I used a $30 eMate to do that, but the list of supported wi-fi cards isn't exactly growing, and they updated the base stations on campus out of compatibility with my Orinoco Silver.
Otherwise, it was perfect - 24 hours at a stretch of battery life, with a practical life of just under two weeks, a simple browser, IRC client, and IM client; the ability to take notes as word processing files or draw on the screen.
I took it toe-to-toe with a MS Tablet PC when they were new, and while they offered bigger, brighter screens and more oomph, there were no tasks I couldn't do on the eMate that I required for school, and they were selling tablets as productivity machines back then.
High pressure sodium lamps are monochromatic. Efficient, yes. Color-correct, no. These things will provide better resolving power per watt than sodium lamps, despite the same lumen count.
Yes, but my ROP *is* a spotlight, and it's only eating 7.2 volts in a package the size of a Mag-Lite. I personally can't wait for these things to hit the market; a pocket searchlight like a ROP or Mag85 is only getting 30-40 lumens per watt...
The important thing here wasn't just the amount of information, but the ratio: It went from 100:0 in favor of the police to... oh, probably 35:65 when he caught them breaking the law. He may only have had a few verifiable facts on his MP3 player, but they were the relevant ones.
Its an artificial aid in the same was a drugs are or riding a bike would be. Its unfortunate for the chap but its the right decision, otherwise you might as well let Marion Jones back in with a terminator suit and a jet-pack.
As a biology student, I'd like you to skip Electrobolt and Incinerate and get right to Telekinesis - I don't deny chucking around fireballs is a blast, but imagine having a built-in gravity gun!
This is NOT a HELL (high-energy laser lift) craft being blasted with a ground-based laser to create shockwaves, this is a photon drive like Niven uses in the Man-Kzin Wars books from time to time.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3c2.html#photon
Downside: "In other words, one lousy Newton of thrust takes three hundred freaking megawatts!!"
Until we're willing to shoot a nuke plant into space with a crew on the other side of a shadow shield and some damn big radiators... not gonna fly. Once we are willing, this baby's gonna fly.
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* 30 Rock
* Age of Love
* Andy Barker PI
* The Black Donnellys
* Friday Night Lights
* Last Comic Standing
* Late Night with Conan O'Brien
* Miss Teen USA 2007
* NBC Primetime Preview
* Passions
* Raines
* Victoria Beckham: Coming to America
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Do you care about gun deaths, or total deaths? Because in Britian, they have a knife culture and are planning to crack down on belt crime. I couldn't make this shit up.
Gun control laws DO prevent most people from having guns. They do NOT prevent people with legitimate uses for guns from having them. What, then, constitutes legitimate uses in your opinion?
If you want to argue guns, I'll argue guns. If you want to argue software, I'll argue software. But if you want to argue guns, I'll probably win.
Stop trying to derail this discussion, please. I'm doing enough to do so on my own.
The Golden Age had a similar system called the College of Hortators (from the root word 'exhort') that dealt with people the government didn't have laws for, such as those who store WMDs with the minimum legal protections and pray for an accident.
If you want to see how such a system sucks, go read the trilogy.
Singularity Sky by Stross - pretty far out, but firm; they allow loophole-based FTL, but explain stuff that's currently being researched rather well.
Orion's Arm stuff -- this is the hardest of hard scifi I've ever seen, but most of it is incredibly far-future.
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age by Stephenson are both pretty firm, but have more tech than science stuff.
Contact, the movie based on a Carl Sagan book, is some fo the most scientific of science fiction; Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension is also resoundingly scientific -- especially odd but appropriate for a parody of the genre.
As being a victim of cyber-stalking. While working on a research paper one night, (after months of this shit) I blocked.... I wanna call it 34 AIM accounts for harrassment over the course of the night. Productivity, obviously, was teh suck. Telling me to block it is counterproductive and insulting and blocking it doesn't help.
[I see kids knowing how to use guns. Who's fault is that? the parent. They do not police the viewing habits or they watch shows about guns and such.]
Not to be a dick or anything, but some parents actually teach their kids how to shoot. Something about spending quality time with them or some such nonsense.
Because standing near the death throes of a giant hurts.
I forsee two things happening eventually, if they keep this up long enough - suicides, then bombings. Both occur when people have nothing left to lose. These lawsuits are scaled such that they ensure that the unlucky SOB has nothing left afterwords. There are large numbers of people targeted by them. Eventually, they'll nail someone who isn't quite stable.
It makes me sad, but I really believe this is true.
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I used a $30 eMate to do that, but the list of supported wi-fi cards isn't exactly growing, and they updated the base stations on campus out of compatibility with my Orinoco Silver. Otherwise, it was perfect - 24 hours at a stretch of battery life, with a practical life of just under two weeks, a simple browser, IRC client, and IM client; the ability to take notes as word processing files or draw on the screen. I took it toe-to-toe with a MS Tablet PC when they were new, and while they offered bigger, brighter screens and more oomph, there were no tasks I couldn't do on the eMate that I required for school, and they were selling tablets as productivity machines back then.
Inquiring minds want to know: which old tech giant?
Failing that, are you under NDA?
High pressure sodium lamps are monochromatic. Efficient, yes. Color-correct, no. These things will provide better resolving power per watt than sodium lamps, despite the same lumen count.
Yes, but my ROP *is* a spotlight, and it's only eating 7.2 volts in a package the size of a Mag-Lite. I personally can't wait for these things to hit the market; a pocket searchlight like a ROP or Mag85 is only getting 30-40 lumens per watt...
The chaff is generally the majority of what goes on my handhelds - you think someone's going to write a free titration calculator for the iPhone?
You think they're going to keep paying $100/year to give that away once they no longer write much code?
The important thing here wasn't just the amount of information, but the ratio: It went from 100:0 in favor of the police to ... oh, probably 35:65 when he caught them breaking the law. He may only have had a few verifiable facts on his MP3 player, but they were the relevant ones.
That would be freaking awesome!
The cake is a lie.
Bite me - I do make $300/month in the good 'ol US of A.
Student jobs suck for pay.
As a biology student, I'd like you to skip Electrobolt and Incinerate and get right to Telekinesis - I don't deny chucking around fireballs is a blast, but imagine having a built-in gravity gun!
This is NOT a HELL (high-energy laser lift) craft being blasted with a ground-based laser to create shockwaves, this is a photon drive like Niven uses in the Man-Kzin Wars books from time to time.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3c2.html#photon
Downside: "In other words, one lousy Newton of thrust takes three hundred freaking megawatts!!"
Until we're willing to shoot a nuke plant into space with a crew on the other side of a shadow shield and some damn big radiators... not gonna fly. Once we are willing, this baby's gonna fly.
All full-length episodes are posted by 5am ET the day after they air. Episode are available for a limited time only. Click on a show below to watch now.
* 30 Rock
* Age of Love
* Andy Barker PI
* The Black Donnellys
* Friday Night Lights
* Last Comic Standing
* Late Night with Conan O'Brien
* Miss Teen USA 2007
* NBC Primetime Preview
* Passions
* Raines
* Victoria Beckham: Coming to America
Note the distinct lack of Heroes and Battlestar Galactica, the only NBC shows I'm interested in. Fuck, Passions? Why waste the drive space on that shit.
Do you care about gun deaths, or total deaths? Because in Britian, they have a knife culture and are planning to crack down on belt crime. I couldn't make this shit up.
Gun control laws DO prevent most people from having guns. They do NOT prevent people with legitimate uses for guns from having them.
What, then, constitutes legitimate uses in your opinion?
If you want to argue guns, I'll argue guns. If you want to argue software, I'll argue software. But if you want to argue guns, I'll probably win.
Stop trying to derail this discussion, please. I'm doing enough to do so on my own.
The Golden Age had a similar system called the College of Hortators (from the root word 'exhort') that dealt with people the government didn't have laws for, such as those who store WMDs with the minimum legal protections and pray for an accident. If you want to see how such a system sucks, go read the trilogy.
What percent of their customers are like me -- people who buy the game and can't make it run?
not listening to music for too long costs me SAN points.
Actually, yes.
Singularity Sky by Stross - pretty far out, but firm; they allow loophole-based FTL, but explain stuff that's currently being researched rather well.
Orion's Arm stuff -- this is the hardest of hard scifi I've ever seen, but most of it is incredibly far-future.
Snow Crash and The Diamond Age by Stephenson are both pretty firm, but have more tech than science stuff.
Contact, the movie based on a Carl Sagan book, is some fo the most scientific of science fiction; Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension is also resoundingly scientific -- especially odd but appropriate for a parody of the genre.
As being a victim of cyber-stalking. While working on a research paper one night, (after months of this shit) I blocked .... I wanna call it 34 AIM accounts for harrassment over the course of the night. Productivity, obviously, was teh suck. Telling me to block it is counterproductive and insulting and blocking it doesn't help.
that's actually a cataract screening system, IIRC, or one looking for a similar eye problem.
Thank you Opportunist, you just made my day.
Many states don't require registration.
What you may be thinking of is the fact that people with concealed-weapon permits are within statistical noise of being 100% safe.
[I see kids knowing how to use guns. Who's fault is that? the parent. They do not police the viewing habits or they watch shows about guns and such.]
Not to be a dick or anything, but some parents actually teach their kids how to shoot. Something about spending quality time with them or some such nonsense.
I expect I'll be a partially-uploaded but still-embodied cyborg approaching transcendance. Not too ambitious, are you?
Because standing near the death throes of a giant hurts.
I forsee two things happening eventually, if they keep this up long enough - suicides, then bombings. Both occur when people have nothing left to lose. These lawsuits are scaled such that they ensure that the unlucky SOB has nothing left afterwords. There are large numbers of people targeted by them. Eventually, they'll nail someone who isn't quite stable.
It makes me sad, but I really believe this is true.