There isn't really a reason to take someone to court just because they sent you an unsolicited resume.
I'm in complete agreement with you -- presuming that you work in a company's HR department. These folks get paid to sift through crap like that. Bulk-mailing stuff to people who have no reason to look at it should be punishable by death.
An online biography by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson [st-andrews.ac.uk] covers some aspects left out of the autobiography...
That was a really good biography. That was another one that I had stumbled across while I was looking up information on his life. They covered some of the rough parts of his life that the movie had conveniently smoothed over..
..they interview Crowe, but in the background of a few scenes, you can see an elderly couple in two chairs watching from near the director and camera - I wonder if that was Nash and his wife?
Hmmm... that's interesting, and could certainly be possible. But, I think I remember hearing that Crowe and Nash have never actually met - anyone have a link that verifies this?
I saw the movie, and it got me wondering about the real John Forbes Nash, Jr. He's got a short (but interesting) online autobiography here, although he skips over his schizophrenic years and focuses on his academic work.
But what I really want to know is...from how high can I drop it and at what velocity can it withstand a shot against a bulkhead?
That's what I'm thinking - what their *real* customers will be worried about is whether these things will take an AK-47 round and keep ticking.
I don't think they've thought out very well what the average joe will *need* one of these things for. Why should I spend $1500 on an underpowered PC when I can get a laptop or a palmtop for significantly less money?
It's like the sad saga of Iridium all over again - a really cool novelty product in desperate search of a practical market.
Seriously - I can believe that they may have scraped up some cash from the military for some R & D and maybe even some production models, but they're not targeting military customers with lines like "... instant, seamless access to... e-mail accounts, attachments, Internet sites and games."
So who is *buying* these things?! Who wears one of these things around town? I work right next to the Xybernaut office (Fairfax, VA), and I've never even seen one of their *employees* wearing one around.
I've still got my Beagle Bros. disk nodge device. It's in the 5 1/4" disk box.
My pop was too cheap to actually *buy* the disk notching device.
Instead, whenever we'd run out of room on a disk, he'd take a kitchen knife and veeeery carefully cut the notch out by hand. I'd run interference so my mom wouldn't see what he was doing with her good kitchen knives.
...how is faster MHz an advantage if it doesn't actually work faster?
It all depends on the application you've tasked the system with. A longer pipe will, in general, lead to more operations completed in a fixed period of time.
Lots of things can cause this to go haywire. Certain applications may cause branches to be predicted incorrectly frequently, there could be serious resource contention, the application may not have been optimized for the hardware it's being run on, etc.
...maybe it's because I am not a USian, but why are the authors of the US constitution referred to as the "framers". Isn't that a tad over-dramatic?
Dramatic? I'm not sure where the drama comes from.
I always took the term to mean that the U.S. Constitution is a living document. We alter it with amendments to reflect moral and social changes that the original authors could never have anticipated. These original authors created a "framework" that provided basic rights, established branches of power, and provided a way to ensure that the document could always grow to reflect the changing values of the society which it governs.
So over the years, the Consitution has had a lot of "authors" who have written various bits and pieces of it. But the original authors provided the framework to allow this to happen. Hence, "framers".
As a general rule, it drives me nuts when politicians make a big pie-in-the-sky speech and fail to back up their promises with a specific plan, or to make that plan accessible to the general public.
To that end, if you've got real identifiable places where IT could be streamlined with open source products, develop a plan. Make it accessible (both in the physical sense -- it's on a website, and the site has a name I'll remember) and in the mental sense. Even if regular folk could access all 7000 pages of this year's tax bill, no one would understand it -- it's not mentally accessible to us. Finally, bullet-ize the major benefits your consituency will get out of open source, and remember your audience -- focus on direct and immediate benefits of open source (reduce taxes? make more government services available? get out from under Redmond's thumb? -- you should know your consituency, you know what'll resonate with them).
By the time you hit the campaign trail, your message should be "I'm going to reform our local government's IT with open source software. Your benefits from this reform will be x, y, and z. Find out more about my plan at votewaldo.org." Then, make the information you present on the website detailed and specific, but accessible to the average voter.
Maybe I missed it in the review - but I didn't notice where they mentioned the dot pitch of the various LCD monitors. They cover technology type, response time, contrast ratio, and price, but I didn't notice any dot pitch ratings.
I recently had to bite the bullet and buy a new monitor. I considered buying a flat panel screen for a while, but among the (many many) reasons for not buying one was that the dot pitch sucked. After having a 15" Trinitron with a.25 mm dot pitch for five years, I can't go back to those awful, grainy flat panels.
So, I ended up buying a 19" Trinitron (think it's a.24 mm dot pitch). Cost me less than a 17" flat panel, better dot pitch, good refresh. Just had to pull my desk out 6" from the wall to handle it, and that's just fine with me.
Re:Actor hopes to do DVD commentary track
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Do we really want Wil -- heck, anybody -- to reprise the infamous spoken-word 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds [tripod.com]'?:)
*Shudder*...
Ok, Wil will have to define some reasonable parameters for his performance.
;-P
Re:Actor hopes to do DVD commentary track
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Hmmmm.. here's an idea...
Rent the DVD and while watching it, simultaneously record your *own* commentary track on your PC. MP3 it and sell it to geeks on your website for oh, I dunno, $7. Then we can just hit 'mute' and queue up the MP3 while watching the DVD.
Heck, I'll pay $10 if you'll do an imitation of Marinia Sirtis. Make it $15 if you throw in a passable William "F'ing" Shatner.
And do you know of any software that will rip an X-Box DVD game?
Nope, don't know of any such software or hardware enabling you to do it, and everything I know about the subject suggests that nothing to do this currently exists. The point was simply that (at least theoretically) the price of a $5000 DVD burner isn't the limiting factor in making copies of XBox games.
"By opening this box of Raisin Bran(tm), you agree to allow Kellog's Corp. to enter your home or place of business to conduct searches to ensure that said cereal is being consumed in a lawful fashion.
Additionally, should any harm to your physical person result from consuming Raisin Bran(tm) (for instance, but not limited to, consumption of a Jagged Metal Krusto-O (tm)), you agree to waive any right to legal recourse."
... because even the webservers don't feel like working. Linuxwatch.com has been successfully slashdotted. Anyone who got through mind posting the hardware configuration of this wonderful budget beast?
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There isn't really a reason to take someone to court just because they sent you an unsolicited resume.
I'm in complete agreement with you -- presuming that you work in a company's HR department. These folks get paid to sift through crap like that. Bulk-mailing stuff to people who have no reason to look at it should be punishable by death.
An online biography by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson [st-andrews.ac.uk] covers some aspects left out of the autobiography ...
That was a really good biography. That was another one that I had stumbled across while I was looking up information on his life. They covered some of the rough parts of his life that the movie had conveniently smoothed over..
..they interview Crowe, but in the background of a few scenes, you can see an elderly couple in two chairs watching from near the director and camera - I wonder if that was Nash and his wife?
Hmmm... that's interesting, and could certainly be possible. But, I think I remember hearing that Crowe and Nash have never actually met - anyone have a link that verifies this?
I saw the movie, and it got me wondering about the real John Forbes Nash, Jr. He's got a short (but interesting) online autobiography here, although he skips over his schizophrenic years and focuses on his academic work.
But what I really want to know is...from how high can I drop it and at what velocity can it withstand a shot against a bulkhead?
That's what I'm thinking - what their *real* customers will be worried about is whether these things will take an AK-47 round and keep ticking.
I don't think they've thought out very well what the average joe will *need* one of these things for. Why should I spend $1500 on an underpowered PC when I can get a laptop or a palmtop for significantly less money?
It's like the sad saga of Iridium all over again - a really cool novelty product in desperate search of a practical market.
Seriously - I can believe that they may have scraped up some cash from the military for some R & D and maybe even some production models, but they're not targeting military customers with lines like "... instant, seamless access to ... e-mail accounts, attachments, Internet sites and games."
So who is *buying* these things?! Who wears one of these things around town? I work right next to the Xybernaut office (Fairfax, VA), and I've never even seen one of their *employees* wearing one around.
Hand-operated paper punch.
Hey, that's pretty clever - never saw anyone pull that trick!
:-)
I've still got my Beagle Bros. disk nodge device. It's in the 5 1/4" disk box.
My pop was too cheap to actually *buy* the disk notching device.
Instead, whenever we'd run out of room on a disk, he'd take a kitchen knife and veeeery carefully cut the notch out by hand. I'd run interference so my mom wouldn't see what he was doing with her good kitchen knives.
Can you punch a hole in the corner of the flash card and flip it over?
...how is faster MHz an advantage if it doesn't actually work faster?
It all depends on the application you've tasked the system with. A longer pipe will, in general, lead to more operations completed in a fixed period of time.
Lots of things can cause this to go haywire. Certain applications may cause branches to be predicted incorrectly frequently, there could be serious resource contention, the application may not have been optimized for the hardware it's being run on, etc.
Is anybody else dying to borrow this thing for a day, and track down some of the people who picked on you during high school?
Give *me* an atomic wedgie, will you?!
Maybe it's just me...
:-)
...maybe it's because I am not a USian, but why are the authors of the US constitution referred to as the "framers". Isn't that a tad over-dramatic?
Dramatic? I'm not sure where the drama comes from.
I always took the term to mean that the U.S. Constitution is a living document. We alter it with amendments to reflect moral and social changes that the original authors could never have anticipated. These original authors created a "framework" that provided basic rights, established branches of power, and provided a way to ensure that the document could always grow to reflect the changing values of the society which it governs.
So over the years, the Consitution has had a lot of "authors" who have written various bits and pieces of it. But the original authors provided the framework to allow this to happen. Hence, "framers".
As a general rule, it drives me nuts when politicians make a big pie-in-the-sky speech and fail to back up their promises with a specific plan, or to make that plan accessible to the general public.
To that end, if you've got real identifiable places where IT could be streamlined with open source products, develop a plan. Make it accessible (both in the physical sense -- it's on a website, and the site has a name I'll remember) and in the mental sense. Even if regular folk could access all 7000 pages of this year's tax bill, no one would understand it -- it's not mentally accessible to us. Finally, bullet-ize the major benefits your consituency will get out of open source, and remember your audience -- focus on direct and immediate benefits of open source (reduce taxes? make more government services available? get out from under Redmond's thumb? -- you should know your consituency, you know what'll resonate with them).
By the time you hit the campaign trail, your message should be "I'm going to reform our local government's IT with open source software. Your benefits from this reform will be x, y, and z. Find out more about my plan at votewaldo.org." Then, make the information you present on the website detailed and specific, but accessible to the average voter.
There's no such thing as dot pitch on an LCD ...
.30 mm dot pitch.
Maybe it's more of a marketing thing and less of a realistic value, but somebody decided that this Samsung LCD has a
Maybe I missed it in the review - but I didn't notice where they mentioned the dot pitch of the various LCD monitors. They cover technology type, response time, contrast ratio, and price, but I didn't notice any dot pitch ratings.
.25 mm dot pitch for five years, I can't go back to those awful, grainy flat panels.
.24 mm dot pitch). Cost me less than a 17" flat panel, better dot pitch, good refresh. Just had to pull my desk out 6" from the wall to handle it, and that's just fine with me.
I recently had to bite the bullet and buy a new monitor. I considered buying a flat panel screen for a while, but among the (many many) reasons for not buying one was that the dot pitch sucked. After having a 15" Trinitron with a
So, I ended up buying a 19" Trinitron (think it's a
Do we really want Wil -- heck, anybody -- to reprise the infamous spoken-word 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds [tripod.com]'? :)
*Shudder*...
Ok, Wil will have to define some reasonable parameters for his performance.
;-P
Hmmmm.. here's an idea...
Rent the DVD and while watching it, simultaneously record your *own* commentary track on your PC. MP3 it and sell it to geeks on your website for oh, I dunno, $7. Then we can just hit 'mute' and queue up the MP3 while watching the DVD.
Heck, I'll pay $10 if you'll do an imitation of Marinia Sirtis. Make it $15 if you throw in a passable William "F'ing" Shatner.
:-)
I don't mean to be rude but i have to ask... why the hell do you eat it, if it does this?
Ahh, obviously you've never tasted the sweet, sweet fruit of the Crunchberry.
Otherwise, you'd understand.
:-)
"YOUR DISPUTE WILL NOT BE HEARD BY A JURY OR IN COURT AND MAY NOT BE PART OF A CLASS ACTION."
Yoiks, *that's* scary. I wonder how legal that statement is....?
Even if it's not legal, it's scary enough that your average joe might not bother trying to bring suit...
And do you know of any software that will rip an X-Box DVD game?
Nope, don't know of any such software or hardware enabling you to do it, and everything I know about the subject suggests that nothing to do this currently exists. The point was simply that (at least theoretically) the price of a $5000 DVD burner isn't the limiting factor in making copies of XBox games.
That is NOT what I consider my place of business! Get that hand out of there!
Now there's *GOT* to a Constitutional amendment to handle *THAT*..
Maybe instead of searching your place of business, they could search the place where you *do* your business..? (Cue rimshot..)
...not to mention that its major competition: Captain Crunch, was recently discovered to have been coated with Drain-O crystals..
Noooooooo! Not Cap'n Crunch!
:-P
What they *do* need to coat that stuff with is something to keep it from shredding the roof of my mouth when I eat it.
There's something about that non-nutritive cereal varnish (semi-permeable, but non-osmotic) that just leaves me hurting after a bowl or two.
Could you just imagine...
"By opening this box of Raisin Bran(tm), you agree to allow Kellog's Corp. to enter your home or place of business to conduct searches to ensure that said cereal is being consumed in a lawful fashion.
Additionally, should any harm to your physical person result from consuming Raisin Bran(tm) (for instance, but not limited to, consumption of a Jagged Metal Krusto-O (tm)), you agree to waive any right to legal recourse."
Don't like it? Stop eating pre-packaged food.
Best of all, since no method for copying DVD games exists (well, not for under $5,000)...
Step 1. Borrow game from friend.
Step 2. Dump game on hard drive.
Alternately...
Step 1. Rent game from Blockbuster.
Step 2. Dump game on hard drive.
... because even the webservers don't feel like working. Linuxwatch.com has been successfully slashdotted. Anyone who got through mind posting the hardware configuration of this wonderful budget beast?