Agreed. Sometimes though, it's fun to do something "just because". A lot of people doing this have dug up dad's old work laptop out of the attic/basement during fall break and are desperately looking for something to do. In high school, getting linux running on any sort of ancient mobile device gives you serious geek cred. I remember back in high school some guy had found (and got working!) and TRS-80 portable that ran on something like 15 D cell batteries, and could dial home to his linux box using it. I had a laptop I attempted installing Deli linux on. It seems the main problem with these older computers is finding working floppy drives. But when you're 15, broke, single, and a nerd, you make do with the hardware you have.
That said, there is some incredible server hardware (like you said, P3 and above) 1 and 2U rackmount servers with dual processors on craigslist for less than $120 usually. This is in Dallas, YMMV.
Efficency? Would you like fries with that? Cows can graze on the land the turbines sit on. There's a turbine smack-dab in the middle of a Wal*Mart parking lot two towns north of me. Turbines are fenced off with 100x100' fences, but other than that the 20 acres of "wind land" they use is up for grabs for agriculture, hunting lodges, parking lots etc.
From the sounds of it, they're actively developing a power corridor through the Kerrville/Fredricksburg, TX area. Last time I checked (May 2009), when I was out there, the area is sparsely populated, and people aren't typically worried about losing their "scenic view".
I would imagine that sort of thing is covered under a "manufacturer's warranty". I would imagine the warranty on an item like this to have a 10 year warranty, and it's not really something I'd worry about too much. Considering how much it costs to ship and install those replacement blades, the manufacturer has good incentive to ship a product that will meet those warranty requirements. Doubly so because the last thing the Chinese want when entering this new, extremely high-profile market is a tarnished image of their wind products, seeing as how we're probably going to buy many thousands more of these from them over the next two decades.
Hunh. so it's 16cm wide. A NES controller is 12cm wide for comparison (DS Lite is 14). That puts it on par with an SNES controller, which is pretty comfortable. Unfortunately the DS XL uses the same buttons as the DS Lite, which are fucking tiny. I think I would have been a lot happier with a half inch smaller screen with SNES-sized D-Pad and ABXY buttons. Not bad though.
Does this have larger external dimensions as well? Obviously the screen is larger but nowhere does it say the actual unit is wider. PSP-width with this size screen would be about perfect.
I don't watch TV news at all. I've found reading the new york times on my lunch break is a great way to relax and unwind. Most days I can get through the whole paper on my lunch hour. I'll usually gloss over the entertainment section since it's almost exclusively NYC based. I was looking into a DX reader to replace my paper edition, but until the price came down, it wasn't cost effective to switch to digital. There's a lot of related stories on the same page as well, something you don't get in the online/e-editions. Google News comes close on occasion, but dead tree edition is still the best way to receive your news, unless you think 30 second sound bytes are what you need to stay informed. Blogs are just parroted, interpeted versions on AP wire stories, I wouldn't seriously consider reading those for news content.
I just did this. Under one of the tabes in the update manager there's an option to change from "upgrade from LTS" to "upgrade on every major release". Check that, hit ok, and refresh. I upgraded from 8.04 to 9.04 via 8.10, and I'm about to make the 9.10 jump. I'm going to wait a week, let any major bugs get sorted out, let the servers rest a bit, and then make the jump.
No, it's real. Half the people in my office ended up buying one. They're a) cheap and b) disposable, making them the ultimate travel computer (unless you like playing the newest 3D games on your vacation). Most people I know use them to dump digital camera pics onto and check email. Students use them for schoolwork (I've seen this, and I do this personally). Also they sold something like elventy-billion of them last year. Oh dear, I think I just got trolled.
Instant mac and cheese like, totally has enough nutrients to get me through exam week!
I wouldn't mind vegetarians so much if they weren't so militant about never eating meat products. Hanging out with vegetarians is fine until the group decides to get something to eat and all the good spots get vetoed because they don't have salad there or "it's all meat *frown*".
Well then the vast majority of college age vegetarians should consult a nutritionist, they think salad and noodles is enough to keep them from looking sickly.
Once you've used google maps (not even the full Navigation app) on your cell phone, it's hard to justify $100+ for a stand alone unit. Google street view being integrated into google maps is invaluable in the urban core area of cities, where you're trying to find a tiny shop tucked away on a street. I think the standalone GPS market is about to implode as all this gets ported to cell phones which have roughly the same sized screens. You'd have to get a data plan for your GPS unit to compete with what you already get for free on cell phones.
I think they're talking about schemes where projects like the B-2 bomber have parts manufactured in all 50 states, making projects like that hard to kill, since they employ someone in every congressional district.
When he showed a picture of one of those toy 3d viewfinders, I was hoping that it would have two phones, showing a stereoscopic image of sorts. Maybe move the screens a little closer to your eyes for the full 3D effect. You could probably mod (or compile an existing) version of Doom 2 to support displaying the 3D sprites of enemies inside the levels. I don't know if Android phones are capable of running quake 1 or quake 3 but that would be interesting at the very least. A G1 runs as low as $100 on ebay if you shop around. Maybe someone could finally build a proper virtual boy emulator!
I think vmex, the source engine map decompiler, is/was hosted at geocities. I've got a local copy of the zip file, but I know the mirrors (which were linked to from the geocities site) were down, which is going to hurt new mappers to the community. The geocities site is linked from Valve's developer wiki even.
My experience here in Dallas is that you have to "special order" martinis with gin, otherwise you get vodka. Even then, your waitress/bartender is likely to screw it up.
Once you hit resolutions above 1024x768, the title bar is so tiny it doesn't really matter what it looks like. I mean, on a 22", 1650x1050 display, the firefox title bar is maybe 2/3rds as tall as my pinky is wide. As long as the title bar isn't flashing, or hot pink, you pretty much forget about it. If it's transparent or whatever maybe you'll notice that for the first week, but other than that it's just eye candy. Unless you're obsessed with GUI themes, backgrounds and color coordination (some people are, more power to them).
You pay less for your Texas made beer, pasta, and bread because it cost less to ship it to the store than say beer, pasta, and bread made in Missouri out of state because of shipping costs added to the price.
What? no. I pay 50% MORE for locally produced foods. Due to the completely out of whack ideals, local food is considered gourmet, and is therefore more expensive. Also the cost of labor is something like 5x as high, making it more expensive to produce than food harvested by what is essentially indentured servitude slaves in 3rd world countries.
So what you're saying is that imported goods are expensive, just like they were in other countries around the world prior to globalization? I think the US and some parts of Europe are the only places where imported goods cost less than locally produced products. I know from a recent trip to the grocery store that I pay about a 50% premium on locally made (Texas) beer, pasta and bread.
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Agreed. Sometimes though, it's fun to do something "just because". A lot of people doing this have dug up dad's old work laptop out of the attic/basement during fall break and are desperately looking for something to do. In high school, getting linux running on any sort of ancient mobile device gives you serious geek cred. I remember back in high school some guy had found (and got working!) and TRS-80 portable that ran on something like 15 D cell batteries, and could dial home to his linux box using it. I had a laptop I attempted installing Deli linux on. It seems the main problem with these older computers is finding working floppy drives. But when you're 15, broke, single, and a nerd, you make do with the hardware you have.
That said, there is some incredible server hardware (like you said, P3 and above) 1 and 2U rackmount servers with dual processors on craigslist for less than $120 usually. This is in Dallas, YMMV.
Efficency? Would you like fries with that? Cows can graze on the land the turbines sit on. There's a turbine smack-dab in the middle of a Wal*Mart parking lot two towns north of me. Turbines are fenced off with 100x100' fences, but other than that the 20 acres of "wind land" they use is up for grabs for agriculture, hunting lodges, parking lots etc.
From the sounds of it, they're actively developing a power corridor through the Kerrville/Fredricksburg, TX area. Last time I checked (May 2009), when I was out there, the area is sparsely populated, and people aren't typically worried about losing their "scenic view".
The Lotus Elise frame is glued together, not screwed/wielded(!)
I would imagine that sort of thing is covered under a "manufacturer's warranty". I would imagine the warranty on an item like this to have a 10 year warranty, and it's not really something I'd worry about too much. Considering how much it costs to ship and install those replacement blades, the manufacturer has good incentive to ship a product that will meet those warranty requirements. Doubly so because the last thing the Chinese want when entering this new, extremely high-profile market is a tarnished image of their wind products, seeing as how we're probably going to buy many thousands more of these from them over the next two decades.
Hunh. so it's 16cm wide. A NES controller is 12cm wide for comparison (DS Lite is 14). That puts it on par with an SNES controller, which is pretty comfortable. Unfortunately the DS XL uses the same buttons as the DS Lite, which are fucking tiny. I think I would have been a lot happier with a half inch smaller screen with SNES-sized D-Pad and ABXY buttons. Not bad though.
Does this have larger external dimensions as well? Obviously the screen is larger but nowhere does it say the actual unit is wider. PSP-width with this size screen would be about perfect.
I don't watch TV news at all. I've found reading the new york times on my lunch break is a great way to relax and unwind. Most days I can get through the whole paper on my lunch hour. I'll usually gloss over the entertainment section since it's almost exclusively NYC based. I was looking into a DX reader to replace my paper edition, but until the price came down, it wasn't cost effective to switch to digital. There's a lot of related stories on the same page as well, something you don't get in the online/e-editions. Google News comes close on occasion, but dead tree edition is still the best way to receive your news, unless you think 30 second sound bytes are what you need to stay informed. Blogs are just parroted, interpeted versions on AP wire stories, I wouldn't seriously consider reading those for news content.
I just did this. Under one of the tabes in the update manager there's an option to change from "upgrade from LTS" to "upgrade on every major release". Check that, hit ok, and refresh. I upgraded from 8.04 to 9.04 via 8.10, and I'm about to make the 9.10 jump. I'm going to wait a week, let any major bugs get sorted out, let the servers rest a bit, and then make the jump.
No, it's real. Half the people in my office ended up buying one. They're a) cheap and b) disposable, making them the ultimate travel computer (unless you like playing the newest 3D games on your vacation). Most people I know use them to dump digital camera pics onto and check email. Students use them for schoolwork (I've seen this, and I do this personally). Also they sold something like elventy-billion of them last year. Oh dear, I think I just got trolled.
Absolutely. Garmin has the boating market locked down. It's a market with gold-plated margins, but it's a relatively small market.
Instant mac and cheese like, totally has enough nutrients to get me through exam week!
I wouldn't mind vegetarians so much if they weren't so militant about never eating meat products. Hanging out with vegetarians is fine until the group decides to get something to eat and all the good spots get vetoed because they don't have salad there or "it's all meat *frown*".
Well then the vast majority of college age vegetarians should consult a nutritionist, they think salad and noodles is enough to keep them from looking sickly.
Once you've used google maps (not even the full Navigation app) on your cell phone, it's hard to justify $100+ for a stand alone unit. Google street view being integrated into google maps is invaluable in the urban core area of cities, where you're trying to find a tiny shop tucked away on a street. I think the standalone GPS market is about to implode as all this gets ported to cell phones which have roughly the same sized screens. You'd have to get a data plan for your GPS unit to compete with what you already get for free on cell phones.
I think they're talking about schemes where projects like the B-2 bomber have parts manufactured in all 50 states, making projects like that hard to kill, since they employ someone in every congressional district.
When he showed a picture of one of those toy 3d viewfinders, I was hoping that it would have two phones, showing a stereoscopic image of sorts. Maybe move the screens a little closer to your eyes for the full 3D effect. You could probably mod (or compile an existing) version of Doom 2 to support displaying the 3D sprites of enemies inside the levels. I don't know if Android phones are capable of running quake 1 or quake 3 but that would be interesting at the very least. A G1 runs as low as $100 on ebay if you shop around. Maybe someone could finally build a proper virtual boy emulator!
I think vmex, the source engine map decompiler, is/was hosted at geocities. I've got a local copy of the zip file, but I know the mirrors (which were linked to from the geocities site) were down, which is going to hurt new mappers to the community. The geocities site is linked from Valve's developer wiki even.
My experience here in Dallas is that you have to "special order" martinis with gin, otherwise you get vodka. Even then, your waitress/bartender is likely to screw it up.
Once you hit resolutions above 1024x768, the title bar is so tiny it doesn't really matter what it looks like. I mean, on a 22", 1650x1050 display, the firefox title bar is maybe 2/3rds as tall as my pinky is wide. As long as the title bar isn't flashing, or hot pink, you pretty much forget about it. If it's transparent or whatever maybe you'll notice that for the first week, but other than that it's just eye candy. Unless you're obsessed with GUI themes, backgrounds and color coordination (some people are, more power to them).
Hey now, the Napster model worked just fine... right? Right?
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What? no. I pay 50% MORE for locally produced foods. Due to the completely out of whack ideals, local food is considered gourmet, and is therefore more expensive. Also the cost of labor is something like 5x as high, making it more expensive to produce than food harvested by what is essentially indentured servitude slaves in 3rd world countries.
It's a Texas cow. Everything's bigger in Texas. Including our codebase, minimum requirements, load times, release cycles and bug lists(!)
You are correct, good sir! Maybe I'll buy Windows 7 instead! I guess you could say Vista was not an LTS release! ha HA!
So what you're saying is that imported goods are expensive, just like they were in other countries around the world prior to globalization? I think the US and some parts of Europe are the only places where imported goods cost less than locally produced products. I know from a recent trip to the grocery store that I pay about a 50% premium on locally made (Texas) beer, pasta and bread.
Well I was going to buy Windows 7, but since it looks like 9.10 LTS is coming out on the 29th, I'll save $125 and get my OS for free! Thanks Slashdot!