the ancient Greeks used arrays of tinted glass with candles behind them, behind shutters activated by strings attached to a keyboard. They would take ergot to trip out, then listen to lyre concerts with freaky light shows.
Every time i apply thermal grease to a new heatsink, it absorbs fairly rapidly into my skin.
If you believe the Arctic Silver instructions, you shouldn't do this - not because of your health, but because oil from your skin could degrade heat conductivity.
I put a little glop down then spread it paper-thin with the edge of a plastic card.
Of course I've found that good thermal grease matters much less than cleaning the lint out of your heatsink.:-)
in New Zealand, for example, there isn't bandwidth to throw at the problem. Upstream providers want around $115 USD/month per 64kb channel for CIR bandwidth. Other expensive markets include parts of Russia, South America, Africa... all places with millions of Internet users. Active bandwidth measuring, traffic caps, and QoS will be with us for many years to come.
I find it peverse that GTA is held to blame in this particular case. More to the point, what the fuck were two underage boys doing with access to shotguns?
Are there really age limits on gun possession? I don't own any guns, but could shoot a rifle by 8 years and could hit a clay pigeon with a shotgun by 10. (don't think I touched a handgun until I was about 16 though)
I really think that parents should be responsible when their kids fuck up. If they raise an idiot kid and leave their gun cabinet unlocked, they're to blame. No need to say "if you're not 14 you can't shoot a gun" or "if you're not 21 you can't buy a beer". The last thing we need are more stupid, unenforcable, arbitrary rules!
"I am, however, a professional neuroscientist with a fair amount of experience in psychopharmacology, and prior to getting my doctorate, worked for several years as a licensed substance abuse counselor."
So what do you think about Ephedrine (Metabolife)? Amphetamine (Adderall)? Should they be regulated/classified/banned? Why are they any worse than caffeine or nicotine?
At some points in my life I've tried pretty much all the major stimulants, whether naturally or chemically derived, and found most to be pretty useful and more agreeable than smoking - at least for my purposes - keeping myself in front of a computer and coding for a few hours at a time.
Since starting sertraline a few years back though, I've found my appetite for stimulants has significantly waned...
$2 for the first megabyte (minimum $2) and $0.03 per additional megabyte...
WiFi hotspots are one of the few places where a bandwidth-based billing model works.
What you suggest sounds more like a traffic based model, as opposed to a bandwidth-based one. A bandwidth based model would be "$10 per 256k/hour" and would allow you as much traffic as you could get through your 256k pipe in one hour.
What you should do is get yourself a computer with a 12VDC power input. They sell power supplies that take in 12VDC and have standard motherboard power connectors (although the last time I shopped for one it was using AT connectors).
Both satisfied by VIA EPIA and Procase 12V DC-DC converter board (included in their Mini-ITX cases). I purchased a couple of these to play with in designing an outdoor router. (One with a lot more oomph than the commercial alternative, the routerboard)
The DC-DC board presents at one end a 12V 4.5A input, and at the other an ATX power connector and power for 3-4 peripherals (in my case, only one is used to power an IDE-CF adapter)
The only great problem I have is with 12V 5A power supplies - they're damn near impossible to find! (guys at Dick Smith say, "you mean.5 amps" and I sigh.)
But it's just not a tunnel... it's a series of tunnels and bridges, maybe 30 in all. It replaces the core highways in the downtown area. The project also includes upgrades to the subway system, surface streets, and much improved airport access. In addition, a lot of the old city's infrastructure (telephone, sewer, water, electric) were upgraded.
Having lived (owned property, resided, paid taxes, the whole sheebang) in Boston in the recent past, I can say with confidence that the project didn't do anything for the subway (The T), for airport access (unless you drive), and certainly didn't improve any infrastructure.
After all those years and billions one still cannot easily get from South Station (or Back Bay, or North Station) to the Airport. Or how about any of said stations to Harvard Square? Or how about Harvard Square to Back Bay or Copley Place? Never mind getting from Harvard to Boston College.
The whole idea of building a bunch of gigantic roads, bridges, and tunnels to bring individual SUVs and bimbo-boxes into (and under) the middle of a large urban area is just about as wrong-headed as you can get. The dig made a lot of politicians, union leaders, and construction companies very rich, and set Boston about 20 years back in terms of being a livable city.
Sure, I learned to be a kamakazi biker and got some great rally-car miles under my belt getting from home (Brighton) to Mass General (via BU Bridge + Mem drive is actually faster than Storrow), but that did nothing more than ding my car, scratch my wheels, ruin my suspension, and drain my wallet paying for parking (and parking tickets), insurance, and repairs to the tune of $5k/year. (on top of car payments!)
I see no reason to celebrate its completion (or whatever milestone we're talking about). When I lived there I was hoping the dig would finish just so I could try it out, but man, a quick subway ride from home or work to the airport would have been much more appreciated.
So, for somebody like me, 500 charges lasts nearly a decade (assuming the battery doesn't crap out before that due to old age.)
Li-Ion batteries will die due to old age in much less than a decade! Here's a great resource which explains. It's sponsored by a company that produces battery chargers.
I have taken an interest in the topic, having had a number of (expensive) Li-Ion batteries die on me in the past five or six years.
On another (somewhat related) topic, it sucks that no one will sell you li-ion cells... I pried apart one of the old battery packs on a Thinkpad and googled the Panasonic cell part number - and the company I tried to buy from required extremely detailed specifications of what I was going to do before they would sell to me. (Their agreement with Panasonic requires them to "qualify" all orders before sending quotes.)
Mesh networking would be a better idea than all of this. More bandwidth, more parallelism, less power.
Ok, so where are the HiperLAN 1/2 products? Where's 802.16a? Why haven't we seen new code from LocustWorld in an entire year? Even MIT's roofnet is a hacked-together mess of non-routable IP addresses. (Ever read the "Click Router" documentation?)
Mesh Networks = Flying Cars
Show me a working 10mbps wireless mesh of over 10 nodes and I'll withdraw my statement.
I'm setting up a 2 person laser lan with a friend of mine, and hes 20 km away. I've got to bounce it back across one hill because i dont have line of sight. 10mbps. It's doable.
You mean 10kbps, right? That's doable at 20km without selling a kidney each. Otherwise...
This is informative? Do you know it takes 5 seconds to change a MAC address in windows 2000 or any unix?
Do you know how many possible MAC addresses there are? Aren't there something like 64^6... (~70 billion) Not a particularly easy number to guess.
Now if you can pick the MAC address of a computer already online and communicating with the base station out of the air, and hijack that, then shut off the computer whose MAC you're stealing, then, maybe you have a chance.
Is it only in America where we've let the industry cripple the future potential of broadband in such and insidious manner? (i.e. offering connections that can't really be used w/o having to pay extra)
No, try New Zealand, where 90% of the broadband is delivered via the incumbent's ISP.
With traffic costs at $130 USD/Gigabyte of traffic, you have nothing to complain about in the US.
I do believe in paying for traffic - just read "The Tradegy of the Commons" and you will too, but I think the rate should be more like $10 USD/Gigabyte. (And steadily falling.)
I live on a suburb with several (20+) radiomodem access points - no cables, no ground lines, just several "clusters of houses" hooked to their antennas. Connections to several ISPs.
The network connection sucks.
Where is this mythical place with no landlines and twenty wifi connections?
This tripe reads like a press release. Leading in with "According to CNET" is particularly deceptive when used here. I say that g0_p, the submitter, works for Ketchum, the public relations firm that represents Liberty Alliance. I also say that Robert Lemos the "CNET Staff Writer" responsible for the article, just took a press release and changed a few words. This is not his writing, nor are the other ten articles he "wrote" for CNET this week..
It blows my mind to see how over paid public servants are in the US it is crazy.
Have a look at the public servant pay scales. I think they're very fair. They are adjusted based on where the job is located. I picked this particular scale b/c I was offered a GS-N level job earlier this year and turned it down to go back to school. The salary I was to have drawn was $10k less than I had been making at my previous job, but was still $20k more than that of my Uncle, who has worked in the Social Security Administration for 33 years.
Maybe you saw a job working for a contractor? That's where the real money goes.
In my 14 years as a Network Administrator I think I've restored backups due to failed hard disks about twice (RAID catches the rest).
Business environments are generally more robust - especially when it comes to things like power. Not only the mains power, but power supplies. A lousy power supply can kill a hard disk as easily as a line surge. In the last ten years I've personally lost a 4.3 GB Atlas Wide SCSI and a couple of Maxtor 60GB IDE drives. In both cases my backups a month out-of-date.:-(
Also have seen numerous IDE drives go in low-end IBM and Compaq boxes in a business environment in Cambridge with poor power reliability.
Come on, put this in terms we all understand! How many Libraries of Congress does it take to make one gallon of gas? And thus how many miles per LOC do our cars get?
The box will not stop speeding, but rather increase the amount of information the police have at their disposal. This fallacy is constantly invoke to intrude on daily life. And the more we crave our convenience, the more it will take away our privacy. And don't tell me the roads are not private, for this is not the issue. The issue is making any given citizen culpable for every minute of his/her life.
And there you have it. I could care less how fast you go, but if you fuck up, you damn well better be culpable.
I say these boxes are fine, and I think the California legislation mentioned in the background link is perfect. The box is there, recording everything. The police can't touch it without either the owner's consent or a court order. The correct checks are in place. If you argue that the courts may be corrupted, it's a problem with the courts, and not the black boxes or the legislation. No intrusion into daily life is going on, unless you want to consider fatal auto accidents "daily life". (I certainly don't.)
The problem with voice recognition is that almost 70% of the physicians who are dictating are foreign with thick accents. On standard english voices without accents, voice recognition has a 40% success rate without training. With training, it can get as high as 90%. Add a thick foreign accent, and these rates drop bigtime.
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Time and time again it is generally not the ink but the paper that most needs duplication when attempting counterfeit.
:-)
Well duh, don't you know how to bleach a fiver and print a twenty on top?
Too bad Bush has driven the greenback so low it's useless in the rest of the world.
the ancient Greeks used arrays of tinted glass with candles behind them, behind shutters activated by strings attached to a keyboard. They would take ergot to trip out, then listen to lyre concerts with freaky light shows.
I think you've been reading too much Quicksilver.
Every time i apply thermal grease to a new heatsink, it absorbs fairly rapidly into my skin.
:-)
If you believe the Arctic Silver instructions, you shouldn't do this - not because of your health, but because oil from your skin could degrade heat conductivity.
I put a little glop down then spread it paper-thin with the edge of a plastic card.
Of course I've found that good thermal grease matters much less than cleaning the lint out of your heatsink.
In the Internet, simplicity has won.
You're showing a very Western bias there...
in New Zealand, for example, there isn't bandwidth to throw at the problem. Upstream providers want around $115 USD/month per 64kb channel for CIR bandwidth. Other expensive markets include parts of Russia, South America, Africa... all places with millions of Internet users. Active bandwidth measuring, traffic caps, and QoS will be with us for many years to come.
I find it peverse that GTA is held to blame in this particular case. More to the point, what the fuck were two underage boys doing with access to shotguns?
Are there really age limits on gun possession? I don't own any guns, but could shoot a rifle by 8 years and could hit a clay pigeon with a shotgun by 10. (don't think I touched a handgun until I was about 16 though)
I really think that parents should be responsible when their kids fuck up. If they raise an idiot kid and leave their gun cabinet unlocked, they're to blame. No need to say "if you're not 14 you can't shoot a gun" or "if you're not 21 you can't buy a beer". The last thing we need are more stupid, unenforcable, arbitrary rules!
"I am, however, a professional neuroscientist with a fair amount of experience in psychopharmacology, and prior to getting my doctorate, worked for several years as a licensed substance abuse counselor."
So what do you think about Ephedrine (Metabolife)? Amphetamine (Adderall)? Should they be regulated/classified/banned? Why are they any worse than caffeine or nicotine?
At some points in my life I've tried pretty much all the major stimulants, whether naturally or chemically derived, and found most to be pretty useful and more agreeable than smoking - at least for my purposes - keeping myself in front of a computer and coding for a few hours at a time.
Since starting sertraline a few years back though, I've found my appetite for stimulants has significantly waned...
$2 for the first megabyte (minimum $2) and $0.03 per additional megabyte...
WiFi hotspots are one of the few places where a bandwidth-based billing model works.
What you suggest sounds more like a traffic based model, as opposed to a bandwidth-based one. A bandwidth based model would be "$10 per 256k/hour" and would allow you as much traffic as you could get through your 256k pipe in one hour.
I ask if this is an A,B, or G network and the barista's eyes glaze over.
I should hope so. Quit trying to impress her with your technical knowledge and just assume it's a "b" network, like every other hotspot in the world.
What you should do is get yourself a computer with a 12VDC power input. They sell power supplies that take in 12VDC and have standard motherboard power connectors (although the last time I shopped for one it was using AT connectors).
.5 amps" and I sigh.)
Both satisfied by VIA EPIA and Procase 12V DC-DC converter board (included in their Mini-ITX cases). I purchased a couple of these to play with in designing an outdoor router. (One with a lot more oomph than the commercial alternative, the routerboard)
The DC-DC board presents at one end a 12V 4.5A input, and at the other an ATX power connector and power for 3-4 peripherals (in my case, only one is used to power an IDE-CF adapter)
The only great problem I have is with 12V 5A power supplies - they're damn near impossible to find! (guys at Dick Smith say, "you mean
But it's just not a tunnel ... it's a series of tunnels and bridges, maybe 30 in all. It replaces the core highways in the downtown area. The project also includes upgrades to the subway system, surface streets, and much improved airport access. In addition, a lot of the old city's infrastructure (telephone, sewer, water, electric) were upgraded.
Having lived (owned property, resided, paid taxes, the whole sheebang) in Boston in the recent past, I can say with confidence that the project didn't do anything for the subway (The T), for airport access (unless you drive), and certainly didn't improve any infrastructure.
After all those years and billions one still cannot easily get from South Station (or Back Bay, or North Station) to the Airport. Or how about any of said stations to Harvard Square? Or how about Harvard Square to Back Bay or Copley Place? Never mind getting from Harvard to Boston College.
The whole idea of building a bunch of gigantic roads, bridges, and tunnels to bring individual SUVs and bimbo-boxes into (and under) the middle of a large urban area is just about as wrong-headed as you can get. The dig made a lot of politicians, union leaders, and construction companies very rich, and set Boston about 20 years back in terms of being a livable city.
Sure, I learned to be a kamakazi biker and got some great rally-car miles under my belt getting from home (Brighton) to Mass General (via BU Bridge + Mem drive is actually faster than Storrow), but that did nothing more than ding my car, scratch my wheels, ruin my suspension, and drain my wallet paying for parking (and parking tickets), insurance, and repairs to the tune of $5k/year. (on top of car payments!)
I see no reason to celebrate its completion (or whatever milestone we're talking about). When I lived there I was hoping the dig would finish just so I could try it out, but man, a quick subway ride from home or work to the airport would have been much more appreciated.
So, for somebody like me, 500 charges lasts nearly a decade (assuming the battery doesn't crap out before that due to old age.)
Li-Ion batteries will die due to old age in much less than a decade! Here's a great resource which explains. It's sponsored by a company that produces battery chargers.
I have taken an interest in the topic, having had a number of (expensive) Li-Ion batteries die on me in the past five or six years.
On another (somewhat related) topic, it sucks that no one will sell you li-ion cells... I pried apart one of the old battery packs on a Thinkpad and googled the Panasonic cell part number - and the company I tried to buy from required extremely detailed specifications of what I was going to do before they would sell to me. (Their agreement with Panasonic requires them to "qualify" all orders before sending quotes.)
Should Carmack be able to buy rocket fuel?
If you have to ask that question, you've never played Doom.
Mesh networking would be a better idea than all of this. More bandwidth, more parallelism, less power.
Ok, so where are the HiperLAN 1/2 products? Where's 802.16a? Why haven't we seen new code from LocustWorld in an entire year? Even MIT's roofnet is a hacked-together mess of non-routable IP addresses. (Ever read the "Click Router" documentation?)
Mesh Networks = Flying Cars
Show me a working 10mbps wireless mesh of over 10 nodes and I'll withdraw my statement.
I'm setting up a 2 person laser lan with a friend of mine, and hes 20 km away. I've got to bounce it back across one hill because i dont have line of sight. 10mbps. It's doable.
You mean 10kbps, right? That's doable at 20km without selling a kidney each. Otherwise...
This is informative? Do you know it takes 5 seconds to change a MAC address in windows 2000 or any unix?
Do you know how many possible MAC addresses there are? Aren't there something like 64^6... (~70 billion) Not a particularly easy number to guess.
Now if you can pick the MAC address of a computer already online and communicating with the base station out of the air, and hijack that, then shut off the computer whose MAC you're stealing, then, maybe you have a chance.
Is it only in America where we've let the industry cripple the future potential of broadband in such and insidious manner? (i.e. offering connections that can't really be used w/o having to pay extra)
No, try New Zealand, where 90% of the broadband is delivered via the incumbent's ISP.
With traffic costs at $130 USD/Gigabyte of traffic, you have nothing to complain about in the US.
I do believe in paying for traffic - just read "The Tradegy of the Commons" and you will too, but I think the rate should be more like $10 USD/Gigabyte. (And steadily falling.)
I live on a suburb with several (20+) radiomodem access points - no cables, no ground lines, just several "clusters of houses" hooked to their antennas. Connections to several ISPs.
The network connection sucks.
Where is this mythical place with no landlines and twenty wifi connections?
Blogs are better because they give what people care about -- your opinions and knowledge -- without the self-advertising.
Nobody cares about your opinions. Well, maybe your mom, but really nobody else. Your friends only check your blog because you bother them about it.
This tripe reads like a press release. Leading in with "According to CNET" is particularly deceptive when used here. I say that g0_p, the submitter, works for Ketchum, the public relations firm that represents Liberty Alliance. I also say that Robert Lemos the "CNET Staff Writer" responsible for the article, just took a press release and changed a few words. This is not his writing, nor are the other ten articles he "wrote" for CNET this week..
It blows my mind to see how over paid public servants are in the US it is crazy.
Have a look at the public servant pay scales. I think they're very fair. They are adjusted based on where the job is located. I picked this particular scale b/c I was offered a GS-N level job earlier this year and turned it down to go back to school. The salary I was to have drawn was $10k less than I had been making at my previous job, but was still $20k more than that of my Uncle, who has worked in the Social Security Administration for 33 years.
Maybe you saw a job working for a contractor? That's where the real money goes.
I use a 430W Antec on my primary box now. :-)
In my 14 years as a Network Administrator I think I've restored backups due to failed hard disks about twice (RAID catches the rest).
:-(
Business environments are generally more robust - especially when it comes to things like power. Not only the mains power, but power supplies. A lousy power supply can kill a hard disk as easily as a line surge. In the last ten years I've personally lost a 4.3 GB Atlas Wide SCSI and a couple of Maxtor 60GB IDE drives. In both cases my backups a month out-of-date.
Also have seen numerous IDE drives go in low-end IBM and Compaq boxes in a business environment in Cambridge with poor power reliability.
Come on, put this in terms we all understand! How many Libraries of Congress does it take to make one gallon of gas? And thus how many miles per LOC do our cars get?
The box will not stop speeding, but rather increase the amount of information the police have at their disposal. This fallacy is constantly invoke to intrude on daily life. And the more we crave our convenience, the more it will take away our privacy. And don't tell me the roads are not private, for this is not the issue. The issue is making any given citizen culpable for every minute of his/her life.
And there you have it. I could care less how fast you go, but if you fuck up, you damn well better be culpable.
I say these boxes are fine, and I think the California legislation mentioned in the background link is perfect. The box is there, recording everything. The police can't touch it without either the owner's consent or a court order. The correct checks are in place. If you argue that the courts may be corrupted, it's a problem with the courts, and not the black boxes or the legislation. No intrusion into daily life is going on, unless you want to consider fatal auto accidents "daily life". (I certainly don't.)
The problem with voice recognition is that almost 70% of the physicians who are dictating are foreign with thick accents. On standard english voices without accents, voice recognition has a 40% success rate without training. With training, it can get as high as 90%. Add a thick foreign accent, and these rates drop bigtime.
Nice numbers. Where'd you pull them from?