Hmm. My hands aren't exactly huge, but the kbd doesn't feel small to me. It does feel a little cheap. It's still better, imo, than most kbds you get with home systems. It doesn't have a hefty click, but you don't wonder which of your keystrokes made it. You just worry that when you typed that last line of code a little too excitedly, you might have taken a week of its life. (Almost a year of ownership, and no failure, though)
Most of the keys are in decent location, and caps lock, which becomes my ctrl, is nice and wide. Still, whenever I can, I attach my usb ibm kbd.
Nuisances are the lack of serial or infrared. I haven't checked lately to see whether there are linux drivers for my usb to serial port, without which I can't sync my palm...
Other nuisance is a *severe* vulnerability to static electricity. Ground yourself before typing, or you'll hear the disk spin down for a few seconds, then back up. It stays up fine, but your, I mean my:), pppoe connection dies in the meantime.
Many of the larger aircraft (which would be used between dulles/frankfurt) provide the empower plug under each seat. Now, the one time I tried to use this, the plug was not working - in BOTH directions! That was after paying $60 for the convverter.
Now I use my fujitsu P-series, to get 10 hours from 2 extended batteries (I have 4). Of course, turning on the builtin wireless will take away a little of that...
> if he doesn't have at least three machines all running differeent OS's
I know some very good coders who have no machine at home all. For several years (early 90s), i had only a dumb terminal:).
And after a cross-atlantic move, I've gone down from many many machines, to exactly one tiny laptop (which runs a few os's plus vmware to test development kernels). Did my abilities just nosedive, then?
I upgraded a few months ago - I actually went down in speed, to get a crusoe-powered fujitsu p2110 laptop. Now, for the type of stuff I do (latex+vi+gcc+perl) I can get nearly 14 hours battery life(!), and have built-in wireless.
I have two modes of listening to music. Most of the time - working, cleaning at home, whatever - I just want a constant stream of music. Trance, techno, classical... for this I prefer new music. So I listen to online radio, spinner.com trance channel is one of my favorites. I would be willing to pay (a reasonable fee) for this service, if they wanted me to. Note that cds cannot satisfy this mode. It must be a much longer uninterrupted stream..
Of course, I have also ripped a good portion of my cds, so that I can queue them up at random.
The other mode is to listen to my sennheiser hd580 headphones through my headroom headphone amp. Only uncompressed cds will do for this. Again, I buy my cds - it's worth the money to me.
But you know what? At this point I've bought over 300 cds. Several I've bought more than once due to scratches/theft. That makes me cranky enough. Now they insist on treating me like a criminal and limiting what I can do with my music. 300 cds is enough to always find something I want to listen to. (I leave you to reach the obvious conclusion)
Oh, and by the way - I never bought as many cds as I did during the brief period in which I used gnapster. So thanks - you've saved me alot of money shutting that down.
> keep it entirely Open Source, which ensures quality control, transparency, accountability, and safety.
Works to an extent. It'll help keep clueless nanotech developers from accidentally developing grey goo, but it will not prevent governments or rebel groups from doing it on purpose.
Wow. This could institute a whole new world order.
Haha - Click the 'compare' tab, and you get to see a beautiful table showing how this compares to a "Competing Media Center PC". I guess there's exactly one of those, since numbers like '243' for BAPCo SysMark2002 Rating are given.
"Whereas brand X leaves clothes faded and dirty."
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When I turned 25, I celebrated by renting a car for a week and driving from richmond, VA, to the north shore, MN. It was delightful! And cheap:)
> in the US, for instance, it's still too difficult to switch from one provider to the other.
Now that is the reason I despise the US cellphone companies. I paid $150 for a cool phone with my sprint pcs service. Now that I've moved to germany, I obviously can't use that phone here, but i also can't give it to my mother, who needs a new phone.
In contrast, I showed up here, and a friend who'd just bought a new phone gave me his old one. I paid $15 for a pre-paid card, now I'm set.
I should be able to buy my mother a $15 prepaid card to give with my old samsung/sprint phone, damnit.
Any sprint execs reading this might think "Excellent, we've made money on this guy."
Well, keep in mind, there will be no repeat sales to this customer, you short-sighted twit!
With my Sprint PCS service in the US last year, yes, I paid a connection charge if someone called me - but that's only for connection to sprint. In other words, the time I'm talking counts towards my monthly minutes. I am *not* paying the long distance charge if someone calls me from elsewhere, which I think is what you (Shinsei) understood.
I love creative arguments: " And it would be a grand defeat for corporations, which claim they would forfeit billions in lost revenues."
And if Congress doesn't let me pass this bill requiring each of the earth's 6 billion inhabitants pay me an annual tax of $1, I stand to lose billions!
(a nice portion of which I'll hand over to lawmakers who see things my way...)
>This will be a case of GPL versus Patent law, then.
Not necessarily. Maybe more of a case of how much you can release your rights in a web page, which can be yanked at any moment? Keep in mind they *did* claim there would be no restrictions.
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Hmm. My hands aren't exactly huge, but the kbd doesn't feel small to me. It does feel a little cheap. It's still better, imo, than most kbds you get with home systems. It doesn't have a hefty click, but you don't wonder which of your keystrokes made it. You just worry that when you typed that last line of code a little too excitedly, you might have taken a week of its life. (Almost a year of ownership, and no failure, though)
:), pppoe connection dies in the meantime.
Most of the keys are in decent location, and caps lock, which becomes my ctrl, is nice and wide. Still, whenever I can, I attach my usb ibm kbd.
Nuisances are the lack of serial or infrared. I haven't checked lately to see whether there are linux drivers for my usb to serial port, without which I can't sync my palm...
Other nuisance is a *severe* vulnerability to static electricity. Ground yourself before typing, or you'll hear the disk spin down for a few seconds, then back up. It stays up fine, but your, I mean my
Many of the larger aircraft (which would be used between dulles/frankfurt) provide the empower plug under each seat. Now, the one time I tried to use this, the plug was not working - in BOTH directions! That was after paying $60 for the convverter.
Now I use my fujitsu P-series, to get 10 hours from 2 extended batteries (I have 4). Of course, turning on the builtin wireless will take away a little of that...
Never mind a nutrient patch - I like eating, and it
:)
makes for a nice break from whatever you're doing.
What I want is a chef, so I don't need to waste time
cooking/preparing. Not to mention, so I don't have
to live on frozen pizzas, or my own cooking
Oh, no, you're missing the point entirely. I use my old P-120 for computing, of course.
This thing is mood lighting for my living room!
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> - I don't get hardly any spam from Europe
I guess I don't either... they just send me SMS spam!
A 5 line SMS spam telling me where to send an SMS (right, great idea) to get off the SMS spam list.
Thanks, vodaphone. (My number is listed *nowhere*)
> if he doesn't have at least three machines all running differeent OS's
:).
I know some very good coders who have no machine at home all. For several years (early 90s), i had only a dumb terminal
And after a cross-atlantic move, I've gone down from many many machines, to exactly one tiny laptop (which runs a few os's plus vmware to test development kernels). Did my abilities just nosedive, then?
>I pay a fortune to providers to do this, and I'd
>much rather have it go to American companies. But
> *I have to stay in business,*
I beg to differ...
I upgraded a few months ago - I actually went down in speed, to get a crusoe-powered fujitsu p2110 laptop. Now, for the type of stuff I do (latex+vi+gcc+perl) I can get nearly 14 hours battery life(!), and have built-in wireless.
To me, that was worth upgrading for.
I have two modes of listening to music. Most of the time - working, cleaning at home, whatever - I just want a constant stream of music. Trance, techno, classical... for this I prefer new music. So I listen to online radio, spinner.com trance channel is one of my favorites. I would be willing to pay (a reasonable fee) for this service, if they wanted me to. Note that cds cannot satisfy this mode. It must be a much longer uninterrupted stream..
Of course, I have also ripped a good portion of my cds, so that I can queue them up at random.
The other mode is to listen to my sennheiser hd580 headphones through my headroom headphone amp. Only uncompressed cds will do for this. Again, I buy my cds - it's worth the money to me.
But you know what? At this point I've bought over 300 cds. Several I've bought more than once due to scratches/theft. That makes me cranky enough. Now they insist on treating me like a criminal and limiting what I can do with my music. 300 cds is enough to always find something I want to listen to. (I leave you to reach the obvious conclusion)
Oh, and by the way - I never bought as many cds as I did during the brief period in which I used gnapster. So thanks - you've saved me alot of money shutting that down.
> keep it entirely Open Source, which ensures quality control, transparency, accountability, and safety.
Works to an extent. It'll help keep clueless nanotech developers from accidentally developing
grey goo, but it will not prevent governments or rebel groups from doing it on purpose.
Wow. This could institute a whole new world order.
> Oh and hang on. Bush compares Saddam with... er... hang on... right yeah.. Hitler...
:)
:)
Hmm. Let's run through the list.
- enourmous support from own people during economic depression resulting from sanctions due to previous lost war? CHECK
- gasses own people, along ethnic lines? CHECK
- develops military strength, while trying to pretend otherwise? CHECK Ok, ok, that's under debate
- tolerates no dissention in his ranks? CHECK
Now let's compare/contrast the model rocketry gang along the same lines
Haha - Click the 'compare' tab, and you get to see
a beautiful table showing how this compares to
a "Competing Media Center PC". I guess there's
exactly one of those, since numbers like '243' for
BAPCo SysMark2002 Rating are given.
"Whereas brand X leaves clothes faded and dirty."
When I turned 25, I celebrated by renting a car for :)
a week and driving from richmond, VA, to the north
shore, MN. It was delightful! And cheap
> My next paycheck is going into a new checking
:-)
>account with a new bank that isn't going to hold me
>upside down and shake me for loose change.
Say, if you find one, let us know
Jipping sold you a tadpole?
> The fidelity is decent for something its size
You own one, then?
By fidelity, I assume you mean that of the built-in
headphone amplifier? Or do you mean the fm xmitter?
> raise the minimum account billing to $10.00 per month, up 50% from the previous $5 per month
Come again?
> I use both. That means I'm the enemy.
That's funny - I can read your msg as easily as anyone else's. Sounds fair to me.
> in the US, for instance, it's still too difficult to switch from one provider to the other.
Now that is the reason I despise the US
cellphone companies. I paid $150 for a cool phone
with my sprint pcs service. Now that I've moved
to germany, I obviously can't use that phone here,
but i also can't give it to my mother, who needs
a new phone.
In contrast, I showed up here, and a friend who'd
just bought a new phone gave me his old one. I
paid $15 for a pre-paid card, now I'm set.
I should be able to buy my mother a $15 prepaid
card to give with my old samsung/sprint phone,
damnit.
Any sprint execs reading this might think "Excellent,
we've made money on this guy."
Well, keep in mind, there will be no repeat
sales to this customer, you short-sighted twit!
I think you misunderstand.
With my Sprint PCS service in the US last year,
yes, I paid a connection charge if someone called
me - but that's only for connection to sprint. In
other words, the time I'm talking counts towards my
monthly minutes. I am *not* paying the long
distance charge if someone calls me from elsewhere,
which I think is what you (Shinsei) understood.
I love creative arguments:
" And it would be a grand defeat for corporations, which claim they would forfeit billions in lost revenues."
And if Congress doesn't let me pass this bill requiring each of the earth's 6 billion inhabitants pay me an annual tax of $1, I stand to lose billions!
(a nice portion of which I'll hand over to lawmakers who see things my way...)
>This will be a case of GPL versus Patent law, then.
Not necessarily. Maybe more of a case of how much you
can release your rights in a web page, which can be
yanked at any moment? Keep in mind they *did* claim
there would be no restrictions.
Isn't breaking encryption keys for diplomats of
all other countries defensive?
"... I would hate to think we could reach a point that, whenever a dialog box comes up and says, 'Do you want to do this,' bells go off and people become worried." (Robert Regular, vice president of sales and marketing at New York-based digital advertising firm Cydoor)
Oh yeah, wouldn't want that...