I was wondering the same thing...BUT. I think we're looking at this the wrong way. the number are not, and have never been, and are in no danger or question of BEING, truly random. they're there, they're set, and it's done. the question is "is there a pattern"? and so, the formula does not automatically force there to be a pattern, just forces us to realize that they're static and predictable. ------------------------------------ ----------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
actually, more to the point, the dissenters are those who speak out. if someone disliked the film, they'll
probably refrain from posting unless they look at the posts of the people who are irritated and then decide
to post a dissenting opinion. if someone liked the film, and liked it enough, they'll immediately post an angry reply. ----------------------------------------------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
skipstone doesn't require gnome, but it has most of the features of galeon, plus it's just recently implemented a plugin architechture. so anything you want that it doesn't have, you can add. I've completely switched over. the only things that I have a problem with are mozilla related. ---------------------------------------- ------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I'm sorry...I guess I just have to get out of the mindset that the GPL is "THE Open source license"...
gotta remember the BSD license, etc. That in mind, what was Python before now? -------------------------------------------- --
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I worked as the inter/intranet web designer for a small company one summer (at least that was the third task they assigned me after ignoring my reccomendation on what they hired me for in the first place) This was a place called "Carney Interactive", a small place in Alexandria VA that did a lot of training multimedia for gov't contracts. We wanted to get people to feel that we had a good, competent, talented group. I said "well, we do. We've only got about 20 employees, why don't we put some bios on the web to show everyone what we're like?" The guy I was working for (Jim Carney) looked at me like I was a lunatic. "But other people will try to hire them from us. There will be headhunters. No. I forbid this" he said. I was shocked...this was the first time I'd encountered something like this. after about another month there, realizing the insane hours he demanded towards the end of the product cycle in order to get the bugs out before these things went out the door, I wasn't surprised. everyone in there wanted out, they just didn't know how. I hope when the tech boom swelled it took some of them with it. good people, generally. -------------------------------------- --------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
okay, assuming he's right (which I don't really believe) he has put the instructions up on the web on how to make them yourself.
it's sort of too late for anyone to clamp it down.
the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of slashdotters that looked at his page cached it in both their and their ISP's servers, so it's out there and likely out of anyone's control.... --------------------------------------------- -
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
well, at least in this case you can always just take off the rings. or give a pair to your friends. and you don't even have to become a vampire! "hm...I think I need a few more years on me to look more dignified...maybe I'll just wear them every other night for a while.." ---------------------------------------- ------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
magnets have been around in this manner for many years - new age style people, etc. have been encouraging the use of magnets on the feet and hands for as long as I can remember. why is your way better, why didn't theirs work, and what proof and facts do you have? your website was not very forthcoming on that last issue, though you claimed to have both. ------------------------------------------- ---
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
he's certainly charging enough for the foot braces...
I like the idea of donating money to a charity to get them. I'd almost go ahead and do that.
but he's got pop-up ads when you leave the site.
that sort of thing always makes me doubt the veracity of the information withing...it's sort of a "we know you won't come back, so here' my last ditch way to get you to give me some money!" ----------------------------------------- -----
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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b) I thought this was one of his best recent books.
I've been getting concerned with pratchett's recent books, which have been more and more along the lines of "look! I've introduced something into this world which is permenant!" as opposed to his previous discworld books which were "Let's introduce an outside concept which we're familiar with into the world, play with it, satirize it, and the have the characters eradicate it because they know deep down that their world is supposed to be there like it always has been so that people can dream about it". moving pictures is an example of the last one, the bit where the clacks towers were introduced is my most frustrating example of the first.
I've always like Death, and I've been growing to like Susan more and more. Ronnie, the fifth horseman is very nifty as well. This novel particularly interested me because I've always wondered about the history monks, especially after Small Gods. I can't wait until they release the rest of his books to the States...it's driving me nuts waiting for them piecemeal, and it's so fscking expensive to get them from overseas...
thanks for letting me rant...and damn you for reviewing it before i got a chance. ----------------------------------------------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I was being told that "these days, kids spend
too much time inside on the computer. of course
the kids who have antisocial tendencies have them
caused by the computer. it's the new part of the
equation!"
I argued, and I believe I'm right, that kids with antisocial tendencies have been around forever. computers are simply putting them in the limelight, and the computers are not a cause, but there is merely a positive relationship between the two (computer usage and antisocial behavior). as any simple psych or stats class will teach you, there is NO way to "prove" a cause-and-effect relationship with a positive relationship between two things. I think these people are simply predisposed to this behavior, and in any other time and society they would have found something else to do. --------------------------------------------- -
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
say all these copy protect things go through.
I have to pay to listen to a song each time I do so.
this assumes I want to listen to that song RIGHT NOW. this also assumes I don't have about $4 worth of cabling to hook up a radio to my computer and record it that way. sure, it's not the quality I like, but if I was that nuts about the quality I'd record all my mp3s at the max bps and not listen to the radio at all. if I had to pay each time I listened to a song you can forget my EVER doing anything BUT listening to the radio. I buy a CD so I can listen to an album. not so I can listen to a song. when I just like one song by an artist, I just listen to it on the radio, and if I get to like it enough I get an mp3. if I hear the album at some point, and really think it's really good (like black lab, big wreck, or eve 6 to name a few of the underappreciated bands I've heard) I'll go get it and wait with bated breath for the next album to come out. and listen to the whole album. a lot. now they say "hey! let's charge him each time he hears each song!" I say "Screw that!" and stop buying any albums, artists that don't release enough of their songs go completely under my radar, and everyone loses. doesn't anyone (in the record industry) see this? they're killing their own revenue stream... --------------------------------------- -------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I can honestly point to Douglas Adams as being
one of the first steps of my descent into geekdom.
I was led to Adams the mere weeks before I first discovered BBSes...and I became obsessed. thus, my "Hitch" id, as well as my hitchhiker e-mail.
to this day I carry a towel with me everywhere.
I have one in my car, in my bag, and I use one to
wrap around my "More than complete" leather edition of the guide...I spent years searching out his other novels, the deeper meaning of liff, last chance to see. I still haven't gotten all oflast chance to see (it's easier to find on mp3 with him reading it than it is to find the actual book). I'm...crushed to hear this. I think I'll go dig out my infocom emulator and play the game for a while. ----------------------------------------------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I think a point you may have missed was that even the white people in the original mummy were whiny, greedy, simpering yes men. hell, the heroine's brother was one. The two parts of the movie that stick in my mind (about the first one) are when the mummy unhinges his jaw and screams this echoing scream at brendan fraser, and brendan fraser looks at him for a minute and then screams back...and the other is when they uncase him for the first time and the chick says "oh...this is unusual...he's still..." and the two guys say "juicy." just...generally amusing... -------------------------------------- --------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
ummmm...the mummy returns was released two days ago...so no, it isn't late...and it didn't flop...
from what I saw (and admittedly, the numbers won't be out until monday) it was huge...I'm talking the 10:30 showing was sold out before the 9:30 showing started.
I'm talking the people at the movie theater told me people had nearly sold out the 7:30 showing the day before. I don't know about you, but a movie has to be pretty big to get that kind of reaction - I don't remember the last time I went to a movie it's opening weekend and had to go to a showing later than I arrived for (and I go to most movies opening weekend and about 45 minutes early...)
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
The Mummy Returns is just another in the long transformation of the Adventure Movie into the Comedy Movie. The majority of it is actually supposed to be funny (and is). The plot? Not too bad if a little contrived. The final explosion of the pyramid is well explained before they even leave England, the two kickboxing women are QUITE well explained (Brendan's wife and Imhotep's girlfriend are these two women reincarnated). They at least went and read a history book so they got the right King with Nefertiti, and other than that it wasn't intended to be a "masterpiece" or "work of art", it was intended to be a visually stunning (check), amusing (check), fun (check), action packed (check) summer flick (check). If you liked "The Mummy", go see this one. If not, don't bother. If you haven't seen either, rent the first one first. (hitch shrugs) no big deal. and BTW, AI was NOT one of the trailers in my area, but a lot of other really interesting ones were... ----------------------------------------- -----
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I was a subscriber, and really liked the mag.
there were several particularly good articles - a rundown of cd burners and what typical issues were, a whole half magazine dedicated to building an in-car mp3 player, and just this last issue the one about emulators and virtual machines. good stuff for practical users and stuff to take to the boss. but I did pay $29 a year for it. what happens now? I didn't get my subscription fee back. and the company isn't bankrupt, they just killed that magazine. so? what's the story? ------------------------------------------ ----
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I just have to say that
a) I'm not a big fan of gnome. at 1.0, it crashed my linux box. crashed it hard. repeatedly. when I stopped running it, my box stopped crashing.
but b) KDE 2.0 has been "upcoming" for almost a year now. can't you release something in between? all the snapshots and developer packages may or may not work from day to day. fine. I understand the development model of a project like this. but don't talk to me about "comparing current gnome to old kde" when there is no NEW KDE available to compare it to. I'm sorry. this is a rant. but it's frustrating. ------------------------------------ ----------
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
START AT, being the operative words. I want to know how much the NICE ones are. -------------------------------------------- --
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I was looking through their website yesterday.
looks like a really nice piece of hardware, but I don't think I'll go run out and buy one. no prices listed anywhere.
if you dig around for a while, there are two models, one with a plastic case and one with a metal case. the metal case seems to have wireless connectivity to peripherals, like keyboards, etc.
go look at the picture gallery. looks very cool tho'. one thing I wonder - linux has palm pilot emulators. couldn't someone install that on a linux handheld device and run palmOS programs?
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
wait...you're from the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, aren't you? -------------------------------------------- --
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I'm dissapointed so many PC vendors are dropping out here. I don't know that they could really squeeze transmeta out of the market tho'. it's really a different architecture entirely. if someone ports linux to it natively, it'll run a hell of a lot faster (I expect) than it does under the morphing software. and what about battery life? I mean, I'd take a little bit of a performance hit to have my laptop run half a day w/out charging. especially since it's not really such a hit to most people with laptops right now. How many people really have high end pIII laptops?
intel would have to do a hell of a lot more than lower prices to completely bury the carusoe. ---------------------------------------- ------ All that glitters has a high refractive index.
The MasonLUG just had its first officers' meeting of the semester, and we decided that we need a GMULUG distribution. Our main concern is distribution costs of physical media. beyond that, for a redhat distro it's mostly grabbing updated RPMS and making a nice kickstart image, plus including a heaping helping of GMU specific Docs. We were hoping, however, to perhaps use Debian instead of Redhat, mostly for ease of upgrade with aptget... any ideas?/help?/thoughts? mailto:csanner@gmu.edu -------------------------- -------------------- All that glitters has a high refractive index.
why do I feel like this is the quake opensourcing argument all over again? First off, of COURSE it's going to have bugs. it's their FIRST LINUX RELEASE. Yes, some of them seem obvious enough that they should have been fixed. But instead of bitching about how a program that you haven't had to pay for (and won't until it's out of beta) has bugs, submit bug reports. sure, you can't debug or get the code, but pop off an e-mail mentioning a particular problem. it's small, blazing fast, and isn't a system hog. I'ts missing e-mail? GOOD. I wanted to separate those two programs out anyway. at $35 and free minor release upgrades, I'm going to be proud to support them. I've talked to some of their sales people over the past few days while I tested out their windows client to see what we were looking at as far as a linux client. they were extremely helpful and patient with even my most obnoxious questions. This is ONE case where a commercial product is smaller, faster, and better than an open sourced "free" one. point me at a browser that DOESN'T have the same sort of problems that opera does FIVE RELEASES OR MORE IN, and I'll be amazed. Netscape is the closest, and for pete's sake, it's HUGE. You think once Opera is done, Mozilla will be able to compete? only on the free side, man. We can't directly affect the way Mozilla is going any more than we can Opera. Oh sure "but I can go in and change it myself". But how many of us have the time and knowledge to look through a code base that HUGE??? Not me, that's for sure. So don't look YET ANOTHER gift horse in the mouth. Please. If you can't be happy about it, keep your mouth SHUT and go sulk in the corner.
Internet Job hunting isn't ALL bad.
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As the end of the spring semester neared and I was looking at a bleak and cashless summer, I still hadn't heard from any of the companies to whom I'd submitted my resume in person. The best I'd recieved was "we'll put it in our database and see if it matches anything". I had just subscribed to the local novalug mailing list and figured "hey, what the heck" and submitted my resume (in RTF, considering the group I was talking to) attached to an e-mail. Within three days I'd gotten four replies and a request for an interview. I'm now working with an excellent company with some EXTREMELY good/fascinating/intelligent/patient people, and I'm enjoying it immensely. you CAN get hired in a "high tech" manner and still have a person on the other end.
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I was wondering the same thing...BUT. I think we're looking at this the wrong way. the number are not, and have never been, and are in no danger or question of BEING, truly random. they're there, they're set, and it's done. the question is "is there a pattern"? and so, the formula does not automatically force there to be a pattern, just forces us to realize that they're static and predictable.- ----------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
actually, more to the point, the dissenters are those who speak out. if someone disliked the film, they'll probably refrain from posting unless they look at the posts of the people who are irritated and then decide to post a dissenting opinion. if someone liked the film, and liked it enough, they'll immediately post an angry reply.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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skipstone doesn't require gnome, but it has most of the features of galeon, plus it's just recently implemented a plugin architechture. so anything you want that it doesn't have, you can add. I've completely switched over. the only things that I have a problem with are mozilla related.- ------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I'm sorry...I guess I just have to get out of the mindset that the GPL is "THE Open source license"... gotta remember the BSD license, etc. That in mind, what was Python before now?- --
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I worked as the inter/intranet web designer for a small company one summer (at least that was the third task they assigned me after ignoring my reccomendation on what they hired me for in the first place) This was a place called "Carney Interactive", a small place in Alexandria VA that did a lot of training multimedia for gov't contracts. We wanted to get people to feel that we had a good, competent, talented group. I said "well, we do. We've only got about 20 employees, why don't we put some bios on the web to show everyone what we're like?" The guy I was working for (Jim Carney) looked at me like I was a lunatic. "But other people will try to hire them from us. There will be headhunters. No. I forbid this" he said. I was shocked...this was the first time I'd encountered something like this. after about another month there, realizing the insane hours he demanded towards the end of the product cycle in order to get the bugs out before these things went out the door, I wasn't surprised. everyone in there wanted out, they just didn't know how. I hope when the tech boom swelled it took some of them with it. good people, generally.- --------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
okay, assuming he's right (which I don't really believe) he has put the instructions up on the web on how to make them yourself. it's sort of too late for anyone to clamp it down. the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of slashdotters that looked at his page cached it in both their and their ISP's servers, so it's out there and likely out of anyone's control. ...- -
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
well, at least in this case you can always just take off the rings. or give a pair to your friends. and you don't even have to become a vampire! "hm...I think I need a few more years on me to look more dignified...maybe I'll just wear them every other night for a while.."- ------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
magnets have been around in this manner for many years - new age style people, etc. have been encouraging the use of magnets on the feet and hands for as long as I can remember. why is your way better, why didn't theirs work, and what proof and facts do you have? your website was not very forthcoming on that last issue, though you claimed to have both.- ---
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
he's certainly charging enough for the foot braces...- -----
I like the idea of donating money to a charity to get them. I'd almost go ahead and do that.
but he's got pop-up ads when you leave the site.
that sort of thing always makes me doubt the veracity of the information withing...it's sort of a "we know you won't come back, so here' my last ditch way to get you to give me some money!"
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
b) I thought this was one of his best recent books.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I've been getting concerned with pratchett's recent books, which have been more and more along the lines of "look! I've introduced something into this world which is permenant!" as opposed to his previous discworld books which were "Let's introduce an outside concept which we're familiar with into the world, play with it, satirize it, and the have the characters eradicate it because they know deep down that their world is supposed to be there like it always has been so that people can dream about it". moving pictures is an example of the last one, the bit where the clacks towers were introduced is my most frustrating example of the first.
I've always like Death, and I've been growing to like Susan more and more. Ronnie, the fifth horseman is very nifty as well. This novel particularly interested me because I've always wondered about the history monks, especially after Small Gods. I can't wait until they release the rest of his books to the States...it's driving me nuts waiting for them piecemeal, and it's so fscking expensive to get them from overseas...
thanks for letting me rant...and damn you for reviewing it before i got a chance.
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I was being told that "these days, kids spend- -
too much time inside on the computer. of course
the kids who have antisocial tendencies have them
caused by the computer. it's the new part of the
equation!"
I argued, and I believe I'm right, that kids with antisocial tendencies have been around forever. computers are simply putting them in the limelight, and the computers are not a cause, but there is merely a positive relationship between the two (computer usage and antisocial behavior). as any simple psych or stats class will teach you, there is NO way to "prove" a cause-and-effect relationship with a positive relationship between two things. I think these people are simply predisposed to this behavior, and in any other time and society they would have found something else to do.
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
say all these copy protect things go through.- -------
I have to pay to listen to a song each time I do so.
this assumes I want to listen to that song RIGHT NOW. this also assumes I don't have about $4 worth of cabling to hook up a radio to my computer and record it that way. sure, it's not the quality I like, but if I was that nuts about the quality I'd record all my mp3s at the max bps and not listen to the radio at all. if I had to pay each time I listened to a song you can forget my EVER doing anything BUT listening to the radio. I buy a CD so I can listen to an album. not so I can listen to a song. when I just like one song by an artist, I just listen to it on the radio, and if I get to like it enough I get an mp3. if I hear the album at some point, and really think it's really good (like black lab, big wreck, or eve 6 to name a few of the underappreciated bands I've heard) I'll go get it and wait with bated breath for the next album to come out. and listen to the whole album. a lot. now they say "hey! let's charge him each time he hears each song!" I say "Screw that!" and stop buying any albums, artists that don't release enough of their songs go completely under my radar, and everyone loses. doesn't anyone (in the record industry) see this? they're killing their own revenue stream...
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I can honestly point to Douglas Adams as being one of the first steps of my descent into geekdom. I was led to Adams the mere weeks before I first discovered BBSes...and I became obsessed. thus, my "Hitch" id, as well as my hitchhiker e-mail. to this day I carry a towel with me everywhere. I have one in my car, in my bag, and I use one to wrap around my "More than complete" leather edition of the guide...I spent years searching out his other novels, the deeper meaning of liff, last chance to see. I still haven't gotten all oflast chance to see (it's easier to find on mp3 with him reading it than it is to find the actual book). I'm...crushed to hear this. I think I'll go dig out my infocom emulator and play the game for a while.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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I think a point you may have missed was that even the white people in the original mummy were whiny, greedy, simpering yes men. hell, the heroine's brother was one. The two parts of the movie that stick in my mind (about the first one) are when the mummy unhinges his jaw and screams this echoing scream at brendan fraser, and brendan fraser looks at him for a minute and then screams back...and the other is when they uncase him for the first time and the chick says "oh...this is unusual...he's still..." and the two guys say "juicy." just...generally amusing...- --------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
ummmm...the mummy returns was released two days ago...so no, it isn't late...and it didn't flop... from what I saw (and admittedly, the numbers won't be out until monday) it was huge...I'm talking the 10:30 showing was sold out before the 9:30 showing started. I'm talking the people at the movie theater told me people had nearly sold out the 7:30 showing the day before. I don't know about you, but a movie has to be pretty big to get that kind of reaction - I don't remember the last time I went to a movie it's opening weekend and had to go to a showing later than I arrived for (and I go to most movies opening weekend and about 45 minutes early...)
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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The Mummy Returns is just another in the long transformation of the Adventure Movie into the Comedy Movie. The majority of it is actually supposed to be funny (and is). The plot? Not too bad if a little contrived. The final explosion of the pyramid is well explained before they even leave England, the two kickboxing women are QUITE well explained (Brendan's wife and Imhotep's girlfriend are these two women reincarnated). They at least went and read a history book so they got the right King with Nefertiti, and other than that it wasn't intended to be a "masterpiece" or "work of art", it was intended to be a visually stunning (check), amusing (check), fun (check), action packed (check) summer flick (check). If you liked "The Mummy", go see this one. If not, don't bother. If you haven't seen either, rent the first one first. (hitch shrugs) no big deal. and BTW, AI was NOT one of the trailers in my area, but a lot of other really interesting ones were...- -----
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I was a subscriber, and really liked the mag. there were several particularly good articles - a rundown of cd burners and what typical issues were, a whole half magazine dedicated to building an in-car mp3 player, and just this last issue the one about emulators and virtual machines. good stuff for practical users and stuff to take to the boss. but I did pay $29 a year for it. what happens now? I didn't get my subscription fee back. and the company isn't bankrupt, they just killed that magazine. so? what's the story?- ----
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I just have to say that- ----------
a) I'm not a big fan of gnome. at 1.0, it crashed my linux box. crashed it hard. repeatedly. when I stopped running it, my box stopped crashing.
but b) KDE 2.0 has been "upcoming" for almost a year now. can't you release something in between? all the snapshots and developer packages may or may not work from day to day. fine. I understand the development model of a project like this. but don't talk to me about "comparing current gnome to old kde" when there is no NEW KDE available to compare it to. I'm sorry. this is a rant. but it's frustrating.
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
START AT, being the operative words. I want to know how much the NICE ones are.- --
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I was looking through their website yesterday. looks like a really nice piece of hardware, but I don't think I'll go run out and buy one. no prices listed anywhere. if you dig around for a while, there are two models, one with a plastic case and one with a metal case. the metal case seems to have wireless connectivity to peripherals, like keyboards, etc. go look at the picture gallery. looks very cool tho'. one thing I wonder - linux has palm pilot emulators. couldn't someone install that on a linux handheld device and run palmOS programs?
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
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wait...you're from the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, aren't you?- --
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
I'm dissapointed so many PC vendors are dropping out here. I don't know that they could really squeeze transmeta out of the market tho'. it's really a different architecture entirely. if someone ports linux to it natively, it'll run a hell of a lot faster (I expect) than it does under the morphing software. and what about battery life? I mean, I'd take a little bit of a performance hit to have my laptop run half a day w/out charging. especially since it's not really such a hit to most people with laptops right now. How many people really have high end pIII laptops?
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intel would have to do a hell of a lot more than lower prices to completely bury the carusoe.
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
The MasonLUG just had its first officers' meeting of the semester, and we decided that we need a GMULUG distribution. Our main concern is distribution costs of physical media. beyond that, for a redhat distro it's mostly grabbing updated RPMS and making a nice kickstart image, plus including a heaping helping of GMU specific Docs. We were hoping, however, to perhaps use Debian instead of Redhat, mostly for ease of upgrade with aptget... any ideas?/help?/thoughts? mailto:csanner@gmu.edu- --------------------
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All that glitters has a high refractive index.
why do I feel like this is the quake opensourcing argument all over again? First off, of COURSE it's going to have bugs. it's their FIRST LINUX RELEASE. Yes, some of them seem obvious enough that they should have been fixed. But instead of bitching about how a program that you haven't had to pay for (and won't until it's out of beta) has bugs, submit bug reports. sure, you can't debug or get the code, but pop off an e-mail mentioning a particular problem.
it's small, blazing fast, and isn't a system hog. I'ts missing e-mail? GOOD. I wanted to separate those two programs out anyway. at $35 and free minor release upgrades, I'm going to be proud to support them. I've talked to some of their sales people over the past few days while I tested out their windows client to see what we were looking at as far as a linux client. they were extremely helpful and patient with even my most obnoxious questions. This is ONE case where a commercial product is smaller, faster, and better than an open sourced "free" one. point me at a browser that DOESN'T have the same sort of problems that opera does FIVE RELEASES OR MORE IN, and I'll be amazed. Netscape is the closest, and for pete's sake, it's HUGE. You think once Opera is done, Mozilla will be able to compete? only on the free side, man. We can't directly affect the way Mozilla is going any more than we can Opera. Oh sure "but I can go in and change it myself". But how many of us have the time and knowledge to look through a code base that HUGE??? Not me, that's for sure. So don't look YET ANOTHER gift horse in the mouth. Please. If you can't be happy about it, keep your mouth SHUT and go sulk in the corner.
As the end of the spring semester neared and I was looking at a bleak and cashless summer, I still hadn't heard from any of the companies to whom I'd submitted my resume in person. The best I'd recieved was "we'll put it in our database and see if it matches anything". I had just subscribed to the local novalug mailing list and figured "hey, what the heck" and submitted my resume (in RTF, considering the group I was talking to) attached to an e-mail. Within three days I'd gotten four replies and a request for an interview. I'm now working with an excellent company with some EXTREMELY good/fascinating/intelligent/patient people, and I'm enjoying it immensely. you CAN get hired in a "high tech" manner and still have a person on the other end.