I don't think this thing has a burner in it. The site says that you can "record your CDs", but I think that is referring more to the ability to rip them to MP3/WMA.
Ximian has a bit to say about this in their support pages. The gist of it is that they give mad propz to Slack users, and give instructions on how to convert things over to a Slack-friendly format.
Well, the article says it's GSM 900/1900, so for a lot of the US that means Voicestream. I get switched over to PacBell when I travel to L.A., so that's probably the option in California.
As another poster pointed out, it does look a lot like an integrated VisorPhone (also GSM), so you could probably use the service lookup utility on the Visor Phone page (which also mentions that Cingular is a provider).
1. This demographic (and I'm in disagreement with a poster elsewhere in this thread) are the sort of people who aren't likely to know/care/complain about the technical/moral/legal issues involved. These are gonna be kids with home stereos and car stereos who aren't going to notice the fact it doesn't play in computers.
2. It IS a big-name band.
The cumulative affect of these 2 is going to be the label saying "Hey - we sold a bajillion of these discs and didn't get a single complaint! Full steam ahead!"
That's my theory, anyway, but it sounds pretty damn good. I've yet to meet a teenage girl who compulsively ripped all her discs to 192bit.ogg files.
Darn tootin'. The company I work for has a product with fairly low distribution numbers, but frequent changes as new features are developed. It makes no sense to get our release discs professionally mastered (even the companies that target smaller press numbers usually set 300-500 as a minimum order - way more than we need) but getting some blank CD-Rs professionally silk-screened with a our logo and product name still gives us a sharp-looking product to send our customers.
If we're forced to shell out extra money to create a product that we have every right to distribute, well, we'll be a little put out.
The school headlined in the article is a private charter school in Fort Collins, CO (and, incidentally, is about 5 blocks from my office!).
As another poster mentioned, it makes a lot of sense for schools to lean toward *NIX, since it *is* what a pile of universities use and teach CS in (including Colorado State U. in Ft. Collins).
Being a recent college graduate, I consider myself an expert on the local varieties of available pizza.
After 4 years of hard-pressed study of the topic, an incidentally getting a BS in comp. sci., I think Papa John's is pretty high at the top of the national-brand rankings. Garlic butter sauce... mmmm...
I'll concede, though, that local is almost always better than mass-produced national (microbreweries, for example - www.newbelgium.com, vs. Coors Light).
The technology's a bit different than what's mentioned in the article, but boy - those Martin Logan's sound nice. And I like the big impressive-looking sub-woofer cabinets that go with them. Small (like the Bose cubes) is cool, but big and impressive gets the chicks.
I think you're throwing a red herring into this whole mess.
For whatever reason, there's a HAM radio tradition in the hacker community. Half the fun of playing with a radio is to twiddle the dial and see what interesting things you can come across floating in the air. Come on, everyone who owns a police-band scanner please raise your hand.
This has been mentioned in a few posts above, but let's not forget that China does have missles pointed at us. Consider that with a sysadmin's view: there's an obviously hostile person/corporation out there who doesn't have the best reputation for being a nice guy. Tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't try your damndest to find out all you could about them.
Speaking as a US citizen, I think our president has done a pretty good job handling this so far. He realizes (unlike certain other parties harrum-Mr. Clinton-mmph) that words do mean something. I doubt that a person who waffles around on the definition of "is" would really understand the meaning behind "apology".
Flashing lights and expantions slot are great bells and whistles, but other than that, I see no major differences.
Trust me - that 33MHz Dragonball makes a difference on your apps. I've got a Visor Platinum (same powerplant as the Edge, just a bulkier box) and it blows away a Palm Vx when I'm doing text searches on huge documents. The 33MHz unit takes about 6 seconds to do a search through >1500 (printed version) pages, while the 16MHz Vx takes 10-15 for the same search.
Tragically, though, it actually runs too fast for some of the games out there (i.e. try to turn left just a hair and you've spun halfway around by the time you can get your finger off the button). Oh, well.
Funny, the biggest complaint I've heard about *nix is that it's not wordy enough. I believe the UNIX for Dummies book accused many of the original designers of being "lazy typists."
This could be the start of a new religious issue: leave "rm -rf" as is, or alias it to "delete everything omigodno! wait...";-)
-Phil
p.s. - this is probably the best topic for all those "programmers are so caught up by the fact that they can that they don't consider if they should sigs...
...that they expressly reserve the right to terminate your dad's service if he's not giving them enough cycles/callouts/on-time:
"...and that any interference with the operation of the Computational Software (including, but not limited to, any failure to leave your computer turned on at all times) may result in termination or limitation of your use of the Service."
(from the bottom of section 2.5)
That sort of puts the kibosh on your dad's current computer-use lifestyle, if I read legalese correctly.
-phil
Sigs aren't worth the paper they aren't printed on.
1. Los Angeles city generates most of its own power with its city-owned utilities, and as such, really isn't suffering in the current crisis.
2. There is no threat of blackouts in So Cal at the moment, even in those area not covered by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Not so - my brother at Harvey Mudd College, just outside of LA in Claremont, is routinely w/out power for most of the day.
I find it quite ironic that an engineering college can't get enough power to keep computers/lights/hot H2O on for its students
Never attribute to malevolence that which can be attributed to sheer stupidity.
Denver International Airport has already widely embraced this style of music. On the train that runs between the terminal and the concourses, whenever you reach a stop it plays this little burst of music that I *swear* has to be a cut from some original Nintendo game. There's also an accompanying voice-over that says "Welcome to Concourse __" that would strongly benefit from a James Earl Jones-esque "This... is Concourse __" a'la CNN. Think about it - how did those pirates fit 16 men on a dead man's chest?
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Ah, Max Headroom. Man, I miss that show.
I don't think this thing has a burner in it. The site says that you can "record your CDs", but I think that is referring more to the ability to rip them to MP3/WMA.
-PhilMills
-PhilMills
...if you'd just read the article.
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It's USB. Win95 or WinNT can't deal with USB in any reasonable fashion. Win2K supports USB just fine.
Y'know, WinME was based on Win98 was based on Win95, so, by process of elimination, it looks like it'll only work on Macs.
PhilMills
-Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, will be taken out of context and posted on
Opera 5.12 reporting as MSIE or Mozilla 5 gets blocked on my Win2K box.
Netscape 4.77 and IE5.50 both get passed through but there's a lot of content on the MSN page that looks... uncompliant.
-philmills
As another poster pointed out, it does look a lot like an integrated VisorPhone (also GSM), so you could probably use the service lookup utility on the Visor Phone page (which also mentions that Cingular is a provider).
-phil
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-phil
The amazing Chris Condon at dumbentia.com already thought of that joke:
;)
http://www.dumbentia.com/pdflib/scissors.pdf
"Running with Scissors" takes on a whole new meaning
-phil
1. This demographic (and I'm in disagreement with a poster elsewhere in this thread) are the sort of people who aren't likely to know/care/complain about the technical/moral/legal issues involved. These are gonna be kids with home stereos and car stereos who aren't going to notice the fact it doesn't play in computers.
2. It IS a big-name band.
The cumulative affect of these 2 is going to be the label saying "Hey - we sold a bajillion of these discs and didn't get a single complaint! Full steam ahead!"
That's my theory, anyway, but it sounds pretty damn good. I've yet to meet a teenage girl who compulsively ripped all her discs to 192bit .ogg files.
-phil
If we're forced to shell out extra money to create a product that we have every right to distribute, well, we'll be a little put out.
PhilMills
As another poster mentioned, it makes a lot of sense for schools to lean toward *NIX, since it *is* what a pile of universities use and teach CS in (including Colorado State U. in Ft. Collins).
PhilMills
After 4 years of hard-pressed study of the topic, an incidentally getting a BS in comp. sci., I think Papa John's is pretty high at the top of the national-brand rankings. Garlic butter sauce... mmmm...
I'll concede, though, that local is almost always better than mass-produced national (microbreweries, for example - www.newbelgium.com, vs. Coors Light).
*ring* *ring*
You: Hello?
Cracker: Is your refrigerator running?
You: Yes, why?
Cracker: Not anymore! HA! Y00 B33N 0wn3D, D00D!
*click*
-Phil
phil
For whatever reason, there's a HAM radio tradition in the hacker community. Half the fun of playing with a radio is to twiddle the dial and see what interesting things you can come across floating in the air. Come on, everyone who owns a police-band scanner please raise your hand.
This has been mentioned in a few posts above, but let's not forget that China does have missles pointed at us. Consider that with a sysadmin's view: there's an obviously hostile person/corporation out there who doesn't have the best reputation for being a nice guy. Tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't try your damndest to find out all you could about them.
Speaking as a US citizen, I think our president has done a pretty good job handling this so far. He realizes (unlike certain other parties harrum-Mr. Clinton-mmph) that words do mean something. I doubt that a person who waffles around on the definition of "is" would really understand the meaning behind "apology".
Oops. My bad - that's 3M. Curse the "3*" regular expression. -phil
Phil
Y'know, if you open you mind too far, your brain'll fall out.
Trust me - that 33MHz Dragonball makes a difference on your apps. I've got a Visor Platinum (same powerplant as the Edge, just a bulkier box) and it blows away a Palm Vx when I'm doing text searches on huge documents. The 33MHz unit takes about 6 seconds to do a search through >1500 (printed version) pages, while the 16MHz Vx takes 10-15 for the same search.
Tragically, though, it actually runs too fast for some of the games out there (i.e. try to turn left just a hair and you've spun halfway around by the time you can get your finger off the button). Oh, well.
-Phil
Funny, the biggest complaint I've heard about *nix is that it's not wordy enough. I believe the UNIX for Dummies book accused many of the original designers of being "lazy typists."
This could be the start of a new religious issue: leave "rm -rf" as is, or alias it to "delete everything omigodno! wait..." ;-)
-Phil
p.s. - this is probably the best topic for all those "programmers are so caught up by the fact that they can that they don't consider if they should sigs...
"...and that any interference with the operation of the Computational Software (including, but not limited to, any failure to leave your computer turned on at all times) may result in termination or limitation of your use of the Service." (from the bottom of section 2.5)
That sort of puts the kibosh on your dad's current computer-use lifestyle, if I read legalese correctly.
-phil
Sigs aren't worth the paper they aren't printed on.
Not so - my brother at Harvey Mudd College, just outside of LA in Claremont, is routinely w/out power for most of the day.
I find it quite ironic that an engineering college can't get enough power to keep computers/lights/hot H2O on for its students
Never attribute to malevolence that which can be attributed to sheer stupidity.
Denver International Airport has already widely embraced this style of music. On the train that runs between the terminal and the concourses, whenever you reach a stop it plays this little burst of music that I *swear* has to be a cut from some original Nintendo game. There's also an accompanying voice-over that says "Welcome to Concourse __" that would strongly benefit from a James Earl Jones-esque "This... is Concourse __" a'la CNN. Think about it - how did those pirates fit 16 men on a dead man's chest?