It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.
yes, you can use the OS that has.5% of the market,.25% of the market, or.01% of the market, but you do miss out on the choice of using the biggest & best...
not only are you wrong, but you're way wrong- industrial hemp and marijuana are completely different products, and one does not require the other. in fact, if you were to grow marijuana in a field of hemp, it would ruin the marijuana.
kinda reminds me of that scene in A Christmas Story where the kid finally gets his Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring and decodes his first message only to find that it was "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" or whatever, and the kid is like "Ovaltine? Ovaltine! A lousy commercial?"
i got one of these from the container store for ~$80, and it is awesome. It's got a very well padded section for the laptop, and a place for everything- cords, power adapters, PDA, pens, magazines, umbrella, you name it. Pockets galore. Extremely well designed and well made. It can function as a backpack, messenger bag, or a briefcase. I don't recall what the actual brand is (some european company) but you might be able to find it elsewhere for cheaper.
wrong? nonsense? placing statements? i didn't say that you said anything. i merely made a statement of fact regarding the nature of headaches, and offered a suggestion as to how you might go about determining if discomfort from pressing on your ear was the real source of your headache. heaven forbid you might try it and realize that i'm right
go ahead thinking EM from your cell phone is giving you headaches. i wouldn't care, except that misconceptions like this have a tendency to propagate and generate irrational behavior (like wearing aluminum foil on one's head)
one doesn't get a headache from RF. period. when you get a headache, it isn't your BRAIN hurting, because it can't feel pain. you get headaches when your eye muscles are tired, or you have sinus pressure, or other pain in the external head area. if RF waves are causing you headaches, then they should be causing you leg aches when you use the handsfree and have the phone in your pocket.
when you hold any hard plastic device to your ear for an extended period of time you'll get a headache, and one tends to press harder with a cell phone because it's small and the speaker usually sucks. whenever i use bud-style headphones i get a headache for the same reason. however, i have some sony ones that hang on the ears and don't press against the cartilage, and they don't hurt at all.
try turning your phone off and pressing it against your ear like you were talking on it for an hour, and i bet you'll get a headache. and if you don't, you'll at least have amused any onlookers;)
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hmmm... that experience sounds familiar......where have i experienced that before???... hmmm.......
why do people see cats and dogs as opposites? dogs aren't anti-cats, nor are cats anti-dogs. they're just animals. i've seen cats with stereotypically dog personalities and vice versa, and to make a generalization like "i like cats" or "i like dogs" is about the same as saying "i like people".
but, if were talking about the stereotypical ideas of cats and dogs, dogs usually serve their owners, whereas with cats their owners usually serve them. it mostly just depends where you fall on the dependency spectrum.
i'm not much of a physicist either, but what this makes me think of is a bullet proof shirt. probably not this chemical specifically, but something similar might work. if you could have a mesh of tiny tubes filled with this stuff, the insides could be liquid (and thus flexible) until enough energy is imparted to it (by the bullet) to make it solidify. the phase change would probably absorb a lot of energy.
look at it this way- the cheapest way to produce hydrogen right now may be from oil, but as oil gets more and more expensive, that will cease to be the case, at which point alternative sources will be viable.
in any case, it's a big step in the right direction to have electric cars, wherever their energy is coming from. once everything goes electric, the source of that electricity can be switched pretty easily.
i'm hoping someone figures out how to spray a photovoltaic coating onto a car's body panels. for how much time our cars spend sitting in the sun, there's bound to be enough solar energy there to power them if we can get the efficiency up.
you're right, however i do think that the switch to the touchpad scroll wheels was done for space, cost, and possibly battery life reasons (not sure exactly how the mechanical one operates).
from a UI standpoint, though, the mechanical/optical wheel is far superior. my issue with the touchpad version is that it doesn't provide any feedback. without even looking at it, you can feel a "click" of the mechanical wheel for every menu item you move through, and it is certainly easier for scrolling through a single item. the touch wheel gives you no feedback at all, and that sucks.
This may be useful for helping (pardon the pun) smooth the transition to HDTV. Right now most of our cable channels are not HD, and the difference between the HD and regular digital TV channels is quite stark. On a large screen, regular digtal TV becomes almost unbearable once you get used to HD. But more importantly, perhaps many people are uninterested in buying an HDTV because they know how little content is available and realize that most TV is going to look just as crappy anyway. This could be a good marketing point for Sony- a processor that helps non-HD TV look better on your big-screen TV.
Get a friend, some duct tape, a Mac Pro mouse and any multi-button mouse you choose. Have your friend tape all the fingers of each of your hands together. Leave your fingertips exposed. Take more tape and tape your thumbs down as well.
listen to yourself! you're resorting to have people duct tape their hands up in order to defend your precious one-button mouse!
try this- UN-duct tape your hands and realize that you, like 99.9% of the people out there, don't have NUBS, but articulate hands with five fingers that can perform all sorts of actions. Your mouse is your HAND in your OS- shouldn't it reflect that? Why chop it down to a nub and make us all cripples just so the crippled can use the same dumb mouse? (not to mention that they probably still won't use it, because it's one GIANT BUTTON that you have to grab onto the sides of in order to re-orient it, which would be really difficult with a nub...)
The idea is simple: there are people who can only use one mouse button, for reasons of disability or what have you
so, for the sake of the people who can't use more than one mouse button (not enough fingers?) we'll only have one mouse button and make it so that the average user regularly has to press the option key while they click (requiring two hands)? wtf? is someone more likely to only have one arm, or only have one finger? whatever...
a good, consistent implementation of the right mouse button and a scroll wheel can save users TONS of moving back and forth between the keyboard if they make the slightest effort to learn. it's no more akward than having to use a mouse or a keyboard in the first place. i just wish they sold a "real" mouse that matched the design of their computers- if i paid a premium to have a stylish apple computer, i shouldn't have to choose between computing in a way that is uncomfortable and unproductive for me and having a mouse that sticks out like a sore thumb...
i don't think it's absolutely imperative that people be able to trace the source of abuse. lots of things go on in the world where someone gets screwed over and there's nothing the victim can do about it, except be on their guard that it doesn't happen again.
if things come down to choosing between having the ability to retaliate and having the security of anonymity, i'd choose anonymity and make sure as hell my computer is secure. if someone then got in, well, i guess i didn't get things secure enough, and i'll have learned my lesson.
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It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.
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.5% of the market, .25% of the market, or .01% of the market, but you do miss out on the choice of using the biggest & best...
yes, you can use the OS that has
not only are you wrong, but you're way wrong- industrial hemp and marijuana are completely different products, and one does not require the other. in fact, if you were to grow marijuana in a field of hemp, it would ruin the marijuana.
that satan has finally joined the information revolution. the submitter needs to work on his typing/spelling skills, though...
kinda reminds me of that scene in A Christmas Story where the kid finally gets his Little Orphan Annie secret decoder ring and decodes his first message only to find that it was "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" or whatever, and the kid is like "Ovaltine? Ovaltine! A lousy commercial?"
i got one of these from the container store for ~$80, and it is awesome. It's got a very well padded section for the laptop, and a place for everything- cords, power adapters, PDA, pens, magazines, umbrella, you name it. Pockets galore. Extremely well designed and well made. It can function as a backpack, messenger bag, or a briefcase. I don't recall what the actual brand is (some european company) but you might be able to find it elsewhere for cheaper.
wrong? nonsense? placing statements? i didn't say that you said anything. i merely made a statement of fact regarding the nature of headaches, and offered a suggestion as to how you might go about determining if discomfort from pressing on your ear was the real source of your headache. heaven forbid you might try it and realize that i'm right
go ahead thinking EM from your cell phone is giving you headaches. i wouldn't care, except that misconceptions like this have a tendency to propagate and generate irrational behavior (like wearing aluminum foil on one's head)
one doesn't get a headache from RF. period. when you get a headache, it isn't your BRAIN hurting, because it can't feel pain. you get headaches when your eye muscles are tired, or you have sinus pressure, or other pain in the external head area. if RF waves are causing you headaches, then they should be causing you leg aches when you use the handsfree and have the phone in your pocket.
;)
when you hold any hard plastic device to your ear for an extended period of time you'll get a headache, and one tends to press harder with a cell phone because it's small and the speaker usually sucks. whenever i use bud-style headphones i get a headache for the same reason. however, i have some sony ones that hang on the ears and don't press against the cartilage, and they don't hurt at all.
try turning your phone off and pressing it against your ear like you were talking on it for an hour, and i bet you'll get a headache. and if you don't, you'll at least have amused any onlookers
For every page of insightful content thou shall have 7-8 pages of advertising thinly disguised as "tech updates" or "cutting edge information"!
...where have i experienced that before???... hmmm.......
hmmm... that experience sounds familiar...
Play is inherently with other people
are you trying to say that I can't play with myself?
now i can combine this with my iTrip and record songs from my iPod onto my computer!!
(j/k!)
For instance, I don't like smelly, dirty animals that poke their nose into my crotch and slobber all over my pants
amanda? is that you? i didn't know my girlfriend read slashdot!
why do people see cats and dogs as opposites? dogs aren't anti-cats, nor are cats anti-dogs. they're just animals. i've seen cats with stereotypically dog personalities and vice versa, and to make a generalization like "i like cats" or "i like dogs" is about the same as saying "i like people".
but, if were talking about the stereotypical ideas of cats and dogs, dogs usually serve their owners, whereas with cats their owners usually serve them. it mostly just depends where you fall on the dependency spectrum.
i'm not much of a physicist either, but what this makes me think of is a bullet proof shirt. probably not this chemical specifically, but something similar might work. if you could have a mesh of tiny tubes filled with this stuff, the insides could be liquid (and thus flexible) until enough energy is imparted to it (by the bullet) to make it solidify. the phase change would probably absorb a lot of energy.
look at it this way- the cheapest way to produce hydrogen right now may be from oil, but as oil gets more and more expensive, that will cease to be the case, at which point alternative sources will be viable.
in any case, it's a big step in the right direction to have electric cars, wherever their energy is coming from. once everything goes electric, the source of that electricity can be switched pretty easily.
i'm hoping someone figures out how to spray a photovoltaic coating onto a car's body panels. for how much time our cars spend sitting in the sun, there's bound to be enough solar energy there to power them if we can get the efficiency up.
a jeweler's lupe? is that like the mexican woman who works at the jeweler's store?
...nevermind!
...oh, you mean a loupe...
you're right, however i do think that the switch to the touchpad scroll wheels was done for space, cost, and possibly battery life reasons (not sure exactly how the mechanical one operates).
from a UI standpoint, though, the mechanical/optical wheel is far superior. my issue with the touchpad version is that it doesn't provide any feedback. without even looking at it, you can feel a "click" of the mechanical wheel for every menu item you move through, and it is certainly easier for scrolling through a single item. the touch wheel gives you no feedback at all, and that sucks.
Any slashdotters have a geiger counter, a boat, and some free time?
it's a new form of geocaching!
This may be useful for helping (pardon the pun) smooth the transition to HDTV. Right now most of our cable channels are not HD, and the difference between the HD and regular digital TV channels is quite stark. On a large screen, regular digtal TV becomes almost unbearable once you get used to HD. But more importantly, perhaps many people are uninterested in buying an HDTV because they know how little content is available and realize that most TV is going to look just as crappy anyway. This could be a good marketing point for Sony- a processor that helps non-HD TV look better on your big-screen TV.
Get a friend, some duct tape, a Mac Pro mouse and any multi-button mouse you choose. Have your friend tape all the fingers of each of your hands together. Leave your fingertips exposed. Take more tape and tape your thumbs down as well.
listen to yourself! you're resorting to have people duct tape their hands up in order to defend your precious one-button mouse!
try this- UN-duct tape your hands and realize that you, like 99.9% of the people out there, don't have NUBS, but articulate hands with five fingers that can perform all sorts of actions. Your mouse is your HAND in your OS- shouldn't it reflect that? Why chop it down to a nub and make us all cripples just so the crippled can use the same dumb mouse? (not to mention that they probably still won't use it, because it's one GIANT BUTTON that you have to grab onto the sides of in order to re-orient it, which would be really difficult with a nub...)
The idea is simple: there are people who can only use one mouse button, for reasons of disability or what have you
so, for the sake of the people who can't use more than one mouse button (not enough fingers?) we'll only have one mouse button and make it so that the average user regularly has to press the option key while they click (requiring two hands)? wtf? is someone more likely to only have one arm, or only have one finger? whatever...
a good, consistent implementation of the right mouse button and a scroll wheel can save users TONS of moving back and forth between the keyboard if they make the slightest effort to learn. it's no more akward than having to use a mouse or a keyboard in the first place. i just wish they sold a "real" mouse that matched the design of their computers- if i paid a premium to have a stylish apple computer, i shouldn't have to choose between computing in a way that is uncomfortable and unproductive for me and having a mouse that sticks out like a sore thumb...
maybe it's kinda like pop tarts- so hot they're cool, so cool they're hot...
...then again, maybe i'm the only one who remembers that commercial from the 80s...
i don't think it's absolutely imperative that people be able to trace the source of abuse. lots of things go on in the world where someone gets screwed over and there's nothing the victim can do about it, except be on their guard that it doesn't happen again.
if things come down to choosing between having the ability to retaliate and having the security of anonymity, i'd choose anonymity and make sure as hell my computer is secure. if someone then got in, well, i guess i didn't get things secure enough, and i'll have learned my lesson.
yet another reason i'm glad i always use the scroll wheel...