"Other possible security or military applications of this explosive might be the construction of information-collecting devices that self-destruct..."
Let's just hope this doesn't happen until after Dubya gets out of the White House.
"How long until it self-destruc..." *BOOM*
I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but the article said they attempted to rig the voting. It also said ZDNet's script blocked a lot of the multiple voting attempts. I'd be curious to see what percentage of the votes that were actually counted came from M$ employees.
"First we brought you stories about how we smuggled weapons through airport security. Then we gave you detailed attack plans speculating how terrorists might attack next. Now we're going to tell you how to fool the lie detector test. Tune into [insert primetime news show here] tonight."
As a portable PDA / computer, the AquaPAD doesn't seem like an ideal solution. It seems that for the $700+ that the AquaPad costs, plus the $250 for the wireless access point, you could get a laptop that does everything it does and more. It looks a little too bulky to use as a PDA, and doesn't have all the features I'd want in a PC. I'm sure the touchscreen is limiting, and when you add the keyboard and mouse seen here it looks a little clumsy and loses all the appeal of a portable device. However, I think it would be really cool to mount it in the car as an mp3 player, GPS, etc.
While I don't have any experience with dealing with actual companies when I have technical problems, I have a lot of experience fixing things myself. I've found that if I do a search on the specific error that I get, I'll find several other people with the same errors and quite often there are solutions there too. Granted, you can do this with Microsoft products too, but I've always had much better luck finding solutions for Linux problems.
I can't comment on the article yet because it's been slashdotted.
i'm pretty much against anything microsoft proposes, but i might be in favor of them donating some computers to schools if the schools got to choose what kind of computer and what o/s ran on the computer. if an unrelated party provided the school with documentation on the pros and cons of several options then they wouldn't necessarily choose microsoft. i'd be willing to bet several schools would choose macs, and hopefully some would choose linux. i'd love to see microsoft have to buy thousands of macs.
it's not an ideal solution, but it's better than the current proposal which would obviously extend their monopoly to the next generation.
maybe the DoJ and microsoft should come to another agreement. instead of microsoft settling for the children, they should send some of their free computer goodies, complete with security holes, to suspected terrorists and criminals. do they double click on sketchy attachments in afghanistan too?
i just installed netscape 6.2 on my linux computer at work. so far it's a vast improvement over 6.0. i never installed 6.1, since 6.0 was so terrible, so i can't compare it to that. but 6.2 only takes 15 seconds (heh) to load whereas 6.0 took at least a minute. i also like that it loaded up for the first time without that annoying sidebar.
i hardly ever use netscape these days though. it's all about opera. especially now that the linux version supports plugins. and it takes under 2 seconds to load up.
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"Other possible security or military applications of this explosive might be the construction of information-collecting devices that self-destruct ..."
Let's just hope this doesn't happen until after Dubya gets out of the White House.
"How long until it self-destruc..." *BOOM*
I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but the article said they attempted to rig the voting. It also said ZDNet's script blocked a lot of the multiple voting attempts. I'd be curious to see what percentage of the votes that were actually counted came from M$ employees.
"First we brought you stories about how we smuggled weapons through airport security. Then we gave you detailed attack plans speculating how terrorists might attack next. Now we're going to tell you how to fool the lie detector test. Tune into [insert primetime news show here] tonight."
Just in case it's not unreliable enough.
i beg to differ, my friend. emacs-nox, meta-x tetris. it's slightly less obvious at the office.
As a portable PDA / computer, the AquaPAD doesn't seem like an ideal solution. It seems that for the $700+ that the AquaPad costs, plus the $250 for the wireless access point, you could get a laptop that does everything it does and more. It looks a little too bulky to use as a PDA, and doesn't have all the features I'd want in a PC. I'm sure the touchscreen is limiting, and when you add the keyboard and mouse seen here it looks a little clumsy and loses all the appeal of a portable device. However, I think it would be really cool to mount it in the car as an mp3 player, GPS, etc.
While I don't have any experience with dealing with actual companies when I have technical problems, I have a lot of experience fixing things myself. I've found that if I do a search on the specific error that I get, I'll find several other people with the same errors and quite often there are solutions there too. Granted, you can do this with Microsoft products too, but I've always had much better luck finding solutions for Linux problems.
I can't comment on the article yet because it's been slashdotted.
i'm pretty much against anything microsoft proposes, but i might be in favor of them donating some computers to schools if the schools got to choose what kind of computer and what o/s ran on the computer. if an unrelated party provided the school with documentation on the pros and cons of several options then they wouldn't necessarily choose microsoft. i'd be willing to bet several schools would choose macs, and hopefully some would choose linux. i'd love to see microsoft have to buy thousands of macs.
it's not an ideal solution, but it's better than the current proposal which would obviously extend their monopoly to the next generation.
i wonder what microsoft encarta says about the origins of open source? if anything. would they go so far as to claim gates was the creator of it?
maybe the DoJ and microsoft should come to another agreement. instead of microsoft settling for the children, they should send some of their free computer goodies, complete with security holes, to suspected terrorists and criminals. do they double click on sketchy attachments in afghanistan too?
i just installed netscape 6.2 on my linux computer at work. so far it's a vast improvement over 6.0. i never installed 6.1, since 6.0 was so terrible, so i can't compare it to that. but 6.2 only takes 15 seconds (heh) to load whereas 6.0 took at least a minute. i also like that it loaded up for the first time without that annoying sidebar.
i hardly ever use netscape these days though. it's all about opera. especially now that the linux version supports plugins. and it takes under 2 seconds to load up.