Elon Musk and his SpaceX team should pack it up. They'll never make it to Mars now that they're taking on the real space corporations by trying to get into their satellite launch business. SpaceX is about to be buried alive.
I agree with you concerning the cradle. I rely heavily on the zaurus keyboard... in fact I'm typing this on my zaurus. The only use I've found for the cradle is for charging the battery at night.
I am looking forward to adding a wifi card... right now I'm settling for an old pretec wired ethernet that i inherited (it belongs to my company, but since the PDA it was bought for is dead, i'll continue using it)
The zaurus is a great tool. i'm in love with iqnotes.
You just have to be willing to look for deals. Sure, the SL-5500 is not the 'latest' model. But it suits me fine. I've owned 5 PDA's prior to my Zaurus, and the Zaurus is the first one that has allowed me to leave my laptop behind.
The "battery extender" mentioned is actually a much better solution then keeping up with an extra battery. It can be used to either run or charge the Zaurus and can be instantly replinished anywhere there's a supply of "AA" batteries.
My SL-5500 runs OpenZaurus 3.1 and syncs just fine with Linux and Windows. I'm sure that putting an OpenZaurus ROM on the SL-5600 will also produce the same results. Flashing to OpenZaurus is easy. It takes under 10 minutes and requires no user interaction to setup.
The 128M Memory Card is a Compact Flash or SD Card used for storage, not for actually running applications. The Zaurus comes with it's own built-in RAM for running applications once they are loaded into memory.
Only it wasn't quite "shot for shot"....and it was called "Raiders of the Burning Bush."...and it starred "Idaho Smith" not "Indiana Jones."...and "our hero" ended up with 1st degree burns after digging up the bush (he was subsequently beaten by Nazi Ninjas.
I actually followed The Hackers Diet about three years ago and lost 25 pounds over the course of 3 1/2 months.
I lost the will power to keep on the diet and have gained most of that weight back over the last two years, and am currently trying to work up the will power to start it up again. I'm 6 feet tall, so it would be nice to be back to a nice lean 170lbs again.
Actually, I agree with much of what you are saying. My initial comment was not intended as a defense of the system, simply a matter-of-fact reality that the system has problems.
Keeping govermment employees accountable is a difficult chore. It is easier in a corporation that has a profit/loss model.
In order to change things, we have to find a way to measure the profitability of government agencies and each employees contribution to that profitability. There have been forces at work to try and make this happen with teachers, but it needs to done with everyone who pulls a government paycheck.
"Oopsie" becomes "excuse enough" when most of the Republic's citizens have been indoctrinated to believe that they are accountable to the Republic, but the Republic is not accountable to them.
Having worked in the Government (military), I can assure you the 25-years is NOT enough time for the government to determine the effects of releasing information. This is because the deadline probably crept up on the affected agencies and they hadn't made any proactive measures to insure the document's declassification.
Now that the deadline has actually approached, they have their pants down and don't know what to do.
In this case, Microsoft is doing nothing wrong. WMP9 will be available for free. There will be no license requirement to the end-user.
The licensing fees that we are refering to here are those regarding media creation... the encoding of A/V in either MPEG4 or Windows Media. On this playing field, Microsoft is not a monopoly.
You've got to use your mind to seperate the media player executable from the file format.
It sounds like it would take a LOT of potatos to blanket a complete scene in this kind of fake snow.
I wonder if anyone has considered using all of these potatos for any other purposes... like maybe feeding hungry people?
Seriously, I think that everyone would be better served if they would just develop a better method for collecting all of the old plastic fake snow after it had been used. That way it could be recycled as fake snow for the next motion picture.
Here's to hoping that they don't strangle my bandwidth. I'm currently cruising somewhere at around 300+kBytes. That's nice. Very nice. Of course, uploads are usually between 30-60kBytes.
And no. You didn't sound insulting. It just sounded like you assumed that I thought that DSL was provided over Phiber Optik and not copper. That, of course, was not what I meant. Perhaps I should have been clearer.
Maybe IBM could be nice and open some of the OS/2 source code up to the community? At least the parts where they hold IP rights?
Maybe enough source could be opened as to create a server product to run under Linux or other Operating Systems? So current OS/2 shops could have an easy migration from OS/2 to another OS?
Personally, I would love to the WPS running along with my favorite window manager.
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Hey. No worries.
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Take your stupid spelling police crap back to Reddit.
It's my account and I'll post when I'm good and ready. It's called FREE SPEACH!
Elon Musk and his SpaceX team should pack it up. They'll never make it to Mars now that they're taking on the real space corporations by trying to get into their satellite launch business. SpaceX is about to be buried alive.
Yup. Totally agree with this post.
Download all available update to windows and any other security software. Install them on the laptop prior to bringing it on the network.
" The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 1.3 x 10^5years
see...we get hit by FTL meteors about once every 13 thousand years!"
Wrong. Did you even read the statement? It's talking size, not velocity!
Now, try calculating the effects of the earth being struck by the USS Enterprise traveling at Warp 8! It kicks our ass!
I agree with you concerning the cradle. I rely heavily on the zaurus keyboard... in fact I'm typing this on my zaurus. The only use I've found for the cradle is for charging the battery at night.
I am looking forward to adding a wifi card... right now I'm settling for an old pretec wired ethernet that i inherited (it belongs to my company, but since the PDA it was bought for is dead, i'll continue using it)
The zaurus is a great tool. i'm in love with iqnotes.
If you don't go for the newest hardware, you can get up and running with the "full functionality of a PDA" for a lot less then you quote:
Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 - $199.99 (tigerdirect.com)
256MB Memory Card - $54.99 (tigerdirect.com)
Wireless Card - $29.99 (tigerdirect.com)
Battery Extender - $6.99 (semsons.com)
Battery Charger - $16.59 (Radio Shack)
Carrying Case - $24.50 (hsn.com)
TOTAL: $333.05
You just have to be willing to look for deals. Sure, the SL-5500 is not the 'latest' model. But it suits me fine. I've owned 5 PDA's prior to my Zaurus, and the Zaurus is the first one that has allowed me to leave my laptop behind.
The "battery extender" mentioned is actually a much better solution then keeping up with an extra battery. It can be used to either run or charge the Zaurus and can be instantly replinished anywhere there's a supply of "AA" batteries.
My SL-5500 runs OpenZaurus 3.1 and syncs just fine with Linux and Windows. I'm sure that putting an OpenZaurus ROM on the SL-5600 will also produce the same results. Flashing to OpenZaurus is easy. It takes under 10 minutes and requires no user interaction to setup.
The 128M Memory Card is a Compact Flash or SD Card used for storage, not for actually running applications. The Zaurus comes with it's own built-in RAM for running applications once they are loaded into memory.
I think RMS would not have a problem with Linux being deep-sixed. As long as he could get people to migrate from Linux to GNU/HURD.
If Linux died tommorow, a large number of kernel developers would probably move over to GNU/HURD and GNU/HURD would benefit greatly.
All-in-all, a perfect outcome from Stallman's perspective.
Only it wasn't quite "shot for shot". ...and it was called "Raiders of the Burning Bush." ...and it starred "Idaho Smith" not "Indiana Jones." ...and "our hero" ended up with 1st degree burns after digging up the bush (he was subsequently beaten by Nazi Ninjas.
I actually followed The Hackers Diet about three years ago and lost 25 pounds over the course of 3 1/2 months.
I lost the will power to keep on the diet and have gained most of that weight back over the last two years, and am currently trying to work up the will power to start it up again. I'm 6 feet tall, so it would be nice to be back to a nice lean 170lbs again.
Actually, I agree with much of what you are saying. My initial comment was not intended as a defense of the system, simply a matter-of-fact reality that the system has problems.
Keeping govermment employees accountable is a difficult chore. It is easier in a corporation that has a profit/loss model.
In order to change things, we have to find a way to measure the profitability of government agencies and each employees contribution to that profitability. There have been forces at work to try and make this happen with teachers, but it needs to done with everyone who pulls a government paycheck.
"Oopsie" becomes "excuse enough" when most of the Republic's citizens have been indoctrinated to believe that they are accountable to the Republic, but the Republic is not accountable to them.
Having worked in the Government (military), I can assure you the 25-years is NOT enough time for the government to determine the effects of releasing information. This is because the deadline probably crept up on the affected agencies and they hadn't made any proactive measures to insure the document's declassification.
Now that the deadline has actually approached, they have their pants down and don't know what to do.
Duh!
It's called Carbonite! Where have you been?
As a physician, don't you have better things to do then hang out at Slashdot? I mean... go save somebody's life or something.
The more contact I have with doctors, the more surprised I am to find that so many of them are closet geeks.
In Soviet russia?
No.
I am astounded that someone would get the idea that person's behind in their reading level need to be further empowered to remain illiterate.
Wrong.
In this case, Microsoft is doing nothing wrong. WMP9 will be available for free. There will be no license requirement to the end-user.
The licensing fees that we are refering to here are those regarding media creation... the encoding of A/V in either MPEG4 or Windows Media. On this playing field, Microsoft is not a monopoly.
You've got to use your mind to seperate the media player executable from the file format.
What makes people so sure they were after the computer for that data? They probably stole it so they could play The Sims Online.
You are not a what?
Interesting.
It sounds like it would take a LOT of potatos to blanket a complete scene in this kind of fake snow.
I wonder if anyone has considered using all of these potatos for any other purposes... like maybe feeding hungry people?
Seriously, I think that everyone would be better served if they would just develop a better method for collecting all of the old plastic fake snow after it had been used. That way it could be recycled as fake snow for the next motion picture.
Here's to hoping that they don't strangle my bandwidth. I'm currently cruising somewhere at around 300+kBytes. That's nice. Very nice. Of course, uploads are usually between 30-60kBytes.
And no. You didn't sound insulting. It just sounded like you assumed that I thought that DSL was provided over Phiber Optik and not copper. That, of course, was not what I meant. Perhaps I should have been clearer.
Maybe IBM could be nice and open some of the OS/2 source code up to the community? At least the parts where they hold IP rights?
Maybe enough source could be opened as to create a server product to run under Linux or other Operating Systems? So current OS/2 shops could have an easy migration from OS/2 to another OS?
Personally, I would love to the WPS running along with my favorite window manager.