It can connect over ppp but so can a lot of other things. This is sort of like saying that because Firefox connects over TCP/IP, the html protocol is just TCP/IP or that a Porsche is just old plain asphalt because it gets somewhere by road.
Store surges! Mississippi should patent that. The Feds could fund the R&D to make it scalable. Then it could be licensed to Macy's, Target, Home Depot & Co. for a percentage of the increase in sales. The Federal R&D funds could be repaid with the profits.
-- Well, shiver me timbers! The Grammar Nazis' left me in charge and here be this juicy morsel. I are the Pirate of unintentionally humorous abuse of words. Argg! Set sail, mateys! We be boarding Dubya next!
Whether things are handled by jamming or by a micro-cell solution or some other way, there's one big problem. A lot of prisons are very close to major interstates or population centers. The main max in Texas is right next to I-35 a few hours south of Dallas, a road that carries so much traffic, you will rarely get up to the speedlimit. Colorado has a facility that, if memory serves is right off I-70.
Any solution that is sufficient to cut off all the prisoner cell phones is going to interfere with the use of cellphones nearby... like those people on that freeway next door.
The freeway next to I-35 in Texas has posted signs (no joke) warning people to not pick up hitch hikers. They existed long before four prisoners escaped a few years back. Two or three of those prisoners made it out of state. One made it about a thousand miles.
If they put in jammers, my suspicion is that the next prison break is going to involve prisoners walking up on to the freeway and using a rock to take out a windshield and a driver. I'm sure they'll say a few thanks for the cellphone jammers as they drive away and the other drivers realize they can't call 911...
FWIW, if you want to get between DFW and the other major metros in Texas, like Austin, you've got roughly two choices: I-35 and a 350-400 plod along two lane Farm to Market roads frequented by farm tractors. Talk about a looong day.
Psystar's website is up and has been on and off this whole time. It looks like they're getting so much traffic in bursts, their server can't handle all the requests.
I spent a few minutes googling and came up with a US supplier with various mini-itx logic boards. One has gigabit ethernet. Others have HDMI, DVI and more:
And no... I have no connection with them... but if they want to thank me for the plug, I could put some of these to use...
Seems like I also hit another page that had mini-itx boards with a Duo 2 processor. Now, I just need to find one with a Duo 1 processor, put it in a tiny metal case and use to cook breakfast.:-)
Most aircraft haven't been controlled by cables in a long long time. Between weight, undependability and cost, hydraulic-assisted cable operated controls were replaced by (to pull a term out ancient history) fly by wire a long time ago. The problem isn't that they use wire to route control signals through the plane. The problem is that the two arn't properly isolated.
I referred to iTunes, an application that predates the iPhone by roughly 6 years. Wikipedia has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes. One of the program's features is synchonization, protecting you against the loss of content if your expensive device is lost, stolen or broken.
Less ugly does not mean sexy. But, Amazon has succeeded in making Sony's eBook reader look damn sexy... and cheaper.
More importantly, if you can't back up the content and carry it to other devices, at some point, you've wasted the money you spent on all that content. Thanks to my download testing, I know own a nice paper academic version (picked up for a buck at a used book store) and an electronic version that's going on Palm.
FWIW, Moby Dick is tedious at first, but worth reading... at least it is now that I'm about half way through. I'm looking forward to soaking in the tub with it tonight...
Preface, Dude you really really need to talk to people outside the early adopter, gadget/freak crowd. In anything remotely resembling the device's current form, this device is doomed.
First give it buying appeal: *) Drop the price... a lot *) Make it a _lot_ less ugly... *) I shouldn't have to pay Amazon everytime I blink
Make it a little less geeky *) Make it so the keyboard can be slid out of the way *) Make it a _lot_ less ugly...
Make the content have a life longer than the device At some point your content will outlive the device: 1) It fails (and stockholders will make them pull the plug) 2) It succeeds (and to survive the imitators, it becomes non-backward compatible) 3) You just want the latest version and want to take your content with you 4) The darn thing breaks/gets stolen/etc Since everything has to go through Amazon for a fee, if you want to keep all that stuff you paid for, you're going to pay how many times per device switch times how many devices in your life?
Give me the ability to do all those book things *) Support more document formats (text, pdf and html should be a bare minimum) *) Have content longevity (see previous section) *) Don't give me anything in a proprietary format... or... if this thing pisses me off I want the option to take all that shit I paid real money for and really keep it _and_ use it on something else. *) Let me push stuff from my computer to my kindle directly... without stupid converter tool *) Let me do annotations/notes/highlighting on pdfs and ship the modified doc back to my computer... you know... the ebook equivalent of the stuff a lot of us book people and geeks --your core audience-- do with paper books *) For bonus points, give me the option to search both the content of books and my notes *) For double bonus points, make that search rip through my annotations *) For even more bonus points, give me a Mac/Windows App to manage my docs (think iTunes)
FunWithKnives' reply is hardly "Insightful". While I agree with his sentiments vis-a-vis the loose paraphrase of the New Hampshire state motto, he missed the Big Huge Sign(tm) in the post "Big Brother is my friend" that said "Parody". The relevant book is 1984. The author is George Orwell.
For extra credit, please compare and contrast the government as described in 1984 with one of the following: 1) the current Bush Administration or 2) the next administration if Giuliani wins 3) the next administration if Clinton wins Please note that in each the administration's policies will correlate to the frequently neo(conservative|liberal) beliefs of the individuals key advisers rather than the positions being posited during the election campaign (e.g. the marketing and sales effort). Since your choice of administration (1, 2 and 3) will make minimal difference in the major points you can explore, please be detailed in your analysis. Bonus points for black humor and obscure British comedy references.
Derivative is actually used in the dictionary sense. The document is developed (or derived) from previous (presumably scientific) work. It is expressed with the font. In this case a derivative work would be a font based on this one.
And about damn time they celebrated people like the Tuskegee Airmen.
Making GI Joe into something that isn't about kicking whatever non-American butt is handy is a good second step. A better step would be to assign him to kick Dick Cheney's butt... hehehe!
First, for most Americans, the limit is not the backbone. It's the final mile. We're in a city of 500,000 within an hour of a top 15 market. What with looting the company and raping the customers, Qwest never had time to install more than 5 DSLAMs so well over 90+% of the DSL service is limited to 1M. Cable *cough*comcast*cough* sucks more going up (can you getting work done).
Second, Qwest and Comcast _really_ don't play nice (surprise), so traffic between the two goes via a POP 700+ miles away in another time zone. Imagine what I find with traceroute? I actually get better performance with vnc over ssh to a box behind a cable modem 1,000 miles away than I do across town. Note... we're again talking good backbone performance versus completely lousy final mile/local market performance.
All I can say is I wait longingly for our new Verizon overlords. They can't suck as bad as Comcast and Verizon. Some speed will be gravy.
From the article's summary of the book, the author is arguing that programming is about expressing a process. Or to paraphrase in a less threatening way, programming begins with procedure description.
One way to do this has been procedural programming. Now, the favored approach is to translate a process into a bunch of things --objects-- that interact with each other --via methods. It's another way to model a process. It also more an architectural model than the proof model of Procedural Languages.
Comments pro and con Visual Basic have been thrown around in this thread. Scripting languages are often used to metaphorically treat different programs (Excel, awk, sed, grep, FileMaker, PostgreSQL, etc) as objects with methods. The methods just happen to have names like APIs, flags and arguments. I've solved a lot of problems in this way with either no math or math that is darn close to counting on my fingers. When I use multi-dimensional arrays to hold data and variables to remember where I in those arrays, I am not doing array calculus. I'm having the machine remember stuff so I can do something with that stuff. What I do with it might be simple math or it might be a list of error messages or it might be the name, contact info and resumse of a guy applying for a job.
There are typically two implicit requirements for a program. One: it models something accurately enough to produce useful results. Two: that those results (either directly or indirectly) will be understandable by people outside our field.
Model something? There is no requirement in Math that something has any relation to the real world. The history of physics is littered with advances that came because someone used math that the creator was sure had no real world application. Mathematics will not accept accurate enough; it requires provability according to very strict standards. Results that can be understood by people outside their field? No... mathematicians leave understandability to the technicians: people like physicists and computer (whatevers) that use a bunch of tools (including some of their math) to do something that produces something in the real world.
A form of matter with the properties of a laser? Does that mean E=mc2 still holds or is this the form of matter that ghosts are made out, allowing a person's hand to pass through the matter when it's in a low energy state? Or _perhaps_ it was supposed to say something along the lines of "properties of substances that are used to generate lasers"?
Nothing like a virtualization comparison that ignores the 800 guerilla that is VMWare. How do the learning curves, performance and security of these products compare with VMWare? Why should someone who is satisfied with VMWare consider other alternatives?
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
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A-Rod's Duplos...
It can connect over ppp but so can a lot of other things. This is sort of like saying that because Firefox connects over TCP/IP, the html protocol is just TCP/IP or that a Porsche is just old plain asphalt because it gets somewhere by road.
They had a HUGE store surge
Store surges! Mississippi should patent that. The Feds could fund the R&D to make it scalable. Then it could be licensed to Macy's, Target, Home Depot & Co. for a percentage of the increase in sales. The Federal R&D funds could be repaid with the profits.
--
Well, shiver me timbers! The Grammar Nazis' left me in charge and here be this juicy morsel. I are the Pirate of unintentionally humorous abuse of words. Argg! Set sail, mateys! We be boarding Dubya next!
Whether things are handled by jamming or by a micro-cell solution or some other way, there's one big problem. A lot of prisons are very close to major interstates or population centers. The main max in Texas is right next to I-35 a few hours south of Dallas, a road that carries so much traffic, you will rarely get up to the speedlimit. Colorado has a facility that, if memory serves is right off I-70.
Any solution that is sufficient to cut off all the prisoner cell phones is going to interfere with the use of cellphones nearby... like those people on that freeway next door.
The freeway next to I-35 in Texas has posted signs (no joke) warning people to not pick up hitch hikers. They existed long before four prisoners escaped a few years back. Two or three of those prisoners made it out of state. One made it about a thousand miles.
If they put in jammers, my suspicion is that the next prison break is going to involve prisoners walking up on to the freeway and using a rock to take out a windshield and a driver. I'm sure they'll say a few thanks for the cellphone jammers as they drive away and the other drivers realize they can't call 911...
FWIW, if you want to get between DFW and the other major metros in Texas, like Austin, you've got roughly two choices: I-35 and a 350-400 plod along two lane Farm to Market roads frequented by farm tractors. Talk about a looong day.
Psystar's website is up and has been on and off this whole time. It looks like they're getting so much traffic in bursts, their server can't handle all the requests.
I spent a few minutes googling and came up with a US supplier with various mini-itx logic boards. One has gigabit ethernet. Others have HDMI, DVI and more:
... but if they want to thank me for the plug, I could put some of these to use...
:-)
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.100/.f
And no... I have no connection with them
Seems like I also hit another page that had mini-itx boards with a Duo 2 processor. Now, I just need to find one with a Duo 1 processor, put it in a tiny metal case and use to cook breakfast.
Most aircraft haven't been controlled by cables in a long long time. Between weight, undependability and cost, hydraulic-assisted cable operated controls were replaced by (to pull a term out ancient history) fly by wire a long time ago. The problem isn't that they use wire to route control signals through the plane. The problem is that the two arn't properly isolated.
I referred to iTunes, an application that predates the iPhone by roughly 6 years. Wikipedia has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes. One of the program's features is synchonization, protecting you against the loss of content if your expensive device is lost, stolen or broken.
... and cheaper.
Less ugly does not mean sexy. But, Amazon has succeeded in making Sony's eBook reader look damn sexy
Moby Dick can be downloaded for free in under ten seconds in a portable format from http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2701.
More importantly, if you can't back up the content and carry it to other devices, at some point, you've wasted the money you spent on all that content. Thanks to my download testing, I know own a nice paper academic version (picked up for a buck at a used book store) and an electronic version that's going on Palm.
FWIW, Moby Dick is tedious at first, but worth reading... at least it is now that I'm about half way through. I'm looking forward to soaking in the tub with it tonight...
Memo to Bezo-man, CEO d'Amazon:
... a lot
... or ... if this thing pisses me off I want the option to take all that shit I paid real money for and really keep it _and_ use it on something else. ... without stupid converter tool ... you know ... the ebook equivalent of the stuff a lot of us book people and geeks --your core audience-- do with paper books
Preface,
Dude you really really need to talk to people outside the early adopter, gadget/freak crowd. In anything remotely resembling the device's current form, this device is doomed.
First give it buying appeal:
*) Drop the price
*) Make it a _lot_ less ugly...
*) I shouldn't have to pay Amazon everytime I blink
Make it a little less geeky
*) Make it so the keyboard can be slid out of the way
*) Make it a _lot_ less ugly...
Make the content have a life longer than the device
At some point your content will outlive the device:
1) It fails (and stockholders will make them pull the plug)
2) It succeeds (and to survive the imitators, it becomes non-backward compatible)
3) You just want the latest version and want to take your content with you
4) The darn thing breaks/gets stolen/etc
Since everything has to go through Amazon for a fee, if you want to keep all that stuff you paid for, you're going to pay how many times per device switch times how many devices in your life?
Give me the ability to do all those book things
*) Support more document formats (text, pdf and html should be a bare minimum)
*) Have content longevity (see previous section)
*) Don't give me anything in a proprietary format
*) Let me push stuff from my computer to my kindle directly
*) Let me do annotations/notes/highlighting on pdfs and ship the modified doc back to my computer
*) For bonus points, give me the option to search both the content of books and my notes
*) For double bonus points, make that search rip through my annotations
*) For even more bonus points, give me a Mac/Windows App to manage my docs (think iTunes)
FunWithKnives' reply is hardly "Insightful". While I agree with his sentiments vis-a-vis the loose paraphrase of the New Hampshire state motto, he missed the Big Huge Sign(tm) in the post "Big Brother is my friend" that said "Parody". The relevant book is 1984. The author is George Orwell.
For extra credit, please compare and contrast the government as described in 1984 with one of the following:
1) the current Bush Administration or
2) the next administration if Giuliani wins
3) the next administration if Clinton wins
Please note that in each the administration's policies will correlate to the frequently neo(conservative|liberal) beliefs of the individuals key advisers rather than the positions being posited during the election campaign (e.g. the marketing and sales effort). Since your choice of administration (1, 2 and 3) will make minimal difference in the major points you can explore, please be detailed in your analysis. Bonus points for black humor and obscure British comedy references.
Derivative is actually used in the dictionary sense. The document is developed (or derived) from previous (presumably scientific) work. It is expressed with the font. In this case a derivative work would be a font based on this one.
And about damn time they celebrated people like the Tuskegee Airmen.
... hehehe!
Making GI Joe into something that isn't about kicking whatever non-American butt is handy is a good second step. A better step would be to assign him to kick Dick Cheney's butt
From where I sit there appear to be two problems.
First, for most Americans, the limit is not the backbone. It's the final mile. We're in a city of 500,000 within an hour of a top 15 market. What with looting the company and raping the customers, Qwest never had time to install more than 5 DSLAMs so well over 90+% of the DSL service is limited to 1M. Cable *cough*comcast*cough* sucks more going up (can you getting work done).
Second, Qwest and Comcast _really_ don't play nice (surprise), so traffic between the two goes via a POP 700+ miles away in another time zone. Imagine what I find with traceroute? I actually get better performance with vnc over ssh to a box behind a cable modem 1,000 miles away than I do across town. Note... we're again talking good backbone performance versus completely lousy final mile/local market performance.
All I can say is I wait longingly for our new Verizon overlords. They can't suck as bad as Comcast and Verizon. Some speed will be gravy.
From the article's summary of the book, the author is arguing that programming is about expressing a process. Or to paraphrase in a less threatening way, programming begins with procedure description.
One way to do this has been procedural programming. Now, the favored approach is to translate a process into a bunch of things --objects-- that interact with each other --via methods. It's another way to model a process. It also more an architectural model than the proof model of Procedural Languages.
Comments pro and con Visual Basic have been thrown around in this thread. Scripting languages are often used to metaphorically treat different programs (Excel, awk, sed, grep, FileMaker, PostgreSQL, etc) as objects with methods. The methods just happen to have names like APIs, flags and arguments. I've solved a lot of problems in this way with either no math or math that is darn close to counting on my fingers. When I use multi-dimensional arrays to hold data and variables to remember where I in those arrays, I am not doing array calculus. I'm having the machine remember stuff so I can do something with that stuff. What I do with it might be simple math or it might be a list of error messages or it might be the name, contact info and resumse of a guy applying for a job.
There are typically two implicit requirements for a program. One: it models something accurately enough to produce useful results. Two: that those results (either directly or indirectly) will be understandable by people outside our field.
Model something? There is no requirement in Math that something has any relation to the real world. The history of physics is littered with advances that came because someone used math that the creator was sure had no real world application. Mathematics will not accept accurate enough; it requires provability according to very strict standards. Results that can be understood by people outside their field? No... mathematicians leave understandability to the technicians: people like physicists and computer (whatevers) that use a bunch of tools (including some of their math) to do something that produces something in the real world.
A form of matter with the properties of a laser? Does that mean E=mc2 still holds or is this the form of matter that ghosts are made out, allowing a person's hand to pass through the matter when it's in a low energy state? Or _perhaps_ it was supposed to say something along the lines of "properties of substances that are used to generate lasers"?
Good point.
;-)
Do I get a Karma bonus for conceding someone's point?
Nothing like a virtualization comparison that ignores the 800 guerilla that is VMWare. How do the learning curves, performance and security of these products compare with VMWare? Why should someone who is satisfied with VMWare consider other alternatives?
My God!
The Pink Ponies are full of it.
My God!
It's full of...
Pink Ponies!
The answer for "SlashRating" is not pi, e, avogadro's number... it's 42 Pink Ponies (on the brain), take one down, pass the joint around...
Pink Ponies have driven everything else from Slashdot. Who's going to sweep up what the mexican food hath rote?
Like OMG! I'm beating a dead pink pony all day. I'm like so Commander Taco!
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.
And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.