What app do you use and what is your work flow? It's been about a year since I've looked into it but it just wasn't a simple. "Do This This and This". I'm going to be traveling to Germany in a few weeks and although my droid will be a useless phone (CDMA) I'd love to take it as a GPS/portable computing device.
God save them if they ever get mine. I use facebook to host almost all my photos. Including ones I scanned in of family from back through the '50s. I'd say I have 10k+ photos distributed among various albums
(Not Mine but worth reading through. I honestly think some people believe 15:33 is going to happen).
8:00 a.m. Wake up. Wonder where you are.
8:01 a.m. Realize you are lying on 100 percent cotton sheets of at least a 300 count, so don't panic; you're not slumming.
8:02 a.m. Realize you are actually in your own bed for a change. Wake stranger next to you and tell them you are late for work so won't be able to cook breakfast for them. Mutter "sorry" as you help him look for his far-flung underwear. You find out that you tore his boxers while ripping them off him last night, so you "loan" him a pair of boxer-briefs, but not the new ones because you never intend to see him again.
8:05 a.m. Tell the stranger, whose name eludes you, "It was fun. I'll give you a call," as you usher him out the door, avoiding his egregious morning-breath.
8:06 a.m. Crumple and dispose of the piece of paper with his telephone number on it when you get to the kitchen.
8:07 a.m. Make a high protein breakfast while watching the Today show. Wonder if the stories you've heard about Matt Lauer are true. Decide they must be.
8:30 a.m. Italian or domestic? Decide to go with three-button Italian and the only shirt that is clean.
8:45 a.m. Climb into red Z4 and try not to look too much like Barbie driving one of her accessories as you pull out of your underground parking. Revos or Armanis? Go with Revos.
9:35 a.m. Stroll into office.
9:36 a.m. Close door to office and call best friend and laugh about the guy who spent the night at your condo. Point out something annoying about best friend's boyfriend but quickly add "It doesn't matter what everyone else thinks, just as long as you love him."
10:15 a.m. Leave office, telling your secretary you are "meeting with a client." Pretend not to notice her insubordinate roll of her eyes (or the cloying "poem" she has tacked to her cubicle wall).
10:30 a.m. Hair appointment for lowlights and cut. Purchase of Aveda anti-humectant pomade.
11:30 a.m. Run into personal trainer at gym. Pester him about getting you Human Growth Hormone. Spend 30 minutes talking to friends on your cell phone while using Hammer Strength machines, preparing a mental-matrix of which circuit parties everyone is going to and which are now passe.
12:00pm Tan. Schedule back-waxing in time for Saturday party where you know you will end up shirtless.
12:30 p.m. Pay trainer for anabolic steroids and schedule a workout. Shower, taking ten minutes to knot your tie while you check-out your best friend's boyfriend undress with the calculation of someone used to wearing a t-back and having dollars stuffed in their crotch.
1:00 p.m. Meet someone for whom you only know his waist, chest and penis size from AOL M4M chat for lunch at a hot, new restaurant. Because the maître d' recognizes you from a gay bar, you are whisked past the Christian heterosexual couples who have been waiting patiently for a table since 12:30.
2:30 p.m. "Dessert at your place." Find out, once again, people lie on AOL.
3:33 p.m. Assume complete control of the U.S., state, and local governments (in addition to other nations' governments); destroy all healthy Christian marriages; recruit all children grades Kindergarten through 12 into your amoral, filthy lifestyle; secure complete control of the media, starting with sitcoms; molest innocent children; give AIDS to as many people as you can; host a pornographic "art" exhibit at your local art museum; and turn people away from Jesus, causing them to burn forever in Hell.
4:10 p.m. Time permitting, bring about the general decline of Western Civilization and look like you are having way too much fun doing it.
4:30 p.m. Take a disco-nap to prevent facial wrinkles from the stress of world conquest and being so terribly witty.
6:00 p.m. Open a fabulous new bottle of Malbec.
6:47 P.M. Bake Ketamine for weekend. Test recipe.
7:00 P.M. Go to Abercrombie & Fitch and announce in a loud voice, "Over!"
The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant (pi), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. However, the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of , such as 3.2 (when 3.1 is closer, with = 3.14159265...).
The bill never became law, due to the intervention of a mathematics professor who happened to be present in the legislature
And how much of the iPhone/iPad is like a refrigerator? If you have one of the newer front loading washers with multiple, digitally controlled cycles take apart the control panel. Are you going to run circuit traces on that? If you see an obvious blown cap you can probably replace it but what about the small SMT stuff. Did your dishwasher and washing machine come with a CD with Eagle files for the boards? Do you know what firmware is running on all of those chips? Try e-mailing Whirlpool and see if you can get all of that, see what they say. That seems like a walled garden to me.
I mean unless I can change the duty cycle on my AC compressor to fit my needs, it's closed source and useless.
You think a refrigerator or washing machine is hard to fix? Hand in you man card right now.
I posed the hypothetical question of devices being difficult to fix for any lay person of the general populous. You then turned that around and told me to hand in my 'man card' because it's something that you find easy. Can't do molecular physics? Well hand in your man card. Who says I even have a 'man card' to begin with? You took a basic argument about walled gardens, how in this day in age no one knows everything and some people prefer to just pay for 'ease' and turned it into a dick swinging contest.
Sure the old timey/basic ones could be. What are you going to 'repair' if the main circuit board goes bad on your fancy digital, metered water dispenser fridge? Are you going to trace every circuit blindly? Test every cap?
And Apples to oranges. My Nokia 1100 was a brick of a phone. You could pound nails with it and it'd be fine. My Optimus V is a small computer. Treat it like a laptop and it doesn't have any problems. If you want a non-smart phone those are still available and still nearly as indestructible. And there are plenty of cases for the iPhone which make it that way.
I didn't say it would be difficult to fix. I said it's worth paying someone else for me not to care.
Start looking at some of the 'basic stuff' you do around the house, how long it takes you to do it, and what you make per hour. It's worth it to not mow my own lawn. It's worth it to have a laundry service for basic stuff. It's worth it to have someone fix some things. It's not that I lack the knowhow or the ability it's that sometimes I work 60 hour weeks and it's worth it in my free time not to have to deal with any of it.
And I've done everything you've listed and more to my own car. But my girlfriend hasn't. She has no interest in learning how to work on her car and I have no interest in working on a Japanese car. I've owned nothing but VWs since I could drive and I 'know' how they're put together. I've touched almost every bolt and subsystem in my car, including engine internals but I have no desire to do anything but oil changes to hers.
And what does it matter? Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden? How about my car? My car now has a fancy computer that needs a special adapter and software to interface, is that a walled garden?
My girlfriend and I have identical phones. I spent the weekend rooting hers and updating it past where the carrier did. I spent the other part of my weekend trying to figure out how to convert rle images to png and back, unpacking the boot package abootimg and trying to mount/sd-ext and move/data to it.
She hated what I did. She wanted it to 'just work'. No customizing, nothing. Sprint did a good enough job for her to be happy with it. She doesn't want root, or walpapers or anything fancy, she just wants a phone that works. She'd be perfectly happy with the iPhone (but Sprint didn't have it when she switched.)
My aunt, a doctor, loves her iPhone. She hasn't done anything but the most basic customization to it. SHE DOESN'T CARE. If it breaks, she buys a new one or pays to fix the old one. She walks into an Apple store and the transaction is done. She doesn't want to try and take her phone apart. She doesn't care how it was assembled. She doesn't care about walled gardens or who has 'ultimate' control. She wants her e-mail and a web browser in her pocket that syncs with her Mac. Apple gives her that.
Not everyone in the world is a computer nerd. There's a reason Dell, Apple, etc make a profit. You sneer at everyone that 'over pays' when it's obvious you just need an AM-3 socket motherboard and AM-3 socket AMD, matching fan and you could easily have a computer than is much cheaper. But people don't want to spend time building a computer, they want facebook, gmail and porn. If you came up with a device that did that, cost $100 and the end user had to sign away their rights to vote in the next election you couldn't keep the thing on the shelf.
If you want open sourced everything, go get the openmoko.
Why does it have to be active? You can certainly design buildings such that all signals die. There are probably cheaper alternatives out there than a copper mesh.
If someone is talking loud enough for everyone to hear, you walk over to them and start talking to them loudly. When they give you the "WTF are you doing?" look you just explain that they were talking loud enough that you thought everyone here was supposed to be included in on the conversation.
Part of the problem is that you can't amplify the lower signals cleanly.
I certainly can't hear the difference between 44.1/16 and 192/24 with headphones, but when I'm cranking 1000W through a set of speakers & sub you do notice crappy MP3s or encodings
But you don't have to worry about a single simple hospital visit putting you into bankruptcy. You also have a rail system that makes driving not necessary in many cases.
On vacation in India I met 2 Norwegians and a Dutch guy that were on holiday from working in Dubai. (Oil). They were very interested as well. They were actually super freaked out about Palin being on the ballot (this was 2 weeks before the election). The best thing I could do was just talk about America, while they sort of understood US politics, they really didn't have any idea how non homogenous the US was in terms of everything. I also had to explain how large and spread out.
They all just go to the Rubber Room and wait. Full salary full benefits sitting around doing nothing. Not just for poor performance, anything. You could take a machete to a kid and get put on 'leave' to the rubber room.
Strongly implied? I wrote three sentences. All three were my opinion of what could happen. I never tossed in any mention of politics. I don't even fucking see how you got "Because nobody is going to do anything, nothing is going to change" out of that.
I vote. I've voted in every single election since I was 18. Not just the presidential ones but the little "meaningless" ones. But my political opinions are so far out of alignment with most other Americans that it's not made any difference. I participate in society.
Oh, don't worry. I'd rather go to a country where my tax dollars aren't used to blow up brown people and crap like the TSA. You figure out how to get my medical license transferred to the EU easily and I'm gone. Right now I'm looking at the NAFTA provisions for professionals and moving to Canada and becoming a full citizen (and renouncing my American).
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What app do you use and what is your work flow? It's been about a year since I've looked into it but it just wasn't a simple. "Do This This and This". I'm going to be traveling to Germany in a few weeks and although my droid will be a useless phone (CDMA) I'd love to take it as a GPS/portable computing device.
Thanks.
God save them if they ever get mine. I use facebook to host almost all my photos. Including ones I scanned in of family from back through the '50s. I'd say I have 10k+ photos distributed among various albums
(Not Mine but worth reading through. I honestly think some people believe 15:33 is going to happen).
8:00 a.m. Wake up. Wonder where you are.
8:01 a.m. Realize you are lying on 100 percent cotton sheets of at least a 300 count, so don't panic; you're not slumming.
8:02 a.m. Realize you are actually in your own bed for a change. Wake stranger next to you and tell them you are late for work so won't be able to cook breakfast for them. Mutter "sorry" as you help him look for his far-flung underwear. You find out that you tore his boxers while ripping them off him last night, so you "loan" him a pair of boxer-briefs, but not the new ones because you never intend to see him again.
8:05 a.m. Tell the stranger, whose name eludes you, "It was fun. I'll give you a call," as you usher him out the door, avoiding his egregious morning-breath.
8:06 a.m. Crumple and dispose of the piece of paper with his telephone number on it when you get to the kitchen.
8:07 a.m. Make a high protein breakfast while watching the Today show. Wonder if the stories you've heard about Matt Lauer are true. Decide they must be.
8:30 a.m. Italian or domestic? Decide to go with three-button Italian and the only shirt that is clean.
8:45 a.m. Climb into red Z4 and try not to look too much like Barbie driving one of her accessories as you pull out of your underground parking. Revos or Armanis? Go with Revos.
9:35 a.m. Stroll into office.
9:36 a.m. Close door to office and call best friend and laugh about the guy who spent the night at your condo. Point out something annoying about best friend's boyfriend but quickly add "It doesn't matter what everyone else thinks, just as long as you love him."
10:15 a.m. Leave office, telling your secretary you are "meeting with a client." Pretend not to notice her insubordinate roll of her eyes (or the cloying "poem" she has tacked to her cubicle wall).
10:30 a.m. Hair appointment for lowlights and cut. Purchase of Aveda anti-humectant pomade.
11:30 a.m. Run into personal trainer at gym. Pester him about getting you Human Growth Hormone. Spend 30 minutes talking to friends on your cell phone while using Hammer Strength machines, preparing a mental-matrix of which circuit parties everyone is going to and which are now passe.
12:00pm Tan. Schedule back-waxing in time for Saturday party where you know you will end up shirtless.
12:30 p.m. Pay trainer for anabolic steroids and schedule a workout. Shower, taking ten minutes to knot your tie while you check-out your best friend's boyfriend undress with the calculation of someone used to wearing a t-back and having dollars stuffed in their crotch.
1:00 p.m. Meet someone for whom you only know his waist, chest and penis size from AOL M4M chat for lunch at a hot, new restaurant. Because the maître d' recognizes you from a gay bar, you are whisked past the Christian heterosexual couples who have been waiting patiently for a table since 12:30.
2:30 p.m. "Dessert at your place." Find out, once again, people lie on AOL.
3:33 p.m. Assume complete control of the U.S., state, and local governments (in addition to other nations' governments); destroy all healthy Christian marriages; recruit all children grades Kindergarten through 12 into your amoral, filthy lifestyle; secure complete control of the media, starting with sitcoms; molest innocent children; give AIDS to as many people as you can; host a pornographic "art" exhibit at your local art museum; and turn people away from Jesus, causing them to burn forever in Hell.
4:10 p.m. Time permitting, bring about the general decline of Western Civilization and look like you are having way too much fun doing it.
4:30 p.m. Take a disco-nap to prevent facial wrinkles from the stress of world conquest and being so terribly witty.
6:00 p.m. Open a fabulous new bottle of Malbec.
6:47 P.M. Bake Ketamine for weekend. Test recipe.
7:00 P.M. Go to Abercrombie & Fitch and announce in a loud voice, "Over!"
Indiana Pi Bill was not fictional.
The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant (pi), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. However, the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of , such as 3.2 (when 3.1 is closer, with = 3.14159265...).
The bill never became law, due to the intervention of a mathematics professor who happened to be present in the legislature
There are a few 'live preview' apps available for both HTML and LaTeX, no Alt-Tab needed.
TexWorks also supports double clicking on something in the PDF and taking you straight to that section of code.
I've had a dog and I've owned Microsoft products. I'm not sure if "eating its own dog food" is the correct analogy.
And how much of the iPhone/iPad is like a refrigerator? If you have one of the newer front loading washers with multiple, digitally controlled cycles take apart the control panel. Are you going to run circuit traces on that? If you see an obvious blown cap you can probably replace it but what about the small SMT stuff. Did your dishwasher and washing machine come with a CD with Eagle files for the boards? Do you know what firmware is running on all of those chips? Try e-mailing Whirlpool and see if you can get all of that, see what they say. That seems like a walled garden to me.
I mean unless I can change the duty cycle on my AC compressor to fit my needs, it's closed source and useless.
You mean with out iFixit's(tm) set of tools and videos.
Lets go back and look at what YOU said.
You think a refrigerator or washing machine is hard to fix?
Hand in you man card right now.
I posed the hypothetical question of devices being difficult to fix for any lay person of the general populous. You then turned that around and told me to hand in my 'man card' because it's something that you find easy. Can't do molecular physics? Well hand in your man card. Who says I even have a 'man card' to begin with? You took a basic argument about walled gardens, how in this day in age no one knows everything and some people prefer to just pay for 'ease' and turned it into a dick swinging contest.
Sure the old timey/basic ones could be. What are you going to 'repair' if the main circuit board goes bad on your fancy digital, metered water dispenser fridge? Are you going to trace every circuit blindly? Test every cap?
And Apples to oranges. My Nokia 1100 was a brick of a phone. You could pound nails with it and it'd be fine. My Optimus V is a small computer. Treat it like a laptop and it doesn't have any problems. If you want a non-smart phone those are still available and still nearly as indestructible. And there are plenty of cases for the iPhone which make it that way.
I didn't say it would be difficult to fix. I said it's worth paying someone else for me not to care.
Start looking at some of the 'basic stuff' you do around the house, how long it takes you to do it, and what you make per hour. It's worth it to not mow my own lawn. It's worth it to have a laundry service for basic stuff. It's worth it to have someone fix some things. It's not that I lack the knowhow or the ability it's that sometimes I work 60 hour weeks and it's worth it in my free time not to have to deal with any of it.
And I've done everything you've listed and more to my own car. But my girlfriend hasn't. She has no interest in learning how to work on her car and I have no interest in working on a Japanese car. I've owned nothing but VWs since I could drive and I 'know' how they're put together. I've touched almost every bolt and subsystem in my car, including engine internals but I have no desire to do anything but oil changes to hers.
And what does it matter? Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden? How about my car? My car now has a fancy computer that needs a special adapter and software to interface, is that a walled garden?
My girlfriend and I have identical phones. I spent the weekend rooting hers and updating it past where the carrier did. I spent the other part of my weekend trying to figure out how to convert rle images to png and back, unpacking the boot package abootimg and trying to mount /sd-ext and move /data to it.
She hated what I did. She wanted it to 'just work'. No customizing, nothing. Sprint did a good enough job for her to be happy with it. She doesn't want root, or walpapers or anything fancy, she just wants a phone that works. She'd be perfectly happy with the iPhone (but Sprint didn't have it when she switched.)
My aunt, a doctor, loves her iPhone. She hasn't done anything but the most basic customization to it. SHE DOESN'T CARE. If it breaks, she buys a new one or pays to fix the old one. She walks into an Apple store and the transaction is done. She doesn't want to try and take her phone apart. She doesn't care how it was assembled. She doesn't care about walled gardens or who has 'ultimate' control. She wants her e-mail and a web browser in her pocket that syncs with her Mac. Apple gives her that.
Not everyone in the world is a computer nerd. There's a reason Dell, Apple, etc make a profit. You sneer at everyone that 'over pays' when it's obvious you just need an AM-3 socket motherboard and AM-3 socket AMD, matching fan and you could easily have a computer than is much cheaper. But people don't want to spend time building a computer, they want facebook, gmail and porn. If you came up with a device that did that, cost $100 and the end user had to sign away their rights to vote in the next election you couldn't keep the thing on the shelf.
If you want open sourced everything, go get the openmoko.
It appears seemingly more responsible than what Wall Street has been doing at my money.
That clearly looks like perl to me.
Why does it have to be active? You can certainly design buildings such that all signals die. There are probably cheaper alternatives out there than a copper mesh.
If someone is talking loud enough for everyone to hear, you walk over to them and start talking to them loudly. When they give you the "WTF are you doing?" look you just explain that they were talking loud enough that you thought everyone here was supposed to be included in on the conversation.
Part of the problem is that you can't amplify the lower signals cleanly.
I certainly can't hear the difference between 44.1/16 and 192/24 with headphones, but when I'm cranking 1000W through a set of speakers & sub you do notice crappy MP3s or encodings
Why aren't they jailing the CEOs of the cable companies instead for charging >5000 times the amount they pay for bandwidth for the average user?
I bet it'd be a different story if this guy had significant campaign contributions. It'd be a "Misunderstanding" of some sort.
But you don't have to worry about a single simple hospital visit putting you into bankruptcy. You also have a rail system that makes driving not necessary in many cases.
So it's a wash.
On vacation in India I met 2 Norwegians and a Dutch guy that were on holiday from working in Dubai. (Oil). They were very interested as well. They were actually super freaked out about Palin being on the ballot (this was 2 weeks before the election). The best thing I could do was just talk about America, while they sort of understood US politics, they really didn't have any idea how non homogenous the US was in terms of everything. I also had to explain how large and spread out.
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Pedobear read that backwards and now has a sad.
How about if they fired them for ANYTHING?
They all just go to the Rubber Room and wait. Full salary full benefits sitting around doing nothing. Not just for poor performance, anything. You could take a machete to a kid and get put on 'leave' to the rubber room.
Strongly implied? I wrote three sentences. All three were my opinion of what could happen. I never tossed in any mention of politics. I don't even fucking see how you got "Because nobody is going to do anything, nothing is going to change" out of that.
I vote. I've voted in every single election since I was 18. Not just the presidential ones but the little "meaningless" ones. But my political opinions are so far out of alignment with most other Americans that it's not made any difference. I participate in society.
Oh, don't worry. I'd rather go to a country where my tax dollars aren't used to blow up brown people and crap like the TSA. You figure out how to get my medical license transferred to the EU easily and I'm gone. Right now I'm looking at the NAFTA provisions for professionals and moving to Canada and becoming a full citizen (and renouncing my American).
Sir, please leave my country.
Seriously? I need to leave because I laid out what was going to happen without giving any agreement or disagreement with it?
Maybe you need to do some more training, girl.