The way to MAKE students stop relying on poor media like floppies for important projects/assignments is to deny them floppy access in the first place. Lock or remove the drives. If nothing else, lock them out by software. Whatever. If they want to bring a file from off site, make them e-mail it to themselves.
Then they will use the user drive space, or whatever better measures that you have provided.
Yeah I've seen that. An ad server was having trouble, and the page wouldn't display until the ad showed, so I went elsewhere.
I guess the solution would be to re-map the ads to some local graphics. A little tricky to do on the client side, but the server could simply be set to return the graphic when the link wasn't found.
Remeber what fiinally stopped the Salem Wich trials? It wasn't common sense or public backlash or anything else. It was that some oaf decided to accuse the Govenor's wife, and the Govenor suddenly found cause to put a stop to it all.
Not that I can condone any DoS or any other crime, but by poetic justice the problem might take care of it's self, if one or more of the ISP's own employees becomes the victim...
Computer science education should focus on teaching good design skills so we turn out programmers and not code monkeys.
What's wrong with Code Monkeys?;-]
I'm all for a stronger and earlier emphasis on theory, but at least one programming language should be taught first as a concrete base.
I totally agree. We've got to learn to walk before we find out how to get to the store...
I'll have you know that output-oriented programming was one of my required courses. (Cranked out a whole lot of psudo-code in the process.) It by nature emphasized loop and module organization, and a whole lot of systematic steps with applied Keep It Simple, Stupid.
The trumpets blair, the banner is unfurled, the cry goes out: CORRECT BY DESIGN!
Now to really reveal my lack of experience: I read as much the article as I could get to load (darn that Slashdot effect) and got as far as the Reconstruction section.
What I didn't get from the article was many examples that were specific enough to glean useful strategies that I can take into my own projects.
The Mudball was pretty obvious, your standard hack taken to the inevitable conclusion. (It seems to me the solution is to toss the concept of global variables and string your modules hierarchically. Comment?)
I got the Reconstruction, Quarantine, and Growth ideas pretty well, but the Sheering idea completly escaped me. I mean, I understand it as a concept (organizing data and code according to rate of change), and whole-heartedly agree with it, but I can't picture any example of it well enough to be able to apply it. Suggestions?
It's for whatever you want it for, expensive frisbees if you really feel like it...
Generally though, this type of product has many embedded applications. Manufacturing control, robotics, MRI machines, satellite tracking of delivery vehicles, amusement park rides... to name a few. Did you know that all the rides at Diseny World (and Euro-Diseny) are controlled by PC-based embedded computers?
The applications for this might be a little on the high side for most embedded processing applications, although I could see a high-tech slot-machine making use of it. Other than that, I guess it depends on how bloated your code is...
There's only one reason all this hasn't taken off. Consumer prices.
The broadcasters would be falling over each other to get HDTV compliant if they had a larger consumer base. They could justify much larger costs (even to the bank) if the consumers were there, based on the advertising revenue potential.
Many consumers would be there already, in the course of the natural upgrade and replacement cycles, if the technology was even moderately affordable, but few are willing to shell out this kind of cash when so few stations are even ready. (For example 2 of 9 HDTV stations in the Portland, Oregon area.)
I've spent some time on the manufacturing side of electronics. I happen to know that there are many ways to limit electronics manufacturing costs, and considering the quality of some of the brighter old-technology projectors in the past, there is no question that the whole HDTV unit could come in for $1000 or less, even for the some of the earliest of adopters.
It would only take one manufacturer with the foresight to be the "HDTV Hero," and defer their NRE (non-recurring engineering cost) long enough to prime their market prices. The broadcasters are being forced to convert anyhow, perhaps the networks could be persuaded to help fund this - a greater short-term cost, to be sure, but providing a major boon in advertising revenues in just a few years.
"If you sell it cheap, you won't be able to build them fast enough..."
I've been trying to think outside-the-box, and I have two ideas. 1.) government (or someone with something to gain) could/should supplement local cable providers for the purposes of bringing them into compliance. This could dramatically increase demand. 2.) For the purposes of lowering per-purchase costs, the tuner and the display should be separated. Yes, I realize this model doesn't hold up in the long run, and yes, I realize that some manufacturers have already gone this route, but they failed to bring down the costs. If we could get: A.) Tuners, say with or without a VCR capable of recording HDTV, with NTSC, HDTV and RCA outputs, and B.) Stripped-down monitors and projectors with only the RCA, NTSC and HDTV inputs, I think the whole thing would get a whole lot easier on the consumer, and therefore more profitable for the manufacturers and stations.
While I'm not inclined to overestimate the intelligence of the Japaneese Gov't (or any other) the simple fact that the whole ruling deals with real property, not intellectual property shows that Sony could get around it by simply exporting the design to another point of manufacture, if they wished to sell it abroad. Therefore, whatever their motives, Sony is obviously FOR the injunction.
Well, the Athlon supports 8 processors. The Pentium supports 2. Its in the chip, not the motherboard where that is determined.
Not exactly. Case in point - Abit BP6, able to overcome many processor limitations that would otherwise inhibit dual processor functions, in this case celeron.
Regardless of the INTENT of the processor's manufacturer's limitations, any properly designed MB can overcome this with a good chipset and other elements of good design.
AFAIK, with the PII to Xeon socket adapters, it is possible to run more than 2 PII/PIII's in a multi-processor MD.
Can anyone confirm or refute this from athoritative testing or experience?
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Sorry, emmett, but I think your summary might be a little off.
Yahoo doesn't normally profit directly from auctions at all. They profit from page views in the form af some banner-ads, and charge a set fee to list items in a "preferred" manner, which (if I'm not mistaken) has little to do with the item actually selling at all. Therefore they don't profit from the sale.
I seems to me that the case is founded on some pretty thin ice, and any lawyer worth his salt would be able to make a very good defence.
As for Nintendo et all, I would appear that they've taken up arms against what they could find to be the worst-case-example, and if they lose here, the lose the whole ball of wax. Ebay and others might do well to join forces with yahoo on this issue to protect their own interests.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
I looked at the spliced in part that is built in to the keyboard case, and I swear I've seen one of those before!
My roommate took a keyboard apart, that he got with a used system, and I believe it had one of those, but we couldn't figure out what it did. I remember the heatshrink, the green board spliced in the wires, the three colors of the wires connecting to either end. Yes, now I'm certain.
It would stand to reason, that if a buffering keyboard is indistinguishable from the regular ones, it might go out the door as easily as any other. I've got a box full of old keyboards here, maybe I should do some investigating......unless one of us is in trouble with the fed's and don't know it.
Let's do a poll: If anyone else spots one of these devices where they didn't expect it, post it here!
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
anyone know of a good 802.11 PCI card with both MacOS and Linux drivers?
PCI? no. ISA, and PCMCIA, yes, at 2Mb/sec - fast enough for printers and internet.
Webgear has some decent wireless cards. The ISA is little but an adapter for the PCMCIA cards, and there's a difference between the "2.4" line and the PRO line. It seems that due to some foulup, 2.4's are 802.11 "compatible" while the Pro line are "compliant." In other words, if you need to mix brands, go with PRO, but otherwise save your money. There is the 2.4 networking kit, that for way less than $200US gives you 2 PCMCIA cards and ISA adapters.
If you're interested, the cheapest place that I've found them is PCNation.
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
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That guy is pretty lame for charging people for the instructions what ever happened to posting the instructions up for free??
Jeez, let the guy recoup some money for his time and effort. If you're having such a problem with that, figure it out for youself and then give it away.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
And who says we won't find encryptions that the gov't can't break?;-]
Like most technology, the military/gov't might try to keep such technology for themselves, sooner or later the public sector will either get ahold of it by leak, by accident, or by re-inventing the same thing (especially if they already know it exists...)
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Well, if it's still in the warranty period, you might have some gripe rights, if nothing else.
Of course, if there are any individuals able to use that obfuscated code of the last open drivers as a platform to an updated Xfree86 v4 compatible driver, then it might be worth giving it a chance.
However, being in a position to buy new cards right now, I'm bypassing the problem and going with Matrox.
(dual peltiers, overclocked cel 366's, 2 g400's and 4 monitors!... wheeeee! that is, until somebody runs the vaccum and we blow the circuit breaker again...;-)
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Yes, they were proprietary networks that tried to become internet portals, although Compuserve's biggest problem was poor infrastructure planning. Their bulliten boards were based on a very inflexible model, and their internet gateway would cache dynamic pages and just didn't have enough bandwidth.
No, there is no difference. Literally. Compuserve is currently owned by AOL. Installing Compuserve's WinCIM 5.0 produces the same problems as AOL's software.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, for shame. Why do you insist on paying full retail?
go to price watch for WPC11 starting at $120 + 8 s/h
or for 802.11b starting at $118 + 6 s/h
or for 802.11b pci starting at $160 + 6 s/h
enjoy!
TangoChaz
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The way to MAKE students stop relying on poor media like floppies for important projects/assignments is to deny them floppy access in the first place. Lock or remove the drives. If nothing else, lock them out by software. Whatever. If they want to bring a file from off site, make them e-mail it to themselves.
Then they will use the user drive space, or whatever better measures that you have provided.
TangoChaz
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Yeah I've seen that. An ad server was having trouble, and the page wouldn't display until the ad showed, so I went elsewhere.
I guess the solution would be to re-map the ads to some local graphics. A little tricky to do on the client side, but the server could simply be set to return the graphic when the link wasn't found.
TangoChaz
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Nice idea, but that doesn't account for URL's with plain IP addresses.
If I'm not mistaken, the Web Bug on the example yahoo page already used that strategy.
TangoChaz
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Remeber what fiinally stopped the Salem Wich trials? It wasn't common sense or public backlash or anything else. It was that some oaf decided to accuse the Govenor's wife, and the Govenor suddenly found cause to put a stop to it all.
Not that I can condone any DoS or any other crime, but by poetic justice the problem might take care of it's self, if one or more of the ISP's own employees becomes the victim...
TangoChaz
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ROFL!
If that catches on with webmasters, it could solve a lot of problems!
Don't like the download agreement? Don't like the age limits? Don't like the licencing agreement? Just Change It!
I guess this would be Open Source Contracts...
TangoChaz
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Jeez, if there's any doubt about the value, WebSurfer should just take a look at those auction prices...
TangoChaz
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Computer science education should focus on teaching good design skills so we turn out programmers and not code monkeys.
;-]
What's wrong with Code Monkeys?
I'm all for a stronger and earlier emphasis on theory, but at least one programming language should be taught first as a concrete base.
I totally agree. We've got to learn to walk before we find out how to get to the store...
I'll have you know that output-oriented programming was one of my required courses. (Cranked out a whole lot of psudo-code in the process.) It by nature emphasized loop and module organization, and a whole lot of systematic steps with applied Keep It Simple, Stupid.
The trumpets blair, the banner is unfurled, the cry goes out: CORRECT BY DESIGN!
Any student with enough intelligence to actually learn coding and get the job, is then capable of learning the principles and strategies to do this stuff right, and not necessarily BEFORE they learn to code... It just needs to be distilled into usable ideas and strategies, and usable texts - something less obtuse than the usual fare. Dare I ask - written with the clarity of a Dummies'© book. (gasp!)
Now to really reveal my lack of experience: I read as much the article as I could get to load (darn that Slashdot effect) and got as far as the Reconstruction section.
What I didn't get from the article was many examples that were specific enough to glean useful strategies that I can take into my own projects.
The Mudball was pretty obvious, your standard hack taken to the inevitable conclusion. (It seems to me the solution is to toss the concept of global variables and string your modules hierarchically. Comment?)
I got the Reconstruction, Quarantine, and Growth ideas pretty well, but the Sheering idea completly escaped me. I mean, I understand it as a concept (organizing data and code according to rate of change), and whole-heartedly agree with it, but I can't picture any example of it well enough to be able to apply it. Suggestions?
TangoChaz
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Hmmm. At the current exponential rate of drive growth, that ought to last us for about 2 years?
TangoChaz
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Ok, emmett & snack:
...yet forgot to make a link to?
What the heck is this MAXX technology that you were so excited about
So far it sounds like more propretary marketing-speak. "Windex©, now with AmmoniaD(TM)"
TangoChaz
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It's for whatever you want it for, expensive frisbees if you really feel like it...
Generally though, this type of product has many embedded applications. Manufacturing control, robotics, MRI machines, satellite tracking of delivery vehicles, amusement park rides... to name a few. Did you know that all the rides at Diseny World (and Euro-Diseny) are controlled by PC-based embedded computers?
The applications for this might be a little on the high side for most embedded processing applications, although I could see a high-tech slot-machine making use of it. Other than that, I guess it depends on how bloated your code is...
TangoChaz
--------------------
There's only one reason all this hasn't taken off. Consumer prices.
The broadcasters would be falling over each other to get HDTV compliant if they had a larger consumer base. They could justify much larger costs (even to the bank) if the consumers were there, based on the advertising revenue potential.
Many consumers would be there already, in the course of the natural upgrade and replacement cycles, if the technology was even moderately affordable, but few are willing to shell out this kind of cash when so few stations are even ready. (For example 2 of 9 HDTV stations in the Portland, Oregon area.)
I've spent some time on the manufacturing side of electronics. I happen to know that there are many ways to limit electronics manufacturing costs, and considering the quality of some of the brighter old-technology projectors in the past, there is no question that the whole HDTV unit could come in for $1000 or less, even for the some of the earliest of adopters.
It would only take one manufacturer with the foresight to be the "HDTV Hero," and defer their NRE (non-recurring engineering cost) long enough to prime their market prices. The broadcasters are being forced to convert anyhow, perhaps the networks could be persuaded to help fund this - a greater short-term cost, to be sure, but providing a major boon in advertising revenues in just a few years.
"If you sell it cheap, you won't be able to build them fast enough..."
I've been trying to think outside-the-box, and I have two ideas.
1.) government (or someone with something to gain) could/should supplement local cable providers for the purposes of bringing them into compliance. This could dramatically increase demand.
2.) For the purposes of lowering per-purchase costs, the tuner and the display should be separated. Yes, I realize this model doesn't hold up in the long run, and yes, I realize that some manufacturers have already gone this route, but they failed to bring down the costs. If we could get:
A.) Tuners, say with or without a VCR capable of recording HDTV, with NTSC, HDTV and RCA outputs, and
B.) Stripped-down monitors and projectors with only the RCA, NTSC and HDTV inputs, I think the whole thing would get a whole lot easier on the consumer, and therefore more profitable for the manufacturers and stations.
That's my $0.98...
TangoChaz
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While I'm not inclined to overestimate the intelligence of the Japaneese Gov't (or any other) the simple fact that the whole ruling deals with real property, not intellectual property shows that Sony could get around it by simply exporting the design to another point of manufacture, if they wished to sell it abroad. Therefore, whatever their motives, Sony is obviously FOR the injunction.
TangoChaz
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Well, the Athlon supports 8 processors. The Pentium supports 2. Its in the chip, not the motherboard where that is determined.
Not exactly. Case in point - Abit BP6, able to overcome many processor limitations that would otherwise inhibit dual processor functions, in this case celeron.
Regardless of the INTENT of the processor's manufacturer's limitations, any properly designed MB can overcome this with a good chipset and other elements of good design.
AFAIK, with the PII to Xeon socket adapters, it is possible to run more than 2 PII/PIII's in a multi-processor MD.
Can anyone confirm or refute this from athoritative testing or experience?
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Sorry for the offtopic but that's a GREAT sig!
I can hear it now...
"...THEY'RE GEEKY, THEY'RE LINUS AND THE pain-in-Bill's-butt-PAIN." ta-da-da-DA, dunt.
Hmmmm, time for a new sig.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Sorry, emmett, but I think your summary might be a little off.
Yahoo doesn't normally profit directly from auctions at all. They profit from page views in the form af some banner-ads, and charge a set fee to list items in a "preferred" manner, which (if I'm not mistaken) has little to do with the item actually selling at all. Therefore they don't profit from the sale.
I seems to me that the case is founded on some pretty thin ice, and any lawyer worth his salt would be able to make a very good defence.
As for Nintendo et all, I would appear that they've taken up arms against what they could find to be the worst-case-example, and if they lose here, the lose the whole ball of wax. Ebay and others might do well to join forces with yahoo on this issue to protect their own interests.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Ah well. This one would be soo nice if it were true.
Perhaps if I just wish hard enough... "Auntie em.." No that's wrong.
Ah, yes. "I believe, I believe, it's silly but I believe." Now do we get to toast MPAA's ass!?!?
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Microsoft? We already know how privacy-concious THEY are... It's probably hidden in your USB keyboard drivers. With all the bloatware, who could tell?
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
I looked at the spliced in part that is built in to the keyboard case, and I swear I've seen one of those before!
...unless one of us is in trouble with the fed's and don't know it.
My roommate took a keyboard apart, that he got with a used system, and I believe it had one of those, but we couldn't figure out what it did. I remember the heatshrink, the green board spliced in the wires, the three colors of the wires connecting to either end. Yes, now I'm certain.
It would stand to reason, that if a buffering keyboard is indistinguishable from the regular ones, it might go out the door as easily as any other. I've got a box full of old keyboards here, maybe I should do some investigating...
Let's do a poll: If anyone else spots one of these devices where they didn't expect it, post it here!
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
anyone know of a good 802.11 PCI card with both MacOS and Linux drivers?
PCI? no. ISA, and PCMCIA, yes, at 2Mb/sec - fast enough for printers and internet.
Webgear has some decent wireless cards. The ISA is little but an adapter for the PCMCIA cards, and there's a difference between the "2.4" line and the PRO line. It seems that due to some foulup, 2.4's are 802.11 "compatible" while the Pro line are "compliant." In other words, if you need to mix brands, go with PRO, but otherwise save your money. There is the 2.4 networking kit, that for way less than $200US gives you 2 PCMCIA cards and ISA adapters.
If you're interested, the cheapest place that I've found them is PCNation.
And thanks to Jean Tourrilhes here are the drivers.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
That guy is pretty lame for charging people for the instructions what ever happened to posting the instructions up for free??
Jeez, let the guy recoup some money for his time and effort. If you're having such a problem with that, figure it out for youself and then give it away.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
And who says we won't find encryptions that the gov't can't break? ;-]
Like most technology, the military/gov't might try to keep such technology for themselves, sooner or later the public sector will either get ahold of it by leak, by accident, or by re-inventing the same thing (especially if they already know it exists...)
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Well, if it's still in the warranty period, you might have some gripe rights, if nothing else.
;-)
Of course, if there are any individuals able to use that obfuscated code of the last open drivers as a platform to an updated Xfree86 v4 compatible driver, then it might be worth giving it a chance.
However, being in a position to buy new cards right now, I'm bypassing the problem and going with Matrox.
(dual peltiers, overclocked cel 366's, 2 g400's and 4 monitors!... wheeeee! that is, until somebody runs the vaccum and we blow the circuit breaker again...
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
Yes, they were proprietary networks that tried to become internet portals, although Compuserve's biggest problem was poor infrastructure planning. Their bulliten boards were based on a very inflexible model, and their internet gateway would cache dynamic pages and just didn't have enough bandwidth.
No, there is no difference. Literally. Compuserve is currently owned by AOL. Installing Compuserve's WinCIM 5.0 produces the same problems as AOL's software.
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.
It's just you.
(SNIFF!)
TangoChaz
"It's not enough to be on the right track -- you have to be moving faster than the train." -- Rod Davis, Editor of Seahorse Mag.