My first phone was a moto f3. It was pretty cool, I liked the e-ink screen.
Indestructable, massive battery life. Just don't try and send texts or have a contact list with more than about 6 name, due to the very, very low res screen.
I use http://www.rsync.net/ - as the name suggests, linux friendly (but with docs for OS X, Windows).
At the moment I'm using it as an offsite backup for my thesis, using a subversion repo to store everything. Works like a charm, and the support is really good.
Crashed Firefox 2.0.0.3 on my 10.4.9 Macbook.
Hung but managed to force-quit from Finder. Also caused my page file to chew up my remaining startup disk space.
Saved for future use;)
They are expensive and they do come with Windows, but since they're all standard componants, I don't see why you couldn't chuck Linux or whatever on it.
Bottom line: If I had the money, one of these would be my first choice for a MythTV based HTPC.
Why would you bother with that? The Hush PC (no affiliation) looks much better for most silent applications, especially HTPC - it's small, (the case in the article looked huge) it looks good and it's silent. Shame it looks like it's hard to upgrade, not to mention massively expensive. And, contrary to TFA's claims, it has been around for a few years now.
I use Word 2k over OO.o, simply because OO.o is way too bloated and the interface is weird. Oh, and the the terrible Office compatibilty (yeah, I know, it's not their fault, their working on it, etc etc..) I'll be checking out 2.0 when it gets released, but I don't have high hopes. What I'm hanging out for is a stable AbiWord - the few times I've used it, the stability has been too poor for any serious work (nuked a couple of my docs, luckily I had backups)
Being Australia, I'm guessing it wouldn't be an assault rifle, they're just too hard to get (completely banned for civvies) unless you have some serious criminal contact.
Probably an old centrefire rifle, or even a.22, which are possible to get (but still very difficult). Perhaps a handgun, but they are very heavily restricted.
That's pretty decent, I might look into that. On the other hand, my ISP (iiNet) are rolling out their own DSLAMS, which means they won't be restricted by Telstra regarding what they can roll out (gotta love monopolies..).
I also average 25-30gig on my plan, so I'd easily use 20 gig a month on 1.5. Thanks for the heads-up, though.
Peer to peer (emule, BT) relies on a fast upload for a fast download, because of an anti-leeching quota system. So anyone who uses P2P extensively (a bloody big market) care very much about upload. I know I do on my 256/64 for AU$40 a month.
I had surgery on my hand recently (severed finger tendon), and they asked me no less than four times just before the operation which procedure I was having done to me, and which hand/finger it was on, the last just before they put me under.
I remember reading about something very similar on the BBC, here.
Basically, looks like it's already been trialled for some months - don't know if it's been more widely rolled out yet, though. I can't say it surprises me, there have been several attempts at less high-tech gadgets at supermarkets near me.
As far as I know they've all failed - I think most young people just want groceries, although there is a bit of a gadget appeal, and older people who might be more likely to make lists and so are adverse to the tech. Personally, I go into a shop, grab what I need and leave, I wouldn't use anything high-tech cause I can't see it helping me get what I need faster.
After a year of using OpenOffice fairly instensively I recently dumped it for AbiWord, which I would probably describe as an OSS Word 97 clone - tiny memory footprint,.doc support and a basic feature set, but it handles all my essays and documentation with no problems.
I really wanted to like OpenOffice, but I have several big problems with it: -It still can't handle.docs properly. I know the format is munted, but it's a big barrier. Ditto for.ppts, which I need to view sometimes - I had to reinstall PowerPoint to deal with them. -It's as slow as horse shit, and this is on a Athlon 1800+, 512mb RAM. AbiWord is tiny, it just flies. Even word is an order of magnitude faster. -There are some really strange design decisions, the worst of which was the word count. In MS Word, AbiWord and every other wordprocessor I've used, you can select a chunk of text and go tools->wordcount or similar, and it will give you the wordcount for that selection, or the whole doc if you haven't got anything selected. In OO, it's tucked away in a strange place and only counts the whole document. I really don't like the presentation software interface, either. Development seems fairly slow as well, the last *major* release seems like ages ago, compared with something like FireFox.
Like I said, I want it to be good, but for my needs OO just doesn't cut it in it's current state. AbiWord fits my needs, but I bet for a lot of people the only sufficient application is Word. I know something better can be released OSS - look at FireFox, which is better than IE in every way.
I would switch in a second. OS X is by far the best OS on so many fronts that I have ever used (interface, ease of use etc, and the Unix core is nice). I'd still have to maintain a Windows boot for games, unless it was so popular most games were released for it.
Never going to happen though, since Apple make their money from hardware, not the OS.
I don't see why you couldn't serve the files on this GMail drive, although you'd still need to run the FTP or HTTP (or whatever) server on your computer yourself. It'd be as slow as dogshit, as well. Waste of time, really.
It'd be trivial to implement, you would think - just about every archiving program out there has a feature to split up files. However, I have no doubt that if Google wants to, they'll be able to stop this - even if they just limited the amount of incoming emails to any one account from one IP address, or something similar. If this gains any kind of popularity they probably will stop it, although it'd be interesting to see some kind of varient of this from google (probably paid for, since I can't see how ads would tie in here..).
And once again I am not suggesting that retrieval should be made difficult, merely pointing out that there is potential for abuse that needs to be considered.
Try reading what I said. Data mining, the wholesale collection of personal data, is made, I assume, an order of magnitude simpler using an online system vs microfiche or whatever. I would consider this an abuse of the system. I am in no way suggesting the records should have access restricted, this is just a new problem raised by the tech that needs to be addressed.
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Indestructable, massive battery life. Just don't try and send texts or have a contact list with more than about 6 name, due to the very, very low res screen.
At the moment I'm using it as an offsite backup for my thesis, using a subversion repo to store everything. Works like a charm, and the support is really good.
(I don't work for them, just a happy customer)
ya, whatever fuckin' cock shamen.
Crashed Firefox 2.0.0.3 on my 10.4.9 Macbook. Hung but managed to force-quit from Finder. Also caused my page file to chew up my remaining startup disk space. Saved for future use ;)
That's one of the best one-line statements I've read on slashdot.
But obviously the quality of the VM is paramount, and this would differ from architecture to architecture.
Ace, thanks.
I could be wrong. That was unde Alpha 2, and I can't check it now.
Great feature, one of the reasons I've been running the alpha for a while now.
Bottom line: If I had the money, one of these would be my first choice for a MythTV based HTPC.
Why would you bother with that? The Hush PC (no affiliation) looks much better for most silent applications, especially HTPC - it's small, (the case in the article looked huge) it looks good and it's silent. Shame it looks like it's hard to upgrade, not to mention massively expensive. And, contrary to TFA's claims, it has been around for a few years now.
He purchased his 2 id account on eBay.
I use Word 2k over OO.o, simply because OO.o is way too bloated and the interface is weird. Oh, and the the terrible Office compatibilty (yeah, I know, it's not their fault, their working on it, etc etc..)
I'll be checking out 2.0 when it gets released, but I don't have high hopes. What I'm hanging out for is a stable AbiWord - the few times I've used it, the stability has been too poor for any serious work (nuked a couple of my docs, luckily I had backups)
Probably an old centrefire rifle, or even a .22, which are possible to get (but still very difficult). Perhaps a handgun, but they are very heavily restricted.
I also average 25-30gig on my plan, so I'd easily use 20 gig a month on 1.5. Thanks for the heads-up, though.
Peer to peer (emule, BT) relies on a fast upload for a fast download, because of an anti-leeching quota system. So anyone who uses P2P extensively (a bloody big market) care very much about upload. I know I do on my 256/64 for AU$40 a month.
Free (?) advertising to a massive target market must be a grand thing.
I had surgery on my hand recently (severed finger tendon), and they asked me no less than four times just before the operation which procedure I was having done to me, and which hand/finger it was on, the last just before they put me under.
Basically, looks like it's already been trialled for some months - don't know if it's been more widely rolled out yet, though. I can't say it surprises me, there have been several attempts at less high-tech gadgets at supermarkets near me.
As far as I know they've all failed - I think most young people just want groceries, although there is a bit of a gadget appeal, and older people who might be more likely to make lists and so are adverse to the tech. Personally, I go into a shop, grab what I need and leave, I wouldn't use anything high-tech cause I can't see it helping me get what I need faster.
I really wanted to like OpenOffice, but I have several big problems with it: .docs properly. I know the format is munted, but it's a big barrier. Ditto for .ppts, which I need to view sometimes - I had to reinstall PowerPoint to deal with them.
-It still can't handle
-It's as slow as horse shit, and this is on a Athlon 1800+, 512mb RAM. AbiWord is tiny, it just flies. Even word is an order of magnitude faster.
-There are some really strange design decisions, the worst of which was the word count. In MS Word, AbiWord and every other wordprocessor I've used, you can select a chunk of text and go tools->wordcount or similar, and it will give you the wordcount for that selection, or the whole doc if you haven't got anything selected. In OO, it's tucked away in a strange place and only counts the whole document. I really don't like the presentation software interface, either.
Development seems fairly slow as well, the last *major* release seems like ages ago, compared with something like FireFox.
Like I said, I want it to be good, but for my needs OO just doesn't cut it in it's current state. AbiWord fits my needs, but I bet for a lot of people the only sufficient application is Word. I know something better can be released OSS - look at FireFox, which is better than IE in every way.
Never going to happen though, since Apple make their money from hardware, not the OS.
I don't see why you couldn't serve the files on this GMail drive, although you'd still need to run the FTP or HTTP (or whatever) server on your computer yourself. It'd be as slow as dogshit, as well. Waste of time, really.
It'd be trivial to implement, you would think - just about every archiving program out there has a feature to split up files. However, I have no doubt that if Google wants to, they'll be able to stop this - even if they just limited the amount of incoming emails to any one account from one IP address, or something similar. If this gains any kind of popularity they probably will stop it, although it'd be interesting to see some kind of varient of this from google (probably paid for, since I can't see how ads would tie in here..).
And once again I am not suggesting that retrieval should be made difficult, merely pointing out that there is potential for abuse that needs to be considered.
Try reading what I said. Data mining, the wholesale collection of personal data, is made, I assume, an order of magnitude simpler using an online system vs microfiche or whatever. I would consider this an abuse of the system. I am in no way suggesting the records should have access restricted, this is just a new problem raised by the tech that needs to be addressed.