Hitachi will sell water-pump cooling for notebooks
Imagine you're using a notebook with water cooling in a public place and it somehow starts leaking. You suddenly have hot water running all over you and when you stand up you somehow have to explain how that big wet spot got on your pants in the first place...
Music is a very important part. I always need something playing in the background - silence is absolutely killing me. It seems that the best kind of music for programming is something without any lyrics, because they tend to draw you attention from the problem. My personal choice is electronic music - techno, drum&bass,... . I have lots of live sets from various DJs (hawtin, liebing, umek, cox, ishino..) and listen to them all the time. Instrumental heavy metal and classical music also work just fine.
The "BLIND DATA" seems like a fun idea at first, but if you think for a moment: every time a good-looking gal/guy would step on the bus, the whole bus would start vibrating.
it sure would be nice every time hemos calls me from the discotheque
Still, this is just a one-way solution. You will be able to hear the person talking in the crowd, but how will the person on the other end be able to hear anything? Will the phone be able to display the message in the form of text or something similar? Or will it just make funny faces at you?:)
What I find most interesting about Mozilla is in how may ways it can be used. Just look at all the different projects using Moz engine, like text/programming editors, irc clients, media players, and others. A really interesting piece of work. You can find a lot of Moz-based projects at Mozdev.org
It's great to see that they are on schedule (finally;). I remember the "old times", when I downloaded my first mozilla build. I believe it was early '99. I didn't really know ehat exacty mozilla was back then and I completely freaked out after seeing how my homepage was rendered (not much worked back then). But that made me do some more reading about Moz and now I'm a proud user of this web lizard.:)
gobeProductive is a single office application (i.e., integrated) that does the job of five standalones: word processing, spreadsheets, image manipulation (photo manipulation), graphics (image creation), and presentations
Corel Draw always got bashed for having more features than needed in one app. How come this is suddenly considered a good thing?
Why is everyone treating Office XP like it is the best thing that ever happened to office apps? It almost drove me insane. Little icons popping up all over the text - without clicking on anything, those docked dialogs appearing on both sides of the document when least needed, dynamic toolbars that never seem to stay docked... I was glad it was just a 30day trial and I re-installed Office 2000 a few days later.
I really have to try some of the alternative office apps. Tried StarOffice beta on Linux. Liked it a lot.:)
I own an Omnibook 6000 (HP) and the only thing manufactured by HP are the casing and the nametag, but I'm not even sure about that. But I do know that it must be a really expensive nametag, since, as a student, I got mine for almost 50% off, and even then it cost as much as other "regular" laptops (8 months ago). *ouch* The hard drive is Hitachi, ethernet by 3Com, sound card by ESS, Intel CPU, Touch pad by Synaptics, Sanyo battery, Toshiba DVD drive, ATI graphics card... not sure about RAM & MoBo though.
I'm also using Apple Pro Keyboard. Works great with PCs. Just a few days ago I had to take it apart to clean it, since dust collecting inside is visible through the transparant plastic it is made of. That was when I discovered that the insides of APK are manufactured by Mitsumi, which is otherwise known as manufacturer of the cheapest components for PCs. While APK does look great and it does have 2 USB ports on it, this still does not make up for almost 12x price increase.
I just hope I won't be so poor I'll still be using a DVD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-Etc for another 100 years. Afterall, I'm still using one of the original Soundblaster 16 cards that is about 10 years old and is now in it's 4th machine.
This is different, since all you need for your soundblaster to work is a compatible slot in your computer and drivers, which are also not very hard to get. Also, your soundblaster doesn't carry any important data. When it becomes obsolete you just buy a new one. On the other hand, there is still no standard for (re)writable DVD's, which means that the companies might stop producing drives that can read your discs in just a few months or years. What do you do if the industry accepts a new, non DVD compatible standard?
Take a look at an older slashdot story: 1086 Domesday Book Outlives 1986 Electronic Rival
It's about how some laser disc created 15 years ago cannot be read by any technology available today. What if something like that happens with DVDs?
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Hitachi will sell water-pump cooling for notebooks
Imagine you're using a notebook with water cooling in a public place and it somehow starts leaking. You suddenly have hot water running all over you and when you stand up you somehow have to explain how that big wet spot got on your pants in the first place...
Music is a very important part. I always need something playing in the background - silence is absolutely killing me. ... . I have lots of live sets from various DJs (hawtin, liebing, umek, cox, ishino..) and listen to them all the time. Instrumental heavy metal and classical music also work just fine.
It seems that the best kind of music for programming is something without any lyrics, because they tend to draw you attention from the problem. My personal choice is electronic music - techno, drum&bass,
What Turns You Off About Evaluation Software?
You've got a real problem when evaluation software turns you on...
OOOOH, baby... 30 day trial... hot!
Maybe we could "attack" everyone with outlook express/IE patches, so we finally stop recieving all those self forwarding worms in our e-mail.
there is a good chance that the spacecraft's batteries (weighing 33lbs each) may reach the ground intact
If I'm lucky I won't have to buy that extra laptop battery...
Your "Blind Data" suddenly starts vibrating. You look around, locate the girl that you think should be your match, walk up to her and say:
My you-know-what started vibrating in my pants as soon as I saw you...
Two days later, when you come out of coma, you painfuly realise that she was not the one with the other vibrating "thingie".
The "BLIND DATA" seems like a fun idea at first, but if you think for a moment: every time a good-looking gal/guy would step on the bus, the whole bus would start vibrating.
Will pointing the phone in someone else's direction enable you to eavesdrop on their conversation?
it sure would be nice every time hemos calls me from the discotheque
:)
Still, this is just a one-way solution. You will be able to hear the person talking in the crowd, but how will the person on the other end be able to hear anything? Will the phone be able to display the message in the form of text or something similar? Or will it just make funny faces at you?
Only 6 yrs old and ready to take on the world! ;)
What I find most interesting about Mozilla is in how may ways it can be used. Just look at all the different projects using Moz engine, like text/programming editors, irc clients, media players, and others. A really interesting piece of work. You can find a lot of Moz-based projects at Mozdev.org
It's great to see that they are on schedule (finally ;). I remember the "old times", when I downloaded my first mozilla build. I believe it was early '99. I didn't really know ehat exacty mozilla was back then and I completely freaked out after seeing how my homepage was rendered (not much worked back then). But that made me do some more reading about Moz and now I'm a proud user of this web lizard. :)
They grow up so fast... it brings tears to my eyes
*snif*
Could we, for a change, try slashdotting the spammers instead of those trying to fight them?
gobeProductive is a single office application (i.e., integrated) that does the job of five standalones: word processing, spreadsheets, image manipulation (photo manipulation), graphics (image creation), and presentations
Corel Draw always got bashed for having more features than needed in one app. How come this is suddenly considered a good thing?
Why is everyone treating Office XP like it is the best thing that ever happened to office apps? It almost drove me insane. Little icons popping up all over the text - without clicking on anything, those docked dialogs appearing on both sides of the document when least needed, dynamic toolbars that never seem to stay docked... I was glad it was just a 30day trial and I re-installed Office 2000 a few days later.
:)
I really have to try some of the alternative office apps. Tried StarOffice beta on Linux. Liked it a lot.
gobeProductive 3.0 - Office XP killer?
No, but it is a very likely StarOffice 6 killer...
I own an Omnibook 6000 (HP) and the only thing manufactured by HP are the casing and the nametag, but I'm not even sure about that. But I do know that it must be a really expensive nametag, since, as a student, I got mine for almost 50% off, and even then it cost as much as other "regular" laptops (8 months ago). *ouch* The hard drive is Hitachi, ethernet by 3Com, sound card by ESS, Intel CPU, Touch pad by Synaptics, Sanyo battery, Toshiba DVD drive, ATI graphics card... not sure about RAM & MoBo though.
I'm also using Apple Pro Keyboard. Works great with PCs. Just a few days ago I had to take it apart to clean it, since dust collecting inside is visible through the transparant plastic it is made of. That was when I discovered that the insides of APK are manufactured by Mitsumi, which is otherwise known as manufacturer of the cheapest components for PCs. While APK does look great and it does have 2 USB ports on it, this still does not make up for almost 12x price increase.
Police! This is an emergency! I am being attacked by a UFO with a color monitor!
Games for SED? Now I've seen everything. So what's next? Textmode quake 2?
You have the keyboard projected on you desk and your cat comes running by, stepping on the keys...
[Ctrl] + a
[Del]
[Ctrl] + s
...dead cat.
Now, lemme see Siemens make virtual projected phones!
Driving down the street...
What's that sign?
*click* (take a photo)
*CRASH! BOOOM!*
Translation comes in: "STOP" sign
Windows XP is Listening
;)
Well, duh! First it's listening and then it "phones home".
You didn't belive it was deaf, did you? How could it use the phone?
I just hope I won't be so poor I'll still be using a DVD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-Etc for another 100 years. Afterall, I'm still using one of the original Soundblaster 16 cards that is about 10 years old and is now in it's 4th machine.
This is different, since all you need for your soundblaster to work is a compatible slot in your computer and drivers, which are also not very hard to get. Also, your soundblaster doesn't carry any important data. When it becomes obsolete you just buy a new one. On the other hand, there is still no standard for (re)writable DVD's, which means that the companies might stop producing drives that can read your discs in just a few months or years. What do you do if the industry accepts a new, non DVD compatible standard?
Take a look at an older slashdot story: 1086 Domesday Book Outlives 1986 Electronic Rival
It's about how some laser disc created 15 years ago cannot be read by any technology available today. What if something like that happens with DVDs?