg, press caps lock, no light) and it appeared completely frozen until a couple three-finger-salutes woke the machine up enough to use the Back button to get out of the page.
I didn't hear any audio, but the video quality was wonderful. I'd love to dump Real et al. for this sort of thing--streaming media servers just tend to suck (anybody who's installed RealServer on a unix box will likely agree with me).
Moreover, if you have any sort of secure web application that has streaming video, you can just stick this in rather than trying to wrap the same security concept around two different application servers. That alone is Very Cool.
Startpagina.nl? Looks like one of the countless other sites that some RANDOM_IE_EXPLOIT bug makes as your home page, inadvertently, forever. People that usually load them usually have a spyware-infected PC/don't have a clue what they're doing online. I see it way too much. The 2.7% for Mozilla is only indicative of potential content on the page.
Using google or a site like this for stats is highly disproportionate--these pages get loaded once anybody opens up a browser window or tab, regardless of whether any content is accessed.
Most geeks I know use "about:blank" as their start page anyway.
Maybe I'm a trolling here... but I don't see that many improvements to the 600.
:P)
The keyboard is STILL too small. I've tried typing on the 600, and my fingers just do not fit on the board. Attempting to type one key will usually end up typing two to three. And I don't have fat fingers. In addition, I found the keys to be hard and uncomfortable. Rubberised keys like on the Kyocera 2235 would be more friendly to type on with less resistance.
No analog backup. Sorry, but in the US there's still massive spaces where digital just doesn't cover anything. Try driving up US-101 in CA or the highways between numerous cities in Arizona (AZ-260, 88, 89A, etc) and you'll have a several-hundred dollar paperweight. And for those of you pundits who think analog is the way of the past, just look at Verizon's or any other carrier's maps. I pay for the service, I pay for the phone. Within reason, I think it should work where I happen to be in the United States, eg, where there are people or modes of travel. Anything else is of diminished value. (BTW, I'm aware that Verizon and other carriers let you swap phones by calling with the ESN. But if your phone's dead, you really can't call, can you?
No Compact Flash. I still fail to see the big deal with SD. The format is too small--both physically and in data storage size. Real, high-end digital cameras still use CF because there are serious limitations on what you can store with SD. It is still more expensive than CF, meg for meg. ($135 vs $82 for 512 MB CF and SD, respectively on froogle) Hardware availability is also limited--look at how long it took Palm to come up with an SD wifi card? You could argue that SD provides enough data storage for most mobile applications, but as the Treo 650 now has more RAM and more CPU, it's time the storage caught up to applications that will in time catch up to the specs.
Camera still limited. A rotating barrel camera like on the LG VX-7000 with some sort of flash (either integrated or attached) would be better regarded. I've tried to use the camera on my Audiovox CDM-8900 (w/ no flash) in any sort of low-light setting and it's worthless.
In summary, I'm sure I'll drop a match in the powder kegs of some Treo fanatics here, but I doubt I'm too illogical in some of my feature requests. Moreover, I could be unaware of various accessories that would give me features I requested, but I fail to see the logic in a product that requires accessories to do basic functionality, such as making calls in extended areas or taking pictures with the integrated camera.
Oh, one of the articles asked if that was a lens cover on the camera. It's a small mirror so that people getting photographed have a vague idea of where they are in the frame.
Poke fun as you may, but CD caddies simply rock for media storage and playback simply because you don't have to touch the disk to get it from the storage holder to the drive.
/. readers, but I find it infuriating to buy a $10 - $20 DVD or CD only to find it scratched a few months later and largely unplayable--you miss a scene because of a scratch on the DVD and the whole movie's screwed.
I don't know about most
Caddies prevent scratching, dust, fingerprints, and a whole host of other maladies that CD's are succeptable to. Why we moved away from them is simply beyond me--storing optical media in a caddy just makes sense.
On a side note, does anybody remember the old Unisys machines that, with their "force read" option, would still even read a knife-slashed floppy? Whatever happened to that kind of media durability?
Joogle?
I could understand GIM and a whole host of other possible names for such a service, but Joogle--"Jewish Google (or Googling for Jews)" just seems like one of those things that wouldn't pass the marketroid litmus test.
I'd suggest Messoogle but then people might sign up thinking they'd be able to strike a conversation up with the Messiah.
phatlipmojo writes "I'm a librarian ..."
Funny. When I was a kid librarians were named Ann, Phyllis, or Doris.
you can buy these on ebay for eight bucks.
Oh wait...
but then I looked at the title--"Extreme World Championships"?
I looked deep into myself, seeing my suburban American white-bred, khaki-pants wearing, '84 Subaru-driving middle class lifestyle, and realised, that no, I couldn't be a part of it all. I'm just not "extreme" enough.
Pity when you look at it.
</sarcasm>
As the site has a very clean and professional look, as oppose to very corporate sites...
The last three pages of the linked PDF discussing where ads might end up may very well change your opinion. I thought this was merely the addition of three text ads on the actual GIS application, but they're really going all out.
I don't blame the county for doing this, all in all. From an urban-planning geek's perspective, it's one of the coolest local sites I know of. But serving 300,000 a month with what I assume to be an intensive GIS application can't be cheap.
The notion of having a user "pay" for government services rendered is of course nothing new (have you seen what some cities charge for copying fees?), and this really is an extension of that concept to the Internet.
But where does it stop? Where, for example, is the line drawn between a local government's Tourism Bureau and an all-out travel information website with hotel reservations, tickets to local shows, maps, guides, and whathaveyou? If you run a site like that, do you want to be competing against your Government?
I have an Inspiron 1100 notebook that has had a range of issues...minor stuff like a power cord starting to fray and a rubber foot or two falling off from it.
Calling up Dell and trying to explain anything is quite the exercise. I've called four times, and have never gotten anybody that natively speaks English. Each call lasts anywhere from about 45 - 90 minutes, the first half of which is trying to describe what part is actually broken. Most people know what a power cord is or a rubber foot in terms of what could go wrong with a laptop, but evidently, Dell's tech support monkeys have no flippant clue.
Oh, and all the while, I'm having to do an English-to-English translation in my head and anticipating what he's going to say next because his accent is so thick I can't just communicate normally.
And when I finally resolve the issue after being put in hold for about half an hour, two days later I get the rubber foot UPS'd to me in a box that could hold a VHS tape, surrounded with inch-thick foam padding. And what comes with that package but a $5 invoice for a freaking rubber foot. Then I get to call Dell and deal with the same people a couple more times to ensure I'm not being bullshitted when they say I don't have to pay it.
The moral of my story is that you have to weigh resolving the part of your computer being broken against getting three or four hours knocked out of the next couple days. Somedays I just don't have that kind of time to waste. I've heard Dell business support is good, but I find their approach in screwing the individual customer in favor of the business customer rather disenchanting.
Dell's stupidity in outsourcing person-to-person technical support to a country with vast cultural differences and a language barrier is truly monumental.
On a seedy Phoenix area bus, in 110 degree weather, on the 80386-powered 13-oz Nokia 9000i Communicator, over a 9600 bps connection provided by VoiceStream now T-Mobile Wireless in the summer of 2000. This I think was just about the cutting edge of accessing the mobile internet from a converged device in the US.
In 2001, I was reading slashdot on a Mitsubishi T250 wireless phone through evil ATT, on a marginally improved 14.4 k CDPD connection.
I didn't know anybody else doing what I was doing at the time, so I guess I'm cool like you all.
Say nothing about the province (snickers), but a Saskatchewan teacher of mine said "aboat" (or is that abote?). And yes, they do say aboot on Newsworld International, a CBC station which I get Stateside.
Of course they run open source software. Everyone knows that when you support open source, you support communism!
that the American Flag barcode in the New York Times article is of a 12 oz jar of Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter?
If you don't have a CueCat hooked up, you can google the barcode and it provides you a link to the UPC Database. Never mind the practical implications of googling a barcode for a product you have right in front of you...
The real geek corollary to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is "if it ain't broke, fix it till it is".
And why is it that the rich are blessed with a large family? Poor people throw their money away on booze, but the rich always seem to have a well stocked bar. You're poor, you own a mutt--you're rich, you have a mixed breed. And they all seem to have comparibly ostentatious domiciles.
n _Rich.html)
(Taken from http://wallofjokes.shacknet.nu/Misc/When_Poor_Whe
Just because you see attributes among the poor does not mean that those attributes are exclusively found among the poor.
> >How many Library of Congresses is this?
m 0B MD/is_39_9/ai_98189690
> 50
According to this article, a Library of Congress is approximately 10 TB (who knew--this obtuse metric actually has a measurement!!!)
http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_
So the device actually can contain 100 Libraries of Congress.
Because, Mr. Jobs, your position as No. 1 just isn't really guaranteed unless you're bigger than No. 2 - N combined.
Just ask micros~1. Seems to have worked for them.
jwz had a far better rant on the same topic. :P
From the picture's on nokia's website, it appears that they are using a CCD-based camera which, especially compared to the crappy CMOS camera in my audiovox CDM-8900 (and most webcams) produces quite a good picture. I've done side-to-side comparisons w/ a CCD Nokia at the local pub here (eg, low light conditions) and you could actually discern what was in the picture quite easily, even on the Nokia's small low resolution display--my camera would have taken a big black field.
:P
And besides...1152x864 ought to be enough for anybody anyway.
why Joe User or Bob, rather, is installing debian anyway? The last Debian install I did was on a AMD 5x86/100 tablet (three nights ago). Before that, it was on my Dell Inspiron 1100 that had a crockload of not-well-supported hardware that required me to get 2.5.69 (the latest release at the time).
Debian installs usually take me several hours to get most things going from the mini/net install (a linux distro occupying 80 MB on your HD?--yeah, debian does that) to a what-I-consider usable system. However, I've configured everything myself exactly to my liking and probably recompiled once or twice.
Before I go further on my disorganised rant, a graphical easy to use installer that detected everything and booted me into KDM/X with KDE (I use enlightenment and gtk apps) would do nobody in Debian's core audience any good whatsoever and probably only alienate them further.
Tho I have to say, a few years ago, Storm Linux had a really kickass installer. Progeny's doesn't/didn't require you to reboot afterwards.
So I probably should be saying that if Bob wants a Linux distro that's easy to install in the beginning yet insanely powerful in the end (thanks to apt), he should be dealing with Progeny or whatever other debian-based distros there are.
The article did Debian a tremendous disservice in juxtaposing a mythical user with a distro that he'd never try.
P.S. My favorite install of all time is OpenBSD's. A twenty minute script was all it took--and I hadn't installed OpenBSD before. How kickass it that?