Not sure, but it won't be called Laputa - apparently for the same reason that perpetuates the myth of the Chevrolet Nova not doing well in South America.
"Your phone number?"
"714-636-7433."
"OK, your name?"
"Bob Barlow."
"Address?"
"General Delivery, San Clemente, CA."
"Um, I'm sorry, I need a number."
"No, General Delivery is a valid address."
At this time, the clerk becomes puzzled.
I use a telnet bbs (yes, telnet!) periodically for the same reasons, and even have a QWK reader, if you'd believe it. (This thing uses zmodem and requires a terminal that handles zmodem - it's something else entirely to see a zmodem transfer over a DSL.)
If you'd believe it, this bbs is acting as a fully functional hub for Fight-o-net, RIME, Family and even Animenet, as inactive as the latter regretfully is.
Reading slashdot on your palm... hmm. This could give way to another application. Perhaps a downloadable slashdot for people who want to reply on the fly without the "wireless" attachments, and can just post things like replies and such on the fly? Or would the slashdot developers want to get into that?...
I have a Casio BOSS SF-M10 that I use as a doorstop since I got a Handspring Visor Deluxe, which I now use for its intended purposes (names/addresses/schedule/blablabla), keeping my account balances between Wescom Credit Union and Paypal with an application created by Principal Bank, various tools used for playing D20 games (a die roller and a few detail keepers), games, and soon, a bible - and of course, there's the most important thing I use it for, which is playing Sub Hunt while on the bus! =) Then again, I've been one who prefers to not carry fifty thousand little scraps of paper in my pants pocket wherever he goes in favor of a device that stores the data for me in a convenient pocket-sized frob.
Consider the trend though. Any time a new technology comes out, it becomes the Next Big Thing!, everyone who is somebody buys it, and most of the people who bought it decide they don't want it after the return period expires (IE, 30 days in the case of Fry's, 90 in the case of Target... you get the idea). Those who tend to keep address books on paper may take this if they are anal, those who would keep dead-tree books if it weren't for the hassle of having to periodically sit down and organize the thing will probably flock to them, excepting those who are somewhat clumsy and accidentally break them.
As far as I'm concerned, it fills the application of a laptop, but again, it's convenience sized. Granted I can't do things like play Doom on an airplane or full on desktop publishing, but for that I have a confuser at home. (I still can't play Doom on the airplane, though - nor do I think I would want to.)
It is true that somebody paid, but in the end they paid for their own use. They subsequently broadcasted it over the internet by way of MP3. What is done after that is left as an exercise to the reader.
This is a perfect example of censorship biting itself in the ass, and is why I stand against it. Yeah, keep away from the porn sites, but don't do it with Net Nanny, you nits!
I know that SBC, the parent of Pacific Bell, does something to this effect when setting up calling plans. So what gives?
On the other hand, I don't use Verizon (California has rules allowing you to select other providers for your phone, as with electricity) for a reason - they're jackasses. With or without this in mind for Verizon, they will remain rat bastards.
Panic ensues - you have 400 plus people in a hollow pressurized tube, and now you have given them the ability to evacuate. The airlines' perspective will follow Murphy's Law, and under the assumption that there will be the ONE PASSENGER to fire the bolts on the emergency doors at 30k feet, or discharge his chute in the plane, or generally endanger the passengers, they will not do it. Now why it is true that the possibility exists in any scenario where passengers will probably have to experience an emergency landing, the chute will be a security blanket and make them think they'll survive, and SOMEBODY who's seen a movie where people jump out of planes will attempt to be the hero.
I'm gonna go on and concur with everybody on here, with an interesting note of trivia.
I once checked with the Free Software Foundation on whether they knew anything about the OS/2 port of EMACS (last check had it at 19.3.x or something really old). As they were unable to contact anybody on that, I was told that I was welcome to do what I would with it, be it build the original code or just let it fester.
That's the really cool thing about GNU - a side effect is that if somebody stops the show for some reason and abandons the project (in this case...well, OS/2, you do the math), you are welcome to pick up whatever pieces were left and run with the torch. Sourceforge even seems to allow for that, with the resources already there.
Fascinating ideas...
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I believe this was originally pioneered in emacs, where a user could do 'M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead ' and get some particularly...um, indescribeable results as one piped various zippy-the-pinhead like quites through doctor.el. That it was proven that computers now can engage in meaningless smalltalk however is particularly interesting....
If they made it illegal, what good would it do for the id10ts in Nigeria, or South America? Remember, US law has no precedence in either of those locations.
Not to nitpick, but profit is what is left after expenses (whatever's necessary forthe company to operate, everything from payroll to postage) have been removed from the revenue.
I recall a few months ago that there was an article here on slashdot that said we didn't need 64 oz of water per day, saying that this was probably superfluous, and was dismissed for the fair part as pseudoscience. Perhaps this is Yet Another one of these bits?
The unit will spin in the wind, so if a good Santa Ana wind blows through the canyon, either I'm not going to get back into my home or I'm going to be making gratuitous use of airsick bags. (This assumes of course that somebody in Anaheim Hills doesn't bitch and moan when they see this 727 on a caisson, or FAA doesn't freak out when they see a 727 directly below the landing path for Orange County's John Wayne (SNA) Airport on what appears to be a hill.)
For some reason, I can see this somehow being connected with Terry Gilliam. The concept of a home needing a braking mechanism is just surreal.
It could be a double edged sword.
One poster commented on what one could call the "hick" factor. I'm noting a lot of tech-savvy farmers these days, but the simpler ones still rely heavily on no computer, and if you put them in front of a computer they just might not have interest in that high-falootin' techno-internet computer stuff.
On the other hand, basing off of another comment from somebody commenting on POTS being obsolete, this one's closer to the truth. If we run digital and broadband throughout, this could open the door to better solutions to the area code problem (IE, running eight digit phone numbers instead of the canonical seven). This may never happen though for the simple reason of bureaucracy.
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Nonono, this house is a beowulf cluster unto itself.
Not sure, but it won't be called Laputa - apparently for the same reason that perpetuates the myth of the Chevrolet Nova not doing well in South America.
"Your phone number?" "714-636-7433." "OK, your name?" "Bob Barlow." "Address?" "General Delivery, San Clemente, CA." "Um, I'm sorry, I need a number." "No, General Delivery is a valid address." At this time, the clerk becomes puzzled.
If you'd believe it, this bbs is acting as a fully functional hub for Fight-o-net, RIME, Family and even Animenet, as inactive as the latter regretfully is.
Reading slashdot on your palm... hmm. This could give way to another application. Perhaps a downloadable slashdot for people who want to reply on the fly without the "wireless" attachments, and can just post things like replies and such on the fly? Or would the slashdot developers want to get into that?...
Consider the trend though. Any time a new technology comes out, it becomes the Next Big Thing!, everyone who is somebody buys it, and most of the people who bought it decide they don't want it after the return period expires (IE, 30 days in the case of Fry's, 90 in the case of Target... you get the idea). Those who tend to keep address books on paper may take this if they are anal, those who would keep dead-tree books if it weren't for the hassle of having to periodically sit down and organize the thing will probably flock to them, excepting those who are somewhat clumsy and accidentally break them.
As far as I'm concerned, it fills the application of a laptop, but again, it's convenience sized. Granted I can't do things like play Doom on an airplane or full on desktop publishing, but for that I have a confuser at home. (I still can't play Doom on the airplane, though - nor do I think I would want to.)
It's my opinion that if Bill Gates used this as an excuse, he wouldn't be so against Linux.
It is true that somebody paid, but in the end they paid for their own use. They subsequently broadcasted it over the internet by way of MP3. What is done after that is left as an exercise to the reader.
This is a perfect example of censorship biting itself in the ass, and is why I stand against it. Yeah, keep away from the porn sites, but don't do it with Net Nanny, you nits!
On the other hand, I don't use Verizon (California has rules allowing you to select other providers for your phone, as with electricity) for a reason - they're jackasses. With or without this in mind for Verizon, they will remain rat bastards.
Panic ensues - you have 400 plus people in a hollow pressurized tube, and now you have given them the ability to evacuate. The airlines' perspective will follow Murphy's Law, and under the assumption that there will be the ONE PASSENGER to fire the bolts on the emergency doors at 30k feet, or discharge his chute in the plane, or generally endanger the passengers, they will not do it. Now why it is true that the possibility exists in any scenario where passengers will probably have to experience an emergency landing, the chute will be a security blanket and make them think they'll survive, and SOMEBODY who's seen a movie where people jump out of planes will attempt to be the hero.
Perhaps they were trying to put together a beowulf cluster.
I once checked with the Free Software Foundation on whether they knew anything about the OS/2 port of EMACS (last check had it at 19.3.x or something really old). As they were unable to contact anybody on that, I was told that I was welcome to do what I would with it, be it build the original code or just let it fester.
That's the really cool thing about GNU - a side effect is that if somebody stops the show for some reason and abandons the project (in this case...well, OS/2, you do the math), you are welcome to pick up whatever pieces were left and run with the torch. Sourceforge even seems to allow for that, with the resources already there.
I believe this was originally pioneered in emacs, where a user could do 'M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead ' and get some particularly...um, indescribeable results as one piped various zippy-the-pinhead like quites through doctor.el. That it was proven that computers now can engage in meaningless smalltalk however is particularly interesting....
I have a small rotating list of comics I read, that uses an array of shell scripts and cron jobs to self build.
There is already a swiss-army chainsaw. It's called Perl. Why get a knife? Isn't bigger better?
He also spoke of the proverb which discussed a day's work for a day's pay. It's your wage, go get your paycheck!
I was born "Dennis Carr", and yet people find it strange that I don't own any sort of internal combustion vehicles.
Can somebody explain to me exactly how a trade show, that which can charge exorbiant fees to booth users, can possibly lose money hand over fist?
If they made it illegal, what good would it do for the id10ts in Nigeria, or South America? Remember, US law has no precedence in either of those locations.
Not to nitpick, but profit is what is left after expenses (whatever's necessary forthe company to operate, everything from payroll to postage) have been removed from the revenue.
I recall a few months ago that there was an article here on slashdot that said we didn't need 64 oz of water per day, saying that this was probably superfluous, and was dismissed for the fair part as pseudoscience. Perhaps this is Yet Another one of these bits?
For some reason, I can see this somehow being connected with Terry Gilliam. The concept of a home needing a braking mechanism is just surreal.
No, no, no, you got it all wrong! It gives Richard Dean Anderson a career beyond MacGuyver!
It could be a double edged sword. One poster commented on what one could call the "hick" factor. I'm noting a lot of tech-savvy farmers these days, but the simpler ones still rely heavily on no computer, and if you put them in front of a computer they just might not have interest in that high-falootin' techno-internet computer stuff. On the other hand, basing off of another comment from somebody commenting on POTS being obsolete, this one's closer to the truth. If we run digital and broadband throughout, this could open the door to better solutions to the area code problem (IE, running eight digit phone numbers instead of the canonical seven). This may never happen though for the simple reason of bureaucracy.