What kind of caption is that? That phone may show pictures, but it's the ugliest phone I've ever seen. Moreover, I don't want my phone to do all this crap. Here are the list of features I want in a phone, with a divider before those that would take my PDA out of the picture:
1. Ability to make calls, with clear reception all over the globe at all times of day (this is partly a service problem, but better phones could help) 2. Cancer-free 3. Ability to digitally download voice mail to the phone (with error correction) so I don't have to listen to it on a scratchy connection 4. Ability to act as a modem with just a cheap serial cord, no $500 kits 5. LONG battery life - I mean 1 week standby and 5 hours talk-time, worst-case -- 6. Ability to store phone numbers along with other contact info 7. Alarm clock, todo list, and datebook calendar
That's it. No mp3s, no videos, no file sharing. Just the things that would rock to have in a mobile, self-contained unit. It shouldn't have unnecessary buttons and gizmos. It shouldn't have musical ring tones (customizable ringing, yes; music, hell no). I simply don't understand the impetus for putting crap into a cell phone that would be better taken care of by other devices, separate from the phone.
Now, a Rio or some such that can wirelessly bounce around mp3s (even at a reduced bitrate) might be nice, but a Rio is made for playing music. A cell phone is made for communicating with people.
I just want to say, no matter in how off-topic a way, that I'm proud to see that the first story posted on Slashdot on September 11, 2002, had absolutely nothing to do with last year's terrorist attacks. Folks, we're not terrified, and because of that, we've already won the war, regardless of the battles yet to be fought.
Statistically speaking, it's very unlikely that this person is both a Slashdot comment-poster and a friend of a surviving chopper pilot from Vietnam. Very unlikely.
More importantly, is it easily supported by other free software? For example, if a database isn't EASY to use from within PHP and Perl, it'll simply never catch on in the free software world, because we write a LOT of database applications with PHP and Perl. (And probably a dozen other scripting languages; I'm not mentioning C/C++ on purpose, because I suspect that there is more interpreted database client software than compiled).
Using the latest unstable Debian hardly qualifies as using new technology. It just means using new software that isn't refined yet. There's an enormous fundamental difference here, which I think a great number of people overlook far too frequently.
"A Scout is honest, etc." "Honest" is the first one. He was using pseudonyms and claiming to be a professor. And I don't know of any merit badge that this project could possibly fill the requirements for; at least not one that he shouldn't have submitted it for as soon as he had a reaction of any sort, as work on merit badges expires after so many months' time. Moreover, if it was not for a merit badge but for his Eagle Scout project, one's Eagle Scout project is a team leadership project, not a solitary design/construction project. His entire pretense is invalid and his failure to live within the Scout Motto is saddening, especially when all the news reports give constant mention of his Boy Scouting.
Cheap bastards. For what it's worth, I spent a couple days back in Grand Forks doing some computer forensics for $125/hr last week. I'm a student taking advantage of what will probably be my last summer in western ND, so it's nice to have that $2k "summer job" all done with, so I can move on to my daily goals: Kill a prairie dog, go for a Jeep ride ('48 Willys, like WWII), go 4-wheelering, go 4-wheeling (that's with a truck;-D), ride a horse, ride a motorcycle, go to Saskatchewan to visit 'the woman', play guitar, or workonmythesis. But I'm even behind on/those/ goals. It's terrible!
As to deer hunting, it's great here! I'm 5 miles from the edge of hardcore Badlands, so we get whitetail deer and fantastic mule deer very close by, and we have a friend with a ranch down on the Little Missouri, the/real/ time-zone line (don't trust time.gov! They're wrong!) with a great abundance of both, and we own some farmland on the Yellowstone with its own breed of whitetails that have recently become very smart due to idiots from Williston coming down and hunting without permission. I've often thought about sniping/them/ off.;-D I had venison last night (whitetail, Yellowstone, muzzleloader, 2000 season), in fact, and also have another window open to 'hunt' for the perfect scope to put on the new Weatherby SuperPredatorMaster.308.
Okay, way too much off-topic info; I bet I lose all my karma from that high-ranking parent of this message, eh?;-D (I'll post -1 for protection.;-D)
It's a chicken-and-the-egg problem. Watford's economic development department has been continually trying to get tech firms to move in. There is a geography company that did actually set up shop, and there was a programming firm that was going to come in (I even went to the job fair they hosted here and all that; covered in mud and wet from snow from being out 4-wheeling with the '76 IHC Scout, of course;-D), but it seems the main problem is getting people to move in. We lack a few things that you and I real people require: entertainment. Yep, that's a few things. At least a movie theater and high-speed Internet. But keep in mind that the people who'd want to live here (me, for example) want to live here due in part to the isolation the country affords one, so they want to live outside of town. Figure that most of them will be 5-10 miles out. It's that 'doughnut' that broadband would have to cover, and then the geek infrastructure would be present and the firms could move in, thus creating the missing demand. Chicken and the egg.
Oh yeah, and we're working on the movie theater dilemma (we had one long ago, but it's been closed for nearly 20 years). We're looking at setting up a digital (Lucas-friendly) theater in the near future, probably 2 screens.
As to falling off the map, we're dangerously close as it is. Letterman had an electoral voting map, just showing each state in red, blue, or green, during the Bush/Gore election. He explained that red states' votes went to Bush, blue states' for Gore, and the states colored in green became Canadian. >8^)
As you know from growing up in Bismarck, not all of North Dakota is either flat or as populous as the Fargo area, which isn't saying much. I'm presently 17 miles from Watford City, ND, and only have line of sight to any part of said town because I'm 100ft of elevation higher and most of the intervening hills are lower than that. I've been thinking about some kind of wireless solution for a while, as it is possible in Watford to get T1 and now, thanks to a spinoff by 3 companies (one in Watford, one in Dickinson, and one in Bismarck), DSL. The service really sucks, even within the city limits, but unreliable 512k is still better than the 24k that my phone line is letting me get today (I got about 50k once), which isn't reliable anyhow as it's also through the same ISP as the DSL.
There is an initiative to deliver wireless to all of North Dakota's rural areas, not just the 50% of our population that lives between I-29 and the Red River (of the North, for those of you Suthroners reading), but it's a long ways off and some of the people in charge aren't ambitious enough to pull it off.
Someone else mentioned the possibility of putting repeaters or transmitters on the cell phone antennas across the countryside. That would work great, IF said cell phone antennas were even capable with their much-greater-than-wireless-networking range of covering the entire state, but they're not. With a high-power bag phone, on a clear night, I can get enough 'service' to make a call, maybe understand the incoming side of it, etc. The nearest digital tower is circa 60 miles from me, in Williston, and is so weak that digital service doesn't become available until you come over Indian Hill about 10 miles from Williston. Granted that service in Minot, Grand Forks, Fargo, and Bismarck (and marginally so, Dickinson) is better, but there are still a lot of people, the real heart of North Dakota, that aren't included among those that live in our 'cities'.
There needs to be a statewide solution, and we've not had much luck finding one yet. Any ideas?
Can you repair your own car? Build your own house? Hell, can you cook your own food? Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
Yep (and have recently), yep (and have twice), yep (and did just a few hours ago); because they can't do any of the other items, either. Hope that answer suffices for you.
There are certain types of speech specifically exempted from First Amendment protection by the courts. Libel, slander, and corporate fraud are among these.
We had a station switch from Lazer 96.1 (progressive rock) to Oldies 96.1 (duh)...but in the interim they played 1 week of Louie 96.1...consisting of every different version of _Louie Louie_ they could find, and not breaking a single time except for the FCC-required occasionaly mention of call letters and frequency, and one severe thunderstorm warning. Other than that, no ads or breaks at all. Just Louie. I wish they would've kept that, though, cuz Oldies 96.1 sucked and the new 96.1 that plays only raunchy country, and only 3 songs on rotation since country fans don't usually notice that sort of thing, sucks even worse.
I'm pretty certain that my practice (guitar) amp is solid-state, but not digital. The amplified sound coming out of those transistors sure sounds analog to me, at least.:)
So encrypt them into full English words. Who says that the English dictionary isn't a valid set of items to encrypt things to? For better results, use Swahili or Yiddish. But not Arabic.
They left out a word...it was supposed to read: "Windows sales would be crippled". Which is just as much BS as any other claim, but at least it represents their thoughts.
As in favor as I am of stem cell and other genetic research and, more importantly, applications being found for the results of that research, curing a disease that causes such a massive immune system failure has to be done at the source: it's a genetic thing, as far as I know, so we have to let these people die. Keeping them around may be humanitarian. Curing their disease may make living worthwhile and hopefully can let them contribute to society. Letting them reproduce, however, will weaken our gene pool; and now that they can come out of their bubbles, they'll be reproducing even more. Just like cancer cells in an otherwise healthy body: the unwanted units become more and more pervasive and harder to contain or remove.
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What kind of caption is that? That phone may show pictures, but it's the ugliest phone I've ever seen. Moreover, I don't want my phone to do all this crap. Here are the list of features I want in a phone, with a divider before those that would take my PDA out of the picture:
1. Ability to make calls, with clear reception all over the globe at all times of day (this is partly a service problem, but better phones could help)
2. Cancer-free
3. Ability to digitally download voice mail to the phone (with error correction) so I don't have to listen to it on a scratchy connection
4. Ability to act as a modem with just a cheap serial cord, no $500 kits
5. LONG battery life - I mean 1 week standby and 5 hours talk-time, worst-case
--
6. Ability to store phone numbers along with other contact info
7. Alarm clock, todo list, and datebook calendar
That's it. No mp3s, no videos, no file sharing. Just the things that would rock to have in a mobile, self-contained unit. It shouldn't have unnecessary buttons and gizmos. It shouldn't have musical ring tones (customizable ringing, yes; music, hell no). I simply don't understand the impetus for putting crap into a cell phone that would be better taken care of by other devices, separate from the phone.
Now, a Rio or some such that can wirelessly bounce around mp3s (even at a reduced bitrate) might be nice, but a Rio is made for playing music. A cell phone is made for communicating with people.
I just want to say, no matter in how off-topic a way, that I'm proud to see that the first story posted on Slashdot on September 11, 2002, had absolutely nothing to do with last year's terrorist attacks. Folks, we're not terrified, and because of that, we've already won the war, regardless of the battles yet to be fought.
Clearly, smart people don't pay to listen to Britney Spears.
Statistically speaking, it's very unlikely that this person is both a Slashdot comment-poster and a friend of a surviving chopper pilot from Vietnam. Very unlikely.
More importantly, is it easily supported by other free software? For example, if a database isn't EASY to use from within PHP and Perl, it'll simply never catch on in the free software world, because we write a LOT of database applications with PHP and Perl. (And probably a dozen other scripting languages; I'm not mentioning C/C++ on purpose, because I suspect that there is more interpreted database client software than compiled).
Using the latest unstable Debian hardly qualifies as using new technology. It just means using new software that isn't refined yet. There's an enormous fundamental difference here, which I think a great number of people overlook far too frequently.
"A Scout is honest, etc." "Honest" is the first one. He was using pseudonyms and claiming to be a professor. And I don't know of any merit badge that this project could possibly fill the requirements for; at least not one that he shouldn't have submitted it for as soon as he had a reaction of any sort, as work on merit badges expires after so many months' time. Moreover, if it was not for a merit badge but for his Eagle Scout project, one's Eagle Scout project is a team leadership project, not a solitary design/construction project. His entire pretense is invalid and his failure to live within the Scout Motto is saddening, especially when all the news reports give constant mention of his Boy Scouting.
Cheap bastards. For what it's worth, I spent a couple days back in Grand Forks doing some computer forensics for $125/hr last week. I'm a student taking advantage of what will probably be my last summer in western ND, so it's nice to have that $2k "summer job" all done with, so I can move on to my daily goals: Kill a prairie dog, go for a Jeep ride ('48 Willys, like WWII), go 4-wheelering, go 4-wheeling (that's with a truck ;-D), ride a horse, ride a motorcycle, go to Saskatchewan to visit 'the woman', play guitar, or workonmythesis. But I'm even behind on /those/ goals. It's terrible!
/real/ time-zone line (don't trust time.gov! They're wrong!) with a great abundance of both, and we own some farmland on the Yellowstone with its own breed of whitetails that have recently become very smart due to idiots from Williston coming down and hunting without permission. I've often thought about sniping /them/ off. ;-D I had venison last night (whitetail, Yellowstone, muzzleloader, 2000 season), in fact, and also have another window open to 'hunt' for the perfect scope to put on the new Weatherby SuperPredatorMaster .308.
;-D (I'll post -1 for protection. ;-D)
As to deer hunting, it's great here! I'm 5 miles from the edge of hardcore Badlands, so we get whitetail deer and fantastic mule deer very close by, and we have a friend with a ranch down on the Little Missouri, the
Okay, way too much off-topic info; I bet I lose all my karma from that high-ranking parent of this message, eh?
It's a chicken-and-the-egg problem. Watford's economic development department has been continually trying to get tech firms to move in. There is a geography company that did actually set up shop, and there was a programming firm that was going to come in (I even went to the job fair they hosted here and all that; covered in mud and wet from snow from being out 4-wheeling with the '76 IHC Scout, of course ;-D), but it seems the main problem is getting people to move in. We lack a few things that you and I real people require: entertainment. Yep, that's a few things. At least a movie theater and high-speed Internet. But keep in mind that the people who'd want to live here (me, for example) want to live here due in part to the isolation the country affords one, so they want to live outside of town. Figure that most of them will be 5-10 miles out. It's that 'doughnut' that broadband would have to cover, and then the geek infrastructure would be present and the firms could move in, thus creating the missing demand. Chicken and the egg.
Oh yeah, and we're working on the movie theater dilemma (we had one long ago, but it's been closed for nearly 20 years). We're looking at setting up a digital (Lucas-friendly) theater in the near future, probably 2 screens.
As to falling off the map, we're dangerously close as it is. Letterman had an electoral voting map, just showing each state in red, blue, or green, during the Bush/Gore election. He explained that red states' votes went to Bush, blue states' for Gore, and the states colored in green became Canadian. >8^)
As you know from growing up in Bismarck, not all of North Dakota is either flat or as populous as the Fargo area, which isn't saying much. I'm presently 17 miles from Watford City, ND, and only have line of sight to any part of said town because I'm 100ft of elevation higher and most of the intervening hills are lower than that. I've been thinking about some kind of wireless solution for a while, as it is possible in Watford to get T1 and now, thanks to a spinoff by 3 companies (one in Watford, one in Dickinson, and one in Bismarck), DSL. The service really sucks, even within the city limits, but unreliable 512k is still better than the 24k that my phone line is letting me get today (I got about 50k once), which isn't reliable anyhow as it's also through the same ISP as the DSL.
There is an initiative to deliver wireless to all of North Dakota's rural areas, not just the 50% of our population that lives between I-29 and the Red River (of the North, for those of you Suthroners reading), but it's a long ways off and some of the people in charge aren't ambitious enough to pull it off.
Someone else mentioned the possibility of putting repeaters or transmitters on the cell phone antennas across the countryside. That would work great, IF said cell phone antennas were even capable with their much-greater-than-wireless-networking range of covering the entire state, but they're not. With a high-power bag phone, on a clear night, I can get enough 'service' to make a call, maybe understand the incoming side of it, etc. The nearest digital tower is circa 60 miles from me, in Williston, and is so weak that digital service doesn't become available until you come over Indian Hill about 10 miles from Williston. Granted that service in Minot, Grand Forks, Fargo, and Bismarck (and marginally so, Dickinson) is better, but there are still a lot of people, the real heart of North Dakota, that aren't included among those that live in our 'cities'.
There needs to be a statewide solution, and we've not had much luck finding one yet. Any ideas?
Can you repair your own car? Build your own house? Hell, can you cook your own food? Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
Yep (and have recently), yep (and have twice), yep (and did just a few hours ago); because they can't do any of the other items, either. Hope that answer suffices for you.
And incorrect usage of the word 'loose'.
There are certain types of speech specifically exempted from First Amendment protection by the courts. Libel, slander, and corporate fraud are among these.
We had a station switch from Lazer 96.1 (progressive rock) to Oldies 96.1 (duh)...but in the interim they played 1 week of Louie 96.1...consisting of every different version of _Louie Louie_ they could find, and not breaking a single time except for the FCC-required occasionaly mention of call letters and frequency, and one severe thunderstorm warning. Other than that, no ads or breaks at all. Just Louie. I wish they would've kept that, though, cuz Oldies 96.1 sucked and the new 96.1 that plays only raunchy country, and only 3 songs on rotation since country fans don't usually notice that sort of thing, sucks even worse.
Thanks for those resources...I'll consult them in the future...but not when I'm lynxing it. ;-D
Where do you draw the line?
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: "He who would sacrifice a little bit of liberty in exchange for any amount of safety does not deserve either."
...targetting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is: the average Slashdot reader.
Touche. :)
You can't do this with Emacs. Emacs can't be inserted into any windowing system on any OS, because EMACS is it's own operating system.
I'm pretty certain that my practice (guitar) amp is solid-state, but not digital. The amplified sound coming out of those transistors sure sounds analog to me, at least. :)
So encrypt them into full English words. Who says that the English dictionary isn't a valid set of items to encrypt things to? For better results, use Swahili or Yiddish. But not Arabic.
They left out a word...it was supposed to read: "Windows sales would be crippled". Which is just as much BS as any other claim, but at least it represents their thoughts.
As in favor as I am of stem cell and other genetic research and, more importantly, applications being found for the results of that research, curing a disease that causes such a massive immune system failure has to be done at the source: it's a genetic thing, as far as I know, so we have to let these people die. Keeping them around may be humanitarian. Curing their disease may make living worthwhile and hopefully can let them contribute to society. Letting them reproduce, however, will weaken our gene pool; and now that they can come out of their bubbles, they'll be reproducing even more. Just like cancer cells in an otherwise healthy body: the unwanted units become more and more pervasive and harder to contain or remove.