I haven't tried it, or know anyone who has, but walmart seems to have a service very similar to netflix.
It is a little cheaper and seems to have about the same selection. If anyone uses this and wants to post a review the karma gods would smile on you.
Manual transmissions are more efficient in transfering power to the wheels than automatics. This is there main advantage. Because of this they will accelerate faster and usually get better gas mileage than automatics. Plus, manuals trannys are a hell of a lot more fun to drive. Give me an stick over and slush box any day.
I for one welcome DRM on NSYNC/Britney Spears albumns. After the world has listened to them there alotted four times, then we can get that crap off of the radio and start playing somewhat decent music again. DRM, like most things, is best used in moderation.
If pinball is dying, I am proud to be one of the last few who play pinball regularly. At the student union here we have a south park pinball machine that on average eats about $3.00 of my money a week (at $0.50 a game, which these days usually includes a replay or two).
I got suckered into this about a year ago and never looked back, plus it is a lot less embarassing than the DDR machine which I have given up on for the moment.
It isn't all that uncommon for automotible manufactures to underrate the performance of engines in cars, or cpu manufactures to underestime the chips that they market as x Ghz.
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They had an article about this in popular science around 10 years ago. The cooling mechanism took up about a half ounce and could get a can of soda down to about 35 F. Never really made it to the market though, not sure why.
I am in school for electrical engineering, and for the most part they aren't teaching us fortran at all. Most of the time we use matlab to solve things which previously would have been solved in a fortran program. Seeing as I don't know much about fortran I can't make a good comparison, but my professor says that he can write the necessary programs alot faster in matlab than he ever could in fortran.
I could be wrong about this, being that I have not read a script for the movie, but who says the movie has to take place in the current time? I don't see anything stopping them from setting the movie in 1995 before LA was nuked? Just a thought.
You certainly could buy a lot of hardware for that money, but who is going to want to admin 1.2 million worth of pc hardware all running in one cluster? You would also need a very large warehouse to store all of those boxes, and the power consumption would be a bitch too. In the long run you would be much better off with the mainframe if you really need that amount of processing power.
On Man or Astro-man?'s (great space rock surf combo from Georgia) latest albumn, entitled "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale" they have a song made with dot matrix printers. The song is called "A Simple Text File" and is pretty cool considering what it is created on. Check it out next time you are in a mp3 pirating, ahh, I mean downloading the mp3's you own for backup reasons mood. Also check out their web page.
Maybe things are different where I have lived in my life, but how often are cable companies directly competing against each other? It seems that each company has a defined area that they offer their service in and where you live determines your cable company. Cable modems seem to operate the same way (at least here). So I ask you, where in America are these two companies in direct competetion with each other?
Not only is earthlink not honoring their contract, but the webpage hosting the story is www.earthlinksucks.net. Which we all know is so similar to www.earthlink.net that they will probably be sued by earthlink and be forced to take the site down. As the rich texan on the simpsons said "Score one for the bad guys."
This could be setup as a screensaver, perhaps it would work as an extension of XScreenSaver, but there would have to be such a mechanism
I was giving this problem (with restarting just netscape, not the entire system) about a year ago to figure out after the Sun Microsystems engineers who where originally setting up our system said it was impossible to do. Enter the beautiful world of open source: I found a program which is basically a screensaver launcher that monitors the X server for idle time, and after a user specified period of time, launches a user specified program. Just set it to launch a shell script with whatever you want to do and you are set. The program is called xautolock and can be found here
I am in charge of a SunRay system for a hotel / conference center. We have a total of 120 SunRay systems which are broken up into ~100 guest rooms and 15 public kiosks plus some for me to play around with:). I have almost no complaints about the interface, which just consists of cde with one button, netscape. And since there is some code running to bring netscape up if it crashes, or is closed, most people don't even need to use that button. We give the guests access to some kde games by using a perl script and a web page. The guest is presented with a short description of the games, and if they would like to play one they click on a link. Pretty straightforward.
The moral is that it doesn't matter what it is running behind the scenes as long as the interface they are presented with is good. If you plan to drop them into a vanilla kde, gnome, window maker, etc.. desktop, then people will be confused. But, people don't need all that stuff on a kiosk, they don't care if you do have a phases of the moon program, or a utility to tell them how the system resources are doing. Just set them up with the bare essentials, which in my experience is netscape and a web based email client and a short explanation of how to use it. (I have found imp (www.horde.org/imp) is an excellent choice. It supports pop3 and imap and can be set up with a stock list of email servers or let the guest enter their own. Make sure to tell them that this is not a supported feature, and if they don't know how to get to their email, then they should contact their technical support, not yours.)
Anyone remember the episode of the critic where they had Dukevision or something to that effect. They basically used digital technology to change the endings of movies so they would be better. They also had a part with the indian from One Flew Over the Cuccos Nest selling laundy detergent. Pretty funny stuff. Hopefully these new commercials won't try to take themselves too seriously. If they do I just can't see it working. I would probably buy cerel form Corpral Agarn though:)
Whats so difficult with using version numbers? NewOS v1.3, NewOS v1.4, etc...
But then again plan 9 never got very mainstream. Although it probably has a lot more to do with it being more of a research project than people not wanting to be early adopters and waiting for plan 10.
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I haven't tried it, or know anyone who has, but walmart seems to have a service very similar to netflix. It is a little cheaper and seems to have about the same selection. If anyone uses this and wants to post a review the karma gods would smile on you.
The onion already had a story like this, here. This once again proves that the onion is america's finest news source.
Would it be the 102nd? Or am I missing something here.
There are people out there who think the honda s2000 is the end all of cars because of its 9000rpm red line.
Always remember that there are idiots everywhere.
Manual transmissions are more efficient in transfering power to the wheels than automatics. This is there main advantage. Because of this they will accelerate faster and usually get better gas mileage than automatics. Plus, manuals trannys are a hell of a lot more fun to drive. Give me an stick over and slush box any day.
I for one welcome DRM on NSYNC/Britney Spears albumns. After the world has listened to them there alotted four times, then we can get that crap off of the radio and start playing somewhat decent music again. DRM, like most things, is best used in moderation.
If pinball is dying, I am proud to be one of the last few who play pinball regularly. At the student union here we have a south park pinball machine that on average eats about $3.00 of my money a week (at $0.50 a game, which these days usually includes a replay or two).
I got suckered into this about a year ago and never looked back, plus it is a lot less embarassing than the DDR machine which I have given up on for the moment.
It isn't all that uncommon for automotible manufactures to underrate the performance of engines in cars, or cpu manufactures to underestime the chips that they market as x Ghz.
They had an article about this in popular science around 10 years ago. The cooling mechanism took up about a half ounce and could get a can of soda down to about 35 F. Never really made it to the market though, not sure why.
Note sure if this qualifies, but it is a neat little floppy disk distribution that does nat. Check it out at http://www.coyotelinux.com/.
I am in school for electrical engineering, and for the most part they aren't teaching us fortran at all. Most of the time we use matlab to solve things which previously would have been solved in a fortran program. Seeing as I don't know much about fortran I can't make a good comparison, but my professor says that he can write the necessary programs alot faster in matlab than he ever could in fortran.
I think I have this P=NP problem worked out. All you have to do is divide everything through by P. That way N = 1. Now where is my prize?
I could be wrong about this, being that I have not read a script for the movie, but who says the movie has to take place in the current time? I don't see anything stopping them from setting the movie in 1995 before LA was nuked? Just a thought.
I would be very suprised if the unit wasn't DC powered the whole time. He is just using a DC source instead of AC with a transformer/rectifier block.
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The real benifit is that after you have a portable version, and linux ported to it you can use it as a linux powered pda
You certainly could buy a lot of hardware for that money, but who is going to want to admin 1.2 million worth of pc hardware all running in one cluster? You would also need a very large warehouse to store all of those boxes, and the power consumption would be a bitch too. In the long run you would be much better off with the mainframe if you really need that amount of processing power.
On Man or Astro-man?'s (great space rock surf combo from Georgia) latest albumn, entitled "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale" they have a song made with dot matrix printers. The song is called "A Simple Text File" and is pretty cool considering what it is created on. Check it out next time you are in a mp3 pirating, ahh, I mean downloading the mp3's you own for backup reasons mood. Also check out their web page.
Maybe things are different where I have lived in my life, but how often are cable companies directly competing against each other? It seems that each company has a defined area that they offer their service in and where you live determines your cable company. Cable modems seem to operate the same way (at least here). So I ask you, where in America are these two companies in direct competetion with each other?
up and at them!
New for SUV, see the story at the onion. See the first picture in the side bar.
Not only is earthlink not honoring their contract, but the webpage hosting the story is www.earthlinksucks.net. Which we all know is so similar to www.earthlink.net that they will probably be sued by earthlink and be forced to take the site down. As the rich texan on the simpsons said "Score one for the bad guys."
This could be setup as a screensaver, perhaps it would work as an extension of XScreenSaver, but there would have to be such a mechanism
I was giving this problem (with restarting just netscape, not the entire system) about a year ago to figure out after the Sun Microsystems engineers who where originally setting up our system said it was impossible to do. Enter the beautiful world of open source: I found a program which is basically a screensaver launcher that monitors the X server for idle time, and after a user specified period of time, launches a user specified program. Just set it to launch a shell script with whatever you want to do and you are set. The program is called xautolock and can be found here
I am in charge of a SunRay system for a hotel / conference center. We have a total of 120 SunRay systems which are broken up into ~100 guest rooms and 15 public kiosks plus some for me to play around with :). I have almost no complaints about the interface, which just consists of cde with one button, netscape. And since there is some code running to bring netscape up if it crashes, or is closed, most people don't even need to use that button. We give the guests access to some kde games by using a perl script and a web page. The guest is presented with a short description of the games, and if they would like to play one they click on a link. Pretty straightforward.
The moral is that it doesn't matter what it is running behind the scenes as long as the interface they are presented with is good. If you plan to drop them into a vanilla kde, gnome, window maker, etc.. desktop, then people will be confused. But, people don't need all that stuff on a kiosk, they don't care if you do have a phases of the moon program, or a utility to tell them how the system resources are doing. Just set them up with the bare essentials, which in my experience is netscape and a web based email client and a short explanation of how to use it. (I have found imp (www.horde.org/imp) is an excellent choice. It supports pop3 and imap and can be set up with a stock list of email servers or let the guest enter their own. Make sure to tell them that this is not a supported feature, and if they don't know how to get to their email, then they should contact their technical support, not yours.)
Who wants to place bets that this number will at least triple with the posting of this article? May the slashdot effect actually be put to some good?
Anyone remember the episode of the critic where they had Dukevision or something to that effect. They basically used digital technology to change the endings of movies so they would be better. They also had a part with the indian from One Flew Over the Cuccos Nest selling laundy detergent. Pretty funny stuff. Hopefully these new commercials won't try to take themselves too seriously. If they do I just can't see it working. I would probably buy cerel form Corpral Agarn though :)
Whats so difficult with using version numbers? NewOS v1.3, NewOS v1.4, etc...
But then again plan 9 never got very mainstream. Although it probably has a lot more to do with it being more of a research project than people not wanting to be early adopters and waiting for plan 10.