What about iCab? I went to the iCab homepage and I see version 3.0.5 for download, from 1/1/08... that's a bit behind the latest OS X version (4.6.1) but it might be more usable than IE.
I highly doubt this monitor is of a type which even records any data. It's probably like the heart rate monitors in typical gym equipment which give you some feedback about how hard you are working.
What do you think a heart monitor is? Have you ever used any gym equipment? It's pretty standard for a lot of gym equipment to monitor your heart rate if you hold onto some metal contacts... but its also common to have something that plugs into a jack and then clips onto your finger or ear to monitor your pulse. It just gives you feedback about how hard you are exercising and if you need to work harder or if you're over-exerting yourself.
The responses here seem to indicate everyone thinks this is some sort of PDA the kids will be actually wearing like a wireless mic, logging data as they run around and play baseball or something....
I think the person who asked this question should be more worried about her kid being denied insurance because he inherited stupidity and crippling paranoia from his parents. Forget about heart conditions.
I made the same mistake when I read about Haiku, since I stopped following BeOS after Be went out of business.
I used to use BeOS R5 exclusively for awhile, and then I kept it around some time after that with the patches (like the BONE net stack which was in development at Be Inc and which got leaked).
Then there were all these projects that sprouted up... BlueEyedOS, OpenBeOS, YellowTab Zeta... as well as questions about what Palm might do with BeOS. And of course there were a ton of Mac, Linux, and Windows themes to mimic BeOS. At first, I think BlueEyedOS seemed to have the most going for it since it was based on Linux and had a head start.
Years later and I hear about Haiku, and didn't realize this is what used to be OpenBeOS which was not based on Linux at all. I think a lot of people who have been out of the loop for so many years might, like me, be thinking Haiku is based on Linux like BlueEyedOS was.
From what I understood of Haiku, since they don't have access to BeOS source, it's based on Linux. So how is Haiku not just another Linux distro with a customized window manager that tries to look like BeOS?
I think they were implementing some of the BeOS libraries, but I'm not sure how it all works in practice... and if that means that old BeOS native programs (remember bebits.com?) will run without modification on Haiku... and if that means Linux programs will work as well. I guess I should give the live disc a try. I actually tried using BeOS R5 as my primary OS for about 6 months when it first came out (I had BeOS, Linux, and Windows in triple-boot using the Be Boot Manager). It was pretty nice for day to day work.
I don't care if this movie is in 3-D. I don't even care anymore what the story is about.
Every time I see the trailer, I cringe. The world looks amazing, but those characters look so, so -- there's no other word for it -- STUPID!
Something about those faces just looks incredibly stupid to me. Why did they design the characters to look so stupid?
And then when they move, all I can think about is how these characters are CGI. It's distracting. They don't look lifelike or real in any sense. It's cartoony.
And I like cartoons sometimes, but I don't like stupid cartoons.
Seriously, if you want more Adams humor, and haven't done so already, go read "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and the sequel "The Long, Dark, Tea-time of the Soul". H2G2 isn't the only great series Adams made.
They are great books, and probably way better than anything in this new book.
I found Children of Men to be torture to watch. I thought it would deal a lot more with the consequences of a world where people aren't able to reproduce... and it did, for maybe the first 2 minutes of the movie. After that it was just an action movie to me, about people trying to escape from someone chasing them down. I was soooooooooo disappointed.
I think that guy made a mistake by saying your math was screwed up. To me it was either your logic or your english that was messed up: "So say you take the 50MPG diesel and turn it into a 66MPG diesel. The amount spent on fuel each year will be much smaller in the first place, so it will take even longer to pay off the investment." This does not make sense. What did you actually mean to say?
I just bought a new Insight EX. It's only the EX which has cruise control (+ USB iPod interface, 2 more speakers (tweeters), alloy wheels, paddle shifters, map lights, visor mirrors, pockets on the backs of the front seats, and some other stuff here and there). The base model skips on a few things. The weirdest one to me is it doesn't have a center armrest.
Keep in mind that the equation changes a lot when you don't buy your cars brand new.
Also... 15,000 a year is pretty low for a lot of people. I put 120,000 miles on my Civic in just 5 years (I bought it at about 20,000 miles for $10k USD). Estimating 9 years to drive 135,000 is a bit off for me.
In any case, I just got a brand new Insight. I'm hoping it will be reliable enough to last me way past the 200,000 mark.
I think RadioShack is good if you need some adapters, cables, soldering irons, or electrical components. The last things I remember buying there were an audio adapter for airplane headphone jacks, some blue LEDs, a desoldering ribbon, and before that... an RF modulator.
I think you hit the nail on the head though by mentioning PC parts. If I need something like a CPU fan, RAM, a power supply, or something like that... I head to Fry's Electronics. But that's something that RadioShack should have been able to do if they had not been pushing Sprint phones and RCA receivers.
Whenever I travel to other countries I'm amazed to see Good Humor ice cream under a million different names, but with the same "heart brand" logo. I guess these were all local brands with name recognition that got swallowed up, but yet the company wanted to unite their brands globally somehow.
I imagine Edy's and Dreyer's weren't always the same company.
There's something to that about Vista being annoying in an indescribable way.
Then I looked at my screen, I'm using XP, but there's no shiny green start menu button... and when I click on the start menu, it just displays a normal start menu... no guessing about what I want based on what I use the most often.
I think any future version of Windows would be unbearable for me if I couldn't turn off the new UI to go back to the old Win95/98/2000 style windows and start menu.
And the odd thing is... I'm primarily a Mac user.
I see what MS is trying to do, and I just think they're doing it wrong.
"CDs were then replaced not by higher quality CDs"
Keep in mind there were higher quality CD's out there too, which came and went.
SACD, DVD-Audio, and HDCD never caught on... and maybe Blu-Ray won't, either... for exactly the same reasons.
It's not leaps and bounds better than what's out there, it's not cheaper, and it requires getting new hardware.
If my DVD player breaks, and there are Blu-Ray/DVD players that are the same price as a regular DVD player, sure I will get the Blu-Ray combo player. That's the only conceivable way I'd do it though.
Is the protocol what technically defines "the Internet"? Is IPv6 a new Internet?
I would think it's a matter of being able to access data which is on the Internet, regardless of protocol.
If you can normally access Internet-connected machines over their 3G network... such as accessing any website... then it's clear this is a restriction on Skype because they fear that it's competition.
The windmills take out energy by providing resistance against the wind and converting that energy into motion.
Think of how many acres of rainforest are destroyed every year (or day), and how much has been destroyed overall in the last hundred years or so. Those trees cut the wind also and transferred that energy into movement of leaves, branches, or entire trees.
I think even if we got all the world's energy from wind, it wouldn't even be close to the number of trees which have been cut.
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By acquaintance, you mean you, right? You're really talking about you. You "have a friend..." with a porn addiction. Mm-hmmm.
What about iCab? I went to the iCab homepage and I see version 3.0.5 for download, from 1/1/08... that's a bit behind the latest OS X version (4.6.1) but it might be more usable than IE.
I highly doubt this monitor is of a type which even records any data. It's probably like the heart rate monitors in typical gym equipment which give you some feedback about how hard you are working.
What do you think a heart monitor is? Have you ever used any gym equipment? It's pretty standard for a lot of gym equipment to monitor your heart rate if you hold onto some metal contacts... but its also common to have something that plugs into a jack and then clips onto your finger or ear to monitor your pulse. It just gives you feedback about how hard you are exercising and if you need to work harder or if you're over-exerting yourself.
The responses here seem to indicate everyone thinks this is some sort of PDA the kids will be actually wearing like a wireless mic, logging data as they run around and play baseball or something....
I think the person who asked this question should be more worried about her kid being denied insurance because he inherited stupidity and crippling paranoia from his parents. Forget about heart conditions.
I made the same mistake when I read about Haiku, since I stopped following BeOS after Be went out of business.
I used to use BeOS R5 exclusively for awhile, and then I kept it around some time after that with the patches (like the BONE net stack which was in development at Be Inc and which got leaked).
Then there were all these projects that sprouted up... BlueEyedOS, OpenBeOS, YellowTab Zeta... as well as questions about what Palm might do with BeOS. And of course there were a ton of Mac, Linux, and Windows themes to mimic BeOS. At first, I think BlueEyedOS seemed to have the most going for it since it was based on Linux and had a head start.
Years later and I hear about Haiku, and didn't realize this is what used to be OpenBeOS which was not based on Linux at all. I think a lot of people who have been out of the loop for so many years might, like me, be thinking Haiku is based on Linux like BlueEyedOS was.
Well crap... which BeOS project was it that was going the route of using Linux... I know there was one.
I think this missed what was being asked....
From what I understood of Haiku, since they don't have access to BeOS source, it's based on Linux. So how is Haiku not just another Linux distro with a customized window manager that tries to look like BeOS?
I think they were implementing some of the BeOS libraries, but I'm not sure how it all works in practice... and if that means that old BeOS native programs (remember bebits.com?) will run without modification on Haiku... and if that means Linux programs will work as well. I guess I should give the live disc a try. I actually tried using BeOS R5 as my primary OS for about 6 months when it first came out (I had BeOS, Linux, and Windows in triple-boot using the Be Boot Manager). It was pretty nice for day to day work.
But these days I'm pretty happy with Mac OS X.
Out of curiosity, what does file say if the binary is 64-bit?
Apparently for 32-bit i386 it just says i386?
I don't care if this movie is in 3-D. I don't even care anymore what the story is about.
Every time I see the trailer, I cringe. The world looks amazing, but those characters look so, so -- there's no other word for it -- STUPID!
Something about those faces just looks incredibly stupid to me. Why did they design the characters to look so stupid?
And then when they move, all I can think about is how these characters are CGI. It's distracting. They don't look lifelike or real in any sense. It's cartoony.
And I like cartoons sometimes, but I don't like stupid cartoons.
Seriously, if you want more Adams humor, and haven't done so already, go read "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and the sequel "The Long, Dark, Tea-time of the Soul". H2G2 isn't the only great series Adams made.
They are great books, and probably way better than anything in this new book.
I found Children of Men to be torture to watch. I thought it would deal a lot more with the consequences of a world where people aren't able to reproduce... and it did, for maybe the first 2 minutes of the movie. After that it was just an action movie to me, about people trying to escape from someone chasing them down. I was soooooooooo disappointed.
Definitely check out Moon while it might still be in theaters.
Oooooh, you should definitely see Moon. :-)
Actually between Moon, this movie, and new Star Trek... it's been a great year for Sci-Fi so far.
Your post is really fun to read aloud in Comic Book Guy voice. :-)
I think that guy made a mistake by saying your math was screwed up. To me it was either your logic or your english that was messed up: "So say you take the 50MPG diesel and turn it into a 66MPG diesel. The amount spent on fuel each year will be much smaller in the first place, so it will take even longer to pay off the investment." This does not make sense. What did you actually mean to say?
I just bought a new Insight EX. It's only the EX which has cruise control (+ USB iPod interface, 2 more speakers (tweeters), alloy wheels, paddle shifters, map lights, visor mirrors, pockets on the backs of the front seats, and some other stuff here and there). The base model skips on a few things. The weirdest one to me is it doesn't have a center armrest.
Keep in mind that the equation changes a lot when you don't buy your cars brand new.
Also... 15,000 a year is pretty low for a lot of people. I put 120,000 miles on my Civic in just 5 years (I bought it at about 20,000 miles for $10k USD). Estimating 9 years to drive 135,000 is a bit off for me.
In any case, I just got a brand new Insight. I'm hoping it will be reliable enough to last me way past the 200,000 mark.
I think RadioShack is good if you need some adapters, cables, soldering irons, or electrical components. The last things I remember buying there were an audio adapter for airplane headphone jacks, some blue LEDs, a desoldering ribbon, and before that... an RF modulator.
I think you hit the nail on the head though by mentioning PC parts. If I need something like a CPU fan, RAM, a power supply, or something like that... I head to Fry's Electronics. But that's something that RadioShack should have been able to do if they had not been pushing Sprint phones and RCA receivers.
Whenever I travel to other countries I'm amazed to see Good Humor ice cream under a million different names, but with the same "heart brand" logo. I guess these were all local brands with name recognition that got swallowed up, but yet the company wanted to unite their brands globally somehow.
I imagine Edy's and Dreyer's weren't always the same company.
There's something to that about Vista being annoying in an indescribable way.
Then I looked at my screen, I'm using XP, but there's no shiny green start menu button... and when I click on the start menu, it just displays a normal start menu... no guessing about what I want based on what I use the most often.
I think any future version of Windows would be unbearable for me if I couldn't turn off the new UI to go back to the old Win95/98/2000 style windows and start menu.
And the odd thing is... I'm primarily a Mac user.
I see what MS is trying to do, and I just think they're doing it wrong.
Keep in mind there were higher quality CD's out there too, which came and went.
SACD, DVD-Audio, and HDCD never caught on... and maybe Blu-Ray won't, either... for exactly the same reasons.
It's not leaps and bounds better than what's out there, it's not cheaper, and it requires getting new hardware.
If my DVD player breaks, and there are Blu-Ray/DVD players that are the same price as a regular DVD player, sure I will get the Blu-Ray combo player. That's the only conceivable way I'd do it though.
Hahahaha.... douche-iest comment I've seen in awhile.
Yes... made from means it was processed further, which required even more energy, which in turn also comes in part from oil.
Is the protocol what technically defines "the Internet"? Is IPv6 a new Internet?
I would think it's a matter of being able to access data which is on the Internet, regardless of protocol.
If you can normally access Internet-connected machines over their 3G network... such as accessing any website... then it's clear this is a restriction on Skype because they fear that it's competition.
The windmills take out energy by providing resistance against the wind and converting that energy into motion.
Think of how many acres of rainforest are destroyed every year (or day), and how much has been destroyed overall in the last hundred years or so. Those trees cut the wind also and transferred that energy into movement of leaves, branches, or entire trees.
I think even if we got all the world's energy from wind, it wouldn't even be close to the number of trees which have been cut.