There is an alternative they've probably considered: Including the OS partition on hard drives that work with the DRM in BIOS. No more choosing any standard hard drive to work with any motherboard/controller.
I'll have to agree with you. Having a Powerbook in front of me would have been too much temptation for a bit of practice fragging. (Yes, seminarians frag, too.;-) )
On the other hand, I've often used.pdf files of texts for research when writing my papers. Nothing beats having John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion in.pdf format when you're trying to write a paper on predestination. This past semester, I downloaded practically everything Augustine wrote to write a paper on his treatment of time. For research, you can't beat having electronic texts. Most of my classmates think I'm nuts for paying for a cable 'Net connection -- until they see how easily I do research by downloading the major texts we're studying (the old ones, of course, in public domain) and searching, copying, and pasting the relevant quotes.
I thought the same thing, until I took a class in seminary with the textbook on CD (in.pdf format).
Since I don't have a notebook, I tried going to class a few times without the textbook. I found very quickly that those students without my aversion to paper could easily win arguments related to the text because they had printed the relevant chapters and brought them with them to class.
I started printing the chapters out of sheer survival. Fortunately, I was able to print out the book at 2 pages/sheet (thank you Mac OS X!). The moral? Until I can afford a notebook, I prefer (augh!) paper books.
No geek trip to the U.S. would be complete without going to the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. I've been there, and believe me, the Arch is an architectural wonder. You can find more info here and here.
Sorry, the developers can't post because they're trying to recover from crashing their servers. I'm posting only because my weekend ideas didn't crash the server this week.
Does this mean that Monday mornings are peak productivity times for developers?
It must just be the American in me. I visited the page, saw the word "details" and thought it said "decals." I thought, "Wow! A car decal to advocate a carless city!"
In a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement, "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
That statement leads us to consider this: IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS.....
Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. The air bag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
OK, the gentleman in me compels me to edit this, but you've all seen the story before:
In the beginning was the Plan and then came the Assumption.
And the Assumptions were without form, and the Plan was completely without substance, and darkness was upon the faces of the workers.
And they spoke amongst themselves saying, "It is a crock of crap, and it stinketh."
And the workers went unto their supervisors and sayeth, "It is a pail of dung and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the supervisors went unto their managers and sayeth unto them, "It is a container of excrement and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it."
And the managers went unto their directors and sayeth, "It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength."
And the directors spoke among themselves saying to one another, "It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."
And the directors went unto their vice presidents to sayeth unto them, "It promotes growth and is very powerful."
And the vice presidents went unto the president and sayeth unto him, "This new plan will actively promote the growth and efficiency of this company, and these areas in particular."
And the president looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good.
I used a MessagePad 2100. The thing could actually read both my print and cursive writing - amazing.
Of course, one thing many people will miss in this is that our Graffiti-using PDA's won't suddenly stop working. Those of us whose PDA uses Graffiti will continue to use it until we purchase a new one that doesn't. I hope my Visor lasts until I finish seminary. Unfortunately, I don't want another PDA, I want one of the new Powerbooks - massively more expensive.
Graffiti never held a candle to the Newton's handwriting recognition. I know; I used both.
The Newton recognized my handwriting, something that my wife rarely does. I use Graffiti on my Handspring Visor now, but I really miss my Newton. Well, actually, it was the taxpayers' Newton, since testing it was part of my campus job.
Just the same, I have to wonder if the legal eagles haven't killed another good product with their new emphasis on IP issues. Graffiti wasn't the best, but it was good enough for what I have to do.
Yeah, that's right, try to avoid Slashdotting www.computerexhaust.com by re-directing the URL to slashdot. As if we're not techy enough to figure it out.
Slashdot Mirror
If you were really afraid, you'd have posted as Anonymous Coward.
I find your lack of faith in humanity... disturbing.
Are you thinking of Oath of Fealty?
It's rather dated now; the mainframe in the book connects to the LA police computer at the blazing rate of (gasp!) 300 baud.
No, you've forgotten: A firefighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky-but-sexy government scientist will destroy the organic life with dandruff shampoo.
There is an alternative they've probably considered: Including the OS partition on hard drives that work with the DRM in BIOS. No more choosing any standard hard drive to work with any motherboard/controller.
That's my guess, anyway.
Sorry, that kind of user friendliness is reserved for Macintosh. ;-)
Gives a new meaning to the saying, "never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
Did anyone else notice the problem airbag in the photo? Too bad the rover couldn't simply have rolled over it.
Apparently. The site's already /.'ed. Anyone get a mirror?
I'll have to agree with you. Having a Powerbook in front of me would have been too much temptation for a bit of practice fragging. (Yes, seminarians frag, too. ;-) )
.pdf files of texts for research when writing my papers. Nothing beats having John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion in .pdf format when you're trying to write a paper on predestination. This past semester, I downloaded practically everything Augustine wrote to write a paper on his treatment of time. For research, you can't beat having electronic texts. Most of my classmates think I'm nuts for paying for a cable 'Net connection -- until they see how easily I do research by downloading the major texts we're studying (the old ones, of course, in public domain) and searching, copying, and pasting the relevant quotes.
On the other hand, I've often used
I thought the same thing, until I took a class in seminary with the textbook on CD (in .pdf format).
Since I don't have a notebook, I tried going to class a few times without the textbook. I found very quickly that those students without my aversion to paper could easily win arguments related to the text because they had printed the relevant chapters and brought them with them to class.
I started printing the chapters out of sheer survival. Fortunately, I was able to print out the book at 2 pages/sheet (thank you Mac OS X!). The moral? Until I can afford a notebook, I prefer (augh!) paper books.
Sorry, I don't think Emperor Ming and the planet Mongo would like the competition.
This reminds me of a quote attributed to Winston Churchill:
"If a man isn't a liberal in his 20's, he has no soul.
If a man isn't a conservative in his 30's, he has no brain."
No geek trip to the U.S. would be complete without going to the top of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. I've been there, and believe me, the Arch is an architectural wonder. You can find more info here and here.
Sorry, the developers can't post because they're trying to recover from crashing their servers. I'm posting only because my weekend ideas didn't crash the server this week.
Does this mean that Monday mornings are peak productivity times for developers?
It must just be the American in me. I visited the page, saw the word "details" and thought it said "decals." I thought, "Wow! A car decal to advocate a carless city!"
Great. The Bazaar has slashdotted the Cathedral.
If that doesn't qualify someone for the Darwin Awards, I don't know what will.
I'm reading at Level 2 Mod, and I've seen no Funny comments.
I was in college when Challenger was lost. This is deja vu all over again.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them.
Dont' know where you are, but from my location, Redmond is west.
Here's the rest of the story:
If cars were like computers...
If Microsoft Built Cars
In a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement, "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
That statement leads us to consider this: IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS.....
Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
The air bag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
It's old but still true to a point.
OK, the gentleman in me compels me to edit this, but you've all seen the story before:
In the beginning was the Plan and then came the Assumption.
And the Assumptions were without form, and the Plan was completely without substance, and darkness was upon the faces of the workers.
And they spoke amongst themselves saying, "It is a crock of crap, and it stinketh."
And the workers went unto their supervisors and sayeth, "It is a pail of dung and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the supervisors went unto their managers and sayeth unto them, "It is a container of excrement and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it."
And the managers went unto their directors and sayeth, "It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength."
And the directors spoke among themselves saying to one another, "It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."
And the directors went unto their vice presidents to sayeth unto them, "It promotes growth and is very powerful."
And the vice presidents went unto the president and sayeth unto him, "This new plan will actively promote the growth and efficiency of this company, and these areas in particular."
And the president looked upon the Plan, and saw that it was good.
And the Plan became Policy.
And this is how Crap Happens.
I used a MessagePad 2100. The thing could actually read both my print and cursive writing - amazing.
Of course, one thing many people will miss in this is that our Graffiti-using PDA's won't suddenly stop working. Those of us whose PDA uses Graffiti will continue to use it until we purchase a new one that doesn't. I hope my Visor lasts until I finish seminary. Unfortunately, I don't want another PDA, I want one of the new Powerbooks - massively more expensive.
OK, someone had to say it, so I will:
Graffiti never held a candle to the Newton's handwriting recognition. I know; I used both.
The Newton recognized my handwriting, something that my wife rarely does. I use Graffiti on my Handspring Visor now, but I really miss my Newton. Well, actually, it was the taxpayers' Newton, since testing it was part of my campus job.
Just the same, I have to wonder if the legal eagles haven't killed another good product with their new emphasis on IP issues. Graffiti wasn't the best, but it was good enough for what I have to do.
Yeah, that's right, try to avoid Slashdotting www.computerexhaust.com by re-directing the URL to slashdot. As if we're not techy enough to figure it out.