wow impressive. from the site:
-Select 24, 36, or 48 macros (56, 38, or 28 characters long, respectively)
-Switch between QWERTY and Dvorak layouts on the fly!
-The embedded keypad offers maximum productivity and comfort for 10-key users, especially using a foot switch.
so can i use the footswitch to hide the pRon when the boss comes in? very nice indeed. I think i need a big foot keyboard so i can get some exercise for once.
Two thumbs up on the knoppix idea. On a decent computer in a 2-3 minute boot up you have KDE running with all the goodies (they can imdiatly jump into Everybuddy and start messagin each other and not paying attetion to you!).
Also it will allow them to run a linux desktop on their parents' computer w/o installing a single thing on the hard drive (although a swap file would add some functionality).
a couple points though,
--if you want a GUI you will need at least 128megs ram for a sufficeint ram drive for the large image and enough "breathing space" to actually run programs with any grace.
--it autodetects most hardware, but not necessarily all (i had problems with an old s3 card in one computer)
--one of your cd drives will be tied up! you cannot eject it while the system runs!(that'd be like pulling the hard-drive out)
from previous:
"What about the Commodore 64? And when whas this? 1992? Sheez."
ah commodore 64 = 64kb ram, not a 64bit processor.. oh that was a joke, i get it haha! To my knowledge the processor was an 8 bit.. bit of a difference.. oh hahaha pun pun joke joke..
MicroSoft(tm) follows suit in the icon trend and replaces mr paperclip with an american ico, martha stewart, a microsoft p.r. was quoted,"People love martha's advice, and we feel this "could be a good thing".
a "cheap laptop" with firewire or usb 2.0? add another bit of dough to that $399 price tag (the article was a mis print see the posts it is != $299) for a pcmcia firewire... or you could'a just bought a laptop with a dvd-combo drive
only it wasn't luxury and their website is dead, but i still have proof. You'll have to scroll down to hobbit hole.
The preschool was situated in the mostly underground basement of a church and was quite damp and stinky as i'd assume a hobbit hole to be.. oh and there were lots of big trees.. (huh?).. maybe it had to do with all the little people running around.. who knows.
if we are going to get anywhere..
from the article:
"..takes a technician to swig a mouthful of cold coffee and clear the boxes of congealed pizza from his desk, 30 new machines around the world can be infected.."
ok first of all those were chinease takeout boxes and i had to kick them out of the way to get to the desk not clear them from the desk (stuff on my keybaord, yeah right). Second it wasn't cold coffee, it was mt. dew the drink that always tastes good at room temp.
I really don't see why we should take this stereo typing, not all _geeks eat pizza and drink coffee, some of us like sushi or subway, hell if i could find some indian take out and get some samosas. Plus coffee?! I like coffee as much as the next but there are much better ways to get your caffiene.
we have to move beyond the stereotypes, think outside of the pizza box.. its all about respect.. r-e-s-p-e-c-t... suck-it-to-me.. Mmm.. jus a lil bit, jus a lil bit.....
you mean now i can play a 2d version of tony hawk 2 on my game cube?! woohoo.. next thing ya know people are gonna port a nintendo emulator to ps! oh they already did that.. quick break out the master blaster, that sudo 3d drive me nuts!
true enough, but a strain that is resistant to antibiotics? ever seen the "foodsafe" videos? at one restaurant in my province nearly every person served one night (about 50 me thinks)became deathly ill.. all because of one cook that didn't wash his/her hands.. woops, luckily no elderly there..
i'm pretty sure that's regional.. here in bc rogers has been dropping upload speed capps in about 6 month intervals it seems, from semingly no cap to 115kb/s then 60 now 50, but downloads have been unaffected so far (i still can reach >500kb/s off some sites). After talking to a local rep he assured me that they won't do quantity bandwidth caps just speed caps because of the consumer notion of "unlimited internet". Of course those of us taht would appreciate a quantity capp as apposed to a speed cap so that we can get what we want done as fast as possible have to take a back seat to the "unlimited internet" loving public who just wouldn't go for such a thing even if they would never use that much bandwidth in most cases (except for those who leave programs such as kazaa runing, their loss though). If you want or need tonnes of bandwith then you should be paying a comercial rate.
And even if you find a way to elarged penis and a degree on your own how are you going to meet those women that are, "waiting to talk to you right now!"? Your huge cock will just go to waste!
>question, would the RIAA/MPAA ever let it happen?
What if the laser for recording cost $100,000 dollars, but another low powered inexpesive could be used for reading and you and could hold 87 gigs? Then they could produce a new near lossless format that uses no compression. Ie take up 87 gigs for 70-80 minutes of music . To copress this directly from digital it would take a huge hard drive and possibly lots of processing time. There goes duplication (well except for those with a set of rca cables and a line in, but eventually sound cards wil lhave some protection against that and we wil lhave to mod our sound cards.. aaaaahhhhh)..
But this is aimed towards power users, don't you burn cd's..
fromt the article:
"..since its chips are aimed at power users, such as those who burn their own music CDs or play graphics-intensive games that demand a lot of PC power."..because burning a cd takes a lot of processing power last time a checked. Plus you must be a "power user" since you figured out how to get those darn things to burn without getting all blackend and messing up your cd player.
And in local news a goverment branch just upgraded from their pentium 2 266's to >2.0 ghz (my fathers office actually, crown assests had a tonne of these old machines). Why, when most only run MS Word(tm) and Acrobat? Because 266mhz is "slow". Ah your government $$ in action.. can't wait till they dump some of their sparc stations.
The big deal is that staffolacocus (SP sorry) is a very common bacteria carried by most humans in their nasal cavaties. So the next time that little bugger at BK(tm) or Mcdonalds(TM) picks his nose and puts it your greasy burg you could die! In the food industry staff is rampant (BTW it's called staff because it's staff that carry it, cute eh). Best of luck with yuor next burger.
It is my understanding that last summer ('01) the geographical North Pole was open water.
ah so that's why santa claus goes to the bermuda for summer (or is that why Mrs claus is so wet all the time).
dare you to wrap you kids gifts in this
>why is it important that they work? cause they don't..
ah but they do, from the sire i quote, "The reception desk at Cesar Lima's Los Angeles studio is constructed of 15 working Mac Classics." Of course they aren't doin' anything interesting, no big wallscreen of Macs, no cluster, nothing interesting, but they *do work. Should have them all playing break away or somehing or some *really neat hypercard presentations.. ooohh aaaahh.
MAybe i'm not _geek_ enough but i really didn't think there are levels of proprietaryness. Is not something either proprietary or not proprietary? "Wow this is the most useless software i've ever used.".. responce, "You mean it's more useless than than the other useles software you have no use for, wow that's damn useless..?"
My responce to the article, "Wow that's damn proprietary."
i hope you're not serious. This doesn't apply at all unless Illinos has cars that pilot the roads themselves creating traffic w/o the owners' knowlege.
Due to computer illiterates in my area leaving programs such as kazaa and the likes running i have gone from uploads caps of nothing to 115 kb/s => to 60 kb/s and now around 50 kb/s. Why? Because some people use all the available upward bandwith all day. The worst thing is when the customers are approached they have no idea (other than their computer was running a little slow ever since they put that program on).
a better analogy would be someone leaving the water running all day ("yeah but i pay for the water!") Yeah, but you aren' using the resources so you are just wasting them! Of course i this day and age in N/A it's all about me me me and my "Unlimited internet access" and i'll use all the bandwidth i want cos i payed for it. Video conferencing is now a joke with all the clutter and if i actually want a file from a friend i'm back to having it burned if i can't find a server (50kb/s is a joke, i've had shits faster than that)When you are used to 200-500kb/s slowing down just isn't really an option. If blocking these services speeds up my uploads so be it cos i can find other sources for music and videos.
Or how about a album full of good songs for a start (not just one or two good songs and filler, nick carter coming to mind). If an artist puts out an entire album of good music people will buy it, guaranteed. One or two fluffy pop radio songs, people will download em.. that simple.
example: "Hit me baby one more time was like really good, but her version of the beat goes on and email my heart kinda really like sucked"
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anyone remember masterblaster?
ooh those simulated 3d levels gave me a hardon, and just the pure challenge. I could play masterblaster all day.
have to say it once more: MasterBlaster
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wow impressive. from the site: -Select 24, 36, or 48 macros (56, 38, or 28 characters long, respectively)
-Switch between QWERTY and Dvorak layouts on the fly!
-The embedded keypad offers maximum productivity and comfort for 10-key users, especially using a foot switch.
so can i use the footswitch to hide the pRon when the boss comes in? very nice indeed. I think i need a big foot keyboard so i can get some exercise for once.
Two thumbs up on the knoppix idea. On a decent computer in a 2-3 minute boot up you have KDE running with all the goodies (they can imdiatly jump into Everybuddy and start messagin each other and not paying attetion to you!).
Also it will allow them to run a linux desktop on their parents' computer w/o installing a single thing on the hard drive (although a swap file would add some functionality).
a couple points though,
--if you want a GUI you will need at least 128megs ram for a sufficeint ram drive for the large image and enough "breathing space" to actually run programs with any grace.
--it autodetects most hardware, but not necessarily all (i had problems with an old s3 card in one computer)
--one of your cd drives will be tied up! you cannot eject it while the system runs!(that'd be like pulling the hard-drive out)
and i thought tang was just for the astronauts...
from previous: "What about the Commodore 64? And when whas this? 1992? Sheez." ah commodore 64 = 64kb ram, not a 64bit processor.. oh that was a joke, i get it haha! To my knowledge the processor was an 8 bit.. bit of a difference.. oh hahaha pun pun joke joke..
MicroSoft(tm) follows suit in the icon trend and replaces mr paperclip with an american ico, martha stewart, a microsoft p.r. was quoted,"People love martha's advice, and we feel this "could be a good thing".
a "cheap laptop" with firewire or usb 2.0? add another bit of dough to that $399 price tag (the article was a mis print see the posts it is != $299) for a pcmcia firewire... or you could'a just bought a laptop with a dvd-combo drive
The preschool was situated in the mostly underground basement of a church and was quite damp and stinky as i'd assume a hobbit hole to be.. oh and there were lots of big trees.. (huh?).. maybe it had to do with all the little people running around.. who knows.
if we are going to get anywhere.. from the article: "..takes a technician to swig a mouthful of cold coffee and clear the boxes of congealed pizza from his desk, 30 new machines around the world can be infected.." ok first of all those were chinease takeout boxes and i had to kick them out of the way to get to the desk not clear them from the desk (stuff on my keybaord, yeah right). Second it wasn't cold coffee, it was mt. dew the drink that always tastes good at room temp. I really don't see why we should take this stereo typing, not all _geeks eat pizza and drink coffee, some of us like sushi or subway, hell if i could find some indian take out and get some samosas. Plus coffee?! I like coffee as much as the next but there are much better ways to get your caffiene. we have to move beyond the stereotypes, think outside of the pizza box.. its all about respect.. r-e-s-p-e-c-t... suck-it-to-me.. Mmm.. jus a lil bit, jus a lil bit.....
you mean now i can play a 2d version of tony hawk 2 on my game cube?! woohoo.. next thing ya know people are gonna port a nintendo emulator to ps! oh they already did that.. quick break out the master blaster, that sudo 3d drive me nuts!
true enough, but a strain that is resistant to antibiotics? ever seen the "foodsafe" videos? at one restaurant in my province nearly every person served one night (about 50 me thinks)became deathly ill.. all because of one cook that didn't wash his/her hands.. woops, luckily no elderly there..
and when do they see this 300 degrees b4 or after handling?it's gotta be handled after cooking.
i'm pretty sure that's regional.. here in bc rogers has been dropping upload speed capps in about 6 month intervals it seems, from semingly no cap to 115kb/s then 60 now 50, but downloads have been unaffected so far (i still can reach >500kb/s off some sites). After talking to a local rep he assured me that they won't do quantity bandwidth caps just speed caps because of the consumer notion of "unlimited internet". Of course those of us taht would appreciate a quantity capp as apposed to a speed cap so that we can get what we want done as fast as possible have to take a back seat to the "unlimited internet" loving public who just wouldn't go for such a thing even if they would never use that much bandwidth in most cases (except for those who leave programs such as kazaa runing, their loss though). If you want or need tonnes of bandwith then you should be paying a comercial rate.
And even if you find a way to elarged penis and a degree on your own how are you going to meet those women that are, "waiting to talk to you right now!"? Your huge cock will just go to waste!
>question, would the RIAA/MPAA ever let it happen? What if the laser for recording cost $100,000 dollars, but another low powered inexpesive could be used for reading and you and could hold 87 gigs? Then they could produce a new near lossless format that uses no compression. Ie take up 87 gigs for 70-80 minutes of music . To copress this directly from digital it would take a huge hard drive and possibly lots of processing time. There goes duplication (well except for those with a set of rca cables and a line in, but eventually sound cards wil lhave some protection against that and we wil lhave to mod our sound cards.. aaaaahhhhh)..
But this is aimed towards power users, don't you burn cd's.. fromt the article: "..since its chips are aimed at power users, such as those who burn their own music CDs or play graphics-intensive games that demand a lot of PC power." ..because burning a cd takes a lot of processing power last time a checked. Plus you must be a "power user" since you figured out how to get those darn things to burn without getting all blackend and messing up your cd player.
And in local news a goverment branch just upgraded from their pentium 2 266's to >2.0 ghz (my fathers office actually, crown assests had a tonne of these old machines). Why, when most only run MS Word(tm) and Acrobat? Because 266mhz is "slow". Ah your government $$ in action.. can't wait till they dump some of their sparc stations.
The big deal is that staffolacocus (SP sorry) is a very common bacteria carried by most humans in their nasal cavaties. So the next time that little bugger at BK(tm) or Mcdonalds(TM) picks his nose and puts it your greasy burg you could die! In the food industry staff is rampant (BTW it's called staff because it's staff that carry it, cute eh). Best of luck with yuor next burger.
It is my understanding that last summer ('01) the geographical North Pole was open water. ah so that's why santa claus goes to the bermuda for summer (or is that why Mrs claus is so wet all the time). dare you to wrap you kids gifts in this
>why is it important that they work? cause they don't.. ah but they do, from the sire i quote, "The reception desk at Cesar Lima's Los Angeles studio is constructed of 15 working Mac Classics." Of course they aren't doin' anything interesting, no big wallscreen of Macs, no cluster, nothing interesting, but they *do work. Should have them all playing break away or somehing or some *really neat hypercard presentations.. ooohh aaaahh.
MAybe i'm not _geek_ enough but i really didn't think there are levels of proprietaryness. Is not something either proprietary or not proprietary? "Wow this is the most useless software i've ever used." .. responce, "You mean it's more useless than than the other useles software you have no use for, wow that's damn useless..?"
My responce to the article, "Wow that's damn proprietary."
i hope you're not serious. This doesn't apply at all unless Illinos has cars that pilot the roads themselves creating traffic w/o the owners' knowlege. Due to computer illiterates in my area leaving programs such as kazaa and the likes running i have gone from uploads caps of nothing to 115 kb/s => to 60 kb/s and now around 50 kb/s. Why? Because some people use all the available upward bandwith all day. The worst thing is when the customers are approached they have no idea (other than their computer was running a little slow ever since they put that program on). a better analogy would be someone leaving the water running all day ("yeah but i pay for the water!") Yeah, but you aren' using the resources so you are just wasting them! Of course i this day and age in N/A it's all about me me me and my "Unlimited internet access" and i'll use all the bandwidth i want cos i payed for it. Video conferencing is now a joke with all the clutter and if i actually want a file from a friend i'm back to having it burned if i can't find a server (50kb/s is a joke, i've had shits faster than that)When you are used to 200-500kb/s slowing down just isn't really an option. If blocking these services speeds up my uploads so be it cos i can find other sources for music and videos.
Or how about a album full of good songs for a start (not just one or two good songs and filler, nick carter coming to mind). If an artist puts out an entire album of good music people will buy it, guaranteed. One or two fluffy pop radio songs, people will download em.. that simple. example: "Hit me baby one more time was like really good, but her version of the beat goes on and email my heart kinda really like sucked"