If confusing Linux and FreeBSD is such a problem, how about all those ignorant programmers who answered "FreeBSD" when asked what Linux distro they use. Boy are THEY pathetic losers.
Kudos to Taco for taking a crappy situation and making the best of it.
I echo his call for people to write to there rep/sentor; remmeber: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Check out the Linux Router Project. It will boot from a floppy, and the mailing list is great. The pcmcia support is not as off-the-shelf as it could/will be, but it has been done. Or just use a regular distro (but read about the security of LRP first...)
The people who say that THEY would rather use your laptop than see you use it for a router, or that it is worth more as a laptop than an old P75 desktop, etc, are missing an important point: you HAVE the laptop, and you don't HAVE the desktop. Sure, you could sell your laptop on eBay, then buy a reconditiond PC on eBay, then you ship off your laptop, and someone else ships you the desktop, but the transaction cost (in dollars, time, and agravation) are almost certainly worth more than the extra potential value of the laptop. Of course if one of you wants to drive to this guys house, swap your desktop for his laptop, and hand him some cash to boot, that's different...
I'm pretty sure your wrong: Detriot/Munich/Tokyo is also working on hydrogen powered cars. It may take them a while to convince me that I'll be ok driving around with a mini Hindenburg in my trunk though!
That's cool. Of course most employers also say you can only use company resources for company business. I didn't get the sense that these guys are looking for a place to work after they leave work.
In the era of broadband, the home solution may be the best for the most people...
It is not all that hard to imagine a situation in which a user's use-patterns could be learned or programmed, so that if the user starts typing numbers, perhaps s/he is trying to make a phone call (yeah, through the computer;-), and if s/he types "mail to cmdrtaco..." then the computer should figure out that the user wants to type an email, launch the mail client, parse what has already been typed. If the text is ambiguous, the machine would have to ask what the heck you're doing. As someone wiser than me has pointed out, this is almost like going back to the command prompt days, where you type at a prompt to launch an app. Maybe it is.
It should be said that this would be MUCH more sophisticated than the annoying paperclip in Word and Excel That says "It looks like you're writing a suicide Note. Would you like to shoot yourself, or use pills?" (also not an original idea, but I don't remember where I saw THAT either!))
The problem with your argument is that the vast majority of smokers started smoking when they were children. By "Children" I mean tean-agers, which will probably annoy many/.ers, but it's the truth (no pun intended): 15 year olds are not the best decision makers in the world when under the influence of peer pressure.
I hear you saying, "Can't Quite! Of course they can quit if they WANT to!". Here's a quick biology lesson: nicotine is a good substitute for dopamine, a synaptic transmitter in your brain. If you supply nicotine to your brain then your brain will slow production of dopamine. If you quit smoking and stop supplying nicotine your brain doesn't work as well, which is why some people (those who use their brains) have a hard time quitting.
What you SHOULD have said is that tabaco comapnies won't change there product as long as they can get enough children addicted each year, which is why they use cartoon characters and trading card to market their products.
Tell the telemarketer, "Hold on..." put the phone down and walk away. Every few minutes return and say, "just another second..."
Say "Hold on" to the telemarketer, hold the phone at arm's length, and scream (as if to someone else in the room with you), "I told you to shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch. Now cut it out or I'll hit you again!"
I have to offer another view about CGI, particularly as it relates to previous posts concerning Jurassic Park (SP?) I thought those raptors in the Kitchen were VERY realistic (having willingly suspended disbelief...). Those weren't robots were they?
I have a visor deluxe, while a colleague has a new palm. Based a very unscientific experiment we seemed to find that a small java app running with the KVM and KVMUtil was faster on the Palm than the Handspring (but ALL java apps are deathly slow on the Palm OS anyway).
Has anyone had a similar experience? I would have expected the performance to be pretty much the same (given similar configurations, obviously...)
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If confusing Linux and FreeBSD is such a problem, how about all those ignorant programmers who answered "FreeBSD" when asked what Linux distro they use. Boy are THEY pathetic losers.
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This certainly adds a new dimension to recent /. discussions about what, exactly, you get when you pay for an expensive certificate!!
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Kudos to Taco for taking a crappy situation and making the best of it.
I echo his call for people to write to there rep/sentor; remmeber: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Check out the Linux Router Project. It will boot from a floppy, and the mailing list is great. The pcmcia support is not as off-the-shelf as it could/will be, but it has been done. Or just use a regular distro (but read about the security of LRP first...)
The people who say that THEY would rather use your laptop than see you use it for a router, or that it is worth more as a laptop than an old P75 desktop, etc, are missing an important point: you HAVE the laptop, and you don't HAVE the desktop. Sure, you could sell your laptop on eBay, then buy a reconditiond PC on eBay, then you ship off your laptop, and someone else ships you the desktop, but the transaction cost (in dollars, time, and agravation) are almost certainly worth more than the extra potential value of the laptop. Of course if one of you wants to drive to this guys house, swap your desktop for his laptop, and hand him some cash to boot, that's different...
Good luck!
I'm pretty sure your wrong: Detriot/Munich/Tokyo is also working on hydrogen powered cars. It may take them a while to convince me that I'll be ok driving around with a mini Hindenburg in my trunk though!
uh... it said 90mph...
That's cool. Of course most employers also say you can only use company resources for company business. I didn't get the sense that these guys are looking for a place to work after they leave work. In the era of broadband, the home solution may be the best for the most people...
It is not all that hard to imagine a situation in which a user's use-patterns could be learned or programmed, so that if the user starts typing numbers, perhaps s/he is trying to make a phone call (yeah, through the computer ;-), and if s/he types "mail to cmdrtaco..." then the computer should figure out that the user wants to type an email, launch the mail client, parse what has already been typed. If the text is ambiguous, the machine would have to ask what the heck you're doing.
As someone wiser than me has pointed out, this is almost like going back to the command prompt days, where you type at a prompt to launch an app. Maybe it is.
It should be said that this would be MUCH more sophisticated than the annoying paperclip in Word and Excel That says "It looks like you're writing a suicide Note. Would you like to shoot yourself, or use pills?" (also not an original idea, but I don't remember where I saw THAT either!))
I just wanted something short and easy to spell...
I hear you saying, "Can't Quite! Of course they can quit if they WANT to!".
Here's a quick biology lesson: nicotine is a good substitute for dopamine, a synaptic transmitter in your brain. If you supply nicotine to your brain then your brain will slow production of dopamine. If you quit smoking and stop supplying nicotine your brain doesn't work as well, which is why some people (those who use their brains) have a hard time quitting.
What you SHOULD have said is that tabaco comapnies won't change there product as long as they can get enough children addicted each year, which is why they use cartoon characters and trading card to market their products.
This can't set any kind of legal precedent; its only a press release.
I have to offer another view about CGI, particularly as it relates to previous posts concerning Jurassic Park (SP?) I thought those raptors in the Kitchen were VERY realistic (having willingly suspended disbelief...). Those weren't robots were they?
>>-- Mark Hamill (The guy who played Luke Skywalker)
Who's Luke Skywalker?
I have a visor deluxe, while a colleague has a new palm. Based a very unscientific experiment we seemed to find that a small java app running with the KVM and KVMUtil was faster on the Palm than the Handspring (but ALL java apps are deathly slow on the Palm OS anyway). Has anyone had a similar experience? I would have expected the performance to be pretty much the same (given similar configurations, obviously...)