Oh yeah... and Elvis is dead too. Had nothing to do with peanut butter & bananna sandwiches or drugs... nope... Graceland was just down the hill from a big 'ol King sized radio tower.
I would do this, but managing POP email is a pain in the neck, as I am often switching between machines and operating systems.
I know this is a bit offtopic, but does anyone know of a good POP management method?
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The Mortal Kombat movie was pretty good.
Then suddenly, it became fashionable to bash Mortal Kombat.
Then they made a sequel to the movie, which is such a despicably awful b-movie that every copy of it (Film reels, divx files, DVDs, VHS, Laser Discs, etc) should be shoved up the director's ass, never to see the light of day again.
Like Natas said the iBook is light and has a form-factor similar to an actual book. I use it as an ebook reader all the time.
What would you need a keyboard for on an eBook reader? Or a g4 processor? Or a 150GB hard drive? Or cutting-edge video chipset? All that stuff costs more, and yes, I want it cheap.
Well, it's nice for a multi-purpose machine. You can get an iBook for around $1000. Now you're going to say "too expensive for an ebook reader," but the fact is that quality LCD screens cost money.
Other ebook readers I've seen cost nearly as much, have screens that are nigh unreadable, or read only proprietary formats. The iBook will happily read PDF, HTML, txt, etc.
Or you could, ya know, just buy a paperback if you're that low on cash.
I don't see the irony here. To have any hope of commercial trampling a 500 pound gorilla like MS, we need to piggy-back off an 800-pound gorilla like Wal-Mart.
Here, I'll make it simple for all you anime fans out there. You have to defeat the evil Shigotsu, who wrecks havok in a 60 story tall Megadeuce. What do you do? You go around, doing some stuff for general plot purposes (SCO, for instance), then go toe to toe in your own, gigantic, enormously expensive giant robot.
Well, that may be true, but there's simply no (logical) reason why anyone should need a whole 1 ghz for simple stuff.
*sigh* Just imagine how far ahead we would be if it weren't for all this bloat. I could at least understand the bloat if these programs added a lot of extra functionality, but they don't.
true...but 1Ghz is enough for menial tasks like office and webbrowsing...
Huh? 500 mhz was more than enough for menial tasks like office and webbrowsing!
Geez, I have an 800 mhz iBook that I use for Quark, Photoshop, software compilations, etc. Not to mention word processing, webbrowsing, music, and email.
Talk about software bloat. What are you running, a beta copy of Longhorn?
I agree. Jurassic Park used CGI flawlessly more than a decade ago, but later efforts (Including its two sequels) just didn't look as good.
What really makes special effects "special" isn't the "wow" factor, as much as the work put in. For example, I'm still amazed at the special effects and elaborate sets in the original Star Wars trilogy. They took hard work, creativity, and ingenuity, and created something really convincing.
Then I watch the new trilogy and see nothing but CGI junk that some goobers created on a monitor. They're not nearly as impressive, or as convincing.
The downside is that you'll need to haul / find a monitor wherever you go.
Not necessarily. Here's an idea, but I'm not sure of how well it would work.
Ditch the small form factor. Use a regular ATX case. Install carry handles on top and lightweight wheels on bottom.
Then, cut out a hole in the side of the case and mount an LCD there. I've never really seen a hack like this, but I've seen similar (Small LCD mounted in the front).
Well, if your military randomly bombs an idle, peace-time military base, I guess you should expect a little hostility.
Well, if we can just randomly select what's a racial slur and what's not, I'm declaring "white" to be a racial slur. I get sick of everyone else getting a special name while we don't one of our own!
From now on, refer to my people as European-American, thank you very much!
Well, that's a pretty good reason. Despite the fact that there are many "user friendly" installation methods out there, whenever I've ran Linux, I've often had to compile a needed application for whatever reason.
But I can give some better reasons. Here's one: Why should anyone switch? Yeah, okay, security is better, less viruses and spyware and all that, but there are workarounds aplenty.
To the average user, Linux is an OS that looks similar to Windows, except that it can't run all of the programs they like, can't run the games they want to play, and probably can't drive the hardware they want.
The problem is that FOSS developers are just now working on trying to get the thing to be somewhat user friendly, while Apple and Microsoft (To a lesser degree) are adding shiny new features. Linux is playing a never-ending game of catch-up.
The truly frustrating thing is that Linux does have plenty to offer. Imagine, an OS with built in office suite, photo editing app, layout app, etc. out of the box! And that'd be great, except for the fact that they're developed with different toolkits, by different projects, and don't necessarily play nice with each other, much less operate in a similar manner.
And there have been numerous attempts to unify it. But that's the problem, they're all separate projects with different aims and don't necessarily play nice with each other.
IMHO, Linux's best bet would be for a company to take hold and solidify it. And I don't mean just another distro company. Even Linspire, with it's lofty aims just repackages what's already out there. We need a company with a vision, who can take the cool programs, use the good parts, and recreate them into something that is unified, easy to use, functional, and beautiful.
IBM could do it, but I doubt they will. It would have to be a company similar to Apple, that is, a hardware company who develops the OS on the side.
I've had a dream of forming just such a start-up for some time, but it seems impossible.
With that in mind, here's some of my ideas for the FOSS community to use.
1. Display-SVG. I don't see why not. Apple (And NeXt) have led the way with Display-PS and Display-PDF, so why not come out with our own implementation? Yes, I know, once again playing catch-up, but at least we'd be playing catch-up to someone who's actually on the cutting edge for once.
2. Games. Ever thought of taking the core of Nethack and making a Diablo type game out of it, with networking support? I know, there are OpenGL versions of it out there, but I'm talking about something really nice. It'd sell like hotcakes. And let's not forget about those open-sourced id engines.
If you could come out with a unique hardware platform. (It could be x86, just write the OS with the company's specific hardware configuration in mind), and released it with lots of cool apps and GAMES, then I guarantee it could sell. Hell, how many of you out there are plunking down hundreds of dollars to upgrade to Doom 3?
4. Good DTP. Take the GIMP and Scribus. Dismantle them. Give them a clean, similar interface, and native CMYK support. You could then sell this system to publishing houses all over the country. Many of them are on Mac OS 9 and Quark 4, and are looking at extremely expensive upgrades to OS X and InDesign. If you could present them with something that worked just as well, but was thousands cheaper, you couldn't keep these things in stock.
Okay, well that's enough ideas for now. Basically, we'd be talking about an Apple-like company, except with cheaper hardware and more software. If anyone knows any uber-rich venture capitalists who'd be willing to invest in such a project, let me know.
Oh, and as for this mysterious hardware I'm talking about, well that's my own little proprietary secret. But I will say this: IMHO, it'd make the "iMac revolution" and "case mods" seem incredibly quaint.
...That Slashdot is dying. Between constant 503 server errors, a godawful color scheme for the new IT section, and drunken rants about '60s icons performing in the Lord of the Rings, Slashdot is in desperate need of life support.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, recovering today from cancer surgery said, "I really feel for Taco and the gang. Those guys are truly the ones who are suffering."
Both Mac-heads and BSD gurus are holding a candlelight vigil for the ailing site, popular with the technical community since the late nineties.
Okay, I know it's an off-topic troll, but damnit, it's true (Except for the quote and the Netcraft thing, and the vigil) AND IT HAD TO BE SAID!!!
Back in the day (Late nineties), I ran a little organization called the Hacker Anti Defamation League. The basic idea was to start a grass roots campaign to convince the media to use the term appropriately.
It was somewhat successful. I had ESR and RMS on board, and we were mentioned in Scientific American.
Unfortunately, I wasn't really prepared to deal with such a project (I was only about 14 or 15 when I started), and my life basically fell apart, killing the project.
If anyone out there would like to start it up again, please be my guest.
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Yeah, but...but his dad totally owns a dealership!
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"Elvis never did no drugs!"
Great George Carlin Cut & Paste.
Hey, if you have to plagiarize, plagiarize from the best!
Hey, wait a second...Arnie's not a Republican at all...
HE'S A LIBERTARIAN!!!!!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I would do this, but managing POP email is a pain in the neck, as I am often switching between machines and operating systems.
I know this is a bit offtopic, but does anyone know of a good POP management method?
The Mortal Kombat movie was pretty good.
Then suddenly, it became fashionable to bash Mortal Kombat.
Then they made a sequel to the movie, which is such a despicably awful b-movie that every copy of it (Film reels, divx files, DVDs, VHS, Laser Discs, etc) should be shoved up the director's ass, never to see the light of day again.
But I digress...
I personally would like to see them put little buttons on the back (Like the status button on the battery) for navigation.
What would you need a keyboard for on an eBook reader? Or a g4 processor? Or a 150GB hard drive? Or cutting-edge video chipset? All that stuff costs more, and yes, I want it cheap.
Well, it's nice for a multi-purpose machine. You can get an iBook for around $1000. Now you're going to say "too expensive for an ebook reader," but the fact is that quality LCD screens cost money.
Other ebook readers I've seen cost nearly as much, have screens that are nigh unreadable, or read only proprietary formats. The iBook will happily read PDF, HTML, txt, etc.
Or you could, ya know, just buy a paperback if you're that low on cash.
12" iBook.
Download desired book as PDF.
Open it in Preview.
View --> Rotate Left
View --> Fullscreen
Click mouse button to flip pages.
Done.
I don't see the irony here. To have any hope of commercial trampling a 500 pound gorilla like MS, we need to piggy-back off an 800-pound gorilla like Wal-Mart.
Here, I'll make it simple for all you anime fans out there. You have to defeat the evil Shigotsu, who wrecks havok in a 60 story tall Megadeuce. What do you do? You go around, doing some stuff for general plot purposes (SCO, for instance), then go toe to toe in your own, gigantic, enormously expensive giant robot.
Well, that may be true, but there's simply no (logical) reason why anyone should need a whole 1 ghz for simple stuff.
*sigh* Just imagine how far ahead we would be if it weren't for all this bloat. I could at least understand the bloat if these programs added a lot of extra functionality, but they don't.
Huh? 500 mhz was more than enough for menial tasks like office and webbrowsing!
Geez, I have an 800 mhz iBook that I use for Quark, Photoshop, software compilations, etc. Not to mention word processing, webbrowsing, music, and email.
Talk about software bloat. What are you running, a beta copy of Longhorn?
Yes, it is both. In legal terms, it would called "administrative law."
This, of course, can be overruled by statutory law or constitutional law.
I agree. Jurassic Park used CGI flawlessly more than a decade ago, but later efforts (Including its two sequels) just didn't look as good.
What really makes special effects "special" isn't the "wow" factor, as much as the work put in. For example, I'm still amazed at the special effects and elaborate sets in the original Star Wars trilogy. They took hard work, creativity, and ingenuity, and created something really convincing.
Then I watch the new trilogy and see nothing but CGI junk that some goobers created on a monitor. They're not nearly as impressive, or as convincing.
Not necessarily. Here's an idea, but I'm not sure of how well it would work.
Ditch the small form factor. Use a regular ATX case. Install carry handles on top and lightweight wheels on bottom.
Then, cut out a hole in the side of the case and mount an LCD there. I've never really seen a hack like this, but I've seen similar (Small LCD mounted in the front).
Oh well, an idea.
Well, if your military randomly bombs an idle, peace-time military base, I guess you should expect a little hostility.
Well, if we can just randomly select what's a racial slur and what's not, I'm declaring "white" to be a racial slur. I get sick of everyone else getting a special name while we don't one of our own!
From now on, refer to my people as European-American, thank you very much!
I'll never understand why "Jap" is considered a racial slur. Why isn't "Brit" a racial slur?
/. editor Michael "Mike," have I slurred him?
If I call our illustrious
And don't even get me started on why "Canuck" or "Yank" is acceptable.
Funniest...Thread...Ever.
Well, that's a pretty good reason. Despite the fact that there are many "user friendly" installation methods out there, whenever I've ran Linux, I've often had to compile a needed application for whatever reason.
But I can give some better reasons. Here's one: Why should anyone switch? Yeah, okay, security is better, less viruses and spyware and all that, but there are workarounds aplenty.
To the average user, Linux is an OS that looks similar to Windows, except that it can't run all of the programs they like, can't run the games they want to play, and probably can't drive the hardware they want.
The problem is that FOSS developers are just now working on trying to get the thing to be somewhat user friendly, while Apple and Microsoft (To a lesser degree) are adding shiny new features. Linux is playing a never-ending game of catch-up.
The truly frustrating thing is that Linux does have plenty to offer. Imagine, an OS with built in office suite, photo editing app, layout app, etc. out of the box! And that'd be great, except for the fact that they're developed with different toolkits, by different projects, and don't necessarily play nice with each other, much less operate in a similar manner.
And there have been numerous attempts to unify it. But that's the problem, they're all separate projects with different aims and don't necessarily play nice with each other.
IMHO, Linux's best bet would be for a company to take hold and solidify it. And I don't mean just another distro company. Even Linspire, with it's lofty aims just repackages what's already out there. We need a company with a vision, who can take the cool programs, use the good parts, and recreate them into something that is unified, easy to use, functional, and beautiful.
IBM could do it, but I doubt they will. It would have to be a company similar to Apple, that is, a hardware company who develops the OS on the side.
I've had a dream of forming just such a start-up for some time, but it seems impossible.
With that in mind, here's some of my ideas for the FOSS community to use.
1. Display-SVG. I don't see why not. Apple (And NeXt) have led the way with Display-PS and Display-PDF, so why not come out with our own implementation? Yes, I know, once again playing catch-up, but at least we'd be playing catch-up to someone who's actually on the cutting edge for once.
2. Games. Ever thought of taking the core of Nethack and making a Diablo type game out of it, with networking support? I know, there are OpenGL versions of it out there, but I'm talking about something really nice. It'd sell like hotcakes. And let's not forget about those open-sourced id engines.
If you could come out with a unique hardware platform. (It could be x86, just write the OS with the company's specific hardware configuration in mind), and released it with lots of cool apps and GAMES, then I guarantee it could sell. Hell, how many of you out there are plunking down hundreds of dollars to upgrade to Doom 3?
4. Good DTP. Take the GIMP and Scribus. Dismantle them. Give them a clean, similar interface, and native CMYK support. You could then sell this system to publishing houses all over the country. Many of them are on Mac OS 9 and Quark 4, and are looking at extremely expensive upgrades to OS X and InDesign. If you could present them with something that worked just as well, but was thousands cheaper, you couldn't keep these things in stock.
Okay, well that's enough ideas for now. Basically, we'd be talking about an Apple-like company, except with cheaper hardware and more software. If anyone knows any uber-rich venture capitalists who'd be willing to invest in such a project, let me know.
Oh, and as for this mysterious hardware I'm talking about, well that's my own little proprietary secret. But I will say this: IMHO, it'd make the "iMac revolution" and "case mods" seem incredibly quaint.
Oh, and a live action movie too.
...That Slashdot is dying. Between constant 503 server errors, a godawful color scheme for the new IT section, and drunken rants about '60s icons performing in the Lord of the Rings, Slashdot is in desperate need of life support.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, recovering today from cancer surgery said, "I really feel for Taco and the gang. Those guys are truly the ones who are suffering."
Both Mac-heads and BSD gurus are holding a candlelight vigil for the ailing site, popular with the technical community since the late nineties.
Okay, I know it's an off-topic troll, but damnit, it's true (Except for the quote and the Netcraft thing, and the vigil) AND IT HAD TO BE SAID!!!
Who are they going to get payouts from? Themselves? Windows is the only OS I've ever seen with a blue screen of death.
Back in the day (Late nineties), I ran a little organization called the Hacker Anti Defamation League. The basic idea was to start a grass roots campaign to convince the media to use the term appropriately.
It was somewhat successful. I had ESR and RMS on board, and we were mentioned in Scientific American.
Unfortunately, I wasn't really prepared to deal with such a project (I was only about 14 or 15 when I started), and my life basically fell apart, killing the project.
If anyone out there would like to start it up again, please be my guest.
Yeah, but...but his dad totally owns a dealership!
Oh, okay, the bonus is added after the fact. That makes sense then. Thanks for clearing that up.
Story's still awful though.
Well, trolled, where's the fountains of blood and endless trail of dead Slasbots?
I'm rather disappointed.