When will Nokia get on the ball? Bluetooth is too fun for stuff like phonelist/addressbook syncing, remote-controlling your Mac (cheap slideshow clcker, iTunes controller), doing GPRS dialup, wireless headset, wireless carphone, etc.
Now that I'm one of a handful of techies who just landed a job in NYC (thank you, thank you;) I am actually gonna be putting a wireless carphone rig in my car (at the same time as getting the Becker TrafficPro, new amps and new speakers), so any phone I get to replace my slow-interface T68m MUST have Bluetooth.
And yes, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a PDA with a thin HDD that had bluetooth, gps, gsm, a mic and camera, et al. Even if you could only use the phone functionality with a bluetooth headset. Maybe it could come with a stereo wireless headset with noise cancellation, bluetooth enabled so you could listen to music and it would pause when you place/receive a call...
As a kind of 'kill-boredom' hack, I figured enough xquery out to write a sherlock RSS tuner plugin.. If you're running sherlock in OSX Jaguar, take a peek..
Theres lots of stuff that isn't implemented yet, but it displays RSS/RDF files and behaves fairly well.. Not bad for a couple days otherwise spent bitching about lack of jobs in the NYC area..
I want to add support for rdf resource dates so you can define a list of your favorite RSS sources and display them combined in date order, but first a decent persistent 'bookmark' list, when I have the time..
Forget that.. I wanna live in a mall...
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.. a converted dead mall, from the '70s with the Logan's Run architecture and/or kitschy stuff like wood panelling, faux brick, fountains, etc.
Who knows, it happened to factories and warehouses..
The 707 airliner was developed about 1954 (I think). 707's are still used in the passenger carrying business a bit and are more common now in ferrying freight.
IIRC the 707 also forms the foundation for the C-135 series.
The F-4 fighter plane was developed around the same time and that thing is used in the world's militaries, including our own.
I'd also point to some of the MiGs (particularly the 17 and 21) as examples of really popular, hardy planes.. Experiencing new lives as toys of the rich;)
oh, and those tibooks... put one on your knee and put just a *little* force on them... not more than 5 pounds. cya gay computer!
Sounds like that last Smell Perspiron I had, with a 166MHz MMX CPU.. Walked up a flight of stairs off the subway, tripped, put my knee into it, *crash* there goes the LCD..
And no, Dell junk just sucks. Sorry. I've dealt with all manner of Dell equipment from personal laptops to work desktops to quad-xeons, and at every level all of their junk is worthless. Go compaq for x86 servers, IBM for laptops, and handbuilt desktops. Never ever Dell.
Anyone who thinks a Packard-Dell is any good is a unclued jackass..
I'll never understand people who buy things for looks rather than function, especially when that thing is a computer.
Hmm.. My PBG4 is less than 6lbs, is super thin, and its titanium case can take loads of abuse.. Sounds like it serves the function of light weight and high tensile strength to me!
Seriously though, it's comments like that which kinda make me sad, and think that geekdom won't ever really be able to make itself heard to the wider culture.. What's the function of this, or this?
1. When I was there, they made us run Oracle on (shudder) NT. (Note: This is not an NT/MS bash, but that particular combination is not a fun time).
It's no fun on Linux either.. Oracle, in many ways, is a cast-iron motherfucker, and for nearly any application I'd recommend an OSS database if only to avoid the pain of Oracle installation.
Personally, I lean towards MySQL because I like the simplicity of its CLI client, ease of setup, and speed for my purposes. I've fooled with PostgreSQL, but IIRC it handled BLOBs and a few other things in a kind of ugly/non-SQL way which prevented me from caring too much. If you don't need Oracle-only features (which, given InnoDB and the new stuff coming online from MySQL, is a list that is slowly but surely shrinking) or are small enough to not have a DBA (who knows enough about Oracle to make its costs worthwhile) there's no reason to go through the pain of OraInst..
If you must have Oracle though, I'd recommend Solaris instead of Linux. Ora on Solaris is not quite as hellish, though trying to get their Exchange exchange (Collaboration Suite) installed is an all-expenses paid tour of HELL.. It includes the DB, App server, a bunch of other Oracle crap, and the stuff they got when they bought Steltor, including its kludgey install from hell.
Not to mention that Oracle only supports the $1500 RedHat Advanced Server, while for Sol8 you used to be able to get up to 8CPUs beer..
If I laid out a serious amount of money to establish COs and copper to (nearly) every house in the United States, I'd be a little pissed at the government for making me open it up to people who are offering competing services.
Here's a question though.. Do you really WANT every company and its brother running unsightly wires all over the place (or ripping up your roads to bury them)? Talk about duplication of effort, which hackers are supposed to hate..
Also, aren't the service poles and underground rights-of-way owned by the State, ergo giving the state a say in how those resources are used?
... especially if that set does a good job of upconverting to 1080i (or preferably, 720p, particularly for action movies and sporting events). If I were to buy an HD-ready set, I would avoid sets with built-in digital converters, and run everything through a component-capable receiver.
Also, howsabout HD-ready sets that don't even have speakers? IOW, proper 'monitor' sets..
Maybe by the time I have the $$$ to drop on a HD-ready set (along with the prerequisite receiver upgrade and rack furniture redesign) the selection in 50+ inch 720p-true sets will be better and cheaper..
.. then the Proterm extended-ascii flame war movies on the IIgs with the amazing auto-dialing 2400baud Zoomodem (only $99 at the computer faire), later ANSI on the Fountain XT clone..
Going out to kick the shit out of some scrawny scarsdale fronta ala 'Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back', but wimping out 'cuz you felt so much pity for the kid..
I remember my mom asking my why I didn't just pick up the phone to talk to my friend down the block, instead of the whole complicated manual modem data thing, but she couldn't understand just how COOL it was to see characters pop up on the screen in a raw serial connection and wonder, just a little, whether the other end was your friend, or a turing bot dialed by mistake.
And of course Wargames helped;)
Seriously, though, it was back in the day when Computer Shopper was useful, when it carried pirate BBS classifieds and Northgate clones...
I don't envy Harry Truman. He had to make a choice between likely tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of GI lives if Japan was invaded or hundreds of thousand Japanase casualties if the bomb was used.
You neglect to mention the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians that would die in the conventional firebombings, as well as the possible millions of 'civilians' that would be pressed into defending the homeland more tenaciously than the defense of Okinawa.
Truman's decision saved countless thousands (if not millions) of JAPANESE lives, along with the hundreds of thousands of japanese troops.
As every geek knows, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
And if someone calls you and their number is not in the address book there is *no way* to put it in other than writing it on a bit of paper and reentering it.
Get a Mac. Get a Bluetooth widget. Pair phone to Mac, launch iSync, update AddressBook entry, hit 'Sync', cello!
And you can set the T68 (mine's the m) to add new fone#s any time they're received, or from the 'calls' menu by using the 'notepaper' button over the '1'.
I agree on the interface lag and range though, which is why I'm hoping the N-GAGE gets to the states at some point soon!
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Come on, it's [angryflower.com] not that hard.
Hehe, thats one of the funniest comic's Ive seen in age's..
Thank's!
But outside of Bluetooth, this device has it all.
;) I am actually gonna be putting a wireless carphone rig in my car (at the same time as getting the Becker TrafficPro, new amps and new speakers), so any phone I get to replace my slow-interface T68m MUST have Bluetooth.
When will Nokia get on the ball? Bluetooth is too fun for stuff like phonelist/addressbook syncing, remote-controlling your Mac (cheap slideshow clcker, iTunes controller), doing GPRS dialup, wireless headset, wireless carphone, etc.
Now that I'm one of a handful of techies who just landed a job in NYC (thank you, thank you
And yes, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a PDA with a thin HDD that had bluetooth, gps, gsm, a mic and camera, et al. Even if you could only use the phone functionality with a bluetooth headset. Maybe it could come with a stereo wireless headset with noise cancellation, bluetooth enabled so you could listen to music and it would pause when you place/receive a call...
oops, looks like slashdot doesn't support sherlock: URIs..
n ne l.xml
select this and hit apple-shift-U in Camino/Chimera, or apple-shift-L in Safari:
sherlock://www.thoughtcrime.com/RSS/SherlockCha
As a kind of 'kill-boredom' hack, I figured enough xquery out to write a sherlock RSS tuner plugin.. If you're running sherlock in OSX Jaguar, take a peek..
Theres lots of stuff that isn't implemented yet, but it displays RSS/RDF files and behaves fairly well.. Not bad for a couple days otherwise spent bitching about lack of jobs in the NYC area..
I want to add support for rdf resource dates so you can define a list of your favorite RSS sources and display them combined in date order, but first a decent persistent 'bookmark' list, when I have the time..
.. a converted dead mall, from the '70s with the Logan's Run architecture and/or kitschy stuff like wood panelling, faux brick, fountains, etc.
Who knows, it happened to factories and warehouses..
That's what _I'm_ curious about..
(And I wonder about a solar-powered orbital laser too....)
The 707 airliner was developed about 1954 (I think). 707's are still used in the passenger carrying business a bit and are more common now in ferrying freight.
;)
IIRC the 707 also forms the foundation for the C-135 series.
The F-4 fighter plane was developed around the same time and that thing is used in the world's militaries, including our own.
I'd also point to some of the MiGs (particularly the 17 and 21) as examples of really popular, hardy planes.. Experiencing new lives as toys of the rich
The motors on these things, with proper care and feeding, will last a million miles or more. The bodies rust out before the motors go bad.
;)
Mine's moderately broken-in at 373000mi, and it still gets 27mpg @ 85-90mph highway driving. The gas equivalent gets about 15mpg, requiring premium.
I need to apply for some of the metric mileage badges (I qualify for all of 'em up to 600k km..
oh, and those tibooks ... put one on your knee and put just a *little* force on them ... not more than 5 pounds. cya gay computer!
Sounds like that last Smell Perspiron I had, with a 166MHz MMX CPU.. Walked up a flight of stairs off the subway, tripped, put my knee into it, *crash* there goes the LCD..
And no, Dell junk just sucks. Sorry. I've dealt with all manner of Dell equipment from personal laptops to work desktops to quad-xeons, and at every level all of their junk is worthless. Go compaq for x86 servers, IBM for laptops, and handbuilt desktops. Never ever Dell.
Anyone who thinks a Packard-Dell is any good is a unclued jackass..
I'll never understand people who buy things for looks rather than function, especially when that thing is a computer.
Hmm.. My PBG4 is less than 6lbs, is super thin, and its titanium case can take loads of abuse.. Sounds like it serves the function of light weight and high tensile strength to me!
Seriously though, it's comments like that which kinda make me sad, and think that geekdom won't ever really be able to make itself heard to the wider culture.. What's the function of this, or this?
... What is with Dell and their ugly-ass notebooks? Fucking BODY CLADDING, ala Landau roofs on Lincolns.. They're not fooling anybody..
Apple's got the prettiest notebooks by far, with Sony and IBM the only credible alternatives IMHO.. Dell stuff just looks like Taiwanese junk..
According to News.com, it's expected to be US$710 when released.
Yow-diddely-owza...
And btw, you don't get subsidies unless you start a new account, so upgraders will be paying at least wholesale on that puppy..
I like my landline phone. It allows me to make phone calls, and performs that task extremely well.
Yeah, but can you SSH into a critical machine from a diner, after you get the 911 page? Laptops don't come with couplers..
1. When I was there, they made us run Oracle on (shudder) NT. (Note: This is not an NT/MS bash, but that particular combination is not a fun time).
It's no fun on Linux either.. Oracle, in many ways, is a cast-iron motherfucker, and for nearly any application I'd recommend an OSS database if only to avoid the pain of Oracle installation.
Personally, I lean towards MySQL because I like the simplicity of its CLI client, ease of setup, and speed for my purposes. I've fooled with PostgreSQL, but IIRC it handled BLOBs and a few other things in a kind of ugly/non-SQL way which prevented me from caring too much. If you don't need Oracle-only features (which, given InnoDB and the new stuff coming online from MySQL, is a list that is slowly but surely shrinking) or are small enough to not have a DBA (who knows enough about Oracle to make its costs worthwhile) there's no reason to go through the pain of OraInst..
If you must have Oracle though, I'd recommend Solaris instead of Linux. Ora on Solaris is not quite as hellish, though trying to get their Exchange exchange (Collaboration Suite) installed is an all-expenses paid tour of HELL.. It includes the DB, App server, a bunch of other Oracle crap, and the stuff they got when they bought Steltor, including its kludgey install from hell.
Not to mention that Oracle only supports the $1500 RedHat Advanced Server, while for Sol8 you used to be able to get up to 8CPUs beer..
.. running screensavers in the root window.. Particularly the Atlantis OpenGL screensaver port.. Wow your friends and cow-orkers.. Just don't run snood or anything else intensive while you're doing so..
If I laid out a serious amount of money to establish COs and copper to (nearly) every house in the United States, I'd be a little pissed at the government for making me open it up to people who are offering competing services.
Here's a question though.. Do you really WANT every company and its brother running unsightly wires all over the place (or ripping up your roads to bury them)? Talk about duplication of effort, which hackers are supposed to hate..
Also, aren't the service poles and underground rights-of-way owned by the State, ergo giving the state a say in how those resources are used?
x-windows SUCKS. Yes, it DOES!
Then why use it? QTopia doesn't require X.
... especially if that set does a good job of upconverting to 1080i (or preferably, 720p, particularly for action movies and sporting events). If I were to buy an HD-ready set, I would avoid sets with built-in digital converters, and run everything through a component-capable receiver.
Also, howsabout HD-ready sets that don't even have speakers? IOW, proper 'monitor' sets..
Maybe by the time I have the $$$ to drop on a HD-ready set (along with the prerequisite receiver upgrade and rack furniture redesign) the selection in 50+ inch 720p-true sets will be better and cheaper..
I like 'American Medical Association', myself...
Cool -- I'm my own personal Beowulf cluster! ;-)
Wow.. profound..
(and I'm quite serious)
... no internal GPS or WiFi, no natural-language HWR or voice recognition, no internal HDD for DivX playback, proprietary Memory Stick garbage..
Color me unimpressed...
ps: anyone know of a bluetooth wireless GPS receiver? Could be handy...
Also, it has a 'Mini-PCI' slot, which can accomodate a wireless LAN card. (Is Mini-PCI standard now?)
It's what Apple's using on the new powerbooks for their combo 802.11g/bluetooth cards..
.. then the Proterm extended-ascii flame war movies on the IIgs with the amazing auto-dialing 2400baud Zoomodem (only $99 at the computer faire), later ANSI on the Fountain XT clone..
;)
Going out to kick the shit out of some scrawny scarsdale fronta ala 'Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back', but wimping out 'cuz you felt so much pity for the kid..
I remember my mom asking my why I didn't just pick up the phone to talk to my friend down the block, instead of the whole complicated manual modem data thing, but she couldn't understand just how COOL it was to see characters pop up on the screen in a raw serial connection and wonder, just a little, whether the other end was your friend, or a turing bot dialed by mistake.
And of course Wargames helped
Seriously, though, it was back in the day when Computer Shopper was useful, when it carried pirate BBS classifieds and Northgate clones...
CLI for life, playaz!!!
I don't envy Harry Truman. He had to make a choice between likely tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of GI lives if Japan was invaded or hundreds of thousand Japanase casualties if the bomb was used.
You neglect to mention the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians that would die in the conventional firebombings, as well as the possible millions of 'civilians' that would be pressed into defending the homeland more tenaciously than the defense of Okinawa.
Truman's decision saved countless thousands (if not millions) of JAPANESE lives, along with the hundreds of thousands of japanese troops.
As every geek knows, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
And if someone calls you and their number is not in the address book there is *no way* to put it in other than writing it on a bit of paper and reentering it.
Get a Mac. Get a Bluetooth widget. Pair phone to Mac, launch iSync, update AddressBook entry, hit 'Sync', cello!
And you can set the T68 (mine's the m) to add new fone#s any time they're received, or from the 'calls' menu by using the 'notepaper' button over the '1'.
I agree on the interface lag and range though, which is why I'm hoping the N-GAGE gets to the states at some point soon!