I know the HUD is cool and all, but given the limits of today's affordable technology, a forearm mounted display would be more practical. You could probably do that with an off the shelf PDA and network it to another wearble computer if you needed more CPU or storage. Hell, some PDAs are small and light enough to clip onto a hat. Get maybe something like a Sony UX40 for $500. It's a tiny clamshell PalmOS PDA, weighs 6 oz and has a 640x480 camera. Clip it onto some headgear and tada! instant HUD. If you need more processing power, network it over Bluetooth to a faster system in your backpack.
"$210 I currently pay for my 3Mbps/1Mbps small business connection"
Are there any restrictions on your small business service like running servers or reselling service? Residential broadband service has those restrictions plus upstream bandwidth is shared with other customers. You know it's shared and oversubscribed because they reserve the right to disconnect bandwidth hogs. That $210 is a third the price of a T1. With that you usually get a block of 15 IPs and no restrictions on servers, reselling service, or monthly usage caps.
The Via C3 is seriously underpowered (har!) for desktop use. Really, it would get spanked by a P-III Coppermine which are pretty energy efficient already, 20-30W. It does have a FPU, but the earlier C3's ran the FPU at half the clock speed. The newer ones run the FPU at full clock speed, but it's still not very powerful. It's fine for embedded applications where it has just enough power like small servers and home theater PCs that play videos. It also helps that they built co-processors for MPEG decoding and AES encryption into the motherboard chipsets. Via know who the target market is, and full powered desktop CPUs it is not.
The difference is that xvid and divx are both implementations of MPEG4 which is patented. The decoders are mostly compatible with each other's files. Vorbis is completely different from MP3 and AAC, and it's unencumbered by patents. Of course, I don't doubt the MPEG-LA would sue them anyway if Vorbis got popular enough to be a threat to MP3.
That's because the highest speed officially supported by motherboard chipsets is DDR400. Anything higher is overclocked and unsupported. Of course that doesn't mean that it can't run an overclocked memory bus reliably, and the DDR RAM itself can be rated to run at higher speeds. High end video cards have run faster memory bus speeds for years. If you mean your BIOS menu has not overclocking options for CPU or memory bus, that's a limit of the motherboard, but you still might be able to overclock through software like with Speedfan.
"Personally, I think the simplest solution would be to extensively scrutinize any male of Middle Eastern descent, aged 12-62."
Wrong. While you're profiling Middle Eastern males, the threat is already evolving. The Palestineans have sent many women suicide bombers to Israel. Richard Reid? He was British.
You're right. The engineers call it Brake Specific Fuel Consumption, commonly measured in pounds of fuel consumed per horsepower per hour. "The best (lowest) brake number always occurs at peak torque where the engine is most efficient."
The problem is that this is measured at full throttle, and cars don't need full throttle power at the torque peak to cruise at speed. Small throttle openings are less efficient because of pumping losses with the intake restriction (diesels don't have this problem). A single purpose car for this contest could be optimized for efficiency by having just enough power to maintain speed running full throttle at the torque peak in the highest gear, but it wouldn't be very practical. You'd have a little reserve power by revving over the torque peak (power peak is usually higher than the torque peak) but not much. Throw in a hill or a headwind, and you might not make the 15mph minimum speed requirement.
That's the scenario in Canada with cigarettes. The taxes on them are so high that robbers holding up convenience stores don't even bother with the cash. They grab the cigarettes.
This is definitely the smart response to people downloading his movies. If your message is sticking it to "The Man" then you can't be "The Man" yourself. Let's review-
The correct response by a counterculture icon to copyright infringement:
Offspring selling Napster logo caps and t-shirts
The incorrent response by a counterculture icon to copyright infringement:
Metallica and Dr Dre suing Napster to cancel their fans' accounts and stop downloads of their songs.
Toshiba, Dell and everybody else doing mail order know how their boxes get treated by the shippers and design their packaging accordingly. We ship computers with UPS and Fedex all the time, and we never had a problem shipping in the original packaging. I've heard stories about boxes with forklift holes and tire tracks on them, and I've also seen the results of inadequate packaging. I know it's a huge waste of space, but just save the original box and foam. If you pack it in that, 95% of the time it gets there safe.
My extra system still has a Coppermine Celeron 700Mhz overclocked to 1050Mhz. It was cheap at the time, $40, and fast enough for what I needed. The P4 Celerons are a terrible value for the money with Athlon XPs selling for under $100. The only geeks who'd have one were probably the ones who bought a sub-$300 Dell 400SC server to use for a desktop.
That and finding feline names that aren't already trademarked: Cougar, Puma, Cheetah, and Lynx are all taken, but if nobody complained about Jaguar, then maybe another automotive name like Cougar won't matter either. There's still Leopard, Ocelot and Lion.
It does happen. Roxio Easy CD Creator kept crashing my Windows XP until I installed the update. Gravis gamepad drivers (GRIP protocol) used to crash my Windows 2000 all the time, and they never did fix those drivers. OK, so buggy apps and drivers aren't Microsoft code, but still, it shouldn't be happening.
Small problem with this. If you send a payload up the elevator without sending and equal mass down the elevator, you change the center of mass of the system. Every load you send up pulls down the top of the elevator a little bit. You'll either need to boost the top of the platform or you'll need a huge counterweight in orbit so the mass of payloads is negligible compared to the mass of the counterweight. I'm sure these guys know more physics than I do, so I really hope they have an answer for this small problem.
Believe me I know. Even technies who know better can be lazy about antivirus software or OS updates, but they'll still understand the different between "Hey, your computer's not patched and it has old virus defs. It *could* get infected" and "HEY YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED. If you plug in to the LAN you WILL spread this virus."
I have a bunch of software developers at work. They insist on running their test servers in a workgroup or their test domain. These are people who should know better, but I could remind them about Windows Update and antivirus defs until I'm blue in the face, and they're still unpatched. I finally moved them to their own restricted subnet where they can't infect the rest of us.
It sounds like they have good intentions with this "network security" software and not bad intentions to snoop on the students, but once installed the agent basically has administrator rights on that Windows box. There's a chance the agent could be subverted by a corrupt administrator, the school administration, or an outside attacker with less good intentions.
There's a simpler way to fix this without the Big Brother risks. Block all the Netbios ports on the student dorm LAN and transparent proxy all outgoing SMTP to a virus scanning gateway. This will take care of 99% of the network scanning and mass mailing worms. Do students really need to see each other's file shares? Regardless of the risk from network worms, file shares with weak passwords can be a huge privacy risk. It's ridiculously easy to snoop around. Start -> Run -> \\IP address\C$ then try administrator:password and administrator:blank password.
The control everything approach of forced antivirus updates and forced OS updates works well if you own everything on the network, but it just doesn't work on a dorm LAN with privately owned computers.
There was already a Firefox movie in 1982. Clint Eastwood played a fighter pilot sent on a mission to the Soviet Union to steal an advanced protoype jet fighter. It looked pretty cool when I saw it as a kid, but then all farfetched action shows looked cool at the time too: Knight Rider, A-Team. Now they're just sad when I see reruns.
People freak out when you talk about methanol fuel cells, but then forget the mini bottles of liquor on the airplane's drink cart have just an much alcohol. Those people probably wouldn't think twice about carrying around 1L bottles of 151 proof rum or 190 proof grain alcohol.
Gateway has all in one systems too and with full powered desktop processors too. I don't see this being very useful for PCs. The base on most LCD monitors is already big and heavy enough to fit some decent desktop CPU hardware. Have you looked at a monitor base? It's all dead weight to balance to LCD panel.
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I know the HUD is cool and all, but given the limits of today's affordable technology, a forearm mounted display would be more practical. You could probably do that with an off the shelf PDA and network it to another wearble computer if you needed more CPU or storage. Hell, some PDAs are small and light enough to clip onto a hat. Get maybe something like a Sony UX40 for $500. It's a tiny clamshell PalmOS PDA, weighs 6 oz and has a 640x480 camera. Clip it onto some headgear and tada! instant HUD. If you need more processing power, network it over Bluetooth to a faster system in your backpack.
"$210 I currently pay for my 3Mbps/1Mbps small business connection"
Are there any restrictions on your small business service like running servers or reselling service? Residential broadband service has those restrictions plus upstream bandwidth is shared with other customers. You know it's shared and oversubscribed because they reserve the right to disconnect bandwidth hogs. That $210 is a third the price of a T1. With that you usually get a block of 15 IPs and no restrictions on servers, reselling service, or monthly usage caps.
The Via C3 is seriously underpowered (har!) for desktop use. Really, it would get spanked by a P-III Coppermine which are pretty energy efficient already, 20-30W. It does have a FPU, but the earlier C3's ran the FPU at half the clock speed. The newer ones run the FPU at full clock speed, but it's still not very powerful. It's fine for embedded applications where it has just enough power like small servers and home theater PCs that play videos. It also helps that they built co-processors for MPEG decoding and AES encryption into the motherboard chipsets. Via know who the target market is, and full powered desktop CPUs it is not.
or you could run GNU and other open source software on Windows. There's already a Gentoo on Cygwin project too.
The difference is that xvid and divx are both implementations of MPEG4 which is patented. The decoders are mostly compatible with each other's files. Vorbis is completely different from MP3 and AAC, and it's unencumbered by patents. Of course, I don't doubt the MPEG-LA would sue them anyway if Vorbis got popular enough to be a threat to MP3.
He didn't happen to work for Pinkerton, did he?
That's because the highest speed officially supported by motherboard chipsets is DDR400. Anything higher is overclocked and unsupported. Of course that doesn't mean that it can't run an overclocked memory bus reliably, and the DDR RAM itself can be rated to run at higher speeds. High end video cards have run faster memory bus speeds for years. If you mean your BIOS menu has not overclocking options for CPU or memory bus, that's a limit of the motherboard, but you still might be able to overclock through software like with Speedfan.
"Personally, I think the simplest solution would be to extensively scrutinize any male of Middle Eastern descent, aged 12-62."
Wrong. While you're profiling Middle Eastern males, the threat is already evolving. The Palestineans have sent many women suicide bombers to Israel. Richard Reid? He was British.
Didn't work for me either. I already have the Windows Media Player plugin and tried faking the User Agent to be IE6 on Windows XP.
You're right. The engineers call it Brake Specific Fuel Consumption, commonly measured in pounds of fuel consumed per horsepower per hour. "The best (lowest) brake number always occurs at peak torque where the engine is most efficient."
The problem is that this is measured at full throttle, and cars don't need full throttle power at the torque peak to cruise at speed. Small throttle openings are less efficient because of pumping losses with the intake restriction (diesels don't have this problem). A single purpose car for this contest could be optimized for efficiency by having just enough power to maintain speed running full throttle at the torque peak in the highest gear, but it wouldn't be very practical. You'd have a little reserve power by revving over the torque peak (power peak is usually higher than the torque peak) but not much. Throw in a hill or a headwind, and you might not make the 15mph minimum speed requirement.
That's the scenario in Canada with cigarettes. The taxes on them are so high that robbers holding up convenience stores don't even bother with the cash. They grab the cigarettes.
You forgot the "legendary final battle between Neo and Smith"
Yeah, I've seen that fight before. It was ripped straight from Superman II.
This is definitely the smart response to people downloading his movies. If your message is sticking it to "The Man" then you can't be "The Man" yourself. Let's review-
The correct response by a counterculture icon to copyright infringement:
Offspring selling Napster logo caps and t-shirts
The incorrent response by a counterculture icon to copyright infringement:
Metallica and Dr Dre suing Napster to cancel their fans' accounts and stop downloads of their songs.
Toshiba, Dell and everybody else doing mail order know how their boxes get treated by the shippers and design their packaging accordingly. We ship computers with UPS and Fedex all the time, and we never had a problem shipping in the original packaging. I've heard stories about boxes with forklift holes and tire tracks on them, and I've also seen the results of inadequate packaging. I know it's a huge waste of space, but just save the original box and foam. If you pack it in that, 95% of the time it gets there safe.
For something really strange, try KDE on Cygwin. Konqueror on Windows.
My extra system still has a Coppermine Celeron 700Mhz overclocked to 1050Mhz. It was cheap at the time, $40, and fast enough for what I needed. The P4 Celerons are a terrible value for the money with Athlon XPs selling for under $100. The only geeks who'd have one were probably the ones who bought a sub-$300 Dell 400SC server to use for a desktop.
That and finding feline names that aren't already trademarked: Cougar, Puma, Cheetah, and Lynx are all taken, but if nobody complained about Jaguar, then maybe another automotive name like Cougar won't matter either. There's still Leopard, Ocelot and Lion.
It does happen. Roxio Easy CD Creator kept crashing my Windows XP until I installed the update. Gravis gamepad drivers (GRIP protocol) used to crash my Windows 2000 all the time, and they never did fix those drivers. OK, so buggy apps and drivers aren't Microsoft code, but still, it shouldn't be happening.
Fireworks don't use rockets to launch the shells, they use mortars. Think roman candle, not bottle rocket.
Small problem with this. If you send a payload up the elevator without sending and equal mass down the elevator, you change the center of mass of the system. Every load you send up pulls down the top of the elevator a little bit. You'll either need to boost the top of the platform or you'll need a huge counterweight in orbit so the mass of payloads is negligible compared to the mass of the counterweight. I'm sure these guys know more physics than I do, so I really hope they have an answer for this small problem.
Believe me I know. Even technies who know better can be lazy about antivirus software or OS updates, but they'll still understand the different between "Hey, your computer's not patched and it has old virus defs. It *could* get infected" and "HEY YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED. If you plug in to the LAN you WILL spread this virus."
I have a bunch of software developers at work. They insist on running their test servers in a workgroup or their test domain. These are people who should know better, but I could remind them about Windows Update and antivirus defs until I'm blue in the face, and they're still unpatched. I finally moved them to their own restricted subnet where they can't infect the rest of us.
It sounds like they have good intentions with this "network security" software and not bad intentions to snoop on the students, but once installed the agent basically has administrator rights on that Windows box. There's a chance the agent could be subverted by a corrupt administrator, the school administration, or an outside attacker with less good intentions.
There's a simpler way to fix this without the Big Brother risks. Block all the Netbios ports on the student dorm LAN and transparent proxy all outgoing SMTP to a virus scanning gateway. This will take care of 99% of the network scanning and mass mailing worms. Do students really need to see each other's file shares? Regardless of the risk from network worms, file shares with weak passwords can be a huge privacy risk. It's ridiculously easy to snoop around. Start -> Run -> \\IP address\C$ then try administrator:password and administrator:blank password.
The control everything approach of forced antivirus updates and forced OS updates works well if you own everything on the network, but it just doesn't work on a dorm LAN with privately owned computers.
There was already a Firefox movie in 1982. Clint Eastwood played a fighter pilot sent on a mission to the Soviet Union to steal an advanced protoype jet fighter. It looked pretty cool when I saw it as a kid, but then all farfetched action shows looked cool at the time too: Knight Rider, A-Team. Now they're just sad when I see reruns.
People freak out when you talk about methanol fuel cells, but then forget the mini bottles of liquor on the airplane's drink cart have just an much alcohol. Those people probably wouldn't think twice about carrying around 1L bottles of 151 proof rum or 190 proof grain alcohol.
Gateway has all in one systems too and with full powered desktop processors too. I don't see this being very useful for PCs. The base on most LCD monitors is already big and heavy enough to fit some decent desktop CPU hardware. Have you looked at a monitor base? It's all dead weight to balance to LCD panel.