I once had a bottle of linseed oil spill all over a psion series 5mx. The oil slowly dried over the course of three days until the keyboard was almost solid, at which point I removed the batteries and poured turpentine (rectified, the good stuff) all over it. Now the rubber under the keys started expanding and the keys started popping off. At which point I left the thing for dead and went out of town, leaving it on my desk.
When I got back 5 days later the rubber had shrunk again, I popped the keys back on, put the batteries back in and the thing worked fine. The only thing that stopped working was the audio recording (which I never used anyways).
Man, was I sorry when Psion stopped making pdas, though I'll shell out for a Symbian mobile phone one of these days.
The Nokia 6230. You can put up to a gig mmc card into it (it comes with 32mb, I use a 512mb) and you have a nice little mp3 player. The Nokia headphones are terrible but you can mod them and use your own. I use a pair of Sony e888s and the sound is fantastic. Plus when you get a phone call you can patch it trough to the headphones and use the mic on the wire, the little button will switch to the next song otherwise. Plus you can use mp3s both as ringtones and as your alarm clock.
A farmer has about 200 hens, but no rooster and he wants chicks.So, he goes down the road to the next farmer and asks if he has a rooster.The other farmer says, "Yeah, I've got this great rooster, named Randy; "he'll service every chicken you've got. No problem."
Well, Randy the rooster is a lot of money, but the farmer decides he'd be worth it. So , he buys Randy.
The farmer takes Randy home and sets him down in the barnyard, giving the rooster a pep talk,
"Randy, I want you to pace yourself now. You've got a lot of chickens to service here and you cost me a lot of money and I'll need you to do a good job. So, take your time and have some fun," the farmer said with a chuckle.
Randy seemed to understand, so the farmer points towards the hen house and Randy took off like a shot - WHAM!
He nails every hen on there THREE or FOUR times and the farmer is just shocked.
Randy runs out of the hen house and sees a flock of geese down by the lake - WHAM! He gets all the geese.
Randy's up in the pigpen. He's in with the cows. Randy is jumping on every animal the farmer owns. The farmer is distraught, worried that his expensive rooster won't even last the day.
Sure enough, the farmer goes to bed and wakes up the next day to find Randy dead as a dodo in the middle of the yard.
Buzzards are circling overhead. The farmer, saddened by the loss of such a colorful animal, shakes his head and says, "Oh, Randy, I told you to pace yourself. I tried to get you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself."
Randy opens one eye, and looks towards the buzzards flying overhead and says, "Shhh. They're getting closer...."
uh, Gorbachev's policies are seen by most of the world as having ended the cold war. the idea that it was all thanks to Reagan and star wars is something the Republicans came up with and only an American would believe.
I just got a nokia 6230, with a 512 mmc card off ebay (you can get a gig from mobymemory) and it is a great mp3 player, cell phone, and digital camera in one little box. You have to solder new headphones to get decent sound, but otherwise the quality is fine, and if you get a phone call, you push the button on the wire and it patches the call through.
I've always like the all-in-one gadget idea, and right now the cell phones are the only ones headed in that direction.
Why would you read the Games section of Slashdot and comment negatively on the idea of games on your cellphone to begin with?
I love the gadgets. I needed a low-res digital camera for work, now i have one in my phone. I just rewired my nokia to give it better sound, and now i have an mp3 player in my phone. Very handy. I play checkers on it from time to time when I'm waiting for something, why not 3d games?
My girlfriend loves deerhunter (2004?). And she always wants me to play just so she can thrash me. We used to play whoever lost washed the dishes, but I got fed up of always having to wash up.
I agree though that there are times when gaiming can be a disasterous way to escape from other problems, it can be tempting to retreat into a little world where the rules are easy to figure out, and there is no risk involved.
Didn't one of the satellite t.v. companies cut off service to pirates (I still picture them with the eye-patch) stealing their signal just before or during the superbowl?
In this case, I don't think it would be in Microsoft's interest. Either to have the unprotected computers out there (the reason they give) or to waste a ton of time and energy (and money) blocking pirated versions, when they know there will be a new crack out in 3 days that does the the update.
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When I posted it there were no other posts. Didn't realize how quick they fill up. No need to get offended.
I for one welcome...
Which terrorist cells? every time they claim to have found one it turns out to be nothing.
If you're into gadgets its a good site. Plus he is quite funny from time to time.
They wanted to show it to Stalin.
Are you implying that the Enola Gay and the WTC attacks are morally equivalent?
If you define terrorism as killing civilians to achieve a political or military end, then yes, you would.
"Only fools learn from their mistakes. I would much rather learn from the mistakes of others."
- Otto von Bismarck
A favorite quote I use for my students who say 'but I want to learn how to do it wrong first'.
Where would you suggest we kick the criminals to?
sell two, why does anyone need three mansions?
I once had a bottle of linseed oil spill all over a psion series 5mx. The oil slowly dried over the course of three days until the keyboard was almost solid, at which point I removed the batteries and poured turpentine (rectified, the good stuff) all over it. Now the rubber under the keys started expanding and the keys started popping off. At which point I left the thing for dead and went out of town, leaving it on my desk.
When I got back 5 days later the rubber had shrunk again, I popped the keys back on, put the batteries back in and the thing worked fine. The only thing that stopped working was the audio recording (which I never used anyways).
Man, was I sorry when Psion stopped making pdas, though I'll shell out for a Symbian mobile phone one of these days.
The Nokia 6230. You can put up to a gig mmc card into it (it comes with 32mb, I use a 512mb) and you have a nice little mp3 player. The Nokia headphones are terrible but you can mod them and use your own. I use a pair of Sony e888s and the sound is fantastic. Plus when you get a phone call you can patch it trough to the headphones and use the mic on the wire, the little button will switch to the next song otherwise. Plus you can use mp3s both as ringtones and as your alarm clock.
well said, even if they mod you down for it...
A farmer has about 200 hens, but no rooster and he wants chicks.So, he goes down the road to the next farmer and asks if he has a rooster.The other farmer says, "Yeah, I've got this great rooster, named Randy; "he'll service every chicken you've got. No problem." Well, Randy the rooster is a lot of money, but the farmer decides he'd be worth it. So , he buys Randy. The farmer takes Randy home and sets him down in the barnyard, giving the rooster a pep talk, "Randy, I want you to pace yourself now. You've got a lot of chickens to service here and you cost me a lot of money and I'll need you to do a good job. So, take your time and have some fun," the farmer said with a chuckle. Randy seemed to understand, so the farmer points towards the hen house and Randy took off like a shot - WHAM! He nails every hen on there THREE or FOUR times and the farmer is just shocked. Randy runs out of the hen house and sees a flock of geese down by the lake - WHAM! He gets all the geese. Randy's up in the pigpen. He's in with the cows. Randy is jumping on every animal the farmer owns. The farmer is distraught, worried that his expensive rooster won't even last the day. Sure enough, the farmer goes to bed and wakes up the next day to find Randy dead as a dodo in the middle of the yard. Buzzards are circling overhead. The farmer, saddened by the loss of such a colorful animal, shakes his head and says, "Oh, Randy, I told you to pace yourself. I tried to get you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself." Randy opens one eye, and looks towards the buzzards flying overhead and says, "Shhh. They're getting closer...."
uh, Gorbachev's policies are seen by most of the world as having ended the cold war. the idea that it was all thanks to Reagan and star wars is something the Republicans came up with and only an American would believe.
I just got a nokia 6230, with a 512 mmc card off ebay (you can get a gig from mobymemory) and it is a great mp3 player, cell phone, and digital camera in one little box. You have to solder new headphones to get decent sound, but otherwise the quality is fine, and if you get a phone call, you push the button on the wire and it patches the call through.
I've always like the all-in-one gadget idea, and right now the cell phones are the only ones headed in that direction.
or maybe you could move this new sony gizmo to gentoo, and then listen to ogg files on it.
Why would you read the Games section of Slashdot and comment negatively on the idea of games on your cellphone to begin with?
I love the gadgets. I needed a low-res digital camera for work, now i have one in my phone. I just rewired my nokia to give it better sound, and now i have an mp3 player in my phone. Very handy. I play checkers on it from time to time when I'm waiting for something, why not 3d games?
My girlfriend loves deerhunter (2004?). And she always wants me to play just so she can thrash me. We used to play whoever lost washed the dishes, but I got fed up of always having to wash up.
I agree though that there are times when gaiming can be a disasterous way to escape from other problems, it can be tempting to retreat into a little world where the rules are easy to figure out, and there is no risk involved.
...and the irony of calling it the 'Rebel'
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Go to the forums at mp3car.com. You'll find all the "nerd out your car info" you could ever want to know.
On another note, has anyone seen the Hoojum case for the nano-itx? I thought it was pretty cool.
yeah right, like there is a difference between these two. maybe for invading oil-rich countries but not on this issue.
Didn't one of the satellite t.v. companies cut off service to pirates (I still picture them with the eye-patch) stealing their signal just before or during the superbowl?
In this case, I don't think it would be in Microsoft's interest. Either to have the unprotected computers out there (the reason they give) or to waste a ton of time and energy (and money) blocking pirated versions, when they know there will be a new crack out in 3 days that does the the update.
My last xp install got infected within 20 seconds of being connected, I forgot to disable Windows Messenger.
Its on geek.com too, maybe it got geeked.