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Re:Set up your own...
I use digitemp too to monitor the temperature of my basement....errrr...server room. It works very well and yes, Dalsemi does have one wire humidity sensors
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Won't This Get Worse With XHTTP?I don't think we are too far away from having actual *content* inserted in my page without my consent. I'm quite sure that XML and XLINK supports this. There are no browsers implemented with it of course, but this is certainly a slippery slope.
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Cheap Embedded Hardware?I know that "cheap" and "embedded" don't usually go together, but there's gotta be an alternative to a $300 uCLinux SIMM. I know that Dallas Semiconductor has a TINI board that is pretty cheap, but its dedicated for Java. So, does anyone know of any alternatives for small and cheap hardware that will run linux?
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Factoring in the Captive AudienceHow do you handle large blocks of users that are forced (often against their will and better judgement) to use a particular operating system? For example, 360,000 Navy users are forced to use Windows 2000.
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Re:I let someone who runs a free site keep my data"oh this food is terrible! and the portions are too small!!"
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Re:Problem with US missile silos - Some Work FineI guess not all the silos leak. There is a company in my town (Data Vault) that provides offsite data storage using the old NIKE missile bunkers. These were just short range costal defense weapons, so the silos aren't as deep as an ICBM bunker
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Re:fiber optics? Try COMPOSITE FIBERS!It's been a few years since I worked in this area (about 5) so advanced materials may have changed some. It is often a misconception that carbon fiber is stronger than fiberglass. It is (was) not. Glass fibers (S-glass) have a higher modulus of elasticity than carbon fiber (cheap E-glass is lower). Carbon fiber is primarily used for its stiffness, not its strength.
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The Entire US Navy Will RUn MicrosoftEver heard of the Navy/Marine Corps Internet? Pretty soon every sailor and government employee "from the desktop to the warfighter" will be using MS exclusively (at least officially). Desktops are mandated to be Windows 2000 and end users cannot install any software or maintain their machine. This includes laptops and even classified networks and communications. It's a $6B contract to EDS and I think it will either be a dramatic failure or a dramatic flop. I'm not sure there can be a middle ground.
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Re:Just goes to show...Yeah, there were some cheesy comments, and missing/incorrect detail for the anal, but IMHO the show and the characters had great potential. Cheers, WKRP in Cinnci, Barney Miller and most of the Treks were horrible until they had time to cook (stew? fester?) for a bit.
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Information Wants To Suckno, I didn't reply to the wrong article....this really sucks.
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Not Hypothetical - Not ContrivedHypothetical, perhaps a bit contrived, but you get the general idea
I think this is a very good example. I am 99.99% sure that I read that one of the developers of the mp3 codec at the Faurnhofer (sp?) institute tuned his compression coefficients by ear. He listened over and over to a Susan Vega song (Tom's Diner IIRC) trying to identify audible artifacts while monitoring the effective compression. Had the source material been in a different format, he would have certainly achieved different, possibly sub-optimal, results
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Here is a Real ChallengeThere is another numerical analysis challenge thats been around for several years and has only had one winner of the $100 prize. Check out the Weak Signal Challenge. You need to recover a morse code signal embedded in noise. And you don't need to send any $$$ to enter, just download the WAV and start number crunching
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Go Reread the Original!I think I first read Flatland in High School, and I periodically reread it when the subject of 2d-3d-4d space analogies come up. I love it as much now as I did then. For the few remaining people who have never read the original or don't have their own copy, you can buy it at Amazon for ninety cents! Or you can download it from Project Gutenberg here.
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Make Life Easier for SQL NewbiesAs a reader and occasional contributer to MySQL and PostgreSQL related newsgroups and as the owner of FreeSQL.org I am constantly amazed at the influx of extremely new database users. This is a good thing. Vast numbers of posts are questions about the most fundamental SQL statements and the clear misunderstanding of key concepts like joins, and normalization. I think the OSS goal overall (not just regarding Oracle) should be to help reduce the barriers of entry to database users not just potential future DBA's.
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Make Life Easier for SQL NewbiesAs a reader and occasional contributer to MySQL and PostgreSQL related newsgroups and as the owner of FreeSQL.org I am constantly amazed at the influx of extremely new database users. This is a good thing. Vast numbers of posts are questions about the most fundamental SQL statements and the clear misunderstanding of key concepts like joins, and normalization. I think the OSS goal overall (not just regarding Oracle) should be to help reduce the barriers of entry to database users not just potential future DBA's.
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Sagan Spinning In His GraveGaaah! The instrument has not been invented that can measure how much I disagree with that. The movie failed *miserably* in the final few moments, where the book championed and drove home the exact philosophical conclusion. (spoiler alert if you have not read the book)
The underlying theme of the whole book is Faith (with a capital F), particularly faith in religion. How do you prove the existence of God to a scientist? Ellie is unable to accept the existence of God since she is a scientist and there is no "proof" (remember the pendulum experiment where she challenges her friend to step a bit closer to the huge swinging pendulum to see if his God would protect him?). Then she returns from her voyage and is ironically unable to provide any proof of their existence and everyone will just have to accept her testimony on "faith". Ellie continued to search for "signals" and ultimately found "proof" in the immutable fabric of the universe...in the digits of pi she ultimately finds another signal to decode, but this is a signal from God, not from other beings.The signal in Pi was left out of the movie completely and totally ruined it for me. YMMV of course.
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Another site
I use Heavens-above to get times for sightings in my area.
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Read Your Business Plan
If you do not have a business plan that details 1) Business Context 2) Business Profile 3) Market Analysis 4) Challenges and Responses 5) Marketing Plan 6) Finances 7) Execution plan 6) Loan amounts then I would say that you are completely doomed to failure and probably rightly so.
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Recursive Advertizing?
So Will Nike pay Nintendo who pays ID for Ash to wear a "Swoosh"(tm) hat on a billboard ad for Pokemon Stadium II in Doom 3?
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Look at the contract!
Did the contract you signed make any statements about security upgrades? I read over their FAQ and it does not lead me to believe that they would do that. To the contrary, it basically says "we're as secure as any other unix platform but a determined cracker can get in".
I've been a victim of contract assumptions in the past. Never ever ever expect a contractual partner to do something that will cost him money (in material or labor) unless its explicitly stated.
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Re:Virtual Boy
My (3) kids like Virtual Boy. They'll put it away for a few months and then remember it, shove aside the super nintendo, put away nintendo 64, trip over the two gameboys and set it up again for a few days.
I have almost zero depth perception, so I never really saw the attraction.
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Re:Revolution
P2P isn't a revolution, its just another overhyped buzzword, being oversold to zealous people. Money is being dumped into anything that even remotely sounds "peerish". JP Morgan back in the 20's (or earlier?) said something like "once the shoe shine boys and taxicab drivers start talking about stocks, its time to get out"...well, even my 8 year old knows about dot bombs, and P2P is next.
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Wish I could have been there!
....but ain't it sad that I am more interested in the Lamborghini than the hot blondes? [ Caution - mid life crisis approaching! ]
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Re:Standards for Commerce
Two examples that make your case. 1) Internet RFCs, keeping (network) commerce and business flowing. The RFCs will undoubtedly go down as one of the most successful collections of standards ever (IMHO of course). Now take ANSI SQL. Implemented haphazardly by various independent self serving organizations. ANSI SQL does not drive interoperability between platforms except at the simplest level.
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Now if I only had an idea.........So many tools, so little creativity
Anyone have any cool ideas for an educational game? 3D Zoombeanies? A FPS Algebra tutorial?
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Distance "Learning"I've taken (far too) many engineering classes, several of which were "distance learning" classes delivered on video tape, with tests administered by snail mail. I did all the required stuff, asked a few questions by email, and that was it. I would say that this type of format is 50% as effective as traditional classroom format.
Don't get me wrong, I'll browse every online offering from MIT, it will probably be fascinating, and I'll probably learn something. But IMHO this is *not* the way formal education should be delivered.
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Been on PBS a while...Its on ch 36 In Providence RI on saturday nights. We love it!
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What if thats all there are?There are enough heavyweights pushing for this that you might not have a choice.
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Free Software is a Small Piece of a Big PuzzleA few weeks ago there was an episode of The Lone Gunmen that I really enjoyed. They were searching for the magical car engine that ran on water. The Evil Nemesis (tm) was of course from the oil company. During part of the climactic speech, he said that basically "great, a car that runs on water....but you *still* need oil for lubricating, making plastics, making roads Hahahahahaha!(evil laughter)" and I immediately drew the parallel to the software industry.
I'm basically a web developer now, 3 tier, database, middleware, webserver. Any or all of those tools could be free or $$$ depending on which group of developers in my office you talk to (ie. some want MySQL, some want Sybase....Apache vs IIS, etc) but the costs incurred with those choices are incidental to the hardware, the development time, testing, deployment, help desk support, training, documentation, etc. I'll bet if we were 100% LAMPS, it would save us less than 10% (but I'll still try
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