McDonalds has to have cash registers with a button for each kind of hamburger rather than requiring the person behind the counter actually enter the actual price. Wonder which came first: students who didn't know math requiring McDonalds to install the idiot cash registers?
The "idiot cash registers" were installed to help the managers keep track of inventory and determine sales figures. But try this for fun.
1) Buy something for, say, $3.46. 2) Waive a $10 to the clerk so he/she rings up the sale and gets the change for a $10. 3) Hand the clerk $5.25. 4) Watch as the clerk calls the manager to undo the transaction because he/she cannot subtract 346 from 525.
Ya gotta know the basics or else people like me will have fun at your expense.
I'm suprised that these guys didn't take more time to understand the properties of the chemicals they were dealing with, especially since they paid $1000 for them. Some simple heat circuit simulations would have told them that the liquid nitrogen was not nessecary. A good ice bath would do well enough because it can adsorb a lot more heat ( in Joules ). Water has a great specific temperature. I assume that flourinert is better ( for $500, it had better be better! ). The issue isn't so much getting the parts cold as it is in keeping them from getting hot.
The reason recording companies whine is because they want to be a middleman. They are obsolete, no longer needed...Remember if a business plan is obsolete, it should die off and make room for improved systems that will benefit people for less effort.
I agree, but try telling that to the fat, wealthy record executive. His fortune is built on this system and he, sure as shit happens, is NOT going to tear down his own empire. Do you think he really cares what the people think? Those guys have the idea in their head that they can tell us what we want. Unfortunately, that idea is not too far from the mark, given the popularity of groups like Kid Rock and N'Sync.
Money is power. If you propose a system, no matter how wonderful, if it does not generate money, it has no power. The file sharing utilities are used by a very small minority of users, and since the recording industry currently has the power, they are using it to squash this new medium.
But progress is a cruel fact of life. Eventually, recording industries will be "selected" out. The smart ones will evolve into something else, and the inflexible will make the transition to the new model as painful as possible as they are sent to the great beyond kicking and screaming. Either this, or there will be a new digital tyranny imposed on us. It all depends how the general public (with their spending money) reacts. The public holds the power, but is largely ignorant of the new technology. The recording industry will try to sell their method. We must sell the alternatives.
I think we should have a full time grammar checker person employed by slashdot that would humiliate people who post such "egregious lapses of grammar" that make reading some post's on this site so hard for I to read. Perhaps he/she could team up with a full time spell cheker to make sure that we all use the wright speling. It wood make reading posts from people who are outside the US much more entertaining.
Rambus is making out because they apparantly own the patent for DDR SDRAM as well as Rambus memory. If someone develops a new type of memory then they can sell this as an alternative. It just so happens now that Rambus holds all the alternatives. This is called cornering the market and is illegal. This would be akin to Standard oil claiming a patent on petroleum products. It definitely sounds like they should have a date with Judge Jackson.
In a recent Intel press release, the company announced that boards that worked with both SDRAM and Rambus memory were being recalled because the systems were unstable. The systems were to be replaced with a new board with Rambus installed. The press release also announced that Intel was selling off their stake in Micron, which, as you know, manufactures SDRAM. This is a relatively obvious move on the part of Intel to distance themselves from SDRAM.
Soon customers will be forced to buy a more expensive and lower performing system because Rambus is bullying other companies around. They must have a good case. They probably got a very general patent on "fast memory" from the US Patent Office. Way to go, USPO!
Codewright is very customizeable. You can change your key binding and plug into external utilities like grep. You can even compose your own DLLs and link them into the Codewright API to enhance the program. Definitely worth a look.
Just adjust your keyboard driver to buffer the keyboard inputs and feed the keystrokes to the system at a certian rate. Then distribute this modification to all of your friends. Everybody does a quick recompile of the kernel, and now everybody types the same ( at least as far as the software is concerned. )
Do not open ANY messages with ILOVEYOU in the title. I don't care if you ARE expecting it. Sincerely, The Cap'n "From now on you are to refer to me as Idiot, not You Captian!"
Most analog cell phone transmissions occur between 800 and 950 MHz. Youre going to have a hard time finding a scanner than will allow you to listen to that range. If I remember correctly, there was a law passed in '93 or so which made it illegal to sell scanners with capability in that range, in order to protect the privacy of analog cell phone users.
The next time you are in Europe, stop by a local ham radio shop. Most European countries do not block the 900MHz band for general purpose recievers. That's where I bought mine! It even has the FCC ID, even though it is not supposed to because it is not to be sold in the States. I guess the company did not want to deal with the hassle of domestic and international labels. The one label has all of the testing marks ( FCC, CE, etc ). The FCC id makes it a hell of a lot easier to get through customs.;-)
Yes, I have heard some very interesting phone conversations on that thing. Also, don't be chattering away too freely on your digital phone either. I know a guy who was a tech at the local wireless utility, and he had access to a nice little device which he could use to track CDMA calls. I am very careful about what I say on ANY phone network after that. It's too damn spookey listening to people converse like nobody is around. I feel like a ghost! BOO!
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The more we will slip through your fingers.
The more restrictive they get, the more they will irritate the public. Eventually, someone will step up to the plate and offer less restrictive agreements. Be it Open Source or some other company successfully marketing their software, the people will eventually develop little tolerance for this behaviour. but first they must be aware that there are alternatives out there.
I'm taking the Open Source road and gradually weaning myself off of any software that is not free. Eventually, when I build my skills enough, I will contribute back to the pool of available software. I hope to see you on this road.
Does this not assume that one computer is connected in between the ISP and the home network? What you are doing with the power network is sharing the same physical layer as everyone on your power grid. Kind of like running an ethernet cable to all the other people on the ISP, in your example. Unless youplace a filter on your breaker panel or fuse box, any signal you place on your power lines will be transmitted back through the power network to your neighbors. It's the same piece of copper. If you filter your power distribution box, the problem disappears. No signal will get through the filter to the neighbors. My question is, does this work across phases? Most houses have two phases whose hot lines are not connected. Only the common is connected. How does the A phase talk to the B phase?
As I said, it was an example of a mental barrier, more than of a real one.
This is the truth in the legend. I also expect that we will someday find a way to travel the cosmos. I do not think that it will be with a conventional spaceship hurtling through spacetime at faster than light speeds. One would have to find an exception to Maxwell's equations (which lead to Einstein's e=mc^2) and these have been proven to be extremely reliable. It will likely be from exploiting the rules of quantum physics, but I doubt that such a loophole will be incompatable with e=mc^2. Our situation may be similar to that of the 1920's and 30's aeronautical engineers. We need a new method of propulsion, but we do not know how to achieve it.
Just like it is impossible to pass the sound barrier?
Comparing the sound barrier problem to the speed of light problem is not an entirely accurate comparison. According to my grandfather, who worked on jet engines back in the early days, the sound barrier was not percieved as a true barrier. Everyone knew that bullets flew faster than sound, so the barrier had been broken. The question was, could we develop a machine to propel a man faster than sound? The "sound barrier" was more of a power barrier. Piston engines simply lacked the power to propel a plane faster than sound. My grandfather mentioned that there were all kinds of stories about the latest prop fighters of WW2 breaking the sound barrier in powerdives. Most people in the field knew it was possible to break the sound barrier. What they did not know was if they could control the plane or generate enough power to sustain supersonic flight. Jet engines were eventually developed that were able to deliver enough power for sustained supersonic flight and a little aerodynamic tweaking solved the control problems.
This actually sounds like something that may be discussed in the book.
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McDonalds has to have cash registers with a button for each kind of hamburger rather than requiring the person behind the counter actually enter the actual price. Wonder which came first: students who didn't know math requiring McDonalds to install the idiot cash registers?
The "idiot cash registers" were installed to help the managers keep track of inventory and determine sales figures. But try this for fun.
1) Buy something for, say, $3.46.
2) Waive a $10 to the clerk so he/she rings up the sale and gets the change for a $10.
3) Hand the clerk $5.25.
4) Watch as the clerk calls the manager to undo the transaction because he/she cannot subtract 346 from 525.
Ya gotta know the basics or else people like me will have fun at your expense.
I'm suprised that these guys didn't take more time to understand the properties of the chemicals they were dealing with, especially since they paid $1000 for them. Some simple heat circuit simulations would have told them that the liquid nitrogen was not nessecary. A good ice bath would do well enough because it can adsorb a lot more heat ( in Joules ). Water has a great specific temperature. I assume that flourinert is better ( for $500, it had better be better! ). The issue isn't so much getting the parts cold as it is in keeping them from getting hot.
Just my $0.02. Still interesting stuff, though.
The reason recording companies whine is because they want to be a middleman. They are obsolete, no longer needed...Remember if a business plan is obsolete, it should die off and make room for improved systems that will benefit people for less effort.
I agree, but try telling that to the fat, wealthy record executive. His fortune is built on this system and he, sure as shit happens, is NOT going to tear down his own empire. Do you think he really cares what the people think? Those guys have the idea in their head that they can tell us what we want. Unfortunately, that idea is not too far from the mark, given the popularity of groups like Kid Rock and N'Sync.
Money is power. If you propose a system, no matter how wonderful, if it does not generate money, it has no power. The file sharing utilities are used by a very small minority of users, and since the recording industry currently has the power, they are using it to squash this new medium.
But progress is a cruel fact of life. Eventually, recording industries will be "selected" out. The smart ones will evolve into something else, and the inflexible will make the transition to the new model as painful as possible as they are sent to the great beyond kicking and screaming. Either this, or there will be a new digital tyranny imposed on us. It all depends how the general public (with their spending money) reacts. The public holds the power, but is largely ignorant of the new technology. The recording industry will try to sell their method. We must sell the alternatives.
"Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days" or "C# for Dummies"?
I think we should have a full time grammar checker person employed by slashdot that would humiliate people who post such "egregious lapses of grammar" that make reading some post's on this site so hard for I to read. Perhaps he/she could team up with a full time spell cheker to make sure that we all use the wright speling. It wood make reading posts from people who are outside the US much more entertaining.
Rambus is making out because they apparantly own the patent for DDR SDRAM as well as Rambus memory. If someone develops a new type of memory then they can sell this as an alternative. It just so happens now that Rambus holds all the alternatives. This is called cornering the market and is illegal. This would be akin to Standard oil claiming a patent on petroleum products. It definitely sounds like they should have a date with Judge Jackson.
In a recent Intel press release, the company announced that boards that worked with both SDRAM and Rambus memory were being recalled because the systems were unstable. The systems were to be replaced with a new board with Rambus installed. The press release also announced that Intel was selling off their stake in Micron, which, as you know, manufactures SDRAM. This is a relatively obvious move on the part of Intel to distance themselves from SDRAM.
Soon customers will be forced to buy a more expensive and lower performing system because Rambus is bullying other companies around. They must have a good case. They probably got a very general patent on "fast memory" from the US Patent Office. Way to go, USPO!
Codewright is very customizeable. You can change your key binding and plug into external utilities like grep. You can even compose your own DLLs and link them into the Codewright API to enhance the program. Definitely worth a look.
Just adjust your keyboard driver to buffer the keyboard inputs and feed the keystrokes to the system at a certian rate. Then distribute this modification to all of your friends. Everybody does a quick recompile of the kernel, and now everybody types the same ( at least as far as the software is concerned. )
Do not open ANY messages with ILOVEYOU in the title. I don't care if you ARE expecting it. Sincerely, The Cap'n "From now on you are to refer to me as Idiot, not You Captian!"
Most analog cell phone transmissions occur between 800 and 950 MHz. Youre going to have a hard time finding a scanner than will allow you to listen to that range. If I remember correctly, there was a law passed in '93 or so which made it illegal to sell scanners with capability in that range, in order to protect the privacy of analog cell phone users.
;-)
The next time you are in Europe, stop by a local ham radio shop. Most European countries do not block the 900MHz band for general purpose recievers. That's where I bought mine! It even has the FCC ID, even though it is not supposed to because it is not to be sold in the States. I guess the company did not want to deal with the hassle of domestic and international labels. The one label has all of the testing marks ( FCC, CE, etc ). The FCC id makes it a hell of a lot easier to get through customs.
Yes, I have heard some very interesting phone conversations on that thing. Also, don't be chattering away too freely on your digital phone either. I know a guy who was a tech at the local wireless utility, and he had access to a nice little device which he could use to track CDMA calls. I am very careful about what I say on ANY phone network after that. It's too damn spookey listening to people converse like nobody is around. I feel like a ghost! BOO!
The more we will slip through your fingers.
The more restrictive they get, the more they will irritate the public. Eventually, someone will step up to the plate and offer less restrictive agreements. Be it Open Source or some other company successfully marketing their software, the people will eventually develop little tolerance for this behaviour. but first they must be aware that there are alternatives out there.
I'm taking the Open Source road and gradually weaning myself off of any software that is not free. Eventually, when I build my skills enough, I will contribute back to the pool of available software. I hope to see you on this road.
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Does this not assume that one computer is connected in between the ISP and the home network? What you are doing with the power network is sharing the same physical layer as everyone on your power grid. Kind of like running an ethernet cable to all the other people on the ISP, in your example. Unless youplace a filter on your breaker panel or fuse box, any signal you place on your power lines will be transmitted back through the power network to your neighbors. It's the same piece of copper. If you filter your power distribution box, the problem disappears. No signal will get through the filter to the neighbors. My question is, does this work across phases? Most houses have two phases whose hot lines are not connected. Only the common is connected. How does the A phase talk to the B phase?
As I said, it was an example of a mental barrier, more than of a real one.
This is the truth in the legend. I also expect that we will someday find a way to travel the cosmos. I do not think that it will be with a conventional spaceship hurtling through spacetime at faster than light speeds. One would have to find an exception to Maxwell's equations (which lead to Einstein's e=mc^2) and these have been proven to be extremely reliable. It will likely be from exploiting the rules of quantum physics, but I doubt that such a loophole will be incompatable with e=mc^2. Our situation may be similar to that of the 1920's and 30's aeronautical engineers. We need a new method of propulsion, but we do not know how to achieve it.
Just like it is impossible to pass the sound barrier?
Comparing the sound barrier problem to the speed of light problem is not an entirely accurate comparison. According to my grandfather, who worked on jet engines back in the early days, the sound barrier was not percieved as a true barrier. Everyone knew that bullets flew faster than sound, so the barrier had been broken. The question was, could we develop a machine to propel a man faster than sound? The "sound barrier" was more of a power barrier. Piston engines simply lacked the power to propel a plane faster than sound. My grandfather mentioned that there were all kinds of stories about the latest prop fighters of WW2 breaking the sound barrier in powerdives. Most people in the field knew it was possible to break the sound barrier. What they did not know was if they could control the plane or generate enough power to sustain supersonic flight. Jet engines were eventually developed that were able to deliver enough power for sustained supersonic flight and a little aerodynamic tweaking solved the control problems.
This actually sounds like something that may be discussed in the book.