That's funny; I hadn't though of that. I think I'll do that. (Of course, if the person waits to verify, they'll notice that I'm not actually doing it. The one time I did it in earnest, I was just finishing, and was walking back to my car while they were writing a ticket for the car right after mine. I'm sure if I had just walked away without putting the sticker in my car, they would have gone right back and given me a ticket.)
In Portland, they have one meter on the face of each block with parking. At worst, you have to cross the street or go around a corner, if the one meter on your face is broken. So odds are, you'll be able to see the parking enforcement person walking to your car, and yell "I'm at the pay-station!" (I've done that once, and it was a case where the meter on the side I was on was out-of-order, so I was on the other side of the street.) In parking in downtown Portland metered spaces a couple hundred times since they put these meters in, I've run in to a broken meter less than a dozen times; probably fewer than half a dozen; and I've only ever been caught at the meter when the enforcement person was coming by once. (I have been annoyed to walk up to my car five minutes after expiration to already find a ticket on the windshield, though.)
Also, as for 'line', the *MOST* I've ever seen is one person using the machine, plus a second waiting. Then again, Portland does have shorter-than-average blocks (200 feet,) so at most eight cars per side. So the odds of having more than two people parking in a close enough span of time to each other to 'clog' a meter is a big long.
When the first SEC game is held, and 10,000 people all tweet (or post to Facebook, etc,) from their cell phone "Take that, SEC!", what will they do?
Not to mention, people who use pseudonyms. Will they actually take the time to track down people who are posting two pictures to TwitPic?
I can *MAYBE* understand them saying "no competing with our contracted partner", aka no having a running play-by-play via Twitter, with fifty+ accompanying pictures (think what lots of blogs do for Apple Keynote events...) But to say you can't post "I'm at the (xyz) game!" to Facebook is ridiculous.
Worked fine, I get the proper NXDOMAIN response. No goofy fake 'domain not found' page, like bellca.
WTF?!? Yesterday I was getting NXDOMAIN correctly, today I'm back on to their crappy search page! Dammit, I opted out when they first announced this! Comcast, you bastards!
My 12" PowerBook with its original battery (491 cycles as of this morning,) lasts about 4 hours with WiFi off. When it was new, I could get 6 hours.
Personally, I'm annoyed at my 15" MacBook Pro. It can get 5 hours on a new battery, but I'm now on my 6th battery in three years; the others all dropped to less than 2 hours run-life before they had even has 100 discharge cycles.
I like the IDEA of the built-in batteries on their newer products; and the battery life per charge is fine; I'm just worried about the life of the battery itself, based on my recent experience.
Moving four passengers the 200 miles at 100 MPH on four gallons of gas would pull it off. That would be a 'raw' MPG of 50 MPG. Or, in airplane parliance, that two hour trip would consume at an average rate of 2 gph (Gallons per Hour, the normal measurement used in the aviation industry.) A two-place airplane would need to consume half as much fuel to qualify.
A Cessna 172, with four passengers, consumes somewhere between 7-10 gallons per hour. So this would be a serious improvement. There are some 'light sport' aircraft that draw near 4 GPH, but those are two-place.
Either way, still way better than requiring a raw 200 miles per gallon.
It depends on how tall their rover is. If its panels are high enough off the ground, they would avoid the electrostatic problem. Of course, I can't find any reference to how tall that would need to be.
I agree with the 'air' comment. They don't have to worry about *air* at -240F, they have to worry about plain vacuum radiation.
But even that has been solved, just ask anyone who has designed a satellite with sensitive electronics. After all, nearly all satellites spend 50% of their time in the shade.
Personally, I'd rather like (if I had the cash,) two SSD's in RAID-0 for boot, one optical drive, and three 2 TB drives in RAID-5 for important data, if I was going for an all-in-one high-speed, high-capacity desktop.
Instead, I have my home server with its 8 drive bays. (Currently only have four drives, in two arrays, totaling 2.5 TB usable space.)
Or, if you have a somewhat modern Intel-chipset board (with 6 SATA ports, and Intel's RAID-5 capable "Matrix RAID",) you could buy 5 or 6 Seagate or Western Digital 2 TB drives for $230 each. No fancy total-price-doubling adapter needed.
If you're willing to risk your data, 5 drives is enough to do a 10 TB RAID-0; if you're a little less willing to risk your data, and have a motherboard with either a PATA controller, or an additional SATA controller for your optical drive, or are willing to live with an external optical drive, you can go whole-hog and get 6 in a 10 TB RAID-5.
From everything I've read, Ford independently developed their hybrid technology, then discovered that it was close enough to Toyota's that they had to license Toyota's patents.
Nissan, on the other hand, is using Toyota technology itself, purchased directly from Toyota, the only major difference being that the gasoline engine part is a Nissan engine as opposed to a Toyota. The electrical bits are 100% Toyota.
So Comcast is just reselling Clear WiMax service, at the same price as Clear (okay, fine, $0.01 a month cheaper,) then tacking on the requirement that you have Comcast home internet already.
Uh, okay...
If they offered some kind of discount, it might be worth getting; but I suppose some people will do it just because of the whole 'single bill' thing.
I wanted to switch to Clear with a home/mobile bundle a few months ago; but my house has zero signal. (Even though I'm well within the service area.)
... meaning the largest video provider on the Net will make H.264 the primary codec and relegate the equally good open format Ogg/Theora firmly to the sidelines.
Uh, "relegate to the sidelines"? That would imply that Ogg/Theora is already at least on the sidelines. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ogg/Theora isn't even in the stadium yet.
I'm all for open standards, and I would love it if the Ogg codecs were to become primary; but don't try to tell me it is a serious contender now. No default media player on Windows or Mac OS X can play them, no 'commonly distributed by OEMs' media player (read: QuickTime for Windows and Real,) can play them.
The Ogg community needs to push to either get Ogg support added to Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and Real *BY DEFAULT* (not by plugin,) or else they need to push to have major OEMs (Dell, HP, etc,) include open-source media software, like VLC or Mplayer included by the OEM. (Which won't happen, because VLC and Mplayer aren't big corporations that will pay the OEMs money to include their software.)
"ION" is nVidia's, not Intel's. (Only the story submitter makes this mistake, not TFA.)
"ION" is nVidia's codename for the combination of their 9400 or 9300 integrated graphics chipset plus the Intel Atom processor. This rig uses a Core 2; which makes it *NOT* an ION. It just makes it a Core 2 plus 9400 chipset.
And as others mention, the Mac mini is the same damn thing; only smaller, draws less power, and costs less. (However this one has the ability to add a discrete graphics card, which the Mac mini obviously lacks.)
Small form factor is easier to take to LAN parties.
A couple companies now make micro-ATX X58 boards. There are a few micro-ATX chassis out there that can easily fit the board plus a high-end vid card (or two,) while still being easily portable.
Not 'green', as this company claims, but portable. I'd love a second X58 box as a LAN-box. My main box is just huge. And pricing it out, I could build a passable X58 mini-box for $1000.
WiFi may not be as reliable for gaming, but it works for web browsing.
I still occasionally play the various Carmen Sandiego games on my old Apple II. Just picked up sealed boxed copies of old early '80s arcade games for the Apple II, too. My daughter is just getting to the right age for some of these old games, and I can't wait to introduce her to LOGO. (I was six when I started out on LOGO on an Apple II+. The school had three of them in the library, and it was a special honor to get to use the computers.)
Portland, Oregon, also has WiMax through Clear. There are decently large sections of Portland (including my house,) that do not have WiMax coverage; and larger sections with very spotty coverage. Admittedly, Portland is a much "hillier" city than Atlanta, but it only stands to reason that some parts of Atlanta would have coverage that leaves much to be desired, as well.
The 911 problem others mention can be resolved by picking a VoIP provider that has 911 service; or by manually bookmarking your local phone number for emergency dispatch.
And finally; if you haven't tried restoring from it, it isn't a backup.
I have had this problem bite me in the ass twice. My small company uses a third-party to provide our CRM; via a web-based service. Turns out that they thought they were making backups; but never tested it. Failure happened, data was not recoverable. Thankfully, I had set our system to send an email notification for every change to the CRM database; and had a big backup of all those messages. Made the poor web-based company manually re-enter all of the information from those email messages. The fact that nobody at that company could write a script to re-import them into their database (very well structured, I'm not a scripting guy, but I probably could have had a kludgey script within a week,) was a major factor in why we then moved to another company.
Second incident was much more serious case of 'backups not really a backup', but that incident falls under an NDA... About all I can say is multi-terabyte storage server was filling up; boo-boo happened with no proper backups, then we didn't have to worry about the storage array being full anymore.
I agree. I was prepared, and the instant my brain registered that there was a photo, I scrolled down. (It's the whole train-wreck thing. I am truly phobic of spiders, but I had to read. Now I'm afraid to scroll back up to try to actually read the story part.)
Except RMS isn't just advocating skipping SAS that's based on proprietary software; he's equating the entire concept of SAS to proprietary software.
He's saying that if you don't control the hardware, you shouldn't be using the software.
He *IS* saying that you shouldn't use a dry cleaner; that you should dry clean at home.
I wonder if he grows all his own food, generates all his own electricity, provides his own (not dependent on anyone else) internet and telecom? Oh, wait, the last two are impossible.
Sorry, RMS is one of those "extremist to the point of hypocracy" people. He suggests things that, while the underlying idea may be good, are impossible for most people from a practical standpoint; and for some of the ideas he implies, are truly impossible for anyone. (Without major changes to the business models of major companies, anyway.)
They really are short lived. 18 seconds would be an eternity for them, apparently.
(So, the summary here presently says "the longest lived molecule only lasted 18 seconds." whereas the article says "the longest lived Rydberg molecule survives for just 18 microseconds." Rather large difference.)
This is more akin to selling a (legally purchased) copy of OS X with non-Apple-branded hardware. The fees were paid, it's the 'agreement' that isn't being followed.
The Pirate Bay trail is more equivalent to stealing services. Getting on the bus without paying your fare. Yes, your ridership has little-to-no marginal cost; the bus was running anyway, after all. But you are taking advantage of the service without contributing to the financial basis for that service to continue.
One could argue, just as music/movie/software copyright infringers do, (I won't call them pirates,) that what does it matter if one, or two, or even a dozen, people ride the bus without paying the fare. It's a statement to make all busses free! Uh, no. It's going to drive the bus company into more draconian measures, and quite possibly kill the bus company, if too high a percentage of their users stop paying.
And, honestly, how many copyright infringers are doing it specifically as a 'statement against the man', and how many are just cheap bastards? I have a feeling the *VAST MAJORITY* are the latter.
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That's funny; I hadn't though of that. I think I'll do that. (Of course, if the person waits to verify, they'll notice that I'm not actually doing it. The one time I did it in earnest, I was just finishing, and was walking back to my car while they were writing a ticket for the car right after mine. I'm sure if I had just walked away without putting the sticker in my car, they would have gone right back and given me a ticket.)
In Portland, they have one meter on the face of each block with parking. At worst, you have to cross the street or go around a corner, if the one meter on your face is broken. So odds are, you'll be able to see the parking enforcement person walking to your car, and yell "I'm at the pay-station!" (I've done that once, and it was a case where the meter on the side I was on was out-of-order, so I was on the other side of the street.) In parking in downtown Portland metered spaces a couple hundred times since they put these meters in, I've run in to a broken meter less than a dozen times; probably fewer than half a dozen; and I've only ever been caught at the meter when the enforcement person was coming by once. (I have been annoyed to walk up to my car five minutes after expiration to already find a ticket on the windshield, though.)
Also, as for 'line', the *MOST* I've ever seen is one person using the machine, plus a second waiting. Then again, Portland does have shorter-than-average blocks (200 feet,) so at most eight cars per side. So the odds of having more than two people parking in a close enough span of time to each other to 'clog' a meter is a big long.
When the first SEC game is held, and 10,000 people all tweet (or post to Facebook, etc,) from their cell phone "Take that, SEC!", what will they do?
Not to mention, people who use pseudonyms. Will they actually take the time to track down people who are posting two pictures to TwitPic?
I can *MAYBE* understand them saying "no competing with our contracted partner", aka no having a running play-by-play via Twitter, with fifty+ accompanying pictures (think what lots of blogs do for Apple Keynote events...) But to say you can't post "I'm at the (xyz) game!" to Facebook is ridiculous.
Worked fine, I get the proper NXDOMAIN response. No goofy fake 'domain not found' page, like bellca.
WTF?!? Yesterday I was getting NXDOMAIN correctly, today I'm back on to their crappy search page! Dammit, I opted out when they first announced this! Comcast, you bastards!
My 12" PowerBook with its original battery (491 cycles as of this morning,) lasts about 4 hours with WiFi off. When it was new, I could get 6 hours.
Personally, I'm annoyed at my 15" MacBook Pro. It can get 5 hours on a new battery, but I'm now on my 6th battery in three years; the others all dropped to less than 2 hours run-life before they had even has 100 discharge cycles.
I like the IDEA of the built-in batteries on their newer products; and the battery life per charge is fine; I'm just worried about the life of the battery itself, based on my recent experience.
You still have to buy the original device to run Windows.
Unless you're condoning theft of physical property in addition to violating the Windows license.
Moving four passengers the 200 miles at 100 MPH on four gallons of gas would pull it off. That would be a 'raw' MPG of 50 MPG. Or, in airplane parliance, that two hour trip would consume at an average rate of 2 gph (Gallons per Hour, the normal measurement used in the aviation industry.) A two-place airplane would need to consume half as much fuel to qualify.
A Cessna 172, with four passengers, consumes somewhere between 7-10 gallons per hour. So this would be a serious improvement. There are some 'light sport' aircraft that draw near 4 GPH, but those are two-place.
Either way, still way better than requiring a raw 200 miles per gallon.
It depends on how tall their rover is. If its panels are high enough off the ground, they would avoid the electrostatic problem. Of course, I can't find any reference to how tall that would need to be.
I agree with the 'air' comment. They don't have to worry about *air* at -240F, they have to worry about plain vacuum radiation.
But even that has been solved, just ask anyone who has designed a satellite with sensitive electronics. After all, nearly all satellites spend 50% of their time in the shade.
What's with the summary's "the" Apollo landing site? Last time I checked, there were 6 landing sites. (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17.)
Personally, I'd rather like (if I had the cash,) two SSD's in RAID-0 for boot, one optical drive, and three 2 TB drives in RAID-5 for important data, if I was going for an all-in-one high-speed, high-capacity desktop.
Instead, I have my home server with its 8 drive bays. (Currently only have four drives, in two arrays, totaling 2.5 TB usable space.)
Or, if you have a somewhat modern Intel-chipset board (with 6 SATA ports, and Intel's RAID-5 capable "Matrix RAID",) you could buy 5 or 6 Seagate or Western Digital 2 TB drives for $230 each. No fancy total-price-doubling adapter needed.
If you're willing to risk your data, 5 drives is enough to do a 10 TB RAID-0; if you're a little less willing to risk your data, and have a motherboard with either a PATA controller, or an additional SATA controller for your optical drive, or are willing to live with an external optical drive, you can go whole-hog and get 6 in a 10 TB RAID-5.
From everything I've read, Ford independently developed their hybrid technology, then discovered that it was close enough to Toyota's that they had to license Toyota's patents.
Nissan, on the other hand, is using Toyota technology itself, purchased directly from Toyota, the only major difference being that the gasoline engine part is a Nissan engine as opposed to a Toyota. The electrical bits are 100% Toyota.
So Comcast is just reselling Clear WiMax service, at the same price as Clear (okay, fine, $0.01 a month cheaper,) then tacking on the requirement that you have Comcast home internet already.
Uh, okay...
If they offered some kind of discount, it might be worth getting; but I suppose some people will do it just because of the whole 'single bill' thing.
I wanted to switch to Clear with a home/mobile bundle a few months ago; but my house has zero signal. (Even though I'm well within the service area.)
Uh, "relegate to the sidelines"? That would imply that Ogg/Theora is already at least on the sidelines. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ogg/Theora isn't even in the stadium yet.
I'm all for open standards, and I would love it if the Ogg codecs were to become primary; but don't try to tell me it is a serious contender now. No default media player on Windows or Mac OS X can play them, no 'commonly distributed by OEMs' media player (read: QuickTime for Windows and Real,) can play them.
The Ogg community needs to push to either get Ogg support added to Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and Real *BY DEFAULT* (not by plugin,) or else they need to push to have major OEMs (Dell, HP, etc,) include open-source media software, like VLC or Mplayer included by the OEM. (Which won't happen, because VLC and Mplayer aren't big corporations that will pay the OEMs money to include their software.)
Honestly, how many people start a blog honestly expecting the blog to become their job?
I started mine as a means of keeping my out-of-state family up to date on what's going on with us. I update it once every couple months.
Alright, where to begin...
"ION" is nVidia's, not Intel's. (Only the story submitter makes this mistake, not TFA.)
"ION" is nVidia's codename for the combination of their 9400 or 9300 integrated graphics chipset plus the Intel Atom processor. This rig uses a Core 2; which makes it *NOT* an ION. It just makes it a Core 2 plus 9400 chipset.
And as others mention, the Mac mini is the same damn thing; only smaller, draws less power, and costs less. (However this one has the ability to add a discrete graphics card, which the Mac mini obviously lacks.)
Small form factor is easier to take to LAN parties.
A couple companies now make micro-ATX X58 boards. There are a few micro-ATX chassis out there that can easily fit the board plus a high-end vid card (or two,) while still being easily portable.
Not 'green', as this company claims, but portable. I'd love a second X58 box as a LAN-box. My main box is just huge. And pricing it out, I could build a passable X58 mini-box for $1000.
WiFi may not be as reliable for gaming, but it works for web browsing.
I still occasionally play the various Carmen Sandiego games on my old Apple II. Just picked up sealed boxed copies of old early '80s arcade games for the Apple II, too. My daughter is just getting to the right age for some of these old games, and I can't wait to introduce her to LOGO. (I was six when I started out on LOGO on an Apple II+. The school had three of them in the library, and it was a special honor to get to use the computers.)
Portland, Oregon, also has WiMax through Clear. There are decently large sections of Portland (including my house,) that do not have WiMax coverage; and larger sections with very spotty coverage. Admittedly, Portland is a much "hillier" city than Atlanta, but it only stands to reason that some parts of Atlanta would have coverage that leaves much to be desired, as well.
The 911 problem others mention can be resolved by picking a VoIP provider that has 911 service; or by manually bookmarking your local phone number for emergency dispatch.
And finally; if you haven't tried restoring from it, it isn't a backup.
I have had this problem bite me in the ass twice. My small company uses a third-party to provide our CRM; via a web-based service. Turns out that they thought they were making backups; but never tested it. Failure happened, data was not recoverable. Thankfully, I had set our system to send an email notification for every change to the CRM database; and had a big backup of all those messages. Made the poor web-based company manually re-enter all of the information from those email messages. The fact that nobody at that company could write a script to re-import them into their database (very well structured, I'm not a scripting guy, but I probably could have had a kludgey script within a week,) was a major factor in why we then moved to another company.
Second incident was much more serious case of 'backups not really a backup', but that incident falls under an NDA... About all I can say is multi-terabyte storage server was filling up; boo-boo happened with no proper backups, then we didn't have to worry about the storage array being full anymore.
I agree. I was prepared, and the instant my brain registered that there was a photo, I scrolled down. (It's the whole train-wreck thing. I am truly phobic of spiders, but I had to read. Now I'm afraid to scroll back up to try to actually read the story part.)
Except RMS isn't just advocating skipping SAS that's based on proprietary software; he's equating the entire concept of SAS to proprietary software.
He's saying that if you don't control the hardware, you shouldn't be using the software.
He *IS* saying that you shouldn't use a dry cleaner; that you should dry clean at home.
I wonder if he grows all his own food, generates all his own electricity, provides his own (not dependent on anyone else) internet and telecom? Oh, wait, the last two are impossible.
Sorry, RMS is one of those "extremist to the point of hypocracy" people. He suggests things that, while the underlying idea may be good, are impossible for most people from a practical standpoint; and for some of the ideas he implies, are truly impossible for anyone. (Without major changes to the business models of major companies, anyway.)
It's not about size, it's about length....
(of time.)
They really are short lived. 18 seconds would be an eternity for them, apparently.
(So, the summary here presently says "the longest lived molecule only lasted 18 seconds." whereas the article says "the longest lived Rydberg molecule survives for just 18 microseconds." Rather large difference.)
Except Rosa Parks paid for her ticket.
She just sat where she shouldn't.
This is more akin to selling a (legally purchased) copy of OS X with non-Apple-branded hardware. The fees were paid, it's the 'agreement' that isn't being followed.
The Pirate Bay trail is more equivalent to stealing services. Getting on the bus without paying your fare. Yes, your ridership has little-to-no marginal cost; the bus was running anyway, after all. But you are taking advantage of the service without contributing to the financial basis for that service to continue.
One could argue, just as music/movie/software copyright infringers do, (I won't call them pirates,) that what does it matter if one, or two, or even a dozen, people ride the bus without paying the fare. It's a statement to make all busses free! Uh, no. It's going to drive the bus company into more draconian measures, and quite possibly kill the bus company, if too high a percentage of their users stop paying.
And, honestly, how many copyright infringers are doing it specifically as a 'statement against the man', and how many are just cheap bastards? I have a feeling the *VAST MAJORITY* are the latter.