go bears! our work release convicts and out of work club bouncers are kicking ass! too bad when they cash them checks and start gobbling up the crack it will all end. or maybe not... richard dent used to mangle quarterbacks magnificently thanks to the miracle properties of cocaine!
(now for the not off-topic part and supports the main topic.)
the bears never lost a game because of Linux! (at least as far as we know.)
I admire a man that makes obscure Infocom subreferences on a board full of 31337 C0d3r5 all born after 1987. I salute you, i remember the endless paragraphs of alien gibberish you had to wade through until you worked that one out...
every so often i have to launch AOL to see how (if) my work is functioning correctly under AOL's hackward-ass implementation of IE. (and to check out the britney chat rooms for hot hot chicks, just kidding, put the gasoline away) Whenever i do i love the way it lumbers into consciousness, shakes off the dust of sleep and ponderously begins to connect to the server...
yeah i would love to see AOL move to a smaller, lithe, tightly coded browser that would spring up and start 'a parsing... then again i would prefer if AOL would just throw it in and hook into whatever the user's default browser was, or allow the user (assuming he/she was a complete AOL ISP slave) to d/l one of their own.... then again i really wish AOL would go the way of delphi and berma-shave....also: me being taller and more handsome...
Also, Makarova's material is flexible and transparent, properties that could make it useful for storing data when a laser is used to record on it. It might also be possible to record data at unprecedented densities.
Man, this is really going to piss off Hillary Rosen...
Posting late on this topic but I had to add my two cents,
I have used macs to make money for about ten years now. So OS X development has been real important to me and yeah I was very disappointed with system OS 10.0.0 and even 10.0.4. I could not get any work done on it.
I could not use my Wacom tablets on my Ti PowerBook or my G4 Tower, hence I never booted into OS X. I have a nice scsi raid that I inherited after my friend sold his Avid system and that wouldn't mount. I hate the Apple Pro Keyboard, mushy nasty keys and I have a nice USB Aftermarket one. It wouldn't work. With my powerbook I would get kernal panics and lockups for some reason when I had my second 256MB chip installed (crucial, good stuff). And yeah, slow.
Since the Saturday I installed OS 10.1 I have yet to reboot back into System 9. Everything works and everything is fast enough for me. It might not be as snappy as 9.2.1 but hey I will take the protected kernel and the flat memory architecture since I have yet to crash 10.1 on accident (installing X gave me some weirdness but I expected it, this is not the same as apps blinking into the either because you did something silly like trying to access the file menu in order so save instead of just hitting apple-S)
Classic works much, much better then I would have thought considering the OS is running as an app and I have yet to see an emulator this side of MAME works as well.
Boot up OmniWeb and check out Slashdot to understand how nice the Quartz layer looks. Not only are the fonts beautiful but Slashdot gets a spellchecker since OmniWeb is hooked into the system library. IE 5.1... is a Microsoft product... If you like them, enjoy. Otherwise Mozilla and OmniWeb are all I need from browsers.
I have an external TDK VeloCD 16/10/40 FireWire and both the PowerBook and the Tower can burn disks from the finder with no problems whatsoever. Also, I keep hearing people saying that DVD playback is erratic. Heh, on my PowerBook DVD playback is fixed. It always sucked in 9.2.1 no matter which version I used of the player. Now it is flawless and I actually use it to watch movies now, this delighted me.
You know what sucks? This is what sucks. You can't tidy up the desktop as easily as you could with OS 7.x - 9.x. "arrange by name" is wonky and "clean up" only sometimes does. This is the desktop mind you, drive navigation is now actually fun. I also hate that the scroll wheel on my mice and trackballs work natively in OS 10.1, but don't under the classic environment, no matter if you load the drivers under classic or not.
The only thing I have not tried yet is Games, I have heard the OpenGL drivers are much improved and the tower came with a nVidia card so I should get around to it eventually. But if I do enjoy playing games on the Mac too damn much... well what am I going to use my Win2K box for?
I guess my point is this, I need my Mac to earn. So I can't have a broken OS, since installing OS10.1 I have gained much and lost nothing. That sounds like a successful release to me.
A friend of mine was showing me his new quecat, it was sent to him with a Wired subscription. I had asked him what it was good for. he told me me that at the moment not a whole lot, but then mentioned, "ever open up some ancient pentium system and see some old Seagate or Western Digital that has no model number or jumper settings, but it has a little bar code sticker? Wouldn't it be cool to just scan it and have the device page up in seconds?"
"Heh." I remember thinking, I thought that might be a cool little technology stunt.
but that never happened, what happened was they tried to re-educate me on how to watch TV and read a Magazine... hahahahahaha. No, thank you.
Sir,
I admire your views and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Brilliant, since they seem to have really... just semi-clueless geeks on the payroll something like this could just about paraylize them.
Bringing this war out of the courts and the world of the big money Washinton lobbying and down to the geek level is the brilliant stratagy i've heard since Gen. Westmorland said. "we should have these vietnamese on the run by '66"...
I am also enjoying the fact that the Washington D.C. of October 2001 is so much different then the Washinton D.C of August 2001 (yes i hate the reasons for is passionately as well) and congressmen and senetors seem to have bigger fish to fry then glad handing the RIAA weasles.
I would like to think that Microsoft will come to it's senses and reevaluate it's licensing policies, but you have to remember the main driving force behind Microsoft's greed and avarice.
Microsoft is not self-destructive or blind with arrogance. They are just screwed by their own success. The sins of the past have come to haunt them, Microsoft has a hell of a lot of shareholders that depend on them to maintain to some degree of the same meteoric levels of growth and prosperity that they have enjoyed in the past. We all know how dirty Microsoft has been in the last fifteen years and that evil business model propelled them to the most important tech stock in most people's portfolio. The reason that they are fighting so hard to be allowed to maintain these bullshit business models is that they need them to survive. Lets laugh together at the notion of Office's success if it was denied access to the OS division (and visa versa to some degree).
So now it's 2001 and what do they have? They have an oversaturated market, there is almost no compelling reason for any offices to upgrade Office, there are scant reasons to upgrade to Microsoft XP. Microsoft is banging it's head into every area it can find (ie. Xbox, PocketPC, DirectTV, etc etc...) trying to build new revenue models, but at this point the money is not coming in yet.
When I found myself explaining to my brother the other day (a longtime Microsoft shareholder) how the OfficeXP and WindowsXP EULA worked his response was, "why the hell are they nickel and dimeing now?".
He understood that there is a huge difference between the guy that installs WindowsXP on both his desktop and his laptop and the huge duplicating plant in Malaysia that is duping knockoffs replete with holograms at 100,000 units per day.
My response was that I am starting to think they have to.
Well this is a dilemma, i already have too many damn palms laying around (a
VII, IIIc and a Handspring Visor Deluxe I got as a gift) and i had intended
to pick up an ipaq, but i'll be damned if it doesn't look like this is a much
better solution.
except for:
why so damn tiny? who asked for something that is only slightly larger then
a WAP enabled cell phone display.
the iPaq
(which my spellchecker wants to call Iraq) has a cell
phone module pending, and it will also do GPS. And if you are married to
the PalmOS and want color today you can get the color Handspring Visor
Prism and add the Cell
Phone module for free (with activation) only with neither of these you don't
get the spiffy keyboard... (heh) also the prism isn't as quick as the the Treo,
though it does have a bigger 16-bit color display today.
oh hell i just talked myself out of the Treo, and another palm... because well...
even though i have heard that the cell phone springboard module actually rocks,
the PalmOS development seems to be stagnating while the iPaq not only does every
goddamn thing in the world and with a better diplay, you can also jack linux
into it when you get sick of WinCE.
man... as a long time Apple guy (easy angry kiddys, i have been building x86 boxes
since before you were born and EISA was a hot new bus archetecture) i really
hate to see what was once the innovator and hands down best hand held solution
(PalmOS) get trumped by another microsoft branded product... i'd help them if
i can but i already have three...
the typo of "sex-seven" in context with the joke abut therapy and the earlier mention of family is purely the function of (og) hungover sunday fingers, i know how you sick bastardos think...
heh, my nephews still don't understand the resentment i have buried bacause og the the destruction they wrecked on my old starwars and micronauts (and matchbox/hotwheels) soon i will hit my sister and brother up for thier old toys for my kids, then in about sex-seven years we can all talk about it in therapy...
a girl i know picked up an old polaroid circa 196? at an antique shop in wisconsin, had funky plates that came with it and the images are so olde time cool that she matts the results.
i love my olympus E-1 but i think i am still going to go out and pick up a couple of cases of instant film at sams club in anticipation of tomorrows trick polaroid technique and ebay squabbles... remember those fisher price kiddy video cameras that used cassette tapes, those are know so retro cool that tarintino snapped up a half a dozen for a small fortune. my point is about the money, it's about the fact that analog techniques in art sometimes evolve after the media is less consumable...
I think oggs sound great but i am still ripping mp3s at 192 bits or better because they also sound great and everything i have is geared towards running them, (WinAmp, SoundBlaster Live, Creative Nomad Jukebox, nothing flashy)
I think that ogg has what it takes to supplant mp3s in the future (better sounding compression and smaller filesize) and all that it lacks is maturity.
Perhaps the only reason i run a windows operating system is that i play games. I do all my real work on Linux and Apple boxes, i keep a Win2K box running with all the latest bad boy hardware for the sole purpose of running off the shelf (okay i pre-order most online) games. With this BS WinXP flopping out of redmond, i would be pretty excited to never have to install a microsoft operating system ever again.
imagine how much better my modded bad ass game boxen would perform if it wasn't running NT kernel. The sad truth is that it will be years before Linux Gamer penitration is close to that of Windows (it's a numbers game to the accounting departments of the major game developers, i realize that a good argument could be made that where there is a windows box, there is a linux box waiting to happen), the industry will bring the best games out for windows first for some time now. hell i have a g4 tower running with a gig and a half of ram and Gforce3 card (and full comprehensive OpenGl support) and i still don't really game on it because the preponderance of the games i like most are not released on the Mac for months (if ever) after the windows release.
agreed, i just brought down 4.0.5 and it's gorgeous and much tighter, though it has hiccups rendering.swf and.svf (shockwave, flash and adobe's vector) images. still... it sure is pretty... i might have to rethink my earlier stance on mozilla being hands down my favorite OS X browser.
Insane. A handful of jackasses mail a handful of poison apples and one writer has an epiphany that an America will now forsake using the postal system.
I send or respond to hundreds of emails a day, as I am sure quite a few of us do, personally I find it is the differences between email and snail mail that make it cornerstone of society.
Email lets me communicate to someone using electronic representations of words or images. Powerful stuff, certainly powerful enough to conduct business and maintain strong lines of communication with family and friends.
But snail mail allows my kids, my wife, to create something for me physically and to send it thousands of miles away for me to hold in my hands, if you ever got a perfumed letter from your woman when you have been jonesing for her for weeks, you realize why email is not a final postal solution.
Never mind that I do 60% of my shopping online and receive parcels in a timely fashion from all four corners of this country and from a couple others. Never mind that if an old acquaintance wants to contact me the odds of him finding my physical address is greater then him stumbling into my email address. Never mind that letters written by pen usually have greater value both in terms of the thought that went into them and to the appreciation of the reader.
Yeah junk mail sucks ass and needs to be addressed and destroyed. I am not saying snail mail is not silly with flaws. What I am saying is this is horseshit. We lived through the unibomber and if you are old enough you might remember that in the early seventies mail-bombs were flying around in a near epidemic. Unibomber-boy (teddy K) did not invent it. And hey look, the problem is so bad most of the kids on slash dot won't have a clue about it.
Man when bored journalists with deadlines write shitty pieces I don't get upset, I know a job is a job. But responding/reacting to it is just plain stupid.
then you are being robbed. don't go quietly into that bleak bandwidth... rage on!
I have been useing cable for almost five years, my suburb being a test market for mediaone express. i enjoy insane throughput nearly 27/7 (once... you... take... liberties... with certain.. throttle restrictions... oh actually even throttled i would be smoking any dialup anywhere, i still have to dial in when i use my laptops away from home and it "sucks".)
sadly, AT&T @home bought mediaone and i am foreseeing terrible trouble, so i am investigating options, currently the chicago area still has plenty, thank god.
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Talking Palm
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Actually I was thinking along similar lines, how they hell can they get that antiquated Motorola 680x to even run the app in "demo" mode amazed me.
I love palms, I have three, but unfortunately I am setting my sites on an iPaq. I hate WinCE as much as the next guy, but I will take the technology and the functionality of the new generation of PocketPC devices over anything PalmOS gewgaws are demonstrating.
But man can you imagine the possibilities something like this would be the vision impaired?
mozilla for OS X
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· Score: 3, Informative
0.9.4 for OS X is by far my favorite browser,
just a heads up for anyone else out there letting OS X monopolize their time like i have been. omniweb is nice, but so unfinished it makes mozilla look like oracle, Opera beta 5.0 b1.327 rocks very hard, but is just a weeeee too scandi-alien for my tastes - oh and it quits at the first sign of trick xml.
(yeah IE 5.1 is rock solid... but it makes me feel so dirty...)
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go bears! our work release convicts and out of work club bouncers are kicking ass! too bad when they cash them checks and start gobbling up the crack it will all end. or maybe not... richard dent used to mangle quarterbacks magnificently thanks to the miracle properties of cocaine!
(now for the not off-topic part and supports the main topic.)
the bears never lost a game because of Linux! (at least as far as we know.)thank you very much.
I admire a man that makes obscure Infocom subreferences on a board full of 31337 C0d3r5 all born after 1987. I salute you, i remember the endless paragraphs of alien gibberish you had to wade through until you worked that one out...
i would have to say everyone owes the guys that wrote deluxe paint for the amiga money. a lot of it.
there is only so much you can get done with an atari 800...
dude... you are so forgeting about all the britney chat rooms...
every so often i have to launch AOL to see how (if) my work is functioning correctly under AOL's hackward-ass implementation of IE. (and to check out the britney chat rooms for hot hot chicks, just kidding, put the gasoline away) Whenever i do i love the way it lumbers into consciousness, shakes off the dust of sleep and ponderously begins to connect to the server...
yeah i would love to see AOL move to a smaller, lithe, tightly coded browser that would spring up and start 'a parsing... then again i would prefer if AOL would just throw it in and hook into whatever the user's default browser was, or allow the user (assuming he/she was a complete AOL ISP slave) to d/l one of their own.... then again i really wish AOL would go the way of delphi and berma-shave....also: me being taller and more handsome...
Also, Makarova's material is flexible and transparent, properties that could make it useful for storing data when a laser is used to record on it. It might also be possible to record data at unprecedented densities.
Man, this is really going to piss off Hillary Rosen...
...that webster's changed the definition of a computer from a person to a machine?
sounds like a great idea, PalmOS dev seemed to be stagnating for the last year or so, since 2.5 actually.
and we stood and watched as WinCE got stronger and the Journada and the iPaq get better and better.
i hope this lights some creative fire in both divisions. I wonder if Palm hardware will be modified to run Linux or WinCE?
Posting late on this topic but I had to add my two cents,
I have used macs to make money for about ten years now. So OS X development has been real important to me and yeah I was very disappointed with system OS 10.0.0 and even 10.0.4. I could not get any work done on it.
I could not use my Wacom tablets on my Ti PowerBook or my G4 Tower, hence I never booted into OS X. I have a nice scsi raid that I inherited after my friend sold his Avid system and that wouldn't mount. I hate the Apple Pro Keyboard, mushy nasty keys and I have a nice USB Aftermarket one. It wouldn't work. With my powerbook I would get kernal panics and lockups for some reason when I had my second 256MB chip installed (crucial, good stuff). And yeah, slow.
Since the Saturday I installed OS 10.1 I have yet to reboot back into System 9. Everything works and everything is fast enough for me. It might not be as snappy as 9.2.1 but hey I will take the protected kernel and the flat memory architecture since I have yet to crash 10.1 on accident (installing X gave me some weirdness but I expected it, this is not the same as apps blinking into the either because you did something silly like trying to access the file menu in order so save instead of just hitting apple-S)
Classic works much, much better then I would have thought considering the OS is running as an app and I have yet to see an emulator this side of MAME works as well.
Boot up OmniWeb and check out Slashdot to understand how nice the Quartz layer looks. Not only are the fonts beautiful but Slashdot gets a spellchecker since OmniWeb is hooked into the system library. IE 5.1... is a Microsoft product... If you like them, enjoy. Otherwise Mozilla and OmniWeb are all I need from browsers.
I have an external TDK VeloCD 16/10/40 FireWire and both the PowerBook and the Tower can burn disks from the finder with no problems whatsoever. Also, I keep hearing people saying that DVD playback is erratic. Heh, on my PowerBook DVD playback is fixed. It always sucked in 9.2.1 no matter which version I used of the player. Now it is flawless and I actually use it to watch movies now, this delighted me.
You know what sucks? This is what sucks. You can't tidy up the desktop as easily as you could with OS 7.x - 9.x. "arrange by name" is wonky and "clean up" only sometimes does. This is the desktop mind you, drive navigation is now actually fun. I also hate that the scroll wheel on my mice and trackballs work natively in OS 10.1, but don't under the classic environment, no matter if you load the drivers under classic or not.
The only thing I have not tried yet is Games, I have heard the OpenGL drivers are much improved and the tower came with a nVidia card so I should get around to it eventually. But if I do enjoy playing games on the Mac too damn much... well what am I going to use my Win2K box for?
I guess my point is this, I need my Mac to earn. So I can't have a broken OS, since installing OS10.1 I have gained much and lost nothing. That sounds like a successful release to me.
A friend of mine was showing me his new quecat, it was sent to him with a Wired subscription. I had asked him what it was good for. he told me me that at the moment not a whole lot, but then mentioned, "ever open up some ancient pentium system and see some old Seagate or Western Digital that has no model number or jumper settings, but it has a little bar code sticker? Wouldn't it be cool to just scan it and have the device page up in seconds?"
"Heh." I remember thinking, I thought that might be a cool little technology stunt.
but that never happened, what happened was they tried to re-educate me on how to watch TV and read a Magazine... hahahahahaha. No, thank you.
G'bye Que...
Sir, I admire your views and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Brilliant, since they seem to have really... just semi-clueless geeks on the payroll something like this could just about paraylize them. Bringing this war out of the courts and the world of the big money Washinton lobbying and down to the geek level is the brilliant stratagy i've heard since Gen. Westmorland said. "we should have these vietnamese on the run by '66"... I am also enjoying the fact that the Washington D.C. of October 2001 is so much different then the Washinton D.C of August 2001 (yes i hate the reasons for is passionately as well) and congressmen and senetors seem to have bigger fish to fry then glad handing the RIAA weasles.
I would like to think that Microsoft will come to it's senses and reevaluate it's licensing policies, but you have to remember the main driving force behind Microsoft's greed and avarice.
Microsoft is not self-destructive or blind with arrogance. They are just screwed by their own success. The sins of the past have come to haunt them, Microsoft has a hell of a lot of shareholders that depend on them to maintain to some degree of the same meteoric levels of growth and prosperity that they have enjoyed in the past. We all know how dirty Microsoft has been in the last fifteen years and that evil business model propelled them to the most important tech stock in most people's portfolio. The reason that they are fighting so hard to be allowed to maintain these bullshit business models is that they need them to survive. Lets laugh together at the notion of Office's success if it was denied access to the OS division (and visa versa to some degree).
So now it's 2001 and what do they have? They have an oversaturated market, there is almost no compelling reason for any offices to upgrade Office, there are scant reasons to upgrade to Microsoft XP. Microsoft is banging it's head into every area it can find (ie. Xbox, PocketPC, DirectTV, etc etc...) trying to build new revenue models, but at this point the money is not coming in yet.
When I found myself explaining to my brother the other day (a longtime Microsoft shareholder) how the OfficeXP and WindowsXP EULA worked his response was, "why the hell are they nickel and dimeing now?".
He understood that there is a huge difference between the guy that installs WindowsXP on both his desktop and his laptop and the huge duplicating plant in Malaysia that is duping knockoffs replete with holograms at 100,000 units per day.
My response was that I am starting to think they have to.
Well this is a dilemma, i already have too many damn palms laying around (a VII, IIIc and a Handspring Visor Deluxe I got as a gift) and i had intended to pick up an ipaq, but i'll be damned if it doesn't look like this is a much better solution.
except for:
why so damn tiny? who asked for something that is only slightly larger then a WAP enabled cell phone display.
the iPaq (which my spellchecker wants to call Iraq) has a cell phone module pending, and it will also do GPS. And if you are married to the PalmOS and want color today you can get the color Handspring Visor Prism and add the Cell Phone module for free (with activation) only with neither of these you don't get the spiffy keyboard... (heh) also the prism isn't as quick as the the Treo, though it does have a bigger 16-bit color display today .
oh hell i just talked myself out of the Treo, and another palm... because well... even though i have heard that the cell phone springboard module actually rocks, the PalmOS development seems to be stagnating while the iPaq not only does every goddamn thing in the world and with a better diplay, you can also jack linux into it when you get sick of WinCE.
man... as a long time Apple guy (easy angry kiddys, i have been building x86 boxes since before you were born and EISA was a hot new bus archetecture) i really hate to see what was once the innovator and hands down best hand held solution (PalmOS) get trumped by another microsoft branded product... i'd help them if i can but i already have three...
the typo of "sex-seven" in context with the joke abut therapy and the earlier mention of family is purely the function of (og) hungover sunday fingers, i know how you sick bastardos think...
heh, my nephews still don't understand the resentment i have buried bacause og the the destruction they wrecked on my old starwars and micronauts (and matchbox/hotwheels) soon i will hit my sister and brother up for thier old toys for my kids, then in about sex-seven years we can all talk about it in therapy...
a girl i know picked up an old polaroid circa 196? at an antique shop in wisconsin, had funky plates that came with it and the images are so olde time cool that she matts the results.
i love my olympus E-1 but i think i am still going to go out and pick up a couple of cases of instant film at sams club in anticipation of tomorrows trick polaroid technique and ebay squabbles... remember those fisher price kiddy video cameras that used cassette tapes, those are know so retro cool that tarintino snapped up a half a dozen for a small fortune. my point is about the money, it's about the fact that analog techniques in art sometimes evolve after the media is less consumable...
I think oggs sound great but i am still ripping mp3s at 192 bits or better because they also sound great and everything i have is geared towards running them, (WinAmp, SoundBlaster Live, Creative Nomad Jukebox, nothing flashy) I think that ogg has what it takes to supplant mp3s in the future (better sounding compression and smaller filesize) and all that it lacks is maturity.
Perhaps the only reason i run a windows operating system is that i play games. I do all my real work on Linux and Apple boxes, i keep a Win2K box running with all the latest bad boy hardware for the sole purpose of running off the shelf (okay i pre-order most online) games. With this BS WinXP flopping out of redmond, i would be pretty excited to never have to install a microsoft operating system ever again.
imagine how much better my modded bad ass game boxen would perform if it wasn't running NT kernel. The sad truth is that it will be years before Linux Gamer penitration is close to that of Windows (it's a numbers game to the accounting departments of the major game developers, i realize that a good argument could be made that where there is a windows box, there is a linux box waiting to happen), the industry will bring the best games out for windows first for some time now. hell i have a g4 tower running with a gig and a half of ram and Gforce3 card (and full comprehensive OpenGl support) and i still don't really game on it because the preponderance of the games i like most are not released on the Mac for months (if ever) after the windows release.
agreed, i just brought down 4.0.5 and it's gorgeous and much tighter, though it has hiccups rendering .swf and .svf (shockwave, flash and adobe's vector) images. still... it sure is pretty... i might have to rethink my earlier stance on mozilla being hands down my favorite OS X browser.
Insane. A handful of jackasses mail a handful of poison apples and one writer has an epiphany that an America will now forsake using the postal system.
I send or respond to hundreds of emails a day, as I am sure quite a few of us do, personally I find it is the differences between email and snail mail that make it cornerstone of society.
Email lets me communicate to someone using electronic representations of words or images. Powerful stuff, certainly powerful enough to conduct business and maintain strong lines of communication with family and friends.
But snail mail allows my kids, my wife, to create something for me physically and to send it thousands of miles away for me to hold in my hands, if you ever got a perfumed letter from your woman when you have been jonesing for her for weeks, you realize why email is not a final postal solution.
Never mind that I do 60% of my shopping online and receive parcels in a timely fashion from all four corners of this country and from a couple others. Never mind that if an old acquaintance wants to contact me the odds of him finding my physical address is greater then him stumbling into my email address. Never mind that letters written by pen usually have greater value both in terms of the thought that went into them and to the appreciation of the reader.
Yeah junk mail sucks ass and needs to be addressed and destroyed. I am not saying snail mail is not silly with flaws. What I am saying is this is horseshit. We lived through the unibomber and if you are old enough you might remember that in the early seventies mail-bombs were flying around in a near epidemic. Unibomber-boy (teddy K) did not invent it. And hey look, the problem is so bad most of the kids on slash dot won't have a clue about it.
Man when bored journalists with deadlines write shitty pieces I don't get upset, I know a job is a job. But responding/reacting to it is just plain stupid.
then you are being robbed. don't go quietly into that bleak bandwidth... rage on!
I have been useing cable for almost five years, my suburb being a test market for mediaone express. i enjoy insane throughput nearly 27/7 (once... you... take... liberties... with certain.. throttle restrictions... oh actually even throttled i would be smoking any dialup anywhere, i still have to dial in when i use my laptops away from home and it "sucks".)
sadly, AT&T @home bought mediaone and i am foreseeing terrible trouble, so i am investigating options, currently the chicago area still has plenty, thank god.
Actually I was thinking along similar lines, how they hell can they get that antiquated Motorola 680x to even run the app in "demo" mode amazed me.
I love palms, I have three, but unfortunately I am setting my sites on an iPaq. I hate WinCE as much as the next guy, but I will take the technology and the functionality of the new generation of PocketPC devices over anything PalmOS gewgaws are demonstrating.
But man can you imagine the possibilities something like this would be the vision impaired?
just a heads up for anyone else out there letting OS X monopolize their time like i have been. omniweb is nice, but so unfinished it makes mozilla look like oracle, Opera beta 5.0 b1.327 rocks very hard, but is just a weeeee too scandi-alien for my tastes - oh and it quits at the first sign of trick xml.
(yeah IE 5.1 is rock solid... but it makes me feel so dirty...)
Yup, lasers. Though i have no idea how harsh atlantic weather would effect transmission.
here is some more on laser broadband, and here and here.