You must be a wuss, in highschool I biked a half hour to school, then up to my after school job, and then 45 minutes back home after my shift. I had my work uniform, school texts, binders loaded with paper, and a wallstreet G3. One of the heaviest laptops I've owned. That's an hour and a half daily on a bike with that load, and I never once had a problem. Tightened the straps and hauled ass.
Maybe I am a wuss but I haven't been in high school for 25 years. At my age wear and tear from vibration and dynamic loads becomes and issue. I have a back problem and I can't carry just anything.
Actually I prefer the trackpad on my EeePC 701 to the one on my MBP. I find it more precise and I prefer the texture of it.
Have I lost all credibility now?
No, I find the 701 track pad perfectly okay. The only problem is that when I run the laptop off a cheap inverter in my car noise gets into the track pad and it is useless.
1.45 kg is just slightly too much in my opinion. I love my 701 weighing in at just over 900 grams, I'd prefer a model weighing 1.3 kg or less.
Yeah... cause lugging around the extra weight equivalent of couple of Mars bars is more than anyone should be forced to endure.
It all adds up. I can take my 701 to work on my bike. Carrying a load momentum is the real problem, not weight. For me the 701 belongs with my multimeter and GPS. Its an instrument, just not as specialised as the others.
My Wii is called wii as well. I have an FVWM script which I runs on my network administration workstation. It pings each node in the house once a minute and tells me what is up and what is not. The wii seems to log on to the wifi from time to time when it is meant to be switched off. I wonder if anybody else has noticed that behaviour?
Where I work the conference rooms are named after wine growing areas. The problem with using real places is you might actually want to have a real meeting there one day and after that you get endless confusion.
And since we are off topic. One boss of mine from years ago liked to name our system passwords after words which he thought should be familiar to us like "endurance" and "diligance".
everything that's bad for your privacy and your sanity is enabled by default so you have to play whack-a-mole trying to find what annoying "feature" is coming from where before you find the checkbox to turn it off.
My sister loves that kind of stuff and there are more people like her in the world than people like you or me.
Really, Fermi's Paradox sounds like me saying that if I sit on a lonely beach for a week and don't find a bottle with a message in it in proper English, there are no other intelligent beings in the world.
If you sit on a lonely beach for a week and you don't find any garbage with writing on it then you really are alone in the world, but I don't think that would happen.
Yeah but I don't think that would fool radio astronomers. Most modulation schemes will at least give you a corrupted signal if demodulated incorrectly. I am more interested in the notion that highly compressed signals are indistinguishable from noise. Maybe some of the astronomical objects we think we have discovered are something else entirely.
But they would get a lot of information from the signal regardless. The doppler shift would give them information about our planets rotation and orbit. Absorption bars in the signal gives them information about our atmosphere.
I have read elsewhere that two Arecibo telescopes could communicate with each other at a distance of 1000 light years, so I think setting a limit of 1000 light years is too conservative.
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BSD is the only licence that is compatible with MS business practice.
So can I get windows and word with a BSD license?
I feel so torn. On one had here is a chance to be paid to work on netbsd. On the other hand the job is with Microsoft.
No until I can get a PDF reader that allows me to add bookmarks to any page to cotinue reading at a later time.
And I would also like the capability to mark part of the pages (even if it is not text but a big image a yellow marker is fine).
But because Free readers exist for most platforms you are Free to add those features if you wish. Doesn't that satisfy the goals of the FSF?
Yes I should change it.
You must be a wuss, in highschool I biked a half hour to school, then up to my after school job, and then 45 minutes back home after my shift. I had my work uniform, school texts, binders loaded with paper, and a wallstreet G3. One of the heaviest laptops I've owned. That's an hour and a half daily on a bike with that load, and I never once had a problem. Tightened the straps and hauled ass.
Maybe I am a wuss but I haven't been in high school for 25 years. At my age wear and tear from vibration and dynamic loads becomes and issue. I have a back problem and I can't carry just anything.
Additionally all of the readers for Free Operating Systems should count as MacOSX readers as well. At the very least xpdf would work fine on OSX.
...so is the Free PDF readers campaign over now?
Actually I prefer the trackpad on my EeePC 701 to the one on my MBP. I find it more precise and I prefer the texture of it. Have I lost all credibility now?
No, I find the 701 track pad perfectly okay. The only problem is that when I run the laptop off a cheap inverter in my car noise gets into the track pad and it is useless.
1.45 kg is just slightly too much in my opinion. I love my 701 weighing in at just over 900 grams, I'd prefer a model weighing 1.3 kg or less.
Yeah... cause lugging around the extra weight equivalent of couple of Mars bars is more than anyone should be forced to endure.
It all adds up. I can take my 701 to work on my bike. Carrying a load momentum is the real problem, not weight. For me the 701 belongs with my multimeter and GPS. Its an instrument, just not as specialised as the others.
My Wii is called wii as well. I have an FVWM script which I runs on my network administration workstation. It pings each node in the house once a minute and tells me what is up and what is not. The wii seems to log on to the wifi from time to time when it is meant to be switched off. I wonder if anybody else has noticed that behaviour?
Kermit could also be a service.
Where I work the conference rooms are named after wine growing areas. The problem with using real places is you might actually want to have a real meeting there one day and after that you get endless confusion.
And since we are off topic. One boss of mine from years ago liked to name our system passwords after words which he thought should be familiar to us like "endurance" and "diligance".
Our main domain is based of 24 and named CTU. Each server on said domain is a character from 24; Bauer, Palmer, Chloe, and so on.
And do they keep going bad, one after another?
My home file server is called "server". My web servers are numbered using the last digit of their IP address (s0, s1, s2, etc).
everything that's bad for your privacy and your sanity is enabled by default so you have to play whack-a-mole trying to find what annoying "feature" is coming from where before you find the checkbox to turn it off.
My sister loves that kind of stuff and there are more people like her in the world than people like you or me.
Really, Fermi's Paradox sounds like me saying that if I sit on a lonely beach for a week and don't find a bottle with a message in it in proper English, there are no other intelligent beings in the world.
If you sit on a lonely beach for a week and you don't find any garbage with writing on it then you really are alone in the world, but I don't think that would happen.
Our self regard makes us think of human like intelligence as the inevitable pinnacle of life. Perhaps we are wrong about that.
Yeah but I don't think that would fool radio astronomers. Most modulation schemes will at least give you a corrupted signal if demodulated incorrectly. I am more interested in the notion that highly compressed signals are indistinguishable from noise. Maybe some of the astronomical objects we think we have discovered are something else entirely.
I think Fi is way too high.
A simple sunshade would do wonders.
I personally think high order intelligence is a lot less likely than we think. Mainly because it is so hard to achieve.
But they would get a lot of information from the signal regardless. The doppler shift would give them information about our planets rotation and orbit. Absorption bars in the signal gives them information about our atmosphere.
I have read elsewhere that two Arecibo telescopes could communicate with each other at a distance of 1000 light years, so I think setting a limit of 1000 light years is too conservative.
Many people around the world still communicate by primitive means. Why should an alien civilisation be homogeneous?
What if the anonymous reader who submitted this was Roland P.? Wouldn't we wanna know that?
That would certainly be something.