The pee hole on the tip of my penis has what looks like a couple of tiny lips, so the stream ends up misshapen and is prone to additional spray, no matter where I aim it. It's kind of analogous to putting water pressure through a garden hose with a dent in the nozzle.
I've heard rumors that internally Apple has an x86 port of OS X running. They could spare the Pear PC project a whole lot of time and hassle if they just released it.
Yes, yes, I've heard the arguments of it cannibalizing their existing base of PPC machines, but I can still dream, can't I?
Good idea. Since it's spyware (and of course, since we also all read every aspect of every End User License Agreement), I imagine that the EULA will come printed on the inside of the box under a glued flap written in sanskrit that says "by the fact that you are using your computer you agree to the licensing terms of this software".
I actually did this (url below - how do you turn this into an actual link?). I started out with actual rack systems in it, but the heat and electric bill that it generated in my 2 bedroom condo was a little much for me, so I ended up going with a few Shuttle cases.
At a previous company I was at, one of our upper management execs ended up dropping his Palm organizer during a rainstorm. He tried to dry it out in an oven with just the pilot light until someone put a pizza in there without realizing it was in there and ended up burning up the thing all to hell.
Forgive me if this is a redundant question, but I'm not wading through 3 pages of comments to see if this has already been asked.
By constantly changing what they're saying, does this change the strength (or weakness, as it is) of their case at all? I'm just waiting for some judge to look at this and say, "You guys are full of shit and you can't make up your minds. Case closed, you're ordered to be neutered so that you have no chance of ever reproducing ever again".
... but I'm going to say it anyhow. Mod me redundant if you want... Personally, I hardly ever even use my xbox for xbox games, but there's plenty of uses for a modded one. I use it for:
1. Xbox media player - www.xboxmediaplayer.de. It's the only box I have that's been able to play almost every video or music format available, and it will stream it or store it onto the hard drive. I'm able to store entire seasons of my divx rips from DVD of my tv shows. This thing just rocks.
2. The emulators - I still love mame and mameox (IMHO) works great with the xbox. Also, it can do 2600, intellivision, colecovision, atari lynx, gba, genesis, turbografix, daphne, nes, snes, n64, atari 800, atari st, and apple II emulators. Get the usb keyboard adapter and you're set.
3. Copying games to the hard drive - I have 3 kids - and with their hands all over the discs all of the time, it's convient and it's useful to be able to save discs to the hard drive and not worry about the condition of them. My copy of Halo is almost dead, but now I don't have to worry about it.
The PS2 can do some of this modded, but nowhere near the extent of the xbox (yet).
I really, really would have hoped for an 800x600 screen as well. I've really been looking for sort of a faster version of the Siemens Simpad (www.opensimpad.org). I bought one last year with an 8.4" screen that's 800x600 and a 200mhz ARM processor. I paid close to $400 for it. It also has a full blown PCMCIA slot.
To say that white headphones are exclusive to targeting iPod users is kind of ridiculous. My Nomad Zen NX is also white with white headphones. Does this mean that I'm excluded from the muggings?
Hey... only pictures? What in the world happened to my cd burning, flow bee haircutting, enema delivering, nose picking cell phone? THOSE are the features I REALLY need... Oh wait, I have an antenna for picking my nose.
But I really, really need the rest of those features!
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It's not a matter of bad aim for me.
The pee hole on the tip of my penis has what looks like a couple of tiny lips, so the stream ends up misshapen and is prone to additional spray, no matter where I aim it. It's kind of analogous to putting water pressure through a garden hose with a dent in the nozzle.
I've heard rumors that internally Apple has an x86 port of OS X running. They could spare the Pear PC project a whole lot of time and hassle if they just released it.
Yes, yes, I've heard the arguments of it cannibalizing their existing base of PPC machines, but I can still dream, can't I?
Bring on the RIAA!
Good idea. Since it's spyware (and of course, since we also all read every aspect of every End User License Agreement), I imagine that the EULA will come printed on the inside of the box under a glued flap written in sanskrit that says "by the fact that you are using your computer you agree to the licensing terms of this software".
A bunch of geeks with laptops in a park? Never mind the hacking - this sounds like a hotspot to get yourself mugged.
Except that you don't really need a billboard to do that. They'll just help cause more accidents. ;-)
My rack cost ~$300-$350, IIRC.
http://www.gadget-freak.com/setup.JPG
Actually, as useless as that is to me, I still think it's wickedly cool that it can be done.
At a previous company I was at, one of our upper management execs ended up dropping his Palm organizer during a rainstorm. He tried to dry it out in an oven with just the pilot light until someone put a pizza in there without realizing it was in there and ended up burning up the thing all to hell.
Forgive me if this is a redundant question, but I'm not wading through 3 pages of comments to see if this has already been asked.
By constantly changing what they're saying, does this change the strength (or weakness, as it is) of their case at all? I'm just waiting for some judge to look at this and say, "You guys are full of shit and you can't make up your minds. Case closed, you're ordered to be neutered so that you have no chance of ever reproducing ever again".
1. Xbox media player - www.xboxmediaplayer.de. It's the only box I have that's been able to play almost every video or music format available, and it will stream it or store it onto the hard drive. I'm able to store entire seasons of my divx rips from DVD of my tv shows. This thing just rocks.
2. The emulators - I still love mame and mameox (IMHO) works great with the xbox. Also, it can do 2600, intellivision, colecovision, atari lynx, gba, genesis, turbografix, daphne, nes, snes, n64, atari 800, atari st, and apple II emulators. Get the usb keyboard adapter and you're set.
3. Copying games to the hard drive - I have 3 kids - and with their hands all over the discs all of the time, it's convient and it's useful to be able to save discs to the hard drive and not worry about the condition of them. My copy of Halo is almost dead, but now I don't have to worry about it.
The PS2 can do some of this modded, but nowhere near the extent of the xbox (yet).
I really, really would have hoped for an 800x600 screen as well. I've really been looking for sort of a faster version of the Siemens Simpad (www.opensimpad.org). I bought one last year with an 8.4" screen that's 800x600 and a 200mhz ARM processor. I paid close to $400 for it. It also has a full blown PCMCIA slot.
I'm having some really weird thoughts of the Underwater Texas Chainsaw Massacre... /obvious and stupid
Is this what they call the SCOoby defense? Now, if we can just get the RIAA to raid the Feds' offices as well, we'll be set...
Half the crowd is pro-windows biased, half the crowd is anti-windows biased and half the crowd lies by saying they aren't biased either way.
But... but... I'm NOT biased. I hate ALL OSes equally...
I like the idea of being able to encrypt your comments so that you can communicate secretly to other people while in their presence.
Could become a serious business advantage to be able to do this.
The only problem with this is that the brutal honesty can go both ways - I've known guys to be equally cruel at times.
There's always, "Oh, she's just a whore", "nice tits... for a 10 year old", "frigid bitch is colder than my freezer", etc...
The one thing that could potentially come out of this is that maybe the nice guys with no agenda can find the nice girls with no agenda.
(Riiiiight.....)
Hey... only pictures? What in the world happened to my cd burning, flow bee haircutting, enema delivering, nose picking cell phone? THOSE are the features I REALLY need... Oh wait, I have an antenna for picking my nose.
But I really, really need the rest of those features!
I am considering refusing to take work calls or text messages on my personal cell phone, and even quitting in protest of the new policy.
Cool! Can I have your job?