2 summers ago we had band practice and it was really hot in this one room. So my band director called up a janator, who was at his house and told him it was too hot in the room. The AC then turned on a few minutes later and my band director told me that he was able to turn the AC on and off from his house. Is this possible or is this just some joke played on me? We have a PBX system at our school if that could make any difference. Are there turnkey systems already or did some electronics teacher hack this up if it's even possible?
Ever wonder why the Japanese were able to get text messaging ealier than us? Mabye it's because America was the first to start using cell technology. We had cell towers back in the 70's and 80's with the big clunky phones. We were first to start a new technology and the Japanese just started putting up cell phone towers more recently than we have. He seems to be saying that Japanese are first out the gate with new technology. But with that new technology you have to pay to upgrade down the line rather than if you bought the product 5 years from now when it would be in its newest version.
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Movies portray hackers having wayyyy too much fun. Such as in the movie 'Hackers' where they go flying through a 3d universe in order to get r00t. This gets really annoying when people who belive the media (almost everyone) start wanting to fly through space on their computers. This gets really annoying for anyone on an irc board that have to put up with the constant barrage of people that want to fly through space because they saw it on a movie. I understand that movie makers have to make hacking interesting because i don't think most people find port scanning exciting. I'm not too angry at the people that belive that though, as i probably have views on subjects that were formed by movies that are completly wrong that they are interested in.
2 news stories down you say how online sub-cultures are booming, with open source being one of them. So uhh if it's booming why is sourcexchange closing down?
Back in the day people used to write apps so that they would take up the least space possible (This is still done in some cases such as Coyote Linux) and to use the least amount of RAM too. Today that isn't done very often because we hard drives are measured in gigabytes rather than megabytes (soon to be terrabytes on home PC's) and memory is no longer measured in kilobytes rather no megabytes (Soon to be gigabytes:-) ) Now we are trying to get the most out of the possible bandwith avalible now instead of memory and disk space. When do you think this will no longer be a problem, that the speed of bandwith won't matter so people can write sloppy apps that still work really well? What technology is going to make this possible?
Hehe i never like how people try and invent the future. They thought we would be in flying cars now, they never imagined a global community. I think we shouldn't try to invent the future because we look back and just see how lame we thought it was going to be. The beautiful thing about the future is that we don't know what the future technology is. The zaniest idea's on existing products never become the future, but the pure zany ideas become the future
Don't flip out at michael, i think he's just trying to show that everything just isn't as peachy as it seems in the news articles. From the Reuters article it explains, "Researchers estimate one million people will participate in the program at least once, making it possible to complete the screening of the 250 million molecules in a year." (250 million to scan through) This makes it sound like it's going to be a year before we cure cancer. And besides how many times has science been wrong before? I'm not trying to get anyones hopes down just don't look at this as "the cure for cancer that will be out in one year" solution.
Most system admins are still scared about linux, while others embrace it, and while others are curious to find out about it. Alot of system admins say that there isn't enough software for Linux. StarOffice is very close to M$ word but i think that many users are afraid of their new word processor. I think this new money should be spent to educate system admins about all there fears of linux. You also have to rember that it isn't a turnkey operation to change from Windows to Linux. System admins are also afraid because they don't know about linux and are too lasy to learn.(Not all though!) Alot of people still see linux as some sort of rouge project that can't be used by the masses because they're confused about software being free. (The motto "You get what you pay for" comes to mind)
If a regular product fails the government recalls the product. Why don't we do this for software? Probably if they started regulating it there would be more software holes discovered, just as products today are tested by the government. The only way to have a safe product is to have the government interven and help us because we can't do it alone
Almost anyone can register a.org or a.net even if they're not an Internet service provider or a non-profit organization (hehe slashdot comes to mind)Also if they start to crunch down on domain names how would they regulate who obtains these and proove that they're a non-profit and such as non-profits probably have a lot of different meanings depending on what country you're located in
It seems that this would be hampered a lot more than current 802.11 hardware due to the length. With these long lengths there are many factors due to the weather. What happens when there's a storm passing by inbetween your little network? Or any cloud interferance for that matter. This doesn't even seem remotely possible as i'd be listening to radio stations on the other side of the world now. Also you can get further lengths by bouncing your signals off the atmosphere. This would seem like the best way, as it is already a proven method. Police, hams, and scanner enthuisasts use this to extend their length of radio signals.
Most routers contain only motorola 68k processors which seems absurd for the price that routers go for. The reason for cisco's slipping stock shares may be partly due to lack of innovation. Just as Microsoft has a strong hold on the OS market, cisco has a stronghold on the router market. There are only a few competitors (Marconi being one of them) so now cisco can charge highly inflated prices for a piece of hardware that was used in a macintosh from 10 years ago that you can buy on eBay for 10 dollars. We need cheaper routers that are faster and router makers would still be able to make a killing on routers if they charged half the price.
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Here's a link to our robot. We didn't win though :-(
2 summers ago we had band practice and it was really hot in this one room. So my band director called up a janator, who was at his house and told him it was too hot in the room. The AC then turned on a few minutes later and my band director told me that he was able to turn the AC on and off from his house. Is this possible or is this just some joke played on me? We have a PBX system at our school if that could make any difference. Are there turnkey systems already or did some electronics teacher hack this up if it's even possible?
If you want privacy select communism! That way you won't have to worry about privacy instead you will have to worry about if you will eat tonight
Ever wonder why the Japanese were able to get text messaging ealier than us? Mabye it's because America was the first to start using cell technology. We had cell towers back in the 70's and 80's with the big clunky phones. We were first to start a new technology and the Japanese just started putting up cell phone towers more recently than we have. He seems to be saying that Japanese are first out the gate with new technology. But with that new technology you have to pay to upgrade down the line rather than if you bought the product 5 years from now when it would be in its newest version.
Movies portray hackers having wayyyy too much fun. Such as in the movie 'Hackers' where they go flying through a 3d universe in order to get r00t. This gets really annoying when people who belive the media (almost everyone) start wanting to fly through space on their computers. This gets really annoying for anyone on an irc board that have to put up with the constant barrage of people that want to fly through space because they saw it on a movie. I understand that movie makers have to make hacking interesting because i don't think most people find port scanning exciting. I'm not too angry at the people that belive that though, as i probably have views on subjects that were formed by movies that are completly wrong that they are interested in.
2 news stories down you say how online sub-cultures are booming, with open source being one of them. So uhh if it's booming why is sourcexchange closing down?
Back in the day people used to write apps so that they would take up the least space possible (This is still done in some cases such as Coyote Linux) and to use the least amount of RAM too. Today that isn't done very often because we hard drives are measured in gigabytes rather than megabytes (soon to be terrabytes on home PC's) and memory is no longer measured in kilobytes rather no megabytes (Soon to be gigabytes :-) ) Now we are trying to get the most out of the possible bandwith avalible now instead of memory and disk space. When do you think this will no longer be a problem, that the speed of bandwith won't matter so people can write sloppy apps that still work really well? What technology is going to make this possible?
Hehe i never like how people try and invent the future. They thought we would be in flying cars now, they never imagined a global community. I think we shouldn't try to invent the future because we look back and just see how lame we thought it was going to be. The beautiful thing about the future is that we don't know what the future technology is. The zaniest idea's on existing products never become the future, but the pure zany ideas become the future
Don't flip out at michael, i think he's just trying to show that everything just isn't as peachy as it seems in the news articles. From the Reuters article it explains, "Researchers estimate one million people will participate in the program at least once, making it possible to complete the screening of the 250 million molecules in a year." (250 million to scan through) This makes it sound like it's going to be a year before we cure cancer. And besides how many times has science been wrong before? I'm not trying to get anyones hopes down just don't look at this as "the cure for cancer that will be out in one year" solution.
Most system admins are still scared about linux, while others embrace it, and while others are curious to find out about it. Alot of system admins say that there isn't enough software for Linux. StarOffice is very close to M$ word but i think that many users are afraid of their new word processor. I think this new money should be spent to educate system admins about all there fears of linux. You also have to rember that it isn't a turnkey operation to change from Windows to Linux. System admins are also afraid because they don't know about linux and are too lasy to learn.(Not all though!) Alot of people still see linux as some sort of rouge project that can't be used by the masses because they're confused about software being free. (The motto "You get what you pay for" comes to mind)
If a regular product fails the government recalls the product. Why don't we do this for software? Probably if they started regulating it there would be more software holes discovered, just as products today are tested by the government. The only way to have a safe product is to have the government interven and help us because we can't do it alone
Almost anyone can register a .org or a .net even if they're not an Internet service provider or a non-profit organization (hehe slashdot comes to mind)Also if they start to crunch down on domain names how would they regulate who obtains these and proove that they're a non-profit and such as non-profits probably have a lot of different meanings depending on what country you're located in
It seems that this would be hampered a lot more than current 802.11 hardware due to the length. With these long lengths there are many factors due to the weather. What happens when there's a storm passing by inbetween your little network? Or any cloud interferance for that matter. This doesn't even seem remotely possible as i'd be listening to radio stations on the other side of the world now. Also you can get further lengths by bouncing your signals off the atmosphere. This would seem like the best way, as it is already a proven method. Police, hams, and scanner enthuisasts use this to extend their length of radio signals.
Most routers contain only motorola 68k processors which seems absurd for the price that routers go for. The reason for cisco's slipping stock shares may be partly due to lack of innovation. Just as Microsoft has a strong hold on the OS market, cisco has a stronghold on the router market. There are only a few competitors (Marconi being one of them) so now cisco can charge highly inflated prices for a piece of hardware that was used in a macintosh from 10 years ago that you can buy on eBay for 10 dollars. We need cheaper routers that are faster and router makers would still be able to make a killing on routers if they charged half the price.
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