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From the article: But wander from your desk long enough and chances are high that you'll come back to a telephone with that red voice-mail light glowing, meaning you've missed a call.
Oh no! You've MISSED a call! Oh, horrors! Just think, you were discussing unwinding a recursion on a whiteboard in the hallway with a coworker, doing a walkthrough of some code on the lawn, or typing up nearly 500 new lines of code in the last hour while the ringer was muted. And you MISSED a call. Your productivity was dangerously high---just think what your phone could've done to cure that!
Back when I used to be called the Sun God (SunOS sysadmin 1989-1993), BSD/386 hadn't yet split, and Linux was in its infancy. A few years later, it was about time I get Unix onto my various Intel systems.
The question was, Linux or FreeBSD?
Today, the answer is a resounding both (FreeBSD runs perimeter firewall and fileservers, Linux runs my desktops), but back then, FreeBSD was the obvious answer.
Why? Because it was the most like good old SunOS 4.1 you could get on an Intel chip. That's a good thing? Fuck yeah! Before Sun abandoned beloved Berkeley Unix for the nightmare that was, is, and will forever be System-V, they had an OS on a platform of choice. Not just choice, but prime (and I don't mean Pr1me, either, god help us).
SunOS gave us a shockingly stable platform on the Motorola 68030 and SPARC chips. It provided some of the most stable TCP/IP around at the time. C-News (remember C-news?) rocked on it. C-News didn't have a prayer an the new-fangled AIX that we got to evaluate.
Graphics? Fuck yes. I/O bandwidth? Fuck yes. xbattle at 1am after closing the terminal room? Fuck yes.
And even then, it had lightweight processes, secure RPC, a super-clean dev interface, and other experimental features that we take for granted today.
Solaris arrived shortly on the seen, I changed jobs, and SunOS is just a memory for most of us grizzled Sun Gods now. But you can still see a lot of SunOS in FreeBSD. I even remember when the -a option appeared in ifconfig on SunOS. It appeared in FreeBSD very shortly, too.
I've got the print version of the book. Witty, clever, and sadly on-target in quite a lot of its observations. (I'm still dismayed to see a greater-than character in front of "From" when it's the first word on a line in an email message. There's just no excuse for that in 2003.) And I'm a die-hard Unix lover (logged on using a Silent 700 when I was in 3rd grade).
But I was turned off that the Unix Haters mailing list was so exclusive: you had to write some similarly erudite and novel observation on how awful Unix was before you'd be let into the club. Clever invective to be kept a careful few? Sounds a bit fearful to me.
Regardless, it's been years since the book's been out, and Unix still has many warts. The book (and presumably, the mailing list, although I wouldn't know), could serve as a requirements document on how you'd go about improving Unix in general.
What did the authors offer as a better UI? No, not Windows. Not Mac. Some arcane LISP machine was usually the machine of choice. Sorry, I live in the real world and have to earn a paycheck.
At least this one's less vaporous than the Oqo, which, whenever it may be released, will be no more powerful than any of the remote controls on my coffee table.
I've got the print version of the book. Witty, clever, and sadly on-target in quite a lot of its observations. (I'm still dismayed to see a greater-than character in front of "From" when it's the first word on a line in an email message. There's just no excuse for that in 2003.) And I'm a die-hard Unix lover (logged on using a Silent 700 when I was in 3rd grade).
But I was turned off that the Unix Haters mailing list was so exclusive: you had to write some similarly erudite and novel observation on how awful Unix was before you'd be let into the club. Clever invective to be kept a careful few? Sounds a bit fearful to me.
Regardless, it's been years since the book's been out, and Unix still has many warts. The book (and presumably, the mailing list, although I wouldn't know), could serve as a requirements document on how you'd go about improving Unix in general.
What did the authors offer as a better UI? No, not Windows. Not Mac. Some arcane LISP machine was usually the machine of choice. Sorry, I live in the real world and have to earn a paycheck.
Is there room for an HDTV tuner card and a DVD drive? Didn't think so.
But then again, who cares what your HTPC looks like? You're watching the TV/projector screen, not the PC. Stick the whole thing in your equipment closet and run cables. And with a big enough case, you can add extra cooling fans, prolong the life of your equipment, and not worry about noise at all.
Oh, blessed childhood, lost forever. No more 25-in-one, 50-in-one, 75-in-one, or (the holy grail), the 150-in-one Electronic Project Kit. No more being kicked out of Radio Shack after debugging for hours from handwritten and typewritten notes of programs cobbled together on scrap paper. No more studying for hours the TRS-80 BASIC Programming manual, featuring "Karl" in the margins, commenting on things like the odd pronunciation of the word "integer."
1. Enroll as student at university hosting next MS-sponsored event and grab a CD.
2. Ignore sticker that says separate license required, as MS says to.
3. Wait for cat to walk on keyboard during installation and agree to on-screen license agreement.
4. ???
5. Profit!
As much respect I have for LinuxDevices, they didn't actually review the iPronto. They're just reiterating Philips's propaganda.
Consider: "What's an iPronto do? As described by Philips...". Or "While we haven't opened one up to look inside...". More like you haven't even touched one. Heck, even the article's title gives it away: "Device profile:...". Not device review.
I'd love to see this thing really reviewed. But this isn't it. It's a poorly worded press release at best.
All citizens will be issued an opaque identifier known as a cookie. You will be responsible for maintaining your cookie. Your cookie must be relinquished to a government official for inspection on demand. Loss or altering of your cookie is a felony offense.
Look, if you had practically zero revenues offset by practically zero expenses, don't even file schedule C and schedule SE.
I make my living completely by estimated tax payments through the year along with schedule C, forms 4562 and 8829, and schedule SE. But if all you did was on the side and resulted in no profit, the IRS won't give a flying fuck.
Unless a client of yours sends you a 1099.
And I hate to sound like a character from Gilliam's Brazil, but a 1099 establishes a paper trail, and then the IRS will want to know why you didn't make an estimated tax payment on that income.
That leads to all sorts of ugly things like the annualized installement method on form 2210 which is complex but approachable with a spreadsheet program.
The upshot is, don't bother if you're not on even IRS's radar (which is like under $600 for most contractor/client relatioships). If you are on the radar, then do all the section 179 deductions you can for your tangible property (computers, etc.) on form 4562, do business expense of your home on form 8829, and, of course, do schedule C for profit/loss and schedule SE for self-employment tax.
And this year, start doing esitmated tax payments using form 1040-ES . Remember they're due four times a year (4.15, 6.15, 9.15, and 1.15 of the next year). The IRS likes to see the amount of each payment be the same and if they're not (because your income through self-employement throughout the year is not the same) then file form 2210 (underpayment) even if you didn't underpay. It's basically where you get to explain why your payments aren't the same throughout the year.
Finally, don't give H&R Block the time-of-day. If you can follow instructions, add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and, most importantly, be patient, you can file your own taxes. I used to pay a professional to fill out mime. Problem was, I filled them out ahead of time to see if we got the same answers. We did. After that, I said "Fuck you H, fuck you R, and most certainly fuck your Block!" It really is not that hard to file income tax.
Given the brightness level and resolution of some of the newer (and pricier) projectors, I'm half tempted to dump the monitor altogether on my next computer purchase and go with a ceiling mounted projector and a good reflective screen for the wall.
You think I could watch movies with this too maybe?
I've put together a site with a lot of information on the cases...
Apparently, you haven't yet heard of the Slashdot Effect. Still, with a Slashdot User ID of 518655, I guess you're still a newbie. No offense, of course!:)
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From the article: But wander from your desk long enough and chances are high that you'll come back to a telephone with that red voice-mail light glowing, meaning you've missed a call.
Oh no! You've MISSED a call! Oh, horrors! Just think, you were discussing unwinding a recursion on a whiteboard in the hallway with a coworker, doing a walkthrough of some code on the lawn, or typing up nearly 500 new lines of code in the last hour while the ringer was muted. And you MISSED a call. Your productivity was dangerously high---just think what your phone could've done to cure that!
I'll just use WiFi for email, thank you.
Back when I used to be called the Sun God (SunOS sysadmin 1989-1993), BSD/386 hadn't yet split, and Linux was in its infancy. A few years later, it was about time I get Unix onto my various Intel systems.
The question was, Linux or FreeBSD?
Today, the answer is a resounding both (FreeBSD runs perimeter firewall and fileservers, Linux runs my desktops), but back then, FreeBSD was the obvious answer.
Why? Because it was the most like good old SunOS 4.1 you could get on an Intel chip. That's a good thing? Fuck yeah! Before Sun abandoned beloved Berkeley Unix for the nightmare that was, is, and will forever be System-V, they had an OS on a platform of choice. Not just choice, but prime (and I don't mean Pr1me, either, god help us).
SunOS gave us a shockingly stable platform on the Motorola 68030 and SPARC chips. It provided some of the most stable TCP/IP around at the time. C-News (remember C-news?) rocked on it. C-News didn't have a prayer an the new-fangled AIX that we got to evaluate.
Graphics? Fuck yes. I/O bandwidth? Fuck yes. xbattle at 1am after closing the terminal room? Fuck yes.
And even then, it had lightweight processes, secure RPC, a super-clean dev interface, and other experimental features that we take for granted today.
Solaris arrived shortly on the seen, I changed jobs, and SunOS is just a memory for most of us grizzled Sun Gods now. But you can still see a lot of SunOS in FreeBSD. I even remember when the -a option appeared in ifconfig on SunOS. It appeared in FreeBSD very shortly, too.
Exactly.
Heck, I might be tempted to self-mod as "-1, Redundant," but then again, the article's a dupe, and karma as a currency has zero value.
Ah, what I wouldn't give for an article moderation system.
I've got the print version of the book. Witty, clever, and sadly on-target in quite a lot of its observations. (I'm still dismayed to see a greater-than character in front of "From" when it's the first word on a line in an email message. There's just no excuse for that in 2003.) And I'm a die-hard Unix lover (logged on using a Silent 700 when I was in 3rd grade).
But I was turned off that the Unix Haters mailing list was so exclusive: you had to write some similarly erudite and novel observation on how awful Unix was before you'd be let into the club. Clever invective to be kept a careful few? Sounds a bit fearful to me.
Regardless, it's been years since the book's been out, and Unix still has many warts. The book (and presumably, the mailing list, although I wouldn't know), could serve as a requirements document on how you'd go about improving Unix in general.
What did the authors offer as a better UI? No, not Windows. Not Mac. Some arcane LISP machine was usually the machine of choice. Sorry, I live in the real world and have to earn a paycheck.
At least this one's less vaporous than the Oqo, which, whenever it may be released, will be no more powerful than any of the remote controls on my coffee table.
I've got the print version of the book. Witty, clever, and sadly on-target in quite a lot of its observations. (I'm still dismayed to see a greater-than character in front of "From" when it's the first word on a line in an email message. There's just no excuse for that in 2003.) And I'm a die-hard Unix lover (logged on using a Silent 700 when I was in 3rd grade).
But I was turned off that the Unix Haters mailing list was so exclusive: you had to write some similarly erudite and novel observation on how awful Unix was before you'd be let into the club. Clever invective to be kept a careful few? Sounds a bit fearful to me.
Regardless, it's been years since the book's been out, and Unix still has many warts. The book (and presumably, the mailing list, although I wouldn't know), could serve as a requirements document on how you'd go about improving Unix in general.
What did the authors offer as a better UI? No, not Windows. Not Mac. Some arcane LISP machine was usually the machine of choice. Sorry, I live in the real world and have to earn a paycheck.
Is there room for an HDTV tuner card and a DVD drive? Didn't think so.
But then again, who cares what your HTPC looks like? You're watching the TV/projector screen, not the PC. Stick the whole thing in your equipment closet and run cables. And with a big enough case, you can add extra cooling fans, prolong the life of your equipment, and not worry about noise at all.
But the MPAA can have it anytime?
Oh, blessed childhood, lost forever. No more 25-in-one, 50-in-one, 75-in-one, or (the holy grail), the 150-in-one Electronic Project Kit. No more being kicked out of Radio Shack after debugging for hours from handwritten and typewritten notes of programs cobbled together on scrap paper. No more studying for hours the TRS-80 BASIC Programming manual, featuring "Karl" in the margins, commenting on things like the odd pronunciation of the word "integer."
You really can never go back home.
How much do you want for your PDA?
Doing so is probably now illegal in Michigan, and will be soon in a dozen other states.
Why not use the money to hack the DMCA?
1. Enroll as student at university hosting next MS-sponsored event and grab a CD.
2. Ignore sticker that says separate license required, as MS says to.
3. Wait for cat to walk on keyboard during installation and agree to on-screen license agreement.
4. ???
5. Profit!
As much respect I have for LinuxDevices, they didn't actually review the iPronto. They're just reiterating Philips's propaganda.
Consider: "What's an iPronto do? As described by Philips...". Or "While we haven't opened one up to look inside...". More like you haven't even touched one. Heck, even the article's title gives it away: "Device profile:...". Not device review.
I'd love to see this thing really reviewed. But this isn't it. It's a poorly worded press release at best.
Attention Citizens:
All citizens will be issued an opaque identifier known as a cookie. You will be responsible for maintaining your cookie. Your cookie must be relinquished to a government official for inspection on demand. Loss or altering of your cookie is a felony offense.
That is all.
That's right, it's slashdot.org (a subsidiary of osdn.com).
YMMV, apparently.
Look, if you had practically zero revenues offset by practically zero expenses, don't even file schedule C and schedule SE.
I make my living completely by estimated tax payments through the year along with schedule C, forms 4562 and 8829, and schedule SE. But if all you did was on the side and resulted in no profit, the IRS won't give a flying fuck.
Unless a client of yours sends you a 1099.
And I hate to sound like a character from Gilliam's Brazil, but a 1099 establishes a paper trail, and then the IRS will want to know why you didn't make an estimated tax payment on that income.
That leads to all sorts of ugly things like the annualized installement method on form 2210 which is complex but approachable with a spreadsheet program.
The upshot is, don't bother if you're not on even IRS's radar (which is like under $600 for most contractor/client relatioships). If you are on the radar, then do all the section 179 deductions you can for your tangible property (computers, etc.) on form 4562, do business expense of your home on form 8829, and, of course, do schedule C for profit/loss and schedule SE for self-employment tax.
And this year, start doing esitmated tax payments using form 1040-ES . Remember they're due four times a year (4.15, 6.15, 9.15, and 1.15 of the next year). The IRS likes to see the amount of each payment be the same and if they're not (because your income through self-employement throughout the year is not the same) then file form 2210 (underpayment) even if you didn't underpay. It's basically where you get to explain why your payments aren't the same throughout the year.
Finally, don't give H&R Block the time-of-day. If you can follow instructions, add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and, most importantly, be patient, you can file your own taxes. I used to pay a professional to fill out mime. Problem was, I filled them out ahead of time to see if we got the same answers. We did. After that, I said "Fuck you H, fuck you R, and most certainly fuck your Block!" It really is not that hard to file income tax.
And never forget: IRS sucks.
... until the fat lady sings!
Yes, I know, too obvious. Mod me down, see what I care [whimper].
Given the brightness level and resolution of some of the newer (and pricier) projectors, I'm half tempted to dump the monitor altogether on my next computer purchase and go with a ceiling mounted projector and a good reflective screen for the wall.
You think I could watch movies with this too maybe?
Heh, heh, heh ... as a long time /. reader, I know the old trick of replacing www with archive will get me around their free registration screen!
... D'OH! It's not NYT!
[clickity-click] there, and now to press the Enter key
All your music are belong to us.
"it's" == "it is"
/. editors---use that editorial power---for great justice!
"its" == something belonging to "it"
Come on
Think of the size of the RAMDISK I could have with 4GB+! Goodbye swap space, hello disk space!
I've put together a site with a lot of information on the cases...
:)
Apparently, you haven't yet heard of the Slashdot Effect. Still, with a Slashdot User ID of 518655, I guess you're still a newbie. No offense, of course!