I think you're probably right but I'm a little concerned that this would discoruage small ISPs and especially
Ok, I can see WISPs being an issue. Should they be treated as a private "lan" or a public WAN.
I'm not sure exactly how you mean about discourging small ISPs... as near as I can tell present ISPs them selves are not required to bill for the services, only internet over cable services which i'm not sure if that is presently implemented (dropped comcast recently), earthlink who bills based on their fee with whoever provides the copper and atm access (I believe anyway, covad in my region). At presently, I see a trend to charge the USF based on who provides the copper.
I'm unsure how one would bill for WISP... if in a cafe enviroment... I imagine like it's billed on a payphone, as in the call costs you small change but the owner/operator pays the USF. Unlike if you happen to choose to use a 1010-xxx code where that one call costs you an extra slew of taxes. If we are talking a traditional service provider, there would be a good strong reason why one might choose to charge the USF, the fact that it can and is used for communication.
I'm by no means saying take anything away from general fund. However, I am offended by the idea that I can be taxed multiable times for the USF presently, under the same phone line. If I use a diffrent carrier (1010xxx) boom more tax. If I have a long distance carrier, boom more tax (plus a fee for having it on one bill). I object to this enough that I switched to using calling cards. I still pay the USF and other taxes on my landline.... but I pay them once. This would be even better IMHO for the general fund as you can predict how much income you will have, rather then at present it can be based on how many longdistance carriers you use, or people like me who choose to use calling cards, let alone endless random arguments by the powers that be.
It could never be so simple. Cable companies are unregulated and not considered telecommunications carriers, so they don't generally have to deal with the univesal service fee--unless they are also selling phone service, in which case they get to collect it.
Well... it could be simple if you made it simple. In reality, internet access if a form of two way communcation that is important to life as telephone access for many people. I rather thought the FCC was considering tacking on the USF to cable based internet services [http://www.cedmagazine.com/cedailydirect/0202/ced aily020219.htm]
Earthlink is another company who's required to pay the USF. I got hit by that before I disconnected their service http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/img /walkthro ughs/other/taxbilling/8235.psc.html I am unsure about their cable services though.
The only problem I see with taxing the line rather then service provider is that would leave no option for the USF double dipping that is presently going on.
I'm sure i've said it before. Just tax the damn line, not the virtual connection.
To be fair, let's include cable, dsl, satalight, and other forms of two way communication systems which can be used for 2-way communications . While that would suck, it would save a hell of alot of bother with VoIP services which are out either out of state, or perhaps out of country.
Just taxing the endpoints of the physical line would solve juristion issues, and unfortunatly is the only means of taxing fairly.
After all, these taxes help support state and federal services such as libraries, who presently don't actually use VoIP service specificly, but DO use POTS lines and various forms of internet connections.
For those who don't remember, the 1984 Lectra had a solar-charged battery bank, 4 wheel independent electric motor drive, and claimed that it could be charged in as little as 20-30min with house current, and assuming this book I have is accurate [50 years of cars Troubador press] a crusing range of 350-500 miles (though I assume this is in good weather daytime)
Motor type AC Induction w/copper rotor bars, 4 poles Peak torque 246nm (181 ft-lb) Peak power (at 326V DC input) 177kW (237hp) Base speed at 330V 5,000 rpm Maximum speed 12,000 rpm Peak current 687 A rms Mass, include plenum and blower 50 kg Dimensions (less fins, termination, plenum) 213mm dia by 257 mm long Dimensions of motor incl cooling plenum 305mm dia by 305 mm long Maximum winding temperature 180 deg C
What is the range of the tzero? -100miles possible How can the tzero be so fast with 'only' 200 hp? - power to weight ratio + no gears midrange acceleration - 30 to 50 mph 1.4 Does the tzero have air conditioning? - side windows off and the wind in your hair How long does the battery pack last? What does it cost to replace? - two to three years, or 15,000 to 20,000 miles $3,000 from Optima
True. The other day I was moving files around between my Mac and Windows machines, and it was only after about ten minutes of dragging and dropping in Explorer that I realised I was using an FTP connection to the Mac rather than a network share (SAMBA).
Additionaly, this fuctionality is built into microsoft office 2k [can't remember if it was in office 97]. You can easily save file to ftp://blablabla.com. This feature when I started using it didn't seem to be in another other "save as" dialog box.
People may be critical of microsoft but this is a good and useful feature! Adding FTP as an option to "my network places" was a major bonus which resolved the issue of not all "save as" boxes supporting urls.
(OTOH, that means it was keeping the FTP password around somewhere, so that could be a security problem if you were using a public access machine.)
Not at all... all you need to do is use the "syntax" ftp://user@site.com and it will prompt for password rather then ftp://user:pass@site.com. Agreed there is an option to remember password, but it's foolish to check on it on a public access machine. Make sure that "remember password" is selected off. This goes without saying that you should change your passwords often if you are using a public access machine.
ftp://anonymous:user@nowhere.com@ftp.ftpsite.com One click url, no problems no worries!
If you are using internet explorer, it offers full ftp one feature that seems to be absent in mozilla. It's not very pretty, but so long as the user can copy and paste files between folders under windows would have NO difficulity.
I'm Canadian. Marijuana is so common up here that they're slowly decriminalizing it. Most of my friends (I'm allergic, so I don't do it myself) smoke a little pot once in a while.
Here in Washington, I can't go so far as saying we are doing much to decriminalize it. There was something we put on the ballets some years back which basicly would legalize it and put all the people in jail free, but it didn't pass.
I can say Washington it's legal for medial use, but you still can't buy or sell it. You have to ask your doctor for a prescription, I don't know personaly of any doctor who flat out reccomended marijuana. Basicly if you are prescribed it, you got to grow your own plants. If you are being prescribed and you are terminaly ill, well lots of luck unless you can find a priest who can hook you up. This may sound nutty but priests do accept donations of unused medication and are obligated by God to respect your privacy.
But yea, i'm not a big fan of it for casual use.... i'll take coffee over pot any day. But i'd sooner see white trash make the switch from the bottle to the pipe as based on my observations it's less likely to encourage domestic violence.
Yea, I was stuck with a 14.4 until I got cable because when I went to buy a modem to upgrade the 2400, the guy told me that a 28.8 would be too fast for my 386sx/33 to handle.
And I believed him, wow I was ignorant back then.:)
I could not believe that a 386sx/33 would be too slow, but this was based on my personal observations using a laplink (TM) serial cable to a 8086 based machine and a 386sx/16. The 8086 was the bottleneck, I did have to use flow control, but I could actually set the ports 115.2kb/sec. There were errors, crc checking was needed, but for the most part on the XT end of things my throughput was close to 100kb/sec. I assume this was either a fault of the serial board, or perhaps I needed a larger fifo buffer. the uarts were soldered on the serial board on the XT machine, so it wasn't easy to upgrade to a 16550.
Now, based on my experence with commodore 64 people, who spoke alot about high speed modems and why they couldn't be implemented, one concern was the display of text on the screen may have not been able to keep up with I believe they said 9600 baud. I have no FACTS on this subject but this sounds reasonable.
Yes, because auto manufacturers can't measure the volumes of their engines to better than the nearest 100cc...
Well, I don't know about cycles, don't own any.
I do however know that my old corolla had a 1.6l engine which measured 1588cc, which would be 1.588l but for casual conversaion 1.6l is adquate. I think my old corolla had a 1.482l engine, but no bugger knew what that was, so I just stuck with the 1.5l
I don't feel lied to because inside the car on the little info tag it is measured in cc to the last digit.... and also measured in l only to the once decimal place. If I want to know exactly the displacement, I can just look. If people ask me which engine I have, I say look it up.
This only gets confusing when in cases like the f-250 pre 1970 or so used a 352 ci engine, where later models used a 351. They are actually very diffrent engines, diffrent blocks all together, with diffrent HP/torque stock. In this case for casual converion, it's approperate to say 352 or 351.
Where as in the case of the toyota, year + 1.x l will tell you exactly what engine they are talking about.
I tend to disagree. If a 486 can't push that many K/s, it's not the processor's fault, but the OS (and the program you try to push with). On my mac G4 450 Mhz (hardly a rocket), Camino browser easily d/l's @ 200 K/s, while MS Explorer can't go higher than 50 K/s, and then goes down in speed. It's terrible!
Actually, I think this misconception of the speed of the 486 is due to people who are
1. Using serial port communications 2. Have a crappy serial port
I got this faulty logic when I was hunting for a SCSI rom drive for a 486sx PS/2. I was told by the staff "oh, it's a 486, well they can't use anything but a 1x drive anyway" and it's like "oh really, so I guess I have to use a 1x hard disk cause modern ones are just too damn fast".
My 8bit experence is pretty limited to the Atari, but I did own a scsi controler and had a 1meg ramdisk and let me tell you there was a serious peformance increase. Given the fact that it's practicaly impossible to get replacement drives and such for these vintage computers, it makes sence to go ethernet.
Values expressed are within +1/-1 of the last significant digit.
1100cc would be +/- 100 as the last significant digit prepresents 1000
1085cc would be +/- 1 as the last significant digit.
It has to do with the accuracy of your measuring equipment, if inbetween two values, you eyeball it.
Certainly 2x4 lumber is not actually 2x4. I would think making everything absolutely accurate would simple confuse the average consumer.
Yea, that has always confused me, why a unit of mesurement for lumber doesn't actually mean it's actual size, no clue how that is. Same with 6 inch woofers, the fact that there seems to be 3 sizes of 6 inch woofers.
The associations between red and danger and green and safety are centuries (if not millennia) old. They're subconcious ones (for the very reasons I gave before) and they're cross-cultural - wherever you go around the world, whatever society you find yourself in, red equating to danger will be a given. And, just because a minority of people are colour-blind, that isn't going to change.
Ah, but the key diffrence is you told me to look around to spot evidence of this. I just can't see it.
Similarly, we live in a right-handed world. My mouse (ergonomically designed for the right-hand), my keyboard (numeric keypad on the right), even my damn microwave (door hinge on the left, controls on the right) are designed in a way that's unnatural for me and that I am forced to adapt to.
Mice and pointing devices bought in the store are typicaly designed for the right hand. This is sad but true. Often times you can special order a lefty edition.... I know the logitech trackback produced pre 1995 they would trade a lefty edition for a righty edition without question. And I also own a two logitech pointing devices that are euronomicaly neutral. I have lefty friends and my newpehw is lefty and color-blind [side note, his mum is blue-yellow colorblind, result all her male children will be colorblind]
With mice you and keyboards you can except for there to be a lefty or neutral edition version somewhere, and at least in america, your employer is required to take this into account.
There are far more people out there that are left-handed than colour-blind. When was the last time you saw a popular mouse design available for lefties? When was the last time you saw a keyboard with the numeric keypad on the left? When have you ever seen a microwave with the controls on the left and the door hinged on the right?
Actually, I honestly don't know about that. Some studies i've seen say 10%, others say 8%. Figures I see for lefthandedness are often in the same ballpark, but i'm willing to believe that any study will be more likely to show more lefties simply because you can see that with ease. Color being subjective, it's much harder. Based on my observation of males, they all dress like they are colorblind and are likely to choose a mate based on their ability to color cordinate.
Key diffrence is lefties *can* adapt, or use their left hand to operate controls designed for the right hand. Colorblind people just can't see it, which becomes an issue when people like your self decide to put warning lables on things. Red = danger green = safe. So the poison is marked red that I can't see, so I drink the poison.
But let me see
Mice: Logitech, last time I saw a lefty edition was last week. Their "Trackman" product was produced for the left hand. It was special ordered, but never the less it did exist. I own their "Marble mouse" which is a trackball that is euronomicaly neutral. My personal trackball is eurgoright, but every other mouse I own is Ergoneutral.
Keyboards: Keytronics does make a numeric pad for the left hand. I've seen this at Safeco. More often then not though, lefies who really enjoy their left hand for numeric entry either just use their left hand on the numeric keypad, or buy a seperate numeric keypad and place it to the left of their keyboard. Or alternativly, just use the alpha-numeric 1234567890.
Washer/dryer: Washer is a toploader, so it's eurogonomicly neutral. The dryer door can be hinged both sides, and presently is hinged right as the washer is on the left
Microwave: Actually I've seen euronomicly neutral microwaves with a door that pulls down. This is a common resturant configeration, but there are home units with this configeration. Not sure about controls on the left though, but I have seen neutral ones.
Face it, the world is designed for the majority. Moaning about it, whether to me on/. or to someone who really matters isn't really going to change a dam
Yes, I was thinking something similar in America the good old Telephone Excise Tax also known as the Spanish-American war tax. A war so short it's only a footnote in history, but we are still taxed for it none-the less. Universal Service Fee I believe is the one that we get double taxed on, and don't ask me the diffrence between the Tele Exise tax and the Universal Service fee. If you got a phone, you pay it. If you got long distance service diffrent from your local phone service, you pay it again, if you use a diffrent carrier (1010xxx code) to make a call and get billed, you pay it again. Wasn't so before, but is so now.
Your phone line gets taxed. Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't (spanish-american war is over after all), but most internet service is over the phone line. If it's over the cable, chances are you are going to get taxed with the phone tax / communication tax. Perhaps they should, perhaps they shouldn't... I'd say that it does however make sence as far as paperwork goes to bill someone based on the communication's line. You can't argue it's a communciations line, and can be used for trans-state communication.
Goods (usually) get taxed Services (usually) get taxed
Any internet taxes are covered based based on local state laws regarding the taxes of goods or services. Not taxing the medium which people purchace goods or services is a good thing, it encourages the sale of goods and services that can be taxed
Now... if the american goverment was SMART they would actually charge some form of federal tax for goods transported over state lines. That's one thing that actually is becoming an issue in america, the fact that mail ordering pretty much has always enjoyed tax free status so long as you are ordering stuff from out of state. While I think this would suck large rocks, this is something physical you can tax.
Then charging me a tax when I make a sandwich out of it and eat it myself. Interesting... If I take some honey and yeast and brew meed, technicaly I should be taxed for it dispite whether or not it's for personal consumption. Some states offer a cap for alcoholic products that is taxed (the only way to enforce such a tax). Then again if you bring alcohol or tobacco across the state lines, then technicaly you should be taxed for that too, depending on your local state laws.
Red is the colour of blood and, since the time of cavemen, has been the accepted colour for danger.
Red I confuse with brown and or green, esp iron oxide. When I think of danger, like a car wreck, i say shit... then i'm likely to do it. Human blood has an earthy tone, esp when exposed to air. Very low contrast on black making it totally useless to use red letters on a black background. Just can't see it.
But red berries are not blood colored at all, go figure. Nor is a blood orange, nor a stop sign. Stop signs typicaly are a mix of red delicious apple with just a touch of american mustard, and a touch of real mustard.
The only crayon that resembled the color of human blood was indian red, which from my understanding is an earthly clay with iron oxide. I was probally one of the reasons they renamed that color, cause dispite my ability to see the diffrence, I made all my native americans indian red colored. After all, the crayon said indian.
http://www.michiganapples.com/reddelicious.html is an immature one, or one grown below the 45th, or the photographer just got the color wrong. http://www.nyapplecountry.com/reddelicious.htm is the color of a typicaly picked one.
Review: Blood looks nothing like a Apple nor a Stopsign. Blood looks like iron oxide, rust colored. [Good color vision, just not what you see]
Green is the colour of most safe to eat plant-life (most ripe vegetation is green, dead vegetation tends to go black, etc), hence it's the natural choice to indicate safety.
Green I sometimes confuse with red, more often then not orange, sometimes even grey. Ripe vegetation is orange to me, much like an "orange", bright healthy grass. Basketballs are "green" in the traditional sence, as in the color of dry grass. Really dead grass is grey. Rotten grass well turns brown.
Review. Living safe plants are orange, dying ones of green, dead ones are grey, rotten ones are brown. Orange = saftey by these standards.
Look around you everywhere, this red/green usage is almost universal. Traffic signs, emergency vehicles, motor sports, etc.
No sorry, I can't see it, as I said I'm colorblind specificly red-green color blind. It's not as if I can't memorize color codes, understand their rational, I just can't see it. Traffic lights I look at their position, in most cases I know the diffrence between the bottom light and the top light, the contrast is high enough in my eyes to make that judgement. I had a cop stop me because I stopped at one of those new fangled "blue lights" which don't seem to be very green even in people who have decent color vision. Single blinking lights are a bother though, amber flashing vs red flashing I couldn't tell the diffrence. San Joes is a bother because they use amber street lamps, which at night I can't tell which light is attached to traffic control [red yellow green] and which light is to light up the street [red, amber, whatever].
Further, when you put colors in print, they do not nessicarly conform to any real absolute standard. As in, what might look like red to printer and red to your majority population might might look "green" to someone like my self who is "red green" colorblind, or even brown, brown being a muck of colors and red also being a muck of colors to accent the primary red to look more realistic.
The DOL [Department of Licensing] at one time had a hardcopy display of traffic signal which in theory they used at one time to test people if they knew the meaning of the diffrent colors, and let me tell you their choice for red green yellow looked more like brown, brown, and blue. Traffic lights for the most part I'm dead on, as the green typicaly used is super bright, faids the color of near by plants, and a major contrast from the dull red. But in print, anyone be the judge. To this day, I still have NO clue what colors that sign was, which is fine because I look at lights.
I'm quite red-green color blind. Why the fucking hell must we use color codes for such *important* classifications.
Any system beyond ROY G. BIV confuses the hell out of me, and I can't tell the diffrence between RO and G 1/2 the time making this a major issue making a judgement regarding threats, and BIV 100% of the time. Given that about 10% of all males are also red-green colorblind (according to my psych book anyway), it seems nuts to adopt yet more color codes.
In the 1940's a number of american scientists went missing to go work on secret projects. This is perfectly normal and nothing to be ashamed of, however people became curious where some of these people went, either loved ones, reporters, and perhaps the odd spy or two.
The easy way they found out where they were going was to go to the respective person's local library and either see the last book they checked out, or just comb the shelves for books on the states. And behold, it was easily established the last book checked out by all the people on the Trinity project were books on the state of Nevada.
Trust me, if Intel could use the same Socket7 connector type and run the next generation of Pentiums on it they would.
AMD didn't seem to have any difficulty with their k6-2 and k6-3 series though they did abandon it in favor of slot-a socket-a.
I still own a k6-3/400, the only reason I switched to a true blue pentium CPU was issues with redhat installing. I can't honestly say it's peformance was superior to a intel pentium 400, I will say switching to a celeron overclocked to 400mhz was a major downgrade. It was pretty damn good bang for the buck. There was no logical reason why amd couldn't have continued producing faster chips for the socket 7 platform.
Besides.... the intel FX chipset (pentium pro and pentium II) for socket 8 was good enough to run the next generation of processors though technicaly limited to 66mhz and no sd-ram support that i'm aware. I have a board right here produced by intel that uses the intel fx chipset and support slot 1, though i'd have to check if it supports above and beyond 266mhz.
It would seem to me that some form of terresterial heating would be a legit application to maintain proper levels. Though, i'm none too fond of the idea of billboards requring an underground tank filled with basicly anti-freeze.
AT = Advanced Technology ATX = Advanced Technology neXt BTX = Better Technology neXt CTX = Catastrophic Technology neXt DTX = Dubious Technology neXt ETX = Edible Technology neXt
intel, we bring you dubious, catastrohpic, edible, better advanced technology and meaningless acronyms.
This would be the nightmarish electronic billboard between seattle and federal way over by the some RV boat dealership.
What's sad is the fact that you need something to stare at while you are stuck in traffic in order to maintain your sanity. If they could find a nice balance between a full color dynamic display I'd be perfectly willing to let it exist without complaints.
My use of the word *hazzard* is in reference to "the dukes of hazzard" as it blinks brightly at the wrong time causing people to steer off the road and their cars jump over the overpass going "yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa"
Call me silly, but I rather liked the VME and/or multi-bus for computers. [http://www.vita.com/vmefaq/index.html]
For those not familar, basicly you had a series of cards that you shoved directly into the case it self, without need of popping the top. Two thumbscrews for each card and it just slids on out. [http://www.vita.com/vmefaq/resources/Image2.gif]
There was no *motherboard* per say but rather a "cpu board" but basicly it was the same thing. While VME boards were "huge", I can imagine much in the way of scalability for a trimmed up variation of the theme. Small desktop systems can enjoy the benifits of having a smaller backplane with only 3 or 4 slots, more robust users could enjoy larger cases with just more slots but essentaly the same motherboard.
Silly idea, probally. It would produce less in the way of waste in every motherboard wouldn't need yet another slew of slots on it. Cards would be mounted at two points rather then one point without fear of one end poping up when you put the screw in like was an issue with AGP video cards.
magink's digital ink display billboard is reflective of incident light and requires no integrated illumination. Light that falls on the display from either the sun or external light sources is actually beneficial to the visibility of the image. A beautiful image is maintainable under the full range of daylight conditions.
I have to admit, this idea is attractive to me, though i'm scared at the fact that i'm actually for a form of advertsing technology.
My issue is this... near where I live on I-5 there is a huge graphic display billboard. Not sure if it's plasma or LCD or what, but it's one bright sucker It's so bright infact that driving tward it highlights every nick, scratch, bit of dust on my windshield. The reason I invested in a new windshield infact was due to this ultra bright computer generated sign from hell, esp since they don't automaticly dim the sucker based on accurate "sunset/sunrise" times (based on my observation only).
Now, it's good I replaced my old tattered scrached up windshield, but I shouldn't have to just because of a stupid sign who's technical design by it's very nature requires so much light it's a hazzard to people driving.
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I think you're probably right but I'm a little concerned that this would discoruage small ISPs and especially
Ok, I can see WISPs being an issue. Should they be treated as a private "lan" or a public WAN.
I'm not sure exactly how you mean about discourging small ISPs... as near as I can tell present ISPs them selves are not required to bill for the services, only internet over cable services which i'm not sure if that is presently implemented (dropped comcast recently), earthlink who bills based on their fee with whoever provides the copper and atm access (I believe anyway, covad in my region). At presently, I see a trend to charge the USF based on who provides the copper.
I'm unsure how one would bill for WISP... if in a cafe enviroment... I imagine like it's billed on a payphone, as in the call costs you small change but the owner/operator pays the USF. Unlike if you happen to choose to use a 1010-xxx code where that one call costs you an extra slew of taxes. If we are talking a traditional service provider, there would be a good strong reason why one might choose to charge the USF, the fact that it can and is used for communication.
I'm by no means saying take anything away from general fund. However, I am offended by the idea that I can be taxed multiable times for the USF presently, under the same phone line. If I use a diffrent carrier (1010xxx) boom more tax. If I have a long distance carrier, boom more tax (plus a fee for having it on one bill). I object to this enough that I switched to using calling cards. I still pay the USF and other taxes on my landline.... but I pay them once. This would be even better IMHO for the general fund as you can predict how much income you will have, rather then at present it can be based on how many longdistance carriers you use, or people like me who choose to use calling cards, let alone endless random arguments by the powers that be.
It could never be so simple. Cable companies are unregulated and not considered telecommunications carriers, so they don't generally have to deal with the univesal service fee--unless they are also selling phone service, in which case they get to collect it.
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Well... it could be simple if you made it simple.
In reality, internet access if a form of two way communcation that is important to life as telephone access for many people. I rather thought the FCC was considering tacking on the USF to cable based internet services [http://www.cedmagazine.com/cedailydirect/0202/ce
Earthlink is another company who's required to pay the USF. I got hit by that before I disconnected their service
http://support.earthlink.net/mu/1/psc/im
I am unsure about their cable services though.
The only problem I see with taxing the line rather then service provider is that would leave no option for the USF double dipping that is presently going on.
I'm sure i've said it before. Just tax the damn line, not the virtual connection.
To be fair, let's include cable, dsl, satalight, and other forms of two way communication systems which can be used for 2-way communications . While that would suck, it would save a hell of alot of bother with VoIP services which are out either out of state, or perhaps out of country.
Just taxing the endpoints of the physical line would solve juristion issues, and unfortunatly is the only means of taxing fairly.
After all, these taxes help support state and federal services such as libraries, who presently don't actually use VoIP service specificly, but DO use POTS lines and various forms of internet connections.
That does it, I'm heading to Finland. As far as common roots go, Finnish has the least of them out of all languages in europe.
If I could only stand the taste of salmalki though.
Not at all... however such places are usually the only spots you can find i-max films.
For those who don't remember, the 1984 Lectra had a solar-charged battery bank, 4 wheel independent electric motor drive, and claimed that it could be charged in as little as 20-30min with house current, and assuming this book I have is accurate [50 years of cars Troubador press] a crusing range of 350-500 miles (though I assume this is in good weather daytime)
http://www.autospeed.com.au/cms/article.html?&A
http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_F
True. The other day I was moving files around between my Mac and Windows machines, and it was only after about ten minutes of dragging and dropping in Explorer that I realised I was using an FTP connection to the Mac rather than a network share (SAMBA).
Additionaly, this fuctionality is built into microsoft office 2k [can't remember if it was in office 97]. You can easily save file to ftp://blablabla.com. This feature when I started using it didn't seem to be in another other "save as" dialog box.
People may be critical of microsoft but this is a good and useful feature! Adding FTP as an option to "my network places" was a major bonus which resolved the issue of not all "save as" boxes supporting urls.
(OTOH, that means it was keeping the FTP password around somewhere, so that could be a security problem if you were using a public access machine.)
Not at all... all you need to do is use the "syntax" ftp://user@site.com and it will prompt for password rather then ftp://user:pass@site.com. Agreed there is an option to remember password, but it's foolish to check on it on a public access machine. Make sure that "remember password" is selected off. This goes without saying that you should change your passwords often if you are using a public access machine.
ftp://anonymous:user@nowhere.com@ftp.ftpsite.com
One click url, no problems no worries!
If you are using internet explorer, it offers full ftp one feature that seems to be absent in mozilla. It's not very pretty, but so long as the user can copy and paste files between folders under windows would have NO difficulity.
I'm Canadian. Marijuana is so common up here that they're slowly decriminalizing it. Most of my friends (I'm allergic, so I don't do it myself) smoke a little pot once in a while.
Here in Washington, I can't go so far as saying we are doing much to decriminalize it. There was something we put on the ballets some years back which basicly would legalize it and put all the people in jail free, but it didn't pass.
I can say Washington it's legal for medial use, but you still can't buy or sell it. You have to ask your doctor for a prescription, I don't know personaly of any doctor who flat out reccomended marijuana. Basicly if you are prescribed it, you got to grow your own plants. If you are being prescribed and you are terminaly ill, well lots of luck unless you can find a priest who can hook you up. This may sound nutty but priests do accept donations of unused medication and are obligated by God to respect your privacy.
But yea, i'm not a big fan of it for casual use.... i'll take coffee over pot any day. But i'd sooner see white trash make the switch from the bottle to the pipe as based on my observations it's less likely to encourage domestic violence.
Yea, I was stuck with a 14.4 until I got cable because when I went to buy a modem to upgrade the 2400, the guy told me that a 28.8 would be too fast for my 386sx/33 to handle.
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And I believed him, wow I was ignorant back then.
I could not believe that a 386sx/33 would be too slow, but this was based on my personal observations using a laplink (TM) serial cable to a 8086 based machine and a 386sx/16. The 8086 was the bottleneck, I did have to use flow control, but I could actually set the ports 115.2kb/sec. There were errors, crc checking was needed, but for the most part on the XT end of things my throughput was close to 100kb/sec. I assume this was either a fault of the serial board, or perhaps I needed a larger fifo buffer. the uarts were soldered on the serial board on the XT machine, so it wasn't easy to upgrade to a 16550.
Now, based on my experence with commodore 64 people, who spoke alot about high speed modems and why they couldn't be implemented, one concern was the display of text on the screen may have not been able to keep up with I believe they said 9600 baud. I have no FACTS on this subject but this sounds reasonable.
Yes, because auto manufacturers can't measure the volumes of their engines to better than the nearest 100cc...
Well, I don't know about cycles, don't own any.
I do however know that my old corolla had a 1.6l engine which measured 1588cc, which would be 1.588l but for casual conversaion 1.6l is adquate. I think my old corolla had a 1.482l engine, but no bugger knew what that was, so I just stuck with the 1.5l
I don't feel lied to because inside the car on the little info tag it is measured in cc to the last digit.... and also measured in l only to the once decimal place. If I want to know exactly the displacement, I can just look. If people ask me which engine I have, I say look it up.
This only gets confusing when in cases like the f-250 pre 1970 or so used a 352 ci engine, where later models used a 351. They are actually very diffrent engines, diffrent blocks all together, with diffrent HP/torque stock. In this case for casual converion, it's approperate to say 352 or 351.
Where as in the case of the toyota, year + 1.x l will tell you exactly what engine they are talking about.
They are not lying, they are lazy.
I tend to disagree. If a 486 can't push that many K/s, it's not the processor's fault, but the OS (and the program you try to push with).
On my mac G4 450 Mhz (hardly a rocket), Camino browser easily d/l's @ 200 K/s, while MS Explorer can't go higher than 50 K/s, and then goes down in speed. It's terrible!
Actually, I think this misconception of the speed of the 486 is due to people who are
1. Using serial port communications
2. Have a crappy serial port
I got this faulty logic when I was hunting for a SCSI rom drive for a 486sx PS/2. I was told by the staff "oh, it's a 486, well they can't use anything but a 1x drive anyway" and it's like "oh really, so I guess I have to use a 1x hard disk cause modern ones are just too damn fast".
My 8bit experence is pretty limited to the Atari, but I did own a scsi controler and had a 1meg ramdisk and let me tell you there was a serious peformance increase. Given the fact that it's practicaly impossible to get replacement drives and such for these vintage computers, it makes sence to go ethernet.
Significant digits
Values expressed are within +1/-1 of the last significant digit.
1100cc would be +/- 100 as the last significant digit prepresents 1000
1085cc would be +/- 1 as the last significant digit.
It has to do with the accuracy of your measuring equipment, if inbetween two values, you eyeball it.
Certainly 2x4 lumber is not actually 2x4. I would think making everything absolutely accurate would simple confuse the average consumer.
Yea, that has always confused me, why a unit of mesurement for lumber doesn't actually mean it's actual size, no clue how that is. Same with 6 inch woofers, the fact that there seems to be 3 sizes of 6 inch woofers.
The associations between red and danger and green and safety are centuries (if not millennia) old. They're subconcious ones (for the very reasons I gave before) and they're cross-cultural - wherever you go around the world, whatever society you find yourself in, red equating to danger will be a given. And, just because a minority of people are colour-blind, that isn't going to change.
/. or to someone who really matters isn't really going to change a dam
Ah, but the key diffrence is you told me to look around to spot evidence of this. I just can't see it.
Similarly, we live in a right-handed world. My mouse (ergonomically designed for the right-hand), my keyboard (numeric keypad on the right), even my damn microwave (door hinge on the left, controls on the right) are designed in a way that's unnatural for me and that I am forced to adapt to.
Mice and pointing devices bought in the store are typicaly designed for the right hand. This is sad but true. Often times you can special order a lefty edition.... I know the logitech trackback produced pre 1995 they would trade a lefty edition for a righty edition without question. And I also own a two logitech pointing devices that are euronomicaly neutral. I have lefty friends and my newpehw is lefty and color-blind [side note, his mum is blue-yellow colorblind, result all her male children will be colorblind]
With mice you and keyboards you can except for there to be a lefty or neutral edition version somewhere, and at least in america, your employer is required to take this into account.
There are far more people out there that are left-handed than colour-blind. When was the last time you saw a popular mouse design available for lefties? When was the last time you saw a keyboard with the numeric keypad on the left? When have you ever seen a microwave with the controls on the left and the door hinged on the right?
Actually, I honestly don't know about that. Some studies i've seen say 10%, others say 8%. Figures I see for lefthandedness are often in the same ballpark, but i'm willing to believe that any study will be more likely to show more lefties simply because you can see that with ease. Color being subjective, it's much harder. Based on my observation of males, they all dress like they are colorblind and are likely to choose a mate based on their ability to color cordinate.
Key diffrence is lefties *can* adapt, or use their left hand to operate controls designed for the right hand. Colorblind people just can't see it, which becomes an issue when people like your self decide to put warning lables on things. Red = danger green = safe. So the poison is marked red that I can't see, so I drink the poison.
But let me see
Mice: Logitech, last time I saw a lefty edition was last week. Their "Trackman" product was produced for the left hand. It was special ordered, but never the less it did exist. I own their "Marble mouse" which is a trackball that is euronomicaly neutral. My personal trackball is eurgoright, but every other mouse I own is Ergoneutral.
Keyboards: Keytronics does make a numeric pad for the left hand. I've seen this at Safeco. More often then not though, lefies who really enjoy their left hand for numeric entry either just use their left hand on the numeric keypad, or buy a seperate numeric keypad and place it to the left of their keyboard. Or alternativly, just use the alpha-numeric 1234567890.
Washer/dryer: Washer is a toploader, so it's eurogonomicly neutral. The dryer door can be hinged both sides, and presently is hinged right as the washer is on the left
Microwave: Actually I've seen euronomicly neutral microwaves with a door that pulls down. This is a common resturant configeration, but there are home units with this configeration. Not sure about controls on the left though, but I have seen neutral ones.
Face it, the world is designed for the majority. Moaning about it, whether to me on
Yes, I was thinking something similar in America the good old Telephone Excise Tax also known as the Spanish-American war tax. A war so short it's only a footnote in history, but we are still taxed for it none-the less. Universal Service Fee I believe is the one that we get double taxed on, and don't ask me the diffrence between the Tele Exise tax and the Universal Service fee. If you got a phone, you pay it. If you got long distance service diffrent from your local phone service, you pay it again, if you use a diffrent carrier (1010xxx code) to make a call and get billed, you pay it again. Wasn't so before, but is so now.
Your phone line gets taxed. Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't (spanish-american war is over after all), but most internet service is over the phone line. If it's over the cable, chances are you are going to get taxed with the phone tax / communication tax. Perhaps they should, perhaps they shouldn't... I'd say that it does however make sence as far as paperwork goes to bill someone based on the communication's line. You can't argue it's a communciations line, and can be used for trans-state communication.
Goods (usually) get taxed
Services (usually) get taxed
Any internet taxes are covered based based on local state laws regarding the taxes of goods or services. Not taxing the medium which people purchace goods or services is a good thing, it encourages the sale of goods and services that can be taxed
Now... if the american goverment was SMART they would actually charge some form of federal tax for goods transported over state lines. That's one thing that actually is becoming an issue in america, the fact that mail ordering pretty much has always enjoyed tax free status so long as you are ordering stuff from out of state. While I think this would suck large rocks, this is something physical you can tax.
Then charging me a tax when I make a sandwich out of it and eat it myself.
Interesting... If I take some honey and yeast and brew meed, technicaly I should be taxed for it dispite whether or not it's for personal consumption. Some states offer a cap for alcoholic products that is taxed (the only way to enforce such a tax). Then again if you bring alcohol or tobacco across the state lines, then technicaly you should be taxed for that too, depending on your local state laws.
Red is the colour of blood and, since the time of cavemen, has been the accepted colour for danger.
.htm is the color of a typicaly picked one.
Red I confuse with brown and or green, esp iron oxide. When I think of danger, like a car wreck, i say shit... then i'm likely to do it. Human blood has an earthy tone, esp when exposed to air. Very low contrast on black making it totally useless to use red letters on a black background. Just can't see it.
But red berries are not blood colored at all, go figure. Nor is a blood orange, nor a stop sign. Stop signs typicaly are a mix of red delicious apple with just a touch of american mustard, and a touch of real mustard.
The only crayon that resembled the color of human blood was indian red, which from my understanding is an earthly clay with iron oxide. I was probally one of the reasons they renamed that color, cause dispite my ability to see the diffrence, I made all my native americans indian red colored. After all, the crayon said indian.
http://www.michiganapples.com/reddelicious.html is an immature one, or one grown below the 45th, or the photographer just got the color wrong.
http://www.nyapplecountry.com/reddelicious
Review: Blood looks nothing like a Apple nor a Stopsign. Blood looks like iron oxide, rust colored. [Good color vision, just not what you see]
Green is the colour of most safe to eat plant-life (most ripe vegetation is green, dead vegetation tends to go black, etc), hence it's the natural choice to indicate safety.
Green I sometimes confuse with red, more often then not orange, sometimes even grey. Ripe vegetation is orange to me, much like an "orange", bright healthy grass. Basketballs are "green" in the traditional sence, as in the color of dry grass. Really dead grass is grey. Rotten grass well turns brown.
Review. Living safe plants are orange, dying ones of green, dead ones are grey, rotten ones are brown. Orange = saftey by these standards.
Look around you everywhere, this red/green usage is almost universal. Traffic signs, emergency vehicles, motor sports, etc.
No sorry, I can't see it, as I said I'm colorblind specificly red-green color blind. It's not as if I can't memorize color codes, understand their rational, I just can't see it. Traffic lights I look at their position, in most cases I know the diffrence between the bottom light and the top light, the contrast is high enough in my eyes to make that judgement. I had a cop stop me because I stopped at one of those new fangled "blue lights" which don't seem to be very green even in people who have decent color vision. Single blinking lights are a bother though, amber flashing vs red flashing I couldn't tell the diffrence. San Joes is a bother because they use amber street lamps, which at night I can't tell which light is attached to traffic control [red yellow green] and which light is to light up the street [red, amber, whatever].
Further, when you put colors in print, they do not nessicarly conform to any real absolute standard. As in, what might look like red to printer and red to your majority population might might look "green" to someone like my self who is "red green" colorblind, or even brown, brown being a muck of colors and red also being a muck of colors to accent the primary red to look more realistic.
The DOL [Department of Licensing] at one time had a hardcopy display of traffic signal which in theory they used at one time to test people if they knew the meaning of the diffrent colors, and let me tell you their choice for red green yellow looked more like brown, brown, and blue. Traffic lights for the most part I'm dead on, as the green typicaly used is super bright, faids the color of near by plants, and a major contrast from the dull red. But in print, anyone be the judge. To this day, I still have NO clue what colors that sign was, which is fine because I look at lights.
Emergency vehicels, well I guess th
I'm quite red-green color blind. Why the fucking hell must we use color codes for such *important* classifications.
Any system beyond ROY G. BIV confuses the hell out of me, and I can't tell the diffrence between RO and G 1/2 the time making this a major issue making a judgement regarding threats, and BIV 100% of the time. Given that about 10% of all males are also red-green colorblind (according to my psych book anyway), it seems nuts to adopt yet more color codes.
In the 1940's a number of american scientists went missing to go work on secret projects. This is perfectly normal and nothing to be ashamed of, however people became curious where some of these people went, either loved ones, reporters, and perhaps the odd spy or two.
The easy way they found out where they were going was to go to the respective person's local library and either see the last book they checked out, or just comb the shelves for books on the states. And behold, it was easily established the last book checked out by all the people on the Trinity project were books on the state of Nevada.
Trust me, if Intel could use the same Socket7 connector type and run the next generation of Pentiums on it they would.
AMD didn't seem to have any difficulty with their k6-2 and k6-3 series though they did abandon it in favor of slot-a socket-a.
I still own a k6-3/400, the only reason I switched to a true blue pentium CPU was issues with redhat installing. I can't honestly say it's peformance was superior to a intel pentium 400, I will say switching to a celeron overclocked to 400mhz was a major downgrade. It was pretty damn good bang for the buck. There was no logical reason why amd couldn't have continued producing faster chips for the socket 7 platform.
Besides.... the intel FX chipset (pentium pro and pentium II) for socket 8 was good enough to run the next generation of processors though technicaly limited to 66mhz and no sd-ram support that i'm aware. I have a board right here produced by intel that uses the intel fx chipset and support slot 1, though i'd have to check if it supports above and beyond 266mhz.
What level is that [me too lazy to hunt for it]
It would seem to me that some form of terresterial heating would be a legit application to maintain proper levels. Though, i'm none too fond of the idea of billboards requring an underground tank filled with basicly anti-freeze.
Possible meanings of acronyms
AT = Advanced Technology
ATX = Advanced Technology neXt
BTX = Better Technology neXt
CTX = Catastrophic Technology neXt
DTX = Dubious Technology neXt
ETX = Edible Technology neXt
intel, we bring you dubious, catastrohpic, edible, better advanced technology and meaningless acronyms.
This would be the nightmarish electronic billboard between seattle and federal way over by the some RV boat dealership.
What's sad is the fact that you need something to stare at while you are stuck in traffic in order to maintain your sanity. If they could find a nice balance between a full color dynamic display I'd be perfectly willing to let it exist without complaints.
My use of the word *hazzard* is in reference to "the dukes of hazzard" as it blinks brightly at the wrong time causing people to steer off the road and their cars jump over the overpass going "yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa"
Call me silly, but I rather liked the VME and/or multi-bus for computers. [http://www.vita.com/vmefaq/index.html]
For those not familar, basicly you had a series of cards that you shoved directly into the case it self, without need of popping the top. Two thumbscrews for each card and it just slids on out. [http://www.vita.com/vmefaq/resources/Image2.gif]
There was no *motherboard* per say but rather a "cpu board" but basicly it was the same thing. While VME boards were "huge", I can imagine much in the way of scalability for a trimmed up variation of the theme. Small desktop systems can enjoy the benifits of having a smaller backplane with only 3 or 4 slots, more robust users could enjoy larger cases with just more slots but essentaly the same motherboard.
Silly idea, probally. It would produce less in the way of waste in every motherboard wouldn't need yet another slew of slots on it. Cards would be mounted at two points rather then one point without fear of one end poping up when you put the screw in like was an issue with AGP video cards.
Compatibility to outdoor lighting environment
magink's digital ink display billboard is reflective of incident light and requires no integrated illumination. Light that falls on the display from either the sun or external light sources is actually beneficial to the visibility of the image. A beautiful image is maintainable under the full range of daylight conditions.
I have to admit, this idea is attractive to me, though i'm scared at the fact that i'm actually for a form of advertsing technology.
My issue is this... near where I live on I-5 there is a huge graphic display billboard. Not sure if it's plasma or LCD or what, but it's one bright sucker It's so bright infact that driving tward it highlights every nick, scratch, bit of dust on my windshield. The reason I invested in a new windshield infact was due to this ultra bright computer generated sign from hell, esp since they don't automaticly dim the sucker based on accurate "sunset/sunrise" times (based on my observation only).
Now, it's good I replaced my old tattered scrached up windshield, but I shouldn't have to just because of a stupid sign who's technical design by it's very nature requires so much light it's a hazzard to people driving.