But I still only paid $999 back then for the thing. I can plug in up to 128 USB devices if I want to, and a 4 way hub is only $20 or something. I've worked with a scanner, webcam, and mouse all plugged in at the same time.
The lack of ethernet is irritating, but the newer version of the SR had built in ethernet, wifi and a 1024x768 screen. (discontinued, sadly:(
And keep in mind it's smaller then an iBook, which is important to me.
For a 'modern day' comparison, check out the fujitsu lifebook. Probably my next laptop, built in wifi and, impressively, a CD-ROM drive. And 12 hours of battery life. They have an even smaller one with a touch screen.
What a load of malarkey. Do you think you learn "observation, empathy and an understanding of the 'human condition'" sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture? You don't.
That's stuff that you need to learn (mostly) outside of formal education. What difference does it make if someone learns about physics or spelling from a computer or a textbook? None! I don't think anyone is trying to write experience capturing video games to teach sociology or art, but there's no reason this couldn't work for 90% of the stuff they teach in school.
I remember when I was in school, teachers were fond of a technique called "Concept-attainment" where they had individual items, and you were told if something had a property or not. After a while, you had to guess wether or not things had this property.
The idea was, you could learn about this property 'naturally'. And, I donno it probably worked, but everyone hated it. All the kids couldn't stand it, and we all thought it was a huge waist of time.
So I think that while innovative learning techniques have their place, if they are not as efficient as regular book learnin' people will just get sick of them and revile them even more.
The best way to make people understand things and not feel like they're being tortured is to write well, with clarity, humor, and conciseness. It's much easier for people to learn from a well written book or well formatted information then all the power-point slides and cheesy flash games in the world.
Parody is well and good, but when you parody someone for profit it's something different. Free Use does allow for parody, but the Courts have generaly heald that when you profit financialy from a parody you need to pay for the rights to what you're mocking.
What the hell are you talking about? This is absolutely and completely wrong! Can you even cite one case that fits your description?
What idiot moderated me 'overrated'? Turing's homosexuality is well know, and the reason for most of his problems.
In 1952, Turing's home was burglarized by a friend of a man with whom he was having an affair. Refusing to be intimidated, he reported the crime. During the investigation, he did not hide his homosexuality from the police. He was labeled a pervert and was charged with gross indecency. He agreed to submit to hormone treatments rather than go to prison. He was injected with the female hormone estrogen. It was believed that estrogen injections were useful in curbing sexual urges.
The stress and humiliation of his treatment at the hands of the government that he served loyally throughout his life led to his mental deterioration. Alan Mathison Turing committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. He was 41 years old.
Fucking illiterate morons running the show, and hiding behind an 'overrated' mod as well.
Seriously, these people are assholes. If something like that happened, just a few times, I bet Spam would go down a lot. I wouldn't like to see their wives or children hurt, though.
What I'd really like would be to see these guys thrown in jail. Most of these people are "hackers" at least, and could probably charged under the PATRIOT act for 'cyber terrorism' or something, if the government actually gave a shit...
Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is an ancient practice for mind and body, originating in pre-historic China. The practice involves some slow, gentle movements and a meditation...
Why not build some of their own sea lines, then? I'd bet a private AU company could probably afford, and profit from a huge pipe to Japan, or even the US. But would they be allowed to make money with Telstra around?
Also, wouldn't it make sense for them to allow unlimited in-country bandwidth while capping international traffic? At my school they have an outbound cap at 200 megs a day, but you can send as much as you want on campus.
So, AOL is blocking all mail from ISPs they haven't heard of? That's got to work really well. I can't even imagine a majority of their users wouldn't be at least have one or two people they know blocked by this.
Why don't they just implement sender-verification? (i.e. if you haven't been 'authenticated' for the user, you'll be asked to reply to an email to prove you're legitimate. And once you do that, you'll never need to do it again).
It doesn't seem like it would be very much trouble for AOL to implement, it would clear up 99.9999% of their spam problems, and it would certainly be a better solution then white listing
Apple's are too big? If you want anything smaller you are no longer looking at a laptop, but are going to start trading features common to most computers.
You are wrong. My laptop has all those things and weighs half as much as an ibook.
You can get a 802.11b card for your Dell and still come out less then $700. On price watch they're only $29.
And besides, I prefer smaller laptops. Like 10". Sony stopped making the SR series*, so my next laptop will probably a fujitsu lifebook. Apple's are just to big.
[0041] Referring to FIG. 6, the entire top surface 54 of the rotatable disc 56 is advantageously accessible to the user's fingers. This configuration generally allows the rotatable disc 56 to be easily manipulated by one or more fingers when the palm side surface of the hand is placed on the back portion 58 of the body 54. For example, the thumb 80 and two rightmost fingers 82 (or leftmost fingers if left handed) are used to grip the sides 84 of the body 54 while the two remaining fingers 86 (either by themselves or in combination) are used to manipulate the rotatable disc 56. As shown, the rotatable disc 56 can be continuously rotated by a simple swirling motion of the finger 86, i.e., the disc 56 can be rotated through 360 degrees of rotation without stopping. In addition, the user can pull or push on the disc tangentially from all sides of the rotatable disc 56. For example, the rotatable disc 56 may be manipulated forwards and backwards as shown by arrows 88 and side to side by arrows 90.
It's a rotary dial, like on the iPOD, or those old telephones.
Yeah, I have no idea what they were smoking when they came up wit that one. Although I'm sure all the apple zelots will crawl out of the woodwork to tell us why this is the greatest thing ever, and how having anything less would be like living in the stone age.
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But I still only paid $999 back then for the thing. I can plug in up to 128 USB devices if I want to, and a 4 way hub is only $20 or something. I've worked with a scanner, webcam, and mouse all plugged in at the same time.
:(
The lack of ethernet is irritating, but the newer version of the SR had built in ethernet, wifi and a 1024x768 screen. (discontinued, sadly
And keep in mind it's smaller then an iBook, which is important to me.
For a 'modern day' comparison, check out the fujitsu lifebook. Probably my next laptop, built in wifi and, impressively, a CD-ROM drive. And 12 hours of battery life. They have an even smaller one with a touch screen.
seems like this was taken off the front page.......
What a load of malarkey. Do you think you learn "observation, empathy and an understanding of the 'human condition'" sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture? You don't.
That's stuff that you need to learn (mostly) outside of formal education. What difference does it make if someone learns about physics or spelling from a computer or a textbook? None! I don't think anyone is trying to write experience capturing video games to teach sociology or art, but there's no reason this couldn't work for 90% of the stuff they teach in school.
is to get the student drunk and then stick him or her in a driving simulator.
Kids would love that class.
Even ghetto kids can learn, look at all the raps they have down pat because they listened so many times.
Uh, when was the last time you were the the ghetto?
I remember when I was in school, teachers were fond of a technique called "Concept-attainment" where they had individual items, and you were told if something had a property or not. After a while, you had to guess wether or not things had this property.
The idea was, you could learn about this property 'naturally'. And, I donno it probably worked, but everyone hated it. All the kids couldn't stand it, and we all thought it was a huge waist of time.
So I think that while innovative learning techniques have their place, if they are not as efficient as regular book learnin' people will just get sick of them and revile them even more.
The best way to make people understand things and not feel like they're being tortured is to write well, with clarity, humor, and conciseness. It's much easier for people to learn from a well written book or well formatted information then all the power-point slides and cheesy flash games in the world.
Parody is well and good, but when you parody someone for profit it's something different. Free Use does allow for parody, but the Courts have generaly heald that when you profit financialy from a parody you need to pay for the rights to what you're mocking.
What the hell are you talking about? This is absolutely and completely wrong! Can you even cite one case that fits your description?
How can you say a machine built in 1943 came before one built in 1937-42. That's at least one year earlier.
What idiot moderated me 'overrated'? Turing's homosexuality is well know, and the reason for most of his problems.
In 1952, Turing's home was burglarized by a friend of a man with whom he was having an affair. Refusing to be intimidated, he reported the crime. During the investigation, he did not hide his homosexuality from the police. He was labeled a pervert and was charged with gross indecency. He agreed to submit to hormone treatments rather than go to prison. He was injected with the female hormone estrogen. It was believed that estrogen injections were useful in curbing sexual urges.
The stress and humiliation of his treatment at the hands of the government that he served loyally throughout his life led to his mental deterioration. Alan Mathison Turing committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. He was 41 years old.
Fucking illiterate morons running the show, and hiding behind an 'overrated' mod as well.
Seriously, these people are assholes. If something like that happened, just a few times, I bet Spam would go down a lot. I wouldn't like to see their wives or children hurt, though.
What I'd really like would be to see these guys thrown in jail. Most of these people are "hackers" at least, and could probably charged under the PATRIOT act for 'cyber terrorism' or something, if the government actually gave a shit...
google is your friend
heh, heh.
Then beeing a "geek".
Was the atanasoff-berry, There had been other computers (such as mechanical) before that time.
How long untill their info shows up in this slashdot thread?
10", 2.6 pounds or something like that. All the trimmings, including firewire. Ad-on wifi, though.
Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is an ancient practice for mind and body, originating in pre-historic China. The practice involves some slow, gentle movements and a meditation...
If by 'ancient' you mean '1985'
A couple guys in australia are responsible for a huge amount of porno spam. Including the animal stuff...
Why not build some of their own sea lines, then? I'd bet a private AU company could probably afford, and profit from a huge pipe to Japan, or even the US. But would they be allowed to make money with Telstra around?
Also, wouldn't it make sense for them to allow unlimited in-country bandwidth while capping international traffic? At my school they have an outbound cap at 200 megs a day, but you can send as much as you want on campus.
So, AOL is blocking all mail from ISPs they haven't heard of? That's got to work really well. I can't even imagine a majority of their users wouldn't be at least have one or two people they know blocked by this.
Why don't they just implement sender-verification? (i.e. if you haven't been 'authenticated' for the user, you'll be asked to reply to an email to prove you're legitimate. And once you do that, you'll never need to do it again).
It doesn't seem like it would be very much trouble for AOL to implement, it would clear up 99.9999% of their spam problems, and it would certainly be a better solution then white listing
But they say this emulator will run faster then using the built-in x86 decoder.
Apple's are too big? If you want anything smaller you are no longer looking at a laptop, but are going to start trading features common to most computers.
You are wrong. My laptop has all those things and weighs half as much as an ibook.
You can get a 802.11b card for your Dell and still come out less then $700. On price watch they're only $29.
And besides, I prefer smaller laptops. Like 10". Sony stopped making the SR series*, so my next laptop will probably a fujitsu lifebook. Apple's are just to big.
[0041] Referring to FIG. 6, the entire top surface 54 of the rotatable disc 56 is advantageously accessible to the user's fingers. This configuration generally allows the rotatable disc 56 to be easily manipulated by one or more fingers when the palm side surface of the hand is placed on the back portion 58 of the body 54. For example, the thumb 80 and two rightmost fingers 82 (or leftmost fingers if left handed) are used to grip the sides 84 of the body 54 while the two remaining fingers 86 (either by themselves or in combination) are used to manipulate the rotatable disc 56. As shown, the rotatable disc 56 can be continuously rotated by a simple swirling motion of the finger 86, i.e., the disc 56 can be rotated through 360 degrees of rotation without stopping. In addition, the user can pull or push on the disc tangentially from all sides of the rotatable disc 56. For example, the rotatable disc 56 may be manipulated forwards and backwards as shown by arrows 88 and side to side by arrows 90.
It's a fucking dial.
It's absolutly moraly wrong, and it's also illegal.
It's a rotary dial, like on the iPOD, or those old telephones.
Yeah, I have no idea what they were smoking when they came up wit that one. Although I'm sure all the apple zelots will crawl out of the woodwork to tell us why this is the greatest thing ever, and how having anything less would be like living in the stone age.