I'm very happy with my XO as an ebook reader. Having the ability to rotate the screen, have it stand upright by itself or fold flat, backlit or reflective, makes it very nice. Plus since it has wifi, I can download books without requiring another computer. Also color is nice, for textbooks and the like. All that for the price of a kindle (plus the tax deduction from the donation) make it a no-brainer.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say. Of course, cats (also bad rubbish, btw) kill over a billion birds and small animals in this country each year, so the few killed by turbines (see sibling post) are pretty insignificant.
Frankly, given the costs to repair cars these days, I'm not sure a bent axle would be any more expensive than damaged body panels. To replace the entire pylon could easily be less than $2000, which is often how much damage fender benders incur. I think it would largely depend on whether damaging the pylon damaged parts in the central body.
Are you the K. Rei from ApteraForums? If so, I'm curious how your out-of-state purchase will work out. I'd love to get one myself, but still being in college, and in Virginia, puts that a few years off for me, at least. I would absolutely love to get one though. That car is the stuff of my dreams.
They're not designed to ride up over the other car. They ride up over their own engine, rather than have the engine between the passengers and the wall. This allows them to get the long (~4') crumple zone.
Well, first off for such a bland-looking GUI, it's certainly slow. Xubuntu on the same hardware runs a good bit faster than Sugar/fedora. The wifi neighborhood view is nice, except that when WPA doesn't work you're left out in the cold. Once they fix the WPA issues that'll be satisfactory. The activities are ok, though the activity frame can get annoying when you accidentally hit a corner with the cursor and make it pop up.
The biggest problem is the Journal. Personally I find it far more confusing than a hierarchical file system. More often than not I find myself using the terminal which, by the way, doesn't seem to allow copy and paste.
A conventional computer isn't hard to figure out, even for the very young. Beyond basic functionality, I think sugar will hinder learning more than anything, given how tough it can be to do even very basic things.
and screw windows. Seriously, Sugar sucks hard. They should have just put Puppy linux or something like that on it. And is it that hard to get Adobe to donate some licenses for flash so they can be pre-installed? It's not like they're charging money for it anyhow.
Should have called it Wetlands. When a Storm (or Kraken) sends a surge of water your way, it's the wetlands that absorb it and protect the town. Much more appropriate than Plalanx.
No one likes abortion. No one is "pro" abortion. No one wants to have an abortion. However, some people see it as the lesser of two evils in some situations and furthermore it's the woman's business.
Did that video remind anyone else of that scene near the end of Alien where they're crawling around in the tunnels on the Nostromo? I kept waiting to see a much faster moving dot closing in on the guy...
Huh? No. The credit card company is never the merchant. They handle money. Merchants sell things. The ebay seller is a merchant, but since Paypal isn't a CC company, things don't work the same way. If they were, the merchant would be screwed more often.
Why use algae to make hydrogen? Some of them are half oil anyway - just make biodiesel out of them. The DOE had a long research project on it, and it was promising, but ethanol research stole the funding and they had to shut down. Google it if you're interested.
The thing could kill me in 3 seconds if it didn't have to worry about stamina and could carry whatever it wanted. If it had to run a triathalon first it would need to be able to move around well and not be loaded down with all sorts of kill toys, and able to run for more than 5 minutes.
Yeah, I'm convinced that Japan is the world's "Sharper Image". That whole list seems to be the sort of "that's neat, kind of...." overpriced stuff you see there. Until they can make robots that can beat me in hand to hand combat after finishing a triathalon while running on batteries or a phone with a good projector in it, I remain unimpressed.
I tend not to pay a whole lot of attention to the news. Despite (or because of?) this I've noticed a few times when certain subjects seem to go from "no issue" or "backburner" to national attention without any apparent good reason to do so. The electronic voting machine thing is one of them.
My guess is that in these situations there's someone pulling the strings behind the scenes to precipitate these events. Diebold et al. stand to make a lot of money off these things, obviously, so it wouldn't be surprising if they were the ones to originally spread the idea of the need for electronic voting.
Another time I've noticed this phenomenon is with the 2004/2006(?) elections, with the gay marriage amendment and immigration issues. Suddenly during a (surprise surprise) election year, this big divisive wedge issue pops up with no seeming reason, and of course it's the Republicans and their propaganda machine getting people riled up, and of course news about it dies down again after the election. On that note, wouldn't surprise me if the electronic voting was pushed by the Republicans too, what with the Diebold president being a big supporter of them and all. "Diebold's current CEO Walden "Wally" O'Dell... is on record stating that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President" this year."
That reminds me of a scene where Paul realized just how bad it was to be have the Fremen as an enemy:
After they ambush a small group of Harkonnens and steal an ornithopter, the Fremen in the thopter spots a Harkonnen troop carrier en route to the ambush site. Without hesitation he gets into position, and kamikazes into the thing, killing around 300 Harkonnen soldiers. Paul is amazed at this action, until he realizes that the Fremen are that loyal to the sietch and that calculating to be willing to trade 1 life for 300. It's then that he really understands Desert Power as his father envisioned it.
Mine shipped with build 656, and I've been having plenty of troubles with the WAP access too. The network with WEP worked well enough, but with I was only able to connect to our WPA2-PSK network once; it hasn't worked since then. I've tried all the wiki help, including the manual and script setup, but it keeps just asking for the pass phrase. No idea why it stopped working.
Me, I'll just buy the book in physical form and pirate the e-book version to read on my xo. I like having the dead-tree version anyhow, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay twice for the same thing. Where's the extra cost? A little OCR work? Bah.
Is that alleged speeds, or real, usable speeds? I have Crapcast's 16/2 service, and even in the dead of night I get maybe a couple hundred KB/s at best. I should be getting 2 MB/s down. What I actually get is nowhere near what they supposedly offer. I have a feeling our European brethren are getting more like what's actually advertised than we are.
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I'm very happy with my XO as an ebook reader. Having the ability to rotate the screen, have it stand upright by itself or fold flat, backlit or reflective, makes it very nice. Plus since it has wifi, I can download books without requiring another computer. Also color is nice, for textbooks and the like. All that for the price of a kindle (plus the tax deduction from the donation) make it a no-brainer.
Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say. Of course, cats (also bad rubbish, btw) kill over a billion birds and small animals in this country each year, so the few killed by turbines (see sibling post) are pretty insignificant.
Frankly, given the costs to repair cars these days, I'm not sure a bent axle would be any more expensive than damaged body panels. To replace the entire pylon could easily be less than $2000, which is often how much damage fender benders incur. I think it would largely depend on whether damaging the pylon damaged parts in the central body.
Are you the K. Rei from ApteraForums? If so, I'm curious how your out-of-state purchase will work out. I'd love to get one myself, but still being in college, and in Virginia, puts that a few years off for me, at least. I would absolutely love to get one though. That car is the stuff of my dreams.
Ugh, why did that post turn me on? Better check that "anonymous" box....
So when are they going to find sandtrout? You need those before the truly large worms make their appearance.
They're not designed to ride up over the other car. They ride up over their own engine, rather than have the engine between the passengers and the wall. This allows them to get the long (~4') crumple zone.
Well, first off for such a bland-looking GUI, it's certainly slow. Xubuntu on the same hardware runs a good bit faster than Sugar/fedora. The wifi neighborhood view is nice, except that when WPA doesn't work you're left out in the cold. Once they fix the WPA issues that'll be satisfactory. The activities are ok, though the activity frame can get annoying when you accidentally hit a corner with the cursor and make it pop up.
The biggest problem is the Journal. Personally I find it far more confusing than a hierarchical file system. More often than not I find myself using the terminal which, by the way, doesn't seem to allow copy and paste.
A conventional computer isn't hard to figure out, even for the very young. Beyond basic functionality, I think sugar will hinder learning more than anything, given how tough it can be to do even very basic things.
and screw windows. Seriously, Sugar sucks hard. They should have just put Puppy linux or something like that on it. And is it that hard to get Adobe to donate some licenses for flash so they can be pre-installed? It's not like they're charging money for it anyhow.
Should have called it Wetlands. When a Storm (or Kraken) sends a surge of water your way, it's the wetlands that absorb it and protect the town. Much more appropriate than Plalanx.
No one likes abortion. No one is "pro" abortion. No one wants to have an abortion. However, some people see it as the lesser of two evils in some situations and furthermore it's the woman's business.
What's Plan B?
Giant laser? Kinetic kill vehicles?
Nuke it from orbit?
Bad news:
'Hegde stressed that the PhysX engine does not include quantum mechanics because the company "focuses on physics for fun and entertainment".'
Did that video remind anyone else of that scene near the end of Alien where they're crawling around in the tunnels on the Nostromo? I kept waiting to see a much faster moving dot closing in on the guy...
Huh? No. The credit card company is never the merchant. They handle money. Merchants sell things. The ebay seller is a merchant, but since Paypal isn't a CC company, things don't work the same way. If they were, the merchant would be screwed more often.
Why use algae to make hydrogen? Some of them are half oil anyway - just make biodiesel out of them. The DOE had a long research project on it, and it was promising, but ethanol research stole the funding and they had to shut down. Google it if you're interested.
The thing could kill me in 3 seconds if it didn't have to worry about stamina and could carry whatever it wanted. If it had to run a triathalon first it would need to be able to move around well and not be loaded down with all sorts of kill toys, and able to run for more than 5 minutes.
Yeah, I'm convinced that Japan is the world's "Sharper Image". That whole list seems to be the sort of "that's neat, kind of...." overpriced stuff you see there. Until they can make robots that can beat me in hand to hand combat after finishing a triathalon while running on batteries or a phone with a good projector in it, I remain unimpressed.
I tend not to pay a whole lot of attention to the news. Despite (or because of?) this I've noticed a few times when certain subjects seem to go from "no issue" or "backburner" to national attention without any apparent good reason to do so. The electronic voting machine thing is one of them.
My guess is that in these situations there's someone pulling the strings behind the scenes to precipitate these events. Diebold et al. stand to make a lot of money off these things, obviously, so it wouldn't be surprising if they were the ones to originally spread the idea of the need for electronic voting.
Another time I've noticed this phenomenon is with the 2004/2006(?) elections, with the gay marriage amendment and immigration issues. Suddenly during a (surprise surprise) election year, this big divisive wedge issue pops up with no seeming reason, and of course it's the Republicans and their propaganda machine getting people riled up, and of course news about it dies down again after the election. On that note, wouldn't surprise me if the electronic voting was pushed by the Republicans too, what with the Diebold president being a big supporter of them and all. "Diebold's current CEO Walden "Wally" O'Dell... is on record stating that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President" this year."
That reminds me of a scene where Paul realized just how bad it was to be have the Fremen as an enemy:
After they ambush a small group of Harkonnens and steal an ornithopter, the Fremen in the thopter spots a Harkonnen troop carrier en route to the ambush site. Without hesitation he gets into position, and kamikazes into the thing, killing around 300 Harkonnen soldiers. Paul is amazed at this action, until he realizes that the Fremen are that loyal to the sietch and that calculating to be willing to trade 1 life for 300. It's then that he really understands Desert Power as his father envisioned it.
Lucky bastard. I have their 15/2 and never get more than 350KB/s or so. During the day it's usually no more than 125KB/s.
xHotGrlx(PFC Johnson): "Wanna cyber?"
ShortNSexy(Kim Jong Il): "OK. You start."
xHotGrlx(PFC Johnson): "OK. I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
Mine shipped with build 656, and I've been having plenty of troubles with the WAP access too. The network with WEP worked well enough, but with I was only able to connect to our WPA2-PSK network once; it hasn't worked since then. I've tried all the wiki help, including the manual and script setup, but it keeps just asking for the pass phrase. No idea why it stopped working.
Me, I'll just buy the book in physical form and pirate the e-book version to read on my xo. I like having the dead-tree version anyhow, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay twice for the same thing. Where's the extra cost? A little OCR work? Bah.
Is that alleged speeds, or real, usable speeds? I have Crapcast's 16/2 service, and even in the dead of night I get maybe a couple hundred KB/s at best. I should be getting 2 MB/s down. What I actually get is nowhere near what they supposedly offer. I have a feeling our European brethren are getting more like what's actually advertised than we are.