Use Terminal Server and definitely load the Terminal Server Advanced Client - you can access it from any Win32 machine running IE 5+ where the internet security allows running Active X controls. (You gotta set up something called 'tsweb')
Some limitations are cutting and pasting to the local machine, and printing to the local printer, but otherwise it's definitely worth a look.
I would post a link to our terminal server web client (TSWEB) site, but what would I say when my PHB asks 'why is the internet not working?'
If you plan to use only Win32 clients and will have TCP/IP connectivity to all of them you might be able to get away with Terminal Services only, which is a little cheaper.
By the way, remote printing is a serious issue; look into it carefully.
The vast majority of systems that are being sold today are somewhere around the 1Ghz mark. They represent the "sweet spot" on the price/performance curve, and quite frankly, users just don't need anything better
Have you ever run Medal of Honor: Allied Assault with all the effects turned on?
Whoops, I wasn't reading your original (A/C?) post properly...
I was actually responding to mccalli!
I think you said "If I wanted to read something differently occasionally, why wouldn't I just download some random stuff?"
Of course you can - but you have to spend time (well, at least a few minutes) downloading, par-ing and decompressing random stuff. BUT, television offers a super-easy, brainless way of skimming through random shows - just click that remote! And it only takes a few seconds...
Instead of dying, maybe television will simply become a way to preview shows that you can download the full series for off of the web?
Actually, you could always ask around to see which shows are good, and THEN download it. It would be sort of like reading new books, most people won't get a book unless it is recommended or well reviewed...
Your thinking is correct in that very few individuals can cause a population explosion in only a few generations.
However, you're not taking into account that these few individuals must make physical contact to mate. That means that (due to luck) if the last few flies are too spread out, they might never meet, and thus never mate.
In such a situation, although it's pretty unlikely, the fly might become extinct.
And, lets say the fly population went down to 1 surviving female, and 1 surviving non-sterile male - all you have to do then is release a few million sterile males again (from your secret stash) to compete with that last male, and there is little chance he will mate with that female.
Don't worry, any lonely single saps who actually have the free time to read this on the night of Valentine's is probably well on their way to true geekdom.
Easy fix - implant a probes (motion, temp, light, audio, etc) in normally pregnant females during their entire pregnancy, record the data, filter the data as required (e.g. use the data from babies who turned out healthier, whatever), run a motion/audio/light/etc simulator around the embryo incubator using said data.
The cookbook forgets to mention you better have an industrial strength toilet and roommates with no sense of smell before trying some of these recipes.
Remember, the physical implementation of 3G nodes will START as handsets, but there's nothing preventing the creation of other compact access devices that connect to the 3G network, including modem equivalents that you could use in your laptop. (Although, with a 3G network, the device would not be a 'modulator-demodulator' per se, since it could just communicate digitally but hopefully you understand my point.)
MeepMeep
I love marketing euphemisms
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In the unlikely event of failure, our composite rim is designed to delaminate in a safe and controllable manner.
I guess 'explode into shreds' didn't score well with the managers...
Is it just me or does the wand look exactly like a Photon Microlight?
http:\\www.photonlight.com
Great little design, I guess it was bound to be copied.
Is this too easy to implement as a filter bypass?
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No vowels! Spread the meme!
I'm sure someone has thought of this already, but wouldn't it be a simple meme to spread that anyone sharing MP3 files should have the vowels removed...thus you would have names like
Mtllc - ntr Sndmn.mp3
It's pretty easy to remember, even for a non-/. reader, and should work acceptably well.
Of course, it's so simple that it might already be filtered, so if it is, that's too bad.
Just a FYI, they didn't pull that number out of a hat. That 10,000 hour longevity figure is just one of the requirements a commercial product (any product?) must meet before it can go to manufacturing. I think.
For example, blue diode lasers. Different manufacturers had them around for a few years before they became commercially successful, and that was because they were all trying to increase the lifetime from a couple of hours to the minimum 10,000 hrs for a commercial product. (I think Nakamura at Nichia made the first long life blue laser).
That is why Sony made the statement. That means that the OEL product exists, but I'll bet the longevity of the current design is probably less than 10,000 hours.
I don't know which organization came up with that number, but it seems to be pretty important. Probably a group that starts with ISO something.
Doesn't help that you'd have to buy a new screen after three years, though. The way *I* use my computer, for me it would be closer to a year!
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IT probably stands for Individual Transport.
It will be an alternative to the car. Thus the reference to the 'billion dollar old line companies' and 'social institutions' - in America, and in many places around the world, the car is a powerful social symbol.
The model named 'Metro' fits with a metropolitan-based transportation device.
Kamen has most recently worked on the 'active' wheelchair, which 'transports' an 'individual'. It would be natural that his mind is still focused on 'individual transport'.
Screwdrivers and hexwrenches indicate a mostly mechanical device, although I wouldn't preclude some pretty smart electronics. His active wheelchair can beat a human in a shoving match and stay balanced, no mean feat.
Anyway, I would bet on IT being some adaptation of the active wheelchair technology. Some sort of powered scooter you strap to your legs? Motorized shoes? Power roller-blades?
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Use Terminal Server and definitely load the Terminal Server Advanced Client - you can access it from any Win32 machine running IE 5+ where the internet security allows running Active X controls. (You gotta set up something called 'tsweb')
Some limitations are cutting and pasting to the local machine, and printing to the local printer, but otherwise it's definitely worth a look.
I would post a link to our terminal server web client (TSWEB) site, but what would I say when my PHB asks 'why is the internet not working?'
:)
MeepMeep
They have some pretty interesting information from an unnamed IBM source...
http://www.storagereview.com
Actually, you just get another translator to do something called a 'back-translation'. It's a standard procedure when doing any sort of translation.
If you plan to use only Win32 clients and will have TCP/IP connectivity to all of them you might be able to get away with Terminal Services only, which is a little cheaper.
By the way, remote printing is a serious issue; look into it carefully.
Geez, he's been /.ed good and hard - it's been nearly three hours, still can't get to his site...
Must be all those pretty pictures...
I wonder what his next rant will be? How about 'don't post a link to me on Slashdot when I already have bandwidth problems'?
I'm pretty sure it's from 'Atlas Shrugged', by Ayn Rand.
You might want to read 'The Fountainhead' first, though (also by Ayn Rand).
The vast majority of systems that are being sold today are somewhere around the 1Ghz mark. They represent the "sweet spot" on the price/performance curve, and quite frankly, users just don't need anything better
Have you ever run Medal of Honor: Allied Assault with all the effects turned on?
she said one of the things they would do when they were bored was look for meteorites. Pretty much anything that wasn't snow was a meteorite!
Everything else was penguin poo!
Whoops, I wasn't reading your original (A/C?) post properly...
I was actually responding to mccalli!
I think you said "If I wanted to read something differently occasionally, why wouldn't I just download some random stuff?"
Of course you can - but you have to spend time (well, at least a few minutes) downloading, par-ing and decompressing random stuff. BUT, television offers a super-easy, brainless way of skimming through random shows - just click that remote! And it only takes a few seconds...
Instead of dying, maybe television will simply become a way to preview shows that you can download the full series for off of the web?
Actually, you could always ask around to see which shows are good, and THEN download it. It would be sort of like reading new books, most people won't get a book unless it is recommended or well reviewed...
'Big Pussy' is the name of a character on the popular show 'The Sopranos'.
Your thinking is correct in that very few individuals can cause a population explosion in only a few generations.
However, you're not taking into account that these few individuals must make physical contact to mate. That means that (due to luck) if the last few flies are too spread out, they might never meet, and thus never mate.
In such a situation, although it's pretty unlikely, the fly might become extinct.
And, lets say the fly population went down to 1 surviving female, and 1 surviving non-sterile male - all you have to do then is release a few million sterile males again (from your secret stash) to compete with that last male, and there is little chance he will mate with that female.
Hello extinction!
Anyway, that's the principle concept.
MeepMeep
Don't worry, any lonely single saps who actually have the free time to read this on the night of Valentine's is probably well on their way to true geekdom.
Wait. That would be me.
This sucks!
Easy fix - implant a probes (motion, temp, light, audio, etc) in normally pregnant females during their entire pregnancy, record the data, filter the data as required (e.g. use the data from babies who turned out healthier, whatever), run a motion/audio/light/etc simulator around the embryo incubator using said data.
Not that I'm championing this stuff.
The cookbook forgets to mention you better have an industrial strength toilet and roommates with no sense of smell before trying some of these recipes.
Be sure to buy an extra roll of TP too.
MeepMeep
I would suspect that using 3DES or RSA encryption requires a licencing fee.
Hacking together a quick and dirty encryption protocol 'in house' is cheaper.
But, as you pointed out, appears not to be too robust.
Did you actually say this?
Phones are for talking, not data.
Have you ever heard of a 'modem'? :)
Remember, the physical implementation of 3G nodes will START as handsets, but there's nothing preventing the creation of other compact access devices that connect to the 3G network, including modem equivalents that you could use in your laptop. (Although, with a 3G network, the device would not be a 'modulator-demodulator' per se, since it could just communicate digitally but hopefully you understand my point.)
MeepMeepIn the unlikely event of failure, our composite rim is designed to delaminate in a safe and controllable manner.
I guess 'explode into shreds' didn't score well with the managers...
Wow, someone who actually uses his mind.
Rare indeed.
Read a lot of Ayn Rand?
It appears that the Dell Optiplex GX150 SF does indeed have a 4XAGP slot, but it is 'low profile', and a single PCI slot, also low profile...
Excerpt from the Dell site:
Expansion Slots
One low-profile 4XAGP slot (2.5" h x 6.6" l)
One low-profile PCI slot (2.5" h x 6.6" l)
I guess that should fit the LEOTEC Geforce2 MX card mentioned in Wesley Woo-Duk Chung's article (for the compact Athlon system).
Is it just me or does the wand look exactly like a Photon Microlight?
http:\\www.photonlight.com
Great little design, I guess it was bound to be copied.
No vowels! Spread the meme!
I'm sure someone has thought of this already, but wouldn't it be a simple meme to spread that anyone sharing MP3 files should have the vowels removed...thus you would have names like
Mtllc - ntr Sndmn.mp3
It's pretty easy to remember, even for a non-/. reader, and should work acceptably well.
Of course, it's so simple that it might already be filtered, so if it is, that's too bad.
Comments?
Just a FYI, they didn't pull that number out of a hat. That 10,000 hour longevity figure is just one of the requirements a commercial product (any product?) must meet before it can go to manufacturing. I think.
For example, blue diode lasers. Different manufacturers had them around for a few years before they became commercially successful, and that was because they were all trying to increase the lifetime from a couple of hours to the minimum 10,000 hrs for a commercial product. (I think Nakamura at Nichia made the first long life blue laser).
That is why Sony made the statement. That means that the OEL product exists, but I'll bet the longevity of the current design is probably less than 10,000 hours.
I don't know which organization came up with that number, but it seems to be pretty important. Probably a group that starts with ISO something.
Doesn't help that you'd have to buy a new screen after three years, though. The way *I* use my computer, for me it would be closer to a year!
IT probably stands for Individual Transport.
It will be an alternative to the car. Thus the reference to the 'billion dollar old line companies' and 'social institutions' - in America, and in many places around the world, the car is a powerful social symbol.
The model named 'Metro' fits with a metropolitan-based transportation device.
Kamen has most recently worked on the 'active' wheelchair, which 'transports' an 'individual'. It would be natural that his mind is still focused on 'individual transport'.
Screwdrivers and hexwrenches indicate a mostly mechanical device, although I wouldn't preclude some pretty smart electronics. His active wheelchair can beat a human in a shoving match and stay balanced, no mean feat.
Anyway, I would bet on IT being some adaptation of the active wheelchair technology. Some sort of powered scooter you strap to your legs? Motorized shoes? Power roller-blades?
At least some of Epson's digital still cameras have an 'Image Authentication System' available which can tell you if an image has been tampered with.
Perhaps a step in the right direction?
This is the best link I could find:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/Search.jsp?BV_