No, glass isn't overrated, but often overnecessary. We ran a backbone for at a college on copper and were already going what some consutant told us we could only do on fiber.
A friend from HS has worked for a number of companies on products to get the most out of copper and another friend works for Pacbell and says, basically, the closer you live to the switch, the faster you can go. Not good news for rural folk, but copper is actually already pretty fast with the technology that can squeeze more out of it without the massive expense of running glass into everyone's house.
Why geek food is he way it is? It's not just fast, it's FAST and SIMPLE, because time spent fiddling around with it is time away from the project/keyboard/mouse/monitor/online/pr0n/slashdo t, whatever.
Who needs 51 pages? Old family recipe for Romulan Noodles:
Crush noodles before opening packet (unless you like them dripping all over your close/keyboard)
Fill bowl, dish or whatever works in microwave with warm water
Add spice packet and nuke water a minute or so on high
(add frozen vegetables and maybe a crushed hot pepper if you're a gourmand)
Add noodles
Nuke until just boiling
For those who can't take MSG (gives me splitting headaches, shouldn't this stuff be printed with a Surgeon General type warning?), Taste of Thai (Thai kitchen has some cool little packets of rice noodles in various flavors with no MSG)
Other than that, sugar and caffeine make the world go 'round.
In my dad's basement I have an old calculator with about 11 of those tiny nixies. Something to remember next time I fly back for a visit.
Projects already on the back burner:
Dynakit STA-35 amp
Pioneer vacuum tube receiver (needs some small caps replaced)
Still enjoy my old Ampeg V7 tube amp, too. Digital circuits seem to take extreme proportions to replicate the functions of the simplest old analog circuits. Not alway for the better, either.
I've watched very little TV over the past 5 years, and when I do watch I don't think much of it. Certainly very little to urge me to plan to watch anything regularly. But there are things, like the Tour de France, which come out on video tape for an arm and leg and are only a fraction of the coverage that I'd prefer to capture the whole thing off OLN so I can watch again later. So there's some attraction.
Oh, and if you want to watch the Superbowl and Fear factor with the Playmates, you can get a couple VCRs or have one of these things.;)
most people are generally too friggin' stupid to understand how to set their VCR clocks.
Already an old joke is that only a 10 year old can figure out how to program/properly operate a VCR. But I do sympathize to some degree, because I've got so many gadgets I tend to steer clear of anything for home entertainment that requires reading a manual. ("Wow! 48 buttons and 3 digital displays! Uh... how do you turn it on?")
My 2 year old Sony Vaio 505 TX fits that model. Nice LCD back-lit display, 300MHz Pentium and what I'd condsider the worlds slowest system bus.
While the site is already slashotted, I consider Laptop computers to be incredibly awkward already, having tried to use mine in a variety of locations (plane, sitting in truck (not driving), sitting in restaraunts, lying in bed or sleeping bag.)
What I'd like to see is a laptop that can seperate the keyboard, main unit and monitor (have a little folding stand come out of the bottom maybe. So I could rest the keyboard in my lap, prop the monitor up somewhere (or hang it!) and find a convenient spot to set the main unit. I expect the keyboard could maintain contact with lowpower RF or infrared and have it's own battery. The display and main unit would still require some sort of umbilical cord for power and signal (particularly since monitors consume quite a bit of power themselves.)
It's a thought anyway. Takers? BTW, since I've tossed this idea out anyone who tries to patent it better think very hard about sending me a few of these units for free or I'll dredge this posting up and be a general pain;)
"She's got something against Microsoft, Intel, the Dee-Emm-See-Aye, stupidly awarded patents."
"Yeah, sounds like a radical alright, anything else?"
"She loves something called Linux, processors from a company called Aye-Emm-Dee, and open source something or other."
"Damn, sounds like one to monitor carefully."
"Oh, and she reads something called Slash-Dot."
"!!!"
Klaxons blare, national guard soldiers flood the concourse, passengers witness a woman dragged away in irons with the needles of many stunguns still embedded in her arms and legs.
Yeah, good thing we have people like Ashcroft looking out for us... excuse me, time to feed the pitbulls.
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It's a shame that they are porters first and foremost, though.
Which shouldn't count against them at all. Back in the day that wasn't uncommon, now that game shops are made up of teams, rather than individuals, it's more to their favor.
On a good note, the economy _is_ starting to pick up. Hopefully that means positions are, or become available.
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It isn't the burn rate that kills, it's when they find out they aren't getting anymore credit. Given an unlimited amount of credit (i.e. Enron) they could have gone on for years longer, and perhaps held on to the point where a large enough market had developed.
Now those poor folks will have to go develope games for PS2, GameCube and XBox.
Perhaps the future, with regard to the previous article (Oracle jumping to Linux), the future would have been a Linux equivilent of nsnipes.
In other news, Tom Cruise attempts to apply political pressure on Germany to accept as a religion the business that is the CoS. Maybe when he's done being zapped by his Theton-O-Meter he'll switch religions and become a promoter of the Force as a Jedi trainee. If so, good luck with getting New Zealand to accept Jedi as an official religion.
I generally ignore these articles, because I don't run Linux on an x86 box. So Loki is a noted passing, but with little meaning to those, like me, who aren't buying boxes to play games on.
Microsoft Corp., Web banner ad giant DoubleClick, and a host of direct
marketers will announce their intent to begin using a technology created to help
consumers quickly distinguish between spam and valid e-mails from companies they trust.
Last night I thought about submitting the bit about IBM reviving the mainframe and, through the z Series, recovering their $1B investment in Linux and 12% growth in sales as companies consolidate server functions back to these babies, but figure it'd get canned, like the submission of the San Fran sidewalk advert bit. Nice return on $100,000 when you think about how much press and video it got in the Bay Area.
I'd love to insert the picture here, but it would be of a mangled tape. I don't think I've seen or heard of a DVD destroying a disk, yet. Know of one? Pass it along and I'll avoid the mfr. VHS is too problematic.
Hmm.. I know there are lots of dreamers and well wishers that there's friendly, intelligent life on other planets..., but I just had the thought...
What, if any, businesses are preparing to exploit that life, if possible. This shouldn't seem such a far out idea, after all, 500 years ago someone set sail with three ships across the Atlantic and look how ill-prepared they were for what they found.
Suppose M$/MSN has a plan to spread influence extraterrestrially?
Maybe if they'd do this with spam, they could put a dent in it by rounding up all the morons who fall for it and send them directions to free classes on how not to be a sap.
I'm sure, with all the money spent chasing down the scammers, an education program like this would slash the costs, and hopefully make spamming less attractive o-> with the desirable result, less spam! =-)
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A friend from HS has worked for a number of companies on products to get the most out of copper and another friend works for Pacbell and says, basically, the closer you live to the switch, the faster you can go. Not good news for rural folk, but copper is actually already pretty fast with the technology that can squeeze more out of it without the massive expense of running glass into everyone's house.
Why geek food is he way it is? It's not just fast, it's FAST and SIMPLE, because time spent fiddling around with it is time away from the project/keyboard/mouse/monitor/online/pr0n/slashdo t, whatever.
Crush noodles before opening packet (unless you like them dripping all over your close/keyboard)
Fill bowl, dish or whatever works in microwave with warm water
Add spice packet and nuke water a minute or so on high
(add frozen vegetables and maybe a crushed hot pepper if you're a gourmand)
Add noodles
Nuke until just boiling
For those who can't take MSG (gives me splitting headaches, shouldn't this stuff be printed with a Surgeon General type warning?), Taste of Thai (Thai kitchen has some cool little packets of rice noodles in various flavors with no MSG)
Other than that, sugar and caffeine make the world go 'round.
Projects already on the back burner:
Dynakit STA-35 amp
Pioneer vacuum tube receiver (needs some small caps replaced)
Still enjoy my old Ampeg V7 tube amp, too. Digital circuits seem to take extreme proportions to replicate the functions of the simplest old analog circuits. Not alway for the better, either.
Ugh. Britney Spears. Ecch.
Why not just watch the Playmates on Fear Factor instead?
Oh, and if you want to watch the Superbowl and Fear factor with the Playmates, you can get a couple VCRs or have one of these things. ;)
Already an old joke is that only a 10 year old can figure out how to program/properly operate a VCR. But I do sympathize to some degree, because I've got so many gadgets I tend to steer clear of anything for home entertainment that requires reading a manual. ("Wow! 48 buttons and 3 digital displays! Uh... how do you turn it on?")
While the site is already slashotted, I consider Laptop computers to be incredibly awkward already, having tried to use mine in a variety of locations (plane, sitting in truck (not driving), sitting in restaraunts, lying in bed or sleeping bag.)
What I'd like to see is a laptop that can seperate the keyboard, main unit and monitor (have a little folding stand come out of the bottom maybe. So I could rest the keyboard in my lap, prop the monitor up somewhere (or hang it!) and find a convenient spot to set the main unit. I expect the keyboard could maintain contact with lowpower RF or infrared and have it's own battery. The display and main unit would still require some sort of umbilical cord for power and signal (particularly since monitors consume quite a bit of power themselves.)
It's a thought anyway. Takers? BTW, since I've tossed this idea out anyone who tries to patent it better think very hard about sending me a few of these units for free or I'll dredge this posting up and be a general pain ;)
Because it's summer down there.
"This guy's imagining a beowulf cluster of everything in the newspaper he's carrying."
"He's safe."
"This one's surfing some goatse.cx thing on his PDA."
"He's safe. Just wear rubber gloves around him to be safe."
"This one's rambling on about second coming of the Trolls."
"He's safe."
"This one's trying to be first in every line, her name is 'Frist Pots'"
"Safe."
"What about this one who subscribes to all kinds of technical journals and offers insightful or informative information?"
"He's a danger to everyone around him! Take him out back and club him like a baby seal!"
"And this guy who calls himself CowboyNeal?"
"Put him at the end of every list you can find."
"She's got something against Microsoft, Intel, the Dee-Emm-See-Aye, stupidly awarded patents."
"Yeah, sounds like a radical alright, anything else?"
"She loves something called Linux, processors from a company called Aye-Emm-Dee, and open source something or other."
"Damn, sounds like one to monitor carefully."
"Oh, and she reads something called Slash-Dot."
"!!!"
Klaxons blare, national guard soldiers flood the concourse, passengers witness a woman dragged away in irons with the needles of many stunguns still embedded in her arms and legs.
Yeah, good thing we have people like Ashcroft looking out for us... excuse me, time to feed the pitbulls.
Which shouldn't count against them at all. Back in the day that wasn't uncommon, now that game shops are made up of teams, rather than individuals, it's more to their favor.
On a good note, the economy _is_ starting to pick up. Hopefully that means positions are, or become available.
Now those poor folks will have to go develope games for PS2, GameCube and XBox.
In other news, Tom Cruise attempts to apply political pressure on Germany to accept as a religion the business that is the CoS. Maybe when he's done being zapped by his Theton-O-Meter he'll switch religions and become a promoter of the Force as a Jedi trainee. If so, good luck with getting New Zealand to accept Jedi as an official religion.
I generally ignore these articles, because I don't run Linux on an x86 box. So Loki is a noted passing, but with little meaning to those, like me, who aren't buying boxes to play games on.
Posted by timothy on Thursday January 31, 2002 02:10PM A Loki Timeline
I hope that about covers it.
At least it's not another Enron
Problem is, I don't trust them!
Last night I thought about submitting the bit about IBM reviving the mainframe and, through the z Series, recovering their $1B investment in Linux and 12% growth in sales as companies consolidate server functions back to these babies, but figure it'd get canned, like the submission of the San Fran sidewalk advert bit. Nice return on $100,000 when you think about how much press and video it got in the Bay Area.
No JVM for this baby.
I'd love to insert the picture here, but it would be of a mangled tape. I don't think I've seen or heard of a DVD destroying a disk, yet. Know of one? Pass it along and I'll avoid the mfr. VHS is too problematic.
What, if any, businesses are preparing to exploit that life, if possible. This shouldn't seem such a far out idea, after all, 500 years ago someone set sail with three ships across the Atlantic and look how ill-prepared they were for what they found.
Suppose M$/MSN has a plan to spread influence extraterrestrially?
Shudder.
My tax dollars have been spent worse ways.
Darn. And I had a really big pile of zorkmids from my job as a papershuffler on Flood Control Dam #3 I was all set to send them.
I should send em my Bunny Munny, from Easter 3 years ago.
I'm sure, with all the money spent chasing down the scammers, an education program like this would slash the costs, and hopefully make spamming less attractive o-> with the desirable result, less spam! =-)