I dont think anyone will ever be able to charge you just to listen to your music. Gotta stop thinking of your typical cellphone being only a cellphone. I have a tungsten that is a PDA first and a cellphone second, it runs an OS seperate from the phone functions -and soon with linux phones this will be even more the case- and you will be able to monitor the goings on in your phone just as you could your own pc. I wouldnt be more paranoid than about my ISP snooping at whats on my PC drive.
Im waiting a year or so when apple finally makes a real deal with sony and puts one of those fine mini hitachi drives in a phone with a camera. I give that about year or 2 so im going to save my money for now.
I have a toshiba m205 and i will never get a non-tablet laptop, its great. The m205 screen spins around so it can be in either tablet or regular laptop-appearing mode. Greatest tablet benefit? no more mouse. I use mine in bed, in the couch, wherever and you dont realize how much a pain in the ass a mouse (even optical) or a touchpad is until your sitting in a mound of pillows going thru windows just as fast as you could at your desk with your mouse.
And if you happen to be an engineer, its great in the lab for the same reasons, as all engineers have labs totally filled with shit and no shelf space for a mouse. Also i maintain my lab notebooks on it now and cut and paste manual pdfs in it with highlights etc.. love it.
I agree, a professional electronics technician is no cheap fellow, nor should he be. And i dont understand why this is even relevant, pc board manufacturers have worked this way as long as i can remember. You design your own board in any number of packages, email/upload/whatever a standardized version to the factory and voila, it appears a week later. These guys will even give you a free bag of popcorn with your board.:)
Could someone explain how meteorites travel from one planets surface to another? Are they ejected during large meteor impacts? That must be some impact to send a boulder 100 miles or whatever beyond orbit. And if large impacts are the reason, wouldnt the holocaust of the impact kill any life on the boulder?
Here here! What kind of chaos would this world be in if everyone waited until they were 25 and salaried to drop acid? Back in the day, i could just tell someone to do it but now i have to stop and think, 'hmm will he be realy sober by monday'? Geez what if George W waited until now to start blowing coke?
I disagree. If a UFO landed on your lawn, and an android/robot of some sort built by some alien race walked out and shook your hand would you dismiss them similarly as non-space fairing?
You know its really easy to take for granted the fact that in the last 50 years we have gone from a confined world to launching interplanetary probes billions of miles away. I think we are all a little desensitized from watching too much star trek/star wars and setting our expectations way too high. It really struck me this weekend when i was sitting on the beach with my girlfriend, relaxing and said "the cassini probe is going into orbit around saturn this week." She just smiled, because shes not that geeky, but really, never have humans ever been able to say something like that in matter-of-fact conversation. Now its the norm. Hooray for us:)
I guess im just a light year ahead of the times because we had a full on BBS war about 10 years ago. We were the local evil warez/porn/phr3aking board and some assfuck who ran the local baseball scores/bible info board dissed our shit and we had to throw!!! But he backed down and we threw stuff at his house and peeled out on his lawn.. Tru thug life! Then we annonymously sent him a hacked copy of Wacky Wheels that deletes your command.com.. B000YA!!
I call physics flame war!! Electromagnetic theory trounces the accuracy of quantum theory like a masked mexican wrestler in a caged match vs your grandma. For instance, if quantum theory is complete, why is soooooo much research still needing to be done on it? And wheres all that "dark matter" anyways?? (snicker) Ok ill stop.
You buy it because of the look the feel, the adds, the feeling of going to the apple store and knowing your part of something.
I want something that's durable, fast, and intuitive. And the iPod gave me that and more.
Goddamn whats the stock symbol for mac's marketing company?! im liquidating everything and putting it in there. Even discriminating nerds are injecting brainwashed marketing-phraseology into their conversations, seemingly right off the ipod brochure? Makes you feel like youre "part of something"? Its a freakin toy man! Maybe ill just put all my money in mac safely knowing they could sell dinosaur repellant in a stylish can to their legions of dittoheads. rant complete!
I totally agree with this. In fact, i think you should have to take and pass a basic statistics class in the US to be able to watch the news. So often stats associated with surveys etc are so screwed.. "500% increase in the number of escalator deaths this year alone!" holy shit! oh wait does that mean it went from 1 to 5 people? Maybe thats more obvious but sit 90% of people down and say "Ok what does it really really mean when the news says eating pork loins increases your chances of cancer by 5%?"
Im not a linux expert by any means.. i run redhat at home and have winamp etc installed. Im an electrical engineer. So what distro is easiest to install but has the smallest amount of BS going on behind the scenes? Lotta low level i/o coding to be done, need some good C development tools..
Im making the data systems for the instruments (radars, lidars, radiometers) that are going in NASAs global hawk UAVs (the air force is hopefully going to lend us some) and im going to run it all off linux.. hooray. In reality it is the best option.. of all the cards and doohickeys going in this thing, almost all of these companies supply linux drivers now and other OS's are more randomly supported. Some do linux and vxworks, others do linux and NT etc..
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I swear.. mass demonstrations by hacker groups? What was it yesterday? Large amounts of zombie machines available for rent by organized crime? Sheesh.. i want my assassin chicks with razor fingers now.
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And an unfortunate sidenote is that P&F had planned for pier review. However, their university president thought Carnegie-Mellon had discovered the same thing and was going to beat them to the announcement, and put immense pressure on P&F to head straight to the press.
Im an engineer and i really dont see a need for a ti89-for students or professionals. Maybe my curriculum and job are different, but dont all students and professionals have access to matlab/mathematica/scientific workplace where you can obviously do anything an 89 can do, but way better and with shaded graphics and the kung-fu grip? I really only use my ti-85 for arithmatic and trig as its quicker to punch it in.. I guess if youre some sort of freak that needs to solve differential equations in the field it would be nice but.. i dunno.
OH gimme a break. Go back to 1981 you guy with shoulder length gray hair and baldspot with your tshirt involving some sort of C64 humor. A hacker has been a bad guy since 1994 since i got my first computer and that was 10 YEARS AGO! No one 'hacks' their own motherboard with a soldering iron anymore. Retire! Its over buddy! You handed over the reins to we youngins who travel no where without roller blades and our hair the color of flinstone vitamins, and we're hackers yo...
To further 'simulate a real-world network' i think they should allow regular users to use the network for job critical things without interruption during the attacks-surfing the web, checking email.. i think this would help prevent the military from just having its routers block huge domains.
Here at NASA if you are suspected of hacking, treason, espionage, running kiddy porn off a server etc you are initially informed of this when you walk in your office and theres this official document taped to your monitor that basically says YOU ARE ACCUSED OF SOMETHING INCREDIBLY HEINOUS, DO NOT TOUCH THIS COMPUTER OR ANYTHING IN YOUR OFFICE, ARMED GUARDS ARE COMING TO COLLECT YOU. So naturally i come this close to pissing my pants, rip the sign off the monitor, am scrambling covered in sweat swearing at the top of my lungs as i move to wipe the hard disc (had i done anything wrong? well probly i figured) and then this guy in my office starts to laugh.. bastard... where the hell did he get one of those signs anyways..
I can feel for this. I started at $45k doing engineering in DC. After taxes, 700/rent, 250 car insurance, 300 student loans, 100 phone/internet plus food (i never ever ate out) left zero dollars at the end of the month and i would have to skip meals sometimes the day before payday or so. Now i had a $330 car payment that i accepted and realize i could have got a clunker instead but even so, maybe i could have had an extra $200 a month.. throw a kid in there or something and forget it.
Unfortunatly the NSA staffs thousands of people, and probly over a thousand cryptologists. Do you really think these thousands of staffers have been staring at PGP for all these years and are still shruggin their shoulders and saying "Gee whiz!".
Think about how many terraflops you could buy for a billion dollars and recall the NSAs *annual* budget is much higher. Think about custom processors made to do a bit more useful cracking with each clock tick.
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Im waiting a year or so when apple finally makes a real deal with sony and puts one of those fine mini hitachi drives in a phone with a camera. I give that about year or 2 so im going to save my money for now.
And if you happen to be an engineer, its great in the lab for the same reasons, as all engineers have labs totally filled with shit and no shelf space for a mouse. Also i maintain my lab notebooks on it now and cut and paste manual pdfs in it with highlights etc.. love it.
I agree, a professional electronics technician is no cheap fellow, nor should he be. And i dont understand why this is even relevant, pc board manufacturers have worked this way as long as i can remember. You design your own board in any number of packages, email/upload/whatever a standardized version to the factory and voila, it appears a week later. These guys will even give you a free bag of popcorn with your board. :)
Vibrators? I think Gilette is secrety run by some real comedic feminists.
Could someone explain how meteorites travel from one planets surface to another? Are they ejected during large meteor impacts? That must be some impact to send a boulder 100 miles or whatever beyond orbit. And if large impacts are the reason, wouldnt the holocaust of the impact kill any life on the boulder?
Here here! What kind of chaos would this world be in if everyone waited until they were 25 and salaried to drop acid? Back in the day, i could just tell someone to do it but now i have to stop and think, 'hmm will he be realy sober by monday'? Geez what if George W waited until now to start blowing coke?
I disagree. If a UFO landed on your lawn, and an android/robot of some sort built by some alien race walked out and shook your hand would you dismiss them similarly as non-space fairing?
You know its really easy to take for granted the fact that in the last 50 years we have gone from a confined world to launching interplanetary probes billions of miles away. I think we are all a little desensitized from watching too much star trek/star wars and setting our expectations way too high. It really struck me this weekend when i was sitting on the beach with my girlfriend, relaxing and said "the cassini probe is going into orbit around saturn this week." She just smiled, because shes not that geeky, but really, never have humans ever been able to say something like that in matter-of-fact conversation. Now its the norm. Hooray for us:)
I guess im just a light year ahead of the times because we had a full on BBS war about 10 years ago. We were the local evil warez/porn/phr3aking board and some assfuck who ran the local baseball scores/bible info board dissed our shit and we had to throw!!! But he backed down and we threw stuff at his house and peeled out on his lawn.. Tru thug life! Then we annonymously sent him a hacked copy of Wacky Wheels that deletes your command.com.. B000YA!!
I call physics flame war!! Electromagnetic theory trounces the accuracy of quantum theory like a masked mexican wrestler in a caged match vs your grandma. For instance, if quantum theory is complete, why is soooooo much research still needing to be done on it? And wheres all that "dark matter" anyways?? (snicker) Ok ill stop.
I want something that's durable, fast, and intuitive. And the iPod gave me that and more.
Goddamn whats the stock symbol for mac's marketing company?! im liquidating everything and putting it in there. Even discriminating nerds are injecting brainwashed marketing-phraseology into their conversations, seemingly right off the ipod brochure? Makes you feel like youre "part of something"? Its a freakin toy man! Maybe ill just put all my money in mac safely knowing they could sell dinosaur repellant in a stylish can to their legions of dittoheads. rant complete!
I totally agree with this. In fact, i think you should have to take and pass a basic statistics class in the US to be able to watch the news. So often stats associated with surveys etc are so screwed.. "500% increase in the number of escalator deaths this year alone!" holy shit! oh wait does that mean it went from 1 to 5 people? Maybe thats more obvious but sit 90% of people down and say "Ok what does it really really mean when the news says eating pork loins increases your chances of cancer by 5%?"
Im not a linux expert by any means.. i run redhat at home and have winamp etc installed. Im an electrical engineer. So what distro is easiest to install but has the smallest amount of BS going on behind the scenes? Lotta low level i/o coding to be done, need some good C development tools..
Im making the data systems for the instruments (radars, lidars, radiometers) that are going in NASAs global hawk UAVs (the air force is hopefully going to lend us some) and im going to run it all off linux.. hooray. In reality it is the best option.. of all the cards and doohickeys going in this thing, almost all of these companies supply linux drivers now and other OS's are more randomly supported. Some do linux and vxworks, others do linux and NT etc..
I swear.. mass demonstrations by hacker groups? What was it yesterday? Large amounts of zombie machines available for rent by organized crime? Sheesh.. i want my assassin chicks with razor fingers now.
..is all i can say. Fuckin'a man.
And an unfortunate sidenote is that P&F had planned for pier review. However, their university president thought Carnegie-Mellon had discovered the same thing and was going to beat them to the announcement, and put immense pressure on P&F to head straight to the press.
Im an engineer and i really dont see a need for a ti89-for students or professionals. Maybe my curriculum and job are different, but dont all students and professionals have access to matlab/mathematica/scientific workplace where you can obviously do anything an 89 can do, but way better and with shaded graphics and the kung-fu grip? I really only use my ti-85 for arithmatic and trig as its quicker to punch it in.. I guess if youre some sort of freak that needs to solve differential equations in the field it would be nice but.. i dunno.
OH gimme a break. Go back to 1981 you guy with shoulder length gray hair and baldspot with your tshirt involving some sort of C64 humor. A hacker has been a bad guy since 1994 since i got my first computer and that was 10 YEARS AGO! No one 'hacks' their own motherboard with a soldering iron anymore. Retire! Its over buddy! You handed over the reins to we youngins who travel no where without roller blades and our hair the color of flinstone vitamins, and we're hackers yo...
To further 'simulate a real-world network' i think they should allow regular users to use the network for job critical things without interruption during the attacks-surfing the web, checking email.. i think this would help prevent the military from just having its routers block huge domains.
Here at NASA if you are suspected of hacking, treason, espionage, running kiddy porn off a server etc you are initially informed of this when you walk in your office and theres this official document taped to your monitor that basically says YOU ARE ACCUSED OF SOMETHING INCREDIBLY HEINOUS, DO NOT TOUCH THIS COMPUTER OR ANYTHING IN YOUR OFFICE, ARMED GUARDS ARE COMING TO COLLECT YOU. So naturally i come this close to pissing my pants, rip the sign off the monitor, am scrambling covered in sweat swearing at the top of my lungs as i move to wipe the hard disc (had i done anything wrong? well probly i figured) and then this guy in my office starts to laugh.. bastard... where the hell did he get one of those signs anyways..
I can feel for this. I started at $45k doing engineering in DC. After taxes, 700/rent, 250 car insurance, 300 student loans, 100 phone/internet plus food (i never ever ate out) left zero dollars at the end of the month and i would have to skip meals sometimes the day before payday or so. Now i had a $330 car payment that i accepted and realize i could have got a clunker instead but even so, maybe i could have had an extra $200 a month.. throw a kid in there or something and forget it.
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I dont! See you in November!
Think about how many terraflops you could buy for a billion dollars and recall the NSAs *annual* budget is much higher. Think about custom processors made to do a bit more useful cracking with each clock tick.