My Thinkpad X40 died some time ago so I finally got around to buying an 8 GB Transcend SSD for just under US$ 300, this isn't actually that bad as 1.8 inch harddrives are ridiculously expensive. The harddrive worked perfectly right out of the box.
The harddisk is obviosly completely silent the only way to tell it's working is the harddisk light, unfortunately my battery is very old and doesn't hold up long, but I still get maybe 1 to 2 hours out of it with the new harddrive. I'm assuming I'm getting more battery than before.
Lemme get this straight, for $1000 I can get into the Century Club, and get a complimentary trip to Las Vegas for two people? I live in Denmark half way around the world, and there is no way I could get a round trip for two to Las Vegas for $1000.
Is this some kind of scam, how could I be certain I got what was promised?
I just want to describe my first experience with skype-out:
First I bought some credit, seconds later they showed up on my skype-beta running on a 15" PowerBook.
Then I called a friend on a mobile phone, and talked with him for 3 minutes, he noted the exellent sound quality.
Then I called my friend who was in USA (I'm from Denmark) and we talked for halv an hour, again exellent audio both ways. The PowerBook had a wireless connection, so I walked around the room with the biggest mobile phone I have ever had.
after both calls the saldo updated within seconds of completing the call. And it turns out, my half-hour call halv-way around the globe was cheaper then my 3 minute call with a local cellphone. ($0.59 for the half-hour call, $1.23 for the 3 minute cell-phone call)
So to sum up, I'm extremely exited about the possibilities and ease of use of this program.
Has anyone thought about what will happen once this thing gets spread around.
- Who says you can't "share" your drive with others?
Pirates will now have a 1Gig online-drive that they can stuff with movies+warez etc. All hosted by google on high speed connections.
- So now we have a 1Gig web drive, but why stop there?
With invites to one self and other "friends", you could create a fair ammount of gmail accounts, and with not too much effort, this program could probably be hacked to provide access to all of those gmail accounts at once.
Wupti, and google is now hosting a 100+ gig warez server..
I go 12km to school and 12 back, with an average speed of 25km/h, when riding on a straight road, my speed is about 35km/h. This is on a top of the line (XTR-$6000 mountain-bike)
My last bike was a recumbent bike, and on that, I did 37km/h effortlessly and 42km/h with a little effort, I was able to go long distances over 50km/h and my top speed, down a quite short hill was 72km/h (I think i Broke the speedlimit there)
What I'm trying to say is, if you have less than 25km to work, buy a good bike, if you'r only going to use it to get to work fast, buy a recumbent. Also a recumbent is _much_ more comfortable to ride for long distances.
Oh and on the Tour de France the average speed is over 50km/h (I heard) it would be much more, if they were allowed to ride recumbents (but thats another story)
Many companies have learned to apreciate the value of being "green" but I actually think William Clay Ford Jr. is being serious about this one.
Read about the project here William McDonough + Partners is leading Ford Motor Company's revitalization of its historic Rouge complex. The goal of this 20-year project is to lead the manufacturing world into the Next Industrial Revolution by modeling strategies for a sustaining future.
This is how Lemmings would look if they were for real (from an article on Politiken.dk about Gamestars, where people dressed up as their favourite gamestars)
It's nice to see someone doing some valuable research on this stuff. It be sad if all the scientists only did research cures for cancer AIDS Polio, Malaria etc. No we need to devote ourselves more to Quantum Fysics and seedless watermelons, becous that (ptuy) has got to stop!
Most of the people probably is using Postnuke because it's the easiest, but slashdot clearly has much better features, and is much more complicated, it's only problem is that it's impossible for a non-geek(TM) to install.
So the poll is merely a reflection of what people use, none of the 6000 people have tried them all, and so they can't give a objective vote.
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Listen to my friend's Band Nectar
And support her new band The Rime
Well this gyu wanted to buy a new car, so he looked on Ebay.
He saw a two year old BMW for sale for $5! Thinking it had to be a mistake but curious he called the woman selling the car and asked if she was the one selling the car? "yes it's me" she replied. The guy asked about the prize "five dollars just as i wrote" she replied he asked if there was anything wrong with the car or something, but everything was apparently perfectly ok!
So he got over to her place (she lived just nearby) and rang the door-bell. The woman opened the door, "I'm coming to buy the car" he said "sure come right this way" she told him and took him out to the garrage, and there stood a almost brand new big fat BMW "Ok and the price?" he said doubtfully, "5 bucks, just as I said in the phone" "ok here 5 bucks but can I just ask you one thing?" he asked "How come your selling this car for 5 bucks?" "well my husband left me last week with his secretary and I've jsut recieved this letter where he tells me to sell all his things and send him the money"
So Please, do as I have and write a physical letter (no emails, they just junk those) to your congress critters (or what ever government officials you have in your country that pass laws) to ban spam.
Here in Denmark we don't allow spam, nor in EU, great you think, but we get it as much as the next country.
problem offcource is that we get spam from all over the world, I have some chinese barstard spamming me over and over again, and I can't really go to the police and report it, even when I get danish spam, they are so polite as to tell us, the message is send outside of the EU
Slashdot Mirror
My Thinkpad X40 died some time ago so I finally got around to buying an 8 GB Transcend SSD for just under US$ 300, this isn't actually that bad as 1.8 inch harddrives are ridiculously expensive. The harddrive worked perfectly right out of the box.
The harddisk is obviosly completely silent the only way to tell it's working is the harddisk light, unfortunately my battery is very old and doesn't hold up long, but I still get maybe 1 to 2 hours out of it with the new harddrive. I'm assuming I'm getting more battery than before.
I wrote a blog about the whole thing if you're interested. http://blog.opspin.dk/2007/09/ssd.html
Couldn't we just agree that two 30" monitors would be the sweetest?
Lemme get this straight, for $1000 I can get into the Century Club, and get a complimentary trip to Las Vegas for two people? I live in Denmark half way around the world, and there is no way I could get a round trip for two to Las Vegas for $1000. Is this some kind of scam, how could I be certain I got what was promised?
Think three dimensions
You can find the answer to this one by watching Labyrinth (1986)
This would make a great screensaver on a friends computer, freak him/her out.
I just want to describe my first experience with skype-out:
First I bought some credit, seconds later they showed up on my skype-beta running on a 15" PowerBook.
Then I called a friend on a mobile phone, and talked with him for 3 minutes, he noted the exellent sound quality.
Then I called my friend who was in USA (I'm from Denmark) and we talked for halv an hour, again exellent audio both ways. The PowerBook had a wireless connection, so I walked around the room with the biggest mobile phone I have ever had.
after both calls the saldo updated within seconds of completing the call. And it turns out, my half-hour call halv-way around the globe was cheaper then my 3 minute call with a local cellphone. ($0.59 for the half-hour call, $1.23 for the 3 minute cell-phone call)
So to sum up, I'm extremely exited about the possibilities and ease of use of this program.
Actually Scandinavia isn't a country either, it's more like Denmark, Sweden and Norway (possibly also Finland)
- Who says you can't "share" your drive with others?
Pirates will now have a 1Gig online-drive that they can stuff with movies+warez etc.
All hosted by google on high speed connections.
- So now we have a 1Gig web drive, but why stop there?
With invites to one self and other "friends", you could create a fair ammount of gmail
accounts, and with not too much effort, this program could probably be hacked to
provide access to all of those gmail accounts at once.
Wupti, and google is now hosting a 100+ gig warez server..
Although a great idea, this is doomed to fail..
I does not work, I just checked, if people would check these things before giving +5 to comments...
I go 12km to school and 12 back, with an average speed of 25km/h, when riding on a straight road, my speed is about 35km/h. This is on a top of the line (XTR-$6000 mountain-bike)
My last bike was a recumbent bike, and on that, I did 37km/h effortlessly and 42km/h with a little effort, I was able to go long distances over 50km/h and my top speed, down a quite short hill was 72km/h (I think i Broke the speedlimit there)
What I'm trying to say is, if you have less than 25km to work, buy a good bike, if you'r only going to use it to get to work fast, buy a recumbent. Also a recumbent is _much_ more comfortable to ride for long distances.
Oh and on the Tour de France the average speed is over 50km/h (I heard) it would be much more, if they were allowed to ride recumbents (but thats another story)
Did anyone consider the concequences going into space with a discount airline?
Yeah, this'll be great, get cramped in a seat with no legspace, being offered drinks for $4000 a piece and barfbags with cheap looking ads on them.
Or maybe im thinking of Ryanair...
Many companies have learned to apreciate the value of being "green" but I actually think William Clay Ford Jr. is being serious about this one.
Read about the project here
William McDonough + Partners is leading Ford Motor Company's revitalization of its historic Rouge complex. The goal of this 20-year project is to lead the manufacturing world into the Next Industrial Revolution by modeling strategies for a sustaining future.
This is how Lemmings would look if they were for real (from an article on Politiken.dk about Gamestars, where people dressed up as their favourite gamestars)
Lemming1
Lemming2
Lemming3
Masculine Lara Croft is also a killer!
It's all in danish for your reading pleasure!
It's nice to see someone doing some valuable research on this stuff. It be sad if all the scientists only did research cures for cancer AIDS Polio, Malaria etc. No we need to devote ourselves more to Quantum Fysics and seedless watermelons, becous that (ptuy) has got to stop!
If I heat up dry ice, can I take a shower without getting wet?
I don't think this poll shows very much.
Most of the people probably is using Postnuke because it's the easiest, but slashdot clearly has much better features, and is much more complicated, it's only problem is that it's impossible for a non-geek(TM) to install.
So the poll is merely a reflection of what people use, none of the 6000 people have tried them all, and so they can't give a objective vote.
____________________________
Listen to my friend's Band Nectar
And support her new band The Rime
Well this gyu wanted to buy a new car, so he looked on Ebay.
He saw a two year old BMW for sale for $5!
Thinking it had to be a mistake but curious he called the woman selling the car and asked if she was the one selling the car? "yes it's me" she replied. The guy asked about the prize "five dollars just as i wrote" she replied he asked if there was anything wrong with the car or something, but everything was apparently perfectly ok!
So he got over to her place (she lived just nearby) and rang the door-bell. The woman opened the door, "I'm coming to buy the car" he said "sure come right this way" she told him and took him out to the garrage, and there stood a almost brand new big fat BMW "Ok and the price?" he said doubtfully, "5 bucks, just as I said in the phone" "ok here 5 bucks but can I just ask you one thing?" he asked "How come your selling this car for 5 bucks?" "well my husband left me last week with his secretary and I've jsut recieved this letter where he tells me to sell all his things and send him the money"
Here in Denmark we don't allow spam, nor in EU, great you think, but we get it as much as the next country.
problem offcource is that we get spam from all over the world, I have some chinese barstard spamming me over and over again, and I can't really go to the police and report it, even when I get danish spam, they are so polite as to tell us, the message is send outside of the EU
I know there's no longer any First post, but this I my first post ever on /. so I thought I'd make it first post!
How about an option to filter all but "funny" comments, most of the time I only read the funny comments.
Stileproject.com was nominated and won http://www.webbyawards.com/nominees/2000/weird_win .html
Thats how I got to know the place!