Or more importantly, over border areas to give "over the horizon" view at ground targets for ground forces. At 12 miles up and 100 miles away, how many 3rd world ground forces are even going to spot it, much less shoot it down? Imagine all the advanced optics you can't put onto a Predator, and now only available on spy satellites, loaded onto this baby and you've got a nice spy platform.
Other than a CD, all they are offering is a stupid T-shirt. Mozilla might as well have set up a CafePress account. Seriously, it looks like they threw it together to make their case against merchandisers.
I think this fits in just great with the previous story about new ad formats being used at ESPN. Who cares about a 2MB download when it takes more time to think about griping about it.
All you have to do is pick up an Audrey from Ebay and point it to a Gallery installation and set the page to slideshow for the album. Simple and done quickly from very off the shelf parts. For bonus points, have the gallery hosted so that you don't have a server gobbling electricity 24/7; plus others can easily access the gallery the same way and emulate a Cieva service.
Pick up a copy each of Namco Museum and Midway Arcade Treasures. Plenty of arcade nostalgia! I have it for XBox, but I believe it is also available on other platforms as well.
So how is that water used? Is it actually locked into the steel as part of the manufacturing process and thus lost until that steel is destroyed, or is it just evaporated in which case we'll see it again later?
So if the reset of the world is constantly pushing resolutions tantamount to jumping off a bridge the veto power should not be used? Thank goodness that sane 5% is around.
You're not going to be much use in the weeks after WWIII. Then again, so long as WWIII doesn't happen, you can pass off a perfect copy of your info to the grandkids.
"Oh, look...there went that interesting outcropping we could have explored. Wait, wait...no, wind still hasn't died down. Damn this is the third time around the planet and we still haven't gathered any useful data."
What do you do for solar panels when the thing is round? Could a round panel-covered object still gather sufficient power to run the computers that will be inside, or is the wind supposed to power that as well? Off to read the article... =)
"Honey, I was looking through the SenseCam pictures that automatically dumped to the TiVo gallery wirelessly when you walked in the door today. Why is your penis in the secretary?"
Creativity and management only take you so far. How many managers can you make out of the workers around you should they lose their jobs overseas? 50% at best? That's still a lot of unemployment. The US being the managers of the 3rd world? I think that one has already left a bad taste in the mouths of other nations. It also implies that these other nations can't take over the creativity/management duties...eventually these people are going to get promotions and will creep into those roles as well.
The US has always recovered from these episodes by creating their own opportunities. It will be interesting to see what comes next. Certainly services and the like will be a component of this.
If the vendors are not selling any Alpha software for what you need to run your business, buy Alpha over Sparc would make you an idiot. You buy whatever fits your business, not for some overzealous philosophy or the l33test stats. For those who are running Sparc, this is one less thing that Tru64 has over Sparc. Yes, I have a beef with Sun over how they have pretty much sat on their laurels for the past couple of years while being passed by Intel, AMD, and anyone else scribing on silicon. While Intel and friends are talking about 4Hz and 5GHz systems, Sun is getting excited about their 3GHz stuff. Woohoo, big friggin deal. Frankly at this point I move as much stuff over to Linux on Intel as I can. The EDA vendors that have Sparc software are releasing their stuff for Linux and Hz vs Hz it is many times faster than Sun's products. Sun cannot compete in the small server market unless they pull a 4GHz system out of their wazoo.
Of course, since clustering systems and grid computing are becoming more commonplace, the large server market may just not be as unapproachable as it once was either.
What I meant to say was that if they last 15-20 years and pollute less over those 15-20 years than continued use of current fossil-based methods, that is still a step forward. If PCB manufacturing pollution is considered more harmful, then as ObiWan might say "this is not the solution you are looking for."
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My Pronto was $200 off Ebay for a programmable interface. Works well and I can make pretty pretty pictures for buttons and menus.
As long as you promote the idea that the software industry is mostly about cheap cheap products (labor services and software) it will make sense to go for the cheapest labor now that companies can get the cheapest software. If you are in one of these third-world countries that are gaining employment your perspective on this may be a little more positive than for those of us losing jobs. This has all gone to only make it possible for companies to draw margins even more razor thin than before, inviting catastrophe when they find that their entire software support/writing staff had to flee some tribal violence or a natural calamity that could have been avoided by a decent national infrastructure.
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I've considered that, but you are ignoring the most expensive part of all that: my personal time in setting that up and getting it balanced out to where my family and I find it usable. It is the difference between a TiVo and MythTV: where I am concerned I would choose the latter, but because my family gets put into the equation I go with the former. Could I have gone with a Radio Shack learning remote? Sure, but throw my then-6-year-old into the mix and I went for the Pronto so that they don't have to remember "AUX1 is for this, but you have to hit AUX2 anbd power after that." I don't want the family to have to reboot the system because they're friggin freezing and some stupid patch hasn't been put up on a site yet. Besides, a lot of the digital thermostats from sites like SmartHome integrate into MisterHouse which runs on Perl and doesn't bog my server down. Best of both worlds.
What is the expected lifespan of a panel put into use? If it pays for itself in 10 and lasts about that more or less, it may not be worth it. If it lasts 75 years, then we are thinking too short-term by declaring the process dead because it may be obviously messy...start covering the grass.
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If only they weren't written in Java. Seriously, I'm buying a multizone heated home and had thought of this project, but forgotten that it was Java based. I would consider it more if it were a hardware product and since they talk about Embedded Java, that might be a possibility in the future. Until then I won't consider bogging my server down with it.
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For a good book on the effects of a Space Elevator, read "Red Mars" published around 1992. There is quite a bit in there that, of course, pertains only to a Space Elevator being used in a lower gravity environment than earth. Kim Stanley Robinson put a lot of good explanations of everything in that book, which seems to still hold true after a 1996 Mars Sojourner landing and this year's twin landings.
So how do you sync this between similar installs at home and work? Instead, I use a web-based reader like Feed On Feeds so that I can pick up at home where I left off at work and vice versa.
Anything web based. Set up Feed On Feeds on any Apache/PHP/mySQL system to get Usenet-like access and marking to the same feeds. Most others (including Yahoo's RSS service) do not do this marking which means you see the same topics over and over in the same feed. Sure, you can ignore the old stories, but realize that some feeds post dozens of items per day and that's a lot to remember.
RSS is a natural evolution of using the Web. Why constantly scour web sites for updates when you can subscribe to a feed from EWeek or Sourceforge or Penny Arcade and see the update shortly after it appears? I always keep Feed On Feeds open in a mozilla tab.
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Or more importantly, over border areas to give "over the horizon" view at ground targets for ground forces. At 12 miles up and 100 miles away, how many 3rd world ground forces are even going to spot it, much less shoot it down? Imagine all the advanced optics you can't put onto a Predator, and now only available on spy satellites, loaded onto this baby and you've got a nice spy platform.
Other than a CD, all they are offering is a stupid T-shirt. Mozilla might as well have set up a CafePress account. Seriously, it looks like they threw it together to make their case against merchandisers.
Or that you should not place your keyboard into your colon. Perhaps that is what the goatse guy is up to. The choice is yours!
I think this fits in just great with the previous story about new ad formats being used at ESPN. Who cares about a 2MB download when it takes more time to think about griping about it.
All you have to do is pick up an Audrey from Ebay and point it to a Gallery installation and set the page to slideshow for the album. Simple and done quickly from very off the shelf parts. For bonus points, have the gallery hosted so that you don't have a server gobbling electricity 24/7; plus others can easily access the gallery the same way and emulate a Cieva service.
You forgot the icepick.
Pick up a copy each of Namco Museum and Midway Arcade Treasures. Plenty of arcade nostalgia! I have it for XBox, but I believe it is also available on other platforms as well.
So how is that water used? Is it actually locked into the steel as part of the manufacturing process and thus lost until that steel is destroyed, or is it just evaporated in which case we'll see it again later?
So if the reset of the world is constantly pushing resolutions tantamount to jumping off a bridge the veto power should not be used? Thank goodness that sane 5% is around.
To paraphrase a Morgul Goblin from LOtR: TTT, "What about their legs? They don't use those."
You're not going to be much use in the weeks after WWIII. Then again, so long as WWIII doesn't happen, you can pass off a perfect copy of your info to the grandkids.
"Oh, look...there went that interesting outcropping we could have explored. Wait, wait...no, wind still hasn't died down. Damn this is the third time around the planet and we still haven't gathered any useful data."
What do you do for solar panels when the thing is round? Could a round panel-covered object still gather sufficient power to run the computers that will be inside, or is the wind supposed to power that as well? Off to read the article... =)
"Honey, I was looking through the SenseCam pictures that automatically dumped to the TiVo gallery wirelessly when you walked in the door today. Why is your penis in the secretary?"
Creativity and management only take you so far. How many managers can you make out of the workers around you should they lose their jobs overseas? 50% at best? That's still a lot of unemployment. The US being the managers of the 3rd world? I think that one has already left a bad taste in the mouths of other nations. It also implies that these other nations can't take over the creativity/management duties...eventually these people are going to get promotions and will creep into those roles as well.
The US has always recovered from these episodes by creating their own opportunities. It will be interesting to see what comes next. Certainly services and the like will be a component of this.
If the vendors are not selling any Alpha software for what you need to run your business, buy Alpha over Sparc would make you an idiot. You buy whatever fits your business, not for some overzealous philosophy or the l33test stats. For those who are running Sparc, this is one less thing that Tru64 has over Sparc. Yes, I have a beef with Sun over how they have pretty much sat on their laurels for the past couple of years while being passed by Intel, AMD, and anyone else scribing on silicon. While Intel and friends are talking about 4Hz and 5GHz systems, Sun is getting excited about their 3GHz stuff. Woohoo, big friggin deal. Frankly at this point I move as much stuff over to Linux on Intel as I can. The EDA vendors that have Sparc software are releasing their stuff for Linux and Hz vs Hz it is many times faster than Sun's products. Sun cannot compete in the small server market unless they pull a 4GHz system out of their wazoo.
Of course, since clustering systems and grid computing are becoming more commonplace, the large server market may just not be as unapproachable as it once was either.
What I meant to say was that if they last 15-20 years and pollute less over those 15-20 years than continued use of current fossil-based methods, that is still a step forward. If PCB manufacturing pollution is considered more harmful, then as ObiWan might say "this is not the solution you are looking for."
My Pronto was $200 off Ebay for a programmable interface. Works well and I can make pretty pretty pictures for buttons and menus.
As long as you promote the idea that the software industry is mostly about cheap cheap products (labor services and software) it will make sense to go for the cheapest labor now that companies can get the cheapest software. If you are in one of these third-world countries that are gaining employment your perspective on this may be a little more positive than for those of us losing jobs. This has all gone to only make it possible for companies to draw margins even more razor thin than before, inviting catastrophe when they find that their entire software support/writing staff had to flee some tribal violence or a natural calamity that could have been avoided by a decent national infrastructure.
I've considered that, but you are ignoring the most expensive part of all that: my personal time in setting that up and getting it balanced out to where my family and I find it usable. It is the difference between a TiVo and MythTV: where I am concerned I would choose the latter, but because my family gets put into the equation I go with the former. Could I have gone with a Radio Shack learning remote? Sure, but throw my then-6-year-old into the mix and I went for the Pronto so that they don't have to remember "AUX1 is for this, but you have to hit AUX2 anbd power after that." I don't want the family to have to reboot the system because they're friggin freezing and some stupid patch hasn't been put up on a site yet. Besides, a lot of the digital thermostats from sites like SmartHome integrate into MisterHouse which runs on Perl and doesn't bog my server down. Best of both worlds.
What is the expected lifespan of a panel put into use? If it pays for itself in 10 and lasts about that more or less, it may not be worth it. If it lasts 75 years, then we are thinking too short-term by declaring the process dead because it may be obviously messy...start covering the grass.
If only they weren't written in Java. Seriously, I'm buying a multizone heated home and had thought of this project, but forgotten that it was Java based. I would consider it more if it were a hardware product and since they talk about Embedded Java, that might be a possibility in the future. Until then I won't consider bogging my server down with it.
Don't they do this on the ISS?
For a good book on the effects of a Space Elevator, read "Red Mars" published around 1992. There is quite a bit in there that, of course, pertains only to a Space Elevator being used in a lower gravity environment than earth. Kim Stanley Robinson put a lot of good explanations of everything in that book, which seems to still hold true after a 1996 Mars Sojourner landing and this year's twin landings.
So how do you sync this between similar installs at home and work? Instead, I use a web-based reader like Feed On Feeds so that I can pick up at home where I left off at work and vice versa.
Anything web based. Set up Feed On Feeds on any Apache/PHP/mySQL system to get Usenet-like access and marking to the same feeds. Most others (including Yahoo's RSS service) do not do this marking which means you see the same topics over and over in the same feed. Sure, you can ignore the old stories, but realize that some feeds post dozens of items per day and that's a lot to remember.
RSS is a natural evolution of using the Web. Why constantly scour web sites for updates when you can subscribe to a feed from EWeek or Sourceforge or Penny Arcade and see the update shortly after it appears? I always keep Feed On Feeds open in a mozilla tab.