This article from U.N.Wire published nine months ago (February 2004) talks with Noam Chomsky, wherein he describes how the Bush Doctrine affects space "ownerhip."
Key quotes that stand out for me:
The U.S. Space Command announced in November 2002 "a shift from the 'control' of space -- that was the Clinton doctrine -- to 'ownership' of space," he said. "The advance from control to ownership is a substantial one and in line with National Security Strategy and very ominous in its implications. Others plainly will not say, 'Ok, it's fine,'" Chomsky said.
The older device (hp de100c, I have two) was a music/audio only device. It did not play video.
I assume that since the new one is MCE and sports a 3GHz P4 (how are they gonna cool that and keep it quiet enough for an A/V rack???), that it stores/plays video.
The older device was a much slower CPU also. With a 566MHz Coppermine/Celery, it was very much less capable of doing video.
Will someone who has spent time with both the Yoper (www.yoper.com) and Ubuntu distros please compare/contrast them?
I'm hunting a desktop distro, and have been living with Yoper for a few weeks now. I like it, chiefly because it is very fast on "older" hardware -- I'm submitting this using Yoper on a PIII 600MHz ultraportable laptop. You can check out www.yoper.com if you want to see why Yoper is faster than most other distros (Gentoo notwithstanding).
Switching distros, however, is painful. So I'd like more info about Ubuntu before trying it. This machine is already dual boot (windoze+Yoper), so I don't have the option to try Ubuntu by putting it into a dual-boot config on this machine.
It didn't work for Gateway because their stores looked pedestrian and sold pedestrian hardware.
Have you been in an Apple store and seen the glitz? The prime locations? The incredible I.D. on their hardware?
Dell is in our local Beaverton, OR mall (Washington square) and have merely a "kiosk cart" thingy out in the middle of the mall's open space. Their hardware is, well, Dell HW. It's OK, but the I.D. is no where near Apple's.
Apple nearby, however, has a full retail space in a prime location. It is a beautiful store, with lots of space, and lots of pretty hardware.
That's why it works for Apple.
Of course, Sony has beautiful HW as well. If they stick it into a beautiful space perhaps the model will work for them.
Recall that CA did pass a law requiring computer voting systems to produce a paper trail, and allow the voter to confirm via this paper trail that their vote was cast as they intended.
Note, however, that this won't go into effect until the 2006 election.
CA has a LOT of electoral votes, so this is significant for the election next Nov 2.
I want my laptop to be lighter, and the batter is one of its heaviest parts.
In a large format modern laptop, there's a fair amount of volume that could be stuffed with these micro-batteries.
The article says these batteries pump out 78% more "power" per volume, but what about power per mass ratio? In the laptop application, this matters most.
Satellite downlinks have plenty of "bandwidth." The uplinks are usually more limited in "bandwidth," but you can still push reasonable voice quality thru most satellite uplinks.
The issue, however, is LATENCY. With minimum 500ms round trip times (250ms up to the geosynchronous bird, 250ms back down), it could be very annoying to talk over such a link. It'll work, but the feeling of interactivity between you and your conversational partner will simply be missing.
Have you ever heard NPR reporters in the mideast using traditional (non-VoIP) sat phones while being interviewed by radio hosts state-side? You'll know what I mean...
Why can't the same thing be done (dubious though the approach is) on any commodity PC? This just supplies a couple of driver hacks to get >1 person logged into a single WinXP PC. (Note that this can already be done with non-console users accessing the common machine via Remote Desktop.)
So what does their motherboard enable that isn't available on other products??
What can I do personally to help break the two party strangle hold? I'd like other viable party choices; I'd also like to be able to choose a la carte from a list of political ideas/policies. Yet I feel as though my vote would currently be "wasted" if I choose Libertarian, Nader, or something else.
The existing two party system forces one to choose an entire package of ideas/policies. Significant parts of either package are highly unpalatable to me.
The two big parties are also very similar in several important ways, so I feel like I don't really have any good choice. Examples: Both front-running parties currently seem to be in favor of big government and highly confiscatory financial policies (i.e., tax me, spend it in ways over which I have little control). They also seem ready to legislate behavior in ways that are personally invasive. Let's leave aside for the moment their willingness to invade willy nilly into various strategic and weaker nations throughout the world...
I want other choices including:
* smaller federal government * let me keep my money * stay out of my social/personal life * stop invading for oil
Just turn your dorm room into a
Faraday Cage. Maybe sheath your walls in tinfoil, or chicken wire style fence material (provided you get the wiring gaps/spacing appropriate for 2.4GHz wavelengths)?
Unless the university has a policy of regularly searching your dorm room, your signal will rarely leak out. When they walk by outside with a scanner, they won't detect your AP.
Then you can still surf cable-free inside your own room.
For years I've had the sense that Real unnecessarily forces you to upgrade player software just to decode or stream "new formats." Sometimes it's just a new codec download (more recently it seems), but often you have to update the entire framework.
When you install a new framework, the installer will often want to take over file-extension/application bindings; if you let it (or don't know how to say no), it can significantly change the behavior of your machine.
I am also very reticent to add/change software on my windows machines once I get them stable.
So why does Real force updates so often? I believe it adds to "DLL rot," and I think it's a bad policy.
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Great! Now they can lie to me wherever I am.
Also check out this scary little number: September 2002 National Security Strategy of the U.S.A.
I assume that since the new one is MCE and sports a 3GHz P4 (how are they gonna cool that and keep it quiet enough for an A/V rack???), that it stores/plays video.
The older device was a much slower CPU also. With a 566MHz Coppermine/Celery, it was very much less capable of doing video.
See also this yahoo group.
The above mentioned, Kevin McBride, is brother to Darl McBride acording to this Computer Shopper News article.
So even if Darl fails in his quest to sue every sentient being (and SCO dies), he will have kept lots of money in the family.
What is the equivalent (silicon transistor) gate size for a photonic switch? (E.g., 13nm for recent silicon fab processes.)
How fast does it switch? (E.g., 2.4GHz for currently affordable Pentiums.)
Will someone who has spent time with both the Yoper (www.yoper.com) and Ubuntu distros please compare/contrast them?
I'm hunting a desktop distro, and have been living with Yoper for a few weeks now. I like it, chiefly because it is very fast on "older" hardware -- I'm submitting this using Yoper on a PIII 600MHz ultraportable laptop. You can check out www.yoper.com if you want to see why Yoper is faster than most other distros (Gentoo notwithstanding).
Switching distros, however, is painful. So I'd like more info about Ubuntu before trying it. This machine is already dual boot (windoze+Yoper), so I don't have the option to try Ubuntu by putting it into a dual-boot config on this machine.
$900 at Dynamism (U.S. based), $750 at Conics.net
Three questions:
(1) Is Conics.net based in Australia?
(2) Why the big price difference?
(3) Does Conics ship to U.S.?
It didn't work for Gateway because their stores looked pedestrian and sold pedestrian hardware.
Have you been in an Apple store and seen the glitz? The prime locations? The incredible I.D. on their hardware?
Dell is in our local Beaverton, OR mall (Washington square) and have merely a "kiosk cart" thingy out in the middle of the mall's open space. Their hardware is, well, Dell HW. It's OK, but the I.D. is no where near Apple's.
Apple nearby, however, has a full retail space in a prime location. It is a beautiful store, with lots of space, and lots of pretty hardware.
That's why it works for Apple.
Of course, Sony has beautiful HW as well. If they stick it into a beautiful space perhaps the model will work for them.
Recall that CA did pass a law requiring computer voting systems to produce a paper trail, and allow the voter to confirm via this paper trail that their vote was cast as they intended.
Note, however, that this won't go into effect until the 2006 election.
CA has a LOT of electoral votes, so this is significant for the election next Nov 2.
Palm and WinCE are so inferior to busybox Linux.
This is a crying shame.
Palm doesn't multitask at all, and WinCE doesn't do it very well.
According to the theology of some fundamentalist (and often Republican) Christians, this essentially constitutes the "mark of the Beast."
They consider this to be "evil."
Won't they try to combat it?
I want my laptop to be lighter, and the batter is one of its heaviest parts.
In a large format modern laptop, there's a fair amount of volume that could be stuffed with these micro-batteries.
The article says these batteries pump out 78% more "power" per volume, but what about power per mass ratio? In the laptop application, this matters most.
...are engaged in litigation?
Who cares.
Kodak lost the imaging business because they failed to latch onto digital early enough, believing film would prevail.
Sun lost the server business because they failed to latch onto Free / Open Source Software early enough, believing SunOS would prevail.
It's like two dying hippos head-butting each other. Fun to watch, but mostly irrelevant.
Plus, it's EMP safe:
If the big bomb goes off, or aliens arrive and zap our planet with a huge static electricity pulse, fluidic computers will survive the event.
Why wouldn't google simply register every single .com domain name starting with 'g', out to say 50 characters or so?
Then whenever they want to launch new businesses in the future, they're guaranteed to have domain names like:
goffice.com
gim.com
gpaint.com
gschedule.com
gcalendar.com
Or even:
gdentist.com
What, a Pets: section now?
/. gets into Politics by adding that new section. Now this.
First
What's next, RealEstate: ???
Heard that while watching this video link from KATU:
easylink.playstream.com/katu
Leave it to the French to ignore the rules of Physics, and strike out on their own.
When will they cooperate?
Satellite downlinks have plenty of "bandwidth." The uplinks are usually more limited in "bandwidth," but you can still push reasonable voice quality thru most satellite uplinks.
The issue, however, is LATENCY. With minimum 500ms round trip times (250ms up to the geosynchronous bird, 250ms back down), it could be very annoying to talk over such a link. It'll work, but the feeling of interactivity between you and your conversational partner will simply be missing.
Have you ever heard NPR reporters in the mideast using traditional (non-VoIP) sat phones while being interviewed by radio hosts state-side? You'll know what I mean...
Why does this approach require THEIR motherboard?
Why can't the same thing be done (dubious though the approach is) on any commodity PC? This just supplies a couple of driver hacks to get >1 person logged into a single WinXP PC. (Note that this can already be done with non-console users accessing the common machine via Remote Desktop.)
So what does their motherboard enable that isn't available on other products??
What can I do personally to help break the two party strangle hold? I'd like other viable party choices; I'd also like to be able to choose a la carte from a list of political ideas/policies. Yet I feel as though my vote would currently be "wasted" if I choose Libertarian, Nader, or something else.
The existing two party system forces one to choose an entire package of ideas/policies. Significant parts of either package are highly unpalatable to me.
The two big parties are also very similar in several important ways, so I feel like I don't really have any good choice. Examples: Both front-running parties currently seem to be in favor of big government and highly confiscatory financial policies (i.e., tax me, spend it in ways over which I have little control). They also seem ready to legislate behavior in ways that are personally invasive. Let's leave aside for the moment their willingness to invade willy nilly into various strategic and weaker nations throughout the world...
I want other choices including:
* smaller federal government
* let me keep my money
* stay out of my social/personal life
* stop invading for oil
What do I do?
Unless the university has a policy of regularly searching your dorm room, your signal will rarely leak out. When they walk by outside with a scanner, they won't detect your AP.
Then you can still surf cable-free inside your own room.
For years I've had the sense that Real unnecessarily forces you to upgrade player software just to decode or stream "new formats." Sometimes it's just a new codec download (more recently it seems), but often you have to update the entire framework.
When you install a new framework, the installer will often want to take over file-extension/application bindings; if you let it (or don't know how to say no), it can significantly change the behavior of your machine.
I am also very reticent to add/change software on my windows machines once I get them stable.
So why does Real force updates so often? I believe it adds to "DLL rot," and I think it's a bad policy.
The "Est Ship" column on a completed order page sez -- 3-4 weeks.
This is for a 20" model configured with double the default RAM (total 512MB) and no additional options.
Same estimated shipping time if you go with the 20" model and all options set to default.
So this is a pre-announce then?
You can't tell simply by looking at him.
OK, maybe he's just a little pudgy, but does he really need to go on a diet?