I have several windows apps that intentionally switch the cancel/ok/register buttons around on every start, I have to say that is at least worse than any "nonstandard standard."
You know that you're supposed to register Winzip one day?
I've had good luck with the above driver for the Lucent winmodem in my Dell laptop (Inspiron 4000). I recall using it with 2.6 kernels (back on broadband).
CompGeeks.com has a used hardware modem for less than $14 and a Agere winmodem with Lucent chipset for less than $10. I'd double check it works though before buying the winmodem (by fcc id or chipset model).
does raid in hardware unlike most (all?) promise, yadda yadda, software raid faster than battery-backed hardware, yadda yadda yadda, do you really need hot swap? if not, software raid, yadda yadda
iNotes as in Lotus Domino webmail? What kind of sadist buys Domino and then makes people out in the field on modem lines use iNotes instead of the Domino client? The whole sale point of the Domino client is replication!
I used swaret to upgrade my slackware current install to the X.org packages (x11). Everything worked but fonts rendered poorly (I did recompile and symlink all the freetype libraries to my version that has the bytecode rendering enabled) and my Synaptics touchpad (Dell laptop) didn't function properly in regards to the advanced features. I didn't notice the second item as I don't use those features (my brother does) but the first problem, with the fonts, was very annoying. I'm going back to slackware 9.1 when I get a chance.
I just put in a new 40 gb drive so I loaded up Windows XP to get a little experience with it. Not too bad but Cleartype is a little funky even with 32 bit video. I prefer the freetype rendering under X when it is working nicely.
Maybe someone will figure out how to use the.DLL files (see how the various video codecs are usable on linux doing this) but given the popularity of MP3, I suspect nobody wants to invest the time.
I disagree. I'm not going to judge the music as I just don't feel like it but I don't think it is A+B. All the beats are sampled from the album, not just the 3-second chunks. There are a lot of beats.
In my opinion, A+B would simply the vocals laid over the White Album.
That isn't what they did. They took samples from the White Album. Some samples are long chunks, some are just drum beats. Then they synced Jay-Z's vocals with the samples.
1) Wireless built-in with the hope that the built-in mini-PCI card would be more efficient than a PCMCIA card.
2) If you want a CD-RW or DVD-RW drive, buy it at the same time as getting the laptop. Even if you don't want one, you can buy it and sell it on eBay at an immediate $100 profit (at least with Dell stuff).
3) If you want a huge drive in there, look at getting it seperately. That was the cheaper option for me and now I have an extra 10 GB laptop drive to play with.
I'm with you--the Sony CD/MP3 players are really cool. I've read that part of the great battery life can be attributed to the player converting the inertia of the spinning down disc into energy. Just like an electric car using braking to regain power.
I got the D-NE518CK for $70 over at Amazon. It's very similar to the D-NE510 except it has a car kit and it's black.
Doesn't the two line LCD display make odd folder naming not required? I still haven't had a chance to play with mine because it got shipped to a different state.
Maybe you should make a deal with your girlfriend--you'll talk for x amount of minutes for y amount of minutes of sex talk. Yeah, yeah, stop being prude. You're seperated by a vast difference. You've got drives. She's got drives.
I haven't been in this situation but it's the first thing that popped to mind that might make your phone conversations a little more exciting (and thus last more than 3 minutes).
I noticed the same thing and my desktop has a CRT monitor while the laptop is much less eye-straining LCD. I agree with the other poster-I can move my laptop around on my lap or on the floor. I can easily tilt the screen. I can't do the same with my 21" monitor. I think my real ergonomic problem with the desktop is that the table it is on is too high.
I get a pain on my back on the mid left side whenever I use my desktop with the MS Natural keyboard and an optical mouse (I'm right handed). The laptop is so much nicer to use.
I just reread my original post--thanks for addressing my other questions about India. The other post I just made was a bit flippant considering I had indeed actually asked about India's social system. My apologies.
That's great but were talking about non-Indian folks coming to India. I'm not saying the culture is backwards but it would at least be somewhat of a change if a massive exodus of geeks from America started arriving tomorrow. I really doubt that would happen but what if?
My point with the communicating was that in some cases the American in India would be a better go between for the programmer to customer interaction. Again, it's not because India is backwards at all--just because the American would have an easier time handling relations with other Americans.
Do you think that Indian firms would hire American coders?
What will happen... You can look at the whole "Cheaper Drugs in Canada" issue. As more and more Americans buy their drugs up there, the more and more the Canadian system will be strained. Prices up there will increase, and Canadians will be chanting "Blame America"...
Do you really think the drug companies say, "Hrmm... Okay, let's ship 30 billion units to Cananda and see what the market will bear?"
Using perscription drugs as an example of market economics is idiotic.
I wonder what it would be like to actually do this--somehow I think all the things our culture here has been hashing over, like affirmative action(*), would be severely lacking in India. Maybe as a celebrity American you'd be able to earn a living but you could also experience what discrimination is like.
Does anyone know how open Indian culture is to such things? I suspect the saturation point of American celebrity would be met very quickly.
I also suspect that your role in India would be communicator--not coder.
* If that gets your panties in a bundle, please stand up and unwedge them. While affirmative action might have been struck down in some places the awareness that came with these laws, for good or for bad, is here to stay.
Ah! I didn't get what you meant at first. I would consider running testing on servers. To be perfectly honest, once 2.6 stabalizes, I'd prefer a nice OS released around it. Maybe it will be Debian. I haven't given up completely on it.
I don't take offense at all--debating this is interesting. It would be really cool if one day I could rave about Debian stable. It could happen!
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Yeah, 1 cup of coffee lasts about as long as 1 pack of cigs. Umm... ?
I have several windows apps that intentionally switch the cancel/ok/register buttons around on every start, I have to say that is at least worse than any "nonstandard standard."
You know that you're supposed to register Winzip one day?
I agree. We should let convicted serial killers back out every couple years "just to double check." You never know!
http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/
I've had good luck with the above driver for the Lucent winmodem in my Dell laptop (Inspiron 4000). I recall using it with 2.6 kernels (back on broadband).
CompGeeks.com has a used hardware modem for less than $14 and a Agere winmodem with Lucent chipset for less than $10. I'd double check it works though before buying the winmodem (by fcc id or chipset model).
Obligatory 3ware post...
www.3ware.com
does raid in hardware unlike most (all?) promise, yadda yadda, software raid faster than battery-backed hardware, yadda yadda yadda, do you really need hot swap? if not, software raid, yadda yadda
iNotes as in Lotus Domino webmail? What kind of sadist buys Domino and then makes people out in the field on modem lines use iNotes instead of the Domino client? The whole sale point of the Domino client is replication!
I used swaret to upgrade my slackware current install to the X.org packages (x11). Everything worked but fonts rendered poorly (I did recompile and symlink all the freetype libraries to my version that has the bytecode rendering enabled) and my Synaptics touchpad (Dell laptop) didn't function properly in regards to the advanced features. I didn't notice the second item as I don't use those features (my brother does) but the first problem, with the fonts, was very annoying. I'm going back to slackware 9.1 when I get a chance.
I just put in a new 40 gb drive so I loaded up Windows XP to get a little experience with it. Not too bad but Cleartype is a little funky even with 32 bit video. I prefer the freetype rendering under X when it is working nicely.
What about all the people that have NO CLUE that this is happening? They just stomp the pedal and fuck us all.
Maybe someone will figure out how to use the .DLL files (see how the various video codecs are usable on linux doing this) but given the popularity of MP3, I suspect nobody wants to invest the time.
I disagree. I'm not going to judge the music as I just don't feel like it but I don't think it is A+B. All the beats are sampled from the album, not just the 3-second chunks. There are a lot of beats.
In my opinion, A+B would simply the vocals laid over the White Album.
That isn't what they did. They took samples from the White Album. Some samples are long chunks, some are just drum beats. Then they synced Jay-Z's vocals with the samples.
It's not A + B.
BitTorrent rocks.
1) Wireless built-in with the hope that the built-in mini-PCI card would be more efficient than a PCMCIA card.
2) If you want a CD-RW or DVD-RW drive, buy it at the same time as getting the laptop. Even if you don't want one, you can buy it and sell it on eBay at an immediate $100 profit (at least with Dell stuff).
3) If you want a huge drive in there, look at getting it seperately. That was the cheaper option for me and now I have an extra 10 GB laptop drive to play with.
I'm with you--the Sony CD/MP3 players are really cool. I've read that part of the great battery life can be attributed to the player converting the inertia of the spinning down disc into energy. Just like an electric car using braking to regain power.
I got the D-NE518CK for $70 over at Amazon. It's very similar to the D-NE510 except it has a car kit and it's black.
Doesn't the two line LCD display make odd folder naming not required? I still haven't had a chance to play with mine because it got shipped to a different state.
I think what you really want is the Geek Corps: http://www.geekcorps.org/
/. before and maybe Wired.
It's been on
The kickbacks to the school are easy to see in high schools--it's usually that nice jumbo score board in the gym with a Pepsi/Coke tagline.
Maybe you should make a deal with your girlfriend--you'll talk for x amount of minutes for y amount of minutes of sex talk. Yeah, yeah, stop being prude. You're seperated by a vast difference. You've got drives. She's got drives.
I haven't been in this situation but it's the first thing that popped to mind that might make your phone conversations a little more exciting (and thus last more than 3 minutes).
I noticed the same thing and my desktop has a CRT monitor while the laptop is much less eye-straining LCD. I agree with the other poster-I can move my laptop around on my lap or on the floor. I can easily tilt the screen. I can't do the same with my 21" monitor. I think my real ergonomic problem with the desktop is that the table it is on is too high.
I get a pain on my back on the mid left side whenever I use my desktop with the MS Natural keyboard and an optical mouse (I'm right handed). The laptop is so much nicer to use.
I just reread my original post--thanks for addressing my other questions about India. The other post I just made was a bit flippant considering I had indeed actually asked about India's social system. My apologies.
That's great but were talking about non-Indian folks coming to India. I'm not saying the culture is backwards but it would at least be somewhat of a change if a massive exodus of geeks from America started arriving tomorrow. I really doubt that would happen but what if?
My point with the communicating was that in some cases the American in India would be a better go between for the programmer to customer interaction. Again, it's not because India is backwards at all--just because the American would have an easier time handling relations with other Americans.
Do you think that Indian firms would hire American coders?
Get used to it. U.S. co's complete with Europe's.
So you're saying for most (or all?) drugs there are two providers: one from Europe, one from the USA? What about patents and licensing?
What will happen... You can look at the whole "Cheaper Drugs in Canada" issue. As more and more Americans buy their drugs up there, the more and more the Canadian system will be strained. Prices up there will increase, and Canadians will be chanting "Blame America"...
Do you really think the drug companies say, "Hrmm... Okay, let's ship 30 billion units to Cananda and see what the market will bear?"
Using perscription drugs as an example of market economics is idiotic.
I wonder what it would be like to actually do this--somehow I think all the things our culture here has been hashing over, like affirmative action(*), would be severely lacking in India. Maybe as a celebrity American you'd be able to earn a living but you could also experience what discrimination is like.
Does anyone know how open Indian culture is to such things? I suspect the saturation point of American celebrity would be met very quickly.
I also suspect that your role in India would be communicator--not coder.
* If that gets your panties in a bundle, please stand up and unwedge them. While affirmative action might have been struck down in some places the awareness that came with these laws, for good or for bad, is here to stay.
Did you minor in anything? Any tips for potential CS majors? I'm +2 years to a CS degree so I'm looking at my options at the moment.
Ah! I didn't get what you meant at first. I would consider running testing on servers. To be perfectly honest, once 2.6 stabalizes, I'd prefer a nice OS released around it. Maybe it will be Debian. I haven't given up completely on it.
I don't take offense at all--debating this is interesting. It would be really cool if one day I could rave about Debian stable. It could happen!
Not having a laptop, I take my WiFi'd up Zaurus in with me and catch up on my daily intake of web comics.
I hereby christen devices such as yours "palmtops". No more will we hear of exotically named chunks of silicon, plastic and metal.
To those that object by bring up Palm Computing--suck it, aren't they dead already?