ICQ, as long as I can remember, has always had really stupid defaults (the typewriter sound, the inability to press Enter to send a message, the lack of color/font/other modifiers). Yes, you can change all of them, but why should you have to?
In addition, having server-based contact lists rather than client-based ones is really way better.
And how do you plan to feed the millions of people who will starve when the economy goes to shit because transportation of goods will become prohibitively expensive?
How about focusing on electric transportation and alternative energy rather than tax-starving the populace of energy?
With the amount of money we spent on Iraq we EASILY could have had a power satellite system up and running at this point. BILLIONS, going on TRILLIONS of dollars have gone into that catastrophe for no good reason, and we could have spent the money MUCH better on something that could actually free us from dependency on fossil fuels.
How about re-prioritization rather than telling people to go back to the Stone Age?
is that you would inevitably want to use it for things it simply isn't powerful enough to handle. What you are describing is not a laptop replacement - but everyone would WANT it to be.
My Toshiba, on the other hand, IS a laptop as well as a tablet (which is why it's as heavy and thick as it is) - but it's capable of handling anything I throw at it. Development, games, whatever - it can handle it.
Has a letter-size screen, is ~4lbs and ran me $1100. Not too terribly far away from your specifications:)
The people who love tablets are typically in education and medical fields. I am a grad student, and the ability to import PDFs into my note-taking apps and then write DIRECTLY ON THEM is awesome. No more shuffling through papers, and the changes I make are even searchable. Pure. Heaven.
The CDC (or British equivalent) would turn him into a lab rat or worse.
What does this actually MEAN? You heard this phrase in movies and therefore you assume it is an actual real phenomenon.
What the hell do you think they're going to do to him? Lock him in a cage and hook pick lines up to him for the rest of his life? What would be GAINED from this? Nothing! He's a high profile person now and even if you thought you could try something like that he would be missed VERY quickly.
Fine. Then this is very simple. Offer the guy progressively larger amounts of money until he accepts. Everyone has a price - especially for something that will ultimately have no effect on their lives whatsoever.
Yes, the guy needs to be able to live a normal life. This is not incompatible with being given blood tests say, every month and being compensated for it. Your entire life you could have the knowledge that just being alive and allowing doctors to study you, you are assisting research into a horrible disease.
But because he wants to be a stubborn little bitch, he's going to deny science the ability to find a cure? How is that REMOTELY ethically defensible? A couple of blood tests and tissue samples aren't going to kill him, for god's sake.
This sounds like a good system. I bought a t-shirt from England for $35 USD because of shipping and the exchange rate, but it was worth it to have a t-shirt hardly anyone here will have for an awesome band hardly anyone knows about:D
If this makes me an indie fuck, fine, then I will fuck bravely onward.
Because I refuse to fund the RIAA but still want to ensure the artists I like are compensated for their work, I buy merch and boycott CDs off of Big 5 labels. As I understand it the RIAA does not get a cut of that money, instead it all goes to the artist (less production costs). Any idea whether or not that's true?
Don't.ie and.au both have ISPs which charge per-minute or per-kilobyte fees, mostly because they can get away with it because "it's always been that way?"
This is what I'm told the situation was like in Dublin last year (ca. middle of 2004), anyway. And I remember from being there in '99-'00 that it was easily as bad - there was essentially no such thing as broadband and the fees for dial-up were outrageous.
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ICQ, as long as I can remember, has always had really stupid defaults (the typewriter sound, the inability to press Enter to send a message, the lack of color/font/other modifiers). Yes, you can change all of them, but why should you have to?
In addition, having server-based contact lists rather than client-based ones is really way better.
Because today's teenagers hate 60's music.
222 billion. My mistake.
Because, you know, we couldn't have invested 222 billion dollars in alternative energy.
And how do you plan to feed the millions of people who will starve when the economy goes to shit because transportation of goods will become prohibitively expensive?
How about focusing on electric transportation and alternative energy rather than tax-starving the populace of energy?
With the amount of money we spent on Iraq we EASILY could have had a power satellite system up and running at this point. BILLIONS, going on TRILLIONS of dollars have gone into that catastrophe for no good reason, and we could have spent the money MUCH better on something that could actually free us from dependency on fossil fuels.
How about re-prioritization rather than telling people to go back to the Stone Age?
Don't think about polar bears!
BNL are one of my favorite bands, and IMO this is a terrific show of goodwill by the band to their fans, whom they know are rather geeky.
Good move, guys.
I'm gonna buy it.
Thanks.
Of course, for some people, even Jack Thompson is going to hell.
Blue screens of death, DLL Hell, poorly-written drivers, and the inability to modify and redistribute the OS will just give us another Windows.
None of these are likely to show up on Linux anytime soon (with the possible exception of poorly-written drivers, in some cases).
You ALWAYS have the option of changing the way your desktop environment works in Linux in any number of ways. The same cannot be said for Windows.
There really IS a club for everything, isn't there?
is that you would inevitably want to use it for things it simply isn't powerful enough to handle. What you are describing is not a laptop replacement - but everyone would WANT it to be.
My Toshiba, on the other hand, IS a laptop as well as a tablet (which is why it's as heavy and thick as it is) - but it's capable of handling anything I throw at it. Development, games, whatever - it can handle it.
Has a letter-size screen, is ~4lbs and ran me $1100. Not too terribly far away from your specifications :)
The people who love tablets are typically in education and medical fields. I am a grad student, and the ability to import PDFs into my note-taking apps and then write DIRECTLY ON THEM is awesome. No more shuffling through papers, and the changes I make are even searchable. Pure. Heaven.
Red Hat require you to pay for security updates?
The CDC (or British equivalent) would turn him into a lab rat or worse.
What does this actually MEAN? You heard this phrase in movies and therefore you assume it is an actual real phenomenon.
What the hell do you think they're going to do to him? Lock him in a cage and hook pick lines up to him for the rest of his life? What would be GAINED from this? Nothing! He's a high profile person now and even if you thought you could try something like that he would be missed VERY quickly.
Fine. Then this is very simple. Offer the guy progressively larger amounts of money until he accepts. Everyone has a price - especially for something that will ultimately have no effect on their lives whatsoever.
Yes, the guy needs to be able to live a normal life. This is not incompatible with being given blood tests say, every month and being compensated for it. Your entire life you could have the knowledge that just being alive and allowing doctors to study you, you are assisting research into a horrible disease.
But because he wants to be a stubborn little bitch, he's going to deny science the ability to find a cure? How is that REMOTELY ethically defensible? A couple of blood tests and tissue samples aren't going to kill him, for god's sake.
This is the secondary definition. The primary one is "doesn't feel like running a compile-everything-from-source distribution on a Pentium II/400." :p
This sounds like a good system. I bought a t-shirt from England for $35 USD because of shipping and the exchange rate, but it was worth it to have a t-shirt hardly anyone here will have for an awesome band hardly anyone knows about :D
If this makes me an indie fuck, fine, then I will fuck bravely onward.
But I think he wants to be able to do some kind of nifty dual-monitor thing.
Because I refuse to fund the RIAA but still want to ensure the artists I like are compensated for their work, I buy merch and boycott CDs off of Big 5 labels. As I understand it the RIAA does not get a cut of that money, instead it all goes to the artist (less production costs). Any idea whether or not that's true?
How is this flamebait?
"I am building a home that is completely solar/wind powered"
Whether or not this is feasible depends largely on your location. Wanna give us a heads-up as to where you are?
Don't .ie and .au both have ISPs which charge per-minute or per-kilobyte fees, mostly because they can get away with it because "it's always been that way?"
This is what I'm told the situation was like in Dublin last year (ca. middle of 2004), anyway. And I remember from being there in '99-'00 that it was easily as bad - there was essentially no such thing as broadband and the fees for dial-up were outrageous.
I don't know what you mean, Colonel.
Isn't this usually done through firmware on the card rather than the software of a driver?
It seems a bit silly to me to allow features on a graphics card to be switchable by drivers.