The airlines started asking for ID in order to restrict use [& resale value] of frequent flyer miles as well as highly-restricted [non-refundable, etc] tickets. No security involved!
What is it, 95% of the Canadian population is squeezed to within 25 miles of the Continental USA. That's a nice narrow high-density grouping. Perfect for deploying broadband.
The eMate is probably the exactly right thing for her. It will sync with a PC or a Mac [even still] and it is easy on batteries. It will need its hinge problem fixed, but there are plenty of people on the net in the USA/Canada and Europe who know how to do that.
Then explain to me how Deep Space 1 managed to break Earth orbit.
Sure, chemical rockets were used to put it into orbit. But once it's in orbit, it's there to stay. The minimal accelleration provided by the ion drive gave it a higher and higher orbit, eventually accellerating it to breakaway speed.
Just like an ion drive, you're counting on a small constant accelleration to eventually bring you to escape velocity. Whether that's earth orbit escape velocity or solar escape velocity. To do it quickly, you'd need a large sail, but probes are patient beasts and can afford to wait.
This has got to be a way of recycling soon-to-be-retired SLBMs. The only advantage over a regular ground launch is you can position the submarine anywhere you want.
Then it's just a matter of saving up to switch. My current gas costs are $1900/year to commute. Switching would save me about $1300/year. I have a big spreadsheet on this at home on my Mac.
80 columns is still the default width of an xterm and Gnome Terminal window. Grumpy cow-orkers insist on sticking to 80 columns. It's a fact of life. Get used to it.
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IBM started selling proportional typewriters in 1941. Link here to IBM's history site.
Well, Nixon certainly didn't let his Quaker beliefs get in his way...
Instead, we got don't tax [the rich] and spend more.
Now that's a great way to go. Four more years!
Yet our "left-wing press" continued to tell us there was no difference between the candidates.
"Oh, you hate work? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody and it meets at the bar."
--Drew Carey
See you there tonight
The airlines started asking for ID in order to restrict use [& resale value] of frequent flyer miles as well as highly-restricted [non-refundable, etc] tickets. No security involved!
The emate has a tendancy to eat its display/digitizer cable - but you can easily fix it: Here Or here
What is it, 95% of the Canadian population is squeezed to within 25 miles of the Continental USA. That's a nice narrow high-density grouping. Perfect for deploying broadband.
D'oh!
It's been over half a lifetime since my last physics class...
Radio waves and light [also a radio wave] travel at the same speed through space.
Apple laptops: Bluetooth but no IRDA.
Motorola T720/T730 phones: no Btooth or IRDA.
Yes, PDAs still have IRDA [for now].
IBM ThinkPads: T42/X40 yes on IR. ThinkPad R50: No IR.
www.irda.org - still active.
I could be wrong. I just haven't seen it on new things [PDAs excluded] for a couple of years now.
So Bluetooth is going the way of IRDA. Say "Buh-bye".. In a year or two's time, you won't see it on any new devices.
And that's the trouble right there. The rich get richer, the middle class gets poorer.
1984: War is Peace
2004: Outsourcing is good for the domestic IT industry.
Um, that could use some editing.
And 20 seconds is a buttload faster than W98 on my old ThinkPad ever did a return from suspend to disk.
I'm awfully spoiled by my Powerbook, though!
- Sub-$500
- Quiet
- Bulletproof [once the hinge cable is fixed!]
- Easy on the batteries
- Can draw sketches as well as type
NewtonTalk email listSync your Palm.
Plug it into a modern Mac
Sync again
Voila!
Then explain to me how Deep Space 1 managed to break Earth orbit.
Sure, chemical rockets were used to put it into orbit. But once it's in orbit, it's there to stay. The minimal accelleration provided by the ion drive gave it a higher and higher orbit, eventually accellerating it to breakaway speed.
Just like an ion drive, you're counting on a small constant accelleration to eventually bring you to escape velocity. Whether that's earth orbit escape velocity or solar escape velocity. To do it quickly, you'd need a large sail, but probes are patient beasts and can afford to wait.
This has got to be a way of recycling soon-to-be-retired SLBMs. The only advantage over a regular ground launch is you can position the submarine anywhere you want.
Unisys is trying to survive any way it can. They are a dying dinosaur of a company who has always dreamed of being IBM.
He's really dead, folks. Google for it yourself.
Yes.
Then it's just a matter of saving up to switch. My current gas costs are $1900/year to commute. Switching would save me about $1300/year. I have a big spreadsheet on this at home on my Mac.
80 columns is still the default width of an xterm and Gnome Terminal window. Grumpy cow-orkers insist on sticking to 80 columns. It's a fact of life. Get used to it.
Because I'm a big man and I don't bump my head against the roof when I go over a small bump, unlike a more efficient car.
I also periodically haul around large materials (4'x8' sheet goods, 2x4s, etc), and tow a trailer when I go camping.