I would disagree with this for the vast majority of business users, and most developers too.
All the marketing/sales/management tools in every office I've worked in have been well served by average laptops. Just to be swank everyone here just got the IBM X40 line, which is 12" size, and connects to the monitor, keyboard, mouse, already on the desk. Definitely good for people who basically run word and outlook for their job, and easy to carry to the conference room or the client's site.
I'm a little more on the development side, so I need to run a zillion ram and processor intensive apps at the same time (Flash IDE, Actionscript editor, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, MySQL, XML Socket Server, Flash Communication Server, XML editor, Fireworks) and I found the X40 a bit anemic.
So I went and got myself an X31 with a Pentium M 1.6, a gig of ram, 16mb Mobility Radeon, a 5400rpm HD, and it frickin' hauls. This is in the same form factor as the X40s, it's a 12" and weighs 3.6 pounds (super light). Basically I wanted a mobile dev box/server and it totally works, but when you unplug it it will run for about 4 hours at variable processor speed. If you like the cli^H^H^H "Trackpoint" and a resolution of 1024x768 on the built in LCD this will do you nice as is, otherwise, close the lid and hook it up to the components on your desk. The proc is supposed to be about as fast as a 2.8 P4. I don't do any 'real' compiling (just Flash) so I don't know what happens when you load it down, but I'm convinced.
Basically, my point is that you can get a desktop replacement in a tiny notebook as long as an internal optical drive isn't a requirement (just use a usb one). Also, if you go on the IBM site, or call them, and say that you are a student or a developer then you can get about $400 bucks off one of these.
Mostly, because it is so small and light, but can still run all the apps I need for a long time on the battery I've found a greater sense of freedom about work. I can work for hours in a cafe, the park, in bed, on the can, I even took it to the gym yesterday and wrote a small webapp while riding the exercise bike (using the bookstand thing).
yup, the Google toolbar. This also works the same way the Alexa toolbar does. It basically watches what sites you visit and adds them to the list to be spidered. Thus, if you have some 'secret' pages, which are protected only by url name obscurity and no inbound links, if anyone using one of those toolbars (and maybe the yahoo one too) cruises by that page it will be likely to get crawled.
I'd rather outsource to Wipro than use a Japanese coder because it's 10 times cheaper.
So to a business, who doesn't care about my cost of living/relative earning power, I look super expensive.
Thus anyone working in Japan has to do 10 times the work for the same money. You must bust your ass to work in Japan. I suspect that the Japanese are like this because all their manufacturing jobs went to China 10 years or so before America's did, and they are already used to it, or something.
I also think you could make the argumement that you do wind up 10X richer in the end. I have a friend whose plan is to retire to Sri Lanka at 35. Yen and dollars go a long way there, if you've decided the culture is for you.
Also, I'm definitely hot for Indian women, but really, nothing cheers you up from the soul crushing depression of working Japanese hours better than miniskirts on the subway.
If they can successfully outsource that to India I'll move. (And yes, I dig the sari, but it really doesn't compare.)
These two dorks above have no idea what they're talking about.
Clearly the parent messed up his math somewhere, but people in Japan work retarded long hours. I'm on hour 11 of a (likely) 13 hour day, and I'm not even tripping.
My boss carries on his relationship with his wife and son by phone.
A couple guys at my friend's office worked for like 36 hours straight for a presentation, surviving on coffee, cigarettes (they smoke at their desks, that's why the Japanese were the ones who invented the smokeless USB ashtray), and food from 7-11. At about 7am one dude, who had fallen asleep in his chair, woke up with a start, puked all over himself and keyboard, and then realized he had been wasting time sleeping so he lit a cigarette and got back to work.
My friend has since left Japan, and I'm considering the same given that clients regularly want to have meetings beginning at 9pm, and they expect the requested changes to be ready the next day.
You might say, "hey, you're an idiot for working that long, and your company's management sucks ass for scheduling shit like that" and you'd be right. You'd also see that the IT/web/advertising industry in the entire country is like that. If you told your boss to cram it you wouldn't have a job, no matter how good you are.
The REAL US crash is coming (IT, manufacturing, and a devalued currency all at once is gonna be great!), so wait til it hits and then write back. The Japanese have been riding their shitty recession out for 15 years and this is what it looks like. The banks are still getting ready to pay the piper, but IT related guys are gonna have to work like they're Indians, no matter where in the world they are. Shit, we make 10 times what our Indian counterparts make, so double the hours doesn't seem so bad.
The good: I make loot and my tax rate is 20%, including first rate universal healthcare.
The better: miniskirts and firm ass far as the eye can see.
When your phone snaps a photo it makes a loud "click" which is pretty recognizable. Not all phones use the same sound, but they're similar.
This system was developed to prevent guys from taking pictures up girls skirts on the subway.
This is just the price of the social contract in Japan. Wanna have 25% of the female population wear a mini-skirt each day? Gotta have cameras that click. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to me at all.
The interesting thing is that this isn't a law or government regulated thing at all. The phone manufacturers just decided that it was the right thing to do. There's a monoculture at work for ya.
P.S.: No, tape will not really muffle the sound at all. It's been tried.
Have you ever looked at the numbers? I find that facts frequently stop a debate dead in it's tracks.
Troop totals from April 23, 2004 (most recently I could easily find: http://www.cfr.org/background/background_troop_rei nforcements.php)
(and by the way, these stats are definitely favorable to your ideas because our 'allies' have been going home as soon as possible.)
TOTAL: 158,800
* US: 135,000 - 85%
* Britain: 8,700 - 5%
* Italy: 3,000 - 1% (hey, didn't they already bail out after one guy got kidnapped?)
* Poland: 2,400 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT (and aren't they getting ready to go home?)
* Ukraine: 1,650 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Netherlands: 1,000 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Thailand: 900 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Australia: 850 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Romania: 700 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* South Korea: 600 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* The remaining 20 countries contribute a total of 3,900 soldiers. - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
How do you cite El Salvador and and Mongolia as sources of international support?
I mean seriously, are you just trolling?
The Philippines is one of the best examples, and I tease my Philippino friend about it all the time.
They send 50 people to drive trucks. One got kidnapped. The whole country freaked out. They bribed the terrorists, and then took all their people home, where that trucker was greeted as a hero.
I thought that we never should have gone to Iraq in the first place, and think that the current administration is entirely to blame for the whole thing and they should be held accountable.
I also think that we're there now, and we have a duty to do things right by the Iraqi people before we leave.
But if you think that having allies like the Philippines is helpful or a show of international support, you are mistaken. Fairwhether friends do not make an international coalition.
Um, so what's so different about the fetus's personhood 1 day before the third trimester?
It's not viable, even with serious equipment.
Now the intersting thing is that "serious equipment" is a moving target. But the basic argument is that it can't develop outside the womb if it were, for instance, born that prematurely.
I think this is the definition of viability for fetuses, but I'm getting a little murky on the terms. Of course that's a grey area too, which is why doctor's have to consult with women to determine that a fetus is not viable before a regular abortion takes place. Please disagree with this if I'm wrong.
However, I do agree with your point that it is the snuffing out of a potential human life. It just doesn't bother me, what with the overpopulation and AIDS killing a zillion people a day.
Shit, starving people all over the world who have kids are basically sentencing a certain percentage of them to death. Where's the outrage about that? At least abortion is a well reasoned choice, where you take responsibility for your own action when it matters: before you make a mistake that leads to years of easy-to-measure human suffering.
To really clear the air, I'd even let you say life began with conception, and that abortion was actually killing a real live person. I just wouldn't call it murder, with all the punishment attached. If we're gonna have penicillin, clearly a human invented way of choosing which people to keep alive, I can't see the moral dilemma in choosing which people to prevent from being alive. The same could be said about distribution of food and medicine on a world wide scale. The Catholics are at least consistent on this one, they're pro-life for everything.
Interesting point about the not-aborted daughters, but I totally disagree. Certainly some of those girls are happy and have an excellent life and relationship with their mothers because they were born at the right time. How many too-young unwed mothers produce children that will go with them to political rallys? So I think their sentiment does make sense, choosing to end a pregnancy through abortion allows you to provide the best life for your eventual child.
"I had a dream the other night that all the babies prevented by the pill came back.
"Falacious" has too positive a sounding word for the content of your statements here, so I'll stick with the ever reliable "bullshit."
A) Late term abortion isn't promoted by anyone except for the reason of the mother's health. There aren't any abortion advocates really trying to argue about things after the third trimester. This issue is a total red herring, and it's intended effect is to make the entire issue of abortion about killing babies as opposed to flushing a non-viable bundle of cells.
"The CDC estimates that 58 percent of legal abortions occur within the first eight weeks of gestation, and 88 percent are performed within the first 12 weeks. Only 1.5 percent occur after 20 weeks (CDC, 2003)."
(Feel free to argue the bias of the source, I'll find another: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/library/facts/abo taft1st_010600.html)
STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT, but propaganda-wise it's a goldmine. Your graphic description is just an emotional ploy, totally unrelated to the actual facts of the debate. However, this seems to be a successful trend with the current administration, so I can't fault you for jumping on the rhetorical bandwagon.
Let's face it, the fundamental issue is when someone becomes a person. Since there is a fair percentage of us who don't buy the bible's explanation, and some others who don't buy the doctor's explanation ('cause you know, they're only doctors), we have to discuss it in the middle. The plan that the anti-abortion team has is to get anything they can into law that talks about the life of the fetus near the edge of the current grey area so that they have a beachhead to argue from. Same argument as killing a pregnant mother counting as a double murder. Certainly not supported by current abortion law, but they figure if they can sneak it into criminal law they can work it around eventually.
Personally, I think you should be able to abort until the end of potty training.
B) Ok, the Kerry thing has to be just trolling but I'll bite.
First, no one can deny that the situation in Iraq after the invasion is totally borked, most especially the total lack of international support.
Second, no one can deny that John Kerry's military service, whatever it is, is orders of magnitude more real than George Bush's, whatever it is. The guy actually carried a gun and shot people he could see. I'm pretty certain that gives a person important perspective on the concept of war.
The current administration is so full of chickenhawks they had to build a database to hold them. http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user _action=list&category=%20NEWS%3B%20Chickenhawk s
C) Here's the most important thing you're missing. Iraq and abortion aren't that important issues in my mind. A president who consistently lies to the American public about important issues (jizz in the oval office being a not-important issue, for instance), and who surrounds himself with people who do the same, is not qualified for the job. People support Kerry not because he's pro-abortion but because he seems like less of a liar than the current guy.
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t he_thx_sound_with_just_my_voice.mp3
It's rad.
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It's been done, a long time ago. The flash is aging now, but the data and idea are as strong as ever.
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I would disagree with this for the vast majority of business users, and most developers too.
All the marketing/sales/management tools in every office I've worked in have been well served by average laptops. Just to be swank everyone here just got the IBM X40 line, which is 12" size, and connects to the monitor, keyboard, mouse, already on the desk. Definitely good for people who basically run word and outlook for their job, and easy to carry to the conference room or the client's site.
I'm a little more on the development side, so I need to run a zillion ram and processor intensive apps at the same time (Flash IDE, Actionscript editor, Dreamweaver, Coldfusion, MySQL, XML Socket Server, Flash Communication Server, XML editor, Fireworks) and I found the X40 a bit anemic.
So I went and got myself an X31 with a Pentium M 1.6, a gig of ram, 16mb Mobility Radeon, a 5400rpm HD, and it frickin' hauls. This is in the same form factor as the X40s, it's a 12" and weighs 3.6 pounds (super light). Basically I wanted a mobile dev box/server and it totally works, but when you unplug it it will run for about 4 hours at variable processor speed. If you like the cli^H^H^H "Trackpoint" and a resolution of 1024x768 on the built in LCD this will do you nice as is, otherwise, close the lid and hook it up to the components on your desk. The proc is supposed to be about as fast as a 2.8 P4. I don't do any 'real' compiling (just Flash) so I don't know what happens when you load it down, but I'm convinced.
Basically, my point is that you can get a desktop replacement in a tiny notebook as long as an internal optical drive isn't a requirement (just use a usb one). Also, if you go on the IBM site, or call them, and say that you are a student or a developer then you can get about $400 bucks off one of these.
Mostly, because it is so small and light, but can still run all the apps I need for a long time on the battery I've found a greater sense of freedom about work. I can work for hours in a cafe, the park, in bed, on the can, I even took it to the gym yesterday and wrote a small webapp while riding the exercise bike (using the bookstand thing).
yup, the Google toolbar. This also works the same way the Alexa toolbar does. It basically watches what sites you visit and adds them to the list to be spidered. Thus, if you have some 'secret' pages, which are protected only by url name obscurity and no inbound links, if anyone using one of those toolbars (and maybe the yahoo one too) cruises by that page it will be likely to get crawled.
Sure, that's exactly my point.
I'd rather outsource to Wipro than use a Japanese coder because it's 10 times cheaper.
So to a business, who doesn't care about my cost of living/relative earning power, I look super expensive.
Thus anyone working in Japan has to do 10 times the work for the same money. You must bust your ass to work in Japan. I suspect that the Japanese are like this because all their manufacturing jobs went to China 10 years or so before America's did, and they are already used to it, or something.
I also think you could make the argumement that you do wind up 10X richer in the end. I have a friend whose plan is to retire to Sri Lanka at 35. Yen and dollars go a long way there, if you've decided the culture is for you.
Also, I'm definitely hot for Indian women, but really, nothing cheers you up from the soul crushing depression of working Japanese hours better than miniskirts on the subway.
If they can successfully outsource that to India I'll move. (And yes, I dig the sari, but it really doesn't compare.)
These two dorks above have no idea what they're talking about.
Clearly the parent messed up his math somewhere, but people in Japan work retarded long hours. I'm on hour 11 of a (likely) 13 hour day, and I'm not even tripping.
My boss carries on his relationship with his wife and son by phone.
A couple guys at my friend's office worked for like 36 hours straight for a presentation, surviving on coffee, cigarettes (they smoke at their desks, that's why the Japanese were the ones who invented the smokeless USB ashtray), and food from 7-11. At about 7am one dude, who had fallen asleep in his chair, woke up with a start, puked all over himself and keyboard, and then realized he had been wasting time sleeping so he lit a cigarette and got back to work.
My friend has since left Japan, and I'm considering the same given that clients regularly want to have meetings beginning at 9pm, and they expect the requested changes to be ready the next day.
You might say, "hey, you're an idiot for working that long, and your company's management sucks ass for scheduling shit like that" and you'd be right. You'd also see that the IT/web/advertising industry in the entire country is like that. If you told your boss to cram it you wouldn't have a job, no matter how good you are.
The REAL US crash is coming (IT, manufacturing, and a devalued currency all at once is gonna be great!), so wait til it hits and then write back. The Japanese have been riding their shitty recession out for 15 years and this is what it looks like. The banks are still getting ready to pay the piper, but IT related guys are gonna have to work like they're Indians, no matter where in the world they are. Shit, we make 10 times what our Indian counterparts make, so double the hours doesn't seem so bad.
The good: I make loot and my tax rate is 20%, including first rate universal healthcare.
The better: miniskirts and firm ass far as the eye can see.
This system is alreay in place in Japan.
When your phone snaps a photo it makes a loud "click" which is pretty recognizable. Not all phones use the same sound, but they're similar.
This system was developed to prevent guys from taking pictures up girls skirts on the subway.
This is just the price of the social contract in Japan. Wanna have 25% of the female population wear a mini-skirt each day? Gotta have cameras that click. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to me at all.
The interesting thing is that this isn't a law or government regulated thing at all. The phone manufacturers just decided that it was the right thing to do. There's a monoculture at work for ya.
P.S.: No, tape will not really muffle the sound at all. It's been tried.
Have you ever looked at the numbers? I find that facts frequently stop a debate dead in it's tracks.
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(and by the way, these stats are definitely favorable to your ideas because our 'allies' have been going home as soon as possible.)
Troop totals from April 23, 2004 (most recently I could easily find: http://www.cfr.org/background/background_troop_re
TOTAL: 158,800
* US: 135,000 - 85%
* Britain: 8,700 - 5%
* Italy: 3,000 - 1% (hey, didn't they already bail out after one guy got kidnapped?)
* Poland: 2,400 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT (and aren't they getting ready to go home?)
* Ukraine: 1,650 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Netherlands: 1,000 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Thailand: 900 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Australia: 850 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* Romania: 700 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* South Korea: 600 - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
* The remaining 20 countries contribute a total of 3,900 soldiers. - NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT
How do you cite El Salvador and and Mongolia as sources of international support?
I mean seriously, are you just trolling?
The Philippines is one of the best examples, and I tease my Philippino friend about it all the time.
They send 50 people to drive trucks. One got kidnapped. The whole country freaked out. They bribed the terrorists, and then took all their people home, where that trucker was greeted as a hero.
I thought that we never should have gone to Iraq in the first place, and think that the current administration is entirely to blame for the whole thing and they should be held accountable.
I also think that we're there now, and we have a duty to do things right by the Iraqi people before we leave.
But if you think that having allies like the Philippines is helpful or a show of international support, you are mistaken. Fairwhether friends do not make an international coalition.
Um, so what's so different about the fetus's personhood 1 day before the third trimester?
It's not viable, even with serious equipment.
Now the intersting thing is that "serious equipment" is a moving target. But the basic argument is that it can't develop outside the womb if it were, for instance, born that prematurely.
I think this is the definition of viability for fetuses, but I'm getting a little murky on the terms. Of course that's a grey area too, which is why doctor's have to consult with women to determine that a fetus is not viable before a regular abortion takes place. Please disagree with this if I'm wrong.
However, I do agree with your point that it is the snuffing out of a potential human life. It just doesn't bother me, what with the overpopulation and AIDS killing a zillion people a day.
Shit, starving people all over the world who have kids are basically sentencing a certain percentage of them to death. Where's the outrage about that? At least abortion is a well reasoned choice, where you take responsibility for your own action when it matters: before you make a mistake that leads to years of easy-to-measure human suffering.
To really clear the air, I'd even let you say life began with conception, and that abortion was actually killing a real live person. I just wouldn't call it murder, with all the punishment attached. If we're gonna have penicillin, clearly a human invented way of choosing which people to keep alive, I can't see the moral dilemma in choosing which people to prevent from being alive. The same could be said about distribution of food and medicine on a world wide scale. The Catholics are at least consistent on this one, they're pro-life for everything.
Interesting point about the not-aborted daughters, but I totally disagree. Certainly some of those girls are happy and have an excellent life and relationship with their mothers because they were born at the right time. How many too-young unwed mothers produce children that will go with them to political rallys? So I think their sentiment does make sense, choosing to end a pregnancy through abortion allows you to provide the best life for your eventual child.
"I had a dream the other night that all the babies prevented by the pill came back.
They were pissed."
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"Falacious" has too positive a sounding word for the content of your statements here, so I'll stick with the ever reliable "bullshit."
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A) Late term abortion isn't promoted by anyone except for the reason of the mother's health. There aren't any abortion advocates really trying to argue about things after the third trimester. This issue is a total red herring, and it's intended effect is to make the entire issue of abortion about killing babies as opposed to flushing a non-viable bundle of cells.
"The CDC estimates that 58 percent of legal abortions occur within the first eight weeks of gestation, and 88 percent are performed within the first 12 weeks. Only 1.5 percent occur after 20 weeks (CDC, 2003)."
(Feel free to argue the bias of the source, I'll find another: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/library/facts/ab
STATISTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT, but propaganda-wise it's a goldmine. Your graphic description is just an emotional ploy, totally unrelated to the actual facts of the debate. However, this seems to be a successful trend with the current administration, so I can't fault you for jumping on the rhetorical bandwagon.
Let's face it, the fundamental issue is when someone becomes a person. Since there is a fair percentage of us who don't buy the bible's explanation, and some others who don't buy the doctor's explanation ('cause you know, they're only doctors), we have to discuss it in the middle. The plan that the anti-abortion team has is to get anything they can into law that talks about the life of the fetus near the edge of the current grey area so that they have a beachhead to argue from. Same argument as killing a pregnant mother counting as a double murder. Certainly not supported by current abortion law, but they figure if they can sneak it into criminal law they can work it around eventually.
Personally, I think you should be able to abort until the end of potty training.
B) Ok, the Kerry thing has to be just trolling but I'll bite.
First, no one can deny that the situation in Iraq after the invasion is totally borked, most especially the total lack of international support.
Second, no one can deny that John Kerry's military service, whatever it is, is orders of magnitude more real than George Bush's, whatever it is. The guy actually carried a gun and shot people he could see. I'm pretty certain that gives a person important perspective on the concept of war.
The current administration is so full of chickenhawks they had to build a database to hold them. http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?use
C) Here's the most important thing you're missing. Iraq and abortion aren't that important issues in my mind. A president who consistently lies to the American public about important issues (jizz in the oval office being a not-important issue, for instance), and who surrounds himself with people who do the same, is not qualified for the job. People support Kerry not because he's pro-abortion but because he seems like less of a liar than the current guy.
Hey, this is my first angry slashdot post! Now where's my ribbon?
dea9
seriously, it's run by Rob Cockerham who is my fookin hero. He's hardcore DIY, but not really on the tech side but more on installations for entertaining social engineering (read: pranks).
Also, check his killer Halloween costumes, which are good enough to win at the ILM party!
http://cockeyed.com