yeah, i saw the picture of it in Steve's hand, and I own an MP3 player that's a flash card, FM radio and voice recorder and it's pretty much the same size. And that's even for the 1GB flash card version.
It's just flatter, taller, and wider than my player.
Now, back in my Army days, it would be cool cause it would fit into my inner mag pocket, but so would my player which would fit in my pen holder pocket.
I drive a Corolla, my Grandma has a Jaguar S-Type (I think thats the model). They are roughly the same size, they serve exactly the same purpose. Now granted the Jag has better performance, but you are paying a lot for image. Then again people complain about fancy cars, so you can't please everyone no matter what.
Heck, I've got you beat. My chauffeur drives a massive biodiesel bus, and takes me from my house to my work while bypassing all the lusers in their teeny cars...
for less than $30 you can buy a 256MB flash card, MP3 player, FM radio, and voice recorder.
That's about the same size.
So, my question is, why bother? I'd much rather have something that gives me extra features and plugs into my laptop and work PC or Mac and lets me transfer files and do all that, and runs off of rechargeable AA batteries.
But that's just me.
Now, if someone wanted to do a case mod of the iPod nano and get it to run Linux or BSD, now we're talking!
In ten years I've never sold any storage device I've owned.
Actually if you include the tapes I made in my tape drive of my Atari 600XL it would be about 20+ years.
I still have my Apple II+ with dual floppies, 172k of RAM (yes, I know n00bs have only 48k), and the original floppies including my bootloading programs.
So I guess I'm in the same situation as you, only it's 25 years.
something stripped down, zero flash and optimized for games, it could even be CLI to actually launch the games. It's all I use XP for anyway...
Me too. In fact, it's a royal pain trying to set up XP so it will boot differently if you have a laptop and set up two admin accounts.
The problem is that it "discovers" all the hardware you try to tell it to ignore, loads the drivers, and then won't play Sims 2 as well as before.
I mean, I wanted it to NOT: a. turn on the wireless; b. turn on virus protection (see a); c. turn on antispyware; d. turn on the printer; e. turn on the my yahoo radio and sign me in; f. and change my resolution from the 800x600 to the full 1024x768 or whatever.
That's why I made a different account and tried to make a different profile... SO I COULD PLAY MY FRICKEN GAME!
So, a stripped down gamer's edition would be really useful, IMHO.
ok, so long as I don't have to vote for Dick Falkenbury... sorry, but I like the incumbents.
seriously, tho, while I do realize that Ham radio is important, at some point one needs to test such technologies out in a fairly remote area, and Tasmania does qualify in those respects. One hopes they will find some methods - frequency shifts are the first to come to mind, as perhaps not all bands are impacted equally - to deal with the radio interference effects of running data over power lines.
I'm aware of the frequency spectra problem, from when I worked for Nextel.
So, as you describe it, it could cause interference in the mostly rural state of Tasmania, but due to their isolation, they may be willing to live with the impact, and the interference would be fairly limited in scope.
Perhaps they may find techniques to deal with that as well.
This fatal flaw will seriously limit the way that BPL can be deployed and will decrease the reliability of a BPL system in any area where it is possible that nearby radio transmitters could be operating. Under the FCC's rules, BPL is an unlicensed device that must accept any interference caused to it by authorized radio services. In the past, and through decades of experience, such interference is rare to other broadband services, such as DSL, cable or satellite. However, in all of the BPL areas tested for susceptibility so far, the unshielded wiring that is used by BPL apparently picks up nearby radio transmitters and overload or otherwise degraded the performance of the system. Although this has been seen at power levels as low as 5 watts from Amateur Radio transmitters, Amateur Radio transmitters can use as much as 1500 watts of power, greatly extending area over which BPL will be unable to tune out these over-the-air signals.
Perhaps in the US, but it's Australia testing it in Tasmania, where the FCC has no jurisdiction, as that is a US agency, and Australia is a sovereign country that has its own agencies. And it's not like Antartica will be complaining about radio interference - they're too far away to the south.
Tasmania is an island on the SE tip of Australia.
And they can decide which band to use, regardless of what the Yanks want.
Granted, the show as as fictitious as they come: "Canadians have computers!?!?" But it made some sense and afterwords I started playing with my keyboard I too realized most of them sounded slightly different.
Canadians invented telecommunications sattelites and are more wired with broadband than the US is, and have more computers per capita than the US does.
That plus the RCMP doesn't just use teakettles to steam open the mail anymore... even with CSIS, the Mounties are sometimes attached to investigations where keyboard cracking skills are useful.
like my voice-recording MP3 player/recorder with 256MB RAM - although they sell them in the GB range now...
So when some music-listening person "forgets" their MP3 player next to your desk, you've been social-engineered.
Friends don't let friends become compromised.
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Re:Office Vista? or Clippy revisited
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7 versions of office might actually work, or perhaps better yet, 7 versions of Clippy, representing different demographic subtypes:
don't forget:
Canadian Clippy: "That's a letter, eh? Why aren't you writing colour correctly? You should center the word centre too, eh?"
French Clippy: "You write with no passion! Why do I bother helping you, you know nothing of how to write! Come back when you learn how to write if you want my help, monsieur!"
Are they really misleading options or truth?
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Check out this picture [nyud.net] and despair.
Will be saved in: MS Word Document
File Type: C:\Users\Pat\Documents
This implies that you can't name document types, and that once again the users will be buried in meaningless details they care nothing about.
Sad, very sad...
Reasons for lacking originality in design?
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Not really, but my overwhelming feel was that pretty much all of the good stuff was ripped off from Apple's Mac designs.
My question is, since they patent everything nowadays, how much does MSFT owe Apple for the license fees to use all of that?
Sad, so very sad. Guess all their original developers must have left for greener or more challenging pastures.
Also, not sure why, but the whole Office felt very Japanese to me - much more so than before.
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TigerDirect - works fine.
Your mileage may vary.
I was only looking for 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB ones, and recall the prices when I did the search, no idea if it has a different price now.
Even got a Wireless 11b/g basestation with 4 ports for $20.
But nothing beats your own car/truck/etc for things like grocery shopping.
... I'll tell Bill G to put that money back in his pocket ...
Like home delivery of the groceries ordered by your fridge?
Dang, there goes the 21st century wired house concept
It's just a flash player with the ipod design.
Shhh.
Be vewy vewy quiet.
I'm hunting clue1ess n00bs who have too much money and don't mind paying $5 for coffee.
[Elmer Fudd winks]
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yeah, i saw the picture of it in Steve's hand, and I own an MP3 player that's a flash card, FM radio and voice recorder and it's pretty much the same size. And that's even for the 1GB flash card version.
It's just flatter, taller, and wider than my player.
Now, back in my Army days, it would be cool cause it would fit into my inner mag pocket, but so would my player which would fit in my pen holder pocket.
well, the 1GB was something like $35, but I was too cheap, and the 4GB was around $50.
... that works wonders ...
Still a lot cheaper than the iPod nano, all in all.
Now, if you want to attract girls, get a Nintendo DS and Nintendogs on it
I drive a Corolla, my Grandma has a Jaguar S-Type (I think thats the model). They are roughly the same size, they serve exactly the same purpose. Now granted the Jag has better performance, but you are paying a lot for image. Then again people complain about fancy cars, so you can't please everyone no matter what.
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Heck, I've got you beat. My chauffeur drives a massive biodiesel bus, and takes me from my house to my work while bypassing all the lusers in their teeny cars
Style, functionality, the interface's ease of use. Oh, and peer pressure. Those are reasons enough!
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Never underestimate the power of peer pressure.
That's why most iPod users keep using the original earbuds even tho they're really pathetic and you can get a $5 pair that works better for hearing
for less than $30 you can buy a 256MB flash card, MP3 player, FM radio, and voice recorder.
That's about the same size.
So, my question is, why bother? I'd much rather have something that gives me extra features and plugs into my laptop and work PC or Mac and lets me transfer files and do all that, and runs off of rechargeable AA batteries.
But that's just me.
Now, if someone wanted to do a case mod of the iPod nano and get it to run Linux or BSD, now we're talking!
quite frankly, it's a timesaver.
when we register them, we always make sure we have the license transferred, but sometimes certain old models won't work with the more recent OS.
wonder if Apple has any patents on the layouts used in MSFT Office.
In ten years I've never sold any storage device I've owned.
Actually if you include the tapes I made in my tape drive of my Atari 600XL it would be about 20+ years.
I still have my Apple II+ with dual floppies, 172k of RAM (yes, I know n00bs have only 48k), and the original floppies including my bootloading programs.
So I guess I'm in the same situation as you, only it's 25 years.
One that doesn't crash.
You can have any edition you want, so long as it's black and crashes. Or is that gunmetal grey and crashes.
All your corrupted database are belong to us.
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something stripped down, zero flash and optimized for games, it could even be CLI to actually launch the games. It's all I use XP for anyway...
... SO I COULD PLAY MY FRICKEN GAME!
Me too. In fact, it's a royal pain trying to set up XP so it will boot differently if you have a laptop and set up two admin accounts.
The problem is that it "discovers" all the hardware you try to tell it to ignore, loads the drivers, and then won't play Sims 2 as well as before.
I mean, I wanted it to NOT:
a. turn on the wireless;
b. turn on virus protection (see a);
c. turn on antispyware;
d. turn on the printer;
e. turn on the my yahoo radio and sign me in;
f. and change my resolution from the 800x600 to the full 1024x768 or whatever.
That's why I made a different account and tried to make a different profile
So, a stripped down gamer's edition would be really useful, IMHO.
everytime we slashdot him, his salary goes up and he can then pronounce that Linux is dead in his next article.
sigh.
even if he is right about the silly multi-version Vista variants from Microsoft.
That is what I've heard. He teaches Zoology with an emphasis on small and medium sized mammals and also Anger Management Strategies.
Ah. Tasmania, a place with a troubled past - and not a lot of gigabit internet to chop wood with.
ok, so long as I don't have to vote for Dick Falkenbury ... sorry, but I like the incumbents.
seriously, tho, while I do realize that Ham radio is important, at some point one needs to test such technologies out in a fairly remote area, and Tasmania does qualify in those respects. One hopes they will find some methods - frequency shifts are the first to come to mind, as perhaps not all bands are impacted equally - to deal with the radio interference effects of running data over power lines.
And many don't have the tools - or if they have them, are unaware that the tools are capable of doing this.
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I find a large sledgehammer used repeatedly does a fairly good job of handling data getting into the wrong hands, mind you
I'm aware of the frequency spectra problem, from when I worked for Nextel.
So, as you describe it, it could cause interference in the mostly rural state of Tasmania, but due to their isolation, they may be willing to live with the impact, and the interference would be fairly limited in scope.
Perhaps they may find techniques to deal with that as well.
Tasmanian Devil reportedly not impressed. Already using 1GBit fiberoptic connection.
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Has Taz made tenure at Tasmanian State U yet? All us univ crowd live off the Gigabit tether
it's also offered in rural areas of Eastern Washington state, and it may be available in parts of Oregon, as I recall.
This fatal flaw will seriously limit the way that BPL can be deployed and will decrease the reliability of a BPL system in any area where it is possible that nearby radio transmitters could be operating. Under the FCC's rules, BPL is an unlicensed device that must accept any interference caused to it by authorized radio services. In the past, and through decades of experience, such interference is rare to other broadband services, such as DSL, cable or satellite. However, in all of the BPL areas tested for susceptibility so far, the unshielded wiring that is used by BPL apparently picks up nearby radio transmitters and overload or otherwise degraded the performance of the system. Although this has been seen at power levels as low as 5 watts from Amateur Radio transmitters, Amateur Radio transmitters can use as much as 1500 watts of power, greatly extending area over which BPL will be unable to tune out these over-the-air signals.
Perhaps in the US, but it's Australia testing it in Tasmania, where the FCC has no jurisdiction, as that is a US agency, and Australia is a sovereign country that has its own agencies. And it's not like Antartica will be complaining about radio interference - they're too far away to the south.
Tasmania is an island on the SE tip of Australia.
And they can decide which band to use, regardless of what the Yanks want.
Granted, the show as as fictitious as they come: "Canadians have computers!?!?" But it made some sense and afterwords I started playing with my keyboard I too realized most of them sounded slightly different.
... even with CSIS, the Mounties are sometimes attached to investigations where keyboard cracking skills are useful.
Canadians invented telecommunications sattelites and are more wired with broadband than the US is, and have more computers per capita than the US does.
That plus the RCMP doesn't just use teakettles to steam open the mail anymore
like my voice-recording MP3 player/recorder with 256MB RAM - although they sell them in the GB range now ...
So when some music-listening person "forgets" their MP3 player next to your desk, you've been social-engineered.
Friends don't let friends become compromised.
-
7 versions of office might actually work, or perhaps better yet, 7 versions of Clippy, representing different demographic subtypes:
don't forget:
Canadian Clippy: "That's a letter, eh? Why aren't you writing colour correctly? You should center the word centre too, eh?"
French Clippy: "You write with no passion! Why do I bother helping you, you know nothing of how to write! Come back when you learn how to write if you want my help, monsieur!"
Check out this picture [nyud.net] and despair.
...
Will be saved in: MS Word Document
File Type: C:\Users\Pat\Documents
This implies that you can't name document types, and that once again the users will be buried in meaningless details they care nothing about.
Sad, very sad
Not really, but my overwhelming feel was that pretty much all of the good stuff was ripped off from Apple's Mac designs.
My question is, since they patent everything nowadays, how much does MSFT owe Apple for the license fees to use all of that?
Sad, so very sad. Guess all their original developers must have left for greener or more challenging pastures.
Also, not sure why, but the whole Office felt very Japanese to me - much more so than before.