I want to be seated! Seated on the freaking porta-potty!
Good. Half the people in line just left to go watch.
The energy is so high among all the people here. There are people from many countries here waving their countries' flags. And little American flags everywhere.
You can easily see the uniformed security. They are everywhere. But you can also figure out the plain-clothes security as well. They don't stand in one place very long and look at everyone suspiciously.
I was on the National Mall for Bill Clinton's second inauguration, so let me suggest that the absolute best way to watch the Presidential inauguration is to watch it on the news that evening.
They'll cut out all the boring crap. You don't have to spend all morning standing around in the freezing cold. And you don't have to miss work.
If you go online, you can pretty much download any of their books for free from their website. Maybe they can make it back through providing service...
Seriously though, what are the must-have books being published today? As far as I can tell, technology pretty much stagnated in the last 5 years and we are simply seeing rehashes of rehashes of old technology. Every new language solves problems already solved by Lisp. Every new technology is just a piggyback on the crumbling HTTP layer. Every new programmer only thinks in terms of Java and/or Ruby.
There's no real need to go buy books anymore since everything is so dumbed down and stupifyingly simple. These days you can write your "programs" with nothing more than a mouse and a spiffy GUI. That doesn't really lend itself to sitting down and studying or using books as a reference.
Obama has already made space exploration a back burner issue, so it's a nice idea but realistically we won't be seeing a mission to put a man on Mars anytime in the next 4 years. Maybe it would be better to vote in a guy who wasn't so hostile towards pure research next time.
"Way faster" is not necessarily the best way to prove a chip's value.
Does it have good cost/performance? Is a certain level of performance required? Can the package fit on the board? Is there application support for the instruction set?
There's no reason you need to have the fastest chip on the block if you're only interested in showing webpages and playing web-video.
I'm wondering about investment cost. If they are taking $100 USD for each unit, how many before they recoup initial costs? How many units are they expecting to sell?
These devices are great/. fodder, but in reality, most of these initiatives fail due to lack of business acumen. Besides the coolness factor, what are these webpad guys providing?
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I want to be seated! Seated on the freaking porta-potty!
Good. Half the people in line just left to go watch.
The energy is so high among all the people here. There are people from many countries here waving their countries' flags. And little American flags everywhere.
OK, WTF? Apparently there is a second feeder line for the bathrooms. So instead of a half dozen people in front of me, there are maybe two dozen.
The Marine Corps band sure sounds lively!
Oh shit! Stuff is starting.
They just announced over the loudspeakers that the Justices just came out.
There's big cheers! I still can't see anything though.
Now we're talking! Only a dozen more people in front of me.
Lots of cheering now. Not for me, I'm sure. My view of the Jumbotron is obscured. I guess Obama is almost here?
lol. Some dude just pissed on the side of one of the porta-potties.
Piss yourself or become a sex offender. What a choice.
Maybe a few more honey buckets would have been useful! You hear me, Parks Dept?
Standing in line for the bathroom...
You can easily see the uniformed security. They are everywhere. But you can also figure out the plain-clothes security as well. They don't stand in one place very long and look at everyone suspiciously.
Oh! US Reps coming out now!
The Jumbotron has several burnt-out pixels...
That fucking beachball bounced this way. What is it with everyone becoming a drooling 3 year old when it bounces their way?
Some guy stepped on my foot in the clamor to be the one to bounce the ball back.
On a happier note, one guy sent his kid out for drinks and he brought back bottled water for a bunch of us.
Speaking of Sam Jackson, I'm a mushroom-cloud layin' motherfucker. Just ask the good folks who are stewing in the parfum de Egg McMuffin.
Someone just said Mohammed Ali is on the dais. I can't see him from here.
I wish I hadn't come alone. My stomach is killing me, the lines to the portapotties are long, and I don't have anyone to watch my stuff.
Boy howdy. You can't say you've lived until you've seen a fat, naked hippie in red, white, and blue bodypaint getting tackled by security.
People are starting to push from behind me...
What really gets me is this mass of humanity all pretty much getting along.
Look to the cookie!
It's warming up a bit. This thing is supposed to get rolling in an hour or so. The lines for the bathroom are pretty long.
Anyone else here?
False alarm. It was just some dude in a skull cap.
Something is happening. A lot of people have started murmuring.
I think I just saw Samuel L. Jackson!
Some dudes just started a fight about 20 feet from me. Looks like security has calmed it down.
I shouldn't have drank all that coffee... Not feeling all that great.
It's pretty freaking cold! Lots of energy and excitement here in the crowd.
There are so many people here, it's hard to believe that this crowd is overshadowing the Million Man March as far as numbers of people goes.
I took a leak earlier. It was so cold, the urine stream was sublimating to steam before it hit the bottom.
I can't wait to see Obama on the dais!
I was on the National Mall for Bill Clinton's second inauguration, so let me suggest that the absolute best way to watch the Presidential inauguration is to watch it on the news that evening.
They'll cut out all the boring crap. You don't have to spend all morning standing around in the freezing cold. And you don't have to miss work.
If you go online, you can pretty much download any of their books for free from their website. Maybe they can make it back through providing service...
Seriously though, what are the must-have books being published today? As far as I can tell, technology pretty much stagnated in the last 5 years and we are simply seeing rehashes of rehashes of old technology. Every new language solves problems already solved by Lisp. Every new technology is just a piggyback on the crumbling HTTP layer. Every new programmer only thinks in terms of Java and/or Ruby.
There's no real need to go buy books anymore since everything is so dumbed down and stupifyingly simple. These days you can write your "programs" with nothing more than a mouse and a spiffy GUI. That doesn't really lend itself to sitting down and studying or using books as a reference.
for all intensive purporegardless
Now that right there is a luxury grade Yugo.
Obama has already made space exploration a back burner issue, so it's a nice idea but realistically we won't be seeing a mission to put a man on Mars anytime in the next 4 years. Maybe it would be better to vote in a guy who wasn't so hostile towards pure research next time.
"Way faster" is not necessarily the best way to prove a chip's value.
Does it have good cost/performance?
Is a certain level of performance required?
Can the package fit on the board?
Is there application support for the instruction set?
There's no reason you need to have the fastest chip on the block if you're only interested in showing webpages and playing web-video.
I'm wondering about investment cost. If they are taking $100 USD for each unit, how many before they recoup initial costs? How many units are they expecting to sell?
These devices are great /. fodder, but in reality, most of these initiatives fail due to lack of business acumen. Besides the coolness factor, what are these webpad guys providing?
For between 20k and 60k USD, you can get a Taiwan ODM to build you a prototype device to your specification with a baseline OS image to work from.
If you think that it'll be that popular and profitable, I recommend you to scrape together the cash and get the prototype made.
Hint: there's no sustainable market for an internet webpad like this.