I'll third it, especially if you have the remote. Never fails to impress people at parties when you can skip a crappy song that accidentally slipped into the mix by hitting a button on your phone...
I have a product I would like to advertise in the articles area (the banners section is just too crowded!)
I was wondering; how much does an ad like this cost?
Check your facts. Man this site is just plain pathetic.
"Tenacious in his quest to become the first person to achieve the First Solo Balloon Flight Round the World, Steve finally succeeded in his 6th attempt in the 'Bud Light Spirit of Freedom' (19 June - 4 July 2002)." (http://www.stevefossett.com/html/main_pages/crew. html)
INSIGHTFUL? The parent post is clearly a troll. Comparing automated helicopter flight (which is INSANELY complicated) to building a little light-sensor bumper-bot? It's a TROLL!!
I had been considering a slimp3 player since they first came out. I convinced myself I didn't need one, and I could wait until they integrated wireless and a digital optical out.
In the mean time, I purchased an audrey from ebay and set that up. The audrey is on the network, and offers touch-screen browsing of music and playlists right at the machine, instead of having to build your playlists on a computer through a web browser.
Man, tough choice though, they're both seriously cool.
How exactly were the powerbooks a revolution? Laptops existed, and they worked as well as the powerbooks (i.e. they all crashed about as often, batteries lasted about as long, and they would all start to burn your legs eventually.)
Anyhow, I'm pretty sure apple is just planning to bring back the newton. Some guy on ebay with the userID sbojs has been buying them up like MAD! (Check it out, I think that's just S.Jobs BACKWARDS!!)
Not too many people will see this, I fear, but you are spot-on with this. If you're grown up and taking care of yourself (i.e. high school age or so) odds are pretty good you have or can get what you need. Same with the rest of your family.
For about seven or eight years now, my family has been sponsoring other families for Christmas. We don't get each other anything; rather, we all throw our money together and that goes to a bunch of families that need help badly.
My sister in law is a school teacher for a VERY poor area in the midwest. Some of the kids in her classes will go through a brutal chicago winter without a coat, and wearing the same clothing for several days at a time.
My brother and his wife find out what the poorest families are in dire need of, and they put together baskets of clothing, food, etc. The school principal then gets this, and distributes it anonymously. This has been working perfectly for years, and has brought a lot of joy to some families that are struggling just to survive.
This christmas, talk YOUR family into using one of the adopt-a-family services to help out those in need. Don't be greedy, help the needy! (ok, sorry, that last bit was over the top.)
Ok, do you think Steven Lucas was shoring up his existing technologies when I made Star Wars Episode II? I don't think so!
Creating the first movie ever shot 100% in digital, and edited that way as well, that was a bold forward looking movement. Now obviously he had the support of Microsoft and Linux, showing that these two companies can indeed work together.
Do you think he could have made such a bold technological advance WITHOUT the help of the two largest software companies? I don't think so!
This guy might have some interesting ideas, when he suggests we drop our IT departments, but where would that put the big-six accounting firms? Arthur Andersen sure couldn't do their accounting job without computers, most companies with over 47 employees NEED computers to deal with the payroll! THINK ABOUT IT!
I didn't read the article, but I liked the star wars movie, and I think the guy is wrong to put that down. Even if film looks better most of the time, modern digital technology is sure to catch up!
What??? You live in LA, you're a "traveling pc tech" [sic] and you don't use your Thomas guide? Good god you anonymous coward, what's wrong with you?
KIKOMAN always uses his thomas guide to get to all the swank hollywood parties. Heather Locklear is a total babe in real life, even more so than on TV!
I know everyone jokes about it, but it is shocking how few people on/. actually bother to follow a link before commenting on it.
From the article:
"And 11 of the 15 top shuttle managers have been reassigned, including Ms. Ham, or have retired."
"[NASA administrator, Sean O'Keefe] said Mr. Rocha's experience underscored the need to seek the dissenting viewpoint and ask, 'Are we talking ourselves into this answer?' "
Read the article, it's a pretty good story of the guys attempt to alert people to the potential danger, and how just a handful of people were able to put the brakes on the investigation before the shuttle reentry.
I'm particularly fond of the file system in BeOS. When I was in school we had a sort of databased file system. Granted, this was back in the days of punch cards. It wasn't a database so much as a filing cabinet, but you could still find the card you wanted in the system!
AS LONG AS YOU NUMBERED THEM! HAHA! Old Thompson, he used to say you don't need to number your cards, just keep them in order. We all though he was crazy, but he never seemed to have problems inputting his programs. The one time he DID have problems though, haha, was when we conspired to trip him. YEP! Down he went, his cards were everywhere!
Later on after he failed to graduate, we didn't hear much from him. I guess it was hard to keep in touch what with his stay in the hospital. It was probably mean of us to trip him while he was carrying his final project.
He used to wear corduroys, always with that ZIP! ZIP! ZIP! sound as he walked briskly about the lab. These days they are as normal as the classic belt/suspender combination, but back then, he was a bit of a rebel. Few people were bold enough to wear pants like that. We just didn't have the fashion sense back then. Thompson sure did!
I remember when I was young, we never even imagined such a thing as cell phones. Most people didn't even think the durned telephone would catch on! Who needs that thing, they would say -- you'll talk to people when you go in to town for your groceries! If someone needs to talk to you, why the heck wouldn't they just come over and talk?
Sometimes we needed help, no crazy telephone option, you just had to go get whoever it was who ya needed the help from!
These days most people have the phones in their house, some people even have TWO phones! Not me, I still say if you need somethin outta me come an ask for it. I've got the phone, but mostly since they said I *had* to have it in case of emergencies! HA!
I think the people doing these star offices should think about that before they go off and start creating new applications for these typesetting whathaveyous. I have a feeling these telephone gadgets ARE going to catch on, so why not jump on the wave early and be prepared!
When I was in the boy scouts that was one of our mottos, among other things. "Be prepared, always be honest, but the scout meetings are always secret and you shouldn't talk about them!" I had some good times in the scouts alright.
Take it from me, there's no time like the present!
Kikoman suggests you try participating in some adventure races! Kikoman enjoys both the smaller/shorter races (REI 12 hour, BalanceBar 24 hour, Cal-Eco 30 hours..) and the longer ones (eco-challenge qualifiers, primal quest, 7-10 day races.)
You will find yourself in front of your monitor much less frequently, as a great deal of training will be required. You will also not have time to drink beer, which will help. Also, when you're racing, you won't have any beer anywhere near by. In fact you'll mostly be eating your food from a water bottle, in the form of powdered food drinks like "sustained energy". You sure won't gain weight eating that stuff while on the run! Also, on the boating sections they are often at the ocean, where you might get sea-sick. Nothing helps you lose weight like a good vomit session!!
Kajoob, you're a boob! You clearly have NEVER tried rolling your own PVR. Yeah, the tivo 30 second skip is a real pain in the but. I mean, I practically have to stop and think for a second about pressing those six buttons (in the right order you know!)
Sheesh.
I remember back when I got my first VCR. It was one of the fanciest you could get. It had a remote control. Sure the remote control was on a wire, and you tended to trip over the wire on your way from the couch to the kitchen, but that was hardly ever a problem. Except for the one time I tripped over it and it whipped up over the edge of the table and whacked my wife right in the side of the head! WHOAH BUDDY!
You think I had pork chops for dinner THAT night? Hah, think again amigo!
This is the season finale. I'm curious to see how they will incorporate nathan fillian leaving for outer space though to run a smuggling ship. Firefly was a buffy spinoff wasn't it? I can't wait for season two!
I think rats can resist extreme heat. What about using this rat brain to control the blob of iron we are sending to the middle of the earth? That was an interesting headline to be sure. As is this one.
Who knew they were transplanting rat brains into aibo robot dogs!
Back in the day, we used to talk about robots. But for us, it was always a frightening thing. Then saturday night live did a commercial about robots stealing our medicine! Believe you me, THAT had me scared for a while! I know it was satire, but it's not hard to imagine robots living off the powerful medicines we old people use!
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After reading the article through two or three times, I can certainly say it's interesting. What is REALLY interesting though is the message embedded in the article. Didn't expect that, did you?
Seriously, check it out. ROT13 the article, then drop every other character. Finally, use the alphabet backwards starting a S for one char, then A for the next, I for the next, C for the next, and repeat.
VERY clever. The message is certainly worth the effort decrypting.
I don't know what silicon valley is thinking. I've been loving the bust for many years now. When I was in high school I was fascinated with especially large blouse bunnies. But once I dated a girl who overflowed a DD bra, and those things were all over the place when you set 'em free. That sent me scurrying off in search of less robust busts, so to speak. I later dated a girl who was a competitive figure skater. She was very skinny, and had no bust to speak of. My man teats were larger than her breasts! I found the lack of breasts to be totally unsatisfactory, so after that I set my sights more on girls with b or c cup breasts. Since then I've been quite satisfied.
It does make me wonder though, who DOESN'T love the bust?
Breasty nature aside, I have found a womans shape rarely has any baring on her level of insanity. It seems MOST of them have insecurities and worries, and many of the same troubles we all do.
Kikoman doesn't judge people by their appearance. Unless they are wearing jeans that are far too large, and hang down halfway off their hips showing off their underwear. In this case Kikoman judges these people to be pathetic idiots, and hopes their pants fall down while running across a busy street, causing them to fall and possibly to be run over by a cement truck or maybe seven motorcycles.
Ok, the article was interesting, but seriously -- how could one of the editors read that submission and think "Gee, yeah! If someone calls my phone and makes it vibrate, my phone battery will charge!!!"
This article was confusing to me. Well, the headline was anyway. I wouldn't want hot pipes anywhere near my laptop!
I remember when I was young, I grew up in an apartment that had a boiler and radiators. Those were some hot pipes! They would bang and clang, and release a sort of watery smoke sometimes. Even the smoke was hot!
Who wants that from their laptop? Not me, no sir! Don't sign me up for one of THOSE! Not to mention the banging and clanging -- think your neighbor would appreciate that if you were using one on a plane? Think again my friend!
As I am fond of saying, next!
Kikoman is good on shrimp!
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You have no idea what you're talking about. NEXT!
I'll third it, especially if you have the remote. Never fails to impress people at parties when you can skip a crappy song that accidentally slipped into the mix by hitting a button on your phone...
KIKOMAN
I have a product I would like to advertise in the articles area (the banners section is just too crowded!) I was wondering; how much does an ad like this cost?
"Tenacious in his quest to become the first person to achieve the First Solo Balloon Flight Round the World, Steve finally succeeded in his 6th attempt in the 'Bud Light Spirit of Freedom' (19 June - 4 July 2002)." (http://www.stevefossett.com/html/main_pages/crew. html)
INSIGHTFUL? The parent post is clearly a troll. Comparing automated helicopter flight (which is INSANELY complicated) to building a little light-sensor bumper-bot? It's a TROLL!!
I had been considering a slimp3 player since they first came out. I convinced myself I didn't need one, and I could wait until they integrated wireless and a digital optical out.
In the mean time, I purchased an audrey from ebay and set that up. The audrey is on the network, and offers touch-screen browsing of music and playlists right at the machine, instead of having to build your playlists on a computer through a web browser.
Man, tough choice though, they're both seriously cool.
How exactly were the powerbooks a revolution? Laptops existed, and they worked as well as the powerbooks (i.e. they all crashed about as often, batteries lasted about as long, and they would all start to burn your legs eventually.)
Anyhow, I'm pretty sure apple is just planning to bring back the newton. Some guy on ebay with the userID sbojs has been buying them up like MAD! (Check it out, I think that's just S.Jobs BACKWARDS!!)
SHOWMESHOWYOUKIKOMAN!!!
Not too many people will see this, I fear, but you are spot-on with this. If you're grown up and taking care of yourself (i.e. high school age or so) odds are pretty good you have or can get what you need. Same with the rest of your family.
For about seven or eight years now, my family has been sponsoring other families for Christmas. We don't get each other anything; rather, we all throw our money together and that goes to a bunch of families that need help badly.
My sister in law is a school teacher for a VERY poor area in the midwest. Some of the kids in her classes will go through a brutal chicago winter without a coat, and wearing the same clothing for several days at a time.
My brother and his wife find out what the poorest families are in dire need of, and they put together baskets of clothing, food, etc. The school principal then gets this, and distributes it anonymously. This has been working perfectly for years, and has brought a lot of joy to some families that are struggling just to survive.
This christmas, talk YOUR family into using one of the adopt-a-family services to help out those in need. Don't be greedy, help the needy! (ok, sorry, that last bit was over the top.)
Ok, do you think Steven Lucas was shoring up his existing technologies when I made Star Wars Episode II? I don't think so!
Creating the first movie ever shot 100% in digital, and edited that way as well, that was a bold forward looking movement. Now obviously he had the support of Microsoft and Linux, showing that these two companies can indeed work together.
Do you think he could have made such a bold technological advance WITHOUT the help of the two largest software companies? I don't think so!
This guy might have some interesting ideas, when he suggests we drop our IT departments, but where would that put the big-six accounting firms? Arthur Andersen sure couldn't do their accounting job without computers, most companies with over 47 employees NEED computers to deal with the payroll! THINK ABOUT IT!
I didn't read the article, but I liked the star wars movie, and I think the guy is wrong to put that down. Even if film looks better most of the time, modern digital technology is sure to catch up!
What??? You live in LA, you're a "traveling pc tech" [sic] and you don't use your Thomas guide? Good god you anonymous coward, what's wrong with you?
KIKOMAN always uses his thomas guide to get to all the swank hollywood parties. Heather Locklear is a total babe in real life, even more so than on TV!
I heard Russel Crowe was mad as hell (about this) and he's not going to take it any more!
He's mean when he's angry too. I read about it in premier, or entertainment weekly. It must be true.
RTFA!
I know everyone jokes about it, but it is shocking how few people on /. actually bother to follow a link before commenting on it.
From the article:
"And 11 of the 15 top shuttle managers have been reassigned, including Ms. Ham, or have retired."
"[NASA administrator, Sean O'Keefe] said Mr. Rocha's experience underscored the need to seek the dissenting viewpoint and ask, 'Are we talking ourselves into this answer?' "
Read the article, it's a pretty good story of the guys attempt to alert people to the potential danger, and how just a handful of people were able to put the brakes on the investigation before the shuttle reentry.
I'm particularly fond of the file system in BeOS. When I was in school we had a sort of databased file system. Granted, this was back in the days of punch cards. It wasn't a database so much as a filing cabinet, but you could still find the card you wanted in the system!
AS LONG AS YOU NUMBERED THEM! HAHA! Old Thompson, he used to say you don't need to number your cards, just keep them in order. We all though he was crazy, but he never seemed to have problems inputting his programs. The one time he DID have problems though, haha, was when we conspired to trip him. YEP! Down he went, his cards were everywhere!
Later on after he failed to graduate, we didn't hear much from him. I guess it was hard to keep in touch what with his stay in the hospital. It was probably mean of us to trip him while he was carrying his final project.
He used to wear corduroys, always with that ZIP! ZIP! ZIP! sound as he walked briskly about the lab. These days they are as normal as the classic belt/suspender combination, but back then, he was a bit of a rebel. Few people were bold enough to wear pants like that. We just didn't have the fashion sense back then. Thompson sure did!
SHOWMESHOWYOUKIKOMAN!!
I remember when I was young, we never even imagined such a thing as cell phones. Most people didn't even think the durned telephone would catch on! Who needs that thing, they would say -- you'll talk to people when you go in to town for your groceries! If someone needs to talk to you, why the heck wouldn't they just come over and talk?
Sometimes we needed help, no crazy telephone option, you just had to go get whoever it was who ya needed the help from!
These days most people have the phones in their house, some people even have TWO phones! Not me, I still say if you need somethin outta me come an ask for it. I've got the phone, but mostly since they said I *had* to have it in case of emergencies! HA!
I think the people doing these star offices should think about that before they go off and start creating new applications for these typesetting whathaveyous. I have a feeling these telephone gadgets ARE going to catch on, so why not jump on the wave early and be prepared!
When I was in the boy scouts that was one of our mottos, among other things. "Be prepared, always be honest, but the scout meetings are always secret and you shouldn't talk about them!" I had some good times in the scouts alright.
Take it from me, there's no time like the present!
SHOWMESHOWYOUKIKOMAN!
You will find yourself in front of your monitor much less frequently, as a great deal of training will be required. You will also not have time to drink beer, which will help. Also, when you're racing, you won't have any beer anywhere near by. In fact you'll mostly be eating your food from a water bottle, in the form of powdered food drinks like "sustained energy". You sure won't gain weight eating that stuff while on the run! Also, on the boating sections they are often at the ocean, where you might get sea-sick. Nothing helps you lose weight like a good vomit session!!
Kikoman says get into ultra-endurance sports!
Love it or leave AC, you just posted an ad for an expensive piece of carp software!
I urge you to consider choosing your path wisely in this matter, and don't follow knee-jerk responses like this one!
Sheesh.
I remember back when I got my first VCR. It was one of the fanciest you could get. It had a remote control. Sure the remote control was on a wire, and you tended to trip over the wire on your way from the couch to the kitchen, but that was hardly ever a problem. Except for the one time I tripped over it and it whipped up over the edge of the table and whacked my wife right in the side of the head! WHOAH BUDDY!
You think I had pork chops for dinner THAT night? Hah, think again amigo!
KIKOMAN
Yeah baby, THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!
Kikoman won't stop!
This is the season finale. I'm curious to see how they will incorporate nathan fillian leaving for outer space though to run a smuggling ship. Firefly was a buffy spinoff wasn't it? I can't wait for season two!
Who knew they were transplanting rat brains into aibo robot dogs!
Back in the day, we used to talk about robots. But for us, it was always a frightening thing. Then saturday night live did a commercial about robots stealing our medicine! Believe you me, THAT had me scared for a while! I know it was satire, but it's not hard to imagine robots living off the powerful medicines we old people use!
After reading the article through two or three times, I can certainly say it's interesting. What is REALLY interesting though is the message embedded in the article. Didn't expect that, did you?
Seriously, check it out. ROT13 the article, then drop every other character. Finally, use the alphabet backwards starting a S for one char, then A for the next, I for the next, C for the next, and repeat.
VERY clever. The message is certainly worth the effort decrypting.
KIKOMANI don't know what silicon valley is thinking. I've been loving the bust for many years now. When I was in high school I was fascinated with especially large blouse bunnies. But once I dated a girl who overflowed a DD bra, and those things were all over the place when you set 'em free. That sent me scurrying off in search of less robust busts, so to speak. I later dated a girl who was a competitive figure skater. She was very skinny, and had no bust to speak of. My man teats were larger than her breasts! I found the lack of breasts to be totally unsatisfactory, so after that I set my sights more on girls with b or c cup breasts. Since then I've been quite satisfied.
It does make me wonder though, who DOESN'T love the bust?
Breasty nature aside, I have found a womans shape rarely has any baring on her level of insanity. It seems MOST of them have insecurities and worries, and many of the same troubles we all do.
Kikoman doesn't judge people by their appearance. Unless they are wearing jeans that are far too large, and hang down halfway off their hips showing off their underwear. In this case Kikoman judges these people to be pathetic idiots, and hopes their pants fall down while running across a busy street, causing them to fall and possibly to be run over by a cement truck or maybe seven motorcycles.
KIKOMAN!
Ok, the article was interesting, but seriously -- how could one of the editors read that submission and think "Gee, yeah! If someone calls my phone and makes it vibrate, my phone battery will charge!!!"
LAME!
This article was confusing to me. Well, the headline was anyway. I wouldn't want hot pipes anywhere near my laptop! I remember when I was young, I grew up in an apartment that had a boiler and radiators. Those were some hot pipes! They would bang and clang, and release a sort of watery smoke sometimes. Even the smoke was hot! Who wants that from their laptop? Not me, no sir! Don't sign me up for one of THOSE! Not to mention the banging and clanging -- think your neighbor would appreciate that if you were using one on a plane? Think again my friend! As I am fond of saying, next! Kikoman is good on shrimp!