I beg to differ. Imo, MS is desperate and trying to fling mud around. The commission has historically been rather clean of the corruption. And for corruption, I'd like to see how the US FCC or other agencies compare to the EU's commission. Seriously, they're scared that the EU will spawn a continent where MS is either broken to pieces and has to compete, or a continent without MS altogether, which would then let Apple get a bigger hold, and *gasp* Opensource even more so. Remember that the idea of profit first is typically American, helping others is a cultural reflex shared by most EU countries, unlike the States... So companies that set a standard in the EU will probably respect it and play fair game. Sure there's bound to be some under the table dealing, but if it's found out, it gets killed a lot more rapidly. And most of the governments in the EU make lobbying illegal! The UK's an exception, but it's frowned upon there, so it doesn't happen as much as here. Government in the EU is actually about who screams the loudest, not who has the biggest wallet. Which puts people on par, bigger wallet doesn't mean louder voice... So just let the EU crank down on MS, they deserve it even if it's not by a "holy" organization.
If you're dealing with an IDE that's not too expensive, works, and you're willing to have customer support for, then I would say that any CS department that teaches C or C++ is a worthy attempt. Try casually mailing CS professors and ask them if they're happy with what they have. I know for sure that if we were to use an IDE for C instead of emacs, it would make my life a hell of a lot easier instead of using Java and eclipse... Eclipse is nice, but Java drives me insane. And when people who know your IDE come out of school and end up in places where they are able to make recommendations, well you've got yourself some sort of a market...
someone earlier made mention that Google video lets you specify where to play it with. Apparently whoever uploaded that video forbade it's playing in the US. It's not google censorship, it's poster censorship.
There's certainly been a good few questions asked already, but the one I'd like to get an answer to is, how do companies see OSDL? Do they believe it's a trustworthy group that knows what they're talking about, or does it look like another one of those 'fad-like' groups that's going to fade away? I don't mean to say OSDL is fading out, I'm curious to know what the real-world perception of it is. I've noticed that while many of my friends use linux and are generally well-versed in what's going on, they're usually totally unaware of the existence of OSDL, or it's purpose. How will this change? How will OSDL become a trusted group for IT managers, especially in a world where most of them have only heard of Microsoft's "Get the facts", or have some shares in MS stocks? I feel that part of the reason that one of the above posters was asking why isn't linux penetrating the educational market is because the trustees funding the schools have a say in what to use, because they're paying for it, and the trustees will usually have a significant amount of MS stocks. What's the chance of all of this changing? Or rather, what are the means in place for all that to change?
... Try ogle. On gentoo emerge ogle-gui. I've played Interactual dvds with it just fine. I use it for every DVD, and it doesn't even as much as garble an error message for my Shrek dvd (interactual enabled!) give that a shot and then email me if nothing seems to work.
Ok, guys, I'm tired of this. I've been using linux exclusively for so long that everytime I see "to be ready for the desktop" I just want to reach to the writer's neck and strangle it. IT IS FUCKING READY FOR THE DESKTOP! That guy is just a loser who, coming from MS thinks he's smarter and can give us lessons about how to do things.
Yeah, sure, he makes some good points, but most of his arguments are BS. I sure don't want red underlining everywhere I type, think about the whole BLOAT, that's useless. If people learned how to spell to start with, you WOULDN"T NEED THAT SHIT!
He's making up excuses for why windows is still better and why we should stick to it. The guy is just pathetically ignorant. Why do we need to INSTALL applications when you can just download it, open the file and RUN the damn thing? Isn't that easier for most people??? Or is everyone going to frantically look for a "setup.exe" file when they use linux? I mean seriously, the linux community is filled with brilliant people, some smarter than those at MS, because the reason there are so many distributions is to give each option for package management a try, and let people decide which frontend they'd rather deal with.
Slashdot, please do me a favor? stop posting those stupid blog rants about what Linux needs to get on the desktop? they're always way off topic.
The only thing Linux needs to get on the desktop is people going out and reaching their friends and suggesting that their computer would run better if it didn't have MS bugs on it... I just converted one of my friends to linux this weekend doing just that. Now her laptop runs on gentoo flawlessly and without slowing down, making her computer experience smoother than anything she'll ever have with windows. Oh, and she likes the option of changing desktop environments too...
More freedom of actions will make people grow smart, whereas locking them in one mindset will make them dumb. Proof: someone who has the option of going to work by car, bus or bike will choose the way to get there based on his/her own preferences, one of cheap, fast, tree-friendly or a compromise of both.
Let people learn on their own, they cannot be taught everything about life by movies and then be ready for real-world experience.
The easy way out is one that no company making closed software wants to hear: NO SOFTWARE PATENTS!
Of course, only communist Europe and the developping natiosn we haven't paid off enough will actually have it that way...
Seriously, there's too many problems with the legal system here. I'll steal one from bash.org: "why don't we take the safety labels off everything and let the problem solve itself?"
This really is an issue in a system where courts can decide of the lives of so many people and corporations too.
I mean, to mean concepts and methods are NOT TO BE PATENTED: it's information. Sure, you can patent a particular implementation of an algorithm, but you can't prevent someone from using that same one later on. That's called KILLING COMPETITION!
Our senators don't understand it because they've got no clue what an algorithm is, or what software patents really prevent.
Find someone to voice that out loud and clear and comprehensibly to Congress, and I can guarantee there'll be a hot debate about it everywhere. Especially find ties to all the other industries besides the software industry... Then you've got more chances. For instance, find proof that no software patents would benefit the oil industry, and you might get a clash of lobbies that would end up destroying the strength of both at the same time.
I'm a European grown American, and I come from a continent where lobbying is in 99% of the cases ILLEGAL, so imagine my reaction to the whole BS in this country!
here at Lewis & Clark (http://www.lclark.edu/ they use a client for any windows based machine to authenticate. Any other OS is required to authentify using a webpage to which you are redirected automatically when opening any webpage. The client ensures you have all mandatory updates installed to connect, otherwise the access is discontinued. Saves lots of trouble, and my friends on OSX and me on gentoo have no problems whatsoever. Might want to suggest your IT department to take a look at it... And even contact our IT department, they're pretty open about helping other schools keep their networks clean. Hope that tidbit of info helped.
Oh, before I forget, the client used to be called "SmartEnforcer", and now it's a Cisco client... don't remember the name since I don't use it.
I seem to recall there is a comptetitor to Dreamweaver based on QT called Screem. I'm not too sure how easily it would be to run it on windows. I know there's a linux emulator for windows but I forget the name. ANyway, I remember it as being really quite nice to use, interface close to dreamweaver, but without the obvious proprietary integration of flash and all that Macromedia jazz. You can still include flash animations though, unless my memory is failing. Hope this gives you a start.
as long as you take care of your disk. I have a no brand combo enclosure that works just fine with a 200 GB disk in it. It does heat up mildly, but when that happens I put it vertically so that the hole at the end of the case is upwards, thus creating passive cooling.
Also, just don't go nuts with your drive and for crying out loud get an external AC for the enclosure, otherwise you'll fry your USB/Firewire ports.
Mine has been going for over a year and a half and I'm damn happy with it.
Just find something that'll work while keeping it out of the dust and without stacking layers of paper on top of it so the heat can dissipate. You'll be just fine:)
I'd recommend you look at how easy the laptop cases are to open... Get one where it's easy to blow out the sand with a dusting can. I would avoid HP for that matter, although they do offer pretty sweet machines (mine's 2 years and only dead pixels on the screen have annoyed me 'til it was fixed)
Hope this suggestion helps.
Keeping a laptop sealed out won't work, at least not as well as one where it's easy for the sand to fall out. Consider that when looking at them.
It's one thing to consider code open, and I'm all for it. However, referring to things by their proper name, and trademarks, is important. Linux refers to a whole set of work, and community, that creates good software that's open for anyone to use, modify and redistribute. For a company to use the name Linux without acknowledging that is searching for trouble: that's why Linus put Linux under trademark protection. A trademark protection means that the name of the product (in this case Linux) will not become a word referring to a category of products, but to that specific product (think about "scotch tape", or "kleenex"). If those companies got those letters, it was because they were taking on the name Linux without properly attributing the credit where it was due: to opensource developers. If someone's unhappy about that, go live in a totally communist country and code from there and get only the censored news so you stay happy.
don't let him get to bash.org for quite a few years yet, maybe show him Blender, and let him have fun creating stuff on his own. In a year or two give him an old computer and as a previous post said a linux distribution (gentoo is a little harsh for starters, even though I'm a big fan of it, but you can introduce him to Fedora first, then gentoo later). Have him discover what really goes on under the hood at his pace. Eventually he'll know a lot about it, probably more than you. And that's what's sad: the new generation is always going to catch on faster than us. But it's still important to give him the basics (I started on qbasic and win 3.11), so he'll learn from the ground up.
here's what I'd do if I were you: I'd get a nice piece of wood that's fairly thin (1/4", 3/8" thickness), polish it both sides, and cut it to a width of your laptop plus about 8". Then put the laptop on the board and the board on your lap. You'll even have room for the external mouse.
Or, maybe cheaper and simpler, a $15 external PS/2 keyboard from RiteAid with a 6' cord, so you can put the keyboard on your knees, the mouse on the couch and not have to be on the edge of the couch.
Only trouble is the distance to the screen of your laptop, but it works great for me.
I've read numerous reports of people embedding a mac mini in their car to use as mp3 players and the most advanced even use gps and map software to figure out directions...
Now you could do that and get yourself a bigger usb-powered external hard drive to use as fileserver... OSX is stable, relatively secure and supports the wireless networks.
That's my idea... total price: ~ $700 if you install everything yourself.
Palm does do college-useable stuff
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Hey, dunno what the heck you're looking for, but my palm m505 has served me well for the past year in college, and will forseeably for the next 3.
Has everything I need: morning waking up alarm, "appointments" which are my classes with 5 minute reminders, since I don't carry a watch, address book, memo pads, notepad functionality (still missing the printer to hand your number to a hottie, but I bet the next version will have it), and for deadlines, well, just make them as appointments with a week or 2 worth of reminders.
Not only that, but the palm's interface is well thought out, even though people are reluctant to learn grafiti to use it efficiently.
Seriously, either a palm will fill your needs with a tad of creativity on your side, or you're going to have to lug your laptop around to use your favorite calendar app everywhere.
This is from a CS major too, and there's no cheaper and easier way than to adapt your habits to a PDA's capabilities than the other way around.
It's not a Vinyl disk. It's a disk of plastic with metallic particles. It's probably useless as the readers are probably all gone. It'd make a good frisbee... Who's up for a game of ultimate?
I'm not going to bother detailing the rest, as others have already answered this thoroughly. What I will add however is that saying that only X-rays escape is a total mistament.
The rays escaping the Black hole's event horizon (basically the critical radius which is considered radius of no return) escape constantly. However, because of the gravitational strength of the black hole, the photons are redshifted. A redshift means their frequency is lowered. Their speed does not slow down, but their frequency is lesser as the gravity pulls. That's because the energy of a photon is it's frequency multiplied by it's velocity. You cannot slow a photon in empty space, therefore the only variable that can give in to compensate for the gravity force of the black hole is the frequency. By redshifting while escaping the black hole, photons lose their visibility, because they get redshifted to infinity (or close enough that we can't detect them because of the cosmic background radiation). If you have a chance and want to learn more, get the book "Cosmology: Science of the Universe", it's what my class used and it's very thorough, but still easy to grasp (I took the class as a freshman).
ok, so we end up with a flame and water vapor. Now does anyone think this is a good idea for a humidifier/heater in a cold country? A post above mentions Finland. In the winter, the air gets very dry there (at least it was when i was there at X-mas), and one of those guys would: 1 heat the home (flames heat) 2 humidify the air (produces water vapor)
Now don't drive the thing too far or you'll think you're in a tropical jungle, but still, it could be pretty useful that way as well.
I think there is at least one way communication. For one thing there's the annoying beeping when the driver's seatbelt isn't engaged, then there's the fact that the cabin lights switch off immediately when the doors are closed and the engine is running, whereas they'd stay on for a little bit if the engine is off. Or at night, when your lights are on, the "comfort panel" is turned on as well. So there's gotta be some communication at least one way. To imagine a two-way system isn't unimaginable either. At least to me it kinda looks possible, while not really justified.
indeed, I believe they're all synonyms, or close enough. BSA: Bull Shit of America, RIAA: the same, really, just makes money off people who have their own tastes for music, DMCA: Da Millenium's Crap of America, basically another way of saying BSA. MPAA: Maximized Profit Association of America. Full of people that enter the BSA category. CAFTA: Colossal Anti Freedom Terrorists of America
So indeed, we're very screwed. Someone please help America? God is obviously on vacation or something...
mmm, you're forgetting the essential here, it's "attemting to". Trust me, it's gonna shut down more commerce than it's going to benefit to the exporters. I'm guessing that sooner or later Europe will refuse to import stuff from the US and we'll end up with a loss of international business making the big corps reanalyze their views. I hope Europe makes a good stand on this, I mean, why would you give your GRAND-children your copyrights over stuff that's so popular it's made all the cash it can already! The Rolling Stones aren't the richest because of copyright laws but because they're doing good stuff and still making new songs, not just selling their oldies!
It'll be interesting how many countries adhere to those conditions... I don't expect that many to do so, which will cripple their whole business idea.
which again makes the point that our laws are not prepared to deal with the Internet. I'm not saying leave the system as is, but rather modernize laws carefully, and allow for future evolution as well without making the laws too open phrased to be abused. Here's my idea, maybe make the laws about obscene material, and then in a subset clause that is to be revised periodically (say every decade or two), specify what kind of material.
For instance, some people have the weirdo idea of calling themselves "sexyhoe", or "wanna_fuck", which is quite suggestive, yet their nicknames are not obscenity, and that is protected by the first amendment.
So make a system that has a central core of hard defined laws, and then a subset of definitions for what kind of materials is subject to what law.
But the truth is, we're not ready to deal with the 'net yet. At least not legally.
Fair enough, porn isn't speech or press... But websites are. So they should be blocking not the websites that provide the content, but only the content, right? I mean, a website is information. What's contained in the website is another matter, but as far as I'm concerned, the HTML code you download when browsing is protected under the 1st amendment... We've got a contradiction here, and we need to modernize our laws to come into the digital age, however, I don't want it done with this administration in place. They've proved incompetent with civil rights so far, I won't trust them with something this big.
And wouldn't blocking a server outside the US be anti-constitutional? The way I see it you'd be opening the door to wide web-censorship! If you can block foreign websites because they don't pay an "import" tariff, then you're effectively opening the door to an entire ideological blockade, next will be communist websites, then any kind of "unappropriate materials", but by all means don't touch the freakin neo-nazi neo-con and christian websites!
This would effectively give a partial access to the net that in MY mind is a violation of the first amendment!
No, IANAL but since the constitution is NOT specific about whether it is to protect ideas inside the Federal limits or not, there's a good chance it's a matter of pushing it one way or another by various lobbying groups. This is VERY scary, not because it'd block foreign porno, but because it would in effect allow our government to do the same as China with their great firewall!
I don't like the way our government is taking us down the twisted path... I can't see what's at the end, but I can tell you there's a big thunderstorm cloud above where we're going and that I don't like the looks of it.
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I beg to differ. Imo, MS is desperate and trying to fling mud around. The commission has historically been rather clean of the corruption. And for corruption, I'd like to see how the US FCC or other agencies compare to the EU's commission.
Seriously, they're scared that the EU will spawn a continent where MS is either broken to pieces and has to compete, or a continent without MS altogether, which would then let Apple get a bigger hold, and *gasp* Opensource even more so.
Remember that the idea of profit first is typically American, helping others is a cultural reflex shared by most EU countries, unlike the States... So companies that set a standard in the EU will probably respect it and play fair game. Sure there's bound to be some under the table dealing, but if it's found out, it gets killed a lot more rapidly. And most of the governments in the EU make lobbying illegal! The UK's an exception, but it's frowned upon there, so it doesn't happen as much as here. Government in the EU is actually about who screams the loudest, not who has the biggest wallet. Which puts people on par, bigger wallet doesn't mean louder voice... So just let the EU crank down on MS, they deserve it even if it's not by a "holy" organization.
If you're dealing with an IDE that's not too expensive, works, and you're willing to have customer support for, then I would say that any CS department that teaches C or C++ is a worthy attempt.
Try casually mailing CS professors and ask them if they're happy with what they have.
I know for sure that if we were to use an IDE for C instead of emacs, it would make my life a hell of a lot easier instead of using Java and eclipse... Eclipse is nice, but Java drives me insane.
And when people who know your IDE come out of school and end up in places where they are able to make recommendations, well you've got yourself some sort of a market...
someone earlier made mention that Google video lets you specify where to play it with. Apparently whoever uploaded that video forbade it's playing in the US. It's not google censorship, it's poster censorship.
There's certainly been a good few questions asked already, but the one I'd like to get an answer to is,
how do companies see OSDL? Do they believe it's a trustworthy group that knows what they're talking about, or does it look like another one of those 'fad-like' groups that's going to fade away? I don't mean to say OSDL is fading out, I'm curious to know what the real-world perception of it is. I've noticed that while many of my friends use linux and are generally well-versed in what's going on, they're usually totally unaware of the existence of OSDL, or it's purpose.
How will this change? How will OSDL become a trusted group for IT managers, especially in a world where most of them have only heard of Microsoft's "Get the facts", or have some shares in MS stocks?
I feel that part of the reason that one of the above posters was asking why isn't linux penetrating the educational market is because the trustees funding the schools have a say in what to use, because they're paying for it, and the trustees will usually have a significant amount of MS stocks.
What's the chance of all of this changing? Or rather, what are the means in place for all that to change?
... Try ogle.
On gentoo emerge ogle-gui.
I've played Interactual dvds with it just fine.
I use it for every DVD, and it doesn't even as much as garble an error message for my Shrek dvd (interactual enabled!)
give that a shot and then email me if nothing seems to work.
Ok, guys, I'm tired of this.
I've been using linux exclusively for so long that everytime I see "to be ready for the desktop" I just want to reach to the writer's neck and strangle it.
IT IS FUCKING READY FOR THE DESKTOP!
That guy is just a loser who, coming from MS thinks he's smarter and can give us lessons about how to do things.
Yeah, sure, he makes some good points, but most of his arguments are BS.
I sure don't want red underlining everywhere I type, think about the whole BLOAT, that's useless. If people learned how to spell to start with, you WOULDN"T NEED THAT SHIT!
He's making up excuses for why windows is still better and why we should stick to it.
The guy is just pathetically ignorant. Why do we need to INSTALL applications when you can just download it, open the file and RUN the damn thing? Isn't that easier for most people???
Or is everyone going to frantically look for a "setup.exe" file when they use linux?
I mean seriously, the linux community is filled with brilliant people, some smarter than those at MS, because the reason there are so many distributions is to give each option for package management a try, and let people decide which frontend they'd rather deal with.
Slashdot, please do me a favor? stop posting those stupid blog rants about what Linux needs to get on the desktop? they're always way off topic.
The only thing Linux needs to get on the desktop is people going out and reaching their friends and suggesting that their computer would run better if it didn't have MS bugs on it... I just converted one of my friends to linux this weekend doing just that. Now her laptop runs on gentoo flawlessly and without slowing down, making her computer experience smoother than anything she'll ever have with windows.
Oh, and she likes the option of changing desktop environments too...
More freedom of actions will make people grow smart, whereas locking them in one mindset will make them dumb. Proof: someone who has the option of going to work by car, bus or bike will choose the way to get there based on his/her own preferences, one of cheap, fast, tree-friendly or a compromise of both.
Let people learn on their own, they cannot be taught everything about life by movies and then be ready for real-world experience.
The easy way out is one that no company making closed software wants to hear:
NO SOFTWARE PATENTS!
Of course, only communist Europe and the developping natiosn we haven't paid off enough will actually have it that way...
Seriously, there's too many problems with the legal system here.
I'll steal one from bash.org:
"why don't we take the safety labels off everything and let the problem solve itself?"
This really is an issue in a system where courts can decide of the lives of so many people and corporations too.
I mean, to mean concepts and methods are NOT TO BE PATENTED: it's information. Sure, you can patent a particular implementation of an algorithm, but you can't prevent someone from using that same one later on. That's called KILLING COMPETITION!
Our senators don't understand it because they've got no clue what an algorithm is, or what software patents really prevent.
Find someone to voice that out loud and clear and comprehensibly to Congress, and I can guarantee there'll be a hot debate about it everywhere. Especially find ties to all the other industries besides the software industry... Then you've got more chances.
For instance, find proof that no software patents would benefit the oil industry, and you might get a clash of lobbies that would end up destroying the strength of both at the same time.
I'm a European grown American, and I come from a continent where lobbying is in 99% of the cases ILLEGAL, so imagine my reaction to the whole BS in this country!
here at Lewis & Clark (http://www.lclark.edu/ they use a client for any windows based machine to authenticate. Any other OS is required to authentify using a webpage to which you are redirected automatically when opening any webpage.
The client ensures you have all mandatory updates installed to connect, otherwise the access is discontinued. Saves lots of trouble, and my friends on OSX and me on gentoo have no problems whatsoever.
Might want to suggest your IT department to take a look at it... And even contact our IT department, they're pretty open about helping other schools keep their networks clean.
Hope that tidbit of info helped.
Oh, before I forget, the client used to be called "SmartEnforcer", and now it's a Cisco client... don't remember the name since I don't use it.
I seem to recall there is a comptetitor to Dreamweaver based on QT called Screem. I'm not too sure how easily it would be to run it on windows.
I know there's a linux emulator for windows but I forget the name.
ANyway, I remember it as being really quite nice to use, interface close to dreamweaver, but without the obvious proprietary integration of flash and all that Macromedia jazz. You can still include flash animations though, unless my memory is failing.
Hope this gives you a start.
as long as you take care of your disk.
:)
I have a no brand combo enclosure that works just fine with a 200 GB disk in it. It does heat up mildly, but when that happens I put it vertically so that the hole at the end of the case is upwards, thus creating passive cooling.
Also, just don't go nuts with your drive and for crying out loud get an external AC for the enclosure, otherwise you'll fry your USB/Firewire ports.
Mine has been going for over a year and a half and I'm damn happy with it.
Just find something that'll work while keeping it out of the dust and without stacking layers of paper on top of it so the heat can dissipate.
You'll be just fine
I'd recommend you look at how easy the laptop cases are to open... Get one where it's easy to blow out the sand with a dusting can. I would avoid HP for that matter, although they do offer pretty sweet machines (mine's 2 years and only dead pixels on the screen have annoyed me 'til it was fixed) Hope this suggestion helps. Keeping a laptop sealed out won't work, at least not as well as one where it's easy for the sand to fall out. Consider that when looking at them.
It's one thing to consider code open, and I'm all for it. However, referring to things by their proper name, and trademarks, is important.
Linux refers to a whole set of work, and community, that creates good software that's open for anyone to use, modify and redistribute. For a company to use the name Linux without acknowledging that is searching for trouble: that's why Linus put Linux under trademark protection.
A trademark protection means that the name of the product (in this case Linux) will not become a word referring to a category of products, but to that specific product (think about "scotch tape", or "kleenex").
If those companies got those letters, it was because they were taking on the name Linux without properly attributing the credit where it was due: to opensource developers.
If someone's unhappy about that, go live in a totally communist country and code from there and get only the censored news so you stay happy.
don't let him get to bash.org for quite a few years yet, maybe show him Blender, and let him have fun creating stuff on his own. In a year or two give him an old computer and as a previous post said a linux distribution (gentoo is a little harsh for starters, even though I'm a big fan of it, but you can introduce him to Fedora first, then gentoo later). Have him discover what really goes on under the hood at his pace. Eventually he'll know a lot about it, probably more than you. And that's what's sad: the new generation is always going to catch on faster than us. But it's still important to give him the basics (I started on qbasic and win 3.11), so he'll learn from the ground up.
here's what I'd do if I were you: I'd get a nice piece of wood that's fairly thin (1/4", 3/8" thickness), polish it both sides, and cut it to a width of your laptop plus about 8". Then put the laptop on the board and the board on your lap. You'll even have room for the external mouse. Or, maybe cheaper and simpler, a $15 external PS/2 keyboard from RiteAid with a 6' cord, so you can put the keyboard on your knees, the mouse on the couch and not have to be on the edge of the couch. Only trouble is the distance to the screen of your laptop, but it works great for me.
I've read numerous reports of people embedding a mac mini in their car to use as mp3 players and the most advanced even use gps and map software to figure out directions... Now you could do that and get yourself a bigger usb-powered external hard drive to use as fileserver... OSX is stable, relatively secure and supports the wireless networks. That's my idea... total price: ~ $700 if you install everything yourself.
Hey, dunno what the heck you're looking for, but my palm m505 has served me well for the past year in college, and will forseeably for the next 3.
Has everything I need: morning waking up alarm, "appointments" which are my classes with 5 minute reminders, since I don't carry a watch, address book, memo pads, notepad functionality (still missing the printer to hand your number to a hottie, but I bet the next version will have it), and for deadlines, well, just make them as appointments with a week or 2 worth of reminders.
Not only that, but the palm's interface is well thought out, even though people are reluctant to learn grafiti to use it efficiently.
Seriously, either a palm will fill your needs with a tad of creativity on your side, or you're going to have to lug your laptop around to use your favorite calendar app everywhere.
This is from a CS major too, and there's no cheaper and easier way than to adapt your habits to a PDA's capabilities than the other way around.
It's not a Vinyl disk.
It's a disk of plastic with metallic particles.
It's probably useless as the readers are probably all gone.
It'd make a good frisbee...
Who's up for a game of ultimate?
I'm not going to bother detailing the rest, as others have already answered this thoroughly.
What I will add however is that saying that only X-rays escape is a total mistament.
The rays escaping the Black hole's event horizon (basically the critical radius which is considered radius of no return) escape constantly. However, because of the gravitational strength of the black hole, the photons are redshifted. A redshift means their frequency is lowered. Their speed does not slow down, but their frequency is lesser as the gravity pulls. That's because the energy of a photon is it's frequency multiplied by it's velocity. You cannot slow a photon in empty space, therefore the only variable that can give in to compensate for the gravity force of the black hole is the frequency.
By redshifting while escaping the black hole, photons lose their visibility, because they get redshifted to infinity (or close enough that we can't detect them because of the cosmic background radiation).
If you have a chance and want to learn more, get the book "Cosmology: Science of the Universe", it's what my class used and it's very thorough, but still easy to grasp (I took the class as a freshman).
ok, so we end up with a flame and water vapor. Now does anyone think this is a good idea for a humidifier/heater in a cold country? A post above mentions Finland. In the winter, the air gets very dry there (at least it was when i was there at X-mas), and one of those guys would:
1 heat the home (flames heat)
2 humidify the air (produces water vapor)
Now don't drive the thing too far or you'll think you're in a tropical jungle, but still, it could be pretty useful that way as well.
I think there is at least one way communication. For one thing there's the annoying beeping when the driver's seatbelt isn't engaged, then there's the fact that the cabin lights switch off immediately when the doors are closed and the engine is running, whereas they'd stay on for a little bit if the engine is off. Or at night, when your lights are on, the "comfort panel" is turned on as well. So there's gotta be some communication at least one way. To imagine a two-way system isn't unimaginable either.
At least to me it kinda looks possible, while not really justified.
indeed, I believe they're all synonyms, or close enough.
BSA: Bull Shit of America,
RIAA: the same, really, just makes money off people who have their own tastes for music,
DMCA: Da Millenium's Crap of America, basically another way of saying BSA.
MPAA: Maximized Profit Association of America. Full of people that enter the BSA category.
CAFTA: Colossal Anti Freedom Terrorists of America
So indeed, we're very screwed. Someone please help America? God is obviously on vacation or something...
mmm, you're forgetting the essential here, it's "attemting to". Trust me, it's gonna shut down more commerce than it's going to benefit to the exporters. I'm guessing that sooner or later Europe will refuse to import stuff from the US and we'll end up with a loss of international business making the big corps reanalyze their views. I hope Europe makes a good stand on this, I mean, why would you give your GRAND-children your copyrights over stuff that's so popular it's made all the cash it can already! The Rolling Stones aren't the richest because of copyright laws but because they're doing good stuff and still making new songs, not just selling their oldies!
It'll be interesting how many countries adhere to those conditions... I don't expect that many to do so, which will cripple their whole business idea.
which again makes the point that our laws are not prepared to deal with the Internet. I'm not saying leave the system as is, but rather modernize laws carefully, and allow for future evolution as well without making the laws too open phrased to be abused.
Here's my idea, maybe make the laws about obscene material, and then in a subset clause that is to be revised periodically (say every decade or two), specify what kind of material.
For instance, some people have the weirdo idea of calling themselves "sexyhoe", or "wanna_fuck", which is quite suggestive, yet their nicknames are not obscenity, and that is protected by the first amendment.
So make a system that has a central core of hard defined laws, and then a subset of definitions for what kind of materials is subject to what law.
But the truth is, we're not ready to deal with the 'net yet. At least not legally.
Fair enough, porn isn't speech or press... But websites are. So they should be blocking not the websites that provide the content, but only the content, right? I mean, a website is information. What's contained in the website is another matter, but as far as I'm concerned, the HTML code you download when browsing is protected under the 1st amendment...
We've got a contradiction here, and we need to modernize our laws to come into the digital age, however, I don't want it done with this administration in place. They've proved incompetent with civil rights so far, I won't trust them with something this big.
Okay, two questions:
What does prurient mean?
And wouldn't blocking a server outside the US be anti-constitutional? The way I see it you'd be opening the door to wide web-censorship! If you can block foreign websites because they don't pay an "import" tariff, then you're effectively opening the door to an entire ideological blockade, next will be communist websites, then any kind of "unappropriate materials", but by all means don't touch the freakin neo-nazi neo-con and christian websites!
This would effectively give a partial access to the net that in MY mind is a violation of the first amendment!
No, IANAL but since the constitution is NOT specific about whether it is to protect ideas inside the Federal limits or not, there's a good chance it's a matter of pushing it one way or another by various lobbying groups. This is VERY scary, not because it'd block foreign porno, but because it would in effect allow our government to do the same as China with their great firewall!
I don't like the way our government is taking us down the twisted path... I can't see what's at the end, but I can tell you there's a big thunderstorm cloud above where we're going and that I don't like the looks of it.