I have EeePCLinuxOS on an SD card for a full Linux desktop, but I hardly ever use it. The built-in Xandros has Thunderbird, Firefox, Pidgin, and bash. That's all I need, really. It boots in ~30sec.
The built-in SSD shows up as an IDE drive, so you can install whatever you want on it.
The big selling point for the EeePC in my case was the size. It's about the size of a paperback, and weighs the same. I can carry it around the office under my notepad to pull up a browser, email, or SSH session whenever I need it. It's replaced a much more powerful Dell and gave me more productivity.
The converter boxes are subsidized because the FCC mandated this switchover and set the timetable for it. They're the ones pushing for it because they want spectrum for emergency services and to auction off a chunk for mobile devices. I'm sure whatever the government is paying to subsidize these boxes will be made up for by what they get from Verizon, Sprint, et al.
I have a great 15" laptop that I used to carry around with me almost everywhere. If I needed to take notes on something, look something up, check email, or manage a server I could.
The EeePC lets me do all that, but with a small 2lb computer instead of a full-blown laptop. Let me be clear: this isn't a machine for marathon coding sessions or gaming.
Instead of selling a movie for $10 to $20 in a store, they could sell a rental DVD for $1 to $2 which will expire on its own. They have those DVDs now, don't they? They stop working after a number of uses.
Yeah, Circuit City tried that back in the 90s, called DIVX. From Wikipedia:
DIVX was a rental format variation on the DVD player in which a customer would buy a DIVX disc (similar to a DVD) for approximately $4 US, which was watchable for up to 48 hours from its initial viewing. After this period, the disc could be viewed by paying a continuation fee, typically $3.25.
People (especially here on Slashdot) were outraged. People griped about not owning the disc for infinite plays, and about the ecological impact of throwaway plastic discs.
I wish I had mod points. Well, I wouldn't be able to use them anyway because I've been posting on this article. But if I could use 'em, you'd have one.
I'm subscribed to the Google group that was pointed out earlier, and I'm overwhelmed with email from it. I'm only up to 1:42am last night in the conversation so far. At that point, people were pondering the significance of color pixels in a PNG graphic used as a border to one of the clues. It looks like one of those 2d barcodes, so it can't be just a pretty border.
The challenge was cute when it involved writing a few Javascript functions. Toward the end it just gets obnoxious.
Given the timing of all this, I have to wonder if this mysterious employer is really looking for people willing to work through Christmas.:)
I wonder how they're styling that fancy little box up there. As a web developer, I worry they might introduce an element with the same ID as something I'm trying to access with Javascript, or maybe they're introducing CSS classes into the page.
Of course, I also wonder if I could add #rogersbox { display: none; } to my own CSS.
I blogged about this case and another like it this morning. There's a 71 year-old man in Las Vegas being harassed by neighbors because his apartment is listed as the address of a sex offender who never gave the authorities his new address.
This guy is getting harassed and is afraid to leave his house anymore.
This vigilante crap needs to stop. Innocent people are getting their lives ruined (not like it was hard to see that coming).
According to the LA Times article, his crimes on the web site included "oral copulation with a person under 14 or by force." In this case, it was the latter. But Oliver thought it was the former (or didn't see the word "or" there).
Is this some new trend in the business world? I read the other day that some bigwig at Sony was saying the high-def format war was a mistake, and it seems like there's been a rush of new Blu-Ray ads since then.
Is this some kind of distraction tactic?
A lot of you are complaining that they are basically strip mining our childhood and taking these awesome shows and turning them into mediocre movies with big-budget special effects. Well, yea, they are, but I don't think its completely their own fault.
You're right, there are sinister forces at work, and the results could be disastrous.
The WHAT-WG, the group behind the HTML 5 proposal, was founded by folks from Apple, Mozilla, and Opera. IE may not support it right away, but I think it's a safe bet the other browsers will.
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I have EeePCLinuxOS on an SD card for a full Linux desktop, but I hardly ever use it. The built-in Xandros has Thunderbird, Firefox, Pidgin, and bash. That's all I need, really. It boots in ~30sec. The built-in SSD shows up as an IDE drive, so you can install whatever you want on it.
The big selling point for the EeePC in my case was the size. It's about the size of a paperback, and weighs the same. I can carry it around the office under my notepad to pull up a browser, email, or SSH session whenever I need it. It's replaced a much more powerful Dell and gave me more productivity.
With the sizes of traces on CPU dies these days, I imagine having a technology like this waiting in the wings will pay in a few years.
How about Ultima I, released in 1980? The VIC-20 wasn't released until 1981, and Ultima I didn't make it to the 64 until 1986.
I don't know anybody that does play games on their computer. I guess that's the universe balancing itself out.
Funny, when I saw the resolution on this thing (roughly 800z480), my first thought was "EeePC".
The converter boxes are subsidized because the FCC mandated this switchover and set the timetable for it. They're the ones pushing for it because they want spectrum for emergency services and to auction off a chunk for mobile devices. I'm sure whatever the government is paying to subsidize these boxes will be made up for by what they get from Verizon, Sprint, et al.
I have a great 15" laptop that I used to carry around with me almost everywhere. If I needed to take notes on something, look something up, check email, or manage a server I could.
The EeePC lets me do all that, but with a small 2lb computer instead of a full-blown laptop. Let me be clear: this isn't a machine for marathon coding sessions or gaming.
It may be possible to reconstruct fingerprints from the template data stored about them. There's no documented case of this being done in the field, but there's a paper on it at http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~ross/pubs/RossReconstruct_SPIE05.pdf
I really don't like using biometric data as passwords for anything as important as health records, since they're irrevocable.
Not all of us tie our self-worth to what we drive.
I wish I had mod points. Well, I wouldn't be able to use them anyway because I've been posting on this article. But if I could use 'em, you'd have one.
:)
I'm subscribed to the Google group that was pointed out earlier, and I'm overwhelmed with email from it. I'm only up to 1:42am last night in the conversation so far. At that point, people were pondering the significance of color pixels in a PNG graphic used as a border to one of the clues. It looks like one of those 2d barcodes, so it can't be just a pretty border.
The challenge was cute when it involved writing a few Javascript functions. Toward the end it just gets obnoxious.
Given the timing of all this, I have to wonder if this mysterious employer is really looking for people willing to work through Christmas.
Plus there's an uneven distribution of birthdays. Seems a lot of kids are conceived when it's cold out...
Run by "Samuel Smiles", who was a biographer that wrote about "heroic" engineers in the 1800s.
Why do I feel like I stepped into the middle of someone's Atlas Shrugged fantasy?
I think you're overthinking that part there. The succession took place in *512*. (512/2)-1 = 255.
http://85.255.210.131/ comes back with a page that says "yes".
I stopped by http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/ for a look-see.
If the talent they're looking for involves figuring out undocumented code with function names like "f" and variable names like "d", I think I'll pass.
Kudos for having testable code, though.
Well, depending on what's considered canon...
(This post is off to a bad start)
* Domino from Team Knight rider was a Mustang
and
* The car in Knight Rider 2010 was a Mustang
So it's not like there isn't a history of the franchise using Mustangs...
That's 50 miles per imperial gallon. The mpg is lower in US gallons:
(5.6 litres) per (100 km) = 42.0026043 miles per US gallon.
Still pretty nice. Is that with the diesel engine or the gas one?
It looks like they're loading the page you wanted to visit inside an iframe, so CSS & Javascript probably aren't going to be issues.
I wonder how they're styling that fancy little box up there. As a web developer, I worry they might introduce an element with the same ID as something I'm trying to access with Javascript, or maybe they're introducing CSS classes into the page.
Of course, I also wonder if I could add #rogersbox { display: none; } to my own CSS.
I blogged about this case and another like it this morning. There's a 71 year-old man in Las Vegas being harassed by neighbors because his apartment is listed as the address of a sex offender who never gave the authorities his new address. This guy is getting harassed and is afraid to leave his house anymore. This vigilante crap needs to stop. Innocent people are getting their lives ruined (not like it was hard to see that coming).
According to the LA Times article, his crimes on the web site included "oral copulation with a person under 14 or by force." In this case, it was the latter. But Oliver thought it was the former (or didn't see the word "or" there).
Is this some new trend in the business world? I read the other day that some bigwig at Sony was saying the high-def format war was a mistake, and it seems like there's been a rush of new Blu-Ray ads since then. Is this some kind of distraction tactic?
The WHAT-WG, the group behind the HTML 5 proposal, was founded by folks from Apple, Mozilla, and Opera. IE may not support it right away, but I think it's a safe bet the other browsers will.