I'd buy a decent $20 watch, and donate the other $100-200 to some worthy charity. If donating to mundane run of the mill "feed-the-starving-cure-the-sick" charities is too pedestrian for you, you could always donate to the EFF.
How come every story someone comes out and get's modded up for saying don't spend that money, donate it to charity... If they are so big on donating to charity I must be assuming they are typing it on a 486 over 24.4 modem since that is the minimum they would need to surf the net and the rest could be donated to charity..(anyone else doupt this too).. I love the work the EFF and other charities do, and I do give to them.... but I work my butt off so I can also have some nice things in life... If this guy wants to buy a watch with his money then good for him. If you want to give yours to charity good for you, but don't go around pushing what you want to do on everyone else.
The conspicuous consumption of the geek crowd is amazing.
I agree Linux should not be held back to make it usable on older hardware... but assuming everyone has $300 to blow on a new motherboard/proccessor combo is a pipe dream. I am a college student in the bay area, everything here is expensive. Yes I saved up for a 1GHz box that is sitting under my desk, but I do my school work on that and there is no way I am going to experiment on a production machine and lose my school work.
So what do I do?? I dig out or scrape up old boxes and that is what I play with, I tried loading up RedHat a few weeks ago and watched it crawl on this 200Mhz I have. I am a T-Com student after all.
Don't hold linux back to insure its use on older hardware, but if some people want to get together and spend there time to make it work then don't down talk them. I personaly will be keeping an eye on this project and hope it works. I mean isn't this what Open Source is about anyways? let them make it, and let users decide if they want to use it.
I can see this, I start a movie, then I get a phone call from a friend or family member so I stop the disk, maybe go out to dinner with some friends. A few hours latter when I go to restart the disk it's destroyed. If it truely is play ONCE then they can't expect it to last more then a few hours...
Oh and I won't even start on the hassle of returning a damaged DVD where the package was cracked and air snuck in.
Now if it lasted a few days, like a rental does, then it might be worth the convinence of not having to return it, and it would be great to never have to go back to blockbuster again with a disc the previous renter had managed to scratch beyond usefullness. But truthfully I will go one renting and buying standard DVDs, and if like some people have mentioned they take that option away... then I'll just start using wares copies, not because I am cheap and don't want to pay... but because they offer what I want.
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Pardon me for what may seem like a troll post, but I cannot help wonder if these site/org is for real.
They call themselves CCCP... a pun intended or an early April fools joke?
And their web site [communitycolo.net]: Red background with Yellow letters. If not a visual pun, it shows poor color choice in terms of readability. If their web site is poorly designed, what else is in questionable shape?
I can assure you it's real, I have been talking to dew and I am about to move a box into the facility, Also I have told him I am available for volunteer work.
When I first saw the site a month ago I was looking for a place for me and a few friends to place some boxes, all the regular colo's wanted upwards of $800-1000 dollars a month, but not being a buisness there was no way we could afford it.
To me this is a wonderful idea, it will allow normal people and non-profit companies a place to host sites and services for a much more reasonable price. (Free, donations sugested) I am looking forward to the day I am ready to move my boxes in and all the fun and experiance I can get volunteering.
If you think the site is designed that bad I'm sure dew would be more then happy if you offered to design him a better one. Remember this is a 100% non-profit and I know dew is spending alot of his personal money to get it moving, so of course hiring a firm to design the page is out of the question. I would do it but one look at my site would tell you I'm no pro myself.
I hope this idea takes off and communities all over the US (and the World) will soon have a place to co-locate for cheap.
I don't need a program to tell me which keys I type the most, I just have to look at the numbers and see which ones are worn the most.... (or in some cases which ones have had a marker used to draw the letters again)
That doesn't explain why I live in Union City California (where a large # of tech workers from San Fran, San Jose, and Palo Alto live yet a large part of the city has NO broadband options (cept 144/144 IDSL for $90 a month) This is Silicon valley I'm talking about... but all I can get is 24K dialup.
The hold up on broadband is because of incompitence in the market... Pac Bell told us we could get DSL, then on our install date moved our date to next month... then on our second install date we were told we were too far away. It took them 2 months to figure that out? And neither time did they bother to call us, we called them to check up. Funny thing was when we got the phone lines the tech told us we had fiber to the corner, I'm trying to figure out who is right.
Another friend tried to get ATT Broadband Cable, He was told his street was not wired... after checking with the neibors he found out the house 3 down had Cable, so he called and it turns out someone had forgot to tell the system when the nieborhood was upgraded. Then after his install it took 2 weeks of tech support calls to find out he had not been put in the network system only the billing system, this took 4 level 3 support techs a week to figure out.. and then that the server that finalizes installs had been moved and its adress had changed... that one my friends figured out on there own and told ATT. Everytime he got sent to level three they gave him a direct number to call back.. but that number had a message that it had been changed.
Companies not knowing what they have installed, level 3 techs who don't know there own phone # has been changed, and servers moved with no one being told... these are the problems with broadband today.
As an prior Security Force Marine I can't remember the number of holidays I spent in a guard shack. We used to draw little christmas trees and tape it to the bullet proof glass. It was against regulations but every year it seemed to get overlooked.
A few Years ago I remeber hearing the base commander had driven all over camp Pendelton on christmas eve and brought a mug of hot Chocolat to every Marine on guard duty. There were probably to many for him to get them all, but the fact he took time out of his holidays to do that was something many of the marines never forgot.
Semper Fi to all the Marines and other service men and women out there.
I am surprised this fact has not been pointed out. Remeber software is licensed not bought. For all it matters apple didn't even need to install a checker at all.
The license states you need to own a copy of OS 10.0 to use the CD, that is the illegal part. For all it matters what the CD contains they could make one CD that has 9, 10.0, and 10.1 on one disk, if you only paid for the use of 9 then that is all you can legally install.
I can legally buy a gun, I can legally walk in a store, but if I use that gun to rob that store it is illegal, the tool dosen't matter, that you use it for the legal/approved outcome does.
They don't think allowing backups should be illegal.
Which it isn't.
No, but if I am in possession of the software that is able to make those backups I can be arrested. The problem is that while making backups is legal any device I may possess to make those backups could be considered a "circumvention device" and is illegal. It becomes a catch 22, I can make and be in possesion of backups, but the way I make those backups is illegal.
I could harp on some other points but this one really stood out to me.
Want a good distributed project that could have some near future results. United Devices ( http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/about.htm )has a Cancer Research project running. Here is their Description.
"Participants in the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project are sent a unit of molecules over the Internet. Their PC will analyze the molecules using drug-design software called THINK. The THINK software analyzes the molecular data by creating a three-dimensional model and changing its shape (or conformation) to attempt to dock it into a protein site. When a conformation docks successfully and triggers an interaction with the protein, it registers as a "hit". These hits are what this research hinges on. Any one hit may be the one that will ultimately lead to a cure. All hits are recorded, ranked as to strength, and filed for the next stage of the project."
Yes United Devices themselves are for profit, but at least the project could do some good. Not saying others like foldingathome can't. But Remember that cancer is the #2 killer in the US after heart disease.
The biggest problem I see with a multicast method for ISO images isn't the varying start times, but the varying connection speeds of users.
Multicast video works because there is only X number of bits needed at any one time. Aka, a 24k video stream only needs 24k of pipe to work, having a T1 down won't help you get the video faster. But having a T1 will help you download an ISO image faster so you can start the install process.
Also streaming video and such does not require a perfect stream... if a piece is missing it just ignores it and goes on its way. But an ISO image needs to be perfect. If not you just made a nice coaster for your coffee cup.
The only way I see it working is if everyone agreed to download at the speed of the slowest link. And I'm not going to agree to let my DSL line go to waste so I can download at the 33.6k of the dialup user who wants to wait 4 days for a download. Also having to be perfect would require the server to resend anytime a client reported a lost or corrupted packet. One needs only to be familiar with Norton Ghost and a lab with one bad NIC or HDD to see the crawl this will result in till the bad box times out.
So while nice in theory I doubt it would have much benefit outside of a controlled lab environment where everyone is on the same high-speed connection and there is very little loss of packets.
I know it is taboo to say on/. but Microsoft(MSN) has a 2 way satellite system out. For this situation I am sure you could contact them directly, they may be interested in working out a solution for easy/automatic aiming with you to be able to offer it to other emergency departments.
Worst case scenario is you buy one of their signal meters for aiming and spend 5 minutes with the trucks driver to teach him how to aim it in the general compass direction and then move it till the little arrow is as high as possible. Best case is MSN is able to devise a motorized system that auto tracks to the strongest signal. I'm no Electronics tech but I'm sure it can't be that hard to integrate a motor and small basic ROM to track the dish towards the strongest signal. Since time is not a factor it could spend 5 to 10 minutes to track the dish in every direction and then return to the strongest point, even faster if you integrate some logic to cut out obvious bad areas based on an electronic compass or relative signal strength in neighboring sectors.
I remember the day I spent trying to figure out why my box would bluescreen and reboot at random times after 1 to 15 minutes after boot. I tried everything including finally reinstalling the whole OS. Still had the same problem. I was about to start switching out memory and had opened the case to get a better look inside when my knuckle wandered into the CPU fan, I pulled back expecting a sharp rap and to my surprise got nothing, Turns out the fan was dead. Now they say a Athlon 1Ghz will fry in a matter of seconds without a fan, but mine managed to live through a whole day of reboots and installs with no damage... If anyone thinks Silver paste and copper heatsinks are nothing but a fad I say I'm sold. But more importantly It shows what weird errors you can get with a dead CPU fan, I never would expect a BSOD. I figure it had to be the CPU giving off bad data or inverted bits because of high heat.
I have CNN on the TV, WNBC on streaming video, and a Realplayer feed of the NYPD scanner off of www.penguinradio.com going as I type this. Plus I already called all my old Marine buddies who are still active duty to see if they know something I don't. I don't think it is addiction as much as a feeling of wanting to help but can't. Now I am just waiting for the phone call to put the uniform back on, then I will feel like I am doing something.
One more thing, all you who went to give blood for this tragedy please remember to give again in 4 months, the need for blood is a 365 day of the year thing, And I take pride in telling my co-workers and friends I can't go with them to give blood because I gave a week before the attack.
if bathroom.mit.edu [mit.edu] is slashdotted, you can look at Random Hall's laundry server [mit.edu] instead.
Great, now not only do I have to walk down the hall to see if the toilet is open, but I will have to check on the laundry room in person to....Thanks/.
Hope they don't find the page where I track the movements of my 6 girlfriends with hidden GPS sensors, I could be in deep trouble.
News Flash, I went through the same american school system as you. Only thing is my school had over 2500 students, my graduating class was 800+... Just because you were lucky to go to a good school dosen't mean there ar not bad ones out there. (the old I don't see the problem so it must not be there). And for me I had my share of good and bad teachers, And some had no idea on how to teach...
I love teachers and I wish we could pay them the same as doctors because they earned it. Heck I already have a teaching job lined up as soon as I finish my degree in 6 months. So don't think I am just berating our system, I am going to take one of those low paying jobs because it is something I love to do and I hope I can be good at it and make a diferance. Now I ask you, besides for making fun of posters who disagree with your views what are you doing about americans education?
P.S. If you don't think the average student has the knowledge and maturity to know a good teacher from one who makes class easy so you won't score him/her low I ask how you can say our system is ok?
The articles talk about how they are worried that borred students will use the Palm Pilots to play games and pass notes. I think we are looking to shallow, here is a news flash, borred students have passed notes and found other ways to stay awake (doodling) since the beginnings of school.What we need to do is figure out Why are our students borred in the first place! Don't take away all the things students can do besides class, make class more interesting so students want to be involved. We need to look into getting students more involved in there studies, make them actually enjoy class and want to go. I know everyone has had atleast one teacher in there life who you couldn't get them to skip there class for anything... telling your mom you can't go to the doctors on tuesdays because that is your fun Science (Math, English, etc...) class. We need to strive to make all classes more exciting, ask students what they think of their teachers... and actually do something about it... If a teacher gets 3 years in a row of students saying he is borring then FIRE HIM OR HER! Give bonuses to teachers who students give high scores to. is this unfair? I don't think so... the only teachers who will complain are the ones the students hate anyways. Consider students as customers, any company who has an employee repeatedly fail to make the customer happy is going to fire that employee. Why not schools too?
"I was in Harrod's a couple of years ago and I noticed one of the ceiling cameras pointed directly at me. I walked 45 degrees along its circumference and it followed. Another direction, it followed again. I put down the £200 worth of stuff that I was buying, flipped the camera the bird and walked out. I was disgusted."
I hate to say it but that was probably not the best idea, they guards probably assumed you knew you were caught and gave up... What you should have done is walk up to a manager, hand him the stuff and tell him you were leaving and why. Otherwise most security assumes the worst (they are security after all) heck they probably told their boss about the one they scared off that day.
On another note, has anyone considered if this means I can insist a police officer turns off his dash camera when he pulls me over? If they are citing a state law it should work both ways.
Yes, but if those commands worked on all VCRs, and the had an ethernet, 232 plug or even standard IR port, then I could write a C+ program like Cisco config maker.
Grandma double-clicks VCR Icon.
Grandma clicks record button.
Grandma types in time to start record
Grandma chooses 1 hour from drop down box.
Grandma Checks box to record every week.
Grandma checks boxes of days to record.
Grandma hits GO, Program sends standardized commands to VCR to record when grandma wanted, Use a small webpad with a 6" touchpanel screen and IR serial and you have the perfect universal remote.
"Who's going to maintain the database of translations of UPC codes, ISBN codes,
There are sites that do this already, CueDog for example had a feature like this built in IIRC. Just don't have the url handy and specially paid-for:CueCat codes into URLs?"
Who says I WANT all that stuff??? I like my data raw, that way I can use those brain cells to decide where I want to go to read about the items instead of where the highest bidder wants me to go. And if DC goes down whom are they specially paying anyways??(Can I volunteer) Maybe I want walmartsucks.com to read about Wal-Mart... I like my freedom to decide
Care to rub those two brain cells together again and try to come up with another spark of enlightenment?
And I could lower myself to your level of name calling, but I got over that in middle school, most adults have...So if you don't like my answer that's your right, but at least act like a civilized adult and hold a conversation instead of a name calling contest, cause I won't play. Recently this has been my biggest problem with posts, you think a group of intelligent people could give their views and be willing to have a discussion with those who don't agree, doesn't anyone teach debate in high school anymore? I would like to thank those that do know how to have decent conversations, you are appreciated.
Who's going to maintain the database?
Cough* www.upcdatabase.com *cough
Cough* www.rnrcomputing.com/upc/ *Cough
Yeah what a waste... a perfectly good google search unused....
The idea is solid and eventually it will lower rents, but the problem is like the one we are in. We pay $2400 a month for a small 4 bedroom house for me and my room-mates. Our landlord bought this house in the middle of the housing rush and payed WAY to much for it most likly, they are a young couple and probably figured it to be a great cash cow. When our lease is up I plan on renegotiating a cheaper rent, but with the inflated price they payed I bet a fair value will not pay the morgage. If they lower the rent they make no money or even lose some, if they try to sell it they lose a fortune (If they CAN sell it, the one accross the street has been for sale for 4 months which used to be unheard of) either way they lose so they will try to keep it up, enough people in the bay area are probably in the same deal and will try to keep prices inflated. Why don't I move out? I have 2 semsters of school left till I get my degree and I don't feel like transfering with all the hassles involved. My Degree?? Telecommunications managment, lol..
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I'd buy a decent $20 watch, and donate the other $100-200 to some worthy charity. If donating to mundane run of the mill "feed-the-starving-cure-the-sick" charities is too pedestrian for you, you could always donate to the EFF.
How come every story someone comes out and get's modded up for saying don't spend that money, donate it to charity... If they are so big on donating to charity I must be assuming they are typing it on a 486 over 24.4 modem since that is the minimum they would need to surf the net and the rest could be donated to charity..(anyone else doupt this too).. I love the work the EFF and other charities do, and I do give to them.... but I work my butt off so I can also have some nice things in life... If this guy wants to buy a watch with his money then good for him. If you want to give yours to charity good for you, but don't go around pushing what you want to do on everyone else.
The conspicuous consumption of the geek crowd is amazing.
Yeah, Its called feeding the economy!!!
I agree Linux should not be held back to make it usable on older hardware... but assuming everyone has $300 to blow on a new motherboard/proccessor combo is a pipe dream. I am a college student in the bay area, everything here is expensive. Yes I saved up for a 1GHz box that is sitting under my desk, but I do my school work on that and there is no way I am going to experiment on a production machine and lose my school work.
So what do I do?? I dig out or scrape up old boxes and that is what I play with, I tried loading up RedHat a few weeks ago and watched it crawl on this 200Mhz I have. I am a T-Com student after all.
Don't hold linux back to insure its use on older hardware, but if some people want to get together and spend there time to make it work then don't down talk them. I personaly will be keeping an eye on this project and hope it works. I mean isn't this what Open Source is about anyways? let them make it, and let users decide if they want to use it.
I can see this, I start a movie, then I get a phone call from a friend or family member so I stop the disk, maybe go out to dinner with some friends. A few hours latter when I go to restart the disk it's destroyed. If it truely is play ONCE then they can't expect it to last more then a few hours...
Oh and I won't even start on the hassle of returning a damaged DVD where the package was cracked and air snuck in.
Now if it lasted a few days, like a rental does, then it might be worth the convinence of not having to return it, and it would be great to never have to go back to blockbuster again with a disc the previous renter had managed to scratch beyond usefullness. But truthfully I will go one renting and buying standard DVDs, and if like some people have mentioned they take that option away... then I'll just start using wares copies, not because I am cheap and don't want to pay... but because they offer what I want.
Pardon me for what may seem like a troll post, but I cannot help wonder if these site/org is for real. ... a pun intended or an early April fools joke?
They call themselves CCCP
And their web site [communitycolo.net]: Red background with Yellow letters. If not a visual pun, it shows poor color choice in terms of readability. If their web site is poorly designed, what else is in questionable shape?
I can assure you it's real, I have been talking to dew and I am about to move a box into the facility, Also I have told him I am available for volunteer work.
When I first saw the site a month ago I was looking for a place for me and a few friends to place some boxes, all the regular colo's wanted upwards of $800-1000 dollars a month, but not being a buisness there was no way we could afford it.
To me this is a wonderful idea, it will allow normal people and non-profit companies a place to host sites and services for a much more reasonable price. (Free, donations sugested) I am looking forward to the day I am ready to move my boxes in and all the fun and experiance I can get volunteering.
If you think the site is designed that bad I'm sure dew would be more then happy if you offered to design him a better one. Remember this is a 100% non-profit and I know dew is spending alot of his personal money to get it moving, so of course hiring a firm to design the page is out of the question. I would do it but one look at my site would tell you I'm no pro myself.
I hope this idea takes off and communities all over the US (and the World) will soon have a place to co-locate for cheap.
I don't need a program to tell me which keys I type the most, I just have to look at the numbers and see which ones are worn the most.... (or in some cases which ones have had a marker used to draw the letters again)
That doesn't explain why I live in Union City California (where a large # of tech workers from San Fran, San Jose, and Palo Alto live yet a large part of the city has NO broadband options (cept 144/144 IDSL for $90 a month) This is Silicon valley I'm talking about... but all I can get is 24K dialup.
The hold up on broadband is because of incompitence in the market... Pac Bell told us we could get DSL, then on our install date moved our date to next month... then on our second install date we were told we were too far away. It took them 2 months to figure that out? And neither time did they bother to call us, we called them to check up. Funny thing was when we got the phone lines the tech told us we had fiber to the corner, I'm trying to figure out who is right.
Another friend tried to get ATT Broadband Cable, He was told his street was not wired... after checking with the neibors he found out the house 3 down had Cable, so he called and it turns out someone had forgot to tell the system when the nieborhood was upgraded. Then after his install it took 2 weeks of tech support calls to find out he had not been put in the network system only the billing system, this took 4 level 3 support techs a week to figure out.. and then that the server that finalizes installs had been moved and its adress had changed... that one my friends figured out on there own and told ATT. Everytime he got sent to level three they gave him a direct number to call back.. but that number had a message that it had been changed.
Companies not knowing what they have installed, level 3 techs who don't know there own phone # has been changed, and servers moved with no one being told... these are the problems with broadband today.
And all the other servicemen.
As an prior Security Force Marine I can't remember the number of holidays I spent in a guard shack. We used to draw little christmas trees and tape it to the bullet proof glass. It was against regulations but every year it seemed to get overlooked.
A few Years ago I remeber hearing the base commander had driven all over camp Pendelton on christmas eve and brought a mug of hot Chocolat to every Marine on guard duty. There were probably to many for him to get them all, but the fact he took time out of his holidays to do that was something many of the marines never forgot.
Semper Fi to all the Marines and other service men and women out there.
I can legally buy a gun, I can legally walk in a store, but if I use that gun to rob that store it is illegal...
Now it seems that telling someone that guns can be used to kill people is illegal.
Actually this is closer to telling someone HOW to kill someone with a gun, but your point is valid.
I am surprised this fact has not been pointed out. Remeber software is licensed not bought. For all it matters apple didn't even need to install a checker at all.
The license states you need to own a copy of OS 10.0 to use the CD, that is the illegal part. For all it matters what the CD contains they could make one CD that has 9, 10.0, and 10.1 on one disk, if you only paid for the use of 9 then that is all you can legally install.
I can legally buy a gun, I can legally walk in a store, but if I use that gun to rob that store it is illegal, the tool dosen't matter, that you use it for the legal/approved outcome does.
They don't think allowing backups should be illegal.
Which it isn't.
No, but if I am in possession of the software that is able to make those backups I can be arrested. The problem is that while making backups is legal any device I may possess to make those backups could be considered a "circumvention device" and is illegal. It becomes a catch 22, I can make and be in possesion of backups, but the way I make those backups is illegal.
I could harp on some other points but this one really stood out to me.
Want a good distributed project that could have some near future results. United Devices ( http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/about.htm )has a Cancer Research project running. Here is their Description.
"Participants in the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project are sent a unit of molecules over the Internet. Their PC will analyze the molecules using drug-design software called THINK. The THINK software analyzes the molecular data by creating a three-dimensional model and changing its shape (or conformation) to attempt to dock it into a protein site. When a conformation docks successfully and triggers an interaction with the protein, it registers as a "hit". These hits are what this research hinges on. Any one hit may be the one that will ultimately lead to a cure. All hits are recorded, ranked as to strength, and filed for the next stage of the project."
Yes United Devices themselves are for profit, but at least the project could do some good. Not saying others like foldingathome can't. But Remember that cancer is the #2 killer in the US after heart disease.
The biggest problem I see with a multicast method for ISO images isn't the varying start times, but the varying connection speeds of users.
Multicast video works because there is only X number of bits needed at any one time. Aka, a 24k video stream only needs 24k of pipe to work, having a T1 down won't help you get the video faster. But having a T1 will help you download an ISO image faster so you can start the install process.
Also streaming video and such does not require a perfect stream... if a piece is missing it just ignores it and goes on its way. But an ISO image needs to be perfect. If not you just made a nice coaster for your coffee cup.
The only way I see it working is if everyone agreed to download at the speed of the slowest link. And I'm not going to agree to let my DSL line go to waste so I can download at the 33.6k of the dialup user who wants to wait 4 days for a download. Also having to be perfect would require the server to resend anytime a client reported a lost or corrupted packet. One needs only to be familiar with Norton Ghost and a lab with one bad NIC or HDD to see the crawl this will result in till the bad box times out.
So while nice in theory I doubt it would have much benefit outside of a controlled lab environment where everyone is on the same high-speed connection and there is very little loss of packets.
They have this type of ISP in California already!
www.yuppiegeek.net
$8 for unlimited dial-up... and they are working on a deal to go national.
I won't lie this is run by a friend of mine so I may be biased, but it is a good deal if you know what you are doing.
I know it is taboo to say on /. but Microsoft(MSN) has a 2 way satellite system out. For this situation I am sure you could contact them directly, they may be interested in working out a solution for easy/automatic aiming with you to be able to offer it to other emergency departments.
Worst case scenario is you buy one of their signal meters for aiming and spend 5 minutes with the trucks driver to teach him how to aim it in the general compass direction and then move it till the little arrow is as high as possible. Best case is MSN is able to devise a motorized system that auto tracks to the strongest signal. I'm no Electronics tech but I'm sure it can't be that hard to integrate a motor and small basic ROM to track the dish towards the strongest signal. Since time is not a factor it could spend 5 to 10 minutes to track the dish in every direction and then return to the strongest point, even faster if you integrate some logic to cut out obvious bad areas based on an electronic compass or relative signal strength in neighboring sectors.
I remember the day I spent trying to figure out why my box would bluescreen and reboot at random times after 1 to 15 minutes after boot. I tried everything including finally reinstalling the whole OS. Still had the same problem. I was about to start switching out memory and had opened the case to get a better look inside when my knuckle wandered into the CPU fan, I pulled back expecting a sharp rap and to my surprise got nothing, Turns out the fan was dead. Now they say a Athlon 1Ghz will fry in a matter of seconds without a fan, but mine managed to live through a whole day of reboots and installs with no damage... If anyone thinks Silver paste and copper heatsinks are nothing but a fad I say I'm sold. But more importantly It shows what weird errors you can get with a dead CPU fan, I never would expect a BSOD. I figure it had to be the CPU giving off bad data or inverted bits because of high heat.
I have CNN on the TV, WNBC on streaming video, and a Realplayer feed of the NYPD scanner off of www.penguinradio.com going as I type this. Plus I already called all my old Marine buddies who are still active duty to see if they know something I don't. I don't think it is addiction as much as a feeling of wanting to help but can't. Now I am just waiting for the phone call to put the uniform back on, then I will feel like I am doing something.
One more thing, all you who went to give blood for this tragedy please remember to give again in 4 months, the need for blood is a 365 day of the year thing, And I take pride in telling my co-workers and friends I can't go with them to give blood because I gave a week before the attack.
if bathroom.mit.edu [mit.edu] is slashdotted, you can look at Random Hall's laundry server [mit.edu] instead.
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Great, now not only do I have to walk down the hall to see if the toilet is open, but I will have to check on the laundry room in person to....Thanks
Hope they don't find the page where I track the movements of my 6 girlfriends with hidden GPS sensors, I could be in deep trouble.
I love teachers and I wish we could pay them the same as doctors because they earned it. Heck I already have a teaching job lined up as soon as I finish my degree in 6 months. So don't think I am just berating our system, I am going to take one of those low paying jobs because it is something I love to do and I hope I can be good at it and make a diferance. Now I ask you, besides for making fun of posters who disagree with your views what are you doing about americans education?
P.S. If you don't think the average student has the knowledge and maturity to know a good teacher from one who makes class easy so you won't score him/her low I ask how you can say our system is ok?
The articles talk about how they are worried that borred students will use the Palm Pilots to play games and pass notes. I think we are looking to shallow, here is a news flash, borred students have passed notes and found other ways to stay awake (doodling) since the beginnings of school.What we need to do is figure out Why are our students borred in the first place! Don't take away all the things students can do besides class, make class more interesting so students want to be involved. We need to look into getting students more involved in there studies, make them actually enjoy class and want to go. I know everyone has had atleast one teacher in there life who you couldn't get them to skip there class for anything... telling your mom you can't go to the doctors on tuesdays because that is your fun Science (Math, English, etc...) class. We need to strive to make all classes more exciting, ask students what they think of their teachers... and actually do something about it... If a teacher gets 3 years in a row of students saying he is borring then FIRE HIM OR HER! Give bonuses to teachers who students give high scores to. is this unfair? I don't think so... the only teachers who will complain are the ones the students hate anyways. Consider students as customers, any company who has an employee repeatedly fail to make the customer happy is going to fire that employee. Why not schools too?
"I was in Harrod's a couple of years ago and I noticed one of the ceiling cameras pointed directly at me. I walked 45 degrees along its circumference and it followed. Another direction, it followed again. I put down the £200 worth of stuff that I was buying, flipped the camera the bird and walked out. I was disgusted." I hate to say it but that was probably not the best idea, they guards probably assumed you knew you were caught and gave up... What you should have done is walk up to a manager, hand him the stuff and tell him you were leaving and why. Otherwise most security assumes the worst (they are security after all) heck they probably told their boss about the one they scared off that day. On another note, has anyone considered if this means I can insist a police officer turns off his dash camera when he pulls me over? If they are citing a state law it should work both ways.
Yes, but if those commands worked on all VCRs, and the had an ethernet, 232 plug or even standard IR port, then I could write a C+ program like Cisco config maker. Grandma double-clicks VCR Icon. Grandma clicks record button. Grandma types in time to start record Grandma chooses 1 hour from drop down box. Grandma Checks box to record every week. Grandma checks boxes of days to record. Grandma hits GO, Program sends standardized commands to VCR to record when grandma wanted, Use a small webpad with a 6" touchpanel screen and IR serial and you have the perfect universal remote.
Do you go to DeVry too????
"Who's going to maintain the database of translations of UPC codes, ISBN codes, There are sites that do this already, CueDog for example had a feature like this built in IIRC. Just don't have the url handy and specially paid-for :CueCat codes into URLs?"
Who says I WANT all that stuff??? I like my data raw, that way I can use those brain cells to decide where I want to go to read about the items instead of where the highest bidder wants me to go. And if DC goes down whom are they specially paying anyways??(Can I volunteer) Maybe I want walmartsucks.com to read about Wal-Mart... I like my freedom to decide
Care to rub those two brain cells together again and try to come up with another spark of enlightenment?
And I could lower myself to your level of name calling, but I got over that in middle school, most adults have...So if you don't like my answer that's your right, but at least act like a civilized adult and hold a conversation instead of a name calling contest, cause I won't play. Recently this has been my biggest problem with posts, you think a group of intelligent people could give their views and be willing to have a discussion with those who don't agree, doesn't anyone teach debate in high school anymore? I would like to thank those that do know how to have decent conversations, you are appreciated.
Who's going to maintain the database? Cough* www.upcdatabase.com *cough Cough* www.rnrcomputing.com/upc/ *Cough Yeah what a waste... a perfectly good google search unused....
The idea is solid and eventually it will lower rents, but the problem is like the one we are in. We pay $2400 a month for a small 4 bedroom house for me and my room-mates. Our landlord bought this house in the middle of the housing rush and payed WAY to much for it most likly, they are a young couple and probably figured it to be a great cash cow. When our lease is up I plan on renegotiating a cheaper rent, but with the inflated price they payed I bet a fair value will not pay the morgage. If they lower the rent they make no money or even lose some, if they try to sell it they lose a fortune (If they CAN sell it, the one accross the street has been for sale for 4 months which used to be unheard of) either way they lose so they will try to keep it up, enough people in the bay area are probably in the same deal and will try to keep prices inflated. Why don't I move out? I have 2 semsters of school left till I get my degree and I don't feel like transfering with all the hassles involved. My Degree?? Telecommunications managment, lol..