If gadgets can in fact put an entire airplane at risk, the only sensible course of action is to disallow them on board. But they don't do that; instead they say, "pretty please, no FM radios at any time and leave the laptop off until we level off."
If there IS a problem with RFI hindering the pilots, that is a half-assed solution!
Just this week I had to talk a friend out of buying a Dell. I handbuilt a machine for her, right down to the screws like you said. So far it's running like a champ. It took hours to research and shop and build it up, but I'll happily spend the time to keep a friend from ending up with a mass-market sh!tbox.
The Dell my old job inflicted on me was horrific. Quirky as hell.
Furthermore, the fact of the matter is, if you split the line you are able to watch two different shows at the same time, which is why cable companies are allowed to charge for extra outlets. Phone companies cannot, because you get the same service on each outlet.
But a cable TV line IS the same service on each outlet: some RF energy run down a cable. What is on the cable is not different at each outlet... only what you choose to filter out of it varies.
Sucks that you can't split cable for free in Canada, legally anyway.
The fact is that any oversized cap, such as a deerstalker with earflaps, will be perfectly effective when lined with the correct weight of foil.
Your scaremongering about the ineffectiveness of foil hats marks you as a whacko and does a disservice to the thousands of people who RELY ON FOIL HEADGEAR DAILY.
...Palm is going to be launching their 5.0 OS in the first week in February...
The last time Palm did anything interesting or relevant was the V series.
Hey, I love them anyway. I have a III and it keeps on truckin' along.
On the one hand, I am very pleased that my investment in the III has paid off -- it continues to be supported and it works well.
On the other hand I am astounded than Palm has done, relatively speaking, jack squat to advance their product line. OK, color, check. Removable memory, check. But somehow it feels like they are standing still anyway. They haven't even done high-res screens, which would be a darn nice feature -- had to leave that to Sony and Handera, who implemented it in DIFFERENT ways, making app support a problem. Sheesh.
My next PDA will probably be a Palm again but I'm worried about their future. Of course, if my Palm III keeps working so well, I won't need a PDA for years more and who knows what things will be like by then.
Do you have a choice of what you eat? Unless you are growing vegetables of your deisre, raising Kobe beef or catching sturgeon for caviar, I would guess that you are accepting the "crud they shovel at you" at the supermarket. How about what they "shovel at you" at you favorite eatery? I mean, if TV doesn't have any choices, shouldn't you say the same thing about any other business with a list of services?
TV is full of choices. I have zillions of channels on my satellite dish. I can choose from bad sitcoms, bad cop shows, bad history programming, bad animals shows and bad sporting events, to name a few. So while the choices TV gives you aren't usually that great, they still are choices for any reasonable definition of the word.
If the choices we make for TV viewing are so meaningless, why is ABC crapping themselves about their recent ratings drop? I think our TV choices actually have an impact on what we get to view after all.
So why is everyone still here? We need some Hero Leader Type to take the codebase, tweak the mod system, and put up a competitive site. Or just choose some other free software that's up to the task. Heck, you could even pinch the news links that slashdot uses, leaving out the crap! The editorial burden of a weblog is pretty light if you don't spend a lot of time "bitchslapping" threads. (Provided the mod system isn't craptastic, of course.)
(don't look at me, I have no time, money or hosting space for such a crusade. I'm being that annoying guy that says, "you do it, I'll use it." Indulge me.)
The disgruntled people need to pick a date for a transition and stick to it. If there is nothing to transition to, we can all read more books with the extra free time.
I hereby nominate Wednesday, May 1 2002 as "Bailing Day." It sounds simplistic, but if a chunk of people take hold of the idea... it could be interesting.
I briefly thought about writing a program to automate the processing of Mr. Chiu's Super I-Ching method. As I mulled it over I realized that there was an algorith so simple you can do it in your head for any arbitrarily complex set of I-Ching data.
f(i-ching inputs) = bullshit
You won't even need to use your fingers, as with those party-trick arithmetic methods!
The Visor isn't akin to a 10" B&W TV. It's an entry-level device, not necessarily an obsolete device.
If Handspring makes nothing but Treo-like products they will lose me as a customer because I don't want another cell phone and I don't want a PDA that comes with some kind of monthly service charge for data.
I think Handspring is on the right track with it's "Communicator" strategy, since wireless Internet is key to the PDA marketplace.
It may be, but this cowboy at least isn't paying another freaking monthly fee for connectivity. My PDA will have to remain offline until I take it home and sync it.
Now, $10 flat rate wireless connectivity -- sign me up, I'll cave in for that. But it'll be a fat bill like cable modem or DSL. I already have one of those every month, no thanks.
I have been reading these exoskeleton articles for longer than the holographic memory articles -- that is, a REALLY LONG TIME. Anyone remember the Hughes "Land Warrior" program? Wasn't that like 10 years ago?
No one loves the idea of powered exoskeletons more than I do, heck, I have worn our my Aliens DVD... but I can't take another optimistic article. I never, ever want to hear about this again until I see a solider demoing one at an air show... ok, maybe when fas.org has an article on models currently deployed. I'll settle for that.
(and I never want to hear about holographic memory until I can look for it on Pricewatch, either.)
Those things are all true but you have to be a pretty fringe consumer to enjoy them. When most people want a book to read, they buy one from a big company. Same with music. The original poster said "free software will continue to flourish, and at a much faster rate than/any/ commercial software company's product." That's a little vague but it seems to say that free stuff will outproduce commercial stuff. I doubt that is true, and even if it is, most people don't seem to want the free stuff. They want Britney and John Grisham.
Software is
radically different in that you, your neighbor,
and I all possess (or ostensibly are) the "means
of production" for software. Until humans are
legally "owned" by companies, free software will
continue to flourish, and at a much faster rate
than/any/ commercial software company's product.
Just like free literature has flourished and the big publishing houses have crumbled? Same goes for free music too, right?
I think you are too optimistic. There are already a number of things that "Joe Blow" can create, and there are still big companies selling those things to us. Why will software be any different than fiction?
You know, this whole thing could have been avoided, if the lindows project was Michael sitting in his bedroom coding after hours, and submitting the code to sourceforge, as a completely free distro, like debian.
Information wants to be free.
Rent wants to be paid.
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If gadgets can in fact put an entire airplane at risk, the only sensible course of action is to disallow them on board. But they don't do that; instead they say, "pretty please, no FM radios at any time and leave the laptop off until we level off."
If there IS a problem with RFI hindering the pilots, that is a half-assed solution!
Were they of the 75 GXP series? Those are (now) known to be turkeys.
Just this week I had to talk a friend out of buying a Dell. I handbuilt a machine for her, right down to the screws like you said. So far it's running like a champ. It took hours to research and shop and build it up, but I'll happily spend the time to keep a friend from ending up with a mass-market sh!tbox.
The Dell my old job inflicted on me was horrific. Quirky as hell.
You had a BRICK?
Luxury.
All I had was a rusty bucket with holes in it, and a handful of toxic dirt from the runoff of a copper mine.
Furthermore, the fact of the matter is, if you split the line you are able to watch two different shows at the same time, which is why cable companies are allowed to charge for extra outlets. Phone companies cannot, because you get the same service on each outlet.
But a cable TV line IS the same service on each outlet: some RF energy run down a cable. What is on the cable is not different at each outlet... only what you choose to filter out of it varies.
Sucks that you can't split cable for free in Canada, legally anyway.
But, in the end, you didn't get anything concrete from Intel either. It sounds like they blew sunshine up your skirt instead.
That's just crazy talk from the HOOD CONTINGENT.
The fact is that any oversized cap, such as a deerstalker with earflaps, will be perfectly effective when lined with the correct weight of foil.
Your scaremongering about the ineffectiveness of foil hats marks you as a whacko and does a disservice to the thousands of people who RELY ON FOIL HEADGEAR DAILY.
...Palm is going to be launching their 5.0 OS in the first week in February...
The last time Palm did anything interesting or relevant was the V series.
Hey, I love them anyway. I have a III and it keeps on truckin' along.
On the one hand, I am very pleased that my investment in the III has paid off -- it continues to be supported and it works well.
On the other hand I am astounded than Palm has done, relatively speaking, jack squat to advance their product line. OK, color, check. Removable memory, check. But somehow it feels like they are standing still anyway. They haven't even done high-res screens, which would be a darn nice feature -- had to leave that to Sony and Handera, who implemented it in DIFFERENT ways, making app support a problem. Sheesh.
My next PDA will probably be a Palm again but I'm worried about their future. Of course, if my Palm III keeps working so well, I won't need a PDA for years more and who knows what things will be like by then.
Chief, don't sell yourself short. 60 minutes sounds like a REALLY long time to be away from the computer to me. How do you do it??
There is a huge solution, though... Let's turn the TV off...
Can I wait until 24 is over?
Do you have a choice of what you eat? Unless you are growing vegetables of your deisre, raising Kobe beef or catching sturgeon for caviar, I would guess that you are accepting the "crud they shovel at you" at the supermarket. How about what they "shovel at you" at you favorite eatery? I mean, if TV doesn't have any choices, shouldn't you say the same thing about any other business with a list of services?
TV is full of choices. I have zillions of channels on my satellite dish. I can choose from bad sitcoms, bad cop shows, bad history programming, bad animals shows and bad sporting events, to name a few. So while the choices TV gives you aren't usually that great, they still are choices for any reasonable definition of the word.
If the choices we make for TV viewing are so meaningless, why is ABC crapping themselves about their recent ratings drop? I think our TV choices actually have an impact on what we get to view after all.
So why is everyone still here? We need some Hero Leader Type to take the codebase, tweak the mod system, and put up a competitive site. Or just choose some other free software that's up to the task. Heck, you could even pinch the news links that slashdot uses, leaving out the crap! The editorial burden of a weblog is pretty light if you don't spend a lot of time "bitchslapping" threads. (Provided the mod system isn't craptastic, of course.)
(don't look at me, I have no time, money or hosting space for such a crusade. I'm being that annoying guy that says, "you do it, I'll use it." Indulge me.)
The disgruntled people need to pick a date for a transition and stick to it. If there is nothing to transition to, we can all read more books with the extra free time.
I hereby nominate Wednesday, May 1 2002 as "Bailing Day." It sounds simplistic, but if a chunk of people take hold of the idea... it could be interesting.
05/01/02: Bailing Day
Karma to burn -- bring the noise!
I briefly thought about writing a program to automate the processing of Mr. Chiu's Super I-Ching method. As I mulled it over I realized that there was an algorith so simple you can do it in your head for any arbitrarily complex set of I-Ching data.
f(i-ching inputs) = bullshit
You won't even need to use your fingers, as with those party-trick arithmetic methods!
The Visor isn't akin to a 10" B&W TV. It's an entry-level device, not necessarily an obsolete device.
If Handspring makes nothing but Treo-like products they will lose me as a customer because I don't want another cell phone and I don't want a PDA that comes with some kind of monthly service charge for data.
I think Handspring is on the right track with it's "Communicator" strategy, since wireless Internet is key to the PDA marketplace.
It may be, but this cowboy at least isn't paying another freaking monthly fee for connectivity. My PDA will have to remain offline until I take it home and sync it.
Now, $10 flat rate wireless connectivity -- sign me up, I'll cave in for that. But it'll be a fat bill like cable modem or DSL. I already have one of those every month, no thanks.
I have been reading these exoskeleton articles for longer than the holographic memory articles -- that is, a REALLY LONG TIME. Anyone remember the Hughes "Land Warrior" program? Wasn't that like 10 years ago?
No one loves the idea of powered exoskeletons more than I do, heck, I have worn our my Aliens DVD... but I can't take another optimistic article. I never, ever want to hear about this again until I see a solider demoing one at an air show... ok, maybe when fas.org has an article on models currently deployed. I'll settle for that.
(and I never want to hear about holographic memory until I can look for it on Pricewatch, either.)
Those things are all true but you have to be a pretty fringe consumer to enjoy them. When most people want a book to read, they buy one from a big company. Same with music. The original poster said "free software will continue to flourish, and at a much faster rate than
And I'm sure we can work out a bargain per-post fee, or depending on your needs, a quarterly license. Please sign here:
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Software is /any/ commercial software company's product.
radically different in that you, your neighbor,
and I all possess (or ostensibly are) the "means
of production" for software. Until humans are
legally "owned" by companies, free software will
continue to flourish, and at a much faster rate
than
Just like free literature has flourished and the big publishing houses have crumbled? Same goes for free music too, right?
I think you are too optimistic. There are already a number of things that "Joe Blow" can create, and there are still big companies selling those things to us. Why will software be any different than fiction?
Your mistake is wanting to fix the problem rather than litigating a solution. Silly rabbit, you must be some kind of Canadian or something!
You know, this whole thing could have been avoided, if the lindows project was Michael sitting in his bedroom coding after hours, and submitting the code to sourceforge, as a completely free distro, like debian.
Information wants to be free.
Rent wants to be paid.
Don't apply for any biochemistry positions.
I thought that Xboxen were all sold in bundles -- aren't you forced to take 3 games when you buy one?
That is an interesting reference, especially because such a law WAS passed in CA in about '93. I remember it very clearly because it seemed so absurd.
I can't find support for the claim now though, so either it was struck down or the newspaper I article I read misrepresented things. Whew!
I cannot believe no one has posted a "Get a Tivo" or "get a ReplayTV" note yet. So I'll do it.
2 VCRs? Dude, get a Tivo or ReplayTV. Then it will take a month to wipe the smile off your face.