Sheesh, I bet you're the guy who built those desktops without power buttons for a few years, relying on windows new ability to shut down the machine automatically instead. Will mankind never learn?
There certainly ARE such lights which can be changed to green simply by flashing your brights a few times. I personally have experimented on teh light in front of the hospital on the main road in Ft. Lewis, WA. I can find no other explanation, for the light works like a normal one, but in over a dozen tests in my and other cars, even in cases where the light had turned red (or even just yellow) a second before rapid-hi beam flashing commenced.
I suspect there are plenty more such lights, but they are distributed on the basis of perceived necessity, budgets, and all those other meta-variables which result in making all bureaucratic decisions appear purely capricious.
I drive a honda Civic, the best value there is.
(and I'm 2 meters tall!)
And I do buy storebrands, they're the same thing for less money, so what possible reason is there not too, unless you have more money than sense?
And yes, you can conclude from the fact that most people don't that I do in fact believe that the majority of USAians have more money than sense.
Apple is just an extreme example. Their computers used to cost TWICE what a similar powered PC did. Now the price difference isn't so bad, prolly because they charge 10-30$ for each little piece of software that people need which, IMHO, should've been included already or as in the case of a modern linux distro, can be downloaded and installed easily and free of charge.
Of course, most of MS's strengths come from the fact that most people know how to use it and every hardware company includes drivers for it. If Linux ever acheives near parity in these areas then it will actually be clearly SUPERIOR in most ways to Windows, not to mention free of cost.
So I'm hoping in 10 years MS will be reduced to hawking faddish trinkets (MediaCenter PC maybe? Like a super duper $1400 TIVO?) and all the serious developement will be where it belongs, in free open source software.
I think MS now is in the position that Apple was, charging much more for a functionally equivalent product and trying to convince people that it's worth the extra $$$, when in fact neither product is perfect and both have enough relative strengths that they balance each other out, and so a large price difference should be the deciding factor.
You know, I think this whole thread should evolve into a bunch of computer guys sharing their best, fastest, easiest, and most efficient ways to bypass registration.
(all using linux of course, or freebsd if you're TRULY old-school like my 21-year old genius friend Paul whose been using it since he was an adolescent and is majoring in physics even though he's the best mathematician at my 30,000 student university! No, not Texas A&M you Longhorn fans! Cedric Bensons sez:"WWHOOOTTT!")
I shouldn't spill the *beans, but if you get one subscription to "the economist", your web password stays good for years after your subscription to the dead tree toilet rag dies!
Yah my connection says 14.4 k too. But my dial up says 41k and I don't notice any difference in speed between the two when surfing or downloading. Usually about 10 seconds to load google news and download at about 12 k/sec on either one.
I noticed some guy posted below that he connects at 115 k/sec through sprint for free, it has me thinking too! If I had that kind of speed on my cell, I'd prolly get rid of my cablemodem!
I use Verizon "mobile office" w/ my laptop and windows XP, but apparently there's a fairly simple hack (you can google for) to get it working with linux machines. It's just a USB connection to the phone, and the best part is that the internet use is free, it just costs you minutes on your phone, which is great since I get free weekends and that's when I use it most.
Sound like just what you need. Speed is about like dial-up.
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NASA's Deep Impact
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If they really want to know what it's made out of, why don't they just ride out there, on the end of my penis?
Lets just hope they release all their documentation and open source their OS and drivers before they do, so that at least their hardware will have some use in the world.
Otherwise, we may as well just throw them straight in the recyclotron. My next palmtop will have a full strength OS, either a true windows box (like the OQO) or a linux box from Japan.
I don't know about that violence bit.
You know, tiny third-world Vietnam beat the US at the violence game (after having defeated France, and then also proceeded to whup China!), just as a bunch of poor holy warriors in Afghanistan beat the Soviet Union at it.
It remains to been seen as to whether the US will beat the Muslim Ummah, but it doesn't look good so far.
The fear of death is what controls people, once a person transcends it then they are free. That's why holy warriors are so hard to defeat.
Only when somebody makes a logical proof that shows that helping others and giving freely of the fruits of your labor is the only way to a better world.
Of course, most people probably still wouldn't care anyway.
Godel was a huge fan of Newtonian physics. And your right, it is incomplete, but perhaps that's where it's power lies. Previous theories of the universe tried to explain every last detail, (see religious tracts) but they always ended up horribly wrong. But Newtonian theory is empirically justified, and when it's wrong, it is modified. Modern physics is still mostly Newtonian, with Quantum rules for small stuff and Einstein's rules for big or fast stuff.
Anyhow, in Hao Wang's book, he talks about Godel wanting to develop an axiomatic theory of Metaphysics, similar to Newtons axiomatic theory of physics, where you can derive new laws from just a few simple ideas, eg force, mass, velocity, derivative.
It is interesting to note that Liebnitz knew at least as much physics as Newton, but he elaborated on the idea of Force and justified it metaphysically (or religiously) whereas Newton never questions the idea of "Force" and whether or not it is "real" in the same sense as motion and mass.
I just think it's a great sig because I want everyone I communicate with to hear about it.
Yeah sure right.
Why should I listen to a bunch of rich, successful industry leaders when I'm making laws, when I can have a brain trust composed of trailer park residents clamoring for less gun control and a few unemployed nerds who want to steal video games?
What I'm trying to say is:
Your personal vote, every 4 years, doesn't matter at all. Why on earth should your grammatically incorrect, boring, pointless letters?
For a developer, you can't see very far ahead can you.
I just got a 5 GIG CF card for my WinCE Toshiba E805. 5 gigs is enough space for a full blown server, and I can carry it in my pocket, with a 802.11b connection as well.
What I'd really like to see is widespread 802.11b, then I can use skype and my PDA will replace my cellphone, instead of the other way around.
I find it interesting that no present student programming textbook that I have ever seen states so clearly:
"In fact, computers do not have brains and they cannot really think for themselves."
Actually, it seems to me that present AI researchers (at least the ones I've read and met) try to reject this idea. Of course, on their side, there is the fact that brains, insofar as they are physical objects, can be simulated by computers.
Clearly anyone who thinks of a CD-based system as "old" is what my people on MMORPG's refer to as a
OMFGNO0B!
That said, did you know you can keep an original Nintendo Entertainment System running forever by:
1) Blowing as hard as you can on the bottom of the cartridge, where the connector pins are.
2) Blowing as hard as you can into the cartiridge slot in the NES.
and finally
3) Jamming another cartridge on top of the one already in the slot to hold it down.
Now alternate adjusting the placeholder cartridge with pressing the power button until you can play.
How much is a Magnavox system worth these days anyhow?
Am I the only one who sees a strong parallel between a billionaire CEO like Ballmer telling his employess he "wanted truly independent, factual information" and say the President telling his intelligence analysts that he wants to know about, say WMDs in Iraq or ties to terrorists?
I'm only 26, but I'm pretty certain that if a "senior Microsoft team led by General Manager Martin Taylor" had come back to Ballmer and said,
"Sorry boss, but we just can't beat free when it comes to TCO between two functionally identical products" then our man Mr. Taylor would be out of a very very well paying job, and the assignment would be given to the next peon in line and the procedure iterated until the boss has the "facts"
that he wants to hear.
Then again, I believe this is the kind of thing they teach in MBA programs, so I suppose any executive worth their $200,000/annum would get the message the first time.
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Scary if YOU design it, that is!
Sheesh, I bet you're the guy who built those desktops without power buttons for a few years, relying on windows new ability to shut down the machine automatically instead. Will mankind never learn?
There certainly ARE such lights which can be changed to green simply by flashing your brights a few times. I personally have experimented on teh light in front of the hospital on the main road in Ft. Lewis, WA. I can find no other explanation, for the light works like a normal one, but in over a dozen tests in my and other cars, even in cases where the light had turned red (or even just yellow) a second before rapid-hi beam flashing commenced.
I suspect there are plenty more such lights, but they are distributed on the basis of perceived necessity, budgets, and all those other meta-variables which result in making all bureaucratic decisions appear purely capricious.
...and on this day of December 2004, the Internet History site was first Slashdotted!
BTW, the REAL history of the internet is in the Google Cache! I wonder if a fella could make a career out of perusing THAT?
I drive a honda Civic, the best value there is. (and I'm 2 meters tall!) And I do buy storebrands, they're the same thing for less money, so what possible reason is there not too, unless you have more money than sense?
And yes, you can conclude from the fact that most people don't that I do in fact believe that the majority of USAians have more money than sense.
Apple is just an extreme example. Their computers used to cost TWICE what a similar powered PC did. Now the price difference isn't so bad, prolly because they charge 10-30$ for each little piece of software that people need which, IMHO, should've been included already or as in the case of a modern linux distro, can be downloaded and installed easily and free of charge.
Of course, most of MS's strengths come from the fact that most people know how to use it and every hardware company includes drivers for it. If Linux ever acheives near parity in these areas then it will actually be clearly SUPERIOR in most ways to Windows, not to mention free of cost.
So I'm hoping in 10 years MS will be reduced to hawking faddish trinkets (MediaCenter PC maybe? Like a super duper $1400 TIVO?) and all the serious developement will be where it belongs, in free open source software.
I think MS now is in the position that Apple was, charging much more for a functionally equivalent product and trying to convince people that it's worth the extra $$$, when in fact neither product is perfect and both have enough relative strengths that they balance each other out, and so a large price difference should be the deciding factor.
What's 0.00 canadian in USD?
IMHO, Ipods (like all Apple products) are for people who have more money than sense.
Why bother? Who on earth likes video game music that much anyhow?
You know, I think this whole thread should evolve into a bunch of computer guys sharing their best, fastest, easiest, and most efficient ways to bypass registration.
(all using linux of course, or freebsd if you're TRULY old-school like my 21-year old genius friend Paul whose been using it since he was an adolescent and is majoring in physics even though he's the best mathematician at my 30,000 student university! No, not Texas A&M you Longhorn fans! Cedric Bensons sez
I shouldn't spill the *beans, but if you get one subscription to "the economist", your web password stays good for years after your subscription to the dead tree toilet rag dies!
*note:
So much for running my server off my HP/Linux PDA thru my cell.
*sigh*
Someday...
Yah my connection says 14.4 k too. But my dial up says 41k and I don't notice any difference in speed between the two when surfing or downloading. Usually about 10 seconds to load google news and download at about 12 k/sec on either one. I noticed some guy posted below that he connects at 115 k/sec through sprint for free, it has me thinking too! If I had that kind of speed on my cell, I'd prolly get rid of my cablemodem!
I use Verizon "mobile office" w/ my laptop and windows XP, but apparently there's a fairly simple hack (you can google for) to get it working with linux machines.
It's just a USB connection to the phone, and the best part is that the internet use is free, it just costs you minutes on your phone, which is great since I get free weekends and that's when I use it most.
Sound like just what you need. Speed is about like dial-up.
If they really want to know what it's made out of, why don't they just ride out there, on the end of my penis?
Lets just hope they release all their documentation and open source their OS and drivers before they do, so that at least their hardware will have some use in the world.
Otherwise, we may as well just throw them straight in the recyclotron. My next palmtop will have a full strength OS, either a true windows box (like the OQO) or a linux box from Japan.
I don't know about that violence bit. You know, tiny third-world Vietnam beat the US at the violence game (after having defeated France, and then also proceeded to whup China!), just as a bunch of poor holy warriors in Afghanistan beat the Soviet Union at it.
It remains to been seen as to whether the US will beat the Muslim Ummah, but it doesn't look good so far.
The fear of death is what controls people, once a person transcends it then they are free. That's why holy warriors are so hard to defeat.
Pablo Escobar had a similar business philosophy:
"Plata o Plomo"
Only when somebody makes a logical proof that shows that helping others and giving freely of the fruits of your labor is the only way to a better world.
Of course, most people probably still wouldn't care anyway.
Godel was a huge fan of Newtonian physics. And your right, it is incomplete, but perhaps that's where it's power lies. Previous theories of the universe tried to explain every last detail, (see religious tracts) but they always ended up horribly wrong. But Newtonian theory is empirically justified, and when it's wrong, it is modified. Modern physics is still mostly Newtonian, with Quantum rules for small stuff and Einstein's rules for big or fast stuff. Anyhow, in Hao Wang's book, he talks about Godel wanting to develop an axiomatic theory of Metaphysics, similar to Newtons axiomatic theory of physics, where you can derive new laws from just a few simple ideas, eg force, mass, velocity, derivative. It is interesting to note that Liebnitz knew at least as much physics as Newton, but he elaborated on the idea of Force and justified it metaphysically (or religiously) whereas Newton never questions the idea of "Force" and whether or not it is "real" in the same sense as motion and mass. I just think it's a great sig because I want everyone I communicate with to hear about it.
Gib me se Uzi nein millimeta... forty-five caliber lawgslide viz lazer site... and ze pulse laser rifle in ze five megawatt range!
Yeah sure right. Why should I listen to a bunch of rich, successful industry leaders when I'm making laws, when I can have a brain trust composed of trailer park residents clamoring for less gun control and a few unemployed nerds who want to steal video games? What I'm trying to say is: Your personal vote, every 4 years, doesn't matter at all. Why on earth should your grammatically incorrect, boring, pointless letters?
Why do you hate America?
For a developer, you can't see very far ahead can you. I just got a 5 GIG CF card for my WinCE Toshiba E805. 5 gigs is enough space for a full blown server, and I can carry it in my pocket, with a 802.11b connection as well. What I'd really like to see is widespread 802.11b, then I can use skype and my PDA will replace my cellphone, instead of the other way around.
I find it interesting that no present student programming textbook that I have ever seen states so clearly: "In fact, computers do not have brains and they cannot really think for themselves." Actually, it seems to me that present AI researchers (at least the ones I've read and met) try to reject this idea. Of course, on their side, there is the fact that brains, insofar as they are physical objects, can be simulated by computers.
Clearly anyone who thinks of a CD-based system as "old" is what my people on MMORPG's refer to as a OMFGNO0B! That said, did you know you can keep an original Nintendo Entertainment System running forever by: 1) Blowing as hard as you can on the bottom of the cartridge, where the connector pins are. 2) Blowing as hard as you can into the cartiridge slot in the NES. and finally 3) Jamming another cartridge on top of the one already in the slot to hold it down. Now alternate adjusting the placeholder cartridge with pressing the power button until you can play. How much is a Magnavox system worth these days anyhow?
I agree 100% I mean, how impressive is it to do almost _anything_ when you have billions of dollars to burn?
Am I the only one who sees a strong parallel between a billionaire CEO like Ballmer telling his employess he "wanted truly independent, factual information" and say the President telling his intelligence analysts that he wants to know about, say WMDs in Iraq or ties to terrorists? I'm only 26, but I'm pretty certain that if a "senior Microsoft team led by General Manager Martin Taylor" had come back to Ballmer and said, "Sorry boss, but we just can't beat free when it comes to TCO between two functionally identical products" then our man Mr. Taylor would be out of a very very well paying job, and the assignment would be given to the next peon in line and the procedure iterated until the boss has the "facts" that he wants to hear. Then again, I believe this is the kind of thing they teach in MBA programs, so I suppose any executive worth their $200,000/annum would get the message the first time.
I've been saying that for years!