I used a Sharp mm20 sub-notebook for a few years in college, and it worked really well. 1 GHz transmeta, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, built-in wireless and ethernet, two usb ports, 10" screen. The extended life battery gave about 7 hours of life when I stopped using it. Ran Linux great.
Great laptop till the hard drive died, after a solid 3 years of use. Then I never got around to putting in a new 1.5" HD since I really didn't need it after I graduated.
Oggify was designed to handle flac to mp3 or ogg conversion in bulk, while preserving the tags. I've been happy with it (not that I'm biased or anything), and so have a number of other people. It's open source, free, and in Perl.
You should try it.
Which is apparently due to the Carbon interface Firefox uses, as the comments on that link say. I just played around a bit on v2.0 on my Intel Mac, and I'm not even seeing any sort of cpu "spike". So either they fixed it in v2.0 or the Intel version of OS X doesn't suffer from this carbon related issue.
Just to note on the 5.1, a number of Gamecube games have 5.1 audio. Wind Waker, Metal Gear Solid, and the two Metriod Prime games all take advantage of it (some better than others). Metal Gear Solid is especially nice with a 5.1 system.
I take my class notes in LaTeX using vim. I stick to paper and pencil for math (can't remember LaTeX math bindings fast enough), and other drawing type classes.
Makes for readable notes when I have to go back to them.
Used them for physics here at BYU. Depending if you got the newer rooms or not you're either out $45 ($10 return possible, picture two from TFA) or $15 ($0 back).
The receivers could only handle one input at a time, so you'd either sit in the back, or aim for one that is hard to hit. Maybe the new wifi ones are better, but I doubt my school will switch any time soon. At least we had fun seeing who could get their max 5 attempts sent first.
While it's normal battery life is only about 2 hours, with the extended you've got roughly 7 hours (give or take). Now you did complain about extra battery packs, but since this puts the mm20 up to a total of 4 pounds, it's not that big of a deal. Also, the mm20 works well in linux. Of course if you want a CD/DVD drive you'll have to find an outlet anyways...
I too use firefox to load up six different pages. Just scroll through to visit all my standard pages every morning: Pooch CafeGet FuzzySluggy FreelanceMegatokyoUser FriendlySlashdotBYU
Then I usually go to cnn, nytimes, bbc, and deseret morning news for the second set of tabs. I love firefox
It helps to leave the CS/Engineering areas of campus once in a while. I doubt that those business majors, fine arts, or Communication majors are counted in your determination. To second the former statement (since I go to this said uni) I do see a ton of Apple laptops on campus. The school's bookstore pushes them very heavily (more apple merchendise than pc), and they look cool. We've got two powerbooks in the local users group here, and just walking through the student center you're bound to see as many apples as dells/whatevers. So while at your uni it might be the case, don't assume that this is the case everywhere, and that no one wants apples. Most people I know who aren't geeks think the powerbooks and ibooks are cool, except maybe the pricetag. And that's my rant.
Depends on how broadly they define 'arctic'.
Fox island is in the South Central region of the state, near Seward. Now if they go during winter it could be close to arctic, but the area in general (ignoring microclimes, etc) will probably range in the 10s most of winter, and if I remember boating out there correctly, 55-70 in the summer.
Not too cold (well, I think so, but then again I'm from the area) and lacking in the proper 'arctic' motif. Too many of those darn spruce trees.
On the note of permafrost, the pipeline (when it is above ground anyways) has heat pipes attached to it, that, for lack of a better word, suck the heat out of the ground, keeping the permafrost nice a frozen. Check out Alyeska Pipeline's page on pipeline facts for details.
On another note, while the pipeline might not be the engineering marvel some would expect, consider it's roughly 800 miles long, above ground, below ground, below ground and refigerated, and built back in the 70's. This thing puts up with a lot. And you can't quite tell from most pictures, but the thing is huge. Most sections that are above ground are designed to let animals pass right under without noticing it.
Of course the big benift of the pipeline has to be the money involved. It brought a whole bunch of people up to Alaska to work on the pipeline and still (if I remember correctly) oil is the number one source of income. Most of my friends growing up either worked for the state, or the oil companies. (or contracted for both) Makes for a very interesting time when oil prices drop and the oil companies start letting people go. Not the funnest times around.
But that's my rant, I've been out of the state for the better part of four years anyhow.
Personally I like the Cross Ion. It's small, easy to carry, quick to use. As long as you don't mind gel ink, it's great. I've used mine for almost a year straight, and loved it. It's also fun to flip open like a switchblade...
Makes for a good pocket pen, and it really confuses your friends when you hand it to them unopened.
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I used a Sharp mm20 sub-notebook for a few years in college, and it worked really well. 1 GHz transmeta, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD, built-in wireless and ethernet, two usb ports, 10" screen. The extended life battery gave about 7 hours of life when I stopped using it. Ran Linux great.
Great laptop till the hard drive died, after a solid 3 years of use. Then I never got around to putting in a new 1.5" HD since I really didn't need it after I graduated.
Oggify was designed to handle flac to mp3 or ogg conversion in bulk, while preserving the tags. I've been happy with it (not that I'm biased or anything), and so have a number of other people. It's open source, free, and in Perl.
You should try it.
Which is apparently due to the Carbon interface Firefox uses, as the comments on that link say. I just played around a bit on v2.0 on my Intel Mac, and I'm not even seeing any sort of cpu "spike". So either they fixed it in v2.0 or the Intel version of OS X doesn't suffer from this carbon related issue.
Just to note on the 5.1, a number of Gamecube games have 5.1 audio. Wind Waker, Metal Gear Solid, and the two Metriod Prime games all take advantage of it (some better than others). Metal Gear Solid is especially nice with a 5.1 system.
I take my class notes in LaTeX using vim. I stick to paper and pencil for math (can't remember LaTeX math bindings fast enough), and other drawing type classes.
Makes for readable notes when I have to go back to them.
Used them for physics here at BYU. Depending if you got the newer rooms or not you're either out $45 ($10 return possible, picture two from TFA) or $15 ($0 back).
The receivers could only handle one input at a time, so you'd either sit in the back, or aim for one that is hard to hit. Maybe the new wifi ones are better, but I doubt my school will switch any time soon. At least we had fun seeing who could get their max 5 attempts sent first.
While it's normal battery life is only about 2 hours, with the extended you've got roughly 7 hours (give or take). Now you did complain about extra battery packs, but since this puts the mm20 up to a total of 4 pounds, it's not that big of a deal. Also, the mm20 works well in linux. Of course if you want a CD/DVD drive you'll have to find an outlet anyways...
I too use firefox to load up six different pages. Just scroll through to visit all my standard pages every morning:
Pooch Cafe Get Fuzzy Sluggy Freelance Megatokyo User Friendly Slashdot BYU
Then I usually go to cnn, nytimes, bbc, and deseret morning news for the second set of tabs. I love firefox
It helps to leave the CS/Engineering areas of campus once in a while.
I doubt that those business majors, fine arts, or Communication majors are counted in your determination. To second the former statement (since I go to this said uni) I do see a ton of Apple laptops on campus. The school's bookstore pushes them very heavily (more apple merchendise than pc), and they look cool. We've got two powerbooks in the local users group here, and just walking through the student center you're bound to see as many apples as dells/whatevers. So while at your uni it might be the case, don't assume that this is the case everywhere, and that no one wants apples. Most people I know who aren't geeks think the powerbooks and ibooks are cool, except maybe the pricetag. And that's my rant.
Depends on how broadly they define 'arctic'.
Fox island is in the South Central region of the state, near Seward. Now if they go during winter it could be close to arctic, but the area in general (ignoring microclimes, etc) will probably range in the 10s most of winter, and if I remember boating out there correctly, 55-70 in the summer.
Not too cold (well, I think so, but then again I'm from the area) and lacking in the proper 'arctic' motif. Too many of those darn spruce trees.
On the note of permafrost, the pipeline (when it is above ground anyways) has heat pipes attached to it, that, for lack of a better word, suck the heat out of the ground, keeping the permafrost nice a frozen. Check out Alyeska Pipeline's page on pipeline facts for details.
On another note, while the pipeline might not be the engineering marvel some would expect, consider it's roughly 800 miles long, above ground, below ground, below ground and refigerated, and built back in the 70's. This thing puts up with a lot. And you can't quite tell from most pictures, but the thing is huge. Most sections that are above ground are designed to let animals pass right under without noticing it.
Of course the big benift of the pipeline has to be the money involved. It brought a whole bunch of people up to Alaska to work on the pipeline and still (if I remember correctly) oil is the number one source of income. Most of my friends growing up either worked for the state, or the oil companies. (or contracted for both) Makes for a very interesting time when oil prices drop and the oil companies start letting people go. Not the funnest times around.
But that's my rant, I've been out of the state for the better part of four years anyhow.
Whoops. I shouldn't post things when I'm half awake. Sorry about that. 24-inches. still dang cool though.
Personally I like the Cross Ion. It's small, easy to carry, quick to use. As long as you don't mind gel ink, it's great. I've used mine for almost a year straight, and loved it. It's also fun to flip open like a switchblade...
Makes for a good pocket pen, and it really confuses your friends when you hand it to them unopened.