Actually, it's Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified but near as I can tell she must have sued the website or something because you never read that anymore. Just this revisionist Portman crap from newbies.
Yes. And since that would permanently disable the X-box for other games, you'd better have a legal staff on retainer.
Re:Revolutionary? Sure not evolutionary...
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You'd have to not merely redesign cities but reverse the suburbanization of America to make this a widely-used device.
There, somebody finally said it.
This is the kind of machine the 'urban sprawl' screamers will be falling in love with. Once they've choked off the freeway by refusing to add the lanes needed and forced everybody to live in highrise corridors along Light Rail transit, this will be just the most wonderful thing.
Sorry, some of us aren't keen on living like sardines in a sociology experiement gone bad.
Re:Why don't you guys get it?
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I used to live in a city. I moved out because the crime (i.e. the 'street culture') was getting ridiculous.
I can't figure out where all of these things are going to be stowed securely. I know where they'll end up though (in a shop uptown being repainted so they can be resold by the dudes who stole them).
Admit it: you don't know anything at all about how a team of engineers experienced in the mass production of huge quantities of a product do their job.
Obviously if Honda threw a team of experienced designers on something similar to this product the price would plummet. Right now it's basically a 'concept design' product in the late beta stage.
Re:Can this really be a cost saver?
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It's an environmentalists wet-dream transportation device. So obviously people in the gubmint who push public subdsidy of transportation must love this thing.
It'll really take off as a product as the 'urban planners' continue to limit freeway widening to apply 'choke holds' to prevent more 'sprawl.' By their plan, we should all live about a mile from where we work, in high density housing, anyway.
So yes, it may take off much the same, and for the same sort of reason, that the original Volkswagen took off in Nazi Germany.
So you are saying that the Chinese customers the parent-parent comment referred to are Asian-Americans, even though the poster specifically referred to 'a crowded asian city'?
Boy, I didn't know American had annexed mainland China.
No, I don't think 'Chinamen' is the term that should have been used.
Re:It's world-changing!
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They can also be painted beige and they look exactly like a Lear-Sigler ADM-3A dumb terminal. Except for the cool detached keyboard. I guess that's innovative in a way, though, as a dumb terminal case design.
I quit listening to Steve Jobs in 1984, when I heard him on the radio (I think it was a National Press Club broadcast) being all proud of the Macintosh. He called it 'Hacker Proof' in that speech, referring to the fact that it was a sealed chassis, not user openable.
He's not ever been any better.
Re:Totally insulting price!!
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I think they are also called Donorcycles. But only without the helment.
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No, surprisingly you've not been shouted down. Either the slashdot crowd is growing up or all the children were using @home and are now offline.
Actually, it was Alice Gore who lost the election, on his own territory.
Yep. If Gore had won the electoral votes in either incumbent's state (Tennesee or Arkansas) the Florida electoral votes would have been irrelevant. The election was that close, and Gore couldn't even carry his home state.
But this is off topic. Please mark down the above comment and this one, because it's bullshit bickering by sore losers. (Sore-Loserman).
Naw. That would be rather hard if he doesn't build/install/run it as root. However, it would be trivial to make it delete his entire home directory.
Hence the dilemma of the nine-bit security model in Unix: the system is easily protected, but the user data ( which often-times, surprising to admin-types, is the important stuff on the computer) is completely vulnerable.
Hell, I wouldn't want to run Linux on my SparcStation 10. It's got two 24 bit (cgthirteen) framebuffers, after all! Why would anybody run Linux on anything but generic low-end hardware or the 'bottom-of-the-line' mundane version of any Sun hardware?
It just makes me angry that some of the vendors don't come out with a lean mean version of an x86 laptop that cuts the obvious corners to get power consumption down. Put a lighter-weight x86 processor in it! And (this is REALLY IMPORTANT) put a nice sharp reflective grayscale LCD on it.
I think I own what must be one of the last of the nice grayscale LCD laptops, a Toshiba T2105 (a 486dx2-50 machine all 'muscled up' with the maxiumum 28 megs of RAM and a 1.4G hard drive) I see no reason why power concious users like me shouldn't be able to find a regular x86 machine that doesn't have the obscene power waste of a color/backlit display (okay, the display is backlit on the T2105).
Color displays REALLY AREN'T THAT IMPORTANT for some of us.
I can't buy into what the TI and all other calculators have. That 'equals' key is really a disguised 'blow the whole stack' key and it's frustrating to work around.
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Actually, it's Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified but near as I can tell she must have sued the website or something because you never read that anymore. Just this revisionist Portman crap from newbies.
The matchbook cover political economy people engage in on this site is really laughable.
I just thought it had to be said, sorry.
Coast to Coast?
Do you live on Hawaii, or Puerto Rico?
Yes. And since that would permanently disable the X-box for other games, you'd better have a legal staff on retainer.
You'd have to not merely redesign cities but reverse the suburbanization of America to make this a widely-used device.
There, somebody finally said it.
This is the kind of machine the 'urban sprawl' screamers will be falling in love with. Once they've choked off the freeway by refusing to add the lanes needed and forced everybody to live in highrise corridors along Light Rail transit, this will be just the most wonderful thing.
Sorry, some of us aren't keen on living like sardines in a sociology experiement gone bad.
I used to live in a city. I moved out because the crime (i.e. the 'street culture') was getting ridiculous.
I can't figure out where all of these things are going to be stowed securely. I know where they'll end up though (in a shop uptown being repainted so they can be resold by the dudes who stole them).
Admit it: you don't know anything at all about how a team of engineers experienced in the mass production of huge quantities of a product do their job.
Obviously if Honda threw a team of experienced designers on something similar to this product the price would plummet. Right now it's basically a 'concept design' product in the late beta stage.
It's an environmentalists wet-dream transportation device. So obviously people in the gubmint who push public subdsidy of transportation must love this thing.
It'll really take off as a product as the 'urban planners' continue to limit freeway widening to apply 'choke holds' to prevent more 'sprawl.' By their plan, we should all live about a mile from where we work, in high density housing, anyway.
So yes, it may take off much the same, and for the same sort of reason, that the original Volkswagen took off in Nazi Germany.
So you are saying that the Chinese customers the parent-parent comment referred to are Asian-Americans, even though the poster specifically referred to 'a crowded asian city'?
Boy, I didn't know American had annexed mainland China.
No, I don't think 'Chinamen' is the term that should have been used.
They can also be painted beige and they look exactly like a Lear-Sigler ADM-3A dumb terminal. Except for the cool detached keyboard. I guess that's innovative in a way, though, as a dumb terminal case design.
I quit listening to Steve Jobs in 1984, when I heard him on the radio (I think it was a National Press Club broadcast) being all proud of the Macintosh. He called it 'Hacker Proof' in that speech, referring to the fact that it was a sealed chassis, not user openable.
He's not ever been any better.
I think they are also called Donorcycles. But only without the helment.
No, surprisingly you've not been shouted down. Either the slashdot crowd is growing up or all the children were using @home and are now offline.
You're right. Out-of-the-box OpenBSD, which has every port clamped shut so it isn't very useful, has not had a remote exploit.
However, it doesn't become very useful until you start opening up ports so services can run on it.
Besides, it has such a puny market share it's statistically insignificant.
Actually, it was Alice Gore who lost the election, on his own territory.
Yep. If Gore had won the electoral votes in either incumbent's state (Tennesee or Arkansas) the Florida electoral votes would have been irrelevant. The election was that close, and Gore couldn't even carry his home state.
But this is off topic. Please mark down the above comment and this one, because it's bullshit bickering by sore losers. (Sore-Loserman).
Naw. That would be rather hard if he doesn't build/install/run it as root. However, it would be trivial to make it delete his entire home directory.
Hence the dilemma of the nine-bit security model in Unix: the system is easily protected, but the user data ( which often-times, surprising to admin-types, is the important stuff on the computer) is completely vulnerable.
Well, I've given them access to my checking account to pay for stuff.
So I guess I must be broke now.
Nope. Doesn't seem to have happened....
Hell, I wouldn't want to run Linux on my SparcStation 10. It's got two 24 bit (cgthirteen) framebuffers, after all! Why would anybody run Linux on anything but generic low-end hardware or the 'bottom-of-the-line' mundane version of any Sun hardware?
Well, a plain vanilla FPGA is all you'd end up with if you tried to.
It just makes me angry that some of the vendors don't come out with a lean mean version of an x86 laptop that cuts the obvious corners to get power consumption down. Put a lighter-weight x86 processor in it! And (this is REALLY IMPORTANT) put a nice sharp reflective grayscale LCD on it.
I think I own what must be one of the last of the nice grayscale LCD laptops, a Toshiba T2105 (a 486dx2-50 machine all 'muscled up' with the maxiumum 28 megs of RAM and a 1.4G hard drive) I see no reason why power concious users like me shouldn't be able to find a regular x86 machine that doesn't have the obscene power waste of a color/backlit display (okay, the display is backlit on the T2105).
Color displays REALLY AREN'T THAT IMPORTANT for some of us.
You're right.
But my Saturn bottoms out like a turtle on it's back in two feet of sticky snow. At least once every winter I swear I'm going to get rid of it.
Instead, I now play to move to Indiana (from Minnesota).
I want Applixware back
What happened to ApplixWare? Did they tank? I have a perfectly good retail copy somewhere here... with printed manual...
I can't buy into what the TI and all other calculators have. That 'equals' key is really a disguised 'blow the whole stack' key and it's frustrating to work around.
Could be Linux-based. But why, if it's going to have a really simple start up interface?
Linux is a time sharing system. A nice snappy single user embedded OS tuned to the task would be more appropriate. BeOS comes to mind.