I have been sending email over my cellphone for over a year! Surfing works too. However I have to admit that it's not the phone that does this: the phone is just a modem (it would be even better if I had a GPRS phone, which I do not have) and it connects by infrared to my Psion Revo+. Works like a charm. It's just a bit slow, but hey that's standard GSM, which really wasn't intended to be used that way.
I got my Slashdot headlines and my email while being in a ski-resort in France last winter. I didn't see any computers around there, so don't even think about internet connection. The bill at the end of the month was not much more expensive than normal. (Even though I was roaming)
It's not because you never see it, that nobody uses it.
Yes, we have that now in Europe (for still pictures - as "Hanno" mentioned), but I really wonder if it will become common usage like SMS (which was unexpected success, btw). I personally think that people will buy the MMS phones, use them to send 5 images, just to show off...and then well, go back to SMS and talking. It's a neat idea, but what are you going to photograph anyway? It's not as if I think often "hey, my friends gotta see this".
T9 sucks anyway. I disabled it on my phone because I regularly write SMS in 4 different languages. T9 only works if you only need 1 language.
I just use my Psion Revo+ over infrared to my cellphone to write SMSes. Much more easy, and as a bonus you get a "email-like" interface to it. Neat, I tell you!
I actually refused the company's laptop. I think I'm the only one in the entire company. Upper management was not pleased, some words came back to me that one said "He cannot do that".
Yes, I could... and I still work there.
If I want computers at home, I'll buy them myself and they are under my sole authorithy. That's how I like it. (I also refused a company car, but that has other reasons)
Tried Debian Woody. Didn't want to install (well it installed but the apt-get wanted to download stuff and didn't get far). Dunno why. Probably to do that I configured my OpenBSD firewall a bit too tight (I often have problems with FTP and I don't know why even though ftp-proxy is up and running). Actually I have been thinking of going FreeBSD as x86 desktop because right now, I understand BSD systems way better than Linux systems.
Well, I am not a Mac Fanboy of the older days. I will not say that a Mac is faster, because I know it is not true. My G3 definately cannot beat my desktop system in speed. I base this on the general feel and on the calculation speed of Seti@Home packets (Cannot state the average numbers, but it's about 10hours difference in favour of the P-III). I know it is a bad benchmark, but it is the only one I could make. Don't worry, the G3 is plenty of fast for me.
I have tried this with Slackware. However, my knowlegde of the dependencies is -ehm- lacking. Thus last time, I ended up with a 1Gig installation anyway just for Linux.
Yes, yes, I will try it again. Unfortunately I do not have that much time. Having Mac OS X actually saved me time. But of course tinkering with Linux is a hobby.
...and I haven't looked back. I admit I only have an entry-level Mac, namely an iBook 600Mhz with 384Meg RAM. Does everything I want, I use it to ssh to my server, has X on it, AppleWorks for when I really want to do some office stuff, "Mail" for mail, Chimera. I can go on and on.
I have a nice PC (well, I think it is nice P-III 800Mhz 786Meg RAM and a 15" flatscreen), but honestly I only turn it on from time to time. Most of the time it's collecting dust. It's become practically useless the day I fully switched to the iBook.
The selling point for me was OS X. First because I'm sick and tired with Windows, and that Linux just didn't cut it for me though I like the *nix command line way better than cmd.exe But having a desktop on Linux that both pleases me and it lightweight enough is just not possible with today's distributions. Actually the only thing I want in Linux is the GNOME and KDE *libraries* and WindowMaker as a desktop. WindowMaker because I like it, the libraries because so many programns need them. But is there a distrib that gives you that? nooo....
OS X gives me a nice unified desktop system (that I like), and the power of *nix under the hood. Honestly, this is exactly what I wanted... And the hardware is sweet, even if a G3 only performs about like a P-II.
As someone who has finished his computer science degree over 3 years ago, I can tell you I'm scared of Telnet too.
But definately not for the same reason as you. I don't want Skr1pt K1dd13z sniffing my passwords, and that's what I use ssh for. If you are a CS (or will becoming one), remember: the CLI is your friend. When I was at University, we learned how to use Unix, and we *liked* it. Again: the CLI is your friend.
Every machine on my home network has PuTTY, but just so that I can use it to admin our network server. My family (non-geeks) don't use it. I don't even use PuTTY much either, since my iBook has ssh built-in.
PuTTY doesn't belong on the CD this guy tries to make, but OpenOffice, Mozilla, The GIMP, CDEx most certainly do. Just wondering: is there an opensource media player for Windows? That would be a good one in the list.
Now considering that female geeks are rare, pregnant female geeks even more rare, then the odds for a Female Geeks giving Virgin Births are probably in the 1 to 10^32 range.
Of course the odds of finding a virgin geek "tout court" are quite high.
Well, if you actually had *watched* any of those specials you would have *known* we don't know anything about the Great White's reproduction. The say it about five times in each special.
Yes, I know you are kidding.
How do you "buddy Linux"? It's not as if there are executives you can take out to an expensive restaurant.
I hate Compaq, never saw them producing decent hardware. If HP becomes "the new compaq", I guess, I'll have to buy Lexmark printers now.
AC, there is a difference between moral upbringing and physical upbringing. If you want to give your morals along, you can but it is your responsibilty. Covering physical nessecities are different.
And this is your whole problem: you do not *want* to censor *yourself*, better have some companies do it for you and just be inactive. You are talking about your own kids, it is *your* reponsibility to raise them correctly and if you do not want to see them obscene stuff and/or violence, just do not buy the damned movies that contain violence and/or sex. That's what ratings are for.
And if you worry about TV: in the US there is no sex on TV anyway...violence on the other hand, but well you could just as well keep out the TV completely.
As a switcher (since december last year), I was also a bit sceptical about the one-mouse button, but I bought the Mac for OS X (probably only a selling point to geeks), my idea was to buy a mouse later if I couldn't handle it with one button.
Guess, how many mice are on my iBook right now? Exactly 0: the trackpad has proven to be much more precise than any trackpad I used on PC-laptops. Actually, I hate trackpads on PC-laptops, but on the Mac it is delightful. And the Apple-key is just next to it! A second mouse, button? What for?
Now it happens that when I had a weekend of Mac-usage that I come at work and start to press Alt when wanting to "right-click". Weird, huh?
Yes, my Win NT CD has gotten binaries for different architectures, but I do not think that any of them is still supported my Microsoft.
Doesn't mean of course that they do not have a PPC/Alpha/MIPS/ARM/Whatever port deep down in the lair of Bill Gates, but we won't hear of it anytime soon.
Most vets refuse to do that nowadays... It's nearly impossible to get the sent out of the practice for over a week. Urks...
Besides, isn't a skunk supposed to be a wild animal?
Now I might be a quiche eater, but that is definately not true. Did you ever program in Borland Pascal 4.5 on DOS? Heck I even programmed in Borland Pascal 3 and you definately could do about anything an equivalent C compiler could do. There is something beyond being able to draw Windows like in Delphi and VB.
Well, back when the Windows Key was introduced I wondered what it was useful for? I knew nobody who used it, until someone showed me "Windows-E". I use that regularly now. However it is still beyond me why it couldn't be done with Ctrl-E or Alt-E, or even Ctrl-Alt-E. Just as easy to me. (and just as obscure to any non-advanced user)
There is this other window key for the context menu but I never use it, nor have I seen anybody use it. It's just useless plastic.
On my PC I actually have a good old sturdy IBM keyboard without Windows-key. I think you need a weapon license for these IBM keyboards because I think you could easily smash someone's skull with it and the happily go on with coding.;-)
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I have been sending email over my cellphone for over a year! Surfing works too. However I have to admit that it's not the phone that does this: the phone is just a modem (it would be even better if I had a GPRS phone, which I do not have) and it connects by infrared to my Psion Revo+. Works like a charm. It's just a bit slow, but hey that's standard GSM, which really wasn't intended to be used that way.
I got my Slashdot headlines and my email while being in a ski-resort in France last winter. I didn't see any computers around there, so don't even think about internet connection. The bill at the end of the month was not much more expensive than normal. (Even though I was roaming)
It's not because you never see it, that nobody uses it.
Perhaps he's got stocks?
Yes, we have that now in Europe (for still pictures - as "Hanno" mentioned), but I really wonder if it will become common usage like SMS (which was unexpected success, btw). I personally think that people will buy the MMS phones, use them to send 5 images, just to show off...and then well, go back to SMS and talking. It's a neat idea, but what are you going to photograph anyway? It's not as if I think often "hey, my friends gotta see this".
T9 sucks anyway. I disabled it on my phone because I regularly write SMS in 4 different languages. T9 only works if you only need 1 language.
I just use my Psion Revo+ over infrared to my cellphone to write SMSes. Much more easy, and as a bonus you get a "email-like" interface to it. Neat, I tell you!
Well, I never met a female geek either! They seem to be really really rare. Be glad you are one: a rare pearl ;-)
I thought the internet was all about pr0n... You mean people use the internet for information? You must be kidding me
What part of "MPEG 4" don't you understand? Yes, it has a DVD player, but DVD is "MPEG 2". They played a DivX, so yes, it is actually interesting.
Yes, I could... and I still work there.
If I want computers at home, I'll buy them myself and they are under my sole authorithy. That's how I like it.
(I also refused a company car, but that has other reasons)
I take that as a compliment. Thank you.
Well, I am not a Mac Fanboy of the older days. I will not say that a Mac is faster, because I know it is not true. My G3 definately cannot beat my desktop system in speed. I base this on the general feel and on the calculation speed of Seti@Home packets (Cannot state the average numbers, but it's about 10hours difference in favour of the P-III). I know it is a bad benchmark, but it is the only one I could make. Don't worry, the G3 is plenty of fast for me.
I have tried this with Slackware. However, my knowlegde of the dependencies is -ehm- lacking. Thus last time, I ended up with a 1Gig installation anyway just for Linux.
Yes, yes, I will try it again. Unfortunately I do not have that much time. Having Mac OS X actually saved me time. But of course tinkering with Linux is a hobby.
I have a nice PC (well, I think it is nice P-III 800Mhz 786Meg RAM and a 15" flatscreen), but honestly I only turn it on from time to time. Most of the time it's collecting dust. It's become practically useless the day I fully switched to the iBook.
The selling point for me was OS X. First because I'm sick and tired with Windows, and that Linux just didn't cut it for me though I like the *nix command line way better than cmd.exe But having a desktop on Linux that both pleases me and it lightweight enough is just not possible with today's distributions. Actually the only thing I want in Linux is the GNOME and KDE *libraries* and WindowMaker as a desktop. WindowMaker because I like it, the libraries because so many programns need them. But is there a distrib that gives you that? nooo....
OS X gives me a nice unified desktop system (that I like), and the power of *nix under the hood. Honestly, this is exactly what I wanted... And the hardware is sweet, even if a G3 only performs about like a P-II.
But definately not for the same reason as you. I don't want Skr1pt K1dd13z sniffing my passwords, and that's what I use ssh for. If you are a CS (or will becoming one), remember: the CLI is your friend. When I was at University, we learned how to use Unix, and we *liked* it. Again: the CLI is your friend.
Every machine on my home network has PuTTY, but just so that I can use it to admin our network server. My family (non-geeks) don't use it. I don't even use PuTTY much either, since my iBook has ssh built-in.
PuTTY doesn't belong on the CD this guy tries to make, but OpenOffice, Mozilla, The GIMP, CDEx most certainly do. Just wondering: is there an opensource media player for Windows? That would be a good one in the list.
Of course the odds of finding a virgin geek "tout court" are quite high.
Well, if you actually had *watched* any of those specials you would have *known* we don't know anything about the Great White's reproduction. The say it about five times in each special.
Yes, I know you are kidding.
How do you "buddy Linux"? It's not as if there are executives you can take out to an expensive restaurant.
I hate Compaq, never saw them producing decent hardware. If HP becomes "the new compaq", I guess, I'll have to buy Lexmark printers now.
Like this . As I understand it is some kind of service that does exactly that. Not sure, I'm not into censorship at all... I just googled a bit.
AC, there is a difference between moral upbringing and physical upbringing. If you want to give your morals along, you can but it is your responsibilty.
Covering physical nessecities are different.
This exist already. I don't know how it works, nor how efficient it is. I sure as hell won't be buying such a DVD player. I want it raw and uncut!
And this is your whole problem: you do not *want* to censor *yourself*, better have some companies do it for you and just be inactive. You are talking about your own kids, it is *your* reponsibility to raise them correctly and if you do not want to see them obscene stuff and/or violence, just do not buy the damned movies that contain violence and/or sex. That's what ratings are for.
And if you worry about TV: in the US there is no sex on TV anyway...violence on the other hand, but well you could just as well keep out the TV completely.
Guess, how many mice are on my iBook right now? Exactly 0: the trackpad has proven to be much more precise than any trackpad I used on PC-laptops. Actually, I hate trackpads on PC-laptops, but on the Mac it is delightful. And the Apple-key is just next to it! A second mouse, button? What for?
Now it happens that when I had a weekend of Mac-usage that I come at work and start to press Alt when wanting to "right-click". Weird, huh?
Yes, my Win NT CD has gotten binaries for different architectures, but I do not think that any of them is still supported my Microsoft.
Doesn't mean of course that they do not have a PPC/Alpha/MIPS/ARM/Whatever port deep down in the lair of Bill Gates, but we won't hear of it anytime soon.
Most vets refuse to do that nowadays... It's nearly impossible to get the sent out of the practice for over a week. Urks...
Besides, isn't a skunk supposed to be a wild animal?
Now I might be a quiche eater, but that is definately not true. Did you ever program in Borland Pascal 4.5 on DOS? Heck I even programmed in Borland Pascal 3 and you definately could do about anything an equivalent C compiler could do. There is something beyond being able to draw Windows like in Delphi and VB.
There is this other window key for the context menu but I never use it, nor have I seen anybody use it. It's just useless plastic.
On my PC I actually have a good old sturdy IBM keyboard without Windows-key. I think you need a weapon license for these IBM keyboards because I think you could easily smash someone's skull with it and the happily go on with coding. ;-)