This was a portable the size of a kid's lunch box with a plasma display (orange). It cost about five thousand dollars. Most of the desktops were 286 IBMs, we had ONE 386 Compaq desktop.
-Still some quirks to work out with Macs -Requires extra strength for keypresses, so unsuitable for typing more than a few minutes.
Erm, uh, the summary gives no indication whatever why this sucker costs more than a new computer. Is the damned thing made of gold and diamond studded?
Well, a young Springfield woman was found dead in her home. Her face had been chewed off by two pit bulls, which were taken to the animal shelter on suspicion of murder, no bail had been set for the dogs.
The coroner says she overdosed on cocaine before getting her face chewed off. Her live-in boyfriend had an airtight alibi- as the Springfield paper reports:
The detective, Scott Kincaid, outlined for the coroner's jury the police department's investigation into Strode's death, including statements from her boyfriend, who left the house about 3:20 that morning to meet another woman. He then got up about 10:45 a.m., downloaded some music from a computer and went to a hardware store to buy a furnace filter.
So for those of you who are against downloading music, I say SO THERE! =P
Yes, but as was already pointed out in another comment. it would be far more efficient to simply run the car off electric motors rather than compress air with electric motors and run the car off compressed air.
Also, although electricity CAN be generated from renewable and non-polluting, non greenhouse emmissions, it seldom is. When can we get the 21st century version of the prarie schooner? I'm referring not to what wikipedia and google return, but one of these wagons with the tarp used like a boat's sail.
A solar powered, wind assisted automobile would be really cool.
The summary didn't say, but the colors MUST be false color, since atoms are smaller than light wavelengths. But will it allow you to photograph atoms without destroying them? (yes the link is humorous, but the question I ask is serious)
...in the US that's considered a poor argument in favor of mob rule.
Funny, it used to be called "democracy". But I'm 55 and don't live in the same country I grew up in. I used to live in the USA, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where what you did was none of anybody's business unless it impacted them. I don't know what damned country it is now, neoconica? But at any rate it's now the land of the nanny and home of the coward, whose government is bought and paid for by the foreign corporations.
Surely you don't believe they do so for any other reason than the price is zero
I don't know aout him, but I surely believe there are lots more and far better reasons than "the price is zero". I won't enumerate them here because the post would rightfully be modded "redundant". Surely you have seen at least some of the reasons? You're not new here, after all, Mr. UID 54737.
If you're a mammon worshiper, then your religion in fact does say sharing is a sin. Mine says not sharing is. And now for something completely different... CRASH RATTLE! BANG CRUNCH CRASH! "I think she's dead" "No I'm not" CRASH RATTLE! BANG CRUNCH CRASH! "That was the death of ISP, Queen of Scotts. And now your radio will explode." BOOM "Well what's on the telly then?" "Looks like a penguin to me."
That's what we said about the US marijuana laws back in the 1970s, when it seemed everybody was smoking it and those who didn't didn't care if you were (including the police but excepting the politicians).
Now they have everyone convinced it's addictive (it's habit forming but not addictive), causes cancer (it doesn't, and in fact prevents cancer) and leads to harder drugs (it doesn't; the laws against it do).
Instead of it being legal, now most employers drug-test everyone. There are now people addicted to crack who switched from marijuana when their employer started random drug testing; pot stays in your system a lot longer than cocaine.
Rather than P2P being legalized, expect some nanny-state, anti-freedom, pro-corporation, anti-people asshat like Reagan to come down like a load of bricks on P2P who convinces everybody that P2P leads to cancer, terrorism, and global warming.
Indies give their MP3s away. Share those, ignore the MAFIAA bands. Don't share their music, don't buy their downloads, don't buy their CDs, don't go to their concerts. They are the problem, and if you contribute in any way, whether monetarily or by sharing their music, you are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
It seems that your country and mine are in some sort of contest to see who can write the stupidest, citizen-hostile, corporate-friendly laws. And here I thought my (and I use the word "my" lightly here) country was the only one that was bought and paid for by the corporations.
My youngest turns 21 in a couple of weeks. If your sister needs a password your parents can't guess, your parents are doing a really bad job at parenting. A kid that young should NOT be on the internet unsupervised.
And speaking of which, what are you doing at slashdot, kid? I can't believe anybody would let their teenagers go to a place with goatse pics and mcgrew journals! When I was your age I was almost getting expelled for taking a "hydrogen bomb" to school.
Think about the consequences for both cars if this thing gets rear-ended or sideswiped hard enough to rupture the tank...
The consequences would be far less severe than the fiery explosion cause by a ruptured gasoline tank. I'd rather die from shrapnel than be burned alive.
It ain't just the friendly cars. IMO the three fugliest cars on the road are the Hummer, the Honda Element, and the Cadillac Escalade (in that order).
The Hummer is pardonable, as it was designed for military use. What isn't pardonable is driving the butt-ugly things when nobody's shooting at you.
The Honda is pardonable because it's Japanese. The only Japanese things my western eyes deem beautiful are some of their women. IMO the Japanese have the world's worst graphic designers, and it's a damned shame that we're copying their butt-ugly crap. IMO, YMMV.
There's no excuse for the Caddillac. The new ones are even uglier than the ones from the 1950s with the big fins. Do all rich people have such horrible taste?
I mean, gas stations already have air compressors for your tires, but would that put out enough pressure to fill the tank in your car?
Most gas stations here in Springfield don't even put out anough pressure to fill my tires! The tires take 45 PSI and the most I can get from the compressors is 30 PSI and have to pay $.75 for it. In fact, there's only one gas station in town I know of with an old fashioned compresser (and it's free!) that will properly inflate my tires. It's the Shell station on MacArthur. I go out of my way to buy gas there just because they still have air.
The whole concept of an air powered car sounds stupid to me. The only reasons would be reduced transportation costs and reduced pollution, but the energy required to compress the air would doubtlessly cost more than running the car on gasoline, as well as emitting more toxins and greenhouse gasses.
Reliability=fidelity? Dunno, sounds dubious to me. I think it was some originality-challenged ass burger that didn't know what HiFi stood for but thought it sounded cool. But I keep hoping I'm wrong.
To call a suicide the most selfish act is in itself extremely uncaring and selfish.
I don't see how. I never knew anyone personally who committed suicide, but I know and have known several victims of suicide -- the survivors who lost a loved one from suicide. The dead have no problems, those they leave behind are scarred from the experience, some horribly scarred. If you commit suicide do you have any idea what it does to your parents? Your children? Your spouse? If you commit suicide you're not thinking of anyone's feelings but your own. Your problems are over, your survivors are the ones who suffer from your deed.
Should this person be made to suffer every day so that your life stays cozy and perfect?
No, they should seek treatment for their mental illness. Nobody's life is cozy and perfect, and if you can't deal with yours you should seek help for your illness rather than selfishly ending your pain while inflicting pain on others.
The "prankster" is a cunt because adults shouldn't toy with kid's emotions. However, these dumb politicians should be trying to pass laws to help other children her age get diagnosed if they have a emotional condition, and get access to the actual help they need, not just some pills. Instead, they pass stupid cyber-bullying laws.
I couldn't agree more. Here in the US thare are so many barriers to mental health treatment. They're thought somehow weak because of their illness; I don't see anyone thinking a cancer patient or heart attack victim is weak, despite the fact that they smoke and eat giant Burger King trans-fat burgers. But the mentally ill are looked down on.
Many insurance policies won't cover mental illness. And that's if you even have any kind of health care at all; the mentally ill, especially in later stages, seldom have steady jobs even if they work at all.
Many if not most mentally ill adults wind up addicted to drugs or alcohol; what they call "self-medication". If they go to get help, the snake-oil salesmen at the rehab centers insist on treating the addiction (a mental health problem in itself) without any thought whatever to the underlying illness that is the root cause of the substance abuse.
A friend of mine was ironically talking of suicide just last night, probably as you were typing your reply. I told her pretty much what I said here, that it was the most selfish act she could imagine and made her think of her eight year old son and what it would do to him. I was actually able to talk her into alcohol rehab, but like I said, getting help for her bipolar disorder is going to be a lot harder.
Actually, I guess suicide is the second most selfish thing a person can do. The most selfish thing is bitching about your tax money going to fund mental health care (or health care in general).
Short for "GirlFriend"? Ok, I was joking there but I'm still wondering what in the hell the "fi" is for. WiFi the Wi is "wide" and GiFi the Gi is obviously "gigabit". The old "HiFi" stood for "high fidelity".
Nobody is to blame for amyone's suicide but the person committing suicide. Who do you blame when someone who started smoking cigarettes as a teenager dies of lung cancer?
You are blaming a 13 year old kid for over-reacting to an "advertisement for cigarettes" committed by an adult who damn well ought to have known better?
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It looks kind of like a 1950s era hearse, doesn't it?
This was a portable the size of a kid's lunch box with a plasma display (orange). It cost about five thousand dollars. Most of the desktops were 286 IBMs, we had ONE 386 Compaq desktop.
$1564 keyboard
-Still some quirks to work out with Macs
-Requires extra strength for keypresses, so unsuitable for typing more than a few minutes.
Erm, uh, the summary gives no indication whatever why this sucker costs more than a new computer. Is the damned thing made of gold and diamond studded?
Some people have too many dollars and no sense.
Well, a young Springfield woman was found dead in her home. Her face had been chewed off by two pit bulls, which were taken to the animal shelter on suspicion of murder, no bail had been set for the dogs.
The coroner says she overdosed on cocaine before getting her face chewed off. Her live-in boyfriend had an airtight alibi- as the Springfield paper reports:So for those of you who are against downloading music, I say SO THERE! =P
Yes, but as was already pointed out in another comment. it would be far more efficient to simply run the car off electric motors rather than compress air with electric motors and run the car off compressed air.
Also, although electricity CAN be generated from renewable and non-polluting, non greenhouse emmissions, it seldom is. When can we get the 21st century version of the prarie schooner? I'm referring not to what wikipedia and google return, but one of these wagons with the tarp used like a boat's sail.
A solar powered, wind assisted automobile would be really cool.
The summary didn't say, but the colors MUST be false color, since atoms are smaller than light wavelengths. But will it allow you to photograph atoms without destroying them? (yes the link is humorous, but the question I ask is serious)
...in the US that's considered a poor argument in favor of mob rule.
Funny, it used to be called "democracy". But I'm 55 and don't live in the same country I grew up in. I used to live in the USA, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where what you did was none of anybody's business unless it impacted them. I don't know what damned country it is now, neoconica? But at any rate it's now the land of the nanny and home of the coward, whose government is bought and paid for by the foreign corporations.
I want my country back.
Surely you don't believe they do so for any other reason than the price is zero
I don't know aout him, but I surely believe there are lots more and far better reasons than "the price is zero". I won't enumerate them here because the post would rightfully be modded "redundant". Surely you have seen at least some of the reasons? You're not new here, after all, Mr. UID 54737.
The ISPs died for my sins.
If you're a mammon worshiper, then your religion in fact does say sharing is a sin. Mine says not sharing is.
And now for something completely different...
CRASH RATTLE! BANG CRUNCH CRASH!
"I think she's dead"
"No I'm not"
CRASH RATTLE! BANG CRUNCH CRASH!
"That was the death of ISP, Queen of Scotts. And now your radio will explode."
BOOM
"Well what's on the telly then?"
"Looks like a penguin to me."
That's what we said about the US marijuana laws back in the 1970s, when it seemed everybody was smoking it and those who didn't didn't care if you were (including the police but excepting the politicians).
Now they have everyone convinced it's addictive (it's habit forming but not addictive), causes cancer (it doesn't, and in fact prevents cancer) and leads to harder drugs (it doesn't; the laws against it do).
Instead of it being legal, now most employers drug-test everyone. There are now people addicted to crack who switched from marijuana when their employer started random drug testing; pot stays in your system a lot longer than cocaine.
Rather than P2P being legalized, expect some nanny-state, anti-freedom, pro-corporation, anti-people asshat like Reagan to come down like a load of bricks on P2P who convinces everybody that P2P leads to cancer, terrorism, and global warming.
Indies give their MP3s away. Share those, ignore the MAFIAA bands. Don't share their music, don't buy their downloads, don't buy their CDs, don't go to their concerts. They are the problem, and if you contribute in any way, whether monetarily or by sharing their music, you are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Just say "no."
It seems that your country and mine are in some sort of contest to see who can write the stupidest, citizen-hostile, corporate-friendly laws. And here I thought my (and I use the word "my" lightly here) country was the only one that was bought and paid for by the corporations.
My youngest turns 21 in a couple of weeks. If your sister needs a password your parents can't guess, your parents are doing a really bad job at parenting. A kid that young should NOT be on the internet unsupervised.
And speaking of which, what are you doing at slashdot, kid? I can't believe anybody would let their teenagers go to a place with goatse pics and mcgrew journals! When I was your age I was almost getting expelled for taking a "hydrogen bomb" to school.
Think about the consequences for both cars if this thing gets rear-ended or sideswiped hard enough to rupture the tank...
The consequences would be far less severe than the fiery explosion cause by a ruptured gasoline tank. I'd rather die from shrapnel than be burned alive.
Well, we could go nuclear
Nuclear waste needs to be stored forever. I don't know if that's worse than emmissions and global warming or not; I'm just a layman.
By the time fusion happens, all our present tech will be obsolete anyway.
1 KPH == .6 MPH
When I do sixty, you're doing a hundred. And we're going the same speed.
It ain't just the friendly cars. IMO the three fugliest cars on the road are the Hummer, the Honda Element, and the Cadillac Escalade (in that order).
The Hummer is pardonable, as it was designed for military use. What isn't pardonable is driving the butt-ugly things when nobody's shooting at you.
The Honda is pardonable because it's Japanese. The only Japanese things my western eyes deem beautiful are some of their women. IMO the Japanese have the world's worst graphic designers, and it's a damned shame that we're copying their butt-ugly crap. IMO, YMMV.
There's no excuse for the Caddillac. The new ones are even uglier than the ones from the 1950s with the big fins. Do all rich people have such horrible taste?
I mean, gas stations already have air compressors for your tires, but would that put out enough pressure to fill the tank in your car?
Most gas stations here in Springfield don't even put out anough pressure to fill my tires! The tires take 45 PSI and the most I can get from the compressors is 30 PSI and have to pay $.75 for it. In fact, there's only one gas station in town I know of with an old fashioned compresser (and it's free!) that will properly inflate my tires. It's the Shell station on MacArthur. I go out of my way to buy gas there just because they still have air.
The whole concept of an air powered car sounds stupid to me. The only reasons would be reduced transportation costs and reduced pollution, but the energy required to compress the air would doubtlessly cost more than running the car on gasoline, as well as emitting more toxins and greenhouse gasses.
The Wi in WiFi is for wireless.
That part's obvious, the Fi makes me think somebody uncool is trying to be cool.
Reliability=fidelity? Dunno, sounds dubious to me. I think it was some originality-challenged ass burger that didn't know what HiFi stood for but thought it sounded cool. But I keep hoping I'm wrong.
TWAIN, now, that's a good one, I like TWAIN.
Suicide is an act caused by the victim not being able to withstand their life anymore.
As I said, mentally ill.
To call a suicide the most selfish act is in itself extremely uncaring and selfish.
I don't see how. I never knew anyone personally who committed suicide, but I know and have known several victims of suicide -- the survivors who lost a loved one from suicide. The dead have no problems, those they leave behind are scarred from the experience, some horribly scarred. If you commit suicide do you have any idea what it does to your parents? Your children? Your spouse? If you commit suicide you're not thinking of anyone's feelings but your own. Your problems are over, your survivors are the ones who suffer from your deed.
Should this person be made to suffer every day so that your life stays cozy and perfect?
No, they should seek treatment for their mental illness. Nobody's life is cozy and perfect, and if you can't deal with yours you should seek help for your illness rather than selfishly ending your pain while inflicting pain on others.
The "prankster" is a cunt because adults shouldn't toy with kid's emotions. However, these dumb politicians should be trying to pass laws to help other children her age get diagnosed if they have a emotional condition, and get access to the actual help they need, not just some pills. Instead, they pass stupid cyber-bullying laws.
I couldn't agree more. Here in the US thare are so many barriers to mental health treatment. They're thought somehow weak because of their illness; I don't see anyone thinking a cancer patient or heart attack victim is weak, despite the fact that they smoke and eat giant Burger King trans-fat burgers. But the mentally ill are looked down on.
Many insurance policies won't cover mental illness. And that's if you even have any kind of health care at all; the mentally ill, especially in later stages, seldom have steady jobs even if they work at all.
Many if not most mentally ill adults wind up addicted to drugs or alcohol; what they call "self-medication". If they go to get help, the snake-oil salesmen at the rehab centers insist on treating the addiction (a mental health problem in itself) without any thought whatever to the underlying illness that is the root cause of the substance abuse.
A friend of mine was ironically talking of suicide just last night, probably as you were typing your reply. I told her pretty much what I said here, that it was the most selfish act she could imagine and made her think of her eight year old son and what it would do to him. I was actually able to talk her into alcohol rehab, but like I said, getting help for her bipolar disorder is going to be a lot harder.
Actually, I guess suicide is the second most selfish thing a person can do. The most selfish thing is bitching about your tax money going to fund mental health care (or health care in general).
"Fuck you, go to France" says the coward. You made me laugh, thank you.
Short for "GirlFriend"? Ok, I was joking there but I'm still wondering what in the hell the "fi" is for. WiFi the Wi is "wide" and GiFi the Gi is obviously "gigabit". The old "HiFi" stood for "high fidelity".
WTF does "Fi" stand for in WiFi and GiFi?
Yeah, that surprised me too.
Boy do I know how to screw up a good joke, thanks for recovering the day there
Nobody is to blame for amyone's suicide but the person committing suicide. Who do you blame when someone who started smoking cigarettes as a teenager dies of lung cancer?
You are blaming a 13 year old kid for over-reacting to an "advertisement for cigarettes" committed by an adult who damn well ought to have known better?