Any suggestions for a light, cheap, keyboard-equipped device? Like a travel clock + keyboard and more memory and USB? Thanks, the Anonymous Wanderer.
A camcorder may not have a keyboard, and may not be easy to take notes on - but believe me, there's nothing like audio+video to make a memorable/enjoyable memoir of your trip.
I never thought of a camcorder (usually $300+) as a worthwhile investment, but my recent experiences changed that view - my parents're visiting and they've got a camcorder along (Sony, about $500.00, I think).
Nothing beats a camcorder to take audio/visual notes including a running commentary. It's even fun to plug it back in to the computer and edit it and relive the memorable portions of the trip later. Give it a try.
Then there is the problem of availability, the CD is not available everywhere (I live in Pakistan, and the CD is not available for Pakistan). Also, the CD Microsoft is offering is horribly out of date.
The author's writing from Pakistan (forget Walgreens, US!=World), and most Electronics sold outside the US (and manufactured by a US company) is exorbitantly priced usually at [US_price * exchange_rate], which would probably work out to 50% of a middle class monthly salary in Pakistan.
Not all countries have a standard of living as high as the US, you know.
But forget money...most computer users the world over aren't even savvy enough to understand that you need something called a "firewall" to keep them secure - earlier I used to have trouble explaining to people that they could get a virus by clicking on unknown stuff - now it's even *worse* - they can't digest the fact that they could get infected without doing anything at all - how can you expect them to understand or shell out more money (over the expense of owning a computer) for a box that doesn't mean anything to them? Microsoft should've included Firewalling software with their original OS, if they were worried about computer security - telling users to buy more hardware isn't the right solution.
Disclaimer: those are rough guesses/estimates - those figures are off the top of my head - I've lived in Asia/US and can appreciate the vast difference in the standard of living.
Under law, the importation, sale or use of cell-phone jammers is banned in the United States and can result in Federal Communications Commission fines of up to $11,000 daily per device. An FCC spokesperson said the fines have been levied against people for not holding a license to use the devices.
Casinos use jammers to prevent people from cheating using cell phones and some federal law enforcement agencies use the equipment during hostage situations.
I can probably concede to the secret service using cell phone jammers temporarily to protect a VIP (though that too is debatable).
But, htf do casinos get away without a $11,000 FCC fine when using the jammers? They aren't protecting somebody's life - they're just protecting their own profits - this new year, I was in Atlantic City, and I remember I couldn't use the cellphone to find my folks when we got separated - come to think of it - that may have been due to the jammers.
Bet Donald Trump and the other VVIP casino owners have enough lobbying power in the Congress to bypass the law. Sucks.
And:
For cell-phone user Phyllis Hines of Lake View Terrace, Baca's proposal sounds good.
"If it's a matter of saving lives, I think that takes precedent over the right to communicate and I would support something like that," Hines said. "It would seem to take some of the danger out of the times we are living in now.
*clap* *clap*. The government has managed to convince Joe Sixpack that it's doing everything to "save lives" and "children", albeit at the expense of strapping everybody in ducttape and muzzles. I commend that.
I'd just like to point out that the new Indian Prime Minister is Mrs Sonia Gandhi. BBC has a profile on her here.
And while we're talking about Indian Election results, I would like to point out that she was an Italian citizen till 1983 when she obtained Indian citizenship - she's still a Roman Catholic - though she follows Hindu practices (for example during former PM Rajiv Gandhi's (her husband - no relation to Mahatma Gandhi) funeral).
In addition, India, a primarily/traditionally Hindu country has a Muslim president - Dr. Abdul Kalam - who's an all around great guy and a scientist/genius - and an open source advocate. RMS met him personally when in India.
I know I'm tottering a little OT, but I think it's something to be proud of, when a country and it's citizens can be secular/open-minded enough to ignore religious/cultural differences and choose their leader based on personal merit - moreover with today's world affairs.
Some questions
on
Freecache
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Definitely not an adequate solution, given it's current condition: slashdotted to hell.
I have a few questions though, which I guess may be answered on the website:
1. Can users submit/upload files to be hosted on their website.
2. Who's responsible for ensuring that it doesn't turn into a pr0n/warez stash?
3. Can users request removal of cached content (something not possible with the Google cache).
open source does need corporate backing in order to survive.
Personally I think that Linux will find it very difficult to survive repeated attacks by the Evil_Corporations(TM) without strong backing from other corporations.
Linux may be untainted and pure ( as I think it is ) but my faith in the US Justice system is wearing thin - might and money wins.
The book is easy to read and is full of interesting details.
Hope they didn't miss out important details about the AOL CDs. Were there lively debates about what to call the new CDs? Does it say which smart aleck decided to do away with the jewel boxes once they realized people were picking up thousands of CDs just to keep use the nice jewel cases and replaced them with shitty cardboard covers?
I'd buy the book if it had notes and chapters about AOL CDs.
But as long as we're talking about libraries and computers:
The local public library (somewhere in Mass.) here has an iMac sitting in the front lobby, with the iTunes application running - for people to browse through their library of songs.
I went and asked the librarian(s) about the machine and they said Apple had donated it. Interesting concept - free advertising and people think the company's being Good (TM) by donating to the public library. Not very useful for downloading songs though, given the DRM restrictions on downloads. All the other machines running the Catalog app are Windows though.
Just thought it was interesting enough to post here on/.... pardon the OTness.
is being paired up with a cute babe during the programming sessions. Nothing like showing off your l33t coding skills to a gurrrl staring intently over your shoulder.
Happened to me at school, so I speak from experience:). That was my best semester at school - I used to wait eagerly for the project submission deadlines so I could go on an "EP date".
They conclude the risks are so great that we should discuss how to deal with this technology so that we don't kill each other when it arrives.
Take my word for it...as we gradually run out of oil, (and we will reach the halfway mark sometime between 2015-2030 according to that article), the rising costs, scarcity and worries will spark many more serious wars than the current one (of which oil is the root cause, I believe) a long time before the "final crunch".
It remains to be seen if we will have a future left to worry/fantasize about if the current world scenario continues down it's plunging curve.
I'd rather see the US School system fix the screwed up education system rather than go in for "nifty", "hi-tech" solutions to non-existent problems. Why do I get a feeling that the big software/hardware players were behind getting the schools to spend their already lacking budgets this way? There are several other insightful comments regarding the school system in that story too.
BTW, this Slashdot comment posted a few days back nicely sums up the current state of the school system in the US. I'd rather see them fixing the existing problems rather than inventing new ones. For one, I would like them to teach unbiased history/science rather than preach Creationism and "American History version 1.0"
Snippet of comment linked above:
Re:Isn't this redundant? (Score:5, Insightful)
by fucksl4shd0t (630000) on Monday April 26, @05:14AM (#8970702)
American schools suck. They perpetuate a lot of myths, such as the myth that Thanksgiving as a holiday has been practiced ever since the pilgrims showed up on the Mayflower, or the myth that the West was conquered because the so-called Indians couldn't keep their word (this one actually got a lot of attention in High School, but in lower schools it was taught that the Indians were pure scalping evil), or the myth that the Civil War was fought with the altruistic purpose of freeing the slaves (yes, it was fought to free the slaves, but not over altruism, over money instead). The US internment of a whole bunch of Asian-descended people during WWII is generally left out of the material entirely because the material is deemed to resemble the concentration camps in Europe of the time a little too much. Not to mention, we can't have ever been racist in our history, the US does no evil, right? It wouldn't take much to correct these flaws in the education itself, and it would do a better job, I think, of instilling a sense of responsibility into the kids. "Yeah, we fucked up, yeah, we live here as the fruits of our imperialism. We've grown up." Or have we?
I've been a little gun-shy of blogging about Word for fear of being inundated by what are as far as I can tell a gang of "net thugs" who roam the net making outrageous claims about Microsoft and its behavior, motives, etc in every public forum they find (none of which information they are privy to, little of which they have evidence for, and basically all of which I find personally offensive, not to mention incorrect - since they often are implicitly about me and therefore I for one know them to be incorrect).
does that word mean what I think it means?. . .
S-L-A-S-H-D-O-T?
Since we know how SCO will answer the second question
ask me! *raised hand*
"there are trillions even quadrillions of infringing lines in linux. all your atoms comprising our lines of code are belong to us. hence you clearly and specifically infringed on SCO's rights."
Sincerely,
Darryl
the fact that they link to www.chillingeffects.org, which happens to be a joint project of the EFF and a number of top-notch schools:
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics.
Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you.
Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we've noticed that not everyone feels the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence other online users. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to "chill" legitimate activity.
Nothing like educating the public about the dangers of the DMCA/etal by linking them to EFF and the like:).
According to this medical site:
The temperature increases for a number of reasons:
* Chemicals, called cytokines and mediators, are produced in the body in response to an invasion from a microorganism, malignancy, or other intruder.
* The body is making more macrophages, which are cells that go to combat when intruders are present in the body. These cells actually "eat-up" the invading organism.
* The body is busily trying to produce natural antibodies, which fight infection. These antibodies will recognize the infection next time it tries to invade.
Taken together with Agent Smith's insightful words:
"Human beings are a
disease, a cancer of this
planet. You are a plague.
And we are... the cure."
I think the message is clear - Mother Earth is trying to get rid of us.
Slashdot Mirror
A camcorder may not have a keyboard, and may not be easy to take notes on - but believe me, there's nothing like audio+video to make a memorable/enjoyable memoir of your trip.
I never thought of a camcorder (usually $300+) as a worthwhile investment, but my recent experiences changed that view - my parents're visiting and they've got a camcorder along (Sony, about $500.00, I think).
Nothing beats a camcorder to take audio/visual notes including a running commentary. It's even fun to plug it back in to the computer and edit it and relive the memorable portions of the trip later. Give it a try.
The author's writing from Pakistan (forget Walgreens, US!=World), and most Electronics sold outside the US (and manufactured by a US company) is exorbitantly priced usually at [US_price * exchange_rate], which would probably work out to 50% of a middle class monthly salary in Pakistan. Not all countries have a standard of living as high as the US, you know.
But forget money...most computer users the world over aren't even savvy enough to understand that you need something called a "firewall" to keep them secure - earlier I used to have trouble explaining to people that they could get a virus by clicking on unknown stuff - now it's even *worse* - they can't digest the fact that they could get infected without doing anything at all - how can you expect them to understand or shell out more money (over the expense of owning a computer) for a box that doesn't mean anything to them? Microsoft should've included Firewalling software with their original OS, if they were worried about computer security - telling users to buy more hardware isn't the right solution.
Disclaimer: those are rough guesses/estimates - those figures are off the top of my head - I've lived in Asia/US and can appreciate the vast difference in the standard of living.
Casinos use jammers to prevent people from cheating using cell phones and some federal law enforcement agencies use the equipment during hostage situations.
I can probably concede to the secret service using cell phone jammers temporarily to protect a VIP (though that too is debatable).
But, htf do casinos get away without a $11,000 FCC fine when using the jammers? They aren't protecting somebody's life - they're just protecting their own profits - this new year, I was in Atlantic City, and I remember I couldn't use the cellphone to find my folks when we got separated - come to think of it - that may have been due to the jammers.
Bet Donald Trump and the other VVIP casino owners have enough lobbying power in the Congress to bypass the law. Sucks.
And:
For cell-phone user Phyllis Hines of Lake View Terrace, Baca's proposal sounds good.
"If it's a matter of saving lives, I think that takes precedent over the right to communicate and I would support something like that," Hines said. "It would seem to take some of the danger out of the times we are living in now.
*clap* *clap*. The government has managed to convince Joe Sixpack that it's doing everything to "save lives" and "children", albeit at the expense of strapping everybody in ducttape and muzzles. I commend that.
And while we're talking about Indian Election results, I would like to point out that she was an Italian citizen till 1983 when she obtained Indian citizenship - she's still a Roman Catholic - though she follows Hindu practices (for example during former PM Rajiv Gandhi's (her husband - no relation to Mahatma Gandhi) funeral).
In addition, India, a primarily/traditionally Hindu country has a Muslim president - Dr. Abdul Kalam - who's an all around great guy and a scientist/genius - and an open source advocate. RMS met him personally when in India.
I know I'm tottering a little OT, but I think it's something to be proud of, when a country and it's citizens can be secular/open-minded enough to ignore religious/cultural differences and choose their leader based on personal merit - moreover with today's world affairs.
I have a few questions though, which I guess may be answered on the website:
1. Can users submit/upload files to be hosted on their website.
2. Who's responsible for ensuring that it doesn't turn into a pr0n/warez stash?
3. Can users request removal of cached content (something not possible with the Google cache).
Softmaker
PlanMaker
Personally I think that Linux will find it very difficult to survive repeated attacks by the Evil_Corporations(TM) without strong backing from other corporations.
Linux may be untainted and pure ( as I think it is ) but my faith in the US Justice system is wearing thin - might and money wins.
Ironic.
Hope they didn't miss out important details about the AOL CDs. Were there lively debates about what to call the new CDs? Does it say which smart aleck decided to do away with the jewel boxes once they realized people were picking up thousands of CDs just to keep use the nice jewel cases and replaced them with shitty cardboard covers?
I'd buy the book if it had notes and chapters about AOL CDs.
The local public library (somewhere in Mass.) here has an iMac sitting in the front lobby, with the iTunes application running - for people to browse through their library of songs.
I went and asked the librarian(s) about the machine and they said Apple had donated it. Interesting concept - free advertising and people think the company's being Good (TM) by donating to the public library. Not very useful for downloading songs though, given the DRM restrictions on downloads. All the other machines running the Catalog app are Windows though.
Just thought it was interesting enough to post here on /. ... pardon the OTness.
1. insert head in toilet bowl.
2. flush.
3. repeat as necessary.
for better results add shampoo/soap to flush tank.
and remember...you heard it first on slashdot.
Happened to me at school, so I speak from experience :). That was my best semester at school - I used to wait eagerly for the project submission deadlines so I could go on an "EP date".
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=as cii&q=google&btnG=Search+News here.
Take my word for it...as we gradually run out of oil, (and we will reach the halfway mark sometime between 2015-2030 according to that article), the rising costs, scarcity and worries will spark many more serious wars than the current one (of which oil is the root cause, I believe) a long time before the "final crunch".
It remains to be seen if we will have a future left to worry/fantasize about if the current world scenario continues down it's plunging curve.
Exactly. I'm glad they got the message at last. It's about time they ditched Windows and started working full time on Linux.
BTW, this Slashdot comment posted a few days back nicely sums up the current state of the school system in the US. I'd rather see them fixing the existing problems rather than inventing new ones. For one, I would like them to teach unbiased history/science rather than preach Creationism and "American History version 1.0"
Snippet of comment linked above:
Re:Isn't this redundant? (Score:5, Insightful) by fucksl4shd0t (630000) on Monday April 26, @05:14AM (#8970702)
American schools suck. They perpetuate a lot of myths, such as the myth that Thanksgiving as a holiday has been practiced ever since the pilgrims showed up on the Mayflower, or the myth that the West was conquered because the so-called Indians couldn't keep their word (this one actually got a lot of attention in High School, but in lower schools it was taught that the Indians were pure scalping evil), or the myth that the Civil War was fought with the altruistic purpose of freeing the slaves (yes, it was fought to free the slaves, but not over altruism, over money instead). The US internment of a whole bunch of Asian-descended people during WWII is generally left out of the material entirely because the material is deemed to resemble the concentration camps in Europe of the time a little too much. Not to mention, we can't have ever been racist in our history, the US does no evil, right? It wouldn't take much to correct these flaws in the education itself, and it would do a better job, I think, of instilling a sense of responsibility into the kids. "Yeah, we fucked up, yeah, we live here as the fruits of our imperialism. We've grown up." Or have we?
does that word mean what I think it means? .
.
.
S-L-A-S-H-D-O-T?
and give Darryl boy his free oil change. i think he deserves atleast a discount for his year of whining.
ask me! *raised hand*
"there are trillions even quadrillions of infringing lines in linux. all your atoms comprising our lines of code are belong to us. hence you clearly and specifically infringed on SCO's rights."
Sincerely,
Darryl
College of Computing, Georgia Tech
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech
George Riley's Profile
NETI@Home's official home page
for (i=bottom; i<=top && ambition; i++);
"Is life merely a convenient arrangement of cells or is it necessary to have a "spark of life" or the "soul" to bring bring the cells to "life"?"
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics. Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you. Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we've noticed that not everyone feels the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence other online users. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to "chill" legitimate activity.
Nothing like educating the public about the dangers of the DMCA/etal by linking them to EFF and the like :).
biometric voice recognition credit card in your pocket or are you really *really* REALLY happy to see me :)
The temperature increases for a number of reasons:
* Chemicals, called cytokines and mediators, are produced in the body in response to an invasion from a microorganism, malignancy, or other intruder.
* The body is making more macrophages, which are cells that go to combat when intruders are present in the body. These cells actually "eat-up" the invading organism.
* The body is busily trying to produce natural antibodies, which fight infection. These antibodies will recognize the infection next time it tries to invade.
Taken together with Agent Smith's insightful words:
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure."
I think the message is clear - Mother Earth is trying to get rid of us.