I went to Comdex in Vegas every year between 1996 and 2000. It went from being a relevant technical showcase to a hangout joint for old ladies when they got bored with the slot machines. It's hard enough to move around the LV Convention Center with 200,000 other technical people, but now you throw in another 50,000 people who don't belong (old ladies and people with STROLLERS for God's sake!, etc), then you add the fact that many of the biggest names don't bother showing up any more, it just isn't worth the time to go.
Some electric razors are starting to be built with LCD screens to display bettery life and cutting head life, razor cleaning schedules, etc. While it's an odd thing to mention in the article, it's conceivable that the razor manufacturers would like to do something more complex, similar to the stuff you see on car stereos these days.
A few months back, I started reading novels on my PDA. I haven't looked back since. I used to use the argument that "there's nothing like the feel of a book in your hand". Yeah, there's nothing like running your fingers through a bowl of worms, either.
On my PDA, I can read in the dark so I can read in bed without disturbing my wife.
My PDA fits in my pocket. Somthing paperbacks do, but only if I don't want to sit down.
I can carry 10-12 full-length books on my PDA.
I usually carry my PDA everywhere anyway.
Because it's a PDA, I can read during boring meetings and it looks like I'm taking notes.
Why would I buy this?
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I don't want to sound like a troll, but $18 for a paperback?! $8 for an ebook?! I realize there are significant costs involved in the publishing process, so self-publishing undoubtedly costs more, but good lord!
The whole point of an ebook is to eliminate the major portion of the cost of publishing. And yet, the price is still $8.
Remember when cheap pulp paperbacks were actually cheap?
I've been noticing a new tactic used by telemarketers here in sunny Wisconsin. Upon asking to be added to the DNC list, the person on the other end rapidly spits out something to the effect of "You need to call our DNC list management group at 1-800-555-1212" and then hangs up before I can ask for the number again to write it down. I 'spose it technically meets the rule, but effectively I can't get on the list unless I can remember a 7 digit random number that I heard one time quickly long enough to get to a pen and paper. Jerks.
Actually, I *think* that's illegal. They can't make you call another number to opt out. They're supposed to do it immediately when you ask them on the original call. You might want to look at this anti-telemarketing script from Junkbusters.com to get a feel for what you can successfully sue them for.
What about the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-243 (1991), which amended Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.)?
1. before the hour of 8 A.M. or after 9 P.M. (local time at the called party's location), and
2. unless such person or entity has instituted procedures for maintaining a list of persons who do not wish to receive telephone solicitations made by or on behalf of that person or entity.
Anyone happen to have the text of either proposed bill? Or at least the bill number, so when I write my congresscritter, he'll know what I'm talking about?
End of an era (for me, anyway)
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I'm surprised at how stunned and emotional I am upon reading this. After personally investing almost four years and uncounted trillions of clock cycles for over half a quadrillion keys and just like that it's over with. *sigh*
I watched the progression of the computer industry grow just by watching the gradual increase of my daily keyrate.
Four years ago when I first started, I was going through 52 blocks a day. Yesterday, I went through 2784 blocks. Looking at the daily graph is practically a history of my life for four years. I can see spikes where my company bought a dozen computers and I borrowed their cycles for a couple of days while I configured them. I can see dips where I turned my computers off to go on vacation for a weekend. There's the whole flat area from last year when I didn't have a job and so had limited access to extra CPU cycles.
I liked Spock's apprentice in the one where Kirk and Bones get exiled to the prison planet.
That's Kim Catrall, baby! She was a hottie until she started doing "Sex and the City". Now she's just annoying and old-looking. Ahh, how I miss the "Mannequin" and "Big Trouble in Little China" days... *sigh*
How are you supposed to back up your data with a drive that big? Consumer-level tape drives seem to be fading away, and were never robust enough to save off that much data anyway. CD burners? Sure, I don't mind using 280 CD's for one backup run.
DVD burners are looking promising, but they're still fairly expensive and of course they have standards issues.
I like (and want) all the space, but I can't afford a tape library!
Novell's Groupwise version 6 runs on Tomcat with Apache. It's actually set up to run on Netware, of course, but I've gotten it running quite nicely on linux as well.
I am so shocked to hear Microsoft didn't follow the standards when implementing SSL.
Neither did Konqueror. Blame where blame belongs, please. It's trendy to just blame everything on the Big Evil Empire, but let's not forget they aren't the only ones who have bugs.
I've got a complaint of my own. I don't wanna give up by Geforce, so when I bought my ATI, I had to buy a PCI card. Well, the ATI card doesn't do *any* TV or video capture unless it's the primary card. That plays hell with all your desktop settings and getting games to work and so forth. It would be nice if you could pop it in as a second card and it would just work.
Yeah! I have some great names, too! We can call the VCR "TiVo" and the A/C "X10"! Oh wait, I don't need to tell my A/C to turn on. I have a thermostat for that.
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Disambiguatable? ;-)
Or Buckaroo Banzai beyond the 5th Dimension?
..8th Dimension. ;-)
HEY! First of all, that's "The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the eigth dimension",
BB: BT5D was a pre-pre-prequel to
Yes! My tagline *finally* comes in handy!
I went to Comdex in Vegas every year between 1996 and 2000. It went from being a relevant technical showcase to a hangout joint for old ladies when they got bored with the slot machines. It's hard enough to move around the LV Convention Center with 200,000 other technical people, but now you throw in another 50,000 people who don't belong (old ladies and people with STROLLERS for God's sake!, etc), then you add the fact that many of the biggest names don't bother showing up any more, it just isn't worth the time to go.
Some electric razors are starting to be built with LCD screens to display bettery life and cutting head life, razor cleaning schedules, etc. While it's an odd thing to mention in the article, it's conceivable that the razor manufacturers would like to do something more complex, similar to the stuff you see on car stereos these days.
What you need for messaging security is a PKI that enables the encryption features of Outlook, Lotus Notes, Netscape etc
Hmm...Lotus Notes and Novell's Groupwise do this right out of the box, and as a bonus, aren't susceptible to OE viruses....
A few months back, I started reading novels on my PDA. I haven't looked back since. I used to use the argument that "there's nothing like the feel of a book in your hand". Yeah, there's nothing like running your fingers through a bowl of worms, either.
On my PDA, I can read in the dark so I can read in bed without disturbing my wife.
My PDA fits in my pocket. Somthing paperbacks do, but only if I don't want to sit down.
I can carry 10-12 full-length books on my PDA.
I usually carry my PDA everywhere anyway.
Because it's a PDA, I can read during boring meetings and it looks like I'm taking notes.
I don't want to sound like a troll, but $18 for a paperback?! $8 for an ebook?! I realize there are significant costs involved in the publishing process, so self-publishing undoubtedly costs more, but good lord!
The whole point of an ebook is to eliminate the major portion of the cost of publishing. And yet, the price is still $8.
Remember when cheap pulp paperbacks were actually cheap?
I've been noticing a new tactic used by telemarketers here in sunny Wisconsin. Upon asking to be added to the DNC list, the person on the other end rapidly spits out something to the effect of "You need to call our DNC list management group at 1-800-555-1212" and then hangs up before I can ask for the number again to write it down. I 'spose it technically meets the rule, but effectively I can't get on the list unless I can remember a 7 digit random number that I heard one time quickly long enough to get to a pen and paper. Jerks.
Actually, I *think* that's illegal. They can't make you call another number to opt out. They're supposed to do it immediately when you ask them on the original call. You might want to look at this anti-telemarketing script from Junkbusters.com to get a feel for what you can successfully sue them for.
What about the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-243 (1991), which amended Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.)?
No person or entity shall initiate any
telephone solicitation to a residential telephone subscriber
1. before the hour of 8 A.M. or after 9 P.M. (local time at the called party's location), and
2. unless such person or entity has instituted procedures for maintaining a list of persons who do not wish to receive telephone solicitations made by or on behalf of that person or entity.
Anyone happen to have the text of either proposed bill? Or at least the bill number, so when I write my congresscritter, he'll know what I'm talking about?
I'm surprised at how stunned and emotional I am upon reading this. After personally investing almost four years and uncounted trillions of clock cycles for over half a quadrillion keys and just like that it's over with. *sigh*
I watched the progression of the computer industry grow just by watching the gradual increase of my daily keyrate.
Four years ago when I first started, I was going through 52 blocks a day. Yesterday, I went through 2784 blocks. Looking at the daily graph is practically a history of my life for four years. I can see spikes where my company bought a dozen computers and I borrowed their cycles for a couple of days while I configured them. I can see dips where I turned my computers off to go on vacation for a weekend. There's the whole flat area from last year when I didn't have a job and so had limited access to extra CPU cycles.
Not to mention, "Berkley" != "Berkeley".
I liked Spock's apprentice in the one where Kirk and Bones get exiled to the prison planet.
That's Kim Catrall, baby! She was a hottie until she started doing "Sex and the City". Now she's just annoying and old-looking. Ahh, how I miss the "Mannequin" and "Big Trouble in Little China" days... *sigh*
Oh, geez, I almost forgot Porky's! w00t!
Poor linux dev > I made it for myself and people like me. If you don't like it, go use a Mac
And now you know why linux doesn't have a bigger market share.
And in other news, still no cure for cancer.
How are you supposed to back up your data with a drive that big? Consumer-level tape drives seem to be fading away, and were never robust enough to save off that much data anyway. CD burners? Sure, I don't mind using 280 CD's for one backup run.
DVD burners are looking promising, but they're still fairly expensive and of course they have standards issues.
I like (and want) all the space, but I can't afford a tape library!
No mac (Mac OS 9, or 8.x) have ever once been rooted or defaced in over 7 years
:D
That's because no-one uses them as servers. *duck*
Yeah, that's not expensive, time-consuming, or illegal at all...
(It's called 'shilling' and it's a type of fraud)
Novell's Groupwise version 6 runs on Tomcat with Apache. It's actually set up to run on Netware, of course, but I've gotten it running quite nicely on linux as well.
I am so shocked to hear Microsoft didn't follow the standards when implementing SSL.
Neither did Konqueror. Blame where blame belongs, please. It's trendy to just blame everything on the Big Evil Empire, but let's not forget they aren't the only ones who have bugs.
Screw synths! You should be playing Black & White!
You might try VOCP. Good open source call routing system. Even has web integration for retrieving your calls over a network.
I've got a complaint of my own. I don't wanna give up by Geforce, so when I bought my ATI, I had to buy a PCI card. Well, the ATI card doesn't do *any* TV or video capture unless it's the primary card. That plays hell with all your desktop settings and getting games to work and so forth. It would be nice if you could pop it in as a second card and it would just work.
Yeah! I have some great names, too! We can call the VCR "TiVo" and the A/C "X10"! Oh wait, I don't need to tell my A/C to turn on. I have a thermostat for that.