I agree. I tried two for a while and it never did much for me.
I now run a 21 inch 1600x1200 LCD in portrait mode, since most docs, pdf, web pages run portrait mode. PDF bigger than real size is sweet, full page as well.
Now, I would love to have 3x as much real estate one day. 3x1200 wide by 1600 tall. The two monitor deal seemed distracting, like you have to change focus off the main but maybe one on each side would be more useful and balanced...
My new treo 650 kicks ass. Palm seems to have done a pretty good job on this thing. The memory things sucks a bit, but you can put a GB SD card in there.
I really meant greyhound from point to point. Local public transis stinks in the US due to sprawl. We have a local bus system, but nobody uses it. NYC and Boston are about the only real public transit systems that sorta work in the US that I know of.
Last time I checked, bus and train did not require ID to travel, but that was pre 9/11. You could move anonymously across the US without ID using cash.
I once took a 4 hour greyhound. You meed some scary people. People that want to be rather anonymous, or people with limited $ that have to travel, or crazy people that don't fly. Take your pick, everyone there was scary.
You want the right to fly cheaply and safely anywhere in the world, you have to submit to security crap.
You want the right to drive your car around US roads, you have to have a license, you can't just go drive claiming your god given right to drive anywhere without regulation.
If you don't like the limitations imposed, walk or take the bus.
The only reasonable expectation of privacy currently in the US is locked inside your home with the shades drawn. With some types of sensors, I doubt that really is private as well.
Why should I have any personal savings at all? The current interest paid is terrible in the US, maybe 1% if you are lucky.
Is it not better to pay down college debt and car debt that costs you annually 5%, or even pay down your mortgage that costs an annual 4-5%? If I actualy have money, I don't put it in a traditional cash / savings account, it goes into retirement. At least there it may make a little better than 1%.
Of course, your run close to the edge in case you lose your job in the worst case. But you probably have a credit card line of 50-100k in case of real emergency.
My 17" Hp is a beast, but I still use it on the road a good bit. It is a power hog, lasting maybe 1.5 hours off grid. And it weighs a ton.
Full size keyboard with full numeric keypad to the right. Only real complaint is they didn't make the keypress as deep as a normal keyboard. If you are building a 10 + lb laptop that is thick and wide and deep, you might as well add some thickness and give me a real desktop keyboard.
You need a real car with six speeds (plus one for reverse). Usually they are geared lower so that you probably cannot go 70 in second, but you get more torque on the low end. But I can go 100 in fourth with two more gears to go...
For $40 you can easily deal with MS office documents and other legacy issues. I have used it for years and I have been quite happy. Well worth the money!
I think Stallman wrote this as a proposal after MS was found by a US court to have abused monopoly power. The courts were trying to decide what to do to MS (split, monetary penalty, split browser off) and I think Stallman put this out.
This would penalize MS monopoly action by putting OSS and other software vendors on an even footing, even if it sounds a little crazy. You have to look into the context.
But GWB came into office and MS saw no penalties. Something about "you might hurt the economy"
Maybe I am retarded, but I can barely get a few lines if any with bastet. Anything resembling a traditional move on Tetris is countered by the worst possible piece every damn time.
At least I didn't get hooked on it for hours trying to get better...
Did you watch the Clinton testimony? Seeing the sitting president argue the definition of "is" was a true classic.
Seriously, I think the whole Lewinsky issue has made oral sex an option for many of today's youth. There are some stories out there citing the rise of oral in kids today. We can blame Clinton, the Republicans, and the entire media for making that a story.
I used to study with my stripper friend Melissa at GT. She was hot and a good CHE.
She told me she once went to a professer honestly asking him for a better grade in class. She said she even used the classic quote "I will do anything for an A". She meant do extra classwork, but she said he looked at her a little funny, and she did not realize why until later.
I was pissed that they called, when I was on the do not call list.
They claimed a prior business relationship for a hotel I stayed at in NM a few years back.
I now think that was a bogus connection, as this time share thing must use my specific credit history to rope people and get close to them. While putting up with four hours of hard sell, they made strange references to Virginia Tech (where my wife recently made purchases at a conference). We thought nothing of it until they made strange references to my grandma's home town in podunk GA. They must have all my credit card transactions and use that info to get inside your head.
Screwy. I got a free room at Myrtyle beach and engouh credit to get tanked at the house of blues, almost worth 4 hours of my time.
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I agree. I tried two for a while and it never did much for me.
I now run a 21 inch 1600x1200 LCD in portrait mode, since most docs, pdf, web pages run portrait mode. PDF bigger than real size is sweet, full page as well.
Now, I would love to have 3x as much real estate one day. 3x1200 wide by 1600 tall. The two monitor deal seemed distracting, like you have to change focus off the main but maybe one on each side would be more useful and balanced...
My new treo 650 kicks ass. Palm seems to have done a pretty good job on this thing. The memory things sucks a bit, but you can put a GB SD card in there.
I dropped RH as well.
They would not even provide decent academic pricing for official versions. WTF? I don't want to pay every year for support.
Debian works, works well, and is free. Knoppix is painless for install, and apt-get is great.
Some utils are not as friendly as they could be, but things are ok.
But an addiction should be something that you enjoy.
I feel like I have to check email every day, even on vacation or travel to avoid coming back to hundreds of crapmails to wade through.
If I distribute this checking to 10-15 minutes every day, it seems less painful than 2+ hours when I get back.
Plus I stay on top of any instant problems.
It is not usually wasting time, as email is now a real portion of your job. Surfing slashdot / web addiction is probably not in your job description.
Use Crossover.
Run real MS Office on Linux.
Not free, but worth it if you want to be productive and interact seamlessly with MS users.
konsole is great, I even use it in cycwin when stuck on a XP PC.
Tabbed xterms are nice to have, plus you can change fonts easily.
I guess you mean take the bus around town.
http://www.answers.com/topic/general-motors-stree
I really meant greyhound from point to point. Local public transis stinks in the US due to sprawl. We have a local bus system, but nobody uses it. NYC and Boston are about the only real public transit systems that sorta work in the US that I know of.
Last time I checked, bus and train did not require ID to travel, but that was pre 9/11. You could move anonymously across the US without ID using cash.
I once took a 4 hour greyhound. You meed some scary people. People that want to be rather anonymous, or people with limited $ that have to travel, or crazy people that don't fly. Take your pick, everyone there was scary.
You want the right to fly cheaply and safely anywhere in the world, you have to submit to security crap.
You want the right to drive your car around US roads, you have to have a license, you can't just go drive claiming your god given right to drive anywhere without regulation.
If you don't like the limitations imposed, walk or take the bus.
The only reasonable expectation of privacy currently in the US is locked inside your home with the shades drawn. With some types of sensors, I doubt that really is private as well.
Yeah, like Microsoft Bob. Total flop, supposedly worst product ever.
Clippy. Same lines as Bob, computer is smarter than you. Not the best feature.
Windows 3.1 was not the best in the world, or the entire Win ME series.
I do like office to some extent. LaTeX slides just look like crap, and Word is sufficient for one page letters.
Why should I have any personal savings at all? The current interest paid is terrible in the US, maybe 1% if you are lucky.
Is it not better to pay down college debt and car debt that costs you annually 5%, or even pay down your mortgage that costs an annual 4-5%? If I actualy have money, I don't put it in a traditional cash / savings account, it goes into retirement. At least there it may make a little better than 1%.
Of course, your run close to the edge in case you lose your job in the worst case. But you probably have a credit card line of 50-100k in case of real emergency.
My 17" Hp is a beast, but I still use it on the road a good bit. It is a power hog, lasting maybe 1.5 hours off grid. And it weighs a ton.
Full size keyboard with full numeric keypad to the right. Only real complaint is they didn't make the keypress as deep as a normal keyboard. If you are building a 10 + lb laptop that is thick and wide and deep, you might as well add some thickness and give me a real desktop keyboard.
You need a real car with six speeds (plus one for reverse). Usually they are geared lower so that you probably cannot go 70 in second, but you get more torque on the low end. But I can go 100 in fourth with two more gears to go...
For $40 you can easily deal with MS office documents and other legacy issues. I have used it for years and I have been quite happy. Well worth the money!
Sliders had a nice concept, every episode was a new setting and environment with new problems. They had other issues with that series though.
ST TOS was pretty clean, not much story arc. Each episode was a separate issue, but still they were on the same ship with basically the same rules.
Stargate had potential, but after they ran out of various mythology to steal from the last few seasons have been big story arcs.
I think Stallman wrote this as a proposal after MS was found by a US court to have abused monopoly power. The courts were trying to decide what to do to MS (split, monetary penalty, split browser off) and I think Stallman put this out.
This would penalize MS monopoly action by putting OSS and other software vendors on an even footing, even if it sounds a little crazy. You have to look into the context.
But GWB came into office and MS saw no penalties. Something about "you might hurt the economy"
Maybe I am retarded, but I can barely get a few lines if any with bastet. Anything resembling a traditional move on Tetris is countered by the worst possible piece every damn time.
At least I didn't get hooked on it for hours trying to get better...
Kinda like:
grep -R text *
Wait, that would not work well on
Problem is, most people don't organize files in any sort of way, so finding stuff is a pain.
what about locate and find?
find . -name "*.eps"
locate stupidfilename
Funny you mention semantics...
Did you watch the Clinton testimony? Seeing the sitting president argue the definition of "is" was a true classic.
Seriously, I think the whole Lewinsky issue has made oral sex an option for many of today's youth. There are some stories out there citing the rise of oral in kids today. We can blame Clinton, the Republicans, and the entire media for making that a story.
Gotta love the era of moral relativism, thank you Bill Clinton for making oral relations nonsexual1
Maybe some hot grits in the pants of a petrified Natalie Portman??
I used to study with my stripper friend Melissa at GT. She was hot and a good CHE.
She told me she once went to a professer honestly asking him for a better grade in class. She said she even used the classic quote "I will do anything for an A". She meant do extra classwork, but she said he looked at her a little funny, and she did not realize why until later.
I have had some crappy old RCA cables oxidize a good bit on the connector. Gold plated should not do that.
Not sure that the oxidized connectors have any effect on sound, but they look crappy.
I took up an telemarketer's offer.
I was pissed that they called, when I was on the do not call list.
They claimed a prior business relationship for a hotel I stayed at in NM a few years back.
I now think that was a bogus connection, as this time share thing must use my specific credit history to rope people and get close to them. While putting up with four hours of hard sell, they made strange references to Virginia Tech (where my wife recently made purchases at a conference). We thought nothing of it until they made strange references to my grandma's home town in podunk GA. They must have all my credit card transactions and use that info to get inside your head.
Screwy. I got a free room at Myrtyle beach and engouh credit to get tanked at the house of blues, almost worth 4 hours of my time.
HA
I don't think DLP projectors are that high in resolution.
I want 1080p resolution in my next home theater. I think that is like 2100x1080 or so. DLP only goes to 1024x768, generally.