Don't be such a wanker, I have a perfectly nice job writing code part time, while I am finishing school. I just think $450 is a but much compared to th $250 for the deluxe visor. The only thing that the Palm has that the visor doesn't is the wireless. And I'm just not that interested in being connected 24/7.
This saving $450-$250 = $200. What a coincidence! This is the amount a second PIII-450 processor cost me for my main box. Like I said before, mmmmmmmm, Dual-processor.
Until the Palm's reach a reasonable price point, you won't catch me buying one. I mean they're cute and all, but way too expensive. The addition of bells and whistles (especially the very expensive wireless connectivity) is not really compelling.
I'm waiting for Visor, which is of course, significantly cheaper. I figure with the money I save I can buy another processor for my main box, mmmm, dual processor.
It isn't so long ago that you'd still buy computers with 32 MB of ram - WAY too much for Win95, let alone Win98 or even NT.
Huhh? Maybe you mean way to little RAM. I know win95 has a memory footprint of 19 megs, I think NT has somewhere between 35-45 megs of memory footprint. I think this is what you mean, but it's hard to tell.
Ahh, that's the first time I laughed since my partition table on my primary drive got completely wiped yesterday.
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I'm fairly anti-republican, but I admit to having respect for Fred Thompson. He was put in charge of investigating campaign contributions to the democrats and seeing if there was any hanky-panky. The problem came when he said he was going to be evenhanded and look at the republican campaign finance records. You should have heard the massive protests the Republicans put up when they heard he wanted to look in their cookie jars.
That's a thought. I know that's something to think about for my senior project which should be starting in about a month. hmmm, especially since they're changing the format for the senior projects (AT THE LAST FRIGGIN MINUTE!!!! [not that I'm bitter like old road salt.]) means I need to find a different project than what I had in mind (PLANNING IT FOR TWO FELCHIN' YEARS!!!) but I'm 'Just Fine' Thank You for asking.
The Right Thing (tm) to do would be to have the mail client check the first time it tried to send mail to an address to see if that person had a key (assuming we set everyone up to use the same key-server network). Then automatically encode it and send the message to them. Sure have a checkbox to turn it off, or to only do it to people you explicitly tell it to. But the whole action (including getting the key) should be as invisible as possible to the user.
On the receiving end, when you receive encrypted mail from someone, your program should automatically go out to your HD (ask for password of course) and run GPG/PGP on it and show it to you unencrypted. Maybe just putting an encrypted icon in the status bar or wherever to tell you the mail was encrypted.
I'm waiting for this kind of functionality in a mail client personally. I think this would be a reasonable drop in replacement for regular email. I know I would use it, maybe someone could add this as a plugin or something to mozilla mail.
Crikey, you're right, I did indeed miss that. I guess I didn't see it when I read the article, and looking at the picture on pines site, I didn't see a very large LCD panel, so I assumed that it just showed track numbers. My bad.
I agree with you absolutely here. My plextor can rip at something like 24x, and my encoder can encode at something like 6-8x, and when I get my second CPU I should be able to about double that.
Also, most of the music I listen is NOT available on mp3 sites. I have yet to see more than a handful of songs from Einsturzende Neubauten, Rollins Spoken Word, Suzanne Vega, Leonard Cohen, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Curve, Recoil, Portishead, or Firesign Theatre on these sites. It is so much easier to pop the CD in the drive, have grip grab the CDDB stuff, and RIP it all automatically, and then have my perl script schlub it all into the correct/artist/album directory on my mp3 jukebox.
I've been waiting two years for someone to come out with one of these things. Finally I can drag mp3 music with me wherever I go. My car stereo already has a line-in jack, so I am set. I have something like 8 gigs of mp3's ready to be burned onto CD-R's. $299 doesn't sound too bad either for 12 or more hours of playtime. It looks like it doesn't have an LCD for song titles, but such is life.
Now the important question is of course, when is it shipping?
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My TV is bigger than my computer monitor
My monitor is bigger than my TV, but then my "television" is an old 13" commie monitor (I just use it to watch videos). So my 17" monitor would be not too awful for watching DVD. Of course what I really want is a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor (35" of course, lets not think small), then I could watch movies as Buddha intended.
This is partly because, in many regards, Linux is still an immature operating system, says Potter. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for Linux, for example, only became available earlier this year."
I sent the author a note to the effect that this was bunk, he got back to me and acknowledged that he was incorrect. However, whether that means a correction will ever be posted is another matter.
It does support transparency, as well as real Alpha channels. As for animation (though the world would be better without it IMO) MNG is supposed to be able to do all that and more (though it's not as far along as PNG).
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like installing a half dead hard drive
Last time I did that, it just kept giving me disk geometry errors. It still let me shut down fairly nicely. Unlike NT & 95 which were completely unrecoverable. Sigh, I'm so glad I finally fixed all that.
Please don't bloat browsers by stupidly including an unnecessary DNS cache
I think it needs a buffer anyway. Maybe just for this session say. It can throw away anything that's in their when you quit. Say a hash table that you prune at 128 entries. This should take up about 10-20 KB max of memory. The code really would be trivial. I can imagine you could do it in 50-150 lines of code (assuming you already have a hash class). And it would really be a boon for a lot of different people, and I don't think it would hurt anyone. And if it does, just make it a configurable cache like the memory cache for netscrape.
Hmmm, I'm an expert at some things. Not so good on others. I've posted on something I thought I knew about and was blasted a time or two (rightly so). I'm not (I don't think) a complete crackpot. So I guess I'm somewhere between expert and lounger.
I agree. I've been using my burner for four years now, and I've pirated one (count 'em one) CD of music. I've made a couple mix cd's (for myself), but that's perfectly legal. The rest of the 100-200 disks I've copied have been data, or legally copied music. And I somehow doubt the one at my work has been used for anything other than data. So I think this is more than a little bit bogus.
I wasn't talking about whether this was based in economics or race or whatever. I simply said I would like to see a reference to this study so I could see it myself. And most of the things I was talking about were not economic, they were social. The black people wanting to get a new house have money, they are economically equal to the rest of the people in the neighborhood.
As to ghettos being bad, absolutely. (I am talking about a ghetto in the dictionary sense of the word, where a culturally/racially homogenous group of people lives together). This is a bad idea, because it is much easier to remain isolated from the rest of the culture and language of the society around you. Look at the Jews in mideavil (sp?) Europe who paid for the privilege to set up separate communities (ghettoes) in the german cities where their own laws were enforced. Six hundred years later the languages of the Jews had drifted so far apart from German it became a separate language (yiddish).
I'd like to see this study, I have a suspicion you are misremembering it or misinterpreting it. I always thought it had more to do with things like real-estate agents tending NOT to show black families houses in white neighborhoods. And things like white-flight, where white families used to live in the inner city, but have now fled to the suburbs. It think it has more to do with whhite middle class america rejecting the notion of living across the street from those people. Bahh, I've never met a person yet who liked living in those kind of cramped conditions. I really do question this.
(offtopic) I lived near Philadelphia for the first 18 years of my life, then in Cincinnati for 6 more. In all that time, I never had anyone (other than friends) offer me drugs. I'm in Baltimore three hours and someone tries to sell me crack. WTF?
According to my "Deadly Doses, a writers guide to poisons" which is actually a very good treatise on poisons. Marijuana is a 0 of out 6 on the toxicity scale. Nicotine, morphine, heroin, alcohol, tylenol all score higher on this scale. There are no known OD's due to marijuana.
[I'd tell ya what they all are, but my books are packed for the move]
Of course this is coming from someone who doesn't do any drugs except ethanol... Oh well. I do notice that people who smoke up a lot tend to 'get stupid'. This I HAVE seen backed up in studies. Of course I don't know if this is a permanent effect like baking your brains with ethanol. On the other hand, I've never gotten into a fight with a ganja smoker. But I have been rather nastily threatened/whatever by numerous drunks.
Most stores won't let you return software. Walden software has a 10 day return policy. Most will let you exchange for the same product. i.e. "My copy has a bad CD, gimme a new one". I'm not defending piracy, I'm just saying that most stores won't let you return software.
I pirated a fair amount of SW when I was younger, now I'm much better about it. I don't think I have any SW of questionable origin anymore. Of course Linux helps with that, and having a semi-real job so I can afford to buy software now.
You are smoking crack. What planet are you from? This is not even vaguely possibly true. This is complete and utter tripe. Go read the GPL, it says nothing about the output of a GPL program being GPL. Go post somewhere else troll.
I know GUI tools make things easier, but isn't it nice to know how your system works under the hood?
ummmm, yast is not a GUI tool. I think it's ncurses based. As for SAX, what's wrong with using a GUI tool to configure a GUI? I think that makes sense personally. And the othere CLI tools for setting up x are still there. You can write you're XF86Config file by hand if you want, I'll use SAX.
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Don't be such a wanker, I have a perfectly nice job writing code part time, while I am finishing school. I just think $450 is a but much compared to th $250 for the deluxe visor. The only thing that the Palm has that the visor doesn't is the wireless. And I'm just not that interested in being connected 24/7.
This saving $450-$250 = $200. What a coincidence! This is the amount a second PIII-450 processor cost me for my main box. Like I said before, mmmmmmmm, Dual-processor.
Until the Palm's reach a reasonable price point, you won't catch me buying one. I mean they're cute and all, but way too expensive. The addition of bells and whistles (especially the very expensive wireless connectivity) is not really compelling.
I'm waiting for Visor, which is of course, significantly cheaper. I figure with the money I save I can buy another processor for my main box, mmmm, dual processor.
It isn't so long ago that you'd still buy computers with 32 MB of ram - WAY too much for Win95, let alone Win98 or even NT.
Huhh? Maybe you mean way to little RAM. I know win95 has a memory footprint of 19 megs, I think NT has somewhere between 35-45 megs of memory footprint. I think this is what you mean, but it's hard to tell.
ROTFLMAO
Ahh, that's the first time I laughed since my partition table on my primary drive got completely wiped yesterday.
I'm fairly anti-republican, but I admit to having respect for Fred Thompson. He was put in charge of investigating campaign contributions to the democrats and seeing if there was any hanky-panky. The problem came when he said he was going to be evenhanded and look at the republican campaign finance records. You should have heard the massive protests the Republicans put up when they heard he wanted to look in their cookie jars.
That's a thought. I know that's something to think about for my senior project which should be starting in about a month. hmmm, especially since they're changing the format for the senior projects (AT THE LAST FRIGGIN MINUTE!!!! [not that I'm bitter like old road salt.]) means I need to find a different project than what I had in mind (PLANNING IT FOR TWO FELCHIN' YEARS!!!) but I'm 'Just Fine' Thank You for asking.
The Right Thing (tm) to do would be to have the mail client check the first time it tried to send mail to an address to see if that person had a key (assuming we set everyone up to use the same key-server network). Then automatically encode it and send the message to them. Sure have a checkbox to turn it off, or to only do it to people you explicitly tell it to. But the whole action (including getting the key) should be as invisible as possible to the user.
On the receiving end, when you receive encrypted mail from someone, your program should automatically go out to your HD (ask for password of course) and run GPG/PGP on it and show it to you unencrypted. Maybe just putting an encrypted icon in the status bar or wherever to tell you the mail was encrypted.
I'm waiting for this kind of functionality in a mail client personally. I think this would be a reasonable drop in replacement for regular email. I know I would use it, maybe someone could add this as a plugin or something to mozilla mail.
Crikey, you're right, I did indeed miss that. I guess I didn't see it when I read the article, and looking at the picture on pines site, I didn't see a very large LCD panel, so I assumed that it just showed track numbers. My bad.
I agree with you absolutely here. My plextor can rip at something like 24x, and my encoder can encode at something like 6-8x, and when I get my second CPU I should be able to about double that.
/artist/album directory on my mp3 jukebox.
Also, most of the music I listen is NOT available on mp3 sites. I have yet to see more than a handful of songs from Einsturzende Neubauten, Rollins Spoken Word, Suzanne Vega, Leonard Cohen, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Curve, Recoil, Portishead, or Firesign Theatre on these sites. It is so much easier to pop the CD in the drive, have grip grab the CDDB stuff, and RIP it all automatically, and then have my perl script schlub it all into the correct
I've been waiting two years for someone to come out with one of these things. Finally I can drag mp3 music with me wherever I go. My car stereo already has a line-in jack, so I am set. I have something like 8 gigs of mp3's ready to be burned onto CD-R's. $299 doesn't sound too bad either for 12 or more hours of playtime. It looks like it doesn't have an LCD for song titles, but such is life.
Now the important question is of course, when is it shipping?
My TV is bigger than my computer monitor
My monitor is bigger than my TV, but then my "television" is an old 13" commie monitor (I just use it to watch videos). So my 17" monitor would be not too awful for watching DVD. Of course what I really want is a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor (35" of course, lets not think small), then I could watch movies as Buddha intended.
This is partly because, in many regards, Linux is still an immature operating system, says Potter. Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for Linux, for example, only became available earlier this year."
I sent the author a note to the effect that this was bunk, he got back to me and acknowledged that he was incorrect. However, whether that means a correction will ever be posted is another matter.
when will png support "transparency"?
It does support transparency, as well as real Alpha channels. As for animation (though the world would be better without it IMO) MNG is supposed to be able to do all that and more (though it's not as far along as PNG).
like installing a half dead hard drive
Last time I did that, it just kept giving me disk geometry errors. It still let me shut down fairly nicely. Unlike NT & 95 which were completely unrecoverable. Sigh, I'm so glad I finally fixed all that.
ROTFLMAO
My coworkers are looking at me mighty funny. I can see it now. Ahhh, sounds truly inspiringly evil.
Please don't bloat browsers by stupidly including an unnecessary DNS cache
I think it needs a buffer anyway. Maybe just for this session say. It can throw away anything that's in their when you quit. Say a hash table that you prune at 128 entries. This should take up about 10-20 KB max of memory. The code really would be trivial. I can imagine you could do it in 50-150 lines of code (assuming you already have a hash class). And it would really be a boon for a lot of different people, and I don't think it would hurt anyone. And if it does, just make it a configurable cache like the memory cache for netscrape.
Hmmm, I'm an expert at some things. Not so good on others. I've posted on something I thought I knew about and was blasted a time or two (rightly so). I'm not (I don't think) a complete crackpot. So I guess I'm somewhere between expert and lounger.
I agree. I've been using my burner for four years now, and I've pirated one (count 'em one) CD of music. I've made a couple mix cd's (for myself), but that's perfectly legal. The rest of the 100-200 disks I've copied have been data, or legally copied music. And I somehow doubt the one at my work has been used for anything other than data. So I think this is more than a little bit bogus.
I wasn't talking about whether this was based in economics or race or whatever. I simply said I would like to see a reference to this study so I could see it myself. And most of the things I was talking about were not economic, they were social. The black people wanting to get a new house have money, they are economically equal to the rest of the people in the neighborhood.
As to ghettos being bad, absolutely. (I am talking about a ghetto in the dictionary sense of the word, where a culturally/racially homogenous group of people lives together). This is a bad idea, because it is much easier to remain isolated from the rest of the culture and language of the society around you. Look at the Jews in mideavil (sp?) Europe who paid for the privilege to set up separate communities (ghettoes) in the german cities where their own laws were enforced. Six hundred years later the languages of the Jews had drifted so far apart from German it became a separate language (yiddish).
I'd like to see this study, I have a suspicion you are misremembering it or misinterpreting it.
I always thought it had more to do with things like real-estate agents tending NOT to show black families houses in white neighborhoods. And things like white-flight, where white families used to live in the inner city, but have now fled to the suburbs. It think it has more to do with whhite middle class america rejecting the notion of living across the street from those people. Bahh, I've never met a person yet who liked living in those kind of cramped conditions. I really do question this.
(offtopic)
I lived near Philadelphia for the first 18 years of my life, then in Cincinnati for 6 more. In all that time, I never had anyone (other than friends) offer me drugs. I'm in Baltimore three hours and someone tries to sell me crack. WTF?
According to my "Deadly Doses, a writers guide to poisons" which is actually a very good treatise on poisons. Marijuana is a 0 of out 6 on the toxicity scale. Nicotine, morphine, heroin, alcohol, tylenol all score higher on this scale. There are no known OD's due to marijuana.
[I'd tell ya what they all are, but my books are packed for the move]
Of course this is coming from someone who doesn't do any drugs except ethanol... Oh well. I do notice that people who smoke up a lot tend to 'get stupid'. This I HAVE seen backed up in studies. Of course I don't know if this is a permanent effect like baking your brains with ethanol. On the other hand, I've never gotten into a fight with a ganja smoker. But I have been rather nastily threatened/whatever by numerous drunks.
Most stores won't let you return software. Walden software has a 10 day return policy. Most will let you exchange for the same product. i.e. "My copy has a bad CD, gimme a new one". I'm not defending piracy, I'm just saying that most stores won't let you return software.
I pirated a fair amount of SW when I was younger, now I'm much better about it. I don't think I have any SW of questionable origin anymore. Of course Linux helps with that, and having a semi-real job so I can afford to buy software now.
You are smoking crack. What planet are you from? This is not even vaguely possibly true. This is complete and utter tripe. Go read the GPL, it says nothing about the output of a GPL program being GPL. Go post somewhere else troll.
I know GUI tools make things easier, but isn't it nice to know how your system works under the hood?
ummmm, yast is not a GUI tool. I think it's ncurses based. As for SAX, what's wrong with using a GUI tool to configure a GUI? I think that makes sense personally. And the othere CLI tools for setting up x are still there. You can write you're XF86Config file by hand if you want, I'll use SAX.