"Want To Bet?" You forgot something important - The consumer has a vote. I'm going to whoever has good material that meets my needs. If the market goes dry, I'll work from sheet music, cd's, LP's, casettes, DVD's and reel to reel tape already collected. I don't have to have new music every year. If you choose not to meet that market, you loose as a supplier. Are you ready to cut yourself out of the market by closing the market? Have you noticed the market of USED? Goodwill gets $5 per CD. Used DVD's are $10 and up. Right of first sale is alive! If you cripple new material, existing material will only go up in value.
You are so right. It isn't just any landmarks that are used (counties, mountains etc.). The names are for the local rivers. Another naming that they use is for the campus names. They are named after the farm they used to be. When a farm gives way to technology and progress, Intel used the farm name so it lives on. This is how Jones Farm, Ronlar, Hawthorne Farm, Cornell Oaks, etc. got their names.
A verifiable example.. Use your favorite street maping program. Look where I-205 crosses the Columbia River at Portland Oregon. Compare it to where the bridge really is. Bombs guided by GPS would miss the bridge by about 1/8 mile. Most maps have it East of it's real location. It's fun to cross it with a maping GPS.
Wrong It may be true for a short while, that CD's can't be played on a computer, but when new CD standards come out, how long is it before the new CD players are out that support the "new standard"? If it wasn't against the law to make consumer VCR's that could handle Macrovision, players would be on the market advertising they could record and correct the video. Players will come out on the market unless someone makes a law against it. Check with your congressman.
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It is true the body attenuates the signal (blocks it), but on the ground, there is enough reflected signal to provide a weak signal from all birds in view most of the time. I seldom get a bird signal to drop out completely by body shielding. The only problem to the GPS is the EPE (estimated position error) increases somewhat, but position fix is not lost. This is how a GPS unit can be attached to the underside of a car to descretly monitor and track it's whereabouts. Try it! Put it under the trunk with a big magnet on your teens car and record the track. You will find out if he really went to the library. The signal is degraded, but present. A GPS does work under a car and inside buildings near large windows.
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Because the GPS needs to see a constelation of satelites, the antenna is not very directional. Pointing it does very little on most units. Try it with your handheld GPS. Mine works fine upside down.
I don't buy anything I see in an ad. If there is a concept or product for sale that does interest me, I search the competition. Case in point; I have gotten lots of spam and some ads for ink jet refills and supplies. The idea of saving money interested me. The dealer that got my business is not anybody that had a banner ad or ever direct marketed me. A google search turned up a reputable supplier that was in business many years. They have a wide selection of supplies. They have all prices listed online. They have refill instructions online by brand of printer. No secrets here. They are not restricted to just a cheap kit good for 2 or 3 refills. They sell bulk ink in up to a 55 gallon drum. They are in the business! I tried a pint and was happy with the result. With a student using the computer, that pint is now finished. I just received my second order. I decided to try some of the color ink this time. With the large capacity color cartriges for the HP1000 photo printer priced at over $50 each, the 3 half pints of color ink cost less than a pair of color cartridges. I haven't been able to tell any difference printing photos. They earned a larger order.
No brands are mentioned here as I don't want to be knocked for spamming slashdot. I'm not. It's a concept in shopping and a note to advertisers. Put your product online. Be competitive. Let consumers find you. (Hey X10, how does your product stand in the reviews of wireless cameras?) Smart shoppers do the homework.
If I had to pay $50 per year for every and any news online rag I visited, my house payment would be less. The problem with subscriptions is it channels people into a single news bias. I don't subscribe to Salon, NY Times, The Register, The Tribune, Slashdot, CNN, Yahoo, Rush Limbaugh, Tom's Hardware, Consumer Reports,.... for a reason. I don't want any single source. I like to compare stories and reviews. I'll take the ads for sites I visit once in a while. If the info has too many hoops to go through to get there, then I don't visit. Case in point is NY times. I wait for the stuff to be posted here instead.
Why would they even be posted on e-bay where lots of personal information has to be given out. The sites with less public traffic is usualy sought out when hiding information to reduce the number of chance discoveries. All two parties need is a mutual place to check in. Some personal obscure "My vacation pictures of Alabama" on My-Yahoo may be a better place to look.
I think the products should come with an expiration date, just like my milk. People who bought for a 4 year cycle were not properly notified that the software would expire that quickly.
What a great reason to start writing good software. Software authors are about to be able to get back into the market as people start to look for replacements. Star Office and Word Perfect should be getting their next release polished up for the Christmas Season. It's going to be a good season.
Due to the dual hazard of water at lower levels and no oxygen,leaves the safest way in is from the top. Material is removed layer by layer. Stories I have seen relating to both these problems have been covered in the media. Fires that flare up when a passage is opened indicates a smoldering oxygen starved fire. The subway tunnel under the trade center was sandbagged and pumping started indicates to me the lower portion of the basement is flooded up to or past the subway tunnels. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/23/172024 2&mode=thread for flooding info.
It's pointless to sell music in non-standard formats. This may keep many of my peers from playing it. I'll hear it's not usable on my equipment. Even as a freebie given away for nothing, I will not be able to enjoy it. I won't get to know and like it. I'll have no reason to buy my own copy. Most of my music library I bought while in the service. I bought what others were playing that I liked and wanted to add to my collection. I still enjoy my collection even if half of it is on 12 inch records. I think they want to give away the single to see if the disc can be played by most of the people to see if the new standard will be adopted.
Thanks for the post that this artist supports broken formats.
We solved the right handed / left handed problem at home by using a PS2 mouse and a USB mouse. If you are a southpaw, find a nice mouse that isn't flavored either way and place it on the left. It's funny when we get visitors. They see two mice and think it adds special functions, especialy if we feed them a line about moving with one mouse and shooting with the other in quake.
About the only place I use thinnet anymore is a dirt cheap (charity job) link between buildings. Most traffic in internal to each building (print jobs etc.) so the slow traffic on the link is not a problem for them. Lightning protection is easier on underground coax. Use a pair of cheap 10 base hubs with BNC uplink ports and use a lighning arrestor on both ends. This is located in the telco room so it is not subject to the cleaning lady. Connect each to a port on your switch in each building. I don't recommend pulling CAT5 between buildings on seprate power grounds. It is too hard to protect. I do recommend fiber between buildings if you can afford it even though it is also 10 meg link speed.
To get an ungrounded motherboard these days takes lots of work! First the power supply has to be ungrounded, the ports (ATX jack cluster) must not touch the case, Screws missing mounting the motherboard, and the video card etc. must not be touching the case. Roughly translated, to get an ungrounded motherboard, the entire PC must be ungrounded. Be sure the outlet is properly grounded and everything should be fine.
Wrong! Branching is predicting the outcome of a dice roll. If you predict the outcome of 10 rolls and get a correct prediction 90% of the time and have the next instructions calculated on the outcome, you are way ahead of the game. The old way is wait for the roll then act on the outcome. Having most of the likely outcomes predicted, and the next instructions lined up in the pipeline puts you way ahead in time when an outcome becomes known. That is the advantage of prediction. To predict all possible outcomes to all chance paths is not 100% acheivable. The unlikely outcomes are not predicted. For example, predicting the next keystroke from a user can be 90% that it is a single keypress and all instructions on that can be pipelined. However predicting that the next keystroke is going to be Ctrl-tab-F7 is a waste of time and would be part of the 10% not predicted. Don't expect 100% prediction.
One of the best uses was as a teletype emulator. It could do 45-90 baud, 5 bit, 1-1/2 stop bit code. It was great for Ham Radio field days. Didn't need to lug a big power hungry MOD 28 Teletype out into the woods.
Anyone else avoid anything on Geocities because you can't read the upper right corner of the article for a long time? I don't waste my time when looking for information waiting for the light to turn green. I take the first detour past the slow lights.
My wife is a student living at home (offcampus). We point a mail profile to the school POP. This would kill reading and replying to mail from the school mailbox. Same holds true for my Cayman Islands mailbox. Both do not have open relays as they are supposed to, so I can't sent mail with their servers. What good is getting mail that you can't reply to using the proper address? I don't want to go to the school just to reply to school mail, or worse, the Cayman Islands just to reply to mail. I don't want to give everyone at the school my local ISP mailbox. I'm keeping it spam free. The school account will close at the end of the year and all the varsity signup stuff will go away with it! With that restriction, I can't use Verison as a ISP. That kills one quarter of the usefullness. The reply to addresses in my mail are valid.
Microsoft just wants the hardware builders to build hardware and diddle with the code as needed to make the devices work better. They need to get the market from Palm any way possible. That is why any modified software for commercial use will require paying a Microsoft tax even if you re-wrote most of it yourself. It's to show the hardware developers, this is a neat modifiable OS that we can use in our new killer PDA. It's Marketshare and nothing more.
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"Want To Bet?" You forgot something important - The consumer has a vote. I'm going to whoever has good material that meets my needs. If the market goes dry, I'll work from sheet music, cd's, LP's, casettes, DVD's and reel to reel tape already collected. I don't have to have new music every year. If you choose not to meet that market, you loose as a supplier. Are you ready to cut yourself out of the market by closing the market? Have you noticed the market of USED? Goodwill gets $5 per CD. Used DVD's are $10 and up. Right of first sale is alive! If you cripple new material, existing material will only go up in value.
You are so right. It isn't just any landmarks that are used (counties, mountains etc.). The names are for the local rivers. Another naming that they use is for the campus names. They are named after the farm they used to be. When a farm gives way to technology and progress, Intel used the farm name so it lives on. This is how Jones Farm, Ronlar, Hawthorne Farm, Cornell Oaks, etc. got their names.
A verifiable example.. Use your favorite street maping program. Look where I-205 crosses the Columbia River at Portland Oregon. Compare it to where the bridge really is. Bombs guided by GPS would miss the bridge by about 1/8 mile. Most maps have it East of it's real location. It's fun to cross it with a maping GPS.
How many people touch paint to see if the wet paint sign is correct. How many geeks will buy the CD just to see if it can't be copied?
Wrong It may be true for a short while, that CD's can't be played on a computer, but when new CD standards come out, how long is it before the new CD players are out that support the "new standard"? If it wasn't against the law to make consumer VCR's that could handle Macrovision, players would be on the market advertising they could record and correct the video. Players will come out on the market unless someone makes a law against it. Check with your congressman.
It is true the body attenuates the signal (blocks it), but on the ground, there is enough reflected signal to provide a weak signal from all birds in view most of the time. I seldom get a bird signal to drop out completely by body shielding. The only problem to the GPS is the EPE (estimated position error) increases somewhat, but position fix is not lost. This is how a GPS unit can be attached to the underside of a car to descretly monitor and track it's whereabouts. Try it! Put it under the trunk with a big magnet on your teens car and record the track. You will find out if he really went to the library. The signal is degraded, but present. A GPS does work under a car and inside buildings near large windows.
Because the GPS needs to see a constelation of satelites, the antenna is not very directional. Pointing it does very little on most units. Try it with your handheld GPS. Mine works fine upside down.
No brands are mentioned here as I don't want to be knocked for spamming slashdot. I'm not. It's a concept in shopping and a note to advertisers. Put your product online. Be competitive. Let consumers find you. (Hey X10, how does your product stand in the reviews of wireless cameras?) Smart shoppers do the homework.
If I had to pay $50 per year for every and any news online rag I visited, my house payment would be less. The problem with subscriptions is it channels people into a single news bias. I don't subscribe to Salon, NY Times, The Register, The Tribune, Slashdot, CNN, Yahoo, Rush Limbaugh, Tom's Hardware, Consumer Reports,.... for a reason. I don't want any single source. I like to compare stories and reviews. I'll take the ads for sites I visit once in a while. If the info has too many hoops to go through to get there, then I don't visit. Case in point is NY times. I wait for the stuff to be posted here instead.
Why would they even be posted on e-bay where lots of personal information has to be given out. The sites with less public traffic is usualy sought out when hiding information to reduce the number of chance discoveries. All two parties need is a mutual place to check in. Some personal obscure "My vacation pictures of Alabama" on My-Yahoo may be a better place to look.
I think the products should come with an expiration date, just like my milk. People who bought for a 4 year cycle were not properly notified that the software would expire that quickly.
What a great reason to start writing good software. Software authors are about to be able to get back into the market as people start to look for replacements. Star Office and Word Perfect should be getting their next release polished up for the Christmas Season. It's going to be a good season.
Due to the dual hazard of water at lower levels and no oxygen,leaves the safest way in is from the top. Material is removed layer by layer. Stories I have seen relating to both these problems have been covered in the media. Fires that flare up when a passage is opened indicates a smoldering oxygen starved fire. The subway tunnel under the trade center was sandbagged and pumping started indicates to me the lower portion of the basement is flooded up to or past the subway tunnels. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/23/172024 2&mode=thread for flooding info.
Find any of your grandparents old bibles that was published before 1950 or any old sea story literature regarding nighttime navigation..
Thanks for the post that this artist supports broken formats.
Great... now I'll have something else about the house I have to worry about catching some strange new virus and keep vaccinated on a regular basis.
We solved the right handed / left handed problem at home by using a PS2 mouse and a USB mouse. If you are a southpaw, find a nice mouse that isn't flavored either way and place it on the left. It's funny when we get visitors. They see two mice and think it adds special functions, especialy if we feed them a line about moving with one mouse and shooting with the other in quake.
About the only place I use thinnet anymore is a dirt cheap (charity job) link between buildings. Most traffic in internal to each building (print jobs etc.) so the slow traffic on the link is not a problem for them. Lightning protection is easier on underground coax. Use a pair of cheap 10 base hubs with BNC uplink ports and use a lighning arrestor on both ends. This is located in the telco room so it is not subject to the cleaning lady. Connect each to a port on your switch in each building. I don't recommend pulling CAT5 between buildings on seprate power grounds. It is too hard to protect. I do recommend fiber between buildings if you can afford it even though it is also 10 meg link speed.
To get an ungrounded motherboard these days takes lots of work! First the power supply has to be ungrounded, the ports (ATX jack cluster) must not touch the case, Screws missing mounting the motherboard, and the video card etc. must not be touching the case. Roughly translated, to get an ungrounded motherboard, the entire PC must be ungrounded. Be sure the outlet is properly grounded and everything should be fine.
Wrong! Branching is predicting the outcome of a dice roll. If you predict the outcome of 10 rolls and get a correct prediction 90% of the time and have the next instructions calculated on the outcome, you are way ahead of the game. The old way is wait for the roll then act on the outcome. Having most of the likely outcomes predicted, and the next instructions lined up in the pipeline puts you way ahead in time when an outcome becomes known. That is the advantage of prediction. To predict all possible outcomes to all chance paths is not 100% acheivable. The unlikely outcomes are not predicted. For example, predicting the next keystroke from a user can be 90% that it is a single keypress and all instructions on that can be pipelined. However predicting that the next keystroke is going to be Ctrl-tab-F7 is a waste of time and would be part of the 10% not predicted. Don't expect 100% prediction.
One of the best uses was as a teletype emulator. It could do 45-90 baud, 5 bit, 1-1/2 stop bit code. It was great for Ham Radio field days. Didn't need to lug a big power hungry MOD 28 Teletype out into the woods.
Sorry for the unclear wording... I tried to say they have it right by being closed, which is the way it belongs.
Anyone else avoid anything on Geocities because you can't read the upper right corner of the article for a long time? I don't waste my time when looking for information waiting for the light to turn green. I take the first detour past the slow lights.
My wife is a student living at home (offcampus). We point a mail profile to the school POP. This would kill reading and replying to mail from the school mailbox. Same holds true for my Cayman Islands mailbox. Both do not have open relays as they are supposed to, so I can't sent mail with their servers. What good is getting mail that you can't reply to using the proper address? I don't want to go to the school just to reply to school mail, or worse, the Cayman Islands just to reply to mail. I don't want to give everyone at the school my local ISP mailbox. I'm keeping it spam free. The school account will close at the end of the year and all the varsity signup stuff will go away with it! With that restriction, I can't use Verison as a ISP. That kills one quarter of the usefullness. The reply to addresses in my mail are valid.
Microsoft just wants the hardware builders to build hardware and diddle with the code as needed to make the devices work better. They need to get the market from Palm any way possible. That is why any modified software for commercial use will require paying a Microsoft tax even if you re-wrote most of it yourself. It's to show the hardware developers, this is a neat modifiable OS that we can use in our new killer PDA. It's Marketshare and nothing more.