Reminds me of an Agave plant we had out behind our house.
For my entire childhood it was just this big spiky Aloe like bush behind the house. About 5 feet tall. Then one time when I was in my late 20's it grew this absolutely gigantic spike about the height of a telephone pole, flowered, and then produced hundreds of little budding plantlets that fell off and took root. The original plant then promptly died.
9600?? I found anything higher than 2400 to be a major pain because the data compression made the text come out in packets instead of a continuous stream, which made it much harder to read.
Speedread 300baud? Are you kidding? That was way too slow. I remember how happy I was when 1200 came out, because the bulletin boards I read were 'one key' compatible. That is, you could log in, and then just hit the space bar and go through ALL the new messages posted, and since i could read at modem speed, it was like direct download into your head.
Realism??? How about making it so that tools how jump up and down constantly to get everywhere get killed quickly like the hopping little bunnies they are.
You can always tell a HL/CS player on another game because they move like freaking rabbits. Every time you shoot at them they start jumping up and down.
I hope they fix that horrible scene of the female replicant running through the glass windows. The one where they used a stunt double that looks NOTHING like the actress (Think guy in drag bad).
I've been carrying one of these around for the last 6 months or so, and while it has its flaws, it's still a great device to have.
When I'm wandering around with a baby/toddler strapped to me/in tow, the last thing I need to be lugging around is more stuff, even the lightest of laptops, nor do I want to carry anything as fragile or expensive as a laptop.
On the other hand, all the coffee shops around here are temptingly WiFi enabled, and there are a plethora of open networks around.
Having this device comfortably stowed in my pocket means that I can get some surfing and email in while the little guy takes his naps, just about wherever and whenever that happens to be. If I'm out of range of an open Wifi network, bluetooth to the cellphone works just as well.
It might not be a desktop browser, but it absolutely beats the pants off of ANY browser running on a cellphone, and the 800 pixel wide screen is enough to open webpages without side scrolling.
The email client sucks. I've been using webmail which works just as well until the software update comes out.
This is not a consumer level device yet. I would probably best describe it as an open beta-test. But for the price and convenience it's a great thing to have around if you know how to work with it. That, and it can run nethack.
What I really miss from the old-school days is the *nix talk command. Yes I know people still use it, but I really find it striking how much contextual information can be carried in visually watching someone type characters out one by one and correcting their errors in real time. It really is different from the "compose and hit return" method most protocols use these days, and I find it really makes the interaction more like a conversation. Especially since you can both be typing and be reading things at the same time which is much like talking over each other.
The difference you're seeing with glasses is due to the ABBE number of the materials.
Glass has the best ABBE numbers , but most people these days go for plastic lenses. The cheap CR-39 lenses actually have the best rating of the plastics, but they're also big, thick, and heavy. My guess is that a lot of people are wearing polycarbonate lenses, because they're light, have a relatively high index, and are VERY impact resistant. Downside? Really crappy ABBE number. I just switched to trivex lenses which have a slightly better ABBE number and there is a noticeable difference. (similar to polycarb in safety and thickness, can be drilled for rimless frames, but much better lens characteristics)
First of all, the camera does have a lens-cover. With 2 megapixels, the resolution is much higher than 320x200, I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from.
There are lots of people out there who have big pockets to carry around these things. (Both literally and figuratively.) Medical professionals for instance. The 2megapixel camera is a good enough resolution to take photos large enough to blow up for powerpoint slides, making this one an ideal companion for carrying around, using for drug/med references, taking pictures of x-rays, wounds, etc, along with typed commentary and then downloading them to a pc via bluetooth for putting into computer presentations and such.
Yes this is interesting. But really now, it appears that posting the headlines from the current month's issue of Wired is what passes for front page worthy news these days? Is there really so little going on the the world? That issue has been on the stands for at least two weeks now and that has to be the third or fourth front page item from it over the last week. Does it take that long to read through the issue and find the interesting bits? Perhaps we should just have a periodical posting titled: "Here are the headlines from the current issue of Wired."
Nice. I really appreciate how the bad kid and the bad father who approves of porno and has sex with little girls are black, and the good christian kid and the good christian parents are white. Subtext anyone?
Since the Macnn forums seem to be slashdotted, I tracked this down at macosxhints.com
Now then, onto the hack! First, open up the Terminal application (found in/Applications/Utilities/) and type: sudo pico/library/preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist (you'll need to enter your admin password in order to proceed). Move the cursor down below the first dict tag, and paste the following text in: keyBackingCompression/key dict keycompressionScanTime/key real5.000000000000000e+00/real&# 062; keyminCompressableSize/key integer8193/integer keyminCompressionRatio/key real1.100000023841858e+00/real&# 062; /dict Then hit Control-X to exit pico (hitting the Y key to save the changes before exiting when it asks you), then log out and back in again, and ta da! Compressed window buffers. Enjoy...
Ah.. But can you use the phone as an external GPS device? i.e, can it out put NMEA data for use with a palm or other handheld as an external GPS reciever? Now that would be useful.
I've figured out how to save WEP. All we have to do is stop those damned scientists from posting their findings. So all we have to do compose a little tune, encrypt it with WEP, and then sue them to prevent them from presenting their findings under the premise that it is an illegal code-breaking program designed to deprive us of our rights under the DCMA.
Funny.. when minority kids go shooting up schools, it must be something in their environment. It's the gangs. It's the drug laden inner city. It's those darn minority parents, not raising their kids properly. It's single moms.
When little suburban white kids start going psycho, everyone starts looking for big "societal" problems. It's the violence in the media. It's the video games. It's movies, and tv. What is this strange new factor that's suddenly affecting "all our kids"?
Right. How about we start looking at what, specifically, is the problem with predominantly white, suburban, teenagers and their culture of cliques and social ostracism?
One pass wiping method. Gather very long strip of toilet paper. Peferably without peforations. Place between checks. Floss unidirectionally until clean.
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The statistical anomaly is merely proof of divine intervention in the election results.
Yes, I suspect that it was what they call a Century plant.
Reminds me of an Agave plant we had out behind our house.
For my entire childhood it was just this big spiky Aloe like bush behind the house. About 5 feet tall. Then one time when I was in my late 20's it grew this absolutely gigantic spike about the height of a telephone pole, flowered, and then produced hundreds of little budding plantlets that fell off and took root. The original plant then promptly died.
Bwahahaha..
I wonder how many people on slashdot get this joke.
(or to have sat there waiting for Elite to load. From tape.)
9600?? I found anything higher than 2400 to be a major pain because the data compression made the text come out in packets instead of a continuous stream, which made it much harder to read.
Speedread 300baud? Are you kidding? That was way too slow. I remember how happy I was when 1200 came out, because the bulletin boards I read were 'one key' compatible. That is, you could log in, and then just hit the space bar and go through ALL the new messages posted, and since i could read at modem speed, it was like direct download into your head.
Realism??? How about making it so that tools how jump up and down constantly to get everywhere get killed quickly like the hopping little bunnies they are.
You can always tell a HL/CS player on another game because they move like freaking rabbits. Every time you shoot at them they start jumping up and down.
I hope they fix that horrible scene of the female replicant running through the glass windows. The one where they used a stunt double that looks NOTHING like the actress (Think guy in drag bad).
I've been carrying one of these around for the last 6 months or so, and while it has its flaws, it's still a great device to have.
When I'm wandering around with a baby/toddler strapped to me/in tow, the last thing I need to be lugging around is more stuff, even the lightest of laptops, nor do I want to carry anything as fragile or expensive as a laptop.
On the other hand, all the coffee shops around here are temptingly WiFi enabled, and there are a plethora of open networks around.
Having this device comfortably stowed in my pocket means that I can get some surfing and email in while the little guy takes his naps, just about wherever and whenever that happens to be. If I'm out of range of an open Wifi network, bluetooth to the cellphone works just as well.
It might not be a desktop browser, but it absolutely beats the pants off of ANY browser running on a cellphone, and the 800 pixel wide screen is enough to open webpages without side scrolling.
The email client sucks. I've been using webmail which works just as well until the software update comes out.
This is not a consumer level device yet. I would probably best describe it as an open beta-test. But for the price and convenience it's a great thing to have around if you know how to work with it. That, and it can run nethack.
http://www.geocities.com/pronto4u/applemouse.html
Done.
What I really miss from the old-school days is the *nix talk command. Yes I know people still use it, but I really find it striking how much contextual information can be carried in visually watching someone type characters out one by one and correcting their errors in real time. It really is different from the "compose and hit return" method most protocols use these days, and I find it really makes the interaction more like a conversation. Especially since you can both be typing and be reading things at the same time which is much like talking over each other.
Doesn't anybody remember the dog from the old animated Inspector Gadget series? I think his name was 'Brain'. Sounds like his collar.
Umm... Yeah.. That's why you see the special forces teams running around everywhere frantically whilst jumping up and down continuously...
The difference you're seeing with glasses is due to the ABBE number of the materials.
Glass has the best ABBE numbers , but most people these days go for plastic lenses. The cheap CR-39 lenses actually have the best rating of the plastics, but they're also big, thick, and heavy. My guess is that a lot of people are wearing polycarbonate lenses, because they're light, have a relatively high index, and are VERY impact resistant. Downside? Really crappy ABBE number. I just switched to trivex lenses which have a slightly better ABBE number and there is a noticeable difference. (similar to polycarb in safety and thickness, can be drilled for rimless frames, but much better lens characteristics)
First of all, the camera does have a lens-cover. With 2 megapixels, the resolution is much higher than 320x200, I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from.
There are lots of people out there who have big pockets to carry around these things. (Both literally and figuratively.) Medical professionals for instance. The 2megapixel camera is a good enough resolution to take photos large enough to blow up for powerpoint slides, making this one an ideal companion for carrying around, using for drug/med references, taking pictures of x-rays, wounds, etc, along with typed commentary and then downloading them to a pc via bluetooth for putting into computer presentations and such.
Yes this is interesting. But really now, it appears that posting the headlines from the current month's issue of Wired is what passes for front page worthy news these days? Is there really so little going on the the world? That issue has been on the stands for at least two weeks now and that has to be the third or fourth front page item from it over the last week. Does it take that long to read through the issue and find the interesting bits? Perhaps we should just have a periodical posting titled: "Here are the headlines from the current issue of Wired."
Nice. I really appreciate how the bad kid and the bad father who approves of porno and has sex with little girls are black, and the good christian kid and the good christian parents are white. Subtext anyone?
Since the Macnn forums seem to be slashdotted, I tracked this down at macosxhints.com /Applications/Utilities/) and type: /library/preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist
/dict
Now then, onto the hack! First, open up the Terminal application (found in
sudo pico
(you'll need to enter your admin password in order to proceed).
Move the cursor down below the first dict tag, and paste the following text in:
keyBackingCompression/key
dict
keycompressionScanTime/key
real5.000000000000000e+00/real&# 062;
keyminCompressableSize/key
integer8193/integer
keyminCompressionRatio/key
real1.100000023841858e+00/real&# 062;
Then hit Control-X to exit pico (hitting the Y key to save the changes before exiting when it asks you), then log out and back in again, and ta da! Compressed window buffers. Enjoy...
Ah.. But can you use the phone as an external GPS device? i.e, can it out put NMEA data for use with a palm or other handheld as an external GPS reciever? Now that would be useful.
I've figured out how to save WEP. All we have to do is stop those damned scientists from posting their findings. So all we have to do compose a little tune, encrypt it with WEP, and then sue them to prevent them from presenting their findings under the premise that it is an illegal code-breaking program designed to deprive us of our rights under the DCMA.
Funny.. when minority kids go shooting up schools, it must be something in their environment. It's the gangs. It's the drug laden inner city. It's those darn minority parents, not raising their kids properly. It's single moms. When little suburban white kids start going psycho, everyone starts looking for big "societal" problems. It's the violence in the media. It's the video games. It's movies, and tv. What is this strange new factor that's suddenly affecting "all our kids"? Right. How about we start looking at what, specifically, is the problem with predominantly white, suburban, teenagers and their culture of cliques and social ostracism?
One pass wiping method. Gather very long strip of toilet paper. Peferably without peforations. Place between checks. Floss unidirectionally until clean.