That's actually my exact reason for not using Linux, and that's what i tell people, windows, office, photoshop, they're all free! (to me anyway...) So i can see his point. -Taylor
On that link above they're still charging $24.99 for a $2 USB cable... Second only to ink in shady printer practices is the markup on USB cables. My friend worked at best buy and got everything at cost + 5%, and even the "nice" belkin brand usb cables don't cost Best buy any more than $3, usually less than $2. It's way lame to charge $50 for an entire printer and then another 50% of that for the cable that they used to include, but then kodak is supposedly charging "real" prices for their printers and inks... why not the freaking cable? That really irks me.
-Taylor
Yeah, i had a Psion revo (called the diamond mako over here), and i must say, the keyboard was pretty good for a handheld, and i liked the high res black and white screen more than some of the color lower res screens of the day. It lacked any real connectivity though, and that's what killed it for me. Nowadays i use my pda phone (HTC Apache aka Verizon XV6700) and i'm happy. The keyboard is too small for word processing, but i don't write much anyway. I text alot, but it's great for that, since they're short. I just wish it was more reliable, and had a larger screen (HTC Advantage or Universal would be nice, but i'm on CDMA and couldn't afford a $1000 phone anyway). Speaking of the HTC advantage... you guys should check it out... http://www.seehtc.com/ It might be what you're looking for, especially if you get a nicer bluetooth keyboard that's larger.
-Taylor
Yeah, sadly, that's the result of too may people making decisions... i hate these crooks, and i generally care about the bill of rights, but some people feel the other way. between people like me, and people like them, we get situations like this.:( Sadly, i feel like there's a bit more people looking to wipe their asses than not though...:(
-Taylor
i actually don't even understand this... like, i've never played second life and i simply don't even understand how one could sell land in it... i dunno, it just doesn't make sense, from an outsider's prospective. obviously, i'm not the target market, and i give props to companies for understanding this "new frontier", but still, yeah, i just don't understand...I'm gonna go back to drinking in my first life, since there are some cute girls here, but uh, enjoy second live for those people that, um, don't have a worthwhile first life... -Taylor
I like the way that works, with the employer having to pay you; otherwise, it's really easy for an employer to ask everyone not to compete, and since the employee has an immediate interest to do whatever their current employer asks, they may agree even though it's not in their best interest. Making the employer have to pay makes sure that they really need to have that clause, and being paid helps to make sure the employee isn't screwed.
-Taylor
That's what i do; I am the mechanical engineer at a company that only has 6 or 7 people. I spend a good amount of time in my office doing 3D CAD work, but once i design something i get to go out into the shop and help the guy(s) making it. We just ordered our first CNC mill, and i'll be the one operating it, so now i get to play with a $60k toy that can make anything. I also deal with ordering parts, so i get to run around the shop and check with the assemblers to see what we need for the next orders - not an exciting thing but it gets me out of my office. I also deal with helping the company become more organized, so i'm a bit of a businessman in that respect. But the most rewarding part is seeing my work directly benefit the company on a very short scale. I feel like i'm worth a lot to the company - when we need a new product, i'm the one that designs it. When it works out well, i know i'm responsible for that. All in all, i love my job, and i know that it's largely because of how small the company is.
But in all seriousness, i don't intend to stay there forever, i plan to start my own company in a couple of years, and i'd suggest you do the same. That's where the freedom is, and you seem to have good skills, so use them! Anyway, it's my bed time, goodnight! -Taylor
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Bah, i thought i tried that! But thanks.:)
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Hey, lets make some people we don't like call 911 (emergency in the states)! Or... anything we want! you just put two numbers in the form and it just makes the first person call the second one, even if they're not you! lovely implementation.... -Taylor
But all i see is 3 frames of nonsense... When i think of a video, i think of something i can comprehend. Maybe i should look at the animation sober... -Taylor
This is basically induced global dimming. Global dimming is the lesser-discussed cousin of global warming, but it has some strong science behind it as well. Look it up, it is pretty interesting.
-Taylor
I started at lynxmotion.com... i bought their simplest hexapod kit and went from there. They show you how to build it, but it's real, legitimate robotics, and you see how it's put together. The next robot i built was designed from scratch. It was easy once i saw how servos could be interfaced to a microcontroller (which i learned from the first hexapod i bought). So yeah, i love lynxmotion. -Taylor
well, "they" are the same "they" they've always been. People who worry about this stuff don't seem to care specifically who "they" are... the problem most people seem to have is just that the data is there, and avaliable to "someone", and that is enough of a problem. Yeah, the credit card companies might have a clause that says they won't share my purchasing habits, but if they have the database, there's always hackers. And i don't even know for sure if they do have that kind of a clause... And yeah, maybe "they" are thieves, but i didn't even mention that because the article didn't specify. In my example with credit cards, i was thinking more about direct marketers, which are almost as bad as thieves in some people's eyes, and often the most logical implied subject of this kind of "oh noes!" article. But yes, there are thieves. Like i said in my other article though, thieves are always getting new tools, but so is everyone else. We're no more overrun by thievery than we were 1000 years ago, yet the tools thieves have are amazing compared to before. People forget that in the end these things don't actually make a difference in society. Things come up, but we adapt and it's all ok (i promise). This is the same tinfoil-hat wearing reactionary talk some of us have grown very tired of...
-Taylor
Yeah, but personally, that doesn't matter, because like i said, i don't care if RFID tags are in my garbage cans. Yeah, they could engrave addresses in plates, but why? If there's no RFID tags on the bin a thief will just hook gps up to his rdif enable laptop as he drives by...And yeah, we're up for the next logical outcome. RFID tags everywhere! And that still doesn't bother me, because i just don't care. These "new tools" for thieves are also the next logical outcome in the long line of theives tools, yet the world isn't any more overrun by thievery than it was 1000 years ago when thieves had a knife and a fake horse-hair moustache. Yes, thieves have more tools, and i still don't care, because i'm not going to spend my time getting all reactionary about everything new that happens in the world.
-Taylor
Without RFID tags on the bins, someone could still walk by with a scanner and scan your trash to see what you've been buying... The only difference is that having a tag on the bin makes keeping track of who's trash it is marginally easier, but it's not impossible without them...
I'm afraid that we're going to see many articles like this in the future, as people slowly discover RFID tags in things that didn't used to have them...
RFID readers on garbage trucks... they can see what I'm buying!
Wait... they could already see what i have been buying with my credit card... Unless i purposefully try to obfuscate my purchases of certain items with cash, chances are my arbitrary use of cash versus credit gives everyone who has access to that data a good picture of what i buy...
Yes, there are new scenarios rfid tags create, but it's all the same idea.
The point is things are changing... Marketing has been getting more invasive ever since it started, but we live out lives just fine today. Tomorrow, if i get a target ad on goldfish crackers because someone finds out i ate some goldfish crackers via the wheelie bin, it's not going to change my life...
And yes, it could be used by bad people, but my point again is everything is like that...
So lets relax a bit...
-Taylor
My apple only has one core...
-Taylor
DISCPLAIMER - By apple i mean a piece of fruit grown from a tree, often referred to as an apple tree. I do not own an Apple computer, and am not referring to one in this post. I simply wanted everyone to know that my fruit is relatively normal in regard to the number of cores it contains. Also, it is not very good at raytracing, so maybe the talk of multiple cores really is better for that...
Yeah, but that wasn't my point... I'm not looking for help. I appreciate the offer, but i can search for linux support online, maybe find a driver that works, or a new card. The point is that i already have a working system with windows, and if i have to troubleshoot something else to get it to work, I'll probably just leave it alone. Sure, you guys will do what you have to do to use linux, but like most of the world, I've yet to get attached to it. That means that it better be easy to adopt, or like many people, I'll be over it.
-Taylor
Yeah, but when i am not already hooked on linux, I'm less inclined to spend any money on it. I know it's not all the developers faults, but whatever the reason is, if i can't easily find what i need to get my stuff working, I'm going to stick with what works. I already have a free OS called pirated windows that supports everything I use it for. Sure, i know the standard complaints, but it works well enough that even a nerd like me gets what he needs done. And yeah, the more i think about it, i think it was lack of itunes support on top of the lack of wireless that really killed linux for me. Oh well, this discussion has inspired me to see what Kubuntu and others have been up to lately, so maybe I'll find something that will work. I could buy a new wireless card, but I'm reluctant to do that; mostly because I'm already a broke college student and linux is really just a plaything for the time being. Oh well, maybe it will get itunes some day....
-Taylor
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That's actually my exact reason for not using Linux, and that's what i tell people, windows, office, photoshop, they're all free! (to me anyway...)
So i can see his point.
-Taylor
Wholy crap, i thought i was the only person who did that! -Taylor
On that link above they're still charging $24.99 for a $2 USB cable... Second only to ink in shady printer practices is the markup on USB cables. My friend worked at best buy and got everything at cost + 5%, and even the "nice" belkin brand usb cables don't cost Best buy any more than $3, usually less than $2. It's way lame to charge $50 for an entire printer and then another 50% of that for the cable that they used to include, but then kodak is supposedly charging "real" prices for their printers and inks... why not the freaking cable? That really irks me. -Taylor
Yeah, i had a Psion revo (called the diamond mako over here), and i must say, the keyboard was pretty good for a handheld, and i liked the high res black and white screen more than some of the color lower res screens of the day. It lacked any real connectivity though, and that's what killed it for me. Nowadays i use my pda phone (HTC Apache aka Verizon XV6700) and i'm happy. The keyboard is too small for word processing, but i don't write much anyway. I text alot, but it's great for that, since they're short. I just wish it was more reliable, and had a larger screen (HTC Advantage or Universal would be nice, but i'm on CDMA and couldn't afford a $1000 phone anyway). Speaking of the HTC advantage... you guys should check it out... http://www.seehtc.com/ It might be what you're looking for, especially if you get a nicer bluetooth keyboard that's larger. -Taylor
Heh, it's gonna get too real, and someone will come out with a "third world", heh. -Taylor
Yeah, sadly, that's the result of too may people making decisions... i hate these crooks, and i generally care about the bill of rights, but some people feel the other way. between people like me, and people like them, we get situations like this. :( Sadly, i feel like there's a bit more people looking to wipe their asses than not though... :(
-Taylor
i actually don't even understand this... like, i've never played second life and i simply don't even understand how one could sell land in it... i dunno, it just doesn't make sense, from an outsider's prospective. obviously, i'm not the target market, and i give props to companies for understanding this "new frontier", but still, yeah, i just don't understand...I'm gonna go back to drinking in my first life, since there are some cute girls here, but uh, enjoy second live for those people that, um, don't have a worthwhile first life...
-Taylor
Online distribution will never work.. ;)
-Taylor
I like the way that works, with the employer having to pay you; otherwise, it's really easy for an employer to ask everyone not to compete, and since the employee has an immediate interest to do whatever their current employer asks, they may agree even though it's not in their best interest. Making the employer have to pay makes sure that they really need to have that clause, and being paid helps to make sure the employee isn't screwed. -Taylor
That's what i do; I am the mechanical engineer at a company that only has 6 or 7 people. I spend a good amount of time in my office doing 3D CAD work, but once i design something i get to go out into the shop and help the guy(s) making it. We just ordered our first CNC mill, and i'll be the one operating it, so now i get to play with a $60k toy that can make anything. I also deal with ordering parts, so i get to run around the shop and check with the assemblers to see what we need for the next orders - not an exciting thing but it gets me out of my office. I also deal with helping the company become more organized, so i'm a bit of a businessman in that respect. But the most rewarding part is seeing my work directly benefit the company on a very short scale. I feel like i'm worth a lot to the company - when we need a new product, i'm the one that designs it. When it works out well, i know i'm responsible for that. All in all, i love my job, and i know that it's largely because of how small the company is.
But in all seriousness, i don't intend to stay there forever, i plan to start my own company in a couple of years, and i'd suggest you do the same. That's where the freedom is, and you seem to have good skills, so use them! Anyway, it's my bed time, goodnight!
-Taylor
Bah, i thought i tried that! But thanks. :)
-Taylor
Pamela Jones is really Keyser Söze!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyser_S%C3%B6ze -Taylor
P.S.-How do i make the text the link i want on here?
Once in 1980, once in 1990, and once in 2000, though "regular", doesn't bode terribly well for your sexual prowess... -Taylor
Hah, i SO was just checking to see what different versions were still avaliable. :) Damn,
-Taylor
Hey, lets make some people we don't like call 911 (emergency in the states)! Or... anything we want! you just put two numbers in the form and it just makes the first person call the second one, even if they're not you!
lovely implementation....
-Taylor
But all i see is 3 frames of nonsense... When i think of a video, i think of something i can comprehend. Maybe i should look at the animation sober...
-Taylor
This is basically induced global dimming. Global dimming is the lesser-discussed cousin of global warming, but it has some strong science behind it as well. Look it up, it is pretty interesting. -Taylor
I started at lynxmotion.com... i bought their simplest hexapod kit and went from there. They show you how to build it, but it's real, legitimate robotics, and you see how it's put together. The next robot i built was designed from scratch. It was easy once i saw how servos could be interfaced to a microcontroller (which i learned from the first hexapod i bought). So yeah, i love lynxmotion.
-Taylor
well, "they" are the same "they" they've always been. People who worry about this stuff don't seem to care specifically who "they" are... the problem most people seem to have is just that the data is there, and avaliable to "someone", and that is enough of a problem. Yeah, the credit card companies might have a clause that says they won't share my purchasing habits, but if they have the database, there's always hackers. And i don't even know for sure if they do have that kind of a clause... And yeah, maybe "they" are thieves, but i didn't even mention that because the article didn't specify. In my example with credit cards, i was thinking more about direct marketers, which are almost as bad as thieves in some people's eyes, and often the most logical implied subject of this kind of "oh noes!" article. But yes, there are thieves. Like i said in my other article though, thieves are always getting new tools, but so is everyone else. We're no more overrun by thievery than we were 1000 years ago, yet the tools thieves have are amazing compared to before. People forget that in the end these things don't actually make a difference in society. Things come up, but we adapt and it's all ok (i promise). This is the same tinfoil-hat wearing reactionary talk some of us have grown very tired of... -Taylor
Yeah, but personally, that doesn't matter, because like i said, i don't care if RFID tags are in my garbage cans. Yeah, they could engrave addresses in plates, but why? If there's no RFID tags on the bin a thief will just hook gps up to his rdif enable laptop as he drives by...And yeah, we're up for the next logical outcome. RFID tags everywhere! And that still doesn't bother me, because i just don't care. These "new tools" for thieves are also the next logical outcome in the long line of theives tools, yet the world isn't any more overrun by thievery than it was 1000 years ago when thieves had a knife and a fake horse-hair moustache. Yes, thieves have more tools, and i still don't care, because i'm not going to spend my time getting all reactionary about everything new that happens in the world. -Taylor
Without RFID tags on the bins, someone could still walk by with a scanner and scan your trash to see what you've been buying... The only difference is that having a tag on the bin makes keeping track of who's trash it is marginally easier, but it's not impossible without them... I'm afraid that we're going to see many articles like this in the future, as people slowly discover RFID tags in things that didn't used to have them... RFID readers on garbage trucks... they can see what I'm buying! Wait... they could already see what i have been buying with my credit card... Unless i purposefully try to obfuscate my purchases of certain items with cash, chances are my arbitrary use of cash versus credit gives everyone who has access to that data a good picture of what i buy... Yes, there are new scenarios rfid tags create, but it's all the same idea. The point is things are changing... Marketing has been getting more invasive ever since it started, but we live out lives just fine today. Tomorrow, if i get a target ad on goldfish crackers because someone finds out i ate some goldfish crackers via the wheelie bin, it's not going to change my life... And yes, it could be used by bad people, but my point again is everything is like that... So lets relax a bit... -Taylor
My apple only has one core... -Taylor DISCPLAIMER - By apple i mean a piece of fruit grown from a tree, often referred to as an apple tree. I do not own an Apple computer, and am not referring to one in this post. I simply wanted everyone to know that my fruit is relatively normal in regard to the number of cores it contains. Also, it is not very good at raytracing, so maybe the talk of multiple cores really is better for that...
True, true. I'd use Open Office is M$ Office wasn't so damn free... -Tayor
Yeah, but that wasn't my point... I'm not looking for help. I appreciate the offer, but i can search for linux support online, maybe find a driver that works, or a new card. The point is that i already have a working system with windows, and if i have to troubleshoot something else to get it to work, I'll probably just leave it alone. Sure, you guys will do what you have to do to use linux, but like most of the world, I've yet to get attached to it. That means that it better be easy to adopt, or like many people, I'll be over it. -Taylor
Yeah, but when i am not already hooked on linux, I'm less inclined to spend any money on it. I know it's not all the developers faults, but whatever the reason is, if i can't easily find what i need to get my stuff working, I'm going to stick with what works. I already have a free OS called pirated windows that supports everything I use it for. Sure, i know the standard complaints, but it works well enough that even a nerd like me gets what he needs done. And yeah, the more i think about it, i think it was lack of itunes support on top of the lack of wireless that really killed linux for me. Oh well, this discussion has inspired me to see what Kubuntu and others have been up to lately, so maybe I'll find something that will work. I could buy a new wireless card, but I'm reluctant to do that; mostly because I'm already a broke college student and linux is really just a plaything for the time being. Oh well, maybe it will get itunes some day.... -Taylor