I telecommute from Florida to a job in Vancouver. Due to the time difference, I find myself working more hours. I try to work regular East Coast hours, but frequently something will come up at 5PM or later which I need to work on. I also sometimes figure out a bit of code late at night and start working on it.
All music players use DRM and all of them lock you into buying music from their service. The iPod & iPhone are no different than the zune & other players. HOWEVER, all of them including the iPod & iPhone are still able to play unprotected MP3s and there's nothing to stop you from ripping your own CDs and putting them on your iPhone. You can also buy unprotected music from eMusic and play them on your iPod. You can't play music from zune marketplace on your iPod or iPhone, of course, not that anyone would want to.
I'm developing a Kubuntu-based distro, XPresslinux, designed for Windows switchers. We pre-install WINE, VLC Media Player, Firefox with MPlayer plugin, and Java (free GCJ), so users can play most common media files and run many Windows applications. OpenOffice, which is included in Kubuntu, already takes care of MS Office documents.
Microsoft has set the entire computer industry back by pushing inferior products. Thanks to Windows people *expect* computers to crash and to have to fiddle for days before they can get something to work.
Same here. Most of the people my own age I know in real life don't have a clue about computers and most haven't even heard of Linux. I find most kids know more about programming than people my age.
At 44 you're an old fart? I'm in my late 40s and I refuse to grow old. It depresses me when people like Douglas Adams were younger than me when they died.
I work for a Vancouver-based company, so I'd be able to keep my current job. I've visited Vancouver a few times and I really love it, unfortunately it's much too expensive. I own a condo now & I'd never be able to afford anything as nice in Vancouver. I don't want to go back to renting an apartment.
I'd really like to see ZFS become the standard file system if work is discontinued on Reiser4. ZFS is probably the best file system available, with virtual storage pools, snapshots, variable block sizes, and lightweight filesystem creation. Check out this ZFS demo.
I get way more than 40 MPG, usually over 50 on my new Prius.
I find that the first 5 minutes of a trip I get about 25-30 MPG, which then goes up to 50 for the next 5 minutes and then stays around 60-75 for the rest of my trip (if I'm on surface streets without the AC, or stays around 50 when I'm on the highway with the AC on). That shows graphically that short trips waste gas, since the engine isn't warmed up and running at full eficiency. Since most Americans tend to take short trips, such as a few blocks to the grocery store, a lot of gas is wasted.
There is no such thing as a religion of peace. In fact it's impossible, since by nature religions tell their followers that their religion is right, all others are wrong. Therefore, although the level of tolerance differs, followers of other religions need to be made to believe their religion.
May I point out that no terrorist act was ever committed by atheists and that no war has ever been started by atheists. It's always been in the name of some god.
My first computer was a Quest Super Elf, based on RCA's 1802 CPU. The 1802 has a RISC-like architecture with 16 general purpose 16 bit wide registers and a nice, simple, logical instruction set where the lower 4 bits represent a register. That makes it very easy to hand-assemble machine code, which was the only way you could write code for it, since I was never able to get my ASCII keyboard & display working so I could use Tiny Basic.
I'd love to see them add an eBook reader to the PSP. It already does everything else. If the GP2X can already do it with a smaller screen, it would be even better on a PSP.
Why do we need an outdated inferior browser when we already have a great open source browser and open source WebKit? IE doesn't do anything firefox or safari doesn't do.
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I think drug ads should be banned, since they encourage people to self-diagnose non-existent ailments and take medications they don't need.
I telecommute from Florida to a job in Vancouver. Due to the time difference, I find myself working more hours. I try to work regular East Coast hours, but frequently something will come up at 5PM or later which I need to work on. I also sometimes figure out a bit of code late at night and start working on it.
All music players use DRM and all of them lock you into buying music from their service. The iPod & iPhone are no different than the zune & other players. HOWEVER, all of them including the iPod & iPhone are still able to play unprotected MP3s and there's nothing to stop you from ripping your own CDs and putting them on your iPhone. You can also buy unprotected music from eMusic and play them on your iPod. You can't play music from zune marketplace on your iPod or iPhone, of course, not that anyone would want to.
I've never seen intelligent conversation on Yahoo's message boards. The yahoos who post there are a step lower than AOLers.
I'm developing a Kubuntu-based distro, XPresslinux, designed for Windows switchers. We pre-install WINE, VLC Media Player, Firefox with MPlayer plugin, and Java (free GCJ), so users can play most common media files and run many Windows applications. OpenOffice, which is included in Kubuntu, already takes care of MS Office documents.
Microsoft has set the entire computer industry back by pushing inferior products. Thanks to Windows people *expect* computers to crash and to have to fiddle for days before they can get something to work.
We should pay virtual taxes for virtual goods.
Yesterday I found that I could easily fit 8 large bags of mulch in my Prius with room for more. What's that about hybrids being too small?
Same here. Most of the people my own age I know in real life don't have a clue about computers and most haven't even heard of Linux. I find most kids know more about programming than people my age.
At 44 you're an old fart? I'm in my late 40s and I refuse to grow old. It depresses me when people like Douglas Adams were younger than me when they died.
Yes! I'd love to see ZFS in Linux (and Mac OS X).
I work for a Vancouver-based company, so I'd be able to keep my current job. I've visited Vancouver a few times and I really love it, unfortunately it's much too expensive. I own a condo now & I'd never be able to afford anything as nice in Vancouver. I don't want to go back to renting an apartment.
I'd really like to see ZFS become the standard file system if work is discontinued on Reiser4. ZFS is probably the best file system available, with virtual storage pools, snapshots, variable block sizes, and lightweight filesystem creation. Check out this ZFS demo.
The other day my iPod played Rachid Taha's cover version of "Rock The Casbah" followed immediately by The Clash's original version.
I get way more than 40 MPG, usually over 50 on my new Prius. I find that the first 5 minutes of a trip I get about 25-30 MPG, which then goes up to 50 for the next 5 minutes and then stays around 60-75 for the rest of my trip (if I'm on surface streets without the AC, or stays around 50 when I'm on the highway with the AC on). That shows graphically that short trips waste gas, since the engine isn't warmed up and running at full eficiency. Since most Americans tend to take short trips, such as a few blocks to the grocery store, a lot of gas is wasted.
They'll have to pry my MacBook Pro & iPod out of my cold, dead fingers. If I have to check my laptop, I'll walk instead.
There is no such thing as a religion of peace. In fact it's impossible, since by nature religions tell their followers that their religion is right, all others are wrong. Therefore, although the level of tolerance differs, followers of other religions need to be made to believe their religion. May I point out that no terrorist act was ever committed by atheists and that no war has ever been started by atheists. It's always been in the name of some god.
If that's what you want, get a GP2X.
Since I got my Intel mac, I always install source packages with Darwin Ports since almost no prebuilt packages are Intel native.
My first computer was a Quest Super Elf, based on RCA's 1802 CPU. The 1802 has a RISC-like architecture with 16 general purpose 16 bit wide registers and a nice, simple, logical instruction set where the lower 4 bits represent a register. That makes it very easy to hand-assemble machine code, which was the only way you could write code for it, since I was never able to get my ASCII keyboard & display working so I could use Tiny Basic.
I'm just using a cheap Linux box using software RAID with two internal 120G drives.
I'd love to see them add an eBook reader to the PSP. It already does everything else. If the GP2X can already do it with a smaller screen, it would be even better on a PSP.
Why do we need an outdated inferior browser when we already have a great open source browser and open source WebKit? IE doesn't do anything firefox or safari doesn't do.
Rings & moons around Uranus... there's got to be a joke in there somewhere.
In other words, widgets like Dashboard or Konfabulator^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Yahoo Widgets.