Why is everybody hating on my 33s? It's really a nice little machine, with only a couple of little caveats. The chevron key layout is perfectly usable, and the keys do give that nice tactile feedback. The biggest complaint (the radix size issue) has been fixed. I concede that I wish it had the double size enter key, but really, it's not that big a deal. The two line display more than makes up for that. For $50 on amazon I think it's a great deal, especially considering your only other choice for a new rpn calc is the 50g ($75 more and much bigger) and we all know how ridiculously high the used HP's go for on ebay.
I would also add Richard Dawkins'
The God Delusion to your suggestion. It presents the most common 'proofs' of God, and the specific logical errors in each of those so-called proofs.
As an airline pilot I've been living is one city and commuting to another for many years. In my case, my wife knew when we got married that the job would involve me being away for days at a time and so that was part of the ground rules of the relationship. In your case, though, it's a substantial change.
I can tell you, it's not only the fact that you're away for a days at a time... but the commute itself is just tiring. I've been lucky that my commutes have all been north - south, but my east - west commuter friends tell me that the time zone change makes a bad situation even worse. Also, the fact that after a hard week's work you know you still have an air commute home is something that wears you down. I probably don't have to tell your how aggravating airports are these days... security, weather delays, mechanical delays, etc. etc. You will be spending a lot of time waiting around at the airport, because flights don't just go when you want them to. You'll also spend a lot of time onboard planes even if the commute isn't very far because of various delays. On the plus side, you'll have plenty of time to get Linux running the way you like it on your laptop. On the minus side, you'll wind up leaving home and arriving back home at very early or late hours and there's a good chance you'll miss your kid singing in the school play, your anniversary, and the like.
Having said all that, it's a rare privilege that people can live where they want and work where they want at the same time. There's compromise in every situation, and personally I prefer commuting once a week by air to sitting in car traffic twice a day. Also, depending on the type of relationship you have with your wife, you may find that a little 'breathing room' makes you appreciate each other more when you're together. You have a chance to miss each other a bit. When I get home from my trip each week, I get the celebrity reception from the whole family.
Some wives are more the independent type, and others prefer the subordinate role. If your wife is comfortable making decisions and doesn't require your input for every little thing, then that's in your favor. In the end, though, you'll have to make sure you're both truly comfortable with the decision, because if you do it and she doesn't like it (even if she says it's ok), her resentment will start building up, which will create instability. YMMV. Good luck.
I'm an airline pilot too, though I can't say my equipment is modern (turboprops). I can definately hear certain cell phones through my David Clark headsets. Dialing sounds like ticking.. kind of like how an old rotary phones sounds when you release the dial and it spring-loads back. It doesn't drown out ATC, but it is noticeable.
I always wondered about that... you know as soon as those Tribbles showed up in the Romulan engine room, they started pumping them out into space ASAP. Cruel, when you think about.
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I have an older system, PIII w/256 ram, and I am not able to install anything > Mandrake 9.1.. all higher releases hang during installation. Also, my 9.1 system didn't reliably detect my CF and Smartmedia cards, and I could never get my HP officejet 4215 multifunction's printer function to work, even after getting the ppd from linuxprinting.org.
So I switched to SUSE 9.1, and now all of my devices are working correctly. YMMV.
Before everyone is 'chipped' at birth with some sort of non-removable multi-purpose chip which among other tasks tracks your position at all times.
The chip will be your ID, your method of payment, and will interact with chips embedded in other humans and products so that everything you do will be documented in real-time.
Perhaps the chip will enable the overlo.., um, government to 'correct' you if you're doing something wrong, such as getting into a high speed chase, or using p2p software.
I don't think this is so much a story about censorship as a comment on people willingness to follow instructions without questioning them.
In a related story, did you know that you can get into any room of a hotel just by going to the front desk and telling them that you locked your key inside and giving them room number you want. No one's EVER asked me for ID for doing that.
Most people just accept the information presented to them as being factual.
I have "history" with Photoshop. In the same way that it's easier to work with old friends than with new ones, it's easier to work with an expensive software package than it is to spend the time to learn a new one. That time spent can be used for other things (getting clients, earning money, having a life).
That, my friend, is what we call 'mentally locked in'.
I use my Zaurus 5500 with a Pockettop IR (foldable) keyboard for note taking, and it works well. I will say that my typing speed is a little slower than on the laptop. Its light to carry around, though, and there's no fan to annoy people sitting next to you (like my horrible Inspiron fan).
Basic economics, pay reflects supply and demand, not skill-level/education required to do the job.
Ain't THAT the truth, and it's not just IT either. I'm an airline pilot. Without trying to sound like an a**hole, we're among the most proficiently trained (and mercilessly monitored) workgroups in the world.. and like IT people, almost everyone who does this job can't imagine doing anything else. But since 9/11 and the massive layoffs across the industry, we've found out the hard way that our labor is a commodity, subject to the same ruthless rules of supply and demand.
There was a time when pilots suffered through many years of low pay in order to reap a few years of high pay, but with the glut of laid-off pilots on the market, the future's been cancelled and instead there's been a race to the bottom as we realize we're just another oversupplied labor pool that better take what it can get. And by the way, a great pilot doesn't make any more than a mediocre one... never has and (probably) never will.
So we have a choice, it seems... either do what we love, and accept that it may not pay what we want, or go for the money, and spend our lives working at something that doesn't ignite our passion.
Oh, I guess there's a 3rd choice.. we can do something that neither pays well NOR is gratifying. Most people fall into that category anyway.
It was a tough call for me whether to mod you up, or add to your idea. Bycatch is a horrible problem that gets almost no notice. IMO, fishing in general is brutal and ugly, but I understand that not everyone is vegetarian (as I am). Anything that can be done to minimize the harm brought by the fishing industry to the the ocean environment (on the large scale) and to the individual sea creatures (on the small scale) is a step in the right direction.
If you eat fish you bear some of the responsibility for the bycatch problem by creating the demand. If the price of fish goes up a bit to pay for this equipment, that seems reasonable.
Not to go overboard (heh) on the topic, it's just responsible stewardship to minimize the negative impact of the fishing industry by fishing as cleanly and sustainably as possible.
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I'm using crunchbang with awesome wm on my 5 yr old computer and it's pretty snappy.
Indeed. Vimperator is a must have.
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Why is everybody hating on my 33s? It's really a nice little machine, with only a couple of little caveats. The chevron key layout is perfectly usable, and the keys do give that nice tactile feedback. The biggest complaint (the radix size issue) has been fixed. I concede that I wish it had the double size enter key, but really, it's not that big a deal. The two line display more than makes up for that. For $50 on amazon I think it's a great deal, especially considering your only other choice for a new rpn calc is the 50g ($75 more and much bigger) and we all know how ridiculously high the used HP's go for on ebay.
Are there any public-use computers left in the world that aren't locked down to prohibit this?
I would also add Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion to your suggestion. It presents the most common 'proofs' of God, and the specific logical errors in each of those so-called proofs.
Editors, you really need to weed out stuff like this.
As an airline pilot I've been living is one city and commuting to another for many years. In my case, my wife knew when we got married that the job would involve me being away for days at a time and so that was part of the ground rules of the relationship. In your case, though, it's a substantial change.
I can tell you, it's not only the fact that you're away for a days at a time... but the commute itself is just tiring. I've been lucky that my commutes have all been north - south, but my east - west commuter friends tell me that the time zone change makes a bad situation even worse. Also, the fact that after a hard week's work you know you still have an air commute home is something that wears you down. I probably don't have to tell your how aggravating airports are these days... security, weather delays, mechanical delays, etc. etc. You will be spending a lot of time waiting around at the airport, because flights don't just go when you want them to. You'll also spend a lot of time onboard planes even if the commute isn't very far because of various delays. On the plus side, you'll have plenty of time to get Linux running the way you like it on your laptop. On the minus side, you'll wind up leaving home and arriving back home at very early or late hours and there's a good chance you'll miss your kid singing in the school play, your anniversary, and the like.
Having said all that, it's a rare privilege that people can live where they want and work where they want at the same time. There's compromise in every situation, and personally I prefer commuting once a week by air to sitting in car traffic twice a day. Also, depending on the type of relationship you have with your wife, you may find that a little 'breathing room' makes you appreciate each other more when you're together. You have a chance to miss each other a bit. When I get home from my trip each week, I get the celebrity reception from the whole family.
Some wives are more the independent type, and others prefer the subordinate role. If your wife is comfortable making decisions and doesn't require your input for every little thing, then that's in your favor. In the end, though, you'll have to make sure you're both truly comfortable with the decision, because if you do it and she doesn't like it (even if she says it's ok), her resentment will start building up, which will create instability. YMMV. Good luck.
There's nothing to argue about... Robotron still IS the best shoot 'em up game ever made, and I still play it today with my kids via MAME.
If there's one game that comes even close, though, it's got to be Stargate.
Thank you Vid Kids Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar, wherever you are.
I'm an airline pilot too, though I can't say my equipment is modern (turboprops). I can definately hear certain cell phones through my David Clark headsets. Dialing sounds like ticking.. kind of like how an old rotary phones sounds when you release the dial and it spring-loads back. It doesn't drown out ATC, but it is noticeable.
if you didn't want to run your own servers?
Count me out.
I always wondered about that... you know as soon as those Tribbles showed up in the Romulan engine room, they started pumping them out into space ASAP. Cruel, when you think about.
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I have an older system, PIII w/256 ram, and I am not able to install anything > Mandrake 9.1.. all higher releases hang during installation. Also, my 9.1 system didn't reliably detect my CF and Smartmedia cards, and I could never get my HP officejet 4215 multifunction's printer function to work, even after getting the ppd from linuxprinting.org.
So I switched to SUSE 9.1, and now all of my devices are working correctly. YMMV.
I fly for Eagle. As soon as the rat brains merge with the AA pilot group, they'll start flowing back to Eagle... to the left seat, of course.
(non-airline people, don't even try to understand that)
Before everyone is 'chipped' at birth with some sort of non-removable multi-purpose chip which among other tasks tracks your position at all times.
The chip will be your ID, your method of payment, and will interact with chips embedded in other humans and products so that everything you do will be documented in real-time.
Perhaps the chip will enable the overlo.., um, government to 'correct' you if you're doing something wrong, such as getting into a high speed chase, or using p2p software.
I don't think this is so much a story about censorship as a comment on people willingness to follow instructions without questioning them.
In a related story, did you know that you can get into any room of a hotel just by going to the front desk and telling them that you locked your key inside and giving them room number you want. No one's EVER asked me for ID for doing that.
Most people just accept the information presented to them as being factual.
You are a shining beacon of geekdom lighting the way for the rest of us!
Is NOT!
That, my friend, is what we call 'mentally locked in'.
I use my Zaurus 5500 with a Pockettop IR (foldable) keyboard for note taking, and it works well. I will say that my typing speed is a little slower than on the laptop. Its light to carry around, though, and there's no fan to annoy people sitting next to you (like my horrible Inspiron fan).
Manhole - the first GAY distro!
or if that's not quite gay enough for you,
Mangina.
Can't people who have wireless networks claim that they were 'victims' of war drivers running p2p?
Ain't THAT the truth, and it's not just IT either. I'm an airline pilot. Without trying to sound like an a**hole, we're among the most proficiently trained (and mercilessly monitored) workgroups in the world.. and like IT people, almost everyone who does this job can't imagine doing anything else. But since 9/11 and the massive layoffs across the industry, we've found out the hard way that our labor is a commodity, subject to the same ruthless rules of supply and demand.
There was a time when pilots suffered through many years of low pay in order to reap a few years of high pay, but with the glut of laid-off pilots on the market, the future's been cancelled and instead there's been a race to the bottom as we realize we're just another oversupplied labor pool that better take what it can get. And by the way, a great pilot doesn't make any more than a mediocre one... never has and (probably) never will.
So we have a choice, it seems... either do what we love, and accept that it may not pay what we want, or go for the money, and spend our lives working at something that doesn't ignite our passion.
Oh, I guess there's a 3rd choice.. we can do something that neither pays well NOR is gratifying. Most people fall into that category anyway.
It was a tough call for me whether to mod you up, or add to your idea. Bycatch is a horrible problem that gets almost no notice. IMO, fishing in general is brutal and ugly, but I understand that not everyone is vegetarian (as I am). Anything that can be done to minimize the harm brought by the fishing industry to the the ocean environment (on the large scale) and to the individual sea creatures (on the small scale) is a step in the right direction.
If you eat fish you bear some of the responsibility for the bycatch problem by creating the demand. If the price of fish goes up a bit to pay for this equipment, that seems reasonable.
Not to go overboard (heh) on the topic, it's just responsible stewardship to minimize the negative impact of the fishing industry by fishing as cleanly and sustainably as possible.