I just want my phone to be a phone and a good one that is easy to use. I don't want to have to pull out a manual bigger than the phone so I can figure out a whole bunch of menus that are not the same from one phone to the next model.
If I want a good knife, I don't want a Swiss Army one that's so big I can't wrap my fingers around it, I want a Knife that's a knife and just a knife... Same thing with my phone. Yeah, how old fashioned is that?
All this wrapping everything into one miniature package means too many compromises, IMHO. It may do a lot of things, but all of them are done inconveniently.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Scientists say the chemicals have caused developmental and learning defects in laboratory animals" A lot of substances are harmful in high concentrations and are these compounds not also found elsewhere? Let's take a realistic look at this before we panic and start wearing gas masks when we are within 10 feet of our computers.
Who needs cases anyway? It's a lot easier to change the configuration on my machines if I don't have to mess with those pesky cases anyway.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
straightened out! EFF = Electronic Freedom Foundation and Pubpat = the Public Patent Foundation. They are just getting started at working toward getting this patent mess brought under closer scrutiny. Somebody has to do it.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I usually have a medium sized HF antenna, a 2 meter (144 MHz) 5/8 wave whip and a slightly smaller 70cm (440 MHz) antenna.
The HF antenna has a loading coil that gets changed to change bands. I usually operate on 20 or 30 meters with 4 watts of CW from one of those little single-band MFJ rigs. The keying paddle gets strapped to the console and I use an amplified speaker to boost the sound to get past road noise.
I've contacted all continents including Australia and New Zealand (Middle Earth). It's not for everybody, but I have fun with it when I'm on long road trips on uncrowded Interstates.
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"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
They should see my car with the 3 ham radio antennas on it. Looks like an old Soviet "fishing" trawler. That's scary. Or a stack of single-band multi-element yagi beams for all the HF bands.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
My mom is 81 and she's busier than she's ever been although physical constraints are starting to slow her down. My grandmother died very alert, aware and reasonable active at age 100 and said she was ready to go, but it had mostly to do with the fact that her friends had all been dead for a long time by then.
Some people would look forward to a longer life because they find some meaning in their lives and others, I am sure, don't and probably would not partake of these treatments. I suggest that you folks who are not familiar with Robert A. Heinlein's novels several of which concern, among other things, longevity issues. Take a look at "Time Enough for Love"(1973).
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I did RTFA, but it's not at all clear to me how the CD "knows" whether it's being read to simply play the music, or whether it's being read to make a copy on a burner. How does this scheme work? It's just digital data for Pete's sake. There will be a work-around.
Beyond that, I'm not so concerned about magically somehow being limited to, say, 4 copies, but I am concerned that it will not work right at all and I'll not even be able to play the danged thing at all.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
These improper patents have to be fought by someone. See PubPat and, if you agree with what they are doing, make a contribution. The Electronic Freedom Foundation is doing some of this worthwhile work, too.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
It was before the lemon laws. The problem was that the car would just quit, right in the middle of driving down the interstate or wherever. After a few minutes you could restart it. After the third trip to the dealership failed to find the problem, I "revoked my acceptance" of the product, just like it was a bad hair drier I took back to Walmart. The dealer sputtered and argued for a while, but I got my money back and took it down the road and bought a different brand. It didn't take me 12 tries.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
A cell phone that's equivalent to 87.66234 T-1 lines..
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Maybe I'm missing something here, but...
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NYT on Spam Cops
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why can't the companies that are paying for spam be targetted for prosecution/persecution? They can't easily hide since they have to engage in commerce, AKA money changing hands, to do their business, thus requiring valid contact information. Just follow the money.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I just love how I can take my laptop almost anywhere and get Internet connectivity. Last week I was at my mom's house doing some work on geneaology with my laptop and when I booted up, lo and behold - a wireless connection that was wide open!! It was nice to be able to check my e-mail and look at research sites online right then and there rather than either having to dial in or wait until I got home.
I've seen the same thing lots of other places including a friend's apartment in Minneapolis where I found 3 wireless access points, only one of which was encrypted and at my own single family house, I get two open wireless connections besides my own encrypted one.
I have to agree that setting up the secured connection are not obvious, especially when you have one manufacturer's access point and another manufacturer's wireless product in your laptop. It took me a little head scratching and trial and error before I got mine working.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Don't paint all of us with such a broad brush. I'm enough of a realist (and Engineer) to see that Nuclear power is where the future lies. There's no other technology available at present to meet the energy needs of today's world population, even if there is some significant conservation. Fusion would be great, but it's not happening yet.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
So what happens when the servers are moved somewhere else? Give me a break. It's voluntary. Don't sign up if you don't like what they are doing..
If you are not a liberal when you are young then you have not heart. If you are not a conservative when you are old then you have no brains.? -Winston Churchill
While the "safety by obscurity" factor has some validity and would largely disappear if a larger percentage of people were using GNU/linux, the simple fact is that Linux is much more secure by default.
Think of all those vulnerabilities that are defaults in Windows. Think also about the fact that most Linux distros do not encourage the user to run as "root". Not that Linux has no potential vulnerabilities, but they are much fewer than Windows..
Newsday reports on "Global Brightening". Doesn't this represent a negative feedback process that counteracts so called "Global Warming" in that the increased cloud cover reflects more solar energy back into space?
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I drove beetles for years. They sucked in the Winter, especially around town because you never built up enough heat to circulate into the passenger compartment to get comfortable or defrost the windows. On the highway, they were fine, although they did take a little while to get up to temperature.
Defrosting was usually handled by the time-honored towel over the grab handle on the passenger side method. There were accessory air deflectors that moved more of what circulated air there was to the center of the windshield and you could get little electric fans that would blow on the windshield in Winter or on you in the Summer.
The elegant (more expensive) solution to the heating problem was to buy a gasoline powered heater such as were sold by JC Whitney and others. Those puppies were blow torches and could make all the difference in the world for passenger comfort.
Once you got past the heating/defrosting downsides VW's were awesome in Winter. They'd go anywhere most 4WD vehicles could go. Rear engine - rear wheel drive makes a lot of sense.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
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I just want my phone to be a phone and a good one that is easy to use. I don't want to have to pull out a manual bigger than the phone so I can figure out a whole bunch of menus that are not the same from one phone to the next model.
If I want a good knife, I don't want a Swiss Army one that's so big I can't wrap my fingers around it, I want a Knife that's a knife and just a knife... Same thing with my phone. Yeah, how old fashioned is that?
All this wrapping everything into one miniature package means too many compromises, IMHO. It may do a lot of things, but all of them are done inconveniently.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Scientists say the chemicals have caused developmental and learning defects in laboratory animals" A lot of substances are harmful in high concentrations and are these compounds not also found elsewhere? Let's take a realistic look at this before we panic and start wearing gas masks when we are within 10 feet of our computers.
Who needs cases anyway? It's a lot easier to change the configuration on my machines if I don't have to mess with those pesky cases anyway.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
straightened out! EFF = Electronic Freedom Foundation and Pubpat = the Public Patent Foundation. They are just getting started at working toward getting this patent mess brought under closer scrutiny. Somebody has to do it.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I usually have a medium sized HF antenna, a 2 meter (144 MHz) 5/8 wave whip and a slightly smaller 70cm (440 MHz) antenna.
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The HF antenna has a loading coil that gets changed to change bands. I usually operate on 20 or 30 meters with 4 watts of CW from one of those little single-band MFJ rigs. The keying paddle gets strapped to the console and I use an amplified speaker to boost the sound to get past road noise.
I've contacted all continents including Australia and New Zealand (Middle Earth). It's not for everybody, but I have fun with it when I'm on long road trips on uncrowded Interstates.
--...
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
They should see my car with the 3 ham radio antennas on it. Looks like an old Soviet "fishing" trawler. That's scary. Or a stack of single-band multi-element yagi beams for all the HF bands.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I can't wait to install it on my Konqueror browser.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
My mom is 81 and she's busier than she's ever been although physical constraints are starting to slow her down. My grandmother died very alert, aware and reasonable active at age 100 and said she was ready to go, but it had mostly to do with the fact that her friends had all been dead for a long time by then.
Some people would look forward to a longer life because they find some meaning in their lives and others, I am sure, don't and probably would not partake of these treatments. I suggest that you folks who are not familiar with Robert A. Heinlein's novels several of which concern, among other things, longevity issues. Take a look at "Time Enough for Love"(1973).
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I did RTFA, but it's not at all clear to me how the CD "knows" whether it's being read to simply play the music, or whether it's being read to make a copy on a burner. How does this scheme work? It's just digital data for Pete's sake. There will be a work-around.
Beyond that, I'm not so concerned about magically somehow being limited to, say, 4 copies, but I am concerned that it will not work right at all and I'll not even be able to play the danged thing at all.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Can't wait. Love those live CD's that are so much fun to use to freak out co-workers when they boot up in the morning.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
These improper patents have to be fought by someone. See PubPat and, if you agree with what they are doing, make a contribution. The Electronic Freedom Foundation is doing some of this worthwhile work, too.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I don't want to reconstruct my car, or even soup it up. I just want to know what is wrong with it when it is out of whack.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
It was before the lemon laws. The problem was that the car would just quit, right in the middle of driving down the interstate or wherever. After a few minutes you could restart it. After the third trip to the dealership failed to find the problem, I "revoked my acceptance" of the product, just like it was a bad hair drier I took back to Walmart. The dealer sputtered and argued for a while, but I got my money back and took it down the road and bought a different brand. It didn't take me 12 tries.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
A cell phone that's equivalent to 87.66234 T-1 lines..
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
why can't the companies that are paying for spam be targetted for prosecution/persecution? They can't easily hide since they have to engage in commerce, AKA money changing hands, to do their business, thus requiring valid contact information. Just follow the money.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I just love how I can take my laptop almost anywhere and get Internet connectivity. Last week I was at my mom's house doing some work on geneaology with my laptop and when I booted up, lo and behold - a wireless connection that was wide open!! It was nice to be able to check my e-mail and look at research sites online right then and there rather than either having to dial in or wait until I got home.
I've seen the same thing lots of other places including a friend's apartment in Minneapolis where I found 3 wireless access points, only one of which was encrypted and at my own single family house, I get two open wireless connections besides my own encrypted one.
I have to agree that setting up the secured connection are not obvious, especially when you have one manufacturer's access point and another manufacturer's wireless product in your laptop. It took me a little head scratching and trial and error before I got mine working.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Don't paint all of us with such a broad brush. I'm enough of a realist (and Engineer) to see that Nuclear power is where the future lies. There's no other technology available at present to meet the energy needs of today's world population, even if there is some significant conservation. Fusion would be great, but it's not happening yet.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
is styled like an iPod..
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Discrimination: You singled me out. All the other students are doing it, too, and you didn't kick them out.
This guy should have to pay his own legal fees plus all the cost incurred by the university.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
So what happens when the servers are moved somewhere else? Give me a break. It's voluntary. Don't sign up if you don't like what they are doing..
If you are not a liberal when you are young then you have not heart. If you are not a conservative when you are old then you have no brains.? -Winston Churchill
While the "safety by obscurity" factor has some validity and would largely disappear if a larger percentage of people were using GNU/linux, the simple fact is that Linux is much more secure by default.
Think of all those vulnerabilities that are defaults in Windows. Think also about the fact that most Linux distros do not encourage the user to run as "root". Not that Linux has no potential vulnerabilities, but they are much fewer than Windows..
Newsday reports on "Global Brightening". Doesn't this represent a negative feedback process that counteracts so called "Global Warming" in that the increased cloud cover reflects more solar energy back into space?
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
since there's an Evergreen Terrace here. Not the best neighborhood, though.
Now how do we keep this out of the hands of the terrorists?
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I drove beetles for years. They sucked in the Winter, especially around town because you never built up enough heat to circulate into the passenger compartment to get comfortable or defrost the windows. On the highway, they were fine, although they did take a little while to get up to temperature.
Defrosting was usually handled by the time-honored towel over the grab handle on the passenger side method. There were accessory air deflectors that moved more of what circulated air there was to the center of the windshield and you could get little electric fans that would blow on the windshield in Winter or on you in the Summer.
The elegant (more expensive) solution to the heating problem was to buy a gasoline powered heater such as were sold by JC Whitney and others. Those puppies were blow torches and could make all the difference in the world for passenger comfort.
Once you got past the heating/defrosting downsides VW's were awesome in Winter. They'd go anywhere most 4WD vehicles could go. Rear engine - rear wheel drive makes a lot of sense.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Since they've always handed me snags in dealing with them as a registrar.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain