The idea is for me to be able to access online streams through my cell phone (EDGE/GPRS-enabled).
You can do this now with the latest SonyEricsson phones. I do it every night with my M600i. I stream BBC World Service over T-Mobile GPRS on the train on my way home from work (Chicago, US here - YMMV). Keep the phone in my bag and listen through stero Bluetooth headphones.
The stream is Realmedia, but it still sounds surprisingly good even at crappy GPRS speeds.
Depending on where you live, if you violate the edicts of your Homeowners Association, they can seize your home.
There was a case in Houston a few years ago where some little old lady made her HoA payment a few days late and she got kicked to the curb with all of her stuff. Local media made a big deal about it at the time.
I pay $49.95 (I think) a month, and can make up to $120 worth of calls, text etc. Texts are 22-25 cents... Calls are anything from 1cent per second to 18 cents per 30 seconds
That would never fly in the 'States. Too much math.
There are cell phone companies in the U.S. that feature free incoming calls, too. So get off your Euro-centric high horse.
U.S. cell phone service is dirt cheap compared to places like Japan. People in North America and Europe like to pretend that Asia is some electronic utopia where all the experimental features are enabled on all phones and using them is free, but it's not. The typical calling plan in places like Tokyo is US$60/month for 100 minutes but unlimited texts. The typical calling plan in the U.S. is $20/month for 1,500 minutes and a few hundred included texts.
Never had one. The last console I owned was an Atari 2600.
Hell, how many people do you know that have had to replace a faulty PS2?
None. Very few of the people I socialize with play video games, and the two or three who do play on their PCs. I've never played with a Playstation, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, or a 360. I just don't have the time.
They couldn't build it correctly, or stores wouldn't have carried it.
Wow! You get the Nintendo Apologist of the Month Award!
Nintendo has an excellent reliability track record, even taking into account DS lite problems. They almost always get it right the first time, and when they don't, they fix it.
Whenever I heard "Nintendo" I think about how all of my friends had to constantly blow on their NES carts to get them to work.
It was also disease from the Europeans. Same thing that killed much of the rest of the other Native Americans, just more effective in Teotihuacan and other cities because disease spreads faster in denser populations.
I'm sure that's what they teach in Revisionist History class in politically correct schools these days, but it doesn't hold up.
Teotihuacan collapsed a thousand years before the first European arrived there.
I have one but only ever use it on long journeys and no I don't have DRM'd tracks so I didn't care about online music purchases. The ipod just happened to be the one that worked the best (scrollwheel is nice and quick) and having a mac I knew it'd work well.
It's a shame how people on Slashdot aren't allowed to just like iPods -- they always feel pressured to justify the purchase.
"Best tool for the job" isn't good enough. You have to be different. But only in a pro-Linux anti-iPod sort of way. Any other kind of being different gets you modded troll or flamebait.
It's not all that hard. As long as you can prove financial independence most countries will welcome you with open arms. You don't think Madonna and the other American music/TV/movie stars or lottery winners who live in other countries have to wait in the same line as Random Jack Coder, do you?
There are usually a string of exceptions for talented people. And if you don't have talent, you need money, or a business. If you don't have either, you're S.O.L.
That said, I know of a Canadian woman who's living as an illegal alien in a dirt poor section of Mexico. Go figure.
11) A CLI and DOS that understood dates, incl. terms like "yesterday" (instead of each command interpreting strings as times and dates).
This was one of my favorites. Although Mac OS X does this a little bit in its file displays (showing "yesterday" or "today" or "12:34pm" as necessary) I wish it went farther. I wish it was expandable and customizable so directories could show dates like "Christmas, 2003" or "Last Easter" or "Thursday."
Of course, I wish that I could get the Mac system clock voice to announce the time in a language other than the one the GUI is set for, but I'm not going to get that either.
I don't work with the OS X CLI very often, does it understand terms like "yesterday" as input, or only when its outputting directories in the Finder? That would be a real hallmark of an attempt at making a user-friendly CLI.
Back before there was a Google, my nephew got in trouble for bringing up the googol in math class. My father told him about googol. The teacher told him he was making it up and gave him detention. Ah, the perils of the New Jersey public education system.
If I buy a Van Gogh (unlikely), I own that painting. I can take pictures of it, copy it, move it around my house, do whatever I want.
Amazingly, this isn't true. If you own a painting, you own the physical painting. But the artist retains the copyright. Sure you can move it around your house, or even sell it to someone else, but you are not allowed to copy it or sell pictures of it.
Rediculous, but true.
I had a run-in with this notion in copyright law a few years ago when I took one of my wife's paintings to a Kinko's. I wanted them to use their large-format scanner to scan a copy of it onto a CDROM for me. They wouldn't do it! I did some research into the issue and found out, to my surprise, that they were right.
After a few days of wrangling, the manager finally let me do it once I produced a letter from my wife (kind of an amateur affadavit) attesting to the fact that she painted the painting and that I was her husband and had permission to copy it for her.
Google got the invitation, but ran it through their own translation engine, which yields:
"Waited until the court of céans does not fail to be surprised by the attitude of the defendant who did not consider it useful to take part in the mission of expertise, in spite of the invitations which had been addressed to him by the legal expert, and who does not appear."
It's an Apple. You only have to connect the monitor. The keyboard and mouse are wireless. And the monitor port is conveniently located on the side, unlike many crappy Wintel laptops which have all the ports in the back where you can't see them or plug them in easily.
I guess that's why they have docks -- to make up for poor design.
Sounds like the Dell's aren't suited for business use if you have to buy so much extra equipment for all of your employees to make up for design flaws.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation. And then there was another one in the 90's, too, I think.
We (the USA) have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.
Actually, Russia has a far larger nuclear arsenal. If you believe Wikipedia, at least. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_nations
Freakin' Luxembourg! Always messing things up for everyone else!
The idea is for me to be able to access online streams through my cell phone (EDGE/GPRS-enabled).
You can do this now with the latest SonyEricsson phones. I do it every night with my M600i. I stream BBC World Service over T-Mobile GPRS on the train on my way home from work (Chicago, US here - YMMV). Keep the phone in my bag and listen through stero Bluetooth headphones.
The stream is Realmedia, but it still sounds surprisingly good even at crappy GPRS speeds.
Depending on where you live, if you violate the edicts of your Homeowners Association, they can seize your home.
There was a case in Houston a few years ago where some little old lady made her HoA payment a few days late and she got kicked to the curb with all of her stuff. Local media made a big deal about it at the time.
I pay $49.95 (I think) a month, and can make up to $120 worth of calls, text etc. Texts are 22-25 cents... Calls are anything from 1cent per second to 18 cents per 30 seconds
That would never fly in the 'States. Too much math.
There are cell phone companies in the U.S. that feature free incoming calls, too. So get off your Euro-centric high horse.
U.S. cell phone service is dirt cheap compared to places like Japan. People in North America and Europe like to pretend that Asia is some electronic utopia where all the experimental features are enabled on all phones and using them is free, but it's not. The typical calling plan in places like Tokyo is US$60/month for 100 minutes but unlimited texts. The typical calling plan in the U.S. is $20/month for 1,500 minutes and a few hundred included texts.
Your PS1 still work?
Never had one. The last console I owned was an Atari 2600.
Hell, how many people do you know that have had to replace a faulty PS2?
None. Very few of the people I socialize with play video games, and the two or three who do play on their PCs. I've never played with a Playstation, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, or a 360. I just don't have the time.
They couldn't build it correctly, or stores wouldn't have carried it.
Wow! You get the Nintendo Apologist of the Month Award!
Nintendo has an excellent reliability track record, even taking into account DS lite problems. They almost always get it right the first time, and when they don't, they fix it.
Whenever I heard "Nintendo" I think about how all of my friends had to constantly blow on their NES carts to get them to work.
It was also disease from the Europeans. Same thing that killed much of the rest of the other Native Americans, just more effective in Teotihuacan and other cities because disease spreads faster in denser populations.
I'm sure that's what they teach in Revisionist History class in politically correct schools these days, but it doesn't hold up. Teotihuacan collapsed a thousand years before the first European arrived there.
I have one but only ever use it on long journeys and no I don't have DRM'd tracks so I didn't care about online music purchases. The ipod just happened to be the one that worked the best (scrollwheel is nice and quick) and having a mac I knew it'd work well.
It's a shame how people on Slashdot aren't allowed to just like iPods -- they always feel pressured to justify the purchase.
"Best tool for the job" isn't good enough. You have to be different. But only in a pro-Linux anti-iPod sort of way. Any other kind of being different gets you modded troll or flamebait.
My iPod like Bjork and Springsteen. I think it's manic depressive.
It's not all that hard. As long as you can prove financial independence most countries will welcome you with open arms. You don't think Madonna and the other American music/TV/movie stars or lottery winners who live in other countries have to wait in the same line as Random Jack Coder, do you?
There are usually a string of exceptions for talented people. And if you don't have talent, you need money, or a business. If you don't have either, you're S.O.L.
That said, I know of a Canadian woman who's living as an illegal alien in a dirt poor section of Mexico. Go figure.
My phone (SE M600i) does all of those things.
You can't blame the cell phone industry as a whole because you made a stupid buying decision.
11) A CLI and DOS that understood dates, incl. terms like "yesterday" (instead of each command interpreting strings as times and dates).
This was one of my favorites. Although Mac OS X does this a little bit in its file displays (showing "yesterday" or "today" or "12:34pm" as necessary) I wish it went farther. I wish it was expandable and customizable so directories could show dates like "Christmas, 2003" or "Last Easter" or "Thursday."
Of course, I wish that I could get the Mac system clock voice to announce the time in a language other than the one the GUI is set for, but I'm not going to get that either.
I don't work with the OS X CLI very often, does it understand terms like "yesterday" as input, or only when its outputting directories in the Finder? That would be a real hallmark of an attempt at making a user-friendly CLI.
Back before there was a Google, my nephew got in trouble for bringing up the googol in math class. My father told him about googol. The teacher told him he was making it up and gave him detention. Ah, the perils of the New Jersey public education system.
If I buy a Van Gogh (unlikely), I own that painting. I can take pictures of it, copy it, move it around my house, do whatever I want.
Amazingly, this isn't true. If you own a painting, you own the physical painting. But the artist retains the copyright. Sure you can move it around your house, or even sell it to someone else, but you are not allowed to copy it or sell pictures of it.
Rediculous, but true.
I had a run-in with this notion in copyright law a few years ago when I took one of my wife's paintings to a Kinko's. I wanted them to use their large-format scanner to scan a copy of it onto a CDROM for me. They wouldn't do it! I did some research into the issue and found out, to my surprise, that they were right.
After a few days of wrangling, the manager finally let me do it once I produced a letter from my wife (kind of an amateur affadavit) attesting to the fact that she painted the painting and that I was her husband and had permission to copy it for her.
We drilled holes in the drives themselves
You must have the luckiest interns on Earth.
"Naysayers Say Nay"
Isn't this already possible with a Mac Mini and it's included FrontRow and remote control?
My experience is more like yours. So, I think he's a troll with a Redmond, Washington mailing address.
Strange. My wife's 500 MHz G3 (iBook) with 640 megs of RAM runs Tiger quite nicely.
Google got the invitation, but ran it through their own translation engine, which yields:
"Waited until the court of céans does not fail to be surprised by the attitude of the defendant who did not consider it useful to take part in the mission of expertise, in spite of the invitations which had been addressed to him by the legal expert, and who does not appear."
Might as well read "Go stick your head in a pig."
It's an Apple. You only have to connect the monitor. The keyboard and mouse are wireless. And the monitor port is conveniently located on the side, unlike many crappy Wintel laptops which have all the ports in the back where you can't see them or plug them in easily.
I guess that's why they have docks -- to make up for poor design.
Sounds like the Dell's aren't suited for business use if you have to buy so much extra equipment for all of your employees to make up for design flaws.
that's also the difference between the world of walmart, and the world of macys....
Sorry... you misspelled Marshall Field's . (People in Chicago get this joke.)
Sorry... you misspelled Foley's . (People in Houston get this one.)