I can't count the number of electronic
essentials in my house that as a 1st step,
transform 115VAC into 12VDC. And every stereo,
computer, cell phone, requires its own jack and adapter.
Wouldn't it be cool if our govt worked with
Apple, Sony or MS and developed a standard residental power protocol that had similar
features of IEEE1394 that you could plug into and
get 12 volts && data transport??
If it was done correctly, your computer could
have 1 cable attached and play to your stereo or TV.. Your TV could display
your email. You would use waay less power because everything could go through a single transformer. You would have a lower risk of fire, and 99% fewer cords and cables tangled up everywhere.
I feel a little like that guy in
Brazil
but instead tubes I have wires everywhere.
I use large stackable Costco containters and everything is stored in categories in my office closet. The bin I need is always at the bottom of the stack but that's just the way it goes. Each bin is affixed with a large label.
There are 6 main bins:
Audio/Video - all cables for stereo, TV, recording
Computer - Harddrives, memory, cables. Every year I try to sell off the excess at the Tacoma Linux Users Group yard sale.
Network - Spare network cables, old hubs
Office Supplies - Toner, printer paper, labels.
Cassettes - A bunch of old tapes that I should convert to mp3 or some other digital format.
Magazines - Magazines that I cant seem to throw away.
It works for me and makes cleaning up go pretty smoothly.
Every time I hear someone excited about
a clever new nuclear reactor technology
I ask them this question.
The United States has not yet been able to
find the permanent resting place for all of
these spent nuclear materials. Currently
all are on hold in temporary storage ponds etc
at the various and sundry reactor sites around
the world.
When someone solves the waste problem we'll be on to something. Until then I think we should wait.
IANAL but I believe that the reason he was able to sue Sears in small claims court was the fact that Sears was doing business in the same state.
If the party you are sueing is out of state, you have to take the matter to district court. The filing fee is usually only a little more, but if you don't win your case, you can expect to be held accountable for the spammers attorney fees.
In my city, Tacoma, Washington USA all of the major theaters have gone out of business. We have 2 independant theaters (Grand Tacoma and Blue Mouse) that are left.
The sound systems aren't as nice but the movies tend to be a little more interesting.
I live in Tacoma. Click began as the local electric company modernizing the way they manage their equipment. At some point they realized that if they were going to install a city wide optical network to all of the sub stations and transformers it wouldn't be much more of a leap to extend this to all of the homes. Now every house, business, school and government building is wired for DS-1 through OC-48 service. Govertment, Schools, Library are wired for free.
Can anyone answer this for me? Shouldn't anti-aliased rendering of fonts be a job for X and not the desktop or window manager? Wouldn't it be cool to use hardware OpenGL acceleration in the video card to do this?
I don't think people are seeing the big picture here. ActiveX is more that just a crappy web technology. OLE2 (ActiveX) is the really what Javabeans are to Java. Wine cant (until now?) run software built with OLE2 components. If I understand correctly, this opens the door to Linux running tons of modern Windows software.
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In Area 51 there are a group of pilots known as "Red Hat" squadron. These pilots are trained to fly in Russian aircraft using Russian tactics to simulate a communist enemy for our pilots. I've always wondered if RedHat's name is a metaphor for a capitalist business masquerading as a communist endevour?
Find an audio engineer and a few CD's that you know well and shop with your ears. Speakers are manufactured by a number of differend companies and are bought by companies who brand them. Sometimes obscure names are far better than the big names. Often the big names (Bose) sound sloppy & flat.
Studio speakers tend to sound flat across all frequencies. This is nice for mixing but don't sound very rich in the home.
You absolutely need an active subwoofer. The passive ones sound blurry.
Quick, read the EULA and tell me whether you can distribute a flyer created with MS Word!
Microsoft and the rest of the PC industry have made fantastic inroads by allowing people to easily pirate (their words not mine) software. Because most people don't have to pay attention to the legal agreements when they install (just click I agree) they don't mind having their rights taken away.
When MS _forces_ everyone to pay the full fare it only increases the value of libre software.
It is very important to understand, the FBI or DA dont care if he's guilty or innocent, they only want to make themselves look good. They want to solve the case bring swift justice to the 'hacker'. Their job is to prosecute, not defend. They will ignore everything that contradicts their case and do what they can to put this guy behind bars. Even when you know you are innocent, ignore the 'good cop' game. You should say and do nothing except get your lawyer ASAP.
How many PC hardware companies have come and gone since 1980? I couldn't count 'em. Hopefully this will never catch on. It would really suck to have my entire CD collection made obsolete because Seagate folds.
I was at the CICS conference in July and spoke to the developers about this.
The word is they do not want to make it public yet but do have plans to make it available at some time. They do have CICS running on AIX and would probably port that to Linux.
The other thought was S390/Linux and CICS running as a application server running Java code and connecting to CICS-CICS to other platforms like MVS.
With CICS supporting IIOP and Java things will be getting very interesting very soon. The next release will support EJB.
Do all of the mp3s have to be in the root directory of the CD? Also, what type of long filename support do these type devices commonly have. Do they support m3u playlists?
Linux is not about marketing release dates. Linux is not about account managers. Linux is not for user experience teams and assistant project managers and all of the other corporate phbs etc that act as filler to the content.
Linux is for the handfull of morlocks who get the real work done. Linux is a development environment for programmers. tradeshows if they can help it.
I wonder what would happen if I 'found' a 5 foot spool of insulated wire - the kind that the electric company has laying around and a really big capacitor? Something that could be charged for a week or so..
Hi-tech solutions can always be attacked in amazingly low-tech ways. I hope were not totally forgetting that.
Seriously, if MS would only follow their tactic of 'embrace & extend' they could eliminate PalmOS in about a year.
If MS introduced a CE device that could run any Palm *pdb *prc and offered a few extended features like hi resolution color and sound, they could a) lure people from the 'scary' palm world to the 'safe' MS world, and b) lure developers to use the cool MS APIs for sounds graphics etc.
I don't want a Palm PC. I want a simple extention to my existing PC. This is something MS isn't catching on to. Also the 6 week battery life of my Palm III is pretty nice. Also, I don't want Word attachments on the email I get in the office, -much less on my PDA!
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Wouldn't it be cool if our govt worked with Apple, Sony or MS and developed a standard residental power protocol that had similar features of IEEE1394 that you could plug into and get 12 volts && data transport??
If it was done correctly, your computer could have 1 cable attached and play to your stereo or TV.. Your TV could display your email. You would use waay less power because everything could go through a single transformer. You would have a lower risk of fire, and 99% fewer cords and cables tangled up everywhere.
I feel a little like that guy in Brazil but instead tubes I have wires everywhere.
There are 6 main bins:
Audio/Video - all cables for stereo, TV, recording
Computer - Harddrives, memory, cables. Every year I try to sell off the excess at the Tacoma Linux Users Group yard sale.
Network - Spare network cables, old hubs
Office Supplies - Toner, printer paper, labels.
Cassettes - A bunch of old tapes that I should convert to mp3 or some other digital format.
Magazines - Magazines that I cant seem to throw away.
It works for me and makes cleaning up go pretty smoothly.
The United States has not yet been able to find the permanent resting place for all of these spent nuclear materials. Currently all are on hold in temporary storage ponds etc at the various and sundry reactor sites around the world.
When someone solves the waste problem we'll be on to something. Until then I think we should wait.
IANAL but I believe that the reason he was able to sue Sears in small claims court was the fact that Sears was doing business in the same state.
If the party you are sueing is out of state, you have to take the matter to district court. The filing fee is usually only a little more, but if you don't win your case, you can expect to be held accountable for the spammers attorney fees.
In my city, Tacoma, Washington USA all of the major theaters have gone out of business. We have 2 independant theaters (Grand Tacoma and Blue Mouse) that are left.
The sound systems aren't as nice but the movies tend to be a little more interesting.
Don't you mean MB/s
I live in Tacoma. Click began as the local electric company modernizing the way they manage their equipment. At some point they realized that if they were going to install a city wide optical network to all of the sub stations and transformers it wouldn't be much more of a leap to extend this to all of the homes. Now every house, business, school and government building is wired for DS-1 through OC-48 service. Govertment, Schools, Library are wired for free.
Check out their site:
http://www.click-network.com/
I suppose they could have used some research there!
Can anyone answer this for me? Shouldn't anti-aliased rendering of fonts be a job for X and not the desktop or window manager? Wouldn't it be cool to use hardware OpenGL acceleration in the video card to do this?
I don't think people are seeing the big picture here. ActiveX is more that just a crappy web technology. OLE2 (ActiveX) is the really what Javabeans are to Java. Wine cant (until now?) run software built with OLE2 components. If I understand correctly, this opens the door to Linux running tons of modern Windows software.
In Area 51 there are a group of pilots known as "Red Hat" squadron. These pilots are trained to fly in Russian aircraft using Russian tactics to simulate a communist enemy for our pilots. I've always wondered if RedHat's name is a metaphor for a capitalist business masquerading as a communist endevour?
Find an audio engineer and a few CD's that you know well and shop with your ears. Speakers are manufactured by a number of differend companies and are bought by companies who brand them. Sometimes obscure names are far better than the big names. Often the big names (Bose) sound sloppy & flat.
Studio speakers tend to sound flat across all frequencies. This is nice for mixing but don't sound very rich in the home.
You absolutely need an active subwoofer. The passive ones sound blurry.
Quick, read the EULA and tell me whether you can distribute a flyer created with MS Word!
Microsoft and the rest of the PC industry have made fantastic inroads by allowing people to easily pirate (their words not mine) software. Because most people don't have to pay attention to the legal agreements when they install (just click I agree) they don't mind having their rights taken away.
When MS _forces_ everyone to pay the full fare it only increases the value of libre software.
The 1st rule of ping pong club is don't talk about ping pong club!
The 2nd rule of ping pong club is don't talk about ping pong club!
The 3rd rule of ping pong club is that everyone has to play ping pong!
(I suppose the same is true for chess club.)
It is very important to understand, the FBI or DA dont care if he's guilty or innocent, they only want to make themselves look good. They want to solve the case bring swift justice to the 'hacker'. Their job is to prosecute, not defend. They will ignore everything that contradicts their case and do what they can to put this guy behind bars. Even when you know you are innocent, ignore the 'good cop' game. You should say and do nothing except get your lawyer ASAP.
I just installed Win2k yesterday and the tag line on the login box is "Built on NT technology".
Is there an ATM machine around here?
How many PC hardware companies have come and gone since 1980? I couldn't count 'em. Hopefully this will never catch on. It would really suck to have my entire CD collection made obsolete because Seagate folds.
WE replaced our Amdahl system last year with a shiny new S/390. One of the nice things was the
about of raised floor we were able to recapture.
The Amdahl consisted of 6 large refrigerator sized boxes. The S/390 is a single unit about 3 x 3 x 4.5 feet.
A little bird told me...
Hi Scott
I was at the CICS conference in July and spoke to the developers about this.
The word is they do not want to make it public yet but do have plans to make it available at some time. They do have CICS running on AIX and would probably port that to Linux.
The other thought was S390/Linux and CICS running as a application server running Java code and connecting to CICS-CICS to other platforms like MVS.
With CICS supporting IIOP and Java things will be getting very interesting very soon. The next release will support EJB.
...
Yes this does sound cool indeed!
Do all of the mp3s have to be in the root directory of the CD? Also, what type of long filename support do these type devices commonly have. Do they support m3u playlists?
Linux is not about marketing release dates.
Linux is not about account managers.
Linux is not for user experience teams and
assistant project managers and all of the other corporate phbs etc that act as filler to the
content.
Linux is for the handfull of morlocks who get
the real work done. Linux is a development environment for programmers.
tradeshows if they can help it.
I wonder what would happen if I 'found' a 5 foot spool of insulated wire - the kind that the electric company has laying around and a really big capacitor? Something that could be charged for a week or so..
Hi-tech solutions can always be attacked in amazingly low-tech ways. I hope were not totally forgetting that.
Seriously, if MS would only follow their tactic of 'embrace & extend' they could eliminate PalmOS in about a year.
If MS introduced a CE device that could run any Palm *pdb *prc and offered a few extended features like hi resolution color and sound, they could a) lure people from the 'scary' palm world to the 'safe' MS world, and b) lure developers to use the cool MS APIs for sounds graphics etc.
I don't want a Palm PC. I want a simple extention to my existing PC. This is something MS isn't catching on to. Also the 6 week battery life of my Palm III is pretty nice. Also, I don't want Word attachments on the email I get in the office, -much less on my PDA!
Did Qt ever amend their differences with the Free Software movement? I've never really gotten a clear answer on this issue.