My 6620 is capable of responding to 13.56 MHz readers and may be capable of reading tags as well. Nokia has been working with Mastercard and others to bring payment and reward systems to mobile phone users. There is little information in Google, but the API is available. Check your Nokia 'wallet' function for RFID functionality.
They don't erase them! They're disposable! They go into the trash where any identity thief can load up! Not to mention people lose their keys all the time. You see them left all over the place in Vegas.
Seemed like a pretty straight-forward hippie festival; I'm cool with that. Then I get to this part:
Commerce Free Event.
No cash transactions are allowed at Burning Man... The only commerce that has been allowed are sales of coffee and ice at Center Camp, which benefit the local Gerlach-Empire school system...Besides this, participants must buy tickets to attend the event. Tickets are sold through the Burning Man ticket website.
At this point my irony meter pegs and I giggle incessantly through the remainder of the article.
Vending of ice is absolutely critical to the survival of Burning Man. Remember this is a survival trip before anything else. Participants are responsible for supplying everything they need to survive the harsh desert. Everyone is living for a week or more out of ice chests. If there was no way to replenish the ice, food would spoil, many people would likely get sick, and the event would have to be canceled. No profit is made by the BM org, and all proceeds are donated to the local school system.
It's unfortunate that anything has to be charged at all, but the ice is produced in Reno, 125 miles away, and has to be trucked in. That alone implies that there is a cost to the ice, and therefore has to be passed along to those consuming it.
The coffee I can't defend, but I think it's an attempt to keep Thunderdome from being overun by grouchy burners who haven't had their morning fix of joe.
I can find a lot of other reasons not to go to Burning Man. The most important reason would be that I don't like phony people.
Bahahahaha! Clueless wonder! Getting away from phony people is precisely the reason this was my 8th year at Burning Man. The expense and distance filter out all the crabby closed minded jerks who crap things they've never experienced. Move along. Move along.
Neurobiology and neuropsychology research have used these techniques for decades. Does this mean Sony is going to start sueing the researchers who pioneered the techniques? Prior art can be proven hundreds of times over, not to mention Sony hasn't created a damn thing. The article states '[The] patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."' 'Patented inspiration'? This is nothing more than abusing the patent system.
I work for Columbia as a sys admin and have been anticipating this for months. It's sure gonna beat our unreliable microwave link from the main campus. As it is, the current connection is pretty fast. I can download a full 700Meg.iso in under 10 minutes. I have a feeling after becoming jaded on the i2, the 3Mb/s cable modem at home is going to feel like 2400 baud!
The only thing I use prepackaged are the GNU tools. Everything else is built from source. There are too many compile time options, and building from source eliminates the problem of binarys being linked against a different lib than that is on the system. Plus auditing the configure and makefile before compilation ensure everything goes where *you* want it to.
If you want to send a powerful message to GameSpy, hit them where it hurts. Their wallet. Tell all their advertizers that you find GameSpy's behavior reprehensible, and that you will not support those who support GameSpy. Nothing will make them do a 180 faster!
Dude, it's quite apparent you're an idiot and have no f'ing clue what you're talking about. Why do you bother to post? Nowhere in the article did it mention DSPs or 'active' antennas. You just assumed thats how it's done. Even more annoying is the fact that you blindly speculate on the cost. No one cares about your guesses. Its drivel like this, that makes slashdot unbareable to read. This 'product' sounds like nothing more than on of those signal extender stickers for cell phones.
Great! Add a 'community' to a sweet new service and have all the know nothing posers from/. qweer it up. That's thinking ahead. Keep the loud and ignorant masses right here.
Any exec that thinks MPEG2 can deliver a 'perfect' copy, hasn't seen MPEG2. Compression artifacts regularly seen in DVDs and DSS are a huge step down from a clean analog or uncompressed digital source. Besides, 99% of the crap Hollywood puts out isn't worth spending disk space on anyway.
Write a nice letter to Fox and the sponsors telling them you don't want to see it canceled. It only takes a few positive responses to get them to turn it around.
I agree. I started with the first Slackware released by Walnut Creek (kernel 1.2.0). Since then I've tried the rest. Slackware is consistant, stable, and the easiest to manage. Red Hat managed to polute the distro pool by adding a bunch of premature 'admin tools' that teach you NOTHING about managing a machine. They have the corporate world convinced that theirs is the only distro for the large business environment. Nothing could be farther from the truth!
Every time I search news groups looking for the answer to a problem, I have to wade through hundreds of replys from know nothings telling me to install the latest RPM! THIS IS -NOT- ADMINISTRATION! It is the same mentality as blindly reinstalling Windows everytime it misbehaves.
If I had been hooked on a distro other than Slackware, I doubt I would have learned enough about UN!X systems to graduate to Solaris on SPARC, or learned how to patch, modify, or write programs in C++. Both have led to better jobs.
Check out the LART (Linux Advanced Radio Terminal) which is intended for these types of applications. www.lart.tudelft.nl. It's still in the ALPHA stage, but is very powerful and consumes less than 1W!!! The downside is making your own video capture and software to drive it.
Also look at Ricochet wireless modems. They have 28.8 in many places and 128K bps in major cities.
Both the LART and Ricochet should only weigh a few pounds.
Plans for this type of stuff can be found in the 'Amazing Devices' catalog at the back of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, and also in the book 'Phasers, Mazers, and Ion Ray Guns'. Their plans are crude but teach the basic principals. If you intend to play with this kind of stuff, KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!! Or don't do it all all.
This thing is the size of a brick! Mini (Mili) PC would be more appropriate. Micro is a stretch. Nano? A nano computer shold be small enough to embed in your skull.
But perhaps the worlds first microprocessor. The worlds first all solid state CPU, made from descrete logic, was built in 1960 for early fighter jet navigation. The unit had an 18 bit instruction/data path and 2Kb (thats bits!) of memory which at the time cost ~$1.00 a bit!
"would you rather have some bloated,compromised, resource hogging, buggy crap like Bind or sendmail on a 'mission critical' service like DNS or mail?"
What the hell are you talking about? Bloated? The sendmail 8.10.2 tar ball is only 1.2 Megs and BIND
8.x tar ball is only 1.3!!! You could fit either on a single floppy. Granted this is larger than djbdns, but this is no reason to abandon what is known to work, and work well. Has the djbdns code been audited? Has it been tested in a large scale comercial environment? I don't think its wise to just replace all the root servers with unproven software because of one currently unexploited bug. A bug that has already been patched.
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My 6620 is capable of responding to 13.56 MHz readers and may be capable of reading tags as well. Nokia has been working with Mastercard and others to bring payment and reward systems to mobile phone users. There is little information in Google, but the API is available. Check your Nokia 'wallet' function for RFID functionality.
It would reverse the effects of years of smoking pot??
They don't erase them! They're disposable! They go into the trash where any identity thief can load up! Not to mention people lose their keys all the time. You see them left all over the place in Vegas.
Seemed like a pretty straight-forward hippie festival; I'm cool with that. Then I get to this part:
Commerce Free Event.
No cash transactions are allowed at Burning Man... The only commerce that has been allowed are sales of coffee and ice at Center Camp, which benefit the local Gerlach-Empire school system...Besides this, participants must buy tickets to attend the event. Tickets are sold through the Burning Man ticket website.
At this point my irony meter pegs and I giggle incessantly through the remainder of the article.
Vending of ice is absolutely critical to the survival of Burning Man. Remember this is a survival trip before anything else. Participants are responsible for supplying everything they need to survive the harsh desert. Everyone is living for a week or more out of ice chests. If there was no way to replenish the ice, food would spoil, many people would likely get sick, and the event would have to be canceled. No profit is made by the BM org, and all proceeds are donated to the local school system.
It's unfortunate that anything has to be charged at all, but the ice is produced in Reno, 125 miles away, and has to be trucked in. That alone implies that there is a cost to the ice, and therefore has to be passed along to those consuming it.
The coffee I can't defend, but I think it's an attempt to keep Thunderdome from being overun by grouchy burners who haven't had their morning fix of joe.
I can find a lot of other reasons not to go to Burning Man. The most important reason would be that I don't like phony people.
Bahahahaha! Clueless wonder! Getting away from phony people is precisely the reason this was my 8th year at Burning Man. The expense and distance filter out all the crabby closed minded jerks who crap things they've never experienced. Move along. Move along.
How tired I am of starting a project, and having someone beat me to it. (sigh)
Neurobiology and neuropsychology research have used these techniques for decades. Does this mean Sony is going to start sueing the researchers who pioneered the techniques? Prior art can be proven hundreds of times over, not to mention Sony hasn't created a damn thing. The article states '[The] patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."' 'Patented inspiration'? This is nothing more than abusing the patent system.
I work for Columbia as a sys admin and have been anticipating this for months. It's sure gonna beat our unreliable microwave link from the main campus. As it is, the current connection is pretty fast. I can download a full 700Meg .iso in under 10 minutes. I have a feeling after becoming jaded on the i2, the 3Mb/s cable modem at home is going to feel like 2400 baud!
The only thing I use prepackaged are the GNU tools. Everything else is built from source. There are too many compile time options, and building from source eliminates the problem of binarys being linked against a different lib than that is on the system. Plus auditing the configure and makefile before compilation ensure everything goes where *you* want it to.
It doesn't get any worse than that.
If you want to send a powerful message to GameSpy, hit them where it hurts. Their wallet. Tell all their advertizers that you find GameSpy's behavior reprehensible, and that you will not support those who support GameSpy. Nothing will make them do a 180 faster!
Ultimately, it was a blood clot from sitting in front of the computer that killed my mom. I wish this had come out 18 months ago.
Dude, it's quite apparent you're an idiot and have no f'ing clue what you're talking about. Why do you bother to post? Nowhere in the article did it mention DSPs or 'active' antennas. You just assumed thats how it's done. Even more annoying is the fact that you blindly speculate on the cost. No one cares about your guesses. Its drivel like this, that makes slashdot unbareable to read. This 'product' sounds like nothing more than on of those signal extender stickers for cell phones.
Great! Add a 'community' to a sweet new service and have all the know nothing posers from /. qweer it up. That's thinking ahead. Keep the loud and ignorant masses right here.
It was decentralized until it became commercial, then it became hierarchical. The net as it is now is screwed if a few points get wacked.
Any exec that thinks MPEG2 can deliver a 'perfect' copy, hasn't seen MPEG2. Compression artifacts regularly seen in DVDs and DSS are a huge step down from a clean analog or uncompressed digital source. Besides, 99% of the crap Hollywood puts out isn't worth spending disk space on anyway.
They (record companies) seem determined to kill the goos that laid the golden egg. They'd rather have control than cash.
It should be a simple matter of routing the ppp connection through the hotsync port. Perhaps the palm-gnokii folks will include this as a palm app.
Write a nice letter to Fox and the sponsors telling them you don't want to see it canceled. It only takes a few positive responses to get them to turn it around.
Every time I search news groups looking for the answer to a problem, I have to wade through hundreds of replys from know nothings telling me to install the latest RPM! THIS IS -NOT- ADMINISTRATION! It is the same mentality as blindly reinstalling Windows everytime it misbehaves.
If I had been hooked on a distro other than Slackware, I doubt I would have learned enough about UN!X systems to graduate to Solaris on SPARC, or learned how to patch, modify, or write programs in C++. Both have led to better jobs.
Also look at Ricochet wireless modems. They have 28.8 in many places and 128K bps in major cities.
Both the LART and Ricochet should only weigh a few pounds.
Plans for this type of stuff can be found in the 'Amazing Devices' catalog at the back of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, and also in the book 'Phasers, Mazers, and Ion Ray Guns'. Their plans are crude but teach the basic principals. If you intend to play with this kind of stuff, KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!! Or don't do it all all.
This thing is the size of a brick! Mini (Mili) PC would be more appropriate. Micro is a stretch. Nano? A nano computer shold be small enough to embed in your skull.
But perhaps the worlds first microprocessor. The worlds first all solid state CPU, made from descrete logic, was built in 1960 for early fighter jet navigation. The unit had an 18 bit instruction/data path and 2Kb (thats bits!) of memory which at the time cost ~$1.00 a bit!
What the hell are you talking about? Bloated? The sendmail 8.10.2 tar ball is only 1.2 Megs and BIND 8.x tar ball is only 1.3!!! You could fit either on a single floppy. Granted this is larger than djbdns, but this is no reason to abandon what is known to work, and work well. Has the djbdns code been audited? Has it been tested in a large scale comercial environment? I don't think its wise to just replace all the root servers with unproven software because of one currently unexploited bug. A bug that has already been patched.