"the originals...are far too rare and valuable to use for the 'regular grind.'"
Exactly. I just recently (finally) pitched some old Win3.0 disks that were still in great shape - because I never used them (that is, their condition was because I never used them, although that's also why I pitched them. Hmm. Anyway..).
I think the argument is, if you are going to actually use the disks, handle them, transport them and such, floppies are the most damageable (existing standard for) media.
Have any of you moved from the hustle bustle of the big city to the peaceful countryside and actually found good work?
I moved from a small town (pop. 17K, relatively isolated) to the "Big City" and had all kinds of trouble finding work - in fact I still have not been able to find an IT-type job, after almost 2 years...
Depending on how rural you get, you may have no problem finding work with a small computer repair place, local university, hospital, etc. Your level of expertise will determine how your skill set rates compared to the locals.
more than 3 billion kilometres further away from the Sun than Pluto
Reference, please? How much further doesn't really help, if I don't know how far Pluto is. Is this twice as far? Three times? One and two-ninths?
40 years away from Earth in a space shuttle
Yeah, okay, that helps...
10 billion kilometres from Earth
Again, not much help...I guess now I could calculate how fast the space shuttle goes in interplanetary space...
I would rate myself as an upper-mid level science geek, with perhaps a slightly below average 'space' focus for a similar group...but I don't know offhand how far Pluto is from Sol. I know Earth is 93 million miles, i.e. 1 AU. Even reporting Pluto's and Sedna's distance in AUs would be informational, and help with visualizing just how far away Sedna is. Perhaps using AUs would be too confusing for an AUstralian paper...or maybe everyone in Oz has a much firmer grasp of our solar system's scale than I?
The barter system is often a good choice for remuneration for services, especially involving technical skills. Anyone read Bruce Sterling? In his short story "Bicycle Repairman", Lyle offers to fix a woman's bike, not for a dollar amount, but in exchange for buying him some tools he would like to have. Or maybe the person you're helping has some other technical skills that you lack, and can do something for you.
The size of their prototype is tiny; IMHO they need at least to triple the size of it to make it useful for digital cameras.
Look at the picture at the bottom of the page - the object on the left is one of these lenses attached to - presumably - a CMOS and some related circuitry.
And of course, the solo lens on the right has just come off of the camera used to take the picture, leaving it extremely nearsighted.
The submission deadline is March 1st...yet the government is going to be distributing these books on March 15th? Of the same year? Can they be that efficient?
I rewired a Cat5 coupler to be a crossover adapter...and once tried to make a parallel-to-serial adapter for a printer for a client. That damn thing about drove me nuts - it was basically just mapping the pinouts and rewiring a standard DB25 to DB9 adapter, but for some reason, when I got to drawing the lines between pins on paper, my brain went bluhhhhhhh...
I once invented the Handspring PDA, pretty much...soon after I got my first GameBoy (late, maybe 1992ish), I thought, "Why not cartridges that make this a phone, calendar/planner, etc. etc.?" (P.S. What ever happened to the Sony ReadMan? Another option for old GameBoys - ebook readers!)
About the same time I also invented the digital picture frame. A shame I never patented these sort of things before someone else did...
Non-PC?
Well, I got my brother Jeb to help me rig an election...
But seriously, folks...
I did fairly recently add a small power supply and 3rd(!) CD drive to my PC case - for music only, available even when the PC is not booted...does that count? (In fact, this project was the topic of a previous Ask Slashdot that wonder of wonders, was accepted!)
Maybe it's just deja vou, but I'm sure I have read something similar to this (I think on Google's site) regarding specialized ads, even mentioning plumbers as an example. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Of course, this is all made even weirder by the fact that I emailed Google a few months ago and asked them if they had any free email service in the works...I highly doubt that I gave them the idea, but it's still kind of strange...
Thanks for the ideas...here's what I'm thinking, though (very basically):
1. Dismantle external drive enclosure. 2. Mount PS in computer case. 3. Mount spare CD drive in empty bay. 4. Hook it all up! (and of course...) 5.? 6.Profit!
I'm not going to be using (or even be able to use) the sound card when the computer is not booted. And I already have the PS - from an external drive enclosure.
I will mostly just have headphones plugged into the front jack, but may occasionally hook up speakers instead...I will probably run a lead from the audio out to a dual RCA on the back of the case.
Da5id, Y.T., Hiro, Wintermute, Count Zero, Berry / Rydell, Colin / Laney, Chevette, etc. (Just finished re-reading Gibson's ATP) Basically anything from Gibson, Sterling, Stephenson, Rucker, Brunner, etc., etc. It can even be a normal name (maybe the same as an author instead of a character?) and still be geeky to you.
There was an article about this in (I think) Scientific American a while back. I think I even saved that issue - I'd look it up for you, but I'm in the middle of a move, and it's packed up...somewhere.
Excellent idea! I was about to suggest this myself, but I *gasp!* read on down, and somone else had already said it. (Are you taking notes, kids?) Yes, let's all ship our out-of-ink 'new' printers back to the manufacturers when we replace them. (Seriously.) Then maybe they will get with it and price inkjet printers and ink more like other consumer goods and their respective supplies - like:
Slashdot Mirror
"the originals...are far too rare and valuable to use for the 'regular grind.'"
Exactly. I just recently (finally) pitched some old Win3.0 disks that were still in great shape - because I never used them (that is, their condition was because I never used them, although that's also why I pitched them. Hmm. Anyway..).
I think the argument is, if you are going to actually use the disks, handle them, transport them and such, floppies are the most damageable (existing standard for) media.
Have any of you moved from the hustle bustle of the big city to the peaceful countryside and actually found good work?
I moved from a small town (pop. 17K, relatively isolated) to the "Big City" and had all kinds of trouble finding work - in fact I still have not been able to find an IT-type job, after almost 2 years...
Depending on how rural you get, you may have no problem finding work with a small computer repair place, local university, hospital, etc. Your level of expertise will determine how your skill set rates compared to the locals.
So where is this Sedna, anyway?
more than 3 billion kilometres further away from the Sun than Pluto
Reference, please? How much further doesn't really help, if I don't know how far Pluto is. Is this twice as far? Three times? One and two-ninths?
40 years away from Earth in a space shuttle
Yeah, okay, that helps...
10 billion kilometres from Earth
Again, not much help...I guess now I could calculate how fast the space shuttle goes in interplanetary space...
I would rate myself as an upper-mid level science geek, with perhaps a slightly below average 'space' focus for a similar group...but I don't know offhand how far Pluto is from Sol. I know Earth is 93 million miles, i.e. 1 AU. Even reporting Pluto's and Sedna's distance in AUs would be informational, and help with visualizing just how far away Sedna is. Perhaps using AUs would be too confusing for an AUstralian paper...or maybe everyone in Oz has a much firmer grasp of our solar system's scale than I?
The barter system is often a good choice for remuneration for services, especially involving technical skills. Anyone read Bruce Sterling? In his short story "Bicycle Repairman", Lyle offers to fix a woman's bike, not for a dollar amount, but in exchange for buying him some tools he would like to have. Or maybe the person you're helping has some other technical skills that you lack, and can do something for you.
The size of their prototype is tiny; IMHO they need at least to triple the size of it to make it useful for digital cameras.
Look at the picture at the bottom of the page - the object on the left is one of these lenses attached to - presumably - a CMOS and some related circuitry.
And of course, the solo lens on the right has just come off of the camera used to take the picture, leaving it extremely nearsighted.
Scott McCloud believes that childrens' tendencies to game the system are what inspire new technology and new uses for existing technology.
Couldn't find any reference to this anywhere on his site.
Example: When McCloud's kids use KidPix, they co-opt the dynamite-style erase tool to make intersecting concentric circles.
Circles that are both intersecting and concentric? Wouldn't that make them...let's see...the same circle?!
Then again, I have never used KidPix. Maybe this "dynamite-style erase tool" has some kind of weird mathematical law-defying abilities...
+2,Informative?
Anyone ever seen a bill that is one-eighth of an inch thick? You could probably fit a good 10 thin RFIDs in that space.
Just wait 'til this page is included in the next crawl. Then there'll be a reference...
Albeit unuseful, being somewhat self-referential.
The submission deadline is March 1st...yet the government is going to be distributing these books on March 15th? Of the same year? Can they be that efficient?
I rewired a Cat5 coupler to be a crossover adapter...and once tried to make a parallel-to-serial adapter for a printer for a client. That damn thing about drove me nuts - it was basically just mapping the pinouts and rewiring a standard DB25 to DB9 adapter, but for some reason, when I got to drawing the lines between pins on paper, my brain went bluhhhhhhh...
Damn, that reminds me...
I once invented the Handspring PDA, pretty much...soon after I got my first GameBoy (late, maybe 1992ish), I thought, "Why not cartridges that make this a phone, calendar/planner, etc. etc.?" (P.S. What ever happened to the Sony ReadMan? Another option for old GameBoys - ebook readers!)
About the same time I also invented the digital picture frame. A shame I never patented these sort of things before someone else did...
Non-PC?
Well, I got my brother Jeb to help me rig an election...
But seriously, folks...
I did fairly recently add a small power supply and 3rd(!) CD drive to my PC case - for music only, available even when the PC is not booted...does that count? (In fact, this project was the topic of a previous Ask Slashdot that wonder of wonders, was accepted!)
I've wanted to do this forever...awesome.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/19/20152
Maybe it's just deja vou, but I'm sure I have read something similar to this (I think on Google's site) regarding specialized ads, even mentioning plumbers as an example. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Of course, this is all made even weirder by the fact that I emailed Google a few months ago and asked them if they had any free email service in the works...I highly doubt that I gave them the idea, but it's still kind of strange...
Actually, the Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite...at the time, certainly the most novel new method to kill people.
Thanks for the ideas...here's what I'm thinking, though (very basically):
1. Dismantle external drive enclosure.
2. Mount PS in computer case.
3. Mount spare CD drive in empty bay.
4. Hook it all up!
(and of course...)
5.?
6.Profit!
"To better answer your question..."
Not really. Really not the same thing at all. Thanks for coming out, though.
I'm not going to be using (or even be able to use) the sound card when the computer is not booted. And I already have the PS - from an external drive enclosure.
I will mostly just have headphones plugged into the front jack, but may occasionally hook up speakers instead...I will probably run a lead from the audio out to a dual RCA on the back of the case.
I will mostly use headphones in the front jack, but may set up an audio out conn through the back of the case.
I'd be happy to void the warranty, if there was one. Being a real geek, I built my own machine. The only destruction I forsee is to the case itself.
Da5id, Y.T., Hiro, Wintermute, Count Zero, Berry / Rydell, Colin / Laney, Chevette, etc. (Just finished re-reading Gibson's ATP) Basically anything from Gibson, Sterling, Stephenson, Rucker, Brunner, etc., etc. It can even be a normal name (maybe the same as an author instead of a character?) and still be geeky to you.
There was an article about this in (I think) Scientific American a while back. I think I even saved that issue - I'd look it up for you, but I'm in the middle of a move, and it's packed up...somewhere.
Excellent idea! I was about to suggest this myself, but I *gasp!* read on down, and somone else had already said it. (Are you taking notes, kids?) Yes, let's all ship our out-of-ink 'new' printers back to the manufacturers when we replace them. (Seriously.) Then maybe they will get with it and price inkjet printers and ink more like other consumer goods and their respective supplies - like:
Laser printers/toner
Copy machines/toner
Dishwasher/detergent
Washing machine/detergent
VCRs/cassette tapes
CD-R drives/CD-R & CD-RW discs
Automobiles/gasoline (well, maybe not)
etc.