I used to be a Linux advocate / snob citing stability and coolness as my reasons for using it. Honestly, I find that Linux holds me back from doing simple things that I take for granted on Windows. To get many apps to properly run I needed to download its package making sure that I installed the correct dependencies beforehand. I was definitely not a Linux power user, more of an advanced beginner. (Yes, I know there are programs to resolve the dependency issue automatically.)
Open Office just seems to lag compared to Microsoft Office, and its memory utilization is huge. I'm also an avid porn junky; when I was using Linux trying to playback various media types was a pain, downloading appropriate packages again... and every so often not having a certain media supported. With Media Player I can do everything with 1 hand!
I haven't played with Linux for a while, but until I find a distribution that has a great office package and media player I won't be switching. Tom's Hardware cites instability... as a reason to use Linux; Win XP seems to be pretty darn stable when I use it. The time that it takes to setup a Linux distribution and get the same feel for it that I have with Windows would amount to a lot more time than the time I'm setback by Windows crashing. Plus a 4 minute boot time with this Ubuntu / H2 setup is nuts.
This is where OSX bridges the gap, a commonplace OS with standards and the benefit of Unix. I can run Microsoft Word and have the ability to compile just about any Linux app. Maybe Microsoft should take a similar move as Apple did in developing OSX. Completely redo their OS and base it on BSD... create a good emulator (Wine like) to appease software developers for the meantime and stray away from the old Win32 development stuff. This way they could corral the whole Unix / Linux threat and create an OS that appeals to all parties. Then again why should the dominant player by leaps and bounds in any industry have to do something so massive, they don't have to.
Rad idea! Every new city from now on should be built super dense too so getting around is faster and easier, and built around pedestrian traffic, bikes, walking... not cars. If people get from place to place via their own power the world would be a lot less fat.
I received my ipod from Amazon on Friday and eversince I have been infatuated. A few years back I thought the whole IPod thing was just a lot of hype so I bought a Creative Jukebox. I wish I hadn't wasted the money on the Creative Jukebox, soon after the warenty ran up the headphone jack died and I had to listen to it through an external amplifier or if I did use headphones it was very quiet.
Apple hit gold with their design of the IPod. It shows you that a little hardwork on an intuitive design can pay off.
I can operate my ipod with one hand It looks beatiful Its small (I can throw it in my pocket)
A little hardwork went a long way. I wonder how much analysis they conducted on what consumers want in a portable music player / how many hours of brainstorming went into the 1st generation.
I am an alumi of Humboldt State University, the area is known for its hippies and agricultural exports (cough). On campus we had the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT). CCAT is completely off the power grid and supports most any form of recycling, and green energy. CCAT gives demonstrations on how to create biodiesel, I believe they even have an old diesel Mercedes running off the stuff.
CCAT's website includes a recipe for biodiesel: http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/biodiese l/frames.htm l
I've been told that most of the public trasportation in Berkeley, CA runs off of biodiesel (?).
I'm running XP and my system hasn't had any viri / worms / spyware... for as long as I can remember. I simply patch my system each time a new patch is released, run a hardware firewall, zone alarm, turn off DCOM, messenger... (other exploitable services), and run a popup blocker.
Remains of a 10 to 12 foot tall primate have been discovered in Asia. Gigantopithecus supposedly lived up until 100,000 years ago. Maybe this is where the myth of bigfoot and the yeti came from?
If gigantopithecus was around up until 100,000 years, then both Homo erectus (2 mya - 60,000) and Gigantopithecus were contemporary to each other, in the same region. Anatomically modern humans would have been living toward the end of Gigantopithecus' reign, although probably not in the same region.
Hmmmm, maybe this explains spontaneous human combustion? I don't believe that people can spontaneously combust, perhaps they are just being hit by these strangelets...???
Some archaeologists believe the first colonization of the Americas was between 30,000 and 15,000 BP. The last ice age was around 10,000 years ago. That gives humans some time to wonder through North American and down into the Caribbean area. Around 100 bc the Arawak made their way up from the Orinoco region of Venezuela and inhabitted the Lesser Antilies until those damn European killed them off =p. There is also evidence of cocaine in Egypt 3,700 bc, the cocoa plant is only found in South America, perhaps trans Atlantic voyage was possible, I don't see why it wouldn't be. There is also a history of seismic activity within the area, on june 7th 1692 Port Royal Jamaica experienced a massive earthquake estimated around 8.0, in which 1/3 of Port Royal vanished underwater... Although 2000 feet seems really deep.
Anyone ever try building an mp3 decoder with IDE interface like this? Wonder how much it would cost... and the level of difficulty?
Would it be possible to throw an IDE cdrom on top of this and play mp3 cds as well???
if this parrot is anything like my Cockatiel (which masterbates on its swing all day) Parrot porn is going to out number regular porn 10:1. stay tooned for pictures of my masterbating cockatiel, perhaps videos as well.
I agree the Toshiba PDR M-4 is a great camera, the pictures are very crisp due to its 2.1 megapixels. Battery time is excellent. And for the price I couldn't pass it up, I got mine for $300 =) w/ 8mb. Target had the wrong price in their ad and sold it to me for the quoted price. The only thing I wish it did have was an optical zoom. The casing is also very solid compared to many of the cameras out there that have a flimsy/cheep feeling. I give this camera 9/10.
Slashdot Mirror
I used to be a Linux advocate / snob citing stability and coolness as my reasons for using it. Honestly, I find that Linux holds me back from doing simple things that I take for granted on Windows. To get many apps to properly run I needed to download its package making sure that I installed the correct dependencies beforehand. I was definitely not a Linux power user, more of an advanced beginner. (Yes, I know there are programs to resolve the dependency issue automatically.)
Open Office just seems to lag compared to Microsoft Office, and its memory utilization is huge. I'm also an avid porn junky; when I was using Linux trying to playback various media types was a pain, downloading appropriate packages again... and every so often not having a certain media supported. With Media Player I can do everything with 1 hand!
I haven't played with Linux for a while, but until I find a distribution that has a great office package and media player I won't be switching. Tom's Hardware cites instability... as a reason to use Linux; Win XP seems to be pretty darn stable when I use it. The time that it takes to setup a Linux distribution and get the same feel for it that I have with Windows would amount to a lot more time than the time I'm setback by Windows crashing. Plus a 4 minute boot time with this Ubuntu / H2 setup is nuts.
This is where OSX bridges the gap, a commonplace OS with standards and the benefit of Unix. I can run Microsoft Word and have the ability to compile just about any Linux app. Maybe Microsoft should take a similar move as Apple did in developing OSX. Completely redo their OS and base it on BSD... create a good emulator (Wine like) to appease software developers for the meantime and stray away from the old Win32 development stuff. This way they could corral the whole Unix / Linux threat and create an OS that appeals to all parties. Then again why should the dominant player by leaps and bounds in any industry have to do something so massive, they don't have to.
Rad idea! Every new city from now on should be built super dense too so getting around is faster and easier, and built around pedestrian traffic, bikes, walking... not cars. If people get from place to place via their own power the world would be a lot less fat.
I received my ipod from Amazon on Friday and eversince I have been infatuated. A few years back I thought the whole IPod thing was just a lot of hype so I bought a Creative Jukebox. I wish I hadn't wasted the money on the Creative Jukebox, soon after the warenty ran up the headphone jack died and I had to listen to it through an external amplifier or if I did use headphones it was very quiet.
Apple hit gold with their design of the IPod. It shows you that a little hardwork on an intuitive design can pay off.
I can operate my ipod with one hand
It looks beatiful
Its small (I can throw it in my pocket)
A little hardwork went a long way. I wonder how much analysis they conducted on what consumers want in a portable music player / how many hours of brainstorming went into the 1st generation.
I am an alumi of Humboldt State University, the area is known for its hippies and agricultural exports (cough). On campus we had the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT). CCAT is completely off the power grid and supports most any form of recycling, and green energy. CCAT gives demonstrations on how to create biodiesel, I believe they even have an old diesel Mercedes running off the stuff.
e l/frames.htm l
CCAT's website includes a recipe for biodiesel:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/biodies
I've been told that most of the public trasportation in Berkeley, CA runs off of biodiesel (?).
I'm running XP and my system hasn't had any viri / worms / spyware... for as long as I can remember. I simply patch my system each time a new patch is released, run a hardware firewall, zone alarm, turn off DCOM, messenger... (other exploitable services), and run a popup blocker.
Remains of a 10 to 12 foot tall primate have been discovered in Asia. Gigantopithecus supposedly lived up until 100,000 years ago. Maybe this is where the myth of bigfoot and the yeti came from?
If gigantopithecus was around up until 100,000 years, then both Homo erectus (2 mya - 60,000) and Gigantopithecus were contemporary to each other, in the same region. Anatomically modern humans would have been living toward the end of Gigantopithecus' reign, although probably not in the same region.
Hmmmm, maybe this explains spontaneous human combustion? I don't believe that people can spontaneously combust, perhaps they are just being hit by these strangelets...???
Talk about an excedrin headache
Some archaeologists believe the first colonization of the Americas was between 30,000 and 15,000 BP. The last ice age was around 10,000 years ago. That gives humans some time to wonder through North American and down into the Caribbean area. Around 100 bc the Arawak made their way up from the Orinoco region of Venezuela and inhabitted the Lesser Antilies until those damn European killed them off =p. There is also evidence of cocaine in Egypt 3,700 bc, the cocoa plant is only found in South America, perhaps trans Atlantic voyage was possible, I don't see why it wouldn't be. There is also a history of seismic activity within the area, on june 7th 1692 Port Royal Jamaica experienced a massive earthquake estimated around 8.0, in which 1/3 of Port Royal vanished underwater... Although 2000 feet seems really deep.
Anyone ever try building an mp3 decoder with IDE interface like this? Wonder how much it would cost... and the level of difficulty? Would it be possible to throw an IDE cdrom on top of this and play mp3 cds as well???
if this parrot is anything like my Cockatiel (which masterbates on its swing all day) Parrot porn is going to out number regular porn 10:1. stay tooned for pictures of my masterbating cockatiel, perhaps videos as well.
I agree the Toshiba PDR M-4 is a great camera, the pictures are very crisp due to its 2.1 megapixels. Battery time is excellent. And for the price I couldn't pass it up, I got mine for $300 =) w/ 8mb. Target had the wrong price in their ad and sold it to me for the quoted price. The only thing I wish it did have was an optical zoom. The casing is also very solid compared to many of the cameras out there that have a flimsy/cheep feeling. I give this camera 9/10.
I would definately put Duct Tape on the list. What can't it do??? The applications are endless, you name it, Duct Tape can accomplish it.