I have a Palm m500. It's b&w. The battery it is starting to go a bit soft. If I leave it off the charger for more than a week or so it goes dead. It used to be good for at least two.
Your innocence is touching. The fact is that the device's specs say that it runs for "up to6 hours." (Bold and italics are both mine.) My marketing-speak interpreter tells me that if you depend on this thing for navigation you're going to be in a world of hurt if you ever decide to use the backlight.
As it happens, I'm an Eagle Scout and was US Army Airborne. I know how to use a topo map and compass. I know how to behave sensibly when I don't have access to either.
I expect that a large portion of the target audience for this thing doesn't have these skills.
Software versions and CPU speeds (and then ratings) haven't been enough marketing fodder. Now we have to face an exponentially increasing "Level" factor.
This is the whole "everything" 2000 all over again.
You know, it's funny. I really hesitate to wear my cell phone on my belt. My sisters, the fashion mavens, insist that this is perfectly okay. I feel like it is too geeky. I guess that they don't remember that people used to carry slide-rules and, later, calculators, on their belts. Habits that were proof against sex.
The tech/geek world has turned completely on its head.
If you have a vision for "the ideal" distro, you should implement it.
On the other hand, your needs aren't the same as everyone else's. Your ideals aren't the same as everyone else's. I happen to value Free Software ideology very highly. I'll happily use a lower quality, less complete, less featureful package that is Free vice one that is better in every way, but is not Free.
But I don't presume to tell you that this is what you should do.
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Three?
1. Fox video stereo edition
2. "THX" edition
3. Laserdisc
4. Special Edition
5. Special Edition - Letterbox
6. Special Edition on DVD
That's just what I'm sure of off the top of my head. I would guess that the Fox video version was also available on Betamax, but I'm not sure.
-Peter
I have a Palm m500. It's b&w. The battery it is starting to go a bit soft. If I leave it off the charger for more than a week or so it goes dead. It used to be good for at least two.
-Peter
Are you sure? The specs actually say that it is good for "up to" six hours. I think that you're being overly optimistic.
-Peter
Your innocence is touching. The fact is that the device's specs say that it runs for "up to 6 hours." (Bold and italics are both mine.) My marketing-speak interpreter tells me that if you depend on this thing for navigation you're going to be in a world of hurt if you ever decide to use the backlight.
-Peter
As it happens, I'm an Eagle Scout and was US Army Airborne. I know how to use a topo map and compass. I know how to behave sensibly when I don't have access to either.
I expect that a large portion of the target audience for this thing doesn't have these skills.
-Peter
Sorry guys, I have to go plug my PDA/GPS into my tent.
A PDA with 8 hours of battery life is useless. A GPS with 8 hours of battery life is dangerous.
Eeew.
-Peter
You mean Sharkey's end.
-Peter
I remember back when the moon was in orbit. Man, those were the days.
-Peter
Simple statistics, madam. No cretinism whatever.
-Peter
This is slashdot. And you assumed a post was written by a woman?
Anyway, guys nipples are sensitve too. Don't be so suburban.
-Peter
Software versions and CPU speeds (and then ratings) haven't been enough marketing fodder. Now we have to face an exponentially increasing "Level" factor.
This is the whole "everything" 2000 all over again.
-Peter
You know, it's funny. I really hesitate to wear my cell phone on my belt. My sisters, the fashion mavens, insist that this is perfectly okay. I feel like it is too geeky. I guess that they don't remember that people used to carry slide-rules and, later, calculators, on their belts. Habits that were proof against sex.
The tech/geek world has turned completely on its head.
-Peter
Uh, why waste time repealing it, when you can just ignore it?
My SSN was my college ID. It was my military ID. Colorado wanted to make it my DL number "for my convenience," but I declined.
Try to get credit without giving it some time. You can't so much as rent a video without your SSN.
The bitter irony is that I hold out no hope that I'll ever use my Social Security Number to collect . . . Social Security.
-Peter
They all have the magstripe now. That's your national ID. Thanks to both a Republican Congress and the Clinton White House.
Did you notice that they took your thumb print? That's a "Federal"* deal as well.
-Peter
*Amazing the way that word has been set upon its head.
Decentralization.
Does that include divesting the Union government of the powers it has accrued after its formation?
Specifically, would you support decentralizing all environmental law, by leaving it to the states and private citizens?
-Peter
Right. Just like Apache vs. IIS.
It seems like we could declare this argument debunked at this stage of the game.
Firefox can't be updated automatically? Or it isn't updated automatically with MS tools?
I'm sure that an admin of merely average ingenuity could come up with an automated process for updating Firefox on windows.
Or are you trying to make the argument that MS is abusing its monopoly position?
-Peter
I heard my ex-wife has a new boyfriend. Congrats.
-Peter
I can tell. The CRT is brighter and has a wider viewing angle.
-Peter
A tradition . .
I can't. It's just too easy.
-Peter
If you have a vision for "the ideal" distro, you should implement it.
On the other hand, your needs aren't the same as everyone else's. Your ideals aren't the same as everyone else's. I happen to value Free Software ideology very highly. I'll happily use a lower quality, less complete, less featureful package that is Free vice one that is better in every way, but is not Free.
But I don't presume to tell you that this is what you should do.
-Peter
You know, that's the part of that scene that everyone always quotes, but when Jay says "Internet? What the fuck is the Internet?" it always slays me.
-Peter
PS: Affleck was not the bomb in Phantoms. Phantoms was a piece of shit.
-P
No, but they can deliver more life-like performances.
-Peter
PS: I say this in spite of the fact that "Chasing Amy" is one of my top 5 favorite movies.
-P
Is there any way to snarf these? I can download them at work, but I can only listen at home. But no Internet connection at home :-(
-Peter
This is from memory, so please forgive the errors.
"He had 120 prophylactic kits in his footlocker! How the hell is he going to have the strength to fight the Germans?"
-Lt. Sobel, Band of Brothers
-Peter
Because they haven't awakened and had their revolution yet.
Think about it; they have a monarchy, and they like it.
-Peter