Sounds to me like an easy way to make a lot of enemies.
It sounds like a boondoggle to me. However, whether it works or not, it's got to be safer then current methods, namely sending dozens of rounds in the other direction--counterbattery fire--and destroying everything close to that gun (houses, etc.) until you finally get it.
While I can understand the usefulness of a tablet in certain specific applications (like retail), I just fail to see how great or useful it is for most people.
I grew up keying--I literally think into a keyboard. On the other hand, my handwriting is not only illegible, but ridiculously slower than my typing.
I love PDAs, and I love new gadgets, to get any serious work done, it's gotta have a keyboard!
I work in a training facility that may have several different powerpoint presentations going at the same time, sometimes 4-5 classrooms in use on the same floor alone!
I love the idea, but what if several are in use within range on one another? Is there any provision for channel selection?
People who don't have a TiVo belong to at least one of these 3 groups:
* Can't afford it
* Don't know what it is
* Don't watch TV.
You missed one more: those who don't have POTS lines
I'm dying to get a TiVo, but I decided a while ago that between excellent cable broadband access and excellent, cheap wireless service, I have zero need for a land line.
If I got one solely for TiVo, the subscription would effectively cost me over $30 a month!
If they made made the service completely available through the internet (so ridiculously easy to do, and cheaper than having me dial in to their servers), I'd be at Best Buy in a hearbeat!
7 Minute install with loads of hardware autodetection? I think that's good, but it isn't exclusive. I tried the gentoo unreal live CD, booted up an I was playing in minutes there too (although my sound didn't work)
Give Knoppix a try. Great live distro, loads crazy fast, even sound works. My #1 system rescue tool.
Agreed: the biggest advantage will be a general price reduction, hopefully.
While the codes are generally useless to a good mechanic, the ability to reset them on many models is the tough part. Among others, BMW was notorious for this. I haven't worked on one for a while, but the "service reset tool" was DOD expensive, and a total scam.
The USB mechanical spec calls out that the USB logo be molded on one side of the cable in such a way that you can feel it and the other side be smooth.
That's a great idea, but it seems no one follows the spec. I just checked all four USB devices I use (trackball, digital camera, ZIP drive, and scanner)--all have the USB logo on one side, but none have a smooth down side. Two have a textured bottom, one has some sort of model code, and one has "Made in China" molded into it.
Fumbling in the darkness behind my desk, my fingers can't tell which side has the USB logo on any of them! It's a shame, there's nothing wrong with the standard, just how manufacturers have implemented it.
Sometimes a valid state license doesn't even matter: I renewed my NY license in early '97, literally weeks before they completely changed the licenses. No big deal for the first few years... but a total pain by '01, when almost nobody had that kind anymore. I'd get crap from bouncers--not to mention convienence store clerks terrified of the liquor nazis-- in my own state!!! However, wherever there was one of those scanners, it was no problem because they could validate it right there. Pretty convienient. Sure, I have knee jerk reaction against them storing and using that info, but I've pretty much come to accept that you can get that info a zillion other ways and privacy is an endangered species....
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Sounds to me like an easy way to make a lot of enemies.
It sounds like a boondoggle to me. However, whether it works or not, it's got to be safer then current methods, namely sending dozens of rounds in the other direction--counterbattery fire--and destroying everything close to that gun (houses, etc.) until you finally get it.
Amen!
While I can understand the usefulness of a tablet in certain specific applications (like retail), I just fail to see how great or useful it is for most people.
I grew up keying--I literally think into a keyboard. On the other hand, my handwriting is not only illegible, but ridiculously slower than my typing.
I love PDAs, and I love new gadgets, to get any serious work done, it's gotta have a keyboard!
I work in a training facility that may have several different powerpoint presentations going at the same time, sometimes 4-5 classrooms in use on the same floor alone!
I love the idea, but what if several are in use within range on one another? Is there any provision for channel selection?
Anybody else get a kick out of the fact the Mac Freak site is running on linux?
People who don't have a TiVo belong to at least one of these 3 groups:
* Can't afford it
* Don't know what it is
* Don't watch TV.
You missed one more: those who don't have POTS lines
I'm dying to get a TiVo, but I decided a while ago that between excellent cable broadband access and excellent, cheap wireless service, I have zero need for a land line.
If I got one solely for TiVo, the subscription would effectively cost me over $30 a month!
If they made made the service completely available through the internet (so ridiculously easy to do, and cheaper than having me dial in to their servers), I'd be at Best Buy in a hearbeat!
7 Minute install with loads of hardware autodetection? I think that's good, but it isn't exclusive. I tried the gentoo unreal live CD, booted up an I was playing in minutes there too (although my sound didn't work)
Give Knoppix a try. Great live distro, loads crazy fast, even sound works. My #1 system rescue tool.
Agreed: the biggest advantage will be a general price reduction, hopefully.
While the codes are generally useless to a good mechanic, the ability to reset them on many models is the tough part. Among others, BMW was notorious for this. I haven't worked on one for a while, but the "service reset tool" was DOD expensive, and a total scam.
As someone who's very familiar with Federal background checks, it's really not all that important that the answer is no to all these questions.
The key is honesty. They realize not everybody turns into a saint when they turn 18.
As long as you tell the truth, and convincingly prove these things are solidly in your past, you'd be amazed what gets excused.
And yes, they do polygraph (especially following last year's debacle with Robert Hanssen).
The USB mechanical spec calls out that the USB logo be molded on one side of the cable in such a way that you can feel it and the other side be smooth.
That's a great idea, but it seems no one follows the spec. I just checked all four USB devices I use (trackball, digital camera, ZIP drive, and scanner)--all have the USB logo on one side, but none have a smooth down side. Two have a textured bottom, one has some sort of model code, and one has "Made in China" molded into it.
Fumbling in the darkness behind my desk, my fingers can't tell which side has the USB logo on any of them! It's a shame, there's nothing wrong with the standard, just how manufacturers have implemented it.
Sometimes a valid state license doesn't even matter: I renewed my NY license in early '97, literally weeks before they completely changed the licenses. No big deal for the first few years... but a total pain by '01, when almost nobody had that kind anymore. I'd get crap from bouncers--not to mention convienence store clerks terrified of the liquor nazis-- in my own state!!! However, wherever there was one of those scanners, it was no problem because they could validate it right there. Pretty convienient. Sure, I have knee jerk reaction against them storing and using that info, but I've pretty much come to accept that you can get that info a zillion other ways and privacy is an endangered species....