okay, I understand the "travel light" school as well. COnsidering I travel infrequently, that makes pefect sense to me (And I do it all with carry on because the TSA will steal anything cool in my checked luggage, so I don't have checked luggage).
So just your laptop? That's it? Did you feel in anyway constrained by always having to dig out your laptop to do anything? Did you use your laptop as a "walkman" while trekking around various cities?
Actually, the article is him mostly complaining about the gear that he has that sucks, and the couple of pieces that are actually good. He destroys a powerbook a year?! Gee, in my book, that means it sucks.
Already there are a number of posts where people say "dude, you could replace 12 items with a single XXXX piece of gear"
I challenge these people to a usability test. Can a camera phone do justice to a 3 MP camera? PRobably not. Does it make sense to put an MP3 player in a phone or pda, if you are limited to 256 MB of music? NO! Is it comfortable to walk down the street taking pictures and listening to music on your laptop? That's a recipe for breaking your laptop.
It seems like Cory has the "convenience first, hard-core gear later" ethos down pat (heck, he even plans for those times when you have to use dial up! Egads!) First line is a camera that fits EASILY in a pocket (I love my Canon Powershot, but I need pants with roomy pockets!) and a phone, iPod in another, working our way down to a PDA and ultimately a laptop. His statement where he uses the laptop to recharge everything makes it sound even more like its his "base- station away from home" and less like an on-the-go device.
I mean, I could hook up my Visor Neo to my Cingular phone and ssh, but why when I have broadband at home, broadband at work, and don't travel? (did I just lose my membership in the Geek/Nerds Unified Technology Society by admitting that?)
This is how it is! I've been playing www.kingsofchaos.com (stupid name) with a bunch of other people on slashdot. Its VERY stripped down- you buy weapons and armor, you attack other people. Thats it. There are no maps, no collaboration. Just attack, and wait to be attacked.
When we started, we got tagged constantly. Now that we have some skills and power, we tag others (and still get tagged by those more powerful than us).
Really, the only appeal is for those who are Obsessive compulsive and like slowly levelling up. But its Massive-multiplayer! Big deal- that just means slow-servers.
Broad-networking is hype. Smart-networking (i.e. a lan party with your friends) is a thousand times better. How many N64 owners can think back to times when they played Golden Eye 4 player, or WaveRace or MarioKart?
when checking enormous debug files with lines longer than 300+ characters, vi is not an option. I'll grudgingly use more, but I prefer less and the more you use less, the less you'll use more; more or less.
Why? If I know awk better than PERL, its a much better idea to use AWK.
Vice versa.
P.S.- At two different points in my life I did serious perl scripting. Now, I can't remember a darn thing. Awk looks like C. So these days, I use awk. Different strokes for people with different amounts of brain power/memory.
And some scripters tend to be just as zealous about the power of scripting as perl mongers are about perl!
That reminds me... I need my oil changed!!! Crap! I hope my car isn't mad at me from the neglect... maybe I'll buy it some feul additive to appease the internal combustion gods!
A good reason to by a DVD burner and software for editing videos!!!!
Truer words where NEVER spoken! Trust me- the day I figure our this DVD+/-R/RW whatever stuff (i.e.- good burners are $60!) is the day I'm editing out all the crap intro stuff and all the WEAK "bonus features."
There will always be a bias where humans will prefer to communicate/do business with other humans who can most accurately speak their language, right down to the dialect.
You can find it in your own country and every country; esp. between the northerners and southerners!
This tech is just a quickie stop-gap that lowers the barrier of travel for a lot of people.
I've got a Digi Cam with CF and an 8-track digital recorder that uses CF- I can swap cards like the day is long. I'd like to be able to use my current flock of cards with any future purchases.
The Gift is a movie by Perry Farrel and Casey Whats-her-face (The woman in all the Ritual videos that Perry was marrying). Its got the rest of the band in it, too. Here's the IMDB info, which reminds me, Harry Perry (also seen in that Bridgette Fonda "La Femme Nakita" remake "Point of no return") is pretty k00l.
As for Ritual vs. Nothings Shocking; I think Ritual had a less balls-out-rawk thing going for it. Depending upon who I am at any given time, thats a plus or a minus (This past weekend, it was a plus). I think Ritual had just as much creativity, with great polish and orchestration on the later songs (the first couple of songs are pretty balls out). So if you're in the mood for the balls, you will be yawning on the second half of the album. I guess this makes me an old fart?!
I think Ritual is more of an Album; you can hit play and not fast-forward once (mind you, I didn't always think that way). But NS really rips. My intro to Janes was "Mountain song" which is pretty fresh rocker.
Porno for Pyros? Silly. The new stuff? Laughable!
P.S.- ever seen The Gift? Cute (esp. watching Perry score), but strictly for completists.
okay, uhm, I guess I've, as you succintly put it, "bought the lie"- however I don't see how it is a lie at all, which is why I'd LOVE to hear your conflicting view. I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being ernest; I truly see no fault my world view. As for proof of their being a divine truth or justice, the counter is the classic "When bad things happen to good people" and "when good things happen to bad people" argument. I'm not sure if you are going to "divine truth and justice" way... but if you are, explain that.
guarantee you would feel better if you directly stimulate your pleasure center.
Yeah, but the come-down's a bitch.
It's obvious you're here to have some juvenile philosophical argument in which we snipe at each other rather than actually discussing something you believe in. I'm not interested.
Seeing this response brought a kool-aid smile to my face. Don't you doubt it!
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okay, I understand the "travel light" school as well. COnsidering I travel infrequently, that makes pefect sense to me (And I do it all with carry on because the TSA will steal anything cool in my checked luggage, so I don't have checked luggage).
So just your laptop? That's it? Did you feel in anyway constrained by always having to dig out your laptop to do anything? Did you use your laptop as a "walkman" while trekking around various cities?
Is my thinking trapped in old pack-rat ways?
"..Read it and weep, wanna-bes."
Actually, the article is him mostly complaining about the gear that he has that sucks, and the couple of pieces that are actually good. He destroys a powerbook a year?! Gee, in my book, that means it sucks.
Already there are a number of posts where people say "dude, you could replace 12 items with a single XXXX piece of gear"
I challenge these people to a usability test. Can a camera phone do justice to a 3 MP camera? PRobably not. Does it make sense to put an MP3 player in a phone or pda, if you are limited to 256 MB of music? NO! Is it comfortable to walk down the street taking pictures and listening to music on your laptop? That's a recipe for breaking your laptop.
It seems like Cory has the "convenience first, hard-core gear later" ethos down pat (heck, he even plans for those times when you have to use dial up! Egads!) First line is a camera that fits EASILY in a pocket (I love my Canon Powershot, but I need pants with roomy pockets!) and a phone, iPod in another, working our way down to a PDA and ultimately a laptop. His statement where he uses the laptop to recharge everything makes it sound even more like its his "base- station away from home" and less like an on-the-go device.
I mean, I could hook up my Visor Neo to my Cingular phone and ssh, but why when I have broadband at home, broadband at work, and don't travel? (did I just lose my membership in the Geek/Nerds Unified Technology Society by admitting that?)
This is how it is! I've been playing www.kingsofchaos.com (stupid name) with a bunch of other people on slashdot. Its VERY stripped down- you buy weapons and armor, you attack other people. Thats it. There are no maps, no collaboration. Just attack, and wait to be attacked.
When we started, we got tagged constantly. Now that we have some skills and power, we tag others (and still get tagged by those more powerful than us).
Really, the only appeal is for those who are Obsessive compulsive and like slowly levelling up. But its Massive-multiplayer! Big deal- that just means slow-servers.
Broad-networking is hype. Smart-networking (i.e. a lan party with your friends) is a thousand times better. How many N64 owners can think back to times when they played Golden Eye 4 player, or WaveRace or MarioKart?
stop complaining- it'll work on the old IP systems via tunneling. Was that really so hard?
Infact, you didn't even have to read the article; you just had to look at the purty pictures.
Instead of giving us an insightful comment based upon the actual content of the article, you've given us so much more.
Thanks!
Not too many tools for analyzing ring traces. Thats right. Token ring. Using a non-standard protocol (we have our own transport layer protocol).
Do yourself a favor- don't ask!
cat blahlblahblha.txt | awk '{ print $8 $2;}'
just to give you an example. I like that both Perl and awk give you associative arrays for free.
The last time I needed to analyze network usage per processor per second I wrote an awk script.
I find it hard to believe that someone who actually knew perl would go back to using awk.
Believe it. Its just what I do now.
when checking enormous debug files with lines longer than 300+ characters, vi is not an option. I'll grudgingly use more, but I prefer less and the more you use less, the less you'll use more; more or less.
Please, DON'T.
Why? If I know awk better than PERL, its a much better idea to use AWK.
Vice versa.
P.S.- At two different points in my life I did serious perl scripting. Now, I can't remember a darn thing. Awk looks like C. So these days, I use awk. Different strokes for people with different amounts of brain power/memory.
And some scripters tend to be just as zealous about the power of scripting as perl mongers are about perl!
That reminds me... I need my oil changed!!! Crap! I hope my car isn't mad at me from the neglect... maybe I'll buy it some feul additive to appease the internal combustion gods!
uhm, err, I'm not sure if I've programmed it into my RM-VL900 yet! ;)
A good reason to by a DVD burner and software for editing videos!!!!
Truer words where NEVER spoken! Trust me- the day I figure our this DVD+/-R/RW whatever stuff (i.e.- good burners are $60!) is the day I'm editing out all the crap intro stuff and all the WEAK "bonus features."
"You get to watch John Lasseter's sicophantic introduction to every Miyazaki DVD over the course of an entire year!"
(this joke will only make sense to those who have seen the Disney Ghibli releases)
For heaven's sake GET A GRIP!
Parent post (my grand parent) is answering questions posed in Grand parent post (my great-grand parent post).
This is an article about international communication, bitch! Its completely on topic! Let the moderators be the topic-nazi's.
For heaven's sake- stop coming to slashdot. You are an asshole.
There will always be a bias where humans will prefer to communicate/do business with other humans who can most accurately speak their language, right down to the dialect.
You can find it in your own country and every country; esp. between the northerners and southerners!
This tech is just a quickie stop-gap that lowers the barrier of travel for a lot of people.
And while your at it, vin-nay, Bag yr face!
[rubs eyes] damnit! I hate when I transmogrify into a Valley Girl!
I've got a Digi Cam with CF and an 8-track digital recorder that uses CF- I can swap cards like the day is long.
I'd like to be able to use my current flock of cards with any future purchases.
yeah, its VHS, though. Interpolate my e-mail addy from my "web page" address (its REALLY NOT a website!)
And they are TOTALLY nerds!! All of 'em!
(don't tell her I said this.)
P.S.- my wife is better at the Internet than I am(and I am a network programmer). She can beat the final boss. She says he's really hard.
The Gift is a movie by Perry Farrel and Casey Whats-her-face (The woman in all the Ritual videos that Perry was marrying). Its got the rest of the band in it, too. Here's the IMDB info, which reminds me, Harry Perry (also seen in that Bridgette Fonda "La Femme Nakita" remake "Point of no return") is pretty k00l.
As for Ritual vs. Nothings Shocking; I think Ritual had a less balls-out-rawk thing going for it. Depending upon who I am at any given time, thats a plus or a minus (This past weekend, it was a plus). I think Ritual had just as much creativity, with great polish and orchestration on the later songs (the first couple of songs are pretty balls out). So if you're in the mood for the balls, you will be yawning on the second half of the album. I guess this makes me an old fart?!
I think Ritual is more of an Album; you can hit play and not fast-forward once (mind you, I didn't always think that way). But
NS really rips. My intro to Janes was "Mountain song" which is pretty fresh rocker.
Porno for Pyros? Silly. The new stuff? Laughable!
P.S.- ever seen The Gift? Cute (esp. watching Perry score), but strictly for completists.
talk about lighten up! You foe'd me! BWA-HAHAHAHAHA! Kettle? Meet the Pot!
okay, uhm, I guess I've, as you succintly put it, "bought the lie"- however I don't see how it is a lie at all, which is why I'd LOVE to hear your conflicting view. I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being ernest; I truly see no fault my world view.
As for proof of their being a divine truth or justice, the counter is the classic "When bad things happen to good people" and "when good things happen to bad people" argument. I'm not sure if you are going to "divine truth and justice" way... but if you are, explain that.
guarantee you would feel better if you directly stimulate your pleasure center.
Yeah, but the come-down's a bitch.
It's obvious you're here to have some juvenile philosophical argument in which we snipe at each other rather than actually discussing something you believe in. I'm not interested.
Seeing this response brought a kool-aid smile to my face. Don't you doubt it!