I too have an LCD, but I have a CRT handy if I ever want to update my Datalink watch. I should try, although failing wipes all of the memory, so I really want it to eventually work because many of my phone numbers I use from it when I'm away from home.
I got a software update for the oldest series of Datalink a few years ago, which works for the 150 series too, but it wouldn't download information from my computer. I figured out my Celeron 433 with CRT was too fast for it, and ran a slowdown utility on the computer and found a setting that worked. The video card I had then was 8MB AGP.
I haven't updated it since about 2000, but the battery, my second, is still good, but will need replacing this year I suspect. I got the watch in 1997.
I got a software update for the oldest series of Datalink, which works for the 150 too, but it wouldn't download. I figured out my Celeron 433 with CRT was too fast for it, and ran a slowdown utility on the computer and found a setting that worked. The video card I had then was 8MB AGP.
I haven't updated it since about 2000, but the battery, my second, is still good, but will need replacing this year I suspect.
I think the screen reading is way cooler than a USB port. I wonder why they don't have IR or something else instead...
I just wanted to tell you that for someone who's "mentally retarded", you write better than many people I know with a high school diploma, and they went through the same excellent english classes I did, where homophones were just one thing that we were supposed to know about.
Of course UNIX is as ready as Windows, when it's been tailored for a user, but the systems of Linux I've worked with don't have as many graphical utilities a user can make use of to try and repair their system or enable another feature, like Windows has. In time I'm sure it will become as friendly, and friendlier when Vista starts locking people down, and children demand more from their computers.
If you're in the hunt, don't focus on Windows 3.1 or ME, since as of June 30, 2006 Windows will no longer be issuing critical warnings for either of those Operating Systems even if they know they exist. Well they might issue one out of the goodness of their hearts to encourage an upgrade to X...err Vista, but there will be no official patch.
On second thought, maybe looking at Windows 3.0 coding errors would reveal flaws in Vista. After all, think of the WMF flaw...
We all know that Unix isn't ready for the desktop.
Hey I'm not trolling, I just saying what anyone who hasn't used a Mac before, and only knows about UNIX as a command line OS, is thinking.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple dumped OS X and went to Vista II or III. Because as the editor says, we might have scoffed at the Intel idea too. The thing holding Apple back from going with Windows is that they'd need a partnership to be able to write code for Windows at a lower level. For giving in to Bill's power, he might be willing to negotiate this to have absolute control over desktop OSes people pay for.
"There's a hundred years of coal in the US; even if coal has to take up the slack, big deal." The deal is air quality. Maybe coal can be burned cleaner than oil. My bet is on: probably not.
"Basically, the worst thing that will happen is that worldwide economic growth will slow. " Have you applied for a job at FEMA, I hear they are looking for someone with as much vision as Brownie. If that's really the worst you can imagine, I think you're in for a nasty surprise in the next decade when China comes knocking for energy.
The RIAA wants it to be illegal to use our CDs with our iPods or other MP3 players? That not surprising since they would like us to buy the song each time we hear it. They must have cried a river when jukeboxes stopped bing popular because that's a business model they can relate to: no music until they see the coin. And really, if owning a CD doesn't give you the legal right to listen to the music now in their opinion, then what will? Do they even want people to play their CDs anymore if the player is a DVD player, since that's another digital format and we haven't paid again to use our music on that format if we use our CD? Why aren't they offering DVD versions of all of our music CDs?
I guess my -1 troll designation on the grandparent post is justified then even though I was +1 interesting with a -1 Wrong. I'm glad to learn about engine technology, I don't think we teach children enough about combustion engines, or locomotion theory in general. I didn't see a diagram for a combustion engine in school until Grade 10, and that was only because I had taken an Industrial Arts class with an engine's component in the course. Going through the steps of a four stroke engine isn't complicated, and could be in any grade 5 class.
http://sopwith3.sourceforge.net/ a little offtopic, but this is the only Sopwith I've ever flown. It works on an 8086 too, the kind without a rotary engine, but you need a CGA card.
"Quick question too. I mentioned that I think these dual fuel cars are the way to transition to the future. I'm not old enough to remember the switch to unleaded gas here in the US. I know that was federally mandated (which does tend to speed things along), but were any cars ever mass produced that would run on either leaded or unleaded fuel?"
That's a good question, and a good point as well. I think people like Cheney would rather people forget that a fuel switch was undertaken in the past, and can be again with something as simple as a new law for incentive.
I barely remember leaded gasoline being sold, but I think unleaded engines couldn't use the leaded gas, but old engines could run on unleaded. Again, correct me if I've remembered incorrectly.
"Mazda, the world's only maker of rotary engines, said it would lease the model to Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. and gas trading company Iwatani International Corp. starting in March for 420,000 yen ($3,577) a month."
It's a rotary engine. Interesting. The only rotary engines I knew about were ones in planes beginning many decades ago. I think the Sopwith Camel used one, but correct me if I'm wrong.
"You are simply not up-to-date with the reality of the 21st century"
You are living in Star Trek land. For well over half of the earth's population, their only assurance of a long and healthy life in the future will be having friends and family to stand beside them when things get rough.
How many cancer patients do you think would say today, "Wow, I'm glad I invested well as a youth, so I can spend months recovering from cancer, alone." Unless you're rich enough for a butler and chaufer, then investing a little time with people who might actually care about you is essential for a happy life.
To neglect one's friends, and social life in favour of technology [or whatever miscellaneous] nicities, is short sighted and a indicator of an addiction.
"Are you planning to survive a nuclear war or a asteroid impact?" And who's to say that one of those won't happen and set society back a great deal. Remember, in Star Trek land, WWIII is yet to happen, and it's brought about by your proposed genetic modifications.
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My "have children" remark was including "adopt" which is another way to "have" kids. I should have said "raise children", to avoid the backlash from anti-reproducers. My genes are as good or maybe better than the next guy's, but I'm not so egotistical that I consider only my genes to be suitible for passing on to the next generation.
Having/Raising children is an essential part of surviving old age. Having a mate [which you don't have to have sex with if you're not into that] is also an essential part of surviving old age, especially if you don't have children. Who will call the ambulance for you when you have your heart attack, for instance? Who will bathe and feed you when you break a leg? We take for granted now that money or the state will care for us in our old age and sickness, but if you really want to be self dependent, don't rely on your C++ coding skills, instead plan on needing another human being, or two, or three to be there for you like you're there for them now. ==
I agree to a point, so it's good you didn't call me a moron. My "have children" remark was including "adopt" which is another way to "have" kids. I should have said "raise children", to avoid the backlash from anti-reproducers such as yourself. You can't reproduce at the moment, so no one else should, right? Yes, I'm provoking you with that question, but consider the harsh possibility that tomorrow we'll have nearly unlimited energy to shape however we want, and you'll have conserved resources for nothing. [Not that I'm a consumer fiend, I just am throwing out a bone.]
My genes are as good or maybe better than the next guy's, but I'm not so egotistical that I consider only my genes to be suitible for passing on to the next generation.
Having/Raising children is an essential part of surviving old age. Having a mate [which you don't have to have sex with if you're not into that] is also an essential part of surviving old age, especially if you don't have children. Who will call the ambulance for you when you have your heart attack, for instance? Who will bathe and feed you when you break a leg? We take for granted now that money or the state will care for us in our old age and sickness, but if you really want to be self dependent, don't rely on your C++ coding skills to PAY for help, instead plan on needing another human being, or two, or three to be there for you like you're there for them now.
"At this point in history reproduction is rather irresponsible."
I agree to a point. My "have children" remark was including "adopt" which is another way to "have" kids. I should have said "raise children", to avoid the backlash from anti-reproducers. My genes are as good or maybe better than the next guy's, but I'm not so egotistical that I consider only my genes to be suitible for passing on to the next generation.
Having/Raising children is an essential part of surviving old age. Having a mate [which you don't have to have sex with if you're not into that] is also an essential part of surviving old age, especially if you don't have children. Who will call the ambulance for you when you have your heart attack, for instance? Who will bathe and feed you when you break a leg? We take for granted now that money or the state will care for us in our old age and sickness, but if you really want to be self dependent, don't rely on your C++ coding skills, instead plan on needing another human being, or two, or three to be there for you like you're there for them now.
That right. These days there's an ad on TV for Sasktel Homenet, a service they claim limits children's time on the Internet due to parental controls. It also "protects" children by limiting other things that "parents don't understand".
Hmm, if you don't understand what your kid is doing, and they could just as well be reading up on how to build a pipe bomb, as researching their paper, maybe it's time to learn what they are interested in? Just a suggestion to the confused parents out there [who aren't reading Slashdot unfortunately].
Computers, games, Internet, chat, whatever can be addicting. You can tell because people will do something unproductive to the point of harming themselves. What's unproductivity you ask? Doing something that doesn't endear you to other human beings, and produces no tangible result that you can talk proudly about later with your grandchildren.
Grandchildren are what you have after you find a mate, have children, and raise them well enough that they too have children. I tell you this, because you're a Slashdotter like me, and quite possibly haven't considered the possibility that you can spend enough time away from the keyboard to actually find a mate. It's possible, since married Slashdotters post all the time, and even our great leader (1) Taco is married and proposed on Slashdot. Being Valentine's Day, it's the perfect time to wallow in your single-ness, and motivate yourself to do something tomorrow that will introduce yourself to new people and potentially a mate.
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I too have an LCD, but I have a CRT handy if I ever want to update my Datalink watch. I should try, although failing wipes all of the memory, so I really want it to eventually work because many of my phone numbers I use from it when I'm away from home.
I got a software update for the oldest series of Datalink a few years ago, which works for the 150 series too, but it wouldn't download information from my computer. I figured out my Celeron 433 with CRT was too fast for it, and ran a slowdown utility on the computer and found a setting that worked. The video card I had then was 8MB AGP.
I haven't updated it since about 2000, but the battery, my second, is still good, but will need replacing this year I suspect. I got the watch in 1997.
Sorry, but a propaganda machine could run on Linux, so your observation is way out of line.
It's silly anyway, because politics is a part of being a geek whether you like it or not. Head in the sand isn't cool, but head in a book is.
I got a software update for the oldest series of Datalink, which works for the 150 too, but it wouldn't download. I figured out my Celeron 433 with CRT was too fast for it, and ran a slowdown utility on the computer and found a setting that worked. The video card I had then was 8MB AGP.
I haven't updated it since about 2000, but the battery, my second, is still good, but will need replacing this year I suspect.
I think the screen reading is way cooler than a USB port. I wonder why they don't have IR or something else instead...
Canada had a dispute with Denmark just last year that everyone's forgotten about now. Lousy Danes want our northern islands...
I just wanted to tell you that for someone who's "mentally retarded", you write better than many people I know with a high school diploma, and they went through the same excellent english classes I did, where homophones were just one thing that we were supposed to know about.
Look at the ID. In a world where cartoons of a man can incite riots, spelling out YHWH could be considered trollish.
The best "censorship" of a movie on TBS I ever heard was Samuel Jackson telling Bruce Willis that he was a "racist white mellonfarmer".
Of course UNIX is as ready as Windows, when it's been tailored for a user, but the systems of Linux I've worked with don't have as many graphical utilities a user can make use of to try and repair their system or enable another feature, like Windows has. In time I'm sure it will become as friendly, and friendlier when Vista starts locking people down, and children demand more from their computers.
You forgot step 4.0.1 ???
Which is probably:
Buy Bounty company - then pay self.
If you're in the hunt, don't focus on Windows 3.1 or ME, since as of June 30, 2006 Windows will no longer be issuing critical warnings for either of those Operating Systems even if they know they exist. Well they might issue one out of the goodness of their hearts to encourage an upgrade to X...err Vista, but there will be no official patch.
On second thought, maybe looking at Windows 3.0 coding errors would reveal flaws in Vista. After all, think of the WMF flaw...
We all know that Unix isn't ready for the desktop.
Hey I'm not trolling, I just saying what anyone who hasn't used a Mac before, and only knows about UNIX as a command line OS, is thinking.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple dumped OS X and went to Vista II or III. Because as the editor says, we might have scoffed at the Intel idea too. The thing holding Apple back from going with Windows is that they'd need a partnership to be able to write code for Windows at a lower level. For giving in to Bill's power, he might be willing to negotiate this to have absolute control over desktop OSes people pay for.
"There's a hundred years of coal in the US; even if coal has to take up the slack, big deal."
The deal is air quality. Maybe coal can be burned cleaner than oil. My bet is on: probably not.
"Basically, the worst thing that will happen is that worldwide economic growth will slow. "
Have you applied for a job at FEMA, I hear they are looking for someone with as much vision as Brownie. If that's really the worst you can imagine, I think you're in for a nasty surprise in the next decade when China comes knocking for energy.
The RIAA wants it to be illegal to use our CDs with our iPods or other MP3 players? That not surprising since they would like us to buy the song each time we hear it. They must have cried a river when jukeboxes stopped bing popular because that's a business model they can relate to: no music until they see the coin. And really, if owning a CD doesn't give you the legal right to listen to the music now in their opinion, then what will? Do they even want people to play their CDs anymore if the player is a DVD player, since that's another digital format and we haven't paid again to use our music on that format if we use our CD? Why aren't they offering DVD versions of all of our music CDs?
I guess my -1 troll designation on the grandparent post is justified then even though I was +1 interesting with a -1 Wrong. I'm glad to learn about engine technology, I don't think we teach children enough about combustion engines, or locomotion theory in general. I didn't see a diagram for a combustion engine in school until Grade 10, and that was only because I had taken an Industrial Arts class with an engine's component in the course. Going through the steps of a four stroke engine isn't complicated, and could be in any grade 5 class.
http://sopwith3.sourceforge.net/ a little offtopic, but this is the only Sopwith I've ever flown. It works on an 8086 too, the kind without a rotary engine, but you need a CGA card.
"Quick question too. I mentioned that I think these dual fuel cars are the way to transition to the future. I'm not old enough to remember the switch to unleaded gas here in the US. I know that was federally mandated (which does tend to speed things along), but were any cars ever mass produced that would run on either leaded or unleaded fuel?"
That's a good question, and a good point as well. I think people like Cheney would rather people forget that a fuel switch was undertaken in the past, and can be again with something as simple as a new law for incentive.
I barely remember leaded gasoline being sold, but I think unleaded engines couldn't use the leaded gas, but old engines could run on unleaded. Again, correct me if I've remembered incorrectly.
"Mazda, the world's only maker of rotary engines, said it would lease the model to Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co. and gas trading company Iwatani International Corp. starting in March for 420,000 yen ($3,577) a month."
It's a rotary engine. Interesting. The only rotary engines I knew about were ones in planes beginning many decades ago. I think the Sopwith Camel used one, but correct me if I'm wrong.
"You are simply not up-to-date with the reality of the 21st century"
You are living in Star Trek land. For well over half of the earth's population, their only assurance of a long and healthy life in the future will be having friends and family to stand beside them when things get rough.
How many cancer patients do you think would say today, "Wow, I'm glad I invested well as a youth, so I can spend months recovering from cancer, alone." Unless you're rich enough for a butler and chaufer, then investing a little time with people who might actually care about you is essential for a happy life.
To neglect one's friends, and social life in favour of technology [or whatever miscellaneous] nicities, is short sighted and a indicator of an addiction.
"Are you planning to survive a nuclear war or a asteroid impact?"
And who's to say that one of those won't happen and set society back a great deal. Remember, in Star Trek land, WWIII is yet to happen, and it's brought about by your proposed genetic modifications.
I'm more an animal than plant or mineral.
I feel no more incomplete than any unmarried guy.
==
My "have children" remark was including "adopt" which is another way to "have" kids. I should have said "raise children", to avoid the backlash from anti-reproducers. My genes are as good or maybe better than the next guy's, but I'm not so egotistical that I consider only my genes to be suitible for passing on to the next generation.
Having/Raising children is an essential part of surviving old age. Having a mate [which you don't have to have sex with if you're not into that] is also an essential part of surviving old age, especially if you don't have children. Who will call the ambulance for you when you have your heart attack, for instance? Who will bathe and feed you when you break a leg? We take for granted now that money or the state will care for us in our old age and sickness, but if you really want to be self dependent, don't rely on your C++ coding skills, instead plan on needing another human being, or two, or three to be there for you like you're there for them now.
==
I agree to a point, so it's good you didn't call me a moron. My "have children" remark was including "adopt" which is another way to "have" kids. I should have said "raise children", to avoid the backlash from anti-reproducers such as yourself. You can't reproduce at the moment, so no one else should, right? Yes, I'm provoking you with that question, but consider the harsh possibility that tomorrow we'll have nearly unlimited energy to shape however we want, and you'll have conserved resources for nothing. [Not that I'm a consumer fiend, I just am throwing out a bone.]
My genes are as good or maybe better than the next guy's, but I'm not so egotistical that I consider only my genes to be suitible for passing on to the next generation.
Having/Raising children is an essential part of surviving old age. Having a mate [which you don't have to have sex with if you're not into that] is also an essential part of surviving old age, especially if you don't have children. Who will call the ambulance for you when you have your heart attack, for instance? Who will bathe and feed you when you break a leg? We take for granted now that money or the state will care for us in our old age and sickness, but if you really want to be self dependent, don't rely on your C++ coding skills to PAY for help, instead plan on needing another human being, or two, or three to be there for you like you're there for them now.
"At this point in history reproduction is rather irresponsible."
I agree to a point. My "have children" remark was including "adopt" which is another way to "have" kids. I should have said "raise children", to avoid the backlash from anti-reproducers. My genes are as good or maybe better than the next guy's, but I'm not so egotistical that I consider only my genes to be suitible for passing on to the next generation.
Having/Raising children is an essential part of surviving old age. Having a mate [which you don't have to have sex with if you're not into that] is also an essential part of surviving old age, especially if you don't have children. Who will call the ambulance for you when you have your heart attack, for instance? Who will bathe and feed you when you break a leg? We take for granted now that money or the state will care for us in our old age and sickness, but if you really want to be self dependent, don't rely on your C++ coding skills, instead plan on needing another human being, or two, or three to be there for you like you're there for them now.
That right.
These days there's an ad on TV for Sasktel Homenet, a service they claim limits children's time on the Internet due to parental controls. It also "protects" children by limiting other things that "parents don't understand".
Hmm, if you don't understand what your kid is doing, and they could just as well be reading up on how to build a pipe bomb, as researching their paper, maybe it's time to learn what they are interested in? Just a suggestion to the confused parents out there [who aren't reading Slashdot unfortunately].
If this were "sexpot.orgy" instead of "slashdot.org", then that comment of yours would be considered very, very kinky.
Code long, and prosper, is the correct response to that, right?
Someone should do a study into Slash-addiction.
Computers, games, Internet, chat, whatever can be addicting. You can tell because people will do something unproductive to the point of harming themselves. What's unproductivity you ask? Doing something that doesn't endear you to other human beings, and produces no tangible result that you can talk proudly about later with your grandchildren.
Grandchildren are what you have after you find a mate, have children, and raise them well enough that they too have children. I tell you this, because you're a Slashdotter like me, and quite possibly haven't considered the possibility that you can spend enough time away from the keyboard to actually find a mate. It's possible, since married Slashdotters post all the time, and even our great leader (1) Taco is married and proposed on Slashdot. Being Valentine's Day, it's the perfect time to wallow in your single-ness, and motivate yourself to do something tomorrow that will introduce yourself to new people and potentially a mate.