You know, looking at what you guys all write about the laptop and about me, I have to say you people are kind of mean. No, really. The recipient was very happy with it, and it was fun to do.
I would like it noted that I never submitted this a case mod, and have never claimed anything about it. And if my Halloween costume makes your lunch come back up, get help for your gastrointestinal disorder.
Meanwhile, my latest mod did indeed work when I delivered it to the offices that requested it. It may be in the pages of the next issue of Popular Science.
And the first time, you PHKL gawkers created 30 MB of traffic in 20 days, and my provider thre me off. Now I am on a metered provider, and you people are probably going to cost me a fortune.
chrisd could have just fucking asked first, and given me a chance to say no. It's not like my email isn't at the bottom of the page
You have no idea how necessay this is. At least once every fortnight for the past two years I have been getting email from people with addresses like "GliteerGRRRRL@aol.com" or "SmithFamily@aol.com" that goes like
"I MUST have that Hello Kitty Laptop! How much does it cost? How do I order?"
I am curt while polite, but it is getting on my nerves.
If the box gave feedback, people would very quickly compenstate to insert subtelty back and modulate the output just like they want to have it. The speech system is amazing that way, as you prove every time you manage to stay completly intelligible when speaking while chewing.
When I once asked a linguist friend about this on an unrelated topic, he leaned over the table and put his thumb and index finger on the outer corners of my lower lip, and then pinched them together to immobilize it. "Speak," he said. It was wierd but I sounded near normal in less than three words.
Um, he's sure to have lost weight in these two weeks, but the biggest quest isn't getting weight off, it is keeping it off. Doing a course like this may be a great kick-start and motivator, but its his and other overweight peoples habits that will keep it off and allow you to lose even more.
What he lost now actually doesn't count that much. The question is whether he gained discipline and a habit he can sustain, perhaps by believeing more in himself or looking forward to the next course. If not, then this is just a gimmick, a fun ride, something for jock(ette)s to do as a lark.
Personally, I recoiled in horror as I read this. I can't run, it simply does not work for me. But I lift, and have learned to enjoy it, and the habit is keeping me somewhat on the healthy side. Whatever works.
I find it shameful that people are willing to dismiss or hide their difference from those around them for fear of acceptance. What a boring place this would be if everyone felt that way!
You'd be a perfect polyanna, except for that little appeal to shame and guilt. Lovely touch, really.
If you ask me, anyone willing to give up uniqueness and individuality for comfort needs more help than nearly anyone I can think of.
Perhaps you could start out asking why people would put the trade-off at a different place than you. Let me answer that for you in my case: I often wished to do that so that I could feel safe and not get physically harmed. The world actually isn't a lovely place where uniqueness and differences are celebrated; when you take one good look you will see that many differences, like skin color, sexual orientation, social misfit, lonerism actually will predispose a person to aggression and harm.
It is perfectly allright for you to decide where your alignment between conformity and genius individuality lies, but your appeal to shame and dismissal as needing help of someone who makes their own choices basically come accross as an icky overlaying of your needs of creative expression of others over their own lives.
How else could you expect to really know yourself?
The struggle in adaptation can prove extremely enlightning. Do not presume to know the paths people other than you use to find themselves.
i'll be sure to dress up as "HIV-positive Harry" next halloween, complete with herpes bedsores
I think you should. I think it could create an insightful confrontation between you, the parish you belong to, and the religious teachings about tending to the sick and how one regards them. I hope you learn as much from it as I learned by dressing up as the Holy Mother and getting various reactions from it.
I work on four different computers all the time, some shared, some not. Do I want to set up wallets everywhere? What about my mobile phone, my wireless organizer, need I synchronize wallets there too? Bank terminals in different countries?
Where do they get clean liquid nitro? The people at Harvard Med or Harvard Public Health always tell me that the liquid N they work with always has ugly icky brown dusty crud at the bottom of the containers, and thus they'd never eat it.
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What is obvious, though, is that UD and Intel need to do a better job communicating these issues. They are both for profit companies, and UD's legalese in what cycles are going to be used for what, are not helping.
The license on the UD software is nothing noteworthy, and is the normal fare for any organization trying to conduct business with the benefit of legal input.
If you have faith in your client being good and nice, you don't need the legalese. Maybe you caved in to your lawyers too quickly, but it is never too late tp rethink that. If you want us to accept your client based on trust and faith, you have to show some trust and faith yourself in your client.
Well, maybe we can make this article useful then. Now that you have set the record straight, can you comments on why the source is closed? As you can see, opening the source would have alleviated many fears.
As a counterexample to this reasoning, I would like to submit the evidence of the EC having far grater consumer protection in the area of data-collection and -trafficking, while in the US it is perfectly ok to make a buck selling information people got wrong or blatantly made up about you.
If the USA is in a better position to protect its citizens over the whole of the EC, it certainly hasn't done so.
I'm sorry, but I find it kind of hard to up the level of discussion when it contains the underlying assumptions that you started off with. It includes the assumption that free speech as an absolute should be bought into wholesale or you will be branded a tyrant, instead of treating free speech as one of the forces balancing how to legally codify what is acceptable interaction - as even the United States does and always has. It includes the assumption that buying and selling Nazi memorabilia is a neutral activity or should be treated as such without moral or ethical dimensions or even a hint of a question about that. It includes the assumption that a trans-global network need not have respect for the laws created by democratically chosen legislators, that a country has no right to sovereignity in the face of the Internet. It includes the assumption that, somehow, questioning and examining this trafficking in objects of hate is by another country is morally akin to setting fire to the first ammendment, that a country that has democratically decided it does not want people to make a buck out of objects connected to utmost horror is something to automatically condemn.
Added to that is having to repeatedly confront in these discusions the notion that banning this form of 'speech' is a French ploy to wipe out the memories of the Third Reich, a notion so ludicrously ignorant of how European countries and cultures discuss and deal with the Occupation that as a European I find it acutely painful to watch.
I'm sorry, but with this kind of groundwork the deck is just stacked against having any kind of inquisitive or meaningful dialog. It started out as a flat form of anti-censorship chest-thumping without hinting at a shred of insight about the many dimensions of what was being thumped about. It all reads like the central thesis is about being majorly pissed off that those damn furriners are doing away with the notion of Free Speech because somehow, somewhere, somebody was not allowed to make that almighty dollar that is hir God-given damned birthright.
You want more, start by giving more. In the meantime, in face of this start, I bow out.
I wouldn't feel too bad about it. Really. Most of the 3G terminals displayed, especially the ones that look the least like phones, are actually of the 'injection-mold with a slapped-on photograph' variety. It's not like they are functional at all. I've seen many of these models trotted out at trade-show overviews over and over now.
It's not like there's a wireless network out there that can sustain video-calls. Even in Japan.
But the programmers with whom I hang out long to do something innovative and creative, to solve a problem that nobody has solved before.
The articles I put on my various Web sites are not intended to help people who just want to live a quiet comfortable life (I'm not an expert on this). They are intended to help young people turn into Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman or Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (Visicalc).
By making them create websites to sell dogfood faster? Wow.
The interesting thing about the three people you mention is that the core of their projects were not subordinate to somebody else's stock options or balance sheet.
It's obvious that he did play to win. He just had a different idea of what winning meant: to show you cannot impose your goals and values on someone else. Obviously you didn't get the message.
That begs the question whether Mars should be doing us any good at all. It can be asked whether everything we see should just be assumed to be ours to do as we wish.
Too bad most marketers don't get it and think WAP is supposed to be a WWW-lite. "Micro browser". "The internet in your pocket". "WAP brings mobility to games and entertainment".
Yup, that really sucks. You'd think usability guy like Jakob Nielsen would be able to see through that.
Also, 380kbps is coming and as soon as that happens, applications will want all the features that TCP/IP provides.
Ah yes.... "soon". And don't forget "everywhere".
Hold on to those words, tightly, as you click your heels three times.
I'm still dealing with the thought that devices roaming from network to network over these long thin pipes where 9k6 is a lot, should somehow have had TCP/IP deployed
And if Jacob Nielsen wanted to browse the web on the run, he should get a laptop. The idea with WAP is to deploy highly personal, highly targetted, highly compact information to the personal compact device people actually end up carrying. Too bad most developers don't get it and think WAP is supposed to be a WWW-lite.
These problems will be largely solved in the next generation of phones, and my prediction is that these will use TCP/IP, HTTP, IMAP, etc., just like any other net connected device. As such, WAP is a already deadin the water.
Only if you want to wait until these phones are depolyed. Hey, if you want to cede your market to people who are building up experience now until your perfect phone/network/operator combination emerges with significant coverage in, oh, 2004, then just you wait.
Others might want a head-start, though. And believe me, even by 2004 there are gonna be markets aplenty where trying to deploy TCP/IP will be met with laughter.
AFAIK, every last one of the problems noted in that article is being worked on as we speak{1} at many levels, from working on the next round of standards to implementing the current ones properly. Including end-to-end security, which, for example, is now being worked with by a PKI text-signing/crypting solution with the keys stored in the SIM cards, and Toolkits that will let WAP developers simulate and experiment with this.
It is too bad WAP wasn't a complete solution where everything was taken care of from the moment it was specced, just like the WWW had forms and https and dynamic content generation the instant it came out in 1993- oh wait, it didn't, did it? I am sorry, but these things just take time to get them right.
WAP standards themselves are exploding to take care of the objections voiced. We telco developers - Nokia here - moan and groan after each round of the WAP forum about what our browsers and Toolkits and gateways have to implement this time, yet we understand that the market needs these solutions, and we get to work. You will get push, you will get interoperability with your voice-mail and phone-calls and address-book, you will get styles and DOMs for your phones, current and 3G, you will get easy gateway-provisioning when you switch networks, you will get end-to-end security, and you will get it in a way that is not haphazardly cloned from the wired world but a way that makes sense for the networks and the devices and the way the bills get paid.
We also know that we aren't dealing with just one or two players like in the Netscape vs. IE world, but with a massive amount of browser- and gateway-makers, and that this time we have to make absolutly sure everything works together. Guess what: testing all this shit takes time. Believe me, you don't want to see our QA-matrix, nor the esoteric this-gateway-and-that-handset bugs we are chasing. We did learn from our first releases.
I am sorry you couldn't get it all in one fell swoop yesterday, a perfectly finished standard that did everything you needed, all with these 100% bug-free implementations. But we are working to get it to you now.
FJ!!
{1}Well, maybe not, it is time to sleep now in Hong Kong.
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You know, looking at what you guys all write about the laptop and about me, I have to say you people are kind of mean. No, really. The recipient was very happy with it, and it was fun to do.
I would like it noted that I never submitted this a case mod, and have never claimed anything about it. And if my Halloween costume makes your lunch come back up, get help for your gastrointestinal disorder.
Meanwhile, my latest mod did indeed work when I delivered it to the offices that requested it. It may be in the pages of the next issue of Popular Science.
And the first time, you PHKL gawkers created 30 MB of traffic in 20 days, and my provider thre me off. Now I am on a metered provider, and you people are probably going to cost me a fortune.
chrisd could have just fucking asked first, and given me a chance to say no. It's not like my email isn't at the bottom of the page
You have no idea how necessay this is. At least once every fortnight for the past two years I have been getting email from people with addresses like "GliteerGRRRRL@aol.com" or "SmithFamily@aol.com" that goes like
"I MUST have that Hello Kitty Laptop! How much does it cost? How do I order?"
I am curt while polite, but it is getting on my nerves.
Well, he said "no stickers and spraypaint" so I guess the PHKL me and my friend made doesn't qualify for his discriminating tastes.
Well bully for him if I ever show him the YZPL. Or the one WBAL I am working on now.
Hot Glue r0000000lz!
If the box gave feedback, people would very quickly compenstate to insert subtelty back and modulate the output just like they want to have it. The speech system is amazing that way, as you prove every time you manage to stay completly intelligible when speaking while chewing.
When I once asked a linguist friend about this on an unrelated topic, he leaned over the table and put his thumb and index finger on the outer corners of my lower lip, and then pinched them together to immobilize it. "Speak," he said. It was wierd but I sounded near normal in less than three words.
We adapt.
We brush our cats teeth every week. Honest. He hates it, but he is a very docile cat. I could butter him.
Um, he's sure to have lost weight in these two weeks, but the biggest quest isn't getting weight off, it is keeping it off. Doing a course like this may be a great kick-start and motivator, but its his and other overweight peoples habits that will keep it off and allow you to lose even more.
What he lost now actually doesn't count that much. The question is whether he gained discipline and a habit he can sustain, perhaps by believeing more in himself or looking forward to the next course. If not, then this is just a gimmick, a fun ride, something for jock(ette)s to do as a lark.
Personally, I recoiled in horror as I read this. I can't run, it simply does not work for me. But I lift, and have learned to enjoy it, and the habit is keeping me somewhat on the healthy side. Whatever works.
You'd be a perfect polyanna, except for that little appeal to shame and guilt. Lovely touch, really.
If you ask me, anyone willing to give up uniqueness and individuality for comfort needs more help than nearly anyone I can think of.
Perhaps you could start out asking why people would put the trade-off at a different place than you. Let me answer that for you in my case: I often wished to do that so that I could feel safe and not get physically harmed. The world actually isn't a lovely place where uniqueness and differences are celebrated; when you take one good look you will see that many differences, like skin color, sexual orientation, social misfit, lonerism actually will predispose a person to aggression and harm.
It is perfectly allright for you to decide where your alignment between conformity and genius individuality lies, but your appeal to shame and dismissal as needing help of someone who makes their own choices basically come accross as an icky overlaying of your needs of creative expression of others over their own lives.
How else could you expect to really know yourself? The struggle in adaptation can prove extremely enlightning. Do not presume to know the paths people other than you use to find themselves.
That's because I didn't. One of the things I learned is how much people want to read into it, like who was making fun of who.
on a person that brings comfort and hope to millions of people every day.I ended up bringing true comfort and hope through the experience. Doesn't that have you shaking in your boots? It was certainly amazing for me.
of course, you won't. you daren't leave your homosexual haven,
Which is why my email is right up there, and you are posting as an AC.
you see, i'm _polite_ and _courteous_You are a font of sig quotes.
i'll be sure to dress up as "HIV-positive Harry" next halloween, complete with herpes bedsores
I think you should. I think it could create an insightful confrontation between you, the parish you belong to, and the religious teachings about tending to the sick and how one regards them. I hope you learn as much from it as I learned by dressing up as the Holy Mother and getting various reactions from it.
I work on four different computers all the time, some shared, some not. Do I want to set up wallets everywhere? What about my mobile phone, my wireless organizer, need I synchronize wallets there too? Bank terminals in different countries?
Where do they get clean liquid nitro? The people at Harvard Med or Harvard Public Health always tell me that the liquid N they work with always has ugly icky brown dusty crud at the bottom of the containers, and thus they'd never eat it.
The license on the UD software is nothing noteworthy, and is the normal fare for any organization trying to conduct business with the benefit of legal input.
If you have faith in your client being good and nice, you don't need the legalese. Maybe you caved in to your lawyers too quickly, but it is never too late tp rethink that. If you want us to accept your client based on trust and faith, you have to show some trust and faith yourself in your client.
Well, maybe we can make this article useful then. Now that you have set the record straight, can you comments on why the source is closed? As you can see, opening the source would have alleviated many fears.
As a counterexample to this reasoning, I would like to submit the evidence of the EC having far grater consumer protection in the area of data-collection and -trafficking, while in the US it is perfectly ok to make a buck selling information people got wrong or blatantly made up about you.
If the USA is in a better position to protect its citizens over the whole of the EC, it certainly hasn't done so.
FJ!!
I'm sorry, but I find it kind of hard to up the level of discussion when it contains the underlying assumptions that you started off with. It includes the assumption that free speech as an absolute should be bought into wholesale or you will be branded a tyrant, instead of treating free speech as one of the forces balancing how to legally codify what is acceptable interaction - as even the United States does and always has. It includes the assumption that buying and selling Nazi memorabilia is a neutral activity or should be treated as such without moral or ethical dimensions or even a hint of a question about that. It includes the assumption that a trans-global network need not have respect for the laws created by democratically chosen legislators, that a country has no right to sovereignity in the face of the Internet. It includes the assumption that, somehow, questioning and examining this trafficking in objects of hate is by another country is morally akin to setting fire to the first ammendment, that a country that has democratically decided it does not want people to make a buck out of objects connected to utmost horror is something to automatically condemn.
Added to that is having to repeatedly confront in these discusions the notion that banning this form of 'speech' is a French ploy to wipe out the memories of the Third Reich, a notion so ludicrously ignorant of how European countries and cultures discuss and deal with the Occupation that as a European I find it acutely painful to watch.
I'm sorry, but with this kind of groundwork the deck is just stacked against having any kind of inquisitive or meaningful dialog. It started out as a flat form of anti-censorship chest-thumping without hinting at a shred of insight about the many dimensions of what was being thumped about. It all reads like the central thesis is about being majorly pissed off that those damn furriners are doing away with the notion of Free Speech because somehow, somewhere, somebody was not allowed to make that almighty dollar that is hir God-given damned birthright.
You want more, start by giving more. In the meantime, in face of this start, I bow out.
FJ!!
I wouldn't feel too bad about it. Really. Most of the 3G terminals displayed, especially the ones that look the least like phones, are actually of the 'injection-mold with a slapped-on photograph' variety. It's not like they are functional at all. I've seen many of these models trotted out at trade-show overviews over and over now.
It's not like there's a wireless network out there that can sustain video-calls. Even in Japan.
The articles I put on my various Web sites are not intended to help people who just want to live a quiet comfortable life (I'm not an expert on this). They are intended to help young people turn into Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman or Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston (Visicalc).
By making them create websites to sell dogfood faster? Wow.
The interesting thing about the three people you mention is that the core of their projects were not subordinate to somebody else's stock options or balance sheet.
It's obvious that he did play to win. He just had a different idea of what winning meant: to show you cannot impose your goals and values on someone else. Obviously you didn't get the message.
That begs the question whether Mars should be doing us any good at all. It can be asked whether everything we see should just be assumed to be ours to do as we wish.
Yup, that really sucks. You'd think usability guy like Jakob Nielsen would be able to see through that.
Ah yes.... "soon". And don't forget "everywhere". Hold on to those words, tightly, as you click your heels three times.
FJ!!
I'm still dealing with the thought that devices roaming from network to network over these long thin pipes where 9k6 is a lot, should somehow have had TCP/IP deployed
And if Jacob Nielsen wanted to browse the web on the run, he should get a laptop. The idea with WAP is to deploy highly personal, highly targetted, highly compact information to the personal compact device people actually end up carrying. Too bad most developers don't get it and think WAP is supposed to be a WWW-lite.
FJ!!
Only if you want to wait until these phones are depolyed. Hey, if you want to cede your market to people who are building up experience now until your perfect phone/network/operator combination emerges with significant coverage in, oh, 2004, then just you wait.
Others might want a head-start, though. And believe me, even by 2004 there are gonna be markets aplenty where trying to deploy TCP/IP will be met with laughter.
FJ!!
AFAIK, every last one of the problems noted in that article is being worked on as we speak{1} at many levels, from working on the next round of standards to implementing the current ones properly. Including end-to-end security, which, for example, is now being worked with by a PKI text-signing/crypting solution with the keys stored in the SIM cards, and Toolkits that will let WAP developers simulate and experiment with this.
It is too bad WAP wasn't a complete solution where everything was taken care of from the moment it was specced, just like the WWW had forms and https and dynamic content generation the instant it came out in 1993- oh wait, it didn't, did it? I am sorry, but these things just take time to get them right.
WAP standards themselves are exploding to take care of the objections voiced. We telco developers - Nokia here - moan and groan after each round of the WAP forum about what our browsers and Toolkits and gateways have to implement this time, yet we understand that the market needs these solutions, and we get to work. You will get push, you will get interoperability with your voice-mail and phone-calls and address-book, you will get styles and DOMs for your phones, current and 3G, you will get easy gateway-provisioning when you switch networks, you will get end-to-end security, and you will get it in a way that is not haphazardly cloned from the wired world but a way that makes sense for the networks and the devices and the way the bills get paid.
We also know that we aren't dealing with just one or two players like in the Netscape vs. IE world, but with a massive amount of browser- and gateway-makers, and that this time we have to make absolutly sure everything works together. Guess what: testing all this shit takes time. Believe me, you don't want to see our QA-matrix, nor the esoteric this-gateway-and-that-handset bugs we are chasing. We did learn from our first releases.
I am sorry you couldn't get it all in one fell swoop yesterday, a perfectly finished standard that did everything you needed, all with these 100% bug-free implementations. But we are working to get it to you now.
FJ!!
{1}Well, maybe not, it is time to sleep now in Hong Kong.
Perhaps they will even let People of Gender participate in the design and construction, and have People of Secuality decorate it?
FJ!!