This is somewhat similar to statements that he made to The Telegraph in October of 2001:
"The human race is likely to be wiped out by a doomsday virus before the Millennium is out, unless we set up colonies in space, Prof Stephen Hawking warns today."
3 hours may be very optimistic. I saw a quote earlier today that said the battery life was estimated at 1.7 hours, which is less than one DVD's worth of movie.
Most of the complaints against HP printers surrounds their replacement cartridge prices. Looks like, from the Forbes article that the new ones will be in the $10 price range. Curious to see how they turn this into their new cash cow. (Maybe 6 really, really low-capacity cartridges?)
No one else has posted it yet, so I just had to. s/GM/Ford to make it more current:
If Microsoft made cars...
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr Welch himself, The GM CEO): If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to
buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would
have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable,
five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run
on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be
replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the
door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they
neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option
would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or
more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the
Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn
how to drive all over again because none of the controls would
operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
Well not exactly 40+ years old yet. But I'll agree that it has aged well since 1969, and the facelifts have been very good for the product and the user community.
Actually I do know. Had the problem many people did with the original PS2 in that it would not play DVD games, or blue surface disks. Would still play regular CD based PS1 or PS2 games.
My PS2 was out of warranty by several months and I found out that a number of others were having the same problem (not on/.). on a game platform forum. I called Sony, explained the "Disk Read Error" issue I was having and they attempted to talk me thru a "fix". It didn't work, so at that point they said that since the couldn't "figure out" what my problem was, they would waive the $150 repair fee, even though it was out of warranty.
A number of people have posted repair information for this problem over the last couple of years that you can do yourself, if you have the technical skills.
Obviously you didn't read my post, as small as it was -- but hell, this is/., so what else would you expect?
Just as soon as they release the information surrounding the Disk Read errors on the Original Playstation 2 which was a result of a calibration issue with the laser on DVD / Blue disks.
I currently use an old laptop running FC2 with an 802.11b connection back to my "linux server" where all our music CD's have been ripped. The laptop connects to the USB speaker input on the surround sound receiver. Works rather well for setting up playlists, and not needing to swap CD's in and out of the real CD player magazine.
Two issues with this setup: (1) 2.4Ghz microwave over, and (2) 2.4Ghz cordless phone. You can't make popcorn or talk on the phone and stream the music at the same time! I suppose it's sort of a "mute" feature....
I installed it about an hour or so ago (home pc), and have some 22,000 items indexed, which includes a portion of my work Outlook email (VPN connection, died -- looks like network is down). Searches are very quick, and it's nice that a regular google search checks your desktop search as well. I wish, like every one else that it would search my firefox cache, since I don't use IE at all except for updates. I would rarely need to search my web cache, so that's not a huge problem. Hopefully a future release will add pdf and gmail support as well. For me, IM history is not an issue since we use it so infrequently.
Will install on work PC next week - curious if it follows mapped network drives as well. Maybe I'll finally be able to find the files I've been looking for over the past two years!
She does medical transcription at home for the OB/Gyn clinic she works for. When the doctors dictate a referral letter, they need to proof it before it goes out in the mail. So she takes to the office on floppy, makes corrections if necessary and sends 'em out.
These are just small word documents, way too much to waste a CD on.
We're about 6 months into our 4 year lease of the OpenVMS cluster, 4 ES47's with 7Tb of storage. Built like a tank, runs forever, and is an excellent Oracle DB server. Problem is the OS isn't a commody operating system, and not much runs on it any more (that we need). Our vendors are dropping support for the platform as well, so the move is on to start a migration plan, probably to linux.
Have run alpha's for a long time, and they are still screamers. Problem is, you'll scream, then have a heart attack at the HP prices. Our current environment mentioned about was around $1.5M.
I've been getting 503 errors for Slasdot as well for the last 15 or 20 minutes. It just came back but rather sluggish. Tried it both at home and at work and saw the same problem. Google from home (bellsouth.net) works OK.
We just started our 4 year lease cycle on a 4 node OpenVMS Alpha Cluster. We're primarly an Oracle shop, and use the servers for our databases, but the cost is becoming prohibitive and are now looking at the prospect of a *nix migration at the end of this lease. Leaning toward linux because the TCO numbers look better, but a number of people will need to "re-tool" their OS sysadmin skills. OpenVMS is on hell of a reliable OS, but you sure can't describe it as a commodity OS -- so much doesn't run on it. Had we been a unix shop, or if Oracle 9iAS were available for OpenVMS, we could have hosted the application on existing hardware but instead had to purchase several W2k boxen to do the same job.
I have a background in Oracle, Unix, Linux and OpenVMS so have "acquired" the task of figuring out our strategy. Really fun actually!
We probably have a 50/50 mix of PS1/PS2 games. The old ones were left-overs from the long since dead PS1. My son regulary pulls out some of the old RPG games (and PS1 memory card). Still running just fine and now on the 2'nd PS2!
Backward compatability was and still is a huge selling point for the Playstation 2.
That only implies direct interference, if you were to look at the even/odd harmonics for those frequencies then the "potential" for interference could be greater. I'm a geek and broadband kinda person, and enjoy my DSL. This might turn out to be a wonderful last mile solution, but the concern from a ham radio perspective is that if it does cause wide spread interference then there's the possiblity of impact to the emergency services provided by amateur radio. Just a thought from a "Ham"
I was a Sr. Oracle DBA, working for contract electronics manufacturing firm (CEM). We specialized (unfortunately) in Telcom, and the group I was with was in fact outsourced from a large telecommunications company. With the industry turn down, a number of the CEM sites were force to close and ours in North Carolina was one of them.
I had posted my resume on Monster, Hotjobs and Dice at the time -- actually about 2 months earlier to sort of feel out the market. Didn't want to leave early, since there were serious incentives to stay through your scheduled termination date. About 2 weeks prior to my last day I was approached by a local recruiting agency with an opportunity for a DBA with OpenVMS skills. Interviewed and was hired and started with them about a month later. Talked with the recruiter and they indicated they had found my resume on jobs.com which is Monster.
So I guess I had a positive experience with them, but this was in March of 2002.The unfortunate thing is that I now get what I consider spam from hotjobs, havent' been able to get off their email lists, and I now just let Mozilla dump them automatically in the spam bucked.
Slashdot Mirror
It's available on the ftp site so the mirrors get updated before the official release tomorrow:
r efox/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/
http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/fi
-- Rick
This is somewhat similar to statements that he made to The Telegraph in October of 2001:
e ws/2001/10/16/nhawk16.xml
"The human race is likely to be wiped out by a doomsday virus before the Millennium is out, unless we set up colonies in space, Prof Stephen Hawking warns today."
See the article at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n
Does anyone know what the maximum plate voltage is for a Nano tube?
Also looking for a socket supplier, can't find any on E-Bay.
Thanks,
Rick
See this PC World article
-- Rick
what article? -- looks like it's missing to me, but this is /. so reading it is actually a secondary requirement.
Most of the complaints against HP printers surrounds their replacement cartridge prices. Looks like, from the Forbes article that the new ones will be in the $10 price range. Curious to see how they turn this into their new cash cow. (Maybe 6 really, really low-capacity cartridges?)
No one else has posted it yet, so I just had to. s/GM/Ford to make it more current:
If Microsoft made cars...
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release
stating (by Mr Welch himself, The GM CEO): If GM had developed
technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the
following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to
buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason,
and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause
your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would
have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought
"Car95" or "CarNT." But then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable,
five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run
on five per cent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be
replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out
and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the
door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of
Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they
neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option
would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or
more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the
Justice Department.
12. Everytime GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn
how to drive all over again because none of the controls would
operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
Well not exactly 40+ years old yet. But I'll agree that it has aged well since 1969, and the facelifts have been very good for the product and the user community.
See:
The History of Unix
Actually I do know. Had the problem many people did with the original PS2 in that it would not play DVD games, or blue surface disks. Would still play regular CD based PS1 or PS2 games.
/.). on a game platform forum. I called Sony, explained the "Disk Read Error" issue I was having and they attempted to talk me thru a "fix". It didn't work, so at that point they said that since the couldn't "figure out" what my problem was, they would waive the $150 repair fee, even though it was out of warranty.
/., so what else would you expect?
My PS2 was out of warranty by several months and I found out that a number of others were having the same problem (not on
A number of people have posted repair information for this problem over the last couple of years that you can do yourself, if you have the technical skills.
Obviously you didn't read my post, as small as it was -- but hell, this is
Just as soon as they release the information surrounding the Disk Read errors on the Original Playstation 2 which was a result of a calibration issue with the laser on DVD / Blue disks.
I currently use an old laptop running FC2 with an 802.11b connection back to my "linux server" where all our music CD's have been ripped. The laptop connects to the USB speaker input on the surround sound receiver. Works rather well for setting up playlists, and not needing to swap CD's in and out of the real CD player magazine.
Two issues with this setup: (1) 2.4Ghz microwave over, and (2) 2.4Ghz cordless phone. You can't make popcorn or talk on the phone and stream the music at the same time! I suppose it's sort of a "mute" feature....
-- Rick
I installed it about an hour or so ago (home pc), and have some 22,000 items indexed, which includes a portion of my work Outlook email (VPN connection, died -- looks like network is down). Searches are very quick, and it's nice that a regular google search checks your desktop search as well. I wish, like every one else that it would search my firefox cache, since I don't use IE at all except for updates. I would rarely need to search my web cache, so that's not a huge problem. Hopefully a future release will add pdf and gmail support as well. For me, IM history is not an issue since we use it so infrequently.
Will install on work PC next week - curious if it follows mapped network drives as well. Maybe I'll finally be able to find the files I've been looking for over the past two years!
Actually, it was 2 additional passengers or the equivalent in weight.
She does medical transcription at home for the OB/Gyn clinic she works for. When the doctors dictate a referral letter, they need to proof it before it goes out in the mail. So she takes to the office on floppy, makes corrections if necessary and sends 'em out.
These are just small word documents, way too much to waste a CD on.
We're about 6 months into our 4 year lease of the OpenVMS cluster, 4 ES47's with 7Tb of storage. Built like a tank, runs forever, and is an excellent Oracle DB server. Problem is the OS isn't a commody operating system, and not much runs on it any more (that we need). Our vendors are dropping support for the platform as well, so the move is on to start a migration plan, probably to linux.
Have run alpha's for a long time, and they are still screamers. Problem is, you'll scream, then have a heart attack at the HP prices. Our current environment mentioned about was around $1.5M.
I've been getting 503 errors for Slasdot as well for the last 15 or 20 minutes. It just came back but rather sluggish. Tried it both at home and at work and saw the same problem. Google from home (bellsouth.net) works OK.
I had exactly the same problem, but had a couple bookmarked:
Ended up using All the Web.
There's also HotBot
We just started our 4 year lease cycle on a 4 node OpenVMS Alpha Cluster. We're primarly an Oracle shop, and use the servers for our databases, but the cost is becoming prohibitive and are now looking at the prospect of a *nix migration at the end of this lease. Leaning toward linux because the TCO numbers look better, but a number of people will need to "re-tool" their OS sysadmin skills. OpenVMS is on hell of a reliable OS, but you sure can't describe it as a commodity OS -- so much doesn't run on it. Had we been a unix shop, or if Oracle 9iAS were available for OpenVMS, we could have hosted the application on existing hardware but instead had to purchase several W2k boxen to do the same job.
I have a background in Oracle, Unix, Linux and OpenVMS so have "acquired" the task of figuring out our strategy. Really fun actually!
-- Rick
We probably have a 50/50 mix of PS1/PS2 games. The old ones were left-overs from the long since dead PS1. My son regulary pulls out some of the old RPG games (and PS1 memory card). Still running just fine and now on the 2'nd PS2!
Backward compatability was and still is a huge selling point for the Playstation 2.
-- Rick
At first glance I thought this had something to do with Evan Williams Kentucky Bourbon.
Thanks for reminding me to hit the liquor store on the way home.
I just looked, and the cached page link is there. Do you mean that they aren't caching links to CN sites?
Yep, DBA for the City. You must be familiar with the area.
"Neutrons are slippery little rascals," he said. "They can fool you. They can bounce and show up around corners you don't expect."
Yep, ran into three of them on the way to lunch this afternoon at the corner of Hargett and Fayetteville St.........
That only implies direct interference, if you were to look at the even/odd harmonics for those frequencies then the "potential" for interference could be greater. I'm a geek and broadband kinda person, and enjoy my DSL. This might turn out to be a wonderful last mile solution, but the concern from a ham radio perspective is that if it does cause wide spread interference then there's the possiblity of impact to the emergency services provided by amateur radio. Just a thought from a "Ham"
-- w1rww
I was a Sr. Oracle DBA, working for contract electronics manufacturing firm (CEM). We specialized (unfortunately) in Telcom, and the group I was with was in fact outsourced from a large telecommunications company. With the industry turn down, a number of the CEM sites were force to close and ours in North Carolina was one of them.
I had posted my resume on Monster, Hotjobs and Dice at the time -- actually about 2 months earlier to sort of feel out the market. Didn't want to leave early, since there were serious incentives to stay through your scheduled termination date. About 2 weeks prior to my last day I was approached by a local recruiting agency with an opportunity for a DBA with OpenVMS skills. Interviewed and was hired and started with them about a month later. Talked with the recruiter and they indicated they had found my resume on jobs.com which is Monster.
So I guess I had a positive experience with them, but this was in March of 2002.The unfortunate thing is that I now get what I consider spam from hotjobs, havent' been able to get off their email lists, and I now just let Mozilla dump them automatically in the spam bucked.