While it would still be neat to carry around a PDA that plays music, browses the web, acts as a universal remote, and does the dishes, more computer users are going to be using dedicated lines like DSL and cablemodem. I would like to see a PDA that works more closely with my computer--something more along the lines of a portable telnet/ssh client or even some type of X11 terminal (or RDP). It should have an ethernet port, IR, modem, or maybe even some type of wireless. This way, you'd be able to access the more powerful apps and larger data storage that live on your computer albiet from a less-than-ideal interface without having to worry about filling up scarce RAM with applications and data that can be accessed from your home or work computer.
To this very day, that's precisely what AOL represents... that enough money will overcome even the highest of principles, and that at some point, everyone sells out.
Exactly what are these highest (it's 420, do you know where your ganja is?) of principles you speak of? If we were living in a more perfect world, maybe Netscape and Nullsoft would work to get more sane copyright and privacy laws around the world, music would be free, and you can choose to live your life as an anonymous coward using any encryption you want. Yet somehow things never worked out that way, and Netscape and Nullsoft were just software companies after all, and never really had these highest of principles to sell out on in the first place.
You don't need to construct a mirror wormhole. From all that I've read about these things, having such a wormhole implies that there will be 2 entrances.
WARNING: please don't read further if you object to material about the use of illegal drugs
I have seen the new Disney in IMAX with the oppurtunity to use hallucinogens (in this case LSD, 5 hits of geltabs). I watched the original one on video while smoking ganja before/after dropping acid, and I got a ride to the theater where it was playing. I must say the new scenes are very visually striking. The Fantasia of the 1940s shows very obvious use of (AFAIK) opium by the animators and producers of the film (maybe why Mickey Mouse is on blotter acid often). It seemed a little bit less drug influenced but I must say some people must have been using various chemicals there with some of the effects. This movie almost seems to tie into the other "really hippy" feature a few days ago.
Transmeta's Mobile Linux will fragment Linux 2.4, but in a good way.
If I understood all the noise about Crusoe correctly, isn't Transmeta's Mobile Linux just another distribution? I don't see why the kernel needs to be fragmented just to support another architecture, and a fully x86 compatable one at that.
We could use the technology from the Regan Star Wars program to etch BarCoadFS data onto giant titanium palletes which would be copied and have the backup of the backup be sent to a deep cave in the moon for storage.
(Then again, maybe I should stop toking off my Klein Bottle Bong and seriously worry about this.)
Why is it that people burning CDs using IDE CD-Rs are always shutting down programs to burn CDs whereas I can play Quake3 or compile a kernel while I'm burning?
On a more serious note, I would really like to see some sort of benchmarks between IDE and SCSI drives of similar speed (ie. two 7200RPM drives with close seek times).
And btw, most motherboards have two on-board controllers, so having four disks takes approximately zero PCI slots if you're not attaching any other IDE devices.
You're missing the point. Since IDE do the sort of multi-tasking SCSI does, you're looking at a performance decrease by putting 2 disks on one controller (with only a primary and a secondary controller, you're only looking at 2 disks).
It would be really neat if they could make one into some sort of uh...waterpipe to smoke er...tobacco in it. It would be fun smoking out of something like that while pondering it's shape.
I have a real noisy computer due primarily to loud hard drives. My Seagate Barracuda 2.5GB and my Seagate 4.5GB Cheatah account for the majority of the noise. I have considered replacing the drives, but in order to get more scsi ultra-wide drives I'm looking at a hefty heap of cash, and the Cheatah is a really fast drive that I would hate to part with (it's part of a software raid array with two IBM drives).
I remember there used to be printer enclosures that worked quite well (our school had them for the OBNOXIOUS Apple dot matrix printers), but I have yet to see any sort of computer case designed for such a purpose. I am also considering buying an external scsi enclosure and just stuffing it under my bed, but those are also quite expensive and my fans tend to add a lot of noise too.
While most scsi drives are meant for servers that hide in far-away back rooms, I'm certain there has to be some type of geekware outlet that produces ear-friendly cases. Has anybody seen one?
As a kid, I was always interested in how computers worked and what I could do with them. I even got to participate in programs over the summer where I could learn BASIC at an early age at a local college (thank God I unlearned what little I did learn at an early age). It really brought out my creativity. I learned that a computer is not a scary black box, and that it was possible to understand how it works. Now whether your son or daughter would rather crack into a server to download credit card numbers or write their own video games is really up to the parents.
I wish this could have helped me for my speeding ticket. I got caught speeding in some little Wisconsin town 200 miles from where I live. Unfortunately, a court appearance was mandatory. Do you think they could let me say "guilty" to the judge on irc?
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While it would still be neat to carry around a PDA that plays music, browses the web, acts as a universal remote, and does the dishes, more computer users are going to be using dedicated lines like DSL and cablemodem. I would like to see a PDA that works more closely with my computer--something more along the lines of a portable telnet/ssh client or even some type of X11 terminal (or RDP). It should have an ethernet port, IR, modem, or maybe even some type of wireless. This way, you'd be able to access the more powerful apps and larger data storage that live on your computer albiet from a less-than-ideal interface without having to worry about filling up scarce RAM with applications and data that can be accessed from your home or work computer.
Exactly what are these highest (it's 420, do you know where your ganja is?) of principles you speak of? If we were living in a more perfect world, maybe Netscape and Nullsoft would work to get more sane copyright and privacy laws around the world, music would be free, and you can choose to live your life as an anonymous coward using any encryption you want. Yet somehow things never worked out that way, and Netscape and Nullsoft were just software companies after all, and never really had these highest of principles to sell out on in the first place.
You don't need to construct a mirror wormhole. From all that I've read about these things, having such a wormhole implies that there will be 2 entrances.
WARNING: please don't read further if you object to material about the use of illegal drugs
I have seen the new Disney in IMAX with the oppurtunity to use hallucinogens (in this case LSD, 5 hits of geltabs). I watched the original one on video while smoking ganja before/after dropping acid, and I got a ride to the theater where it was playing. I must say the new scenes are very visually striking. The Fantasia of the 1940s shows very obvious use of (AFAIK) opium by the animators and producers of the film (maybe why Mickey Mouse is on blotter acid often). It seemed a little bit less drug influenced but I must say some people must have been using various chemicals there with some of the effects. This movie almost seems to tie into the other "really hippy" feature a few days ago.
Transmeta's Mobile Linux will fragment Linux 2.4, but in a good way.
If I understood all the noise about Crusoe correctly, isn't Transmeta's Mobile Linux just another distribution? I don't see why the kernel needs to be fragmented just to support another architecture, and a fully x86 compatable one at that.
We could use the technology from the Regan Star Wars program to etch BarCoadFS data onto giant titanium palletes which would be copied and have the backup of the backup be sent to a deep cave in the moon for storage.
(Then again, maybe I should stop toking off my Klein Bottle Bong and seriously worry about this.)
Why is it that people burning CDs using IDE CD-Rs are always shutting down programs to burn CDs whereas I can play Quake3 or compile a kernel while I'm burning?
On a more serious note, I would really like to see some sort of benchmarks between IDE and SCSI drives of similar speed (ie. two 7200RPM drives with close seek times).
And btw, most motherboards have two on-board controllers, so having four disks takes approximately zero PCI slots if you're not attaching any other IDE devices.
You're missing the point. Since IDE do the sort of multi-tasking SCSI does, you're looking at a performance decrease by putting 2 disks on one controller (with only a primary and a secondary controller, you're only looking at 2 disks).
It would be really neat if they could make one into some sort of uh...waterpipe to smoke er...tobacco in it. It would be fun smoking out of something like that while pondering it's shape.
I have a real noisy computer due primarily to loud hard drives. My Seagate Barracuda 2.5GB and my Seagate 4.5GB Cheatah account for the majority of the noise. I have considered replacing the drives, but in order to get more scsi ultra-wide drives I'm looking at a hefty heap of cash, and the Cheatah is a really fast drive that I would hate to part with (it's part of a software raid array with two IBM drives).
I remember there used to be printer enclosures that worked quite well (our school had them for the OBNOXIOUS Apple dot matrix printers), but I have yet to see any sort of computer case designed for such a purpose. I am also considering buying an external scsi enclosure and just stuffing it under my bed, but those are also quite expensive and my fans tend to add a lot of noise too.
While most scsi drives are meant for servers that hide in far-away back rooms, I'm certain there has to be some type of geekware outlet that produces ear-friendly cases. Has anybody seen one?
The best way it seems would be to wear a force-feedback sort of suit and go to a zero-gravity environment.
As a kid, I was always interested in how computers worked and what I could do with them. I even got to participate in programs over the summer where I could learn BASIC at an early age at a local college (thank God I unlearned what little I did learn at an early age). It really brought out my creativity. I learned that a computer is not a scary black box, and that it was possible to understand how it works. Now whether your son or daughter would rather crack into a server to download credit card numbers or write their own video games is really up to the parents.
I wish this could have helped me for my speeding ticket. I got caught speeding in some little Wisconsin town 200 miles from where I live. Unfortunately, a court appearance was mandatory. Do you think they could let me say "guilty" to the judge on irc?