Personally, I am amazed, AMAZED at how many new services SBC has started offering in the last few years. My telephone, sat. dish, cell phone, and yellow pages ad are all on the same bill as it is. Strangely enough their customer service hasn't gotten any better... does anybody here think SBC might be getting too big for our own good?
In my humble opinion, the most important thing that we need to teach children at a young age is to TYPE. Just as everyone doesn't remember learning a first language but always struggles with a second, teaching kids to type is much, much easier than teaching teenagers to type. At that stange of life, your mind is designed to soak up new information like a sponge. I learned in 1st grade, then grew up watching my peers (from other schools) struggle through intermediate school.
For anybody interested in making your own HTPC, I found Meedio Essentials http://www.meedio.com/ combined with Meedio TV to awesome software.
Check it out- trust me, you'll like it.
Oh great, put the robots in the place where we can't live.
They'll multiply... then they'll develope new, improved A.I. They will take over the economy with their new hoverdrive technology...
We won't know if it is us or them who'll attack first-- I just know we're gonna have to scortch the sky because of this.
My doesn't go on a keychain though, it is about the size of a credit card. More like a PCMCIA card sized. Oh, it IS a pcmcia card, and it requires that its plugged in to my laptop to work.
The only difference is that a) it doesn't go crazy when somebody turns on a microwave and b) it also lets me CONNECT to the network:)
It sure is convenient that American law enforcment can mobilize foreign law enforcement to do their bidding with the situation benefits large corperations, but refused to do ANYTHING when I lost a laptop to escrow fraud. The FBI wouldn't do anything withou FIVE HUNDRED complaints first.
Yeah, its like listening to a police scanner. You can hear any channel you want, but you can only listen to one at a time. If you happen to miss something crucial because you were on the wrong band, well, you're out of luck.
I wonder if they include a disclamer for Linspire... a big red "DOES NOT INCLUDE MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP" on the box somewhere.
I'd almost wager that 80% of the people who buy these (or who buy a computer from WalMart in general) are n00bs, and will try returning the devices because 'there's no microsoft word or internet explorer on it'.
Is the time for Sir. Joe Code-a-lot coming to an end? Will it only be the high-priced web developers who can make anything decent on the web, or will 13 year olds still be able to learn this new level of scripting-excellence?
The Gateway corperation is involved in the story? Do they buy up a crappy computer company called E-Machines in an effort to thwart their inevitible bankrupcy?
I hate to side with the giant company and all, but I have to. To register a domain with the intent of selling it back to another already established company or idea is just wrong.
I lost my father's business website, because at the time I was just an ignorant cyber-pup (aka, n00b), and eventually had to just register a new version of his company name, because we didn't have the capital for a legal battle.
After two years, we finally got it back because the squatter gave up on selling it to us and let the name expire. So, if you can't have the legal system kick a squatter's ass, let Father Time do it!
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Personally, I am amazed, AMAZED at how many new services SBC has started offering in the last few years. My telephone, sat. dish, cell phone, and yellow pages ad are all on the same bill as it is. Strangely enough their customer service hasn't gotten any better... does anybody here think SBC might be getting too big for our own good?
In my humble opinion, the most important thing that we need to teach children at a young age is to TYPE. Just as everyone doesn't remember learning a first language but always struggles with a second, teaching kids to type is much, much easier than teaching teenagers to type. At that stange of life, your mind is designed to soak up new information like a sponge. I learned in 1st grade, then grew up watching my peers (from other schools) struggle through intermediate school.
In honor of this idea, I'm going to watch the Truman Show today.
Until they get somewhere in the neighboorhood of SpaceShipTwentyEight, its still gonna be too expensive for me!
"on a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
For anybody interested in making your own HTPC, I found Meedio Essentials http://www.meedio.com/ combined with Meedio TV to awesome software. Check it out- trust me, you'll like it.
Wow. I just watched the Animatrix, but after reading this story, somehow I feel like the opressive system is REAL.
Nice.
From the benevolent computer geek in me: thank you.
From the computer repair business owner in me: ouch.
Better prep Bruce Willis and Ben Afflec for docking on the astroid... (shameless Armegeddon refrence)
The department title for this article should be from the 'Make-NASA-look-dumb' department.
Oh great, put the robots in the place where we can't live. They'll multiply... then they'll develope new, improved A.I. They will take over the economy with their new hoverdrive technology... We won't know if it is us or them who'll attack first-- I just know we're gonna have to scortch the sky because of this.
My doesn't go on a keychain though, it is about the size of a credit card. More like a PCMCIA card sized. Oh, it IS a pcmcia card, and it requires that its plugged in to my laptop to work.
The only difference is that a) it doesn't go crazy when somebody turns on a microwave and b) it also lets me CONNECT to the network :)
It sure is convenient that American law enforcment can mobilize foreign law enforcement to do their bidding with the situation benefits large corperations, but refused to do ANYTHING when I lost a laptop to escrow fraud. The FBI wouldn't do anything withou FIVE HUNDRED complaints first.
Yeah, its like listening to a police scanner. You can hear any channel you want, but you can only listen to one at a time. If you happen to miss something crucial because you were on the wrong band, well, you're out of luck.
Thank goodness for firmware upgrades.
I wonder if they include a disclamer for Linspire... a big red "DOES NOT INCLUDE MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP" on the box somewhere.
I'd almost wager that 80% of the people who buy these (or who buy a computer from WalMart in general) are n00bs, and will try returning the devices because 'there's no microsoft word or internet explorer on it'.
Is the time for Sir. Joe Code-a-lot coming to an end? Will it only be the high-priced web developers who can make anything decent on the web, or will 13 year olds still be able to learn this new level of scripting-excellence?
Google for president.
Sorry, Microsoft-- just because you want something to be true doesn't mean that it is.
a) A desktop file search
b) A popup blocker
c) Autocomplete
Does anybody else notice that Microsoft is trying to release better versions of software that they ALREADY made (and not to well, aparently)?
"General Kenobi, years ago you served beside my father in the Duplo Wars"
Reminds me of a certain episode of South Park.
The Gateway corperation is involved in the story? Do they buy up a crappy computer company called E-Machines in an effort to thwart their inevitible bankrupcy?
The knockout punch? No, this is the bunch that turns the 'argument' into a 'fight'. The media format wars are only beginning!
I lost my father's business website, because at the time I was just an ignorant cyber-pup (aka, n00b), and eventually had to just register a new version of his company name, because we didn't have the capital for a legal battle.
After two years, we finally got it back because the squatter gave up on selling it to us and let the name expire. So, if you can't have the legal system kick a squatter's ass, let Father Time do it!