A slate-type tablet Eee with a reasonable digitizer (256 levels of pressure would be plenty), the same thickness as a current Eee, a screen anywhere from 7" to 10" and a compact USB keyboard included would sell tons to budding artists. My sister uses a TC1100 tablet for drawing and she loves being able to sit down and draw just like she would with a drawing pad, but with the added bonus of unlimited undo/redo, large amounts of storage and everything else a computer with the newest Photoshop offers.
Me? I'd use the Eee tablet for reading ebooks and reading news etc. while sitting comfortably in my sofa, drinking tea:-)
Price it at perhaps $50-75 above the traditional form factor Eee with the same size screen, and it'll sell like the proverbial hot baked goods.
Firefox 3 RC1 displays slashdot as the first result when I type 'sl'. Perhaps you should bookmark the sites you visit regularly? Bookmarks definitely have a higher priority to the awesomebar algorithm.
I would assume that the accuracy will be at least on par with Galileo:
(from Wikipedia)
"[Open Service] Receivers will achieve an accuracy of 4 m horizontally and 8 m vertically if they use both OS bands."
"The encrypted Commercial Service (CS) will be available for a fee and will offer an accuracy of better than 1 m. The CS can also be complemented by ground stations to bring the accuracy down to less than 10 cm"
67hp (70 according to wikipedia) is pretty good for a 3-cylinder 1L engine, considering cars like the Fiat Panda which has a 1.2L 4-cylinder, 60hp engine (69hp in the new 500). Of course, the Panda engine is an older 8-valve design tuned for torque, but the matter stands, you can't just lump all engines with the same number of cylinders into one common description without considering displacement, valves, cams etc etc...
The engine in a Honda S2000 (2.2L, 240hp) and the engine with roughly the same displacement in a Toyota Corolla (2.4L, 158hp) are very very different. One is extremely high-strung and the other is tuned for economy and reliability.
On the subject of 5-cylinder engines, Audi used them for a number of years. The insane 500+hp Audi Quattro rally cars used a 2.2L 5-cylinder engine, and I think everyone can agree that it made an absolutely glorius noise. I have a friend who restored a 1992 Audi S2. It has the same 2.2L engine and makes just under 300hp (after a bit of tweaking, of course), and is an absolute hoot to drive, it makes all the right noises and is extremely smooth.
3. What the hell is wrong with Firefox's save file dialog box? (This one pisses me off too, I hate the Gnome/GTK file dialog box - it's very different from the KDE ones and confuses people)
Go to about:config and set "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" to false. That'll give you the older and more sensible Mozilla file picker instead of the Gnome abomination.
The Asus Eee PC is at ~11W TDP in it's current version, and the next one is rumored to drop to ~7W TDP, which should be low enough to lose the fan, and thus have no moving parts at all. And this is a proper little laptop with a color display (LED backlit, of course) and enough oomph to run Linux, BSD, WinXP and even Vista if you're feeling masochistic:-)
The work laptop I'm typing this on (HP Compaq nc6320) has proper hardware serial and parallel ports, in addition to PCMCIA, ExpressCard, 1x 4-pin FireWire, 4x USB and of course VGA.
It also has a Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM and a 1400x1050 15" monitor, so it's definitely not and old model. It just happens to be a business-targeted laptop with all the proper hardware ports people doing real work need. And there are no frilly fancy-schmancy consumer gadgets like integrated webcams nor speakers with "integrated subwoofer".
If my own laptop (Thinkpad T42) were to die tomorrow, I'd buy one for myself, too.
You hard-earned for Doom III is right there in the box. There is no particular Linux edition, only a set of CDs (or a DVD) with data files, which just so happens to have a Windows installer included. How this prevents you from grabbing the Linux installer and using that, I have no idea.
But the OEM Vista not working on the hardware it was provided with is either an Acer problem or a Microsoft problem. I would keep bugging them until they give up.
I find that Verdana is actually quite good for headings in documents.
I use Palatino for text and Verdana for headings, and IMHO it looks really good as long as you keep the headings short (as they should be). And Palatino is so much better than TNR for print. It's so much more elegant and readable, it's almost ridiculous.
This is the way my fonts are set up right now. Bitstream Vera Sans 8pt with AA and subpixel hinting at 96dpi. I've never seen a single OSX or Windows screenshot with fonts this nice (provided you use an RGB pixel LCD monitor, of course).
The terminal font is Terminus 9pt, btw. I like it even more than the standard X Fixed font. Irssi is extremely easy on the eyes and it's slightly thinner than Fixed so you'll be able to fit a few more columns in each term;-)
I still use Helvetica for file names in Konqueror. I don't know why, it just feels right somehow.
... I've yet to see an SMS messaging service with a pricing model I like.
That's why I love my 5000 free messages every month for ~$12 (60DKK). Calls are a wee bit pricier than a regular cellphone plan, but I write a hell of a lot more messages than I make calls.
It's ridiculous how some people are treated by their cellphone providers.
I have that same problem. And it's doubly bad for me, since I play bass guitar as a hobby... It's really hard to learn bass lines if you can barely hear them.
But I'm guessing it's simply a question of bad mixing. On some of the albums I have, it's impossible to hear the bass, and on some, it's very easy to pick out each individual instrument. Oddly, some of the ones where the bass line is most audible are metal albums with somewhat high levels of distortion and "dirty" sound.
It's very random which albums let you hear the bass properly.
And I think the reason that Les Claypool's work is mixed with so much focus on the bass guitar is because they want to showcase just how supremely badass his bass-playing is;-)
[...] the VW Beetle - hands down the worst car ever [...]
I see you've never sampled the many fine automotive contributions of eastern Europe;-)
I could mention such horrors as Yugo, Polski Fiat, Wartburg, Trabant, Lada and countless other fast-rusting, unreliable, hideously slow and unresponsive pieces of junk.
I may invoke the wrath of misguided individuals who still bear some kind of fondness for these cars, but they were (and are) utterly dreadful.
At least the VW Beetle was somewhat dependable in its simplicity.
I wouldn't be surprised if it had already happened. Poser (and similar software) exists, models of children for use with such programs exist, and people with twisted minds and too much free time on their hands exist.
The odds of those three things in combination producing virtual child porn approaches inevitability.
Fallout 2 was loaded with silly pop culture references, but the original Fallout was very sparse with them.
Both are great games, and the original is the best game I have ever played. The sequel was a bit too silly in some places and extremely buggy, even with patches.
The installation CD that came with my Linksys WRT54GL router (I tried it out on my WinXP laptop for fun) pops up a wizard that guides you through the setup, turns encryption on for you (possibly WPA2, but I'm not 100% sure) and recommends that you select a good quality password and a non-default SSID.
For normal users, this is by far the best approach, ie. make them setup the router before even turning on the wireless radio. Of course, I flashed mine with DD-WRT and set it up myself with WPA2, a strong passphrase, MAC filtering and hidden SSID (though I know the last to are mostly useless). But for someone like my dad who currently uses a completely unsecured AP (not even WEP) with only MAC filtering enabled, a helpful setup wizard would be perfect. I keep telling him that someone gaining access to his AP would have complete access to all of his network completely bypassing his firewall, but he just keeps on saying that MAC filtering is plenty secure. I even showed him how easy it was for me to spoof a white-listed MAC address and gain access but it didn't budge him one bit.
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A slate-type tablet Eee with a reasonable digitizer (256 levels of pressure would be plenty), the same thickness as a current Eee, a screen anywhere from 7" to 10" and a compact USB keyboard included would sell tons to budding artists. My sister uses a TC1100 tablet for drawing and she loves being able to sit down and draw just like she would with a drawing pad, but with the added bonus of unlimited undo/redo, large amounts of storage and everything else a computer with the newest Photoshop offers.
Me? I'd use the Eee tablet for reading ebooks and reading news etc. while sitting comfortably in my sofa, drinking tea :-)
Price it at perhaps $50-75 above the traditional form factor Eee with the same size screen, and it'll sell like the proverbial hot baked goods.
Firefox 3 RC1 displays slashdot as the first result when I type 'sl'. Perhaps you should bookmark the sites you visit regularly? Bookmarks definitely have a higher priority to the awesomebar algorithm.
I would assume that the accuracy will be at least on par with Galileo:
(from Wikipedia)
"[Open Service] Receivers will achieve an accuracy of 4 m horizontally and 8 m vertically if they use both OS bands."
"The encrypted Commercial Service (CS) will be available for a fee and will offer an accuracy of better than 1 m. The CS can also be complemented by ground stations to bring the accuracy down to less than 10 cm"
67hp (70 according to wikipedia) is pretty good for a 3-cylinder 1L engine, considering cars like the Fiat Panda which has a 1.2L 4-cylinder, 60hp engine (69hp in the new 500). Of course, the Panda engine is an older 8-valve design tuned for torque, but the matter stands, you can't just lump all engines with the same number of cylinders into one common description without considering displacement, valves, cams etc etc...
The engine in a Honda S2000 (2.2L, 240hp) and the engine with roughly the same displacement in a Toyota Corolla (2.4L, 158hp) are very very different. One is extremely high-strung and the other is tuned for economy and reliability.
On the subject of 5-cylinder engines, Audi used them for a number of years. The insane 500+hp Audi Quattro rally cars used a 2.2L 5-cylinder engine, and I think everyone can agree that it made an absolutely glorius noise. I have a friend who restored a 1992 Audi S2. It has the same 2.2L engine and makes just under 300hp (after a bit of tweaking, of course), and is an absolute hoot to drive, it makes all the right noises and is extremely smooth.
I installed this addon specifically so that I could read the texts behind the xkcd comics:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715
Go to about:config and set "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" to false. That'll give you the older and more sensible Mozilla file picker instead of the Gnome abomination.
The Asus Eee PC is at ~11W TDP in it's current version, and the next one is rumored to drop to ~7W TDP, which should be low enough to lose the fan, and thus have no moving parts at all. And this is a proper little laptop with a color display (LED backlit, of course) and enough oomph to run Linux, BSD, WinXP and even Vista if you're feeling masochistic :-)
Thankfully, it's usually ~2½ keys wide.
White grease should do the trick. Every piece of crap toy with moving parts and plastic-on-plastic/metal friction uses the damn stuff.
Here in Denmark (and most other european countries) the tall return key and backspace on the top row is the prevailing standard.
/, which makes typing *nix paths slightly less enjoyable.
Also, we have to press shift-7 to get a
The work laptop I'm typing this on (HP Compaq nc6320) has proper hardware serial and parallel ports, in addition to PCMCIA, ExpressCard, 1x 4-pin FireWire, 4x USB and of course VGA.
It also has a Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM and a 1400x1050 15" monitor, so it's definitely not and old model. It just happens to be a business-targeted laptop with all the proper hardware ports people doing real work need. And there are no frilly fancy-schmancy consumer gadgets like integrated webcams nor speakers with "integrated subwoofer".
If my own laptop (Thinkpad T42) were to die tomorrow, I'd buy one for myself, too.
You hard-earned for Doom III is right there in the box. There is no particular Linux edition, only a set of CDs (or a DVD) with data files, which just so happens to have a Windows installer included. How this prevents you from grabbing the Linux installer and using that, I have no idea.
But the OEM Vista not working on the hardware it was provided with is either an Acer problem or a Microsoft problem. I would keep bugging them until they give up.
You are aware that Doom III runs under Linux and FreeBSD as well as Windows?
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/
Having worked for a few years managing 250+ servers, my experience is definitely that SMART errors are not to be ignored.
I have my desktop set up to mail me a warning and shut down on any SMART error. That should give me enough time to buy a new disk and salvage my data.
Or you could simple use AdBlock Plus with the EasyList+EasyElement subscription. It's free.
I find that Verdana is actually quite good for headings in documents.
I use Palatino for text and Verdana for headings, and IMHO it looks really good as long as you keep the headings short (as they should be). And Palatino is so much better than TNR for print. It's so much more elegant and readable, it's almost ridiculous.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v291/KozmoNaut/? action=view¤t=desktop2007-04-14.jpg
;-)
(Please excuse the huge screenshot... I took it mostly to brag about my humongous amounts of desktop space)
This is the way my fonts are set up right now. Bitstream Vera Sans 8pt with AA and subpixel hinting at 96dpi. I've never seen a single OSX or Windows screenshot with fonts this nice (provided you use an RGB pixel LCD monitor, of course).
The terminal font is Terminus 9pt, btw. I like it even more than the standard X Fixed font. Irssi is extremely easy on the eyes and it's slightly thinner than Fixed so you'll be able to fit a few more columns in each term
I still use Helvetica for file names in Konqueror. I don't know why, it just feels right somehow.
That's why I love my 5000 free messages every month for ~$12 (60DKK). Calls are a wee bit pricier than a regular cellphone plan, but I write a hell of a lot more messages than I make calls.
It's ridiculous how some people are treated by their cellphone providers.
I have that same problem. And it's doubly bad for me, since I play bass guitar as a hobby... It's really hard to learn bass lines if you can barely hear them.
;-)
But I'm guessing it's simply a question of bad mixing. On some of the albums I have, it's impossible to hear the bass, and on some, it's very easy to pick out each individual instrument. Oddly, some of the ones where the bass line is most audible are metal albums with somewhat high levels of distortion and "dirty" sound.
It's very random which albums let you hear the bass properly.
And I think the reason that Les Claypool's work is mixed with so much focus on the bass guitar is because they want to showcase just how supremely badass his bass-playing is
I don't care, the slap-bass on "Bulls on parade" is one of the best sounds to ever be recorded.
I see you've never sampled the many fine automotive contributions of eastern Europe
I could mention such horrors as Yugo, Polski Fiat, Wartburg, Trabant, Lada and countless other fast-rusting, unreliable, hideously slow and unresponsive pieces of junk.
I may invoke the wrath of misguided individuals who still bear some kind of fondness for these cars, but they were (and are) utterly dreadful.
At least the VW Beetle was somewhat dependable in its simplicity.
Danish cartoons.
Why do people keep mixing up Denmark and The Netherlands?
Denmark is the place of bacon, ridiculous car prices (180% tax, baby!), legal porn since 1969 and extremely hot blonde and fair-skinned women.
The Netherlands have free pot, wooden shoes, windmills and tulips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser_porn
I wouldn't be surprised if it had already happened. Poser (and similar software) exists, models of children for use with such programs exist, and people with twisted minds and too much free time on their hands exist.
The odds of those three things in combination producing virtual child porn approaches inevitability.
Fallout 2 was loaded with silly pop culture references, but the original Fallout was very sparse with them.
Both are great games, and the original is the best game I have ever played. The sequel was a bit too silly in some places and extremely buggy, even with patches.
The installation CD that came with my Linksys WRT54GL router (I tried it out on my WinXP laptop for fun) pops up a wizard that guides you through the setup, turns encryption on for you (possibly WPA2, but I'm not 100% sure) and recommends that you select a good quality password and a non-default SSID.
For normal users, this is by far the best approach, ie. make them setup the router before even turning on the wireless radio. Of course, I flashed mine with DD-WRT and set it up myself with WPA2, a strong passphrase, MAC filtering and hidden SSID (though I know the last to are mostly useless). But for someone like my dad who currently uses a completely unsecured AP (not even WEP) with only MAC filtering enabled, a helpful setup wizard would be perfect. I keep telling him that someone gaining access to his AP would have complete access to all of his network completely bypassing his firewall, but he just keeps on saying that MAC filtering is plenty secure. I even showed him how easy it was for me to spoof a white-listed MAC address and gain access but it didn't budge him one bit.