Quite with you on that.
I recently salvaged a 1979 Technics receiver from the junk heap in the basement. My mom had used it for years, then it had stopped working, and only worked erratically.
I tried to pop it open (BTW, this thing is SOLID AS A ROCK!) After several hours of finding nothing wrong with it, I checked the fuse box.
Both fuses were out. A trip to Radio Shack and $2.99 (CDN) later, I was the proud owner of a fantastic sounding stereo receiver. The price cannot be beaten.
Ah, solid.
The one where this guy discovers how to do arithmetic w/o computers. Everyone has a pocket computer networked to Multivac, and relies on these pocket computers for pretty much everything.
Common error. But, (big surprise), the people who really caused Bush to win were probably the 50% or so who *didn't vote!*
I realise this is crazy talk, but people who vote for a third party aren't "siphoning votes" from anyone. Many of them would have just stayed home otherwise. Besides, are you implying that people shouldn't vote for whom they believe in? Thoughts like that have caused the current situation with a choice of two evils. This frankly violates the ideals of democracy!
If Bush (or Gore, for that matter) received about 50% of the vote, and about 50% of those eleigible to vote turned out to vote, that means that either one got 25% of the vote. Now, if the remaining 50% of voters went and voted for Green, or Libertarian, or (heck!) Communist, Americans would not be picking their poisons and maintaining the status quo, rather voting for who they *believed in* and getting *results.* Doesn't work if you can only choose one candidate? Try approval voting, or an Australian style Borda Count.
It's about getting back to democracy. It's about the will of the people.
As the guy with the iPAQ 3635 which is slowly losing its battery charge, can only accept input from one button at a time, and needs a huge sleeve to plug in my 802.11b CF card, I would upgrade to the low end model in an instant (it's about the same price after rebate that I got my iPAQ for).
Except for one thing -- I need my Stowaway keyboard, and having owned three separate ones over the years, I **don't** want to add a fourth. Does anyone know of a way to connect say, my iPAQ Stowaway to this thing (or, for that matter, my Palm III and m500 series Stowaways)? I mean, it would be good for Dell. They could gouge me at $19.95 for a tiny adapter and I'd gladly pay. Methinks me really wants one of those things.
I'm interested in the Archos jukebox, what with the iPod being ridiculously expensive. How is it? Yes, I do want to carry my music around in my pocket.
Why would a civilization of superior beings travel the who-knows-how-many light years from their own planet to earth just to destroy crops, mutilate cattle and anal probe some rednecks?
The next time you go driving, take a look outside your window at the morons out there. Think of what they're doing, and where they're going. Now think: could any of those people tell you how a carburetor works? Do they have *any* idea what's under the hood, aside from horses? Remember; some of them find professional wrestling entertaining. So maybe we're not being visited by the cream of the alien crop. Just because you have a car doesn't denote you're superiority.
Skylab was *far* before my time (which is now), but I have to wonder... WHAT? This thing looks way larger than the ISS. Was it? I understand there was a lot of research which went on there. How much did it cost? How much would it cost now?
Quite precise. I gave up on Xanth exactly two months before my fifteenth birthday (which was actually a lot less futher back, I suspect, than most poster, with the possible exception of most of the trolls).
A friend in Grade 12 pointed out to me that a lot of Anthony's stuff was just thinly veiled erotica. He recommended Pratchett instead. I'm on the eighth month or so of a Pratchett binge, and feel that the Discworld books are much more... mature. Not mature as in full of sex, but as in writing style. Xanth often feels as if it's written for ten year olds with dirty minds. Pratchett, as Isaac Asimov said on writing for teens, is written for young adults -- everyone understands it, and nobody feels talked-down-to.
"And outte of the fyres of rebellionne, let us bake new menne, who are notte beholden to the olde lies."
- Old Stoneface.
TBQH (To Be Quite Honest), I've always assumed that it's the property of the people who live there, if and when they do. After all, it isn't Dennis Hope who has the giant space catapult capable of launching rocks more powerful than nukes (See Heinlein). :-)
Indeed, there are some people who will gladly shell out several hundred dollars in order to avoid buying a cheap daytimer. However, and this is the important part, there are also people who want something more. My main problem with Palm is that they subscribe to this philosophy -- that they know what their users want better than their users do.
So while you may just want all of the functions of a IIxe, there are people (and this is borne out by the fact that Compaq can still sell iPaqs) who want something more from their PDAs.
As I recall, the characters in RAH's "The Puppet Masters" all had vibraphones implanted in their earlobes.
There were also these stories about a boy and his robot. "My Robot Buddy" was one of them. Read them in abt. Grade 2. Ah, those were the days, when the future looked better (of course now we have iPaqs).
I'm going to be away for abt. 3 weeks this summer and I'm looking for this sort of thing. I plan to have power, so that isn't really a problem. Right now I have an m505, but can't really see using it as a main computer for 3 weeks. I'm thinking of replacing it w/ an iPaq w/ keyboard. The real problem here is the balance between a Palm (which completely integrates into one's life, while being woefully underpowered for real use as a computer) and a Pocket PC (which doesn't seem like an ideal organiser and has crap battery life. Blah.
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> one who played Ted "Theodore" Logan, not the > one who played Neo.
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Ah! So *that's* what happened to 9:30 AM yesterday morning!
Bloody hell! I *must* have some of that stuff. My box right now is a 166MMX w/ a 4MB video card. Does have 64MB RAM and a 15GB HD, though:-)
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It seems that another solution might be a PSX (or other console) emulator. Bleem did it, and Playstation (or other console) games would be an acceptable alternative (for me, at least) to dual booting just for games (incidentally, the only games I've really played were either ancient ones like Zork or Ms. Pac-Man or weird ones like Roller Coaster Tycoon). It also might be an interesting lure if Linux could play some of the newer, next-gen consoles (PS2, XBOX, heck I'd settle for DC).
Ah, well. I suppose we now look to Transgaming and Mandrake...
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Quite with you on that.
I recently salvaged a 1979 Technics receiver from the junk heap in the basement. My mom had used it for years, then it had stopped working, and only worked erratically.
I tried to pop it open (BTW, this thing is SOLID AS A ROCK!) After several hours of finding nothing wrong with it, I checked the fuse box.
Both fuses were out. A trip to Radio Shack and $2.99 (CDN) later, I was the proud owner of a fantastic sounding stereo receiver. The price cannot be beaten.
Ah, solid.
As I recall, Susan Calvin was a pretty major part of the stories' plots. :-)
The one where this guy discovers how to do arithmetic w/o computers. Everyone has a pocket computer networked to Multivac, and relies on these pocket computers for pretty much everything.
Asimov = visonary, brilliant.
Once, they got very mad. The end.
Doesn't take years of development, eh? Come on!
Just attach a parachute to THE PLANE, people! Does anyone hear me? THE PLANE!!!
Common error. But, (big surprise), the people who really caused Bush to win were probably the 50% or so who *didn't vote!*
I realise this is crazy talk, but people who vote for a third party aren't "siphoning votes" from anyone. Many of them would have just stayed home otherwise. Besides, are you implying that people shouldn't vote for whom they believe in? Thoughts like that have caused the current situation with a choice of two evils. This frankly violates the ideals of democracy!
If Bush (or Gore, for that matter) received about 50% of the vote, and about 50% of those eleigible to vote turned out to vote, that means that either one got 25% of the vote. Now, if the remaining 50% of voters went and voted for Green, or Libertarian, or (heck!) Communist, Americans would not be picking their poisons and maintaining the status quo, rather voting for who they *believed in* and getting *results.* Doesn't work if you can only choose one candidate? Try approval voting, or an Australian style Borda Count.
It's about getting back to democracy. It's about the will of the people.
(Dismounts from the soapbox).
As the guy with the iPAQ 3635 which is slowly losing its battery charge, can only accept input from one button at a time, and needs a huge sleeve to plug in my 802.11b CF card, I would upgrade to the low end model in an instant (it's about the same price after rebate that I got my iPAQ for).
Except for one thing -- I need my Stowaway keyboard, and having owned three separate ones over the years, I **don't** want to add a fourth. Does anyone know of a way to connect say, my iPAQ Stowaway to this thing (or, for that matter, my Palm III and m500 series Stowaways)? I mean, it would be good for Dell. They could gouge me at $19.95 for a tiny adapter and I'd gladly pay. Methinks me really wants one of those things.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of...
Oh, wait.
At which point he walks into a cactus...
Blue is the new red!
No, you mean "Under Canada."
I'm interested in the Archos jukebox, what with the iPod being ridiculously expensive. How is it? Yes, I do want to carry my music around in my pocket.
Why would a civilization of superior beings travel the who-knows-how-many light years from their own planet to earth just to destroy crops, mutilate cattle and anal probe some rednecks?
:-P
The next time you go driving, take a look outside your window at the morons out there. Think of what they're doing, and where they're going. Now think: could any of those people tell you how a carburetor works? Do they have *any* idea what's under the hood, aside from horses? Remember; some of them find professional wrestling entertaining.
So maybe we're not being visited by the cream of the alien crop. Just because you have a car doesn't denote you're superiority.
Skylab was *far* before my time (which is now), but I have to wonder...
WHAT?
This thing looks way larger than the ISS. Was it? I understand there was a lot of research which went on there. How much did it cost? How much would it cost now?
!
Quite precise. I gave up on Xanth exactly two months before my fifteenth birthday (which was actually a lot less futher back, I suspect, than most poster, with the possible exception of most of the trolls).
:-P
A friend in Grade 12 pointed out to me that a lot of Anthony's stuff was just thinly veiled erotica. He recommended Pratchett instead. I'm on the eighth month or so of a Pratchett binge, and feel that the Discworld books are much more... mature. Not mature as in full of sex, but as in writing style. Xanth often feels as if it's written for ten year olds with dirty minds. Pratchett, as Isaac Asimov said on writing for teens, is written for young adults -- everyone understands it, and nobody feels talked-down-to.
"And outte of the fyres of rebellionne, let us bake new menne, who are notte beholden to the olde lies."
- Old Stoneface.
A young'un.
> anyone else see the contradiction?
Along with "Microsoft Works."
TBQH (To Be Quite Honest), I've always assumed that it's the property of the people who live there, if and when they do. After all, it isn't Dennis Hope who has the giant space catapult capable of launching rocks more powerful than nukes (See Heinlein).
:-)
So while you may just want all of the functions of a IIxe, there are people (and this is borne out by the fact that Compaq can still sell iPaqs) who want something more from their PDAs.
Think about what you say first.
Yes, great idea, until it runs away from fans straight out into the parking lot.
As I recall, the characters in RAH's "The Puppet Masters" all had vibraphones implanted in their earlobes.
There were also these stories about a boy and his robot. "My Robot Buddy" was one of them. Read them in abt. Grade 2. Ah, those were the days, when the future looked better (of course now we have iPaqs).
I'm going to be away for abt. 3 weeks this summer and I'm looking for this sort of thing. I plan to have power, so that isn't really a problem. Right now I have an m505, but can't really see using it as a main computer for 3 weeks. I'm thinking of replacing it w/ an iPaq w/ keyboard. The real problem here is the balance between a Palm (which completely integrates into one's life, while being woefully underpowered for real use as a computer) and a Pocket PC (which doesn't seem like an ideal organiser and has crap battery life. Blah.
> one who played Ted "Theodore" Logan, not the
> one who played Neo.
Shut up, Ted.
Ah! So *that's* what happened to 9:30 AM yesterday morning!
Bloody hell! I *must* have some of that stuff. My box right now is a 166MMX w/ a 4MB video card. Does have 64MB RAM and a 15GB HD, though :-)
It seems that another solution might be a PSX (or other console) emulator. Bleem did it, and Playstation (or other console) games would be an acceptable alternative (for me, at least) to dual booting just for games (incidentally, the only games I've really played were either ancient ones like Zork or Ms. Pac-Man or weird ones like Roller Coaster Tycoon). It also might be an interesting lure if Linux could play some of the newer, next-gen consoles (PS2, XBOX, heck I'd settle for DC).
Ah, well. I suppose we now look to Transgaming and Mandrake...