You could unhook it, but if you were buying a new laptop anyway and knew that you were never gonna use the pad, why not just buy one without a pad if possible?
Agreed, and well-put. Wired communication will not go away in the forseeable future.
I do believe, tho, that sooner rather than later we'll come up with some better Wi-Fi security, signal strength, and hopefully less "chatty" ways in which to make and keep a connection.
I'll still be extremely excited when Wi-Fi access becomes reasonably ubiquitous, however. That'll be rocking.
Holy crap, isn't Sanka decaf? How are you holding up, Frank?
I'd be weeping, drooling, and making little gurgling sounds by midway through my first day on decaf.
Best of luck to you, although I have no idea why you'd undertake such a thing.
As for why folks would want wired bandwidth; I suspect you're correct that when Wi-fi is in more places, it won't be necessary for the average user to have any sort of wired connection to the outside; especially if it's cellular-like (by that I mean cellular-type signal quality distance).
Of course, you'll likely have a wired option (Like IP over power from your electric company) with better reliabilty and faster speed, I'm guessing.
That said, I'm totally with ya, man. I'm ready to shed my telco, cable TV, and DSL and just have IP over power and my cell phone. Until I get unlimited minutes on my cell phone, I'd probably also use VoIP for awhile.
Yeah I am having flashbacks of the cube too. The cube I was saddeled with by a boss who always had to have the latest Mac stuff was awful (and I enjoy working on Macs). It overheated whenever it felt like it, and I went through two video cards before I got a good one from Apple (I suppose it's possible that was a fluke, but I can't imagine others didn't experience that as well). Not a cool machine. It was a better Kleenex tissue dispenser. Hopefully Apple learned lessons from the G4 Cube, and has incorporated that knowledge into the Mini. I sure hope so.
I'd get a cheap laptop and a wi-fi card. That way you can take the laptop out there and work while you need, and keep it in the house the rest of the time. Alternatively, you could buy one of those cheap barebones "mini" PCs with a handle and simply carry it from house to shed as necessary.
Good advice dude, in fact, I'm already doing that I'm (as always) fine with html and learning Python right now, to be exact. It's my new coding job that has prompted my return to school (I have a much more flexible schedule now).
Agreed Omni (about the artile being something worth reading).
I'm just going back to college to finish my degree after dropping about in '96 (I've been a sysadmin since then) to learn to write code. It's gonna be much better (meaning sitting on my ass at home) coding than sysadmining, I think.
Anyway, to answer your question I think that once I learn the difference between a pickle and a marinated cucumber I'll be quite happy. I was a little burnt out on sysadmin stuff, but it wasn't the computers it was the people, you know? After eight years doing that, I still sit at my computer (as does my wife) even in my free time. I doubt it'll be much different when I get used to coding.
I for one simply love playing with computers, and I have no issues separating work from play on the same machine.
Agreed, dude. Are we really, at the start of 2005, so far removed from Y2K that we actually doubt its existance? Are there really that many n00bz running the show these days? Weird how short our collective memory is.
Conversely, if there is no port of NetBSD for a gas-powered typewriter, then I for one am prepared to accept that as evidence that they do not indeed exist.
Right, hard drives never physically fail. That's why the (U.S.) hard drive industry has recently changed from three-year warranties to one-year warranties. The drives are so robust that the warraanties were just excessive. They're trying to conserve warranties, since they're an endangered species.:)
I guess I wasn't aware that the rest of the world used the word burgle; maybe just the English speaking countries, I'd have thought (such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, etc)....
This is certainly a linguistic mystery that we should not, nay, must not let lie.
What cracks me up is that if you look at recent comments posted by the user "New Here", most of them have been modded down to -1; some of them have maintained zero.
However, the post from some other user saying the same thing is modded +5 funny.
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Good thing I've already been collecting leaves!!
ha-ha!
Thanks friend, I did not know what the literal interpretation was.
You could unhook it, but if you were buying a new laptop anyway and knew that you were never gonna use the pad, why not just buy one without a pad if possible?
Roughly, zeitgeist can be translated to English as "spirit of the times" or "spirit of the day".
Myth Check
DVD Playback - Yes
DVD Ripping - Yes
Picture Gallery - Yes
Music Jukebox - Yes
Easy web configuration - Yes
Skipping those damn commercials... Priceless.
Probably. Same goes for its reliability. I think some folks will continue to use it for that as well, perceived or not.
Agreed, and well-put. Wired communication will not go away in the forseeable future.
I do believe, tho, that sooner rather than later we'll come up with some better Wi-Fi security, signal strength, and hopefully less "chatty" ways in which to make and keep a connection.
I'll still be extremely excited when Wi-Fi access becomes reasonably ubiquitous, however. That'll be rocking.
Holy crap, isn't Sanka decaf? How are you holding up, Frank?
I'd be weeping, drooling, and making little gurgling sounds by midway through my first day on decaf.
Best of luck to you, although I have no idea why you'd undertake such a thing.
As for why folks would want wired bandwidth; I suspect you're correct that when Wi-fi is in more places, it won't be necessary for the average user to have any sort of wired connection to the outside; especially if it's cellular-like (by that I mean cellular-type signal quality distance).
Of course, you'll likely have a wired option (Like IP over power from your electric company) with better reliabilty and faster speed, I'm guessing.
That said, I'm totally with ya, man. I'm ready to shed my telco, cable TV, and DSL and just have IP over power and my cell phone. Until I get unlimited minutes on my cell phone, I'd probably also use VoIP for awhile.
LMAO thanks for posting this link dude. Funny stuff. I had no idea that book existed.
No, you read it correctly.
In Soviet Russia, HDMI sells pirated DVDs at the train station.
Yeah I am having flashbacks of the cube too. The cube I was saddeled with by a boss who always had to have the latest Mac stuff was awful (and I enjoy working on Macs). It overheated whenever it felt like it, and I went through two video cards before I got a good one from Apple (I suppose it's possible that was a fluke, but I can't imagine others didn't experience that as well). Not a cool machine. It was a better Kleenex tissue dispenser. Hopefully Apple learned lessons from the G4 Cube, and has incorporated that knowledge into the Mini. I sure hope so.
I'd get a cheap laptop and a wi-fi card. That way you can take the laptop out there and work while you need, and keep it in the house the rest of the time. Alternatively, you could buy one of those cheap barebones "mini" PCs with a handle and simply carry it from house to shed as necessary.
Good advice dude, in fact, I'm already doing that I'm (as always) fine with html and learning Python right now, to be exact. It's my new coding job that has prompted my return to school (I have a much more flexible schedule now).
Agreed Omni (about the artile being something worth reading).
I'm just going back to college to finish my degree after dropping about in '96 (I've been a sysadmin since then) to learn to write code. It's gonna be much better (meaning sitting on my ass at home) coding than sysadmining, I think.
Anyway, to answer your question I think that once I learn the difference between a pickle and a marinated cucumber I'll be quite happy. I was a little burnt out on sysadmin stuff, but it wasn't the computers it was the people, you know? After eight years doing that, I still sit at my computer (as does my wife) even in my free time. I doubt it'll be much different when I get used to coding.
I for one simply love playing with computers, and I have no issues separating work from play on the same machine.
Agreed, dude. Are we really, at the start of 2005, so far removed from Y2K that we actually doubt its existance? Are there really that many n00bz running the show these days? Weird how short our collective memory is.
If I am still fixing computers in the year 10,000 I for one am gonna be PISSED OFF.
I believe that somebody has become host to a Candarian Demon!
Your browser is installed on a server? Are you running a thin client or something?
Conversely, if there is no port of NetBSD for a gas-powered typewriter, then I for one am prepared to accept that as evidence that they do not indeed exist.
Right, hard drives never physically fail. That's why the (U.S.) hard drive industry has recently changed from three-year warranties to one-year warranties. The drives are so robust that the warraanties were just excessive. They're trying to conserve warranties, since they're an endangered species. :)
Keyboards are replacable. People, less so.
Yeah, but replacement people are way more fun to make than replacement keyboards are...
You'd think that for what those players make that they aready did work some serious hours, wouldn't ya?
I know, I know, it's big business and it would be lame if the owners got rich and the players got screwed, but it's still an obscene amount of cash.
Definitely I for one have hated AOL consistently since at least 1996.
I guess I wasn't aware that the rest of the world used the word burgle; maybe just the English speaking countries, I'd have thought (such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, etc)....
This is certainly a linguistic mystery that we should not, nay, must not let lie.
What cracks me up is that if you look at recent comments posted by the user "New Here", most of them have been modded down to -1; some of them have maintained zero.
However, the post from some other user saying the same thing is modded +5 funny.
Good times.