We considered this. It was actually cheaper for us to buy a defective iPod off of ebay than to get it from the OEM. The iPod hard drive was fine, it was another part of the iPod that was defective. Also, since we were using the battery as well, this was a package deal that saved us a LOT of money over buying the parts from manufacturers directly. Finally, we only needed to build a prototype, so getting the parts like this was preferred to begging the OEM to sell us single parts rather than in bulk.
My group at Oregon State University is currently working on a device that uses an old hard drive from an Ipod. We have successfully interfaced with it, and can read and write from it at blazing speeds using an FPGA. See our web site here:
Averaging 1 1/2 hour per movie, that's 62.5 days, or 8.9 weeks. That's straight watching, no breaks, no sleeping. That's mind boggling. But the real pain is, if it's going to take, say 30 minutes to copy the dvd, then he'll have to spend 3 weeks straight without sleep just to copy. This seems like way too much wasted time.
That's hilarious! the slashdot quote is "A penny saved kills your career in government" and the link to the blog talks about a guy getting arrested for stealing 1 cent's worth of electricity at a train station. how ironic.
Pure bullshit. That is the most contrived picture I have ever seen. Seriously. Why the hell would the black typed text be in such good shape and the borders be in such uniform raggedness and the center be so perfectly flat? It's a faked picture.
Pardon the beauraucratic buzzword, but this seem like the beginnings of a really cool trend. Imagine if everyone had their own customized knoppix and USB drive. We could stop at any terminal, and immediately have our favorite working environment and saved files.
Of course, this is merely a step towards the ultimate goal of not needing to carry anything or maybe just a small drive, and plugging that in and having instant access.
The point, though, is that this has the potential to make anybody without a laptop a lot more portable.
I agree about MS Project. I'm currently in a senior design class at the Uni, and each group must maintain a schedule with this. Not only is it the most useless time sink, nobody looks at it, and we're too busy doing our work to keep it up to date.
If you are required to do a Project, and yours is up to date, then you're not working enough.
These people are not doing us a service. When I bought a car, I knew that it had been tested for safety. I do NOT want some punk kid beating my car with a bat to prove to me that in a low speed collision the car has the potential to explode catastrophically. Stay away from my car and don't damage my property. If there's something wrong with my car I'll let the proper authorities tell me and fix it. Granted, corporations often don't feel that kind of responsibility, but as long as we're talking in terms of ideals, let's just keep pretending.
Because anything that is compatible in the interface between the ISS and MIR might be a step backward from our capabilities. Why attach ourselves to aging technology that we intend to make obsolete and force ourselves to be compatible with it when we could be creating new and better systems that work much better. If the locking mechanism for attaching to MIR was less than perfect, I wouldn't want my brand new space station to have to work with it. It's bring ISS down to MIR's level.
I can attest to this. I actually have to turn down jobs that are offered to me because I might stretch myself too thin. Having 3 offices across 3 buildings is tough enough as it is. Word of mouth is probably stronger than any resume, and a good resume on top of a good recommendation from a friend is almost a guarantee. I make sure my clients are satisfied and they return the favor by telling other people how satisfied they are with me. The result is lots of people wanting me to work for them.
First I don't get work done because I'm always reading slashdot.
Now I find out I'm getting even less work done because Slashdot posts articles around the clock and I don't get enough sleep reading them all the time.
Seriously, isn't it appropriate to post this so freaking early?
This concerned me, too. How is it that a material susceptible to catastrophic failure is used to catch dust moving at insane speeds into it? One would think that in space it would be almost effortless to make it shatter.
For those of you who didn't read the article, it says the archive will be opened on Monday. That's tomorrow. Don't get your knickers in a twist, just come back tomorrow and see it.
1.) For all of you who are willing to go, do you realize how poor your bandwidth is going to be? Forget about sniping!
2.) This has the potential to be just like in the swimming pool. Drop something to the bottom and challenge yourself trying to get it. Sending someone to mars is just like setting a goal that we have to try to keep. It's not the first mission that's so important, it's the rescue mission.
I second this. I have had a Hauppage WinTV card for over 3 years now and have had no problems in windows or linux. The card is probably really cheap now due to its age and newer products, but it is really good. I hooked up a vcr and playstation 2 with no problems at all. Also, it comes with a remote control that can be completely reprogrammed to do anything (for a while I set it to control my winamp).
As for dScaler, it is my program of choice for tv. It scales everything amazingly well, there are enough customizations to make it darn near make your coffee for you, and it's really simple to use.
Asking an RFID tag to encrypt something is like asking a new born baby to do calculus. You can't ask a device which has no battery of its own to compute something.
Am I the only one surprised to not find eBay on the list? I suppose on one hand it is respectable to have a large and complex database, but on the other companies with massive databases as part of their business that DON'T show up on the list impress me more.
Why the heck are they using a missile to blow up a satellite? We just heard about an accident on the space station that was caused by space junk. It seems pretty irresponsible to create a lot more space junk. Why can't they just shoot a net at it, hook it, and pull it into the atmosphere?
I think it speaks well of the Slashdot community to see that we believe in appropriate use of technology rather than flooding the world with the latest and greatest. To see so many people arguing against the use of computers in elementary school makes me think that we are an intelligent group of people without selfish interests.
However, as the technologically elite, is the use of computers in the classroom something we should start considering and preparing? Do we need to start building applications designed to educate children of all ages? Could a major selling point of Linux and open source software be its ability to teach young students not only how to use a computer but also how to read, write, do math, communicate with people, etc?
I see a tremendous opportunity for Linux here. If some organization developed a curriculum and program that would get young students learning, then we could get children using Linux and starting out with open source. What better community to educate our children than the open community?
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We considered this. It was actually cheaper for us to buy a defective iPod off of ebay than to get it from the OEM. The iPod hard drive was fine, it was another part of the iPod that was defective. Also, since we were using the battery as well, this was a package deal that saved us a LOT of money over buying the parts from manufacturers directly. Finally, we only needed to build a prototype, so getting the parts like this was preferred to begging the OEM to sell us single parts rather than in bulk.
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My group at Oregon State University is currently working on a device that uses an old hard drive from an Ipod. We have successfully interfaced with it, and can read and write from it at blazing speeds using an FPGA. See our web site here:
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http://classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/eecs/fall20
If you have more questions, send me an email (also listed on the web page)
Bob
Averaging 1 1/2 hour per movie, that's 62.5 days, or 8.9 weeks. That's straight watching, no breaks, no sleeping. That's mind boggling. But the real pain is, if it's going to take, say 30 minutes to copy the dvd, then he'll have to spend 3 weeks straight without sleep just to copy. This seems like way too much wasted time.
That's hilarious! the slashdot quote is "A penny saved kills your career in government" and the link to the blog talks about a guy getting arrested for stealing 1 cent's worth of electricity at a train station. how ironic.
But to a person who runs a newsletter? Or to any company that sends email notifications to their subscribers (not spam, but legit mail)?
These guys are going to feel the pain immediately. I'd rather take the time to deal with the spam than waste my hard-earned money sending mail.
Yes, and I could kidnap bums and sell their organs on the black market for profit, but you don't see me doing that.
And corporations could cut corners and ship potentially dangerous products, saving them a lot of money and putting their customers at risk.
And lawyers could do half-ass jobs and let their clients get on death row.
And loggers could cut down every single tree they find and make money off it.
The point is, even if it's profitable, it's not responsible, and it's ultimately detrimental to society.
Pure bullshit. That is the most contrived picture I have ever seen. Seriously. Why the hell would the black typed text be in such good shape and the borders be in such uniform raggedness and the center be so perfectly flat? It's a faked picture.
Pardon the beauraucratic buzzword, but this seem like the beginnings of a really cool trend. Imagine if everyone had their own customized knoppix and USB drive. We could stop at any terminal, and immediately have our favorite working environment and saved files.
Of course, this is merely a step towards the ultimate goal of not needing to carry anything or maybe just a small drive, and plugging that in and having instant access.
The point, though, is that this has the potential to make anybody without a laptop a lot more portable.
And where, exactly, did whatever it was that was fired land?
I agree about MS Project. I'm currently in a senior design class at the Uni, and each group must maintain a schedule with this. Not only is it the most useless time sink, nobody looks at it, and we're too busy doing our work to keep it up to date.
If you are required to do a Project, and yours is up to date, then you're not working enough.
If he's selling the stuff, he obviously hasn't gone to great lengths (heh heh) to mask his identity. =)
These people are not doing us a service. When I bought a car, I knew that it had been tested for safety. I do NOT want some punk kid beating my car with a bat to prove to me that in a low speed collision the car has the potential to explode catastrophically. Stay away from my car and don't damage my property. If there's something wrong with my car I'll let the proper authorities tell me and fix it. Granted, corporations often don't feel that kind of responsibility, but as long as we're talking in terms of ideals, let's just keep pretending.
Because anything that is compatible in the interface between the ISS and MIR might be a step backward from our capabilities. Why attach ourselves to aging technology that we intend to make obsolete and force ourselves to be compatible with it when we could be creating new and better systems that work much better. If the locking mechanism for attaching to MIR was less than perfect, I wouldn't want my brand new space station to have to work with it. It's bring ISS down to MIR's level.
or worse, in SCO licenses. That's roughly 358 licenses. whoot!
I can attest to this. I actually have to turn down jobs that are offered to me because I might stretch myself too thin. Having 3 offices across 3 buildings is tough enough as it is. Word of mouth is probably stronger than any resume, and a good resume on top of a good recommendation from a friend is almost a guarantee. I make sure my clients are satisfied and they return the favor by telling other people how satisfied they are with me. The result is lots of people wanting me to work for them.
First I don't get work done because I'm always reading slashdot.
Now I find out I'm getting even less work done because Slashdot posts articles around the clock and I don't get enough sleep reading them all the time.
Seriously, isn't it appropriate to post this so freaking early?
gaaaaahhh!!!
This concerned me, too. How is it that a material susceptible to catastrophic failure is used to catch dust moving at insane speeds into it? One would think that in space it would be almost effortless to make it shatter.
For those of you who didn't read the article, it says the archive will be opened on Monday. That's tomorrow. Don't get your knickers in a twist, just come back tomorrow and see it.
1.) For all of you who are willing to go, do you realize how poor your bandwidth is going to be? Forget about sniping!
2.) This has the potential to be just like in the swimming pool. Drop something to the bottom and challenge yourself trying to get it. Sending someone to mars is just like setting a goal that we have to try to keep. It's not the first mission that's so important, it's the rescue mission.
I second this. I have had a Hauppage WinTV card for over 3 years now and have had no problems in windows or linux. The card is probably really cheap now due to its age and newer products, but it is really good. I hooked up a vcr and playstation 2 with no problems at all. Also, it comes with a remote control that can be completely reprogrammed to do anything (for a while I set it to control my winamp).
As for dScaler, it is my program of choice for tv. It scales everything amazingly well, there are enough customizations to make it darn near make your coffee for you, and it's really simple to use.
Asking an RFID tag to encrypt something is like asking a new born baby to do calculus. You can't ask a device which has no battery of its own to compute something.
Am I the only one surprised to not find eBay on the list? I suppose on one hand it is respectable to have a large and complex database, but on the other companies with massive databases as part of their business that DON'T show up on the list impress me more.
This recent outbreak of vermin infested longhorn is likely to infect anyone who takes a byte.
Why the heck are they using a missile to blow up a satellite? We just heard about an accident on the space station that was caused by space junk. It seems pretty irresponsible to create a lot more space junk. Why can't they just shoot a net at it, hook it, and pull it into the atmosphere?
I think it speaks well of the Slashdot community to see that we believe in appropriate use of technology rather than flooding the world with the latest and greatest. To see so many people arguing against the use of computers in elementary school makes me think that we are an intelligent group of people without selfish interests.
However, as the technologically elite, is the use of computers in the classroom something we should start considering and preparing? Do we need to start building applications designed to educate children of all ages? Could a major selling point of Linux and open source software be its ability to teach young students not only how to use a computer but also how to read, write, do math, communicate with people, etc?
I see a tremendous opportunity for Linux here. If some organization developed a curriculum and program that would get young students learning, then we could get children using Linux and starting out with open source. What better community to educate our children than the open community?