Can this work in reverse to create a gravity field? Artificial gravity on the space station, for example. Or doubled/tripled/quad gravity in a lab on earth to test equipment intended for planetary exploration. I'm sure somebody could use that, if it's possible.
That said, I think somebody needs a girlfriend... Or the "The Simpsons" Season 1 Box Set and a DVD player.
Besides Opera there are a lot of others you might want to check into... Replacements for Internet Explorer on every computer platform: MSBC's The Alternative.
A lot of people have said Linux has fewer viruses than Windows only because Linux isn't as widely used... Well, this is the chance to do some comparisons. How devastating is the cross-platform virus to each system, and how fast does it spread on each?
Also note that it's a virus, not a security hole or flaw in the system - this doesn't make Linux less secure like a Melissa-type problem that takes advantage of holes made by one company's stupid software bundling decisions.
Buy Him Some Anti-Fungal Lotion Next Time...
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The movie was good, overall.. The plot twists were nice, although I wish the ending went a little bit beyond where it did. Oh well.
Only thing that really bothered me about Insomina was Al Pacino's fingernails... GAH! They have medications for that now, man, might want to check into it. I'm sure you can afford whatever they charge, just get something done before those nails completely pop off and you have to pay a guy to pick up paper for you.
This unifies the standard. People with an iLink camera think it will just work with the VAIO systems and people with a FireWire cam think it just works with Macs. The decision will benefit everyone, assuming Sony will adopt the name on its existing iLink products. Maybe cobrand them as iLink/FireWire. It's a smart move - and I agree with the other posters who say the move preceeds GigaWire. Count on seeing that very soon.
CHANGE. Quarters. All quarters, lots of them ( none of the other coins), and some kind of change rack to put them all in. College vending machines, phones, toiletry dispensers, etc all need quarters and the changers won't take 95% of the dollar bills out there. Also handy for making decisions about true/false tests.
A phone card. Even if you use your quarters in the payphone, a card will be handy for calling home from anywhere else. And when you use a card in a payphone the phone won't keep begging for more money while you converse. Or a cell phone if you're willing to pay the monthly bill.
Some kind of grill or hotplate. The smaller George Foreman is highly recommended, but you can't cook everything on one. Can't cook eggs on a Foreman grill, for example. But it's better (and cheaper) than having cafeteria or vending machine slop for every meal.
Also a mini-fridge if your budget is a bit bigger and the dorm has room for it. She can always use the thing as a chair if the space is tight.
Gift certificates. This is a great one my Grandma did for me, not knowing how beneficial it was/is. Find out what resturaunts are near the school and get her freebies for all of them. Fast food - Hardees, McDumbass, Steak N Shake, Burger King, Pizza Palace, IHOP... (Love the IHOP - four hours of class and then have breakfast at 11:30.) These are good for every gift-giving season, send her a box of them at birthday and Christmas. Some movie theaters also sell gift certificates, might want to check that out as well.
And if she's attending school anywhere in the Southeast, give her my e-mail... I have school connections / tips and I'm always willing to treat a girl to dinner or a movie with absolutely nothing else expected in return. *smile*
Maybe someone at Red Hat thought they should get a patent on it before some asshole from another company did. If Red Hat patents the technology they can let anybody or nobody use it - at least they have control. Some outside group might have gotten a patent on the concept and held it hostage, forcing all users to pay.
I'm not a fan of silly IP actions, but Red Hat filing for a patent is NOT the same as Red Hat preventing others from using the technology. There are occasionally good reasons for this stuff and you should wait and see what the company does before you jump on them.
I'm the uber anti-Microsoft guy and even I agree. RealNames just had a retarded idea and it naturally did what all companies based on bad logic eventually do - go under. Microsoft's investment in the company was stupid but had nothing to do with their failure.
StarOffice Impress. Applixware. HancomOffice. KOffice. There are plenty of replacements for Powerpoint's functionality, on Linux and other platforms as well. See MSBC's The Alternative for a longer list.
I went to see AOTC Thursday afternoon. I didn't knock off work for that, I actually had a dental appointment and had the rest of the afternoon off anyway. (The dental appointment caused my headache instead of the half-fuzzy film, but that's beside the point.) I attended the 4PM showing and there were maybe 10, 12 other people in the 40+ seat auditorium - and probably half of those were children under the age of 10. I left around 7:00 and lines for the next showing at 7:15 were still quite thin. That's terrible business for a hyped new movie opening in the middle of the week during college spring break, in a medium sized mall, at the only theater in a town - on an 85-degree day in late May! Just by looking around my community I'm surprised that the movie has done so well.
Anyone else notice that Hewlett-Packard Corp. no longer identifies itself as such? I purchased a printer in 1997, it said "[hp] Hewlett-Packard" on the lid. 1998-era scanners at work are branded the same way. Presario computers, laptops... The big ad at NASA mission control had the same logo: "[hp] Hewlett-Packard." Then Carly Fiorina came along and they spun off the company's good technical and inventive divisions and came up with a new ironic slogan, "invent." Now the company advertising and Web site is branded as "[hp] Invent." No Hewlett, no Packard. The new HPaq Web site says "The New HP" at the top and has that "[hp] Invent" logo. The old site said "Welcome to Hewlett-Packard" after the HP. The only clue that the company isn't named "HP" or "HP Invent" is in the copyright notice in small light text at the bottom of some pages (and nowhere on the homepage). Even the new stock symbol trashes that heritage - the W from Hewlett is tossed out for the Q from Crampaq. It's almost as if the company is ashamed of its name. Or the names of its founders. The whole thing is a huge slap in the faces of the Packard and Hewlett families and anyone who ever worked for the company or believed in The HP Way. This merger tosses the best of Digital Equipment Corp, Compaq, Tandem Computer, and Hewlett-Packard to the curb and leaves the worst aspects of all those organizations, then blends it all up with some terrible management into a shit milkshake and brands it all as "HP Invent." Absolutely disgraceful.
Former (thankfully) Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell recieved donations from Oracle as well, then had Spectronics purchase spend millions of dollars of Oracle software to be used at the Atlanta airport. The deal was put together by an associate of Campbell's who took money from Spectronics. Spectronics also gave Campbell money for his campaign, laundering it through a drug treatment center. Spectronics was rewarded when the city forced MediaOne to resolve a legal dispute with the company. Spectronics also received money from the city for setting up the Oracle deal - but an audit team was never able to find the Oracle software Spectronics was paid to buy. Most of the Spectronics executives were convicted of fraud, as were a lot of the mayor's employees, but the mayor himself charged the world with being racist and escaped without a scratch. Oracle was not charged with any crimes either, but I'm not personally sure the company is entirely innocent.
Julius X typed:They weren't just the regular-old AOL-on-CD type either...one came in hard DVD-like plastic case, the other came in-get this-a metal tin.
But if you purchase a Warner DVD, it comes in a sorry-ass flimsy cardboard case that won't hold up to anything. I don't know of any other DVD distributor that does this with ALL of its titles, and they apparently do it just to save $.003 cents per sale. AOL TimeWarner is a busines school class project for MGMT 4106: Customer Alienation.
I like that this article points out the risks that Microsoft took...
That is precisely why I disregarded the article. Microsoft could give every person in America two XBoxes and still have enough money left in the bank to buy out most of its competitors in the operating systems market. It's not a risk whatsoever - it's an attempt to murder Nintendo and Sony.
SocialWorm typed:Of course, as John Stossel once pointed out, most state governments in the US heavily restrict gambling except under certain circumstances, then run lotteries and encourage their citizens to play. Silly and hypocritical, at best.
How true. Here in Georgia our governor, King Roy, has started a campaign to ban all video poker machines in the state, referring to it all as "a cancer on our society." Meanwhile the state is pulling down literally hundreds of millions every year selling low-odds big ball and scratchoff tickets to the state's poorest and most ignorant residents. Cancer indeed...
armb typedThe suckiest Valentine's day I ever had was after my ex-girlfriend told me around two o'clock in the morning that no, actually we weren't getting back together after all, this was just a one night thing.... Which still leaves the question of what to get my wife for Christmas.
Well, I can't even get a girlfriend in the first place, much less a wife. How did you manage to find one of each?:P
connorbd typed:Actually, I briefly (and not all that well) knew a woman in college who may just be the perfect geek girl... unbelievably beautiful, fun to hang out with, insanely tech-inclined, probably reads/. regularly as well and
will likely see this...
Believe it or not, her name is Window.
Hey, she could date me and not worry about being mistreated - I don't use Windows! *lamer rimshot*
I don't have any problem thinking up gifts for a significant other. I'm creative, I'm financially blessed, and I've had several decades to think of romantic things I would like to do. The problem is that I have nobody to do them with - thus my gift wish for Valentine's day: a Valentine girl of my own to share it with. Instead, I always have to spend all of February avoiding public places and changing the TV channel quickly when some V-day ad comes on. Oh well, I guess we can't all be happily involved... *sigh*
(ThinkGeek would be bigger than Amazon.com if it offered mail-order Geek brides.)
esper_child typed:hopefully this will send out the message that censorship is bad. I don't know why governments feel that it is their place to censor content instead of the parents.
Because the parents don't censor content. They're too busy working and behaving immorally with each other, all the time assuming that the government will do their parental jobs for them. The same government provides free inferior-education babysitting most of the year, so why wouldn't it be expected do other parenting jobs as well?
This move is like pouring gas on a fire to put it out. People like MP3 because of the accessability, the convenience, and the portability. If they set it up so only Windows users can play their CD's, people who use other platforms will have no CHOICE but to get the music via MP3. I use Macs, and I'm certainly not getting a CD that won't play on a Mac because I listen to most of my music sitting right here.
You can tell most of these people have never used a computer or played an MP3 and have no clue about how the world really works. Vivendi Universal USA whatever would be better off hiring a street smart kid with no business experience to run its companies than some ivory tower MBA executive who has never touched a computer or purchased a $19 CD at K Mart.
If you like this, check out the report in May's Wired (9.05). Behind the Screens: An insiders' oral history of the videogame, from the birth of the Brown Box to the arrival of the Xbox. The magazine version of this article also had an awesome four-page pullout timeline (with photos) of video game development since the early 1970's.
I just read that piece last night because I stay about 6 months behind in all my magazine reading. I would like to say I do it deliberately to keep things "in perspective," but its more like I've got too many classes and too much work and too much web site to read the things when they first come in.
One more moderation and I'll hit the karma ceiling...
tsarina typed:You know, when it was Microsoft giving computers to schools, they were evil monopolists. Now Apple is doing essentially the same thing, but I hear no vehement protest.
That's because Apple isn't a monopolist, at least. Some would argue not evil, but that's a moral judgment - the monopoly status is a fact established by law. Microsoft is a monopoly and must play by different rules than everyone else. Period. No dumping free products, no hooking kids at an early age. It's called level playing field and protected competition.
Oh, and you forgot one thing - Apple is selling, not giving away. You get what you pay for, in this case.
The US Army announced today that it will begin training new recruits with modern techniques designed for today's younger and less educated soldier. The new methods include training on the PlayStation 2, Microsoft XBox, Nintendo Game Cube, an enhanced multimedia experience involving cheap pornographic movies and a 38-foot-wide screen, and free liquor Fridays. The Army is reportedly adopting these new training techniques to attract youth who would not otherwise be interested in military service.
'Army of One' is referring more and more to the average IQ of new recruits, not the sense of fellowship. (This isn't an attack at the military, just an observation about the people I know who have signed up in the last 2 years.)
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Can this work in reverse to create a gravity field? Artificial gravity on the space station, for example. Or doubled/tripled/quad gravity in a lab on earth to test equipment intended for planetary exploration. I'm sure somebody could use that, if it's possible.
That said, I think somebody needs a girlfriend... Or the "The Simpsons" Season 1 Box Set and a DVD player.
Besides Opera there are a lot of others you might want to check into... Replacements for Internet Explorer on every computer platform: MSBC's The Alternative.
A lot of people have said Linux has fewer viruses than Windows only because Linux isn't as widely used... Well, this is the chance to do some comparisons. How devastating is the cross-platform virus to each system, and how fast does it spread on each?
Also note that it's a virus, not a security hole or flaw in the system - this doesn't make Linux less secure like a Melissa-type problem that takes advantage of holes made by one company's stupid software bundling decisions.
Only thing that really bothered me about Insomina was Al Pacino's fingernails... GAH! They have medications for that now, man, might want to check into it. I'm sure you can afford whatever they charge, just get something done before those nails completely pop off and you have to pay a guy to pick up paper for you.
It's only a matter of time now before the BSA and Al Quedah join forces in an anti-piracy Jihad. Death to the infidel software pirates! Praise Billah!
Isn't [Sony's i.Link] the same thing?
This unifies the standard. People with an iLink camera think it will just work with the VAIO systems and people with a FireWire cam think it just works with Macs. The decision will benefit everyone, assuming Sony will adopt the name on its existing iLink products. Maybe cobrand them as iLink/FireWire. It's a smart move - and I agree with the other posters who say the move preceeds GigaWire. Count on seeing that very soon.
CHANGE. Quarters. All quarters, lots of them ( none of the other coins), and some kind of change rack to put them all in. College vending machines, phones, toiletry dispensers, etc all need quarters and the changers won't take 95% of the dollar bills out there. Also handy for making decisions about true/false tests.
A phone card. Even if you use your quarters in the payphone, a card will be handy for calling home from anywhere else. And when you use a card in a payphone the phone won't keep begging for more money while you converse. Or a cell phone if you're willing to pay the monthly bill.
Some kind of grill or hotplate. The smaller George Foreman is highly recommended, but you can't cook everything on one. Can't cook eggs on a Foreman grill, for example. But it's better (and cheaper) than having cafeteria or vending machine slop for every meal.
Also a mini-fridge if your budget is a bit bigger and the dorm has room for it. She can always use the thing as a chair if the space is tight.
Gift certificates. This is a great one my Grandma did for me, not knowing how beneficial it was/is. Find out what resturaunts are near the school and get her freebies for all of them. Fast food - Hardees, McDumbass, Steak N Shake, Burger King, Pizza Palace, IHOP... (Love the IHOP - four hours of class and then have breakfast at 11:30.) These are good for every gift-giving season, send her a box of them at birthday and Christmas. Some movie theaters also sell gift certificates, might want to check that out as well.
And if she's attending school anywhere in the Southeast, give her my e-mail... I have school connections / tips and I'm always willing to treat a girl to dinner or a movie with absolutely nothing else expected in return. *smile*
Maybe someone at Red Hat thought they should get a patent on it before some asshole from another company did. If Red Hat patents the technology they can let anybody or nobody use it - at least they have control. Some outside group might have gotten a patent on the concept and held it hostage, forcing all users to pay.
I'm not a fan of silly IP actions, but Red Hat filing for a patent is NOT the same as Red Hat preventing others from using the technology. There are occasionally good reasons for this stuff and you should wait and see what the company does before you jump on them.
I'm the uber anti-Microsoft guy and even I agree. RealNames just had a retarded idea and it naturally did what all companies based on bad logic eventually do - go under. Microsoft's investment in the company was stupid but had nothing to do with their failure.
StarOffice Impress. Applixware. HancomOffice. KOffice. There are plenty of replacements for Powerpoint's functionality, on Linux and other platforms as well. See MSBC's The Alternative for a longer list.
I went to see AOTC Thursday afternoon. I didn't knock off work for that, I actually had a dental appointment and had the rest of the afternoon off anyway. (The dental appointment caused my headache instead of the half-fuzzy film, but that's beside the point.) I attended the 4PM showing and there were maybe 10, 12 other people in the 40+ seat auditorium - and probably half of those were children under the age of 10. I left around 7:00 and lines for the next showing at 7:15 were still quite thin. That's terrible business for a hyped new movie opening in the middle of the week during college spring break, in a medium sized mall, at the only theater in a town - on an 85-degree day in late May! Just by looking around my community I'm surprised that the movie has done so well.
Anyone else notice that Hewlett-Packard Corp. no longer identifies itself as such? I purchased a printer in 1997, it said "[hp] Hewlett-Packard" on the lid. 1998-era scanners at work are branded the same way. Presario computers, laptops... The big ad at NASA mission control had the same logo: "[hp] Hewlett-Packard." Then Carly Fiorina came along and they spun off the company's good technical and inventive divisions and came up with a new ironic slogan, "invent." Now the company advertising and Web site is branded as "[hp] Invent." No Hewlett, no Packard. The new HPaq Web site says "The New HP" at the top and has that "[hp] Invent" logo. The old site said "Welcome to Hewlett-Packard" after the HP. The only clue that the company isn't named "HP" or "HP Invent" is in the copyright notice in small light text at the bottom of some pages (and nowhere on the homepage). Even the new stock symbol trashes that heritage - the W from Hewlett is tossed out for the Q from Crampaq. It's almost as if the company is ashamed of its name. Or the names of its founders. The whole thing is a huge slap in the faces of the Packard and Hewlett families and anyone who ever worked for the company or believed in The HP Way. This merger tosses the best of Digital Equipment Corp, Compaq, Tandem Computer, and Hewlett-Packard to the curb and leaves the worst aspects of all those organizations, then blends it all up with some terrible management into a shit milkshake and brands it all as "HP Invent." Absolutely disgraceful.
Former (thankfully) Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell recieved donations from Oracle as well, then had Spectronics purchase spend millions of dollars of Oracle software to be used at the Atlanta airport. The deal was put together by an associate of Campbell's who took money from Spectronics. Spectronics also gave Campbell money for his campaign, laundering it through a drug treatment center. Spectronics was rewarded when the city forced MediaOne to resolve a legal dispute with the company. Spectronics also received money from the city for setting up the Oracle deal - but an audit team was never able to find the Oracle software Spectronics was paid to buy. Most of the Spectronics executives were convicted of fraud, as were a lot of the mayor's employees, but the mayor himself charged the world with being racist and escaped without a scratch. Oracle was not charged with any crimes either, but I'm not personally sure the company is entirely innocent.
Also see Online Athens and Creative Loafing.
Julius X typed: They weren't just the regular-old AOL-on-CD type either...one came in hard DVD-like plastic case, the other came in-get this-a metal tin.
But if you purchase a Warner DVD, it comes in a sorry-ass flimsy cardboard case that won't hold up to anything. I don't know of any other DVD distributor that does this with ALL of its titles, and they apparently do it just to save $.003 cents per sale. AOL TimeWarner is a busines school class project for MGMT 4106: Customer Alienation.
I like that this article points out the risks that Microsoft took...
That is precisely why I disregarded the article. Microsoft could give every person in America two XBoxes and still have enough money left in the bank to buy out most of its competitors in the operating systems market. It's not a risk whatsoever - it's an attempt to murder Nintendo and Sony.
SocialWorm typed: Of course, as John Stossel once pointed out, most state governments in the US heavily restrict gambling except under certain circumstances, then run lotteries and encourage their citizens to play. Silly and hypocritical, at best.
How true. Here in Georgia our governor, King Roy, has started a campaign to ban all video poker machines in the state, referring to it all as "a cancer on our society." Meanwhile the state is pulling down literally hundreds of millions every year selling low-odds big ball and scratchoff tickets to the state's poorest and most ignorant residents. Cancer indeed...
Well, I can't even get a girlfriend in the first place, much less a wife. How did you manage to find one of each? :P
Oh, and Christmas? Or do you mean V-day?
Believe it or not, her name is Window.
Hey, she could date me and not worry about being mistreated - I don't use Windows! *lamer rimshot*
(ThinkGeek would be bigger than Amazon.com if it offered mail-order Geek brides.)
"free" I meant. I know who pays for it, but tell them that.
Because the parents don't censor content. They're too busy working and behaving immorally with each other, all the time assuming that the government will do their parental jobs for them. The same government provides free inferior-education babysitting most of the year, so why wouldn't it be expected do other parenting jobs as well?
You can tell most of these people have never used a computer or played an MP3 and have no clue about how the world really works. Vivendi Universal USA whatever would be better off hiring a street smart kid with no business experience to run its companies than some ivory tower MBA executive who has never touched a computer or purchased a $19 CD at K Mart.
I just read that piece last night because I stay about 6 months behind in all my magazine reading. I would like to say I do it deliberately to keep things "in perspective," but its more like I've got too many classes and too much work and too much web site to read the things when they first come in.
One more moderation and I'll hit the karma ceiling...
That's because Apple isn't a monopolist, at least. Some would argue not evil, but that's a moral judgment - the monopoly status is a fact established by law. Microsoft is a monopoly and must play by different rules than everyone else. Period. No dumping free products, no hooking kids at an early age. It's called level playing field and protected competition.
Oh, and you forgot one thing - Apple is selling, not giving away. You get what you pay for, in this case.
'Army of One' is referring more and more to the average IQ of new recruits, not the sense of fellowship. (This isn't an attack at the military, just an observation about the people I know who have signed up in the last 2 years.)