I really wish someone would make a definitive database for WiFi locations based on either postings by users or the WiFi equipment owners themselves. I know that there are a few sites, but they, well suck. There needs to be a consentrated effort to do this. I'll gladly share my bandwidth if i know I can borrow someone elses later.
I think it was in the early 30s or 40s that they demonstrated a video phone. Its twenty-o-two, I see no video phones.
How about that molecular manufactering. Sounds like the replicator they had on the Enterprise. Truthfully, I don't see this even being in the lab for decades. Sure, we can theorize about these things that it is possible, but I can also theoretically date Britney Spears, and we ALL know that ANIT gonna happen.
I take these tech preview thingies with many grains of salt.
The Lowes here goes to X then goes back to an ugly text interface. Maybe its because South Carolina is so ass-backwards. On the plus side, they do have very beautiful creditcard readers now, and instead of signing a piece of paper, you sign on the screens. And as the local dilect of English allows, you 'mash the Done key'.
I worked at RadioShack for a brief stint and this is what I saw at the POS system.
a Tandy machine (no idea on speed) running Win95. It crashed REGULARLY. It was fun watching Scandisk do its thing while a customer is waiting.
The interface is a custom app that pulls its inventory data off of the 'server' sitting in the back room. To do this, each POS was networked to the 'server' in the back room. For some reason, each POS also had Serv-U FTP server running on boot. There was no cashdrawer interface as the cashdrawer was a SINGLE wooden drawer behind the desk with a 'fingercode' access inhibitor. All you needed to do was pull with your middle finger pulling the most.
IF anyone else worked at RS, tell us about it, i'm curious about the current RS situation.
Lets hope the train isn't running on Win9X, otherwise they would have to turn off the train and reboot everytime someone needed to get on or off. (There would be a change in hardware.)
Adverts should make ads worth watching. Comon, who DIDN'T laugh at the E*Trade commerical during the Superbowl a couple years ago? It showed a monkey dancing while mentally handicapped people clapped. Then it cut to an image that said, 'we just wasted 2 million bucks'. Even now, i'll watch a Britney ad, (albiet MUTED) for the sheer oogle factor.
Good question, but its probbably the same reason we see Linux going into toasters and such.
why do you climb the mountain, because its there. Probbably the same reason people use Linux on a PS2, just to see if they can, and what they can do with it.
AotC has the older fan base, but Matrix2 has the newer nerds, that and Trinity is hot, wears tight leather, and there are 'guns lots of guns'. (Doesn't mean I'm not going to see AotC again!)
Right now, i'm sitting in the bathroom with no windows, the only thing that connects me to the outside world is my network cable and power cable. HA spy on me now!
Today's games are too hard! How many buttons are on a PS2 controller?
to shoot, hold this button, while pushing this other button every second, while moving the left analog directional joystick around counter clockwise Too much depth in the game to make the casual gamer want to learn. I like SNES. Great system, cheap games, hours of playability. ZERO learning curve.
And if the game doesn't want to work, you just BLOW on the cartrige real hard. Now THATS interactivity!
I agree w/ you on the point that they could turn the lights off/on automatically. Our old Ford Taurus LX '88 did a SPELENDID job of turning the lights on and off as it sought fit, and it did a good job at it. (It also left the lights on for 3 minutes after the car was off, GREAT feature)
My current car, a 98 Intrepid ES doesn't do it, but it does leave the lights on for 2 minutes after ignition is off, ONLY if correct powerdown procedure is followed. (Turn key off, key out, THEN turn lights off)
I know the lights *will* shut themselves off after 10 minutes if left on by mistake, but 10 minutes is a LONG time.
Very good point. This is America, we must remember that Bill Gates EARNED his own money through resourcefulness. Yea, the guy who sold him QDOS for 10,000 is probbably STILL kicking himself, but everything that Bill Gates has done is legal, UNTIL PROVEN BEYOND A DOUBT OTHERWISE. We cannot ignore that. These people who go and march on rich people are just as envious of his stash as I am, but I want to get there on my own, these people want a hand out.
What Microsoft Corp has done, well, the courts are still in session about that.
Hey, AP Bio, i have some notes if you want em. Took them on my Sharp Mobilon TriPad, best damn investment I ever made. Good luck on the test, (when is it anyway).
I figured with better transfer rates, better range, and A LOT MORE equpiement, someone would have made something like this for WiFi. I'd buy one. Stick it in your briefcase while using your laptop on your desk, plenty cheap data storage. And why not? make it nice and cheap using a slow 20 giger and your set.
DLink has pretty good support, especially for Linux. My dad's noname laptop came with a CD that provided Linux drivers, and they actively support them via the phone support.
I have this IBM 770Z as my main PC right (Poor college student). Its SOLID as anything I've ever used. My roommate has a Dell something or other, and I'm afraid I'm going to break it everytime I touch it. I can pick up my laptop by the corner, and it feels solid. Albiet, it weighs a lot, but hey, it sits on my couch most of the day. Docking station is pretty nifty, but only one USB.
I know this is an old Laptop, but I've seen IBM's new line and it seems very similar. Performance wise, well mine sucks, but its still running WinXP Pro! (A feat itself!)
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I really wish someone would make a definitive database for WiFi locations based on either postings by users or the WiFi equipment owners themselves. I know that there are a few sites, but they, well suck. There needs to be a consentrated effort to do this. I'll gladly share my bandwidth if i know I can borrow someone elses later.
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I'm going to steal your sig for a shirt if that's alright.
I think it was in the early 30s or 40s that they demonstrated a video phone. Its twenty-o-two, I see no video phones.
How about that molecular manufactering. Sounds like the replicator they had on the Enterprise. Truthfully, I don't see this even being in the lab for decades. Sure, we can theorize about these things that it is possible, but I can also theoretically date Britney Spears, and we ALL know that ANIT gonna happen.
I take these tech preview thingies with many grains of salt.
The Lowes here goes to X then goes back to an ugly text interface. Maybe its because South Carolina is so ass-backwards.
On the plus side, they do have very beautiful creditcard readers now, and instead of signing a piece of paper, you sign on the screens. And as the local dilect of English allows, you 'mash the Done key'.
I worked at RadioShack for a brief stint and this is what I saw at the POS system.
a Tandy machine (no idea on speed) running Win95. It crashed REGULARLY. It was fun watching Scandisk do its thing while a customer is waiting.
The interface is a custom app that pulls its inventory data off of the 'server' sitting in the back room. To do this, each POS was networked to the 'server' in the back room. For some reason, each POS also had Serv-U FTP server running on boot. There was no cashdrawer interface as the cashdrawer was a SINGLE wooden drawer behind the desk with a 'fingercode' access inhibitor. All you needed to do was pull with your middle finger pulling the most.
IF anyone else worked at RS, tell us about it, i'm curious about the current RS situation.
Lets hope the train isn't running on Win9X, otherwise they would have to turn off the train and reboot everytime someone needed to get on or off. (There would be a change in hardware.)
yes and no
you could sample faster than the brain can register, and so it would be impossible to tell just using your God given ears.
but, i completly agree with you, A-D conversion is lossy, unless you can do an infinite amount of sampling/timeframe.
Adverts should make ads worth watching. Comon, who DIDN'T laugh at the E*Trade commerical during the Superbowl a couple years ago? It showed a monkey dancing while mentally handicapped people clapped. Then it cut to an image that said, 'we just wasted 2 million bucks'.
Even now, i'll watch a Britney ad, (albiet MUTED) for the sheer oogle factor.
exactly. I bought a Dreamcast so i could emulate my SNES and NES games that I gave to my sister.
NES is still the only game i can play for days on end without remembering to eat, or go to class.
Good question, but its probbably the same reason we see Linux going into toasters and such.
why do you climb the mountain, because its there. Probbably the same reason people use Linux on a PS2, just to see if they can, and what they can do with it.
AotC has the older fan base, but Matrix2 has the newer nerds, that and Trinity is hot, wears tight leather, and there are 'guns lots of guns'.
(Doesn't mean I'm not going to see AotC again!)
Right now, i'm sitting in the bathroom with no windows, the only thing that connects me to the outside world is my network cable and power cable. HA spy on me now!
//drunk, fix later//
GO buy one now!! I want a new computer at their expense!
Today's games are too hard! How many buttons are on a PS2 controller?
to shoot, hold this button, while pushing this other button every second, while moving the left analog directional joystick around counter clockwise Too much depth in the game to make the casual gamer want to learn.
I like SNES. Great system, cheap games, hours of playability. ZERO learning curve.
And if the game doesn't want to work, you just BLOW on the cartrige real hard. Now THATS interactivity!
Cheap hardware is @ www.pricewatch.com
37 bucks (USD) for a Proxima card, 44 for a Xircom
I agree w/ you on the point that they could turn the lights off/on automatically. Our old Ford Taurus LX '88 did a SPELENDID job of turning the lights on and off as it sought fit, and it did a good job at it. (It also left the lights on for 3 minutes after the car was off, GREAT feature)
My current car, a 98 Intrepid ES doesn't do it, but it does leave the lights on for 2 minutes after ignition is off, ONLY if correct powerdown procedure is followed. (Turn key off, key out, THEN turn lights off)
I know the lights *will* shut themselves off after 10 minutes if left on by mistake, but 10 minutes is a LONG time.
interesting Freudian Slip,
each server
Either that, or its a typo...
It would not fold (easily that is, heck i can fold my LCD down, the unfolding part is tricky).
Very good point. This is America, we must remember that Bill Gates EARNED his own money through resourcefulness. Yea, the guy who sold him QDOS for 10,000 is probbably STILL kicking himself, but everything that Bill Gates has done is legal, UNTIL PROVEN BEYOND A DOUBT OTHERWISE. We cannot ignore that. These people who go and march on rich people are just as envious of his stash as I am, but I want to get there on my own, these people want a hand out.
What Microsoft Corp has done, well, the courts are still in session about that.
Hey, AP Bio, i have some notes if you want em. Took them on my Sharp Mobilon TriPad, best damn investment I ever made. Good luck on the test, (when is it anyway).
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"the virtual laws of physics say they won't be able to stop on a dime."
But virtual physics???
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:)
I figured with better transfer rates, better range, and A LOT MORE equpiement, someone would have made something like this for WiFi. I'd buy one. Stick it in your briefcase while using your laptop on your desk, plenty cheap data storage. And why not? make it nice and cheap using a slow 20 giger and your set.
whatever
DLink has pretty good support, especially for Linux. My dad's noname laptop came with a CD that provided Linux drivers, and they actively support them via the phone support.
I have this IBM 770Z as my main PC right (Poor college student). Its SOLID as anything I've ever used. My roommate has a Dell something or other, and I'm afraid I'm going to break it everytime I touch it. I can pick up my laptop by the corner, and it feels solid. Albiet, it weighs a lot, but hey, it sits on my couch most of the day. Docking station is pretty nifty, but only one USB.
I know this is an old Laptop, but I've seen IBM's new line and it seems very similar. Performance wise, well mine sucks, but its still running WinXP Pro! (A feat itself!)
AMEN! COULDN'T have said it better myself
(Still using a Sharp Mobilon Tripad as portable desktop, but would LOVE one of these)