Actually, you are taxed if you live in a state where the company maintaines a buisness presence. Since Michigan, where I live, has lots of regional offices for random tech companies, I get charged sales tax on seemingly random mail order purchases (eg: Crucial).
Not quite... I was thinking of buying a Powerbook the other day. Then I realized that with sales tax (here, 6%, Michigan) it would cost me another $180 just in TAX. That's a LOT. There is no way shipping would normally be so much...
It's called either 'screw in the lightbulb' or 'pick up the coin and show it to god'. Anyone who's ever been to a goth club knows what I mean. It works to *any* song. Beat too fast to synchronize to? Move to every second or fourth beat. Simple.
Has anyone thought about just taking a few old speaker magnets (or the nice ceramic magnets from hard drives) and epoxying them to the frame of the vehicle at various points? Or perhaps in a line running width-wise on the vehicle?
I think it would be safe assumption that this would cause horrible problems for these sensors...
Wow. Roads that run parallel? And they are expecting people to stop on them? Wonderful.:) Now I know what I have to do in order to retire... Move to BC, get some shady friends, and then build a fairly consistant trebuchet. The trebuchet would be relatively quiet, as would the bags of organic matter hitting the ground. Now the trebuchet would be hard to explain, but that's what the SCA membership would be for.
Hrm. That's odd. I'm sitting on a Windows XP box here with three or four weeks of uptime. Benchmarks just as fast as it always does, provided I kill off enough processes to make it as clean as when it boots up.
People also need to stop blaming Windows for leaky apps that won't shut down properly. Or Adobe Acrobat or Quicktime stuff that decides that it needs some sort of loader. Like a previous poster stated, if you know what you're doing, you can have a rock solid Windows box. And the learning curve for these things is much lower than it is with *nix command line tools, thanks to a GUI.
At the General Motors Design Building in Warren, MI, if you go in many of the the studios and offices the ceilings are brown. Why? Up until sometime in the 80s (I believe, might have been the 70s) employees were allowed to smoke at their desks. To this day the buildings still have a mild lingering smoke smell.
My manager also tells stories of how when she hired into the company (not GM) she could smoke at her desk but she couldn't wear pants.
I work right next door to two of our larger data centers in Michigan. (These are for an unnamed, VERY large IT provider / slavedriver) Each of the raised floor areas in these data centers are about the size of two football fields. We, too, have the SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus') spaced out as well. I'm not sure what kind of system is used for extinguishing fires in the place, but I don't believe it is water based. None the less, if the alarms started going off in there, you can bet your ass that the first thing I would be looking for is one of the columns with a SCBA mounted on it. I'd rather take a few seconds and grab one of these than try to run to an egress on whatever breath I'm holding.
The problem I have with people incessantly talking on cell phones next to me is the fact that most people tend to talk loud. Did you ever novice that people seem to find it necessary to practically yell into a telephone, despite the fact that they typically talk in a normal voice? With the condenser mics on today's phones you can practically whisper and still be heard just fine.
Doh. Sorry. My bad. When I think of AMD boards I generally think of VIA (or SiS, ick) stuff. I guess I'm forgetting the wonderful AMD PCnet32 chip that's powered so many different workstations and servers without a hitch. I shouldn't forget all their other semiconductors, either...
Note that Sun, IBM, AMD, nor HP are disk manufacturers. (Well, IBM might still be, my memory is being bad tonight, but I digress...) Some AMD and Intel motherboards are already coming with SATA RAID interfaces. Intel is right behind the technology, as they are a chipset manufacturer. AMD isn't. VIA, a chipset manufacturer is, along with a ton of other manufacturers who are core to desktop/workstation storage. Just because the big power houses that you name aren't on board doesn't mean anything. Most of these places leave their disk interfaces up to someone else. And those companies *are* adopters.
Note that almost all the Firewire hard drives that you see on the market are ATA hard drives with FirewireATA hardware in the enclosures. As far as I'm aware, the only disks that you can readily get your hands on will have interfaces of IDE/ATA, SATA, SCSI (of various connectors), and FC-AL. That's why you can't use Firewire inside a PC. Using SATA makes far more sense, especially for migrating to a new standard, as it's most likely easier to make a SATAATA adapter since the protocol is very similar.
There's one big reason why I don't use minidisc myself. Single speed recording. I love the fact that I can make a mix CD in less time than it takes to listen to the finished product. I rip a bunch of tracks, normalize them, then burn them down to another disc, all in about half an hour. This is much different from the MD-style of 'hit play, hit record, wait'. If I could get a PC-based MD drive that allowed me to record at something faster than 1x and gave me more control over the mastering process, I'd buy one right away. I don't like MP3 players because I use Ogg and the media is expensive. But I would happily buy cheap, removable MD media. It's just that damn speed issue.
Well, I'd also like a digital out, but that's not an issue that would keep me from buying a player. I'm sure the DACs in the MD players are plenty good, and then hardware to do ATRAC->PCM and then use your receiver to do PCM->Analog.
You know the nice brand new ATI Radeon 9700 that most people here lust over? I put one in a friend's machine recently... I was really glad for the second floppy power connector becuase then I didn't have to use the included Y cable and add more bulk inside the case. There's lots more devices that want a power connection like this, too. CF Readers, audio break out boxes, VU meters, LCD displays, etc. More connectors is generally a good thing, not a bad thing. You don't always have to use them, and cable ties are cheap.
Imagine the possibilities of a small car (4" long or so) with a small camera (at a fairly high frame rate) racing in and out of dressing rooms or in a shopping mall. Sure, there's the risk of it getting stepped on, so be sneaky.
Can't break into a box remotely as NetBEUI is non-routable. You can't even talk to the box. And if you properly set up NetBEUI (eg: removing the NetBIOS binding to TCP/IP), NetBIOS can't have a problem. I'm assuming for the third point you mean NetBEUI won't cooperate with TCP/IP for bandwidth. Nope, but I doubt that the speed you get off your cable modem will be impacted much by whatever is going around your local network with NetBEUI.
Actually, if you really want to keep people out of your file & printer sharing stuff on a home network, using NetBEUI is a good idea. It's lightweight, fast, and it works just fine. Use IP for your internet stuff, NetBEUI for file & printer sharing.
Works like a charm and doesn't require any extra software. Hell, you could have the cable modem company's favorate version of multiple machines on a cable modem (modem with multiple IP service plus the client machines all plugged into one hub) using this and you'll still be safe.
You know... If you don't like the fact that certain vendors are using a certain type of protection, you could always not buy the game. I don't mean pirate it, I mean just plain old don't buy it, don't play it, don't do anything with it.
It's not like your rights are being infringed on by someone choosing to copy protect their game. You don't HAVE to buy it. You don't HAVE to be a consumer. You can CHOOSE for yourself to skip that product because you don't like some aspect of it. That is truely voting with your dollars and your feet.
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Oh... Doh. It's a PocketPC. I'm sorry. My bad. I thought it was a notebook... I'm not sure how to do it on an IPAQ. Could probably figure it out, but I don't have one here to play with...
Yes... It is... And I eventually couldn't help her anymore because she wouldn't understand that she had problems. It'd always get chalked up to something else. There's a reason she's an ex. I couldn't deal with the irresponsibility anymore. (With this and other things...)
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Honestly, the best thing to do is get yourself a Linux partition and use Kismet. It's very simple to set up, works with almost any card, and has far more features than Netstumbler. Hook it up with a GPS and you'll be making maps, etc.
It also is completely passive (so most likely legal, since 2.4ghz is a public band with no regulations on it) and anything it hears, not just AP broadcasts, are logged. You can drive around, then throw Ethereal up and see what data you happened to grab. All completely passively.
Check out the kismet site for more information. Here is a map I made of downtown Ann Arbor. No intrusions were performed, SSIDs are purposefully left off the map, and the colors are completely arbitrary. I'm interested in what is where. Not using other people's bandwidth/networks.
My ex girlfriend could attest to this... If she had known that she was delusional. She'd stay up for days on end, pulling the old "I'm not tired, I don't need much sleep" and acting manic and extremely self destructive. I'd eventually have to put her into bed and sleep right next to her for the next twelve hours to be sure that she was all right. Then maybe two days later the cycle would start again.
I'm willing to bet that the reason news.com linked to a copy of DeCSS is because one would commonly expect that it would be all right to do so. Most laws are based on common sense and common morality. The DMCA goes against these tenants and tries to get one to do things that go against human nature and reasonable expectation of sharing of information.
News.com just did what makes sense. The DMCA doesn't.
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Disconnected. I live in this area, so I figured I'd see if that's where he really lives, but it seems that is not so. Oh well.
...or you can just remove the binding to NetBIOS (aka File and Printer Sharing) from the network adapter itself. Problem solved.
Actually, you are taxed if you live in a state where the company maintaines a buisness presence. Since Michigan, where I live, has lots of regional offices for random tech companies, I get charged sales tax on seemingly random mail order purchases (eg: Crucial).
Not quite... I was thinking of buying a Powerbook the other day. Then I realized that with sales tax (here, 6%, Michigan) it would cost me another $180 just in TAX. That's a LOT. There is no way shipping would normally be so much...
It's called either 'screw in the lightbulb' or 'pick up the coin and show it to god'. Anyone who's ever been to a goth club knows what I mean. It works to *any* song. Beat too fast to synchronize to? Move to every second or fourth beat. Simple.
Has anyone thought about just taking a few old speaker magnets (or the nice ceramic magnets from hard drives) and epoxying them to the frame of the vehicle at various points? Or perhaps in a line running width-wise on the vehicle?
I think it would be safe assumption that this would cause horrible problems for these sensors...
Wow. Roads that run parallel? And they are expecting people to stop on them? Wonderful. :) Now I know what I have to do in order to retire... Move to BC, get some shady friends, and then build a fairly consistant trebuchet. The trebuchet would be relatively quiet, as would the bags of organic matter hitting the ground. Now the trebuchet would be hard to explain, but that's what the SCA membership would be for.
Hrm. That's odd. I'm sitting on a Windows XP box here with three or four weeks of uptime. Benchmarks just as fast as it always does, provided I kill off enough processes to make it as clean as when it boots up.
People also need to stop blaming Windows for leaky apps that won't shut down properly. Or Adobe Acrobat or Quicktime stuff that decides that it needs some sort of loader. Like a previous poster stated, if you know what you're doing, you can have a rock solid Windows box. And the learning curve for these things is much lower than it is with *nix command line tools, thanks to a GUI.
At the General Motors Design Building in Warren, MI, if you go in many of the the studios and offices the ceilings are brown. Why? Up until sometime in the 80s (I believe, might have been the 70s) employees were allowed to smoke at their desks. To this day the buildings still have a mild lingering smoke smell.
My manager also tells stories of how when she hired into the company (not GM) she could smoke at her desk but she couldn't wear pants.
What a better workplace now...
I work right next door to two of our larger data centers in Michigan. (These are for an unnamed, VERY large IT provider / slavedriver) Each of the raised floor areas in these data centers are about the size of two football fields. We, too, have the SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus') spaced out as well. I'm not sure what kind of system is used for extinguishing fires in the place, but I don't believe it is water based. None the less, if the alarms started going off in there, you can bet your ass that the first thing I would be looking for is one of the columns with a SCBA mounted on it. I'd rather take a few seconds and grab one of these than try to run to an egress on whatever breath I'm holding.
The problem I have with people incessantly talking on cell phones next to me is the fact that most people tend to talk loud. Did you ever novice that people seem to find it necessary to practically yell into a telephone, despite the fact that they typically talk in a normal voice? With the condenser mics on today's phones you can practically whisper and still be heard just fine.
Doh. Sorry. My bad. When I think of AMD boards I generally think of VIA (or SiS, ick) stuff. I guess I'm forgetting the wonderful AMD PCnet32 chip that's powered so many different workstations and servers without a hitch. I shouldn't forget all their other semiconductors, either...
Note that Sun, IBM, AMD, nor HP are disk manufacturers. (Well, IBM might still be, my memory is being bad tonight, but I digress...) Some AMD and Intel motherboards are already coming with SATA RAID interfaces. Intel is right behind the technology, as they are a chipset manufacturer. AMD isn't. VIA, a chipset manufacturer is, along with a ton of other manufacturers who are core to desktop/workstation storage. Just because the big power houses that you name aren't on board doesn't mean anything. Most of these places leave their disk interfaces up to someone else. And those companies *are* adopters.
Note that almost all the Firewire hard drives that you see on the market are ATA hard drives with FirewireATA hardware in the enclosures. As far as I'm aware, the only disks that you can readily get your hands on will have interfaces of IDE/ATA, SATA, SCSI (of various connectors), and FC-AL. That's why you can't use Firewire inside a PC. Using SATA makes far more sense, especially for migrating to a new standard, as it's most likely easier to make a SATAATA adapter since the protocol is very similar.
There's one big reason why I don't use minidisc myself. Single speed recording. I love the fact that I can make a mix CD in less time than it takes to listen to the finished product. I rip a bunch of tracks, normalize them, then burn them down to another disc, all in about half an hour. This is much different from the MD-style of 'hit play, hit record, wait'. If I could get a PC-based MD drive that allowed me to record at something faster than 1x and gave me more control over the mastering process, I'd buy one right away. I don't like MP3 players because I use Ogg and the media is expensive. But I would happily buy cheap, removable MD media. It's just that damn speed issue.
Well, I'd also like a digital out, but that's not an issue that would keep me from buying a player. I'm sure the DACs in the MD players are plenty good, and then hardware to do ATRAC->PCM and then use your receiver to do PCM->Analog.
You know the nice brand new ATI Radeon 9700 that most people here lust over? I put one in a friend's machine recently... I was really glad for the second floppy power connector becuase then I didn't have to use the included Y cable and add more bulk inside the case. There's lots more devices that want a power connection like this, too. CF Readers, audio break out boxes, VU meters, LCD displays, etc. More connectors is generally a good thing, not a bad thing. You don't always have to use them, and cable ties are cheap.
Imagine the possibilities of a small car (4" long or so) with a small camera (at a fairly high frame rate) racing in and out of dressing rooms or in a shopping mall. Sure, there's the risk of it getting stepped on, so be sneaky.
Can't break into a box remotely as NetBEUI is non-routable. You can't even talk to the box. And if you properly set up NetBEUI (eg: removing the NetBIOS binding to TCP/IP), NetBIOS can't have a problem. I'm assuming for the third point you mean NetBEUI won't cooperate with TCP/IP for bandwidth. Nope, but I doubt that the speed you get off your cable modem will be impacted much by whatever is going around your local network with NetBEUI.
Actually, if you really want to keep people out of your file & printer sharing stuff on a home network, using NetBEUI is a good idea. It's lightweight, fast, and it works just fine. Use IP for your internet stuff, NetBEUI for file & printer sharing.
Works like a charm and doesn't require any extra software. Hell, you could have the cable modem company's favorate version of multiple machines on a cable modem (modem with multiple IP service plus the client machines all plugged into one hub) using this and you'll still be safe.
You know... If you don't like the fact that certain vendors are using a certain type of protection, you could always not buy the game. I don't mean pirate it, I mean just plain old don't buy it, don't play it, don't do anything with it.
It's not like your rights are being infringed on by someone choosing to copy protect their game. You don't HAVE to buy it. You don't HAVE to be a consumer. You can CHOOSE for yourself to skip that product because you don't like some aspect of it. That is truely voting with your dollars and your feet.
Oh... Doh. It's a PocketPC. I'm sorry. My bad. I thought it was a notebook... I'm not sure how to do it on an IPAQ. Could probably figure it out, but I don't have one here to play with...
Sorry...
Yes... It is... And I eventually couldn't help her anymore because she wouldn't understand that she had problems. It'd always get chalked up to something else. There's a reason she's an ex. I couldn't deal with the irresponsibility anymore. (With this and other things...)
Honestly, the best thing to do is get yourself a Linux partition and use Kismet. It's very simple to set up, works with almost any card, and has far more features than Netstumbler. Hook it up with a GPS and you'll be making maps, etc.
It also is completely passive (so most likely legal, since 2.4ghz is a public band with no regulations on it) and anything it hears, not just AP broadcasts, are logged. You can drive around, then throw Ethereal up and see what data you happened to grab. All completely passively.
Check out the kismet site for more information. Here is a map I made of downtown Ann Arbor. No intrusions were performed, SSIDs are purposefully left off the map, and the colors are completely arbitrary. I'm interested in what is where. Not using other people's bandwidth/networks.
My ex girlfriend could attest to this... If she had known that she was delusional. She'd stay up for days on end, pulling the old "I'm not tired, I don't need much sleep" and acting manic and extremely self destructive. I'd eventually have to put her into bed and sleep right next to her for the next twelve hours to be sure that she was all right. Then maybe two days later the cycle would start again.
I'm willing to bet that the reason news.com linked to a copy of DeCSS is because one would commonly expect that it would be all right to do so. Most laws are based on common sense and common morality. The DMCA goes against these tenants and tries to get one to do things that go against human nature and reasonable expectation of sharing of information.
News.com just did what makes sense. The DMCA doesn't.