So far i have found nothing with this search engine but a piece of text called "loading..."
Im not really sure thats what i want.
It wont help me make guacamole, thats for sure.
Exactly my point. I just dont think the general public will be much impressed with ordinary rockets, simply because they look like something out of old Wernher von Brauns mind - and not at alle like those in the movies. The russian Soyuz programme has - in its own way - been a much more succesfull launch-system than the shuttle. But they have the grim look of baikonur and no hightech appeal.
Nasa is depending on the politicians for funding. Politicians are depending on public support. But will the public be impressed by rockets, that - nevermind all the new technology inside - looks like something out of the sixties? Thats what i want to know. Nasa is not just a company that blasts things into space. They are a company that feeds the american public with dreams.
The going-back-to-the-moon theme is probably what the public want, but i hardly see the design of the vehicles as a ploy to gain public support. On the surface this looks like oldschool tech - not like the slick, 21first century aerodynamical spacecrafts we have grown accustomed to on the screen.
But its probably a safer and more economical design. And as long as we actually get back to the moon...
Danish website ing.dk (run by the danish union of engineers) says in their article, that the hydrogen is store as ammonia in pellets made of seasalt. The hydrogen is released by way of a catalyst (they dont explain how or which catalyst is needed).
But i suppose this means the pellets are highly reuseable.
If you can read danish, theres a lot more here: http://ing.dk/article/20050907/MILJO/109090025
You must be kidding.
Just about all sony/ericsson models have bluetooth these days, and most of Nokias too. They dont have those?
Anyway, technically he should be able to do it, if he has bought the phone abroad. Bluetooth har nothing to do with the carrier, so any bluetooth enabled phone should work just fine (provided it works under their network, which i assume is GSM based)
Powerbook+bluetooth enabled phone+some scripting.
Should be fairly easy.
The real question is whether the man has any friends left after one month of unlimited text-terror. Anybody doing that to me would have to get their phone surgically removed from where the sun doesnt shine. Either that or buy me a huge amount of strawberry daiquiris.
believe me, i've tried. Im actually using entourage in my daily work but syncing with the exchange server is simply not good enough.
I cant see public folders/calendars and free/busy time seems unstable and sometimes produces weird problems. I hope MS addresses these issues, but i would much rather have apple-flavoures solutions to them.
Im running full panther mode here, and the review seems fair to me. Most changes are under-the-hood stuff and changes to the user interface, who admittedly may not seem as impressing as new applications and massive feature-additions. Still, these are the things that improves the experience every day and in almost all kind of work on the machine. And the main thing for me is that now i would be sorry to go back to jaguar, and that almost justifies the nasty price tag (+the company pays!).
One feature that i really miss, though: support for exchange-servers from iCal. Its driving me nuts. And it makes it really hard to justify the use of macs in my department, when everybody else in da houze is using winboxes and outlook - and constantly complaining about me and my close colleagues not using the calendar.
a snowplough can be a fearsome weapon in the hands of the right user. Actually its probably also a dangerous kind of thing in the hands of the wrong user. Anyway, my good friend Bjorn got run over by a snowplough as a child, and he is still kind of weird. He is also very afraid of horses
I guess im not seeing this from a techs point of use. I still belive the changes wont affect most of VPCs users, but i certainly understand your worries. The question is whether MS will actually go to whatever trouble it takes to prevent booting anything but the latest version of windows in VPC. Being MS i guess they might just do it. But in that case they might also create a market for a real simulator (somebody must still have the license for whatever is left of SoftPC).
Since im pretty sure most people run VPC because they they need to run a windows-specific piece of software, i dont really see the problem here (and its not because i LIKE ms). In Denmark the big thing is online banking - some of the major players on the banking scene only accepts win-users, which is a real pain. And the only reason i run VPC... BSD? Erhm, thats what we have under the hood Linux? Theres several native PPC versions out there That leaves us with a lack of solaris support. I think we can survive that.
Theres some bizarre psychology in this that i just dont get. What about augmenting people just for general health reasons - not fluffing about in deep space (fascinating as it may sound).
Every day thousand of people die because one of their cardic valves cave in or because they cant react fast enough in traffic. The former should be easy to monitor with a simple implant that might also be able to medicate the patient before dialling 911 and dumping gps data and medical stats to the paramedics. The latter is about enhancing reflexes.
Im sure the common/.'er could come up with a handfull of other augmentations that would be nice - or indeed lifesaving to have. And i think we will see a lot of those before we see people walking on mars.
The Reg carries the story here. Says the company has an estimated value of 15-25 billion $.
I know they make money, but it still seems absurd in an e-world where companies rise and fall in just a few years. I think i'll buy art instead. Its certainly more fun than shares...
They have to fix a mac driver for this. With xmas coming up, i could really annoy all my friends by making them nasty wooden door signs written in Gill Sans Ultra Bold.
I think you are right about non-geeks not wanting a hole lot of change. So configure mozilla to behave more or less like IE, and your girlfriend wont know the difference. Except in time she will get used to not having annoying pops all over the place.
I think you are making a big mistake by letting her in on the secrets of cookies and - perhaps - giving her a confusing interface, which doesnt look like the one she knows. If she is anything like my girlfriend (or my father or most my non-geek friends) she just wants the damn thing to work and be able to use it. And now, please.
Mozilla should do what apple has done with Safari. Almost no buttons, a stylish and simple design. And it doesnt default to an absolute geek-page (even containing the unholy word "compiled").
Geeks are good people. But they tend to design programs like they want them, and not how their girlfriends want them. And mozilla is definately designed by geeks:-)
Pogue is - as other writers already has pointed out - somewhat biased in his choice of OS.
You might want to check out britsh newspaper The Guardian for another positive review right here. Its not as thorough as Pogues, but still worth a read.
This article from Wired tells us, that Napster will be using the wma-format. I dont know wma that well (being a mac user), but reading this does not make me feel safe in any way.
My girlfriend has one - and she loves it. It does what she needs (web, email, word) and it looks way more cool than any dumb dell or compaq.
She is studying to become a teacher and has also used it to edit and burn some cd's with kids singing (when she was a trainee in a public school). That gave her geekcredibility with her fellow students WITHOUT making her look nerdish...
Go with the apple - you know you want to
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So far i have found nothing with this search engine but a piece of text called "loading..." Im not really sure thats what i want. It wont help me make guacamole, thats for sure.
Exactly my point. I just dont think the general public will be much impressed with ordinary rockets, simply because they look like something out of old Wernher von Brauns mind - and not at alle like those in the movies. The russian Soyuz programme has - in its own way - been a much more succesfull launch-system than the shuttle. But they have the grim look of baikonur and no hightech appeal.
Nasa is depending on the politicians for funding. Politicians are depending on public support. But will the public be impressed by rockets, that - nevermind all the new technology inside - looks like something out of the sixties? Thats what i want to know. Nasa is not just a company that blasts things into space. They are a company that feeds the american public with dreams.
The going-back-to-the-moon theme is probably what the public want, but i hardly see the design of the vehicles as a ploy to gain public support. On the surface this looks like oldschool tech - not like the slick, 21first century aerodynamical spacecrafts we have grown accustomed to on the screen. But its probably a safer and more economical design. And as long as we actually get back to the moon...
Danish website ing.dk (run by the danish union of engineers) says in their article, that the hydrogen is store as ammonia in pellets made of seasalt. The hydrogen is released by way of a catalyst (they dont explain how or which catalyst is needed). But i suppose this means the pellets are highly reuseable. If you can read danish, theres a lot more here: http://ing.dk/article/20050907/MILJO/109090025
Ah... Goes to show how much i know about aussie cellnets
You must be kidding. Just about all sony/ericsson models have bluetooth these days, and most of Nokias too. They dont have those? Anyway, technically he should be able to do it, if he has bought the phone abroad. Bluetooth har nothing to do with the carrier, so any bluetooth enabled phone should work just fine (provided it works under their network, which i assume is GSM based)
Powerbook+bluetooth enabled phone+some scripting. Should be fairly easy. The real question is whether the man has any friends left after one month of unlimited text-terror. Anybody doing that to me would have to get their phone surgically removed from where the sun doesnt shine. Either that or buy me a huge amount of strawberry daiquiris.
believe me, i've tried. Im actually using entourage in my daily work but syncing with the exchange server is simply not good enough.
I cant see public folders/calendars and free/busy time seems unstable and sometimes produces weird problems. I hope MS addresses these issues, but i would much rather have apple-flavoures solutions to them.
Most changes are under-the-hood stuff and changes to the user interface, who admittedly may not seem as impressing as new applications and massive feature-additions. Still, these are the things that improves the experience every day and in almost all kind of work on the machine.
And the main thing for me is that now i would be sorry to go back to jaguar, and that almost justifies the nasty price tag (+the company pays!).
One feature that i really miss, though: support for exchange-servers from iCal. Its driving me nuts. And it makes it really hard to justify the use of macs in my department, when everybody else in da houze is using winboxes and outlook - and constantly complaining about me and my close colleagues not using the calendar.
Anyway, my good friend Bjorn got run over by a snowplough as a child, and he is still kind of weird. He is also very afraid of horses
And yes, i live in Denmark too!
Im a journalist, you know. But you are still rigth though.
I guess im not seeing this from a techs point of use. I still belive the changes wont affect most of VPCs users, but i certainly understand your worries.
The question is whether MS will actually go to whatever trouble it takes to prevent booting anything but the latest version of windows in VPC. Being MS i guess they might just do it. But in that case they might also create a market for a real simulator (somebody must still have the license for whatever is left of SoftPC).
Since im pretty sure most people run VPC because they they need to run a windows-specific piece of software, i dont really see the problem here (and its not because i LIKE ms). In Denmark the big thing is online banking - some of the major players on the banking scene only accepts win-users, which is a real pain. And the only reason i run VPC...
BSD? Erhm, thats what we have under the hood
Linux? Theres several native PPC versions out there
That leaves us with a lack of solaris support. I think we can survive that.
What about augmenting people just for general health reasons - not fluffing about in deep space (fascinating as it may sound).
Every day thousand of people die because one of their cardic valves cave in or because they cant react fast enough in traffic. The former should be easy to monitor with a simple implant that might also be able to medicate the patient before dialling 911 and dumping gps data and medical stats to the paramedics. The latter is about enhancing reflexes.
Im sure the common /.'er could come up with a handfull of other augmentations that would be nice - or indeed lifesaving to have.
And i think we will see a lot of those before we see people walking on mars.
Jeps. Andsvagt nick, men noget skulle jo skrive...
I know they make money, but it still seems absurd in an e-world where companies rise and fall in just a few years.
I think i'll buy art instead. Its certainly more fun than shares...
Think inkjet refills. Think cellphones (batteries). DVD-R & DVD+R. This happens all the time. You are right about the lawyer, though.
They have to fix a mac driver for this. With xmas coming up, i could really annoy all my friends by making them nasty wooden door signs written in Gill Sans Ultra Bold.
I think you are right about non-geeks not wanting a hole lot of change. So configure mozilla to behave more or less like IE, and your girlfriend wont know the difference. Except in time she will get used to not having annoying pops all over the place. I think you are making a big mistake by letting her in on the secrets of cookies and - perhaps - giving her a confusing interface, which doesnt look like the one she knows. If she is anything like my girlfriend (or my father or most my non-geek friends) she just wants the damn thing to work and be able to use it. And now, please. Mozilla should do what apple has done with Safari. Almost no buttons, a stylish and simple design. And it doesnt default to an absolute geek-page (even containing the unholy word "compiled"). Geeks are good people. But they tend to design programs like they want them, and not how their girlfriends want them. And mozilla is definately designed by geeks :-)
Pogue is - as other writers already has pointed out - somewhat biased in his choice of OS. You might want to check out britsh newspaper The Guardian for another positive review right here. Its not as thorough as Pogues, but still worth a read.
Couldnt you at least put a warning in your post. This is horrible!
This article from Wired tells us, that Napster will be using the wma-format. I dont know wma that well (being a mac user), but reading this does not make me feel safe in any way.
Exterminate! Exterminate! sorry about that. Couldnt really help myself...
HP must be rather confident that SCOs claims wont hold up in court. I feel somewhat reassured by that.
My girlfriend has one - and she loves it. It does what she needs (web, email, word) and it looks way more cool than any dumb dell or compaq. She is studying to become a teacher and has also used it to edit and burn some cd's with kids singing (when she was a trainee in a public school). That gave her geekcredibility with her fellow students WITHOUT making her look nerdish... Go with the apple - you know you want to