As somebody who follows developments in personal cooling technology pretty closely, this is exciting stuff. Some people with MS suffer from Uhthoff's phenomenon. Until they can start integrating thermoelectric into clothing, come up with a few more water-cooled outfits, stuff like this offers heat gimps around the world another useful tool.
What the hell? This is the INTERNET, nobody concedes a point! Challenge his math, mock his sentence structure, insult his mother, threaten to have your lawyer contact him... without enough flames the tubes may cool!
Years ago I heard of a precedent, I think in Pennsylvania, where someone was aquitted of murder because they had just woken up. The basic thinking was that you're considered temporarily insane for up to seven minutes after waking up. The Google, it finds nothing - anybody else heard of this?
Please respond quickly, I opted to make this post instead of calling my lawyer.
I've currently got a 650 from our good friends at Cingular, who love tormenting me with their commercials about what great coverage they provide, despite the 0 bars I get at home. I'm curious to know:
- Will a 650 running Linux still be locked to the provider's network?
- For us lightweights, will it be possible to revert back to PalmOS after installing this?
- Might there be a possibility of dual booting between Palm & Linux?
Personally I'd love to finally get some use out of the 1GB card I bought for the thing, especially if I could basically use the presence of a card to select the OS it boots with.
I used to work at an executive outplacement firm where we'd basically help people who got laid off, usually en masse (a service their former employer paid for). My job was mainly resume and cover letter-centric, but our consultants actually went to the locations and helped with the big, 'So long and thanks for all the fish" meetings.
Most people are just depressed and angry, but some people will try to get revenge. One of our consultants was meeting with an exec, told him he was being laid off, and he basically ran out of the room and started making lots of phone calls to cancel a big event he had coordinated for his company. So while it's not fair to most people and I do think it's generally like pouring salt in a fresh wound, some people will strike back as hard as they can, and those edge cases are the reason the 'good' ones get the same shaft.
Nah, we'll all be dead long before that's a concern. Your descendents will be the ones who pay for it, but they'll also benefit from being able to decorate thier post-apocalyptic ATVs with lots of shiny plastic.
(I know I'm off-topic.) This is actually a set of computer speakers, but I've been using it for my living room for several months and I couldn't be happier except for the LCD.
I agree with the folks who've mentioned shelters. It's cool that we're seeing the evolution of this sort of technology, but thousands of healthy, potentially great pets are put to sleep each year because we've done such a poor job at controlling their numbers.
I realize this is (currently) too expensive to have a real effect on adoption numbers, but even a cloned pet will be a seperate, unique organism, albeit one that resembles your former one. You can already get those, usually free or very cheap, and it often saves them from an early demise.
If the cost of animal cloning drops to a few thousand - or a few hundred - dollars over the course of the next few decades, it might become a problem.
Last year I lost a kitten to a rare form of diabetes. Maybe that's a bad example since the clone of such an animal would probably bear a similar disease. But shortly afterwards we adopted a young adult cat who was living at the vet's office (where we spent a great deal of time).
My point is that there's no such thing as replacing someone or something you love, only moving on, and someone who spends $50k on a cloned cat is going to get the same return on investment as someone who spends nothing.
I really liked Waking Life, so I recommended it to a few friends. The response was generally "It was a bit weird". And this is a *bad* thing in movies? I mean, a movie doesn't HAVE to have tits, guns and one liners, does it?
No, just a PLOT!
It was a neat concept, but I was falling asleep. I actually think it fell into the same trap as a lot of gun/boob movies which rely too much on special effects at the expense of storytelling.
I've seen some high-quality Quicktime movies, but every experience I've had with Real Player is chunky, buffered video riddled with artifacting.
I am on a 1GHz Powerbook, and being Apple's technology I'm sure Quicktime will always have better performance on the Mac, but what about the rest of the world? Is Real Player usable on other platforms?
Questionable codecs aside, combine this sort of service with a device along the lines of AirTunes w/ S-Video output and I'd definitely consider this type of service. But probably not for Starz.:)
Since I'm in complete agreement with the opposing viewpoints that...
If we knew what was being released in six months, we could hold off on current purchases to get a better value
The only reason Mac users bring this up is because we follow Apple's lineup so closely some of us feel they OWE us this
It must suck trying to sell what you've got on the shelf when half your potential consumers want the next model regardless of what the current one is
... I'll just pipe in and bash MBNA. Yes, they may advertise a 6.99 APR with no interest for 6 months (think those were the current terms), but:
When you're approved for an Apple/MBNA loan, they make a point of not mentioning what APR you actually GET- think 24%
They don't send the paperwork on this loan for close to two months, so if you want to get on the ball and start making payments during the initial 6 mo. period- too bad!
All that being said, I actually order a 1GHz 15" PB when they were first released, then cancelled the order based on rumors of a redesign, and ended up ordering the 17" I'm on now. Just had to pay off the sleazy MBNA loan with a credit card (sigh).
I should have clarified. Our software is actually web-based, storing this information in MySQL, so the problem isn't disparity between multiple databases on a single system, it's in trying to actually replicate.Mac syncronization services.
Were we able to sync to a machine's OS X's contact/calendar data from PHP or JSP, it would trickle down to third-party hardware beautifully. I've made some limited progress in vCard & vCal export, but even polished that approach would offer a one-way solution, which defeats the elegance and simplicity of using iSync.
2. Apple keeps its iSync API locked up. There are millions of really cool things I could do to make Apple able to synchronize with things like LDAP servers, competing browsers, PC's, etc. But then Apple could use it as a leverage-point to keep people subscribing to the overpriced.Mac program.
Funny that you mention LDAP; Apple supports LDAP in its acclaimed Mail application, so you don't need to write so much as a speck of code to enable it. Getting LDAP support to work is easy as pie.
I don't subscribe to.Mac, yet I can still use every iApp with ease. Perhaps Joe Sixpack needs his hand held, but I don't.
While the LDAP integration is handy, I don't think it addresses the original poster's point.
My company has a fairly extendable product suite that includes mail, calendar, and contact management. If I could write an iSync conduit to our database, I'd be able to check my calendar and get alarms from my Powerbook, iPod or Bluetooth phone.
That would let me use the interface(s) I like with the data I need, and would let us market OS X as a fully-supported platform. No, my company would probably never have an impact on Apple's bottom line, but as it stands now we can only offer syncronization with Windows users. In the meantime I've got this great all-in-one syncing solution that's completely useless to me, which is pretty frustrating.
Another angle to that is what it depends what he reads. If you read Slashdot every day, you're more likely to have strong anti-SCO opinions. But who knows what they're saying in Forbes? (who knows == I don't happen to).
And if you read fark every day, then you'd know it's a trap!
I can't be the first person to draw a parallel between this situation and when Bart got in trouble with the Australian government: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html
It reads interesting. I see it as vaporware. I can't imagine anything useful coming of this. How could something exploit the power of the next gen X-Box (which appears to be using a non-Intel chip in the future), and still run awesome on Windows?
I believe they're going to be using a variant of the G5 PowerPC. Gotta wonder how much that complicates cross-platform development.
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As somebody who follows developments in personal cooling technology pretty closely, this is exciting stuff. Some people with MS suffer from Uhthoff's phenomenon. Until they can start integrating thermoelectric into clothing, come up with a few more water-cooled outfits, stuff like this offers heat gimps around the world another useful tool.
What do you expect? The scientists are coddling them with all the emphasis on recreation!
What the hell? This is the INTERNET, nobody concedes a point! Challenge his math, mock his sentence structure, insult his mother, threaten to have your lawyer contact him... without enough flames the tubes may cool!
That's the funny thing about going between Pennsylvania and Jersey. It's free to get into Jersey, but you've gotta pay to get out.
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Think that'd do it.
Just like a Ga'ould symbiot! Second only in healing powers to Richard Dean Anderson himself.
Years ago I heard of a precedent, I think in Pennsylvania, where someone was aquitted of murder because they had just woken up. The basic thinking was that you're considered temporarily insane for up to seven minutes after waking up. The Google, it finds nothing - anybody else heard of this?
Please respond quickly, I opted to make this post instead of calling my lawyer.
Clearly, these 'rocket scientists' never saw the Lost in Space movie. On the upside, it'll give us a reason to shoot Joey into space.
I've currently got a 650 from our good friends at Cingular, who love tormenting me with their commercials about what great coverage they provide, despite the 0 bars I get at home. I'm curious to know:
- Will a 650 running Linux still be locked to the provider's network?
- For us lightweights, will it be possible to revert back to PalmOS after installing this?
- Might there be a possibility of dual booting between Palm & Linux?
Personally I'd love to finally get some use out of the 1GB card I bought for the thing, especially if I could basically use the presence of a card to select the OS it boots with.
I used to work at an executive outplacement firm where we'd basically help people who got laid off, usually en masse (a service their former employer paid for). My job was mainly resume and cover letter-centric, but our consultants actually went to the locations and helped with the big, 'So long and thanks for all the fish" meetings.
Most people are just depressed and angry, but some people will try to get revenge. One of our consultants was meeting with an exec, told him he was being laid off, and he basically ran out of the room and started making lots of phone calls to cancel a big event he had coordinated for his company. So while it's not fair to most people and I do think it's generally like pouring salt in a fresh wound, some people will strike back as hard as they can, and those edge cases are the reason the 'good' ones get the same shaft.
Nah, we'll all be dead long before that's a concern. Your descendents will be the ones who pay for it, but they'll also benefit from being able to decorate thier post-apocalyptic ATVs with lots of shiny plastic.
Who rules Barter Town?
Kick-ass surround sound for (currently) $220:
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(I know I'm off-topic.) This is actually a set of computer speakers, but I've been using it for my living room for several months and I couldn't be happier except for the LCD.
I agree with the folks who've mentioned shelters. It's cool that we're seeing the evolution of this sort of technology, but thousands of healthy, potentially great pets are put to sleep each year because we've done such a poor job at controlling their numbers.
I realize this is (currently) too expensive to have a real effect on adoption numbers, but even a cloned pet will be a seperate, unique organism, albeit one that resembles your former one. You can already get those, usually free or very cheap, and it often saves them from an early demise.
If the cost of animal cloning drops to a few thousand - or a few hundred - dollars over the course of the next few decades, it might become a problem.
Last year I lost a kitten to a rare form of diabetes. Maybe that's a bad example since the clone of such an animal would probably bear a similar disease. But shortly afterwards we adopted a young adult cat who was living at the vet's office (where we spent a great deal of time).
My point is that there's no such thing as replacing someone or something you love, only moving on, and someone who spends $50k on a cloned cat is going to get the same return on investment as someone who spends nothing.
Anyone know how 160kbps VBR Windows Media Format compares to 128 AAC?
Mr. Burns must be really disappointed.
I really liked Waking Life, so I recommended it to a few friends. The response was generally "It was a bit weird". And this is a *bad* thing in movies? I mean, a movie doesn't HAVE to have tits, guns and one liners, does it?
No, just a PLOT!
It was a neat concept, but I was falling asleep. I actually think it fell into the same trap as a lot of gun/boob movies which rely too much on special effects at the expense of storytelling.
I've seen some high-quality Quicktime movies, but every experience I've had with Real Player is chunky, buffered video riddled with artifacting.
:)
I am on a 1GHz Powerbook, and being Apple's technology I'm sure Quicktime will always have better performance on the Mac, but what about the rest of the world? Is Real Player usable on other platforms?
Questionable codecs aside, combine this sort of service with a device along the lines of AirTunes w/ S-Video output and I'd definitely consider this type of service. But probably not for Starz.
Of course the REAL market is porn.
- When you're approved for an Apple/MBNA loan, they make a point of not mentioning what APR you actually GET- think 24%
- They don't send the paperwork on this loan for close to two months, so if you want to get on the ball and start making payments during the initial 6 mo. period- too bad!
All that being said, I actually order a 1GHz 15" PB when they were first released, then cancelled the order based on rumors of a redesign, and ended up ordering the 17" I'm on now. Just had to pay off the sleazy MBNA loan with a credit card (sigh).I should have clarified. Our software is actually web-based, storing this information in MySQL, so the problem isn't disparity between multiple databases on a single system, it's in trying to actually replicate .Mac syncronization services.
Were we able to sync to a machine's OS X's contact/calendar data from PHP or JSP, it would trickle down to third-party hardware beautifully. I've made some limited progress in vCard & vCal export, but even polished that approach would offer a one-way solution, which defeats the elegance and simplicity of using iSync.
(Thanks for links!)
2. Apple keeps its iSync API locked up. There are millions of really cool things I could do to make Apple able to synchronize with things like LDAP servers, competing browsers, PC's, etc. But then Apple could use it as a leverage-point to keep people subscribing to the overpriced .Mac program.
.Mac, yet I can still use every iApp with ease. Perhaps Joe Sixpack needs his hand held, but I don't.
Funny that you mention LDAP; Apple supports LDAP in its acclaimed Mail application, so you don't need to write so much as a speck of code to enable it. Getting LDAP support to work is easy as pie.
I don't subscribe to
While the LDAP integration is handy, I don't think it addresses the original poster's point.
My company has a fairly extendable product suite that includes mail, calendar, and contact management. If I could write an iSync conduit to our database, I'd be able to check my calendar and get alarms from my Powerbook, iPod or Bluetooth phone.
That would let me use the interface(s) I like with the data I need, and would let us market OS X as a fully-supported platform. No, my company would probably never have an impact on Apple's bottom line, but as it stands now we can only offer syncronization with Windows users. In the meantime I've got this great all-in-one syncing solution that's completely useless to me, which is pretty frustrating.
Only on crappy, non-brandname players
That's the only bit I don't agree with, I've got a Sony.. not sure what year it is, but it has DIVX support (Christmas present).
Another angle to that is what it depends what he reads. If you read Slashdot every day, you're more likely to have strong anti-SCO opinions. But who knows what they're saying in Forbes? (who knows == I don't happen to).
And if you read fark every day, then you'd know it's a trap!
I can't be the first person to draw a parallel between this situation and when Bart got in trouble with the Australian government: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html
Give 'im the boot!
It reads interesting. I see it as vaporware. I can't imagine anything useful coming of this. How could something exploit the power of the next gen X-Box (which appears to be using a non-Intel chip in the future), and still run awesome on Windows?
I believe they're going to be using a variant of the G5 PowerPC. Gotta wonder how much that complicates cross-platform development.