A short guide on that is here [yahoo.com]. I remember a show where this guy comes into a cafeteria with a baseball bat. So the staff takes the bat and beats the guy for about 10 minutes. Now they restrained a lawbreaker, but they got sued theirselves.... By the way, I am not a lawyer so don't go out being batman without consulting a lawyer first.
Awesome! I've been looking for something just like this for my TiVo! Now I just need two.:-(
How about an 802.11b version?
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I'd love to get one of these, but I have no way (or desire) to string ethernet from my room to the living room. How about a version that accepts an 802.11b PC card? Pretty please?
I had a student once [taoriver.net] who insisted on spending hoards of time loading his books for class into his Palm Pilot. He copiously took notes into his Palm- a couple sentances by the end of a four hour lecture, and we'd have to hold up class so that he could cram them in there with his stylus. He'd go on and on about the amazing advantages and all the things it could do. While I Love this guy, and he's a good friend- What a fruitcake! He bought the whole Tech=Good thing hook, line, and sinker. Held up class, and held up his own learning. All over a technology fetish.
Excuse me, but I never heard anyone try to tell me my PDA was great for taking four hour's worth of notes with the stylus! They have these things calls KEYBOARDS which fit into the PDA's, and which fold up very nicely when finished. You might recommend one to your students.
PDA's are a fad, for the most part. Sure, there are valid uses, and they can really help out in certain areas in our life. But for the most part, it's a fruity fad.
Jeez, what's with the use of 'fruit' as a way of describing things. That's twice now in to paragraphs. Are you trying to tell us something?
PDA's are a fad... yeah. That's like saying rolodexes are a fad, day-planners are a fad, cell phones are a fad, and computers are a fad. Because that's what PDA's are right now... all those things rolled into one, and often times, much more.
Want to advance your education? Buy your books, and then write in them.
Or you could read a book in a PDA/eBook, write notes in the margin, click on new words to find their definitions, save bookmarks to important pages, and search the entire text of all your books within seconds.
You know, technology DOES have a place in education!
Thank you Slashdot once again for reminding me why I'm home schooling my daughter.
Hoping for a hands off approach will not make it better, it will make it worse. I think that if you make a product, physical or virtual (software) you should be held responsable for the quality if you are charging money for it. Getting the software industry to the same level that the automotive, aerospace or appliance industry is, isn't excess...it's minimum regulation.
I am of the opinion that the government regulation should be extremely limited -- to those things that can save lives. We've got the FDA, the FCC, the FBI, the CIA, and even the NSA, which even as a libertarian, I feel are necessary government groups (although they all could be reduced in size). They enforce rules that save many lives.
Then you've got other, useless government regulating agencies that don't save lives (in fact, some ruin more lives than they help). This is the vast majority of government. This is why our taxes are so high (and our government money wasted so often). This is what you want to add to? A software regulation group? The FSA?
Yes, by all means, let's add another useless agency to the mix of these:
The FCC, preventing the people from hearing what they want to hear.
The BATF, preventing the people from imbibing themselves as they wish.
Most of the Customs agency a huge agency which does so much useless shit it's unbelievable. They should be limited to preventing weapons of mass destruction from entering the country. That's IT. (Yeah, I watched the Discovery special on Customs... made me sick.)
I could list useless government agencies all day, but I do have to work...
Yes, the movie industry is all aflutter about IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire). And that's because it's the delivery vehicle for their final and total control over what you see, how you see it, and how much you're going to pay for it.
Nice rant. However, judging solely on what has happened so far with analog/digital encryption/obsfucation schemes, I kind of like our chances...
DVD: DeCSS, MacroVision: descramblers, SDMI: hacked before release, SafeAudio: rumored to be cracked (worst case scenario -- high quality second-hand sound rips of SafeAudio "CD's"), and the list goes on and on. Now we just need someone to crack HDCP.
Say there is a living creature on one of these planets that is small enough to be crushed by one of these things, but measurably intelligent? The balls seem like overkill.
Of course! But we won't know for sure that there's small, intelligent life on Mars until we peel their tiny, dead bodies off our balls.
But the example you gave was not what USB promised, but what some digital monitor manufacturers promised. I never read anything about USB reducing clutter.
As for the thing about reducing cables because of the power coming from USB -- which power cables did you think USB would allow you to get rid of? Keyboards/mice don't use them, and USB never promised enough power for a monitor, printer, scanner, speaker, etc...
So, no, I never heard USB promoted as reducing wires in any fashion...
Yikes... a +5 for what basically amounts to this question:
Is there anything here that infrared didn't try to solve?
Why yes! There's this problem with infrared called "line-of-site." Bluetooth is not affected by it. Nobody wants to use infrared because of this problem.
Bluetooth is the same way - you have to be so close that it's not really useful for much other than wireless keyboards and headphones.
Huh? Bluetooth works within a 10cm to 100m range! Read this:
Bluetooth devices are failing for the same reasons infrared ports don't get used
Hmmm, how many bluetooth devices have hit the market so far? Zero? One? Two? I haven't seen any. I love people that claim a market is failing when it hasn't even started yet.
You probably think Internet Appliances are dead, too, right?
Is there something that you would actually pay an extra $30 to add to your small battery-operated device
Where did you get this number from? $30? Says who? Sure it'll be expensive at first, what isn't? Eventually the cost will be so small that you won't even notice it in the price of a device.
Also, there is a TON of stuff that Bluetooth could do that infrared cannot. For example:
- You could have an earbud for your cellphone that does not require a wire to connect to the phone, which could be in your pocket, next to you in your car, etc.
- You could have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard without anything sitting on your desk to accept the IR, since the range of bluetooth could easily reach your PC if it's near your desk.
- You could have a bluetooth pen that sends what it is writing to your PDA or laptop, for archival.
Somebody turned me onto this page [personaltelco.net] that talks about how a group of guys are making a mission out of setting up localized, free wireless access to the Internet, with the ultimate goal being able to fire up your laptop anywhere within your city and get on the net for free.
Jeezus how did this post get rated +4???
Bluetooth is not designed nor intended to do what you're describing. That is what 802.11 is for! This will not kill Bluetooth. Bluetooth is like USB without the cables. It's for short-distance, low-power communication. That's IT!
heck - USB was supposed to reduce the rats nest around my PC too and hasn't so far
Ummm, no it wasn't! How exactly would USB reduce the rats nest (i.e. lots of wires) around your PC, when it, too, uses wires?
USB was designed to provide faster data throughput than serial/parallel cables, hot-plug&play, and the ability to use a huge # of devices... all for a relatively low cost.
It was NOT designed to reduce the # of wires around your computer system. That's what Bluetooth is for.
But seriously, WFT is that "Bad Apples" story title? Seems to me this is a GOOD Apple, or is/. incapable of doing anything but bashing Apple?
Well you're probably Japanese, so I'll cut you some slack. Go rent Pulp Fiction or Shaft, and picture Samuel L. Jackson saying, "Those are some Baaaaaaaaaaad apples!"
Actually, he'd probably say, "Those are some baaaaaaaaaaaad motherfuckers!" But they can't print that on Slashdot.
the Draeger [draeger.com] closed circuit breathing apparatus I used to use when I was on a mine rescue team. The only downside to these units was the fact that after about 10 minutes of use, the air would start getting/real/ hot.
Hmmm why don't they just add an air conditioner to cool off the air you're breathing? It's not like you'd really care if the air around you gets any hotter, if you're working in a mine rescue, right?
How was the fake e-mail address field "abused"? And how can automatic spam-proofing possibly be good enough that a clever spammer wouldn't be able to get around (especially with the source code visible)?
There's this thing called RANDOM. And even though you know it's happening, you can't predict its outcome.
I always immediately leave any site that *requires* a plugin of any kind. If you can't take a picture of it, write some words about it or (in a rare case) make a video of it in a format everybody can read, I'm not interested.
And if you WERE interested in it -- what exactly could you do about it?
You can't really have much of a roundtable if most of the people there blatantly hate Apple.
No, but you can have a roundtable of people that are/were Apple fans, and are able to see the issues clearly.
Jean-Louis Gassee quit Apple, then became a big critic when they refused to buy Be.
Exactly where did you get the idea that he's become "a big critic"? If you'd actually read his two posts at the roundtable, you might be surprised that he still sounds like a fan...
It's clear that he dislikes Steve Jobs. It's even clearer that JLG is smart and able to assess any situation with a seemingly unbiased viewpoint.
Here's a guy that was competing with Apple, that probably now regrets not selling to them for $125 million when he could, that must eat humble pie when discussed alongside Steve Jobs. And yet, he's discussing Apple in a nice way at a roundtable specifically about Apple.
Would Steve Jobs be able to do the same thing if the roles were reversed?
Basically the article confirms what we all already knew (most of us learning it from the Carl Sagan COSMOS series). They have a model which proves that a solid body mass "escaped from the inner gases of Jupiter" and eventually slammed into the Earth. "The impact caused an extensive spray of material out into space, which gradually coalesced into the Moon."
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A short guide on that is here [yahoo.com]. I remember a show where this guy comes into a cafeteria with a baseball bat. So the staff takes the bat and beats the guy for about 10 minutes. Now they restrained a lawbreaker, but they got sued theirselves. ... By the way, I am not a lawyer so don't go out being batman without consulting a lawyer first.
C'mon, you're PUNishing us!
Awesome! I've been looking for something just like this for my TiVo! Now I just need two. :-(
I'd love to get one of these, but I have no way (or desire) to string ethernet from my room to the living room. How about a version that accepts an 802.11b PC card? Pretty please?
I had a student once [taoriver.net] who insisted on spending hoards of time loading his books for class into his Palm Pilot. He copiously took notes into his Palm- a couple sentances by the end of a four hour lecture, and we'd have to hold up class so that he could cram them in there with his stylus. He'd go on and on about the amazing advantages and all the things it could do. While I Love this guy, and he's a good friend- What a fruitcake! He bought the whole Tech=Good thing hook, line, and sinker. Held up class, and held up his own learning. All over a technology fetish.
Excuse me, but I never heard anyone try to tell me my PDA was great for taking four hour's worth of notes with the stylus! They have these things calls KEYBOARDS which fit into the PDA's, and which fold up very nicely when finished. You might recommend one to your students.
PDA's are a fad, for the most part. Sure, there are valid uses, and they can really help out in certain areas in our life. But for the most part, it's a fruity fad.
Jeez, what's with the use of 'fruit' as a way of describing things. That's twice now in to paragraphs. Are you trying to tell us something?
PDA's are a fad... yeah. That's like saying rolodexes are a fad, day-planners are a fad, cell phones are a fad, and computers are a fad. Because that's what PDA's are right now... all those things rolled into one, and often times, much more.
Want to advance your education? Buy your books, and then write in them.
Or you could read a book in a PDA/eBook, write notes in the margin, click on new words to find their definitions, save bookmarks to important pages, and search the entire text of all your books within seconds.
You know, technology DOES have a place in education!
Thank you Slashdot once again for reminding me why I'm home schooling my daughter.
You better hope you don't screw up!
Otherwise, she might come out a little fruity.
Hoping for a hands off approach will not make it better, it will make it worse. I think that if you make a product, physical or virtual (software) you should be held responsable for the quality if you are charging money for it. Getting the software industry to the same level that the automotive, aerospace or appliance industry is, isn't excess...it's minimum regulation.
I am of the opinion that the government regulation should be extremely limited -- to those things that can save lives. We've got the FDA, the FCC, the FBI, the CIA, and even the NSA, which even as a libertarian, I feel are necessary government groups (although they all could be reduced in size). They enforce rules that save many lives.
Then you've got other, useless government regulating agencies that don't save lives (in fact, some ruin more lives than they help). This is the vast majority of government. This is why our taxes are so high (and our government money wasted so often). This is what you want to add to? A software regulation group? The FSA?
Yes, by all means, let's add another useless agency to the mix of these:
The FCC, preventing the people from hearing what they want to hear.
The BATF, preventing the people from imbibing themselves as they wish.
Most of the Customs agency a huge agency which does so much useless shit it's unbelievable. They should be limited to preventing weapons of mass destruction from entering the country. That's IT. (Yeah, I watched the Discovery special on Customs... made me sick.)
I could list useless government agencies all day, but I do have to work...
Yes, the movie industry is all aflutter about IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire). And that's because it's the delivery vehicle for their final and total control over what you see, how you see it, and how much you're going to pay for it.
Nice rant. However, judging solely on what has happened so far with analog/digital encryption/obsfucation schemes, I kind of like our chances...
DVD: DeCSS, MacroVision: descramblers, SDMI: hacked before release, SafeAudio: rumored to be cracked (worst case scenario -- high quality second-hand sound rips of SafeAudio "CD's"), and the list goes on and on. Now we just need someone to crack HDCP.
Oh wait, it's already been done.
Color me annoyed, but definitely not scared.
Jack Valenti can blow me.
(Warning parents -- the movie Jack Valenti Does Slashdot is rated NC-17. Which means nobody is brutally shot or killed, just hot sex.)
Say there is a living creature on one of these planets that is small enough to be crushed by one of these things, but measurably intelligent? The balls seem like overkill.
Of course! But we won't know for sure that there's small, intelligent life on Mars until we peel their tiny, dead bodies off our balls.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole, sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name?
Colonel Sandurz: That is his name, sir. Asshole, Major Asshole!
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole, too, sir. Gunner's first mate, Phillip Asshole.
Dark Helmet: How many assholes we got on this ship, anyhow?
Most of Crew: (raising hands) YO!
(beat)
Dark Helmet: I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!
(helmet goes down)
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!
Still surfing on my TimeWarner RoadRunner cable modem and my BellSouth ADSL modem in Florida!
Sometimes dealing with a monopoly is nice. (Yes I realize that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.)
But the example you gave was not what USB promised, but what some digital monitor manufacturers promised. I never read anything about USB reducing clutter.
As for the thing about reducing cables because of the power coming from USB -- which power cables did you think USB would allow you to get rid of? Keyboards/mice don't use them, and USB never promised enough power for a monitor, printer, scanner, speaker, etc...
So, no, I never heard USB promoted as reducing wires in any fashion...
Yikes... a +5 for what basically amounts to this question:
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Is there anything here that infrared didn't try to solve?
Why yes! There's this problem with infrared called "line-of-site." Bluetooth is not affected by it. Nobody wants to use infrared because of this problem.
Bluetooth is the same way - you have to be so close that it's not really useful for much other than wireless keyboards and headphones.
Huh? Bluetooth works within a 10cm to 100m range! Read this:
http://www.palowireless.com/infotooth/knowbase/ge
Bluetooth devices are failing for the same reasons infrared ports don't get used
Hmmm, how many bluetooth devices have hit the market so far? Zero? One? Two? I haven't seen any. I love people that claim a market is failing when it hasn't even started yet.
You probably think Internet Appliances are dead, too, right?
Is there something that you would actually pay an extra $30 to add to your small battery-operated device
Where did you get this number from? $30? Says who? Sure it'll be expensive at first, what isn't? Eventually the cost will be so small that you won't even notice it in the price of a device.
Also, there is a TON of stuff that Bluetooth could do that infrared cannot. For example:
- You could have an earbud for your cellphone that does not require a wire to connect to the phone, which could be in your pocket, next to you in your car, etc.
- You could have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard without anything sitting on your desk to accept the IR, since the range of bluetooth could easily reach your PC if it's near your desk.
- You could have a bluetooth pen that sends what it is writing to your PDA or laptop, for archival.
Try thinking out of the box a little bit, first.
Somebody turned me onto this page [personaltelco.net] that talks about how a group of guys are making a mission out of setting up localized, free wireless access to the Internet, with the ultimate goal being able to fire up your laptop anywhere within your city and get on the net for free.
Jeezus how did this post get rated +4???
Bluetooth is not designed nor intended to do what you're describing. That is what 802.11 is for! This will not kill Bluetooth. Bluetooth is like USB without the cables. It's for short-distance, low-power communication. That's IT!
heck - USB was supposed to reduce the rats nest around my PC too and hasn't so far
Ummm, no it wasn't! How exactly would USB reduce the rats nest (i.e. lots of wires) around your PC, when it, too, uses wires?
USB was designed to provide faster data throughput than serial/parallel cables, hot-plug&play, and the ability to use a huge # of devices... all for a relatively low cost.
It was NOT designed to reduce the # of wires around your computer system. That's what Bluetooth is for.
But seriously, WFT is that "Bad Apples" story title? Seems to me this is a GOOD Apple, or is /. incapable of doing anything but bashing Apple?
Well you're probably Japanese, so I'll cut you some slack. Go rent Pulp Fiction or Shaft, and picture Samuel L. Jackson saying, "Those are some Baaaaaaaaaaad apples!"
Actually, he'd probably say, "Those are some baaaaaaaaaaaad motherfuckers!" But they can't print that on Slashdot.
the Draeger [draeger.com] closed circuit breathing apparatus I used to use when I was on a mine rescue team. The only downside to these units was the fact that after about 10 minutes of use, the air would start getting /real/ hot.
Hmmm why don't they just add an air conditioner to cool off the air you're breathing? It's not like you'd really care if the air around you gets any hotter, if you're working in a mine rescue, right?
the joke is, it dosen't uninstall even when you press uninstall, it still leaves its dlls active in the system
Gee, that joke isn't funny at all...
How was the fake e-mail address field "abused"? And how can automatic spam-proofing possibly be good enough that a clever spammer wouldn't be able to get around (especially with the source code visible)?
There's this thing called RANDOM. And even though you know it's happening, you can't predict its outcome.
Cool, huh?
I always immediately leave any site that *requires* a plugin of any kind. If you can't take a picture of it, write some words about it or (in a rare case) make a video of it in a format everybody can read, I'm not interested.
And if you WERE interested in it -- what exactly could you do about it?
Why would a developer create a Netscape plugin on the Windows platform?
Simple -- because it makes porting their application to other platforms much easier.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; capitalist systems cannot sustain innovative energy or scientific responsibility.
Bullshit. If that were true, how could our capitalist systems generate so many technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs?
If it weren't for capitalism, the incentive would not be there for a LOT of people that make these innovations and breakthroughs.
You can't really have much of a roundtable if most of the people there blatantly hate Apple.
No, but you can have a roundtable of people that are/were Apple fans, and are able to see the issues clearly.
Jean-Louis Gassee quit Apple, then became a big critic when they refused to buy Be.
Exactly where did you get the idea that he's become "a big critic"? If you'd actually read his two posts at the roundtable, you might be surprised that he still sounds like a fan...
It's clear that he dislikes Steve Jobs. It's even clearer that JLG is smart and able to assess any situation with a seemingly unbiased viewpoint.
Here's a guy that was competing with Apple, that probably now regrets not selling to them for $125 million when he could, that must eat humble pie when discussed alongside Steve Jobs. And yet, he's discussing Apple in a nice way at a roundtable specifically about Apple.
Would Steve Jobs be able to do the same thing if the roles were reversed?
Damn and I thought my summarization was so insane that people would know I was kidding.
Eek.
For you lazy people...
Basically the article confirms what we all already knew (most of us learning it from the Carl Sagan COSMOS series). They have a model which proves that a solid body mass "escaped from the inner gases of Jupiter" and eventually slammed into the Earth. "The impact caused an extensive spray of material out into space, which gradually coalesced into the Moon."
I program Java.... Do I count as a "Java user"?
Uhhhh, yes.
Developer hours, though harder to measure, would probably provide a more meaningful representation of how "big" a language has become.
Ahhhh... good way to put emphasis on C/C++, where development takes longer and you'll easily outweigh "developer hours" in Java!
Tally ho!