" I would like input on a way to be able to keep track of my child."
no one uses google now days....
First, your child doesn't need GPS, she needs a cellphone. Why? Because even if you had this magical GPS tracking/locating system you want, there would still be some kind of data communication needed between the child and the laptop. That requires data usage or cellphone usage, so either way you're paying a monthly fee.
Google child cellphone and the very first result is Best cell phone for kids. In it, it says: "Migo is made to use Verizon's optional Chaperon service that lets parents track the phone in real time on their handset or PC. For an additional charge, parents can set up boundaries for where the child can go. If the phone leaves the designated area, a text message alert will be sent to the parent's phone. (Only certain adult handsets are capable of using this service.)"
So you have the GPS tracking you wanted, plus your child has a cellphone so you can reach them if they're indoors and GPS isn't working so hot, AND you have the added feature you didn't even know you wanted: a text message the instant your child leaves a designated area. Not only that but it all works through your cellphone, so anytime you can't find your kid forget about going "Gee, I forgot to bring the GPS locator handheld with me". It's already setup on your cellphone.
Oh and sure, all this will cost you a few bucks, but I'm sure it won't cost more than a custom handheld locater and a small unobtrusive device to attach to your daughter and and creating a secure website on your own.
what's with the link going to a forum and code.google.com page? No links to the Dingoo A320? I mean sure I can google it but a link to a photo and description would be nice
"definitely not 5-10x as reliable as my cheap Saturn. "
another bad car analogy. Also have a saturn, fairly new model, with 80k miles, suffering from the common power steering problems. Needs whole new $1000 steering column. Managed to rig it so we can reset the power steering while driving but it's still a huge pain and I will never buy or recommend a Saturn.
"he would have probably asked for a refund even if it was only ten cents. Price paid is kind of irrelevant."
i dunno. I would have agreed with you a few months ago, but after spending $10 on the amazing Plants vs Zombies i'm looking at all the other $49.95 games and thinking "why aren't you 5 times better? I did spend 5x more after all".
"I mean they had Megan [wikipedia.org] up there, she could have done the boys a turn."
Wow you must have a big thing for chicks in giant puffy astronaut suits because that photo on her wiki does absolutely nothing for me. Got links to a pic of her in a bikini?
"The question is, does such a device somewhat negate the values a Buddhist would stand for?"
Yes."
Care to elaborate?
I would have to say no, because cellphones are no longer fancy gadgets for the rich, they're required for communication with the rest of the world, so if you have to have one, why not have one that caters to your religious beliefs?
"That's like focusing on how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights"
No, it's not. As usual, car analogies are stupid.
I'd have to agree, bad analogy. MPG at stoplights is 0 for all cars since you're not moving. You'd have to come up with a whole new rating scheme if you wanted to determine how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights, like ounces consumed per hour while idling.
I'd say a better car analogy (if you must have one) would be to focus on what a vehicle gets on the highway only... and I mean all highway: fill-up, drive 60 until empty, fill-up again, compute mileage. Sure, it's a useful number, but it probably won't help you determine daily usage.
"You're asking a bunch of dorks about a technical question concerning the opposite sex? "
He's obviously lying.
He's 14 and his cousin's visiting for a few weeks and left his Alienware laptop charger in LA. Any adult geek of marrying age would have a few 2+ ghz PCs lying around that a cheap video card could be thrown in, or spend $100+ on Craigslist and buy a suitable PC.
"Check out some of the refurbished systems available online and from places like Frys."
Craigslist any 2+ ghz P4 1gb system for ~$100 and you should be able to play City of Heroes since that is the recommended system requirements. Slap in a $100 Radeon 4770 (slashdot's new favoritecard) and her system will probably run better than yours.... or you can continue to waste our time. Your choice, choose wisely.
"For $200 I can get a card that will play Crysis, STALKER Clear Sky, etc at a reasonable resolution. Try doing that with a budget card."
RTFA Crysis, high settings, 1680x1050... 32.7 fps from the $100 Radeon 4770. Anyone want to argue that 1680x1050 isn't a "reasonable resolution"? And remember this was a benchmark, so no doubt there were 100 guys on the screen moving and shouting and explosions and all that stuff that never really happens when you're playing normally, crouching behind a tree trying not to be sniped.
And we haven't even touched the 20% fps gains from overclocking: "At 1680x1050, with 4xAA, you're looking at a greater-than 20% boost - nothing short of incredible."
Yes, I bought one and it's amazing for $100. Wonder what I'll be buying in 2-3 yrs? A $70 card?
"while the State presented evidence Appellant spent approximately 100 hours over a five month-period utilizing internet websites that were not related to his job"
So he spent less than 1 hour of a 8 hour day surfing porn (5 work days in a week x 4.34 weeks in a month x 5 months = 108.5). That's not hard to do....
Here's the WTF part: "He said his client was a good worker and had even been promoted after his supervisors found the pictures. Initially he was suspended while police investigated the case, but was promoted after he returned to work. He lost his job, however, when he was convicted of the charges."
sounds like a huge fishing expedition, who'd he piss off in gov't? Was the mayor's daughter the dominatrix?
I love this: "unauthorized access to a computer, a felony; theft of services in office (essentially for depriving the city of his paid services while he conducted the unauthorized activities on a city computer on city time), which is also a felony;"
So basically he got 15 months for goofing off at work. Think I know quite a few city officials that should be serving life sentences.
Oh but that's not the best part: "On the misdemeanor solicitation charge, he was sentenced to 60 days"
He only got 2 months for ordering a prostitute;)
I think Ohio is trying to become the next Florida.
When I installed Vista on a used laptop it didn't recognize the Vista CD Key on the laptop and wouldn't let me log in to the system. Only thing it would display is "YOUR KEY IS INVALID. PLEASE ENTER A VALID KEY OR CALL... (etc)". Safe mode didn't work either.
I ended up calling the manufacture and paying $30 for restore DVDs, but it put the laptop completely out of commission for a week.
"the number of computers needed to run a business never seems to fall in practice. But although data centres are certainly needed now, do they really have a 'future'?"
You have a good point. The millions it costs to build a datacenter could probably be better spent sending Amazon EC2 hundreds of thousands a month. Instead of having to spend millions more to upgrade in 5 yrs Amazon has already done that.
Course if something were to go wrong and your data is lost or stolen it'd be hard to even get a "sorry" out of Amazon much less compensation, at least if it's local you can fire some people and starve their kids.
"I do however, understand that this is another way to let people know what your particular church is about"
I think this is the natural evolution of the newsletter, from paper mailers to emails to twitters, but encouraging your congregation to do this during service is just tacky.
I love the photo accompanying this article. Think the lady with the laptop is twittering or playing WoW?
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" I would like input on a way to be able to keep track of my child."
no one uses google now days....
First, your child doesn't need GPS, she needs a cellphone. Why? Because even if you had this magical GPS tracking/locating system you want, there would still be some kind of data communication needed between the child and the laptop. That requires data usage or cellphone usage, so either way you're paying a monthly fee.
Google child cellphone and the very first result is Best cell phone for kids. In it, it says:
"Migo is made to use Verizon's optional Chaperon service that lets parents track the phone in real time on their handset or PC. For an additional charge, parents can set up boundaries for where the child can go. If the phone leaves the designated area, a text message alert will be sent to the parent's phone. (Only certain adult handsets are capable of using this service.)"
So you have the GPS tracking you wanted, plus your child has a cellphone so you can reach them if they're indoors and GPS isn't working so hot, AND you have the added feature you didn't even know you wanted: a text message the instant your child leaves a designated area. Not only that but it all works through your cellphone, so anytime you can't find your kid forget about going "Gee, I forgot to bring the GPS locator handheld with me". It's already setup on your cellphone.
Oh and sure, all this will cost you a few bucks, but I'm sure it won't cost more than a custom handheld locater and a small unobtrusive device to attach to your daughter and and creating a secure website on your own.
what's with the link going to a forum and code.google.com page? No links to the Dingoo A320? I mean sure I can google it but a link to a photo and description would be nice
"I hit womprats in my TI-99/4A, which had only 32K."
fail
"definitely not 5-10x as reliable as my cheap Saturn. "
another bad car analogy. Also have a saturn, fairly new model, with 80k miles, suffering from the common power steering problems. Needs whole new $1000 steering column. Managed to rig it so we can reset the power steering while driving but it's still a huge pain and I will never buy or recommend a Saturn.
"he would have probably asked for a refund even if it was only ten cents. Price paid is kind of irrelevant."
i dunno. I would have agreed with you a few months ago, but after spending $10 on the amazing Plants vs Zombies i'm looking at all the other $49.95 games and thinking "why aren't you 5 times better? I did spend 5x more after all".
"After how badly Vista Basic failed"
[citation needed]
"Who is it for, street people?"
don't belittle my people you fuckin' fatass!
"I mean they had Megan [wikipedia.org] up there, she could have done the boys a turn."
Wow you must have a big thing for chicks in giant puffy astronaut suits because that photo on her wiki does absolutely nothing for me. Got links to a pic of her in a bikini?
"The real question to be asking is, are there any WiMAX SIP or Skype handsets?"
Actually the real question is why didn't the poster spend 1 minute on Google. Just search skype wimax phone. Fourth link down is a page about the N810 WiMax edition with instructions on how to install Skype. Searched ebay and found two n810 WiMax's for a bit over $200.
I imagine a n810 running Skype would work better than carrying around a netbook everywhere. It's also easier to hold to your ear than a netbook....
"The question is, does such a device somewhat negate the values a Buddhist would stand for?"
Yes."
Care to elaborate?
I would have to say no, because cellphones are no longer fancy gadgets for the rich, they're required for communication with the rest of the world, so if you have to have one, why not have one that caters to your religious beliefs?
"Unless this was posted by the girlfriend"
Answer's still the same: get him a girlfriend (a different one, obviously).
"That's like focusing on how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights"
No, it's not. As usual, car analogies are stupid.
I'd have to agree, bad analogy. MPG at stoplights is 0 for all cars since you're not moving. You'd have to come up with a whole new rating scheme if you wanted to determine how much gas a vehicle consumes at stop lights, like ounces consumed per hour while idling.
I'd say a better car analogy (if you must have one) would be to focus on what a vehicle gets on the highway only... and I mean all highway: fill-up, drive 60 until empty, fill-up again, compute mileage. Sure, it's a useful number, but it probably won't help you determine daily usage.
"You're asking a bunch of dorks about a technical question concerning the opposite sex? "
He's obviously lying.
He's 14 and his cousin's visiting for a few weeks and left his Alienware laptop charger in LA. Any adult geek of marrying age would have a few 2+ ghz PCs lying around that a cheap video card could be thrown in, or spend $100+ on Craigslist and buy a suitable PC.
"Check out some of the refurbished systems available online and from places like Frys."
Craigslist any 2+ ghz P4 1gb system for ~$100 and you should be able to play City of Heroes since that is the recommended system requirements. Slap in a $100 Radeon 4770 (slashdot's new favorite card) and her system will probably run better than yours.... or you can continue to waste our time. Your choice, choose wisely.
"Radeon 4770 as the best for its price for cards under $150? It's discontinued and you can't buy it from Newegg"
/. 3 weeks ago.
New here? Radeon 4770 just came out last month. It was even covered on
"I have a beta of StarCraft III (I know a guy)"
OMG StarCraft III?!? That's amazing considering StarCraft II is still in beta
"For $200 I can get a card that will play Crysis, STALKER Clear Sky, etc at a reasonable resolution. Try doing that with a budget card."
RTFA Crysis, high settings, 1680x1050... 32.7 fps from the $100 Radeon 4770. Anyone want to argue that 1680x1050 isn't a "reasonable resolution"? And remember this was a benchmark, so no doubt there were 100 guys on the screen moving and shouting and explosions and all that stuff that never really happens when you're playing normally, crouching behind a tree trying not to be sniped.
If that's not enough, spend another $100 and run 1900x1200 at 43fps
And we haven't even touched the 20% fps gains from overclocking: "At 1680x1050, with 4xAA, you're looking at a greater-than 20% boost - nothing short of incredible."
Yes, I bought one and it's amazing for $100. Wonder what I'll be buying in 2-3 yrs? A $70 card?
"while the State presented evidence Appellant spent approximately 100 hours over a five month-period utilizing internet websites that were not related to his job"
So he spent less than 1 hour of a 8 hour day surfing porn (5 work days in a week x 4.34 weeks in a month x 5 months = 108.5). That's not hard to do....
Here's the WTF part:
"He said his client was a good worker and had even been promoted after his supervisors found the pictures. Initially he was suspended while police investigated the case, but was promoted after he returned to work. He lost his job, however, when he was convicted of the charges."
sounds like a huge fishing expedition, who'd he piss off in gov't? Was the mayor's daughter the dominatrix?
I love this:
;)
"unauthorized access to a computer, a felony; theft of services in office (essentially for depriving the city of his paid services while he conducted the unauthorized activities on a city computer on city time), which is also a felony;"
So basically he got 15 months for goofing off at work. Think I know quite a few city officials that should be serving life sentences.
Oh but that's not the best part:
"On the misdemeanor solicitation charge, he was sentenced to 60 days"
He only got 2 months for ordering a prostitute
I think Ohio is trying to become the next Florida.
"Units like this are nothing new. "
Exactly. There's programs that have existed for years that turned Wifi enabled cellphones into wifi hotspots. WMWifiRouter is the first one that comes to mind
I hope that's all it does!
When I installed Vista on a used laptop it didn't recognize the Vista CD Key on the laptop and wouldn't let me log in to the system. Only thing it would display is "YOUR KEY IS INVALID. PLEASE ENTER A VALID KEY OR CALL... (etc)". Safe mode didn't work either.
I ended up calling the manufacture and paying $30 for restore DVDs, but it put the laptop completely out of commission for a week.
"computer blocks, which could plug together. Storage, processors, media, PSUs, batteries, interfaces... just bricks that you stack together"
Thermaltake has a new modular case that is similar to that.
"the number of computers needed to run a business never seems to fall in practice. But although data centres are certainly needed now, do they really have a 'future'?"
You have a good point. The millions it costs to build a datacenter could probably be better spent sending Amazon EC2 hundreds of thousands a month. Instead of having to spend millions more to upgrade in 5 yrs Amazon has already done that.
Course if something were to go wrong and your data is lost or stolen it'd be hard to even get a "sorry" out of Amazon much less compensation, at least if it's local you can fire some people and starve their kids.
"I do however, understand that this is another way to let people know what your particular church is about"
I think this is the natural evolution of the newsletter, from paper mailers to emails to twitters, but encouraging your congregation to do this during service is just tacky.
I love the photo accompanying this article. Think the lady with the laptop is twittering or playing WoW?
Why run Methlab when you can run Octomom?