My loved 110CT has twice the accumulated working hours than every other PC I ever had.
I'd be lost the day it would die. I recently cured its old-age incontinence by replacing the four-year (!) old battery and the screen shows some stuck-on vertical lines on the left side. So I feel the end approaching and I've been looking out for a replacement for some time. But all successors are larger or are misdesigned (like the two hand mouse operation in the new Vaio).
As to the keyboard I've found out that I can 2-finger type nearly as quickly as touchtype on a standard keyboard just because the keys are so close together - my fingers don't have to move far. Even the mouse is very useable once you are used to it. No changes needed here.
While no speed monster it is still great for reading books, listening to music, stealthily recording conversations, reading/writing e-mail, wireless browsing, doing small word & excel docs and playing the occasional 2d platformer (Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit) while waiting on the plane. I've even had Visual Studio & MSDN Library installed on it for an occasional stint.
My feature wishlist looks like: - faster startup / instant-on - brighter screen so you can use it outside - 30-40 G hard disk - longer battery life - USB ports - even smaller/lighter
Looks like this Flipstart is exactly what I need. Lets hope that it's no vaporware and that the price will be bearable.
You're right about the trains. My colleague keeps bragging about how the TGV (the French High Speed Train) is more practical than the airplane as there are no security controls.
He's right. For now.
Just wait until somebody puts two 3 meter long pieces of derailing hardware on the tracks near a bridge. Off goes the TGV at 350km/hour.
Just wait until somebody positions two suitcases filled with explosives near a bogey using a GPS to accurately detonate them near a point of interest.
Just wait until somebody makes the TGV enter the Gare Du Nord at 150km/hour around 09:00 or 17:00.
We're all at mercy of the 'tewwowists'. And I'm not so sure it will be possible to create such an ideal society that there won't be any. Maybe it's natures way to deal with overpopulation; you don't see too many terrorist acts where there are few people together.
I said it here before and I say it again: payments to a french 'Mandrake Club' look conspicuous on the books.
Now it looks like they will be forced to get rid of that name after all. Still, I feel sorry for them as name changes cost money that is better spent elsewhere.
And btw yes, I like repeating myself over and over again.
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you want to remove the folder 'DJ Danger Mouse' and all of its contents ?" asks the machine.
Self clicks 'Yes'. Not selfs stuff. Self doesn't like it.
Maybe EMI just wanted to spare self from listening to this, but failed miserably. Big Music Companies seem not to be able to do _anything_ right nowadays.
A year ago I heard a big bang and found a dazzled rare (at least in my neck of the woods) Black Woodpecker on the ground.
I managed to grab it before the cat did, held it in my hands for 5 minutes letting it come to its senses and let it fly away.
The bird probably survived because woodpeckers should be well equipped to deal with head-shocking events.
It's not often that you get to see these birds close up, not to mention hold them and quitely look at them. Quite an experience.
Left-right stereo has been here a long time and it works wonders with headphones. No doubt about that.
And since any sound arrives at your two cochleas, it must be possible to simulate any sound position just by exciting your two ears, preferably with in-ear phones.
But I have a hinch that cues about whether a sound is at the back or front come subconsciously from:
1. Turning your head and registering the changes in sound. 2. Echoes and reverb. This only works if you know and 'feel' the room. (*) 3. Changes in frequency response due to the structure of your ears. This only works for sounds you know.
As the headphones are fixed to your head the first, and probably the most important, cue disappears. The room where the sounds were recorded does not match the room you're in, so the second cue disappears. And finally you will be listening to new, unknown sounds. There goes the third cue as well.
But in true/. fashion, I'm posting this without actually having experienced 5.1 headphones with more than one speaker on each side. I'd like to try though.
(*) While I'm listening with isolating in-ear buds, it is strange that the sound changes dramatically the moment I enter a building from the outside. Hard to explain by reverb and echo as there is little sound leakage from the buds to the outside and vice-versa.
I once parallel parked my car on the right side, got out (left, on the drivers side, of course), only to find that I just couldn't reach the sidewalk because I could not pass either in front or at the back of my car due to the lack of sufficient space.
On another occasion I had to park while a policeman was looking at me. I just couldn't resist bumping ever so slightly into the car in front of me. Surely, the officer went on bitching but couldn't do anything while I tried to keep a serious face.
Wait till somebody tracks the behaviour of a Really Important Person, gets an identical car, attaches a cloned license plate to it and follows the RIP from a comfortable distance while performing some heavy traffic violations on purpose - running red lights etc.
That Really Important Person is utterly going to be unable to deny his responsibility.
- date and time closely agree with his behaviour - car type matches - license plate matches
I guess I was stupid thinking that Slashdot readers could laugh at my association of 'RS taking the stand' with one of the US' finest CEOs recently doing the same.
The difference between the two famous RSs couldn't be greater. In case you haven't noticed the behaviour of one of them is not unlike DMcBs. Sorta links it all together.
I have suffered tinnitus in the past (and I still occasionally do) but I have found out I am able to make it go away completely using the following method:
- Imagine a very strong sound with the same frequency as the most disturbing component of your tinnitus. Concentrate. It's hard to explain, but you must keep on trying to generate this sound yourself in your head, like if you are singing or whistling but without actually doing it.
- After a short while (20-30 seconds) the tinnitus will disappear. It will come back after a while, but weaker. Repeat.
- After a few iterations the frequency you focused on will have gone completely, but you will notice other, weaker frequencies in your tinnitus. Do the same thing to them.
- Eventually you will end up with a tinnitus that is more noise like, instead of composed of pure tones. This is much more bearable, but you can still do better.
- Try to generate the same kind of noise. The noise will not be completely white, but will have 'texture'. Imagine it (think 'sssshhh'), fight back. The noise component too will rapidly fade.
You best do this at night in bed when it's really quiet.
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Same here.
My loved 110CT has twice the accumulated working hours than every other PC I ever had.
I'd be lost the day it would die. I recently cured its old-age incontinence by replacing the four-year (!) old battery and the screen shows some stuck-on vertical lines on the left side. So I feel the end approaching and I've been looking out for a replacement for some time. But all successors are larger or are misdesigned (like the two hand mouse operation in the new Vaio).
As to the keyboard I've found out that I can 2-finger type nearly as quickly as touchtype on a standard keyboard just because the keys are so close together - my fingers don't have to move far. Even the mouse is very useable once you are used to it. No changes needed here.
While no speed monster it is still great for reading books, listening to music, stealthily recording conversations, reading/writing e-mail, wireless browsing, doing small word & excel docs and playing the occasional 2d platformer (Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit) while waiting on the plane. I've even had Visual Studio & MSDN Library installed on it for an occasional stint.
My feature wishlist looks like:
- faster startup / instant-on
- brighter screen so you can use it outside
- 30-40 G hard disk
- longer battery life
- USB ports
- even smaller/lighter
Looks like this Flipstart is exactly what I need. Lets hope that it's no vaporware and that the price will be bearable.
You're right about the trains. My colleague keeps bragging about how the TGV (the French High Speed Train) is more practical than the airplane as there are no security controls.
He's right. For now.
Just wait until somebody puts two 3 meter long pieces of derailing hardware on the tracks near a bridge. Off goes the TGV at 350km/hour.
Just wait until somebody positions two suitcases filled with explosives near a bogey using a GPS to accurately detonate them near a point of interest.
Just wait until somebody makes the TGV enter the Gare Du Nord at 150km/hour around 09:00 or 17:00.
We're all at mercy of the 'tewwowists'. And I'm not so sure it will be possible to create such an ideal society that there won't be any. Maybe it's natures way to deal with overpopulation; you don't see too many terrorist acts where there are few people together.
Now it looks like they will be forced to get rid of that name after all. Still, I feel sorry for them as name changes cost money that is better spent elsewhere.
And btw yes, I like repeating myself over and over again.
No, it ends with
#endif
you want to remove the folder 'DJ Danger Mouse' and all of its contents ?" asks the machine.
Self clicks 'Yes'. Not selfs stuff. Self doesn't like it.
Maybe EMI just wanted to spare self from listening to this, but failed miserably. Big Music Companies seem not to be able to do _anything_ right nowadays.
runs Clytoris Linux on her embedded device.
The bird probably survived because woodpeckers should be well equipped to deal with head-shocking events.
It's not often that you get to see these birds close up, not to mention hold them and quitely look at them. Quite an experience.
Sometime ago I acquired 'Anynomous Coward' as a /.userid. Didn't get around to using it though.
Usually I prefer the idea of a prank more than its execution.
I was thinking just the same thing...
s/is/eir
Left-right stereo has been here a long time and it works wonders with headphones. No doubt about that.
/. fashion, I'm posting this without actually having experienced 5.1 headphones with more than one speaker on each side. I'd like to try though.
And since any sound arrives at your two cochleas, it must be possible to simulate any sound position just by exciting your two ears, preferably with in-ear phones.
But I have a hinch that cues about whether a sound is at the back or front come subconsciously from:
1. Turning your head and registering the changes in sound.
2. Echoes and reverb. This only works if you know and 'feel' the room. (*)
3. Changes in frequency response due to the structure of your ears. This only works for sounds you know.
As the headphones are fixed to your head the first, and probably the most important, cue disappears. The room where the sounds were recorded does not match the room you're in, so the second cue disappears. And finally you will be listening to new, unknown sounds. There goes the third cue as well.
But in true
(*) While I'm listening with isolating in-ear buds, it is strange that the sound changes dramatically the moment I enter a building from the outside. Hard to explain by reverb and echo as there is little sound leakage from the buds to the outside and vice-versa.
Sure, redundantly over and over again, and in a repeating fashion. A condition caused by programming too many loops, probably. Sorry 'bout that.
A virtual +1 Funny from me.
I said it before, and I say it again:
No way I'm going to enter bills for Mandrake Club Services from a French company into my books.
I do not want to explain to the accountant and the taxman that Mandrake Club is not a parisian brothel.
For gods sake, choose a professional, if boring, name.
I once parallel parked my car on the right side, got out (left, on the drivers side, of course), only to find that I just couldn't reach the sidewalk because I could not pass either in front or at the back of my car due to the lack of sufficient space.
On another occasion I had to park while a policeman was looking at me. I just couldn't resist bumping ever so slightly into the car in front of me. Surely, the officer went on bitching but couldn't do anything while I tried to keep a serious face.
Recommended.
Well well; this does away with the need for the PARTNER= NYT links.
From now on I just need to remember to paste NYT URLs into the (Google) search box instead of the address box in Opera.
Simple & Neat. Thanks !
Intel announces 4004C CPU
Microsoft announces Windows 98TE
Apple announces Apple IV
etc. etc. etc.
The former page can be found by googling for "miserable failure", the latter can not.
This is a picture of a Linux-loving cunning linguist.
Wait till somebody tracks the behaviour of a Really Important Person, gets an identical car, attaches a cloned license plate to it and follows the RIP from a comfortable distance while performing some heavy traffic violations on purpose - running red lights etc.
That Really Important Person is utterly going to be unable to deny his responsibility.
- date and time closely agree with his behaviour
- car type matches
- license plate matches
Watch hell being unleashed in the media.
"High altitudes can affect the performance of plasma displays because the gas held inside each pixel is stressed, and has to work harder to perform."
Pity the hard-working gas, held captive inside an eeny-weeny-tiny pixel cell.
I guess I was stupid thinking that Slashdot readers could laugh at my association of 'RS taking the stand' with one of the US' finest CEOs recently doing the same.
The difference between the two famous RSs couldn't be greater. In case you haven't noticed the behaviour of one of them is not unlike DMcBs. Sorta links it all together.
Sorry if you didn't appreciate it. Oh well.
Is RS Richard Scrushy ?
I have suffered tinnitus in the past (and I still occasionally do) but I have found out I am able to make it go away completely using the following method:
- Imagine a very strong sound with the same frequency as the most disturbing component of your tinnitus. Concentrate. It's hard to explain, but you must keep on trying to generate this sound yourself in your head, like if you are singing or whistling but without actually doing it.
- After a short while (20-30 seconds) the tinnitus will disappear. It will come back after a while, but weaker. Repeat.
- After a few iterations the frequency you focused on will have gone completely, but you will notice other, weaker frequencies in your tinnitus. Do the same thing to them.
- Eventually you will end up with a tinnitus that is more noise like, instead of composed of pure tones. This is much more bearable, but you can still do better.
- Try to generate the same kind of noise. The noise will not be completely white, but will have 'texture'. Imagine it (think 'sssshhh'), fight back. The noise component too will rapidly fade.
You best do this at night in bed when it's really quiet.