The iPod SHuffle is a POS. I use my MP3 player for AUDIOBOOKS. Imagine listening to a book with everything out of bloody order? A 10 hour book broken into 300 parts (my Mp3 player only supports 300 tracks in a playlist.) would be hell of a beast to deal with in a random play mode. Worse than just the first read-through, imagine the pain when you try to re-start at track 135 (having had to turn off the mp3 player while at work.) This thing has no damned display to even know it was track 135 you were listening to when you sat down at your desk to start the work day.
Spy ware is software that watches, records(optional) and reports its findings to a third party.
Some spyware is good (anti-virus, watches for virus, nukes it, records a log, and sends some info to the software guys for their statistics.)
Some spyware is bad (gator, weather bug, whatever.)
Some is questionable... like the subject of the article (watches i-net traffic with specific key words, loggs hits, and sends the results off to...someone... at the FBI.)
If the system being spied on is a users desktop, their PDA, the office server, or some machine handling a large backbone, it's all spyware (again, for good or bad.)
What happens in past episodes will make the following episodes MUCH more enjoyable. You won't be scratching your head going "uhm, why do I feel like I that part of the plot went right over my head."
Speaking of BitTorrent, while you download the Miniseries, you can download (as of now) episodes 1 to 10 (11?) of the show as well. The show is good stuff. Same quality as Farscape, but a diffrent flavor of sci-fi. Where Farscape is almost comic like, BSG is NOT QUITE *HARD* sci-fi, but it's about as close as you'll ever see on TV.
Large dosen't mean heavy. LARGE RED stars are going to be very thin, not much density. All of their material will be spread out over quite a large area. A LARGE BLUE star on the other hand, would be quite dense (and short lived...they burn their fuel much faster and die in billiant novas, or if they are TOO heavy, as blackholes.)
and soon we will all have the genetics that make us immune to all diseases known to man. Then, when a disease unknown to man arrives it can get us all at once, for genetic variation would be engineered out of us. BAD IDEA. Get us a vaccination, not gene modification.
What is really frightening, not the ghostbusters, but that ESCAPE FROM NEWYOUK was rated higher in the list than THE GODFATHER MOVIES, TRON, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Escape from New York should make the list, it's *THE* classic lame action film set in a sci-fi enviroment, but there's no way in hell being the best of the bad is better than being one amongst a herd of great movies.
CP/M did indeed come before MS-DOS. CP/M is one of the other PC/AT compatable OS that competed with MS-DOS. I think this is what I typed:
"MS-DOS was not the only operating system available for the PC/AT machines. MS-DOS just outsold the others."
I don't think that I typed:
"MS-DOS came before CP/M because MS is a great innovator[sp]"
MS work something like this (from Win3.1 onwards):
1) Watch others make new cool stuff 2) Buy rights to cool new stuff 3) Dump free version of cool new stuff and put those from step 1 into big money problems 4) Buy companies from step 1 after they are devalued, or just watch them die. 5) When competition is gone, raise price 6)... 7) the P word goes here.
>Credit: IMB PC/AT and it's clones > >Only viable at the time because of MS-DOS.
MS-DOS was not the only operating system available for the PC/AT machines. MS-DOS just outsold the others.
>Credit: uhm...yeah... I've got 5 diffrent >platforms here on 5 diffrent processors (only 1 >machine is a x86)
>90%+ of the multipurpose computing world is using >Windows on x86. Your personal environment is not >representative.
DragonBall, 3xARM, and AMDXP2200. 4 Handhelds (2 are Smartphones) and 1 Desktop. What's really so off the wall?
>Credit: Those boys over at Apple
>Except Apple didn't make their machines easy to >acquire, by making them expensive.
Easy to use, Low Price, High Quality. Pick two.
>Credit: All the makers of PC clones >Only viable because of MSDOS and later, Windows.
Again, a clone would run a non-ms product as well as anything else. If you don't belive me ask anyone here if x86 processors can run a non microsoft OS, they might just mention Linux:P
>Credit: They didn't get on late, but AOL did all >this. >They got on very late (1996ish). Not sure if I"d >agree they were "the driving force" though.
In terms of the non-techie, 1996 wasn't late for the internet party. I know you and I were on computer networks well before this, but we aren't exactly the average joe.
YOUR CLAIM: Bring the PC to nearly everyone's home.
Credit: IMB PC/AT and it's clones
YOUR CLAIM: Give them a platform that is virtually universal in the industry.
Credit: uhm...yeah... I've got 5 diffrent platforms here on 5 diffrent processors (only 1 machine is a x86)
YOUR CLAIM: Make computing easy
Credit: Those boys over at Apple
YOUR CLAIM: Make computing cheap via making it everywhere and driving down the cost of hardware.
Credit: All the makers of PC clones
YOUR CLAIM: Managing to get on the internet truck late and yet still be the driving force that brought it to home users via making it so easy to get on and use.
Credit: They didn't get on late, but AOL did all this.
ME: The Sun has used up about half of its nuclear fuel (hydrogen). In about 5 billion years from now, the sun will begin to perish. How's that for a prediction?
Left out -MPAA sues users -SCO sues -SPIM and SPIT also increase (SPAM for IMs and InternetPhones) -Stuff Gets Cheaper and Does More Than It Did Before (SGCDMTIDB)
Take Nickgrieve's cheap PC, make sure it runs cool enough that if wont overheat if left in an enclosure not much larger than the CPU/LCD combo. Take said computer and LCD combo, use your leet woodworking skillz and make a box that's sealed on all sides but the bottom. On vent holes in bottom pass through your cables. Put a foam to fill the holes and block dust (and allow some minimal airflow.) Mount LCD in said enclosure with plexiglass window. Your CPU/LCD are now safe. Keyboard and mouse.... get one of those spillproof roll-up keyboards... mouse... use the mousekeys option under Windows>Programs>Accesibility or whatever you have similar for your OS of choice.
Makes you wonder why they don't implant a metal cap/covering on the natural bone so it wont wear away - titanium on titanuium has to be less harmful than titanium on bone. Rubbery substance can rot to hell, but with the limited strees that human joints see a metal on metal joint should pass the test of time.
Well, 99.99% of the people out there are satisfied with crap, and will get crap (what % of desktops does MS provide the OS for?)
This is Slashdot, we should KNOW how to tell crap from gold (at least in our tech toys/tools.)
Anyhow, I'm not about to dump a quality product (my cameras, or my OSX machine [gold]) for some product that solves a problem that really didn't exist in the first place[crap].
Really, who was aching to get a SD Card that could plug into SOME USB ports (look at the way this thing folds, it won't plug into 80% of computers that use front mounted USB ports...and if you have to dick around at the back of your machine to plug it in, why is it more convient than just getting the card-reader or USB cord for your camera?)
GRANDPARENT: Which would bring another interesting application: If the camera's memory card slot is just a USB port, why not plug an external hard drive in? You'd obviously have to find an external power source for the HD, but after that, you've got gobs of storage for your pictures.
PARENT: X's Drive [me: a portable HDD + card reader] is a product that basically allows this, but without an external power source, [snip]
ME to PARENT:
Uhm...the Grandparent wants a device that plugs into the cameras memory card slot.
ME to GRANDPARENT: Dude, you've heard of MICRODRIVES right?
Well, none of my existing cameras use SD cards...so... it works with SOME existing cameras.
None of the PROFESSIONAL grade digi-cams that I'm familar with use anything other than CF/CFII.
Well, thanks to Google, the EOS 1Ds can use SD or CF/CFII.
Otherwise it's the Hasselblad H1D with its 40gb "image bank" and the Leaf Valeo 22 with a 10gb "digital magazine" for me. A folding SD card w/ usb gizmo isn't any help for me. [yawn]
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Palm Personal
Palm Professional
Palm IIIe, Palm V, Palm VII, M100, and other 2MB Palm OS devices
TapWave Zodiac
HandEra/TRGPro
Devices with MIPS and NEC processor type
Cassiopeia devices
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Not so long ago there were a few stories here about a guy doing a home built Cruise Missile. Perhaps that guy and this guy should get together.
The iPod SHuffle is a POS. I use my MP3 player for AUDIOBOOKS. Imagine listening to a book with everything out of bloody order? A 10 hour book broken into 300 parts (my Mp3 player only supports 300 tracks in a playlist.) would be hell of a beast to deal with in a random play mode. Worse than just the first read-through, imagine the pain when you try to re-start at track 135 (having had to turn off the mp3 player while at work.) This thing has no damned display to even know it was track 135 you were listening to when you sat down at your desk to start the work day.
Spy ware is software that watches, records(optional) and reports its findings to a third party.
... like the subject of the article (watches i-net traffic with specific key words, loggs hits, and sends the results off to...someone... at the FBI.)
Some spyware is good (anti-virus, watches for virus, nukes it, records a log, and sends some info to the software guys for their statistics.)
Some spyware is bad (gator, weather bug, whatever.)
Some is questionable
If the system being spied on is a users desktop, their PDA, the office server, or some machine handling a large backbone, it's all spyware (again, for good or bad.)
Nope, that'll be Longhorn, you know it needs 3d accelerated video cards? That is NEEDS, not can use them as an option.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but...
DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW OUT OF ORDER.
What happens in past episodes will make the following episodes MUCH more enjoyable. You won't be scratching your head going "uhm, why do I feel like I that part of the plot went right over my head."
Speaking of BitTorrent, while you download the Miniseries, you can download (as of now) episodes 1 to 10 (11?) of the show as well. The show is good stuff. Same quality as Farscape, but a diffrent flavor of sci-fi. Where Farscape is almost comic like, BSG is NOT QUITE *HARD* sci-fi, but it's about as close as you'll ever see on TV.
No, if you were a dwarf from the diskworkd you'd know all the lyrics to the GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD song, and ALL the remixes.
YES, they can be that thin.
m
If I may be lazy and just give you a URL:
http://www.astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s5.ht
You know, large dosen't mean heavy. A Peacock feather is alot larger than my wedding ring. My wedding ring is (slightly) heavier though.
Large dosen't mean heavy. LARGE RED stars are going to be very thin, not much density. All of their material will be spread out over quite a large area. A LARGE BLUE star on the other hand, would be quite dense (and short lived...they burn their fuel much faster and die in billiant novas, or if they are TOO heavy, as blackholes.)
Eat your hearts out. :) It awes one to think any single object could be so bloody large!
and soon we will all have the genetics that make us immune to all diseases known to man. Then, when a disease unknown to man arrives it can get us all at once, for genetic variation would be engineered out of us. BAD IDEA. Get us a vaccination, not gene modification.
What is really frightening, not the ghostbusters, but that ESCAPE FROM NEWYOUK was rated higher in the list than THE GODFATHER MOVIES, TRON, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Escape from New York should make the list, it's *THE* classic lame action film set in a sci-fi enviroment, but there's no way in hell being the best of the bad is better than being one amongst a herd of great movies.
CP/M did indeed come before MS-DOS.
...
CP/M is one of the other PC/AT compatable OS that competed with MS-DOS. I think this is what I typed:
"MS-DOS was not the only operating system available for the PC/AT machines. MS-DOS just outsold the others."
I don't think that I typed:
"MS-DOS came before CP/M because MS is a great innovator[sp]"
MS work something like this (from Win3.1 onwards):
1) Watch others make new cool stuff
2) Buy rights to cool new stuff
3) Dump free version of cool new stuff and put those from step 1 into big money problems
4) Buy companies from step 1 after they are devalued, or just watch them die.
5) When competition is gone, raise price
6)
7) the P word goes here.
>Credit: IMB PC/AT and it's clones
:P
>
>Only viable at the time because of MS-DOS.
MS-DOS was not the only operating system available for the PC/AT machines. MS-DOS just outsold the others.
>Credit: uhm...yeah... I've got 5 diffrent >platforms here on 5 diffrent processors (only 1 >machine is a x86)
>90%+ of the multipurpose computing world is using >Windows on x86. Your personal environment is not >representative.
DragonBall, 3xARM, and AMDXP2200. 4 Handhelds (2 are Smartphones) and 1 Desktop. What's really so off the wall?
>Credit: Those boys over at Apple
>Except Apple didn't make their machines easy to >acquire, by making them expensive.
Easy to use, Low Price, High Quality. Pick two.
>Credit: All the makers of PC clones
>Only viable because of MSDOS and later, Windows.
Again, a clone would run a non-ms product as well as anything else. If you don't belive me ask anyone here if x86 processors can run a non microsoft OS, they might just mention Linux
>Credit: They didn't get on late, but AOL did all >this.
>They got on very late (1996ish). Not sure if I"d >agree they were "the driving force" though.
In terms of the non-techie, 1996 wasn't late for the internet party. I know you and I were on computer networks well before this, but we aren't exactly the average joe.
YOUR CLAIM: Bring the PC to nearly everyone's home.
Credit: IMB PC/AT and it's clones
YOUR CLAIM: Give them a platform that is virtually universal in the industry.
Credit: uhm...yeah... I've got 5 diffrent platforms here on 5 diffrent processors (only 1 machine is a x86)
YOUR CLAIM: Make computing easy
Credit: Those boys over at Apple
YOUR CLAIM: Make computing cheap via making it everywhere and driving down the cost of hardware.
Credit: All the makers of PC clones
YOUR CLAIM: Managing to get on the internet truck late and yet still be the driving force that brought it to home users via making it so easy to get on and use.
Credit: They didn't get on late, but AOL did all this.
YOU: You forgot Sun will perish too.
ME:
The Sun has used up about half of its nuclear fuel (hydrogen). In about 5 billion years from now, the sun will begin to perish. How's that for a prediction?
Bring the PC to nearly everyone's home.
Credit: IMB PC/AT and it's clones
Give them a platform that is virtually universal in the industry.
Credit: uhm...yeah... I've got 5 diffrent platforms here on 5 diffrent processors (only 1 machine is a x86)
Make computing easy
Credit: Those boys over at Apple
Make computing cheap via making it everywhere and driving down the cost of hardware.
Credit: All the makers of PC clones
Managing to get on the internet truck late and yet still be the driving force that brought it to home users via making it so easy to get on and use.
Credit: They didn't get on late, but AOL did all this.
Left out
-MPAA sues users
-SCO sues
-SPIM and SPIT also increase (SPAM for IMs and InternetPhones)
-Stuff Gets Cheaper and Does More Than It Did Before (SGCDMTIDB)
Take Nickgrieve's cheap PC, make sure it runs cool enough that if wont overheat if left in an enclosure not much larger than the CPU/LCD combo. Take said computer and LCD combo, use your leet woodworking skillz and make a box that's sealed on all sides but the bottom. On vent holes in bottom pass through your cables. Put a foam to fill the holes and block dust (and allow some minimal airflow.) Mount LCD in said enclosure with plexiglass window. Your CPU/LCD are now safe. Keyboard and mouse.... get one of those spillproof roll-up keyboards... mouse... use the mousekeys option under Windows>Programs>Accesibility or whatever you have similar for your OS of choice.
Makes you wonder why they don't implant a metal cap/covering on the natural bone so it wont wear away - titanium on titanuium has to be less harmful than titanium on bone. Rubbery substance can rot to hell, but with the limited strees that human joints see a metal on metal joint should pass the test of time.
Well, 99.99% of the people out there are satisfied with crap, and will get crap (what % of desktops does MS provide the OS for?)
This is Slashdot, we should KNOW how to tell crap from gold (at least in our tech toys/tools.)
Anyhow, I'm not about to dump a quality product (my cameras, or my OSX machine [gold]) for some product that solves a problem that really didn't exist in the first place[crap].
Really, who was aching to get a SD Card that could plug into SOME USB ports (look at the way this thing folds, it won't plug into 80% of computers that use front mounted USB ports...and if you have to dick around at the back of your machine to plug it in, why is it more convient than just getting the card-reader or USB cord for your camera?)
[/rant]
GRANDPARENT:
Which would bring another interesting application: If the camera's memory card slot is just a USB port, why not plug an external hard drive in? You'd obviously have to find an external power source for the HD, but after that, you've got gobs of storage for your pictures.
PARENT:
X's Drive [me: a portable HDD + card reader] is a product that basically allows this, but without an external power source, [snip]
ME to PARENT:
Uhm...the Grandparent wants a device that plugs into the cameras memory card slot.
ME to GRANDPARENT:
Dude, you've heard of MICRODRIVES right?
Erm... this works with EXISTING cameras...
Well, none of my existing cameras use SD cards...so... it works with SOME existing cameras.
None of the PROFESSIONAL grade digi-cams that I'm familar with use anything other than CF/CFII.
Well, thanks to Google, the EOS 1Ds can use SD or CF/CFII.
Otherwise it's the Hasselblad H1D with its 40gb "image bank" and the Leaf Valeo 22 with a 10gb "digital magazine" for me. A folding SD card w/ usb gizmo isn't any help for me. [yawn]
You did RTFA right?
From the Epocrates website:
Devices NOT Supported
Palm Personal
Palm Professional
Palm IIIe, Palm V, Palm VII, M100, and other 2MB Palm OS devices
TapWave Zodiac
HandEra/TRGPro
Devices with MIPS and NEC processor type
Cassiopeia devices
HP Jornada 520/540/600/700/800 series
Devices that do not use Microsoft ActiveSync
Windows Mobile PC (such as Samsung i600 and Motorola MPX200 Smartphones)