I only communicate with most, if not all, of my friends via IM and phone calls. I can't remember the last time I emailed one of my friends. E-Mail is very much for me a more formal form of communication, and I use it for older family members that don't utilize IM.
That's kind of a step in the right direction. It does seem pointless though when I don't even have to go to the store in the first place if I just browse and buy the music from an interface like the iTunes Music Store. I'm not really sure why I would be motivated to go to Best Buy to buy digital music.
I don't really go to brick and mortar stores anyway unless I absolutely have to have a product today. It's easier, usually cheaper, and takes less time to do it from the comfort of my own.
It's stories like these where I try to click on the link to go see this new nifty gadget. Of course, the server is slashdotted to hell and back by the time I try and go there, and I keep telling myself I'll just wait a couple of days. I never remember, then a friend of mine points out the device to me like months later, and even though I never got the chance to see it, I'm here trying to outgeek the other guy and pretend like I saw it way back when.
While we're at it, processor speeds have been getting really fast too. My first computer clocked in at about 4MHz. I know that seems like a small number, but it drove a GUI just like we use today. Now I have this 3GHz CPU, and I just have no idea how I would ever utilize all of it. Except maybe to crunch numbers to cure cancer I don't have, find extraterrestrials no one can prove exist, and crack encryption algorithms that mean nothing.
While I don't have many major qualms over the TiVo remote, one issue I always have with remotes are their physical properties. I own a few pieces of Bang & Olufsen kit, and they built their remote out of Zinc. So not only is the remote cool to the touch when you go to grab it, but it is heavier than a plastic remote as well. I even have it set up now to where I don't have to use my TiVo remote, I can use my Beo4 remote from Bang & Olufsen instead.
You may wish to suggest that as one of the worst business moves to the editors if you can somehow find your way back to 1996. This annual article highlights the previous years highlights only.
and even graphitti artists will begin to wonder why they put up with the freezing cold, cops, etc. when they could just hook up one of these and lurk in the shadows until it's done. No more lugging around twenty cans of spraypaint.
Right, now they just have to lug around twenty cans of spraypaint, one hundred feet of rope, a level, a ladder, something to attach the rope to the side of the building with, a laptop, data cable, and a robot.
Then, if the cops haven't come after someone complained of the racket of ladders hitting the sides of buildings and boltguns bolting the rope onto the side of a brick building, they may do all the lurking in the shadows they wish while the robot spends a half an hour drawing a landscape.
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I'm trying to imagine a war with China happening realistically. (Which seems unlikely unless one or both countries end up with idiots/nutcases in charge.)
I guess. Unless you're the prison rape researcher or the person eating, breathing, and drinking the blood, urine, and vomit of the yellow fever victims. How does it get worse from there? Waking up the next morning?
There's plenty that utilizes the power the G5 has to offer, else there wouldn't be a market for the machine and it would not sell. Because you can't think of the software doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I, personally, am looking forward to Renderman returning to the Mac.
why do apple insist on trying to have the fastest, and not instead focus on widening their compatibility, which is their real enemy...
That's just a silly statement. It's not like all of the company's resources are focused on only doing one thing. Looking back over the past five years, I think Apple has made exceptional progress in regards to widening compatibility...
Actually, it's not a mac. The Apple I predated the Macintosh by almost a decade. It's also a very important contributing factor to why you're even able to post a comment to slashdot like that today.
Exactly what the parent said. Mod the parent up, dammit.
While it is important that people should be informed about the candidates that are running for office, it is not a requirement that we forcefully be informed. If I want to know, I'll go look it up. The content of a spam does not make it OK.
People seem to be missing that OSX is now based on BSD. From my understanding, it's just BSD with an attractive and functional GUI on top. I don't see why all the linux/bsd sysadmins should fear OS X, because it's pretty damn similar to what they already administer...
The city of New New York has been garbage free for centuries, mostly because the city got rid of all its garbage in the 21st century by compacting it all into a big ball and firing it into space. The porn movie "The Great Garbage Crisis of NY" gives the historical details to this.
But later on when the giant garbage ball was discovered to be on retour course to hit Earth, something had to be done. After a failed attempt by the Planet Express crew to blow up the ball, Philip J Fry came up with the idea of constructing another ball of garbage, and firing it at the one in space in an effort to send it reeling off course. All of New New York did their part to make garbage, and Fry's plan was a success.
I used to maintain my filters stopping spam, but they were only catching about 60% of all spam, and even then, I still had to download it from the POP server. I signed up with spamcop.net (No, I don't work for them:P) about four months ago, and now a good 95% of my spam is blocked on the server side, and I never have to see it. Ever.
I subscribe to all of the IP blacklists, and I've never lost a legitimate email. Since March, the service has stopped about 11,000 spams. The best part is for $30/yr., I don't have to play games with filtering programs... works like a charm.
This is actually one of the concerns a lot of traditional photographers like myself have with digital photography: Archiving all of the digital work we shoot.
It's very, very easy to store negatives, but with digital images filling up hard disk space so quickly, it gets to be an issue that one has to think about. I think that is the point the parent was trying to make, so more storage space is most definitely welcome in my opinion.
But this isn't a Windows box. This is a palm device. No matter what Palm OS based device you buy, you're buying into proprietary hardware. Buy a Palm, and you have to buy Palm accessories, so really, what is the solution in the current market? Saying it is a proprietary processor is kind of amusing, because it has to be based on a StrongARM design. TI, Intel, and now Sony make processors based on that which will drive the Palm OS. I really don't see how Sony has become worse than Palm or the other licensees.
having no cellphones on the plane is like asking ppl to not speak in the car while daddy's busy driving.
No, your analogy is closer to no cell phones while the pilots on a small chartered jet with you and your family are flying the plane.
Ever take public transit, or go Greyhound? You pick up your cell phone and start jabbering away into it on a bus, with other people whom you do not know, and you'll get some dirty looks. People would rather have the drowned out hum of the engine than they would your four hour conversation to family and friends. Bring a book, bring some music, order a few bloody Mary's and pass out for the four hour flight, but spare the rest of us...
You obviously don't live in Boston. I can get a piece of shit studio in boston with radiators, a kitchen I can barely fit into, noisy deteriorating buildings, no AC, and a single 20 amp circuit for, are you ready for this? $900/mo.!
Something tells me my $900 is going to go a bit farther in Japan...
If we based future research upon the answer to the question, "What's the point, does anyone actually need this?", I think we would fail to advance as far as we have today...
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I only communicate with most, if not all, of my friends via IM and phone calls. I can't remember the last time I emailed one of my friends. E-Mail is very much for me a more formal form of communication, and I use it for older family members that don't utilize IM.
That's kind of a step in the right direction. It does seem pointless though when I don't even have to go to the store in the first place if I just browse and buy the music from an interface like the iTunes Music Store. I'm not really sure why I would be motivated to go to Best Buy to buy digital music.
I don't really go to brick and mortar stores anyway unless I absolutely have to have a product today. It's easier, usually cheaper, and takes less time to do it from the comfort of my own.
And when the office web server crashed from a posting to slashdot, low and behold, there was Dave closing a browser window to slashdot.org
It's stories like these where I try to click on the link to go see this new nifty gadget. Of course, the server is slashdotted to hell and back by the time I try and go there, and I keep telling myself I'll just wait a couple of days. I never remember, then a friend of mine points out the device to me like months later, and even though I never got the chance to see it, I'm here trying to outgeek the other guy and pretend like I saw it way back when.
While we're at it, processor speeds have been getting really fast too. My first computer clocked in at about 4MHz. I know that seems like a small number, but it drove a GUI just like we use today. Now I have this 3GHz CPU, and I just have no idea how I would ever utilize all of it. Except maybe to crunch numbers to cure cancer I don't have, find extraterrestrials no one can prove exist, and crack encryption algorithms that mean nothing.
Sounds like you're just the person for this new Acer laptop...
While I don't have many major qualms over the TiVo remote, one issue I always have with remotes are their physical properties. I own a few pieces of Bang & Olufsen kit, and they built their remote out of Zinc. So not only is the remote cool to the touch when you go to grab it, but it is heavier than a plastic remote as well. I even have it set up now to where I don't have to use my TiVo remote, I can use my Beo4 remote from Bang & Olufsen instead.
You may wish to suggest that as one of the worst business moves to the editors if you can somehow find your way back to 1996. This annual article highlights the previous years highlights only.
and even graphitti artists will begin to wonder why they put up with the freezing cold, cops, etc. when they could just hook up one of these and lurk in the shadows until it's done. No more lugging around twenty cans of spraypaint.
Right, now they just have to lug around twenty cans of spraypaint, one hundred feet of rope, a level, a ladder, something to attach the rope to the side of the building with, a laptop, data cable, and a robot.
Then, if the cops haven't come after someone complained of the racket of ladders hitting the sides of buildings and boltguns bolting the rope onto the side of a brick building, they may do all the lurking in the shadows they wish while the robot spends a half an hour drawing a landscape.
I'm trying to imagine a war with China happening realistically. (Which seems unlikely unless one or both countries end up with idiots/nutcases in charge.)
This isn't already the case?
Things could always be worse.
I guess. Unless you're the prison rape researcher or the person eating, breathing, and drinking the blood, urine, and vomit of the yellow fever victims. How does it get worse from there? Waking up the next morning?
There's plenty that utilizes the power the G5 has to offer, else there wouldn't be a market for the machine and it would not sell. Because you can't think of the software doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I, personally, am looking forward to Renderman returning to the Mac.
why do apple insist on trying to have the fastest, and not instead focus on widening their compatibility, which is their real enemy...
That's just a silly statement. It's not like all of the company's resources are focused on only doing one thing. Looking back over the past five years, I think Apple has made exceptional progress in regards to widening compatibility...
Do you close your eyes and put your fingers in your ears when watching the TV, in case any ads get you?
One word: TiVo.
I haven't actually watched more than 2 seconds of an ad on TV in over a year. I like that.
She has a legal guardian: her mother. That's who is going to have to deal with the majority of the oncoming nightmare from the RIAA.
Actually, it's not a mac. The Apple I predated the Macintosh by almost a decade. It's also a very important contributing factor to why you're even able to post a comment to slashdot like that today.
:)
So show some respect, dammit
Exactly what the parent said. Mod the parent up, dammit.
While it is important that people should be informed about the candidates that are running for office, it is not a requirement that we forcefully be informed. If I want to know, I'll go look it up. The content of a spam does not make it OK.
People seem to be missing that OSX is now based on BSD. From my understanding, it's just BSD with an attractive and functional GUI on top. I don't see why all the linux/bsd sysadmins should fear OS X, because it's pretty damn similar to what they already administer...
If you have to ask....
The city of New New York has been garbage free for centuries, mostly because the city got rid of all its garbage in the 21st century by compacting it all into a big ball and firing it into space. The porn movie "The Great Garbage Crisis of NY" gives the historical details to this.
But later on when the giant garbage ball was discovered to be on retour course to hit Earth, something had to be done. After a failed attempt by the Planet Express crew to blow up the ball, Philip J Fry came up with the idea of constructing another ball of garbage, and firing it at the one in space in an effort to send it reeling off course. All of New New York did their part to make garbage, and Fry's plan was a success.
Thanks gotfuturama.com!
I used to maintain my filters stopping spam, but they were only catching about 60% of all spam, and even then, I still had to download it from the POP server. I signed up with spamcop.net (No, I don't work for them :P) about four months ago, and now a good 95% of my spam is blocked on the server side, and I never have to see it. Ever.
I subscribe to all of the IP blacklists, and I've never lost a legitimate email. Since March, the service has stopped about 11,000 spams. The best part is for $30/yr., I don't have to play games with filtering programs... works like a charm.
This is actually one of the concerns a lot of traditional photographers like myself have with digital photography: Archiving all of the digital work we shoot.
It's very, very easy to store negatives, but with digital images filling up hard disk space so quickly, it gets to be an issue that one has to think about. I think that is the point the parent was trying to make, so more storage space is most definitely welcome in my opinion.
But this isn't a Windows box. This is a palm device. No matter what Palm OS based device you buy, you're buying into proprietary hardware. Buy a Palm, and you have to buy Palm accessories, so really, what is the solution in the current market? Saying it is a proprietary processor is kind of amusing, because it has to be based on a StrongARM design. TI, Intel, and now Sony make processors based on that which will drive the Palm OS. I really don't see how Sony has become worse than Palm or the other licensees.
having no cellphones on the plane is like asking ppl to not speak in the car while daddy's busy driving. No, your analogy is closer to no cell phones while the pilots on a small chartered jet with you and your family are flying the plane. Ever take public transit, or go Greyhound? You pick up your cell phone and start jabbering away into it on a bus, with other people whom you do not know, and you'll get some dirty looks. People would rather have the drowned out hum of the engine than they would your four hour conversation to family and friends. Bring a book, bring some music, order a few bloody Mary's and pass out for the four hour flight, but spare the rest of us...
You obviously don't live in Boston. I can get a piece of shit studio in boston with radiators, a kitchen I can barely fit into, noisy deteriorating buildings, no AC, and a single 20 amp circuit for, are you ready for this? $900/mo.! Something tells me my $900 is going to go a bit farther in Japan...
If we based future research upon the answer to the question, "What's the point, does anyone actually need this?", I think we would fail to advance as far as we have today...