i was looking at getting a new laptop to use between work and home.. i wanted soemthing extremaly light and usable.. i was in a toss up.. buy a cheap eeepc and give it a try or dump a good sum of money on a purpos built ultra light..
by boss got an EeePC to play with.. so i used it for a day.. while i have to say it is a wonderful thing.. it is not something i would want to do any real amount of work on.
instead i got in on the dell latitude clearence they did in Feb.. picked up a D420.. with media base.. it weights in at 2.8lbs with extended battery.. i get 6 1/2 hours on a full charge.. a nice 1280x800 screen size.. Intel Core Duo at 1G. 1.5g of ram and 80gb drive.. tack on a media base with dvd burner and DVI out.. that acts as a docking station.. paid 1100$ all said and done.. sure it is 2-3x the price of an EeePC.. but it beats the living crap out of it..
the EeePC falls into a gray area of the market.. if i had a kid.. yea an EeePC all the way.. but if i was going to use this thing on a dail basis.. i would have to some how shrink my fingers
all the XP drivers are included on the DVD you get which is also the restore disk for the base linux install.
my boss has one of the orginal ones.. and putting xp on it was no issue driver wise.. now cramming XP and office 03 on it for him.. that was a fun chalange.. ended up sticking in an 8gb sd card and maping it to the program files folder
if we as a nation can build a Transcontinental rail road in 7 years with next to no existing infrstructer for most of the way - back in teh 1800's.. i see no reason why 130 years later we would not be able to build a transcontinental power distrubution network.. wait..didn't we do this a while aglo.. still..
sure there is power loss - but we are also making great improvements in supper conductors that do not need to be cooled to near 0k to work..
why can't we start this now.. build them and connected them to the grid.. get power to the closer to home places without much loss and keep building and sending the excess power out even with loss to help compensate for other power needs.
and as we develop more superconductor tech we can install it in the long run's first and get the best of both worlds.. we get something useful now and something amazing later..
why not stop and say.. no more coal plants.. only solar/nuke.. mainly solar.. build over capacity to compensate for the loss over distance.. and as we improve tech stop the loss which will help as power demands are more than likly going to increase.
i would be more than happy to pay 2x as much as i do now for power if it would help stop acid rain from coal plants in 50 years.
anyone that looks at this as lets do it all at once - but wait till we are damn sure it will solve all the problems before we change are ways.. is stupid in my opion
anyone remember the outfit that completely copied NEC? to the point where they started developing their own products with their own inovation, not just ripping off NEC.
every time i go looking to buy a laptop from someone that drives me alittle more crazy.. lucky i keep a refrence chart.. it also makes it eaiser for other people to understand too
not all CRT's are made the same.. i have an NEC 17in that was made in 1993.. and it still hasn't faded.. sure the color's arn't as true as a nice DVI LCD but they havn't faded.
i doubt i would consider it a "merge" of the compaines.. i doubht MS would ever really merge.. they would buy and then partion it out and let it rot..
unless MS is don't noting but tasking a couple of spare MS people to throw out crazy offers at yahoo to cause PR and basicly make yahoo lose concentration as a company on what it is they should be doing..
trust me when you work for a large company and there is a rummor of a buyout no one gets anything done really..
i could see MS doing this.. why i don't know.. but it makes more sence then them wanting any IP yahoo has..
i fully agree and also don't want government regulation - they always screw things up.. but it is also their fault we are in the state we are in now..
if you look at the problem - the obvious solution for content providers and users is to switch to a diffrent provider that doesn't do this. and i am sure 90% of the people here would agree and switch to a diffrent provider if they where honest and did the right thing and constintly built their network.
but you can't switch.. the choices you have are slim and they are all hopping on this extortion band wagon.. and company X that wants to do it right can't because they ones on the band wagon are the back bones..
back bones take 2 things.. lots and lots of money.. and help from the government for right of way.. and the government was happy to give it to these massive compaines at tax payers loss jsut to have the company try and extort the tax payers.. as far as i am concerted if these compaines are going to abuse what the government/tax payers let them have. we should reclaim it..
wouldn't that be one hell of an upset.. government reclaims all major backbone trunks on public property from compaines that have deceptive biz pratice and auctions them off to other compaines that don't have the deceptive pratices..
we.. we can dream.... maybe i will sell my house one day and jsut buy a backhoe and drive around scarring the shit out off bell techs..
they put the unlimited in there because people associated the cost of their conneciton with the ammount of time they where on it. I have a person here at work - she still has that mind set. she has dsl yet she doesn't let windows download updates because she feels that the longer she is online the more it costs her.
the whole "unlimited internet access" was all to make people think it was infintly greater than their by the min dialup service.
to be honest if you are installing windows on servers in a data center.. you build the required rivers into the install image.. sure it takes a bit of work to set up.. but it makes life far far far easier in the long run..
if it is 1 machine to install then sure put a floppy in.. if it is 10+ build your own install image
yea the company that manages the ones here also gets a commission - (which is completely wrong - private companies should not be allowed to enforce laws) - i am going to have to check into some of this.. cause while i have never had a ticket it really isnt' uncommon to see them at the intersections in question - and some of them i don't blame the drivers.. cause there isn't always enough time to stop
i obey the speed limit and stop ar red lights.. but i don't feel it is fair for them to change things on people just to extort money out of them.. and example is where i live.. in down town.. on the main road there is 8 lghts i have to go through each day. only 2 of them have red light cameras one near the middle and one at the end of the road. the lights are in sequence so that if you get stopped by one light and wait it out then the rest will be green for you if you are doing the speed limit. BUT the yellow lights on ONLY the two lights that have cameras are 3 seconds shorter than the rest. all the normal interchanges have very long yellows and the two that have cameras have yellows that are less than half the time of the others.
that to me is wrong.. because a driver has no warning that they have shortened the yellow light - it should be standard..
i know people are going to say "well when it turns yellow you stop - no problem" but the yellow is so short that it is an issue.. not all cars can go form 35-0 in 30-40 feet not all cars have ABS to assist.. and god forbid it when it is raining.
oh god i just implied a bad idea from your comment..
what if we took documents of data.. and apon saving them taged a light weight reader/editor to the file.. that way if someone has the app to read the document it would just skim over the bin part but if not the data file is also executable that will open the data of the document within it's slef..
that way it doens't mater if they have the app or not jsut send them the document and they will surely be able to view/edit it..
i know this is a bad idea.. but still sounds kinda neat
outlook 2000-2003 have x.400 i refuse to mess with 07 as they completely fucked up outlook/exchange when dealing with mixed clients (03 & 07 clients and 03-07 server)
i never understood this.. why not to a 2 fold system
1) web based fill in for address then 2) no spoken for addresses - mail out form then 3) have postal workers get the info for the remaining addresses
all being spaced out by a few months..
i mean.. the post office basicly visits every location every day 6 days a week (i know not ALL but damn close percentage wise)
really i just don't undertand why the hell it is all that fucking hard.. sure people can poke holes in what i posted.. but others can fix them.. but 2billion is bull shit
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well if you use a large incedecent murcury bulb then yea.. it isn't going to happen.. but if you use some of the new laser projector tech . then it is more than possiable..
personaly i bet they where shipped back there for RMA - and they for got to put the number on the outside of the box so it took them awhile to get around to them
i have an xm raido for my car - the selling points to me is.. with the subscription i also get the streaming connection - so all day when i am at work i can listen to it - and when i am in the car i can listen to it. i like having good high quality clasical chans' along with the old time radio shows - and what ever other type i want to listen to - without having to hunt down stations or listening to blaring car sales adds for 15min of my 30min commute.. i like that they have a 40's big band station on xm . there is no local FM/AM station that plays that. nor do i have a huge MP3 collection of that style..
i diffently see the use for it. i just hope they don't merge and drop the chans i listen to.. cause then i will be canceling
as for the poeple that comment on the extra cost of the radio - all radio's cost money.. just normaly the am/fm one is built into the cost of the car - and while xm radios can be expensive (who the hell pays 300$ for a damn radio anyways) you can always pick up pefectly good older versions cheap.. the one i got for my wife was 30$ and included the car kit
transformers do worth with direct current.. it jsut reqires physical power added to mvoe the magnet back and forth - AC allows for the magnet to stay fixed and have the feild move instead.. there for being far more pratical - but transformers do work with DC.. it jsut isnt' the best idea
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i was looking at getting a new laptop to use between work and home.. i wanted soemthing extremaly light and usable.. i was in a toss up .. buy a cheap eeepc and give it a try or dump a good sum of money on a purpos built ultra light..
.. so i used it for a day.. while i have to say it is a wonderful thing.. it is not something i would want to do any real amount of work on.
.. tack on a media base with dvd burner and DVI out.. that acts as a docking station.. paid 1100$ all said and done.. sure it is 2-3x the price of an EeePC.. but it beats the living crap out of it..
by boss got an EeePC to play with
instead i got in on the dell latitude clearence they did in Feb.. picked up a D420.. with media base.. it weights in at 2.8lbs with extended battery.. i get 6 1/2 hours on a full charge.. a nice 1280x800 screen size.. Intel Core Duo at 1G. 1.5g of ram and 80gb drive
the EeePC falls into a gray area of the market.. if i had a kid.. yea an EeePC all the way.. but if i was going to use this thing on a dail basis.. i would have to some how shrink my fingers
all the XP drivers are included on the DVD you get which is also the restore disk for the base linux install.
.. that was a fun chalange.. ended up sticking in an 8gb sd card and maping it to the program files folder
my boss has one of the orginal ones.. and putting xp on it was no issue driver wise.. now cramming XP and office 03 on it for him
but drivers where no issue at all
if we as a nation can build a Transcontinental rail road in 7 years with next to no existing infrstructer for most of the way - back in teh 1800's.. i see no reason why 130 years later we would not be able to build a transcontinental power distrubution network.. wait..didn't we do this a while aglo.. still..
.. no more coal plants.. only solar/nuke.. mainly solar.. build over capacity to compensate for the loss over distance.. and as we improve tech stop the loss which will help as power demands are more than likly going to increase.
sure there is power loss - but we are also making great improvements in supper conductors that do not need to be cooled to near 0k to work..
why can't we start this now.. build them and connected them to the grid.. get power to the closer to home places without much loss and keep building and sending the excess power out even with loss to help compensate for other power needs.
and as we develop more superconductor tech we can install it in the long run's first and get the best of both worlds.. we get something useful now and something amazing later..
why not stop and say
i would be more than happy to pay 2x as much as i do now for power if it would help stop acid rain from coal plants in 50 years.
anyone that looks at this as lets do it all at once - but wait till we are damn sure it will solve all the problems before we change are ways.. is stupid in my opion
i find it all kinda crazy when they loose sight..
anyone remember the outfit that completely copied NEC? to the point where they started developing their own products with their own inovation, not just ripping off NEC.
every time i go looking to buy a laptop from someone that drives me alittle more crazy.. lucky i keep a refrence chart.. it also makes it eaiser for other people to understand too
not all CRT's are made the same.. i have an NEC 17in that was made in 1993.. and it still hasn't faded.. sure the color's arn't as true as a nice DVI LCD but they havn't faded.
this is why i let my wife check the mail... now i only get what is worth while....
ok.. so i was taught wrong
0c = 273k
.15 is a floating point error.. wonder if they are using java..
and
0k = -273k
and
1 unit C = 1 unit K
how the hell is 200k = -73.15c sounds like the
i don't remember the number but there is also a patent on using a laser pointer to entertain cats..
i doubt i would consider it a "merge" of the compaines.. i doubht MS would ever really merge.. they would buy and then partion it out and let it rot..
unless MS is don't noting but tasking a couple of spare MS people to throw out crazy offers at yahoo to cause PR and basicly make yahoo lose concentration as a company on what it is they should be doing..
trust me when you work for a large company and there is a rummor of a buyout no one gets anything done really..
i could see MS doing this.. why i don't know.. but it makes more sence then them wanting any IP yahoo has..
i fully agree and also don't want government regulation - they always screw things up.. but it is also their fault we are in the state we are in now..
if you look at the problem - the obvious solution for content providers and users is to switch to a diffrent provider that doesn't do this. and i am sure 90% of the people here would agree and switch to a diffrent provider if they where honest and did the right thing and constintly built their network.
but you can't switch.. the choices you have are slim and they are all hopping on this extortion band wagon.. and company X that wants to do it right can't because they ones on the band wagon are the back bones..
back bones take 2 things.. lots and lots of money.. and help from the government for right of way.. and the government was happy to give it to these massive compaines at tax payers loss jsut to have the company try and extort the tax payers.. as far as i am concerted if these compaines are going to abuse what the government/tax payers let them have. we should reclaim it..
wouldn't that be one hell of an upset.. government reclaims all major backbone trunks on public property from compaines that have deceptive biz pratice and auctions them off to other compaines that don't have the deceptive pratices..
we.. we can dream.... maybe i will sell my house one day and jsut buy a backhoe and drive around scarring the shit out off bell techs..
they put the unlimited in there because people associated the cost of their conneciton with the ammount of time they where on it. I have a person here at work - she still has that mind set. she has dsl yet she doesn't let windows download updates because she feels that the longer she is online the more it costs her.
the whole "unlimited internet access" was all to make people think it was infintly greater than their by the min dialup service.
to be honest if you are installing windows on servers in a data center.. you build the required rivers into the install image.. sure it takes a bit of work to set up .. but it makes life far far far easier in the long run..
.. if it is 10+ build your own install image
if it is 1 machine to install then sure put a floppy in
I already requested a price sheet - the sales rep I talked to didn't know what it was and is going to give me a call back..
we shall see if they are affordable
yea the company that manages the ones here also gets a commission - (which is completely wrong - private companies should not be allowed to enforce laws) - i am going to have to check into some of this.. cause while i have never had a ticket it really isnt' uncommon to see them at the intersections in question - and some of them i don't blame the drivers.. cause there isn't always enough time to stop
i obey the speed limit and stop ar red lights.. but i don't feel it is fair for them to change things on people just to extort money out of them.. and example is where i live.. in down town.. on the main road there is 8 lghts i have to go through each day. only 2 of them have red light cameras one near the middle and one at the end of the road. the lights are in sequence so that if you get stopped by one light and wait it out then the rest will be green for you if you are doing the speed limit. BUT the yellow lights on ONLY the two lights that have cameras are 3 seconds shorter than the rest. all the normal interchanges have very long yellows and the two that have cameras have yellows that are less than half the time of the others.
that to me is wrong.. because a driver has no warning that they have shortened the yellow light - it should be standard..
i know people are going to say "well when it turns yellow you stop - no problem" but the yellow is so short that it is an issue.. not all cars can go form 35-0 in 30-40 feet not all cars have ABS to assist.. and god forbid it when it is raining.
doing things like that is deciteful
oh god i just implied a bad idea from your comment..
what if we took documents of data.. and apon saving them taged a light weight reader/editor to the file.. that way if someone has the app to read the document it would just skim over the bin part but if not the data file is also executable that will open the data of the document within it's slef..
that way it doens't mater if they have the app or not jsut send them the document and they will surely be able to view/edit it..
i know this is a bad idea.. but still sounds kinda neat
outlook 2000-2003 have x.400 i refuse to mess with 07 as they completely fucked up outlook/exchange when dealing with mixed clients (03 & 07 clients and 03-07 server)
wait when id KMail get x.400 support and exchange sync?
i never understood this.. why not to a 2 fold system
1) web based fill in for address
then
2) no spoken for addresses - mail out form
then
3) have postal workers get the info for the remaining addresses
all being spaced out by a few months..
i mean.. the post office basicly visits every location every day 6 days a week (i know not ALL but damn close percentage wise)
really i just don't undertand why the hell it is all that fucking hard.. sure people can poke holes in what i posted.. but others can fix them.. but 2billion is bull shit
well if you use a large incedecent murcury bulb then yea.. it isn't going to happen.. but if you use some of the new laser projector tech . then it is more than possiable..
http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/laser-projectors-coming-to-cell-phones-and-pdas
personaly i bet they where shipped back there for RMA - and they for got to put the number on the outside of the box so it took them awhile to get around to them
i have an xm raido for my car - the selling points to me is .. with the subscription i also get the streaming connection - so all day when i am at work i can listen to it - and when i am in the car i can listen to it. i like having good high quality clasical chans' along with the old time radio shows - and what ever other type i want to listen to - without having to hunt down stations or listening to blaring car sales adds for 15min of my 30min commute.. i like that they have a 40's big band station on xm . there is no local FM/AM station that plays that. nor do i have a huge MP3 collection of that style..
i diffently see the use for it. i just hope they don't merge and drop the chans i listen to.. cause then i will be canceling
as for the poeple that comment on the extra cost of the radio - all radio's cost money.. just normaly the am/fm one is built into the cost of the car - and while xm radios can be expensive (who the hell pays 300$ for a damn radio anyways) you can always pick up pefectly good older versions cheap.. the one i got for my wife was 30$ and included the car kit
transformers do worth with direct current.. it jsut reqires physical power added to mvoe the magnet back and forth - AC allows for the magnet to stay fixed and have the feild move instead .. there for being far more pratical - but transformers do work with DC .. it jsut isnt' the best idea