I've generally found that most "home grade" switches can route IPv6 traffic without issue. However, it's doubtful that your Cable/DSL router supports IPv6 out of the box, unless you're running a custom firmware such as DD-WRT.
The earth always "points" the same direction, towards Polaris in the North. (Always is relative..., but in this instance, "always" defines a few human lifetimes)
So, since the center of the galaxy is located somewhere between Sagittarius and Scorpius, and those constellations are visible during the northern hemisphere's summer, I'm assuming that the Northern Hemisphere points away from the Galatic center, while the Southern Hemisphere points (slightly) towards the center.
Well, when Fahrenheit created his temperature scale, he made 0 degrees F the temperature that salt water (think the ocean) froze at. He used 100 degrees as the body temperature of a person. (Alas, he calibrated the temperature on himself, and I read that his metabolism was high...most people are 98.6 F)
I can think well using both units, so I don't care, but it wasn't like his numbers were completely random..
I personally pay everything electronically through my bank's website. Also, some people pay their bills using Quicken or some other online payment tool.
I'd love to go to a paper-less billing system...except for one thing...
Why can't the companies just email me a PDF of the bill I normally receive? It would contain the due-date of the bill and how much I owe. If I am splitting the bill with roommates, then it's easy to forward to each other. If I want to keep a record of what I've been charged for, then it's easy for me to store it, etc.
Currently the way "paperless" billing works is that I receive an email from saying my bill is ready to be seen. I then have to go to their website, enter my username/password (because they've written some sort of Javascript to prevent the browser from remembering it for me), click 3 or 4 times to find my bill and then discover that all of the information is located on 3 or 4 different pages.
To me, the hassle of receiving a paperless bill isn't worth it...
I agree. I've had some other sony devices that didn't live up to their billing. They've really become the GM of the electronics industry. They were once a great company that made lots of really high-quality products, but have lost their focus and now are approaching irrelevancy.
You're probably thinking about the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which is located off of the coast of Africa, and is believed to potentially cause a super-tsunami in the Atlantic.
In the medical industry, making even the smallest changes is often difficult. (I've heard stories of companies continuing to release medical software based on WinNT, and they will probably continue to do it.) When it comes to making changes to software (and hardware), there are lots of regulatory hurdles you need to meet. (The more "life-critical" a device is, the more stringent the regulations are) Obviously, it makes sense, because you don't want to go to the hospital today and find a Windows 7 Beta powered device responsible for your safety.
Also, many hospitals refuse to upgrade existing equipment to something newer. If it works, and it gets the clinicians the data they need to help the patient, then they don't want to take the risk of updating software/hardware.
One (small) issue I seem to have is with the auto-updating feature. Often, I'm connected over a (relatively) slow cell phone link. When I'm using this slow link, I'd prefer to not have Slashdot query the server for updated stories. I know I can press the "pause" button, at the top to stop the auto-updating, but if I forget to do so, then I'm annoyed by some other app responding slowly. Is there plans to make this feature configurable? (Note: Each time I load/., I need to remember to hit the "pause" button...the previous state is never saved)
I know that just about everything posted by kdawson should be moderated as a "-1 Troll", but what good, cross-platform video codecs exist for streaming video? Obviously, Silverlight isn't that cross platform, Flash is proprietary, so I can't use it on a PPC linux box I have here, etc.
Open, Free Codecs that work everywhere are surprisingly non-existent. I'd like to see that change!
I believe that a few years ago, it was deemed that SIM locks are ok to break on phones. That way, you can use your phone with whichever wireless carrier you phone would support.
However, I think that jailbreaking an iPhone to run unauthorized apps would be considered a grey area at best.
Not that I'm an EE or anything (I'm not), but I do know that the higher the voltage on your system, the lower the power lost due to resistance (assuming the same amount of power is transmitted) So even at short distances, it likely makes sense to lose a bit of power for the conversion from DC to high-voltage AC and not lose the power in the line.
(Also, again, I'm not an expert, but I don't believe DC to DC transformers exist. (Flame-proof protective suit on in the likely event I'm wrong) If I'm right, if you wanted to convert 12V DC to 3.3V DC, it would have to be converted to AC before being transformed to a lower voltage...)
I use a program called Handbrake, which converts the DVDs into a MPEG-4 file. Using the H.264 codec, one can maintain near-DVD quality, with file sizes in the 750MB to 1GB for each movie.
I've been able to play these files on my TV with an Apple TV, and I've played them by burning them to a DVD and playing them on an XBox 360. (I don't run XP MCE or Vista, which allows you to stream to the 360, so I don't know if that will work or not)
I don't know that it is just the US...this is happening world wide. Even the article backs this up: "Meanwhile, the founder of the museum, Australian Ken Ham"...
One of the current limitations (IMHO) of the current Napa based systems is the fact that system memory is limited to 3GB. (Well, I guess you can install more memory, but the memory beyond 3GB isn't used) I've been following the news on the Santa Rosa systems, and I haven't seen any updates if they are going to remove this limitation, especially considering the Core2 processors are all 64-bit...
I'm personally really happy with my Linode For $20/month, I get a UML-based system with 256MB of Ram and a bunch of hard drive space. Granted, it can be a bit slow at times, especially if other users are heavily using your node at the same time.
It's perfect for Web/Mail hosting, plus you do have root access, so you can get it to do whatever you want!
Heh...I was thinking the same thing. A local camera/telescope dealer sells a slightly newer version of the scope shown in the article for $6,500. That is out of the price range of many "backyard" astronomers.
It's even selling out, in spite of its very healthy retail supply (10x the number of units as PS3)
I'm curious where you are getting the 10x number. Sony promised 400,000 units for the North American Launch. However, many people believe that Sony only shipped about half that number (say 200k).
Now, Nintendo has promised to ship 4 million Wiis World Wide by the end of the year (with the most going to North America). If they shipped 10x the number of PS3s, then Nintendo would have had to have shipped 2 million already to North America! The numbers just don't seem right...
(I'm saying that as a person who was unsuccessful in finding a Wii on Sunday)
It's much more expensive to run a wireless setup. The phone company hasn't changed the way that they do business much in the last 30 years, as far as I know. Everything there is circuit switched, and once they laid down the telephone lines to your house, their new expenses stop.
First, wireless companies had to switch their wireless technology from AMPS (analog) in the late 80s/early 90s to some sort of digital-based system (TDMA/GSM/CDMA) in the mid to late 90s. Now, everybody is transitioning again to some sort of "3G" (CDMA-EVDO/WCDMA) system. (Speaking about the USA in particular, it's a fairly spread out country with a population that isn't very dense, which means that they carriers have to buy more antennas to cover large areas)
Secondly, everytime you goto your favorite wireless carrier (at least in the USA), you get a free/heavily discounted phone. The carriers make up the cost of the phone over the long run by charging you a higher rate for your wireless bill. (Granted, as a phone connaisseur who pays full price for my phone, I've never had a carrier offer me a discount for providing my own phone...)
Thirdly, the "wires" that they pay for are really, really expensive. When the FCC auctioned off the 1900MHz spectrum in 1994-1997(?), they raised _trillions_ of dollars from the wireless carriers. (Especially the 'newer' ones such as Sprint, who had to buy a nations worth of spectrum) Those debts are still being paid off, and hence the higher rates you pay.
Don't get me wrong. I too think that the wireless companies are behaving like dinosaurs. If they offered cheaper data, I'd love to pay to occasionally hook my powerbook up to the internet. No carrier really has a good plan to support the occasional web surfer. The text-messaging plans are a joke. Why should one have to pay for an incoming text message...regardless if you wanted it or not? (Don't get me started;-) )
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I've generally found that most "home grade" switches can route IPv6 traffic without issue. However, it's doubtful that your Cable/DSL router supports IPv6 out of the box, unless you're running a custom firmware such as DD-WRT.
I was really hoping you'd convert it into Library of Congresses.
The earth always "points" the same direction, towards Polaris in the North. (Always is relative..., but in this instance, "always" defines a few human lifetimes)
So, since the center of the galaxy is located somewhere between Sagittarius and Scorpius, and those constellations are visible during the northern hemisphere's summer, I'm assuming that the Northern Hemisphere points away from the Galatic center, while the Southern Hemisphere points (slightly) towards the center.
Well, when Fahrenheit created his temperature scale, he made 0 degrees F the temperature that salt water (think the ocean) froze at. He used 100 degrees as the body temperature of a person. (Alas, he calibrated the temperature on himself, and I read that his metabolism was high...most people are 98.6 F)
I can think well using both units, so I don't care, but it wasn't like his numbers were completely random..
I personally pay everything electronically through my bank's website. Also, some people pay their bills using Quicken or some other online payment tool.
I'd love to go to a paper-less billing system...except for one thing...
Why can't the companies just email me a PDF of the bill I normally receive? It would contain the due-date of the bill and how much I owe. If I am splitting the bill with roommates, then it's easy to forward to each other. If I want to keep a record of what I've been charged for, then it's easy for me to store it, etc.
Currently the way "paperless" billing works is that I receive an email from saying my bill is ready to be seen. I then have to go to their website, enter my username/password (because they've written some sort of Javascript to prevent the browser from remembering it for me), click 3 or 4 times to find my bill and then discover that all of the information is located on 3 or 4 different pages.
To me, the hassle of receiving a paperless bill isn't worth it...
I agree. I've had some other sony devices that didn't live up to their billing. They've really become the GM of the electronics industry. They were once a great company that made lots of really high-quality products, but have lost their focus and now are approaching irrelevancy.
You're probably thinking about the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which is located off of the coast of Africa, and is believed to potentially cause a super-tsunami in the Atlantic.
In the medical industry, making even the smallest changes is often difficult. (I've heard stories of companies continuing to release medical software based on WinNT, and they will probably continue to do it.) When it comes to making changes to software (and hardware), there are lots of regulatory hurdles you need to meet. (The more "life-critical" a device is, the more stringent the regulations are) Obviously, it makes sense, because you don't want to go to the hospital today and find a Windows 7 Beta powered device responsible for your safety.
Also, many hospitals refuse to upgrade existing equipment to something newer. If it works, and it gets the clinicians the data they need to help the patient, then they don't want to take the risk of updating software/hardware.
One (small) issue I seem to have is with the auto-updating feature. Often, I'm connected over a (relatively) slow cell phone link. When I'm using this slow link, I'd prefer to not have Slashdot query the server for updated stories. I know I can press the "pause" button, at the top to stop the auto-updating, but if I forget to do so, then I'm annoyed by some other app responding slowly. Is there plans to make this feature configurable? (Note: Each time I load /., I need to remember to hit the "pause" button...the previous state is never saved)
Well, I do have good news for you. The comet will still be there tonight. (Assuming it's still clear at your location)
That being said, the new story approval process could use some work...
I know that just about everything posted by kdawson should be moderated as a "-1 Troll", but what good, cross-platform video codecs exist for streaming video? Obviously, Silverlight isn't that cross platform, Flash is proprietary, so I can't use it on a PPC linux box I have here, etc.
Open, Free Codecs that work everywhere are surprisingly non-existent. I'd like to see that change!
How about DRM on the movies/tv shows that Apple sells?
I believe that a few years ago, it was deemed that SIM locks are ok to break on phones. That way, you can use your phone with whichever wireless carrier you phone would support.
However, I think that jailbreaking an iPhone to run unauthorized apps would be considered a grey area at best.
Maybe I've been coding at the wrong companies, but I've consistently seen geeks use bad terms for variable names, function names, and even comments!
Not that I'm an EE or anything (I'm not), but I do know that the higher the voltage on your system, the lower the power lost due to resistance (assuming the same amount of power is transmitted) So even at short distances, it likely makes sense to lose a bit of power for the conversion from DC to high-voltage AC and not lose the power in the line.
(Also, again, I'm not an expert, but I don't believe DC to DC transformers exist. (Flame-proof protective suit on in the likely event I'm wrong) If I'm right, if you wanted to convert 12V DC to 3.3V DC, it would have to be converted to AC before being transformed to a lower voltage...)
I use a program called Handbrake, which converts the DVDs into a MPEG-4 file. Using the H.264 codec, one can maintain near-DVD quality, with file sizes in the 750MB to 1GB for each movie.
I've been able to play these files on my TV with an Apple TV, and I've played them by burning them to a DVD and playing them on an XBox 360. (I don't run XP MCE or Vista, which allows you to stream to the 360, so I don't know if that will work or not)
Did /. ever push any other game like this?
:-)
I bet you'll find lots of references to Duke Nukem Forever
I don't know that it is just the US...this is happening world wide. Even the article backs this up: "Meanwhile, the founder of the museum, Australian Ken Ham"...
One of the current limitations (IMHO) of the current Napa based systems is the fact that system memory is limited to 3GB. (Well, I guess you can install more memory, but the memory beyond 3GB isn't used) I've been following the news on the Santa Rosa systems, and I haven't seen any updates if they are going to remove this limitation, especially considering the Core2 processors are all 64-bit...
I'm personally really happy with my Linode For $20/month, I get a UML-based system with 256MB of Ram and a bunch of hard drive space. Granted, it can be a bit slow at times, especially if other users are heavily using your node at the same time. It's perfect for Web/Mail hosting, plus you do have root access, so you can get it to do whatever you want!
I don't know if 10 or so years ago counts as recent memory, but IIRC, the Atari Jaguar was the most unwanted console that I can think of!
Heh...I was thinking the same thing. A local camera/telescope dealer sells a slightly newer version of the scope shown in the article for $6,500. That is out of the price range of many "backyard" astronomers.
It's even selling out, in spite of its very healthy retail supply (10x the number of units as PS3)
I'm curious where you are getting the 10x number. Sony promised 400,000 units for the North American Launch. However, many people believe that Sony only shipped about half that number (say 200k).
Now, Nintendo has promised to ship 4 million Wiis World Wide by the end of the year (with the most going to North America). If they shipped 10x the number of PS3s, then Nintendo would have had to have shipped 2 million already to North America! The numbers just don't seem right...
(I'm saying that as a person who was unsuccessful in finding a Wii on Sunday)
It's much more expensive to run a wireless setup. The phone company hasn't changed the way that they do business much in the last 30 years, as far as I know. Everything there is circuit switched, and once they laid down the telephone lines to your house, their new expenses stop.
;-) )
First, wireless companies had to switch their wireless technology from AMPS (analog) in the late 80s/early 90s to some sort of digital-based system (TDMA/GSM/CDMA) in the mid to late 90s. Now, everybody is transitioning again to some sort of "3G" (CDMA-EVDO/WCDMA) system. (Speaking about the USA in particular, it's a fairly spread out country with a population that isn't very dense, which means that they carriers have to buy more antennas to cover large areas)
Secondly, everytime you goto your favorite wireless carrier (at least in the USA), you get a free/heavily discounted phone. The carriers make up the cost of the phone over the long run by charging you a higher rate for your wireless bill. (Granted, as a phone connaisseur who pays full price for my phone, I've never had a carrier offer me a discount for providing my own phone...)
Thirdly, the "wires" that they pay for are really, really expensive. When the FCC auctioned off the 1900MHz spectrum in 1994-1997(?), they raised _trillions_ of dollars from the wireless carriers. (Especially the 'newer' ones such as Sprint, who had to buy a nations worth of spectrum) Those debts are still being paid off, and hence the higher rates you pay.
Don't get me wrong. I too think that the wireless companies are behaving like dinosaurs. If they offered cheaper data, I'd love to pay to occasionally hook my powerbook up to the internet. No carrier really has a good plan to support the occasional web surfer. The text-messaging plans are a joke. Why should one have to pay for an incoming text message...regardless if you wanted it or not? (Don't get me started