I looked thru the discussion and couldn't find this one elsewhere.... A Blimp. A Really Big, Shade Producing Blimp. Or failing that, maybe some thousands of individual mylar balloons? In either case, park them strategically, and should provide some shading for the square.
I Saw it pretty clear here in Iowa City out the window to the North... if it was ALSO north of Wisconsin, My guess would by Canada... or the patrol officer didn't know which way North was-
I'm currently a Tivo Series 3 user (Works awesome and basically zero maintenance, other than the monthly fee and a very occasional spontaneous reboot--???!!!) --That said, I've been keeping an eye on the Popcorn hour boxes...http://www.popcornhour.com --Looks like it plays all the media you can throw at it, and toss in a blue-ray drive and you can even watch those- It supports a Huge laundry list of features, but it looks like the one thing it doesn't actually do is the DVR of actual tv streams... Anyone know of any updates in that area?
Really? I upgraded my kubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10 without a single hitch......Of course I'm also currently backing up and re-installing from scratch a system I just finished building 2 weeks ago for a friend... the upgrade from 9.04 Ubuntu to 9.10 wouldn't even boot....
It shouldn't take too long, but there's considerable embarrassment on my Part about it. ("No REALLY- Its Normally a LOT more graceful than that!") Stumbling really hurts-
I'm likely one of the statistics who "Couldn't forego Windows"....but to be Fair, I DID have a decet reason... The Linux version only came with the Dinky sized SSD. The ONLY model they sold with an actual Hard Drive of any significant size in it also happened to have Windows on it. (That was pretty easily remedied though-) I think that the sales numbers for this kind of thing will be (artificially) skewed away from linux for a while if the manufacturers continue to pull that kind of poop...
I've actually long been "for" instituting a better form of Punishment for Corporations, or other such Pseudo-Entities. If they get the Rights of a Pseudo-person, then they should also accept the responsibilities and other limitations that normal people live and abide by. And as they're only Pseudo-People, I think there should be a much lower threshold of tolerance with higher punishments to the entity as a deterrant. The "Death Sentence" should definitely be used- liberally- with corporations, as they do not currently have any Age-limited restrictions like actual people do...
HA! Hack it in? Not quite that complex... think Mac OS9 and their directories for Disabled items- There's a Plugins Directory in the Acrobat folder. Make another parallel folder called "Plugins_Disabled". Move what you don't want loaded into there, and it Doesn't Load up! (But its still around in case you goofed and actually need it sometime...) Pretty simple...although I confess I haven't tried it on any versions more recent than Acro 5...Their forms related bits went to heck in a handbasket after 5....
which, contrary to many people's beliefs, seems to have more kick than the darker roast
Actually, That is entirely correct. The darker the coffee beans are roasted, the more caffeine is 'burnt off'. The lighter the roast, the higher the caffeine content.
This actually makes me wonder about making coffee with raw (un-roasted) coffee beans... It'd probably kick like a mule, but taste like one too...
Actually, Even though I've been waiting to blow my hard earned cash on one of these, I have to admit-- you can buy a brand new laptop for a cheaper price, so I'm a bit torn...I suppose you just pay for the convenient small size and all the engineering that went into building the darn thing. From what I've read, it is a very nice little package. You can still hook up external displays and keyboard/mouse if you really want to, but its still dinky enough to be really really portable. --Just stop pushing back the release date, eh?;-)
Wow-- Okay, Call that Detracted then--Sorry! Time to Update my Software, I guess-
So... Does it re-encode the vid into the encrypted format of something dumb like that? As I understand it, the big bottleneck in downloading vid from the unit is the decruption prior to sending. (And I suppose the cruddy usb 1.1 transfer rate-)
Whoa there Buddy--- I DO have a tivo, and Yes, its Pretty damn great... The Photos and Music addons are pretty simple to set up, sure... That's actually the only reason I have a dinky little box in the corner running win2k... But Movies from other PCs? I don't think so. That's the ONE thing that I really wish tivo WOULD do-- allow the upload/stream/playing of My movie content... but that just doesn't work (okay--- it WILL providing I'm willing to crack the case and start modding my tivo, but its far from simple. I just haven't had the guts to take it out of service for who knows how long...)
A lot of the other "neat" things tivo will do--- like local weather, web pics, etc--- are all branded through Yahoo where you need an account. Yes, I know its a free account, but Dammit, we have little enough privacy left in this world, and I'll be dammed if I'm going to give out any more of my personally identifiable information than I absolutely have to. (And I'm not too fond of Yahoo and their crappy software anyway...)
Paranoid Curmedgeon? Perhaps... but I'm only paranoid if they're NOT out to get me.
Actually, I keep thinking of something else I saw a WDW-- or at least Epcot. I haven't been there in I don't know how many years, but at the time, it was called "Weedway". Basically just a series of Small 2-4 person electric teacup-sized enclosed seats that ran along an elevated track at something slightly faster than a brisk walking pace. If they enclosed them just a bit more to cut down on wind resistance (so they could pick up a bit more speed), I can easily see these things taking off-- as soon a some big metro actually installs a set...
I'll second the "Hooray for HP Laser Printers". They really do "Just work"(tm) pretty much forever. And to beat all that, I've found scads of them at my local university Surplus store for between 20-50 bucks. Every time a friend needs a printer, I usually jusy give them the one I'm using and go pick up another one. My Current one is an HP 4000TN (with 2 paper trays) that I got for $30.00. Jetdirect card was even still intact. For some reason they couldn't find a really deep-seated piece of Paper Jam (jelly?) that I was able to pull out of it. Had someones Personal med info on it too, oddly-
In any case--- University Surplus stores rock for the basics. Used for sure, But I really haven't seen one of these completely worn out. At MOST, I think a maintenance kit would fix any problems I've seen. Mostly they're just a few years old and whatever department wanted a new one, I guess-
Actually, I was more thinking of Using this on Space Travelers to stave off the Bone Density Loss that inevitably (??) occurrs... Sounds like One of the big problems solved...MMmmmmmm... Full Body Ultrasound....
Or- yeah...I suppose you could also use it to treat/cure degenerative bone loss symptoms. No reason it can't have multiple applications...Except maybe Patent law.
Well- you don't have to make it a traditional "JOB"....What about looking around for OSS projects that need a hand? Or if you can't set your own deadlines, take another look around for anything with a Code Bounty and you cann pick up a few extra bucks- Your deadline there is "before someone else claims the bounty"....
Ah HA! Sorry, I wish it were a clever Pun- That is the meaning I menat, however-- Guess I just never realized how to spell it correctly--spelling Japanese in English characters gives me headaches.... (Thanks!)
Actually, I seem to remember some research about how that exact type of thing is GOOD for the eyes. At least as good as exercising any other muscle. If you're repeatedly refocusing your eyeball to the near and far extent of ranges, you'd likely get pretty beefy eyebell muscles.
Hmmmm... OKay- after a bit of googling, it looks like the jury is still out on whether its actually helpful or not... Interesting premise, though.
What Occurred to me when I read that is the part about Symantec being a Commercial Software company...They don't release ANYTHING as Open Source, do they? (If I'm right) Money well spent...Yeah, right-
Seriously??? No more '.AppleDouble' files? no more '.ds_store' files? (WOO-HOO!!!) This --- I gotta see... Hands down, that's been the ONE thing about apple anything (even the Mouse thing) that's bugged the hell out of me for useability... Its Messier than I am fer chrissake! -->leaving all those dot-underscore-filename files hanging all over the damn server...
The same way we can Mix together steel-strength epoxy. In 2 parts. If the alien had 2 separate glands that each spat out the components of a super-acid, then he'd just have to worry about rotten teeth! (eeeeewwwwww.....) Maybe something else, though-- An Immune system. Our own immune system will attack anything that's not us. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to think that an aliens 'white-blood-cells' or equivalent would also do so...even if you toss a mouthfull of the little troopers at something else-- and we're back to 'eeeewwwww.....'
Actually, the new AMD64 Processors with dual cores are reportedly coming in much cooler and using less juice that the normal varieties... A welcome change, might I add-
I don't have an AMD laptop, but I've heard good things about the power-now governors also...
Nvidia graphics is still going to eat a lot of power, unfortunately... itd be nice if Nvidia could figure out some kind of clockspeed-ramp up/down tech for just such occaisions.
As it is, your specs deem that we're probably not that far away from getting all this cake and eating it too... so to speak...
Of course, once we get those nice Radioactive Laptop Batteries, this will all be moot, and we can run gigawatt laserbeams from our laptops. (No, I'm not holding my breath on that one...)
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I looked thru the discussion and couldn't find this one elsewhere....
A Blimp. A Really Big, Shade Producing Blimp.
Or failing that, maybe some thousands of individual mylar balloons?
In either case, park them strategically, and should provide some shading for the square.
I Saw it pretty clear here in Iowa City out the window to the North... if it was ALSO north of Wisconsin, My guess would by Canada... or the patrol officer didn't know which way North was-
I'm currently a Tivo Series 3 user (Works awesome and basically zero maintenance, other than the monthly fee and a very occasional spontaneous reboot--???!!!)
--That said, I've been keeping an eye on the Popcorn hour boxes...http://www.popcornhour.com
--Looks like it plays all the media you can throw at it, and toss in a blue-ray drive and you can even watch those-
It supports a Huge laundry list of features, but it looks like the one thing it doesn't actually do is the DVR of actual tv streams... Anyone know of any updates in that area?
Really? I upgraded my kubuntu from 9.04 to 9.10 without a single hitch... ...Of course I'm also currently backing up and re-installing from scratch a system I just finished building 2 weeks ago for a friend... the upgrade from 9.04 Ubuntu to 9.10 wouldn't even boot....
It shouldn't take too long, but there's considerable embarrassment on my Part about it. ("No REALLY- Its Normally a LOT more graceful than that!")
Stumbling really hurts-
I'm likely one of the statistics who "Couldn't forego Windows"....but to be Fair, I DID have a decet reason... The Linux version only came with the Dinky sized SSD. The ONLY model they sold with an actual Hard Drive of any significant size in it also happened to have Windows on it. (That was pretty easily remedied though-)
I think that the sales numbers for this kind of thing will be (artificially) skewed away from linux for a while if the manufacturers continue to pull that kind of poop...
I've actually long been "for" instituting a better form of Punishment for Corporations, or other such Pseudo-Entities. If they get the Rights of a Pseudo-person, then they should also accept the responsibilities and other limitations that normal people live and abide by. And as they're only Pseudo-People, I think there should be a much lower threshold of tolerance with higher punishments to the entity as a deterrant. The "Death Sentence" should definitely be used- liberally- with corporations, as they do not currently have any Age-limited restrictions like actual people do...
HA! Hack it in? Not quite that complex... think Mac OS9 and their directories for Disabled items-
There's a Plugins Directory in the Acrobat folder. Make another parallel folder called "Plugins_Disabled". Move what you don't want loaded into there, and it Doesn't Load up! (But its still around in case you goofed and actually need it sometime...)
Pretty simple...although I confess I haven't tried it on any versions more recent than Acro 5...Their forms related bits went to heck in a handbasket after 5....
This actually makes me wonder about making coffee with raw (un-roasted) coffee beans... It'd probably kick like a mule, but taste like one too...
Actually, Even though I've been waiting to blow my hard earned cash on one of these, I have to admit-- you can buy a brand new laptop for a cheaper price, so I'm a bit torn...I suppose you just pay for the convenient small size and all the engineering that went into building the darn thing. From what I've read, it is a very nice little package. You can still hook up external displays and keyboard/mouse if you really want to, but its still dinky enough to be really really portable. ;-)
--Just stop pushing back the release date, eh?
Wow-- Okay, Call that Detracted then--Sorry! Time to Update my Software, I guess-
So... Does it re-encode the vid into the encrypted format of something dumb like that? As I understand it, the big bottleneck in downloading vid from the unit is the decruption prior to sending. (And I suppose the cruddy usb 1.1 transfer rate-)
Whoa there Buddy--- /stream/playing of My movie content... but that just doesn't work (okay--- it WILL providing I'm willing to crack the case and start modding my tivo, but its far from simple. I just haven't had the guts to take it out of service for who knows how long...)
I DO have a tivo, and Yes, its Pretty damn great... The Photos and Music addons are pretty simple to set up, sure... That's actually the only reason I have a dinky little box in the corner running win2k... But Movies from other PCs? I don't think so. That's the ONE thing that I really wish tivo WOULD do-- allow the upload
A lot of the other "neat" things tivo will do--- like local weather, web pics, etc--- are all branded through Yahoo where you need an account. Yes, I know its a free account, but Dammit, we have little enough privacy left in this world, and I'll be dammed if I'm going to give out any more of my personally identifiable information than I absolutely have to. (And I'm not too fond of Yahoo and their crappy software anyway...)
Paranoid Curmedgeon? Perhaps... but I'm only paranoid if they're NOT out to get me.
Actually, I keep thinking of something else I saw a WDW-- or at least Epcot. I haven't been there in I don't know how many years, but at the time, it was called "Weedway". Basically just a series of Small 2-4 person electric teacup-sized enclosed seats that ran along an elevated track at something slightly faster than a brisk walking pace. If they enclosed them just a bit more to cut down on wind resistance (so they could pick up a bit more speed), I can easily see these things taking off-- as soon a some big metro actually installs a set...
I'll second the "Hooray for HP Laser Printers". They really do "Just work"(tm) pretty much forever. And to beat all that, I've found scads of them at my local university Surplus store for between 20-50 bucks. Every time a friend needs a printer, I usually jusy give them the one I'm using and go pick up another one. My Current one is an HP 4000TN (with 2 paper trays) that I got for $30.00. Jetdirect card was even still intact. For some reason they couldn't find a really deep-seated piece of Paper Jam (jelly?) that I was able to pull out of it. Had someones Personal med info on it too, oddly-
In any case--- University Surplus stores rock for the basics. Used for sure, But I really haven't seen one of these completely worn out. At MOST, I think a maintenance kit would fix any problems I've seen. Mostly they're just a few years old and whatever department wanted a new one, I guess-
Actually, I was more thinking of Using this on Space Travelers to stave off the Bone Density Loss that inevitably (??) occurrs... Sounds like One of the big problems solved...MMmmmmmm... Full Body Ultrasound....
Or- yeah...I suppose you could also use it to treat/cure degenerative bone loss symptoms. No reason it can't have multiple applications...Except maybe Patent law.
Well- you don't have to make it a traditional "JOB"....What about looking around for OSS projects that need a hand? Or if you can't set your own deadlines, take another look around for anything with a Code Bounty and you cann pick up a few extra bucks- Your deadline there is "before someone else claims the bounty"....
Or did he mean "The Brain" as in "Pinky and The Brain"?
Ah HA! Sorry, I wish it were a clever Pun- That is the meaning I menat, however-- Guess I just never realized how to spell it correctly--spelling Japanese in English characters gives me headaches.... (Thanks!)
Ummm... Call it a clever Pun?- (But more likely a horrible misspelling-- serves me right for grabbing it out of a BOOK-)
And.... Sig Swapped!
Out of curiosity-- what did you think it meant?
Actually, I seem to remember some research about how that exact type of thing is GOOD for the eyes. At least as good as exercising any other muscle. If you're repeatedly refocusing your eyeball to the near and far extent of ranges, you'd likely get pretty beefy eyebell muscles. Hmmmm... OKay- after a bit of googling, it looks like the jury is still out on whether its actually helpful or not... Interesting premise, though.
Or even Methane from Uranus?
(Sorry! Couldn't resist! I should go beat myself up for that one...)
What Occurred to me when I read that is the part about Symantec being a Commercial Software company...They don't release ANYTHING as Open Source, do they?
(If I'm right) Money well spent...Yeah, right-
Seriously???
No more '.AppleDouble' files? no more '.ds_store' files?
(WOO-HOO!!!)
This --- I gotta see... Hands down, that's been the ONE thing about apple anything (even the Mouse thing) that's bugged the hell out of me for useability... Its Messier than I am fer chrissake! -->leaving all those dot-underscore-filename files hanging all over the damn server...
The same way we can Mix together steel-strength epoxy. In 2 parts. If the alien had 2 separate glands that each spat out the components of a super-acid, then he'd just have to worry about rotten teeth! (eeeeewwwwww.....)
Maybe something else, though-- An Immune system. Our own immune system will attack anything that's not us. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to think that an aliens 'white-blood-cells' or equivalent would also do so...even if you toss a mouthfull of the little troopers at something else-- and we're back to 'eeeewwwww.....'
Wow-- I don't believe I actually understood that obscure reference... then again, this IS /.
I hope I saved room in my brain for more important things... CRAP- I just purged 3rd grade...
Actually, the new AMD64 Processors with dual cores are reportedly coming in much cooler and using less juice that the normal varieties... A welcome change, might I add-
I don't have an AMD laptop, but I've heard good things about the power-now governors also...
Nvidia graphics is still going to eat a lot of power, unfortunately... itd be nice if Nvidia could figure out some kind of clockspeed-ramp up/down tech for just such occaisions.
As it is, your specs deem that we're probably not that far away from getting all this cake and eating it too... so to speak...
Of course, once we get those nice Radioactive Laptop Batteries, this will all be moot, and we can run gigawatt laserbeams from our laptops. (No, I'm not holding my breath on that one...)