This is what I always hated about myspace. Facebook, on the other hand, has been a great tool to contact old friends that I would have probably forgotten about by now. And on top of that, I am in a facebook group for my place of employment where I have met coworkers in various other departments. While my experience with myspace has led me to think that it's nothing more than a virtual pissing contest, facebook has wound up being a very valuable social tool.
I had a kitchen fire start once when I was about 16. My loving mother turned the stove on as she walked out the door and told me not to forget about. Well, I don't know whether my selective hearing tuned her out or if I just forgot but it didn't take long before the house was full of smoke. I ran out to the kitchen and the large pot of oil (vegetable, canola, idk) was flaming about 4-5 feet high and hitting the ceiling. The first thing I did was turn off the stove and go for the fire extinguisher...empty...go figure. Next I grabbed a box of baking powder and threw it on the flames; it didn't help. Finally I just grabbed a couple of large hot-mits, opened the patio door, and carried it out onto the deck where I let it burn itself out. It did make quite a mess; the ceiling was black and the plastic dials on the stove were melted out of shape but at least I saved the kitchen/house.
Many smaller hosting services offer deals like $25/year (what I'm paying now at fuse9.net). Well, actually I was paying $25/year at a little startup and when fuse9 bought them out the rate stayed the same. I know hostmatix.com always had $50/year during christmas which is what I used to use.
So there are some extremely cheap deals out there that would work great so long as you don't need a 99.999999999% uptime guarantee or live customer service. And so far I've had better luck (customer service, uptime, etc) with smaller hosting companies than with the big guys.
He meant $1200/year which is $100/month. That's really not much to live on...even if you don't dine out at all. I'm a poor college student and last month I spent $89.20 eating out and $100.72 on groceries...and that doesn't even include beer.:)
You might be able to get away with $300/month rent living in a used trailer in a trailer park.
I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I would be more inclined to use ebooks if
1) I had a device that would allow me to sync up my books from linux, was fairly cheap and simple, and had a long battery life. 2) There was a good ebook distribution system where the books are cheap. 3) I could buy my school books online. It would be great to have textbooks for class that I wouldn't have to haul around. And maybe then it wouldn't cost $200 for some books.
There's probably other things that I'm missing. Honestly, even if all of the above came true, I would probably still buy book books. All this technology seems like overkill for something so simple as books.
Also notice any decree by the Pope (take abortion or capital punishment for instance) eventually trickles its way down into modern US christian belief and is sometimes used in christian arguments ("the pope says so"). So while the pope may not be a central authoritative figure to christians, he is most definitely an authoritative figure of sorts.
And don't forget the Crusades. They were wars started by the catholic pope -- carried out by christians -- to kill muslims in the name of god and eventually even kill followers of opposing christian ideas.
There is no doubt that christianity and catholicism have seperated and evolved to the point of basically being two separate (mostly non-violent) religions but the pope still has some influence over christian beliefs.
This would be great for educational purposes. Right now I am paying for access to a server where I store all of my homework etc so that I can access them on campus without having to burn the data to cd (I tossed out my floppy drive long ago).
Of course there are already free online storage services out there but I don't really trust any of them and am not a big fan of their user interfaces. If google were to put out a service like this I would more likely than not use it.
The only real problem I can foresee is uptime. If I have my homework on gdrive (or whatever it's called) and get to school where I want to print it off before class, I had damn well better be able to access it. I wouldn't be able to accept downtime like I do once in a while with services like gmail.
I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?
Because it is a major potential for abuse. I want to feel safe in my home and not have to worry that some douchebag somewhere has tapped into the video camera in my bathroom and uploaded shots of my hairless nutsack on myspace.
and companies like IBM and Microsoft looking to setup R&D labs in Asia
China is projected to produce 60,000 engineers this next year while the United States is set to only produce 7,000. It's no wonder Microsoft is bitching about the lack of engineers and moving camp to Asia.
And the kicker of it all: We are paying for these foreign degrees because of our extreme debt to China; to whom, the United States government pays about 5 times (approximately) more in interest (INTEREST) per year than it pays in total for education of its own citizens.
And now there is a bill being introduced to raise the debt limit once again (for I think the sixth time since GW has been in office) so that we can borrow more money from the Chinese and wind up having to pay them back even more interest next year.
I hate to think it but if the budget does not get balanced (which it hasn't been since Clinton in '93) and the United States sprials farther into debt it's only a matter of time before the dollar becomes absolutely worthless and we go into a huge depression.
NOTE: Some of this information may or may not be accurate. I picked it all up from watching C-Span.:)
Dang it, I need more PHP/DHTML experience or I'd do it myself.
And I need more TIME or I'd do it MYSELF.:)
As for calendaring...I've been working on a calendar app *NOTE: This link does not currently work in IE* and trying to make it somewhat gmailish. But as you can see it has a long long way to go...and I just don't have the time I need to work on it.:/
I could take a conventional oven, rig it to a computer, and build a web application to control it via textmsg-to-email-to-web-application-to-oven or from the internet itself.
A range is what? Less than $1000 and the computer you would need could probably be picked up at somebody's garage sale. Then just throw linux on it, turn it into a web server, and you're good to go.
It would be kind of cool though to have a message sent to your cell phone if you accidentally left the oven on and then could tell it to shut off. That is one thing that people are always thinking: Did I leave the oven on? Of course the downside would be that you'd always be thinking: I hope my "smart"-oven doesn't turn itself on and burn my house down.
I think we should outlaw party affiliations completely; kind of like how some countries outlaw religion. Fuck the bias that comes with political parties. We should make people have to WRITE IN the name of who they want to vote for (no names on the ballot) so that people actually have to know SOMETHING about a candidate in order to vote and all candidates get an EQUAL shake come election day.
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Look at maps.ask.com. It's almost a carbon copy of google maps. Draggable map, balloons with location information, etc.
This is what I always hated about myspace. Facebook, on the other hand, has been a great tool to contact old friends that I would have probably forgotten about by now. And on top of that, I am in a facebook group for my place of employment where I have met coworkers in various other departments. While my experience with myspace has led me to think that it's nothing more than a virtual pissing contest, facebook has wound up being a very valuable social tool.
I had a kitchen fire start once when I was about 16. My loving mother turned the stove on as she walked out the door and told me not to forget about. Well, I don't know whether my selective hearing tuned her out or if I just forgot but it didn't take long before the house was full of smoke. I ran out to the kitchen and the large pot of oil (vegetable, canola, idk) was flaming about 4-5 feet high and hitting the ceiling. The first thing I did was turn off the stove and go for the fire extinguisher...empty...go figure. Next I grabbed a box of baking powder and threw it on the flames; it didn't help. Finally I just grabbed a couple of large hot-mits, opened the patio door, and carried it out onto the deck where I let it burn itself out. It did make quite a mess; the ceiling was black and the plastic dials on the stove were melted out of shape but at least I saved the kitchen/house.
> what would he have done if a candle lit the drapes on fire during a power outage?
:)
The same thing people did before EVERYBODY had a telephone: run to the neighbors.
Many smaller hosting services offer deals like $25/year (what I'm paying now at fuse9.net). Well, actually I was paying $25/year at a little startup and when fuse9 bought them out the rate stayed the same. I know hostmatix.com always had $50/year during christmas which is what I used to use.
So there are some extremely cheap deals out there that would work great so long as you don't need a 99.999999999% uptime guarantee or live customer service. And so far I've had better luck (customer service, uptime, etc) with smaller hosting companies than with the big guys.
like jimbo1205 for your december 05 password
:)
Holy shit, that's my work password...but it's jimbo306 now. Remind me to change it first thing in the morning.
He meant $1200/year which is $100/month. That's really not much to live on...even if you don't dine out at all. I'm a poor college student and last month I spent $89.20 eating out and $100.72 on groceries...and that doesn't even include beer. :)
You might be able to get away with $300/month rent living in a used trailer in a trailer park.
Ummm...UPS already has a wearable barcode reader like that in their warehouses. In the furniture warehouse I work in, we have handhelds.
Does anyone even use an online calendar? Why not use the one on your [cell] phone, PDA, laptop?
Because I have none of the above.
And I wouldn't mind having my calendar application coexist with my email.
your movie is as useful as a CD snapped in half.
You mean I can "cut bitches" with it?
Shit. For that amount of money I will just buy a time machine on ebay and bring back $50 petabyte hard drives from the future.
I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I would be more inclined to use ebooks if
1) I had a device that would allow me to sync up my books from linux, was fairly cheap and simple, and had a long battery life.
2) There was a good ebook distribution system where the books are cheap.
3) I could buy my school books online. It would be great to have textbooks for class that I wouldn't have to haul around. And maybe then it wouldn't cost $200 for some books.
There's probably other things that I'm missing. Honestly, even if all of the above came true, I would probably still buy book books. All this technology seems like overkill for something so simple as books.
Also notice any decree by the Pope (take abortion or capital punishment for instance) eventually trickles its way down into modern US christian belief and is sometimes used in christian arguments ("the pope says so"). So while the pope may not be a central authoritative figure to christians, he is most definitely an authoritative figure of sorts.
And don't forget the Crusades. They were wars started by the catholic pope -- carried out by christians -- to kill muslims in the name of god and eventually even kill followers of opposing christian ideas.
There is no doubt that christianity and catholicism have seperated and evolved to the point of basically being two separate (mostly non-violent) religions but the pope still has some influence over christian beliefs.
Oh ya. Tiddlywinks is the game where you snap round plastic coins into a small pan that has different sections labeled with different point values.
But usually I'd just get pissed off and wind up throwing things at the opposing player. You see, games were violent back when I was young too.
This would be great for educational purposes. Right now I am paying for access to a server where I store all of my homework etc so that I can access them on campus without having to burn the data to cd (I tossed out my floppy drive long ago).
Of course there are already free online storage services out there but I don't really trust any of them and am not a big fan of their user interfaces. If google were to put out a service like this I would more likely than not use it.
The only real problem I can foresee is uptime. If I have my homework on gdrive (or whatever it's called) and get to school where I want to print it off before class, I had damn well better be able to access it. I wouldn't be able to accept downtime like I do once in a while with services like gmail.
Ooooh, send me a little furry with the gay gene and dress him up in leather. I'll call him tiddliwinks.
Christianity hasn't got a central authority
Isn't he called the Pope?
"Pop Stars"...not Porn Stars!
So can I assume that with DRM protection I won't be able to view it on linux?
I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?
Because it is a major potential for abuse. I want to feel safe in my home and not have to worry that some douchebag somewhere has tapped into the video camera in my bathroom and uploaded shots of my hairless nutsack on myspace.
and companies like IBM and Microsoft looking to setup R&D labs in Asia
:)
China is projected to produce 60,000 engineers this next year while the United States is set to only produce 7,000. It's no wonder Microsoft is bitching about the lack of engineers and moving camp to Asia.
And the kicker of it all: We are paying for these foreign degrees because of our extreme debt to China; to whom, the United States government pays about 5 times (approximately) more in interest (INTEREST) per year than it pays in total for education of its own citizens.
And now there is a bill being introduced to raise the debt limit once again (for I think the sixth time since GW has been in office) so that we can borrow more money from the Chinese and wind up having to pay them back even more interest next year.
I hate to think it but if the budget does not get balanced (which it hasn't been since Clinton in '93) and the United States sprials farther into debt it's only a matter of time before the dollar becomes absolutely worthless and we go into a huge depression.
NOTE: Some of this information may or may not be accurate. I picked it all up from watching C-Span.
Dang it, I need more PHP/DHTML experience or I'd do it myself.
:)
:/
And I need more TIME or I'd do it MYSELF.
As for calendaring...I've been working on a calendar app *NOTE: This link does not currently work in IE* and trying to make it somewhat gmailish. But as you can see it has a long long way to go...and I just don't have the time I need to work on it.
$8,699????
I could take a conventional oven, rig it to a computer, and build a web application to control it via textmsg-to-email-to-web-application-to-oven or from the internet itself.
A range is what? Less than $1000 and the computer you would need could probably be picked up at somebody's garage sale. Then just throw linux on it, turn it into a web server, and you're good to go.
It would be kind of cool though to have a message sent to your cell phone if you accidentally left the oven on and then could tell it to shut off. That is one thing that people are always thinking: Did I leave the oven on? Of course the downside would be that you'd always be thinking: I hope my "smart"-oven doesn't turn itself on and burn my house down.
I think we should outlaw party affiliations completely; kind of like how some countries outlaw religion. Fuck the bias that comes with political parties. We should make people have to WRITE IN the name of who they want to vote for (no names on the ballot) so that people actually have to know SOMETHING about a candidate in order to vote and all candidates get an EQUAL shake come election day.
I think this may be what you're looking for.
*chuckle*chuckle*