While sending the ISS to the moon solves one problem, there is still the issue of resupplying. Most supply ships are designed for a space station in Earth orbit. To go to the moon these space ships would need more fuel and would need to take more time to get there.
I guess people forgot how they squashed the Mac clone market a decade ago by deciding to no longer license the ROM needed to run MacOS and thus putting many OEM companies out of business in one fell swoop.
I guess you forgot that the clone makers agreed not to go after Apple's market and invariably did. Apple's intention to allow clones was to expand where it couldn't, yet instead of expanding they went after what little of the market Apple had. After having being burnt last time, I am not sure that Apple wants to go through that again.
Since the Wiimote uses Bluetooth to communicate with the Wii, it can be used with a PC. There is some software that takes advantage of it, though if you are interested there is http://www.wiili.org/ . The site documents the Wiimote communication protocol and lists some drivers available for the Linux, Windows, MacOS X and Java.
I wonder whether the intention of using Bluetooth was to use off the shelf equipment for the Wii, to facilitate development for it or even a bit of both?
Sure there is. You can lead. You can say, "No, I won't gut the Constitution. You all can, but I won't." The man is running to be the leader of 300-some million Americans and can't successfully convince 51 Senators to uphold an oath they all took to defend the Constitution.
Not only is the man is running to be the leader of 300-some million Americans, he is also running to be in charge of a country which has much international influence. There are minor countries that say its okay for them to treat their people badly, because the US is doing the same - while image and reality aren't the same thing they are often treated to be the same. If he can't improve the situation and image of the country which has been run down in the past years, then is he really the person for the job? I don't believe Mcain is either, so in many ways we are running with the same team, but with a different dress style.
Unless the passengers are taken out by shock bracelets. Good job, TSA!
The just leads me to ask the question: "What possibly could go wrong?".
I can just imagine the hostess announcing: "Please turn off your electronics devices and don't move in case your dog collar goes off, to prevent interference with the electronics of this airline";)
It's too bad something like this has to be paid for with a regressive tax like the lottery. There's no reason why the poor should pay a disproportionate amount of the upkeep of this place.
If money is already available as part of the lottery system, why should it not be used? Since money is already set aside, with the way the lottery system was set out, heritage should be one of the places receiving money. Nothing is stopping from other people pitching in separate to the lottery money allocation, but it doesn't mean that they should be refusing the lottery money either.
One thing that is different between a regular state tax and the lottery is that people choose to buy a lottery ticket, while most people don't have a choice about the taxes they pay.
So waiting a month and then canceling will cost you $700 vs $175 with AT&T
If that is indeed the case, then I would be tempted to buy the iPhone elsewhere unlocked and just limit my data usage to wi-fi hotspots. I would be curious to see when the iPhone 3G comes out what ratio of people are using unlocked iPhones to Rogers purchased iPhones in Canada. Sure there is Fido, but that is Rogers by another name. Maybe the British were thinking of the Canadians when they coined the verb roger.
And for devices under several thousand dollars, i'll make a fortune selling fake antennas and stickers that say "this device is protected by gps and will alert the authorities if it is moved", and "smile for the camera":)
No, no. The right approach is that mastered by numerous PC manufacturers: add a slot for the GPS, but don't include it, and then mark it as GPS ready. The poor sod who buys it, is then left to discover that the marketing department does not have the same definition of 'ready'. Because of the grey zone, the buyer is then left to buy the extra GPS component at the price the manufacturer charges. Ah, such is life;)
I thought ICQ died years ago. Apart from MSN, which I use very rarely, what other IM clients are in common use?
Depending your geography and demographics, then you will find the popular IM network is not the same. For example ICQ still has a certain popularity in Eastern Europe, QQ in China and South Africa. Avoid basing global statistics on your own usage habits.
I myself am tempted to download the source for the WPN824EXT, because my parents bought the WPN824EXT and had issues installing it. They were wanting to use it as a range extender. Trying to work it for them, I found this was not something was easy to configure, when compared to other routers. One thing I found is that as sold this does not really extend the range, unless one end is cabled to the base station. I was expecting a smarter range extender that would be able to simply extend the range wirelessly.
Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.
While a good idea, it is probably easier to simply migrate to IPv6. I say this reckoning that the amount of bureaucratic paper work amounts for most of the effort. If you are going to be doing the paper work, then it might as well be done for a solution moving forward, than trying to temporarily fix a bad allocation. At least this way the paper work is done once. Also, if there is hardware to be upgraded then you might as well put the effort into putting IPv6 ready hardware in place.
The pieces for IPv6 are slowly falling into place and there is less excuse to ignore it. The major operating systems support it and even Windows 2000 could use IPv6 if you had the technology preview (not sure where you can get hold it today) and a number of routers support it.
Did you check before you posted: obviously not, since/. drops the colons in the IP address, unless specified within 'a href'. Can I say broken? http://20010db885a308d313198a2e03707348/ [20010db885...2e03707348]
That -sucks-. ok? it sucks. It may be great for network people, except those that use the addresses, but it suks.
To nit pick, that URL is wrong, it should be of the form (note your URL was probably mangled by/.):
http://2001:0db8::7348/
Note that the number is between brackets and has colons. Longer numbers are a side affect of making more addresses available. You should be happy they decided to use hexadecimal to represent the address and not base 10, since it would have been a lot more painful. Also note that any series of zeros can be dropped and just push the colons together:
Then again although you can access a machine this way, solutions as zeroconf [wikipedia.org] are the way to go. Two implementations are Bonjour [wikipedia.org] (default on the Mac, available for MS Windows) and Avahi [wikipedia.org] on Linux. For me this is like ISBN numbers, in that sure you can refer to a book by its number, but it is far more convenient to refer it by name.
We've had a decade of people trying to ram this product down our throats, and yet, the best we get is that we should appreciate having an IP address that looks like:
Note that the number is between brackets and has colons. Longer numbers are a side affect of making more addresses available. You should be happy they decided to use hexadecimal to represent the address and not base 10, since it would have been a lot more painful. Also note that any series of zeros can be dropped and just push the colons together:
Then again although you can access a machine this way, solutions as zeroconf are the way to go. Two implementations are Bonjour (default on the Mac, available for MS Windows) and Avahi on Linux. For me this is like ISBN numbers, in that sure you can refer to a book by its number, but it is far more convenient to refer it by name.
I live in Canada and none of the ISPs that provide internet connection to the home provide native IPv6 support. Holidaying in France the other day I found that free.fr and possibly Wanadoo/Orange provide IPv6 support. An incomplete list of Internet Service Providers providing native IPv6 is available, though it could probably be updated and as more ISPs start providing native support to their customers. DSL Reports, also has a forum dedicated to IPv6.
Myself, I have started experimenting with IPv6 simply so I can understand all the issues and be able to help out other adopters. I started using Teredo on my Mac (since it supports being behind a NAT), by means of Miredo (a nice front-end for the Mac is available here), and then moved onto Aiccu. The advantage with going using Aiccu, is that I can have an IPv6 subnet for my computers at home. Also, since I wanted to make my web server available on the IPv6 addressable net, I registered its IP address with FreeDNS, since they allow for registration of AAAA records on their servers. There are certainly other 6to4 tunnels providers, such as Freenet6, but I haven't really investigate them since I already have a solution that fits my needs.
Vista has issues without external help, so I'd hate to see what DOJ intervention is going to do other than make it even worse. I am not a big Microsoft fan, but please let them at least try to develop a decent OS without an external committee. Let them succeed or fail on their own merits. If the DOJ wants to intervene anywhere, at least do it in vetting the results or paying attention to contracts.
The only real solution, but not perfect either, is to send a physical confirmation letter (snail mail) to the address in question. The letter would contain a confirmation code that needs to be used to activate the account. Until that happens the account and domain would be reserved for one month before it is returned to the void.
What would be interesting is whether it would be possible to add some intelligence into the DNS server, which checks the whois database to find out who the registrar is. You could then use that as a method for flagging possible domains at risk, or not resolving them. Another approach would be to include this a plug-in for Firefox or other web browsers. The catch is providing the service without killing the whois servers.
From what I can tell from these links there issue is still present in lead-free solder, and very much an issue in certain conditions. I have not seen any pages which indicate long-term solutions, though it would be interesting if someone can turn one up.
Lumping all SUV drivers in together is as fair as lumping in all bicycle riders together. You know, they don't follow traffic laws, don't signal, ride on the sidewalks, etc. etc. Fuck all bike riders.
I would like to disagree with you, but I can't. Just seeing the number of times that I have seen cyclists go through red lights at full speed, without slowing down and then blaming the car driver for almost hitting them is incredible. I cycle too, but I also drive from time to time, so I see things from both angles. If people can't follow the highway code, and are endangering themselves and others, then they deserve to get a fine, whether it be cyclist, motorised vehicle driver or pedestrian. There are certain cases where you can adapt the highway code to the situation, but that takes good judgement and respect for other road users - unfortunately many people simply adapt the highway code to their needs and everyone else can be damned.
From the apple site: "# Requires new 2-year AT&T rate plan, sold separately." In other words, there's no such thing as a $199 iPhone. Plans start at $59.99, so you're looking at a minimum outlay of $1638.76 plus tax over two years.
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While sending the ISS to the moon solves one problem, there is still the issue of resupplying. Most supply ships are designed for a space station in Earth orbit. To go to the moon these space ships would need more fuel and would need to take more time to get there.
I guess people forgot how they squashed the Mac clone market a decade ago by deciding to no longer license the ROM needed to run MacOS and thus putting many OEM companies out of business in one fell swoop.
I guess you forgot that the clone makers agreed not to go after Apple's market and invariably did. Apple's intention to allow clones was to expand where it couldn't, yet instead of expanding they went after what little of the market Apple had. After having being burnt last time, I am not sure that Apple wants to go through that again.
Since the Wiimote uses Bluetooth to communicate with the Wii, it can be used with a PC. There is some software that takes advantage of it, though if you are interested there is http://www.wiili.org/ . The site documents the Wiimote communication protocol and lists some drivers available for the Linux, Windows, MacOS X and Java.
I wonder whether the intention of using Bluetooth was to use off the shelf equipment for the Wii, to facilitate development for it or even a bit of both?
A friend of mine works for a company selling the iPhone 2.
Give us a clue to which country this carrier is in. There are many more carriers this time round and they don't all smell the same.
Sure there is. You can lead. You can say, "No, I won't gut the Constitution. You all can, but I won't." The man is running to be the leader of 300-some million Americans and can't successfully convince 51 Senators to uphold an oath they all took to defend the Constitution.
Not only is the man is running to be the leader of 300-some million Americans, he is also running to be in charge of a country which has much international influence. There are minor countries that say its okay for them to treat their people badly, because the US is doing the same - while image and reality aren't the same thing they are often treated to be the same. If he can't improve the situation and image of the country which has been run down in the past years, then is he really the person for the job? I don't believe Mcain is either, so in many ways we are running with the same team, but with a different dress style.
Unless the passengers are taken out by shock bracelets. Good job, TSA!
The just leads me to ask the question: "What possibly could go wrong?".
I can just imagine the hostess announcing: "Please turn off your electronics devices and don't move in case your dog collar goes off, to prevent interference with the electronics of this airline" ;)
It's too bad something like this has to be paid for with a regressive tax like the lottery. There's no reason why the poor should pay a disproportionate amount of the upkeep of this place.
If money is already available as part of the lottery system, why should it not be used? Since money is already set aside, with the way the lottery system was set out, heritage should be one of the places receiving money. Nothing is stopping from other people pitching in separate to the lottery money allocation, but it doesn't mean that they should be refusing the lottery money either.
One thing that is different between a regular state tax and the lottery is that people choose to buy a lottery ticket, while most people don't have a choice about the taxes they pay.
So waiting a month and then canceling will cost you $700 vs $175 with AT&T
If that is indeed the case, then I would be tempted to buy the iPhone elsewhere unlocked and just limit my data usage to wi-fi hotspots. I would be curious to see when the iPhone 3G comes out what ratio of people are using unlocked iPhones to Rogers purchased iPhones in Canada. Sure there is Fido, but that is Rogers by another name. Maybe the British were thinking of the Canadians when they coined the verb roger.
All we need now are for some Canadians to reiterate how shafted they feel by their only GSM provider :)
This discussion turned into a male organ mockery so fast, I can only conclude Mercury and Earth definitely need more female geeks.
Well, I haven't heard of planets sagging yet.
And for devices under several thousand dollars, i'll make a fortune selling fake antennas and stickers that say "this device is protected by gps and will alert the authorities if it is moved", and "smile for the camera" :)
No, no. The right approach is that mastered by numerous PC manufacturers: add a slot for the GPS, but don't include it, and then mark it as GPS ready. The poor sod who buys it, is then left to discover that the marketing department does not have the same definition of 'ready'. Because of the grey zone, the buyer is then left to buy the extra GPS component at the price the manufacturer charges. Ah, such is life ;)
I thought ICQ died years ago. Apart from MSN, which I use very rarely, what other IM clients are in common use?
Depending your geography and demographics, then you will find the popular IM network is not the same. For example ICQ still has a certain popularity in Eastern Europe, QQ in China and South Africa. Avoid basing global statistics on your own usage habits.
Source code for other of Netgear's routers are also available:
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101238.asp
I myself am tempted to download the source for the WPN824EXT, because my parents bought the WPN824EXT and had issues installing it. They were wanting to use it as a range extender. Trying to work it for them, I found this was not something was easy to configure, when compared to other routers. One thing I found is that as sold this does not really extend the range, unless one end is cabled to the base station. I was expecting a smarter range extender that would be able to simply extend the range wirelessly.
Hey IANNA, why not free up some of the "LEGACY" Class-A allocations (see below) That would free some 650 MILLION addresses!!! Some 15% of the address space.
While a good idea, it is probably easier to simply migrate to IPv6. I say this reckoning that the amount of bureaucratic paper work amounts for most of the effort. If you are going to be doing the paper work, then it might as well be done for a solution moving forward, than trying to temporarily fix a bad allocation. At least this way the paper work is done once. Also, if there is hardware to be upgraded then you might as well put the effort into putting IPv6 ready hardware in place.
The pieces for IPv6 are slowly falling into place and there is less excuse to ignore it. The major operating systems support it and even Windows 2000 could use IPv6 if you had the technology preview (not sure where you can get hold it today) and a number of routers support it.
Did you check before you posted: obviously not, since /. drops the colons in the IP address, unless specified within 'a href'. Can I say broken?
http://20010db885a308d313198a2e03707348/ [20010db885...2e03707348]
That -sucks-. ok? it sucks. It may be great for network people, except those that use the addresses, but it suks.
/.):
To nit pick, that URL is wrong, it should be of the form (note your URL was probably mangled by
http://2001:0db8::7348/
Note that the number is between brackets and has colons. Longer numbers are a side affect of making more addresses available. You should be happy they decided to use hexadecimal to represent the address and not base 10, since it would have been a lot more painful. Also note that any series of zeros can be dropped and just push the colons together:
http://2001:0db8:0000:0000:7348/ becomes http://2001:0db8::7348/
Then again although you can access a machine this way, solutions as zeroconf [wikipedia.org] are the way to go. Two implementations are Bonjour [wikipedia.org] (default on the Mac, available for MS Windows) and Avahi [wikipedia.org] on Linux. For me this is like ISBN numbers, in that sure you can refer to a book by its number, but it is far more convenient to refer it by name.
We've had a decade of people trying to ram this product down our throats, and yet, the best we get is that we should appreciate having an IP address that looks like:
http://20010db885a308d313198a2e03707348/
That -sucks-. ok? it sucks. It may be great for network people, except those that use the addresses, but it suks.
To nit pick, that URL is wrong, it should be of the form:
http://20010db87348/
Note that the number is between brackets and has colons. Longer numbers are a side affect of making more addresses available. You should be happy they decided to use hexadecimal to represent the address and not base 10, since it would have been a lot more painful. Also note that any series of zeros can be dropped and just push the colons together:
http://20010db8000000007348/ becomes http://20010db87348/
Then again although you can access a machine this way, solutions as zeroconf are the way to go. Two implementations are Bonjour (default on the Mac, available for MS Windows) and Avahi on Linux. For me this is like ISBN numbers, in that sure you can refer to a book by its number, but it is far more convenient to refer it by name.
I live in Canada and none of the ISPs that provide internet connection to the home provide native IPv6 support. Holidaying in France the other day I found that free.fr and possibly Wanadoo/Orange provide IPv6 support. An incomplete list of Internet Service Providers providing native IPv6 is available, though it could probably be updated and as more ISPs start providing native support to their customers. DSL Reports, also has a forum dedicated to IPv6.
Myself, I have started experimenting with IPv6 simply so I can understand all the issues and be able to help out other adopters. I started using Teredo on my Mac (since it supports being behind a NAT), by means of Miredo (a nice front-end for the Mac is available here), and then moved onto Aiccu. The advantage with going using Aiccu, is that I can have an IPv6 subnet for my computers at home. Also, since I wanted to make my web server available on the IPv6 addressable net, I registered its IP address with FreeDNS, since they allow for registration of AAAA records on their servers. There are certainly other 6to4 tunnels providers, such as Freenet6, but I haven't really investigate them since I already have a solution that fits my needs.
Depending on the server it is extremely high or infinitely low ;)
Vista has issues without external help, so I'd hate to see what DOJ intervention is going to do other than make it even worse. I am not a big Microsoft fan, but please let them at least try to develop a decent OS without an external committee. Let them succeed or fail on their own merits. If the DOJ wants to intervene anywhere, at least do it in vetting the results or paying attention to contracts.
The only real solution, but not perfect either, is to send a physical confirmation letter (snail mail) to the address in question. The letter would contain a confirmation code that needs to be used to activate the account. Until that happens the account and domain would be reserved for one month before it is returned to the void.
What would be interesting is whether it would be possible to add some intelligence into the DNS server, which checks the whois database to find out who the registrar is. You could then use that as a method for flagging possible domains at risk, or not resolving them. Another approach would be to include this a plug-in for Firefox or other web browsers. The catch is providing the service without killing the whois servers.
Tin Whiskers appear real:
http://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/background/index.htm
http://www.calce.umd.edu/lead-free/tin-whiskers/
From what I can tell from these links there issue is still present in lead-free solder, and very much an issue in certain conditions. I have not seen any pages which indicate long-term solutions, though it would be interesting if someone can turn one up.
Another link:
http://www.national.com/analog/packaging/leadfree
Lumping all SUV drivers in together is as fair as lumping in all bicycle riders together. You know, they don't follow traffic laws, don't signal, ride on the sidewalks, etc. etc. Fuck all bike riders.
I would like to disagree with you, but I can't. Just seeing the number of times that I have seen cyclists go through red lights at full speed, without slowing down and then blaming the car driver for almost hitting them is incredible. I cycle too, but I also drive from time to time, so I see things from both angles. If people can't follow the highway code, and are endangering themselves and others, then they deserve to get a fine, whether it be cyclist, motorised vehicle driver or pedestrian. There are certain cases where you can adapt the highway code to the situation, but that takes good judgement and respect for other road users - unfortunately many people simply adapt the highway code to their needs and everyone else can be damned.
From the apple site: "# Requires new 2-year AT&T rate plan, sold separately." In other words, there's no such thing as a $199 iPhone. Plans start at $59.99, so you're looking at a minimum outlay of $1638.76 plus tax over two years.
And this differs from other Smart Phones how?
The 8GB iPod Touch is currently listed at $299 on the store. SWEET DEAL!
;)
Certainly, but there probably isn't a three year contract signed in blood for the iPod Touch
Carve it up and eat it.
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Come on you can do a better job than that:
1. Mine the cheese
2.
3. Profit!