Those that make fun of the first group and those who are utterly baffled at using a singular noun to describe something that is only interesting in the plural.
Wireless in a big house necessitates repeaters (unless you don't mind bad signals), which means running some cables anyways.
I'm thinking that if your house is so big that you need repeaters that you can afford to contract out your networking. Or at the very least not consider saving money by reusing existing coax.
Why not just make the jump to wireless? Do you really need more that 56Mbps on a home LAN?
I did that six years ago when I started having to deal with my kids having their own computers on their desks to do homework for high school. (Mostly because after five minutes investigation I decided I never wanted to go into the insulated attic of my new house ever again if at all possible. Blown insulation is cheap an effective but it kind of makes the attic unusable without significant effort.)
I upgraded to the new 3GS. A few weeks later I was out rock climbing. While being lowered down, my wallet and phone decided to simultaneously vacate their respective pockets. The wallet was fine, but the phone's screen took a beating. Thankfully the cost I had to pay with my AMEX was equal to the cost of the repair, and AMEX covered it. Of course, I've gotten fed up enough with how Apple deals with the unlocking / tethering / app store details that when I'm done with this term, I'm going somewhere else.
There, now/. has another comment everyone can read and think, "Who cares?"
No, the reaction will be mostly: "An iPhone dropped off a cliff, oh you poor bastard.../hug "
One of the US founding fathers pointed out that unpopular speech is the speech that most needs to be protected.
Which is why I disagree with the German approach. What I'm pointing out is that it is completely unfair to equate the German censorship with the Chinese.
Your "we" is a bit too inclusive, and your post is a bit to parochial. For someone who agrees that it's OK to block Nazi sites while denying China's right to block certain cults' sites is a bit hypocritical.
Well, censorship is censorship, and censorship is bad but... and this is a big but... there is a fundamental difference between the Chinese government using censorship to suppress the fundamental human rights of its people and the German government using censorship to suppress an ideology that was responsible for the greatest human rights abuses and the worst mass murder in human history.
Personally I don't agree with the German governments approach, but I do understand the problem that they face. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. The average German appears to be perfectly willing to give up a very small part of their freedom of speech in order to differentiate themselves from the horrors that were committed in the past in their name.
And 640k should be enough for everyone. The world crazy place... who'd have imagined the impact that such diverse things as the PS3, ARM processors and Android would have had on the industry. If the mobile world goes off x86 (the death of the laptop) would power pcs be so hard to imagine?
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
I'd say that unintentionally, Firefly suffered/benefited from the early-termination effect - just as it started getting good, the end.
I was going to mention that too. Despite the fact that we lost the potential for the best SF TV series of all time I'm kind of glad that nobody got the chance to drive Firefly down into the dirt. Instead it stands like a brilliant set of short stories with no clear end. In my heart Firefly will be out there forever
They shouldn't oughta killed Book in the movie though... that just weren't right...
Let me Google that for you... in short assisted GPS is where you use the cell towers known physical position, along with the current time, to quickly locate and identify available satellites to speed up location acquisition.
Many devices that support AGPS will still work when cell towers are not available, but some won't.
In your defense, the only reason I know about this is having participated in the Openmoko mailing lists when the FreeRunner shipped and there was an initial issue with the GPS antenna picking up interference off one of the capacitors (?) connected to the microSD slot.
It's also an eBook reader with a traditional LCD display that burns your eyes as you stare at it for hours, as opposed to all the actual eBook readers that use e-ink displays which are frontlit, like paper, or a book.
I already spend most of my waking hours staring at an LCD screen in darkened rooms so I personally see this as a bit of a red herring. (I do read an awful lot of "conventional" printed books, but if I read outdoors in bright sunlight I get headaches already... so not being able to do it with a book reader is no loss for me since I do most of my reading in the evening.)
Depends on how you spin it. I look at it as an eBook reader with an awesome web browser, GPS, WiFi, 3G, local storage, a MP3 player and access to the thousands of apps in the app store. Which, personally, is exactly what I've been waiting for to hit the market to handle my eBook and casual browsing needs. I'm sure I'm not alone here.
Oh, you were waiting for a Nokia N900?
Certainly the same price point and many of the same features. I've been tempted by the N900. But since my current phone already fits my needs nicely I'm more tempted by the iPad as a bookreader/browser. (But my inner geek is conflicted... handheld linux is just so damn sexy)
Depends on how you spin it. I look at it as an eBook reader with an awesome web browser, GPS, WiFi, 3G, local storage, a MP3 player and access to the thousands of apps in the app store. Which, personally, is exactly what I've been waiting for to hit the market to handle my eBook and casual browsing needs. I'm sure I'm not alone here.
Android fanboys never had a solid reason to claim that Android is more open than iPhone. Sure, it runs (modified) Linux. But that doesn't imply openness.
Well I won't call myself a fanboy since my phone is a Blackberry, but Android is the most open phone platform out there. Name another successful platform for which most of the source code is freely available,whose bug database is publicly accessible and accepts patches?
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From Wikipedia:
For a software developer being a pedant is useful. Those who recognize that take a certain pride in it.
Whens the last time you tried to create anything interesting by stacking fish? Didn't think so!
My mother was a fishmonger you heartless bastard!
Oh wait...
Those that make fun of the first group and those who are utterly baffled at using a singular noun to describe something that is only interesting in the plural.
Like fish, and sheep...
For the rest of us, they're simply called LEGOS.
The world is divided into two groups, those that call them Legos and those that make fun of the first group.
Wireless in a big house necessitates repeaters (unless you don't mind bad signals), which means running some cables anyways.
I'm thinking that if your house is so big that you need repeaters that you can afford to contract out your networking. Or at the very least not consider saving money by reusing existing coax.
This sounds like a question from the 90s.
Why not just make the jump to wireless? Do you really need more that 56Mbps on a home LAN?
I did that six years ago when I started having to deal with my kids having their own computers on their desks to do homework for high school. (Mostly because after five minutes investigation I decided I never wanted to go into the insulated attic of my new house ever again if at all possible. Blown insulation is cheap an effective but it kind of makes the attic unusable without significant effort.)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081104084210.htm
I'd suggest you do some reading. How would you like that crow?
Stir fried with extra garlic please.
I learned something on Slashdot that had nothing to do with computers! Who knew?
I upgraded to the new 3GS. A few weeks later I was out rock climbing. While being lowered down, my wallet and phone decided to simultaneously vacate their respective pockets. The wallet was fine, but the phone's screen took a beating. Thankfully the cost I had to pay with my AMEX was equal to the cost of the repair, and AMEX covered it. Of course, I've gotten fed up enough with how Apple deals with the unlocking / tethering / app store details that when I'm done with this term, I'm going somewhere else.
There, now /. has another comment everyone can read and think, "Who cares?"
No, the reaction will be mostly: "An iPhone dropped off a cliff, oh you poor bastard... /hug "
Coral doesn't grow in the Baltic sea, though this probably isn't a great idea for some of the stationary shellfish in nearby costal waters.
That was a far more polite answer than I could come up with.... coral in the Baltic? Other aquatic life yes.... but coral? *expletive deleted*
> It's a story about ideas...
"Ideas"? You want the guy to sprain his brain or something?
How can he sprain that which does not exist?
One of the US founding fathers pointed out that unpopular speech is the speech that most needs to be protected.
Which is why I disagree with the German approach. What I'm pointing out is that it is completely unfair to equate the German censorship with the Chinese.
Your "we" is a bit too inclusive, and your post is a bit to parochial. For someone who agrees that it's OK to block Nazi sites while denying China's right to block certain cults' sites is a bit hypocritical.
Well, censorship is censorship, and censorship is bad but... and this is a big but... there is a fundamental difference between the Chinese government using censorship to suppress the fundamental human rights of its people and the German government using censorship to suppress an ideology that was responsible for the greatest human rights abuses and the worst mass murder in human history.
Personally I don't agree with the German governments approach, but I do understand the problem that they face. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. The average German appears to be perfectly willing to give up a very small part of their freedom of speech in order to differentiate themselves from the horrors that were committed in the past in their name.
They will most certainly never return to Power.
And 640k should be enough for everyone. The world crazy place... who'd have imagined the impact that such diverse things as the PS3, ARM processors and Android would have had on the industry. If the mobile world goes off x86 (the death of the laptop) would power pcs be so hard to imagine?
I would have expected a 4chan fan to have a better sense of humor...
On hand hand this is malignant censorship, the forebode to a society with no free information. On the other hand, this is 4chan.....
I was going to say the same thing. I am torn between condemning them or nominating them for a Nobel Prize for acting for the good of all humanity.
is...
Nexus 6 Roy Batty... "I want more life f....er"
I heard his voice....
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
Still my favorite line/scene in any movie
I'd say that unintentionally, Firefly suffered/benefited from the early-termination effect - just as it started getting good, the end.
I was going to mention that too. Despite the fact that we lost the potential for the best SF TV series of all time I'm kind of glad that nobody got the chance to drive Firefly down into the dirt. Instead it stands like a brilliant set of short stories with no clear end. In my heart Firefly will be out there forever
They shouldn't oughta killed Book in the movie though... that just weren't right...
They always say that Science is catching up to Science Fiction. Now it appears that Science is catching up to Paranormal as well.
Actually my thought was this sounds a lot like the treatments talked about in Heinlein's Methuselah's Children
Let me Google that for you... in short assisted GPS is where you use the cell towers known physical position, along with the current time, to quickly locate and identify available satellites to speed up location acquisition.
Many devices that support AGPS will still work when cell towers are not available, but some won't.
In your defense, the only reason I know about this is having participated in the Openmoko mailing lists when the FreeRunner shipped and there was an initial issue with the GPS antenna picking up interference off one of the capacitors (?) connected to the microSD slot.
It's also an eBook reader with a traditional LCD display that burns your eyes as you stare at it for hours, as opposed to all the actual eBook readers that use e-ink displays which are frontlit, like paper, or a book.
I already spend most of my waking hours staring at an LCD screen in darkened rooms so I personally see this as a bit of a red herring. (I do read an awful lot of "conventional" printed books, but if I read outdoors in bright sunlight I get headaches already... so not being able to do it with a book reader is no loss for me since I do most of my reading in the evening.)
Isn't this just a big expensive iPod touch now?
Depends on how you spin it. I look at it as an eBook reader with an awesome web browser, GPS, WiFi, 3G, local storage, a MP3 player and access to the thousands of apps in the app store. Which, personally, is exactly what I've been waiting for to hit the market to handle my eBook and casual browsing needs. I'm sure I'm not alone here.
Oh, you were waiting for a Nokia N900?
Certainly the same price point and many of the same features. I've been tempted by the N900. But since my current phone already fits my needs nicely I'm more tempted by the iPad as a bookreader/browser. (But my inner geek is conflicted... handheld linux is just so damn sexy)
Isn't this just a big expensive iPod touch now?
Depends on how you spin it. I look at it as an eBook reader with an awesome web browser, GPS, WiFi, 3G, local storage, a MP3 player and access to the thousands of apps in the app store. Which, personally, is exactly what I've been waiting for to hit the market to handle my eBook and casual browsing needs. I'm sure I'm not alone here.
Name another successful platform for which most of the source code is freely available,whose bug database is publicly accessible and accepts patches?
Maemo? Openmoko?
Maemo is a good one, only on one phone so far though. Openmoko is a joke. (And I have a FreeRunner... running Android)
Android fanboys never had a solid reason to claim that Android is more open than iPhone. Sure, it runs (modified) Linux. But that doesn't imply openness.
Well I won't call myself a fanboy since my phone is a Blackberry, but Android is the most open phone platform out there. Name another successful platform for which most of the source code is freely available,whose bug database is publicly accessible and accepts patches?
the woosh.
*Wakes up* ... uh... that a deadline or something I missed?