....companies like Worldcom defraud shareholders.....and then Bush gives them a tap on the ass and tells them not to do it again....meanwhile they're under the table sucking his dick.
There was never much right with "corporate America" to start with.....but these days there sure is something wrong with corporate America. Time for some serious action and accountability.
Why do you think people buy German cars? It's partly the engineering and partly the aftersales service. (Okay, it's also partly a status thing too....);-)
I defected from Apple for quite a few years...but when I started doing more creative stuff again, I went back. Glad I did....they seem to really trying to give customers a solid product offering these days. However, they're also not trying to be all things to all people.
I lived in the UK too when Rabbit (and the other 3 licensees) were around. And as previously mentioned, it was an outbound call service only. In now way similar in any form to a cellular service -- more like a private payphone service.
Now, WiFi access points might well take off. There's many times I'm at a restaurant or a cafe or an office building when I'd like to be able to get decent Internet access. I carry around an Apple TiBook -- so I've got built-in WiFi already.
The usage profile of this sort of technology is very different from phone service. You want to reachable when you have a cellphone (predominantly), and you want to be able to *reach out* with WiFi -- to check email, send email, grab a copy of that report you forgot at the office, read Slashdot at the airport terminal etc.
Funnily enough, I've noticed Spotnik have put in a WiFi access node in one of my favourite restaurants here in Toronto (SpaHa). Despite being quite a trendy restaurant, it's actually located on the University of Toronto campus -- probably a pefect place to attract both geeks and rich students with their iBooks who want to drink latte while surfing and pretending to write their papers;-)
The asteroid is actually stationary and peaceful. *We're* going to slam into it...and the World's Governments are trying to cover-up this earthly act of terrorism.
...is $50? I nearly fell off my chair. I guess I was used to conferences in the dot-com boom era and paying $2600 (haha...pun intended) for a 3-day conference.
Seriously contemplating going...if only to do some WiFI war-walking.
I bought a G4 TiBook a few months back for similar reasons. I'm a UNIX guy who occassionally does some stuff in Dreamweaver or Photoshop.
A G4 and MacOS/X have served me well. I would suspect that an iBook will serve you equally well (the 12" version is heavily used by some road warrior journalists I use, they love the battery life, size and ease of use).
Oh, and MacOS/X has Perl, PHP and Apache already installed...which is kinda nice (although many will install later versions themselves, I'm sure).
Enjoy.
-psyconaut
P.S: Previously I had a Sony VAIO XG-19...which was rather expensive and elaborate at the time of purchase. I'd say I like the Powerbook more.
(1) Change your first name to something suitable. For example: "Billy-Bob", "Little Paul", etc.
(2) Start buying your clothes at K-Mart "end of season sales". Color co-ordination and size matching need not apply.
(3) Marry someone you suspect, but not necessarily know, might be in the same bloodline as you. She should change her name to something like "Sue-Ann" or "Peggy-Sue".
(4) Acquire a 1979 Ford F-150. Place two armchairs in the flatbed for when ma and pa need a ride.
(5) Apply for job at K-Mart, gas filling station, fast food restaurant of your choice.
And, et voila! You too will have no trouble living close to the poverty line.
I believe, until I'm corrected, that this is not actually an Atari 2600 (or anything even vaguely similar) but rather Jakks existing hardware system with classic Atari games ported to it.
(Just to clear up the comments about "wish it had a cartridge slot).
This goes to prove...as I constantly try and explain to friends...that not all DVD players are created equal. (Especially those trying to play DVDs off their company laptop via a composite video output telling me that it's comparble to my progressive scan, component video setup!).
(I'm not saying the PS2 DVD playback is inferior either, it could actually be legtimate to stop on whatever error there is).
This is good not just because Microsoft is a corporation that, in some ways, is sucking the living blood out of the software and (now) hardware industries...it's also good because we have laws for a reason and it's Sun's *right* to be able to file lawsuits like this. Even if Sun doesn't win, it's kind of like having your comments duly noted.
Sun isn't always right. Oracle isn't always right. But I'm sure glad that both of them are around and have the resources to send a warning shot across the bow of the S.S. Microsoft. Aren't you?...
You don't want the output power to actually be doubled...you want it to be just right, and your output power is effectively government by the cellsite that you're using for your upstream transmission.
So hopefully this will just end up as a more *efficient* antenna and not a more powerful one;-)
I can also see some cellphone manufacturers not wanting to cast their phones in silcone -- preferring ABS.
Plus, I wonder that without an RF "hotspot" where the antenna is, would this phone have a *better* chance of irradiating your head?
...the Nomad is aimed generally at young or new players. (It's got a small body, built in amp/speaker). So this is probably a reasonable target market for Star Wars paint jobs.
And, heck, if it makes little Johnny pick up the guitar more often -- it can't be bad?
You never know, maybe due to the Star Wars graphics, little Johnny may turn out to be the next Kurt Cobain.
(No, that would be bad...wouldn't it?!...oops...scratch that last comment...)
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Because the existing Power4 design is an expensive chip to fabricate! Those dual core versions are mucho heavy on the transitor count.
;-)
This is designed to be a "lite" Power4 platform for low-end servers and desktops.
Actually, if truth be told, it's probably being fairly and squarely pitched at Apple as their new CPU
-psyco
....companies like Worldcom defraud shareholders.....and then Bush gives them a tap on the ass and tells them not to do it again....meanwhile they're under the table sucking his dick.
There was never much right with "corporate America" to start with.....but these days there sure is something wrong with corporate America. Time for some serious action and accountability.
-psyco
No, none of those companies have anything like the brand that Apple have.
Microsoft has similar brand awareness, so do Coca Cola and Pepsi. But only the cola companies can claim brand loyalty as strong as Apple.
There's been several papers written on Apple's brand loyalty ("cult of Macintosh"). Go read one....it's a fascinating socio-techno phenomenon.
-psyco
Why do you think people buy German cars? It's partly the engineering and partly the aftersales service. (Okay, it's also partly a status thing too....) ;-)
I defected from Apple for quite a few years...but when I started doing more creative stuff again, I went back. Glad I did....they seem to really trying to give customers a solid product offering these days. However, they're also not trying to be all things to all people.
-psyco
There's various PC cards that give you sort of a poorman's Tivo....but not very appliance like, especially as they require a PC! ;-)
Anyone got any idea if I can hack a Tivo to work okay in Canada?
-psyco
I lived in the UK too when Rabbit (and the other 3 licensees) were around. And as previously mentioned, it was an outbound call service only. In now way similar in any form to a cellular service -- more like a private payphone service.
;-)
Now, WiFi access points might well take off. There's many times I'm at a restaurant or a cafe or an office building when I'd like to be able to get decent Internet access. I carry around an Apple TiBook -- so I've got built-in WiFi already.
The usage profile of this sort of technology is very different from phone service. You want to reachable when you have a cellphone (predominantly), and you want to be able to *reach out* with WiFi -- to check email, send email, grab a copy of that report you forgot at the office, read Slashdot at the airport terminal etc.
Funnily enough, I've noticed Spotnik have put in a WiFi access node in one of my favourite restaurants here in Toronto (SpaHa). Despite being quite a trendy restaurant, it's actually located on the University of Toronto campus -- probably a pefect place to attract both geeks and rich students with their iBooks who want to drink latte while surfing and pretending to write their papers
-psyco
....do you go about plugging a 100watt lamp into a cow?
....is something that's been going on for a long, long time to provide rain for crops or to help control potential or pre-existing fires.
-psyconaut
Slashdot has editors?! Could have fooled me...
-psyco
The asteroid is actually stationary and peaceful. *We're* going to slam into it...and the World's Governments are trying to cover-up this earthly act of terrorism.
-psyco
Why do people insist on saying Legos? The plural and singular of the word is: LEGO.
;-)
I think it's the "sheeps" syndrome
-psyconaut
...is $50? I nearly fell off my chair. I guess I was used to conferences in the dot-com boom era and paying $2600 (haha...pun intended) for a 3-day conference.
Seriously contemplating going...if only to do some WiFI war-walking.
-psyconaut
...that chess is one of the most computationally intense applications known to man. Assuming you want to plot and evaluate full strategies, that is.
;-)
Mind you, I couldn't even beat the chess program on my Sinclair Spectrum with 48Kbytes of RAM, let alone a modern machine
-psyconaut
I bought a G4 TiBook a few months back for similar reasons. I'm a UNIX guy who occassionally does some stuff in Dreamweaver or Photoshop.
A G4 and MacOS/X have served me well. I would suspect that an iBook will serve you equally well (the 12" version is heavily used by some road warrior journalists I use, they love the battery life, size and ease of use).
Oh, and MacOS/X has Perl, PHP and Apache already installed...which is kinda nice (although many will install later versions themselves, I'm sure).
Enjoy.
-psyconaut
P.S: Previously I had a Sony VAIO XG-19...which was rather expensive and elaborate at the time of purchase. I'd say I like the Powerbook more.
...to have a 9 inch nanotube! ;-)
...you are feeling sleepy....very sleepy...everyone reading this is now in my power!
(C) Slashdot MindBot v1.0
....does that mean we all have to go back to programming in Cobol? ;-)
-marc
(1) Change your first name to something suitable. For example: "Billy-Bob", "Little Paul", etc.
(2) Start buying your clothes at K-Mart "end of season sales". Color co-ordination and size matching need not apply.
(3) Marry someone you suspect, but not necessarily know, might be in the same bloodline as you. She should change her name to something like "Sue-Ann" or "Peggy-Sue".
(4) Acquire a 1979 Ford F-150. Place two armchairs in the flatbed for when ma and pa need a ride.
(5) Apply for job at K-Mart, gas filling station, fast food restaurant of your choice.
And, et voila! You too will have no trouble living close to the poverty line.
A story gets submitted in that lame-ass fashion and gets put up unedited and without at least the moderator providing some more details?
What the fsck is slashdot coming to?
Ooooh...it's an ad for SourceForge!!!
-marc
I believe, until I'm corrected, that this is not actually an Atari 2600 (or anything even vaguely similar) but rather Jakks existing hardware system with classic Atari games ported to it.
(Just to clear up the comments about "wish it had a cartridge slot).
-marc
This is actually the prototype for the Playstation 3 which Sony is contracting out to NEC.
;-)
NEC have figured out that if they can simulate the enitre earth on this hardware, then it's capable of rendering any game imaginable.
Now all they have to do is shrink it in size
-marc
This goes to prove...as I constantly try and explain to friends...that not all DVD players are created equal. (Especially those trying to play DVDs off their company laptop via a composite video output telling me that it's comparble to my progressive scan, component video setup!).
;-)
(I'm not saying the PS2 DVD playback is inferior either, it could actually be legtimate to stop on whatever error there is).
Just my 2 cents of bitching
This is good not just because Microsoft is a corporation that, in some ways, is sucking the living blood out of the software and (now) hardware industries...it's also good because we have laws for a reason and it's Sun's *right* to be able to file lawsuits like this. Even if Sun doesn't win, it's kind of like having your comments duly noted.
Sun isn't always right. Oracle isn't always right. But I'm sure glad that both of them are around and have the resources to send a warning shot across the bow of the S.S. Microsoft. Aren't you?...
You don't want the output power to actually be doubled...you want it to be just right, and your output power is effectively government by the cellsite that you're using for your upstream transmission.
;-)
So hopefully this will just end up as a more *efficient* antenna and not a more powerful one
I can also see some cellphone manufacturers not wanting to cast their phones in silcone -- preferring ABS.
Plus, I wonder that without an RF "hotspot" where the antenna is, would this phone have a *better* chance of irradiating your head?
...the Nomad is aimed generally at young or new players. (It's got a small body, built in amp/speaker). So this is probably a reasonable target market for Star Wars paint jobs.
And, heck, if it makes little Johnny pick up the guitar more often -- it can't be bad?
You never know, maybe due to the Star Wars graphics, little Johnny may turn out to be the next Kurt Cobain.
(No, that would be bad...wouldn't it?!...oops...scratch that last comment...)