You're right. The "Windows Key" (AKA Start Button) is CTRL+ESC. The "right-click" is SHIFT+F10. The "Task Manager" is CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. The "Boot a Real OS" is CTRL+ALT+DEL.
Wow! Your wrong! The windows key is a unique modifyer just like ctrl or alt. Just because when you just press the windows key the start menu pops up doesn't mean that is its only purpose. Although the "command key" or the "right click key" is just shift+f10. There are a number of uses of the windows key as a modifyer:
Windows+D = Show Desktop, Windows+F = Find Files, Windows+M = Minimize All, Windows+E = Opens Windows Explorer, Windows+Ctrl+F = Find Computer, Windows+Break = System Properties but most useful (to me at least) is Windows+R = Open the Run dialog box. Too bad my thinkpad has no Windows or "right-click" buttons, I'm stucking typing hitting ctrl-esc, then r to open the run box.
"People want a large range and high speed, it can't really happen"
Go back to your cave. How much faster is wireless today then 5 years ago? A million percent? Do you think 802.11g is the end of wireless evolution? In ten years you don't think we will have gigabit wireless with 100m range?
I certainly don't think what we have now is the end all be all of everything, but lets be serious. Signal will always degrade the further you go away. Whether the technology lets you take advantage of this will be uncertain (you don't get higher quality sound when you stand under a cell tower) but believe you me, we won't have a technology in 10yrs that gives you gigabit speeds from 100miles (I assume you meant miles, not the standard use of m, meters) FM radio hardly goes that far, with no buildings in the way, with good weather...oh and you want it to be two way? Hehe. I like new technologies too, but keep dreaming.
For anyone who understands how these technologies work, this makes sense. It's one of the compromises that allows connectivity to happen over longer distances. As you might expect, signal degrades as you get furth away from the access point and rather than being unable from far away, it drops down to a lower speed. It just makes sense. Most people understand that wireless (802.11anything) technologies are shared bandwidth. People think "Oh it's 11mbit, that means when the access point is saturated it will be a total of 11mbit." Of course, this is only partly true. If everyone is really close and connecting at 11mbit then it will be 11mbit shared, but if everyone is connecting at 1mbit (far away) then it will 1mbit shared between everyone. This is nothing new, this is just how things work. This is why many access points have the option of only allowing 11mbit and 5mbit connections. This just seems like a bigger problem as peoples connection speeds are further apart in speed. (e.g. An 802.11g user humming along at 55mbit alone will loose approximately half his speed if a 1mbit user starts using half his bandwidth.) Don't expect to get the best of both worlds. People want a large range and high speed, it can't really happen, there are tradeoffs.
Well first off, with WEP on, in real world conditions, you are only going to have a total of 20-25mbits or so of real bandwidth available. Don't forget, that's shared amongst all wireless users. So if I want to send a file to another wireless user (like my friend standing next to me with his powerbook) I only will get like 10mbits or so of throughput. 1.3 to 1.6MB/sec. All of a sudden it doesn't seem like that much bandwidth to me.
Now that all of this has been released, I wonder if we will be seeing alternative firmwares with support for new features (detailed external logging, radius server, wireless VLANs like the cisco APs, traffic shaping, oh, and MeshAP could be cool too.) A friend of mine already bought his WRT54G and likes it, but after I found this out (and submitted the story to slashdot) I ordered mine from Amazon($130 with free shipping) along with the NetGear WAG511($85 - 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11b) as recommended by a Toms Hardware review. I'm so excited that I am going to have a dope 54mbps wireless network in my dorm room for only $215. A little excessive, maybe, but hey I will probably keep this for another 5+ yrs. Especially the 802.11a 802.11g cardbus card. Oh hey, if you are shopping, check out the SeattleWireless Hardware Comparison. They have all sorts of info there and it made it easier to decide what to buy.
Couldn't google do this anyways with the google toolbar? Cause with the advanced features version it tracks every page you visit. If they offered some incentive to install the toolbar, google could just beat them at this game. I actually use the google toolbar already by choice (it makes my web searching more productive) everyday, all they have to do is get lots of people using it and wouldn't that work just as well or better?
A lot of the technology behind this seems very cool in nature, but just like AppleTalk (which had many similar zeroconf features) i can't imagine it will scale very well. Although this article would love you to think otherwise, I would imagine this whole thing would have more of an effect on the home market then on the buisiness market. I can see not wanting configure applications on small network, but with all of these broadcast packets i would imagine it would saturate a low speed (read:wireless) network.
Oh yeah, and "Here's another idea that crossed my mind. How about using Rendezvous to power local-phone traffic inside a midsize office? Get rid of the wires. Use cheap voice-over-IP phones plugged into Macs equipped with Wi-Fi cards. No more need for inside plant specialists to check wiring or string cables to the desks."...
Oh yeah, I -REALLY- want my phone to drop out whenever someone tries to microwave their lunch.
All of this is fun for small networks, but there is a reason no one has done a lot of this before, because it doesn't scale well.
You will notice that the search query he uses to look for java programming positions excludes javascript ("Java AND NOT Javascript") which sounds ok at first, cause he wants to seperate html & javascript positions from java positions. The issue comes up with what I would imagine are a decent number of Java related jobs...something that requires Java -AND- Javascript. So any jobs that are doing web development of Applets might ask for javascript too. Just one other reason to inflate the Java numbers in your head when looking at these comparisons.
You might have fun adapting what's out there, but don't confuse "IP telephony" with a real PBX. IP phones are expensive and don't sound as good as circuit phones.
Standard PBX systems are designed for the famous "five nines" reliability. You don't get that from a regular PC -- for instance, PC hardware can't do hot swap, which any PBX worth its salt can.
IP Telephony can sound just as good or better than traditional telephony. With the Cisco gear we had (Call Manager and 7560 Phones) you could specify the bandwidth used, and on the high settings and low compression it was crystal clear. So don't just throw around statements saying IP telephony sucks.
Oh yeah, and another thing, that same Cisco IP telephony system was based on regular rebranded Compaq servers that Cisco had made sure were nice and stable. Oh yeah and they garunteed "five nines".
I know you will probably be keeping your cabin dry, but I would definately recommend picking up one of the flexible keyboards. You could pick up the FlexBoard which is a nice but expensive ($130) keyboard. There are plenty of other cheap knock offs that you could pick up for less than $50. I've used one before and it certainly isn't prefect, but it was definately better than using a sticky keyboard.
In fact, neroMax was created. It was never available for download as a trial (like all other versions of Nero for PC), but only available for purchase. In fact it was actually bundled with some burners (Yahama Burners for example), but they never made a version for OSX. Their website said it required MacOS 8.6-9.2 and Classic API with Mac OS X is not supported. So even if this was available still, this wouldn't be a solution (certainly no better than running an older version of toast without these restrictions). But if you are interested in it I know there are copies of it floating around on hotline and on IRC that you could pick up and try out. I don't know that much about the Mac version (only used it once) but I know that their Windows product is far superior to all other burning applictions. By a long shot.
If you are going to bother to karma whore like that at least do two things.
1) Make it a clickable link.
2) Make the link right. (It has a space in it)
My Apple Monitor has a way better DOCUMENTED issue
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Check out AppleCare Document 58272 in reference to their diamondtron Studio Displays (looks like a big imac on a stand). It's great.
The Diamondtron CRT used in the 17-inch Studio Display incorporates an aperture grid of very fine, vertical wires to enhance the sharpness of the image. Exposure to cold and or vibration can cause these fine wires to temporarily adhere to each other.
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If your display is exhibiting visible thin vertical lines, you can most often break the adhesion between the grid wires by using the heel of your hand to moderately impact the side of your display under the Apple logo on the right, then left side. Using moderate force does not damage your display.
To avoid scratching or marring the external plastics, remove any jewelry or watches before you tap the display.
I laughed out loud the first time I saw this, and if you are wondering, yes it works wonderfully and I end up having to do this every couple of months to keep the screen looking pretty.
PS. Are exercise bikes (the ones with digital stats) powered by wall AC? It seems like they should at least make these human powered, if they're not already.
I've seen them both ways. (Also battery powered in smaller displays), but the human powered ones bugged me. You had to do a couple steps (pedals) then the display would lite up so you could select things. The other ones never used much power as I recall (mostly LEDs and the such), but that's just my 2cents.
I know you think you so cool cause you can refer back to some discussion you didn't take part in.
Except that was after the fact that the numbers were in for spiderman. It's really easy to make that sort of predicition when spiderman reported the most sucessful opening weekened ever. I doesn't suprise me that some thought of this a week ago, but what about a month ago.
There is only one word to respond to your inquiry.
LAWYERS.
Stop directly communicating with the BSA in any capacity direct all communications through your schools existing lawyers. Then go find yourself a firm that specializes in intellectual property. Bring this up with your school's Board of Trustees and see what they think and what they might able to do about it. Most private schools have reasonably influencal people on their board and they might be able to save your butt here or know someone who would. I know that on the board at my small Quaker school that has less than 2000 students, we have quite a few people who might have corporate influence in this sort of situation. If your board gets worried about this and someone on the board knows someone high up at MS or some other major BSA member you might be able to slide out of this. Use your contacts to your advantage.
It's about time we actually used this bandwidth towards something useful. This will most likely do one of two things:
1) Decrease the costs of traditional telephone service because they will need to compete with net based services.
2) Increase the costs associated with connections to the internet, because as people use more, the costs for everyone goes up.
I'm not sure which will actually occur, but I bet with services such as this around, you'll see a lot of broadband companies upset because they will want their piece of the action. If the average user starts using his/her connection for phone services too instead of just downloading, why are people so confused when they hear about price increases such as this. To me, it just makes sense, more people will use it for more things==service costs more to provide.
Now I'm just waiting for some level of QOS to implemented world wide for this sort of thing, that way my phone call doesn't wait for your warez. Know what I mean?
Also, there's the tactic of submitting a really extreme bill, which gets rejected, and then submitting a bill that's only moderately extreme, so senators are swayed by thinking "this one isn't so bad".
This will be back. Mark my words.
Although you are most likely right, this sort of thing frightens me. It strikes me as such an elementary ploy in which those who cannot "compromise" are labeled as extremists. I would imagine that there are very few people involved in senate or the house who could fight something like this forever, because they would have then shown a consistant record of voting against something...thus causing loss of donations because corporations feel you cannot be swayed.
I always have wondered about the actual effect that talking/writing to your representitives has had. It seems like, at least in this case, the decision against it was based almost entirely around citizen outrage. Although there was not the support from the technology sector that would be needed, it feels good to know that there is some balance of power that is not in favor entirely of the RIAA/MPAA. Mmmm...makes me feel all fuzzy inside to know that -all- my rights are not determined by corporate interests.
Q: Some corporate users have expressed an interest in using.Net for the front end and Java on the back end. How does that strike you?
A: It's certainly the case that Microsoft pretty much has an absolute monopoly on the client. Certified and convicted. And so in some sense that makes it sort of easier for them on the client end. I think these folks would be amazed to discover how easy it is to write client software on the PC in Java. That works very well. And from a personal point of view, I personally actually read the [Windows] XP license and decided I couldn't sign it. So I've been shifting over to Mac.
Interesting, I never thought someone who could run sun hardware all he wanted would choose to go with a mac. Especially with them not running the most current JRE (they -just- came out with 1.3.1). That's somewhat amusing. That's like Bill Gates running Windows NT 4.0. Everybody I know now wants a mac, either for OSX (geeks) and for how awesomely designed they are (geeks and non-geeks).
Not only is apple within their rights here, but they must actually exercise this to protect future rights. As with many contract law situations, just like infringment suits, often times you must act on the issue soon after being notified of the breach of contract. If apple were to "overlook" the fact that he was under 18 and then something did happen down the road (like they found out he had really been stealing someone elses code and contributing it) they would have no defense if suit were brought against apple for using that stolen code. They knowingly licensed software (although it was a free license) from someone who could not be held responsible for said contracted software. Had they not known he was 18 -- then they would be in a legal gray area. But since they do know, if this situation happens there would be no question and apple would get wrecked in this suit.
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My Pentium 60 would perform that just fine, but since its problem lies in floating math unit, maybe what you meant was:
1024.0 x 1024.0 = 1,000,000 exactly...
but mine still comes up with 999,999.9999999973
You're right. The "Windows Key" (AKA Start Button) is CTRL+ESC. The "right-click" is SHIFT+F10. The "Task Manager" is CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. The "Boot a Real OS" is CTRL+ALT+DEL.
Wow! Your wrong! The windows key is a unique modifyer just like ctrl or alt. Just because when you just press the windows key the start menu pops up doesn't mean that is its only purpose. Although the "command key" or the "right click key" is just shift+f10. There are a number of uses of the windows key as a modifyer: Windows+D = Show Desktop, Windows+F = Find Files, Windows+M = Minimize All, Windows+E = Opens Windows Explorer, Windows+Ctrl+F = Find Computer, Windows+Break = System Properties but most useful (to me at least) is Windows+R = Open the Run dialog box. Too bad my thinkpad has no Windows or "right-click" buttons, I'm stucking typing hitting ctrl-esc, then r to open the run box.
Mod parent down. He just copy/pasted my earlier post.
For anyone who understands how these technologies work, this makes sense. It's one of the compromises that allows connectivity to happen over longer distances. As you might expect, signal degrades as you get furth away from the access point and rather than being unable from far away, it drops down to a lower speed. It just makes sense. Most people understand that wireless (802.11anything) technologies are shared bandwidth. People think "Oh it's 11mbit, that means when the access point is saturated it will be a total of 11mbit." Of course, this is only partly true. If everyone is really close and connecting at 11mbit then it will be 11mbit shared, but if everyone is connecting at 1mbit (far away) then it will 1mbit shared between everyone. This is nothing new, this is just how things work. This is why many access points have the option of only allowing 11mbit and 5mbit connections. This just seems like a bigger problem as peoples connection speeds are further apart in speed. (e.g. An 802.11g user humming along at 55mbit alone will loose approximately half his speed if a 1mbit user starts using half his bandwidth.) Don't expect to get the best of both worlds. People want a large range and high speed, it can't really happen, there are tradeoffs.
Well first off, with WEP on, in real world conditions, you are only going to have a total of 20-25mbits or so of real bandwidth available. Don't forget, that's shared amongst all wireless users. So if I want to send a file to another wireless user (like my friend standing next to me with his powerbook) I only will get like 10mbits or so of throughput. 1.3 to 1.6MB/sec. All of a sudden it doesn't seem like that much bandwidth to me.
Now that all of this has been released, I wonder if we will be seeing alternative firmwares with support for new features (detailed external logging, radius server, wireless VLANs like the cisco APs, traffic shaping, oh, and MeshAP could be cool too.) A friend of mine already bought his WRT54G and likes it, but after I found this out (and submitted the story to slashdot) I ordered mine from Amazon($130 with free shipping) along with the NetGear WAG511($85 - 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11b) as recommended by a Toms Hardware review. I'm so excited that I am going to have a dope 54mbps wireless network in my dorm room for only $215. A little excessive, maybe, but hey I will probably keep this for another 5+ yrs. Especially the 802.11a 802.11g cardbus card. Oh hey, if you are shopping, check out the SeattleWireless Hardware Comparison. They have all sorts of info there and it made it easier to decide what to buy.
Here is another mirror of this comic: http://brainsoup.duckies.org/index.php/item/102
Couldn't google do this anyways with the google toolbar? Cause with the advanced features version it tracks every page you visit. If they offered some incentive to install the toolbar, google could just beat them at this game. I actually use the google toolbar already by choice (it makes my web searching more productive) everyday, all they have to do is get lots of people using it and wouldn't that work just as well or better?
A lot of the technology behind this seems very cool in nature, but just like AppleTalk (which had many similar zeroconf features) i can't imagine it will scale very well. Although this article would love you to think otherwise, I would imagine this whole thing would have more of an effect on the home market then on the buisiness market. I can see not wanting configure applications on small network, but with all of these broadcast packets i would imagine it would saturate a low speed (read:wireless) network.
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Oh yeah, and
"Here's another idea that crossed my mind. How about using Rendezvous to power local-phone traffic inside a midsize office? Get rid of the wires. Use cheap voice-over-IP phones plugged into Macs equipped with Wi-Fi cards. No more need for inside plant specialists to check wiring or string cables to the desks."
Oh yeah, I -REALLY- want my phone to drop out whenever someone tries to microwave their lunch.
All of this is fun for small networks, but there is a reason no one has done a lot of this before, because it doesn't scale well.
You will notice that the search query he uses to look for java programming positions excludes javascript ("Java AND NOT Javascript") which sounds ok at first, cause he wants to seperate html & javascript positions from java positions. The issue comes up with what I would imagine are a decent number of Java related jobs...something that requires Java -AND- Javascript. So any jobs that are doing web development of Applets might ask for javascript too. Just one other reason to inflate the Java numbers in your head when looking at these comparisons.
You might have fun adapting what's out there, but don't confuse "IP telephony" with a real PBX. IP phones are expensive and don't sound as good as circuit phones.
Standard PBX systems are designed for the famous "five nines" reliability. You don't get that from a regular PC -- for instance, PC hardware can't do hot swap, which any PBX worth its salt can.
IP Telephony can sound just as good or better than traditional telephony. With the Cisco gear we had (Call Manager and 7560 Phones) you could specify the bandwidth used, and on the high settings and low compression it was crystal clear. So don't just throw around statements saying IP telephony sucks.
Oh yeah, and another thing, that same Cisco IP telephony system was based on regular rebranded Compaq servers that Cisco had made sure were nice and stable. Oh yeah and they garunteed "five nines".
I know you will probably be keeping your cabin dry, but I would definately recommend picking up one of the flexible keyboards. You could pick up the FlexBoard which is a nice but expensive ($130) keyboard. There are plenty of other cheap knock offs that you could pick up for less than $50. I've used one before and it certainly isn't prefect, but it was definately better than using a sticky keyboard.
In fact, neroMax was created. It was never available for download as a trial (like all other versions of Nero for PC), but only available for purchase. In fact it was actually bundled with some burners (Yahama Burners for example), but they never made a version for OSX. Their website said it required MacOS 8.6-9.2 and Classic API with Mac OS X is not supported. So even if this was available still, this wouldn't be a solution (certainly no better than running an older version of toast without these restrictions). But if you are interested in it I know there are copies of it floating around on hotline and on IRC that you could pick up and try out. I don't know that much about the Mac version (only used it once) but I know that their Windows product is far superior to all other burning applictions. By a long shot.
If you are going to bother to karma whore like that at least do two things.
: www.xentex.com/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
1) Make it a clickable link.
2) Make the link right. (It has a space in it)
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PS. Are exercise bikes (the ones with digital stats) powered by wall AC? It seems like they should at least make these human powered, if they're not already.
I've seen them both ways. (Also battery powered in smaller displays), but the human powered ones bugged me. You had to do a couple steps (pedals) then the display would lite up so you could select things. The other ones never used much power as I recall (mostly LEDs and the such), but that's just my 2cents.
I know you think you so cool cause you can refer back to some discussion you didn't take part in.
Except that was after the fact that the numbers were in for spiderman. It's really easy to make that sort of predicition when spiderman reported the most sucessful opening weekened ever. I doesn't suprise me that some thought of this a week ago, but what about a month ago.
I bet there was no one amongst this crowd who ever thought Spider-Man would out perform -ANY- episode of Star Wars at the box office. Ever.
I certainly didn't see it coming.
There is only one word to respond to your inquiry.
LAWYERS.
Stop directly communicating with the BSA in any capacity direct all communications through your schools existing lawyers. Then go find yourself a firm that specializes in intellectual property. Bring this up with your school's Board of Trustees and see what they think and what they might able to do about it. Most private schools have reasonably influencal people on their board and they might be able to save your butt here or know someone who would. I know that on the board at my small Quaker school that has less than 2000 students, we have quite a few people who might have corporate influence in this sort of situation. If your board gets worried about this and someone on the board knows someone high up at MS or some other major BSA member you might be able to slide out of this. Use your contacts to your advantage.
1) Decrease the costs of traditional telephone service because they will need to compete with net based services.
2) Increase the costs associated with connections to the internet, because as people use more, the costs for everyone goes up.
I'm not sure which will actually occur, but I bet with services such as this around, you'll see a lot of broadband companies upset because they will want their piece of the action. If the average user starts using his/her connection for phone services too instead of just downloading, why are people so confused when they hear about price increases such as this. To me, it just makes sense, more people will use it for more things==service costs more to provide.
Now I'm just waiting for some level of QOS to implemented world wide for this sort of thing, that way my phone call doesn't wait for your warez. Know what I mean?
Also, there's the tactic of submitting a really extreme bill, which gets rejected, and then submitting a bill that's only moderately extreme, so senators are swayed by thinking "this one isn't so bad".
This will be back. Mark my words.
Although you are most likely right, this sort of thing frightens me. It strikes me as such an elementary ploy in which those who cannot "compromise" are labeled as extremists. I would imagine that there are very few people involved in senate or the house who could fight something like this forever, because they would have then shown a consistant record of voting against something...thus causing loss of donations because corporations feel you cannot be swayed.
I always have wondered about the actual effect that talking/writing to your representitives has had. It seems like, at least in this case, the decision against it was based almost entirely around citizen outrage. Although there was not the support from the technology sector that would be needed, it feels good to know that there is some balance of power that is not in favor entirely of the RIAA/MPAA. Mmmm...makes me feel all fuzzy inside to know that -all- my rights are not determined by corporate interests.
Not only is apple within their rights here, but they must actually exercise this to protect future rights. As with many contract law situations, just like infringment suits, often times you must act on the issue soon after being notified of the breach of contract. If apple were to "overlook" the fact that he was under 18 and then something did happen down the road (like they found out he had really been stealing someone elses code and contributing it) they would have no defense if suit were brought against apple for using that stolen code. They knowingly licensed software (although it was a free license) from someone who could not be held responsible for said contracted software. Had they not known he was 18 -- then they would be in a legal gray area. But since they do know, if this situation happens there would be no question and apple would get wrecked in this suit.