the M-Flash memory architecture is cheap to manufacture and allows for devices 2/3 the size of existing MMC products
I don't know how other people feel about this, but for me, the Secure Digital format is pretty close to being as small as I want to get. I don't want to have to use tweezers to get my memory into and out of devices.
Walter Mossberg, technocurmudgeon for the Wall Street Journal, loved the Belkin pre-N products (WAP and PC Card). They eliminated all the usual dead spots in his home. He even went so far as to say that if you need the improved coverage and speed now, screw the fact that it might become obsolete with the official N spec release.
In physicist Richard Feynman's book, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," he talks about working on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico. He discovered he could figure out the combination to the safes they were using just by touch. So he went around to various offices and would kind of lean on the safe while chatting with the inhabitant. He'd twiddle the dial as though he were just playing around with it during the conversation, but he was really determining the combination. Eventually, he went to the security people and showed them how easy it was to crack these things, and showed how he had the combinations to many safes. Instead of improving the safes, the response of the security people was to make the occupant of every office Feynman had ever been in change the safe combination. The inhabitants were none too happy, and to avoid a repeat of the episode banned Feynman from entering their offices thenceforth. The safes were left as vulnerable as before.
I'm always amused when authors start bitching about how their work was screwed over by the movie. If you don't want them pissing on it, don't sell the rights. Or demand an ironclad contract that gives you final script/director approval. Anything less, and you're signaling that you'd rather have the dough than maintain your work's integrity.
Well, they would probably grumble a little, then get to work on a way to figure out a way around it, just as they have been doing for decades.
Already done. If/when the enemy jams GPS, the US is prepared with "pseudolites" (transmitter-equipped aircraft, aerostats, ground stations, etc.)to cover the areas where the opposition is trying to deny GPS coverage.
If your withholding taxes go down won't you be able to afford another quarter for that delivered pizza?
Anybody who thinks CA will raise one tax and reduce another correspondingly either doesn't live here or is seriously out of touch with how Sacramento works. Taxes only go one way in this state: up. The exception to that rule being when people finally get fed up and pass something like Proposition 13 by initiative, bypassing the legislature.
By the way, hummers DO pay a guzzler tax. It's 18 cents (state tax) at the pump for every gallon. Plus sales tax. If you get crap mileage, you pay thru the taxes on the extra gallons you burn.
Oakland has the power of taxation and self-governance so if Oakland A) really thinks schools are in need of improvement, B) is prepared to actually do so, and C) think that money is required, then D) it can raise the money itself and do it. Why does money have to pass through the Washington DC filter and be doled back out to fix what amounts to a local problem? (I'll give the real answer that no one in local government will utter: the feds can run deficits whereas state and local governments have to balance their books. That's why they look to Uncle Sugar for funds. That, and it's always easier to put the arm on some taxpayer in, say, Biloxi, who doesn't vote for you.)
Then Bush and his cronies moved in, and anything even approaching preservation of civil liberties, the Constitution, or... okay, lets be honest, our dignity... went totally out the window in pursuit of idealism and Empire building.
You may not have noticed, but the USA Patriot Act passed 98-1 in the Senate, 356-66 in the House, meaning the vast majority of Democrats voted for it too. If you hate the Act, you can equally blame the Democrats for whatever ills it brings.
Miserable zero-privacy Orwellian societies, though, can't be created purely by the efforts of right-wing crypto-fascist governmental bureaucracies (man).
So, is the UK, which is rapidly covering every square meter of itself in surveillance and traffic cameras a "right-wing crypto-fascist governmental bureaucracy"?b I think not. We "right wing crypto fascists" are continually fighting against creeping Big Brotherism. We're smart enough to know that even if the government in charge of it is to our liking at the moment, it's just a mater of time until it falls into the hands of our political enemies, and those guys REALLY know how to gin up a repressive government (all for our own good, of course).
And it's never, ever going to go away. Clausewitz (I think) once said that no plan ever survives contact with the enemy. His words are true today as they were in the 16th century.
The saying is a shortened form of something from one of Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke's writings on the Franco-Prussian war:
No operation plan extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main body of the enemy. It is only the layman who, as a campaign develops, thinks he sees the original plan being systematically fulfilled in every detail to its preconceived conclusion
Clausewitz, by the way, lived in the 18th and 19th centuries (1780-1831), not the 16th.
You're right that we're never going to eliminate confusion, incompetence, and error from war. It's inherent in all human endeavors and war's no different.
I recommend reading through some of the Amazon reviews. Complaints of dead pixels, noise on the audio due to the zoom motor, jerky video, etc. If I were going to try this camera out, I'd make sure I got one from a place where I could return it if it was unsatisfactory.
I did much the same to test a user interface written by another programmer on a project we were assigned to. The interface wasn't a gui, it was a pure ASCII type, so I wrote a random character generator and threw the output at her interface for days at a time. Crash. Crash. Crash. It was wonderful. I don't know that it found every flaw, but I'll bet no one ever killed her interface by leaning on the keyboard (as actually happened on an earlier project I'd heard about).
If I remember right his had 9 transistors. At that time when you bought one it would tell you how many transistors it had. The more transistors the better the "quality" and the higher the price. 9 was pretty much top of the line for portables.
I remember the prestige accorded to the transistor count in those early radios; it was bragging rights for us kids on the playground to have the radio with the higher count. Trouble was, the manufacturers caught on to this early and soldered in fake parts to raise their total. I remember a picture in an electronics mag showing the bottom of the printed circuit board in one radio, showing all three leads of each of a couple of the transistors soldered together in as one big connected blob.
It's time we recognized reality and revoked these misplaced rights and overturned the fallacy that corporations are persons.
Labor unions wield similar clout and are similarly unaccountable to their members and to society as a whole. Are you prepared to impose the same prohibition on them?
Personally, I'm willing to enact the restriction that only natural persons (living humans) can contribute to a candidate, and only then to a candidate for whom they're eligible to vote (no contributions from outsiders), and only for a specific candidate/race (no transferring unused funds to other races or other candidates).
The problem is this: I, and I can only speak for myself here, don't really care what's on the radio. To me, it's random stuff. Turn it on, listen to some music while doing something else, turn it off when you're done.
I got a Radio Your Way and use it to record talk shows. I later convert them to MP3 and I coded a WMP-based player that allows me to skip ahead/back by 1-minute or 5-second intervals, which lets me bypass commercials and news. It's great. Sounds like this device would eliminate the convert-to-mp3 step, could record up to the capacity of the hard disk (my RYW is good for about 16 hours using its internal memory) and it couldn't possibly have a worse user interface than the RYW. I've consequently ordered one of these dudes to either replace or supplement my RYW. It's sure a hell of a lot cheaper.
Select A Tenna. I have one of these, and it really works well for pulling in weak AM signals. And no physical connection required.
In the alternative, you could hook the radio output of your cable outlet directly into the audio input of your computer and write scripting software to capture it. For tuning, you'd have to hack something like a cable mouse (an IR emitter that you'd have to write software to drive with the appropriate signals to command the cable to change radio channels). A lot of work, but it could be done.
As geeks we should be aware and PROUD of old technology. Serial ports? I use them every day at work. 8 bit microcontrollers. I love them to death. They work nice, are cheap enough, and are very easy to design for and around. So yes, many places where someone might have used X in the past will now be replaced with Y, but so freakin what?
If an older technology is working, it's fine to keep using it, but beware. There's a danger of one day waking up to find out that you're one of the last ones still using it, and your skill set isn't up to date for the newer stuff that's in vogue. Potential employers don't want you because you aren't up to speed in the areas they need people. I've seen this happen where acquaintences are honed to perfection on the technology they've been using for 10 years, then the project comes to an end and they're scrambling to find someone who wants what they know. I've avoided this fate by always having at least a side project or two -- sometimes even unpaid -- using the latest stuff. That way I can always have the up-to-the-minute neato things on my resume, and know how to use them.
Actually, that's not an answer. I did google it, but "autocomplete" is massively used in Microsoft products, and it was possible that the google pageranking was obscuring the real meaning intended by the poster. The capitalization of the term, implying a proper noun, inclined me to think that's what was happening, hence the question. And if someone thought the question/joke criticism was dumb, the proper moderation is "overrated" not "offtopic."
Asking what Autocomplete is is legit, since it's contained in the summary. Some of the people moderating here are idiots. And I notice that nobody has supplied the answer. What. Is. Autocomplete?
This reminds me of an article that was pinned up in the copy room at Lucent in Allentown a while ago about rats that had been trained to run telecom and network cables through existing ductwork in schools.
In ancient Greece, Daedalus was said to have solved the problem of running a thread through a chambered nautilus by attaching it to an ant.
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I don't know how other people feel about this, but for me, the Secure Digital format is pretty close to being as small as I want to get. I don't want to have to use tweezers to get my memory into and out of devices.
I presume you mean for 802.11a/b/g. Not that I recall seeing in the article.
Walter Mossberg, technocurmudgeon for the Wall Street Journal, loved the Belkin pre-N products (WAP and PC Card). They eliminated all the usual dead spots in his home. He even went so far as to say that if you need the improved coverage and speed now, screw the fact that it might become obsolete with the official N spec release.
In physicist Richard Feynman's book, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," he talks about working on the Manhattan Project in New Mexico. He discovered he could figure out the combination to the safes they were using just by touch. So he went around to various offices and would kind of lean on the safe while chatting with the inhabitant. He'd twiddle the dial as though he were just playing around with it during the conversation, but he was really determining the combination. Eventually, he went to the security people and showed them how easy it was to crack these things, and showed how he had the combinations to many safes. Instead of improving the safes, the response of the security people was to make the occupant of every office Feynman had ever been in change the safe combination. The inhabitants were none too happy, and to avoid a repeat of the episode banned Feynman from entering their offices thenceforth. The safes were left as vulnerable as before.
I'm always amused when authors start bitching about how their work was screwed over by the movie. If you don't want them pissing on it, don't sell the rights. Or demand an ironclad contract that gives you final script/director approval. Anything less, and you're signaling that you'd rather have the dough than maintain your work's integrity.
Already done. If/when the enemy jams GPS, the US is prepared with "pseudolites" (transmitter-equipped aircraft, aerostats, ground stations, etc.)to cover the areas where the opposition is trying to deny GPS coverage.
Anybody who thinks CA will raise one tax and reduce another correspondingly either doesn't live here or is seriously out of touch with how Sacramento works. Taxes only go one way in this state: up. The exception to that rule being when people finally get fed up and pass something like Proposition 13 by initiative, bypassing the legislature.
By the way, hummers DO pay a guzzler tax. It's 18 cents (state tax) at the pump for every gallon. Plus sales tax. If you get crap mileage, you pay thru the taxes on the extra gallons you burn.
Oakland has the power of taxation and self-governance so if Oakland A) really thinks schools are in need of improvement, B) is prepared to actually do so, and C) think that money is required, then D) it can raise the money itself and do it. Why does money have to pass through the Washington DC filter and be doled back out to fix what amounts to a local problem? (I'll give the real answer that no one in local government will utter: the feds can run deficits whereas state and local governments have to balance their books. That's why they look to Uncle Sugar for funds. That, and it's always easier to put the arm on some taxpayer in, say, Biloxi, who doesn't vote for you.)
You may not have noticed, but the USA Patriot Act passed 98-1 in the Senate, 356-66 in the House, meaning the vast majority of Democrats voted for it too. If you hate the Act, you can equally blame the Democrats for whatever ills it brings.
So, is the UK, which is rapidly covering every square meter of itself in surveillance and traffic cameras a "right-wing crypto-fascist governmental bureaucracy"?b I think not. We "right wing crypto fascists" are continually fighting against creeping Big Brotherism. We're smart enough to know that even if the government in charge of it is to our liking at the moment, it's just a mater of time until it falls into the hands of our political enemies, and those guys REALLY know how to gin up a repressive government (all for our own good, of course).
The saying is a shortened form of something from one of Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke's writings on the Franco-Prussian war:
Clausewitz, by the way, lived in the 18th and 19th centuries (1780-1831), not the 16th.You're right that we're never going to eliminate confusion, incompetence, and error from war. It's inherent in all human endeavors and war's no different.
here.
I recommend reading through some of the Amazon reviews. Complaints of dead pixels, noise on the audio due to the zoom motor, jerky video, etc. If I were going to try this camera out, I'd make sure I got one from a place where I could return it if it was unsatisfactory.
I did much the same to test a user interface written by another programmer on a project we were assigned to. The interface wasn't a gui, it was a pure ASCII type, so I wrote a random character generator and threw the output at her interface for days at a time. Crash. Crash. Crash. It was wonderful. I don't know that it found every flaw, but I'll bet no one ever killed her interface by leaning on the keyboard (as actually happened on an earlier project I'd heard about).
I remember the prestige accorded to the transistor count in those early radios; it was bragging rights for us kids on the playground to have the radio with the higher count. Trouble was, the manufacturers caught on to this early and soldered in fake parts to raise their total. I remember a picture in an electronics mag showing the bottom of the printed circuit board in one radio, showing all three leads of each of a couple of the transistors soldered together in as one big connected blob.
Labor unions wield similar clout and are similarly unaccountable to their members and to society as a whole. Are you prepared to impose the same prohibition on them?
Personally, I'm willing to enact the restriction that only natural persons (living humans) can contribute to a candidate, and only then to a candidate for whom they're eligible to vote (no contributions from outsiders), and only for a specific candidate/race (no transferring unused funds to other races or other candidates).
I got a Radio Your Way and use it to record talk shows. I later convert them to MP3 and I coded a WMP-based player that allows me to skip ahead/back by 1-minute or 5-second intervals, which lets me bypass commercials and news. It's great. Sounds like this device would eliminate the convert-to-mp3 step, could record up to the capacity of the hard disk (my RYW is good for about 16 hours using its internal memory) and it couldn't possibly have a worse user interface than the RYW. I've consequently ordered one of these dudes to either replace or supplement my RYW. It's sure a hell of a lot cheaper.
Select A Tenna. I have one of these, and it really works well for pulling in weak AM signals. And no physical connection required.
In the alternative, you could hook the radio output of your cable outlet directly into the audio input of your computer and write scripting software to capture it. For tuning, you'd have to hack something like a cable mouse (an IR emitter that you'd have to write software to drive with the appropriate signals to command the cable to change radio channels). A lot of work, but it could be done.
If an older technology is working, it's fine to keep using it, but beware. There's a danger of one day waking up to find out that you're one of the last ones still using it, and your skill set isn't up to date for the newer stuff that's in vogue. Potential employers don't want you because you aren't up to speed in the areas they need people. I've seen this happen where acquaintences are honed to perfection on the technology they've been using for 10 years, then the project comes to an end and they're scrambling to find someone who wants what they know. I've avoided this fate by always having at least a side project or two -- sometimes even unpaid -- using the latest stuff. That way I can always have the up-to-the-minute neato things on my resume, and know how to use them.
Actually, that's not an answer. I did google it, but "autocomplete" is massively used in Microsoft products, and it was possible that the google pageranking was obscuring the real meaning intended by the poster. The capitalization of the term, implying a proper noun, inclined me to think that's what was happening, hence the question. And if someone thought the question/joke criticism was dumb, the proper moderation is "overrated" not "offtopic."
At long last I can indulge my cravings for video of dwarf amputee line dancing.
Asking what Autocomplete is is legit, since it's contained in the summary. Some of the people moderating here are idiots. And I notice that nobody has supplied the answer. What. Is. Autocomplete?
Is Autocomplete a game I've never heard of, or a reference to the feature in some computer programs? If the latter, the joke needs a little work.
A) You can't "take out" an article on the front page of SlashDot; a moderator has to greenlight it.
B) What the hell is is to you anyway? Skip the damned article if you're not interested.
This reminds me of an article that was pinned up in the copy room at Lucent in Allentown a while ago about rats that had been trained to run telecom and network cables through existing ductwork in schools.
In ancient Greece, Daedalus was said to have solved the problem of running a thread through a chambered nautilus by attaching it to an ant.