I used an X Series laptop for two years and used the base station (with floppy and CD) about three times. Very early on I got a keychain USB drive and learned to adapt. That combined with MP3s, divx movies and Simpsons episodes kept me pretty damn happy. As long as I have a desktop machine (or a heavyweight laptop) I can do without the floppy and cd.
"RFID (radio frequency identification) tags also have the ability of recording information such as details of the transactions the paper note has been involved in."
I think you'd be hard pressed to find an RFID tag that could record transaction information inside a bill. You'd need an external device to do the recording.
Where this would be good...
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Rent a Segway
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I'd love to see Segway rentals overtake motor scooter rentals in places like Block Island. You've got the range to easily cover the entire island, and none of the noise, pollution, or danger of fat Americans buzzing around on motor scooters meant for people half their size.
Yeah, it's neat, but it doesn't pick up like a real vacuum, doesn't have a very large capacity, and makes enough mess emptying the bin that you have to do it outside. I have a feeling I'm going to take mine apart and cross it with an old shop-vac, and just let it drag a cord around the room.
For this reason alone the two have been trying their damndest to find alternative suppliers. Both companies realize that they are heavily dependant on the other for their own success, but given half a chance to support a third party, they always jump all over it. Intel has been a strong supporter of Linux, while Microsoft has gone out of their way to support AMD and now Transmeta.
You have to admit that M$ seems to be married to Intel architecture. When NT 4.0 came out it included support for i386, Alpha, MIPS, & PPC. Win2K dropped all but i386 support. If they had really wanted to get away from Intel, they could have easily run with PPC. Remember CHRP? (Common Hardware Reference Platform) Imagine a 32-way Power^4 based Win2k server. (shudder)
Three English issues of Thorgal are available (Thorgal: Child of the Stars, Thorgal: The Archers, and Thorgal: The Enchantress Betrayed) but long out of print; you might have some luck on eBay, where they surface from time to time.
Thank You, kind AC! Now I won't have to struggle with my wife's copies, which are in Polish.:-)
Recently, there was a Slashdot article [slashdot.org] here about a "piles" feature that Apple had patented in June 2001 that sounds very familiar. Screenshot of piles [mac.com] here looks different, but the concepts appear similar:
It doesn't much look like Apple's "Piles" but more like PARC's Hyperbolic Tree, of 1994. This bit of software was spun off into a company named Inxight. Navigate their website using a Hyperbolic Tree. (good to see they eat their own dog food.):-) (double click an end point when you want to follow a link)
If M$ finds a good use for Hyperbolic Tree navigation in Longhorn, more power to them. I have played with it off and on since 1998 and have found that without a mega-huge (as in 1600*1200+) resolution screen, you can't get much out of it.
I already have trouble cooling my XP1900 without having it sound like a jet engine. With a slow fan and decent heatsink, my CPU still sits around 48 degrees C.
I use this Zalman, and my Athlon XP1700 is at 49 C. The only thing I can hear from my case is an old 60GB Maxtor drive.
Anyway, the Zalman seems to be a perfect match for you, at least if you believe what you read on the Internet:
"it's designed to provide efficient cooling without sounding like a turbine engine..." (from the ThinkGeek page)
Actually, seeing as Navigator 2.0 was released in February, 1996, and the patents have invention dates of May, 1996 at the earliest, Netscape seems to be prior art.
In fact, alpha versions of Navigator 2.0 were supporting frames as early as September of 1995 - and I had a number of frames-enabled sites running by the time it released.
research projects do decode these names to recover router locations, including Subramanian and Padmanabhan's Geotrack [acm.org] and UW's Rocketfuel [acm.org].
Tsunamii's map would be a lot prettier if they'd try to do some intelligent parsing of router dns entries. For example, they treat 24.91.0.46 as located in the "United States" when in fact its name places it in Massachusetts. (bar02-p7-0.ndhmhe1.ma.attbb.net) Given the relatively small number of providers who carry the bulk of international IP traffic, it should be easy for them to decypher the naming conventions used by ATT, Sprint, Verio, Teleglobe, Global Crossing, C&W, etc. to parse out state and city names so that traffic from the US doesn't look like it's all coming from Branson Missouri, and traffic from Canada coming from bumfuck Saskatchewan. (I mean, Saskatchewan is a nice place and all, but there aren't exactly a lot of people there)
Only $36.2 million? That's really not that much for an entire line of TiVO-like products. It sounds to me like D&M might make a killing off this investment, if they play their cards right.
I'd agree, and add that just the brands "Rio" and "ReplayTV" are worth more than $36 million. D&M could make their money back by Christmas, simply by branding the cheapest MP3/PVR machines they can find with "Rio" and "ReplayTV" and selling them through discount chains like WalMart.
well, it's all realative. back in the mid 90's, dual channel ISDN was amazingly fast, and is what everyone wanted for their businesses. now a days, we know that ISDN isn't all that hot, and then the ADSL are to be considered lower end broadband.
Extremely relative. I will still take ISDN over ADSL or cable when latency (ping-time for you gamers) is the concern.
The problem is that quality can vary drastically from unit to unit... What do you do to make sure you get the sort of high-quality display that'll last you through the next couple hardware upgrades?
You haven't exactly defined quality, so I'll assume you mean accurate color rendering.
In this case you want a monitor like a LaCie or Sony Artisan Series, both of which come with a calibration device.
Other monitors by NEC and Mitsubishi sometimes come with calibration color strips you can lay over your monitor while displaying preset colors from a software application.
Failing a device or software and strip, one can load a browser while using the monitor and head to EasyRGB where you can attempt to calibrate it. I've just calibrated my monitor by matching it to my office wall, which I recently painted in Benjamin Moore "Buckland Blue." (RGB values of 95 134 150)
A war photo that is altered so the depiction is inaccurate is unacceptable on any scale.
What if the photographer altered two photos to create an image he actually saw, but was not able to capture?
I think this is a case of a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the LA Times editor. There was no falsehood expressed, and the photographer's alteration is certainly orders of magnatude more superficial than the Bush Administration's claims that this war is to free the Iraqi people...
Umm... why? Seriously, I'm not trolling. Are you against the company for what its current actions are, or are you against them because they hold values that are incompatible with your own which produce actions with which you don't agree?
It's not that I'm against Con-Agra in particular; looking at their list of brands, I see that I've probably given them a good $50 throughout my lifetime. I really don't buy prepared foods in general though, and a large part of the reason for that is because of what such corps do to the environment and how they treat their labor. (Always having lived within walking distance of Co-Ops or Whole Foods type stores has helped too.)
It's more that I'm picky about who I invest in. Almost every major company has few pilot projects aimed at improving the environment. They look good in annual reports and give the company newsletter something happy and morale-building to write about. If, however, ConAgra decides that recycling their waste is a good idea for all their facilities, I'll take it as a sign that they are changing their business to prepare for a future of scarce natural resources and stricter environmental controls.
Such a move on their part, regardless of their motives (cheaper energy, decreased liability insurance, tax incentives, care for environment) would seriously prompt me to invest in them. Since reading "Cradle to Cradle," I've actually considered buying stock in Ford. I've certainly been reading everything I can about them and "F" is on my watch list.
And such a move might prompt me to pick up a package of Hebrew National Hot Dogs. ("We Answer to a Higher Calling") I haven't had a hot dog in ages...
But [James Stoffer] added that while the plant may be a "tough go" economically, it's worth the investment because of what it promises for the environment.
If such companies actually paid fines for breaking environmental laws by polluting with livestock wastes, they would not find reprocessing a "tough go" economically. Unfortunately, the EPA doesn't have the balls to go after even the most blatant of violators, and thus the food-processors get away with murder.
When Con-Agra rolls out such zero-emissions factories everywhere (As William McDonough writes of in Cradle to Cradle) I will happily invest in their stock and buy their products.
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LCD Price Fixing?
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"Why aren't the 240T's with, say, eight dead pixels sold at a different price? I understand the issues with the manufacturing of these displays, that if they were to reject all but those without dead pixels the cost would be prohibitively expensive, but why can't they just count the number of dead pixels and set a price accordingly."
Tell me, when was the last time you saw a dead pixel in an LCD? Have you seen a dead pixel in anything manufactured in the last three years? I certainly haven't, and I bet I've looked at a few hundred LCDs of various sorts.
I've never found composite out on video cards useful for anything but watching movies. All the video cards I've ever tried try and compress a desktop of 800*600 or 1024*768 so that it fits on a TV. Of course this looks like shit.
What I'd like to do is somehow send the native resolution of the TV. Is this possible? Especially with a little LCD TV screen. I mean, what a waste, having an LCD where the image is unreadable.
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No CD-ROM or floppy drive.
I used an X Series laptop for two years and used the base station (with floppy and CD) about three times. Very early on I got a keychain USB drive and learned to adapt. That combined with MP3s, divx movies and Simpsons episodes kept me pretty damn happy. As long as I have a desktop machine (or a heavyweight laptop) I can do without the floppy and cd.
"RFID (radio frequency identification) tags also have the ability of recording information such as details of the transactions the paper note has been involved in."
I think you'd be hard pressed to find an RFID tag that could record transaction information inside a bill. You'd need an external device to do the recording.
I'd love to see Segway rentals overtake motor scooter rentals in places like Block Island. You've got the range to easily cover the entire island, and none of the noise, pollution, or danger of fat Americans buzzing around on motor scooters meant for people half their size.
I've watched a roomba in action...pretty neat.
Yeah, it's neat, but it doesn't pick up like a real vacuum, doesn't have a very large capacity, and makes enough mess emptying the bin that you have to do it outside. I have a feeling I'm going to take mine apart and cross it with an old shop-vac, and just let it drag a cord around the room.
...it would be kinda cool if wi-fi wasnt as secure as the stream of piss going from me into the toilet
You think Wi-Fi is *that* secure? I certainly wouldn't want to share a bathroom with you...
For this reason alone the two have been trying their damndest to find alternative suppliers. Both companies realize that they are heavily dependant on the other for their own success, but given half a chance to support a third party, they always jump all over it. Intel has been a strong supporter of Linux, while Microsoft has gone out of their way to support AMD and now Transmeta.
You have to admit that M$ seems to be married to Intel architecture. When NT 4.0 came out it included support for i386, Alpha, MIPS, & PPC. Win2K dropped all but i386 support. If they had really wanted to get away from Intel, they could have easily run with PPC. Remember CHRP? (Common Hardware Reference Platform) Imagine a 32-way Power^4 based Win2k server. (shudder)
Three English issues of Thorgal are available (Thorgal: Child of the Stars, Thorgal: The Archers, and Thorgal: The Enchantress Betrayed) but long out of print; you might have some luck on eBay, where they surface from time to time.
:-)
Thank You, kind AC! Now I won't have to struggle with my wife's copies, which are in Polish.
Recently, there was a Slashdot article [slashdot.org] here about a "piles" feature that Apple had patented in June 2001 that sounds very familiar. Screenshot of piles [mac.com] here looks different, but the concepts appear similar:
:-) (double click an end point when you want to follow a link)
It doesn't much look like Apple's "Piles" but more like PARC's Hyperbolic Tree, of 1994. This bit of software was spun off into a company named Inxight. Navigate their website using a Hyperbolic Tree. (good to see they eat their own dog food.)
If M$ finds a good use for Hyperbolic Tree navigation in Longhorn, more power to them. I have played with it off and on since 1998 and have found that without a mega-huge (as in 1600*1200+) resolution screen, you can't get much out of it.
Anyone know if Thorgal can be found in English? It's a Belgian comic written in French, but also translated into some other languages.
I already have trouble cooling my XP1900 without having it sound like a jet engine. With a slow fan and decent heatsink, my CPU still sits around 48 degrees C.
I use this Zalman, and my Athlon XP1700 is at 49 C. The only thing I can hear from my case is an old 60GB Maxtor drive.
Anyway, the Zalman seems to be a perfect match for you, at least if you believe what you read on the Internet:
"it's designed to provide efficient cooling without sounding like a turbine engine..." (from the ThinkGeek page)
Actually, seeing as Navigator 2.0 was released in February, 1996, and the patents have invention dates of May, 1996 at the earliest, Netscape seems to be prior art.
In fact, alpha versions of Navigator 2.0 were supporting frames as early as September of 1995 - and I had a number of frames-enabled sites running by the time it released.
research projects do decode these names to recover router locations, including Subramanian and Padmanabhan's Geotrack [acm.org] and UW's Rocketfuel [acm.org].
Great stuff! Thanks for the links.
Tsunamii's map would be a lot prettier if they'd try to do some intelligent parsing of router dns entries. For example, they treat 24.91.0.46 as located in the "United States" when in fact its name places it in Massachusetts. (bar02-p7-0.ndhmhe1.ma.attbb.net) Given the relatively small number of providers who carry the bulk of international IP traffic, it should be easy for them to decypher the naming conventions used by ATT, Sprint, Verio, Teleglobe, Global Crossing, C&W, etc. to parse out state and city names so that traffic from the US doesn't look like it's all coming from Branson Missouri, and traffic from Canada coming from bumfuck Saskatchewan. (I mean, Saskatchewan is a nice place and all, but there aren't exactly a lot of people there)
Only $36.2 million? That's really not that much for an entire line of TiVO-like products. It sounds to me like D&M might make a killing off this investment, if they play their cards right.
I'd agree, and add that just the brands "Rio" and "ReplayTV" are worth more than $36 million. D&M could make their money back by Christmas, simply by branding the cheapest MP3/PVR machines they can find with "Rio" and "ReplayTV" and selling them through discount chains like WalMart.
I want good, cheap, 2 or 4 way SMP on my desktop
I have some nice 4-way Pentium Pro systems I can sell you...
1995 get bought by Seagrams, the liquor company.
;-)
2000 get bought by Vivendi, nee Compagnie Générale des Eaux, the water company
2003 get bought by Apple, the vapour company
???? profit?
well, it's all realative. back in the mid 90's, dual channel ISDN was amazingly fast, and is what everyone wanted for their businesses. now a days, we know that ISDN isn't all that hot, and then the ADSL are to be considered lower end broadband.
Extremely relative. I will still take ISDN over ADSL or cable when latency (ping-time for you gamers) is the concern.
The problem is that quality can vary drastically from unit to unit... What do you do to make sure you get the sort of high-quality display that'll last you through the next couple hardware upgrades?
You haven't exactly defined quality, so I'll assume you mean accurate color rendering.
In this case you want a monitor like a LaCie or Sony Artisan Series, both of which come with a calibration device.
Other monitors by NEC and Mitsubishi sometimes come with calibration color strips you can lay over your monitor while displaying preset colors from a software application.
Failing a device or software and strip, one can load a browser while using the monitor and head to EasyRGB where you can attempt to calibrate it. I've just calibrated my monitor by matching it to my office wall, which I recently painted in Benjamin Moore "Buckland Blue." (RGB values of 95 134 150)
funnily enough I flew to the US 4 months ago on one of Virgins new A600 Airbuses
Maybe it was an A340-600. I don't think the A600 is yet a glint in the eye of Airbus...
A war photo that is altered so the depiction is inaccurate is unacceptable on any scale.
What if the photographer altered two photos to create an image he actually saw, but was not able to capture?
I think this is a case of a knee-jerk reaction on the part of the LA Times editor. There was no falsehood expressed, and the photographer's alteration is certainly orders of magnatude more superficial than the Bush Administration's claims that this war is to free the Iraqi people...
Stavatti, a sort of "free market" defense contractor
I think it means that the market is free to ignore them - they don't seem to have any products...
Umm... why? Seriously, I'm not trolling. Are you against the company for what its current actions are, or are you against them because they hold values that are incompatible with your own which produce actions with which you don't agree?
It's not that I'm against Con-Agra in particular; looking at their list of brands, I see that I've probably given them a good $50 throughout my lifetime. I really don't buy prepared foods in general though, and a large part of the reason for that is because of what such corps do to the environment and how they treat their labor. (Always having lived within walking distance of Co-Ops or Whole Foods type stores has helped too.)
It's more that I'm picky about who I invest in. Almost every major company has few pilot projects aimed at improving the environment. They look good in annual reports and give the company newsletter something happy and morale-building to write about. If, however, ConAgra decides that recycling their waste is a good idea for all their facilities, I'll take it as a sign that they are changing their business to prepare for a future of scarce natural resources and stricter environmental controls.
Such a move on their part, regardless of their motives (cheaper energy, decreased liability insurance, tax incentives, care for environment) would seriously prompt me to invest in them. Since reading "Cradle to Cradle," I've actually considered buying stock in Ford. I've certainly been reading everything I can about them and "F" is on my watch list.
And such a move might prompt me to pick up a package of Hebrew National Hot Dogs. ("We Answer to a Higher Calling") I haven't had a hot dog in ages...
PS. The Man fired me in January
But [James Stoffer] added that while the plant may be a "tough go" economically, it's worth the investment because of what it promises for the environment.
If such companies actually paid fines for breaking environmental laws by polluting with livestock wastes, they would not find reprocessing a "tough go" economically. Unfortunately, the EPA doesn't have the balls to go after even the most blatant of violators, and thus the food-processors get away with murder.
When Con-Agra rolls out such zero-emissions factories everywhere (As William McDonough writes of in Cradle to Cradle) I will happily invest in their stock and buy their products.
"Why aren't the 240T's with, say, eight dead pixels sold at a different price? I understand the issues with the manufacturing of these displays, that if they were to reject all but those without dead pixels the cost would be prohibitively expensive, but why can't they just count the number of dead pixels and set a price accordingly."
Tell me, when was the last time you saw a dead pixel in an LCD? Have you seen a dead pixel in anything manufactured in the last three years? I certainly haven't, and I bet I've looked at a few hundred LCDs of various sorts.
I've never found composite out on video cards useful for anything but watching movies. All the video cards I've ever tried try and compress a desktop of 800*600 or 1024*768 so that it fits on a TV. Of course this looks like shit.
What I'd like to do is somehow send the native resolution of the TV. Is this possible? Especially with a little LCD TV screen. I mean, what a waste, having an LCD where the image is unreadable.