What's the fascination with uber-accuracy at home? Hell, I'm perfectly content with "about" accurate stuff. Kinda reminds me of weather forecasts. I remember when the weather forecast was "High in the upper 60's". If it was 46 or 70, no one complained. Now, it's "High today is 72" and people bitch when it reaches a sweltering 73.
For many services and uses, highly-accurate clocks have their place, but for every-day home use?
Back in 1993, I got my Ham license, N9ONL (I kinda liked the sound of "N-9-ONLine".) Anyway, I got a Technician license which had no code requirement, specifically to get into Packet Radio. I was fascinated by the prospect of connecting one computer wirelessly to another. Believe me, in those days, it was simply amazing!
Unfortunately, the Internet came along, and the mystique of Packet Radio waned. But still, connecting wirelessly to a local packet node in Chicago and then connecting through a "wormhole" (landline) to to the West Coast, and then hopping over to a connection at a university computer in Hilo Hawaii was a real trip. Nothing like waiting for the multiple hops to see responses to keyboard presses connected at 1200 baud.
Local Packet BBS traffic was also very fun. Posting and reading digital messages locally, from across the country, and from around the world was exciting and interesting. You could actually send messages to people overseas!
Or tracking the path of the Space Shuttle, waiting for it to come into range, and then actually seeing its Ham callsign and greeting scroll across my screen--very cool!
And sending a connect request signal up to a Ham-Sat satellite, and actually connecting to and interacting with the onboard BBS, if for only a brief few seconds!
Of course, the world has shrunken to a point where phone, IM, and text messaging can keep you in touch with anyone, just about anywhere. We take so much for granted.
I think the use of the term "game" may be misleading here. If the goal of the project was to provide fun and entertainment, then in this case, it appears to fail. But if the goal was to provide new tools and new ways of looking at data and systems, then maybe this shines? Just because something isn't fun doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Understand that for the $500, it will hold NOTHING, because out of the box, it comes with no drives. Your limitation on space is in how many drives you install (up to 4) and what capacity drives you install. Using their Drobolator page, you can see how capacity is affected by the number of drives and capacities. For example, installing 4 1TB drives gives you 3TB of protected storage.
I've read a LOT Drobo looks like an EXCELLENT choice, but there are two things to consider:
1. It isn't cheap at $499--without drives.
2. It is not a NAS as such. Drobo is a USB-attached external drive system. Yes, its volume(s) can be shared over a network, but it is not a standalone, network-connected device.
Now, if Drobo had a gigabit Ethernet connection, I would seriously consider saving up for one....
How about having the installer come with an option to create a "portable" version that would be runnable from a single folder such as on a USB Thumb Drive? As it stands, we either have to wait for the guys over at PortableApps.com to create a portable version, or we need to roll our own. I would think that it would be a snap for the installer to place all of the files in a single folder in a controlled and supported way.
I always struggled to focus through a microscope as a kid
Learning to focus and not snap the slide certainly was an annoying challenge, but I think it also taught me to be more careful and more precise in working with lab tools. I fear that these all-too-simple point-and-click devices, while certainly useful, may not teach children the have the proper respect and care that expensive tools really should have.
Unfortunately, it's not just Microsoft. Cable and Satellite providers have things so locked down that doing what *I* want with the HD content I pay for is simply out of the question. I use an HDHomeRun box in conjunction with SageTV, which will let me record both OTA and clear QAM HD channels over cable, but the offerings are limited, and it's certainly NOT a system for Joe Sixpack. While it is nice to be able to watch and record HD content, unless it's clear (unencrypted) you are out of luck. Cable, DirecTV, and Dish all provide varying degrees of "premium" HD content, but unless you lock yourself into a their HD-DVRs, again, you are out of luck. And even if you do use an HD-DVR from cable or satellite companies, don't even think of offloading the content.
The Democrats have requirements for candidates. One of those requirements is that the candidate's campaign be "viable". Since Colbert was only running in one state, his campaign was deemed to not be viable.
While technically correct, no one has even commented on the fact that he DID receive 3 of the 16 votes...almost 20%. Some would consider that pretty commendable.
Until Google develops to make it more compatible with Opera, you may want to either try the "Older version" link at the top of the page, or the "Basic HTML" link at the bottom. At least they're providing viable options.
Apparently, one of Google's goal in releasing this new version is to provide a new code framework that will help them to speed up Gmail's response time in a number of areas. One feature of note is that Gmail now pre-fetches and caches messages in the current view, so when you click on a message, it loads almost instantly. On my broadband connection, I see much improved response--clicking a message now displays it almost instantly--no lags or delays.
I understand and agree with what you are saying, but plain and simple, that sucks.
The problem is that the bottom line (ie: $$$) is what drives everything, and it is the user who suffers for it. Instead of providing a solid, secure, robust, easy-to-use, non-intrusive product, they seemingly go out of their way to make people jump through endless hoops to provide the marketing information that they crave. And in the end, the user simply caves in because there is no comparably-priced, globally-accepted, easy-to-implement alternative.
Seriously, though, my wife and I discussed just this topic while on a trip to Washington, DC. Given the heightened security in the city, we felt at many times that we simply weren't welcomed due to the constant security screening and ever-present law enforcement. The airport has its obvious security points. The number of visible police officers was seemingly higher than we have seen in other large cities. When we wanted to park in a parking garage, we were both required to show out driver's licenses, open the trunk of the car for inspection, and the under-side of the car was inspected by a mirror on a pol--all before we were permitted to enter the facility--and tis was a public parking garage. OK, I do understand that the U.S. is currently in a war, and Washington, DC is definitely a target, but why can't a "good citizen" provide some sort of quick and secure verification that he or she is not a threat?
So it got us thinking...Why can't we have some sort of "pre-authorization" that shows that we are law-abiding citizens who pose no threat? I've had financial reports pulled, background checks done, and drug screening tests done, and everything has always come up "clean". So why couldn't that "positive" information be brought together into some sort of format that would quickly and simply provide positive evidence that we should be granted admittance to wherever we wanted to go? Maybe this is really nothing more than a variant of the controversial "National ID card", but it seems to me that there has to be a better way to provide clearance for citizens who pose no threat.
What a the strings made of?
What causes the strings to vibrate?
What determines the frequency at which they vibrate?
Given notions like that of entropy and chaos theory, what accounts for the order? (ie. the strings ultimately seem to work in harmony, typically creating stable atoms. what causes this harmony?)
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Your coment was funny, but for those who may not know, on the IMAP Settings screen in Gmail is a link to instructions on how to configure Thunderbird and several other email clients. Here's the direct link:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662
I still think the Palm V (and Vx) series was Palm's greatest achievement. Combined with its hard case, they had a true, front-pocketable PDA that performed well. Unfortunately, Palm PDAs have become so bloated and energy-graining that they simply aren't innovative anymore. I REALLY liked measuring battery life in weeks, not hours.
And the Zoomer was a killer device at the time. It was PC-compatible that would run DOS apps, had full GUI interface thanks to Geoworks' GEOS, and it had a great implementation of an early version of Graffiti that, at the time, provided real "heads-up" stylus entry (where you could actually look at the person you were talking to while still taking notes. And what was important was that because the Zoomer and early Pilots promoted Graffiti as an input/navigation method, not handwriting recognition, it took of very effectively. The big difference with other HWR implementations was that with Graffiti, the user had to adapt their strokes to what Graffiti expected instead of the HWR engine adapting to the individual user. If you got past all that and just wrote how Graffiti wanted, it was surprisingly fast and accurate.
Unfortunately, the Zoomer was overshadowed by the Apple Newton, so it never really grabbed any market share. Fortunately for Palm, (US Robotics at the time) its launch of the Pilot was successful beyond expectations, and the rest was history.
Stephen Cobert had a humorous bit about the U.S. charging Canada for trademark infringements for the use of the word "Dollar". Of course, he requested that the payment be made to the U.S. in Canadian dollars....
This is nothing more than FUD, plain ans simple. This has been debated over and over since Gmail's launch, and seems to keep rearing its ugly head again and again. I've even covered this on my Gmail Tips site. The fact is, yes, Google scans every email message it sends and receives. And so does Microsoft, Yahoo, and EVERY email provider that provides anti-spam and anti-virus services. The only difference is that Google is also indexing keywords. They don't care what you have to say, they just scan the words you use to try to provide relevant, targeted ads. I'd MUCH rather have Google ads included in my free Gmail account than the annoying, flashing, seizure-inducing ads I see elsewhere.
And Gmail ads are often actually relevant. And they have policies in place to NOT include ads for sensitive topics. (For example, if you send an email telling people that your mother died, they wont include funeral service ads.
The fact is that Gmail knows how to do it and Microsoft doesn't.
A Wiki can be great, but the downside is that it requires the user(s) to actually enter the data into the Wiki. How would you handle disparate business documents with a Wiki? For example, how would you manage hundreds of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and.PDF documents? Documents created by multiple people over a long time in many locations? Wouldn't it be easier for this scenario to use an indexing tool? I've used Google Desktop to manage these types of documents, and it's amazingly effective.
Wikis are absolutely wonderful going forward but they're cumbersome with existing, varying documents--cumbersome at least until the data contained in the documents is incorporated into the Wiki.
Also , check out TiddlyWiki.com. It's a single-file "personal Wiki". It's essentially a self-updating HTML file built around JavaScript. It's truly innovative. (Of course, it's for capturing small amounts of data, not creating large, multi-user repositories.)
...bother to tell Google?
Automated tools may catch 99% of what they intent to catch, but some content will always slip through (cf: Spam.) Instead of crying to Congress over a very small percentage (300/gazillions) of offending videos. Did they even bother to simply contact Google and say, "Here's a video that violates copyright, please remove it." Instead, it seems that they're doing nothing more than crying foul and escalating this to a level that it really doesn't need to go. Simple intervention on Google's part could have "corrected" this problem in minutes. Now, we have Congress once again distracted by foolishness.
It's not that banner ads (or other types for that matter) are the problem, but it's the intrusive nature of many ads. Flashing, annoying ads...ads that are not appropriate for the context...ads that masquerade as legit ads that ultimately lead to spreading malware. It's not the ad in itself, but the abuse of ads that makes it a problem.
I run a Web site (JimsTips.com) and I do depend on Google ads to pay the bills. But the ads are not intrusive. And when I surf, though I admit that I do use AdBlock Plus, I do not block any Google ads. I'm very selective about what I block. Maybe that's hypocritical, but I see it as targeting the "bad" ads and favoring the "good" ones.
Since Best Buy revamped their pricing strategy, most items no longer carry mail-in rebates (yes, there are exceptions, but they are few and clearly marked.) And combined with their Rewards program, it really is win-win. I've successfully received lots of rebates over the years, and I've been burned several times also. But now that Best Buy makes it easier, they have me as a customer, and I don't have to jump through any rebate hoops.
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What's the fascination with uber-accuracy at home? Hell, I'm perfectly content with "about" accurate stuff. Kinda reminds me of weather forecasts. I remember when the weather forecast was "High in the upper 60's". If it was 46 or 70, no one complained. Now, it's "High today is 72" and people bitch when it reaches a sweltering 73.
For many services and uses, highly-accurate clocks have their place, but for every-day home use?
Back in 1993, I got my Ham license, N9ONL (I kinda liked the sound of "N-9-ONLine".) Anyway, I got a Technician license which had no code requirement, specifically to get into Packet Radio. I was fascinated by the prospect of connecting one computer wirelessly to another. Believe me, in those days, it was simply amazing!
Unfortunately, the Internet came along, and the mystique of Packet Radio waned. But still, connecting wirelessly to a local packet node in Chicago and then connecting through a "wormhole" (landline) to to the West Coast, and then hopping over to a connection at a university computer in Hilo Hawaii was a real trip. Nothing like waiting for the multiple hops to see responses to keyboard presses connected at 1200 baud.
Local Packet BBS traffic was also very fun. Posting and reading digital messages locally, from across the country, and from around the world was exciting and interesting. You could actually send messages to people overseas!
Or tracking the path of the Space Shuttle, waiting for it to come into range, and then actually seeing its Ham callsign and greeting scroll across my screen--very cool!
And sending a connect request signal up to a Ham-Sat satellite, and actually connecting to and interacting with the onboard BBS, if for only a brief few seconds!
Of course, the world has shrunken to a point where phone, IM, and text messaging can keep you in touch with anyone, just about anywhere. We take so much for granted.
I think the use of the term "game" may be misleading here. If the goal of the project was to provide fun and entertainment, then in this case, it appears to fail. But if the goal was to provide new tools and new ways of looking at data and systems, then maybe this shines? Just because something isn't fun doesn't mean it isn't useful.
Understand that for the $500, it will hold NOTHING, because out of the box, it comes with no drives. Your limitation on space is in how many drives you install (up to 4) and what capacity drives you install. Using their Drobolator page, you can see how capacity is affected by the number of drives and capacities. For example, installing 4 1TB drives gives you 3TB of protected storage.
I've read a LOT Drobo looks like an EXCELLENT choice, but there are two things to consider:
1. It isn't cheap at $499--without drives.
2. It is not a NAS as such. Drobo is a USB-attached external drive system. Yes, its volume(s) can be shared over a network, but it is not a standalone, network-connected device.
Now, if Drobo had a gigabit Ethernet connection, I would seriously consider saving up for one....
How about having the installer come with an option to create a "portable" version that would be runnable from a single folder such as on a USB Thumb Drive? As it stands, we either have to wait for the guys over at PortableApps.com to create a portable version, or we need to roll our own. I would think that it would be a snap for the installer to place all of the files in a single folder in a controlled and supported way.
Learning to focus and not snap the slide certainly was an annoying challenge, but I think it also taught me to be more careful and more precise in working with lab tools. I fear that these all-too-simple point-and-click devices, while certainly useful, may not teach children the have the proper respect and care that expensive tools really should have.
Unfortunately, it's not just Microsoft. Cable and Satellite providers have things so locked down that doing what *I* want with the HD content I pay for is simply out of the question. I use an HDHomeRun box in conjunction with SageTV, which will let me record both OTA and clear QAM HD channels over cable, but the offerings are limited, and it's certainly NOT a system for Joe Sixpack. While it is nice to be able to watch and record HD content, unless it's clear (unencrypted) you are out of luck. Cable, DirecTV, and Dish all provide varying degrees of "premium" HD content, but unless you lock yourself into a their HD-DVRs, again, you are out of luck. And even if you do use an HD-DVR from cable or satellite companies, don't even think of offloading the content.
While technically correct, no one has even commented on the fact that he DID receive 3 of the 16 votes...almost 20%. Some would consider that pretty commendable.
>>Apparently it crashes Opera faster than ever.
Until Google develops to make it more compatible with Opera, you may want to either try the "Older version" link at the top of the page, or the "Basic HTML" link at the bottom. At least they're providing viable options.
-Jim
http://gmailtips.com/
Apparently, one of Google's goal in releasing this new version is to provide a new code framework that will help them to speed up Gmail's response time in a number of areas. One feature of note is that Gmail now pre-fetches and caches messages in the current view, so when you click on a message, it loads almost instantly. On my broadband connection, I see much improved response--clicking a message now displays it almost instantly--no lags or delays.
-Jim
http://gmailtips.com/
I understand and agree with what you are saying, but plain and simple, that sucks.
The problem is that the bottom line (ie: $$$) is what drives everything, and it is the user who suffers for it. Instead of providing a solid, secure, robust, easy-to-use, non-intrusive product, they seemingly go out of their way to make people jump through endless hoops to provide the marketing information that they crave. And in the end, the user simply caves in because there is no comparably-priced, globally-accepted, easy-to-implement alternative.
Seriously, though, my wife and I discussed just this topic while on a trip to Washington, DC. Given the heightened security in the city, we felt at many times that we simply weren't welcomed due to the constant security screening and ever-present law enforcement. The airport has its obvious security points. The number of visible police officers was seemingly higher than we have seen in other large cities. When we wanted to park in a parking garage, we were both required to show out driver's licenses, open the trunk of the car for inspection, and the under-side of the car was inspected by a mirror on a pol--all before we were permitted to enter the facility--and tis was a public parking garage. OK, I do understand that the U.S. is currently in a war, and Washington, DC is definitely a target, but why can't a "good citizen" provide some sort of quick and secure verification that he or she is not a threat?
So it got us thinking...Why can't we have some sort of "pre-authorization" that shows that we are law-abiding citizens who pose no threat? I've had financial reports pulled, background checks done, and drug screening tests done, and everything has always come up "clean". So why couldn't that "positive" information be brought together into some sort of format that would quickly and simply provide positive evidence that we should be granted admittance to wherever we wanted to go? Maybe this is really nothing more than a variant of the controversial "National ID card", but it seems to me that there has to be a better way to provide clearance for citizens who pose no threat.
What a the strings made of? What causes the strings to vibrate? What determines the frequency at which they vibrate? Given notions like that of entropy and chaos theory, what accounts for the order? (ie. the strings ultimately seem to work in harmony, typically creating stable atoms. what causes this harmony?)
Your coment was funny, but for those who may not know, on the IMAP Settings screen in Gmail is a link to instructions on how to configure Thunderbird and several other email clients. Here's the direct link: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662
I still think the Palm V (and Vx) series was Palm's greatest achievement. Combined with its hard case, they had a true, front-pocketable PDA that performed well. Unfortunately, Palm PDAs have become so bloated and energy-graining that they simply aren't innovative anymore. I REALLY liked measuring battery life in weeks, not hours. And the Zoomer was a killer device at the time. It was PC-compatible that would run DOS apps, had full GUI interface thanks to Geoworks' GEOS, and it had a great implementation of an early version of Graffiti that, at the time, provided real "heads-up" stylus entry (where you could actually look at the person you were talking to while still taking notes. And what was important was that because the Zoomer and early Pilots promoted Graffiti as an input/navigation method, not handwriting recognition, it took of very effectively. The big difference with other HWR implementations was that with Graffiti, the user had to adapt their strokes to what Graffiti expected instead of the HWR engine adapting to the individual user. If you got past all that and just wrote how Graffiti wanted, it was surprisingly fast and accurate. Unfortunately, the Zoomer was overshadowed by the Apple Newton, so it never really grabbed any market share. Fortunately for Palm, (US Robotics at the time) its launch of the Pilot was successful beyond expectations, and the rest was history.
...to "Dollar"?
Stephen Cobert had a humorous bit about the U.S. charging Canada for trademark infringements for the use of the word "Dollar". Of course, he requested that the payment be made to the U.S. in Canadian dollars....
This is nothing more than FUD, plain ans simple. This has been debated over and over since Gmail's launch, and seems to keep rearing its ugly head again and again. I've even covered this on my Gmail Tips site. The fact is, yes, Google scans every email message it sends and receives. And so does Microsoft, Yahoo, and EVERY email provider that provides anti-spam and anti-virus services. The only difference is that Google is also indexing keywords. They don't care what you have to say, they just scan the words you use to try to provide relevant, targeted ads. I'd MUCH rather have Google ads included in my free Gmail account than the annoying, flashing, seizure-inducing ads I see elsewhere.
And Gmail ads are often actually relevant. And they have policies in place to NOT include ads for sensitive topics. (For example, if you send an email telling people that your mother died, they wont include funeral service ads.
The fact is that Gmail knows how to do it and Microsoft doesn't.
...conceivably also create a firmware update to ALLOW playback? Or would this be too device-specific?
A Wiki can be great, but the downside is that it requires the user(s) to actually enter the data into the Wiki. How would you handle disparate business documents with a Wiki? For example, how would you manage hundreds of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and .PDF documents? Documents created by multiple people over a long time in many locations? Wouldn't it be easier for this scenario to use an indexing tool? I've used Google Desktop to manage these types of documents, and it's amazingly effective.
Wikis are absolutely wonderful going forward but they're cumbersome with existing, varying documents--cumbersome at least until the data contained in the documents is incorporated into the Wiki.
Also , check out TiddlyWiki.com. It's a single-file "personal Wiki". It's essentially a self-updating HTML file built around JavaScript. It's truly innovative. (Of course, it's for capturing small amounts of data, not creating large, multi-user repositories.)
...bother to tell Google? Automated tools may catch 99% of what they intent to catch, but some content will always slip through (cf: Spam.) Instead of crying to Congress over a very small percentage (300/gazillions) of offending videos. Did they even bother to simply contact Google and say, "Here's a video that violates copyright, please remove it." Instead, it seems that they're doing nothing more than crying foul and escalating this to a level that it really doesn't need to go. Simple intervention on Google's part could have "corrected" this problem in minutes. Now, we have Congress once again distracted by foolishness.
It's not that banner ads (or other types for that matter) are the problem, but it's the intrusive nature of many ads. Flashing, annoying ads...ads that are not appropriate for the context...ads that masquerade as legit ads that ultimately lead to spreading malware. It's not the ad in itself, but the abuse of ads that makes it a problem. I run a Web site (JimsTips.com) and I do depend on Google ads to pay the bills. But the ads are not intrusive. And when I surf, though I admit that I do use AdBlock Plus, I do not block any Google ads. I'm very selective about what I block. Maybe that's hypocritical, but I see it as targeting the "bad" ads and favoring the "good" ones.
Since Best Buy revamped their pricing strategy, most items no longer carry mail-in rebates (yes, there are exceptions, but they are few and clearly marked.) And combined with their Rewards program, it really is win-win. I've successfully received lots of rebates over the years, and I've been burned several times also. But now that Best Buy makes it easier, they have me as a customer, and I don't have to jump through any rebate hoops.