I feel your pain. My mother died when I was 17. Dad when I was 18. I'm 21 now and just getting by. When I moved out of the house and out on my own I took everything I could find. Unfortunatly I couldnt find most of the home movies, but I did stumble upon a blue suitcase in my mothers closet which from what I can only guess was a time capsul of her life in her early 20's. I am so glad that I was able to keep something of hers and try to keep her memory alive as best as I can, but to this day I havent read any of the diaries or other artifacts in the suitcase. Its been 4 years now and I cant find the stregnth. Now I save everything. I print it out, burn it to CD and DVD (hopefully in 60 years those media will still be readable), and I can only hope that if I were to vanish in a heartbeat my future children would have something to remember me by.
As for my dad, he was a pro photographer and I've got some amazing pictures but only about half a dozen or so of himself. At this time I can close my eyes and see and hear both of them but I fear the day when their memories are from so long ago that not even the scent of her perfume could produce an image. Maybe I'm just paranoid but God I wish there were an A/V out jack on my neck.
$14 for a movie! Pfft, Took my g/f out to see some stupid movie, must have been forgot the name already. $18 for 2 tickets, $6 for popcorn, $5 for soft drink. Total: $29
I remember when a movie date was under $20. Sorry to rant but I've got to get it out, this is fucking ridicilous. Glad shes not into fine french cuisine.
I'm a cable subscriber. I pay about $100/mo for digital cable and internet access. I dont have a TiVo and my HTPC died. Until I get either of those back up and running I've been downloading The Shield, Enterpeise, and 24. Illegal, maybe. Fair use, might be, do I feel guilty, not when my cable bill comes every month. Put the shows I want on the net and charge a small subscription and we'll talk. I commend the BBC for their efforts and hope it crosses the Atlantic. Kind of analogous to the old days when I had a bunch of techno CDs that got scratched up so I downloaded them again on P2P. I always said if they would come up with a way for me to get what I want online I would. Your looking at a happy iTunes user.
WiFi should be a condiment, like catsup or salt or paper napkins...
This is the only intelligent thing I've see posted to this story yet. WiFi isnt the business, but its a great way to get people to visit your establishment. If you think your going to get rich WiFi'ing a park and collecting ad revenue your living in 1998. If your one of these guys more power to you.
Thats just the cost of doing business. Every cofee house has an expresso machine, if Bobs Cup-o-Joe decided to cut his expenses by loosing the expresso machine he would find that his business would go down wouldnt he? There is a cost for having a hot-spot sure, but ever think of the cost of *not* having a hot spot?
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But all TV programs are already available on the net,
"I like to look in on what the many robots are doing as well as the house cat and dog, or as I refer to them, the meat pets."
Dear god, this carbon based bi-ped has meat pets!
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Horray! Its been 6 hours of reloading slashdot and finally we get a non-linux story.
Sure, Sun's Java Desktop System was insightful.
And Fedora Core 2 Test 3 was um, interesting.
The Linux Desktop Summit 2004 article was informative (wish I got some maple syrup and a t-shirt)
And the conspiricy theorys in the Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 article were something to wrap my tinfoil hat around
But thank god, slashdot has returned to normal. A sexy search engine story to wet my apatite. Wait, is it how great Google is for running on Linux?! (/me reads TFA). Ok, were safe. Hopefully in a few hours a fud-filled gmail article will come up, or even better cmdrtaco will post this one again for double the pleasure, double the fun.
So I was going to post some info on Leonard Da Vinci's clockwork powered car since I no nothing about it and I've killed my karma on some dumb posts so I search google and come up with nothing, however I find it interesting that the first link is google directing me to this story on slashdot saying it was posted just 5 minutes ago. When did Google start linking to/. like this? Sounds cool though.
My first computer, an IBM PC XT, was 4 Megahertz. That machine was built about 20 years ago. I am 21 years old today and I have no doubt that next year will yield the 4 Gigahertz processor.
(probably from Intel considering they're love for MHz, but actual performance aside the GHz will be there and yes I'm an AMD guy now)
I also have no doubt that by the time I grow to 40 years of age I will be checking pricewatch for the latest 4 Terahertz processor.
Sure they are talking about Hard Disk speed and not processor speed - consisting of a magnetic plate spinning around read by a needle, but consider that back in the day data was primaraly stored on tape. I find that the construction of a Hard Disk is analagous to a record player, and like all technology it will be replaced by something better. I'm not one to make wild perdictions about computing in the next 2 decades but a good idea would be that storage goes the way of solid state.
Heck, by the 23'rd century we might be using bubbles, or isolinear chips, or spending weekends fighting off nanite infestations from the boy
This stuff scares the pants off me. I'm 21 working on an IT degree (no not ITT or ECPI BS) and though I already have a good IT job doing network admin stuff I'm looking to the future with some doubt as most of my job can be replaced with a small shell script (the redundant stuff anyway). I've been interested in computers since a very young age and have always wanted to have a career working with computers but I'm not starting to realize that IT is not the only field that would allow me the creativity and computer use I'm used to and I'm not too old at this point to change my educational direction.
I've been thinking about changing majors to electrical engineering instead of IT (I've got 3 years ahead of me, its not too late). Engineering sounds like fun as I've always had a blast doing creative thinking with everything from Lego bricks to BASIC programming as a kid. I'm sure I could put my skills to work in that field and be successful however I'm doubting myself again as my math skills, well, suck. I've never been interested in math primaraly because of lack of motivation from teachers. I've only got basic algebra under my belt and never bothered to even try calculus, trig, or geomotry because i found a loophole in my high school which would allow me to graduate with the required math credits by taking a C++ class instead of geometry and algebra 2. Sure I didnt have the pre-requisites to get in the class but being the "computer whizz" i am i got in and passed the class in a breeze. While other students were thinking of logical ways to solve the problem in code I would be writing messy stuff with crude nested loops that resulted in the same answer to the problem but I guess I lacked complete understanding of the forumla as it was mostly try and try again. Its possible that I messed myself up by teaching myself my own math principals growing up at a young age in Q-BASIC and rejected the formulas that were taught to me in grade school. I didnt like be re-learned and it only took a few lines of my own code to do my hard math homework.
I'm really getting wordy now but if your still reading you get the idea that I've pretty much fsck'd myself over and I'm wondering what others have to share about my perdiciment. It doesnt look like IT is going to have the bright future it looked like it would in the mid 90's and is engineering going to kill me? I'd love to still do computer work but with an engineering degree i could possibly do it on the hardware level. It seems that getting an engineering degree would mean getting a "real" job while being an IT Geek / Network Guy is the slacker way out.
I hope I expressed what I was trying to say.
Thoughts please, anyone older && || wiser have any suggestions?
Is it possible to have the characters ^H in a unix password? Is it is valid are there any other concerns or does *nix play nice? I dont know how many times ive telnet'd to a *nix box and typo'd in the middle of authentication only to hir backspace by habbit and get ^H.
Am I the only one that uses secure passwords (3 caps, 3 lower, 3 numeric), yet always finds some way to make the password a pattern on a qwerty keyboard for easy to remember?
WTFuxx0r. I watched the vol2 clips and ive got to say thats the worst porn and worst tech vid ive ever seen. but at the same time i commend you for doing what you are passionate about. good luck with your release tomorrow.
You've hit the nail on the head. That is exactly the device I want. 0.5" thick, Flash Memory, 8" LCD with very little border, maybe a scroll wheel and 1 button on the right side of it (lefties can flip it upside down and reset the screen), WiFi, SD or CF slot, USB for charging, docking, periferials. 800x600 though, loose the 640 res its just going to cause headaches on the net. hate to say it but 800x600 seems to be a "web standard" for the time being.
Hell if this thing ran LCARS I'd be toting it from Main Engineering to the Bridge and back with me all the time (i wish).
I believe they got it right by making the OS simple with few icons however LCARS seems perfect for this type of device. (Is there a LCARS linux window manager?)
Now I just need one of these and a comunicator (mentioned a few weeks ago on/.) and I'm ready to start routing warp plasma through eps conduits to the main deflector array creating an inverse takeon pulse ripping apart subspace while solving sherlock holmes mysteries on the holodeck.
I've always said I wanted a wireless enabled device thats bigger than a PDA and smaller than a tablet like the pads they use on Star Trek. One of these babies running an ARM processor with WiFi and thinner (no CDROM) would kick major butt. And since it runs linux I asume there is some way I could whip it up to look like LCARS. (LCARS Linux distribution anyone? Please? Linky?!)
Ok, maybe this is just another one of my geek fantasies (like having 24" touch-lcd screens mounted on my walls for quick home automation and internet access) but I'm sure other slashgeeks out there share the dream. Glad to know we're one step closer.
I "Pirate" TV by downloading my Star Trek fix form BT or P2P also, but there difference here is I also pay for Digital Cable and Cable Modem so with a $100 cable bill I think I deserve to be able to watch enterprise without commercials (I'm just going to get a snack durring them anyway) whenever I want to. I guess a PVR would do the work for me but its always nice seeing an Ep the night before;).
No! Keep the tables or at least leave it as an option. I use a screen reader to listen to slashdot comments by holding ctrl and clicking on a comment (in Moz it selects the table) then doing a copy. if that functionality were taken from me I would stop reading (listening to) slashdot
I dont mean to sound stupid as im not a astrogeek but how exactly do solar winds knock off the atmosphere of a planet. To me solar winds is just a cool techno band. I'm about to google it but if you've got a good link id love to read some.
Kinda interesting, it seems a guy a few days ago in a post was right about why kids like to learn about dinosaurs and planets... because there is so much information about them around. Heres to keeping pluto!
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I feel your pain. My mother died when I was 17. Dad when I was 18. I'm 21 now and just getting by. When I moved out of the house and out on my own I took everything I could find. Unfortunatly I couldnt find most of the home movies, but I did stumble upon a blue suitcase in my mothers closet which from what I can only guess was a time capsul of her life in her early 20's. I am so glad that I was able to keep something of hers and try to keep her memory alive as best as I can, but to this day I havent read any of the diaries or other artifacts in the suitcase. Its been 4 years now and I cant find the stregnth. Now I save everything. I print it out, burn it to CD and DVD (hopefully in 60 years those media will still be readable), and I can only hope that if I were to vanish in a heartbeat my future children would have something to remember me by.
As for my dad, he was a pro photographer and I've got some amazing pictures but only about half a dozen or so of himself. At this time I can close my eyes and see and hear both of them but I fear the day when their memories are from so long ago that not even the scent of her perfume could produce an image. Maybe I'm just paranoid but God I wish there were an A/V out jack on my neck.
That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)
Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!
But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.
Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses
$14 for a movie! Pfft, Took my g/f out to see some stupid movie, must have been forgot the name already. $18 for 2 tickets, $6 for popcorn, $5 for soft drink. Total: $29
I remember when a movie date was under $20. Sorry to rant but I've got to get it out, this is fucking ridicilous. Glad shes not into fine french cuisine.
Have you told your parents that your homosexual yet?
Come on man, its a yes or no question...
Bullshit, its a loaded question. Why is it that SO's dont understand this concept though?
I'm a cable subscriber. I pay about $100/mo for digital cable and internet access. I dont have a TiVo and my HTPC died. Until I get either of those back up and running I've been downloading The Shield, Enterpeise, and 24. Illegal, maybe. Fair use, might be, do I feel guilty, not when my cable bill comes every month. Put the shows I want on the net and charge a small subscription and we'll talk. I commend the BBC for their efforts and hope it crosses the Atlantic. Kind of analogous to the old days when I had a bunch of techno CDs that got scratched up so I downloaded them again on P2P. I always said if they would come up with a way for me to get what I want online I would. Your looking at a happy iTunes user.
Makeing money by putting ads on a users screen while they surf...
Yeah...
1998 called. It wants its business model back.
WiFi should be a condiment, like catsup or salt or paper napkins...
This is the only intelligent thing I've see posted to this story yet. WiFi isnt the business, but its a great way to get people to visit your establishment. If you think your going to get rich WiFi'ing a park and collecting ad revenue your living in 1998. If your one of these guys more power to you.
Thats just the cost of doing business. Every cofee house has an expresso machine, if Bobs Cup-o-Joe decided to cut his expenses by loosing the expresso machine he would find that his business would go down wouldnt he? There is a cost for having a hot-spot sure, but ever think of the cost of *not* having a hot spot?
But all TV programs are already available on the net,
#tv-torrents
"I like to look in on what the many robots are doing as well as the house cat and dog, or as I refer to them, the meat pets."
Dear god, this carbon based bi-ped has meat pets!
Horray! Its been 6 hours of reloading slashdot and finally we get a non-linux story.
Sure, Sun's Java Desktop System was insightful.
And Fedora Core 2 Test 3 was um, interesting.
The Linux Desktop Summit 2004 article was informative (wish I got some maple syrup and a t-shirt)
And the conspiricy theorys in the Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 article were something to wrap my tinfoil hat around
But thank god, slashdot has returned to normal. A sexy search engine story to wet my apatite. Wait, is it how great Google is for running on Linux?! (/me reads TFA). Ok, were safe. Hopefully in a few hours a fud-filled gmail article will come up, or even better cmdrtaco will post this one again for double the pleasure, double the fun.
but seriously, about the maple syrup, hook me up.
So I was going to post some info on Leonard Da Vinci's clockwork powered car since I no nothing about it and I've killed my karma on some dumb posts so I search google and come up with nothing, however I find it interesting that the first link is google directing me to this story on slashdot saying it was posted just 5 minutes ago. When did Google start linking to /. like this? Sounds cool though.
Obviously the owner drove the car into the future to register the plates. Duh.
My first computer, an IBM PC XT, was 4 Megahertz. That machine was built about 20 years ago. I am 21 years old today and I have no doubt that next year will yield the 4 Gigahertz processor.
(probably from Intel considering they're love for MHz, but actual performance aside the GHz will be there and yes I'm an AMD guy now)
I also have no doubt that by the time I grow to 40 years of age I will be checking pricewatch for the latest 4 Terahertz processor.
Sure they are talking about Hard Disk speed and not processor speed - consisting of a magnetic plate spinning around read by a needle, but consider that back in the day data was primaraly stored on tape. I find that the construction of a Hard Disk is analagous to a record player, and like all technology it will be replaced by something better. I'm not one to make wild perdictions about computing in the next 2 decades but a good idea would be that storage goes the way of solid state.
Heck, by the 23'rd century we might be using bubbles, or isolinear chips, or spending weekends fighting off nanite infestations from the boy
Just my 2 cents.
-Aardwolf
This stuff scares the pants off me. I'm 21 working on an IT degree (no not ITT or ECPI BS) and though I already have a good IT job doing network admin stuff I'm looking to the future with some doubt as most of my job can be replaced with a small shell script (the redundant stuff anyway). I've been interested in computers since a very young age and have always wanted to have a career working with computers but I'm not starting to realize that IT is not the only field that would allow me the creativity and computer use I'm used to and I'm not too old at this point to change my educational direction.
I've been thinking about changing majors to electrical engineering instead of IT (I've got 3 years ahead of me, its not too late). Engineering sounds like fun as I've always had a blast doing creative thinking with everything from Lego bricks to BASIC programming as a kid. I'm sure I could put my skills to work in that field and be successful however I'm doubting myself again as my math skills, well, suck. I've never been interested in math primaraly because of lack of motivation from teachers. I've only got basic algebra under my belt and never bothered to even try calculus, trig, or geomotry because i found a loophole in my high school which would allow me to graduate with the required math credits by taking a C++ class instead of geometry and algebra 2. Sure I didnt have the pre-requisites to get in the class but being the "computer whizz" i am i got in and passed the class in a breeze. While other students were thinking of logical ways to solve the problem in code I would be writing messy stuff with crude nested loops that resulted in the same answer to the problem but I guess I lacked complete understanding of the forumla as it was mostly try and try again. Its possible that I messed myself up by teaching myself my own math principals growing up at a young age in Q-BASIC and rejected the formulas that were taught to me in grade school. I didnt like be re-learned and it only took a few lines of my own code to do my hard math homework.
I'm really getting wordy now but if your still reading you get the idea that I've pretty much fsck'd myself over and I'm wondering what others have to share about my perdiciment. It doesnt look like IT is going to have the bright future it looked like it would in the mid 90's and is engineering going to kill me? I'd love to still do computer work but with an engineering degree i could possibly do it on the hardware level. It seems that getting an engineering degree would mean getting a "real" job while being an IT Geek / Network Guy is the slacker way out.
I hope I expressed what I was trying to say.
Thoughts please, anyone older && || wiser have any suggestions?
Not too offtopic i guess but,
Is it possible to have the characters ^H in a unix password? Is it is valid are there any other concerns or does *nix play nice? I dont know how many times ive telnet'd to a *nix box and typo'd in the middle of authentication only to hir backspace by habbit and get ^H.
Am I the only one that uses secure passwords (3 caps, 3 lower, 3 numeric), yet always finds some way to make the password a pattern on a qwerty keyboard for easy to remember?
WTFuxx0r. I watched the vol2 clips and ive got to say thats the worst porn and worst tech vid ive ever seen. but at the same time i commend you for doing what you are passionate about. good luck with your release tomorrow.
How about an Active Directory forrest? ;-)
Speakonia. Windows. Sorry.
You've hit the nail on the head. That is exactly the device I want. 0.5" thick, Flash Memory, 8" LCD with very little border, maybe a scroll wheel and 1 button on the right side of it (lefties can flip it upside down and reset the screen), WiFi, SD or CF slot, USB for charging, docking, periferials. 800x600 though, loose the 640 res its just going to cause headaches on the net. hate to say it but 800x600 seems to be a "web standard" for the time being.
/.) and I'm ready to start routing warp plasma through eps conduits to the main deflector array creating an inverse takeon pulse ripping apart subspace while solving sherlock holmes mysteries on the holodeck.
/me NERD
Hell if this thing ran LCARS I'd be toting it from Main Engineering to the Bridge and back with me all the time (i wish).
I believe they got it right by making the OS simple with few icons however LCARS seems perfect for this type of device. (Is there a LCARS linux window manager?)
Now I just need one of these and a comunicator (mentioned a few weeks ago on
I've always said I wanted a wireless enabled device thats bigger than a PDA and smaller than a tablet like the pads they use on Star Trek. One of these babies running an ARM processor with WiFi and thinner (no CDROM) would kick major butt. And since it runs linux I asume there is some way I could whip it up to look like LCARS. (LCARS Linux distribution anyone? Please? Linky?!)
Ok, maybe this is just another one of my geek fantasies (like having 24" touch-lcd screens mounted on my walls for quick home automation and internet access) but I'm sure other slashgeeks out there share the dream. Glad to know we're one step closer.
I "Pirate" TV by downloading my Star Trek fix form BT or P2P also, but there difference here is I also pay for Digital Cable and Cable Modem so with a $100 cable bill I think I deserve to be able to watch enterprise without commercials (I'm just going to get a snack durring them anyway) whenever I want to. I guess a PVR would do the work for me but its always nice seeing an Ep the night before ;).
No! Keep the tables or at least leave it as an option. I use a screen reader to listen to slashdot comments by holding ctrl and clicking on a comment (in Moz it selects the table) then doing a copy. if that functionality were taken from me I would stop reading (listening to) slashdot
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I dont mean to sound stupid as im not a astrogeek but how exactly do solar winds knock off the atmosphere of a planet. To me solar winds is just a cool techno band. I'm about to google it but if you've got a good link id love to read some.
Kinda interesting, it seems a guy a few days ago in a post was right about why kids like to learn about dinosaurs and planets... because there is so much information about them around. Heres to keeping pluto!