Hate to break it to you.. Your car registration is tied to your VIN, and your license plate is tied to your registration, and your ezpass is tied to your license plate... Yes, virginia, they could even track your visits to Mickey D's...
No worries, you'll just bounce off my 320lb gut and turn around just in time for me to kick you in the face with my steel-tipped Timberlands until you're eating out of a straw for the rest of your life...
Every irresponsible f?ck I take out is one less that'll damage a little old lady bringing her gelusil home...
Something like this could work in a place like Amsterdam, where there are actually separated first-class bike lanes all over the place, not like in the US where people tend to park in them (like the Richmond Terrace police precinct in Staten Island:/)...
In bike lanes, basically anything up to a Vespa is allowed, including covered BMW bikes (if not allowed, at least I saw them there).
Just two more examples of what happens when hippies get political power. San Fran just clicked up a notch higher on the "cities I never want to visit for any reason" list.
You think that is bad.. Some simps tried to tax espressos in Seattle.. Apparently it may be on the ballot for the 2003 election:/
I think these folks need a good ol' Terrance and Philip slap in the face..
... now that I've had a lot of free time lately, I've been catching up on some reading.. I'd recommend:
Jonathan Lethem: best known so far for Motherless Brooklyn, he goes off the deep end with As She Climbed Across The Table.. Girl in Landscape is also pretty good imho. He kinda strikes me as a bit Vonnegutian, and I like to support NYC writers, particularly those in the outer boroughs;)
John Case: Thrillers with some techy edge to them, particularly The Genesis Code. I just finished The Eighth Day, not bad..
Iain Banks: The Business is pretty sweet. Not as 'provocative' about globalization as some might say, but fun just the same, with strange life moments that felt pretty real.
Donald Westlake: The Ax is recommended to those of you fellow overqualified unemployed folks out there, but only if you have a black sense of humor.
James Morrow's Towing Jehovah is a real trip: imagine that God is dead, falls from heaven, and needs to be towed to His final resting place in the Arctic..
Eric Flint's 1632. If you're looking for good pulp SF, I'd also recommend checking Baen titles, and perusing their free library.
After my current book, I want to take a stab at Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (70% off! Holy sh?t!!), but I've been buying/inheriting other books in the meantime and I've been procrastinating.. It looks rather daunting;)
Also, I joined Audible.com so I could have something to listen to while powerwalking my butt off (literally, I hope) on the infernal treadmill.. I'm currently listening to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but they seem to have a pretty solid selection of scifi..
You cannot compare Bluetooth with 802.11g... Bluetooth is a standard used mostly by small and portable devices to connect to eachother. 802.11g is a wireless networking standard.
Please send me a link to a GSM 1900MHz phone that acts as a 802.11 access point + router.
Also, I'd appreciate a link to a GSM 1900MHz phone that can sync with iSync over 802.11.
I like my electronics to be multifunction and small. I'd LOVE a GPS/PDA/MP3/Phone/Camera, and add on a widescreen DivX player with touchscreen, with a 20GB HDD and firewire so I can use it as a camcorder as well. At about the same size as the 5GB iPod, maybe a bit thicker for the color LCD.
I don't like the idea of leaving one critical piece of the puzzle at home. I don't like the idea of losing one piece because there's so many bits jangling around in the pocket. It's lumpen. Putting more bits on a circuit board and making the whole package 10-15% larger (worst case) is more elegant than doubling or tripling redundancy by having multiple screens, cases, keypads, etc. And I don't have a fixation to be uber geek with the utility belt either.
That's kinda sucky.. The main reason I'd want to get this is so me and my far flung rpg buddies could play custom campaigns, and now I won't get to build any..
Oh well...
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I wonder if it'd be more or less interesting if each copy could transceive its experiences in real time remotely to the 'original', this would be particularly useful to a PI..
Also, by the time you're able to ditto a person, surely you can also alter their time perception? Could be handy for stuff like long-distance space travel, but only if you could put the personality matrix in silicon.. But even a slight time perception change would give you more "time" to think about something..
... and I'd want, obviously, SSL encryption and some form of authentication since I don't want anyone else l33ching me. If I did, I'd just use Acquisition.
Also, I assume it's open source? Elsewise it's useless imho..
I did purchase the 8.0 powerpack awhile back, and I've been a fan since 7.1. I've installed it on all sorts of systems from workstations to firewalls, and been happy with it in all applications.
I hope that MandrakeUpdates will continue to be free, as opposed to RedHat's update scheme which requires hackarounds to automate without paying the overlord, but I bet they won't be.
Perhaps bankrupcy is a good opportunity to restructure, and get out from under whatever obligations remain from their disastrous VC ownership debacle..
... With 400mhz ARMScale CPUs, multi gigs of flash memory, etc.. Where is the built-in continual voice recognizer on these things?
Newton could do it in beta with Dragon's speech recog software back in 1998.. Speech synthesis and recognition, along with natural HWR and/or keyboard are key..
Any scientist smart enough that we want him would know how to take an American public key, use it to encrypt details of a defection back to the states, and shit just hand-write the ASCII armor of it and fax it back..
Seriously though, time warner in nyc (at least in my 'hood) recently introduced HD-capable boxes and a range of channels (7XX) in HD, including the local broadcast networks and HBO.. IIRC the HD boxes are priced the same as the normal digital boxes and can be swapped with an office visit..
Then again, the next round of upgrades includes an HD-ready set _and_ a new receiver (to handle Xbox, PS2 digital connections).. damn lack of motivation...
Also, keep in mind that it's not only a browser, but a set of (presumably Cocoa) frameworks as well, so you can write your own browser.. And unlike M$ those frameworks are opensource..
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I wonder if the case on my TiG4 would bleed off enough energy to survive one of these things.. I know it absorbs 2.4GHz pretty well!
Hate to break it to you.. Your car registration is tied to your VIN, and your license plate is tied to your registration, and your ezpass is tied to your license plate... Yes, virginia, they could even track your visits to Mickey D's...
Or were you being sarcastic?
No worries, you'll just bounce off my 320lb gut and turn around just in time for me to kick you in the face with my steel-tipped Timberlands until you're eating out of a straw for the rest of your life...
Every irresponsible f?ck I take out is one less that'll damage a little old lady bringing her gelusil home...
A lot of cities have banned skateboards in public parks as well..
Insurance!
Maybe parks should have EULAs..
Something like this could work in a place like Amsterdam, where there are actually separated first-class bike lanes all over the place, not like in the US where people tend to park in them (like the Richmond Terrace police precinct in Staten Island :/)...
In bike lanes, basically anything up to a Vespa is allowed, including covered BMW bikes (if not allowed, at least I saw them there).
Just two more examples of what happens when hippies get political power. San Fran just clicked up a notch higher on the "cities I never want to visit for any reason" list.
:/
You think that is bad.. Some simps tried to tax espressos in Seattle.. Apparently it may be on the ballot for the 2003 election
I think these folks need a good ol' Terrance and Philip slap in the face..
After my current book, I want to take a stab at Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (70% off! Holy sh?t!!), but I've been buying/inheriting other books in the meantime and I've been procrastinating.. It looks rather daunting
Also, I joined Audible.com so I could have something to listen to while powerwalking my butt off (literally, I hope) on the infernal treadmill.. I'm currently listening to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but they seem to have a pretty solid selection of scifi..
I'd reccommend turning off images to safe money.
;)
What, no privoxy port to Palm?
You cannot compare Bluetooth with 802.11g...
Bluetooth is a standard used mostly by small and portable devices to connect to eachother.
802.11g is a wireless networking standard.
Please send me a link to a GSM 1900MHz phone that acts as a 802.11 access point + router.
Also, I'd appreciate a link to a GSM 1900MHz phone that can sync with iSync over 802.11.
Then where would I put the bluetooth adapter?
:/
Even so, it's awhile before I waste more time on a pda anyway.. $$$
I like my electronics to be multifunction and small. I'd LOVE a GPS/PDA/MP3/Phone/Camera, and add on a widescreen DivX player with touchscreen, with a 20GB HDD and firewire so I can use it as a camcorder as well. At about the same size as the 5GB iPod, maybe a bit thicker for the color LCD.
I don't like the idea of leaving one critical piece of the puzzle at home. I don't like the idea of losing one piece because there's so many bits jangling around in the pocket. It's lumpen. Putting more bits on a circuit board and making the whole package 10-15% larger (worst case) is more elegant than doubling or tripling redundancy by having multiple screens, cases, keypads, etc. And I don't have a fixation to be uber geek with the utility belt either.
That's kinda sucky.. The main reason I'd want to get this is so me and my far flung rpg buddies could play custom campaigns, and now I won't get to build any..
Oh well...
I wonder if it'd be more or less interesting if each copy could transceive its experiences in real time remotely to the 'original', this would be particularly useful to a PI..
Also, by the time you're able to ditto a person, surely you can also alter their time perception? Could be handy for stuff like long-distance space travel, but only if you could put the personality matrix in silicon.. But even a slight time perception change would give you more "time" to think about something..
So, when you get a good schvitz going, do you drive it into a freezing lake?
... and I'd want, obviously, SSL encryption and some form of authentication since I don't want anyone else l33ching me. If I did, I'd just use Acquisition.
Also, I assume it's open source? Elsewise it's useless imho..
I don't know about you, but to me that is a bit much like masteurbation
What, like computer nerds don't get enough already?
Onanism: the only universal philosophy..
I did purchase the 8.0 powerpack awhile back, and I've been a fan since 7.1. I've installed it on all sorts of systems from workstations to firewalls, and been happy with it in all applications.
I hope that MandrakeUpdates will continue to be free, as opposed to RedHat's update scheme which requires hackarounds to automate without paying the overlord, but I bet they won't be.
Perhaps bankrupcy is a good opportunity to restructure, and get out from under whatever obligations remain from their disastrous VC ownership debacle..
... With 400mhz ARMScale CPUs, multi gigs of flash memory, etc.. Where is the built-in continual voice recognizer on these things?
Newton could do it in beta with Dragon's speech recog software back in 1998.. Speech synthesis and recognition, along with natural HWR and/or keyboard are key..
Especially in Europe, where there are smart meters and/or smart-card-enabled pay stands.
Modern parking meters are electrified already, so maybe it'd be a good way for metro areas to raise a little revenue? I'd pay the city for wireless
3 words: public key encryption.
Any scientist smart enough that we want him would know how to take an American public key, use it to encrypt details of a defection back to the states, and shit just hand-write the ASCII armor of it and fax it back..
... except for Apple :/
Still, if it isn't an easy DVD->DivX-on-device rip, I can't see it selling...
... goddamned recession.. I WANT MY TOYS!!!
Seriously though, time warner in nyc (at least in my 'hood) recently introduced HD-capable boxes and a range of channels (7XX) in HD, including the local broadcast networks and HBO.. IIRC the HD boxes are priced the same as the normal digital boxes and can be swapped with an office visit..
Then again, the next round of upgrades includes an HD-ready set _and_ a new receiver (to handle Xbox, PS2 digital connections).. damn lack of motivation...
... I assume these antennae need to be fitted externally?
at $2k a pop, I foresee a lot of "rip-offs" to anyone who doesn't garage their car behind a stout lock..
In other words, biodiesel. Or ethanol.
And geothermal may in some way be partly solar, given stresses on the earth due to the sun's gravitational effects?
Also, keep in mind that it's not only a browser, but a set of (presumably Cocoa) frameworks as well, so you can write your own browser.. And unlike M$ those frameworks are opensource..