Other than your post, my Blackberry 8700 does not stack the words like that. Slashdot seems to be relatively easy to navigate on this 320x240 screen. That said, I rarely use the internet on the Blackberry. I've had other mobile devices that I rarely used the internet on too, both Palm and Windows Mobile. It's just not practical. I'll do a Google search every now and then, but for the most part, there isn't much on the internet that can't wait until I'm sitting in front of screen that is more comfortable to look at. Unless your company sells products or services specifically for mobile devices, designing your web site for mobile devices is probably a waste of time.
I've had this conversation with about dozen friends and cow orkers over the years, and found that about half of this admittedly-limited group can't hear the difference
Usually, the spelling and grammar police bug me and it seems I'm about to become one, but this one really cracked me up. I'm going to start calling the people I work with cow orkers too. I don't know what orkers do to cows, but it makes me laugh.
I was curious, so I had to try it. ftp.exe from Windows XP Home SP2 contains no reference to BSD other than this string:
Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
Sounds like BSD to me.
Not long ago, I would have been one of the ones laughing at you. I had this 'wonderful' phone based on Windows Mobile that I could use to surf the net, send and receive e-mail, and it had a nice big colour screen. And that flip out keyboard looked so cool too. The problem was that I spent a lot of time rebooting the phone. Sometimes all I wanted to do was make a phone call, but it would complain it was low on memory and I've have to reboot. One day, it told me I was trying to install unsigned software even though I wasn't. I had to do a factory reset on the phone, which of course erased all of the contacts. That was the last time I used that phone. Now I have a plain ol' cell phone. It's really cool, because when I dial a number, it actually makes a voice connection to that number. And when it rings and I open the phone (it's a flip phone), it's like I'm actually answering the phone. It's a cell phone that works remarkably well as a phone. Not only that, but I'm not getting work e-mails 24 hours a day any more. And since I'm not getting the e-mails any more, I'm also not paying an additional $60 per month for the privilege of getting my e-mail from work when I'm out with friends.
Or you could just subscribe to Slashdot and download it before the leechers get to it. My average d/l rate was around 350 KB/s and it's been done for a while now. My u/l rate right now is 92 KB/s, which is about the max rate my ISP allows.
The limitations are in the head unit, not in the iPod interface. Although Alpine says the iPod interface works with the 2004 head units that support Ai-Net (technically they do), wait for the 2005 models to become available. The 2005 models are designed with the iPod in mind, the 2004 models were designed with CD changers in mind.
Here is Alpine's press release about their iPod ready head units.
This is the second post I've done about this, so I should say that I do not work for Alpine. I just like their products.
I have the Alpine CDA-9835 and just bought the KCA-420i and a 40 Gb iPod. It works great, and sounds great, but there are some limitations. You control the iPod from the head unit, not from the iPod. The head unit I have, while it was their high-end MP3 player in 2004, can only support up to 512 items. This is more than enough for any of the CD changers it was designed for, but is pretty inconvenient with the iPod. It means I can't see any artists beyond Ministry (the 512th artist alphabetically on my iPod). You can work around this with playlists, or you can disconnect the iPod and select the artist or album you want to listen to beyond 512 and reconnect it, or you can wait until Alpine has released all of their 2005 models and make sure this limitation has been corrected. From their press release last week, it sounds like the 2005 models are much more iPod friendly, although I haven't actually seen them yet.
I'm Canadian and that has definitely been my experience. Any time I say I'm going to the US for business, I get grilled. If I say I'm on vacation or going across the border to visit some friends, I pretty much get waved through. That's the same for both directions. I usually get more grief from Canadian customs people who always seem to assume that I must be smuggling something back that I should be paying taxes on.
You're probably thinking of the Lockheed Martin "Sea Shadow" which was a stealth ship built by the same group that built the F-117 stealth fighter and the SR-71. It was built by Skunk Works in the mid 80's as a test ship to test stealth technology on ships. If you google for skunkworks sea shadow, you should be able to find a picture of it.
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Other than your post, my Blackberry 8700 does not stack the words like that. Slashdot seems to be relatively easy to navigate on this 320x240 screen. That said, I rarely use the internet on the Blackberry. I've had other mobile devices that I rarely used the internet on too, both Palm and Windows Mobile. It's just not practical. I'll do a Google search every now and then, but for the most part, there isn't much on the internet that can't wait until I'm sitting in front of screen that is more comfortable to look at. Unless your company sells products or services specifically for mobile devices, designing your web site for mobile devices is probably a waste of time.
I was curious, so I had to try it. ftp.exe from Windows XP Home SP2 contains no reference to BSD other than this string: Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California. Sounds like BSD to me.
Not long ago, I would have been one of the ones laughing at you. I had this 'wonderful' phone based on Windows Mobile that I could use to surf the net, send and receive e-mail, and it had a nice big colour screen. And that flip out keyboard looked so cool too. The problem was that I spent a lot of time rebooting the phone. Sometimes all I wanted to do was make a phone call, but it would complain it was low on memory and I've have to reboot. One day, it told me I was trying to install unsigned software even though I wasn't. I had to do a factory reset on the phone, which of course erased all of the contacts. That was the last time I used that phone. Now I have a plain ol' cell phone. It's really cool, because when I dial a number, it actually makes a voice connection to that number. And when it rings and I open the phone (it's a flip phone), it's like I'm actually answering the phone. It's a cell phone that works remarkably well as a phone. Not only that, but I'm not getting work e-mails 24 hours a day any more. And since I'm not getting the e-mails any more, I'm also not paying an additional $60 per month for the privilege of getting my e-mail from work when I'm out with friends.
Or you could just subscribe to Slashdot and download it before the leechers get to it. My average d/l rate was around 350 KB/s and it's been done for a while now. My u/l rate right now is 92 KB/s, which is about the max rate my ISP allows.
Here is Alpine's press release about their iPod ready head units.
This is the second post I've done about this, so I should say that I do not work for Alpine. I just like their products.
I have the Alpine CDA-9835 and just bought the KCA-420i and a 40 Gb iPod. It works great, and sounds great, but there are some limitations. You control the iPod from the head unit, not from the iPod. The head unit I have, while it was their high-end MP3 player in 2004, can only support up to 512 items. This is more than enough for any of the CD changers it was designed for, but is pretty inconvenient with the iPod. It means I can't see any artists beyond Ministry (the 512th artist alphabetically on my iPod). You can work around this with playlists, or you can disconnect the iPod and select the artist or album you want to listen to beyond 512 and reconnect it, or you can wait until Alpine has released all of their 2005 models and make sure this limitation has been corrected. From their press release last week, it sounds like the 2005 models are much more iPod friendly, although I haven't actually seen them yet.
# iptables -P INPUT -j DENY
Actually, this command will cause an error. The correct syntax is this:
iptables -P INPUT DENY
When assigning the default policy for a chain, the -j option is not used. The -j option is used when defining rules.
I'm Canadian and that has definitely been my experience. Any time I say I'm going to the US for business, I get grilled. If I say I'm on vacation or going across the border to visit some friends, I pretty much get waved through. That's the same for both directions. I usually get more grief from Canadian customs people who always seem to assume that I must be smuggling something back that I should be paying taxes on.
You're probably thinking of the Lockheed Martin "Sea Shadow" which was a stealth ship built by the same group that built the F-117 stealth fighter and the SR-71. It was built by Skunk Works in the mid 80's as a test ship to test stealth technology on ships. If you google for skunkworks sea shadow, you should be able to find a picture of it.