Actualy when I was back in high school there was talk of an unliscened radio station on campus. The people who did the reasearch found that whatever the maximum legal power would have covered most of the school. Now, the transmitter would cost money for something no one really wants, seeing as FM would kill the sound quality in a $1600 stereo component.
Well, your criticism of his anology is slightly flawed. If you replace every mention of TiVo with "rio reciver" your comment is still valid. The rio reciver lets you have a CD jukebox that holds more CDs that would probably fit in the space, all available at the touch of a few buttons.
The software the empeg guys("sonicblue guys" doesn't work for me) have created is far more advanced than what you would come up with by yourself. I've never actualy used a rio reciver, but I've got two empegs/RioCars and the hardware is great but the software makes it usuable while driving. You can't pick up a mouse and scroll through your mp3 collection while driving on the freeway, but with the empeg is takes 5 secconds to add the song that you just thought of to the current playlist. Are you listening on random and want to hear another song by that artist that just played? One button on the remote. Are you listening on random and don't want to hear more from the artist/album/year that's playing? That's just one button press away. This software is essentialy the same on the reciver, except that you can rip CDs.
Criticising the software without having used it is sort of off base...
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Now what's interesting about this comment is that now, if you type in "dumb motherfucker", google give you the wired news article about itself.
From my memory, there are only three distinct non overlapping chanels in the 802.11b spec. So if your neighbors all chose the the equidistant chanels, you'll max out at three connections. But you'd probably do better looking for one good signal.
From what I remember, you have to initiate a new payment with a zero balance and eventualy it'll ask you how you want to pay. At least that worked for me until they decided I was obviously trying to bilk them out of thousands by giving them a new credit card number. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that I'd give them my checking account either.
I got to Cal(UC berkeley) and we have a couple labs full of SunRays, which I have found great from a user perspective. Now, the thing you're not going to beleive is why. The sunrays are silent. You never notice how loud the fans from forty computers in a lab are untill you walk into one that's quiet. It's much easier to think for long periods of time. The labs are about 50/50 divided between unix pc's and sunrays, and I'll only work on the PC's if I have to, though the (computer desktop) environment is identical.
There are some disadvantages with sharing a Big Computer with a lot of people, but overall the plusses seem to outweigh the minuses. Last year about halfway through the semester the workload increased on the servers and everything slowed down... This was the bad part. The good part was that a month later, they added another server, switched a number of the clients over to it, and everything jumped back up to speed. If these had been PC's that weren't cutting it any more they would have had to be replaced.
I have no idea what they've gone through on the administrative level, or if Sun gives us a good deal or not. They deployed a new lab last year, so they must not hate them...
Is that still true? Last I read they gave a large portion of their address space back.... For all I know they could have kept a coupple million though.
Actually, the region/macrovision free DVD players are the ones coming out of china mainly, and are the cheapest ones available. The manufacturer who brought us the first region free dvd player was the same one who brought us the first $100 dvd player.
Last time I checked, you could get a $100 dvd player on amazon that didn't require anything but the factory remote to change the region.
c2it.com is the one that I've heard of. It appears to offer all of the services that pay pal offers in the person to person aspects. You can also send money in different currencies, which could be valuble. It's also backed by a real bank, so maybe that's worth something. I'll find out next time I need to send money I suppose.
billpoint is Ebay's payment service, and also offers a secure way to pay another individual with a credit card.
These might not do everything paypall does, but they do everything I've used paypall for. Does anyone know of any other services?
Just today I got a reply from paypal(less than a week turnaround - they're really ansewering email now). They've locked my account because one of the credit cards was stolen and I discovered this when I tried to use it with paypal when it was over the credit limit. They weren't out any money, and they already had another credit card on file.
I've used paypal since the begining (when it was a way to send money with your palm pilot) and always thought it was a great service, untill this incident. Luckily I've never stored money in my paypal account and I've never given them my checking account information(mama didn't raise no fool). With their form letter response today, It's looking like it's time to investigate the paypal alternatives that will be happy to have my business.
Because if the Windows machine is behind a NATing firwall, it isn't possible to access any services from the outside without specificaly configuring them.
IE/Outlook viruses still have a fair chance of course.
The obvious solution is to get less sleep. Then you won't care if there's a fan in the case or not.
Seriously, is locating the machine in a closet or in the room behind the wall an option? And if you don't need a monitor... my seccondary computer lives in a different room, and I usualy have to hook up a monitor and keyboard every six months...
Yes, In one of my CS classes we were told the statistic(which was probably made up, and i've since forgotten) about how long it takes to read the entire contents of the hard drive. If current trends keep up, it'll soon take us weeks to just read everything we can store on one hard drive. Anyone have "hard" figures?
While 800/2200MHz is a large difference, you fail to mention something that everyone here should know by now, that clock speed does not equal performance.
Clock speed does not equal performance. This is a fact of life, especialy with 20 stage pipelines and the like. AMD and Apply have been trying to teach this to the world, and on the surface most geeks understand, but they don't beleive it in their hearts.
Now, I'm not saying that the PIV won't be faster than Itanium for a good while here, and I honestly have no idea if it will be or not. We just need to stop using Mhz as our comparisons unless we're comparing the same chip.
I'll seccond the Trackball! I've had most versions logitech has made in the past ten years, and every one has been worth the (sometimes) expensive price. I'm currently using the Wireless Optical Trackball, and it makes all the difference. Want to read slashdot? Lean back your chair back, put your feet up, and hold your mouse on your lap and really relax. It's well worth the double AA battery each month.
There does seem to be a learning curve for them, but unfortunatly I can't comment as I was young enough that "it just seemed natural" to start using it. As long as you've got something else for gaming(and in the days of USB, you aren't limited to just one pointing device), I really recomend them.
It'll be released on DVD? That's a shock. George isn't going to release the VHS first to make sure everyone buys the movie twice? (Well, that's assuming anyone would want to buy it twice)
How is this better than a high gain antenna using radio waves? Radio waves can be focused with antennas and don't have such problems going through clouds and pidgeons that light does. If you focus the radio waves you shouldn't have problems running out of spectrum should you? For years you've been able to do wireless radio links line of sight, what advantage does using a "frickin' laser beam" give you?
Won't you need a directional antenna on the other end? I live across the street from my school, but the nearest 802.11 access point is quite a ways away. I always assumed I would need a dish on both sides of the connection, which I can't do... I'd love to be able to get on the school network, especialy with the reliability of our current DSL provider(DirectTV/Telocity).
I had to admit I didn't make it all the way through the review of this particular model, but... The question that always comes to mind is what people are actualy going to use these for. UPS uses a "web pad" of sorts, and it seems to work very well for them, but that's a single use machine. The only real use I can see for these is when they are going to be deployed to do one thing, and have custom applications designed to do their one thing well.
Why? Because there isn't any decent way to get text into them. You can tap out characters on a screen, but that isn't the same as typing, and gets frusterating quickly.
Would it be cool to grab your web pad out of it's charging cradle and relax on the couch? Yes. Untill you decide you want to respond to the guy badmouthing the whole webpad concept on slashdot and try to type a response.
That being said, the lack of storage seems like a good thing, as there really aren't any uses for these that don't involve a network, that's why they're called a webpad.
In the end the geek in me will win, and I'll probably own one... But not untill they're on tigerdirect/ebay for $150.
Well, hopefully they'll realize that they can't do it for free and start offering it cheaply instead of going down in flames. I'd happily pay $5 for a day pass. I spend more than that on newspapers/magazines each time I fly. If instead they start charging $30 for the day because "they need to be profitable" no one without an expense account will be able to use it.
Try smarterchild on AIM. You can ask it the weather and it'll respond. Type "weather, berkeley, ca" and it'll give you everything you'd want to know without the bother of going to a web page. It'll also do eliza style chatting and other games.
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Actualy when I was back in high school there was talk of an unliscened radio station on campus. The people who did the reasearch found that whatever the maximum legal power would have covered most of the school. Now, the transmitter would cost money for something no one really wants, seeing as FM would kill the sound quality in a $1600 stereo component.
Well, your criticism of his anology is slightly flawed. If you replace every mention of TiVo with "rio reciver" your comment is still valid. The rio reciver lets you have a CD jukebox that holds more CDs that would probably fit in the space, all available at the touch of a few buttons.
The software the empeg guys("sonicblue guys" doesn't work for me) have created is far more advanced than what you would come up with by yourself. I've never actualy used a rio reciver, but I've got two empegs/RioCars and the hardware is great but the software makes it usuable while driving. You can't pick up a mouse and scroll through your mp3 collection while driving on the freeway, but with the empeg is takes 5 secconds to add the song that you just thought of to the current playlist. Are you listening on random and want to hear another song by that artist that just played? One button on the remote. Are you listening on random and don't want to hear more from the artist/album/year that's playing? That's just one button press away. This software is essentialy the same on the reciver, except that you can rip CDs.
Criticising the software without having used it is sort of off base...
Now what's interesting about this comment is that now, if you type in "dumb motherfucker", google give you the wired news article about itself.
From my memory, there are only three distinct non overlapping chanels in the 802.11b spec. So if your neighbors all chose the the equidistant chanels, you'll max out at three connections. But you'd probably do better looking for one good signal.
Well they do actualy grease the pillars of the balcony's to prevent people from climbing up them. So this isn't that far fetched.
From what I remember, you have to initiate a new payment with a zero balance and eventualy it'll ask you how you want to pay. At least that worked for me until they decided I was obviously trying to bilk them out of thousands by giving them a new credit card number. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that I'd give them my checking account either.
I got to Cal(UC berkeley) and we have a couple labs full of SunRays, which I have found great from a user perspective. Now, the thing you're not going to beleive is why. The sunrays are silent. You never notice how loud the fans from forty computers in a lab are untill you walk into one that's quiet. It's much easier to think for long periods of time. The labs are about 50/50 divided between unix pc's and sunrays, and I'll only work on the PC's if I have to, though the (computer desktop) environment is identical.
There are some disadvantages with sharing a Big Computer with a lot of people, but overall the plusses seem to outweigh the minuses. Last year about halfway through the semester the workload increased on the servers and everything slowed down... This was the bad part. The good part was that a month later, they added another server, switched a number of the clients over to it, and everything jumped back up to speed. If these had been PC's that weren't cutting it any more they would have had to be replaced.
I have no idea what they've gone through on the administrative level, or if Sun gives us a good deal or not. They deployed a new lab last year, so they must not hate them...
Hmm, seems like there's already a solution in place for this... I've been using DNS for years...
Is that still true? Last I read they gave a large portion of their address space back.... For all I know they could have kept a coupple million though.
Actually, the region/macrovision free DVD players are the ones coming out of china mainly, and are the cheapest ones available. The manufacturer who brought us the first region free dvd player was the same one who brought us the first $100 dvd player.
Last time I checked, you could get a $100 dvd player on amazon that didn't require anything but the factory remote to change the region.
c2it.com is the one that I've heard of. It appears to offer all of the services that pay pal offers in the person to person aspects. You can also send money in different currencies, which could be valuble. It's also backed by a real bank, so maybe that's worth something. I'll find out next time I need to send money I suppose.
billpoint is Ebay's payment service, and also offers a secure way to pay another individual with a credit card.
These might not do everything paypall does, but they do everything I've used paypall for. Does anyone know of any other services?
Just today I got a reply from paypal(less than a week turnaround - they're really ansewering email now). They've locked my account because one of the credit cards was stolen and I discovered this when I tried to use it with paypal when it was over the credit limit. They weren't out any money, and they already had another credit card on file.
I've used paypal since the begining (when it was a way to send money with your palm pilot) and always thought it was a great service, untill this incident. Luckily I've never stored money in my paypal account and I've never given them my checking account information(mama didn't raise no fool). With their form letter response today, It's looking like it's time to investigate the paypal alternatives that will be happy to have my business.
Because if the Windows machine is behind a NATing firwall, it isn't possible to access any services from the outside without specificaly configuring them.
IE/Outlook viruses still have a fair chance of course.
The obvious solution is to get less sleep. Then you won't care if there's a fan in the case or not.
... my seccondary computer lives in a different room, and I usualy have to hook up a monitor and keyboard every six months...
Seriously, is locating the machine in a closet or in the room behind the wall an option? And if you don't need a monitor
I think you've hit upon the reason many of us capitalists don't beleive in comunism...
Yes, In one of my CS classes we were told the statistic(which was probably made up, and i've since forgotten) about how long it takes to read the entire contents of the hard drive. If current trends keep up, it'll soon take us weeks to just read everything we can store on one hard drive. Anyone have "hard" figures?
While 800/2200MHz is a large difference, you fail to mention something that everyone here should know by now, that clock speed does not equal performance.
Clock speed does not equal performance. This is a fact of life, especialy with 20 stage pipelines and the like. AMD and Apply have been trying to teach this to the world, and on the surface most geeks understand, but they don't beleive it in their hearts.
Now, I'm not saying that the PIV won't be faster than Itanium for a good while here, and I honestly have no idea if it will be or not. We just need to stop using Mhz as our comparisons unless we're comparing the same chip.
I'll seccond the Trackball! I've had most versions logitech has made in the past ten years, and every one has been worth the (sometimes) expensive price. I'm currently using the Wireless Optical Trackball, and it makes all the difference. Want to read slashdot? Lean back your chair back, put your feet up, and hold your mouse on your lap and really relax. It's well worth the double AA battery each month.
There does seem to be a learning curve for them, but unfortunatly I can't comment as I was young enough that "it just seemed natural" to start using it. As long as you've got something else for gaming(and in the days of USB, you aren't limited to just one pointing device), I really recomend them.
There really aren't enough moderation points out there for that at this point I suspect...
It'll be released on DVD? That's a shock. George isn't going to release the VHS first to make sure everyone buys the movie twice? (Well, that's assuming anyone would want to buy it twice)
How is this better than a high gain antenna using radio waves? Radio waves can be focused with antennas and don't have such problems going through clouds and pidgeons that light does. If you focus the radio waves you shouldn't have problems running out of spectrum should you? For years you've been able to do wireless radio links line of sight, what advantage does using a "frickin' laser beam" give you?
Won't you need a directional antenna on the other end? I live across the street from my school, but the nearest 802.11 access point is quite a ways away. I always assumed I would need a dish on both sides of the connection, which I can't do... I'd love to be able to get on the school network, especialy with the reliability of our current DSL provider(DirectTV/Telocity).
I had to admit I didn't make it all the way through the review of this particular model, but... The question that always comes to mind is what people are actualy going to use these for. UPS uses a "web pad" of sorts, and it seems to work very well for them, but that's a single use machine. The only real use I can see for these is when they are going to be deployed to do one thing, and have custom applications designed to do their one thing well.
Why? Because there isn't any decent way to get text into them. You can tap out characters on a screen, but that isn't the same as typing, and gets frusterating quickly.
Would it be cool to grab your web pad out of it's charging cradle and relax on the couch? Yes. Untill you decide you want to respond to the guy badmouthing the whole webpad concept on slashdot and try to type a response.
That being said, the lack of storage seems like a good thing, as there really aren't any uses for these that don't involve a network, that's why they're called a webpad.
In the end the geek in me will win, and I'll probably own one... But not untill they're on tigerdirect/ebay for $150.
Well, hopefully they'll realize that they can't do it for free and start offering it cheaply instead of going down in flames. I'd happily pay $5 for a day pass. I spend more than that on newspapers/magazines each time I fly. If instead they start charging $30 for the day because "they need to be profitable" no one without an expense account will be able to use it.
Try smarterchild on AIM. You can ask it the weather and it'll respond. Type "weather, berkeley, ca" and it'll give you everything you'd want to know without the bother of going to a web page. It'll also do eliza style chatting and other games.