My local Fry's store is advertising a $60 window unit. I think it's a 5K BTU model. Should easily keep a single room cool all day without having to refill a water tank every 1-3 hours.
Basically, this guy moved his landlord's icebox "heat sink" into his room...
If you don't have a Fry's, you've probly got something else similar near by.
Will the latency of this link be low enough to support decent response times for VoIP?
If they're using a satellite link (they must be), then your loud Skype+headset conversation will be just as uncomfortable for you to use as it is for others around you to observe.
What about the impact of Greasemonkey? (Firefox is required.)
I've been mostly ignoring JavaScript for some time now. With many useful [browser-side, modify web pages locally to suit your presentation desires] Greasemonkey scripts available, however, and the relative ease of creating my own scripts to customise web pages I view, I'm suddenly very interested in JavaScript.
http://www.democracynow.org is a daily "radio show." They have all of their program content downloadable as MP3's, which you could burn to a CD and take with you. This does require preprocessing on your computer, but it doesn't take that long.
If you have an MP3 player you can use in the car, you could simply copy the MP3 file(s) over directly...
In addition to various people making suggestions here, can we take some of the better / more popular ones from this comment thread and make a/. poll on the front page?
While unscientific, you'd get some kind of gauge of what/. readers at large think of the answers presented here. (Many people don't bother to read the comments...)
Remember the story where Ford new full well about a defect where activation of the left turn signal could cause a gas tank explosion? This was on a vehicle where a lot of copies of that car were sold.
The defect didn't manifest every time, but was definitely reproducible at some percentage rate.
Ford's decision on whether to recall was purely monitary: Would the worst case litigation / cost of payout (if someone in the public ever discovered the class problem, say by numerous people dying in specatacular fireballs) be higher or lower than the cost of (and loss of face with respect to) a nation wide recall.
They chose to say silent because it was "cheaper." People died. A whistle-blower finally brought it to light.
Whatever they get will likely be 80% redacted. How is that useful? How is that freedom of information? You ask for info and they black out much of the useful stuff.
NPR's On The Media program (aired yesterday in these parts), talked about ACLU requests in 2003 regarding Iraqi prisoner abuse (well before Abu Graib broke), and the docs they did receive -- after lengthy expensive lawsuits -- was mostly (80%) blacked out.
Burning a DVD is IO-bound given all the traffic on the PCI bus from the harddrive and to the DVD. Burning a DVD is not CPU-bound, so it doesn't seem like a dual core CPU would actually help that situation.
If you are transcoding DVD files (i.e., converting them from one resolution to another) and gaming at the same time, a 2nd CPU or dual-core chip will help.
Both Gaming and video format/resolution translation are CPU intensive (the later also I/O intensive), and the 2nd CPU will be kept busy as will the 1st.
So if your computer system is smart enough to adapt to troubles around it and internal "breakdowns" by changing itself, isn't this simply machine evolution?
How long until same computers consider meat puppet life forms to be a troubling virus infecting their planet, and standing in the way of fixing "breakdowns?"
Slashdot Mirror
Oh great, now Nokia (or perhaps even Amazon) will see this article and go patent the concept.
That's just the Vogons posting notice of the interstellar space highway to be built through here next millennium.
Foolish MIT scientists; they've mis-interpreted the posting. Superconductivity has been proven impossible by the science planet #$(*&^#@$^%.
Here is a review on another site that is not presently slashdotted. You can read about the game and see several screen snapshots.
That's probly all you'll get until the CI server stops being melted.
My local Fry's store is advertising a $60 window unit. I think it's a 5K BTU model. Should easily keep a single room cool all day without having to refill a water tank every 1-3 hours.
Basically, this guy moved his landlord's icebox "heat sink" into his room...
If you don't have a Fry's, you've probly got something else similar near by.
Will the latency of this link be low enough to support decent response times for VoIP?
If they're using a satellite link (they must be), then your loud Skype+headset conversation will be just as uncomfortable for you to use as it is for others around you to observe.
"He-"
"Hello?"
"Huh?"
"What?"
"You started talk-"
"You began-"
"You go."
"No you... Go ahead!"
Damn satellite latency.
I've been mostly ignoring JavaScript for some time now. With many useful [browser-side, modify web pages locally to suit your presentation desires] Greasemonkey scripts available, however, and the relative ease of creating my own scripts to customise web pages I view, I'm suddenly very interested in JavaScript.
What about you?
during an advert, the sound channel could say:
"REMOTE, change to fox news"
If you have an MP3 player you can use in the car, you could simply copy the MP3 file(s) over directly...
I thought they were just getting electricity up there.
In addition to various people making suggestions here, can we take some of the better / more popular ones from this comment thread and make a /. poll on the front page?
/. readers at large think of the answers presented here. (Many people don't bother to read the comments...)
While unscientific, you'd get some kind of gauge of what
Remember the story where Ford new full well about a defect where activation of the left turn signal could cause a gas tank explosion? This was on a vehicle where a lot of copies of that car were sold.
The defect didn't manifest every time, but was definitely reproducible at some percentage rate.
Ford's decision on whether to recall was purely monitary: Would the worst case litigation / cost of payout (if someone in the public ever discovered the class problem, say by numerous people dying in specatacular fireballs) be higher or lower than the cost of (and loss of face with respect to) a nation wide recall.
They chose to say silent because it was "cheaper." People died. A whistle-blower finally brought it to light.
Anyone remember this, and what happened next?
previously reported here
and I'll remind everyone that one of their main funders is microsoft.
That is, until they acquired Sybari Software Inc. in order to fill this gaping need.
The acquisition itself proves MS had little to offer internally. They simply bought it from outside.
Is Sybari's stuff any good?
Let's see. Yahoo puts HP's market cap at $66B. Stock jumped almost 11% immediately after the sacking occurred.
66 * 0.11 == $7B.
She sure was worth a lot more gone than present I guess.
Oh, and she "only" got a $21M severance package. I guess the board didn't think she was worth much either.
Whatever they get will likely be 80% redacted. How is that useful? How is that freedom of information? You ask for info and they black out much of the useful stuff.
NPR's On The Media program (aired yesterday in these parts), talked about ACLU requests in 2003 regarding Iraqi prisoner abuse (well before Abu Graib broke), and the docs they did receive -- after lengthy expensive lawsuits -- was mostly (80%) blacked out.
...more server crashes ...more late paycheck deliveries ...more accounting mistakes.
If you are transcoding DVD files (i.e., converting them from one resolution to another) and gaming at the same time, a 2nd CPU or dual-core chip will help.
Both Gaming and video format/resolution translation are CPU intensive (the later also I/O intensive), and the 2nd CPU will be kept busy as will the 1st.
That's because I open them in vim and type:
10000J:x!
have you noticed that hot glowing orb in the sky then?
So if your computer system is smart enough to adapt to troubles around it and internal "breakdowns" by changing itself, isn't this simply machine evolution?
How long until same computers consider meat puppet life forms to be a troubling virus infecting their planet, and standing in the way of fixing "breakdowns?"
Layer everthing atop email messages, just like Outlook's calendaring function does.
Shouldn't the acronym in use for this stack be LAMPPP ?
What do you mean just around the corner? Ramadan just ended!
None! I switched to Linux on the desktop.
(Well I still run a couple of windoze 2000 thingies inside a VMware machine, but let's just forget about that dirty little secret.)