the area of resemblance to human features that is not quite realistic enough and not abstract enough for people to feel comfortable with; it resembles more closely a corpse than a living being.
"That's the 15th 'Slashdot' bus I've seen this morning! Is there a Fat Virgin Convention in town? I have to get my ass to work!"
"I know, not only have they plugged all the streets, but they're filling every coffee shop. I tried to get a biscotti this morning and I couldn't even get to the counter! They were just pushing and shoving to get to the counter, and then they'd just read the menu and leave. Bastards who did order just got a cup of coffee, then dumped it on the floor. Bastards."
"Yeah, the Mayor ought to do something, maybe put up signs for Slashdot tourists that send them to TubGirl town, or Goatseville. One sight of those neighborhoods would get their asses out of here..."
I recall thinking this would be swell when it was first announced back in the day, but it seems to be a glorified iPod with a color screen and built in keyboard.
Apple talked about using the iPod as your 'mobile home directory' (that feature disappeared) - this OQO would allow you to enter data, which AFAIK, the iPod can't do. However, you could potentially use the iPod for many of the uses mentioned in the article, and can use it for several (contacts, text files, etc.)
Apple!
Give me a mobile home dir that I can make changes to, and write on the screen via Ink and I am there! It would be the perfect compliment to my PB, which I can't and don't want to take everywhere.
The OQO is a good idea, but flawed in execution. It also may be considered a mobile virus infection if you're walking around with a Windows install...
Why he gave up his bike with the pink seat I don't know...
Re:Can someone explain Zeta to me?
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Zeta is a small company in Germany, and as far as I know, has no connection to Palm other than the license deal.
Should read:
YellowTab is a small company in Germany, and as far as I know, has no connection to Palm other than the license deal.
Oops. YellowTab = company, Zeta = software.
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IIRC, Zeta was the result of a deal made before Palm purchased Be. As I understand, YellowTab got the rights to use the code for BeOS for perpetuity. Zeta is made from the codebase of Dano (AKA BeOS 6) that was never 'officially' released. To my knowledge, YT does not 'own' the code, they just own a license to use it - a rather permissive license (but I digress).
Palm has no plans to open source the BeOS code, mainly because there would be no profit in it, and also because there are licensing issues with bits and pieces of it. Most BeOS fans wanted Palm to open source the code to speed up OpenBeOS and the other projects out there, but I think we've done fine without it.:)
Zeta is a small company in Germany, and as far as I know, has no connection to Palm other than the license deal.
As it was written, so shall it be, from the book of Be...;)
Beos is getting some use... at work.
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I just installed BeOS for the shipping department for their UPS websurfing and terminal to our inventory system - they are computer illiterate, but have picked up BeOS in a half hour (this is how you get to the net, this is how you log in to the inventory system, workspaces let you 'switch screens' etc.).
Why BeOS, you crazy SOB? Well, it's a P225, so BeOS flies on it - it boots in 20 seconds (90% of that is POST) and I dont have to worry about antivirus, spyware, trojans or other Windows crap. It's fast, and does what it's supposed to, and no one will be installing Solitare on it.:)
I am finding the built-in terminal lacking as far as term emulation goes, so I'll keep an eye out for updates.
If it goes down, they're back to running to the PC - (Win98 minus IE and Outlook Ex, plus Firefox and Thunderbird), but I haven't had many problems with BeOS yet.
And what the hell, we've got the equivalent of the Battlestar Galactica armada in old-ass computers, BeOS should be getting its time along Mac OS X, 9, 7.x, Windows 98, XP, and did I mention we have our inventory system running on SCO Unix?;)
but who's dead on Slashdot? Anyone know someone who posted to/. and is now dead?
I myself have 2030+ posts here, and boiled down, it shows that I was funny, a musician, and angry at how those in power treat those who aren't.
I guess that is about what people will say about me when I'm gone (plus the unavoidable references to my incredible sexual prowess, my stunning good looks, and my amazing plan to save the world with cold fusion).
I argue that *yes*, indeed I should be *able* to make 10,000 copies of a CD for myself. Not to sell or give away. For me. I see no reason why I should be limited in using a CD burner.
Why anyone argues the 'soft sell' of DRM is beyond me; this is only going to get in the way of fair use and people who have legitimate uses to burn cds - the pirates are going to circumvent it (just like Adobe's currency detector - which was cracked in a week) and the people who will suffer are going to be us, not the guys in the dupe-houses trying to crank out the new Willam Hung CD.
Any time you give the Music Industry an inch, they will take a mile, your wife and kids, your car, house and dog. If you let them dictate fair use to you - you're not going to have *any* fair use.
And I, the opposite. Never saw an episode on TV. Saw every episode within a 2-3 week period, and just watched the last one about an hour ago. I hated Star Trek (then), I loved TNG, lukewarm on DS9, and enjoyed Voyager for the most part. Even wanted to like Enterprise, but when you start referring to episodes as, 'The Cold One, the Jungle One, the Western One' you know you're just going through the motions.
It's the same reason I didn't like Andromeda - I don't want a feel good, moral of the story tightly wrapped in a future-flavored candy bar. I want a story. One that's got legs, so I can scoot up to the table and tuck in for the long haul.
That's what Farscape and Firefly promised, before short-sighted, microwave attention-spanned TV execs took away the only good sci-fi on TV.
If I never saw another Star Trek episode again, it would be worth it for one more season of Firefly.
She didn't do anything wrong! I thought if you had nothing to hide you didn't have anything to worry about!
/bitter sarcasm building to apathy
Truly, I am all over anyone who hacks, destroys, or otherwise wakes the public up to the dangers of e-voting. Of course, I'm now marked for GitMo by the Bush Administration, so I probably won't be posting as often...
All my emails to a couple of people suddenly started bouncing with a 550 'Administrative Prohibition' error last week - at first I blamed my ISP, then blamed my host, then the receiving host, all for naught.
I then found I was on a couple of blacklists (probably because I apparently shared a virtual host with a scummy mortgage guy), but these had no bearing (I learned later)
I had emails out to every link in the chain, but no one knew what was going on.
In Apple Mail, I had my 'reply to' names set to my emai addys - I changed it to short descriptive names and now they're not bouncing anymore. (odd error, so I thought I'd post it)
Why this started all of a sudden, and why no host or ISP had heard of this before. I don't know.
I do know that being on a blacklist and attempting to get off of it is nigh impossible, so I'd be all over Apple making spam filtering software so overzealous wizards of
blacklists can be kicked to the curb. (Why is this in use anywhere..?)
I used Pagemaker to do a 500+ page catalog, and some other smaller publications (greyscale only) - then when OS X came out and Adobe had basically killed support for it except under classic (ugh), I made the big leap to the only thing that was supported by OS X - InDesign.
I've now done several 60 page full-color books and smaller greyscale stuff with InDesign and love it.
I agree with the Word styles, they are a pain and mess things up more than help; I demand all text as rtf or plain text now. The composing is not as good as Pagemaker's as well.
Problems I had with pagemaker are gone: The dreaded 'bad index file', crashes and lockups.
I can't really speak to indexing and footnotes as I haven't had reason to use them as of yet, but I couldn't see using anything other than InDesign.
remember that two 8 1/2 x 11 sheets equal an 11 x 17 sheet and four 4 x 5 cards can fit on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. A ream of paper is 500 sheets and if you divide that by two, you get 250 sheets which really means nothing; I needed two extra facts for my post about math.
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Joan Rivers. Mary Tyler Moore. Michael Jackson.
"I know, not only have they plugged all the streets, but they're filling every coffee shop. I tried to get a biscotti this morning and I couldn't even get to the counter! They were just pushing and shoving to get to the counter, and then they'd just read the menu and leave. Bastards who did order just got a cup of coffee, then dumped it on the floor. Bastards."
"Yeah, the Mayor ought to do something, maybe put up signs for Slashdot tourists that send them to TubGirl town, or Goatseville. One sight of those neighborhoods would get their asses out of here..."
"Who lives there, anyway?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know..."
What that means, I don't know. I'm an Apple user. Hold me.
Yes, I was just about to hit SubmitStory, and yes, I'm still bitter. ;P
I recall thinking this would be swell when it was first announced back in the day, but it seems to be a glorified iPod with a color screen and built in keyboard.
Apple talked about using the iPod as your 'mobile home directory' (that feature disappeared) - this OQO would allow you to enter data, which AFAIK, the iPod can't do. However, you could potentially use the iPod for many of the uses mentioned in the article, and can use it for several (contacts, text files, etc.)
Apple! Give me a mobile home dir that I can make changes to, and write on the screen via Ink and I am there! It would be the perfect compliment to my PB, which I can't and don't want to take everywhere.
The OQO is a good idea, but flawed in execution. It also may be considered a mobile virus infection if you're walking around with a Windows install...
eeeeeee.
Why he gave up his bike with the pink seat I don't know...
Should read:
YellowTab is a small company in Germany, and as far as I know, has no connection to Palm other than the license deal.
Oops. YellowTab = company, Zeta = software.
Palm has no plans to open source the BeOS code, mainly because there would be no profit in it, and also because there are licensing issues with bits and pieces of it. Most BeOS fans wanted Palm to open source the code to speed up OpenBeOS and the other projects out there, but I think we've done fine without it. :)
Zeta is a small company in Germany, and as far as I know, has no connection to Palm other than the license deal.
As it was written, so shall it be, from the book of Be... ;)
Why BeOS, you crazy SOB? Well, it's a P225, so BeOS flies on it - it boots in 20 seconds (90% of that is POST) and I dont have to worry about antivirus, spyware, trojans or other Windows crap. It's fast, and does what it's supposed to, and no one will be installing Solitare on it. :)
I am finding the built-in terminal lacking as far as term emulation goes, so I'll keep an eye out for updates.
If it goes down, they're back to running to the PC - (Win98 minus IE and Outlook Ex, plus Firefox and Thunderbird), but I haven't had many problems with BeOS yet.
And what the hell, we've got the equivalent of the Battlestar Galactica armada in old-ass computers, BeOS should be getting its time along Mac OS X, 9, 7.x, Windows 98, XP, and did I mention we have our inventory system running on SCO Unix? ;)
I myself have 2030+ posts here, and boiled down, it shows that I was funny, a musician, and angry at how those in power treat those who aren't.
I guess that is about what people will say about me when I'm gone (plus the unavoidable references to my incredible sexual prowess, my stunning good looks, and my amazing plan to save the world with cold fusion).
So, then. Dead people's /. posts?
Dupe-esqe, at least
Why anyone argues the 'soft sell' of DRM is beyond me; this is only going to get in the way of fair use and people who have legitimate uses to burn cds - the pirates are going to circumvent it (just like Adobe's currency detector - which was cracked in a week) and the people who will suffer are going to be us, not the guys in the dupe-houses trying to crank out the new Willam Hung CD.
Any time you give the Music Industry an inch, they will take a mile, your wife and kids, your car, house and dog. If you let them dictate fair use to you - you're not going to have *any* fair use.
I was hacking teh Gibson, *I* would have gotten in Acid Burn's undies. :(
On the plus side, it now only takes 19 minutes to copy that damn file.
I guess it's not all bad...
Once you've connected to the network, you'll just need to connect again in an hour or two.
It's the same reason I didn't like Andromeda - I don't want a feel good, moral of the story tightly wrapped in a future-flavored candy bar. I want a story. One that's got legs, so I can scoot up to the table and tuck in for the long haul.
That's what Farscape and Firefly promised, before short-sighted, microwave attention-spanned TV execs took away the only good sci-fi on TV. If I never saw another Star Trek episode again, it would be worth it for one more season of Firefly.
Use to wood burn and start fires while camping - great fun for 12 year olds.
And what about if you're easily offended or get your crank turned by Norton of antivirus fame?
Who's on first?
Oh, wait.
Truly, I am all over anyone who hacks, destroys, or otherwise wakes the public up to the dangers of e-voting. Of course, I'm now marked for GitMo by the Bush Administration, so I probably won't be posting as often...
I had emails out to every link in the chain, but no one knew what was going on.
In Apple Mail, I had my 'reply to' names set to my emai addys - I changed it to short descriptive names and now they're not bouncing anymore. (odd error, so I thought I'd post it)
Why this started all of a sudden, and why no host or ISP had heard of this before. I don't know.
I do know that being on a blacklist and attempting to get off of it is nigh impossible, so I'd be all over Apple making spam filtering software so overzealous wizards of blacklists can be kicked to the curb. (Why is this in use anywhere..?)
I've now done several 60 page full-color books and smaller greyscale stuff with InDesign and love it.
I agree with the Word styles, they are a pain and mess things up more than help; I demand all text as rtf or plain text now. The composing is not as good as Pagemaker's as well.
Problems I had with pagemaker are gone: The dreaded 'bad index file', crashes and lockups.
I can't really speak to indexing and footnotes as I haven't had reason to use them as of yet, but I couldn't see using anything other than InDesign.
remember that two 8 1/2 x 11 sheets equal an 11 x 17 sheet and four 4 x 5 cards can fit on a 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. A ream of paper is 500 sheets and if you divide that by two, you get 250 sheets which really means nothing; I needed two extra facts for my post about math.