The protocol spoken by the Mimio has been reverse-engineered, and you can find information on it by weaving your way around http://digiwb.spline.de/. Unfortunately, all discussion on the development of drivers has apparently stopped.
I have written a small driver in Perl for my own use, but came into a few problems: The whiteboard likes to spew junk into its datastream; just enough to mess up the entire queue. Additionally, there are certain areas on the board (approx 30cm from each of the sound sensors) where the data sent from the Mimio is completely bogus. Perfecting a driver would require a bit of error-correction hackery that I just got too lazy to do:)
Note that I said it wasn't the "greatest", not that it wasn't useful.
For chrissakes; he had three points and I was forced to make up whatever it was I could to refute his third point, regardless of the merit of my argument. Can you really blame me?
In a related press release, John M. Trani, CEO of Stanley Tools, attacked the current prolification of so-called "tool-less" ATX cases, stating that current ATX case designers "don't understand that people need the opportunity to commercialize tools".
"If there is not commercialization there, a company can only exist based on ancillary toolmaking services. If commercialization was cut down, investors would not support screwdriver research and development in the hardware sector, less wrenches would be developed, less taxes paid and the government would have less money to buy more hammers" said Trani.
Flash definitely has bad implementations as well as good implementations; I'm by no means advocating 100% use, but sometimes the flexibility of Flash allows a better UI.
Anyway, to counter some of your statements: 1) Flash can be dynamic. Check out JGenerator, an open source, Apache-style licensed dynamic generator for flash at http://www.flashgap.com/ 2) Any intelligent developer will know to keep their content seperate from their presentation, and should be able to create alternate interfaces, such as plain HTML. 3) The "back" button really isn't the greatest paradigm (motif) to begin with. The only purpose for its use is for sites with poor navigation, where users can tend to get lost in a maze of subpages with no clear way to get back to where they were.
At low speeds, the elasticity of the magnets or balls isn't much of an issue as the ball clicks up against the next magnet. However, towards the end of your gun, with the balls striking the magnets at ever-increasing speeds, I think you'd start shattering everything.
I can't quite give a rundown of which browsers support it, but the browser will advertise its capability to support it in its request headers (for example: "Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress"). This is part of the HTTP/1.1 compliance standard, so it should be in any browser from 1999 or later.
It's quite simple to install with Apache. Also, the logging options of mod_gzip allow you to see just how much bandwidth savings you're getting and/or if the requesting browser will support the request, so just a little homework will give you all the information you need to know.
In either case, an analogy would be to place multiple crystals stacked together into one laser, and stimulating all of them. If you assume that there are no diffraction problems, and that they all emit at roughly the same period, you have a very crude multi-chromatic laser.
Yeah, but isn't the point to be able to control each of these frequencies seperately?
When I wrote my senator and representative regarding the DMCA, they both told me that the DMCA was passed in order to come into conformity with an earlier-passed WIPO treaty.
Probably a cop-out, but nonetheless potentially confusing to your lawmakers (you can be sure they feel the pressure to pass the law...).
the performer shall, as regards his live aural performances or perfomances fixed in phonograms, have the right... to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of his performances that would be prejudicial to his reputation.
So, for example, if I take a video of Eminem and pick out the more inflammatory parts, under the rules of fair use, to demonstrate his use of hate speech... this would be illegal?
Sysadmin A, whom didn't take the time to check the security of his mail server, is complaining about sysadmin B whom doesn't take the time to maintain his spam list?
Please tell me what company you work for. I'd like to see how well-maintained and secure your systems, apparently employed by some type of financial company, really are.
...or feel free to move your mailserver to another IP or subnet if you can't get it unblocked. Testing it could be a pain in the butt, but isn't the spam that you let through a pain in the butt also?
Panasonic sells a web camera (e.g. just plug the ethernet cable in) that can be had for around $350 which includes pan (~120 degrees) and tilt (~90 degrees). It also allows you to wite in up to four "detectors", such as latches, buttons, motion sensors, etc.
Mind you the software shipped with the device is Windows-only. However, there has been some effort made in understanding the Mimio protocol which can be found at the "GNU/Digiwb" site: http://digiwb.spline.de/
At one point in time I also developed a very rudimentary driver written in perl which is available here. Very rough around the edges, but it's a start.
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If I look at the text using Mozilla 0.9.7 as HTML or as source I see question marks where the apostrophes should be. If I save it as HTML and look at it, the apostrophes are replaced with �.
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Timothy's text isn't Latin-1 compliant; most likely due to his use of a Microsoft editor to write his article. For Linux users like myself please turn off the smart quotes if you insist on using a Microsoft editor to write your articles.
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I think you're overestimating the size or importance of Tuvalu, which is just a couple of specs in the ocean (and around 10,000 inhabitants). Tuvalu could rebuild its internet/IT infrastructure if Verisign simply donated to them the used equipment that they throw away.
The country basically lives off a trust fund established years ago, and makes money from selling off phone numbers from its 900 area code and (previously) its.tv domain.
The only time that iPlanet's multithreadedness is going to help you is if you're serving static content and you're looking at raw hits being transmitted. If you have that type of performance issue, then you look into using Squid in its accelerator proxy mode.
Aside from that, the inflexibilities in iPlanet, and the terrible method of configuration for it, just makes it completely inferior to Apache.
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The protocol spoken by the Mimio has been reverse-engineered, and you can find information on it by weaving your way around http://digiwb.spline.de/. Unfortunately, all discussion on the development of drivers has apparently stopped.
:)
I have written a small driver in Perl for my own use, but came into a few problems: The whiteboard likes to spew junk into its datastream; just enough to mess up the entire queue. Additionally, there are certain areas on the board (approx 30cm from each of the sound sensors) where the data sent from the Mimio is completely bogus. Perfecting a driver would require a bit of error-correction hackery that I just got too lazy to do
Note that I said it wasn't the "greatest", not that it wasn't useful.
For chrissakes; he had three points and I was forced to make up whatever it was I could to refute his third point, regardless of the merit of my argument. Can you really blame me?
In a related press release, John M. Trani, CEO of Stanley Tools, attacked the current prolification of so-called "tool-less" ATX cases, stating that current ATX case designers "don't understand that people need the opportunity to commercialize tools".
"If there is not commercialization there, a company can only exist based on ancillary toolmaking services. If commercialization was cut down, investors would not support screwdriver research and development in the hardware sector, less wrenches would be developed, less taxes paid and the government would have less money to buy more hammers" said Trani.
Flash definitely has bad implementations as well as good implementations; I'm by no means advocating 100% use, but sometimes the flexibility of Flash allows a better UI.
Anyway, to counter some of your statements:
1) Flash can be dynamic. Check out JGenerator, an open source, Apache-style licensed dynamic generator for flash at http://www.flashgap.com/
2) Any intelligent developer will know to keep their content seperate from their presentation, and should be able to create alternate interfaces, such as plain HTML.
3) The "back" button really isn't the greatest paradigm (motif) to begin with. The only purpose for its use is for sites with poor navigation, where users can tend to get lost in a maze of subpages with no clear way to get back to where they were.
Appears that their quarterly revenues in 2001 were around 2 million. 450K would do a lot to help that.
At low speeds, the elasticity of the magnets or balls isn't much of an issue as the ball clicks up against the next magnet. However, towards the end of your gun, with the balls striking the magnets at ever-increasing speeds, I think you'd start shattering everything.
I can't quite give a rundown of which browsers support it, but the browser will advertise its capability to support it in its request headers (for example: "Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress"). This is part of the HTTP/1.1 compliance standard, so it should be in any browser from 1999 or later.
It's quite simple to install with Apache. Also, the logging options of mod_gzip allow you to see just how much bandwidth savings you're getting and/or if the requesting browser will support the request, so just a little homework will give you all the information you need to know.
Anyway, most of your answers are here.
- In either case, an analogy would be to place multiple crystals stacked together into one laser, and stimulating all of them. If you assume that there are no diffraction problems, and that they all emit at roughly the same period, you have a very crude multi-chromatic laser.
Yeah, but isn't the point to be able to control each of these frequencies seperately?When I wrote my senator and representative regarding the DMCA, they both told me that the DMCA was passed in order to come into conformity with an earlier-passed WIPO treaty.
Probably a cop-out, but nonetheless potentially confusing to your lawmakers (you can be sure they feel the pressure to pass the law...).
- the performer shall, as regards his live aural performances or perfomances fixed in phonograms, have the right
... to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of his performances that would be prejudicial to his reputation.
So, for example, if I take a video of Eminem and pick out the more inflammatory parts, under the rules of fair use, to demonstrate his use of hate speechApparently US Customs doesn't have any such right, otherwise they'd be sending the letter themselves, and not Nintendo.
What happens when we all turn around and go home?
Sysadmin A, whom didn't take the time to check the security of his mail server, is complaining about sysadmin B whom doesn't take the time to maintain his spam list?
Please tell me what company you work for. I'd like to see how well-maintained and secure your systems, apparently employed by some type of financial company, really are.
...or feel free to move your mailserver to another IP or subnet if you can't get it unblocked. Testing it could be a pain in the butt, but isn't the spam that you let through a pain in the butt also?
That already exists. http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
See the "language tools" link.
- Something that'd use the knowledge that many Windows NT/2000/XP domain administrators already have...
Now THAT is a tough problem.When does the police officer arrest you? When you download files off his PDA?
Entrapment, perhaps?
Reminds me of a past cover of TPJ (dammit I can't find a bigger image!). The gravestone reads "Edward Estlin Cummings".
Perhaps brian d foy will face a similar fate.
Panasonic sells a web camera (e.g. just plug the ethernet cable in) that can be had for around $350 which includes pan (~120 degrees) and tilt (~90 degrees). It also allows you to wite in up to four "detectors", such as latches, buttons, motion sensors, etc.
Just search google for "panasonic web camera".
At one point in time I also developed a very rudimentary driver written in perl which is available here. Very rough around the edges, but it's a start.
If I look at the text using Mozilla 0.9.7 as HTML or as source I see question marks where the apostrophes should be. If I save it as HTML and look at it, the apostrophes are replaced with �.
Timothy's text isn't Latin-1 compliant; most likely due to his use of a Microsoft editor to write his article. For Linux users like myself please turn off the smart quotes if you insist on using a Microsoft editor to write your articles.
I think you're overestimating the size or importance of Tuvalu, which is just a couple of specs in the ocean (and around 10,000 inhabitants). Tuvalu could rebuild its internet/IT infrastructure if Verisign simply donated to them the used equipment that they throw away.
.tv domain.
The country basically lives off a trust fund established years ago, and makes money from selling off phone numbers from its 900 area code and (previously) its
Penny Arcade had a similarly logical take on McCloud's ideas.
The only time that iPlanet's multithreadedness is going to help you is if you're serving static content and you're looking at raw hits being transmitted. If you have that type of performance issue, then you look into using Squid in its accelerator proxy mode.
Aside from that, the inflexibilities in iPlanet, and the terrible method of configuration for it, just makes it completely inferior to Apache.
- But they've still got a lot of NS server software available for use at some point, if they can find a good use.
I gather that you've never used Netscape's iPlanet. Dude, it's so bad there is no use for it.