The two biggest problem with women getting in to the tech field are sexist people like you and a lack of female roll models.
Role models? Those are nice, but I can speak for a lot of the guys here and say I simply don't have any. The closest thing to a role model would be my great grandmother, but she was a woman?!
How about an example that does not happen in the early 1900's? People like me were thrown in jail for their preferences and beliefs back then, too. I can't really bitch today, though, as any slight change in time and space back then would most likely cause the particular sperm and egg which created me to not come in contact. Bitch about the past and you bitch about yourself. Today is now, move on. That, or come up with a more modern example.
The only evolutionary componant is that men are physically stronger than women and as a result were more able to physically control women.
This is psycho-babble nonesense. There are many differences in men and women. There are also many differences from individual to individual. Why go against all you supposedly believe to make such a misinformed comment like this one? Sure, people ran around wild at some point. People do as people do. But humanity, especially western cultures, have made enormous strides in the last 50 years. So just be happy you can speak your mind without getting bashed for being a woman, and only because you are misinformed and discontent with one of the greatest systems humanity has ever seen! Women go to space! They hold some of the most powerful offices in the world! They are able to enjoy making money and paying taxes just like me! More females are enlisting in colleges than men! Jesus what else do you want to stop complaining!?
Try and avoid "statistics" as these are usually BS which does not take into account many factors of being a woman which can cause a different choice in career paths. Face it, some women are more than content to fill nature's role and be a dedicated mother. These are often women who decided to stay a secretary instead of going back to school for six more years so she could run the marketing department. Men rarely have non-breadwinner opportunities like this, thus statistically, they will always bring home more bacon. So just avoid that subject unless you want to look more ignorant.
Well, it depends on how fast you can install Windows. I am sure it takes longer to reinstall than to run SpyBot, Adaware, HiJackThis*, MSConfig, then reboot.
* - Personally, I just use HiJackThis. It is freeware and gives you quick access to any non-default registry keys, IE extensions, plugins, and registry locations where programs can be quietly launched on startup. Personally, I have yet to find spyware/malware which could not be eliminated using this and MSConfig.
Not really. You can purchase a component kit, but it will only work on the SCPH-50001 series PS2 and newer. There are like 5-6 games that support it, most are not even in 16:9, just progressive scan.
Hmm. I like my XB much more than my PS2. Yeah, there are more games for the PS2 -- but most of the great titles come out for all platforms and the XB ones usually take advantage of the better graphics and HDTV capability of the XB.
The XB is also much more useful once modded than the PS2 could dream of being. You basically end up with a cheap and functional HD media player. Add an extra HDD, use as an mp3 player, install Linux, watch movies, play around with homebrew software, install the mame archive, use XBC to play online with friends without using M$'s service, do whatever!
I find it both sad and hilarious people will make themselves hate a great device just because they are unable to think for themselves and must jump on every popular bandwagon that comes along.
I'm sure some compulsive anti-microsoft flame artist will reply and tell me how evil they are and name every offense they have commited. Guess what? I don't care! Did everyone forget Sony is a huge player in the music industry? You know, that bunch of freaks who have sued the pants off of thousands upon thousands of our fellow civilians?
I'll leave you guys to argue amongst yourselves as to how half the GPU, CPU, and RAM with analog video output makes for a superior product at the same price as the alternative.
Hey thanks! I was starting to lose hope in/. after noticing that the headline plugged someone's software as opposed to providing us with a link to the actual data.
This should be much easier than stealing and reparsing data off weather.com like we had to do in the old days.
Actually, after glancing over your last 2400 posts, I see you always seem to have the popular opinion on every issue. I would almost have to say you are one of those other types of trolls.. What do we call them again? Oh yes, Karma whores.
It is much better to post honestly than to post easy lies in a quest to obtain some strange sense of acceptance through them!
Well, first off, cars come with a warranty. This is not a "my Palm doesn't browse the web fast enough" this is akin to "there's a problem with the transmission and it jerks when I shift gears".
I used that analogy because I am talking about the product operating to spec. If you buy a Porsche and 300hp doesn't feel like you expected, you can't make them "fix" it.
That said it's pretty much impossible to get someone to let you try a phone before you buy it. I know, I've tried at both Sprint (work account) and Cingular (home account). Clearly there's an issue, like most glitches it may not pop up all the time, or it may not appear until after a fashion.
How about not going with a vendor who does not have a good return policy? Be aware you are talking to someone who ends up returning about 30% of his purchases due to a lack of satisfaction. Learn how to be a responsible adult shopper here. You can also learn a little bit about what can be done legally and not what you think they should do because they are nice people.
You must use Windows. How about better features/integration?
Low blow bringing M$ into this. I contribute annually to open source projects I care about, with my own money, and not through a company. You can take your retail copy of Redhat your mama installed for you and stick it where the sun don't shine you pre-built kernel noob./note the name, how can i ever really be serious?
LOL okay. I am not being a know it all, as you are implying. I simply stated a few facts. If you are defending the consumer because they got tricked by fake reviews, then um, I don't know what warranty you expect to cover that.:)
Face it, we all have bought stuff that we aren't happy with and end up keeping it past the return period. The way I see it, the adult thing to do is take responsiblity for a bad decision and do what you need to do to not be fooled in the future.
Again, I point to the T610. It got awesome reviews all over the place, even though there are several nice flaws (it'll crash and has crappy reception). I see the same things said about this phone as that one, people are paying for the features and reading that the audio quality is "not the best" and comments like "it is great at everything except being a phone", then if you hit up reviews on just about any of the new PDA/gadget superphones -- they all seem to warn the phone functionality isn't the greatest.
When you hear remarks like "not the best", in the phone realm, that tends to mean "sounds like the bottom of a well" or "crackles constantly, but quietly". Welcome to marketing talk, AKA lying.
My views on this type of matter are very unliked on slashdot. Everyone thinks you are a troll if you happen to side with the corporation on any given issue around these parts.
You know, this is really a sad that someone can't express a point of view without being called a troll. If you think someone is a troll, mod and move on.
My point is: I think people are having trouble understanding what a warranty is for. It is not a satisfaction guarantee or a return policy, it is for repair if the product fails. It is not a resource you utilize when you determine the quality or design is not adequate for your particular needs, as these are to be done prior to purchase and before the return period is up.
This is why I used the car warranty comparison. If you buy a car without test driving it, then try to "get it fixed" under warranty, they will laugh you off the car lot for not looking into the specifications a bit better. As the ever so witty retorts had suggested I was speaking of an automotive failure, this is not the case, I was talking about the car being in spec but not what the consumer was looking for, possibly suffering from unreal expectations. Now I see I was all wrong, I had greater expectations of my fellow readers to read and go through a moment of comprehension before proudly clicking that Reply button.
There are many phones, such as the T610, which had cool features for their time but also had some major flaws, too. The consumers bought and used them knowing the reception or audio quality might not be the best, but were happy due to the other features. This is the same type of scenario.
If you, like me, believe that the message is more important than the messenger, then just write everything anonymously. I have done a good job in condemning H-1Bs, promoting nationality profiling, and condemning 3rd world cultures like Chinese culture. There is nothing that the moderators can do.
That is quite funny. I'll just keep posting honestly and make a new username once the karma goes negative.
"From the other end, it sounds like I'm inside a cardboard box, and lots of other people are complaining about the same thing. No word yet from PalmOne on this problem. Any other 650 owners having problems with their new units?"
Okay, let me get this straight. The guy bought a phone without testing the quality first, now that he has had it a while he decides he is unsatisfied and wants the people he bought it from to do something about it?
You, my friend, are a sucker in every aspect of the word. You bought a phone because of all the gimmicks without actually making sure it was adequate as a phone.
Just to keep moderators off my back, imagine this:
"Yes, I bought this Porsche and it does not accelerate fast enough, what are you going to do to fix it?"
These two match up well with my logic. I mean, if the phones had a tendancy to explode or fail due to faulty components, that would be different. But this is a simple case of a product not being very good and will probably improve only in the next model. Really, what incentive would they have to sell you another PDA phone in two years if the one you have now works perfectly?
-- I'd rather see a hundred comments unmoderated than see a hundred comments moderated badly by some jerk with an axe to grind. --CmdrTaco 6/26/00
So I am a troll for bringing up the fact that people entering a nation have no right to dictate the measures that nation uses to identify and track them? How about the fact that foreign students DO NOT dictate policy in other nations?? This is retarded.
This shit moderation has reduced slashdot to nothing but one-liners and carefully worded flames. I mean, really, how can you discuss anything in realistic fashion when it only takes one or two people who disagree to moderate the post into extinction?
An undergraduate assistant or master's student is only around for 4 months to 2 years so if the process takes too long or is too difficult, then we will have to collaborate elsewhere.
Shall I remind you that America has much bigger problems to contend with than making sure students from other countries have an easy time entering and leaving the country?
Regardless, for every one of you who will go elsewhere there are probably ten others who will go through the hoops. Personally, I would rather have those who were willing to do what it takes to get in here than the ones who didn't feel it was worth the effort.
Good luck getting much support for that view here. People on slashdot will disregard the common-sense stuff and mod up the paranoia talk without much thought.
You people are fanatics. And your ranting is actually counter productive because it's so hyperbolic and seems to reject *any* form of IDing apparently without offering solutions to our quite impressive problems.
Exactly. I see this as a big problem. It seems fashionable to reject authority here in the US, and seems to have always been that way. You know, from cowboys to gangsta, it is all the same except for the faces.
With the rest of the world turning anti-american, it seems like we should be doing more to advance our society quickly. This has nothing to do with terrorism, but the simple things we can do to make life safer and more comfortable for all.
Then again, we have an oil crisis on the horizon and half of us drive 20mpg SUVs and get our electricity from coal! Maybe we are just stupid. Yeah, I am going with option #2. Alex, I will take "We are stupid, stupid people for $100".
"Besides the likely efficacy questions, concerns in the scientific community concern what impact this will have on our foreign collaborations (or even grad students)."
Well, it is simple: They will carry a card with them.
Don't even start whining about the "rights" of those who "choose" to enter another country. You know what is going to happen in advance and have a choice, so to those who complain, I say: STFU and start your own America if you think you can do better.:P
"So far the XML-related OpenReader project, in which I'm involved, is invisible to the big media even though major Internet e-book retailers are quietly coming aboard. Still, it's great to see Times contributor Sarah Glazer being far more receptive to e-books than are many journalists. More at TeleRead."
Ever thought about coming up with funds for marketing? Not to be a dick, but that is really what is required in this society to obtain attention in the media.
While most of you will continue to assume "cool stuff" will always get attention, I would like to remind folks the only reason a VP or CEO has ever heard of Redhat is because they marketed properly. Without that, they would just be another nameless Linux distro that never went anywhere.
You know, here in the southern USA, we have been disassembling and rebuilding houses with old materials for years.
If you can find a condemned house from around the turn of the century, there is often several thousand pounds of very good quality wood that can be pulled, cleaned up, and applied to new projects.
On another note, most homes are built using a large amount of sheetrock. This is cheap and durable, oh yes, and often made from recycled materials. If you really look around your home, you are going to find a lot of recycled materials.
Then again, by reading this, I guess the submitter thinks wood is not enviromentally friendly or cheap.
"For the Road Warrior on the Go- If you have a laptop, desktop, and/or work PC keeping the information from Firefox and Thunderbird sync'd with each other is hard, not to mention the extensions."
What about this is difficult? Why install a different version of a browser on a laptop? The last time I checked mine, I found it has its own hard drive, plenty of RAM, and works just about the same as a desktop system.
"I've been managing with a pokey Windows notebook for a couple of years now, and am desperate to get a decent PC for development and gaming. Problem is, our house is tiny and we have a 1-year-old entropy generator running amok. What's the best recommendation for getting a full-power desktop PC installed in our house? My ideal setup would be a mini-tower case hidden in a cupboard, with a remote LCD monitor, mouse, keyboard, and headphones. The keyboard and mouse can be done via bluetooth, and there is no problem with cable length for headphones. The major stumbling block is VGA connection for the monitor. Any suggestions on how to overcome this problem?"
I have an idea, how about nzgeek go back to the AOL forums and comes back to slashdot AFTER he knows computing basics.
Really now, this is a site for geeks, and not the place I would expect a"How do I buy a computer?" article. This is lame, very lame.
Feel free to call it a flame and mod down. Mind you, by doing so, you are only asking for more asinine links on the front page.
Non-contact sensors are widely used in scientific motion sensing. Such sensors typically work on the principles of ultrasonic, optical, Hall effect etc.. Non contact sensors are generally expensive due to either the high accuracy required or the limited number of pieces that are produced. The optical mouse was developed by Agilent Technologies in 1999 to overcome the limitations of the mechanical mouse. But is the optical mouse merely a pointing device? What if the optical mouse could be applied to scientific sensing purposes as well? Furthermore, the optical mouse is a mass produced device. It will certainly be a cheap sensor. This is an intriguing proposition indeed. - T.W.Ng 2003
This would be nice, but I don't think a laptop hard drive can keep pace with a raw 720p audio/video stream.
There is also the issue of 100GB not being very much record time unless you do compression, which would knock it out of the "real" category and more into the "expensive toy" realm. Unlike a tape, you can't just eject the drive and pop another in like with DV tapes.
I could be wrong on both of these, as I base the logic on what I have run into with my gear. I use Vegas for video editing and have noticed it runs badly when I read from my IDE drives, so I do most of my work on my two 10k rpm scsi drives in raid0. Collectively, they have ~80GB of space and that gets used up very quickly.
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Jamie, if you need help securing /., I have just your man. He is a smarty like you.
The two biggest problem with women getting in to the tech field are sexist people like you and a lack of female roll models.
Role models? Those are nice, but I can speak for a lot of the guys here and say I simply don't have any. The closest thing to a role model would be my great grandmother, but she was a woman?!
How about an example that does not happen in the early 1900's? People like me were thrown in jail for their preferences and beliefs back then, too. I can't really bitch today, though, as any slight change in time and space back then would most likely cause the particular sperm and egg which created me to not come in contact. Bitch about the past and you bitch about yourself. Today is now, move on. That, or come up with a more modern example.
The only evolutionary componant is that men are physically stronger than women and as a result were more able to physically control women.
This is psycho-babble nonesense. There are many differences in men and women. There are also many differences from individual to individual. Why go against all you supposedly believe to make such a misinformed comment like this one? Sure, people ran around wild at some point. People do as people do. But humanity, especially western cultures, have made enormous strides in the last 50 years. So just be happy you can speak your mind without getting bashed for being a woman, and only because you are misinformed and discontent with one of the greatest systems humanity has ever seen! Women go to space! They hold some of the most powerful offices in the world! They are able to enjoy making money and paying taxes just like me! More females are enlisting in colleges than men! Jesus what else do you want to stop complaining!?
Try and avoid "statistics" as these are usually BS which does not take into account many factors of being a woman which can cause a different choice in career paths. Face it, some women are more than content to fill nature's role and be a dedicated mother. These are often women who decided to stay a secretary instead of going back to school for six more years so she could run the marketing department. Men rarely have non-breadwinner opportunities like this, thus statistically, they will always bring home more bacon. So just avoid that subject unless you want to look more ignorant.
And institute jackboot banning policies if you access them more than x times per y hours.
Insightful, that is, until someone spoofs a few hundred thousand SRC addresses and takes your site down completely.
I have never met an automatic IP banning tool which could not be used against the administrator far more effectively than he can use it on the lusers.
What, a measly 950 people is what passes for a "massive" layoff nowadays?
No kidding. Where was the sensational headline when EarthLink laid off ~3,000?
Well, it depends on how fast you can install Windows. I am sure it takes longer to reinstall than to run SpyBot, Adaware, HiJackThis*, MSConfig, then reboot.
* - Personally, I just use HiJackThis. It is freeware and gives you quick access to any non-default registry keys, IE extensions, plugins, and registry locations where programs can be quietly launched on startup. Personally, I have yet to find spyware/malware which could not be eliminated using this and MSConfig.
Not really. You can purchase a component kit, but it will only work on the SCPH-50001 series PS2 and newer. There are like 5-6 games that support it, most are not even in 16:9, just progressive scan.
An XB is $149 and comes with two games and a controller. The $149 will cover the cost of a case and powersupply. Now what?
Hmm. I like my XB much more than my PS2. Yeah, there are more games for the PS2 -- but most of the great titles come out for all platforms and the XB ones usually take advantage of the better graphics and HDTV capability of the XB.
The XB is also much more useful once modded than the PS2 could dream of being. You basically end up with a cheap and functional HD media player. Add an extra HDD, use as an mp3 player, install Linux, watch movies, play around with homebrew software, install the mame archive, use XBC to play online with friends without using M$'s service, do whatever!
I find it both sad and hilarious people will make themselves hate a great device just because they are unable to think for themselves and must jump on every popular bandwagon that comes along.
I'm sure some compulsive anti-microsoft flame artist will reply and tell me how evil they are and name every offense they have commited. Guess what? I don't care! Did everyone forget Sony is a huge player in the music industry? You know, that bunch of freaks who have sued the pants off of thousands upon thousands of our fellow civilians?
I'll leave you guys to argue amongst yourselves as to how half the GPU, CPU, and RAM with analog video output makes for a superior product at the same price as the alternative.
Hey thanks! I was starting to lose hope in /. after noticing that the headline plugged someone's software as opposed to providing us with a link to the actual data.
This should be much easier than stealing and reparsing data off weather.com like we had to do in the old days.
Actually, after glancing over your last 2400 posts, I see you always seem to have the popular opinion on every issue. I would almost have to say you are one of those other types of trolls.. What do we call them again? Oh yes, Karma whores.
It is much better to post honestly than to post easy lies in a quest to obtain some strange sense of acceptance through them!
Well, first off, cars come with a warranty. This is not a "my Palm doesn't browse the web fast enough" this is akin to "there's a problem with the transmission and it jerks when I shift gears".
/note the name, how can i ever really be serious?
I used that analogy because I am talking about the product operating to spec. If you buy a Porsche and 300hp doesn't feel like you expected, you can't make them "fix" it.
That said it's pretty much impossible to get someone to let you try a phone before you buy it. I know, I've tried at both Sprint (work account) and Cingular (home account). Clearly there's an issue, like most glitches it may not pop up all the time, or it may not appear until after a fashion.
How about not going with a vendor who does not have a good return policy? Be aware you are talking to someone who ends up returning about 30% of his purchases due to a lack of satisfaction. Learn how to be a responsible adult shopper here. You can also learn a little bit about what can be done legally and not what you think they should do because they are nice people.
You must use Windows. How about better features/integration?
Low blow bringing M$ into this. I contribute annually to open source projects I care about, with my own money, and not through a company. You can take your retail copy of Redhat your mama installed for you and stick it where the sun don't shine you pre-built kernel noob.
LOL okay. I am not being a know it all, as you are implying. I simply stated a few facts. If you are defending the consumer because they got tricked by fake reviews, then um, I don't know what warranty you expect to cover that. :)
Face it, we all have bought stuff that we aren't happy with and end up keeping it past the return period. The way I see it, the adult thing to do is take responsiblity for a bad decision and do what you need to do to not be fooled in the future.
Again, I point to the T610. It got awesome reviews all over the place, even though there are several nice flaws (it'll crash and has crappy reception). I see the same things said about this phone as that one, people are paying for the features and reading that the audio quality is "not the best" and comments like "it is great at everything except being a phone", then if you hit up reviews on just about any of the new PDA/gadget superphones -- they all seem to warn the phone functionality isn't the greatest.
When you hear remarks like "not the best", in the phone realm, that tends to mean "sounds like the bottom of a well" or "crackles constantly, but quietly". Welcome to marketing talk, AKA lying.
My views on this type of matter are very unliked on slashdot. Everyone thinks you are a troll if you happen to side with the corporation on any given issue around these parts.
/now I realize I was feeding a troll, oh well.
You know, this is really a sad that someone can't express a point of view without being called a troll. If you think someone is a troll, mod and move on.
My point is: I think people are having trouble understanding what a warranty is for. It is not a satisfaction guarantee or a return policy, it is for repair if the product fails. It is not a resource you utilize when you determine the quality or design is not adequate for your particular needs, as these are to be done prior to purchase and before the return period is up.
This is why I used the car warranty comparison. If you buy a car without test driving it, then try to "get it fixed" under warranty, they will laugh you off the car lot for not looking into the specifications a bit better. As the ever so witty retorts had suggested I was speaking of an automotive failure, this is not the case, I was talking about the car being in spec but not what the consumer was looking for, possibly suffering from unreal expectations. Now I see I was all wrong, I had greater expectations of my fellow readers to read and go through a moment of comprehension before proudly clicking that Reply button.
There are many phones, such as the T610, which had cool features for their time but also had some major flaws, too. The consumers bought and used them knowing the reception or audio quality might not be the best, but were happy due to the other features. This is the same type of scenario.
If you, like me, believe that the message is more important than the messenger, then just write everything anonymously. I have done a good job in condemning H-1Bs, promoting nationality profiling, and condemning 3rd world cultures like Chinese culture. There is nothing that the moderators can do.
That is quite funny. I'll just keep posting honestly and make a new username once the karma goes negative.
"From the other end, it sounds like I'm inside a cardboard box, and lots of other people are complaining about the same thing. No word yet from PalmOne on this problem. Any other 650 owners having problems with their new units?"
Okay, let me get this straight. The guy bought a phone without testing the quality first, now that he has had it a while he decides he is unsatisfied and wants the people he bought it from to do something about it?
You, my friend, are a sucker in every aspect of the word. You bought a phone because of all the gimmicks without actually making sure it was adequate as a phone.
Just to keep moderators off my back, imagine this:
"Yes, I bought this Porsche and it does not accelerate fast enough, what are you going to do to fix it?"
These two match up well with my logic. I mean, if the phones had a tendancy to explode or fail due to faulty components, that would be different. But this is a simple case of a product not being very good and will probably improve only in the next model. Really, what incentive would they have to sell you another PDA phone in two years if the one you have now works perfectly?
--
I'd rather see a hundred comments unmoderated than see a hundred comments moderated badly by some jerk with an axe to grind. --CmdrTaco 6/26/00
So I am a troll for bringing up the fact that people entering a nation have no right to dictate the measures that nation uses to identify and track them? How about the fact that foreign students DO NOT dictate policy in other nations?? This is retarded.
This shit moderation has reduced slashdot to nothing but one-liners and carefully worded flames. I mean, really, how can you discuss anything in realistic fashion when it only takes one or two people who disagree to moderate the post into extinction?
An undergraduate assistant or master's student is only around for 4 months to 2 years so if the process takes too long or is too difficult, then we will have to collaborate elsewhere.
Shall I remind you that America has much bigger problems to contend with than making sure students from other countries have an easy time entering and leaving the country?
Regardless, for every one of you who will go elsewhere there are probably ten others who will go through the hoops. Personally, I would rather have those who were willing to do what it takes to get in here than the ones who didn't feel it was worth the effort.
Good luck getting much support for that view here. People on slashdot will disregard the common-sense stuff and mod up the paranoia talk without much thought.
You people are fanatics. And your ranting is actually counter productive because it's so hyperbolic and seems to reject *any* form of IDing apparently without offering solutions to our quite impressive problems.
Exactly. I see this as a big problem. It seems fashionable to reject authority here in the US, and seems to have always been that way. You know, from cowboys to gangsta, it is all the same except for the faces.
With the rest of the world turning anti-american, it seems like we should be doing more to advance our society quickly. This has nothing to do with terrorism, but the simple things we can do to make life safer and more comfortable for all.
Then again, we have an oil crisis on the horizon and half of us drive 20mpg SUVs and get our electricity from coal! Maybe we are just stupid. Yeah, I am going with option #2. Alex, I will take "We are stupid, stupid people for $100".
"Besides the likely efficacy questions, concerns in the scientific community concern what impact this will have on our foreign collaborations (or even grad students)."
:P
Well, it is simple: They will carry a card with them.
Don't even start whining about the "rights" of those who "choose" to enter another country. You know what is going to happen in advance and have a choice, so to those who complain, I say: STFU and start your own America if you think you can do better.
"So far the XML-related OpenReader project, in which I'm involved, is invisible to the big media even though major Internet e-book retailers are quietly coming aboard. Still, it's great to see Times contributor Sarah Glazer being far more receptive to e-books than are many journalists. More at TeleRead."
Ever thought about coming up with funds for marketing? Not to be a dick, but that is really what is required in this society to obtain attention in the media.
While most of you will continue to assume "cool stuff" will always get attention, I would like to remind folks the only reason a VP or CEO has ever heard of Redhat is because they marketed properly. Without that, they would just be another nameless Linux distro that never went anywhere.
Also , most of the house is recyclable too.
You know, here in the southern USA, we have been disassembling and rebuilding houses with old materials for years.
If you can find a condemned house from around the turn of the century, there is often several thousand pounds of very good quality wood that can be pulled, cleaned up, and applied to new projects.
On another note, most homes are built using a large amount of sheetrock. This is cheap and durable, oh yes, and often made from recycled materials. If you really look around your home, you are going to find a lot of recycled materials.
Then again, by reading this, I guess the submitter thinks wood is not enviromentally friendly or cheap.
"For the Road Warrior on the Go- If you have a laptop, desktop, and/or work PC keeping the information from Firefox and Thunderbird sync'd with each other is hard, not to mention the extensions."
What about this is difficult? Why install a different version of a browser on a laptop? The last time I checked mine, I found it has its own hard drive, plenty of RAM, and works just about the same as a desktop system.
"I've been managing with a pokey Windows notebook for a couple of years now, and am desperate to get a decent PC for development and gaming. Problem is, our house is tiny and we have a 1-year-old entropy generator running amok. What's the best recommendation for getting a full-power desktop PC installed in our house? My ideal setup would be a mini-tower case hidden in a cupboard, with a remote LCD monitor, mouse, keyboard, and headphones. The keyboard and mouse can be done via bluetooth, and there is no problem with cable length for headphones. The major stumbling block is VGA connection for the monitor. Any suggestions on how to overcome this problem?"
I have an idea, how about nzgeek go back to the AOL forums and comes back to slashdot AFTER he knows computing basics.
Really now, this is a site for geeks, and not the place I would expect a"How do I buy a computer?" article. This is lame, very lame.
Feel free to call it a flame and mod down. Mind you, by doing so, you are only asking for more asinine links on the front page.
- T.W.Ng 2003
If we speak about "real" camcoders
This would be nice, but I don't think a laptop hard drive can keep pace with a raw 720p audio/video stream.
There is also the issue of 100GB not being very much record time unless you do compression, which would knock it out of the "real" category and more into the "expensive toy" realm. Unlike a tape, you can't just eject the drive and pop another in like with DV tapes.
I could be wrong on both of these, as I base the logic on what I have run into with my gear. I use Vegas for video editing and have noticed it runs badly when I read from my IDE drives, so I do most of my work on my two 10k rpm scsi drives in raid0. Collectively, they have ~80GB of space and that gets used up very quickly.