I finally got fed up with my cd burner (it sounds like a weedeater when it spins up fully) and decided to wait until after the x-mas season to get some decent bargains. But none were to be had with any decent savings from what they were before the season. Is it that the retailers and assorted sellers can't lower the prices and maintain a profit, or is it that they just got forgot? I'd like to know so I can loose the earplugs and burn at something close to a reasonable speed.
I know that, it takes me forever and a day to do long division by hand now. Our society has gotten too dependent on calculators, but shucks, they are just so much easier to use than God-Forsaken long division.
I know that this is the obvious thing to say, but hell, Isaac Asimov would be a great start in reading on things. His stories not only deal with technology, but how technology can get the better of us. As in the story where everyone depends on calculators and doing math by hand is revolutionary (sorry if I forgot the name). He not only shows us where we can go, but also where not to go.
Here at university we have 2 labs of Sun machines. One lab is used for by the Engineers for design and the other is used by the systems programming class. I had never used CDE before I walked into the CS lab. CDE does not have all the glitz that KDE or Gnome have but I find it to be pretty sharp. I wanted to download a copy of it for my Linux boxen to test it out on non-Sun hardware but it costs $50 to buy it. Oh, well KDE is good enough for me.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't if it is up to date, but I'm checking it out anyway.
Its hidden and out of the way but it is there. So far I haven't found a download mirror that isn't swamped. Oh well I got time and bandwidth to burn.
I've got the first book, gonna get the second, now all I need is a computerized version of the 'Excuse for the Day' for my pda.
I finally got fed up with my cd burner (it sounds like a weedeater when it spins up fully) and decided to wait until after the x-mas season to get some decent bargains. But none were to be had with any decent savings from what they were before the season. Is it that the retailers and assorted sellers can't lower the prices and maintain a profit, or is it that they just got forgot? I'd like to know so I can loose the earplugs and burn at something close to a reasonable speed.
-FireCar
I know that, it takes me forever and a day to do long division by hand now. Our society has gotten too dependent on calculators, but shucks, they are just so much easier to use than God-Forsaken long division.
I know that this is the obvious thing to say, but hell, Isaac Asimov would be a great start in reading on things. His stories not only deal with technology, but how technology can get the better of us. As in the story where everyone depends on calculators and doing math by hand is revolutionary (sorry if I forgot the name). He not only shows us where we can go, but also where not to go.
Here at university we have 2 labs of Sun machines. One lab is used for by the Engineers for design and the other is used by the systems programming class. I had never used CDE before I walked into the CS lab. CDE does not have all the glitz that KDE or Gnome have but I find it to be pretty sharp. I wanted to download a copy of it for my Linux boxen to test it out on non-Sun hardware but it costs $50 to buy it. Oh, well KDE is good enough for me.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-06 -13&res=l
This comic sums up how we've all felt.