First there were the small, fast, agile little creatures like Palm and US Robotics. USR got a little bigger and swallowed up Palm. Then big 3Com swallowed up USR.
But it never got big enough to challenge the giants like Cisco while at the same time it was too big and clumsy to compete with smaller, more nimble little start ups. So they spun off Palm, letting it dart freely across the landscape the way it once did.
With one less mouth to feed, 3Com felt better and more limber than it had in years. So it looked around and decided to let USR roam free. After shedding the extra pounds, 3Com looked at itself in the mirror and liked what it saw.
The Vadem Clio has a screen that can be flipped over, covering the keyboard and can be used as a writing tablet. Unfortunately, it is also a WinCE device with limited storage capacity. Putting that sort of ability on a real laptop with a hard drive and a more sophisticated OS like the Powerbook, the Thinkpad, or whatever Transmeta finally puts out would be an even bigger leap forward than putting it on the trackpad.
This would give a mini-notebook much greater versatility. If you are sitting at your desk and type on the keyboard and do any of the work you would normally do on a desktop. If you are on the run or sitting through a meeting, you can write directly on the screen. Throw in better power management and a Crusoe processor and you've got a real "road warrior" machine.
Now I get it! He got the recognition for his future accomplishments
Heh,Heh, I like that idea.
Open letter to Time Magazine:
Please consider me for this year's Man of the Year contest. I promise to get myself elected president and implement sweeping changes to this nation's healthcare system.
Newspapers are not on their way out. They are merely going through a slow period before they figure out how to harness the Internet to deliver news instantly.
The newspaper of the future will be an 8.5" x 11" sheet of flexible plastic that has an LCD-like display and an embedded processor and wireless connection. It will periodically download information from the Internet, either wirelessly on its own or wirelessly from your basement home server. The user will be able to choose how frequent the updates are and the content that they should contain.
Graphics capability can be modest. A little better than a DSTN Passive Matrix display should be enough. You should be able fold it up and carry it or throw it away, so durability will not be an issue. The key to this is maintaining a near constant, wireless high-speed connection. So Al Gore better quit fooling around with this presidential crap and go lay in some new DSL lines.
Palm III -- the Roman numerals and letters for the above models are purely speculative
Palm IIIx
Palm V --at this point you have two basic form factors, the P3 and P5
Palm VII --similar to P3 form factor but bulkier because of the wireless transmitter
Palm IIIe --the "budget" model
Palm IIIc
Palm IIIxe
There was no Palm IIIi. The IIIxe seems a little out of place. The x implies that it is an "extra" model, like the IIIx before it but the e implies that it is somehow limited, like the IIIe.
btw: i have a iiix, and I don't think I could ever fill it up, so iiixe looks a little silly to me.
I have Visor Deluxe with 8MB, 4.2MB of which are already used up. So yes, you can fill up the IIIx's 4MB easily. Remember, the more storage space you have, the more you want to use up.
But what I'd love to see would be something with the upgradability of a Palm device (via the flashable ROM's) and the Springboard slot. It does lead to the question: why did Handspring take out the Flash ROM's in the first place? Does anyone know?
Price and marketing. Flash ROM costs more than the Mask ROM that the Visor uses. Also, when doing their research, Jeff Hawkins (the guy who, along with Donna Dubinsky, created the original Pilot) discovered that only 5% of all Palm users ever upgraded the OS. So they decided to chuck the Flash ROM.
You are thinking too three-dimensionally. The Universe according to the Big Bang model is four dimensional -- with time being the fourth dimension. Imagine a cone that represents the universe's evolution over time. The cone's circumference represents a snapshot of the entire Universe at a given point in time. At the Big Bang, the entire Universe is a single point.
When you take a random slice out of that cone its size and properties will depend on its position along the length of the cone. The Universe as we know it today can be represented as a single slice along that cone. Counting backward from today, the Universe of the past can also be represented as progressively smaller slices behind the "today" slice, going all the way beck to the Big Bang which would be the point of the cone. The future can also be represented as progressively bigger slices further along the cone as well.
The bottom line is that all space was originally bottled up inside a single point at the big bang. That balloon you used as an example is all sheath and the air that is being blown into it is the passage of time. So the Balloon has no insides, everything is being ejected at the same time. So everything, including us, is still at the originator point. It's just that over time, the originator point has been smeared out into a giant sphere.
There actually is a "smouldering" piece of energy left over from the Big Bang. It's called the Cosmic Background Radiation and apppears in every direction of the sky. This is because the Big Bang itself occurred at every point in the Universe.
The amount of matter and energy in the Universe remains constant over time. But as time passes, space itself gets bigger and matter-energy has more room to spread out. Eventually, it cools, condenses, and clumps to form stars and galaxies. This all takes place inside an ever growing region which, for lack of a better word, we call space. Outside of this region, there is nothing. Or at least nothing that we can detect.
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"Well, if the kid has an attention deficit, don't you think you should give him/her some attention?"
Acutally Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) refers to an inability to concentrate over long periods of time. These people tend to be easily distracted. It's really a very serious... Ooh! Jell-o! Gotta go.
As for Frohike, you're dead-on. OpenBSD all the way for him. I don't think he even entirely trusts his two partners. He probably has some heavy-duty encryption on all his hard drives. I wouldn't be surprised if he had some daemons set to do Nasty Things to his friends' machines if his machines detected something hostile coming from them.
That's probably true, plus Frohike would probably take the hard drive out of his computer and carry it with him whenever he had to turn it off for some reason.
Personally, I think that Scully would be a Mac geek. Is that a contradiction in terms?
The Lone Gunman would be constantly fighting over which distro to use. Byers use Redhat with the KDE Desktop on his custom built Dell machine. Langely would be a Slackware/Debian fanatic with a dozen partitions on his hard drive and no case on his computer. Frohike would just sneer disdainfully at them as he upgrades the OpenBSD machine that he built in '95 with hardware that he steals from the IBM booth at Comdex every year.
i just want to know, what EXACTLY does Andover.net do, besides buying up linux-related web sites? Are they simply buying them up to give them more sites to sell their advertising to? what gives? a co-worker of mine has suggested they change their name to HandOver.net, much more applicable to their business practices.
According to this Upside article, Andover started out as a software retailer and switched to buying up "techie" websites and living off the ad revenues when the Internet started to get big. When Linux became the next big thing, they started buying up Linux websites.
The PC, that popular geek toy from 80s and 90s is dead. The PC was pronounced dead by Dr. Tom Engibous today during an emotional press conference.
Dr. Larry Ellison concurred, "Not only is the sucker dead, it's a miracle it hung on for so long. It would still be alive today if only it had taken my advice." Ellison went on to blame the PC's personal physician, Dr. Bill Gates, for its untimely death, claiming that under Gates' care the PC had become bloated and unusable. Dr. Gates denied the charges claiming that the PC was not dead, it was merely evolving into a higher life form. "With my patented Win32 snake oil, the PC will continue to thrive for years to come.
The PC's funeral was chaotic. The PC's coffin started to open as Dr. Ellison delivered its eulogy. Seeing this, Dr. Ellison leapt on the coffin and tried to sit on it to keep it shut. "Pay no attention to that," Ellison was quoted as saying. "That's just an autonomic reflex."
The mystery of the death of the PC has deepened as many people claim to have seen the PC since its alleged death. In fact police officials have refused to investigate the case claiming, that the PC is still alive. "Why I just consulted my PC to run a background check on a suspect," said a local police officer. "Every couple of years those same guys get together and try to fake the poor machine's death. I don't know what their problem is but if I were a PC, I wouldn't turn my back on those guys for one minute."
In addition to the police denials doctors at the Transmeta clinic claimed today that the PC is not only alive but is in fact one of their patients. "We just had Dr. Torvalds check the PC out yesterday," said the clinic manager. "He prescribed some Penguin juice for the bloating, but otherwise the PC is just fine."
Dr. Steve Jobs was busy staring at his own reflection and declined to comment.
Anyone care to explain why they are TRI-corders? Seem to do a hell of a lot more then 3 things..
Seem is the operative word. Supposedly, everything they do can be boiled down to a combination of three functions: scanning, analyzing, and recording. Hence the word, tri-corder.
Anyway, there is a reason that PalmOS beat WinCE, and it wasn't necessarily the normal Microsoft bugginess. It was the fact that PalmOS just does what is needed, and doesn't have a bunch of extra fluff brought down from bigger machines. Would an embedded-linux be any different?
Part of the reason that WinCE does so poorly against the PalmOS has to do with its interface. A Start menu and desktop metafor simply takes up too much space to be useful on a small PDA screen. This is a separate (and IMHO more important) apart from bugginess or code bloat. Since Linux is at its heart a CLI OS, most processor cycles AFAIK are used up the X Window system and processes and services which would not be needed on a PDA and therefore would not need to be compiled.
I'm no Linux expert but my guess is that you can pretty much put up any interface you want on top of a slimmed down Linux kernel. Palm Computing for example is working with Symbian to run the PalmOS GUI on top of the Epoc32 kernel. There should be no reason, other than perhaps licensing, why someone couldn't do the same thing with Linux.
Similarly, it should be possible to create a webpad type device that would simply run Mozilla on top of a Linux kernel recompiled with only enough support for whatever was needed to run a browser plus wireless IR or radio support.
efforts to stick their fingers in the digital dike
Sorry, a phrase like that deserves repeating.:)
I agree. Perhaps we've found the right niche for Jon. Let's have a Slashdot political action committee to draw attention to tech issues in the presidential elections. Put Rob in suit and have Jon write inflamatory/attention getting speeches for him.
Hey, if we're going to sit around bitching and moaning over the latest censorship, encryption, whatever, outrage, we might as well get some press coverage out of it. Who knows? We might even change a few peoples minds on the subject.
Dude. That's only if you get fragged. Just what *IS* a frag anyway? Is that when I'm ramming my phat rox up yo skinny little ass?
I always assumed that it referred to old military slang for getting deliberately shot by your own troops. As in: "This Lieutenant is going to get us all killed. Let's frag his ass."
I think that Jon made some very good points with his first article. But this second one was largely pointless. Mostly he posted some complaints from other people and made overly sweeping generalizations this time.
Sexual harassment is hardly unique to the tech sector. Female fire fighters and construction workers are just as likely to fall victim to it as female Perl hackers or C programmers. Either way, I have seen female flamers that are just as vicious as male ones on Usenet, so I don't believe that it is just a matter of angry, white males taunting women. Idiots come in all shapes, sizes, and genders.
Slashdot aleady has some of the most sophisticated filtering and moderation tools you are likely to see in a web forum; so a lot of the problems that Jon complains about can simply be remedied by browsing at a higher threshold.
It's too bad about all the hate mail he keeps getting. But how much of it is self-inflicted? I have noticed that in the past that a lot of Jon's posts have been riddled with with stray characters like ?,&,=, and so forth. Most of his recent stories do not contain garbage characters. On the contrary, they are quite nicely formatted complete with horizontal rules for better readability. Isn't it at all possible that some of the taunts hurled at Jon for the fomatting of his previous posts might have encouraged him to improve his posting habits? I'm not trying to justify gratuitious flames, I'm just suggesting that not all criticism, even harsh criticism, is destructive.
By the way, I happen to be an Hispanic male. I don't usually feel the need to point that out but Jon's riffing on the white males in this article kind of bugged me.
then how come in in an article on the AFA site, he has introduced a bill that would help put filters in place in schools and libraries? Methinks a rat I smell.
First of all, that article wasn't the AFA site, it was a local newpaper's site.
Second, McCain said he wasn't familiar with the issue in that specific town. In other words, he supports filtering and even tried to get a filtering bill passed; but he doesn't know what's in the filtering law that's being proposed in Holland, Michigan and doesn't want to say he supports it until he does. He also claimed that he had never heard of the AFA.
This leads me to think that McCain was just covering his ass, in case the AFA turned out to be a bunch of extremist wackos (judging by their pamphlet, this appears to be the case).
I certainly hope this is the case, because I like McCain and don't like any of the other presidential candidates.
I think you're just mad because he actually *has* sex.
I agree. Here you have a man who has been crippled by a deadly disease and he can still get laid! What can be more inspiring than this amazing fact? Stephen Hawking is a and a source of hope to geeks everywhere because of this alone.
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First there were the small, fast, agile little creatures like Palm and US Robotics. USR got a little bigger and swallowed up Palm. Then big 3Com swallowed up USR.
But it never got big enough to challenge the giants like Cisco while at the same time it was too big and clumsy to compete with smaller, more nimble little start ups. So they spun off Palm, letting it dart freely across the landscape the way it once did.
With one less mouth to feed, 3Com felt better and more limber than it had in years. So it looked around and decided to let USR roam free. After shedding the extra pounds, 3Com looked at itself in the mirror and liked what it saw.
The Vadem Clio has a screen that can be flipped over, covering the keyboard and can be used as a writing tablet. Unfortunately, it is also a WinCE device with limited storage capacity. Putting that sort of ability on a real laptop with a hard drive and a more sophisticated OS like the Powerbook, the Thinkpad, or whatever Transmeta finally puts out would be an even bigger leap forward than putting it on the trackpad.
This would give a mini-notebook much greater versatility. If you are sitting at your desk and type on the keyboard and do any of the work you would normally do on a desktop. If you are on the run or sitting through a meeting, you can write directly on the screen. Throw in better power management and a Crusoe processor and you've got a real "road warrior" machine.
I know I'd buy one.
Now I get it! He got the recognition for his future accomplishments
Heh,Heh, I like that idea.
Open letter to Time Magazine:
Please consider me for this year's Man of the Year contest. I promise to get myself elected president and implement sweeping changes to this nation's healthcare system.
Newspapers are not on their way out. They are merely going through a slow period before they figure out how to harness the Internet to deliver news instantly.
The newspaper of the future will be an 8.5" x 11" sheet of flexible plastic that has an LCD-like display and an embedded processor and wireless connection. It will periodically download information from the Internet, either wirelessly on its own or wirelessly from your basement home server. The user will be able to choose how frequent the updates are and the content that they should contain.
Graphics capability can be modest. A little better than a DSTN Passive Matrix display should be enough. You should be able fold it up and carry it or throw it away, so durability will not be an issue. The key to this is maintaining a near constant, wireless high-speed connection. So Al Gore better quit fooling around with this presidential crap and go lay in some new DSL lines.
A more complete listing would be:
There was no Palm IIIi. The IIIxe seems a little out of place. The x implies that it is an "extra" model, like the IIIx before it but the e implies that it is somehow limited, like the IIIe.
btw: i have a iiix, and I don't think I could ever fill it up, so iiixe looks a little silly to me.
I have Visor Deluxe with 8MB, 4.2MB of which are already used up. So yes, you can fill up the IIIx's 4MB easily. Remember, the more storage space you have, the more you want to use up.
But what I'd love to see would be something with the upgradability of a Palm device (via the flashable ROM's) and the Springboard slot. It does lead to the question: why did Handspring take out the Flash ROM's in the first place? Does anyone know?
Price and marketing. Flash ROM costs more than the Mask ROM that the Visor uses. Also, when doing their research, Jeff Hawkins (the guy who, along with Donna Dubinsky, created the original Pilot) discovered that only 5% of all Palm users ever upgraded the OS. So they decided to chuck the Flash ROM.
You are thinking too three-dimensionally. The Universe according to the Big Bang model is four dimensional -- with time being the fourth dimension. Imagine a cone that represents the universe's evolution over time. The cone's circumference represents a snapshot of the entire Universe at a given point in time. At the Big Bang, the entire Universe is a single point.
When you take a random slice out of that cone its size and properties will depend on its position along the length of the cone. The Universe as we know it today can be represented as a single slice along that cone. Counting backward from today, the Universe of the past can also be represented as progressively smaller slices behind the "today" slice, going all the way beck to the Big Bang which would be the point of the cone. The future can also be represented as progressively bigger slices further along the cone as well.
The bottom line is that all space was originally bottled up inside a single point at the big bang. That balloon you used as an example is all sheath and the air that is being blown into it is the passage of time. So the Balloon has no insides, everything is being ejected at the same time. So everything, including us, is still at the originator point. It's just that over time, the originator point has been smeared out into a giant sphere.
There actually is a "smouldering" piece of energy left over from the Big Bang. It's called the Cosmic Background Radiation and apppears in every direction of the sky. This is because the Big Bang itself occurred at every point in the Universe.
The amount of matter and energy in the Universe remains constant over time. But as time passes, space itself gets bigger and matter-energy has more room to spread out. Eventually, it cools, condenses, and clumps to form stars and galaxies. This all takes place inside an ever growing region which, for lack of a better word, we call space. Outside of this region, there is nothing. Or at least nothing that we can detect.
"Well, if the kid has an attention deficit, don't you think you should give him/her some attention?"
Acutally Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) refers to an inability to concentrate over long periods of time. These people tend to be easily distracted. It's really a very serious... Ooh! Jell-o! Gotta go.
who wants to see Arkady played by Julia Roberts anyways?
Arkady Darrel right? She pretty young; something like 14 or 15. They'd need somebody like Natalie Portman or Lacey Chabert for her character.
Oh jeez, I've just provoked the Segfault trolls!
As for Frohike, you're dead-on. OpenBSD all the way for him. I don't think he even entirely trusts his two partners. He probably has some heavy-duty encryption on all his hard drives. I wouldn't be surprised if he had some daemons set to do Nasty Things to his friends' machines if his machines detected something hostile coming from them.
That's probably true, plus Frohike would probably take the hard drive out of his computer and carry it with him whenever he had to turn it off for some reason.
But they already have a woman to lust after! Scully!
Personally, I think that Scully would be a Mac geek. Is that a contradiction in terms?
The Lone Gunman would be constantly fighting over which distro to use. Byers use Redhat with the KDE Desktop on his custom built Dell machine. Langely would be a Slackware/Debian fanatic with a dozen partitions on his hard drive and no case on his computer. Frohike would just sneer disdainfully at them as he upgrades the OpenBSD machine that he built in '95 with hardware that he steals from the IBM booth at Comdex every year.
i just want to know, what EXACTLY does Andover.net do, besides buying up linux-related web sites? Are they simply buying them up to give them more sites to sell their advertising to? what gives? a co-worker of mine has suggested they change their name to HandOver.net, much more applicable to their business practices.
According to this Upside article, Andover started out as a software retailer and switched to buying up "techie" websites and living off the ad revenues when the Internet started to get big. When Linux became the next big thing, they started buying up Linux websites.
Sometimes corporate hype is just too darned funny to take seriously.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I thought the most significant transaction in Linux history occured when Linus Torvalds was conceived.
The PC, that popular geek toy from 80s and 90s is dead. The PC was pronounced dead by Dr. Tom Engibous today during an emotional press conference.
Dr. Larry Ellison concurred, "Not only is the sucker dead, it's a miracle it hung on for so long. It would still be alive today if only it had taken my advice." Ellison went on to blame the PC's personal physician, Dr. Bill Gates, for its untimely death, claiming that under Gates' care the PC had become bloated and unusable. Dr. Gates denied the charges claiming that the PC was not dead, it was merely evolving into a higher life form. "With my patented Win32 snake oil, the PC will continue to thrive for years to come.
The PC's funeral was chaotic. The PC's coffin started to open as Dr. Ellison delivered its eulogy. Seeing this, Dr. Ellison leapt on the coffin and tried to sit on it to keep it shut. "Pay no attention to that," Ellison was quoted as saying. "That's just an autonomic reflex."
The mystery of the death of the PC has deepened as many people claim to have seen the PC since its alleged death. In fact police officials have refused to investigate the case claiming, that the PC is still alive. "Why I just consulted my PC to run a background check on a suspect," said a local police officer. "Every couple of years those same guys get together and try to fake the poor machine's death. I don't know what their problem is but if I were a PC, I wouldn't turn my back on those guys for one minute."
In addition to the police denials doctors at the Transmeta clinic claimed today that the PC is not only alive but is in fact one of their patients. "We just had Dr. Torvalds check the PC out yesterday," said the clinic manager. "He prescribed some Penguin juice for the bloating, but otherwise the PC is just fine."
Dr. Steve Jobs was busy staring at his own reflection and declined to comment.
486? you big girl blouse. We had a 386 sx16 running a MUSE. :P
Well, la di freakin' da! We had an 8088 and had to settle for jacking off to ASCII pr0n!
Anyone care to explain why they are TRI-corders? Seem to do a hell of a lot more then 3 things..
Seem is the operative word. Supposedly, everything they do can be boiled down to a combination of three functions: scanning, analyzing, and recording. Hence the word, tri-corder.
Anyone care to explain why they are TRI-corders? Seem to do a hell of a lot more then 3 things..
Seem is the operative word. Supposedly, everything they do can be boiled down to a combination of three functions: scanning, analyzing, and recording.
Anyway, there is a reason that PalmOS beat WinCE, and it wasn't necessarily the normal Microsoft bugginess. It was the fact that PalmOS just does what is needed, and doesn't have a bunch of extra fluff brought down from bigger machines. Would an embedded-linux be any different?
Part of the reason that WinCE does so poorly against the PalmOS has to do with its interface. A Start menu and desktop metafor simply takes up too much space to be useful on a small PDA screen. This is a separate (and IMHO more important) apart from bugginess or code bloat. Since Linux is at its heart a CLI OS, most processor cycles AFAIK are used up the X Window system and processes and services which would not be needed on a PDA and therefore would not need to be compiled.
I'm no Linux expert but my guess is that you can pretty much put up any interface you want on top of a slimmed down Linux kernel. Palm Computing for example is working with Symbian to run the PalmOS GUI on top of the Epoc32 kernel. There should be no reason, other than perhaps licensing, why someone couldn't do the same thing with Linux.
Similarly, it should be possible to create a webpad type device that would simply run Mozilla on top of a Linux kernel recompiled with only enough support for whatever was needed to run a browser plus wireless IR or radio support.
efforts to stick their fingers in the digital dike
Sorry, a phrase like that deserves repeating.
I agree. Perhaps we've found the right niche for Jon. Let's have a Slashdot political action committee to draw attention to tech issues in the presidential elections. Put Rob in suit and have Jon write inflamatory/attention getting speeches for him.
Hey, if we're going to sit around bitching and moaning over the latest censorship, encryption, whatever, outrage, we might as well get some press coverage out of it. Who knows? We might even change a few peoples minds on the subject.
Dude. That's only if you get fragged. Just what *IS* a frag anyway? Is that when I'm ramming my phat rox up yo skinny little ass?
I always assumed that it referred to old military slang for getting deliberately shot by your own troops. As in: "This Lieutenant is going to get us all killed. Let's frag his ass."
Maybe with the right code-morphing softare it can emulate the PalmOS. Or even run the Palm GUI on top of Mobile Linux kernel. Maybe? Pretty please?
Hmmm, a 400 MHz Palm Pilot. Maybe I'll try that color screen after all.
I think that Jon made some very good points with his first article. But this second one was largely pointless. Mostly he posted some complaints from other people and made overly sweeping generalizations this time.
Sexual harassment is hardly unique to the tech sector. Female fire fighters and construction workers are just as likely to fall victim to it as female Perl hackers or C programmers. Either way, I have seen female flamers that are just as vicious as male ones on Usenet, so I don't believe that it is just a matter of angry, white males taunting women. Idiots come in all shapes, sizes, and genders.
Slashdot aleady has some of the most sophisticated filtering and moderation tools you are likely to see in a web forum; so a lot of the problems that Jon complains about can simply be remedied by browsing at a higher threshold.
It's too bad about all the hate mail he keeps getting. But how much of it is self-inflicted? I have noticed that in the past that a lot of Jon's posts have been riddled with with stray characters like ?,&,=, and so forth. Most of his recent stories do not contain garbage characters. On the contrary, they are quite nicely formatted complete with horizontal rules for better readability. Isn't it at all possible that some of the taunts hurled at Jon for the fomatting of his previous posts might have encouraged him to improve his posting habits? I'm not trying to justify gratuitious flames, I'm just suggesting that not all criticism, even harsh criticism, is destructive.
By the way, I happen to be an Hispanic male. I don't usually feel the need to point that out but Jon's riffing on the white males in this article kind of bugged me.
then how come in in an article on the AFA site, he has introduced a bill that would help put filters in place in schools and libraries? Methinks a rat I smell.
First of all, that article wasn't the AFA site, it was a local newpaper's site.
Second, McCain said he wasn't familiar with the issue in that specific town. In other words, he supports filtering and even tried to get a filtering bill passed; but he doesn't know what's in the filtering law that's being proposed in Holland, Michigan and doesn't want to say he supports it until he does. He also claimed that he had never heard of the AFA.
This leads me to think that McCain was just covering his ass, in case the AFA turned out to be a bunch of extremist wackos (judging by their pamphlet, this appears to be the case).
I certainly hope this is the case, because I like McCain and don't like any of the other presidential candidates.
I think you're just mad because he actually *has* sex.
I agree. Here you have a man who has been crippled by a deadly disease and he can still get laid! What can be more inspiring than this amazing fact? Stephen Hawking is a and a source of hope to geeks everywhere because of this alone.