I started because there was a computer... and I wanted to... I enjoyed the problem solving, making it do what I wanted it to do. I continued because I wanted to... once I actually reached school age I was discouraged through most of it... so I continued then because I wanted to... It wasn't until grades 11/12 that I was again encouraged, and there I excelled, the course work was beneath me, but I rose to the occasion and returned more than was asked of me... Now I've been doing it as a job for 20 years... I don't want to... The fun is gone, I'm tired of it, work ruined it... No freedom, no control, all "make this so" but no "how about this?", no chance to innovate... Expected to produce amazing results while being treated like a clerk...
I get home most nights and just turn on the TV now, programming was the only thing I ever wanted to do because it just felt so right.
Just keep a watch on the September elections in Australia
If the Coalition get in you can gaurentee 20 more years of copper wiring here - so when wherever you are goes all modern and new, move down under - we're backwards.
You wouldn't believe the effort I went to to get my hands on a copy of The Last Starfighter - in the end, it's a US version I had to rip before I could watch, but at least I could say I paid for it.
Did you know, Adobe Acrobat has previously been full of security holes, embeds it's self in your browser, and frequently crashes (taking your browser with it?)
Even on my windows netbook I prefer free/open source PDF readers, if I want OCR I'll do it myself, I've never wanted OCR....
That was my first reaction - if apple hadn't started this shit it wouldn't be a problem
The mobile phone industry was getting along quite happily before apple came along, minor squibbles and scuffles but for the most part it was a quiet industry.... apple comes along and starts suing everyone...
Besides... how many small countries does apple want to buy?
I feel like an apple user happy with incremental updates (only they pay $700 odd, I only paid $42)... but I'll have an original, an original with mounting holes, and now a 512 meg version... What'll you give me for the complete set?:P
Yeh I figured you'd be able to get keyboards much cheaper than that (we can get them here for $8 - but I wanted to at least pretend I was working - and I had a legit excuse to be on DX:D
In fact I figure for a bit of leg work you can get all those parts cheaper.
I was thinking the same thing. I was even considering dragging out my pic programmer to try it out:D
Seems like a worthy project for any self respecting hacker, get the cheapest possible ps2 keyboard you can find, integrate a battery compartment and an lcd...
Possibly even talking to phone recyclers, those Nokia phone lcd's aren't hard to work with.
Sourcing from DX for example
Cheapest 2 line lcd: $4.70 Or you could go up to a nokia graphical lcd for $4.90 You can grab 3 ATMEGA8-16PU's for $6.30 Keyboard for $15.12 AA battery pack $1.90
Buying in significant bulk (or even directly from manufacturers) would be cheaper - heck I have a couple of spare ps2 keyboards I could throw in:D
In fact there's two opportunities here. 1) for us in the rest of the world to chip in and build (hackerspace project for a week perhaps?) 2) teach the kids something about electronics and make building an 8 bit computer part of the course work:D
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Here in Australia we just report the IMMI number as stolen and the phone companies block it... why does America have to do things the hard way?
and now... 20+ years later on... do we still enjoy it?
I started because there was a computer... and I wanted to... I enjoyed the problem solving, making it do what I wanted it to do.
I continued because I wanted to...
once I actually reached school age I was discouraged through most of it... so I continued then because I wanted to...
It wasn't until grades 11/12 that I was again encouraged, and there I excelled, the course work was beneath me, but I rose to the occasion and returned more than was asked of me...
Now I've been doing it as a job for 20 years... I don't want to...
The fun is gone, I'm tired of it, work ruined it...
No freedom, no control, all "make this so" but no "how about this?", no chance to innovate...
Expected to produce amazing results while being treated like a clerk...
I get home most nights and just turn on the TV now, programming was the only thing I ever wanted to do because it just felt so right.
*shrugs* the women are being paid aren't they?
If they don't want to do it then they're free to find other work, it is a free market in a free country after all.
Capitalism!
Trust me, as someone who has a PS3 and "chose" to keep the other os feature instead of partaking in the "optional" required update to remove it.
I can't play recent games, I can't play recent movies... so they have ways of forcing you to update...
You don't need this sort of security on the phone.
In Australia they just bar the phone from networks by IMMI - a stolen phone is useless without the need to hamper the operations of whoever owns it
Funny thing is, if we were to dig around in their personal lives and post what we found... we'd end up in jail so quickly...
No
Just keep a watch on the September elections in Australia
If the Coalition get in you can gaurentee 20 more years of copper wiring here - so when wherever you are goes all modern and new, move down under - we're backwards.
Shut down antiquated banks.
I'm sure we can save a fair wack of power by pissing them off.
She couldn't hear people enter the shop...
Vibrating bracelet bluetooth bracelet and replace the baton with a wiimote :)
You wouldn't believe the effort I went to to get my hands on a copy of The Last Starfighter - in the end, it's a US version I had to rip before I could watch, but at least I could say I paid for it.
s/You're dumb./Go away before I replace you with a small shell script!/;
fixed :D
Did you know, Adobe Acrobat has previously been full of security holes, embeds it's self in your browser, and frequently crashes (taking your browser with it?)
Even on my windows netbook I prefer free/open source PDF readers, if I want OCR I'll do it myself, I've never wanted OCR....
I use linux because I can make it do everything I don't want to do - windows sux for automation...
People reboot linux?
That was my first reaction - if apple hadn't started this shit it wouldn't be a problem
The mobile phone industry was getting along quite happily before apple came along, minor squibbles and scuffles but for the most part it was a quiet industry.... apple comes along and starts suing everyone...
Besides... how many small countries does apple want to buy?
Next up, suing the weather girl for saying it's probably not going to rain...
I feel like an apple user happy with incremental updates (only they pay $700 odd, I only paid $42)... but I'll have an original, an original with mounting holes, and now a 512 meg version... What'll you give me for the complete set? :P
I bought a tablet first, then went to an eReader - I can tell you I carry the eReader everywhere now, the tablet stays docked at home...
I didn't even make it through the title without exclaiming "No!"
Sony can get fucked.
Yeh I figured you'd be able to get keyboards much cheaper than that (we can get them here for $8 - but I wanted to at least pretend I was working - and I had a legit excuse to be on DX :D
In fact I figure for a bit of leg work you can get all those parts cheaper.
I was thinking the same thing. I was even considering dragging out my pic programmer to try it out :D
Seems like a worthy project for any self respecting hacker, get the cheapest possible ps2 keyboard you can find, integrate a battery compartment and an lcd...
Possibly even talking to phone recyclers, those Nokia phone lcd's aren't hard to work with.
Sourcing from DX for example
Cheapest 2 line lcd: $4.70
Or you could go up to a nokia graphical lcd for $4.90
You can grab 3 ATMEGA8-16PU's for $6.30
Keyboard for $15.12
AA battery pack $1.90
Buying in significant bulk (or even directly from manufacturers) would be cheaper - heck I have a couple of spare ps2 keyboards I could throw in :D
In fact there's two opportunities here. :D
1) for us in the rest of the world to chip in and build (hackerspace project for a week perhaps?)
2) teach the kids something about electronics and make building an 8 bit computer part of the course work
But having said that, how cheap can OLPC go?
Lucky bastard.
Our designers insist on trying to code... Managers let them... then require us to clean up the crap while tying one hand behind our back