in 2000 when I was gainfully employed by Gateway, I has RC5-64 running on about 20 systems, shot our rankings through the roof:)
This really isn't that bad of an idea, just as long as the info being crunched, as said before, is of a non-proprietary nature. However, I HIGHLY doubt that UD/Stanford/SETI would be willing to shell out x^5 dollars for a crack at the Gateway network, they'll always have people like me who do it for fun:)
that deserves a 5. I have used a laptop for school and other such things, and a PDA I currently have for when I want to jot down quick notes. I don't see how a tablet can solve any "problems", given that they are all solves by either tha laptop or PDA.
Seeing as I can get a decent laptop for under 1500, and the CHEAPEST tablet PC will be 2000, I really don't see the value.
I really think these will fall flat on it's face, for these reasons, and the ones stated in the parent.
At college bookstores, Office XP can be had for 20 bucks, in some places. Right now, MSFT has an initiative to sell student/teacher versions of Office XP (with PowerPoint added, it's not in the Standard versions) for US$149.97. I think the "burden of proof" is set on the buyer to verify that they are actually a student or teacher, but anyone can pick up the software off the shelf and buy it.
yeah, yeah. Grab your lawyer and sue me if you like.;-)
I understand the concept of a "nationwide radio station." That, in and of itself, would be nice. However, I *STILL* wouldn't pay even $50 with your subsidized receiver to listen to 10 minutes of commercials in a 30 minute bloc of music, if the advertisers catch on like they do in prime-time TV.
200 bucks can get me a internal CD burner (good for other things), a 50 pack of blank CD's, and a internal MP3 car deck. I ow have a few days worth of uninterruptible music, and 49 more CD's to add stuff to, with no additional costs incurred monthly.
I see two things wrong with that thought, one, you have commercial-laden airwaves, it's indistinguishable from FM radio as it is, and secondly, unless you get it in a new car with the receiver already installed, it's not free, it's 300 bucks for the receiver.
I have a friend of mine who has it, he seems to like it, but I'm very content with burning CD's off of music that my friends play, if I like it, I rip it.
Sure they did. By touting every new OS as "more secure and reliable, a new era in trustworthy computing", they are getting a couple thousannd of poor schmucks to cough up some major cash to upgrade to a OS that they would have not otherwise needed, to try and get rid of all the "lockups" or "l33t h4x0rs" that are invading.
as a raider of Bill's beer fridge since '00, I can personally attest to this. Cheap beer in a college town/environment needs to be protected at all costs, up to and including making the raider sit on Bill's porch:)
actually, Thrustmaster makes a very nice product that I may be picking up in a few days for FPS stuff, it's a USB ergo keypad of sorts with mappable buttons all over the place. Don't have time to post a link now, but if you look on the site, I thin kyou should be able to find it. Only drawback is it's 60 bucks.
disclaimer: I do not own an XBox. I sell them, have played extensively with them, but do not as of yet own one.
I don't see the point of FPS's on XBox. Granted, I've played Halo, got through most of the beginning levels, but it still nags at me that I could be a order of magnitude better at it with a simle keyboard and mouse.
Now games like DOA3, NFL 2K3, stuff like that, rightly deserves to be on a console, it is easily (and in the case of the former, recommended for play) on a gamepad. Give me a keyboard and mouse option, and I'll be a happy guy.
Simple. The damages in fax blasting as they apply to the consumer are quantitative, a somewhat measurable decrease in toner, paper expense, stuff like that. Bandwidth, especially how much quantitative bandwitdh the inet spammers consume, is not that easily determined. Congress decided to tackle the easier problem, which still got a major nuisance off our backs. I recall at a old job that I was at as a tech how many junk faxes we received for all sorts of stuff.
AFAIK, the spec for Memory Stick was already released, seeing as the third-party manufacturere (Lexar, whom I have, and Sandisk) have been making them for some time now.
Personally, I would LOVE it if they make removeable media such as CF/SM/MS/MMC bootable, but that resides in the pervue of the hardware manufactureres, and I think that end has been covered here already:)
I have gone to using Mme Stick ofr damn near everything, keep a MS reader in the car in case I need to dump the files I have saved on the Clie into a PC. I haven't touched a floppy in years.
Call me crazy, but all the light switches in my appartment, my parents house, and damn near everyone I know doesn't have, nor do they need a 8 bit microcontroller. Anyone care to post a link to a ordinary light switch that has and utilizes this?
As for the idea, it's not that bad at all, with one small flaw that I can see. It's great if I can access my toaster from my desk at work, but if I have to leave a piece of buttered bread in there all day just so it's toasted but soggy when I walk in the door, I'll just start making it when I walk in.
First of all, it's not "illegal search" if you HAVE THE FILES OPEN FOR SHARING TO BEGIN WITH. If you and I were both on KaZaA and you had some Simpsons episodes, I searched for that and found them on your computer BECAUSE YOU HAD THEM AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, how is that an "invasion of privacy?" You are making this out to be that they have some crawler that checks random IP's and does a full HD scan. THAT would be illegal.
Face the facts, YOU ARE PIRATING ILLEGAL COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. However way you determine to package that up for yourself is your business, but you're still doing it. The MPAA is within it's right to come after you if you blatantly leave it lying around for anyone to find.
it would appear that they took out the online purchase option, opting instead for phone orders through SureSource. Oh well, I really had no need for a fire-engine red stapler anyway:)
a "ready made excuse?" Something like "I'm sorry, members of the trustees, but John Romero backed his car into a campus construction traffic sign, he claims he didn't see it. Yes, I know, I've seen how small the rear windows are on his Ferrari. Anywhoo, he has demanded that we buy him a new one, citing that he can no longer be a "nerd king" in a Ferrari with Bondo on it. We'll just have to raise tuition to cover it."
Blockquoth the parent: Say what you will about johnny boy, but if this becomes a popular trend, we might have linus teaching the finer points of Operating system programming and design, or alan cox taking a computer ethics class, (Maybe thats a good way for older computer scientists to earn money, by teaching classes?)
I think you need to reverse your argument. You need more qualified people in their field such as Alan (as was said in the replies, Linus, IMHO, is too young still, but I could be wrong) to teach FIRST, see how well that progresses, then get others involved based on the successes and failures of the first. AFter that, THEN can you take the longshot of bringing in someone of marginal talent (especially since it's been proven how marginal it is by Daikatana) to teach your students.
took the words right out of my mouth. Take any phone with voice activation (voice phrase is user defined) and GPRS internet access and you have a "communicator" that works over half the world versus half the office using 802.11b. Maybe I'm short sighted, but I don't see the functionality of this. I would like to know if it's possibly more economical this way, with the price dropping for 802.11b devices.
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this was right before it got picked off by some bored Klingon warbird captain :)
You bring up a very good point, I just wanted to add my fav sci-fi author to your expansive list, one Arthur C. Clarke.
Rama (I and II) would make damn good movies, if Hollywood would just keep with the book...
in 2000 when I was gainfully employed by Gateway, I has RC5-64 running on about 20 systems, shot our rankings through the roof :)
:)
This really isn't that bad of an idea, just as long as the info being crunched, as said before, is of a non-proprietary nature. However, I HIGHLY doubt that UD/Stanford/SETI would be willing to shell out x^5 dollars for a crack at the Gateway network, they'll always have people like me who do it for fun
that deserves a 5. I have used a laptop for school and other such things, and a PDA I currently have for when I want to jot down quick notes. I don't see how a tablet can solve any "problems", given that they are all solves by either tha laptop or PDA.
Seeing as I can get a decent laptop for under 1500, and the CHEAPEST tablet PC will be 2000, I really don't see the value.
I really think these will fall flat on it's face, for these reasons, and the ones stated in the parent.
Yeah, and theY can bring Don West to testify at the hearing...
A small update for you then:
At college bookstores, Office XP can be had for 20 bucks, in some places. Right now, MSFT has an initiative to sell student/teacher versions of Office XP (with PowerPoint added, it's not in the Standard versions) for US$149.97. I think the "burden of proof" is set on the buyer to verify that they are actually a student or teacher, but anyone can pick up the software off the shelf and buy it.
yeah, yeah. Grab your lawyer and sue me if you like. ;-)
I understand the concept of a "nationwide radio station." That, in and of itself, would be nice. However, I *STILL* wouldn't pay even $50 with your subsidized receiver to listen to 10 minutes of commercials in a 30 minute bloc of music, if the advertisers catch on like they do in prime-time TV.
200 bucks can get me a internal CD burner (good for other things), a 50 pack of blank CD's, and a internal MP3 car deck. I ow have a few days worth of uninterruptible music, and 49 more CD's to add stuff to, with no additional costs incurred monthly.
I see two things wrong with that thought, one, you have commercial-laden airwaves, it's indistinguishable from FM radio as it is, and secondly, unless you get it in a new car with the receiver already installed, it's not free, it's 300 bucks for the receiver.
I have a friend of mine who has it, he seems to like it, but I'm very content with burning CD's off of music that my friends play, if I like it, I rip it.
Sure they did. By touting every new OS as "more secure and reliable, a new era in trustworthy computing", they are getting a couple thousannd of poor schmucks to cough up some major cash to upgrade to a OS that they would have not otherwise needed, to try and get rid of all the "lockups" or "l33t h4x0rs" that are invading.
as a raider of Bill's beer fridge since '00, I can personally attest to this. Cheap beer in a college town/environment needs to be protected at all costs, up to and including making the raider sit on Bill's porch :)
actually, Thrustmaster makes a very nice product that I may be picking up in a few days for FPS stuff, it's a USB ergo keypad of sorts with mappable buttons all over the place. Don't have time to post a link now, but if you look on the site, I thin kyou should be able to find it. Only drawback is it's 60 bucks.
disclaimer: I do not own an XBox. I sell them, have played extensively with them, but do not as of yet own one.
I don't see the point of FPS's on XBox. Granted, I've played Halo, got through most of the beginning levels, but it still nags at me that I could be a order of magnitude better at it with a simle keyboard and mouse.
Now games like DOA3, NFL 2K3, stuff like that, rightly deserves to be on a console, it is easily (and in the case of the former, recommended for play) on a gamepad. Give me a keyboard and mouse option, and I'll be a happy guy.
Simple. The damages in fax blasting as they apply to the consumer are quantitative, a somewhat measurable decrease in toner, paper expense, stuff like that. Bandwidth, especially how much quantitative bandwitdh the inet spammers consume, is not that easily determined. Congress decided to tackle the easier problem, which still got a major nuisance off our backs. I recall at a old job that I was at as a tech how many junk faxes we received for all sorts of stuff.
Right, MagicGate is the equivalent of the SD in the Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard area. I stand corrected. :)
AFAIK, the spec for Memory Stick was already released, seeing as the third-party manufacturere (Lexar, whom I have, and Sandisk) have been making them for some time now.
:)
Personally, I would LOVE it if they make removeable media such as CF/SM/MS/MMC bootable, but that resides in the pervue of the hardware manufactureres, and I think that end has been covered here already
I have gone to using Mme Stick ofr damn near everything, keep a MS reader in the car in case I need to dump the files I have saved on the Clie into a PC. I haven't touched a floppy in years.
Call me crazy, but all the light switches in my appartment, my parents house, and damn near everyone I know doesn't have, nor do they need a 8 bit microcontroller. Anyone care to post a link to a ordinary light switch that has and utilizes this?
As for the idea, it's not that bad at all, with one small flaw that I can see. It's great if I can access my toaster from my desk at work, but if I have to leave a piece of buttered bread in there all day just so it's toasted but soggy when I walk in the door, I'll just start making it when I walk in.
oh, if I had mod points you would get them all :)
wow, quite a knee-jerk rant you have there.
First of all, it's not "illegal search" if you HAVE THE FILES OPEN FOR SHARING TO BEGIN WITH. If you and I were both on KaZaA and you had some Simpsons episodes, I searched for that and found them on your computer BECAUSE YOU HAD THEM AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, how is that an "invasion of privacy?" You are making this out to be that they have some crawler that checks random IP's and does a full HD scan. THAT would be illegal.
Face the facts, YOU ARE PIRATING ILLEGAL COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. However way you determine to package that up for yourself is your business, but you're still doing it. The MPAA is within it's right to come after you if you blatantly leave it lying around for anyone to find.
it would appear that they took out the online purchase option, opting instead for phone orders through SureSource. Oh well, I really had no need for a fire-engine red stapler anyway :)
a "ready made excuse?" Something like "I'm sorry, members of the trustees, but John Romero backed his car into a campus construction traffic sign, he claims he didn't see it. Yes, I know, I've seen how small the rear windows are on his Ferrari. Anywhoo, he has demanded that we buy him a new one, citing that he can no longer be a "nerd king" in a Ferrari with Bondo on it. We'll just have to raise tuition to cover it."
Blockquoth the parent:
Say what you will about johnny boy, but if this becomes a popular trend, we might have linus teaching the finer points of Operating system programming and design, or alan cox taking a computer ethics class, (Maybe thats a good way for older computer scientists to earn money, by teaching classes?)
I think you need to reverse your argument. You need more qualified people in their field such as Alan (as was said in the replies, Linus, IMHO, is too young still, but I could be wrong) to teach FIRST, see how well that progresses, then get others involved based on the successes and failures of the first. AFter that, THEN can you take the longshot of bringing in someone of marginal talent (especially since it's been proven how marginal it is by Daikatana) to teach your students.
no, but you need crazy spelling lessons.
ATHLON, not athalon, athelon, or anything else.
look at the device, it has no LCD, no anything sans a button and a mic/speaker combo. What would it possibly do with 10Mbits?
Furthermore, if you program your voice activation to say "mary and john", then that designated number is who it calls, not some random thing.
took the words right out of my mouth. Take any phone with voice activation (voice phrase is user defined) and GPRS internet access and you have a "communicator" that works over half the world versus half the office using 802.11b. Maybe I'm short sighted, but I don't see the functionality of this. I would like to know if it's possibly more economical this way, with the price dropping for 802.11b devices.
nice, the host yanked the DNS link before even 5 comments were posted :)
:)
now that's what I call saving bandwidth (and also whoring out the hosting provider's info too)