the site says it has an 8-bit epson cpu in it, so it's probably as powerful as the timex watch, but just has more memory and uses IR instead of barcode. What kept me from getting the timex was that it required windows. However, if I would have known that one could program the Timex, I would have bought one a long time ago. From using the little flash demo of the Fossil PDA, it looks like a slick little gadget. It's too bad they didn't use a bigger screen. A LCD the size their Philippe Stark watches would be nice.
I've been trying to get my dad to use some sort of electronic organizer for years. He's stuck to a plain paper date/phone book even though pages are falling out, no one is in the right order, etc. I bought him a cheap Palm a few months ago thinking that he shouldn't have a problem getting used to graffiti and entering names and phone numbers with a stylus wouldn't be that hard.
What does he do? He had my little sister put the contents of his planner that she could read in to the palm, but he doesn't take it when he goes on the road. He will forget a number, call home, and have someone look it up in the palm. With something like this, my sister could load up the watch for him and he would be set.
I know what he's getting for his birthday/Father's day gift.
Gates is still full of it. Open source/free software didn't start because of commodity PCs. Sure having them helps get more people involved, but to claim that MS is responsible for that is ridiculous. How many different CP/M machines were available at the time? That was the standard for business micros before their purchased 'quick & dirty OS' hit the scene. The only reason their crappy software took off was due to it being cheaper and having IBM associated with it. It's just like his different revisions about how MS found out about the internet. Given enough time, I'm sure he'll be talking how it was another MS innovation. A couple years ago, he was talking about how "we are at the beginning of the internet". Sounds like he's a decade or two off to me.
What I got from the story was that Bill's pissed that he can't legally lift GNU code, sell it, and then claim it was their 'innovation'. IMHO, the only standards that MS likes are those that lock in customers. He also misstate's the FSF's purpose. They don't want to eliminate programming as a profession. They want to give the user freedom. As a side effect, companies wouldn't be able to generate the obscene profits that MS enjoys, which is why Bill dislikes it. As crazy as he sounds at times, on the issue of copyrights and other related topics, I think RMS is probably more in like with Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers than Gates, Rosen, et al could ever hope to me. Which makes me think: if he were alive today, would Jefferson view Gates & company as good candidates for Liberty Tree refreshment?
A couple years ago, I got cable modem service when it became available in my area. It was nice and fast, but like an old British sports car, it was out of commission about half the time, usually when I wanted to use it the most: the weekends. The customer service was horrible and it got to the point that my wife's AOL service was more reliable. Speed is great, but I want the ability to check my email whenever I want and if it's down when I want to use it, it's worthless. So, I went back to dialup. Sure, not being able to download the current iso in an hour or so kinda sucked, but I got over it. I have DSL now and I've only had a couple minor glitches and they were usually during the weekdays during business hours, so it wasn't that bad. It's much better than the cable modem service that I had.
I always took that quote as them providing a reason why you should go see their concert ie. new music will be performed and not the same old stuff you've seen them do before. The promotion of the album is for the recoding company's benefit and as a way to try to get increased visibility. Before they got recoding contracts, bands most likely made money by their performances and any merchandise they had available for sale. That's one of the reasons why they got a recording contract in the first place. Selling more albums helps them get more airplay and other promotional help from the label which then helps them draw bigger crowds. Whether they make money on it is dependent on the deals they've made with the promoters, how extravagant they want to be, and/or how much they have to pay the label for recording costs.
That's why one reason why Branson and casinos exist. To give old once popular musicians jobs. They probably make a hell of a lot more money doing that than what they get for royalty payments. They probably make more playing bingo than what they get from the RIAA/record labels/whatever.
Besides, who says that once someone becomes popular and then fades from the public spotlight that they must depend on those royalties forever? Unless they were the song writer and someone covered their work, after they stop being popular, what little they were getting before drops substantially. They will get other jobs. Big deal.
The hypocritical part of all this is that the music industry & the RIAA routinely screw the artists over by classifying the recordings as a 'work for hire' product (see the earlier Slashdot article about it). If the product is not the artists', why not pay them and everyone else involved a set fee. This would certainly eliminate a big reason for all the tracking and radio station payment crap. Unless my employer has a profit sharing or stock compensation plan, what payback do I get if I write something that makes them a lot of money? Nothing. I get paid to do a job. Why can't these people? If the copyright laws would have stayed the same as they were when the country was founded, none of this would be that big of a deal. However as it stands now, copyrights are being used as a way to try to get on an eternal gravy train. Write a hit song or something else and then milk it for decades as opposed to the original plan: do something creative, get paid for a short amount of time, then it's free. Since the time one could get paid for it was short, if one wanted to do this for a living, the creativity would have to be sustained. Scale the copyright laws back to their original state and pay supporting people wages. None of the p2p stuff would matter then.
Also, she kept referring to all of this as theft of intellectual property. None of this is theft of IP. That would imply that I would take a song and then try to pass it off as my own and deny the creator the appropriate recognition they deserve for it. They aren't losing any IP (well the record companys anyway..the artists do with work for hire contracts). They are just aren't making the obscene profits that they want to make.
I don't think the people buying these cars are doing it because they want to save money. They are buying them because they want to reduce the amount of fuel that they use and/or the amount of pollution they generate. In most cases, these or pure electric cars aren't that cheap to buy or operate. Some states will give the owners of these cars a tax break because they are more expensive than a normal car.
While I like the technology behind them, I wouldn't pay the extra money for them no matter how eco-friendly they are. I'd rather have a TDI Jetta, but will stick with my old econobox. It's paid for, still runs ok and gets about 35mpg.
The quicktime movies work just fine on linux with the CodeWeavers CrossOver plugin. I view movie trailers on Apple's site all the time from within Galeon, Mozilla, or Netscape.
Given the tendency of some corporations like Disney to keep pushing for
extensions to copyright law, I wonder if any of it will be available in 50
years. The only reason for the publishers to keep the works available is
to make a buck. If releasing a book isn't projected to meet their desired
rate of return, they won't do it. Sure the stuff that's really popular now
might be around, but I'm sure that they are vastly outnumbered by the books
that were good, but for whatever reason didn't do well enough to go beyond
a 2nd printing. These will rot away in the publishers' archives while
being protected from 'IP thieves' by copyright law. I've heard about film
historians lamenting the fact that scores of early movies have been lost
and continue to be lost just because of this reason.
This might not be as bleak if the primary medium for publishing
literature remains the old fashioned paper book. They will last for ages
if proper care is taken. These stories will live on and will be passed
from person to person via ebay, used book stores, gifts, etc. But what if
the publishers successfully get the public used to reading e-books and wean
them off the dead tree kind? Given that the publishers will want some copy
protection scheme, the work will only last as long as the device used to read it
and as long as you can keep the original copy. They will certainly try to
make sure that you won't be able to make backup copies (even though it's
your right) because that will open the door to pirating or sharing of the
work. A person won't be able to sell it unless they part with the reading
device also and that would still probably violate a EULA. Converting to a new format wouldn't be allowed because that would deny the publisher the profits from doing so, and open the door for the feared IP pirates. All of this will increase the rate at which works of literture will die and be forgotten.
My prediction: People will have the works that are currently in the
public domain (ala Project Gutenberg),
titles that are available for the standard e-book reader of the time(which
will probably be obsolete every 5-10 years), the surviving paper books, and
whatever L. Ron Hubbard's Scientologists keep churning out. Everything
else will be forgotten by the publishers and will die with the people who
loved it. The same will be true for movies and music.
Hard to use? Either you are joking or have never used an HP calculator. They are a joy to use. The only reason someone didn't have an HP in engineering college was that they hadn't saved up enough to buy one yet.
I run gnome on a P166 and it works just fine. In fact my computer newbie relatives preferred it to my sister's Windows laptop which was a couple years newer. It had 48M at the time they used it and bumping it up to 80M didn't speed it up that much. Maybe some server apps were configured to run and you haven't turned them off? It could also be related to the recent VM debate (IIRC 7.2 uses 2.4.7+patches), so upgrading to the most recent might also help.
In the US, for most plans, they will ask for your Social Security Number in order to run a credit check. This isn't needed for prepaid plans, but when I signed up for one, they still wanted a picture id (drivers license), adddress, etc. IIRC, customer support still asks for some of that info. Of course ids can be faked, so it's not like any of this foolproof.
There are a few companies trying to make
disposable phones that are made of paper and/or have such limited features that they are very cheap and the cost of the phone will be very small compared to the prepaid air time. How Stuff Works has an article about them too. From what I understand, you have the advantage of a standard handset that can be used with any provider. That's my biggest pet peeve with the US cell phone system.
The dropping grocery lists or other such things are nice and I already receive them via email on my cell phone w/o the extra cost. I just can't send them. Based on entering text for the phonebook in my cell phone, I certainly wouldn't use SMS very often. That is unless I had something like the Visorphone or any other PDA/cell phone combo where I could use a stylus.
I don't doubt that it's useful. I just can't see myself using an awkward interface and paying 15c a message for it. I'm a cheap bastard at heart.
IMHO, the wireless operators in the US don't want interoperability simply because it prevents some form of user lock in. I would like to buy any phone I like and then shop around for the provider with the feature set and price that I like the best. I can't because each provider uses slightly different phones. It's going to be like the desktop IM battle, except with phones unless the FCC knocks all these companys' heads together and tells them to cooperate.
From what I was able to figure out from previous posts, I can copy termcap files from linux->SCO so that SCO recognizes my linux console - at that point, I'd be using a 'linux' or 'linux-console' terminal type, right?
From what I understand, it would describe to the programs that use the termcap/terminfo the capabilities of the terminal being used. Some of this included the byte sequences to make the terminal do a particular function, other parts include what byte sequences the terminal sends when the user presses a special key or some other operation. If you were to copy the section of the termcap file with the linux console to your SCO machine, the programs on the SCO machine should be able to 'do the right thing' when you are logging into the SCO machine from the linux console.
This doesn't help you if you intend on using xterm. According to the manual page:
Termcap(5) entries that work with xterm include
``xterm,'' ``vt102,'' ``vt100'' and ``ansi,'' and xterm automatically searches the termcap file in this order for these entries and then sets the ``TERM'' and the ``TERMCAP'' environment variables.
If you have a terminal definition that is like vt100/ansi, but has extra or different definitions for terminal function keys, then you can force the setting of the TERM variable to the terminal definition that you want to use and then use the ~/.Xdefaults settings to force xterm to send different byte sequences for the function keys. However, one can't just pick any old terminal definition and expect it to work if it is very different from the actual terminal. It would be like hanging a sign that says "Ich spreche den Deutsch"(from babelfish) on someone that doesn't speak German and expect them to carry on a conversation in German.
Most Windows terminal programs emulate ansi/vt100/vt102 and allow one to edit the key mappings. If you can get something like this to work from Windows, then you should be able to configure xterm to use the same byte sequences for the function keys.
After getting the correct termcap entries, to make xterm have the correct function key mappings, you can put the following in your ~/.Xdefaults file if you are going to use the scoansi terminal type:
When you run an xterm that you want to have those keybindings, just run it as xterm -name SCOTerm. If you need to send different function key sequences, look at the/etc/termcap or the terminfo stuff to determine what the function keys are to send.
I can see some uses for it from a user's perspective, but at 15c a message, why not just call the person? I'm currently paying 10c a minute for cell service and it would be easier to just talk to them rather than try to type it out on a phone. I'm sure the operators love it, though.
The idea of anonymous disposable phones would be a problem to law enforcement. I wouldn't be surprised to see legislation passed that would heavily lean on providers to not offer such services. As far as searches go, why couldn't they just contact the provider and have them disconnect or disrupt service? As far as I know, these aren't high powered digital walkie-talkies, so they still need a service provider. Laws will be passed to make sure providers can provide names, phone numbers, phone ids, etc. to the appropriate agencies. Also, what would stop the FBI from jamming the 3G signals in the immediate area of the search?
The competition angle is probably the biggest reason. The cell phone companies like having their own fiefdoms each with incompatible phones.
A new calendar will make all the evil people in the world go away? Are we all going to hold hands, stand in a circle and sing hippie campfire songs too? I hope they plan on sedating the rest of the planet with whatever mind altering drugs they are on, because that's probably the only way their fantasy would have a slightest chance of ever getting off the ground. Peace and freedom are usually things that one has to fight for. Or as Mr. Jefferson put it "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants".
And they hyped it like it was going to be the best thing ever. They were also so proud that they did this project in 14 months compared to the 30 months that it took Sony to develop the PS2. I certainly hope so. The XBox is built with off the shelf parts & modified win2k compared to the PS2 which started from scratch with a custom cpu, graphics, etc.
Hmm...I wonder if the problem lies with the Mexicans that they rounded up and trained to build the thing for $3-4 an hour or the stock compensated MS software/hardware engineers? Either way, I'm glad that the people will still be treated to the Microsoft experience that we all know and love.
I'm sure Sony and Nintendo are laughing their asses off over these reports.
Do you already have a 220V line for it, or did you tell the wife that the dryer has got to go and that it was time to start drying clothes the 'organic & environmentally friendly' way? Then a few days later, you can innocently claim that it the 400 was free and putting it in the laundry room is better than dumping it.
I have a 4 port PS/2 IOGear KVM and I've been quite happy with it. I haven't had any problems with it with X11, but there are occasions where it won't recognize the hotkey sequence to switch machines. It ususally happens if the current machine dies due to the Nvidia driver locking up. Then I have to use the button on the KVM to cycle the machine being displayed.
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Sure, other editors may start up faster, but so what? You only need to start emacs once when you start work and use it until you go home. Even then, it's not that slow and really depends on how much lisp code you have in.emacs. The gnuclient package allow other programs to tell emacs to edit a file. With remote file editing via ange-ftp and/or tramp, working on several machines is a breeze.
I also like using the diary and appointment mode to have it remind me to go to meetings. The timecard mode is also great for work places where one has to track how much time is being spent on different projects.
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the site says it has an 8-bit epson cpu in it, so it's probably as powerful as the timex watch, but just has more memory and uses IR instead of barcode. What kept me from getting the timex was that it required windows. However, if I would have known that one could program the Timex, I would have bought one a long time ago. From using the little flash demo of the Fossil PDA, it looks like a slick little gadget. It's too bad they didn't use a bigger screen. A LCD the size their Philippe Stark watches would be nice.
I've been trying to get my dad to use some sort of electronic organizer for years. He's stuck to a plain paper date/phone book even though pages are falling out, no one is in the right order, etc. I bought him a cheap Palm a few months ago thinking that he shouldn't have a problem getting used to graffiti and entering names and phone numbers with a stylus wouldn't be that hard.
What does he do? He had my little sister put the contents of his planner that she could read in to the palm, but he doesn't take it when he goes on the road. He will forget a number, call home, and have someone look it up in the palm. With something like this, my sister could load up the watch for him and he would be set.
I know what he's getting for his birthday/Father's day gift.
Gates is still full of it. Open source/free software didn't start because of commodity PCs. Sure having them helps get more people involved, but to claim that MS is responsible for that is ridiculous. How many different CP/M machines were available at the time? That was the standard for business micros before their purchased 'quick & dirty OS' hit the scene. The only reason their crappy software took off was due to it being cheaper and having IBM associated with it. It's just like his different revisions about how MS found out about the internet. Given enough time, I'm sure he'll be talking how it was another MS innovation. A couple years ago, he was talking about how "we are at the beginning of the internet". Sounds like he's a decade or two off to me.
What I got from the story was that Bill's pissed that he can't legally lift GNU code, sell it, and then claim it was their 'innovation'. IMHO, the only standards that MS likes are those that lock in customers. He also misstate's the FSF's purpose. They don't want to eliminate programming as a profession. They want to give the user freedom. As a side effect, companies wouldn't be able to generate the obscene profits that MS enjoys, which is why Bill dislikes it. As crazy as he sounds at times, on the issue of copyrights and other related topics, I think RMS is probably more in like with Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers than Gates, Rosen, et al could ever hope to me. Which makes me think: if he were alive today, would Jefferson view Gates & company as good candidates for Liberty Tree refreshment?
A couple years ago, I got cable modem service when it became available in my area. It was nice and fast, but like an old British sports car, it was out of commission about half the time, usually when I wanted to use it the most: the weekends. The customer service was horrible and it got to the point that my wife's AOL service was more reliable. Speed is great, but I want the ability to check my email whenever I want and if it's down when I want to use it, it's worthless. So, I went back to dialup. Sure, not being able to download the current iso in an hour or so kinda sucked, but I got over it. I have DSL now and I've only had a couple minor glitches and they were usually during the weekdays during business hours, so it wasn't that bad. It's much better than the cable modem service that I had.
I always took that quote as them providing a reason why you should go see their concert ie. new music will be performed and not the same old stuff you've seen them do before. The promotion of the album is for the recoding company's benefit and as a way to try to get increased visibility. Before they got recoding contracts, bands most likely made money by their performances and any merchandise they had available for sale. That's one of the reasons why they got a recording contract in the first place. Selling more albums helps them get more airplay and other promotional help from the label which then helps them draw bigger crowds. Whether they make money on it is dependent on the deals they've made with the promoters, how extravagant they want to be, and/or how much they have to pay the label for recording costs.
That's why one reason why Branson and casinos exist. To give old once popular musicians jobs. They probably make a hell of a lot more money doing that than what they get for royalty payments. They probably make more playing bingo than what they get from the RIAA/record labels/whatever.
Besides, who says that once someone becomes popular and then fades from the public spotlight that they must depend on those royalties forever? Unless they were the song writer and someone covered their work, after they stop being popular, what little they were getting before drops substantially. They will get other jobs. Big deal.
The hypocritical part of all this is that the music industry & the RIAA routinely screw the artists over by classifying the recordings as a 'work for hire' product (see the earlier Slashdot article about it). If the product is not the artists', why not pay them and everyone else involved a set fee. This would certainly eliminate a big reason for all the tracking and radio station payment crap. Unless my employer has a profit sharing or stock compensation plan, what payback do I get if I write something that makes them a lot of money? Nothing. I get paid to do a job. Why can't these people? If the copyright laws would have stayed the same as they were when the country was founded, none of this would be that big of a deal. However as it stands now, copyrights are being used as a way to try to get on an eternal gravy train. Write a hit song or something else and then milk it for decades as opposed to the original plan: do something creative, get paid for a short amount of time, then it's free. Since the time one could get paid for it was short, if one wanted to do this for a living, the creativity would have to be sustained. Scale the copyright laws back to their original state and pay supporting people wages. None of the p2p stuff would matter then.
Also, she kept referring to all of this as theft of intellectual property. None of this is theft of IP. That would imply that I would take a song and then try to pass it off as my own and deny the creator the appropriate recognition they deserve for it. They aren't losing any IP (well the record companys anyway..the artists do with work for hire contracts). They are just aren't making the obscene profits that they want to make.
Several of the large ships use diesels to generate power, and then electric motors to drive the ship.
Locomotives do this too. They run the diesels at the optimum RPM to drive a generator. High torque electric motors then drive the wheels.
I don't think the people buying these cars are doing it because they want to save money. They are buying them because they want to reduce the amount of fuel that they use and/or the amount of pollution they generate. In most cases, these or pure electric cars aren't that cheap to buy or operate. Some states will give the owners of these cars a tax break because they are more expensive than a normal car.
While I like the technology behind them, I wouldn't pay the extra money for them no matter how eco-friendly they are. I'd rather have a TDI Jetta, but will stick with my old econobox. It's paid for, still runs ok and gets about 35mpg.
Tried it. It still points to the one requiring QT 5 pro. Clicking on it sends me to the Apple Store.
The quicktime movies work just fine on linux with the CodeWeavers CrossOver plugin. I view movie trailers on Apple's site all the time from within Galeon, Mozilla, or Netscape.
Given the tendency of some corporations like Disney to keep pushing for extensions to copyright law, I wonder if any of it will be available in 50 years. The only reason for the publishers to keep the works available is to make a buck. If releasing a book isn't projected to meet their desired rate of return, they won't do it. Sure the stuff that's really popular now might be around, but I'm sure that they are vastly outnumbered by the books that were good, but for whatever reason didn't do well enough to go beyond a 2nd printing. These will rot away in the publishers' archives while being protected from 'IP thieves' by copyright law. I've heard about film historians lamenting the fact that scores of early movies have been lost and continue to be lost just because of this reason.
This might not be as bleak if the primary medium for publishing literature remains the old fashioned paper book. They will last for ages if proper care is taken. These stories will live on and will be passed from person to person via ebay, used book stores, gifts, etc. But what if the publishers successfully get the public used to reading e-books and wean them off the dead tree kind? Given that the publishers will want some copy protection scheme, the work will only last as long as the device used to read it and as long as you can keep the original copy. They will certainly try to make sure that you won't be able to make backup copies (even though it's your right) because that will open the door to pirating or sharing of the work. A person won't be able to sell it unless they part with the reading device also and that would still probably violate a EULA. Converting to a new format wouldn't be allowed because that would deny the publisher the profits from doing so, and open the door for the feared IP pirates. All of this will increase the rate at which works of literture will die and be forgotten.
My prediction: People will have the works that are currently in the public domain (ala Project Gutenberg), titles that are available for the standard e-book reader of the time(which will probably be obsolete every 5-10 years), the surviving paper books, and whatever L. Ron Hubbard's Scientologists keep churning out. Everything else will be forgotten by the publishers and will die with the people who loved it. The same will be true for movies and music.
I pray that I'm wrong.
Hard to use? Either you are joking or have never used an HP calculator. They are a joy to use. The only reason someone didn't have an HP in engineering college was that they hadn't saved up enough to buy one yet.
I run gnome on a P166 and it works just fine. In fact my computer newbie relatives preferred it to my sister's Windows laptop which was a couple years newer. It had 48M at the time they used it and bumping it up to 80M didn't speed it up that much. Maybe some server apps were configured to run and you haven't turned them off? It could also be related to the recent VM debate (IIRC 7.2 uses 2.4.7+patches), so upgrading to the most recent might also help.
In the US, for most plans, they will ask for your Social Security Number in order to run a credit check. This isn't needed for prepaid plans, but when I signed up for one, they still wanted a picture id (drivers license), adddress, etc. IIRC, customer support still asks for some of that info. Of course ids can be faked, so it's not like any of this foolproof.
There are a few companies trying to make disposable phones that are made of paper and/or have such limited features that they are very cheap and the cost of the phone will be very small compared to the prepaid air time. How Stuff Works has an article about them too. From what I understand, you have the advantage of a standard handset that can be used with any provider. That's my biggest pet peeve with the US cell phone system.
The dropping grocery lists or other such things are nice and I already receive them via email on my cell phone w/o the extra cost. I just can't send them. Based on entering text for the phonebook in my cell phone, I certainly wouldn't use SMS very often. That is unless I had something like the Visorphone or any other PDA/cell phone combo where I could use a stylus.
I don't doubt that it's useful. I just can't see myself using an awkward interface and paying 15c a message for it. I'm a cheap bastard at heart.
IMHO, the wireless operators in the US don't want interoperability simply because it prevents some form of user lock in. I would like to buy any phone I like and then shop around for the provider with the feature set and price that I like the best. I can't because each provider uses slightly different phones. It's going to be like the desktop IM battle, except with phones unless the FCC knocks all these companys' heads together and tells them to cooperate.
From what I was able to figure out from previous posts, I can copy termcap files from linux->SCO so that SCO recognizes my linux console - at that point, I'd be using a 'linux' or 'linux-console' terminal type, right?
From what I understand, it would describe to the programs that use the termcap/terminfo the capabilities of the terminal being used. Some of this included the byte sequences to make the terminal do a particular function, other parts include what byte sequences the terminal sends when the user presses a special key or some other operation. If you were to copy the section of the termcap file with the linux console to your SCO machine, the programs on the SCO machine should be able to 'do the right thing' when you are logging into the SCO machine from the linux console.
This doesn't help you if you intend on using xterm. According to the manual page:
If you have a terminal definition that is like vt100/ansi, but has extra or different definitions for terminal function keys, then you can force the setting of the TERM variable to the terminal definition that you want to use and then use the ~/.Xdefaults settings to force xterm to send different byte sequences for the function keys. However, one can't just pick any old terminal definition and expect it to work if it is very different from the actual terminal. It would be like hanging a sign that says "Ich spreche den Deutsch"(from babelfish) on someone that doesn't speak German and expect them to carry on a conversation in German.Most Windows terminal programs emulate ansi/vt100/vt102 and allow one to edit the key mappings. If you can get something like this to work from Windows, then you should be able to configure xterm to use the same byte sequences for the function keys.
After getting the correct termcap entries, to make xterm have the correct function key mappings, you can put the following in your ~/.Xdefaults file if you are going to use the scoansi terminal type:
When you run an xterm that you want to have those keybindings, just run it as xterm -name SCOTerm. If you need to send different function key sequences, look at the /etc/termcap or the terminfo stuff to determine what the function keys are to send.
I can see some uses for it from a user's perspective, but at 15c a message, why not just call the person? I'm currently paying 10c a minute for cell service and it would be easier to just talk to them rather than try to type it out on a phone. I'm sure the operators love it, though.
The idea of anonymous disposable phones would be a problem to law enforcement. I wouldn't be surprised to see legislation passed that would heavily lean on providers to not offer such services. As far as searches go, why couldn't they just contact the provider and have them disconnect or disrupt service? As far as I know, these aren't high powered digital walkie-talkies, so they still need a service provider. Laws will be passed to make sure providers can provide names, phone numbers, phone ids, etc. to the appropriate agencies. Also, what would stop the FBI from jamming the 3G signals in the immediate area of the search?
The competition angle is probably the biggest reason. The cell phone companies like having their own fiefdoms each with incompatible phones.
A new calendar will make all the evil people in the world go away? Are we all going to hold hands, stand in a circle and sing hippie campfire songs too? I hope they plan on sedating the rest of the planet with whatever mind altering drugs they are on, because that's probably the only way their fantasy would have a slightest chance of ever getting off the ground. Peace and freedom are usually things that one has to fight for. Or as Mr. Jefferson put it "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants".
And they hyped it like it was going to be the best thing ever. They were also so proud that they did this project in 14 months compared to the 30 months that it took Sony to develop the PS2. I certainly hope so. The XBox is built with off the shelf parts & modified win2k compared to the PS2 which started from scratch with a custom cpu, graphics, etc.
Hmm...I wonder if the problem lies with the Mexicans that they rounded up and trained to build the thing for $3-4 an hour or the stock compensated MS software/hardware engineers? Either way, I'm glad that the people will still be treated to the Microsoft experience that we all know and love.
I'm sure Sony and Nintendo are laughing their asses off over these reports.
Do you already have a 220V line for it, or did you tell the wife that the dryer has got to go and that it was time to start drying clothes the 'organic & environmentally friendly' way? Then a few days later, you can innocently claim that it the 400 was free and putting it in the laundry room is better than dumping it.
I have a 4 port PS/2 IOGear KVM and I've been quite happy with it. I haven't had any problems with it with X11, but there are occasions where it won't recognize the hotkey sequence to switch machines. It ususally happens if the current machine dies due to the Nvidia driver locking up. Then I have to use the button on the KVM to cycle the machine being displayed.
Sure, other editors may start up faster, but so what? You only need to start emacs once when you start work and use it until you go home. Even then, it's not that slow and really depends on how much lisp code you have in .emacs. The gnuclient package allow other programs to tell emacs to edit a file. With remote file editing via ange-ftp and/or tramp, working on several machines is a breeze.
I also like using the diary and appointment mode to have it remind me to go to meetings. The timecard mode is also great for work places where one has to track how much time is being spent on different projects.