I've thought about upgrading my old laptop, but why? Personally I used to live out of a Compaq Armada (P133, etc)... then I got my first Palm Pilot. Ever since I believe I've actually lugged my old laptop out once or twice, and then only to offload pictures from my digital camera while on trips.
I can see where there would be definite needs for an honest-to-god laptop, but it really seems that the days of the old notebook have come and gone when you consider the sheer handyness of the alternatives like Palm and PocketPC.
It would really depend on whether or not you're wanting to produce music, layout a magazine, and whatnot. If you're wanting to just use the applications included (Calendar, very lightweight web browser, email, etc) then I imagine it would be great. Definitely cuts out the bloat.
If you use a *NIX then you probably know the ease of running Lynx to hit a webpage, or just WGET'ing a file real quick. Let alone hitting Pine for email, or a ton of other oft-used apps without the overhead of a GUI environment. (Plus remember the hardware requirements that come with a decent GUI environment.)
Hmm... in an enclosed vehicle highly prone to terrorism and hijacking, which also happens to be very highly susceptible to depressurization from any loss of structural integrity... hey, let's give everyone on it guns! Luckily everyone on board will also be a crack shot in a turbulent environment, and you won't have to worry about someone shooting out a window. Oh and luckily everyone there will be totally sane, and you wouldn't have anyone just 'freaking out' and starting shooting... possibly because they didn't realize they were afraid of flying until they got up there.
Or let them all carry knives. Let's get older business guys up there being sliced apart by people used to handling them... or beter yet shot by better armed attackers.
Though the gun idea is neat. That way, if anything, when the passengers get mad at delays they can just shoot crewmembers until they actually take off.
There's a big grey blob between your ears. Use it _before_ hitting the Post button.
It's a great stand by LEGO to embrace the hacktivist community, and like it's been posted it's probably due, at least partly, to that factthat they blew away sales projections. Shouldn't others pick up on this business model? Not give away their products or IP items, but to allow/encourage their users to extend the original concepts in ways they hadn't thought of. Heck, look at Tivo. They have always been very encouraging of its hacking users, and think of the thousands of boxes they've sold due to that very fact alone. (I can talk since the hackability is the reason I have one on order right now.)
Heck, if anything it's really cheap R/D for new features and bugfixes.
Over at the View Askew boards (the makers of movies such as "Clerks", "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma", and "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back"), as odd as it is to find such an excellent message from such an unlikely spot.
I just had a conversation with a Russian born & bred employee at my hotel about the Palestinian reaction footage.
He says they are cheering, because they see this as a beginning of the United States, being an arrogant and intrusive entity....finally getting their due for interferring, again, where they don't belong.
I say...but what about the innocent people that died today? How could they cheer for the deaths of many innocent people?
He says...How did people react to the bombing of Hiroshima? Did America feel a sense of 'ha! we got you!' as a result of that...because overseas...that was what was reported.
I say...that's different...we were at war.
He says...but the Palestinians are at war...and have been for all of their lives.
I don't subscribe to those sentiments personally, but I have to admit that reading that made me stop, set aside my anger for a moment, and do some serious thinking.
The "this is the very sort of thing that our goverment is supposed to protect us against, and that this shows how badly our republican led government has failed in their duty" should've been quoted & italicized since it was as close to what he said as I could get with my sluggish memory.
I was just pointing out that (Democrat or Republican) it's sickening that one of our elected representatives would start trying to lay the blame politically before the rubble from our former landmarks had even stopped falling.
Ack... and imagine all the 'fat-chick' (or 'fat-guy' if that's your thing) pictures that you're friends always send you via email? (Usually with a "Thinking of you" subject, I might add)
Just heard a report on the radio that Israel has put everyone in the army (active/reserve/inactive) on alert, and that has struck enough fear into a large number of terrorist organizations for them to call and essentially say "It wasn't us, we swear."
Also been hearing reports about what's essentially parties in the street in different Middle Eastern countries in support of the attack. Probably not the best place to ask, but is anyone actually anywhere near that environment that might have a more verifiable view?
The problem is, how to be absolutely certain that they are indeed the people responsible? After all, the government is about to come under an absolutely enormous amount of political pressure to find the culprits.
Look at how quickly Bin Laden's been named as the aggressor, with very little evidence.
If they go and personally kill every person involved in this action (even with no loss of non-participant life), wouldn't that just place those figures into martyr status and serve to inflame yet more terrorism?
Also how fitting is the revenge if the person you're condemning looks upon death at the hands of their enemy as a golden path to a glorious afterlife?
Just heard a senator (I believe) ranting about the fact that this is the very sort of thing that our goverment is supposed to protect us against, and that this shows how badly our republican led government has failed in their duty.
To tell you the truth, I voted democrat in the last election. But this sort of statement is enough to sicken you, regardless of party affilliation.
I've been hearing that the price of gas is about to skyrocket. Anyone out there involved in the industry that might have any ideas? Why, how much possibly, etc?
(My apologies for such a mundane question in the midst of the afternoon)
Agreed. Currently there is no evidence of biological weapons. That's also from the CDC in Atlanta who are operating from quite a distance initially, and at a definite time loss in getting to the site.
I was more thinking of a secondary 'payload' used to attack the inevitable crowd that tries to get as close as possible to the tragedy sites. After all, short of New Years Eve how would you get that many people clustered together?
Just paranoia I fully imagine. But The Stand left an impression, I'm just saying.
Agreed. Earlier I heard an aide to Mayor Guiliani(sp?) being asked by a CNN correspondant what he thought as he looked at the ruins of the towers. He gave the expected reply of it being a tragedy, and the mayor is deeply saddened, etc, etc...
I was expecting someone to say "I'm thinking that someone's going to damned pay."
But if they're not saying it, I can guarantee that a lot of people are thinking it.
As an aside, I'd personally like to thank the various people who've blatantly ripped off the news sites. The forum here's been a good place to keep a bit current with what's going on since the major outlets are so damned clogged.
Granted exploding planes aren't exactly the best transport system for biological agents, but with the number of people compressed into relatively small places, a good number of which will soon be travelling back to their home areas soon...
The possibilty of secondary attacks to that end are just frightening as hell.
A local talk radio station (WGOW 102.3) had tremendous success via streaming over the Internet. They had people calling constantly who had moved out of the area and listened to keep up with the hometown news, and people calling in that had just come across it. As a matter of fact one day they recieved a call from an English pub that apparently listened daily to one of the programs. (And considering I live in Chattanooga, TN that's a heck of a stretch.) One of the best known callers was a guy from Boston, who always called on their 1-800 line.
Of course that was before the great 'Radio Blackout of 2K1.' They've recently come back up via streaming, but in the time they were down they literally recieved hundreds of messages from people asking where they went. And slowly they're building their streaming base back.
Somehow I imagine that's not an isolated phenomena. However seeing as that most stations aren't as 'interactive' as talk radio is I would imagine that those listeners just wouldn't make their voices heard to the programming directors. And when they went down? The listeners probably just pulled up another station. (Heck I channel-hop in my car, why not on the net)
Stephen Wise, a San Francisco accountant, said he smelled smoke and heard a crackle of static after putting his Palm Vx in the cradle. Wise claims his computer was damaged, forcing him to replace his PC during the busy tax season.
Great example to give... certain to frighten every non-tech out there. Of course, how many times have you 'smelled smoke' from an ESD? Sheesh.
With Bellsouth DSL service, it's stated _very_ clearly that you are in no way whatsoever to NAT or otherwise share the connection over a private network. As a matter of fact, just mentioning the work 'Network' to a technical support rep is a good way to have the conversation ended quickly.
Go the extra step and mention that you're running a NAT setup, and you can very quickly find your service suspended.
When I was first setting up my service, I made the mistake of telling the service rep that I had a network car in my system. When I told her it was for access to a network printer (HP 4000TN), it didn't appear to matter. With the network card in my system she was not allowed to help me diagnose my ADSL configuration issue.
I realize that it's different under other companies (Telocity, Mindspring, etc), but going through Bellsouth can give you an up-close-and-personal view of what the article's talking about.:^)
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I've thought about upgrading my old laptop, but why? Personally I used to live out of a Compaq Armada (P133, etc)... then I got my first Palm Pilot. Ever since I believe I've actually lugged my old laptop out once or twice, and then only to offload pictures from my digital camera while on trips.
I can see where there would be definite needs for an honest-to-god laptop, but it really seems that the days of the old notebook have come and gone when you consider the sheer handyness of the alternatives like Palm and PocketPC.
Actually they probably spent their money getting out of their parents' basements.
You might want to start saving.
(Aren't AC's wonderful?)
It would really depend on whether or not you're wanting to produce music, layout a magazine, and whatnot. If you're wanting to just use the applications included (Calendar, very lightweight web browser, email, etc) then I imagine it would be great. Definitely cuts out the bloat.
If you use a *NIX then you probably know the ease of running Lynx to hit a webpage, or just WGET'ing a file real quick. Let alone hitting Pine for email, or a ton of other oft-used apps without the overhead of a GUI environment. (Plus remember the hardware requirements that come with a decent GUI environment.)
My what an odd thing to say.
Hmm... in an enclosed vehicle highly prone to terrorism and hijacking, which also happens to be very highly susceptible to depressurization from any loss of structural integrity... hey, let's give everyone on it guns! Luckily everyone on board will also be a crack shot in a turbulent environment, and you won't have to worry about someone shooting out a window. Oh and luckily everyone there will be totally sane, and you wouldn't have anyone just 'freaking out' and starting shooting... possibly because they didn't realize they were afraid of flying until they got up there.
Or let them all carry knives. Let's get older business guys up there being sliced apart by people used to handling them... or beter yet shot by better armed attackers.
Though the gun idea is neat. That way, if anything, when the passengers get mad at delays they can just shoot crewmembers until they actually take off.
There's a big grey blob between your ears. Use it _before_ hitting the Post button.
It's a great stand by LEGO to embrace the hacktivist community, and like it's been posted it's probably due, at least partly, to that factthat they blew away sales projections. Shouldn't others pick up on this business model? Not give away their products or IP items, but to allow/encourage their users to extend the original concepts in ways they hadn't thought of. Heck, look at Tivo. They have always been very encouraging of its hacking users, and think of the thousands of boxes they've sold due to that very fact alone. (I can talk since the hackability is the reason I have one on order right now.)
Heck, if anything it's really cheap R/D for new features and bugfixes.
You can hit it here...
I don't subscribe to those sentiments personally, but I have to admit that reading that made me stop, set aside my anger for a moment, and do some serious thinking.
>All around New York City, psychologists are showing up at school bus stops to deal with kids whose parents aren't coming home
Well... goddamn.
Ok, as a followup clarification...
The "this is the very sort of thing that our goverment is supposed to protect us against, and that this shows how badly our republican led government has failed in their duty" should've been quoted & italicized since it was as close to what he said as I could get with my sluggish memory.
I was just pointing out that (Democrat or Republican) it's sickening that one of our elected representatives would start trying to lay the blame politically before the rubble from our former landmarks had even stopped falling.
Ack... and imagine all the 'fat-chick' (or 'fat-guy' if that's your thing) pictures that you're friends always send you via email? (Usually with a "Thinking of you" subject, I might add)
As of about a week ago I once again started getting hit by "Code Red" fallout.
You know, you would really think that by now people would fix their damned servers so they'd stop trying to infect mine.
Sheesh.
Just heard a report on the radio that Israel has put everyone in the army (active/reserve/inactive) on alert, and that has struck enough fear into a large number of terrorist organizations for them to call and essentially say "It wasn't us, we swear."
Also been hearing reports about what's essentially parties in the street in different Middle Eastern countries in support of the attack. Probably not the best place to ask, but is anyone actually anywhere near that environment that might have a more verifiable view?
The problem is, how to be absolutely certain that they are indeed the people responsible? After all, the government is about to come under an absolutely enormous amount of political pressure to find the culprits.
Look at how quickly Bin Laden's been named as the aggressor, with very little evidence.
The problem is what will be the end result?
If they go and personally kill every person involved in this action (even with no loss of non-participant life), wouldn't that just place those figures into martyr status and serve to inflame yet more terrorism?
Also how fitting is the revenge if the person you're condemning looks upon death at the hands of their enemy as a golden path to a glorious afterlife?
Sickening, all in all.
Just heard a senator (I believe) ranting about the fact that this is the very sort of thing that our goverment is supposed to protect us against, and that this shows how badly our republican led government has failed in their duty.
To tell you the truth, I voted democrat in the last election. But this sort of statement is enough to sicken you, regardless of party affilliation.
I've been hearing that the price of gas is about to skyrocket. Anyone out there involved in the industry that might have any ideas? Why, how much possibly, etc?
(My apologies for such a mundane question in the midst of the afternoon)
Oh my god... this just snuck up before I realized what it was. This is a horrible situation, but thank you for giving an unexpected laugh.
Agreed. Currently there is no evidence of biological weapons. That's also from the CDC in Atlanta who are operating from quite a distance initially, and at a definite time loss in getting to the site.
I was more thinking of a secondary 'payload' used to attack the inevitable crowd that tries to get as close as possible to the tragedy sites. After all, short of New Years Eve how would you get that many people clustered together?
Just paranoia I fully imagine. But The Stand left an impression, I'm just saying.
Agreed. Earlier I heard an aide to Mayor Guiliani(sp?) being asked by a CNN correspondant what he thought as he looked at the ruins of the towers. He gave the expected reply of it being a tragedy, and the mayor is deeply saddened, etc, etc...
I was expecting someone to say "I'm thinking that someone's going to damned pay."
But if they're not saying it, I can guarantee that a lot of people are thinking it.
As an aside, I'd personally like to thank the various people who've blatantly ripped off the news sites. The forum here's been a good place to keep a bit current with what's going on since the major outlets are so damned clogged.
Granted exploding planes aren't exactly the best transport system for biological agents, but with the number of people compressed into relatively small places, a good number of which will soon be travelling back to their home areas soon...
The possibilty of secondary attacks to that end are just frightening as hell.
A local talk radio station (WGOW 102.3) had tremendous success via streaming over the Internet. They had people calling constantly who had moved out of the area and listened to keep up with the hometown news, and people calling in that had just come across it. As a matter of fact one day they recieved a call from an English pub that apparently listened daily to one of the programs. (And considering I live in Chattanooga, TN that's a heck of a stretch.) One of the best known callers was a guy from Boston, who always called on their 1-800 line.
Of course that was before the great 'Radio Blackout of 2K1.' They've recently come back up via streaming, but in the time they were down they literally recieved hundreds of messages from people asking where they went. And slowly they're building their streaming base back.
Somehow I imagine that's not an isolated phenomena. However seeing as that most stations aren't as 'interactive' as talk radio is I would imagine that those listeners just wouldn't make their voices heard to the programming directors. And when they went down? The listeners probably just pulled up another station. (Heck I channel-hop in my car, why not on the net)
The listeners are there, just there silently.
Stephen Wise, a San Francisco accountant, said he smelled smoke and heard a crackle of static after putting his Palm Vx in the cradle. Wise claims his computer was damaged, forcing him to replace his PC during the busy tax season.
Great example to give... certain to frighten every non-tech out there. Of course, how many times have you 'smelled smoke' from an ESD? Sheesh.
With Bellsouth DSL service, it's stated _very_ clearly that you are in no way whatsoever to NAT or otherwise share the connection over a private network. As a matter of fact, just mentioning the work 'Network' to a technical support rep is a good way to have the conversation ended quickly.
:^)
Go the extra step and mention that you're running a NAT setup, and you can very quickly find your service suspended.
When I was first setting up my service, I made the mistake of telling the service rep that I had a network car in my system. When I told her it was for access to a network printer (HP 4000TN), it didn't appear to matter. With the network card in my system she was not allowed to help me diagnose my ADSL configuration issue.
I realize that it's different under other companies (Telocity, Mindspring, etc), but going through Bellsouth can give you an up-close-and-personal view of what the article's talking about.