Where is the lead? Inside of the tube wall? I think that estimate is way overblown.
I just took apart an old 17" IBM monitor and threw most of the guts away. I got some damn good aluminum and SOLID copper transistor heat sinks out of there, along with the LEDs, a transformer, big-ass capacitors, a male power recepticle, and some other stuff.
The PCB, plastic, metal case of aluminum and steel, various components including electrolytic and electrostatic capacitors, resistors, diodes, some transistors, and other things got tossed.
Why did I toss it? Becuase there is NOWHERE to recyle the crap. Nowhere -- I have looked. I talked to three manufacturing plants in Phoenix, the city of Scottsdale, City of Phoenix, and looked for stuff online and in the yellow pages and there is nothing. I would have to wait until the anual toxic cleanup campaign where you can bring hazardous materials in like batteries and liquds to throw it away -- too long for me. If people want to get serious about the environment, they need to get organized. That goes for me too. Maybe I should have made more of an effort.
You know, if an questioned item is not backwards compatible with perviously used media/algorythms/programs/whatever, then it is really not that much of an advance forward.
We are at a technologicl point where we can do this. It is a question of if a producer is willing to do it because of cost issues of adding that feature to the product or looing out on the consumers possibly having to buy titles on all new media.
Look at the Playstation 2. Backwards compatibility is a HUGE feature and everyone knows it.
Hhmmm.... this leads me to think. If I own a movie on VHS, do I not own the rights to watch this movie on DVD, or any other medium? I would love an answer to this.
Where is the content? Online -- not as some trade show.
linux/unix/bsd people are inherently cheap -- we have all of that free software. It does not exist? We make it ourselves.
We are also very smart.
I live in Arizona. Why am I am going to pay money to go all across the country to talk about subjects which I can find here on my system, on a one to one basis.
Way to go BT! You have once again proved that people in other countries (let us not even talk about people in this country, notably the U.S. government, and Unisys) do not understand the internet.
I guess the people at BT ignored this statment made by their own Cheif Executive Officer, Sir Peter Bonfield;
I remember when this all started. When Microsoft released Office 2000, they were ready to deal with eBay. Auctions started being canceled in the truck-loads.
Microsoft realized that people had been selling full versions of their software on eBay at significantly reduced prices. These are those full versions of Windows and Office that say "For distribution with a new PC only." In other words, not for resale. Why not for resale to the public? Because Microsoft does not want you finding out that companies like Dell, HP, Compaq, and even little system assembly companies get massive discounts when they buy Microsoft software in bulk. When I say massive, I speak of 50% or more off.
It is not just system assemblers that can get these discounts either. If you are a company and want to buy 100 copies of MS Office 2000, you can get full versions at those huge discounts. This is what people have been doing -- buying in bulk and then redistributing.
They stamp, "not for resale," and make huge profits off of you and me.
The end of it is that you either have to pay Microsoft an absurd price for their software in store, or buy a whole new PC. For those of us who assemble our own systems, this is not at all practical.
I personally bought both my copies of MS Windows 95 "B", and Windows 98 SE from eBay type sellers, as well as MS Office 2000 Pro. At the time I bought it, MS Office Professional cost something like $750 in stores for the full version. The "Not for resale." version cost me $200. I simply had to buy it off of eBay from someone's website.
Microsoft is keeping the market from setting the prices on their software.
And my Debian linux disks for Sparc and i386, they cost me about 50 cents for each CD, and a little while of download time. Working at a tier one ISP with multiple OC-48s has its advantages. Unfortunately, linux cannot replace my Windows system for its gaming, USB device, and specific application purposes.
Global Crossing / Global Center filters out all RFC 1819 (or it is 1918?, whatever) private networks on our core routers, as well as customer connected peripery routers. This includes DSL, DS1, DS3, OC, ISDN, and dialup customers.
Customers with BGP sessions are allowed to advertise these networks either.
Not too bad. I should have gone with the Kodak 240 though. It comes with the case, USB connector, and costs much less.
Oh well. This one takes some pretty good pictures. I will not be returning it, but I think the Kodak would have been better. Kodak keeps dropping their prices. Olympus does not.
I just ordered a D460 online. The D460 is a revision of the D450, which was a revision of the D400.
I hear that it is pretty good. We will see. I wish that I had the chance to see the outcome of all of these opinions before I bought it, but I already researched into it pretty heavily.
I will supply a first had account when it arrives, on Tuesday. Having played around with one in store before, I think that I will be happy. I also ordered a 64MB SmartMedia card. These higher capacity cards have become available in the last few months, but are almost impossible to find offline.
Another camera which is very similar to the D460 is the Kodak DC240.
But, if you have the money, I hear that you should go for the Kodak DC290. It does not have the uncompressed image mode, the LCD viewer is not as nice, it is a little bigger, but it is overall superior.
Problem; Germany, the UK, and other countries holding ISPs liable for content found on the internet.
Solution; Pull the content away from these countries, thus taking away the internet from them.
If a big ISP like AOL were to threaten this and completely pull out of Germany, you can bet they would regret it. Other countries would take notice and fear the same thing happening to them, should they be dumb enough to attack ISPs.
Our company is vulnerable to this kind of spam as well. All of our techs carry around issued eMail pagers and cell phones that have similar text capabilities. It would be fairly annoying if we were to be hit.
The good side is that if the souce was from our network or downstream, we could turndown their service.
Off subject slightly;
Why voicespam has not been taken care of is for poor reasons. What the TelCos could do is offer a service where after you hang up, you can press a certain code into the phone. The last number dialing into your location will be tagged as an undesirable solicitation. After a certain number is hit within a system for a particular number, the TelCo can have the right to shut down service or monitor the line.
The TelCos will not do this, unfortunately. They make money from the phone calls. Last month I got a flyer from US West offering a new service for voicespam blocking.
"Many opposed the interim board's proposal to elect permanent members through an indirect process. But Dyson, the interim chairwoman, defended the policy of using an electoral council instead of letting the world's Internet users vote directly for their board representatives. That was the best way, she told the group, to prevent the nomination of "people who are stupid." "
She must be familiar with the outcome of Slashdot polls.
Like the sewer system under the city, some people can tunnel together a network that can be used by those who do not want every damn packet they send traced.
There will be ingress and egress ports, just like those manholes -- what goes in you do not know where comes out.
Should there be an organized effort for this after IP6 is put into effect, I would be willing to do tunneling with my router between two access providers.
You can bet that IP6 is going to change things a lot. It is your foundation. Want to make it right? Get involved.
I have a question for Slashdotters; Is Barnes & Noble really that bad? I am one of those people who has never bought anything online from either, so I do not know. Is B&N really ripping all of Amazon.com's innovations tag per tag?
You know, innovation is not something that you can really fake. It is there or it is not, but the web moves so fast that they can copy overnight. Do they?
Answering this question will help to set if Amazon really does have a point in creating a patent. It will help me to decide on where I go for those cisco books I need later this year.
Slashdot Mirror
Where is the lead? Inside of the tube wall? I think that estimate is way overblown.
I just took apart an old 17" IBM monitor and threw most of the guts away. I got some damn good aluminum and SOLID copper transistor heat sinks out of there, along with the LEDs, a transformer, big-ass capacitors, a male power recepticle, and some other stuff.
The PCB, plastic, metal case of aluminum and steel, various components including electrolytic and electrostatic capacitors, resistors, diodes, some transistors, and other things got tossed.
Why did I toss it? Becuase there is NOWHERE to recyle the crap. Nowhere -- I have looked. I talked to three manufacturing plants in Phoenix, the city of Scottsdale, City of Phoenix, and looked for stuff online and in the yellow pages and there is nothing. I would have to wait until the anual toxic cleanup campaign where you can bring hazardous materials in like batteries and liquds to throw it away -- too long for me. If people want to get serious about the environment, they need to get organized. That goes for me too. Maybe I should have made more of an effort.
Oh man, this is what I have been looking for. I have been scowling all over eBay for that new Quake server... looks like this is it right here.
Yes, you too can be that person who votes on those Slashdot polls "blue", and "This poll sucks", "The options suck", and "Pater".
:
Pray that the government does nothing for fear that they will screw it all up anyway.
it is time to buy a tee-shit.
You know, if an questioned item is not backwards compatible with perviously used media/algorythms/programs/whatever, then it is really not that much of an advance forward.
We are at a technologicl point where we can do this. It is a question of if a producer is willing to do it because of cost issues of adding that feature to the product or looing out on the consumers possibly having to buy titles on all new media.
Look at the Playstation 2. Backwards compatibility is a HUGE feature and everyone knows it.
Hhmmm.... this leads me to think. If I own a movie on VHS, do I not own the rights to watch this movie on DVD, or any other medium? I would love an answer to this.
Good reason for underclocking = router. See linux router project.
The Microsoft Keyboard;
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/m s/win2k-kbd.jpg
This obligitory Microsoft slam brough to you by attrition.org.
Where is the content? Online -- not as some trade show.
linux/unix/bsd people are inherently cheap -- we have all of that free software. It does not exist? We make it ourselves.
We are also very smart.
I live in Arizona. Why am I am going to pay money to go all across the country to talk about subjects which I can find here on my system, on a one to one basis.
Sugar in space, water on Mars and earth.
Did it ever occur to you that we might be molecules in someones slurpie/slushy/squishy drink?
Hhhhmm... no sleep for me tonight... going to be up all night thinking about that one.
The tunnel of light at the end? The ride up the straw... that explains things.
Way to go BT! You have once again proved that people in other countries (let us not even talk about people in this country, notably the U.S. government, and Unisys) do not understand the internet.
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I guess the people at BT ignored this statment made by their own Cheif Executive Officer, Sir Peter Bonfield;
http://www.bt.com/btnews-bin/btnews/bt/scripts/
I remember when this all started. When Microsoft released Office 2000, they were ready to deal with eBay. Auctions started being canceled in the truck-loads.
Microsoft realized that people had been selling full versions of their software on eBay at significantly reduced prices. These are those full versions of Windows and Office that say "For distribution with a new PC only." In other words, not for resale. Why not for resale to the public? Because Microsoft does not want you finding out that companies like Dell, HP, Compaq, and even little system assembly companies get massive discounts when they buy Microsoft software in bulk. When I say massive, I speak of 50% or more off.
It is not just system assemblers that can get these discounts either. If you are a company and want to buy 100 copies of MS Office 2000, you can get full versions at those huge discounts. This is what people have been doing -- buying in bulk and then redistributing.
They stamp, "not for resale," and make huge profits off of you and me.
The end of it is that you either have to pay Microsoft an absurd price for their software in store, or buy a whole new PC. For those of us who assemble our own systems, this is not at all practical.
I personally bought both my copies of MS Windows 95 "B", and Windows 98 SE from eBay type sellers, as well as MS Office 2000 Pro. At the time I bought it, MS Office Professional cost something like $750 in stores for the full version. The "Not for resale." version cost me $200. I simply had to buy it off of eBay from someone's website.
Microsoft is keeping the market from setting the prices on their software.
And my Debian linux disks for Sparc and i386, they cost me about 50 cents for each CD, and a little while of download time. Working at a tier one ISP with multiple OC-48s has its advantages. Unfortunately, linux cannot replace my Windows system for its gaming, USB device, and specific application purposes.
Pardon thy typoes.
That should have been, "Customers with BGP sessions NOT are allowed to advertise these networks either."
Be nice if I spelled periphery right too.
Global Crossing / Global Center filters out all RFC 1819 (or it is 1918?, whatever) private networks on our core routers, as well as customer connected peripery routers. This includes DSL, DS1, DS3, OC, ISDN, and dialup customers.
Customers with BGP sessions are allowed to advertise these networks either.
Not too bad. I should have gone with the Kodak 240 though. It comes with the case, USB connector, and costs much less.
Oh well. This one takes some pretty good pictures. I will not be returning it, but I think the Kodak would have been better. Kodak keeps dropping their prices. Olympus does not.
I just ordered a D460 online. The D460 is a revision of the D450, which was a revision of the D400.
I hear that it is pretty good. We will see. I wish that I had the chance to see the outcome of all of these opinions before I bought it, but I already researched into it pretty heavily.
I will supply a first had account when it arrives, on Tuesday. Having played around with one in store before, I think that I will be happy. I also ordered a 64MB SmartMedia card. These higher capacity cards have become available in the last few months, but are almost impossible to find offline.
Another camera which is very similar to the D460 is the Kodak DC240.
But, if you have the money, I hear that you should go for the Kodak DC290. It does not have the uncompressed image mode, the LCD viewer is not as nice, it is a little bigger, but it is overall superior.
www.ibuyer.net is a good place to price compare.
You may say to yourself that this is a great idea! Why not even mount a solar power cell on the back of the LCD display?
The answer to that is that people would probably leave their laptop in the sun. In case you have never known, hot temperatures can kill LCD displays.
Heat and laptops do not mix.
Well, that ends that.
Problem; Germany, the UK, and other countries holding ISPs liable for content found on the internet.
Solution; Pull the content away from these countries, thus taking away the internet from them.
If a big ISP like AOL were to threaten this and completely pull out of Germany, you can bet they would regret it. Other countries would take notice and fear the same thing happening to them, should they be dumb enough to attack ISPs.
The good side is that if the souce was from our network or downstream, we could turndown their service.
Off subject slightly;
Why voicespam has not been taken care of is for poor reasons. What the TelCos could do is offer a service where after you hang up, you can press a certain code into the phone. The last number dialing into your location will be tagged as an undesirable solicitation. After a certain number is hit within a system for a particular number, the TelCo can have the right to shut down service or monitor the line.
The TelCos will not do this, unfortunately. They make money from the phone calls. Last month I got a flyer from US West offering a new service for voicespam blocking.
You have to agree with this part;
"Many opposed the interim board's proposal to elect permanent members through an indirect process. But Dyson, the interim chairwoman, defended the policy of using an electoral council instead of letting the world's Internet users vote directly for their board representatives. That was the best way, she told the group, to prevent the nomination of "people who are stupid." "
She must be familiar with the outcome of Slashdot polls.
You poor fellow.
No worry though, we have plenty of our own.
Like the study of how people with dogs spend less time doing other things. Yes.
Like the sewer system under the city, some people can tunnel together a network that can be used by those who do not want every damn packet they send traced.
There will be ingress and egress ports, just like those manholes -- what goes in you do not know where comes out.
Should there be an organized effort for this after IP6 is put into effect, I would be willing to do tunneling with my router between two access providers.
You can bet that IP6 is going to change things a lot. It is your foundation. Want to make it right? Get involved.
Damn.
I paid for this, didn't I?
Slashdotted buddy
"500 Server Error
The hard access limit for this user has been reached"
Tee hee
I have a question for Slashdotters; Is Barnes & Noble really that bad? I am one of those people who has never bought anything online from either, so I do not know. Is B&N really ripping all of Amazon.com's innovations tag per tag?
You know, innovation is not something that you can really fake. It is there or it is not, but the web moves so fast that they can copy overnight. Do they?
Answering this question will help to set if Amazon really does have a point in creating a patent. It will help me to decide on where I go for those cisco books I need later this year.