I mean, I've always liked the idea of having a bunker-house, but when it's this nuts, it's a little overboard. And the page-author is full of dung (vis. the follwing quote)
"If the phone lines are ever down it will not be possible to get news via the internet." What century are they in?
I'm an intern at the MIT media lab - total flex-time, free espresso, full access to BorgLab hardware and supplies for personal projects (within the bounds of reason)
Also, i have parents who work at other universities in the Boston area (BU in my mum's case), so my tuition for the next four years is covered. college will cost $44,000 for 4 yrs (room, board, books) rather than $160,000-170,000. Good perk, natch?
I've read the bulk of this book sitting in a store
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...and while the idea of the Feed and hyper-commercialized living is interesting, the prose is merely mediocre and the storyline is rather flat. The one thing that I can remember is that the protagionist seemed to lack any high-level cognitive function : I mean, communicating via semi-lingual grunts, having no emotion in regard to friends (girlfriend's death).
Macborg gives this book 1.5 of 5. Worth reading only if you're really bored. But better than a lot of the really vapid YA-novel shite that has been published. Tell the kids to go read Snow Crash or something...
Hell, I'm as fanatical a mac-geek as they come and when the Gen1 iPod came out, my reaction was that it was too damn expensive, that it would flounder like the Newton did and that Apple would be lucky to recoup the development costs......have I been proven wrong, or what?
I have to say, I just placed my order for a refurb 10GB unit... so I'm eating crow here.
Uh, no. She's hated because her music is dreadful - it's like hearing a cat being disembowled. Reduce terrorism, my arse? What did she do, kiss Tom Ridge?
All that the platnums prove is that the pop-music buying public has so little taste that they will buy whatever crap is shoved down their throats.
We don't hate success, we hate crappy music.
Well, at least where I live (MA, USA) any headphones on and powered when riding or driving are totally illegal... be ready to eat a ticket if you want to rattle your eardrums.
Well, it is. Windows, the thing that is reviled here in perpetua, is attempting to absorb parts of *nix. I smell a serious kuldge effort... I mean, think about it. Windows' inherent hideousness plus the clean elegance of unix... why 'tis unnatural I say!
Let's see, not only do I own ~300 volumes of SciFi + ~400 volumes of fiction and non-fiction - I've even read all of it.
I patronize my local independant booksellers and rarely exit a bookstore without a new book (or two or three). My average reading "load" per week is 500-1000 pages, which is known to double during the summer. I maintain that reading in such quantity is the only thing that kept me sane during my senior year of high school, when I had 4 AP courses.
I am rarely, if ever, found without a book on my person when I leave my house.
Americans as a whole might read fewer books, but I read enough to make up for them.
Now, off to read some Neil Stephenson.
this may just be me, but I would say to never use Simple Finder because it disables all keyboard commands in the finder... few things are more insulting to a skilled user. my school does it and it just hacks me off,
Well, I've got a use for them - data collection! Anything that uses PDAs to gather data needs capacity above and beyond taht of teh onboard ram - therefore sign me up!
We may not need every minute detail from someone's files, but the family or associates might want stuff like family pictures, scientific research, family tree data... stuff like that. I don't hold on to everything, but I'm hoping taht people will look at my photo work (semiPro) in the future... but hopefully this won't be an issue for me for several score of years to come.
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Yeah, I'm a photographer and consequently I love natural light. That would be a real downer...
I mean, I've always liked the idea of having a bunker-house, but when it's this nuts, it's a little overboard. And the page-author is full of dung (vis. the follwing quote) "If the phone lines are ever down it will not be possible to get news via the internet." What century are they in?
There's a study at the MIT Media Lab doing exactly this... cool but spooky.
I'm an intern at the MIT media lab - total flex-time, free espresso, full access to BorgLab hardware and supplies for personal projects (within the bounds of reason) Also, i have parents who work at other universities in the Boston area (BU in my mum's case), so my tuition for the next four years is covered. college will cost $44,000 for 4 yrs (room, board, books) rather than $160,000-170,000. Good perk, natch?
...and while the idea of the Feed and hyper-commercialized living is interesting, the prose is merely mediocre and the storyline is rather flat. The one thing that I can remember is that the protagionist seemed to lack any high-level cognitive function : I mean, communicating via semi-lingual grunts, having no emotion in regard to friends (girlfriend's death). Macborg gives this book 1.5 of 5. Worth reading only if you're really bored. But better than a lot of the really vapid YA-novel shite that has been published. Tell the kids to go read Snow Crash or something...
Why am I thinking stillsuits?
Hell, I'm as fanatical a mac-geek as they come and when the Gen1 iPod came out, my reaction was that it was too damn expensive, that it would flounder like the Newton did and that Apple would be lucky to recoup the development costs... ...have I been proven wrong, or what?
I have to say, I just placed my order for a refurb 10GB unit... so I'm eating crow here.
OOgh, I forgot about this...retch.
Uh, no. She's hated because her music is dreadful - it's like hearing a cat being disembowled. Reduce terrorism, my arse? What did she do, kiss Tom Ridge? All that the platnums prove is that the pop-music buying public has so little taste that they will buy whatever crap is shoved down their throats. We don't hate success, we hate crappy music.
Give me six weeks and i will be
I'll agree with that, but I'll add that Redmond would also have to become a black hole.
Well, at least where I live (MA, USA) any headphones on and powered when riding or driving are totally illegal... be ready to eat a ticket if you want to rattle your eardrums.
i wasn't aware you could mow a pizza... does it grow like grass?
Bullshit. I do. ...Then again, the only channel I get is WGBH
Well, it is. Windows, the thing that is reviled here in perpetua, is attempting to absorb parts of *nix. I smell a serious kuldge effort... I mean, think about it. Windows' inherent hideousness plus the clean elegance of unix... why 'tis unnatural I say!
Now, what did the english do to pirates? Hung 'em. What should we do? Make him be Gates' lapdog... oogh that's a fate worse than death.
or in the 1990s that people would pay $5.00 for a cup of coffee ....
pah! I make my own espresso dammit.
Let's see, not only do I own ~300 volumes of SciFi + ~400 volumes of fiction and non-fiction - I've even read all of it. I patronize my local independant booksellers and rarely exit a bookstore without a new book (or two or three). My average reading "load" per week is 500-1000 pages, which is known to double during the summer. I maintain that reading in such quantity is the only thing that kept me sane during my senior year of high school, when I had 4 AP courses. I am rarely, if ever, found without a book on my person when I leave my house. Americans as a whole might read fewer books, but I read enough to make up for them. Now, off to read some Neil Stephenson.
I mean, honestly, who would buy anything from a Slimy Corporate Oriface?
this may just be me, but I would say to never use Simple Finder because it disables all keyboard commands in the finder... few things are more insulting to a skilled user. my school does it and it just hacks me off,
Huh. Sounds like what a collague of mine is doing - this wouldn;t happen to involve a zaurus would it?
Well, I've got a use for them - data collection! Anything that uses PDAs to gather data needs capacity above and beyond taht of teh onboard ram - therefore sign me up!
good to hear... thought I'd heard about that, but tahnks for the extra info
We may not need every minute detail from someone's files, but the family or associates might want stuff like family pictures, scientific research, family tree data... stuff like that. I don't hold on to everything, but I'm hoping taht people will look at my photo work (semiPro) in the future... but hopefully this won't be an issue for me for several score of years to come.
Huh? I thought CF cards only went to 4GB... are you a time traveler?