Actually, I wasn't being hasty, I was being factitious. The previous poster made a generaliztion about Americans, "Typical Americans". I then made a generalized flame towards the Canadian education, in jest of course. Which was then followed up with an ironic flame questioning the entire intelligence of the nation of Canada.
Which of course brings us around back the humor of South Park.
You can of course store recipes on your computer, but how do you access that information? From your "desktop" computer?
Is your desktop computer in the area where you need to access the information? Probably not. How does the user/consumer get the recipe to the area (the kitchen) where they are doing there work? Print it? Write it down?
We need to get away from "desktop" computers and move towards "information terminals". To me PDA's are more like "information terminals", putting a device in a main room like the kitchen that allows access to sending and recieving information seems like a good idea to me. The recipe is there at your finger tips, perhaps you would like to modify the recipe as your cooking.
Add touch screen technology, networking and PDA type devices to a refrigerator and you have a nice "information center" in the kitchen. Browse slashdot while cooking up some eggs instead of burning them because you relocated to your "desktop" computer. --
I think you miss one of the points of South Park. They make fun of putting people/things down.
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I finally got mine also, with an URL. I got it downloaded and working in thier reader.
There is a PDF file in the glassbookreader/data directory, besides the gettingstarted.pdf.
I assume this is the King book. I tried opening it and acrobat reader gave me an error something like" security plugin not found".
I'll try it on my linux machine with acroread when I get home, but I doubt it will be readable.
Anyone know what security measures they use so you can't read it on another machine? I was thinking of changing my windows machine name to the same name I have here at work, unless someone has tried that already. --
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I havn't recieved my PDF format Ebook that I signed up for on the first day. Has anyone else recieved theres? --
My second stub took almost 2 days to complete, the next two where finished within a few hours, then I got another that ran a bit more than 24 hours. --
Umm, I think those "idiots" are doing this in there spare time and for free.
Anyone is welcome to spend all there free time working on a project. But please let us know though when you get started, so we can call you an idiot and slow when it doesn't live up to my expectations on how it should be running.
I first signed up with nic.cx over a year ago. In the FAQ section there was a statement about the service being free until they get there payment system set up.
It looks like they got there payment system setup about 2 months ago. I had been paying for that year even though I could have had it for free.
Has anyone found a TLD thats cheaper than $16.5US that.cx is charging?.cc is I think $60US for one year,.nu $35US +$7 for technical changes. --
Well, cars have automatic transmissions now, that seems to make driving a bit more intutive.
If you compare a car from the 20's or 30' I think you will see that they have become more user friendly. Should we still be out in the front of the vehicle turning a crank to get our car started?
I'm still waiting for a car that I can push the remote button to start it from my keychain so it will be warmed up by the time I get to it.:)
Power brakes, antilock brakes, starter motors, Auto transmission, power steering, etc.. --
Umm, I can actually use something like this for my wife.:) I had her using a text based menu, which she didnt like. A GUI based menu would be even better. --
I wouldn't mind having a small soft thimble type device for the finger tip and use the finger tip for moving the mouse around on any surface. It would have to be pretty small of course. Like a butterfly bangage. Maybe with a button or pressure point in the side of the finger that turns on and off the pointing device while typing.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't this happen a few years ago? A mirror site of a semi-popular program was broken into and the source was replaced with a hacked version.
Anyone recall what/when this happened?
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Actually, I wasn't being hasty, I was being factitious. The previous poster made a generaliztion about Americans, "Typical Americans". I then made a generalized flame towards the Canadian education, in jest of course. Which was then followed up with an ironic flame questioning the entire intelligence of the nation of Canada.
:)
Which of course brings us around back the humor of South Park.
So, yes. It is ironic.
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You can of course store recipes on your computer, but how do you access that information? From your "desktop" computer?
Is your desktop computer in the area where you need to access the information? Probably not. How does the user/consumer get the recipe to the area (the kitchen) where they are doing there work? Print it? Write it down?
We need to get away from "desktop" computers and move towards "information terminals". To me PDA's are more like "information terminals", putting a device in a main room like the kitchen that allows access to sending and recieving information seems like a good idea to me. The recipe is there at your finger tips, perhaps you would like to modify the recipe as your cooking.
Add touch screen technology, networking and PDA type devices to a refrigerator and you have a nice "information center" in the kitchen. Browse slashdot while cooking up some eggs instead of burning them because you relocated to your "desktop" computer.
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I think you miss one of the points of South Park. They make fun of putting people/things down.
Whats the education like up there in Canada anyhow?
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I finally got mine also, with an URL. I got it downloaded and working in thier reader.
There is a PDF file in the glassbookreader/data directory, besides the gettingstarted.pdf.
I assume this is the King book. I tried opening it and acrobat reader gave me an error something like" security plugin not found".
I'll try it on my linux machine with acroread when I get home, but I doubt it will be readable.
Anyone know what security measures they use so you can't read it on another machine? I was thinking of changing my windows machine name to the same name I have here at work, unless someone has tried that already.
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I havn't recieved my PDF format Ebook that I signed up for on the first day. Has anyone else recieved theres?
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As long as its not Amiga news, its OK to submit. :)
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I beleive I had Joe Montana Football working with sound at some point. I didn't get much else working with sound however.
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As was stated in another article pertaning to getting a voice by buying stocks in a company. Why don't we "hack the system"?
Instead of boycotting and complaing about the obvious patents, why don't we join the crowd and start issuing our own patents?
We know the system is flawed, lets either break it or put some dollars in the FSF coffers.
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Whats up with this Natalie Portman thing?
No really I'm not a troll, I really don't know who she/it is.
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I'm still boycotting them because of the spam they sent my several years ago.
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I was thinking the same thing. Patent blatently obvous things like.
Message boards,Karma on message boards, or User moderation.
Anything, just start patenting.
Has any one patented FAQ's? Lets get crazy and come up with some silly but unpatened things. Anymore ideas?
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Please don't label, the typical IRCer is not like this.
IRC isn't all Warez/MP3 pups.
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My second stub took almost 2 days to complete, the next two where finished within a few hours, then I got another that ran a bit more than 24 hours.
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Umm, I think those "idiots" are doing this in there spare time and for free.
Anyone is welcome to spend all there free time working on a project. But please let us know though when you get started, so we can call you an idiot and slow when it doesn't live up to my expectations on how it should be running.
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I first signed up with nic.cx over a year ago. In the FAQ section there was a statement about the service being free until they get there payment system set up.
.cx is charging? .cc is I think $60US for one year, .nu $35US +$7 for technical changes.
It looks like they got there payment system setup about 2 months ago. I had been paying for that year even though I could have had it for free.
Has anyone found a TLD thats cheaper than $16.5US that
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I really hope my Doctor is busy learning Doctor things instead of figuring out how to compile his Kernel.
I really hope my Doctor is leaning Doctor things instead of learning how to rebuild the engine on his car.
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You could filter a known good email before filtering out the ADV subject. It didn't specify, but I think they are talking about un-solicited email.
Yep, I expect to get more spam with the ADV, just because someone said there might be a law allowing it.
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Well, cars have automatic transmissions now, that seems to make driving a bit more intutive.
:)
If you compare a car from the 20's or 30' I think you will see that they have become more user friendly. Should we still be out in the front of the vehicle turning a crank to get our car started?
I'm still waiting for a car that I can push the remote button to start it from my keychain so it will be warmed up by the time I get to it.
Power brakes, antilock brakes, starter motors, Auto transmission, power steering, etc..
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Umm, I can actually use something like this for my wife. :) I had her using a text based menu, which she didnt like. A GUI based menu would be even better.
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I wouldn't mind having a small soft thimble type device for the finger tip and use the finger tip for moving the mouse around on any surface. It would have to be pretty small of course. Like a butterfly bangage. Maybe with a button or pressure point in the side of the finger that turns on and off the pointing device while typing.
This reminds me of the programming style of Dan Barrett. :) http://www-ccsl.cs.umass.edu/~barrett/bm/Viewer_Se ctions/Articles/77_ProgrammingTips