Wow. I thought you were gonna say it's really _bad_. I've had an iTouch for several months and I can't stand the keyboard. It's too small, it's slow to type on, and it keeps changing what you type it because it _thinks_ it knows what you're trying to type in, but it seems to have a more limited dictionary than my Verizon cell, so it never gets it right. Not to mention the fact that touchscreens in general are horrible because you can't feel the keys. My cell is an LG VX9800 (aka the Verizon En-V) with a full QWERTY keyboard - the buttons are about a quarter the size of the buttons on the iPhone keyboard, yet I can type several times faster on it. Even though I rarely use it (I usually use the front number pad).
Don't get me wrong, I _love_ the iTouch for it's apps (I've had mine jailbroken for a while - it's great), but the keyboard is horrible.
Odd. I _used_ to get a lot of those. So many that I was switching email providers every few months, because I'd be getting 20 or 30 spam messages a day. But I've been on gmail for over 4 years now and I'll _maybe_ get one spam mail a month. And I'm more free with posting my email so spiders can find it now than I ever have. At the moment I get about 70 messages a day total, all filtered properly.
Of course, I will admit, while web spiders can easily find my email, as I said I don't generally use it for personal messages, so viruses that hijack address books probably won't get me.
...you still get spam? Wow, that's so...nineties. lol Seriously, I can't remember the last spam message I got. And my email is plastered all over forums and other sites. Gmail has one hell of a good filter. Of course, I still don't use email much for anything personal...but that's simply because I have anyone I'd want to talk to on IM. If it dies it will die because of IM, not because of spam.
I dunno, $129 for an OS seems like a lot to me. I mean, I get mine for free.
And no, I don't see a difference between Mandriva and Apple. Neither makes the entire OS - they borrow from someone else's work. Neither is a non-profit company - they're both trying to profit from this. In fact, the biggest difference is that Mandriva only produces an OS, while Apple produces many other products that can help pay for the OS development. So, if anything, you would think OSX would be free. I suppose Apple does probably have better tech support for their OS, but I think $130 is a bit excessive for support.
Wow, what crappy telco are you on? As much as Verizon sucks, every text they have ever sent me is preceded by 'THIS IS A FREE TEXT MESSAGE FROM VERIZON WIRELESS'
I have a Belkin. Cheapest wireless router I could find, about 4 years ago. I can't remember the last time I had to restart it. Actually, I don't think I've _ever_ had to restart it. Even through service interruptions, it always picks back up right where it left off.
Granted, I've only ever owned 2 wireless keyboard/mouse combos, but both of them would work under those conditions without any problems. Went from one corner of my house clear across to the opposite. One was a dell branded Logitech, the other was Micro Innovations. Clearly not the best brands.:)
Well, all I'm gonna say is that if you think Clinton deserved it, there's no way in hell you can say Bush doesn't. All Clinton did was lie. Yes, he lied under oath. But compared to what Bush did, that's nothing. It's like comparing telling your wife that dress doesn't make her look fat when it really does to Charles Manson.
What they really should be looking at are the cars that have been _banned_ from racing due to being too fast and efficient. Specifically: rotary engines.
Heey, I pay about $60USB a month for 6mbps, many ports blocked, and pretty much no customer service. You know why? I have no other choice. It's either that or dial-up. Well, I suppose I could pay much more for satellite...and have a slower connection, still be half dial-up, and have even WORSE service. Oh, and bandwidth limits. And I'm lucky. I'm the last house on the street to have cable. I know a couple people that live further up that have to have satellite. They got their internet service cut off completely just by browsing. Heavy browsing (myspace, youtube, etc with three kids), but still just browsing
Hmm. I take the train all the time. I suppose it may not be great for cross-country travelling, but you can go the entire way across PA in 5 hours for about $70. Business class, snack car...free drinks, power outlets, and you can actually use your cell phone. lol. Not to mention it's a _lot_ nicer. The business class on a plane are ancient seats, sometimes with holes where the padding is falling out, crammed together. It's horrible. In the space that a plane seats 30+ people, the train puts 15.
Yea, in Europe they have much better connections...but they also get a much bigger profit from the same size network. It's all about the population density. The networks may not seem like they're that expensive to maintain, but they're probably a couple orders of magnitude more expensive to maintain a network over here than a network with the same amount of customers in Europe.
Yes, they could make their networks better, but they'll never be as good as the ones in Europe. No matter what, you're going to be paying more for less service because you have more line to pay for.
Well, most of their drugs are quite effective at what they do...the question is, at what cost? So yes, when you have some serious problems, it's definitely worth the risk. But you should only resort to them when truly necessary. Everyday things...cold, flu, allergies, sore muscles, insomnia, etc..., except in extreme cases, aren't worth the side effects of the pills. But no, I'm not the kind of person who thinks you shouldn't get hospital treatment for cancer, heart attacks, or pretty much anything that isn't something that'll happen to you several hundred times over your lifetime.
Well, personally I fully agree with your assessment of Kevin Trudeau. That guy's an idiot. But Big Pharma's just as bad. Yes, they have the money to run tests and trials and see what happens - but that doesn't mean they actually give a damn about what their drugs do, as I think is pretty clear from all the problems caused by Ambien (just picking on that one because I know it fairly well...I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.)
Most of the herbal remedies are based on things that have been used for thousands of years. And I find they're generally cheaper - even if you go for the expensive vegetarian gel-caps, valerian is still cheaper than Unisom. But there are very few herbals that I actually buy from any sort of drug company. I don't really trust any of them, and I only buy there when I have no other easy option. Generally I either buy in bulk online or as food products from any grocery store (tea, honey, etc)
You do have to figure out what works for you. There's some experimentation involved. But even if it is just a placebo effect (which I know most of what I use isn't), it still works. If it doesn't...then just don't buy it again. Oh, and there's also some natural cures that can be done without buying anything. Things like meditation and brainwave entrainment. While personally I've had very limited success with them for anything other than a sleep aid (much better than Diphenhydramine or any of the prescription ones), they seem to work wonders for some people...and as I said, you gotta find what works for you.
Bah. For anything drug-related, you'll find hundreds of big-pharma studies saying their pills are the only thing that'll cure you, and hundreds of other studies saying their pills will do nothing but kill ya. Personally, I love big pharma...but only for recreational purposes. When I actually wanna get better, I do it the good 'ol fashioned way - rest, tea, herbs, and a bit of amateur meditation. Of course, natural cures doesn't always mean weird plant roots pills and such (Though Valerian Root is amazing stuff)...One of the best treatments for the cold is honey. Been known and used for thousands of years. Tea too. How long has Tylenol been around? Personally, I'd trust the ones with the long and proven track record. Especially when you look at some of the things Big Pharma has given us...like Ambien, the most commonly prescribed sleep aid...which also happens to get people thrown in jail for things they do while sleepwalking (things such as driving their car into a tree and assaulting a police office). And it's no wonder why - it's a hallucinogen! But hey, what do I know, I'm just some random guy on slashdot.
So basically, you're looking for something worse than an iPod but a whole lot bigger?
Seriously, get an iPod touch and jailbreak it. Sounds like that'll allow it to do everything you want, and at as low as $230 on Amazon, there's not much reason not too. Except, of course, the lack of any good interface and the screen size. But depending on what you need it for, it may work quite well. Battery life is phenomenal too - I don't know exactly how long mine lasts, but I know it's over 10 hours. And most of that is playing games, not music.
I was just going to suggest building something that does nothing but emit IMEIs for this purpose:) Seriously though, how hard would it be to make a laptop, or perhaps even an ipod, broadcast these things?
Just imagine if they've got someone actually watching this data...put that brick on and start running. It'll look like a huge mob is charging through the mall:)
T-Mobile I believe has that already in place. When you're near a wifi hotspot, it'll give you VoIP service. When you're not, they use the cell towers. It does appear that you also have to have t-mobile broadband though. Service is part of T-Mobile HotSpot I think.
Uh, Comcast at least already _has_ stooped that low. Right on their package description it says, "Actual speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. Many factors affect speed."
Ok, so measuring brain activity is great and all, but it doesn't really tell you too much about how _dangerous_ it is. I mean, yes, talking to a passenger distracts you a bit, because you're paying attention to them. But if there's some condition where you need to be paying attention to the road, odds are they'll see it too and shut up.
Well, first of all, you can't live completely without meat. You need certain proteins that you can't get anywhere else. And secondly, even if you could live without meat, who would want to?:) Nothin like a good steak. Nice NY Strip, medium well....
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The point though isn't that the steel _needed_ to melt...the point is that it _was_. We _know_ some of the steel melted. They found it in the rubble.
Or you could just install Linux for them and save all the hassle. :)
Wow. I thought you were gonna say it's really _bad_. I've had an iTouch for several months and I can't stand the keyboard. It's too small, it's slow to type on, and it keeps changing what you type it because it _thinks_ it knows what you're trying to type in, but it seems to have a more limited dictionary than my Verizon cell, so it never gets it right. Not to mention the fact that touchscreens in general are horrible because you can't feel the keys. My cell is an LG VX9800 (aka the Verizon En-V) with a full QWERTY keyboard - the buttons are about a quarter the size of the buttons on the iPhone keyboard, yet I can type several times faster on it. Even though I rarely use it (I usually use the front number pad).
Don't get me wrong, I _love_ the iTouch for it's apps (I've had mine jailbroken for a while - it's great), but the keyboard is horrible.
Odd. I _used_ to get a lot of those. So many that I was switching email providers every few months, because I'd be getting 20 or 30 spam messages a day. But I've been on gmail for over 4 years now and I'll _maybe_ get one spam mail a month. And I'm more free with posting my email so spiders can find it now than I ever have. At the moment I get about 70 messages a day total, all filtered properly.
Of course, I will admit, while web spiders can easily find my email, as I said I don't generally use it for personal messages, so viruses that hijack address books probably won't get me.
...you still get spam? Wow, that's so...nineties. lol
Seriously, I can't remember the last spam message I got. And my email is plastered all over forums and other sites. Gmail has one hell of a good filter. Of course, I still don't use email much for anything personal...but that's simply because I have anyone I'd want to talk to on IM. If it dies it will die because of IM, not because of spam.
I dunno, $129 for an OS seems like a lot to me. I mean, I get mine for free.
And no, I don't see a difference between Mandriva and Apple. Neither makes the entire OS - they borrow from someone else's work. Neither is a non-profit company - they're both trying to profit from this. In fact, the biggest difference is that Mandriva only produces an OS, while Apple produces many other products that can help pay for the OS development. So, if anything, you would think OSX would be free. I suppose Apple does probably have better tech support for their OS, but I think $130 is a bit excessive for support.
Wow, what crappy telco are you on? As much as Verizon sucks, every text they have ever sent me is preceded by 'THIS IS A FREE TEXT MESSAGE FROM VERIZON WIRELESS'
I have a Belkin. Cheapest wireless router I could find, about 4 years ago. I can't remember the last time I had to restart it. Actually, I don't think I've _ever_ had to restart it. Even through service interruptions, it always picks back up right where it left off.
Granted, I've only ever owned 2 wireless keyboard/mouse combos, but both of them would work under those conditions without any problems. Went from one corner of my house clear across to the opposite. One was a dell branded Logitech, the other was Micro Innovations. Clearly not the best brands. :)
OK, who gave the druggies mod points today?
Seriously, +4 Informative? _INFORMATIVE_??? I could see +4 funny perhaps, but no way is that informative.
Well, all I'm gonna say is that if you think Clinton deserved it, there's no way in hell you can say Bush doesn't. All Clinton did was lie. Yes, he lied under oath. But compared to what Bush did, that's nothing. It's like comparing telling your wife that dress doesn't make her look fat when it really does to Charles Manson.
What they really should be looking at are the cars that have been _banned_ from racing due to being too fast and efficient. Specifically: rotary engines.
Heey, I pay about $60USB a month for 6mbps, many ports blocked, and pretty much no customer service. You know why? I have no other choice. It's either that or dial-up. Well, I suppose I could pay much more for satellite...and have a slower connection, still be half dial-up, and have even WORSE service. Oh, and bandwidth limits. And I'm lucky. I'm the last house on the street to have cable. I know a couple people that live further up that have to have satellite. They got their internet service cut off completely just by browsing. Heavy browsing (myspace, youtube, etc with three kids), but still just browsing
Hmm. I take the train all the time. I suppose it may not be great for cross-country travelling, but you can go the entire way across PA in 5 hours for about $70. Business class, snack car...free drinks, power outlets, and you can actually use your cell phone. lol. Not to mention it's a _lot_ nicer. The business class on a plane are ancient seats, sometimes with holes where the padding is falling out, crammed together. It's horrible. In the space that a plane seats 30+ people, the train puts 15.
Yea, in Europe they have much better connections...but they also get a much bigger profit from the same size network. It's all about the population density. The networks may not seem like they're that expensive to maintain, but they're probably a couple orders of magnitude more expensive to maintain a network over here than a network with the same amount of customers in Europe.
Yes, they could make their networks better, but they'll never be as good as the ones in Europe. No matter what, you're going to be paying more for less service because you have more line to pay for.
Well, most of their drugs are quite effective at what they do...the question is, at what cost? So yes, when you have some serious problems, it's definitely worth the risk. But you should only resort to them when truly necessary. Everyday things...cold, flu, allergies, sore muscles, insomnia, etc..., except in extreme cases, aren't worth the side effects of the pills. But no, I'm not the kind of person who thinks you shouldn't get hospital treatment for cancer, heart attacks, or pretty much anything that isn't something that'll happen to you several hundred times over your lifetime.
Well, personally I fully agree with your assessment of Kevin Trudeau. That guy's an idiot. But Big Pharma's just as bad. Yes, they have the money to run tests and trials and see what happens - but that doesn't mean they actually give a damn about what their drugs do, as I think is pretty clear from all the problems caused by Ambien (just picking on that one because I know it fairly well...I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.)
Most of the herbal remedies are based on things that have been used for thousands of years. And I find they're generally cheaper - even if you go for the expensive vegetarian gel-caps, valerian is still cheaper than Unisom. But there are very few herbals that I actually buy from any sort of drug company. I don't really trust any of them, and I only buy there when I have no other easy option. Generally I either buy in bulk online or as food products from any grocery store (tea, honey, etc)
You do have to figure out what works for you. There's some experimentation involved. But even if it is just a placebo effect (which I know most of what I use isn't), it still works. If it doesn't...then just don't buy it again. Oh, and there's also some natural cures that can be done without buying anything. Things like meditation and brainwave entrainment. While personally I've had very limited success with them for anything other than a sleep aid (much better than Diphenhydramine or any of the prescription ones), they seem to work wonders for some people...and as I said, you gotta find what works for you.
Bah. For anything drug-related, you'll find hundreds of big-pharma studies saying their pills are the only thing that'll cure you, and hundreds of other studies saying their pills will do nothing but kill ya. Personally, I love big pharma...but only for recreational purposes. When I actually wanna get better, I do it the good 'ol fashioned way - rest, tea, herbs, and a bit of amateur meditation. Of course, natural cures doesn't always mean weird plant roots pills and such (Though Valerian Root is amazing stuff)...One of the best treatments for the cold is honey. Been known and used for thousands of years. Tea too. How long has Tylenol been around? Personally, I'd trust the ones with the long and proven track record. Especially when you look at some of the things Big Pharma has given us...like Ambien, the most commonly prescribed sleep aid...which also happens to get people thrown in jail for things they do while sleepwalking (things such as driving their car into a tree and assaulting a police office). And it's no wonder why - it's a hallucinogen! But hey, what do I know, I'm just some random guy on slashdot.
So basically, you're looking for something worse than an iPod but a whole lot bigger?
Seriously, get an iPod touch and jailbreak it. Sounds like that'll allow it to do everything you want, and at as low as $230 on Amazon, there's not much reason not too. Except, of course, the lack of any good interface and the screen size. But depending on what you need it for, it may work quite well. Battery life is phenomenal too - I don't know exactly how long mine lasts, but I know it's over 10 hours. And most of that is playing games, not music.
I was just going to suggest building something that does nothing but emit IMEIs for this purpose :)
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Seriously though, how hard would it be to make a laptop, or perhaps even an ipod, broadcast these things?
Just imagine if they've got someone actually watching this data...put that brick on and start running. It'll look like a huge mob is charging through the mall
That's not a common UI! My Linux uses green on black bash.
T-Mobile I believe has that already in place. When you're near a wifi hotspot, it'll give you VoIP service. When you're not, they use the cell towers. It does appear that you also have to have t-mobile broadband though. Service is part of T-Mobile HotSpot I think.
Uh, Comcast at least already _has_ stooped that low. Right on their package description it says, "Actual speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. Many factors affect speed."
Ok, so measuring brain activity is great and all, but it doesn't really tell you too much about how _dangerous_ it is. I mean, yes, talking to a passenger distracts you a bit, because you're paying attention to them. But if there's some condition where you need to be paying attention to the road, odds are they'll see it too and shut up.
Well, first of all, you can't live completely without meat. You need certain proteins that you can't get anywhere else. And secondly, even if you could live without meat, who would want to? :) Nothin like a good steak. Nice NY Strip, medium well....