Hm, my M13 (P/N 13H6705) has a numeric keypad. I didn't realize there was a true M-series spacesaver with trackpoint. (I do have an 84-key opal spacesaver with no trackpoint in storage, great keyboard as well.)
Lack of USB isn't really a problem - PS/2->USB adapters are cheap and plentiful.
Better yet, the model M13 with Trackpoint. Replace the default, smooth Trackpoint II cap with a "cat's tongue" cap (standard on later trackpoints) and never take your hands off the keyboard again.
Roland stopped linking to his own page a long time ago...
No, he didn't. His name links to his own plagiarism blog. He's still using Slashdot to accrete pagerank and views for his plagiarism. All he stopped doing was linking to his plagiarism in the submission text.
What's most exciting here is this chipset coming in a 2.4/5Ghz version. The 2.4 GHz ISM band is a foamy sea of garbage where I live - In my living room my laptop will hear 60+ different 802.11b/g SSID beacons within 15 minutes. I can't get 5 meters of reliable range out of any WAP in 2.4 Ghz, and I've tried several. Since switching to 5GHz-only 802.11n, connectivity is rock steady - but now I have to bridge my assorted 2.4GHz-only kit (Wii, etc.) online.
5GHz support is my make-or-break feature for wifi-enabled gadgetry now.
Open source software didn't drive the economy of the 90's, or the economy of the last few years.
Says you. In my professional experience over the last 10 years, Linux and Apache on commodity hardware have been integral in lowering barriers to entry for small companies and the cost of scaling for large ones.
They are blue or purple and oddly shaped MIPS-powered toy dinosaurs(by today's standards), but they are rock-solid and they NEVER crash or skip a beat.
I love me some SGI gear, but 'NEVER crash' wasn't their strong suit - at least not compared to any other proprietary UNIX system vendor of the era.
They built racehorses - fancy, complex, high-bandwidth, expensive. They didn't skip a beat when blasting data around, though, at least until you got to the network.
There's a dedicated button on the Kindle to change the font size. It's definitely supported.
And I don't get the DRM argument about the Kindle - you're free to load whatever unprotected content you can lay your hands on onto the Kindle. Do you not own an iPod on the grounds that it supports encrypted music from iTunes in addition to unencrypted media formats?
No. ISP immunity for subscriber traffic/content comes from Section 230 CDA (yep, that CDA) and the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. ISPs don't need or want common carrier status.
In other words Comcast's denial of common carrier status is a big mistake, because they are opening themselves to many, many lawsuits because their lines were used (by the customers) to conduct illegal activities.
Christ, this is 100% wrong. ISPs in the USA ARE NOT COMMON CARRIERS!
Please stop propagating this myth!
ISP immunity for subscriber traffic/content comes from Section 230 CDA (yep, that CDA) and the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. They don't need or want common carrier status.
The FCC explicitly classified cable (in 2002) and DSL (in 2005) ISPs as "information services" rather than "telecommunications services" in order to remove any doubt that they were common carriers.
I never even understood why you would want to board the plane first in first class.
The main reason is overhead bin space. Somehow, a fair segment of they flying public labors under the belief that it is correct and proper to stow their baggage in the first available overhead bin. Board late in first class (assuming an aircraft boarding through a door forward of that cabin) and you're likely to find a fraction of the overhead bin space occupied by F passenger bags, and the remainder occupied by coach passenger bags.
The secondary reason is that notwithstanding a planeload of passengers filing past you, the F cabin is still a more pleasant place to be than the gate area.
Your theory about a trawler causing the cuts in the Persian gulf sounds highly plausible. Except that the Egyptian government released a statement declaring that no ships were in the area before or after the time the cable was cut.
I don't know whether there's a story here or not, but I do know that consistently in the absence of independent observers and a functioning free press - and often in their presence - governments will say what is believed to be in their own best interest regardless of what you or I might think of as "objective facts."
If Egypt benefits from stoking the belief that the cable cuts were intentional sabotage by a foreign enemy - and there's no objective evidence to clearly suggest this claim was false - then what do you think the Mubarak government would do? (Or imagine the tables were turned - what would the American or Israeli government say?)
I'm no conspiracy theorist; statistically unlikely coincidences happen every day and humans are hard-wired to see patterns where they don't exist, but I also don't think public statements of governments operating in an opaque space are to be trusted.
When I got on the list for US citizenship (I'm a Brit with an American father) the US was a cool, open, free country that was somewhere that I couldn't wait to get too. In less time than it takes the INS to process a form, all of the above have been crapped on.
Mind you, I have been on the list for four years and in that time they have processed six months of applicants. Maybe by the time I get to the front of the queue the country will be cool again, who knows.
It's 2008; you got on the list in 2003 or early 2004. 2003 was the year of "Mission Accomplished."
Did you really think the US was a cool, open, free country back then?
Iron Chef America has kept the cooking but removed the cheesy drama, which is what made it so unique in the first place. There are dozens of competition cooking shows on these days (including the whole "Cooking Competition" series on Food Network itself); why would you watch Iron Chef America over any of the others?
Because the quality of the competition (that is, the chefs competing in each battle) on Iron Chef America is far better than any other program?
Also most of those other shows are spurious junk like Las Vegas sugar sculpture competitions or no-name chili cookoffs.
The simple fact remains: Making it stupidly easy for hijackers and terrorists to identify people without even needing to see their passport, just walking within 20 feet, is an exceptionally bad idea.
Unless your goal is to keep one's subjects (and their money) afraid and confined to their home country. Then it's not such a bad idea, is it?
My Occam's Razor take on RFID passports isn't that there's a conspiracy to make people less safe, mind. It's that there's a conspiracy to sell RFID readers at inflated prices to state agencies.
Not trying to be flippant here, but I've never heard of this Archos gadget and don't, after a cursory examination, understand why I'd prefer this thing to, say, a Nokia Maemo-based doodad like the N800 or N810? Same screen resolution, wifi, etc - ok, no internal hard drive - and I don't have to jailbreak it to load custom apps.
Why wouldn't I want to support the company not going out of its way to make my life difficult if custom apps were what I were after?
Some people might prefer in-home service, but the mean-time-to-repair is necessarily higher unless you're paying stupid money (and even folks who do pay stupid money for 4 hour on-site support know that 19 times out of 20, all you get at 4 hours is a tech who twiddles his thumbs "waiting for parts").
Your repair took at least two days (one for parts to be shipped, another for the tech) versus going to a store and having the work done same-day. This matters for some people. (Granted, the availability of service appointments in Apple stores can be a real problem in some cities.)
Apple stores are needed, because they did a great job in killing off their VAR and retailer friends (with a few notable exceptions) in the 1990's and early 2000s.
Another way to look at it is "their VAR and retailer friends" were killing Apple. The Apple-specialist retailers were almost uniformly horrible in terms of customer service - think Comic Book Guy meets shady mechanic. The big retailers were indifferent at best - except for some abortive efforts with CompUSA there were no Apple 'boots on the ground' to explain to customers why the Mac was worth the price premium over the Packard Bell sitting next to it.
The only reasonable way to buy Apple gear and accessories back then was mail-order, and it was back to the Comic Book Guy if you needed support.
I think Apple's retail strategy has been integral to their resurgence.
You'll need to get yourself an appointment first. No problem if you paid the extra 200 pounds for pro care; you can book up to 14 days in advance. If you're sane however, you can only make bookings for the same day on their website. I stayed awake til midnight a couple of times before I got fed up and realized that there's absolutely no point in trying.
I feel your pain, but this is a London-specific problem. The only way to get an appointment in the London stores without ProCare is to ring up AppleCare and have them book one for you. Apple could double their store capacity in London and still not meet demand - but it doesn't mean they shouldn't try.
Yes, the crowds suck. Yes, the stores just scream "rip-off margins." Yes, "genius bar" is a stupid name.
Still, the ability to schlep a system in and have the problem worked in most cases while-u-wait is what gets people into those stores. (Try that with a Dell or an HP sometime. Whoops! Hope you like shipping things. And for a real laugh, try bringing a sony product into a 'Sony Style' store for a support or repair issue.)
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Hm, my M13 (P/N 13H6705) has a numeric keypad. I didn't realize there was a true M-series spacesaver with trackpoint. (I do have an 84-key opal spacesaver with no trackpoint in storage, great keyboard as well.)
Lack of USB isn't really a problem - PS/2->USB adapters are cheap and plentiful.
Better yet, the model M13 with Trackpoint. Replace the default, smooth Trackpoint II cap with a "cat's tongue" cap (standard on later trackpoints) and never take your hands off the keyboard again.
-Isaac
No, he didn't. His name links to his own plagiarism blog. He's still using Slashdot to accrete pagerank and views for his plagiarism. All he stopped doing was linking to his plagiarism in the submission text.
It's clever but still borderline scummy IMHO.
-Isaac
What's most exciting here is this chipset coming in a 2.4/5Ghz version. The 2.4 GHz ISM band is a foamy sea of garbage where I live - In my living room my laptop will hear 60+ different 802.11b/g SSID beacons within 15 minutes. I can't get 5 meters of reliable range out of any WAP in 2.4 Ghz, and I've tried several. Since switching to 5GHz-only 802.11n, connectivity is rock steady - but now I have to bridge my assorted 2.4GHz-only kit (Wii, etc.) online.
5GHz support is my make-or-break feature for wifi-enabled gadgetry now.
-Isaac
Says you. In my professional experience over the last 10 years, Linux and Apache on commodity hardware have been integral in lowering barriers to entry for small companies and the cost of scaling for large ones.
-Isaac
Corbis is Bill Gates' second company, not the Foundation.
-Isaac
I love me some SGI gear, but 'NEVER crash' wasn't their strong suit - at least not compared to any other proprietary UNIX system vendor of the era.
They built racehorses - fancy, complex, high-bandwidth, expensive. They didn't skip a beat when blasting data around, though, at least until you got to the network.
-Isaac
This is the single best /. post I've read all year. Thanks.
-Isaac
There's a dedicated button on the Kindle to change the font size. It's definitely supported.
And I don't get the DRM argument about the Kindle - you're free to load whatever unprotected content you can lay your hands on onto the Kindle. Do you not own an iPod on the grounds that it supports encrypted music from iTunes in addition to unencrypted media formats?
-Isaac
Please let this be sarcasm. Le Corbusier is dead and they've been tearing down Cabrini Green for the last 5 years.
-Isaac
No. ISP immunity for subscriber traffic/content comes from Section 230 CDA (yep, that CDA) and the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. ISPs don't need or want common carrier status.
-Isaac
Christ, this is 100% wrong. ISPs in the USA ARE NOT COMMON CARRIERS!
Please stop propagating this myth!
ISP immunity for subscriber traffic/content comes from Section 230 CDA (yep, that CDA) and the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. They don't need or want common carrier status.
The FCC explicitly classified cable (in 2002) and DSL (in 2005) ISPs as "information services" rather than "telecommunications services" in order to remove any doubt that they were common carriers.
-Isaac
But an even better crime deterrent would be forcing criminals to watch Rocky IV.
-Isaac
The main reason is overhead bin space. Somehow, a fair segment of they flying public labors under the belief that it is correct and proper to stow their baggage in the first available overhead bin. Board late in first class (assuming an aircraft boarding through a door forward of that cabin) and you're likely to find a fraction of the overhead bin space occupied by F passenger bags, and the remainder occupied by coach passenger bags.
The secondary reason is that notwithstanding a planeload of passengers filing past you, the F cabin is still a more pleasant place to be than the gate area.
-Isaac
I don't know whether there's a story here or not, but I do know that consistently in the absence of independent observers and a functioning free press - and often in their presence - governments will say what is believed to be in their own best interest regardless of what you or I might think of as "objective facts."
If Egypt benefits from stoking the belief that the cable cuts were intentional sabotage by a foreign enemy - and there's no objective evidence to clearly suggest this claim was false - then what do you think the Mubarak government would do? (Or imagine the tables were turned - what would the American or Israeli government say?)
I'm no conspiracy theorist; statistically unlikely coincidences happen every day and humans are hard-wired to see patterns where they don't exist, but I also don't think public statements of governments operating in an opaque space are to be trusted.
-Isaac
It's 2008; you got on the list in 2003 or early 2004. 2003 was the year of "Mission Accomplished."
Did you really think the US was a cool, open, free country back then?
-Isaac
I heard the stumbling block in getting "a high-quality Windows experience" on the XO laptop was the damn "View Source" button on the keyboard.
-Isaac
Because the quality of the competition (that is, the chefs competing in each battle) on Iron Chef America is far better than any other program?
Also most of those other shows are spurious junk like Las Vegas sugar sculpture competitions or no-name chili cookoffs.
-Isaac
Unless your goal is to keep one's subjects (and their money) afraid and confined to their home country. Then it's not such a bad idea, is it?
My Occam's Razor take on RFID passports isn't that there's a conspiracy to make people less safe, mind. It's that there's a conspiracy to sell RFID readers at inflated prices to state agencies.
-Isaac
Not trying to be flippant here, but I've never heard of this Archos gadget and don't, after a cursory examination, understand why I'd prefer this thing to, say, a Nokia Maemo-based doodad like the N800 or N810? Same screen resolution, wifi, etc - ok, no internal hard drive - and I don't have to jailbreak it to load custom apps.
Why wouldn't I want to support the company not going out of its way to make my life difficult if custom apps were what I were after?
-Isaac
Some people might prefer in-home service, but the mean-time-to-repair is necessarily higher unless you're paying stupid money (and even folks who do pay stupid money for 4 hour on-site support know that 19 times out of 20, all you get at 4 hours is a tech who twiddles his thumbs "waiting for parts").
Your repair took at least two days (one for parts to be shipped, another for the tech) versus going to a store and having the work done same-day. This matters for some people. (Granted, the availability of service appointments in Apple stores can be a real problem in some cities.)
-Isaac
Another way to look at it is "their VAR and retailer friends" were killing Apple. The Apple-specialist retailers were almost uniformly horrible in terms of customer service - think Comic Book Guy meets shady mechanic. The big retailers were indifferent at best - except for some abortive efforts with CompUSA there were no Apple 'boots on the ground' to explain to customers why the Mac was worth the price premium over the Packard Bell sitting next to it.
The only reasonable way to buy Apple gear and accessories back then was mail-order, and it was back to the Comic Book Guy if you needed support.
I think Apple's retail strategy has been integral to their resurgence.
-Isaac
I feel your pain, but this is a London-specific problem. The only way to get an appointment in the London stores without ProCare is to ring up AppleCare and have them book one for you. Apple could double their store capacity in London and still not meet demand - but it doesn't mean they shouldn't try.
-Isaac
Apple stores win because of the "Genius Bar."
Yes, the crowds suck. Yes, the stores just scream "rip-off margins." Yes, "genius bar" is a stupid name.
Still, the ability to schlep a system in and have the problem worked in most cases while-u-wait is what gets people into those stores. (Try that with a Dell or an HP sometime. Whoops! Hope you like shipping things. And for a real laugh, try bringing a sony product into a 'Sony Style' store for a support or repair issue.)
-Isaac
The Kindle does, for one - that keyboard's not just for searching.