Guy had his computer hooked up to his projector that was sitting on top of his coffee table. When he wanted to do some home coding he just pulled out his wireless keyboard/mouse and flipped on his projector. It displayed on the wall which was just to the right of his tv in the corner. When he was done he just put the mouse and keyboard under the coffee table on a shelf built into the table and flipped off the projector. He had a floor power outlet and wireless which was pretty slick and helped.
As far as what where he put the mouse and keyboard, he had keyboard right on his lap and would just toss down one of his computer books for the mouse. The computer was just a little shuttle space walker that would sit under the table as well. It worked out rather nicely. I have sence then figured the next time I moved I would try settin someting like this up as well.
If you not going to use a standard you not even close to the longest wireless link. Anyone remember contacting voyager a couple months back. Correct me if I am wrong but they are not running a wire all the way out there are they?
Just go ahead and take every language that you did not have a hand in and make something like it.
Maybe just give it a couple of things here and there to make it work better with microsoft products and slap a # on some letter.
This killing us slowly with your "new" stuff is well...killing me.
The next thing you know they are going to be taking something like unix and adding a letter to it and calling it the greatest thing sence sliced bread...oh wait, someone already did that with an L... guess you missed that one but you can steal it!
#1. People can't tell that it is not a gas driven car. Either by looks, power, or speed. The only exception will be if it end up having more power/speed.
#2. A law / bill is passed forcing them into market or giving such a large price break on them forces people to by them out of pure guilt.
What have you got under the hood there Franky? -- This is a turbo charged, water cooled, triple output, 4 switch power grid with a inverted v8 power cell.
It is going to take a little bit longer than your typical transition.
I have 3 of these and for quite some time now, well before they made it to thinkgeek.
Here is the stinky.
They are very low profile. They have no "pop" legs in the back to increase the angle, and the keys are very short. I would say have as tall as a normal keyboard.
With all that said, it has one of the best a really good fell to the keystroke. It is about 1/2 as load keystroke wise as a normal keyboard and durring the day or in a well lit room you can't even tell that it is "glowing". As soon as you start to dim the lights you get the glow effect and in a very dark room it is very sweet. We use them as server room keyboards which we keep the room dark 90% of the time and it helps with finding keys and general light/ "wow" factor for the execs.
I use one at home and love it.
I would recommend them to anyone that enjoys a standard keyboard layout and is looking for something that does not have the "shitty" keyboard feel to it. It will take you about a day to ajust to the different angle on the thing, but after that I also found the low profile helps with keeping me from getting tired around my wrist which was a bonus I did not expect.
Enjoy.
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I know one, but I keep her locked up in the house coding away and only let her out once a day to tan.
This is really the sound of millions of linux supporters crying out, then suddenly silenced as it was once again proven that Linux is still harder to use than Windows.
Try asheron's call 2, which came out about a month ago. It has a very easy learning cruve, but does not have a lot of the features that AC1 had. It really is a different game.
visually stunning...updates every month like clock work like AC1.
I like it, and it is easy to put down. Then again 2 hours every 3 days is enough for my fix.
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He has pulled the biggest con of them all, now they HIRE HIM to do the security.....
This would have more to do with the way your company network is set up. This is one of those questions that you would find in a certification book with the answer "This questions and answer session does not cover the scoop required to answer this question".
Short answer is if it was my network, no because it would end up being blocked...and you would end up going out a proxy..which would hose it up most of the time.
Just set the thing to forward to your phone at your desk.
Quality to land lines is the same, no one I call can tell the difference.
I had a lot of droped calls at first going though a software proxy(ISA). Once I striped it out of the picture everything worked great. I have used it though a linksys, dlink, cisco, and one other little no name brand dsl router I can't remember at a friends house.
We love it, although the only drawback is if your broadband goes down so does your phone. Alas that has not happend in over 8 months of use.
Just to catch a couple of other questions I see coming. It has about a 33k stream from what I can tell and does not mess with anything else on your network. I could tell you the ports but that would just take the fun out of it. You can use a poor man's router set up if you like.
What else...you really can't tell any differnce in this and a land line. Dial tone, call waiting, call blocking, called id...we use it with our normal phone. Any phone that plugs into a wall will work with it. I can't think of anyting else, if you have a question about it post it here I will try to answer it to the best of my knowledge from using the service.
We are using VoIP service from Vonage. We don't have a land line at all anymore and can have a area code anywhere in the world if we want. Currently we have in New York and Florida so that we can get local calls from all of our family, and all our toll calls are local as well. IE we pay 40 bucks in the north east and get unlimited toll and long distance with our family having just local calls to us. They send e-mail for your voice messages, and are I hear about to compress your voicemails into mp3 for email. You get to see all you incoming and outgoing call on the web. Everyting was just what we where looking for. Christ I sound like a commercial...
We are planning on going to Cali or Col. for a contract job and just need to pack up our Cisco adapter and plug it in there. It does not care what network your on as long as it gets a dhcp address from somewhere.
Only words of caution that I have is that is done not work well behind a software router. Any of the cheap hardware routers for broadband work fine so far. Hell I have even taken the thing down to florida and used it on a dialup network so I could make free calls for 2 weeks while I was down there.
Anyway, not to sound like a comercial but it is a very cool way to save some money on your phone bill.
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Gaming lazyboy
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Guy had his computer hooked up to his projector that was sitting on top of his coffee table. When he wanted to do some home coding he just pulled out his wireless keyboard/mouse and flipped on his projector. It displayed on the wall which was just to the right of his tv in the corner. When he was done he just put the mouse and keyboard under the coffee table on a shelf built into the table and flipped off the projector. He had a floor power outlet and wireless which was pretty slick and helped.
As far as what where he put the mouse and keyboard, he had keyboard right on his lap and would just toss down one of his computer books for the mouse. The computer was just a little shuttle space walker that would sit under the table as well. It worked out rather nicely. I have sence then figured the next time I moved I would try settin someting like this up as well.
-1 offtopic I guess but still a sweet setup.
Put down your crack pipes, your fat sappy, your smack, even your nose candy...there is a new drug in town...err old drug...err new and improved drug.
When you find my body dead over the keyboard with nothing but coke cans and pizza boxes just tell my parents I love them.
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moon-Triton-which is the coldest measured object in our solar system
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It is clear to me that NASA has not pointed thier little devices at my last CEO's heart....
If you not going to use a standard you not even close to the longest wireless link. Anyone remember contacting voyager a couple months back. Correct me if I am wrong but they are not running a wire all the way out there are they?
Tax.NET I love it.
We will make it so all you have to do is point and click your way to giving us money.
Something wrong with that last statement....I just can't put my mouse on it.
Just call it Tax#, and everyone will just jump on board!
Just go ahead and take every language that you did not have a hand in and make something like it.
Maybe just give it a couple of things here and there to make it work better with microsoft products and slap a # on some letter.
This killing us slowly with your "new" stuff is well...killing me.
The next thing you know they are going to be taking something like unix and adding a letter to it and calling it the greatest thing sence sliced bread...oh wait, someone already did that with an L... guess you missed that one but you can steal it!
Only when a couple of things happen:
#1. People can't tell that it is not a gas driven car. Either by looks, power, or speed. The only exception will be if it end up having more power/speed.
#2. A law / bill is passed forcing them into market or giving such a large price break on them forces people to by them out of pure guilt.
What have you got under the hood there Franky? -- This is a turbo charged, water cooled, triple output, 4 switch power grid with a inverted v8 power cell.
It is going to take a little bit longer than your typical transition.
I have 3 of these and for quite some time now, well before they made it to thinkgeek.
Here is the stinky.
They are very low profile. They have no "pop" legs in the back to increase the angle, and the keys are very short. I would say have as tall as a normal keyboard.
With all that said, it has one of the best a really good fell to the keystroke. It is about 1/2 as load keystroke wise as a normal keyboard and durring the day or in a well lit room you can't even tell that it is "glowing". As soon as you start to dim the lights you get the glow effect and in a very dark room it is very sweet. We use them as server room keyboards which we keep the room dark 90% of the time and it helps with finding keys and general light/ "wow" factor for the execs.
I use one at home and love it.
I would recommend them to anyone that enjoys a standard keyboard layout and is looking for something that does not have the "shitty" keyboard feel to it. It will take you about a day to ajust to the different angle on the thing, but after that I also found the low profile helps with keeping me from getting tired around my wrist which was a bonus I did not expect.
Enjoy.
I know one, but I keep her locked up in the house coding away and only let her out once a day to tan.
That is because most of the word still hears when you say "game programer" is really "I play games for a living".
At some point in time this will change but not in the near future.
I wish them good luck, and I would love to "play games for living".
I hear the Apple has a patent on changing the looks of your case. This could very well be a violation!
Any book that has "complete reference", "BIBLE", or "Everything" in the title is just cliff notes.
You can be a neophyte to all, or a master of one. Pretty much goes for books on large subjects as well.
This is really the sound of millions of linux supporters crying out, then suddenly silenced as it was once again proven that Linux is still harder to use than Windows.
Try asheron's call 2, which came out about a month ago. It has a very easy learning cruve, but does not have a lot of the features that AC1 had. It really is a different game.
visually stunning...updates every month like clock work like AC1.
I like it, and it is easy to put down. Then again 2 hours every 3 days is enough for my fix.
He has pulled the biggest con of them all, now they HIRE HIM to do the security.....
Bravo, this guy is a work of art.
Sweet, thanks for the clarification.
Mod -1 offtopic, but the Vikings are from Norway not Sweden right? Someone please correct me.
Maybe they will outsource linux support to the us!
I better start learning my Hindi!
http://www.all4cell.com/sales/82-88conv_kits.html
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They have a conversion kit that includes the battery. I am sure if you get in touch with them they would sell you just the battery.
Good luck, google it next time.
This would have more to do with the way your company network is set up. This is one of those questions that you would find in a certification book with the answer "This questions and answer session does not cover the scoop required to answer this question".
Short answer is if it was my network, no because it would end up being blocked...and you would end up going out a proxy..which would hose it up most of the time.
Just set the thing to forward to your phone at your desk.
Yes you can forward calls. In fact all of the services that you can do, including that is done though a webpage on the site.
It is all pretty slick.
Quality to land lines is the same, no one I call can tell the difference.
I had a lot of droped calls at first going though a software proxy(ISA). Once I striped it out of the picture everything worked great. I have used it though a linksys, dlink, cisco, and one other little no name brand dsl router I can't remember at a friends house.
We love it, although the only drawback is if your broadband goes down so does your phone. Alas that has not happend in over 8 months of use.
Just to catch a couple of other questions I see coming. It has about a 33k stream from what I can tell and does not mess with anything else on your network. I could tell you the ports but that would just take the fun out of it. You can use a poor man's router set up if you like.
What else...you really can't tell any differnce in this and a land line. Dial tone, call waiting, call blocking, called id...we use it with our normal phone. Any phone that plugs into a wall will work with it. I can't think of anyting else, if you have a question about it post it here I will try to answer it to the best of my knowledge from using the service.
We are using VoIP service from Vonage. We don't have a land line at all anymore and can have a area code anywhere in the world if we want. Currently we have in New York and Florida so that we can get local calls from all of our family, and all our toll calls are local as well. IE we pay 40 bucks in the north east and get unlimited toll and long distance with our family having just local calls to us. They send e-mail for your voice messages, and are I hear about to compress your voicemails into mp3 for email. You get to see all you incoming and outgoing call on the web. Everyting was just what we where looking for. Christ I sound like a commercial...
We are planning on going to Cali or Col. for a contract job and just need to pack up our Cisco adapter and plug it in there. It does not care what network your on as long as it gets a dhcp address from somewhere.
Only words of caution that I have is that is done not work well behind a software router. Any of the cheap hardware routers for broadband work fine so far. Hell I have even taken the thing down to florida and used it on a dialup network so I could make free calls for 2 weeks while I was down there.
Anyway, not to sound like a comercial but it is a very cool way to save some money on your phone bill.
www.vonage.com
Enjoy,