i know the Zaurus isnt really a subnotebook, but it falls between the subnote book and the pda category. It already runs linux, is easy to develop for, and is easy to port existing linux applications to. If you know QT, its also easy to integrate existing apps with the GUI that comes preinstalled. Best of all, there are open source projects to replace the OS of the Zaurus with an open source version. Also, sharp's technical support is very good, and the staff very friendly, and they usually hang out on #zaurus on irc.freenet.net
As far as MMOG's go, I'd recommend AGAINST everquest if you are only playing for a month or so. I just started Shadowbane and it is very fun so far and seems to be entertaining even for a short term game. Asheron's Call 2 also wasn't bad. I personally am very against selling another soul to everquest.;)
You know, its finally nice to see someone challenging the things trying to be passed through the senate. Things like the Patriot Act, and Patriot Act II. I -LIKE- seeing people saying "Wait, WHY is our government doing this?" Its something that is happening less and less frequently. I don't know about you, but I'm not a terrorist, and I'd STILL like to have my civil liberties in tact after this is all said and done. Things like being able to speak freely in public without fear of being secretly arrested. Things like being able to go to the library to do a report on nucleur missiles without getting reported to the FBI. Things like being able to leave my home and not have to worry about the FBI breaking into my house without a warrant. And most of all things like being able to practice the freedoms that were the reason we broke off into our own country to begin with.
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What the hell? This patent according to the vague terminology covers the unix who/talk command, almost all online video games, the Battle.Net system, IRC, Gamespy.com, as well as a few others. Now I may not be the most intelligent guy in the world, but I'm pretty sure that -somewhere- there has to be some previous art.
How do you really plan on getting someone to give you money from an online casino? A large number of them are based in foreign countries, and there's not really any way to make them pay you. You can always try and open up a law suit against someone else in another country, but I don't think it would work too well....
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It'll be nice to see Apple get out of its rut as a graphics machine and only in schools. Macs are great machines... it used to just be the OS that (tech) people didn't like... and now even thats not a problem.
(Did I get the first post?:)
This is great.. Only $154 million, so if I save my lunch money until I'm 1,232 years old then I can buy my own. I wonder how the space elevator ideas will interact with the space stations, if at all...
I had a zaurus for a while and I really liked it for the most part. The problem I had with it that finally made me get rid of it and go back to palm is the complete lack of security as well as the lack of applications that you could get for the Zaurus. It really should have been in testing a bit longer.
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There are two big things to keep in mind when looking at getting a degree from an online university.
First and foremost, make sure they're an accredited university, otherwise your degree is really just a piece of paper (Which may be all your looking for;)
Second, if you AREN'T just looking for a piece of paper saying you have a degree, make sure its a real university. I've heard from quite a few people that the University of Phoenix is a "Pay us money get a degree" program. (This also may be fine for you, but just check it out before you leap into it)
Now I just need to buy one of these badboys along with a new motherboard that will support it...
Then switch to scsi so my hd can keep up. Change from PC133 to PC150 ram, might as well get a raid system, a new video card, and toss on a gigabit network while I'm at it;)
Thats awesome! I really hope they can last though, instead of following the normal trend, i.e. "Screw the RIAA!! Err... wait... you're an RIAA rep.. err.. I meant, we like you guys, do whatever you want." Its about time someone stood up for the rights of the little man.
I'm thrilled to hear that a major computer manufacturer finally went with Debian. I love apt-get. I tried uninstalling something the other day on our Redhat server at work. oops... can't do that, that would break these dependencies. Ok, lets add those to the list... oops... can't do that, that would break THESE dependencies. Oh.. that and the fact that you can't update anything from the web. Or install packages to MEET the requirements of the package you were originally trying to install.
Love the splendor that is apt-get.
nems
You know, with a $150,000 price tag I can see why some movie theaters hesitate to upgrade to digital... However, I dont think most of the theaters take into account how popular and how far some people will go to have "the best" experience. I'm lucky enoug to live in the same town as one of the digital theaters (one of the lucas sound system theaters too!:) and I can say, for any good movie, I'll drive across town to see it. There's a definite difference between seeing it at a normal theater and seeing it in the state of the art theater. Take that into account along with the fact that you have hundreds of geeks lining up for "big" movies like Star Wars, LotR, and Spiderman, and you start making the $150k back really quick, when their coming to your theater for the important movies.
nems
How does this differ from any of the other hundreds of capture cards out there? Is it different just because its apple? (This isn't a troll... I'm seriously curious =)
nems
EA Originally DID shut down the UOX project which let ultima online users run their own servers for free instead of for pay. After the EA servers got overloaded and they couldn't support all the players, they dropped the lawsuits and let people have all the free servers they wanted. Now there are hundreds of free servers and UO is still in existence because of it, and the server load on the main server has dropped dramatically. Battlenet's currently running very close to the same problem. Its servers are laggy, even during non peak hours, and during peak hours its almost impossible to play.
Normally I'd totally agree that Blizzard is well within their rights to shutdown the bnetd project because of piracy issues. My problem is the fact that battlenet is so incredibly laggy, even during offtimes, that extra servers would be really nice. I've purchased all my blizzard games, and will continue to do so. I think they're good games. I just hate being online and waiting 20 minutes to walk 2 steps, all the while listening to some pre-pubescent 12 year old tell me "1m a l337 pk and 1m gonna beat y0 down!" =p
Microsoft usually will you give you the os for free if you're a decent sized business. Especially if you're considering going linux instead. (And yes, it has happened to me unfortunately). Its kind of like that crack dealer telling you the first hit is for free.
I personally am not a huge fan of SAM's books. They are more often than not, dry, boring, and difficult to read without taking a nap every 2 or 3 pages. This one could be the exception to the rule, but for some reason, I doubt it.;)
Boy that was an ignorant statement. Any OS's security is as good as the person setting it up. The difference is, if you setup unix security, you can let the box run. Forever. Indefinitely. With windows, eventually its going to have another hole, its going to blue screen, or just freeze up.
Besides that, IIS is a truly horrid product no matter how you look at it. IIS can never hope to compare to Apache unless Microsoft actually spends some time and money making the webserver a bit more stable. Right now its horrid.
Besides that, media, for any of the standards, is still insanely expensive, is it not? Though I can't really deny that I would love to have a dvd with my 16 gigs of mp3s on it. Kinda nice to have 300 hours of music on one disk.
I think your totally right. They probably cared about showing videos when they started, and like every other video channel ever made, when they started getting a paycheck, they said "Videos? We want more money!" And like all the poor suckers that still watch MtV... a bunch of suckers are going to buy those stupid pcs... Probably more often than not with daddy's money thats sending them to school;p
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i know the Zaurus isnt really a subnotebook, but it falls between the subnote book and the pda category. It already runs linux, is easy to develop for, and is easy to port existing linux applications to. If you know QT, its also easy to integrate existing apps with the GUI that comes preinstalled. Best of all, there are open source projects to replace the OS of the Zaurus with an open source version. Also, sharp's technical support is very good, and the staff very friendly, and they usually hang out on #zaurus on irc.freenet.net
As far as MMOG's go, I'd recommend AGAINST everquest if you are only playing for a month or so. I just started Shadowbane and it is very fun so far and seems to be entertaining even for a short term game. Asheron's Call 2 also wasn't bad. I personally am very against selling another soul to everquest. ;)
You know, its finally nice to see someone challenging the things trying to be passed through the senate. Things like the Patriot Act, and Patriot Act II. I -LIKE- seeing people saying "Wait, WHY is our government doing this?" Its something that is happening less and less frequently. I don't know about you, but I'm not a terrorist, and I'd STILL like to have my civil liberties in tact after this is all said and done. Things like being able to speak freely in public without fear of being secretly arrested. Things like being able to go to the library to do a report on nucleur missiles without getting reported to the FBI. Things like being able to leave my home and not have to worry about the FBI breaking into my house without a warrant. And most of all things like being able to practice the freedoms that were the reason we broke off into our own country to begin with. nems a.k.a. The Anti Terrorist Freedom Preserving Tree Hugging Hippy Bastard
nems
How do you really plan on getting someone to give you money from an online casino? A large number of them are based in foreign countries, and there's not really any way to make them pay you. You can always try and open up a law suit against someone else in another country, but I don't think it would work too well.... nems
It'll be nice to see Apple get out of its rut as a graphics machine and only in schools. Macs are great machines... it used to just be the OS that (tech) people didn't like... and now even thats not a problem. (Did I get the first post? :)
But on the good side I've found some great Atari games at mine...
This is great.. Only $154 million, so if I save my lunch money until I'm 1,232 years old then I can buy my own. I wonder how the space elevator ideas will interact with the space stations, if at all...
I had a zaurus for a while and I really liked it for the most part. The problem I had with it that finally made me get rid of it and go back to palm is the complete lack of security as well as the lack of applications that you could get for the Zaurus. It really should have been in testing a bit longer. w
There are two big things to keep in mind when looking at getting a degree from an online university. First and foremost, make sure they're an accredited university, otherwise your degree is really just a piece of paper (Which may be all your looking for ;)
Second, if you AREN'T just looking for a piece of paper saying you have a degree, make sure its a real university. I've heard from quite a few people that the University of Phoenix is a "Pay us money get a degree" program. (This also may be fine for you, but just check it out before you leap into it)
Now I just need to buy one of these badboys along with a new motherboard that will support it...
;)
Then switch to scsi so my hd can keep up. Change from PC133 to PC150 ram, might as well get a raid system, a new video card, and toss on a gigabit network while I'm at it
Thats awesome! I really hope they can last though, instead of following the normal trend, i.e. "Screw the RIAA!! Err... wait... you're an RIAA rep.. err.. I meant, we like you guys, do whatever you want." Its about time someone stood up for the rights of the little man.
I'm thrilled to hear that a major computer manufacturer finally went with Debian. I love apt-get. I tried uninstalling something the other day on our Redhat server at work. oops... can't do that, that would break these dependencies. Ok, lets add those to the list... oops... can't do that, that would break THESE dependencies. Oh.. that and the fact that you can't update anything from the web. Or install packages to MEET the requirements of the package you were originally trying to install. Love the splendor that is apt-get. nems
You know, with a $150,000 price tag I can see why some movie theaters hesitate to upgrade to digital... However, I dont think most of the theaters take into account how popular and how far some people will go to have "the best" experience. I'm lucky enoug to live in the same town as one of the digital theaters (one of the lucas sound system theaters too! :) and I can say, for any good movie, I'll drive across town to see it. There's a definite difference between seeing it at a normal theater and seeing it in the state of the art theater. Take that into account along with the fact that you have hundreds of geeks lining up for "big" movies like Star Wars, LotR, and Spiderman, and you start making the $150k back really quick, when their coming to your theater for the important movies.
nems
How does this differ from any of the other hundreds of capture cards out there? Is it different just because its apple? (This isn't a troll... I'm seriously curious =) nems
Wow... no money was forthcoming and they went with dreamweaver? Thats insane when you consider that dreamweaver is like, $300+ a copy.
Maybe with Compaq and HP joining, the HP line of handhelds won't suck quite so much. For a CE device, compaq is amazingly good.
EA Originally DID shut down the UOX project which let ultima online users run their own servers for free instead of for pay. After the EA servers got overloaded and they couldn't support all the players, they dropped the lawsuits and let people have all the free servers they wanted. Now there are hundreds of free servers and UO is still in existence because of it, and the server load on the main server has dropped dramatically. Battlenet's currently running very close to the same problem. Its servers are laggy, even during non peak hours, and during peak hours its almost impossible to play.
Normally I'd totally agree that Blizzard is well within their rights to shutdown the bnetd project because of piracy issues. My problem is the fact that battlenet is so incredibly laggy, even during offtimes, that extra servers would be really nice. I've purchased all my blizzard games, and will continue to do so. I think they're good games. I just hate being online and waiting 20 minutes to walk 2 steps, all the while listening to some pre-pubescent 12 year old tell me "1m a l337 pk and 1m gonna beat y0 down!" =p
Microsoft usually will you give you the os for free if you're a decent sized business. Especially if you're considering going linux instead. (And yes, it has happened to me unfortunately). Its kind of like that crack dealer telling you the first hit is for free.
I personally am not a huge fan of SAM's books. They are more often than not, dry, boring, and difficult to read without taking a nap every 2 or 3 pages. This one could be the exception to the rule, but for some reason, I doubt it. ;)
Boy that was an ignorant statement. Any OS's security is as good as the person setting it up. The difference is, if you setup unix security, you can let the box run. Forever. Indefinitely. With windows, eventually its going to have another hole, its going to blue screen, or just freeze up. Besides that, IIS is a truly horrid product no matter how you look at it. IIS can never hope to compare to Apache unless Microsoft actually spends some time and money making the webserver a bit more stable. Right now its horrid.
Besides that, media, for any of the standards, is still insanely expensive, is it not? Though I can't really deny that I would love to have a dvd with my 16 gigs of mp3s on it. Kinda nice to have 300 hours of music on one disk.
I'm from Las Vegas... they aren't that hot. ;p
I think your totally right. They probably cared about showing videos when they started, and like every other video channel ever made, when they started getting a paycheck, they said "Videos? We want more money!" And like all the poor suckers that still watch MtV... a bunch of suckers are going to buy those stupid pcs... Probably more often than not with daddy's money thats sending them to school ;p