I don't understand it. People buy laptops with desktop graphics cards, hard drives, and sometimes even desktop processors! Then they complain when they get horrible battery life, 15 pound machines, and third degree burns on their laps. Give me a light laptop with 5 hour battery life and I'll take it any day over the latest 3.0GHz "desktop replacement". My PowerBook 12" weighs next to nothing and gets literally 5 hours+ of battery life, even after several years with the same battery. Bah and humbug is what I say to the proponents of overpriced, overpowered desktop replacements!
Did anybody else notice that Gmail now supports using foreign "From:" addresses? So I can send mail from my Gmail account that looks like it came from my Comcast accound... Or from a non-existant mailinator account! I wonder what the point of that is? Maybe they're going to add recieving from foreign POP servers, too...
Strangely enough, I haven't had this problem in months. Perhaps it's on your end- GMail is very JavaScript heavy, plus the fact that it uses some kind of AJAX-style mojo to send data, I'd bet it's connection-sensitive.
If you read the page you linked to, you'd note that most mice and keyboards are 1.5MB/s ("Low-Speed"). So, yes, I guess they are bragging about 12MB/s vs 1.5MB/s.
As an aside, when will people learn how to spell? "Hi" does not mean the same thing as "high". Also, "thru" and "donut" are not words, no matter how much a certain "Drive-Thru" "Donut"-centered restaurant might want us to believe.
Okay then. From now on, everything I and everyone I know create susing any form of TeX will be distributed as a dvi file instead. Have fun with it...
PS: Honestly. It's just a slightly different form of PostScript. Rather closer to a reduced-feature-set EPS from where I'm sitting. But whatever. Hate randomly!
PPS: PDF is rather open... there's nothing tying you to an Adobe product...
8. Actually, see the Palm LifeDrive. No point for PocketPC.
11. Actually, Palm OS devices are either 320x320 or 320x480. Considerably higher resolution than a Pocket PC's 320x240.
15. Palm OS can do this with the built-in launcher. No need for a third-party launcher
12 (the other 12... there's double numbers!). The Missing Sync does this and more rather well. Or you could just plug the SD/MS card into your computer directly and get faster transfer.
8. Actually, see the Palm LifeDrive. No point for PocketPC.
11. Actually, Palm OS devices are either 320x320 or 320x480. Considerably higher resolution than a
Pocket PC's 320x240.
15. Palm OS can do this with the built-in launcher. No need for a third-party launcher
12 (the other 12... there's double numbers!). The Missing Sync does this and more rather well. Or you could just plug the SD/MS card into your computer directly and get faster transfer.
14. http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/hotpaw/ BASIC programming, right on the device.
And lo, you've discovered the original idea behind Bluetooth. It even works pretty well. Unfortunately, the standard isn't the issue, nor is the bandwidth. Developers just are too lazy to take advantage of it. For a decent glimpse of the PAN concept, try out a recent Windows Mobile device (iPaq, Dell Axim, etc), a Sony Ericcson T610 and a bluetooth headset. You can use the PDA as a screen and data repository, the cell phone for network connection, and the headset for audio. Unfortunately, the headset can't be connected to both the phone and the PDA at the same time. Bummer. But it's a start! Remember- even Star Trek characters use three devices! Convergence is not a laudable goal!
It's "Computer Trespass" if a student breaks into the computer that they're being lent, but it's not if they're being monitored without their knowledge? Okay...
But seriously folks, don't get too worried about this. I mean, if they prosecuted people for this sort of stuff, half of us would already be in jail, and the other half on death row. It's all just hot air from the administrators.
Because movies and music require expensive equipment and large amounts of people to make (for the most part) and to distribute, whereas software can be easily made by one person using free tools, and distributed to even non-technical people for little or no costs?
Furthermore, to create movies/music/whatever usually requires creativity...
Unfortunately, SubEthaEdit has nothing to do with the article. If you read it, you'll discover that the guy has actually invented a kind of monitor that shows two images at the same time to different people. So if you're sitting on the right, you might see screen 1. If you're sitting on the left, you might see screen 2. And no, it's not split-screen. Check out the vids for more info.
The reviewer complains that his Photoshop plugins didn't work when he put them in the Acrylic folder. Did he seriously expect them to? I mean, that might be the dumbest reason not to like a product that I've ever heard...
...Unless you, like me, serve application/xhtml+xml. In which case your entire arguement is invalid. True, I serve as text/html to MSIE, owing to Microsoft's browser's inability to comprehend anything else. However, Gecko and KHTML browsers get application/xhtml+xml and XHTML 1.1-valid documents. That's what server-side scripting (php in my case) is for! So stop posting about how XHTML is useless because of wrong mimetypes. Not -everybody- uses the wrong mimetype.:)
--deep searches for updates to package prerequisites. So if Package A requires Package B, but Package B isn't in the "world" program list, emerge --update world will only update Package A. However, emerge --update --deep world will update both Package A and Package B (and every single other installed package on the system)
--newuse only updates packages that you've changed the USE flags for. I'm not sure why the gp post put that flag in, since it is not meant to be used this way. Anyhow, USE flags are a gentoo feature that lets you customize your binaries. For example, by putting KDE in your USE flags, all programs that have KDE support optional will have it built-in. Take out the kde from the USE flag, and no more KDE support built-in.
world is what's being updated. "World" is a list of installed programs that portage maintains. You can also specify system (for core system packages only), or an individual package name here to control what gets updated.
Before you start the anti-gentoo rant, try using it. I've got debian woody and gentoo ~x86 installed on systems here (the debian is on a 150Mhz Pentium that would have been painful with any more modern distro), and I've used Apt and Portage. Portage has a wealth of features unmatched by any other package management system that I've encountered. It alone makes gentoo worth using.
Is that like RubyDoc? RubyDoc basically goes over your source code and extracts classes, functions, etc, then parses nearby comments (if present) and auto-generates nice documentation.
April Fools jokes are fine, I like 'em. But can we just have ONE story for the ThinkGeek stuff, instead of one story per item? Please? And where's the IsComputerOn story?
Let's talk about GMail. Here's an excerpt from my "New Features" box:
G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.
We're not in the plains anymore
Fonts, bullets and highlighting, oh my! Gmail now offers rich text formatting. And over 60 colors of the rainbow. Discover a land of more than just black and white. Learn more
Now here's the bottom of my screen: You are currently using 14 MB (1%) of your 1273 MB.
Yay! The new math! 1273MB == 2GB!
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That would require them to rewrite iTunes as a Cocoa app, no?
I don't understand it. People buy laptops with desktop graphics cards, hard drives, and sometimes even desktop processors! Then they complain when they get horrible battery life, 15 pound machines, and third degree burns on their laps. Give me a light laptop with 5 hour battery life and I'll take it any day over the latest 3.0GHz "desktop replacement". My PowerBook 12" weighs next to nothing and gets literally 5 hours+ of battery life, even after several years with the same battery. Bah and humbug is what I say to the proponents of overpriced, overpowered desktop replacements!
I post this and I get modded offtopic. You post it and get +5 Interesting. Argh!
Mailinator is a recieve-only e-mail service. :D
Did anybody else notice that Gmail now supports using foreign "From:" addresses? So I can send mail from my Gmail account that looks like it came from my Comcast accound... Or from a non-existant mailinator account! I wonder what the point of that is? Maybe they're going to add recieving from foreign POP servers, too...
Strangely enough, I haven't had this problem in months. Perhaps it's on your end- GMail is very JavaScript heavy, plus the fact that it uses some kind of AJAX-style mojo to send data, I'd bet it's connection-sensitive.
If you read the page you linked to, you'd note that most mice and keyboards are 1.5MB/s ("Low-Speed"). So, yes, I guess they are bragging about 12MB/s vs 1.5MB/s.
As an aside, when will people learn how to spell? "Hi" does not mean the same thing as "high". Also, "thru" and "donut" are not words, no matter how much a certain "Drive-Thru" "Donut"-centered restaurant might want us to believe.
If you have to think twice before saying "no thanks" to Dell, then you have other problems, friend. :)
Okay then. From now on, everything I and everyone I know create susing any form of TeX will be distributed as a dvi file instead. Have fun with it...
PS: Honestly. It's just a slightly different form of PostScript. Rather closer to a reduced-feature-set EPS from where I'm sitting. But whatever. Hate randomly!
PPS: PDF is rather open... there's nothing tying you to an Adobe product...
Damned line breaks.
8. Actually, see the Palm LifeDrive. No point for PocketPC.
11. Actually, Palm OS devices are either 320x320 or 320x480. Considerably higher resolution than a Pocket PC's 320x240.
15. Palm OS can do this with the built-in launcher. No need for a third-party launcher
12 (the other 12... there's double numbers!). The Missing Sync does this and more rather well. Or you could just plug the SD/MS card into your computer directly and get faster transfer.
14. http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/hotpaw/ BASIC programming, right on the device.
8. Actually, see the Palm LifeDrive. No point for PocketPC. 11. Actually, Palm OS devices are either 320x320 or 320x480. Considerably higher resolution than a Pocket PC's 320x240. 15. Palm OS can do this with the built-in launcher. No need for a third-party launcher 12 (the other 12... there's double numbers!). The Missing Sync does this and more rather well. Or you could just plug the SD/MS card into your computer directly and get faster transfer. 14. http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/hotpaw/ BASIC programming, right on the device.
And lo, you've discovered the original idea behind Bluetooth. It even works pretty well. Unfortunately, the standard isn't the issue, nor is the bandwidth. Developers just are too lazy to take advantage of it. For a decent glimpse of the PAN concept, try out a recent Windows Mobile device (iPaq, Dell Axim, etc), a Sony Ericcson T610 and a bluetooth headset. You can use the PDA as a screen and data repository, the cell phone for network connection, and the headset for audio. Unfortunately, the headset can't be connected to both the phone and the PDA at the same time. Bummer. But it's a start! Remember- even Star Trek characters use three devices! Convergence is not a laudable goal!
Actually, I'd have to disagree with you there. My XP 2800+ out-benchmarks that P4 3.0 GHz. So I would presume that a 3000+ would, as well.
It's "Computer Trespass" if a student breaks into the computer that they're being lent, but it's not if they're being monitored without their knowledge? Okay...
But seriously folks, don't get too worried about this. I mean, if they prosecuted people for this sort of stuff, half of us would already be in jail, and the other half on death row. It's all just hot air from the administrators.
Because movies and music require expensive equipment and large amounts of people to make (for the most part) and to distribute, whereas software can be easily made by one person using free tools, and distributed to even non-technical people for little or no costs?
Furthermore, to create movies/music/whatever usually requires creativity...
Unfortunately, SubEthaEdit has nothing to do with the article. If you read it, you'll discover that the guy has actually invented a kind of monitor that shows two images at the same time to different people. So if you're sitting on the right, you might see screen 1. If you're sitting on the left, you might see screen 2. And no, it's not split-screen. Check out the vids for more info.
The reviewer complains that his Photoshop plugins didn't work when he put them in the Acrylic folder. Did he seriously expect them to? I mean, that might be the dumbest reason not to like a product that I've ever heard...
...Unless you, like me, serve application/xhtml+xml. In which case your entire arguement is invalid. True, I serve as text/html to MSIE, owing to Microsoft's browser's inability to comprehend anything else. However, Gecko and KHTML browsers get application/xhtml+xml and XHTML 1.1-valid documents. That's what server-side scripting (php in my case) is for! So stop posting about how XHTML is useless because of wrong mimetypes. Not -everybody- uses the wrong mimetype. :)
Before you start the anti-gentoo rant, try using it. I've got debian woody and gentoo ~x86 installed on systems here (the debian is on a 150Mhz Pentium that would have been painful with any more modern distro), and I've used Apt and Portage. Portage has a wealth of features unmatched by any other package management system that I've encountered. It alone makes gentoo worth using.
Is that like RubyDoc? RubyDoc basically goes over your source code and extracts classes, functions, etc, then parses nearby comments (if present) and auto-generates nice documentation.
Yes we have minimum wage. The employee needs to complain, afaik. http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/minimumwage.htm
Is it really a bootleg if the data isn't even sold anymore? I mean, that's like abandonware... sorta...
April Fools jokes are fine, I like 'em. But can we just have ONE story for the ThinkGeek stuff, instead of one story per item? Please? And where's the IsComputerOn story?
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.
Fonts, bullets and highlighting, oh my! Gmail now offers rich text formatting. And over 60 colors of the rainbow. Discover a land of more than just black and white. Learn more
Now here's the bottom of my screen:
You are currently using 14 MB (1%) of your 1273 MB.
Yay! The new math! 1273MB == 2GB!