Short but, well, short.
Here's the full text, 'cause ya never know.
Apart from Sharp's Zaurus line, you don't hear too much about Linux-based PDAs - Pocket PCs and Palms tend to receive the bulk of the attention. We'd never heard of the company before, but G.Mate has a new Linux-powered PDA out, the Yopy 3700, which has a 206MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, a CompactFlash expansion slot, a 65,000 color screen, and a built-in keyboard. William Hungerford gives it high marks:
The Yopy is based on an eye-pleasing clamshell design. With the screen down the Yopy is about the same depth as a paperback book, making it about twice as thick as the normal PDA. Most of the depth comes from the well designed, built-in keyboard. In fact, this keyboard is much more agreeable to my fat fingers than other keyboards I've used. When you flip open the cover you're presented with a good looking TFT LCD screen. Overall, this is beautiful hardware. The design is compact when not in use, but when opened the Yopy is quite user friendly. The really great thing about this PDA is the presence of both MC and CF card slots. To me, this is almost the perfect PDA design.
The hardest part was to explain why alt, ctrl, meta, esc, shift and caps lock are not exactly just "any" keys.
Back in the day (early 90s? Mac PB540c) those keys worked just fine as "any" key.
How did I think to try this? Because I was a smart-ass back then too, and my experience with PCs had made a cynic of me about "Press any key to continue." Windows (NT, Win95 wasn't out yet IIRC) didn't recognize those keypresses, but X windows on my Sun did. Linux+X windows did too. I was very surprised to see that the Mac recognized them.
As far as I know, WinXP still doesn't.
That's what you're saying now. Just wait until the new automated dog catcher starts hunting you from a mile away, shoots you with a tranquilizer dart, and you wake up in a cage at the local pound with nothing but a bowl of water and some Alpo.
Yeah, but at least his rabies shots will finally be up-to-date.
Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it?
Don't be silly. What's next, readers moderating the story submission queue? Catching dupes? Fixing typographical errors? Posting Google Cache links or no-registration partner links to NYT articles?
IIRC, Prometheus' story didn't exactly have a happy ending. (obSlashjoke: This project will surely open a Pandora's Box) Maybe we could call it Magellan Mark IV or something a bit more optimistic?
You of course mean "Who's Bill?", short for "Who is Bill?"
No, he certainly meant "whois bill" which is a malformed query to see who has registered "bill.com"
And, FWIW, bill.com is for sale by a domain squatter.
I used to work for a big corp, and buzzwords like that nearly made sense to me.
For the past three years, I've been at much smaller companies, and I've also been doing a fair bit of martial arts training.
All that to say that when you toss out phrases like targeting the "low-hanging fruit" in this vertical, it takes me a minute to realize that you're not talking about a kick to the groin.
Technically, the DMCA doen't make it illegal to circumvent the CSS encoding. Telling us how you did it could land you in a federal holding pen.
Wow, so if I tell you to google for VideoLan client I'm breaking the law?
What if I just gave away the link right here where anyone could see?
FYI -- this also works under Windows, and is free. No, it doesn't have the same goofy skins as WinDVD Super-Dee-Duper-Pro. You watch your controller's skin, I'll watch the damn movie thankyouverymuch.
Why not just have one fileserver and put a flat-panel box with a basic sound card (hacked i-opener, anyone?) in each room? Or did you want the same music playing in each room in sync?
For that matter, why limit your network to 54Mhz? It's a desktop, it's got lots of wires. Run an additional Cat5 in and drop a few hundred off the price.
This was beaten to death on the homebrew digest way back in the day.
N2 is barely soluable in beer. Draft guiness is only available via Guiness-supplied taps. The beer in the keg is carbonated with CO2 just like any other beer. When the barkeep pulls on the handle, it opens the beer line but also an N2 line which bubbles into the beer line just before the tap.
The N2 suds escape the beer plenty fast. Add malt for better head retention and the CO2 suds will last longer, but don't count on getting a draft Guiness head with a stock tap.
And as long as we're offtopic this far...
My 8th grade metal shop teacher had a comic strip taped to the oxy-acetylene rig to this effect. Two suits are looking out over the roof of a warehouse, and there's a body rocketing through the roof. The caption is "looks like someone's using grease on the O2 regulator fittings again."
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Short but, well, short.
Here's the full text, 'cause ya never know.
Apart from Sharp's Zaurus line, you don't hear too much about Linux-based PDAs - Pocket PCs and Palms tend to receive the bulk of the attention. We'd never heard of the company before, but G.Mate has a new Linux-powered PDA out, the Yopy 3700, which has a 206MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, a CompactFlash expansion slot, a 65,000 color screen, and a built-in keyboard. William Hungerford gives it high marks:
The Yopy is based on an eye-pleasing clamshell design. With the screen down the Yopy is about the same depth as a paperback book, making it about twice as thick as the normal PDA. Most of the depth comes from the well designed, built-in keyboard. In fact, this keyboard is much more agreeable to my fat fingers than other keyboards I've used. When you flip open the cover you're presented with a good looking TFT LCD screen. Overall, this is beautiful hardware. The design is compact when not in use, but when opened the Yopy is quite user friendly. The really great thing about this PDA is the presence of both MC and CF card slots. To me, this is almost the perfect PDA design.
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This is going to be in place for the '04 elections in the US. Czar Ashcroft said something about "Streamlining the process to protect our freedoms."
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The hardest part was to explain why alt, ctrl, meta, esc, shift and caps lock are not exactly just "any" keys.
Back in the day (early 90s? Mac PB540c) those keys worked just fine as "any" key.
How did I think to try this? Because I was a smart-ass back then too, and my experience with PCs had made a cynic of me about "Press any key to continue."
Windows (NT, Win95 wasn't out yet IIRC) didn't recognize those keypresses, but X windows on my Sun did. Linux+X windows did too. I was very surprised to see that the Mac recognized them.
As far as I know, WinXP still doesn't.
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That's what you're saying now. Just wait until the new automated dog catcher starts hunting you from a mile away, shoots you with a tranquilizer dart, and you wake up in a cage at the local pound with nothing but a bowl of water and some Alpo.
Yeah, but at least his rabies shots will finally be up-to-date.
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Count me in. Legal US resident, not in one of those "icky" states that Taco prohibits.
See my user profile (bio? whatever) for contact info.
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Since we're the ones buying the shirts.. shouldn't we be the ones voting for it?
Don't be silly. What's next, readers moderating the story submission queue? Catching dupes? Fixing typographical errors? Posting Google Cache links or no-registration partner links to NYT articles?
That's crazy talk, man!
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Could be Icarus
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IIRC, Prometheus' story didn't exactly have a happy ending. (obSlashjoke: This project will surely open a Pandora's Box)
Maybe we could call it Magellan Mark IV or something a bit more optimistic?
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Wall....Wall....Intruder's leg....Cat....Intruders stomach....Intruder's head....Birdcage....Bird....
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And let me just say I'm profoundly sorry about the subject line of this post.
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You of course mean "Who's Bill?", short for "Who is Bill?"
No, he certainly meant "whois bill" which is a malformed query to see who has registered "bill.com"
And, FWIW, bill.com is for sale by a domain squatter.
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We can't sell that information, but for a $5 rental fee I'll tell you that his name is George.
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I used to work for a big corp, and buzzwords like that nearly made sense to me.
For the past three years, I've been at much smaller companies, and I've also been doing a fair bit of martial arts training.
All that to say that when you toss out phrases like targeting the "low-hanging fruit" in this vertical, it takes me a minute to realize that you're not talking about a kick to the groin.
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I'm not entirely sure what that website sells but I know that I want to punch the crap out of it.
You Sir (or Ma'am) have just been befriended.
Thomas Jefferson said that people get the rulers they deserve!
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Why not send the expendable humans instead?
Oh, wait, it turns out that Lance Bass can't actually afford the ticket. Nevermind
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Technically, the DMCA doen't make it illegal to circumvent the CSS encoding. Telling us how you did it could land you in a federal holding pen.
Wow, so if I tell you to google for VideoLan client I'm breaking the law?
What if I just gave away the link right here where anyone could see?
FYI -- this also works under Windows, and is free. No, it doesn't have the same goofy skins as WinDVD Super-Dee-Duper-Pro. You watch your controller's skin, I'll watch the damn movie thankyouverymuch.
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Why not just have one fileserver and put a flat-panel box with a basic sound card (hacked i-opener, anyone?) in each room? Or did you want the same music playing in each room in sync?
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For that matter, why limit your network to 54Mhz? It's a desktop, it's got lots of wires. Run an additional Cat5 in and drop a few hundred off the price.
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Then it's a FoxTV special -- When Cell Phones Attack!
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I must be missing the joke -- what black holes are you talking about? The APOD in the link just describes the stellar nursery
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The 4 is silent, you see.
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In related news, Pringles shipments were up by %110.
They might have some catching-up to do first.
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This was beaten to death on the homebrew digest way back in the day.
N2 is barely soluable in beer. Draft guiness is only available via Guiness-supplied taps. The beer in the keg is carbonated with CO2 just like any other beer. When the barkeep pulls on the handle, it opens the beer line but also an N2 line which bubbles into the beer line just before the tap.
The N2 suds escape the beer plenty fast. Add malt for better head retention and the CO2 suds will last longer, but don't count on getting a draft Guiness head with a stock tap.
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And as long as we're offtopic this far...
My 8th grade metal shop teacher had a comic strip taped to the oxy-acetylene rig to this effect. Two suits are looking out over the roof of a warehouse, and there's a body rocketing through the roof. The caption is "looks like someone's using grease on the O2 regulator fittings again."
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