Re:Cheaper by the sixpack?
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If you want a touchscreen, Fujitsu's Lifebook B series notebooks come with them standard. They're $1500, but you'll end up paying close to that for a comparable desktop with a LCD/touchscreen anyway (won't you?)
Lets hope this gets moderated up! www.worthdist.com has two excellent deals right now. I got the IBM Home Director Starter Kit for $10. includes RF transceiver/appliance module, 6-in-one RF-remote.. (controls TV, VCR, your lights, plug more), a computer interface (The bi-directional CM11!!) and a light module. Also for $15 I got the expansion kit which has 3 light modules, an appliance module (3-prong!), the very cool plug-in controller (Its fast and very reliable) and a wall switch light module.
Shipping was $4. I ordered mine at 3pm one day and it showed up at my place of work at noon the next day. I was VERY impressed.
I love it. For $30 its far better and more useful than buying lots of the firecracker deals (which is what I was doing until I found this)
The IBM kits sort of remove the need for the firecracker kits. The firecracker appliance modules are one-way and they don't respond to on/off commands on the wire. They ONLY take on/off via RF. The only good thing from those kits are the lamp modules.
Everybody here seems to be taking jabs at Apple for trying to get publicity from this, and saying that Apple gives nothing back to the people who fix their bugs. But the people who fix bugs do get something back. They get the bugs fixed.
Everybody knows that the software we buy is full of bugs. And I don't think its such a bad thing for us to be able to fix them.
Sometimes it is worthwhile to buy a commercial piece of software for one reason or another. What is so wrong with being given the opportunity to fix these bugs? Even if we don't have complete rights to what we fix, we do end up with software that works.
I'd like to see a NNTP server for Slashdot. With a new 'newsgroup' for each article. Something would have to be done to eliminate spam on this. But it would be GREAT to be able to use Agent to read slashdot. We could see all the posts, etc. Have newsgroups automatically expire when not posted to for a week.
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If you want a touchscreen, Fujitsu's Lifebook B series notebooks come with them standard. They're $1500, but you'll end up paying close to that for a comparable desktop with a LCD/touchscreen anyway (won't you?)
Lets hope this gets moderated up! www.worthdist.com has two excellent deals right now.
I got the IBM Home Director Starter Kit for $10. includes RF transceiver/appliance module, 6-in-one RF-remote.. (controls TV, VCR, your lights, plug more), a computer interface (The bi-directional CM11!!) and a light module.
Also for $15 I got the expansion kit which has 3 light modules, an appliance module (3-prong!), the very cool plug-in controller (Its fast and very reliable) and a wall switch light module.
Shipping was $4. I ordered mine at 3pm one day and it showed up at my place of work at noon the next day. I was VERY impressed.
I love it. For $30 its far better and more useful than buying lots of the firecracker deals (which is what I was doing until I found this)
The IBM kits sort of remove the need for the firecracker kits. The firecracker appliance modules are one-way and they don't respond to on/off commands on the wire. They ONLY take on/off via RF. The only good thing from those kits are the lamp modules.
Why do people double-space things published online?!
Everybody here seems to be taking jabs at Apple for trying to get publicity from this, and saying that Apple gives nothing back to the people who fix their bugs. But the people who fix bugs do get something back. They get the bugs fixed.
Everybody knows that the software we buy is full of bugs. And I don't think its such a bad thing for us to be able to fix them.
Sometimes it is worthwhile to buy a commercial piece of software for one reason or another. What is so wrong with being given the opportunity to fix these bugs? Even if we don't have complete rights to what we fix, we do end up with software that works.
I'd like to see a NNTP server for Slashdot. With a new 'newsgroup' for each article. Something would have to be done to eliminate spam on this. But it would be GREAT to be able to use Agent to read slashdot. We could see all the posts, etc. Have newsgroups automatically expire when not posted to for a week.
Are you offering to fund it?
At first I was going to post another thing in support of this site.. but then I saw that a bunch of others already did..
I think it was a good idea.