I recently bought a 100' Cat 5e prefab with RJ45 ends from NewEgg for ~11 USD. Maybe if you buy large spools of cable it's cheaper to make your own but if you're buying spools from Radio Shack it's cheaper to buy prefab. Heck, if I were running wire in my house from jack to jack it would be cheaper for me to buy the prefab and cut off the ends than it would be for me to buy them from The Shack.
Sorry, but pride and prejudice is hardwired into everyone. Once you get rid of one problem another will be right around the corner. This idea that we're going to weed out the ills of society one by one is laughable at best.
Windows gets malware. That is what you need to know.
Pointless. Considering that some of us work in Windows shops and Windows runs our apps... I'm going to keep running Windows. So you can go on and keep bashing Windows but, for me, it's paying the bills and it's giving me reasons to turn my computer on in the first place.
I wonder if the AVG product they were using was the freeware version or one of the commercial products...
I think it's great that they find this kind of stuff but at the same time I have some misgivings about how they don't do much to point the public in the right direction as far as finding out if they're infected or what they can do to remedy the situation. It seems that a lot of security articles are lean on providing the details about helping yourself to a more secure system.
Well, like the user up-thread, my messaging service is on non-stop. I probably use it more than just about anything else. IE, Notes, WMP are also pretty common. I use WMP with my Motorola HT-820 bluetooth headset and it works great. I will say that I don't use blue tooth during my average daily cycle but probably once a week for 1-2 hours. I also use Pocket Stars, Excel, Picsel on a regular basis too and don't have any issues with it.
One thing I will say that may or may not help you... I do not use ActiveSync at all. I tried it for about the first 2 days that I had the phone and I swear it horked something up any time I used it. I partially blame it on me being a new user and I just finally gave it up deciding that Verizon's online sync service was good enough for my needs.
I didn't purchase it, it came with the phone and I just used the larger battery by default. It's really not that much larger to be honest.
I have no idea what the lifespan on the the normal battery is but I can say that my normal 2 days of usage is probably more than most use their phone in a week.
Considering that only 2 out of the 48 netbook offerings being made on NewEgg today are Linux I would say that I can't see this happening. I know that most people here like to think that every new feature is the next final nail in Micosoft's coffin but battery life is not going to kill MS on the netbook market. I assure you.
Maybe it's the phone? I can't speak for the other poster but I have a Samsung SCH-i760 with Windows Mobile 6 and I've had no problems keeping multiple apps (most are native but a few third party) open for a couple weeks at a time. I've noticed that certain apps (adobe reader) seem to hang more than others but nothing that had to be tended to on a daily basis. I get over 2 days with the extended battery with normal use. I will say that I've never tried the standard battery.
Considering how dire his normal condition is hearing that he is very ill doesn't leave a lot of prospects. I wish him the best. Hopefully the reports are an exaggeration.
I'm sorry but I don't see this as being the case. Like I said it's what *I* enjoy. I'm not scoffing at others, I'm not shouting anyone down (well, at least not as much as you are). If I don't like it than I don't like it. I'm not saying that other authors who write what I don't consider as hard sci-fi aren't good writers, I'm simply stating that I don't enjoy it. Don't try to villify me because I have a standard for enjoyment in this area.
Do I think that writers should revise because they find out their concepts are based on bad science? Not really but I don't hold it against them if they do revise it. In Niven's case it's interesting that he points out the flaw because it's a good example of how bad science makes it's way into science fiction but at the same time shows Niven's integrity. If I were Niven would I have pulled it? Given that Niven does write some pretty soft (by my standards) science fiction I doubt it. The fact that he came clean about it at all makes me wink that that particular incident.
And also don't get me wrong about the fantasy aspect... I've read JRRT stuff and enjoyed it too. I read Robert Asprin as a kid and still fondly look back at the Myth series. Infact, I seen that there was a Myth collection in a two book set with some of the novels that I had missed and considered picking it up just for old times sake. Sadly I just don't have enough time to justify it at this point. But I do have a little love for fantasy but for me to classify anything about fantasy as sci-fi just because I like it doesn't make sense to me.
It's like a co-worker of mine who was disappointed that Tangerine Dream wasn't Prog Rock. I never claimed they were but he figured that just because I like a good amount of Prog Rock that anything else I like had to fit just as well... I would never term them Prog Rock because they're not. They just happen to be a band that a lot of Prog Rockers have taken a liking to. I see the same problem in sci-fi and that's what blurs the line.
Take The Mote in God's Eye -- weird for weirdness' sake is fine, I think, as long as it's interesting.
Ok but what about those of us who are more the Dream Park type of sci-fi fans? In your post you mention hard versus soft sci-fi. I've always considered myself the "hard" sci-fi fan because I've always leaned more towards sci-fi that is possible within my lifetime and doesn't need to make far fetched assumptions. The "What if" within the limits of solid known science has always been more enjoyable to me than the "Make it so" sci-fi that neglects science or turns science into another magic trick.
Aside from Contact I don't even find alien involvement especially appealing in science fiction. I'm sure there is more science fiction that involves aliens as more of a plot element than an active force in a story line, much like Contact, but I just haven't read it.
If you think about it, quite a lot of scifi has elements of mysticism -- even Firefly, or Dune, will have things like psychics, prescients, things that really haven't been explained, and might not be possible -- but make for amazingly fun "what if" stories.
I can only speak for Dune in this case as I've never seen/read/heard anything much in the way of Firefly but I find Dune as very soft sci-fi. So soft that I wouldn't feel bad towards someone who didn't consider it sci-fi.
I feel that the line between fantasy and sci-fi has become too blurred. To be frank, your use of the word "mysticism" in relation to Dune is really just a polite or politically correct way to call out the down right religious aspects of the story without having to say the word "God." Not that I'm offended by it but given current company I think you can understand what I'm getting at but just to put my cards on the table: Dune has about as much sci-fi value as The Bible if you could dismiss both "mysticism" elements as fantasy or if you embraced both elements are truth.
I feel the same way about books like The Exorcist. If you're not of the persuasion that The Exorcist has a possible truth to it than it's great fantasy horror but if you believe the concepts of demonic possession as possible than The Exorcist becomes a great "what if?" novel.
I know it's a bit long winded but to wrap it up I'm basically trying to illustrate the point that the really speculative "what if?" type of sci-fi is no more science fiction to people like me than The Bible is in relation to Dune.
Recently CSI did an episode where one of the lab techs made a pretty solid point that Mr. Ed is more sci-fi than Star Trek because the chance of a horse mutating to the point that he could talk was a lot more scientifically sound of a "what if" concept than being able to travel faster than the speed of light. At least of Einstein is to be trusted....
Really? I've never seen the defense of private industry being a conservative cause. Don't consider what's going on in American politics today as really being conservative vs. liberal. Neither the Democrats or Republicans are really a party of their voting supporters any longer.
You know, for as much as I truely do agree with your ideals on this one I just have to say that I hate to see the protection of a private industry be turned into a federal government office. This is going to do a lot of damage to any potential reform not to mention that it will have tax payers footing the bill for an organization that will basically handle civil level cases with the proceeds going back to a private industry.
Mark my words, dear readers, you'll be praying for the days of a third party arbitrator (the courts) by the time this is all over. We're going from a somewhat tedious system and a private firm that we could do some level of battle with to one that's going to wield the sword of justice with all the backing of the highest authority in the land.
Yeah, trying to shut down a private firm like the RIAA so he can bolster his own Copyright Czar? Is this really the change you were looking for.
Let's be honest about his, neither hell nor high water is going to change the industries stance on a lot of issues. Turning a private but approachable advocacy group into a government agency is about the worst thing that can happen at this point for those who champion IP and copyright reform.
Once this kind of power is handed over to the federal government it takes a miracle to get it back to where it belongs. The federal government does not share (nor shed) its power.
Is this going to end up in a Sniglets book or something?
Who cares what you call them, just about any job has a number of titles that are commonly associated with it. I call them web developers but if this is a popularity contest you should have done a Slashdot Poll instead.
I worked for a research facility out in the New Mexican desert for many years. It wasn't too bad until one of the teams farked everything up with a resonance cascade during one of their experiements. Damn alien sons of bitches... and then there were the marines... Horrors that you can't imagine.
I'll never go back. I've since landed a job with Aperture Labs working on a project called GLaDOS. Much better.
Hmmmm.... A vehicle that had it's R&D paid for several times over by Uncle Sam versus putting out a whole new model for the same price that has a totally different target buyer that, so far, hasn't produced zilch in the real world....
Is this an honest question or is this a cheap ploy to tell a poor blow job joke? Actually, any sophomore business student will even tell you that your joke was the better half of your post.
And I'd REALLY love to see you cite some numbers about the Aptera. I'm not saying they don't exist but I'd still love to see them.
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I recently bought a 100' Cat 5e prefab with RJ45 ends from NewEgg for ~11 USD. Maybe if you buy large spools of cable it's cheaper to make your own but if you're buying spools from Radio Shack it's cheaper to buy prefab. Heck, if I were running wire in my house from jack to jack it would be cheaper for me to buy the prefab and cut off the ends than it would be for me to buy them from The Shack.
I swear, sometimes I feel like I have a "Mod me up inappropriately" note taped to my back.
You must be new around here.
The fact is the majority are. If you want to be an advocate to the point of self destruction be my guest. The rest of the world moves on as do I...
Pleo. I just hate links that look like they're about a particular subject that keep you going in a circle.
Sorry, but pride and prejudice is hardwired into everyone. Once you get rid of one problem another will be right around the corner. This idea that we're going to weed out the ills of society one by one is laughable at best.
Windows gets malware. That is what you need to know.
Pointless. Considering that some of us work in Windows shops and Windows runs our apps... I'm going to keep running Windows. So you can go on and keep bashing Windows but, for me, it's paying the bills and it's giving me reasons to turn my computer on in the first place.
I wonder if the AVG product they were using was the freeware version or one of the commercial products...
I think it's great that they find this kind of stuff but at the same time I have some misgivings about how they don't do much to point the public in the right direction as far as finding out if they're infected or what they can do to remedy the situation. It seems that a lot of security articles are lean on providing the details about helping yourself to a more secure system.
Well, like the user up-thread, my messaging service is on non-stop. I probably use it more than just about anything else. IE, Notes, WMP are also pretty common. I use WMP with my Motorola HT-820 bluetooth headset and it works great. I will say that I don't use blue tooth during my average daily cycle but probably once a week for 1-2 hours. I also use Pocket Stars, Excel, Picsel on a regular basis too and don't have any issues with it.
One thing I will say that may or may not help you... I do not use ActiveSync at all. I tried it for about the first 2 days that I had the phone and I swear it horked something up any time I used it. I partially blame it on me being a new user and I just finally gave it up deciding that Verizon's online sync service was good enough for my needs.
I didn't purchase it, it came with the phone and I just used the larger battery by default. It's really not that much larger to be honest.
I have no idea what the lifespan on the the normal battery is but I can say that my normal 2 days of usage is probably more than most use their phone in a week.
Odd, I don't need a stylus with my 760. I got one with it but it also works with finger touch, nail touch and a retracted ballpoint pen.
Considering that only 2 out of the 48 netbook offerings being made on NewEgg today are Linux I would say that I can't see this happening. I know that most people here like to think that every new feature is the next final nail in Micosoft's coffin but battery life is not going to kill MS on the netbook market. I assure you.
Maybe it's the phone? I can't speak for the other poster but I have a Samsung SCH-i760 with Windows Mobile 6 and I've had no problems keeping multiple apps (most are native but a few third party) open for a couple weeks at a time. I've noticed that certain apps (adobe reader) seem to hang more than others but nothing that had to be tended to on a daily basis. I get over 2 days with the extended battery with normal use. I will say that I've never tried the standard battery.
Considering how dire his normal condition is hearing that he is very ill doesn't leave a lot of prospects. I wish him the best. Hopefully the reports are an exaggeration.
I'm sorry but I don't see this as being the case. Like I said it's what *I* enjoy. I'm not scoffing at others, I'm not shouting anyone down (well, at least not as much as you are). If I don't like it than I don't like it. I'm not saying that other authors who write what I don't consider as hard sci-fi aren't good writers, I'm simply stating that I don't enjoy it. Don't try to villify me because I have a standard for enjoyment in this area.
Do I think that writers should revise because they find out their concepts are based on bad science? Not really but I don't hold it against them if they do revise it. In Niven's case it's interesting that he points out the flaw because it's a good example of how bad science makes it's way into science fiction but at the same time shows Niven's integrity. If I were Niven would I have pulled it? Given that Niven does write some pretty soft (by my standards) science fiction I doubt it. The fact that he came clean about it at all makes me wink that that particular incident.
And also don't get me wrong about the fantasy aspect... I've read JRRT stuff and enjoyed it too. I read Robert Asprin as a kid and still fondly look back at the Myth series. Infact, I seen that there was a Myth collection in a two book set with some of the novels that I had missed and considered picking it up just for old times sake. Sadly I just don't have enough time to justify it at this point. But I do have a little love for fantasy but for me to classify anything about fantasy as sci-fi just because I like it doesn't make sense to me.
It's like a co-worker of mine who was disappointed that Tangerine Dream wasn't Prog Rock. I never claimed they were but he figured that just because I like a good amount of Prog Rock that anything else I like had to fit just as well... I would never term them Prog Rock because they're not. They just happen to be a band that a lot of Prog Rockers have taken a liking to. I see the same problem in sci-fi and that's what blurs the line.
Take The Mote in God's Eye -- weird for weirdness' sake is fine, I think, as long as it's interesting.
Ok but what about those of us who are more the Dream Park type of sci-fi fans? In your post you mention hard versus soft sci-fi. I've always considered myself the "hard" sci-fi fan because I've always leaned more towards sci-fi that is possible within my lifetime and doesn't need to make far fetched assumptions. The "What if" within the limits of solid known science has always been more enjoyable to me than the "Make it so" sci-fi that neglects science or turns science into another magic trick.
Aside from Contact I don't even find alien involvement especially appealing in science fiction. I'm sure there is more science fiction that involves aliens as more of a plot element than an active force in a story line, much like Contact, but I just haven't read it.
If you think about it, quite a lot of scifi has elements of mysticism -- even Firefly, or Dune, will have things like psychics, prescients, things that really haven't been explained, and might not be possible -- but make for amazingly fun "what if" stories.
I can only speak for Dune in this case as I've never seen/read/heard anything much in the way of Firefly but I find Dune as very soft sci-fi. So soft that I wouldn't feel bad towards someone who didn't consider it sci-fi.
I feel that the line between fantasy and sci-fi has become too blurred. To be frank, your use of the word "mysticism" in relation to Dune is really just a polite or politically correct way to call out the down right religious aspects of the story without having to say the word "God." Not that I'm offended by it but given current company I think you can understand what I'm getting at but just to put my cards on the table: Dune has about as much sci-fi value as The Bible if you could dismiss both "mysticism" elements as fantasy or if you embraced both elements are truth.
I feel the same way about books like The Exorcist. If you're not of the persuasion that The Exorcist has a possible truth to it than it's great fantasy horror but if you believe the concepts of demonic possession as possible than The Exorcist becomes a great "what if?" novel.
I know it's a bit long winded but to wrap it up I'm basically trying to illustrate the point that the really speculative "what if?" type of sci-fi is no more science fiction to people like me than The Bible is in relation to Dune.
Recently CSI did an episode where one of the lab techs made a pretty solid point that Mr. Ed is more sci-fi than Star Trek because the chance of a horse mutating to the point that he could talk was a lot more scientifically sound of a "what if" concept than being able to travel faster than the speed of light. At least of Einstein is to be trusted....
A cell phone for ants? Now there is an idea!
Get out of my way, I need to get back to my workbench!
Cultist behavior gives me the creeps.
What? What!?!?
Chanting: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. I'a I'a Cthulhu fhtagn! I'a I'a Shub Niggurath!
We'll see who laughs last, infidel! Do you hear the thunder?
Really? I've never seen the defense of private industry being a conservative cause. Don't consider what's going on in American politics today as really being conservative vs. liberal. Neither the Democrats or Republicans are really a party of their voting supporters any longer.
You know, for as much as I truely do agree with your ideals on this one I just have to say that I hate to see the protection of a private industry be turned into a federal government office. This is going to do a lot of damage to any potential reform not to mention that it will have tax payers footing the bill for an organization that will basically handle civil level cases with the proceeds going back to a private industry.
Mark my words, dear readers, you'll be praying for the days of a third party arbitrator (the courts) by the time this is all over. We're going from a somewhat tedious system and a private firm that we could do some level of battle with to one that's going to wield the sword of justice with all the backing of the highest authority in the land.
Yeah, trying to shut down a private firm like the RIAA so he can bolster his own Copyright Czar? Is this really the change you were looking for.
Let's be honest about his, neither hell nor high water is going to change the industries stance on a lot of issues. Turning a private but approachable advocacy group into a government agency is about the worst thing that can happen at this point for those who champion IP and copyright reform.
Once this kind of power is handed over to the federal government it takes a miracle to get it back to where it belongs. The federal government does not share (nor shed) its power.
Is this going to end up in a Sniglets book or something?
Who cares what you call them, just about any job has a number of titles that are commonly associated with it. I call them web developers but if this is a popularity contest you should have done a Slashdot Poll instead.
I worked for a research facility out in the New Mexican desert for many years. It wasn't too bad until one of the teams farked everything up with a resonance cascade during one of their experiements. Damn alien sons of bitches... and then there were the marines... Horrors that you can't imagine.
I'll never go back. I've since landed a job with Aperture Labs working on a project called GLaDOS. Much better.
I'll not do it for less than 2 bob.
Hmmmm.... A vehicle that had it's R&D paid for several times over by Uncle Sam versus putting out a whole new model for the same price that has a totally different target buyer that, so far, hasn't produced zilch in the real world....
Is this an honest question or is this a cheap ploy to tell a poor blow job joke? Actually, any sophomore business student will even tell you that your joke was the better half of your post.
And I'd REALLY love to see you cite some numbers about the Aptera. I'm not saying they don't exist but I'd still love to see them.
Oh, sorry, make that 100K if you want it today.