When the battery does run low, the solid state drive is them written to the traditional storage. When power is restored, it is retrieved. Same thing as suspending laptops now. Problem solved...
Being that tens of thousands are starving to death each month, or more, it is saving lives to feed someone who is starving to death. What isn't know is who actually gets the supplies that are dropped.
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You can buy recumbent HPVs for road use, but down there the trucks aint gonna see you. keeping out the way should give you an extra speed boost even if nothing else does. Some models have things like flags on long poles to give you a chance of being seen.
Have you actually riden a recumbent? My RANS Rocket has an aerodynamic advantage over an upright, and I ride it safely on the street. Instead of looking at my front wheel, I am in a upright position looks at drivers directly in the eye at their eye level. I am far from invisible. I also can ride 100 miles in a day without sore arms, neck, and wrists and without feeling like I just got a prostate exam with a weed eater.
Please learn just a little about the subject before making ignorant flippant remarks. You sould like one of the upright riders I recently toasted...:)
You just reinforced his argument. The Headline said Air Force, but the plane was an F-14, which you also said was a Navy only plane. Hence, his statement that the headline was written by morons is correct.
Why don't you get a clue before correcting someone.
Hmm.. Useless Pocket Word or Wordsmith for the Palm? I've used Pocket Word. It stunk. You have a great PDA for word processing, just pick up Wordsmith and a folding keyboard.
I don't see any palm devices playing mpeg video any time soon
"Kill the people, preserve the industry" becomes "Kill the people, preserve the land."
Actually, this sounds like it will do a bunch to preserve industry. That is the current defense industry. "OK, we have to throw away all the current weapons and factories are working around the clock to give us better ones." It would really be better for the environment if we just didn't keep killing each other.
Where I was working, they told me to move back, 'cause they had to put more boxes in my cubicle.
Then they made me move into the basement and told me to get some spray for the roach problem.
Then. Then, somebody stole my stapler. We had been using the Swingline stapler, and they wanted to switch, but I didn't want to switch. And they, they......somebody stole my stapler.
I'll burn down the building...
I use Palm Reader (umm just kidding) (formerly Peanut Reader) for books I purchase from them and iSilo for plain text, html, or web site downloading. Some also use AvantGo for web, but it is too slow syncing for me.
People who read lots of book, those that would see the greatest benefits of a portable reader, actually love books themselves!
Not always true. I read lots of books, but I hate having all these books around. It seems like a waste. When I finish one book, I would have to look for the next book. Where did I put it again?
Now when I finish a book, I select delete. Then I open the next and read. The passive display of the Visor greyscale is as nice on the eyes as paper. And the tactile fixation with page turning has been replaced with my tactile fixation of the down button. By the way, I do use eBooks to get away from the monitor at the end of the day (and I'm a geeky twenty-five year old, so you were off by ten years, I guess.) No one wants to sit at a PC to read an eBook.
It is also much harder to open up a paper back in the middle of a boring meeting and read a couple pages.:)
...unfortunately I have to "steal" them. Even though I can buy the paperback for $6, the companies wants me to pay hard cover prices for electronic copies. Forget that. I'll buy the paper back, then download a copy of the book from a newsgroup and iSilo it onto my Visor (which I feel that I have a right to use with my ownership of the paperback). It is great reading a part of a book anytime you have a free moment. With my Visor always with me, I always have 4+ books at my disposal. When I finish a book, I delete it and give the paper back to the library. Wouldn't it be much simpler to sell me the electronic copy for $6?
My fortune this afternoon was pretty much on the mark:
I did some heavy research so as to be prepared for "Mommy, why is the sky blue?"
HE asked me about black holes in space.
(There's a hole *where*?)
I boned up to be ready for, "Why is the grass green?"
HE wanted to discuss nature's food chains.
(Well, let's see, there's ShopRite, Pathmark...)
I talked about Choo-Choo trains.
HE talked internal combustion engines.
(The INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE said, "I think I can, I think I can.")
I was delighted with the video game craze, thinking we could compete
as equals.
HE described the complexities of the microchips required to create the graphics.
Then puberty struck. Ah, adolescence.
HE said, "Mom, I just don't understand women."
(Gotcha!)
-- Betty LiBrizzi, "The Care and Feeding of a Gifted Child"
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Get a Libretto 100 or 110 from eBay. About $400, the size of a video cassette. Max of 64 Meg ram. Pentium 166 (many overclock) and add a 20 gig drive. The ultimate small portable MP3 machine.
The first planet he landed on had three moons. The last one had a continent that looked alot like North America. I think it is safe to say they are different planets.
It would be easier to get a real world fix on your stolen goods (laptop or desktop... doesn't matter) with a radio transmitter than it would be with an IP address. And since the goods in question have all the electrical power they would need for that sort of thing, it should be pretty easy.
I would have to seriously disagree. Your radio signal has a very short detectable range. You need a decent signal to DF. The IP address sent with data when the computer gets on-line can be caputured from anywhere (as long as the receiving server is on-line). With a radio transmitter, the theif must live in your neighborhood to even have a chance.
Another idea might be to use GPS if it can be done... Every time you connect to the net, it sends out its GPS coordinates to your favourite web host.:)
Doubtful that the computer would be setup anywhere with a clear view of the GPS satelites.
Both hardware solutions are expensive for that rare theft possibility.
I never thought about this, but it is an interesting idea. Has anyone programmed a hidden bomb that must be disabled every couple times you boot up, by the user. If this disabling action isn't completed after a few boots, it starts sending information to a secure location. Just give them enough leway to hang themselves. (Of course, this assumes they are on the net.)
Although, the first thing I would do if someone handed me a computer is format and reload all the drives...
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When the battery does run low, the solid state drive is them written to the traditional storage. When power is restored, it is retrieved. Same thing as suspending laptops now. Problem solved...
Saving lives?
Yeah, that's PR for you.
Being that tens of thousands are starving to death each month, or more, it is saving lives to feed someone who is starving to death. What isn't know is who actually gets the supplies that are dropped.
You can buy recumbent HPVs for road use, but down there the trucks aint gonna see you. keeping out the way should give you an extra speed boost even if nothing else does. Some models have things like flags on long poles to give you a chance of being seen.
:)
Have you actually riden a recumbent? My RANS Rocket has an aerodynamic advantage over an upright, and I ride it safely on the street. Instead of looking at my front wheel, I am in a upright position looks at drivers directly in the eye at their eye level. I am far from invisible. I also can ride 100 miles in a day without sore arms, neck, and wrists and without feeling like I just got a prostate exam with a weed eater.
Please learn just a little about the subject before making ignorant flippant remarks. You sould like one of the upright riders I recently toasted...
Ever hear of a capacitor? It stores energy by polarizing metal. By the way: IT IS A TV SHOW!
Actually they won't. Since you posted, you cannot moderate. Good try though. :)
TV guid... ...on-screen tv guid
:)
What does a Global Unique Identifier (GUID) have to do with TV viewing?
You just reinforced his argument. The Headline said Air Force, but the plane was an F-14, which you also said was a Navy only plane. Hence, his statement that the headline was written by morons is correct.
Why don't you get a clue before correcting someone.
For as expensive as it is, I hope they aren't running their current site on it:
The site isn't doing so well.
Hmm.. Useless notes program, or pocket word?
Hmm.. Useless Pocket Word or Wordsmith for the Palm? I've used Pocket Word. It stunk. You have a great PDA for word processing, just pick up Wordsmith and a folding keyboard.
I don't see any palm devices playing mpeg video any time soon
You need this why?
Possibly because no one will trust AOL with the news they provide?
"Kill the people, preserve the industry" becomes "Kill the people, preserve the land."
Actually, this sounds like it will do a bunch to preserve industry. That is the current defense industry. "OK, we have to throw away all the current weapons and factories are working around the clock to give us better ones." It would really be better for the environment if we just didn't keep killing each other.
...as if viruses and SPAM didn't take up enough bandwidth.
Thats Nothing!
Where I was working, they told me to move back, 'cause they had to put more boxes in my cubicle. ...somebody stole my stapler.
Then they made me move into the basement and told me to get some spray for the roach problem.
Then. Then, somebody stole my stapler. We had been using the Swingline stapler, and they wanted to switch, but I didn't want to switch. And they, they...
I'll burn down the building...
think Office Space
I use Palm Reader (umm just kidding) (formerly Peanut Reader) for books I purchase from them and iSilo for plain text, html, or web site downloading. Some also use AvantGo for web, but it is too slow syncing for me.
People who read lots of book, those that would see the greatest benefits of a portable reader, actually love books themselves!
:)
Not always true. I read lots of books, but I hate having all these books around. It seems like a waste. When I finish one book, I would have to look for the next book. Where did I put it again?
Now when I finish a book, I select delete. Then I open the next and read. The passive display of the Visor greyscale is as nice on the eyes as paper. And the tactile fixation with page turning has been replaced with my tactile fixation of the down button. By the way, I do use eBooks to get away from the monitor at the end of the day (and I'm a geeky twenty-five year old, so you were off by ten years, I guess.) No one wants to sit at a PC to read an eBook.
It is also much harder to open up a paper back in the middle of a boring meeting and read a couple pages.
...unfortunately I have to "steal" them. Even though I can buy the paperback for $6, the companies wants me to pay hard cover prices for electronic copies. Forget that. I'll buy the paper back, then download a copy of the book from a newsgroup and iSilo it onto my Visor (which I feel that I have a right to use with my ownership of the paperback). It is great reading a part of a book anytime you have a free moment. With my Visor always with me, I always have 4+ books at my disposal. When I finish a book, I delete it and give the paper back to the library. Wouldn't it be much simpler to sell me the electronic copy for $6?
Netscrape hasn't been an alternative to IE since version 4.
My fortune this afternoon was pretty much on the mark:
I did some heavy research so as to be prepared for "Mommy, why is the sky blue?"
HE asked me about black holes in space.
(There's a hole *where*?)
I boned up to be ready for, "Why is the grass green?"
HE wanted to discuss nature's food chains.
(Well, let's see, there's ShopRite, Pathmark...)
I talked about Choo-Choo trains.
HE talked internal combustion engines.
(The INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE said, "I think I can, I think I can.")
I was delighted with the video game craze, thinking we could compete as equals.
HE described the complexities of the microchips required to create the graphics.
Then puberty struck. Ah, adolescence.
HE said, "Mom, I just don't understand women."
(Gotcha!)
-- Betty LiBrizzi, "The Care and Feeding of a Gifted Child" %
Get a Libretto 100 or 110 from eBay. About $400, the size of a video cassette. Max of 64 Meg ram. Pentium 166 (many overclock) and add a 20 gig drive. The ultimate small portable MP3 machine.
How is this established...?
The first planet he landed on had three moons. The last one had a continent that looked alot like North America. I think it is safe to say they are different planets.
Though having Pericles land so smoothly right in the middle of the battle was of course a very big stretch.
Only the timing (to land during the battle) is a stretch. He woul dhave homed in on the same signal that Marky used to get back to the ship.
You're new here, aren't you?
:)
His user id is somewhere up near our national debt, so I would have to say yes.
It would be easier to get a real world fix on your stolen goods (laptop or desktop... doesn't matter) with a radio transmitter than it would be with an IP address. And since the goods in question have all the electrical power they would need for that sort of thing, it should be pretty easy.
:)
I would have to seriously disagree. Your radio signal has a very short detectable range. You need a decent signal to DF. The IP address sent with data when the computer gets on-line can be caputured from anywhere (as long as the receiving server is on-line). With a radio transmitter, the theif must live in your neighborhood to even have a chance.
Another idea might be to use GPS if it can be done... Every time you connect to the net, it sends out its GPS coordinates to your favourite web host.
Doubtful that the computer would be setup anywhere with a clear view of the GPS satelites.
Both hardware solutions are expensive for that rare theft possibility.
At least my delete key actually deletes characters, Mr. Ctrl H... :)
I never thought about this, but it is an interesting idea. Has anyone programmed a hidden bomb that must be disabled every couple times you boot up, by the user. If this disabling action isn't completed after a few boots, it starts sending information to a secure location. Just give them enough leway to hang themselves. (Of course, this assumes they are on the net.)
Although, the first thing I would do if someone handed me a computer is format and reload all the drives...