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Go be something! Simon Gauvin writes "As a follow up to your article on Gobe Productive, beunited.org is setting up a donation site to allow people to donate for the purchase of the source to make it open. You can check out the comments here. And our announcement on our main page."
Thinner is better. Factomatic writes "The The New York Times reports that a new polymer by Xerox can be used to make organic transistors on a plastic substrate, which can then be used to inexpensively make light, flexible flat-panel displays for computers, laptops and mobile phones. The material, polythiophene, has achieved performance on electronics benchmarks that is an order of magnitude greater than current polymer materials. It would be used in a new manufacturing process that Xerox is experimenting with to imprint circuits using inkjets." You may remember this story about a company called Rolltronics' research into printable circuitry.
What about reviving The A-Team? Julio Ojeda-Zapata points to his Update: 12/10 01:25 GMT by T : [Errr, not "her" -- sorry about that.] "in-depth article on the Save Farscape movement. Though I have an obvious bias, I believe this is the most comprehensive article on the subject you'll find anywhere. Predictably, I've been deluged by mail from Scapers. I can't say I wasn't warned about that :-)"
Soon, every Thomas Aquinas, Dickinson and Harvard will have one of their own ... Amadaeus writes with news of another all-campus wireless blanketing. "The new University of Ontario Institute of Technology is offering new students an IBM laptop, included with tuition, that is wired with 802.11b access. The reason behind that is the entire campus (read: cafeterias, stairwells, washrooms, "special areas") is covered with the university wireless network hubs. In fact, the university campus itself is designed with charging outlets for every seat in the classroom and ergonomic seating for computer usage for all students.
Either they're trying to improve wireless education or promote in-class LAN parties and all-night wireless hack-o-thons, UOIT is on the right track to some sort of wireless educational future."
Wireless Weapons: A mini-Howitzer or a Liberator. We've run several stories on 802.11 antenna projects that require more time, more esoteric parts, or a bigger budget, and some that don't take much at all. Daniel Marsh writes with another one in this last category: "If you thought Pringles were fun, check out the Cookie Cantenna. Several have been built and tested by Seattle Wireless members and they blow Pringles cans out of the water, as well as taste better."
On the other hand, if convenience is more importance than raw power, you might find this commercialized alternative attractive. The Cantenna is inexpensive (19.95 by itself, plus the cost of a pigtail) and means you don't have to touch a soldering iron, glue, or anything besides a shipping container.
I know what poly and thene are, but what is thio?
Is a 50-inch monitor I can Scotch-tape to my wall. Mmmmm.
Everyone on slashdot has a journal.
Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
An electrical antenna is pluralized "antennas".
Glad to see a college catering to the students in the internet accessibility department. I've read too many stories lately about colleges that are in bed with the MPAA and RIAA and are trying to limit students 'net usage. Glad to see a school giving students MORE 'net options. Hopefully this school isn't one of the ones blocking P2P ports and confiscating PC's though...
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
"an IBM laptop, included with tuition, that is wired with 802.11b access"
But then you would be aiding and abetting terrorism (per FBI)!
Instead of paying £1000 for a decent (ie 19" and over, when CRTS that size are 1/10th that price) lcd monitor, I can print myself a nice wide screen display with a packet of A4 paper and a xerox printer.
SIGFEH
What's even better is that anyone with airsnort and a laptop or ipaq can get free wireless access nearly anywhere in town with Costco selling $100 basestations. heheh
Julio Ojeda-Zapata points to her
Um, are you guys sure Julio isn't a guy?
I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious. --Albert Einstein
My favorite line from the description:
"1 - chasis mount female N connector, preferably the type that mounts with a single large nut."
I know I should just grow up and get over it, but that kind of talk just excites me!
Is this the promised end? Or image of that horror? KING LEAR
That would be a HIM, not her... I now cuase he interviewed me two years ago for an article about PDAs.
We are talking about Xerox. You know, the company that could come up with a pill that cured cancer,improved your sex life, and made you perfect looking then sell it for 5 dollars yet get no one to buy it because they can not market anything well.
"which can then be used to inexpensively make light, flexible flat-panel displays for computers, laptops and mobile phones. The material, polythiophene, has achieved performance on electronics benchmarks that is an order of magnitude greater than current polymer materials."
No, that was more of a Yoda quote... Funny stopped being this joke 15 years ago,, yes......
IN SOVIET RUSSIA
The Joke Tells you.....
How can the A-Team get found by customers, without also being found by LEOs? If I can find them to hire them, officer Bustem can find 'em to arrest 'em.
I'm still waiting for my free laptop. :)
The new new cult! Shave your head, say "frell" three times, and send $5 to...
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Seriously, we will only be taken seriously if we come up with a better handle than "Scapers" -- which sounds like something halfway between scapies and scalpers. Seriously.
Even Trekkies or, for those with savoir-faire, Trekkers, was better.
I am very impressed by the Farscape insurgency. You didn't see this when they took "Three's Company" off the air. Stand up for what you believe in, even if it is only frelling television.
Many many months ago... Of course, the story was rejected, but, hey, that's Slashdot. Anyway, here's a story on it from (ironically) Wired. Makes me kinda wish I still went there... well, maybe not.
Looks like any other bong I've seen, but what is the LED for?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
Starting the fall of '95 my college Rose-Hulman started requiring everyone to buy their laptop freshman year. It sounds like a great idea until you get to be a junior or senior...
When toilet rolls will have multimedia advertisements, and no, you will not be able to "use" it until your padllium enabled toilet has checked to see if its digitally signed, you will pay $29.95 for every sheet you use, and you must agree to the EULA every time.
The slashquote at the bottom of the page is:
Xerox your lunch and file it under "sex offenders"!
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The A-team is still aired on TV-Land. Or at least it was as of around 6 months ago - I haven't watched much TV since then.
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Fortunatly, people are now realizing that only terrorists use 802.11, so soon the police will start profiling people seen with cans of pringles and shipping them off to prison.
I know I'll feel much safer... But what will then these terror-hackers be doing? How long until we see a frontpage slashdot story on How I built an 802.11 network using three frozen chickens and a '57 chevy?!?
they've been rolling out a wireless network for a while now, but it has been wildly unsuccessful for a variety of reasons:
1) low on-campus residency rate. There are too many commuters here, and if your laptop isn't in your dormroom then you're probably going to leave it at home when you commute to school.
2) stupid, incomplete coverage. Some FLOORS of some buildings are covered while other floors are not. The network extends down the central mall (outside) but not into the buildings fronting it, and only covers part of the first floor of the library.
I think this kind of thing can only be useful if it exists as part of a real project to cover the entire campus.
Ever since Slashdot started offering subscriptions, the journalistic quality has gone downhill. Almost makes me want to get one...
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How many females do you know that would mount something with one large nut?
Oh, and I'm building this cantena tomorrow. Kewl.
I figured it was going to be one of the degree-granting colleges but it looks like a legit university (perhaps hoping to get in on the "double-cohort" craze?). Says they're going to be accepting about 1000 students come September.
Their high-tech website seems a bit sluggish at the moment..
Dave
The reason behind that is the entire campus (read: cafeterias, stairwells, washrooms, "special areas") is covered with the university wireless network hubs.
Purdue has this also. They are not completely done with the wireless-ing yet, but most of the dorms, the outdoor areas, and almost all of the major buildings have wireless access.
I think this is something you are going to see more and more colleges doing over time, until the idea a college wouldn't have wireless internet is as ludicrus as the idea of not having broadband in the dorms.
I agree with your fundamental goal, but your technique needs some polishing. Providing all of those links to people means that the campaign won't get /.'ed as fast. You need to ease them into things, and then make sure that the servers get blasted hard.
You're in Alaska! Slap a single 802.11b Linksys Router on the network and the entire town is set!
I don't think that's a fair comparison...
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"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
In communist China you would have been shot by now for using that stupid joke.
The LA Unified School district can't afford books for all its kids, but they just spent a million dollars to roll out fiber optic drops to one of the Junior High schools. As far as I know, they are wiring all the schools.
network != education
Really.
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
www.fogbound.net
I used Andrew Clapps designasa starting point for my 'improved collector'802.11b PVC antenna. And unlike the pringles can, this one is weather-tight.
It's at this link.
Blatant self promotion over.
-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
That statement was from the Farscape article. Where were these great effects? All I remember is laughable CGI and an embarrassingly obvious Muppet.
Why has this show got such rabid loyalty? I watched 3 episodes, and everything about them was cliched, hackneyed and lame, from the basic premise through to the characters, writing, acting and "special" effects. It seemed even *worse* than Voyager, if such a thing is possible. Why on earth didn't they take all that money and do something *original* for a change?
By all means, protest the passing of decent sci-fi, but when you rail against *any* sci-fi being canned no matter how pathetic, you just look like sad losers.
No doubt there will be a chorus of replies stating that I must watch more than 3 episodes to "appreciate" this drivel, but I'm going to pre-empt that by asking exactly how much of my life must I spend looking at crap to determine that it is, in fact, crap?
I will enjoy watching Farscape die a well deserved death. Rubbish like this that fails is what prevents *decent* science fiction from being made.
- Gather products from your failed
.com
- Offer to make them 'free'
- Profit!
I suppose this is better than the prior method, which was to have your technology bought by some company, held for years, and then finally released 'free' as a goodwill gesture (such as DRI's GEM).Of course, the problem with that approach is that if anyone showed an interest in the product, you would retain the license (such as DR DOS).
I understand there's cool stuff out there (like the BeOS) that has so much proprietary stuff embedded in it that it can't be released without scraping through the code for ages. I'm starting to doubt if the non-Sybase code will ever be removed from OpenWatcom.
Personally, I liked it better when companies released things for free just to spite their competitors, like Sun did with OpenOffice when they discovered it wasn't profitable. (I'm talking about source and a reasonable license, so Microsoft 'giving away' IE doesn't count.)
Hey! Who removed the funny part from my sig?
I wonder if this means I'll finally be able to get a T-Shirt with a changing message. That way I could use some sort of scanning system to detect when people walk by. When a RIAA lawyer walks by, my shirt changes to the EFF logo, when CowboyNeal walks by, my shirt changes to a picture of Tux... wait, no, that'd be a bad idea. That shirt'd get dirty within minutes of CowboyNeal coming near.
using namespace slashdot;
troll::post();
so where do we sign up for 'fuckfarscape.com'? cause we really dont give a damn about it.
Just wondering...
(no, it's not a troll, or off-topic - but some people really just dont give a damn about it and are amazed at the people trying to save the mediocre show)
a great site to find plumper mpegs? Thanks in advance!!!!
Here in the states the school would now be catagorized a terrorist training camp and shut down.
Would people please stop repeating that rediculous lie? The government never said anything like that, only insanely paranoid slashdotters.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
(For the record I'm a Toronto kid in my first year of McGill ECE, finishing high school with a B+ average from a Toronto-area private school)
Am I the only one that sees this whole UOIT thing as a waste of money? No, not the idea of laptops (seems nice to me), but the whole concept of a new University in Ontario is stupid and shortsighted. In the past few years we've had enough spors at the major Universities for everyone, but they need money to continue to grow and develop new programs.
Based on the timing of this thing, it looks like it's designed to accept the double cohort kids (when two grades come out of high school in the same year, a once-in-a-lifetime thing) - so it will be full for a few years because kids can't go anywhere else, and then we'll have a sinkhole of money in Oshawa...I mean really, who wants to go to school in Oshawa. Kids who want to go to a high-end school will apply to the same places they have always applied - U of T, Queen's, McGill, Western - and kids who don't want something that's offered at one of those schools have plenty of choices as-is.
<RANT>Bottom line is that the sixty million the province is spending on this could be used in a myriad of better places: high-schools, polution cleanup, OHIP...the list goes on. What we DON'T need is another second-rate school in the middle of nowhere. </RANT>
Cue The Sun...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Ray Cross has an exellent program for designing helix antennas, using a spreadsheet for generating the segments, and then the ASAP antenna simulator for seeing the resulting pattern. His website is at home.att.net/~ray.l.cross/asap/index
If you are really into this stuff, check out the Python ASAP code on my site. Rob.
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Farscape was removed from the air so they can afford Taken. You can spend all the money you like, but if Taken is a hit, there will be no Farscape.
Now I know what your thinking, they could air both, unfortuantly do to the half ass way sci-fi does there financing, they just can't afford to run both. They would hzve to renegotiate with all there advetisers for more money.
Perhaps if some avertiser said, sure you can charge us twice the amount we contracted for, then it would happen. that ain't going to happen.
Now how are you being used? if taken fails, then farscape will be back, and the execs will spin it that they are just swell people who listen to there viewers.
OTOH, if you can get a campaign to stop people from wating taken, Farscape might be back.
the good news is, you can still go to sci-fi to watch some guys "speak with the dead".
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Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
Has anyone ever though to start a project to secure 802.11 rather than hack it? Any open source projects for Windows in that arena?
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Yep.
The network extends down the central mall (outside) but not into the buildings fronting it...
You mean you have to go outside to access the network? In Hawaii?
The horror!
I've seen several articles now on how to use Pringles or other food cans as an antenna. But the one question that I have not found an answer to is which flavor gets the strongest signal?
That's funny as hell. I wish I had some mod points.
What I really want to know is, where do these magical ratings come from? I thought US 'ratings' came from a select portion of available televisions (i.e: a subset of the entire TV viewing population).
So if that small subset happens to not like farscape, while many others do, the ratings will never reflect honest numbers.
They say things like their advertisers look for a wide, diverse viewership.... umm, excuse me, but aren't you paying attention? This is the SCI FI channel. A channel for playing science fiction shows. Exactly HOW diverse does this audience really get?
I think that Cantenna is a registered trademark of The Heath Company, a former maker of electronic kits. The Cantenna was (is) a 50 ohm resistor in a black colored 1 gallon paint can that you filled with mineral oil. It then became a 1 kW load that you could test your ham radio into. I'm sure that many ham radio operators remember it.
Your 100% Right on this one!
All you connection are belong to us.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
This has probably been done, Has someone dug up a Graphix bong, lined it with tinfoil or something, and made a directional antenna? The major problem would be most bong owners would probably never get around to finishing it. "I was gonna decorate the tree, but then I got high, I was gonna leave some cookies and milk, but then I got High..." White Trash Christmas
(shudder) Man, I do not want to know what you use the Chevy for!!
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Tchitcherine: `You mean thiophosphate, don't you?' Thinks indicating the presence of sulfur....
Wimpe: `I mean theophosphate, Vaslav,' indicating the Presence of God.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
A thought that has occured to me before but seems to be most demonstrated by the Farscape situation: does this indicate a failing of the content-distribution system we call TV? Or is this just an odd example, a deviation from the norm. Consider: what other industry has a company which choses to get rid of their #2 most popular product completely, despite huge support from a large fanbase?
Of course this is because they aren't selling the show directly; unlike a movie you aren't buying tickets to watch the thing. This reminds me of web services (Yahoo etc) - which also represent (to me) a failed approach, in terms of business model, to distributing content.
Just a random thought.
A trademark search for "cantenna" comes up empty, so either it's abandoned, or perhaps Heathkit never bothered to register it, but for anyone exposed to ham radio back in the pre-PC days, a cantenna will always be that dummy load made from a paint can filled with oil and a 50 ohm resistor.
One of the first things I noticed when I started working for UCSD is that wireless is a big priority. Over at UCSD Extension, we've got 802.11b coverage throughout our facilities as well as a lot of 802.11a. Some of our people don't even have dedicated desks, just laptops with wireless access.
I didn't know we had a wireless bus, though. That just rocks.
This
My pick for renewable energy is plastic solar cells. Preferrably, cheap ones rolled out like those tarps that cover baseball fields.
The U.S. currently uses about 100 exajoules of energy per year (combined total of oil, gas, nuclear, coal, hydro, etc); that's approximately a continuous 10KW for each person. The good news is that the sun provides 1KW per square meter energy, but the bad news is you'd be doing good to get a 1% overall efficiency delivered to the end user (due to cell efficency, solar system geometry, weather, storage and conversion losses.) Assuming 1%, you'd need 1000 square meters of cheap plastic seimiconductors for each person to provide for 100% of our energy needs.
To get to 1% overall efficiency, plastic solar collector efficiency will have to be significantly improved to be near the 20% raw efficiency currently achieved by good silicon solar cells. To me, that's a lot more intersting goal than a cheap display.
> piquing the interest of the TV-viewing masses
Aside from the fact that the commercial has less appeal than a Christmas pageant performance by someone else's child, *WAY TO GO ON PICKING YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE*! I understand that there wasn't enough money to air it during a show like Enterprise but the WB has many cheap genre shows airing after midnight--they could have probably gotten cheaper air time and actually put it in front of someone who cared!
I think that this line from the article is a bit disturbing:
This should provide drainage for any water that condenses or somehow gets into your can...
If you watch Taken, you will see Farscape on the commercials.. why waste time and money on commercials for a cancelled show?
I can't even make an old-skool PCB at home properly yet! Argh... technology always seems to outpace me. :-)
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
but the real question is who controls the laptops? can you install linux on them? are you permitted to install an alternate OS? If you are caught downloading mp3s and movies, who is responsible? Will the machines have DRM?
it's obvious that this is just a ploy by the MPAA/RIAA to get more people under their control. They will push for all colleges to do this and make sure that DRM is on all the machines. Then they have their target market right in the palm of their hands. There's nothing the students will do about it either, because A> most of them don't care, just as long as they can look up pr0n onthe internet with their "free" computer; and B> the schools won't allow other machines so non-DRM hardware owning people will be forced into using the crippled laptops.
Write your congressman to stop something like this from happening in your state!
feverishing conservative 905 "edge city" ...
... car plants gone unions gone fully behind the Tories ... now they have this crap expensive "IT".
This is like neo-con homeland up to 70% vote pc, no transit, nothing public except this gov't subsidized private school (in "technology" sheesh)
The PC government hates and loathes Toronto - in their view anything 416 liberal, or pinko NDP and has been "babied" too long: they will serve *their* constituency.
UofT is 416 Oshawa is 905
Oh well eventually it will become a UoT Oshawa campus anyway hahahaha.
All this guy did was copy some instructions from some other pages... which he links to at the bottom of his! Then, he just found a different, un-imaginative, way of building one of these. My 11 year old sister could have done this. This story would have been more than just a copy of something already done if he found and included something more technical than middle school arts and crafts.
Like calculate out why a funnel on the end doubles signal strengh. Or conduct a more scientific examinatin of the reasons that the cookie jar was better than the pringles can. Or how exactally does a non-smooth surface deteriorate a radio wave. Is it more than just scattering the singnal around the cans interior away from the antenna inside? Could you modify the little antenna inside to improve performace even more? Ooo maybe it will add 3dB too!
Christ, is antenna modding becoming like case modding or import car modding.. all these half brained idiots redoing what is already done, and never even trying to improve anything.
This guy should have put a little effort into this dumb page. At the very least he could have said he blatantly copied from the other pages (which have MUCH more thought in terms of engineering in them).
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I can't seem to get to page 2 of the results.
Are you planning on posting seperate response for each? That's 4679 more pages of results. Oh yeah, and slashdot enforces a minimum delay of 2 minutes between posts, that's 9358 minutes, or 156 hours, or 24.5 days.
Of course, by the time you get done there will be another two or three thousand new results.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
GoBe Productive ROXORS as an office product, even more than OpenOffice.
The only real problem that GoBe Productive has is compatibility with the M$ format(s), and a lack of exposure to the world at large.
For the former, XML comes to the rescue.
For the latter, time and a good effort by people in the trenches of the open software movement(s) can help make this a reality.
I'm tired of reading post after post about Cantennas, and not seeing anyone remotely make an intelligent comment about quality software.
Where are the geeks who care about real alternatives? Where are the people with the courage to speak out against M$ and bring this news to the common people? Where are the heros?
Millions of people are tired of the monopolistic attitude and actions of one certain company, and this opportunity is FAR TOO GREAT to pass up.
Why does Blender, a product that was developed in obscurity, and for a single dedicated purpose in a limited market, able to raise $100 THOUSAND US Dollars in just over 4 months?
GoBe Productive is an office suite that was ready to take on the 800 lb gorilla, and quite possibly knock the big animal on it's ASS, for once.
So come on.. Where are the heros? Speak up, or forever hide your shame.
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Is there a perfect size for these Wi-Fi cans? I noticed that my mom always has cans of Comet Bathroom Cleaner around... I suppose a well rinsed out Comet Can might I have the same properties required for target transmission/pickup of Wi-Fi? Any ideas guys? -ReverseEntropy
I've been wondering for some time why the Save Farscape lobby isn't pushing for a straight-to-DVD release on season 5. I'd put up a lot of money in advance for that (but I won't spend a lot just to subsidise some huge TV company to make it when they'll end up raking in the profits..).
If the TV networks won't carry it, try a different distribution channel!
Q.
Just trying to be fair...
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I think Taken is a 10-episode miniseries. It may have taken budget from Farscape, but it's not taking its time slot.
Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
Xerox needs to invite engineers from IBM and AMD over to show them the new technology. The higher up's should direct Xerox engineers to answer any and all questions that the visiting engineers might have about the technology.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
>> Consider: what other industry has a company which choses to get rid of their #2 most popular product completely, despite huge support from a large fanbase?
Windows 95?
WARNING!!!
This machine is subject to breakdowns during periods of critical need.
A special circuit in the machine called "critical detector" senses the
operator's emotional state in terms of how desperate he/she is to use the
machine. The "critical detector" then creates a malfunction proportional
to the desperation of the operator. Threatening the machine with violence
only aggravates the situation. Likewise, attempts to use another machine
may cause it to malfunction. They belong to the same union. Keep cool
and say nice things to the machine. Nothing else seems to work.
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