Pon Farr perfume for the ladies? I'm so there!
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I'm female. I'm a Trekkie. I like perfume.
I know what I'm getting for my birthday this year!
Brilliant marketing! Men are lousing at getting presents for their wives and girlfriends. A gift of the "pon farr" scent not only says, "I love you" but also "I will go through a hormonal frenzy in order to make love to you". Sounds pretty awesome to me.
I would also recommend packaging the scent with a DVD of TOS "Amok Time" and VOY "Blood Fever" to get her in the mood for logical lovin'.
What drove you to so drastically change the tab UI without providing a simple way to customize it? I can't stand the new UI coupled with a lack of options in FF 2.0! The multiple "close tab" buttons are definitely making it harder to browse in my usual manner, and the tab scrolling is very frustrating. Why not allow users to open a new tab bar directly below the original instead of forcing the user to click a tiny arrow to scroll?
Like many people, I've been using various tab-management extensions (e.g. TabBrowser Preferences, Tab Mix Plus) since FF 1.0, and I really enjoy being able to customize tab behavior to my liking. If you are integrating extensions (such as anti-phishing, spell-checking), why not integrate better tab management? I know one of the goals of FF is to reduce clutter, reduce bloat, and limit menus to reduce end-user frustrations, but why not tuck away a "advanced tab preferences" menu someplace deep within the user preferences?
I personally *hate* using the NDGPS (beacon) real-time corrections. We only have two reference stations in my state and neither are worth a damn in my city. I work as for a major GPS company, and though we do sell beacon receivers quite briskly, I hate using them.
I much prefer using WAAS for real-time, especially after the two new satellites are up and fully functional. I do post-process most of my data, however, so the CORS stations work just fine for my needs.
So true! I cried at the end of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door because all the characters were so happy at the end AND cried at the end of FF X because the characters were sad.
I hadn't bought a GB since the GB color came out, and I *adore* my DS. The battery life is phenomenal, and the system just lends itself to so many fun games. I'm not much of a Mario Kart fan so I decided to get Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time as my first DS game. I've played about 10 hours in, and it just gets better and better.
Nope, they are still selling digital cameras. My company sells the Ricoh Pro G3, which is a GPS-enabled camera used for a lot of GIS work. It's pretty cool, but we obviously aren't selling a huge quantity of such a specialized camera.
I can answer that! I just might work for a Trimble dealer!:)
For mapping, I recommend the new Recon GPS Card Edition. It's under 2K, TerraSync software included, and gets autonomous accuracy of 5-10 meters. The Recon is also rugged, and can withstand drops, mud, sand, floods, etc. If you're worried about charging it, you can buy a car charger for out in the field as well as an international charger that has adapters for quite a few countries.
Trimble is running some really good specials right now on Recons; call your local dealer and see what they can do.
These people are selling a GPS camera. It's not a phone, but it can send pictures with GPS data to your computer via bluetooth, WiFi, etc. I really hope more people jump on the bandwagon; it's a really cool bit of technology IMHO.
I'm not sure what kind of system you're working with (or how old), but the system I linked to above is *very* roughly $3500. The software would add another $1500. So for about $5000, you have submeter accuracy. Multipath is still a problem, yes, but there have been great advances in solving that, too.
GPS has come down in price incredibly in the last few years. You don't even need a subscription to a DGPS service anymore.
Point taken, but RTK equipment is insanely expensive and out of the price range of most small surveying companies (that my company deals with, anyway).
Good for you! There need to be more geeks out there who'll take the time to convert their SOs to Windows alternatives. Plus, there is always a need for intelligent women on/. Does she have an account yet?
I used Red Hat from 2001-2003, and Gentoo from then on. If I have a question, I pull out my copy of "Running Linux" or ask the wonderful resource that is my boyfriend. I've learned a lot about computers that I never would have (being a liberal arts kind of gal), and am glad to be supporting the OSS community. I can only hope that more and more people will have the same experience converting from Windows to *nix or *BSD.
Get to the back of the line! You know girls on/. get proposed to pretty much every time they post, right? I'm not a math-talkin' guy, but those odds can't be good!
(Though it is great to see other girls who like teh pr0n. I'm sick of seeing the government trying to legislate morality and ban all the fun things in life over and over again.)
I currently have the net-MD software installed on my XP partition, and also had it working off my Win2K box. It's not the easiest software to work with, but it did convert all my mp3s with no problem.
I'm a big fan of MD because I like to be able to change out discs instead of scrolling through endless songs on an mp3 player. And because I bought mine before ipods came out.:)
I have a Sony MD player that lets me convert my mp3s to ATRAC, and my only complaint is that I have to run the stupid software under Windows. They do transfer pretty fast, though, and after I covert one file I don't have to convert it again to put it on a new MD.
Of course, when I was living in Japan I really should have bought one of those cute little stereos that copied CDs to MDs lighning fast, but I was (of course) too cheap.
I don't really notice any drop in quality, because I'm listening to music in the gym, on the train, etc, and I'm not expecting perfect quality. It's a trade off for the convenience of MD and having 5 hours of music on one disc.
Oh, please show your daughter TNG! Some of my favorite memories growing up were watching TNG with my dad. I remember him comforting me because I was so upset when Picard became Locutis of Borg. (I was 8 at the time.)
Even now I watch the reruns, and remember how I wanted to be Dr. Crusher when I was little.:)
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I'm female. I'm a Trekkie. I like perfume.
I know what I'm getting for my birthday this year!
Brilliant marketing! Men are lousing at getting presents for their wives and girlfriends. A gift of the "pon farr" scent not only says, "I love you" but also "I will go through a hormonal frenzy in order to make love to you". Sounds pretty awesome to me.
I would also recommend packaging the scent with a DVD of TOS "Amok Time" and VOY "Blood Fever" to get her in the mood for logical lovin'.
What drove you to so drastically change the tab UI without providing a simple way to customize it? I can't stand the new UI coupled with a lack of options in FF 2.0! The multiple "close tab" buttons are definitely making it harder to browse in my usual manner, and the tab scrolling is very frustrating. Why not allow users to open a new tab bar directly below the original instead of forcing the user to click a tiny arrow to scroll?
Like many people, I've been using various tab-management extensions (e.g. TabBrowser Preferences, Tab Mix Plus) since FF 1.0, and I really enjoy being able to customize tab behavior to my liking. If you are integrating extensions (such as anti-phishing, spell-checking), why not integrate better tab management? I know one of the goals of FF is to reduce clutter, reduce bloat, and limit menus to reduce end-user frustrations, but why not tuck away a "advanced tab preferences" menu someplace deep within the user preferences?
I personally *hate* using the NDGPS (beacon) real-time corrections. We only have two reference stations in my state and neither are worth a damn in my city. I work as for a major GPS company, and though we do sell beacon receivers quite briskly, I hate using them.
I much prefer using WAAS for real-time, especially after the two new satellites are up and fully functional. I do post-process most of my data, however, so the CORS stations work just fine for my needs.
So true! I cried at the end of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door because all the characters were so happy at the end AND cried at the end of FF X because the characters were sad.
I'm probably the only one who got that joke, but bravo! I LOLed, albeit only slightly.
I went to Target last night in Charlottesville, VA and saw 6 DS Lites in the bottom of the DS display case. No promo stickers, no fanfare.
I showed great restraint and left without one (I'm holding out for one that isn't white), but I'm happy to see they're here and so, so pretty.
Just get the DS!
I hadn't bought a GB since the GB color came out, and I *adore* my DS. The battery life is phenomenal, and the system just lends itself to so many fun games. I'm not much of a Mario Kart fan so I decided to get Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time as my first DS game. I've played about 10 hours in, and it just gets better and better.
Nope, they are still selling digital cameras. My company sells the Ricoh Pro G3, which is a GPS-enabled camera used for a lot of GIS work. It's pretty cool, but we obviously aren't selling a huge quantity of such a specialized camera.
I can answer that! I just might work for a Trimble dealer! :)
For mapping, I recommend the new Recon GPS Card Edition. It's under 2K, TerraSync software included, and gets autonomous accuracy of 5-10 meters. The Recon is also rugged, and can withstand drops, mud, sand, floods, etc. If you're worried about charging it, you can buy a car charger for out in the field as well as an international charger that has adapters for quite a few countries.
Trimble is running some really good specials right now on Recons; call your local dealer and see what they can do.
These people are selling a GPS camera. It's not a phone, but it can send pictures with GPS data to your computer via bluetooth, WiFi, etc. I really hope more people jump on the bandwagon; it's a really cool bit of technology IMHO.
I'm not sure what kind of system you're working with (or how old), but the system I linked to above is *very* roughly $3500. The software would add another $1500. So for about $5000, you have submeter accuracy. Multipath is still a problem, yes, but there have been great advances in solving that, too.
GPS has come down in price incredibly in the last few years. You don't even need a subscription to a DGPS service anymore.
Point taken, but RTK equipment is insanely expensive and out of the price range of most small surveying companies (that my company deals with, anyway).
Don't these people realize how accurate GPS positioning has become?
MGIS-grade equipment can now give positions with sub-foot ( 30cm) postprocessed accuracy. Survey-grade equipment can get within 5-10 cm.
As neat as WPS sounds, I don't think that anyone will be giving up GPS soon if WPS can't get any more accurate than 20-40 meters.
Good for you! There need to be more geeks out there who'll take the time to convert their SOs to Windows alternatives. Plus, there is always a need for intelligent women on /. Does she have an account yet?
I used Red Hat from 2001-2003, and Gentoo from then on. If I have a question, I pull out my copy of "Running Linux" or ask the wonderful resource that is my boyfriend. I've learned a lot about computers that I never would have (being a liberal arts kind of gal), and am glad to be supporting the OSS community. I can only hope that more and more people will have the same experience converting from Windows to *nix or *BSD.
Actually, professional GPS equipment used by surveyors can actually get accuracy within 1cm.
Of course, the equipment starts at around $40,000, so that kind of accuracy is definitely not accessable to everyone.
I had a crush on him, too! Sure I was 12 at the time, but still!
What is it with the appeal of Wil on geek women?
Get to the back of the line! /. get proposed to pretty much every time they post, right? I'm not a math-talkin' guy, but those odds can't be good!
You know girls on
(Though it is great to see other girls who like teh pr0n. I'm sick of seeing the government trying to legislate morality and ban all the fun things in life over and over again.)
Thanks for posting the link! I always wondered what the heck those things I kept coughing up were.
Mine are a bit smaller than a lentil in size, and irregular in shape. It's good to know that gargling with salt water would help.
Actually, it's an ethnic name. Indonesian, maybe?
My aunt is a pediatrician in MN, and one of her patients is also named Shithead. She said the parents are recent immigrants from SE Asia, though.
I currently have the net-MD software installed on my XP partition, and also had it working off my Win2K box. It's not the easiest software to work with, but it did convert all my mp3s with no problem.
:)
I'm a big fan of MD because I like to be able to change out discs instead of scrolling through endless songs on an mp3 player. And because I bought mine before ipods came out.
I have a Sony MD player that lets me convert my mp3s to ATRAC, and my only complaint is that I have to run the stupid software under Windows. They do transfer pretty fast, though, and after I covert one file I don't have to convert it again to put it on a new MD.
Of course, when I was living in Japan I really should have bought one of those cute little stereos that copied CDs to MDs lighning fast, but I was (of course) too cheap.
I don't really notice any drop in quality, because I'm listening to music in the gym, on the train, etc, and I'm not expecting perfect quality. It's a trade off for the convenience of MD and having 5 hours of music on one disc.
Yeah, especially if your boyfriend won't get off slashdot in the first place!
...
Me: Honey, come to bed.
Him: Just one more SCO article to read through, I promise!
Me:
I'm sad to say that I know that Harry Kim is Korean.
I just proved my dorkiness yet again.
Oh, please show your daughter TNG! Some of my favorite memories growing up were watching TNG with my dad. I remember him comforting me because I was so upset when Picard became Locutis of Borg. (I was 8 at the time.)
:)
Even now I watch the reruns, and remember how I wanted to be Dr. Crusher when I was little.
I have to agree.
My boyfriend says that dating me is by far his most costly hobby.
But then again I cook and clean for him in exchange for occasional Gentoo support.