I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, specifically. BUT, as a Sirius subscriber I'm provided a username and password with which I can go to the Sirius website, launch a Sirius Player, and listen to Sirius via the internet.
There are a couple of caveats, though: 1) The player is, as far as I know, IE only. I know it does not work for me under Opera 7.11, nor Mozilla Firefox (I think ver. 0.8). 2) Not all channels are available online. When I've tried to listen to various music channels I've never had a problem, but Air America was unavailable the one time I looked for it, and one other channel I looked for once was also unavailable, but I don't recall which channel it was. It appears to me that the Sirius-originating, music channels are web-cast, but the 3rd parties aren't - NPR, CNN, ESPN, etc....
I'm not certain, but I *believe* the shuttle on the 747 was Enterprise, and was never flown in space, only used for development and testing of things like the Shuttle landing procedures.
And I'm fairly sure both the shuttle and 747 were substantially modified versions of the typical shuttle (yeah, I know, there's only 3 so how typical can it be....) and the typical 747.
I can't believe I haven't seen anybody mention another great sci-fi movie - 12 Monkeys
Maybe it's because it's not quite as 'science-ey' as most of those listed, but I'd still qualify it, and it is a fantastic movie - imo as good as another fantastic movie getting a lot of praise in this thread - Gattaca.
I'm part of your club. I did the same thing, and sat for a second or two thinking it must be broken - still in beta and all that. Then I realized I was using Opera. d'Oh!
With OWA 5.5, I can agree there really is no 'more-ugly' OWA.
With 2003, on the other hand, it is no longer ugly. You could say, sincerely, that the OWA is no longer ugly. In fact, it's really very impressive in a good way.
Just to clarify - I admittedly haven't read the article about Linspire this morning, but prior to my initial post I DID look at the screenshot of LSongs.
Man, I've got to hand it to the guys running this company! I haven't used the product, haven't even read the article this time, but from Lindows to this -- these guys have serious balls!
I'm a satisfied Sirius subscriber. Unfortunately, I initially installed the receiver in my wife's MPV for a road trip, and she decided she liked it, so it never made the planned move in to my car.
However, you're mistaken about needing an additionaly full-price account for each receiver.
I haven't broken down yet and purchased a second receiver for my car (and when I do it will be a unit that docks to the boombox, car kit, or home kit), but the last time I called Sirius and asked I was told each additional receiver would run $7 or $8/month, rather than another $13. IIRC, my total would have been right at $20/month (maybe $19.98) for the two units.
This article reminded me of that, too, immediately. The father was Robert Cringely, and his weekly column is here . A link to the archived column is http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020425. html . I cannot find the WIKI he originally set up.
For a while I checked in on the webpage he set up for the project, and I never saw any progress.
I think Bush is the worst president in American history. I am strongly against his 'space program/initiative'.
HOWEVER, I am NOT against the space plan because I'm against Bush and want him to fail. I am against it because I don't believe it is real. I believe the space program was announced to score political points and work Bush's image. I think nothing real will ever result from it, aside from possibly some graft, kickbacks, or pork projects.
If I thought there was a real push to return to space in some fashion, I'd be behind it 100%.
I actually went cold turkey for about 4-5 years. At one point during this period, I found that IF I broke my rule and had a coffee or a Coke (for example, if I absolutely positively needed the help to stay awake), the next day I'd have a really intense headache.
Sometime around the 5 year mark, I caved, and I no longer avoid caffeine completely. Instead, I now will very occasionally have a Coke (there really is no substitute for an oce cold Coca Cola), and if I'm at work and exhausted I'll have a 50/50 cup of regular and unleaded coffee.
I haven't noticed the addiction-symptoms for a couple of years.
I have seen MANY comments in this thread discussing the concept of donating Linux CDs to libraries.
In the cited articles, the products listed included Freeduc, OpenOffice, Gimp, and others. It was also stated that the software packages were installed and tested on a variety of systems, including Mac OSX, Win9x, Win2k, and WinXP.
OpenOffice, for one, is available for Windows as well as Linux.
This entire article is about OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. There are OSS products available for non-Linux platforms.
1) C'mon - if you really wanted to, you could find a way to pay - $80 is equivalent to 2 or 3 nights out - 2 or 3 dinner & a movies, or a couple of nights of bar hopping will run just as much.
OR,
2) On the other hand, there is the Microsoft business model to consider. You are using an unpaid for copy of Mandrake. You use it for a few years - you get proficient at it, knowledgeable about it, and come to like it and rely on it. A few years down the road, when you are in a business setting, you may have input into what OS will be on one or several PCs in the office. You are more inclined to choose Mandrake based on your past experience. AND, this being a corporate environment, Mandrake will get paid this time around. So you can consider it still beneficial to Mandrake, only with a long time-delay before the payoff.
If you'd pay a little more attention, you might have noticed that the ACLU, just yesterday, filed suit against the US Secret Service, specifically to defend our Right To Assemble and Freedom Of Speech.
I haven't seen this in any version of Windows, nor on KDE 3.1.2 or Gnome 2.2.
It seems to me a sensible feature of a desktop would be to have a standard feature on every single visible window that would allow the user to set that window as 'always on top'. Remove the responsibility for the functionality from the app developer, and let it be part of the desktop's job. This would allow the user to set 'Always On Top' for any window he/she wants.
As a user, not a developer, I have been unable to figure out why this could be problematic. I only assume it may pose some sort of difficulty because I haven't yet seen this implemented, and it seems like a no-brainer to me.
This reminds me of the bit in Amazon Women On The Moon called 'Two I.D.s', with Steve Guttenberg & Rosanna Arquette. In a nutshell, he tries to pick her up for a date, and she first must run a background check on him to certify his status, record of integrity or lack thereof, etc...
On a side note, I thought the movie was hysterical, and far better than the 5.4/10 average vote suggests.
Are you really putting B5 in the same league as Star Trek????
B5 is not at all the same thing as Star Trek, and IMO is a much, much better series. Just as I was bored playing Risk once I learned Axis & Allies, I've been bored with Star Trek ever since I watched Babylon 5.
I'd pay any amount I could manage to fly on one! I'd sell off prized possessions, lose the car and walk/bike/public transit to work, go without sex (Oh wait, I'm married, that would be redundant), sever internet access, etc.... if it allowed me to ride the shuttle into space.
I think that would be the most fascinating thing I could ever do, and I simply can't fathom not wanting to go.
Of course, while I still think the shuttle is a pretty neat vehicle, I'd also be perfectly willing to go on any other vehicle that would send me into space.
Coming back safely would be nice too, but given the current state of the technology I'd accept the inherent risks.
A funny movie about some big-city sales-whiz sent from Coca Cola corporate HQ to an Australian outback where the soda market is dominated by a local concern, and he has to try and get Coke sales going. It's not the typical fish-out-of-water-movie, although it sounds like ti from my description.
This one was defnitely underappreciated. I think the critics praised it when it was out, but I don't really know anybody who's ever heard of it.
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I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, specifically. BUT, as a Sirius subscriber I'm provided a username and password with which I can go to the Sirius website, launch a Sirius Player, and listen to Sirius via the internet.
There are a couple of caveats, though:
1) The player is, as far as I know, IE only. I know it does not work for me under Opera 7.11, nor Mozilla Firefox (I think ver. 0.8).
2) Not all channels are available online. When I've tried to listen to various music channels I've never had a problem, but Air America was unavailable the one time I looked for it, and one other channel I looked for once was also unavailable, but I don't recall which channel it was. It appears to me that the Sirius-originating, music channels are web-cast, but the 3rd parties aren't - NPR, CNN, ESPN, etc....
Hope this helps.
I'm not certain, but I *believe* the shuttle on the 747 was Enterprise, and was never flown in space, only used for development and testing of things like the Shuttle landing procedures.
And I'm fairly sure both the shuttle and 747 were substantially modified versions of the typical shuttle (yeah, I know, there's only 3 so how typical can it be....) and the typical 747.
I can't believe I haven't seen anybody mention another great sci-fi movie -
12 Monkeys
Maybe it's because it's not quite as 'science-ey' as most of those listed, but I'd still qualify it, and it is a fantastic movie - imo as good as another fantastic movie getting a lot of praise in this thread - Gattaca.
Looking for this:
/. many moons ago, I was absolutely fascinated, and read the entire thing. Spooky.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm
When I found that site, whenever it was last posted on
So will I get modded down for this off-topic post?
Is it worth it for a GMail invite?
Only the Shadow Knows....
I'm part of your club. I did the same thing, and sat for a second or two thinking it must be broken - still in beta and all that. Then I realized I was using Opera. d'Oh!
As soon as I read this I immediately thought of the Alphasmart devices. I think they're right up your alley.
Have you even used the 2003 OWA?
With OWA 5.5, I can agree there really is no 'more-ugly' OWA.
With 2003, on the other hand, it is no longer ugly. You could say, sincerely, that the OWA is no longer ugly. In fact, it's really very impressive in a good way.
Just to clarify - I admittedly haven't read the article about Linspire this morning, but prior to my initial post I DID look at the screenshot of LSongs.
Man, I've got to hand it to the guys running this company! I haven't used the product, haven't even read the article this time, but from Lindows to this -- these guys have serious balls!
I'm a satisfied Sirius subscriber. Unfortunately, I initially installed the receiver in my wife's MPV for a road trip, and she decided she liked it, so it never made the planned move in to my car.
However, you're mistaken about needing an additionaly full-price account for each receiver.
I haven't broken down yet and purchased a second receiver for my car (and when I do it will be a unit that docks to the boombox, car kit, or home kit), but the last time I called Sirius and asked I was told each additional receiver would run $7 or $8/month, rather than another $13. IIRC, my total would have been right at $20/month (maybe $19.98) for the two units.
This article reminded me of that, too, immediately. The father was Robert Cringely, and his weekly column is here . A link to the archived column is http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020425. html . I cannot find the WIKI he originally set up.
For a while I checked in on the webpage he set up for the project, and I never saw any progress.
I sincerely believe you are missing a big point.
I think Bush is the worst president in American history. I am strongly against his 'space program/initiative'.
HOWEVER, I am NOT against the space plan because I'm against Bush and want him to fail. I am against it because I don't believe it is real. I believe the space program was announced to score political points and work Bush's image. I think nothing real will ever result from it, aside from possibly some graft, kickbacks, or pork projects.
If I thought there was a real push to return to space in some fashion, I'd be behind it 100%.
I actually went cold turkey for about 4-5 years. At one point during this period, I found that IF I broke my rule and had a coffee or a Coke (for example, if I absolutely positively needed the help to stay awake), the next day I'd have a really intense headache.
Sometime around the 5 year mark, I caved, and I no longer avoid caffeine completely. Instead, I now will very occasionally have a Coke (there really is no substitute for an oce cold Coca Cola), and if I'm at work and exhausted I'll have a 50/50 cup of regular and unleaded coffee.
I haven't noticed the addiction-symptoms for a couple of years.
I have seen MANY comments in this thread discussing the concept of donating Linux CDs to libraries.
In the cited articles, the products listed included Freeduc, OpenOffice, Gimp, and others. It was also stated that the software packages were installed and tested on a variety of systems, including Mac OSX, Win9x, Win2k, and WinXP.
OpenOffice, for one, is available for Windows as well as Linux.
This entire article is about OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. There are OSS products available for non-Linux platforms.
That's all, carry on.
I have a couple of reactions to this.
1) C'mon - if you really wanted to, you could find a way to pay - $80 is equivalent to 2 or 3 nights out - 2 or 3 dinner & a movies, or a couple of nights of bar hopping will run just as much.
OR,
2) On the other hand, there is the Microsoft business model to consider. You are using an unpaid for copy of Mandrake. You use it for a few years - you get proficient at it, knowledgeable about it, and come to like it and rely on it. A few years down the road, when you are in a business setting, you may have input into what OS will be on one or several PCs in the office. You are more inclined to choose Mandrake based on your past experience. AND, this being a corporate environment, Mandrake will get paid this time around. So you can consider it still beneficial to Mandrake, only with a long time-delay before the payoff.
quote:
Running out of Hydrogen for your fuel cell while on the freeway could be Very Exciting.
Wow - the All New Cadillac STS VE Edition!
If you'd pay a little more attention, you might have noticed that the ACLU, just yesterday, filed suit against the US Secret Service, specifically to defend our Right To Assemble and Freedom Of Speech.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98080,00.html
I haven't seen this in any version of Windows, nor on KDE 3.1.2 or Gnome 2.2.
It seems to me a sensible feature of a desktop would be to have a standard feature on every single visible window that would allow the user to set that window as 'always on top'. Remove the responsibility for the functionality from the app developer, and let it be part of the desktop's job. This would allow the user to set 'Always On Top' for any window he/she wants.
As a user, not a developer, I have been unable to figure out why this could be problematic. I only assume it may pose some sort of difficulty because I haven't yet seen this implemented, and it seems like a no-brainer to me.
This reminds me of the bit in Amazon Women On The Moon called 'Two I.D.s', with Steve Guttenberg & Rosanna Arquette. In a nutshell, he tries to pick her up for a date, and she first must run a background check on him to certify his status, record of integrity or lack thereof, etc...
On a side note, I thought the movie was hysterical, and far better than the 5.4/10 average vote suggests.
Are you really putting B5 in the same league as Star Trek????
B5 is not at all the same thing as Star Trek, and IMO is a much, much better series. Just as I was bored playing Risk once I learned Axis & Allies, I've been bored with Star Trek ever since I watched Babylon 5.
Jeezus!?!?!?!? Really?
I'd pay any amount I could manage to fly on one! I'd sell off prized possessions, lose the car and walk/bike/public transit to work, go without sex (Oh wait, I'm married, that would be redundant), sever internet access, etc.... if it allowed me to ride the shuttle into space.
I think that would be the most fascinating thing I could ever do, and I simply can't fathom not wanting to go.
Of course, while I still think the shuttle is a pretty neat vehicle, I'd also be perfectly willing to go on any other vehicle that would send me into space.
Coming back safely would be nice too, but given the current state of the technology I'd accept the inherent risks.
A funny movie about some big-city sales-whiz sent from Coca Cola corporate HQ to an Australian outback where the soda market is dominated by a local concern, and he has to try and get Coke sales going. It's not the typical fish-out-of-water-movie, although it sounds like ti from my description.
This one was defnitely underappreciated. I think the critics praised it when it was out, but I don't really know anybody who's ever heard of it.
I've always liked What's Up Doc?, Valley Girl, and Return To Me. (hmm, one/decade?)
I liked this one too.