Slashback: Zoning, Linking, Fooling

Tonight Slashback brings you updates (below) on the video card ATi isn't really putting out, home-brewed electronic multi-room temperature control, NPR's linking policy, and more. Enjoy!

Welcome to the Fantasy Hardware League Regarding our post on the allegedly upcoming Radeon 8500 MAXX, reader eyelove yu writes: "This pic is fake, as many people have suspected. HardOCP.com (on front page) quoted Rubeena Hussein of ATi as saying,'"We have no current intentions of making this or similar boards.'"

Soon we will be able to assemble an entire system created in Photoshop. Yay.

Or you could roll down the windows ... vt@home writes: "As a followup to the earlier story, here is a system that not only allows to monitor the temperature throughout the house and draw nice charts, but also does already have computer controlled vents and even allows to control the A/C unit. Basically, this is a do-it-yourself zoning system, for under $500. Of course, the source is GPLd ;)"

Next week, the sidewalks will practically be free for public use. juanfe writes: "It's not like they really had any power to enforce their previous one, but NPR modified their Terms of Use on June 27. Now, linkers do not have to submit a form asking for permission, but NPR "reserve the right to withdraw permission for any link". More commentary from others.

Nothing like hundreds of angry bloggers threatening to withhold membership contributions to their local station."

Raising a stink to the power of 10. Snarfangel writes "After seeing Yet Another Slashdot Article extolling the virtues of meretricious metrification ("Isn't it Time for Metric Time?"), I decided to fight back the only way I know how -- by subjecting an innocent website to the Slashdot effect: This site goes into great detail about the importance of being Ernst (or at least Max Karl Ernst Ludwig) Planck, especially his system of units that only depend the fundamental constants of the universe -- the speed of light, the gravitational constant, the Planck constant, and the charge of the electron. With appropriate scaling, you get a unified measurement system that is not only more logical than Le Systeme International d'Unites, but is also much better for calculating physics problems in your head.

After all, if we are going to go to all the effort to change our measurement system, why not use that same effort and get the system *right* the first time?"

On a different note, Colin LeMahieu writes "I noticed your post on metric time. I stumbled across this while looking for various computer timing related articles and found it pretty interesting. This might not be as popular as metric time, but it seems to make more sense. The whole system is based on time as a fraction of a day; it even has the scientific measurment on how to re-produce the time, as with any scientific measurement."

Comments

It's still not out of the realm of possibility

[Perianwyr Stormcrow]

Dual processor graphics cards are nothing new.

All in all that was a pretty good photoshopping, though.

What made me wonder was the part about how they hadn't figured out the way in which the VIVO daughterboard would connect. If it's already in silicon, it's a little too late now :)

Re:"Timing" of screws

[Speed Racer]

Which is why he said, and I quote, "if the screws are all made the same"

Re:Google Image Search is your friend...

[Dalcius]

What's so difficult about making Red Hat do Windows tasks?

Try RH 7.1+ with Ximian GNOME as your desktop.
AbiWord
Gnumeric Spreadsheet
OpenOffice
Evolution
Red Carpet
GnuCash

I can open DOC, XLS, PPT, read email like in Outlook, update most any area of software on my computer, and manage my finances. I saw a nice pluging for Mozilla that you can buy for $30 or so to allow you to view nearly any movie format and tons and tons of other things in your browser (too tired to search for it).

Given the state my computer is in, my entire family could use it (or install it), and I'm the only one you could safely call 'computer literate' among my semi-close relatives, save perhaps my uncle.

I'm just jumping on this because I see a *lot* of Linux advocates and a lot more MS advocates that think Linux is too hard to use. However, recent versions of Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE seem to be to the contrary.

The metric system is a tool of the devil!

[intermodal]

My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head, and thats the way i like it!