Sheet - got fifteen hundred dollars, you can have a terabyte of hard drive space tomorrow. Four SATA 250G drives and a PCI SATA 4 port card will run you easily under $1,500 today, the hard part would be finding four drive bays in today's small form factor cases (or maybe not.)
Anybody want to go on the record here and publicly say 'A terabyte of email space ought to be enough for anybody.' ?
For those of you that missed usenet growing up, here is what it looked like:
Me too! >Me too! >>me to >>>me too!!!1 >>>>me2! >>>>>me me me >>>>>>Me also. >>>>>>>Please include me in that offer. >>>>>>>>I would like free pr0n in my email inbox. >>>>>>>>>Me too! >>>>>>>>>>Ooh ooh yes please send me teh free porns. >>>>>>>>>>>Get free pr0n in your email in box! Respond here now!
Cool*. Was less concerned about the range of existing wifi and more concerned with 'how fast will the bandwidth be if they are using the 600MHz'ish frequency bands?' Honestly given the lower frequency I expect the range of this stuff to be a lot longer (but at what speed?)
If we be able to design / buy wireless access points that can move 10 megabits / second using a 30MHz band or two from the 600MHz frequency range - this is going to be SWEET because of the extended ranges we will get by using a much lower frequency, but if the peak throughput is in the xx kilobytes per second range I have to wonder if it is too much fuss for too little, too late.
*The 100 feet was just an example using omni directional dipole accesspoint, pcmcia 802.11b wifi nic, no line of sight and in a home going from upstairs left side of the house to downstairs right side of the house with half the doors closed.
You aren't a programmer, you aren't a PHB (this implying you aren't a manager) - you started out doing network admin and that position evolved. And you make one and a half more than the best programmers at your company (I'm guessing this puts you into the low six digits, or at least into the $90k's.) And haven't been out of work for any length of time in the past decade.
So what do you do?
I'm guessing you are now a contractor / consultant doing infrastructure through a broker, probably on a 1099 basis (although possibly on a W2 basis.) A healthy chunk of the position involves social engineering, maneuvering and jockying for your next gig, along with the historical overview and ability to draw facts from the nuances of a multitude of different sources on-site and put together both a list of issues and potential resolutions. It isn't math, but it also isn't something someone with Autistic tendencies and no practical experience in the field is going to be able to pull off.
What do you do, now that you have my head spinning?
I think that Trademark law is intended to protect a company's trademarks. The term windows had been used (albeit in very limited fashion) before then as the moniker of a technique of organizing screen output, but Microsoft was the first to come out with, market, and sell a 'product' called Windows. The terms Apple and Macintosh was widely used long before the Woz applied them to a computer line - but as a computer product and company the terms Apple and Macintosh are their trademarks (and I am guessing subject to trademark law.)
Anyways I just realized that incontext the AC was arguing about whether or not MS should have been able to trademark the term Windows, drawing allegory from the history of the word usage in the computer world. Drawing this back to the Googol vs. Google, we see that I support Google in telling the family that wants to sue for 'insider IPO rights' to get bent. Wouldn't dream of telling you that, though, 'cause you are old-school and I like old-school. It isn't that I don't agree with you, it is that we are talking in parallel about two different topics.
Depleted uranium has existed forever, but that doesn't make it a household item. I applaud your ability to find a single use prototype from the 60's that demonstrated the use of screen windowing technology - but that doesn't exactly constitute "_lots_ of pre-1985 uses."
I was even going to give you this one because of XWindows, until I remember that the X Windows system concept first emerged in 1984, not going live in any volume until well after 1985 (x11, 1987.)
I didn't say the concept hadn't been 'invented' - I said it wasn't a common / wide used concept, aka "_lots_ of pre-1985 uses."
With the old crank knob dial radios that adjusted the frequency with a dial, you could occasionally crank them beyond the end of the radio spectrum and if there was a television broadcasting on channel 6 (on the low end) or channel 7 (on the high end) you could tune in and listen to them.
Or maybe I was just a kid and making things up to entertain myself back then.
I am curious - what kind of speed are we going to get out of the 600MHz range of radiowaves? Does the frequency range have any bearing to the throughput once it is way over the minimum?
Only reason I ask this is that wifi uses the 2.4GHz band to get 11 megabit on a good day with ranges of about 100 feet, and telephones recently moved to the 2.4GHz band because most phones using the 900MHz band sucked (but were much better than the early ones that used the 47MHz range.)
I envision being able to broadcast for miles in the 600MHz range (crank up the power!), but carrying what sort of bandwidth?
-There were _lots_ of pre-1985 uses of the word "Windows" in the computer field.
Oh? Given that the strongest home user chip predating 1984 was the 1MHz 6502, the Motorola 6800 and maybe the blazingly fast 4.7MHz 8086... that shortly before then the most common method of interfacing with a computer was via punch cards and printed output - I'm guessing that the use of the word 'Windows' in the tech sector in the two decades spanning 1963 to 1983 had a lot to do with looking outside to see the grass and trees and nothing to do with technology.
Good thing the kid was like 5 years old - if it had been a teenager or college kid he would have called that number a 'fuckload' and guess what the number one search engine on the planet would have been... yea, a whole new paradigm.
The word Robot comes from the words Robotination and Derobotination, just like how the word Modem comes from Modulation and Demodulation. It has something to do with converting from digital to analog and back.
Umm Google. Googol. Two great words that sound the same... but aren't the same. On second thought, no - I don't think so. If the family had built some corporate and marketing empire making a fortune around the word Googol, investing zillions of marketing dollars to insure that Googol was a common household name associated with their product... and then wanted to claim copyright infringement because the word Google was similar and was horning in on their extreme success (see also : Lindows, Windows) then maybe.. but this is like going after Mrs. Bairds Cherry Pie business because your late grandfather founded the irrational number pi (3.1415962...)
The way I understand it they aren't doing it to 'make more money.' The powers that be have (FTC?) authorized Google to go public assuming a certain valuation of the company as a whole, so instead of picking the number of shares and coming up with IPO price, they are determining via Dutch Auction the share price and coming up with the number of shares (and selling those shares to the top guys in the Dutch Auction.)
And yes, it pretty much eliminates insiders, which is the coolest thing I have ever heard of - unless I get to be an insider too, like the googol folks.
I think you are going the right direction here. Software engineering as taught under the department of engineering in a university is heavily math based, and thus not aligined with the OP's skillset.
OP: you already 'do computers' to some extent - have someone work with you to understand exactly where your interests are and then decide how to better develop them. Writing web page / scripting languages like HTML with ASP or JSP, talking to a database back end is something that can be done with little or no math - it is more along the lines of text and image processing, with simple addition being the most intense math. Network administration and doing in-house hardware / software maintenance is something that can be done with very little math. Installing wifi networks (including setting up the encryption) or regular router / firewalls, plus removing virus / worms at the small business / home consumer level can be done with very little math and given the rampage Sasser went on, both are in high need.
Your strength, as someone that has acknowledged his Autism, is your ability to reliably repeat a known working ritual or set of steps to a given goal. With a proper and complete set of instructions, you can recreate the procedure with good results. This is pretty much what 'computer stuff' is all about at certain levels.
That said, I have two comments. First, determine honestly how interested you are in Technology and Computers. At the high school level if you understand and can program in several languages (not the math, but a fairly good grasp of the syntax of more than one language) and have written programs longer than 120 lines to do some things you want to do, if you are completely comfortable with more than one operating system (Windows / Linux / MacOS are readily available to anybody that is 'interested') to the point that you can fix things when they go wrong, or reinstall it without issue, these indicate a strong aptitude and genuine 'interest in Technology and Computers.' If 'doing computers' is chatting in IRC or AIM, playing java based games you find on the web, and surfing the Internet - these are not indicative of genuine 'interest in Technology and Computers.' If you have ever played Solitare on the computer to completion (regardless of whether you beat the computer or not)... that is a bad sign.
If you are using the computer as an environment, as opposed to using the computer as an appliance - then you are well on your way to being a 'computer guy' and only need to consider one last aspect:
Are you willing to learn all that you can learn, become as good as you can become in computers and technology whatever direction you find best fits your abilities - and then continue to do it for free? If you would still be a 'computer guy' if it meant you would be the poorest person you know, unable to provide for yourself except in the most minimal manner - then I encourage you to pursue it because you would be doing it because you wanted to do it, not for any other reason. I ask this not because of the current economic conditions in the tech field, nor for where I think they are going... but because even in the best of times tech is a highly competitive field where hiring managers would rather leave a position unfilled for two years than hire someone with zero experience in their very specific niche and let them get the experience over those two years. There are a LOT of very good techs out there making zero dollars an hour so the competition for paying jobs is going to be intense - and as you already know 'entry level' positions don't even exist in this country anymore (in the tech sector.) If your motivation is wealth or even self sufficiency then reconsider your motivations. If you are willing to 'code for food' and love computers enough to do that for the rest of your life - then I encourage you to go for it and recognise that getting paid to do what you love to do is simply a pleasant side effect.
PS - in the context of this discussion 'very little math' means very simple math. Doesn't take differential equations or calculus or even trig to do web pages or networking. Addition, multiplication, and binary/hex math can all be done with the help of a $40 calculator.
Actually the blue box he was referring to was the Linksys hardware router, not a Windows box.
And given the choices of installing a complete computer running Linux as a firewall or throwing down a $50 blue box (Linksys cablemodem router) that you can reset with a power cycle... he is 100% right for 99% of the general populace.
And the blinkenlighten... oh those wonderful blinkenlighten. Reminds me of this:
ACHTUNG Achtung alles Lookenpeepers. Die Machine ist nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengraben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken ! Ist nicht fur gewerken by die Dummkopfen, Die Rubbernecken, oder Die Sightseeren. Bitte keepen Handen in das Pockets, relaxen und watch die Blinkenlighten. Danke!
Jornada 680 / 690 series, throw a 64M compactflash card in the bottom slot and a PCMCIA wifi card in the top if you are feeling frisky. Runs WinCE 2.11/3.0 (means it is old) but has fully functional keyboard (a little smaller than regular size), a 640x240 screen, folks in half to fit in a fairly large jacket pocket, and the small battery lasts 7-8 hours of on-time, the large battery (still not very large) lasts about 20 hours. Has Word for WinCE and even has a utterly craptastic handwriting reader for the touch screen available. If you know where you are going you can save the images from MapQuest as.jpgs (do this from another machine) and you have a poor-man's GPS. It has a voice recorder that is almost usable, YMMV. It also has a built in alarm clock to wake you up every day.
You can get your data out via the PCMCIA slot or compact flash memory card.
Cost $100 - $200 used, depending on what all toys are included.
Disclaimer : the WinCE version of IE is so old that just about nothing displays right on it. Get the term server client onto this machine and all of a sudden it becomes an unholy uberToy when you are in range of your wifi network with a term server on it. There is a good version of WinCE Doom out there too, works well enough to keep you entertained when you are riding a bus for 4 hours in the dark.
I am shocked, appalled, and dismayed! Actually I'm not, but I like the way it sounds.
"This guy had family with a problem: A Windows XP computer hit by worms that couldn't stay on-line long enough to get patched. His solution? A CD."
Reality check time. Which of the following are not required to get online via cablemodem: [ ] Computer [ ] Monitor [ ] Keyboard / mouse [ ] Cablemodem [ ] Assorted cables, and electricity [ ] A fscking hardware router / firewall.
Guess what - a fscking hardware router / firewall isn't optional anymore. Linksys BEFSR41 - learn it, know it, live it. Less than $50 at Best Buy, if you actually help someone set up their computer and plug the NIC directly into the cablemodem - you aren't helping. Doesn't matter what OS, what hardware platform, etc.
Patches smatches. Software firewall flufferall. There is no substitute for a hardware firewall. Cheap, easy, effective - this is your one chance to get all three.
Right, my point being that the 770HP number the flying car is an exaggeration because the horsepower we think of, 'peak real usable' horsepower, happens in the 2500RPM (pickup trucks) to 12,000RPM (race motorcycles) range. Not to mention the thing has 8 engines.
Then again the thing does have enough power to accelerate in a verticle climb (or else it wouldn't be able to VTOL) so I guess it isn't wimpy by any means. I looked at the pictures and it looks to have all the aerodynamic characteristics of a brick. A very pretty, glossy, metallic red colored brick, but a flying brick nonetheless. My first impressions were that it was originally designed by the same guys drawing them in the 50's and 60's - had all the same looks and lines from a design standpoint (was funny to see that I was right.)
If this guy thinks he can make these for $500k apiece, he needs to look at the Inventor sponsored Aviator here and here This thing is a one-off first run that costs a little more than a million dollars (parts, labor, design engineers) but I think would be a LOT cheaper in mass production and have a much wider appeal. A flying car sounds cool, but the penalty for losing control of a personal submarine is rarely more than your own demise (so the government restrictions would be much less stringent, and he could be quicker to market.) Given what boats cost today I think he could competitively mass market these or ones a little larger into that market. Given the $200M he has wrapped up into his flying cars, he could have built these things instead and created an underwater city where people could use them to good effect.
I got to thinking about it and odds are he is using that old fashioned HP = rpm * torque / 5250. If he has 8 engines spinning 21,000 rpm putting out 25 ft-lbs of torque apiece (25 ft-lbs isn't a lot of torque, btw) that is a combined 800 horsepower.
Horsepower numbers tend to get skewed at very high (and very low) RPM ranges. The other end of the curve is also very showing - I would be surprised to hear that even NASCAR engines put out more than 100 horsepower at idle (+/- 750rpm.)
Given the average age of the fighters was 14, I'm guessing they probably shouldn't be drinking. Then again, they probably shouldn't be carrying guns, or even hitting each other with shovels and baseball bats either.
That said, the alcohol rule is for bars that derive 51% or more of their revenue from the sale of alcohol. Pop into Friday's for a beer while you are packing (if you are so entitled, carrying a concealed handgun permit) and that's fine. Don't try that at a place that is a BAR bar, cause you are 100% right. Actually need to leave them in the glove box of your car.
Funny story - I was in a high class 'gentleman's club' in Philly a year or two ago, metal detector and what have you at the door. Sit down, order from the menu and in addition to my drinks and meal the waitress brings me the biggest knife I have ever seen. Crocodile Dundee would have been proud. The steak was amazing and the knife came in handy - but it just seemed funny at the time. So mate, you not carrying any weapons? Well here's your scotch and steak dinner and a big ass knife.
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Sheet - got fifteen hundred dollars, you can have a terabyte of hard drive space tomorrow. Four SATA 250G drives and a PCI SATA 4 port card will run you easily under $1,500 today, the hard part would be finding four drive bays in today's small form factor cases (or maybe not.)
Anybody want to go on the record here and publicly say 'A terabyte of email space ought to be enough for anybody.' ?
For those of you that missed usenet growing up, here is what it looked like :
Me too!
>Me too!
>>me to
>>>me too!!!1
>>>>me2!
>>>>>me me me
>>>>>>Me also.
>>>>>>>Please include me in that offer.
>>>>>>>>I would like free pr0n in my email inbox.
>>>>>>>>>Me too!
>>>>>>>>>>Ooh ooh yes please send me teh free porns.
>>>>>>>>>>>Get free pr0n in your email in box! Respond here now!
See also, The Big Dig in Boston.
You are more correct than you could possibly imagine.
Cool*. Was less concerned about the range of existing wifi and more concerned with 'how fast will the bandwidth be if they are using the 600MHz'ish frequency bands?' Honestly given the lower frequency I expect the range of this stuff to be a lot longer (but at what speed?)
If we be able to design / buy wireless access points that can move 10 megabits / second using a 30MHz band or two from the 600MHz frequency range - this is going to be SWEET because of the extended ranges we will get by using a much lower frequency, but if the peak throughput is in the xx kilobytes per second range I have to wonder if it is too much fuss for too little, too late.
*The 100 feet was just an example using omni directional dipole accesspoint, pcmcia 802.11b wifi nic, no line of sight and in a home going from upstairs left side of the house to downstairs right side of the house with half the doors closed.
You aren't a programmer, you aren't a PHB (this implying you aren't a manager) - you started out doing network admin and that position evolved. And you make one and a half more than the best programmers at your company (I'm guessing this puts you into the low six digits, or at least into the $90k's.) And haven't been out of work for any length of time in the past decade.
So what do you do?
I'm guessing you are now a contractor / consultant doing infrastructure through a broker, probably on a 1099 basis (although possibly on a W2 basis.) A healthy chunk of the position involves social engineering, maneuvering and jockying for your next gig, along with the historical overview and ability to draw facts from the nuances of a multitude of different sources on-site and put together both a list of issues and potential resolutions. It isn't math, but it also isn't something someone with Autistic tendencies and no practical experience in the field is going to be able to pull off.
What do you do, now that you have my head spinning?
I think that Trademark law is intended to protect a company's trademarks. The term windows had been used (albeit in very limited fashion) before then as the moniker of a technique of organizing screen output, but Microsoft was the first to come out with, market, and sell a 'product' called Windows. The terms Apple and Macintosh was widely used long before the Woz applied them to a computer line - but as a computer product and company the terms Apple and Macintosh are their trademarks (and I am guessing subject to trademark law.)
Anyways I just realized that incontext the AC was arguing about whether or not MS should have been able to trademark the term Windows, drawing allegory from the history of the word usage in the computer world. Drawing this back to the Googol vs. Google, we see that I support Google in telling the family that wants to sue for 'insider IPO rights' to get bent. Wouldn't dream of telling you that, though, 'cause you are old-school and I like old-school. It isn't that I don't agree with you, it is that we are talking in parallel about two different topics.
Depleted uranium has existed forever, but that doesn't make it a household item. I applaud your ability to find a single use prototype from the 60's that demonstrated the use of screen windowing technology - but that doesn't exactly constitute "_lots_ of pre-1985 uses."
I was even going to give you this one because of XWindows, until I remember that the X Windows system concept first emerged in 1984, not going live in any volume until well after 1985 (x11, 1987.)
I didn't say the concept hadn't been 'invented' - I said it wasn't a common / wide used concept, aka "_lots_ of pre-1985 uses."
With the old crank knob dial radios that adjusted the frequency with a dial, you could occasionally crank them beyond the end of the radio spectrum and if there was a television broadcasting on channel 6 (on the low end) or channel 7 (on the high end) you could tune in and listen to them.
Or maybe I was just a kid and making things up to entertain myself back then.
I am curious - what kind of speed are we going to get out of the 600MHz range of radiowaves? Does the frequency range have any bearing to the throughput once it is way over the minimum?
Only reason I ask this is that wifi uses the 2.4GHz band to get 11 megabit on a good day with ranges of about 100 feet, and telephones recently moved to the 2.4GHz band because most phones using the 900MHz band sucked (but were much better than the early ones that used the 47MHz range.)
I envision being able to broadcast for miles in the 600MHz range (crank up the power!), but carrying what sort of bandwidth?
-There were _lots_ of pre-1985 uses of the word "Windows" in the computer field.
... that shortly before then the most common method of interfacing with a computer was via punch cards and printed output - I'm guessing that the use of the word 'Windows' in the tech sector in the two decades spanning 1963 to 1983 had a lot to do with looking outside to see the grass and trees and nothing to do with technology.
Oh? Given that the strongest home user chip predating 1984 was the 1MHz 6502, the Motorola 6800 and maybe the blazingly fast 4.7MHz 8086
Good thing the kid was like 5 years old - if it had been a teenager or college kid he would have called that number a 'fuckload' and guess what the number one search engine on the planet would have been ... yea, a whole new paradigm.
The word Robot comes from the words Robotination and Derobotination, just like how the word Modem comes from Modulation and Demodulation.
It has something to do with converting from digital to analog and back.
Simple.
-I believe that she may have a case
... but aren't the same. On second thought, no - I don't think so. If the family had built some corporate and marketing empire making a fortune around the word Googol, investing zillions of marketing dollars to insure that Googol was a common household name associated with their product ... and then wanted to claim copyright infringement because the word Google was similar and was horning in on their extreme success (see also : Lindows, Windows) then maybe .. but this is like going after Mrs. Bairds Cherry Pie business because your late grandfather founded the irrational number pi (3.1415962...)
Umm Google. Googol. Two great words that sound the same
The way I understand it they aren't doing it to 'make more money.' The powers that be have (FTC?) authorized Google to go public assuming a certain valuation of the company as a whole, so instead of picking the number of shares and coming up with IPO price, they are determining via Dutch Auction the share price and coming up with the number of shares (and selling those shares to the top guys in the Dutch Auction.)
And yes, it pretty much eliminates insiders, which is the coolest thing I have ever heard of - unless I get to be an insider too, like the googol folks.
I think you are going the right direction here. Software engineering as taught under the department of engineering in a university is heavily math based, and thus not aligined with the OP's skillset.
... that is a bad sign.
:
... but because even in the best of times tech is a highly competitive field where hiring managers would rather leave a position unfilled for two years than hire someone with zero experience in their very specific niche and let them get the experience over those two years. There are a LOT of very good techs out there making zero dollars an hour so the competition for paying jobs is going to be intense - and as you already know 'entry level' positions don't even exist in this country anymore (in the tech sector.) If your motivation is wealth or even self sufficiency then reconsider your motivations. If you are willing to 'code for food' and love computers enough to do that for the rest of your life - then I encourage you to go for it and recognise that getting paid to do what you love to do is simply a pleasant side effect.
OP: you already 'do computers' to some extent - have someone work with you to understand exactly where your interests are and then decide how to better develop them. Writing web page / scripting languages like HTML with ASP or JSP, talking to a database back end is something that can be done with little or no math - it is more along the lines of text and image processing, with simple addition being the most intense math. Network administration and doing in-house hardware / software maintenance is something that can be done with very little math. Installing wifi networks (including setting up the encryption) or regular router / firewalls, plus removing virus / worms at the small business / home consumer level can be done with very little math and given the rampage Sasser went on, both are in high need.
Your strength, as someone that has acknowledged his Autism, is your ability to reliably repeat a known working ritual or set of steps to a given goal. With a proper and complete set of instructions, you can recreate the procedure with good results. This is pretty much what 'computer stuff' is all about at certain levels.
That said, I have two comments.
First, determine honestly how interested you are in Technology and Computers. At the high school level if you understand and can program in several languages (not the math, but a fairly good grasp of the syntax of more than one language) and have written programs longer than 120 lines to do some things you want to do, if you are completely comfortable with more than one operating system (Windows / Linux / MacOS are readily available to anybody that is 'interested') to the point that you can fix things when they go wrong, or reinstall it without issue, these indicate a strong aptitude and genuine 'interest in Technology and Computers.' If 'doing computers' is chatting in IRC or AIM, playing java based games you find on the web, and surfing the Internet - these are not indicative of genuine 'interest in Technology and Computers.' If you have ever played Solitare on the computer to completion (regardless of whether you beat the computer or not)
If you are using the computer as an environment, as opposed to using the computer as an appliance - then you are well on your way to being a 'computer guy' and only need to consider one last aspect
Are you willing to learn all that you can learn, become as good as you can become in computers and technology whatever direction you find best fits your abilities - and then continue to do it for free? If you would still be a 'computer guy' if it meant you would be the poorest person you know, unable to provide for yourself except in the most minimal manner - then I encourage you to pursue it because you would be doing it because you wanted to do it, not for any other reason. I ask this not because of the current economic conditions in the tech field, nor for where I think they are going
PS - in the context of this discussion 'very little math' means very simple math. Doesn't take differential equations or calculus or even trig to do web pages or networking. Addition, multiplication, and binary/hex math can all be done with the help of a $40 calculator.
Actually the blue box he was referring to was the Linksys hardware router, not a Windows box.
... he is 100% right for 99% of the general populace.
... oh those wonderful blinkenlighten. Reminds me of this :
And given the choices of installing a complete computer running Linux as a firewall or throwing down a $50 blue box (Linksys cablemodem router) that you can reset with a power cycle
And the blinkenlighten
ACHTUNG
Achtung alles Lookenpeepers. Die Machine ist nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengraben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken ! Ist nicht fur gewerken by die Dummkopfen, Die Rubbernecken, oder Die Sightseeren. Bitte keepen Handen in das Pockets, relaxen und watch die Blinkenlighten. Danke!
Jornada 680 / 690 series, throw a 64M compactflash card in the bottom slot and a PCMCIA wifi card in the top if you are feeling frisky. Runs WinCE 2.11/3.0 (means it is old) but has fully functional keyboard (a little smaller than regular size), a 640x240 screen, folks in half to fit in a fairly large jacket pocket, and the small battery lasts 7-8 hours of on-time, the large battery (still not very large) lasts about 20 hours. Has Word for WinCE and even has a utterly craptastic handwriting reader for the touch screen available. If you know where you are going you can save the images from MapQuest as .jpgs (do this from another machine) and you have a poor-man's GPS. It has a voice recorder that is almost usable, YMMV. It also has a built in alarm clock to wake you up every day.
You can get your data out via the PCMCIA slot or compact flash memory card.
Cost $100 - $200 used, depending on what all toys are included.
Disclaimer : the WinCE version of IE is so old that just about nothing displays right on it. Get the term server client onto this machine and all of a sudden it becomes an unholy uberToy when you are in range of your wifi network with a term server on it. There is a good version of WinCE Doom out there too, works well enough to keep you entertained when you are riding a bus for 4 hours in the dark.
I'm just curious, where in that list do you put a consumer grade hardware router / firewall (ie, Linksys BEFSR41) ?
I am shocked, appalled, and dismayed! Actually I'm not, but I like the way it sounds.
:
"This guy had family with a problem: A Windows XP computer hit by worms that couldn't stay on-line long enough to get patched. His solution? A CD."
Reality check time. Which of the following are not required to get online via cablemodem
[ ] Computer
[ ] Monitor
[ ] Keyboard / mouse
[ ] Cablemodem
[ ] Assorted cables, and electricity
[ ] A fscking hardware router / firewall.
Guess what - a fscking hardware router / firewall isn't optional anymore. Linksys BEFSR41 - learn it, know it, live it. Less than $50 at Best Buy, if you actually help someone set up their computer and plug the NIC directly into the cablemodem - you aren't helping. Doesn't matter what OS, what hardware platform, etc.
Patches smatches. Software firewall flufferall. There is no substitute for a hardware firewall. Cheap, easy, effective - this is your one chance to get all three.
They need to release a female version that is triggered whenever someone is staring at their chest.
The Golden Rule :
:
He who has the Gold, makes the rules.
The Corollary to the Golden Rule
He who has the Guns has some say-so in the rule-making process, but generally he who has the Gold also has the Guns.
This is more true than you can possibly imagine.
Right, my point being that the 770HP number the flying car is an exaggeration because the horsepower we think of, 'peak real usable' horsepower, happens in the 2500RPM (pickup trucks) to 12,000RPM (race motorcycles) range. Not to mention the thing has 8 engines.
Then again the thing does have enough power to accelerate in a verticle climb (or else it wouldn't be able to VTOL) so I guess it isn't wimpy by any means. I looked at the pictures and it looks to have all the aerodynamic characteristics of a brick. A very pretty, glossy, metallic red colored brick, but a flying brick nonetheless. My first impressions were that it was originally designed by the same guys drawing them in the 50's and 60's - had all the same looks and lines from a design standpoint (was funny to see that I was right.)
If this guy thinks he can make these for $500k apiece, he needs to look at the Inventor sponsored Aviator here and here This thing is a one-off first run that costs a little more than a million dollars (parts, labor, design engineers) but I think would be a LOT cheaper in mass production and have a much wider appeal. A flying car sounds cool, but the penalty for losing control of a personal submarine is rarely more than your own demise (so the government restrictions would be much less stringent, and he could be quicker to market.) Given what boats cost today I think he could competitively mass market these or ones a little larger into that market. Given the $200M he has wrapped up into his flying cars, he could have built these things instead and created an underwater city where people could use them to good effect.
I got to thinking about it and odds are he is using that old fashioned HP = rpm * torque / 5250. If he has 8 engines spinning 21,000 rpm putting out 25 ft-lbs of torque apiece (25 ft-lbs isn't a lot of torque, btw) that is a combined 800 horsepower.
Horsepower numbers tend to get skewed at very high (and very low) RPM ranges. The other end of the curve is also very showing - I would be surprised to hear that even NASCAR engines put out more than 100 horsepower at idle (+/- 750rpm.)
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to find the Space Shuttle 'interesting'. There is a difference between interesting and informative.
Watch the interview of Aria Giovanni. She isn't informative, but she is very interesting.
Given the average age of the fighters was 14, I'm guessing they probably shouldn't be drinking. Then again, they probably shouldn't be carrying guns, or even hitting each other with shovels and baseball bats either.
That said, the alcohol rule is for bars that derive 51% or more of their revenue from the sale of alcohol. Pop into Friday's for a beer while you are packing (if you are so entitled, carrying a concealed handgun permit) and that's fine. Don't try that at a place that is a BAR bar, cause you are 100% right. Actually need to leave them in the glove box of your car.
Funny story - I was in a high class 'gentleman's club' in Philly a year or two ago, metal detector and what have you at the door. Sit down, order from the menu and in addition to my drinks and meal the waitress brings me the biggest knife I have ever seen. Crocodile Dundee would have been proud. The steak was amazing and the knife came in handy - but it just seemed funny at the time. So mate, you not carrying any weapons? Well here's your scotch and steak dinner and a big ass knife.