If you check out www.ticalc.org they have TONS of projects/mods for your calc (including overclocking.. hmm, now overclocking your calculator is new to me!!!) - and I think I saw a solar one in there somewhere.
One thing I think you should keep in mind when outsourcing is that your team will not be as connected with them in terms of communication. Therefore, it will take a lot of work to keep things integrated, and you will need to spend time just collaborating. You may find that unless there is an AWFUL lot of grunt work, the time spent won't have been worth it. I recently went through a similar situation myself with a cloning process for computers: in the end (ended up being due to someone else's bug, but thats not the point - but may be relevant in that it's easier to fix your own bug then someone else's) it probably would have been faster for me to have done each computer individually myself - don't get me wrong, cloning was great (and for the future), but for this project it would have been faster for me to do without it (basically, keep in mind the added overhead and frustration from outsourcing - something might not fit your style, or a function might not work well (optimized?) for your application of it).
I've read a lot of research which says that video games help cause ADD. Now they research that it causes it. I wonder if a different criteria was used perhaps, such as the person paying attention to the video game (in this study), and the person paying attention to other stimuli and people (other studies), the later being what I would prefer them research - lets face it, in the grand scheme of things, it dosen't really matter if you concentrate on a video game.
To protect from data degredation, you can store data in triplicate or more - its not as though you are lacking in space.
Secondly, while you may not believe it, the article is basically saying that they have just proven it works (although I am sure many people didn't believe it when they invented the atomic bomb).
While the idea sounds great and I'd love to have it working fine and dandy...
If the technology works anything like actual tube lights, something to keep in mind is that to turn them on they require a high voltage spike.
The second thing I noticed is that they said a glass tube.. have you noticed how careful people often are with glass tubes? Personally, I wouldn't want to drop a glass tube and say "oops, there goes my bookshelf, medical file, penguin, and, oh ya, my holographic house (it'll be a while).
Hope they get this technology ready for mass market!
I know a computer consultant who created and GPLed one for a school who needed new software due to Y2K issues. It originally ran with XML, but due to the size of their database, and the need for quick development (no time to see if it could be made better), he was forced to convert it to an SQL database. It is a complete library circulation system, done in 631 lines of PHP3. Contact me if you would like more info -- I don't think he ever got around to releasing it/even giving it a name, but I am sure if I asked him to he would.
I haven't actually read the RIAA paper (1.5 megs is too long a download:( ), but I don't really think it matters what they have to say.
Let's face it, Napster is just a search engine with a special client. What they have done is 100% legal, the files don't pass through them.
If Napster is shot down, I fear for all the WWW search engines, and a ton of other things - I think its a scary precedent (if I was a lawyer I might like it, I'd be rich:|.
I had a relative of mine get a background check done, and apparently, they have almost entirely the same characteristics as a known killer.
She was informed by her work place about the results, so she went back into the police station to have more "points of identification" taken.
After comparing finger prints, it was, of course, resolved that she wasn't a killer. The police then forwarded this information to her work place, and it was resolved.
It's not uncommon for these mistakes to happen, but they are easy to fix.
With M$ pouring in BIG BUCKS into its own, even more proprietary, whinedoze only software, they are probably rather concerned.
Lets face it, it wouldn't be a big deal for M$ to engulf them. They simply make their software free (done already), spend millions on it, and try to make it attractive to content providers.
You'd think M$ would be on their best behavour these days..
Anyway, what this does is give real player larger market share, and the ability to compete with M$, who seem to be developing quickly, in an effort to take over. This is a smart move on real's part - M$ seems to have been catching up.
Think of the evilness of the M$ plan - the only way to access media is through whinedoze... another good reason to split them up (although I still think it should have a seperate internet section).
this post brings up a very interesting point, IMHO the internet is simply a collection of networks.. I can create my own internet, you can create your internet (commonly reffered to as an intranet, these days). what's my point? We chose to let them be our backbone providers, it made sense at the time. We also chose to have our IP addresses assigned by a central authority The internet is not owned by me, its not owned by you, not by anyone. What they offer is a high speed connection - but it would be very easy for us to tell them to get lost. How? Its a wonderful tool called ipchains:)
you know, I just looked at their site, and saw something interesting: they suggest an ADSL or cable modem, and then say (ADSL is usually offered by telephone companies). Is this their small piece of revenge on the cable cos?:)
Need a way of checking? I know.. its simple.. they just need to ask if we say "eh" a lot!:-)
These people look like they could do well being customers of the sealand place..
In all seriousness, I think they have a good niche market, but aren't the cable ISPs going to complain? Already they limit people who pay them to 10 minuts of broadcasting.. I think this will scare them a lot.
Remember the story on paying for good routing? I am sure the cable ISPs also have the capability to do bad routing...
From his point of view, microsoft has granted him a monopoly on big browsers on the other OSes.. all that could change in a hurry should microsoft2 (any guesses on how the naming scheme will work?) decide to port IE.. they will no longer have any vested interest in keeping all the stuff on whinedoze..
<RANT>Perhaps this belongs more in the original microsoft split post, but has it occured to anyone other then me that microsoft's latest monopoly trick is with their windows media player? They have been doing a lot of development on it lately, and pushing it a lot too.. if media is only available for windows.. if documents are only available for windows (ha! we beat them there.. mm, staroffice, mm, catdoc, mm, etc.) if development tools a 9 year old can use (yes, I used vis basic when I was 9... I suppose it taught me part of why their software is so unreliable), the list goes on with yet another, less observed method that they try for a monopoly..</RANT>
That is a _really_ scary thought. Just think about it for a sec.. if micro$oft (someone should trademark that before microsoft does ) made IIS serve pages, say, 10% (or whatever was deemed to be un-noticeable to the people buying IIS - who probably use microsoft clients anyway) faster to its own clients then to its competitors.. I mean, sure most (60%) of sites use apache, but there is still a scarily high amount of sites using IIS..
Yet another reason we need lots of little microsoft companies.. it wouldn't be the first time - MaBell had 7 (I think its 7) babies:)
With open source catching on more and more with the big companies (finally!), perhaps this is where the new money will be made?
Anyone who buys software these days (except for highly specialized purposes) is generally not doing themselves a favour, and with linux (finally) becoming pre-bundled, the newbies might not even know they are using linux.
With a patent office that is giving out patents broad enough for the HTTP protocol to be included, just about giving patents broad enough for multiplication to be included, perhaps companies will see this and decide to get on the algorithm research game.
Perhaps the two most valuable types of patents these days will be low-overhead (but secure) encryption, and low-overhead (but effective) compression?
Lets face it, I'm not the only one who would appreciate fitting 10,000 images on my 1.44 mb floppy disk, or being (for once) not under echelon's watch:-).
I was reading this over, and to me, the whole concept seems scary on more then one level.
I am sure most of you have heard of echelon. These people want us to put a worse-then-military grade (why are we inferior??) security package that we don't even have the source for?
Secondly, I am sure I am not the only one thinking about backdoors. If they had an "accidental" backdoor in one of these things, just think of the havoc! Already, they have functions built in to allow themselves to spread more easily.
Perhaps this is true of all software that comes without source - but this is the only package to which we give free roam of our network, giving it a large carte blanche - it's not under our scrutiny.
Just a few thoughts..
I won't even touch upon what happens when AI goes bad:-)
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If you check out www.ticalc.org they have TONS of projects/mods for your calc (including overclocking.. hmm, now overclocking your calculator is new to me!!!) - and I think I saw a solar one in there somewhere.
One thing I think you should keep in mind when outsourcing is that your team will not be as connected with them in terms of communication. Therefore, it will take a lot of work to keep things integrated, and you will need to spend time just collaborating. You may find that unless there is an AWFUL lot of grunt work, the time spent won't have been worth it. I recently went through a similar situation myself with a cloning process for computers: in the end (ended up being due to someone else's bug, but thats not the point - but may be relevant in that it's easier to fix your own bug then someone else's) it probably would have been faster for me to have done each computer individually myself - don't get me wrong, cloning was great (and for the future), but for this project it would have been faster for me to do without it (basically, keep in mind the added overhead and frustration from outsourcing - something might not fit your style, or a function might not work well (optimized?) for your application of it).
I've read a lot of research which says that video games help cause ADD. Now they research that it causes it. I wonder if a different criteria was used perhaps, such as the person paying attention to the video game (in this study), and the person paying attention to other stimuli and people (other studies), the later being what I would prefer them research - lets face it, in the grand scheme of things, it dosen't really matter if you concentrate on a video game.
Something I also notice is that they just changed their "affiliate program" revenue from 3 cents per search to 1...
I would do it by using checksums and a vote (if two of them are the same, its probably that one).
To protect from data degredation, you can store data in triplicate or more - its not as though you are lacking in space.
Secondly, while you may not believe it, the article is basically saying that they have just proven it works (although I am sure many people didn't believe it when they invented the atomic bomb).
While the idea sounds great and I'd love to have it working fine and dandy...
If the technology works anything like actual tube lights, something to keep in mind is that to turn them on they require a high voltage spike.
The second thing I noticed is that they said a glass tube.. have you noticed how careful people often are with glass tubes? Personally, I wouldn't want to drop a glass tube and say "oops, there goes my bookshelf, medical file, penguin, and, oh ya, my holographic house (it'll be a while).
Hope they get this technology ready for mass market!
I know a computer consultant who created and GPLed one for a school who needed new software due to Y2K issues. It originally ran with XML, but due to the size of their database, and the need for quick development (no time to see if it could be made better), he was forced to convert it to an SQL database. It is a complete library circulation system, done in 631 lines of PHP3. Contact me if you would like more info -- I don't think he ever got around to releasing it/even giving it a name, but I am sure if I asked him to he would.
I haven't actually read the RIAA paper (1.5 megs is too long a download :( ), but I don't really think it matters what they have to say.
Let's face it, Napster is just a search engine with a special client. What they have done is 100% legal, the files don't pass through them.
If Napster is shot down, I fear for all the WWW search engines, and a ton of other things - I think its a scary precedent (if I was a lawyer I might like it, I'd be rich :|.
Now, basically, what the RIAA is saying, is that linking to copyrighted material is the same as hosting a copy yourself..
now wait a sec here.. if I write an essay, and make a reference to a book, have I commited a crime?
I had a relative of mine get a background check done, and apparently, they have almost entirely the same characteristics as a known killer.
She was informed by her work place about the results, so she went back into the police station to have more "points of identification" taken.
After comparing finger prints, it was, of course, resolved that she wasn't a killer. The police then forwarded this information to her work place, and it was resolved.
It's not uncommon for these mistakes to happen, but they are easy to fix.
PS. This is in Canada.
With M$ pouring in BIG BUCKS into its own, even more proprietary, whinedoze only software, they are probably rather concerned.
Lets face it, it wouldn't be a big deal for M$ to engulf them. They simply make their software free (done already), spend millions on it, and try to make it attractive to content providers.
You'd think M$ would be on their best behavour these days..
Anyway, what this does is give real player larger market share, and the ability to compete with M$, who seem to be developing quickly, in an effort to take over. This is a smart move on real's part - M$ seems to have been catching up.
Think of the evilness of the M$ plan - the only way to access media is through whinedoze... another good reason to split them up (although I still think it should have a seperate internet section).
this post brings up a very interesting point, IMHO :)
the internet is simply a collection of networks.. I can create my own internet, you can create your internet (commonly reffered to as an intranet, these days).
what's my point? We chose to let them be our backbone providers, it made sense at the time.
We also chose to have our IP addresses assigned by a central authority
The internet is not owned by me, its not owned by you, not by anyone. What they offer is a high speed connection - but it would be very easy for us to tell them to get lost. How?
Its a wonderful tool called ipchains
The case looks like they came from outer space.. we're just doing them a favour, and sending 'em back! :-)
perhaps I wasn't clear.. people who pay cable ISPs get limited to 10 minutes of internet broadcasting.. (I don't think I mentioned internet)
you know, I just looked at their site, and saw something interesting: they suggest an ADSL or cable modem, and then say (ADSL is usually offered by telephone companies). Is this their small piece of revenge on the cable cos? :)
Need a way of checking? I know.. its simple.. they just need to ask if we say "eh" a lot! :-)
These people look like they could do well being customers of the sealand place..
In all seriousness, I think they have a good niche market, but aren't the cable ISPs going to complain? Already they limit people who pay them to 10 minuts of broadcasting.. I think this will scare them a lot.
Remember the story on paying for good routing? I am sure the cable ISPs also have the capability to do bad routing...
From his point of view, microsoft has granted him a monopoly on big browsers on the other OSes.. all that could change in a hurry should microsoft2 (any guesses on how the naming scheme will work?) decide to port IE.. they will no longer have any vested interest in keeping all the stuff on whinedoze..
<RANT>Perhaps this belongs more in the original microsoft split post, but has it occured to anyone other then me that microsoft's latest monopoly trick is with their windows media player? They have been doing a lot of development on it lately, and pushing it a lot too.. if media is only available for windows.. if documents are only available for windows (ha! we beat them there.. mm, staroffice, mm, catdoc, mm, etc.) if development tools a 9 year old can use (yes, I used vis basic when I was 9... I suppose it taught me part of why their software is so unreliable), the list goes on with yet another, less observed method that they try for a monopoly..</RANT>
ACK!
That is a _really_ scary thought. Just think about it for a sec.. if micro$oft (someone should trademark that before microsoft does ) made IIS serve pages, say, 10% (or whatever was deemed to be un-noticeable to the people buying IIS - who probably use microsoft clients anyway) faster to its own clients then to its competitors.. I mean, sure most (60%) of sites use apache, but there is still a scarily high amount of sites using IIS..
Yet another reason we need lots of little microsoft companies.. it wouldn't be the first time - MaBell had 7 (I think its 7) babies :)
With open source catching on more and more with the big companies (finally!), perhaps this is where the new money will be made?
Anyone who buys software these days (except for highly specialized purposes) is generally not doing themselves a favour, and with linux (finally) becoming pre-bundled, the newbies might not even know they are using linux.
With a patent office that is giving out patents broad enough for the HTTP protocol to be included, just about giving patents broad enough for multiplication to be included, perhaps companies will see this and decide to get on the algorithm research game.
Perhaps the two most valuable types of patents these days will be low-overhead (but secure) encryption, and low-overhead (but effective) compression?
Lets face it, I'm not the only one who would appreciate fitting 10,000 images on my 1.44 mb floppy disk, or being (for once) not under echelon's watch :-).
I was reading this over, and to me, the whole concept seems scary on more then one level.
I am sure most of you have heard of echelon. These people want us to put a worse-then-military grade (why are we inferior??) security package that we don't even have the source for?
Secondly, I am sure I am not the only one thinking about backdoors. If they had an "accidental" backdoor in one of these things, just think of the havoc! Already, they have functions built in to allow themselves to spread more easily.
Perhaps this is true of all software that comes without source - but this is the only package to which we give free roam of our network, giving it a large carte blanche - it's not under our scrutiny.
Just a few thoughts..
I won't even touch upon what happens when AI goes bad :-)