Why can't they make a phone with all the features, except for the camera? I know others have said something about this, but it's a market that absolutely no one has tapped yet. There are many people who work for companies that require them to be in places that do not allow cameras, and much of the time, those people cannot be without their phones because of their job. So, instead, they all end up with crappy phones that don't have features that business users like (bluetooth, gprs, task manager, calendar, etc).
All I want is a "business-class" phone that has the following features: - Small, but big enough to have a battery that offers at least 7 or 8 hours of talk time. - no friggin camera, maybe a separate camera attachment would be ok, like the old T68. That would solve many problems. - Bluetooth for syncing and wireless tethers in areas without a network connection. - huge storage for addressbook data. My k700i holds 510 numbers, and it's almost full. I need somthing that holds more. - decent calendar and task manager. - free development kit so bored people can write "killer apps" for the phone. There is nothing good out there for java phones now, except games. - GSM 800/900/1800/1900 (yes, all 4 bands) - an extremely sensitive antenna. I can't help but think most manufacturers are just slapping an antenna in there that's "good enough". Antenna tech is crazy, someone should be able to come up with something. Even if there's a port on the top to plug in an external nub antenna for areas with poor reception, that would be acceptable.
Oh, and to make it appealing to the businessy types, make the case out of metal, and use a sapphire crystal for the screen. My screen gets scratched after just a few days in my pocket. Think swiss watch.
It will probably never happen, but, it's a thought.
It is compatible with iSync. You just have to add the phone a certain way. There are instructions out there. I have the K700i, and it works fine with iSync. Haven't tried sailing clicker yet, but it works with that other GPL'd one (forgot the name).
There's probably a happy medium in there somewhere where aerodynamics aren't as much of an issue, but it's still in a range high enough on the torque curve to get decent mileage.
I drove my old DSM at about 130mph for about 4 hours straight, and I had to stop for gas 4 times (this was back when montana had no speed limit). I was getting about 10mpg, when I normally got around 20. At 130 in 5th, it was definitely approaching or at the top of the torque curve. I assume it was air resistance that was making me get poor mileage.
If they have their own IP space, then it makes a little more sense, but the provider could still advertise that for them, and the way this post was written implied that they had just gotten it for redundancy.
But, I still do not see where you're coming from. I disagree. If you have 2 t-1's to a single provider, the same IP space is being serviced across both T-1's, tell me exactly how BGP benefits you? Ideally you would bond these T-1's anyway to get a fatter pipe, so they would act as one link. But even if you didn't, you can load balance across them anyway. The only routes that are really involved with this setup is a couple of static routes, and most ISP's actually prefer to set it up this way.
I've been doing this stuff for over 6 years, and I don't see any benefit to what he's doing.
Both your T-1's go to the same ISP? Why are you running BGP then? You aren't gaining anything from this except for added complexity. If you're going to continue with this setup, drop the BGP and bond the T-1's together.
The only reason you would want to run BGP is if you had separate links to different ISPs. This is the best way to do it when going for added redundancy. Then if one ISP has a problem, your routes only get propagated out the other link. Keep in mind that you will probably have to play around with as-path prepending and some other things to balance your traffic properly when you do this. And keep in mind that if your total bandwidth exceeds that of one T-1, when one of them does fail, you are going to saturate the other one. If you make sure you get enough bandwidth to prevent this from happening, you won't need to play around with balancing the traffic so much either.
There are a couple of companies out there that make BGP load balancing devices that will look at the load on each of your links, and make modifications accordingly. I've never used one, and have no idea how well they work. F5 I think makes one, and there was another I looked at awhile back that cost $8k or so, but I forgot the name of it now.
But, bottom line, BGP over 2 links to the same ISP is pointless unless you have a separate path to another ISP somewhere.
I saw a 140W water-cooled CO2 laser that sold on ebay for just over $300. If you could manage to make that portable, it would be about as realistic as it gets.
And, even better, it gives you real incentive to avoid getting shot.
In reading the comments for this story, I came up with a brilliant idea. Scientists are current working on ways to come in contact with the water under europa's surface. Seems like if we started a rumor that it was filled with a colony of little boys, we could watch the catholic church launch an expedition with Michael Jackson as captain. Then we, as humans, are guaranteed to come in contact with it and be able to have them take samples.
However, I would be kind of scared to let them go, because, what if they meet up with some aliens? What if the aliens are cute and 4 feet tall? I guess it serves them right for giving US anal probes for the last few thousand years.
I read an idea awhile back about making GPS receivers that could tune to the different frequencies of pulsars and use those to figure location.
The theory behind it is that the pulses are very accurately predictable, and that they could be used just like the clock pulses coming from GPS satellites. Why not develop something like this instead of spending a ton of money to put up a new satellite network.
I realize the satellite network could be used for other things also, but if they are looking for coordinate data, the pulsars are already there and all that would be needed would be to design a receiver.
Those computer readings are normally not very accurate. I have an S4, and it claims that I average about 25mpg per tank (I reset it between refills), but it's more like 22. There's a number you can change in the ECU which will scale it differently potentially making it closer.
The way those work is measuring the fuel injector pulse width to figure out how much fuel it has dumped in over the last x number of feet (100 in my case). If your injectors are dirty, or if you run "non-standard" code on your ECU, or even if your fuel pressure isn't what the ECU assumes, it will be off.
"By using smart spacecraft, we won't miss short-term events such as floods, dust storms, and volcanic eruptions," Ip said. "Finally, instead of sifting through thousands of images, I can actually get some sleep at night, knowing that a smart robot is on alert twenty-four-seven."
Looks like they didn't realize they just outsourced themselves to space.
If drugs come out to block this protein, of course it's going to be abused by people.
I forget what it's called now, but there is a condition where your heart can grow too big inside your chest, and your ribcage and organs press on it and cause all sorts of problems. People who take steroids are susceptible to this condition.
I'm fairly active, and I used to take creatine before workouts. I started having chest pain and went to the doctor, and he was telling me that could be the problem, especially since I was using creatine. An X-ray showed I was fine, but it does happen to people, and I would think the abscence of this protein would surely make one more likely to have the problem.
If a registry is ever created, it cannot be a list that people can download. It needs to be a query system that gets fed an address or list of addresses, and returns whether or not each one is on the list.
Otherwise we'll just have spammers downloading the list and using that.
And even though they are not blocking port 25 for me, I've found that if I send from their network, a good portion of my email bounces because a lot of companies have all of comcast's network blacklisted.
I now relay my mail through another server and have no problems.
Simon Singh wrote a couple of books. One is Fermat's Enigma, which is a very entertaining story about how Fermat's Last Theorem was proven. It actually sounds quite boring, but after the first couple of pages, you can't put it down. Even my girlfriend at the time liked it, and she hates math/science/technology.
He also wrote The Code Book, which is basically a walkthrough of encryption over the last few hundred years, how methods were designed, and how they were broken. A good portion of the book is spent on the Enigma cipher from WWII and all of the shenanigans that went on for us to crack it.
They are probably checking for the non-standard id3 tag info which lists the account it was purchased under. The old version of Hymn didn't put that in, but the new one does.
The people still able to play are probably playing files de-drm'd with the older version. If you grab the new version of Hymn, just try ripping out the portion of code that inserts that tag in the new file and I bet it will work just fine.
I've purchased much more music since Hymn came out because now I can play it on my linux box at work without having to burn cd's or do a lossy->lossy conversion.
If iTunes sees it as an audio device, it's very likely the system sees it as an audio output device also, similar to how my USB headset shows up as an audio output device.
If this is the case, you should be able to tell the DVD player app to output the sound to that thing.
After a recent story about Meccano (like the Erector set), I did some searching and found numerous sites which had Meccano clocks. One of the sites mentioned a modified escapement to make a Reifler clock, which is one of the most accurate mechanical clocks. If anyone finds any plans or kits to make a clock like this in Meccano, please post links. One of these would make a great addition to my desk.
I used to work for Travelers Express/Moneygram. They are like Western Union. For some of our money transfer stations in Africa and places where local phone service/long distance was too expensive, we got these things that looked like laptops. The part that looked like a screen was a satellite panel. You opened it up to the right angle and rotated the unit so it pointed at the satellite.
They cost something like $100 a month for 10MB of data. Charged by the K after that. I'm not 100% sure on the speed either, but if your priority is email, that doesn't matter a whole lot unless you are sending pics. I think the speed was pretty decent though.
Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember who made them or where we got service from. They were useless in the US because the satellite they point at was over the other hemisphere.
It's not phone service either, it was an internet connection.
I wish they had tested the PQI Intelligent Stick. It's the smallest drive around and looks pretty sweet. Pricing isn't bad either if you look on Froogle.
I guess I could always pick one up and return it if it sucks. But really, how much could it possibly suck as long as it works? I can't imagine I'm going to get horrible transfer speeds with it.
There is no mac equivalent to ActiveX. Which is good. There is Java, but as far as I know, the security with Java is fairly good.
I'd like to argue that because OSX is just a unix system it's inherently more secure than a windows box, but I don't think it necessarily is as far as malware companies getting stuff installed to spy on users/etc. A lot of this installing is done by trickery. If you try to install something outside of your home directory, the mac asks you nicely for your password, most people will probably just type it in. Not to mention the recent URL handler exploits for the mac that just became public knowledge...
I think I mentioned in my parent post that it's just a matter of time. It's just a matter of time for linux spyware also (Blasphemy!). Once someone makes linux as easy as a mac, we'll have plenty of clueless linux users with spyware and backdoor filled machines.
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Everyone knows Visicalc does not run on the C64. Maybe they should have looked that up before popping in a new tape.
Why can't they make a phone with all the features, except for the camera? I know others have said something about this, but it's a market that absolutely no one has tapped yet. There are many people who work for companies that require them to be in places that do not allow cameras, and much of the time, those people cannot be without their phones because of their job. So, instead, they all end up with crappy phones that don't have features that business users like (bluetooth, gprs, task manager, calendar, etc).
All I want is a "business-class" phone that has the following features:
- Small, but big enough to have a battery that offers at least 7 or 8 hours of talk time.
- no friggin camera, maybe a separate camera attachment would be ok, like the old T68. That would solve many problems.
- Bluetooth for syncing and wireless tethers in areas without a network connection.
- huge storage for addressbook data. My k700i holds 510 numbers, and it's almost full. I need somthing that holds more.
- decent calendar and task manager.
- free development kit so bored people can write "killer apps" for the phone. There is nothing good out there for java phones now, except games.
- GSM 800/900/1800/1900 (yes, all 4 bands)
- an extremely sensitive antenna. I can't help but think most manufacturers are just slapping an antenna in there that's "good enough". Antenna tech is crazy, someone should be able to come up with something. Even if there's a port on the top to plug in an external nub antenna for areas with poor reception, that would be acceptable.
Oh, and to make it appealing to the businessy types, make the case out of metal, and use a sapphire crystal for the screen. My screen gets scratched after just a few days in my pocket. Think swiss watch.
It will probably never happen, but, it's a thought.
It is compatible with iSync. You just have to add the phone a certain way. There are instructions out there. I have the K700i, and it works fine with iSync. Haven't tried sailing clicker yet, but it works with that other GPL'd one (forgot the name).
There's probably a happy medium in there somewhere where aerodynamics aren't as much of an issue, but it's still in a range high enough on the torque curve to get decent mileage.
I drove my old DSM at about 130mph for about 4 hours straight, and I had to stop for gas 4 times (this was back when montana had no speed limit). I was getting about 10mpg, when I normally got around 20. At 130 in 5th, it was definitely approaching or at the top of the torque curve. I assume it was air resistance that was making me get poor mileage.
If they have their own IP space, then it makes a little more sense, but the provider could still advertise that for them, and the way this post was written implied that they had just gotten it for redundancy.
But, I still do not see where you're coming from. I disagree. If you have 2 t-1's to a single provider, the same IP space is being serviced across both T-1's, tell me exactly how BGP benefits you? Ideally you would bond these T-1's anyway to get a fatter pipe, so they would act as one link. But even if you didn't, you can load balance across them anyway. The only routes that are really involved with this setup is a couple of static routes, and most ISP's actually prefer to set it up this way.
I've been doing this stuff for over 6 years, and I don't see any benefit to what he's doing.
So, just a second...
Both your T-1's go to the same ISP? Why are you running BGP then? You aren't gaining anything from this except for added complexity. If you're going to continue with this setup, drop the BGP and bond the T-1's together.
The only reason you would want to run BGP is if you had separate links to different ISPs. This is the best way to do it when going for added redundancy. Then if one ISP has a problem, your routes only get propagated out the other link. Keep in mind that you will probably have to play around with as-path prepending and some other things to balance your traffic properly when you do this. And keep in mind that if your total bandwidth exceeds that of one T-1, when one of them does fail, you are going to saturate the other one. If you make sure you get enough bandwidth to prevent this from happening, you won't need to play around with balancing the traffic so much either.
There are a couple of companies out there that make BGP load balancing devices that will look at the load on each of your links, and make modifications accordingly. I've never used one, and have no idea how well they work. F5 I think makes one, and there was another I looked at awhile back that cost $8k or so, but I forgot the name of it now.
But, bottom line, BGP over 2 links to the same ISP is pointless unless you have a separate path to another ISP somewhere.
I saw a 140W water-cooled CO2 laser that sold on ebay for just over $300. If you could manage to make that portable, it would be about as realistic as it gets.
And, even better, it gives you real incentive to avoid getting shot.
In reading the comments for this story, I came up with a brilliant idea. Scientists are current working on ways to come in contact with the water under europa's surface. Seems like if we started a rumor that it was filled with a colony of little boys, we could watch the catholic church launch an expedition with Michael Jackson as captain. Then we, as humans, are guaranteed to come in contact with it and be able to have them take samples.
However, I would be kind of scared to let them go, because, what if they meet up with some aliens? What if the aliens are cute and 4 feet tall? I guess it serves them right for giving US anal probes for the last few thousand years.
I read an idea awhile back about making GPS receivers that could tune to the different frequencies of pulsars and use those to figure location.
The theory behind it is that the pulses are very accurately predictable, and that they could be used just like the clock pulses coming from GPS satellites. Why not develop something like this instead of spending a ton of money to put up a new satellite network.
I realize the satellite network could be used for other things also, but if they are looking for coordinate data, the pulsars are already there and all that would be needed would be to design a receiver.
Those computer readings are normally not very accurate. I have an S4, and it claims that I average about 25mpg per tank (I reset it between refills), but it's more like 22. There's a number you can change in the ECU which will scale it differently potentially making it closer.
The way those work is measuring the fuel injector pulse width to figure out how much fuel it has dumped in over the last x number of feet (100 in my case). If your injectors are dirty, or if you run "non-standard" code on your ECU, or even if your fuel pressure isn't what the ECU assumes, it will be off.
"By using smart spacecraft, we won't miss short-term events such as floods, dust storms, and volcanic eruptions," Ip said. "Finally, instead of sifting through thousands of images, I can actually get some sleep at night, knowing that a smart robot is on alert twenty-four-seven."
Looks like they didn't realize they just outsourced themselves to space.
I didn't mean to imply that creatine is a steroid... though it may have came off that way.
My point is, that when using something that helps build muscle, it increases the risk of the condition that I mentioned above.
At $11k per violation, assuming all of those are legit, that's over $4 billion in fines. Hopefully they stick it to 'em.
If drugs come out to block this protein, of course it's going to be abused by people.
I forget what it's called now, but there is a condition where your heart can grow too big inside your chest, and your ribcage and organs press on it and cause all sorts of problems. People who take steroids are susceptible to this condition.
I'm fairly active, and I used to take creatine before workouts. I started having chest pain and went to the doctor, and he was telling me that could be the problem, especially since I was using creatine. An X-ray showed I was fine, but it does happen to people, and I would think the abscence of this protein would surely make one more likely to have the problem.
If a registry is ever created, it cannot be a list that people can download. It needs to be a query system that gets fed an address or list of addresses, and returns whether or not each one is on the list.
Otherwise we'll just have spammers downloading the list and using that.
And even though they are not blocking port 25 for me, I've found that if I send from their network, a good portion of my email bounces because a lot of companies have all of comcast's network blacklisted.
I now relay my mail through another server and have no problems.
Simon Singh wrote a couple of books. One is Fermat's Enigma, which is a very entertaining story about how Fermat's Last Theorem was proven. It actually sounds quite boring, but after the first couple of pages, you can't put it down. Even my girlfriend at the time liked it, and she hates math/science/technology.
He also wrote The Code Book, which is basically a walkthrough of encryption over the last few hundred years, how methods were designed, and how they were broken. A good portion of the book is spent on the Enigma cipher from WWII and all of the shenanigans that went on for us to crack it.
Probably never. Why would they make a competing unix platform more apple-like? They have a ton of unix geeks buying macs now.
The only reason it's available for windows is because of the huge marketshare.
They are probably checking for the non-standard id3 tag info which lists the account it was purchased under. The old version of Hymn didn't put that in, but the new one does.
The people still able to play are probably playing files de-drm'd with the older version. If you grab the new version of Hymn, just try ripping out the portion of code that inserts that tag in the new file and I bet it will work just fine.
I've purchased much more music since Hymn came out because now I can play it on my linux box at work without having to burn cd's or do a lossy->lossy conversion.
I have no swap partition.
If iTunes sees it as an audio device, it's very likely the system sees it as an audio output device also, similar to how my USB headset shows up as an audio output device.
If this is the case, you should be able to tell the DVD player app to output the sound to that thing.
After a recent story about Meccano (like the Erector set), I did some searching and found numerous sites which had Meccano clocks. One of the sites mentioned a modified escapement to make a Reifler clock, which is one of the most accurate mechanical clocks. If anyone finds any plans or kits to make a clock like this in Meccano, please post links. One of these would make a great addition to my desk.
If I could only remember where we got it...
I used to work for Travelers Express/Moneygram. They are like Western Union. For some of our money transfer stations in Africa and places where local phone service/long distance was too expensive, we got these things that looked like laptops. The part that looked like a screen was a satellite panel. You opened it up to the right angle and rotated the unit so it pointed at the satellite.
They cost something like $100 a month for 10MB of data. Charged by the K after that. I'm not 100% sure on the speed either, but if your priority is email, that doesn't matter a whole lot unless you are sending pics. I think the speed was pretty decent though.
Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember who made them or where we got service from. They were useless in the US because the satellite they point at was over the other hemisphere.
It's not phone service either, it was an internet connection.
I wish they had tested the PQI Intelligent Stick. It's the smallest drive around and looks pretty sweet. Pricing isn't bad either if you look on Froogle.
I guess I could always pick one up and return it if it sucks. But really, how much could it possibly suck as long as it works? I can't imagine I'm going to get horrible transfer speeds with it.
There is no mac equivalent to ActiveX. Which is good. There is Java, but as far as I know, the security with Java is fairly good.
I'd like to argue that because OSX is just a unix system it's inherently more secure than a windows box, but I don't think it necessarily is as far as malware companies getting stuff installed to spy on users/etc. A lot of this installing is done by trickery. If you try to install something outside of your home directory, the mac asks you nicely for your password, most people will probably just type it in. Not to mention the recent URL handler exploits for the mac that just became public knowledge...
I think I mentioned in my parent post that it's just a matter of time. It's just a matter of time for linux spyware also (Blasphemy!). Once someone makes linux as easy as a mac, we'll have plenty of clueless linux users with spyware and backdoor filled machines.