No, it's not just the left. It's the *radical* left and the *radical* right, too, don't pretend those guys are any less violently kooky. McVey certainly is not a lone nut.
Dude, sorry you had bad results, but I can't focus on blue light sources now, and blue LEDs especially drive me crazy if they're anywhere near my field of vision...and I never had laser eye surgery. I think that's pretty normal actually--human eyes don't handle blue very well.
The HAVI inter-operability protocol includes what you're talking about regarding state. It's supported by multiple manufacturers, but still questionable whether it will take off...in fact, it looks to be stagnating at the very least.
I'm a professional A/V control systems programmer, and one-way IR-controlled devices are the bane of our existence. If you investigate pro gear intended for permanent installation, even if it's just a VCR, you'll often find a serial port because the manufacturers know it'll be hanging off a control system like Crestron or AMX. But serial protocols are all different, even within the same manufacturer's line. Some are a bitch, some are very, very simple. It's hard to forsee any sort of standardization though, if only because of the wide variety of device functions and the entrenched-ness of manufacturers with their own often long-standing protocols.
So don't look for a common serial protocol. The future of A/V is getting on the network, and efforts are being made on interoperability on this "new" frontier in both corporate and academic worlds.
It it just me, or does the landing of that thing look a little odd...? The last second or so, when it drops sharply to the ground and then wiggles looks like somebody placing a chess piece on the board...looks like it's dropping way too fast to have what appears to be zero shock absorption at the landing. And whats with that little wiggle, anyway, when it's already on the ground?
I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation, but it looks like a bad animation, or a liftoff run backwards.
Yahoo's pretty good; I've had the premium mail for a couple of years (paid so I could get POP access), and I like it. Obtained a gmail account last week finally, tried it for three days and killed it. Message threads are really cool, but overall it's not *that* much better...so I'm back on Yahoo. I'm guessing I'm not the only one, either.
marvelous post, fscking marvelous! my anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, anti-development hippie friends don't seem to understand that Asia is *hungry* for a piece of our pie and they are busting their asses to get it. The western lifestyle is what everyone else is striving for, even as some of us here reject it, having become "enlightened" to the evils of development. The second-world is going through the same growing pains every other first-world developed nation went through, and the crucial point is that they *want* to. There's a net increase in standard of living coming to these places like India, China, southeast Asia.
The interesting part is what will happen when the resources just aren't there anymore. Humanity will run out of natural resources to easily consume...and places to safely lock away the waste. Thought about the sheer number of people in India and China? What will it take for all of them to have their own DVD player? If every Chinese family is a two-car family, what will that mean for energy use and pollution generation?
Technologists can take a glance at history and comfort themselves (and argue back to their hippie buddies) with the reality that without advances in technology this growth simply will not be possible--because it won't be economical. As they already have, advances in technology will continue to increase efficiency in use of energy and resources, and will continue to reduce the production of waste as we learn how to handle it more effectively. That will be the true beauty of globalization: to eventually reduce or eliminate these refuges of cheap labor and resources that are the enabling factors in the continuation of the international exploitation game, thereby economically driving technological advancement in efficiency and waste management.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. I've been using Yahoo mail as my primary personal account for years, and have no complaints whatsoever. The spam filters work very well, and I don't get much anyway, so they clearly aren't passing my address around. All I've had to do is uncheck all the marketing preferences the two times they've tried to change them. And they send an alert mail when they do that.
This is completely unlike, say, Hotmail, where spam levels magically, and quickly, rise to insanity. Do a test--create a hotmail account and don't disclose it to anyone. You will get buckets of spam. Same test with Yahoo, you get no spam.
I have great respect for how Yahoo operates as a company in this environment. They aren't perfect, but they're good. Kudos to them for taking this new initiative.
PdaNet software was what made PCS Vision into something I can use. Just plug the Treo into hotsync cable and bingo, you have a mobile modem that's fast enough to be liveable. No bullsht with special wireless modem cards or any of that. Speed and latency is as described in the article, and this is actually my only connection at home, since I don't have a land line or broadband. It works damn fine on the road, too, no more Wayport charges for in-room net connection.
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Too scary for me...I never agreed and activated the service...took advantage of my 30day money-back guarantee also specified in that document. But then I found PdaNet for my Treo, and life is good.
The Washington DC area has been experiencing lots of trouble after the switch from @home to att.net because these proxies haven't been configured right. There's some info on dslreports.com
Or rather, as the maker calls it, FRAM, for Ferroelectric RAM. www.ramtron.com. Only 256k right now, on a 0.5 micron process, but.35 and.25 micron is in the works and they expect the cost/density to become competitive with flash soon.
Timonium this summer was on July 29th, but man did it ever suck balls. The computer section (inside) was about like your usual marketpro show. The crappy weather must have kept the cool hardcore electronics guys/gals away from the parking lot swapmeet 'cause most of the stuff was super lame. Kinda like "My wife made me clean out the attic."
Yo, that was 72lbs, not 27. Interestingly, over 50% of the total amount of Pu-238 in our biosphere was delivered by a RTG-powered satellite, Transit-5BN-3, that burned up on reentry after failing to achieve orbit in 1964. It was carrying only 1kg (2.2lbs) of Pu-238. Pu-238 has a 87.7yr half-life, so most of it is still here.
There are HUNDREDS of pounds of radioactive material currently in orbit--leftover RTG fuel, which decays away relatively quickly, and spent nuclear reactor cores from Soviet spy satellites. Decaying orbits is a real issue--if you're worried about Iridium debris, consider what would happen if burning satellite crap was: a) radioactive dust that you will breathe, b) chunks of highly radioactive reactor parts.
I use xfig all the time for flowcharts and dataflow graphs. It's a little weird at first because it takes some experimentation to learn what does what, but it's easy and fast once you're comfortable with it.
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No, it's not just the left. It's the *radical* left and the *radical* right, too, don't pretend those guys are any less violently kooky. McVey certainly is not a lone nut.
Dude, sorry you had bad results, but I can't focus on blue light sources now, and blue LEDs especially drive me crazy if they're anywhere near my field of vision...and I never had laser eye surgery. I think that's pretty normal actually--human eyes don't handle blue very well.
-Nipples
The HAVI inter-operability protocol includes what you're talking about regarding state. It's supported by multiple manufacturers, but still questionable whether it will take off...in fact, it looks to be stagnating at the very least.
I'm a professional A/V control systems programmer, and one-way IR-controlled devices are the bane of our existence. If you investigate pro gear intended for permanent installation, even if it's just a VCR, you'll often find a serial port because the manufacturers know it'll be hanging off a control system like Crestron or AMX. But serial protocols are all different, even within the same manufacturer's line. Some are a bitch, some are very, very simple. It's hard to forsee any sort of standardization though, if only because of the wide variety of device functions and the entrenched-ness of manufacturers with their own often long-standing protocols.
So don't look for a common serial protocol. The future of A/V is getting on the network, and efforts are being made on interoperability on this "new" frontier in both corporate and academic worlds.
Please, I neeeeed something that *works*!
It it just me, or does the landing of that thing look a little odd...? The last second or so, when it drops sharply to the ground and then wiggles looks like somebody placing a chess piece on the board...looks like it's dropping way too fast to have what appears to be zero shock absorption at the landing. And whats with that little wiggle, anyway, when it's already on the ground?
I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation, but it looks like a bad animation, or a liftoff run backwards.
-fister
Yahoo's pretty good; I've had the premium mail for a couple of years (paid so I could get POP access), and I like it. Obtained a gmail account last week finally, tried it for three days and killed it. Message threads are really cool, but overall it's not *that* much better...so I'm back on Yahoo. I'm guessing I'm not the only one, either.
-fister
marvelous post, fscking marvelous! my anti-capitalist, anti-globalization, anti-development hippie friends don't seem to understand that Asia is *hungry* for a piece of our pie and they are busting their asses to get it. The western lifestyle is what everyone else is striving for, even as some of us here reject it, having become "enlightened" to the evils of development. The second-world is going through the same growing pains every other first-world developed nation went through, and the crucial point is that they *want* to. There's a net increase in standard of living coming to these places like India, China, southeast Asia.
The interesting part is what will happen when the resources just aren't there anymore. Humanity will run out of natural resources to easily consume...and places to safely lock away the waste. Thought about the sheer number of people in India and China? What will it take for all of them to have their own DVD player? If every Chinese family is a two-car family, what will that mean for energy use and pollution generation?
Technologists can take a glance at history and comfort themselves (and argue back to their hippie buddies) with the reality that without advances in technology this growth simply will not be possible--because it won't be economical. As they already have, advances in technology will continue to increase efficiency in use of energy and resources, and will continue to reduce the production of waste as we learn how to handle it more effectively. That will be the true beauty of globalization: to eventually reduce or eliminate these refuges of cheap labor and resources that are the enabling factors in the continuation of the international exploitation game, thereby economically driving technological advancement in efficiency and waste management.
-fister
Sorry, but that's bullshit. I've been using Yahoo mail as my primary personal account for years, and have no complaints whatsoever. The spam filters work very well, and I don't get much anyway, so they clearly aren't passing my address around. All I've had to do is uncheck all the marketing preferences the two times they've tried to change them. And they send an alert mail when they do that.
This is completely unlike, say, Hotmail, where spam levels magically, and quickly, rise to insanity. Do a test--create a hotmail account and don't disclose it to anyone. You will get buckets of spam. Same test with Yahoo, you get no spam.
I have great respect for how Yahoo operates as a company in this environment. They aren't perfect, but they're good. Kudos to them for taking this new initiative.
-fister
PdaNet software was what made PCS Vision into something I can use. Just plug the Treo into hotsync cable and bingo, you have a mobile modem that's fast enough to be liveable. No bullsht with special wireless modem cards or any of that. Speed and latency is as described in the article, and this is actually my only connection at home, since I don't have a land line or broadband. It works damn fine on the road, too, no more Wayport charges for in-room net connection.
-fister
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Too scary for me...I never agreed and activated the service...took advantage of my 30day money-back guarantee also specified in that document. But then I found PdaNet for my Treo, and life is good.
-fister
I used Mathematica as a crutch. It helped me get an engineering degree without actually being able to do math...go figure. I'm with Cliff.
Whaddaya expect, it's a dumb show.
The Washington DC area has been experiencing lots of trouble after the switch from @home to att.net because these proxies haven't been configured right. There's some info on dslreports.com
Or rather, as the maker calls it, FRAM, for Ferroelectric RAM. www.ramtron.com. Only 256k right now, on a 0.5 micron process, but .35 and .25 micron is in the works and they expect the cost/density to become competitive with flash soon.
Just give them bogus info, who cares? And don't tell me all you privacy freaks aren't registering on any pr0n sites!
Timonium this summer was on July 29th, but man did it ever suck balls. The computer section (inside) was about like your usual marketpro show. The crappy weather must have kept the cool hardcore electronics guys/gals away from the parking lot swapmeet 'cause most of the stuff was super lame. Kinda like "My wife made me clean out the attic."
--fister
Except for the giant pool of magma forming underneath the pacific northwest, that could be a sign.
What you say!
Yo, that was 72lbs, not 27. Interestingly, over 50% of the total amount of Pu-238 in our biosphere was delivered by a RTG-powered satellite, Transit-5BN-3, that burned up on reentry after failing to achieve orbit in 1964. It was carrying only 1kg (2.2lbs) of Pu-238. Pu-238 has a 87.7yr half-life, so most of it is still here. There are HUNDREDS of pounds of radioactive material currently in orbit--leftover RTG fuel, which decays away relatively quickly, and spent nuclear reactor cores from Soviet spy satellites. Decaying orbits is a real issue--if you're worried about Iridium debris, consider what would happen if burning satellite crap was: a) radioactive dust that you will breathe, b) chunks of highly radioactive reactor parts.
i hate onigiri, especially when it's been sitting around for awhile and the fish is really stinky.
I use xfig all the time for flowcharts and dataflow graphs. It's a little weird at first because it takes some experimentation to learn what does what, but it's easy and fast once you're comfortable with it.