It's OK:-P I too am bemused by how good ol' American Marketing can put a price premium on what's basically the "poor man's communication" in the rest of the world. I pay 25-35 cents per SMS message (but for me it's still cheaper than another $10/month... I use my Google Voice's SMS when I *have* to).
Basically for something that uses almost negligible bandwidth and probably the lowest QoS on the network. At least it pisses off English majors with T9 133+5P34K
Well, presumably you'd just wait a little longer until turning the cross traffic light green. Maybe it'll help get a clearer shot of the red-light runner, you know, for insurance purposes.
It's actually surprising cheap to get there from the US East Coast... fly to SJU, hire a jerry taxi to take you to the Fajardo ferry, and camp at Flamenco beach for $20 a night. It's just barely inconvenient enough to keep most of the bozos out. We've often gone over winter break, and it's nearly empty that time of year even though it's still perfect beach weather.
Every snorkeling site seems to have a different mix of coral, fronds, or fish and other sea life. Part of it used to be a practice bombing range for the US Navy, which ironically is probably another reason why it has been so well preserved:-D
"Of modest use". You could buy CENTURIES to work on the mortality problem if this technique worked.
Heh, amazing how much thought we put into physical immortality, when we could be devoting resources much more effectively into logical immortality AKA knowledge transfer AKA education;-)
I'd think that if we had unlimited lifetimes, we wouldn't be in any rush to learn or accomplish anything, because, you know, you could just do it later. And when you die your body of knowledge still goes with you, assuming you haven't forgotten it.
On the other hand, if we concentrated on transferring our body of knowledge faster and more efficiently to the younger generation, we might actually get somewhere.
Coral species, on the other hand, are worth preserving. You know, for SCIENCE.
Having worked in various sized companies, from self-employed through 10, 20 and 500-1000 people, it became apparent to me that all businesses need:
1) Sales and Marketing 2) Accounting 3) A product
If you have no interest in 1) or 2), being self-employed is not for you. Also, when taking into account what you get paid for your "Product" as a coder, bear in mind the hours invested in Sales, Marketing, and Accounting for essentially zero compensation..
Word. When I started out doing coding-type projects, I was lucky enough to have some manager-type pimp me out and take care of the 1) and 2) for me. The only downside was that sometimes he oversold my capabilities... "X? Sure he's a pro at X -- (hey, learn X real quick!)" -- which led to some awkward moments meeting with the clients. But all-in-all it was a great "in" to that kind of work for several different sites that needed work/maintenance.
If you could toss together a pretty good buzzword-searchable public package for yourself at http://monster.com/ or the like, you'll pretty much be contacted by a string of headhunters who will try to help coach you and plug you in to a bunch of opportunities they have on their docket. Yeah, they'll take some overhead off the top, but you're probably happier not having to deal with that kind of schlepping that they do (at least not until you get older, more jaded, and more willing to look out after yourself:-P ).
The keyboard case doubles as a stand, which, for under $30, has more or less solved all the viewing angle problems I had with lying the TN display flat on a surface. Feels a bit strange converting a tablet to a laptop, but it works OK for me, and I find myself traveling with this G-Tablet now instead of the EeePC (that runs Fuduntu), even though the latter is arguably more fully-functional.
Yeah, I've been playing with the "Linux Installer" app, but it never quite runs its scripts successfully. But if you can get it to work you can pretty much debootstrap and ARM dist of debian in a loop device that you can chroot into and pretty much run anything you can install with apt through ConnectBot or AndroidVNC.
You're still saddled with Android for driver support, but at this point that seems to be a good thing on most devices. Haven't been too encouraged by progress on direct ports of Linux, but someday... I still have my EeePC for when I need that kind of fix anyway.
Meh, you can say the same thing about engineering... could be anywhere from a train conductor or someone who controls the thermostat for a building to someone who sits at a desk and writes papers about splitting atoms in deep space and everything in between.
I think if subby can get their work accepted in the "Quantitative Biology" section of arXiv, they'll probably do all right.
Yeah, by that logic, a digitally signed and encrypted email would be the epitome of deception.
So much for using email to leave a paper trail.
I kinda expect people to prevaricate more when talking face-to-face, because then they can rely on other powers of persuasion and intimidation and just plain acting to back their delusions. At least if they lie in email, I can call them out on it.
Still a pretty decent device considering it's over a year old now.
You don't have to root it per se, but you do want to put on VeganTab or some other ROM (which likely voids the warranty, but the device is cheap for a dual 1Ghz Tegra with a 10" screen... <$250 these days). There's no "jailbreak" step like most other devices. Just put the ROM in the right place and reboot.
The Android market works great now (very improved from the situation before!), so you can load Google Earth and just about anything else without any hassle.
Also have one of these cheap USB keyboard cases for it. Even with that, it still ends up being less bulky yet more fun than my old EeePC 901.
Unfortunately, Android doesn't work great with physical keyboards yet (all kinds of focus issues, and the Ctrl key annoyingly doesn't work in ConnectBot).
Not really sure what kind of privacy invasions you're trying to "run away" from...
But I find that the Android support of multiple accounts comes in pretty handy. I have one gmail address for personal interactions with people and holds my address book, then I have one (or more) "spam" accounts that I use for all of the social network accounts, logins, etc., for just about any interaction with any online business or service that wants an email address for something. Notifications are only enabled on the personal account, and it tends to be rather quiet (yay for having no friends!).
Team that up with multiple google voice options, and I don't even have to give out my "real" phone number most of the time for texts. And the voicemail transcriptions make it easier to wade through incoming stuff. But other than occasional calls from the Red Cross, I barely ever get any kind of telemarketing or "survey" calls to my cellphone number even though I've been handing it out for various things for over a decade.
So of course Google could link all my various accounts together to get a more complete profile of me, but not really sure what they'd do with it. All of the marketing gets directed at the spam account. They likely get more advertising bucks if they can say they're selling access to multiple personas (even if they all lead back to me) anyway, so it's probably win/win.
Meh, I try to walk the walk. I think it would be a better system to reward the artists based on whether you want them to spend time producing more works, and not so much by allowing them to control distribution of their previous performances. Broad redistribution leads to more mindshare & cultural penetration. That kind of thing usually drives my purchasing decisions these days much more than the marketing machine or pay-to-play "exposure". So I can see why this SOPA thing has kinda become some kind of struggle between traditional media and the "new" "social" media companies.
Actually, it's quite the opposite now... I actively tune out of "popular" crap I hear on the radio and see TV/news ads for. I had actually thought I simply wasn't into music until I discovered some of the stations at http://somafm.com/ that I had seen mentioned in a/. post. And as much as it pains me to say it, the only thing that gets me interested in a book or movie these days is if I hear my friends or co-workers talk about a particular title IRL, on IRC, or god forbid, on Facebook/Twitter or one of those other "social media" things that I occasionally scan. All the more reason to threaten traditional media.
My "entertainment" budget is relatively fixed, and is relatively closer to zero than any of our other expenses, so anything anyone could actually tickle out of me is just bonus.
I have not been to a movie theater in years. OK, we went to see Avatar some time ago when it came out, but that was only because the in-laws insisted, and even then only because they also took the kids for a few hours so we could go. But again that leads back to social pressures trumping carefully orchestrated hype:-P
I'm not really sure what the point of rewarding the publishers for performances is. Lawyers like having pieces of paper that they can use to tell other people to pay them money, I guess. I don't really see what connection that has to productivity, and don't really see any solution to these kinds of "royalties" other than the same way we dealt with imperialist royalties in colonial times anyway, and even in those days the accepted answer was acts of revolt and piracy that we basically founded our country upon. Even those pirates are seldom vilified these days, and even seem to have paid their sailors well and equitably compared to the slave wages of the imperial navies and merchant mariners. I really have no problem challenging the way we currently deal with copyright and intellectual property models.
I do want to expose my children to the original Star Wars movies, if only so they can get the pervasive cultural references. But Lucasfilm is one of the studios coming down harder on IP issues, so it seems a bit of a pain to find. So you know what? My kids are growing up with more exposure to Star Trek, Firefly, Farscape, etc. instead, which is far more readily accessible from Hulu and Netflix. They'll grow up thinking Star Wars was just the premise behind some crap cartoon and not one or two relatively brilliant B-movies for their day.
You can't have an inalienable right to someone else's property.
Mmm, I think most of us agree that there's a shift in the way the worth and value of intellectual property is measured. In the information economy, the value of a piece of work nowadays is not how much a copyright holder can manage to charge for it by withholding access to it, but instead by what cultural mindshare the work can amass from the population.
Just about all children I know have an innate sense of fairness that they are quite, 'ahem', vocal about. It's usually bitter adult voices I hear that say things like "you have to look out after your own interests, because no one else will", and "take all that you can get away with, because everyone else is just out there to screw you".
On the other hand, there are plenty of people who are poor because they are simply very bad with money. But OWS is sort of about the opposite of that.
Heh, yeah, this "democratic republic" isn't about giving power to its citizens. It's just about preventing revolutions by making people think they can get some sort of change once their group size tips slightly over 50%.
And it does a damn fine job of it:-P
How did the Roman democracy finally fail? Decayed from within. So we don't even really have to do anything about it, just let the powers-that-be proceed on their present course of action:-D
Palm T|X with pedit32 (for text files) and DiddleBug (for freehand notes pages). Writing and drawing with the stylus is still much more precise than any of the capacitive fat-finger interfaces I've seen on modern smartphones.
I wrote part of my master's thesis on my Palm T|X, using a free portable IR keyboard I got with the device.
Still waiting for some set of Android apps that would give me a similar experience.
"Draw & Share" is the only free app I've found that comes close to DiddleBug, but still isn't as convenient (with DiddleBug you could scroll around, and hit the "new page" icon and get a new sheet without having to go through save dialogs).
I have a nifty cover + USB keyboard for my Viewsonic G-Tablet, but keyboard input in Android still sort of sucks (all kinds of focus problems). I haven't looked for any decent text editors for Android yet.
I did replace my tower Linux server with one of those Zotac mini-ITX IONs in a shoebox PC last year. Thanks to the GPU, I can even use it to do some light web browsing, and view videos like you say.
Too bad Intel dorked up ION2, with the 1x PCIe GPU bottleneck.
I've played with the fit-PC too, but with the crap Intel GPU with proprietary driver binary blobs, it's pretty useless. Other parts of the chipset (like the sata controller) is also problematic on older linux distros. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/
The point is: why would they even try to invite them? It isn't like three months ago the public opinion of something named "PIRATE PARTY" would be any diferent.
The point is, even if they were banned, why would they not show up and occupy a booth anyway? I see much opportunity for hilarity here:-D
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Don't forget that they can only be used once and then have to be discarded! Oh, if only that were true of politicians too!
Your wife wants it hooked up to an oscillating control signal... maybe your bittorrent up/down monitor?
huh huh... teledildonics.
It's OK :-P I too am bemused by how good ol' American Marketing can put a price premium on what's basically the "poor man's communication" in the rest of the world. I pay 25-35 cents per SMS message (but for me it's still cheaper than another $10/month ... I use my Google Voice's SMS when I *have* to).
Basically for something that uses almost negligible bandwidth and probably the lowest QoS on the network. At least it pisses off English majors with T9 133+5P34K
Well, presumably you'd just wait a little longer until turning the cross traffic light green. Maybe it'll help get a clearer shot of the red-light runner, you know, for insurance purposes.
Against my better judgment (well, I actually trust most of the /. crowd when it comes to environmental issues), I'd recommend the coral reefs in http://www.islaculebra.com/puerto-rico/snorkeling.html
It's actually surprising cheap to get there from the US East Coast... fly to SJU, hire a jerry taxi to take you to the Fajardo ferry, and camp at Flamenco beach for $20 a night. It's just barely inconvenient enough to keep most of the bozos out. We've often gone over winter break, and it's nearly empty that time of year even though it's still perfect beach weather.
Every snorkeling site seems to have a different mix of coral, fronds, or fish and other sea life. Part of it used to be a practice bombing range for the US Navy, which ironically is probably another reason why it has been so well preserved :-D
"Of modest use". You could buy CENTURIES to work on the mortality problem if this technique worked.
Heh, amazing how much thought we put into physical immortality, when we could be devoting resources much more effectively into logical immortality AKA knowledge transfer AKA education ;-)
I'd think that if we had unlimited lifetimes, we wouldn't be in any rush to learn or accomplish anything, because, you know, you could just do it later. And when you die your body of knowledge still goes with you, assuming you haven't forgotten it.
On the other hand, if we concentrated on transferring our body of knowledge faster and more efficiently to the younger generation, we might actually get somewhere.
Coral species, on the other hand, are worth preserving. You know, for SCIENCE.
Having worked in various sized companies, from self-employed through 10, 20 and 500-1000 people, it became apparent to me that all businesses need:
1) Sales and Marketing
2) Accounting
3) A product
If you have no interest in 1) or 2), being self-employed is not for you. Also, when taking into account what you get paid for your "Product" as a coder, bear in mind the hours invested in Sales, Marketing, and Accounting for essentially zero compensation..
Word. When I started out doing coding-type projects, I was lucky enough to have some manager-type pimp me out and take care of the 1) and 2) for me. The only downside was that sometimes he oversold my capabilities... "X? Sure he's a pro at X -- (hey, learn X real quick!)" -- which led to some awkward moments meeting with the clients. But all-in-all it was a great "in" to that kind of work for several different sites that needed work/maintenance.
If you could toss together a pretty good buzzword-searchable public package for yourself at http://monster.com/ or the like, you'll pretty much be contacted by a string of headhunters who will try to help coach you and plug you in to a bunch of opportunities they have on their docket. Yeah, they'll take some overhead off the top, but you're probably happier not having to deal with that kind of schlepping that they do (at least not until you get older, more jaded, and more willing to look out after yourself :-P ).
The keyboard case doubles as a stand, which, for under $30, has more or less solved all the viewing angle problems I had with lying the TN display flat on a surface. Feels a bit strange converting a tablet to a laptop, but it works OK for me, and I find myself traveling with this G-Tablet now instead of the EeePC (that runs Fuduntu), even though the latter is arguably more fully-functional.
Yeah, I've been playing with the "Linux Installer" app, but it never quite runs its scripts successfully. But if you can get it to work you can pretty much debootstrap and ARM dist of debian in a loop device that you can chroot into and pretty much run anything you can install with apt through ConnectBot or AndroidVNC.
You're still saddled with Android for driver support, but at this point that seems to be a good thing on most devices. Haven't been too encouraged by progress on direct ports of Linux, but someday... I still have my EeePC for when I need that kind of fix anyway.
Meh, you can say the same thing about engineering... could be anywhere from a train conductor or someone who controls the thermostat for a building to someone who sits at a desk and writes papers about splitting atoms in deep space and everything in between.
I think if subby can get their work accepted in the "Quantitative Biology" section of arXiv, they'll probably do all right.
Yeah, by that logic, a digitally signed and encrypted email would be the epitome of deception.
So much for using email to leave a paper trail.
I kinda expect people to prevaricate more when talking face-to-face, because then they can rely on other powers of persuasion and intimidation and just plain acting to back their delusions. At least if they lie in email, I can call them out on it.
But whatever.
Still a pretty decent device considering it's over a year old now.
You don't have to root it per se, but you do want to put on VeganTab or some other ROM (which likely voids the warranty, but the device is cheap for a dual 1Ghz Tegra with a 10" screen... <$250 these days). There's no "jailbreak" step like most other devices. Just put the ROM in the right place and reboot.
The Android market works great now (very improved from the situation before!), so you can load Google Earth and just about anything else without any hassle.
Also have one of these cheap USB keyboard cases for it. Even with that, it still ends up being less bulky yet more fun than my old EeePC 901.
Unfortunately, Android doesn't work great with physical keyboards yet (all kinds of focus issues, and the Ctrl key annoyingly doesn't work in ConnectBot).
Not really sure what kind of privacy invasions you're trying to "run away" from...
But I find that the Android support of multiple accounts comes in pretty handy. I have one gmail address for personal interactions with people and holds my address book, then I have one (or more) "spam" accounts that I use for all of the social network accounts, logins, etc., for just about any interaction with any online business or service that wants an email address for something. Notifications are only enabled on the personal account, and it tends to be rather quiet (yay for having no friends!).
Team that up with multiple google voice options, and I don't even have to give out my "real" phone number most of the time for texts. And the voicemail transcriptions make it easier to wade through incoming stuff. But other than occasional calls from the Red Cross, I barely ever get any kind of telemarketing or "survey" calls to my cellphone number even though I've been handing it out for various things for over a decade.
So of course Google could link all my various accounts together to get a more complete profile of me, but not really sure what they'd do with it. All of the marketing gets directed at the spam account. They likely get more advertising bucks if they can say they're selling access to multiple personas (even if they all lead back to me) anyway, so it's probably win/win.
Meh, I try to walk the walk. I think it would be a better system to reward the artists based on whether you want them to spend time producing more works, and not so much by allowing them to control distribution of their previous performances. Broad redistribution leads to more mindshare & cultural penetration. That kind of thing usually drives my purchasing decisions these days much more than the marketing machine or pay-to-play "exposure". So I can see why this SOPA thing has kinda become some kind of struggle between traditional media and the "new" "social" media companies.
Actually, it's quite the opposite now... I actively tune out of "popular" crap I hear on the radio and see TV/news ads for. I had actually thought I simply wasn't into music until I discovered some of the stations at http://somafm.com/ that I had seen mentioned in a /. post. And as much as it pains me to say it, the only thing that gets me interested in a book or movie these days is if I hear my friends or co-workers talk about a particular title IRL, on IRC, or god forbid, on Facebook/Twitter or one of those other "social media" things that I occasionally scan. All the more reason to threaten traditional media.
My "entertainment" budget is relatively fixed, and is relatively closer to zero than any of our other expenses, so anything anyone could actually tickle out of me is just bonus.
I have not been to a movie theater in years. OK, we went to see Avatar some time ago when it came out, but that was only because the in-laws insisted, and even then only because they also took the kids for a few hours so we could go. But again that leads back to social pressures trumping carefully orchestrated hype :-P
I'm not really sure what the point of rewarding the publishers for performances is. Lawyers like having pieces of paper that they can use to tell other people to pay them money, I guess. I don't really see what connection that has to productivity, and don't really see any solution to these kinds of "royalties" other than the same way we dealt with imperialist royalties in colonial times anyway, and even in those days the accepted answer was acts of revolt and piracy that we basically founded our country upon. Even those pirates are seldom vilified these days, and even seem to have paid their sailors well and equitably compared to the slave wages of the imperial navies and merchant mariners. I really have no problem challenging the way we currently deal with copyright and intellectual property models.
I do want to expose my children to the original Star Wars movies, if only so they can get the pervasive cultural references. But Lucasfilm is one of the studios coming down harder on IP issues, so it seems a bit of a pain to find. So you know what? My kids are growing up with more exposure to Star Trek, Firefly, Farscape, etc. instead, which is far more readily accessible from Hulu and Netflix. They'll grow up thinking Star Wars was just the premise behind some crap cartoon and not one or two relatively brilliant B-movies for their day.
j00 w1n 1 (one) internets!
Surrender your internets at the border control station, please.
You can't have an inalienable right to someone else's property.
Mmm, I think most of us agree that there's a shift in the way the worth and value of intellectual property is measured. In the information economy, the value of a piece of work nowadays is not how much a copyright holder can manage to charge for it by withholding access to it, but instead by what cultural mindshare the work can amass from the population.
Just about all children I know have an innate sense of fairness that they are quite, 'ahem', vocal about. It's usually bitter adult voices I hear that say things like "you have to look out after your own interests, because no one else will", and "take all that you can get away with, because everyone else is just out there to screw you".
On the other hand, there are plenty of people who are poor because they are simply very bad with money. But OWS is sort of about the opposite of that.
Heh, yeah, this "democratic republic" isn't about giving power to its citizens. It's just about preventing revolutions by making people think they can get some sort of change once their group size tips slightly over 50%.
And it does a damn fine job of it :-P
How did the Roman democracy finally fail? Decayed from within. So we don't even really have to do anything about it, just let the powers-that-be proceed on their present course of action :-D
Palm T|X with pedit32 (for text files) and DiddleBug (for freehand notes pages). Writing and drawing with the stylus is still much more precise than any of the capacitive fat-finger interfaces I've seen on modern smartphones.
I wrote part of my master's thesis on my Palm T|X, using a free portable IR keyboard I got with the device.
Still waiting for some set of Android apps that would give me a similar experience.
"Draw & Share" is the only free app I've found that comes close to DiddleBug, but still isn't as convenient (with DiddleBug you could scroll around, and hit the "new page" icon and get a new sheet without having to go through save dialogs).
I have a nifty cover + USB keyboard for my Viewsonic G-Tablet, but keyboard input in Android still sort of sucks (all kinds of focus problems). I haven't looked for any decent text editors for Android yet.
Meh, what part of "Siamese Fighting Fish" do people have a problem with? ^_^
Ha, yeah, at least with the dessert names you can tell which one is the latest.
Though I suppose the large cats help indicate what they will do to your wallet when they're released... om nom nom.
Get a zotac zbox with nvidia onboard card.
Yawn... yeah, wake me up when someone finally starts selling the pico-ITX nVidia ION reference design
http://www.anandtech.com/print/2688
I did replace my tower Linux server with one of those Zotac mini-ITX IONs in a shoebox PC last year. Thanks to the GPU, I can even use it to do some light web browsing, and view videos like you say.
Too bad Intel dorked up ION2, with the 1x PCIe GPU bottleneck.
I've played with the fit-PC too, but with the crap Intel GPU with proprietary driver binary blobs, it's pretty useless. Other parts of the chipset (like the sata controller) is also problematic on older linux distros.
http://www.fit-pc.com/web/
The point is: why would they even try to invite them? It isn't like three months ago the public opinion of something named "PIRATE PARTY" would be any diferent.
The point is, even if they were banned, why would they not show up and occupy a booth anyway? I see much opportunity for hilarity here :-D
"... and I've got horns."
OK, I'm not really from OK.
Headline: strongest-ever quake causes minimal damages and hurts no one.
Why is this on /. ?
Dunno, just to see if someone tries to blame global warming? Maybe on Fark... ^_^