There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill.
No it is not. Please do not think the future is easy to predict. Maybe I just have a pet peeve when people say "We will never need...".
Fast forward to nano-technology. You get cancer.:( You get an injection with millions of nano-bots that kill each cancer cell in your body, and you get better:) BUT! These little nano-bots all need to communicate. Well, there goes a couple million IP's for the square meter of space you are taking up.
Dude, buy an Apple. Never turn the thing off, just close the lid. Need PIM info? Open the lid and the OS is responsive on a Powerbook before your hand makes it from lid to keyboard. Then just slap the thing shut when done. Try that on Windows and you'll have to reboot after a week at most. I've had my Powerbook go for two months without ever rebooting, opening and closing lid 10 times a day if not more. And never one crash of the OS.
Navy Seals on a mission: great way to communicate to each other in stealth.
Sports cheating: communicate perfectly to coach when you are not supposed to.
Croc Hunter: sneak up on animals in the wild to research, etc, and communicate with team and not startle animals.
Porn: somehow... someway...
Government: give tech 20 more years and when these signals can be picked up remotely, let FBI tap the signals without a court order because, hey, there is a War On Terror(TM) to fight.
Interrorgation: capture truth someone would have wanted/started to say but then held their tounge at the last second.
Slashdot: this tech + reconition to text + scripting = best chance at first post. Just think about BSD dying, and it's dead!
What services like this work with a Powerbook??? As far as I know Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint all need windoze. Powerbook + Starbooks 802.11 via TMobile (here in NY) does NOT do it for me. Are their any Mac drivers for these things that I might have missed?
2) Set Safari to block popups, and have OS auto-update itself.
3) Relax and actualy ENJOY a computer for once. Done.
No such a bad player.
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Real's Reality
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· Score: 5, Funny
I think th[BUFFERING...BUFFERING]at Real is a good music and vid[BUFFERING...BUFFERING]eo player. It's not perfect b[BUFFERING...BUFFERING]ut it works ok. Combine that with my new MSN high [BUFFERING...BUFFERING] speed internet and life is peRF3*&DHAH0+0+[NO CARRIER]
Their code is SO CHOCK FULL OF HACKS to support older applications, and even hack to hack old hacks, that eventually the OS will crumble under its own weight.
The Apple transistion from OS 9 to OS X was VERY slick. Give old apps a Classic mode, and as apps get rewritten you use the new rewritten version in the main OS, and only dip into Classic mode for the old/unconverted apps. After a few years, get rid of the Classic mode and yay, millions of people easily converted from one generation OS to the next. Watching Apple move people from OS 9 to OS X was what caught my eye and made me think "This company has a fucking clue!" And once I saw 10.3, I bought a Powerbook. Too good to refuse.
With windows, it's still hack hack hack hack... I can't wait to be ENTERTAINED when Longhorn comes out. It's going to be a great laugh at that mess. And great for self employed geeks like me that work as consultants. MS makes a mess every couple of years, and that keeps us geeks paid cleaning up the mess.
The fix, as I see it: MS, IMO, should write Longhorn without ANY HACKS for old apps, and include with the OS a free copy of Virtual PC running Windows XP. Treat Virtual PC (which they now own) as Apple did with their Classic mode.
Of course, MS won't do this, and couldn't do it right if they tried, and at the end you still have a crappy OS full of security holes and a bad GUI. Oh well.
I AM WILLING TO PAY FOR TOP QUALITY! ARG!
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iPod Mini Sells Out
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Apart from starving students (lots of them on Slashdot, I was one only a few years) and idiots (most Windows users) I am HAPPY to pay MORE for QUALITY. I don't want some shitty little player for only $150. I want an awesome GUI that only lots of expensive R&D will bring, along with a high quality build. AND I WILL PAY MORE FOR IT GLADLY.
Because this is the real world, even a company like Apple that delivers quality can fuck up (think iPod battery fiasco) but they are quick to fix the sitation. Much quicker than most any other company for sure.
Anyway, people who complain about expensive apple products should shut their mouth for several reasons. 1) Because you are cheap, does not mean others are not willing to pay for quality. We are. 2) Lots of good G5 rack comps from Apple give more power for lest $ than even Dell (the defacto standard for good'n'cheat).
1 in 20 FUCKING WINDOWS BOXEN. How many out of 20 Mac OS 10.3 boxes have spyware running? I'd say 0. Enlarge the sample to 100 and I'd still say 0 for the Mac.
Anyone who would take this Acer laptop over an Apple Powerbook with 17 inch screen is a fucking idiot. Plain and simple. I have some swamp land in Florida to sell you, along with some Linux IP licences for half price, and a free smack upside your head with the back of my hand.
SCO will sue a user. There are 280,000,000 people in the US.
That means... drum-roll please... we have a chance (1/280,000,000) it's the same plump 12 year old chick who got busted by the RIAA!
Imagine seeing her next superbowl? "Hi, I'm totally fucked over and never touching a computer again. Choose Franklin Covey(R), the best choice in paper organizers."
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No it is not. Please do not think the future is easy to predict. Maybe I just have a pet peeve when people say "We will never need...".
Fast forward to nano-technology. You get cancer. :( You get an injection with millions of nano-bots that kill each cancer cell in your body, and you get better :) BUT! These little nano-bots all need to communicate. Well, there goes a couple million IP's for the square meter of space you are taking up.
Nan. Eat Different.
No, because with a cable modem connection I can order a Powerbook faster than ever.
Sports cheating: communicate perfectly to coach when you are not supposed to.
Croc Hunter: sneak up on animals in the wild to research, etc, and communicate with team and not startle animals.
Porn: somehow... someway...
Government: give tech 20 more years and when these signals can be picked up remotely, let FBI tap the signals without a court order because, hey, there is a War On Terror(TM) to fight.
Interrorgation: capture truth someone would have wanted/started to say but then held their tounge at the last second.
Slashdot: this tech + reconition to text + scripting = best chance at first post. Just think about BSD dying, and it's dead!
Seriously!
2) Set Safari to block popups, and have OS auto-update itself.
3) Relax and actualy ENJOY a computer for once. Done.
Hack hack hack hack, remove hack, hack a hack, hack hack hack...
Their code is SO CHOCK FULL OF HACKS to support older applications, and even hack to hack old hacks, that eventually the OS will crumble under its own weight.
The Apple transistion from OS 9 to OS X was VERY slick. Give old apps a Classic mode, and as apps get rewritten you use the new rewritten version in the main OS, and only dip into Classic mode for the old/unconverted apps. After a few years, get rid of the Classic mode and yay, millions of people easily converted from one generation OS to the next. Watching Apple move people from OS 9 to OS X was what caught my eye and made me think "This company has a fucking clue!" And once I saw 10.3, I bought a Powerbook. Too good to refuse.
With windows, it's still hack hack hack hack... I can't wait to be ENTERTAINED when Longhorn comes out. It's going to be a great laugh at that mess. And great for self employed geeks like me that work as consultants. MS makes a mess every couple of years, and that keeps us geeks paid cleaning up the mess.
The fix, as I see it: MS, IMO, should write Longhorn without ANY HACKS for old apps, and include with the OS a free copy of Virtual PC running Windows XP. Treat Virtual PC (which they now own) as Apple did with their Classic mode.
Of course, MS won't do this, and couldn't do it right if they tried, and at the end you still have a crappy OS full of security holes and a bad GUI. Oh well.
Because this is the real world, even a company like Apple that delivers quality can fuck up (think iPod battery fiasco) but they are quick to fix the sitation. Much quicker than most any other company for sure.
Anyway, people who complain about expensive apple products should shut their mouth for several reasons. 1) Because you are cheap, does not mean others are not willing to pay for quality. We are. 2) Lots of good G5 rack comps from Apple give more power for lest $ than even Dell (the defacto standard for good'n'cheat).
To all the iPod owners out there, "Enjoy!"
I bought an Apple Powerbook, and it is like, totally awesome. Seriously... you guys... I have like NOOOO spyware. Apple kicks ass.
Best Regards,
-Eric Cartman
What the hell does my weekend hobby have to do with this article on Slashdot?
That means... drum-roll please... we have a chance (1/280,000,000) it's the same plump 12 year old chick who got busted by the RIAA!
Imagine seeing her next superbowl? "Hi, I'm totally fucked over and never touching a computer again. Choose Franklin Covey(R), the best choice in paper organizers."
OK! But we have to walk to dinner. No car...