Last time I successfully used gopher was college ('96). I have tried a few times recently because gopher was a little more precise than google or the like. Archie is the tool I miss the most though. Need a file, know the filename, archie will find a dozen places that the file exists. Now you are tied to ad-supported search sites that make you jump through hoops to download a file from another ad-supported site that makes you jump through more hoops!
Data is disappearing off the net, and the data that is still there is becoming impossible to find because of the search engine rankings. Give me the raw data and let me do the ranking. I am the one that knows what I'm looking for.
I noticed the MIT paper quotes discredited research (Peppered Moth perching on tree bark, proven to be fabricated because the moths do not perch on tree bark)
That does not immediately discredit the paper but it warrants additional scrutiny if they are willing to use fabricated research as additional evidence. The math is slightly off as well. 2% chance is 2/100, when the non CAPS flagged terrorist would actually have 2/94 or 2.12% chance. The point is still valid 2.12% is still smaller than 8% but I would expect better from a MIT paper.
(for the non statistics readers) The reason the non CAPS flagged terrorist chance of random screening is higher than 2% is because the random 2% is exclusive of the 6% set. A plane with 100 passengers would have 6 passengers automatically screened because of CAPS and 2 of the remaining 94 screened randomly.
Aren't guns the way to protect my kids from a system that becomes more and more like a police state. We are discussing it, but the sites are being blocked by Symantec. So here we discuss why Symantec is trying to protect the police state.
I wasn't correlating church density to anything. I was simply pointing out that there was no "control" to the control group in this study and the article even mentioned that.
There was nothing done to prevent someone in surgery from being prayed for. For that matter, there was nothing done to ensure the test group was prayed for either. My point was, given the area, there is a high probability that some/most of the control group received prayer when they were not supposed to.
If I'm not mistaken Eve did die. Didn't she? If not then she is the oldest woman in the world and we should stop these news reports about worlds oldest woman dies at 117 years old. Boy she must have some great stories! God told her not to eat the forbidden fruit or she will surely die. She surely did die.
God can't lie. (In this case, talking about the Judeo-Chrstian God based on the Adam/Eve commentary) You can debate whether he exists or not, but it is physically impossible, if He (again the Judeo-Christian God identified with a male pronoun) exists, to lie. If God exists, then God is Truth by definition and therefore can't lie. If God does not exist, He can't lie.
The article actually mentions this issue. I am shocked that the scientists performing the study did not see this flaw. Let's say you are doing a study on the effects of fluoride on tooth decay so you give half a group fluroride and the other half a placebo. By design both groups believe they are taking fluroide. In the end you find the results to be to close to identical and publish the study claiming fluoride has no effect only to find out that the area the subjects lived in has a large number of fluoridated water supplies. Now there is a possiblity that your control group was actually getting fluoride and didn't even know it.
The article pointed out that this is the Bible Belt. If you live on one of the coasts it is hard to understand but go there and you will understand. My parents live in a small town in Arkansas. Small enough to only have one movie theater and only one Wal Mart. On the weekend the local paper prints a list of local churches. It takes up two whole pages! There is a church on every corner. Another town nearby welcomes you with the official sign "Welcome to Shiloam Springs, where Jesus Christ is Lord". Yes, there is pretty good chance that going to surgery in that part of the country you are being prayed for!
He won a three week long, all-expense-paid european cruise from Kodak for selling more kodak thermal printers than anyone in the country. His boss took it.
Why he doesn't quit, I don't know
He gets a three week long vacation from his boss! If my boss was that much of a jerk I'd take every opprotunity to send him away for 3 weeks!
Speaking from experience... Even though the baby isn't due till November, and probably will be mostly immobile till sometime next February, start preparing and working on stuff now! My wife and I did a lot of things to get the baby's room ready but we didn't figure we needed to do the childproofing stuff till the baby was learning to crawl. That's around 4 months at the earliest, but you will spend that first 4 months actively caring for the baby or sleeping. If you aren't feeding the baby, you are changing the baby, if not that you are changing your close because of one of the prior two. If the baby is asleep then you are asleep. Even when you are at work, you are probably sleeping. Next thing you know the new baby is crawling and then it is all you can do to play catch up with all the things the magazines say you should have done by now.
Next piece of advice, ignore the magazines, you will get enough of the "good parents do this" when your new baby is a teenager.
I wish this article had a few more details so that we can actually compare this to others experiences. I have a few questions:
How many charge/discharge cycles did the battery go through? (3 yrs of use could be 1000 cycles, or could be 2) How often were these laptops just left plugged in for days. (NiMH batteries are prone to the "memory" effect. Only let the battery discharge 2% and then recharge it repeatedly leaves a battery that can only be discharged 2%) How long do the batteries get left dead? (Discharging any rechargeable pack does not usually discharge all the cells. One cell will be ~0 volts, another will be 0.5 Volts, this results in the 0.5 volt cell attempting to "charge" the ~0 volt cell backwards and next thing you know, the 12 volt pack will only do 10.5 volts)
I have had similar problems with cordless razors, Radio battery packs, etc. I realize that I abuse my battery packs a lot. I leave batteries in the car where they go through 60 degree changes in temperature overnight. I leave them in equipment on the "charger" for days on end. I let them completely discharge and stay that way for weeks. All of this means I buy battery packs a lot! I usually take my battery pack down to the local battery place and have them crack it open, change the cells, and glue it back together. (It's a lot cheaper and I usually get more mAh because I use the latest/greatest cell to replace the old one) I also get my twice yearly lecture on taking care of the batteries.
As much as we would like to blame "Big, Bad, IBM", is this really IBM, or is this a bunch of battery packs being pushed beyond their limits. Would the battery from a Toshiba or Panasonic last as long under the same conditions?
I know that this was probably meant as a joke. But we may have found a reason that ATI would encourage by not actively discouraging the software mods on their boards. If I was in the market for a new video card this is free advertising for ATI. I wouldn't buy the latest/greatest video card because most of my use of the machine is not playing games that need the speed. Instead I buy a faster processor, more memory, etc. Given that, I am not the target market for the Radeon 9700. However, I am Video in the 9500 price range does attract my attention. Now I see this article (and others like it) and find that there is a software program that will speed up the board, enable lost functions, etc. with very little risk. Now when I make the decision that the ATI may be the better choice. Think about it.... I could enable this new feature when I'm playing the games and disable it the rest of the time for stability.... And I get to pretend I'm a hacker. (When I really am just a script kiddie, it wasn't my code that enabled the feature) I think it is similar to cheats in games, they are now a part of the selling point.
As for the hardware mod that is also mentioned. There are very few people that are actually going to do this. There is the coolness of being a hardware hacker, but anyone that has the brains to actually do this knows that the odds are stacked against them. You do this for fun, and remember it is not cheap fun. (Sad that we have to mention don't return it if you fail but I'll do it too.)
How is your PDA functionality - limited, annoying because of size, etc? This phone is about the same size as cell phones were 3 years ago. It is a little larger than the average current phone but not unmanageable for a normal man's hand. How is the phone service? I live out West and Verizon has a plan that allows all of Nevada and California for one rate. The coverage has been very good. Out in the country/mountains there are stretches where I can't get a signal, but neither can anyone else so it's not just Verizon. What do you wish your PDA/Phone could do that it can't? I wish that security was connected between the two. On my old phone I left it locked all the time and only unlocked it when I was going to make a call. This one is difficult to lock and locking one side does not effect the other (Locking PDA does not effect phone and vice versa). Is it worth buying a combo unit or should I consider elements that interact properly? This depends on your usage patterns. I got the phone because I very seldom only needed just the phone or just the Palm. I always had the phone and I have to many phone numbers to keep them all in the phone and palm so most of the time I needed the palm. The newer phones have calendar functions and synch to the PC so if I was not already an avid palm user I could have continued functioning by just getting one of those. That would be my recommendation to anyone who is not using the palm for more than the built-in functions. If you use the palm occasionally then get the seperate devices. There are some cool "planner" binders that will hold both the phone and palm together and even come with a short sync cable so you can configure your palm to use the phone as a modem. This ends up being slightly bigger than the combo units, but it works. Features I Love There is a program for the Kyocera Smartphone that keeps track of your minute usage for the month and forecasts estimates for you. I use this all the time to manage costs. There is also a feature built in that adds an entry to the expense db for every call with a time/cost and the clients name. I help keep track of my client calls and get them into the right expense categories for work. I also use Eudora to check POP mail and the web while on the road.
Summary Basically if right now you carry the palm and phone with you all the time, the combo unit is smaller so go with that. I also find it's harder to forget it because I am already conditioned to check for my phone before I leave the house. If most of the time you do not carry both and don't regret it then just get the phone. It is much cheaper (probably free with a 1 year contract and rights to your first born) and probably smaller. And finally, if you are only using the palm for scheduling, phone numbers, etc. look into the phones that have that built in. They can synch with a program on the PC and then you have the combo unit without the size/price. The Kyocera 6035 is not to expensive now because the 7135 is coming out. The 7135 is color (which I don't care about) and has an expansion slot (which I wish I had) so look at the reviews on it.
So let me see if I get this straight. Dollo's law is more of a theory (unproven then and now set aside/ignored) that was misnamed? Outside of Biology, the requirements for a law are very precise. It is a theory until proven, and a law can never be broken. IANAB (I'm not a biologist) and have not really studied anything in that field since college, but I am a scientist.
Every day I base decisions on theories that have been around since I before I was in school. I have confidence that they are valid along the entire range that I operate in. This does not make any of these theories into laws! As a scientist I must accept that at any time one or more of my precious theories could be proven false and thrown out. I'll admit that I am attached to some of the theories and would be amazed if they were ever disproven. I would probably be in mourning for a while. (sort of) There is even a possibility that I would have to change fields because I am allready set in my ways and could not make the change. That said, they are still theories and until they are proven I can not call them anything more. I would contend that by calling them a law I am no longer a Scientist, I am on my way to some cult leader ready to start the next Clonaid!
It has been said several times here but I will say it this time. Everyone seems to ignore the prior messenger.
Microwave frequencies were not chosen based on absorption of food. (I would love it if we had to tune the recieving antenna, ie food, before using the microwave!) The original testing and proof of concept devices for microwave ovens actually used HF frequencies (Long range communication frequencies in the HAM bands) and that will simply not do! Having my 1000 watt microwave in California interfere with a 100 watt transmitter in Hawaii is unacceptable. So a frequency range was chosen that was not as easily "ducted" or "bounced" in the outer atmosphere. For RF, the recieving antenna does not have to be exactly resonant to work. With enough power you can overcome the limitations of the antenna. (Try adding or removing part of your car antenna, you will still get your local stations because they are overcoming the shortcomings of your antenna by transmitting 50,000 watts) In a microwave, the recieving antenna is the food. Pump enough power and the molecules will receive.
I would not even have the clock radio, except I recently developed this problem of needing the alarm clock. I used to wake up right on time without any other work, then I had kids. My recommendation to all my married friends (especially those with kids) is to get the TV and any other "entertainainment devices" (ie computers, gameboys etc.) out of the bedroom. If you are in the bedroom and have some free time, there are much better things to do than watch TV. If you have kids, you probably won't get another chance for months!
There is also no better way to relieve tension and talk about quality of life.
The Cat-Door magnetic "keys" are simply a magnet. The latch in the cat door is held by another magnet. As the cat gets close to the door, the magnet on its collar pushes the door magnet out of the way so the latch isn't held anymore and the cat then pushes the door out of the way.
That might work for this situation, however, you might not need to secure the house for just the middle child. I don't know if I would allow a 5 year old to go outside unsupervised either. A simple chain lock secured out of reach of either of the younger children and loose enough to be locked from the outside might solve your problem. Adults can still lock/unlock the door, and in an emergency there isn't any confusing locking mechanism. You can lock the door on your way to work and not worry about one of the kids getting up before your wife and slipping out. And the best part, it protects all your kids and costs ~$2 at Wal Mart.
Is that the news. "This message was logged at 2:45 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, December 18." That was last year, and they considered "an ultraextended mission, which would have targeted an encounter in August 2002 with an asteroid tantalizingly named 1999 KK1" but didn't.
So the news is A year ago we finished this mission... Well Congrats again, I guess.
Actually entering www into the hosts file won't help either. The browser is not even attempting to resolve www, it is looking at it and assuming that the user made a mistake.
A better example is a webserver named buffy on my network. It is just a local webserver for a small group, all in the same domain, to use. The domain is localgroup.city.state.branch.division.company.com and all of the machines have this in their dns search order. Ping buffy and it will resolve to buffy.localgroup.city.state.branch.division.compan y.com. This is because the computer name is not being messed with before resolution.
In the case of the browser, typing buffy should do the same thing, however, the browser is assuming that the user has made a mistake and tries to help him/her out by appending the most common webserver prefix/suffix www and com. I don't think the solution is to stop being lazy. The solution is get the browser to not mess with my entry. It is a good server name and perfectly valid according to all DNS rules. I want my software to at least give me the benefit of the doubt. How about it's first assumption is that I know what I'm doing. Once that is proven false then try to help.
(I can't help but be reminded of the overly helpful man who helps the old lady across the street, despite her insistence that she doesn't want to cross the street!)
The Government should only do what the private sector doesn't want to do. You can set up a government organization to do anything the private sector does. They will do it half as good for twice the price.
Network security is really run by market pressure. For example, I won't buy anything from a company that wants me to email my credit card number to them! If enough people are concerned about their security those companies will either change or disappear. The only involvement I would expect from the government in this case would happen when someone stole one of those credit card numbers being emailed. Until then stay out. (I don't even think the government should be in the business of informing users of security problems! Anyone that watches the news knows about these things! If they don't they wouldn't pay attention to the Ad Council's ads anyway)
Government should stay out except for....
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limit arms sales, but other than that, I can see no reason to ever limit or subsidies trade or business of any kind.
We should limit the sale of guns. No one wants child pr0n distributed either so limit that. No civilized person would want drugs on the street, so limit that. We are far to advanced a race to allow the free distribution of alcohol, so that of course must me limited. And come on, we all know the damage those pesky internal combustion engines are so we must limit the sale of gasoline. Without gasoline then there can't possibly be any use for cars so why let people sell those. Tobacco is a horrible problem so we must limit that. Do you have any idea how many people each year are killed by falling out of windows, so we must restrict the sale of windows, only good solid brick.......
Once you open the door to one groups idea of what is evil (in this case the sale of guns) and must be banned, you start down a path that can lead to the restriction of something you consider to be crucial to the existance of a truly free society.
I would be very leary of a society that had no restrictions, but I would be even more scared of one that only restricted what one group determines to be "evil".
This "globalization" thing, that noone can define but everyone has a stance on, is coming. The biggest complaint that I hear is the fear that Big Business will be the ultimate ruler and none of us will be free. This is equally scary if some Big Group gets to be the ultimate ruler and none of us are free.
Free people don't get into groups to define what everyone else can't do, they get into groups to figure out what they shouldn't do.
The Creation theory (which you call myth) requires faith, because it has not been proven.
The Evolution theory (which I call myth) requires faith, because it has not been proven.
I have no problems with calling either a theory, since neither has been proven. If all scientists were to use the Scientific method (hypothesis, testing of hypothesis, document conclusion) we would actually be able to make progress toward proving/disproving the two conflicting hypothesis. The problem arrises when "Scientists" go about the "Evolution of the Scientific Method"
1) There is no God
2) Begin using original Scientific Method
How odd that using this method, they have not been able to form any real conclusions.
I have used PayPal many times, but don't be fooled into thinking there is any protection! I bought an item for $89. (An ATI Radeon Video card) This was ~$20 cheaper than I get get it locally, so paying $9 for shipping didn't seem bad. The problem, they shipped me a card that did not match their description at all. (Not the ATI Radeon, didn't look like the photo, didn't have the features mentioned in the auction, etc.)
After a month of sending emails and phone calls, of which none were returned, I filed tried to use SquareTrade, this at least got a response but still no fix. I then filed a complaint with PayPal. PayPal looked into it, and a few weeks later sent me a nice email, explaining that yes I had been defrauded, they found 100% in my favor, the refund. $0!! My guess, the seller had disappeared off of PayPal, so no money could be recovered. This was 6 months ago, and I have given up hope in getting anything back. (I was contacted by the District Attorney for Washington state, apparently the seller had started taking money for products and not sending them soon after my problem)
Battery life no worse than "normal"
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Your battery life transmitting SMS messages should be no worse than simply being out of contace with a tower.
If you have lost connection to the main network, then battery life is going to be short anyway. Currently, your phone operates at the lowest power possible to be able to communicate with a cell tower. (And if you think your phone only transmits when you are using it, try putting it on top of a computer monitor, they transmit quite frequently). When there is no tower available, your phone will increase power until it successfully contacts a tower or hits the max power.
The longer you are out of the area, the shorter the time your phone's battery lasts.
Of course, Code Red is RAMPANT on the @home service! Type in any of the IP addresses that are attacking and everyone of them brings up a web page. (no surprise, to be infected they had to have IIS running) Bring this up to the @Home "support" personnel and they will tell you that these computers are not Web Servers, and are not violating the AUP. How are they not Web Servers?
@Home, like most big ISPs, is clueless. Their support is a joke. (Call it for a laugh, they will ask you the same question 3 times in a row even though you have chosen the right prompt.) They are desperate, making BAD decisions, and getting more desperate beacause of it.
Several distributions have done what you are calling "dumb down" of the OS. That is, they made the install in such a way that even my wife thinks it's pretty cool. ie SUSE, the SUSE install is all graphical, the LILO boot screen has the cool penguin. I bought her the penguin for Christmas without any explanation, so she is so impressed that it is on the boot screen now! For my machine I did not have to go into any config files to get a completely working system. (I had checked to make sure all my HW was compatible for this very purpose) This point did far more to convince my wife that Linux is more than some text based game I play with for hours then anything I have ever said.
Is the SUSE version of Linux "dumbed down"? I looked very hard at the Kernel source and it appears to still be just as "smarted up" as ever. Am I missing something? I went into the text configuration files and they all appear to still be just as "smart" as ever. When I put on the scroll mouse I was still able to go into the text config file and enable it with KDE.
Here is a distribution that was dumbed down pretty successfully, but I (a somewhat expert user, ran a text only system for 8 years) was still able to get into the "smart" text config files and do what I want. From what I understand, this is the case with all the "dumb" distributions. Give me root access and a terminal and I can be just as "smart" with any distribution.
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Last time I successfully used gopher was college ('96). I have tried a few times recently because gopher was a little more precise than google or the like.
Archie is the tool I miss the most though. Need a file, know the filename, archie will find a dozen places that the file exists. Now you are tied to ad-supported search sites that make you jump through hoops to download a file from another ad-supported site that makes you jump through more hoops!
Data is disappearing off the net, and the data that is still there is becoming impossible to find because of the search engine rankings. Give me the raw data and let me do the ranking. I am the one that knows what I'm looking for.
I noticed the MIT paper quotes discredited research (Peppered Moth perching on tree bark, proven to be fabricated because the moths do not perch on tree bark)
That does not immediately discredit the paper but it warrants additional scrutiny if they are willing to use fabricated research as additional evidence. The math is slightly off as well. 2% chance is 2/100, when the non CAPS flagged terrorist would actually have 2/94 or 2.12% chance. The point is still valid 2.12% is still smaller than 8% but I would expect better from a MIT paper.
(for the non statistics readers) The reason the non CAPS flagged terrorist chance of random screening is higher than 2% is because the random 2% is exclusive of the 6% set. A plane with 100 passengers would have 6 passengers automatically screened because of CAPS and 2 of the remaining 94 screened randomly.
Aren't guns the way to protect my kids from a system that becomes more and more like a police state.
We are discussing it, but the sites are being blocked by Symantec. So here we discuss why Symantec is trying to protect the police state.
I wasn't correlating church density to anything. I was simply pointing out that there was no "control" to the control group in this study and the article even mentioned that.
There was nothing done to prevent someone in surgery from being prayed for. For that matter, there was nothing done to ensure the test group was prayed for either. My point was, given the area, there is a high probability that some/most of the control group received prayer when they were not supposed to.
If I'm not mistaken Eve did die. Didn't she? If not then she is the oldest woman in the world and we should stop these news reports about worlds oldest woman dies at 117 years old. Boy she must have some great stories! God told her not to eat the forbidden fruit or she will surely die. She surely did die.
God can't lie. (In this case, talking about the Judeo-Chrstian God based on the Adam/Eve commentary) You can debate whether he exists or not, but it is physically impossible, if He (again the Judeo-Christian God identified with a male pronoun) exists, to lie. If God exists, then God is Truth by definition and therefore can't lie. If God does not exist, He can't lie.
The article actually mentions this issue. I am shocked that the scientists performing the study did not see this flaw.
Let's say you are doing a study on the effects of fluoride on tooth decay so you give half a group fluroride and the other half a placebo. By design both groups believe they are taking fluroide. In the end you find the results to be to close to identical and publish the study claiming fluoride has no effect only to find out that the area the subjects lived in has a large number of fluoridated water supplies. Now there is a possiblity that your control group was actually getting fluoride and didn't even know it.
The article pointed out that this is the Bible Belt. If you live on one of the coasts it is hard to understand but go there and you will understand. My parents live in a small town in Arkansas. Small enough to only have one movie theater and only one Wal Mart. On the weekend the local paper prints a list of local churches. It takes up two whole pages! There is a church on every corner. Another town nearby welcomes you with the official sign "Welcome to Shiloam Springs, where Jesus Christ is Lord". Yes, there is pretty good chance that going to surgery in that part of the country you are being prayed for!
He gets a three week long vacation from his boss! If my boss was that much of a jerk I'd take every opprotunity to send him away for 3 weeks!
Speaking from experience... Even though the baby isn't due till November, and probably will be mostly immobile till sometime next February, start preparing and working on stuff now!
My wife and I did a lot of things to get the baby's room ready but we didn't figure we needed to do the childproofing stuff till the baby was learning to crawl. That's around 4 months at the earliest, but you will spend that first 4 months actively caring for the baby or sleeping. If you aren't feeding the baby, you are changing the baby, if not that you are changing your close because of one of the prior two. If the baby is asleep then you are asleep. Even when you are at work, you are probably sleeping. Next thing you know the new baby is crawling and then it is all you can do to play catch up with all the things the magazines say you should have done by now.
Next piece of advice, ignore the magazines, you will get enough of the "good parents do this" when your new baby is a teenager.
I wish this article had a few more details so that we can actually compare this to others experiences. I have a few questions:
How many charge/discharge cycles did the battery go through? (3 yrs of use could be 1000 cycles, or could be 2)
How often were these laptops just left plugged in for days. (NiMH batteries are prone to the "memory" effect. Only let the battery discharge 2% and then recharge it repeatedly leaves a battery that can only be discharged 2%)
How long do the batteries get left dead? (Discharging any rechargeable pack does not usually discharge all the cells. One cell will be ~0 volts, another will be 0.5 Volts, this results in the 0.5 volt cell attempting to "charge" the ~0 volt cell backwards and next thing you know, the 12 volt pack will only do 10.5 volts)
I have had similar problems with cordless razors, Radio battery packs, etc. I realize that I abuse my battery packs a lot. I leave batteries in the car where they go through 60 degree changes in temperature overnight. I leave them in equipment on the "charger" for days on end. I let them completely discharge and stay that way for weeks. All of this means I buy battery packs a lot! I usually take my battery pack down to the local battery place and have them crack it open, change the cells, and glue it back together. (It's a lot cheaper and I usually get more mAh because I use the latest/greatest cell to replace the old one) I also get my twice yearly lecture on taking care of the batteries.
As much as we would like to blame "Big, Bad, IBM", is this really IBM, or is this a bunch of battery packs being pushed beyond their limits. Would the battery from a Toshiba or Panasonic last as long under the same conditions?
Dude - If you are planning to make a master key to steal stuff from other places.... Taking "office" supplies is like "nothing".
I know that this was probably meant as a joke. But we may have found a reason that ATI would encourage by not actively discouraging the software mods on their boards. If I was in the market for a new video card this is free advertising for ATI. I wouldn't buy the latest/greatest video card because most of my use of the machine is not playing games that need the speed. Instead I buy a faster processor, more memory, etc.
Given that, I am not the target market for the Radeon 9700. However, I am Video in the 9500 price range does attract my attention. Now I see this article (and others like it) and find that there is a software program that will speed up the board, enable lost functions, etc. with very little risk. Now when I make the decision that the ATI may be the better choice. Think about it.... I could enable this new feature when I'm playing the games and disable it the rest of the time for stability.... And I get to pretend I'm a hacker. (When I really am just a script kiddie, it wasn't my code that enabled the feature)
I think it is similar to cheats in games, they are now a part of the selling point.
As for the hardware mod that is also mentioned. There are very few people that are actually going to do this. There is the coolness of being a hardware hacker, but anyone that has the brains to actually do this knows that the odds are stacked against them. You do this for fun, and remember it is not cheap fun. (Sad that we have to mention don't return it if you fail but I'll do it too.)
How is your PDA functionality - limited, annoying because of size, etc?
This phone is about the same size as cell phones were 3 years ago. It is a little larger than the average current phone but not unmanageable for a normal man's hand.
How is the phone service?
I live out West and Verizon has a plan that allows all of Nevada and California for one rate. The coverage has been very good. Out in the country/mountains there are stretches where I can't get a signal, but neither can anyone else so it's not just Verizon.
What do you wish your PDA/Phone could do that it can't?
I wish that security was connected between the two. On my old phone I left it locked all the time and only unlocked it when I was going to make a call. This one is difficult to lock and locking one side does not effect the other (Locking PDA does not effect phone and vice versa).
Is it worth buying a combo unit or should I consider elements that interact properly?
This depends on your usage patterns. I got the phone because I very seldom only needed just the phone or just the Palm. I always had the phone and I have to many phone numbers to keep them all in the phone and palm so most of the time I needed the palm. The newer phones have calendar functions and synch to the PC so if I was not already an avid palm user I could have continued functioning by just getting one of those. That would be my recommendation to anyone who is not using the palm for more than the built-in functions. If you use the palm occasionally then get the seperate devices. There are some cool "planner" binders that will hold both the phone and palm together and even come with a short sync cable so you can configure your palm to use the phone as a modem. This ends up being slightly bigger than the combo units, but it works.
Features I Love
There is a program for the Kyocera Smartphone that keeps track of your minute usage for the month and forecasts estimates for you. I use this all the time to manage costs. There is also a feature built in that adds an entry to the expense db for every call with a time/cost and the clients name. I help keep track of my client calls and get them into the right expense categories for work. I also use Eudora to check POP mail and the web while on the road.
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Basically if right now you carry the palm and phone with you all the time, the combo unit is smaller so go with that. I also find it's harder to forget it because I am already conditioned to check for my phone before I leave the house.
If most of the time you do not carry both and don't regret it then just get the phone. It is much cheaper (probably free with a 1 year contract and rights to your first born) and probably smaller. And finally, if you are only using the palm for scheduling, phone numbers, etc. look into the phones that have that built in. They can synch with a program on the PC and then you have the combo unit without the size/price.
The Kyocera 6035 is not to expensive now because the 7135 is coming out. The 7135 is color (which I don't care about) and has an expansion slot (which I wish I had) so look at the reviews on it.
So let me see if I get this straight. Dollo's law is more of a theory (unproven then and now set aside/ignored) that was misnamed? Outside of Biology, the requirements for a law are very precise. It is a theory until proven, and a law can never be broken. IANAB (I'm not a biologist) and have not really studied anything in that field since college, but I am a scientist.
Every day I base decisions on theories that have been around since I before I was in school. I have confidence that they are valid along the entire range that I operate in. This does not make any of these theories into laws! As a scientist I must accept that at any time one or more of my precious theories could be proven false and thrown out. I'll admit that I am attached to some of the theories and would be amazed if they were ever disproven. I would probably be in mourning for a while. (sort of) There is even a possibility that I would have to change fields because I am allready set in my ways and could not make the change. That said, they are still theories and until they are proven I can not call them anything more. I would contend that by calling them a law I am no longer a Scientist, I am on my way to some cult leader ready to start the next Clonaid!
It has been said several times here but I will say it this time. Everyone seems to ignore the prior messenger.
Microwave frequencies were not chosen based on absorption of food. (I would love it if we had to tune the recieving antenna, ie food, before using the microwave!) The original testing and proof of concept devices for microwave ovens actually used HF frequencies (Long range communication frequencies in the HAM bands) and that will simply not do! Having my 1000 watt microwave in California interfere with a 100 watt transmitter in Hawaii is unacceptable. So a frequency range was chosen that was not as easily "ducted" or "bounced" in the outer atmosphere.
For RF, the recieving antenna does not have to be exactly resonant to work. With enough power you can overcome the limitations of the antenna. (Try adding or removing part of your car antenna, you will still get your local stations because they are overcoming the shortcomings of your antenna by transmitting 50,000 watts) In a microwave, the recieving antenna is the food. Pump enough power and the molecules will receive.
I would not even have the clock radio, except I recently developed this problem of needing the alarm clock. I used to wake up right on time without any other work, then I had kids.
My recommendation to all my married friends (especially those with kids) is to get the TV and any other "entertainainment devices" (ie computers, gameboys etc.) out of the bedroom. If you are in the bedroom and have some free time, there are much better things to do than watch TV. If you have kids, you probably won't get another chance for months!
There is also no better way to relieve tension and talk about quality of life.
The Cat-Door magnetic "keys" are simply a magnet. The latch in the cat door is held by another magnet. As the cat gets close to the door, the magnet on its collar pushes the door magnet out of the way so the latch isn't held anymore and the cat then pushes the door out of the way.
That might work for this situation, however, you might not need to secure the house for just the middle child. I don't know if I would allow a 5 year old to go outside unsupervised either. A simple chain lock secured out of reach of either of the younger children and loose enough to be locked from the outside might solve your problem. Adults can still lock/unlock the door, and in an emergency there isn't any confusing locking mechanism. You can lock the door on your way to work and not worry about one of the kids getting up before your wife and slipping out. And the best part, it protects all your kids and costs ~$2 at Wal Mart.
Is that the news. "This message was logged at 2:45 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, December 18." That was last year, and they considered "an ultraextended mission, which would have targeted an encounter in August 2002 with an asteroid tantalizingly named 1999 KK1" but didn't.
So the news is A year ago we finished this mission... Well Congrats again, I guess.
Actually entering www into the hosts file won't help either. The browser is not even attempting to resolve www, it is looking at it and assuming that the user made a mistake.
n y.com. This is because the computer name is not being messed with before resolution.
A better example is a webserver named buffy on my network. It is just a local webserver for a small group, all in the same domain, to use. The domain is localgroup.city.state.branch.division.company.com and all of the machines have this in their dns search order. Ping buffy and it will resolve to buffy.localgroup.city.state.branch.division.compa
In the case of the browser, typing buffy should do the same thing, however, the browser is assuming that the user has made a mistake and tries to help him/her out by appending the most common webserver prefix/suffix www and com.
I don't think the solution is to stop being lazy. The solution is get the browser to not mess with my entry. It is a good server name and perfectly valid according to all DNS rules. I want my software to at least give me the benefit of the doubt. How about it's first assumption is that I know what I'm doing. Once that is proven false then try to help.
(I can't help but be reminded of the overly helpful man who helps the old lady across the street, despite her insistence that she doesn't want to cross the street!)
The Government should only do what the private sector doesn't want to do. You can set up a government organization to do anything the private sector does. They will do it half as good for twice the price.
Network security is really run by market pressure. For example, I won't buy anything from a company that wants me to email my credit card number to them! If enough people are concerned about their security those companies will either change or disappear. The only involvement I would expect from the government in this case would happen when someone stole one of those credit card numbers being emailed. Until then stay out.
(I don't even think the government should be in the business of informing users of security problems! Anyone that watches the news knows about these things! If they don't they wouldn't pay attention to the Ad Council's ads anyway)
We should limit the sale of guns. No one wants child pr0n distributed either so limit that. No civilized person would want drugs on the street, so limit that. We are far to advanced a race to allow the free distribution of alcohol, so that of course must me limited. And come on, we all know the damage those pesky internal combustion engines are so we must limit the sale of gasoline. Without gasoline then there can't possibly be any use for cars so why let people sell those. Tobacco is a horrible problem so we must limit that. Do you have any idea how many people each year are killed by falling out of windows, so we must restrict the sale of windows, only good solid brick.......
Once you open the door to one groups idea of what is evil (in this case the sale of guns) and must be banned, you start down a path that can lead to the restriction of something you consider to be crucial to the existance of a truly free society.
I would be very leary of a society that had no restrictions, but I would be even more scared of one that only restricted what one group determines to be "evil".
This "globalization" thing, that noone can define but everyone has a stance on, is coming. The biggest complaint that I hear is the fear that Big Business will be the ultimate ruler and none of us will be free. This is equally scary if some Big Group gets to be the ultimate ruler and none of us are free.
Free people don't get into groups to define what everyone else can't do, they get into groups to figure out what they shouldn't do.
The Creation theory (which you call myth) requires faith, because it has not been proven.
The Evolution theory (which I call myth) requires faith, because it has not been proven.
I have no problems with calling either a theory, since neither has been proven. If all scientists were to use the Scientific method (hypothesis, testing of hypothesis, document conclusion) we would actually be able to make progress toward proving/disproving the two conflicting hypothesis. The problem arrises when "Scientists" go about the "Evolution of the Scientific Method"
1) There is no God
2) Begin using original Scientific Method
How odd that using this method, they have not been able to form any real conclusions.
I have used PayPal many times, but don't be fooled into thinking there is any protection! I bought an item for $89. (An ATI Radeon Video card) This was ~$20 cheaper than I get get it locally, so paying $9 for shipping didn't seem bad. The problem, they shipped me a card that did not match their description at all. (Not the ATI Radeon, didn't look like the photo, didn't have the features mentioned in the auction, etc.)
After a month of sending emails and phone calls, of which none were returned, I filed tried to use SquareTrade, this at least got a response but still no fix. I then filed a complaint with PayPal. PayPal looked into it, and a few weeks later sent me a nice email, explaining that yes I had been defrauded, they found 100% in my favor, the refund. $0!! My guess, the seller had disappeared off of PayPal, so no money could be recovered. This was 6 months ago, and I have given up hope in getting anything back. (I was contacted by the District Attorney for Washington state, apparently the seller had started taking money for products and not sending them soon after my problem)
Your battery life transmitting SMS messages should be no worse than simply being out of contace with a tower.
If you have lost connection to the main network, then battery life is going to be short anyway. Currently, your phone operates at the lowest power possible to be able to communicate with a cell tower. (And if you think your phone only transmits when you are using it, try putting it on top of a computer monitor, they transmit quite frequently). When there is no tower available, your phone will increase power until it successfully contacts a tower or hits the max power.
The longer you are out of the area, the shorter the time your phone's battery lasts.
Of course, Code Red is RAMPANT on the @home service! Type in any of the IP addresses that are attacking and everyone of them brings up a web page. (no surprise, to be infected they had to have IIS running) Bring this up to the @Home "support" personnel and they will tell you that these computers are not Web Servers, and are not violating the AUP. How are they not Web Servers?
@Home, like most big ISPs, is clueless. Their support is a joke. (Call it for a laugh, they will ask you the same question 3 times in a row even though you have chosen the right prompt.) They are desperate, making BAD decisions, and getting more desperate beacause of it.
Several distributions have done what you are calling "dumb down" of the OS. That is, they made the install in such a way that even my wife thinks it's pretty cool. ie SUSE, the SUSE install is all graphical, the LILO boot screen has the cool penguin. I bought her the penguin for Christmas without any explanation, so she is so impressed that it is on the boot screen now! For my machine I did not have to go into any config files to get a completely working system. (I had checked to make sure all my HW was compatible for this very purpose) This point did far more to convince my wife that Linux is more than some text based game I play with for hours then anything I have ever said.
Is the SUSE version of Linux "dumbed down"? I looked very hard at the Kernel source and it appears to still be just as "smarted up" as ever. Am I missing something? I went into the text configuration files and they all appear to still be just as "smart" as ever. When I put on the scroll mouse I was still able to go into the text config file and enable it with KDE.
Here is a distribution that was dumbed down pretty successfully, but I (a somewhat expert user, ran a text only system for 8 years) was still able to get into the "smart" text config files and do what I want. From what I understand, this is the case with all the "dumb" distributions. Give me root access and a terminal and I can be just as "smart" with any distribution.