Well, I think it would be pretty easy to claim "prior art", in fact the phone company would probably be able to claim that better than you or I could. While I doubt a case would ever hold up in court, although it doesn't seem like that was their motive, I love how much a mockery it makes of our rediculous copyright system.
I've had that idea actually, inspired from very common industrial cooling towers. The cooling towers are used for many purposes, such as cooling pumps, motors, molds, and many other things. They are basicly that, a waterfall, or cascade as that type of cooling tower is refered to as. Basicly the water trickels down over radiator like fins, wich have air flowing through them from a fan or natural breezes/convection. Very efficient, very simple, and very reliable.
The point remains though, a GUI that uses more resources than most of the programs you want to run is pretty worthless. I don't buy new hardware to run a shiney GUI, I buy them to get my programs to run faster, so I can work/play whatever more efficiently. I must give Apple coolness points for OSX, but it still doesn't make any sense to put such a heavy GUI on top of such an efficient OS. Just the fact that you need 128 megs of RAM just to install a Unix based OS was enough to scare me. And it seems like M$ is taking the same road with XP. (the GUI's memory requirement, not the Unix part, duh) Perhaps on the G5 and with OSX.2 the system requirements will represent a much smaller percentage of the resources than they do now, and it won't be such a bad thing.
"... just killing Bin Laden won't do jack... other leaders will rise up."
Although, killing "just" Bin Laden (and a few of his closest followers) would be a good start. Yes other people will rise up, but as always within such hostile organizations, leadership is paid for in blood. The insuant fighting within the organization would not only thin their numbers slightly, but more importantly help to expose the organization as a whole. Where they are operating, what other groups in the world may have interestes in Bin Laden's operation, the size of his "armies", etc. The confusion and distraction of the power struggle will also weaken their power to both threaten and react to threats. I think taking out Bin Laden and his top ranking officials straight off is the best thing we can do right now. Picking off the rest of his followers will just be a matter of following the blood trail as they kill each other for power.
Neither HP nor Compaq has put any significant effort into this OS in the past, and they may
well lag behind IBM's development efforts, including products like WebSphere.
I'm not saying that they have invested as much time or money into Linux as IBM, but don't say it has been overlooked by HPaq. Compaq even has links on their site for Linux on the iPaq handhelds.
What apps have you not had success with? The only things I've had problems with is MechWarrior3 and Bleem, wich is crap anyway. I can't seem to get StarOffice to install either, although it is supposed to work with 9x/NT/2k so I'm assuming there is something else wrong there.
"This is a great article that talks about something we already knew, but haven't paid that much attention to: Slashdot journalists are a bunch of corporate whores."
While I understand where you are coming from with the battery life issues, you are forgetting the distinction between a Palm device and a HP or Casiopedia etc. Palm devices are mainly intended as PIM's, while PocketPC (something in a name!) devices are designed to more closely match the speed and functionality of a desktop machine. So really, these are two very different products that serve pretty different purposes, and just happen do do a few of the same things.
The really ironic (moronic?) thing with that is "audio" CDR's are designed for use in audio-only recorders, and "data" CDR's are for computers, even for recording audio on a computer. Anyway, chances are that most of the people buying "audio" CDR's, unless they're ignorant of their usage, are probably musicians recording original content on professional gear, not pimply faced 14 year old kids on Napster. So by taxing only the "audio" CDR's, or taxing them more, they are actually taxing the people they are claiming to protect!
While I didn't have any problems from my ISP (verizon), I don't think I would have asked for a refund either. Hell, even if it was down, who is to say that it was their machine in the first place? What bothers me about the whole "CodeRed" virus is, from what I have been reading, the hole was public a month before the virus hit. A patch was available at least two weeks before the virus hit. The virus itself was made public at least a week before it took off. Why oh why did so many large ISP's not fix their machines before hand? I realize that you have to run these patches on test boxes, etc. But the risk was to large not to, and it was very public. I have a friend who still doesn't have his cable modem service back up. To me it is as stupid as standing on a train track for a week waiting for the train to come and hit you. What happened?
What?.mpB files? Bookster? If the music industry can't find a way to secure content, what makes them think they will be any safer? I guess they figure that millions of pimply faced teens won't be as excited about trading books online. But if they had pr0n books.. well... that'd be a whole 'nother story!
What router are you using? I have the Linksys BEFSR41 and the firmware has an option to automaticly reconnect. Verizon (my ISP) used to kick me daily also before I got the router, so I know the firmware is doing it's job, I never get kicked anymore.
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As long as they don't change that to the worth of their software, or $5 US, wichever is more.
Unless I missed something in the article, this doesn't seem all that new. CBN has been used in the machining field for a number of years in various forms. It has been plated onto conventional cutting tools such as drills, milling cutters, and lathe tools to increase wear resistance, likewise with diamond coatings. It also finds widespread use in precision grinding. In fact, in some applications CBN outperforms diamond grinding wheels. Not so much that it is better than diamond, only it is less expensive to produce in larger grain sizes required for cutting softer materials to resist clogging. By the nature of industrial diamond manufacture, it is difficult to make diamond "dust" in larger grains. In an ordinary application, you would cut a material with a harder material; either a harder steel or carbide or an abrasive. Cutting the hardest material known to man obviously presents challenges. Imagine cutting down a tree with a wooden saw and, well, you get the picture.
In grinding applications, CBN and diamond wheels are produced basicly the same way. Either a metallic or plastic wheel is coated with a layer of CBN or diamond at it's working surface, and usually bonded with a rubber, plastic, or epoxy material giving a usable life in most applications of 1/8 to 1/2 inch of wheel wear before the abrasive material is exhausted and the wheel is bare. There are, of course, exceptions to all of these guidelines for special applications etc. Wheels are usually dressed (flattened or shaped) with a special stone or Norbide (tm) stick, basicly an extremely hard, brittle peice of carbide that quickly accelerates the wear of the bonding agent. Other coating methods are used on HSS and carbide cutting tools, such as electoplating and vapor deposition. The coatings work in several ways to protect the cutter, direcly and indirectly. The high thermal conductivity of both materials quickly dissipate heat from the tooth, as well as providing sort of a lubricant that also has the effect of creating less heat. They also decrease physical wear on the tool, allowing it to run for longer periods without loosing accuracy, cut more aggressively, or cut tougher materials.
There are many other advantages (and some disadvantages) of CBN, but overall it has found a rather large niche in metalcutting. MSC Industrial Supply has a large selection of CBN and diamond products, just type "CBN" in the quick search field and check out some of the tools that CBN has been used on for years.
Somebody should mod this guy up, expecially because he seems to be telling the truth. The home page seems to point back to a defunct link at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
I would think that your computer would see a set local IP address, and the net card would handle everything else. From the sound of it, at least for now, it seems aimed more at corperate or WAN usage, where this card would only be on the server. I don't think his intentions are to sell this as a consumer product for a little while.
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Well, I think it would be pretty easy to claim "prior art", in fact the phone company would probably be able to claim that better than you or I could. While I doubt a case would ever hold up in court, although it doesn't seem like that was their motive, I love how much a mockery it makes of our rediculous copyright system.
images.google.com yeilded a nice 300x400 images of the Netpad here
There were some other, smaller pictures too, including an outdoorsy yellow model as well.
Although, killing "just" Bin Laden (and a few of his closest followers) would be a good start. Yes other people will rise up, but as always within such hostile organizations, leadership is paid for in blood. The insuant fighting within the organization would not only thin their numbers slightly, but more importantly help to expose the organization as a whole. Where they are operating, what other groups in the world may have interestes in Bin Laden's operation, the size of his "armies", etc. The confusion and distraction of the power struggle will also weaken their power to both threaten and react to threats. I think taking out Bin Laden and his top ranking officials straight off is the best thing we can do right now. Picking off the rest of his followers will just be a matter of following the blood trail as they kill each other for power.
well lag behind IBM's development efforts, including products like WebSphere.
Huh?
Comapq's Linux effort.
HP's Linux effort.
I'm not saying that they have invested as much time or money into Linux as IBM, but don't say it has been overlooked by HPaq. Compaq even has links on their site for Linux on the iPaq handhelds.
"Secret... agent man! Secret... agent man! They're givin you a number... and takin away your..."
Sorry, it was just the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that.
As long as they don't change that to the worth of their software, or $5 US, wichever is more.
In grinding applications, CBN and diamond wheels are produced basicly the same way. Either a metallic or plastic wheel is coated with a layer of CBN or diamond at it's working surface, and usually bonded with a rubber, plastic, or epoxy material giving a usable life in most applications of 1/8 to 1/2 inch of wheel wear before the abrasive material is exhausted and the wheel is bare. There are, of course, exceptions to all of these guidelines for special applications etc. Wheels are usually dressed (flattened or shaped) with a special stone or Norbide (tm) stick, basicly an extremely hard, brittle peice of carbide that quickly accelerates the wear of the bonding agent. Other coating methods are used on HSS and carbide cutting tools, such as electoplating and vapor deposition. The coatings work in several ways to protect the cutter, direcly and indirectly. The high thermal conductivity of both materials quickly dissipate heat from the tooth, as well as providing sort of a lubricant that also has the effect of creating less heat. They also decrease physical wear on the tool, allowing it to run for longer periods without loosing accuracy, cut more aggressively, or cut tougher materials.
There are many other advantages (and some disadvantages) of CBN, but overall it has found a rather large niche in metalcutting. MSC Industrial Supply has a large selection of CBN and diamond products, just type "CBN" in the quick search field and check out some of the tools that CBN has been used on for years.
Real or Windows Media only.