"And those Kontera ads that pop up whenever I accidentally cross them with my mouse to click your next page links, god I love those with all my heart.",
I'm older than most everyone here (I think, I'm 62) and My Dad left school in the 8th grade and went to work as a truck driver. It was hard work but he loved to drive trucks. When I came along in 1947, he let me be free to be anything I wanted and, stressing education as very important, it was just assumed that I would be the first in my family to attend college. I was supplied with all the educational advantages available in the 50's and early 60's. Moms bought me an encyclopedia (that I read cover to cover), Pop bought me trivia books, comic books, and got me an adult library card. He never imposed any type of censorship onn the books I took out of the library and encouraged me to visit the library once weekly. This was cool because I took out books and met some cute girls at the library.
Fast forward, when I graduated college, I got married and had 4 boys in the 70's. Computers were just being talked about and wishing to give my kids the advantages my Dad gave me, I got involved with programming. I bought a Timex computer (in a drug store!) and taught myself Basic and machine language. I bought computer magazines aimed at kids with programs you could type into the 'puter and save on a cassette player. The kids thought it was very cool.
BTW, although they didn't go into IT, they all attended college, they all became professionals, (except one, who's probably making more money than anyone else) and more importantly, they all are intelligent, well rounded, and happy individuals who will carry on the tradition of "maybe my children will be better than me and I'll be happy about it"
And I also use Google Phone. In my opinion a superlative product. I got to pick my own phone number, it integrates all my phones (call my Google number and all my phones ring, so I can pick up a phone call to my home on my mobile and vice versa.)
As far as I'm concerned, all this competion can do nothing but good.
"That's a polite way of saying that NASA will make the space station fall back into the atmosphere, where it will turn into a fireball and then crash into the Pacific Ocean. It'll be a controlled reentry, to ensure that it doesn't take out a major city. But it'll be destroyed as surely as a Lego palace obliterated by the sweeping arm of a suddenly bored kid. "
OK, we have all these billions of dollars worth of equipment orbiting and we're just going to junk it. WTF?????
OK, We all get it, nobody likes Microsoft or Bill Gates. But, I'll say this: here's a guy (who you have to admit is a genius and has lots more money than you or I), who built one of the biggest corporations in the world out of intellectual property that HE invented. OK, later on he glommed some other peoples stuff and added it to the empire, but if they couldn't make it on their own, who's fault is that?
Now, he's 53, gave away $40 billion to charity and retired. Remember he's still a genius, the Thomas Alva Edison of his time, and what's he working on? Ways to actually improve the world. Got hurricanes? Let's work on it. Need a way to decrease dependence on fossil fuels? We got that covered. Need a cold beer and no fridge? We can even do that.
I use Ubuntu, but I'd kiss his ass in Macy's front window to be like him.
I don't own a smart phone, as all I want a phone to do is make calls, as inexpensively as possible. I do have a PDA with Bluetooth and a motorcycle. I use GPS to get to places I haven't been before and subsequently I know how to get there the second time without having to rely on GPS. Being able to watch for landmarks, I don't need maps! Sight, a beautiful thing! Who would have have thunk it?
Bill founded what is now the largest software company in the world, and wether or not you agree with him, he has made a important contribution to the computing industry: Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
People forget this. If it weren't for Gates I don't think the use of computers would be as widespread as it is today.
Not only that,but, how many billionaires that you know just give away half their stash to charity? $80 billion? Hey, I could survive nice on just $40 billion, so I'll give half to charity.
This doesn't sound like a hell of a lot until you realize that it would be on continuously through the flight providing constant acceleration, thereby reaching speeds that could not be attained with a chemical rocket.
The fastest I've ever driven was in 1971 when I had my 1st car, a Z28 Camaro that I had modified myself. It was on the Queen Elizabeth highway in Canada. Believe it or not, I started racing an old man in a Superbird.
I was doing 85 (stated limit) and he just flew by. I cranked it and caught him at 145. He looked over, smiled, waved his cigar, and mashed the pedal, and took off as if I was standing still.
AximX51V, the link will say they start around $170 but you can shop around. I don't remember where I bought my last one, but I don't think I paid more than $125. It's got a pretty big screen, WIFI B, Bluetooth, a separate graphics processor (you can play a free Doom download) will handle PDFs , Mobipocket reader (which will also handle PDFs, and non-DRM kindle files)
Check it out my brother
Small, inexpensive, would be nice if it could use SD flash memory for downloads (so I could read while off line), but hey, can't have everything. I'm betting that there's gonna be a hack-a-day for that too.
When the day comes, and it will come, when we we have bits of wetware implanted and can call up the sum total of man's knowledge, I think that will be the singularity point.
I don't remember who said it but my cousin (who's a librarian) points out that it doesn't matter if you know something, but whether you know where to find the information.
Slashdot Mirror
Coming to a psychiatrist near you!
Please god shoot the MF who dreamed them up.
Fast forward, when I graduated college, I got married and had 4 boys in the 70's. Computers were just being talked about and wishing to give my kids the advantages my Dad gave me, I got involved with programming. I bought a Timex computer (in a drug store!) and taught myself Basic and machine language. I bought computer magazines aimed at kids with programs you could type into the 'puter and save on a cassette player. The kids thought it was very cool. BTW, although they didn't go into IT, they all attended college, they all became professionals, (except one, who's probably making more money than anyone else) and more importantly, they all are intelligent, well rounded, and happy individuals who will carry on the tradition of "maybe my children will be better than me and I'll be happy about it"
As far as I'm concerned, all this competion can do nothing but good.
OK, we have all these billions of dollars worth of equipment orbiting and we're just going to junk it. WTF?????
Which means "I'm just guessing and don't know any more than you do.
55% Democrat
6% Republican =
93%
?7%? Zombie?
Haven't been accessed (that I can tell). Sometimes Avira will pop up and tell me someone is trying to access my network and I just click DENY ACCESS .
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!"
The Hound
And I'm running AMD dual core. Oh damn!
They couldn't find something more stable and secure?????
Now, he's 53, gave away $40 billion to charity and retired. Remember he's still a genius, the Thomas Alva Edison of his time, and what's he working on? Ways to actually improve the world. Got hurricanes? Let's work on it. Need a way to decrease dependence on fossil fuels? We got that covered. Need a cold beer and no fridge? We can even do that.
I use Ubuntu, but I'd kiss his ass in Macy's front window to be like him.
I don't own a smart phone, as all I want a phone to do is make calls, as inexpensively as possible. I do have a PDA with Bluetooth and a motorcycle. I use GPS to get to places I haven't been before and subsequently I know how to get there the second time without having to rely on GPS. Being able to watch for landmarks, I don't need maps! Sight, a beautiful thing! Who would have have thunk it?
Bill founded what is now the largest software company in the world, and wether or not you agree with him, he has made a important contribution to the computing industry: Microsoft brought desktop computing to the home user.
People forget this. If it weren't for Gates I don't think the use of computers would be as widespread as it is today.
Not only that,but, how many billionaires that you know just give away half their stash to charity? $80 billion? Hey, I could survive nice on just $40 billion, so I'll give half to charity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverworld
That's where they got their hydrogen, plus nitrates to make gunpowder
1200 Kw = 1632 ps (metric Horse power)
This doesn't sound like a hell of a lot until you realize that it would be on continuously through the flight providing constant acceleration, thereby reaching speeds that could not be attained with a chemical rocket.
It always ends up a tie because the cycle does much better on acceleration and on straights, the car does better on the twisty bits.
I was doing 85 (stated limit) and he just flew by. I cranked it and caught him at 145. He looked over, smiled, waved his cigar, and mashed the pedal, and took off as if I was standing still.
Never saw him again.
" ymbnh"
of course they remain human! but they join cyberspace with the deck. it couldn't be done without it. think of them as "augmented"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxhrPaaCA4
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=axim+x51&cid=15725069824406847834#p
AximX51V, the link will say they start around $170 but you can shop around. I don't remember where I bought my last one, but I don't think I paid more than $125. It's got a pretty big screen, WIFI B, Bluetooth, a separate graphics processor (you can play a free Doom download) will handle PDFs , Mobipocket reader (which will also handle PDFs, and non-DRM kindle files) Check it out my brother
I've got a 8.9" tablet-convertible netbook installed with Windows 7.
What brand? Where did you get it? I'm looking for something like that.
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=4692787
Small, inexpensive, would be nice if it could use SD flash memory for downloads (so I could read while off line), but hey, can't have everything. I'm betting that there's gonna be a hack-a-day for that too.
When the day comes, and it will come, when we we have bits of wetware implanted and can call up the sum total of man's knowledge, I think that will be the singularity point.
I don't remember who said it but my cousin (who's a librarian) points out that it doesn't matter if you know something, but whether you know where to find the information.