How long until they release the version for linux? I haven't used Internet Explorer since I gave up on Windows several years ago. I keep reading stories about IE getting better than rival browsers, including Firefox. I'd like to install it and take it for a test drive to see for myself. It's still free, right?
I must agree that Unity is very nearly unusable. Not just because it's new and buggy, but because the entire concept is flawed. Cramming ALL the icons to the left of the screen is retarded when you claim you want to optimize for smaller/wide screen formats. The solution to the small screen is to fill the entire damn screen with program and utility icons. Palm did this way back in 1997, and iOS is doing the very same thing now, ditto Android. This is a good paradigm for a usable universal desktop, not trying to cram everything to the edges so you can look at your pretty wallpaper instead of being able to find the program/utility/app you want with a glance. Unity is fundamentally broken and needs to be scrapped or thoroughly reworked before pushing it out to end users.
I've done that. No weird glare from a backlit display. I second the recommendation for fresh bags. All these people whining "But I like to read in the bath, I can't do that with a ebook reader, waa! So that's why I stick with REAL books." Shut up. Get the e-gizmo you prefer, drop that sucker in a ziplock and get as splashy as you damn well please in the bath. We are geeks, are we not? It should not be so difficult to think of such a simple solution to such a trivial problem. Seriously.
I just finished my first novel on a Sony Clie TG50. IMO it's much better for writing than an iPad (which I also happen to have) because it is very much more portable with a longer battery, and has a hardware keyboard built in. Add-on keyboards for mobile devices universally suck for real work. I've tried too many and I've given up on them as being too clumsy. Haven't bothered getting a hardware keyboard for the iPad for this reason. I'd rather use my kid's netbook if I want to use an iPad-sized portable gizmo for typing. No, I probably wouldn't bother, the Clie is just too damned convenient. FYI TejpWriter is the best writing app I've ever used on a Palm. I shouldn't have to say that the coolest hardware is crap if the software is crap - this has been the problem with everything I've ever tried with any "mobile" version of Windows. It's always been pure crap which is why I won't even bother looking at WinPhone7. Even if it's miraculously not pure crap like every previous version I've handled, I've already wasted too much of my life with WinMo to look at it again. I've long since given up on MicroSoft, and I suspect the growing hordes of people doing the same has them grasping at every successful thing they see around them and trying to imitate it - badly. Unless they can stop imitating and start really innovating, they are doomed to becoming a third-rate company. (They're already second-rate as far as I'm concerned.)
That's why I make my own hammers. My favorite is the 1.00 lb tungsten-steel head hammer with stainless steel shaft wrapped in a nice rubber grip. It's small but the extra weight is great for good driving force in smaller spaces and precision work. But I actually use my stainless/brass mini-sledge more often (it's not much larger overall than the tungsten one but it's a lot heavier), it's great for really putting some hurt on a stubborn part. And no discussion of hammers would be complete without repeating the old saw that when your only tool is a hammer everything looks like the back of someone's head.
From the smartest human on the planet: How do porcupines mate?
You asked. But don't feel bad, you're not the first.
I don't see why people are afraid that Apple will fight the Pre iPod spoof. It just means that they have more people using iTunes, and likely buying stuff from them. These are people like me who have very little interest in iPods/iPhones but are eager to get their hands on a newer, better palm phone.
Flipside: These could be people who have iPods but want a Pre instead of an iPhone and don't want to give up all the stuff they already bought or collected into iTunes, or just don't want to learn a new way to sync the music. But even in this case, Apple can still anticipate continued iTunes revenue, so no reason to fight the Pre.
I just hope that iTunes is not the only method for syncing music to the device, and that media syncing on the new WebOS is much, MUCH faster than it was on older devices. It was always better to just take out the SD card and move the files directly.
Would a big wooden eagle fool a optical over flight AI?
No, I don't think that would fool anyone at all. But a vulture gliding in lazy circles would be an ideal UAV spy. Real vultures can glide for quite a while without ever flapping their wings. Given the proper circling flight pattern and good glide control, it might be damn hard to tell the difference between a vulture overhead or a spying UAV disguised as one. Now I'm starting to wonder why I've been seeing so many vultures lately.
No. I don't hate Windows. I just hate Vista. I tolerate Win98, but it's pretty snappy on the 4-year old box and still gets its job done reasonably well. Win2K and to a lesser extent WinXP are much superior versions than anything that came before. Vista is just crap, and Win7 looks like it will outdo Vista primarily by removing a lot of Vista's suck, and will probably finally feel like a real upgrade from Win2K and WinXP. Doesn't matter, in testdriving Ubuntu before loading it onto the box carrying that ancient Win98 install, I got to like it a lot more than any version of Windows I ever tried. Mind you, I don't give a crap about games, which seems to be a major complaint about any of the linux distros. For me, Ubuntu just works a shitload better than Vista possibly could, it's much easier to use, and has more polish on the desktop. As soon as WINE is improved enough to allow me to run Photoshop and iTunes (or those programs are ported to linux - I'm not holding my breath) I won't have to put up with Vista at all on this PC. Win7 will not only have to outperform Vista (which all reports indicate it will), but it will also have to outperform Ubuntu for me to start taking any interest in Windows again.
Of course, all this relates exclusively to my own experience and preferences. Others will have different, equally valid opinions. It all comes down to what you think will let you get the job done better for you by whatever measurements you choose to use. Having to tiptoe between different Windows/Mac/*nix/BSD/etc zealots is pretty damned annoying. None of them are the one OS to rule them all. All have strengths and weaknesses. Taking someone else's opinions on these things personally and getting pissy about it is just retarded.
I quite agree. The BSOD jokes are old, tired, dead horses that have already been rendered into Elmers, yet people still feel the need to continue beating them.
Funny thing is, I got a BSOD on Vista just a few days ago. Surprised the shit out of me. First time ever since I got this laptop with Vista preinstalled in Dec '07. I gave it a moment of thought and figured it was probably due to me sending it into my Ubuntu partition on an update reboot instead of letting it go back into Windows as it expected. I let it reboot back into Vista, and it seems to work just fine. Let it run the updater again, and now I'm happy in my Ubuntu partition. Don't let these remarks make you think I'm a Vista fanboy or MS defender. I still hate Vista, and use Ubuntu for 99% of the work I need to do on a computer. I'm just saying, MS has done a reasonably good job of making its OS handle weird shit a lot more gracefully than it used to.
And to bring this post back toward topic, the reason I started with Ubuntu in the first place was to replace my ancient Win98 install. It still works quite well (currently sitting at about 2 months uptime - had to shut the power down for a thunderstorm), and only rarely gives me BSOD or similar problems (once this year, so the BSOD jokes aren't even terribly accurate for this case). Only, that OS is so old that none of the new hardware I want to use with that PC is recognized by Win98. (Shocker! Who knew 10+ year old OS wouldn't be able to recognize that shiny new MP3 player I bought last week?) Such a waste to just retire a PC that is still in good working order, so I installed Ubuntu on it (dual-boot, natch) after I test drove it for a while on my laptop. Ubuntu runs a hell of a lot better than Win98 or XP ever did on that box, and even my wife thinks so, but she's not ready to upgrade her user experience to this century.
Now it would be very interesting to see a netbook capable of Win7 version come out that might work on that old box. Then I might be interested in actually purchasing a copy of Windows for the very first time in my life so that she would be able to do whatever on that computer in Windows, which she prefers, rather than Ubuntu, which I prefer. Somehow I doubt it, and eventually I'll have to clonify that ancient Win98 install on a new HDD (again) to keep her happy. It's too bad that change, even for the better, is so terrifying to some people.
Hmm... yet another late-night rambly post that someone might take offense to and mod Troll for no good reason. Oh well, one more beer and it's off to bed for me. Cheers.
But meat is meat. Just about any animal that lives near humans and isn't toxic has been eaten at some point, and often comes to be a regular item on the menu.
I thought about that Twilight Zone episode where the twist was that "To Serve Man" was actually a cookbook. I figured this was totally backward after watching a lot of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods show. There seems to be almost no living thing (an isn't deadly toxic) that humans won't eat. I think it's actually the aliens out there that would have to worry about us eating them, we've already tried everything edible on this planet.
As I already explained in my journal:
16. The Tungusta blast of 1908 happened when a Russian dared Chuck Norris to light one of his farts.
No further research is required on this subject.
I love my NX70V. But the kids these days keep asking me, "What kind of phone is that? It's huge!" (Photo Here) I respond with something along the lines of "You take your little iPod and GET OFF MY LAWN!" Except using more polite words. Loved my treos, but they had a bad habit of dropping dead with no hope of revival (Damn you Sprint and your epoxied-on battery leads!). My good old Zire remains a good backup. But that NX70V is a real monster, way bigger than any other palm I've ever tried other than the Dana (nice full-size keyboard, but not pocket portable at all), so I've been looking at the UX40 and UX50, for something in a smaller form factor with much more memory on board. Sony got it right with these devices, except for the damnable memory sticks. Palm needs SD cards, mkay? Anyway... Well, yeah... I've got a sad, sad graveyard of old palms that have kicked the bucket. My next stop is the universal life church website to get ordained as a Priest of the Cult of Palm.
Wow, that's neat. Googling for multiple workspaces or desktops in windows only finds me softwares that I can add to windows to give it multiple workspaces, but no info telling me how to just enable it. Looks to me like you're speaking directly out of your ass unless you can point me to some info about how to enable/use these built-in multiple workspaces you're talking about. Put up or shut up.
That's funny. On my PC, the Windows key is extremely useful, and it was a snap to configure it to do exactly what I wanted. Ctrl + Windows key flips to the workspace left of the current one. Add Shift to that combo and the current window moves to the appropriate workspace with the flip. Alt + Windows key flips to the workspace right of the current one and Windows key + # switches directly to the numbered workspace. Terribly handy when manipulating a photo in a maximized window while my pallets are on the next workspace, or switching between many completely unrelated simultaneous tasks.
What? Windows still doesn't have multiple workspaces? If that was on the list of new features in Win7, I'd think about considering using Windows again. Too bad.
But I'm just a regular Joe Sixpack type user with zero leet skillz, so what the heck do I know?
You are correct, MS does not make any phones at all, however, they do make an OS that will turn any otherwise decent phone into pure crap. Notice that I was focusing on the software side of things rather than the hardware, other than my initial point that Palm hardware hasn't been the best compared with other manufacturers.
Addendum: Notice I didn't mention any of MicroSoft's offerings, because they're pure crap, without exception, and others were left out because I never had opportunity to use them. I know that some Treo models were made with WinCE or whatever, and they sucked more donkey cock than a Tijuana hooker. These would be the exception to my Treo vs. BlackBerry preference.
I'm not surprised at all to see the Treo come in behind the BlackBerry and iPhone. As dearly as I loved my Treos, I went through four of them in a two year span. First was a dead screen, second was a defective screen, next one was dropped in a bucket of water (can't blame that one on the manufacturer), and the last one had a fatal battery/power problem. Even so, I'd prefer any treo from the 600 up over any BlackBerry on the market, but the iPhone gives it serious competition except for openness and wide availability of free/open applications available for the palm platform. I'll seriously consider Android based phones on that basis alone. I expect to see a metric crapton of apps show up for Android in a year or so, without having to worry about Apple deciding I shouldn't have certain apps. Stupid Palm could have so owned this market if they had bothered to develop their OS to keep up with current technology. I'll just keep using my obsolete Palms until they, too, die, but I'm not looking at anything new from the company. Looks like Android and iPhone are my upgrade options when the time comes for me to choose a new smartphone.
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How long until they release the version for linux? I haven't used Internet Explorer since I gave up on Windows several years ago. I keep reading stories about IE getting better than rival browsers, including Firefox. I'd like to install it and take it for a test drive to see for myself. It's still free, right?
I must agree that Unity is very nearly unusable. Not just because it's new and buggy, but because the entire concept is flawed. Cramming ALL the icons to the left of the screen is retarded when you claim you want to optimize for smaller/wide screen formats. The solution to the small screen is to fill the entire damn screen with program and utility icons. Palm did this way back in 1997, and iOS is doing the very same thing now, ditto Android. This is a good paradigm for a usable universal desktop, not trying to cram everything to the edges so you can look at your pretty wallpaper instead of being able to find the program/utility/app you want with a glance. Unity is fundamentally broken and needs to be scrapped or thoroughly reworked before pushing it out to end users.
I've done that. No weird glare from a backlit display. I second the recommendation for fresh bags. All these people whining "But I like to read in the bath, I can't do that with a ebook reader, waa! So that's why I stick with REAL books." Shut up. Get the e-gizmo you prefer, drop that sucker in a ziplock and get as splashy as you damn well please in the bath. We are geeks, are we not? It should not be so difficult to think of such a simple solution to such a trivial problem. Seriously.
I just finished my first novel on a Sony Clie TG50. IMO it's much better for writing than an iPad (which I also happen to have) because it is very much more portable with a longer battery, and has a hardware keyboard built in. Add-on keyboards for mobile devices universally suck for real work. I've tried too many and I've given up on them as being too clumsy. Haven't bothered getting a hardware keyboard for the iPad for this reason. I'd rather use my kid's netbook if I want to use an iPad-sized portable gizmo for typing. No, I probably wouldn't bother, the Clie is just too damned convenient. FYI TejpWriter is the best writing app I've ever used on a Palm. I shouldn't have to say that the coolest hardware is crap if the software is crap - this has been the problem with everything I've ever tried with any "mobile" version of Windows. It's always been pure crap which is why I won't even bother looking at WinPhone7. Even if it's miraculously not pure crap like every previous version I've handled, I've already wasted too much of my life with WinMo to look at it again. I've long since given up on MicroSoft, and I suspect the growing hordes of people doing the same has them grasping at every successful thing they see around them and trying to imitate it - badly. Unless they can stop imitating and start really innovating, they are doomed to becoming a third-rate company. (They're already second-rate as far as I'm concerned.)
How long before Amazon tries to ban this?
An hour or two? You must be kidding. TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life!
Feh. I don't care. I'll just stick with my REcursive writing. It's more useful for geeks like me anyway.
That's why I make my own hammers. My favorite is the 1.00 lb tungsten-steel head hammer with stainless steel shaft wrapped in a nice rubber grip. It's small but the extra weight is great for good driving force in smaller spaces and precision work. But I actually use my stainless/brass mini-sledge more often (it's not much larger overall than the tungsten one but it's a lot heavier), it's great for really putting some hurt on a stubborn part. And no discussion of hammers would be complete without repeating the old saw that when your only tool is a hammer everything looks like the back of someone's head.
That's funny, the only Disney movies on my shelf were made by Studio Ghibli.
From the smartest human on the planet:
How do porcupines mate?
You asked. But don't feel bad, you're not the first.
I don't see why people are afraid that Apple will fight the Pre iPod spoof. It just means that they have more people using iTunes, and likely buying stuff from them. These are people like me who have very little interest in iPods/iPhones but are eager to get their hands on a newer, better palm phone.
Flipside: These could be people who have iPods but want a Pre instead of an iPhone and don't want to give up all the stuff they already bought or collected into iTunes, or just don't want to learn a new way to sync the music. But even in this case, Apple can still anticipate continued iTunes revenue, so no reason to fight the Pre.
I just hope that iTunes is not the only method for syncing music to the device, and that media syncing on the new WebOS is much, MUCH faster than it was on older devices. It was always better to just take out the SD card and move the files directly.
Would a big wooden eagle fool a optical over flight AI?
No, I don't think that would fool anyone at all. But a vulture gliding in lazy circles would be an ideal UAV spy. Real vultures can glide for quite a while without ever flapping their wings. Given the proper circling flight pattern and good glide control, it might be damn hard to tell the difference between a vulture overhead or a spying UAV disguised as one. Now I'm starting to wonder why I've been seeing so many vultures lately.
No. I don't hate Windows. I just hate Vista. I tolerate Win98, but it's pretty snappy on the 4-year old box and still gets its job done reasonably well. Win2K and to a lesser extent WinXP are much superior versions than anything that came before. Vista is just crap, and Win7 looks like it will outdo Vista primarily by removing a lot of Vista's suck, and will probably finally feel like a real upgrade from Win2K and WinXP. Doesn't matter, in testdriving Ubuntu before loading it onto the box carrying that ancient Win98 install, I got to like it a lot more than any version of Windows I ever tried. Mind you, I don't give a crap about games, which seems to be a major complaint about any of the linux distros. For me, Ubuntu just works a shitload better than Vista possibly could, it's much easier to use, and has more polish on the desktop. As soon as WINE is improved enough to allow me to run Photoshop and iTunes (or those programs are ported to linux - I'm not holding my breath) I won't have to put up with Vista at all on this PC. Win7 will not only have to outperform Vista (which all reports indicate it will), but it will also have to outperform Ubuntu for me to start taking any interest in Windows again.
Of course, all this relates exclusively to my own experience and preferences. Others will have different, equally valid opinions. It all comes down to what you think will let you get the job done better for you by whatever measurements you choose to use. Having to tiptoe between different Windows/Mac/*nix/BSD/etc zealots is pretty damned annoying. None of them are the one OS to rule them all. All have strengths and weaknesses. Taking someone else's opinions on these things personally and getting pissy about it is just retarded.
Oh come off it. Those jokes are getting old.
I quite agree. The BSOD jokes are old, tired, dead horses that have already been rendered into Elmers, yet people still feel the need to continue beating them.
Funny thing is, I got a BSOD on Vista just a few days ago. Surprised the shit out of me. First time ever since I got this laptop with Vista preinstalled in Dec '07. I gave it a moment of thought and figured it was probably due to me sending it into my Ubuntu partition on an update reboot instead of letting it go back into Windows as it expected. I let it reboot back into Vista, and it seems to work just fine. Let it run the updater again, and now I'm happy in my Ubuntu partition. Don't let these remarks make you think I'm a Vista fanboy or MS defender. I still hate Vista, and use Ubuntu for 99% of the work I need to do on a computer. I'm just saying, MS has done a reasonably good job of making its OS handle weird shit a lot more gracefully than it used to.
And to bring this post back toward topic, the reason I started with Ubuntu in the first place was to replace my ancient Win98 install. It still works quite well (currently sitting at about 2 months uptime - had to shut the power down for a thunderstorm), and only rarely gives me BSOD or similar problems (once this year, so the BSOD jokes aren't even terribly accurate for this case). Only, that OS is so old that none of the new hardware I want to use with that PC is recognized by Win98. (Shocker! Who knew 10+ year old OS wouldn't be able to recognize that shiny new MP3 player I bought last week?) Such a waste to just retire a PC that is still in good working order, so I installed Ubuntu on it (dual-boot, natch) after I test drove it for a while on my laptop. Ubuntu runs a hell of a lot better than Win98 or XP ever did on that box, and even my wife thinks so, but she's not ready to upgrade her user experience to this century.
Now it would be very interesting to see a netbook capable of Win7 version come out that might work on that old box. Then I might be interested in actually purchasing a copy of Windows for the very first time in my life so that she would be able to do whatever on that computer in Windows, which she prefers, rather than Ubuntu, which I prefer. Somehow I doubt it, and eventually I'll have to clonify that ancient Win98 install on a new HDD (again) to keep her happy. It's too bad that change, even for the better, is so terrifying to some people.
Hmm... yet another late-night rambly post that someone might take offense to and mod Troll for no good reason. Oh well, one more beer and it's off to bed for me. Cheers.
But meat is meat. Just about any animal that lives near humans and isn't toxic has been eaten at some point, and often comes to be a regular item on the menu.
I thought about that Twilight Zone episode where the twist was that "To Serve Man" was actually a cookbook. I figured this was totally backward after watching a lot of Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods show. There seems to be almost no living thing (an isn't deadly toxic) that humans won't eat. I think it's actually the aliens out there that would have to worry about us eating them, we've already tried everything edible on this planet.
As I already explained in my journal: 16. The Tungusta blast of 1908 happened when a Russian dared Chuck Norris to light one of his farts. No further research is required on this subject.
I love my NX70V. But the kids these days keep asking me, "What kind of phone is that? It's huge!" (Photo Here) I respond with something along the lines of "You take your little iPod and GET OFF MY LAWN!" Except using more polite words. Loved my treos, but they had a bad habit of dropping dead with no hope of revival (Damn you Sprint and your epoxied-on battery leads!). My good old Zire remains a good backup. But that NX70V is a real monster, way bigger than any other palm I've ever tried other than the Dana (nice full-size keyboard, but not pocket portable at all), so I've been looking at the UX40 and UX50, for something in a smaller form factor with much more memory on board. Sony got it right with these devices, except for the damnable memory sticks. Palm needs SD cards, mkay? Anyway... Well, yeah... I've got a sad, sad graveyard of old palms that have kicked the bucket. My next stop is the universal life church website to get ordained as a Priest of the Cult of Palm.
Wow, that's neat. Googling for multiple workspaces or desktops in windows only finds me softwares that I can add to windows to give it multiple workspaces, but no info telling me how to just enable it. Looks to me like you're speaking directly out of your ass unless you can point me to some info about how to enable/use these built-in multiple workspaces you're talking about. Put up or shut up.
That's funny. On my PC, the Windows key is extremely useful, and it was a snap to configure it to do exactly what I wanted. Ctrl + Windows key flips to the workspace left of the current one. Add Shift to that combo and the current window moves to the appropriate workspace with the flip. Alt + Windows key flips to the workspace right of the current one and Windows key + # switches directly to the numbered workspace. Terribly handy when manipulating a photo in a maximized window while my pallets are on the next workspace, or switching between many completely unrelated simultaneous tasks.
What? Windows still doesn't have multiple workspaces? If that was on the list of new features in Win7, I'd think about considering using Windows again. Too bad.
But I'm just a regular Joe Sixpack type user with zero leet skillz, so what the heck do I know?
You are correct, MS does not make any phones at all, however, they do make an OS that will turn any otherwise decent phone into pure crap. Notice that I was focusing on the software side of things rather than the hardware, other than my initial point that Palm hardware hasn't been the best compared with other manufacturers.
Addendum: Notice I didn't mention any of MicroSoft's offerings, because they're pure crap, without exception, and others were left out because I never had opportunity to use them. I know that some Treo models were made with WinCE or whatever, and they sucked more donkey cock than a Tijuana hooker. These would be the exception to my Treo vs. BlackBerry preference.
I'm not surprised at all to see the Treo come in behind the BlackBerry and iPhone. As dearly as I loved my Treos, I went through four of them in a two year span. First was a dead screen, second was a defective screen, next one was dropped in a bucket of water (can't blame that one on the manufacturer), and the last one had a fatal battery/power problem. Even so, I'd prefer any treo from the 600 up over any BlackBerry on the market, but the iPhone gives it serious competition except for openness and wide availability of free/open applications available for the palm platform. I'll seriously consider Android based phones on that basis alone. I expect to see a metric crapton of apps show up for Android in a year or so, without having to worry about Apple deciding I shouldn't have certain apps. Stupid Palm could have so owned this market if they had bothered to develop their OS to keep up with current technology. I'll just keep using my obsolete Palms until they, too, die, but I'm not looking at anything new from the company. Looks like Android and iPhone are my upgrade options when the time comes for me to choose a new smartphone.
FSM? Get off my lawn. Damn internet youngsters. I'll stick with my IPU, thankyouverymuch.
I asked a mathematician how to solve constipation and he said, "Work it out with a pencil."
So I did.
I'm just glad I didn't ask an engineer or I'd have had to use a slide rule.
I googled my name and found out I'M DEAD! And I thought I just needed a shower.
What TV show has Celts wearing Red Socks? oh. Spr0ts. Nevermind. I guess I still have no reason to watch TV