AOL CDs are everywhere, just look around. I have found them on the side of the road, and even in the midle of a 200x200 yard field next to a mall. How many of those things have they made?
You obviously have little experience with both beer and sex, let me help you out. Try shaking a beer in it's can and watch foam all out. Now imagine the same stuff in your belly! "Help, I'm having gass pains" Now go listen to the Dead Kenedy's "Too Drunk to Fuck" The two really should not be mixed as beer comercials suggest.
I'm not sure the same things hold true for jerking off, but I imagine it would not be much fun without vigor.
The point of these articles was how to protect a small home network from the rest of the world. This could just as well apply to a small group of computers at a University. There's nothing to keep you from putting information worth sharing outside. In fact, an organized presentation of your work is nicer than the dissorganized work in progress. If you let shitheads wipe you out, you won't have anything to share.
One big thing that's changed since the tape drawer days is the wide availability of computing time. No one can be locked out of computing resources these days, and everyone can get work done better and faster on their machine than on mine. The only people who covet my machine are spammers and other assorted loosers. I don't feel bad keeping them off if I can. Everyone else hates you if you fail to do this.
Can you make hight quality film, paper, and all the other things required to make photographs? One day, Kodak and others will stop making these things and your cameras will just be empty boxes and playthings of the rich.
NYT article agrees with your 4096x4096 figure. Also says Kodak has a CCD this size already. This one will be cheaper, less than $100 per camera. Add grain of salt here.
The Foveon home page
www.foveon.net has more info. They say the chip is a 22mm square. Now, that is much smaller than a 35mm piece of film. The actual pixel size is 0.18 microns. I'm not sure what the grain size of film is.
Yes, the internet can and should be different. Networks can be paid for without shoving adds in your face. Those adds defeat the whole purpose of the net by clogging up the bandwith and blocking services the CTS people prommise. Barf.
At the very least the internet should be equal to the rest of the world. I have to look at at the crap that gets plastered everywhere I want to be, but I should not have to look at stuff on the way there. Real communities CAN outlaw billboards.
1.The act of registering for a class triggers an e-mail of greeting from the professor. The message contains a reading list and a list of essential research links on the Web, and it signs the student up for an on-line work group.
2. If a student wants to register for a course or section that's filled, the system automatically adds him or her to a waiting list. When a seat opens up, the system auto matically notifies the student by sending an e-mail message.
3. If a drop/add changes a student's bill, the system will notify the student as well as the bursar, who can accept the student's payment on line.
4. When a student loan is approved, the system e-mails the student and adjusts his or her account balance.
5. Graduates keep their e-mail addresses for life, making them always easy to reach.
Those services not already offered at most universities are not really worth doing. Billboard U? Puke!
Hopefully, larger more established universities will help smaller ones get things done.
They are way behind in the PDA race, but they could catch up if they released their source and specs. Imagine them being friendly to sell hardware. There are plenty of uses for a whole family of these things besides X-Clock. A standardized hardware base with open source code would be a great for all sorts of industries.
I'd like to see them do this like a Basic Stamp. You get the platform, source, insturction manual and modules that you could add onto it. Now that would be fun to play with, and useful.
Oh yes, and one of those nice little pen punch keyboards. Have it fold over the face, or just leave it open and carry this 4.5x5.6x1.2cm + keyboard size beast in your pocket.
5.6 cm by 4.8 cm and 1.2 mm thick is kinda big for a watch, but just right for a PDA. Draw one, it's about 4/5 the size of a business card. They could double the size of this thing to include a pen push keyboard and have a great PDA.
I'd also like them as the brains for a smart clipboard. Talk about reducing paperwork at a plant. Everything else is computerized, it would be so nice for the techs to get a programed schedule and check list to walk around with that could upload the results.
Dude, I can't belive you have not heard of the Intel hair dryer. Quad Penium2000's have optical feedback and bar code scanner so you look perfect. Scanner tells MS what shampoo you use. Three netcams determine dryness of hair and sell your image as porn. As optimal dryness is approached, Penium2000 power savers kick in, deactivating one at a time: 1000 watts, 750 watts... Available in six stylen graphite candy colors.
Lazy man wires ugly up my house! They hang loose so the bare bulb in the ceiling will not light them on fire. One day, Big ugly box will sit next to other big ugly box, TV, naked in the open. Belch, pass the beer. That belly had beter stay in it's robe or someone will go blind.
I'm not sure that the kind of person who buys this beautiful black box is going to put up with that, and the cost/trouble of real wiring in the wall is more than my set up.
Cardio vascular diseases take about 60% of Americans. The other 40% die of cancer. Accidents and other stuff is trival next to the biggies, less than 10%. I'm on track to be in the majority.
I've worked out various schemes to get some exercise in, but nothing has worked out yet. Riding to work was the best, but living 45 miles from work wrecked that. At home, I set up a clipboard next to the wheight set so I could read. That was cool. I've also set up exercise bikes next to desks. Both the weight set and the bikes had two problems: sweat and noise. Can't set this up at work without putting the rest of the department on meds.
Order of magnitude estimates are much more fun.
Let's try adding some terms. Normalize to 100,000 miles in eight years:
Purchase price: $20,000/100,000 =.20
fuel: 0.05
insurance: $1,200/year * 8 years/100,000 = 0.096
upkeep, let's say 1/4 the insurance cost: 0.024
road upkeep, in Louisiana, DOTD is funded by gas taxes (20 cents/gallon) so this has been included.
Well, I can see how all of this might add up, but then again I earn more than $5/hr. A person who earned as much as $10/hr would have a wage cost of bike riding of.50/mile. Bike owning costs are not always trivial, and roads have to be maintained for them too if you want decent speeds.
These are just thoughts. I hate cars, but it's hard to say they are not practical. This moped on the other hand...
Frankenbike looks beautiful and more in line with the winebiko.
Why the Spanking, and how to stop it.
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Frustration at DontWork TM Software is the reason for this spanking. For every prommise a comercial software maker has broken, for every stupid lizard like incompatibility there are tens of thousands of frustrated users. My sister is a lawer. She uses computers every day and what she sees is the MS BSoD. Tech Support can only recomend that she restart. She did that. No she has not installed ANY software on her machine. Talk about frustrating, she wants to kill them, all of them and you too. Isn't this why we use Linux?
This anger was visible in the verdict against Microsoft. I can imagine the judge thinking, "Not only have you broken the law, defied my will and flaunted it, YOU LIED TO ME and WASTED MY TIME, damn you!"
Unfortunately, such anger does not disscriminate and the spanking is comming our way too. Pervesely, it's doing more good for the larger companies that frustrated the public to begin with.
The solution is education. Let people know that there is a better way. I gave my sister a 3 minute talk about the open software business model, including the bit about how Tech Support might be able to fix her problem and then share the fix openly so that others don't have it. She loved it and, as a person who makes a living by charging for her time, immediatly grasped the concept. Before hand she really had no idea such things existed. Not everyone has time to read the New York Times, let alone Slashdot. Tell your friends first hand.
A huge step backward from his winebikeo. It's so far backward that it makes the winebikeo look practical. Gone are the recumbent seating, solar cells and other goodies for touring. It was designed so that he could type while riding.
Forward would be to add a heads up display to a helmet and some kind of voice recognition. The goal should be to be no more distracted by work than by a good conversation. Oh yeah, make that a thick helmet just in case.
This made me think about human power in general and how expensive it is. An average person can sustain about 1/4 horsepower. Let's call that 250 watts. If we could convert all that to electricity for one hour, we'd have made 0.25 kilowatt hours. At minimum wage of five bucks an hour, we'd have a killowatt hour that costs $20,
which is one thousand times more expensive than normal production and hundreds of times more expensive than retail electicity.
How about a direct comparison? A good rider can keep up about 20mph, so he will cover a mile in 3 minutes. At minimum wage, that will cost you 25 cents. A car that gets 30 mpg will will cost you 4.7 cents to drive you that mile at $1.41 per gallon. Let's call that 5 cents/mile to make things easy and conservative. The difference of 20 cents per mile, when multiplied by the 100,000 mile life of the car adds up to twenty thousand dollars.
Oh well, I'd still love to live within 10 miles of the place I work, and ride there every day.
For all the high-minded talk that has accompanied the rise of the Internet the creation of the New This and the ascendance of the New That there still exists one fundamentally unalterable old-school fact: Lawyers rule the world. They always have and they always will.
Money rules. Lawers are bought and sold like whores and judges.
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AOL CDs are everywhere, just look around. I have found them on the side of the road, and even in the midle of a 200x200 yard field next to a mall. How many of those things have they made?
Thanks for pointing out the joke for me. I just thought he had a janitor's hair in there.
I'm not sure the same things hold true for jerking off, but I imagine it would not be much fun without vigor.
The point of these articles was how to protect a small home network from the rest of the world. This could just as well apply to a small group of computers at a University. There's nothing to keep you from putting information worth sharing outside. In fact, an organized presentation of your work is nicer than the dissorganized work in progress. If you let shitheads wipe you out, you won't have anything to share.
One big thing that's changed since the tape drawer days is the wide availability of computing time. No one can be locked out of computing resources these days, and everyone can get work done better and faster on their machine than on mine. The only people who covet my machine are spammers and other assorted loosers. I don't feel bad keeping them off if I can. Everyone else hates you if you fail to do this.
Sure, I believe it. It sound like SF, San Fransisco that is.
Go there yourself of use the links in this: post to a NYT article and their home page which has a picture of the thing.
This is cool and will be cheap, but I don't think it's really as good as 35mm yet. Needs to be physically larger.
Time to learn digital image processing. You really can do more with it anyway.
Can you make hight quality film, paper, and all the other things required to make photographs? One day, Kodak and others will stop making these things and your cameras will just be empty boxes and playthings of the rich.
If you are like Intel you just disable the majority, call it an SX version and sell it for $50 instead of $60.
Could not resisit it.
www.foveon.net has more info. They say the chip is a 22mm square. Now, that is much smaller than a 35mm piece of film. The actual pixel size is 0.18 microns. I'm not sure what the grain size of film is.
At the very least the internet should be equal to the rest of the world. I have to look at at the crap that gets plastered everywhere I want to be, but I should not have to look at stuff on the way there. Real communities CAN outlaw billboards.
2. If a student wants to register for a course or section that's filled, the system automatically adds him or her to a waiting list. When a seat opens up, the system auto matically notifies the student by sending an e-mail message.
3. If a drop/add changes a student's bill, the system will notify the student as well as the bursar, who can accept the student's payment on line.
4. When a student loan is approved, the system e-mails the student and adjusts his or her account balance.
5. Graduates keep their e-mail addresses for life, making them always easy to reach.
Those services not already offered at most universities are not really worth doing. Billboard U? Puke!
Hopefully, larger more established universities will help smaller ones get things done.
I'd like to see them do this like a Basic Stamp. You get the platform, source, insturction manual and modules that you could add onto it. Now that would be fun to play with, and useful.
Oh yes, and one of those nice little pen punch keyboards. Have it fold over the face, or just leave it open and carry this 4.5x5.6x1.2cm + keyboard size beast in your pocket.
Do they give you the compilers?
I'd also like them as the brains for a smart clipboard. Talk about reducing paperwork at a plant. Everything else is computerized, it would be so nice for the techs to get a programed schedule and check list to walk around with that could upload the results.
with a little more for people who can't/won't configure all that stuff in a box. Oh yeah, my box is ugly.
Dude, I can't belive you have not heard of the Intel hair dryer. Quad Penium2000's have optical feedback and bar code scanner so you look perfect. Scanner tells MS what shampoo you use. Three netcams determine dryness of hair and sell your image as porn. As optimal dryness is approached, Penium2000 power savers kick in, deactivating one at a time: 1000 watts, 750 watts... Available in six stylen graphite candy colors.
I'm not sure that the kind of person who buys this beautiful black box is going to put up with that, and the cost/trouble of real wiring in the wall is more than my set up.
I've worked out various schemes to get some exercise in, but nothing has worked out yet. Riding to work was the best, but living 45 miles from work wrecked that. At home, I set up a clipboard next to the wheight set so I could read. That was cool. I've also set up exercise bikes next to desks. Both the weight set and the bikes had two problems: sweat and noise. Can't set this up at work without putting the rest of the department on meds.
Purchase price: $20,000/100,000 = .20
fuel: 0.05
insurance: $1,200/year * 8 years/100,000 = 0.096
upkeep, let's say 1/4 the insurance cost: 0.024
road upkeep, in Louisiana, DOTD is funded by gas taxes (20 cents/gallon) so this has been included.
Well, I can see how all of this might add up, but then again I earn more than $5/hr. A person who earned as much as $10/hr would have a wage cost of bike riding of .50/mile. Bike owning costs are not always trivial, and roads have to be maintained for them too if you want decent speeds.
These are just thoughts. I hate cars, but it's hard to say they are not practical. This moped on the other hand...
Frankenbike looks beautiful and more in line with the winebiko.
no ball, ac
This anger was visible in the verdict against Microsoft. I can imagine the judge thinking, "Not only have you broken the law, defied my will and flaunted it, YOU LIED TO ME and WASTED MY TIME, damn you!"
Unfortunately, such anger does not disscriminate and the spanking is comming our way too. Pervesely, it's doing more good for the larger companies that frustrated the public to begin with.
The solution is education. Let people know that there is a better way. I gave my sister a 3 minute talk about the open software business model, including the bit about how Tech Support might be able to fix her problem and then share the fix openly so that others don't have it. She loved it and, as a person who makes a living by charging for her time, immediatly grasped the concept. Before hand she really had no idea such things existed. Not everyone has time to read the New York Times, let alone Slashdot. Tell your friends first hand.
Must be an election year, the trolls are everywhere.
Forward would be to add a heads up display to a helmet and some kind of voice recognition. The goal should be to be no more distracted by work than by a good conversation. Oh yeah, make that a thick helmet just in case.
This made me think about human power in general and how expensive it is. An average person can sustain about 1/4 horsepower. Let's call that 250 watts. If we could convert all that to electricity for one hour, we'd have made 0.25 kilowatt hours. At minimum wage of five bucks an hour, we'd have a killowatt hour that costs $20, which is one thousand times more expensive than normal production and hundreds of times more expensive than retail electicity.
How about a direct comparison? A good rider can keep up about 20mph, so he will cover a mile in 3 minutes. At minimum wage, that will cost you 25 cents. A car that gets 30 mpg will will cost you 4.7 cents to drive you that mile at $1.41 per gallon. Let's call that 5 cents/mile to make things easy and conservative. The difference of 20 cents per mile, when multiplied by the 100,000 mile life of the car adds up to twenty thousand dollars.
Oh well, I'd still love to live within 10 miles of the place I work, and ride there every day.
Money rules. Lawers are bought and sold like whores and judges.