I mean, you guys are bitching about phones that take pictures. You want a camera that takes a good picture. You want an MP3 player that holds tens of gigs. You want a phone that goes for a week with a single charge and is very light.
Umm. You can buy these things right now. I have.
But do I carry my Nomad jukebox in my pocket all the time? Hell no. Do I have my Olympus Camedia hanging in my neck all the time? Nope.
I picked up a Nokia 7650 recently. I've been a Nokia person for ages (save for an odd Motorola or Ericcsson here and there, only to be disgusted by their lack of user-friendliness).
It's a bit bulky. It does not play MP3s. It can only take pretty lousy pictures with its fixed focus VGA-res camera. It's short on memory and is a bit slow. The built-in PIM is OK, but it does not have a spreadsheet. I would be happier with a small keyboard or a touchscreen for text entry.
But... doesn't it just cry out the possibility of an ultra pocket device? Isn't it where we're headed? There are very small cameras out there that take very nice pictures. There are very small MP3 players. There are very small phones. Combine them without trade-offs, and you got my $2000.
I don't know what's this "I like my scanner to scan" attitude. (And I have no idea what's +4, Interesting about it at all.) I like my scanner to scan too - I just don't mind if it's the same machine as my fax and printer, conveniently hooked up to my PC with a USB cable.
I actually don't like the fact that they did not integrate an ISDN phone into it.
Have these people ever heard of statistics? What they did is basically worthless - if they sampled ten times more email addresses (randomly chosen or manually and evenly distributed between sexes, ages, etc.) they could start thinking about publishing their results. But this is a joke.
...at remotelyanywhere.com is dirt-cheap compared to others, does not rely on the cygwin junk, and provides a full ssh1/ssh2/sftp implementation as well as a bunch of other admin stuff.
I've been running it on my Athlon 1800+ WITHIN a Vmware box for 40 minutes, and it already found 5 valid out of 160.
Why would you need a bigger performance on this?
If you were a real badass pirate risking years in jail, and you were planning on selling 100 licenses per day, you'd only need one box.
Let's ignore the fact that Vmware has a negative impact on speed. So within one hour you would get 7.5 keys. In a day, you'd generate 180 keys, more than you need. Get an SMP box and run two instances - 360 keys in 24 hours.
It's not in MOST companies. Only in really big ones. I doubt that corporations with less than a couple hundred (thousand? whatever) workstations could afford volume licensing.
Then, Joe sitting at his office computer running XP that the IT guys ghosted for him has never seen the actual product key. The IT guys have it, and they only used it once when installing the original HD to be ghosted. Then they tucked it away somewhere. I have never seen a volume licensing EULA, but I'm pretty sure they can be held liable if the key gets out.
There's a good reason you don't see but one corporate XP key on the 'net.
As for the keygenerator, it took maybe 5 minutes to find it after I read the article on The Register. (I haven't started reading the thread... it would have been handed to me here.) Then I fired up an undoable vmware box, copied the.exe over, disabled its networking (you never know!) and started the thing. It's processed 130 keys so far, and found two valid. I haven't checked them myself, probably won't; after all, I have a number of legit keys. But in any case, it appears to do its job.
I live in Europe. I didn't know about this show until a friend told me about it. Then I went to a.b.m.futurama and started downloading what I could.
This is SERIOUSLY GOOD STUFF! I understand it's huge in Germany, and other parts of Europe where people are fortunate enough to have decent TV stations. Watching Bundesliga soccer, you can see people holding up signs with Bender on them.
I got the 1st season on DVD. Yes, all you USA residents, it did come out in Europe. Go check amazon.co.uk. And it sold out FAAAST!
I'm pretty sure it was over three or four years ago - however, they did this with analog signals and not with DSS.
They used a modem connection for upstream, and some clumsy hardware that you plugged between your satellite receiver and the dish for downstream.
It never took off - initial costs were too high, and once they started getting more subscribers the "huge" bandwidth just disappeared as it got divided further and further amongst users.
Now everyone & their sister is on ISDN, ADSL & cable, and the situation's not a whole lot better. Between 6-12 PM all the backbones are fully loaded. Well, that's what you get when they start giving away ADSL for $20 per month.
This machine does not print books...
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It prints cheap copies. On copier paper.
I like a good book. I read a lot (not as much as I used to though - work, work, work) and I always buy the hardcover edition if I can.
A book is more than the sum of the paper and what's written on it. It's also how it looks. Feels. Real books are printed on real paper. An old book is yellowish. A new book smells great. There was an artist who designed the cover. Another one responsible for the typeface and the paper. Maybe a third one did the illustrations. I like it that way.
This machine would be analogous to some automated kitchen that can produce a huge variety of gourmet meals at the touch of a button, but all the food would look like cheeseburgers. A delicious rack of New Zealand lamb, in cheeseburger form. Oh, this burger tastes like lobster! And this one's John Dory! Wow.
Unfiltered SMS centers RULE. Nothing beats a free SMS. (Well, a free lunch would, but there's no such thing.)
A Google search on "free sms center numbers" yields an amazing result: a page titled "Free SMS Center numbers". Haven't tried the numbers, but at least one should work.
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Just buy a tri-band phone instead of renting one next time you're overseas.
Last time I've been there I picked up an Ericsson thingy for about $400, it works on 900 & 1800 MHz as well as on the 1900 MHz standard in the US.
I inserted my European SIM card, and was able to use the phone in New York, Detroit & Vegas - pretty much everywhere I've been on that trip.
The only downside was people who didn't know I was overseas, calling me at 7 fucking am in the morning. Oh yeah, and then there was the phone bill, about $2 per minute with those stupid roaming charges.
Too bad that CTP is a BAD game
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I have bought the Windows version. I played it for 3 days, maybe spent 30 hours with the damn thing. I then realised that it's a waste of time. I put the CD back in its case and it's sitting on the shelf now. I don't plan to dust it off anytime soon.
I love CIV, CIV2 is good too. I liked the Alpha Centauri demo and I wish I bought that instead of CTP. Why? The interface is a nightmare. It's not only bad, it's a total screwup. Unit balance is nonexistent. Climbing the technology tree (which is huge, but has a few chokepoints) is worthless, since musketeers will defeat your fusion tanks. Or you'll defeat fusion tanks with musketeers. The endgame is very tedious. CTP becomes a chore before you know it.
Don't get me wrong: Buy the Linux version when it comes out. You'll support Linux. You'll get hooked. You'll enjoy the game for some time. But then you'll be wishing that you spent that time with something else. Sleeping. Staring at the ceiling. Whatever.
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I mean, you guys are bitching about phones that take pictures. You want a camera that takes a good picture. You want an MP3 player that holds tens of gigs. You want a phone that goes for a week with a single charge and is very light.
Umm. You can buy these things right now. I have.
But do I carry my Nomad jukebox in my pocket all the time? Hell no. Do I have my Olympus Camedia hanging in my neck all the time? Nope.
I picked up a Nokia 7650 recently. I've been a Nokia person for ages (save for an odd Motorola or Ericcsson here and there, only to be disgusted by their lack of user-friendliness).
It's a bit bulky. It does not play MP3s. It can only take pretty lousy pictures with its fixed focus VGA-res camera. It's short on memory and is a bit slow. The built-in PIM is OK, but it does not have a spreadsheet. I would be happier with a small keyboard or a touchscreen for text entry.
But... doesn't it just cry out the possibility of an ultra pocket device? Isn't it where we're headed? There are very small cameras out there that take very nice pictures. There are very small MP3 players. There are very small phones. Combine them without trade-offs, and you got my $2000.
I don't know what's this "I like my scanner to scan" attitude. (And I have no idea what's +4, Interesting about it at all.) I like my scanner to scan too - I just don't mind if it's the same machine as my fax and printer, conveniently hooked up to my PC with a USB cable.
I actually don't like the fact that they did not integrate an ISDN phone into it.
is not ten liters. Ten liters is ~20 pints.
You work for Nasa?
240 recipients? 36% versus 50%?
Have these people ever heard of statistics? What they did is basically worthless - if they sampled ten times more email addresses (randomly chosen or manually and evenly distributed between sexes, ages, etc.) they could start thinking about publishing their results. But this is a joke.
...at remotelyanywhere.com is dirt-cheap compared to others, does not rely on the cygwin junk, and provides a full ssh1/ssh2/sftp implementation as well as a bunch of other admin stuff.
I've been running it on my Athlon 1800+ WITHIN a Vmware box for 40 minutes, and it already found 5 valid out of 160.
Why would you need a bigger performance on this?
If you were a real badass pirate risking years in jail, and you were planning on selling 100 licenses per day, you'd only need one box.
Let's ignore the fact that Vmware has a negative impact on speed. So within one hour you would get 7.5 keys. In a day, you'd generate 180 keys, more than you need. Get an SMP box and run two instances - 360 keys in 24 hours.
You're wrong here on two counts.
.exe over, disabled its networking (you never know!) and started the thing. It's processed 130 keys so far, and found two valid. I haven't checked them myself, probably won't; after all, I have a number of legit keys. But in any case, it appears to do its job.
It's not in MOST companies. Only in really big ones. I doubt that corporations with less than a couple hundred (thousand? whatever) workstations could afford volume licensing.
Then, Joe sitting at his office computer running XP that the IT guys ghosted for him has never seen the actual product key. The IT guys have it, and they only used it once when installing the original HD to be ghosted. Then they tucked it away somewhere. I have never seen a volume licensing EULA, but I'm pretty sure they can be held liable if the key gets out.
There's a good reason you don't see but one corporate XP key on the 'net.
As for the keygenerator, it took maybe 5 minutes to find it after I read the article on The Register. (I haven't started reading the thread... it would have been handed to me here.) Then I fired up an undoable vmware box, copied the
I live in Europe. I didn't know about this show until a friend told me about it. Then I went to a.b.m.futurama and started downloading what I could.
This is SERIOUSLY GOOD STUFF! I understand it's huge in Germany, and other parts of Europe where people are fortunate enough to have decent TV stations. Watching Bundesliga soccer, you can see people holding up signs with Bender on them.
I got the 1st season on DVD. Yes, all you USA residents, it did come out in Europe. Go check amazon.co.uk. And it sold out FAAAST!
In Hungary, of all places.
I'm pretty sure it was over three or four years ago - however, they did this with analog signals and not with DSS.
They used a modem connection for upstream, and some clumsy hardware that you plugged between your satellite receiver and the dish for downstream.
It never took off - initial costs were too high, and once they started getting more subscribers the "huge" bandwidth just disappeared as it got divided further and further amongst users.
Now everyone & their sister is on ISDN, ADSL & cable, and the situation's not a whole lot better. Between 6-12 PM all the backbones are fully loaded. Well, that's what you get when they start giving away ADSL for $20 per month.
It prints cheap copies. On copier paper.
I like a good book. I read a lot (not as much as I used to though - work, work, work) and I always buy the hardcover edition if I can.
A book is more than the sum of the paper and what's written on it. It's also how it looks. Feels. Real books are printed on real paper. An old book is yellowish. A new book smells great. There was an artist who designed the cover. Another one responsible for the typeface and the paper. Maybe a third one did the illustrations. I like it that way.
This machine would be analogous to some automated kitchen that can produce a huge variety of gourmet meals at the touch of a button, but all the food would look like cheeseburgers. A delicious rack of New Zealand lamb, in cheeseburger form. Oh, this burger tastes like lobster! And this one's John Dory! Wow.
Not for me, thank you.
Unfiltered SMS centers RULE. Nothing beats a free SMS. (Well, a free lunch would, but there's no such thing.)
A Google search on "free sms center numbers" yields an amazing result: a page titled "Free SMS Center numbers". Haven't tried the numbers, but at least one should work.
Just buy a tri-band phone instead of renting one next time you're overseas.
Last time I've been there I picked up an Ericsson thingy for about $400, it works on 900 & 1800 MHz as well as on the 1900 MHz standard in the US.
I inserted my European SIM card, and was able to use the phone in New York, Detroit & Vegas - pretty much everywhere I've been on that trip.
The only downside was people who didn't know I was overseas, calling me at 7 fucking am in the morning. Oh yeah, and then there was the phone bill, about $2 per minute with those stupid roaming charges.
I have bought the Windows version. I played it for 3 days, maybe spent 30 hours with the damn thing. I then realised that it's a waste of time. I put the CD back in its case and it's sitting on the shelf now. I don't plan to dust it off anytime soon.
I love CIV, CIV2 is good too. I liked the Alpha Centauri demo and I wish I bought that instead of CTP. Why? The interface is a nightmare. It's not only bad, it's a total screwup. Unit balance is nonexistent. Climbing the technology tree (which is huge, but has a few chokepoints) is worthless, since musketeers will defeat your fusion tanks. Or you'll defeat fusion tanks with musketeers. The endgame is very tedious. CTP becomes a chore before you know it.
Don't get me wrong: Buy the Linux version when it comes out. You'll support Linux. You'll get hooked. You'll enjoy the game for some time. But then you'll be wishing that you spent that time with something else. Sleeping. Staring at the ceiling. Whatever.
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