"Plus, the gym turns down the volume on the TV sets and simulcasts the audio on short-range radio"
Grab a tiny radio that's as big as the tip of your thumb at the dollar store and you're all set. Then you can leave the relatively bulky iPod in your locker.
Because with an iPod and a good selection of songs and podcasts, FM radio is deader than an English roast beef. I own two radios...one is relegated entirely to being my alarm clock and my car stereo is used to listen to my iPod through an FM transmitter/car charger combo.
When you think about it, the only radio stations that provide useful information that an iPod can't readily provide (ie traffic reports and weather) are AM radio stations...yet I only hear people clamoring for FM.
I'm guessing that's where the SCUMM emulator got its name? SCUMM is an emulator that lets you play a lot of those old LucasGames under your *nix of choice.
You can also get video podcasts for free through iTunes. Lots of quirky and sometimes funny independent films up there. My personal favorites are from Insane Films (really outrageous, sometimes disgusting stuff) and Hometown Tales (Jersey Devil, local legends kind of stuff).
If you're on a cable modem, the domain your ISP put you on probably has more than enough info to rat you out. My domain on Comcast is trentn01.nj.comcast.net, which indicates that I am in Trenton. Go to showmyip.com and you can see how much geographical information is in your IP address.
I can't speak for the old SE systems, but my rev. B iMac was basically composed of a separate monitor and a SFF computer that were kept together in the big, plastic iMac shell. The actual computer and monitor were connected by a standard 15-pin VGA cable.
Palm was asking $2 million, IIRC for the BeOS source code. Surely, there are 9,999 other Slashdot readers here that could chip in! Hell, if Access would be willing to release it under the GPL, I'd throw in $200 as well. Might as well keep the code as open as possible.
"doesn't have that totally useless numeric pad no one uses nowadays"
Oh, boy, do I beg to differ on that point. I mostly do number crunching on spreadsheets all day. My job would be impossible to get done without a numeric keypad.
That said, my main keyboard is a black, USB Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2. For a numeric keypad, I plug a slim, IBM USB numeric keypad into one of the USB ports on the HHKB. It's the ultimate in ergonomics because I can position the numeric keypad in any position that feels comfortable.
Morality is a human construct, as is ownership. Don't let this recent bout of civilization that's been going on for the last 50,000 years trick you into thinking that any of our social constructs and assumptions entitle you to *anything.*
If there's one thing that aboriginal Americans, hippies and real estate appraisers agree on, it's the idea that no one "owns" land. You only hold rights to use the land as long as those rights can be *enforced*. In other words, "just because I was there first" does not give someone any more of a valid claim to Mars.
In such a lawless land as Mars, with no police or military to enforce property rights, your "ownership" of Martian land at any one time is equal to the surface area of the bottom of your boots. Anyone could go to Mars, set up camp somewhere and have just as much claim to that land as someone with a base somewhere else. And, if someone with bigger guns can take your land, then he will "own" it.
For example, see what happens if you forget to pay your property taxes during a quarter...you'll learn the hard truth about property rights.
This news has pretty much turned me against Yahoo!. I've been using Yahoo since the beginning when it was just someone's personal web site hosted at Stanford. My homepage in my browser is a "My Yahoo" page that I've customized and used since they offered customized pages. I've got a Yahoo email account going back to 1998.
And now I want out.
Can anyone provide some guidance on an easy way to export about 7 years worth of email out of Yahoo's system? I'm sticking with Google's customized homepage and my Gmail account from now on.
Not everyone can keep themselves up-to-date on processor speeds, memory sizes and limits. So yes, some of us would like to see a write-up first and get a flavor for what's going on. In fact, I found out about the OSNews discussion because someone mentioned it in a/. a little while ago.
...was everyone's bullshit detectors exploding in glorious unison. The earlier thread on OSNews has thoroughly debunked this device as a hoax. All you need to know is that 32-bit Windows XP only supports 16 gigs of RAM and this claims to have 1 terabyte of RAM.
And this, gentlemen, is why I don't pay for a subscription to Slashdot.
I just tried this out with XP Pro...there definitely is not an Adobe PDF Port in a standard install of Windows XP Pro. The only "special ports" I have are local, standard TCP/IP, Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Monitor and eCopy Desktop Port. The next to last is part of Office and only lets me save images in a proprietary MS format (MDI) or TIFF. The last item mentioned is the prepress software we use at work to author PDFs.
If you have an option for Adobe PDF Port, then it is an Adobe product that was separately purchased.
If you use Adobe's reader, you can hold onto either shift or control (I forget, so I just press both) and the reader opens up in a second with no plugins.
The format isn't made for heavy editing of files, it is meant to be an archival format for finished documents. The big thing now in the business world are these high speed, networked scanner/copier/printers that can save the scans in PDF. In fact, "PDF" is quickly becoming a verb.
To navigate through the document faster, just use the thumbnail mode...it's just like using a microfilm reader, without the film.
No, but watching "Boobah" on "PBS Kids On Demand" while very drunk gives you a similar effect. Quote my friend, "there is NO WAY that show was made for kids!"
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"Plus, the gym turns down the volume on the TV sets and simulcasts the audio on short-range radio"
Grab a tiny radio that's as big as the tip of your thumb at the dollar store and you're all set. Then you can leave the relatively bulky iPod in your locker.
Because with an iPod and a good selection of songs and podcasts, FM radio is deader than an English roast beef. I own two radios...one is relegated entirely to being my alarm clock and my car stereo is used to listen to my iPod through an FM transmitter/car charger combo.
When you think about it, the only radio stations that provide useful information that an iPod can't readily provide (ie traffic reports and weather) are AM radio stations...yet I only hear people clamoring for FM.
"scumm"
I'm guessing that's where the SCUMM emulator got its name? SCUMM is an emulator that lets you play a lot of those old LucasGames under your *nix of choice.
You can also get video podcasts for free through iTunes. Lots of quirky and sometimes funny independent films up there. My personal favorites are from Insane Films (really outrageous, sometimes disgusting stuff) and Hometown Tales (Jersey Devil, local legends kind of stuff).
If you're on a cable modem, the domain your ISP put you on probably has more than enough info to rat you out. My domain on Comcast is trentn01.nj.comcast.net, which indicates that I am in Trenton. Go to showmyip.com and you can see how much geographical information is in your IP address.
I can't speak for the old SE systems, but my rev. B iMac was basically composed of a separate monitor and a SFF computer that were kept together in the big, plastic iMac shell. The actual computer and monitor were connected by a standard 15-pin VGA cable.
Yeah, but it's still a guy's hand, making the situation even sadder.
Palm was asking $2 million, IIRC for the BeOS source code. Surely, there are 9,999 other Slashdot readers here that could chip in! Hell, if Access would be willing to release it under the GPL, I'd throw in $200 as well. Might as well keep the code as open as possible.
"doesn't have that totally useless numeric pad no one uses nowadays"
Oh, boy, do I beg to differ on that point. I mostly do number crunching on spreadsheets all day. My job would be impossible to get done without a numeric keypad.
That said, my main keyboard is a black, USB Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2. For a numeric keypad, I plug a slim, IBM USB numeric keypad into one of the USB ports on the HHKB. It's the ultimate in ergonomics because I can position the numeric keypad in any position that feels comfortable.
Hell, I even submitted this with a funnier headline! /prays for Omarion
Morality is a human construct, as is ownership. Don't let this recent bout of civilization that's been going on for the last 50,000 years trick you into thinking that any of our social constructs and assumptions entitle you to *anything.*
If there's one thing that aboriginal Americans, hippies and real estate appraisers agree on, it's the idea that no one "owns" land. You only hold rights to use the land as long as those rights can be *enforced*. In other words, "just because I was there first" does not give someone any more of a valid claim to Mars.
In such a lawless land as Mars, with no police or military to enforce property rights, your "ownership" of Martian land at any one time is equal to the surface area of the bottom of your boots. Anyone could go to Mars, set up camp somewhere and have just as much claim to that land as someone with a base somewhere else. And, if someone with bigger guns can take your land, then he will "own" it.
For example, see what happens if you forget to pay your property taxes during a quarter...you'll learn the hard truth about property rights.
Unless it's vacationing on its ranch in Texas, that is.
This news has pretty much turned me against Yahoo!. I've been using Yahoo since the beginning when it was just someone's personal web site hosted at Stanford. My homepage in my browser is a "My Yahoo" page that I've customized and used since they offered customized pages. I've got a Yahoo email account going back to 1998.
And now I want out.
Can anyone provide some guidance on an easy way to export about 7 years worth of email out of Yahoo's system? I'm sticking with Google's customized homepage and my Gmail account from now on.
True, but they show a Windows XP screenshot going into terabytes.
Not everyone can keep themselves up-to-date on processor speeds, memory sizes and limits. So yes, some of us would like to see a write-up first and get a flavor for what's going on. In fact, I found out about the OSNews discussion because someone mentioned it in a /. a little while ago.
...was everyone's bullshit detectors exploding in glorious unison. The earlier thread on OSNews has thoroughly debunked this device as a hoax. All you need to know is that 32-bit Windows XP only supports 16 gigs of RAM and this claims to have 1 terabyte of RAM.
And this, gentlemen, is why I don't pay for a subscription to Slashdot.
Orphans...well, parts of them anyway. Are you happy now?
I just tried this out with XP Pro...there definitely is not an Adobe PDF Port in a standard install of Windows XP Pro. The only "special ports" I have are local, standard TCP/IP, Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Monitor and eCopy Desktop Port. The next to last is part of Office and only lets me save images in a proprietary MS format (MDI) or TIFF. The last item mentioned is the prepress software we use at work to author PDFs.
If you have an option for Adobe PDF Port, then it is an Adobe product that was separately purchased.
We're talking about the OS X version...same file format, but completely different binaries with different features.
If you use Adobe's reader, you can hold onto either shift or control (I forget, so I just press both) and the reader opens up in a second with no plugins.
The format isn't made for heavy editing of files, it is meant to be an archival format for finished documents. The big thing now in the business world are these high speed, networked scanner/copier/printers that can save the scans in PDF. In fact, "PDF" is quickly becoming a verb.
To navigate through the document faster, just use the thumbnail mode...it's just like using a microfilm reader, without the film.
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No, it doesn't. That is a built-in feature of OS X. Any program with a print option in OS X has a "Save as PDF" button.
I picked up a copy of Defender as part of the "Midway Arcade Treasures" disc for Playstation 2.
No, but watching "Boobah" on "PBS Kids On Demand" while very drunk gives you a similar effect. Quote my friend, "there is NO WAY that show was made for kids!"