The difference in weight can be important for those at the edges. I think of the iPad as an iOS device for people whose eyes aren't so good as the youngsters who make up a large part of the original iPhone and iPod touch demographic.
The heat isn't outrageous, but it is bordering on the dangerous. I know someone who burned her stomach rather badly by falling asleep with a laptop laying on her. This is now a possibility with the iPad.
For me the fragmentation comes down to whether it has a camera or not. As an owner of a original iPad, I was more and more disappointed at apps that didn't include me: many photography apps, and some games just wouldn't work. GTA3 wouldn't work without crashing before I even finished the first mission.
This will only get worse as people who are developing apps aim their performance goals at the newer devices. It's similar to when you try to put a new windows on your old machine - sure, it "works" but it is slower because you're still running on old hardware.
With all the computers that/.ers are running, I'm sure that the idea of a datacenter room (closet? basement?) isn't that far-fetched because, at least some of the geeks *I* know, have a lot of old, noisy computers running because they were free and they run linux or *BSD just fine.
But individual computers are getting loud enough that I wonder how many others are starting to think about putting their main system in a sound-proof place like the closet, running longer monitor, mouse, kbd cables, etc?
Similar issue: the company truck had expired plates - not just months, but *years* expired. as in, 2002 tags on one, 2001 on the other, in 2004. I told him (the boss) several times that the plates were expired.. yeah,yeah,yeah.. guess who was driving when the truck got pulled over? me. Whose responsibility? Mine.
He said he'd pay the ticket, but he didn't, with the result i'm still dealing with it a year later, and this is just an "expired tags" ticket.
in 1981, I was a tape ape for a company that developed credit union software before i became a tape ape at an automotive manufacturer on old Data General and DEC stuff.. remember:
- putting the little silver part on the tape a few feet down so that we could test multiple tape logic
- carrying a whole bunch of tapes on your arm so you looked like the michelin man
- playing ring toss with the write rings
- trying to get all the colors of the olympic logo in write rings!!
- speculating what sized building you could wrap a mag tape around (we never got around to seeing if it would make it around the Pontiac Silverdome)
- tex wipes: you could take anything off of anything with these things.. too bad they had CFC's in them.
- When my direct deposit arrived at the credit union, it had exactly one record on it because I was the only person who worked where i did who had an account at that credit union.
As I recall, Infocom, the venerable old text adventure game company (Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide, Enchanter, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, et al), credited software piracy for the reason for their going out of business way, way back when.
They had great games, everyone agreed, but so many people pirated them (I knew almost no one who had an original copy, myself included) that they couldn't make money.
>So now, every idiot user that doesn't know any better will see these links
> on sites that haven't had the chance to be updated yet, or are never updated.
Thank god I don't do tech support any more. I would not want to have to explain this using civil language to some poor schmuck who doesnt understand why there are tags they didn't put ther
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Damn, you mean you can't believe everything you read on the internet? not even on Slashdot? I am crushed!!
I'm beginning to observe rolling eyes ("here he goes again") before sentences that say "today on slashdot I read an article that said.." even finish.
This is proly why so many slashdotters get annoyed reading Jon's essays: he is pretty much preaching to the choir.
And in response to those who say that independent voices will always be available on the web, can we say "bandwidth limits" which only become important when a site begins to create some momentum. Would slashdot itself still exist if it hadnt been bought by a corporation willing to subsidize it?
Hebrew scribes would add up the total of the letters on a page to assure that they had correctly copied the text. (in Hebrew, the same characters are used for both letters and numbers, as any qabalist could tell you.)
uh, try reading the article? not gonna quote, but even I noticed that it said that he left M$ in 1983, he is still on the board, and is the second largest shareholder..
skateboards *do* appear to me to create convenience.. I'm kinda old here (gonna be 40 in a few months) but I am somewhat envious of the convenience of transport enjoyed by the skateboarders I see around me. If it wasnt for the fact that my overweight body would not take that beating that the skateboard learning curve requires, I'd learn it myself (I didnt when I was a kid cause my folks lived on a dirt road in suburbia.. but that's another story..
So what did I do? Got a Razor to boogie down to the bus stop..
I second the notion about cheap labor. Usually, when the idea of "let's get some interns" it's been in the context of "I can't get these cool things that I know how to do done because i have all these other boring things that need doing". Management answer: get an intern to do that grunt work.
That said, there are usually a few cool people in the company who are willing to point you in directions where you can learn cool new things. Find some of these folks and ask them what would be useful for you to learn. You might have to read a few manuals, learn a new programming language, etc. Read these at home if you must. Then *do* something with it, then ask what you can do next.
Prolly the most important thing you can learn is that there are always things you can learn on your current job which will better prepare you for your next job. Don't wait for management to tell you what to learn: take the initiative yourself.
problem with voice activation in an application like this is that the sound samples may be shorter than the time it takes for the tape to spin up. When I have counted on voice activation, I almost always missed the first couple words of what the speaker said, esp. in an environment with lots of ambient noise (i.e. a lecture hall)
Actually, this dates back to the 80's when VAXen were all the rage (anyone else remember that far back?) But I don't remember it bein a German thing but rather as a takeoff on oxen -> VAXen.
We used to get very irate when ppl would spell it "Vaxes", etc. I remember arguing with a coworker about whether it was a good idea to spell it VAXen on a resume.. I did it anyways.
(and yes it's proper to put the comma outside the quotes)
I got my little toy (which fills the space behind my computer with an eerie red glow - very spooky) in the mail apparently because I am subscribed to Wired. I opened the box, saw this cat-looking thing fall on the floor.
"Cool", I thought.. I wonder if those drivers that were supposedly banned are still available.. Yup..
A little while later I'm happily scanning ISBNs from my books..
Only then did I look at what else was in the box.. What's this? an audio cable with a monophonic 1/8" mike plug, with both a male and a female phono connector on the other end. "What's this for?" I wonder.
Reading the docs showed that you're supposed to connect your VCR's audio out to the phono connectors, and you're supposed to connect the mic plug into your computer's audio in, and after installing this software that came with the cue cat (windows only - I have only linux on my desktop at home) when you are watching a commercial or a tv show, the web page for the commercial or tv show is somehow transmitted to your computer.
Does anyone know how this works, and is there a Linux driver that will translate this information? Someone speculated that the info is somehow read from the closed-caption part of the signal, which got me thinking.. Perhaps I could receive via email transcripts of my favorite tv shows i never get time to watch.. hmm..
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The difference in weight can be important for those at the edges. I think of the iPad as an iOS device for people whose eyes aren't so good as the youngsters who make up a large part of the original iPhone and iPod touch demographic.
The heat isn't outrageous, but it is bordering on the dangerous. I know someone who burned her stomach rather badly by falling asleep with a laptop laying on her. This is now a possibility with the iPad.
For me the fragmentation comes down to whether it has a camera or not. As an owner of a original iPad, I was more and more disappointed at apps that didn't include me: many photography apps, and some games just wouldn't work. GTA3 wouldn't work without crashing before I even finished the first mission.
This will only get worse as people who are developing apps aim their performance goals at the newer devices. It's similar to when you try to put a new windows on your old machine - sure, it "works" but it is slower because you're still running on old hardware.
joining a supercomputer by just clicking a URL.. isn't that the definition of a botnet?
umm.. Mead? Or am I missing something?
With all the computers that /.ers are running, I'm sure that the idea of a datacenter room (closet? basement?) isn't that far-fetched because, at least some of the geeks *I* know, have a lot of old, noisy computers running because they were free and they run linux or *BSD just fine.
But individual computers are getting loud enough that I wonder how many others are starting to think about putting their main system in a sound-proof place like the closet, running longer monitor, mouse, kbd cables, etc?
Similar issue: the company truck had expired plates - not just months, but *years* expired. as in, 2002 tags on one, 2001 on the other, in 2004. I told him (the boss) several times that the plates were expired.. yeah,yeah,yeah.. guess who was driving when the truck got pulled over? me. Whose responsibility? Mine.
He said he'd pay the ticket, but he didn't, with the result i'm still dealing with it a year later, and this is just an "expired tags" ticket.
Am I the only one who kinda liked that noisy old IBM PC keyboard? Now I can get one with a modern plug.
yet we expect them to tiptoe around us..
It's been said that an armed populace is a polite populace. Why? because they're armed, and won't take shit. Well, that's what we got over there.
Don't like the American way? Most people would say go somewhere else. This *is* somewhere else. They apparently like their customs the way they are.
Why don't we kowtow to these other nationalities? because they're not lobbing airliners at buildings.
Maybe we can catch more with sugar than vinegar..
that would be "american" grammar
When AT&T bought out the labs, I was cringing, waiting for VNC to drop out of sight. Thanks, AT&T, for keeping it around as long as you did!!
perhaps.. so let's say you or some friends have an old 486 kickin around.. and maybe some old NICs..
in 1981, I was a tape ape for a company that developed credit union software before i became a tape ape at an automotive manufacturer on old Data General and DEC stuff.. remember:
- putting the little silver part on the tape a few feet down so that we could test multiple tape logic
- carrying a whole bunch of tapes on your arm so you looked like the michelin man
- playing ring toss with the write rings
- trying to get all the colors of the olympic logo in write rings!!
- speculating what sized building you could wrap a mag tape around (we never got around to seeing if it would make it around the Pontiac Silverdome)
- tex wipes: you could take anything off of anything with these things.. too bad they had CFC's in them.
- When my direct deposit arrived at the credit union, it had exactly one record on it because I was the only person who worked where i did who had an account at that credit union.
- manually threading.. what fun!!
-bob
As I recall, Infocom, the venerable old text adventure game company (Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide, Enchanter, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, et al), credited software piracy for the reason for their going out of business way, way back when.
They had great games, everyone agreed, but so many people pirated them (I knew almost no one who had an original copy, myself included) that they couldn't make money.
>So now, every idiot user that doesn't know any better will see these links
> on sites that haven't had the chance to be updated yet, or are never updated.
Thank god I don't do tech support any more. I would not want to have to explain this using civil language to some poor schmuck who doesnt understand why there are tags they didn't put ther
re: factual errors
Damn, you mean you can't believe everything you read on the internet? not even on Slashdot? I am crushed!!
no, actually means he's preaching to the choir.
I'm beginning to observe rolling eyes ("here he goes again") before sentences that say "today on slashdot I read an article that said.." even finish.
This is proly why so many slashdotters get annoyed reading Jon's essays: he is pretty much preaching to the choir.
And in response to those who say that independent voices will always be available on the web, can we say "bandwidth limits" which only become important when a site begins to create some momentum. Would slashdot itself still exist if it hadnt been bought by a corporation willing to subsidize it?
Hebrew scribes would add up the total of the letters on a page to assure that they had correctly copied the text. (in Hebrew, the same characters are used for both letters and numbers, as any qabalist could tell you.)
uh, try reading the article? not gonna quote, but even I noticed that it said that he left M$ in 1983, he is still on the board, and is the second largest shareholder..
So what did I do? Got a Razor to boogie down to the bus stop..
I second the notion about cheap labor. Usually, when the idea of "let's get some interns" it's been in the context of "I can't get these cool things that I know how to do done because i have all these other boring things that need doing". Management answer: get an intern to do that grunt work.
That said, there are usually a few cool people in the company who are willing to point you in directions where you can learn cool new things. Find some of these folks and ask them what would be useful for you to learn. You might have to read a few manuals, learn a new programming language, etc. Read these at home if you must. Then *do* something with it, then ask what you can do next.
Prolly the most important thing you can learn is that there are always things you can learn on your current job which will better prepare you for your next job. Don't wait for management to tell you what to learn: take the initiative yourself.
problem with voice activation in an application like this is that the sound samples may be shorter than the time it takes for the tape to spin up. When I have counted on voice activation, I almost always missed the first couple words of what the speaker said, esp. in an environment with lots of ambient noise (i.e. a lecture hall)
Actually, this dates back to the 80's when VAXen were all the rage (anyone else remember that far back?) But I don't remember it bein a German thing but rather as a takeoff on oxen -> VAXen.
We used to get very irate when ppl would spell it "Vaxes", etc. I remember arguing with a coworker about whether it was a good idea to spell it VAXen on a resume.. I did it anyways.
(and yes it's proper to put the comma outside the quotes)
Some employers *severely* discourage this under the aegis of "we don't want to be liable if your nice toy gets lifted".
I got my little toy (which fills the space behind my computer with an eerie red glow - very spooky) in the mail apparently because I am subscribed to Wired. I opened the box, saw this cat-looking thing fall on the floor.
.. hmm..
"Cool", I thought.. I wonder if those drivers that were supposedly banned are still available.. Yup..
A little while later I'm happily scanning ISBNs from my books..
Only then did I look at what else was in the box.. What's this? an audio cable with a monophonic 1/8" mike plug, with both a male and a female phono connector on the other end. "What's this for?" I wonder.
Reading the docs showed that you're supposed to connect your VCR's audio out to the phono connectors, and you're supposed to connect the mic plug into your computer's audio in, and after installing this software that came with the cue cat (windows only - I have only linux on my desktop at home) when you are watching a commercial or a tv show, the web page for the commercial or tv show is somehow transmitted to your computer.
Does anyone know how this works, and is there a Linux driver that will translate this information? Someone speculated that the info is somehow read from the closed-caption part of the signal, which got me thinking.. Perhaps I could receive via email transcripts of my favorite tv shows i never get time to watch
As far as I remember, that was Adidas sometime around 1973..
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-bob
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