While the Itsy looks cool and everything, depending on the application, I'd daresay I'd prefer a larger device.
If we're talking about a PDA, I might not mind something so small (my primary concern being the input interface--Graphitti?--where would you write?). But for more general purpose portable computing, I think I'd go for something about 4"x6" or 5"x7" (somewhere around the size of a Star Trek DS9 data report pad).
I'd love to see 3com (or someone else) put together a device this size for electronic books, general web browsing and the like.
Then again, I also want an ntp client, procmail, and Perl in my VCR, so it'll never not know the time and so I can program it by e-mail (TiVo, maybe?). But companies never listen to me . . .
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Because there are many varied (and on-topic) reasons that Microsoft gets bashed?
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And I have been using computers for about 12 years.
"using" ne "understanding"
Not long but enough to get my job done.
"enough to get my job done" ne "enough to get my job done well"
Excuse me but I have worked for Dell for 8 years now as a Network engineer and nobody forced us to use MS products.
That's because Microsoft's definition of "force" is generally, "We'll give it to you free. We think you should use it." It's how MS has gotten a serious stranglehold on education (where my PHBs and colleagues scoff at me/retreat fearfully from me whenever I mention Linux). While I can certainly understand the discomfort some people have when considering alternatives to MS, both FUD and the lack of cost make it very easy for managers to disregard any advantages to other platforms.
We use them because NT and related MS server products suits our needs just fine.
NeXT's WebObjects e-commerce offering to Dell was apparently designed and implemented in less than a week by one or two (granted quite gifted) developers. Microsoft's replacement, however, required a large team working for several months.
"Just fine" may suit your needs now, but you also had a system which likely suited your needs "just fine" which didn't require significant time and energy expenditure for replacement.
Hell I can't remember when the last time I had to reboot our MS SQL server for any problems related to software..... was it 1997 I can't remember.
When was the last time you had to reboot the SQL Server for problems related to the operating system? When was the last time you had to restart the SQL Server Service? When was the last time you had to restart the server simply because you installed new software on the machine?
Of course I felt the idiocy of your hypocritical criticism of Katz for behavior you yourself were exhibiting *in the selfsame post*.
Ignoring the arguments on the merits or demerits of the WB's decision to postpone the season finale, how many times have you watched Buffy to actually observe for yourself that the show (at least according to you) is "by many accounts, unusually violent and bloody"? Do you just accept the corporate line? Do you just consume what the media spoonfeeds you?
Or are you so superficial that you can't get past a silly title enough to watch a show which many contend is one of the best dramas on television?
Deadly, bloody violence is what I was speaking of.
Once again it's pretty obvious you don't know the first thing about what you're speaking of. Unusually, despite the vampire subject matter, Buffy is often less than deadly, seldom bloody, and never gratuitous. The show explores the consequences of the various character's actions, be they violent or not.
What you, in your presumptuous attitudes about what should or should not be on television, can't see in your ignorance of the subject at hand is the line between the depiction of violence and the context in which it appears. You've jumped to the conclusions that the media wants you to jump to, and as such, I pity you.
I believe it bears repeating:
Maybe you ought to actually do some research into the matter before you dash off a hasty . . . tirade on a subject about which you obviously know little. --MuyJuan
Speaking as someone who's somewhat on the front lines of this issue, I, for one, found access to the bootleg from usenet--alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (You may find the post on dejanews if you do a search for "Download" and "Graduation 2").
From what I've read on the group, the vast majority of posters on atbvs had little objection to the bootlegging, especially in light of Buffy creator Joss Whedon's approval.
While atbvs may not exactly be "widely" published, it did generate enough buzz to get USA Today to run a story on the fan movement. Once that story (which does mention atbvs) ran, I began to see a wide spectrum of stories from Salon Magazine to Yahoo and then now here at/.
At the very least, while there may not be widely published buzz, the fanbase of BTVS is well aware of what's going on with the bootlegs, and word-of-mouth likely plays a large role in getting a copy to everyone who feels ok about watching one.
In this case, WB has decided not to air a show which, by many accounts, is unusually violent and bloody.
"By many accounts"? There's more blood in one hour of ER than there was in the entirety of season 3 of Buffy.
Maybe you ought to actually do some research into the matter before you dash off a hasty, one-sentence-per-paragraph tirade on a subject about which you obviously know little.
Ow. Please stop beating me about the head with the irony stick...
I'm also pissed because I can't get fried apple pies at McDonald's because of those same health freaks. WHY ARE YOU GOING TO MCDONALD'S IF YOU DON'T WANT TO EAT FAT?????
DEER LOWERED, I loved those fried apple pies...especially when the apple goo dripped out and burned your lower lip. Those baked ones just don't cut it anymore.
It's neither about taste nor about censorship. It's about the WB *covering their ass*.
"Had anything happened at any ceremony, of any violent nature, whether that hypothetical person watched 'Buffy,' the media would have replayed the clip from the TV show over and over and over again. Now, God forbid, if something actually does happen, the media won't be asking 'Did Buffy incite this?' as they run the clip again and again." --Brad Turell, a representative of the WB.
So, despite my fervent love for BTVS, I can support that reasoning for the postponement of the episode. The WB, however, didn't just postpone "Earshot" and "Graduation 2," they claimed sensitivity as their motivation, while at the same time airing episodes which could be grossly insensitive (i.e. "The Prom").
"OK, I'm having a Grateful Dead moment here, but I'm saying, 'Bootleg the puppy.' " -- Joss Whedon, creator of _Buffy_
It's bad enough that we're now wrestling with the prevalent attitude that anyone who dresses in black, plays computer games, enjoys _The Matrix_, or listens to Marilyn Manson is nigh on the edge of murdering their compatriots, but now we have to contend with people who think that battling a 60 ft demonic serpent (or more specifically, *watching* that battle) will somehow corrupt teen minds with suggestions to commit mass mayhem and murder. Will Mr. Whedon please step forward? I have his hemlock ready...
The late mythologist Joseph Campbell, who inspired much of the Star Wars mythology . ..
Did Campbell inspire Star Wars, or simply write of it's ubiquitous mythological influences? He wrote of the parallels between myths in The Hero with A Thousand Faces
For example, Anakin Skywalker's failure and Luke's success with the Force parallels Uther Pendragon's failure and Arthur's success in uniting England. It echoes (or more appropriately cycles) with Lancelot's failure and Galahad's success in finding the Holy Grail.
What Lucas and the Wachowski Bros have really tapped into are the archetypal stories that influence us--from the Last (or Only) Son of Krypton, to the Chosen Slayer. Campbell documented these parallels, and may have influenced works following the publication of Hero, but AFAIK, Lucas' vision was borne from straight myth and media.
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If we're talking about a PDA, I might not mind something so small (my primary concern being the input interface--Graphitti?--where would you write?). But for more general purpose portable computing, I think I'd go for something about 4"x6" or 5"x7" (somewhere around the size of a Star Trek DS9 data report pad).
I'd love to see 3com (or someone else) put together a device this size for electronic books, general web browsing and the like.
Then again, I also want an ntp client, procmail, and Perl in my VCR, so it'll never not know the time and so I can program it by e-mail (TiVo, maybe?). But companies never listen to me . . .
Because there are many varied (and on-topic) reasons that Microsoft gets bashed?
"using" ne "understanding"
"enough to get my job done" ne "enough to get my job done well"
HTH. HFIH.
That's because Microsoft's definition of "force" is generally, "We'll give it to you free. We think you should use it." It's how MS has gotten a serious stranglehold on education (where my PHBs and colleagues scoff at me/retreat fearfully from me whenever I mention Linux). While I can certainly understand the discomfort some people have when considering alternatives to MS, both FUD and the lack of cost make it very easy for managers to disregard any advantages to other platforms.
NeXT's WebObjects e-commerce offering to Dell was apparently designed and implemented in less than a week by one or two (granted quite gifted) developers. Microsoft's replacement, however, required a large team working for several months.
"Just fine" may suit your needs now, but you also had a system which likely suited your needs "just fine" which didn't require significant time and energy expenditure for replacement.
When was the last time you had to reboot the SQL Server for problems related to the operating system? When was the last time you had to restart the SQL Server Service? When was the last time you had to restart the server simply because you installed new software on the machine?
You have to wonder about the relative competence of an IT department that chooses to run IIS and ASP in lieu of the more reliable alternatives.
The worst thing is the PHBs and advocates will now use a dumn article like that to avoid acknowledging the alternatives.
Ignoring the arguments on the merits or demerits of the WB's decision to postpone the season finale, how many times have you watched Buffy to actually observe for yourself that the show (at least according to you) is "by many accounts, unusually violent and bloody"? Do you just accept the corporate line? Do you just consume what the media spoonfeeds you?
Or are you so superficial that you can't get past a silly title enough to watch a show which many contend is one of the best dramas on television?
Once again it's pretty obvious you don't know the first thing about what you're speaking of. Unusually, despite the vampire subject matter, Buffy is often less than deadly, seldom bloody, and never gratuitous. The show explores the consequences of the various character's actions, be they violent or not.
What you, in your presumptuous attitudes about what should or should not be on television, can't see in your ignorance of the subject at hand is the line between the depiction of violence and the context in which it appears. You've jumped to the conclusions that the media wants you to jump to, and as such, I pity you.
I believe it bears repeating:
Speaking as someone who's somewhat on the front lines of this issue, I, for one, found access to the bootleg from usenet--alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (You may find the post on dejanews if you do a search for "Download" and "Graduation 2").
/.
From what I've read on the group, the vast majority of posters on atbvs had little objection to the bootlegging, especially in light of Buffy creator Joss Whedon's approval.
While atbvs may not exactly be "widely" published, it did generate enough buzz to get USA Today to run a story on the fan movement. Once that story (which does mention atbvs) ran, I began to see a wide spectrum of stories from Salon Magazine to Yahoo and then now here at
At the very least, while there may not be widely published buzz, the fanbase of BTVS is well aware of what's going on with the bootlegs, and word-of-mouth likely plays a large role in getting a copy to everyone who feels ok about watching one.
"By many accounts"? There's more blood in one hour of ER than there was in the entirety of season 3 of Buffy.
Ow. Please stop beating me about the head with the irony stick...
DEER LOWERED, I loved those fried apple pies...especially when the apple goo dripped out and burned your lower lip. Those baked ones just don't cut it anymore.
Earshot is available on various websites.
It's anywhere between 15 to 65 MB, which isn't nearly the 2 CD-ROMs worth that The Phantom Menace is.
The late mythologist Joseph Campbell, who inspired much of the Star Wars mythology . . .
Did Campbell inspire Star Wars, or simply write of it's ubiquitous mythological influences? He wrote of the parallels between myths in The Hero with A Thousand Faces
For example, Anakin Skywalker's failure and Luke's success with the Force parallels Uther Pendragon's failure and Arthur's success in uniting England. It echoes (or more appropriately cycles) with Lancelot's failure and Galahad's success in finding the Holy Grail.
What Lucas and the Wachowski Bros have really tapped into are the archetypal stories that influence us--from the Last (or Only) Son of Krypton, to the Chosen Slayer.
Campbell documented these parallels, and may have influenced works following the publication of Hero, but AFAIK, Lucas' vision was borne from straight myth and media.