there were internet connected smartphones well before iPhone. yes they may not have been as sleek, yes they may not have been as sexy, and yes they may not have had the pretentiousness to patent a fucking rounded rectangle... BUT there were palm phones, linux phones and even CE phones a quater decade before the precious iPhone first played a farting santa / cat app
iPhone upended the business world just like every other apple product, only for the small and easily distracted, no one replaced their pdp11 with a 4K Apple II, no one dropped their IBM for a///, and for nearly 2 decades you only saw mac's in the graphics department.
I will be nearing retirement, for fucks sake if it hits... and the first 30 some odd years are any indication, it will be one glorious final joke on me from god
the "enemy" is much smarter than 10000 bureaucrats being sold by a used car salesman
after all this decades enemy has sustained life for thousands of years in an environment most of our citizens would die in, in a matter of hours... they do have some tricks "up their sleeve"
I stopped buying WD's like 15 years ago cause they tended to last about a year and then shit on themselves, and every one that has come my way since then has been easily classified as loud and slow, ie: I have some 40 and 80 gigs that only support ata 66 and 100 while being loud enough to drown out my video card fan around here somewhere...
Hitachi's on the other hand I have never had a problem with, heck I have a 540 meg laptop drive in my 386 lappy that runs as quiet as the day it was new (it came with my pentium laptop), and while I cant really say anything spectacular about them, I never had a problem with them... until now
(based on my 20 years of hard disk buying, I hear WD doesnt suck as bad now, but I am not the type to pay to get punched in the balls multiple times)
which requires a power pc accelerator, so if I take my 3000, spend a pile of money for a obsolete power pc card, and a pile of money for obsolete ram, I can run firefox on something I already know it sucks balls on?
I have a powermac 9600/300 with a pile of ram in it, a much better motherboard and chipset, faster video and disk I/O and guess what? Iceweasel is painfully slow in debian, classzilla is painfully slow in mac OS9, and if you want anywhere reasonable speed you have to drop down to a very basic geko engine browser, and then its like 45 seconds to load slashdot with no javabloat... or just use a text browser, maybe one with image support like links2.
"2) Everyone staying available. This means checking emails and IMs regular."
see not everyone works a desk job, so checking emails and IM's regular means I am running back n fourth all day not getting my job done, heck, I really didnt know that much time had passed, I was having too much fun rigging up a 9000 rpm vibration table inside a thermal shock chamber.
doubt it, there are a billion top notch embedded chips out now and AMD still seems to be thinking "in the future", the future is already a few generations old
to say "hey bob" rather than text him and hope I can get a response in a reasonable amount of time. We "telecommute" when people have to be on the road, like today where one of the engineers sent me an email at 1P.M., though I had zero reason to even be near my computer until I left at 6...yea, that was efficient
"Example the back and forward buttons in Firefox 3 has a small downarrow, showing you a quick convienient history of the last 10 pages per tab. (I hear that's removed in 4 onwards)"
yes it was removed, now you just right click the big ass back or forward button to get that same menu. Now this may seem like a inconsequential change, but on my crappy ass laptop, or on our netbook, or my buddies tablet, its much easier, quicker and less frustrating to right click a large target, rather than try to nail a 16x16 pixel icon with a pointing device that takes input as a general suggestion.
I know exactly how this works, and I have written a couple crappy little ray-tracers in the past. ray-tracing is one of those things like the space program... yea it could do a lot, but it doesn't, because in reality its not very practical and not very useful. Displaying pixels on a grid your always going to have an margin of display error, and who cares if you can see its a 100% perfect circle as long as the computer knows and correctly calculates it.
it honestly looks like an old game to me, yes there are some impressive features, but I really have to look for them in the images, something that is not going to happen at 60Hz (and if its not running at real speed who cares, that is a movie which can take its sweet ass time rendering frame by frame)
when we were in a race aginst the commies at the dawn it was exciting when we were making reusable shuttlecraft utilizing cutting edge technology it was exciting after 2 decades of essentially nothing hearing "but just one more mission and we can add shit to something that's almost already there" is not only not-exciting, but growing to be similar to avoiding someone who says that just some pocket change will drive his 14 year old V8 truck 2 towns over... we both know better buddy
As an Eagle Scout myself, I know I learned many fundamentals of electronics, radio communication, metal working and even helped build a hero robot as a troop project. Really there is everything from wilderness survival (which is what pops into most peoples mind) and basket weaving, but in all if there is a topic, there is a badge where you can learn the basics as a child.
do I support the activities mentioned in the article? yes, but its amusing because its already there...other than buy a 500 3d printer from us cause your kid needs to know something that will become a toaster in 20 years, but drafting and cad, which are useful skills are already a badge
heh yea, we recently went on a camping trip with some buddies, I was the only one able to figure out how to toss a rope over a branch and string a lantern over it, our site was the only one with a (sterno) stove and a light, everyone else was trying to heat beans in the dark 4 foot away from a piss poor fire
Slashdot Mirror
upended the mobile business?"
so ... virtually no effect at all?
there were internet connected smartphones well before iPhone. yes they may not have been as sleek, yes they may not have been as sexy, and yes they may not have had the pretentiousness to patent a fucking rounded rectangle ... BUT there were palm phones, linux phones and even CE phones a quater decade before the precious iPhone first played a farting santa / cat app
iPhone upended the business world just like every other apple product, only for the small and easily distracted, no one replaced their pdp11 with a 4K Apple II, no one dropped their IBM for a ///, and for nearly 2 decades you only saw mac's in the graphics department.
has anyone tried just to see whats on the other side using a simple video camera, lens and a bit of fiber?
or a little closer to home ... puerto rico
but in their defense, they are consistent, every car has the same dent in the side
cause they are retarded, going with the old "airbags are a total replacement for seatbelts" way of thinking
dude
I will be nearing retirement, for fucks sake if it hits ... and the first 30 some odd years are any indication, it will be one glorious final joke on me from god
the "enemy" is much smarter than 10000 bureaucrats being sold by a used car salesman
after all this decades enemy has sustained life for thousands of years in an environment most of our citizens would die in, in a matter of hours... they do have some tricks "up their sleeve"
not perfect, but cool
I stopped buying WD's like 15 years ago cause they tended to last about a year and then shit on themselves, and every one that has come my way since then has been easily classified as loud and slow, ie: I have some 40 and 80 gigs that only support ata 66 and 100 while being loud enough to drown out my video card fan around here somewhere...
Hitachi's on the other hand I have never had a problem with, heck I have a 540 meg laptop drive in my 386 lappy that runs as quiet as the day it was new (it came with my pentium laptop), and while I cant really say anything spectacular about them, I never had a problem with them ... until now
(based on my 20 years of hard disk buying, I hear WD doesnt suck as bad now, but I am not the type to pay to get punched in the balls multiple times)
which requires a power pc accelerator, so if I take my 3000, spend a pile of money for a obsolete power pc card, and a pile of money for obsolete ram, I can run firefox on something I already know it sucks balls on?
I have a powermac 9600/300 with a pile of ram in it, a much better motherboard and chipset, faster video and disk I/O and guess what? Iceweasel is painfully slow in debian, classzilla is painfully slow in mac OS9, and if you want anywhere reasonable speed you have to drop down to a very basic geko engine browser, and then its like 45 seconds to load slashdot with no javabloat ... or just use a text browser, maybe one with image support like links2.
"2) Everyone staying available. This means checking emails and IMs regular."
see not everyone works a desk job, so checking emails and IM's regular means I am running back n fourth all day not getting my job done, heck, I really didnt know that much time had passed, I was having too much fun rigging up a 9000 rpm vibration table inside a thermal shock chamber.
doubt it, there are a billion top notch embedded chips out now and AMD still seems to be thinking "in the future", the future is already a few generations old
to say "hey bob" rather than text him and hope I can get a response in a reasonable amount of time. We "telecommute" when people have to be on the road, like today where one of the engineers sent me an email at 1P.M., though I had zero reason to even be near my computer until I left at 6 ...yea, that was efficient
did memorizing a calculated chart really make us smarter?
"Example the back and forward buttons in Firefox 3 has a small downarrow, showing you a quick convienient history of the last 10 pages per tab. (I hear that's removed in 4 onwards)"
yes it was removed, now you just right click the big ass back or forward button to get that same menu. Now this may seem like a inconsequential change, but on my crappy ass laptop, or on our netbook, or my buddies tablet, its much easier, quicker and less frustrating to right click a large target, rather than try to nail a 16x16 pixel icon with a pointing device that takes input as a general suggestion.
under what os? yea thats what I thought
I know exactly how this works, and I have written a couple crappy little ray-tracers in the past. ray-tracing is one of those things like the space program ... yea it could do a lot, but it doesn't, because in reality its not very practical and not very useful. Displaying pixels on a grid your always going to have an margin of display error, and who cares if you can see its a 100% perfect circle as long as the computer knows and correctly calculates it.
it honestly looks like an old game to me, yes there are some impressive features, but I really have to look for them in the images, something that is not going to happen at 60Hz (and if its not running at real speed who cares, that is a movie which can take its sweet ass time rendering frame by frame)
yep
when we were in a race aginst the commies at the dawn it was exciting ... we both know better buddy
when we were making reusable shuttlecraft utilizing cutting edge technology it was exciting
after 2 decades of essentially nothing hearing "but just one more mission and we can add shit to something that's almost already there" is not only not-exciting, but growing to be similar to avoiding someone who says that just some pocket change will drive his 14 year old V8 truck 2 towns over
cause ubisoft is a bunch of lazy fucks?
A 2004 era power pc, 256 megs of ram, and a gimped geforce 7800 sharing system ram ... and that's for the high quality version
must mean really small slides where you cant really see whats going on with a puke green background and enormous blobs of text between
As an Eagle Scout myself, I know I learned many fundamentals of electronics, radio communication, metal working and even helped build a hero robot as a troop project. Really there is everything from wilderness survival (which is what pops into most peoples mind) and basket weaving, but in all if there is a topic, there is a badge where you can learn the basics as a child.
do I support the activities mentioned in the article? yes, but its amusing because its already there ...other than buy a 500 3d printer from us cause your kid needs to know something that will become a toaster in 20 years, but drafting and cad, which are useful skills are already a badge
http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/MeritBadges/mb-DRAF.aspx
guess where I learned how to do it first?
heh yea, we recently went on a camping trip with some buddies, I was the only one able to figure out how to toss a rope over a branch and string a lantern over it, our site was the only one with a (sterno) stove and a light, everyone else was trying to heat beans in the dark 4 foot away from a piss poor fire
unless they explode...